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Neeson, described as a former political prisoner, got out of jail in 1987 after serving 11 and a half years for a murder committed when he was aged 16.
No further details of the killing four decades ago were disclosed in court.
Following his release he secured groundskeeper work with a conservation charity in the Poleglass area.
But due to a technical change in the body’s contractual relationship with the civil service he had to undergo security vetting.
Checks carried out by Access NI resulted in the Department of Finance and Personnel deciding last December that he is unsuitable to continue in the role.
Neeson went to Sinn Fein to seek their help in lobbying on his behalf.
But after that proved unsuccessful he issued proceedings against the Department.
In court the judge rejected claims that his case should be dismissed due to the delay in mounting a legal challenge.
Barrister Stephen Toal, representing Neeson, stressed that his client had first tried to secure a resolution through his political representatives.
Mr Toal argued that it would have been premature to seek a judicial review while those attempts were continuing.
He added that it may have resulted in a breakdown of constructive dialogue between Sinn Fein and DUP representatives.
Ultimately, however, the former prisoner had to seek a legal remedy.
It was contended that there is no rational connection between the evidence and the decision that he is unsuitable for employment in the post.
Mr Toal emphasised that Neeson has performed the role for 18 years without incident.
He claimed the department acted unreasonably and disproportionately in a move that breached his client’s legitimate expectations.
Mr Justice Colton granted leave to apply for a judicial review on the basis that an arguable case has been established.
Neeson’s challenge will now proceed to a full hearing, expected to get under way in January.
Among the most significant developments in VR this year have been the rate of change and improvement in mobile VR. Until recently, compelling VR experiences required a high-powered PC, considerable technical know-how, and were enjoyed only by enthusiasts and early adopters. Now there are mobile solutions that deliver a comparable level of quality, but are much easier to use and more affordable. This should make VR attractive and accessible to a much broader range of consumers. With the advent of VR-ready mobile devices, they are ready to join the next step in social communication.
One of the surprising things we found out in 2015 was how long people are willing to spend in VR. The typical VR session used to clock in at about two to five minutes. But in social VR, when people are engaged, especially with others, in interesting activities, they will spend much longer. For example, in AltspaceVR, users spend several hours playing Dungeons & Dragons, or get together to watch full-length movies. This opens the possibilities for larger and more sophisticated kinds of VR content and applications.
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Jordan Howard did not fly with the Bears and will not play in Saturday night’s preseason game after he suffered a corneal abrasion during Friday morning’s walk-through at Halas Hall.
The injury to the Pro Bowl running back, who had three rushes for four yards in the preseason opener, is considered minor.
Howard’s presumptive No. 2 running back, Jeremy Langford, won’t play either as he recovers from an ankle sprain, leaving rookie Tarik Cohen and Ka’Deem Carey, who combined to gain 70 yards on 11 carries in the opener, to carry most of the load against the Cardinals.
Howard is one of 11 players who didn’t make the trip. The rest are unsurprising: guard Kyle Long, who is recovering from ankle surgery and has not practiced since Monday, might not play until Week 1. The same can be said for inside linebacker Danny Trevathan, coming back from patellar tendon surgery.
Others who didn’t travel: cornerback Bryce Callahan (ankle sprain); linebackers Jonathan Anderson (high ankle sprain) and Alex Scearse; receivers Josh Bellamy (ankle) and Markus Wheaton (broken finger); and defensive linemen Mitch Unrein (concussion) and Kapron Lewis-Moore.
LONDON – British officials were investigating a cyberattack Saturday on the country's Parliament after discovering "unauthorized attempts to access parliamentary user accounts."
A spokeswoman for the House of Commons said the incident affected lawmakers and other parliamentary staff's ability to log on its system and use their emails. It was not immediately clear how many people were affected or what the extent of the damage was.
A statement said that remote email access for members has been disabled in order to protect the network.
"We have systems in place to protect member and staff accounts and are taking the necessary steps to protect our systems," it said.
Liberal Democrat Chris Rennard said on Twitter that urgent messages should be sent by text message because parliamentary emails may not work remotely.
The National Cyber Security Center and the National Crime Agency are looking into the incident.
City councillors endorsed a new target for affordable housing Monday, hoping to reset expectations before the next project gets pitched in the suburbs.
The new target is 16 per cent of residences in every neighbourhood will be affordable housing.
