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How-To Decrypt DVDs with HandBrake (So You Can Rip Them)
Ripping DVDs is a great way to keep a backup and stream videos over your network. The process typically takes 2-3 different programs to accomplish the task. Here's how you can skip a step and decrypt DVDs using HandBrake.
HandBrake has long been a favorite of How-To Geek and we have shown you a couple different ways that you can use it to rip DVDs and TV shows to your hard drive for storage and playback. This process always involves installing a DVD decrypter first to break the Content Scramble System (CSS) copy protection so your transcoder (HandBrake) can read the information and copy it to a self contained video file.
This method works fine but it means that your decrypter needs to be able to decrypt anything that you want to rip. In the past, legal action has been taken against DVD decrypting software to shut down development claiming it to be illegal. There is however a work around.
Rip a DVD the Easy Way with WinX DVD
Handbrake is a great application, but because of all the issues with encrypted DVDs, you're much better off getting a solution like WinX DVD ripper, which can not only rip just about any DVD, but can convert it into any format you want really easily.
It's literally as simple as inserting your DVD, selecting the output format, and clicking a button. Done.
It's definitely worth trying out, but if you don't feel like paying for a solution, you can still use the Handbrake method.
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DVD playback software is 100% legal and there are plenty of free ones you can get to play DVDs on your computer. Mac OS X comes with playback built in and Linux can typically install it through the distributions software repositories. This is why HandBrake will decrpyt DVDs on both of those platforms without a separate decrypter.
In many versions of Windows, DVD playback functionality is either not included or limited to specific programs (e.g. Windows Media Player). In order to play a DVD you need to install 3rd party software that lets you decrypt the CSS so you can play the DVD.
Software that can play DVDs rely on dll files to tell it how to read the encrypted disc for playback. In most free software, a common dll file called libdvdcss is used. By using libdvdcss combined with HandBrake, we will be able to decrypt our DVDs while we transcode, without any additional software.
Using a freely available DVD playback library also frees you from needing architecture dependent software. DVD43 is a popular DVD decrypting program in Windows but has not been updated to work with Windows 7 AMD_64 architecture. With the dll file you don't need the program at all.
Without the dll libraries, you typically will see this error in HandBrake.
In order to get the necessary dll file you can download one of the free DVD players that are based on it. Our favorite is XBMC which you can download from the link below.
Once you have XBMC and HandBrake installed, browse to your XBMC installation directory in the folder
and copy the libdvdcss-2.dll file to the HankBrake installation folder.
Rename the file to libdvdcss.dll and restart HandBrake.
Now whenever you read a DVD that uses CSS, you will be able to decrypt it directly in HandBrake and rip the DVD.
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2 Bedrooms,2 baths, loft with office,
Walking park across the street, 1 block to tennis courts and basketball courts, 2 blocks to quaint downtown Venice with shopping and wonderful family restaurants, 3 blocks to Venice beach, that gives you a show every evening with the most wonderful and memorable sunset, free parking,3 bicycles for your convenience to take in the local sites and get your daily exercise.
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The last hurdle for the Badgers before winter break comes this weekend in Mankato, against the Minnesota State Mavericks (6-6-2, 3-6-1 WCHA). While this series appears, barring complacency, to be an easy four points, it is more critical than most realize.
It is true that Wisconsin has won seven of its last eight, but in spite of this run even the Badger coaches argue that consistency needs to improve. Nowhere was this more evident than last week at the Kohl Center, when the home team grabbed two victories despite fairly unimpressive performances.
Now the Badgers find themselves at a midseason lull. The games will not be against tough opponents, but it would be foolish to think the stakes are not high. With the pressure lower, the to-do list only gets longer as the team will be looking to round out the intangibles: consistency, confidence, cohesiveness, comfort and so on.
Alliteration does not explain all of the Badgers' tasks, though, as they will still need a strong performance on the ice to best the Mavericks. Though residing near the WCHA basement, Minnesota State will be fully capable of exploiting any underestimation or half-heartedness from Wisconsin, which must be careful not to look past this series in anticipation of the forthcoming break in game action. Furthermore, the game will be on the road, where Wisconsin only maintains a .500 record.
