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Williams had been granted leave to concentrate on his boxing, and beat Clarence Tillman for the New Zealand Professional Boxing Association heavyweight title last week. He's since returned to the rugby field and has been rushed straight into the starting line-up by coach Dave Rennie. He will play his first game for his new franchise alongside All Blacks team-mate Richard Kahui.
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The SoonerCon Art Show is one of the largest fantasy/scifi themed art shows in the Southwest. With hundreds of pieces entered yearly, the art show is one of SoonerCon's gems each year, and the art auction offers fans a great opportunity to take home a one of a kind piece of work.
The SoonerCon 24 Art Show will notifying those with accepted requests for space around March 8, 2015.
The SoonerCon 24 Art Show is accepting requests for space. Panels, tables, and print shop space are not reserved until request for space is processed and payment is received. Requests are prioritized on a first-come, first-served basis. Contact the Art Show Director at [email protected] to request space or ask questions. All artwork entered is subject to review prior to entry.
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The Nucleon Award was established in 2009 as way for the fans to select their favorite artists from the SoonerCon Art Show. There are two categories: the Fan Favorite and the Artist Favorite.
SoonerCon 23 Nucleon Award Recipients (2014)
1st Place Fan Favorite: Vincent Villafranca
2nd Place Fan Favorite: Jes Cole
3rd Place Fan Favorite: Sky Pirate
1st Place Artist Favorite: Vincent Villafranca
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Thank you to the fantastic artists who helped the SoonerCon 23 Art Show become the best one yet.
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Two of the state's most high-powered institutions - the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and the State of Wisconsin Investment Board - will jointly capitalize a new $30 million early-stage venture fund focused on information technology. With the state's expertise in IT, particularly in southeastern Wisconsin, that seems like a great idea.
WARF is the patenting and licensing arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and SWIB manages the assets of the Wisconsin Retirement System. The new 4490 Ventures fund will "focus on early-stage companies primarily in Wisconsin," the organizations say.
We like this idea - and others like it - because the state has trailed other regions in the creation of new companies. That's one of the biggest reasons, we believe, that job growth continues to lag here. A major concern is a chronic lack of venture capital. This fund, though relatively small, should give entrepreneurial efforts a boost.
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In testing the Phenom II X6, Linux Magazine noticed that AMDs new processor doesn't have the full performance under the current Linux kernel. A bug in Linux power management throws a wrench into the six-core processing.
With Ubuntu 9.04 and kernel 2.6.28, the Phenom II X6 1090T processor exhibited 19% better performance, much like Intel's "Gulftown" Core i7 980, in the LUbench benchmark. However, the performance was far more disappointing with Ubuntu 9.10 under kernel 2.6.31. Only by deactivating AMD's Cool'n'Quiet power-saving technology did the Phenom II X6 get anywhere near the expected performance with Ubuntu 9.10.
AMD's Operating Systems Research Center (OSRC) in Dresden, responsible for Linux development under the direction of Chris Schlaeger, confirmed that the new Turbocore mode of the Phenom II X6 was getting into conflict with the kernel's powernow-k8 frequency regulator module. The module falsely assumes the turbo clock as the maximum frequency. But because only the CPU itself can do the overclocking, this leads to a Turbocore knockout. Even a reduction to miminum clocking is impossible. The problem affects all AMD CPUs with the Turbocore feature under kernel 2.6.30 and later. The only available CPUs with Turbocore right now are the Phenom II X6 1055T and 1090T.
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Until the patch is available, Linux users should deactivate Cool'n'Quiet in the BIOS, or blacklist the powernow-k8 kernel module (the latter seems a better solution if Windows is also installed).In our tests, the power use is only 17 watts higher when idling, at least under the unaffected kernel in Ubuntu 9.04. No difference was measured under heavy load, whether it was with one core or all six.
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That didn't sit well with owner Ahmed Zayat, who last month engaged in a heated, stable-area confrontation with Harper over the looseness of the track and its effect on the performance of his horses, trained by noted speed aficionado Bob Baffert. Zayat ultimately pulled his horses out of the meet and took them to the dirt track at Saratoga, N.Y.
"This track plays slower, no question about it," Harper said. "That's part of the safety factor. If you have a sizable investment in speed, you go crazy, and that's what you're seeing in a trainer like Bob. He's going to have to adapt. It's an understandable concern if you have a barn full of speed horses."
Despite gripes about slowness, the industry consensus is that safety considerations will triumph, to the point that tracks that continue to eschew synthetic surfaces will be left behind. For now, the three Triple Crown sites - Churchill Downs, Pimlico and Belmont Park - are sticking with dirt, although Churchill Downs officials are monitoring the landscape.
Even if synthetic tracks come to dominate the sport, as expected, horse racing insiders won't relent in their quest to reduce deaths and injuries.
"It's a great step forward to use Polytrack, but we're not going to stop looking," said Dr. Rick Arthur, the equine medical director of the California Horse Racing Board. "We're not going to relax and expect the problem to go away. As long as we're losing horses, it's going to be an issue."
Discussion of racing surfaces, in fact, was only a small portion of a two-day summit on the welfare and safety of the racehorse held last October in Lexington, Ky. The 49 representatives from a cross-section of the industry made five specific recommendations to improve horse safety:
> Research, develop and publish additional statistics that will provide insight into the durability and longevity of progeny of breeding stock.
> Make efforts to have scientific research more widely distributed among industry stakeholders.
> Examine the use or ban of certain horseshoes, such as toe grabs.
> Develop a uniform on-track injury reporting system for horses and humans.
> Provide continuing education for all horsemen, exercise riders and farriers.
