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|September 28, 2012, 07:15 PM
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Mid- range loads / .38 spl.
What are some good Mid range .38 spl. loads for a Ruger Security - Six and a 6" barrel Ruger GP100. Plinking and paper punching targets ?
My first venture into .38 Spl. revolver.
Thank you all for the info, oswald
|September 28, 2012, 07:26 PM
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bullet weight?
Jacketed or lead?
Soft lead or hard?
Preferred burn rate powders?
With more input, you can get better feedback.
|September 28, 2012, 07:36 PM
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I would recommend some cast 158's and some WW231. Cheap and accurate although so are a lot of other powders.
|September 28, 2012, 07:53 PM
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148 grain hard cast DEWC over 4.5 grains of Unique
|September 28, 2012, 07:55 PM
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Assuming you are not into reloading at this time, I recommend you find a shop that sells reloaded ammo - ask gun guys or call the gun shops listed near you. You should be able to buy bags of 50 reloads or boxes of several hundred rounds for relatively excellent prices - either wadcutters, which are flat across the top of the case (and can give you a crisp, clean hole in the paper target), or 158 gr. round-nose lead. Those will be cheaper than rounds with copper-clad bullets. If you can't find them for $10 or less for 50, then check around for cheap new ammo, also with lead bullets. Prvi Partizan sells for less than $12 for 50.
If you want a very light load - minimal recoil - you can look for reloads that are labeled as "Cowboy" ammo in either 122gr. or 158gr. For your purposes, new factory cowboy ammo would be needlessly expensive.
When in doubt, ask the shop owner.
|September 28, 2012, 08:04 PM
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I have shot thousands upon thousands of 38 Special rounds using 3.5 grains of Bullseye with LSWC, JHP, LRN, LBBFPRN, etc. Point of aim between the bullets type is close enough that I cannot tell a difference between bullets. I truly think that my flinch causes more variation in impact than bullet configuration. Velocities are so similar it would take a statistical analysis, (perhaps Students T test?) to see if there is a velocity difference between a LSWC and a LRN of the same alloy.
I have shot that load in many revolvers, some I still own, some I do not. I have shot that load in 38 Snubbies, four inch barreled 38's, and 357 Revolvers. It shoots very well. I have also tried a couple other powders, with 125 gr Bullets, all of which are below. And there are a few 148 LWC data in the mix along with factory rounds to give a reality check on my loads. This is real world data, not shot from pressure barrels.
The dumped charges are as similar as I can make them, given a Dillion progressive, there are variations due to which primers I used. Primer use is based on who was making the cheapest primer at the time of loading. Winchester has been the consistently low cost primer maker for a while, most loads are WSP.
I have never found a need to use the same case, so I am using brass that has been fired God Knows how many times and a rainbow of headstamps. All of which shoot fine.
I have shot other powders and other loads, but Bullseye is so constantly accurate and shoots to Point of Aim in the fixed sight revolvers, that I have standardized on that load and powder and see no reason to chase the "Powder de jour" . It also is close to the non +P factory ammunition I have shot in terms of velocity. So I consider this load equivalent to factory ammunition.
The 148 LWC with 2.7 grs Bullseye was a popular Bullseye load back in the day. It is very accurate and has very mild recoil. Shoots well in 38 Special chambers and in 357 chambers.
4" S&W M10-5 148 LWC Valiant 2.7grs Bullseye W/W cases WSP 19-Apr-09 T ≈ 60-65 ° F Ave Vel = 696.2 Std Dev = 12.04 ES = 48 High = 721.3 Low = 673.3 N = 32 v accurate, about 2" low, no leading, mild recoil 158 LRN Valiant 3.5grs Bullseye Mixed cases WSP 19-Apr-09 T ≈ 60-65 ° F Ave Vel = 758 Std Dev = 22.86 ES = 100.9 High = 810.5 Low = 709.5 N = 32 158 LRN 3.5grs Bullseye Mixed cases WSP Gamma Chrony 5-Aug-06 T = 100 °F Ave Vel = 796 Std Dev = 13.89 ES = 55.24 High = 813 Low = 757.9 N = 23 158 LRN 3.5grs Bullseye Mixed cases WSP 22-Dec-07 T = 52 °F Ave Vel = 768.6 Std Dev = 15.58 ES = 48.52 High = 787.6 Low = 739.1 N = 18 125 Valiant BBRNFP 4.0 grs Bullseye Mixed cases WSP 9-Apr-06 T = 59 °F Ave Vel = 863.4 Std Dev = 30 ES = 70.78 High = 907.5 Low = 836.7 N = 6 Windage centered accurate Elevation at least 4" low 125 Valiant BBRNFP 4.5 grs Bullseye Mixed cases WSP 9-Apr-06 T = 64 °F Ave Vel = 945.6 Std Dev = 27.28 ES = 75.21 High = 995.2 Low = 920 N = 6 Windage centered accurate Elevation at least 4" low
Colt Python Stainless Steel, 6" Barrel 148 gr LBBWC 2.7 grs Bullseye 38 SPL cases CCI500 24 Sept 1999 T = 78 F Ave Vel = 710 Std Dev = 18 ES 72.02 High 746.1 Low 674 N = 33 shot fine at 25 yards, no leading, light recoil 158 gr LRN 3.5 grs Bullseye 38 SPL cases CCI500 24-Sep-99 T = 78 F Ave Vel = 771 Std Dev = 12 ES 35.9 High 792.6 Low 756.7 N = 6
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|September 28, 2012, 09:59 PM
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38 Spec. reloads
I bought pounds and pounds of Accurate Nitro 100 on sale years ago and have been using it with great satisfaction in the 38. I use mostly 148 LWC and my charges range from 2.5 to 3.5 gr. of Nitro. Very accurate loads with any charges within the 2.5-3.5 range. The 158gr LSWC works equally well with Nitro. Incidently the 3.5 gr. charge also is my standard .45 acp load with 200 gr. LSWC slugs. Nice soft shooting easy on the recoil load.
|September 28, 2012, 10:57 PM
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For 38spl I mostly use Bullseye and W231 with standard primers. These powders cross over well with other cartridges I load for, I'm sure there are other powders that would do the same but that's more time working up the loads and more powders on the shelf.
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|September 29, 2012, 11:45 AM
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Any commercially available standard .38 special 125gr or 158gr factory ammo will fall within your specs. +p will be a tad mare potent and a tad more expensive. Whatever falls within your pocketbook range should should work for starters, but trying different types and brands will show you your guns preference. If you reload, any good manual will give you good starting to mid-range loads and some will even tell you those that should be most accurate. What I would avoid is bulk reloads by the bag by folks other than known reputable commercial reloaders. There are commercial reloaders that sell over the internet and some that even take your brass in trade if saving every little penny is a concern.
