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A new study based on the assessment of hundreds of SAP implementations found that over 95% of SAP systems were exposed to vulnerabilities that could lead to full compromise of an organization's critical data.
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Embracing Cyber Resilience in Today's Cyber-Enabled World
May 06, 2015 Added by:Steve Durbin
Organizations function in a progressively cyber-enabled world today and traditional risk management isn't nimble enough to deal with the risks from activity in cyberspace. Enterprise risk management needs to be extended to create risk resilience, built on a foundation of preparedness.
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5 Ways Schools Can Upgrade Cyber Security
May 06, 2015 Added by:Paul Lipman
Today's cyber criminals are more aggressive than ever before in their quest to achieve financial gains through hacking. With that being said, it should come as no surprise that our nation's schools are a prime target for such attacks. In this article, iSheriff CEO Paul Lipman highlights the five actions that can be taken to upgrade cyber security practices.
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April 10, 2015 Added by:Paul Lipman
While SMBs are vulnerable to many of the same types of attacks as the companies making headlines (Target, JP Morgan, Home Depot, Anthem, etc.), they must defend themselves with vastly smaller IT teams and budgets. SMBs are finding they have a unique set of challenges and vulnerabilities that require a comprehensive but tailored approach to security.
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The Dark Side of "You Will" in the Internet of Things
April 02, 2015 Added by:Christopher Budd
Back in the early 1990s, AT&T capitalized on this with their "You Will" campaign, which outlined some of the things they said "you will" be able to do in the future. The bright future of technology is intriguing and exciting, but we must first take responsibility for our security and privacy as to avoid any downfalls.
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The Government Says It Has a Policy on Disclosing Zero-Days, But Where Are the Documents to Prove It?
March 30, 2015 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Despite the White House's claim that it had "reinvigorated" its policies in spring 2014 and "established a disciplined, rigorous and high-level decision-making process for vulnerability disclosure," none of the documents released in response to our lawsuit appear to be newer than 2010.
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Excellent TLS Made Easy
March 24, 2015 Added by:Neohapsis
Cryptography is notorious for requiring very specific skills to configure correctly, and on top of that it tends to be a moving target: it seems like every other month there is a new vulnerability specific to SSL/TLS.
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Enterprise Networks Plagued with Unsafe Mobile Applications
March 23, 2015 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
In yet another case that underscores the risks involved with employee mobile devices, a new study reveals that the average large enterprise has approximately 2,400 unsafe applications installed in its mobile environment.
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Dangers Accelerate: Increasing Global Threats Loom Over Information Security Landscape
March 19, 2015 Added by:Steve Durbin
The pace and scale of information security threats continues to accelerate, endangering the integrity and reputation of today's most trusted organizations. Attackers have become more organized, attacks are more refined, and all threats are more dangerous, and pose more risks, to an organization's reputation than ever before.
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The Bloody Battle of Website Defacement: "ISIS" Hackers vs. WordPress
March 13, 2015 Added by:Nimrod Luria
Eliminating defacement attacks on a WordPress site is extremely difficult because of the vulnerable nature of the platform. Administrators should continuously check for the appearance of unknown files and directories and monitor them for changes.
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EFF Joins Civil Society and Computer Security Experts to Call for Rejection of Flawed Cybersecurity Legislation
March 05, 2015 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF has joined 26 civil society organizations and 22 computer security experts in a letter that calls on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to reject the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA).
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Anthem Breach: How Hackers Stole Credentials and Why Two-Factor Authentication May Help Prevent Future Phishing Scams
February 09, 2015 Added by:Thu Pham
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SSL is Officially Declared Dead
February 09, 2015 Added by:PCI Guru
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Data Collection Must be Limited for Internet of Things Privacy
February 02, 2015 Added by:Rebecca Herold
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How Verizon and Turn Defeat Browser Privacy Protections
January 15, 2015 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Investors and hoteliers see yield demands in the next 20 years demanding leaner and more flexible hotels, notably around labor, technology and operations costs.
BERLIN—Hotel investors are looking toward the next two decades to find the best long-term investments, and building or acquiring assets to attract millennials might not be the best option.
During an International Hotel Investment Forum session titled "The next 20 years: A collective look at the hospitality investment landscape," panelists cited current trends to speculate on the future of the industry and discussed which demographics will drive demand during the next economic cycle, how flexible capital must be and the benefits of efficiency.
First and foremost, panelists said hoteliers should be wary about tripping over one another in a slavish race to capture the millennial market.
"The fad is millennial, but arguably they are the least compelling," said Cody Bradshaw, SVP and head of European hotels at Starwood Capital Group. "They are earning about 10% less than their parents and have far higher student debt. So if you are going in to developing something for millennials, you have to go in knowing they will probably have less spending power."
Bradshaw said a key investment strategy is to determine the consumer group that will remain viable over the length of any particular investment cycle.
"Population growth will drive some consumption, but the rest will come from the over-60s from developed countries, which by 2030 will grow by a third to 225 million," Bradshaw said, "the 15-to-59 age group in China, which will grow by 20%, an extra 100 million, with its per capita spend more than doubling, and the North American working-age population, which continues to compound and grow."
Jim Abrahamson, chairman and CEO of Interstate Hotels & Resorts, said there are demographics other than millennials that can be considered healthy target groups.
"I also see much more diverse groups within those demographics, too," he said. "Everyone we know today as a minority will be a majority by 2040. There will be equal numbers of women as men in the workplace and in positions of management."
Abrahamson said his investment strategy is reliant not only on the people who will fill his hotels but also the properties themselves.
"A lot of the brand landscape we see today was built up from the 1980s, so how will that product translate to the future?" he said. "What will that ageing inventory look like in 20 years, and who will take over those assets?"
Tim Helliwell, head of hotel finance at Barclays Bank, said the requirements of ensuring technology and social media strategies are in place might be making hoteliers miss a trick or two.
"Older guests make up 20% of overall spend but only receive 5% of marketing spend, and the accessibility and disability market just in the (United Kingdom) alone equals £249 billion ($303 billion), and if you lose that person (with disabilities), you might lose the family, too," Helliwell said.
Hubert Viriot, CEO of Yotel, said his company is not relying on millennials either, although he said they are an important part of Yotel's guest mix.
"Hotels might be quite different in 20 years from what they are now," Viriot said. "The conference spoke earlier about hotels now becoming a major asset class, and they need to be more efficient than they've been and less energy-consuming. Hotel rooms need to deliver exactly what the customer demands.
"They need to be skinnier, more focused. They need to be more compact, more efficient (and) more profitable," he added.
Flexibility of capital
One common theme of the conference was that hoteliers and hotel brands need to maintain their flexibility. So does capital, panelists said.
Bradshaw said business and capital markets are now considered state-of-the-art, but they will appear antiquated in 20 years.
