Hawaii could begin testing for COVID-19 as early as next week, state epidemiologist Sarah Park said Thursday during a Facebook Live stream with Gov. David Ige.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as the Association of Public Health Laboratories, “have worked out the situation to allow for many public health labs, including ours, to be able to start the ball rolling, so to speak,” she said.
All laboratory testing to confirm COVID-19, the recently identified respiratory illness that has infected thousands in China and elsewhere around the world, has had to be done at the CDC in Atlanta.
Test kits originally sent to state laboratories, including Hawaii, were found to be defective, and new test kits are currently being developed by the CDC.
There was a concern about one component of the kits that were sent to Hawaii, but the CDC has given the state’s laboratory the go-ahead to start the “verification process” so they can be used.
“The State Laboratories Division needs to test controls and make sure to get expected results to assure testing results can be trusted,” the joint information center said. “Once SLD has completed this verification process, they are able to test.”
Park said the state could “have that testing capacity as early as next week, and that’s really great news for all of us here in Hawaii.”
This effort comes as concerns about the coronavirus grow and more cases are reported outside of China, where the virus was first reported late last year.
More than 81,000 cases have been confirmed globally, including 60 in the U.S., and more than 2,800 deaths have been reported.
Stoking concerns in the U.S. is a COVID-19 infection in an individual from California who reportedly did not have travel history or exposure to another patient.
U.S. health officials on Thursday expanded their criteria for who should get tested, and took steps to increase testing, the Associated Press reported.
The CDC will continue to advise testing people who have traveled to certain outbreak areas and have fever and certain other symptoms. But now testing is also appropriate if such symptoms exist and flu and other respiratory illnesses have been ruled out and no source of exposure has been identified, according to the AP.
At a news conference Wednesday, Ige and other state officials announced they will be switching the state’s response to outbreak from one of containment to one of mitigation.
Ige has requested an additional $7.2 million from the state Legislature to combat the disease.
“And I really want to assure you that that just gives us the resources so we can be prepared,” Ige said during Thursday’s live stream. “Often times in emergency response, we talk about preparing for the worst and then hoping for the best. I think that’s typically how we approach these issues. The $7.2 million would really allow us to be prepared.”
As of Feb. 27, 80 people in Hawaii are self-monitoring, meaning these individuals voluntarily remain at home and refrain from work, school, gathering places and public transit, as well as communicate daily with the DOH.
Five of those individuals are on the Big Island.
Common coronaviruses in humans usually cause mild to moderate upper-respiratory tract illnesses, like the common cold, according to the CDC.
Symptoms of the newly identified virus include mild to severe respiratory illness with fever, cough and difficulty breathing. At this time, the CDC believes symptoms might appear 2-14 days after exposure.
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Utah Orchid Society's fall show at Red Butte Gardens
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Hailee Cox uses a microscope to admire a tiny orchid during the semiannual Utah Orchid Society show Nov. 3, 2012 at Red Butte Garden in Salt Lake City.
The Utah Orchid Society is celebrating fall with their semi-annual show themed "Orchid Festival" at Red Butte Gardens in Salt Lake City. The event, which continues Sunday November 4th from 9-5pm, features dozens of orchids being judged in several categories. There will be orchids available for purchase, as well as experts on hand to give tips on growing orchids and orchid care.
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Buyers need to ask these questions to the agents because, let’s face it, the agent’s primary concern is to the vendor who is paying them. I have come across a lot situations where the purchaser could have had a better time if the agent was doing their due dilligence. 1. How old is the property based
It can be troublesome in short. Avoid buying these properties no matter what the property agents are telling you. Their primary motive is to sell the property they have been assigned to, as opposed to acting on the buyers’ best interests. Before I expand on the title, I need to explain the importance of an individual/strata
Refinancing is a process that property owners could engage to unlock the full value of their properties. To initiate the process, the bank would request a valuer to perform a valuation on the property and proceed to offer up to 90% of the property value as loans, with the property being used as a collateral.
CTOS and CCRIS are alike, but not the same. While both collect individuals credit records, CTOS extends further by by collecting information from multiple sources, namely utility and servicing companies, as well legal actions taken against the individuals. CCRIS on the other hand is limited to collecting credit related records gathered from financial institutions. CTOS CTOS is one

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Nigerian Breweries Plc has empowered about 441 women and youth on skill acquisition across five key locations in Nigeria via its partnership scheme. According to the company, the successful beneficiaries were trained in 20 skill areas that include confectionery (baking), cosmetology, hairdressing, solar panel installation, cell phone repairs, barbing, fashion design, marketing and block molding among others.
In addition, the number of beneficiaries for each of the locations is 65 for Lagos, 100 for Abuja, 126 for Kaduna, 75 for Ibadan and 75 for Imo State. The initiative, which is in its third year, began a pilot scheme in 2019 in Awo-Mamma, Imo State, where about 100 participants – 50 males and 50 females – were trained in different vocational skills ranging from cosmetology to barbing and shoemaking. Speaking at the graduation ceremonies held in Lagos and other designated locations, the Managing Director, Nigerian Breweries Plc, Mr. Hans Essaadi, noted that part of the objectives of the empowerment initiative by the company was geared towards enterprise development, skill acquisition and employment creation in the communities where the empowerment initiatives are hosted. Essaadi disclosed that the beneficiaries of the initiative had been provided with startup tools to support their journey towards entrepreneurship, employment generation and financial independence. He further stated that the company remained absolutely committed to creating more opportunities that will enhance the socio-economic advancement of women and the youth in Nigeria. “As a responsible corporate citizen, we are committed to supporting women and youth to be economically independent and self-reliant.

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Ransomware attackers are targeting exposed Microsoft SQL databases, report says
Ransomware campaigns are using internet-exposed Microsoft SQL databases as a beachhead to launch attacks on victim systems, according to researchers.
Cybersecurity company Securonix said that it found examples of hackers exploiting Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) — a popular software product that helps users store and retrieve data requested by applications. Microsoft’s version is one of several database managers that use SQL, short for structured query language.
Oleg Kolesnikov, vice president of threat research at Securonix, told Recorded Future News that the typical attack sequence begins with hackers trying to gain access to exposed Microsoft SQL databases through brute forcing — a hacking method that uses trial and error to crack passwords.
Securonix researchers said it was unclear if the hackers are “using a dictionary-based, or random password spray attempts.”
Once a database’s password is cracked, “the attackers expand their foothold within the target system and use MSSQL as a beachhead to launch a number of different payloads,” including remote access trojan (RAT) malware and ransomware, Kolesnikov said.
“This is not something we have been seeing often, and what truly sets this attack sequence apart is the extensive tooling and infrastructure used by the threat actors,” he said.
After the hackers break in, they use a variety of tools to map out the network, steal credentials and eventually deploy ransomware.
Securonix did not attribute the attacks to any known group but found that the hackers deployed ransomware called FreeWorld, a new variant of the Mimic ransomware. Mimic was spotlighted earlier this year by researchers at TrendMicro after first being seen in the wild in June 2022.
It targets Russian- and English-speaking users and TrendMicro said there are indicators tying it to the Conti ransomware builder that was leaked last year.
“Given how quickly the attackers got to work, this attack appears to be quite sophisticated from tooling to infrastructure,” Securonix researchers said.
Using legitimate IT tools
The hackers painstakingly disable the system’s defenses before creating administrator accounts that provide them with widespread access.
In the case examined by Securonix, the threat actors tried a number of different methods in order to exfiltrate data and import the tools needed to gain further persistence in the victim systems.