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|September 29, 2012, 03:21 PM
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WW 231 with any bullet you care to choose.
My standard "oh let's shoot some .38 Special today" load is a 158-gr. hard cast lead bullet with 3.5 grains of WW 231.
Churns out between 750 and 850 fps, I think, and is mild and fun.
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|September 29, 2012, 07:42 PM
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Dinosaur vote for the 158 gr LSWC or LRN and 3.5 gr of bullseye. Been using it since 73 and have never had a reason to try anything else for target shooting or small game hunting.
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|September 29, 2012, 08:05 PM
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148g LHBWC- Rem or HDY over 3.1g Universal. Loaded flush with top of case, light crimp - just beyond removing the flare. Cheap and easy to load and shoot. In a M-10 or King Cobra 4 inch bbl the perceived recoil on these is like a similar sized .22 revolver for me personally.
|October 1, 2012, 03:48 PM
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Oswald - do you reload ammo?
|October 1, 2012, 05:16 PM
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I am using a nice clean burning round. I prefer Jacketed bullets for handgun ammo. I have used wadcutters in the past but now I don't need perfect holes to measure. My load probably is not even close to the cheapest good load you can make. It works for me.
Bullet - Montana Gold 158 grain hollow point.
Powder - WST (Winchester Super Target) 4.0 grains.
Roll crimp
Primer - Winchester Small Pistol
Any major manufacture's small pistol primer will probably work just as well.
WST is a faster burning powder than W231 is and gives a nice soft feel when shooting. It also does burn clean. WST measures very well in most powder measures.
If you think you need more speed you can use a slower burning powder like WSF or AA5. You will get more recoil and speed with them. I use the 158 grain jacketed bullet for .357 mag. It seemed reasonable to use the same bullet for .38 special. I like this load and is all I'm using now for specials.
|October 9, 2012, 01:24 PM
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+1 to what Old Grump posted!!
I generally run between 3.2gr and 3.5gr of Bullseye with 158gr LSWC in my snubbies. Great loads, the kids don't mind shooting them either.
|October 11, 2012, 06:30 AM
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I load Speer 158 swaged SWCHP over 5 grains of Power Pistol: 800 fps out of a 4" Model 64. PP meters well.
|October 11, 2012, 10:51 AM
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I've had some great luck with 148 HBWC over 2.3 of Trail boss, and 158gr SWC's over 3.5 grains of TB. out of my 6" GP100. the have been very clean and mild.
|October 11, 2012, 02:09 PM
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I use 158gr LRN over 3.8 grains of HP-38 for my Ruger Service Six. Great plinking load.
|October 12, 2012, 03:26 AM
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How are we going to make money on simple?
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|October 12, 2012, 08:37 PM
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I load a Speer 158 gr. LSWC with 3.3 gr. of Bullseye. Very soft shooting target load that I use for competition. Chrono's at an average of 652 fps, with a standard deviation of 21 fps out of my 6" Smith Model 10.
Hmmm... now that I read the title of the post again, it might not be what I'd call a "mid-range" load... but it's accurate.
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In a satellite conference sponsored by Boehringer-Ingelheim at the 8th European Conference on Clinical Aspects and Treatment of HIV Infection (ECCATHI), lipid problems associated with HAART were reviewed and the more favorable lipid profiles, associated with the usage of non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs), in particular nevirapine, were discussed.
Peter Reiss reviewed data from the lipid sub-study of the Atlantic Trial that indicates that nevirapine-based HAART is associated with only modest increases in total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol (the "bad" cholesterol) and triglycerides, but a significant increase in HDL cholesterol (the "good" cholesterol), which results in an improvement in the total cholesterol:HDL ratio. This effect has been shown to be sustained through 96 weeks of treatment. The 96-week data from this study were presented in a poster presentation at this conference.1
While there were no significant differences in patient baseline lipid profiles between the three treatment arms of the Atlantic Trial (didanosine plus stavudine, in combination with either indinavir, nevirapine or lamivudine) at 24 weeks, all arms had a rise in total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol with the lowest increases in the lamivudine arm. But in the nevirapine arm, HDL rose 49% and HDL size and large HDL number also increased, all of which was greater than in the other two arms. Due to this rise in HDL, the total cholesterol:HDL ratio, perhaps the best indicator of cardiovascular risk, decreased 14% in the nevirapine arm, 9% in the lamivudine arm, and was close to unchanged in the indinavir arm of the trial. Further, apolipoprotein-A1, the protein produced by the liver and which is "loaded" with cholesterol to form HDL cholesterol, also increased more in the nevirapine arm than the other arms of the trial, which may be an early indication of the etiology of the HDL increases associated with nevirapine. A multivariate analysis, which controlled for other potential factors that may have affected lipids, including CD4+ T-cell counts and viral load, found only the nevirapine treatment to be significant.
In a small subset of the patients examined, the lipid effects associated with nevirapine-based HAART appear to be sustained to 48 and 96 weeks, with HDL increases in the 40% range in the nevirapine arm at 96 weeks of therapy versus more modest changes of 20% and 6% in the lamivudine and indinavir arms, respectively. As a result, at the end of 96 weeks of therapy, the total cholesterol:HDL ratio decreased by 6% in the nevirapine arm, while it increased 2% and 25% in the lamivudine and indinavir arms, respectively. The total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and triglyceride changes were similar between the three arms at 96 weeks.
Bonaventura Clotet presented data that corroborates the effect upon lipids whether the patients who start on nevirapine are naive or protease inhibitor-experienced. In the Barcelona protease inhibitor switch study -- a relatively small study involving only 77 patients -- patients who switched from a protease inhibitor to nevirapine or efavirenz maintained virologic suppression and immunologic benefit, while in the nevirapine arm, patients experienced an improvement in their lipid profile similar to that seen in the Atlantic Trial data. These improvements were also seen in the efavirenz arm in which lipid parameters improved somewhat as well but not as impressively as in the nevirapine arm. There was no change in either of the arms as far as body fat changes.
The presenters at this conference conceded that these findings are likely to be in large part an NNRTI class effect, although the total cholesterol/HDL cholesterol change is not quite as impressive in patients on efavirenz-based HAART. Furthermore, the presenters admitted that the clinical significance of these findings remains unclear and that they have no data to support relevance in the "setting of HIV treatment." Whether these lipid changes are significant and ultimately affect clinical outcomes will need to be determined by other studies that take into account the effect of these and other risk factors for coronary artery disease, the use of medications to treat and control lipid problems associated with protease inhibitors, the nature and duration of the lipid changes, and numerous other factors which may impact cardiovascular disease and mortality in HIV-infected patients on and off antiretroviral therapy. Still, in certain patient classes, lipid improvements may be important and these data may be considered useful in guiding treatment decisions.