"There are opportunities in that," he said. "For example, the Internet is seeing a fundamental shift from information as its basic language of economics to that of experiences."
Investment also is widening its reach, Bradshaw said.
"More risk-averse institutional investors have been willing to invest in more alternative assets as they realize that is necessary in order for them to stay relevant," Bradshaw said.
Abrahamson said that while the franchise model is still growing in the U.S., brands will perfect and increase their evolution away from bricks and mortar to more of a distribution model.
"The third-party model also is here to stay," Abrahamson said. "Overall, there is more optionality when it come(s) to the capital structure."
Viriot said he is still reluctant to take his company in a franchising direction.
"We want to control the experience, so we want to manage, and in a world changing rapidly, when you look at the franchising model, it is very difficult to convince owners to consistently change brand standards," Viriot said.
Helliwell said brands appear to want more and more control, but in some regards such as data security, that want is justified.
But the relationship between capital and brand and owners and operators is continuing toward a tipping point, Bradshaw said. Multiples can only go up by increasing fees or creating new fees and brands to generate, but the brands' asset-light strategy must yield being equally light in overheads.
As evident in Marriott International's 2016 buy of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Bradshaw said, "cost synergies are essentially paying for acquisitions."
Disruptors in the industry also continue to place hotel companies and investors on wobbly footing, Bradshaw said.
"My one prediction this year is that Google will absolutely disrupt the current pattern," Bradshaw said. "If you look at the customer journey, 90% of it is so open to further disruption. An example, I can use my thumb print on my phone but not for my hotel room."
Exercises in efficiency
Both capital and operations must concentrate on efficiencies in product, technology and labor, panelists said.
"Guests want devices to connect rapidly, and free of charge, but as a hotelier I must ask what does anything of this do to improve the guest experience?" Viriot said. "Does it also allow us to be more efficient? And, lastly, does it result in a more valuable real estate asset?"
Helliwell said the innovative ideas that have been born in the hotel industry in the last few years now require "seamless execution."
"Capital and debt are now spending more time in the sector, seeing how things make a material difference from an operational and technological proposition, and that is increasingly attractive to investors," Helliwell said.
Helliwell's prediction for the years ahead is that the funding market will increasingly split, with perhaps investors funding operational assets as standalone businesses.
"You are seeing that happen already," Helliwell said.
Abrahamson agreed and added that the industry is already capital-intensive.
"Asset owners are more consolidated and looking for longer yield patterns, more stability, but additional outside capital will only be attracted if labor is reduced," he said.

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Winner of Best Group in both the Live Ireland awards and the TIR awards, and a finalist for best album in the 2016 Indie Acoustic Project Awards, The Outside Track are one of the top Celtic acts in the world. A stunning synthesis of virtuosity and energy, their marriage of Celtic music, song, dance has been rapturously received around the world. Hailing from Scotland, Ireland, and the USA, its five members are united by a love of traditional music and a commitment to creating new music on this as a foundation. They effortlessly fuse traditional and contemporary with winning joie de vivre, blending fiddle, accordion, harp, guitar, whistle, step-dance and vocals with breathtaking vitality.
Each player within The Outside Track is a master of their chosen instrument with the band stacking up an impressive amount of international awards. This amount of talent alone would be enough to recommend the band but in this case the end result is much greater than the sum of the parts.
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The juried art show is cosponsored by the Elmhurst Artists Guild and the Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce. Artworks will include oils, acrylics, watercolors, graphics, drawings, sculpture, metal sculpture, handmade jewelry, wood and leather items, stained glass, stoneware, ceramics and other crafts. For more information, call the Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce at 834-6060.


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Almost a Love Story
He loved her
She loved him
They're perfect for each other
They're inseparable
They must be destined
To be together
Forever and ever
A love made in heaven
Through thick and thin
They never gave up
Never lose hope
Holding on to their dreams
Love they say is endless
So he proposed
She said yes
And the wedding date is set
He stood at the altar
Waiting for his bride
So they could live happily
Ever after
But she collapsed on the aisle
And died on the way to the hospital
The happy moment
Turns into a tragedy
He lived alone
Always turning back to the time
When his bride is walking down the aisle
Wondering the life that could have been
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How sad and what brilliant poetry. Life is filled with joy and sadness. We must look for joy behind every corner and understand sadness. Seek and ye shall find an opening that leads to happiness. For every death, there is a birth. Thanks for sharing this poem. Blessings, Audrey
O my...how very sad...I have just found new love and so this hit me quite hard.
Angels are on the way to you this morning ps
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It has been a while, nice to see you again. Well done.
"Almost" carries such a sadness all its own...a tragedy when it involves love, which you have captured so well.
Proves what I have always known...you are an excellent writer. Keep at it.
Lovely poem but sad in the end!
Nice expressions, voted up!
There are widows also, widows who had that brief glimpse of a future cut short by the death of their man in the military, widows who never found another like him they might be satisfied with.
Happy lives filled with joy are always too short, even if mortality is a long and happy one.
Up and beautiful.
Very sad! You have written it well, but very sad.
Oh, how awful! They didn't even get to say "'til death do us part".


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Celebrities 23 Celebrities Who Have Their Own Private Islands
List of Celebrities Who Own Private Islands, loosely ranked by fame and popularity. What do you do when you are a celebrity with an extra $10 million lying around? You buy your own private island of course. Some of the world's most famous actors, musicians and businessmen own their own private islands. Some use their islands as a paparazzi free getaway, while others rent out their islands to wealthy travelers.
Who is the most famous person who owns a private island? Johnny Depp tops our list. The Pirates of the Caribbean star owns a 45-acre tropical island called Little Hall's Pond Cay in the Caribbean. The Lone Ranger actor says that Marlon Brando taught him how to buy an island. Depp takes advantage of the privacy of owning an island and he rarely shares his experiences with the media. Other famous actors who have privately owned islands include Robin Williams, Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts.
In 2009, Tyler Perry purchased the White Bay Cay in The Exuma Cays in the Bahamas. The Madea mastermind took pilot lessons so he could fly his private plane to the island. Perry purchased the island to celebrate his 40th birthday. Speaking with People magazine, Perry stated, "I'm a loner by nature, so when I'm out there on these islands, I just feel like the only person in the world."Do you think that it is excessive to own your own private island? Share your thoughts in the comments section and let us know if you think buying you own island is a goal you have.
Johnny Depp owns a 45-acre tropical island called Little Hall's Pond Cay in the Caribbean. The actor says that Marlon Brando taught him how to buy an island.
Age: 54
Birthplace: Owensboro, Kentucky, United States of America
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In 2011, Shakira teamed up with Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters to buy an island of Bonds Cay, north of the Bahamas. They are reportedly developing a resort for multi-millionaires.
