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A growing army of malware delivery networks – 'malnets' – account for two thirds of all cyberattacks and most current technologies offer an inadequate response to the threat, security firm Blue Coat has argued in a new analysis.
Malnets are networks of compromised servers used to serve malware to PCs users either via tempting them to click on infected links or via drive-by clicks baited through Internet search. The technique is an old one but what is perhaps new is the automation being used to turn them into large, self-sustaining networks.
Most of the names on the company's top five malnet list are so little known compared to botnets that to most people they probably sound like characters from the Skylanders videogame.
'Shnakule',' Tricki', 'Rubol', 'Raskat', and 'Rongdac' are, in order of size, the top five although Schnakule dwarfs the others with between 1,700 and 5,000 concurrent hosts.
In total, the company was now tracking 1,500 individual malnets, three times the number it saw only six months ago, making the phenomenon one of cybercrime's boom areas.
Unlike botnets – built mostly from compromised PCs – malnets seem to possess a devolved and constantly-shifting command and control system that makes them much harder to shut down; Shnakule alone issued changes to its host C&C servers 56,000 times so far in 2012, Blue Coat said.
Botnets, on the other hand, must hardwire a C&C address into the infected machine – if that host or its backup disappears, the botnetted PC is no longer active.
The point of all this is that the prominent botnet shutdowns seen in the last two years offer no long-term respite as long as malware networks exist to build new bots. Malnets, are, therefore, the key support for much contemporary malware.
"When security companies aggressively pursued the Zeus botnet, malnet operators simply shifted their resources to the Aleuron botnet, developing and using it in attacks," said Blue Coat's researchers.
"In just six months, activity from the Aleuron botnet increased 517 percent, surpassing Zeus, and making it the most active botnet in the wild."
Blue Coat's answer sounds like a logical one even if it is part of a commercial marketing strategy – stop devoting resources solely to blocking the malware served by malnets and attempt to block the rogue hosts themselves. The company calls this 'negative day defence', included as a layer in its security systems.
Interestingly, the rise of malnets has also had some unexpected effects, the company claims. In August, Blue Coat reported that simple 'long tail' web searches were still far more important for serving malware than special events such as the London Olympics or breaking news.
Going against the received security view, attackers now preferred to spread their links across a large number of search terms than jump on specific events that might be easier to block.


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Hopefully the hottest of the hot weather is behind us. Ohio had temperatures above 100 degrees in late July. Although we received around an inch of rain on our farm, the soil is still dry.
I ran an errand on Saturday from Lima to Dayton and then east to Springfield. The cornfields were all curled and showing drought stress. Today we drove through Findlay, then east to Fostoria and then north to Lake Erie. This area received over 4 in. of rain during the week. Water was standing in fields and along roadsides, and the rivers were swollen. Severe flooding happened during the week in the Cleveland area. Some people had to leave their homes. So Ohio is really getting a mixed bag of precipitation.
Most soybean fields are only a foot tall. At this point I think most farmers are que cera cera about the weather and our only hope is that the genetics of the new varieties of corn and soybeans that we planted will come through for us.
One of the nasty weeds this year is marestail. Everyone is worried that they will be Roundup resistant. Curly Dock, or Sour Dock as some people call it, is more prolific than ever before. Apparently the weather was just right for this weed to grow like crazy. It starts like a dandelion and then quickly shoots an upward stem and grows to 3 or 4 ft. high. It matures in June and turns a rusty red color with a seed head of hundreds of large seeds. It grew in hay fields, wheat fields and corn and soybean fields as well as along roadsides. We actually went out in our hay fields and got rid of the weeds by hand because we didn't want them in our hay that we feed our own livestock or in the hay that we sell to other people.
In my travels in the countryside, I not only look at the crops but also at the farmsteads, and there can be quite a contrast. On some farms, everything is in order and the grass is perfectly mown; on other farms, equipment is still sitting out from planting and giant ragweeds are growing 8 ft. tall in the barnyard. When I see a neatly groomed farmstead, I sometimes stop in and give the owner a nice compliment. People have already stopped at our farm and complimented us and we appreciated it a lot.


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Life Time Fitness, Chanhassen, MN, has acquired four clubs from Lifestyle Family Fitness, St. Petersburg, FL, which is closing most of its other clubs in Indiana and Ohio. The deal could involve as many as nine clubs.
Life Time is acquiring two of Lifestyle's 10 clubs in the Columbus, OH, area (Henderson and Pickerington). Of the remaining eight Columbus clubs, Lifestyle is closing six of them (Downtown Columbus, Northeast Columbus, New Market, Gahanna, Polaris and New Albany).
Geoff Dyer, founder and former CEO of Lifestyle Family Fitness, will take over as owner of the remaining two Ohio clubs (Hilliard and East Columbus), which will be rebranded. The new name of the clubs has not been announced. Dyer will continue to be an investor in Lifestyle and serve on its board of directors.
