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No Need to Compromise…We Can Have Our Cake and Eat It Too!
As I look back on this past week's RSA 2012 in San Francisco, I've had the opportunity to speak to many enterprise and service provider customers, channel partners, analysts, media (including Fox Business News), investors, and even some of our competitors. BYOD, the transition from physical to virtual to cloud, and IPv4 moving to IPv6 networks came up over and over again.
One such customer conversation around BYOD was quoted in Network World. Nick Young, network support manager for Four Seasons Healthcare in the United Kingdom, said in his situation, "the business is telling me, 'now I'm going to bring my iPad in, I'm the manager.' We have to allow [it]…".
As I shared in my keynote, the typical end user views security as cumbersome and will go to great lengths to avoid it to either do their job, enjoy their job, or be more efficient at their job. As security professionals, we're torn between the extremes of locking it and it down and freeing it up. Every time we push toward one of these approaches, and we begin to adopt it, something else happens. This causes us to reverse our course and implement the other. Those choices often force us in one direction or the other. In the end we can end up compromising our own efforts.
I believe what we've been given is a false choice. We all keep thinking it is either lock it down or free it up, but it can't be…we need to have both. I came to Cisco because I believe we don't have to make this compromise. Fortunately, the answer is there, and it turns out, that the answer's been hiding in plain sight. The answer is the network.
The network is the connective tissue that binds us all. And, when it comes to security, the network can deliver the capabilities we need unlike any other part of the infrastructure. And just as the network has become the source for delivering critical voice, video and data…it too is becoming the delivery source for security.
The network tells us what's happening, where, and all in real time across our organization and between our organizations around the world. It can see all devices, users, applications, systems, data and the interactions between and among them. The network can see and control traffic. It can provide context, which is the relationship between those devices, those applications, and those users. The network also provides secure remote access and secure wireless access.
As we all know too well, it only takes one packet to find a malicious purpose. But, fortunately, the network is our universal source of global threat awareness, visibility, context and granular control. The network allows us to eliminate that compromise that we've traditionally had to make between locking it down and freeing it up.
How else, would an organization (that I have come to know well) block 12 million transactions, including, 23,000 Trojan Downloader attempts, over 7,000 Trojan check-ins, 700 Worms and nearly 100 Phishing URLs in a single day? By leveraging the network and implementing contextual security capabilities, like application visibility and control, this enterprise has freed nearly a hundred thousand users to bring their own devices, and safely access thousands of applications each day.
At the end of the day, as pointed out by eWeek's Fahmida Y. Rashid, "There should be less worry about the exact device that is being used. At the heart, every device is essentially just an IP address, so the important thing is to make the network secure".
The network is becoming the only constant source of intelligence that we can rely on….and the control point that we can depend on, in our ever-changing world. The network is the source of power that we all need to deliver security our end users and companies are demanding. The network is the source of empowers us to say "Yes" to applications, devices, and letting our users work the way they want to and need to, but with the protection that we all require.
The network allows us all to lock it down and free it up.
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Antonette Ligons
I couldn't agree more! This is an exciting time for Cisco given the opportunity we have to be thought leaders in the integration of security in all applications and devices. This is long over due. I am looking forward to the milestones Cisco makes in this space.


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Most pool floats are just inflated rectangles, only able to let you lie down and float around in the pool. But this Divetek concept? It adds a detachable propeller unit. Yes please!
It can be used two ways: attached to the float, so you can zip around while taking a nap, or with the float deflated as its own form of propulsion. Which means you hang onto it, point it underwater and go for a ride. How awesome is that?
Unfortunately, it's just a concept, and if it were made real it would probably be very expensive. But really, can you put a price on dangerous summer fun? [YankoDesign]

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More Proof That Hiring and Dating Aren't So Different
The back-and-forth of job interviews often feels like dating. 'Will they like me?' candidates wonder. 'Will they stick around?' companies ask.