Summit participants have already turned proposals into action on a couple of fronts. Based on research revealing that toe grabs - which act like cleats for horses - with a height greater than 4 millimeters on the front horseshoes make a thoroughbred 16 times more likely to suffer a catastrophic injury while racing, the CHRB banned them in February, and Indiana followed suit last month.
In late May, 30 racetracks, including Del Mar, launched a program to record on-track injuries in a more uniform fashion. And Bowen of the Grayson-Jockey Club is working on a durability index for breeders.
Will all of these positive initiatives, and other ideas not yet crystallized, be sufficient to keep horses from dying? Lovers of the sport of kings - and lovers of the animals themselves - can only hope.
Then again, maybe influential racing writer Bill Finley was right when he wrote in the New York Daily News back in 1993: "The thoroughbred race horse is a genetic mistake. It runs too fast, its frame is too large, and its legs are far too small. As long as mankind demands that it run at high speeds under stressful conditions, horses will die at racetracks."


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The study conducted by academics at the University of Leeds and Northumbria University found that coaches who focus more on their own high standards and care less about the opinions of others are significantly better at controlling outbursts of anger than those who focus more on others' opinions of their performance.
Lecturer in sports and exercise science in the University of Leeds' Faculty of Biological Sciences Dr. Andrew Hill, who led the study, said that outbursts of anger from coaches is a familiar feature of many sports at many different levels, which is not good for anybody, as everyone wants a calm and analytical mind on the sidelines.
The research that surveyed 238 coaches from various sports found that the coaches with 'high personal standards perfectionism', who focus less on others' opinion of them were more capable of reappraising negative feelings and find solutions in a more constructive manner.
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David Dufour, Senior Director of Security Architecture, Webroot
May 21 2015
36 mins
With the rapidly accelerating nature of attacks on network infrastructure and software systems approaches such as static block lists, manual policy configurations and other current prevention techniques have become outdated. Through the use of distributed computing, contextualization and machine learning it is possible to build tools that analyze data across multiple threat vectors allowing for the development of predictive algorithms and a greater understanding of an organizations threat landscape. We will walk through common machine learning techniques, discuss contextualization, how predictive logic works and see a demonstration of contextualized threat intelligence.
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10 Surefire Methods to Assure Business Continuity
Dave LeClair, VP of Product Marketing, Unitrends
May 21 2015
52 mins
This webinar will go through 10 proven ways to assure your business can be resilient to any sort of downtime event including disaster recovery as a service, instant recovery, recovery assurance, archiving, and other best practices.
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How Fraudsters Steal Identities
Fred Crawley, Managing Editor, Credit Today and David Pope, Marketing Director, Jumio
May 21 2015
53 mins
This webinar will explore the methods criminals use to perpetrate fraud and steal identities and what you can do to secure your business without taking a hit on transaction completion and revenue.
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1. The common approaches used in identity theft and how they apply to e-commerce.
- the coffee shop wifi hack
- the local government census
- social media techniques
- the offer you can't refuse
- the catchers supermarkets
2. Firsthand research from the Jumio team and what they uncovered when they interviewed convicted ex-fraudsters, professional criminologists, law enforcement practitioners and fraud managers to uncover some of the exploits that fraudsters use.
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5 Key Steps to Enabling Secure Data Sharing & Analytics in Hadoop
Jun 11 2015
5:00 pm
75 mins
Reiner Kappenberger, Global Product Mgmt, HP Security Voltage; William Peterson, Director, Product Marketing, MapR Tech
Security Briefings Part 1 - Big data analytics and Hadoop environments come with myriad benefits-but also new risks to enterprises. In the past, cyber-attackers had to search for high-value information across a wide range of systems. But with centralized data, hackers can focus on a known, single target. Even when key information is consider secure, there's still a high risk that sensitive information can be re-identified by utilizing multiple data sets. Join HP Security Voltage and (ISC)2 on June 11, 2015 at 1:00PM Eastern for 5 steps in protecting critical data and learn how to build a strategy and methodology to secure big data in Hadoop.
Ponemon Study: True Cost of a Data Breach
Jun 10 2015
12:00 pm
60 mins
Join IBM and (ISC)2 to learn about the latest Cost of a Data Breach study and discuss the implications of the study for today's businesses.
In this live webinar, you will learn the key findings of the Cost of a Data Breach study, including:
-Major factors that affect the financial consequences of a data breach
-How companies changed their operations and compliance following a breach
-Most common cybersecurity governance challenges
-Why companies failed to stop data breaches
Securing Your Open Source Assets
Jun 4 2015
5:00 pm
60 mins
(ISC)2, Black Duck Software
Open source tools and code have become pervasive in applications development and infrastructure alike. In just the past year, over 5000 vulnerabilities have been reported against open source components, so it may not be as secure as one would think. Such vulnerabilities can lead to security bugs like Heartbleed and Poodle. Knowing the components you are using and their possible vulnerabilities is critical to maintaining the security at your organization. Join (ISC)2 and Black Duck Software on June 4, 2015 at 1:00PM Eastern for a discussion on securing open source tools.
Inside (ISC)2 With David Shearer, Executive Director, (ISC)2
May 28 2015
5:00 pm
60 mins
David Shearer, Executive Director
As an (ISC)2 member or a practitioner considering certification or membership, wouldn't you like to have the ability to interact with an (ISC)2 Board Member, Director or Manager to ask questions or discover what's being worked on within the organization that will benefit the members or the industry in general? Our new webinar series, Inside (ISC)2 will feature various key personnel within the organization interacting with and answering questions from members and non-members alike in a moderated webcast setting. This is chance to find out, first hand, what's going at (ISC)2 and ask your questions of the key people making decisions at the organization. First up, join us on May 28, 2015 at 1:00PM as David Shearer, Executive Director, stops by to answer your questions.
