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Cisco sells networking merchandise for business VoIP use. This includes any hardware that you might need to improve the VoIP system in your office.

Cisco is an international company that has focused on networking and business communications since 1984. They are leaders in the development of VoIP technology and manufacture some of the top-selling VoIP hardware products.

Cisco Products and Services

Voice Systems

Cisco calls its comprehensive VoIP systems “Voice Systems.” Voice Systems are the cornerstone of Cisco’s business IP network solution.

Cisco Voice Systems include:

  • full PBX features
  • a selection of IP phones
  • SIP trunking support
  • voicemail
  • automated attendant
  • multiple telephone lines
  • wireless access points (for connecting to your VoIP system from mobile devices)
  • Ethernet connection

Cisco Voice Systems can be used for smaller and larger offices. The UC320 ($700) suits businesses with 24 employees, and the Cisco Business Edition 6000 (price not listed) suits businesses with 1000 employees.

VoIP Phones

If you want to replace the phones in your office with IP phones, or if you need to add a few individual phones to your VoIP system, Cisco sells individual desktop phones.

Cisco phones are designed to be wireless and work with new innovations. This means that your phones will be ready for new VoIP capabilities as soon as they become available -- and that you won’t have to replace your phones again.

Cisco phones are designed to be compatible with Cisco Voice Systems and most other VoIP systems, so they will work with your VoIP system as soon as they come out of the box. This makes it even easier to add a new phone line in your business or home office. Phones range from about $60 to about $450.

Voice Gateways and Accessories

Cisco Gateways

Cisco gateways and accessories make it easy for you to incorporate old analog devices to your new business VoIP.

A Cisco gateway allows you to use all of the standard VoIP features like call waiting and voicemail on your analog phone. In addition, certain Cisco gateways like the Cisco SPA3102 Voice Gateway with Router ($70) can also work in a power outage, routing calls successfully with your analog phone system.

You can choose from simpler to more complex gateway systems. Some, like the Cisco SPA3102 Gateway with Router support only one analog phone, while some like the Cisco SPA8000 8-port IP Telephone Gateway support up to 8 analog phones ($200). Some of these, like Cisco SPA122 ATA with Router ($60), come with included extra phone numbers.

Cisco Accessories

Cisco accessories allow you to improve your mobility with your Cisco Voice System by improving your wireless connection with your IP phones.

Cisco connection accessories allow you to get Ethernet support for your phones so that you can minimize your office phone wiring and install your phones wherever you want. Wireless calling is supported by WEP, WPA, and WPA2 encryption.

A basic Cisco Wireless-N Bridge for Phone Adapters costs about $50.

Video and Conferencing

Cisco’s business VoIP solutions offer several services for improving your VoIP conferencing experience.

TelePresence uses cloud technology to provide a video conferencing service to any computer. Because it is a cloud service, you can use it from multiple locations. And the service is easily programmed to contain your business contact’s calling addresses. TelePresence starts at $29/month per user.

Cisco WebEx, another cloud-based system, is designed to allow easy conferencing with multiple parties. It also allows you to add images and graphs to your conference, and you can download a Cisco WebEx app for use from your mobile device. Cisco WebEx is free for the basic package which hosts a meeting for 3 people and has 250 MB of storage. The $24/month package supports a meeting for 8 people, and has 1 GB of storage. The $49/month package hosts 25 people at once with 1 GB of storage.

Cisco Unified IP Phones are designed for telephone conferencing. Most of these hardware options are wireless phones with multiple phone lines, up to 12 lines on the Cisco Unified IP Phone 696, which sells for about $140. Some of these phones also come with multiple speakers or microphone attachments.

If you still want video capabilities, you can get the Cisco Unified Video Advantage which allows you to make conference phone calls with the video component displayed on your computer screen. This service costs about $150.

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A GOVERNMENT OFFICER had been driven out of the village, said an official complaint to the police, after being viciously assaulted by a dozen men during the night. His assailants had also robbed him, although he had come to the village to help them. The villagers denied the charge, but his account was supported in court by witnesses and by documentary evidence.

Mr. Jagdish had come to the village several times to arrange the distribution of government largesse to the poorest and most deserving of its inhabitants, former serfs who had been freed from bondage only recently. They had little land or other property from which they could have made a living. The Bonded Labor Rehabilitation Department for which Mr. Jagdish worked in the district center had devised a program to help them. The villagers would be given cows, sell the milk and live on the proceeds.

On the night in question, said the complaint, a "drunk and disorderly" group of men had forced their way into the hut in which Mr. Jagdish was interviewing potential recipients of government aid, subjected him to verbal abuse and then committed assault and battery. They had been sent there by Vijay, a low-caste Harijan who purported to be the leader of the village untouchables.

The complainant had been slapped, prodded with sticks, dragged out of the hut and ejected from the village, to the accompaniment of loud abuse directed against the authorities. The villagers had accused the government, in the person of Mr. Jagdish, of holding back the funds intended for former bonded laborers. They had then proceeded to rob him of 600 rupees (about $60). It had been, said the complaint, a wholly unprovoked attack on a government official visiting the village in the line of duty, and it must be severely punished if a repetition was to be avoided.

