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MBXGames necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 240 diseños de 69 diseñadores freelance.
We're launching a game development studio targeting online advergames (development of flash based promotional games).
We individually have a long history in the games and web industry and as such want a brand that conveys an established presence.
We would like a logo that instills confidence and represents competence, leadership and integrity.
Logo suitable for web and print (no restriction on colors or fonts)Logo should convey:- professional
- experienced
- very high standards
- attention to detail
- innovative (we don't produce run of the mill games, we push the boundaries)
The games we make are accessible to all online users. They appeal to male and female, young and mature audiences. However, these arent the kind of games youd find on a standard games portal site that were created in short spaces of time.
The brands we're going to be dealing with are within the entertainment sector, so think games, tv, media brands (household names).
Our direct clients will be PR and media agencies so we'll need to appeal to the young-middleage professionals who need reassurance that they are dealing with the real professionals.So it will need to clean and crisp.
Logo as illustrator or PSD (300dpi minimum)
MBXGames < capitalisation of letters as per this, i.e. MBXG in uppercase. Maybe you could have the MBX as an icon? Maybe a suggestion of 3D (some of games use 3d). We really are open to suggestions and will feedback as often as possible.
Anything that looks rushed, using default gradients and filters found in most imaging packages. Cheap looking fonts are out as well.
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Arthur and Naomi Speelman will celebrate 65 years of marriage.
Arthur Speelman and Naomi Clymer were united in marriage Aug. 1, 1947, in Adrian, Mich. They are both retired from Fayette Tubular in Fayette, Ohio.
They are the parents of four children, Linda, J.F., who is deceased, Steve and Pamela. The have one grandchild, Blake.
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Jalapeño, Sausage and Egg Breakfast Braid (Adapted from CL)
16 ounces prepared whole-wheat pizza dough (I used our favorite recipe)
1 tablespoon olive oil
4 ounce link chicken sausage, chopped
1/3 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped seeded jalapeño peppers
2 large eggs
3 large egg whites, divided
salt and fresh ground black pepper
3 ounces (about 3/4 cup) shredded Monterey Jack cheese
1 1/2 ounce (about 1/3 cup) shredded sharp white cheddar
Preheat oven to 425 degrees,
On a large piece of parchment paper or a baking sheet coated with cooking spray, stretch pizza dough out into a 10" x 15" rectangle. Cover dough with plastic wrap and set aside.
In a large skillet, heat oil over medium. Stir in sausage, onion and jalapeño peppers - cook until sausage is lightly browned and the onion has softened, about 7 to 9 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, whisk together eggs and 2 egg whites - season with salt and fresh ground black pepper. Stir eggs into the sauce mixture and cook, stirring, just until the eggs are set. Remove from the heat.
Scatter Monterey Jack down center of dough, leaving a 2 1/2" border on each side. Spoon egg mixture evenly over cheese, keeping the same border clean. Scatter cheddar over eggs.
Using a pizza wheel or sharp knife, slice 2" long diagonal cuts, about 1" apart, on both sides of dough to within 1/2" of filling. Gently stretch dough strips over the filling, alternating strips diagonally over filling, pressing ends under to seal.
In a bowl, lightly beat remaining large egg white, then brush the egg white over the top of the dough - season lightly with salt. If using parchment paper, slide paper onto a baking sheet, then place into the oven to bake until golden, about 14 to 16 minutes. Remove from the oven and let stand 5 minutes before serving.
Makes about 4 to 6 servings.
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"Hilarious, raw."—Rolling Stone
"Unlike some books by comics, [Rob] Delaney's volume offers a rich, deeply considered (and yes, funny) look at his life, from jumping off a bridge to crashing a car while drunk to getting and staying sober while other friends died trying. A great read by any standard, but even more so for including stories about needing (and failing) to find a bathroom while jogging."—E! Online, Best Entertainment and Pop Culture Books of 2013
"One of the most hilarious bundles of words we have ever read."—Vice
"A book as funny, sincere, weird, wet, and wonderful as Rob Delaney himself."—Jimmy Kimmel
"Heart-wrenchingly true tales exuding self-effacing whimsy and smart-guy charm . . . There are plenty of books by male comedians about being drunk and stupid and depressed and getting out of the hole they dug for themselves, but this book feels like you are reading the account told by a grownup who actually learned something about himself worthy enough to share in book form."—Splitsider
"Delaney has a knack for pinpointing what's hilarious and sad about adolescent bed-wetting and his own abundant body hair, but somehow the darkest chapters [in this book] make you laugh hardest."—Entertainment Weekly
"Rob Delaney has done it again! Actually, this is his first book, so he has not 'done it again.' Actually, this book is so good, I doubt he will be able to do it again. He's peaked."—Judd Apatow
"Rob's transition from tweets to book is like a gold medal sprinter winning the marathon the next day. I am jealous and angry."—Seth Meyers
"WARNING: This book may cause involuntary seepage. Some funny, funny, funny, funny s*** from the most dangerous man on Twitter. The fact that he's just as funny in long form makes me want to vomit with envy."—Anthony Bourdain
"All it takes to be as funny as Rob Delaney is luck, good timing, deep compassion, reckless imaginative agility, a flawless grasp of the inner workings of language, and criminally vast quantities of mojo. What a jerk."—Teju Cole, author of Open City
"A surprisingly moving story of how humor can alleviate sorrow, if never completely eradicate it. The chapter about visiting the abandoned Danvers State Hospital—infamous for carrying out countless lobotomies in the twentieth century—is worth reading on its own for the empathy it evokes for the casualties of early mental health treatment. Candid and conversational, this memoir shows there's more to Delaney than pithy tweets."—Kirkus Reviews


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Minutes after he reported hitting birds and losing power in both engines, the pilot of US Airways Flight 1549 calmly told an air traffic controller the plane would ditch into the Hudson River.
"We can't do it," pilot Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger said at 3:29 p.m. on January 15, in response to efforts to land the plane at New Jersey's Teterboro airport, according to a recording released Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration.
"We're gonna be in the Hudson," Sullenberger said, about three and a half minutes after the Airbus A320 took off from New York's LaGuardia Airport.
"I'm sorry, say again," said the controller, from New York Tracon, a radar facility on Long Island that handles flights after they depart from LaGuardia or Teterboro airports.. Listen to the pilot talk to the controllers
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BOLOGNA, Italy — In this old center of stargazing, as in much of the world, thousands watched a rare heavenly show Tuesday: the black dot of Venus inching across the blazing face of the sun.
"Ecco!" gasped one matronly woman as the big screen at Piazza VIII Agosto showed a tiny perfect circle edge into view. "There it is!"
When scientists first worked out Earth's distance from the sun, the Venus eclipse was crucial. "This sight is by far the noblest astronomy offers," Edmond Halley, of comet fame, declared in 1691.
Now mostly a curiosity, the celestial rarity still had excited crowds lining up to peer into telescopes from Australia to the American Midwest.
"Spectacles such as this reinforce my belief that there is a Creator, and we are just tiny specks within this universe," Zulkarnain Hassan, 26, said in Malaysia, a mostly Muslim nation.
Reactions were similar from people who shared a faith-straddling religious experience to those who marveled at a universal phenomenon.
"Imagine," said Bologna astronomer Corrado Bartolini. "We can't even tell when a car will reach Zamboni Gate in traffic, but we know to a fraction of a second when Venus meets the sun every 122 years."
Venus makes two passes across the sun, eight years apart, every 122 years; the next one will be in 2012. As the sun is 30 times bigger, the planet is barely visible through special dark glasses.
'Man and woman and love'
Nicolo Reale, an art student in wild dreadlocks, forgave his roommate for dragging him out of bed to see Venus at the piazza. "Stupendous," he said. "It makes me think of man and woman and love."
In Oslo, Norwegian astronomer Knut Joergen Roed Oedegaard proposed to Anne Mette Sannes on a viewing platform, and the 2,000 people who gathered there thundered their applause when she said yes.
"It's like a fine French wine for the people who know about it and enjoy it," said Jay Pasachoff of Williams College in Massachusetts, who watched from Thessaloniki's Aristotle University.
The eclipse seemed to have a particular significance in northern Italy, where astronomy took shape in the Middle Ages.
"Think of what this meant to people who spent their lives trying to solve these ancient mysteries," said Flavio Fusi Pecci, director of the observatory at the 900-year-old University of Bologna.
Dante Alighieri studied the stars here in 1287, and Nicolaus Copernicus, a Pole who came to Bologna in 1497, refuted Ptolemy's ancient belief that the sun did not move.
Then Galileo Galilei, in nearby Florence, devised a telescope to reduce the guesswork.
