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i'd say 6-4 Tyson.
but thats just me.
i'd say 6-4 Tyson.
but thats just me.
Gegard Mousasi- 25-2-1
"However great the kindness and the efficiency, in every hospital death there will be some cruel, squalid detail, something perhaps too small to be told but leaving terribly painful memories behind, arising out of the haste, the crowding, the impersonality of a place where every day people are dying among strangers"
I like Crocop for the leg reach alone,Tyson could eat one and get through like that russian with Rizzo but I dont see it happening. I see Crocop kicking his face into the fourth row
Yes I've seen Tyson fight. His hand speed is greater but I think Cro Cop's footwork is on par with Tyson's. If they're up close Tyson will land more, but Cro Cop always looks to circle and back up. If Tyson rushes in he'll probably land a hit but he'll also take leg kicks as he's coming in. Legs are longer than arms. If Cro Cop throws a kick it's gonna land.
Tyson would get caught with some leg kicks on the way in and he'd probably land some hits too but his punches won't be 100% when his legs are on fire. You have to use your legs to set up a punch's momentum. It's not like the very first hit Tyson throws is gonna connect solid and end the fight instantly. Even when you're talking about all those bums Tyson KOed in about a minute, he didn't take them out with the first combo he threw.
Every time Tyson stops and looks for an opening, which he did several times even in your HL vid, his legs will be attacked.
Tyson couldn't be beat in his prime. Mirko has been beaten many times in his prime. If Jerome LeBanner, Francois Botha, and Hunt (all boxers) can do good in K1, a Prime Tyson would KO just about everybody, hands down. Anybody who says he couldn't, didn't see the Tyson from the 80s(when Tyson was in his prime.)
Hunt isn't a boxer, neither is LeBanner. they just prefer the boxing aspect of K1.
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Cro Cop actually beat Hunt and JLB in K-1. I don't deny that Tyson would do well but I just don't see how he could avoid Cro Cop's leg kicks. He can't throw a combo of kicks like Tyson can with punches but even a single kick would weaken Tyson's punches.
If it gets up close then yeah Tyson wins since his combos are faster. The thing is that Cro Cop is a counter puncher and his footwork is on the same level as Tyson's. He has a decent shot of keeping a distance and he could land a KO shot there too. I just give Cro Cop the edge because in boxing and K-1 you ALWAYS get those breaks where for a few seconds they stop engaging and look for an opening. Every time one of those comes up, Cro Cop will be in range to dish out some leg kicks. If they land then that weakens Tyson's punching power and if he starts looking down to block them he leaves himself open.
couldnt have said it better. Tyson might get caught with a leg kick but the counter for a leg kick is a right hand particularly an overhand right.I think Tyson is willing to trade a leg kick for a right hand.Cro Cop doesn't have what it takes to keep Tyson away from him.Tyson would be coming forward relentlessly and Cro Cop would fall as soon as one combo landed,the first one that stunned him would set up the rest that would finish him.btw it wasnt just bums he knocked out with the first combo he threw.Ask Spinks,hes got great footwork but did he have a choice? no. Tyson came forward and pummeled him into the ropes ruthlessly until he was done.Tyson wasn't just fast with his hands either he was very elusive id put 100 bucks on if tyson trained K1 for 6 weeks hed be ducking under high kicks and countering with KO punches lolOriginally Posted by harlemhustla145
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Tyson would just rush right in, not giving mirko time to land anything and even if he did land a kick a less then full power shot from Tyson would still cripple Mirko
I don't see how trading a leg kick for a right hand works out well. Cro Cop would be backing up when he throws the leg kicks like against Aleks and Yoshida, which means Tyson's hits wouldn't land flush. Mirko may get rocked but let's say they exhange 3 times. Even if Mirko's falling back, Tyson's gonna be limping if he tries to go for the kill. Either one of them can recover after being rocked, but once Tyson's legs are on fire, I don't see how he could keep the kind of power and speed he needs. It could go either way but to me Cro Cop's leg kicks are a bigger edge than Tyson's hand speed.
dont knw who wins but Tyson was a freakin beast like no other.....
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Adelsalam Hassoun, 24, a blacksmith, was killed by army snipers just after he had crossed into Turkey from Ain al-Baida village on the Syrian side, his cousin told Reuters by phone from Syria.
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Graham killed 7 tanks with a Tier 6.
You killed 2 tanks with a Tier 9 and only had about 1000 research before times 3 (a score I get pretty much every round with my tier 8's).
I don't see the comparrison?
Where is your "battle efficiency" listed?
(p.s. - you know I respect your mad skills; this is meant in no way as disrespect; I know you know WAY more about this game than I do and the things you find important I'm only beginning to understand and find important - I'm trying to learn from you (some more!) ). I'm asking because of my confusion on your analogy in hopes I'll understand better "what makes a difference"
Nah, man, it's all good.
I seriously don't understand how I got the XP/coins I did get.
To me, equivalent amounts of action in tiers, oh, 6 and up, against balanced teams/battles, seem to earn about the same XP for tanks (in other words, a tier 6 killing tier 7's, or a tier 9 killing tier 10's - we don't see tier 9's gaining some multiplier as much XP for their battles). I must be missing something, but I don't seem to have done anywhere near the work that he seemed to have, yet we ended up with very similar XP.
