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Positive features of NYTimes.com
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Positive features of NYTimes.com
NYTimes.com remains a helpful and engaging online new source with it’s creation of a medium, which takes advantage of digital media unique aspects. The website pays a lot attention on how individuals make usage of their online content. It does not only consider how people read it as well as how they can use it in terms of scanning page randomly unlike meticulously from top to bottom (Poynor, 2006). The website takes into consideration the pages online users look at first and first. Other factors taken into consideration are meaningful visual cues and flourishing design. There is a new functionality in the website that tends to respond to the needs of different users and different business criteria. Another aspect is an atomized content, photo spread with feature stories being only major gateway to the site. The website can be accessed from various different ways because of ales consistent typography with each logo having a compact and iconographic illustration for identification.
The New York Times website
NYTimes.com website has enjoyed a solid web presence on the web from the year 1996, and was ranked one of the best Web sites. In order to access some articles there is a need for registration, although in most cases it is bypassed through RSS feeds. There are 555 million page viewers associated with the website as was evident by March 2005.At the same time; the domain nytimes.com seems to have attracted around 146 million visitors yearly according to a survey undertaken by Compete.com (Poynor, 2006). The website top rankings is because of the high numbers of unique visitors with more than 20 million of them in the year 2009.It has remained a newspaper site, which has been visited most with unique visitors making it the next most fashionable site. In the recent times, the website has produced many popular newspaper blogs.
SonicWALL application video in traffic analytics
The video talks about SonicWALL Analyzer, considered a web-based traffic analytics, which is easy to use. It is also a reporting tool and offers a real time as well as historical insight to health, performance coupled with network security. The Analyzer tends to supports SonicWALL firewalls, recovery, appliances, backup and protected remote access devices whereas leveraging traffic analytics applications for security reporting events (Poynor, 2010). The firewall is the only vendor, which offers a complete solution combined with off-box application with traffic analytics and granular statistical data that is generated by SonicWALL firewalls.
Reason for choosing the video
The reason for choosing the new Traffic Analytics solutions application suite in that it offers powerful visualization in the network to help administrators with troubleshooting and ease with overall network management. At the same time, their capacity to provide historical as well as real-time forensic data into a data traffic flowing in a network has enabled IT managers to predict, prepare, and respond better to prevent bandwidth spikes. At the same time, it has helped in managing threats security, inappropriate application use and network outages (Johansen, 2010). It is evident that the SonicWALL suite in relation to Application Traffic Analytics solutions helps in improving of network management, which encourages business efficiency by ensuring there is a business-critical service setting compliant with the needed requirements. Granular visualization together with analytic reporting ability comprise of deep packet analysis, customizable dashboards, latency monitoring and automated reports. At the same time, scrutinizer offers advanced analysis, historical together with advanced reporting.
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Poynor, R. (January 01, 2006). Critique – Web design – Digital history book. A website about Alvin Lustig pioneers the presentation of design history for the click-and-search generation. Eye : the International Review of Graphic Design, 15, 59, 4.
Poynor, R. (January 01, 2010). Critique – The future is ours to see – SpaceCollective’s innovative website, at once lucid and intoxicating, adds substance to techno-hippie optimism. Eye : the International Review of Graphic Design, 19, 75, 6.
Johansen, J. (September 01, 2010). Structuring a corporate request: An international website critique suited to the net generation. Ieee Transactions on Professional Communication, 53, 3, 304-316.
Positive effects on future U.S. national security based on global trends 2030
Positive effects on future U.S. national security based on global trends 2030
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With the increasing change in population and the technological changes that accompany globalization there is a great need to prepare for almost every sector of the government. The National Intelligence Council is not left out too because of the increased level of terrorism and other security threats in the U.S. Global trends is a major concern which should be dealt with directly and squarely before it overwhelms the institutions put in place to control it. Although there are several elements of global trends, this policy paper will only analyze three of the trends which may have very huge positive effects in future. (Carpenter & Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005). NIC should be able to provide framework regarding global trajectories by thinking about probable future and their consequences because it is not possible to predict the future.
Explanation
There is likeliness that the world of 2030 will be a different world ushering a new era of democratization both at the local and international level. There will be possibility of numerous changes concerning diffusion of power, individual empowerment, demographic changes and growth of food, water and energy nexus (Field & Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2012).
Looking at the demographic patterns, there is needed to check on the aging, youthfulness, migration and urbanization because they will have a considerable influence on international relations. Perhaps, by 2030 the population may have gone much higher than expected hence leading to serious constraint on resources that are already very limited. Possibly, there will be a shrinking number of youthful societies hence creating uphill battle of sustaining the living standards because of the large number of aged individuals who may not be able to work and feed the world sufficiently. In addition, there may be increased number of urbanization prompting increase in housing facilities and other amenities in the urban centers and lower food production globally (National Intelligence Council, 2012).
Food, water and energy will have their demand going high due to population increase as well as worsening state of climate. Global warming may have serious effects on these critical resources owing to serious crisis. Water levels will go down accompanied by increase in precipitation that would largely increase scarcity in the world. It is undeniable also that the energy consumption shall have gone very high (Carpenter & Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005).
There is also likeliness of increase in individual empowerment in the coming years which may have a major impact by 2030. Individual empowerment may have very significant effect on poverty reduction being that the middle class will go high due to improved education standards as well as improved healthcare. Middle class will be regarded as the most vital class in the society especially being that they are both cause and effect of other trends such as improved communication and production technologies. Individual initiative will play an important role in taking personal initiatives in solving increasing global challenges. Most people will have access to disruptive technologies by 2030 which may enable them to initiate violence or any other form of information most likely through the social media (National Intelligence Council, 2012).
