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Industry, not government, must lead in sharing cyber threats, expert says
Tuesday - 10/22/2013, 4:03am EDT
The government needs to get out of the way of the private sector sharing cyber threat information. So says Jason Healey, the director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative for the Atlantic Council.
Instead of all of these small scale efforts, Healy said industries from telecommunications to finance to energy need to lead the efforts. The government, meanwhile, should provide incentives such as funding to promote cyber threat and vulnerability sharing within and among sectors.
"I'm not convinced if they are doing what they ought to, the government is going to be the right answer, especially this month of all months to say the government is going to come in and save us is, I think, the folly as the shutdown has showed us that the government is going to be able to do this," he said. "I'd find the parts that are working and help them do better. A lot of these groups that are making the biggest difference, it's people doing this as a side job, and just like we saved the financial services information sharing and analysis center (FSISAC) with a $2 million grant, a lot of these groups with a $100,000 or $500,000 could really start improving a lot of security and start to clamp down on these attacks without having to argue about authorities or having to argue about Title 10 or Title 50 or any of the other things that ties D.C. up in knots."
Healey, who worked in the White House, for the Air Force and with Goldman Sachs, said when he was part of the financial services ISAC in the early 2000s, the Treasury Department gave them a $2 million grant to improve the cybersecurity of banks across the country. He said that little bit of money made a huge difference for large institutions and small alike — 13,000 in all.
"It's the companies that are in the front lines and the best sharing and the best sharing tends to happen between companies in the same sector, and to a large degree you don't have to have the government get involved in that," he said. "The ISACs do a pretty good job sharing among each other."
He said the traditional mindset of the industry telling the government about its problems and the government coming back with an answer is not working. He said it's one of the reasons why cyber problems of today are the same as those of yesterday.
In fact, Healey recently wrote a book about cyber conflict. A Fierce Domain: Cyber Conflict, 1986 to 2012 is the first military history of cyberspace.
"We realized that in Washington, D.C. and when you travel the world talking about cybersecurity, we are really ignorant about anything that happened more than two or three years ago," he said. "There's this feeling that it's all new because most of us only got into the field in the last couple of years. We went all the way back to early cyber conflicts of 1986, and if you look at what they went through, it would feel familiar to us today."
The book focuses on eight cyber conflicts since 1986, including some well-known ones such as Buckshot Yankee, a 2008 attack that gained access through a USB flash drive and led the creation of the U.S. Cyber Command, and other lesser known ones such as 1986's Cuckoo's Egg, in which the KGB paid German hackers to steal information from the United States on the Star Wars program.
Healey said his goal is to help cyber defenses stay ahead of and be better than cyber offenses. He said throughout history, defense usually has been better than offense during military conflicts, and every time the offense adjusted to gain the upper hand, the defense responded in kind.
"It's tough to get defense better than offense if you are working at the end points," he said. "So if you think about it as a goal, and you could say, 'what are the ways you could put out X amount of effort and get 100 or 1000 times X effort on coming out?' It means you have to really work at scale. A lot of our cyber policies are not working at scale. We say, 'let's work at DHS and we will one company at a time,' and that's never going to get to a point where we are ahead of this."
He said this goes back to the need to turn information sharing on its head and be led by the private sector so they can bring the scale of their resources to bear.
DHS finds classified cyber sharing program slow to take off
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Cedarcrest fights off Murphy to beat Wildcats in shootout
"It was a really good game, two really good teams playing against each other," said Cedarcrest head coach Zack Pittis. "We were fortunate to come out on top."
Cedarcrest goalkeeper Elliot Wills made back-to-back saves in the shootout to set up Gifford's clinching penalty.
The victory came exactly two years to the day of Cedarcrest's last win over the Wildcats. The Red Wolves (10-1-0 league, 12-1-0 overall) and Archbishop Murphy (9-2-0, 10-2-1) are now tied for first place in the Cascade Conference with 29 points each.
Following a scoreless first half, Darian Pendergraft hammered home a shot from 22 yards to give the home Red Wolves a 1-0 lead in the 44th minute.
