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Steven Soderbergh ("Contagion," "Haywire," "Magic Mike," "Side Effects") claims this will be his last movie for a long time. Maybe forever.
Michael Douglas plays famed pianist Liberace and Matt Damon plays his secret lover Scott Thorson, whom Liberace eventually transformed via plastic surgery into a replica of Liberace's younger self.
Soderbergh directs from a teleplay by Richard LaGravenese ("The Ref," "Water For Elephants," "Beautiful Creatures").
This HBO movie is Soderbergh's last directorial effort for a while – maybe forever if we're to believe what we're told.
The supporting cast includes Dan Aykroyd, Paul Reiser, Nicky Katt, Rob Lowe, Scott Bakula, Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Jemison and "30 Rock's" Cheyenne Jackson as "Billy Leatherwood."
This looks awesome!
It hits HBO May 26.

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It's interesting to see where Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is lining up its priorities for 2017 and beyond.
Four months ago, the iconic Silicon Valley corporation revealed that it is spinning off its software division in a merger with Micro Focus to create a significant new entity in the software development world and make Micro Focus a force with which to be reckoned.
[On a side note, Chris Hsu, Chief Operating Officer of HPE and Executive Vice President of HPE Software, was selected Jan. 17 to be the Chief Executive Officer for the future combined company.]
Following that news, HPE on the same day (Jan. 17) announced that it will acquire software-defined hyperconverged storage provider SimpliVity for $650 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in Q2 2017.
Further reading
Privately held SimpliVity was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Westborough, Mass. The company's software-defined, hyperconverged infrastructure is an original design aimed to meet the needs of enterprise customers who require on-premises technology infrastructure with enterprise-class performance, data protection, and resiliency, at cloud economics.
The combined HPE and SimpliVity portfolio will offer a large set of enterprise data services across hyperconverged, 3PAR storage, composable infrastructure and multi-cloud offerings, HPE Vice-President of Marketing for the Software-Defined & Cloud Business Group Paul Miller told eWEEK.
What SimpliVity Brings to the HPE Storage Lineup
Adding SimpliVity's intellectual property to HPE's hyperconverged portfolio provides the following benefits to customers, Miller said:
--built-in enterprise data protection and resiliency that simplifies backup and enables customers to more quickly restore operations;
--enterprise storage utilization and virtual machine (VM) efficiency that helps customers control cost and performance;
--always-on compression and de-duplication that guarantees 90 percent capacity savings across storage and backup; and
--policy-based VM-centric management that simplifies operations and enables data mobility, making development teams and end-users more productive.
"By bringing together HPE's best-in-class infrastructure, automation and cloud management software with SimpliVity's industry-leading software defined data management platform, HPE and its partner ecosystem will deliver the industry's only 'built-for-enterprise' hyperconverged storage offering," Miller said.
One In, One Out
HPE's software division moves out to join Micro Focus as a new storage entity moves in. As Rick Blaine, the central character in the classic 1942 movie "Casablanca" said: "Well, that's the way it goes: One in, one out."
What does that say about HPE's plan going forward? Looks suspiciously like storage -- especially the new-generation, hyperconverged variety--is climbing up the company's priority list. HPE already owns the intellectual software property of previous independent storage software makers 3PAR, StorageApps, ApplQ, LeftHand Networks and several data management companies that interface with storage. It hasn't bought a storage company since 2010 (3PAR), however.
The focus on storage is certainly understandable. The creation of data is booming, has been for a long while and isn't expected to slow down anytime soon, so there is plenty of demand for places to store it all. The hyperconverged market was estimated to be approximately $2.4 billion in 2016 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 25 percent, to nearly $6 billion, by 2020.
Miller told eWEEK that he believes little or none of SimpliVity's product line will overlap with HPE's current offerings.
For current HPE customers and partners, the company will continue to offer its existing hyperconverged products, the HC 380 and the HC 250. For SimpliVity customers and partners, there will be no immediate change in the product roadmap, and HPE will continue to support existing SimpliVity customers and platforms, Miller said.
SimpliVity Omni Stack Will Be Integrated into ProLiant Servers
Within 60 days of closing the transaction, HPE intends to offer the SimpliVity Omni Stack software qualified for its ProLiant DL380 servers. In the second half of 2017, the company will offer a range of integrated HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged systems based on HPE ProLiant Servers.
"This transaction expands HPE's software-defined capability and fits squarely within our strategy to make Hybrid IT simple for customers," HPE President and CEO Meg Whitman said. "More and more customers are looking for solutions that bring them secure, highly resilient, on-premises infrastructure at cloud economics. That's exactly where we're focused."
Doron Kempel, Chairman and CEO of SimpliVity, said that "HPE's broad sales reach, extensive partner channel, complementary technology and commitment to innovation will accelerate SimpliVity's journey and significantly strengthen our ability to deliver the best-in-class hybrid IT solutions our customers are looking for."
Whether Kempel will remain with HPE for the time being wasn't part of the news announcement. Kempel previously has been with EMC and Diligent, which was bought by IBM in 2010.
"SimpliVity's software will significantly advance HPE's vision to make hybrid IT simple, bringing a modern software-defined enterprise data service across its hyperconverged, 3PAR storage, composable infrastructure and multi-cloud offerings," said Antonio Neri, Executive Vice President and General Manager of HPE's Enterprise Group.
What a Competitor Says About the Deal
Ron Nash, CEO of SimpliVity competitor Pivot3, told eWEEK that the deal eventually should help position HPE for better success in HPI storage market but that it will take time to integrate the two companies and technologies and provide a strong solution to the market.
"Plus, SimpliVity is a mid-market vendor, which is not HPE's sweet-spot market. So they will have to recalibrate their solutions for HPE's more traditional market and those customers' enterprise-grade data, scale, and processing needs," Nash said.
Nash's general take on the importance of the acquisition to the enterprise market:
"It's clear that all the major IT companies covet this market. They are realizing they can't compete with a repackaged converged solution, and they have to have technology that is truly hyperconverged and is architected to meet the needs of customers. Customers require software-defined infrastructure that is agile, flexible and scalable to support the needs of the business, and they need it to scale to enterprise volumes.
"As adoption of HCI continues, customers will be demanding capabilities to support multiple mixed workloads on consolidated infrastructure. Every major vendor will need to have a solution in this space."


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December 2-11, 2016
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Edward Bloom never wanted an ordinary life, so he learned to explore his imagination. His incredible stories thrill everyone around him – except for his son Will, who insists on separating fact from fiction. As Edward's final chapter approaches, Will embarks on his own journey to find out who his father really is, slowly uncovering the man behind the myth and the nugget of truth in each tall tale.
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These macros try to find additional libraries that often come with SysV-compatible Curses. In particular, the Panel, Menu and Form libraries are searched, along with their header files. These macros depend on AX_WITH_CURSES.
The following preprocessor symbols may be defined by these macros:
By AX_WITH_CURSES_PANEL:
HAVE_PANEL - if the Panel library is present HAVE_PANEL_H - if <panel.h> is present and should be used HAVE_NCURSES_PANEL_H - if <ncurses/panel.h> should be used HAVE_NCURSESW_PANEL_H - if <ncursesw/panel.h> should be used
By AX_WITH_CURSES_MENU:
HAVE_MENU - if the Menu library is present HAVE_MENU_H - if <menu.h> is present and should be used HAVE_NCURSES_MENU_H - if <ncurses/menu.h> should be used HAVE_NCURSESW_MENU_H - if <ncursesw/menu.h> should be used
By AX_WITH_CURSES_FORM:
HAVE_FORM - if the Form library is present HAVE_FORM_H - if <form.h> is present and should be used HAVE_NCURSES_FORM_H - if <ncurses/form.h> should be used HAVE_NCURSESW_FORM_H - if <ncursesw/form.h> should be used
The following output variables may be defined by these macros; these are precious and may be overridden on the ./configure command line:
PANEL_LIBS - library to add to xxx_LDADD before CURSES_LIBS MENU_LIBS - library to add to xxx_LDADD before CURSES_LIBS FORM_LIBS - library to add to xxx_LDADD before CURSES_LIBS
In previous versions of this macro, the flags PANEL_LIB, MENU_LIB and FORM_LIB were defined. These have been renamed, in keeping with the variable scheme of PKG_CHECK_MODULES, which should eventually supersede the use of AX_WITH_CURSES and AX_WITH_CURSES_* macros. These libraries are NOT added to LIBS by default. You need to add them to the appropriate xxx_LDADD line in your Makefile.am in front of the equivalent CURSES_LIBS incantation. For example:
prog_LDADD = @PANEL_LIBS@ @CURSES_LIBS@
If one of the xxx_LIBS variables is set on the configure command line (such as by running "./configure PANEL_LIBS=-lmypanel"), then the header file searched must NOT contain a subpath. In this case, in other words, only <panel.h> would be searched for. The user may use the CPPFLAGS precious variable to override the standard #include search path.