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Captain Planet will be tree huggin' his way to theaters, and it's all thanks to a deal Cartoon Network's deal with producer Don Murphy (Transformers). The Turner-owned net is planning to develop a live-action adventure film based on the world's first animated environmental super hero, Captain Planet. Murphy's team plans on reviving Captain Planet, and making him more relevant to today's demographics. Stuart Snyder, president of Turner Broadcasting System Inc.'s Animation, Young Adults and Kids Media Division says that the company wishes to,
"…bring the world's first eco-hero to life in a powerful motion picture that is not only pertinent but entertaining."
For those who have been living under a rock, Captain Planet and the Planeteers premiered in 1990 as the first environmental animated series on the small screen. The six-season series centered on a band of young people who combine their special powers to summon eco-hero Captain Planet to battle the world's eco-villains.
To be quite honest I'm not sure to how to feel about a big blue-ish man on the big screen talking about environmental issues. Also the dude is kind of a lame super hero 'cause even though he fights pollition ("down to zero"), if he gets dirty he loses his powers. Grime and dirt are this hero's krptonite. Thank God he doesn't live in Mexico, he'd be dead within 5 minutes. ( no offense to the country, but take it from me it's pretty dirty in certain areas) Plus, we already had The Day After Tomorrow freak everyone out about the way they've screwed the environment by threatening a second ice age and typhoon's larger than the Statue of Liberty. I reserve my comments on big blue men saving the world until the first trailer for this movie, but so far it ain't looking all that good for him.
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They're "security myths," oft-repeated and generally accepted notions about IT security that arguably are simply not true -- in order words, it's just a myth.
We asked security experts, consultants, vendors and enterprise security managers to share their favorite "security myths" with us. Here are 13 of them:
Security Myth No. 1: "More security is always better."
IN PICTURES: 13 security myths
Bruce Schneier, security expert and author of several books, including his most recent, "Liars and Outliers," explains why this security concept of "you can't get enough" that's often bandied about is off the mark to him. Schneier explains: "More security isn't necessarily better. First security is always a trade-off, and sometimes additional security costs more than it's worth. For example, it's not worth spending $100,000 to protect a donut. Yes, the donut would be more secure, but it would make more sense to simply risk the donut." He also notes that "additional security is subject to diminishing returns. That is, measures that reduce a particular crime -- say, shoplifting -- by 25% cost some amount of money; but additional measures to reduce it another 25% cost much more. There will always be a point where more security isn't worth it. And as a corollary, absolute security is not achievable." Sometimes security may even become a moral choice and being in compliance might be an immoral decision, as it could pertain to a totalitarian system, for example. "Security enforces compliance, and sometimes complying isn't the right thing to do."
Security Myth No. 2: "The DDoS problem is bandwidth-oriented."
"There are a lot of urban myths you hear over time that aren't backed up by real evidence," says Carl Herberger, vice president of security solutions at Radware, who says there's a widespread belief among IT managers that if only they had enough bandwidth, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks would go away. The reality, he claims, is that since last year, it's become evident that more than half of DDoS attacks are not characterized by bandwidth at all but are application-oriented, where attackers strike at the application stack, and exploit standards for purposes of service disruption. In these circumstances, having more bandwidth actually helps the attacker. In fact, only about one-quarter of the DDoS attacks seen today are mitigated by adding bandwidth, Herberger contends.
Security Myth No. 3: "Regular expiration (typically every 90 days) strengthens password systems."
"I think this is like the nutritional advice that urges us to drink eight glasses of water a day," says Ari Juels, chief scientist, RSA, the security division of EMC, about his favorite myth, which is that passwords should be expired regularly. No one knows where this came from or if it's good advice at all, he points out. "In fact, recent research suggests that regular password expiration may not be useful," says Juels. Research that RSA Labs has done suggests that if an organization is going to expire passwords, it should do so on a random schedule, not a fixed one.
Security Myth No. 4: "You can rely on the wisdom of the crowds."
"Over and over again, an employee will get an email from someone saying there's a new virus" or some other type of imminent danger on the Internet has cropped up and they'll contact the IT department, says Bill Bolt, vice president of information technology for the Phoenix Suns basketball team. But upon investigation, these commonly shared notions never seem to pan out as being new at all, he says. In fact, most of the time, the panic is about well-known malware threats first spotted a decade ago.
Security Myth No. 5: "Client-side virtualization will solve the security problems of 'bring your own device.'"
"The myth I keep hearing is BYOD security problems will be solved by having a 'work' virtual machine and a 'personal' virtual machine," says Gartner analyst John Pescatore. "That way, all the risk on the personal side will be contained and no data will be leaked from the work side to the play side." But Pescatore says he's skeptical. "The intelligence community tried this years ago -- NSA paid a tiny (at that time) company named VMware to develop a product called NetTop for intelligence analyst use which created separate VMs for Secret, Top Secret, Unclassified, etc. it immediately ran into a problem -- analysts don't work in Secret now, Top Secret later -- they work across all domains at once and need to move things between domains. The same is true today with 'work' and 'play.' The first thing that happens with client-side virtualization is that I get personal email in my work environment and I need to use it in my personal world (or vice versa) -- so I email it to myself or use a USB stick to transfer across -- and all separation is lost. Virtualization is just a big waste of money. NetTop is still around, very limited use in the intelligence community and that was the most likely place it could succeed!"
Security Myth No. 6: "IT should encourage users to use completely random passwords to increase password strength and they should also require passwords to be changed at least every 30 days."
The reality, contends Kevin Haley, director of Symantec security response, is "completely random passwords can be strong but they have disadvantages, too: they are usually difficult to remember and slow to type. In reality, it is pretty easy to create passwords that are just as strong as random ones, but much easier to remember by using a few simple techniques. Passwords that are at least 14 characters long, utilize upper- and lower-case letters, two numbers and two symbols are typically quite strong and can be formulated into a pretty easy to remember phrase." He adds that while 30-day expiration might be good advice for some high-risk environments, it often is not the best policy because such a short period of time tends to induce users to develop predictable patterns or otherwise decrease the effectiveness of their passwords. A length of between 90 to 120 days is "more realistic," he says.
Security Myth No. 7: "Any computer virus will produce a visible symptom on the screen."
"To the man in the street, computer viruses are mostly a myth. That is to say, most of what he believes about malware comes to him from science fiction, from television and the movies," says David Perry, president of G Data Software North America. "My favorite is probably the idea that any computer virus will produce a visible symptom on the screen, showing the files melting away or making the computer itself catch on fire. This extrapolates down until people blame everything that goes wrong with their computer on a virus." He adds: "And that lack of visible trouble means that a system is obviously malware free."