From the Trenches - Leading Practices in Securing Electronic Healthcare Records
May 21 2015
58 mins
Brian Rappach, IS Security Project Leader, TriHeath; Ray Potter, SafeLogic, CEO; Eric Walters, Dir & CISO U of Kansas Medical
Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs) and the information they contain have become the top target of cybercriminals around the world. Several high profile healthcare-related data breaches have made the headlines in recent months and more are sure to come. What is it about the information contained in EHRs that is so enticing and how can it be better secured? Join (ISC)2 and Sophos on May 21, 2015 at 1:00PM Eastern for a discussion of the security of healthcare data and approaches on how to better protect this type of information.
IBM X-Force: Insights from the 1Q 2015 X-Force Threat Intelligence Quarterly
May 20 2015
60 mins
Simon Smith, Security Technical Specialist, IBM UK
2014 brought significant change for the internet security industry. According to IBM's latest X-Force report:
- Over 1 billion records of PII were leaked in 2014
- Vulnerability disclosures rocketed to a record high in 2014, and designer vulns like Heartbleed and Shellshock revealed cracks in the foundation of underlying libraries on nearly every common web platform
- Crowd-sourced malware continues to mutate, resulting in new variants with expanding targets
- App designer apathy is negatively impacting security on mobile devices.
Join (ISC)2 and IBM to learn more about the findings of the latest IBM X-Force report and X-Force Interactive Security Incident website, designed to help users gain in-depth understanding of security breaches publicly disclosed over time.
Briefings Part 3: Effective Identity & Access Mgmt for Today's Modern Cloud
May 14 2015
62 mins
Kurt Johnson, VP Corp. Development, Courion; Frank Aiello Exec Dir and CISO, American Red Cross
Your users demand access everywhere, any time, via any device. Whether it's cloud or traditional on-premise applications, it's critical that organizations provide access to those who need it while mitigating access risk and maintaining compliance. Join (ISC)2, Courion and the American Red Cross on May 14, 2015 at 1:00PM Eastern for an informative session that will show how the American Red Cross is addressing this issue with a strategy around provisioning, governance, federation, and single sign-on via a seamless and integrated IAM solution for managing cloud and enterprise access.
Running Windows Server 2003 in a Post-Support World
May 14 2015
62 mins
Christopher Strand, Sr. Global Director of Compliance - IT Governance, Risk, and Security Audit Programs, Bit9
Even with the imminent end of support for Windows Server 2003 (W2K3), you may still be planning to continue running W2K3 in production. But with a never-ending stream of new exploits, vulnerabilities, and zero-day malware, how can you continue to maintain control and keep those systems safe and secure? (ISC)2 and Bit9 are hosting this webcast which will focus on looking at how to help prevent, detect and respond to advanced threats on endpoints and ensure continued compliance of W2K3 systems.
In Clouds We Trust: Making the transition to Office 365
May 7 2015
61 mins
Nate Fitzgerald, Intel Security: Chuck Gaughf, (ISC)2; Matt Gamgwar, Rook Security; Brandon Dunlap
Moving to the cloud is always a difficult decision, but when you look at the impact of solutions as broad reaching as Office 365, chances are your primary concern is going to be about security. There are a number of facets and features (e-mail, OneDrive, Lync) to Office 365 and the security issues can be myriad. Join Intel Security and (ISC)2 on May 7, 2015 at 1:00PM Eastern for a discussion on how to overcome these challenges through critical protection and often overlooked best practices to build the confidence you need to securely deploy Office 365.
State of the Industry - (ISC)2's Global Workforce Study
Apr 30 2015
61 mins
Julie Peeler, (ISC)2 Foundation Director; Mark Aiello, President, Cyber 360 Inc.; Elise Yacobellis, (ISC)2
Every two years, (ISC)2 surveys infosecurity practitioners from around the world about the profile of the global information security workforce. This year, over 12,000 professionals from 135+ countries responded to the survey to provide invaluable insight about their careers, positions and organizations. Join Julie Peeler, (ISC)2 Foundation Director and other industry experts on April 30, 2015 at 1:00pm Eastern for an examination and discussion of the survey results, gain insight into what hiring managers and looking for in job candidates, the areas of expertise in demand and the challenges facing infosec pros around the world.
Briefings Part 2: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Case Study
Apr 28 2015
61 mins
Mark Teehan Manager IT Security, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care; Kurt Johnson, Courion
Keeping Compliance in Check & Controlling Access Risk:
Learn how one of the nation's largest health insurers provides access to users efficiently and effectively while also assuring that private constituent data is protected in compliance with HIPAA, HITECH and other federal and state privacy and security regulations. Join (ISC)2, Courion and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care on April 28, 2015 at 1:00pm Eastern to learn how the information security team is able to identify and remediate user access risks such as unnecessary privileged access, orphaned and abandoned accounts, and system or non-human accounts that call for administrative oversight.
Is CISSP Right For Me?
Apr 16 2015
49 mins
Adrian Davis, (ISC)2 EMEA - Moderator; Mark Ampleford, Barclay Simpson; Marko van Zwam, Deloitte; Neil Breden, Fujitsu
More than 100,000 information security professionals have invested time, effort and resources to achieve what has long been considered the Gold Standard security certification – The CISSP. Now that the security industry is growing and career trends are shaping the current job market, there is a bigger need to understand where the CISSP fits and what value it brings to any professional undertaking the path to become certified.
During this panel session you'll hear different perspectives, including that of the hiring manager, recruiter and credential holders themselves around the following questions:
- How is the CISSP viewed in the market place?
- Which career paths are worth exploring with a CISSP?