Several tools were blocked by the victim’s firewall, but the hackers eventually succeeded with the AnyDesk remote access software — a legitimate IT tool increasingly popular among threat actors. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned earlier this year that malicious hackers are deploying commercial remote monitoring and management (RMM) software.
“Upon execution, the ransomware began encrypting the victim host and generated encrypted files using the ‘.FreeWorldEncryption’ extension. Once it has run through its course, it will create a text file named ‘FreeWorld-Contact.txt’ with instructions as to how to pay the ransom,” the Securonix report said.
The company said organizations using Microsoft SQL databases should not expose them to the internet — advice that CISA has been pushing more fervently in recent months.
The agency said in June that it is now working with federal agencies to remove network management tools from the public-facing internet after researchers discovered hundreds were still publicly exposed.
Jonathan Greig is a Breaking News Reporter at Recorded Future News. Jonathan has worked across the globe as a journalist since 2014. Before moving back to New York City, he worked for news outlets in South Africa, Jordan and Cambodia. He previously covered cybersecurity at ZDNet and TechRepublic.


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BENEFITS OF 3D PRINTING
There are 3 main techniques made use of for product advancement, that is, taking a design from concept to a physical, 3-dimensional model of the product. Subtractive manufacturing is an item development process that continually cuts away material from a strong block, such as metal. This can be done by hand or utilizing CNC (Computer system Numeric Controlled) machinery. Shot molding is a production process utilized for generating products in big quantities. As the name suggests, parts are generated by injecting heated product into a mold. So, what is 3D printing? Additive production, also known as 3D printing, is the process of creating 3-dimensional things from a computer data, where the component is built by adding product layer-by-layer. Today, even more firms in a variety of markets are embracing the 3D printing process as it provides several significant advantages over the even more traditional manufacturing techniques of subtractive production and injection molding.
RATE: Among the biggest advantages of 3D printing modern technology is Rapid Prototyping. Rapid prototyping is the capability to layout, manufacture, and evaluate a personalized component in as little time as possible. Likewise, if required, the layout can be modified without negatively impacting the rate of the manufacturing process. Prior to 3D printing sector came to thrive, a model would certainly take weeks to make. Each time a modification was made, an additional couple of weeks of time were included in the process. With shipping times figured in, totally creating a product from beginning to end might conveniently take a year.With 3D printing techniques, a business can develop a component, make it in-house on a professional 3D printer, as well as examination it, all within a couple of days (and in some cases even much less). For local business or perhaps individuals, this difference is considerable. The liberty and also creativity enabled by 3D printing implies that nearly anything can be developed without the demand for warehouses filled with costly equipment. There are no lengthy preparation typically associated with having to contract out complicated production tasks. It means freedom from the restrictions of minimal orders, that components and also items can be developed and customized easily. For little manufacturing runs and also prototyping, 3D printing is the most effective alternative as far as speed is concerned.
- While 3D printing comes with loads of advantages, there are likewise disadvantages to think about.
- Post-processing apart, most of 3D printers just call for a driver to post a CAD documents and start the print.
- For complex parts, these operations can be both incredibly challenging as well as time consuming to carry out.
- As long as there is the involvement of human error, the likelihood of errors never ever discolors.
- With an outcome of in between 100 and also 1,000 components weekly, plus special modification alternatives with color ingredients, these equipments can managing your organization requires from model to end up item.
PRICE: For tiny manufacturing runs and also applications, 3D printing is one of the most cost-efficient production procedure. Typical prototyping approaches like CNC machining and also shot molding call for a multitude of pricey makers plus they have a lot greater labor expenses as they need knowledgeable maker operators as well as specialists to run them. This contrasts with 3D printing process, where only 1 or 2 devices and fewer operators are needed (depending on the system) to make a component. There is much much less waste product since the component is developed from the ground up, not carved out of a solid block as it is in subtractive manufacturing and generally does not call for added tooling.
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ADAPTABILITY: One more huge advantage of 3D printing is that any given printer can create almost anything that fits within its construct quantity. With traditional production procedures, each new part or modification in part design, requires a brand-new device, mold and mildew, pass away, or jig to be produced to produce the new part. In 3D printing, the design is fed right into slicer software program, required sustains added, and after that printed with little or no change at all in the physical equipment or tools. 3D printing permits the development as well as manufacture of geometries impossible for traditional methods to generate, either as a solitary component, or whatsoever. Such geometries include hollow cavities within strong components as well as components within parts. 3D printing, in contrast to traditional approaches, permits the addition of several materials into a solitary things, allowing a range of colors, appearances, and also mechanical residential properties to be blended as well as matched. 3D printing allows any customer, also those with restricted CAD experience, to edit layouts nonetheless they such as, producing unique, tailored repairs. This likewise implies any offered layout can be produced in a wide variety of different products.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: As a result of the speed and reduced prices of 3D printing, product life cycles are reduced. Organizations can enhance and enhance an item enabling them to deliver better items in a much shorter amount of time. 3D printing permits the physical demo of a new product to consumers as well as financiers instead of leaving it to their creative imaginations, as a LED Neon Signs result decreasing the risk of details being misinterpreted or lost throughout interaction. It likewise allows for cost-efficient market screening, obtaining comments from prospective clients as well as financiers on a substantial item, without the threat of big upfront expenses for prototyping.


Drug wholesalers will get half of what they asked for
The first HRK 300m in October
By the end of this year, drug wholesalers will get HRK 500m from the national healthcare agency HZZO to cover the debt for medications they had supplied to hospitals; the first HRK 300m will come in October, it was agreed yesterday in a meeting with health minister Milan Kujundzic. Tomorrow, a meeting will be held with country prefects to see how the control of spending by hospitals can be improved, Poslovni dnevnik reports. Kujundzic also said that the Government had discussed a potential loan to cover the entire outstanding debt older than 60 days (HRK 2.1bn), given that interest rates are still low.


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AN ATTRACTIVE AND WELL PRESERVED 18K GOLD ULTRA THIN ART DECO POCKET WATCH WITH CHAIN
Model: Ultra Thin Art Deco
Date: Circa 1910's
Movement: Signed Audemars Piguet, Brassus & Geneve, Cal.17SVF, No.29867
Dial: Signed Audemars Piguet Brassus & Geneve , silvered, gilt applied Arabic numerals with a beautiful and even patina, gilt applied dots minute division, gilt hands
Case: Signed, 18K yellow gold Art Deco, snap on back, No.19867
Weight with chain: Approx. 63.5g
Accompaniments: 18K gold chain, Audemars Piguet box
Audemars Piguet is not a ostentatious brand and never been with their designs, exactly the opposite, what started as a family business became one of the most important watch brands in the world, never ceasing to impress with his history thanks to his traditional watchmaking and finest in the production of the most mechanism in the world, famous for it's complications, minute repeaters, chronograph.. and outstanding quality on every single part.
Our actual pocket watch couldn't be a better example of it, simple and elegant outside but impressive inside. The slim 18K yellow gold case keeps a secret inside, a beautiful surprise, one of the thinnest pocket watch movements, a mechanical piece of art made to endure, to pass on to the next generation, a perfect example of a traditional past.
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I once used the DD-1 with a Ten-Tec Omni-A with good results.
You might also want to consider the kit by Almost Always Digital Electronics
(www.aade.com). I think it costs about $50, but doesn't include the case.
It is an LCD readout, with a backlighting option. All the electronics are on
a small circuit board and the kit can be constructed in less than two hours.