Although Cedarcrest defense had shut out its previous six opponents, Archbishop Murphy emphatically ended that streak with two goals in two minutes. Tyler Ptacek pounced on a loose ball in the Red Wolves' penalty area and scored in the 47th minute to tie the game. Jalen Crisler then assisted on Josh Bartley's strike a minute later as Murphy took a 2-1 lead.
Suddenly the Red Wolves found themselves in an unusual situation.
"I wasn't sure how we would react," said Pittis. "We haven't been down much this season. Initially we panicked a little, but then we settled down and got a couple of good looks."
With no alternative, Pittis pushed more players forward in search of an equalizier and Gifford came through when his shot from the top of the box found the back of the net with less than 13 minutes left in regulation.
Both teams created a couple of chances during the remainder of normal time, but Pittis said the two sides became cautious in overtime, which forced penalties.
After the first two kickers for each team converted, Murphy keeper Jeff Scavotto saved Cedarcrest's third attempt to give the Wildcats an advantage. But Wills guessed correctly on the Wildcats' next two shots, making two saves, and Gifford sent Scavotto the wrong way to clinch the shootout 4-2.
Despite being excited for the win and the opportunity to grab at least a share of the league title, Pittis remained cautious about Cedarcrest's final three regular season games.
"You can't get too high or too low ... It's gotta be the same approach all year, one game at a time," said Pittis. "It has to be that way, we can't start looking past Granite Falls on Monday."
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Goals--Darian Pendergraft (C), Tyler Ptacek (AM), Josh Bartley (AM), Ryan Gifford (C). Assists--Jalen Crisler (AM) 2. Goalkeepers--Archbishop Murphy: Jeff Scavotto. Cedarcrest: Elliot Wills. Records--Archbishop Murphy: 9-2-0 league, 10-2-1 overall. Cedarcrest 10-1-0, 12-1-0.
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Becca Adams shared the following story with us about meeting her beloved feline companion Lily at a time when she least expected to adopt a cat.
The story of Lily actually begins 18 years ago, when I met the first love of my life at the SPCA in Virginia Beach, Virginia: a domestic shorthaired cat named Rassa. For 17 happy years, Rassa was my companion, partner in crime and best friend. He was diagnosed with cancer in December 2011. We discussed our options with the vet, and decided to make him comfortable for as long as he maintained his quality of life. Never one to enjoy a change of scenery, he seemed to agree. Rassa left us in March of last year, which is when Lily's story begins.
My husband was out of town on business when I said goodbye to Rassa, so a friend came to stay with me. We stayed active, and during a day trip, she suggested that we stop by the SPCA. I told her I was not ready. The next day she suggested the same thing, and remembering a spring day 17 years earlier, I decided to go, but under no circumstances would I adopt an animal.
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Out of allll of the excuses people pull for not going vegan, the one that I hate the most (at least right now) is "veganism is too expensive!" Umm … are you kidding me? Seriously?
Let's clear this up. Veganism is NOT expensive. Beans, rice, potatoes, and veggies are all some of the cheapest, easiest to find, and healthiest things that you can possibly eat. Meat, dairy, eggs … those things are expensive … and you know what else is expensive? Health bills!
Yeah yeah, I know … we're not all old and worried about heart disease, cancer, and strokes … yet. But diets high in animal protein, cholesterol (which is impossible to consume with a vegan diet) and saturated fat (aka: meat-based diets) play a key role in the leading causes of death in the U S of A. Yikes. If you're not payin' for it now, you'll be payin' for it later—that's for sure.
Even if you're in college, even if you live with your parents, even if you're unemployed, you can still be vegan. Pasta sauce with noodles, black beans and rice with your fave spices, vegetarian chili, tofu or veggie stir fry … all things easily found at your local grocery store—and cheap, too! You don't have to go out and buy extravagant specialty products to be vegan, it's as simple as checking the ingredients on every day products. It's never impossible.
