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3 gladiators in nervous race to succeed Akufo-Addo
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Vice President Dr. Mahamamud Bawumia and Trade Minister. Alan K. Kyeremanteng
Signs that the 2023 flagbearer election of the New Patriotic Party would not be an easy contest emerged on social media when supporters 0of three strong contenders kicked off their campaigns.
On the surface, the contest seems to be actually between a veteran flagbearer aspirant of New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Kwadwo Alan Kyeremanteng, and Alhaji Dr. Mahamud Bawumia, the longest running mate of the elephant fraternity.
But Esikado-Ketan Legislator, Joe Ghartey, who under who's supervision newly constructed railways around Achimota was washed away by flood insist he possess the experience and exposure to lead the party as its standard-bearer.
Considered as the front row candidates, based on their platforms, name and face recognition as well as clout in NPP politics, the three gladiators come with varying areas of strengths and weaknesses.
However, the fact that there would be no incumbent on the ballot when flagbearership election holds shows that the poll could go either way and subject to the interplay of political and economic considerations, one of the three standard bearer's hopefuls could end up as the successor of Mr. William Nana Akufo-Addo.
Alan Kwadwo Kyeremanteng
2023 would be Alan K's fifth try, having contested previously with Nana Akufo-Addo and 16 others in 2007 and with two others in 2015. He came very close to the coveted office fourteen years ago in a race that divided the New Patriotic Party along two broad internal factions.
He seems to be burdened with low patronage and depleting foot soldiers. His campaign may lack funding and backers. Alan makes up in his charisma and easygoing nature. Despite what many have described as 'use and dumped' politics, many still hold the view that he will be a better choice over his contenders.
Alan's campaign may take its roots from people of Ashanti Region as his backbone, provided that the very same support base that gave him momentum in 2015 election are still intact.
I am not in a better position to extol his capacity, vision and experience. I shall however amplify his plans for the Country when he makes same available.
Alan Kyeremanteng served under President John Agyekum Kufour as Minister for Special Initiat0ives, Minister for Trade and Industry.
He is amongst the list of immediate past ministers waiting and lobbying for re-nomination as ministers.
Alhaji Dr. Mahammud Bawumia
The nomination of Dr. Mahammud Bawumia as running mate of the NPP was met with a lot of intrigues, but Candidate Akufo-Addo insisted on his choice. It was believed that the post primary recriminations in the party, although minimal, might hurt the fortunes of the standard bearer. But it was explained that Dr. Bawumia having been around the corridors of power as deputy Governor of Bank of Ghana, in addition to his wide-ranging experience, would put him in good stead to deliver the goods.
His emergence, as one of three frontrunners to lead the NPP, was the product of massive clamour by party faithful, which saw in him the qualities of a potential Flagbearer against the backdrop of general expectations and reservations by skeptics, who believe he is another clone of the Akyem Mafias.
Dr. Bawumia's move from public sector to governance and politics, came about casually. Bawumia's strengths will revolve around the possibility of continuity of the Akufo-Addo agenda. For instance, having served as Vice President for how many years exudes needed confidence and knowledge to meet the environmental sustainability challenges of Ghana, especially the issue of development planning.
He must however be weary of the forces that propelled his emergence. They could turn around to be source of his existential challenge at thick of affairs.
He is being accused of being the Akyem's new political dummy. It is therefore in striking a balance between servicing the political structure of the godfather and delivering on his prodigious promises that he would receive Ashantis baptism. And how he meets that challenge would determine the durability of his mandate.
Despite his closeness to most members of the well-knit Akyem Mafia political structure, Bawumia does not seem to be politically savvy to the extent of infusing his own imprint in the running of the administration he hopes to form if elected next two years.
A lot of people, especially the National Democratic Congress would be interested in weighing Alan's candidacy against the backcloth of Bawumia's broadsides within the period preceding the intriguing NPP primary.
Joe Ghartey
He contested for the Flagbearership election in 2015, and came 4th but later withdrew his candidature.
Joe Ghartey, is a Member of Parliament representing the people of Esikado-Ketan Constituency in the Western Region of the Republic.
He served the nation as a Deputy Attorney General, Second Deputy Speaker, and until recently, Railways Minister.
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Nothing Free about Freedom of Information
From MSNBC:
Sarah Palin's office has discovered a renewable resource to bring millions of dollars into Alaska's economy: the governor's e-mails.
The office of the Republican vice-presidential nominee has quoted prices as high as $15 million for copies of state e-mails requested by news organizations and citizens. No matter what the price, most of the e-mails of Palin, her senior staff and other state employees won't be made public until at least several weeks after the Nov. 4 presidential election, her office told msnbc.com on Thursday.
