Tight security in Hyderabad for Ganesh immersion
A thick security blanket has been thrown around this city for immersion of idols of Hindu god Ganesh Sunday ... , as many as 42 bomb disposal and access control teams equipped with door frame and hand held metal ... . Over 26,000 security personnel, including those from paramilitary forces, have been deployed [more...]
Date: 2008-09-13 12:40:43
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SIA Licensed Security Officer - Middlesex
Job Title: SIA Licensed Security Officer Location: Middlesex Salary: £15p/h or £200 per day Start Date: T.B.A ... : - Access Control - Personal and Bag Search Duties - Venue Patrols - Pitch Perimeter ... Door Supervisor License - Valid Passport and Visa (where applicable) - National Insurance [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 17:31:27
News 2008.09.04 Late Edition
Peratech Creates QTC Switch Technology for Contactless RFID Security Contactless RFID is well established for access control for buildings; simply wave your pass near the reader and the door opens. This technology is now being rolled out in the UK and around the World for so called 'BioMetric passports' and credit cards because [more...]
Date: 2008-09-04 23:33:33
Enhanced Security in Acrobat 9 and Reader 9
Sanjoy Ghosh describes the new Enhanced Security model in Acrobat 9 With the addition of interactive form features, multimedia, and scripting, ... control over cross-domain data access and how FDF files are handled. Because the Enhanced Security ... ". This opens the door to a lot of great new capabilities while allowing for even tighter security [more...]
Date: 2008-06-10 01:58:54
Eagle Eye
Has anyone seen the movie Eagle Eye? It’s out in theaters right now ... for such and such. They control stop lights, have unlimited camera access, you name it. There seems to be no escape… ... , you have 12 seconds to proceed out rear door through garage before being caught red handed [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 15:18:58
If The Administration Does This …..
…. It (”Bank bailout funds could be used for Detroit”) will be One. Final. Giant. Unforgivable. Betrayal. Michelle Malkin: “No Means No ... , but not limited to, any bank, savings association, credit union, security broker or dealer ... s reckless support of the sit-in at the closed-down Chicago window and door factory. Why try [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 14:33:34
Get in shape for mountain biking without spending a dime
When you ask people why they don’t work out, you’ll usually get one of three answers: it’s too time consuming, it’s too painful / boring, ... will do just fine :) Seriously though, everyone has access to roads outside their front door and by skipping ... not walk out the door and go for a jog? I like to run about 3-4 miles a few times a week (about [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 17:29:44
Part Three: Woman A few months ago, I finally joined Facebook. Knowing that Yoko Ono has stayed technologically up to speed, I wanted to see if she had a page (it’s here), and ended up perusing “groups” with her name under them. I shouldn’t have been surprised to find many more hate groups than love groups [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 14:00:10
A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
December 7. When I was growing up, everybody called it Pearl Harbor Day. I have not heard anyone use that term for a long time, but a Web search shows me that some people still do, at least in that quintessential Navy town, San Diego. The ranks of the World War II veterans are dwindling quickly, but as long as some of them survive, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-07 17:07:47
From Cubicle Nerd to Cucumber Vendor: Learning Small Scale Farming in Mid-life
This is a guest post from Jim Dunlap (Wyoming) about his experience as a new farmer in Virginia and is part of our Wed pm/Sat pm TOD: Campfire series, where we will post articles more related to personal, local and social responses to our resource and environmental predicaments. Like many posters on The Oil Drum (TOD) [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 16:42:38
Interviews with Church Designers
Browsing the various CSS galleries is one way to gauge which industries place value on good design. I was surprised these past couple years to see a big surge in lavishly designed church websites. As a non-churchgoer, I wasn’t sure I understood why so many churches suddenly wanted a cutting-edge image for themselves [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:32:50
Fuzzy Inaugural Math
In my print column this week, I examine whether president-elect Barack Obama will break the record for inaugural crowd size, and if he does, whether we’ll know for sure. The Washington, D.C., mayor publicly aired a projected crowd size of up to four million soon after the election, but today no government agency will get behind an official number, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 16:07:00
Routemaster 2.0