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In 2007, Tommy Lee bought an island off the coast of Dubai and gave it to Pamela Anderson. He was attempting to win the Baywatch babe back.
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Birthplace: Ladysmith, Canada
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Agriculture, forestry and fishery exports in the first quarter were estimated at $6.73 billion, a year-on-year increase of 3.1 per cent, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Vietnam shipped some 1.59 million tonnes of rice and earned $692 million, up 41.6 per cent in volume and 40.8 per cent in revenue against the same period last year.
Indonesia emerged as Vietnam's largest rice importer, with 31.42 per cent, followed by China with 17.15 per cent.
Strong growth markets included the Philippines and Malaysia while sharp falls were seen in Ivory Coast and Singapore.
The value of fishery exports in the first quarter was calculated at nearly $1.36 billion, rising 1.7 per cent from 2015. Accounting for 51.84 per cent of the market share, the US, Japan and China remained Vietnam's largest markets.
Overseas shipments of 479,000 tonnes of coffee earned $808 million, for annual gains of 30.2 per cent and 5.7 per cent, respectively.
In stark contrast, the volume of tea exports fell 5 per cent compared to the same time in 2015, to 23,000 tonnes. Revenue was also down 10.2 per cent, to $35 million.
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Preston Henn's mug shot shows a thin, older man with deep-set, pale-blue eyes. His head, with thinning hair on top, is cocked a bit to one side. His lips are pursed; a worry line creases his chin.
He could be your grandfather on a bad day.
After the shot was snapped, Henn was involuntarily committed to a mental ward for observation. He'd flown into a rage and allegedly assaulted a Broward Sheriff's Office chief and was Tasered into submission by deputies. Before he can stand trial, he's been ordered to be evaluated by two psychologists to gauge his mental fitness.
Swap Shop
If police and prosecutors have their doubts about Henn's sanity, so do some of the people who deal with him on a daily basis and have witnessed his increasingly bizarre behavior since his arrest in May.
Just weeks after being Tasered and battling with cops, Henn evicted the Hanneford Family Circus, a mainstay at his Swap Shop for the past two decades. Many vendors considered the circus the venerable flea market's biggest draw, and the eviction has generated a breach-of-contract lawsuit.
Vendors at the Swap Shop are also scratching their heads over Henn's sudden decision to issue them exorbitant fines over infractions that previously were hardly worth bothering about. It's as if, they say, Henn is trying to drive everyone away not just the elephants and acrobats but also the flea market's life blood, its merchants.
This Henn, they say, bears little resemblance to the flashy South Florida institution they once knew, the power broker who drove Porsches in grueling endurance races, who built a drive-in theater into a swap-meet gold mine, and who regularly flew to Europe on his private jet to play the high roller in the world's most luxurious casinos.
Henn, they say, is losing it.
But when he arrives at the Swap Shop at 5 a.m. as he has almost every morning for 40 years driving a gleaming new Ferrari, he does not seem off his nut. He still governs even the minutest details of the 88-acre market's day-to-day operations, from the volume of music to disputes between vendors.
He's still a lucky gambler, having recently won a Hummer and a PT Cruiser at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
And Henn's biggest windfall may be yet to come. The largest public park in central Broward County 109 acres of green space with a sports and entertainment complex, swimming pool, lake, and cultural center is being constructed on the western border of the Swap Shop, making Henn's land even more attractive to potential buyers.
Rumors abound, especially among Swap Shop vendors who worry about their livelihoods evaporating, that Henn has taken huge offers from condo developers, the county government, and even the Seminole Indians who own the Hard Rock.
Crazy? Perhaps. But maybe Preston's just crazy like a Henn.
Preston Henn is not a small man, but he's slight in the extremities, with thin legs and long arms. On his wrist is a gold Ferrari watch with a brown, ostrich-skin band. He acknowledges the vendors who call his name with a tilt of his head or a hand raised from the steering wheel on the golf cart he rides for hours through the Swap Shop, micromanaging his empire.
He almost always wears a hat. Often, he sports a beat-up straw Stetson with a leather band and a bushy tuft of feathers stuck in the front, a beaded cord hanging from them. A small, horseshoe-shaped burn mark is on the side.
Henn talks country. His speech flows in the steady cadence of his western North Carolina roots. He "cain't" do something or "waddn't" there at the time. If something is true, it "ak-choo-ah-lee" happened.
And he is emphatic in his denials about selling the Swap Shop. "What would I do without the Swap Shop except drive my wife crazy?" the 74-year-old asks.
While making the rounds in his golf cart on a recent Sunday, Henn is stopped by a longtime vendor.
She's a small woman with a big floppy hat, a thick coat of lipstick, and large sunglasses. Her accent reeks of the Bronx or some other Northeastern locale where Floridians tend to be spawned. On her pinky toe is a gold band engraved with the word Penny.
She seems distraught as she leans into the golf cart and says, "The story is that you sold [the Swap Shop] to the people over at the Indian casino."
Henn laughs and explains that even if he wanted to sell to them, which he most definitely does not, a new law prohibits tribes from buying land not connected to land they already own.
"Then you sold it to someone else," Penny insists. "I even got the price."
Now Henn really laughs, his high-pitched, staccato bursts overcoming the chirping din of hundreds of caged parakeets for sale nearby.
"How much?" he asks.
"Twenty-two hundred," she says, giving him a leveling stare. "It's scaring people."
"Twenty-two hundred million?" he says, now soberly. "Good price."
"You're scaring people," Penny counters, sounding actually frightened.
"I never sell anything," Henn replies. "I am not interested in selling this."
"The rumor is flying this year," she says. "I've been coming here for 35 years. It's like my life."
Henn manages to calm her down, eventually convincing her that he isn't, "ak-choo-ah-lee" selling. She isn't the only vendor he will have to convince.
He seems to mean it, however, when he says that he expects nothing to change at the Swap Shop in his lifetime. "There's no more property to buy because I'm surrounded by the county park. The only option for me is exactly what I'm doing now, and I'm enjoying every minute of it. I'll be riding around on a golf cart until they carry me away in a stretcher."
It wasn't a stretcher they used to carry Henn away on May 20.
That day, for reasons that are still unclear, Henn tried to evict Swap Shop merchant Joel Leibovitch from the food stand he operated. Described as an easygoing, peaceful person by other vendors, Leibovitch and his family had been selling goods at the flea market for 20 years. But then, suddenly, Henn ordered him to leave and threatened to confiscate the equipment at his stall.
Leibovitch wouldn't budge, however, claiming that he'd done nothing wrong. He called the BSO.
"I guess that made Preston mad," BSO Officer Louis Bautista testified in a deposition after the event. Bautista worked off-duty as a security guard at the Swap Shop, and his daughter until recently operated an Italian ice stand at the market.
