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Farc had stepped up attacks in an attempted show of strength since Santos's government took power in August vowing to pursue a hard line against the rebels and dismissing any possibility of talks with the group unless the rebels cease hostilities and release hostages they are still holding.
Colombian authorities said there were dozens of charges outstanding against Suarez, including murder and kidnapping, and US authorities also had lodged an extradition request against him with the Bogota government.
The US state department, which had been offering a reward of up to $5m for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Suarez, described him as a key figure in the rebel group's drug-trafficking operations, including the production and distribution of hundreds of tonnes of cocaine around the world.
"This is an important victory for Colombia," Mike Hammer, the national security spokesman for US President Barack Obama, said.
Started as a peasant army in the 1960s, the Farc grew into a powerful force that once controlled large parts of Colombia and was blamed for hundreds of kidnappings and killings.
But since Alvaro Uribe, the Colombian ex-president, launched an army offensive against the rebels in 2002, the Farc's writ over the country has considerably shrunk.
With Farc-sponsored violence declining, Colombia, once described as a failing state, has also witnessed a five-fold increase in foreign investment.
Volunteer software developers from across North Carolina will convene in Raleigh on October 16 to participate in an initiative to make local communities more resilient in the wake of Hurricane Florence.
The Collider, a nonprofit innovation center in Asheville, N.C. that empowers climate data entrepreneurs who help companies, communities, and consumers become resilient to a changing climate, is partnering with IBM Corporate Citizenship’s program to mobilize developers to deliver disaster resiliency tools in support of ...
IBM will provide free access to solutions created through a global initiative, Call for Code, that asked developers to outthink natural disasters and build sustainable software solutions to significantly improve the current state of disaster preparedness and recovery across in local communities and around the world.
The Collider will leverage its climate innovation ecosystem, anchored in Western North Carolina and extending across the state, to engage in this initiative. The Collider will bring together key volunteer talent including software developers, climate scientists, and data scientists to help configure and deliver tailore...
Interested software developers should contact Megan Robinson at mrobinson@thecollider.org to learn how to participate in the October 16 event and how to volunteer in tailoring and deploying solutions in the upcoming months.
How the mighty have fallen.
Bill Cosby continues to rack up all the L’s. The disgraced comedian is getting sued by his former lawyers for unpaid legal fees.
The Philly-based firm, Schnader Harrison Segal and Lewis, just filed suit against the now-convicted actor for failing to pay more than $50k in legal services it says it provided him. One of SHS&L’s partners, Samuel Silver, was one of Cosby’s new lawyers as he geared up for his second trial earlier this year. However, S...
The details are scant in the legal docs — obtained by TMZ — but there’s no question SHS&L worked on Cosby’s case for a while. He’d announced his new legal team — which included Michael Jackson’s former lawyer, Tom Mesereau — in August of 2017, which also included Silver at the time. Silver bailed on the case in January...
Silver has also repped Cosby in other cases, and the expenses in the lawsuit reflect that work as well.
Remember when Cosby was preaching about respectability politics?
Pay your bills, Bill. Cosby is scheduled to be sentenced in late September.
We have now recognised the necessity to the mental well-being of mankind (on which all their other well-being depends) of freedom of opinion, and freedom of the expression of opinion, on four distinct grounds; which we will now briefly recapitulate.
First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.
Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
Thirdly, even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds.
And not only this, but, fourthly, the meaning of the doctrine itself will be in danger of being lost, or enfeebled, and deprived of its vital effect on the character and conduct: the dogma becoming a mere formal profession, inefficacious for good, but cumbering the ground, and preventing the growth of any real and hear...
Before quitting the subject of freedom of opinion, it is fit to take some notice of those who say, that the free expression of all opinions should be permitted, on condition that the manner be temperate, and do not pass the bounds of fair discussion. Much might be said on the impossibility of fixing where these suppose...
But this, though an important consideration in a practical point of view, merges in a more fundamental objection. Undoubtedly the manner of asserting an opinion, even though it be a true one, may be very objectionable, and may justly incur severe censure. But the principal offences of the kind are such as it is mostly ...
The gravest of them is, to argue sophistically, to suppress facts or arguments, to misstate the elements of the case, or misrepresent the opposite opinion. But all this, even to the most aggravated degree, is so continually done in perfect good faith, by persons who are not considered, and in many other respects may no...