The German Johannes Kepler calculated Venus' path, although he died a year before the 1631 transit.
Public fascination
In cities from Sydney to New York, observatories set up telescopes to give the public a closer look.
Sixteen 4-year-olds from Elisabetta Simonella's Bologna kindergarten class appeared puzzled at all the fuss over a black speck on a big orange circle.
But Teodoro Bernardino, a Spanish scientist, knew what he was seeing.
These days, he said, scientists have taken astronomy into deep space, and monumental puzzles are solved out of sight. "But it is important to build the public's interest, to share the fascination."
Worldwide collaboration
The last Venus transits visible in Europe, in 1761 and 1769, brought what Fusi Pecci calls the first worldwide scientific collaboration in history.
Knowing the distance from Earth to the sun was vital to calculating size within the solar system.
Copernicus surmised the distance at less than 6 million miles. Kepler upped the figure to nearly 15 million. In fact, space exploration has found, 92,955,859 miles (149,598,253 kilometers) is closer to it.
Viewing from the Americas
Rising before dawn in Argentina's bone-chilling autumn cold, 200 people in Buenos Aires shivered while they took quick turns on six outdoor telescopes trying to get a peek at Venus.
In the United States where only people in the eastern half of the country could catch a glimpse at sunrise, about 300 New Yorkers showed up to look through a bank of telescopes in Central Park.
About 500 people lined up before sunrise to at the rooftop telescopes at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.
"The marvel, the wonder of it," said Clydia Davenport of Boston, who brought her 7-year-old daughter, Sophie. "It's interesting also that it's Venus. A beautiful woman is doing this, and we're all out here to watch, like voyeurs."
Some cities celebrated by playing American composer John Philip Sousa's "Transit of Venus March," composed after the 1882 transit.
Food for thought
However, not everyone caught Venus fever.
"The what?" said Bologna delicatessen owner Romano Bonaga when asked about the event. "I'm afraid now we think more about materialistic things. And food."
But at a meeting of the Bologna Amateur Astronomers Association, computer programmer Andrea Berselli had a different view.
"I'm interested because this is such a rare phenomenon that says so much about who we are," he said. "My parents never got to see it. My kids won't get to see it. That has to mean something."
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ROCHESTER — At a Thursday night "special meeting" with the Rochester School Board, Superintendent Michael Hopkins presented a future budget that includes a proposal to lay off 24 staff members throughout the district.
Chairman of the School Board Robert Watson explained to meet the city's tax cap — which allows for about a 2.1 percent increase in the school budget — the board will have to eliminate approximately $1.6 million from the fiscal year 2014 budget for the schools. Hopkins has proposed making personnel cuts, from the administrative level down to secondary, middle and elementary schools.
"Every year it's a different challenge and a lot of it's got to do with outside forces under the tax cap," Watson explained. "A certain number has to come in and we have to meet that tax cap."
Hopkins, who was unavailable for comment Friday, proposed cutting six reading specialist positions from the elementary schools to bring in $456,000 for the budget, while simultaneously adding 10 paraprofessionals there at a cost of $171,020. Additionally, the recommendation includes cutting four teachers from Rochester Middle School, an assistant principal with four teachers from the high school level, a teacher from Bud Carlson Academy and several district positions, according to a provided PowerPoint presentation from the school department.
A special education coordinator was listed on the cuts as well, who would bring $95,476 to the budget, along with psychologist and occupational therapist positions, which would each bring $76,000 to the budget.
The proposed four teachers to be laid off at the high school level educate students in the subjects of math, English, science and Spanish, and would bring in a total of $304,000. At the middle school, the four teachers to be laid off include those teaching in music, world language, technical education and "Excel." The 24 cut positions would restore in all $1,600,419 to the school budget.
Watson told Foster's on Friday the board "always" tries to avoid layoffs whenever possible, though he said it can be difficult, especially in recent years with a budget crisis at the state level where contributions to local municipalities have changed.
"We were told (the school department) already went through and looked for any other places outside of personnel to make cuts," Watson added.
The full proposed budget was unavailable for public review on Friday, though the provided presentation placed the total budget at $61,261,652, an increase over the fiscal year 2013 budget by approximately $1.2 million, or 2.1 percent.
Watson noted the board only received the preliminary proposed budget this past week and more conversations will be had at the committee level before a final proposal is brought to the full board and then forwarded onto the City Council for approval.
The board will aim to make final decisions before the end of March.
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*Please note that we split the survey to rotate the order of the candidates, so while half will hear the Republican first, the other half hears the Democrat mentioned first.
1* In thinking about the 2012 Election for U.S. Senate suppose you had a choice between Republican Josh Mandel and Democrat Sherrod Brown. If the election were held today would you vote for Republican Josh Mandel or Democrat Sherrod Brown?
2* Now I'm going to read you a short list of people in the news. For each, please let me know if you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable impression.
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Yu Hiraoka-Phantom Ii Magical Coat Rack
At Design Interviews
Interview with YU HIRAOKA : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. YU HIRAOKA : Phantom II is a humorous coat rack which does a little 'trick' to customers. I mean it makes you see a phantom in your house! .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. YU HIRAOKA : I'm planning to showcase the prototype at a few important exhibitions. One will be the Milan Design Week next year. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. YU HIRAOKA : I came up with the basic concept roughly two years ago. And I have developed the idea and form. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. YU HIRAOKA : Anyone who appreciates good minimal furniture, and someone who like a little humor in the house. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. YU HIRAOKA : I think I have seen designs with same humorous concepts in table designs and stool designs, but I haven't seen one in coat rack design. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. YU HIRAOKA : Because of its clear stick, it can create an illusion that your coats on hooks look like they are in the air in a dark room as though you see a phantom there. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. YU HIRAOKA : A couple of different 3D software. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. YU HIRAOKA : Aesthetic combination of wood and plexiglass. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. YU HIRAOKA : I asked advice about production techniques from a big workshop. I had useful advice from them. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. YU HIRAOKA : The CNC has a very big role to produce this furniture. I think that using CNC is still not a conventional thing to produce furniture in general. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. YU HIRAOKA : I didn't do any proper research, but I did feel that composing furniture without screws or glues have gotten trendy. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. YU HIRAOKA : In my first design of this coat rack, the structure was fragile to function as a coat rack and after I came over it, the next problem was high production cost. I came over that, too. But I would face more challenges as I keep going further with this project. It's just a normal thing. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. YU HIRAOKA : When I did the first rendering of this project, I instantly felt that it can win. Well, that's how I decided! .
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Here's how to select, season, and serve up these not-just-for-breakfast foods.
If you're confused about eggs, you're not alone. Are they okay to eat or aren't they? We're here to dish out the latest recommendations and help you figure out the best way to work eggs into your diet.
Eggs can be part of a balanced diet—as long as you enjoy them in moderation. The main concern is that a single egg yolk contains more than half the daily recommended intake level of cholesterol. So if you enjoy an egg for breakfast or hard-cooked with your lunch, you'll need to limit your other sources of cholesterol throughout the day. Many health experts recommend limiting egg yolks to no more than two a week.
To make it easier to fit eggs into your meal plan, just cut out the yolk—the yellow part contains most of the cholesterol. You can make an omelet or scrambled eggs with just the egg whites. You can also use cholesterol-free egg substitutes. For a speedy single-serve idea made with egg substitute, try the Grab-and-Go Breakfast Sandwich.
Instead of cooking your eggs with butter, try a cooking spray. Or consider using a nonstick cooking pan that won't need added fat at all, or poach your egg in a microwave-safe container.
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Symptoms produced by brain tumors depend on their location, size, rate of growth and stage. Some nonmalignant brain tumors that grow slowly can become quite large before producing symptoms because there often is no swelling of the brain tissues. However, if because of their size or location, they cannot be easily removed, they can be as life threatening as malignant brain tumors.
Persons who have symptoms that do not go away should see their doctor immediately. In general, brain cancer symptoms include:
- Abnormal pulse and breathing rates can also occur
- Deep, dull headaches that recur often and persist without relief for long periods of time
- Difficulty walking or speaking
- Dizziness
- Eyesight problems, including double vision
- Seizures
- Vomiting
At the late stages of the disorder, dramatic changes in blood pressure may occur. Seizures are a common symptom of benign brain tumors and slow-growing cancers. Tumors can cause a part of the body to weaken or feel paralyzed. Hearing, sight and the sense of smell can be affected. Persons who display personality changes and are prone to confusion and unable to think clearly require immediate medical attention.