Life Time also acquired two of Lifestyle's four clubs in the Indianapolis area (North Meridian and Fishers) while Lifestyle is closing the remaining two (Greenwood and Keystone). Discussions about the future of the six Lifestyle clubs in North Carolina are taking place, but Lifestyle says no changes have been finalized, although Life Time also has shown interest in that area.
None of Lifestyle's remaining 35 clubs in Florida are affected by the transactions.
In a statement released today, Life Time announced that it will acquire and operate up to nine Lifestyle clubs. That leaves five of the North Carolina clubs as possibilities, with the remaining club likely closing or being sold to another owner.
Terms of the transaction, expected to close next month, were not disclosed.
"Consistent with our long-held strategy, the acquisition and operation of these clubs, which are similar to our existing, smaller-format Life Time centers, brings an infill opportunity to markets in which we already operate large Life Time destinations," Bahram Akradi, Life Time chairman, president and CEO, said in a statement. "We are excited to extend our Healthy Way of Life programs, services and certified experts to a new base of members as we further expand in these current Life Time markets via this agreement. Once we absorb the integration costs associated with this transaction, we expect the acquisition to be neutral to slightly accretive to our 2012 earnings."
Lifestyle Family Fitness Chairman Stuart Lasher announced the acquisition to his employees in an email today.
"As many of you know, many of the Lifestyle clubs in Ohio, Indiana and North Carolina were opened during a very difficult economic environment," Lasher said in the email. "Low-cost competition was on the rise, and consumer sentiment was on the decline. Behind the scenes, we struggled with high rents, difficult advertising conditions, low traffic, and, despite the best of efforts from our teams in these markets, limited success.
"Over the past two years, we've tried many things to turn these markets around, including, most recently, some fairly aggressive rent concession negotiations. Unfortunately, we have not been able to position these markets for success."
Lasher went on to say that Life Time has expressed interest in acquiring the Lifestyle clubs in Ohio, Indiana and North Carolina for the past several months.
Lifestyle has been shopping its clubs for a while, according to a source. It was rumored that 24 Hour Fitness, San Ramon, CA, had interest in acquiring Lifestyle, but that rumor was shot down by a source at Lifestyle.
The effective date for the changes is Nov. 30. Employees of the closed Lifestyle clubs are being told that Nov. 30 also will be their last day of employment. Employees at the Life Time-acquired clubs will have an opportunity to work there.
Lasher said Lifestyle has made a commitment to its Florida clubs, including immediate improvements and upgrades to equipment, front desks and locker rooms. Lifestyle has made a $1 million investment in the renovation of its Hyde Park club. The company also has signed a three-year partnership agreement with the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
After opening its first club in 1982 in Lakeland, FL, Lifestyle doubled in size in 1991, then doubled again in 1995. From 2000 to 2007, Lifestyle grew from seven clubs to 40 clubs and from $12 million to $100 million in revenue. In 2005, Lifestyle purchased eight of the former California Fitness Centers in Columbus, OH, from Ray Wilson and Greg Rowe.
Lifestyle was No. 10 on Club Industry's Top 100 Clubs list this year with a reported $102.4 million in 2010 revenue, a 3 percent decrease from the previous year.
Life Time Fitness, which operates 92 clubs, is No. 3 on the Top 100 Clubs list with a reported $912.8 million in 2010 revenue. Life Time recently reported double-digit increases in revenue percentages for third quarter 2011 and for the first nine months of 2011. It expects to generate at least $1 billion this year.


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Shorty was adopted from our Pinole shelter last March and we just received this update from her family:
"Hello guys I just wanted to truly thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping these little souls find a happy home. 9 months ago I adopted "Shorty" from the Pinole shelter and she's truly been a blessing, she fills my home with nothing but happiness. I love coming home from work and finding her happy to see me. Now, as the holidays are coming, I'm eager to get my baby a sibling so I'm definitely going to be adopting again! Thanks again for everything that you've done and continue to do."
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She was also very sweet, staying next to and providing kisses and support to anyone sad or dispirited. And in 16 years she met a lot of humans that needed such kindness, including me. She stayed by my side, literally, after I had surgery and radiation for uterine cancer. For hours on end she'd be curled up and pressed against my abdomen. At any encouragement she would sleep with any guests that used our home as a refuge away from their stressful lives. She was with my Mom here in North Carolina when she passed.
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The name opal derives from the Greek Opallos, meaning "to see a change (of color)." Opals range in color from milky white to black with flashes of yellow, orange, green, red, and blue. An opal's beauty is the product of contrast between its color play and its background. Opal is a formation of non-crystalline silica gel that seeped into crevices in the sedimentary strata. Through time and nature's heating and molding processes, the gel hardens into the form of opals. The opal is composed of particles closely packed in spherical arrangements. When packed together in a regular pattern, a three-dimensional array of spaces is created that gives opal its radiance.