Both battles seem to be 'good' on the part of the players, but I'm just missing why mine got me what it did.
The "Battle Efficiency" I was speaking of wasn't the efficiency numbers we've been looking at - I just couldn't think of what else to call that section other than what it is labeled as. For example:
I spent a few seconds trying to come up with a name for that section, but ... couldn't think of anything that made sense. Since it was already labeled, I just used that knowing full well I was probably gonna confuse someone. Sorry about that - I was just drawing a blank for what else to call it.
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This makes quasi-realism a form of non-cognitivism or expressivism. Quasi-realism stands in opposition to other forms of non-cognitivism (such as emotivism and universal prescriptivism), as well as to all forms of cognitivism (including both objectivist theories such as moral realism, and subjectivist theories such as moral relativism).
Simon Blackburn derived this stance from a Humean account of the origin of our moral opinions, adapting Hume's genealogical account in the light of evolutionary game theory. To support his case, Blackburn has issued a challenge, Blackburn's Challenge, to anyone who can explain how two situations can demand different ethical responses without referring to a difference in the situations themselves. Because this challenge is effectively unmeetable, Blackburn argues that there must be a realist component in our notions of ethics.
However, argues Blackburn, ethics cannot be entirely realist either, for this would not allow for phenomena such as the gradual development of ethical positions over time. In his 1998 book, Ruling Passions, Blackburn likens ethics to Neurath's boat, which can be changed plank by plank over time, but cannot be refitted all at once for risk of sinking. Similarly, Blackburn's theory can explain the co-existence of rival ethical theories, for example as a result of differing cultural traditions - his theory allows both to be legitimate, despite their mutual contradictions, without dismissing both views through relativism. Thus, Blackburn's theory of quasi-realism provides a coherent account of ethical pluralism. It also answers John Mackie's concerns, presented in his argument from queerness, about the apparently contradictory nature of ethics.
Despite gaining some of the better qualities of the component theories from which it is derived, quasi-realism also picks up vulnerabilities from these different components, too. Thus, it is criticised in some of the ways that moral realism is criticised, for example by Fictionalism (see below); it is also attacked along with expressivism and other non-cognitive theories (indeed it has been regarded by some as a sub-category of expressivism).
This means that, though the moral fictionalist is in some ways having cake and eating it, the quasi-realist has a seemingly even more difficult position to defend. They may feel secure in disagreeing with Bentham that talk of human rights is "nonsense upon stilts" but they would also argue that such rights could not be said to exist in a realist sense. Quasi-realism captures in some important ways the structure of our ethical experience of the world and why we can assert claims such as "It is wrong to be cruel to children" as if they were facts even though they do not share the properties of facts; namely the inference of independent truth-values.
From this position, Blackburn's "way forward" is to re-assert Hume's 'common point of view', or the ethical discourse common to mankind. Blackburn's thought is that though relativists and realists can agree that certain statements are true within a certain discourse, a quasi-realist investigates why such discourses have the structures that they do.


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This week, ex-banker Charles Morris, who was featured in the documentary Inside Job, brings us compelling evidence that countries with a large financial sector create lesser economic growth than countries that have restrained that sector. While a well-functioning financial system is key to growth, there's a balance that needs to be struck, Morris writes:
Once the financial sector achieves a certain size, its continued expansion reduces economic growth, according to a new study by two senior economists at the Bank for International Settlements, Stephen Cecchetti and Enisse Kharroubi, using a large international data base stretching back more than 30 years […]
An outsized financial sector expansion can actually reduce economic growth, according to their data. This relationship holds for country after country, and the tipping points are fairly consistent. When private credit grows to between 90 percent and 100 percent of gross domestic product, it is tilting toward too big. In the runup to the 1997-98 Asian financial crises, Thai private credit outstanding grew to 150 percent of GDP and growth turned sharply down. As soon as credit was ratcheted back to 95 percent of GDP, however, Thai productivity picked up sharply.
New Zealand's economy offers much the same picture. As its financial sector expanded beyond the 100 percent mark, productivity dropped sharply, then rose again as credit was brought under control. Ireland and Spain show a similar pattern.
The sector that typically bears the brunt of hyper-financialization is manufacturing – especially the heavy industries that need working capital to finance materials and work in process. The next most damaged are research-and-development-intensive businesses, perhaps because finance siphons away too much of the best science and math talent. Whatever the reason, when American finance bulked up in the 2000s, there was a cataclysmic fall in manufacturing employment.
You can easily see real-world examples of how a giant financial sector stunts growth. Because of the consolidation of the banking sector, consumer loans invariably come from the leading mega-banks, allowing them to collude for higher fees. They took advantage of the Fed's QE3 by increasing the spread they reap for individual loans, and now borrowing rates are nudging back up. Just as banks control the largest consumer loans, they are now pushing into the payday loan space. As they control bigger segments of the loan market, they take advantage of reduced competition to increase their profits at the expense of consumers. Clearly this stunts economic growth as the benefits flow to the top. Rent-seeking is damaging to a country's economy.
Over-financialization is also closely aligned with inequality, as we've seen in America for the last 30 years. The Economist describes the two Americas, and they give a series of reasons for it, including the runaway financial sector.
