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Social Marketing: The 10% Solution
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Marc van Gurp, editor of the cause and N4P marketing blog Osocio, shared an interesting study from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (via phsyorg.com) that describes the science behind the "Tipping Point" theory of social change.
Interestingly enough, while Malcolm Gladwell described it as an "80/20″ phenomenon, where 20% of the population are the movers, Rensselaer calculated that number as being as few as 10%.
…when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) at Rensselaer, used computational and analytical methods to discover the tipping point where a minority belief becomes the majority opinion. The finding has implications for the study and influence of societal interactions ranging from the spread of innovations to the movement of political ideals.
"When the number of committed opinion holders is below 10 percent, there is no visible progress in the spread of ideas. It would literally take the amount of time comparable to the age of the universe for this size group to reach the majority," said SCNARC Director Boleslaw Szymanski, the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at Rensselaer. "Once that number grows above 10 percent, the idea spreads like flame.
This phenomenon has huge implications for social marketers. After all, how many times have you come up against a campaign brief in which the target audience was "everyone"?
Intuitively, and through experience, those of us in the business of social marketing know that "everyone" is no more of a target market than "ASAP" is a deadline. We deal in realistic objectives and measurable outcomes.
Most social marketing agencies have a model of change that categorizes different groups according to their awareness of, or stand on, an issue.
Uninformed — The issue is not even on the target's radar, the focus is on informing the audience through basic facts.
Aware — The target audience has heard porno gay of the issue, but is uncommitted or unconvinced of its importance. The intent at this stage is to persuade the audience with reasons and consequences for action.
Motivated — The audience is ready to change, but hasn't. A campaign at this stage will be motivational, overcoming barriers to action.
Active — The audience has made some change, but has not committed full-time. At this stage we provide reinforcement to inspire continuous action.
Champion — The target group is full of true believers who motivate and influence other groups. The focus is on acknowledgment, maintaining interesting and enthusiasm, and providing tools to allow them to influence others.
What the Rensselaer implies is what we have been telling clients for years: Create champions, and the rest will follow, pulled forward by the tide of change.
An important aspect of the finding is that the percent of committed opinion holders required to shift majority opinion does not change significantly regardless of the type of network in which the opinion holders are working. In other words, the percentage of committed opinion holders required to influence a society remains at approximately 10 percent, regardless of how or where that opinion starts and spreads in the society.
This has huge implications for messaging and media strategy. By understanding who your potential 10% are, what they do and what they believe, you can target them more personally and effectively. The timing could not be better, as digital and social media channels allow more precise and efficient customization than ever before.
To reach their conclusion, the scientists developed computer models of various types of social networks. One of the networks had each person connect to every other person in the network. The second model included certain individuals who were connected to a large number of people, making them opinion hubs or leaders. The final model gave every person in the model roughly the same number of connections. The initial state of each of the models was a sea of traditional-view holders. Each of these individuals held a view, but were also, importantly, open minded to other views.
Once the networks were built, the scientists then "sprinkled" in some true believers throughout each of the networks. These people were completely set in their views and unflappable in modifying those beliefs. As those true believers began to converse with those who held the traditional belief system, the tides gradually and then very abruptly began to shift.
Why waste 90% of your budget marketing a cause, action or change in belief to the general public? Real change happens in a networked way, beyond your direct control. Your job is to start that fire by motivating, uniting and arming your minority with strong and sharable messages and tools.
An interesting example is the issue of same-sex marriage in the United States. Despite fierce resistance from reactionaries, equal marriage is now supported by over half of Americans. I like to imagine that this was an effect of lesbian porn the 10% (assumed) of the population who are gay coming out and speaking out as a result of pride movements. Once their friends and family learned to accept this reality, homosexuality was on its way to being normalized in the society as straight people started to speak out for equal rights as well, spurred on by movements like It Gets Better, fckh8 and George Takei's hilarious social media rants. This created a ripple effect which took public opinion from President Bill Clinton's restrictive Defense of Marriage Act to President Barack Obama (in a dramatic turnaround) publicly calling for its repeal as more and more states legalize same-sex marriage.
The key lesson here is that minorities matter. Smart milf porn social marketers, cause marketers and political marketers will benefit from this knowledge by focusing their efforts on the 10% solution.
