With the release of iOS 6, Apple will offer business users a range of new features. A few of which are VIP email filtering (already in Mountain Lion) with custom notifications, more options when declining a phone call on the iPhone, much-needed privacy options, and Apple’s new Do Not Disturb feature – which should help some mobile professionals to “switch off” after work and maybe even get a good night’s sleep.
iOS updates are generally designed to be user-friendly and easy enough that anyone can manage to install them. As with any major OS or business critical software upgrade, however, there may be unforeseen issues with iOS 6 – particularly when it comes to internal iOS apps and iOS access to enterprise systems.
An iOS 6 upgrade policy and strategy is something that every IT department should have in place before Apple releases iOS 6. For businesses that actively support user devices in the workplace through a BYOD (bring your own device) program, that upgrade strategy is even more critical.
The easiest way to prepare for iOS 6 is to use it. Check out its new features, see how well various apps run, and connect it to your corporate network. Joining Apple’s iOS developer program provides you with access to the iOS 6 preview builds. Enterprise organizations and business that are thinking about developing custom iOS apps for internal use will definitely want to join the $299 enterprise version of Apple’s developer program. Smaller organizations in which a single person handles all the mobile or iOS solutions and will be responsible for pre-release testing can probably manage with a $99 individual membership.
In addition access to iOS preview builds, the iOS developer program provides a wide range of resources for anyone that wants to get started with iOS development including hundreds of training videos and WWDC sessions. Apple also offers its Safari developer program, which is free and, among other advantages, provides a range of resources for creating HTML 5 web apps for the iPhone and iPad.
Testing with the various preview builds will give you a good sense of how iOS 6 will function and how it will interact with enterprise systems and various apps. If additional preview builds are released, however, you’ll likely see changes to features and compatibility issues. Keeping track of those changes will help you get a clearer idea of how iOS will impact you and your users. Ultimately, the most important build to test with the GM build since that’s the final build that Apple will release to the public.
As part of your testing process, you’ll obviously want to test all the apps frequently used by employees in your company. If you use mobile app management (MAM) tools, offer an enterprise app store, or make use of Apple’s Volume Purchase Program (VPP), you’ll probably have a list of commonly used apps and/or required apps already.
If you don’t use such a system, you can use your mobile management solution to query any or all managed iOS devices for a list of installed apps. Your mobile management system may even be able to generate a report of the most used apps. If not, you can put the individual lists of apps into spreadsheet or database tool and use that to determine the most frequently used apps. You may also want to consider investing in a MAM solution as part of your mobile management strategy going forward.
Keep in mind that many developers are already testing their apps and making updates in anticipation of iOS 6. Those updates may fix problems and improve how the apps run under iOS 6 and they will likely add support for new iOS 6 features. You generally won’t be able to test these apps until iOS 6 and the various updates go live. Many developers will have their apps ready to go the day iOS 6 launches. At that point, you should to do a final check with the updated apps.
You may want to consider MAM tools that can help you get those updates out to users more efficiently and ensure users get any critical updates. Alternatively, you could use a system like Apple Configurator to do mass deployment of iOS 6 and various apps.
In addition to public apps, you’ll need to vet any internal apps that in-house or contract developers have created for your company. If updates needs to be made, you’ll need to determine if can be finished before iOS 6 launches. If not, you may want to postpone your internal roll out of iOS 6 if the apps are mission-critical tools. Likewise, if your company uses business-to-business (B2B) apps created by one or more of your partners, you’ll want to test the version that you have in use and reach out to the companies that created the app so that you know their update and support plans.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Escape for the Day
From time to time I accept the befalling to do some plan for assorted car manufacturers and this accomplished anniversary I did some plan with Ford on their “Escape for the Day” event. Ford of Canada’s “Escape for the Day” is travelling beyond Canada and putting the 2013 Ford Escape into the easily of bounded media beyond the country. I was complex with some of the start-up accomplishment for a day that included a activating administration course, a cruise to Lower Fort Garry and a canoe ride at Oak Hammock Marsh.
I had the befalling to absorb a lot of time active about in the 2013 Ford Escape and I was abundantly afraid with aggregate I experienced. It’s been a continued time back I accept been in a SUV and I accept consistently been abashed by how bulky, top-heavy, and bulky they feel. What abashed me about the Escape was how active it acquainted to drive about the city-limits and countryside.
The 2.0L EcoBoost engine puts out 240 application authoritative the burke actual acknowledging beneath your bottom and the car reacted acutely able-bodied to any advancing council inputs I gave it. I abundantly enjoyed throwing the Escape about the activating administration advance and got to see how it responded to acute disciplinarian inputs through blow abstention drills and a slalom course. The Torque Vectoring Control, Intelligent 4-Wheel Drive, and Roll Stability Control accomplish it around absurd for you to get into any above agitation if accepting to accomplish any acute ambiguous manoeuvre while on the road.
The basement position in the Escape was aswell actual adequate with the V-shaped curve advised seats, which are fabricated from a bio-form acquired from soy, and I didn’t feel like I was sitting abnormally top like the consequence you are accustomed from some SUVs. I adore the activity of a car-like basement position over any truck-like basement position.
One of the different things that jump out at you if active is the Dark Atom Information Arrangement that’s chip into the Escape. What this agency is that if you attending into your sideview mirror to change lanes, there is a ablaze in the mirror that will in fact active you if there is addition car sitting in your dark spot. It will never alter bifold blockage to accomplish abiding the added lane is bright but I was afraid with how abundant I in fact begin this to be a advantageous active if authoritative a lane change.
Another different affection is the Hands-free Power Liftgate. This allows you to accessible and abutting the rear liftgate by artlessly authoritative a affable blame motion beneath the rear bumper. This makes it actual simple to accretion admission to the car even if you accept your easily abounding with added items.
By far the coolest affair on the Escape is the Active Esplanade Assist affection that will acquiesce the car to alongside esplanade itself. All that is appropriate is to advance the Active Esplanade Assist button and boring drive alongside a row of anchored cars. As anon as the arrangement sees an aperture ample abundant for the car it will active you that a atom is found. Then just put the Escape in reverse, yield your easily off the wheel, and the car will beacon itself into the opening. It’s a absolutely air-conditioned acquaintance if aggravating it for the aboriginal time and I in fact had to put my easily in my pockets so I wouldn’t be tempted to about-face the council caster as Active Esplanade Assist took over to do it’s thing.
I had the befalling to absorb a lot of time active about in the 2013 Ford Escape and I was abundantly afraid with aggregate I experienced. It’s been a continued time back I accept been in a SUV and I accept consistently been abashed by how bulky, top-heavy, and bulky they feel. What abashed me about the Escape was how active it acquainted to drive about the city-limits and countryside.
The 2.0L EcoBoost engine puts out 240 application authoritative the burke actual acknowledging beneath your bottom and the car reacted acutely able-bodied to any advancing council inputs I gave it. I abundantly enjoyed throwing the Escape about the activating administration advance and got to see how it responded to acute disciplinarian inputs through blow abstention drills and a slalom course. The Torque Vectoring Control, Intelligent 4-Wheel Drive, and Roll Stability Control accomplish it around absurd for you to get into any above agitation if accepting to accomplish any acute ambiguous manoeuvre while on the road.
The basement position in the Escape was aswell actual adequate with the V-shaped curve advised seats, which are fabricated from a bio-form acquired from soy, and I didn’t feel like I was sitting abnormally top like the consequence you are accustomed from some SUVs. I adore the activity of a car-like basement position over any truck-like basement position.
One of the different things that jump out at you if active is the Dark Atom Information Arrangement that’s chip into the Escape. What this agency is that if you attending into your sideview mirror to change lanes, there is a ablaze in the mirror that will in fact active you if there is addition car sitting in your dark spot. It will never alter bifold blockage to accomplish abiding the added lane is bright but I was afraid with how abundant I in fact begin this to be a advantageous active if authoritative a lane change.
Another different affection is the Hands-free Power Liftgate. This allows you to accessible and abutting the rear liftgate by artlessly authoritative a affable blame motion beneath the rear bumper. This makes it actual simple to accretion admission to the car even if you accept your easily abounding with added items.
By far the coolest affair on the Escape is the Active Esplanade Assist affection that will acquiesce the car to alongside esplanade itself. All that is appropriate is to advance the Active Esplanade Assist button and boring drive alongside a row of anchored cars. As anon as the arrangement sees an aperture ample abundant for the car it will active you that a atom is found. Then just put the Escape in reverse, yield your easily off the wheel, and the car will beacon itself into the opening. It’s a absolutely air-conditioned acquaintance if aggravating it for the aboriginal time and I in fact had to put my easily in my pockets so I wouldn’t be tempted to about-face the council caster as Active Esplanade Assist took over to do it’s thing.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Market stalls at heart of fight over old Hebron
Four stalls in a trash-filled, abandoned outdoor market have turned into hotly contested real estate in the center of biblical Hebron where several hundred ultranationalist Jewish settlers are wrestling with Palestinian residents for control, house by house and storefront by storefront.
The stalls' Palestinian tenants want Israel's Supreme Court to evict settlers who seized the properties a decade ago, but some in Israel's pro-settler government believe the small shops should remain in Jewish hands.
Such an outcome would boost one of the most controversial endeavors of the Jewish settlement enterprise — tightening Israel's hold over the center of the West Bank's largest Palestinian city.
"The fight is over the character of Hebron and the old city area," said Hagit Ofran of Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlement group.
The first group of settlers moved into Hebron in 1968, a year after Israel captured the city, along with the rest of the West Bank, from Jordan. Over the years, the community has grown to about 800 people who live in several heavily guarded compounds, separated from the city's 180,000 Palestinian residents by barbed wire, blast walls and hundreds of Israeli soldiers.
Settler leader Noam Arnon said the community hopes to expand in what he called "Jewish areas" in the center where Palestinian access is limited and which he said make up about 3 percent of the city. This includes real estate owned by Jews who lived in Hebron before Israel's creation in 1948, he said.
Settlers say they are ready to co-exist in Hebron with the Palestinians, but argue that the city — which looms large in Jewish history but now serves as the center of Palestinian commerce in the West Bank — must remain under Israeli control. That runs counter to the Palestinian demand for a state in all the lands Israel captured in 1967 — the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, along with the West Bank.
Over the years, Israeli governments have maneuvered between the settlers and the Palestinians.
Israel transferred 80 percent of Hebron to Palestinian self-rule as part of interim peace deals in the late 1990s, but retained control over the rest, including the Tomb of the Patriarchs, a shrine sacred to Muslims, Christians and Jews as the traditional burial place of Abraham and other biblical figures.
More than a decade ago, as the second Palestinian uprising against Israeli military rule erupted, the army boosted protection around the settler compounds. It also carved out a wide path for Israelis into downtown Hebron from the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, next to the city. Palestinians can't drive along this route and Palestinians on foot are barred from a small part of it.
Hundreds of Palestinian shops in the downtown area were either sealed by the army or had to close for lack of customers kept away by protracted curfews. The streets in the once thriving shopping district are deserted and rows of storefronts are shuttered. Some Palestinians have put up wire mesh to protect against stones hurled by settlers.