I built one and used it as a digital dial in a White Mountain QRP SSB
73, Winston K4CWQ
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> I use the OHR DD-1 Digital Dial with my Argosy. It works great, and is
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By Amanda Thomason September 1, 2021 at 5:26pm
Teachers are tasked with handling all sorts of life’s issues on a daily basis. Many draw from their own time and resources outside of what their job requires because they care for their students so deeply.
One teacher came up with a special system for helping students who are having off days.
It started several years ago after Rachel Harder, a fourth-grade teacher from Hutchinson, Kansas, attended a trauma conference.
“There was a discussion how police stations across the country have started partnering with schools so that when they have encounters with families in the evenings or on weekends, the police will contact the school — either counselor or administrator — and let them know to handle a student with care since they had encounters with police beforehand,” Harder told Fox News.
“We loved this idea and figured there had to be a way to make this work within our own classroom community.”
So she wrote a note for parents simply entitled “Handle with Care.”
“If your family is experiencing difficulties at home, I would like to provide additional supports at school,” the message reads.
“I understand that you are not always able to share details and that’s okay. If your child is coming to school after a difficult night, morning or weekend, please text me ‘Handle with Care.’ Nothing else will be said or asked. This will let me know that your child may need extra time, patience, or help during the day.”
After this last year, with all its surprises and difficulties, the message will no doubt help students navigate school once again, with Harder able to “[give] kids the grace we all want after a hard night or morning.”
“We all have challenging mornings — we can’t find shoes, backpacks aren’t packed,” Harder said. “It’s doing for others what we would like done for us when we have days that are hard.
“It’s important for me to give kids a few minutes of extra time or space — and it’s easy to give.”
Harder stressed that the details aren’t necessary and that parents don’t have to explain themselves.
“They can just let me know it was a hard morning,” the teacher said.
“I don’t need to know details, but parents like that — they know I’m keeping an extra eye on them. … I also usually text back and let them know how the morning is going.”
She added that this sort of problem solving usually happens in the classroom anyway, but the partnership between teachers and parents ensures students have the best chance at success.
“A lot of teachers do this without needing a text from parents,” she said. “We know that kids need time and space and love just by the way they walk in the room. But a heads-up from parents is wonderful if we can get that.”

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The rio carnival is a 5-day celebration taking place in rio de janeiro the rio carnival is the biggest in the world, gathering 2 million people every year. Day 3 rio de janeiro (1b) many visitors head to the famous copacabana beach, although the beaches of ipanema and leblon can be less crowded and are equally well equipped with vendors selling food, jewellery, sarongs, and anything else you might want opt to enjoy some of the carnival street parties in the evening. This article outlines the house curfew with electronic monitoring (hcem) experience in rio de janeiro (brazil) recently implemented in this brazilian jurisdiction, hcem has already achieved positive outcomes in terms of post-trial de-incarceration, as it reduced the open prison population by 35%.
The new urban governance project has added a new short essay to its series on urban complexity and the institutional capacities of citiesthe sixth essay in the series, “urban governance innovations in rio de janeiro”, was written by lse cities researcher harry blain, and summarises a forthcoming full-length journal article by bruno paschoal and kai wegrich on the political management of . Located in rio de janeiro, this urban forest is the largest in the world, covering 32 square kilometers grab a map and follow the other tourist up to the cristo redentor (christ the redeemer) statue, which is the second largest statute of jesus in the world.

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One of the important events in the history of the Islamic world which is often a source of pride for Turks and Persians is the battle of Malazkirt. This was a battle fought in 1071 between the Seljuq sultan, Alp Arslan, and the Byzantine emperor, Romanos IV Diogenes, and ended with the victory of Alp Arslan. The importance of this event and its short- and long-term political, social, economic, cultural and religious outcomes and effects in two different worlds, namely the Christian Europe and the Islamic world, have ever since drawn the attentions of many historians and scholars of the past and present. Many ideas have been proposed as to the fundamental reason(s) of Romanos defeat and Alp Arslan’s victory, and many factors have been discussed. None of the factors discussed in the primary and later sources and researches can be ignored or rejected, yet one important question one can ask about this battle is as to the place of religious factors and beliefs in this event. This paper hypothesized that spirituality and religious beliefs were not only a factor contributing to the victory of the Saljuq army, but they in fact formed the most important and fundamental factor. The fact the factor was overlooked in the non-Islamic (Byzantine, Greek, Christian, Armenian etc.) primary sources and that still there is no independent and serious contemporary research work on it led the author to offer an independent descriptive-analytical research work, based on primary sources and some other important studies, about the role of religious factors in the battle of Malazkirt.

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text: MGM Resorts International, through its subsidiaries, owns and operates integrated casino, hotel, and entertainment resorts in the United States and Macau. The company operates through three segments: Las Vegas Strip Resorts, Regional Operations, and MGM China. Its casino resorts offer gaming, hotel, convention, dining, entertainment, retail, and other resort amenities. The company's casino operations include slots, table games, and race and sports book wagering. As of March 22, 2020, its portfolio consisted of 29 hotel and destination gaming offerings. The company also owns and operates Las Vegas Strip Resorts, Primm Valley Golf Club, and Fallen Oak golf course. Its customers include premium gaming customers; leisure and wholesale travel customers; business travelers; and group customers, including conventions, trade associations, and small meetings. The company was formerly known as MGM MIRAGE and changed its name to MGM Resorts International in June 2010. MGM Resorts International was founded in 1986 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.


Ethan Miller/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid announced Friday he will not seek re-election in 2016, ending a Senate career that has spanned three decades.
Known for his feisty and combative style in the Senate, the 75-year-old Nevada Democrat made the announcement in a YouTube video earlier Friday morning.
Earlier this year, Reid suffered a serious eye injury while exercising at home, causing him to reconsider whether he would seek re-election in 2016.
"This accident has caused Landra and me to have a little down time. I have had time to ponder and to think," Reid said. "We've got to be more concerned about the country, the Senate, the state of Nevada than about ourselves. And as a result of that I'm not going to run for re-election."
Reid has led Senate Democrats for the past eight years, first as Senate Majority Leader from 2007 until this year when Republicans took control of the Senate, bumping him to Senate Minority Leader.
Reid's departure will open up a battle for the top Democratic spot in the Senate as well as for his Nevada seat back home.
Prior to joining the Senate in 1987, Reid, a Mormon, served two terms in the House of Representatives and as Nevada's Lieutenant Governor for four years.
Reid gained his first exposure to Capitol Hill as an officer for the Capitol Police while he attended Georgetown University Law School.
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza(WASHINGTON) -- Having a parent who works at the White House is no longer a prerequisite for participating in “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
The chance to spend a day “at work” at the White House used to be limited to the sons and daughters of staff who work there. But this year, on April 23, the president and first lady are also opening the White House gates to kids in the D.C. community who wouldn’t otherwise have the opportunity.
“Every year, lots of kids are left out,” President Obama said in a web video, announcing the new twist to the long-held tradition of parents bringing their kids to work for a day. “Maybe they’re foster kids, or homeless, or struggling in school, or their parents don’t have jobs that allow them to bring their kids to work.”
The White House Council on Women and Girls and My Brother’s Keeper Initiative have teamed up with the local chapter of Boys and Girls Club and DC Child and Family Services to select candidates from some of Washington’s poorest and most at-risk communities, including foster kids and youth likely to drop out of high school.
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington Vice President Michael McDonald said the day will be an “incredibly exciting” opportunity for some of the most at-need kids in the nation’s capital to dream big.
“The Boys and Girls Club is in the business of offering hope,” McDonald told ABC News. “What greater hope than to be president? And it’s that connection to these things you see on TV and on the nightly news -- these are real and real people who work there -- and I think that connection is going to be a really eye-opening opportunity for our kids.”