But city officials will also look at the needs in the community, plus the availability of transit and other amenities when they approve city funding for projects.
They’re also lobbying for federal and provincial funding to get these units built, and preparing to make surplus city land available in the suburbs to accommodate it. Plus, they’re working with the province to change the policies for new neighbourhoods to ensure no community expects it can remain medium- to high-income only.
Out of more than 200 neighbourhoods in Edmonton, roughly one dozen currently have 16 per cent or more subsidized units.
More than half of Edmonton neighbourhoods have no affordable housing at all.
Several people from the inner city neighbourhoods where units are now concentrated came to council’s executive committee meeting Monday to urge a lower cap, such as the 10 per cent pitched last year. They argued that would push new affordable housing into other neighbourhoods sooner.
If city council approves the target next Tuesday, it will take effect on Jan. 1. The target will be reviewed every five years to see if it still addresses the need in the community.
There are many working poor in Edmonton right now spending between 75 per cent and all of their income on rent, working two or three jobs and spending long hours away from their families, said Yvonne Chiu with the Multicultural Health Brokers.
It can lead to “escalating violence and family breakdown,” said Menghisteab Menghitu, who works with the Eritrean community.
Dell Inc. said Thursday that earnings fell slightly in preliminary first-quarter results, and the computer maker said it would lay off more than 8,000 employees over the next year as part of an ongoing restructuring.
Dell said it earned $759 million, or 34 cents per share, in the three months ended May 4. That compared with $762 million, or 33 cents per share, in the year-ago period.
First-quarter sales rose nearly 1 percent from the year ago period to $14.6 billion.
Five companies - AT&T, Level 3 Communications, Qwest Communications, Sprint Nextel and Verizon - on Thursday were awarded a federal telecommunications contract worth up to $20 billion over 10 years.
The winners of the so-called Networx Enterprise contract must now compete with each other to win business from agencies looking to improve their voice, data and other telecom services.
It's the second telecom contract awarded by the General Services Administration in about two months.
In late March, Qwest Communications International Inc., AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. were winners of the much larger Networx Universal contract, the government's largest telecom contract ever awarded.
That deal is potentially worth up to $48 billion over a decade.
For Sprint - the only bidder shut out from the Universal contract - getting on the Enterprise contract was critical. The company had been providing telecom services to federal agencies for the last 18 years.
Bestselling author, restaurateur and Food Network celebrity Paula Deen will have a book signing from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today in the pre-security area at Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport.
The book signing will be signature only, with an in-store book purchase required.
Bingo, 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays. Information: 714-0727.
Live music by Ellsworth & Company first and third Fridays. Swing dance with DJ Savoy South the second and fourth Fridays. Lessons are at 7 p.m., and dancing is 8-11 p.m. Cost is $8. Open to the public. BYOB. Proceeds will benefit repairs of the clubhouse, built in 1921. Information: 773-0177 or www.bradentonwomansclub.com.
The downtown Bradenton Farmers Market is 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays, featuring fresh food vendors, produce, plants and flowers, entertainment and prepared foods. Information: 544-8077.
Antique market 8 a.m.-2 p.m., every second Sunday. Information: Braden River Antiques, 750-0707.
Sunday jam sessions with live music, dancing, 2-5 p.m, $4 members/$5 nonmembers. Lunch 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday-Friday; dinner 4:30-7:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entertainment 6:30-9:30 p.m. Friday. Big screen football Sundays. Information: 792-8731.
Dancing 2-5 p.m. Sundays featuring Jack and the Pack, Big Band music. Information: 792-1511.
Steel tip darts 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Bingo, 4 p.m. Thursdays. Soft-tip darts 8 p.m. Thursdays. Feather your nest 1-3 p.m. Saturdays. Information: 722-8689.
Italian dinner and meeting at 5 p.m. the second Tuesday of the month. Cost: $10, includes salad, main course, dessert and coffee. All-you-can-eat pasta and meatball dinner, 4:30-7 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday; $6. Information: 321-1792.
U.S. Amateur Ballroom Dancers Association White Sands chapter will host dances every Tuesday at Ballroom of Sarasota. Lessons, 7 p.m.; dancing, 8-10 p.m. Singles and couples are welcome. Admission: first time free; $8 guests, $6 members. Information: 927-6947 or 925-2411.
Friday Night Dance Party, 8-11 p.m. with live bands and intermission DJ; $10 BYOB. Early-bird admission is $8 before 8 p.m.