There are many different types of brain tumors, some of which can have several names. Even neuropathologists, who diagnose these brain tumors, are sometimes inconsistent in what they call them. Some of the most common types are:
- Acoustic neuroma
- Astrocytomas
- Chordomas
- Choroid plexus papilloma
- Craniopharyngiomas
- Ependymomas
- Ganglioneuromas
- Glioblastoma multiforme
- Gliomas
- Meningiomas
- Mixed, optic nerve and brain stem gliomas
- Oligodendroglioma
- Pineal tumors
- Pituitary adenomas
- Primitive neuroectodermal tumors
- Schwannomas
- Vascular tumors
Causes and Risk Factors
Risk factors include exposure for long periods to ionizing radiation or to chemicals, such as vinyl chlorides, aromatic hydrocarbons, triazenes and N-nitroso compound. Generally, exposure occurs at the place of work. Genetically inherited diseases, such as tuberous sclerosis and von Hippel-Lindau disease, may make a person susceptible to brain tumors. Three out of five people who suffer from brain tumors are male. Brain tumors are most common in early or middle adult life, but they can appear at any age.


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Filmmaker Christopher Nolan worked alongside several of the same actors on his last two movies (Inception and The Dark Knight Rises), which includes his "good luck" charm Michael Caine – who's appeared in every Nolan picture beginning with, uh… Batman Begins – and people such as Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy and Marion Cotillard.
It's not surprising to learn that this practice of relying upon a trusted actor troop will continue (to some degree) with Nolan's latest project Interstellar, but the news that Anne Hathaway is the first returning player to be announced does come as something of an unexpected, but very much welcome, revelation.
Deadline, which is the first to break this story, is reporting that Hathaway is "near a deal" to headline Interstellar alongside Matthew McConaughey, who confirmed his involvement a week ago. There's no word yet on any other name actors or A-listers who are coming back to play in Nolan's sandbox again; though, it's probably a given that Caine will appear in some capacity (not at all a bad thing, mind you).
Interestingly, Hathaway was originally going to follow up her roles as Selina Kyle in Dark Knight Rises and Oscar-winning performance in the Les Misérables cinematic musical with the Robopocalypse adaptation from director Steven Spielberg – who had been lined up to direct from Jonathan Nolan's Interstellar script back in 2006 – before that project was delayed at Spielberg's request (for creative purposes), thus freeing up the actress to reunite with Nolan instead. No harm, no foul.
More importantly, the Interstellar leads are a good mixture of experience and fresh perspective, with regard to how they will collaborate with the same filmmaker who pioneered the modern approach to infusing blockbuster proceedings with a more personal and artistic flavor - which, previously, was reserved for smaller-scale and low-budget auteur undertakings, before Nolan changed the game with his Dark Knight trilogy and Inception success.
Chris Nolan has been revising his brother's screenplay, so to make it better fit his traditional storytelling method and thematic emphasis. The under-wraps story involves wormholes and pushing the boundaries of scientific knowledge, so you can already see the surface connection to the director's previous work – be it his love for playing around with the concepts of time and space (often through editing), or interest in examining how ambition, drive and obsession can be very dangerous.
Those ideas are directly touched upon and closely examined in the Nolan brothers' adaptation of The Prestige – and seeing how I'd be willing to argue that is one of the filmmakers' best works (maybe even my personal favorite), that makes me all the more excited to see them plunge deeper into both shared dramatic elements and sci-fi philosophical implications previously left untouched, with Interstellar.
Sandy Schaefer blogs at Screen Rant.


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jckellum necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 78 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
The Fusion Approach
We're a small group of developers with an extensive client list. Specializing in (no particular order):
* Custom web/desktop applications.
* PCI Compliance consulting and implementation (secure website and application development as mandated by credit card industry).
* PCI Compliant Hosting.
Entrepreneurs and small to mid-size businesses that require (secure) web or web application development nationwide.
Logo will represent "The Fusion Approach" and should contain company name. We're looking for something that will set us apart from the myriad of companies out there peddling the same services. We do not have a website as this is the first stage. Logo MUST be compatible and strong enough to springboard the development of the website. Website will host at http://www.fusionapproach.com but is obviously not built.
Logo should convey:
* Tag line - "Integrating Business & Technology"
* SECURE Cutting-Edge Technology
* Trust
* Professionalism
Logo should not:
* Be cartoonish or animated.
* Be too busy.
The files we will require are:
* Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
* Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any clip art in the logo.
We're available for feedback so don't hesitate!!!
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Four players had four kills or more for the Hawks, and Delane Mahoney set most of them up during her 22-assist night as Oregon knocked out Rockford Lutheran 25-20, 25-22 in the Class 2A Oregon Regional final on Thursday night. Sommer Rhea had six kills and nine digs and Hailey Long also sparked Oregon with five kills and seven digs. Oregon (28-9-1) will move on to next week's South Beloit Sectional action.
Stockton Regional
Led by Kara Wright at the net and Kelsey Wright in the midcourt, Stockton rolled over Galena and into the Class 1A Pearl City Sectional next Tuesday with a straight-set victory in the regional final.
Stockton, which won 25-19, 25-13, got 10 kills and 14 blocks from Kara Wright and 15 assists to go along with an assist from Kelsey. Maddy Dower added nine kills and 11 blocks and Kristen Kippendorf chipped in with five digs as the Indians claimed the Stockton Regional championship. Galena was led by Abbby Wills (15 assists) and Olivia Middendorf (14 digs and seven kills.)
Paw Paw Regional
Despite a 16-kill performance from Lexie Fore, Ashton-Franklin Center bowed out with a tough 25-21, 22-25, 25-15 loss to Sterling Newman in the Class 1A Paw Paw Regional final. Katie Sondergeroth added 12 assists and both Emily Mairs and Cassidy Koning each had eight blocks for the Raiders.


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'But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.' 1 Corinthians 2:14
Suggested Further Reading: Ephesians 1:15–2:6 – Charles Spurgeon
– Bible Gateway.Com
The same power which raised Christ Jesus from the dead must be exerted in raising us from the dead; the very same omnipotence, without which angels or worms could not have had a being, must again step forth out of its privy-chamber, and do as great a work as it did at the first creation in making us anew in Christ Jesus our Lord. There have been attempts at all times to get rid of this unpleasant necessity. Constantly the Christian church itself tries to forget it, but as often as ever this old doctrine of regeneration is brought forward pointedly, God is pleased to favour his church with a revival. The doctrine which looks at first as though it would hush every exertion with indolence, and make men sit down with listlessness and despair, is really like the trump of God to awake the dead; and where it is fully and faithfully preached, though it grate upon the carnal ear, though it excite enmity in many against the man who dares to proclaim it, yet it is owned of God. Because it honours God, God will honour it. This was the staple preaching of Whitefield. He was always great upon that which he called the great R—Regeneration. Whenever you heard him, the three Rs came out clearly—Ruin, Regeneration, and Redemption! Man ruined, wholly ruined, hopelessly, helplessly, eternally ruined! Man regenerated by the Spirit of God, and by the Spirit of God alone wholly made a new creature in Christ! Man redeemed by precious blood from all his sins, not by works of righteousness, not by deeds of the law, not by ceremonies, prayers, or resolutions, but by the precious blood of Christ! We must be very pointed, and very plain about regeneration, for this is the very pith and marrow of the matter—'Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.'
For meditation: Man ruined (Titus 3:3), man regenerated (Titus 3:5), man redeemed (Titus 2:14). Have you experienced all three points or just the first?
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The Middleware Company study Comparing Microsoft .NET and IBM WebSphere/J2EE: A Productivity, Performance, Reliability and Manageability Analysis generated a massive thread of over 394 comments when it was reported on TSS (among other places).
The keypoints from the the leaked draft response, attributed to IBM, include:
The latest Middleware Company study is flawed and does not accurately reflect the capability of WebSphere J2EE vs. Microsoft .NET...While expert Microsoft programmers were allowed to contribute to the .NET side, neither IBM nor other WebSphere J2EE product experts were invited to contribute to the testing...The products and toolsets compared in the testing were mismatched, and relatively crude WebSphere J2EE programming techniques were used...The cost comparison between IBM and Microsoft also is inaccurate and does not represent a real-world environment.Microsoft's response was released today on TheServerSide.NET, which rebutted:
...criticisms IBM raises in this document about the case study report recently published by TMC are by and large, not valid...The IBM WebSphere configuration was approximately 10x as expensive as the Microsoft configuration...The suggestions that the use of ServiceDomain and Application Blocks by the Microsoft team indicate a higher level of skill than the WebSphere team, are unfounded...The productivity advantage of the Microsoft platform is real and well documented....In conclusion, this was an exhaustive and very fair study.The Middleware Company was reached for comment, and according to Tyler Jewell, CEO of The Middleware Company:
There are a number of factually incorrect areas in this document, not reflective of the quality standard IBM follows in their publications. So, we are not sure if this is an IBM sponsored and reviewed document. If IBM creates an official response, we would eagerly post and provide counter-perspective.TheServerSide Editors' Note: This research is produced and hosted by The Middleware Company, a research and media company, and the parent company of this site. TheServerSide.com and TheServerSide.NET are independent media sites of The Middleware Company and as such do not produce research themselves, and have no involvement in this study beyond providing this thread of discussion for your positive and negative comments alike, just as other media organizations have reported on it (eWEEK, InternetNews).
