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Saturday, March 31, 2012
The Best Bath Taps and Bath Shower Mixer | The Brigante Brand ...
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In recent times, during the execution of residences/apartments etc., clients are requesting architects to specifically emphasize on the bathroom and its fittings, irrespective of luxury. It is no longer regarded just as a functional room but also as a room of indulgence and leisure. Bath taps are therefore becoming the most sought after bathroom fittings to accentuate the bathroom?s extravagance.
A variety of bathroom fittings, particularly bath taps, of different types are selected to generate an atmosphere of splendor and delight. It is, however, important to carefully select the bath taps to blend with the interiors of the bathroom.
There are numerous varieties of available, the most prominent ones being, bath mixer taps, monobloc taps, sink taps, pillar taps, basin taps, single lever taps and bib taps. A popular choice of materials used for bath taps are polished chrome, porcelain, brass, steel, nickel and ceramic.
Specification of requirements is important in order to select a MIXER among such a huge variety.
Bath shower mixer, which is used for basins as well as baths, is used where it is required to combine hot and cold supply of water into a single, indivisible pipe spout.
These mixers are generally available in traditional design and enhance any bathroom with their versatility.
Using bath shower mixer is the most effortless way of accommodating a shower as it requires minimal plumbing work. However, their fixtures must be planned well in advance for it to blend with the interiors and other features of the respective bathrooms. As far as aesthetics is concerned, these mixers are available in many different styles and can be chosen in accordance with an individual?s taste and style.
They are usually finished in antique gold, nickel, diamond antique gold and chrome, rusted, lacquered, antique, polished and natural finishes.
The materials generally used are stainless steel, copper, wrought iron, aluminum, brass and ceramic.
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FBI Official on Cyber War: "We're not winning."
How to improve cyber-security in the US.....
1. Eliminate the contractors like Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman. They are the biggest problem and they are the ones sucking up huge amounts of money to not do their work and they refuse to adhere to the protocols and guidelines they helped create. Every single investigation over the past decade has concluded this and nothing has ever been done about it. Where I live, just outside of DC, we've had over 1 billion dollars in contractor fraud relating to the cyber infrastructure, specifically networking and security management over the last year alone.
2. Consolidate the infrastructure. There is too much spread out all over the place under the auspices of too many different agencies and groups. Stuff needs to be locked down and there is no reason at all that it can't be done all in one place. Hundreds of millions of dollars has been wasted on networked infrastructure and data centers for individual agencies, often at significant overpaid expense such as what DHS did to the tune of many wasted millions per year on an overpriced agreement with another agency that owned the space.
3. Remove the civilian Internet from the equation. You don't stick your weenie in a disease infested orifice and you don't keep your cash in a drawer by the front door of your home. The government can easily make their own private secure networks for specific uses, for very little money, yet they insist on continuing to use the Internet as the core of their whole infrastructure. We know for a fact that the very halls of power in DC are being used to run torrents, download child pornography, and a host of other illegal activities that compromise the security of government networks but nothing is ever done about it at the expense of taxpayers.
4. Invest in some REAL training for Americans and hire them. Iran, that most huggable of huggable nations, has a state of the art Cisco network engineering training program that makes what we have here look like a Special Education program for brain damaged toddlers. Many other ME and Asian countries have similar operations and send their trainees over here to get those jobs that require a security clearance with these SMB contractors that get the government jobs. They even sell fake Cisco hardware to the government through the acquisition process to go along with their workers.
5. Kill the aging hardware and software. XP is still widely in use as are older systems that have a high cost to maintain and those systems are not at all up to date with system patches or security fixes, making it easy to compromise things.
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Analysis: Springtime in Cuba?
HAVANA (Reuters) - This week's three-day visit to Cuba by Pope Benedict marked another milestone in the Roman Catholic Church's cautious efforts to expand its role in the communist-run island.
Havana's Cardinal Jaime Ortega called it a "Springtime of faith."
While it remains unclear if or how the visit will change anything in Cuba, most analysts agree any notion of a ?Cuban spring' in terms of political change is still a long way off.
Even so, the visit seems to have ensured a growing role for the Church in Cuban society and politics, a potentially significant shift in the balance of forces in a country where religious faith was once scorned.
"The Catholic Church in Cuba has taken on a larger role. For the first time it is in a direct dialogue with the government, direct dialogue having to do with domestic policies," said Philip Peters, a Cuba expert and vice president at the Lexington Institute, a Virginia-based think tank who attended Wednesday's Havana Mass. "The Church is pushing more and deeper economic reforms. The Church is also pushing for political openings."
The Church hopes primarily that the papal visit will help spark a spiritual revival in Cuba, where religious faith was stigmatized for decades after the 1959 revolution.