"They're a better team at home," UW head coach Mike Eaves said. "Their fans aren't like typical college, it's more like a junior hockey atmosphere. They get into it and charge up the team and we have to be ready for that."
The Mavericks numbers may not be impressive generally, but they are 6-1-1 in their last eight games. Now the Mankato squad has built up momentum in its quest to make up for early season struggles, when they fell prey to an offensive onslaught from the conference heavyweights.
"We have to go in there with the mindset that we have to play our best hockey," Badger forward Andrew Joudrey said. "We definitely aren't looking past them … Anybody can have a slow start or a bad record, but … we're respecting them and know what we're going up against."
As of late they have found some stability, especially in net. Head coach Troy Jutting has settled on Jon Volp between the pipes and the results have been promising, with the senior holding opponents to a little more than two goals per game. The Mavericks have also promoted sophomore Chris Clark to backup, plugging the hole in depth created by Kyle Nixon, who let up an atrocious 18 goals in three games.
Offensively the Mavericks are no pushovers. Led by the sophomore duo of David Backes and Travis Morin, who have amassed 15 goals and 13 assists between them, the Minnesota State offense could pose a problem for the Badgers should the visitors not have their heads completely in the game.
Of comfort for Wisconsin is that their opponents could beat themselves by adding to their conference leading tally of penalty minutes. The Badgers' power play unit is among the best in the nation and, given the opportunity, could exploit the man advantage and turn the game into a shootout that would all but doom the hosts' chances of an upset.
"They lead the league in shots on net and they're the most penalized team," Eaves said. "Everything is about hard. We have to be ready to handle that hard. That'll be the key to the whole weekend."
In the coming months the Badgers need to be more than just a team with elite goal scorers and a dominant goalie, and they cannot delay in working towards this. By the end of this weekend's series Mankato will either be their first stop on the road to becoming champions, or a distressing roadblock they will have to find a way past in time for the stretch run.
"Everybody feels good," Joudrey said. "We know that we have a big opportunity this weekend that we can't pass up."
What: No. 2 Wisconsin (12-4-0 overall, 9-3-0 WCHA) at Minnesota State (6-6-2, 3-6-1).
When: Friday, Dec. 10 at 7:37 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 11 at 7:07 p.m.
Where: Midwest Wireless Civic Center in Mankato, Minn.
Broadcasts: No television. Live radio broadcast on WIBA-AM 1310.
Series Notes: The Badgers lead the all-time series 10-6-2 but are only 3-4-1 at Midwest Wireless Civic Center. Wisconsin went 3-0-1 against Minnesota State last season. This is the only series between the two schools this year.
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My name's Carl. I like yogurt, spreadsheets and pontificating on the future of the news. But there's a lot more to me than that.
I'd like to call myself one of those delusional dreamers who believes it's possible to change the world by writing code and constantly innovating without sacrificing your sanity and sense of place for Silicon Valley and turning into another out-of-touch white male technophile. That may sound cliche to you, but if you're not a fellow dreamer and crusader for social justice and economic mobility, feel free to stop reading here.
I'm a journalist at heart. When I was 16 years old, I started working as a beat reporter at my hometown newspaper in Waycross, Ga. — a tiny town of no more than 15,000 people in the southeast pinelands of the state, where the elevation is too low to grow crops and the coast too far away to attract any commerce or industry.
Around that same time, I bought my first computer, a 2003 MacBook Pro, which quickly became a cliche extension of my identity that never left my side, just as Steve Jobs cunningly planned it to be all along. In retrospect, that sexy aluminum brick should've given me back problems from toting it to school every day and building simple things in Photoshop and Dreamweaver when teachers weren't paying attention.
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A lot's happened in the 8 years since then. I graduated and earned a full-ride merit-scholarship to Mercer University in Macon, Ga.– a place of wonder and potential which did more to boost my self-awareness and confidence than any other single life experience has. I joined a fraternity, was accepted into the honors program, studied abroad at Oxford University's St. Peter's College for a year, served as freshman class president, wrote for my college newspaper, interned and later worked part-time for Macon's metro daily newspaper, The Telegraph, then sat as news and online editor for The Oxford Student, leading a team of reporters and producers at one of the most prestigious universities in the world, all while speaking in a thick southern accent. We built the paper's first website in 2009 with a self-installed copy of WordPress and a cookie-cutter news theme that, with a little design sprucing-up, worked exceedingly well and put us well-ahead the competing Oxford paper digitally.
