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When it comes down to it there are really only two schools of hamburger philosophy. The first are the hamburger purists—a burger and a bun are all these guys need for a perfect burger. Cheese, lettuce, and tomato can be argued for, but really, it's all about the meat. The second school of burger lovers are more open and progressive. Members of this group embrace toppings—avocados, sautéed mushrooms, blue cheese, and atypical buns are tell-tale signs of a progressive burger aficionado.
A progressive burger lover sees the hamburger as a blank canvas, an already delicious vessel just waiting to be improved upon. While Bobby Flay doesn't compromise the quality of his burgers in Bobby Flay's Burgers, Fries & Shakes, he is certainly not opposed to gilding the lily. This recipe for Bolo Burgers is inspired by Spain—sweet and spicy piquillo peppers and Spanish paprika are mixed into an aioli, and topped with Serrano ham and Manchego cheese. The sesame seed bun is pressed in the style of a Cuban sandwich.
Is this a true burger? That depends on which school of burgers you fall into, but I'm pretty sure that if you were to make these burgers at home you wouldn't get many complaints.
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- Piquillo Pepper-Smoked Paprika Aioli
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 2 jarred piqiullo peppers, drained
- 2 teaspoons smoked sweet Spanish paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- Burgers
- 1 1/2 pounds ground chuck (80 percent lean)
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 3 tablespoons canola oil
- 4 sesame seed hamburger buns, split; toasted if desired
- 8 slices Manchego cheese
- 8 paper-thin slices Serrano ham
To make the aioli, combine the mayonnaise, garlic, peppers, paprika, and salt in a food processor and process until smooth. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes before serving. The aioli can be prepared 1 day in advance, tightly covered, and refrigerated.
Divide the meat into 4 equal portions (about 6 ounces each). Form each portion loosely into a 3/4-inch-thick burger and make a deep impression in the center with your thumb. Season both sides of each burger with salt and pepper. Cook the burgers, using 1 1/2 tablespoons of the oil.
If using a grill: Heat a gas grill to high or heat coals in a charcoal grill until they glow bright orange and ash over. Brush the burgers with oil. Grill the burgers until golden brown and slightly charred on the first side, about 3 minutes. Flip over the burgers. Cook burgers until golden brown and slightly charred on the second side, 4 minutes for medium rare (3 minutes if topping with cheese; see step 3) or until cooked to desired degree of doneness.
If using a grill pan: Heat a grill pan over high heat on top of the stove. Cook the burgers as for a grill, above.
If using a sauté pan or griddle (preferably cast iron): Heat the oil in the pan or griddle until the oil begins to shimmer. Cook the burgers until golden brown and slightly charred on the first side. Flip over the burgers. Cook burgers until golden brown and slightly charred on the second side, 4 minutes for medium rare (3 minutes if topping with cheese; see step 3) or until cooked to desired degree of doneness.
Place the buns on a flat surface and spread half of the aioli over them. Top each one with a slice of the cheese, then a slice of the ham, then a burger, another slice of ham, and finally another slice of cheese, in that order. Spread the rest of the aioli on the bun tops and cover each burger with a top.
Brush the tops of the buns with the remaining 1 1/2 tablespoons of oil and place on the grill, griddle, or sauté pan, top side down. Using a heavy-duty metal spatula, press down on the bottom of the buns and grill until the tops are light golden brown, 1 to 2 minutes. Turn the burgers over and continue cooking, pressing down the tops, until the bottoms are light golden brown and the cheese has melted, about 1 minute longer. Serve immediately.
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More than 200,000 Gazan school children were forced to return home early on the first day of the new school year after local staff at UN schools there announced industrial action over pay and an increase in classroom capacity.
According to the Associated Press, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the branch of the United Nations that advocates Palestinian rights, staff are protesting cost cutting measures that would freeze pay of teaching staff in the Gaza strip, while increasing the number of students enrolled at UN run schools.
The AP reported that an estimated 13,000 teachers, health workers, and general staff are participating in the strike. Although demonstrations have occurred outside the UNRWA's offices in recent months, a demonstration outside the agency's Gaza headquarters Monday were the largest of recent weeks.
"We didn't want to suspend classes, but the administration of UNRWA pushed us to take that step," secretary general of the union of UNRWA employees, Raafat Hamdouna said of the industrial action, Ma'an News Agency reported Monday.
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UNRWA Commissioner General Pierre Krähenbühl had warned in July the organisation would run out of money by September due to a $100 million budgetary shortfall. "This year's financial crisis is the most severe that we have ever faced," Krähenbühl said at the time.
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Australia commends the Government of Indonesia on its continued efforts to strengthen the capacity of its law and justice institutions to promote and protect human rights, in keeping with Indonesia's standing as a democratic nation and regional leader.
We recommend that Indonesia intensify its efforts to respect and uphold freedom of expression, including political expression, and the freedom to manifest one's religious belief, for all its citizens, including by ensuring effective state protection for minorities.
We recommend that Indonesia continue to increase human rights transparency by improving the access of local and international media organisations, engagement with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and other relevant international organisations throughout Indonesia.
We further recommend that, in recognition of its commitment to human rights and its leadership role in the region, Indonesia ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Australia welcomes the work that has been done to bolster Indonesia's democratic institutions, such as the holding of more than 600 free and fair elections since 2004. We recognize efforts by Indonesia over the last decade to improve the human rights record of its security forces. We strongly support Indonesia's commitment to raise its National Police's standards in this regard and, more broadly, its commitment to improve human rights throughout the country.
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Seems the boys in Boise have their eyes set on establishing the Hybrid Memory Cube as an industry standard. In a joint announcement today Samsung and Micron announced the formation of Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium [HMCC] whose aim is the development and implementation of an open interface specification for the technology.
Hybrid Memory Cube is consisted out of logic layer (blue layer, with connecting BGA array), and multiple DRAM dies stacked on top of each other. Imagine an 4Gbit DRAM chip becoming 16Gbit one, and a single DIMM module with 32GB instead of current maximum of 8GB.
Micron and Samsung are the founding partners and will collaborate closely with fellow developers Altera Corporation, Open Silicon, Inc., and Xilinx, Inc. to accelerate industry efforts in bringing to market a broad set of technologies. The consortium will initially define a specification to enable applications ranging from large-scale networking to industrial products and high-performance computing.
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This is an important component of Micron?s [and Intel's] plan to realize the HMC as a high-end industry standard commodity. What is interesting is Intel?s name is not on the list.
Intel?s absence is the problem with this picture. Intel has long been an active participant if not the lead player in memory standards. Why have they suddenly gone missing? The memory industry needs user input to get anything that resembles a solution. There is some speculation that Intel is playing a low profile role at this point to allow other potential members a less intimidating approach to membership. There are also rumors that Intel has lost interest in the HMC technology.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Marathon Petroleum Corp MPC.N is buying BP Plc's BP.L Texas City refinery, the site of a deadly industrial accident, in a $2.5 billion deal that will make it the No. 4 U.S. refiner with a bigger potential slice of lucrative exports.
Marathon's share price shot to a record high early on Monday after it announced the purchase of the 451,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery, the fifth largest in the country, in a deal analysts said could give the independent refiner more leverage in the fuel export market.
"This is a unique opportunity to acquire world-scale refining assets at an attractive price," Marathon Chief Executive Gary Heminger told analysts on Monday.
The company will not incur any liability stemming from the 2005 explosion at the BP plant which killed 15 workers and injured 180 more. BP paid more than $3 billion to settle lawsuits, cover fines and upgrade the refinery in the years after the blast.
"Texas City has a rather complicated history and that alone has made the valuation of this deal lower than it would have been otherwise," said Pavel Molchanov, an analyst with Raymond James. "The multiple is cheap, that's why the shares of Marathon are up."
