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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
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versión impresa ISSN 0256-9574
SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.103 no.1 Cape Town ene. 2013
Re-launch of the South African Society of Medical Managers (previously known as the Medical Administrators Group)
L DudleyII, VII; T E SelebanoI, III; R NathanII, VIII; R KirstenI, IV; P CiapparelliI, V; M N MutshekwaneI, VI; D BasuII, IX
ISouth African Society of Medical Managers
IIDivision of Medical Management, College of Public Health Medicine of South Africa, and the South African Society of Medical Managers
IIICharlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital
IVGroote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town
VTygerberg Hospital, Tygerberg, Western Cape
VIUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
VIIStellenbosch University
VIIIDr George Mukhari Hospital, Gauteng, and University of Limpopo
IXD Basu Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and University of the Witwatersrand
Medical management is a recognised specialty in many developing and developed countries, including Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. In South Africa it was recognised as a sub-specialty in the 1990s, but this is no longer the case. The South African Society of Medical Managers, in close collaboration with the Division of Medical Management of the College of Public Health Medicine of South Africa, has been working to re-establish the specialty of medical management in South Africa. Well-trained specialist medical managers would play a significant role in the effective and efficient implementation of National Health Insurance and primary healthcare re-engineering through the practice of evidence-based health care, clinical economics and administrative medicine.
The South African Society of Medical Managers (SASMM), previously known as the Medical Administrators Group within the South African Medical Association (SAMA), is being re-launched. Collaborating closely with the Division of Medical Management (DMM) of the College of Public Health Medicine of South Africa (CPHMSA), SASMM has been working to re-establish the specialty of medical management, which is already recognised in many countries, such as Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
The CPHMSA's Division of Medical Management was born out of the National Department of Health's need and commitment to strengthen health systems. Policies that will exercise the Division include the policy on management of hospitals, the occupation-specific dispensation (OSD) policy for medical managers, and the human resources for health policy, which requires managers to be trained in medical management. The Human Resources Strategy for Health also proposed the establishment of an Institute for Leadership and Management in Health Care, recently launched by the Minister of Health. However, to be recognised as a specialist by the Health Professions Council of South Africa, medical doctors would be required to undergo 4-year registrar training and write a unit examination under the auspices of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa. Re-establishing the specialty would address that gap.1
Implementating National Health Insurance (NHI) also calls for better management of health facilities and health districts, and proposes that smaller hospitals be managed by doctors while larger ones have a clinical directorate. This would require a specialist medical manager with competence in evidence-based medicine, clinical medicine, clinical economics and administrative medicine, acquired through theoretical and experiential learning under constant supervision.
SASMM aims to represent medical managers in all healthcare sectors in matters of individual and communal interest; to enable members to function optimally as medical managers; influence development and implementation of health policy to meet the nation's needs, through SAMA and other channels; to promote the integrity, standards and role of medical managers in a changing society; co-ordinate and promote management development programmes through continuing professional development (CPD) activities locally, nationally and regionally; and to promote co-operation between private and public health sector organisations. The SASMM has been accepted as a member of the World Federation of Medical Managers.2
The DMM, on the other hand, aims to determine standards and norms for the training and development of doctors pursuing the Diploma in Medical Management and the Fellowship in Public Health Medicine (Medical Management), or any other medical management qualification; to serve as an examining and certifying body for doctors wishing to pursue a career path in medical management; and to serve as an advisory body on matters related to the medical management training and development of doctors in South Africa.
The Division has made important progress to date. The regulations for the Diploma in Medical Management and the Fellowship in Public Health Medicine (Medical Management) have been drafted and, following extensive consultation, submitted to the Council of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA) for approval and onward submission to the Examining and Credentials Committee of the CMSA, the Council of Higher Education, and the Minister of Health for his endorsement. We are confident that the Diploma and Fellowship will soon be registered and accredited.
The executive committee of the SASMM plans to launch its own website and newsletter, and eventually a Southern African Journal of Medical Management. The next joint meeting of the SASMM and the Division will be in Cape Town on 20 May 2013.
For more information please email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
1. Basu D. Medical Management as a Specialty in South Africa: A Discussion Document. Cape Town: South African Society of Medical Managers, 2011. [ Links ]
2. World Federation of Medical Managers. 2012. http://www.wlmm.org/ (accessed 10 November 2012). [ Links ]
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MSI Z68A-GD80 Review
Just a few short months ago the Intel Sandy Bridge platform was introduced to the world. This new platform showed great promise and stunning performance by comparison to the earlier Core i7 and Core i5 processors. Overclocking was rumoured to have died with the release but in reality a new bar was set with chips that seemed to go well past 4.5Ghz (at will) on air. Just after launch, we looked at a series of P67 motherboards including the MSI P67A-GD65 and were able to see the performance scale with more capable boards. One thing missing was the ability to use the Intel HD 3000 graphics on our K SKU processors with the P67 boards as this ability was limited to the H67 chipset based which in itself was limited by the inability to overclock above the limits of the Turbo Boost ratios. Now we have the best of both worlds with the release of Z68 chipset motherboards such as the MSI Z68A-GD80 that I am looking at today. Add in dynamic graphics switching and Intel Smart Response technology and the latest chipset looks pretty interesting.
What you get with the MSI Z68A-GD80 is a full featured motherboard with all of the MSI engineering and Military Class II build-up that includes DrMOS, Hi-C capacitors and Dynamic switching Super Ferrite Chokes, OC Genie one touch overclocking, Voltage Check points and more. Let's take a look and see if this latest offering from MSI is a worthy successor to the P/H67 series and whether this is the chipset we should have seen to begin with.
Closer Look:
The packaging for this offering from MSI is full of information on all sides but the largest single item of note on the front panel of the box is the use of its Military Class II component selection that includes Super Ferrite chokes, Hi-C caps with Tantalum cores and the use of solid capacitors. After this is, the one second OC Genie is featured prominently (as it should be) since it is a feature with a proven track record then there's USB 3.0 and SATA 6. Beside the Z68A-GD80 name is verification that this board uses B3 Revision silicon so there will not be an issue with the SATA 3Gb/s ports. Across the top is a list of supported technologies that include SLI, CrossfireX, Intel Second Generation Core processors and Windows 7. The back panel has a synopsis of many of the listed Military Class components as well as other features including Control Center Instant OC, Super Charger, Winki 3 and THX True studio sound. The front cover flips up to show a picture of the Z68A-GD80 with individual features pointed out on the PCB as well as discussion on the Extreme Power Design.
Opening the package shows the bundled accessories stacked on top of a cardboard divider that is pretty much standard packaging for a motherboard these days. Underneath this divider is where the motherboard sits in an anti static bag.
The bundled accessories for the Z68A-GD80 includes everything you need to get the board installed and operational. Of course you need to supply the CPU, memory and associated peripherals. What MSI supplies is the documentation including the manual, a guide for the MSI specific applications, a quick start guide, driver and application disk and the hardware part of the bundle. Included are the rear I/O panel, USB 3.0 expansion bracket, SATA 6Gb/s cables with locking ends, a pair of 4 pin the SATA power adapters, an SLI bridge, M-Connectors and the V check cables to extend the V check points out further from the PCB.
The M-Connectors are used as an intermediate connection point that can be used to put all the front panel connections onto one block while they can be clearly seen and reached. This eliminates trying to fit the connections to the motherboard individually once it is in the chassis. Nothing like trying to hook up the HDD light connection to the bottom right corner of a board in a tight chassis. The V-check cables extend out the V-Check ports so they can more easily be accessed.
MSI has put enough information out on the box so an informed buying decision can be made. The key is will the hardware back up the claims?