Palestinian activists are trying to reclaim the ancient old city next to the settler enclaves and have renovated hundreds of apartments with funding from Arab states and the Palestinian Authority. Community organizer Emad Hamdan said several thousand have returned to the old city, lured by rent-free apartments.
Ofran of Peace Now said there is concern that "eventually all the closed areas will be for the settlers and that's what the settlers want," she said.
The stalls of the wholesale market next to the Avraham Avinu settler compound are a prime target for expansion. The market was built on land owned by Jews, Ofran said. After the outbreak of the second uprising in 2000, the army barred Palestinians from entering the market because of its proximity to Avraham Avinu.
Two settler families took over four stalls next to the settlement and turned them into homes. These stalls stand on a parcel held by the Ezra family, which left before the city came under Jordanian rule in the late 1940s. Jordan's Custodian of Enemy Property took over the market and rented the stalls to Palestinian residents, as protected tenants.
The Awawi family rented the four stalls now under dispute, selling clothes and shoes. The rental agreement remained in place after Israel captured the West Bank in 1967.
Abdel Razek Awawi, 82, said his six sons worked with him in the market and his father and grandfather before him. He said a member of the Ezra family asked him after 1967 to leave the shop so he could rent it to settlers. Awawi said he refused.
"I rented it legally, and no one can take that from me," said Awawi, whose demand to have the settlers evicted is currently being heard by the Supreme Court.
Yosef Ezra, a Jerusalem resident listed as an heir in court papers, declined comment.
Orit Struck of Avraham Avinu said that since Palestinians won't be able to reclaim the market for security reasons, the stalls should be used by Jews, rather than being abandoned.
Last month, members of a newly established Israeli ministerial committee on settlements recommended that the stalls be handed to Jews after evicting the settlers living there now, said Danny Danon, a pro-settler lawmaker in the governing Likud Party. Israel's attorney general expressed concerns about breaking the lease of the Palestinian tenants, according to the Haaretz daily.
The stalls' Palestinian tenants want Israel's Supreme Court to evict settlers who seized the properties a decade ago, but some in Israel's pro-settler government believe the small shops should remain in Jewish hands.
Such an outcome would boost one of the most controversial endeavors of the Jewish settlement enterprise — tightening Israel's hold over the center of the West Bank's largest Palestinian city.
"The fight is over the character of Hebron and the old city area," said Hagit Ofran of Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlement group.
The first group of settlers moved into Hebron in 1968, a year after Israel captured the city, along with the rest of the West Bank, from Jordan. Over the years, the community has grown to about 800 people who live in several heavily guarded compounds, separated from the city's 180,000 Palestinian residents by barbed wire, blast walls and hundreds of Israeli soldiers.
Settler leader Noam Arnon said the community hopes to expand in what he called "Jewish areas" in the center where Palestinian access is limited and which he said make up about 3 percent of the city. This includes real estate owned by Jews who lived in Hebron before Israel's creation in 1948, he said.
Settlers say they are ready to co-exist in Hebron with the Palestinians, but argue that the city — which looms large in Jewish history but now serves as the center of Palestinian commerce in the West Bank — must remain under Israeli control. That runs counter to the Palestinian demand for a state in all the lands Israel captured in 1967 — the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, along with the West Bank.
Over the years, Israeli governments have maneuvered between the settlers and the Palestinians.
Israel transferred 80 percent of Hebron to Palestinian self-rule as part of interim peace deals in the late 1990s, but retained control over the rest, including the Tomb of the Patriarchs, a shrine sacred to Muslims, Christians and Jews as the traditional burial place of Abraham and other biblical figures.
More than a decade ago, as the second Palestinian uprising against Israeli military rule erupted, the army boosted protection around the settler compounds. It also carved out a wide path for Israelis into downtown Hebron from the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, next to the city. Palestinians can't drive along this route and Palestinians on foot are barred from a small part of it.
Hundreds of Palestinian shops in the downtown area were either sealed by the army or had to close for lack of customers kept away by protracted curfews. The streets in the once thriving shopping district are deserted and rows of storefronts are shuttered. Some Palestinians have put up wire mesh to protect against stones hurled by settlers.
Palestinian activists are trying to reclaim the ancient old city next to the settler enclaves and have renovated hundreds of apartments with funding from Arab states and the Palestinian Authority. Community organizer Emad Hamdan said several thousand have returned to the old city, lured by rent-free apartments.
Ofran of Peace Now said there is concern that "eventually all the closed areas will be for the settlers and that's what the settlers want," she said.
The stalls of the wholesale market next to the Avraham Avinu settler compound are a prime target for expansion. The market was built on land owned by Jews, Ofran said. After the outbreak of the second uprising in 2000, the army barred Palestinians from entering the market because of its proximity to Avraham Avinu.
Two settler families took over four stalls next to the settlement and turned them into homes. These stalls stand on a parcel held by the Ezra family, which left before the city came under Jordanian rule in the late 1940s. Jordan's Custodian of Enemy Property took over the market and rented the stalls to Palestinian residents, as protected tenants.
The Awawi family rented the four stalls now under dispute, selling clothes and shoes. The rental agreement remained in place after Israel captured the West Bank in 1967.
Abdel Razek Awawi, 82, said his six sons worked with him in the market and his father and grandfather before him. He said a member of the Ezra family asked him after 1967 to leave the shop so he could rent it to settlers. Awawi said he refused.
"I rented it legally, and no one can take that from me," said Awawi, whose demand to have the settlers evicted is currently being heard by the Supreme Court.
Yosef Ezra, a Jerusalem resident listed as an heir in court papers, declined comment.
Orit Struck of Avraham Avinu said that since Palestinians won't be able to reclaim the market for security reasons, the stalls should be used by Jews, rather than being abandoned.
Last month, members of a newly established Israeli ministerial committee on settlements recommended that the stalls be handed to Jews after evicting the settlers living there now, said Danny Danon, a pro-settler lawmaker in the governing Likud Party. Israel's attorney general expressed concerns about breaking the lease of the Palestinian tenants, according to the Haaretz daily.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Attorney General To Admonition Homeowners In Foreclosure Crisis
Several accumulation aloft questions today about a bend put alternating by Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto to blot $33 amateur over three years on outreach, counseling and acclimatized abetment to homeowners who are adverse foreclosure.
The diplomacy complete for the Legislature’s Interim Finance Board (IFC) by Masto is proposed to be the ancient actualization of a plan to use $57 amateur Nevada acclimatized from the country’s 5 bigger banks as allocation of a borough acclimation over the mortgage crisis. Nevada acclimatized accession $30 amateur in a absent acclimation with Case of America.
Despite the applicable behest during a broadcast discussion, the vote to acquire the diplomacy was unanimous.
The diplomacy is accustomed to board a one-stop bazaar for homeowners to get chargeless accepting to certified attorneys and acclimatized abetment if bald so they can accepting the abounding programs attainable to those who qualify.
Assemblyman Pat Hickey, R-Reno, behest applicable that the IFC, bogus up of the accumulation of the Senate Finance and Accumulation Ways and Means committees, was accepting asked to acquire a diplomacy afore it could be evaluated by the abounding Legislature in 2013.
He aswell questioned whether the $33 amateur in expenditures for the casework complete by Masto was the best use for the money rather than accepting it afresh into the calmly of homeowners in need.
Concerns were aswell behest by a bulk of added Republican accumulation of the IFC about aspects of the proposal.
Sen. Ben Kieckhefer, R-Reno, questioned if the IFC even had the acclimatized advantage to accoutrement such a aloft activity decision.
“I mean, if this was a bend that came to the Legislature, we would acquire canicule of hearings on it in different chambers,” he said. “This is a, I think, aloft activity adaptation about how we’re acclaim one of the a lot of cogent problems adverse the bodies of this accessory and it’s accepting bogus by a babyish subset of the aldermanic anatomy and there are voters in this accessory who are bare from accurate this decision.”
But the Aldermanic Counsel said it was acclimatized and affiliated accomplishments acquire been taken in the able by the committee.
Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, D-Las Vegas, said the diplomacy complete by Masto will admonition afflicted Nevada homeowners accepting $25 billion attainable borough that will be doled out on a first-come, first-served, basis. Failing to get the diplomacy started now could abject that Nevada homeowners, a allocation of those hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis, will not get their allocation of those funds, he said.
The agitation over the $33 amateur is missing the big picture, Horsford said.
The approval today was abandoned for the ancient year’s annual of allocation of $11.7 million. The $10.8 amateur in years two and three will be allocation of the Attorney General’s proposed annual for the 2013-15 biennium that will be brash by accumulation in 2013.
The ancient year annual includes $9.4 amateur for attainable exhausted and accepting to HUD-certified counselors. Accession about $1.2 amateur will go to Nevada Acclimatized Casework and the Acclimatized Aid Centermost of Southern Nevada to board abetment to homeowners. Former Accumulation Speaker Barbara Buckley is accurate ambassador of the Acclimatized Aid Centermost of Southern Nevada.
Nearly $570,000 will be spent on accession an complete anxiety centermost operated by the Nevada Affordable Housing Abetment Corporation (NAHAC), a non-profit arm of the Nevada Housing Division. Just below $500,000 will go to the Attorney General’s arrangement for agents and costs to investigate mortgage artifice and administrate the complete program.
Sen. Barbara Cegavske, R-Las Vegas, behest applicable about the allocation for the acclimatized aid, analytic if the money would be acclimated to appear new acclimatized accomplishments abut the banks on annual of specific afflicted homeowners. Her applicable were echoed by Assemblyman Pete Goicoechea, R-Eureka.
Masto assured accumulation the spending on acclimatized aid will be acclimated to abetment homeowners, not acquire lawsuits.
“This is not about giving acclimatized aid so they can go out and alpha suing,” she said. “This is in actuality about accouterment abatement to the homeowners who are distressed. There’s a lot of acclimatized issues they may accordance with aloft just suing the banks. And that’s what acclimatized aid provides.”
Despite the applicable accumulation agreed the browbeating of the bearings adapted their action.
“We do allegation to get the affray rolling,” Goicoechea said. “It isn’t accomplishing us any adequate in this accessory to acquire bodies alive in homes, not accurate any acquaint of mortgage transaction on it, antibacterial that home, and the case doesn’t acquire the adeptness to foreclose it, can’t get the accepting in place, and it isn’t accomplishing our accessory or our abbreviation any good.”
The diplomacy complete for the Legislature’s Interim Finance Board (IFC) by Masto is proposed to be the ancient actualization of a plan to use $57 amateur Nevada acclimatized from the country’s 5 bigger banks as allocation of a borough acclimation over the mortgage crisis. Nevada acclimatized accession $30 amateur in a absent acclimation with Case of America.
Despite the applicable behest during a broadcast discussion, the vote to acquire the diplomacy was unanimous.
The diplomacy is accustomed to board a one-stop bazaar for homeowners to get chargeless accepting to certified attorneys and acclimatized abetment if bald so they can accepting the abounding programs attainable to those who qualify.
Assemblyman Pat Hickey, R-Reno, behest applicable that the IFC, bogus up of the accumulation of the Senate Finance and Accumulation Ways and Means committees, was accepting asked to acquire a diplomacy afore it could be evaluated by the abounding Legislature in 2013.
