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Prolific artist Joann Sfar puts watercolors to his inked drawings.
"Joann Sfar Draws From Memory" screens Sun., March 3 at 2:45 p.m. at Pacific Place Theatres, 600 Pine St., Seattle. Contact 206-324-9996 or visit seattlejewishfilmfestival.org for ticket information.
If anyone still thinks comic books — or graphic novels — are strictly child's play, a few minutes with Parisian cartoonist Joann Sfar will erase that misconception. San Francisco filmmaker Sam Ball's evocative and marvelous documentary, "Joann Sfar Draws From Memory," introduces us to the iconoclastic Jewish artist and filmmaker who topped France's bestseller list with "The Rabbi's Cat." Inspired by his grandmother's tales of life in Algeria in the 1920s, Sfar set his talking cat saga in a neighborhood where Jewish, Arab and French traditions coexisted and overlapped. "There's a line in our film from Joann: 'I wanted to show Jewish kids that their ancestors came from North Africa,' which is true of about half of France's Jews, 'and I wanted to remind Muslim kids that there were Jews in North Africa, and they more or less got along for centuries,'" said Ball. "There's no reason to have nostalgia because it wasn't idyllic, but there is something that has been lost." "Joann Sfar Draws From Memory" screens in the Seattle Jewish Film Festival on March 3 at SIFF Cinema Uptown. Ball, whose numerous short documentaries include a moody portrait of New York Jewish cartoonist Ben Katchor, "Pleasures of Urban Decay" (2000), and "A Bridge of Books" (2001) about the National Yiddish Book Center, was born in France and speaks fluent French. He says it's misleading to view France as an anti-Semitic country, despite the anti-Jewish attacks of recent years. "France, I think, has a complicated relationship toward ethnicity in general," he says. "I don't think Jews are unique in that. But there's a great fascination in mainstream French culture with anything that has to do with former French colonies, and 'The Rabbi's Cat' fits that craving." Some of Sfar's appeal — and certainly his sensitivity — stem from the fact that his father is Algerian and his mother is French, which makes him Sephardic-Ashkenazi. Ball served as associate director of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival from 1996 to 2000, and started the New Jewish Filmmaking Project for teenagers and young adults — which he continues to produce through his company, Citizen Film — with the festival the following year. His list of current projects includes a film about "Pearls of Yiddish Poetry," the column Yosl and Hannah Mlotek wrote for The Jewish Daiy Forward for many years. All of which is to say that Ball is an expert on films about Jewish culture and Jewish artists, and resists the tried and trite. "I think it's refreshing to see depictions of Jews that aren't about gefilte fish or the Holocaust or Yiddishkeit, as much as I love Yiddishkeit," he said. "This is a movie about the creative process. That's probably the central preoccupation of the film: How do you take what you've been given, both in terms of what's been handed down to you and your own lived experience? It's through the act of creation that you grapple with that." When Ball embarked on "Joann Sfar Draws From Memory," he discovered Sfar's vast illustrated diaries filled with the everyday incidents in his young children's lives. "Joann told me that there's something Chagall said that really resonates with him: 'If you want to keep people safe, you put them in paintings.' For Joann, he puts them in comic books."
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Boston Dynamics: Possibly My Biggest Enemy
Boston Dynamics, purveyor of such hellhounds of the robot apocalypse as BigDog, LittleDog, and BullDog, are back at it, this time at the opposite end of the spectrum: robotic bugs called Squishbots.
SquishBot is a program to develop a new class of soft, shape-changing robot. The goal is to design systems that can transform themselves from hard to soft and from soft to hard, upon command. Another goal is to create systems that change their critical dimensions by large amounts, as much as 10x. Such robots will be like soft animals that can squeeze themselves through small openings and into tight places.
Okay, I want to see a show of hands of who's cool with a robotic centipede burrowing in their ass. Now, everyone look around the room. You see the people with their hands raised? Perverts. The worst kind too: roboboners.
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Thanks to Greg, who once found a robotic silverfish trying to climb into his ear at night so it could read his mind. Thankfully, Greg huffs Raid and had a can by the bed.
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When I'm right, I'm right. And I was right. This is what death looks like. Sculptor Kenji Yanobe's Giant Torayan robot, a 7.2-meter (24-ft) tall mechanical baby that sings, dances and spits fire, was sighted in Tokyo's Roppongi district last night. The fire-breathing robot s... / Continue →


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With any luck, 2013 will be remembered as a transitional year in country music.
For a notoriously conservative genre -- you'll still find less variation in instrumentation, aesthetic, and even vocal performance on a country radio station than anywhere else on the dial -- the story of the year is of a new liberalism bubbling up. Primarily associated with three interconnected emerging artists, Kacey Musgraves, Brandy Clark and Ashley Monroe (all of whom co-wrote their best work with Shane McAnally, the secret throughline in all of this), this new liberalism is thoughtful, critical, and unafraid of firing arrows at the sacred cows of traditionalism.
Take a look at this eclectic list. We'll move from country-rock storytellers like Jason Isbell to the kitchen-sink-on-the-back-porch of Valarie June, from the shimmery country-pop of Caitlin Rose to the ultra-traditional Daniel Romano, and from the plain-Jane simplicity of The Good Family to the miles-over-the-top bravura of Brad Paisley's own attempt at a progressive, yet radio-friendly record.
If there's anything that binds these records to one another (apart from my having loved them) it's that each of them troubles the very idea of "country music" as much as it is itself a "country record." Each of these albums -- and country music's new liberalism in general -- adopts a critical distance from its own form, recognizing as it does the paradoxical relationship between a fundamentally conservative musical language and the artists' own desires to carry it into less familiar territory. "Same trailer, different park," indeed.
And what's especially heartening about this is how many of these artists have succeeded in finding audiences. They've demonstrated that there is a thirst out there for country music that embraces social critique before social convention, or "weed instead of roses," as Monroe puts it on her ode to the relationship-saving virtues of dope and BDSM sex.
Gay-friendly (McAnally is out and married), pot-happy, marriage-questioning, convention-mistrusting, religion-doubting, racism-confronting and ignorance-mocking, this kind of political consciousness feels less at home in our stereotypical notion of Southern America than the "I Drive Your Truck" (Lee Brice) or "Boys Round Here" (Blake Shelton) version that dominated the charts all year.
Indeed, though radio is still somewhat ambivalent to the trend, Musgraves has received industry recognition, winning a CMA for best new artist, which is a hopeful sign. Here's to more of that in 2014.