The two men called by Mr. Jagdish testified that he had made every attempt to seek out those villagers who could make the best use of the cattle to be distributed. His efforts were resented by some villagers, who claimed that he was giving the animals to the rich rather than the poor. Vijay had tried to make political capital out of these rumors, and he had let it be known that the high-caste Brahmins stood to gain more from the project than the untouchables whom it was designed to help.

The two witnesses confirmed Mr. Jagdish's account in every detail. They were sure that the money taken from him amounted to 600 rupees, because they had seen Vijay count the notes. Written depositions taken from several villagers were also introduced as evidence. Their statements were unsigned, because the men were illiterate, but they had affixed their thumbprints on the documents.

Vijay admitted that he had insulted Mr. Jagdish. The official had demanded a bribe for every cow he had given to a villager, with one exception: After the incident, he gave two cows to the men who promised to support his story. As for the depositions, the illiterate villagers had indeed put their thumbprints on the affidavits -- but they had been told that these were applications for government aid.

The villagers explained that they had submitted to Mr. Jagdish's exactions because his fellow officials would have rejected any complaints against him. He had always made sure that there were no witnesses when he took bribes. He had done so again on the night of the disturbance, when he collected a total of 600 rupees. On his visits to the village he had always demanded liquor, they said, and the company of several women to entertain him. On this occasion, however, he had got so drunk that he tried to stub out his cigarettes on the girls' arms and faces. It was their cries that had led Vijay and the other men to break down the door. They had rescued the women, but it was not true that they had assaulted Mr. Jagdish. They had hardly touched him.

The judge found the evidence of both sides unsatisfactory. Mr. Jagdish denied that he had taken bribes. How, then, did he come to have 600 rupees on him, the judge asked. It was his salary, Mr. Jagdish said. But didn't the alleged robbery occur nearly a month after he had received his salary? Why was it still intact? What had he lived on in the meantime?

The villagers were unable to prove that he had taken bribes, but he was unable to account for the money in his possession. The judge concluded that if he had taken no bribes, then he could not have had all that cash on his person. This meant that he could not have been robbed of something he did not have.

Mr. Jagdish's complaint against the villagers was dismissed. He was transferred to another district, and Vijay and his followers celebrated their victory with a sumptuous feast. No one knew where the money for it had come from.


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Paul Manafort has appealed a federal judge’s order jailing him as he awaits trial on charges by the special counsel that he ran a secret lobbying campaign for Ukraine.

Attorneys for President Trump’s former campaign chairman, who is being held at a Virginia jail, gave notice of the appeal in court filings Monday afternoon.

“Defendant Paul J. Manafort, Jr. hereby appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from this Court’s order . . . granting the government’s motion to revoke Defendant’s pretrial release and denying Defendant’s motion to stay the order of detention pending appeal,” attorneys Kevin M. Downing, Thomas E. Zehnle and Richard Westling wrote.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on June 15 revoked Manafort’s release under electronic monitoring after prosecutors alleged he tried to sway the testimony of potential witnesses in the case.

Manafort had been under home detention since he was charged Oct. 27 in what prosecutors allege is a broad conspiracy to launder more than $30 million over a decade of undisclosed lobbying for a pro-Russian former politician and party in Ukraine.

Manafort, 69, has pleaded not guilty to those charges in the District, as well as to related tax and bank fraud in federal court in Alexandria.

The latest tampering charges, filed on June 8, revolve around allegations that Manafort and Ukraine business manager Konstantin Kilimnik tried to persuade two potential witnesses to falsely tell investigators their Ukraine lobbying effort did not include activity in the United States.

“You have abused the trust placed in you six months ago,” Jackson told Manafort after a hearing in which she concluded he violated bail terms and failed to show that he would not breach them again. “The government motion will be granted, and the defendant will be detained.”

Manafort has been held at the Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Va., about 90 miles southeast of Washington.

Manafort’s legal team also is trying to fight Berman Jackson’s dismissal of his civil suit challenging the scope of the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.

The judge had ruled in April that Manafort may not use a lawsuit to thwart his prosecution.

In the April 27 ruling, Jackson denied Manafort’s attempt to bar the special counsel from bringing future charges against him, citing the “sound and well-established principle” that potential defendants cannot “circumvent federal criminal procedure,” which allows for defendants to bring such proceedings within criminal cases.

Manafort faces trial in Alexandria in July on tax- and bank-fraud charges, and in Washington in September over allegations of secret lobbying.


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Abdulkader Badat, 53, talks on WhatsApp to his 25-year-old daughter, Enas, who is pregnant and separated from them in Ankara, Turkey, after President Trump’s executive order restricting travel for refugees from Syria and six other majority-Muslim countries. (Fabrizio Costantini/For The Washington Post)

The Badat family sat crammed together on their couch Sunday morning, desperately trying, call after call, to reach the other side of the world.

It took half an hour to get through to Ankara, Turkey, where they had left their pregnant daughter, Enas, and her husband three months ago. Back then, it seemed only a matter of time before the young couple would join the Badats and their three younger children in Bloomfield Township in the Detroit suburbs, where they had gained entry as Syrian refugees. Then President Trump issued his visa ban. Overnight, their world shifted.