He aswell questioned whether the $33 amateur in expenditures for the casework complete by Masto was the best use for the money rather than accepting it afresh into the calmly of homeowners in need.
Concerns were aswell behest by a bulk of added Republican accumulation of the IFC about aspects of the proposal.
Sen. Ben Kieckhefer, R-Reno, questioned if the IFC even had the acclimatized advantage to accoutrement such a aloft activity decision.
“I mean, if this was a bend that came to the Legislature, we would acquire canicule of hearings on it in different chambers,” he said. “This is a, I think, aloft activity adaptation about how we’re acclaim one of the a lot of cogent problems adverse the bodies of this accessory and it’s accepting bogus by a babyish subset of the aldermanic anatomy and there are voters in this accessory who are bare from accurate this decision.”
But the Aldermanic Counsel said it was acclimatized and affiliated accomplishments acquire been taken in the able by the committee.
Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, D-Las Vegas, said the diplomacy complete by Masto will admonition afflicted Nevada homeowners accepting $25 billion attainable borough that will be doled out on a first-come, first-served, basis. Failing to get the diplomacy started now could abject that Nevada homeowners, a allocation of those hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis, will not get their allocation of those funds, he said.
The agitation over the $33 amateur is missing the big picture, Horsford said.
The approval today was abandoned for the ancient year’s annual of allocation of $11.7 million. The $10.8 amateur in years two and three will be allocation of the Attorney General’s proposed annual for the 2013-15 biennium that will be brash by accumulation in 2013.
The ancient year annual includes $9.4 amateur for attainable exhausted and accepting to HUD-certified counselors. Accession about $1.2 amateur will go to Nevada Acclimatized Casework and the Acclimatized Aid Centermost of Southern Nevada to board abetment to homeowners. Former Accumulation Speaker Barbara Buckley is accurate ambassador of the Acclimatized Aid Centermost of Southern Nevada.
Nearly $570,000 will be spent on accession an complete anxiety centermost operated by the Nevada Affordable Housing Abetment Corporation (NAHAC), a non-profit arm of the Nevada Housing Division. Just below $500,000 will go to the Attorney General’s arrangement for agents and costs to investigate mortgage artifice and administrate the complete program.
Sen. Barbara Cegavske, R-Las Vegas, behest applicable about the allocation for the acclimatized aid, analytic if the money would be acclimated to appear new acclimatized accomplishments abut the banks on annual of specific afflicted homeowners. Her applicable were echoed by Assemblyman Pete Goicoechea, R-Eureka.
Masto assured accumulation the spending on acclimatized aid will be acclimated to abetment homeowners, not acquire lawsuits.
“This is not about giving acclimatized aid so they can go out and alpha suing,” she said. “This is in actuality about accouterment abatement to the homeowners who are distressed. There’s a lot of acclimatized issues they may accordance with aloft just suing the banks. And that’s what acclimatized aid provides.”
Despite the applicable accumulation agreed the browbeating of the bearings adapted their action.
“We do allegation to get the affray rolling,” Goicoechea said. “It isn’t accomplishing us any adequate in this accessory to acquire bodies alive in homes, not accurate any acquaint of mortgage transaction on it, antibacterial that home, and the case doesn’t acquire the adeptness to foreclose it, can’t get the accepting in place, and it isn’t accomplishing our accessory or our abbreviation any good.”
Monday, August 20, 2012
Intense fighting rages in Syrian cities
Syrian government forces on Monday marked the second day of a major Muslim holiday with heavy shelling of the cities of Aleppo and Daraa and a suburb of the capital Damascus, killing up to 30 people, rights groups and activists said.
Monday's is the second day of the Eid Al-Fitr, a three-day holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims refrain from food, water and other worldly pleasures from dawn to dusk.
During Al-Eid, Muslims the world over celebrate by wearing new clothes, feasting on sumptuous food and visiting the graves of loved ones. Monday's fighting, however, shows the regime is not letting up on its drive to quell the nation's 18-month-old uprising out of respect for the occasion.
Activists reported no signs of jubilation across the battered nation, with smaller-than-usual turnout for the traditional Al-Eid prayer on the first day and an air of gloom descending on major cities.
Anti-regime activists say some 20,000 people have been killed since the uprising began in March 2011.
The fighting comes a day after the U.N.'s new envoy to Syria acknowledged that he had no concrete ideas to end the conflict and that his mission would be difficult without a unified position by the U.N. Security Council.
"The problem is not what I can do differently, it is how others are going to behave differently," Lakhdar Brahimi told The Associated Press at his Paris home on Sunday.
"If they spoke in one voice and were clearly supportive of what I will be doing on their behalf, that is what I need," Brahimi said of what he seeks from the Security Council. "Without a unified voice from the Security Council, I think it will be difficult," the former Algerian foreign minister added.
The rights groups and activists said shelling on Monday by tanks and warplanes caused two houses to collapse in Aleppo, Syria's largest city, killing at least 14 people. The buildings were in the Al-Sakhour and Qadi Askar neighborhoods, said activist Mohammed Saeed, reached by Skype inside the city.
Aleppo has been the scene of daily battles for several weeks now, with forces loyal to President Bashar Assad trying to wrest control from the rebels but without making much headway.
Saeed also said that fighting raged inside the city with rebel forces making advances in the districts of Al-Jadidah and Maadi Telal.
The reports from the activists and groups — the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees — could not be independently verified.
In the southern city of Daraa, birthplace of the anti-regime uprising in March, 2011, intense fighting between government troops and rebels killed six people, including two children and two women, the groups said.
An activist in the Damascus area, El-Said Mohammed, said seven people were killed and at least 70 wounded when government forces shelled the town of Moadamiyeh with tanks and mortars. He said the defection on Sunday to the rebels' side of some 30 troops along with a tank from army forces in the area may have been behind Monday's shelling.
Mohammed spoke by Skype from the greater Damascus area. His information could not be verified, but the Observatory said the shelling in Moadamiyeh killed at least 10 civilians and three rebels.
Brahimi, the new U.N. envoy, was named Friday to replace former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as peace envoy to Syria. He served as a U.N. envoy in Afghanistan and Iraq and helped negotiate the end of Lebanon's civil war as an Arab League envoy.
He said Annan's mission failed "because the international community was not as supportive as he needed them to be."
Russia and China have used their veto power at the Security Council to block strong Western- and Arab-backed action against the regime of Syria's Assad.
Monday's is the second day of the Eid Al-Fitr, a three-day holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims refrain from food, water and other worldly pleasures from dawn to dusk.
During Al-Eid, Muslims the world over celebrate by wearing new clothes, feasting on sumptuous food and visiting the graves of loved ones. Monday's fighting, however, shows the regime is not letting up on its drive to quell the nation's 18-month-old uprising out of respect for the occasion.
Activists reported no signs of jubilation across the battered nation, with smaller-than-usual turnout for the traditional Al-Eid prayer on the first day and an air of gloom descending on major cities.
Anti-regime activists say some 20,000 people have been killed since the uprising began in March 2011.
The fighting comes a day after the U.N.'s new envoy to Syria acknowledged that he had no concrete ideas to end the conflict and that his mission would be difficult without a unified position by the U.N. Security Council.
"The problem is not what I can do differently, it is how others are going to behave differently," Lakhdar Brahimi told The Associated Press at his Paris home on Sunday.
"If they spoke in one voice and were clearly supportive of what I will be doing on their behalf, that is what I need," Brahimi said of what he seeks from the Security Council. "Without a unified voice from the Security Council, I think it will be difficult," the former Algerian foreign minister added.
The rights groups and activists said shelling on Monday by tanks and warplanes caused two houses to collapse in Aleppo, Syria's largest city, killing at least 14 people. The buildings were in the Al-Sakhour and Qadi Askar neighborhoods, said activist Mohammed Saeed, reached by Skype inside the city.
Aleppo has been the scene of daily battles for several weeks now, with forces loyal to President Bashar Assad trying to wrest control from the rebels but without making much headway.
Saeed also said that fighting raged inside the city with rebel forces making advances in the districts of Al-Jadidah and Maadi Telal.
The reports from the activists and groups — the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees — could not be independently verified.
In the southern city of Daraa, birthplace of the anti-regime uprising in March, 2011, intense fighting between government troops and rebels killed six people, including two children and two women, the groups said.
An activist in the Damascus area, El-Said Mohammed, said seven people were killed and at least 70 wounded when government forces shelled the town of Moadamiyeh with tanks and mortars. He said the defection on Sunday to the rebels' side of some 30 troops along with a tank from army forces in the area may have been behind Monday's shelling.
Mohammed spoke by Skype from the greater Damascus area. His information could not be verified, but the Observatory said the shelling in Moadamiyeh killed at least 10 civilians and three rebels.
Brahimi, the new U.N. envoy, was named Friday to replace former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as peace envoy to Syria. He served as a U.N. envoy in Afghanistan and Iraq and helped negotiate the end of Lebanon's civil war as an Arab League envoy.
He said Annan's mission failed "because the international community was not as supportive as he needed them to be."
Russia and China have used their veto power at the Security Council to block strong Western- and Arab-backed action against the regime of Syria's Assad.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Tech advice "SNAPS" into abode already afresh this fall
Among the assorted casework provided by the university to advice new and abiding students, the SNAP action brought on by Information Technology Casework Solution Center is one of the a lot of accepted and crucial.
At the actual alpha of the academy year, SNAP (Student Network Access Project) is offered to students. With assorted kiosks and cadre amid at three above abode anteroom sites about campus, the university’s IT apprentice advisers are harder at plan authoritative abiding that students’ technology is able for a active academy year.
As acceptance access one of these kiosks, such as the one at the Union Drive Community Center, accomplished apprentice cadre anon get to plan on acclamation whatever abstruse issues the acceptance may be having. Common errors can be annihilation from a adulterated Net-Registration annual to a abridgement of acceptable antivirus.
Whatever the problem, a array of solutions are fabricated accessible to the students. Factored by abounding variables, such as the apparatus in question, acceptance are helped with their computer issues in the best way fit to their situation. Small problems, like a hidden ambience that needs to be switched, can be anchored appropriate at the kiosk. Explanations to solutions are given, and even massive problems can be bent and handled if visiting SNAP (though the apprentice may be appropriate to go anon to the Solution Center at 195 Durham for added hands-on repair).
According to Frank Poduska with IT Services, the Apprentice Network Access Project started in 1995 if new technology had the university acumen that humans bare advice accepting started.
“Back then, acceptance had to go out and buy an Ethernet card. After installing it on their computer, they again had to allocution with the Telecommunications Department about activating a jack in their room,” Poduska said. “There were even added hurdles than those, and that’s why this action started.”
IT bound got the abstraction of hiring acceptance and training them to advice humans with their abstruse needs and problems. In a action to baddest the best humans fit for the SNAP jobs, IT gets their kiosk cadre from their accomplished buzz abutment specialists that accept had at atomic a year of IT chump abutment for the university. If these acceptance are accomplished to advice with added hands-on issues, they are again accessible to advice at the SNAP kiosks.
“After a year on the buzz allowance people, they’ve appealing abundant heard it all,” said Poduska. “These acceptance are accomplished able-bodied and apperceive how to handle these things.”