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"The world needs strong women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved. Women who live bravely, both tender and fierce. Women of indomitable will." – Amy Tenney
I don't know who Amy Tenney is, have never heard of her, nor read anything other than the above quote, (that I know of), that can be traced back to her, but after reading that very quote, I think Amy Tenney may know Christine Ray.
If the heart of the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective is the impressive collection of writers and their work, editors and their passion, readers and their appreciation, then surely Christine Ray has been a potent infusion of life for us all.
For the past two years, Christine Ray has been a valued, and much loved, member of the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective. As a writer, Christine is nothing short of impressive. As a poet, Christine is nothing short of phenomenal. With her vivid imagery and the unfiltered passion she leaves on her page, it was no surprise when Christine developed a large following of fans and a rock solid appreciation and respect from her collective, and the writers who run tight in influential social media circles, none of which are an easy feat.
Always the first to read, comment, and share the work featured on SD onto her own sites, Christine played a huge role in bringing all of our work to people who wouldn't normally see it, and then bringing devoted fans and readers back to SD.
It wasn't long before Christine became an editor at SD, working closely with the writers to produce the very best content, all the while writing for, and maintaining her own growing site, Brave and Reckless, but she was also quickly tapped to become the managing editor of not only The Sudden Denouement Literary Collective, but its sister site Whisper and The Roar as well.
Over the past two years Christine has given her all to this collective, and at times that has been a thankless and an exhausting job, yet she has continued to do it all just as she does everything she sets her mind and her heart to, with grace and determination. We, as a collective, have been fortunate to have spent these years under her ever-watchful eyes and her guiding light, and it is with our deepest thanks and our greatest appreciation that we bid farewell to her as editor of SD, and stand behind her as the biggest champions of her bright new future endeavours.
Lost Voice – Christine Ray
siren's golden voice
once dropped confident syllables
into air
as naturally as breathing
now stifled in constricted throat
that struggles to swallow
six-sided anxiety
hot, sour bile
college ruled notebooks
once full
of manic scribblings
compulsively captured in black ink
before inspiration could swirl down the floor drain
collect dust
sigh from disuse
pen now held in death grip
fingers have lost their grace
their nerve
fertile mind now an empty room
where silence rings
torturous tinnitus
blindfolded by fear
weight pressing down on shoulders
by the weight of giant
unseen inquisitor's voice barks
Have you reached the bottom of yourself
are you so shallow
so barren?!
Or is truth so deeply hidden
that you must dive inside
hand to elbow buried into slippery entails
to reach it?
surgical implements laid out
with precision on a stainless tray
slide into view
no hesitation picking up sharp scalpel
with shaking fingers
a writer's way is
always to bleed
"She was an angel that burst into my life and shone her brilliant light right into the eyes of my demons"
Christine is a wonderful writer & editor & it was through our shared love of poetry that our friendship was birthed. She is one of the strongest, most patient & inspiring women I know and it has been a pleasure to work alongside her often.
– Rachel Finch, author of A Sparrow Stirs Its Wings
"Christine Ray. I told her once I knew with a name like that, she'd go places. What I didn't mention was she already has and does every day, she takes us with her too. What I didn't mention was even if she was called Erma F. Sluggs, she'd go places, that's just how bright her electric mind is.
Christine Ray came into my life as a writer, with a flash and from the moment I heard of her, she didn't stop spitting electricity and fire. Routinely we over-use descriptors, the irony being Christine is often the source of those descriptors. She actually IS unstoppable. She actually IS the real deal. She actually IS on fire. (Okay so the last one is a slight exaggeration, but seriously, have you looked at the sky lately?).
Christine Ray has left an impact on my life already, as if she had resided there for its entirety. She doesn't demand attention, she earns it, with every hard effort she makes to be basically the bad ass best at everything she does. Is this a Type A Personality? Hell, she invented the term.
It is both sad and wonderful that whilst Christine has long battled with exhaustion and illness, she is one of the most energetic minds I have had the privilege to meet, and she has a gift of putting intelligent and creative people together in ways that creative incredible happenings. Despite any set-back she has experienced or any trauma in her past, that would give her ample reason to bow out, Christine never does, she keeps going and she takes you with her.
On a bad day, Christine's infectious energy and passion for writing and poetry, equals that of most of the rest of us. She has taught me to be more, do more, expect more. She has taught me that you can be broken and mangled and still find no excuse not to do your absolute best. Christine is an unwilling role-model in that she doesn't seem to see her own shine, whilst everyone who ever meets her, sees it instantly. Her talents don't know boundaries they defy even her own expectations.
I have been so honored to work with Christine over the years I've known her, and see her rise in our literary publishing and poetry circle to become one thing; Irreplaceable.
I wouldn't bet on many people because you really don't know, but I would bet on Christine. She's a warrior, she's a fighter, she's a demon mind that doesn't rest until she's accomplished goals far beyond her reach and you know what? She succeeds. And nothing, not even herself, stops her from getting up the next day and doing the same thing. I admire the hell out of her, I also genuinely LIKE her as a human being and this is pretty rare because many passionate people can drive you crazy, but in Christine's case, she only reminds us, to be more of what we can be, never less.
Christine has galvanized a huge group of people into a collective that has radically changed the quiet, detached safe world of poetry writing that hitherto existed on WordPress and beyond. She's brought all of us together, she is a lightning rod and a fucking incredible human being and her poetry is devastatingly beautiful. I adore her. I applaud her. I will never feel anything ordinary about her." – Candice Daquin, author of Pinch The Lock
During her time at Sudden Denouement, and Sudden Denouement Publishing, Christine Ray has worked closely with dozens of today's most impressive writers to bring their most impressive work to print. Christine was key in helping to establish Sudden Denouement Publishing and single-handedly compiled, designed, and edited 'Anthology Volume I: Writings From The Sudden Denouement Literary Collective' which was published in the summer of 2018 and remains one of SD's proudest achievements.
As editor-in-chief, Christine helped bring not only two of Sudden Denouement's most anticipated collections of 2018 to press: Rachel Finch's debut collection, 'A Sparrow Stirs Its Wings' and Nicole Lyons' third collection 'Blossom and Bone', but has also edited and added Eric Syrdal's brilliant novel 'Pantheon' to SDP's catalogue.
Never one to claim the spotlight for herself (though it shines for her) Christine has been the backbone, the kickstart, to each and every brilliant collaboration we have featured on SD.
"I've always been in awe of Christine. Not only in terms of her output as a poet, but in how much energy she puts into so many projects. Her level of commitment is like nothing else I have ever seen, and every time I've worked with her, she's given 100%, even with so much on the go. From my early days in Sudden Denouement up to our recent collaboration, Christine has been supportive of me in so many ways, and without that support, and guidance, the last eighteen months wouldn't have been as satisfying as they have. I'd like to thank her for everything she's done, not only for me, but for so many others, and I hope she continues to shine her light as brightly as she's done for a long time coming." – S.K. Nicholas, author of The Journal For Damned Lovers Volumes I-III
FAITH DON'T LIE – Christine Ray & S.K. Nicholas
It was with great pleasure, and one of SDP's shining accomplishments, that we were lucky enough to bring Christine's own debut collection 'Composition of a Woman' to press. It is pure Christine Ray – amplified – and we couldn't be any more proud to feature such a stunning work.
Though Christine has stepped down from SD as editor, all is not lost; she is still a much loved and valued member of the collective and we will continue to publish her work while we promote her exciting new adventures like Indie Blu(e) and Indie Blu(e) Publishing.
"Christine is a tough and tender wild thing, a brilliant writer and editor, and a ferocious friend. She has talent, an eye for it, and a gift for bringing it out in others. She especially has a gift for turning trauma into triumph and encouraging others to do the same. I am proud to call Christine a friend, and invigorated to know that this friendship will last a lifetime. On all levels, Christine is an amazing person. It is a privilege to know her and read her work. I am excited to see where her ambitions will lead her next!"
-Georgia Park, Private Bad Thoughts
We look forward to reading and promoting the brilliant artists and the work Christine and her team at Indie Blu(e) are set to publish very soon.
