Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Steel Security Doors | Nyul Personal Blog

Steel Security Doors ? Our front and back doors in our homes or businesses are our first line of defense against any danger or intruders. In the market today, there is a big variety of security doors that are readily available. Like most consumer products, Steel Security Doors can be found online, in home improvement stores of specialized security stores. At these specialized stores, they can probably provide high quality custom made doors.

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Different consumers will go for different products. For someone who wants a simple door to the person who needs a door that equals a Steel Security Doors, there is something in the market to fit different needs. You will find doors that simply have mesh which is deterrent enough, doors that are reinforced with steel on the inside to doors so technologically advanced, that they have security features built into the door itself, and to open it quietly without activating maybe an inbuilt alarm, one will have to find a way to trip the wiring in the door. In addition, Steel Security Doors will range from the basic to elegant works of art.

One needs to do adequate research when looking for a reliable Steel Security Doors, because at the end of the day, it will affect how you sleep at night, and this will make it all the easier for you to make a decision on what to get. When in the store, always let your decision be influenced by the research you have done, the advice that the experts give you and what they readily have in stock and the amount of money that you want to spend to purchase security door.

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Monday, February 6, 2012

Officers cleared for using pepper spray on dancers

(AP) ? Two police officers were cleared of wrongdoing Thursday for using pepper spray and a baton on a dozen spectators performing a traditional Polynesian war dance after a high school's losing football game.

Uintah County Attorney G. Mark Thomas found that the two officers were justified in taking action because they feared a riot and because they were unfamiliar with the Haka war dance, which is a fan response popular at rugby matches and football games in other countries.

The October incident was caught on a blurry mobile phone video, which was posted on YouTube and has logged 1.8 million views. The footage shows police pushing back the dancers at a high school in Roosevelt, east of Salt Lake City.

To cheer their team after the loss, the spectators adopted a wide stance, folded their arms and chanted in unison. The two officers have said they were unaware the crowd was performing a Maori war dance that has long been tradition in New Zealand rugby games.

It has more recently spread to at least a dozen U.S. high school football teams, especially those with large numbers of Polynesians.

Thomas called the pepper spray and baton appropriate "weapons" used by Roosevelt officers to clear a stadium exit that the dancers were blocking. They repeatedly ignored police commands but they believed their routine had the tacit approval of school officials and football fans, he said.

"Therefore, I do not believe the performers 'recklessly' caused a public inconvenience," he said.

In his 21-page opinion, Thomas found that "the officers did not use unlawful force. Therefore, the officers cannot be charged with criminal assault."

His finding supported the results of an internal police investigation, which also said the officers' actions were justified. Thomas has said he opened his probe at the request of the Utah chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, which disputed his conclusions and noted that his second-by-second analysis of the YouTube video shows police used force only 17 seconds after making their first command.

Tensions were high on Oct. 20 between rival high schools in Vernal and Roosevelt, each winless before their final game of the football season.

"There is a long history of rival conduct which includes occasional skirmishes during sporting events, occasional vandalism and lots of bravado from athletes and fans of both schools," Thomas wrote.

The Vernal high school won the game over a disputed call. A touchdown by the Roosevelt team had been reversed and their fans were heckling referees, he said.

Officer Luke Stradinger, who deployed the pepper spray, said in a police report that he "never seen such an event, or even heard of such a thing." The police department and the Utah Highway Patrol were working crowd control at the game.

Joe Cohn, interim legal director for the ACLU of Utah, disagreed with the county attorney's finding. "Force is lawful only when it's justified, and not for disobedience to orders ? it's for officers who believe they face an immediate threat of danger. There's nothing in this report or investigation that indicates anyone was in any danger," he said.

Associated Press

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Sunday, February 5, 2012

The Importance Of Construction Management | Talk About Business









For any project to be completed on time while at the same time yielding good quality and meeting the budget, a lot of planning and management needs to be implemented. This is where project management plays a vital role in any business. For professionals that are involved in the construction industry, this becomes even more important, because many of these projects can cost a lot of money, require a lot of resources and overheads, and generally have a deadline that needs to be met. Through proper use of construction management, these construction projects can easily be completed while at the same time yielding good results that are cost effective as well.