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, recently ran a design competition to help bring London’s famous old double-decker Routemaster buses back onto ... s overt health, safety and access guidelines better. new london bus.png The competition was won ... which incorporates solar cells to generate energy and filter daylight to control the temperature inside [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 13:53:55
The New Global War on Terror, and how America Can Prevail
As we continue to add to the stable of writers here, I'm delighted to introduce you to Christopher Hatem. Chris is an Alawite Muslim, a U.S. Army veteran, and a safety and training supervisor in the transportation industry -- that combination will bring a different perspective wholeheartedly welcome here in the pages of America's Right [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 18:12:30
Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/4/2009
The overwhelming evidence of global warming continues to accumulate — as does the level of ice and snow in Greenland’s central ice cap, which increases at a rate of about two inches a year.Shhh! Don’t tell Al Gore…Thanks to Abu Elvis, Barry Rubin, C. Cantoni, heroyalwhyness, JD, Lexington, LN, RRW, VH, and all the other tipsters who sent these in [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 04:27:00
BMW Assist Adds Injury Algorithm
Official BMW USA: Release BMW of North America today announced that 2009 and later model BMW vehicles (excludes X3) feature BMW’s unique “Risk of Severe Injury” calculation when equipped with the BMW Assist(TM) system. If an accident occurs, this BMW-exclusive system collects data from on-board control units and transmits it automatically to the [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 04:26:02
Robert Patterson - Author Guest Post
Everyone, please welcome Robert Patterson, author of Five Steps to C.A.L.M. Career and Life Management. I would like to thank Mr. Patterson for taking the time to write such a wonderfully insightful guest post for Cafe of Dreams!***************************************************************************************1). Blogging about Job Searches [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 06:01:00
The People are the Orthodoxy
Ever wonder where Christian Orthodoxy comes from? I read a fascinating article on that over at Emergent Village ... their control. Martin Luther, when he tagged his 95 Theses to the door of a Wittenburg church ... essentially withheld Scripture from the masses, thus keeping it out of their control. They taught [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 15:15:03
All LGBT Blogs Get Prop 8 Media Access Story Wrong--Except Queerty
NOTE FROM PAM: I'm front-paging this diary because of the disagreements over what the press access policy is or isn't regarding the upcoming Equality ... and source emails, and there is little doubt that a decision was made about media access. From the minutes:Consensus Decision: Media will have access to cover only a portion of the summit. Co-chairs [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 02:22:42
Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/3/2009
The situation with the Russian gas pipeline through Ukraine is interesting. The new pipeline through the Baltic — which will allow Russia to cut off supplies to Eastern Europe without disturbing the flow of energy to its reliable Western European customers — is not ready yet, so the cutoff of gas to Ukraine is having effects further west [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 04:50:00
Of War, and Tent Hospitals
Via Andrew Sullivan, I came across this snippet from Jeffrey Goldberg: I saw Sally Quinn, an adjunct member of my Torah study group, last night, and she had a smart idea: Why not erect a massive tent hospital in Sderot, staff it with Israeli army doctors, and treat the Palestinian wounded there? [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 16:18:20
Yet another health care crisis
Now I may be accused of "flogging a dead Equinusian packbeast" but our health service is lacking. The Irish Times highlights yet another flaw in the system, that is possibly fatal.BOTH PRIVATE and public patients must wait up to 18 months before being seen by a consultant neurologist, a review of neurology services has found [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 09:05:00
The Text Of A Speech I will Deliver Today To The Rotary Club
When Phil Dunbar first approached me on the subject of speaking I was somewhat hesitant although I might not have said so. I am typically a shy person in a lot of respects, and tend to be a real homebody…and have always had some difficulty with the public speaking thing. I clearly remember the first speech I ever gave [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 11:38:00
Biometric Products for You
People must work hard to protect their self, their asset and even their loved one. A theft can be happened to anyone, anytime and anywhere ... , commercial PIN-Code door locks and fingerprint access control systems. Fingerprint door lock is easy ... is developer and distributor of biometric product that using fingerprint as primary door lock mechanism [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 05:38:00
A Bailout For The Telecoms?