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When the Associated Press asked for all state e-mails sent to the governor's husband, Todd Palin, her office said it would take up to six hours of a programmer's time to assemble the e-mail of just a single state employee, then another two hours for "security" checks, and finally five hours to search the e-mail for whatever word or topic the requestor is seeking. At $73.87 an hour, that's $960.31 for a single e-mail account. And there are 16,000 full-time state employees. The cost quoted to the AP: $15,364,960.
The AP requested e-mails between Alaska state employees and the Captain Underpants campaign and between state employees and the National Park Service. The price for them would be an additional $30 million, bringing the total to $45 million. 😯
And that's not including the copying costs. Although the e-mails are stored electronically in Microsoft Outlook and on backup servers, and although a blank CD-ROM costs only 41 cents at Capital Office Supply in Juneau, the governor's office says it can provide copies only on paper.
Why? Because lawyers need printouts so they can black out, or "redact," private or exempted information. That task is more difficult because Palin and her senior staff have used government e-mail accounts for some personal correspondence, and personal e-mail accounts for much of their government correspondence.
Palin took office in December 2006, after seeking office on a platform of clean and transparent government.
The price quotes reveal that Palin's office has repeatedly tried to charge different news organizations the cost to reconstruct the same e-mail accounts of the governor, her senior staff and other employees. Each time an e-mail is requested, the office quotes the same cost of $960.31 for 13 hours to recover and search each employee's e-mails.
NBC's price quote for e-mails sent to Todd Palin: $15 million.
Palin's office hasn't always interpreted state law in favor of public access. The Alaska law on public records does not require it to charge any fee for public records, although a fee is allowed if the processing would take five hours or more. The state law says all fees may be waived if the information is used for a public purpose, such as journalism or academic research.
Even before interest in Palin went national, large and small news organizations in Alaska have been dissuaded from seeking public records from her administration, because of the cost. Voice of the Times, a conservative online news site, was quoted a price of $1,250 in May to retrieve e-mails from the accounts of two top aides to the governor, Ivy Frye and Frank Bailey.
A weekly paper, the Anchorage Press, was told it would have to pay $6,500 for e-mails of Palin and three aides relating to the lieutenant governor.
[Kevin Brooks, deputy commissioner of the state Department of Administration] said he was also rethinking that rate of $73.87 an hour. That cost is not the actual salary of any particular employee. At that rate, an employee would be making about $144,000 a year. Instead, the state has been charging the public and news organizations the same rate that the state Enterprise Technology Services group charges other state departments, as a cost-shifting mechanism on state budget forms.
For comparison's sake, Princess Sarah earns $125,000 a year as governor, not counting what she charges to stay home.
Alaska law does allow the state to charge for an employee's time for recovery of records. Brooks said he thought the actual cost would be between $50 and $60 an hour, including benefits and a share of the department's overhead costs.
As for the estimate of up to five hours to search e-mail for a single word or phrase, Brooks said he was just passing along the estimate from the technical staff.
The courts have given the Palin administration a nudge toward open records. A state judge ruled this week that the state must retrieve public e-mails sent between state accounts and the private e-mail accounts used by the governor and other state employees.
Having a private e-mail account, by itself, is not unusual or unethical, because state employees are forbidden to carry out political activities on government accounts. That's the reason given for Palin's habit of punching away on two separate Blackberry devices. But a citizen request earlier this year yielded hundreds of heavily redacted e-mails from the governor's office, which suggested that Palin and her staff had chosen to move most of their government conversations off the radar, to their Yahoo accounts.
Brooks said the state doesn't know yet how much e-mail it can recover from Yahoo, in cases where one state employee on a personal account e-mailed another on a personal account.
But the state probably can recover e-mails sent between government and personal e-mail accounts, he said. At least 18 public records requests have been filed for some or all of those e-mails.
Msnbc.com, for example, sought all e-mails sent or received by the governor and a dozen top aides between their state accounts and the personal e-mail accounts of themselves and others. The request included e-mail sent to Palin's husband, Todd, who has been active in policy and political discussions. The state quoted a price of $11,000 for all the e-mails sought by msnbc.com, which apparently won't be available until after the election.
To respond to those requests, the state is pulling together all the e-mails sent or received by 51 employees, including Palin, her senior staff, members of the Cabinet, the governor's assistants and schedulers, and key staff involved with the pipeline proposed to bring natural gas from Alaska's North Slope, the governor's office said Thursday. It sought the attorney general's approval to delay the search of the e-mails until mid-November. Later Thursday, the attorney general, Talis J. Colberg, sent the requestors a letter offering them a chance to be heard before he rules on that request.