So next time you want to pull out your trusty "It's too expensive!" excuse, think again. Is it really? Or are you just trying to justify your choices to continue eating animals? Go vegan already and stop fibbing to yourself!!
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1412 days ago
I still live with my parents and I really want to go vegan, so far I've been a vegetarian for 3 years (almost 4) and my parents had a hard time with that. We eat A LOT of Italian food and finding non egg based pasta that actually taste good is hard where I live. I was anemic not to long ago and my parents blamed it on me being a vegetarian (even though the doctor said it wasn't because of that) I do plan on going vegan when I move out though. But sadly, I have to wait until then… :/
1605 days ago
My FAVORITE (vegitarian) thing to eat, that is kinda surprising to me is, spaghettios! I'm personally just a pescatarian, so I am working towards being all vegitarian or maybe even vegan, but I still feel WAY better being pesca., I am NOT in anyway skinny but I feel clear-er and lighter not eating the heavy and hard pork and chicken and beef and even lamb products, and another plus (atleast for me) is A LOT of vegtables are watery, I am very drink dependant, I don't know why but I feel as if I am always thirsty (I'm not diabetic, my mother has me checked everytime I travel to houston) so eating salads and vegtable soups and such are very helpful to me, but hey I'm just weird in that last way 😛
Being only 16 and a sophmore in high school (and in Texas to boot), I DO come across skeptics, but I don't care I feel better and I know I'm doing better for more than just me, I WILL continue, I WILL raise my future chilren this way, and anyone who wants to chance that can leave, I don't need them.
1614 days ago
This is one of the most downright factual articles' I have ever read. I am only vegetarian right now. When I am about fourteen I plan to go vegan. I think the way animals are treated is to cruel to be looked aside. Going vegi has also made a DRAMATIC increase in my health. I think it's been one of the best decisions of my life.
1615 days ago
I'm an ovo-lacto vegetarian, slowly but surely getting to vegan.
I understand that some vegan foods are cheap, but living in a house full of carnivores, it's so much easier to avoid temptation when I have those overpriced fake meats.
I know that there are a lot of people that can't even look at meat without puking, I was like that a little, but I've had to be a little more calloused; like I said, house of carnivores.
1615 days ago
Fave reason to go vegan? Health benefits! My whole family has a huge history of heart disease (all of the women on my dad's side died of it) and not only that, but if enough people went vegan (or even just vegetarian) we could potentially reverse global warming! Plus, the fact is, that animals suffer for food that my body wasn't really meant to handle anyway. How are any of those things a good idea? There are several reasons veganism is great. These are my faves. 😉
1615 days ago
Today I went to the supermarket and my mother bought some meat. (I'm vegan)
And I was like OMG! when I saw how expensive it was.
I told her that being vegetarian was cheaper and healthier, but she don´t wanna know about that, everytime I say "I don't eat meat because…", she shuts me up, and says " I don't really wanna know about it.".
1615 days ago
I love PETA articles, but I don't exactly agree with this one. I'm from Portugal, and here when don't have as many vegan/vegetarian products available as in the U.S.A and most are actually expensive here , but that is not the problem.
My problem is that I am the only one in my family that is interested in a vegan diet,so my parents have to buy "regular" food, consisting of meat, fish and dairy products(althought I don't eat most of these anymore) for the rest of the family(5 more persons).
So in my case, it becomes expensive, buying two "types" of food, buying Tofu, Seitan(Wheat gluten),Soy icecream and other stuff just for one person.
What I try to do,is every time I go out/eat out, I try to eat only vegetarian meals.
I'm dying to be living on my own, cooking just for myself and find a job so that I can live on a vegan lifestyle, because then I beleive it will become afordable.
If you have any tips for me, I would really aprecciate it.


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Tuesday - 12/6/2011, 5:34pm EST
Some agencies have received a pat on the back from the Office of Personnel Management for reducing the time they take to fill vacancies.