The following shell variables may be defined by these macros:
ax_cv_panel - set to "yes" if Panels library is present ax_cv_menu - set to "yes" if Menu library is present ax_cv_form - set to "yes" if Form library is present
These variables can be used in your configure.ac to determine whether a library you require is actually present. For example:
AX_WITH_CURSES if test "x$ax_cv_curses" != xyes; then AC_MSG_ERROR([requires a SysV or X/Open-compatible Curses library]) fi AX_WITH_CURSES_PANEL if test "x$ax_cv_panel" != xyes; then AC_MSG_ERROR([requires the Curses Panel library]) fi
To use the HAVE_xxx_H preprocessor symbols, insert the following into your system.h (or equivalent) header file:
For AX_WITH_CURSES_PANEL:
#if defined HAVE_NCURSESW_PANEL_H # include <ncursesw/panel.h> #elif defined HAVE_NCURSES_PANEL_H # include <ncurses/panel.h> #elif defined HAVE_PANEL_H # include <panel.h> #else # error "SysV-compatible Curses Panel header file required" #endif
For AX_WITH_CURSES_MENU:
#if defined HAVE_NCURSESW_MENU_H # include <ncursesw/menu.h> #elif defined HAVE_NCURSES_MENU_H # include <ncurses/menu.h> #elif defined HAVE_MENU_H # include <menu.h> #else # error "SysV-compatible Curses Menu header file required" #endif
For AX_WITH_CURSES_FORM:
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Minooka cross country coach Kevin Gummerson says the Indians felt if they ran their race at Saturday's Class 3A Normal Sectional, both teams would qualify for state.
The Indians delivered, finishing with 99 fewer points than the bubble team in the boys race and 64 fewer points than the girls bubble team. It is the fifth straight year both Minooka teams qualified for state.
Without having to sweat about whether or not their efforts would be enough, the Indians focused on some specific things at Maxwell Park in Normal. For the Minooka boys, the emphasis was on the second of the three miles that was run. It was an area in which the Indians had struggled at the prior week's Minooka Regional.
"At the regional meet, we sort of lost focus on that middle mile," Gummerson said. "We ran it a heck of a lot better. On average, I calculated that we were 17 seconds faster on that second midle than at the regional meet."
Joey Santillo led the Indians Saturday with a third-place time of 14:54, but he was just one of three All-Sectional performers from Minooka. Fellow seniors Alex Pierce, who finished sixth in 15:25, and Cam Knudsen, who was 10th in 15:37, also cracked the top 10. Additionally, Minooka counted the 37th-place time of 16:23 from Cheyne Robinson and the 48th-place time of 16:31 from Erik Brick.
"We were hoping to have that, but it was a nice surprise when it actually happened," Pierce said of the Indians landing three in the top 10. "It was my second-best time, after a 15:18 at the (Minooka) flight invitational. ... Different weeks bring different competition. Some weeks are slower and some are faster, and with this being a big race, I just focused on having a good plan and executing it."
Freshman Morgan Crouch was the lone All-Sectional performer for the Minooka girls, placing seventh with a personal-best time of 18:15. The Indians had four other runners in the top 20 — Laura Simon, who finished in 18:45 for 14th place, Kaitlyn Chetney, who finished in 18:53 for 15th, Haley McNamara, who finished in 18:54 for 16th, and Caleigh Beverly, who finished in 18:59 for 19th.
"My team has been training very hard for this meet, and for me, I wanted to come as close to having a sectional championship I could," Crouch said. "I have always liked that course, and I was able to run a good time."
For the Minooka girls, the sectional was just another meet where they had several high placers. Gummerson pointed out that Simon has frequently been fourth, fifth or even sixth among the Indians but that she "stepped up" to finish behind only Crouch.
"They're pretty interchangeable," Gummerson said. "We tell them, 'Don't go out there with a pecking order in mind.' Ideally whoever is feeling the best can lead the pack. This time it was Laura. She ran a great race and dragged some of our other girls right behind her."
Class 2A
Seven state-ranked schools stood in the way of Morris and its goal of advancing to state Saturday at the Peoria Notre Dame Sectional at Illinois Central College's East Peoria Campus.
"Sure we are disappointed. Our goal is to get to the state finals. We want to be where Yorkville and Minooka are," Morris coach Joe Blumberg said.
"Today wasn't the reason we didn't advance. We are competing against schools that run through December, take two weeks off, start indoor track, roll that into outdoor track, take two weeks off and then get after their summer training June 1. We have to pull teeth to get a majority of our runners to show up in the summer, let alone get enough quality workouts in during the summer.
Our guys and girls will tell you they want to get to state. But talk is cheap. Actions speak louder than words. ... However, I am awfully proud of the strides our runners made again this season."
In the boys race, the Redskins were 13th with 352 points. They were paced by 40th-place finisher Justin Sjostrom and his time of 16:18. Other contributors were Austin Patterson with a 74th-place time of 17:00, Eric Robinson with a 77th-place time of 17:03, Brock Kukman with an 89th-place time of 17:13 and Nick Marino with a 97th-place time of 17:21.
Morris finished 17th with 498 points in the girls race. Sara Burns led the Redskins by placing 67th, with a time of 20:18. They had Valerie Pfaff place 79th with a time of 20:33, Bridget Gile place 113th with a time of 21:26, Sydney Corrigan place 124th with a time of 21:54 and Mackenzie Larson place 134th with a time of 22:31.
Class 1A
Lane Hoffman of Gardner-South Wilmington finished in eighth place in the boys race with a time of 17:12 to advance as an individual out of the Lisle Sectional, held at Community Park.
The GSW boys finished in 10th place with 293 points. Their team total included Clay McCormick, who finished in 18:48 for 57th place, Austin Walsh, who finished in 19:16 for 75th, Ryley Christoff, who finished in 19:18 for 79th, and Stinnett Gettinger, who finished in 19:26 for 83rd.
The Lady Panthers were 14th with 396 points. Their counting runners were Chelsea Schultz, who was 98th with a time of 25:03, ReAnn Scoggin, who was 99th with a time of 25:03, Sarah Jablonski, who was 104th with a time of 25:47, Kitrina Hayner, who was 109th with a time of 26:23, and Alyssa Brownlee, who was 110th with a time of 26:46.
Seneca competed in the Oregon Sectional, but its teams did not place in the top 12 and it had no individuals advance.
Minooka cross country team heads to state again
Minooka cross country coach Kevin Gummerson says the Indians felt if they ran their race at Saturday's Class 3A Normal Sectional, both teams would qualify for state.


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Some call him brave, a genius,some call him crazy, others call him stupid... whatever your angle, there's no denying that Honnold is carving out his own legacy, even when proverbially picking up Dan Osman's baton - I can only tip my hat to you sir - the level of commitment needed, where a mistake is unthinkable - when considering his movement, technique, ability and courage... it does lean very strongly toward art!
Age: 28
Country: USA
Occupation: Professional rock climber
Known for: Being a mind bogglingly astounding rock climber. Free solo ascents of big walls (including his recent work on half-dome El Capitan in the Yosemite National Park)
Random Facts:
- Started climbing when he was 11 years old
- Was interviewed on the TV show 60 minutes.
- Lives in his van
- Holds the speed record (with Hans Florine) for the nose of El Capitan - 2:23:51
- [Is currently in South Africa, was climbing in Waterfall Boven and the ReelRockTour!]