News organizations have often claimed that the fees are used as a tollbooth to discourage requests, and that requests are delayed until interest in a public issue or candidate has long passed.
Federal law is more favorable. The federal Freedom of Information Act will change in January to penalize agencies for delay. After January, if an agency takes more than 20 days to respond to a request, it can't charge any duplication fees to individual requestors.
[Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, a nonprofit that helps journalists obtain public records said,] "Most judges are interpreting the laws that if you use your private e-mail for state business, that's a public record.
"Many public officials thought e-mail was more like a phone call, but it's more like a letter. You type those words, those are like documents. It doesn't matter if you used a piece of paper from your home or stationery from your office. The form doesn't matter."
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6 responses to "Nothing Free about Freedom of Information"
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I swear to gawd, she can out-Cheney Cheney.
nonnie9999
dcup,
dick cheney with pms. 😯
Looks like she also studied Rove and the shifting RNC accounts that miraculously got lost in violation of federal law.
she's way too lazy to study. i guess it just comes naturally to her.
jlms qkw
cheney and rove's love child?
aloha, nonnie!
aloha jenn!!
your comment looks very relaxed and tan!! 8)

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Sept. 3, 2015 – Barrett-Jackson, The World's Greatest Collector Car Auctions®, will light up the Las Vegas strip with custom, muscle and classic vehicles during its 8th Annual Las Vegas Auction from Sept. 24-26, 2015, at the world-renowned Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. Among the star attractions on this year's auction docket is a 1965 Chevrolet Nova SS "Dobbertin's" Custom, a 1974 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am 455 Super Duty and a 1979 Porsche 930 Turbo.
Highlighting the exciting docket of vehicles set to cross the block in Las Vegas is a 1979 Porsche 930 Turbo. One of only 806 sold in the U.S during the 1979 model year, this Metallic Silver over optional black sport interior has zero rust and only 38,465 miles. Guests will also get a chance to bid on 1959 Mercedes-Benz 190 SL. The classic luxury convertible is powered by a 1.9-liter inline 4-cylinder engine with upgraded Weber carburetors attached to a 4-speed manual transmission.
The last of the great American muscle cars will also be well represented with a 1974 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am 455 Super Duty. Only 212 of the 943 that were produced for the 1974 model year were equipped with the Pontiac 455 Super Duty engine and 4-speed transmission, and this is one of them. With less than 9,500 actual miles, this three-owner car features a copy of the Pontiac Division Build Sheet, original owner's manual, warranty booklet, copy of the Window Sticker from Pontiac Historical Services and a copy of the original title from the owner dated August 1974.
A 1965 Chevrolet Nova SS "Dobbertin's" Custom is, without question, one of the most significant and important custom cars ever built. To this day it remains a benchmark for innovation and excellence among hot rod enthusiasts. Builder Rick Dobbertin devoted more than 3,000 hours over the course of 3 years to create this legendary performance vehicle. This famous custom Nova features a BDS 6-71 supercharger, an 8-port nitrous oxide system, a 454cid LS7 V8, Holley 750cfm carbs, twin radiators, B&M Comp Turbo 400, DANA 60 rear end, JFZ rear brakes, full roll cage and a Deist Flame Out fire suppression system.
Kicking off the week will be the 8th Annual Las Vegas Cruise-In at Gaudin Ford (6625 Roy Horn Way – Las Vegas, NV 89118) on Saturday, Sept. 19, from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. For spectators, the event is free and open to the public. To participate, registration is $20 per vehicle with all proceeds benefiting Grant a Gift Autism Foundation. All registrants will be considered for one of three Barrett-Jackson Choice Awards, one People's Choice Award and one of three Gaudin Ford awards, including Best Resto Mod, Best Hot Rod and Best Street Rod. The first 100 registrants will also receive two free tickets to the 8th Annual Las Vegas Auction. To register a vehicle for the Cruise-In, click here.
In addition to the exciting action on the auction block, the 8th Annual Las Vegas Auction encompasses an eclectic collection of vendors and displays as well as the much-anticipated Ride 'N Drives and Thrill Rides presented by Ford, Chevrolet and Dodge. The Bidder Preview Day will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 23, from 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. and the automobilia auction will kick off Thursday, Friday and Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. A full event schedule, including Discovery and Velocity broadcast times, is available here. Barrett-Jackson will also be hosting a free livestream on www.barrett-jackson.com showcasing all the cars, all the time.
Consignments for the 8th Annual Las Vegas Auction are still being accepted. To consign a vehicle to the Las Vegas auction, click here. For more information on becoming a bidder, follow the link to www.barrett-jackson.com/bid.