According to police reports, Henn reacted to Leibovitch's calling BSO by pushing him to the ground, injuring the vendor's head, neck, and back.
"Preston was completely out of control," Bautista testified. The cop had spoken with Ed Levrett, Henn's business lieutenant, who witnessed the confrontation and decided to quit then and there in protest of his boss' actions. "Levrett said that when Henn pushed Joel to the ground, [Levrett] wasn't going to have it any more... [Levrett] took his keys, his cell phone, put them on the table, called his wife, and left."
Levrett never came back, eventually leaving the state altogether. He could not be contacted for this article.
By the time BSO Deputy Robert Kelleher arrived, Henn was in a rage.
Kelleher, a rookie who had been on the force just a few weeks, arrived in time to see Henn reach into BSO Chief George Jarboe's patrol car and attack him while he was in the driver's seat talking on his cell phone.
"I saw that Mr. Henn was actually reaching into [Chief Jarboe's] car... and I saw his elbows going back and forth," Kelleher said in a deposition.
Kelleher and another deputy restrained the septuagenarian, handcuffing Henn for at least a few minutes, until Jarboe told them to remove the cuffs, because, according to Kelleher, "I guess he calmed down."
The calm was short-lived. Henn soon began yelling, and the cuffs went right back on.
That's when Bautista arrived.
Bautista has spent a lot of time at the Swap Shop. In his 26 years as a police officer, he has spent 12 years moonlighting as security for the flea market on weekends. It's not an unusual arrangement. Rather than call the BSO every time there's a disturbance there were more than 1,000 incidents requiring police attention at the Swap Shop in the past two years alone, according to BSO documents Henn pays the Sheriff's Office about $200,000 a year to supply him with off-duty officers to patrol his vast and bustling business.
It's not an easy detail. According to the deposition that Bautista gave in September, BSO officers call Swap Shop duty "blood money" because of the amount of actual crime fighting it requires.
"You have to run from call to call breaking up fights," Bautista said in his deposition. "It was definitely harder than my shift."
Bautista testified that he had a good relationship with Henn, who rented a prime Swap Shop space to Bautista's wife, Dana, for a beauty salon. When Bautista's daughter Jennifer needed a job while attending college, Henn rented her a spot so she could vend Italian ices.
Henn also allowed her use of equipment he had on hand to make the frozen confections, equipment that he had confiscated from a previous vendor he evicted.
When he tried to evict Leibovitch, however, things turned ugly. Bautista testified that Henn telephoned him four or five times after Leibovitch summoned the BSO, asking Bautista to get his law enforcement colleagues off his property. In the final call, Henn made a threat. "If you don't take care of this, I'm going to take you down," Bautista recalled Henn saying. "I'm going to call internal affairs and tell them that you, Joel [Leibovitch], and Ed [Levrett] have a business together behind my back."
A short while later, Bautista got a call from Jeff Henn, Preston's son, asking him to come intercede on his father's behalf. When he arrived, Bautista asked Henn what was going on.
"I want these fucking deputies out of my property now," Bautista says Henn answered.
Bautista then uncuffed Henn and tried to calm him down. Henn, still furious, pulled out his cell phone and began dialing.
According to Bautista one of the first calls Henn made was to Broward County Property Appraiser Lori Parrish. When she didn't answer, Henn began screaming into her voice mail that deputies were on his property and that she should call him right back. Parrish was formerly vice president of operations at the Swap Shop. After a public falling out, however, the two have remained estranged.
After the fruitless call to Parrish, Henn pleaded with Bautista to send the other deputies away. But when Bautista made it clear that he couldn't do that, Henn turned and ran.
Henn made a getaway in one of his golf carts. BSO deputies commandeered another golf cart and followed him. The resulting low-speed chase through Swap Shop stalls ended at a stairway below the main office. There, Henn sprinted up the stairs and barricaded himself in his inner sanctum, a large and cluttered office with windows overlooking the Swap Shop's north lot.
The most important feature of this office is a large bank of television screens. The screens are connected to hundreds of video cameras placed throughout the Swap Shop. They're also connected to a server that allows Henn to monitor his flea market from anywhere in the world via the Internet.
"He is always watching," says one employee who has an office near Henn's. "No matter where he is in the world, he will always call in and ask about his Swap Shop."
On this day, he must have been watching those screens with a growing sense of unease. Just outside his door, half-a-dozen BSO deputies and detectives were gathering, along with his wife, Betty; his granddaughter Daphne; and his son Jeff.
According to the BSO depositions, Henn's family tried to coax him out. These efforts where met with shouting and cursing. Henn would not be moved.
About 45 minutes later, however, Henn left his office. His attorneys suggested in depositions that Henn had waited until local media had arrived, then finally came down to make some sort of public statement.
Security-camera images, which Henn released to the media, show him taking long, purposeful strides down the narrow hallway outside his office, not looking particularly threatening. But the BSO officers who were present didn't see it that way.
"He barges out," Bautista recalled. "He looked like a raging pit bull coming out of the cage ready for a fight. There was no stopping him. There was nothing you could do to stop him... I thought he was just going to knock [Jarboe] down."
Although the footage is unclear, the officers claim that Henn appeared to lunge at Jarboe, so Deputy Christopher Labarbera Tasered Henn, sending 50,000 volts of electricity into him.
Henn screamed in agony and fell to the floor.
Deputies transported Henn to a BSO squad car, where he kicked a window out of its frame. Henn was taken to a police station and then to the psychiatric ward at Plantation General for a mandatory and involuntary 72-hour evaluation. Those 72 hours turned into ten days. He would later be charged with two counts of battery on a law enforcement officer one for attacking Jarboe in his car and one just before he was Tasered outside the Swap Shop office a misdemeanor battery charge against Leibovitch, and one count of criminal mischief for his run-in with the patrol car window.
Henn refused to talk about the specifics of the incident with Leibovitch except to say that "it's all gonna come out during the case." Leibovitch, meanwhile, has filed an injunction against the Swap Shop and Henn.
Henn is vocal about his treatment at the hands of the BSO, however. "You don't creep up behind someone, Taser them in the back, and expect to get away with it," he says.
"I fell when they Tasered me... I collapsed and fell into the arms of the chief, so they charged me for assaulting the chief."
As for the window in the squad car, Henn claims that he was only barely conscious and didn't have full control of his muscles.
On the day he was released, Henn told Swap Shop employees to evict Officer Bautista's wife and daughter from their spaces in the Swap Shop, confiscating hundreds of dollars' worth of their personal property.
Henn claims that Bautista was running a scam involving the renting of Swap Shop spaces to other BSO officers.
"He had these other BSO's in different spaces that I didn't know about because they were in plainclothes," Henn claims. "I can't prove it, but they were up to something or they wouldn't have been so upset."