That’s what Doug Ross says is happening: Progressive communications group FreePress is lobbying President-Elect Obama for a $44 billion bailout ... . If the government attaches strings to access to the internet they’ve got their foot in the door ... the direction the market is going is wireless access. Already there are laptops on sale with built [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 19:36:01
Busted Part Four
Lifestyles of the Down and Busted I am not sure how being busted feels any different than being flush. A common complaint of those who are thriving in business is that they do not have time for their playthings, those things people envy when they see someone successful in business.Click to read the rest [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 22:07:00
Gaza: The Massacre in Zeitoun
Gaza: The Massacre in ZeitounTOM ELAYIN the annals of war crimes, the name “Zeitoun” will assume its place alongside names like “My Lai,” “Fallujah, ... though Israelis enjoyed total control over the area. At the same time, they refused repeated requests for access to the neighborhood by aid workers. It is not clear how many have died in Zeitoun [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 10:45:35
Obama's Cabinet - Love Fest and Patsies!
A baggy eyed Sen. Clinton was given a pass yesterday in her Sec.of State Nominee hearings.Every president is entitled to the Cabinet he has slected and the opposition party should play the role of asking penetrating and probing questions and unless they find something very disturbing Cabinet Nominees should be allowed to serve [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 14:35:00
WHO IS BARACK OBAMA & HOW TO DEAL WITH HIM
WE PROUDLY PUBLISH THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE, WRITTEN EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE PAKISTANI SPECTATOR BY PROF. DR ... of State, and General Jones as National Security Adviser share one critical trait: none has ever ... , originating in the Greater Middle East, that endanger core security and economic interests, e.g. [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 14:28:54
Art Space Talk: Tyson Crosbie
Tyson Crosbie is an artist based in Phoenix, Arizona. Crosbie’s photographs are straight photographs of found objects that are often composed of urban decay. He does not utilize manipulation or cropping with these images. Crosbie considers the camera only as a tool, a black box with a hole on one side [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 06:42:39
3 vs. G
As driving enthusiasts, we've probably all fantasized at one point or another about having a different car for every possible condition or mood. Since for most of us that dream will remain one, we settle instead on a compromise car. Often that comes in the form of a sport sedan [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 20:02:00
GRENADA FOR SALE! By Sandra C.A. Ferguson
CAVEATThe following Spice Isle-based message is rather intriguing from the point of view in that there are parallels to how Graeme Hall Sanctuary remains closed while the Advocate, CBC, VOB and the Nation remain silent on how the one-year old DLP regime has said nothing about the fate of the potential National Park, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 00:03:00
Appraisal Fraud and Industry Standards Described in 2003 Official White Paper-RED FLAGS DESCRIBED IN DETAIL WITH EXCELLENT DIAGRAMS EXPLANATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF BEST PRACTICES
loan_origination_mortgage_fraud_ffiecloan_origination_mortgage_fraud_prevention_response_nelsonRed Flags • Critical loan processing activities, such as verification of income, employment, or deposit, is delegated to brokers. • Delegated underwriting allowed for correspondents that are new or lack an established track record with the FI [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 15:33:10
Leaving Emperor Bill's realm
Posted 1/12/2009 10:39:00 AM Continued corruption vindicates my decision to leave New Mexico after losing the gubernatorial race to Richardson in 2006. The sleaze the governor has made endemic will lead to years of buyers’ remorse in the Land of Enchantment.By John DendahlMoving away from New Mexico in early 2007 was neither easy nor fun [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 17:39:00
Oblivion First Impression
A while ago, a cursory glance on the back of the Oblivion box convinced me that it wouldn’t run on my computer. I think that was before I upgraded my video card and added more memory. Recently I was looking ... . My video card (venerable Radeon 9800 XT) was not explicitly listed as one of the supported chipsets [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 16:14:54
Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Tuesday, January 13, 2009
The PA Department of Environment Protection and US Environmental Protection Agency began a thorough inspection of Erie Coke in Erie, ... Department was cut so there isn't enough people to work security at the 5th Street entrance. They didn't ... with a buzzer for the door used at other times. Erie PA native Charles R Walczak was named the new [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 12:34:30
Project Humanbeingsfirst Index
Honorific of the day “you are a completely stupid fool, a disgrace to humanity” -- Paul Craig Roberts, United States Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Dec 06, 2008Quote of the day “The answer to 1984 is 1776” -- Alex Jones “The answer to 1776 is the USA Patriot Act” -- The Chairman “The answer to Patriot Acts anywhere is Gandhi” [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 22:40:00