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3 Ways Obamacare's Insurance Regulations Could Cost You
Drew Gonshorowski / Edmund Haislmaier / March 28, 2016
While sound health care policy would have focused on finding ways to make health insurance less expensive, the Affordable Care Act instead made it more expensive. (Photo: Robert Turtil/ZUMA Press/Newscom)
Drew Gonshorowski
Drew Gonshorowski focuses his research and writing on the nation's new health care law, including the repercussions for Medicare and Medicaid, as a policy analyst in the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation. He also studies economic mobility and the Austrian school of economics.
Edmund Haislmaier
Edmund F. Haislmaier is an expert in health care policy and markets at The Heritage Foundation -- and is frequently asked to assist federal and state lawmakers in designing and drafting health reform proposals and legislation.
The price tag for the Affordable Care Act includes not only the additional tax dollars spent on expanding Medicaid and providing new subsidies for exchange coverage, but also the costs imposed, in the form of higher health insurance premiums, by the law's new regulations.
While sound health care policy would have focused on finding ways to make health insurance less expensive, the Affordable Care Act instead made it more expensive.
In total, we found that in the median cost state, the three most costly regulations collectively increased premiums for younger adults by 44 percent, and for pre-retirement-age adults by 7 percent, relative to the previously available least expensive plans.
When we examined independent analyses of the effects of the law's new insurance regulations, we found that the three most costly ones—age rating restrictions, benefit mandates, and minimum actuarial value requirements—increased the cost of the previously available least expensive plans in a state by 41 percent to 51 percent for younger adults (the group most likely to be uninsured), and by 1 percent to 18 percent for pre-retirement-age adults.
Age Rating Restrictions
The Affordable Care Act limits age variation of premiums for adults to a ratio of three to one. That means an insurer is not permitted to charge a 64-year-old a rate that is more than three times the rate it charges a 21-year-old for the same plan.
Yet the natural age variation in medical costs among adults is about five to one. This means that the mandated "rate compression" forces insurers to artificially underprice coverage for older adults and artificially overprice coverage for younger adults.
Our review found that the three-to-one limitation increased premiums for younger adults by about one-third.
Benefit Mandates
The Affordable Care Act requires health plans to cover a set of "essential health benefits," as well as a list of "preventive services" for which plans are prohibited from charging enrollees any copayments.
Our review found that the law's new benefit mandates increased premiums by an average of 9 percent.
The majority of the average premium increase (about seven to eight of the nine percentage points) was attributable to the essential health benefits requirement, with the remainder (about one to two of the nine percentage points) attributable to the preventive services mandate.
Minimum Actuarial Value Requirement
Actuarial value is the share of the covered health expenses for a standard population that the plan will pay for, with the remaining share paid by enrollees through some combination of deductibles, copays, and coinsurance.
The Affordable Care Act's minimum actuarial value requirement effectively establishes a floor, set at 60 percent, for what plans must pay toward the cost of covered services.
Thus, the higher the actuarial value, the less patient cost-sharing the plan will have on average, but the higher the plan's claims costs and premiums will be.
Our review found that this increased the cost of the least expensive plans by an average of 8 percent. The independent analyses also found that the affected plans typically had actuarial values in the range of 50 percent to 60 percent.
That is noteworthy, as in response to complaints about the law's higher premiums, even some supporters have suggested amending it to create a new class of plans with a 50-percent actuarial value.


The Pen Pal letter from JWJ has a cypher hidden in the text. Using the code from the coded lock of 413, and also the letters from the bottom of the LFoA Letter, we find the message "I Killed Heather".
"he died ather I killed" - "Heather I Killed" - "I Killed Heather".
So far we assume JWJ has killed George Madson. We suspect he might have had something to do with Lloyd's death, or at the very least, Lloyd's death was suspicious. But he has now openly admitted to killing Heather, a woman.


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"802.1X: A stepping stone", Network World, October 4, 2004, Vol. 21, pp. 48-50.
"Security standards aside, lock down your boxes, boys!", Network World, October 4, 2004, Vol. 21, pp. 52.
"WPA - An accident waiting to happen", Network World, October 4, 2004, Vol. 21, pp. 50-52.
"802.11i: The next big thing", Network World, October 4, 2004, Vol. 21, pp. 52-56.
"How to do it: Securing your wireless LAN", Network World, October 4, 2004, Vol. 21, pp. 54.
"Tools, not standards, that help tie down wireless nets", Network World, October 4, 2004, Vol. 21, pp. 54-56.
"SIMplicity", Information Security, November 2004, pp. 34-44.
"SIMs in Action", Information Security, November 2004, pp. 42.
"Spam in the Wild, The Sequel ", Network World, December 20, 2004, Vol. 21.