A disproportionate, and growing, chunk of the very rich, however, have made their money in Wall Street rather than Main Street. An analysis by Mr Kaplan and Joshua Rauh, now of Stanford University, shows that the share of investment bankers among the top 0.1% is larger than the share of senior executives. America's top 25 hedge-fund managers make more than all the CEOs of the S&P 500 combined. The financial industry's outsize pay partly reflects its growth. For good or ill, finance's share of American GDP soared between 1980 and 2007. Capital markets have globalised faster and more comprehensively than any other part of the economy, enabling hedge funds and other asset managers to deploy ever bigger pools of funds. According to Thomas Philippon of New York University and Ariell Reshef of the University of Virginia, financiers also have higher skill levels than they did a generation ago.
These fundamental economic shifts explain part of the rise in Wall Street incomes, but not all of it. Messrs Philippon and Reshef argue that between a third and half of Wall Street's higher pay is unjustified, deriving from rents rather than productivity. But what explains these rents? Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago points out that one source is the implicit subsidy (through lower borrowing costs) that banks enjoy by being too big to fail. He reckons this subsidy is worth some $30 billion a year, enough to fund a fair few bonuses. Others point to a broader cronyism between Wall Street and Washington over the past 30 years which has allowed financiers to tilt rules in their favour. The finance industry (along with property and insurance) employs more lobbyists than virtually any other industry, around four per Congressman.
Financiers have also been among the biggest winners from changes to America's tax code. The country's top rate of income tax has been repeatedly slashed since 1980, from 70% to 35%. By itself, that reduction has not greatly affected average tax burdens at the top (since there have been enough loopholes to ensure that few people paid the top rate). America's richest have gained more from reductions in the capital-gains tax, which is now only 15%. Private-equity moguls have done particularly well, since the tax code allows them to classify their income as capital gains.
All of this argues for a significant curtailing of the sector as a means of economic self-preservation. President Obama hinted at a preference toward rules constraining executive pay in an interview with Rolling Stone this week, but it's simply much easier to game compensation rules – many of which already exist and merely led to shifts into stock options from salary – than it is to break up the banks themselves. Until that occurs, banks will continue to use rent-seeking, outsized risk and outright fraud to capture record profits. As Morris writes in his opinion piece, banks have been settling fraud claims on a near-constant basis since 2000. It's been the cost of doing business, and business has been good. And none of this has really stopped since the financial crisis. The way to reduce the risk to the economy, allow for faster growth, ensure accountability and shut down the Wall Street casino is to cut the banks down to size.


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Ke$ha covers the February issue of Seventeen, and opens up to the magazine about her dating preferences. "I don't love just men. I love people," says the "Die Young" singer. "It's not about gender."
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Does the initial post analysis of AS vs SS spam incorporate 2T12 or no? It doesn't appear to, but it seemed to be worth clarifying.
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the trade off is the average damage of the 3 ASs plus their average WQ damage versus the damage of the 2 SSs that can substitute for the ASs plus 2/8ths of a AI plus 2/10ths of a FA plus the average WQ damage per shot for the two shots as shown below.
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Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Public Safety LTE & Mobile Broadband Market: 2012 - 2017" report to their offering.
Considering its thriving ecosystem, spectrum flexibility and performance metrics, public safety organizations worldwide recognize LTE as the de-facto standard for mission critical mobile broadband communications.
With spectrum already allocated, public safety agencies in the Middle East and the U.S have already begun to operate private LTE networks. Signals and Systems Telecom estimates that the installed base of private public safety LTE base stations (eNode Bs) will reach nearly 80,000 globally by the end of 2017, following a CAGR of nearly 80% between 2012 and 2017, and will serve more than 1 Million private public safety LTE subscribers worldwide.
However it is important to note that the transition to LTE is one of the will be one of the most complex technical changes the public safety communications industry will ever witness and will present challenges in its own rights. Furthermore spectrum, regulatory and budgetary issues in certain regions such as Europe will delay large scale deployments.
This report presents an in-depth assessment of the global public safety LTE market, besides considering the wider LMR and mobile broadband industries. In addition to covering the business case, the challenges, spectrum allocation strategies, the industry's roadmap, deployment case studies, vendor strategies, and the application ecosystem for public safety LTE, the report also presents comprehensive forecasts for mobile broadband, LMR and public safety LTE subscriptions from 2011 till 2017.
Also covered are public safety LTE service revenues as well as device and infrastructure (eNodeB base stations) shipment and associated revenue forecasts. The reports comes with an associated XLS datasheet covering quantitative data from all figures presented within the report, as well as a list and associated details of 26 global private public safety LTE network deployments (as of November 2012).
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Practical Malware Analysis - A Book Review and Curmudgeonly Rant on the State of Reverse Engineering
Recently I was asked to review a pre-publication copy of Mike Sikorski and Andrew Honig's book "Practical Malware Analysis" by Nostarch Press. I gave it an enthusiastic review, and I strongly believe this will become the defacto text for learning malware analysis in the future. This is a review of that book, and a short rant on reverse engineering.
Before getting into Practical Malware Analysis, I hope you will indulge me in a rant about other books on the reverse engineering topic: They are not pretty. If you've taken one of my classes I recommend a few books for learning reversing, but climbing the steep mountain of pre-requisite material before you can attempt to be somewhat proficient is daunting. Specifically the books I recommended were based off of each individual author's own personal style of reverse engineering with the tools that were available at the time. The field has gotten much more accessible thanks to the awesome tools that are out there from companies like Hex-Rays and Zynamics.