Boat Tours On Patagonia Lake - (Patagonia, AZ)
We didn't run the furnace overnight. Since we stayed plenty warm under the covers while sleeping, ... for internet access. While Linda slept, I used the laptop's battery and prepared a very detailed analysis ... of that was due to the wind and beyond our captain's control. I took shots of the lake and birds [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 17:35:13
Lexus Introduces All-New 2010 RX 350 and RX 450h Luxury Utility Vehicles
Lexus has introduced the next generation of its trend-setting RX luxury utility vehicles for 2010, the V6-powered RX 350 and the hybrid RX 450h ... to help ensure a quiet cabin; easy-access points facilitate routine service. Dual Variable Valve Timing with intelligence (VVT-i) is used to control both intake and exhaust camshafts independently [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 07:01:13
Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/4/2008
Once again, I have clustered the entries below and left out some of the headlines in order to reduce the size of the headline list. If you want to make sure you’ve exhausted a particular topic, click on the headline for it and then scroll down to see possible additional articles.Thanks to ACT for America, C [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 04:41:00
Most Technically Advanced Hotel
Most Technically Advanced HotelHotel Name: ARIA Resorts & CasinoCity: Las VegasUpon opening in late 2009, ... -up calls, draperies and requests for services through a single, easy-to-use remote control. Each ... will incorporate keyless locks utilizing RFID technology, which enables guests to unlock the door [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 07:55:00
Schlage LiNK Web-ifies Your Door Locks
You may have heard of Schlage. It's a well-known company in the lock industry, and you've likely seen at least one Schlage lock in a door somewhere. Well, they've just launched Schlage LiNK, a suite of products that encompasses not just security ... phone with an internet connection, you can unlock your door, monitor who's coming and going, and even [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 23:46:47
Gaza: The massacre in Zeitoun
By TOM ELEYIn the annals of war crimes, the name "Zeitoun" will assume its place alongside names like "My Lai," "Fallujah," "Sabra-Shatila," " ... total control over the area. At the same time, they refused repeated requests for access ... raided Zeitoun on Sunday, quickly establishing its control. The town occupies a strategic location [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 16:12:00
Nice knowin’ ya, 2008. Now beat it.
Ah, 2008. What a kick in the pants this past year has been. It was a year of presidential campaigns, a housing crisis, an economic crisis, a stock market crash and a partridge in pear tree for which the Notice of Default has been reportedly filed. In this, our third installment of The Year in Review, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 02:58:04
December 2008 Virtual Earth Newsletter
In the News: Kansas Department of Transportation Improves Road Condition Web Site Using Virtual Earth Masternaut Three X Conquers the Great Wall of ... Powers New Store Locator With Virtual Earth Virtual Earth Presents at Inman News Real Estate Connect ... over any color-coded route provides the name of the road, the condition status and the last time [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 14:30:06
Could Sites Start Requiring Users to Login With Facebook Connect?
Over the weekend I’ve been coming up with ideas for interesting implementations of Facebook Connect ... Connect provides an excellent solution for this though. Users can control their privacy settings for each website from a single control panel (that most users are probably unaware of) and the Facebook [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 21:48:59
Allegations, Hearsay and What the F*%k?
It started the day after the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board's Reno Meeting held on November 17, 2008 as an Anonymous phone call spilled through the airwaves into the ears of the International Fund 4 Horses. Prone to receiving a wide variety of odd, unverifiable and even crank correspondence, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 11:26:00
Breaking News - Political Commentary
Obama Can Pump Trillions in the Economy, But No One Knows If It Will WorkBy Nicholas von Hoffman, The Nation - AlternetThe nation's hopes--even the world's--are riding on it, but Barack Obama's stimulus plan is no sure shot. Nobody can say if it will work.Some questions to ponder: What has to happen for us to say that the stimulus worked? [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 18:09:00
Suffer the little children
Medical and human rights organizations talk about the need to safeguard children and help ensure all children are vaccinated against the most crippling of preventable childhood diseases, but we rarely hear about efforts to dispel anti-vaccination myths by groups beyond our borders [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 06:50:00
2009 Peugeot 3008 Unveiled With Video
The Peugeot 3008 is a compact and spacious crossover. It represents a new and innovative offer, not only in the Peugeot range but also in today’s car market as a whole. Manufactured in Eastern France at the Sochaux manufacturing plant, its concept and specification has draw on all of Peugeot’s expertise and values [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 18:45:52
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