"Top spam fighters offer feature diversity", Network World, December 20, 2004, Vol. 21, pp. 34-38.
"Adventures in spam testing", Network World, December 20, 2004, Vol. 21, pp. 36.
"Why our numbers work", Network World, December 20, 2004, Vol. 21, pp. 37.
"Where's SpamAssassin?", Network World, December 20, 2004, Vol. 21, pp. 38.
"Attacking spam at the network's edge", Network World , February 24, pp. 42-44.
"How Vulnerable?", Information Security, March 2003, pp. 32-44.
"VULNERABILITY ANALYZERS", Information Security, April 2003, pp. 90.
"Risk Analysis Needs a Reality Check", Network World , April 14, 2003, vol. 20, no. 15, pp. 33.
"Wireless Security and 802.1X Interoperability", Network World , April 28, 2003, pp. 63--66.
"The big-picture view on product testing", Network World, May 26, 2003, pp. 67.
"Turning the Network Inside Out", Information Security, June 2003, pp. 28-42.
"SSL VPNs won't save the world", Network World , June 9, 2003, pp. 43.
"What is an IPS, anyway?", Network World , August 4, 2003, pp. 41.
"Ear Buddies" , Wired Magazine, September 2003.
"We throw real traffic at 16 anti-spam products", Network World , September 15, 2003, pp. 39.
"Do these numbers work for you?", Network World , September 15, 2003, pp. 42.
"Spam and statistics", Network World , September 15, 2003, pp. 44.
"When will we ever learn?", Network World , September 29, 2003, pp. 43.
"IDS finds niche as analytical tools", Network World , October 13, 2003, Vol. 20, Number 41.
"What network IDSs can - and can't - do", Network World , October 13, 2003, Vol. 20, Number 41, pp. 48.
"False positives remain a major problem", Network World , October 13, 2003, Vol. 20, Number 41, pp. 50.
"Equipped to play", Network World , October 13, 2003, Vol. 20, Number 41, pp. 52.
"Diane Greene is my hero", Network World , October 27, 2003, pp. 58.
"Avocent hits home with new KVM", Network World , November 11, 2003, pp. 40.
"CCM Version 2 eases Nortel VPN management", Network World , November 3, 2003, pp. 48.
"NetScreen's Global Pro 3", Network World , January 7, 2002, vol. 19, no. 5, p. 12.
"Cisco VPN/Security Management Solution", Network World , February 4, 2002, vol. 19, no. 5, p. 22.
"Integrating the 'Net into net mgmt.", Network World , February 11, 2002, pp. 33.
"Everything you need to know about Intrusion Detection Systems", Network World , April 8, 2002, vol. 19, no. 14, p. 43.
"MPLS: more interesting than you think", Network World, May 2002, pp. 64.
"Access Management: Novell Secure Access", Information Security , May 2002, pp. 74--81.
"Wireless Lan Security", Network World , May 6, 2002, vol. 19, no. 18, pp. 61--68.
"NetScreen-5200 and NetScreen-208 Product Review," Network World , May 6, 2002, vol. 19, no. 18, pp. 81.
"Next terror target: The Internet?", Computer World, June 10, 2002.
"Crying wolf: False alarms hide attacks", Network World, June 24, 2002, pp.57-64.
"Securing the wireless LAN", Network World, August 12, 2002, pp.39.
"Debug It Yourself ", Wired Magazine, August 2002.
"ILabs team weighs wireless security options", Network World, September 9, 2002, pp. 51.
"Strategy: Wireless security with 802.1X", Network World, September 9, 2002, pp. 51.
"Browser-based wireless security", Network World, September 9, 2002, pp. 52.
"Wireless IPSec", Network World, September 9, 2002, pp. 52.
"WEP is bad, but better than nothing", Network World, September 9, 2002, pp. 52.
"MPLS and IP storage testing update", Network World, September 9, 2002, pp. 52.
"Why trade shows still matter", Network World, September 30, 2002, pp. 39.
"Maturity brings a new face to IPSec VPN products", Network World, October 28, 2002, Vol. 19, Number. 43.
"Rolling out remote access", Network World, October 28, 2002, Vol. 19, pp. 52-58.
"IPSec VPN alternatives", Network World, October 28, 2002, Vol. 19, pp. 56.
"IPS: A technology, not a product", Network World, November 25, 2002, pp. 41.
"Down for the Count", Wired magazine, December 2002.
"Make sure your PKI is up to the task", Network World , April 16, 2001, pp. 49.
"Learning Lessons from Code Red", Network World , September 10, 2001, pp. 53.
"Site-to-Site IPsec Technology," Network World , October 1, 2001, vol. 18, no. 40, pp. 47--52.
