Public service announcement

A public service announcement (PSA) or community service announcement (CSA) is a non-commercial advertisement broadcast on radio or television, ostensibly for the public good. PSAs are intended to modify public attitudes by raising awareness about specific issues.
The most common topics of PSAs are health and safety. A typical PSA is part of a public awareness campaign to inform or educate the public about an issue such as smoking or compulsive gambling.
Often, a charitable organization releasing a PSA enlists the support of a celebrity; examples include Michael J. Fox's PSAs in the U.S. supporting research into Parkinson's Disease and Crips street gang leader Stanley "Tookie" Williams speaking from prison to urge youth not to join gangs.
Some religious groups produce PSAs on non-religious themes such as family values. Examples include the long-running "Homefront" campaign from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Seventh-day Adventist Church, and more recently the United Methodist Church.
The military produces PSAs to recruit enlistees, in addition to paid advertising and sponsorship efforts.
In the U.S, the role of PSAs was affected by deregulation of the broadcasting industry in the 1980s. Previously, a broadcast license was assigned to a television or radio station that was expected to serve as a "public trustee" by airing PSAs (in addition to meeting other requirements).
Untited States producers distribute traditional PSAs distributed to station directors.

ANSI/NISO/ISO 12083 Electronic Manuscript Preparation and Markup

Provides document architectures for the creation and interchange of books, articles, serial publications, and application-embedded mathematics. It provides a toolkit for publication developers to use as a basis for creating custom applications for authors, publishers, libraries, their users, and/or their database vendors. The standard specifies the SGML declaration defining the syntax used by the document type definitions (DTD) and document instances, and a definition for mathematics which may be embedded in other SGML applications. The DTDs included have been designed to be flexible enough to expand or limit markup depending on the use of the application. The DTDs presented conform to ISO 8879.


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Students designing housing for wounded warriors

By Josh Humphries
The Daily Reflector

Friday, November 07, 2008

Military barracks for injured soldiers tend to be institutional and drab, but an East Carolina University class wants to change that.

Instead of sterile white walls, students in Hunt McKinnon's interior design classes would use color to bring life to barracks and make soldiers feel more at home. Instead of dull training rooms, they would use vibrant designs to motivate injured soldiers toward better health.

McKinnon's design students are working in teams to create barracks for Wounded Warriors at Camp Lejeune as a class project that may ultimately be used by the U.S. Marines.

The project is to design barracks that would provide assisted living for Marines going through treatment and rehabilitation. McKinnon's students want to get away from the institutional feel of the current barracks used to house injured soldiers. Learn More

Navy ship San Antonio undergoing repairs

Associated Press - November 7, 2008 6:15 PM ET

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - The Navy amphibious ship San Antonio is undergoing repairs after it sprung oil leaks in its lubrication system during its first deployment.

Officials say the transport dock ship is in a Bahrain shipyard and will be sidelined for at least two weeks while engineers and workers assess and fix the problems.

A team of about 30 civilian and military personnel from Norfolk Naval Shipyard have flown to Bahrain to conduct tests and repair.

The San Antonio left Norfolk for the Middle East on its first deployment in August with the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group.

The ship is the first in the Navy's new class of Landing Platform Dock.

Information from: The Virginian-Pilot,

San Antonio class amphibious transport dock

The San Antonio class is the United States Navy's new primary class of amphibious transport dock (LPD) in the beginning of 21st century^[1]. It will be replacing the older Austin-, Cleveland-, and Trenton- class LPDs as well as the Anchorage-class dock landing ships, Newport-class tank landing ships, and one class that has already been retired, the Charleston-class amphibious cargo ships^[1].

Thus, the twelve planned San Antonios will replace a total of 41 ships; however the San Antonio class's funding may be reduced in 2006 as a result of suspected budget cuts, and only nine ships will likely be funded. There are currently six San Antonio-class LPDs under construction and three in commission as of April 2008; LPDs 26 through 28 are planned, but have not been awarded to a shipyard or all named^[2]। read more

Multi-agency law enforcement effort nets 164 arrests

Law enforcement officials from agencies in Onslow, Carteret and Craven counties came together during a Tuesday afternoon press conference to show how cooperation is helping take illegal drugs off the streets of area communities.
Operation Stars and Shields, a reference to the star-shaped badges worn by sheriff deputies and the shields worn by police and federal law enforcement, is a multi-agency, multi-jurisdiction undercover drug enforcement effort that has involved nine agencies from three counties.