By the time they reached Enas over a shaky WhatsApp connection Sunday morning, everyone on both sides of the line was crying.

“It took so long to be pregnant; I wanted you to be able to help me,” said Enas, 25 and due in March. She appeared on the phone’s tiny screen in a black hijab, sitting before a tattered gray curtain. Money had grown so tight in recent days she told them, that she was eating little more than small bits of bread and cheese.

“I can’t believe I will now be on my own,” she said.

Nour Badat, 16, consoles her younger sister, Judy, 8, who misses her older sister, Enas. They arrived in Michigan in November after fleeing Aleppo, Syria, in 2014, for Ankara, Turkey. (Fabrizio Costantini/For The Washington Post)

Since late Friday, when Trump ordered a ban on refugees, migrants and foreign nationals from Syria and six other majority-Muslim nations, few places have embodied the anger, pain and division like the Badats’ newly adopted home in Southeast Michigan. The area surrounding Detroit boasts one of the largest Muslim communities in the nation; Hamtramck, an independent enclave in Detroit, has the country’s only majority-Muslim city council. Over the past two years, Michigan has taken in more refugees from war-torn Syria than any state except California.

And yet, Trump won Michigan by 10,704 votes, largely on the strength of disaffected white auto and factory workers angry about their declining economic prospects and the immigrants and refugees who are reshaping their neighborhoods. For them, this weekend brought mostly relief that Trump was living up to his promise to keep them safe from Islamist terrorists and to put Americans first.

At a Fiat Chrysler assembly plant in Warren, just north of Detroit, workers said they have been impressed by Trump’s apparent resolve to renegotiate trade deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, and to bolster American manufacturing.

“He is walking the walk on jobs and NAFTA, so I’m not so worried about these other things everyone’s upset about,” said Joseph Adams, 55, as he rushed through a snow squall at the end of his shift. “We have to do something about ISIS, and if this is what he thinks, I believe his advisers are telling him that it’s a good idea.”

Around him, dozens of autoworkers poured across Mound Road, heading to and from the employee parking lot. Many said they had barely noticed the immigration controversy that had been raging all weekend at airports across the nation and on cable news.

“I had my daughter’s birthday party yesterday, and that’s just much more important to me than whether potential terrorists have had their feelings hurt,” said Donna James, 36.

One worker who didn’t want to give his name because he feared retribution at work said he “doesn’t understand what the big hubbub is. The media cares more about letting Iranians in than about the fact that GM just announced [hundreds of] job cuts. That’s what I want them and Trump to do something about.”

(Dalton Bennett,Erin Patrick O'Connor,Katherine Shaver,Monica Akhtar,McKenna Ewen/The Washington Post)

Others in the area said they are already sick of hearing about the Trump presidency.

At Lakeside Mall, in the Trump stronghold of suburban Macomb County, people grumbled about the chaos.

“It’s not the Muslim ban I mind, although I don’t necessarily agree with it. It’s how everything with Trump is drama, drama, drama,” said Jo Franklin, 33, a dental hygienist who voted for Trump.

“It’s like, ‘Get it together, people!’ ” Franklin said, chastising Trump’s inner circle. “He doesn’t seem to know what he’s doing.”

An advocate’s struggle

An hour’s drive away, Muna Jondy, an immigration lawyer of Syrian descent, was trying frantically to field hundreds of panicked calls and texts. Every few minutes, her phone buzzed with another plea for help.

“It’s been stressful. You can’t possibly answer them all,” said Jondy, a second-generation immigrant and American citizen. “You get overwhelmed by the responsibility, by the enormity. I’m finding myself snapping at people, even at my own kids at home.”

Since Friday night, Jondy, who also is a board member at the nonprofit organization United for a Free Syria, has heard from wives on vacation abroad and unable to return to their husbands in Michigan.

She has heard from longtime U.S. residents stranded after driving across the Detroit River for dinner with relatives in Windsor, Ontario.

One man asked whether he should propose to a Syrian woman living in Turkey.

“I asked him, ‘How attached are you? Are you willing to move there where she lives? Because the chances of her coming here anytime soon are pretty much zero,’ ” Jondy said. “I’m trying to limit the damage, to give them options. But after Friday, in some cases, there aren’t any options left.”

Beyond the legal questions, thorny existential issues loom. In interviews at mosques, restaurants and cafes, Muslim residents said Trump’s order had darkened their vision of America, the values it represents, its status as the one place in the world they can call home.

Some wondered if the idyllic notions that had brought them here had been naive. Others insisted that Trump’s bitter version of America would not poison their view of their neighbors and their nation.

“America is my present and future,” said Mohammad Ali Elahi, imam of a mosque in Dearborn Heights. “Many of my children were born here. And it hurts my heart to see this country be embarrassed in this way. But I love America.”

A conflicted community

A few miles away, leaders of Detroit’s Syrian community struggled with their own conflicted feelings about Trump. Most were appalled by the visa ban and were scrambling to help relatives and friends stranded in the Middle East and Europe.

But not everyone denounced Trump.

Yahya Basha, 70, is a radiologist who came to the United States in 1972 and now chairs the Coalition for a Democratic Syria. He donated to Trump’s campaign and continues to defend him.