"DISTRIBUTING ACCESS CONTROL", Information Security, October 2001, pp.80-84.
"Lessons on Disaster Recovery," Network World , November 11, 2001, vol. 18, no. 45, p. 47.
"MCIWorldCom should finish what's already on its plate", Network World , June 26, 2000, p. 59.
"What's in a good Domain Name Service," Back Office Magazine, January 1997, pp. 43--50.
"Traffic Sense," Internet World , January, 1997.
"Keeping the Huns at bay," Network World , February 3, 1997, pp. 41--52 (A review of eight firewalls).
"Snubbing Standards," Internet World , February, 1997.
"Barbarians at the Gate,"" Back Office Magazine , March, 1997, pp. 71--82 (Firewall Performance Testing).
"Staying Alive," Internet World , March, 1997.
"Internet Web Servers Buyer's Guide," Network World , April 7, 1997, pp. 39--44.
"Upside to IP Fees," Internet World , April, 1997. Also available translated into Spanish.
"Buyer Beware," Internet World , May, 1997. Also available translated into Spanish.
"Planning for Disaster," Internet World , June 1997.
"Serving up Intranet Apps," Network World , June 23, 1997, pp. 22--25.
"Dangerous Ideas," Internet World , August, 1997. Also available translated into Spanish.
"Better Management Through Consolidation, Network World , August 18, 1997, pp. 59--60.
"Travel Connections," Internet World , September, 1997. Also available translated into Spanish.
"Protecting Your Name," Internet World , October, 1997. Also available translated into Spanish.
"The Best Way to Build a VPN," Network World , November 10, 1997, pp. 55--60.
"The Trouble with Java," Internet World , November, 1997. Also available translated into Spanish.
"Powerful Providers Draw the Line," Internet World , January, 1996, pp. 84--85.
"A Flurry of Firewalls," Network World , January 29, 1996, pp. 59--68.
"Get Real", Internet World , February, 1996, pp. 72-74.
"Directory Sync Revisited," Network Computing , February 15, 1996, pp. 100--108.
"E-mail Interoperability Software: A Backbone to the World," InfoWorld , March 4, 1996, pp. 68--80.
"A Home on the Range," Internet World , March, 1996, pp. 74--76.
"The Dating Game," Network World , March 11, 1996, pp. 21--23. (review of enterprise-wide scheduling systems).
"Good, Bad, and Ugly Pages," Internet World , April, 1996, pp. 26--28.
"Groupware: Colonizing New Ground," Network Computing , March 15, 1996, pp. 47--64.
"LANsurveyor 3.0," MacWorld , April, 1996, pp. 70.
"100 Mbps LAN Technologies Special Report," IT/IS Back Office , April, 1996, pp. 45--60.
"Apple Bears Fruit in Unix Arena," Network Computing, April 15, 1996, pp. 23.
"Too Little, Too Late," Internet World, May, 1996, pp. 58--59.
"Put more ability into your E-mail RFP," Network World, June 3, 1996, p. 53.
"Web Lessons Learned," Internet World, June, 1996, pp. 64--66. Also available translated into Spanish.
"Frontier Justice," Internet World, July, 1996, pp. 72--73.
"Travel Ware," Internet World, August, 1996, pp. 67--68.
"Mail servers for Windows NT," IT/IS Back Office, September, 1996, pp. 93--100.
"Stop, Thief!," Internet World, September, 1996, pp. 71--72.
"Bits and Bucks," Internet World, October, 1996, pp. 51--52. Also available translated into Spanish.
"DNS Servers for Windows NT," IT/IS Back Office, October, 1996, pp. 89--97.
"EtherPeek 3.0: Worth More Than A Glance," Network Computing, October 15, 1996, pp. 54.
"Uninvited Guests," Internet World, November, 1996, pp. 63--65.
"E-Bomb Fallout," Internet World, December, 1996, pp. 68--69.
"Paying for the Net," Internet World , January, 1995, pp. 90--91.
"Internet Insecurity," Internet World , February, 1995, pp. 94--95.
"Sizing Up Electronic Meeting Systems," Network World, Winter, 1995, pp. 29--32.
"Safeguard Your Network," MacWorld , February, 1995, pp. 123--127.
"Branch Office Routers: Extending the Enterprise," Network Computing , January 15, 1995, pp. 62--77.
"Meeting the E-Mail Challenge," MacWorld , April, 1995, pp. 110--114.
"Utility Encrypts AppleTalk Data," MacWorld , April, 1995, pp. 153.
"Branches directs CD-ROM Access," Digital News and Review , February 20, 1995, pp. 25--26.