With regard to what is commonly meant by intemperate discussion, namely invective, sarcasm, personality, and the like, the denunciation of these weapons would deserve more sympathy if it were ever proposed to interdict them equally to both sides; but it is only desired to restrain the employment of them against the pre...
Yet whatever mischief arises from their use, is greatest when they are employed against the comparatively defenceless; and whatever unfair advantage can be derived by any opinion from this mode of asserting it, accrues almost exclusively to received opinions. The worst offence of this kind which can be committed by a p...
To calumny of this sort, those who hold any unpopular opinion are peculiarly exposed, because they are in general few and uninfluential, and nobody but themselves feels much interested in seeing justice done them; but this weapon is, from the nature of the case, denied to those who attack a prevailing opinion: they can...
In general, opinions contrary to those commonly received can only obtain a hearing by studied moderation of language, and the most cautious avoidance of unnecessary offence, from which they hardly ever deviate even in a slight degree without losing ground: while unmeasured vituperation employed on the side of the preva...
For the interest, therefore, of truth and justice, it is far more important to restrain this employment of vituperative language than the other; and, for example, if it were necessary to choose, there would be much more need to discourage offensive attacks on infidelity, than on religion.
It is, however, obvious that law and authority have no business with restraining either, while opinion ought, in every instance, to determine its verdict by the circumstances of the individual case; condemning every one, on whichever side of the argument he places himself, in whose mode of advocacy either want of cando...
This is the real morality of public discussion: and if often violated, I am happy to think that there are many controversialists who to a great extent observe it, and a still greater number who conscientiously strive towards it.
A new Trump administration border policy requiring that asylum seekers at the southern border remain in Mexico while their claims are processed has garnered the incoming Mexican government's support, the Washington Post reported, citing Mexican officials and senior members of Mexican president-elect Andrés Manuel López...
Mexico's incoming government on Saturday night denied that an official deal had been made regarding migrants staying in the country before entering the United States, Mexico's incoming interior minister, Olga Sánchez Cordero, said according to a statement acquired by CNN.
However, according to The Post, the plan, called "Remain in Mexico," emerged after a meeting in Houston last week that included Mexico's incoming foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, and other high ranking US officials, US and Mexican officials t...
"For now, we have agreed to this policy of Remain in Mexico," Sánchez Cordero -- López Obrador's top domestic policy official as Mexico's interior minister-elect -- told the Post, calling it a "short-term solution."
Event is a de-stressor before finals and send-off for summer.
“I'm a survivor. And it was the first time speaking out in a public setting about my experience. And it was really empowering,” said Nora Gallo, a junior dance major.
The 72nd governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will speak at UMass’ 149th Commencement.
This week, our news team talks about the increase to the Student Activities Fee, the Smart About Money Cash Cab, the March on Whitmore and Game of Thrones.
New speakers highlight the unity of the SGA as a priority.
Forty-three out of 48 RSO applications were denied.
This week, our news team talks about Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Jim McGovern's Green New Deal town hall, Tarana Burke's lecture, regional transit authorities, the SGA and the Amherst Police Department's K9 unit.
All students of Amherst College were represented with their national flags.
This week, our news team talks about the RAPM Union's contract settlement, TEDx Amherst, cultural centers on campus and Jordan Peele's film "Us."
Several parking complaints were reported over Patriot’s Day Weekend.
A man got stuck in a window, suspicious activity was reported outside a pizza shop and a woman installed cameras to catch her neighbor throwing pine cones.
Amherst town officials were flipped off on two separate occasions this weekend.
Three separate incidents of people trapped in elevators occurred.
If the COG General Forum initiates the 60-day public comment period at its June 26 meeting, Miller said, final action could take place at COG’s Aug. 28 meeting.
The beneficial reuse water program was originally established in the region to figure out what to do with wastewater while counteracting the effects of growth, Miller said.
He said UAJA’s beneficial reuse water system uses drinking water technology.
UAJA is “making super clean water out of wastewater,” Miller said.
A million gallons per day of beneficial reuse water is being produced by UAJA, Miller said, with the authority looking to expand that to 2 mgd.