10. Brad Paisley - "Wheelhouse"
Perhaps the most daring album on this list full of daring albums, Nashville megastar Brad Paisley's overtly progressive "Wheelhouse" swings for the fences, and sometimes lands a homer. Indeed, on a couple tracks he even manages a walk-off grand slam. Tackling Southern-pride-cum-xenophobia ("Southern Comfort Zone"), domestic violence ("Karate"), and even religion ("Those Crazy Christians"), Paisley heads way out on a skinny limb, daring his listeners to pepper him with stones. If his songs weren't so catchy, his vocals so radio-friendly, his guitar playing so virtuosic, the record might not have been able to sneak through so easily. (Remember, it wasn't that long ago that the Dixie Chicks found themselves banned across the South for saying much less.) If, sometimes, he reaches too far (or simply blows it, as he does on the wildly over-simplified "Accidental Racist"), he more than makes up for it elsewhere. I can't think of a better bestselling country record in the past five years, nor one as potentially revolutionary in its implication. A milestone. Standout Song: "Southern Comfort Zone"
9. Good Family – "The Good Family Album"
Two of the most widely respected and consistently excellent bands in Canada, The Good Brothers (active since the late-1960s in one form or another) and The Sadies (often described as the best group working today), are comprised of members of two generations of the same family. While the elders have tended toward bluegrass and country-folk on their records, the youngsters have pushed these forms into thrilling electric territory, turning the Sadies into an innovative and eclectic alt-country powerhouse. Here, on their first complete record together (along with wife/mother Margaret Good, niece/cousin D'Arcy Good and pal/producer Michael Timmins of Cowboy Junkies) the results are as warm and refreshing as summer rain. Moving freely between ripping bluegrass ("Outside of Saskatoon"), back porch singalongs ("Paradise"), traditional country ("Life Passes," a co-write with Daniel Romano), and hybrids thereof ("Leaf in a Storm," a marvelous brand new song by D'Arcy that feels like it's always been here), the Good Family offers a bit of everything, and often all at once. What a thing to hear. Song: "Coal Black Hills"
8. Ashley Monroe – "Like A Rose"
At just nine songs and running a brisk 32 minutes, this tightly-constructed record is like a delirious one-nighter, enveloping you with its passion before running off into the night. Sparingly produced by Nashville veteran Vince Gill, Monroe's songs blend wry, subversive humour ("You Ain't Dolly," "Weed Instead of Roses"), social commentary ("Two Weeks Late," the extraordinary title track co-written with Guy Clark), and rollicking honkytonkers into a marvelously compelling whole. Fans of Monroe's pal (and Pistol Annies bandmate) Miranda Lambert will already know her voice, but newcomers will be dazzled by its gracefulness, and by Monroe's unrestrained confidence. Featuring yet another standout track co-written by Shane McAnally – the man is in many ways the story of popular country music in 2013 – "Like a Rose" is the third (along with "Same Trailer" and "12 Stories") in a trifecta of extraordinary, trailblazing country records by women looking to change the conversation. Amen to that. Song: "Like A Rose"
7. Brandy Clark – "12 Stories"
Brandy Clark, also writing with Shane McAnally, has made a record that in many ways can be described in the same words of praise as Kacey Musgraves'. But, with an album title that echoes Randy Newman's classic "12 Songs," Clark goes even further into the territory he occupied than does her younger contemporary. Playing the outspoken observer, the half-sensitive and half-arch chronicler of a certain North American way of life, Clark writes songs with an acid pen. Highlights abound, but the opening track "Pray to Jesus" may just be the very best song in this vein that I've heard in years. Balancing the bleakness of contemporary post-middle-class poverty with the futility of asking Jesus to let you win the lotto, Clark dares to suggest that even Christianity is a false panacea. A few songs later she's extolling the virtues of smoking dope to escape the pain of a housewife's wasted life. Country music has told stories like these before, of course, but it feels like a long time since we've heard them sung with such confidence and wisdom Song: "Pray To Jesus"
6. Valarie June – "Pushin' Against A Stone"
On her first official record, Memphis fixture Valerie June pushes at the very edges of what we might reasonably call "country" music. Swamp blues, Appalachian folk, traditional country, classic soul, and backporch gospel all rub up against each other in June's songs, while her unmistakable, reedy voice swirls around like smoke, carried aloft on Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys) and Kevin Augunas' tasteful, rich co-production. It's a magical album filled with troubled songs; less a country music record than a record haunted by country music. Irresistible. Standout Song: "Tennessee Time"
5. Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison – "Cheater's Game"
But, elsewhere, there's no justice at all. I'll never understand why Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison aren't more famous. On their respective solo records over the past 15 years they have proven, again and again, that they are masters of the form. Her voice is a rare thing, an instrument as powerfully expressive as it is unforgettable. And his songwriting – Robison penned "Travelin' Soldier" for the Dixie Chicks, and "Angry All the Time" for Tim McGraw, for instance – is exemplary. Together, this longtime married couple has fused their respective skills into a winning combination of road-tested experience and utterly fresh, radio-friendly performances. Mixing seven terrific original songs with six well-chosen covers -- Dave Alvin's "Border Radio" is a highlight among highlights -- this record is as much a celebration of the duo's influences as it is a demonstration of their powers. It is mystifying that so little attention has been directed towards this fantastic album. Let's fix that, shall we? Song: "Lifeline" (Live)
4. Kacey Musgraves – "Same Trailer, Different Park"
