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Taylor McCormick was outed after he was added to a Facebook group that automatically informed friends he had joined a choir, Queer Chorus, at the University of Texas, Austin.
AUSTIN, TexasBobbi Duncan desperately wanted her father not to know she is lesbian. Facebook told him anyway. One evening last fall, the president of the Queer Chorus, a choir group she had recently joined, inadvertently exposed Ms. Duncan's sexuality to her nearly 200 Facebook friends, including her father, by adding her to a Facebook Inc. discussion group. That night, Ms. Duncan's father left vitriolic messages on her phone,
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demanding she renounce same-sex relationships, she says, and threatening to sever family ties. The 22-year-old cried all night on a friend's couch. "I felt like someone had hit me in the stomach with a bat," she says.Three Years of WSJ Privacy InsightsThe Wall Street Journal is conducting a long-running investigation into the profound transformation of personal privacy in America. Selected findings: Suspicious spouses are taking investigations into their own hands as snooping technologies become cheaper and easier to use. Americans' license plates are now being tracked not only by the government, but also by repo men who hope to profit from the information. (10 -2-2012) Google bypassed the privacy settings on millions of Web browsers on Apple iPhones and computers tracking the online activities of people who intended that kind of monitoring to be blocked. (2/17/12) The government follows the movements of thousands of Americans a year by secretly monitoring their cellphone records . (9/9/11) iPhone and Android apps secretly shared data about their users, a Journal investigation found. (12/10/10) Top apps on Facebook transmit personal identifying details to tracking companies, a Journal investigation found. (10/18/10) One of the fastest growing online businesses is that of spying on Americans as they browse the Web. (6/30/10) Plus, the global surveillance bazaar , a secretive phone-tracking "stingray" and RapLeaf's clever way of figuring out Web surfers' real names . See full privacy coverage
Soon, she learned that another choir member, Taylor McCormick, had been outed the very same way, upsetting his world as well. The president of the chorus, a student organization at the University of Texas campus here, had added Ms. Duncan and Mr. McCormick to the choir's Facebook group. The president didn't know the software would automatically tell their Facebook friends that they were now members of the chorus. The two students were casualties of a privacy loophole on Facebookthe fact that anyone can be added to a group by a friend without their approval. As a result, the two lost control over their secrets, even though both were sophisticated users who had attempted to use Facebook's privacy settings to shield some of their activities from their parents. "Our hearts go out to these young people," says Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes. "Their unfortunate experience reminds us that we must continue our work to empower and educate users about our robust privacy controls."
In the era of social networks like Facebook and Google Inc.'s Google+, companies that catalog people's activities for a profit routinely share, store and broadcast everyday details of people's lives. This creates a challenge for individuals navigating the personal-data economy: how to keep anything private in an era when it is difficult to predict where your information will end up. Many people have been stung by accidentally revealing secrets online that
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Bobbi Duncan sings with the Queer Chorus at the University of Texas and was also inadvertently outed after joining the chorus's Facebook group.
were easier kept in the past. In Quebec, Canada, in 2009, Nathalie Blanchard lost her disability-insurance benefits for depression after she posted photos on Facebook showing her having fun at the beach and at a nightclub with male exotic dancers. After seeing the photos, her insurer, Manulife Financial, hired a private investigator and asked a doctor to re-evaluate her diagnosis, according to Ms. Blanchard's lawyer.
Ms. Blanchard didn't realize her photos were visible to the public, according to the lawyer, who added that depressed people often try to disguise their illness to family and friends. Ms. Blanchard sued to have her benefits reinstated. The matter was settled out of court. A Manulife spokeswoman declined to discuss the case, saying "we would not deny or terminate a valid claim solely based on information published on websites such as Facebook." Losing control online is more than a technology problemit's a sociological turning point. For much of human history, personal information spread slowly, person-toperson if at all.Boost Your PrivacyCheck your Facebook privacy controls with this guide.
The Facebook era, however, makes it possible to disclose private matters to wide populations, intentionally or not. Personal worlds that previously could be partitionedwork, family, friendships, matters of sexualitybecome harder to keep apart. One solution, staying off Facebook, has become harder to do as it reaches a billion people around the world.
Facebook is committed to the principle of one identity for its users. It has shut down accounts of people who use pseudonyms and multiple accounts, including those of dissidents and protesters in China and Egypt. The company says its commitment to "real names" makes the site safer for users. It is also at the core of the service they sell to advertisers, namely, access to the real you. Closeted gays and lesbians face particular challenges in controlling their images online, given that friends, family and enemies have the ability to expose them.
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In Austin, Ms. Duncan and Mr. McCormick, 21, deliberately tried to stay in the closet with their parents, even as they stepped out on campus. Ms. Duncan's parents homeschooled her and raised her in Newton, N.C., where the family attended a fundamentalist church. Now a linguistics student, she told her best friend in the summer of 2011 that she might be gay. As she struggled with her sexuality, she adjusted her Facebook privacy settings to hide any hint of it from her father, whom she had helped sign up for Facebook. "Once I had my Facebook settings set, I knewor thought I knewthere wasn't any problem," she says. Mr. McCormick, studying to become a pharmacist, came out in July 2011 to his mother in his hometown of Blanco, Texas, but not to his father, whom Mr. McCormick describes as a member of a conservative church that teaches homosexuality is sin. He set Facebook controls for what he calls a "privacy lockdown" on posts that his father, in San Antonio, could see. "We have the one big secret when we're young," he says. "I knew not everyone was going to be accepting." UT Austin was more accepting. As many university campuses have for years, it Referee Brian Stropolo wearing a Saints jacket and offered a safe space for young people to cap that he had posted on Facebook. 'I don't believe come out without parents knowing. Last you will see him back on the field,' an NFL spokesman says. fall, Ms. Duncan and Mr. McCormick attended the first rehearsal for the Queer Chorus, a group for gay, lesbian and transgender students and their allies. "This is a great place to find yourself as a queer person," says the chorus's thenpresident, Christopher Acosta. The group is known for renditions of pop songs in which it sometimes changes the gender of pronouns. Ms. Duncan agreed to play piano and sing alto. Mr. McCormick, who has a slight frame, surprised the chorus with his deep bass. At the rehearsal, on Sept. 8, Mr. Acosta asked if any members weren't on the chorus's Facebook group, where rehearsals would be planned. Mr. McCormick and Ms. Duncan said they weren't.When Joining a 'Group' Reveals Too MuchHow Facebook Shares Users' Memberships With Their Friends Online
That night, Mr. Acosta turned on his MacBook Pro and added the two new members to the chorus Facebook group. Facebook, then and now, offers three
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Someone creates a 'group' on Facebook around a shared interest or activity. If the group's creator sets it to be 'open,' other Facebook users can see its activities. The creator has the ability to add his or her Facebook friends to the group. Getting added generates a notice that can appear on their friends' Facebook pages alerting others to their membership. People added to a group this way have the option to leave, but are first added by default.
options for this sort of group: "secret" (membership and discussions hidden to nonmembers), "closed" (anybody can see the group and its members, but only members see posts), and "open" (membership and content both public). Mr. Acosta had chosen open. "I was so gung-ho about the chorus being
unashamedly loud and proud," he says. But there was a trade-off he says he didn't know about. When he added Ms. Duncan, which didn't require her prior online consent, Facebook posted a note to her all friends, including her father, telling them that she had joined the Queer Chorus. When Mr. Acosta pushed the button, Facebook allowed him to override the intent of the individual privacy settings Ms. Duncan and Mr. McCormick had used to hide posts from their fathers. Facebook's online help center explains that open groups, as well as closed groups, are visible to the public and will publish notification to users' friends. But Facebook doesn't allow users to approve before a friend adds them to a group, or to hide their addition from friends. After being contacted by The Wall Street Journal, Facebook adjusted the language in its online Help Center to explain situations, like the one that arose with Queer Chorus, in which friends can see that people have joined groups. Facebook also added a link to this new explanation directly from the screen where users create groups. "I was figuring out the rules by trial and error," says Mr. Acosta. A few hours later, Ms. Duncan's father began leaving her angry voice mails, according to Ms. Duncan and a friend who was present.
I remember I was miserable and said, Facebook decided to tell my dad that I was gay.Bobbi Duncan
"No no no no no no no," Ms. Duncan recalls telling a friend. "I have him hidden from my updates, but he saw this," she said. "He saw it." Ms. Duncan's father didn't respond to requests for comment for this article.