Here's a little sneak peek of Christine's second book of poetry, 'The Myths Of Girlhood' slated for publication with IB very soon:
The Myths of Girlhood – Christine Ray
we were spoiled
for reality
by milk chocolate-coated fairy tales
force fed us as girls
made to swallow
not spit
myths about beauty
taught that only pretty, pretty princesses
would be awoken by
true love's first kiss
impossible standards of beauty
made for
bitter cherry centers
that left us empty
how old were we
when we learned
that mere mortal girls
like us
would never be beautiful enough
thin enough
kind enough
pure enough
to win Prince Charming's gold enrobed heart?
we ate up the lessons that with the right make-up
the right clothes
if we took enough quizzes
in Seventeen magazine
about how to be popular
how to catch his eye
contorted ourselves into pretzels
we might almost be enough
to be invited to dance at the ball
drink a brief taste of the pink champagne dream
before the clock struck midnight
and we turned back
into pumpkins
From all of us at Sudden Denouement, and Sudden Denouement Publishing, thank you Christine, for all you have done for us and for all you have given of yourself. You are irreplaceable, unforgettable, and we hold you in the highest esteem.


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Mike Gimbel shares drug-free life 40 years in the making
Milford Mill native enormously grateful to parents
Mike Gimbel is a man well-known to the public and to the media shared his personal story as he marks a milestone: 40 years off heroin.
The images look like a trailer for a Barry Levinson film: northwest Baltimore in the 1950s -- idyllic images of a middle class Jewish family with the youngest dark-haired son adored and coddled.
"He was just a normal kid," said Gimbel's mother, Fran.
"Never any trouble," said Gimbel's father, Milt.
That seemingly normal kid was actually hooked on heroin at his senior prom, while nearly bankrupting his parents with one costly legal drama after the next.
"We lost almost everything -- the house, wrecked cars," Fran Gimbel said.
The pariah was Gimbel. You may know him as the long-time drug czar of Baltimore County, the area's most visible face of drug prevention.
Now, he's taken to running, and leaving his horrible past by marking a major milestone: 40 years of sobriety.
"From 10th grade going into 11th grade, all the way through 21 years of age, I don't think there was a day I wasn't high," Gimbel said.
He has kept the scars from injecting heroin hidden, though they have destroyed his veins. It got him out of Vietnam and sickened his high school prom date, the cheerleader captain, 98 Rock disc jockey Sarah Fleischer.
"I saw the marks on his arms, and so he disclosed that to me. It scared me. I wasn't going to get involved with someone who was using," Fleischer said.
It took a number of overdoses, arrests, rehabs, relapses, mental hospitals and methadone programs before Mike Gimbel would be truly ready to get clean.
At age 20, he left his Milford Mill neighborhood for a California treatment center, where he stayed for seven years. When he finally came home, he never looked back.
"I don't think I would have lasted a year," Mike Gimbel said.
Years later, Don Hutchinson, former Baltimore County executive, would make the riskiest hire of his political life, tapping Gimbel to be Baltimore County's first drug czar.
"Suddenly, I'm confronted with deciding if I'm going to hire someone who is a former addict -- not just a former addict, but a deeply troubled addict," Hutchinson said.
What followed was a well-known and storied career in drug prevention and counseling that still prevails.
Gimbel remains addicted, but only to running. He has ran in 18 marathons under his belt and counting.
"I don't crave the feeling of getting high on drugs, but I do crave the feeling to feel good, which is probably why I used drugs in the first place," Mike Gimbel said.
Gimbel -- attentive to his elderly parents married 71 years, and enormously grateful to them -- has battle scars that include hepatitis C, a number of failed marriages and no kids.


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If you want to celebrate three days of wallowing in blood, you can�t do better than the Battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest single fight (though not single day) of the Civil War. And today is the 150th anniversary of that epic fight.
If you want to celebrate three days of wallowing in blood, you can�t do better than the Battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest single fight (though not single day) of the Civil War. And today is the 150th anniversary of that epic fight.
That battle has been studied and fought and shouted about ever since its conclusion a day before the Fourth. I remember how my father would actually dance along the edge of a rage as he declaimed about how Longstreet and Stuart lost that fight. And I�ve read �Killer Angels,� which venerated Longstreet and laid the blame squarely on the shoulders of a pleasant but incompetent Robert E. Lee. (Michael Shaara said that, folks, not me, so no mail bombs to my address, please.)
While it was fought in a hamlet in Pennsylvania, there were plenty of North Carolina boys taking part. The Second Army Corps under Gen. Richard Ewell included the Second North Carolina regiment, which included at least three companies packed with young men from Craven, Jones and Carteret counties.
According to a history of North Carolina regiments, the Second participated early in the battle, marching into Gettysburg on July 1 and later that day occupying Oak Hill, �breaking the enemy�s line and throwing him into confusion.� Skirmishers from the brigade captured a Pennsylvania battle flag. The second day, they were in the somewhat less successful attack on Cemetery Hill.
The most famous North Carolina regiment in that fight was the 26th North Carolina, commanded by the �boy general,� Col. Henry King Burgwyn. That regiment went into the battle as the largest in the two armies, at 843 men. Of those, 588 would become casualties on the first day. At the end of the battle, they would stand at only 30 percent of their original strength.
Burgwyn was not a New Bern boy. In fact, by birth he wasn�t even North Carolinian, having been born in that Yankee-ist of all lands, Massachusetts. He grew up in Northampton County, which is wedged up against the Virginia line in eastern North Carolina, and early on found himself as a very young (20) ranking officer with the 26th. He quickly built up a reputation as an inspiring competitor and trainer of men.
His regiment arrived in time for the Battle of New Bern � a battle he felt should never have happened, since he quickly judged the town to be undefendable. His regiment, then under Col. Zebulon Vance, would be the last to retreat at the battle � mainly because of miscommunication. The regiment, defending the right flank, was unaware that everyone else had fled the field and they, themselves, got away � as Job or Thornton Wilder might put it � by the skin of their teeth. Vance decided it would be better to become a wartime governor than fight, so he left the regiment and Burgwyn took over.
Between the March 1862 battle and July 1, 1863, the 26th blah-blah-blah, as my daughter Rachel would explain it. It would take more than one column to describe the 26th�s actions in the fight, so let�s jump to Henry�s end.
The fighting took place at Willoughby�s Run, where the 26th matched guns and savvy with an equally tough Yankee regiment, the 24th Michigan � the �Iron Brigade.� The opening moments weren�t too bad on Burgwyn�s soldiers, but it was murder on his color-bearers. Ten of them went down in rapid succession. In those days, the color-bearer was the guy who carried the regimental flag, and he was pretty much a sitting duck: unable to fire and carrying a cumbersome stick with a colorful sheet tied on. All he could do was shout and wave and be a really tempting target.
Once they were within 40 yards of the Michiganders, the Union men opened fire and slaughtered dozens of the Confederates. The 26th pushed on and, with the help of superior numbers, managed to push the 24th back.
Eventually the regiments were lined up at point-blank range, firing mini� balls into each other.
The flag fell, and Burgwyn stooped to pick it up, yelling encouragement as he did. He turned to hand the flag to a private and was shot in the chest. (The private was shot in the head.)
The 26th took devastating losses, but they inflicted horrific damage on the Iron Brigade as well. Three hundred and sixty-three of its 496 soldiers would be shot or captured. The 26th, under Lt. Col. J. R. Lane, who would also die in the advance, would carry that part of the field.
As for Burgwyn, he died two days later and was buried in an empty gun case in enemy land. Fred A. Olds, one of his soldiers who saw his death would later recall, �I never saw a braver man than he.�
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"War" is a force that gives us meaning
There have been plenty of opinions expressed and words exchanged over the HHS mandate, the administration's religious conscience compromise, and about what exactly constitutes religious freedom. Many of the words have been heated and intense, and an alarming number of them have involved war imagery.
We've heard the headlines: Faithful Americans are "under attack" from a government "assualting" religious freedom. The administration has "started a war" with Catholics. Bishops may have "won the battle" but will "lose the war." A law struck down in Washington state mandating pharmacists to carry emergency contraceptives is described as a win that marks "an important battle in the national war for conscience protection." We hear of Protestants "closing ranks" and joining with Catholics over this issue that is "worth fighting and dying over" that has created a "state of emergency" in our nation.
Americans should be familiar with what war actually looks like, considering that we've been involved in wars for the last ten years in Afghanistan and Iraq—wars where real men and women have left to serve and have not returned; real wars where innocent civilians died from bombs and explosions.