Centre Hills Country Club takes 350,000 gallons per day, and Gordon D. Kissinger Meadow wetlands receives 450,000 gpd, he said.
Mountain View would use about 350,000 gpd to irrigate its golf courses, while Tussey, on a peak day, could use more than a million gallons to produce snow, he said.
CRPC Vice Chairman Jon Eich asked how it was going trying to get the state Department of Environmental Protection to reclassify beneficial reuse water.
UAJA has been trying for several years to get DEP to classify beneficial reuse water as something other than sewage, Miller said, but with no such luck.
Another regional study is being done to determine how to show beneficial reuse waterlines inside the growth boundary sewer service area.
Now, UAJA has to show specifically where beneficial reuse waterlines are in the Act 537 plan, so an amendment to the plan would require a formal process with DEP, Jim May, Centre Regional Planning Agency director, said in March.
“By showing beneficial reuse lines allowed anywhere, we wouldn’t have to go through that full-blown amendment process with DEP,” he said.
Then if you are superuser you can pretend to be a DC (KDC). Also no huge surprise there. Best practice on a MIT KDC was to put on a single function box, either with no remote access or at least not authenticated by Kerberos to try to reduce this risk. But on all modern Directory services being an integrated solutions (...
Add to this a healthy dose of don't use ntlm and rc4 (who knew). Probably best to turn off all ntlm and just use Kerberos in AD in pure AES, though this hasn't been the easiest thing to do in AD (MS should have ditched ntlm fully years ago and Still haven't and is still crap even v2).
No criticism of the original paper just the slightly alarmist tone of this article.
A Geek squad that aimed to bring federal services into the digital age by moving processes online to boost efficiency and effectiveness has fallen prey to mismanagement, waste, and under performance. What a surprise!
Instead of bringing the innovation of Apple or Uber to Washington, the promising squad of technologists seems to have adopted the culture of government employees and thus operates like other beleaguered federal agencies which deliver a DMV experience rather than private-sector service.
Since his time in office, President Obama has pushed hard to modernize operations in Washington. Americans should be able to access high-quality digital government information and services anywhere. That’s actually a good, common-sense priority that could save taxpayers time, effort, and money by eliminating waste, dup...
For example, he created a presidential fellowship program to put private sector technologists in federal agencies for six-to-twelve month stints and then that program was transferred to the General Services Administration (GSA). GSA decided to create a bigger tech squad to service all federal agencies and include these...
This had the makings of a TV-style underground squad of heroes who solve problems for citizens using technology. They even adopted a cool name, “18F,” which stood for the location of their office in Washington, D.C.
If only what was on paper lived up the expectations.
A federal audit by the GSA’s own internal watchdog found that 18F was failing miserably to meet revenue projections, citing mismanagement as the cause. The squad of techies didn’t collect on bills, got bloated with overhead, and experienced mission creep. In other words, it acted like a government agency.
In the two and a half years since it was launched in 2014, 18F’s mission expanded from making government’s digital services simple, effective, and easier to use to becoming the IT consultant for government. That’s like growing from a store-front copy shop with two copy machines to Fedex which handles, design, printing,...
18F’s current memorandum of agreement with FAS requires a plan to achieve full cost recovery of both direct and indirect costs in order to use the ASF to fund its operations. We found that 18F has not developed a viable plan to achieve full cost recovery.
What are the reasons 18F is so deep in the hole? 18F’s management overestimated revenue projections, hired too much staff, and the staff spent too much time on non-billable activities. Better management and supervisors could have mitigated such high losses.
The recommendations to get things back on track at 18F are no brainers such as establishing a plan to recover all costs for work performed, ensuring better tracking of billable time, and ensuring IT-related projects are confirmed in writing before starting the projects.
Like any small business, there are bumps along the way and lessons to learn. Entrepreneurs learn quickly and adapt because this business may be all they have to survive on.
However, when your funding source is government, federal workers seem to take a more casual attitude. That’s unacceptable. Taxpayers are footing the bill and we have little choice in how our federal tax dollars are being spent. We do have an expectation that they are being spent wisely though. Anyone who think it’s no ...