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Protect and personalize your MacBook with Incase's lightweight, form-fitting Hardshell Case. It delivers protection without sacrificing access to ports, lights, and buttons. This durable MacBook cover also offers sophisticated styling, injection-molded construction, and rubberized feet to keep your laptop cool and firmly in place.
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Yep it's the return of an annual Beat tradition that goes back nearly a decade, as comic folk from every level of the industry — creators, reporters, retailers, publshers—talk about the issues of the year past and look at the issues of the year to come. There are always a lot of thoughtful answers in this survey, but this year a LOT of very important and thought-provoking topics are looked at from crowdfunding to harassment.
And as always, there are previews and news scattered in the 2014 projects. So settle in and enjoy—there is so much more to come.


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I am currently using NPVR with SD and everything is working brilliantly but for one thing:
I only use NPVR as the backend - all clients are raspberry Pi's, running Kodi (Libreelec).
When I look at the guide, none of the details about the episode or season is there.
I did ask, on the NPVR forum about this, and the developer did inform me that this was being looked into for future editions of the NPVR Kodi addon.
I was just wondering whether there was any way to add the Season and Episode information to the beginning of the subtitle.
When I was using Argus TV and Webgrabplus+, I had to do this with an built in program called Rex.
Not only would this improve the guide, as far as Kodi goes, but it would also improve the NPVR guide too - at the moment, you have to press the details button on every channel to see the season and episode number. It would be nice if it was already there.


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Garrrett, Worden top Lipscomb finishers
May 12, 2007
In the first day of the Atlantic Sun Conference Track and Field Championships Friday Todd Garrett and Susan Worden led the way for Lipscomb.
Garrett finished in a three-way tie for third in the men's pole vault with a 4.45-meter effort.
Josh Hogan finished 12th in the men's long jump with a 4.89-meter attempt.
Susan Worden finished fifth in the women's 10,000 meters run with a time of 39:14.37
Hannah Joiner was fifth in a preliminary heat of the 100 meters hurdles with a time of 16.66.
Danielle Graham finished 10th in the women's long jump with a 4.44=meter effort.
Kyle Mullen was ninth in the women's discus throw with a 24.92 meter attempt.
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Victoria's Secret Model Roosevelt Island Airbnb Apartment Listing At Roosevelt Landings Was A Ripoff Says Lawyer And Is Suing - Model Says Roosevelt Island Apartment Is Not A Dump
The Roosevelt Island Twitterverse reports:
According to Gothamist:Corporate Law Firm Associate Says $3,000/Month Airbnb On Roosevelt Island Was A Ripoff https://t.co/gXd1ANDaaJ pic.twitter.com/HDMKHMkiix— Gothamist (@Gothamist) August 31, 2016
An associate at a corporate law firm is suing Airbnb and his supermodel host because the one-bedroom apartment he booked on Roosevelt Island—for $3,000 a month—didn't meet his expectations. Christian Pugaczewski spent one night in the apartment where he'd planned to spend the entire summer, dissatisfied with the building's empty cinder-block hallways that smelled like marijuana, holes inside the apartment, and a roach trap, among other concerns.
"There were holes in the floor," he told us Wednesday. "The stool legs were strategically placed in the holes. There were layers of grime built up on the window sills and the air conditioning units. There was a roach trap there too, so I assumed there was an infestation...."
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Click here for the full Gothamist article.
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... Airbnb didn't publish the address, but based on the description, Pugaczewski believed the unit was located in the luxury Riverwalk condominium.Click here for the full NY Post article.
When he received the 540 Main St. address just before his move-in date he learned that the apartment was actually at the nearby Eastwood complex, a rundown development recently converted from federally-subsidized housing....
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It is NOT a dump!Click here for the full NY Daily News article.
That's what a Victoria's Secret model insisted Wednesday about her Roosevelt Island apartment that was the subject of a new lawsuit by an unhappy Airbnb customer.
However, the model, Lyndsey Scott, said she "acknowledges" the complaints of attorney Christian Pugaczewski and is "working closely with Airbnb to ensure that this is settled in a fair and just manner."....
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Fifth-seeded Eastern Randolph used a balanced scoring attack and rallied from a three-point halftime deficit to defeat fourth-seeded Cummings High School 43-39 in the quarterfinals of the Mid-State 2-A Conference Tournament for girls� basketball Monday night.
The Wildcats (11-14) avenged Thursday�s 61-50 loss to the Cavaliers.
Alexis Andrews scored nine points to lead visiting Eastern Randolph while Caroline Cox and Shae Manness added eight points apiece.