Practical Malware Analysis does a good job of tying together the methods of modern malware analysis. While most of the previous texts have done a good job of presenting the state of the art at their time, PMA overviews many of the tools that are in use in the modern day. Part 1 starts off with the basic static techniques, how to set up a virtual environment, and dynamic analysis. These initial steps are the basis for any good reversing environment. What is nice is that these topics aren't dwelled on for an entire book.
Part 2 goes over the relationships of the Intel architecture, IDA Pro, modern compilers, and the Windows operating system to reverse engineering. Having an understanding of this as it applies to the reversing process is extremely important. Outside implementing a compiler, learning the fundamentals of the architecture is the most important skill a reverser can have for understanding the field. The difference between an adequate reverser and a great reverser lies in the understanding of how the system interactions work.
The rest of the book is focused on the advanced topics of dynamic analysis. Part 5 deals with all the ways that malware authors can make your life miserable, from anti-disassembly to packers. Part 6, "Special Topics," talks about shellcode analysis, C++ specifics, and the ever-looming threat of 64-bit malware. I suspect that there will be a second edition once 64-bit malware comes in vogue.
Overall the book is excellent for those that are new to this field. Experts love to curmudgeonly talk about how nothing is new anymore, everything sucks, and pine for the good old days of reverse engineering with some wire-wrap, a lead pencil, a 9-volt Duracell, and a single LED. If you consider yourself one of these people, reading this book is going to feel a lot like wearing someone else's underwear. If, on the other hand, you read it and put aside your natural skepticism of all things new, you might learn something.
I really do like this book.
Edit 3/4/2012: I have no financial interest in the book. The only thing I received was a reviewers copy. This was not sponsored or paid for in any way by the authors or publishers.
Edit 2/13/2013: There has been a translation to Serbo-Croation of this review by Joanna Milutinovich
Nice review Danny,
Nice review Danny, Thanks.
It's notable that this book is available for download as ebook, but for supporting and as an acknowledge to author, it's recommended to buy this book .
I got asked to review too and I agree it is a good book. I will paste my review below. I also do not benefit financially from the book and do not know the authors personally.
I think it is hands down the best book for anyone who is interested in learning malicious file analysis and reverse engineering of malicious code. If you are a beginner, the book starts with baby steps explaining what you can do, how you should do it, and what exactly you should be looking at - in plain, easy to understand language. The book is the next best thing to private tutoring by the gurus guiding you every step of the way while sharing their experience, secrets, and collection of shortcuts that you cannot find anywhere else.
Every theoretical part is concise and contains only the information you need to do the analysis. All other techniques are tailored towards practical analysis - finding as much as possible meaningful information about malicious files and being able to interpret and understand it.
By the end of Part 1, you will go from zero to being able to do basic analysis and knowing what to do to become better. This is a big advantage of this book over many others - it paves a way to become a malware analyst - from beginner to advanced. By the end of the book, you will reach a very respectable level, especially if you follow it with a highlighter and do all the exercises instead of skipping them. The book's website offers samples for analysis, along with a detailed answers sections for review after you finish.
There are six parts, each is more advanced than the previous one. If you are a seasoned reverse engineer, you can dive into the sections that suit your skills. However, I suggest at least looking through the basic sections because I found very interesting tidbits of information even for those sections I thought I know well.
You will find these topics covered (including but not limited to)
Part 1 -
Ch.1 - Basic Analysis: Strings, Unpacking, DLLs and how to analyze them,
Dependencies, Functions/Function calls (which are interesting for you), PE
file structure
Ch.2 - Preparing VMs for analysis,
Ch.3 - Faking a network, Wireshark and InterSim, Sysinternals tools
Part 1
Ch.4 - Crash course in x86 disassembly,
Ch.5- IDA Pro (how to use),
Ch.6 - C-code constructs in assembly,
Ch.7 - Windows API, Registry, Threads, Services, Processes, COM objects,
Part 3
Ch.8 - Debuggers - how to use, techniques, shellcode analysis,
Ch.9 - Ollydbg,
Ch.10 -Windbg, Rootkit analysis
Part 4
Ch.11 -Different malware functionality, botnets, Rats, Trojans, backdoors,
Reverse shell, keyloggers, Persistence mechanisms, Dll-load order
hijacking, Privilege escalation, User-mode rootkits,
Ch.12 - Covert malware launching: process injection, process replacement,
hook injection, Detours, APC Injection. etc,
Ch.13 - Encoding: Simple Ciphers, XOR and other schemes, Common
cryptographic algorithms, Custom encoding, Decoding,
Ch.14 - Malware focused network signatures - Malware network signatures,
Network countermeasures, crash mini course on Snort signatures, tracking
attackers, Understanding attacker's perspective and more.