A longtime Republican who donated to the Trump campaign, Basha said he had received reassurances from Vice President Pence at a November breakfast in Chicago that Trump would fulfill his promise to secure a safe zone within Syria where refugees from the violence could live without fear of Assad’s bombing raids. Trump’s decision to deny asylum to Syrian refugees wouldn’t be a problem, Basha said, if they could remain in or return to a safe space in their homeland.

“I understand what he meant with what he did on Friday, and I know some of his constituents approved of that,” Basha said. “But the other side is, he has promised to fulfill his election promise to protect the Syrians so they don’t have to leave Syria.”

This struck Shadia Martini, a Syrian American woman who moved to the United States in 1996 and now owns construction and real estate businesses here, as naive. Martini said the visa ban would make America less safe by alienating Muslims worldwide.

“It’s like we send a checkers player to represent the U.S. in the world chess championship,” Martini said. “He cannot see more than one or two steps ahead. . . . Who would make such a law without thinking about the consequences?”

While Martini and Basha argued, a third man, Refaai Hamo, sat quietly. He is a recent arrival from Syria. His wife and daughter were killed in a bombing back home. He became a cause celebre when his story was featured on the “Humans of New York” blog.

“Donald Trump is still in election mode, and everything he’s doing is just for show for the people who elected him,” Hamo said after the meeting. Hamo is still waiting to be granted permanent residency, but he says he does not believe that Trump will interfere with it.

“I have more faith in this country and the American people,” Hamo said. “I still do not believe that those who are here legally are going to be affected by this.”

A fortunate family

After ending the call with their stranded daughter in Ankara, the Badat family said that they consider themselves lucky.

Other refugees have shown them recent photos taken by relatives who remain in Syria. Their homes have been reduced to rubble, their loved ones killed in bombings. The Badats escaped that carnage of Aleppo and spent three years in limbo in Turkey. Since arriving in the Detroit area three months ago, the family has been guided by other immigrants, who have helped them secure the two-bedroom apartment in Bloomfield Township, chipped in to help them rent furniture and arranged private English lessons after discovering that the local adult-education classes were full.

While they waited in Turkey, the parents could not work, so the family relied on the income of their 16-year-old daughter Nour, who took 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, at a garment factory.

“America to me meant I could go to school,” Nour said. The idea of it back then had seemed almost like a dream — a dream that now seems imperiled.

“Are we going to get our green cards? Are we going to be allowed to stay here?” Nour wondered. “We don’t know anything anymore.”

Read more:

Denied Entry: Stories of refugees and immigrants barred from the U.S.

He risked his life working for the U.S. in Iraq. Now his visa’s no good.

Unnamed White House official on implementing travel ban: ‘It really is a massive success story.’


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Northrop Grumman features its conceptual sixth-generation fighter jet of the future in a new commercial likely to air during the Super Bowl. (YouTube)

They zip and dart across the sky in a three-jet formation, a six-second apparition in a 30-second commercial touting the achievements of defense contractor Northrop Grumman. Unlike modern jets, such as the F-22 Raptor or F-16 Fighting Falcon, they have no tail and are likely to be armed with lasers that are straight out of a science-fiction movie.

They’re sixth-generation fighters, and Northrop Grumman just showed them off during Super Bowl Sunday. The defense titan released a new commercial that touts its achievements and includes a glitzy glimpse at a plane whose fielding is likely decades away.

Here’s the clip in question:

The contractor released the ad on the heels of it airing what is believed to be the first Super Bowl ad ever produced for a defense contractor last February. In that game, the company focused on its entry in the Air Force’s Long Range Strike Bomber competition, which went on to win the $60-billion contract in October.

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Northrop Grumman provided a first look at its vision for the sixth-generation fighter to a handful of reporters in December. One of the most complicated parts, analysts have noted, is that if the stealthy planes include lasers, they will need to be built in a way in which the heat doesn’t give them away to enemies looking for them.

Here’s Northrop Grumman’s new commercial in its entirety. It appeared on several websites Friday, including Popular Science:

Northrop Grumman's new commercial gives a glitzy glimpse at sixth-generation fighters. (Northrop Grumman)

This piece was first published Saturday, ahead of the Super Bowl.


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The Social Security Administration is now processing claims for benefits for those in same-sex marriages, the latest in a chain of federal agency responses to the  Defense of Marriage Act court decision.

SSA “is now processing some retirement spouse claims for same-sex couples and paying benefits where they are due,” Acting Commissioner Carolyn W. Colvin said in an announcement Friday. “In the coming weeks and months, we will develop and implement additional policy and processing instructions. We appreciate the public’s patience as we work through the legal issues to ensure that our policy is legally sound and clear.”

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“I encourage individuals who believe they may be eligible for Social Security benefits to apply now, to protect against the loss of any potential benefits. We will process claims as soon as additional instructions become finalized,” she added.

The SSA announcement is the latest policy change flowing from the June 26 decision in which the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the DOMA law’s definition of marriage for federal benefits purposes as only between a man and a woman.

Earlier, the Office of Personnel Management announced that retired federal employees in same-sex marriages who could not provide survivor benefits on their civil service annuities due to DOMA have two years from the date of the high court’s decision to do so. Newly retiring employees may now make those elections through the regular retirement process.