Wife's Text Messages Lead To Underage Sex Sting

SOUTH HERO, Vt. -- An arrangement for a man to meet who he thought were two teenagers for sex started with an accidental cell phone text message and ended with his estranged wife setting him up for a police sting, according to Vermont State Police.
Police: Wife's Text Messages Lead to underage Sex Sting
Police said Jesse Arnold Read, 40, of Plattsburgh, N.Y., was charged with using electronic equipment to lure a child after he was set up by his 23-year-old estranged wife and her friend.

US strike' on Pakistan militants

A suspected US missile strike in north-west Pakistan has killed at least 11 people, Pakistani officials say.

The attack by a US drone targeted Taleban militants in the tribal region of North Waziristan, close to the Afghan border, they said.

Local people say the house of fighters loyal to a Taleban commander, Hafiz Gul Bahadur, was hit.

The US has not confirmed the attack। It has carried out many attacks along Pakistan's border areas recently Read More

White House Mum Following U.S. Raid Into Syria

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Mass Demonstration at Yarmuk Camp Protesting US Attack on Abu Kamal

Damascus, Nov. 4 (SANA) – The Palestinian masses at Yarmuk Camp in Damascus organized a public demonstration expressing anger and protesting against the US attack on Abu Kamal area, affirming their support to Syria in the face of this criminal act.

Protestors raised Syrian and Palestinian flags and banners denouncing the US attack and policies.

Several speeches denouncing the act of aggression were delivered, affirming that the attack which targeted innocent civilians targets Syria's firm stances and its resistance of foreign dictations. They also expressed support to Syria and its national stances, affirming that it represents the Arab nation's conscience, dignity and pride.

The Palestinian resistance factions made a statement during the demonstration condemning the US attack and expressing support of Syria, stressing that Syria's stances support the Arab nation in the face of dangers.

The statement was concluded by calling for continuing the struggle to end occupation and thwart plots against the nation.

Participators in the demonstration expressed their refusal of the US policies of aggression and their support to Syria, calling on the international community to take action for preventing the recurrence of the US attack.

H. Sabbagh / Ahmad Fathi ZAHRA

http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2008/11/04/199888.htm

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FBI Wants Its Own Stasi

In a move startlingly similar to that of the East German government during the Cold war, the FBI wants to recruit thousands of covert informants in the US and work with the CIA to train them in an effort to expand and adopt more aggressive intelligence capabilities.
ABC's The Blotter reports that according to a recent unclassified report to Congress, the FBI, driven by a 2004 directive from President Bush, wants to recruit more than 15,000 informants in the US, entailing a complete overhaul of its database systems at a cost of around $22 million. READ MORE

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'Surveillance-Industrial Complex' Turbo-Charging Government Monitoring

The government is rapidly increasing its ability to monitor average Americans by tapping into the growing amount of consumer data being collected by the private sector, according to a major report released today by the American Civil Liberties Union.
"The U.S. security establishment is reaching deeper and deeper into our private lives by forcing the corporate sector to inform on the activities of individuals," said Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU. "The government has always recruited informers to help convict criminals, but today that recruitment is being computerized, automated, and used against innocent individuals on a massive scale that is unprecedented in the history of our nation." READ MORE



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Online NewsHour: Government Surveillance --

GWEN IFILL: The Pentagon has launched plans to create a computer surveillance system to sift through personal information as a way of tracking down terrorists. Called Total Information Awareness, the government would use a technique known as data mining, to access everything from personal e-mail and credit card purchases to banking transactions.
The man in charge is retired vice admiral John Poindexter, he was the national security advisor under President Reagan, and the highest ranking official convicted of lying to Congress during the Iran Contra scandal. That conviction was later overturned.
For two views on the Poindexter plan, we turn to retired Colonel Edward Badolato, who served former Presidents Reagan and Bush as deputy secretary of energy focusing on counter terrorism. And Marc Rotenberg, the executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. The center is challenging the project.
Colonel Badolato, we're talking about instant access to personal records of an unprecedented nature, or at least scope and breadth without a search warrant. Why is that needed? Read More