In years past, “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” at the White House have included a question and answer session with first lady Michelle Obama and activities with key White House staff. This year will also feature a question and answer segment with a senior-level official, who has yet to be announced, as well as career panels and lunch with senior staff members.
President Obama is calling on businesses and local governments across the country to join in on the effort to open “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” to a larger community of kids.
“We’re asking employers across the country to reach out to young people in your community who don’t have a workplace to visit,” Obama said. “Invite them to spend the day with you. Show them what you do every day – and tell them that, with hard work and determination, they can do it too.”
Agencies across the federal government, including the Justice and Treasury Departments, as well as some city governments and private businesses, have already signed on to the White House-led initiative this year.
“Companies like Johnson & Johnson already do this, and the mayors of Philadelphia and Sacramento are joining us this year,” Obama said. “See if your employer will join us, too. ‘Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day’ is already a special day for millions of kids across the country. Together, we can help more kids participate -- so they, too, can dream bigger dreams about their futures.”
BackyardProduction/iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- New documents obtained by ABC News reveal conflicting accounts by top Secret Service officials about whether two senior agents were drunk when they drove into the White House complex.
It all started with an allegation -- via anonymous email -- that Secret Service agents were “extremely intoxicated” as they drove through an active crime scene set up just outside the White House complex on the evening of March 4. But documents obtained by ABC News show that two senior Secret Service officials believed the two agents involved in the now infamous incident were not intoxicated, based on their interactions with the agents that evening. The agents, Marc Connolly and George Ogilvie, had been accused of driving through the crime scene near a White House gate while possibly under the influence of alcohol after attending a retirement party for a colleague.
The accusation of drunkenness was slow to move up the chain of command and word of the anonymous email only reached Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy five days later on March 9. Secret Service officials then gathered information on the allegations of agent misconduct to be passed on to the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General, in accordance with agency policy. The information was based in part on recollections of some of the supervisors involved in the incident five days earlier.
The documents were part of the material presented to the DHS Inspector General by the Secret Service. One of those documents details some of the recollections of Secret Service Deputy Chief Alfonso Dyson and Captain Michael Braun, both of the Uniformed Division.
“Deputy Chief Dyson advised that based on his conversation with DSAIC Connolly, it did not appear as though DSAIC Connolly [was] impaired,” according to Dyson’s account of his phone conversation with Connolly described in the document. Dyson called Connolly on the evening of March 4, after he was alerted to the incident. Connolly told Dyson that he had made a mistake, which Dyson believed to be referring to driving into the crime scene at that entrance caused by a suspicious package tossed at that location by a woman earlier that evening.
The document goes on to say, “Captain Braun advised that the driver of the [government vehicle] (ATSAIC Ogilvie) did not appear to be intoxicated.” And though Braun advised that Connolly’s eyes appeared glassy, he commented “that he did not believe that DSAIC Connolly or ATSAIC Ogilvie was intoxicated.”
According to documents, Deputy Chief Dyson had been briefed on the incident on the evening of March 4 by Uniformed Division Inspector Keith Williams. Citing an “unknown source,” Williams said he was told Connolly, a passenger in the car, “smelled of alcohol,” the document states.
According to congressional sources, no other evidence other than the anonymous email and the unknown source has been presented to suggest that either agent was drunk. Multiple sources who have reviewed video of the incident tell ABC News that it does not provide any conclusive evidence of impairment.
The documents also show that Connolly told Dyson that he and Ogilvie did not realize that the White House complex was under alert condition yellow due to the suspicious package investigation at that entrance. Only when they noticed that the security post was unoccupied did they check their BlackBerry devices and learn of the alert.
A detailed timeline of events obtained by ABC News shows that Director Clancy was called at 10:48 p.m. on the evening of March 4 to inform him of the suspicious package. The two agents arrived at the White House only 10 minutes later, at 10:58. Yet, records show, no one from the Secret Service bothered to call Clancy back that evening to inform him of alleged misconduct.
Video of the incident released Tuesday shows no drama, no collision and, at most, a low-speed vehicle maneuver which bumped a temporary traffic barrel out of the path of the entrance of the White House complex. The video has a limited view, but does not show indications of a particularly active crime scene.
The video also does not show that the agents flipped on their lights to go around the barrier, as they are accused of doing in the anonymous email. It does show a vehicle moving just behind the agents’ car followed closely by a police car that did have its rooftop light bar flashing.
Rep. Elijah Cummings was troubled by the email, telling Director Clancy at a Tuesday hearing, “It appears that we have an agency at war against itself. The idea that in an organization like this that somebody would create this kind of document to bring this kind of disruption when they are supposed to be guarding the president of the United States of America. We are better than that.”
It is now up to the inspector general to determine whether the allegations of misconduct have merit, why they were not communicated more quickly up the chain of command and what can be done to get the Secret Service can get back on track. That process, sources say, could take several weeks.
FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images(LAUSANNE, Switzerland) -- Secretary of State John Kerry met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday at the start of the next round of European Union-coordinated nuclear negotiations.
A senior State Department official told reporters en route to Switzerland that the schedule for Kerry's trip was "extremely fluid" and that meetings were to begin Thursday morning. "We are focused on getting a political framework that addresses all of the major elements of a comprehensive deal done by the end of March," the official said, according to a transcript released by the department.
"I think we would say we made more progress in the last round than we have made in the previous rounds," the official added, saying that "we can see a path forward here to get to an agreement."
Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call(INDIANAPOLIS) -- Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed a controversial bill on Thursday that could allow business owners to refuse service to people based on their sexual orientation.
"Today I signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act," Pence said in a statement Thursday, "because I support the freedom of religion for every Hoosier of every faith."
While critics say the bill could allow for discrimination, Pence says it is not about that. "If I thought it legalized discrimination in any way in Indiana, I would have vetoed it," he said.
Pence clarified that the bill "does not even apply to disputes between private parties unless government action is involved."
Pence pointed to lawsuits filed by the University of Notre Dame and a private business against provisions within the Affordable Care Act. "The Constitution of the United States and the Indiana Constitution both provide strong recognition of the freedom of religion," Pence said. "But today, many people of faith feel their religious liberty is under attack by government action."
Indiana state Sen. Tim Lanane took to Twitter to voice his disagreement with Pence. "Athough not unexpected, it is still extremely disappointing that Governor Pence endorses this out-of-touch, discriminatory legislation," Lanane wrote.
Although not unexpected, it is still extremely disappointing that Governor Pence endorses this out-of-touch, discriminatory legislation.
With the college basketball's Men's Final Four in Indianapolis next week, NCAA President Mark Emmert released a statement Thursday expressing concern over "how this legislation could affect our student-athletes and employees." Emmert says the NCAA "will work diligently to assure student-athletes competing in, and visitors attending, next week's Men's Final Four in Indianapolis are not impacted negatively by this bill."
Emmert also said that the NCAA would "closely examine the implications of this bill and how it might affect future events as well as our workforce."
Photo By Douglas Graham/CQ Roll Call(WASHINGTON) -- With March Madness highlighting the billion-dollar enterprise that is NCAA athletics, pressure is building from prominent former athletes, state lawmakers, and even members of Congress to allow -- or even require -- colleges to pay the student-athletes who bring them so much revenue.
Speaking on the ESPN/ABC podcast Capital Games, Rep. Charlie Dent -- a leading congressional critic of the NCAA -- said the idea of providing student-athletes at least a stipend for their services is “very reasonable.”
“Big-time college football and college basketball are the minor leagues for the NFL and the NBA respectively – that’s what it is,” said Dent, R-Pa. “It’s professional athletics.”