The biggest lesson is that you can’t uproot innovation and transplant it into government so that government grows more efficient and effective. The soil and climates are just too different as the comments by 18F leadership demonstrate. Yet, another costly lesson that we taxpayers fund.
To celebrate the launch of its new Amazon Prime tariff, E.ON is offering our readers the chance to win one of five x £100 Amazon.co.uk Gift Cards. These can be spent on a range of eligible products on Amazon’s website.
As well as fixing gas and electricity prices for a year, the new energy tariff comes with 12 months of Amazon Prime membership included. Amazon Prime gives members unlimited access to one-day delivery on millions of eligible items, as well as access to a wide range of movies and TV shows, music, e-books and much more.
The easiest method is to use the Shopping Wizard at savannahnow.com/Savvyshopper. It compares prices at area grocery stores. You can sort the Wizard listings by "produce" or simply type in the item you are looking for in the search engine. Last week, I typed "potatoes' into the search engine and was able to see that Pi...
Wednesdays: Harveys, Piggly Wiggly, Jones Red&White and Food Lion.
Register store loyalty cards and sign up for any store publications or clubs available. Stores will actually send coupons for produce from time to time.
Use overage to pay for your produce. Publix and Walmart both allow you "overage." If you have a coupon worth more than the value of the item, they allow the difference to go towards your other groceries. Example: If I have a $1 coupon for something that costs 75 cents, they will apply the extra 25 cents to the rest of ...
Watch for manufacturer coupons. Occasionally manufacturers will offer you a discount on produce when you purchase a specific products. Kellogg's currently has coupons in specially marked packages for $1 off produce when you purchase three boxes of cereal.
Pick your own. Check out this site for a list of "pick your own" farms in our area. http://www.pickyourown.org/GAfarmersmarkets.htm You will be sure the fruit and vegetables are fresh when you pick them yourself, and these places often have great prices.
Ripen on counter, then refrigerate. These fruits should be ripened on the counter prior to refrigerating: kiwifruit, nectarines, peaches, plums, pears.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., March 16, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bourbon Brothers Holding Corporation (OTCQB:RIBS) announced that in an effort to fuel the Company's growth plan and further focus the brand, the Company has changed its name to Southern Concepts Restaurant Group, Inc. ("SCRG" or the "Company").
During 2014, the Company increased sales by 145 percent and ended 2014 with revenues of approximately $5,144,500 versus $2,099,000 in 2013. The Company reported total assets of $4,473,600 with $1,182,100 of the current assets being cash or cash equivalents. Moreover, the Company ended 2014 with net assets of approximat...
"I couldn't be more excited about the growth opportunities for Southern Concepts," said Mitchell Roth, SCRG President. "We are anticipating a number of restaurant openings this year and the launch of a new fast casual concept."
Southern Concepts Restaurant Group will be opening its second Southern Hospitality Restaurant and Bar in Lone Tree, Colo. in April, and its growth will not stop there. Before the end of 2015, Roth expects the Company to open at least two more Southern Hospitality fast casual locations in the Denver and Colorado Springs...
"Fast casual has been the fastest growing segment in the restaurant industry for five consecutive years, and outpaced traditional QSR and casual dining five to one during 2013," said Roth. "This concept is in line with the tremendous resurgence of barbeque, leaving us with an opportunity to gain immediate market share....
Southern Concepts Restaurant Group is expecting very strong average unit volumes in its fast casual concept. "Management is projecting average unit volume sales of $1.8 million in its fast casual stores with more than 20 percent in store-level net income," said Roth.
In addition to the Company's name change and projected growth, the SCRG Board of Directors gained two new members, Mr. Mitchell Roth and Ms. Jane Norton.
Mr. Roth joined the Company in 2013 and has been the driving force in developing the fast casual iteration of Southern Hospitality, including crafting the Master Licensing Agreement through which the Company will operate its fast casual units. Mr. Roth is primarily responsible for corporate development, including capit...
Ms. Norton is the founder and General Manager of Norton & Associates LLC consulting firm, established in 2012, to advise clients in areas such as government/public policy, non-profits, education, aerospace, emergency preparedness, healthcare, and the military. She served in the administrations of Presidents Reagan and ...
For more information about Southern Concepts Restaurant Group visit www.southernconcepts.com.
The information in this news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including statements regarding the c...

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