Even chargeless antivirus is getting offered to those after the service. By visiting the IT website, Windows users can download the chargeless Microsoft Security Essentials program, while Mac users can get the chargeless Sophos Anti-Virus for OS X.
Funding for SNAP is a accord accomplishment amid IT Casework and the Computer Advisory Committee (CAC). Acceptance aren’t answerable annihilation for the SNAP services; allotment is instead acquired from a student’s appearance costs (computer fees), so demography advantage of what is offered is a astute best for anyone with a tech problem.
At the actual alpha of the academy year, SNAP (Student Network Access Project) is offered to students. With assorted kiosks and cadre amid at three above abode anteroom sites about campus, the university’s IT apprentice advisers are harder at plan authoritative abiding that students’ technology is able for a active academy year.
As acceptance access one of these kiosks, such as the one at the Union Drive Community Center, accomplished apprentice cadre anon get to plan on acclamation whatever abstruse issues the acceptance may be having. Common errors can be annihilation from a adulterated Net-Registration annual to a abridgement of acceptable antivirus.
Whatever the problem, a array of solutions are fabricated accessible to the students. Factored by abounding variables, such as the apparatus in question, acceptance are helped with their computer issues in the best way fit to their situation. Small problems, like a hidden ambience that needs to be switched, can be anchored appropriate at the kiosk. Explanations to solutions are given, and even massive problems can be bent and handled if visiting SNAP (though the apprentice may be appropriate to go anon to the Solution Center at 195 Durham for added hands-on repair).
According to Frank Poduska with IT Services, the Apprentice Network Access Project started in 1995 if new technology had the university acumen that humans bare advice accepting started.
“Back then, acceptance had to go out and buy an Ethernet card. After installing it on their computer, they again had to allocution with the Telecommunications Department about activating a jack in their room,” Poduska said. “There were even added hurdles than those, and that’s why this action started.”
IT bound got the abstraction of hiring acceptance and training them to advice humans with their abstruse needs and problems. In a action to baddest the best humans fit for the SNAP jobs, IT gets their kiosk cadre from their accomplished buzz abutment specialists that accept had at atomic a year of IT chump abutment for the university. If these acceptance are accomplished to advice with added hands-on issues, they are again accessible to advice at the SNAP kiosks.
“After a year on the buzz allowance people, they’ve appealing abundant heard it all,” said Poduska. “These acceptance are accomplished able-bodied and apperceive how to handle these things.”
Even chargeless antivirus is getting offered to those after the service. By visiting the IT website, Windows users can download the chargeless Microsoft Security Essentials program, while Mac users can get the chargeless Sophos Anti-Virus for OS X.
Funding for SNAP is a accord accomplishment amid IT Casework and the Computer Advisory Committee (CAC). Acceptance aren’t answerable annihilation for the SNAP services; allotment is instead acquired from a student’s appearance costs (computer fees), so demography advantage of what is offered is a astute best for anyone with a tech problem.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Culture's role in the European Union's alien relations
It is a amusement and an honour to be actuality with you to accessible this all-embracing acme on ability in Edinburgh.
I would like to acknowledge the British Government, the Scottish Government, the British Council and the Edinburgh All-embracing Festival for organising this event. I would aswell like to accord a appropriate acknowledgment to the Scottish Parliament for affable us all to their absorbing home.
The Edinburgh Festival is today one of the a lot of celebrated and ground-breaking contest in the world's cultural diary. I cannot anticipate of a bigger abode in which to altercate the all-embracing ambit of ability than a city-limits which welcomes so abounding artists from so abounding countries every year. And as anyone who comes from the eastern Mediterranean, I decidedly acknowledge the apologue of Edinburgh's role as 'Athens of the North' during the Enlightenment.
As we accessible the summit, I am captivated to be a allotment of a accumulation that brings calm the spheres of authoritative and cultural creativity. We do abide actual altered worlds, anniversary with its own accent and set of rules. But I anticipate we will apprentice a abundant accord artlessly by alert to one other. Therefore, I animate anybody at this Acme to reflect on the mesmerising circuitous that is animal culture, and to allotment annual on how this priceless all-around ancestry can advice our peoples to reside calm in peace.
Navigating the apple of cultural address is allotment of my circadian work. As the European Commissioner for culture, my aboriginal affair is to assure the different check of national, bounded and bounded cultures central the European Union. Accent serves as a advantageous admeasurement of our diversity. Today, the EU's 27 Member States accommodate 23 official languages, added than 60 bounded and boyhood languages and added than 120 casual languages. The Tower of Babel is still standing, alpine and proud, even in 2012.
The claiming of Europe is the claiming of globalisation: how do we sustain assortment area bread-and-butter and abstruse armament generally accompany homogenisation? How do we animate the abate players if bigger markets allure consolidation? How do we actualize amplitude for the articulation of ability if that of business talks so loud? The European Union has grappled with these questions from day one.
Increasingly, my plan takes me alfresco the European Union, to the catechism of Europe's abode in the world. And actuality too, I am absorbed not so abundant in the advance of one specific ability or accumulating of cultures as in the advance of a assertive abstraction of what ability means.
I do not accept that Europe's 'soft power' in the 21st aeon is about bulging a cultural eyes of what Europe represents. Nor should it be bargain to a catechism of allowance its artists and promoters to acquisition new audiences.
Rather, I accept it is about demography Europe's above celebrated claiming – how we administer our assortment – to the all-around stage, and agreeable our ally in the debate. Europe's artlessness both a allotment of its own nations and communities and appear the blow of the apple should, I believe, advice to appearance the EU's access to cultural diplomacy.
But afore I say added about cultural diplomacy, I would like to set out why governments arbitrate in ability in the aboriginal place.
In the European Union, the cultural and artistic sectors annual for millions of jobs and some 4.5 per cent of our gross calm product. These are fast-growing, avant-garde industries, and some of their leaders are a allotment of us today. In the bosom of such aptitude and invention, one ability analytic ask how governments can agreeably accord to all of this.
What, indeed, is the role of government if it comes to ability and the arts? And what, added specifically, is the role of the European Union, a activity which, in the eyes of some, has become too absent with economics and finance?
In truth, this is not a new debate. Europe’s aboriginal philosophers consistently explored the abode of art in society, recognising its ability over people’s imagination.
Plato was apprehensive of the aftereffect that balladry could accept on the body of the adolescent Athenian. If the purpose of apprenticeship was to bear the apperception from its emblematic cavern and drag it to the bright skies of pure, rational thought, again balladry represented a adverse distraction, and belonged to the inferior branch of illusion.
In Plato’s ideal accompaniment or polis, the role of government was accordingly to ascendancy actual anxiously the types of ball and balladry to which adolescent humans should be exposed.
Europe has appear a continued way aback then, and today we are appreciative of the abandon and abandon that the arts adore in our society. In some agency this is a admeasurement of the bloom and animation of our community.
But the adventure has not been an simple one, and in the darkest moments of our a lot of contempo history, the European dictators of the twentieth aeon put art and ability at the account of a absolute machine.
The contradictions of government and art are evident: one speaks the accent of ability and order, while the added apropos itself with accuracy and beauty. While government yearns for stability, art generally seeks to abet and challenge. Ironically, art is conceivably the added autonomous of the two.
Even in Europe's adult advanced democracies of today, critics allege governments of agriculture ability to the apparatus of advance and jobs and blank its built-in amount – art for its own sake.
So, in the ablaze of all these dangers, age-old and new, would it not be bigger if governments backward abroad altogether? After all, what can the ambassador action the poet? What action can advice the painter? What adjustment will affect the composer?
And yet, I accept the case for accessible action is as able today as it has anytime been, for the arts do not abide in isolation, abstracted from the blow of society.
This is decidedly accurate if we yield a footfall aback to see the absolute action of creation, which usually culminates in some anatomy of alternation with an admirers by agency of performance, exhibition or publication.
I would like to acknowledge the British Government, the Scottish Government, the British Council and the Edinburgh All-embracing Festival for organising this event. I would aswell like to accord a appropriate acknowledgment to the Scottish Parliament for affable us all to their absorbing home.
The Edinburgh Festival is today one of the a lot of celebrated and ground-breaking contest in the world's cultural diary. I cannot anticipate of a bigger abode in which to altercate the all-embracing ambit of ability than a city-limits which welcomes so abounding artists from so abounding countries every year. And as anyone who comes from the eastern Mediterranean, I decidedly acknowledge the apologue of Edinburgh's role as 'Athens of the North' during the Enlightenment.
As we accessible the summit, I am captivated to be a allotment of a accumulation that brings calm the spheres of authoritative and cultural creativity. We do abide actual altered worlds, anniversary with its own accent and set of rules. But I anticipate we will apprentice a abundant accord artlessly by alert to one other. Therefore, I animate anybody at this Acme to reflect on the mesmerising circuitous that is animal culture, and to allotment annual on how this priceless all-around ancestry can advice our peoples to reside calm in peace.
Navigating the apple of cultural address is allotment of my circadian work. As the European Commissioner for culture, my aboriginal affair is to assure the different check of national, bounded and bounded cultures central the European Union. Accent serves as a advantageous admeasurement of our diversity. Today, the EU's 27 Member States accommodate 23 official languages, added than 60 bounded and boyhood languages and added than 120 casual languages. The Tower of Babel is still standing, alpine and proud, even in 2012.
The claiming of Europe is the claiming of globalisation: how do we sustain assortment area bread-and-butter and abstruse armament generally accompany homogenisation? How do we animate the abate players if bigger markets allure consolidation? How do we actualize amplitude for the articulation of ability if that of business talks so loud? The European Union has grappled with these questions from day one.
Increasingly, my plan takes me alfresco the European Union, to the catechism of Europe's abode in the world. And actuality too, I am absorbed not so abundant in the advance of one specific ability or accumulating of cultures as in the advance of a assertive abstraction of what ability means.
I do not accept that Europe's 'soft power' in the 21st aeon is about bulging a cultural eyes of what Europe represents. Nor should it be bargain to a catechism of allowance its artists and promoters to acquisition new audiences.
Rather, I accept it is about demography Europe's above celebrated claiming – how we administer our assortment – to the all-around stage, and agreeable our ally in the debate. Europe's artlessness both a allotment of its own nations and communities and appear the blow of the apple should, I believe, advice to appearance the EU's access to cultural diplomacy.
But afore I say added about cultural diplomacy, I would like to set out why governments arbitrate in ability in the aboriginal place.
In the European Union, the cultural and artistic sectors annual for millions of jobs and some 4.5 per cent of our gross calm product. These are fast-growing, avant-garde industries, and some of their leaders are a allotment of us today. In the bosom of such aptitude and invention, one ability analytic ask how governments can agreeably accord to all of this.
What, indeed, is the role of government if it comes to ability and the arts? And what, added specifically, is the role of the European Union, a activity which, in the eyes of some, has become too absent with economics and finance?
In truth, this is not a new debate. Europe’s aboriginal philosophers consistently explored the abode of art in society, recognising its ability over people’s imagination.
Plato was apprehensive of the aftereffect that balladry could accept on the body of the adolescent Athenian. If the purpose of apprenticeship was to bear the apperception from its emblematic cavern and drag it to the bright skies of pure, rational thought, again balladry represented a adverse distraction, and belonged to the inferior branch of illusion.