With the $700 million earn-out arrangement, the deal's valuation is $1,880 per barrel of refining capacity and $328 per barrel without it, Molchanov said. A more typical valuation in recent deals has been $2,000 per barrel, Molchanov said.
Shares in Marathon rose to $60.04 early Monday, a record high and a near 50 percent gain on levels when the stock first began trading in June 2011. Shares closed at 57.80, up by 5.3 percent.
In addition to the refinery, Marathon will acquire the plant's inventory, three intrastate natural gas liquids pipelines, four terminals and other assets. The deal is expected to close early next year, Heminger said.
The base purchase price is $598 million, plus inventories estimated at $1.2 billion, Marathon said. The agreement also contains a provision to pay up to $700 million more over six years, depending on the refinery's profitability.
Marathon already owns one refinery in Texas City, a smaller 80,000 bpd plant across a street from the BP refinery.
The smaller plant processes only light-sweet crude, while the big one can handle everything from light sweet to heavy sour. That gives Marathon more ability to process cheap crude produced in the inland United States and Canada as well as the Gulf of Mexico and imports, Heminger said.
With the addition of the second Texas City plant, Marathon would have a total of 1.64 million bpd of U.S. refining capacity, roughly 9.5 percent of the national total, concentrated in the Midwest and Gulf Coast.
Heminger said the deal would increase the company's ability to export refined products, a growing business for U.S. refiners that have the capacity to ship refined products abroad as domestic demand slows due to changing consumer habits and the struggling economy.
"Having another Gulf Coast refinery will allow us to optimize our supply into Florida and into export markets," he said, adding that it has access to multiple marine docks.
Last year the United States became a net exporter of refined products for the first time in 62 years, shipping out 439,000 bpd more fuel than it imported as domestic demand waned and refiners looked to foreign markets to bolster profits, according to U.S. government data.
So far this year, U.S. fuel exports have nearly doubled versus year-ago levels to about 2.85 million bpd, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said.
Marathon has already tapped into that burgeoning market, having increased product exports in to Latin America, South America and Europe from its 490,000 bpd refinery in Garyville, Louisiana.
BP hasn't exported products internationally from the Texas City plant, instead just sending fuels to the U.S. Northeast through the Colonial Pipeline. Marathon could change that with some investment in docks, storage tanks and pipelines.
John Auers, senior vice president with refinery consulting firm Turner, Mason & Co, said the U.S. Gulf Coast refining hub will keep using the combination of cheap crude, low natural gas prices and waning U.S. demand to become an export machine for world products. He said Marathon's plans fit right into that.
"That's really the engine that's going to be driving the US Gulf Coast refining industry, is ability to export products to first Latin America and South America, and then even beyond potentially into Africa," Auers said.
BP faced thousands of claims in civil lawsuits in the aftermath of the deadly 2005 explosion, which occurred after years of deferring maintenance. All told the company paid $2.1 billion to settle those cases by the end of 2008.
BP also paid $185 million in fines from safety regulators and to resolve a federal criminal case stemming from the blast.
BP launched a $1 billion overhaul in late 2005 after Hurricane Rita damaged parts of the refinery.
Heminger said BP would maintain responsibility for any fines and penalties stemming from its ownership and operation of the refinery as well as any pending litigation and claims.
"We spent a tremendous amount of time in our due diligence around this asset," Heminger said.
BP made an effort to wrap up legal loose ends to make the plant more attractive to buyers, Auers said.
Heminger has consistently said the company was interested in acquisitions that gain assets beyond just a refinery, such as pipelines, terminals and supply contracts with service stations that work together in an integrated system.
He said contracts with retail gas stations as well as the pipelines, terminals and other logistics assets were a "key part" of this transaction.
Marathon will acquire BP's access to the Colonial Pipeline, the nation's largest oil product pipeline; four product terminals in Florida, North Carolina and Tennessee; retail marketing contracts to supply about 1,200 branded sites in the southeastern United States; and a 1,040-megawatt cogeneration facility on the refinery site.
"Along with our logistics system we already have and with the new logistics and we're going to acquire here, this gives us the ability to move into these markets even more efficiently than we have today," Heminger said.
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Dec 9 2020
6:00 pm
75 mins
Mark Carlson, SNIA Technical Council Co-chair; Eric Hibbard, SNIA Security TWG Chair, Alex McDonald, SNIA CSTI Chair
The Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI™) International Standard is intended for application developers who are implementing cloud storage systems, and who are developing applications to manage and consume cloud storage. It documents how to access cloud storage namespaces and how to manage the data stored in these namespaces. In this webcast we'll provide an overview of the CDMI standard and cover CDMI 2.0:
•Support for encrypted objects
•Delegated access control
•General clarifications
•Errata contributed by vendors implementing the CDMI standard
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2021 Readiness: Balancing Security in a Post-COVID World
Dec 9 2020
5:00 pm
60 mins
Diana Kelley | Mark Weatherford | Ted Harrington | Amir Shaked
Earlier this year many companies experienced an incredible shift to fully remote work almost overnight, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This accelerated the "digital transformation" journey for many companies compressing what was a multi-year timeline into a few months and making 2020 different than any other previous year. In this episode we'll explore how the balance between security, privacy and productivity was tipped this year, and what can we expect to see in 2021 as some, but not all, organizations head back to office work with a post-pandemic mindset.
The audience will hear from CISOs and Security Directors about how this year was different, what they're going to do differently going forward, and what they expect (or have already seen) as organizations get back to pre-COVID levels.
Topics covered:
- 2020 in review
- The hard lesson that a mobile workforce is not the same as a remote workforce
- How the attack surface expanded and what CISOs are doing to ensure risk doesn't expand too
- How digital transformation sped up and what they meant for security, privacy and productivity
- During the speedy journey to the cloud - what mistakes were made?
- Lessons learned that will be carried forward for security teams
- What CISOs are doing to prepare for whatever 2021 may bring
- Mark Weatherford, Chief Strategy Officer and Board Member, National Cybersecurity Center
- Amir Shaked - VP, R&D, PerimeterX
- Ted Harrington, Executive Partner, Independent Security Evaluators [ISE]
This episode is part of The (Security) Balancing Act original series with Diana Kelley. We welcome viewer participation and questions during this interactive panel session.
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To Trust, or Not to Trust the Cloud; That is Your Compliance and Risk Question
Dec 9 2020
11:00 am
45 mins
Niamh Muldoon, Senior Director, Trust and Security, EMEA, OneLogin
Many organizations struggle with digital transformation and cloud computing particularly when implementing a framework to meet their compliance requirements. In this session, we will discuss a framework and operational approach to support you to move your business forward delivering quality services balancing cost and risk.
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Protecting Against Public Cloud Data Breaches Using Confidential Computing
Dec 8 2020
10:00 pm
60 mins
Seth Knox, Fortanix | Nelly Porter, Google | Dave Thaler, Microsoft | Mike Bursell, Red Hat | Aeva Black, Microsoft
Today, data in the public cloud is often encrypted at rest in storage and in transit across the network, but not while in use in memory. Organizations that handle sensitive data such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII), financial data, or health information need to mitigate threats that target the confidentiality and integrity of either the application or the data in system memory.
In this webinar, experts from the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) will define confidential computing, discuss how businesses are using Confidential Computing to protect against data breaches today, and review the ecosystem of solutions and open-source projects available to enable applications to make use of Confidential Computing.