Analysis
Looking at demographic patterns, there are issues that should be carefully analyzed such as aging, youthful Societies and states, migration and urbanization which may impose serious threat on the National intelligence Council. It is undeniable that the age structure is rapidly changing and will therefore have significant influence on the demographic pattern. Particularly, there would be an increase in aged and median age groups may impose health challenges. Youthful minority may have very huge effect when it comes to instability in many countries around the world. It is undeniable that demographic patterns will have significant effect on the national intelligence. Increase in population growth may lead to strife and economic instability which may prompt people to migrate to other stable countries or the citizens of a particular country return to their countries to strongly participate in economic development (National Intelligence Council, 2012).
Individual empowerment may play vital role in the global security. Most people will be empowered and enlightened by 2030 due to advancement in education and technology resulting to poverty reduction. Middle class families will really rise because many people will be in a position to make their own money or acquire better jobs due to the high level of education level. New manufacturing technologies will enhance economic growth as advancement in communication technologies will lead to quick distribution of information. Political uprising especially in North Africa widely spread because of the social media and other communication technologies and perhaps such kind of situations may be on the rise come 2030 (National Intelligence Council, 2012).
With the increase in global warming climate shall have greatly changed in 2030. Food and water will be minimal but energy sources may increase due to high consumption of energy. Climatic changes may not support food and water which is sufficient for the possible global increase in population. Use of machines and motor vehicles may be on the rise leading to serious depletion of energy sources (Field & Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2012).
Recommendations
Technological advances and public policies should be adopted to counter manpower that may have decreased by 2030. Machines should be put in place to avoid worsening resource constraints (National Intelligence Council, 2012). Management of resources should be enhanced and the population should be maintained to avoid overpopulation which may further deplete resources in future. Although, individual empowerment should be encouraged disruptive technologies should be managed and serious control of information be imposed in a way that people’s rights are not interfered with.
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Carpenter, S. R., & Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. (2005). Ecosystems and human well-being: Vol. 2. Washington, DC [u.a.: Island Press.
Field, C. B., & Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (2012). Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaption: Special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. New York: Cambridge University Press.
National Intelligence Council. (2012). Global trends 2030: Alternative worlds : a publication of the National Intelligence Council. December 2012.
The Difference Between State and Federal Prisons
The Difference Between State and Federal Prisons
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The Difference Between State and Federal Prisons
Prisons and penitentiaries are facilities that serve the purpose of confining convicts and taking from them varied forms of freedom. Purposely, they are meant to make a person penitent. As such, a convict reflects on their misdeeds and should hence reform (Foster, 2006).State prisons are centers in which more hardened and serious criminals/offenders serve sentences. For instance, the system may be used to lock up felony committers and sentences oft run to more than a year. Such centers are under the jurisdictions of state governments as opposed to the federal prisons that are used to confine inmates who violate the federal laws and immigrants. Federal governments and Prisons Bureau operate the federal prisons (Foster, 2006).In the recent past, increased crime levels have witnessed a growth in the populations of incarcerated individuals. The fluctuating rates of crime have beaten the logic of overly strict policies that were created to govern sentencing in the past four decades. Moreover, state policies that have been adopted by different states have also played a factor in the same (Foster, 2006). Policies such as mandatory sentencing, elongated sentences for multiple crimes and even the increased criminalization of activities connected to drugs have played the pole positions.To note is the fact the state prisons have been overpopulated, but not so much by the violent offenders as by the nonviolent. An instance for which even debtors still get imprisoned even though such prisons had long ceased to operate. The states should hence review some of the laws and policies to curb the vice of overpopulation. The correction professionals should also adopt rehabilitation measures. Rehabilitation is even cheaper and more efficient as criminals do not leave the centers hardened (Foster, 2006).
Security Levels in Prisons
There have instances in which convicts break out of penitentiary centers. States and the central government have come up with measures meant to ensure the safety of the general public and also keep the inmates to serve their full sentences.Depending on the level of crime/offense committed and sentence that a convict may be serving, state prisons are grouped into two. The first are major institutions for the average to maximum security. Inmates committed to centers like such are extreme violators of the law. Correctional units are used for lesser security levels though inmates must exhibit behavior that is non-disruptive (Foster, 2006).Several features including security patrols, barriers, towers and the housing system influence the security level in a prison. The federal camps that lean more towards labor and work have a housing system that assumes a dormitory model and a low ratio of staff to inmates. There is also limited or totally absent perimeter fencing. Operations at the state prisons, on the other hand, have the projections of several cell blocks usually centrally operated or with secure dormitories that house close to fifty inmates. A barrier designed with a double fence is used to safeguard the perimeters and patrols coupled with watch towers are used to monitor the prison compounds. On that basis, the state prisons are further divided into a maximum, close, and medium security (Foster, 2006).The varied strict measures that mark the level of punishment that a convict is undergoing projects the difference between state and federal prisons. In state prisons, the movement of inmates is closely monitored and restricted. The freedom of the inmates is also limited and many a times, they are only allowed one hour of movement in a day. The measures slightly contrast the federal systems’ that freedom is not so limited and security not so tight (Foster, 2006).
Improvements That Should be Made by the U.S Government on Security Level
The security levels in the state prisons have on many occasions led to the creation of hardened criminals. Reducing the effect would involve the use of more detailed sentencing method and further division of the centers. First-time offenders, however serious, should be committed to separate confinement where they are not exposed to the influenced of the hardened criminals. More rehabilitation measures should also be taken to curtail the violence levels in the centers.However, stronger security measures should be implemented in the federal system. The perimeters should be tightly secured with watchtowers, patrols and barriers to reduce the temptation of conducting a breakout.
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Foster, B. (2006). Corrections: The fundamentals. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Pearson Prentice Hall.