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if you've followed windows security for any length of time you've undoubtedly heard of the "bugbear" worm. well, after this worm was put to bed last october, it's back again with a renewed zeal, and has just recently topped all the virus lists as a critical security threat. it's called bugbear.b.
following the usual tracks of most self-propagating worms, bugbear.b sends e-mail to unsuspecting users, attempting to entice them to open an e-mail that is the virus payload. once executed the worm installs a keystroke logger, a program that records all keystrokes that a user makes and then reports them back to someone else. keystroke loggers can disclose all sorts of confidential information–including passwords–making this worm a particularly bad threat. bugbear also attempts to disable popular security and virus-scanning software, and will infect a random selection of system executables as well.
you can read the reuters article on this or head over sarc to see its full report on the worm.
all the major virus scanners have updated patterns that catch and stop this worm, so make sure you get yours.
eric's opinion
well, it's been a while since we had a big e-mail worm outbreak so i guess we're due. when, oh when is microsoft going to once and for all design an outlook that simply doesn't allow this type of behavior? or for that matter, when is redmond going to loosen or secure the hooks between outlook and ie so that this kind of thing can be more easily stopped? no matter how secure microsoft may make windows itself, if untrusted applications are allowed this much free rein then windows will continue to get a bad rap on security. linux server exploits may be topping windows server exploits, but on the workstation side microsoft's still got a lot of work to do.
on the flipside, though, this kind of thing can be prevented by a proactive organization. e-mail scanners and filters using heuristics can stop this worm even without pattern updates. outbreak detection is built into most enterprise-class virus scanners, stopping mass mailing worms that get by the patterns and heuristics. tightly locked-down workstations can limit damage that a virus can do locally.
it's just frustrating that all these solutions are merely workarounds to a basic security fault in microsoft office, a fault that is dramatically magnified by the inclusion of vbscript and ie so tightly integrated with everything else.
user comments 59 comment(s)
|uhhh (12:29pm est fri jun 06 2003)
a stupid user will run any type of executable in an email attachment because they don't know any better. it's not like this virus infects things automatically. there has to be human interaction.
however, i do agree that something should be implemented that would stop an unknown program from emailing everyone in your list, etc. maybe anti virus software should be built into the os? :d – by fat tony
|thank god for macs… (12:30pm est fri jun 06 2003)
luckily i only use my pc for games and graphics stuff. i love my powerbook even more now :) – by supperman
|re: eric's opinion (12:31pm est fri jun 06 2003)
you should also include using alternative emailers to microsoft outlook and outlook express, such mozilla, eudora, etc email. they are less prone to spreading virus to other people. – by no more outlook
|microsoft is not helping either. (12:42pm est fri jun 06 2003)
try this on your microsoft outlook express. wipe all the entire contact list from your microsoft outlook express. everytime, you respond to a new email or correspond to anyone on msn messenger, the micrsoft outlook rebuilts the contact list without asking. i don't want to be source of virus attacks, but microsoft is not helping. – by no more outlook
|re: thank god for macs… (12:46pm est fri jun 06 2003)
your a mac user who uses a pc for graphics stuff??? wth???
– by cube user
|thank god… (12:51pm est fri jun 06 2003)
for open-source, free, safer software. i can only speak from personal experience but my shop has never been compromised since going to linux/open-source. – by copyleft
|typical (12:54pm est fri jun 06 2003)
so ms is to blame for stupid-ass users who double-click any old attachment that arrives in their inbox?
i supposed ms is to blame for tooth decay, the terrorist threat and john ashcroft, too.
frickin linux tools… – by stupid stupid stupid
|don't start (12:56pm est fri jun 06 2003)
please refrain from starting yet another mac vs. pc graphics debate. it just plain hurts. – by my brain hurts
|wannabe cracker, get your next issue of wired. (1:00pm est fri jun 06 2003)
this should keep windows and sql server adminstrators up on their patches.
wired magazine plans to publish the underlying code for the slammer worm that slowed internet traffic to a crawl in january, raising questions over whether such articles inspire future hackers or educate potential victims.
|this is good for the industry (1:00pm est fri jun 06 2003)
j. eric smith is right. email virus scan will take care of this, and those who lose their jobs, should. the industry will be better off with them gone and not propagating virus.
as much as i bash m$ for stealing, i have also said that there are some things m$ should be allowed to steal, including a packet sniffer (off subject, but true). – by tech
|re: no more outlook (1:10pm est fri jun 06 2003)
there's an option that adds people you respond to automatically to your address book. it's on by default, but have you tried unchecking it? – by necr0
|necr0 (1:14pm est fri jun 06 2003)
why would people do that? it's so much easier to whine and complain. – by jt
|oe is junk. (1:36pm est fri jun 06 2003)
oe is junk. – by oe-is-junk
|outlook (1:42pm est fri jun 06 2003)
i'm not saying outlook is perfect, but i've never had any problems with it. ever. it has never crashed, it has never infected my computer with a virus, it has never done anything i didn't want it to do. so what's so bad about it? – by fat tony
|outlook (1:50pm est fri jun 06 2003)
ms has made a version of outlook that won't allow this sort of behavior – the fix for this issue was out 2 years ago – so if the losers haven't patched their system in 2 years, it's unlikely they've upgraded their outlook. – by lamers
|good grief (2:05pm est fri jun 06 2003)
>>> a fault that is dramatically magnified by the inclusion of vbscript and ie so tightly integrated with everything else.
i always wonder at people who believe that dramatically reducing functionality is a good trade-off for security.
security is a simple thing. my home computers have never been hit by a virus. part of that is having a good virus scanner and firewall, most of it is because i'm not stupid.
the big outbreaks i've seen have always been at the businesses i work for. these outbreaks always turn out to be some sort of carelessness on the part of the admins.
nothing ms can do will replace common sense on the user side.