In order to execute effect of construction management, there are numerous steps that every project planner should implement from the beginning to the end of that project.

These steps are planning, cost, time management, quality control, contract administration, and safety. By ensuring that every one of these steps are implemented into a construction project, this in turn will ensure that the project itself will run smoothly and yield great results. For example, time management will ensure that every part of the construction process will be organized into a certain time-frame, which in turn will ensure that deadlines are met. This is important not only to complete the whole project within the time frame specified, but also completes sub-projects on time so that other projects can finally be initiated and completed as well. On a construction site, safety is also extremely important, which is the reason why safety management should always be practiced. By ensuring that all the right requirements are met in terms of safety laws and best practices, this in turn will ensure that buildings will be constructed to last for a very long time, and those that are involved in constructing these buildings can do so in the safest environment possible. Cost management also plays a vital role as it will guarantee that every part of a construction project stays within the budget that has been created. This will ensure that a construction project will always have enough funds, which is important for it to be completed on time while still yielding great results.

Construction management should always be taken seriously, and must also be implemented from the point of construction design, as this in turn will help construction professionals to organize everything before the actual project begins. In fact, by utilizing construction management and combining it with the lean Sigma philosophy, the whole process of constructing any project will not only be more efficient, but also be done with less waste involved. This in turn will save construction professionals a lot of money and time while still being able to yield great results.

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Saturday, February 4, 2012

Egyptian soccer deaths bring new cycle of violence

An Egyptian protestor is seen through heat waves from a fire as he raises his national flag during clashes with security forces near the interior ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. A volunteer doctor says police and protesters angry over a deadly soccer riot have clashed for the second day in the Egyptian capital, and that one man died in the latest violence. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

An Egyptian protestor is seen through heat waves from a fire as he raises his national flag during clashes with security forces near the interior ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. A volunteer doctor says police and protesters angry over a deadly soccer riot have clashed for the second day in the Egyptian capital, and that one man died in the latest violence. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

CORRECTS DAY OF WEEK TO FRIDAY - Egyptian protestors help a wounded man during clashes with security forces near the interior ministry in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. A volunteer doctor says police and protesters angry over a deadly soccer riot have clashed for the second day in the Egyptian capital, and that one man died in the latest violence.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Egyptian protestors stand in front of riot police to stop others from throwing stones during clashes near the Interior Ministry in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. A volunteer doctor says police and protesters angry over a deadly soccer riot have clashed for the second day in the Egyptian capital, and that one man died in the latest violence. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Egyptian riot police throw stones at protestors during clashes near the Interior Ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. A volunteer doctor says police and protesters angry over a deadly soccer riot have clashed for the second day in the Egyptian capital, and that one man died in the latest violence. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Egyptian protestors run from tear gas fired by security forces during clashes near the Interior Ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. A volunteer doctor says police and protesters angry over a deadly soccer riot have clashed for the second day in the Egyptian capital, and that one man died in the latest violence. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

CAIRO (AP) ? Protesters filled the streets and clashed for a second day Friday with police who fired tear gas and birdshot in Cairo, as a deadly soccer riot focused rising public anger over lawlessness and collapsing security a year after Egypt's uprising.

Six people have been killed and more than 1,500 injured in the latest bloodshed that followed a violent melee and stampede after a soccer game Wednesday in the Mediterranean city of Port Said in which 74 people died.

Egyptians streamed out of Friday prayers in Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and several Nile Delta cities, criticizing police and calling on the military rulers led by Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi to step down.

On Cairo's Tahrir Square ? the heart of the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak a year ago ? protesters raised banners and pictures of those killed in Port Said and chanted, "The people want to execute the marshal."

The police force, which for decades was associated with torture and corruption in the Mubarak regime, is now being criticized in the soccer stadium deaths ? whether from a lack of control or, as some alleged, on purpose.

For many Egyptians, the security vacuum is not just a sign of incompetence but part of the larger overall failure by the military council to steer the country through its turbulent transitional period. They also see selectivity in policing the streets.