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Her father called repeatedly that night, she says, and when they spoke, he threatened to stop paying her car insurance. He told her to go on Facebook and renounce the chorus and gay lifestyles. On his Facebook page, he wrote two days later: "To all you queers. Go back to your holes and wait for GOD," according to text provided by Ms. Duncan. "Hell awaits you pervert. Good luck singing there." Ms. Duncan says she fell into depression for weeks. "I couldn't function," she says. "I would be in class and not hear a word anyone was saying." Mr. McCormick's mother phoned him the night his name joined the Queer Chorus group. "She said, 'Shas hit the fanYour dad has found out.' I asked how," Mr. McCormick recalled, "and she said it was all over Facebook." His father didn't talk to his son for three weeks, the younger Mr. McCormick says. "He just dropped off the face of my earth." Mr. McCormick's father declined to participate in this article. Privacy critics including the American Civil Liberties Union say Facebook has slowly shifted the defaults on its software to reveal more information about people to the public and to Facebook's corporate partners. "Users are often unaware of the extent to which their information is available," says Chris Conley, technology and civil-liberties attorney at the ACLU of Northern California. "And if sensitive info is released, it is often impossible to put the cat back in the bag." Facebook executives say that they have added increasingly more privacy controls, because that encourages people to share. "It is all about making it easier to share with exactly who you want and never be surprised about who sees something," said Chris Cox, Facebook's vice president of product, in an interview in August 2011 as the site unveiled new privacy controls. Facebook declined to make Mr. Cox available for this article. Still, privacy advocates say control loopholes remain where friends can disclose information about other users. Facebook users, for example, can't take down photos of them posted by others. A greater concern, they say, is that many people don't know how to use Facebook's privacy controls. A survey conducted in the spring of 2011 for the Pew Research Center found that U.S. social-network users were becoming more active in controlling their
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online identities by taking steps like deleting comments posted by others. Still, about half reported some difficulty in managing privacy controls. This past September, the National Football League pulled referee Brian Stropolo from a game between the New Orleans Saints and the Carolina Panthers after ESPN found a photo of Mr. Stropolo wearing a Saints jacket and cap that he had posted on Facebook.
It remains unclear whether the photo was intended to be public or private. An NFL spokesman said, "I don't believe you will see him back on the field." The NFL declined to make Mr. Stropolo available. Privacy researchers say that increasing privacy settings may actually produce what they call an "illusion of control" for social-network users. In a series of experiments in 2010, Carnegie Mellon University Associate Professor Alessandro Acquisti found that offering people more privacy settings generated "some form of overconfidence that, paradoxically, makes people overshare more," he says. Allison Palmer, vice president of campaigns and programs at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, says her organization is helping Facebook to develop resources for gay users to help them understand how best to maintain safety and privacy on the site. "Facebook is one of the few tech companies to make this a priority," she says. Mr. Acosta, the choir president, says he should have been sensitive to the risk of online outings. His parents learned he was gay when, in high school, he sent an email saying so that accidentally landed in his father's in-box. Today, he says, his parents accept his sexuality. So before creating his Facebook group, he didn't think about the likelihood of less-accepting parents on Facebook. "I didn't put myself in that mind-set," he says. "I do take some responsibility." Some young gay people do, in fact, choose Facebook as a forum for their official comings-out, when they change their Facebook settings to publicly say, "Interested In: Men" or "Interested In: Women." For many young Americans, sexuality can be confidential but no longer a shameful subject. Sites like Facebook give them an opportunity to claim their sexuality and find community.
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For gays, social media "offers both resources and risks," says C.J. Pascoe, a Colorado College sociology professor who studies the role of new media in teen sexuality. "In a physical space, you can be in charge of the audiences around you. But in an online space, you have to be prepared for the reality that, at any given moment, they could converge without your control." Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has long posited that the capability to share information will change how we groom our identities. "The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly," he said in an interview for David Kirkpatrick's 2010 book, "The Facebook Effect." Facebook users have "one identity," he said. Facebook declined to make Mr. Zuckerberg available. Days after their outings, Ms. Duncan and Mr. McCormick met at the campus genderand-sexuality center, which provides counseling. On a couch, they swapped tales. "I remember I was miserable and said, 'Facebook decided to tell my dad that I was gay,' " she says. "He looked at me and said, 'Oh really, you too?'" Mr. McCormick's mother, Monica McCormick, meanwhile, was worried how the Facebook disclosure might affect her business selling insurance. "Every kid in this town now knows," she says. "I am sure that I have lost clients, but they are not going to tell you why. That is living in a small town." Mr. McCormick and his father eventually talked about his sexuality over an awkward lunch at a burger joint and haven't discussed it much since. But Mr. McCormick feels more open and proud about his sexuality. He changed his Facebook profile to "Interested In: Men." After Ms. Duncan's Sept. 8 outing, she went through long periods of not speaking with her father. For a while, Ms. Duncan's mother moved into her daughter's apartment with her. "I wanted to be with her," says her mother, who is also named Bobbi. "This was something that I thought her father had crossed the line over, and I could not agree with him." Speaking of Mr. Duncan, she says: "The big deal for him was that it was posted and that all his friends and all his family saw it." The younger Ms. Duncan says she tried to build bridges with her father around the year-end holidays. But the arguments persisted. "I finally realized I don't need this problem in my life anymore," she says. "I don't think he is evil, he is just incredibly misguided."
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She stopped returning her dad's calls in May. She and Mr. McCormick remain in the chorus. Mr. Acosta changed the Facebook group to "secret" and the chorus established online-privacy guidelines. Today, Ms. Duncan has her first girlfriend. "I am in a really good place," she says, but wouldn't want anybody to have her experience. "I blame Facebook," she says. "It shouldn't be somebody else's choice what people see of me." Write to Geoffrey A. Fowler at email@example.com ReadingA Spy-Gear Arms Race Transforms Modern Divorce New Tracking Frontier: Your License Plate Three Facebook Privacy Loopholes
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WASHINGTON—The Justice Department has filed sealed criminal charges against a number of suspects in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, according to people familiar with the matter.
One of those charged, according to these people, is Ahmed Abu Khattalah, founder of Libya's Islamist militia Ansar al-Sharia. Mr. Abu Khattalah was seen at the compound when it was overrun, according to intelligence officials. In interviews with reporters, Mr. Abu Khattalah...

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I have been crazy busy...I have painted, packed, moved, cleaned and unpacked a four bedroom home on my own! I feel exhausted, but the end is almost near. It is SO much better to move out in one day apposed to taking one month! We haven't had the best of dinners lately but I did manage to make this yummy summer tomato and zucchini linguine with fresh basil, accompanied with a vegan cheese toast :)
I think this has been the best summer in record (or at least a very long time) for Nova Scotia. I have spent quite a lot of time at the beach, when I am feeling stressed out I pack up the kids and walk down the street. Last night I went for a dip in the sea. It was so warm.


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FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky is the Bluegrass State, but by the time Mitch McConnell is done with his reelection campaign, it may be better known for scorched earth.
The top Senate Republican is preparing to wage a ruthless campaign to hang on to his job. He's already on the air with nearly $200,000 in TV and radio ads, is assembling streams of data to target voters with tailor-made messages, and has quietly moved to lock down support from virtually every state GOP legislator. He says he'll use "every penny" of a war chest certain to exceed the $21 million he spent in 2008.
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He may have already scared away one contender: Ashley Judd, who Wednesday decided to forgo a bid for the Democratic nomination.
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McConnell's strategy is similar to recent efforts by Senate stalwarts Majority Leader Harry Reid and John McCain, who each won reelection with big fundraising numbers to discourage possible opponents and constant attack ads to discredit those who do run.
The bull's-eye on McConnell's back has never been larger — tea party foes are unhappy with some of his compromises over his three-decade career, and Democrats see both a prime pick-up opportunity and a chance to knock off the opposition GOP leader. But neither have recruited a challenger yet, and McConnell isn't waiting for his opponents to field one.
"My view is if you're going to be a bigger target, you're going to adopt different tactics," McConnell told POLITICO in a wide-ranging interview this week before Judd dropped out. "I think we've made it pretty clear … that we intend to be very aggressive from Day One. And we are. And that involves not ignoring any potential opponent."
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The focus now shifts to Alison Lundergan Grimes, the 34-year-old Kentucky secretary of state. If Grimes doesn't run, which is quite possible, Democrats could be without a top-tier candidate to take on the GOP leader.