Security Myth No. 8: "We are not a target."
"Mostly I hear it from victims," says Alan Brill, senior managing director for the cybersecurity and information assurance practice at Kroll. "They think they aren't worth hacking. Some say it's not worthwhile because they're a small business -- not on anybody's radar. Others contend they don't collect Social Security numbers, credit card data or other 'valuable' information. They are usually wrong."
Security Myth No. 9: "Software today isn't any better than it used to be in terms of security holes."
"There are a whole bunch of people actively claiming software isn't any better because of the holes in it," says Gary McGraw, chief technology officer at Cigital. But, he argues, "We have gotten way better" and "the defect density ratio is going down." He says safe coding practices are much better understood today than a decade or two ago and the tools for it are available. "We know what to do," says McGraw. The point that's sometimes overlooked, he says, is that in comparison to the era of Windows 95, there is simply so much more software code being written and "the square miles of code we're building is bigger than ever before." The sheer volume of code is why it sounds like software today is as full of vulnerabilities as was experienced in decades past, but the opposite is true. He adds: "Perfection is impossible."
Security Myth No. 10: "Sensitive information transfer via SSL session is secure."
"Companies often use SSL to send sensitive information from customers or partners with the assumption that transferring via SSL session is secure," says Rainer Enders, chief technology officer, Americas, NCP Engineering. "But increasingly, vulnerabilities during this process have surfaced." He notes that Citigroup last year suffered a breach that can be chalked up to a problem in this regard, and it isn't an isolated case. "Swiss researchers recently published a memo describing a way to gather information about the data transmitted over an SSL channel by exploiting a vulnerability in the implementations of block ciphers, such as AES." He says there are doubts about SSL session security, and "perhaps the ideal way to avoid this pitfall is to never use the same key stream to encrypt two different documents." Ender also adds that another favorite security myth has to do with any notion that using trusted certificates from a certificate authority is airtight. He contends last year's trouble with spoofed fraudulent certificates has shown that to be a myth.
Security Myth No. 11: "Endpoint security software is a commodity product."
Jon Oltsik, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), says it did appear that the majority of enterprise security professionals did agree with this statement about endpoint security products basically being all the same and a commodity when they were asked about it as a survey question by ESG. But Oltsik says he has to disagree with the idea that endpoint security software is basically all the same. "I believe this is a complete myth," he says. "Endpoint security products are vastly different in terms of levels of protection and feature/functionality." Oltsik adds that he even thinks that most organizations are unaware of the capabilities of the endpoint security products they have acquired and "therefore don't use the products appropriately for maximum protection."
Security Myth No. 12: "Sure, we have a firewall on our network; of course we're protected!"
Kevin Butler, information technology security analyst at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, who says he has spent a decade as a firewall administrator, says there are plenty of myths about firewalls. Acknowledging he might have believed a few of them over the years, Butler says the ones that stand out for him are that "firewalls are always a piece of hardware" and "a properly configured firewall will protect you from all threats." About this second one he notes: "Nothing quite says hello like malicious content encapsulated over an SSL connection infecting your workstations." Other firewall myths he knows of include "with a firewall, there's no need for antivirus software" and one that really gets his ire, "Brand 'X' firewall protects against even zero-day threats." About this, he says, "New exploits against firewall protections are identified faster than they are mitigated. A firewall shall never be a 'fire and forget' solution for perimeter protection, EVER!"
Security Myth No. 13: "You should not upload malware samples found as part of a targeted attack to reputable malware vendors or services."
Joe Stewart , director of malware analysis for Dell SecureWorks, says he has heard this recommendation, which he considers to be "flawed advice." He says the idea came about because, "First, the theory goes that the attacker may be watching public sandboxes and virus scanners for signs of their malware, and uploading samples found during an incident response will tip them off that they have been detected."
He notes a secondary reason sometimes suggested is that in a targeted attack, the malware may have clues as to who the target is, leading to unintentional notification of the attack. Stewart says the counter-arguments he makes are, "The first point assumes the attacker has time to check for such things regularly. That is likely not the case, as even in targeted attacks, there are often dozens of victims in a single campaign, with the same attacker launching several campaigns per year.
Attackers with even a small number of targets rarely use a unique strain of malware for each target -- instead they rotate through a set of preselected Trojans over time, tweaking them along the way to avoid antivirus detection. So even if a malware sample shows up on one of the public malware tracking sites, there's no guarantee that the attacker will check for it, and even if they do, no guarantee which target found the sample and uploaded it."
Stewart says there's a great benefit to sharing samples involved in targeted attacks. And as to malware revealing the names of targeted institutions, he acknowledges "it's possible however it is not frequently seen." He adds that state/industrial espionage has become a "fact of life on the modern Internet" and no one should be surprised to hear any company or government was the target of an attack "if they have some information useful to another nation-state."
Stewart says it's his own view that "attempting to keep reports about this activity quiet are harming everyone except the attackers in the long run."
Ellen Messmer is senior editor at Network World, an IDG publication and website, where she covers news and technology trends related to information security.
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John asks Mary for a date. She says no. The request was unwelcome, so he's a sexual harasser. Professor Smith discusses the risk of HIV transmission through anal sex, making one of his 500 students uncomfortable. He's a sexual harasser. Just about everyone on campus is guilty of sexual harassment under rules set out May 9 by the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education, charges the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).
The University of Montana's mishandling of sexual assault charges – assault, not jokes — triggered a Letter of Findings and Resolution Agreement intended to be "a blueprint for colleges and universities throughout the country." The DOJ and DOE declared that sexual harassment should be defined as "any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature," including "verbal conduct" (speech).
It then explicitly states that allegedly harassing expression need not even be offensive to an "objectively reasonable person of the same gender in the same situation"—if the listener takes offense to sexually related speech for any reason, no matter how irrationally or unreasonably, the speaker may be punished.
Without a "reasonable person" standard, anyone can silence anyone else by claiming to be offended. FIRE lists some "forms of expression now punishable on America's campuses by order of the federal government."
Any expression related to sexual topics that offends any person. This leaves a wide range of expressive activity—a campus performance of "The Vagina Monologues," a presentation on safe sex practices, a debate about sexual morality, a discussion of gay marriage, or a classroom lecture on Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita—subject to discipline.
Any sexually themed joke overheard by any person who finds that joke offensive for any reason.
Any request for dates or any flirtation that is not welcomed by the recipient of such a request or flirtation.
Colleges and university that take federal funds — nearly all of them — must try to enforce the rule. "The federal government has put colleges and universities in an impossible position with this mandate," said FIRE's Greg Lukianoff. "The DOJ and DOE have doomed American campuses to years of confusion and expensive lawsuits." And the federal letter misquoted a Supreme Court opinion to mandate an unconstitutional rule, he added.