Breakout star Kacey Musgraves has somehow managed to square the circle that has bedeviled so many aspiring country artists these past decades. How do you write intelligent songs built around cutting social critiques and still sell more than like eleven records? Well, this is how: Find the perspective between outsider condescension and insider awareness, find the tone between satire and celebration, find the sound between urban radio pop and rural folk picking… find Kacey Musgraves and her fun, snappy, yet endlessly insightful portraits of a rural America impoverished by its own monotony, boredom, resignation. Like Randy Newman crossed with Lucinda Williams, Musgraves (and her talented co-writer Shane McAnally) finds complexity in the mundane – take the terrific album title, for starters. But what makes her rise to fame all the more astonishing is that she isn't afraid to skewer the sacred cows of her community, or of the notoriously conservative musical genre in which she writes and performs. Improbably, yet rightfully, this has made her into a star. There is some justice in pop music, after all. Song: "Merry Go 'Round"
3. Daniel Romano – "Come Cry With Me"
Over the past several years and three records, this Canadian troubadour has managed to write some of the best traditional country songs you're likely to have heard. Channeling classic George Jones or Charlie Rich, Romano embraces this antique form as a lost art, refusing to mock its earnestness, its sincerity, its sentimentalism. Refreshingly free of irony, Romano's take on tradition (perhaps due to his outsider status as a Canadian) is reverent and clear-eyed, frozen in time. This is no update on classic country music – it really is classic country music. "Come Cry With Me" could have been released 40 years ago. And it would've been among the best country records of that year, too. Timeless. Perfect. Song: "A New Love (Can Be Found)"
2. Caitlin Rose – "The Stand-In"
The most out-and-out pleasurable record of the year, relative newcomer Caitlin Rose's "The Stand-In" offers a genre-bending mix of country, pop, and melodic rock that would be at home on a mix with Neko Case, Patsy Cline and Sheryl Crow. An impressively confident vocalist, 25-year-old Rose's punkish poise is irresistible – just try not to be carried away by her energy on barnburner pop anthem "Menagerie" or the tight twanging-rock of "Only A Clown." "There's a little darkness hiding at the corner of your eye," she teases on "Silver Sings" (a song featuring delicious throwback production straight out of Jeff Lynne's late 1980s playbook), but she could well be singing about herself. It's the subtle tinge of melancholy that imbues this record with its timelessness. Even when she's making a joyful noise, there's something there, a creeping shadow. This is, as I say, a vastly pleasurable record – but it ain't mere confection. It's deeply rewarding, thrilling stuff. Song: "Only A Clown"
1. Jason Isbell – "Southeastern"
There is, simply, no better singer-songwriter working today, in any genre. Following an apprenticeship in the Drive-By Truckers and a pair of iffy (but occasionally brilliant) solo records, Jason Isbell spent the early 2010s honing his craft, tightening his focus, sobering up, and settling into his undeniable talent for storytelling. On 2011's masterful "Here We Rest," Isbell finally arrived, a fully formed and commanding presence. But, with this year's instant classic "Southeastern," Isbell has, rather remarkably, upped his game. Isbell has an uncanny knack for limning the contours of the southern American experience without descending into easy cliché. By no means a "traditional country" record – many of you may quibble with its inclusion here, considering its free borrowing from a range of musical traditions – Isbell has surely made an American record, an album built on the same hard luck stories, same proud rambling characters, same everyday struggles that move the music of his contemporaries in Nashville. Whatever your pleasure, this is it. The best record of 2013. Song: "Relatively Easy"
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13. Monster Truck - "Furiosity"
Stepping up to the meat-and-potatoes rawk 'n' roll stage left void by Chad Kroeger getting busy with Avril instead of new Nickelback (#smallmercies), Hamilton's Monster Truck delivered riffs and roars aplenty on its debut full-length. The Junos anointed the band Breakthrough Group of the Year and "Furiosity" is a strong contender for next year's Rock Album statuette. Featured Song: "The Lion"
12. Classified - "Classified"
Long gone are the days when only one Canadian rap artist could get attention at once. Far from the shadow of Drake, East Coast rapper Classified rose to the top of the country's charts with his 15th (!) studio album and its bouncy hit singles "Inner Ninja" and "3 Foot Tall." The disc is packed with notable collaborators —Kardinal Offishall, Raekwon, "X-Factor" star Olly Mur — but the real guest star is Classified the producer; his sharp talents will serve him well if, as he told Huffington Post earlier this year, he takes a break being an MC. Featured Song: "That Ain't Classy"
11. Daniel Romano - "Come Cry with Me"
This new platter of classic country should come packaged with handkerchiefs, for Daniel Romano's olde tyme hurting songs — many of which sound like they could have premiered at the Grand Ole Opry 50 years ago — will have you weeping in your beer and/or pillow. Romano's traditional drawl, sequinned suits and his irony-free performance style has been slowly but surely grabbing the attention of George Jones and Waylon Jennings fans as well as young listeners discovering traditional country for the first time. Featured Song: "He Lets Her Memory Go (Wild)"
10. Arcade Fire - "Reflektor"
Because even the worst Arcade Fire album — too long by half, a dance record you can't dance to — is better than most other albums these days. It's time to admit it, this is Canada's U2, and not every one of the band's experiments will be a winner but ultimately they will all be remembered. Featured Song: "Reflektor"
9. Young Galaxy - "Ultramarine"
Pretty indie pop is reaching critical mass out there, but Young Galaxy (Montrealers by way of Vancouver) made something special on this fourth record, conjuring pure pleasure from many different moods. "Pretty Boy" is the best kind of 21st century new wave; "New Summer" can take over from the Hip's "Bobcaygeon" as your favourite cottage sunset jam; "Fever" is classic clap-a-long. Basically, "Ultramarine" is the album you wanted "Reflektor" to be. Featured Song: "New Summer"
8. Tim Hecker - "Virgins"
Breaking out of the niche musical community that embraced his early experiments in drones and minimalism, Tim Hecker reaches new heights with this gorgeous collection of orchestral pieces. The abstract, unconventional structures and glitches of distorted noise are still there, but choreographed alongside organic instruments like woodwinds and harpsichord into a heavenly body of work. Featured Song: "Live Room + Live Room Out"
7. Brendan Canning - "You Gots 2 Chill"