The Bautistas didn't return phone calls and, unlike Leibovitch, haven't filed legal challenges to Henn's eviction of their businesses.
But the notion seems absurd: that Henn, the micromanager who kept such an obsessive watch over his Swap Shop, could have been unwittingly renting stalls to a conspiracy of off-duty cops.
You expect a battler like Preston Henn to react to his arrest by fighting back against the police.
But evicting elephants?
For the better part of two decades, the Hanneford Family Circus was nearly synonymous with the Swap Shop itself. The Hannefords are a performing clan that can trace its roots back three centuries and is one of the largest circus groups in the country. The Hannefords entertained shoppers with free performances in return for a weekly $12,500 payment from Henn that increased to $20,000 during the high season. The circus was a big draw for families, vendors say, and helped keep business going during the slow summer months.
As the sun rose on Thursday, August 11, however, that happy arrangement came to a screeching halt.
Victoria Hanneford says that on that day, at 6 a.m., she and her employees were awakened by an irate Henn banging on their trailer doors and demanding that they get off his property or face fines. Other circus employees said that "his goons" were beating their trucks and motor homes with sticks in an effort to hasten the Hannefords' departure.
By midafternoon, every piece of Hanneford property remaining at the Swap Shop was covered in bright pink and orange tow-away stickers, and many of the Hanneford vehicles had been booted.
Meanwhile, a circus of a different kind materialized. Television news vans descended on the Swap Shop as dark thunderheads gathered in the late summer sky.
The trouble had started two weeks earlier, when Henn stopped paying the circus for its services. Henn says that he stopped paying because the Hannefords' workers' compensation insurance had expired in May and his contract with them required such coverage. According to Henn, this requirement stems from an incident ten years ago when one of the Hanneford acrobats was seriously injured during a performance. He says he had to foot a $100,000 medical bill because the circus didn't have coverage, and soon after, he altered the contract to require insurance.
When the coverage ran out, Henn says, he repeatedly demanded that the circus find new coverage, and when it didn't, he had no choice but to evict the performers and their elephants, tigers, and horses.
Hanneford attorney David Bercuson, one of Miami's more prominent entertainment lawyers, doesn't dispute that the Hannefords' workers' compensation insurance had run out. But he says renewing it made no sense because of a change in state law. A new statute changed the definition of which independent contractors are eligible for workers' compensation, and circus performers were left out of the definition. Bob Lotane, spokesman for the Florida State Department of Financial Services, confirms that circus performers are no longer eligible under the new definition.
But Bercuson is quick to point out that the circus performers are more than adequately covered by insurance provided by an independent circus producers association. He claims that this coverage gives the Hanneford performers "better coverage than workers' compensation gives them."
The Hannefords are suing Henn for the balance of their contract, which runs through November, as well as for damage to some of their vehicles and property that occurred during the eviction.
Regardless of the legal outcome, Henn says he is "tickled to death" that the circus is gone and has no interest in finding a new one.
Besides the "rats and roaches" that he says the circus brought, animal rights protesters who held a near constant vigil outside the Swap Shop are also no longer a problem for him.
"I get bullshit letters every day," Henn says of the activists, "saying 'Thank you, thank you for getting rid of the circus now we can come to the Swap Shop,' which is all bullshit. I hated them, still do."
The Hannefords have taken their act on the road and were recently performing with their elephants in Pennsylvania. They plan to return to Florida soon, however, to take their place in the Winterfest Christmas boat parade, which they used to participate in at their own expense on behalf of the Swap Shop. This time, they'll float on a barge sponsored by a Broward roofing contractor while their acrobats, clowns, and jugglers gyrate for the masses.
On a recent Saturday while piloting a golf cart through his flea market empire, Henn acted incredulous when asked if the loss of the circus had affected business. He turned the cart around and headed straight for his office, where he produced a giant color photo of the Swap Shop dated 1975, well before the circus came to town.
The photo was taken from a helicopter looking straight down on the sprawling mass of sun-baked commerce. The place was packed. Thousands of people, cars, and vendor stalls jammed nearly every available foot of cement.
"You see?" he asked, an impish smile playing under his thin white beard. "We just don't need them to bring people in here. Never have."
Many of the hundreds of vendors who depend on the Swap Shop for their livelihoods disagree. A constant refrain among them from the single-table video and CD sellers to the comparatively large jewelry and electronics dealers is that this is one of the worst years in Swap Shop history and that the departure of the circus has made things worse. Much worse.
"It's been so slow since the circus left," said a woman who, like dozens of other vendors interviewed for this article, didn't want her name used, mostly out of fear of retaliation by Henn. As she spoke, she stood under a large tent where she sells T-shirts, three for $10. "Those people were such a big draw. Now?" she shrugged. "It's been dead."
The vendors also complain of a marked increase in the number and size of fines levied against them by Henn's Swap Shop employees. The fines have always been a way to make sure that vendors comply with certain rules so that the free-market jumble that is the Swap Shop can remain functional.
A vendor can be fined for not opening by a certain time or for parking a delivery truck or car in the wrong place or for leaving piles of trash, boxes, or merchandise where they shouldn't be.
Some of the violations and their penalties are outlined explicitly in the one-page contracts that vendors must sign to operate at the Swap Shop. Most vendors New Times spoke to said they had no problems with the restrictions, which carried penalties of $25 to $50. But in recent months, Henn began handing out fines of $300 to $500.
Freddy Reyes is just one of the vendors shocked by skyrocketing fines. A 36-year-old Colombian émigré, Reyes has sold toys at the Swap Shop for four years. A few weeks ago, he was stunned when he found that he'd received a $500 fine for opening his store late. The contract that he signed which he keeps folded in the back pocket of his jeans states that the penalty for such a violation is $25.
"Doesn't say anything about $500 on here," he said, smoothing the crumpled piece of paper on a picnic bench at the Swap Shop's western edge. "Only $25."
He is also angered by the fact that he's paid his rent through the end of the month but Swap Shop management won't let him open until he pays his fine.
"If I open, they'll come and close me down," he said. "But I don't want to cave because that's taking money from my kids."
Before this, the largest fine Reyes had received was $100 for not opening on Christmas. "Nobody comes in on December 25, so [Henn] fined us all."
A vendor who keeps shop near Reyes selling porn DVDs seemed equally mystified by the spike in the size of fines. "There were always fines, sure," he said in a soft Trinidadian lilt, a row of solid-gold teeth glinting as he spoke. "Fifty dollar, $75 fines I can understand, but $500, $1,000? We can't afford that."
He gestures at a boarded-up stall across the way. "This guy just closed down because he couldn't afford to pay the fees, and he's been here for years."