Leading democracy advocate Mohamed ElBaradei said delays in reforming the security apparatus is itself "a crime against the nation," adding that the current violence is the "price we pay for stumbling in the transitional period."

The clashes in Cairo began Thursday as the bodies of the dead soccer fans were returned to the capital for burial, and the violence escalated. Protesters converged on the headquarters of the Interior Ministry, which oversees police, throwing stones.

Police responded with tear gas and birdshot, and protesters donned helmets and gas masks to battle their way through streets thick with smoke from tear gas and burning tires.

"I came because I'm trying to do anything to feel that I took part in getting people's rights and voicing all that's inside me," said 20-year-old Ahmed Emad, whose two friends were killed in Port Said. "If I sit at home, I will explode after all I've seen."

The death toll from Friday's violence rose to six. That figure included a security officer in Cairo, according to the official MENA news agency.

One protester in Cairo was killed after being hit by birdshot at close range, a volunteer doctor said on condition of anonymity because he feared reprisal.

Four protesters died in Suez after police opened fire on a crowd of about 3,000 demonstrators in front of police headquarters, according to local health officials. A third protester in Suez was in critical condition with a wound to the neck.

The Port Said soccer riot began when fans of the home team, Al-Masry, stormed the field after their club defeated Al-Ahly, one of Cairo's top teams. Police in black uniforms and riot gear were seen in television video broadcast nationwide standing by and largely doing nothing amid the chaos.

The bloodshed ? the worst in the soccer world in 15 years ? enraged protesters who were already frustrated with the slow pace of reform by the military leaders.

A network of zealous Al-Ahly soccer fans known as Ultras, who were prominent police foes during the uprising, accused the security forces of deliberately allowing the Al-Masry supporters to attack.

Some lawmakers suggested that the military allowed the attack to happen to show the need for a reinstatement of the recently abolished emergency laws, in which the police enjoyed nearly unlimited power.

For their part, police are resentful of the abuse they suffered during the uprising and they also fear being criticized or even prosecuted if they use excessive force, something that was tolerated and encouraged under Mubarak.

Activist Nour Nour said Interior Ministry officials "failed in providing security but have been successful in protecting what they want to protect."

The ruling generals, for their part, have accused a "third party" and "foreign hands" of being behind acts of violence.

Tantawi said incidents like the soccer violence "happen anywhere in the world. We will not let those behind it go. ... This will not affect Egypt and its security."

The police failure to prevent the soccer riot was the bloodiest example of a series of security lapses as crime has surged since the uprising.

Two American tourists and their tour guide were abducted at gunpoint Friday and held for several hours by Bedouin tribesmen in a brazen daylight attack along a busy highway in the Sinai desert, dealing another blow to Egypt's already battered tourism industry.

Maj. Gen. Mohammed Naguib, the head of security for southern Sinai, said the three were taken from a minivan while traveling from St. Catherine's Monastery to the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh.

They were released hours later after promises by security officials to look into their demands, which include the release of a number of fellow tribesmen arrested this week on drug trafficking and robbery charges.

Bedouins have long complained of discrimination and random arrests by the government, and the Sinai was restive even under Mubarak, but the kidnappings of the Americans and other recent high-profile attacks signaled an escalation.

Elsewhere on the Sinai Peninsula, four masked gunmen stopped the vehicle of two Italian workers for a food factory in the city of Suez, taking their car, more than 10,000 euros ($13,000) and their laptops, said company director Mohammed Antar. The Italians were not harmed.

On Monday, there was a series of major thefts in Cairo, including armed robberies at two banks and a mail office.

Adel Shokry, the secretary general of the south Sinai Hotel Association, said the general security situation in the country is "pitiful."

"I think there is plenty of lawlessness. The security agencies are not working as efficiently as they had before. They must review their positions," he said. "I think the army must step in to fill in this security vacuum."

