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The standard advice about which fats are best for heart health is under debate again.
Triggering it is new research, just published in BMJ, finding that a form of omega-6 fatty acid found in vegetable oils may actually boost heart disease risk. Omega-6 fatty acids are a type of polyunsatured fat, which has generally been considered heart healthy.
The new findings could significantly alter the advice about which type of fats to eat, some experts say. The new research warrants another look at the current recommendations, says a spokesperson for the American Heart Association.
WebMD turned to the study author and other experts to sort out the findings -- and to figure out which fats to eat now.
First, a refresher course on fats:
- Saturated fats, found in high-fat dairy, meats, and fried foods, as well as trans-fats, found in processed foods such as chips and cookies, should be limited. Experts agree they raise the risk of heart disease.
- Unsaturated fats, in moderation, are considered heart-healthy, overall. These include monounsaturated fats and polyunsaturated. Monounsaturated fats are found in olive oil, nuts, and other foods. Polyunsaturated fats can be broken down into two types: omega-6 fatty acids, found in soybean oil, corn oil, and safflower oil; and omega-3 fatty acids, also in soybean and canola oil and in nuts and some fish as well.
What's the ''back story'' on omega-6 fatty acids?
While polyunsaturated fatty acids -- which include omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids -- are viewed as heart-healthier fats, the information about the benefits of omega-6 fatty acids is more limited, says Christopher Ramsden, MD, a clinical investigator at the National Institutes of Health. He led the research.
Because many oils often contain both, it has been difficult to know which is healthier than the other.
The benefits of foods with both omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids (such as many vegetable oils) may be due more to the omega-3 fatty acids, says Ramsden. "We suspect that omega-6 might not be as healthy as omega-3," he says.
Different fatty acids may have different effects on heart health, he says.
What exactly did the study look at?
Ramsden and his team recovered some unanalyzed data from the Sydney Diet Heart Study, conducted from 1966 to 1973. The study included 458 men, ages 30 to 59, with a history of heart attack or other heart problems.
One group was told to reduce their saturated fat intake to less than 10% of daily calories and increase their polyunsaturated fat intake to about 15% of calories. They were told to use safflower oil or safflower oil margarine, which has linoleic acid, a form of omega-6, but no omega-3 fats.
The other group received no specific instruction on diet.
What did the study find?
When Ramsden compared the two groups three years later, the group told to boost omega-6 fats fared worse, he says. "Death from all causes was about 65% higher, and death from coronary heart disease was about 70% higher," he says.
Even when researchers included additional data from earlier studies, they still found a possible increased risk of heart disease with higher omega-6 intakes. The researchers found a link but cannot prove cause and effect.
Why might omega-6 fats be risky for heart health?
One possible explanation, Ramsden says, is that although omega-6 fatty acids lower LDL (the ''bad'' cholesterol) overall, ''it may increase oxidized LDL," he says.
'Oxidized LDL contains free radicals, which are hazardous substances that may contribute to heart disease," he says.
Would the study findings apply only to those who have already had a heart attack, or also to others?
Ramsden can't say, as the study just included those with heart disease.
What does the American Heart Association recommend about omega-6 fat intake?
In a 2009 advisory, the AHA says that taking in 5% to 10% of calories from omega-6 fatty acids lowers the risk of heart disease. Besides vegetable oils, omega-6 fatty acids are also in nuts and seeds.
Will the new study result in the AHA taking another look?
"Certainly the results are important to consider," says Alice Lichtenstein, D.Sc., professor of medicine at Tufts University and a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association." Although the association won't be drawing any immediate conclusions for Americans, she says it ''does say we probably should be reevaluating the recommendation."
What should we do now when it comes to watching how much fat we eat?
Opinions differ.
"Stay the course," Lichtenstein says. That means ''a moderate fat intake with relatively low saturated and trans fat, and the balance of unsaturated including polyunsaturated and monounsaturated [such as olive oil]."
''People don't eat in percents," she says. "Limit animal fat, such as meat and dairy fat, and partially hydrogenated oils [or trans fats, found in baked goods and fried foods]. Use liquid vegetable oil."
For those who count their fat grams: If you eat 2,000 calories a day, total fat intake should be 56 to 77 grams, according to the American Heart Association. Most of that should come from unsaturated fats.
Ramsden and others suggest picking products with lower amounts of omega-6. To do so, choose canola or olive oil, Ramsden says, instead of safflower or sunflower.
"The concerning foods would be oil sources of safflower, corn, and sunflower, because they have almost no omega-3 and higher levels of omega-6," says Richard Bazinet, PhD, associate professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Toronto.
He reports research support from the International Life Sciences Institute of North America and Bunge Ltd., a food company, for studies on omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids and the brain.
Another expert says to focus on the big picture. "Rather than focusing on individual fats, focus on dietary patterns that we know are associated with better heart health," suggests Sheila Innis, PhD, professor of pediatrics at the University of British Columbia.