With GOP primaries threatening entrenched incumbents all over the country, the 71-year-old McConnell has worked aggressively to win over major players in the tea party movement through aggressive outreach, fundraising and efforts to help them politically.
He's also trying to walk a tightrope by embracing policies that appeal to the GOP base — like repealing Obamacare — but also touting his efforts to cut bipartisan deals that could appeal to middle-of-the-road voters.
( Also on POLITICO: Prominent Democrats wooing Alison Lundergan Grimes)
McConnell said he's considering backing a gun control bill being quietly drafted by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that would serve as a Republican alternative during next month's floor debate on Democratic legislation that would expand background checks on firearm purchasers. But he said he'd oppose a more sweeping gun-control measure proposed by Reid.
On spending, McConnell used to hype the pet projects he brought home as a sign of his clout in Washington. But now that earmarks have been eliminated and the conservative base rails against the deficit and new spending, he provides the red meat by attacking President Barack Obama and the Democratic budget plans.
But in the next breath, McConnell promotes his central role in drafting three controversial bipartisan deals with the White House: the year-end tax accord in 2010; the 2011 Budget Control Act; and the 2013 New Year's Day law to avert the fiscal cliff.


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I saw this today and simply thought, as Eagles fans, we all hated Strahan. As we all know, McNabb had quite a few detractors when he played for the Eagles, but now he is on the Redskins, and plainly put, now the enemy. So this ad is put together by Dr. Pepper and I have to wonder, how do Eagles fans feel about it?
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Every year when we go to Sunset Beach we have a tradition of walking down to the ice cream shop to get ice cream after dinner. We don't go every night, but usually every other. The ice cream shop is part of Julie's Rentals. Julie's serves Hershey's Ice Cream.
The kids love the anticipation of walking down, choosing their flavor & then taking their first lick of their ice cream.
The adults love the fact that the walk to & from the ice cream store helps keep some of that ice cream off of their hips. 😉
Is it less expensive to buy ice cream & just serve everyone at home? Yes. However, then you lose out on the exercise, the bonding, the choice of flavor & creating memories & traditions. Not worth it in my book. 😉
And now, I present, my new found love, Coconut Almond Chocolate Chip Ice Cream:
This is probably my new favorite flavor. Of course, there is the peach yogurt that has huge chunks of peaches in it, but they are out of that right now. 😦 They saved the last scoop for this little old man that was leaving the beach. I can't fault them for that. Another excellent choice is the cappuccino crunch (it has big chunks of Heath Bar!). Then there are a dozen or so other flavors….rainbow sherbet, White house cherry, moose tracks, chocolate moose tracks, superman, cotton candy, vanilla, chocolate, chocolate chip, coconut, orange cream, mint chocolate chip, butter pecan.
The last & final (and probably most important) fact about the ice cream at Julie's Rentals is the fact that they "get" gluten-free. The sweet girls that work there see us walk in & grab the scoops & walk to the sink to wash them for us. The ice cream is gluten-free (except for the obvious no-nos….anything with cookies or brownies or graham crackers in it). You really can't beat this place or this tradition. I look forward to it every year.
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•The white box uCPE
•Virtualization and uCPE management
•Open architecture, modular SD-WAN for reducing cost and enhancing flexibility
•SD-WAN and firewall applications in service chains
•Managing and integrating multi-vendor solutions
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Enhancing Subscriber QoE with Network Policy Automation and Machine Learning
Oct 29 2019
44 mins
Kamakshi Sridhar, PhD & Nicolas St-Pierre from Sandvine
Learn how Sandvine leverages network policy automation and machine learning to enhance subscriber QoE (Quality of Experience) via dynamic bandwidth allocation across service categories, in near-real time, by analyzing operator-expressed 'intent'.
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Connecting Vehicle to Everything - C-V2X: Stepping Stone Tech for Future Cities
Oct 24 2019
53 mins
Mamtha Singam: Architect C-V2X & Anurag Agarwal: Solution Architect, CoE Wireless Technologies at TATA Consultancy Services
For a smart city, sensors based technologies like Internet of Things and communication technologies like 4G/5G and/or 802.11p help connect infrastructure and manage them remotely. To make a true smart city, vehicles has to be connected with other vehicles and infrastructure. V2X promises direct communications between vehicles and infrastructure as well as other road units/users exchanging the in-vehicle sensor data with surrounding. This webinar will talk about TCS's Cellular V2X reference framework built on Intel's x86 architecture which can be integrated with thirdparty ADAS system and helps create and end-to-end ecosystem for connected vehicles. It will also cover comparison study of CV2X and 802.11p and how this technology can be a stepping stone towards future connected and/or autonomous vehicles and smart cities.
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Critical NFVI Performance - KPIs to Validate
Oct 3 2019
54 mins
Thomas Lindquist CTO of VoerEir
VoerEir focus on helping operators be successful with their NFV transformation. A cornerstone in our strategy is our list of NFVI performance-KPIs, which determine the performance of VNFs deployed on top of a specific NFVI. There are two prime use cases of these KPIs; First, for a VNF vendor to be able to commit to a performance SLA, the vendor must know the characteristics of the infrastructure on which his VNF shall be deployed. Second, if a VNF does not fulfill his performance SLAs, the operator must be able to sort out where the responsibility lays, on the VNF or the NFVI vendor. The tricky part is to find the KPIs which are essential for different types of VNFs' performance. This webinar describes VoerEir's way of reasoning when creating the list of performance-KPIs and gives examples of detailed definitions for different kinds of KPIs. It also talks about how VoerEir is working with this in industry forums, and how our test system Touchstone can is used to perform VoerEir's NFVI evaluation service.
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Delivering Network-as-a-Service and Hybrid Cloud Visibility with Cloud-First
Sep 26 2019
60 mins
Prashant Gandhi, VP and CPO, Big Switch Networks Bala Ramachandran, Sr. Dir. of Product Mgmt, Big Switch Networks
In this webinar you will learn about how a fully automated switch fabric built ground-up leveraging cloud design principles enables VPC/VNET constructs on-prem to deliver cloud-style network-as-a-service operational model. Big Switch's Big Cloud Fabric automates networking for multiple private cloud platforms, enabling the network to operate at the speed of VMs and Containers. With built in analytics and telemetry, BCF provides real-time contextual visibility across the fabric as well as one-click troubleshooting workflows. NetOps, DevOps and CloudOps. You will also learn about how Big Switch's Big Monitoring Fabric enables pervasive and consistent visibility for security and application performance monitoring across on-prem data centers and public cloud deployments. In addition, we will look into how Big Switch's Multi-Cloud Director offers a single dashboard enabling global management and policy control across multiple enterprise and public cloud deployments of Big Cloud Fabric and Big Monitoring Fabric to provide a simplified and consistent hybrid cloud management experience.
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Reimagining Service Assurance
Sep 24 2019
52 mins
Mats Nordlund, CEO, Co-founder & Jonas Krogell, CTO at Netrounds
In order to stay competitive and profitable, Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are embracing software, virtualization and automation to streamline their businesses. In order to ensure customer satisfaction through this transition, there is an increased focus on service assurance. Emerging use cases require new capabilities of service assurance platforms, so that CSPs are able to:
- Automatically test that services have been properly activated.
- Augment network automation with real-time feedback from real-time active service assurance
- Efficiently monitor business-critical services such as SD-WAN and 5G network slices to ensure that Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are met
- Gain a real-time understanding of the service levels experienced by customers.
- Efficiently troubleshoot service chains established over complex, multi-layered, multi-domain networks, composed of physical and ritualized network functions.
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Mobile Network Performance Problems Are About to Get Worse: Now What?
Sep 10 2019
36 mins
Diego Lozano de Fournas, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager, Spirent and Ram Garapaty, Sr. Product Manager, Spirent
Major outages and service disruptions in mobile networks are already too common. Whether it's a multi-million dollar fine for a public safety outage, viral news coverage of poor performance at a major sporting event or lost revenue due to a national network outage – the consequences of major network performance issues are severe. Today's approach to managing performance simply isn't working and guess what? 5G is going to make it much more challenging. We need a new approach to validating and assuring performance. A unified approach that helps engineering and operations teams work together more effectively to proactively avoid and rapidly resolve issues.