Despite that, a much diminished Church survived and remains the largest and most socially influential institution outside of the government, a fact that Cuban leaders now seem more willing than ever to recognize - and perhaps reward.
Pope Benedict used the trip to deliver a shopping list of requests in talks with Raul Castro on Tuesday, including official recognition of Good Friday - barely a week away - as a national holiday, as well as pressing for greater access to the media and the right to open religious schools.
In fact, the Church has in recent years taken some baby steps in the field of education by offering after-school programs at a handful of churches, as well as university classes offered by a Spanish Catholic order, the Escalapios.
Late last year the government even allowed the Church to open a part-time Master's in Business Administration program at a Havana seminary with the help of Catholic University professors from Spain.
START OF THAW
Benedict's visit came 14 years after Pope John Paul's groundbreaking trip in 1998, which many Cubans say was the beginning of the thaw in church-state relations.
While Fidel Castro received the pope warmly in 1998, his brother and current president, Raul Castro, was even more attentive on this latest papal visit, attending the two Masses celebrated by Benedict, seated in the front row.
Critics, especially the hard-line Cuban-American exiles in Miami, as well as some human rights activists in Cuba, consider the transformation in church-state relations an unholy marriage of convenience, opening the Church up to accusations of not doing enough to defend the human rights of the island's political dissidents, who the Cuban government considers as mercenaries of the United States.
The Church argues that its engagement with the government is a necessary acceptance of Cuba's political reality. "The church is not going to dismiss a political system outright. The church will always work within the constraints of a system to find ways to improve human life and dignity," said Father Juan Molina, director for Latin America affairs at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Nor has the Church given up on a democratic opening.
"While improved relations are in the interest of both the Catholic Church and the Cuban government, it is also clear that the Church would like to see political reform on the island," said Geoff Thale, program director for the Washington Office on Latin America, a liberal think tank in the U.S. capital.
"While we may not see immediate actions on human rights in Cuba," as a result of the pope's visit, Thale said it had "strengthened the Catholic Church's ability to open space for dialogue and debate ... essential to building a climate that favors human rights."
In his public addresses in Cuba, the pope made repeated references to the need for "authentic freedoms" essential to the building of a "renewed and open society."
AREAS OF AGREEMENT
Raul Castro seemed to have no problem with that, noting in his final remarks before the pope departed that there were many areas where the Cuban government coincided with the views expressed by the pope, "though it's natural that we don't think the same way on every issue."
For Cuba, the pope's visit offers much-need legitimacy in its quest for international acceptance, all the more so given the health of their main political and commercial ally, Hugo Chavez, president of oil-rich Venezuela, who is battling cancer and faces a tough re-election in October.
One key area where the Church and the Cuban government share common ground is over the island's need for economic changes to raise living standards.
Since taking over the reins from his ailing brother nearly six years ago, Raul Castro has introduced tentative but ever-more-ambitious economic reforms to overhaul Cuba's rickety Soviet-style economy, including slashing a million government jobs and freeing up some business sectors to small-scale private enterprise.
Recognizing that these reforms are a difficult adjustment for Cuba after decades of tight economic and social control, Benedict used his visit to offer the Church's "constructive" support "in a spirit of dialogue to avoid traumas."
The pope's message of renewal and reconciliation resonates with Cubans looking for change.
"The country needs economic reforms and physical reconstruction, but there's also a huge job of moral reconstruction. Christianity can help us," said Oscar Espinosa Chepe, a moderate voice within the island's dissident movement jailed for "crimes against the state" in 2003 before being freed in 18 months on medical grounds.
Some Cubans remain skeptical about the Church's role.
"The Church does not need greater weight in society. I think society as it is works well. We have healthcare and education," said retired teacher Esperanza Gonzalez, 66, who attended the pope's Havana Mass.
"We are ready for reconciliation, but I don't think the exiles in Miami want that," she added.
But the pope's message is earning currency among Cuban-American exiles who, while wishing for a faster pace of change, also recognize the pitfalls.
"You don't change from a totalitarian society to an open society without a lot of pain, without a lot of sacrifices," said Carlos Saladrigas, a Cuban-American businessman from Miami who also traveled to Cuba to attend the pope's masses.
"What the church is advising us is that we need to do what we can to facilitate making change easier for all Cubans."
In the words of the Archbishop of Miami, Thomas Wenski, who led a group of several hundred Cuban-American on a special papal pilgrimage to Cuba this week: "The interests of the Holy Father and the church here in Cuba is that whatever transition comes, that it be a soft landing."
(Additional reporting by Simon Gardner in Havana and Kevin Gray in Miami; Editing by Philip Barbara)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-springtime-cuba-192200748.html
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