Eastern Randolph advances to meet top-seeded Reidsville in Wednesday night�s semifinal at Bartlett Yancey.
Aundrea Walker scored a game-high 15 points and Sakieya Timmons added 13 points for Cummings (10-15).
-- EASTERN ALAMANCE 62, WESTERN ALAMANCE 22: At Mebane, second-seeded Eastern Alamance flexed its muscle against cross-county rival Western Alamance in a quarterfinal game in the Mid-State 3-A Conference Tournament.
Terri Rogers had 15 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Eagles.
Jaimee Cousin added 13 points and four steals while Keidra Smith finished with 10 points and five assists for Eastern Alamance (20-5).
The Eagles, who led 29-10 at halftime, advanced to tonight�s semifinal matchup at Williams High School against No. 3 seed Eastern Guilford.
Ashley Breazeale led the Warriors (5-20) with 10 points.
-- EASTERN GUILFORD 57, McMICHAEL 43: At Gibsonville, the Wildcats (17-8) eased past No. 6 seed McMichael (5-17) to set up tonight�s semifinal matchup with Eastern Alamance in the Mid-State 3-A Conference Tournament.
-- NORTHERN GUILFORD 73, EDEN MOREHEAD 23: At Greensboro, the No. 1-seeded Nighthawks (24-1) blitzed visiting No. 8 seed Eden Morehead (1-21) in a Mid-State 3-A Conference Tournament quarterfinal.
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Els prepares for US Open at Merion Golf Cup hoping for major win in 2nd straight year
ARDMORE, Pa. – Give it up, Ernie.
No, not the belly putter. At least, not yet.
Ernie Els has a claret jug he must return with his reign as British Open champion coming to an end.
"It was very great to have it in my possession again," a smiling Els said.
Perhaps another U.S. Open Trophy would serve as an adequate replacement.
Els is on the hunt for a third U.S. Open championship and the Big Easy wants to find it at Merion Golf Club this weekend. Els is one of the few dozen or so in the 156-player field to play some rounds at Merion. He played corporate outings in 2004 and 2005 and recalled the tough holes, blind tee shots — and the rain.
Lots of rain.
Not much changed when Els returned this week. Rain has absolutely soaked the course and flooded bunkers over the last three days. Els scrapped a practice session on Saturday and Monday's was cut short because of the downpour that greatly dampened and softened the 6,996-yard course, the shortest Open in more than a decade.
"I think it's not going to bare its teeth the way it should," Els said. "I know guys were hoping for a firm test."
With softer conditions, Els may as well keep the driver in the bag.
Golfers should be able to hit the fairway with a 3-wood or even an iron on some of the par-4s.
Once they reach the green, it could be time for Els to anchor up the belly putter.
The 43-year-old Els only has about three more years of majors left where he can still use the belly putter in its current form. The proposed rule change would prohibit golfers at all levels from anchoring a club against their bodies while making a stroke. Els, who won the British with a longer putter, has been outspoken with his unhappiness over the ban.
"Unfortunately, for guys that have been using it for a very long time, I think it's very unfair," he said. "For the future of the game, looking down the road 50 to a hundred years, they probably needed to do this step at some point, I guess. Probably should have done it 30, 40 years ago, but we're at this point now and guys are winning a lot of big tournaments, kids are starting to use it, and so that's what it is."
He understood change is ahead, whether he liked it or not — or how much if affected his game.
"I've been working with the shorter putter again," he said. "It took a little focus away from what I want to do. And my ball striking for some reason this year hasn't been as sharp. So I've put a bit more work in on that front the last week. When all aspects start clicking, then you can start thinking about winning. And I feel that time is coming right now."
Els had been in a lengthy majors drought when he took advantage of Adam Scott's collapse to win his second British Open last year at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. His fourth major championship came at a stage in his career when it appeared that his best golf was behind him. He became only the sixth player to win the U.S. Open and British Open twice.
Els, elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2011, is up for a third in his 21st Open. It'd be a long time coming — his other two were won in 1994 and 1997. He finished ninth last year at the Olympic Club in San Francisco.
"I see a very close race with a lot of players in contention this year, unlike other U.S. Opens," he said. "It's going to be bunched. It's going to be under par, you'll be seeing quite a few numbers in the red."
He'll need caddie Dan Quinn to help him get there. Quinn, who's worked part time on Els' bag since 2010, played 14 seasons in the NHL.
"We haven't quite found our rhythm this year yet," Els said. "But we've had some really good finishes."
Els, a native of Johannesburg, has kept close tabs on the worsening health of Nelson Mandela. The anti-apartheid hero and South Africa's first black president was in serious but stable condition in a Pretoria hospital for the third day Monday with a recurring lung infection.
Els said he had a great relationship with Mandela, though he hadn't seen the former leader in several years.