- What skillset does a CISSP have?
- Is the CISSP a differentiator for a candidate?
- How does the CISSP help the professional perform his job?
Changing Your Mindset for Better Security
Apr 9 2015
59 mins
Michelangelo Sidagni, NopSec, Javvad Malik, 451 Research; Tom Gorup, Rook Security; Brandon Dunlap
It's been said that defensive driving is about "driving for the other cars on the road." The same can be said for setting your organization's security strategy and "to think like your enemy". It's a sound practice which focuses on infosecurity practitioners putting themselves in the shoes of their attackers and anticipating where the next threat may be coming from. Using advanced analytics to compile simplified reporting can help to streamline your these efforts, enabling you to more clearly see the threats the attackers may be using and helping you to react faster. Join (ISC)2and NopSec on April 9, 2015 at 1:00PM for a discussion on vulnerability and threat analytics to better secure an organization.
Survey Results: The Need for Improved Software Quality
Apr 7 2015
60 mins
Michael Osterman; Phil Casesa, (ISC)2; Noah Gray, (ISC)2; Katie Moussouris, HackerOne; Glenn Leifheit, Microsoft
Osterman Research and (ISC)2 recently conducted a survey of individuals in mid-sized and large organizations on how they choose off-the-shelf applications, how they develop custom applications, and how they select third-party application developers. Join (ISC)², Michael Osterman and a panel of experts for a discussion about the findings from the survey and the state of software development quality on Tuesday, April 7th at 1:00pm Eastern. Attendees will also have the opportunity to download the entire survey report.
From the Trenches: Being Your Own "Expert Witness"
Mar 26 2015
59 mins
Spencer Wilcox, CISSP, Excelon; Herbert Joe, Certified Forensics Consultant, Yonovitz & Joe, LLP; Andrew Neal, TransPerfect
With data breaches and data leakage incidents becoming front page news, cyber investigations are taking on more importance within organizations. This calls for a new set of skills to be developed such as the ability to work with all levels of law enforcement, lawyers and attorneys and within the judicial system. Many of these investigations will call for the cybersecurity practitioner to be a witness and give testimony. What's the best way to do this to protect yourself and the organization, while also providing the information that will help law enforcement and the justice system to get the information they need? Join (ISC)2 on March 26, 2015 at 1:00PM Eastern for our next "From the Trenches" webcast where we'll talk about what it means to be an expert witness and the best practices for serving as one.
Briefings Part 1: Insights from the latest IBM CISO Assessment
Mar 24 2015
61 mins
Martin Borrett, Director, IBM Institute of Advanced Security in Europe
Already tasked with protecting companies from a vast domain of ever-changing threats, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and other security leaders must now prepare for more avenues of attack as well as more sophisticated attackers. Research from the IBM Centre for Applied Insights pinpoints what worries today's security leaders and what they're doing to address those concerns. We also identify several actions that security leaders can take to help their companies manage the approaching uncertainties in information security.
Martin Borrett, Director, IBM Institute of Advanced Security in Europe
Martin Borrett is the Director of the IBM Institute of Advanced Security in Europe. He leads the Institute and advises at the most senior level in clients on policy, business, technical and architectural issues associated with security. Martin leads IBM's Security Blueprint work and is co-author of the IBM Redbooks Introducing the IBM Security Framework and IBM Security Blueprint to Realize Business-Driven Security and Understanding SOA Security . He is Chairman of the European IBM Security User Group community and a member of the board of EOS, the European Organisation for Security. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and member of the IET. Martin has a passion for sailing and has represented Great Britain; he is also a keen tennis player.
Using SIEM to Improve Threat Discovery & Response: From Theory to Practice
Mar 19 2015
58 mins
Ian Jones, Enterprise Tech Specialist; Raj Goel, CTO Brainlink; Derin Beechner, Infosec Analyst, Kansas City Power & Light
Threat and adversarial information has become easily accessible and gone mainstream in the last couple of years. However managing the threat lifecycle, can still be challenging for organizations continuously under pressure for the next attack and low on resources. Prioritizing threats, managing incidents and neutralizing the attackers successfully requires dedicated tools, processes as well as broad adoption by the IT Security staff. Join (ISC)2 and Intel Security at 1:00PM on March 19, 2015 as we discuss leveraging SIEM and effective means for improving your discovery and responses to today's emerging threats.
Briefings Part 1: Building the Business Case for Risk-Aware IAM
Mar 12 2015
59 mins
Kurt Johnson, VP Corp. Development, Courion; Brandon Dunlap, Moderator
Today's business initiatives include developing stronger security to help protect against vulnerabilities, minimizing corporate risk and meeting compliancy requirements. Investments in intelligent Identity and Access Management (IAM) can help organizations meet these objectives, lower IT operating costs, and improve productivity. Join (ISC)2 and Courion Corp on March 12, 2015 at 1:00PM Eastern for the 1st part of a 3 part series where we'll provide guidelines to help you create a compelling business case for IAM technology and the ability to provide continuous monitoring that makes you aware quicker and react faster to risk.Also included will be real-life examples of how investments IAM infrastructure technology can enhance your security posture.
Streamlining Security: Strategies for Improving Effectiveness and Efficiency
Feb 19 2015
58 mins
Simon Crosby, CTO, Bromium; JJ Thompson, Rook Security, Chuck Gaughf, (ISC)2; Brandon Dunlap, Brightfly (Moderator)
For many of us, current information security operations are largely manual and therefore inefficient. This increases costs and results in lower effectiveness of our hard won efforts. In this interactive session, we will explore opportunities to streamline processes and make effective use of the technologies available to us, and establish ourselves as worthy custodians of our limited resources bestowed upon us. Join us at 1:00PM Eastern on February 19, 2015, with our event sponsor, Bromium, for this spirited panel discussion.