For instance, she says, follow a Mediterranean diet pattern, known to lower heart disease risk. The diet includes olive oil as well as plenty of fruits, vegetables and whole grains. It limits meats and sweets.
Innis serves on the Unilever scientific advisory board.
SOURCES: Christopher Ramsden, MD, clinical investigator, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda.Ramsden, C. BMJ, Feb. 5, 2013 published online.Calder, P. BMJ, Feb. 5, 2013 published online.Harris, W. Circulation, Jan. 26, 2009 published online.Alice Lichtenstein, D.Sc., professor of medicine, Tufts University, Boston; spokesperson, American Heart Association.Richard Bazinet, PhD, associate professor of nutritional sciences, University of Toronto, Canada.Sheila Innis, PhD, professor of pediatric, University of British Columbia, Canada.
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Life imitates a Tom Cruise movie dubbed in German in a city where "Dixie" is a popular ring tone
This Must Be the Place. By Anna Winger. Penguin/Riverhead, 303 pp., $24.95.
By Janice Harayda
What does it mean to spend much of your life speaking in someone else's voice? And if you've done it, can you get yourself back again?
These questions lie at the heart of This Must Be the Place, Anna Winger's engaging first novel about an unlikely friendship between an American wife and an unmarried man who lives in her apartment building in the Charlottenburg section of Berlin. Hope has followed her Jewish husband, Dave, to Germany, partly to escape tragedies in New York, including the attacks of Sept. 11. Walter earns an enviable living as the German voice of Tom Cruise, spending his days dubbing Vanilla Sky, a job that helps to mask his loneliness. Both of their lives change after a sidewalk argument brings them together and, over the next few months, they grow closer in ways that at once expose and ease their different forms of psychic displacement.
At times Winger overreaches as she describes the quirky bond between Hope and Walter. She tries to link circumstances too big and different to fit together neatly: losing a child, surviving Sept. 11, leaving America, being Jewish in Germany, and living in a formerly divided city. This effort leads to plot contrivances and talky explanations of motives. You wonder if Winger once wrote self-help articles for women's magazines when you come across lines like: "She had resisted further argument with Dave because his anger about it was the only suggestion that somewhere inside his rational exterior he was suffering too and she wanted to believe that." Some scenes seem to mainly exist as vehicles for her views on questions of national identity and other subjects.
But Winger's observations on Germany are generally interesting and often amusing. Hope arrives in Berlin when "Dixie" is a popular ring tone on German cell phones. Walter comes from an Alpine town "where people in crisis were often comforted by visions of the Virgin Mary in breakfast cereal or dishwater bubbles." Winger explains why German men urinate sitting down and what can happen if you ride the Berlin subways without a ticket even though there are no turnstiles.
In some ways, This Must Be the Place resembles Diane Johnson's novel about Paris, Le Divorce. Like Johnson, Winger shows an unsentimental affection for her adopted city. And if Berlin isn't Paris, Winger makes clear that it has its own charms.
"In New York, as soon as one building came down, another went up so quickly as to obliterate the memory of what had been there before," Winger writes. "In other European cities, the past was glorified, the architecture spruced up for tourists to the point of caricature. But here, nobody seemed to be in any hurry one way or the other. Buildings had been bombed and the city had been ripped apart, but years later holes remained all over the place without explanation or apparent concern. The city moved forward with a lack of vanity that she found relaxing."
Best line: "In almost every Tom Cruise movie he could think of, Rain Man, Jerry Maguire, Days of Thunder, The Firm, you name it, somewhere in the second act his character danced and sang along to a pop song on the radio to illustrate a sudden flash of optimism."
Worst line: "In September, when she came out of her downtown building to see people covered in white powder running for their lives, she had not been entirely surprised to find the outside world finally reflecting her inner chaos." Winger doesn't begin to show why Hope might have had this extraordinarily nonchalant response to Sept. 11. It makes her heroine look self-absorbed in a way that the rest of the book doesn't.
Editor: Megan Lynch
Published: August 2008 annawinger.com/book.html
About the author: Winger lives in Berlin. She created The Berlin Stories, a radio series for NPR Worldwide.
You can read more about This Must Be the Place in the post "Germany Loves the Famous Has-Beens" that appeared on this site on Dec. 2 www.oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/.
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SEC Notes: Georgia will find out in a hurry
HOOVER, Ala. — Georgia is the consensus favorite to win the SEC Eastern Division and is considered a possible contender for the national title. It won't take long for the Bulldogs to find out if they're championship material.
UGA opens the season at Clemson, plays South Carolina the following week, then takes on LSU in Athens on Sept. 28.
"I told our team we're in a race, and that is to try and be at midseason form by game one," UGA coach Mark Richt said Thursday at SEC Media Days. "The race started back in January.
"I think we're on track. I've heard nothing but great things about how it's gone in the summer. I was pleased with the progress in the spring. Now we're going to have 29 practice opportunities to be prepared for those teams.
"We know it's coming. We'll be ready."