– by jklm
|microsoft tool (2:22pm est fri jun 06 2003)
typical (12:54pm est fri jun 06 2003)
so ms is to blame for stupid-ass users who double-click any old attachment that arrives in their inbox?
i supposed ms is to blame for tooth decay, the terrorist threat and john ashcroft, too.
frickin linux tools… – by stupid stupid stupid
uhh, yes microsoft is to blame. are you suggesting that people are also responsible for thier ford's blowing up when they get hit in the rear end because they were too stupid to aviod being hit. and hell, why is ted kazinsky in prison? those stupid fools should have known better than to open a package they got in the mail, stupid, stupid, stupid. – by macmurphy
|macmurphy (2:38pm est fri jun 06 2003)
those are horrible analogies.
a computer virus is not a life or death situation. and yes, some liability does lay with the user since viruses are completely avoidable if they do not open unknown attachments. a car accident is not completely avoidable …
as for the mail bomb … the person who sent it is liable. not the organization who delivered it. although, the organization responsible for the delivery should have better methods of detecting bombs, the same way isps should have better methods of detecting viruses. – by fat tony
|re: tony vs. macmurphy (3:23pm est fri jun 06 2003)
uhh, that's not entirely true, tony.
any computer virus/worm/trojan can be the cause of a life-or-death situation, if it happens to interfere with a public control and infrastructure systems
(i.e., 911 emergency call centers, power distribution control systems, telephone switching networks, etc.)
or a process control system overseeing hazardous operations
(i.e., steel manufacturing or assembly line control computers).
of course, you may ask: "who in their right mind would hook up such systems to the internet?"
you're right… most of such systems are completely isolated from the 'net. however, the human element is always a factor. even a completely isolated system can be infected is someone happens to bring in a diskette, zip cartridge, or cd-rom with an infected document, outlook pst file, or some such file.
while the above may seem like extreme examples, the chances of something similar happening are not zero. people need to keep that in mind when implementing automated life-critical systems.
– by k. adams
|re:fat toni (3:23pm est fri jun 06 2003)
so your saying microsoft has stupid users.
they made the os to sell to stupid people.
and yet they did nothing to protect people from their stupidity ????
something i wrong here on many levels.
– by rax
|rax (3:30pm est fri jun 06 2003)
stupid people will always find a way around fool-proof software – by b0zak
|re:b0zak (3:42pm est fri jun 06 2003)
but windows is set by default to allow stupid people to do stupid stuff.
they should fix that crap. – by rax
|k. adams & rax (3:50pm est fri jun 06 2003)
k. adams, you are correct, although a death in that situation would be an indirect result of a virus. and ……… any system that important should never touch the internet, should never have floppy drives or cds, and should be monitored like a hawk. not to mention back up procedures … remember the days when computers didn't run everything? any system that important still knows how to run without computers.
rax, stupid people exist no matter where you go or what system you are talking about. stupid people drive cars, but car makers aren't responsible when they cross 5 lanes of traffic and cause a 150 car pile up. it's the user. and, i do believe outlook, by default, disallows attachments that could contain destructive code.
so my question is, in all your wisdom, what exactly can microsoft do to stop users from executing viruses on their machines? short of including antivirus software in the os. :)
i don't see people blaming little kids for taking candy from strangers. what i see is parents and teachers and police educating kids on how to deal with those situations. which is exactly what needs to happen. – by fat tony
|re:fat tonie (4:00pm est fri jun 06 2003)
they have seatbelt and airbags in cars to protect the stupid and the smart. i would say that most car companies are making some effort to protect the people that buy their products.
this is not true of microsoft. they could stop all program from being run from outlook. they could relabel .exe's and other files that come into the system thru email so the user has to do more if they want to run them.
they could do something instead of blaming the type of people they market too.
– by rax
|re: fat tony (4:01pm est fri jun 06 2003)
"so my question is, in all your wisdom, what exactly can microsoft do to stop users from executing viruses on their machines? short of including antivirus software in the os. :)"
do what *nix does. implement a execution bit (root, group, user) setting. when downloading any attachment in *nix, the execution bit is turned off. there is no reason to turn the execution bit under *nix. it works just fine as data under *nix. i can look at attached jpegs, document, spreadsheets, etc just fine with the execution bit turned off. – by dangerous computing
|re: fat tony (4:05pm est fri jun 06 2003)
if microsoft can implement symbolic links in windows (a recent windows addition that us *nix people have enjoyed for decades), they should also be able to implement execution bits. – by dangerous computing
|computers suck (4:29pm est fri jun 06 2003)
go back to pen and paper – by caveman
|by default (4:34pm est fri jun 06 2003)
outlook doesn't even display graphics in html email to protect your privacy. it doesn't allow any code to access your address book without asking you if it is ok. – by new version
|i thought (5:05pm est fri jun 06 2003)
comparing regular mail to email was a good comparison, granted the ford thing was out there but the point is that if you have to rely on the intelligence of your consumers to make something not destructive, that is a flawed product. i guess a butcher knife could be used incorrectly, causing harm, but i think everyone knows that sharp stuff hurts. i don't think you can have the same expectation when it comes to email. my 50 year old mother doesn't know crap about email or hackers or anything of the like. so if she gets a virus because she opens an email i don't like the idea of someone saying it was her own fault or that she is stupid, stupid, stupid. that is like her calling you stupid because you can't make a bad assed cheese cake. – by macmurphy
|nasty bugbear (5:28pm est fri jun 06 2003)
the main reason why bugbear is so insidious is because you dont have to click on the attachment–just open the email and it executes. its also highly polymorphic which effectively evades some virus detection software. you don`t have to be stupid to get this one… – by stupid humantricks
|people will learn (5:34pm est fri jun 06 2003)
well, let people get infected. i'm totally in support of ms here. people will learn sooner or later how to protect themselves, if not, it keeps the it industry full of customers.