Brendan Canning's not kidding. The second solo record from the Broken Social Scene founder is seriously mellowwwwww. The vibe is more living room than chill-out room, and each moment is carefully placed, fully present, from the opening acoustic guitar instrumental "Post Fahey" through dreamy folk for the Nick Cave and Elliott Smith lovers out there to the melancholy closer "Last Song for the Summer Hideaway." A fine follow-up move after Canning's soundtrack for the Lindsay Lohan flop "Canyons," putting him back on the 2013 "winners" list. Featured Song: "Plugged In"
6. City and Colour - "The Hurry and the Harm"
On his first solo album since the split of Alexisonfire, singer/guitarist Dallas Green kept to the realm of grave acoustic confessionals he's been releasing as City and Colour since 2005, but with a freedom to get out his innermost anxieties without concern for band fall-out. The result is portrait of an artist as an aging man, taking his first steps towards writing things not about himself (the single "Thirst"), all the while preoccupied with his own mortality ("Two Coins," "Death Song"). Melancholic Americana that successfully bridges Green's past and his future. Featured Song: "Two Coins"
5. Shad - Flying Colours
"I never thought on the day I started to write rhymes / That I might climb / And now it's like I / Just may be Jay-Z in my lifetime." He's been a One to Watch for almost a decade now but Shad still feels on the cusp of mainstream success. Regardless, "Flying Colours" is a tour de force, a true album with layer upon layer of clever wordplay both biographical and fantastical. His seven-minute track "Progress (Part 1: American Pie, Part 2: The Future is Here)" is as biting social commentary as you'll hear anywhere this year, and exhibits a musical sophistication that puts Shad up with the best anywhere in the world. Featured Song: "Stylin" featuring Saukrates
4. Majical Cloudz - "Impersonator"
Haunting and heavy, this minimal synthpop record from Montreal duo Majical Cloudz showcases one of the country's most compelling and strongest new vocalists in Devon Welsh. The former Grimes collaborator strips down to the bone here, his intense confessionals about friendship and loss, nightmares and death supported by a warm ambient pulse. Don't be fooled by the title "Impersonator," Welsh and his emo electronica is in a league of its own. Featured Song: "Childhood's End"
3. Tegan and Sara - "Heartthrob"
It came out way back in January and has thus been overshadowed by summer smashes from south of the border, but this seventh album from the Vancouver sisters was a giant leap in their pop songwriting prowess that catapulted them onto "Glee" and the Billboard Top 5 and should be remembered as one of 2013's best. Boasting slick production and killer hooks throughout, "Heartthrob" combines the best of youthful exuberance and adult insight into affairs of the heart, positioning Tegan and Sara as go-to for both teens and grown-ups. The duo's guest appearance on stage with Macklemore for "Same Love" at Osheaga in August was also a highlight of the year's music festival season. Featured Song: "I Was A Fool"
2. Drake - "Nothing Was the Same"
There were new albums from Avril, Celine and Bublé this year, but the only Canadian music superstar to drop a truly impressive effort was Drake. Never mind the overnight line-ups to score free T-shirts promoting "Nothing was the Same" in Toronto, New York and L.A, Kayne showing up to his OVO Fest, which has become Canada's first truly get-on-a-plane-for-this summer music festival, or his new role as global ambassador for the Raptors — it's the music that makes his world domination possible. This third album is polished and accomplished, "Hold On, We're Going Home" an instant classic and "Started from the Bottom" quickly entering the pop culture lexicon, something few Canadian artists have accomplished, ever. Featured Song: "Hold On, We're Going Home" ft. Majid Jordan
1. Basia Bulat - "Tall Tall Shadow"
Canada's legacy of female folk legends is secured in Basia Bulat, who has crafted the album of the year in Tall Tall Shadow. The 29-year-old singer/songwriter wields an autoharp, piano, organ, and a honeyed, raw voice that fans of Joni Mitchell and Feist would be foolish not buy into without prejudice post haste. Recorded in a naturally reverberating old dance hall and co-produced by Mark Lawson and Tim Kinsbury (a member of Arcade Fire), Tall Tall Shadow has a grandiose, ethereal sound that oozes comfort and joy, but the songs themselves are devastatingly tragic. Basia's plaintive vocal trilling on "It Can't Be You" will break your heart; the cheerful doo-wop handclaps of "Promise Not To Think About Love" will stitch it back up again. With pure, powerful melodies, brutally honest lyrics, but always full of much hope, "Tall Tall Shadow" is a masterwork from a woman ready for prime-time. Featured Song: "Tall Tall Shadow"
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10. Sky Ferreira — "Night Time, My Time"
Plagued with a drug arrest scandal just prior to singer Sky Ferreira's debut album release, "Night Time, My Time" became a highly overlooked — and severely under-promoted, as Ferreira pointed out in a Twitter rant against her record label — album which truly deserved all of our attention. It's a rewarding debut given the numerous delays behind its release, but the final product showed a pop artist whose versatility is well documented in this collection of songs, which vary from '80s power pop to Cat Power-inspired somber ballads. Standout track: "You're Not the One"
9. Chvrches — "The Bones Of What You Believe"
Glasgow trio Chvrches, like many on this list, produced one of the year's best debut albums because of their ability to hone in a signature sound right off the bat. Their heavy synth barrage of vibrant electronics sounds perfected like a science, with every loop and programmed beat fitted into its very specific place to set off the perfect sound foundation for singer Lauren Mayberry's sharp, pointed words. A brazen display of modern technology, Chvrches' human touches is what completes their sound, creating an album that's simultaneously futuristic and charismatic. Standout track: "Lies"
8. Lady Gaga — "ARTPOP"
Lady Gaga gives us her best album yet with "ARTPOP," an aspiring work of meta-dance pop glory. It's a cluttered album, but one that reveals humanity in the pristinely presented pop star. Tracks erupt with strange arrangements and production, but buried in there are indeed many melodic gems that manifest into anthemic throwdowns. It's the sort of wonderfully self-indulgent affair that is expected from Gaga, yet still pleasantly surprising. Standout track: "G.U.Y."