During this webinar, Intel® Network Builders partner Spirent will cover the following topics:
•Today's network performance challenge and the implications of 5G
•How to head off issues with performance validation in the lab
•The limitations of traditional passive monitoring approaches for assuring 5G performance
•Techniques for proactive detection and fast isolation of performance issues that complement passive monitoring weaknesses
•How a unified approach to validation and assurance helps engineering and operations to work together to improve performance and save millions/yr
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Building a Better vRAN with Open Source Infrastructure
Sep 5 2019
55 mins
Paul Miller, VP Telecom Market Segment, Wind River and Bejoy Pankajakshan, EVP CSO, Mavenir
In this web seminar we will focus on the software infrastructure that provides the foundation for success in vRAN and the open source communities ready to help.
We will discuss:
•Specific requirements for successful vRAN deployments
•Some of the key technology drivers and trends such as containers, cloud native and VMs
•Real Time operating system extensions unique to the vRAN
•Some of the open source communities, consortia, and projects that are shaping the future of vRAN like Kubernetes, O-RAN, TIP, FlexRAN
•The unique attributes of the OpenStack StarlingX project and Yocto Linux, and why these open source projects are uniquely designed for success at the network edge
•MEC, vRAN, and the open source network edge projects
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2nd Gen. SD-WAN – open & flexible infrastructure for the enterprise network
Sep 3 2019
55 mins
Andreas Wallberg and Tomas Hedqvist, ENEA
This webinar will cover:
•First generation (grey box) vs second generation (uCPE white box) SD-WAN
•The enterprise uCPE/SD-WAN use case
•Key considerations for SD-WAN
•Migrating to a second generation SD-WAN
•Multivendor uCPE/SD-WAN integration project
•How provisioning is made effortless
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Kick Starting Virtualization with Mettle 2vBNG
Aug 29 2019
59 mins
Rajkumar Sukumaran, Head of Technology, Mettle Networks and Abraham K. Jacob, Vice President, IP Networking Products
Mettle 2vBNG: Intel based high performance virtual BNG from Mettle Networks. Mettle 2vBNG has a forwarding looking architecture with centralized control plane. This is a quick to setup, easy to integrate, micro services based design that run on Intel CPU.
This webinar will cover the following:
•Why Mettle 2vBNG is a good starting point towards building a virtualized infrastructure.
•How it can coexist with legacy appliances to start with.
•Roadmap and future position of Mettle 2vBNG in the ONF SEBA architecture.
•How it can help moving towards a fully virtualized, cloud-native architecture.
•Common deployment usecases will be discussed.
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PREMIER uCPE Solutions
Aug 27 2019
41 mins
Mike Neff, AVP Virtualized Solutions & Biz Dev., KGPCo and Pate Prayson CTO of Edge Cloud at ADVA
While service providers understand the benefits of virtualized products and services, few have experienced it. It is clear to them that they must evolve their network rather than continue the status quo. As the effort to transform legacy network services increases, service providers will seek the most efficient and cost-effective means in which to do so. KGPCo will be the catalyst for such an evolution.
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Micro Detail. Macro Intelligence.
Aug 20 2019
36 mins
Tom Foottit, Senior Director, Product Management, Accedian
Why granular, high quality data is critical for optimal end-user experience in the 5G era.
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The Evolution of Open Network Switch Designs by Edgecore Networks
Aug 13 2019
36 mins
Matt Roman, VP of Marketing and Product Management, Edgecore Networks
New innovations are occurring in Open Networking switch design to support next generation cloud first architectures and the coming rollout of 5G mobile networks. The status quo of closed proprietary vendor designs is quickly being replaced with open devices that include high performance packet processors as well as powerful multicore CPU systems that not only support the switch Network Operating System but also support containerized value-added functions such as application analytics, network telemetry and packet shaping. This webinar will provide insights into the evolution of data center switches, core routers, mobile backhaul and FTTX network devices.
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The Intel® Network Builders webinar program is a recurring webcast series in which ecosystem members and Intel technology experts delve into the technologies, topics, and issues facing the networking industry. Presenters delve into the network transformation taking place through the adoption of software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) across telecommunication and enterprise organizations.
Intel Network Builders also offers a comprehensive NFV and SDN training program through the Intel Network Builders University, which offers a broad collection of online content for technical professionals in the network industry. Learn more at http://networkbuilders.intel.com/university.
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Ask Eartha: How does our solar garden grow?
Dear Eartha,
Are the community solar panels going in this year after all? What's the word?
Amanda, Breckenridge
Ode to our solar gardens. We can't wait to see these community solar assets up and running and interconnected to the grid. Soon these clean-energy producing panels will be fully operational! Clean Energy Collective reports that they are scheduled to go in in July and definitely by the end of the year. Both 500 kW arrays are still moving through Town of Breckenridge approval processes. The Stilson Property – by the Xcel sub-station and located near the stables east of Breckenridge – has been approved for a land use permit and is now in building review. The McCain Property (north of Coyne Valley Road) is in the process of land-use review. Our project developer Clean Energy Collective expects both arrays will be completed and interconnected in July.
Now about pricing. Clean Energy Collective reports it will begin contacting people who have made reservations next week, if it hasn't already, and will provide detailed proposals for all interested subscribers. Customers will be able to secure their reservation with a 10 percent fully-refundable deposit. The balance of their purchase price will be due once the systems are interconnected and producing power.
We finally have some numbers to share. According to the Clean Energy Collective, pricing is set at $3.70 per watt, for both systems. The same price applies to both residential and commercial customers.
What's new here? Customers will receive both an on-bill credit and a Renewable Energy Certificate Payment (REC). We had previously thought the REC credit might not pass through to the customer, but it does, speeding up the payback, though the initial cost is slightly higher.
Residential subscribers will receive an on-bill credit equal to $.07082/kWh for every hour produced by their share of the solar garden. Residential subscribers will also receive a payment of $.08/kWh for every hour produced by their share of the solar garden. The REC payment will continue for 20 years, twice as long as a typical residential system, which ends after 10 years.
Residential customers that purchase the minimum, 1kW, can expect to pay $3,700 for the system and will have first year savings of approximately $260. Those savings will increase as Xcel increases their tariffed usage rate for electric service. In the first 20 years, a 1kW subscriber can expect to save approximately $6,000.
Commercial customers can expect similar savings, or more. Commercial credit rates are established by customer under the Xcel Solar Rewards Community program, and some customers with high demand charges and low usage charges will receive significantly higher credit rates. Clean Energy Collective's solar specialists can help businesses determine their actual credit rate under the program. Under some quotes provided we have seen credit rates as high as $.11/kWh. Commercial customers will also receive the REC payment of $.08/kWh for the full 20 year period. Recall that shares are transferable to any meter in the county.
Eartha especially likes the financing options available. After all, many people just want to pay for energy as if they were paying their utility bill. Financing allows this to happen, but it is an ownership model, which is pretty cool.
High Country Conservation Center and other partners like the Town of Breckenridge and Summit County Government and Innovative Energy have put in a lot of time and effort to get this project off the ground. We can't wait to see the successful outcome. Want to sign up or get your pricing info? Contact Clean Energy Collective: http://www.easycleanenergy/xcelsummit
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Some extreme fans make a life ambition out of visiting every NFL stadium or Major League Baseball park. Me? I'm just extremely tired after a Colorado-Colorado State spring scrimmage doubleheader.
When CU beat writer Tom Kensler was drafted to cover the Frozen Four, I doubled up my usual Saturday scrimmage dose with the Frozen Two. It's logistically possible only when one lives five minutes from Folsom Field, CU has a 10 a.m. practice and CSU slates a 1 p.m. session with the scrimmaging starting after 2 p.m.
First I arrived at Folsom, greeted by a nice man who gave out rosters and cookies to a collection of shivering sports writers. For nearly two hours the Buffs ran a fast paced scrimmage for a few hundred onlookers.
The key to the day was a 15-minute pit stop back home to walk the dog, feed the cat, nuke a bowl of soup (the extent of my culinary ability), grab another jacket and ditch the '95 Civic for the new SUV with the heated seats.
I arrived at Hughes Stadium after the scrimmage started. None of CU's endless supply of receivers but there was no shortage of capable running backs.
Both defenses had their moments.
CSU opened a few concession stands but the howling wind kept all but a hundred or so diehard fans from the stadium.
If there was one common link (besides the blustery cold) between the bitter rivals, it's that "tempo" must be the new football buzzword for this year. CU players talked about picking up the tempo and running plays faster. CSU coaches have talked all spring about pushing the tempo in practice.
Maybe someone should install a giant metronome at Invesco Field when the teams meet Aug. 30 and keep score by which side plays with the fastest tempo.
Then came time to rush home, write two stories and pray to the gods of overworked sports writers not to write about any CU Rams or CSU Buffs.