i don't want microsoft turning off features i enjoy just because dumbazz down the road doesn't know not to open an executable from hahahahahah.
as far as business wise, those admins should know better or be fired. – by features galore
|re: nasty bugbear (7:22pm est fri jun 06 2003)
the mail message recovered from outlook and saved as .htm did execute too from windows explorer. result: the virus up and running!! the file was an exe file but the extension not. the os should not tolerate such things. is no practical way to avoid an infection. – by an stupid admin
|or (7:43pm est fri jun 06 2003)
you could stop being an idiot and not open files that are sent via email. where i work everyone signs their files to be sent out. – by guy
|happy camper (8:52pm est fri jun 06 2003)
i love my outlook and bill is my best friend. thanks – by slick
|email clients (9:08pm est fri jun 06 2003)
mozilla mail is still my favorite e-mail client. especially with the new (and improved) junk blocker. – by windows user
|what i don't understand… (10:02pm est fri jun 06 2003)
…is why anyone uses outlook/express voluntarily. i'm not trashing ms, but since most viruses go for o/e's jugular, i've never used it at home. there are enough free web-based email services to take care of anybody. outlook's on my home machine because when i installed office, it came with, but i've never used it.
i keep my virus definitions updated and run a virus scan every night. if i get email from someone i don't know, i usually delete it without opening it. even with people i do know, if i get an unexpected attachment, i usually confirm they sent something or else trash it outright. i have two particular email addresses that i give to people i know and like and don't want to offend, but who i know are going to send all kinds of attachments and fws. those, i never read at all, just go through, check for "real" messages from them, and clear out the rest.
i like most ms products just fine, but o/e is a weak link. – by datadame
|fat tony (10:14pm est fri jun 06 2003)
your analogy is a little off. you need to pass a test to drive a car. and barring the next generation, the learning curve is not the same… try again because you have a good point anyways. – by whatever
|ibm (11:28pm est fri jun 06 2003)
some people should still be using typewriters.
p.s. you gotta rust-proof those tandys–shut up gill, make the sale–make the sale! – by gill
|people need to use their heads. (1:16pm est sat jun 07 2003)
just don't open attachments…bottom line. even if you do use oe, you can set the mail rules feature to block attachments and delete them from the server. prevention is possible, provided people have enough ambition and intelligence…of course, that is the problem with the world today…ok prevention isn't possible lol – by dm
|switch to linux for email. (2:32pm est sat jun 07 2003)
linux can handle email attachments fine. it isn't affected by windows virus. there is no such thing as linux virus or any type of *nix virus. check on any linux virus, they are on the low category of infection because it is hard to infect linux with a virus.
maybe steve balmer should keep his mouth shut about linux.
ballmer memo sends linux stocks soaring
"people are bidding up any remotely related linux stock," said brent williams, an analyst at mcdonald investments inc. who rates red hat shares "hold" and said he doesn't own them. investors may think that "if it has microsoft worried, then it must be getting to be really huge," he said.
– by safety first
|re: safety first (11:03pm est sat jun 07 2003)
uh oh, another fanboy who takes an innocent and unbiased topic and turns it into a linux circus. haven't we had enough of these ms vs. linux battles in the bast week? with a good email client and enough common sense, just about anybody can safely send and receive email with windows safely and securely. just because linux users are so blindly deceived into believing that their beloved os is 100% impervious to attacks doesn't mean you can wantonly parade around the geek.com blurbs spouting off your zealotry.
"there is no such thing as linux virus or any type of *nix virus. check on any linux virus, they are on the low category of infection because it is hard to infect linux with a virus."
first you say there is no such thing as a linux virus, then you openly state that there _are_ linux viruses, but they are uncommon. make up your mind and stop being so damn obtuse. nobody will switch to linux _just_ to have a false sense of security that they will never receive an infected email. everybody is a potential target for attack, no matter what. – by sick of fanboys
|use the bat! or mulberry (11:52pm est sat jun 07 2003)
finally, let ms get something done. they're slow, they need time. :-) meanwhile, get rid of all the instances of outlook and dl yourself one of the excellent e-mail clients mentioned it the subject line. and have your antivirus updated regularly. what else can you do about it? – by jn
|re: sick of ms fanboys. (3:01am est sun jun 08 2003)
do you have a brain? use it once in a while. have you thought it all out why it is easier to infect windows and hard to infect *nix?
"with a good email client and enough common sense, just about anybody can safely send and receive email with windows safely and securely."
i guess you are calling the outlook emailer from microsoft crappy. just viewing an email from outlook launches this virus. on any other emailer, to launch this virus, you need to open this attachment. like many of the previous windows virus, they have .scr, .pif or .exe extension. this virus opens the back doors on windows and creates its own smtp engine and uses your email list in outlook.