"In general, people do not like to have an unpopular opinion and are always seeking to try locally to come to consensus. We set up this dynamic in each of our models," said SCNARC Research Associate and corresponding paper author Sameet Sreenivasan. To accomplish this, each of the individuals in the models "talked" to each other about their opinion. If the listener held the same opinions as the speaker, it reinforced the listener's belief. If the opinion was different, the listener considered it and moved on to talk to another person. If that person also held this new belief, the listener then adopted that belief.
"As agents of change start to convince more and more people, the situation begins to change," Sreenivasan said. "People begin to question their own views at first and then completely adopt the new view to spread it even further. If the true believers just influenced their neighbors, that wouldn't change anything within the larger system, as we saw with percentages less than 10."
The research has broad implications for understanding how opinion spreads. "There are clearly situations in which it helps to know how to efficiently spread some opinion or how to suppress a developing opinion," said Associate Professor of Physics and co-author of the paper Gyorgy Korniss. "Some examples might be the need to quickly convince a town to move milfs before a hurricane or spread new information on the prevention of disease in a rural village."
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SAN DIEGO, CA -- Raymond E. Desjean 86, of San Diego, CA, and formerly a resident in Fitchburg, MA, passed away after a short illness in San Diego, with his two granddaughters, Mary and Ashleigh by his side.
He was born in Fitchburg, MA, January 16, 1928, the son of William and Ida (Croteau) Desjean. He was raised in Fitchburg, where he attended school and then attended the National Radio Institute in Washington, D.C. where he studied radio and television repair.
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He was the proud father of six children, Steven and his wife, Annette Desjean of Baldwinville, MA, Russell and wife, Lena Desjean of San Diego, CA., David Desjean of Fitchburg, MA, Patricia and husband, Robert Howe of Fitchburg, MA, Joyce and husband, Kevin Houle of Baldwinville, MA, his grandchildren whom he adored, Mary Desjean, Jennifer Colazzo, Keith Desjean, Alicia and Theodore Howe, SGT. Jordan S. Bain and Ashleigh Bain, Tyler Desjean, and Chad Desjean; three great-granddaughters, Lauren Colazzo, Lilith Rush, and Aubrey Desjean; two brothers, Richard and Roland Desjean, three sisters, Jeannette Desjean, Betty Baldarelli, and Anita Paquette; along with several nephews and nieces. He was predeceased by his oldest son, Thomas Desjean in 2012, his brothers, Paul and Armand Desjean and his loving wife, Jeanne (Cormier) Desjean on April 17, 2007. They were married in 1949 and had a long and happy marriage. They were members of Our Lady of the Lake Church in Leominster, MA.
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My Sweet Manicotti in Meat Sauce
Total Time
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40 minsThis is a GREAT dish. My family loves it and its a little bit of a twist on your traditional manicotti!
Nutrition- 1 lb ground beef
- 15 maple sausage
- 2 eggs
- 2 lbs ricotta cheese
- 2 (24 ounce) jars spaghetti sauce, we like to use both three cheese flavor and tomato and basil flavored mixed
- 1 (8 ounce) box manicotti
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 1⁄2 cups mozzarella cheese
- 1⁄4 cup KRAFT Shredded Parmesan Cheese
- 5 fresh Italian parsley (strands)
- Sauce: Brown the meat in a skillet with your italian seasonings and garlic salt, drain when done to get fat off.
- Heat sausage up so that you can cut it into little peices, it will cook the rest of the way when in the oven.
- Combine your pasta sauce, meat, and sausage and mix together over low heat.
- While making your filling start boiling your manicotti noodles. Follow directions on box to go about boiling the noodles.
- Filling: Mix ricotta, 1 and 1/2 cups mozarella (the rest will go on top), some of the parmesean (save enough to sprnkle on top), sugar, and chopped parsley in a large mixing bowl. Add in some dried basil. (about 3 shakes).
- Take a gallon size ziplock baggy and put the filling inside. Cut a hole in bottom corner so you can squeeze filling out.
- Layer some of your pasta sauce across the bottom of the pan so the noodles do not stick to pan and because theres no such thing as too much sauce!
- Take your noodles and your ziplock and fill noodles full of filling. When all noodles are filled and aligned in your casserole pan pour remaining sauce on top of manicotti.
- Sprinkle with your leftover mozzarella and parmesean.
- Cover with foil and bake in oven at 350 for 30 minutes, then take foil off and bake an addition 10 minutes.
- Take your manicotti noodles and fill the.
