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The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) will soon advertise a Request for Proposal (RFP) item seeking a qualified firm to develop and implement an unmanned aerial systems implementation (UAS) program.
At this time, this RFP item is scheduled for advertisement on the July 9, 2019 INDOT RFP. The upcoming RFP item (Item Id: 7976) is available for review on the 12 Month INDOT RFP Listing of proposed future RFP items at: https://pscs.indot.in.gov/rfppublicwebsite/F01/S007.aspx.
Potential interested respondents may pose questions now about this proposed RFP item. All questions and INDOT’s responses will be posted to the “Q & A” icon on the 12 Month INDOT RFP Listing website.
When the RFP item is formally advertised, firms interested in submitting a Letter of Interest (LOI) to provide these services must, without any exceptions, submit their LOI and any other required .pdf documents online through INDOT’s Professional Services Contracting System (PSCS) Portal. Access to the PSCS Portal is available at: http://www.in.gov/indot/2730.htm under the “ITAP (INDOT Technical Applications Pathway)” link.
This post on homelessness and libraries is more about a movie and actors than about the problem. Banks make young families homeless. Drugs make people homeless. Mental illness majorly makes people homeless. Bad choices also make people homeless.
How it happens is sometimes preventable, what to do about it right now is what we should be acting upon. Using libraries is fine, until you try to use a restroom trashed by a mentally ill person, or worse inadvertently encounter one with his hygiene products spread across three sinks and aggressively defending his territory. “Tiny house” communities with common hygiene areas could help relieve the community stress BUT local building safety codes are an extreme roadblock.
Variability in public perception, individual tolerance, and benevolence creates arguments instead of discussions.
Cities “solve” the problem by arresting people who look homeless, making it illegal to sleep in your car, and putting spikes on benches or ground areas used for sleeping so homeless are less inclined to be there.
The real problem is ignorance and political correctness instead of practical solutions. Talking instead of solving.
I think we are old enough to think of a way to solve this problem.
When the asylums closed people who could not care for themselves but were not clearly dangerous to others were turned out onto the streets. When banks foreclose on young families they become homeless and the community must pick up the financial costs so the banksters can pocket more quick profits. Disasters happen and people have no emergency funds and no financial literacy so they cannot recover.
We are old enough to think of a way to solve these problems.
We can provide some kind of safe living for those who can take some care of themselves – call it “tiny houses” or whatever. We can add the homestead to the State bankruptcy list so foreclosures mostly stop happening. We can require and provide effective Financial Literacy course completion as a prerequisite for receipt of ANY kind of financial social support, and require functional financial literacy be taught in all of our schools.
In Fort Wayne a fourth of our land – most of the SE side – is an open disaster that needs to be leveled and rebuilt from scratch – we can put housing there and institutions to house for those who cannot take care of themselves. And it can be funded by capitalists with a proper incentive.
And far more importantly we can require unoccupied people to WORK. Everyone can do SOMETHING. Henry Ford wrote:
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There are cases where I imagine that the support must be by charity–as, for instance, an idiot. But those cases are extraordinarily rare, and we have found it possible, among the great number of different tasks that must be performed somewhere in the company, to find an opening for almost any one and on the basis of production.
I believe that there is very little occasion for charity in this world–that is, charity in the sense of making gifts. Most certainly business and charity cannot be combined; the purpose of a factory is to produce, and it ill serves the community in general unless it does produce to the utmost of its capacity. We are too ready to assume without investigation that the full possession of faculties is a condition requisite to the best performance of all jobs.
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But we need a law the requires everyone to work, and then we need truant officers who tap each non-working person and take him/her to a job.
There are ALWAYS jobs to be done.
Those who cannot find a job on their own (there are a few 1,000 jobs available right now in Fort Wayne) need to be picked up and taken to a job made just for them – cleaning restrooms, washing chairs, sweeping the street, picking up trash, cleaning areas deprecated by unoccupied people – anything. And after they are done working on that assigned job (without monetary pay over and above the value of the free public services they are already taking) that day there needs to be job TRAINING. Inspiring people TO WORK and then showing them THEY CAN WORK and be happier than they are now, and finally HELPING THEM LEARN THE REQUIRED SKILLS to get a real job that pays real living wages so they can take care of their own family.
And through this all there needs be be an attitude of encouragement not punishment!
Libraries could play a major role, as does WorkOne, Adult Life Training, Inc., and probably several other places. Positive experiences, helping or when necessary forcing people to change.
And as long as all we do is talk, it ain’t gonna happen.
I would welcome the opportunity to lead a group with funding and focus to organize this effort. We can solve most of the homelessness proper immediately. The long term solution will require a little more time for people to educate and find their place.
But we can do this. We are old enough to solve these problems ourselves now. If you don’t believe me, test me and see. It is a matter of all of us working together – we know how to do this.
Popular WordPress plugin JetPack locks you out of your WordPress site after updating. Although unexpected and therefore annoying, it is apparently JetPack and nothing more sinister. [1]
I already have been using two different plugins (not JetPack) to block brute force hacking attempts. This plus a possibly non-intuitive approach to controlling user credentials eliminated prior issues I had with break in attempts.
The message you get when you try to login looks more like a phishing attack after your site has been hacked: for me, this was scary – it looked like JetPack had been compromised. It is actually a clumsy way JetPack is trying to force you to turn on one setting, and easily solved.
I have no idea what happens if you go through all the nonsense to “sending yourself a special link” (doesn’t THAT sound trustworthy!) by entering your email (which does NOT make sense as WordPress ALREADY HAS YOUR EMAIL from your profile): This sounds very much like a hack and scam. Any upgrade requiring a settings change should simply send you an email immediately following the upgrade.
My approach to solving this problem, took two (2) minutes. Simply:
to log in to my hosting server and rename …./wp-content/plugins/jetpack to xjetpack, (WordPress will disable the JetPack plugin because it is now ‘not found’)
then again browse to my home page and again click login – login proceeds normally to login as an administrator
back on the hosting server rename …/wp-content/plugins/xjetpack back to jetpack
and finally in WordPress go to plugins and “Activate” the JetPack plugin, then click Settings under the JetPack plugin.
The screen capture below is the section of the Setting for JetPack that the plugin wants you to turn on, and it is turned on for you once you “Activate” the plugin again. TURN THIS SETTING OFF. Problem solved. You may resume working.
[1] “Brute Force” attacks are where a hostile system tries to guess your password through trial and error. This kind of attack is continuous – once a server is on-line criminal systems all over the planet try this constantly. If you have a username such as “admin” or “Bob” then it is merely a matter of time until they find the password (and you probably deserve to be hacked).
Detection of “brute force” attacks is generally agreed to look for more than one attempt to log in! For example, after 5 failed logins the server (or a WordPress plugin) would lock the account, sending an email to the address in the user’s profile. The user then knows a hack on the account has been attempted and the user must then take steps to reset the password in order to restore access.
The problem with this JetPack update is 1) it turns on the “security” feature without your foreknowledge and consent, and 2) it forces failure on every login attempt, not after some chosen number of failed login attempts. By failing all administrator login attempts regardless of their validity the feature becomes a liability.
I recommend that you 1) turn off the JetPack “Brute Force” protection feature until it works, and 2) use other mature plugins, such as WordFence, to catch brute force attacks and many other kinds of attacks, as one example, requesting a non-existing page. JetPack will likely detect and correct their error fairly soon as it is a very active plugin.
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