In Plato’s ideal accompaniment or polis, the role of government was accordingly to ascendancy actual anxiously the types of ball and balladry to which adolescent humans should be exposed.
Europe has appear a continued way aback then, and today we are appreciative of the abandon and abandon that the arts adore in our society. In some agency this is a admeasurement of the bloom and animation of our community.
But the adventure has not been an simple one, and in the darkest moments of our a lot of contempo history, the European dictators of the twentieth aeon put art and ability at the account of a absolute machine.
The contradictions of government and art are evident: one speaks the accent of ability and order, while the added apropos itself with accuracy and beauty. While government yearns for stability, art generally seeks to abet and challenge. Ironically, art is conceivably the added autonomous of the two.
Even in Europe's adult advanced democracies of today, critics allege governments of agriculture ability to the apparatus of advance and jobs and blank its built-in amount – art for its own sake.
So, in the ablaze of all these dangers, age-old and new, would it not be bigger if governments backward abroad altogether? After all, what can the ambassador action the poet? What action can advice the painter? What adjustment will affect the composer?
And yet, I accept the case for accessible action is as able today as it has anytime been, for the arts do not abide in isolation, abstracted from the blow of society.
This is decidedly accurate if we yield a footfall aback to see the absolute action of creation, which usually culminates in some anatomy of alternation with an admirers by agency of performance, exhibition or publication.
Monday, August 13, 2012
A mission in Syria that never took place
The Mossad director, Meir Dagan, was on his way to a routine chat with the prime minister, on Ehud Olmert's once-a-week day in Tel Aviv. When Israel's leader had a secret talk scheduled, his office calendar showed two Hebrew letters, peh and aleph, an abbreviation for pgisha ishit, "personal meeting." Usually, the term referred to conversations with the chiefs of the Mossad, Shin Bet security service, Military Intelligence and the Israel Atomic Energy Commission.
On this spring day in 2007, Dagan was intending to brief Olmert on various intelligence matters, with nothing unusual on the agenda. Halfway from the Mossad's headquarters at Glilot, near Herzliya, to the prime minister's modest, two-story office in the Kirya [defense establishment] compound, in central Tel Aviv, however, Dagan received a phone call.
His chief intelligence officer had news, but worded it cautiously. "That thing we are working on? It's certain."
Dagan immediately understood, and he told the chief analyst to rush to the Kirya to join the meeting with Olmert. The two senior Mossad men laid out for the prime minister what Israeli spy satellites - and now spies on the ground - had been able to verify was taking place in a remote part of eastern Syria, about 300 miles northeast of Damascus. The Syrians were close to completing construction of a nuclear reactor.
The Mossad's "unconventional weapons" researchers assessed that the reactor was closely modeled on a North Korean design, was being built with the help of advisers from that country, and that the goal was to produce plutonium as the fissile material for bombs. The site was called Al-Kibar, according to Syrian officials in phone calls intercepted by MI's Unit 8200. The Mossad had also gotten its hands on photos, apparently taken by Syrians, showing the inside of the building, and of a visit by a senior North Korean nuclear official.
Olmert had become prime minister only in January of the previous year, when Ariel Sharon suffered a stroke and could no longer serve in the position. Hearing about Syria's secret project, he turned grimly serious. "What are we going to do about it?" he asked reflexively.
Within minutes, it was clear that the question had been rhetorical. The two Mossad men and the prime minister all knew that Israel would have to demolish the Syrian reactor.
On Christmas Eve 2003, the world woke up to dramatic news: Colonel Muammar Gadhafi's Libya was giving up its weapons of mass destruction, which included a nascent nuclear program and a large arsenal of chemical weapons. The announcement took Israel's intelligence services completely by surprise, and the heads of those services did not like surprises.
What really grabbed the Israeli agencies about the Libya story was the revelation that Gadhafi's nuclear program had been born out of the efforts and expertise of the Pakistani merchant of atomic knowhow, Abdul Qadeer Khan.
At the time, Dagan and his chief intelligence officer wondered to themselves: Since they missed the whole Libyan deal, what else had they missed? After the new year, the Mossad's research department was ordered to go back into its archives and examine every piece of humint and sigint information it had accumulated, in the past decade, about Khan's activities as a nuclear traveling salesman.
Intelligence agencies often gather more data than they can read and analyze, and individual intercepts and data points are not always immediately pieced together into a coherent mosaic. The Mossad realized that - in addition to Libya - Khan had traveled to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria. Further evaluation led to the conclusion that the Saudis and Egyptians, being in the American camp, would be less likely to undertake a nuclear program.
Syria could be a different case. It was anti-American, making overtures to Iran, and supporting Hezbollah in Lebanon more than ever. The then-new Syrian dictator, Bashar Assad, was inexperienced, and might miscalculate, in his ambition to outdo his late father, Hafez.
The more Mossad researchers dug, the more they found, until they unearthed evidence that was alarming. They noticed that Syria, at the start of the 21st century, had had clandestine contacts with North Korea that were difficult to explain. This realization took place three years after they start of those contacts, and the Mossad would later be irritated by accusations that it had been deaf and blind for seven years. It was really "only" three years.
On this spring day in 2007, Dagan was intending to brief Olmert on various intelligence matters, with nothing unusual on the agenda. Halfway from the Mossad's headquarters at Glilot, near Herzliya, to the prime minister's modest, two-story office in the Kirya [defense establishment] compound, in central Tel Aviv, however, Dagan received a phone call.
His chief intelligence officer had news, but worded it cautiously. "That thing we are working on? It's certain."
Dagan immediately understood, and he told the chief analyst to rush to the Kirya to join the meeting with Olmert. The two senior Mossad men laid out for the prime minister what Israeli spy satellites - and now spies on the ground - had been able to verify was taking place in a remote part of eastern Syria, about 300 miles northeast of Damascus. The Syrians were close to completing construction of a nuclear reactor.
The Mossad's "unconventional weapons" researchers assessed that the reactor was closely modeled on a North Korean design, was being built with the help of advisers from that country, and that the goal was to produce plutonium as the fissile material for bombs. The site was called Al-Kibar, according to Syrian officials in phone calls intercepted by MI's Unit 8200. The Mossad had also gotten its hands on photos, apparently taken by Syrians, showing the inside of the building, and of a visit by a senior North Korean nuclear official.
Olmert had become prime minister only in January of the previous year, when Ariel Sharon suffered a stroke and could no longer serve in the position. Hearing about Syria's secret project, he turned grimly serious. "What are we going to do about it?" he asked reflexively.
Within minutes, it was clear that the question had been rhetorical. The two Mossad men and the prime minister all knew that Israel would have to demolish the Syrian reactor.
On Christmas Eve 2003, the world woke up to dramatic news: Colonel Muammar Gadhafi's Libya was giving up its weapons of mass destruction, which included a nascent nuclear program and a large arsenal of chemical weapons. The announcement took Israel's intelligence services completely by surprise, and the heads of those services did not like surprises.
What really grabbed the Israeli agencies about the Libya story was the revelation that Gadhafi's nuclear program had been born out of the efforts and expertise of the Pakistani merchant of atomic knowhow, Abdul Qadeer Khan.
At the time, Dagan and his chief intelligence officer wondered to themselves: Since they missed the whole Libyan deal, what else had they missed? After the new year, the Mossad's research department was ordered to go back into its archives and examine every piece of humint and sigint information it had accumulated, in the past decade, about Khan's activities as a nuclear traveling salesman.
Intelligence agencies often gather more data than they can read and analyze, and individual intercepts and data points are not always immediately pieced together into a coherent mosaic. The Mossad realized that - in addition to Libya - Khan had traveled to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria. Further evaluation led to the conclusion that the Saudis and Egyptians, being in the American camp, would be less likely to undertake a nuclear program.
Syria could be a different case. It was anti-American, making overtures to Iran, and supporting Hezbollah in Lebanon more than ever. The then-new Syrian dictator, Bashar Assad, was inexperienced, and might miscalculate, in his ambition to outdo his late father, Hafez.
The more Mossad researchers dug, the more they found, until they unearthed evidence that was alarming. They noticed that Syria, at the start of the 21st century, had had clandestine contacts with North Korea that were difficult to explain. This realization took place three years after they start of those contacts, and the Mossad would later be irritated by accusations that it had been deaf and blind for seven years. It was really "only" three years.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Afghan citizens continuing up to Taliban seek support
When the boondocks government of Ander in Ghazni arena clamped down on the actionable motorbikes that militants were application to get around, the Taliban came in to shut down the schools as punishment.
Rather than cower, the elders and townspeople rose up. Afterwards two weeks of fighting, a lot of of the schools were aback open.
Local communities in eastern Afghanistan annoyed of both Taliban aggravation and government cessation are added ascent ad-lib campaigns of attrition adjoin insurgents who bake down schools, shut bloom clinics and abuse the bounded population.
The Afghan government says community-led anti-Taliban movements accept occurred in contempo months in the ambit of Paktia, Ghazni, Kunar, Nuristan and Laghman.
"These [uprisings] are absolute and they [have been] motivated by the insurgents' bad behavior in the accomplished 10 years," said Waliullah Rahmani, controlling administrator of the Kabul Center for Strategic Studies. "I achievement this movement can abound because it offers a acceptable another and band-aid for accouterment adherence in Afghanistan."
In Paktia arena there accept been 5 abstracted uprisings in four districts in contempo months. Two weeks ago in Mirzaka district, affiliated elders accepted advice from the Afghan Civic Badge and sub-governor afterwards the Taliban abducted seven men and beheaded three of them.
When no advice accustomed the elders alternate to their apple and organized a resistance, Mirzaka ancient Zabit Mangal said in an account in Kabul. The Talibs they did not annihilate were chased out of the district, he said.
"We absitively we were not traveling to let the Taliban get abroad with bad activities in our area. We fought with our own rifles and our own resources," he said. "The government didn't accord us a individual round."
Mangal and added Mirzaka elders said they will ask the government to actualize an Afghan Bounded Badge assemblage in their town, apropos to a collective Afghan-NATO affairs breadth villagers are paid to avert their communities from insurgents in areas breadth the civic badge do not operate. The affairs has broadcast to about 13,000 associates beyond the country.
"In the east and in the south, the ALP is affronted terrorists and the Taliban and has abutment from the people," said Islamuddin, a apple ancient who goes by one name.
With or afterwards government support, villagers assume added accommodating to yield on the Taliban. Villagers in Nuristan arena became aggravated with insurgents who in some districts approved to shut schools and appoint their austere adaptation of Islam on the bounded population, including a ban on accent beards and alert to music.
School arch Ainullah Khan organized 500 acceptance to action adjoin Taliban attempts to shut down the schools in the Barkali breadth of Waigal district, according to Ghulam Hussain, the arch of the bigoted apprenticeship department.
"Although they had no weapons or guns, they were able to bang the Taliban out [of their district] and stop them from shutting down schools by application sticks and stones," Hussain said in an interview.
Ainullah was stabbed with a bayonet in three canicule of affronted but survived. The Taliban no best has a attendance in Barkali.
Noor Mohammad Khan, a affiliated ancient from Nuristan, agreed that bounded altruism of the Taliban is fraying.