My time abroad taught me never to limit my potential or doubt my abilities. My senior year, I went into overdrive to jumpstart my career in making the news more interactive, social and mobile. I built the website for Mercer's student newspaper, even developing a mobile version that, looking back now, was so rudimentary that I'd be ashamed even to have it in my portfolio.
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I studied hard for the GRE, wrote a killer master's thesis and got accepted to all 7 grad schools where I applied, including fellowships to NYU, CUNY and Phillip Merrill at the University of Maryland. I eventually chose Columbia's J-School, partly because of the superficial reason of its location in New York City and partly because I really digged what Emily Bell and Susan McGregor, among others, were doing at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism concerning data, news metrics and charting the future of the industry. I brushed up on JavaScript, delved into Ruby on Rails by attending programming meet-ups, and took courses on business models and startup strategy, including a course with Ava Seave, author of one of my favorite books of all-time, The Curse of the Mogul. I finished my master's degree with all honors. More importantly –– and I credit Susan McGregor and Michael Keller for this –– I gained a passion for precision journalism that harnesses the power of interactive technologies to visualize massive datasets, both those readily available as CSVs and those requiring scraping.
The First Tragic Loss, and Gaining Life Perspective
My dad's death in March 2012 following a three-year battle with melanoma forced me to slow down my speed of living, though, and take time off to reconnect with my family. Nonetheless, I finished my master's degree with multiple honors, yet instead of accepting job offers in the city as so many of my fellow peers did, I decided to go home to the Georgia flatwoods to spend an extended summer with my mom, who'd spent the last three years caring for my dad and now – suffering from depression and empty-nest syndrome – needed my shoulder to keep her going. I learned to appreciate the simple things more, and for the first time in my life, I didn't stress about validating myself with external success. When I began my job-search that August, I started out close to home. It didn't take long before I received an offer to work in Savannah, Ga., just a two-hour drive from my mom's house, as the online editor and digital media manager for Savannah Morning News. The pay wasn't bad at all for someone my age, the newsroom culture seemed open-minded to new ideas, it was conveniently located, and Savannah, well, let's just say it's where I got addicted to Instagram, thanks in no small part to the industry-renowned digital marketer Amy Brock of Visit Savannah.
Managing a staff of three producers, two of whom were older than myself, was at first a bit scary, but it didn't take me long to get the hang of it and learn the power of leading by inspiration. Nothing made me feel more career success than seeing my employee Janay Kingsberry light up in excitement after learning how to build her first web app, or watching as Catie Mafera – already a skilled professional in digital content – discovered the magic of using JavaScript to built a simple bar chart in Google Visualization Playground. Our team made some pretty amazing accomplishments in the mobile and social realms in a very short amount of time. About a year-and-a-half in, though, I felt myself yearning to take my next step. Attending the Online News Association conference that year reminded me of the fast-pace of innovation I'd been missing out on. I even came home with a couple of job offers.
The following week, I submitted my 5-week notice to Savannah and rushed to finish my outstanding work projects before Christmas, with tentative plans to accept an offer at a media startup in NYC in late January while working on a contract project in Jacksonville, Fl. over the holidays. Working as an independent contractor, however, taught me a lesson I'd been too afraid or lacking confidence to embrace fully during my time in Savannah: I could still affect change and create products that inspired and informed people in their day-to-day lives just as much without a formal job title as without one. I didn't have to work full-time for a news organization to promote civic awareness and a free, independent and engaged Fourth Estate. I could strike out on my own path.
It was New Year's Eve 2013, minutes before ringing in 2014, that I made my mind up to follow through on an idea for a product that'd been mulling over for months. The next day, Jan. 1, 2014, with a slight hangover and rain pouring down outside, I designed the branding and secured the domain names for Borrow.ly, the unique, collaborative item-sharing platform that I believe not only has the power to change the way we consume and share products, but to strengthen our communities and break down barriers that continue to impede true urbanism.