Though I understand using metaphors and imagery to enhance a point, especially as the mandate and compromise has deeply affronted many Americans, how does it look for us to be calling the contraception debate "war" when today alone we hear reports of Red Cross aid being denied in a bombed-out section of Syria (truly in a state of emergency), or the upcoming talks between President Obama and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the use of military force in Iran?
The way that war has historically worked is that a winner is declared when the other side has suffered more casualties, too bloodied and beaten or starved and hopeless to continue. Or, in more recent cases, a stalemate is reached, and the war is quietly ended, with a wake of destruction left behind. Is this really how we want the contraception debate to play out? If we insist on calling this war, then we should equally insist on calling for just ways of deescalating conflict and restoring peace, or using peaceful intervention techniques to reach compromise.
Chris Hedges wrote in his 2003 book War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (Anchor Books): "The only antidote to ward off self-destruction and the indiscriminate use of force is humility and, ultimately, compassion."
Though his words were meant to apply to situations of armed conflict, we can still learn from them here. As this supposed war rages on, may we be humble and compassionate in striving to reach its end.


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January 12, 2012
Our apologies for not communicating this better, but the sieves for the Ball Sorter activity (NanoDays 2012) will be shipped in the same box as the nano gold. The sieves did not arrive at the warehouse in time to pack them in the large box. So, in an effort to avoid sending all of you yet another separate box, we did some troubleshooting and decided to pack them with the gold.
To recap - the kit will still come to you in 3 shipments: the large, main box; the puzzle blocks box; and the small box containing nano gold and the sieves. The small boxes should be shipped out by January 20th.
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Live Web Site Attack Demos, Participation in Conference Program Sessions Highlight Company's Security Know-how
Akamai® Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading cloud platform for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere, is showcasing its distinctive web security solutions and expertise at RSA® Conference 2013, which will be held in San Francisco's Moscone Center from February 25 – March 1, 2013. Booth demonstrations ( Booth 1630) of the newest version of Kona Site Defender, as well as keynote sessions and panel discussions from Akamai's security thought leaders are highlights of the company's presence at the event.
Throughout the event, Akamai will host live demonstrations showcasing how the latest version of Kona Site Defender can protect web sites and applications from a variety of attack vectors, including SQL injection, cross site scripting, and distributed denial of service (DDoS). Akamai will host two identical web sites on public cloud infrastructure, one of which is protected by Kona Site Defender. Real-time analytics provided by Kona Site Defender's Advanced Security Monitor will show the result of live attacks launched from the Akamai booth on both the protected and unprotected sites.
During the course of the event, Akamai security experts will be on hand to discuss the ways in which web attacks have continued to transform over the past 12 months and the challenges associated with defending against an ever-evolving attack landscape.
Renowned security technologist and author, Bruce Schneier, will be on hand in the Akamai booth to sign copies of his 2012 book, Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Thrive, which investigates how trust works – both in business and society as a whole – how it is often betrayed, and the degree to which technology intersects with this complex issue. Mr. Schneier will be available for exclusive book signings in Akamai's booth at the following scheduled times:
RSA Conference attendees will also have the opportunity to hear members of Akamai's security team speak about many of the key issues faced daily by security professionals.
Sessions in which Akamai will participate include:
Information Security Certifications: Do They Still Provide Industry Value?: On Monday, February 25 at 2:50 p.m. PT, Akamai's Chief Security Officer, Andy Ellis, will join fellow panelists in a discussion on the value of information security certifications in the ever-evolving infosec landscape.
Do You Know Your Enemy Enemies?: WHO & WHY do matter…: On Monday, February 25 at 3:30 p.m. PT, Akamai's Director of Security Intelligence, Josh Corman, will facilitate the Innovators Showcase Whiteboard session that will help attendees better understand the characteristics of modern adversaries and their implications to the industry's risk management priorities.
Making Rugged DevOps and Infosec Work: On Tuesday, February 26 at 3:50 p.m. PT, Akamai's Director of Security Intelligence, Josh Corman, and his fellow panelists will debate how information security can integrate into the DevOps movement.
Offensive Security: Hope or Hype?: On Wednesday, February 27 at 1:00 p.m. PT, Akamai's Director of Security Intelligence, Josh Corman, will moderate a panel on new thinking around "Active Defense," or what some would term "Offensive Activities." Panelists will explore the pros and cons of enacting an offensive security position in defending a company's networks.
Mayans, Mayhem and Malware: On Thursday, February 28 at 8:00 a.m. PT, Akamai's Director of Security Intelligence, Josh Corman, will join fellow panelists to discuss the persistent gaps and perennial conditions confronting organizations today, notably in areas of compliance and governance related to threat mitigation, education and awareness.
Achievement Unlocked: Designing a Compelling Security Awareness Program: On Thursday, February 28 at 10:40 a.m. PT, Akamai's Chief Security Officer, Andy Ellis, will speak on how to design a comprehensive, but not overbearing, security awareness program for employees.
Mind over Matter: Managing Risk with Psychology instead of Brute Force: On Thursday, February 28 at 4:05 p.m. PT, Akamai's Chief Security Officer, Andy Ellis, will deliver a keynote presentation about how research into the psychology of risk has informed his approach to information security and enabled him to manage the security of Akamai's vast cloud platform with a very lean team.
Living Below the Security Poverty Line: Coping Mechanisms: On Friday, March 1 at 9:00 a.m. PT, Akamai's Chief Security Officer, Andy Ellis, will discuss how organizations with limited resources to put toward security can cope with issues and still drive forward systemic change in their security programs.
Control Quotient: Adaptive Strategies for Gracefully Losing Control: On Friday, March 1 at 9:00 a.m. PT, Akamai's Director of Security Intelligence, Josh Corman, will speak on how forces such as cloud, virtualization, mobility and consumerization have greatly changed how IT assets are owned and operated, and how infosec teams can gracefully adjust to this changing level of security asset control.
A schedule all of the company's RSA Conference-related activities can be found at www.akamai.com/rsac2013.
Akamai® is the leading cloud platform for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere. At the core of the Company's solutions is the Akamai Intelligent Platform™ providing extensive reach, coupled with unmatched reliability, security, visibility and expertise. Akamai removes the complexities of connecting the increasingly mobile world, supporting 24/7 consumer demand, and enabling enterprises to securely leverage the cloud. To learn more about how Akamai is accelerating the pace of innovation in a hyperconnected world, please visit www.akamai.com or blogs.akamai.com, and follow @Akamai on Twitter.


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|Syria rebels kill intelligence officer
|[Al Ahram] Syrian faceless myrmidons ambushed and killed a military intelligence officer near Damascus
...The capital of Iran's Syrian satrapy...
while the army pounded several rebel bastions in and around the capital, a watchdog reported on Tuesday.
"Rebel fighters ambushed the military intelligence chief in Jaramana on Monday night, after which he was killed," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Jaramana, southeast of Damascus, is home to a majority Christian and Druze population and to pro-regime militia. It has suffered numerous rebel kabooms in recent months.
The Observatory said the army on Tuesday renewed shelling on the capital's southern districts and that fresh violence erupted on the outskirts of the capital.
Analysts say Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
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's regime wants to ensure its hold on the capital so it can be in a position to negotiate an end to the nearly 21-month conflict that the Observatory says has killed more than 44,000 people.
Elsewhere in Syria, rebels seized the town of Harem in the northwestern province of Idlib, large swathes of which have slipped out of army hands, said the Britannia-based monitoring group.
"Insurgents from several rebel groups have seized total control of the town of Harem, after taking ... the army and pro-regime militia's last bases there," said the Observatory.
Pro-Assad forces surrendered to the rebels after a siege lasting several months, said the watchdog.
Syria's conflict broke out when a peaceful uprising against Assad morphed into a bloody insurgency after the regime unleashed a brutal campaign of repression against dissent.
The latest violence comes as UN-Arab League
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peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi visits Damascus in yet another bid to end the conflict.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the exact same government industry that's been investigating GM over its deadly ignition switches, is now investigating Chrysler over a very similar problem in Jeep Grand Cherokees and Commanders. This is not good.
No deaths or injuries have been reported yet from driver's knees bumping the ignition switch out of the "ON" position in 2005-2006 Jeep Grand Cherokees and 2006-2007 Jeep Commanders. 1.25 million vehicles are affected, though NHTSA has only received 32 complaints, according to a NHTSA statement, via Reuters.
If the car is turned off, the airbags may fail to deploy.
No cars have been recalled yet, but if you've got one of the SUVs involved, you might as well wait in the mail for the notice to arrive. I don't think any manufacturer is stupid enough to let this one slide.