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Serving Size: 1 (340 g)
Servings Per Recipe: 6
- Amount Per Serving
- % Daily Value
- Calories 846.3
- Calories from Fat 422
- 50%
- Total Fat 46.9 g
- 72%
- Saturated Fat 24.6 g
- 123%
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- 41%
- Total Carbohydrate 53.1 g
- 17%
- Dietary Fiber 4.4 g
- 17%
- Sugars 14.9 g
- 59%
- Protein 50.7 g
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Harris Teeter Supermarkets, Inc. Reports Fiscal 2012 Results
Harris Teeter Supermarkets, Inc. (NYSE:HTSI) (the "Company") today reported that sales for the 52 weeks ended October 2, 2012 increased by 5.8% to $4.54 billion from $4.29 billion in fiscal 2011. Sales for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012 increased by 3.7% to $1.14 billion from $1.10 billion in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011. The increase in sales for the year and quarter was driven by an increase in comparable store sales and sales from new stores, partially offset by store closings. Comparable store sales increased by 3.97% for the year, and 3.01% for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012, from the respective comparable periods of fiscal 2011.
During fiscal 2012, the Company closed its previously announced purchase and sale agreement between the Company's subsidiary Harris Teeter, Inc. ("Harris Teeter") and Lowes Food Stores, Inc. ("Lowes Foods") (the "Lowes Foods Transaction"). Per the agreement Harris Teeter acquired ten Lowes Foods store locations in the central Carolinas region and Lowes Foods acquired six Harris Teeter store locations in western North Carolina. The majority of the stores acquired by Harris Teeter were temporarily closed for remodeling, stocking and training of employees. Six of the acquired stores were re-opened during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012. Subsequent to the fiscal year end, two of the acquired stores were re-opened under a new format and banner - "201central." The 201central format features a worldwide variety of wine, beer, specialty foods and other selected merchandise.
During fiscal 2012, the Company opened thirteen new stores (which includes six of the stores acquired from Lowes Foods and one replacement for a store closed in the first quarter) and closed eight stores (comprised of the six stores sold to Lowes Foods, one replacement that opened in fiscal 2012 and one replacement which is expected to open in fiscal 2013). In addition, one store located in the Washington D.C. market has been temporarily closed while the Company repairs damage caused by flooding that occurred in the third quarter of fiscal 2012. The Company operated 208 stores as of the end of fiscal 2012 and retail square footage increased by 4.5% in fiscal 2012, as compared to an increase of 3.2% in fiscal 2011.
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Osbornomics, part 94
George, say after me: Britain is not Portugal (or Greece or Ireland).
George, say after me: Britain is not Portugal (or Greece or Ireland).
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One thing you can say about George Osborne is that he's consistent (though of course consistency, as Emerson put it, is the "hobgoblin of little minds"). Since well before the general election last year, Osborne has been conjuring the spectre of Greece and its debt crisis to justify the Conservatives' accelerated deficit reduction programme. Sometimes the mantra varies slightly and Osborne adduces Portugal as an example, rather than Greece.
And he was at it again on The Andrew Marr Show on BBC1 this morning, saying that Britain enjoys "German interest rates despite a Portuguese deficit" because of the government's austerity measures. But, as my colleague George Eaton pointed out last month when the Chancellor was ruminating on Portugal's request for an EU bailout, "Britain, unlike Portugal, Greece and Ireland, can afford to meet its debts over a sustained period of time (even under his plans, debt will be 68.8 per cent of GDP in 2014-2015)."
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There is, however, one big similarity between Portugal and the UK. They were both among just five EU countries to suffer negative growth in the final quarter of 2010 (the others were Greece, Ireland and Denmark) . . . The Chancellor may claim that Labour lacks a "credible deficit reduction plan" but, without growth, so does he.
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There! I knew there was a picture of me doing the same thing! Oh Spring...miss you!
May 17, 2008, Picton Ontario.
I have rediscovered The Commons on Flickr. How wonderful to browse all these archives! This one is from the Huron County Archives which is technically just up the road a bit from here. This is such a lovely shot, I remember doing this with Finch when he was a baby and I do it myself every chance I can get. I have noticed on instagram, spring blossoms elsewhere are blooming, but it is of course -16C here today and the trees are locked up tight for at least two more months.
I do just love pattern, that's no secret. I have also been loving Finch's drawings lately. He is so into it, ever since he started JK. He just draws all the time. I thought it might make cool fabric patterns of course. So I have been noodling around with them today. Its nice to have some noodling time! I have handed in work and am in that nice in between time when they go over the work and get back to me later.