The Second Tragic Loss, and Moving Forward
Just as I was preparing to move and begin my new venture, however, my mom died suddenly after a nurse mistakenly left part of her PICC line in her arm after discharge for a minor injury – causing her to contract acute respiratory distress syndrome and sepsis, which wouldn't respond to antibiotics.
Losing both my parents before 25 has taught me how to overcome tragic obstacles, as well as take time away from work and the command line to do more leisure activities and enjoy life, because you never know how short it might be.
Despite the tragic loss of my mom and dad, I've made a commitment to keep following my dreams, passions and desire to build things and risk failure in the process. Borrow.ly is slated be available for public preview by August of this year. If it flops – which I don't believe it will – the next then the next chapter of my life will simply begin.


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The 2013 International Workshop on Communications and Sensor Networks (ComSense-2013) provides an international forum on the latest technologies and research in the field of Communications and Sensor Networks. ComSense-2013 will be held in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada on October 21-24, 2013 in conjunction with 4th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN-2013).
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Scope of ComSense-2013 covers the fast growing domains in smart communications embedded in complex systems, for a wide variety of applications in the forthcoming generation of networks and smart grid technologies. The day by day increasing popularity and diffusion of innovative services and applications exploited the raising challenges. These issues demand to rebuild available technologies to meet the coming needs of ever growing user base. ComSense-2013 targets to address the current research results in Wireless Communications and Mobile Networking to present their methodologies, models, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences.
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· Submission due: 10 April, 2013.
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· Workshop: 21-24 October, 2013.
All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the EUSPN-2013 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in EUSPN-2013 website (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-13/). The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. Authors should submit their contributions electronically in PDF format at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comsense2013.
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All ComSense-2013 workshop accepted papers will be printed in conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line and CD). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (http://www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (http://www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (http://www.ei.org/compendex). All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/).
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· Umar Qasim, University of Alberta (Canada)
· Mariam Akbar, COMSATS Institute of IT (Pakistan)
· Mohammad Nisar, King Saud University (Saudi Arabia)
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This thread seems long dead...hope people are still about.
I have a written letter from my now dead grand mother about Jacob Wissler and his wife Magdalina who immigrated from Switzerland in 1720.
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From the letter it says that Jacob was a Mennonite and was personally urged by William Penn to move to PA.(Getting a little verbatim here...)Their son Andrew Wissler (age 32) 1735-1802 married in 1767 Anna Magdina Groff (age 16) 1752-1806.Two of their sons died but their son Jacob survived 1776-1853.
There is more leading down towards me, but I am more interesting in learning about Jacob Wissler and Magdalina Wissler...and their immigration from Switzerland.It seems from another post that they were from Langnau (or at least she was) which is only two or so hours from me.
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A decaying and impoverished hill town in the heart of Sicily known for little else than its Mafia connections and the earthquake that demolished it 40 years ago is being reborn as a new and improbable centre of la dolce vita, thanks to its new mayor, a celebrity art critic.
Vittorio Sgarbi has been a violently unpredictable TV chat show host, a senior functionary in the Culture Ministry, the art tsar of the city of Milan and the founder of his own political party, the Party of Beauty. In the summer, after being sacked from his art job in Milan, he was elected mayor of the town of Salemi, despite having no links to Sicily.
The election was seen by many as a stunt by a man desperate for the oxygen of publicity, but Mr Sgarbi is working overtime to prove them wrong. And his first brain wave - to offer ancient and derelict homes in the historic town centre for a token price of 1 euro - has put Salemi on the map all over the world.
"We have had more than 6,000 enquiries," Sgarbi told The Independent. They have come from Britain and the United States, from Canada and Australia, France, Germany, the Baltic states, Mexico Columbia. They have poured in from the worlds of fashion, style and music which know Sgarbi as one of the sharpest aesthetes in Italy: American Vogue's Anna Wintour and world music's Peter Gabriel have thrown in their one euro.
Some of Italy's most beautiful women, including socialites Anna Falchi and Afef Jnifen, will be there. The mayor of Milan who sacked him, Letizia Moratti, has buried the hatchet and signed up. A fistful of ministers from Berlusconi's government have declared an interest, as have politicians from the other side.
