Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan Joins National Cyber Security Alliance Board
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), a nonprofit public-private partnership focused on cybersecurity awareness and education for all digital citizens, today announced that Joe Sullivan, Facebook’s chief security officer, has joined its board of directors. Read more on PR Newswire via Yahoo! News
Kratos Awarded a M Contract to Provide Critical Infrastructure Surveillance, Security and Access Control
SAN DIEGO — Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. , a leading National Security Solutions provider, today announced that its Public Safety and Security Division has been awarded a Master Service Agreement contract to provide enterprise-wide security services to a major energy infrastructure business. Read more on GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance
Australia ‘weak’ on cyber security: report
Study recommends new role to lead cyber security ‘across government’. 4 Feb 2011 8:12 AM Read more on Business Spectator
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PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party want to fast-track the on-and-off constitution-making process to ensure fresh elections are held by spring this year, in a move which could set off a renewed wave of political instability and fierce clashes around the country. Read more on Zimbabwe Independent
RHA to update constitution, Kaufman plans Chinese New Year celebration
By: Senators of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Residence Hall Association walked into the meeting to find the chairs set up in a horseshoe format, rather than the usual giant circle. Most of the senators gave the new layout a thumbs up. … Read more on The Daily Nebraskan
Will Emanuel ruling escape political taint?
The 4 Democrats, 3 Republicans on state Supreme Court all have strong political ties The Illinois Supreme Court justices deliberating the fate of Rahm Emanuel’s bid for Chicago mayor are sworn to uphold the state constitution without regard for special interests, yet that same document requires them to run for election in an inherently political system. Read more on Chicago Tribune
November 22, 2009 – ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Messages questioning religion are popping up across the city of Albuquerque just weeks before the biggest religious holidays in the world. The Freedom from Religion group sponsoring the billboards said they are paid through next month. Even if some find them controversial, the group said they arent about to take the billboards down. Many times religion is a crutch that doesn’t do as much good as people think it does, Freedom of Religion member Ron Herman said. We paid for the space, just like people paid for their space in newspapers advertising their services.” The colorful messages are on 10 billboards around Albuquerque. One billboard reads Imagine No Religion and Keep Religion out of Government. via atheistmedia.com –
The University of Notre Dames Tocqueville Program held its inaugural two-day conference Feb. 4-5, 2009: Freedom for, Freedom from, or Freedom of Religion: The Meanings of Religious Freedom in America. Day one of the event, Feb. 4, began with a debate between Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Fellow of Berkeley College at Yale University; Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities, Columbia University; and Bill Galston, Senior Fellow & Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution. The following day, Feb. 5, a panel of Notre Dame faculty responded to points made during the debate. The panel included David Campbell, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science; Rick Garnett, Professor, Notre Dame Law School; John McGreevy, IA O’Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters; and Mark Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History. At America’s founding three different and sometimes competing visions of religion in American political life were planted in American soil:freedom of religion, for religion, and from religion. These three distinct conceptions converged at the time of the American founding in the form of the religion clauses of the First Amendment, as well as the many parallel provisions in the state constitutions. Yet Americans do not always agree on the role religion should play in American public life. Should it be excluded from the public sphere or restrictions placed upon its use in … Video Rating: 0 / 5
Church rebuilt on faith
SPRINGFIELD – There is a roof, four walls, windows and doors, and a concrete floor. Eventually all the ornamentation and decor will be in place, but for now the interior of new home of the Macedonia Church of God in Christ has a maze of 2×4 frames and exposed electrical wires. Read more on The Republican
Church Received Hefty Sum from Unclaimed Bonds
Earlier this week a church in Charlestown West Virgina received a check from a state’s unclaimed property fund or unclaimed bonds. The United Methodist Church was presented with the check just shy of of $ 10,500 by State Treasurer John Perdue earlier this week. The funds were discovered by the Purdue’s office field officer Roger Huges. The retrieved funds will be allo Read more on ThirdAge
NY court: Filmmaker gave up journalistic freedom
An appeals court in New York says a judge didn’t err when he ordered the release of raw footage of a documentary about a legal dispute between energy company Chevron and Ecuadoreans over the filmmaker’s protests. Read more on AP via Yahoo! News
Firemen ‘working for other brigades’
The disclosures, made under the Freedom of Information Act, will further fuel claims that some firemen are unfairly fighting budget cuts and are resistant to change. Read more on Daily Telegraph
NY court: Filmmaker gave up journalism freedom
Journalists can lose their privilege to shield notes and film from others’ scrutiny if they fail to maintain their independence, an appeals court said Thursday as it upheld a judge’s decision to force a filmmaker to release outtakes from his documentary about a legal dispute between energy company Chevron and Ecuadoreans. Read more on AP via Yahoo! News
Community Baptist Church celebrates opening of new M facility
ENGLEWOOD — The Community Baptist Church of Englewood celebrated the opening of its new building on Jan. 8 with two dedication services that filled the building with local and state officials as well as hundreds of members of the church. Read more on The Record
Iowa State men’s basketball: Christopherson’s used to playing through pain
“Maybe I need to start going to church more,” the oft-injured Iowa State guard said Monday. “Maybe then I can talk to the big guy upstairs. “This is not fun.” Read more on CBS Sports
End runs around Constitution: Unread bills and quietly done regulations
The Constitution of the United States begins with the words “We the people.” But neither the Constitution nor “we the people”… Read more on Deseret News
The U.S. Constitution makes a rare visit to Congress, but will it be hanging around?
When Republicans take over the House of Representatives next week they will do something to usher in the 112th Congress that has never been done before in the chamber’s 221-year history: they’ll read the Constitution out loud. Read more on KPCC Pasadena
Nothing to Envy: North Korea
From the Sydney Writers’ Festival, Ramona Koval in conversation with Barbara Demick, Beijing based writer and bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times . Babara Demick’s latest book, Nothing to Envy: Love, Life and Death in North Korea , came out of her posting to Seoul in 2001. There she met many North Koreans who’d fled the regime, defecting to the south. Nothing to Envy tells some of those … Read more on Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Top North stories of 2010
Coming up with top news stories in a given community over the past year can be tricky. There certainly was no shortage of road closings, school closings, victories, defeats and pivotal moments for residents of the North Hills in 2010. Read more on Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Whistleblowing pilot renews SF airport security concerns
SAN FRANCISCO – While whistleblowing pilot Chris Liu’s YouTube video of “airport security gaps” has gotten national attention, it has renewed a security controversy that’s not really new at all. Read more on News10 Sacramento
Sacramento Based “Patriot Pilot” Talks About Back Door In Airport Security
The local airline pilot who gained the national spotlight after posting video of lax airport security, is calling his critics “naive.” Chris Liu spoke out today at Sacramento international airport. Read more on FOX40 Sacramento
Guest commentary: Immigration laws
In his Dec. 18 letter, Roger H. Hammer says: “Why is America different and unique? Read more on Naples Daily News
Netanyahu to seek release of Israeli spy given life in US
Jerusalem – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to formally seek the release of Jonathan Pollard, sentenced to life imprisonment in the United States as an Israeli spy, his office said Tuesday. Read more on EARTHtimes.org
Peaceful message
All Christians soon will celebrate Christmas and try to relive the peaceful message of Jesus Christ. At the same time, more than 1,200 Muslims living on the West Coast will gather at Baitul Hamid Mosque in Chino for their 25th annual convention, Dec. 24-26. Read more on Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