Turns out, hiring managers at elite professional firms really do tend to evaluate candidates as if they were potential romantic partners or new friends, according to recent research by Kellogg management professor Lauren Rivera.
The Kellogg study found that employers tend to evaluate candidates on whether they'd be likely to hang out with them, rather than strictly focusing on a person's qualifications for the job.
Even dating site eHarmony is getting into the recruiting game. The company is developing a recruiting site to more effectively match companies to candidates, says Grant Langston, vice president of customer experience.
"Where do people not experience a lot of compatibility?," says Mr. Langston. "One of the first things we came up with was jobs We are currently trying to isolate what are the things that make an employee a good fit." The product, which is in the early stages, may come out next year.
According to the Kellogg research, professionals involved in hiring placed more emphasis on how comfortable or excited they were about candidates than on applicants' cognitive or technical skills.
That doesn't mean employers hire unqualified workers, Rivera says. But, she adds, her findings show that "employers hire in a manner more closely resembling the choice of friends or romantic partners" than what we might expect. Hiring managers pay especially close attention to criteria such as similar education level and schools attended, shared leisure pursuits and a mutual "spark,"— factors similar to those people use when choosing a friend or mate.
In her study, comprised of 120 interviews with hiring professionals at elite U.S. investment banks, law firms and consulting firms, more than half of the hiring professionals ranked "cultural fit"—similarity of background, interests and self-presentation—as the most important factor in an interview.
The danger, of course, is that workers from cultural backgrounds that don't match their evaluators' backgrounds may be at a disadvantage when they're up for a job. Especially when it comes to elite jobs, people who come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds might not get the same consideration a well-off candidate would, Rivera says.


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The Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants represents the first comprehensive taxonomic treatment of succulents in thirty years. It covers over 9000 taxa of all succulents except Cactaceae.
The volume on dicotyledonous families embraces succulents from 47 families and 161 genera, further 8 families are shortly mentioned. Thus, a total of over 2000 species and 500 infraspecific taxa are covered. The families Didiereaceae, Fouquieriaceae and Nolanaceae are treated in their entirety - Portulacaceae with nearly all species. Euphorbia, with some 700 species, is the largest genus described. Other frequently cultivated genera covered in this volume include: Othonna and Senecio (Asteraceae), Jatropha and Monadenium (Euphorbiaceae), Pelargonium (Geraniaceae), Adenia (Passifloraceae), Peperomia (Piperaceae), as well as Cissus and Cyphostemma (Vitaceae). The focus is on caudiciform succulents grown in cultivation.
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US Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan, in his first congressional appearance since the prostitution scandal erupted in April, on Wednesday rejected allegations that a culture of improper behavior exists in his agency.
"This is not a cultural issue, this is not a systemic issue," Mr. Sullivan told the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
But lawmakers' questions at the hearing showed the Service is struggling to shake off the scandal involving prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia.
The committee chairman, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I) of Connecticut, reported that there have been 64 allegations of misconduct by agents over the past five years, including improper relationships with foreign nationals.
Some former employees of the agency say that it is especially on assignments abroad that the culture of improper behavior exists.
Although Sullivan enjoys a good reputation with Congress, some lawmakers remain skeptical of his defense of his agency.
"The facts so far lead me to conclude that, while not at all representative of the majority of Secret Service personnel, this misconduct was almost certainly not an isolated incident," Sen. Susan Collins, (R) of Maine, said. "The numbers [of agents] involved, as well as the participation of two senior supervisors, lead me to believe that this was not a one-time event. Rather, it suggests an issue of culture."
"Two of the participants were supervisors – one with 22 years of service and the other with 21 – and both were married," Senator Collins pointed out. "That surely sends a message to the rank and file that this kind of activity is tolerated on the road."
In any case, and under pressure not to have the Secret Service simply investigate itself, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general said Wednesday that an independent probe of the Cartagena incident will be conducted.