how would a virus infect a *nix box? download a virus into *nix. the virus is inactive because its execution bit is turned off. to activate the virus, the execution bit must be turned on and executed. why would a user turn on the execution bit and execute a virus? a data file works fine with its execution bit turned off. where is this virus going to find your email list to spread? it could be on many several emailer programs (kmail, evolution, mozilla, and many more). a lot of emailer programs to search through. even if the virus goes beyond these step, the *nix virus can't get access to the system files because it does not have super-user rights. there are a lot more steps (which are pretty unlikely) in *nix to spread a virus than in windows. – by safety first
|want virus free outlook? (10:47am est sun jun 08 2003)
then run outlook under xp in a vmware window and restore your snapshot everytime you read a message :)
vmware also rocks for testing strange softwarez from strange places… whats the worst that can happen? delete your virtual drive? – by p00kie
|i never use otulook express or contact lists (11:25am est sun jun 08 2003)
no contact list no autoforward by virus…. whenever one of those damned contact list viruses are stupid enough to enter my system it gets stopped by my regularly updated antivirus programme
i never use outlook express becuase it stores any incoming email addresses automatically which realy is dumb imho i prefer to use my webmail and be able to set it up how i want instead of how microsoft think it should be set up death to windows ok? they first stole qdos to make pcdos and now the computing world is in crisis becuase winxp sucks donkey's balls – by cazzaw
|safety first (12:42pm est sun jun 08 2003)
there he is again. gosh dang it i hate him. – by jackass hater
|safety first (1:44pm est sun jun 08 2003)
by the way, why don't you take your own medicine? if you do i'll never say a bad thing about you again you dumb dumb.
and please, tell us all more about you. – by jackass hater
| safety first… (5:05pm est sun jun 08 2003)
"then he claims that linux does not support the special raw format. gimp's new plugin supports the raw format."
which raw format does it support? they are all different. i took a (quick) look on the gimp site and saw nothing. do you have a link?
|monopoly (8:26pm est sun jun 08 2003)
just another reason to *not hate linux or macs.
don't hate. just because you don't like it or your to stupid to see the significant advantages is no excuse to hate an os. you would think after 10 years of trial and error microsoft would have had a remotely secure os by now. and we're still getting crap like win2k3 server and win me.
and then longhorn is supposed to be the next step in better security ? – by mushroomprince
|look back (8:27pm est sun jun 08 2003)
you want to see stupid, just back up and read your posts. children are everywhere — – by madman
|wars, wars, wars… (10:32pm est sun jun 08 2003)
i just couldn't help myself… just had to give my view on some of the trash written above. some of these comments have goota be fom 5 year olds, i am sure! i only read a few of these things, but they make me laugh. it seems that it always comes down to os wars. but let's examine a few more of the grown-up facts on-topic first shall we…
the following information came from symantec: w32.bugbear.b@mm security notice
"the worm uses the incorrect mime header can cause ie to execute e-mail attachment vulnerability to cause unpatched systems to auto-execute the worm when reading or previewing an infected message."
note the phrase "unpatched systems". microsoft (love 'em or hate 'em) responded with a number of updates to stop this kind of behavior:-
1. the patch to stop ie vunerabilty was made available for ms ie 5.01 and 5.5 in march 2001. later versions of ie are not affected.
in my mind, this means that given a user who chooses to upgrade their software, or have the latest software, this virus and similarly triggered viruses should not be a threat. due to the blocking of program files, email attachment transmission is designed to be ruled out if using ms outlook xp and ie 6. if a user chooses to use outlook express, if they can choose not to open any attachment if they so desire.
so, since it seems analogies are used above, i would say that if a user decides to drive a car more than 5 years old, without updated tires and brakes, they give themselves more chance of having an accident, plain and simple. but people can be ignorant, and accidents do happen. now, when an accident does occur, do we blame the car manufacturer for the car they built five years ago, or can at least some of the blame go to the person who decided "in their ignorance" or "just through carelessness" not to upgrade to the latest tires, brakes and airbags? i leave that for you to ponder. they don't even have to buy the latest model car, they can just keep their older car updated. it will never totally elimienate an accident, for there are always unforseen circumstances, but whilst manufacturers do bring out newer and better products, those unable to get the new stuff perhaps should take some responsibility to keep their older product up to date.
enough of the analogies. the point is, stop ya bickering about which os is better. in this case, someone has targetted an old vunerability in one particular operating system. there have been, and probably still are many security holes within ms windows, updates and patches can fix these holes. and, i would think that a sensible linux user, for instance, would actually be quite appreciative of the need for updates to operating system software. is it not the underlying reason most people go to linus, for it's open-source policy of upgrades. if linux were perfect, why would there be a need to have this open source upgradability? so, what i am saying is, each operating system needs to evolve, progress, tighten up etc.
there is always the paradox of supplying time saving features (like ability to launch a program straight from your email client) whilst limiting vulnerabilities. to my mind, one way of doing this in the fute, for all os manufacturers, is to ceate the softeware so that the defaults are based on full system lock-down. this will of course reduce functionality, but this functionality should be able to be enabled by 'responsible' and 'knowledgable' users, who choose to do so. that is just one idea of many…
and back right on topic… bottom line:- availability of patches to secure an operating system is the responsibility of the os manufacturer. using those patches are the responsibility of the user. period. – by cass
|zipper (10:34pm est sun jun 08 2003)
just ignore that guy. it's not even worth asking him questions.
take my word for it. don't feed the animals! -) – by bobbo
|microsoft: update as we say, not as we do. (12:31am est mon jun 09 2003)
microsoft release the patch for a flaw for the world wide web distributed authoring and version (webdav) component of iis a month and a half ago. now microsoft's hotmail has been hacked because its servers wasn't patched.
hotmail hole is being exploited by spammers
– by patch adams
|answer (8:03am est mon jun 09 2003)
open-source. – by safe
|re: safety first (5:53pm est mon jun 09 2003)
a good virus scanner will check each message before it is downloaded. – by me
|wow! that would be excellent, if it can be done. (7:27pm est mon jun 09 2003)
"a good virus scanner will check each message before it is downloaded."
now that would be good if that was possible. even those heavy duty and expensive virus scanners on mail servers does not scan each message before it is downloaded from the internet. the best these virus scanner can do is scan messages after it has been downloaded.