"Agencies are making progress with efforts to improve processes and are steadily moving towards meeting hiring reform objectives," said OPM Associate Director of Employee Services Angela Bailey in the memo sent to agency human resources directors on Dec. 2 but not posted to the Chief Human Officer's Council website until today.
It takes about a month less to fill vacancies on average across the government than it did when President Barack Obama launched his hiring reform initiative in 2009. Most agencies have boiled job announcements to five pages or less and rewritten them in plain language. OPM said few positions continue to require that candidates write essays testing knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs), instead calling for resumes.
Over the past eight months, OPM interviewed chief human capital officers to find out how they made progress towards these goals.
Bailey listed some tips in her memo:
- Agencies shortened the time it takes to fill a vacancy by creating metrics to measure progress. The Defense Department made streamlining the hiring process one of its "high priority performance goals." The Energy Department and OPM began using internal dashboards to track their hiring processes and identify "red flags" or "bottlenecks."
- Agencies improved communication with applicants. The Homeland Security Department created a five-point notification process. The Transportation Security Administration implemented a dashboard to let candidates track their application through the hiring process. The Social Security Administration tried to write their job notices in plainer English.
- Agencies gave hiring managers greater power and responsibility. Several agencies have tried to increase communication between human resources staff and hiring managers through one-on-one support. Energy now requires managers to prepare for interviews before receiving a list of eligible candidates.
The memo asks human resources directors to highlight their improvement in their next progress review.
Now that agencies are streamlining the hiring process, they must figure out if they are hiring better candidates, Bailey said at meeting last month of chief human capital officers.
"Agency management believes they are hiring the right people," she said. But OPM's Employee Viewpoint Survey indicated that "employees in the same work unit aren't so sure."
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Sometimes it takes crime to get people to stand up for crime prevention.
When Havelock Police responded to a call from some residents for a community watch meeting in Slocum Village a year ago, no one expressed interest.
But a recent rash of crimes in the neighborhood has raised concerns, and residents vow to be there at 5:30 p.m. today at the community center on Jackson Drive for a new meeting.
"This is the second time we've tried to do this out there," said Capt. David Bratton of the Havelock Police Department. "The first time they called us and we went out there and set the meeting up and everything, nobody showed up. There was absolutely no interest in it, so we're trying to do it again."
Bratton hopes residents will form the community watch for Slocum Village, which is exclusively populated by military personnel and their dependents but patrolled by Havelock police.
"We realize with the wives whose husbands are deployed, we understand that there is some nervousness out there," Bratton said. "We're increasing our patrols. We're trying to be proactive with this and get ahead of their concerns."
Slocum residents called for the meeting with the police after recent crimes in the neighborhood.
On Sept. 26, resident Kerena Pye found that her family car on Sycamore Lane had had all four tires stolen off it overnight.
"I had to explain to my three children why a bad guy took our tires," Pye said. "I told them that there are lots of bad guys out there and that maybe they needed the money for something, but that it's never a good reason to steal from somebody else."
She said she and her Marine husband purchased a cheap set of tires for the 2004 Cavalier to last until insurance money arrived.
A few weeks earlier, Pye said she found the gas lid open on the vehicle and gas siphoned out of the tank.
"We bought locking lug nuts and locking gas caps for each of the vehicles," Pye said.
Pye said she doesn't feel safe and the family has already put in 30 days notice to leave the neighborhood.
"I've lived in Slocum for five years now, and within the past year it (crime) has picked up," she said. "It's just little things. It was car break-ins a little while ago. Some people were having their doors randomly opened but nobody came inside and actually stole anything. It's very quickly picking up."
Ashley Duncan, who lives with her Marine husband on Nandina Lane, said the family has had an attempted break-in and a break-in at her home.
"They came in my back door and they exited through my front door," she said. "I heard them and woke my husband up and they heard us and I guess they took off out the front door."
In the other case, Duncan said she heard someone shaking her back door just minutes after her husband left for work at the base.
"I came down the stairs just in time to see somebody running out my back gate," Duncan said.
Duncan said it was still dark, but described the person as a white male with brown hair.