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The Emerging Surveillance State

Last month, the House amended the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to expand the government’s ability to monitor our private communications. This measure, if it becomes law, will result in more warrantless government surveillance of innocent American citizens.
Though some opponents claimed that the only controversial part of this legislation was its grant of immunity to telecommunications companies, there is much more to be wary of in the bill. In the House version, Title II, Section 801, extends immunity from prosecution of civil legal action to people and companies including any provider of an electronic communication service, any provider of a remote computing service, “any other communication service provider who has access to wire or electronic communications,” any “parent, subsidiary, affiliate, successor, or assignee” of such company, any “officer, employee, or agent” of any such company, and any “landlord, custodian, or other person who may be authorized or required to furnish assistance.” The Senate version goes even further by granting retroactive immunity to such entities that may have broken the law in the past.

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Government Surveillance

Comprehensive examinations of the activities of US intelligence and law enforcement agencies by congressional committees in the 1970s led to significant reforms designed to ensure that investigations conducted by those agencies were respectful of the Constitutional rights of Americans. Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the intelligence and security bureaucracy, in concert with the Bush Administration, has capitalized on the current climate and has pressed for the elimination of many of those safeguards. Sweeping anti-terrorism legislation, the USA Patriot Act, enacted in October, 2001, contained many new powers, some completely unconnected to terrorism. Most notably, the Congress enacted amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) which pervert the original intent of the legislation. In addition to this congressional action, the Department of Justice has instituted policies that authorize the monitoring of communications between attorneys and their clients and severely weaken the regulations governing investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Click on the links below to learn more about the government's expanded surveillance powers.
FBI guidelines for investigations
Monitoring of attorney-client conversations
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
Total Information Awareness (TIA)



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Emergency Preparedness & Response

Surveillance
NOTE: the surveillance resources on this website are too numerous to list on one page. For more resources on specific topics, see the list of specific types of emergencies below.
On this page:
Specific Agents & Health Topics
Case Definitions
Illness Recognition & Detection
Surveillance Planning
Surveillance Systems



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Can Private Companies Helping the NSA Be Watchdogs, Too?

Companies that secretly helped the government's secret anti-terrorism surveillance operations without requiring valid legal orders have found their reputations sullied, their billboards re-decorated and their lawyers busy fending off suits seeking billions in damages. Just ask AT&T.
But given that the government's spooks will continue to rely on private companies -- especially telecoms -- to help with their secret intelligence efforts, could these companies actually serve as a watchdog protecting the country from intrusive, lawbreaking spying?
Jon Michaels, an acting professor at UCLA Law School, thinks they could.
The key, according to Michaels' article in the California Law Review, is making such companies tell the appropriate Congressional committees and inspectors general in regular reports when they transfer information about Americans to the government's spy agencies. Congress also much find a clear way to punish companies which cooperate informally and immunize those who follow legal orders.
That should make telecoms resist the kind of handshake agreements like the ones that led the nation's largest telecoms to give the government billions of phone call records and to let the nation's spooks wiretap the internet inside the United States, Michaels argues.
And the spies' reliance on private companies and organizations (Western Union, the phone companies, JetBlue and FedEx, among others) won't be ending any time soon.
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Factsheet - IMF Surveillance

IMF Surveillance
The IMF is mandated to oversee the international monetary system and monitor the economic and financial policies of its 185 member countries. This activity is known as surveillance. During this process, which takes place both at the global level and in individual countries, the IMF highlights possible risks to stability and growth and advises on needed policy adjustments. In this way, it helps the international monetary system serve its essential purpose of facilitating the exchange of goods, services, and capital among countries, thereby sustaining sound economic growth.


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Gottschalk Electronic Board

I think Gottschalk needs and electronic board with name, email, phone, slip number, etc.You can start with mine:

Bill and Linda Griswold
Slip 46
Southern Comfort
Clayton, NC
919-395-3623
bill@billgriswold.com




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Boathouse Lifts and Kits

Complete aluminum lifts with overhead beams and galvanized kits for do-it-yourselfers.




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