Sgarbi stresses that buyers must also put at least 20,000 euros into their new house to knock it into shape. The man he has put in charge of the scheme, a Sicilian environmentalist called Prince Bernardo Tortorici di Raffadali, makes no bones of the problems the plan will involve. "But we will make it," he insists.
As Sgarbi sees it, the new invaders of Salemi will overturn an historic wrong. "They will upturn a migratory flux which has seen the Sicilians go north in search of money and fortune," he said. "Now it will be the rich from the north who will come here and there is no way they cannot bring riches with them."
The local opposition is deeply sceptical. Angelo Calogero, head of the centre-left opposition on the local town council told La Stampa, "What we are seeing is the politics of announcements and that's all. It will not be at all easy to realize a project which has got such a slim grounding in reality." "In other words," commented the newspaper, "Sgarbi is dreaming."
Prince Tortorici admits that the office which has the task of cataloguing the homes available is struggling to cope. "The office closed down after the earthquake of '68, the year in which the exodus from the historic centre of the town began. The law encouraged people to choose to move out of the city centre: they were promised 100 per cent indemnity if they moved elsewhere. Now we are busy cataloguing the houses to work out exactly how many we will be able to hand over to people. And this creates plenty of stress in the council offices. But we will get the job done." So far only 219 empty houses have been identified as definitely in the town's possession.
Yesterday Mr Sgarbi claimed that one of the most important figures in the restoration of old Italian towns has come on board: the Italo-Swedish developer Daniele Khilgren, who has brought other ancient hill towns back from the brink and recently turned cave dwellings in the ancient southern town of Matera into a unique hotel. Rather than encouraging new individual owners to restore their homes ad hoc, Sgarbi plans to entrust 20 or 30 houses to Mr Khilgren to restore in a way that is in sympathy with the town's ancient heart.
Mr Sgarbi also hopes to open a Mafia museum in the town, on the grounds that "while there are still Mafiosi, the Mafia is not the power it was; it's almost defeated."
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Viola lowers the lid with a strange sense of satisfaction as an angry creaking sound fills the air. Even though she has been doing this for as far back as she can remember, some nights are definitely worse than others. Dad really did a fine job on old Mrs. Johnson here—she looks like she is ready to get up and dance.
Dance! A sudden happy memory fills her mind of she and Loll kickin' up their heels at the dance hall last weekend. That new dance sure is the bee's knees! What's it called again? The Charleston?
A sudden chime from the antique Grandfather clock makes her jump up in fright. Just ducky, 9 o'clock already and she still has to finish the entire front parlor. Ma's not gonna be happy when she finds out I'm going out again tonight, she thinks. Maybe she can sneak out once he gets here, if she can catch him at the front door before he knocks, maybe her mother won't hear? She sighs dramatically. Ed. He has got to be the most handsome guy she's ever seen, even dreamier than Francis X. Bushman. How she caught his eye instead of pretty little Loll, she'll never know. He has the most beautiful hazel eyes she's ever seen and a thick head of jet black hair.
Black Irish, he'd said he was, as he led her out to the floor. Graceful and surefooted, they fit together like a glove, moving in perfect synchronicity without even having to touch. A snippet of her favorite song flits through her mind "I'll get by, as long as I have you…" as she begins to sway in time to the imaginary music. He's perfect in every way, she thinks, now if he can only pass "the test."
Vi laughs as she remembers the first time she gave "the test" to an erstwhile beau. He'd followed her inside, eager to claim his good night kiss. "Just a moment, Jimmy, can you help me with my nightly chore first?" Man, he hightailed out of here like nobody's business, slamming the screen door behind him.
Vi wasn't just any old gal, she was a modern woman of the world, a true flapper. She and Loll were the founders the "Question Mark Cuties" complete with specially made question mark bathing suits in the new, risque style. Many a guy has tried to figure out just what that question mark means, but none have been worthy. She doesn't have the time or patience for weak-kneed little boys; she is waiting for her very own Valentino to sweep her off her feet, steadfast and true. "The test" was a sure-fire way to weed out the bad ones, and she has given it countless times without any keepers.