"When all the movements just feel so crisp, and precise and perfect, you don't feel pain in your fingers so much. You can tork on them super hard…you just feel stronger…"
A great climbing website - "neverstopexploring.com"
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Everyday Health's New TV Series, "Recipe Rehab," Is First Show from a YouTube Original Channel to Air on Network TV
Everyday Health Launches Multi-Platform Healthy Food Initiative with Cooking Competition TV Series on ABC Stations, Hosted by Danny Boome, and New Website, Better Eats
NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2012 -- Everyday Health, Inc., the digital leader in health and wellness, announced the launch of "Recipe Rehab," the first program from a YouTube original channel to broadcast as a network television series. "Recipe Rehab," produced by Everyday Health and Trium, will debut October 6th as an original, half-hour, weekly television series as part of Litton's Weekend Adventure, a block of educational and informational programming, which airs Saturday on ABC stations following "Good Morning America" in 95 percent of the country. In conjunction with the series debut, Everyday Health is also launching the show's website October 1st at BetterEats.com/RecipeRehab, where healthy meets delicious. Everyday Health's original YouTube channel (YouTube.com/EverydayHealth) will continue to have fresh "Recipe Rehab" content.
The "Recipe Rehab" TV show is hosted by Danny Boome and features a rotating cast of acclaimed chefs - Spike Mendelsohn, Candice Kumai, Laura Vitale, Tana Amen, Govind Armstrong, Calvin Harris, and Mareya Ibrahim - competing to help rehabilitate America's favorite recipes and inspire children and their families to make healthy lifestyle choices. Each episode will take a real family's favorite decadent dish, such as fried chicken, macaroni and cheese or nachos, and challenge two renowned chefs to create a lower-calorie, healthier version of the dish, to be analyzed by Everyday Health nutritionists. Once the burners have been turned off and the dishes plated, the family becomes the judge as they cast their votes based on how the new, healthier recipes taste and how easy they are to make, declaring which rehabbed dish and chef will win each week. In the process, host Danny Boome and chefs from the elite "Recipe Rehab" kitchen share their healthy eating tips while inspiring and educating children ages 13-16 and their families to live healthier lives.
Together, "Recipe Rehab" and Better Eats anchor Everyday Health's new healthy eating initiative, which extends the Company's overall mission to help consumers make better health and lifestyle decisions every day. Better Eats, which will be cross promoted through the TV show and across the entire Everyday Health portfolio, will become a premier destination for consumers looking to make smart food choices for themselves and their families, and the marketers who want to reach them.
"Everyday Health is excited to offer a dedicated platform for healthy food programming that entertains and educates viewers, and is an integrated solution for advertisers," explained Mike Keriakos, Everyday Health President & Co-Founder. "This move furthers Everyday Health's position as a leading force in lifestyle content for the health and wellness category."
"Recipe Rehab" is the second broadcast TV show from Everyday Health, following "Everyday Health" which aired during the 2011-2012 broadcast season on ABC stations and garnered a prestigious Emmy nomination, the first for a show produced by a digital content company.
"We're excited to have produced an entertaining program that not only fares well across platforms, but also inspires real change and healthier lifestyles," stated Mark Koops, Executive Producer, "Recipe Rehab," Trium, and the co-creator of The Biggest Loser.
"Litton's Weekend Adventure enters its second season recognized as a leader in educational and informational programming. We welcome 'Recipe Rehab' and salute its mission to lead children, teens and their families to make healthier lifestyle choices," commented Dave Morgan, President and CEO of Litton Entertainment.
About Recipe Rehab
"Recipe Rehab," produced by Everyday Health and Trium, the first program from a YouTube original channel to premiere on broadcast television. The popular program has expanded its format and it will debut on ABC stations as an original half-hour, weekly educational and informational series beginning October 6, 2012. Each episode, the show's host Danny Boome plays referee between two competing chefs on a recipe recreation, with a healthy twist. The recipe comes from a real family who submitted their favorite, decadent dish. The "Recipe Rehab" chefs compete to take it from unhealthy to healthy. Once the chefs' burners have been turned off and the meals have been plated, that featured family casts their vote on which dish is the 'better eats' based on ease-to-make, taste, and closeness to the original recipe. Each week, Danny also advises the audience on his recipe for a happy, healthy and stress-free kitchen.
Meet the cast of chefs from the elite kitchen of "Recipe Rehab" - Tana Amen, Govind Armstrong, Calvin Harris, Mareya Ibrahim, Candice Kumai, Spike Mendelsohn and Laura Vitale - and find their favorite rehabbed recipes at the TV show's website, BetterEats.com/RecipeRehab. Fans can continue to view the YouTube original program at YouTube.com/EverydayHealth.
About Better Eats
Just like the kitchen has become the heartbeat of most homes, BetterEats.com is that virtual kitchen where culinary and health experts, community and celebrities meet to share ideas, recipes and discussions which empower healthy eating. Better Eats combines the personality and accessibility of food blogs with the breadth and scalability of the mega recipe sites. Founded on the principles of making better choices, Better Eats provides engaging content, elegant functionality, and is designed to promote a robust social sharing environment. The site aims to help people make simple and easy changes toward a healthier and enriching lifestyle, one better bite at a time.
About Everyday Health, Inc.
Everyday Health is the leading digital health and wellness company. Attracting 38 million people monthly through its popular websites, mobile applications, and social media presence, Everyday Health inspires consumers to live healthier lives and helps doctors make more informed decisions for their patients. Everyday Health reaches an additional one million viewers per episode through its weekly TV series on ABC stations. The Company's broad portfolio of products spans the health spectrum, from in-depth medical content for condition prevention and management to healthy lifestyle offerings. Everyday Health was founded in 2002 by CEO, Ben Wolin, and President, Mike Keriakos.
Source: comScore Media Metrix, comScore Video Metrix, Facebook Insights, Twitter
About Trium
Trium is a global independent production company founded by a trio of successful media executives, Mark Koops, Jared Tobman, and Eric Day. Together, they have created and produced over 1000 hours of television, including blockbusters "The Biggest Loser" and "Masterchef"; and more than 40 original digital series for MSN, Yahoo!, and YouTube, such as the 200-million-stream hit "Who Knew," the Everyday Health YouTube Channel, and series featuring Jillian Michaels, Cat Cora, Bob Harper, Jack Welch, Carson Daly, and Andrew Zimmern. Trium is focused on partnering with leading networks and brands to create entertainment properties that provide a launching pad for ancillary and global licensing businesses.
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Charters Adjusting to Common-Core Demands
Schools' flexibility seen as potential benefit
Charter schools throughout the country are coping with myriad challenges in preparing for the Common Core State Standards, an effort that could force them to make adjustments from how they train their teachers to the types of curriculum they use to the technology they need to administer online tests.
Charter schools were designed to serve as independent entities with a great deal of autonomy to operate outside the rules that govern traditional public schools. Yet charters, as public schools, are also expected to adhere to the common core, a set of uniform academic expectations adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia.
Many of the academic, financial, and administrative issues charters face closely mirror those of their regular public school counterparts, including concerns about the high costs of implementing the standards and the challenges of putting the technological infrastructure in place for online testing. Charter advocates have complained for years that they have not received funding comparable to that of regular public schools, which could pose an additional burden.
Plus, questions remain about whether the common-core standards will bolster or hinder the independence and flexibility that charters see as their greatest strengths.
'A Leg Up'
"I don't want to attack common core without more evidence that it is in fact getting in the way," said Nina Rees, the president and chief executive officer of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, based in Washington. "Common core is the basics you need to cover, but you can go above and beyond that."
Despite the hurdles ahead, many charter school officials and advocates say they believe schools within the sector, because of their tradition of flexibility, are well-positioned to make the changes necessary to comply with the standards.
"[Common-core standards] made so much sense to us because we have always tried to boil things down to what are the big ideas that children really need to understand and understand in depth," said Catherine C. Whitehouse, the founder, principal, and chief educator for the Intergenerational School, a charter in Cleveland that eschews grade levels for multiage classes. While the common standards provide expectations for children, charter schools like hers are prepared to craft curriculum to flesh out those broad academic guidelines.
"Charter schools have a little bit of a leg up on [district schools] because we're very nimble," she said.
Currently, about 6,000 charter schools educate 2.3 million students in 42 states and the District of Columbia.
Stacy Emory, the director of curriculum and resources for the K-8 San Carlos Charter Learning Center outside San Francisco, said that her school is at an advantage because it has traditionally not used textbooks for the curriculum, allowing for more curriculum flexibility.
The school employs project-based learning and multiage classes, which Ms. Emory said align more closely with the common standards than the previous California state standards because the project-based approach emphasizes covering fewer topics in greater depth, a key goal of the common standards.