In the federal retirement program, providing for a survivor benefit comes at the cost of a reduced annuity for the retiree. But in addition to financial protection for the survivor, that benefit also continues eligibility in the federal employee health insurance program with its government contribution toward premiums.

The spouses and children of both active and retired employees in same-sex marriages are now covered under several benefits programs in addition to health insurance. While coverage is automatic, employees and retirees have until Aug. 26 to make certain enrollment changes such as switching from individual to family coverage for health insurance. After that, they will have to wait until the annual benefits open season starting in November.

Nearly nine-tenths of federal employees fall under the Federal Employees Retirement System, which includes Social Security benefits. Nearly four-fifths of those already retired worked under the Civil Service Retirement System, which does not include Social Security.


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Trump’s claim that “core of the disastrous Obamacare” is gone

During his first year in office, dismantling major parts of the Affordable Care Act was one of President Trump’s most passionate priorities. During his speech, health care occupied a comparatively minor place, with the president laying out no new initiatives.

Instead, he made a bold claim: “We repealed the core of the disastrous Obamacare — the individual mandate is now gone.” The statement glided over the fact that the Republican-led Congress has not produced legislation to “repeal and replace” the sprawling 2010 health-care law, as Trump exhorted lawmakers to do, with the Senate repeatedly failing to muster enough GOP votes for any of several permutations it considered.

The change to which the president referred was, in the end, tucked into the massive tax bill enacted late last year. It does not outright eliminate the ACA’s requirement that most Americans carry health insurance. That would have taken a separate piece of legislation. Instead, it ends in 2019 a penalty the ACA created for those who flout that requirement. This year, what Trump in his speech called “tremendous penalties” amount to $695 per adult or 2.5 percent of a household’s income, whichever is greater.”

The president said the law forces people to pay those tax penalties “because they could not afford government-ordered health plans.” In 2016, data from the Internal Revenue Service shows, about 6.5 million Americans paid penalties averaging $470 — about 20 percent fewer than the year before. The data does not indicate how many could not afford health insurance, as Trump said, and how many could have afforded coverage but chose not to buy any.

As for the president’s assertion the insurance requirement is the core of the law, the picture is not so clear. Health-policy experts disagree over the extent to which the mandate — the least popular aspect of the ACA, polling consistently has shown — motivates people to buy insurance, and how much difference ending the penalty will make.

Meanwhile, large swaths of the ACA remain intact, including the insurance marketplaces created for people who do not have access to affordable coverage through a job.

Fact-checking and analysis of Trump’s State of the Union 2018 address

The Washington Post is live-blogging President Trump’s first official State of the Union address to Congress tonight. The speech begins at 9p.m. Eastern time and the president is expected to be, well, presidential.

Post national reporters Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer write that Trump aides say “he will deliver a unifying speech on American values and patriotism, one that touches on everything from the just-passed Republican tax plan and the new immigration proposal to trade, infrastructure and national security. The question is whether the swirl of conflict and diversion that has monopolized so much of his first year in office will distract from the message he is trying to deliver.”

The Post’s chief congressional scribe, Paul Kane, points out that it’s not just Trump whose behavior can be unpredictable — it’s also that of “mercurial” congressional Republicans when it comes to the president.

From Paul: “Sometimes they are in bitter fights with Trump, challenging his nationalist policy approach as an affront to traditional conservatism while also questioning his mental fitness for office. Other times they drift into a deep public swoon for the president that seems to directly contradict their previous criticism.”

Check back here for frequent updates on the speech, including real-time fact-checking and analysis of what the president says on key issues like the economy, national security and infrastructure.


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Majorities of Americans strongly support two potential components of immigration legislation this fall, including deportation protections for younger undocumented immigrants and requiring employers to verify workers are in the United States legally, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The findings suggest that President Trump and Congress might have a path to a major deal on immigration reform that has eluded Washington for three decades. Trump has said he is open to compromise with Democrats on a bill that would provide legal status for immigrants brought to the country illegally as children, known as "dreamers," combined with tougher border security measures.

The Post-ABC survey finds 86 percent support for dreamers who had been eligible for renewable two-year work permits under a deferred action program started by President Barack Obama to remain in the country. Trump's administration announced this month that it will end the program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and begin to phase out work permits in March if lawmakers do not act.

About 690,000 immigrants are covered by DACA status, according to the Department of Homeland Security, although Democrats are likely to seek protections for a significantly higher number.

More than two-thirds of adults — 69 percent — support the DACA program "strongly," which was described as allowing undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States if they had arrived as a child, had completed high school or served in the military and had not committed a serious crime. In a follow-up question, 65 percent back a law that would both allow dreamers to remain in the country and increase funding for border security. The poll did not measure public opinion about whether the dreamers should be offered a path to citizenship, a prospect GOP immigration hawks have called amnesty.

Trump and his aides have offered mixed signals on a deal. The president met with Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) this month and agreed to pursue a deal for the dreamers. Democratic aides said the deal would be based on the "Dream Act," a bipartisan proposal that offers a path to citizenship.

But Trump said two weeks ago on a trip to Florida that "we're not looking at citizenship. We're not looking at amnesty. We're looking at allowing people to stay here. . . . We're talking about taking care of people, people who were brought here, people who've done a good job."