Part 5
Ch.15 - Anti-Disassembly, Anti-Disassembly Algorithms, Techniques, Thwarting
Stack-Frame Analysis,
Ch.16 - Anti - Debugging
Ch.17 - Anti - Virtual Machine Techniques
Ch.18 - Packers and Unpacking, various packers and techniques
Part 6
Ch.19 - Shellcode analysis
Ch.20 - C++ Analysis
Ch.21 64 - bit malware
Important Windows Functions
Tools for Malware analysis
As you see, all the attention is given to file analysis. Compare this to another excellent book Malware Analyst's Cookbook (M.Ligh, S.Adair, B.Hartstein, M.Richard), which covers topics like honeypots, ClamAV, Yara, AV scanners, Automation, Malware Labs, Volatility and Memory analysis of various malware, Forensics and also malicious file analysis. You really need both books as they cover different areas of combating malware. There is not a lot of overlap and the topics are covered from different angles, using different approaches. Practical Malware Analysis will teach you how to rip malicious files apart and takes you through the process step by step. Recommend it.


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GOP Legislators Craft Their Own Redistricting Amendment
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Voters get ready: another state constitutional amendment is headed for the crowded November ballot. On Friday, the last day of the legislative session, the Florida Senate voted to approve its own redistricting proposal. The billâs GOP sponsor says itâs needed to âclarifyâ the two redistricting amendments put forth by the group Fair Districts Florida. But opponents say the effort is nothing short of a power grab designed to gut the citizen initiatives and maintain the status quo.
We have a great opportunity here to make a very significant change in Florida. This will end to a great degree, the horrible partisanship that has been grid locking our state and create fairer elections for all Floridians.
Thatâs Ellen Freidin, campaign chair of Fair Districts Florida. The mission of the bipartisan group is as simple as its name: to end the gerrymandering of congressional districts that favors the political party thatâs drawing the maps. Fair Districts Florida collected almost 1.7 million signatures to help get two amendments on the November ballot that will establish fairer standards for redrawing the districts, which takes place next in 2012. The amendments simply say district lines cannot be drawn to favor any incumbent or political party or deny minorities from having equal access to the political process. The district lines would also have to be as compact as possible.
But the initiatives are not sitting well with Tallahassee Republicans. Once Amendments 5 and 6 made the ballot, they went to work on a competing amendment they say is needed to maintain âcommunities of interestâ. The effort was led by GOP Senator Mike Haridopolos.
For those people who donât know, we did not have an African American member of U.S. Congress until 1992 in Florida, with the good work of Corrine Brown. And with that in place, those African American and Hispanic members said, you know what; we have great concerns that if this thing passes that it will reduce the number of minority seats.
Two minority Democrats have also sided with Republicans causing a racial rift within the legislature.
So I asked the leader of the Black Caucus in the Florida Senate, Gary Siplin, a Senator out of Orlando, to draw up an additional amendment to give comfort to those minority members who are afraid that if Fair Districts passes as is, that minority representation would be reduced. So he drew up the amendment. Republicans and Democrats came together to overwhelmingly vote in support of the amendment because we do not want to regress. We need to make sure that we do not lose the gains we have made; to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to run and win a seat in Congress.
But thatâs not how Ellen Freidin sees it. She calls the amendment insulting because it only says that the legislature has to consider minority voting rights, it doesnât say that they have to implement them.
Theyâre masquerading as people who are trying to âclarifyâ or fix the Fair Districts Amendments or implement the amendments, but what theyâre really trying to do is retain their own power to draw districts that give them an unfair political advantage and insure that they can never lose their seats.
And Freidin says she does not know why Senator Siplin is not backing her groupâs efforts.
What I do know is that neutral groups, people have no interest in this other than seeing that the right thing is done, like the Florida NAACP and like the entire Black Legislative Caucus, other than Senator Siplin, have approved our amendments. They contain provisions that arenât contained anywhere else in Florida law that would protect minority voting rights and would provide that minority voters have equal opportunity.
If you need proof that gerrymandering works, you need look no further than the last two elections. In the 2008 election every Republican incumbent retained his or her seat in the state legislature. And in 2004 not one legislative or congressional incumbent lost a re-election bid. One of the fears with the Fair Districts amendments Haridopolos says is that they will lead to extensive litigation.
Every legal opinion we received says if we donât make these adjustments weâll be stuck in the courts for years to come because the current amendments, as written, would be unworkable. And Iâm not going to sit by here and let us get into a constitutional quandary; I donât think itâs good for our nation, let alone for our state.
But Freidin says litigationâs nothing new when it comes to redistricting, and said part of the reason thereâs been so much litigation is because there arenât any rules.
If we are successful in passing the Fair Districts Amendments, which I believe we will be because they are really popular with the people of Florida and I think Mr. Haridopolos knows that, and thatâs why theyâre trying to stop it in ways that newspapers have called âdespicableâ and âoffensiveâ, if we are successful than theyâll have to play by the rules, the citizens' rules, rather than their own, that they make up as they go along.
Three Republican Senators bucked their party to oppose the amendment: Paula Dockery of Lakeland, who is also seeking the GOP gubernatorial nomination; Alex Villalobos of Miami and Rudy Garcia of Hialeah.comments powered by Disqus
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assume that 99% of Republican bills mean the exact opposite of what is said to be the objective. Regarding the knee-jerk reaction to Amendments 5 and 6 it means that the Republicans are scared that their safe and cozy world would not remain if 5 and 6 passed. So, assume that "clarify" means the opposite and vote accordingly.


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I've been tweaking this matzah ball recipe over the years, and I'm now satisfied that it produces the lightest matzah balls you've ever tasted. If you don't want to take the time to make them, boil some Passover noodles and add to the soup instead.