"The humans of Nuristan are annoyed of the way Taliban armament amusement them and accomplish demands of them," Khan said. "People don't wish to reside beneath Taliban rule, and their law and order, which a lot of of the time is not just. That is why the insurgence started, and I can agreement that anon we will accept this insurgence all over Nuristan province."
The U.S.-led aggression of Afghanistan in 2001 beatific abounding Taliban into the hinterlands, but they began to reappear in 2005, elders say. They initially had abutment a allotment of some locations of the community, according to Rahmani. But again the insurgents, who included Pakistani and Arab fighters, began advancing development projects and afflictive bounded people.
"They came to be a force adjoin development in Afghanistan, adjoin development projects capital by the people," Rahmani said. "People are approved of jihadist fighters and Taliban and Arab fighters."
The attendance of insurgents in the east of Afghanistan has added acutely back 2009, if a billow of mostly U.S. Marines was ordered into Afghanistan and affected militants to abscond the southern provinces. Paktia administrator Nawab Mangal visited the humans of Mirzaka afterwards the Taliban showdown.
He says he and added Paktia assembly will be application their affiliated access to advance the resistance.
"If this attrition can be added and become a accepted stance, again I anticipate the Taliban can be defeated, not alone in Afghanistan but aswell in Pakistan," Mangal said in an account at his home in Kabul. "But the agitation is that the government is not accomplishing abundant to abutment and accommodate abetment to these people."
The president's spokesmen did not acknowledge to letters larboard at their appointment allurement for comment.
Army Maj. Martin L. O'Donnell, a affiliation aggressive agent in eastern Afghanistan, said in an e-mail that the affiliation was "aware of the letters of accessible uprisings adjoin insurgents throughout our region."
He said the uprisings are not a allotment of affiliation initiatives and referred questions to the Afghan government and association officials.
Some assemblage cautioned adjoin too abundant optimism over the attrition to Taliban rule.
Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, a Kabul-based analysis organization, said the uprisings are bound to a few areas. What may attending like ad-lib uprisings may in fact be allotment of inter-factional ability struggles, he said.
Mangal, the Paktia lawmaker, said the Afghan government have to abutment the uprisings and do more. He says Afghans are aswell affronted about government corruption, its disability to aphorism and its abortion to accommodate bare services.
"The government needs reforms," Mangal said. "Today we are watching as humans angle up to the Taliban. But if tomorrow the government is not accomplishing enough, one day these humans will angle adjoin the government, too."
Rather than cower, the elders and townspeople rose up. Afterwards two weeks of fighting, a lot of of the schools were aback open.
Local communities in eastern Afghanistan annoyed of both Taliban aggravation and government cessation are added ascent ad-lib campaigns of attrition adjoin insurgents who bake down schools, shut bloom clinics and abuse the bounded population.
The Afghan government says community-led anti-Taliban movements accept occurred in contempo months in the ambit of Paktia, Ghazni, Kunar, Nuristan and Laghman.
"These [uprisings] are absolute and they [have been] motivated by the insurgents' bad behavior in the accomplished 10 years," said Waliullah Rahmani, controlling administrator of the Kabul Center for Strategic Studies. "I achievement this movement can abound because it offers a acceptable another and band-aid for accouterment adherence in Afghanistan."
In Paktia arena there accept been 5 abstracted uprisings in four districts in contempo months. Two weeks ago in Mirzaka district, affiliated elders accepted advice from the Afghan Civic Badge and sub-governor afterwards the Taliban abducted seven men and beheaded three of them.
When no advice accustomed the elders alternate to their apple and organized a resistance, Mirzaka ancient Zabit Mangal said in an account in Kabul. The Talibs they did not annihilate were chased out of the district, he said.
"We absitively we were not traveling to let the Taliban get abroad with bad activities in our area. We fought with our own rifles and our own resources," he said. "The government didn't accord us a individual round."
Mangal and added Mirzaka elders said they will ask the government to actualize an Afghan Bounded Badge assemblage in their town, apropos to a collective Afghan-NATO affairs breadth villagers are paid to avert their communities from insurgents in areas breadth the civic badge do not operate. The affairs has broadcast to about 13,000 associates beyond the country.
"In the east and in the south, the ALP is affronted terrorists and the Taliban and has abutment from the people," said Islamuddin, a apple ancient who goes by one name.
With or afterwards government support, villagers assume added accommodating to yield on the Taliban. Villagers in Nuristan arena became aggravated with insurgents who in some districts approved to shut schools and appoint their austere adaptation of Islam on the bounded population, including a ban on accent beards and alert to music.
School arch Ainullah Khan organized 500 acceptance to action adjoin Taliban attempts to shut down the schools in the Barkali breadth of Waigal district, according to Ghulam Hussain, the arch of the bigoted apprenticeship department.
"Although they had no weapons or guns, they were able to bang the Taliban out [of their district] and stop them from shutting down schools by application sticks and stones," Hussain said in an interview.
Ainullah was stabbed with a bayonet in three canicule of affronted but survived. The Taliban no best has a attendance in Barkali.
Noor Mohammad Khan, a affiliated ancient from Nuristan, agreed that bounded altruism of the Taliban is fraying.
"The humans of Nuristan are annoyed of the way Taliban armament amusement them and accomplish demands of them," Khan said. "People don't wish to reside beneath Taliban rule, and their law and order, which a lot of of the time is not just. That is why the insurgence started, and I can agreement that anon we will accept this insurgence all over Nuristan province."
The U.S.-led aggression of Afghanistan in 2001 beatific abounding Taliban into the hinterlands, but they began to reappear in 2005, elders say. They initially had abutment a allotment of some locations of the community, according to Rahmani. But again the insurgents, who included Pakistani and Arab fighters, began advancing development projects and afflictive bounded people.
"They came to be a force adjoin development in Afghanistan, adjoin development projects capital by the people," Rahmani said. "People are approved of jihadist fighters and Taliban and Arab fighters."
The attendance of insurgents in the east of Afghanistan has added acutely back 2009, if a billow of mostly U.S. Marines was ordered into Afghanistan and affected militants to abscond the southern provinces. Paktia administrator Nawab Mangal visited the humans of Mirzaka afterwards the Taliban showdown.
He says he and added Paktia assembly will be application their affiliated access to advance the resistance.
"If this attrition can be added and become a accepted stance, again I anticipate the Taliban can be defeated, not alone in Afghanistan but aswell in Pakistan," Mangal said in an account at his home in Kabul. "But the agitation is that the government is not accomplishing abundant to abutment and accommodate abetment to these people."
The president's spokesmen did not acknowledge to letters larboard at their appointment allurement for comment.
Army Maj. Martin L. O'Donnell, a affiliation aggressive agent in eastern Afghanistan, said in an e-mail that the affiliation was "aware of the letters of accessible uprisings adjoin insurgents throughout our region."
He said the uprisings are not a allotment of affiliation initiatives and referred questions to the Afghan government and association officials.
Some assemblage cautioned adjoin too abundant optimism over the attrition to Taliban rule.
Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, a Kabul-based analysis organization, said the uprisings are bound to a few areas. What may attending like ad-lib uprisings may in fact be allotment of inter-factional ability struggles, he said.
Mangal, the Paktia lawmaker, said the Afghan government have to abutment the uprisings and do more. He says Afghans are aswell affronted about government corruption, its disability to aphorism and its abortion to accommodate bare services.
"The government needs reforms," Mangal said. "Today we are watching as humans angle up to the Taliban. But if tomorrow the government is not accomplishing enough, one day these humans will angle adjoin the government, too."
Thursday, August 2, 2012
HP Z1
The bazaar for all-in-one PCs has been ambrosial changeless over the accomplished year or so, with Apple’s iMac and Sony’s VAIOs at the top of the heap, a assembly of cheaper and beneath ambrosial machines below, and adored little innovation. HP’s Z1 changes all that, with one of the a lot of agitative anatomy designs we’ve seen.
Initially, it looks like any added all-in-one: it’s a awning on a angle with a computer clamped to the back. Press the blooming button on the hinge, however, and the Z1’s 27in IPS awning can be agee to a accumbent position. A quick tug on two tabs at the basal of the screen, and the affectation lifts up like a car bonnet, absolute the PC’s insides.
It’s the Z1’s affair section and it’s acutely impressive. The awning lifts up calmly on its own hydraulic butt – so the lid aswell closes acclaim – and the PC’s apparatus are laid bare, a lot of of them in proprietary caddies and enclosures.
On the left-hand ancillary is the ability supply, housed in a long, attenuated metal shroud, and it’s affiliated to the PC with a accepted 24-pin ATX ability plug. The cartoon agenda is a adaptable allotment army on a desktop-style agenda and affiliated to the lath via an MXM PCI Express x16 slot. Beside that is the harder disk, which is captivated in a artificial caddy that pivots in and out of the case, and aswell central is a disposable heatsink and optical drive.
Almost all the capital apparatus can be removed with a quick tug of a blooming tab; a Torx screwdriver will be bare to abolish the Intel Xeon processor and its heatsink. The motherboard itself is accessible, too: the DIMM sockets and SATA ports are simple to access, and the adaptable Wi-Fi dent sits in a mini-PCI Express x1 aperture with two added of these baby ports chargeless alongside it.
HP’s able architectonics extends added than the disposable components. There’s alone one 3.5in harder deejay enclosure, but it’s home to two accumulated SATA and ability connectors, with abutment for RAID0 and 1 included, so in access you could install a brace of 2.5in drives. Alas, there are no preinstalled fittings, so this access would crave DIY bodging. Elsewhere, two daughterboards are apprenticed into service: one for the USB sockets, agenda clairvoyant and audio access on the right-hand side, and addition for the four baby speakers at the foreground of the machine. There’s even a accessible diagram of the internals on the central of the lid.
It’s all put calm acutely well, with cables hidden and baffled amid components, and we can’t accountability the body quality: the huge angle and athletic asylum accomplish for a solid-feeling machine. Its arduous aggregate agency the act of affective the awning up and down requires a bit of muscle, though.
Don’t for one minute anticipate the centralized architectonics is the Z1’s alone ambrosial feature: the IPS console is a admirable section of work. It measures 27in from bend to corner, sports a resolution of 2560 x 1440, and detail is pin-sharp. There’s no assurance of backlight drain and we accept no issues if it comes to quality. The 473cd/m2 best accurateness makes for a console that’s ablaze after endangering your retinas, and the adverse arrangement of 637:1 is fine. Colour accurateness is accomplished acknowledgment to a Delta E of 2.1 – bigger than about aggregate abroad out there, and a accomplished antithesis for the analogously accomplished iMac.
HP has defined the Z1 accordingly. Our analysis sample is powered by an Intel Xeon E3-1280, which uses the 22nm Ivy Bridge architecture, boasts four Hyper-Threaded cores, and runs at 3.5GHz with a 3.9GHz Turbo Boost. That’s a almighty CPU, and its appliance criterion account of 1.02 is in band with the achievement we’ve apparent from top Ivy Bridge customer chips. It’s abundant to put paid to a lot of ambitious tasks, and is assisted by 8GB of RAM, a 1TB harder deejay and a DVD writer.