It was a good day. No parking tickets at CU. No speeding tickets to Fort Collins or back.
And now I can dare all the netbuffs.com and ramnation.com contributors to whine that the other school gets better pub.
Some extreme fans make a life ambition out of visiting every NFL stadium or Major League Baseball park. Me? I'm just extremely tired after a Colorado-Colorado State spring scrimmage doubleheader.


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bringing 2 U events & happenings in and around Ipoh … & beyond…
Ideally located on 28 acres of award-winning landscaped garden in the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) and adjacent to the Federal Administrative Centre of Putrajaya, is Cyberview Resort & Spa. Used to be known as Cyberview Lodge, then Cyberview Lodge & Spa, the new Cyberview Resort & Spa brand was introduced in 2015. Built as the first and ... continue reading »
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) has a fairly new attraction, and it is in the form of an Edu-Park, to ride on the edu-tourism trend that is growing quickly around the world. With the motto "Play, Learn & Stay Young", experiential learning begins here and now. UPM's Edu-Park has specially crafted an edu-tourism programme, and it encompasses ... continue reading »
A project under Putrajaya Corporation (PPj), the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI) and Putrajaya Community Cooperative (KKPPB), Putrajaya Urban Farming took off around Year 2008. Although residents have cultivated idle land for years, with a structured programme, they are now able to achieve various objectives as a community, quickly and smoothly. These objectives include food ... continue reading »
Since opening for business on 1st April, 2017, Putrajaya FoodTrucks Hotspot, which is located near Dorsett Putrajaya, has seen a steady stream of customers. It is a pleasure for those buying dinner and those who seek a place to just lepak over a drink. After all, most of Putrajaya is "closed" after office hours. The Road ... continue reading »
Container living is getting more popular among tourists because it offers a different kind of experience and ambience. Although it is not a new concept, when I had the chance to try NafasCube @ Mardi for one night, I was elated. While one container is not much different from the other, NafasCube @ Mardi is in ... continue reading »
Even though I have visited Putrajaya numerous times and have covered many of its attractions over the years, somehow, Taman Warisan Pertanian (Agricultural Heritage Park) has escaped me. Being a delegate of Road to Agro Tourism 3rd Series gave me access to the local attraction, for which I am appreciative. Located in the southern part of ... continue reading »
I have always wanted to explore Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang (MAEPS) after my trip there for a Big Bad Wolf Sale many years ago. However, I did not have the opportunity until I was a member of the delegation of Road to Agro Tourism #3 hosted by Malaysia Tourism Council (MTC). I am sure ... continue reading »


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OMG it is so wonderful to see everyone with happy and healthy babies. I am so far behind but just wanted to say hi and congrats to those who have delivered since I was last on. Sammy is doing great!! Here is a recent pic, he has such a personality it is too funny!
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BALTIMORE | For Myra James, the process of going to the gynecologist is now too much to bear.
Since she found out her practitioner of 20 years, Dr. Nikita Levy, had been using tiny cameras to secretly record his patients' genitals, she said, "I can't bring myself to go back."
Levy, 54, had worked at the East Baltimore Medical Center, a Johns Hopkins community clinic, for 25 years before he was fired in February of 2013 after admitting to the misconduct and surrendering his devices to authorities.
A search of his home revealed 1,200 videos, and hundreds of images, according to authorities. Levy committed suicide 10 days after his firing.
On Monday, Johns Hopkins Hospital agreed to a $190 million settlement with about 8,000 former patients of Levy's who contacted lawyers after Levy's conduct was made public last year.
James, like all 12,600 of Levy's former patients, does not know if she is among those who were recorded — faces of patients are not visible in the images, lawyers said, rendering it impossible to identify their subjects — but she said her faith and trust has been irreparably eroded by the possibility.
"You're lying there, exposed. It's violating and it's horrible, and my trust is gone. Period," she said.
The Associated Press normally does not identify possible victims of sex crimes, but James, 67, agreed to the use of her name.
The settlement all but closes a case attorneys for both Johns Hopkins and Levy's former patients say traumatized thousands of women who, according to the women's lead attorney, Jonathan Schochor, are still — a year and a half later — "extraordinarily upset."
"They are in fear, dismayed, angry, and anxious over a breach of faith, a breach of trust, a betrayal on the part of the medical system," Schochor said during a news conference Monday. "Many of our clients still feel betrayed, and still feel the breach of trust they have experienced, and they have fallen out of the medical system."
The preliminary settlement is one of the largest on record in the U.S. involving sexual misconduct by a physician.
Hopkins said insurance will cover the settlement, which "properly balances the concerns of thousands of plaintiffs with obligations the Health System has to provide ongoing and superior care to the community."
Hopkins' attorney Donald DeVreis on Monday said the hospital was unaware of Levy's "horrible conduct," and that he had become a "rogue employee" when he began recording his patients.
Levy graduated from the Weill Cornell Medical College in Manhattan, and completed his internship and residency at Kings County Hospital Center. He began working at Hopkins in 1988, and was working at Hopkins East Baltimore Medical Center at the end. He saw roughly 12,600 patients during his years at Hopkins.
"He was cold, and I was kind of scared of him," James said. "His bedside manner — he didn't have any. But all my doctors were at Hopkins. I've had two surgeries there, my primary doctor is there. I was used to going there for everything."
Some women told of being inappropriately touched and verbally abused by Levy, according to Schochor. Some said they were regularly summoned to Levy's office for unnecessary pelvic exams.
"Did he take pictures of me? There's no way of knowing," said another former patient whose two children were delivered by Levy. "I felt violated, because I don't know if for sure if he had pictures of me, or who has seen them."
His suicide — by wrapping his head in a plastic bag with a hose connected to a helium tank — frustrated everyone who wanted to know his motives and see him face justice.
Once alerted to Levy's conduct, hospital authorities quickly notified Baltimore police and escorted Levy off campus. Police and federal investigators later said they found no evidence he shared the material with others. Schochor said all the images will be destroyed by court order.
"It is our hope that this settlement — and findings by law enforcement that images were not shared — helps those affected achieve a measure of closure," DeVreis said.
The settlement involves eight law firms and is subject to final approval by Judge Sylvester B. Cox after a "fairness hearing" where the women can speak. Each plaintiff was interviewed by a forensic psychologist and a post-traumatic-stress specialist to determine how much trauma she suffered and how much money she will receive.
Hopkins sent out letters to Levy's entire patient list last year, apologizing to the women and urging them to seek care with other Hopkins specialists.
"Hopkins had no idea or inkling," DeVreis said. "This conduct, we agree, was not just inappropriate but outrageous, and it was a breach of trust. At this point we're doing our best to work with the former patients to achieve a measure of closure for the patients and the Hopkins community."
But for some of Levy's patients, the settlement provides little solace.
"It doesn't make me feel better," said the former patient. "I don't think any amount of money can replace feeling violated like that."


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Hey Summoners,
Welcome to patch 4.9! We've got bug changes, moustache trims, and... jungle landscaping (I'll stop), but first a foreword!
For anyone who hasn't seen them, we recently put out our League of Legends Design Values so you can get a better understanding of why we make the changes we make. See a change that doesn't line up with any of our philosophies? Let's have a conversation about it!
As for the patch itself, our biggest change is definitely for Kha'Zix, who's been a difficult bug to balance for some time. You can read below for our full context, but Kha'Zix's big issue has always been his overloaded role identity as both a fighter and assassin. When a champion has the ability to start and end a team fight all on their own, that makes for pretty low teamplay and low counterplay (look at those direct references to design values!). Once again, read below for deeper context!
Outside of gameplay changes, check out the addition of team rewards (UPGRADING WARD SKIN!?) as we continue to reward players for participating in jolly (competitive) cooperation.
And that's all for this foreword! Be sure to check out more of our changes and updates below!
Chris "Pwyff" Tom
Karthus has received a Visual Update and is ready to reap the living in style. Check out the full details here!
We padded Braum's punches, Q does less damage at all ranks, and W gives less defensive stats (also scales less).
It's tough to pinpoint the strength of a new champion while also accounting for how quickly players adapt, and Braum was picked up very quickly as a strong lane bully with his combined high damage and defensive power. When we want to reduce power in a champion, we first look to trim 'hidden' strengths that aren't really appreciated in their core playstyle, like Braum's W, which was giving a pile of free defensive stats to both himself and his protected target. That said, Braum's offensive strengths are also very high for a protective champion, so we also decided to trim back that 'stache.