The San Carlos charter school is building its own common-core curriculum. But schools planning to rely on prepackaged, vendor-created common-core curricula should approach the materials with a critical eye, warned Lindsey Blackburn, the director of curriculum and assessment for the Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools.
"Every vendor is slapping 'common core' on something and trying to sell it to you, but it doesn't mean that it's been properly aligned," she said.
Also, having teachers create their own curriculum maps—documents that outline the content and skills covered in class—rather than obtaining such maps from other sources, allows them to get more familiar with the standards, she said.
Sharing Ideas
The standards, which cover English/language arts and mathematics, were finalized in 2010. Two federally funded state consortia—the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium—are crafting the computer-based assessments that schools are scheduled to roll out in the 2014-15 school year.
Sandra Alberti is the director of state and district partnerships and professional development for Student Achievement Partners, a New York City-based nonprofit founded by three of the standards' lead writers that is helping schools implement the standards.
Although some charter advocates express concerns that common standards may potentially crimp their flexibility, Ms. Alberti said there is a sharp difference between national standards and a standardization of curricula across the country.
"What education will look like if we really fulfill the promise of the standards is college and career readiness for all students," she said. "We don't mean that on [a specific day] all 6th graders will be doing the same math exercise."
Ms. Alberti said that the common core allows more opportunities for charter schools to showcase their innovative instructional strategies and compare their approaches and performance with charter schools in other states and regular public schools around the country.
The national charter school network KIPP, or the Knowledge Is Power Program, operates 125 charter schools in 20 states and the District of Columbia, and has embraced the adoption of common standards, said the organization's spokesman, Steve Mancini.
The network has identified master teachers who share their lesson plans as well as videos of their teaching with the rest of the teachers in the KIPP network to help them better prepare for the shift to the common core, said Mr. Mancini.
The KIPP schools—which typically serve students in low-income urban communities—place a heavy emphasis on both academics and character education.
Sayuri Stabrowski is an 8th grade reading teacher at the KIPP Infinity Charter School in New York City who is gearing up for the shift to common standards. She said the new standards encourage her to look at students' reading progress on more of a continuum. Now, she approaches her 8th graders knowing what they should have learned in 6th and 7th grades, as well as what they will be expected to do in 9th and 10th. That helps her differentiate instruction more effectively for each student.
In addition, the common core emphasizes different types of reading, requiring more integration of nonfiction into the curriculum, Ms. Stbrowski said. To meet that requirement, she plans to include more nonfiction reading assignments to accompany the fictional works, such as To Kill a Mockingbird.
Some educators, however, are worried that the common core will de-emphasize the reading of fiction.
Implementing common core, analyzing what the standards mean, and coming up with lesson plans that address the standards have fostered greater collaboration throughout the KIPP network, said Ms. Stabrowski. She uses a website called Better Lesson on which teachers from any school in the country can post, share, and download lesson plans for each other, which has opened the door for feedback from other teachers, she said.
"There are more sets of eyes looking over our work, challenging us, and also asking questions to help us rethink for the next unit," said Ms. Stabrowski. And the collaboration isn't just happening within KIPP, she pointed out.
"Because common core is common language, it's opened up relationships across many schools," she said. "We actually get to sit down with people from district schools and talk about the exact same stuff and speak that language together because we're all changing together. We all have this challenge to face, and I feel like it's unified teachers a little more."
'Heavy Lift'
But when preparing teachers for the common core, not all charter schools are created equal, cautioned Nelson Smith, a senior adviser for the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, in Washington.
Charter schools that are part of large state or national networks, such as KIPP, often have staff to track the latest developments around the common core and deliver that information to educators, he said. But independent charters may need extra help.
"[Independent charters] really need some special attention to make sure they're aware of the changes coming down the pike and getting ready for them," said Mr. Smith.
In Arizona, charter and district schools are working together to provide teacher training, said Justin O'Connell, the quality-schools training manager for the Phoenix-based Arizona Charter Schools Association, which has been certified to provide common-core training to charters and traditional public schools in the state.
"This is a heavy lift for all schools, and we've got to figure out ways to make it so that they're not all trying to reinvent the wheel," he said.
The state department of education has been holding workshops on common-core implementation, and the Arizona Charter Schools Association provides that service as well.
Despite states' best efforts, many charter schools, as well as regular public schools, are struggling to finance high-quality professional development, said Ms. Rees from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.
Beyond the professional-development challenge, the reality is that many districts and charters are not ready for the technological demands of the common core.
Wendy Ranck-Buhr, the principal of the San Diego Cooperative Charter School, which serves students in grades K-8, says that although her school is well-positioned to implement the common core because its curriculum is a good fit for the standards, she worries about finding the money to beef up her school's technology infrastructure in preparation for the online assessments.
As it is, her school operates in a district facility with outdated technological infrastructure, she said.
Moving the assessments online "is a great idea," she said, "but the reality of it has me tremendously worried."
Vol. 32, Issue 18, Page 6Published in Print: January 23, 2013, as Charters Prepare For the Challenges of Common Core
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Thailand announced a five-day holiday on Tuesday to give people the chance to escape floods closing in on Bangkok as the prime minister warned that the capital could face an inundation of 1.5 metres (nearly five feet) of water if barriers collapsed.
The cabinet declared Oct. 27-31 a holiday in Bangkok and 20 provinces affected by the country's worst flooding in 50 years as weekend high tides in the Gulf of Thailand could complicate efforts to divert water from the low-lying capital.
Financial markets will remain open.
As water levels climbed, some of those already evacuated were preparing to be evacuated again, with 4,000 people sheltering at a northern Bangkok airport told they would be moved to the eastern province of Chon Buri.
The floods have killed at least 366 people since mid-July and disrupted the lives of nearly 2.5 million, with more than 113,000 in shelters and 720,000 seeking medical attention.
Authorities are scrambling to pump out water around the east and west of Bangkok but record-high water levels in the Chao Phraya river that winds through the city raise the risk of floods in the commercial heart when the high tides come.
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra warned in a televised address that central Bangkok, which authorities have been struggling to protect, could be swamped by up to 1.5 metres (nearly five feet) of water if barriers broke.
She told residents to get their belongings up high and get ready. She said authorities would guard important places such as the royal palace and power stations and do their best to limit damage and pump water out of the city.
Seri Supharatid, director of Rangsit University's Centre on Climate Change and Disaster, said the city's fate rested with dikes along the Chao Phraya river.
"In the worst-case scenario, if all the dikes break, all parts of Bangkok would be more or less flooded," Seri said.
The floods have also forced the closure of seven industrial estates in Ayutthaya, Nonthaburi and Pathum Thani provinces bordering Bangkok, causing billions of dollars of damage, disrupting supply chains for industry and putting about 650,000 people temporarily out of work.
The cabinet announced a 325 billion baht ($10.6 billion) budget on Tuesday to help rebuild the country, mostly for small and medium-sized enterprises, small vendors and individuals.
"If they get back to normal quickly, it will help push the economy forward," said Finance Minister Thirachai Phuvanatnaranubala.
Thirachai last week said growth for this year could be barely 2 percent due to the flooding, down from the central bank's earlier forecast of 4.1 percent.
Heavy rain late on Tuesday, the first in four days, could complicate an already precarious situation and more showers were forecast for Wednesday.
Don Muang Airport, Bangkok's second biggest, closed late on Tuesday due to concerns that passengers and staff might have problems reaching the terminal. It is expected to reopen on Nov. 1.
Airports of Thailand said the main Suvarnabhumi Airport, built on a snake-infested swamp, was not affected because it was on higher ground. However, Thai Airways, which operates out of Suvarnabhumi, said it may reduce flights because of staffing concerns.
As water levels rose, there were concerns the Lat Krabang and Bangchan industrial zones in the north and east of Bangkok would be inundated, threatening a total of 344 factories, 49 of which are operated by Japanese firms that include including Honda Motor and Isuzu Motors.
"The situation behind the factory isn't good," Tanapon Karakasikum, an official at an auto components factory at Lat Krabang, told Reuters. "The flood barrier is too low but the operators of the estate are not doing anything."
Bangkok Tense
The centre instructed residents of the Muang Ake housing estate in northern Bangkok to evacuate on Tuesday after a flood protection wall in nearby Pathum Thani province was breached, adding to tension in the capital, where residents have fortified their homes and stockpiled food and water.
The Commerce Ministry said on Tuesday it would relax import tariffs and regulations on food, water and some consumer goods in short supply as a result of hoarding.
Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra issued a new flood warning late on Monday for Bang Phlad district, west of the Chao Phraya river and closer to Bangkok's commercial heart.
Bang Phlad is home to department stores, universities and hospitals. Siriraj Hospital, where Thailand's revered king has been for more than two years, is nearby.
Government spokeswoman Thitima Chaisang said the holiday had been called due to the high tides and to give residents the option of leaving Bangkok.
Sukhumbhand said the holiday would allow authorities to handle the crisis better.
Authorities opened most canal gates in Bangkok late last week, a high-risk operation taking pressure off defensive walls by diverting water around the east and west of the capital into the sea, but raising the chance of inner-city flooding.
Hundreds of people were evacuated over the weekend as water in Lak Si and Don Muang reached levels as high as two metres (six feet), spilling out of swollen canals and rivers. Several escaped farm-reared crocodiles have been killed or captured in residential areas of Ayutthaya. Snakes have also been a problem.
At least 227 bank branches have been forced to close by floods, most of them in the provinces north of Bangkok.
The central banks of Japan and Thailand said on Tuesday they were looking at a mechanism to offer funds in baht backed by Japanese government bonds to help affected Japanese firms. The Bank of Thailand also said it was discussing similar plans with other countries.
Big Japanese firms such as Toyota Motor , Sony and Nikon have had to close down operations in Thailand.


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I recently had the great pleasure of visiting Gerardo Garcia, Jamie Topsey, Dan Lay and Charlotte Goble at Durrell. In addition to a having a fantastic facility there on the Isle of Jersey, these folks have put together really great programs in training and on-the-ground amphibian conservation. I'm going to try to post a few images here of their facilities. The Agile Frog, one of only 3 amphibian species on Jersey is down to very small numbers in the wild at one location. The Durrell folks have been collecting eggs and headstarting tadpoles and froglets for release for several years now into two locations and are seeing success! Check out my friend Gerardo Garcia here in this quick video from http://www.durrell.org/Home/Videos/Agile-frog-tadpole-releasing/ that details their work. It's really great!
In addition to their work with Agile Frogs, Durrell is working with the Mountain Chicken (no, not a feathered kind!), another endangered frog (Leptodactylus fallax) from the caribbean. Last year there was a much publicized rescue of these frogs from the island of Montserrat. You can read more about this at this link:
I was able to put fit into some tyvek and enter their awesome biosecure facility where they are breeding this rare frog. Gerardo says they hope to return frogs to Montserrat by the end of the year to trial reintroductions in a safer place on the island.


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(Pocket-lint) - Do you want a very portable digital snapshot camera for use in all weathers and formerly inappropriate conditions?
Looking like some futuristic hand tool from a James Cameron sci-fi epic, Casio is making a claim for the new 12.1-effective megapixel Exilim EX-G1 having the world's thinnest profile in its class at a mere 19.9mm in depth. It may be skinny but the fully automatic model is no seven stone weakling: its body comprises a stainless steel outer layer to repel knocks and scrapes, plus secondary waterproof inner shell of polycarbonate and fibreglass construction to absorb impact.
Available in red or black and with an obvious target market of adventure sports fans or simply those careless in nature, the camera is, according to Casio's own tests, shockproofed to withstand drops from 2.17me, waterproofed to survive a depth of 3m for up to 1 hour, freeze-proof to temperatures of minus 10°C plus dustproof into the bargain. So snow blizzard or sand storm, this is the camera that you want with you - on paper at least.
As such it is placed in direct competition with rough and tumble-ready compacts from the Olympus Mju Tough series (including new 6020 model), Panasonic with itsFT1 and FT2 cameras, Canon with the PowerShot D10, plus, at the waterproof-only, cheaper end of the market, the Fujifilm FinePix Z33WP and Pentax Optio WS80. Casio's entry is priced at a suggested £279 which falls somewhere in the middle of the above, whilst still demanding a slight premium for its nigh indestructible casing over a conventional 12 megapixel, 3x zoom compact.
Yet with distinctly unconventional spec like that, the still relatively lightweight EX-G1 feels reassuringly rugged and solidly constructed. However its use doesn't come without some compromise. The slender dimensions, internally folded 3x optical zoom mechanism (swift and virtually noiseless, with a focal range equivalent to 28-112mm in 35mm film terms) and lens positioning also mean that fingertips can - if not careful - accidentally stray into shot when holding the unit steady with both hands to compose a frame.
You need two hands because there's otherwise not really anything on this camera to get a firm hold on, save for a narrow ridge on the camera's smooth-fashioned faceplate. So camera shake, and blurred shots as a result, is a danger. There's the option of course to manually boost ISO via an on-screen toolbar, and here the light sensitivity range starts lower than most at ISO 64 and continues incrementally up to a maximum ISO 3200.
With a press of the small power button located on the top plate, its rough, ridged surface allowing for operation with wet fingers, but not anyone wearing ski gloves, the EX-G1 readies itself for action in just under 2 seconds, rear 2.5-inch screen fading up from black for shot composition and review in absence of an optical viewfinder.
LCD visibility is adequate for purpose, though is a little dark at times when viewed indoors and provides only a rough indication of the scene before the lens when operated in bright sunlight; basically it's the level of performance you'd expect from an auto everything point and shoot camera at the lower end of the market.
Focus and exposure are determined quickly with a half press of the largest control to be found on this otherwise minimal in appearance model, the shutter release button, set into the highest point of the gently sloping top plate. With an ever so slight shutter delay as you go on to take a shot, full resolution, Fine detail JPEG images are committed to memory - here a small and fiddly to extract and insert microSD card also used in camera phones - in around 3 seconds, the screen momentarily blanking out then freezing with a display of the captured still.
A generous 2GB microSD card was included with our review sample to supplement the perfunctory 35.7MB internal capacity, along with a miniSD adapter so the fingernail-sized card can be used in card readers accepting the more conventional (for a camera) SD or SDHC formats.
As well as stills, the EX-G1 offers the capture of a maximum 848 x 480 pixels resolution mono video, of which around 40 minutes will fit on a 4GB card, with a user-friendly dedicated red record button featuring top right on the camera's backplate.
This ensures that users don't first have to fumble around swapping shooting modes - or here, rather, Casio's own 26 option-strong "Best Shot" (BS) modes - to film "movies"; simply press the provided button and recording will immediately begin. A record lamp can also be switched on to provide artificial illumination when filming in lower light; this is basically the same lamp that is used to assist the auto focus in more challenging conditions, and which blinks to count down to the shutter firing in self timer mode.
The wide ranging BS modes - covering everything from landscapes to underwater photography - are meanwhile individually selectable as well as being jointly incorporated into the camera's Auto BS mode, a kind of intelligent Auto setting if you like, which independently selects the most appropriate setting for a given subject or scene. It appears to work well. And again, it saves fiddling around with settings when you're trying to photograph a swordfish or hurtling down a black run.
Slightly more creative options include time lapse photography, with intervals of 10 or 30 seconds, 1 or 3 minutes, plus the same facility for shooting movies, at intervals of 3, 10, 20 or 30 minutes.
Whilst this is more functionality than regularly found on your £100 point and shoot, certain aspects of the camera are awkward to use. We've griped about the small and fiddly microSD card, a slot for which is provided at the right-hand side of the camera, and a second slot at the base that houses the rechargeable lithium ion battery also has a very narrow compartment from which it's difficult to prise the power cell.
Minor grumbles perhaps, but our discontent mounts when it comes to reviewing captured images.
There are a couple of in-camera digital effects the EX-G1 provides; make up and vivid landscape. The former smoothes facial skin so that it takes on the shiny appearance of a waxwork about to melt, whilst the latter boosts blues and greens in a scenic shot, so is marginally more successful.
However both, along with the majority of images taken on regular auto default setting, have a distinctly digital appearance that at its worst almost looks like a screen grab from a piece of standard definition video. Photo quality isn't up there with the majority of compacts we've tested over the past year and that includes the rival compacts we mentioned at the outset, but, in fairness, pin sharp results are probably not what the audience for this model will be buying it for.
We had fun using the EX-G1 and while we admired its looks, we found that occasionally practicality had been sacrificed to achieve the esoteric design.