"When I won a lot of tournaments in the '90s and early part of the 2000s, we spoke a lot on the telephone," Els said. "He always felt proud of what the sporting athletes out of South Africa did for the country. He always felt very proud of that. Through that instance we had a really nice relationship.
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Experts, friends, colleagues and supervisors have all given me the same advice about this thing they refer to as a "welcome post": "Whatever you do, Zurawik," one longtime friend and new-media expert says, "don't get cosmic. Don't give in to your obsessive need to try and go deep every time you step up to the plate. Singles and doubles – just go for a nice, clean base hit. In your first post, focus only on what matters most."
Ok, probably nothing matters more to prospective readers of this blog than the fact that I am only slightly less obsessive than Adrian Monk, the defective detective of cable channel USA's Monk. That means I will be posting a lot and at weird hours until I find a rhythm or crack up with all the extra work and stress I have just taken on.
But that can mean good things for readers. For example….
Next Saturday night and Sunday morning, if you check in with me here at about 1 or 2 a.m., you will find a review of Michael Phelps' performance as host of NBC's season opener for Saturday Night Live. And those of you who have been reading my stuff since I became the Sun's TV critic in 1989, know I will tell you what I really think -- whether it is nice or not. But I guarantee you this is going to be one of the first and best places to find that review.
The headline on this blog promises that is will be about the "business, culture and craziness" of TV. In 23 years of writing on a daily basis about TV, the one thing I can say with certainty is that the answer to just about every question about the medium is MONEY. I will deal a lot with that.
In a post later this week, I will explain how the decision by cable operators to move AMC's Mad Men to the digital tier of channels (to make more money) has severely affected ratings for this brilliant production.
As for TV as culture, were this blog up and running last week, I would have tried to connect the dots between TV shows like the ABC Family channel's The Secret Life of the American Teenager and the pregnancy of the unmarried 17-year-old daughter of Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate.
Last month, when the ABC Family series premiered, I wrote a piece saying that like the feature film, Juno, such series send a message to teen girls that getting pregnant is a sure path to becoming the center of attention from family and friends. That's an especially danergous messages to teens who are feeling marginalized or neglected.
I welcomed such conservative analysts as Brent Bozell taking my piece and running with it on their Web sites to generate spirited online debates, but I wish for our own business reasons at the Sun, we were having those discussions here.
And that goes the same for a debate at Daily Kos over a piece I wrote ripping HBO's film Recount for playing fast and loose with the facts of American history,. Ditto for another discussion at informationweek.com on my analysis of Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama as being more of the TV Age than the Internet Era despite all the cyber-buzz his campaign generates.
Enough, already, you will have to come back to find out how I characterize the "craziness" of TV – and what I really think about a politician like former Governor Robert Ehrlich sitting at a TV news desk, or whether Alan Ball's new HBO drama, True Blood, is better than the late HBO drama, The Wire.
My review on True Blood ran yesterday in the Sun…I'm wondering what you are thinking of the show -- particularly if you have read the Sookie Stackhouse novels. I admit, despite being a Buffy fan, I am not an expert on the genre.
In the Sun, I write primarily for a section called "You," and that's another reason this blog exists: To answer your questions about TV. Just post them here as comments if you want, and we'll get the conversation started.


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Final Fantasy 10/10-2 HD Remaster Trailer: The Gang's All Here
Can you believe it's been over a decade since we first followed Tidus and Yuna round the world of Spira? Well, a new trailer for Final Fantasy 10/10-2 HD Remaster has debuted, showing us the updated visuals for a few of our old friends.
According to the PlayStation Blog, the HD Remaster will be released on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita this winter, though no specific dates have been announced. There's also no word on whether the Vita version will get a physical release or if it will be available as a download only.
If you pe-order the game now, you'll get a free upgrade to a Limited Edition book package. Inside this package includes concept art from both Final Fantasy 10 and Final Fantasy 10-2's early development, commentary from the development team and a message from Producer Yoshinori Kitase.
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By the summer of 1942, the conflagration sparked by Germany's swift and brutal aggression against its neighbors—including bombing raids on London—and by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 had spread far and wide enough that the conflict could legitimately be seen as a second "world war." The Axis powers had invaded (and, in most cases, conquered) countries from northern Europe and Russia to North Africa and the southwestern Pacific. From the Allies' perspective, news from the various fronts was hardly encouraging—and it would be another full year before momentum shifted from the Axis to the British, Soviets, Americans and troops from more than a dozen other allied countries.
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As in all wars, propaganda played a central role in the mission and the strategies of the combatants. However, where the Axis had legendarily shrill and, at times, unhinged characters like Joseph Goebbels in charge of their "messaging," the far-more-fortunate Allies could and did call on the greatest propagandists of all time: Hollywood filmmakers. Acknowledged movie masters like Frank Capra, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Michael Curtiz, John Huston and others made documentaries and films that exhorted "the free people of the world"—i.e., those still resisting Axis aggression—to do whatever was in their power to help the Allied cause.