Punishment may be required before a disciplinary hearing, writes Hans Bader, citing the letter of findings.
a university must take immediate steps to protect the complainant from further harassment prior to the completion of the Title IX and Title IV investigation/resolution. Appropriate steps may include separating the accused harasser and the complainant, providing counseling for the complainant and/or harasser, and/or taking disciplinary action against the harasser.
It appears that zero tolerance extends from sexual speech and dating requests to speech about the transgendered, writes Bader. "Gender-based harassment" is defined as "non-sexual harassment of a person because of the person's sex and/or gender, including, but not limited to, harassment based on the person's nonconformity with gender stereotypes."
In a 2001 case, Saxe v. State College Area School District, an evangelical Christian successfully challenged a harassment policy that "forbade certain criticisms of homosexuality," Bader writes.
If Saxe is kaput, any discussion of homosexuality could be banned. Mary speaks up for gay rights. John says her speech is unwelcome, gender-based verbal conduct that he finds offensive. He doesn't have to be a "reasonable person" to make her guilty of harassment. Of course, she's offended by the fact that he's offended, so he's a sexual harasser once again.
Update: Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor, has more on federally mandated speech codes.
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Eddie Huang talks with his mouth full. In his passionate, articulate, and totally full-of-himself memoir, Fresh Off the Boat, the outspoken chef and restaurateur graphs his evolution as a cook, finding a way to relate every life experience to food. Like the Tupac Shakur poem "The Rose that Grew from Concrete," Huang has come through trials to success. "Fresh Off the Boat" is a deeply personal and unflinching look at both the thorns and blossoms of his life to date. Be forewarned, this book doesn't hold anything back and contains strong language and graphic detail.
With a writing style influenced by Jonathan Swift, Lao Tzu, and Ghostface Killah, Huang uses hip-hop/rap vernacular – often perceived as ignorant, arrogant and shallow – to craft a passionate and articulate memoir. Boy's got that ethos, logos, and pathos on lockdown. He has brought hip-hop culture from the rap scene to the kitchen.
As Huang tells it, he's spent his whole life striving for authenticity – in himself and in his food. "My food was, is, and always will be ill." He evolves as a cook, moving from work as a young expediter in his father's restaurant on to food experiences in Pittsburgh and his parents' native Taiwan. He lands a gig as an amateur chef competing on the food network, and finally goes on to open his critically acclaimed "Baohaus" sandwich shop on the Lower East Side of New York. His life story weaves big themes of racism, assimilation, abuse, violence, drug use, materialism, basketball, and humor together.
As a boy, he found he related to the '90s hip-hop/rap scene through the pain in his own life. As a fiend for food, he also found solace in good cooking wherever it could be found. Orlando, Fla., the land where dreams go to sell out, was a tough place to grow up. He and his friends had lots of money, lots of time, and got into lots of trouble. Watching him grow up from a punk kid to somewhat-less-of-a-punk adult is sometimes painful to witness, but the journey is rewarding. "As a kid trying to maintain my identity in America.... I could taste something one time and make it myself at home. When everything else fell apart and I didn't know who I was, food brought me back."
TV chef Anthony Bourdain says, "He [Huang] is bigger than food," and you had better believe it. Huang has two fingers on the pulse of US culture, and it has served him well in his quest for a socially relevant restaurant. The concept of his restaurant "Baohaus" has always been about community. For him, making good, ethical food is the right thing to do (as is "hotboxing" his own restaurant).
Huang recognizes that the American dream is not only for Americans. The USA was built on immigrant workers who more often than not get caught in stereotypes. His hostility towards the establishment and the hypocrisy of the "model minorities" is made strangely palatable by his smart/hard/Def Jam-but-substantial comedy style. Say one thing about Huang, say he knows how to dress a plate.
Sometimes I had trouble following the scene changes. He shows up in North Carolina and Pittsburgh with little notice. I also had trouble figuring out how old he was in a few spots. The few poor transitions were a long way away from making the book unreadable, though. Huang gets closer to that himself with his dirty mouth and over-the-top depictions of violence and drug use. You might not agree with his morals, but they are at least well-reasoned.
In the best tradition of food writers, Huang's descriptions of his cooking will make you hungry, even if you've already eaten. But you have to understand that this book is not about food, it's about him. It's just that food is a part of his identity.
Abrasive and brash, yet weirdly endearing, Huang's memoir is an authentic account of a young man's struggle to find his individuality and identity in a culture that would force him to conform. If you want to understand hip-hop culture, the modern struggles of Asian American immigrants, what makes ethnic food "authentic," and why the Orlando Magic can't win an NBA title, this is the book for you.
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Susie, I want to interview you about your bisexuality.
In your memoir, you mention a little girl in day care whom you had a crush on when you were two. Your romantic fantasy was that she was Rose Red and you were Snow White. You were already queering fairy tales, in daycare. What do you make of that?
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Snow White and Rose Red seem like an iconic coupling: twins, lovers, best friends, opposites. Jungian soul mates. I also always got the feeling Snow was the virgin and Rose was the wise whore.
Your girl-crushes obviously started early. When was the first time you had a crush on a boy?
Hmm… good question. I became aware that it was "cool" to have crushes on boys by sixth grade— as opposed to hating their guts, the previous playground protocol.
The boys I truly adored were The Beatles. I broke with the Church over them. I wouldn't burn my albums.
Kids were so segregated by gender in my day. I never went to birthday parties or events that weren't "girls only."
In 6th grade, Tony Bauer (how on earth do I remember these names?) asked me to dance at a school event. The song was "Venus" by the Shocking Blue. He told me I "danced good"— which thrilled me to death.
I didn't have much feeling for him, but the compliment made me woozy.
Junior high school upped the ante on flirting. The boys would chase the girls on the ice, the frozen lakes— and I loved "the chase." But again, I didn't fix my hormones on them. I had fantasies about both men and women, older men and women, not kids my own age. I was like the girl in the "Sound of Music," Looking for Someone Older and Wiser.
Your question makes me realize I was a late bloomer. I didn't appreciate pure masculinity, sexually, in men or women, until after I'd had more sophisticated lesbian life in my 20s.
When did you realize that not everyone has such wide-ranging attractions and that bisexuality was frowned on by many? What was your reaction to that?
I came of age in a political, "start the revolution"-type atmosphere. I thought that if everyone would just relax and liberate their minds, they would realize they were truly bisexual and non-monogamous... LOL.
I'm poking fun at myself saying this. But I also viewed society with critical eyes, as any puberty-struck individual does. I knew most people weren't anywhere close to living their sexual potential, and that's still the truth!