Key topics covered in the webinar include:
● The Confidential Computing definition and comparison to related technologies
● Key properties of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to look for
● Threats mitigated by Confidential Computing technologies
● Utilization paradigms: using application SDKs vs. runtime deployment systems
● The ecosystem available to support Confidential Computing application development
● Common real-world use cases for Confidential Computing
Seth Knox, VP of Marketing, Fortanix (Outreach Chair) (Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/sethknox/, twitter @seth_knox)
Nelly Porter, Lead Product Manager, Google
Dave Thaler, Software Architect, Microsoft (TAC Chair)
Mike Bursell, Chief Security Architect, Red Hat
Aeva Black, Open Source Program Manager, Microsoft
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Cloud adoption has changed gears; your security needs to do the same
Dec 8 2020
6:00 pm
60 mins
Miguel Carrero, Siemplify, WireX | Himanshu Raval, CISCO
We all know that consumer and businesses are dramatically increasing the consumption of cloud based Information Technologies; either infrastructure, applications, services or even cybersecurity. The move to a cloud-based IT is unstoppable, with another wave of changes coming as 5G becomes more of an actual reality. While we have a new slew of acronyms and technologies coming our way (XDR, NDR, SaSe, etc) many companies struggle to address cloud from a cybersecurity perspective. In this webinar we will address key elements to be taken into consideration:
- Full understanding on what cloud consumed IT means end to end, specially in the world of hybrid cloud
- Provide security for the cloud consumed infrastructure, applications and services
- Keeping a security posture that included traditional and cloud consumed IT. Key priorities and where to start
- Providing security from the cloud itself
- What is the role of the big cloud providers (aka AWS, Microsoft and Google) as they doubled down their efforts in cybersecurity
- Looking ahead. How will (true) 5G impact cloud cybersecurity as the underlying telecommunications industry undergoes a major shift
Miguel Carrero, Cybersecurity Executive and Board Member, Siemplify, WireX
Himanshu Raval, Director, Strategy and Growth of Cloud Security,CISCO.
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[PANEL] Cloud Security Risks and Solutions
Dec 8 2020
4:00 pm
60 mins
Clarify360 | PerimeterX | Google Cloud | Appgate | Anitian
In a recent report, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) outlined the top 11 threats to cloud computing for 2020. Data breaches, misconfiguration and inadequate change control, a lack of cloud security architecture and strategy, and insufficient identity and access management were among the biggest security challenges for all industries operating in the cloud.
These issues are not unique to any particular industry, but fortunately, they have common solutions. It's clear that protecting public cloud assets is key. COVID-19 pandemic was a major accelerant for organizations to quickly move forward with the migration of business infrastructure and applications to the cloud.
Cloud Controls and Breach Prevention are top of mind for IT leadership and team alike.
In this panel discussion, we'll discuss the importance of cloud controls and breach protection during this accelerated move to the cloud
- What the C Suite Needs to Know about Cloud Security
- Why Cloud Security is not an IT problem, it's a business problem
- The Revenue and Brand ROI of Preventing Data Breaches
- Real productivity results from correcting misconfiguration and inadequate change control
- The importance of building a cloud security architecture and strategy
- Why managing sufficient identity, credential, access, and key policies
- Cross Training and Upskilling your team
Moderated by: Jo Peterson, CEO & Co Founder, Clarify360
Dr. Anton Chuvakin, Head of Solution Strategy, Google Cloud
Amir Shaked, VP R&D PerimeterX
Tina Gravel, Senior Vice President, Appgate
Charles Johnson, Cybersecurity Advocate, Anitian
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Shifting to a holistic cloud security strategy
Dec 8 2020
11:00 am
45 mins
Jeremy Snyder, VP Business/Corporate Development & International Strategy, Rapid7
As companies gain more cloud maturity, they learn that their 2 core security tool sets for on-premise infrastructure no longer apply. Additionally, they get the most value by changing their operating patterns. In this talk, we'll talk about lessons learned in embracing cloud-native security practices, and discuss implications for changing tool sets around cloud security.
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The Corporate Dissolve of Centralized Security
Dec 7 2020
11:00 pm
45 mins
Stan Golubchik, CEO and Founder, ContraForce
Adopting to Secure the Mobile Workforce
The shift to a widespread corporate mandate for employees to work from home has dynamically altered the threat landscape and how security applications and integrations are delivered. Data is more pervasive than ever. The expansive footprint of where data is accessed and stored, results in an ever evolving and growing attack surface.
Our disrupted social normal has created one of the most nourishing environments for adversaries to target with phishing attacks, ransomware, and vulnerability exploits. Nearly 70% of attacks originate from the endpoint due to insufficient visibility, policies, and controls around the mobile work force.
Are you implementing the proper defense in depth strategy with a Zero-Trust mindset to thwart attacks even at your weakest links? Digital sprawl has reached new heights in this new pandemic world and it's important we focus on adapting to these new circumstances to keep our businesses safe and the outcomes they provide for social entitlement. Learn how your business can begin to work in a way to reduce operational strain of security and answer the question of how we can effectively secure our employees.
Attendees will learn the following:
1. Understand what your attack surface resembles in this current work from home climate.
2. Identify best practices that can help assess your current security posture and take actionable results to invoke change.
3. Which technologies can supplement your governance model to secure your business and employees.
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Closing Cybersecurity Skills Gap with Customized Training and Untapped Talent
Dec 7 2020
10:00 pm
60 mins
Leah McLean | Malcolm Harkins | Mary Chaney | Diana Kelley | Ryan Clarque
Not a day goes by in the cybersecurity industry without hearing about a talent shortage, skills gap, and necessity for training. A recent survey conducted by the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) of cybersecurity professionals shows that 70 percent believe their organization has been impacted by the global cybersecurity skills shortage.
We spent time talking to a number of people from human resources, managers, vendors, universities and end-users to get their perspective on cybersecurity skills, type of roles, and overall business needs.
We discovered, it's not just about skills gap, but also the communications gap between what employers think they are looking for and the talent that is available to them. During this discussion, dynamic experts from various organizations will share the following:
• The needs across the technology vendors and end-user organizations, the education variance, and how to accommodate for the requirements and demands across the entire industry.
• Most common type of roles to be fulfilled and the drivers behind the role types.
• How we can make security built into the fabric of our culture, no matter the organization.
Moderated by:
Leah McLean, Head of Business Development and Marketing, Cyber Future Foundation
Malcolm Harkins, Chief Trust Officer, Cymatic
Mary Chaney, Esq, CISSP, CIPP/US
Diana Kelley – CTO and Founding Partner, SecurityCurve
Ryan Clarque, Senior Manager, Global Cybersecurity at Levi Strauss & Co
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A Muggles Guide to Security In The Cloud
Dec 7 2020
1:00 pm
45 mins
Ell Marquez, Linux and Security Advocate, Intezer
In the security and technology world, we rely so heavily on buzz words to explain our work that others feel like we are magicians working spells that they will never be able to do.
Saying, "Due to issues with our security posture, the APT manipulated a well-known CVE to breach our cloud-native-applications." Might as well be: "The Death Eaters were able to use a port key to enter our environment and effectively cast the Avada Kedavra spell."
Instead, we could say, "An attacker used a known flaw to gain access to our environment and brought down our servers."
In this session, we will come to understand that security for our cloud environments can be simple to understand, yes even for muggles. That is, if we focus on the root cause of all cyber attacks: unauthorized spells, wait, I mean unauthorized code.
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How Video Analytics is Changing the Way We Store Video
Dec 2 2020
54 mins
Kevin Cone, Intel; Glyn Bowden, HPE; Jim Fister, The Decision Place
There is a new wave of cognitive services based on video and image analytics, leveraging the latest in machine learning and deep learning. In this webcast, we will look at some of the benefits and factors driving this adoption, as well as explore compelling projects and required components for a successful video-based cognitive service. This includes some great work in the open source community to provide methods and frameworks, some standards that are being worked on to unify the ecosystem and allow interoperability with models and architectures. Finally, we'll cover the data required to train such models, the data source and how it needs to be treated.
However, there are challenges in how we do this. Many archives were analog and tape based which doesn't stand up well to mass ingestion or the back and forth of training algorithms. How can we start to define new architectures and leverage the right medium to make our archives accessible whilst still focusing on performance at the point of capture?