But perhaps no filmmaker provided richer fare for the Allies during the war itself than Alfred (later Sir Alfred) Hitchcock. Between 1940 and 1945, Hitch made films for England's Ministry of Information as well as several excellent movies featuring plots that centered on the war (Saboteur, Foreign Correspondent, the remarkable Lifeboat and others). Hitchcock's most unusual director's credit from the 1940s, however, wasn't attached to a movie at all, but instead appeared in the July 13, 1942, issue of LIFE magazine. Titled Have You Heard? (The Story of Wartime Rumors), the feature carrying Hitchcock's name is a war thriller in photos, shot by LIFE's Eliot Elisofon from a plot "suggested by" FDR's press secretary, Stephen Early, and "directed by" Hitchcock himself.
As LIFE told its readers in the introduction to the piece:
From Stephen Early, [White House press] secretary to President Roosevelt, recently came the suggestions that LIFE tell a picture story of wartime rumors and the damage they are liable to do. In accordance with this request, the editors asked Alfred Hitchcock, famed Hollywood movie director, to produce such a story, with LIFE photographer Eliot Elisofon as his cameraman. When Mr. Hitchcock graciously agreed, a script was prepared, the director picked his characters from the ranks of movie professionals and LIFE's Los Angeles staff, and shooting commenced in Hollywood.
'Have You Heard?' is the result of their cooperation in photo-dramatization. A simply sexless story, it shows how patriotic but talkative Americans pass along information, true or false, until finally deadly damage is done to their country's war effort. One false rumor is silenced by a man who later is unwittingly responsible for starting a true rumor which ends in a great catastrophe. Moral: Keep your mouth shut.
What's especially wonderful about Have You Heard?, meanwhile, is that parts of it really do feel like Hitchcock. Several of Elisofon's photos might be mistaken for stills from a film by the Master of Suspense, and Hitchcock himself even makes one of his trademark—and refreshingly comical—appearances as a tertiary character in the narrative. (See slide #14 in the gallery above.)
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It might not rise to the heights the director scaled in masterpieces like The Lady Vanishes, Rebecca, North by Northwest and Vertigo, but as a record of Hitchcock's willingness to lend his craft in the service of the war effort, Have You Heard? remains a fascinating, and still-entertaining, little gem.
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Risk and Equilibrium: The Impact of Greil Marcus
The entirety of Marcus' famous 1970 "What is this shit?" review prefigures the sense of profound, disturbed wonder in the best of Marcus' criticism.
Disturbed Wonder and Lost Voices
Few if any American cultural historians take the great deep American Breath like Greil Marcus. It's the breath of Whitman, of Ginsberg, of Little Richard and Dylan and Aretha Franklin—in scope and risk, at least, if not their artistry or forms. Best known for his opinions on American popular music, Marcus' own brand of artistry has always revealed a remarkable breadth of knowledge and a more important desire to find connections between disparate, even wholly disconnected voices. As storyteller, his frequent digressions deepen the plot; as critic, he combines academics with street-level description and a gift for conjuring scenes; as historian, he's a brilliant synthesist.
With the re-release of his seminal work Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, originally published in 1989, and the massive anthology he's co-edited with Harvard professor Werner Sollors, A New Literary History of America, the impact of Marcus' work is undeniable. In a PhD program somewhere, a drinking game has been formulated around his propensity for those digressive allusions, or maybe a MadLibs:
"Listening to ___(blues singer)_____'s mournful tune '______(rustic title)_____', one hears the ___(hyperbolic gerund)__ of the ___(high fallutin' academic jargon)___ in motion, and the voice of ____(tangential philosopher/pop culture figure)____".
But the fact that one can parody Marcus' style means that his voice is unique and compelling, and that he's been at this business long enough to have influenced everything from Continuum Press' 33 1/3 rock 'n' roll book series to websites like Pitchfork and the magazine you're presently reading. He's one of a handful of critics who have quite simply changed the way we think about popular culture.