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He thinks it's been three or four months since he's had consecutive days off from his head coaching responsibilities.
Jim Harbaugh however, took full advantage of his team's Week 9 bye week by spending the full weekend with his wife and children. The 49ers head coach told reporters it was the first consecutive days away from the 49ers facility since the start of the season and that he made the most of that time, even making a trip to the toy store.
"It was good," the 49ers coach said on Monday. "You hope that everybody had a chance to spend time with their family and take some time for themselves.
"Every now and then everyone needs to take a knee and sip a little water… We need everyone back full-strength for the second half of the campaign."
Players won't return to work officially until Tuesday, but the coaching staff, who also took the weekend off, returned to work to continue prep work for a Week 10 home contest against the St. Louis Rams.
Harbaugh also said there were several players who stayed at the facility to work out during the bye week.
"The usual suspects," the 49ers coach said before singling out
And after a brief period apart, Harbaugh said he's ready to have his entire team back in the Bay Area on Tuesday.
"Excited and looking forward to preparation this week, another division game," Harbaugh said. "Getting our players back on the practice fields tomorrow should be good for us."
Preparation will return somewhat to normal this week with San Francisco playing on a Sunday for the first time since Week 6.
As a result of a Thursday night game, a Monday night matchup and the bye weekend in consecutive weeks, Harbaugh said he's been able to watch football games on Sunday over the last three weekends. The 49ers coach, however, wasn't able to watch his team's Week 10 opponent, who was also on a bye week.
Nonetheless, Harbaugh feels well-versed in the new-look Rams team led by respected veteran coach Jeff Fisher, who is in his first year with the team.
"The team's playing very good football," Harbaugh said of the 3-5 Rams. "I think it's an improved team, seems like they're doing a very good job."
St. Louis is much healthier than 2011, a year that saw several key players lost to Injured Reserve. Furthermore, emerging signal-caller Sam Bradford (1,797 passing yards with eight touchdown passes and seven interceptions) was inactive for both 49ers wins between the teams a season ago.
"Personnel-wise," Harbaugh began, "I think they're a much healthier team than they were a year ago. There's some things that are new schematically and some new personnel."
St. Louis won two games in 2011 and matched that win total through four weeks of the 2012 campaign. The Rams, however, enter Sunday's NFC West matchup with three consecutive losses on the year.
But with a new coaching staff, Harbaugh remains impressed with Bradford's tools and the threat the Rams possess to the 49ers.
"He's always been a pretty top-notch guy," Harbaugh said of the former No. 1 overall draft pick. "We didn't see him last year; it was inactive for both of our games we played against them… But he has all the things you look for from a top-notch quarterback in this league."
Harbaugh pointed to Bradford's pocket demeanor, technique and arm strength as factors in why the third-year player is considered to be an upper echelon talent.
When asked to discuss the strides Alex Smith has made in 2012, Harbaugh said his starting quarterback has continued to play accurate football.
The 49ers coach also pointed out Smith's wide receivers who have stepped up their performance in recent weeks.
"The receivers, in particular, did a great job of running with the ball after the catch," Harbaugh said of San Francisco's impressive game against Arizona. "They did a great job of blocking for each other it was certainly one of the best we've had, in terms of yards after the catch receivers."
The 49ers will need such performances like the ones they enjoyed in a 24-3 win over the Cardinals in order to keep a comfortable lead in the NFC West, which they now lead by 1.5 games over second-place Seattle (5-4).
Harbaugh called it "the second half of the campaign."
To finish the campaign right, Harbaugh said the 49ers need to continue striving to get better.
"We feel like improvement will lead to wins and wins will lead to championships," he said. "It's an improvement equals success theory. I know it sounds simple, but so simple it might possibly work."
If the theory works to Harbaugh's liking, the 49ers coach could very well find himself involved in another championship parade down San Francisco's Market Street.
After serving as the chauffeur for San Francisco Giants first basemen Brandon Belt's parade convertible ride last Wednesday, Harbaugh was asked to sum up the day riding along with the World Champs.
"Great experience," Harbaugh said, "Tremendous showing of support for the team. I know exactly how those Giants fans feel. It was a neat experience."
Besides enjoying the surroundings, Harbaugh appreciated getting to know Belt much better.
The two discussed the Giants season and Lufkin, Texas, the football hotbed which also serves as Belt's hometown.
Harbaugh said he'd visited the town several times during collegiate recruiting trips.
"Could live in Lufkin," Harbaugh said, "a 'Friday Night Lights' kind of setting. The water tower has the high school emblem on it; it's just a great sports town, a great football town."
When it was relayed to Harbaugh that the Giants first basemen might've felt like the second-most popular person in the convertible, Harbaugh scoffed at such a notion.
"I did not get more claps than Brandon Belt, he's exaggerating… erroneous," Harbaugh said.
"Again, how else can I say it, job well-done. I'm so happy for their success."
If the 49ers close their own 2012 campaign the right way, perhaps the roles might be reversed later this year.


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FIRST Night at the Phillies (2013)
After a little "rain scare" at Citizens Bank Park-cutting the pre-game warm up a little short–the Phillies-Nationals game took a turn for the best! Not only a win for the Phillies (yes, FIRST is in Philly territory), but members enjoyed a night of sunshine, cool breezes, and, the Philly Schmitter (famed
sandwich named after Hall-of-Fame 3rd baseman, Mike Schmidt). Thanks to the Philadelphia Phillies Organization for the scrolling shout out on the marquee. And, of course, A BIG thank you to the Beyer, Cina, Strassburg, Wolkin and Hollis families for coming out to the game, supporting the cause, teaching us some superior new dance moves, and raising the spirits of the entire FIRST family. Your support makes all the difference!


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McKinsey's influential Big Data report has helped define and explain the opportunity created by the torrent of data flowing daily through business. Michael Chui outlines the big picture of data innovation, challenges and competitive advantage.
How does one take thousands of data domains, and tens of thousands of models and algorithms, and make it so that anyone can get answers to their natural language questions?
Stephen Wolfram, the creator of Wolfram|Alpha and Mathematica, will describe how this works in Wolfram|Alpha and what the paradigm of computational knowledge is now making possible.
When it comes to big data insights, how do you know you're asking the right questions? Hiring data scientists is a good start – we're seeing their growth both on LinkedIn and at LinkedIn. But even data scientists are not immune from the myriad of hidden pitfalls that keep your key insights out of sight.
Drawing from a deceptively simple exercise that I've used to haze dozens of data scientists on their first day, I will discuss the good, the bad and the ugly lessons we've learned about asking the right questions, denominators and being a data skeptic.
by Julie Steele
O'Reilly Media's Julie Steele showcases the finalists and Best in Show winner from the Strata Vizathlon, a data visualization contest produced in partnership with Juice Analytics. (Note: the contest has already closed).
by Jodee Rich
By using social media metrics, TV networks can now get ratings for their programs in real time.
HPCC Systems from LexisNexis® Risk Solutions offers a proven, data-intensive supercomputing platform designed for the enterprise to solve big data problems. HPCC Systems offers a consistent data-centric programming language, two processing platforms and a single architecture for efficient processing. Customers, such as financial institutions, insurance carriers, insurance companies, law enforcement agencies, federal government and other enterprise-class organizations leverage the HPCC Systems technology through LexisNexis® products and services.
This keynote is sponsored by LexisNexis
People correctly assume that in order to profit from big data, you have to acquire the data. We look at some cases of profiting from exploiting innovative ways of acquiring data.
The time has come for policymakers to begin using innovative technologies to analyze data exhaust, in order to protect communities from multiple slow-onset crises that threaten to reverse hard-won progress in human development.
by Bill Hoffman, Jane Yakowitz and Robert Kirkpatrick
Personal data is a an exploding asset class that is currently not being leveraged to inform public policy decisions or mitigate risk. This panel, sponsored by United Nations Global Pulse, will examine the value of private sector data and consider some of the challenges inherent its use.
by Aneesh Chopra, Tim O'Reilly and Chris Vein
Aneesh Chopra, the US Federal Chief Technology Officer, and deputy CTO Chris Vein, in conversation with Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media.
As they saying goes, "If you're not paying for a product, then you're the product." But the world is a better place when human beings are enlisted as sensors—as distributed mechanisms for mapping, understanding, and connecting the world and the data it generates—and not treated as barcodes, mere bits of data to be read, logged and analyzed.
This is a huge blind-spot in contemporary network service design, abetted by our own inability to correctly price privacy disclosures. There are tools, services—and yes, even analytics—waiting to be invented and productized which will make our services into something better than Skinner boxes that train us to undervalue our data and our privacy.
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Data increasingly drives news reporting, and the Guardian has been at the front of this change. Simon Rogers, editor of the Guardian's award-winning Datablog, will talk about how data is directing its coverage.
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As the world of data expands, the challenge of understanding it expands as well. Narrative Science is addressing this challenge with a software platform that uses data to drive the generation of compelling narratives that tell the stories contained within it. The technology tells the stories that are hidden in the numbers.
There's never been a better time to reconsider transparency and talk about strategic leaking. In this talk, Michael Nelson—whose career has taken him from the White House to the boardrooms of the Fortune 500—looks at the naked corporation and what information can do when it flows intentionally between companies and their ecosystems.
His new report for the CSC Leading Edge Forum Research examines how radical transparency can be a powerful business tool, with companies sharing the previously unthinkable—salary, pricing, project roadmaps, and more.
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Disruptive technology shapes the world, defining political, military, financial, and commercial opportunities and threats. Whether originating in academic research, in National Labs, or in privately held or public companies, these technologies can emerge with explosive impact, creating and destroying value. Yet there are few tools to track these innovations—at a global scale and at a pace that keeps up with the rate of change.
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Under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's leadership, New York City government has demonstrated an unyielding commitment to transparency and accountability. Today, that commitment is manifested in the next phase of the open government movement. This keynote will discuss the City of New York's role in shaping the evolving data paradigm nationally, and highlight ways the City is making data more readily available and easily shared to improve its service delivery and increase accountability for its performance.
Big Data can become an unmanageable business burden if you're not careful. As your company's analytics initiatives rapidly grow, you're going to max out your IT budget if you don't keep the data as compact, compressed, and storage-efficient as possible. Just as critical, your users will find all the information far too massive to wade through if you don't deliver targeted subsets to their tablets, smartphones, and other devices for speedy consumption. In this session, Forrester senior analyst James Kobielus will help you understand how to keep your company's data as small and nimble as practical while scaling it out into the petabytes.
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As organizations take charge of their data—on their networks or in the cloud—the role of the CIO is changing. This panel will discuss how the shifts in the kind of business intelligence they are able and asked to provide, and shifts in the tempo of those activities, are changing their organizational role.
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A central story of the web is how ubiquitous high-speed communication lowered the cost of group creation and led to things we now call web 2.0 and the social web. There is an analogous story happening in data science. The dual innovations of Hadoop and elastic utility computing have dramatically changed the economics of data processing. The impact of these changes will be as profound; we will be grappling with them for many years to come. This talk explores these changes through the lens of several case studies of big data inside Amazon. Join us for a peek inside the unfolding data revolution.
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Big data analytics is where advanced analytic techniques operate on top of big data sources. Attend this customer session for a brief introduction to EMC Greenplum's Big Data Analytics platform. Then hear how customers from consumer Internet, financial services and energy are using EMC's solutions to harness big data for real business advantage – getting closer to their customers, detecting fraud, and turning click stream analysis into a revenue generating stream.
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You can find information about health care plans and applications for CCA membership on the Resources page of this web site and updates on our Your Health Benefits page. You can find information about the Association's governance structure on the Governance page. Information about current contract negotiations and sunshine proposals is on our Contract and Proposals page.
KCCD/CCA is committed to working to protect faculty interests. We know that as faculty, you place high value on the quality of the programs you provide students, as well as the level of job security, wages and benefits you receive. Faculty salaries matter, and our KCCD/CCA representatives are working hard to maintain the same high quality of compensation you have received over the last few years as you work hard to maintain the same high quality of education your students have come to expect.
If you are not currently a member of KCCD/CCA, we encourage you to contact your College Chair about joining the Association. You can also visit the Community College Assocaistion (CCA) website at cca4me.org and its "Our Labor Partners" page. All KCCD full- and part-time faculty are included in the KCCD/CCA bargaining unit and covered by the Association's collective bargaining agreement (contract) negotiated between KCCD/CCA and the District and are entitled to representation by KCCD/CCA grievance officers if there is a workplace complaint or employer discipline matter. Only KCCD/CCA members, however, may vote to ratify the bargaining agreement, and only KCCD/CCA members are entitled to free legal representation by CTA lawyers in cases of employer discipline or termination. There are a host of other benefits available to members, as well, such as automatic liability insurance and group rates on disability, home, and auto insurance. If you sign up for disability insurance within 90 days of becoming employed by the District, you cannot be disqualified. Applications for CCA membership for both full-time and adjunct faculty are available on the Resources page of this web site.
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The UK chapter of the Kentucky Energy Club yesterday arranged a very successful tour of one of the university's two coal-fired steam plants, to show how the campus is heated. Expecting no more than 20 students, around 60 people (both students and the general public) participated.
The student newspaper the Kentucky Kernel ran an interesting article that describes the tour and the facility well.