We will discuss:
•New and interesting use cases driving adoption of video analytics as a cognitive service
•Work in the open source arena on new frameworks and standards
•Modernizing archives to enable training and refinement at will
•Security and governance where personal identifiable information and privacy become a concern
•Plugging into the rest of the ecosystem to build rich, video centric experiences for operations staff and consumers
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Cybersecurity and Elections – Past, Present, and Future
Dec 1 2020
59 mins
Dan Lohrmann | Earl Duby | Joseph Carson
The 2020 elections in the U.S. have been historic in numerous ways. With more email-in voting than ever before and very close results for the U.S. President and Congressional races, there is plenty to discuss about security.
Was there voter fraud? Were the people, process and technology changes sufficient in states? How can we rebuild trust in elections? What is the future of voting in America?
Join us for this interactive discussion with audience Q/A.
This panel is part of the CISO Insights original series on BrightTALK with hosts Dan Lohrmann & Earl Duby. We encourage audience questions and participation.
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Data Breach – Tools and tips for managing a cyber attack
Nov 26 2020
45 mins
Paul Benedek, Consultant Director, Excis Networks Ltd and Bernadette Tyson, Consultant Director, Excis Networks Ltd
Every day we see news of cyber-attacks. We get the impression that they may only be affecting
larger companies, but this is far from the truth. In fact, the statistics clearly show that smaller
companies are also being targeted. Cyber-attacks are not diminishing, and sadly whatever the size of
your company, you are a target in today's connected world. But despite this, many businesses are
not prepared, technically or operationally to deal with the impact of cyber-attacks made against
In this talk we look at the steps that all companies, small or large can take to mitigate and deal with
cyber-attacks, as well as incident response and the human elements that feature in an attack. We
also cover the key areas of cyber breach management and examine it from an attacker,
organisational and customer perspective, revealing the impact not only your organisation but to
others in your value chain.
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5 Reasons CISOs are Turning to Security-as-a-Service
Nov 26 2020
61 mins
Jo Peterson, Clarify 360; Dan Bowden, Sentara Healthcare; Tyler Cohen Wood, Private Consultant; Mark Lynd, NETSYNC
The global security as a service market size is expected to grow from USD 11.1 billion in 2020 to USD 26.4 billion by 2025, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 18.9% during that time period. Driven by a cloud-based delivery model, options abound for organizations in areas such as application security, data security, identity and access management, infrastructure protection and integrated risk management to name a few. These options include off the shelf security as a service products as well as those provided and managed by an MSSP.
In today's session we'll explore these 5 key points:
1. Security budgets and priorities in a post Covid-19 world
2. When to outsource
3. Selecting an MSSP
4. Tools, Tools and More Tools
5. Upskilling your team
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Cyber Threats in 2021: Real impact of COVID on Cyber Security
Nov 26 2020
33 mins
Himanshu Dubey, Director of Security Labs and Harshad Bhujbal, Technical Architect, Quick Heal Technologies Ltd.
2020 has seen many Cyber Attacks using the COVID-19 pandemic as the central theme. For most
part though these have been the same attacks that have existed since the last few years; just
the packaging was changed.
We expect the real cyber security repercussions of changes brought in by the COVID-19
pandemic to be felt in 2021. In this talk we explore what the repercussions might be and what we
can do to prepare and protect ourselves against them.
We will cover:
- Major Cyber Attack trends of 2020
- What can be expected to continue in 2021
- Potential repercussions of COVID-19 induced changes and new attack types in 2021
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I've Been Hit By Ransomware: Now What?
Nov 26 2020
44 mins
Mark D Rasch, Chief Legal Officer, Unit221B
This session will focus on specific technical, legal and policy responses to ransomware attacks.
Join to learn more about:
* History of Ransomware
* Most common forms of Ransomware
* Costs of Ransomware and Mitigation
* Ransomware Insurance
* Ransomware prevention
* Ransomware training and education
* Legal Issues in Ransomware Payment (with October 2020 developments)
* Ransomware mitigation
* Threat intelligence and investigation in ransomware cases
* Ransomware inoculation
* Disaster recovery in ransomware
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CYA Toolkit for CISOs
Nov 26 2020
45 mins
Michael Brooks, vCISO, Abacode Inc
Perhaps you are like the 200 CISOs who shared their insights in the security leaders report, which revealed that organizations are using 57 separate security tools with 27% claiming they're running a staggering 76 or more security products.
These tools aren't necessarily making your organization less vulnerable. In fact, many organizations find that they're often flying blind when it comes to security.
Join this session to learn:
• Valuable techniques to optimize your cyber spend and offer risk balanced, cost effective security solutions for your organization
• Key insights into the decision-making process to gain better visibility and control over your assets, attack surface and cyber defense posture
• How to clearly define the business requirements and control objectives that should be driving your solution options and purchasing decision that will drive the most attractive ROI for your business and stakeholders
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Key Strategies to Reduce your Attack Surface in 2021
Nov 26 2020
50 mins
Sushila Nair, VP Security Services, Chief Digital Office and Brandon Swain, NTT DATA
The year 2020 has accelerated organizations' digital transformations, particularly cloud migrations and the development of remote work capabilities. This rapid change has drastically altered the way that we work and consume data--creating exciting new paradigms, but also bringing new risks along with it. This session will analyze the security breaches that have occurred so far in 2020, and will discuss what defenses would have been vital for the prevention of these attacks. We'll examine which security projects should be the "tip of the spear" in 2021 to help you reduce your attack surface, as well as look to the future to predict how the attack landscape may continue to change.
Sushila Nair is on the board of the GWDC, the Greater Washington, D.C. Chapter of ISACA and plays an active role in supporting best practices and skills development within the cybersecurity community.
Sushila has worked as a Chief Information Security Officer for ten years and has twenty years' experience in computing infrastructure, business and security. Sushila has consulted in many diverse areas including telecommunications, risk analysis, credit card fraud, and has served as a legal expert witness. She has worked with the insurance industry in Europe and America on methods of underwriting e-risk insurance based on ISO27001.
She has published numerous articles in the computing press on risk and security, and has spoken at Segurinfo, CACS, TechMentor, FinSec and many other global technical events on diverse subjects ranging from managing risk to designing security baselines.
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(The Root) — The thing I had to remember while watching Won't Back Down, the new Hollywood release that follows the efforts of two determined mothers who set out to transform a failing public elementary school, is that it is only a movie. Despite the opening preface, "inspired by true events," or the spirited display of positive possibilities that can occur when parents and teachers work together, this film is entertainment, not a blueprint for change.
It's a David-vs.-Goliath feel-good flick that takes on the hot-button issue of school reform, coming out (rather eerily) mere weeks after the Chicago teachers' strike, an event that served as a real-life microcosm of today's public-education strife. Here the Davids are Jamie Fitzpatrick (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and Nona Alberts (Viola Davis), and Goliath is a dysfunctional Pittsburgh school system and the local teachers union.
Jamie is a struggling young single mom at her wits' end over the lack of special attention her dyslexic daughter gets from a lackadaisical teacher at Adams Elementary. Nona, a teacher at Adams, was once a star educator who made local headlines. Now she's disenchanted with her profession and suffers under the weight of divorce and having to advocate for her learning-disabled son.
Armed with somewhat naive optimism, Jamie recruits an initially hesitant Nona to make over the school via parent-trigger laws, which give parents a way to implement changes in failing schools. The rest is a predictable trek through the highs and lows of flipping Adams Elementary, complete with fired-up parents; earnest teachers torn between revolt and staying unionized; rote-minded bureaucrats; a defensive, scowling union boss; and children who just want to learn.
Won't Back Down has been roundly criticized for vilifying teachers unions and simplifying the effect that community disparity and poverty have on schools. The fact that it was financed by billionaire entrepreneur Phil Anschutz's Walden Media, the same interest responsible for the controversial 2010 documentary Waiting for Superman, has added fuel to the fire.