You can listen to the full Capital Games podcast HERE on desktop and HERE on mobile devices, or download it for free via smartphone podcast apps.
Payments to student-athletes would be permissible under a broad reform bill Dent is pushing that’s aimed at requiring more concussion tests and preventing schools from cutting off scholarships for reasons that aren’t connected to academics.
“Our legislation does not prohibit stipends, and I think there’s an inevitability to it. A lot of people are getting very rich on the back of these student-athletes,” Dent said. “I suspect that the only people who aren’t getting paid are the players.”
Ralph Sampson, a college basketball hall of famer, said on the podcast that it’s only fair to find a way to compensate athletes, particularly because being a high-level college athlete is now a year-round commitment that doesn’t provide much extra time for part-time jobs.
“I think there’s got to be a creative way to get that done,” said Sampson, a three-time national college player of the year who was later an All-Star in the NBA. “They gotta eat, they gotta sleep. The meal plans at school are OK, but you’re talking about athletes -- they have to perform, and you want them to perform at a very high level.”
“It’s like taking a race car and putting in unleaded gas in it, and it needs octane gas, it needs high-level gas in it or it doesn’t work. So you got to find creative ways to get these kids to perform at a high level but also compensate as well.”
Sampson, who's had two sons play college basketball, is now working with a project called FanAngel, a crowdfunding system that allows fans to pay to keep players in school, with the money due to be disbursed to them after their college eligibility expires.
“It will be a creative way to stop all the under the table, unnecessary stuff that go on in college sports,” Sampson said.
If neither federal intervention nor the private sector wind up providing money to student-athletes, states may wind up taking the lead. South Carolina state Sen. Marlon Kimpson has filed a bill that would require the two biggest public universities in his state to pay some athletes weekly stipends, as well as larger payments that would come after graduation.
“People are starting to get on board,” said Kimpson, a Democrat from Charleston. “We need to make sure that our universities, who are making huge sums of money – again, this is no longer amateur business, we’re talking about major commercial enterprises....We need to make sure that there’s some economic justice on the field, and some of that revenue goes to the people that are largely responsible for generating those returns.”
Capital Games with Andy Katz and Rick Klein is a podcast program that explores the intersection of sports and politics, as part of the ESPN Perspectives audio series.
Jason Merritt/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Actor Ben Affleck came to the Senate Thursday to talk about a philanthropic topic -- his Eastern Congo Initiative -- but he couldn’t escape the fame of his other job: Being "Batman."
Affleck himself kicked off the Batman talk when he gave a shout out to one of his senatorial co-stars in the upcoming film, Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice.
“To Senator Leahy, I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge my co-star in Batman. The role is marginally smaller than mine but I understand you're quite good,” Affleck said to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on diplomacy and development Thursday morning.
Affleck’s comment essentially confirmed Leahy will make a cameo in the upcoming Batman film. The Vermont senator has appeared in four Batman movies, most famously standing up to Heath Ledger’s The Joker character in The Dark Knight.
Affleck testified alongside Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, who Affleck described as the “greatest and most important philanthropist in the history of the world.” Another panelist, Scott Ford, CEO of the Westrock Group LLC, lauded the efforts of "Batman" in Congo.
“We had the United States ask us would you go to Congo and I said not without Batman,” Ford joked. “And when Batman showed up, we went to Eastern Congo.”
At least one senator -- Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn. -- was star struck by being in the presence of Batman and snapped a photo of Affleck in the middle of the hearing.
United States Congress(WASHINGTON) -- Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul reversed his stance on defense spending Thursday, when he introduced an amendment to the budget that would increase defense spending by $190 billion over the next two years.
This increase in defense spending runs counter to the budget Paul introduced in 2011 just months after joining the Senate. That plan, which failed in the Senate, would have slashed defense spending from $553 billion in 2011 to $542 billion in 2016.
Paul’s new amendment failed in the Senate Thursday, with only four senators supporting the measure.
Since his flirtation with a presidential bid first began, Paul has walked a tricky line on military spending, and in recent months, the Kentucky Republican has adopted a more hawkish position. In late 2014, Paul began to say he’d be open to increasing defense spending -- but only if there are cuts to other parts of government.
Paul’s amendment to increase defense spending would have been offset by reductions to other areas including foreign assistance, the Department of Education, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
“National defense is the number one priority of the federal government. My amendment increases defense spending but pays for it with spending cuts. It is irresponsible and dangerous to continue to put America further into debt,” Paul said on the Senate floor. “We need a strong national defense but we should be honest with the Americana people and pay for it.”
Paul’s cuts to foreign assistance infuriated one potential presidential contender: Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who held a hearing on the topic just hours before the vote on Paul’s amendment.
“There will be a vote on the floor of the United States Senate where a member of the Senate has chosen to reduce this account by 50 percent and give that money to the military,” Graham said. “Here's what I would say on behalf of the military: they don't want this money. They want this account to survive and thrive.”
“To those who constantly demagogue foreign aid as being the root of our financial problems -- Please stop because you don't know what the hell you're talking about,” Graham said.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., along with Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., introduced his own amendment increasing defense spending to $697 billion next year -- a $78 billion increase. However, the Rubio-Cotton amendment does not provide for a way to pay for the increase.
The Rubio-Cotton amendment failed in the Senate with a vote of 32 to 68.
United States Congress(WASHINGTON) -- Rep. Aaron Schock returned to the Capitol on Thursday, casting a final vote in the House before delivering a farewell address to close a nearly two-month drama for the Illinois Republican.
On the final day of legislative business before his March 31 resignation becomes official, Schock cast a vote in favor of a bipartisan deal to eliminate the so-called “Doc-Fix.”
“I leave here with sadness and humility,” Schock said. “For those whom I've let down, I will work tirelessly to make it up to you.”
“I know that God has a plan for my life,” he added. “I believe that through life's struggles, we learn from our mistakes, and we learn more about ourselves. And I know that this is not the end of a story, but rather the beginning of a new chapter.”
Schock made headlines this winter when his congressional office was redecorated to mirror the PBS television show, Downton Abbey. Like Schock’s congressional career, the popular British drama is ending after about six years.
After his speech, Schock chatted with colleagues at the back of the House chamber and in the Republican cloak room before rushing out of the Capitol.
The four-term congressman ignored questions about a nascent criminal investigation into his financial dealings.
Asked what’s next, Schock replied, “Easter.”
Pressed about the criminal probe, Schock politely answered “Have a nice day” before ducking into an awaiting vehicle.
During his farewell address, Schock pointed out that Abraham Lincoln held the same congressional seat in central Illinois for a single term before he became president.
“Few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as [Lincoln] did,” Schock said. “His continual perseverance in the face of these trials - never giving up - is something all Americans should be inspired by, especially when going through a valley in life. I believe that through life's struggles, we learn from our mistakes, and we learn more about ourselves.”
He also recalled taking the oath of office in 2009, when he was sworn in as the youngest member of the 111th Congress.
“I remember feeling so excited about the opportunity that lied ahead,” Schock said. “I remember vividly this chamber and all it meant to me and the country -- the men and women debating the big issues of the day, not always agreeing, but always fighting without apology for what they believed in.”
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- By an overwhelming bipartisan vote, the House of Representatives pulled together on Thursday to send the Senate what supporters are calling the most-significant entitlement reform of the past 20 years.
In a rare display of bipartisanship, House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi came together to strike a deal, repealing the Sustainable Growth Rate and replacing it with a long-term solution to Medicare repayment, as well as extending funding for community health centers for two years.