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Career: Signed a free agent contract with the Indianapolis Colts in May, 2009 ... graduated from Duke with a degree in public policy in December, 2008 ... named the Defensive MVP of the East-West Shrine Bowl with a game-high 13 tackles for the East squad in a 24-19 win ... four-year starter and letterwinner ... started in 45 of his 46 career games, ending his career with 23 consecutive starts ... ended his career with 434 tackles, 46.0 tackles for loss, 6.0 sacks, seven interceptions, eight pass breakups, 12 quarterback pressures, three fumble recoveries and eight caused fumbles ... ranks among the Duke career leaders in tackles (4th) and tackles for loss (3rd) ... had at least 90 tackles in all four seasons with 100 or more in each of his final two seasons ... averaged 9.4 tackles per game in his career ... recorded at least 10 tackles for loss in all four seasons ... posted 18 career double-digit tackle games ... prior to the 2006 season, changed last name from Brown to Tauiliili to honor his Samoan heritage.
2008: Returning three-year starter at middle linebacker ... preseason first team All-ACC choice by Athlon ... preseason second team All-ACC selection by both Lindy's and Phil Steele's College Football Preview ... has secured tremendous game experience with 33 career starts ... vocal leader of the Duke defense ... has reached the 90-tackle plateau in each of his first three seasons as a Blue Devil with over 100 tackles as a junior in 2007 ... in 34 career games, has 294 tackles including 33.0 tackles for loss ... owns career per game averages of 8.65 tackles and 0.97 tackles for loss ... the 33.0 career tackles for loss rank sixth on Duke's all-time list ... leads all active ACC players in career tackles (294) and career tackles for loss (33.0) ... has 12 career double figure tackle games to his credit ... has notched five or more tackles in 28-of-34 career games and in 27 of his last 30 contests dating back to the 2005 season ... has carded at least one tackle for loss in 25-of-34 career games ... two-time honoree as Duke's co-Most Outstanding Defensive Player ... prior to the 2006 season, changed last name from Brown to Tauiliili to honor his Samoan heritage ... childhood friend of Duke teammate Vince Oghobaase.
2007: Started the final 11 games of the season at middle linebacker ... did not play in the season-opener against Connecticut ... reached the century mark with 108 tackles in 11 games to lead the team in tackles per game and rank second overall behind Vincent Rey (111) ... led the squad with 13.0 tackles for loss and tied for the team lead with three interceptions ... finished the year with 4.0 sacks, two pass breakups, two quarterback pressures, one caused fumble and one fumble recovery ... ranked third in the ACC and 35th nationally in tackles per game with a 9.82 average ... ranked seventh in the ACC and tied for 50th in the NCAA with 1.18 tackles for loss per game ... recorded five games with 10 or more tackles on the season ... posted seven or more tackles in 10 of his 11 contests ... had nine games with a tackle for loss, including three outings with two or more ... tallied a season-high 15 tackles, including eight solo stops and 2.5 tackles for loss at Navy ... recorded 13 tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss, one interception and one fumble recovery against Virginia Tech ... tallied 13 tackles, 1.0 tackle for loss and one interception at Georgia Tech ... registered 11 tackles, including seven solo stops, 2.5 tackles for loss and 2.0 sacks versus Clemson ... had 12 tackles, 2.0 tackles for loss and one sack at Notre Dame ... forced a fumble to go with seven tackles at Virginia ... recorded first collegiate interception at Northwestern ... posted nine tackles against both Wake Forest and Florida State ... had eight tackles at Miami and seven at North Carolina ... tallied 749 total snaps for the season with 689 on defense and 60 on special teams ... logged at least 50 snaps in all 11 of his games with a season-high 93 at Florida State.
2006: Started all 12 games ... led Duke in tackles with 94 ... ranked eighth in the ACC and 71st nationally in tackles per game with a 7.8 average ... registered four double figure tackle outings including a season-best 13 stops against Navy ... also reached double figures versus Richmond (11), Virginia Tech (11) and North Carolina (11) ... along with Patrick Bailey, co-recipient of Duke's Most Outstanding Defensive Player honor ... became just the second Blue Devil ever to pace the squad in tackles in his freshman and sophomore seasons, joining Ryan Fowler (2000-01) ... ranked tied for third on the team in quarterback pressures (4) and fourth in tackles for loss (10.0) ... had at least one tackle for loss in eight games ... on the field for 797 total snaps, the fourth-highest total on the team.
2005: First team Freshman All-America, ACC Defensive Freshman of the Year and first team Freshman All-ACC choice by The Sporting News ... first team Freshman All-America selection by Scout.com ... played in all 11 games, starting the final 10 ... led all rookie linebackers nationally in tackles (92), tackles for loss (10.0) and forced fumbles (3) ... in the ACC, ranked seventh in tackles and tied for fourth in caused fumbles ... joined Erwin Sampson (1988) and Ryan Fowler (2000) as the only freshmen to lead Duke in tackles ... became just the third rookie in school history to pace the team in tackles for loss, joining Fowler and Chris Combs (1996) ... registered three double figure tackle games, the most by a Blue Devil rookie since Fowler's four in 2000 ... had a season-best 15 stops against Wake Forest ... picked up 14 tackles, three tackles for loss and the first quarterback sack of his career in the season finale at North Carolina ... added 13 tackles including one for loss versus Florida State ... averaged 11.8 tackles per game over the final five weeks of the season ... carded at least one tackle for loss in eight games ... named the co-recipient of Duke's Outstanding Defensive Player award along with Brendan Dewan.
Prior to Duke: Three-year letterman for Tom Gerber at Alief Taylor ... credited for a team-leading 121 total tackles, 15 tackles for loss, four sacks and one interception to earn first team all-district honors ... named Alief Taylor's Defensive MVP in 2004 ... named All-Greater Houston and a finalist for the Greater Houston Touchdown Club's defensive player of the year award ... first team all-district choice as a junior after totaling 111 tackles, 14 tackles for loss and three sacks ... carded 102 tackles to garner second team all-district accolades in sophomore season ... three-year team captain and leading tackler ... helped squad to back-to-back state playoff berths in 2003 and 2004.
Personal: Son of Iva Brown and Daryl McMullen ... father played basketball at Tennessee State University ... born October 29, 1986.


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Londa's successful 'JazzyBrunch' series continues with the spring groove in full swing. On Sunday 27 April, enjoy 'the LEONID NESTEROV Trio' featuring MARINOS NEOFYTOU ON GUITAR, serving up fine jazz rhythms in the STUNNING caprice restaurant; a REAL lunchtime treat.
The smooth sound of Jazz continues to entice guests to Londa's award-winning Caprice restaurant, as the boutique hotel continues its spring season of Jazzy Brunches, part of the Londa Jazz Series. On Sunday 27 April the Leonid Nesterov Trio, featuring Marinos Neofytou on guitar, will be performing a heady mix of jazz styles including modern, soul and classic jazz standards.
The Caprice's cool Italian styled interior, flanked by the tranquil blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea, is the perfect backdrop for the easy melodies of vibrant jazz sounds brilliantly performed by the talented trio who are Leonid Nesterov on piano, Andreas Stefanou on drums and Nicolas Tryphonos on bass. Now well into the new season, April's performance is set to offer Londa's visitors another unique musical experience.
Jochen Niemann, the Londa's General Manager said "The Londa is fast becoming the island's respected urbane venue for musical innovation with its Jazzy Brunch Sunday lunches. We're delighted that the season continues with such talented performers."
Guest guitarist Marinos Neophytou studied jazz at the Berklee in Boston, USA. He is a multitalented jazz performer, playing a range of different instruments. Leonid Nesterov began his music career in Latvia and has lived in Limassol since 2010; he plays with different musicians around Cyprus sharing his passion for jazz. Andreas Stefanou, graduate of Rotterdam Conservatory, is one of Cyprus' most renowned musical talents of a new generation of jazz musicians, travelling extensively to perform with celebrated artists including Nelson Faria, Kiko Freitas and Anna Ellis de Jong. Nicolas Tryphonos was born in Limassol and studied electric bass at Nakas Conservatory in Athens, at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and of Utrecht where he graduated in Jazz double bass; he is an active musician in the music scene of Cyprus and the Netherlands.
The Jazzy Brunch lunchtime buffet will be served between 1.00pm – 3.30pm in the Londa's Caprice Restaurant on Sunday 27th April. At €35,00 per person, including a delicious lunchtime buffet, the 'Londa Jazz Series' is sure to be a sell-out yet again; reserve your table now to avoid disappointment.
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Our absolute favorite holiday is right around the corner: National Handbag Day! Last year was the first-ever National Handbag Day, and this year we have another great week of celebrating planned. Friday, October 10 is the big day, and we know you'll want to follow along and join us in the fun we have planned.