Author: Greil Marcus
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Publication Date: 2009-11
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Image: http://images.popmatters.com/features_art/l/loss-listrictrace-cover.jpgWe are soon to be 40 years down the road from the famous opening line of his Rolling Stone review of Bob Dylan's Self-Portrait: "What is this shit?" The brilliance of that salvo, off-set by ample white space, is the ambiguity of its stress. Which word should we land on? I hear the stress on "is", emphasizing the imminence of the album, because for Marcus, the present moment speaks to the past, and the past speaks forward. As much as he delights in currying or curating historical moments—whether they be the hazy figures of Old Weird America, "The Last Sex Pistols Concert" in Lipstick Traces, post-punk blasts in Ranters and Crowd Pleasers, or his invaluable work editing the late Lester Bangs' Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung—those moments are always talking to the present listener, to the person trying to figure out what it might have meant then and what it means now. What is this shit? Though that sentence's anger and connection to Dylan's attempt at career suicide gets the most attention these days, the entirety of that 1970 review prefigures the sense of profound, disturbed wonder in the best of Marcus' criticism, beginning with Mystery Train, published in 1975, continuing through his recent book on American prophecy, The Shape of Things to Come and, one hopes, the promisingly-titled study of Van Morrison forthcoming this spring, When That Rough God Goes Riding.
Marcus' interrogative spirit always meets its subjects on their own murky terms first, rather than shoe-horning them into categories of approval or disapproval. In an interview with Dave Weich, Marcus said in 2001 that he "doesn't begin with ideas that are brought to bear on the artifact to see whether the artifact will measure up to them." ("All These Inches Away from Where Greil Marcus Began", Powells.com, 4 April 2001) That's a crucial distinction in the world of criticism. One of the stories of postmodernism, particularly as it relates to the academic field, is the rise of criticism's preeminence; with Barthes' "death of the author" came the birth of the reader, especially well-educated readers, i.e., critics, who then promoted their standards. Ideologies, sometimes passing as trends, too often dictate the reception and success of a novel, film, or album. As Marcus illustrates in that same interview:
If you look at art criticism from the forties on and the whole notion of flatness as a value in painting, certain critics decided that painting should be this way, so they went looking for artists who either exemplified what they were looking for or who were reading what these critics were saying and were doing what they were told to do because they knew they'd get good reviews and their paintings would sell. It's corrupt intellectually and it's corrupt commercially.
Criticism of any kind can think too rigidly, too systematically; it inclines toward these attributes as naturally as the people who write it. Demanding its philosophies, its politics, its curfews—at the head of the table, criticism has the power to silence the geeky daughter, creation, smothering freedom and chance. Throughout his long career, Marcus has been a more deferential father; art and criticism may speak to each other, but in his work, art leads off, because art is the moment, the event, the voice closer to the edge of its own being.
If Marcus testifies with strong opinions, he rarely condemns. And that is the contradiction which has built his standing, a reputation which straddles almost without peer the isolationist academic and the informed popular, and which has come from long hours and many years of staring at and listening to literature, art, popular music and, most of all, his beloved America.


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Kevin Vaughan is Harvard's highest MLL draft choice (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Senior tri-captain Kevin Vaughan of the Harvard men's lacrosse team was chosen by the Denver Outlaws in the second round with the 14th overall pick of the 2012 Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft Friday evening. Fellow senior Daniel DiMaria was selected by the Charlotte Hounds, who will be playing their inaugural season in 2012, in the sixth round with the 41st overall choice in the sixth round.
Vaughan and DiMaria became the third and fourth Harvard players to be selected in the MLL draft, joining John Henry Flood '07 (Washington, fourth round, 32nd pick) in 2007 and Jason Duboe '10 (Boston, sixth round, 33rd pick) in 2010. Vaughan is the highest draft choice for a Crimson player in the MLL draft.
Vaughan, a midfielder from Ridgewood, N.J., was named to the Inside Lacrosse Preseason All-America third team and Preseason All-Ivy League team. An All-Ivy and New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association first team choice last season, he was third on the Crimson with 19 goals and 27 points in 2011. A two-time captain of Harvard, Vaughan scored the Crimson's only man-down goal last season (Bellarmine, March 11).
DiMaria, a long stick defender from Dix Hills, N.Y., appeared in all 16 games for Harvard last season, pacing the Crimson with 56 ground balls and tying for the team lead with 13 caused turnovers. He was tabbed to the NEILA first team as a junior and picked up 32 ground balls as a sophomore in 2010.
In all, 12 Ivy League players were chosen in the 2012 MLL Draft. For the second year in a row, the MLL Collegiate Draft was held before the start of the upcoming NCAA season and only seniors with expiring eligibility were eligible to be drafted. With the move, drafted players can directly join their respective MLL teams following their senior seasons.
Vaughan and DiMaria helped the Crimson to a 10-6 overall record, as well as a spot in the Ivy League tournament final. Harvard's 10 wins were the most for the program since 1998.