Briefings Part 6: Identity Management and APIs – The Evolution Continues
Feb 12 2015
59 mins
John E. Hawley, Jr., VP, Strategy for Security Solutions; CA Technologies; Brandon Dunlap
The Identity Management market has been buffeted over the past two years by several important trends – cloud, mobile, social media, and increased app velocity, among others. These trends have dramatically shaped the identity landscape, and changed the security strategy and tactics that many companies have adopted. But, these changes are not finished. In this webcast, we'll look at the next phase of identity management and APIs, and how the continuing trend towards cloud services and the explosion of mobility and applications will continue to shape the role of Security. We will also offer best practice guidelines for dealing with these continuing changes.
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Published: March 26, 2000
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Wilpon says that Phillips was never in danger of being fired, provided he followed through on a promise to seek help, and he reinstated Phillips after only eight days. Asked why he has not extended Phillips's and Valentine's contracts, Wilpon gives a baseball answer. ''People sign a contract and they get a certain amount of security for a certain job. There's a beginning and an end to that. Maybe it's going to be helpful to Bobby and to Steve -- to all of us -- to be accountable. I expect us to be a contending team.''
One observer who would be very surprised should the Mets jettison Phillips is Scott Boras, the powerful player agent who at the end of the year will be seeking a contending team and a stable organization for his free-agent client -- Seattle's shortstop, Alex Rodriguez, who may be the game's brightest young star. ''I think Steve has a dynamic about him that is really important to the Mets,'' Boras says. ''He's experienced in three ways. First, he has pursued the big deal and landed it, and he has the confidence to do it again. Second, he has dealt with New York, professionally and personally, and has come out on top. Third, he knows what he's doing; he's credible.''
Phillips's credibility is precisely what the Mets' season will measure. This winter, his plan was to augment the pitching staff, which is almost every team's priority every off-season, and to mend a hole in baseball's best infield after the team's stylish, free-agent first baseman, John Olerud, signed to play in his hometown, Seattle. ''We also wanted to add a little more thump to our outfield,'' Phillips said. ''We had pretty good production, but we had three guys out there -- Henderson, Hamilton and Roger Cedeno -- who didn't drive the ball as much as they got on base.''
Unlike the Atlanta Braves, with their great starting rotation, or the Cleveland Indians, with their potent offense and stingy bullpen, the Mets have been stellar in neither their starting pitchers nor their closers. SaysPhillips: ''The strategy is that the game isn't necessarily won in the first innings or the last, but over nine innings. So we've tried to maintain a high level of consistency, 1 through 12, among our pitchers. But now Benitez has come on and made us better at the back end, and Hampton makes us stronger at the front, without compromising the consistency we'd built.''
Indeed, the Mets' collection of midgame relievers, including John Franco, Pat Mahomes, Turk Wendell and Dennis Cook, is probably baseball's most effective group. ''Starters used to get you to the eighth, and you'd bring in a closer, a guy who could go two innings,'' Phillips says. ''Then there really weren't any two-inning guys any more, and now it's more specialized still. In my opinion, you need a seventh-, an eighth- and a ninth-inning guy now.''
Still, even with the acquisition of Hampton, the starting staff has questions. Only three of the five starters -- Leiter, Rick Reed and Bobby J. Jones -- remain from last season. Rogers, a free agent who was seeking a four-year, $8-million-a-year deal, is gone.
''We considered it,'' Phillips says. ''That wasn't the best use of our $8 million, in my view, and it would have been tough to bring him back to start a multiyear deal when you know the first time he takes the mound he's going to get booed.'' (Rogers eventually signed with Texas for three years at $7.5 million annually.)
Masato Yoshii, another starting pitcher, is also gone, traded to Colorado for a lesser pitcher, Bobby M. Jones. This was a money trade -- Yoshii, at 34, was making $3 million. But Phillips was working on another deal for a younger pitcher whom the Mets liked for his sinker and the modest contract he already had signed for the next two years.
If that deal had gone through -- it didn't, and for that reason Phillips could be in violation of baseball's tampering rules if the player's name were publicly revealed -- there would have been no room for Yoshii on the staff, and he would be more difficult to trade for significant value in return because other teams would recognize the Mets' desperation. Meanwhile, Phillips was busy acquiring four other pitchers -- Bill Pulsipher, Jesse Orosco, Glendon Rusch and Rich Rodriguez -- overstocking the larder with baseball's rarest commodity, left arms. The Mets have nine lefties with major-league experience, too many to squeeze onto the roster but potentially useful as bait for a future trade.
In any event, it was easier to part with Yoshii after Hampton was signed. In this case, Phillips took advantage of the Mets' willingness to spend for a championship and the leverage that star players now wield in shaping their own careers. And he still needed a little luck. Hampton, entering the last year of his contract -- he'll be paid $5.75 million this year -- was afraid that if he signed an expensive, long-term contract with Houston, the team, with its midrange budget, would be unable to afford to pay the other quality players needed to win a title, so he asked to be traded to a contender.


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Confederation Bridge hikes crossing rates
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Crossing the Confederation Bridge will cost more Jan. 1.
The cost of travelling by automobile across the nearly 13-kilometre stretch from New Brunswick to Prince Edward Island will increase from $41.50 to $42.50.
The cost for vehicles with additional axles will increase by $1.25 per axle. For example, a three-axle vehicle will pay $49.50 under the new rate as opposed to $48.25 in 2008.
Motorcycle prices will increase 50 cents to $17, while pedestrian and cyclist fees will remain the same at $4 and $8 respectively.