Information: (941) 726-0569. A singles-only dance with a live band, 8-11 p.m., every Saturday. Admission: $7 members, $10 nonmembers. Information: 371-2245 or ascdancesarasota.blog.com.
Fresh produce, plants, coffee, crafts, food and more are available 7 a.m.-noon Saturdays. Information: 951-2656.
Open air market is 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays featuring fresh produce, crafts, plants, food and more. Information: 358-7860.
Cisco, IBM, Symantec and McAfee lead the cybersecurity vendors in mind share, but the race has just begun.
1. Large enterprises are actively consolidating the number of vendors they do business with. This puts some of the point tools vendors at risk as CISOs sign up for enterprise licensing agreements and try to maximize ROI by using more tools from a few select vendors.
2. Enterprises are seeking to integrate point tools into a cohesive technology architecture. Like ESG’s security operations and analytics platform architecture (SOAPA) concept, large organizations are actively integrating tools to bolster technology interoperability, improve security efficacy, and streamline security operations.
3. All organizations need help. Yes, companies are still buying new security tools, but these new products are often accompanied by professional services. Additionally, many CISOs are looking at cybersecurity through a portfolio management lens and figuring out which areas to outsource to MSSPs and SaaS providers.
Given these demand-side behaviors, cybersecurity vendors are responding as quickly as possible by acquiring point tools players, integrating their technology wares into a SOAPA-like architecture, complementing products with managed services options, hiring professional services personnel, and creating partner ecosystems to attract others infosec technology, services and channel partners into their orbit.
56% chose Cisco. That's not surprising, since many security pros came from the networking space and have a long history with Cisco. That said, Cisco has executed well beyond its networking core through acquisitions (Lancope, OpenDNS, Sourcefire, etc.), product integration, and an aggressive push into professional and managed services. Cisco’s biggest challenge? Convince the world it offers more than just firewalls and IDS/IPS so it can build long-term strategic relationships at the CISO and business level.
44% chose IBM. Armonk became a player when it purchased Q1 Lab in 2011, established QRadar as its technology hub, and surrounded its SIEM with a portfolio of spokes (AppExchange, Resilient, Watson, etc.). IBM also has a deep bench of global cybersecurity services professionals to supplement its technologies in a plethora of high skills areas.
And while IBM continues to overdo its Watson for cybersecurity (and everything else) play, cognitive computing could have a profound impact of cybersecurity in the future. Despite some successes, many cybersecurity pros still view IBM as an outsider with a legacy focus on things such as mainframe encryption and RACF. To break out, IBM needs to create more affinity with the infosec diaspora.
36% chose Symantec. Old yellow has many leading products, including antivirus, network proxy (through Blue Coat), DLP, web security, email security, MSSP, etc. So, what’s the problem? Cybersecurity pros are familiar with Symantec’s logo and products but not its strategy, research, or integration initiative. Oh, and Symantec didn’t do itself any favors by churning through CEOs over the past few years and losing its market focus.
The combined Blue Coat/Symantec is much stronger now and has made great progress with product integration, architecture and deep machine learning research. For the next year or so, Symantec should concentrate on educating the market on its plans and progress.
34% chose McAfee. McAfee’s freedom from Intel comes with some strong assets. The company is getting good reviews on its new next-generation antivirus product, retains its sticky ePO base and remains a surprising leader in network IDS/IPS. Of the vendors mentioned in this blog post, McAfee has the best SOAPA story, anchored by its Open Data Exchange Layer (OpenDXL) — a middleware bridge creating a truly distributed software architecture.
McAfee’s biggest obstacle is market momentum, as it was nearly invisible to the cybersecurity community during the Intel years. Like Symantec, it needs to push a clear story through the cacophony of market noise.
While these vendors have the highest enterprise-class cybersecurity vendor mindshare, it’s important to remember that the cybersecurity market remains wide open with something like 1,200 vendors competing for around $90 billion in revenue. Others not mentioned here (Check Point, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Trend Micro, etc.) could easily join this list.
What will it take for one of these (or other) vendors to break from the pack and become a $5 billion enterprise-class cybersecurity leader by 2020? I’ll be blogging about this soon.
Economy, the C. V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a distinguished visiting fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, kicked off the China Program’s 2019 winter colloquia with a discussion of the transformations underway in China today and the future of U.S.-China relations.