In addition, the parent-trigger approach has been supported by the American Legislative Exchange Council, a right-wing group that has backed anti-union and anti-immigrant legislation, voter-suppression laws and Florida's "Stand your ground" law invoked in the Trayvon Martin shooting. The issue, many critics claim, is that the film's implicit message is closely linked with a movement that undermines the American public-school system and promotes for-profit charter schools.
However, at a recent press conference for the film held in New York City, the film's director, Daniel Barnz, said that if teacher-bashing is the overriding message you get from the film, you've misread it. "This is a movie that supports and criticizes teachers unions," Barnz said. "We ought to be able to do that in our country today."
There is a brief scene in which a young teacher, played by Oscar Isaac, recalls how seeing the union go to bat for his favorite teacher inspired him to pursue teaching, but mostly the organization is portrayed as an obstruction to any real progress.
Barnz went on to say, "When we start getting into these educational issues it pulls focus off of what the film is fundamentally about, which is kids. The thing we've got to be talking about is what can we do for these kids in failing public schools right now." Indeed — but the film is centered precisely on educational issues from the adults' perspective, and the only children's lives being explored are those of the two lead characters, and only to a minimal degree.
Viola Davis hopes the takeaway for audiences will be that improving schools requires a concerted effort on everyone's part, not just teachers. "What I want people to realize is that it truly does take a village, that a good teacher is not made on their own," she said. "They need the help of the community, the involvement of parents, the board of education and the union. It takes a culmination of forces to make [conditions] great."
Moreover, she added, "We as people need to challenge the status quo. To not go along in life by rote, and if you want to change a system, to understand that even the most so-called ordinary members of us can tap into what's extraordinary about us and change it."
But changing a school in the manner portrayed in Won't Back Down is a long and arduous undertaking that overworked teachers and working-class and low-income parents rarely have the time or energy to accomplish. Furthermore, it's legal in only seven states, a fact never raised in the movie.
And according to education reporter Dana Goldstein in a recent article in the Nation: "It could be years before any school fully completes the parent trigger process; the furthest along is Desert Trails Elementary, a predominantly Latino school in Adelanto, California. School choice activists there have been opposed by teachers unions and have received support from Parent Revolution, a nonprofit funded by Walden Media and the Gates and Wasserman foundations."
While director Barnz's claims that Won't Back Down is simply a vehicle to raise the issue of failing urban schools, it appears that Walden Media continues its anti-union agenda.
Julia Chance is a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based journalist and the author of Sisterfriends: Portraits of Sisterly Love. Follow her on Twitter.


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Dr Louise Parker is asking people to send in their toenail clippings, hoping it will help her and her research team figure out why there are such high rates of certain types of cancer in the Atlantic provinces.
Dr Parker is an epidemiologist at Dalhousie University who came to Nova Scotia from Newcastle. Through funding from the Canadian Cancer Society, she is examining how different levels of arsenic in drinking water contribute to cancer risk.
"We know that arsenic is a cause of several cancers. We're looking at the urinary tract cancers – kidney and bladder – which are higher in Atlantic Canada than elsewhere in the country. We want to be able to estimate how much of this high rate is due to arsenic," explains Dr Parker.
Arsenic occurs naturally in some rock types and can leach into drinking water through drilled or dug wells. It's both tasteless and odourless. Arsenic at high levels is known to cause cancer – specifically kidney, bladder, lung and skin cancers – but it is not clear how much arsenic people consume and how this affects their risk of cancer.
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Hudson News
If you've ever walked through the airport and seen the newstands I'm referring to, that headline makes sense to you. If not, just know that we're officially official with Orlando Hudson. He passed a physical today here at Camelback Ranch – Glendale and will be on site to work out with the team in the morning. By all accounts, he's a great player, teammate and should be a very welcome addition to the club.
Inside Dodgertown, the video on the front of the site, will have an exclusive first interview with him, so keep an eye out for it shortly when it posts.
Not much else to report today, though that's certainly significant enough, I think.
UPDATE: Just got back from Ned talking to the beat writers still here on site and he said that the conversations with Scott Boras have become more frequent and longer regarding Manny. he said that while he couldn't characterize it as progress or not progress, they are speaking more regularly, which we all hope will lead to getting something done.
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welcome O Dog…where is Manny?
Welcome to the Dodgers O-Dog!!!
I was just reading Gurnick, to see what he has to say…Attention Dodgers it is a waste of space…His writing has none of his own ideas and is very bland…He is just repeating what we already know and have read..Kenny try to do an original piece…maybe a Q and A with Lambo or Lindblum….Something…you are boring…
Just my opinion!
Josh…thanks I am getting more optimistic….
Trublu…I am going to go out on the limb …Manny will sign within 72 hrs!!!! LOL…
I want to welcome you too, O-Dog! Will be great to see you in a Dodger uniform. Now, let's get the Manny deal done and we are off to the head of our division…..perhaps the World Series.
ramslover ~ how are you today? I think you are right about Manny this time! lol I also agree with you on Gurnick. I think several of us here on ITD could write a better column than he does.
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Josh– thanks for the link to Inside Dodgertown. I can definitely see that Russell has changed his conditioning program over the winter. Less weight training and more core workouts. It should put himself in position for a banner year.
Prof. Enchanted– Thanks for the "A". I'll try to keep up the good work…..
We are deep in the infield and with a lot of versatility. Abreu seems to have put his physical issues of last year behind him. Loretta, Blake, and DeWitt can play multiple positions. The addition of the "O-Dog" (Vin is going to have so much fun with that) just adds to our strength. Watching those videos really helped me get fired up for 2009. As per Manram: what will be, will be. GO DODGER BLUE!!!!
By firstname.lastname@example.com on February 21, 2009 4:28 PM
I agree on Gurnick. His columns are all canned stuff; no new information,personality, or flair. In the spirit of Professor Enchanted: Grade of D, needs a lot of work.
Tru…dying slowly at work…I am in the car business and it is very bad…but I have the Dodgers and my wonderful family to keep me going…and ITD.
ram– I have a brother and a brother-in-law in Michigan whose well-being is directly affected by the current problems in the auto industry, so, I'm well aware of what you're going through. Hang in there!!!
ramslover ~ Hopefully things will turn around for you in the Spring when families are planning their vacations. Maybe they will feel like spending more if the finance companies will loosen up a little bit.
seesky ~ you must be the teacher's pet! While I am the problem student. lol
Hey Gang!! I like the fact that Ned hasn't panicked again and set us back 2-4 years. However, I still cannot forgive his crippling signings of Phew and Schidt. I would give Manny 2 years for 56M and make him the highest paid player ever (appease his ego) and go from there. I think with our pitching staff as currently assembled, we will need a lot of offense. NL West is still weak and up for grabs. Letting Garland get away at the amount he signed for was poor judgement.
Go Blue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL, tru!!!! I can only go downhill from here!!!!
Jhall ~ I am shocked to see you, sir! It has been way too long.
Seesky ~ I'm going to study harder for my nexxt Enchanted test. That would be awful to fail the ITD School of Enchanted.
Long time, no hear, jhall!!! How've you been? You missed all the moniker changes and the Manny anguish. I still think it'll take 3 years to get Manny because, as you say, our pitching will need the offense.
Welcome back Jhall…..
Hey Trumom and Sky. Great to read you as always. I just couldn't take the Manny anguish. LOL!!!
That was a horrible last sentence. The Professor would've flunked me on that one.
Hey Ram!!! Thanks. Great to read your comments as well.
WALLY!!! Good to see you buddy!! How ya been?
I'll be watching you like a hawk Tru!!
Sky – that makes Plashke an F – or maybe an INC since he can't seem to write a complete paragraph.
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeav!!!! It's time for baseball!!!!!!!!!!!
Looks like Josh added a little tidbit about Manny to his post above.
Jhall ~ ah-ha, you make us suffer through all the Manny business…….maybe your being here is a good sign and this Manny business will be finished.