text: Changes to assessment in Tennessee were made in response to feedback from educators, parents, and students—including eliminating Part I in all subjects, restructuring the test to better fit within the school day and year, and reducing overall testing time. The changes come as the department finalizes its contract with Questar, the primary vendor for the 2016-17 Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP). Overall, testing time has been reduced by nearly a third. The exact reductions vary by grade. In grades 3-8, students will have tests that are a total of 200-210 minutes shorter. As an example, for a typical third grader, the 2016-17 TCAP assessments will be shorter by three and a half hours compared to last year. In high school, most individual End of Course assessments have been shortened by 40-120 minutes. For a typical eleventh grader, this would mean the 2016-17 TCAP End of Course assessments will be shorter in total by 225 minutes—or three hours and 45 minutes—compared to last year. TCAP has been the state's testing program since 1988, and it includes TNReady state assessments in math, English language arts, social studies, and science. As the state has transitioned to higher academic standards over the past several years, and will continue to do so, those tests have become better aligned to what educators are teaching. The assessments now include more rigorous questions that measure students' writing, critical thinking, and problem solving skills. Moving forward, Tennessee will phase in online testing over multiple years to ensure state, district, and vendor technology readiness. For the 2016-17 school year, the state assessment for grades 3–8 will be administered via paper and pencil. However, the department will work closely with Questar to provide an online option for high school End of Course exams if both schools and the testing platform demonstrate early proof of successful online administration. Even if schools demonstrate readiness for online administration, districts will still have the option to choose paper and pencil assessments for their high school students. Assessment blueprints, which outline the number of questions devoted to various groups of standards, are now available here. Additional resources, including sample test questions and resources that will help educators, parents, and students to become more familiar with the assessment, will be available this fall. - See more at: http://www.tn.gov/education/section/assessment#sthash.U0UfX9iG.dpuf


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The sequel to Asus's flagship Ultrabook is just around the corner and we have had a play. It's quite a thing to behold, with a 1080p screen that boasts deeper blacks than even the new MacBook Pro. The first time we saw it, in fact ,we didn't realise the display was on at all, thinking it was a sticker.
Being matte also means you get very good viewing angles - which is great, because the Zenbook Prime is clearly a laptop to be carted around and used while on the go. The laptop is just 325 x 223 x 18 mm in size, making it compact enough to stick in a rucksack. It also weighs just 1.3Kg.
Inside there is quite a spec sheet to play with. The laptop is going to ship with a choice of either an i7 or i5 Ivy Bridge processor, the former being hugely powerful for an Ultrabook. You can also expect 4GB of 1600MHz DDR3 memory and a choice of a 128GB or 256GB SSD.
Sitting on top of the laptop's full-HD IPS screen is a 720p HD webcam. Along the sides are a pair of USB 3.0 ports, a micro HDMI connection, mini VGA, SD card reader and a headphone out jack. One particularly impressive element of the Zenbook Prime which we were shown was its Bang & Olufsen ICEPower tech. It basically translates to very good audio quality from what must be a minute set of speakers. The sound wasn't quite room-filling but for a laptop this size it punches way above its weight.
In terms of design, not a lot has really changed from last year's Zenbook. Swapping the keyboard for one with black keys ensures it now looks even more like the MacBook Air, but that is no bad thing. Asus has definitely slapped its own design take on Apple's iconic product and it feels different enough to be desirable. In fact, in the hand it's definitely one of the more attractive Ultrabooks we've played with.
That super-sharp bottom edge is still there, however, resulting in a near wrist-cutting typing experience. This is a shame, because Asus has slapped a nice keyboard and touchpad on to the Zenbook Prime.
The version of the laptop we played with was not the Windows 8 touchscreen device that Asus is currently pondering on putting into production. Still, it ran Windows 7 along at a fair old clip. That touted two-second instant-on from sleep worked nicely enough, as did all the other usual Ultrabook staples, such as a speedy SSD.
Not much else can be said about the Zenbook at the moment. It clearly is the Ultrabook to beat right now. Until we have one on our hands for a longer play, we just can't quite gauge how good this new Ultrabook is. So in the meantime enjoy the pics of it - it ranks among the top ten shiniest laptop machines we have ever held.
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Research shows that parents of high-achieving students are active participants in schools and education.
» Who: Most students at all levels—elementary, middle, and high school—want their families to take active roles in between home and school. When parents come to school regularly, it reinforces the view in the child's mind that school and home are connected and that school is an integral part of the whole family's life.
» When: The earlier in a child's educational process parent involvement begins, the more powerful the effects. The most effective forms of involvement engage parents in working directly with their children on learning activities at home.
» Why: Decades of research show that when parents are involved, students have higher grades, test scores and better school attendance and self-esteem.
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City of Heroes players who pre-purchase the alignment-changing Going Rogue expansion pack today gain immediate access to the new Dual Pistols power set, which goes a little something like this.
The Going Rogue expansion is now available for pre-purchase through NCsoft's online store, and watching this clip might help you justify the $US29.99 cost. Players who put their money down will gain access to this completely kick-ass power set immediately. On top of that, next month they'll gain access to the new Demon Summoning power, which probably doesn't look nearly as amazing.


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