Strait Crossing Bridge Ltd., which operates and maintains the bridge, provides a shuttle service for pedestrians and cyclists. Strait Crossing has also announced plans to improve operational efficiency, reduce energy use and improve safety for bridge users.
Strait Crossing said in a news release Wednesday that cameras that read licence plates have been installed to provide information to the Island's tourism industry.
New traffic monitoring cameras have also been installed. To read the original article: http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1096541.html


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Demi Lovato's in Everett on Oct. 2. Listen to Win Tickets
Demi Lovato, along with Christina Perri and MKTO, will play the Comcast Arena in Everett on Oct. 2, and we have your chance at free tickets!
Demi Lovato, along with Christina Perri and MKTO, will play the Comcast Arena in Everett on Oct. 2, and we have your chance at free tickets!
Here are how some celebrities have chosen to express their remembrance of 9/11.
Watch Demi Lovato's most inspirational and heartfelt speeches here.
After weeks of voting for the best in summer music, style, social media and more, PopCrush readers have finally chosen 2014's winners!
Demi Lovato has been outspoken about her love for boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama before, but the two are sweeter than ever in a recently surfaced video.
Check out Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato and more stars rocking their natural beauty.
PopCrush Mini-Mix 23 features remixed tracks from Demi Lovato, 5 Seconds of Summer, Rita Ora and more! Listen here!
Listen to PopCrush Mini-Mix 21, featuring remixed tracks from Jessie J, Demi Lovato and more!
Demi Lovato has opened up about past demons, including her struggles with mental illnesses and addictions, in a long, candid and open interview with The Daily Mail.
Poor Demi Lovato — her 4th of July took a turn for the worse!
Is it over between Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez? Are they no longer friends?
That's the big question Lovatics and Selenators have been asking after fans noticed that Lovato unfollowed Gomez on Twitter earlier this week.
Filmed on location at the L.A. Pride Parade last month, Demi Lovato's new video features Travis Barker from Blink 182 playing drums against a pink backdrop, plus Wilmer Valderama as Demi's fill-in boyfriend and Cher Lloyd as a fill-in BFF


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NASA testing next-gen lunar rover in Arizona
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NASA's 12-wheeled Small Pressurized Rover raced (by lunar rover standards) across the moon-like Arizona outback at 6mph this week as part of the 11th annual Desert Research and Technology Studies (RATS). While the buggies on the Apollo missions only provided a 6 mile range, the presence of two or more SPRs on a lunar landing will provide a range of over 150 miles.
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The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) has honored over 600 institutions of higher education for their leadership in support of volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement.
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October 14, 2014
Common myths about mental health, the important role it plays in college students' success and resources to help address issues specific to college and universities are presented in a new primer published by ACE.
September 22, 2014
The demographics of single parent students are the focus of the first Higher Ed Spotlight, a new infographic series from ACE's Center for Policy Research and Strategy.
September 19, 2014
This infographic provides statistics on undergraduate single parents in postsecondary education. In the 2011–2012 academic year, U.S. colleges and universities enrolled 3.5 million students who are also single parents, a group that represents 15.2% of the undergraduate population. This growing demographic group of post-traditional students must balance academic, family, and work responsibilities at the same time.
September 4, 2014
Scholars scrutinized the impact of the Obama administration's proposed college ratings plan and other policies on minority-serving institutions and minority students Tuesday at a Capitol Hill forum hosted by the UCLA Civil Rights Project and cosponsored by ACE's Center for Policy Research and Strategy, among others.
March 21, 2014
The National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA), in cooperation with ACE, will present a webinar March 26 on legal and policy issues for short-term study abroad programs.
October 19, 2012
College and university students will join forces with their peers and campus professionals on more than 800 campuses across the country to promote National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week (NCAAW), Oct. 21-27, 2012.
July 31, 2012
An ACE Factsheet on the history of Pell Grant funding from 1976 to 2010. The federal Pell Grant began in FY73. However, FY76 was the first year in which all undergraduates were eligible to receive a grant. Cost of attendance includes tuition, fees, room, and board. Constant dollar values are adjusted for inflation, 2010 dollars based on fiscal year CPI-U.
July 24, 2012
The Center for Policy Research and Strategy is responsible for the content in ACE Fact Sheets on Higher Education.
February 3, 2012
A summary of ideas President Obama offered in his 2012 State of the Union address on the importance of keeping higher education affordable for students and families. The president further expanded on his proposals in a speech at the University of Michigan.
April 21, 2011
The departments of Health and Human Services and Education yesterday held a conference call to encourage colleges and universities to inform students they are eligible to remain on their parents' health care plan until age 26 if the policy covers dependent children.
ACE's Inclusive Excellence Group and Center for Internationalization and Global Engagement are collaboratively promoting the At Home in the World initiative to reach the ultimate goal of creating synergistic learning environments that empower students.
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I've seeing endless posts about a client asking for a song or loop for a project, and never give a positive or negative answer to us authors, or at least closing the post telling us that the search is over.
I think there's should be a better way, we need an app or a place inside envato to handle this kind of request.
I propose the following:
- The client post the song request (description, mood, link to a similar song, etc)
- An author suggest 2 or 3 songs in response to it's request. The client get an email notification and he can then reject or accept those suggestions by checking a box (something simple)
- When the client find what it needs he can close the thread or if there is no activity for a while the thread automatically closes itslef
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+1 That sounds great! Item request threads are very silly – old threads get revived occasionally and gets cluttered fast because of no feedback from a client.
Just afrraid, that this is nothing Envato benefits from
That would be AMAZING ! I think it would be incredibly useful to clients, simply fill out a form of what you're looking for then all the authors pitch their songs to you. Could be a feature that really helps bring AJ ahead of the royalty free music crowd.