Adrenaline junkies may be prepared to pay the premium for the Casio Exilim EX-G1 and be happy with slightly fuzzy snaps to recall their exploits, but photo enthusiasts wanting images pin sharp and properly exposed for the wall, portfolio or family album have cause to look elsewhere.
Up until ISO 800, low light performance is acceptable, but grain appears across the image at ISO 1600 and by ISO 3200 detail is smudged to the extent that photos take on a painterly appearance. Shooting video is slightly more successful and pin sharp quality is less key for the moving image, though the camera's microphone appears to be particularly sensitive in picking up operational movements of the user's fingers and wind noise into the bargain.
If having a camera that will take punishment without breaking is a higher priority than anything else, the Casio Ex-G1 is worth considering - and, again, have we mentioned how cool it looks? - but, in a more sober light, there are better overall options out there.


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Two late goals help Kings rally to win Game 4 vs. Blues
LOS ANGELES -- Even with just 20 minutes separating the Los Angeles Kings from a perilous elimination game in St. Louis, their dressing room was calm and cool.
Anze Kopitar wasn't surprised. After all, the Kings didn't win the Stanley Cup last year by panicking over a little trouble.
Kopitar tied it with 12:46 to play, Justin Williams tipped home the go-ahead goal 76 seconds later, and the Kings evened their first-round series with a 4-3 victory over the Blues on Monday night.
Jeff Carter and Dustin Penner also scored for the defending NHL champions, who responded to a late deficit with the same tenacity that made them champions. After four games of a remarkably even series, these two teams are level again.
"The resilience of our team is amazing," said Kopitar, who ended a personal 19-game goal drought after a slick pass from captain Dustin Brown. "To keep coming back and coming back like that, it's incredible. To be down 2-0, and then down 3-2 in the third period, it shows what we're capable of overcoming."
Mike Richards had two assists for Los Angeles, which dropped the first two games of the series in St. Louis and barely survived for a 1-0 victory in Game 3. The Kings erased an early two-goal deficit and a third-period deficit in Game 4 to earn their ninth consecutive home victory since March 23.
"That's playoffs," Williams said. "That's battling all the way to the final buzzer. We needed a big third period, and we responded. We're an experience team. We've been through a lot, and we knew we were facing a daunting task going back to St. Louis down 3-1, and we found it in ourselves. This is a group that's been in pressure situations before, and we know what we have to do to overcome it."
Game 5 is Wednesday in St. Louis, with Game 6 back at Staples Center on Friday.
T.J. Oshie scored his first two playoff goals for the Blues, who had the champs on the brink of serious trouble before Kopitar and Williams beat Brian Elliott, who stopped 25 shots.
"It's a worst-case scenario when you (lose) a two-goal lead," said Blues captain David Backes, who scored 1:12 into the game. "They had their fans behind them, but we've still got a lot more in the tank, and we're going to find it. It's just a matter of 20 guys staying on the same page."
The Kings hadn't won a playoff game after trailing by two goals since 2001, and they hadn't rallied from a third-period deficit to win a postseason game since the first round last year.
The Blues tried to protect a late lead in front of a raucous Los Angeles crowd, but they couldn't stop Kopitar, Los Angeles' perennial scoring leader. The Slovenian forward hadn't found the net since March 25 and acknowledged the struggle was weighing on him -- but he gave Elliott no chance on his shot in front.
Moments later, Williams slipped in front of Elliott and expertly tipped home Richards' shot from the boards. A video review couldn't conclusively determine whether Williams' stick had been illegally high.
"You play all of last season and all of this season to build confidence in yourselves for situations like this," Richards said. "They've got a great team over there, and there's a lot of similarities between us. It's the smallest things that make the difference, and we had some success tonight."
Jonathan Quick was seriously tested in the final seconds after St. Louis pulled Elliott for an extra attacker, but he finished up his 19-save performance as the sellout Staples Center crowd waved white towels to celebrate another gritty postseason win.
"They took the game to another level tonight, and we didn't have an answer," Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said. "We made two mistakes, two really poor mistakes to give them odd-man rushes to get them back in the game, but even when it was 3-2, they were playing better than we were. ... We didn't manage the puck very well in the second and third period really at all and paid for it dearly."
Both teams struggled offensively during the first three games, never leading by more than a goal. After the Blues' identical 2-1 victories at home, Quick posted his fifth career playoff shutout in Game 3.
But the Blues and Kings scored four goals in the first 14 1/2 minutes of Game 4 and combined for seven goals -- the same number they scored in the first three games of the defense-dominated series combined.
That offensive struggle disappeared 72 seconds into Game 4, when Los Angeles left Backes unchecked as he put a wide rebound off the end boards into Quick's unguarded net for his first goal of the series. Just 3:20 later, Oshie deflected Kevin Shattenkirk's shot in front of Quick for his first goal in 17 career playoff games.
Staples Center fell silent after the Blues took the first multigoal lead of the series, but the Kings swiftly answered.
Richards got the puck along the boards and found his good friend Carter in front for a quick goal midway through the period. Carter led the Western Conference with 26 goals in the regular season, but had managed just nine shots and a minus-2 rating in the first three games.
The Kings evened it with a 3-on-1 finished by Penner. The two-time Stanley Cup winner got his first playoff goal since his overtime winner to end last season's Western Conference finals in Phoenix.
Oshie put the Blues back ahead shortly after a second-period timeout, sending a rebound of Vladimir Sobotka's shot over a prone Quick at a sharp angle.
Game notes
Blues F Vladimir Tarasenko made his NHL playoff debut, replacing Adam Cracknell on the fourth line. Cracknell hadn't been playing extensively for St. Louis, and Hitchcock wanted better offensive skill in the lineup after several missed scoring opportunities in Game 3. ... Los Angeles dressed seven defensemen for the second straight game, sitting forwards Jordan Nolan and Brad Richardson in favor of Alec Martinez, who picked up an assist in both games. ... The NHL announced Los Angeles will host the Anaheim Ducks at Dodger Stadium on Jan. 25.


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The Drums of Cyberwar
Nov 17, 2009 10:37 AM PT
The world's increasing reliance on information technology, combined with the growing sophistication of cybercriminals and cyberattacks, is leading to a sort of cyber-cold war, according to a new report from computer security research firm McAfee.
For example, Estonian government and commercial Web sites were hit by a series of denial of service attacks over a period of weeks back in 2007. Technical analysis showed the attacks came from sources in Russia, but the Russian government denied any responsibility and refused to help find or prosecute the suspects, the report states.
In August, tensions between Georgia and Russia overflowed onto the Web when Russians apparently attacked the Web site and blog of an Estonian writing about the problems between the two countries. The attacks denied millions of people around the world access to their Twitter and Facebook pages.
"Those people were collateral damage in the attack on the Georgian blogger," Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of threat research at McAfee, told TechNewsWorld.
Getting Ready for Cyberbattle
Governments around the world are preparing for future cyberattacks, the McAfee report says. NATO has set up a "Center of Excellence" for cyberdefense in Estonia to study cyberattacks and determine under what circumstances such an attack should trigger NATO's common defense principle. That principle holds that an attack on one member is an attack on all.
In June, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced the formation of the U.S. Cyber Command. This is an organization under the U.S. Strategic Command led by a four-star general that will defend vital U.S. military networks, according to McAfee's report.
The UK government has recently announced plans to create a central Office of Cyber Security to deal with the rising level of online attacks. The office can mount a cyberattack in response to intrusions in extreme cases, the McAfee report states.
Other countries are contemplating similar measures.
The Dogs of War
So far, the hostilities have been confined to cybercrime and cyberespionage and do not amount to war, James Lewis, director and senior fellow of the technology and public policy program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), told TechNewsWorld.
However, countries have probably planned systematic attacks to use in a crisis, Lewis said. The major players are the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, France, Israel and China, according to Lewis. Turkey, India and Taiwan may also be players, he added.
Other countries are engaged in cyberhostilities also. "I was in a meeting in Malaysia where I was told that there are a number of attacks coming from Indonesia," Randy Abrams, director of technical education at ESET, told TechNewsWorld. "But Malaysia and Indonesia are not at war, so I wouldn't call it 'warfare.'"
Defining when intrusions should be considered acts of war is critical, and McAfee's report lays out four criteria.
The first is the source. Cybersleuths have to ask whether the attack was carried out or supported by a nation-state. Second is consequence -- did the attack cause any harm? Third is motivation -- was the attack politically motivated? Fourth is sophistication -- did the attack require customized methods and/or complex planning?