"My neighbor had said she had seen somebody in the backyard with a flashlight not even a couple minutes before my husband had left," Duncan said.
Last week, a home was broken into and keys were stolen, Bratton said.
"It's kind of scary," said Courtney Whitney, who lives on Camelia Lane. "A lot of people seem to think that because we're military we're good to go, we're safe, but that's false especially with everything that's been happening lately. Some women do decide to stay back when they are deployed. Some women are pregnant and can't fight back. It's just scary.
"I have had friends that have their gas stolen and stuff. Nothing has happened to me. My concern is who's to say they won't make their way to my street. The fact that he's leaving and I have decided to stay here has kind of startled me because it's just me and my 2 1/2-pound dog and my 1-year-old. It's scary to think that there's some stuff happening in my neighborhood."
Sara Costa, on Cypress Lane, said nothing has happened to her home but that while house-sitting for a neighbor, a break-in occurred in which a laptop computer was stolen.
"Also in the area, we've had a couple of people on several other streets that have had their cars broken into, things stolen out of their cars and vandalized," she said. "Some patio furniture went missing from a girl just two houses down from me. We have children and some of these girls have husbands gone or soon will be gone and how are they supposed to feel safe here."
Bratton said residents should report even the smallest incident to police.
"If residents think that people are jiggling on their doors, even if they are not sure, they should call us and we'll be happy to send an officer by to check on them," Bratton said.
Costa said action is needed.
"It's got to stop somehow because nobody feels safe and that's not OK," she said. "We have to deal with enough with husbands and wives gone on deployment and off on training for months at a time. We don't need to feel unsafe in our houses."
Duncan agreed.
"Anything would be helpful at this point," she said. "It's getting to the point to where you don't even want to be home alone."


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The Wolfpack has exactly that situation Saturday night at Carter-Finley Stadium.
"If the polls are saying they're a top-five team, they're a top-five team,"
The Wolfpack has knocked off
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This time, the Wolfpack looks a little wobbly going into its first Atlantic Division matchup of the season within the Atlantic Coast Conference. It would seem the confidence could be shaken after a 44-37 loss last week at
But the Wolfpack is taking a dose of optimism, safety Earl Wolff said, from last year's dismantling of Clemson, which was a top 10 team when it arrived in
The buzz surrounding this game, which marks the first 2012 venture out of
"You're only talking about the evidence of five games," O'Brien said, referring to the Seminoles' schedule this season. "They've built their reputation over years of being a top five or top 10 team. But they've kind of fallen on tough times the last couple of years. It certainly looks like the trajectory is heading back in that direction, but until you do things year after year after year, that's when you get to that elite status."
"It's a different breed of cat from what we have been playing," he said.
O'Brien said having played some defenses with quickness and power prior to this matchup should benefit the Wolfpack.
"We'll have to have our 'A' game," Fisher said. "It's a very tough place to play. It could be very loud and I'm sure they'll have — being a night game, it's always a great environment, so we'll have our hands full."
That's what the Wolfpack is counting on.
"The 12th man will have a lot to do with it," O'Brien said, hoping to prompt the crowd to be engaged in the outcome.
"Playing at home, a great crowd," Wolff said. "I wouldn't ask to be anywhere else."


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My 1st crocus has arrived! None reported from any schools yet, but I expect the reports to come flooding in this week.
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Don't miss your flowers! If by the end of this week your crocus hasn't opened - please take your pot home over half term. This way you can enjoy your flowers and show your family what you have been growing.
I've not received any questions this week but I've had reports of shoots from St. Mary's Catholic Primary School and St Joseph's R.C Primary.
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Slowly, more and more schools are reporting shoot sightings! Cwm Glas Primary near Swansea have reported a few more shoots but still no sign at St. Mary's Catholic Primary School in Flint.
My daffodils are about 10cms tall now and my crocus have just popped through the soil. Even my mystery bulb is starting to grow and there are buds opening on my garden trees. A true sign that spring is coming!