I think it would be better if it's coded as a new feature on the website instead of in the forums too.
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+1 Just afrraid, that this is nothing Envato benefits from
Hi, I think Envato could benefit a lot with something like this just due the fact customers will find faster what they looking for, avoiding frustration that could cause to find the song they want elsewhere…
Faster request / feedback = happier ($$) client = authors happier = envato happier
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Steven C. Swanson pled not guilty on June 19 after he allegedly threatened to fly across the country to Los Angeles to kill the Australian-born mother of one.
Local police in Sandwich were notified by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department that Steven had called the department and said he was planning to fly to Los Angeles the following month and kill the model, according to the Cape Code Times.
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Less than a month for me and trying to work out when to change over our spending money.
We use XE.com and tranfer it straight to our US bank account.
Sent some yesterday to pay bills and I got $1.48391
So reading on here that people have gone at 1.35 doesn't make 1.5 seem bad. Seem to remember going once while it was 1.6 but was still chuffed to bits at filling the car up with fuel for £20
scottOriginally Posted by Scott1066, post: 220201
we go whatever the rate is at the time, it doesnt have a bearing whether wwe go or not, we go whenever we have the money. cant do anything about the rate so i wont lose any sleep over it, it is what it is :)
When I was at work I always had mixed feelings about the Dollar v GBP exchange rate, and I still do to some extent.
Yes, on one hand when the rate was "favourable" to us folks travelling to the States on vacation for a couple of weeks a year it was great, however on the other hand it was crippling our company who did a lot of work overseas and this exchange rate made our exports mega expensive thus resulting in many UK companies like mine having to make cut backs.
100% agree, we're going no matter what but would rather have a good exchange rate although we can personally do nothing about it. When or if it looks better will get in a few dollars thoughOriginally Posted by ukwdwnut, post: 220225
oh yeah we do that too if we have the spends then, i think 1.725 is the highest we have hadOriginally Posted by Scott1066, post: 220277
i will try and remember to post the dollar rate updates every day...have you seen that thread scott?
Well I guess that if they let me do it then they should let anyone set up an account Mick.Originally Posted by ukwdwnut, post: 220258
Seriously though, we set our account up when we bought our villa over there and we use it mainly for paying our utility bills etc.on line [along with a couple of direct debits] although the bank did send us a cheque book also which we occasionally use for "one off" payments eg the villa insurance etc..
I also have an ATM card from the bank for the odd cash withdrawal that I may need to make when we are over there.
It was a while back when we opened the account in the States [around 2004 I think] but from memory it was an easy process. Again [from memory], all I had to do was to send a photostat copy of our passports and to wire over some funds to get started and apart from signing a couple of forms that was about that.
So long as I stay in credit then I don`t pay any charges at all
It`s very convenient for us as there is a branch of our bank at Champions Gate near to our villa and the staff there are very welcoming whenever you walk through the door.
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Normally I'd just place this in the One Stop Shop for gaming news but there may very well be people here who play both ArenaNet and Blizzard games and so this may be of vital importance to you.
The article on the hacking.
Seems email address, secret questions and 'some' personal details have been accessed for all players outside of China. Passwords were stolen however it supposedly 'encrypted' and not likely to be deciphered (It will be, like the Yahoo! addresses of June hack) so whilst Blizzard are pushing for players to alter their login details and cover their ***** I'd advise anyone here who uses the same email address and/or (shock horror) the same password with their guild wars accounts to quickly change them*
I'm not sure on how easy it will be changing passwords for Guild Wars with the accounts linked and all, but I'd recommend looking into it if you have ever played a Blizzard game.
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I read a frightening article this past weekend entitled Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior. The author, Amy Chua, justifies her stereotypically tough "Asian" parenting style as the proven way to raise tough and successful children. For example:
What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it. To get good at anything you have to work, and children on their own never want to work, which is why it is crucial to override their preferences. This often requires fortitude on the part of the parents because the child will resist; things are always hardest at the beginning, which is where Western parents tend to give up. But if done properly, the Chinese strategy produces a virtuous circle. Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America. Once a child starts to excel at something—whether it's math, piano, pitching or ballet—he or she gets praise, admiration and satisfaction. This builds confidence and makes the once not-fun activity fun. This in turn makes it easier for the parent to get the child to work even more.
Chua's argument might sound enticing, but she sounds more like a GE manager or a Malcolm Gladwell wannabe than a mother. We get it – it takes a lot to be skilled at something. In this day and age of post-American Idol instant "success" for essentially doing nothing, it's refreshing to hear – and it seems like Americans are trying to get back to a model of hard work (i.e. Protestant work ethic?). Part of me also wonders if this might be a well timed article to promote a well timed book to capitalize on/assuage people's fear of China "catching up". Can't this be construed as a "Take it from me, an insider who is now one of you!" coming from an overachieving Chinese-American Yale Law professor married to a guy named Jed?
Packaging this "Chinese" parenting as a guarantee for raising successful children is like selling "Pearl Cream" as the ancient Chinese remedy for great skin. It's mumbo jumbo. It's Tiger Balm. It might address some superficial issues and smell like it's working, but doesn't cure anything in the long run.
Having been raised myself in this "Chinese" way (i.e. piano lessons, no sleepovers, etc.) I do think that there were some benefits to being protected and pushed a certain way. I didn't realize it was love at the time, but my parents were certainly trying to prepare me with the tools to be successful and live a happy life. I did get ahead of my peers. However, being forced to do something doesn't necessarily mean you have learned it, and developing a model of being driven by the outside world is a gateway drug to unhappiness.