sounds like a product like audible.com which will record past, present and future episodes of cartalk. – by safety first
|wow! a great case of being too literal (10:13pm est mon jun 09 2003)
if a virus is found on a message, the message is then quarantined and sanitized/deleted. it doesn't matter if the message as been downloaded or not as long as the virus itself is destroyed. come on, genius. you're taking my words too literally. – by sick of fanboys
|more of the same… (8:24am est wed jun 11 2003)
bruce sterling about virus horrors.
but if you're running microsoft outlook and outlook express, it somehow seems kind of okay to spew klez-h, sircam, klez-e, magistr-b, hydris-b, magistr-a, badtrans- b, vavidad.e1, yaha-a and mylife-j.
and you're not just infecting your girlfriend, boys. you can hit your mom, your grandmother, your maiden aunt, your ten-year-old daughter! "gee, why didn't you teach your ten year-old not to click on the attachments?" because she's ten years old, you moron!
just thought it's interesting… – by bsfanboy
|eudora *.lnk security hole attack (4:16pm est mon nov 03 2003)
what should i do i got this in my mail at hotmail
any comments email me at firstname.lastname@example.com – by scottie


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FIBA officially suspends the Lebanese Basketball Federation (FLB), this means the Lebanon national basketball team cannot participate in the upcoming 27th FIBA Asia Championship. Since FIBA cannot find a replacement for Lebanon, the FIBA Asia Championship is down to 15 teams, Group B will only have 3 teams and no team will be eliminated in the preliminary round.
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-The 4th FIBA Asia Stankovic Cup is the qualifying event for the 27th FIBA Asia Championship in 2013, which in turn will be the qualifying event for 2014 FIBA World Cup to be held in Spain.
-The winner of the 4th FIBA Asia Cup will automatically qualify for the 27th FIBA Asia Championship in 2013.
-The top four teams at the 4th FIBA Asia Cup will earn additional berths for their respective FIBA Asia sub zones.
System of Competition
1. Preliminary Round
The ten (10) participating teams will be divided into two (2) groups (A and B) of five (5) teams each. Each team shall play all the other teams within its own group.
The four (4) best-placed teams from each group will play in the Final Round; the two (2) teams placed 5th in the two (2) groups will play in the Classification Round.
2. Quarter-Finals
Classification Round
9th place play-off: A5 vs B5 (9th and 10th)
Final Round
Game 1 (QF1): B4 vs A1
Game 2 (QF2): A4 vs B1
Game 3 (QF3): B3 vs A2
Game 4 (QF4): A3 vs B2
3. Semi-Finals
Classification Round (5 – 8 Placings):
Game 5: Loser 1 vs Loser 4
Game 6: Loser 2 vs Loser 3
Final Round (1 – 4 Placings):
Game 7 (SF1): Winner 1 vs Winner 4
Game 8 (SF2): Winner 2 vs Winner 3
4. Finals
Game 9 (7th place play-off): Loser 5 vs Loser 6
Game 10 (5th place play-off): Winner 5 vs Winner 6
Game 11 (Bronze medal game): Loser 7 vs Loser 8
Game 12 (Gold medal game): Winner 7 vs Winner 8
Note: The actual Game Nos. from Quarter-Finals onwards will vary according to the tournament schedule
FIBA Asia Champions Cup Ticket Prices
22nd FIBA-Asia Champions Cup Game Tickets available at SMTickets.com or call at Telephone No. (02) 470-2222.
The tournament will be held in Philsports Arena, (formetly ULTRA) in Pasig, Philippines from May 28 to June 5, 2011.The event is co-organized by the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas and FIBA Asia.
Ticket Prices:
RINGSIDE Reserved Seats Php 250
COURTSIDE I Free Seating Php 200
COURTSIDE II Free Seating Php 150
LOWER LEVEL Free Seating Php 150
GALLERY Free Seating Php 10
TV coverage will be Produced by TV5 but will be aired through IBC 13.
FIBA Asia Stanković Cup 2010
FIBA Asia Stanković Cup 2010
August 7 to 15, 2010
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Thank you for visiting our website. We are glad you are considering attending the International Choral Festival. In Missoula, we offer a warm welcome to choirs from every part of the world.The Choral Festival is a non-competitive festival held every three years. We bring together choirs reflecting the rich, varied choral traditions of the world. We limit ourselves to choirs of exceptional musical quality.
Money: We do not charge choirs fees to apply to or participate in the International Choral Festival. We do not pay choirs for their singing at the Choral Festival. We do not award prizes to choirs.
Visas: We urge international choirs to submit their visa applications promptly. In the past, a few choirs have been unable to attend the Choral Festival because they submitted visa applications too late. Detailed information and deadlines, will be provided to invited choirs.
Travel: All choirs are responsible for arranging and paying for travel to and from Missoula, Montana, United States.
Lodging & Food: In Missoula, we offer international choirs from outside the United States and Canada free housing in private homes, free meals, and free local transportation. Choirs from the United States and Canada are responsible for arranging and paying for their own housing, meals, and transportation. The Choral Festival will provide any interested choir with information about housing and dining opportunities in the Missoula area. During Festival Week, the Choral Festival offers all choirs several free group meals and social functions.
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Services will take place for Pasadena resident Leonard William Miller at 10 a.m. Monday at Singleton Funeral Home.
Mr. Miller, 81, died of natural causes June 27 at home.
A Pasadena resident for most of his life, he was employed as a foreman with Vulcan Hart Manufacturing Co. for 46 years until he retired in 1975.
Mr. Miller was a member of Pasadena United Methodist Church, Glen Burnie Moose Lodge No. 1456, and a volunteer for Hopeful Wheels Bowling Club.