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Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has hit out at critics of Ryan Giggs, blaming himself for the midfielder's patchy form.
The Welshman has started just five Premier League matches this season, a factor which Sir Alex believes may have disrupted his rhythm.And the Scot has defended the 39-year-old after he played 90 minutes in the Red Devils' 4-3 win over Newcastle on Boxing Day.
"It is beyond belief anybody could criticise him. I don't understand it," Sir Alex told reporters.
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"The problem for a player of Ryan's pride and experience is that he probably wants to play more. He loses that game-play time that gives him consistency.
"But at his age I can't afford to risk him. I don't think I will play him against West Brom tomorrow [Saturday] simply because of the energy he expended on Wednesday to help win the match for us."
The 70-year-old also found time to praise Mexican forward Chicharito, who he believes has regained the form he showed during his first season at Old Trafford.
"He has got 10 goals now and that is despite not playing every week," Sir Alex said.
"On Wednesday he could have scored four or five. Javier must have run about 20 miles against Newcastle - he never stopped.
"Javier's effort and enthusiasm to play is absolutely fantastic.
"He is a great example to anybody who wants to be a footballer. He is exactly the same in training and gives 100% in every session."


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Following impressive wins over Yale and Harvard the day before, MIT's water polo team hit the road on Sunday for the second half of the Labor Day Invite at Brown University but ultimately fell to Brown (1-13) and Chicago (10-11). Freshman Matthew Orton (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) scored the lone goal against the Bears.
In the Engineers' first game of the day against Chicago, freshman Kale Rogers (Newberg, Ore.) was back at it, racking up four goals, bringing his season total to 15 after just five games. Junior Craig Cheney (Sherwood, Ore.) also tallied two goals. MIT fought hard but fell just one point short of Chicago at the end of the game.
In the last few minutes of the game against Brown, the Cardinal and Gray made nine attempts at the goal, all of which were saved by the Bears' goalkeeper Walker Shockley. Even though they did not win against Brown, every one of the MIT players was in the game at some point, gaining them the experience they need to defeat future opponents.
The Engineers will look to bounce back next weekend when they travel to the Princeton Invitational for games on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 8-9.


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A year after the I-75 crashes, many of the families and victims in the tragedy are tied up in litigation and searching for closure.
A year after the I-75 crashes, many of the families and victims in the tragedy are tied up in litigation and searching for closure.
Most declined to comment, citing impending lawsuits and a reluctance to revisit the issue, but several attorneys involved said family members are coping the best they can.
Lidiane Do Carmo, 16, was one of the most visible survivors of the crash. She was in critical condition after the accident.
She and family members were heading north toward home in Kennesaw, Ga., on the morning of Jan. 29, 2012, when they became part of the carnage where I-75 crosses Paynes Prairie south of Gainesville.
Her father, Jose Do Carmo Jr., 43; her mother, Adrianna Do Carmo, 39; sister, Leticia Do Carmo, 17; along with her uncle, Edson Do Carmo, 38; and his fiancee, Roselia DeSilva, 41, all were killed. Lidiane endured a long recovery at Shands at the University of Florida, and subsequently has been adopted by an uncle.
Bill Mitchell, a lawyer representing Lidiane, said she is doing well physically and improving emotionally.
He said his greatest concern right now is her psychological well being. "She is a wonderful girl. She is a beautiful girl. She is a smart girl," he said. "And her attitude, at least on the surface, is very good."
Mitchell said Lidiane's faith helps her deal with the loss of her family.
"Her dad was in the church, and her mom was in the church," Mitchell said. "The church was their life, and I really think she has embraced that they are in a better place and that she will see them one day. She is going to go on and make the best of her life."
The family of Vontavia Robinson of Williston was already reeling before the I-75 crash took his life.
Robinson, 22, had just buried his 15-month-old son earlier in January 2012, according to an obituary.
Robinson was returning from bowling with his brother when the accident occurred.
"I think his loss is felt very deeply by all involved," attorney Jack Fine said.
Fine said the family wants closure and responsibility taken but the case currently is in litigation with the trucking company whose truck stopped in the middle of I-75 when it encountered the thick smoke and fog that morning.
"I think the problem is that, unlike some of the other cases where the defendants tried to mediate and obtain closure," Fine said, "in this case there's been no effort on the part of the trucking company to do that."
Christie Nguyen also lost her life in the crash. She graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in Asian studies in 2010. Previously, she had graduated from Santa Fe College but was enrolled in a dance course at the college.
A family member told The Sun that Nguyen also was trying to get into pharmacy school.
According to attorney Daniel Glassman, Nguyen was the mother of a young child, and the family is doing everything it can to move forward.
"What they want more than anything else is for FHP and the state of Florida to take some form of responsibility for what they did," Glassman said, "to acknowledge their mistakes and to do everything in their power so that no other 5-year-old has to lose his mother and no other parents have to lose their child."