For one thing, this model puts almost all the emphasis on external measures of success: parental approval, high grades and being better than other people. Amy Chua claims that her daughter had higher self esteem after figuring out how to play cross-rhythms (something I struggled with myself as a young pianist, so kudos to her at age seven!). However, the pattern I see is a young girl being forced to do something that is not her own personal goal or desire. That's the opposite of discipline. After she is finally able to do it, it is worthwhile to her because it pleases her mother. That's the opposite of self esteem. Discipline and self esteem come from within. How can you teach that by only using external measures?
Let's talk about Asian women and depression. A few months ago, PBS ran this article about the the high rates of suicide and depression among Asian women. One of the responses to the article on this discussion board about Chua's article is from a woman whose sister committed suicide despite having all the material and career achievements and being "every Asian parents wet dream come true".
These two articles remind me of this monologue from Young Jean Lee's play, "Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven":
Have you ever noticed how most Asian-Americans are slightly brain-damaged from having grown up with Asian parents? It's like being raised by monkeys—these retarded monkeys who can barely speak English and are too evil to understand anything besides conformity and status. Most of us hate these monkeys from an early age and try to learn how to be human from school or television, but the result is always tainted by this subtle or not-so-subtle retardation. Asian people from Asia are even more brain-damaged, but in a different way, because they are the original monkey. Anyway, some white men who like Asian women seem to like this retarded quality as well, and sometimes the more retarded the better.
I think that sums up a lot. It's an angry portrait of an Asian-American, but I think there is a lot of truth to it, and I think a lot of people would at least have an inkling of agreement with it. My parents came to this country as immigrants, and they had to deal with living in their culture within American culture. My fellow first generation Asian-Americans and I are trying to figure out how to merge and reconcile the two even further. You win some, you lose some.
I wasn't allowed to go to sleepovers until after high school (i.e. after everyone stopped having them), but I got to be in student council and organize the homecoming parade. I had so many community college credits while attending classes in high school that I qualified as a college junior even though I was technically a freshmen, but I also went CRAZY partying because I never got to do so until I left home. I studied classical piano through college, but now I play ukulele. I studied management and spent as long as I could stomach it (8 months) at a Big Four accounting firm, but now I am a writer/actress/musician/comedian.
Many lessons I learned from my parents – the hard way. Many I had to learn myself – the harder way. There is only so much parenting you can do. Someday I hope to learn that myself.
I don't agree with Amy Chua's views, but I appreciate that she appreciates our culture – as damaging as it can be. However, it's time for a change. As corny as it sounds, East can and should meet West. There's got to be some sort of balance.
When I went home for the holidays this past year, my mother taught me how to crochet. There were no books, no diagrams – just her crocheting at barely half speed as demonstration. If I had a question, she would "explain" by showing me the entire step again and following it up with "This is so easy. If you can't get it, there's nothing I can do for you." You bet this tough love made my 28-year-old self determined to "get" crocheting, lest I be shamed for not being able to do something grandmas do in their sleep. However, it stirred in me something I hadn't felt for a long time. I needed that approval from my mom. But deep down, beneath all the lessons I learned from myself, I buried it. And all that was left was love.


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John Hiatt to play Pabst Theater Aug. 26
Few singer-songwriters tell stories better - or seem to have a better time telling them - than John Hiatt. And he sure seems to love telling them in Milwaukee.
A frequent visitor here - often in recent years with fellow songsmith Lyle Lovett - Hiatt brings his band, The Combo, to the Pabst Theater Aug. 26 for an 8 p.m. show. »Read Full Article
Alchemist Theatre's 'King Lear' reigns as family drama
Early in Friday's opening-night performance of Alchemist Theatre's "King Lear," Bo Johnson's aged king called for the map demonstrating his intended division of Britain among his three daughters. Lear's attendants dutifully unfurled it — with the bottom at the top and the top at the bottom. When they tried to hang the map up, it kept falling down.
Director Leda Hoffmann confirmed during intermission that this sequence wasn't planned. But such a topsy-turvy world aptly illustrates the disorder that descends on Britain once the hot-tempered Lear banishes his beloved Cordelia, counting on his remaining two daughters to keep him and Britain safe. »Read Full Article
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Quatermass and the Pit (1967) Movie Review
We have met the enemy, and it is us: when a Martian spacecraft with a terrifying link to the origins of humanity is unearthed beneath a London tube station, only the esteemed Professor Bernard Quatermass (a very British—and possibly mad—precursor to Mulder and Scully) can save London's suddenly murderous population from itself. One of the most intelligently paranoid science fiction films ever produced, this pessimistic masterpiece functions as a dark flip side to the relatively optimistic alien-induced evolution theory presented in the later 2001: A Space Odyssey. Nigel Kneale's brilliant script (which posits a surprisingly plausible, otherworldly rationale for the existence of the supernatural) was later appropriated by acknowledged fan John Carpenter for his underrated Prince of Darkness. In addition to boasting a flawless widescreen print, this marvelous tape also features a hilariously overdone original U.S. trailer ("Women will be defiled by the invaders from outer space!" it erroneously shrieks). A must-see for horror and science fiction aficionados. This film is also known as Five Million Years to Earth. —Andrew Wright
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Year: 1967
Starring: Brian Peck, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir, Julian Glover, John Graham, Peter Copley, Simon Brent, Sheila Steafel, Hugh Futcher, David Crane, Hugh Morton, Thomas Heathcote, Noel Howlett, Hugh Manning, June Ellis, Keith Marsh, James Culliford, James Donald, Bee Duffell, Duncan Lamont, Roger Avon, Bryan Marshall, Charles Lamb, Edwin Richfield, Peter Bennett, Grant Taylor, Bette Bourne, Maurice Good, John Bown, Robert Morris
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