"Five-hundred-dollar fines for everything!" says another irate vendor of car stereo equipment. "Park in the wrong place, $500 fine. Open a little late, $500 fine. We even had to open the day [Hurricane] Rita hit. It didn't used to be this way."
In addition to the swelling fines, Henn has instituted new parking fees for vendors. Until recently, vendors were required to pay for parking only on Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday. Now it's every day.
The vendors are convinced that Henn is trying to make up for the lost circus revenue by bleeding them dry. Henn dismisses the complaints as the grumbling of malcontents.
"To the vendors, every year is the worst year and business always sucks," he says. "The truth is that we've never had a 'worst year. '"
Henn denies that he's increased fine amounts or their frequency. "We give them fair warning, often giving them three, four chances before we write them up."
For his part, Reyes had had enough and was planning to leave the Swap Shop. He'd already removed the merchandise from his store, saying that Swap Shop management was known for confiscating vendor wares.
"Everybody's too scared to say something, but I don't care anymore."
He nodded toward a reed-thin woman with dark skin standing in a booth surrounded by luggage. "See that lady over there? She paid the $500 and she was crying the day it happened. She's all alone. Look at her now. No customers."
The same week that Henn stopped paying the Hannefords, construction began on the 100-plus-acre park imaginatively named Central Regional Park by the county that will abut his property. A spokesman for property appraiser Parrish denied that construction of the park would have any effect on the value of Henn's land. It's hard to imagine, however, that such an addition to the neighborhood wouldn't have a positive effect.
Former Fort Lauderdale Commissioner Tim Smith, for example, came under fire when investment properties he owned shot up in value after he approved a parks project in the same neighborhood. Critics attributed Smith's personal windfall to the addition of the green spaces.
Citing ethical obligations, no independent property appraiser would comment on the record as to the possible effect the park's construction would have on Henn's property. One such appraiser did say, however, that the addition of a park could increase the Swap Shop's value by as much as 30 percent.
For the short term, at least, it would seem that Henn is staying put. When Hurricane Wilma tore through the Swap Shop, doing more than a million dollars in damage, including wrecking almost all of the drive-in screens, Henn immediately began to rebuild.
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Recently, in the northeastern corner of the Swap Shop, a tremendous pile of twisted metal frames, awnings, roofing tiles, and other storm detritus was being sorted by men who had stripped off their shirts in the unseasonable warmth.
In the labyrinth of stalls on the Swap Shop's west side, vendors patched roofs and rearranged merchandise around bent support poles.
Henn, meanwhile, assured New Times that he's often misunderstood by those who underestimate his stamina and smarts. "If I'm buying property or [in] any kind of business deal, people think that I can't think because I talk slow," he says.
"They think they can outsmart me, and I always end up throwing it back in their face."


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In director Martin Scorsese's The Departed, Leonardo DiCaprio plays Billy Costigan, a promising graduate of the Massachusetts State Police Academy. Prior to entering the Academy, Costigan led a dual life: with his mother, he enjoyed the cushy surroundings of Boston's North Suburbs, and with his father, he adopted a Boston accent and spent time with some of the seediest characters in Sommerville and South Boston. By the nature of his upbringing, Costigan possesses a consummate ability to blend in.
To Sergeant Queenan (played by Martin Sheen), Costigan's social duality makes him the ideal candidate for the department's toughest undercover assignment: to infiltrate the Boston mob and report on the activities of boss Frank Costello (Played by Jack Nicholson). Furthermore, Costigan will go so far undercover, only two high-ranking officers in the department will know he's actually a police officer. To everyone else, says DiCaprio, "He's a rat bastard scumbag and just a confidant to Costello."
DiCaprio's initial interest in playing Costigan was spurred by his friend Brad Pitt. Pitt acquired the rights to adapting the 2002 Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs for his company Plan B. He then gave screenwriter William Monaghan (Kingdom of Heaven) the task of bringing a new direction to an American version, while keeping the best elements of the original. "I'd seen Infernal Affairs," says DiCaprio. "But I hadn't heard about [The Departed] until Brad called. I got the script and I loved it. I wanted to do it even before I knew Marty or anyone was involved. It was coincidental."
As much as DiCaprio loves Infernal Affairs, he admits he felt it was important to abandon certain elements in order to build his own character. In using Infernal Affairs as a reference, he says "I watched it very early on, but we had to forget some of it. We knew that because the intent here is to invent an almost entirely different film. The construct and the skeleton of the story is very similar in this version, but this is an entirely different mob."
What DiCaprio emphasized in his portrayal of Costigan was a man ravaged by internal conflict. He became a character Scorsese believes DiCaprio most effectively presents on screen.
"I knew Leo would convey the conflict of a young man who has gotten himself into a bad situation and then wonders what the hell he is doing there," he says. "You can see it in his face. You can see the look in his eyes. He knows how to express emotional impact without saying a word. It just emanates from him. It is quite extraordinary to watch."
For co-stars and Boston natives Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg, portraying a Bostonian was easy; they know the territory and they know the accents. For DiCaprio, however, having never been to Boston prior to the start of principal photography, the transition was more complex. A linguist helped with his accent, but to understand the sub-culture of Boston, "If you can't draw upon anything from your real life," says DiCaprio, "you go and meet the people that have done these things."
Scorsese thus arranged for DiCaprio to meet with an expert on South Boston. "It's a really interesting place. Everyone knows each other's business. It's like a little microcosm. They all have overlapping stories. Going there, meeting some of the people who were around in the late '80s during the [mob boss] Whitey [Bulger] era, it's all part of the learning process."
At heart, the character of Billy Costigan is a good man, and he fears continued exposure to Costello and his mass-murdering thugs will end with a bullet in his head. He lives in what DiCaprio describes as "this constant, 24-hour panic" amid people who would "literally blow his head off" if they had even a hint as to who he really is. "He ends up deep in a situation that's extremely dangerous and deceitful. There are moments when he could so easily be caught and all the arrows are pointing in his direction as the rat."
"He's a smart guy," says Scorsese. "Too smart. He knows how to adapt and he knows how to play people. That, by itself, is a talent."
Costigan may have scored 1440 on his SATs, but will he be able to outsmart Boston's most notorious mob boss? Moviegoers get to find out today, as The Departed opens in theaters nationwide.


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Ee but it's grim oop NorthWith us "dark Satanic mills"With clogs on us feetAnd whippets in yardAnd lads trudging up cobbled hillsTo fetch t'loaf from village shopAnd scoot back on thur bikeMaybe stop for a chat with Compo or CleggyOr Willy Eckerslike
Them Southerners've not got a clueThey a'nt got no ideaTo be honest we'd rather they stayed where they areWe don't want them coming oop here.You can keep yer fancy cup-cakesParkin's fine for meYou can keep your High-Costa CoffeeCos we've got Yorkshire TeaWe don't need none of yer Southern waysYer way too soft by farWith yer airy-fairy confectioneryWhat's wrong with a Yorkie Bar?