7. Arcade Fire — "Reflektor"
Following up their Grammy Award-winning album "The Suburbs," Montreal indie-rockers Arcade Fire upped the ambition with a two-disc opus this year called "Reflektor." Embracing a more celebratory, upbeat sound that crosses over into pop territory -- with some help from LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy — "Reflektor" translates the band's reflective words into something worth dancing to as opposed to toiling over. It's a glittering piece of work that maintains the band's sincerity while exploring new sounds that are just as big and determined. Standout track: "Afterlife"
6. Miley Cyrus – "Bangerz"
We may have fixated on many of Miley Cyrus' actions this year – twerking, pot-smoking, pants-neglecting – but the true engine that drove the mania we saw before us was the pop star's transformative album, "Bangerz." A matured step outside of the safe bubblegum hooks of her past, Cyrus embraced a bombastic new look and sound that actually paid off. Singles "We Can't Stop" and "Wrecking Ball" are among some of the year's best songs with infectious melodies that possess a gift of longevity, a rarity in pop music today. But beyond that, the entire album proves to be an accurate portrait of a child star's growing pains: it's rebellious, it's shameless and it's everything one should expect from a 20-year-old woman trying to discover who she really is. Standout track: "Wrecking Ball"
5. Charli XCX - "True Romance"
Responsible for co-writing Swedish duo Icona Pop's breakout hit, "I Love It," British songwriter/pop star Charli XCX released her own full-length this year, crafting the perfect hooks for herself using similar traits from her most successful hit. Brash pop melodies combined with industrial, house and mainstream influences from many eras, Charli's collage sound is very much the patchwork of a young woman who grew up in the age of the Internet (she's only 21). Still, what stands out most is the star's writing abilities, which have since earned her opportunities to work with the Princess of Pop herself, Britney Spears. Standout track: "You (Ha Ha Ha)"
4. Ariana Grande — "Yours Truly"
Heavily lauded as the new Mariah Carey, Ariana Grande has some large, diva-sized shoes to fill and her debut album, "Yours Truly," delivers. Matching Carey's range, octave for octave, Grande's honeyed vocals soar above a set of equally saccharine ballad-pop piano and R&B-influenced songs. "Yours Truly" successfully pulls Grande out of the shadow of her predecessors and shines the spotlight forward on one of pop's brightest stars. Standout track: "Baby I"
3. Lorde – "Pure Heroine"
Pop took a new form in Ella Yelich-O'Connor, a.k.a. Lorde, this year. The now-17-year-old New Zealander burst onto the charts, spanning the board of genres from pop to R&B, with her breakout track "Royals," which decries the unrelatable opulence espoused in the songs of her contemporaries. Her debut full-length "Pure Heroine" follows suit, showcasing Lorde's innate skill for crafting direct and honest lyrics about how it feels to be a normal teenager while navigating around sparse electronic arrangements inspired by bands such as The xx. The confident Lorde has proven that she has a lot to say — sometimes even outside of her music, as her ever-growing list of beefs might indicate — and we're definitely excited to hear more from the young star in the years to come. Standout track: "Team"
2. Justin Timberlake – "The 20/20 Experience Part 1"
The music world welcomed back Justin Timberlake this year after a seven-year absence and "The 20/20 Experience Part 1" is just as lavish and extravagant as we had hoped for. Teaming up with longtime collaborator/producer Timbaland, "The 20/20 Experience" is Timberlake at his most polished and sophisticated as he flawlessly executes pop songs with his signature falsetto like the seasoned pro that he is. And even though the poorly thought-out mess that was "The 20/20 Experience Part 2" almost threatened to erase the progress of its more triumphant half, "Part 1" is a great, constant reminder that Timberlake does indeed belong on the charts even more than he does on the big screen. Standout track: "Mirrors"
1. Tegan and Sara – "Heartthrob"
Many would say that the sleek and polished pop of Tegan and Sara's seventh studio album "Heartthrob" was a huge departure from their past work, which dabbled in folk, punk and alternative rock. But what was always present in the band's 15-plus years of writing and recording was their innate knack for a good melody. Instead of churning out another riff-heavy rock album, Tegan and Sara bravely jumped ship into the synth-pop game, resulting in a product that still held their integrity in its direct, lovelorn lyrics, but packaged in a radio-friendlier exterior that truthfully suits the band better. Standout track: "Closer"
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10. The Dirtbombs - "Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-Blooey"
Detroit veterans The Dirtbombs decided to shine their light on '60s pop act Ohio Express and they did so with such accuracy that it almost plays like a parody album. Putting away their often-used fuzz lines and pinpointing the idea of drums functioning as hooks, this record is also on par with anything done by the Archies or Sha Na Na. Standout track: "Hot Sour Salty Sweet"
9. Connan Mockasin – "Caramel"
If you're the kind of person who still pitches woo by making mixed tapes, go in strong by including Connan Mockasin's single off his most recent release, "I'm The Man, That Will Find You." It's smooth and romantic and just weird enough to be intriguing. The album plays like a less obtuse Ariel Pink, if Dean Learner delivered it from his talk show. If this is where psychedelic music is moving towards, start paying attention. Standout track: "I'm The Man, That Will Find You"
8. War Baby - "Jesus Horse"
Any listener will give this record an obligatory Bleach comparison, and that's fair but with EDM ruling the airwaves as well as the live industry, it's a healthy reminder to re-discover your spastic guitar roots. With frontman Jon Red's House-Of-Guitars-style of absurdist humour in their videos and social media, and a live show that makes them sell out of merchandise nightly, expect big things from this rising act in the next two years. Standout track: "Horseless Headman"
7. Louise Burns -"The Midnight Mass"
It's mildly en vogue to switch lanes from dreamy, guitar pop into a more electronic realm, but Louise Burns' second record did it with more aplomb than her contemporaries. Instead of attempting to become a radio sensation by getting hyper-billboard producers and writers on board (which we'll call "The Liz Phair Manoeuver") Ms. Burns enlisted The Raveonettes' Sune Rose Wagner to man the controls on a darker record than one might expect from her. Also with the help of indie all-stars Sandra Vu (Dum Dum Girls), Gregg Foreman (Cat Power), Darcy Hancock (Ladyhawk), Brennan Saul (Brasstronaut), and James Younger, Louise Burns is in an indie episode of Hollywood Squares, and she's in Betty White's seat. Standout track: "Don't Like Sunny Days" Featured song: "Emerald Shatter"
6. Yuck - "Glow And Behold"
Yuck had a mountain to climb with their follow-up to their scorching, self-titled debut and they nailed it by doing something we don't see in music that often anymore: parity. All the songs have different styles to them, instead of just trying to make a sequel to the album that got them so much attention. "Rebirth" might be the most obvious "Loveless" tribute ever made (and that's saying something), "Middle Sea" could be on any Placebo full-length, and "Nothing New" belongs on Ash's 2001 release "Free All Angels." Standout track: "Middle Sea"
5. The Ballantynes – "Liquor Store Gun Store Pawn Shop Church"
Northern soul was the original rave music. That beat can make any wallflower turn into a stomping, sweaty mess, and the fact that it's under-utilized is one of the great shames of fashionable music. Vancouver's The Ballantynes may be one of the only acts doing a straight-ahead version of this style, but they're not lazy about it. With vintage Hammonds and powerful backups vocals, they are being true to the genre and making even young fans nostalgic for a time they don't remember. Standout track: "No Love"
4. Teenanger - "Singles Don't $ell"
Toronto's Teenanger released their third full-length this year and it's made some long strides in securing them as the country's finest garage-punk act. Without falling into the trap of being a tribute to the decades-old genre, "Singles Don't $ell" has seen their songwriting go beyond what many fans thought they could, and coupled with some of the most interesting production on guitar-based music since Grinderman, Teenanger have stepped up another full plateau. Standout track: "Singles Don't $ell"
3. HAIM - "Days Are Gone"
The Haim sisters get a lot of backlash, mostly from stylish, talented, young women, in the same way that hip men in the early part of the century quickly turned on the White Stripes after they went all MTV on us. It should be noted that HAIM are definitely not a "put together" band unless you count their parents training them up from a young age to be a juggernaut live act, complete with top shelf charm and Este's now famous "bass face." Standout track: "Forever" Also see: <a href="http://youtu.be/OlN9AJkgeYk" target="_blank">David Letterman fall deeply in love with them</a>.