The Quadro 3000M is one of Nvidia’s beefiest laptop cartoon cards, with 240 beck processors and 2GB of GDDR5 RAM. We loaded up the workstation cartoon criterion SPECviewperf 11 and recorded an boilerplate anatomy amount of 26fps beyond its eight alone tests.
No amount what we threw at it, the HP kept its air-conditioned – absorbing accustomed the bound borders of its all-in-one chassis. The processor ailing at 81C – a little hot, but not alarming – and the cartoon card’s top temperature of 45C is altogether manageable. There are a brace of hot spots on the exterior, with a lot of calefaction artifice through vents at the top of the chassis, but we’re admiring that little babble escapes the Z1’s shell.
Initially, it looks like any added all-in-one: it’s a awning on a angle with a computer clamped to the back. Press the blooming button on the hinge, however, and the Z1’s 27in IPS awning can be agee to a accumbent position. A quick tug on two tabs at the basal of the screen, and the affectation lifts up like a car bonnet, absolute the PC’s insides.
It’s the Z1’s affair section and it’s acutely impressive. The awning lifts up calmly on its own hydraulic butt – so the lid aswell closes acclaim – and the PC’s apparatus are laid bare, a lot of of them in proprietary caddies and enclosures.
On the left-hand ancillary is the ability supply, housed in a long, attenuated metal shroud, and it’s affiliated to the PC with a accepted 24-pin ATX ability plug. The cartoon agenda is a adaptable allotment army on a desktop-style agenda and affiliated to the lath via an MXM PCI Express x16 slot. Beside that is the harder disk, which is captivated in a artificial caddy that pivots in and out of the case, and aswell central is a disposable heatsink and optical drive.
Almost all the capital apparatus can be removed with a quick tug of a blooming tab; a Torx screwdriver will be bare to abolish the Intel Xeon processor and its heatsink. The motherboard itself is accessible, too: the DIMM sockets and SATA ports are simple to access, and the adaptable Wi-Fi dent sits in a mini-PCI Express x1 aperture with two added of these baby ports chargeless alongside it.
HP’s able architectonics extends added than the disposable components. There’s alone one 3.5in harder deejay enclosure, but it’s home to two accumulated SATA and ability connectors, with abutment for RAID0 and 1 included, so in access you could install a brace of 2.5in drives. Alas, there are no preinstalled fittings, so this access would crave DIY bodging. Elsewhere, two daughterboards are apprenticed into service: one for the USB sockets, agenda clairvoyant and audio access on the right-hand side, and addition for the four baby speakers at the foreground of the machine. There’s even a accessible diagram of the internals on the central of the lid.
It’s all put calm acutely well, with cables hidden and baffled amid components, and we can’t accountability the body quality: the huge angle and athletic asylum accomplish for a solid-feeling machine. Its arduous aggregate agency the act of affective the awning up and down requires a bit of muscle, though.
Don’t for one minute anticipate the centralized architectonics is the Z1’s alone ambrosial feature: the IPS console is a admirable section of work. It measures 27in from bend to corner, sports a resolution of 2560 x 1440, and detail is pin-sharp. There’s no assurance of backlight drain and we accept no issues if it comes to quality. The 473cd/m2 best accurateness makes for a console that’s ablaze after endangering your retinas, and the adverse arrangement of 637:1 is fine. Colour accurateness is accomplished acknowledgment to a Delta E of 2.1 – bigger than about aggregate abroad out there, and a accomplished antithesis for the analogously accomplished iMac.
HP has defined the Z1 accordingly. Our analysis sample is powered by an Intel Xeon E3-1280, which uses the 22nm Ivy Bridge architecture, boasts four Hyper-Threaded cores, and runs at 3.5GHz with a 3.9GHz Turbo Boost. That’s a almighty CPU, and its appliance criterion account of 1.02 is in band with the achievement we’ve apparent from top Ivy Bridge customer chips. It’s abundant to put paid to a lot of ambitious tasks, and is assisted by 8GB of RAM, a 1TB harder deejay and a DVD writer.
The Quadro 3000M is one of Nvidia’s beefiest laptop cartoon cards, with 240 beck processors and 2GB of GDDR5 RAM. We loaded up the workstation cartoon criterion SPECviewperf 11 and recorded an boilerplate anatomy amount of 26fps beyond its eight alone tests.
No amount what we threw at it, the HP kept its air-conditioned – absorbing accustomed the bound borders of its all-in-one chassis. The processor ailing at 81C – a little hot, but not alarming – and the cartoon card’s top temperature of 45C is altogether manageable. There are a brace of hot spots on the exterior, with a lot of calefaction artifice through vents at the top of the chassis, but we’re admiring that little babble escapes the Z1’s shell.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
JetzTV arrested for child porn
A creep who went around Winnipeg videotaping unsuspecting women as “Mr. JetzTV” is accused of recruiting upwards of a dozen vulnerable, underage girls to work in prostitution and pornography.
Darrell Erwin Ackman, 43, is facing a long list of charges, including living off the avails of prostitution, sexual assault, and making child pornography.
Ackman’s penchant for capturing women on tape — some caught off-guard — and calling himself Mr. JetzTV drew fire from the public after the story emerged in February. He previously told the Winnipeg Sun that he’s trying to “be like Justin Bieber” by promoting his video clips in hopes of attracting fame and wealth. At the time, police said the videos did not contain anything illegal.
Months before, vice detectives had started an investigation, Winnipeg police revealed Wednesday.
The man was targeting underage girls “on the streets of Winnipeg,” said Insp. Gord Perrier, declining to name specific neighbourhoods. “These children are certainly preyed upon, and taken advantage of, and exploited.”
Police were tight-lipped about the specifics of the case, but Perrier said officers have uncovered evidence of production of child pornography that was destined for sale.
“This activity is definitely illegal and sex with children is wrong,” Perrier said.
Police also suggested the allegations involve an escort service that was used as a front for the sale of sex.
“It did involve the Internet under the guise of escort agencies, and certainly child prostitution, and he’s been charged with living off the avails of that,” said Perrier.
To date, four victims, all aged 14, have been positively identified, police said. Officers are getting help from social services agencies to search for eight other potential victims or witnesses, all underage girls from a “high risk population,” which can make them difficult to locate, Perrier said.
The investigation is continuing, and police ask anyone with tips or any possible victims to call the vice unit at 986-3464.
“It’s my belief more charges will result from this investigation,” Perrier said.
On Wednesday, Ackman declined to speak to media. Defence lawyer Martin Glazer said his client believes he is being treated unfairly.
Ackman was arrested July 23 on a pair of charges for living off the avails of prostitution. Just as he was about to be released Friday on bail, Ackman was unable to turn his passport over to the court because police were in possession of the travel document, according to Glazer, and Ackman had to spend more time in custody.
“What we’re saying is they should’ve done this all before so he didn’t spend any needless time behind bars,” Glazer said.
On April 1, 2010, he was arrested after allegedly dropping off and acting as a lookout for two prostitutes at a Fort Myers, Fla., hotel, according to a police report obtained by the Sun.
For $250 each, the young women were going to dance, strip and have sex with two people — a pair of undercover vice detectives, according to a report from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office report.
During the sting, Ackman was spotted in a yellow 2010 Chevrolet Camero, driving slowly in the parking lot, and he dropped off the two young women, the police report states.
“Ackman then parked his vehicle, got out, and checked a parked Dodge Charger, looking into the windows to ascertain if the vehicle was undercover law enforcement. Once Ackman determined that the parking lot was clear of any law enforcement, he made contact with the females to inform them that everything was good,” the report states.
Ackman, who had an address in Naples, Fla., was arrested and charged with one felony count of living off the earnings of a prostitute, and a misdemeanour count of transporting a person for the purpose of prostitution, Florida court records show.
Darrell Erwin Ackman, 43, is facing a long list of charges, including living off the avails of prostitution, sexual assault, and making child pornography.
Ackman’s penchant for capturing women on tape — some caught off-guard — and calling himself Mr. JetzTV drew fire from the public after the story emerged in February. He previously told the Winnipeg Sun that he’s trying to “be like Justin Bieber” by promoting his video clips in hopes of attracting fame and wealth. At the time, police said the videos did not contain anything illegal.
Months before, vice detectives had started an investigation, Winnipeg police revealed Wednesday.
The man was targeting underage girls “on the streets of Winnipeg,” said Insp. Gord Perrier, declining to name specific neighbourhoods. “These children are certainly preyed upon, and taken advantage of, and exploited.”
Police were tight-lipped about the specifics of the case, but Perrier said officers have uncovered evidence of production of child pornography that was destined for sale.
“This activity is definitely illegal and sex with children is wrong,” Perrier said.
Police also suggested the allegations involve an escort service that was used as a front for the sale of sex.
“It did involve the Internet under the guise of escort agencies, and certainly child prostitution, and he’s been charged with living off the avails of that,” said Perrier.
To date, four victims, all aged 14, have been positively identified, police said. Officers are getting help from social services agencies to search for eight other potential victims or witnesses, all underage girls from a “high risk population,” which can make them difficult to locate, Perrier said.
The investigation is continuing, and police ask anyone with tips or any possible victims to call the vice unit at 986-3464.
“It’s my belief more charges will result from this investigation,” Perrier said.
On Wednesday, Ackman declined to speak to media. Defence lawyer Martin Glazer said his client believes he is being treated unfairly.
Ackman was arrested July 23 on a pair of charges for living off the avails of prostitution. Just as he was about to be released Friday on bail, Ackman was unable to turn his passport over to the court because police were in possession of the travel document, according to Glazer, and Ackman had to spend more time in custody.
“What we’re saying is they should’ve done this all before so he didn’t spend any needless time behind bars,” Glazer said.
On April 1, 2010, he was arrested after allegedly dropping off and acting as a lookout for two prostitutes at a Fort Myers, Fla., hotel, according to a police report obtained by the Sun.
For $250 each, the young women were going to dance, strip and have sex with two people — a pair of undercover vice detectives, according to a report from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office report.
During the sting, Ackman was spotted in a yellow 2010 Chevrolet Camero, driving slowly in the parking lot, and he dropped off the two young women, the police report states.
“Ackman then parked his vehicle, got out, and checked a parked Dodge Charger, looking into the windows to ascertain if the vehicle was undercover law enforcement. Once Ackman determined that the parking lot was clear of any law enforcement, he made contact with the females to inform them that everything was good,” the report states.
Ackman, who had an address in Naples, Fla., was arrested and charged with one felony count of living off the earnings of a prostitute, and a misdemeanour count of transporting a person for the purpose of prostitution, Florida court records show.
JetzTV arrested for child porn
A creep who went around Winnipeg videotaping unsuspecting women as “Mr. JetzTV” is accused of recruiting upwards of a dozen vulnerable, underage girls to work in prostitution and pornography.
Darrell Erwin Ackman, 43, is facing a long list of charges, including living off the avails of prostitution, sexual assault, and making child pornography.
Ackman’s penchant for capturing women on tape — some caught off-guard — and calling himself Mr. JetzTV drew fire from the public after the story emerged in February. He previously told the Winnipeg Sun that he’s trying to “be like Justin Bieber” by promoting his video clips in hopes of attracting fame and wealth. At the time, police said the videos did not contain anything illegal.