She sighs again and heads over to the next coffin, gently pulling it shut over the peaceful face of the distinguished old gentleman inside. She hears a creak somewhere above her in their second floor residence. Is that Ma? She had better hurry! She sprints over to the mirror in the front hallway, pinching her cheeks and fluffing up her short, bobbed hair.
She remembers her mother's loud sobbing the day she came home with her daring new hairdo. "Viola…your hair!" She can see the look of abject horror on the faces of her sisters and her brother's amused smile. Her mother angrily shooing her out of the house to go fetch her father at the local watering hole. "Bring him home Vi, you just see what he does!" She had never seen her in such a state, boy was she in trouble.
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Vi is snapped out of her memory by a quick rap on the door, he's here! She dashes down the hall as quietly as possible and pulls the door open without a sound. She is greeted by a single red rose held by a very dashing young man. Vi swallows hard, moves aside to let him enter.
"Hiya kid, you ready to paint the town?" She accepts the rose, looks up into those mesmerizing eyes. She has never seen eyes that color before, she thinks, and swears she can see her future in them. Vi makes an instant decision and takes his hand to lead him out into the cool night air.
"Sure thing Ed, let's hit the road." Before she can close the door behind them, he sticks his foot out and heads back inside.
"Aren't you forgetting something?" She watches in astonishment as he goes into the main parlor and begins to close each coffin, one by one. He does it respectfully, looking at each occupant with reverence before shutting them in for the night. His task completed, he turns back and gives her a passionate kiss. She feels weak in the knees, her own Sheik of Araby here at last.
He breaks away and winks at her, "So did I pass?" For the first time in her life, Vi is rendered speechless. "Now, about that question mark…"
Vi couldn't be sure, but she was convinced that she could hear the strains of "I'll Get By" gently floating on the breeze as they walked arm and arm out into the night and into her future.
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Twenty-five years ago, coach Sam Johnson and I launched an organization dedicated to providing a place where Liberty City kids could play baseball and football while learning they didn't have to sling drugs on a street corner. For close to three decades, the Liberty City Optimist Club has mentored African-American boys and girls (we have a topnotch youth cheerleading program too).
More than 100 volunteers give their time for free because they love the program. The club has also benefited greatly from the support of former board president and ex-Miami-Dade County Public Schools Police Chief Gerald Darling.
I agreed to sponsor Johnson's baseball program as long as he helped me establish a football program at Charles Hadley Park at 1350 NW 50th St. As a kid, I was bused into Miami Beach to play organized sports. I wouldn't get home until 11 p.m. during football season. One of my life goals was to provide a place for Liberty City children.
Over the years, the Warriors (the club's nickname) have put out a procession of NFL talent such as Atlanta Falcons running back Devonta Freeman (who leads the NFL in touchdowns), Seattle Seahawks cornerback Cary Williams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Lavonte David, and Cleveland Browns rusher Duke Johnson. Warriors alumnus Kier Thomas, a defensive tackle for Miami Central Senior High, is rated best in the nation at his position.
But we don't just churn out future pro football players. Miami Commissioner Keon Hardemon is proving Liberty City can produce leaders too. Last year, he found funding to finish a youth center and other improvements at Hadley Park, as well as at Gibson Park in Overtown. Years ago, I lobbied then-City Manager Joe Arriola, who earmarked $16 million for Hadley and $24 million for Gibson. By the time the city broke ground on the projects, $20 million for both went missing in typical banana-republic fashion.
The youth center, scheduled to open next year, will be named after Sam Johnson, who passed away in 2011.
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John Pescatore, a security analyst at Gartner, told internetnews.com the incessant warnings about cyber-terrorism don't "make a lot of sense." He said many software vendors are overstating the threat in the wake of the mainstream media's reporting on the Slammer worm.
"There is value in this publicity for security firms like Symantec and Network Associates. It has helped put a greater emphasis on the need for increased spending on enterprise security and now they are looking to cash in on that fear," Pescatore said.
The company is styling the software upgrade as an early warning system that provides "a comprehensive birds-eye view of global Internet attacks in a timely manner." It said the DeepSight Threat Management System would track security threats as they occur on a global basis by gathering data from firewalls and intrusion detection systems (IDS) in more than 180 countries.