3 eggs, separated
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Pinch freshly ground black pepper
Place egg yolks in a measuring cup and add enough water or chicken stock to fill one cup. Beat with a fork until well blended. Set aside.
In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat egg whites until they form stiff peaks; do not overbeat. In a small bowl, combine matzah meal with salt and pepper. With a rubber spatula, gently fold the yolk mixture alternately with the matzah mixture into beaten egg whites. Use only enough matzah to make a light, soft dough. Season with additional salt and pepper to taste. Cover and let firm up for five minutes.
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I came across Martin Hardee's post on Sun's Customer Experience Blog, where he's posted a collection of Web 2.0 logos.
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When Centrify got its start in 2005, Windows PCs ruled, smartphones were rare, and the only real competition was happening on the server side, where Linux and UNIX variants battled against Windows. Centrify gave enterprises a way to manage user identities across these back-end systems using Microsoft Active Directory, which many companies were already using.
Things have changed dramatically since then, and Centrify has rolled with those changes, adding mobile management and a way to manage identity in cloud services. But the changes have also brought it new competition from cloud-based purists like Okta, as well as big new partners like Samsung, who are relying on Centrify to help power its upcoming KNOX security platform.
Today, Centrify is announcing a tie-up with Dropbox to provide single sign-on and tie into Samsung KNOX, so employees will be able to access a totally secure version of the Dropbox app in a special "work container" on their KNOX-enabled Android phone.
We caught up with Centrify CEO Tom Kemp last week to discuss the company's recent deals, the future of identity and mobile data security, and Centrify's future prospects.
Here are some highlights of our talk:
- Soon, we'll have to add another "BYO" to the list -- BYO Identity. "I think what's going to happen is this whole BYO thing will even include bring your own identity, where you're out of college, you get your Gmail account, and that's the primary account for all your jobs that you have as well....So when you show up for your first day of work, it's expected that you bring your own phone, bring your own Mac or laptop, Yahoo or Gmail or Outlook.com account, and the company doesn't give you anything, they just grant you access to cloud resources. Then if you need applications, it will be delivered via containers....Then when you leave, they'll remove the container with the applications, you retain the device, the phone or PC or Mac, and you retain the identity.
- Differences between Centrify and cloud-based vendors like Okta: He listed several, but the most interesting was Centrify's tighter integration with Active Directory. "Some of these vendors actually suck data out of Active Directory and create their own cloud directory. Some people are a little bit concerned or nervous about that today, as in do I want to put all my eggs in the one basket of a startup directory in the cloud? Or, do I want to leverage an existing infrastructure and technology that I already have, and have a third party cloud service provided an identity gateway or broker, as opposed to sucking all my data out of my directory and synchronizing it to something in the cloud?"
- Microsoft vs the MDM vendors: "[Microsoft's] Brad Anderson and his team are doing a great job of extending System Center to the cloud via InTune, and trying to go after the MDM vendors, and we'll let them fight those battles and we'll see if Microsoft can be a big player versus MobileIron and AirWatch. We don't want to be in that fight right there, part of the reason is a lot of it has been commoditized, but the real reason is that we're in a different market. We're an identity provider, we're not a device management [company]. Do we do some basic device stuff? Yeah, if no one has a solution and they want to ensure the security. But if someone does have a solution, we'll gladly say don't enable that, still leverage that zero sign-on from a mobile device."
- Possible next steps: Consumer identity and an IPO. "Could this technology that we offer for enterprise -- is there a consumer play for that? That could be a potential, especially as there's a blurring between consumer and business....Centrify is not a startup with 100 or 200 customers like some of the other vendors who we're starting to compete with. We're a pretty significant company, we have over 350 people, 4,000 customers, we're growing at a nice clip. So we're looking at how we can expand and starting to think how can we put ourselves in the position over the next year or so to potentially be a public company?"
Here's a transcript of the full interview, lightly edited for clarity and to eliminate some redundancies.
Explain how Centrify came into being? What problem were you trying to solve back in 2004?
The fundamental issue that we were trying to focus on was that as IT becomes more heterogeneous, or was becoming more heterogeneous, a whole host of problems would occur. Those problems would include users with all these different systems and applications would have additional usernames and passwords that they would have to deal with, and IT would have to deal with the issue of trying to figure out how they could centrally control who has access to what within the environment getting the control and visibility. So if you look back 8, 9, 10 years ago, ironically heterogeneity was really happening from a server perspective, with Linux marching into the datacenter, supplementing and/or replacing Unix and Windows. What we came up with was some software that tied in non-Microsoft systems and applications into Active Directory so users would have a single log in and IT would have a unified identity infrastructure to consistently apply policies, control access, et cetera.
It turns out with the whole consumerization of IT, with BYOD, with bring your own servers, bring your own applications, that heterogeneity is expanding inside the enterprise. So the same problems are occurring in that users have a plethora of passwords, IT cannot figure out who really has access to what, et cetera. So much as how Linux supplemented or replaced Windows, you now have a situation where iOS, Android, Mac OS X is supplementing or replacing Windows or BlackBerry, and you have SaaS applications replacing the traditional on premise applications as well. A lot of goodness comes from that in terms of flexibility of picking applications and devices, but there are some challenges with that, such as the multiple usernames and passwords for all new systems and applications, and IT has control and visibility problems. So the same problem we tackled 8 or 9 years ago is even more applicable today.