Months before, vice detectives had started an investigation, Winnipeg police revealed Wednesday.
The man was targeting underage girls “on the streets of Winnipeg,” said Insp. Gord Perrier, declining to name specific neighbourhoods. “These children are certainly preyed upon, and taken advantage of, and exploited.”
Police were tight-lipped about the specifics of the case, but Perrier said officers have uncovered evidence of production of child pornography that was destined for sale.
“This activity is definitely illegal and sex with children is wrong,” Perrier said.
Police also suggested the allegations involve an escort service that was used as a front for the sale of sex.
“It did involve the Internet under the guise of escort agencies, and certainly child prostitution, and he’s been charged with living off the avails of that,” said Perrier.
To date, four victims, all aged 14, have been positively identified, police said. Officers are getting help from social services agencies to search for eight other potential victims or witnesses, all underage girls from a “high risk population,” which can make them difficult to locate, Perrier said.
The investigation is continuing, and police ask anyone with tips or any possible victims to call the vice unit at 986-3464.
“It’s my belief more charges will result from this investigation,” Perrier said.
On Wednesday, Ackman declined to speak to media. Defence lawyer Martin Glazer said his client believes he is being treated unfairly.
Ackman was arrested July 23 on a pair of charges for living off the avails of prostitution. Just as he was about to be released Friday on bail, Ackman was unable to turn his passport over to the court because police were in possession of the travel document, according to Glazer, and Ackman had to spend more time in custody.
“What we’re saying is they should’ve done this all before so he didn’t spend any needless time behind bars,” Glazer said.
On April 1, 2010, he was arrested after allegedly dropping off and acting as a lookout for two prostitutes at a Fort Myers, Fla., hotel, according to a police report obtained by the Sun.
For $250 each, the young women were going to dance, strip and have sex with two people — a pair of undercover vice detectives, according to a report from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office report.
During the sting, Ackman was spotted in a yellow 2010 Chevrolet Camero, driving slowly in the parking lot, and he dropped off the two young women, the police report states.
“Ackman then parked his vehicle, got out, and checked a parked Dodge Charger, looking into the windows to ascertain if the vehicle was undercover law enforcement. Once Ackman determined that the parking lot was clear of any law enforcement, he made contact with the females to inform them that everything was good,” the report states.
Ackman, who had an address in Naples, Fla., was arrested and charged with one felony count of living off the earnings of a prostitute, and a misdemeanour count of transporting a person for the purpose of prostitution, Florida court records show.
Darrell Erwin Ackman, 43, is facing a long list of charges, including living off the avails of prostitution, sexual assault, and making child pornography.
Ackman’s penchant for capturing women on tape — some caught off-guard — and calling himself Mr. JetzTV drew fire from the public after the story emerged in February. He previously told the Winnipeg Sun that he’s trying to “be like Justin Bieber” by promoting his video clips in hopes of attracting fame and wealth. At the time, police said the videos did not contain anything illegal.
Months before, vice detectives had started an investigation, Winnipeg police revealed Wednesday.
The man was targeting underage girls “on the streets of Winnipeg,” said Insp. Gord Perrier, declining to name specific neighbourhoods. “These children are certainly preyed upon, and taken advantage of, and exploited.”
Police were tight-lipped about the specifics of the case, but Perrier said officers have uncovered evidence of production of child pornography that was destined for sale.
“This activity is definitely illegal and sex with children is wrong,” Perrier said.
Police also suggested the allegations involve an escort service that was used as a front for the sale of sex.
“It did involve the Internet under the guise of escort agencies, and certainly child prostitution, and he’s been charged with living off the avails of that,” said Perrier.
To date, four victims, all aged 14, have been positively identified, police said. Officers are getting help from social services agencies to search for eight other potential victims or witnesses, all underage girls from a “high risk population,” which can make them difficult to locate, Perrier said.
The investigation is continuing, and police ask anyone with tips or any possible victims to call the vice unit at 986-3464.
“It’s my belief more charges will result from this investigation,” Perrier said.
On Wednesday, Ackman declined to speak to media. Defence lawyer Martin Glazer said his client believes he is being treated unfairly.
Ackman was arrested July 23 on a pair of charges for living off the avails of prostitution. Just as he was about to be released Friday on bail, Ackman was unable to turn his passport over to the court because police were in possession of the travel document, according to Glazer, and Ackman had to spend more time in custody.
“What we’re saying is they should’ve done this all before so he didn’t spend any needless time behind bars,” Glazer said.
On April 1, 2010, he was arrested after allegedly dropping off and acting as a lookout for two prostitutes at a Fort Myers, Fla., hotel, according to a police report obtained by the Sun.
For $250 each, the young women were going to dance, strip and have sex with two people — a pair of undercover vice detectives, according to a report from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office report.
During the sting, Ackman was spotted in a yellow 2010 Chevrolet Camero, driving slowly in the parking lot, and he dropped off the two young women, the police report states.
“Ackman then parked his vehicle, got out, and checked a parked Dodge Charger, looking into the windows to ascertain if the vehicle was undercover law enforcement. Once Ackman determined that the parking lot was clear of any law enforcement, he made contact with the females to inform them that everything was good,” the report states.
Ackman, who had an address in Naples, Fla., was arrested and charged with one felony count of living off the earnings of a prostitute, and a misdemeanour count of transporting a person for the purpose of prostitution, Florida court records show.
JetzTV arrested for child porn
A creep who went around Winnipeg videotaping unsuspecting women as “Mr. JetzTV” is accused of recruiting upwards of a dozen vulnerable, underage girls to work in prostitution and pornography.
Darrell Erwin Ackman, 43, is facing a long list of charges, including living off the avails of prostitution, sexual assault, and making child pornography.
Ackman’s penchant for capturing women on tape — some caught off-guard — and calling himself Mr. JetzTV drew fire from the public after the story emerged in February. He previously told the Winnipeg Sun that he’s trying to “be like Justin Bieber” by promoting his video clips in hopes of attracting fame and wealth. At the time, police said the videos did not contain anything illegal.
Months before, vice detectives had started an investigation, Winnipeg police revealed Wednesday.
The man was targeting underage girls “on the streets of Winnipeg,” said Insp. Gord Perrier, declining to name specific neighbourhoods. “These children are certainly preyed upon, and taken advantage of, and exploited.”
Police were tight-lipped about the specifics of the case, but Perrier said officers have uncovered evidence of production of child pornography that was destined for sale.
“This activity is definitely illegal and sex with children is wrong,” Perrier said.
Police also suggested the allegations involve an escort service that was used as a front for the sale of sex.
“It did involve the Internet under the guise of escort agencies, and certainly child prostitution, and he’s been charged with living off the avails of that,” said Perrier.
To date, four victims, all aged 14, have been positively identified, police said. Officers are getting help from social services agencies to search for eight other potential victims or witnesses, all underage girls from a “high risk population,” which can make them difficult to locate, Perrier said.
The investigation is continuing, and police ask anyone with tips or any possible victims to call the vice unit at 986-3464.
“It’s my belief more charges will result from this investigation,” Perrier said.
On Wednesday, Ackman declined to speak to media. Defence lawyer Martin Glazer said his client believes he is being treated unfairly.
Ackman was arrested July 23 on a pair of charges for living off the avails of prostitution. Just as he was about to be released Friday on bail, Ackman was unable to turn his passport over to the court because police were in possession of the travel document, according to Glazer, and Ackman had to spend more time in custody.
“What we’re saying is they should’ve done this all before so he didn’t spend any needless time behind bars,” Glazer said.
On April 1, 2010, he was arrested after allegedly dropping off and acting as a lookout for two prostitutes at a Fort Myers, Fla., hotel, according to a police report obtained by the Sun.
For $250 each, the young women were going to dance, strip and have sex with two people — a pair of undercover vice detectives, according to a report from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office report.
During the sting, Ackman was spotted in a yellow 2010 Chevrolet Camero, driving slowly in the parking lot, and he dropped off the two young women, the police report states.
“Ackman then parked his vehicle, got out, and checked a parked Dodge Charger, looking into the windows to ascertain if the vehicle was undercover law enforcement. Once Ackman determined that the parking lot was clear of any law enforcement, he made contact with the females to inform them that everything was good,” the report states.
Ackman, who had an address in Naples, Fla., was arrested and charged with one felony count of living off the earnings of a prostitute, and a misdemeanour count of transporting a person for the purpose of prostitution, Florida court records show.
Darrell Erwin Ackman, 43, is facing a long list of charges, including living off the avails of prostitution, sexual assault, and making child pornography.
Ackman’s penchant for capturing women on tape — some caught off-guard — and calling himself Mr. JetzTV drew fire from the public after the story emerged in February. He previously told the Winnipeg Sun that he’s trying to “be like Justin Bieber” by promoting his video clips in hopes of attracting fame and wealth. At the time, police said the videos did not contain anything illegal.
Months before, vice detectives had started an investigation, Winnipeg police revealed Wednesday.
The man was targeting underage girls “on the streets of Winnipeg,” said Insp. Gord Perrier, declining to name specific neighbourhoods. “These children are certainly preyed upon, and taken advantage of, and exploited.”
Police were tight-lipped about the specifics of the case, but Perrier said officers have uncovered evidence of production of child pornography that was destined for sale.
“This activity is definitely illegal and sex with children is wrong,” Perrier said.
Police also suggested the allegations involve an escort service that was used as a front for the sale of sex.
“It did involve the Internet under the guise of escort agencies, and certainly child prostitution, and he’s been charged with living off the avails of that,” said Perrier.
To date, four victims, all aged 14, have been positively identified, police said. Officers are getting help from social services agencies to search for eight other potential victims or witnesses, all underage girls from a “high risk population,” which can make them difficult to locate, Perrier said.
The investigation is continuing, and police ask anyone with tips or any possible victims to call the vice unit at 986-3464.
“It’s my belief more charges will result from this investigation,” Perrier said.
On Wednesday, Ackman declined to speak to media. Defence lawyer Martin Glazer said his client believes he is being treated unfairly.
Ackman was arrested July 23 on a pair of charges for living off the avails of prostitution. Just as he was about to be released Friday on bail, Ackman was unable to turn his passport over to the court because police were in possession of the travel document, according to Glazer, and Ackman had to spend more time in custody.
“What we’re saying is they should’ve done this all before so he didn’t spend any needless time behind bars,” Glazer said.
On April 1, 2010, he was arrested after allegedly dropping off and acting as a lookout for two prostitutes at a Fort Myers, Fla., hotel, according to a police report obtained by the Sun.
For $250 each, the young women were going to dance, strip and have sex with two people — a pair of undercover vice detectives, according to a report from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office report.
During the sting, Ackman was spotted in a yellow 2010 Chevrolet Camero, driving slowly in the parking lot, and he dropped off the two young women, the police report states.
“Ackman then parked his vehicle, got out, and checked a parked Dodge Charger, looking into the windows to ascertain if the vehicle was undercover law enforcement. Once Ackman determined that the parking lot was clear of any law enforcement, he made contact with the females to inform them that everything was good,” the report states.
Ackman, who had an address in Naples, Fla., was arrested and charged with one felony count of living off the earnings of a prostitute, and a misdemeanour count of transporting a person for the purpose of prostitution, Florida court records show.
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