In answer to your question Beav, I've been busier than a one armed wallpaper hanger. Doing well, how about you?
Don't worry about the pitching Wally. Ned's got it all under control…
or was that under controlled?
E- at least, Plashke has some personality. Gurnick just copies his columns off the wire services.
LOL!!! I still want Ned gone.
Doing well my friend.
And take Phew with you!!!
We all want Ned gone!! I wouldn't mind Frank being gone too!!
I'd have to agree Sky – Gurnick's the poster child for lazy L.A. sportswriters.
Beav, Glad to hear my friend!!!!!!!!!!
I'm totally with you Trumom!!!!
I swear if Herpierres is out in left on opening day, I'm going to go Travis The Chimp on somebody.
LMFAO!!!!! Phew in left is a joke.
Enchanted ~ he won't be!!!! Hopefully Joe has learned his lesson.
Exile Frank to Malibu and Ned to Gnatland!!!!!
Reference my earlier comment. Would any of you give Manny 2 years at 28M per, total 56M? I think he would be thrilled and play his a** off. Franky would recoup some of the money with increased attendance and merchandise sales. Just a thought.
jhall – you are back!!!! It is soooooooooo good to see you.
Not a bad one jhall. I'd take it.
I honestly don't see Billz, Wolf, Kuroda, Kersh and Schmidt/Huggy Bear as that bad of a rotation. On any given day, Billz and Kuroda can pitch like an ace, and Kersh is bound to progress. Wolf will be about a .500 pitcher, and any wins and innings you get out of #5 is a bonus anyway.
I would give Manny anything up to 3 years and no more. I doubt he'll take just the 2 years. Supposedly, he's still holding out for 4. He could've had 2 years before the free agency period started.
Merci Nell'!!!! Likewise!!!!!
I'd take it, too. More important, I think Manny would take it.
Tell you what, give Manny a choice:
$28M 1 year
$50M 2 years
$60M 3 years
$65M 4 years
Anyone tops those numbers and those years, you can have him.
Make Manny the highest paid player ever and he will take the 2 year deal. I don't want him past that. LOL!!!! Let's face it, without steroids, players past 40 don't improve.
Beav's contention that Andruw the Cow was a steroid boy is right on.
I like it Beav!!!
The rotation is going to be fine..barring another injury…Wolf will win 13-16 games…I want to go on record…
5th spot…10
65 wins minimum out of the starters the other 25 will come from the BP…
Can't argue with that, E. However, I wouldn't even put a 4th year in play.
Sounds good to me!!!
Ram, I think you are right. The rotation will be decent. However, unless you have a team like the 75-76 Reds, it will not get you a championship.
I'm not quite that optimistic rams, but if they can get the offense I can see 58-60 wins from the starters.
I agree seesky I do not think you have to go 4 years…he does not have a lot of options, its the Dodgers and then the its the Dodgers….unless some team comes out of nowhere…
ram– assuming everyone stays healthy, those pitching numbers are all doable. We've also got McDonald or Stultz if anyone goes down. And, who knows, we might catch lightning in a bottle with one of the usual suspects.
I know I am probably drinking the kool aid, but I think will another year under their belt…Bills, Kuroda, and Kershaw will be much better and Wolf is going to be stronger in his 3rd yr after shoulder surgery….I also believe Elbert or Mcdonald, one of them will step up this year around the 1st of June..
I am hoping that happens too seesky!!!
Good points Ram and I agree. I think we are going to need a great offense to enable them however. I don't see great growth and progression pitching from behind or in very close games. Young pitchers need some breathing room.
Just a thought!!!!
McDonald showed me a lot during the playoffs. He went about his business like he'd been pitching in the big leagues for 5 years. I think he's got the goods to be real good and soon.
Yes I should have prefaced the predictions with Manny in the lineup…
jhall ~ you are right about us needing to score runs. And, that is why we don't want to hear……….now batting second………#9
did you see that the A's are looking at Nomar? maybe we can get them to look at Juan, too.
LMFAO Trumom!!!!! You are totally right!!!
Bottom Line: Dodgers need to rid themselves of Phew!!!!!
It all seems to come back to Manny, doesn't it? With Manny, we may have the best offense in the NL West. Without him, we're good but not outstanding.
Maybe Ned could convince JP to restructure his deal, a la AJ. Maybe that would make Pierre smell a little better to another club?
I see the pitching in the West as a little bit better this season, the hitting a little less.
I don't see it as just a matter of contract sky – JP is so one-dimensional a team would have to want that specific one dimension and be willing to trade someone and pay $2M/Yr on top of it.
– Not that NedCo would eat $6-8M a year either.
That's why JP is Ned's biggest blunder. Can't trade him because of contract, can't trade him because of his play.
Phew is worthless!!! It is obvious. There is no interest from any other club in baseball at any price. It will go down as one of the worst contracts/deals in major league history. Sorry Amy, Mon Amie!!!!
It would have to be a team that needed his particular abilities regardless of the price. I agree that price isn't the only factor. Sometimes, restructuring a deal can help. Hey, I'm looking for any angle to get this guy outta here!!!
Totally on it Sky!! Ned, find a way. Better for us and better for Phew!! I do not wish him any ill will, he just does not fit on our team. I would like to see him doing well. I just don't see him prospering and thriving on our team.
Most of us agree there, jhall. I'm a firm believer in the "where there's a will, there's a way" school. If we got rid of Jones, anything's possible.
There has got to be a team out there wo has not seen JP play……..therefore thinks he has speed and will get them some stolen bases. I'm thinking a team in the American League who we haven't played. Like you guys said if we got rid of Andruw, anything is possible.
enchanted, here's another simple quiz: Name each mystery speaker (note–anyone failing this quiz has been in a catatonic sleep):
"I want to help us win a World Series," Mystery Speaker #1 said. "However I can do that, I will be more than happy to. … (Hudson) is a great player. If somebody is going to get him, why not us? He is a good player who can help a team win, and that is what we are trying to do here."
"For the betterment of the team last year, I kept my mouth shut and let them play," Mystery Speaker #2 said. "That said, this year, I don't want that role again."
Bonus question: Which mystery speaker do you want on your team?
I know who number 2 is 🙂
Number 2 is number 9!
Number 1 is Blake DeWitt. And, I'll take him to be on my team.
Very good nelly and tru. And now for your final: When will Manny sign and where? (note: may take a while to grade your answers).
I think Manny will sign with the Dodgers, of course, by the end of next week.
Kahli – you should have each person on the ITD board pick a day and time next to the team Manny will sign with and see who comes closer.
Manny will sign on the dotted line! lol
Kahli: I believe I have an answer. Manny will sign when he feels like it, on the dotted line.
Does that cover the When and Where?
nstate ~ we were close lol
nsblues – very funny, and probably very true 🙂
Great minds think alike 🙂
nsb, you get an A for abstract reasoning! Now that you're on a roll…when and where will Pierre be traded!
Pierre will be traded when hell freezes over!
That's not fair, nstate is an English major! I'm just a little old lady!!
Pierre's contract makes it a near impossibility… As for where, if the Dodgers do move him, it's going to be somewhere he could play everyday. I'll take a shot in the dark and say Kansas City, IF we sign Manny, sometime AFTER the trade deadline.
It's not like having a player in time for the playoffs matters much to Kansas City and their mediocre recent history. Of course, with Colorado and Tampa Bay making October runs lately, I have some KC Masterpiece on hand in case I have to eat those words.
I'd like to see JP in a Phillies uniform……….that would serve their fans right for being such a**holes.
I still say if Pierre wants to play everyday as much as he says he does, maybe he should give management a hand in terms of flexibility on his contract. It couldn't possibly hurt…. A week or so ago, Gary Miller, on ESPN's Baseball Tonight Spring Training Special, made, as his bold prediction, that Manny would be unsigned as of Opening Day. It would appeal to Manny's sense of the dramatic to play this out that long and sign, say, the night before Opening Day. That and the fact that he doesn't like ST that much.