My family and best friends at school-- we were on the same page. My parents knew a lot more gay and bi people than I did; they'd been in gay intellectual milieus (Berkeley, Venice, Hollywood etc) since the 1940s. No one I loved was going to condemn me for bisexuality, far from it.
My bisexual higher education came from becoming familiar with the Kinsey scale. I realized that liberated or not, people would always have their druthers. Sexual life is a lot more complicated than it looks on the surface.
In your book, you don't describe any coming out process and it appears that you always accepted yourself. Was it because of the era of free love and the sexual revolution?
Or are you just braver or more matter-of-fact than most people?
The feminist and gay liberation movement made me even braver and blunter, but those are probably typical characteristics of mine.
Bisexual people are often assumed to be gay or straight, depending on the gender of our partner. Have you experienced this? How has it affected you?
Oh sure. A little less than most people, because my reputation precedes me.
Now that I'm in my fifties, sexual invisibility is the greater issue, rather than everyone imagining what a hot chick I am in either direction.
Fretting over people getting my label right seems dewy and fresh-faced to me from my older vantage point.
As one ages and fucks around, you and your peers realize that anything, at any time, could be possible with the right social lubricant. You have been around the block... no other label needed.
The peculiar thing I see as a public figure— and many activists know it well— is that when you take an aggressive stand for gay rights, if you champion dyke culture and politics, journalists and scholars will call you "that lesbian So-n-So" for years to come.
One is happy to be associated with dyke-identity. I don't want to "correct" them if they think I am "shying away" from lesbianism… quite the opposite!
The journalists and scholars who make this error tend to be conservative in their thinking. I'd secretly pleaesd they assume everyone different from them is homosexual and let them stay awake at night, trembling with latent sweat.
But then, LATER, a critic who's touchy about the INTEGRITY of my bisexuality will come up to me and say, "Who are you to be calling yourself Miss Lesbian in this article?"
They think I am trying to "wear the crown" without earning it.
Well, lesbian activists all over can tell you the "crown" is no ring of gold. We get used for target practice, mostly. I'm happy to be thought of as "dyke" for any and all waving banners and political agendas. I am one. In my personal life, though, like everyone else's, things are more unexpected and un-label-able.
Having a child was a turning point in your life. You say it forced you to take better care of yourself, because of your motivation to protect your child. What things in your life did you change as a result?
Number One: I stopped parenting "surrogate adult-children." Who has the time when you have a real baby?
Suddenly Real Grown-Ups seemed SO sexually attractive to me-- a first. This was a bigger deal than being bi-sexual. I got out of the Peter Pan playground.
I was shocked to read that, when you made the decision to leave On Our Backs, which you co-founded; you were sued by your partners, who were also your close friends.
Yes, I was shocked too. I hope I conveyed that disbelief in Big Sex Little Death. It was shattering.
Obviously, they thought you were irreplaceable and were afraid the magazine would go under without you.
No… that's not true. That wasn't the language or the feeling of it.
My business partner had been my best friend. I was the "little sister" to her. She didn't think I was especially irreplaceable... it was more like, "What is Susie trying to pull?"
She didn't believe my reasons for wanting to transition… my infant, the financial strain, my feeling that something "had to give."
Debi Sundahl hired a new editor for OOB, sold it, it went on for years without me. A different creature, to be sure— but still meaningful to readers and contributors.
It was terrible that seemingly overnight, we felt estranged, as if we'd never known each other well. It made me doubt myself more than her!
That's the kind of blindness I was eager to recover from. It was the beginning of real therapy for me. I never want to have a friendship again where the important things remain unsaid, forever. I didn't want to be afraid of my loved ones.
I was mystified by their demand you couldn't write or be published anywhere else, when you had been freelancing the whole time you worked there.
You're trying to be logical. None of it was rational. The lawsuit failed; it was a nuisance suit. Famously, anyone in America can sue anyone for anything.
After you had your daughter and left On Our Backs, you wound up partnering with a man. Reading the book, it seems as though you were lesbian-identified at the time….Did you surprise yourself? Was there any backlash from the lesbian community about that?
It's funny you said "partnering…" like it was premeditated and constructive.
I was lovers with several people, as usual. I had friends and sweethearts, and I didn't think of any of them as my "partner." Oh no. Some were good friends, which seemed to be as much as one could ask for.
I still feel that way. I don't feel like I've "wound up" anywhere except what's happening today. The story ain't over yet!
As time went by in the early 90s, my friend Jon and I spent more and more time together… it happened slowly, without precision. I wish I could remember what day we first kissed, or went to bed, or decided to mostly live together, and then to "really" live together. It all happened in such an unfixed fashion, I don't know any of those dates! We are sadly without an anniversary date.
I was not surprised to love or be in love with a man; I had been in love with men before.
I WAS surprised to get along with anyone in a house together, day after day, that's what I was surprised at. To have love's endurance instead of love's drama.
I wrote a lot about the the backlash you speak of in astory called "BlindSexual." That IS my Bisexual RANT TO END ALL RANTS.
I quote Roland Barthes:
"I am reduced to endurance.... I suffer without adjustment, I persist without intensity, always bewildered, never discouraged. I am a Daruma doll, a legless toy endlessly poked and pushed, but finally regaining its balance, assured by an inner balancing pin."
According to your book, there was a time that all your relationships were open. Now that you're living with a long-term partner has that changed?
Nope. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I know bi-sexuals are under some conformist pressure to proclaim that they can be "monogamous" lke anyone else... but that isn't me, nor does it speak to most sex lives looked at over the long haul.
My first sexual experiences were in groups, with more than "2" -- that's what felt normal to me. It still does. And it feels natural to be attracted to more than one person at a time, and to act upon that feeling.
It doesn't change my loyalty to my friends and family. I am bewildered how the two get confused.
Did you ever tell your father about your mother's suicide attempts and abuse?
Later, to a certain extent. Once I moved in with him at 14, he realized I was afraid of her. It made him feel so bad to know the details, it was like torture to put him through it. We both were happier to focus on "making it better now." And for the most part, that was the right choice.
How did you recover from that emotionally?
a) I didn't
b) Writing and the life of the mind
c) Therapy
d) Raising kids and breaking the cycle
I noticed that in your section about your time with On Our Backs, you mostly used the word "lesbian" instead of "lesbian and bisexual." Did you identify as lesbian at that point? I'm wondering, as a bi woman writer, why you didn't try to integrate that more in your wording?
I know this isn't going to answer your question, but I still feel like a dyke. Hasbian Pride.
Most of the lovers in my life are gay or bisexual, regardless of their gender. There really isn't a button big enough to explain the whole thing.
When I was editing OOB, it was no secret I was bi, or femme, or had varied sex with all kinds of people--- but what was the point of mentioning it like a social security number on every page?