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A federal appeals court declined to rehear the case of a war memorial cross in a public park in San Diego that was deemed unconstitutional, but a group trying to preserve the monument vowed Monday to appeal to the Supreme Court.
The Mount Soledad Memorial Association said the 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday denied its request to let the full court rule on the decades-old case.
The U.S. Department of Justice also had requested the case be reheard to decide the fate of the 29-foot cross in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla that was dedicated in 1954 in honor of Korean War veterans and sits on public land atop a mountain overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The American Civil Liberties Union has been fighting to get the cross removed, saying it is a religious symbol.
Five of the appeals court judges dissented, stating the cross should stay.
"Although we are disappointed that the Ninth Circuit denied requests to have the full court rehear this case, we are encouraged that five of the judges agree with us and believe the cross should stay," said Kelly Shackelford, president of the nonprofit Liberty Institute and attorney for the Mount Soledad Memorial Association, which oversees the monument.
The Supreme Court's conservative majority has signaled a greater willingness to allow religious symbols on public land. The court last year refused to order the removal of a congressionally endorsed war memorial cross from its longtime home atop a remote rocky outcropping in California's Mojave Desert.
The legal fight over the Mount Soledad cross began in 1989 when atheist Philip Paulson sued the city of San Diego. Paulson, a Vietnam War veteran, contended that the cross excludes veterans who aren't Christian. A Jewish war veterans group has also been a plaintiff in the case along with the ACLU.
State and federal judges ordered the cross removed, saying it represents an unconstitutional endorsement of one religion. But in 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked an order that the city take it down that summer, giving lower courts time to hear appeals.
City officials have argued that the cross is part of a secular war memorial, and the cross has been embraced by San Diego residents who in 2005 overwhelmingly approved a measure to preserve it by donating it to the federal government, although the courts said that did not protect it from the constitutional dispute.
"People want this veteran's memorial to remain as it is, from the thousands who visit it each month to honor our nation's veterans, to the 76 percent of San Diegans who voted to give it to the federal government as a national veterans' memorial," said retired Air Force Col. Bruce S. Bailey, president of the Mount Soledad Memorial Association.
Daniel Mach of the ACLU said the latest ruling reaffirms a three-judge panel decision in January that the cross is unconstitutional. That panel indicated there could be ways to remedy the situation without removing the cross, although it did not specify the particular methods.
Mach said the case could be sent back to a San Diego district court, which will decide on those details.
"We're pleased that the court's ruling will stand," said Mach, director of the ACLU's Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief. "The decision not to rehear the case reaffirms the basic principle that the government cannot play favorites with religion."


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The Motorola Xoom is the first android tablet powered by Google's newest OS, Android 3.0 "Honeycomb." Follow along as we peek inside this scrumptious (see what we did there...) device and devour all the delicious bits of information we can gather.
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*Fanfare* Ladies and gentlemen, we present the Motorola Xoom tablet with Android 3.0 "Honeycomb."
Geared as the first true rival to Apple's iPad, the Motorola Xoom runs on Verizon's 3G (soon to be 4G LTE) network and is offered in a WWAN/Wi-Fi combo only.
Tech Specs:
1 GHz Cortex-A9 Dual-Core Processor
5.0 MP rear-facing camera with HD video recording and a 2.0 MP front-facing web cam
Up to 32 GB of on-board storage.
10.1", WXGA 720p (1280 x 800) display.
3G connectivity, with optional upgrade to 4G LTE
The Xoom features a 5 MP rear camera and a 2 MP front-facing camera. At least for now, Motorola's got Apple clocked in the tablet camera arena.
A dummy SIM card is included in the Xoom, with the inscription "Replace with SIM only after 4G upgrade."
The Xoom features a widescreen 1280 x 800 LCD, compared to the iPad's more traditional 1024 x 768 LCD.
According to Motorola, the Xoom weighs 730 grams, exactly the same as the iPad 3G, although the Xoom is noticeably thicker.
Moving right along, lets get this thing open!
Two T5 Torx screws located near the Micro USB and Micro-HDMI ports secure the rear case to the Xoom.
Like a sliding glass door, the rear case slides off part way, and we get our first peek at what makes this tablet tick.
Major props to Motorola here. For the first time we didn't need any prying tools to get into a tablet.
Thx for the guide. My xoom was totally black, but when i connect it to PC it came up as it was working. I teard it down and adjusted flex cable screen > MB. And screw all (tons of them) screws back. WORKING! The only cons were that i damage flex cable to notification lights on front.
A trusty spudger helped us release the clips securing the rear panel, and we continued tearing this device apart.
Unfortunately, what at first seemed like user-friendliness appeared to merely be foresight on the part of Xoom developers to make the device easy for Motorola techs to upgrade.
After disconnecting the volume button ribbon cable and removing two screws, the top portion of the upper case lifts off.
This case component houses the power button, LED diffuser, camera port, and speaker grills.
The two-piece rear case design is a unique choice by Motorola, and makes accessibility and replacement of the inner components much more feasible.
While the larger lower portion is made of aluminum, the upper part is made of plastic.
The battery is held in by ten T6 Torx screws, with yet another two T5 Torx screws just to hold down the unique battery connector. This, of course, poses no problem to our 54-piece bit driver kit.
The 3250 mAh, 24.1 watt-hour lithium ion polymer battery boasts a healthy 10 hours of Wi-Fi browsing and video playback, and a massive 3.3 days of MP3 playback.
At first glance, this appears to be a Wi-Fi board, but wait: there are no chips on it!
It appears to be just a mini-PCI interconnect board for the antennas.
The 5MP rear-facing camera doesn't appear to be anything special, but certainly nice enough to record some HD videos.
With the 2MP front-facing camera, you can chat over Google Talk with Video Chat to anyone with a Gmail account.
Unlike Motorola's other recent device, the Atrix, both cameras are connected to the motherboard by separate cables. You won't have to replace a ton of other stuff should just your camera fail.
Remember those 3.3 days of MP3 playback we mentioned? Well this is one of the two speakers that provides the sweet music to your ears.
The Xoom's antennas seem to be wrapped along the outer edge of the case.
A few Torx screws and ribbon cables later, and it's time to get to work on the motherboard!
Now we begin the daunting task of trying to remove the EMI shields to reveal all that IC goodness.
Front side of the motherboard (here's the gigantic version):
Broadcom BCM4329 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, and FM Tuner. There's also a Broadcom BCM4750 Single-Chip AGPS (located nearest the top right corner).
Hynix H8BCSOQG0MMR 2-chip memory MCP
AKM 8975 Electronic Compass
Qualcomm MDM6600 supporting HSPA+ speeds of up to 14.4 Mbps
Nvidia Tegra T2 dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU and ultra-low power GeForce GPU.
Texas Instruments 54331 Step Down SWIFT DC/DC Converter with Eco-Mode
Samsung K4P4G154EC DRAM
Major players on the back side of the motherboard (gigantic version):
Qualcomm PM8028 RF Power Management IC
Atmel TINY45 8-bit RISC-based Microcontroller with 4KB in-system programmable flash
Toshiba THGBM2G8D8FBAIB 32GB eMMC NAND Flash
Kionix KXTF9 MEMS Motion Sensing Accelerometer
ST Ericsson CPCAP 2.2TC22 DC Power Management
Check out the die photo of the CPCAP 2.2TC22, courtesy of Chipworks.
There are 17 [!] screws holding the front panel to the magnesium framework.
We didn't explicitly test the metallurgical nature of the framework, but we are pretty sure it's magnesium.
After a little bit of prying, the front panel separates from the rest of the display assembly -- a refreshing change from some other popular devices. Although to be completely fair, Apple's iPad also doesn't have an LCD fused to the front glass.
The touchscreen controller is an Atmel mXT1386, a 4-chip controller designed for touchscreens up to 15.6". It supports as many as 15 distinct inputs.
This is a large application version of the mXT224 touchscreen controller used in the Motorola Atrix.
The mXT1386 is Atmel's largest application touchscreen controller. The next smallest handles screen sizes up to 10.1", suggesting that this one was designed specifically for devices like the Xoom.
Motorola Xoom tablet Repairability Score: 8 out of 10 (10 is easiest to repair)
There's no proprietary screws or fasteners in the machine -- everything comes out with a spudger and a couple of Torx screwdrivers.
LCD and front panel glass are not fused together. That's great news for folks unfortunate enough to drop their Xooms and crack their glass.
Individual components (like the cameras) are separately attached to the motherboard, allowing each component to be replaced on an individual basis.
By our count, there are 57 screws in the Xoom, of either the T5 or T6 Torx variety.
Everything is accessible but somewhat inconvenient to repair -- there's just a lot of labor involved with removing that many screws.
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Those circuit boards look like Flyover, Nevada. Any thoughts why Moto designs its internals the opposite of Apple's every-square (and cubic)-millimeter matters approach?
Two T5 Torx screws located near the Micro USB and Micro-HDMI ports secure the rear case to the Xoom
I messed up by attempting to place the sd card in not realizing that there was a dummy. The SD card fell somewhere inside. I attempted to remove the case using the T5 screwdriver but the the screws don't turn. Have you encountered that problem? Must I use more pressure? firstname.lastname@example.com. Thanks
After I replaced digitizer, the Xoom will only turn on and function when plugged in. When charger is removed it immediately turns off. Why is this happening??? Battery?
I'd be very curious to see how much the weight of the Xoom could be reduced by carefully reviewing the mounting points pictured and then drilling a lot of holes in it metal. Probably safe the assume the majority of the weight is battery and metal housing.
Now, is there any way we can switch out the non-standard power plug with the industry standard 3.3 mm coax plug? EIAJ-4 (D)
hello damage the sim card reader motorola xoom my 2 and want to know if there is a spare the reader or if I should buy the whole piece. Thanks
Just bought a digitizer replacement from China, and they don't include the bezel that it glues too. How do they suppose you get the bezel unglued? If you do manage to get them apart without breaking it, how do they suppose you glue them together??? Waste of $40??
Can I upgrade the processor?
Nope! sorry, Its soldered in, along with the ram.
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I'm actually surprised that people speak of GGU like it's a terrible school. I have never attended GGU, but the only two attorney's that I know of who graduated from GGU are some of the best attorney's in my area. One particular graduate, is the only attorney in the area who has filed three successful lawsuits against my employer and won every single case, lol. (The guy is known for being a shark in the courtroom)
The Attorney I'm speaking of who graduated from GGU, was a retired Deputy Sheriff who also teaches criminal law at the local Police Academy. I took a class from him several years ago, and then later I discovered his fierce reputation in the courtroom. Again, I've never attended GGU, but if he is any indication of what they produce, then GGU can't be all that bad IMO.