The president added that any deal is contingent on including "extreme security" measures in terms of immigration enforcement, suggesting he envisioned at a minimum increased "surveillance" along the border. He also pledged to continue pushing for funding for a costly wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, which Democratic lawmakers and some moderate Republicans oppose.

Trump has said he will not demand that money for the wall is included in a dreamer bill but insisted the wall would have to be funded somehow. "If there's not a wall, we're doing nothing," he said.

The Post-ABC poll shows significant opposition to a wall. Roughly 6 in 10 continue to oppose the building of a barrier, which Trump made a centerpiece of his campaign, with attitudes little changed over the past year.

Trump also has suggested he would seek cuts to legal immigration in pursuing a deal for the dreamers. Republican Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.) and David Perdue (Ga.) have proposed legislation called the Raise Act, which Trump has endorsed, that would slash the rate of legal immigration by half over a decade. Currently, more than 1 million foreigners each year receive green cards allowing them permanent legal status in the United States.

The survey finds that 55 percent oppose massive immigration cuts, which also are strongly opposed by business leaders.

An alternative border security concept draws higher marks from the public. A lopsided 79 percent supports requiring employers to verify that all new hires are living in the United States legally, including 61 percent who support such a requirement strongly.

The concept of using a computer database to force employers to vet the immigration status of their workers, under a program called E-Verify offered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, has been included in previous immigration reform bills. But the program has not been universally implemented.

Conservative Republicans and immigration hawks, including conservative talk show hosts and restrictionist groups, support the expansion of the E-Verify program.

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates stricter immigration limits, has proposed coupling legal status for dreamers with cuts to legal immigration and the mandatory use of E-Verify by businesses.

"E-Verify already exists; last year, around half of new hires were screened through it," he wrote last month in National Review. "Rolling it out for the other half is something that would happen at the same time as the amnesty."

Trump's willingness to bargain with Democrats over his signature campaign issue has alarmed immigration hard-liners, who fear he is softening in hopes of scoring a legislative victory in a first year marked by stumbles and defeats on Capitol Hill.

At the same time, liberals and moderates believe Trump has been too draconian in his travel ban on immigrants and refugees from some majority-Muslim countries and his executive actions that have expanded the pool of undocumented immigrants who are targets for removal.

In all, 62 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of immigration matters. When asked about immigration enforcement, 49 percent of Americans believe enforcement was not tough enough under Obama, while 44 percent said it was just right and 6 percent say it was too tough.

Under Trump, 30 percent say enforcement levels are about right and 45 percent say they are too tough, seven times higher than before he entered office. Just about half of that — 22 percent — say immigration enforcement is still not tough enough under Trump.

Though Trump has railed against the dangers of illegal immigration, and has met with victims of crimes in the Oval Office and at campaign events, most Americans have not embraced Trump's association of immigration with increased crime. Some 12 percent of the public say undocumented immigrants commit more crimes than other people in the country, while 19 percent say they commit fewer crimes. Sixty-four percent say there is no difference, while the rest have no opinion.

The Washington Post-ABC News poll was conducted Sept. 18-21 among a random national sample of 1,002 adults reached on cellular and landline phones. Overall results carrying a plus or minus 3.5-point margin of sampling error.

Emily Guskin contributed to this report.


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- The Washington Times - Thursday, January 23, 2003

Northwestern University scientists can see how newts form new bone and cartilage during limb regeneration using digital X-ray microtomography or microCT. Newts — salamanders — are the only vertebrates capable of rebuilding lost structures such as limbs. The research team found bone formation combines elements of embryonic development and of adult wound healing. MicroCT provides high-resolution images, typically 25 micrometers or less, and rapid data acquisition, five to 30 minutes. Future uses include detecting and characterizing soft tissue structures, skeletal abnormalities and tumors. MicroCT shows how mineral is distributed within bones, which can affect the risk of fracture. The researchers say changes in bone are seen most clearly if the same volume of tissue is examined non-invasively at different points in time, which microCT can do.

Divers and fishers say coral-smothering non-native seaweed called Caulerpa brachypus is so thick on the coral reefs in Florida's Palm Beach County it is forcing lobsters and fish away. The seaweed has been spotted as far north as Fort Pierce, 60 miles away. "It can smother just about everything down there," says Brian Lapointe, a marine ecologist at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution. It usually is found in the Pacific but not in Florida, until a year ago. Lapointe says it probably was released from a saltwater aquarium or a ship's ballast. Lapointe has received an Environmental Protection Agency grant to study the seaweed. Surveys of the local reefs begin this week. Lapointe and his team will determine how seasonal changes in light, temperature and nutrient availability control the growth of the macroalgae. To test his hypothesis that nutrients from pollution fuel macroalgae blooms, Lapointe will compare how well each species grows when nitrogen in the form found in sewage is available vs. how it responds to nitrogen as it occurs naturally in seawater.