By a vote of 392-37, the bill, formally known as Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, now heads to the Senate where Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid comes under pressure to back the bipartisan deal.
Just four Democrats opposed the House vote, while 180 supported it. Thirty-three Republicans also voted against the measure.
To date, Reid has been somewhat reluctant to endorse the deal, pouring cold water on the idea of bringing the measure up for a vote quickly in the Senate.
“The SGR is still a work in progress, and I personally am going to wait until we see it having pass the House before we start speculating on what we need to do with it, if anything,” Reid, D-Nev., said Tuesday.
Since 2003, Congress has spent nearly $170 billion in short-term patches to avoid cuts imposed by the SGR.
“This is a bill that will provide better health care for seniors and real savings for taxpayers,” Boehner, R-Ohio, said during a news conference shortly before the vote. “This'll be the first real entitlement reform that we've seen in nearly two decades, and that's a big win for the American people. It was a true bipartisan agreement.”
Boehner urged the Senate to pass the bill prior to the March 31 deadline.
“I was pleased to hear the president would sign the bill, and I would urge the Senate to pass it expeditiously,” Boehner said.
DEA.gov(WASHINGTON) — Senior Drug Enforcement Administration agents working overseas allegedly participated in “sex parties” with prostitutes funded by drug cartels, according to a newly-released Department of Justice Inspector General report on the handling of sexual misconduct allegations by law enforcement agencies.
The conduct occurred over a period of years, according to the report. In addition to soliciting prostitutes, the foreign officers interviewed for the report allege three DEA supervisory special agents were “provided money, expensive gifts, and weapons from drug cartel members."
Some DEA agents who participated in the parties denied knowing about cartel involvement, but the IG report says, “information in the case files suggested they should have known the prostitutes in attendance were paid with cartel funds.”
The sex parties occurred in government leased living quarters where “agents’ laptops, BlackBerry devices and other government-issued equipment were present,” posing a security risk and “potentially exposing them to extortion, blackmail, or coercion.”
In another instance, two DEA special agents allegedly solicited prostitutes for a farewell party for a senior DEA official.
That official, an acting assistant regional director, allegedly had “sexual relations with prostitutes” and there were “allegations operational funds were used to pay for the party and the prostitutes,” according to the report.
The report also alleges that one prostitute was assaulted by someone associated with DEA supervisors following a payment dispute. The report was critical of DEA’s treatment of allegations of sexual misconduct, often dealing with incidents as local management issues and not reporting information up the chain of command.
The report also looked at allegations of misconduct against the U.S. Marshals Service, ATF and the FBI.
One case of alleged sexual harassment involved an FBI “Supervisory Management and Program Analyst’s repeated unprofessional behavior, including cornering his subordinates in their cubicles and displaying the size of his genitals by tightening his pants,” the report details. Subordinates of that employee endured his conduct for three years before it was reported to headquarters. The analyst was eventually suspended, demoted and reassigned to another office.
The Department of Justice said in a statement that it is working “with the law enforcement components to ensure a zero tolerance policy on sexual harassment and misconduct is enforced and that incidents are properly reported."
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The Homeland Security Inspector General told Congress Thursday that the federal agency's second in command violated his own ethics policy at least three times by giving special access -- or the appearance of favorable treatment -- to powerful political insiders seeking help with immigration matters.
Asked directly by lawmakers if Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas had violated the ethics policy he had put in place, Inspector General John Roth said yes.
"We believe that policy was not followed," Roth said.
The questions before the House Committee on Homeland Security came two days after the agency's internal watchdog issued a lengthy report about Mayorkas' management at the head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of an obscure immigration program that grants visas to foreigners who agree to invest $500,000 in a qualified, U.S. job-creating venture.
The IG report came on the heels of an ABC News investigation that revealed that a number of visa recipients were approved despite objections from career officials, who found instances where foreign applicants accused of fraud, money laundering, even involvement in child pornography, had received permission to move to the U.S. The ABC News investigation also found evidence that spies and even possible terrorists had attempted to exploit the visa program to enter the country.
The IG report focused on alleged political favoritism by Mayorkas and specifically highlighted three cases where Mayorkas intervened after being contacted by powerful Democrats, including a past and current governor and the brother of Hillary Clinton.
"We believe there was an appearance of favoritism," Roth told the committee.
House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said he was "extremely troubled" by the findings.
"The alleged exertion of undue influence ... that resulted in benefits for politically connected and powerful individuals is extremely concerning,” he said.
Mayorkas had denied favoring anyone based on political considerations, saying he was seeking to reform a program rife with problems.
Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson said he believed the Inspector General had misunderstood the actions Mayorkas took in cases where powerful Democrats had reached out to him.
Thompson called him "an activist manager" who was shaking up a department with low morale.
"I'm a little concerned you went along way to say he didn't do anything wrong," Thompson said.
Roth said, "He violated an ethical cannon, Congressman."
The three cases studied were developments that sought funding from foreign investors who would receive visas in exchange.
One was an electric car venture headed by Terry McAuliffe, now the Virginia governor, and supported by a business run by Anthony Rodham, Clinton's brother. Both McAuliffe and Rodham made contact with Mayorkas while the car venture was being reviewed, the investigation found. The probe found Mayorkas intervened and reversed staff decisions to assist the project.
Similar findings related to a Las Vegas hotel backed by Sen. Harry Reid and film projects pushed by former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell.
“The juxtaposition of Mr. Mayorkas’ communication with external stakeholders on specific matters outside the normal procedures, coupled with favorable action that deviated from the regulatory scheme designed to ensure fairness and evenhandedness in adjudicating benefits, created an appearance of favoritism and special access,” the IG report said.
Earlier this week Mayorkas wrote a robust response to the IG report, saying his efforts were focused on improving a troubled program, and were always vetted by agency attorneys.
On Tuesday, he issued a statement saying, "While I disagree with the Inspector General’s report, I will certainly learn from it and from this process."
"The EB-5 program was badly broken when I arrived at USCIS," he said. "I could not and did not turn my back on my responsibility to address those grave problems. I made improving the program a priority and I did so in a hands-on manner, through cases, policies, and sweeping personnel and organizational changes."
iStock Editorial/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Pope Francis will visit the White House on Sept. 23, White House press secretary Josh Earnest announced on Thursday.
A day later, as previously reported, Francis will address a joint meeting of Congress, becoming the first pope in history to do so.
During his visit to the White House, President Obama and the pope will pick up the conversation they started last March when the president visited the Vatican.
Their discussion will cover "a wide range of issues, including caring for the marginalized and the poor; advancing economic opportunity for all; serving as good stewards of the environment; protecting religious minorities and promoting religious freedom around the world; and welcoming and integrating immigrants and refugees into our communities," Earnest said in a statement.
Francis' trip to Washington, D.C. in September will mark his first visit to the U.S. as pope.


Feature helmer Tom Shadyac (“The Nutty Professor”) will direct and exec produce a half-hour Touchstone Television comedy pilot for ABC starring comic Brett Butler.
Don Reo (“Action”) will pen the pilot script. Shadyac, Reo and Nina Wass will serve as exec producers of the series, tentatively titled “Homecoming Queen.”
Targeted for a fall debut, project marks the first foray into series television for Shadyac, whose other credits include the comedies “Patch Adams,” “Liar Liar” and “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.”
It also represents the possible beginning of a comeback for Butler, whose successful ABC laffer “Grace Under Fire” died two years ago in the wake of her battle with an addiction to prescription painkillers.
UTA repped Shadyac in the deal. Butler is repped by ICM.