We reverted the W damage buff and base movement speed buffs to Kassadin from patch 4.6.
Following up on our champion update, we've been keeping track of Kassadin as he continues to become a more and more dominant force. We think we released Kassadin in a good state but then gave him a little too much strength as we saw folks struggling with the new kit. After our buffs, however, we saw a lot of players learning to play the updated Kass (and well), so we're peeling back the layers we added to get him back to a correct power level.
Q does less damage and less isolation damage. Evolved Q no longer deals bonus damage on missing health, but deals more overall damage to isolated targets. W deals bonus damage to monsters. Evolved W now slows enemies by 50% and grants sight of their location to Kha'Zix. Evolved R no longer grants damage reduction (but keeps his increased stealth duration and additional stealth charge).
Up to now, most of our changes failed to give Kha'Zix meaningful weaknesses for an assassin because evolved R's damage reduction was letting Kha'Zix force fight initiations whenever it was up while his high base Q damage was letting him take out squishy targets even when they were actively trying to prevent isolation. As an assassin, Kha'Zix should be an opportunistic killer who needs to find isolated targets to munch on while the rest of his team jumps into the mosh pit of the team fight. What Kha'Zix shouldn't be able to do, however, is directly engage a full team fight with the expectation to live while also taking out high priority targets without isolation.
With that said, our philosophy behind these changes is aimed at reducing some of Kha'Zix's many strengths while refining his core identity as an assassin. First, we pushed more power to his evolutions so that he'll have to think more about the choices he makes in life (or the game). Kha'Zix's base Q is lower compared to live, but his evolved Q is guaranteed to deal more damage to isolated targets in the mid to late game. The added power to W and its evolution was to give Kha'Zix more fallback strengths when evolving W. It's also worth pointing out that while evolved R took a significant power hit with the loss of its damage reduction, it's still offering a lot of extra mobility for Kha'Zix in a fight (doubling his stealth duration while also adding an extra charge).
We'll be watching how these changes pan out, but we're hoping to see more opportunistic Kha'Zixes (Kha'Zixi? Kha'Zii?) who seek out isolated meals in team fights but can't just jump in to scrap with the frontline while also having the mobility and explosive damage to take out the backline.
When we made the Pantheon changes back in patch 4.7, we also introduced a bug where Pantheon could be hit by area-effect spells before he physically landed on the screen. Ultimately we made a fix that leaned more in Panth's favor, where he can 'pop' all projectiles as he jumps off screen (so that pesky Sion stun won't follow him through the sky) and remains untargetable until he physically lands. In terms of other tweaks to Grand Skyfall, we've been keeping a close eye on how Pantheon's performance has been affected by the 4.7 changes, but he's remained pretty strong in both top lane and the jungle. We're going to keep watching for now!
We're very aware of Rengar's champion-eating capabilities (unlike the poor squishy targets he's surprising), but we're going to be watching how these changes / bug fixes affect the kitty before we take any larger action.
Rumble had a few strange bugs that were causing his Flamespitter to deal less damage.
In our zeal to reduce solo lane Soraka's obnoxiousness, we kicked her a little too hard in the shins. These changes may not get her up to par, but we're committed to supporting her beyond these buffs.
Volibuff. Buffibear? Bam, context.
As we continue to keep a close eye on the jungle, we noticed that jungle monster experience rewards were going up with the average level of the map while lane minion experience didn't. On deeper analysis, we saw this inconsistency was amplifying snowballing in the game: if a jungler's team continues to pull ahead (either through ganks or just #winning), the jungler could continuously clear their monsters for additional bonus experience. Ultimately that meant the jungler of a successful team would come out disproportionately stronger than even the rest of his or her team for contributing the same amount of work. While we want to give specific junglers the gold income and capability to 'carry' their team in the mid to end game, a jungler's overall rewards are currently being amplified beyond the four other players who have had their own set of challenges to overcome. All roles should contribute to the outcome of a game, and we're committed to ensuring a jungler has the same potential (not more) as any other.
We initially changed Kha'Zix's isolation damage for Dominion / TT based on his old kit, but now that additional modifications have been made, we're going to revert to his new kit to get a better feel for the overall changes.
The Friend List should make it easy to see which of your friends are available to play with, but its feature set needed a little work. This patch's updates are aimed at facilitating how players use the Friend List, both to find individuals (search bar!) and to quickly check on their Friend Groups (which now contain offline members).
We've added Team Rewards as a new class of rewards to further differentiate ranked team play from ranked solo play. Since ranked teams place a special focus on jolly cooperation, require more effort to coordinate, and embody the teamwork that defines League, we wanted players to have a way to commemorate and celebrate their success as part of a team.
Warding Totems will now use your selected Ward Skin! You can now proudly display your ward skin in game, even if you primarily rely on yellow trinkets to contribute to team vision (but you should totally be buying green and pink wards to help your poor support).
In addition to Pentakill Karthus's VU, we've given texture updates to Pentakill Sona and Pentakill Mordekaiser. The entire Pentakill skin line also has a new team splash image. For metal.


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AKS Sorority Constitution
Alpha Kappa Sigma Service Sorority Constitution
We, the sisters of Alpha Kappa Sigma Service Sorority, seek to fulfill human excellence, fellowship, and service. We will promote Benedictine Values and the amelioration of the College of Saint Benedict. We establish this constitution as a framework in which we function.
Article I: Name
The name of this club shall be known as the Alpha Kappa Sigma Service Sorority. This name is derived from the first letters of the Greek words Arete (human excellence), Koinonia (fellowship), and Synergia (service), hereafter referred to in this document as AKΣ resulting from the first letters of each Greek word.
Article II: Purpose
The purpose of AKΣ is to:
Assemble college women in the spirit of service consisting of service to the student body, to members of the community, and to fellow AKΣ members.
Article III: Mission Statement
The women comprising AKΣ will persevere to affirm and promote service and community at the College of Saint Benedict.
Article IV: Membership
AKΣ shall consist of a President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Service Co-Chairs, Social Co-Chairs, Public Relations Co-Chairs, Fundraising Co-Chairs, Rush Co-Chairs, Love Your Body Week Co- Chairs, Spring Daze Co-Chairs, a Clothing Chair, an Alumnae Relations Chair, an Advisor, active, and honorary members.
A. Active membership in AKΣ shall be granted to women enrolled at the College of Saint Benedict.
B. Honorary members may be chosen by the Executive Board, with at least a 51% majority vote. To be eligible for becoming an Honorary Member, the woman shall have been a member in good standing. These members shall have no voting privileges and are not required to attend weekly meetings.
C. AKΣ insignia shall be worn on the first Tuesday of every month by all active members of AKΣ.
Article V: Meetings
All AKΣ meetings and committee meetings are open to CSB students, faculty, administration, monastic community, and honorary members of AKΣ.
Article VI: Executive Board and Committees
The additional committees of AKΣ include, but are not limited to, the Executive Board, the Service Committee, the Social Committee, the Public Relations Committee, the Fundraising Committee, the Love Your Body Week Committee, the Spring Daze Committee, the Clothing Committee and the Alumnae Relations Committee, including ad-hoc whose duties, structure, and guidelines shall be at the discretion of the President and Vice President. Executive Board decisions may be overturned by a three-fifths (3/5) vote by AKΣ.
Article VII: Amendments
The AKΣ Constitution may be amended by a three-fourths (3/4) vote by the active members of AKΣ. The by-laws may be amended by a three-fourth (3/4) vote by the active members of AKΣ. The standing rules may be amended by a majority vote by the active members of AKΣ.
Article I: Members of AKΣ
AKΣ members shall attend all regularly scheduled AKΣ sorority meetings and appropriate committee meetings. AKΣ members shall preserve a permanent record of activities, issues, and accomplishments to be kept for future members.
Section I: President
The President shall:
- Be available to serve a full term.
- Preside over all chapter meetings.
- Call and preside at all non-committee meetings.
- Preside and chair all Executive Board meetings.
- Enforce the constitution and by-laws.
- Put to vote all committees not otherwise provided for by the constitution.
- Oversee all Executive Board members' duties.
- Promote the welfare of AKΣ on campus.
- Perform such duties as the club may require of her.
- Assist and work with all committees in promoting AKΣ sorority activities.
- Have privileges of exercising or delegating all other powers assigned or stated in this constitution.
- Work to maintain AKΣ within the Joint Club Board standings.
- Put on one school wide event, in conjunction with the Vice President, per semester.