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Associated Press writers Sarah El Deeb in Cairo and Ashraf Sweilam in El-Arish contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Woody Harrelson Shoots And Scores, On 'Late Show' (VIDEO)

Woody Harrelson does a lot of work for charitable causes and, as he told David Letterman on "Late Show" (Weeknights, 11:35 p.m. EST on CBS) that includes playing the occasional game of soccer.

In 2010 Harrelson was part of the "Rest of the World" team playing England in a pro-celebrity match for British charity Soccer Aid.

Although he's an avid cyclist and generally super-fit guy, Harrelson said he's a pretty bad soccer player, so when his team was involved in a celebrity-only penalty shoot-out at the end, he was the last person they wanted to take a penalty kick.

However, after all the good players on his team -- including Michael Sheen (Wales), Mike Myers (Canada), Simon Baker (Australia) and Gordon Ramsay (Scotland) -- had taken penalties, the score was still tied at six. So Harrelson was put on the spot in the "sudden death" part of the shoot-out.

Luckily for the team Harrelson was able to use some of his actorly mind tricks to psych-out the opposing team's goalkeeper, English television presenter Jamie Theakston. He had already saved four penalties, including a shot from former pro soccer player Ramsay, so was on a high.

Harrelson used his acting skills to make Theakston think he was aiming in one direction but actually shot in the oppposite direction. By the time the confused goalie realized which way the ball was headed it was already in the back of the net.

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Friday, February 3, 2012

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Before you get to the end of this sentence, most of you will stop reading.

Some of you will be outraged by my opinions on spirituality, or weary of?how I always go on about cats/cake/money, or just plain uninterested in the things I write about.

Some of you will be looking for an article about spider monkeys or a picture of plum blossom, or will be gasping for a cup of coffee.

I?m not affected by those in the second category but, in vulnerable moments, I worry about the first.

You might also worry about speaking up ? at work, to your friends and family, in your spiritual/political/social groups.

These are the things that help me to keep launching words into the world:

*?I remember that, even if every single one of my posts said ?you?re lovely?, some people would get annoyed. We can NEVER keep all the people happy all the time, and neither should we try to.

* Some (all?) of those people who stop reading are better off doing so. We all have ideal audiences, and it can take a while to find the people who are interested in what we have to say. Chris Guillebeau sometimes sends out newsletters that are extra-Chris-Guillebeauy, just to winnow out the people who will never appreciate his offerings.

* Sometimes I will upset people with the things I write/say. That?s fine too. I?ll listen to feedback and either stand by what I said despite it causing harm, or acknowledge that I made a mistake and?learn from it. I?ll know that I?m human. I?ll forgive myself.

Stand by what I said despite causing harm? Yup. Sometimes hurt or stirred-up-feelings are necessary, in order for something to be learnt or something to heal. You don?t always have to like what I say. What you do with your reaction to what I write?is up to you. It?s none of my business.

It?s always a risk to speak up.?Writers are speaking up whenever they send words out into the world. You are speaking up whenever you open your mouth and make sounds. Even before you make the sounds.

?Don?t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It?s the one and only thing you have to offer.?

~Barbara Kingsolver

This is what I have to say today.

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Dundee was an ambassador for boxing (AP)

He saved a young Cassius Clay when he was in trouble in England, convinced Sugar Ray Leonard that he could somehow overcome the fearsome Tommy Hearns. Angelo Dundee worked thousands of corners, and had just as many stories about fighters and the games they played in the ring.

The best work of his life, though, may have been selling a sport that was often tough to sell.

"He spread good will for a sport that often doesn't have a lot of good will," said retired AP boxing writer Ed Schuyler Jr. "What he did to promote boxing is his greatest contribution to the sport."

Dundee, who died Wednesday in Tampa, Fla., at the age of 90, was a master motivator who shared the world stage with the greatest fighters of his time. But it was his 53-year relationship with The Greatest and the way they shocked the world together that will always be his legacy.

Muhammad Ali didn't need anyone to tell him how to box. He came by it so naturally that there wasn't much Dundee was going to teach him in the ring to help him become a legendary fighter.

What he needed was someone in his corner shouting motivation, someone in his corner who always had his back.

Someone like Angelo Dundee.