McCarron honors his cousin
Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron showed up at Media Days on Thursday wearing a bowtie with pink ribbons emblazoned on it to honor a cousin who was diagnosed with breast cancer two weeks ago.
"I got my Mom to call (my cousin) last night," McCarron said. "I told her I'd be wearing this in honor of her, hopefully to spread some kind of awareness throughout the state of Alabama about breast cancer. Hopefully it helps somehow."
Clowney scaring quarterbacks?
Richt downplayed the remarks made earlier this week by South Carolina All-America defensive end Jadeveon Clowney about quarterbacks, including Aaron Murray, being scared to play against him.
"I would think some guys are scared of him," Richt said. "I'd be scared of him if I was in the game, the guy was coming after me.
"I think he's having fun. I'm sure he said it, you know, while smiling and grinning. I think we need to let guys have fun once in a while and not make a big deal about it.
"Jadeveon is a great player and a great kid."
LSU tailback still in limbo
Starting LSU tailback Jeremy Hill remains suspended after recently admitting guilt in his role in a bar fight. He is on probation and must perform community service.
"We've visited with Jeremy Hill on a routine basis," LSU coach Les Miles said. "He's not been in any team meetings, not been in any workouts. We've not allowed him in our facility.
"It's been very hard on him. We recognize there is an ongoing process that's going to be fulfilled. We're going to sit on the perimeter and watch. We'll let you know when we know."
While Hill is in limbo, Alfred Blue is back at tailback for the Tigers. Blue was the No. 1 tailback at the start of last season and was on a roll before a knee injury in the third game knocked him out for the year.
"He's healthy now," Miles said. "He could have played all spring. He did play all spring. We just didn't allow anybody to tackle him. We'd expect he would start this season fast."
Speaking Australian
LSU's new punter (Jamie Keehn) is just like their former one (Brad Wing) in that he is from Australia.
"Our second Australian punter," Miles said. "Again, you have to learn the language. You can't just speak to those guys. You have to know how to speak Australian."
Miles was asked to give some examples of speaking the language. His response drew considerable laughter.
"Well, Australians have a higher voice (using an Australian accent)," he said. "When you just speak regular English, it doesn't quite get across.
"Of course, we've had experience with our Australians, so we're pretty comfortable with adjusting our dialect so that it fits the ability to communicate."
Unfair scheduling advantage?
Someone pointed out to Miles that the two teams LSU plays from the East this season (Florida and Georgia) were 14-2 in league play last season, while the two Eastern Division teams Alabama faces this year (Kentucky and Tennessee) were 1-15.
"Scheduling should not in any way decide championships," he said. "I think scheduling is a tremendously important piece. Currently, it's on the ADs, the chancellors, the presidents and the conference commissioner.
"In the meantime, here is where I'm at: I can't hardly wait to play them. We think at LSU that maybe we're the only team that can have that schedule year after year and play as well as we do, so. …"
Welcome back, Zach
LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger is not expecting a warm welcome from Georgia fans when the Tigers travel to Athens on Sept. 28. Mettenberger left UGA shortly after Aaron Murray won the starting quarterback job four years ago.
"They're going to boo the crap out of me," Mettenberger said. "I may get a brick thrown at me, who knows?"
Florida fans might want to do the same after what Mettenberger said about a popular former quarterback Thursday.
"It's not like I'm Tim Tebow and have terrible mechanics," said Mettenberger when asked how new offensive coordinator Cam Cameron can improve his passing motion.
'Dog title just yards away
The way Georgia defensive end Garrison Smith sees it, the Bulldogs came up just five yards shy of winning the national championship last season. UGA was that short distance away from beating Alabama in the SEC Championship Game. The Tide went on to thrash Notre Dame 42-14 in the national title game.
"I have the confidence to say that I believe we would have done the same thing Alabama did (to Notre Dame) in the championship game," Smith said.
Fast and furious debate
Arkansas coach Bret Bielema got pretty feisty at the podium Wednesday when he was told that Auburn coach Gus Malzahn said earlier that he thought it was "a joke" that anyone would think playing a fastbreak offense could put players at risk of injury.
Bielema is one of the SEC coaches, along with Nick Saban, who thinks injuries are a concern/possibility with the up-tempo offense.
"He thought it was a joke?" Bielema said. "I'm not a comedian.
"All I know is this. There are times when an offensive player and a defensive player are on the field for an extended period of time without a break. You cannot tell me that a player after play five is the same player that he is after play 15.
"If that exposes him to a risk of injury, that's my fault."
Bielema bristled again when he was told that Malzahn said if rules are changed to slow down the game, officials should look into defensive players faking injuries to slow the pace.
"You know what, in addition to not being a comedian, I'm not an actor," Bielema said. "I can't tell you how to tell a kid to fake an injury."
Robbie Andreu is a sports writer with the Gainesville Sun.