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I love the rainbow cab on this transport truck!! Loveit.
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Oh my goodness! February and I am popping in to say Happy new year!Its been busy with many revisions on my Shapes book to get it ready for printing and as well working on sketches for the third Willow book!I am having a moment this afternoon wondering what to do now and I think its cuppa tea time. That's always been my motto- When in doubt, make tea. I have a bit of time before schools out for the day at 3:15.
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We have been digging out from a huge snow yesterday. Oh and I made this scarf last week during my marathon revisions- I needed a bit of comforting sewing!
Its a bunch of my favorite scraps sewn together into a loop scarf.
Bread! I discovered the best cook book Homemade by Yvette Van Bouven.
I have made it a few times and it was just fantastic. Oh yes, the cat! We adopted a cat over the holidays from Toronto Cat rescue.
He is a lovely little guy! He has made himself right at home and was rescued from a feral life on the streets- amazing. His foster mum named him Skywalker, so that's his name! Well I guess I did have a few things to say after all.
Not sure why lovely ripe tomatoes on a baking hot day came to mind today when I sat down to do a doodle on my last free afternoon before xmas holiday, but there you go. Perhaps in places like Australia, tomatoes are getting very nice around now? I made it a bit Christmassy with the message!I am enjoying a cup of tea (ofcourse) and some remarkable baked things from a friend! My mind is being blown with every bite- nanaimo bars, sugar snowflakes, lacey oatmeal pistachio cookies and butter tarts! This lady is a magician in the kitchen!! Thank-you to her!
I wish all of you a calm, warm holiday with lots of peace and harmony! I am wishing for no fights, yummy food, warm quiet days and family all around. I don't know if it is getting older but I am regularly so so very grateful to live in a peaceful country where I don't have to fear for my life, as so many in this world do. I will pray for those people this year and hope for some comfort for them. Sometimes I stop and notice how lucky we are to be able to wander down the street, grab a coffee, chat with friends at the school yard and live without fear here. Thank-you Canada!
Finch is exited for school to be over. We want to go up to an intersection we discovered where the freight trains go by right at street level with a new to us, railroad crossing that goes DING DING DING. What a thrill! It looks almost like this drawing he is doing. Maybe we will try on Monday morning. You just never know if one will come, so wish us luck!
Happy Holidays!
I found a speedball screen printing kit in someone's free stuff pile (!!) last summer and today was the day, I wanted to make a messy polka dot screen. It's pretty old so I don't know if the emulsion would be good still, maybe it would be, but the screen filler seems fine. It would be fun to have a dress with this print on! Maybe neon pink on wheat or gray coloured linen...
I really want to go to City of Craft this weekend! I am not sure if I will though, as it would mean bringing Finch and that sometimes goes well...hmmm...I'll have a think about it anyway. It's always SO inspiring!
I uploaded my final Shapes book drawings this morning! Yippee!! I have one week before Christmas holidays, to myself. I do have a few things to do, vacuum maybe, but I also want to chill out a bit! It has been non stop since school started and, phew, I just need to take a breath.
Check it out, last week Finch was home ALL week with a cold, but by friday we were going nuts so I took him downtown to the Christmas windows at the Bay.
It was nice to go. I grew up here and had never ever visited them. Finch was impressed, but not as impressed as he was by the surprise toy train set up at the bloor/yonge subway station in a little display window by the southbound platform. He LOVED that. We were nearby, so we visited daddy at work too. Here's a pattern I made by playing around with a cool painting Finch did of CP and CN freight trains.
Rectangle started out as a gruff, wisened older and possibly a bit snobby, actor type, in my original shapes book idea. All the characters have sinced morphed, quite appealingly, into school children! I brought back a bit of the grumpy older man version of rectangle here for the small title page image. I picture him clearing his throat loudly and ruffling the newspaper indignantly. I was trying to get the angle right, so I drew a whole bunch. I think I went with the one on the far right. We'll see if he makes it into the book! My final deadline is Friday and I am quite exited to be close to the finish line! I think I first came up with this idea over 5 years ago, so it is a thrill to have it come to fruition!
I did up a quick litle Christmas card to send out this year. It is rather too late really, but you know what they say! Better late then never!
Of course my favorite themes are all represented - tea, birds, gingham, colours and patterns!