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Santa Clara, Calif.'s Network Associates also joined the public relations push. The company unveiled the InfiniStream Security Forensics tool from its Sniffer Technologies unit, calling it the "most powerful and fastest forensics analysis solution on the market that allows enterprise customers worldwide to reconstruct, understand and prevent harmful network activity and security events."
Network Associates said InfiniStream features greater storage capacity and speed to allow enterprise clients to capture, store and analyze up to 2.9 terabytes of data across a network. The tool lets customers identify, investigate and verify the exact source of network and security problems, reducing the risk of financial fraud, intellectual property theft, virus threats, and network sabotage.
The increased activity from the vendors comes as no surprise to Gartner's Pescatore.
"This business thrives on fear, uncertainty and doubt. To sell burglar alarm services, you have to show crooks breaking into old ladies' homes. That's what we are seeing here," Pescatore explained.
"People spend money on security after something bad happens so we have the companies hyping up the threat of cyber-terrorism. The reality is that cyber-terrorism hasn't happened and doesn't make a lot of sense," he argued.
He described the media-driven fear of cyber-terrorism as "total hogwash," arguing that hacking attacks on Internet networks should not be put in the same class as terrorist attacks on physical targets. When the political strife in the Middle East escalated last year, Pescatore said cyber-attacks against Israeli and U.S. financial institutions did increase but he argued it was "pure hypesmanship" to put those kinds of cyber-attacks in the class of a suicide attack by a terrorist.
But, Pescatore sees some value in the underlying fear. "What this publicity has done is shorten the window between when an attack starts and when enterprises find out about it and act on the information. It has helped to generate awareness and gives the system administrators some ammunition in their quest for increased budgets for security," he said.
Pescatore said Gartner statistics showed Internet security spending to be a mere 3 percent of an enterprise's total budget but, because of the increased attacks, that figure was expected to climb to 5.4 percent by the end of 2003.
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I'm a nanny and from time to time I am challenged with entertaining kids without overloading them with tv or kindle games. Recently I had the task of making a 9 hour shift pass by indoors on a rainy day with an 8 year old. I panicked at first but my pennydonna senses kicked in & I was able to come up with some fun activities that were cheap to do!
Crafts: FREE
Depending on how old the child is, choosing a good craft can give you at least a 30 minute activity. I know boys generally aren't the crafty kind but if you make it fun, I believe all kids can enjoy themselves with this. Molly's mother is a big crafter so there were plenty to choose from. We made these things that I'm not sure what they are called. But it took time to get the little beads on the board the way we wanted and then of course I had to iron them down. We also made rubber-band bracelets! 1 hour gone!
**And let's just say you don't have a craft kit for something. Well that's when you crank up your creativity level and make something out of nothing! Do you have construction paper? Build a little house with it! Don't have construction paper? Great! Now you can tear out notebook paper & color it! That adds even more time to the activity! Coloring books & drawing are also great craft things to do!
Board Games: Free
Everyone knows to break out the board games once it's starts raining outside but here's a few ways to add to that.
Molly & I played the game Cooties. Instead of 1 body per person, we decided to double it! So you could only win if you put together two little cooties. This can be adapted to many games. With the game of Sorry, instead of choosing just one color, choose 2.
Another great idea to make a old game fun again is to put a time limit on the game. Instead of playing till the end, say we only have 10 minutes to play and whoever is closer to winning, wins the game. The sense of urgency really gets kids going and they go crazy lol but in a good way! You can play multiple times this way!
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Okay I know. Reading and math worksheets aren't a favorite thing for kids to do on a day off from school. But it's our job to get kids excited for learning! Don't just sit them down at the table and leave them there to finish! Make it interesting!
Molly's mother wanted her to finish reading a book and complete her math worksheets. Of course Molly wasn't too excited about the idea at all and it was a bit of a struggle to get her to do it at first. But I made a wager with her. With the book, I told her if she read the remainder of the story in 10 minutes, I would try to read the entire book in one minute. It's sounds corny but kids love challenging adults and it worked like a charm. When she finished, I gave her my phone and set the timer for one minute. When she said go, I started reading as fast as I could. She thought I was hilarious and laughed so hard she forgot to watch the timer! Afterwards she wanted to do another book!