They reckon t'South is cultured 'n' thatWith theatres and concerts and showsBut they've not got the time to attend anythingThat's something that everyone knowsThe South's clogged up with traffic jamsCar horns blaring and hootingOverdue busses that travel in threesOh, the joys of daily commuting!
We can't be doing with charging aroundWe like a more leisurely paceThem in the South has misunderstoodWhat's meant by "the human race"Oop here we've got humanityWe've still got time for caringFor wandering, strolling, stopping a whileFor pondering and staringFor having a chatFor counting us blessingsFor taking in countryside's bountyThere's nowhere else I'd rather beThan in Yorkshire – God's own county.


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Cybersecurity by Government Contract?
According to Steptoe and Johnson's E-Commerce Law Week,
The U.S. Department of Defense, the General Services Administration, and NASA last month proposed a change to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) that would require contractors to safeguard their information systems containing information provided by or generated for the government. The proposed rule … would require government contracts with all federal contractors and appropriate subcontractors to mandate basic information security measures.
Is this a good idea?
In particular, should Canadian governments be concerned about the security of the IT systems in place among businesses that contract with them? If so, should cybersecurity standards be imposed by contract, as a condition of public procurement? Or should they be fixed in law instead, so that businesses that do not bid on government contract would also have to be secure?
(The US promotes a number of government policies by the economic incentive of requiring compliance in order to get government work. So far as I know, that is not common here. Is that because we have a more efficient legislative or enforcement system?)
Are governments in Canada credible in talking about cybersecurity, so that such a requirement of the public sector would be fair?


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Dear Blog,
So…how've you been?
I've been good. Busy. Writing stuff, doing stuff, watching stuff. Playing stuff. You know. The usual.
So listen. I know we've sort of…grown apart lately. Maybe we needed some space. I'm totally cool with that, and I hope you are too. But I wanted to let you know that I'll always be here for you, just like I know you'll always be here for me.
So, I guess, let's catch up.
First, I've been going to the gym. Well, okay, that's an exaggeration. I got a gym membership and went for a couple of weeks, but lately…not so much. And I really need to go because if I'm going to someday convince Edgar Wright to become my mistress, I'll have to be really hot.
Also, Adam and I got a Wii. And new Super Mario Bros. And we finished it. So that's done.
You know what I was thinking about the other day? I was thinking about my dream house. And all those crazy things you always want for your dream house when you're a kid? Yeah, I still want those. I want a room where the ceiling and all the walls are padded and the floor is a trampoline. I want a giant tree house as a guest cottage. I want the apartment that Tom Hanks had in Big (not the one with the murders happening outside). And you know what else? I want a room just like Jeannie's bottle in I Dream of Jeannie. Round, with a couch lining the wall and pillows everywhere. And no door. You have to enter from the ceiling or a trap door in the floor. I would spend all day in there. My trampoline floor room would be tragically unused. (Okay, not really. I'd divide my time equally.)
Hmm, what else?
Oh! We finally got our fridge! It's amazing. There's room for everything. And it's mostly empty right now. So, it's good that we upgraded.
So that's what's going on with me. What have you been up to lately? How's life? Did you go to the doctor for that thing?
In closing, I'd just like to say that there is nothing better on earth than Mexican hot chocolate (not a euphemism).
Talk to you soon (I hope).
Yours truly,
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Sunday GP appointments are unlikely to meet the needs of patients - according to a new report from the University of East Anglia.
New research on weekend GP opening published today in the British Journal of General Practice reveals the views of more than 800,000 patients.
The study found that four out of five people are happy with traditional GP opening times and that weekend appointments are wanted most by younger, working people.
It also finds that while Saturday appointments are preferable for those who find week-day appointments inconvenient, just 2 per cent would only be able to attend an appointment on a Sunday. This suggests that Saturday opening, but not Sunday, would meet most people's needs.
Lead researcher Dr John Ford, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said: "Weekend working in primary care is a flagship policy of the UK government. Their plan is that by 2020, people will have access to GPs seven days a week.
"Some argue that it will reduce pressure on hospitals, while others say that it is unaffordable and mismatched with what patients need.
"We wanted to identify who would benefit from the policy and the difference between Saturday and Sunday opening."
The research team from UEA and the University of Oxford used data from the national 2014 General Practice Patient Survey (GPPS). Surveys were sent to sample patients from all 8,011 practices in England, and more than 800,000 people responded.
Key findings:
- The majority of people (81 per cent) did not find traditional GP opening times inconvenient.
- 15 per cent said that weekend opening would make it easier for them to see a doctor. Of these, 74 per cent preferred Saturday opening, 35 per cent Sunday and 33 per cent Saturday or Sunday.
- Only 2 per cent would only be able to attend an appointment on a Sunday at the weekend.
- Younger people, those in full time work or those with certain long term conditions are more likely to use a weekend service.
- People with dementia, learning difficulties, problems with walking or dressing, or poor quality of life are less likely to want weekend opening.
Dr Ford said: "We found that most people do not think they need weekend opening - but it may benefit certain patient groups such as younger people in fulltime work, and with certain long-term conditions. We found that people with angina, diabetes, hypertension, long-term neurological problems, arthritis, back problems, asthma, kidney or liver disease and cancer are most likely to use a weekend service.
"Some weekend opening pilots have already begun to show that there is a lack of demand on Sundays, and our findings suggest that Sunday opening, in addition to Saturday, would be unlikely to improve access.
"Another key problem is that many practices do not currently have capacity to provide weekend opening in addition to weekday services. This means that a reduction in weekday services would be necessary - which could actually reduce access for patients who find it easier to see their GP during the traditional working week."
The research was led by the University of East Anglia, in collaboration with the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. It was funded by a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Doctoral Research Fellowship.
'Weekend Opening in Primary Care: Analysis of the General Practice Patient Survey' is published in the British Journal of general Practice on November 6.


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Two jolts in New Hampshire: It's McCain and Clinton.
MANCHESTER, N.H. (Boston Globe, Jan. 8)--Senator John McCain of Arizona delivered an electric jolt to the Republican presidential contest tonight by decisively capturing New Hampshire's presidential primary, and Democrat Hillary Clinton apparently revived her White House hopes with a narrow win.
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I Believe
I believe that sports build character. Through my personal experiences, sports have changed me in a way that is unexplainable to some one who has never belonged to a team. The traits that I have built through sports could not have been learned by any other experiences. Being on a team teaches you the importance of respect, the need for dedication, and the will for determination. Sports have sculpted me and made me a better person.