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Examining DC's New 52: Month 2
The second month of DC Comics' New 52 is here, and the results look to be very different.
As noted last month, the launch of the #1s was simply enormous, and the demand — nearly across the board! — was gigantic. Comic shops all over the country saw an influx of new, or lapsed, customers coming into our stores, eager to spend money.
I don't want to universalize my experiences, because I really am just one mid-sized store in one city, but, here at least, the new and lapsed customers have continued coming in week after week, and have added the habit of coming in to see what's new each week to their weekly routines. We're up by about 15 subscribers, and I can identify 2-3 times that number of new customers among the faces that come in each week. This is a great result, and one DC should really be praised for. I'm just not used to publisher-driven pushes that deliver actual new repeat weekly customers.
But, now the bad news: there is no longer the wide and wild "feeding frenzy" that was happening with the #1s. In fact, it appears that most readers (existing or new) very quickly decided what books they don't want to read. We've talked before about how the "typical pattern" for a book is something like #2 selling 80% of #1, and #3 selling 80% of that, and then settling into a (say) 1-2% drop per month after that. And I'm seeing some books acting like that: Morrison's "Action Comics" surged up to the highest "Superman"-related numbers in several years and, yeah, keeping 80% of #1 here; while some books (like "Animal Man" and "Swamp Thing") are, surprisingly, 100%+ of first week sales of #1. But other titles aren't faring nearly as well. "Green Arrow" #2, for example, only sold one third of the number of copies of #1, in the same time period. That's a pretty crazy high drop, and puts "GA" #2 as selling about the same that the last version of the title sold here at its last issue, which is not a promising sign for the whole of the "New 52" as a psychic experiment and branding exercise, y'know?
(It's not just "GA," either — I see three other titles in my store with 60%-ish drops, so far, and just less than half with drops in the range of one third, though I'm writing this on the day before the third week of second issues.)
I don't think it's all that surprising, really. The chances of hooking a significant number of "new" readers on buying a wide swath of fifty-two titles was always somewhere between "slim" and "nil" — but I don't think I was expecting it to really be more than adding "a book a week", and it seems like we're going to end up with 2-3/week. That's pretty awesome, actually.
The interesting thing to see is if the "exodus" books like "GA" (for us here, in this one store) take "the standard 20% drop" at the third issue as well, or if they immediately stabilize. If they don't, we're going to end up with a significant portion of the line selling below where it did before the relaunch. Already, I have a book ("Hawk & Dove") which my sales seem to indicate should almost certainly be dropped to either subs-only or "subs +1" as soon as possible.
Looking at my somewhat-hazy crystal ball, I think we're going to end up in my store with the top DC books being up significantly in sales — potentially double or triple in some cases — enough so that line averages will be dramatically better a year after the relaunch, but we're still going to have the typical problem of the bottom-selling books being barnacles against the economic hull of selling comics. I really have little interest in titles (from any company, mind) that I'm selling 10 copies or less of — I had really hoped for a minute there that "The New 52" would have avoided that scenario, but I think it would have been the "New 26" or something for that to happen.
One other thing I want to note here is that there didn't seem to be any other follow through "New 52" effect for any of the next few (non-"52") #1s — "Huntress," "Shade," "My Greatest Adventure," all of these sold consistent with my "old DCU" sales, and got no detectable bounce.
The one really difficult marketing puzzle that DC has is that by selling it as "The New 52," there's a big hit they take to "the brand" when they need to start canceling books. I dunno, maybe they have the next batch of monthlies all ready for when/if they start canceling the lowest sellers, so the count will stay right, but there's likely to be a downside in promoting a number, over the individual components.
Another thing I want to bring up quickly was Barnes & Noble pulling from their store's racks the hundred graphic novels that DC was making available digitally exclusively on Amazon's Kindle.
As always, I spent a lot of time face-palming myself reading the comments on the Internet, from people with dramatically fundamental misunderstandings of how most customers buy (for example: "Browsers" are typically buying more books than "I know exactly what I want" customers in physical stores), and certainly B&N is doing this more out of a selfish motive than they are presenting it as, but, as consumers, it is ultimately not in your interests for content to be solely available from one vendor, or through one service or platform.
DC made a huge error in allowing, even for a "limited test run", one vendor to exclusively sell some of their material, because that sends a really awful precedent that could have some potentially dire ramifications for you later.
Think of it this way: what if DC had announced that "Watchmen" itself, the GN was only available on Amazon, that you couldn't buy it from any other vendor? Would you still be as sanguine? And, if not, what's the difference then?
I'm kind of concerned that this deal went down, in any case, because it really is a fundamental change for DC, who has historically at least tried to place an egalitarian face on their dealings with their customers, making sure that goods are available freely.
Finally, I want to talk about a comic that is coming out a few weeks from now: "Avenging Spider-Man" #1. As some of you might know, Marvel has decided to offer a "free digital copy" with the print version.
As a result, I ultimately decided to not order any copies of the comic for my racks, and wanted to talk you through my thinking.
There are a couple of factors that go into this decision for me, but most of them come down to the "Surprise!" factor.
I am of the belief that what a comic is described as in its original solicitation via "Previews" is what that comic should end up seeing print as with virtually no exceptions. In the extremely rare situation that something needs to change, that book should be treated as mis-solicited goods, and be made fully returnable. Publishers clearly have the capability to have work in hand before solicitation, that they have chosen not to operate in that fashion, isn't particularly my problem, as a purchaser of non-returnable goods.
Over time, Marvel Comics has unilaterally decided that the initial solicitation is fairly meaningless, and that books are not finalized until before the FOC date (typically 3 weeks before publication), and anything about the solicitation can change for any reason. I think this is a low down process because, as a working comic book store, a significant amount of our consumer education and outreach is done in the subscription model — I really do need 10-12 weeks to get the information out, and collect it back (not from my capability, mind, but from how fast the typical consumer reads and responds).