Seesky ~ I saw that too but, I think Manny wants to be the new Manny instead of Manny being Manny. So, I think to show his teammates that he is a team player he will sign by the end of this week and be with the team for ST. I know it's wishful thinking but, I've learned from Dodger4life to be an optimist.
tru–I hope you're right but I think that the battle lines have been formed and the positions hardened for quite awhile. Now, each side is waiting for the other side to blink.
I think both sides are really talking now. Joe has been keeping in touch with Manny just so he knows we want him. Now, all that has to be done is for Frank to open his checkbook.
Of course I hope mightily that you guys are right about Manny being about to sign, but I just don't see it unless Manny has decided not to listen to Boros…
Boros still has a gambler's chance to cash in big for Manny:
if some other well-funded contender-team's Big Bopper suffers a season-ending (or near season-ending) injury in spring training; then Boros may be able get a bidding war going…or at least get more than the Dodgers are willing to spend…
Manny hates spring training and apparently works out relentlessly without it. So it shouldn't be hard for Boros to get Manny to wait through much of spring training…
But I'm praying you guys are right and I'm wrong.
How much could they really have to talk about? I don't think it's so much a question of money but the length of the deal. The D's want 2 years; Manny seems to want 4. We hear they're talking more but are they really saying anything?
I heard the other day they were working on perhaps a 3-year deal. Heck, I don't know. I thought we were going to get CC and then Garland. So, we'll just have to wait and see.
elric ~ you have some very valid points. I've heard insiders talk about Boras waiting for an injury. But, I'm hoping Manny is better than that and would want to join his team, and that team is of course, the Dodgers.
Good Evening seesky!!!! How are you doing this evening?
elric – are you new to ITD?
Good evening ITD boys and girls!
Just got back from Ventura College where my husband and I saw our Pirates and Lady Pirates cream the competition (Cuesta College from Santa Maria)!!! Now the playoffs start next weekend!!!
Okay, getting back to the Dodgers. Oh, first of all – WELCOME TO THE DODGERS HUDSON!!! To say the least, I am most curious as to see what's going to happen with Blake (DeWitt) and Casey (Blake) and the rest of the infielders we have and how it plays out in ST and during the season. I guess things could be worse than DeWitt going down to AAA in case our infielders break down (Raffy, watch it.) But if Hudson's signing portends a trade, we'll see. I really don't know and I really don't want to guess.
About Manny, I would love it if he signed with us, but honestly, at this point, I'm so done with him. It'd be great to have him in our lineup, but I think we'll be fine without him. We DEFINITELY won't have the same kind of offense without him than with him, but I think we'll be fine. Yes, the SP still has me worried. We have a bunch of good pitchers, but no great pitchers – we don't have anyone that I'd call a legitimate #1 SP. We'll just see what happens.
As much as I don't want JP on our team (let alone starting in LF), I still have a difficult time seeing how we can trade him. His abilities (or lack thereof) make him unattractive to others. His massive contract makes him unattractive to others. I'd love it if they could trade him; I just don't see it happening.
Good Evening, Nelly!!! Doing well. Beating the Dead Pierre Horse and rehashing Manny again for the umpteenth millionth time. I'll sure be glad when some games start!!
Jhall – Saw you on here earlier!!! Great to see your name again!!! I know it's in the wee hours of Sunday morning and you're probably not here, but again, it's great to see you!!! Don't be such a stranger!!!
So seesky, I see you've come out of your brown bag "cover." Great to see your name too!!!
My Nellygirl!!! How are you tonight!!!
All of this Manny talk has done me in……..I'm calling it a day and let you guys continue. I'll see you tomorrow. Have a great late night.
At first, when we signed Hudson, I was worried that DeWitt might be traded for some PVL. But, with Furcal's and the "O-Dog's" physical histories, I'm inclined to think that DeWitt will stay, if for no other reason, to provide insurance against either of them breaking down.
I am doing great CP!!! It sounds like you had fun this evening.
Hey Nelly!!! Yeah, had fun. We love going to VC games. The only thing is that that is the ONLY team I will avidly follow where their colors are, drum roll please, orange and black!!! As long as it's a VC garment or one of their sponsors, then I'm fine with it.
Yeah, cp, the old moniker is back. With all apologies to Joni Mitchell; " Everything comes and goes, marked by lovers,monikers, and styles of clothes"
seesky – glad you are doing good.
CP – it's like my kids and their highschool colors….same issue…gnat colors. I understand completely.
And seesky, I'm kinda thinking that DeWitt will stay (maybe as a PH in MLB, maybe AAA) given Raffy's balky back and the O-Dog's wrist problems. I personally think we're going to have to watch Raffy's back very closely. I don't care how well he feels now, but the season is going to wear on his back and after a while, it may give out to the point of going back on the DL. I hope that doesn't happen, but I'm thinking there's a better than average chance of that happening.
Oh, and I love it that the "old" names are coming back!!! So in this spirit of "disclosure" does "theunknowndodgerfan" still want to remain unknown??? Or has he revealed his true identity???
Oh, and I know I'm kinda late in chiming in on this, but on the last thread, dodgereric wrote a letter to Manny! Eric – Absolutely loved it!!!
…..I am thinking maybe it's an insurance policy in case Furcal's back flairs up again. I am thinking the same thing CP. Right now, it's not a bad idea to have more than enough infielders. That is how we got stuck with Beroa and Azuna last season.
So seesky, how's Utah???
I've just come up with a BRILLIANT idea!
Al Davis needs to sign Manny, and lease him to the Dodgers.
Think about it.
I just hope the D's hold onto DeWitt. IMO, we haven't seen his best days yet and I'd hate to see him achieve them someplace else.
The unknowndodgerfan as yet to reveal himself/herself, but I thought you figured that one out.
nsblues – that is a Brilliant idea!!!!
seesky – let's hope not
Yeah, I was wondering, "Why are we acquiring all these infielders?" I mean, I love it that we have the O-Dog, but there are a lot of infielders. But given the injury problems we've endured over the years, having too many infielders isn't that bad a thing. And in actuality, if DeWitt stays in the MLB as a PH, I think he'll see his fair share of starting time. I mean, Torre has already said this spring that he's planning in giving Raffy a day off, like, once a week or so. If DeWitt is a PH and spot starter for 2009, I think we ALREADY have a MUCH BETTER bench than we did in all of last year! I would have been a lot more upset if Hudson's contract was longer in length, thus stopping DeWitt's rightful place as eventual starter.
cp- SLC was sunny & 50 degrees today, a real nice day. Little or no snow around but it never lasts long here.
And yeah seesky, I'm convinced that we have not seen DeWitt's best days yet!!!
Now seesky. That does sound like a real nice day!
I definitely do agree about the bench. Even if we hang on to JP, he is definitely an upgrade from Sweeney from last year. At least JP puts the ball in play instead of strikes out 🙂
Nelly – When you said before, "The unknowndodgerfan as yet to reveal himself/herself, but I thought you figured that one out." Did you mean do I know who unknowndodgerfan is? Of course I do. But I don't want to be the one to reveal his/her identity unless he/she does first!
And about JP. I never thought of it in that way. JP is an upgrade from Sweeney. At least he puts the ball in play instead of strikes out. Now, he may not get many hits, but he doesn't strike out much.
I agree that our bench is far better than last year. Another plus is that Abreu seems to have gotten past his physical issues of the past couple of years. It's going to be fun seeing all of this play out in ST games. Now, if we can only sign YOU-KNOW-WHO!!!!……
CP – gotcha!!!
What's nice about having a strong bench is that (1) we can afford to give our regulars days off (Raffy/Russ, you hearing this?) and (2) everyone shouldn't be overused during the season and thus will be stronger come postseason!!! Heck, ST games haven't even started yet and I'm already talking about the postseason!!! Isn't this exciting!!!