Determining just who launched a given attack is seldom easy. "One of the problems we have is attribution," McAfee's Alperovitch pointed out. "Also, the weapons themselves are used both by nation-states and by cybercriminals, and separating the two is very difficult."
"It's difficult to attribute activities to a specific country due to the use of proxies and the nature of the public network," said Rick Caccia, vice president of product marketing at ArcSight.
Cybercriminals could have a major role to play in the event of a cyberwar. "Foreign governments use cybercriminals as irregular forces," CSIS's Lewis pointed out. "Left to their own devices, cybercriminals are only going to attack places where they can make some money; when they attack a government, it's usually someone else's idea."
Reworking the Web
The very nature of the Internet lays countries open to cyberespionage and cyberwar. "Networks are more open and porous than before, and that makes attacks easier," ArcSight's Caccia said. "More information is online in those networks and is more valuable, so they are more vulnerable to attack."
That means the Internet may need some amount of restructuring, according to McAfee. "We need to rework the infrastructure of the entire Internet," McAfee's Alperovitch said. "It's not going to be done overnight; it's going to be done piece by piece."
That will be a very expensive proposition, but the cost could be shared among governments, private companies and individuals, Alperovitch said. "The cost of security now is enormous, with people losing billions of dollars, and governments having national security compromised because of this."


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The Birmingham Art Music Alliance will present the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Music's Brass Quintet in a free concert of newly composed music by BAMA members at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15, in the Samford University Brock Recital Hall, 800 Lakeshore Drive.
The UAB Brass Quintet features James Zingara, and Steve Roberts, trumpets; Martin Cochran, euphonium; Jeff Koonce, trombone; and Scott Robertson, tuba. This brass quintet is unique because it has a euphonium, rather than a French horn, as its alto voice, which gives the group a somewhat darker sound and provides more flexibility in tonal color.
The program includes brass quintets by Mark A. Lackey, including "Three Simple Prayers,"; Bryan Page's "now does our world descend,"; Monroe Golden's "Some Day,"; Jan Vi?ar's "Three Marches for Dr. Kabyl,"; Wesley Johnson's "Bluegrass Kebyar,"; Holland Hopson's "Purple Loosestrife (Satellite),"; and Ron Wray's"Dance like It Hurts."Also on the program are UAB Assistant Professor of Music William Price's "Sans Titre VII"for solo trumpet and Fernando Deddos'"Rabecando" for solo euphonium. The program will open with a quintet by Nancy Jensen,"Polaris Fanfare."
Lackey, originally from Jasper, is in his first year of teaching at Samford University. His "Three Simple Prayers" was written in response to the terrorist attacks on 9/11. Page is minister of music at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Huntsville. He has adapted "now does our world descend," a poem by E. E. Cummings, for brass quintet. Golden, of Pell City, composed "Some Day" as a meditation upon the protest song "We Shall Overcome," to honor the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Johnson is in his first year of teaching at UAB. His "Bluegrass Kebyar" is a multicultural mash-up of bluegrass, bossa nova, big band and Balinese gamelan. Price's "Sans Titre VII" for trumpet is part of an ongoing series of pieces for solo instruments. Hopson teaches in Tuscaloosa at the University of Alabama's New School of Interdisciplinary Studies. His "Purple Loosestrife (Satellite)" is a gestural work that takes its title from an invasive plant that has colonized North American wetlands.
Wray is a clarinetist who teaches at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He wrote "Dance like It Hurts" with quirky dissonance and changing meters. Vi?ar lives in the Czech Republic and was a visiting professor at Birmingham-Southern College in 2005. His "Three Marches for Dr. Kabyl"is a memorial to a unique American lawyer, traveler, musician and railroad builder.
This program is made possible through the support of the Alabama State Council on the Arts and Samford University. The Birmingham Art Music Alliance is an autonomous nonprofit organization dedicated to presenting concerts of recently created art music by member composers and guest composers. Members include composers, professional performers, students of new music and community members interested in preserving and maintaining the long tradition of music as a living art form. Visit the BAMA website at www.artmusic.org/.


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1992: DTI Code of Practice Published
1995: BS7799 Published
1999: BS7799 Revised
2000: BS7799 Published as ISO 17799
2002: BS7799 Part 2 published
2005: ISO 17799 Revised
Future Developments
ISO 17799 itself has only recently been updated. Consequently a period of relative stability is likely. However, the standards surrounding ISO17799 will be undergoing change in the interim.
A new version of BS7799 is due to be released as ISO 27001 shortly. A new standard, BS7799-3 is also under development. Finally, all these standards, 17799 included, will eventually be renamed to form an entire series under the banner ISO 27000.
Recent Site Additions
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- List of national standards bodies
- Paper: ISO 17799 Implementation
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The complete BS7799 Q&A
ISO 17799 is now established as the de facto standard for information security. Over the years, as its influence has increased, it has also matured in terms of scope and supporting infrastructure. A second part has been established (BS7799) to cover management systems, and compliance and certification schemes are now well trodden paths.
The ISO 17799 Implementation and Resource Portal is intended to assist both newcomers and experienced security practitioners in terms of aggregating the key information and resources to move forward with the standard. It is intended to serve as a genuine launch pad for all needs with respect to both ISO 17799 and BS7799.
The portal offers a whole range of information, resources, templates, tools and news. It is also developing fast, and as a 'living site' contributions are always welcome.
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This is a full-grown iguana and is about 5 feet long (including the tail). In addition to it's green color, it has black stripes. Green iguanas, not surprisingly, are green in color, but can be found in many different shades ranging from bright green to a dull grayish green. Their skin is rough, with a set of pointy scales along their back. Green Iguanas have long fingers and claws to help them climb and grasp, like what you see here.
Green Iguanas can hear and smell very well, and have superb vision. Their long tail is also quite sharp, and is snapped in the air as a defense mechanism. You can see here, Charlie, is not upset that I am holding him. A green iguana's skin is very water resistant, and tough to avoid cuts and scratches. The color of the skin, helps camouflage him within the foliage. If they need to escape quickly, they have been known to leap from trees into water, and swim do swim well. Both male and female Iguanas can store fat under their jaws and in their necks for times when there is not much food available.
Iguanas live in tropical rain forest areas, like Belize. They can be found in lower altitudes in areas near water sources, such as river or streams. They spend most of their time high in the forest canopy, about 40-50 feet above the ground. Iguanas are diurnal, meaning that they are awake during the day. They are cold-blooded, which means they do not produce their own body heat. In other words, a green iguana is cold to the touch. To stay warm, iguanas bask in the sun, lying on warm rocks, as they soak up the sun's heat.
Green iguanas tend to live alone, but you may see them in groups occasionally in good sunny basking spots. Iguanas lay eggs, about 50 at a time, in holes in the ground called burrows. After a female iguana lays her eggs, she will leave them and not return. When iguana babies hatch, they grow up without care from their parents. Green iguanas lay many eggs, but only 3-10 babies will actually survive. It takes about 7-10 weeks for an egg to hatch and 2 years for a baby to become an adult.
Green iguanas are omnivorous, which means to all you kids, they tend to eat mostly plants, leaves and fruit. Sometimes green iguanas when they are young, will eat eggs, insects and small vertebrates.
Tony Garel, at the Belize Zoo & Tropical Education Center, is working on a project to help conserve the iguanas and educate the local communities as to their importance in our environment. Tony has used captive breeding techniques to increase green iguana populations, and has released some of these iguanas into the wild.


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Hockey Playoffs Remind Us Why We Love Ryan Kesler – Hunk of the Day
Thanks to the Stanley Cup playoffs, we've been seeing a lot of hockey players back in the spotlight. But there's definitely one face we're more happy to see than a lot of the others and that face belongs to Ryan Kesler of the Vancouver Canucks.
We took a look back at all of his career highlights and, in our opinion at least, they're all moments when he was shirtless. Take his FIRSTAR underwear ads, for instance, or all of his teammates' interviews that he video bombed in his bath towel. Those were a lot more entertaining then his skills on the ice.
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What's it like to go out to eat with Jillian Michaels, the drill sergeant-like trainer on NBC's weight loss reality TV series "The Biggest Loser" — known for getting in the faces of the show's overweight contestants?
Not as scary as you would think, Michaels assures.