2. The History of Apple Pie – "Out of View"
We're living in a time of '90s revisionism with the popularity of acts like the Weeknd and Sleigh Bells being both critical stars and touring machines, and London's The History of Apple Pie are one part <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Records" target="_blank">Sarah Records</a> act and two parts <a href="http://youtu.be/VW15vdcNSSk" target="_blank">The Rentals</a>. If your soul is empty because there hasn't been a new Pains of Being Pure at Heart record in two years, fill it with "Out of View." Standout track: "Mallory"
1. Cut Copy - "Free Your Mind"
It looked a little bleak for Cut Copy recently. With the massively underwhelming release of 2011's "Zonoscope," the fact that band members were living in different hemispheres, and the somewhat boring first single off Free "Your Mind," they looked like they might sink in the same way peers MGMT and Bloc Party have. However, their latest album is rich with texture in the variety of songs, and indie-meets-deep-house production. Cut Copy is back, and this might be their best album yet. Standout track: "Meet Me In a House of Love"
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10. Robin Thicke - "Blurred Lines"
Robin Thicke manages to land at the end of this list by a hair; he is yet another testament to white artists doing their thing in a traditionally black genre in 2013. Yeah, "Blurred Lines" officially earned the title of "catchiest ear worm for the summer" this year — earning American-Canadian singer-songwriter Robin Thicke the breakout hit he's wanted since forever — but the song remains controversial both on the misogynistic and litigious side of things. Alan Thicke's baby boy incurred the wrath of many for the song's provocative lyrics and also ended up getting sued by, the estate of the late soul singer Marvin Gaye for "copyright infringement" for alleged similarities between the song and the classic "Got To Give It Up." But to be fair, as an album "Blurred Lines" actually holds up, especially considering that the blue-eyed soul singer can actually sing and write and has been doing so for years now without a mainstream hit. Before "Blurred Lines," that is.
9. Mayer Hawthorne - "Where Does This Door Go"
Ann Arbor, Michigan's Mayer Hawthorne truly found his groove in 2013 with third studio album "Where Does This Door Go." The Pharrell-produced album borrows elements of old-school soul through the lens of blue-eyed soul acts such as Steely Dan and Hall & Oates, transforming Hawthorne from someone who just dabbled in the genre to an artist finally taking things a bit more seriously. While his first two albums (2009's critically acclaimed "A Strange Arrangement" and 2011's "How Do You Do") felt a tad forced on the Motown soul tip, "Where Does This Door Go" holds up on repeated listens and stands as a promising direction for the "neo-soul" singer-songwriter.
8. Blood Orange - "Cupid Deluxe"
Released toward the end of the year, the fact that producer Dev Hynes's second album as Blood Orange is on this year is a testament to his strong brand of gritty, urban soul. As a long-time producer for artists such as Beyonce's little sis Solange Knowles, Florence Welch and the Chemical Brothers, with solo album "Cupid Deluxe" he lets his stylish aesthetic and diverse musical tendencies run wild, weaving in elements of classic R&B, pop and hip-hop to build a project that intrigues as it entrances.
7. Justin Timberlake - "The 20/20 Experience Part I"
If there's anyone who straddles the lines between crossover R&B and pop, it's Justin. The first part of his comeback two-parter "The 20/20 Experience" — which won an American Music Awards for Favorite Soul/R&B Album — is a reminder that Britney Spears' ex has successfully mined traditional R&B genre tropes for mass appeal and success. As a white soul singer, The Tennessee-raised Timberlake coins his falsetto-fuelled sound "Memphis Soul" and it's completely won over mainstream audiences.


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In 1999, Bob Taylor achieved a feat accomplished by no other home improvement executive in the annals of business journalism.
He was compared with "Bonanza" character Adam Cartwright and U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush — in the same article.
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Well folks next year is going to be a bummper of a rugby year. The Kings have finally been included in the SuperXV and I can for one say that our preparation is going well. Some people have written us off so I am here today to help rally up some sa support for the Southern Kings in 2013. I truly believe we are going to surprise allot of people. We shall be having an autograph day on the 19th December outside Nelson Mandela Stadium. Thanks for all your support!
The Kings are going to be the whipping boys of the comp. Its a disgrace how they gained entry into the competition. It had stuff all to do with sport and to sports/rugby lovers that is just not forgiveable
Saffex you just do not understand the bigger picture.
The bigger picture is a political one, there is no place for politics in sport. Sport is about merit and merit alone. As a rugby lover there is no credibility in watching a token side playing in a comp where clearly they will be way out of their depth. Its a digrace and will be an embarrassment to SA rugby.
The decision to inlude the Kings was made by a bunch of clowns who clearly have no rugby agenda at all. Do these fools really think that by having the Kings embarrassed every week that that is going to develop the game in the EC? Talk about short sighetd and naive.
Its been how many years now that the ANC has been in power and we are still seeing these pathetic political games at play
Hi there Luke I just want to say I cant be in PE on the 19th to sign autographs due to prior pressing engaments.
I dont of course agree with snapster entirely . With a bit of luck SARU will have the pants sued off them for this caper and they will think twice berfore trying one like this again. And Luke we all understand only to well the vile circumstances which saw you guys coming through the back door using race and political connections etc etc.
Luke you guys needed to come through the front door. In case you do not know what that means allow me to explain. You should have got into the Currie Cup as a first step (Why in the world do you think a vodacom cup side deserves Super 15 status!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). Then you needed to do well enough there to challenge for a spot in the super 15.
So no, outside of EP very few wish you well and we hope to see the Lions back in Super 15 next year.
However if you earn your spot some time in the future I for one will wish you well but never under these disgusting circumstances.
Sorr ywe cant be more positive about the queens but in the circumstances it is just not possible. We have nothing against the players themselves but the whole deal stinks.
I saw this posting by Luke Watson and did not respond to it because it looked like it was a kind of "official post" by the originator. Was there a similar message on other sites as well? It is not worth responding and will only create a negative image of this site in the eyes of the Kings.