The agents alleged to have been involved in Cartagena were part of an advance team sent to prepare for President Obama's participation in the Summit of the Americas. Following exposure of the incident, which included some 20 paid female "escorts," the number of agents alleged to be involved grew to 13, eight of whom were either fired, forced to retire, or had their security clearances pulled (which would force them to resign).
Although the incident was serious and certainly an embarrassment to an agency charged with protecting the president and other high-ranking US officials, Sullivan said there had been no security breaches in Colombia.
"At the time the misconduct occurred, none of the individuals involved … had received any specific protective information, sensitive security documents, firearms, radios or other security related equipment in their hotel rooms," Sullivan said in his testimony. The officers had not yet received their briefing on Obama's attendance at the summit.
Still, he said, "I am deeply disappointed, and I apologize for the misconduct of these employees and the distraction that it has caused."
As the scandal unfolded last month, Sullivan – a 29-year veteran of the Secret Service whose duty assignments include two tours with the Presidential Protective Division – responded with a stern note to agents about their behavior, especially when on assignment abroad.
In an internal memo Sullivan said, "Alcohol may only be consumed in moderate amounts" and drinking less than 10 hours before reporting for duty is prohibited. (Previous rules included a six-hour limit between drinking and work.)
Most important in light of the recent episode in Cartagena, foreign nationals other than hotel staff are not allowed in agents' rooms, and agents are not allowed to patronize "nonreputable establishments" (strip clubs and brothels). The fact that prostitution is legal in some parts of Colombia makes no difference, he implied.
"The absence of a specific, published standard of conduct covering an act or behavior does not mean that the act is condoned, is permissible or will not call for – and result in – corrective or disciplinary action," Sullivan warned. "All employees have a continuing obligation to confront expected abuses or perceived misconduct."
The Washington Post reported Tuesday that "four Secret Service employees have decided to fight their dismissals … a development that could unravel what has been a swift and tidy resolution to an embarrassing scandal over agents' hiring of prostitutes."
"The agents are arguing that the agency is making them scapegoats for behavior that the Secret Service has long tolerated," the newspaper reported, a charge that Director Sullivan in his Senate testimony Wednesday called "just absurd."
In addition to the Secret Service scandal, the US military is investigating the involvement of 12 enlisted personnel on assignment in Colombia as part of the security detail last month. The Drug Enforcement Administration also is investigating reports that DEA agents posted to Colombia have brought prostitutes to their apartments.


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Bonefish necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 33 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
I own a small technology company to support small businesses called Bonefish Systems but lack the creative talent on the graphic side.
The PIZZAZZ audience is two part: 1) existing parents/students needing a place to get organized information and follow current activity; 2) new potential customers looking to understand the services offered and sign up their child. ALL STUDENTS ARE GIRLS AGES 3yrs -18yrs.
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Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale Kiss During a Beach Day With Zuma
Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale hit the beach with their youngest son, Zuma, in Palm Beach yesterday. Zuma played in the sand while Gwen and Gavin showed sweet PDA. The couple held hands and shared a kiss before wrapping up their afternoon. The whole Stefani-Rossdale family has been in Florida for the last few days vacationing. Gwen wore a tiny bikini for their sunning outings while Gavin went shirtless. He's in the running for our 2012 Shirtless Bracket, so make sure to vote!
The getaway comes during a break from Gwen's busy schedule with No Doubt. They've been ramping up press before the September release of their new album, Push and Shove, and stopped in NYC last week to perform their single "Settle Down" in Central Park. Gwen's also on the cover of Harper's Bazaar and chats about motherhood and her personal style inside the issue.


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Television viewers have probably seen Mark Greksa almost as many times as the star of their favorite prime-time show. Greksa, on his train, pitching the beauty of the Royal Gorge region.
It's part of the $100,000 push by the Royal Gorge Route Railroad owner to let the Denver and Colorado Springs markets know that the Royal Gorge is open and the views from the train are as good as ever, he said.