We've teamed up with Bloomingdale's to bring you the lots of celebration and surprises in praise of our favorite things: handbags. Bloomindale's worked with us and five of our favorite designers to create bags to celebrate National Handbag Day, which you can only get through the Bloomingdale's National Handbag Day online pop-up shop.
Last year we realized that our favorite accessory didn't have its own holiday, and we had to change that. It seems like you guys agreed with us; over 3,600 of you shared images on Instagram, in addition to thousands of tweets, and I'm sure plenty of new handbag acquisitions were made as well. You can also follow along with the festivities on the Bloomingdale's Twitter and Instagram pages.
We want to hear and see from you again this year. Be sure to follow @PurseBlog and Instagram your favorite bag images with the hashtag #NationalHandbagDay. (Tag as at @PurseBlog as well to be sure we see it!) We will be regramming our favorite images and showcasing some on PurseBlog throughout the week.
Also, don't forget to tweet us as well! Tomorrow, we will be holding our first-ever #PurseChat on Twitter, and we would love to have you join us!
This is going to be a fun week, filled with exclusive bags and more from Bloomingdale's, great handbag features, and even a giveaway sprinkled in there. Stay tuned and follow along with #NationalHandbagDay!


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Possible tornado touches down in Carroll, Harford counties
Strong storms down trees, damage homes
A series of strong storms slammed parts of Carroll and Harford counties late Sunday.
The extent of the damage had many of them wondering if it was a tornado that touched down.
"We're finding trees down all in this area. It looks like a small tornado may have come through here," said Robert O'Neal with the Asplundh Tree Expert Company.
Some people reported high winds and damaged trees.
"Lightning and thunder instantly, so I knew it was right over us and I was standing on the porch and the wind was blowing one way and all of a sudden it changed direction and blew in the other direction," resident Joan Barnes said.
"All of a sudden, I heard this wind just slam against the house and up there. My backboard is between those two windows and all of a sudden the rain was slamming against the windows and the curtains were actually blowing in and my windows were shut," resident Diane Weiman said.
Residents in Carroll County were also cleaning up.
"It sounded like a freight train coming through. We were getting ready to go to bed," resident Richard Harman said.
In one case, resident Dennis Watson avoided injured when a three large tree limbs came crashing through his home.
"I felt the house shake," Watson said.
Residents and work crews continue to clean up debris from the storm.


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What's North County, and where is it?
The answer to that question has shifted as U-T San Diego rolls out its new North County and Metro editions.
To get our bearings, let's motor back in time to, let's say, the early 1950s when North County was huge.
Back then, San Diego's footprint was tighter, rounder, less sprawling than it is today. Mission Valley, far from downtown, was home to dairy cows, not shopping malls and a stadium.
Three iconic but small highways — 101, 395 and 80 — linked the semidesert "cul-de-sac" (as columnist Neil Morgan used to call his adopted city) to the outside world.
Out beyond the city's line, a few cities and lots of towns were scattered like stars in the universe. Gobs of open space (or, on the coast, lagoons) separated one from the other, lending each a sense of identity.
To the north, Escondido and Oceanside were the two cities large enough to support daily newspapers, downtown libraries and public hospitals. They were the commercial hubs of a region that prided itself on being far from the madding crowds of The City.
"Everyone has their own vision or story of why they love North County," writes Pam Slater-Price, the former North County supervisor and Del Mar resident, "but all agree that it is not Metro San Diego."
So deep was the division that North County firebrands, resentful of the city's heavy hands on the levers of power, periodically debated the practical wisdom of breaking away from San Diego County and forming a "Palomar" or "San Luis Rey" County.
Ernie Cowan, former Escondido mayor and veteran newsman, tells me he still hears North County folks talk about seceding.
Though the northern, western and eastern borders of this fanciful North County county would be fairly easy to draw, the southern boundary would be another matter. In the south, you'd run into the same sort of north-south debates the U-T's new zoning has ignited from Ramona to Del Mar.
In the early '50s, the vast expanse of unincorporated land north of La Jolla and Mira Mesa was undeniably North County. The sparsely populated backcountry formed the buffer that gave a sense of distance, physical and psychological, from the metropolis to the south.
In the late '50s and the early '60s, however, the North County map changed dramatically.
The city of San Diego, on a growth binge the likes of which we will never see again, gobbled up Carmel Valley and environs, taking over Del Mar's eastern flank.
This audacious incursion was followed by an inland campaign in the early '60s that leapfrogged Poway and claimed the water-rich San Pasqual Valley and Rancho Bernardo, developer Harry Summers' fledgling master-planned community south of Lake Hodges.
Not coincidentally, North County towns started to incorporate to protect themselves from runaway growth. First Del Mar in 1959, then Vista. Carlsbad, Poway, Encinitas, Solana Beach, San Marcos — they all manned up.
Inexorably, the empty spaces were filled in by houses, strip malls and office buildings. Highways 101 and 395 gave way to Interstate 5 and 15, shrinking the driving and psychological distance from San Diego to Del Mar or Rancho Bernardo.
As North County grew into an economic powerhouse, its tourist industry began to complain that, outside of San Diego, no one knew what, or where, North County was.
A decade ago, Cami Mattson, longtime leader of the region's hard-charging Convention & Visitors Bureau, and her team came up with the name "San Diego North," a marketing area that included all of North County and La Jolla.
San Diego North would be pitched as Phoenix's Scottsdale or, better yet, Tuscany in Italy. It's the perfect paradoxical place, Mattson believed, a richly diverse playground near, but separate from, a large vibrant city.
In business circles, "San Diego North" has caught on. Though Mattson has moved on — she now works for Cox in community relations — her wordsmithing lives on at the San Diego North Economic Development Council and the San Diego North Chamber of Commerce.
On North County's southern edge, which (Poway and Del Mar excepted) is largely part of the city of San Diego, the old North County anti-San Diego identity has softened into a belt that probably identifies with La Jolla or Scripps Ranch more than Escondido or Oceanside.
The reality is, North County has shrunk as the city of San Diego has grown. Mayor Bob Filner's recent visit to Poway Unified schools in the city of San Diego drives the point home.
It's this evolution, supported by reader surveys, that persuaded U-T San Diego to include the southern "belt" in the Metro edition, not the North County edition you're holding in your hands (if you're holding a newspaper).
"North County is a place and a state of mind," Slater-Price observes.
If you're a large metropolitan newspaper serving North County, giving subscribers the local news they want and need requires some serious mind-reading.


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The chief financial officer, chief technology officer and head of corporate and commercial are all leaving NBN Co, the company charged with rolling out the National Broadband Network.
CFO Robin Payne, CTO Gary McLaren, and Kevin Brown, who is responsible for the government-owned company's agreements with Telstra and Optus, are all departing.
The departures come in Bill Morrow's second week as NBN Co CEO.
In a memo announcing the changes to NBN Co staff, Morrow wrote that the five most common factors holding a company back were a lack of alignment or uncertainty on goals, "unclear or redundant accountability with a confusing organisation structure", "Inadequate decision making, performance tracking, and results orientated action/re-action", "Poor process management", and problems with culture.
"In my early reviews, many of you have suggested that we too need to address these five areas," Morrow wrote.
Starting from 1 May NBN Co will move to a new executive committee structure that is "process based and will emphasise an internal customer-supplier relationship model"
Reporting directly to Morrow will be chief strategy officer, JB Rousselot; COO Greg Adcock; chief customer officer, John Simon; head of legal Justin Forsell; the CFO; "chief culture and transformation officer" Bradley Whitcomb; the yet-to-be-appointed head of media relations; and head of regulatory affairs, Caroline Lovell.
Whitcomb, Vodafone's chief strategy and business transformation officer, will join NBN Co at the start of May.
The CTO function will now report to the COO, Morrow wrote.
"I would like you to join me in thanking Kevin, Robin and Gary. Appropriate farewells will be organised to celebrate their contributions," Morrow wrote in his memo.
"In an ideal world we would be able to announce all of the changes that flow on from the new structure, however as you can appreciate there is still more work to be done to get this right.
"You can expect to hear more from me and the Executive Committee on the changes as we progress, as well as answering your questions as part of roadshows I'll be doing in May."
NBN Co has gone through significant leadership changes since the Coalition victory in September's election.
After last year's election, the new communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull, tapped former Telstra CEO Ziggy Switkowski for NBN Co chairman. Turnbull promised a " total change of management culture" at NBN Co.
One of Switkowski's first actions was to hire former Telstra exec JB Rousselot as head of strategy and transformation at NBN Co, leading the review into the organisation's operations and the rollout of the National Broadband Network.
In November Switkowski poached Telstra executive Greg Adcock for NBN Co's COO role.
Morrow was announced as CEO in December.