How does the explosion in cloud services affect your business? It used to be that most every company did everything on-premise tied into AD. Now you've got individual users and groups going outside the firewall, you've got IT with a mix of on-premise and cloud. How does that affect Centrify?
We were primarily a software play, and so we built software agents that ran on over 400 flavors of Unix, Linux, and Mac. We created dozens of plug-ins into Apache, WebLogic, JSphere, JBoss, SAP, DB2, et cetera, and tied everything into a central directory. But then, with the advent of BYOD and growth of SaaS, we had to build a new architecture to enable single login, single unified identity infrastructure.
So well over two years ago, we started building a cloud service from scratch that acts as an identity broker or identity gateway from the on-premise AD to the off-premise systems and applications that are out there. We've evolved into a full-blown cloud service provider as well as providing software. Much like we went down the path of supporting all these divergent Linux operating systems, now we're going down the path of having to support hundreds and hundreds of SaaS applications, and different types of mobile devices. We've got a good track record of doing that, in terms of building a kind of a factory model and cranking out support....
For the new technology, we've also had to change our pricing model. People expect a subscription-based model, while with our software they expect a more perpetual model. So it's changed the technology we've had to offer, it's changed the pricing model, and it's changed the type of partnerships we've had. It's been pretty fundamental and it's really been driven by the whole consumerization of IT trend that's having users or departments driving IT purchases....
What's the breakdown of Centrify customers using on-premise versus cloud versus hybrid, and how has that changed?
The vast majority started with Centrify by buying our on premise software. Increasingly, we're seeing more and more organizations move to the cloud, and obviously embrace BYOD. So it's really become a hybrid. Smaller size organizations are more quick to become more cloud-centric, as opposed to larger organizations, because it's all greenfield for them. Larger organizations tend to tackle things more at a departmental level, or an app by app basis. Larger organizations tend to have some concerns about compliance they need to address, or they need to have their data on premise....
Ironically, the reality is that people who have their Macs or their iPhones, they're at home but they bring it to the office, so they suddenly become on premise as well. So it's kind of blurring. We can address both, because we have both software that runs on the devices, and we have software and services that can tie into on-premise or cloud-based. The nice thing for Centrify, because we span data center, cloud, and mobile, is we can sell to anyone and everyone, irrespective of where they're at.
How do you contrast yourself against the cloud-focused identity management providers like Okta and Ping? Do you view them as competitors? If so, how do you differentiate yourself?
We've built up a very vibrant business of providing identity services for on-premise, and we've built up an installed base of over 4,500 customers, and if you look at those vendors, they have one-fifteenth or one-tenth or one-eighth -- much smaller installed bases. We're much bigger in terms of size and revenues than some of those people as well. But they were there first in terms of providing SaaS single sign on. Now we've entered the market.
The fundamental differentiation is we're not just pure SaaS single-sign on. We do the data center. But we also do mobile. We made a conscientious decision to first do mobile because we felt mobile was going to be the access point for cloud-based applications. So we have a very rich and deep mobile capability that they don't have....
The second differentiation is the very large customer base we have. We're already a trusted vendor for some of the largest enterprises. And I know for a fact that some of those SaaS SSO vendors, those niche players, they're getting some traction with SMBs but they haven't won over many large organizations. The majority of our sales, even though we have over 4,000 customers, has come from those large organizations.
The third differentiation is we have some strategic partnerships and relationships. For example, Samsung is OEMing both our identity and our mobile management capability as part of this new technology they're coming out with in coming months called KNOX. We're going to be embedded in that....And of course we know that Samsung is the number one provider of mobile devices, so we are very excited about the partnership we have with Samsung. None of those other vendors have anything comparable.
Finally, if you look at our approach, we have much better and tighter integration with Active Directory. Some of these vendors actually suck data out of Active Directory and create their own cloud directory. Some people are a little bit concerned or nervous about that today, as in do I want to put all my eggs in the one basket of a startup directory in the cloud? Or, do I want to leverage an existing infrastructure and technology that I already have, and have a third party cloud service provided an identity gateway or broker, as opposed to sucking all my data out of my directory and synchronizing it to something in the cloud?...
We're just new to their area of the market, but we've got some really strong things going for us. So if they don't see us today, objects in the rear view mirror are closer than you think.
How did you see identity management tying into mobile management in the first place? Why'd you go down that road?
There's a lot of overlap. First of all, mobile is going to become the default access point from which people access information. So the first thing is, you want to ensure that there's some base level of security associated with the mobile device, that it is locked with a PIN, and that IT has the ability if it's accessing corporate resources to wipe it and to apply some basic policies.
The second way mobile management relates to identity management is the form factor. Who has time in a smartphone to type usernames and passwords for all the applications you want to access? It's just a terrible form factor for that. What we do is by providing a solution that not only provides some base security to the mobile device, but also makes sure that the device is a trusted device, the device has been authenticated, that means when people access applications from the mobile device -- we call it zero sign-on, they click from the application and they launch it. We don't force them to type up a plethora of usernames and passwords. Even if it's the same username and password, that's a huge advantage.
The third way it ties in, if you're going to deliver a cloud-based service to a user, you want to be able to deliver the rich mobile application associated with it. So provisioning a user for, say, Dropboxox is not simply about setting them up inside Dropbox, it's about pushing the rich mobile app to their iOS or Android mobile device. That's something we do.