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Justin Bieber + Selena Gomez Holiday Wax Figures Revealed
Someone hit the lights so we don't have to see these! Holiday wax figures of Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber were revealed in New York City, and to call them an injustice would be an understatement.
MTV reports that Madame Tussaud's, a tourist staple in the city that never sleeps, unveiled the holiday figures — but the replicas look more suited for a night of monster mashing than kissing under the mistletoe. The normally gorgeous Gomez looks inexplicably evil — is it the side eye? The heavily arched brows? The crossed arms? There's just way too much going wrong here.
Meanwhile, her baby-mama-beleaguered beau has his own problems. The Biebs looks less teen heartthrob and more Eddie Munster.
While we appreciate the hard work that goes into sculpting, these are so far off that they're barely recognizable. And though the holiday theme is sweet, they may want to save these for a different, more appropriate holiday. Like, say, Halloween?


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Two new publications carried by Kaplan Toys have been awarded the Parent Tested, Parent Approved™ Seal of Approval from PTPA Media, Inc. for excellence in family products.
The Budding Chef (ISBN: 978-0-87659-372-1) and The Budding Gardener (ISBN: 978-0-87659-373-8 ) were among many entries from across North America competing to win the Parent Tested Parent Approved™ Seal for spring 2011. Because independent parent volunteers evaluate these products in their own homes, PTPA winners are chosen based on merit and consumer experiences – not on commercial considerations. As a result, the Parent Tested Parent Approved™ Seal has quickly gained recognition as an international leader in certifying consumer products for quality, effectiveness and value.
"At PTPA Media, we are proud to play a role in certifying innovative new products that families can trust," says Sharon Vinderine, president and founder of PTPA Media Inc. "It's win-win. By improving communication between manufacturers and consumers, we are helping companies serve their market better, and helping families identify products that have been tested and recommended by their peers."
An introduction to cooking and baking edited by Kate Kuhn, The Budding Chef ($9.95, Gryphon House, Inc., March 2011) is an idea book filled with 50 (mostly) healthy kitchen adventures written by teachers and professionals from the field of early childhood education. As curious kids experiment making soft pretzels, whipping up some real butter, and having a winter picnic, they have hands-on opportunities to practice developing math, science and reading skills – as well as an important life skill.
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With a little dirt, some water and a few tools, the activities in The Budding Gardener ($9.95, Gryphon House, Inc., March 2011) bring adults and children together to share magical outdoor moments. An introduction to gardening edited by Mary B. Rein, this idea book shows parents and kids how to plant a seed and watch it grow, create garden markets, grow a spider web with sweet peas and bamboo stakes, and beautify the garden with a stone path or rock tower. The 50 fun-in-the-dirt activities, written by teachers and professionals from the field of early childhood education, feature easy-to-follow instructions and use easy-to-find materials.
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Myron Mixon Cooks Up BBQ Book Deal
BBQ expert and BBQ Pitmasters host Myron Mixon has inked a book deal with Ballantine Trade Paperbacks for Smokin' with Myron Mixon.
The book will "reveal his award winning recipes and secrets, along with sharing anecdotes and tales from the nationwide competitive BBQ circuit." Ryan Doherty at Ballantine Trade Paperbacks acquired the book in a preempt. Michael Psaltisat The Cea negotiated the deal.
Here's more about the BBQ Pitmasters host (pictured): "He serves as chief cook of Jack's Old South Competition Bar-B-Que Team, which he started in 1996 as a way to promote his family's Bar-B-Que sauce, which was made by his mother and father, Gaye and Jack Mixon. His team has won more than 180 grand championships resulting in over 1700 total trophies, 30 state championships."


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You need to get a room pronto, as I got mine last nite thinking as the dates say before August 1 2013, they are filling up fast, over 70 T's coming already not counting the ones in R.V. Parks, so the cut off of 75 cars is going to be larger then expected.
Put mine in the mail today
and called Hotel and made reservations.
Kirk we hope to see all of you there, we are the parts person again, How is your weather. its about 25 degrees here today after rain, ice and snow on Sunday, main roads are clear, drives, gravel are still iced, can't get into my F450 drivers side is ice covered.
Got my hotel reservation done today, Thanks John for reminding me.
Kirk, Will be nice to see you and your lovely wife again.
Has been freezing a** cold here in SoCal. Looking for my long johns.
John Thanks for the head's up.
Gene looking forward to seeing you again too.
Gene I know how frigid it can get in SoCal.
When I left the Valley Thursday it was 58 deg.
Today, my sister said it was 59 deg going over the Santa Susana Pass.
Wind chill below zero here in Santa Fe. Lot of Snow on the ground.
Gene, have you been on the Tour before ??
I've been on three of them over ten years, my dad had been 6, if you count the last one as his memorial tour. We took his ashes with us. First time on tour that he didn't complain about my fast L.A. driving skills.
Where's the tour this year ???
George -- It's in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. About 50 miles from my own stomping grounds. Y'all come on by, y'hear?
Also, for those of you who may be interested,google Banjo Rally International. Its held the week before our tour at the same hotel. We will be there, sounds interesting.
We are also looking for some mini tours afterwards, to kill some time to make the Chickasha Swap Meet in Oct.
Will probably do Branson for a couple days.
Any ideas ????
Don Vagasky
MTFCA Tour Car #32
We too will be in Branson, the week after.
Don -- For a mini-tour or two, I can give you the itineraries for our Arkansas Tin Lizzies tour which was held this past spring. It was centered here in Fayetteville, which is about 50 miles from Eureka. I can also suggest some other nice Model T roads in this area.
Mike, yes indeed, that would be great. Do you have that as a hard copy, or can you e-maill it.
Thanks a bunch.
Kirk, I'll give you some more info when I see you. We will probably stay at the RV park near downtown.
Gene, can you swing by Pismo Beach on your way, and pick me up a Burger ????
Don V
What I miss is the fish and fries at Pismo Beach 1961-65 less then 5.00/couple, ate my share while at Cal Poly
Don V. -- Send me your email address and I'll send you the three days' itineraries. My address is on my profile page.
Mike,PM sent.
Gene, looks like you need to pick up some Fish & Chips also (sic).
Don, Don't you mean Jalama Beach for that burger?
Yep, that's right,.....what was I thinking ?????
See you there.
I sent Don the info he asked about. If any others of you are interested in doing some "extracurricular" touring in this area before or after the Hillbilly/MTFCA Tour, I'd be glad to send you the same info. Just send me your email address. Mine is on my Profile page.