- Email girls who are on probation to set up meetings and inform those who have been on probation two consecutive semesters that they will no longer be active members of AKΣ.
- Add additional notes relating to the President position on the Google document account for future sustainable resources.
Section 2: Vice President
The Vice President shall:
- Be available to serve a full term.
- Preside over the AKΣ Sharepoint site to ensure that Executive Board members are up to date on their event write ups and adding notes to their chair specific Sharepoint folder.
- Add additional notes relating to the Vice President position on the Google document account for future sustainable resources.
- Chair all AKΣ meetings in the absence or at the request of the President.
- Preside over such activities as recommended to her by AKΣ.
- Record and distribute minutes of the Exec Meetings through use of Google Documents and Sharepoint.
- Put on one event, in conjunction with the President, per semester.
- Maintain the AKΣ email account bi-weekly.
Section 3: Secretary
The Secretary shall:
- Record, process and distribute minutes from AKΣ meetings within 24 hours of the meeting.
- Distribute correspondence documents including agendas, notices, and sign-up sheets at the AKΣ meetings.
- Be the point of contact for those who are unable to attend a meeting.
- Keep a detailed record of AKΣ meeting and event attendance.
- Maintain a file of all AKΣ minutes, letters, notices, and other correspondence documents.
- Keep a written and updated record of current members.
- Keep an accurate account of points for all sorority members and e-mail an update to all members the first Tuesday of every month.
- Be responsible for the maintenance of Sharepoint.
- Be responsible for the maintenance of the AKΣ email account.
- At the end of the semester compile a list of girls who are on probation and then pass this list on to the President.
Section 4: Treasurer
The Treasurer shall:
- Be available to serve a full term.
- Supervise and record all revenue and expenditures of AKΣ.
- Be aware of the current working balance, maintain a perpetual record and announce this balance at the last Exec meeting of each month.
- Act on all proposals or amendments to AKΣ budget.
- Prepare and update annual budgets in conjunction with the St. Benedict's Senate at the end of each academic year for the preceding academic year.
- Be a member of the Fundraising Committee.
- Collect active member dues.
- Meet with the Club Auditor designated by the College of Saint Benedict Senate to AKΣ when needed to establish a working relationship.
Section 5: Service Co-Chairs
The Service Co-Chairs shall:
- Preside over the Service Committee.
- Coordinate and oversee all service events for AKΣ members or students to participate in.
- Provide the Secretary with a summary of persons in attendance at these service events.
- Coordinate the Sophomore Formal every spring semester.
Section 6: Social Co-Chairs
The Social Co-Chairs shall:
- Preside over the Social Committee.
- Coordinate and oversee fellowship events for all AKΣ sorority members.
- Provide the Secretary with a summary of persons in attendance at these fellowship events.
- Plan icebreakers or activities at the start of each chapter meeting on the weeks in which there is an Exec Board Meeting.
- Coordinate the Easter Egg Hunt every spring semester.
Section 7: Public Relations Co-Chairs
The Public Relations Co-Chairs shall:
- Preside over the Public Relations Committee.
- Distribute press releases to the campus media when deemed necessary by the Executive Board.
- Be the end all resource to AKΣ, facilities, posting policies, printing and advertising AKΣ sponsored events through e-mail and other forms of mass media.
- Be responsible for the AKΣ Twitter account.
Section 8: Fundraising Co-Chairs
The Fundraising Co-Chairs shall:
- Preside over the Fundraising Committee.
- Coordinate and oversee no less than one fundraiser per semester that can either benefit AKΣ as a club, the school wide community, or an outside organization.
- Organize Haunted Watab in the fall semester of each academic year.
Section 9: Rush Co-Chairs
The Rush Co-Chairs shall:
- Plan and oversee 2 new member meetings in the fall in addition to Rush Week and welcoming ceremony.
- Setup and maintain a booth for the Involvement Fair.
- Coordinate, oversee and take full responsibility of the welcoming ceremony of new members in accordance to all Joint Club Board Policies.
- Plan and produce an AKΣ directory each year by the end of first semester, and post this directory on Sharepoint.
Section 10: Love Your Body Week Co-Chairs
The Love Your Body Week Co-Chairs shall:
- Preside over the Love Your Body Week Committee.
- Plan and oversee Love Your Body Week.
- Maintain a good relationship with the Emily Program Foundation.
Section 11: Spring Daze Co-Chairs
- Preside over the Spring Daze Committee.
- Coordinate and oversee the annual Spring Daze Week.
Section 12: Clothing Chair
- Preside over the Clothing Committee.
- Responsible for the supplying of AKΣ apparel and merchandise.
Section 13: Alumnae Relations Chair
- Preside over the Alumnae Committee.
- Distribute a newsletter to graduated AKΣ members once a semester via an email distribution list.
- Maintain the AKΣ Facebook page.
- Plan an Alumnae event once per semester.
- In charge of taking assigning members of the Alumnae committee to attend events and take pictures of the event to be placed on the Facebook page.
- Update the directory for the spring semester.
Article II: Advisor
AKΣ will have one advisor. Both the President and Vice President are to meet with this advisor as often as necessary. The Executive Board shall meet with this advisor semi-annually.
Section 1: Advisor
The Advisor shall:
- Be a representative of the College of Saint Benedict Faculty/Staff/Administration.
- Attend AKΣ meetings as necessary.
- Meet as necessary with the President and Vice President.
Article III: Executive Board and Committees
Executive Board and Committees of AKΣ may be created or dissolved by a majority vote of AKΣ. Standing Executive Board and Committees outlined in the following sections may only be dissolved by a unanimous vote of AKΣ. Sorority members must be in a minimum of one committee to be considered an active member, however, may additionally assist committees based on their interests and abilities.
Section 1: Executive Board
The Executive Board shall:
- Be chaired by the President and consist of the Vice President, etc. using a consensus decision making model.
- Meet bimonthly to discuss the status of the club and the developments of the meetings.
- Engage in discussion and preliminary explorations of club issues.
- Enforce the Constitution and Standing Rules of AKΣ.
- Send the President or Vice President and another Executive Board member to attend meetings and conferences required by Student Activities.
Section 2: Service Committee
The Service Committee shall:
- Be chaired by the Service Co-Chairs and consist of any AKΣ members.
- Helps organize and plan all service events for the sorority, community, or outside organizations.
Section 3: Social Committee
The Social Committee shall:
- Be chaired by the Social Co-Chairs and consist of any AKΣ members.
- Help organize and plan all social events for the sorority, school community, or the outside community.
Section 4: Public Relations Committee
The Public Relations Committee shall:
- Be chaired by the Public Relations Co-Chairs and consists of any AKΣ members.
- Help create and distribute publicity to promote events sponsored or presented by AKΣ.
Section 5: Fundraising Committee
The Fundraising Committee shall
- Be chaired by the Fundraising Co-Chairs and consist of any AKΣ members.
- Help plan and implement fundraisers for the chapter, school community, as well as larger organizations.
- Organize and implement Haunted Watab.
Section 6: Love Your Body Week Committee
The Love Your Body Week Committee
- Be chaired by the Love Your Body Week Co-Chairs and consist of members preselected by the Love Your Body Week Co-Chairs based on the sensitivity that surrounds Love Your Body Week.
- Organize, coordinate, and implement Love Your Body Week of which all proceeds will be donated to The Emily Program Foundation.
Section 7: Spring Daze Committee
The Spring Daze Committee shall:
- Be chaired by the Spring Daze Co-Chairs and consists of any AKΣ members.
- Organize, coordinate, and implement the week of Spring Daze.
Section 8: Clothing Committee
The Clothing Committee shall:
- Be chaired by the Clothing Chair and consist of any AKΣ members.
- Be in charge of designing and ordering AKΣ apparel and merchandise.
Section 9: Alumnae Relation Committee
The Alumni Committee shall:
- Be chaired by the Alumnae Chair and consist of any AKΣ members.
- Helps organize, coordinate, and implement Alumnae events.
- Take pictures of sorority events for the newsletter and Facebook.
Article IV: AKΣ Elections for Executive Board
The AKΣ Executive Board shall be elected by a majority vote of AKΣ active members. Elections for President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer positions will be held in March. The elections for the rest of the Executive Board shall be held at the second to last sorority meeting. The new Executive Board shall take office the last AKΣ meeting of the year, and their term will last until the same time the following year.