Math was always my evil subject in school so I ran low on ideas as to how to make it more fun. But I did sit with her and help her along the way, making silly examples out of things. i.e. "if I had 12 noses in various places on my body, how many would I have to get rid of to only be left with 2" I got a few giggles here and there so I was happy! Some great sites for free worksheets are:
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Pinterest is filled with all sorts of DIY games and this particular one popped up in my head when I saw some masking tape sitting on the counter. I was very mysterious as to what I was doing which adds to children's excitement. They want to know what's going on so they will stay intrigued. I took the tape and made 'spider webs' between the door frame. That's about all I took from Pinterest. The rest I made up as I went. I then gave Molly 3 sheets of paper to rip up in 4 sections. Then we picked a color, and colored all of our pieces. This would be how we differentiate between teams. Already she's loving it because 1, we're making somewhat of a mess and 2, she got to rip up paper. lol. Kids are really easy to please sometimes. We then made the rule that if you get a piece of paper to stick you have to move down a step. This activity worked perfectly! We spent about an hour doing this and she didn't want take the tape down!
*Here's a suggestion, don't put it up too high because it's difficult for kids (and even myself lol) to throw that high.
*Tissue paper will probably be easier to get to stick.
Make old games new: FREE
This is essentially the same thing as adding new rules to board games. We played flashlight hide & seek. We closed all the blinds and darkened the room then took turns finding each other with a flashlight. This maybe gave me 20 minutes off of my shift but it's better than nothing! She was an excellent hider!
Indoor Playground: FREE
I had about 4 hours left on my shift and I was running low on ideas by this time. Then I thought "Hey we can go to Chick-Fil-A and she can play on the indoor playground!" I got so excited by this! Yes it was raining but the restaurant was only 5 minutes away! So we went and she got to exert some more energy on the playground while I got to eat some fabulous chicken! It was a win-win!
Media: FREE
Well I held off as long as I could. We had 2 & 1/2 hours left so she got to play on the computer for 30 minutes then we watched a movie. My advice on multimedia play is save it for last. It can be a great calming down time for kids. Disneyjr.com and Nickjr. com are great sites for kids. She got to play a few games with her favorite princesses while I got to settle down and read some more of my book!
Take a look at the video of Molly & I playing with the Masking Tape Spider Web!
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This is a small snippet of what you can do with nothing! We took masking tape and made a spider web then threw paper at it! Simple, easy, fun, and FREE activity for kids stuck inside on a rainy day!
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Microsoft had commissioned an IDC study in Asia Pacific which confirmed that the Asia Pacific channel partners have proven to be more profitable in earning revenue by focusing on cloud and mobility. The study also highlighted the role played by IT ecosystem in Asia Pacific in preferring a new mobile-first, clout first technique of offering solutions.
According to IDC study, titled 'The Uptake of Cloud and Mobility in APAC Sets the Stage for Evolution of Partner Ecosystem', the public cloud services market in Asia Pacific will double by 2018, growing from US $ 3.2 billion in 2014 to US$7.1 billion by 2018. Mobility has been identified by IDC to be much larger in revenue potential than cloud in Asia Pacific, and is expected to grow by 46% from US $ 20.3 billion in 2014 to US $ 29.1 billion in 2018. Cloud and mobility, together, is expected to deliver about US $ 36.2 billion towards revenue in the prospective IT scenario. The study was conducted in on more than 200 Microsoft partners from nine markets in Asia Pacific, including Australia, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam to comprehend their existing business models and growth strategies in facing these new market prospects.
Ananth Lazurus, Partner Lead, Microsoft Asia Pacific, thinks that it is worth taking the calculated risk of investing US $ 225 million to promote Cloud and Mobility in Asia Pacific. According to Mayur Sahni, Senior Research Manager for Services and Cloud Research, IDC Asia/Pacific, "Channel partners in Asia Pacific need to undergo constant change in their business model and must be able to support a regularly changing product and service mix. The base denominator in this equation is culture. IT companies that build a culture of change, which have innovation and disruption as their key pillars, will experience greater success, faster, in a mobile-first, cloud-first world."
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