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Down to Earth: Bring in the new year with old treasures
So many of the shiny new gifts and gadgets we have just received over the holidays, as well as everyday products, are fleeting; built with planned obsolescence in mind or disposal after one use. Even if we want to repair an item, it seems impossible to find a local repair shop or the price to ship it out for repair is exorbitant. Once an appliance does not work, we dump it. We use a plastic knife to spread cream cheese once and then we throw it out. A flimsy plastic shopping bag carries one item that we could have carried out in our hands. With all the non-biodegradable waste we toss out, humans have created swirling floating islands of garbage in our oceans, one in the Pacific Ocean that is larger than the state of Texas! Our landfills are filled to the brim with toxic materials that pollute our soil and water and if the trash is incinerated, the air. Our consumption is a bit reckless.
However, there is a movement afoot to be more thrifty and creative by reusing, repairing and buying secondhand items at a much-reduced cost. The technological age in some ways has made people more isolated, but when it comes to sharing or buying items, the world is small and the connections for free items are astonishing. Freecycle (www.freecycle.org) is a site where people post items they are giving away or items they need. Everything is free. There are 5,082 groups, so you can sign up for a local group for easy pick-up of items. Things to donate or take range from furniture to building materials to anything that is legal, not a weapon or pornography, etc. Several years ago, we had a bulky computer, keyboard and tower that neither our friends nor we wanted. We posted it on Freecycle and with in a day we had a mom at our doorstep thrilled to be providing her son with a full computer set-up. Craiglist (www.craigslist.org) also has incredible secondhand items for sale and some items for free.
Another clever online site, Front Porch Forum (www.frontporchforum.com) was started by a couple in Burlington, Vt., who wanted to help neighbors "connect and build community." Nearby neighbors post everything from lost cats, requests for people to help with a move, reports of car break-ins, plumber recommendations, gardening work help offered, block parties, yards sales and free items. Most of the groups are in Vermont, but they have a "how to" section on their website if you want to set up a Front Porch Forum in your neighborhood. One member exclaims that every neighborhood in America needs one!
If you search around, you can find repair people. I wanted to fix my sturdy 35-year-old sewing machine and avoid trashing it to a buy a new one. I found Carl, a sewing machine repairman, online with a quick search. He came to my house, fixed my machine and offered me great tips on how to adjust the machine settings and what thread to use. Curious, I asked him how he ended up in this job. He said he was an engineer and the company he worked for wanted him to build rockets, so he went into sewing machine repair instead. I asked why he did not want to build rockets. He said, "Because rockets kill people!" I was very happy to support a local business and keep my "new" old machine.
Ask around. I found a teenage neighbor who was a whiz at fixing electronic devices for next to nothing. It gave him spending money and we did not have to throw out our phone, navigation system and DVD player, since it would have otherwise been cheaper to buy new devices than have them fixed.
If a repair person cannot be found, often parts can be ordered. The Internet is filled with step-by-step instructions on how to fix almost anything. If you need a visual, check out the multitude of YouTube how-to videos. My blender broke and to have it repaired I would have had to ship it across the country for $90 and the part only cost $8. I ordered the part, which came with instructions. It was easy to install and worth the try.
Books are perfect items to purchase secondhand, especially if it is an impossible-to-find, out-of-print book. It saves trees. Amazon and Better World Books offer almost any book used other than new releases. There are descriptions of the condition of each book, with many almost like new. Electronic readers can be wonderful for traveling and buying books, but sometimes it is nice to hold a paper one in your hands.
Then of course there are the old-fashioned yard sales and thrift shops. One person's trash is certainly another person's treasure. Incredible clothes, household items, materials for crafts and the perfect unique find are just around the corner.
Anne Mazar is an environmental advocate and a member of the Mendon Land Use Committee.


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Regional telco TDS Telecommunications last week issued a press release announcing a major milestone for the company: 50Mbps service over fiber optic cable to residents of Monticello, Minnesota. The Minneapolis suburb became one of the few non-FiOS communities in the country to experience full fiber-to-the-home deployment, and subscribers will all receive a free upgrade from 25Mbps service to the new 50Mbps tier.
Even better is the price, which starts at $49.95 a month for 50Mbps fiber service without the need to buy other services.
TDS is thrilled. "This is a huge first for TDS," said market manager Tom Ollig. "TDS is working incredibly hard to deliver the faster speeds customers want."
But the entire congratulatory press release glosses over a key fact: the reason that Monticello received a fiber network was the town's decision to install a municipal-owned fiber network to every home in town spawning a set of TDS lawsuits that went all the way to the Minnesota Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the town.
Screaming to be heard
The saga began in 2007, when the town passed a referendum approving the city-owned fiber network. The city says that it had approached TDS and was told that no such system would be installed in town in the near future, so it went ahead with its own plans.
After the referendum, the city was sued by the telco just before groundbreaking began. The suit didn't seem to have much of a chance under Minnesota law, and indeed judges at multiple levels ruled for Monticello. But in the meantime, TDS rolled into town with nine crews of its own and began installing—you guessed it—fiber to the home.