Section 1: The Elected Executive Board
The elected member of the Executive Board shall include the President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Service Co-Chairs, Social Co-Chairs, Public Relations Co-Chairs, Fundraising Co-Chairs, Rush Co-Chairs, Love Your Body Week Co- Chairs, Spring Daze Co-Chairs, a Clothing Chair, and an Alumnae Relations Chair.
Section 2: Elected Executive Board's Point Requirement
If members of the Executive Board do not meet the minimum requirements for service points, social points, or total points within the period of a semester, they will be asked to step down from their current position on the Executive Board for the following semester./p>
Section 3: Election Guidelines
- Elections of the Executive Board shall take place during a regular meeting and must be brought to the floor by the President.
- To be considered for nomination, a member must be active and in good standing with the club, having not been on probation during their membership in the sorority.
Section 3: Election Procedures
- The acting President, if in senior standing and not able to be nominated again for re-election, shall conduct the election process.
- If the acting President is able to be nominated again than an active member with senior status at the College of Saint Benedict will preside over the election.
- Voting shall be held in rank order.
- To run for a position on the AKΣ Executive Board, a member may be nominated by another active member or self-nominated.
- Nominations shall consist of presenting the name of the nominee.
- Following the nomination of a member, the nominee must have a seconded by another active member. If there is no second, the member will not be eligible for the position.
- If there is a second on the floor, the nominee shall then state why they are qualified for the position.
- If self-nominated, the member shall simply state why they are qualified for the position and does not require a second by another sorority member to run for the desired position.
- After all nominations have been given, the nominees shall leave the room and a debate shall take place for a maximum of five minutes by the members of the sorority to determine the best nominee.
- Voting will be done by the blind raising of hands.
- A 51% majority is required for a nominee to win.
- If there is a tie between members then there will be a re-vote also needing a 51% majority vote to win.
- The President is eligible to vote during elections; however, she can abstain but must break a voting tie if she chooses to abstain.
Section 4: Transition Procedures
- Executive Board members leaving office shall train and transition newly elected Executive Board members individually, prior to the end of the semester. For these newly elected members who are studying abroad, the transition can take place via e-mail and during the summer. Old Executive Board members must put transition notes and event write ups up on their Sharepoint folder by the end of their term so that newly elected Executive Board members may have sustainable resources.
- Executive Board members leaving office shall keep in contact with their newly elected counterparts for the remainder of the semester following the elections.
- Executive Board members leaving office shall return all AKΣ property and files prior to the end of the semester.
Section 5: Meetings
- AKΣ meetings will be held every Tuesday of the academic year at 9:30 p.m.
- Meetings are open to the public, except when a closed session is called by the President or when voted or passed by two-thirds majority requested by another member.
- Members should allow at least an hour for AKΣ meetings.
- All meetings are mandatory.
- If members leave early from any meeting or arrive late this will be taken into consideration when compiling absences. The following considerations and/or actions will be discussed by the President and Vice President in conjunction with the Secretary to: 1) decide if absences are legitimate, 2) give a formal warning, and 3) put them on probation.
- A quorum, two-thirds, of AKΣ must be present to conduct any election or voting.
- Special mandatory meetings of AKΣ shall be called at the discretion of the President, the Executive Board, or at the request of any three active members. Events can also be deemed mandatory two weeks prior to an event by the President, Executive Board, or any three members.
- In the event that a sorority member leaves the sorority for a semester, and then asks the permission from the President or Vice President to rejoin the sorority, she will be allowed to rejoin with the consequence of being put on probation for that current semester.
Section 6: Points
A. There will be a requirement of 200 points per semester.
B. Extra points may be earned by attending extra service or Rush events, by attending all of the scheduled group meetings, and/or by attending social events.
C. Members are expected to meet the required points for each semester. If a sister does not meet the points for any given semester, a meeting will be set up with the President and the Vice President in which the sister will be placed on probation, unless there are any circumstances in which the President and Vice President deem excusable. If the sister does not meet the points required again in any given semester following being placed on probation, she will be asked to resign from the sorority.
D. Meetings are 10 points each. Members are encouraged to attend all meetings to maintain good standing within the club.
E. Service Events are 10 points each. Members are required to obtain 40 service points per semester.
i. Members will be allowed to count up to one donation, monetary or otherwise, per semester as a 10 point service event. Events that are designated as a donation will be up the discretion of the Service chairs.
ii. Service events will be worth two different point values: 10 points or 20 points. 10 point will be given for events on campus, or those that are less than three hours. 20 points will be given for events that require traveling or have a time commitment of over three hours. Point allotments are up to the discretion of the Service chairs.
F. Dues are worth 10 points within the first month of the new semester, otherwise a member will receive 5 points if dues are turned in after the first month of the semester."
i. Members are only mandated to turn in dues once, at the beginning of fall semester. However, if a member is absent for any fall semester, the member will pay dues when she returns to campus.
ii. A minimum of 5 points is required.
G. Rush: 10 points each (for first semester only)
i. A requirement of 3 events needs to be attended with additional sister and/or family bonding events.
ii. A minimum of 40 points are required.
H. Committee Meetings: 5 points each
i. A maximum of 15 points will be given.
I. Social Events are 5 points each.
J. If an AKΣ Sorority member is unable to attend the service or social event that she had previously signed up for, she will be deducted 10 points, for a service event, or 5 points, for a social event, for missing the event. If, however she finds a replacement before the event has occurred, points will not be deducted
Article V: Removal from Office
A. As elected member of AKΣ, an Executive Board member is called to act in a responsible, honorable, and respectful fashion during the course of her leadership. Failure to comply with the following things may lead to the discussion of removal from office:
i. Incompetence, negligence, and unsatisfactory reporting.
ii. Failure to comply with any of the official duties as listed in the constitution and bylaws of AKΣ.
iii. Use of an Executive Board member's position for personal gain.
iv. Unexcused absences.
B. All grievances will first be brought to the attention of the Executive Board and then to the entire sorority for review. The process of discussing the possibility of removal from the AKΣ Executive Board may be initiated by:
i. Any member of AKΣ.
ii. The advisor to AKΣ.
C. Any AKΣ Executive Board member may be removed from office by a four-fifths vote by AKΣ.
D. Executive Board members who have been removed from office:
i. Must return all sorority property and files immediately upon removal
ii. Have the opportunity to appeal the decision of AKΣ concerning the final decision to the current advisor.
iii. May remain an active member of the sorority as long as the individual follows guidelines proposed by the AKΣ Executive Board and voted upon and passed with a 51% majority by the entire sorority.
Article VI: Vacancies
In the event of a vacancy occurring in the position of the President in the middle of a term, the Vice President shall assume the position of the President with the approval by a three-fourths vote of AKΣ. A special election will be held for the open positions.
Article VII: Discrimination
AKΣ admits students without regard to their race, religion, color, age, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and other activities, generally accorded or made available to members of the organization.
Article VIII: Hazing
AKΣ considers hazing to be a degrading and destructive activity which is inconsistent with the standards of this student organization. AKΣ recognizes the dignity of every person and opposes all forms of hazing.
- Article IX: Review of the Constitution
This constitution shall be reviewed and revised on a yearly basis by the Executive Board by the end of spring semester.
- Any recommended revisions to the constitution must pass a two-thirds vote by the Executive Board in order to bring the proposed revision to the entire sorority to vote upon. The revision must then pass a two-thirds vote by the entire sorority in order to be implemented in the constitution.


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Kick Out the Jams
Cleveland Rocks
Cleveland earned its place on the rock and roll map in the early '50s when local deejay Alan Freed was the first to call the R&B music he was playing on his nightly radio show "rock and roll." Freed also promoted what is considered to be the very first rock and roll concert, which was held at the Cleveland Arena on March 21, 1952. In the '60s, Cleveland fostered such local talent as the Outsiders, the O'Jays and the James Gang, and the nationally syndicated Upbeat Show served as a major launching pad for numerous artists.
In the early '70s, the Raspberries, Circus and Glass Harp made their mark nationally. The Dead Boys and Pere Ubu exploded out of Cleveland and became part of the birth of punk rock and post punk. Radio station WMMS also became a major force in the '70s, helping break such artists as David Bowie, Lou Reed, Bruce Springsteen and Roxy Music. Thirty miles south of Cleveland, Akron and nearby Kent produced Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, Rachel Sweet and the masters of de-evolution, Devo.
The '90s saw the rise of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Macy Gray and LeVert, while rapper and television star Kid Cudi has emerged in the new millennium as a major star. As Ian Hunter said back in 1979, "Cleveland Rocks!"