I was publishing a bohemian lesbian magazine. That's what was the center of my life. We didn't have conventional sex lives. Most of the lesbians I worked with were whores and strippers and butches. It was beyond lesbian, bi, or any acronym you can think of.
There were squares, the "civilians," and there was us.
OOB ran thoughtful stories about transsexuality, bisexuality, married lesbians, sex worker dykes, all sorts of things, and in those situations, we were detailed in our descriptions. But I wasn't going to print "LGBTFXXXXX" every time I touched the keyboard. We were artists, not sloganeers.
It was a given, if you embraced our philosophy, that we were the worn-out sluts, the unapologetic freaks, the whore diaspora. For awhile, that's why saying "queer" was a real relief. Then even that became politically correct.
What is your advice to bi writers who want to write bi-themed works and get published?
I think the best bisexual stories I read now are just honest deliverance, no agendas. They may not even use that word; they just tell the tale. Don't try to win the community's approval; it's impossible.
There's so many moments of bisexual life that no one talks about. It doesn't have to be Some Great Rant, although that's tempting. Take a day in the life and tell it well.
Your subject is not a liability, at all.
Read American's greatest authors. A majority of them, I'm sure you notice, were and are bisexual.
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Helen Mirren's big return to the role of Queen Elizabeth II in the new play "The Audience," by Peter Morgan, now will be a global event. Fans around the world will be able to experience the London stage production when it is broadcast to cinemas this summer as part of the National Theatre Live series.
"The Audience," which has already begun performances at the Gielgud Theatre on London's West End, will be broadcast starting June 13. Movie times will vary by time zone, and there will be encore broadcasts throughout the summer.
Participating theaters in the Los Angeles area include the Hollywood Chinese 6 theaters at Hollywood & Highland; the Downtown Independent; and the L.A. Theatre Works at UCLA's James Bridges Theater.
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"The Audience" follows Queen Elizabeth II during her meetings with various prime ministers, from Winston Churchill to David Cameron. The stage production is directed by Oscar-nominated Stephen Daldry. The cast includes Robert Hardy as Winston Churchill, Haydn Gwynne as Margaret Thatcher, Nathaniel Parker as Gordon Brown, Paul Ritter as John Major and Rufus Wright as David Cameron.
The stage production is scheduled to end its limited run in London on June 15.
Mirren won an Academy Award for playing the British monarch in the 2006 movie "The Queen," which was also scripted by Morgan.
The actress previously appeared as part of National Theatre Live in its production of "Phedre" in 2009.
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Despite scoreless start, Samardzija remains winless
ATLANTA -- When former Notre Dame two-sport star Jeff Samardzija stepped up to the plate for the first time Saturday night, the organist at Turner Field played a rendition of "Hail to the Victors," the University of Michigan fight song.
The college tune might as well be an homage to every team Samardzija has faced since Aug. 24, 2013, as he was unable to earn a win for the 14th consecutive start. The Braves defeated the Cubs, 2-0, to drop Chicago to 2-12 in Samardzija's last 14 starts.View Full Game Coverage
ATLANTA -- When former Notre Dame two-sport star Jeff Samardzija stepped up to the plate for the first time Saturday night, the organist at Turner Field played a rendition of "Hail to the Victors," the University of Michigan fight song.
The college tune might as well be an homage to every team Samardzija has faced since Aug. 24, 2013, as he was unable to earn a win for the 14th consecutive start. The Braves defeated the Cubs, 2-0, to drop Chicago to 2-12 in Samardzija's last 14 starts.View Full Game Coverage
"I understand the situation, I understand how things go," Samardzija said. "Baseball's a funny sport, so it's just one of those things where you learn from it and it usually comes around in the end and it all evens out.
"So just keep pitching, keep doing your work. You see these guys working hard and doing their job, too. So keep going and it should be great."
Cubs manager Rick Renteria added: "I'm glad he's doing what he's doing. He's going out there every single day and actually showing you that he's not thinking about anything other than giving you a really good performance. My solace is in the fact that this guy is being the ultimate professional."
Reliever Brian Schlitter took the loss, surrendering two runs on three hits in the seventh. Pinch-hitter Ryan Doumit put the Braves ahead for good with a run-scoring double, and Tyler Pastornicky padded the advantage with a suicide squeeze.
The seventh spoiled another strong showing from the Cubs' ace.
Samardzija gave up only two hits and struck out seven in six scoreless innings. He threw only 69 pitches plus two simulated innings in the bullpen during a rain delay lasting one hour, seven minutes before the top of the third.
Addtionally, Renteria said before the game that the club would be mindful of Samardzija's pitch count after he threw 126 on Monday, but said that "the majority" of his decision to pull the right-hander was because of the rain delay.
"That's one thing as a pitcher you understand is rain delays," Samardzija said. "They're unfortunate. You're just hoping that they're short enough so you can get back out there and somewhat continue your game before another one.
"I threw about two innings with my running shoes on down in the bullpen, so I knew I had thrown a lot of pitches. So, I felt good. I could've went back out, but we agreed that there was a long rain delay."
Renteria added: "Keeping him ready in between, he's still throwing. Those guys are still throwing in here, so there are still pitches being tossed. They're still accumulating an odd number of pitches throughout the evening, and that was just the right thing to do."
Regardless of pitch count, it was the seventh quality start in eight turns for Samardzija, who owns a 1.45 ERA that ranks second in the Majors only to Reds starter Johnny Cueto (1.43).
Samardzija, who owns a 3.18 ERA and has made 10 quality starts during his 14-start winless streak, was pleased that his cutter was in top form for the first time in 2014.
"I've been kind of chasing it the whole season, so I haven't really had it," Samardzija said. "It was more just kind of a show pitch. But tonight, [catcher Welington Castillo] kept calling it, so I figured something must be up with it and it was pretty good."
Samardzija, who entered Saturday earning an average of only 1.88 runs of support per start, didn't get anything from the offense. But that's not to say Chicago did not have ample opportunity to score against Braves starter Ervin Santana and the bullpen.
The Cubs eclipsed the four-hit mark for just the second time in their past six games and put runners on base in six different innings, but they still suffered their third shutout in Samardzija's eight starts this season.
"His teammates are just as frustrated with themselves not being able to do things for him," Renteria said. "It doesn't go unnoticed, and they know. And sometimes, they try to put on more pressure the more it goes on and the more people talk about it."
Santana shut Chicago down in seven scoreless innings, fanning seven. Had the rain continued just a little longer, however, the Cubs might have been spared the Atlanta right-hander's fifth quality start in six turns.
"Santana was terrific, better than terrific, really, when you throw in an hour-plus rain delay," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "We were about 5-10 minutes from shutting him down. It was that long. He did a terrific job."