The 2003 launch season begins Thursday at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks Poker Flat Research Range, where a single-rocket mission will be sent to measure high-frequency wave signals in connection with the aurora. Known as HIBAR, the high bandwidth auroral rocket mission will have until Feb. 8 to get the right weather and auroral conditions to launch a two-stage Terrier-Black Brant IX sounding rocket into the aurora at altitudes where the high-frequency waves form. Data gathered from rocket launches in 1997 and 2002 show a detailed structure of high-frequency waves that had not been recorded. High-frequency waves in the ionosphere are difficult to study because they occur at frequencies greater than 1 MHz, and spacecraft data telemetry rates have not been able to sample them. Enhanced telemetry rates now available on NASA sounding rockets at Poker Flat allow waves up to 5 MHz to be thoroughly measured.

Iowa State University soil scientists say Global Positioning Systems available to corn and soybean producers can improve soil acidity and lime application management. Soil acidity can limit plant growth and soil formation processes and management practices lead to large pH variability within fields. Lime can help maintain crop production but traditional methods make it impractical to change lime application rates over a field. Producers usually apply a uniform rate even though only a small part of the field receives the optimum application. A study in the January/February issue of Agronomy Journal says GPS and advances in computer software allow for precise identification of soil sample positions and improved soil-test mapping. Variable rate technology, which combines GPS, computer-based controllers and digital soil-test maps, is a practical way to apply lime rates over a field. The study found the VRT method resulted in more efficient lime management, reducing the lime needed.

(EDITORS: For more information on MICROCT, contact Elizabeth Crown at (312) 503-8928 or e-mail [email protected] For SEAWEED, Mark Schrope 772-216-0390 or [email protected], for HIBAR, Vicki Daniels, (907) 474-5823 or [email protected], and for CROP GPS, Sara Uttech, (608) 273-8080 or [email protected])

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- The Washington Times - Friday, March 23, 2007

D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty yesterday outlined his first budget, a $9.8 billion spending proposal that increases student funding and places more police officers on city streets.

Mr. Fenty’s plan is a 6.7 percent increase from last year’s approved $9.1 billion budget. The budget includes $5.7 billion in local funding and does not raise taxes.

Officials said the increase is due in part to paying debt service and to health care costs but still praised what will be the District’s 11th straight balanced budget if it is approved by the D.C. Council and Congress.

“This would be an excellent signal to send to Wall Street,” Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi said at a press conference yesterday. “Overall, the economic condition of the District looks very good.”

Mr. Fenty’s proposal boosts the public education budget in the District by 4.2 percent to roughly $1.25 billion. That figure includes an increase in per-pupil funding of about 4 percent, or roughly $300 for students in public and public charter schools.

The council is scheduled to preliminarily vote on Mr. Fenty’s proposed mayoral takeover of the public school system on April 3, and the mayor said his budget proposal would support the implementation of his schools reform plan.

“We have put our money where our mouth is,” Mr. Fenty said.

Mr. Fenty also proposed increasing public safety funding in the District by 8 percent, including $470 million for the Metropolitan Police Department — a nearly $50 million boost that will phase in 82 new civilian positions and allow 300 additional officers to be deployed on city streets.

The Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department is slated for a $12 million increase, to $181 million.

Some of Mr. Fenty’s proposals were met with skepticism.

For example, departments charged with procurement and human resources responsibilities largely would be funded by billing other government agencies for their services instead of through the budget.

Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray said such a switch is “fraught with potential problems” because some city agencies might decide simply not to pay others, but Mr. Fenty said the new procedures will promote better accountability and transparency.

“We agree with Chairman Gray if handled incorrectly there could be problems,” Mr. Fenty said. But “if we keep a very close watch on it, it will improve procurement and personnel.”

Another potentially unpopular proposal by Mr. Fenty — who said he also hopes to cut the residential property tax by 2 cents — is to raise the District’s Emergency 911 phone call fee from 76 cents to $1.55. The monthly fee is charged to each person with a phone line in the District, officials said.

Fenty officials said the fee increase is minimal compared with surrounding areas such as Fairfax County and Alexandria, which they said charge as much as $3.

But Phil Mendelson, at-large Democrat, called the new amount an across-the-board tax increase.

“This is an unnecessary and regressive tax increase that, if implemented, will be a direct hit to the pocketbooks of those who live and do business in the District, plain and simple,” Mr. Mendelson said.

The council’s Committee of the Whole is scheduled to hold a public briefing on Mr. Fenty’s proposal Monday.

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JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Supreme Court is heading to Jackson this week to hear arguments in four cases.

A news release says the hearings will take place Wednesday at the Jackson Supreme Court building.

The hearings involve a Shelby County death penalty case, a reckless endangerment case where a man wants to get back confiscated parts of his gun collection, a worker’s compensation case where an injured worker died from overdosing on prescription oxycodone and alcohol, and an attorney discipline proceeding.

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Liberty Mutual Report: Serious Workplace Injuries Cost Businesses $1B Per Week

Liz Carey

Boston, MA – According to a new report from Liberty Mutual Insurance, serious workplace injuries cost employers $1 billion per week.

The report — Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index — looked at data from 2015 from Liberty Mutual, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the National Academy of Social Insurance to rank serious, nonfatal workplace injuries based on direct workers’ compensation costs.

Just the top ten most serious injuries and illnesses accounted for $52 billion a year in medical and lost wage costs for businesses. While the number of incidents of those injuries decreased 1.5 percent, the costs increased 2.9 percent. The total cost of all disabling injuries and illnesses was nearly $60 billion per year.