Respect is a must in everything you follow through with. Sports have taught me the importance of respect and what it really means to work with other people. In order to get respect you need to give it and with my attitude it wasn't exactly easy. The first time I met my first coach, he told us that we needed to hustle and I blew him off. I got yelled at and I began to yell back. When he saw that I had an attitude, he cut my spot on the team. As you can imagine, I was upset. Over the years, my dad had been my coach and I always had the spot on the team and I never worried about it. I had a problem with authority. I used to think it was either my way or the highway. The cut was a big reality check. I very quickly caught on to how important it was to have respect for my peers. It was hard to control my temper but I managed to deal with it through the adrenaline of the sport. This made me work ten times harder. This is why I am where I am today.
What is dedication? In my opinion, dedication is something you develop when you're doing something you love. For me, my dedication is softball. When I was younger, my dedication to softball was slim to none. As I progressed in softball, the amount of dedication I had, grew as I became more competitive. I also grew loyalty towards my team, which meant a stronger bond and we grew as a team. The first team that I actually felt apart of was the fire stixs. We went undefeated that year. The dedication we had for each other and the team is a bond that can never be broken.
Without determination, you can't have dedication. Without determination, I would never have pushed myself to be better. Respect then comes into play because of my attitude. This is when I felt the most serious because I pushed myself to achieve all I wanted. I was determined to endure the pain, the sweat, and the hustle for the love of the sport that soon became my life.
Sports have a process of changing a person but only for the better. I have experienced this through personal pain but also through enjoyment. The feeling of accomplishment is the best feeling that can be experienced through sports. I have followed through, and that I did for myself.
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Ubuntu Dapper Drake Flight CD3 has been released. I haven't received the email on ubuntu-devel yet, but the .iso files appear to be up (Ubuntu | Kubuntu). Improvements in this release include an updated installer CD boot splash, X11R7, GNOME 2.13.4, improved and simplified menus, new default desktop panel configuration, some new applications such as XChat-GNOME, a faster live CD, live CD persistence, and more. In addition to software improvements, Launchpad is now officially open for business for all bug tracking.
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Bioshock 2 to be Called Bioshock 2
There was a bit of an issue determining what 2K Games intended to name the upcoming sequel to Bioshock. Originally it was debuted as Bioshock 2: Sea of Dreams. Later the subtitle was removed and then added again. Are you confused yet? Well, now we know exactly what the title is called. Bioshock 2.
"We name most of our trailers at 2K and the name of the teaser trailer we released last October for BioShock 2 is called 'Sea of Dreams,' 2K spokesman Charlie Sinhaseni told IGN. "There was talk about adding that as an official subtitle, but we decided to simply keep it BioShock 2. We're sorry for the confusion, but we're glad people are so interested."
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This one caught my eye. It's an old question…where do you write?
I handwrite in the journal that lives beside my bed to capture dreams and bits of books and moments of spirit. But when writing it's on my laptop in some kind of reclined position — not good for my body but needed by my mind. No music, no kitchen clatter, and definitely no conversations; only silence, perhaps pierced from time to time with the raucous cries of gulls. And before this, comes miles of rambling and rumination in my forest by the sea and voices on the wind. Writing does not happen in one single time or space.
Over at Discover, editor Mike Dang asked five bloggers to describe and take photographs of their writing spaces. Read their responses.
When you write, are you typing at your desktop computer in your home office? Drafting a blog post on your phone, right in the WordPress app? Or are you like Deborah, below, creating your desk for the day at your favorite coffee shop?
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A great speech requires connection and a takeaway to be remembered.
Let's face it. For some, public speaking comes natural and for others it is their Achilles Heel.
I'm probably somewhere in the middle, which is why I am always looking to learn from the best and pick up a tip or two to get better. This is far from an exhaustive list of course, but it's a start when it comes to thinking about how to deliver a speech that will be remembered… for good reasons!
1. Tell Stories
Telling stories when giving a speech is probably the most common advice on the subject, but that's because it's so effective.
Think about some of the best public speakers that you've ever heard and chances are that he/she was likely a good storyteller. Good public speakers connect with the audience because they tell stories well.
They build up the story and then deliver that line(s) that you will remember long after they have left the stage.
Even the driest subjects can come to life when delivered by a good public speaker.
2. Opening is Key
There are scores of studies out there that say that the first few minutes are key for any public speaker.
If your opening is weak, the chances you'll lose the crowd increase exponentially. This has happened to me before which is why I always rehearse my opening over and over. I'm not very funny, but if you are, employ that skill when speaking in public.
There's hardly a better time to use humor when giving the speech then right off the gate.
You will immediately put your crowd at ease and increase the chances that they will listen all the way through.
3. Everyone is Entitled to an Opinion, but Not Their Facts
Make sure you do your homework and come prepared with facts.
Opinions are fine, but if you are prepared to make a case to the audience, it's absolutely critical that you back up your claims with reliable sources. Failing to do this runs the risk of undermining your credibility, which is something you never want to do when giving a speech.
If it helps, write down your sources on a piece of paper, or better yet have it memorized so that you can communicate this to your audience quickly so that you can go back to giving your speech.
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Tylar:Comes downstairs I'm loving this life! *flops back on the couch*
Me:What!? I should be saying that!
Tylar:Me and Wale talk now and he gave me and you Mindless Beahviors number
Me:*screams* MINDLESS BEHAVIOR!!
Tylar:*calls them on speaker*
Me:Umm...this is Carrie Chris Browns girlfriend I just wanted to say I love you guys you're so cute and I LOVE YOUUU
Boy:*laugh* Thanks
Roc:Wait! You the girl with the curves!?
Roc:And her fine friend T uh Tylar?!
Carrie&Tylar:*laughs* Yup!
Me:We gotta go call us tomorrow!
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Chris:Hey bae I just wanted to tell you I'm outside!
Me:Shit! Ok!! *hangs up*
I put on some ripped jean booty shorts with a bluish purplish sparkly shirt and my black and white Adidas!
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Chris:*turns on sweet love and starts driving*
Me:*laughs* I get it! Next song you gonna turn on is strip?
Strip comes on!
Chris&me:*bust out laughing*
We got to his house it was HUGE bigger than mine! WAY BIGGER! I loved it we went inside to this room it had on it labeled:SEX ROOM
Chris took his shirt off revealing his abs I couldn't help but stare! He signaled to me and I took my shirt off reavealing a flat chest! JK I had big ones everyone told me that! I ain't get no jobs done so don't say that!
Chris:*picks me up and kisses me*
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Chris:*starts taking off my pants*
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Chris:*comes back up and kisses me*
Me:*kisses back and adds tongue*
Chris:*adds his*
We had tongue wars and then he stopped looked at me and inserted me!
Me:*moans loudly*
Chris:Love you but *goes harder and deeper*
Me:*screams* This is 2012
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