Speaking to a packed audience, Economy described how, in the process of pursuing his vision of the rejuvenation of the Chinese dream, Xi Jinping has upended much of Deng Xiaoping’s "second revolution" and has put in motion four significant strategic shifts in Chinese domestic and foreign policy.
The first shift is a move away from Deng’s consensus- and collective-based decision-making process back toward a more single-man, authoritarian role. The second is a reassertion of the Chinese Communist Party more deeply into the everyday political and economic lives of the Chinese people. The third is a creation of a virtual wall of restrictions and regulations that allows Xi and the rest of the Chinese leadership to control more closely what comes into the country and what goes out. The fourth shift, the most visible one to people outside China, is the move from Deng’s low-profile foreign policy to a far more ambitious foreign policy.
This foreign policy shift, said Economy, is especially noteworthy in three areas: first, in Xi’s move from staking claims around Chinese sovereignty to realizing them; second, in his Belt and Road Initiative; and third, in his effort to reform institutions of global governance so that they reflect Chinese values and norms.
How should the United States address these changes in China’s domestic and foreign policy? Economy listed four ways of response: first, cooperation, namely, collaborating with China on global problems such as those concerning public health or the environment; second, coordination with U.S. allies; third, countering China by pushing back on, for example, its South China Sea claims and incidents of intellectual property infringement; and finally, competing with China by investing domestically in areas including education and research and technological development.
Listen to Economy’s discussion. A transcript is also available below.
Book Club: great conversation, events and prizes for book-lovers of all ages.
If you're into books, reading and writing then why not join the 891 Book Club, which meets 2.30pm on the first Friday of the month.
This year Adelaide Festival Writers week Director Laura Kroetsch will be joined by SA Writers Centre Director Sarah Tooth in the highly anticipated 891 Book Club for 2017. Held on the first Friday of every month from 2.30pm with Sonya Feldhoff in 891 Afternoons.
If you're part of another Book Club as well, consider following our Facebook page and the 891 Book list through 2017. With Laura and Sarah involved, you're getting choices from the minds at the forefront of South Australia's literary world and can hear their comments each month to spark off your own Club's discussions.
Each month, the 891 Book Club will discuss two books. One recently released title selected by Laura; the other is "Arvo's Choice", often tied to an anniversary, event, or just an excuse to revisit an old favourite. We'll define, dissect, disagree, recommend, examine and above all else, enjoy a conversation about books, writing and authors that all of Adelaide can be a part of.
If you can't tune in to the segment live on the radio, come back to this website where you can access the audio of each 891 Book Club segment, plus other author interviews featured across the station.
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Summit County businesses in the county's nine townships will no longer be able to sell tobacco products to anyone under 21.
Summit County Council on Monday voted 8-3 to ban businesses from selling cigarettes, tobacco products and other tobacco product paraphernalia to anyone younger than 21 years old in Bath, Boston, Copley, Coventry, Northfield Center, Richfield, Sagamore Hills, Springfield and Twinsburg townships.
The ban includes electronic smoking devices like e-cigarettes and vape pens — including Juuls, which are popular with teens and young adults. A Juul Labs spokesperson said the company supports raising the purchasing age from 18 to 21 and preventing youth access to Juul products.
Summit County is the latest to pass the Tobacco 21 measure. Akron, Green, Twinsburg city, Mogadore, Norton and Richfield village have approved similar measures. Cuyahoga Falls, Stow, Hudson and Barberton have rejected it, while Tallmadge and Lakemore are considering it.
In municipalities that haven’t enacted Tobacco 21 legislation, it's legal for people 18 and older to buy tobacco products.
Supporters say the ordinance, an initiative from Summit County Public Health, would push the products outside the social circle of younger students, as they're less likely to know someone over 21 than someone over 18. And school officials have said the use of electronic smoking devices in schools is a serious issue.
Supporters of the Summit County ordinance included the Township Association of Summit County, several school districts and several medical organizations, including Akron Children’s Hospital and Summa Health.
But opponents say the measure takes away rights from legal adults who can vote and serve in the military or on a jury.
“They should be allowed to use tobacco products if they want to. I'm not in favor of taking people's rights away unless there's a real good reason,” said District 2 council member John Schmidt, who voted against the ban, along with District 1 council member Ron Koehler and District 3 council member Gloria Rodgers.