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MGT517: Managing Security Operations: Detection, Response, and Intelligence Waitlist
Mon, September 11 - Fri, September 15, 2017
MGT517 is crucial to understanding how to improve an organizations security posture.
MGT517 is simply outstanding! It pulls together best practice, standards, procedures and materials framework to establish and manage a world-class security operational SOC.
Managing Security Operations entails the design, build, operation and ongoing growth of all facets of the security capability of the organization. An effective SOC has many moving parts and must be designed with the ability to adjust and work within the constraints of the organization. To run a successful SOC, managers need to provide tactical and strategic direction and inform staff of the changing threat environment as well as provide guidance and training for employees. This course covers design, deployment and operation of the security program to empower leadership through technical excellence.
The course covers the functional areas: Communications, Network Security Monitoring, Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, Forensics, and Self-Assessment. We discuss establishing Security Operations governance for:
- Business alignment and ongoing adjustment of capabilities and objectives
- Designing the SOC and the associated objectives of functional areas
- Software and hardware technology required for performance of functions
- Knowledge, Skills and Abilities of staff roles as well as hiring and cultivating staff
- and execution of ongoing operations.
You will walk out of this course armed with a roadmap to design, build and operate an effective SOC tailored to the needs of your organization.
Course Content Overlap Notice:
Please note that course material for MGT517 and MGT535 overlaps. Days 4 and 5 of MGT517 contain material that is covered in MGT535. We recommend MGT517 for those interested in managing security operations overall in addition to incident response. MGT535 only covers managing incident response.
Course Syllabus
MGT517.1: Design the Security Operations Center
Christopher Crowley
Mon Sep 11th, 2017
We will focus on how to align and deploy a Security Operations Center. This day lays the foundational aspects of the SOC by discussing the functional areas that form the basis of the build and operate days that follow.
The first issue to address is how the SOC will serve the business. To understand what is to be built, we explore the business drivers for SOCs. Each company has its own circumstances and needs, but there are common drivers for setting out to build a SOC.
From business alignment, systems analysis performed shows all the things that need to be done. This is an elaborate and substantial effort to undertake. Knowing what components are available and how the pieces fit together is critical. This analysis will be followed with design and build on day 2.
- SOC Justification
- Functional Metrics
- Budget Development
- Proposal Document
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- SOC Fundamentals
- SOC Components
- Sizing and Scoping
- SOC Program
MGT517.2: Build The Security Operations Center
Christopher Crowley
Tue Sep 12th, 2017
Once a clear picture of what should be done to secure the organization is produced from analysis of what the needs are, and what resources are available, we set out to build the SOC. The build out starts with an operating plan decided on by the key stake holders from the organization.
The interactions, inputs, outputs, and actions within each of the process components are identified. Each functional area needs specific hardware and software to accomplish each process, so alternatives are discussed for all of these. Open source, inexpensive, and enterprise level solutions are presented for each need. We will discuss the available solutions in-depth, and helps to focus the budget available on the necessary tools.
The output of this day is a sense of all the procurement necessary for building out a SOC.
- Steering Committee
- Command Center and Incident Response Interaction
- Technology Matrix
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- Governance Structure
- Process Engineering
- Technical Components
MGT517.3: Operate and Mature the Security Operations Center
Christopher Crowley
Wed Sep 13th, 2017
Designing and building a SOC are considered projects. Operation is an ongoing and perpetual effort. If the design and build of the system is insufficient or short sighted, then operating the system will be difficult and inefficient.
The overriding challenge of management is discussed in terms of organizational dimensions. The analytical processes of "Analysis of Competing Hypothesis", "Kill Chain", and "Diamond Model", are discussed to provide a context of the analytical currency of the SOC.
We will evaluate the staffing structure, how to hire and how to keep those staff continually trained and updated. A schedule of meetings, specific metrics to report, and specific metrics to use to measure the relationship within the functional areas of the SOC are shown.
Specific processes and the data relationships when performing the processes are discussed to depict the standard operating procedures that the SOC must perform.
- Staff Composition
- Metrics Proposal
- Standard Operating Procedures
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- People and Processes
- Measurements and Metrics
- Process Development
MGT517.4: Incident Response Management I
Christopher Crowley
Thu Sep 14th, 2017
Further detail on incident response is developed to show the operation of the SOC. Since the response component is the action of defense, the operation of the incident response team is addressed in great detail.
A consideration of cloud based systems shows a special case of incident response. The preparation of response capability in the cloud is insufficient, because the contractual negotiations of the service rarely address incident response adequately. We discuss appropriate preparation and response action within cloud services.
User training and awareness is developed as a basis for corrective action when incident response is required.
- Cloud Service Provider
- Workflow development
- Report Template Development
- Develop Training Program
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- The Cloud
- Incident Response Process
- Creating Incident Requirements
- Training, Education, and Awareness
MGT517.5: Incident Response Management II
Christopher Crowley
Fri Sep 15th, 2017
Continuing the operation of Incident Response, we discuss the staffing requirements in detail. Common caveats of operation of IR are discussed, and development of table top exercises to mitigate those caveats are practiced.
Communication requirements are laid out and incident tracking methods are discussed. How to make the most success from a response and damage control task is shown.
Tools for estimating and tracking cost associated with incidents are shown. Overall recommendations for how to interface with law enforcement are presented.
The final topic addressed is the development of appropriate response techniques for APT style actors. Strategies for quickly differentiating APT style compromise using threat intelligence, sufficient scope identification, and eradication of the current wave of compromise are discussed.
- Tabletop Exercise
- IR Pitch
- Incident Cost
- Legal POCs
- APT Response
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- Staffing Considerations
- Setting Up Operations
- Managing Daily Operations
- Cost Considerations
- Legal and Regulatory Issues
- Advanced Threat Response
Additional Information
Laptop Required
Students need to bring a computer to class with Microsoft Office 2010 (or later) installed on it. The ability to open Microsoft Excel files is a must. Students may choose to bring a computer with another spreadsheet program installed on it, however the tools provided in class have only been thoroughly tested with Microsoft Office products, and certain functionality in the tools will not work properly with other spreadsheet programs. Therefore it is recommended that students bring a copy of Microsoft Office 2010 or later installed on their machine.
If you have additional questions about the laptop specifications, please contact email@example.com.
Who Should Attend
- Information security managers
- SOC Managers, Analysts & Engineers
- Information security architects
- IT managers
- Operations managers
- Risk management professionals
- IT/system administration/network administration professionals
- IT auditors
- Business continuity and disaster recovery staff
No specific prerequisites exist for the class. However, it is presumed the attendee has knowledge of information assurance and management principles. The class briefly addresses basics of each but focuses on the application of those principles to accomplish security operations. Detailed technical knowledge is not necessary, but is helpful when attempting to decide the best course of action.
You Will Receive With This Course
- Course material with detailed notes
- Electronic versions of diagrams depicting the relationships and data flow
- MP3 audio files of a recording of the course
This Course Will Prepare You To:
- Design security operations to address all needed functions for the organization
- Select technologies needed to implement the functions for SOC
- Maintain appropriate business alignment with the security capability and the organization
- Develop and streamline security operations processes
- Mature capability
- Collect data for metrics and report meaningful metrics to the business as well as maintaining internal SOC performance metrics
- Hire appropriate SOC staff and keep existing SOC staff up to date
Author Statement
The inclusion of all functional areas of security operations is intended to develop a standardized program for an organization and express all necessary capabilities. Admittedly ambitious, the intention of the class is to provide a unified picture of coordination among teams with different skillsets to help the business prevent loss due to poor security practices. I have encountered detrimental compartmentalization in most organizations. There is a tendency for a specialist to look only at her piece of the problem, without understanding the larger scope of information security within an organization. Organizations are likely to perceive a security operations center as a tool, and not the unification of people, processes, and technologies.
This course provides a comprehensive picture of what a Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC or SOC) is. Discussion on the technology needed to run a SOC are handled in a vendor agnostic way. In addition, technology is addressed in a way that attempts to address both minimal budgets as well as budgets with global scope. Staff roles needed are enumerated. Informing and training staff through internal training and information sharing is addressed. The interaction between functional areas and data exchanged is detailed.
After attending this class, the participant will have a roadmap for what needs to be done in the organization seeking to implement security operations.
- Christopher Crowley