For the fourth straight consecutive year, overexertion involving outside sources was the leading cause of disabling injuries, accounting for more than a quarter of the losses, at $13.7 billion per year. Other injuries and illnesses included:

  • Falls on same level ($11.2 billion)
  • Falls to lower level ($5.9 billion)
  • Struck by object or equipment ($5.3 billion)
  • Other exertions or bodily reactions ($4.2 billion)
  • Roadway incidents involving motorized land vehicle ($3.2 billion)
  • Slip or trip without a fall ($2.3 billion)
  • Caught in or compressed by equipment or object ($2.1 billion)
  • Struck against equipment or object ($2 billion)
  • Repetitive motions involving micro-tasks ($1.5 billion)

“To effectively improve safety, each employer needs to understand the root causes of the most serious workplace injuries they experience, and the ways to effectively mitigate these through training, equipment and work design,” James Merendino, general manager of risk control at Liberty Mutual, said in a press release.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2015 was a dangerous year to be a worker. That year’s fatal workplace injury report showed that 4,836 workers died from work-related injuries, the highest at the time, since 2008, or a rate of 3.38 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers.

Then Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez said at the time, “These numbers underscore the urgent need for employers to provide a safe workplace for their employees as the law requires.”

On May 7, the U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) held its annual National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls week through May 11 to bring attention to the issue of falls in the workplace, responsible for $17 billion in employer costs per year.

Lack of proper fall protection is the most frequently cited OSHA violation, the organization said in a press release. Stand-downs across the country provide employers and workers with the opportunity to talk about hazards, protective methods, company safety policies and goals, as well as participate in training, the organization said.

A spokesman for OSHA did not immediately return emails and calls for comment by press time.


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• Millbrook High School

    2014 – 2016 Mission, Vision, and Values

    Students will leave Millbrook High School well prepared for future endeavors and for the demands of a complex global society.

    Millbrook High School will graduate students who are collaborative, creative, effective communicators and critical thinkers, who are prepared to engage in their global community.

    • We will provide an inviting environment for students – an environment with clear expectations, consistent consequences, and articulated academic goals.

    • We will reinforce content and skills in all curricular areas through challenging, engaging, relevant, rigorous and meaningful learning each day.

    • We will help all students achieve the intended outcome of the curriculum by addressing their individual needs and learning styles, regardless of their socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity.

    • We will model the lifelong learning commitment to high-quality work that we hope to develop in our students by working collaboratively in developing instructional strategies and partnering with our community.


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At Web Age Solutions we combine real-world SOA and Web Services experience with extensive research in the area of service-oriented systems of systems. This is done primarily so that we can produce training courses that can be judged to be the very best in the world.

Now, we are offering our considerable expertise in the form of consultative mentoring. We have created the following mentoring packages to make it easy for customers to pick the right offering for their needs.

SOA Discovery Package

This service package is designed for the organizations that are at a very early stage of SOA adoption or just considering it. We can help you truly understand the value of SOA so that you can create a vision for it. We will help you choose a software platform for SOA. We can help you lay down an initial architecture.
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SOA Design Package

If you have already committed to SOA and proceeding to lay down architecture guidelines, our experts can provide crucial input to the process. How should data exchange take place? How will transactions be managed? How to add asynchronous communication? How to apply all the security best practices? These are some of the questions we can help you answer.
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WA1195 Lab Setup Guide

Minimum Hardware Requirements

  • 700 MHz or faster CPU
  • 512 MB of memory or more
  • 4 GB hard disk space minimum
  • SVGA graphics adapter (supporting 1024×768 res., 256 colors)
  • 17-inch graphics display
  • CD-ROM drive

Minimum Software Requirements

  • Windows 2000/XP
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader V4.0 or later
  • Rational Rose XDE *
  • WinZip 8.0 or higher (downloadable from www.winzip.com)

Note: The drive with the installation files will be referred to as drive X:, please substitute this drive letter with the appropriate CD or network drive letter.

Receive the following CD(s) from Web Age Solutions:

  • Rational Rose XDE

Install and setup the software in the following order (click the software title for installation instructions) :

  1. Click the link Rational Rose XDE for installation.


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Main » TERM » H »

HPNA, also referred to as HomePNA, is a de facto home networking standard developed by the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance. This technology, building on Ethernets, allows all the components of a home network to interact over the home's existing telephone wiring without disturbing the existing voice or fax services.

How it Works

In the same way a LAN operates, home networking processes, manages, transports and stores information, which enables the disparate devices in a home network such as telephones, fax machines, desktops, laptops, printers, scanners and Web cameras to connect and integrate over a home's unpredictable wiring topology.  HPNA technology must coexist with telephone service and comply with FCC Part 68.

In 2013 the HomeGrid Forum and the HomePNA Alliance merged under the HomeGrid Forum name, supporting both G.hn and HomePNA technologies.

Example HomePNA Network

The following image details an example network with a cable modem ISP connection, sharing via hardware router with built-in switch with the addition of HomePNA clients via an Ethernet to HomePNA bridge.

HPNA EXample

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