"A Hard Look at Multimedia," Internet World , March, 1995, pp. 88--89.
"StarNine Fills the E-Mail Gap," MacWorld , May, 1995, pp. 139.
"Choosing the right firewall to defend your network," Network World , March 6, 1995, pp. 1, 47--49.
"Bringing up Baby," Internet World , April, 1995, pp. 103--104.
"Fast LAN adapters Buyer's Guide," Network World , April 3, 1995, pp. 43--47.
"Crime, Moderation, and Punishment," Internet World , May, 1995, pp. 91--93.
"Directory Assistance," Network Computing , June 1, 1995, pp. 88--100 (review of 4 Email directory synchronization products).
"Finding it on your own," Internet World , June, 1995, pp. 97--99.
"Road Warriors on the Infobahn," DECUS'95 , Spring/Summer, 1995, pp. 12--13.
"Happy Trails," Internet World , July, 1995, pp. 82--84.
"Making Macs into Internet Servers," MacWorld , July, 1995, pp. 138.
"Email Options Add Up," MacWorld , August, 1995, pp. 151.
"Torture Test," Internet World , August, 1995, pp. 96--97.
"Putting your Web site into orbit: Five servers that help fire it up," Network World , July 31, 1995, pp. 1, 46--48.
"Research on the Internet," Communications of the ACM , August, 1995, volume 38, number 8, pp. 130.
"Pick the Best Browser," MacWorld , October, 1995, pp. 110--114.
"Web Users Beware," Internet World , October, 1995, pp. 96--97. Also available translated into Spanish.
"Roadblocks to E-mail Convergence," Network World , October 16, 1995, pp. 23--24.
"Do Web Servers Mean Business?" IT/IS Back Office , November, 1995, pp. 53--58.
"The Name Game," Internet World , November, 1995, pp. 122--124.
"Too Big for your Own Good," Internet World , December, 1995, pp. 86--88.
"PDAs for the Real World," LAN Magazine , December, 1995, pp. 71--76.
"Strange Bedfellows," LAN Magazine , January, 1994, pp. 125--132. (discussion of X.400 and Macintosh).
"The SCSI-to-Ethernet Connection," MacWorld Magazine , January, 1994, pp. 169--171.
"How to get Unix and Mac working together over NFS," MacWeek Magazine , January 3, 1994, pp. 32--34.
"Wire Happy," Macworld UK , January, 1994, pp. 75--76.
"SNMP and the Macintosh," MacWorld Magazine , February, 1994.
"Linking Appletalk Workgroups over TCP/IP," MacWorld Magazine , April, 1994, pp. 165--168.
"Innosoft PMDF Carries E-Mail On Its Back," Network Computing , February 14, 1994, pp. 99--103.
"Learning about TCP/IP," Network Computing , February 14, 1994, pp. 111-113.
"How Remote Access Brings the Office to the Outlands," Digital News and Review , February 21, 1994, pp. 25--26.
"Mac Groupware: A Collaborative Effort," LAN Magazine, March, 1994, pp. 130--144.
"The Trouble with Gopher," Internet World , March/April, 1994, pp. 30--34.
"TCP/IP Illustrated," Internet World , March/April, 1994, pp. 84.
"Online While Outta' Town," Internet World , May, 1994, pp. 62--64.
"Turning A Fresh Page on TCP/IP and OSI," Network Computing , April 1, 1994, pp. 106.
"Linking Macintosh Workgroups Worldwide," MacWorld Australia , April, 1994, pp. 44--46.
"Internet Integration," Interoperability , May, 1994, pp. 45--59.
"Network Management Shoot-Out," Advanced Systems , May, 1994, pp. 56--64.
"Solving Network Mysteries," MacWorld Magazine , July, 1994, pp. 160--162.
"Interligando Groupos de Trabalho AppleTalk via TCP/IP," MacWorld Brazil , April, 1994, pp. 40--43.
"Fast Packets, Easy Routers," LAN Magazine , July, 1994, pp. 42--56.
"Making sense of TCP/IP in DOS, Windows," Network World , September, 12, 1994, p. L2.
"Apple Pickings, Suites for the Mac," Internet World , October, 1994, pp. 66--68.
"Blackbirds Make Analyzers Sing," MacWorld, November, 1994, pp. 145.
"Internet: Going South," Internet World , November/December, 1994, pp. 94--95.
"Resolving the problems of micro-based E-mail systems," Network World , November 14, 1994, pp. L4-L5.
"Taming the Internet," MacWorld , December, 1994, pp. 114--117.
"A/UX and MachTEN: Serious Unix for Macs," SunWorld , July, 1993, pp. 53--58.
"The ins and outs of export," Digital News , January 6, 1992, pp 23--43.