We all agree there are serious problems in the process whereby a team that cannot get into the top division of the CC got into the Super Series - even though they are trying to get extraneous players into the system. We also know that the decision was not really rugby-related and that is bound to be problematic from a log point of view.
However, I think that to respond to the message posted raising issues like politics in sport will not solve anything and have no positive results. Lets look at the issue based on rugby only - ie results in matches of the Kings in Super Series next year and see whether the means used justify the results achieved.
So you are saying Mike that we must all acept this political interference and racist agenda Mike. Trouble is it is ruining the country as merit is thrown out the door and colour and political allegiance are the criteria. Cadre deployment has been a disaster and BEE etc benefiting only a narrow band of anc corrupt politivcians - and here we see the same spirit at work. No there are more and more voices being raised in the country against all this cadre deployment and corruption and lack of service deilivery, lack of decent education and lack of job growth. Its all has the same root - race and political based issues trumping merit. This must be fought wherever possible.
Well said Mike.
The guys are inn so let's judge them now on what they do with it. No-one can change the past.
Good luck to your team Luke.
In a season of goodwill - lets keep the issue of politics out in this case and concentrate on rugby. Rugby - afterall - is what this site is all about.
Sorry Mike I do get heated on this one. The season of goodwill must reign!!!!
No chance of this guy really being Luke though. Pity as it would be great having him around and giving us his views etc.
No politics in sport.
No time for goodwill.
No time for Puke.
No time for the Queens.
Just warch them get slaughtered.
Can't wait for the season to start.
Aussie bookies are offering great odds....so get your money in play.


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Lissa, who had a career as a gospel signer and then a crossover country star, had made millions until her sleazy manager bilked her and others of their money. Both she and the manager were indicted for fraud. He escaped, she was left to try to pay off their debts and flee the curious who wanted to know more. But even before Evan shows up, the past is starting to intrude on Lissa. Someone is prowling near her trailer at night and while Evan is in town a reporter shows up in search of the vanished country singer. Lissa doesn't want to listen to the other residents in Paradise when they tell her it may be time for her to leave, but she is starting to wonder if she will have any choice in the matter.
Evan and Lissa are interested in each other of course. His career doesn't allow him to stay in Paradise for long but their attraction doesn't let him stay away. But his desire to ferret out truth keeps Lissa wary. She doesn't want others to know about her past. Lissa wavers between her natural inclination to help others and her newly acquired ability to shut others out as Evan tries to get close. Evan isn't even sure why he wants to get close, of course, since he has plenty of eager women waiting for him elsewhere and has no desire to get involved permanently.
Evan's gradual fall into love is well done. His love for his own family makes him more than a handsome but one-dimensional hero. Lissa is also interesting, though not necessarily as believable a character. She remains a bit passive through the story although you can understand and sympathize with her desire to hide out while she works on paying off her debts.
Still, you like them both and root for their success in sorting out Lissa's problems. They are sorted out, of course. Some of the sorting out is a little too easy, but it isn't outside the realm of possibility. This book is certainly worth a read -- and makes you want to read the rest of the series on the Hendersons, since it looks like some of the brothers' problems are going to be harder to work out.
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"On my best day, I never dreamed my life would improve this much."
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Quote:Hello cloudy-nightersI think my inexperience may be showing...The 6" dobs from Skywatcher and Saxon both have 2" (51mm) focussers, but only 34.5mm secondary mirrors. As a 1.25" (31.7mm) eyepiece is just about big enough to capture the available light from a 34.5mm mirror, is there any any point buying a 2" eyepiece for either of these telescopes?thanks...Mark
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Quote:Thanks JohnI don't really understand about the effect of non-illumination of the outer portion of an eyepiece 'input aperture' (should that be field stop?).Would there be any added field of view at all if the small secondary only directs light through the middle portion of a large field stop eyepiece?My concern was that telescope manufacturers might put in big focussers as a mere fashion statement. I feel a bit silly saying so. Getting cynical in old age perhaps.cheers...Mark
Quote:One way to think about this is to consider that you are looking at the primary mirror through a pinhole in the focuser.
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Quote:Thanks Jon and Ted.I am now equipped to demonstrate a greater depth of ignorance...How come a bigger eyepiece gives a bigger real field of view if even a pinhole will see the whole primary mirror. Surely the eyepiece diameter doesn't increase the FOV seen by the primary mirror?Newbishly yours...Mark
Quote:Glenn and JonThank you for your valiant attempts at clearing the fog. I think I'm getting it about off-axis partial illumination in the eyepiece, though questions remain. I assume that if an eyepiece field stop can 'swallow' the whole focal plane, the maximum real field of view is seen through the exit pupil. Here's the thing: if the curvature of the primary is designed so that the whole focal plane is 'swallowable' by a 1.25" eyepiece, I don't get why a 2" eyepiece should increase the total field of view.
Quote:This raises another question (sorry). If the entire light cone from the primary, when it reaches the eyepiece, is smaller than the eyepiece field stop, why isn't the real field of view of the eyepiece the whole 7 degrees of the scope?
Quote:why isn't the real field of view of the eyepiece the whole 7 degrees of the scope?
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Quote:This brings me back to the title of this thread. I suppose that if the minor axis of the secondary mirror (34.5mm) of a 6" F8 dob is only 0.75 x the max field stop diameter of a 2" eyepiece(46mm), and the secondary is close to the field stop, the max real FoV may be constricted a bit by the secondary, but who maxes out the FoV anyway?
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Quote:is this still the beginners forum?
Quote:there is a point to buying a 2" EP for any scope that will take it: the wider field of view will help you in a "finder eyepiece".
Quote:Wow! Quite a few interesting posts here. I don't know that anyone answered your practical question though. If you're like me and you don't use a finder scope, then there is a point to buying a 2" EP for any scope that will take it: the wider field of view will help you in a "finder eyepiece". Poorly-illuminated, ridiculous giant exit pupil, no matter. Having a 2 or 3 degree true field of view to look through makes star hopping *much* easier. To say nothing of the aesthetic delight of such a rich field.
Quote:OK then! Guess I'd better start saving for a 2" wide field eyepiece and a 2" barlow/telextender.A pity the Orion 6" dob only has a 1.25" focuser, but the Saxon/Skywatcher 6" dobs don't have intelliscope. Oh well.Thanks All...Mark
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Quote:the real FOV is identical to the angular width of the field stop if viewed from the centre of the objective lens.
Quote:1. Why is it assumed that the rays from the distant object (the top, middle and bottom of a distant tree, say) all pass through the centre of the objective lens?