Perhaps the wildest rally-killer came during the fourth. Following a leadoff single from Ryan Kalish, Anthony Rizzo seemingly put the Cubs in business with a single of his own. However, he took too wide of a turn around first and got caught in a rundown.
Several throws later, Rizzo was retired on a 9-6-3-4-6-3-6-7 putout. Luis Valbuena drew a two-out walk later in the inning, but Kalish did not budge once he reached third as Starlin Castro flied out and Castillo struck out.
"Rizzy hit the ball into left-center field and kind of caught into no-man's land a little bit," Renteria said. "But we still had a runner on third base, infield's back. Situationally, we just need to put the ball in play, and we didn't."
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"LG introduced the world's first Dual-Core smartphone exactly one year ago and today we're announcing the next milestone," said Dr. Jong-seok Park, President and CEO of LG Mobile Communications Company. "But speed in itself isn't what makes LG Optimus 4X HD unique, it's the benefit we're bringing to customers with the HD multimedia experience in a mobile form factor."
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Debbie Phelps' son, swimmer Michael Phelps, is the most decorated swimmer ever, and could become the top Olympian of all time at the upcoming London games. So how did this school principal and single mom of three raise such an extraordinary son—and how does she feel about his swimming career coming to an end? Phelps took time out of her busy schedule to talk to us about the London games, her emotional reactions on TV, and Ask, Listen, Learn, the Century Council's new program to get parents and kids talking about underage drinking.
So how did you get involved with the Ask, Listen, Learn Program?
I feel as a middle school principal and educator for almost four decades I'm always looking for ways to be able to bring information to middle school-age children and parents. I was very honored to be able to speak on this program's behalf, which focuses on healthy lifestyles as well as underage drinking. Very often parents tend to, after elementary school, start pulling away from their children's education, but middle school-age children need the influence, support and voice of their parents, and need to be able to understand underage drinking is not acceptable.
You believe middle school is the right time to start that conversation?
Oh, absolutely. Middle school kids are formulating who they are, and it's a hard time. They want to be liked, they want to have their own personality, and they don't know who their friends are. They're very impressionable.
How did you start the conversation with your own kids?
We talked a lot around the dinner table, and we talked a lot before and after swim practice. At one point, we went an hour each way in the car, so I tried to build conversations into that time. And often, our carpools had other kids as well, so it was not a parent making all the conversation; it gave them experiences from other children as well.
How did you manage to raise three kids as a single mom and work as a school principal?
We were a team. My two daughters are two years apart, my daughter and Michael are five years apart, and we all relied on each other. I had three kids at three different pools with three different practice times, and then at one point in my life, I just had to go back to college to get my degree. But I like to keep things hopping; it gives you excitement in your life. I've got a great group of friends around me, and we all supported each other.
Michael is an inspiration for people who have been diagnosed with ADHD. What advice would you give to a parent who's just gotten that diagnosis?
I always tell the parents of my children at school that it's a three-prong approach. There's the family, there's the school, and there's the medical profession. And I feel that you have to rely on all three of you working together on what's best for your child. And I also think another component is teaching kids how to use strategies that are going to prevent them from being hyperactive or impulsive—count to 10 or push your index finger into your palm—and to help them de-escalate themselves.
What strategies worked with Michael?
We had to keep him structured. As long as he was on a schedule, he was great. We also used a task chart, where you had to get all these things accomplished before you were able to do other things. I always made sure that when he got home from school that he got something to eat and that he went outside for a certain amount of time to be able to relieve some of that energy before he did his homework and before he went to swim practice.
Was there ever a point when Michael wanted to quit swimming? How do you know when to push them to keep going and when to just let them walk away?
At the Beijing finale, Michael had hesitations coming back. And you know what? I couldn't make up his mind for him. I just didn't want, if he didn't go back, to be sorry for what he could have done or what he wanted to do. But I had to keep my mouth closed, to a certain degree. Because it wasn't my decision, it was his decision.
Thinking back to the Beijing Olympics, what was the highlight of it for you?
It would be very difficult to pick one highlight out of the 2008 games. Every swim had a magical component to it. But watching the President of the United States across the pool as Michael swam the 400 IM, watching him wave the flag, watching him make eye contact with my child—that was very special.
You are so fun to watch, because you have such fantastic emotional reactions in the stands. What's going through your head in those moments?
I'm thinking, Wow. It's this incredible sense of your child meeting his goals, the pride that you have in your country for something that your child was able to do representing the United States of America.
How do you think you're going to feel when you see him swim professionally for the last time?
It's been an emotional rollercoaster as I sit in the stands with my daughter or friends of Michael's, and we reminisce about what's happened in the pool. Every pool has a story for our family. So to watch this chapter close, I'll just wait for the next one to open.
Debbie Phelps' son, swimmer Michael Phelps, is the most decorated swimmer ever, and could become the top Olympian of all time at the upcoming London games. So how did this school principal and single mom of three raise such an extraordinary son—and how does she feel about his swimming career coming to an end? Phelps took time out of her busy schedule to talk to us about the London games, her emotional reactions on TV, and Ask, Listen, Learn, the Century Council's new program to get parents and kids talking about underage drinking.


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Thanks to everyone for the advice and the sweet and funny comments about my boys. I'm really sad to report that Lamarck died today from his injuries. He tried his best to survive and we tried our best to give him every chance but... it wasn't enough. I didn't think it would hit me so hard but I've been in tears all day. I feel like I really let him down. I know baby birds are fragile and nature is harsh but even so, I thought we could save him. Please-- no comments on "birdie heaven" or any of that fluff. Just wanted to let you know he's gone.
Newton is still doing well and his eyes are open even more today. Also I think he'll lose his feather sheath thingies in the next day or so.
My husband-- the sweetest guy I know-- found two baby birds whose nest had blown out of a tree (apparently) and who were the only survivors of a clutch of five. (One other survivor got run over before Cobweb-stock could pull over and rescue it.) They're bald, ugly, wobbly and I love 'em already. We don't know what species of bird they are, only that they are insectivores (beak shape) and gonna be fairly big (feet size.) We're hand-feeding them baby bird formula and keeping them warm and clean so hopefully they won't die. We named one "Newton" and the other "Lamarck" (as in Isaac Newton and Jean-Baptise Lamarck.) I'll take photos when they're more birdly in appearance. And we're making a video diary of our efforts. They seem pretty tough so I'm hopeful they'll thrive.
In other news... eh. There is no other news. I need sleep. Hopefully tonight I won't be waking up every hour on the hour to see if it's time to feed them. Unlike human babies, birds aren't wired for nighttime feedings, but at the first light of day.... "peep! peep! peep!"
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