"Managing DECnet Phase V," Digital News , March 16, 1992, pp. 9--15.
"Macintosh and VAX/VMS Application Programming Interfaces," Digital News , April 27, 1992, pp. 27--30.
"Two books on DECnet Phase V: Review," Digital News , April 27, 1992, pp. 55, 67.
"X.500 Will Gain Wide Acceptance," Digital News , June 8, 1992, pp. 13--15.
"NFS clients on the Macintosh mean compromise," Digital News , June 22, 1992, pp. 33--34.
"Planet X: Review," Digital News , July 20, 1992, pp. 25, 30--31.
"Lessons from the Trenches," Digital News , July 20, 1992, pp. 1,15,33.
"The Gestalt of Ethernet," Digital News and Review , October 12, 1992, pp. 9--10.
"Network Connectivity," (review of EtherPrint, EtherPrint Plus, and Ether Write) MacWorld , December, 1992, p. 264 (a version of this article was translated and published in Macin, April, 1993, pg. 37).
"Twiddling with DECnet," Digital News and Review , November 12, 1992, pp. 15--16.
"Painting Apples Blue," LAN Magazine , December, 1992, pp. 38--46.
"Harmony, Melody, and DECnet," Digital News and Review , December 7, 1992, pp. 17--18.
"Use your net to ease tough times," Digital News , February 4, 1991, pp. 9--14.
"Improving the security of Ethernet," Digital News , March 18, 1991, pp. 10--16.
"Pathworks for Macintosh Product Profile," Digital News , April 1, 1991, p. 37 (with F Janton).
"Standards: the key to a network," Digital News , April 29, 1991, pp. 11--14 .
"Too much news is good news," Digital News , June 10, 1991, pp. 17--48.
"The Great Network War," Digital News , July 22, 1991, pp. 15--19.
"Networks: In need of answers," Digital News , September 2, 1991, pp. 15--18.
"Clearing up Ethernet confusion," Digital News , October 14, 1991, pp. 29--39.
"DECUS: A worthwhile investment," Digital News , November 25, 1991, pp. 39--65.
"Compact Disk Distribution: Options and Costs," Views on VAX , Volume 3, Number 1, January, 1990, pp. 8--11.
"Network Trends to the Year 2000," presented at International Conference on Social Informatics, April 25--May 3, 1990, Gurzuf, USSR (Invited participant).
"An Exercise in DECnet Networks," Digital News , December 10, 1990, pp. 27--34; "Analysis of Recent Developments: Telecommunications in the Soviet Union," Mosaic Group Technical Report, January, 1990, 72 pp. (with W K McHenry).
Invited participant, Conference on "International and Regional Informatization," Vilnyus, Lithuania, USSR, April 28-29, 1989.
"High Speed Dial-up Modems: Start of the Art, Evaluation, and Recommendations," Views on VAX , Volume 2, Number 3, October, 1989, pp. 1--4.
"Elektronmash Organization---Analysis and Status Report," Mosaic Group Technical Report, July, 1989, 48 pp.
"Report of the CCITT 1985--1988 Study Period," ANSI Technical Report, April, 1988, 27 pp.
"Eastern European Attempts to Clone the VAX," University of Arizona MIS Department Working Paper CMI-WPS-88-10, Tucson, Arizona, September, 1988, 11 pp.
"Pact Countries Clone U.S. Computers," Signal , Volume 43, No. 4, December, 1988, pp. 55--62.
"A Look at Cuban Networks," Matrix News, 2(6), Matrix Information and Directory Services, Austin, June, 1992.
"Cross-Cultural Information Technology Research: The Case of Eastern Europe and the USSR," in DeGross, Janice, et. al. , eds., Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Information Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark , 73--86, December 16--19, 1990. Baltimore, Maryland: ACM Press. (with W K McHenry and K J Lynch). A revised version of this paper was also published in Computer Engineering and Applications, Volume 5--6, 1991, pp. 65--77 (translated by Kong Xioyang).
"A Routing Architecture for Very Large Networks Undergoing Rapid Reconfigurations," SIGCOMM '89, Austin, Texas, September, 1989. Also published in: Computer Communications Review, Volume 19, Number 4, pp. 57--63.
Editor of Proceedings of the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society , Fall, 1983. Also, Spring, 1984; Fall, 1984; Spring, 1985; Fall, 1985; Spring, 1986; Fall, 1986; Spring, 1987; Fall, 1987; Spring, 1988; Fall, 1988; Spring, 1989; Fall, 1989; Spring, 1990; Fall, 1990; Spring, 1991. Managing Editor of DECUS Journal , December 1991--September 1992.
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