Take a look at the pictures so you can be sure what bulbs you have growing. Send me some pictures of your shoots or how you collect your weather.
Watch your crocus very carefully now because once they start grow they can flower very quickly. As soon as they flower, send in your record so we can see on the map where the bulbs are opening first.
Competitions. Don't for get we have two fantastic competitions this year. The Daffodil Drawing Competition and the Win a trip competition. I've already recieved some very nice drawings from Bishops Childs Church in Wales School. I look forward to seeing some more from other schools soon...
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Stephen Downes is a prolific writer. If you follow his work at OLDaily or on Half an Hour, you're well aware of this. He covers an extremely broad territory: technology, learning, society, politics (sometimes a bit veiled, but generally not far below the surface), and philosophy.
Late last week, he posted an ebook on Connectivism and Connective Knowledge: Essays on meaning and learning networks (.pdf). It weighs in at an impressive 600+ pages. The work is basically a curation of his writings and presentations over the past decade. From the introduction:
Learning is the creation and removal of connections between the entities, or the adjustment of the strengths of those connections. A learning theory is, literally, a theory describing how these connections are created or adjusted. In this book I describe four major mechanisms: similarity, contiguity, feedback, and harmony. There may be other mechanisms, these and others may work together, and the precise mechanism for any given person may be irreducibly complex.
Stephen doesn't make any apologies for the length of the ebook in stating that a formally structured book "would be sterile, however, and it [the ebook he has posted] feels more true to the actual enquiry to stay true to the original blog posts, essays and presentations that constitute this work"
I personally would like to see Stephen produce a succinct text. Until he does so, students (and others) have a valuable resource in tracking and citing his work in networks, MOOCs, meaning, groups & networks, semantics, and more. Simply being able to point to and cite a particular page will be helpful for students…Thanks Stephen!


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After my Mountain Hardware Ghost Whisperer zipper broke, I purchased the Patagonia Down Sweater as a replacement. It's a great lightweight jacket, very practical. I wouldn't say it is the most stylish jacket though. It does it's job though - keeps me warm and folds up into my purse when not in use. All in all, I'd recommend it. I'm 5'3", 122 lbs, and the small fit perfectly even with bulkier sweaters. It hits nicely just below the hips.
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It's warm and cozy like all the other reviews are saying, however mine has lost tons of feathers since I bought it. My boyfriend has the men's version and it's the same story for his. I personally think that the North Face Down Thunder jacket is made better than this one, but I've seen the Patagonia warranty in action and for that reason alone, I'd go with this jacket if you're looking for a solid down layer.
this jacket is awesome! when it arrives i cannot believe how light it is. just by looking at it, i thought xs is too small for me, i am 5'3" and 105 lb. but xs has plenty room for layers. and it is down leak proof as well. it keeps me warm from cold and wind. great jacket! and i love the color too, my favorite. the zippers work perfectly.
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HARDEEVILLE, S.C. - Lander University took the 2013 Hilton Head Lakes Invitational team title firing a 604 to hold off Queens by seven at 5,901-yard, par 72 layout of The Golf Club at Hilton Head Lakes. Teresa Caballer-Hernani won medalist honors with a two-day total of 140 at four-under par for the tournament. Cabeller-Hernani shot an opening round three-under 69 before a one-under 71 on Tuesday.
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Bailey Holshouser enters her second year at Pfeiffer.
Personal: Daughter of Ross & Terrie Holshouser ... Born November 3rd,1994.. majoring in Mathematical Sciences.
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NCHSAA Region 6 representative
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Top 10 GPA in graduating class which helped lead to a membership in the National Honor Society. Bailey was also the DREAM team advisor for Albemarle High School and received two awards while in high school (4 year High Honor Roll Award and the Susan Hathcock Award).
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While studying for her master's degree at Stanford University, Alice Hoffman was approached by Ted Solotaroff, founder of American Review literary journal, and she quickly learned two cardinal rules of publication: Write often and write fast.
In a technological world, let us not forget that behind every virtuoso work is a human – and some sweat.