Monticello had just become one of the only US cities in which twin, parallel fiber networks were being built at the same time. Backers of the muni fiber plan were outraged; not only could TDS build a modern fiber network on a moment's notice when it wanted to do so, but the lawsuits prevented the city from doing much of its installation even as TDS moved ahead.
We spoke to TDS about the situation last year, and its director of legislative and public relations told us that TDS didn't act earlier because it didn't actually know that people really, really wanted fiber; once the referendum was a success, the company moved quickly to give people what it now knew they wanted.
After delaying the town's deployment through lawsuits and rolling out fiber service of its own, TDS issued a statement in June 2009 in which it then called the whole rationale for the government project into question.
"In view of TDS' development of a robust broadband platform in Monticello during the past year, it is questionable whether or not the City's feasibility study supporting its own fiber project, which was premised on no broadband competitors and on which the revenue bond purchasers relied when they secured the bonds more than a year ago, is still accurate, and whether the city fiber project is feasible today."
Now, it has upped the ante by doubling everyone's speeds. The moves all seemed designed to keep the idea of a muni-owned fiber network from spreading, but they might well have the opposite effect; one takeaway from the entire saga is that trying to build a muni fiber network is an excellent way to "encourage" investment and innovation from regional or national companies that might not otherwise have your town's own best interests at heart.
Such stories aren't limited to Minnesota suburbs, either. Just last month Telephony Online ran a piece on how Cox cable prices had "dropped considerably" since Lafeyette, Louisiana lit up a fiber system of its own.
"Cox froze the cable rates in Lafayette, and they didn't freeze the rates in other areas," said Terry Huval, director of the muni project. "We figured our citizens saved over $3 million in cable rates even before we could offer them service."
This shouldn't be a surprise, as it's really just a classic case of direct competition—something not seen often enough in the wired broadband market. Unfortunately, getting high-speed Internet to your town isn't always as simple as threatening to start a municipal network. Many times, incumbent providers simply file lawsuits while keeping speeds the same.
If your town is really unlucky, the incumbent will just head right to the state legislature, seeking to pass laws constraining the practice. That's what happened to Wilson, North Carolina, which runs a moderately famous 100Mbps system known as Greenlight (which just happens to be the fastest ISP in the entire state).
When Time Warner Cable (which still tops out at 10Mbps and no DOCSIS 3.0) was asked why it had not stepped up to meet the city's demand for faster access, a company rep told TechJournal South that it hadn't actually heard a citizen outcry over the issue—or it would have acted.
Wilson's Internet manager is having none of it. "We don't want to run anyone out of business," he said, "but we also don't want to take the leftover table scraps. If they had offered us what we were asking for, next generation good service, we would have happily stepped aside."


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Mobile Payments, Regulatory Headaches and Slow Growth: Top Quotes of the Week in Banking
1. Wave of the Future
Within five years, half of today's smartphone users will be using their phones and mobile wallets as their preferred method for payments.
—Peter Olynick, Card & Payments Practice leader for management and tech consulting firm Carlisle & Gallagher. The firm conducted a survey of 607 U.S. consumers that found nearly half would be interested in using mobile wallet services. More alarmingly for banks, eight in 10 respondents said they would use PayPal as their mobile wallet provider, while six in 10 said they would use Google or Apple.
Source: Bank Systems & Technology
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A new series of mass SQL injection attacks has planted links to malware sites and hidden iframes in over a million webpages, including parts of Apple's website. The technique is similar to a standard SQL injection attack, but uses obfuscation to disguise the data in hopes of routing around any rudimentary input checking.
The attack was detailed earlier this week by security researcher Manuel Humberto Santander Peláez. The attacks rely on a series of SQL commands stored as hexadecimal data preceded by a CAST command. When decoded, it attempts to inject iframes into data tables, which then end up being rendered in webpages that use the tables to build its HTML code dynamically. The attacks lead to Russian top-level domains that appear to be sources of malware.
While the attacks have affected mostly smaller sites that tend to invest less time in securing against attacks like SQL injection, The Register notes that even some Apple podcast pages succumbed to the attack. However, the links appear to have been removed since the attacks first started spreading earlier this month. Other pages affected include sites for a Pennsylvania county government, a UAE radio station, and a small book publisher.
"These attacks have been ongoing and are changing pretty often," Mary Landesman, a senior researcher with ScanSafe, told The Register. "It's not clear whether these are the work of the same attackers or are competing attacks."
Peláez notes the SQL injection is something every site should be protecting against. Web developers should sanitize input to make sure there are no valid SQL commands, use predetermined STORE functions to make dynamic attacks useless, limit database permissions, and avoid disclosing database errors that attackers could use to find other weaknesses.


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Five IT Security Predictions for 2013
Security has never been a more imperative priority for financials services IT than now. Recent waves of cyber attacks, which were thought by the U.S. government to originate in Iran, against American banks are just the tip of the iceberg of what banks have to fend off on a daily basis.