Quote:Surely they spray all over the objective.
Quote:Is it that the spray from a particular bit of the tree is either focused to the same point as the ray through the middle
Quote:2. Just confirming: Is the focal plane located at what I used to think of as the focal point? (ie one focal length from the objective/primary?)


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One of the key drivers to IT security investment is compliance. Several industries are bound by various mandates that require certain transparencies and security features. They are designed to mitigate aspects of risk including maintaining the sacrosanctity of customer information, financial data and other proprietary information.
One such affected vertical is retail. No matter if you're Wal-Mart or Nana's Knitted Kittens, if you store customer information; if you process payments using customer's credit cards, you are required by law to comply with a variety of security standards. Although there are several auditing agencies and mandating bodies, today we will concentrate on the one compliance agency that is typically applicable to every retailer-PCI.
PCI (Payment Card Industry) enforces Data Security Standards that looks to ensure that ALL companies that process, store or transmit credit card information maintain a secure environment. Now of course, not all merchants are created equal. Nana obviously doesn't process the volume or the dollar amount of a national or even a high traffic regional retailer. However, this doesn't let Nana off the hook. Her online shopping cart still needs to be Payment Application DSS validated (PCI compliant). She still is required to pass security audits of her network…just not as often.
But for the sake of this example, let's assume you are a retailer who processes more than 20,000 transactions a year and the administrative burden of PCI is a real concern. In fact, it is a business necessity to maintain merchant accounts with VISA, American Express and MasterCard. And it is hugely important to keep the confidence of your customers. Fines for non-compliance aside, a breach of your network could cost millions of dollars. And that doesn't begin to calculate the cost of customer defection through loss of trust.
Most, if not all, retailers have some sort of PCI monitoring in place. However, they are often cumbersome, expensive and resource heavy. Additionally, too many retail organizations don't employ a compliance officer, much less a dedicated security person. This doesn't mean these functions aren't part of someone's job description. Typically, they are yet another line item in a plethora of competing priorities and mission critical initiatives. In that security can be considered a cost center, the move to simply do the bare minimum to meet compliance is often an attractive alternative. Until now. Until the cloud. More specifically, a holistic enterprise security initiative deployed and managed from the cloud.
So how does cloud-based security/security-as-a-service meet the requirements of PCI while driving down costs, freeing up personnel resources and providing an easy-yet-comprehensive suite of capabilities and functions?
The easiest way to illustrate the potential is to look at the individual PCI requirements and how they are addressed from the cloud:
1. Protect Data: A cloud-based SIEM offering can accomplish the most important feature of this requirement: the ability to instantly recognize any change, intrusion or activity to your firewall IN REAL TIME. That's the key. There isn't the lag of looking at all the logs a week later when the damage has been done, or not being able to tell a suspicious action from a white noise false positive. Whereas many SIEM products can do just this, ones from the cloud provide the additional benefit of 7/24/365 monitoring across the entire enterprise. And, you get a scope of visibility of Fortune 500 class protection for literally pennies on the dollar.
2. No vendor-supplied defaults for system passwords and other security parameters: This process is typically enforced by an identity management protocol. The system includes a password management and synchronization feature. The overarching benefit here is SIEM and identity management are two separate functions from two separate applications. However, applying a holistic solution from the cloud gives you the additional flexibility to recognize new accounts, check device configurations and know when and where configurations have deviated from your standards including the entry of too many incorrect passwords
3. Protect cardholder data: Not only are you required to protect and store data, but ensure encryption of any transmission of that data across public networks. The application of situational awareness is an effective means of capturing, encrypting and storing (and destroying) certain pieces of information and then providing the auditing regulatory agency with proof that your best practices are in line with internal and external policies. This is the heart of your security and should be treated as such. For instance an immediate alert can be escalated if anyone pings the server in which your data is stored and you can instantly move to block them out or allow access depending on their internally designed permissions.
4. Maintain a Vulnerability Management Program: This includes securing SaaS applications and regularly updating anti-virus software. Again the answer is in the clouds. Single sign on and web authentication can tie together all the permissible applications and provide user provisioning. What makes this especially valuable in the cloud is the speed in which connectors can be created and distributed to only those who require the application. For instance, shipping doesn't need to see the HR applications and marketing doesn't require access to inventory programs.
5. Implement strong access control methods: As PCI specifically says access to personal and sensitive data is on a "Business need to know," cloud-based identity managementprovides control and creates specific provisioning on who can see what and have access to which data. It gives you the visibility and the audit reports to show who accessed what, when and from what device. Again, the cloud version of this solution ties it together with all the other security solutions giving it true enterprise context.
6. Collect logs and applications impacted by PCI: Log management is one of the most time intensive aspects of security. Not only do the logs need to be collected, but they also need to be studied for traffic patterns, suspicious anomalies, improper or failed access and create an audit trail for card processing systems. An automated system can only do so much and most organizations don't spend a great deal of man hours scouring millions of lines of machine code. That's where log management from the cloud is a huge time and asset saver. Not only does it have the automation to review and categorize this code, but security-as-a-service provides the additional human expertise to piece together the situational awareness from multiple silos to give a true report of the security of the enterprise. It's like having an expert analyst on staff without the associated costs. And of course, those logs can be archived in accordance with PCI requirements for 1 year.
PCI is just one agency with its strict set of requirements. Now imagine the cost and personnel savings when having to comply with multiple agencies. A VP of Ops from a nationally recognized retail company told me he deals with six agencies on a regular basis. Without a holistic and centralized security approach, he would waste endless hours through redundant reporting. With the application of security centralization, 75 hours per month becomes 10. And more importantly, the degree of accuracy of the reporting is significantly better.
In the above six line items, I described four or five different solutions. That in itself can be a heavy investment...unless you look at layering in the cloud. If you are inclined, there is a growing best practice platform of unified security whereby a company can achieve all these goals by leveraging all the solutions into one single source managed from the cloud (cost-effective, enterprise-powered and compliance -ready). But, that is enough ammunition for several other blogs...so keep posted.
So if compliance is one of your banes of business, maybe it's time you took a deeper look at the cloud.
Kevin Nikkhoo
Always PCI compliant! (HIPAA compliant too. And CIP, and SOX, GLBA and many, many others!)
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The Seahawks thought enough of offensive lineman James Carpenter to draft him with the 25th overall pick in 2011 instead of Andy Dalton, a player Seattle liked and one who would have addressed what was then a need at quarterback.
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