“Homecoming” has been on an accelerated development track: Six weeks ago, ABC hadn’t even ordered a script (Daily Variety, Jan. 20.) Shadyac’s commitment to direct the pilot was key to it getting greenlit.
Skein will be a “story of redemption” revolving around a woman who hits rock bottom and is now attempting to rebuild her life. Butler’s character will have kids, lending a family-comedy aspect to the show.
While Butler is not attached as a scribe, story will have obvious parallels to her own life story.
“She’s been involved in the development. It’s very autobiographical,” one source said.
No love lost
Little love was lost between Butler and ABC execs during the latter seasons of “Grace’s” run on the Alphabet web. Production on the show was interrupted more than once.
Shadyac’s heavy involvement in the project has been key in convincing ABC execs to give Butler another shot. Helmer inked an overall development deal with Touchstone Television last fall; “Homecoming” is the first product of that pact.
Greenlight for “Homecoming” is also good news for Wass, who now has a whopping total of five pilots in the works for next season via her overall deal with Touchstone.
For ABC, producer is developing a domestic laffer with Terry Minsky, as well as a half-hour set on Wall Street. Wass has the laffer “The DeMarco Bros.” set up at CBS and the Adam Herz (“American Pie”) project at NBC.
Before exec producing and writing Fox’s critically hailed “Action” this season, Reo created and exec produced NBC’s “The John Larroquette Show.” He also created and produced the Peacock’s “Blossom.”
Reo, repped by Paradigm Entertainment, recently inked a new overall deal with Touchstone. He’s been working on the net’s upcoming Damon Wayans project.


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A Tangled Web
Members of Congress are the latest group to surf the Internet. But maybe they missed the wave. Some telecommunications gurus say the Internet was overhyped as an electronic marketplace because consumers won't pay for what they're getting for free.
NATIONAL JOURNAL, Vol. 28, No. 36
he Web Review, an electronic magazine, debuted on the Internet in September 1995 to wild fanfare. Reviewers praised the magazine's content and the snappy way its designers incorporated the multimedia capabilities of that corner of the Internet known as the World Wide Web.
The on-line magazine investigated scandals in the computer industry, analyzed White House technology policies and reported the progress of the Net's anything-goes culture with wry insight.
Nine months later, it folded. Most of the estimated 40 million home pages, or sites, on the Web offer information free of charge, and Web Review was no different. But the magazine required ``a dedicated staff of editorial, design, production and technical resources [and it] is expensive to produce. In the end, we cannot keep giving it away,'' publisher Dale Dougherty wrote in a May letter to readers in the magazine's last electronic incarnation.
Web Review's speedy demise is the latest in a series of misfortunes that have plagued the Internet community recently. Two of the four major commercial on-line services have changed hands since January, several high-profile Internet-related stocks are selling far below their original prices and a leading Net pioneer has predicted that technical difficulties will cause the Internet to collapse by the end of December.
But at the same time that technology gurus are predicting the ``death of the Net,'' Congress has suddenly begun to swoon over cyberspace like a teenager in the throes of a summer romance. Two bills on Internet issues are the subject of intense debate in both the House and Senate, three additional Internet- related bills have been introduced since mid-June, and the number of Members who have electronic mail and Web sites is at an all- time high. Even 93-year-old Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., introduced a reelection campaign site on the Internet in July.
What gives? Does Congress know something that the technical experts out there in computerland don't? Or is this yet another example of Capitol Hill catching up with the wave long after the private sector has moved on?
Maybe a little of both. ``My own view is that the Internet will have an immense personal effect on most Americans. But the jury is still out,'' said Rep. Rick A. White, R-Wash., who co-founded the Congressional Internet Caucus this spring in an effort to lead his nontechnical colleagues on the Hill into the Information Age. ``What we should be doing here in Congress is not trying to prejudice things one way or the other. We shouldn't be trying to kill the goose that's laid the golden egg.''
The economic value of that egg is a matter of much debate. Last year advertisers spent $32 billion to hawk their products on television, $22.5 billion to do the same in newspapers and $1.9 billion for radio spots. In comparison, companies spent a mere $43 million for advertising on the Web in 1995.
Morgan Stanley & Co., the New York City-based investment banking firm, recently predicted that the number of Internet users worldwide would grow from an estimated 10 million today to 170 million by 2000. Tempting as such a vast potential market may be, however, Madison Avenue isn't likely to embrace the Net right away because the sort of simplified ``brainwashing'' that works well on television and in print falls flat in cyberspace, Mark Stahlman, president of New Media Associates Inc., a media research company in New York City, argues.
TV and newspaper ads are ``psychologically manipulative. [Consumers are] supposed to buy something for essentially irrational reasons,'' Stahlman wrote in a recent on-line debate on the subject on Hotwired, the Web site of Wired magazine. Advertising on the Internet ``has to be information, not manipulation. This is because the medium doesn't permit the psychological games that `impact' a modern audience.''
Most of the information available on the Web also isn't unique or compelling enough to command a fee, Stahlman added in an interview. It's a matter of faith among market researchers that computer users won't buy subscriptions to Web sites because Internet information has traditionally been free. ``But what the market researchers don't add is that people also don't want to pay for that stuff because most of it's not worth paying for,'' he said.
A year ago, when the information superhighway was the hottest idea in town, only the foolhardy would have suggested that the chitchat on the Internet and the content of the Web might be less than awe-inspiring. But lately Net skeptics have become increasingly visible.
Washington Post reporter Richard Leiby's recent essay, headlined ``Farewell, Web Heads: I Used to Be One of You. Then I Took Out the Internet Trash and Found There Wasn't Much Left,'' is a case in point. ``After a few years of covering what I haughtily used to call `cyberculture,' I have come to believe that the Internet is little more than a glorified post office, copying machine and water cooler,'' Leiby, a member of the Post's Style section, wrote in early June. ``So far, much of the Web's offerings merely duplicate the crass commercialism and self- indulgent dross available in other mass media.''
Net skepticism also surfaced on July 9, when the John R. and Mary Markle Foundation and Crossover Technologies, both based in New York City, held a press conference on Capitol Hill to present a ``balanced budget bill'' created by computer users who had played an Internet game called Reinventing America.
Over the course of six months the game--financed by the foundation and designed by Crossover--presented players with detailed information on most major federal government programs and asked them to decide whether to cut or boost money for the programs during fiscal 1996. As players worked their way through the game, clicking a computer mouse to designate a choice in each category, the federal budget total would change accordingly.
AllPolitics, the politics-oriented Web site operated by CNN and Time magazine, hosted the game for the Markle Foundation. In May AllPolitics totaled the votes, and foundation staff members drafted a federal budget proposal based on recommendations from the 75,000-100,000 Net users who Crossover executive producer Eric Goldberg estimated played the game.
Had it been for real, the result would have knocked Congress on its ear. While the Reinventing America players devised a fiscal '96 budget that saved $172 billion more than the budget proposed by the Clinton Administration, they voted to legalize all recreational drugs, dismantle the Veterans Affairs Department and abolish foreign aid. Other proposals included canceling all federal poverty programs except food stamps, cutting defense spending by 27 per cent, slashing U.S. troop strength overseas in half and returning the District of Columbia to the state of Maryland.
Most of the policy experts who appeared on a panel at the press conference praised the game. American Civil Liberties Union executive director Nadine Strossen said it demonstrated ``the great potential of cyber-communications between individuals [for] developing an informed and involved citizenry.'' But a few experts weren't so sure. The demographics of Internet users are changing, but for the most part they are still primarily educated, young, white, technically proficient males who are either libertarians or independents, said Martha Phillips, executive director of the Concord Coalition, the anti-deficit advocacy group founded by former Sens. Paul E. Tsongas, D-Mass., and Warren Rudman, R-N.H. ``It's easy for this group to come to agreement. But add a bunch of disabled veterans to the mix and I bet you'd never hear anything about closing the VA hospitals,'' Phillips said.