With that in mind, independent IT GRC auditor Coalfire offered its predictions of the top IT security trends in the coming year. "Last year was a very active year in the cybersecurity world," said Rick Dakin, CEO and co-founder of Coalfire. "The Secretary of Defense announced that the threat level has escalated to the point where protection of cyber assets used for critical infrastructure is vital. Banks and payment processors came under direct and targeted attack for both denial of service as well as next-generation worms."
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DaVinci Resolve 16 features a revolutionary new cut page specifically designed for editors that need to work quickly and on tight deadlines! The new DaVinci Neural Engine uses machine learning to enable powerful new features such as facial recognition, speed warp and more. Adjustment clips let you apply effects and grades to clips on the timeline below, quick export can be used to upload projects to YouTube and Vimeo from anywhere in the application, and new GPU accelerated scopes provide more technical monitoring options than before. Plus, Fusion is dramatically faster and Fairlight adds immersive 3D audio. DaVinci Resolve 16 is a massive release with hundreds of features customers have asked for!
Introducing the Cut Page!
Designed specifically for editors working on high end fast turn around work such as television commercials and even news cutting, the cut page is all about speed. It's an alternate edit page with a streamlined interface and revolutionary new tools that will help you work faster than ever. The cut page lets you import, edit, trim, add transitions, titles, automatically match color, mix audio and more. Whether you're delivering for broadcast or for YouTube, the cut page has everything you need to get the job done, all in one place. Plus, the regular edit page is still available so you can switch between edit and cut pages to change editing style right in the middle of a job.
Dual Timeline
Revolutionary dual timeline lets you quickly navigate the whole edit and trim without wasting time zooming and scrolling.
Source Tape
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The new trim interface in the viewer lets you see both sides of an edit and trim in frame accurate detail so you can create the perfect cut!
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To save time you don't have to place in points in the timeline as the edit modes can intelligently sync clips and edits for you.
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The interface is scalable and works well on smaller laptop screens, giving you the highest amount of usable space!
New Editing Featuresin DaVinci Resolve 16
DaVinci Resolve includes everything professional editors need to cut blockbuster films, television shows, and commercials. It's perfect for both offline and online editing. The high performance playback engine makes editing and trimming incredibly fast, even for processor intensive formats such as H.264 and RAW.
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Adjustment Clips
Apply blend modes, transformations, ResolveFX, color grades and more on top of a stack of clips in the timeline.
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Use the DaVinci Neural Engine to detect faces in your clips and automatically create bins based on the people in each shot.
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Incredibly high quality motion estimation speed changes and frame rate conversions powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine.
Image Stabilization
Analyze shots and apply stabilization with full camera lock, zoom, smooth and strength controls right on the Edit page.
Keyframe Curve Editor
Ease controls for position along with ResolveFX and OpenFX keyframes in the timeline curve editor makes animating effects faster.
Tape Style Audio Scrubbing
High quality, tape style scrubbing with pitch correction makes it easier to understand dialogue while scrubbing.
Faster, Smarter Encoding
Encode only the frames that have changed instead of re-encoding entire files for dramatically faster rendering when delivering!
Frame.io Integration
Collaborate remotely by browsing Frame.io content, seeing comments and synchronizing annotations, all without leaving DaVinci Resolve.
New Fusion VFX Featuresin DaVinci Resolve 16
With over 250 built in tools, Fusion VFX's advanced 3D compositing engine and node based workflow let you quickly connect effects and tools together in a flow chart style, making it easy to create cinematic feature film quality visual effects and broadcast motion graphics right inside of DaVinci Resolve!
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GPU Accelerated Tools
Time effects, dissolves, stereo, vector motion, pinning, color and more!
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Greatly improved performance and accuracy in planar and camera trackers.
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Better Memory Management
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DaVinci Resolve's legendary color tools let you manipulate color in breathtaking ways to get results that are simply impossible on other systems. That's why DaVinci Resolve has been used on more feature films and television shows than any other grading system! You get powerful primary and secondary tools, curves, tracking, stabilization and more!
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The Keyframe Editor now supports viewing and editing keyframes for both ResolveFX and OpenFX plugins, making it easier to create animations.
GPU Accelerated Scopes
GPU accelerated scopes show more detail, have faster performance, and add dozens of new options for advanced technical monitoring!
Curves with Histograms
Custom and HSL curves can display a histogram that lets you see which part of the curve affects the image to help guide your adjustments.
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The auto color balance and auto shot match tools now use the DaVinci Neural Engine to process images for more accurate results.
Gallery and Wipe Improvements
Gallery sort controls, hover scrub, match reference wipe, stills in split screen, and timeline wipe options make it easier to organize grades.
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Copy the color grade, windows, tracking and plug in effects from one node, and paste only the attributes you want on to another node.
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Gang the Color page viewer with the SDI or HDMI video output so zoomed images appear on both the user interface and your video output device.
View Independent Channels
Independently view R, G, or B channels in the viewer to help evaluate images for noise, artifacts, or when manually color matching.
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ResolveFX and OpenFX can request random frames from the GPU, making DaVinci Resolve compatible with more third party plugins than ever.