The Royal Gorge Fire that sparked in June burned more than 3,000 acres and devastated the Royal Gorge Bridge & Park, but Greksa wants people to know that's not the case for the rest of the area.
"Unfortunately the media really latched on to words like devastation," Greksa told the Canon City Daily Record on Thursday. "Terms like that really don't help us. … There are so many different things to do in the area, we really need to focus on that."
In the 30-second commercial, Greksa speaks to the camera to entice people to return to the area, mentioning other attractions as well such as the winery and rafting.
The goal of the commercial and aggressive marketing plan — it took just 24 hours to produce the commercial — was to get guests back to the train. The business took a 20-percent downturn in the weeks following the fire. So far the commercial is working, though.
"Now we're recovering and we're even with last year's (numbers)," Greksa said. "Normally when you launch an aggressive campaign like this, it takes a couple of weeks before you see some positive results. … I launched it, then within three days we were having people calling, almost immediately."
Brad Link and his family are from Arkansas. They were in Cañon City to ride the train on Thursday. He said he saw an advertisement in Colorado Magazine so they decided to come to Canon City for the day. He said they were going to shop downtown but then head back to Denver where they were staying. That's where they planned to raft and zip line, he said.
The $100,000 push is on top of the $500,000 that Royal Gorge Route Railroad spends annually on various forms of media.
"I'm going out on a limb, but I believe in the area," Greksa said. "I believe in the Royal Gorge Region, and I think that it's an area that's been largely forgotten by the Colorado Tourism Office. They have forgotten about us, and it irritates me."
Coming up, the Route Railroad will feature their annual Oktoberfest Lunch theme where they'll serve traditional three-course meal featuring baby green salad, veal bratwurst and black forest cake as well as traditional beer while accordion musician Barry Haberman plays.
Oktoberfest will run from September through mid October. That will be followed with by the annual Santa Express theme.
Greksa said he'll likely produce advertising campaigns for those two seasons as well.


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Tired of pretending to mend pretend injuries in the pursuit of ill-gotten timeouts and yellow cards, the trainer for Brazil's Coxim Atlético Clube decided he finally wanted to contribute to his team's success in a more conscionable way. With Coxim up 1-0, the trainer—while pacing the sidelines with bags of prop medical gear—decided to suddenly jump onto the field and defuse a potential scoring play from Ponta Pora.
The video shows precious little of the reaction, but the trainer seems nonplussed, picking his bags back up and ignoring the angry Ponta Pora players.
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text: Shuki Nir is SanDisk's senior vice president, corporate marketing and general manager of retail. Previously, he served as general manager of SanDisk's consumer business. Nir joined SanDisk in November 2006 through the acquisition of msystems Ltd. Prior to that, he held sales and marketing positions at Destinator Ltd. and also co-founded and served as chief executive officer of MindEcho. Nir earned his bachelor's degree in law and accounting and his master's degree in business administration from Tel Aviv University.


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Bonzai3d v26 Oct, 2010 By: Mark A. Donohoe
User Review: The 3D modeling tools you need are simple, powerful, and a snap to learn.
Editor's note: This article was originally published in the Summer 2010 edition of Cadalyst magazine.
When it comes to 3D solid modelers, Bonzai3d v2 from AutoDesSys may be one of the newest kids on the block, but don't let its age fool you. This little program's heart and pedigree descend directly from its older sibling, the powerful and capable Form.Z 3D modeling and rendering solution. Think of Bonzai3d as the best parts of Form.Z wrapped in a new way of thinking.