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UC Merced and UC Davis announce first class of medical students in the UC Merced San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education
New program to address the pressing health concerns of the Valley
Posted July 27, 2011
The University of California, Merced, and UC Davis School of Medicine announced today the first cohort of students who are expected to enroll this fall in the UC Merced San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education (PRIME).
The two campuses announced in September a partnership to begin educating medical students in the Valley. A gift to UC Merced from the United Health Foundation in 2006 is helping to fund the new program.
The first students:
- Sidra Ayub, of Modesto, graduated from UC Davis
- Kelly Fujikawa, of Fowler, graduated from UC Berkeley
- Agustin Morales, of Salinas, graduated from UC Santa Cruz
- Randell Rueda, of Fresno, graduated from UC Merced
- Christina Thabit, of Bakersfield, graduated from CSU Long Beach
"In 2005, UC Merced welcomed its inaugural class of undergraduate students," Chancellor Dorothy Leland said. "In 2011, we welcome our first class in the UC Merced San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education. I am particularly pleased that one of my first acts as chancellor is to announce these exceptional students."
Expanding medical education
"The San Joaquin Valley-PRIME represents the University of California's efforts to expand medical education and train physicians who will care for residents in underserved parts of the state, including our Valley. In addition, it is one component of UC Merced's multifaceted approach to researching and addressing complex human health issues."
The students arrived at UC Merced last week to begin a weeklong orientation in the Valley, which will include team-building exercises, visiting a rural clinic and shadowing physicians.
"UC Merced San Joaquin Valley-PRIME represents a critical step toward ensuring that we can meet the region's health and health-care needs in the coming years — especially the needs of medically underserved communities."
— Frederick Meyers
Approximately 150 students — many from the Valley — submitted applications to the UC Davis School of Medicine during fall 2010 for admission in fall 2011 to the UC Merced San Joaquin Valley-PRIME. The selection committee, consisting of faculty members and representatives from UC Merced, UC Davis School of Medicine and UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program, reviewed the applications and conducted interviews in December and January.
To be considered for admission, applicants must meet the UC Davis School of Medicine admissions requirements in addition to the admissions requirements of the UC Merced San Joaquin Valley-PRIME. Applicants also must possess significant knowledge of the San Joaquin Valley, including a familiarity with underserved populations, public health issues pertinent to the region and a desire to practice medicine in the San Joaquin Valley.
"We have some terrific and highly motivated students who are helping us inaugurate an important program that is vital to the health and well-being of San Joaquin Valley residents," said Frederick J. Meyers, executive associate dean at the UC Davis School of Medicine and executive director of medical education and planning at UC Merced. "UC Merced San Joaquin Valley-PRIME represents a critical step toward ensuring that we can meet the region's health and health-care needs in the coming years — especially the needs of medically underserved communities. Our new physicians-in-training are from this region, know this region, and have a strong desire to return and work here once they complete their medical education."
Students will spend the first two years of the medical education program on the UC Davis campus in Sacramento with some educational and research projects in the Valley. During the third and fourth years, students will conduct clinical rotations in the San Joaquin Valley. UCSF Fresno is a significant partner in the UC Merced San Joaquin Valley-PRIME and will play a vital role in the training of medical students in the program.
From the students:
Sidra Ayub: "I was born in Lahore, Pakistan, and moved to Modesto when I was 5 years old. My family and I have been living in the Valley ever since. We are fortunate for the many resources here that have helped us sustain healthy, productive lives. I feel loyalty toward the Valley and hope to be part of its growth and development for a healthier tomorrow."
About UC Merced
UC Merced opened Sept. 5, 2005, as the 10th campus in the University of California system and the first American research university of the 21st century. The campus significantly expands access to the UC system for students throughout the state, with a special mission to increase college-going rates among students in the San Joaquin Valley. It also serves as a major base of advanced research and as a stimulus to economic growth and diversification throughout the region. Situated near Yosemite National Park, the university is expected to grow rapidly, topping out at about 25,000 students within 30 years.
Applications for admission to the program for Fall 2012 are being accepted now. For more information and to apply, please visit the web site.
For more information about health sciences and medical education at UC Merced visit: http://med.ucmerced.edu/
Kelly Fujikawa: "I was born and raised in the San Joaquin Valley. While my academic and professional pursuits led me out of the Valley temporarily, it has always been my intention to return home to give back to the community. The Valley has unique challenges and the San Joaquin Valley-PRIME offers an unparalleled opportunity to train physicians, advocates and leaders specific to this region. The decision to enroll in the program was an easy and natural one given my background and goals."
Agustin Morales: "I chose the San Joaquin Valley-PRIME because I believe in the mission to serve underserved communities. I want to serve in an area that allows me to utilize my clinical and communication skills to the limit. I want to be a great physician, community leader and voice for populations that are marginalized. I made a commitment to myself that I would do whatever it took to make a difference in communities like the San Joaquin or Salinas valleys."
Randell Rueda: "I was born and raised in San Jose and moved to Fresno in 2001. I want to give back to the region that I have called home for more than a decade and the region that I plan to call home for the rest of my life. I would like to complete residency training in internal medicine and sub-specialize in infectious disease, one of the many health problems facing people in the Valley."
Christina Thabit: "My grandparents on both sides of my family have resided in Kings and Tulare counties since the 1930s. Both families dedicated their lives to local communities through establishing dairy and agricultural farms. My mother attended CSU Bakersfield and is a registered nurse in Bakersfield. My father completed a surgery residency at Kern Medical Center in the 1980s. I am grateful for this program and hope to be able to give back to the community that raised me."
Each student in the program will receive a $10,000 scholarship thanks to contributions from Children's Hospital Central California, Community Medical Centers and Bryn Forhan, a Fresno businesswoman and co-chair of the Valley Coalition for UC Merced Medical School. Continuing contributions to the San Joaquin Valley-PRIME are needed to help grow the program in the future.
The students will begin classes Aug. 1.


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Foreigner Racks Up Digital Gold and Platinum Awards
Foreigner has amassed quite a number of impressive accolades throughout their career, and now they've added a few more. This week, guitarist Mick Jones was on hand to receive six new gold and platinum records from Atlantic Records CEO Craig Kallman, representing the six million downloads the group has racked up in the digital era.
Jones was given four gold records for sales over 500,000 for the songs 'Cold as Ice,' 'Feels Like the First Time,' 'Hot Blooded,' and 'Waiting For a Girl Like You.' The group was also awarded two platinum records for the songs 'I Want to Know What Love Is' and 'Juke Box Hero.' In a press release, Jones said he was honored that "our music has touched a lot of people worldwide. Unwittingly, we've been weaved into the fabric of people's lives."
In the same release, the band's co-manager Phil Carson expressed his bewilderment at the milestone, "For me, the most significant part of today's event is the Platinum certification of 'Juke Box Hero.' We tried everything we knew to break the song early in 1982, but it peaked at #26 with just 40,000 or so sales. For it to pass one million in the digital era is a testament to the band's hard work on the road, making this a high point in every performance, and to the relevance of Mick's songs and Foreigner over thirty years later."
This new recognition puts Foreigner in a real rarified air, and according to a press release leaves them with more digital downloads sold than any other classic rock act in the world.


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11 Jul 2011 08:45:52 AM
GIF Party: MMA Fail 101
ATTENTION PAUL BUENTELLO: Please do this at Bellator 48. PLEASE.
"The only great failure in life is the failure to try." -Some old wise man, probably with a large beard
Fail is sort of like porn. You can't really define it properly, but you know it when you see it. And brother, we've seen some fail watching our favorite sport. It can happen anytime, from walking out to the ring, to celebrating your victory (see above), and anytime between. We here at CagePotato hold MMA and fighters in our highest regard … but we still like to point and laugh every once in a while. Allow us to present to you our first (in what we assume will be many) installment of MMA Fails.
Special thanks go out to anyone and everyone who ever GIF'd a video, including the fine people at UpstandingCitizens, MMA-Core, IronForgesIron, and MMATKO. Props.
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Lodge on Blue Ridge Parkway in Va. to close
Lodge on Blue Ridge Parkway in Va. to close
BEDFORD, Va. —
The Peaks of Otter Lodge on the Blue Ridge Parkway is closing because there haven't been any bidders for a new management contract.
The Roanoke Times reports that the lodge's final guests will check out Monday.
Longtime manager Peaks of Otter Virginia decided not to bid on a new 10-year contract with the National Park Service. It's been managing the lodge under extensions since its contract expired two years ago.
Park service officials hope to have a new manager in time to reopen Peaks of Otter in the spring.
The property also includes a restaurant, gift shop, country store and a bus service to the top of Sharp Top.