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Vak posted this over on the other board, I figured I'd bring it over here. I see counterclockwise, and only counterclockwise.
Vak posted this over on the other board, I figured I'd bring it over here. I see counterclockwise, and only counterclockwise.
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Just clockwise - can't see counterclockwise. The other ones are cool, too.
Edit: I went back and concentrated and made her go counterclockwise, but when I looked away and looked back, there she was spinning clockwise again.
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What does it mean if you see both??? Depending on what I focused on, I was able to see it one way or the other.
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I don't see how in the world that can be seen as clockwise, but obviously I'm in the minority somehow.
Focus on her extended leg. Imagine that as it goes from your right to your left, it is coming out towards you - she's spinning clockwise. Then, imagine that as her extended leg goes from left to right, it is pointing toward from you. Now she's going counterclockwise.
If you imagine that her extended leg is always pointing toward you, she actually seems to go back and forth instead of in a circle.
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I see clockwise. I have seen stuff like this before and I can usually see it both ways but I'm having trouble on this one. Maybe I'm too close to the screen.
OK try squinting at it. I did that and got her to change direction every time I squinted. It was kind of weird.
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It's not an illusion. The dancer is reversing rotation. If you watch the shadow of the feet it suddenly reverses direction. if going counterclockwise, she leads with her left leg raised. Then after 30 secs or so, she'll reverse direction and lead with her right leg raised spinning clockwise.
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I'm with RYou on this one. You can tell it can't go both ways because of the way her foot is constantly pointing. She can't come at you if her foot is pointed away. Also it starts out with her left arm down and switches to the right arm down when she changes directions.
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Eddie and Debbie Woods have opened a small market in McDonough, where barrels of produce flow out onto counters, in much the same way they did decades ago, when Henry County was mostly rural.
"We get fresh produce daily," said Eddie Woods.
Rows of collards, turnips and mustard greens are on display for customers as they enter the Tomato Patch market, at 917 Georgia Highwy 81 West, near I-75.
Fruit of various kinds, including oranges, tangerines, grapes and apples are at the front door. Other available items include: bananas, potatoes, eggplants, squash, snap peas, okra and other vegetables.
The store has an ample supply of pure cane sorghum syrup, honey, chow-chow, apple butter, blackberry jam, peach preserves, orange marmalade, strawberry preserves, hot tomato relish, black bean salsa, habanero salsa, and pure cane molasses.
"I don't like to drive three miles to a grocery store to pick up odds and ends, so I know other people feel the same way I do," said Eddie Woods, 63.
"We want to be the little neighborhood convenience store." The Woods live within a mile of the store. It was opened the weekend after Thanksgiving, and business has been brisk.
Holding and inspecting some oranges recently, Henry resident, Gene Hughes, is sold on the market. "I buy from here because I know they have good and fresh fruit," the Hampton man said. He finished his inspection, and made his selections.
Another customer, browsing through the store, was Shelia Crump. She recently moved to McDonough from Locust Grove. "I love to shop local," said Crump. "The people are more friendly, and it's good to support small business owners," she added.
"I'm gonna get some of this chow-chow [a mixture often used on vegetable dishes]," declared Frank Jones, of McDonough. He reached on a shelf filled with relishes and preserves, and got the item he was seeking.
"Our prices are better than the larger stores, because we don't have the overhead," said Woods. He said he opened his first store at the Atlanta State Farmer's Market, in Forest Park, in 1966. He met his wife, Debbie, there.
"I've been working at the farmer's market mostly all of my life, since I was eight," said Debbie Woods. "Daddy taught us to work. We did peach-packing in the summer months, and knocked on doors and sold eggs in the winter."
The couple moved to McDonough five years ago. When Debbie spotted the building [where the store is now], "I said, if that building ever became available, I was going to buy it, and open a fruit stand," she said.
The Woods still own their store inside the farmer's market in Forest Park, where they sell plants, wholesale.
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It appears Mike Huckabee will finish a dismal third in Michigan. One can blame his showing on an absence of funds, but he has been enjoying a remarkable free media ride since mid-December, and if he had any strength left, we would have seen evidence of it tonight.
Instead, what we are seeing is yet more evidence that the Republican Party is not in the grip of the Religious Right. That has been a myth organized political evangelicals have been eager to promote and Democratic and Republican elites have, in gullibility, accepted.
Yet here we have Huckabee — the most attractive and least divisive Christian political leader we have ever seen — failing to make a mark in Michigan, where some 40 percent of GOP voters describe themselves as evangelical. It turns out that evangelicals, like Michigan union members, don't vote as a bloc.
Christian activists are estimated to be around 20 percent of the GOP base. As a result, national party leaders have to pay attention to them. Going to war against the Republican evangelicals, as Northeastern liberal Republican governors Bill Weld and Christie Todd Whitman once did, has always been a vain and and unnecessary gesture. Vain, because standing up to the Religious Right always wins applause at GOP high-dollar fundraisers, and unnecessary, because the Religious Right doesn't exercise a veto over GOP policy.
Huckabee will catch a final breeze in South Carolina, but the "Christian" phase of the GOP primary really comes to an end tonight. But don't worry. Experts at the Aspen Institute and other centers of the good and great will talk all summer about how the GOP has to free itself from the influence of
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