New Fairlight Featuresin DaVinci Resolve 16
With Fairlight in DaVinci Resolve, audio is no longer an afterthought in post production! You get a completely integrated and powerful digital audio workstation with full mixer, EQ and dynamics processing, sample level audio editing, ADR tools, sound library support, FairlightFX audio plugins and more!
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New Collaboration Featuresin DaVinci Resolve 16
Featuring a universal timeline, powerful database driven design, bin and clip locking, built in chat, timeline comparison tools and more, DaVinci Resolve Studio is the world's only post production solution that lets different artists all work together on the same project at the same time!
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Use shared markers to create, modify and add notes so passing tasks and communicating between users is quick and fool proof.
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Each user in a collaborative project can generate and manage their own cache files to optimize performance on their system.
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Open collaborative projects in read only mode so you can copy and paste assets out of it or review cuts without affecting other users.
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Upgrade to DaVinci Resolve Studio for even more creative tools and options! You get a huge set of indispensable ResolveFX and FairlightFX plugins, along with support for 4K, 8K and higher resolution projects at frame rates up to 120 frames per second. You also get the new DaVinci Neural Engine which enables features such as facial recognition, speed warp retiming, automatic color balancing and automatic color matching. DaVinci Resolve Studio also adds film grain tools, advanced noise reduction, blur and mist effects, HDR grading, 10bit H.264 support, 3D immersive audio, stereoscopic 3D support, multi user collaboration tools and more!
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With Blackmagic RAW you can shoot, edit and grade projects all from a single file format. Picture adjustments and settings that you make in the camera will come into DaVinci Resolve via metadata and are completely editable. You can even make changes to the RAW settings in DaVinci Resolve, open the files in other applications that support Blackmagic RAW and automatically see the settings. You get a consistent look and controls between software applications, even on different platforms. Blackmagic RAW is the world's fastest and highest quality RAW format.
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PORTLAND, Ore. - A blue placard dangling from the rear-view mirror is the equivalent of parking gold for drivers in many cities - they can park for free and for as long as they want. Now there's a gold rush on for them.
And as the number of vehicles displaying a disabled placard has soared with an aging population and loosened eligibility standards, cities are seeing the impact in more congested downtowns and the loss of millions of dollars in revenue.
Now, officials are pushing back, tightening standards for those who can get the placards and making sure that the only people who get the privilege are those who really need it.
"It was astonishing to see car after car after car with the disabled placard," said Portland City Commissioner Steve Novick, who is seeking a solution to the problem in a city with a reputation for bicycling and mass transit but still reliant on the car.
It's common in the city to find blocks in which there are more cars with placards than without. Stroll by a parking meter and you will see the placards through the windshields of both beaters and BMWs.
In the city's annual survey of roughly 9,000 downtown meters, just over 1,000 vehicles had disabled placards in October 2012, a 72 percent increase in five years. In the core area of downtown, a third of the vehicles had placards.
As a result, Portland lost an estimated $2.4 million in meter revenue last year, and the lack of turnover frustrates store owners, deprives the severely disabled of spaces near their destination and forces drivers to circle blocks in search of a spot.
Authorities issued 186 citations for unlawful use of a permit the fiscal year ending June 30, but believe there is more abuse.
Cheaters are tough to catch because the placard is generally valid and the driver, who may be borrowing one, is only at the car for a couple of minutes during the workday.
Experts say the easiest way to stop abuse is to make the disabled pay the meter, especially those not in wheelchairs. Places such as Philadelphia, Raleigh, N.C., and Arlington County, Va., did so and there was more turnover in the spots.
The Illinois Legislature passed a law that takes effect next year in which free-metered parking will be reserved for only the most severely disabled residents. It was spurred in part by Chicago's decision to privatize its parking meters. As part of the deal, it agreed to reimburse the company for free parking provided to holders of disabled placards. The tab since 2009: $55 million.
"Economically, a free parking pass is a very nice thing to have, and there are always enough people who are a bit unscrupulous when it comes to parking that you can't expect self-restraint," said Donald Shoup, a UCLA urban planning professor and author of "The High Cost of Free Parking."
One of Shoup's former students, Jonathan Williams, researched curbside parking in Los Angeles while getting his master's degree, finding that cars with placards took most spots when the workday began and often didn't leave until it ended.
On one block in the financial district, placards consumed 80 percent of the total meter hours. Though the spaces were occupied 95 percent of the time, meters that charged $4 an hour collected an average of only 28 cents an hour.
California started issuing placards in 1959 to people unable to move without a wheelchair. Within two decades, it was expanded to include people with breathing problems and general mobility problems.
"We looked back from 1990 to 2010, even normalized for population growth, there was a 350 percent increase in the number of placards issued in California," Williams said. "Even if there was no abuse, there are a lot of placards in circulation."
Oregon has issued placards to 354,000 of its 3 million drivers. Those authorized to sign a permit include doctors of medicine, chiropractors, osteopaths, podiatrists, optometrists, naturopaths, nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
Portland's Disabled Parking Task Force asked the Oregon Medical Association in 2010 to remind doctors about the impact of improper placards, and recommended temporary permits instead of ones that can be valid for years until a driver's license expires.