Sweeney was one-dimensional. When he didn't hit, he was pretty much useless. With Pierre, at least, you get some hitting, defense, and speed.
Wow. We really must have a strong bench to be able to type semi-complimentary words about JP!!!
See, if Dodger4life were here, he would give us a round of applause for our positive attitude.
Yes Nelly, he would love it! So hey, where is Dodger4life???
With JP, it's all about context. Starter=bad, backup=ok.
Amy would like our positive Pierre comments even better.
Yeah, Amy would love it! But you're right; it's all about context. I don't see JP fitting in as a starter in many places.
That I do not know for sure 😦 ……possibly computer issues again I am thinking and hoping.
Speaking of………….jhall……I am sorry my visit with you was so short tonight…..I was going back and forth playing taxi mom and then I went out to dinner with my husband because we had no kids to worry about. I am so glad you spent time on here with us. We miss you and your style when you are not around.
Also…..I saw that looney4loney(mlk) paid us a visit today as well. It sure was good to see that name as well, and we look forward to your return once you have taken the bar exam……….best of luck!!!!
Are you listening, Kansas City or Pittsburg? Now, take Juan Pierre, please!!!!!
Nelly – What don't you know for sure??? What about your computer issues again I am thinking and hoping?
And seesky, those two teams were just who I was thinking of where JP could go!!! Personally, I think we'd have an easier time sending JP to Kansas City than Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is a NL team that knows (or should know) what JP can and can't do. But perhaps we can send him to Kansas City where they don't know us very well!!! Perhaps Ned can do a great sell job on them and say, "Hey Juan Pierre has playoff experience!!!"
Oh yeah, I forgot to say before. Great to see your name too loney4loney(mlk)!!!
Oh, and Nelly. Forget my last question. Now I know "what you don't know for sure." It was a response about where's Dodger4life? Sorry, it's getting late and I can't think too well right now. I'm doing more yawning than anything else.
Well, speaking of which, I guess I should be going. It's great to talk to ya Nelly & Seesky!!! Good night!!!
MLB teams all have scouts and no player is much of a mystery or shouldn't be, anyway. There will have to be some creativity regarding his contract or money going from us to another team in order to move Pierre. Unfortunately, Ned has Manny to deal with and that's probably all he can handle right now.
Good night CP!!!!
Good night, cp. Good night, nelly and anybody else out and about. Have a pleasant Sunday, everyone.
Good night to you to seesky!!! Always a pleasure talking baseball with you 🙂 You have a wonderful Sunday as well.
Just to tweek A-Rod, make Manny the highest-paid player in baseball. Maybe Manny IS the greatest non-steroid ballplayer of his generation (then again, who's to say what Manny puts on his Wheaties??????????)…still, give him two years, $56 million. He can puff out his chest, claim he's numero uno, and the Dodgers can get on with their season.
Good morning ITDland ~ Hope everyone has a great Sunday.
Sorry, kids, but I've always liked Gurnick.
I've been away and was wondering if Nomar had retired, but it looks like, from one of the above posts, he's still looking for a job?
Hudson should be a good addition providing DeWitt does not get squeezed off the team.
Maybe all the Faithful should start chanting MANNY! MANNY! MANNY! Can't hurt.
MANNY, What are you waiting for. The Dodgers want you and all the fans want you. Just agree and sign and be done with it, so we can get on with the season.
Atta Boy Torre:
"I'm certainly hoping Manny is starting out there," Torre said. "I'm not making other plans until I have to."
Pierre u are the "have to"
This blog working???????
No comments for eight hours? Guess Manny hasn't signed……….
Good Evening ITD readers and writers!!!!
Slow day here on ITD I see. We are in the middle of a caution flag during the race, and I thought I would check in, but I see there hasn't been much action since this morning. 2 days and 18 hours until our first Spring Training game…….lots to look forward to.
Hey Kahli!!! 8 hours – wow!!! That's along time without anything said around here. I guess there is not much news to talk about other than Manny, and I guess they have their own time frame.
I didn't think this blog had the capability to stay quiet for eight hours! Viva Lance Armstrong…helped Levi win the Tour of California. Hope Lance wins the Giro Italia. MANNY……..I'm talking bicycle racing!?!?!?!?!?!? SIGN ALREADY!!!!!
It's also a sign we need some games to start. Then we will really have something to talk about.
I don't think I have ever seen such a slow day on ITD. It's kind of weird that nobody has anything to say.
Since Dodger4life seems to be MIA, I will take over until his return, which hopefully is very soon.
Bring the Ring to LA in 2009!!!!!
AZ will rue the day they lost Orlando. Sign Manny and everything will be like it should, LA!
Aaron ~ how right you are!!!!!
Since Dodger4life seems to be MIA, I will take over until his return, which hopefully is very soon.
Bring the Ring to LA in 2009!!!!!
Thanks, nellyjune, I needed that pep talk!
You are most welcome!!! I really wish dodger4life would come back to life. We really need him on slow days. There is no real Dodger news. The photos look great, and the videos are good, but we either need Manny news or games to start,and my guess is that games are going to start before we hear Manny news.
Maybe a 3rd time is a charm……for some Dodger news 🙂
Bring the Ring to LA in 2009!!!!!
2 Days, 12 hours and 50 minutes 🙂
Signing Hudson is only validated by signing Manny. The Dodgers have a one year window of opportunity to win with Hudson and Wolf and validate the loss of the high draft pick. If the Dodgers don't plan on going all in on this season, they should have saved the money on Wolf and Hudson and used the season to develop guys like Kershaw, DeWitt and McDonald. Heck, they could throw prospects at every position, sign only Blake and Furcal and tell us they're trying to compete like they did from 1997-2003. It's ok, because we'll keep coming back, right?
I say they should sign Cruz now, more than ever. He'll only cost a #2 pick now and he'd make our bullpen fairly scary.
I know some of you are huge nascar fan but boy Kenseth is on fire with 2 wins so far after not having one win last year. I haven't played fantasy nascar in a 4 years and I'm already rusty so far. That first week kill me and I still can't believe I didn't start Edward, Stewart and Sorenson. I could had an extra 80+ pts there.
I just love the 13% of the people that picked him.
Good morning ITDland ~ I'm keeping my fingers crossed that today is the day Manny once again joins our team.
Good Morning ITD readers and writers!!!!
Ward Dear/dodgereric – so I guess you won the battle on who can stay up later last night. I figured you were NASCARed out and went to bed early, but I guess it was me who was NASCARed out and went to bed early. However, going to bed early only results in me getting up at 4:30 am – LOL!!!! I just checked. I ended up splitting wins……Denny's team (DynastyDeb#1)won by quite a bit, and Kyle's team (DynastyDeb #2) lost by 10. He was up against Jeff Gordon, which we know how he did.
Good Morning trublu!!! Glad to see you up bright and early only to have another rainy day, and it looks like it may be another rainy day schedule at school as well – yuck!!!!
Good morning, nellyjune. I think it is going to rain all week. Your students will go stir crazy.
Put me down for the Manny signing on March 13th between noon and 6.
I hope you're wrong, enchanted.
…normally I like rainy day schedules, because the students do seem to be calmer, but it's not the case this year. However, a Monday after a holiday…..it may not be so bad today.
Good Morning enchanted!!………..hmmm! Why the 13th?
I'm going to be more optimistic and say Manny signs Wednesday, Feb. 25th at 11:59 am.
Gives Boras about 2 weeks to see if some other team comes up minus an OFer so that he has someone to pit against the D's, and still three weeks left of ST to get Manny in playing mode.
hmmmmm……..good thinking enchanted. I am going to pick Monday, March 2nd – between noon and 6 pm for no particular reason at all other than it being a day off in Spring Training games action.
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