``The Net is not yet ready to put Congress out of business,'' added Thomas E. Mann, director of governmental studies at the Brookings Institution who has started a campaign finance forum on the Internet. ``The danger in something like this is that it is simply an intellectual exercise. People are talking, not listening. But in a democracy you can't have an intellectual exercise. You're dealing with citizens' lives.''
The Internet-related bills piling up in the congressional hopper are certainly not intellectual exercises. Conflict between so-called content providers--artists, writers, publishers, movie companies and the like--and on-line companies such as CompuServe and Internet service providers--such as Erol's and AT&T Corp.-- over provisions of a bill to apply copyright laws to the Net has reached such levels of acrimony, for example, that the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property has postponed hearings on the measure three times.
One of the main areas of contention is a provision that would make on-line companies and Internet service providers liable for any copyright violations that occur through the use of their services. Book publishers, moviemakers and songwriters are determined to protect what they have created by keeping the provision in the bill. But providers on the electronic highway want to shield themselves from copyright liability. As a result, the bill is effectively ``dead for the year,'' said a knowledgeable lobbyist who asked not to be named.
Another major Internet-related bill, to loosen federal restrictions on the export of computer programs that encode data, is gathering public attention as well as political steam. The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space held two hearings this summer on the bill, sponsored by Sens. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., and Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., that were broadcast live via the Internet.
In early July, Commerce Committee chairman Larry Pressler, R-S.D., Democratic Reps. Anna G. Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren, plus Republican Rep. Tom Campbell, all of California--as well as Burns and Leahy--participated in an industry forum on the bill held in San Francisco that also drew heavy public response when it was ``cybercast'' over the Net. (See NJ, 7/13/96, p. 1541.)
In mid-July the White House, which until then had steadfastly refused to comment on the bill, released a statement in which Vice President Albert Gore Jr. said that the Administration ``will continue discussions'' about computer encryption with Congress. Lobbyists say momentum within the Senate Commerce Committee in favor of the legislation is so strong that the bill may be reported to the Senate floor soon.
In the meantime, several new Internet-related bills have appeared in quick succession. Rep. White has introduced the 1996 Internet Election Information Act, which would allow on-line and service providers to offer free Internet access to all federal candidates without violating Federal Election Commission rules. Later he introduced a resolution calling for House committees to make reports, rule changes, roll-call votes, expense accounts, amendments, oversight plans and the final drafts of legislation commonly called ``chairman's marks'' available to the public electronically at the same time they are officially filed.
Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., ranking member of the House Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, also introduced a bill in late June that would instruct the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission to begin investigating the use of secret software programs called ``cookies'' that automatically track the movements of computer users on the Internet. Information companies can use these programs to compile detailed and highly personal profiles of Net users' hobbies, buying habits and financial and health information, and to record the names of people with whom they converse electronically, when they do so and for how long.
``The same libertarian quality that has stimulated such rapid growth of the Internet gravely threatens to cripple its promise,'' Markey said at a press conference when he introduced the bill. The Net ``has spawned an exponential increase in commercial voyeurism that is tearing privacy rights asunder. . . . At risk is consumer confidence in the medium. When consumer confidence plummets, so will economic activity on the Internet.''
Consumer confidence in the Net already appears to be wearing thin from other causes, however. On-line commerce is developing so slowly that by the end of this year 20 per cent of the Fortune 500 companies that maintain sites on the Web will either stop keeping them up to date or, as in the case of Web Review, close them, International Data Corp., a Framingham (Mass.)-based Internet market research company, reported in a recent study.
More than half the small and medium-sized firms in a survey of more than 1,000 U.S. companies have no Internet connection and no plans to develop one, O'Reilly & Associates' Online Research Group, a unit of Sebastopol (Calif.)-based O'Reilly & Associates Inc., a major publisher of Internet books and on-line information, stated in another recent study. That percentage is ``surprisingly high,'' the O'Reilly group concluded in a press release.
Technical experts also warn that consumers are likely to be much less enthusiastic about the Internet when network access providers start raising their prices to cover the costs of the high-speed computer links the Web demands.
So far, the telephone companies that build and maintain the wires on which the Net runs have simply swallowed the cost of new software to upgrade their systems to tempt reluctant consumers on line with low monthly access fees, Robert H. Schellman, an Arlington (Va.)-based telecommunications industry consultant, said. But ``the cost of developing the software [for these systems] has risen rapidly, and now it usually exceeds the cost of the hardware,'' he added. ``It cost Microsoft hundreds of millions of dollars to build Windows 95. Some day soon, there's going to be a recognition of that kind of software cost, and prices [for Net access] will have to reflect that.''
In addition, the Internet has been experiencing an increasing number of ``brownouts,'' or serious delays in data transmission caused by too many people trying to use too few connections. Computer pioneer Robert M. Metcalfe is so concerned about the number of Net brownouts in the past year that he's predicting a network ``collapse.'' Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, the local-area networking technology that connects more than 50 million computers, has even called the Net ``a fad'' that will soon be over.
Don't try to convince Congress that the Net's a fad, however. Since March, for example, 40 Members of Congress have introduced Web sites, bringing the total number of congressional sites to a high of 214, according to figures compiled by Highway 1, a nonprofit organization in Washington formed by such major computer hardware and software makers as Apple Computer Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
Congress's interest in the Internet shows no sign of stopping. When the Congressional Internet Caucus hosted an Internet demonstration on June 25 at Highway 1, more than 200 Members and their aides showed up, Highway 1 executive director Kimberley Jenkins said. Sen. Charles S. Robb, D-Va., became so engrossed in a ``virtual reality chat room,'' where Netizens use animated characters to interact visually and aurally with each other, that ``he stayed a long time,'' Jenkins added.
Some Members of Congress are baffled by predictions that the Net is near collapse. ``We are definitely on the threshold of a new millennium. The Internet is a new and better way for our citizens to be informed,'' said Rep. Eshoo, who in late June introduced a two-way, interactive system on her congressional Web site that allows her to correspond with her constituents via electronic mail.
``Yes, maybe questions of profitability will creep in, and maybe Americans will start to demand other kinds of uses and information from the Internet,'' added Eshoo, who represents a district in California's Silicon Valley. ``But it's far too premature for a trial to be called, a jury to be selected and a verdict to be rendered.''
At any rate, Congress is rarely a leading indicator when it comes to technology advancements, cautioned Mann of the Brookings Institution. ``These developments tend to run ahead in the private sector. If there's a rethinking going on [about the Internet], there's bound to be a lag before those ideas get to Congress,'' he said.
No matter whether the Internet eventually expands or withers, it has made a difference in the way Capitol Hill conducts business simply by introducing E-mail and cybercasting, and by making a wide range of information available at the click of a computer mouse, Mann and other experts say. Changes such as these, small as they are, expand the lines of communication between Congress and the voters.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Police are blaming the theft of a water sprinkler fitting for an estimated $100,000 in flooding damage to the basement of the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind.
Police say about two inches of water covered the basement floor when workers arrived Monday. Cleanup work is continuing from damage to drywall, carpet and insulation.
Hall director Lisa Klunder told the South Bend Tribune the flooding caused minor damage to some items in its collection.
Police Capt. Phil Trent says the stolen brass fitting would yield about $5 if sold at a scrap-metal yard.
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