If you click on this here little image it will take you to a full size layout for you! A gift, if you would like to send these out as your Christmas cards. It is a bit wonky, I think some of the gingham gets a tiny bit cropped, but you should be able to print it out as is on your home printer, on card stock if you have it. Enjoy!
I am taking a doodle break, because I was craving patterns! I have been doing up quick little patterns to store in my paint bucket fill tool in photoshop because one of the roles square plays in the book, is as a quilt piece! I get a bit zoned out spending long periods of time cleaning up my files, moving eyes this way and that, erasing lines that are too thick or patchy, all the teensy things I need to do before I can colour in my pages. I get colour hungry! So coffee and patterns break! I think I doodled this for Finch at lunchtime one day...it's me coming in to hug him!


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This book is very informative about the various ways children le
This book is very informative about the various ways children learn. Highly recommended for parents who are deciding which school/curriculum is appropriate for their child. Also a comprehensive source for school administrators developing a curriculum. Topics covered in book:
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Creativity in Science, TechnologyVisual VocabularyVisual Spacial MathElementary ArtHIgh School ArtLearning MontessoriKinesthetic LearnersSpecifics of "how to": draw, see, color.
The author Bette Fetter comes highly credentialed, and this book proves how well versed she is on her field. Hitting all the marks, in a very concrete way she enables creative thinking while acknowledging the individual needs and strengths of each pupil.
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Caroline - Unregistered March 21, 2012 2:26 PM @richardIt's called verifiable data.Everyone taking part is individually logged in or out when they watch or stop watching any TV show, and those individuals consent to having their personal details included in the data set, which includes gender.But it's like any data gathered by a cross-section of society, it has a margin of error, if you sampled my household your way, you'd have to say no one in the country ever watches Eastenders, but that's plainly ridiculous, that's why verifiable data gatherers like BARB are given the job, and select users by set demographics so as to represent the country as a whole. 0 agree 0 disagree
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One of the greatest trumpeters alive, Tom Harrell makes très cool records these days with a widening variety of collaborators and moods. From Oct 7 through 12, he returns to his frequent haunt with a five-piece, featuring saxist Wayne Escoffery, pianist Danny Grissett, bassist Ugonna Okegwo and drummer Jonathan Blake. From Oct 14 through 19 he leads his Trip quartet, with Okegwo, saxist Mark Turner and drummer Adam Cruz.
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Amazing WonderCon footage from 'Pacific Rim' posted by Guillermo Del Toro
In the days leading up to WonderCon, I had a link to an online screener of the "Pacific Rim" footage that Warner Bros. sent over so I'd get a chance to see the footage before the event. They told me it would play a grand total of three times before the link would expire, and I called both of my sons into the office to watch it with me.
Not even two seconds passed between the three screenings of the footage. As soon as it ended, both of my kids started demanding that I restart it. Then again. And when the link expired, they looked at me like it was "Lord Of The Flies" and I was about to get hunted. They were rabid about what they saw, and I figured their near-chemical reaction was because they are seven and five years old respectively.
Then at WonderCon, I watched an entire auditorium of people have the exact same reaction to the footage, and seeing it on a giant screen, I was struck by how impressive it is, how primal the reaction is when you're watching giant monsters and giant robots throw down like this. That last image, with the jaeger walking down the street dragging an oil tanker like a baseball bat, is completely thug. It's just absurd, and when you're making a movie about giant monster and giant robots, absurd seems like the way to go.


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Selections from Caveman Basic, a word guide that was handed to patrons as they entered the theater to see Caveman:
AIEE: Help! Save me!
ALOONDA: Affection, desire.
BO-BO: Man, friend, human.
CA-CA: Excrement.
FECH: Bad, no good, ugly
GWEE: To go.
HARAKA: Fire, burning thing.
KUDA: Come here, where are we now this way right here.
MA: Me, myself
MACHA: Wild animal, beast, non-human.
NYA: No, none, not happening, negative.
OOL: Food.
POOKA: Hurt, injured, messed up no good.
WHOP: Stop whoa, hold it!
ZUG-ZUG: Sexual intercourse.
Selections from my thoughts after having seen the film:
Aieee! This movie is fech! We can hardly wait for the end so we can gwee. We kill time in between by eating popcorn and other ool. The movie is ca-ca.
There are a few good moments, mostly involving the giant prehistoric dinosaurs and other machas, especially during zug-zug. But the movie is mostly fech, nya, and pooka, if you ask me.