Marvel and all of its employees are well aware of solicitation and marketing deadlines — they fall in the same ways and means each and every month, there are no surprises anywhere in the process. I find it personally impossible that something as significant as full, free, digital codes in every copy wasn't decided well in advance of catalog deadlines, just from a manufacturing standpoint, so for Marvel to not announce it until well after orders have started to be collected is thoroughly dirty pool.
I also strongly object to, as a retailer, not being able to opt out of something that I have a very hard time seeing as anything other than an attempt at trying to building a database of "my" customers so that Marvel may try to convert them to digital.
I also have a major problem with Marvel doing it on such a high profile book, after the retailers started promoting it, where Marvel knows full well that most retailers will just swallow it because they have no other choice.
Marvel, of course, strenuously denies this is their intention, and I will certainly admit to the possibility that I am letting my paranoia get ahead of me, but history shows at least one other direct assault on the Direct Market business (Marvel Mart in 1994), and, besides, Marvel's newest parent company is one of the single most rapacious companies in the world, if you ask me. I'm afraid this one is really a matter of "prove it" before I'm willing to lower my guns.
At least when DC tries this tactic, they give us a choice — "Justice League" is available with "digital copy" versions, but it's not the only version offered. Even the variant covers of "Avenging Spider-Man" #1 are going to have the code with them.
I also really and truly don't want to encourage any behavior that might become line-wide at either company that requires comics to be poly-bagged. (Otherwise, the digital code can be stolen) Poly-bagged comics are against everything that my store stands for and represents.
Finally, I was, in discussing this with a Marvel executive, absolutely assured that they had to make every copy come with a code (no opt out) because "all" of the marketing to the consumer would be stressing the code, and that Marvel thought it would look bad to do that and then maybe not have coded versions available at retail.
But, of course, the house ads that have been running for the last two weeks don't mention digital. The original "Previews" solicitation didn't. The 8-page marketing handbook that Marvel sent stacks of to every account in good standing last week? Nope, didn't mention it there, either. In short, the methods by which something is best communicated to virtually all of my customers didn't mention one word about it, yet we still can't "opt out?"
I'm opting out, all right — I'm not going to carry the book with my own money. I'll certainly honor all preorders, and if someone wanted to make a special order, that's fine, but I'm not going to buy the knife they want to slit my throat with, especially if they're going to represent it as a bow-tie, y'know?
I know that certainly at least one person is going to come along and insist that I'm harming myself more by forcing my customers to go elsewhere to buy this comic, and that by doing so not only will I fail to make my point, but that I run the risk of losing that customer in total. In short, I'm probably everything that's wrong with Direct Market retailers.
But I've been in business for a very long time (I am, in fact, the oldest comic book store in San Francisco with the same ownership in the same location), and this isn't my first time around the rodeo — heck there was the nine (?) months I didn't rack any Marvel comics because of the Heroes World fiasco, and my sales went up during that time.
At the end of the day, I have to make decisions that make sense to me, that allow me to sleep properly at night, and that don't inadvertently give my "partners" a "stamp of approval" on things that I vehemently disagree with — whether that is the digital itself, or the playing fast-and-loose with the solicitation process. If they'd played honest, if they'd made it a choice that involved my consent, then I very well might have brought in a copy or two just to see what the demand might be (because I'm closing on 200 copies of "Justice League" sold, and not a single person has even mentioned the digital copy to me, so I'm not thinking this is an actual selling point) — but is it too much to expect my publishers to approach me fairly and honestly?
I do not think it is, and that is why I won't be carrying "Avenging Spider-Man" #1 on my racks.
Brian Hibbs has owned and operated Comix Experience in San Francisco since 1989, and is a founding member of the Board of Directors of ComicsPRO, the Comics Professional Retailer Organization, even if this column and every other one is purely and entirely his individual viewpoint as an individual retailer! Feel free to e-mail him with any comments. You can purchase two collections of the first Tilting at Windmills (originally serialized in Comics Retailer magazine) published by IDW Publishing, as well as find an archive of pre-CBR installments right here.
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LOS ANGELES — The wife of Jackie Jackson, oldest of the singing Jackson brothers, filed for divorce Wednesday and won a court order barring her husband from their Encino home, the scene of repeated alleged beatings.
Superior Court Commissioner John Dickey granted the restraining order to Enid Jackson after a 10-minute, in-chambers hearing.
Earlier Wednesday her attorney, Donald Woldman filed a petition seeking dissolution of the couple`s 11-year marriage. Papers filed with the petition show an estate valued in excess of $5 million.


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After a month of beta-testing some features of its new Web site, Borders Group Inc. is ready to see what consumers think.
Customers can preview the new site BordersStores.com, although they can't use it to make purchases. However, consumers can see the features that will be rolled into the new site, which is set to launch early next year. Users can still access its Web site, a collaboration with Amazon.com, for purchases.
After posting disappointing earnings in March, Borders announced a plan to revitalize the company that included launching an e-commerce Web site in early 2008 and ending an alliance with Amazon.com Inc. that began in 2001.
One of the features Borders has been testing for the past four weeks is called Magic Shelf, an online version of the in-store shopping experience.
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Series: The Natural Heritage of Scotland Series Volume: 15
302 pages, Figs, col plates, tabs
Stationery Office (TSO) Scotland
&i;Energy and the Natural Heritage&o; looks closely at the impacts that energy use and generation have on our wildlife and landscapes.