Betty Brislawn, 84, uses a placard because she has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
A task force member, Brislawn said there are many cheaters, but you can't assume people with internal problems are less worthy of a placard than those in wheelchairs.
"My oxygen level, if I walk fast, will go down to 83 and that means I'm in really dire trouble; I could pass out," she said. "But otherwise I look fine."
Novick doesn't have a placard, though he was born with missing fibula bones and no left hand. The 4-foot-9 commissioner said ensuring open spaces for those with severe mobility problems should be the city's focus.
"Being really short, I would kind of like it if grocery stores had tongs you could use to take things off the top shelf," he joked. "That would be a good accommodation, but I still think I should have to pay for the groceries."


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Accordingly, we present what L. Ron Hubbard explicitly wished for on his birthday: the gift of expansion. It's a gift
most dramatically expressed in our continuing parade of Ideal Churches of Scientology.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 25, 2013
More than 4,500 Scientologists from 40 nations gathered for the annual gala celebration of Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard' s birthday (March 13) held in Clearwater, Florida, home to the Church of Scientology's spiritual headquarters. The weekend of events commemorated Mr. Hubbard's enduring legacy in an era of unprecedented growth for the religion.
The celebration began on Saturday evening, March 16, with an event presided over by Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board Religious Technology Center and ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion. He welcomed the overflow crowd, presenting a panoramic view of Mr. Hubbard's immense legacy as an author, humanitarian and Founder. Among the milestones of the last year, Mr. Hubbard's written and recorded works in circulation surpassed 335 million. The last twelve months further saw more than 100 international awards and recognitions bestowed to Mr. Hubbard for his contributions to humanity.
Mr. Miscavige said: "Tonight we celebrate a legacy that is indeed al lencompassing, uplifting and everlasting. Accordingly, we present what L. Ron Hubbard explicitly wished for on his birthday: the gift of expansion. It's a gift ost dramatically expressed in our continuing parade of Ideal Churches of Scientology, which, as of this evening, number no less than thirty six. They stand as cornerstones from which we extend his technology of Dianetics and Scientology, and hence, the precious gift of spiritual freedom itself."
Mr. Miscavige introduced the newest Ideal Organizations (Ideal Orgs)—the first of more than a dozen to open in the coming year. First was the Ideal Church of Scientology of Padova, Italy, which now occupies a landmark 18th century villa serving the Northern Italian region of Veneto. The villa, meticulously restored by the Church, today stands as a symbol of Venetian culture and landmark for all of Padova. Next was the Church of Scientology of Cambridge, Ontario—providing for Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo, the tri-cities that lie at the heart of Canada's high-tech region known as the "Technology Triangle." And finally came the new Church of Scientology of Pretoria, capital of South Africa. Its new home stands less than a block from Embassy Row and neighbors the Union Buildings, official seat of the South African government and home to the presidential offices.
The birthday celebration further featured a biographical presentation on Mr. Hubbard's life at Saint Hill, the estate in Sussex, England, that served as his home and worldwide headquarters for the religion until 1967. Autobiographical vignettes selected from Mr. Hubbard's recorded works illuminated the vivid history of his Saint Hill years. Included was the story of his appointment to the local Road Safety Council in the wake of rising traffic fatalities and his safety campaigns that significantly reversed the trend. Beyond the indelible mark he left upon Sussex were his accomplishments that resonate globally. Among them: his horticultural experiments to radically increase crop yield, heralded internationally as "a discovery of immense significance" well ahead of their time; and his famed tudy of photography, which figured prominently in the development of his Study Technology now employed by students and teachers world over.
The celebration culminated in the annual awards ceremony for the winners of the LRH Birthday Game, a tradition initiated by Mr. Hubbard in 1974. The awards recognize Scientology organizations at every echelon for outstanding expansion of Church services and humanitarian programs in their respective zones. This year's champions included the Mission of Belleair, Florida, first among the league of 435 Scientology Missions internationally; the Church of Scientology of Greater Cincinnati, which celebrated a first win after opening the doors on its new Ideal Org last year; the Advanced Organization Saint Hill in the United Kingdom, taking the trophy among Scientology Churches delivering higher level religious services; and the champion continental management office of the Western United States, instrumental in opening five new Ideal Orgs in the past year.
Immediately following the event, receptions were held in multiple venues across Clearwater, including the historic Fort Harrison's Grand Lobby and Portico. The event was filmed, translated into 16 languages and transmitted for screening to parishioners in more than 100 cities worldwide.
The festivities continued on Sunday, March 17, with the International Association of Scientologists (IAS) Patrons Ball, held in the Grand Auditorium at the Fort Harrison.
The elegant evening honored stellar IAS patrons who, through their membership, forward the aims of Scientology as originated by L. Ron Hubbard: "A civilization ithout insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where Man is free to rise to greater heights."
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