"There was a time you couldn't tell Ali anything, but Angelo knew how to motivate Ali," promoter Bob Arum said. "Without Angelo, Ali doesn't get out of the "Thrilla in Manila." Without Angelo I think Joe Frazier destroys him. He needed someone like that in his corner."

So did Leonard, who was taking a beating in his epic first fight with Hearns in 1981. His face was swollen by the thunderous right hands landed by Hearns and he seemed baffled when Hearns began boxing him from the outside instead of trying to slug it out as he had in the early rounds.

After the end of the 12th round, Leonard came back to his corner, exhausted.

"You're blowing it, son!" Dundee yelled at him. "You're blowing it!"

Leonard would rally in the 13th round before finally stopping Hearns in the 14th round of a fight he was trailing on all three ringside scorecards. It was a masterful performance by a great fighter, but without Dundee in his face many believe Leonard would have come up short.

"He really knew how to motivate a guy," Arum said. "He was a good trainer, but he was a great, great cornerman. He was the greatest cornerman I've ever seen."

It wasn't all just motivation, though. Dundee wasn't above resorting to a few tricks in the ring if that was what it took to help his guy win.

British fight fans still talk about the night at London's Wembley Stadium in June 1963 when their great hope, Henry Cooper, floored Ali ? who had yet to change his name from Clay ? in the final seconds of the fourth round with a devastating left hook. Dundee managed to get his fighter to the corner when the bell rang, but Ali still didn't know where he was. Thinking fast, Dundee pointed out a small split in Ali's glove to the referee, sending British boxing officials in search of new gloves and gaining enough time for Ali to recover and stop Cooper in the next round.

Cooper would later become one of Dundee's good friends. Of course, Dundee had many good friends.

"The guy didn't have an enemy in the world," said matchmaker Bruce Trampler, who went to work for Dundee in Miami in 1971. "He was everyone's best friend."

Dundee traveled the world with Ali, and in the racially charged `60s was often the only white face in an otherwise black entourage. Ali felt secure with him in his corner, though he didn't often take his advice.

He may have changed the course of boxing history in Ali's first fight against Sonny Liston in 1964 when he refused Ali's demands after the fourth round to cut off his boxing gloves and let him quit because something on Liston's gloves was causing his eyes to burn terribly. He calmed down a frantic Ali, who came back to stop Liston at the end of the sixth round and become heavyweight champion for the first time.

Dundee, though, couldn't claim credit for Ali's greatest strategic move in the ring, when he used the "rope-a-dope" to stop George Foreman in the "Rumble in the Jungle." Though popular lore was that Dundee had the ring ropes loosened so Ali could lay against them and make Foreman tire himself out, Dundee had actually gotten the ropes tightened just before the fight began and was screaming at Ali to get off the ropes as Foreman unloaded punch after punch before finally running out of gas.

Dundee was still in relatively good health when he traveled with his son, Jimmy, to Louisville, Ky., last month for Ali's 70th birthday party. The aging fighter and his elderly trainer talked and posed for pictures, and Dundee reminisced about the past.

"I've had a lot of great fighters and a lot of great times," Dundee said then. "But the greatest time of my life was with Muhammad Ali."

Jimmy Dundee said the visit meant everything to his father, who was hospitalized with a blood clot shortly after returning home. He was later released and seemed to be recovering before having trouble breathing. He died surrounded by his children and grandchildren, a peaceful end to a life well lived.

"He had a ball. He lived his life and he had a good time," Jimmy Dundee said. "I'm so glad we went. It meant so much for him to see Muhammad again."

Dundee will be forever linked to Ali, and his death ? which followed by just a few months the passing of Frazier ? erases another link to an era long gone. Though Dundee will be remembered as Ali's trainer and cornerman, his son said he would also like him to be known as something else:

In the often brutal and cutthroat world of boxing, he stood out as an extraordinary ambassador for the sport. Anyone who met him was his friend, whether they were in his corner or across the ring.

To those who wondered why, Dundee always had the same reply:

"It doesn't cost anything more to be nice."

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120202/ap_on_sp_bo_ne/box_dundee_appreciation

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