And yet "Caveman" is fairly successful, maybe because there's a real hunger for an "Airplane!"-type satirical spoof. It gets good laughs with scenes like the one where John Matuszak throws himself over a cliff along with a rock.
But it has a basic problem, which is that there is no popular original material for it to satirize. There has never been a really successful movie set in prehistoric times, although God knows they've tried, with movies like "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" and "One Million Years B.C." Those movies were self-satirizing; by the end, they were making fun of the way they started out.
"Caveman" seems more in the tradition of Alley Oop, crossed with Mel Brooks's Two Thousand Year Old Man. But the only artistic cross-reference it can manage is from the opening scene of Stanley Kubrick's "2000." In "Caveman", the cavemen are shown in the process of discovering modern fire, cooking, and music. During their epochal discoveries, the sound track teases us by quoting from Strauss's "Thus Spake Zarathustra," but never quite getting it right. Why bother to rewrite Strauss? He's out of copyright.
The movie has an interesting cast -- or would have an interesting cast, if the actors were given interesting things to do. Ringo Starr plays the leader of a wandering tribe, and onetime Oakland Raider Matuszak is the leader of the stronger tribe and the boyfriend of Barbara Bach, who wears push-up skunk skins. Starr feels great aloonda for Bach, and whenever he sees her, zug-zug is not far from his mind. But Matuszak is the kind of guy who can break a dinosaur's drumstick in two, and so Starr has to outsmart the big guy. Thus, intelligence is born.
It's a little depressing to realize how much time and money went into "Caveman", an expensive production shot on location in Mexico. This very same material could have been filmed quickly and cheaply on a sound stage, since the production values are obviously not going to make us laugh any louder. And with the added flexibility and the lower stakes, maybe a little spontaneity could have crept into the film. As it stands, the filmmakers seem to learn comedy as slowly as the cavemen learn to whop before they step in the haraka.
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Just how continuous should continuous security monitoring be?
The 20 critical security controls identified in the Consensus Audit Guidelines represent the highest-priority defenses that enterprises should focus on, based on the likelihood of real-world attacks. The categories, which are not presented in order of priority, are broken down into those that can be validated at least in part in an automated manner and those that involve manual validation.
Critical controls subject to automated collection, measurement and validation:
1. Inventory of authorized and unauthorized devices.2. Inventory of authorized and unauthorized software.3. Secure configurations for hardware and software on laptop PCs, workstations and servers.4. Secure configurations for network devices such as firewalls, routers and switches.5. Boundary defense.6. Maintenance, monitoring and analysis of security audit logs.7. Application software security.8. Controlled use of administrative privileges.9. Controlled access based on need to know.10. Continuous vulnerability assessment and remediation.11. Account monitoring and control.12. Malware defenses.13. Limitation and control of network ports, protocols and services.14. Wireless device control.15. Data loss prevention.
Additional critical controls, not directly supported by automated measurement and validation:
16. Secure network engineering.17. Penetration tests and red-team exercises.18. Incident response capability.19. Data recovery capability.20. Security skills assessment and appropriate training to fill gaps.
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The other side of Somalia's pirates Poisoned waters and illegal fishing drove Somalis into sea piracy to feed families, according to relatives. Human Rights, Poverty & Development, Environment
The most powerful mafia you've never heard of Italy's 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate is believed haul in more revenue than many Fortune 500 companies. Italy, Crime, Europe
New Afghan militia sets its sights on ISIL 'Marg' vigilante group vows to safeguard northern Afghanistan from armed factions amid reports of ISIL infiltration. War & Conflict, Asia, Afghanistan
Devastation and disease after deadly Malawi floods Tens of thousands stranded after southern Africa country's record floods face rising risk of disease outbreak. Humanitarian crises, Africa, Malawi
The SystemProsecutorial MisconductThe System examines two cases where prosecutorial misconduct may have led to wrongful imprisonment. Crime, Law, United States
Talk to Al JazeeraPrince Ali of Jordan: 'Bring back FIFA's reputation'The FIFA presidential candidate explains why he is challenging Sepp Blatter and how he plans to reform the organisation.Sport, Middle East, FIFA
Al Jazeera WorldAhalil: Music of the Red OasisThe music of the Algerian Sahara, known as Ahalil, is a key part of a way of life that has survived for centuries.Arts & Culture, Algeria, Music
People & PowerKilling the BallPeople & Power investigates how a match-fixer and his syndicate corrupted global football.Sport, Football, Corruption


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