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What they don't tell you....
The app was most likely largely used as a way of keeping score in very manly displays of 'who's had more lager'.
Rather than detering people from drinking it probably encouraged it.
Hundreds of scousers downloaded an application to calculate how many units of alcohol they had drunk on New Year's eve, from Bluetooth servers supplied by Liverpool trading standards and Merseyside Police. Unlike previous campaigns, which required those carousing to have Bluetooth devices enabled and receptive, the Liverpool …
The app was most likely largely used as a way of keeping score in very manly displays of 'who's had more lager'.
Rather than detering people from drinking it probably encouraged it.
Nice use of bluetooth but how long until someone exploits this situation? What better way could there be to get your malware on multiple phones than by masquerading as an application that the police are advertising .....
Good man.
That is probably true, but it would also make people aware of how much they're over the limit - so it probably worked - even if the app was used as a scorecard!!
Hey, we need to get people to drink less. Ooh, I've got just the right idea - let's add a score to drinking. People will totally not drink even more just to get more points than their buddies.
I have an even better idea: get the bluetooth app to talk with nearby devices and create a scoreboard. Surely this will make people drink less, in order to race to the bottom of the chart!
Srsly, who comes up with this stuff? I mean, from my point of view it's fun, but if anyone believes that making drinking into a competition - because this is what the app does, even if the developers didn't intend it to - can make people drink *less*, he's deluded.
Scores get more unreliable as evening progresses..... *hic*
I'm not allowed to smoke in pubs.
Now I'm not allowed to go out an enjoy myself and have a few without some arsehole taking the fun out of it by telling me that I have to "watch how much I drink".
Fuck off. Leave me alone.
they risk deadly deadly cancer from the RADIATION from those bluetooth thingies? Plus having a bluetooth near a car can make it more likely to crash. FACT.
Tracking the amount of booze someone ingests should be possible with a mobile phone- it affects the vocal chords so couldn't it measure the change in voice pitch over a night?
It's not a direct measurement, but it's an improvement.
Or for measuring drunkenness, send a text and have them read it back to the program, measuring their voice patterns to reflect a lack of confidence in what they're reading / struggle to read / etc.
Seriously, is any normal person (nerds and geeks excluded) going to install this then actually key data into it all night after every drink? Not to mention if you can reliably get bluetooth connectivity AND all those jad and jar files actually working then you're obviously not drunk. Sounds to me more like someone who likes bluetooth had a "use it or lose it" budget.
It's all very well putting in how many pints of what you've acquired, but are there options to reduce the units actually consumed? I'm thinking of "Oi! You shpilled my pint!" and "Izzat mine? Where'd I put mine? Fuggit, I'll just gerranuvver in"
I hope the app written in Scouse-Talk for those little darlings ??
Hey Hey Calm down ya drinkin' like, like mate ...
Eh-La, Gissa-a -pint or I'll doyous...
Errr, can I lob dis moby at da next footy match I go to - like errrrm like cos I'm well 'ard...??
I wonder what the increase in mobile phone thefts were in the "Capitol of Culture" during this period....
"Scores get more unreliable as evening progresses..... "
My phone says I'm sober! See? Seeeeee????
I'm waiting for the first court case siting this app as a defense.
If someone simply suggesting to you that you don't drink too much can really be "taking all the fun out of it" for you, I'd suggest that you're not much good at having fun. Sounds like you have such a chip on your shoulder that you'd willingly cut off your own nose to spite your face. So if you set out to have a bad time and got exactly what you wanted, why are you complaining again?
Maybe it's your own fault for being such a sulky grumpy old miseryguts.
Like, a cup of coffee in place of that next pint?
...compatible with the scousers' laptops?
Of course, it's a bit late by then ;o)
Coming next year, an applet taking advantage of smartphones' accelerometers to capture wobbles in a straight-line-walk, and send them on to the plodserver.
What's better: sold via i-shop, or embedded in a virus?
back in college, a few years ago, they had simple calculations of how many drinks per hour you would need to get to the legal limit. We used it the other way, determining first how drunk we wanted to get, and then applying that to our night's activities.
Does this automate that process?
Sort of like the informational speed boxes they are putting out to show what your speed is. These can be used to figure out how FAST you can go too! (many things can be used for good and evil. or the law of unintended consequences.)


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About a third of dog owners allow their dogs to sleep on the bed with them. Many single men and women get company from their dogs in the day and the night time in this way. The lovers of no other pets allow their pets to sleep with them as much as dog owners do.
It is handy that dogs have a similar sleep pattern to humans, whereas cats tend to like hunting at night. Dogs also seem to dream and enter into the REM (rapid eye movement) sleep stage.
Every dog owner has observed his dog running and barking softly in his sleep. What else can they be doing other than dreaming? When a dog is sound asleep like this, it can be as difficult to wake him up as any child and when they do wake up they seem drowsy and they shake themselves awake.
Some dogs have been bred for definite purposes and this has lead to facial characteristics which have given rise to breathing abnormalities. Pugs and other dogs with squashed faces often breathe very noticeably in their sleep and at other times in the day.
Some dogs even snore and some snore very noisily. If your dog sleeps with you, this can be a concern. The causes why dogs snore are usually the same ones that lead to humans snoring, although, as stated above one of the main causes for breathing abnormalities is breeding.
One cause of snoring is a constraint of the nasal passages because of an allergy. If you suspect that this is the case, you can begin by thinking whether you have added anything new to your home or whether you use a new air freshener. If you cannot discover the cause yourself, you might have to call in a vetinary surgeon.
One of the principal causes of snoring in humans is being overweight and the same is true of dogs, particularly the smaller breeds. If your dog has just begun snoring, maybe he just put on that extra pound that broke the camel's back, so to speak.
If you believe that this might be the cause of your dog's snoring, the clear answer is to help him to lose weight through exercise and dieting. There is a good probability that that will stop the snoring.
If all else fails and you are being driven to distraction by your dog's nonstop snoring, there is some minor remedial surgery available to open up the nasal passages. It is a quite routine operation that does not take long and should result in both you and your dog getting a better night's sleep..
If you choose to go down this route, ring around a few vets to get prices as the fees that vets can charge differ considerably.


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DENVER The Bayfield High School volleyball team wanted to inside-out Colorado Springs Christian School to open this state tournament.
Consider that mission accomplished with an exclamation point.
The Wolverines used the middle hitters to open up holes for the outside hitters and made quick work of Colorado Springs Christian School on Friday, winning 3-0 (25-21, 25-15, 25-15) in their opening match of the CHSAA Class 3A Girls Volleyball State Championships at the Denver Coliseum.
Third-seeded Bayfield (23-3), which has been to state four years running, got 15 kills out of 6-5 middle Kirstie Hillyer and 14 more out of Jen Phelps, who was effective both inside and outside of the Wolverines attack. Jordyn Harrison had 20 digs and Lindsey Reinmuth 17, while sophomore setter Suzie Rhodes impressed in her first state start, tallying 36 assists.
Hillyer opened the match with a block point, and Phelps, who rotates both in the middle and outside, capped the night with an emphatic kill from the middle. In between, Bayfield used its middle attack so well, particularly Hillyer, that at one point, a young CSCS fan pointed out: Its not fair. She doesnt even have to jump, the fan said about the Wolverines 6-5 middle.
It wasnt quite that exaggerated Hillyer got off the ground just fine, thanks but head coach Kelley Rifilato was more than pleased with what she got out of her front line, as the strength in the middle forced the Lions to shift blocks, opening up opportunities for the likes of Reinmuth, Layne Bulwan and Kayla J. McCoy on the edges.
I feel like, one, Kirsties size is such an advantage for us, Rifilato said. And two, she and Jen complement each other nicely because theyre so opposite.
Phelps said the combo of herself and Hillyer can prove a bit much to deal with for the opposition when both are as on their game as they were Friday.
Were both very different, said Phelps, daughter of Nancy and Trent Phelps. Kirstie can put the ball down. Shes amazing. And, you know, I dont know, it does have a different swing of things for us to play opposite each other, but were both able to (have success).
Familiarity helps plenty: Most everybody on the Bayfield roster has experienced life at the Coliseum, and although they started out a bit nervous, by the third set, Rifilato said her charges were so loose they sang along in the huddle with the CSCS student section, which belted out several a cappella jams.
One of those unfamiliar with playing in the pressure-packed atmosphere in Denver is Rhodes. But she took little time acquitting herself, setting quick, across court, forwards, backwards and at any speed or location necessary.
I think, though, the fast pace of these games suit her better. ... I think she delivered the ball correctly. She got the ball to our middles. She got the ball to our outsides, Rifilato said of her setter.
Rhodes, for her part, credited her hitters and solid passing while saying the atmosphere didnt take quite so long to get acclimated to as the uninitiated might have thought.
It doesnt take me very long. I mean, we have awesome passes, so that just makes it easy for me to make the perfect set for everybody, said Rhodes, daughter of Carl and Karin Rhodes.
The Wolverines can avoid the lengthy tiebreakers they endured last year to make the semifinals with a win today over No. 6 seed Gunnison, which would earn them a spot in the semifinals later in the day.
Its a nice position to be in.
Exactly. Its very nice. Last year was very chaotic, said Phelps, a four-year state tournament veteran.
For us to come in and win like this feels so good, and were all kind of, I think, relieved.