"People that know me know I'm very good about doing my own thing and minding my own business," said Michaels over the phone last month while in Seattle for her Maximize Your Life tour. The tour will make a stop Friday at the Auditorium Theatre in the Loop. "If you don't solicit me for help, I'll leave you alone. There are millions of people who do want help. I'm not going to waste my time convincing people who aren't receptive."
Michaels, however, made an exception in January when she appeared on NBC's "The Tonight Show."
The 39-year-old Michaels scrutinized host Jay Leno's poor eating habits and listed what he had eaten the previous four days, the information coming courtesy of his worried staff. No matter how hard Michaels pressed, the stubborn Leno made it clear he wasn't going to change his diet. It was a conversation not that different from the one many of us have tried to have with our own parents, only Leno was put on the spot on national TV.
"I love Jay," Michaels said. "He's such a mensch and has been wonderful to me. But he eats (poorly) and he knows it. I have that kind of relationship with him where we like to give each other (grief). He didn't want to hear it, but with Jay, I can get away with pushing him."
Since appearing on the original season of "The Biggest Loser" in 2004, Michaels has gone on to release several DVDs and best-selling books and endorse diet supplements. She also hosted the short-lived "Biggest Loser" spinoff "Losing It with Jillian" in 2010 and briefly co-hosted the syndicated daytime talk show "The Doctors" in 2011.
Michaels clearly has benefited from her reputation for intensity, which she said is almost cartoon-like because of its exaggerated nature, but insisted there's more to her than just the screaming persona people see on TV.
"It gets edited to look like that," Michaels said. "It, unfortunately, is what it is and makes for good TV. But you have to understand I'm with contestants all the time, and you might see five minutes of it. It's not an inaccurate picture, just an incomplete picture. When you think of 'Biggest Loser,' you think of it as a TV show. But people are coming to lose weight. I take that very seriously. I wish I didn't have to (scream), but I do what I do because it's necessary. For me, there's no other way to do the job. It requires tough love so the contestants will stop acting like victims."
The Maximize Your Life tour marks the first time Michaels has hit the road on her own to speak to audiences about healthy living. Michaels claimed it's the first of her many business ventures that hasn't been met with criticism.
"I didn't expect the reception to be so kind," Michael said. "When I do things, all the haters come out and say why it's bad and why I'm bad. I guess because it's an intimate, small thing for myself and fans, it's really pure. I thought it would be met with criticism like everything else I do, but it's been really lovely."
Michaels has helped many people reach their goals — including reigning "Biggest Loser" winner and Mundelein High School alum Danni Allen, who lost 121 pounds on the show — but what goals has Michaels set for herself at this point in her career?
"It's no secret I would like to do a talk show," Michaels said. "I want to do what I've been doing on this tour every day. I want that direct connection with the audience. And I want to talk about more than just fitness, but also about being happy and laughing together. I haven't had success (with this goal) so far, but hopefully one day I will."
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Yesterday, I saw a link to a new petition on the U.S. government's website to allow the "unlocking" of ebooks and reaffirmation of ownership rights by consumers for these digital goods. This comes on the heels of the Obama administration coming out strongly in favor of fully legalizing the jailbreaking or unlocking of cell phones. I agree with both sentiments, but the new petition has some issues. Here is the text:
Protect Readers' Rights by Unlocking Ebooks
The White House recently came out in favor of allowing consumers to unlock their own cellular telephones. We are asking the White House to apply the same laws and provisions to ebooks.
The purchase of a book, whether online or not, is a purchase, not a license. Digital books should be legal to read on any device that supports standard text files. Legally purchased digital books should not self-destruct, expire or disapper, except under conditions of damage or obsalescence. Within reasonable limits, book purchasers have the right to lend or give books to friends, charitable organizations and libraries. Finally, libraries should be permitted to lend ebooks under the same rules as physical books.
We ask the Obama Administration to champion the rights of readers to own their ebooks.
So, typos notwithstanding, let's discuss. And by the way, if you're going to post a petition concerning important issues like literature and consumer rights, you really should spellcheck the damn thing, otherwise your credibility could "disapper."
For starters, the White House didn't apply any laws or provisions regarding unlocked cell phones, they only expressed support for the notion going forward. The relevant laws concerning this, specifically in the DMCA, clearly ban the activity. Their opinion on this is all it is, just an opinion. For cell phone unlocking to actually be legal, it'll take a legislative fix. Good luck with that. Not to mention, they stopped short of showing support for similar unlocking of ereaders and video game consoles, etc (they did mention tablets but only in the limited sense that they were becoming more like smart phones which dedicated ereaders are definitely not). A logical view would follow that if jailbreaking phones is okay, then doing so with all devices should be as well. But the White House doesn't stretch that far, with their stated position directed at preventing lock-in by telecomm service providers and has nothing at all to do with content providers. In fact, the White House specifically called for "narrow legislative fixes in the telecommunications space." That's a far cry from rallying around customer rights for content they purchase. It's certainly a step in the right direction, but there is no law or provision in this that's even applicable to content rights for consumers.
I completely agree with the statement that buying an ebook is a purchase not a license, but that's far from a popular position to hold. Over the past couple months, in arguing in favor of resale rights to digital goods, I found myself in many places arguing just that point of view. Content providers, including many independent writers, are clinging to the license scheme, and with some solid justification. There have been a few conflicting court decisions, but it's far from decided that the sale referred to here is, legally speaking, actually a sale. I believe it is, and I think the licensing regime we've got going on here is potentionally the greatest threat to consumer rights in any of our lifetimes, but I'm definitely on the minority side of that point of view. It's going to take a favorable SCOTUS ruling to affirm such rights, as a legislative fix simply isn't happening in this atmosphere, and I wouldn't hold my breath for it, even if I absolutely believe it's what needs to happen to retain balance between producers and consumers in the stream of commerce.
I'm somewhat confused by the statement that says digital books should be legal to read on devices that support standard text files. Ebooks aren't standard text files and, as formats improve (epub3, html5, etc) they're even less comparable to simple text. Unless the petitioner is advocating for stripping off the bells and whistles to bare bones text, I don't understand the point of this statement. Seems naive and, much like the recent lawsuit from bookstores against Amazon and the Big 6 calling for "open-source DRM," whatever the hell that is, it comes off as very tech-ignorant.
As for libraries being able to loan ebooks under the same rules as print, I have two questions. One, ebooks aren't print so why would you want to limit libraries to a physical standard that doesn't necessarily apply? Secondly, and most importantly, the petition plays fast and loose with the first sale provision of copyright law. The ability of libraries to lend physical books as they have comes from first sale. The petitioner's opening statement that an ebook buy is a purchase not a license supports a first sale position, but it also seems to go out of its way to avoid even mentioning consumer's rights under the same provision, notably resale. Is the suggestion here that libraries should be granted a waiver to exploit first sale rights customers shouldn't have, even though it opens with a strong statement supporting a first sale argument? I don't get it. If the point here is to free ebooks from lockdown control of content providers, why skip the most important tool to achieve that, a true ownership stake in the ebook for the purchaser?
What I see as the big flaw in the argument here is the warping of the concept of first sale rights. Libraries can have them, apparently, the license scheme used to block them is dismissed, yet for some reason, consumers should still be left wanting for their full rights under copyright law? Why? And what, exactly, are reasonable limits to purchasers lending ebooks? Why should libraries get more rights to lend books than consumers? How is it that I can give away or donate said ebook, a library can then use first sale to lend it, but I can't use the exact same provision of copyright to resell it? I thought this was about freeing ebooks for consumers, but it seems more like exempting libraries than truly benefitting paying readers.
The petition ends with a call for the Obama administration to champion the rights of readers to own their ebooks. I agree, but that's not what they're calling for here. This petition still ignores first sale rights for consumers while championing them for libraries and even accepting restrictions on consumers to lend or give away said ebooks. This isn't ownership at all, but simply a desire to read a Kindle ebook on a Nook or similar type of arrangement. If all you really want is to prevent content provider lock-in to specific devices, then say that. Don't muddle the issue with notions of first sale or ownership that you're not even advocating. The wording of the petition also allows for ebooks to be deleted or removed due to obsolescence (misspelled obsalescence, which is a fascinating freudian slip, as license schemes are already limiting the very idea of what constitutes a sale).
I think this is a nice thought, preventing vendor lock-in has some definite merits, but ultimately this petition is poorly executed and unnecessarily convoluted. And again, spellcheck, dammit!