Divided into three sections, the papers from a conference on the subject cover a wide range of subjects including transports increasing emissions, nuclear energy, renewable technologies, carbon sequestration and issues related to wind farms. Aimed at those involved in energy planning, the energy industry, scientists, academics and environmentalists, this is a fundamental source of information.
'Climate change is now very much a reality. It is clear that society should reduce the rate at which it consumes energy, and that we must change our energy systems to produce the energy we need with a minimum of associated carbon dioxide emissions. But we also need to minimise impacts on other aspects of the environment.'
- Bill Band, National Strategy manager, Scottish Natural Heritage.
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What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.
-Muriel Rukeyser
About Imperfect Happiness
I started Imperfect Happiness in July 2010, when I began my year-long Happiness Project (inspired by Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project). After the project was done, I just kept on blogging.
Check out the menu links and the Top Posts to the right for more of what Imperfect Happiness has to offer. Or start with a handful of my favorite posts, which I've listed below.
I have also blogged (and commented many other places online) under the pseudonym "CJ," which was a family nickname that never really caught on outside of the family.
About Charity
I'm the daughter of a Navy flier and spent much of my childhood on air bases, which means the scent of jet fuel or the sound of a fighter jet streaking across the sky triggers nostalgic feelings in me.
As a grown-up, I spend my days observing closely, breathing deeply, and doing my best to appreciate the challenges along with the blessings.
My nights I spend at the keyboard attempting to split the world open.
Some of My Proudest Posts:
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Freshly Pressed in April 2011
"These Are My People"
Freshly Pressed in October 2012
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A moment of grace. Originally published November 2014.
Homeschool – A Day in the Life, Part I: Overview
My "Day in the Life" series on homeschooling, which begins here. Part II is linked in the post.
My Son's Birth Story, Part I: Ramping Up
Part 1 of the three-part series about the birth of my son. Originally published August 2011.
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Customer Relationship Optimisation
The Utilities industry faces many pressures. Intense competition in the energy sector, the introduction of the Service Incentive Mechanism (SIM) for water companies and the rise of online price comparison sites have made customer focus a strategic priority for Utilities.
But in an industry where customer contact is often limited to monthly statements, how do you develop lifelong, profitable relationships?
Initiatives, such as the Green Deal, provide an opportunity for Utilities to engage with their customers and build customer trust in an industry where trust has declined (Edelman 2012)
How to achieve customer centricity:
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By optimising each customer interaction through the delivery of accurate and relevant service and product offers using multi-channel communications, you can improve your acquisition and retention rates.
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Being able to deliver the right message at the right time in the right way will set you aside from your competitors. Today's customer has access to more communication channels than ever before, so ensuring you know their preferred channel has never been more important. Enabling customer self service through intelligent e-billing can help to reduce costs and increase customer satisfaction.
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To achieve customer centricity, you need customer data. Many organisations have disparate data and are unable to achieve a single view of the customer. By consolidating, deduping and enriching the data, you can provide real business value.
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Are you attending AACRAO this month? The CourseLeaf team will be there!
April 12-15, Baltimore, MD
Booth #: 320
Integrating CourseLeaf's curriculum and catalog management solutions at West Chester University
West Chester University is implementing CourseLeaf to streamline its curriculum and catalog management. CourseLeaf's CAT and CIM solutions will give WCUPA a seamless progression from curriculum proposals to publishing a web, mobile and print ready catalog. Learn about WCUPA's decisions and their practices for implementing CourseLeaf and improving their process.
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Monday @ 9:30-10:30 AM
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CourseLeaf: Streamlining the schedule of classes process
CourseLeaf Section Scheduler (CLSS) allows institutions to plan and coordinate their offerings across campus. CLSS includes powerful tools that allows registrars and departments to build a schedule to maximize room resources and provides students access to classes.
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SOURCE: Loudmouth Golf
February 16, 2016 13:00 ET
Vivid Colors and Trend-Setting Patterns Are What We Do Best -- Spring 2016
FOSTER CITY, CA--(Marketwired - February 16, 2016) - Loudmouth Golf, the worldwide leader in bold and bright golf and sports fan apparel, proudly introduces an exciting collection of six new designs for spring. The new collection contains all the best Loudmouth staples customers have come to love; tropicals, a pink pattern, a new argyle, and one of 2016's new patriotic patterns. (Yes, this year we made two!) Introducing the 2016 Spring Collection:
"Pink Champagne" -- Our popular Birds of a Feather pattern was perfect for this year's bold and bright pink design....so pink fans, bottoms up!
"Tatu" -- Get "inked" with this Polynesian-influenced design.
"Midnight Island" -- Black & white is always on trend. You don't have to wear color to make a statement!
"Pargyle" -- Often imitated, never duplicated. Loudmouth was the original creator of the argyle pant. Don't miss our most colorful one yet!
"Bora Bora" -- Bora Bora features the tropical birds of paradise flower. No matter where you are, or what you're doing, this pattern will make you feel like you're on vacation.
"All Stars" -- Think of your favorite pair of faded jeans, hand painted with watercolor stars.
"Our 2016 collection has something for everyone.... well, maybe not everyone," says Loudmouth Founder & Designer, Woody. "From the converted-khaki-wearer to the long-time Loudmouth fan, the sartorial boat is being pushed farther from the dock."
Loudmouth Golf's 2016 Spring Collection is available for both men and women and includes pants, shorts, skorts and hats. In addition to the stocked items, Loudmouth offers Made-to-Order (MTO) clothing, which lets customers customize the waist size and length of their garment to provide the ultimate fit.
For more information visit: www.loudmouthgolf.com.
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Loudmouth Golf Public Relations:Brooke WindattEmail contact
Loudmouth Golf Public Relations:Brooke WindattEmail contact
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