As a software architect, I'm not the typical user of 3D modeling software. In my work I design custom software, from retail titles to home automation systems to mobile-based games and puzzles for platforms such as iPhone and Android. I also like to model for pleasure — for example, small furniture pieces such as custom speaker stands for my home theater. So when I looked for a 3D modeler, I made a checklist of 10 must-have features, including the ability to quickly frame out beveled models, print directly from the working area, display advanced labeling for model documentation, and export in open-source formats. In addition, the software had to be as easy to use as a 2D program. Every affordable product I found offered only a few of these features, and most were simply too complex. But then I found Bonzai3d. It included 9 of my 10 must-haves right out of the box, plus some capabilities I hadn't considered.
Usually software this complex comes with a steep learning curve, but Bonzai3d, which is available in Windows and Mac versions, has one of the fastest learning curves of any modeler I've experienced on any platform. This ease of use is thanks in part to a large assortment of excellent, free online video tutorials that demonstrate various aspects of the program. These tutorials are so effective that I was able to create my first spec-ready model for those speaker stands within half an hour, all without cracking open the Help file once. When I did have questions about more advanced features, technical support was nothing short of top-notch.
Tools with a Twist
So how did Bonzai3d achieve its ease of use without sacrificing performance or capabilities? Its developers took a new look at the tools and functions commonly found in 3D programs and analyzed how users interact with them. For example, consider the task of inserting solid primitives in a scene.
If you needed an extruded rectangle, in other products you would most likely start by inserting a simple cube primitive that would first appear in the center of your scene. Then you would have to manually resize it before positioning it in its final location.
Bonzai3d combines all those steps into one, allowing you to create, size, and place objects simultaneously. On the currently active plane, simply click a point to indicate one of the corners of the rectangle to be extruded, click another point to mark the opposing corner, and an onscreen vertical ruler automatically appears. Move the cursor to extrude the rectangle from 2D to 3D, click a third time when you have the proper thickness, and you're done! You just created a new shape that is properly sized and already in place within the scene. I can't tell you how much time this feature alone has saved me.
When you need to move or rotate an item within a scene, gone is the concept of the standard Translation tool with its arrows along the axes for moving and arcs for rotation. Instead, Bonzai3d has separate Move and Rotation tools that provide new power and capabilities.
Using the Move tool, start by selecting one or more target objects. Then, on the currently active plane, click an arbitrary start point. When you do this, Bonzai3d calculates the difference vector between that first point and the cursor's current location on the plane and applies that difference to the selected objects in real time, while showing ghosted images at their original location for reference. A second click locks the objects in their new positions.
Rotation with Fancy Footwork
Like the Move tool, the Rotation tool uses a nonstandard approach to perform its task — and it has a neat trick up its sleeve too. To perform a rotation, start by selecting the target objects. Then on the currently active plane, which acts as the plane of rotation, click to set the center of rotation. Here's where Bonzai3d really shines: As you move away from the center point, Bonzai3d projects a 360-degree protractor directly onto the surface of the plane. As you move toward or away from the center point, the protractor shrinks and grows in radius to match. A second click locks the size of the protractor as well as its orientation. Once the protractor is locked, as you move the cursor around the plane the selected objects rotate in real time around the center of rotation while a vector representing the precise angle of rotation is projected onto the protractor. If snapping is enabled, you also can constrain the rotation to specific angle increments. This function is simply beautiful, and so effortless to understand.
The Rotation tool in action.
A side effect of this tool's flexibility, however, is one area in which I feel Bonzai3d stumbles a little — specifically, when rotating an object around its own dimensional center. Although I like being able to choose an arbitrary rotation point, I want that point to be the center of the object's dimensions for 90% of my day-to-day tasks, so it's frustrating that I must choose it manually every time. Bonzai3d provides automatic snap points to assist in finding the center of an object's face, but it can't provide them for certain shapes, such as torii or L-shaped blocks that have no faces at their dimensional centers. In those cases, unless an object is precisely aligned to the active plane's grid, you must manually create a temporary faux face to find its center snap point, perform the rotation on the original object, then delete the temporary object.
When I mentioned this limitation to AutoDesSys tech support just before the release of version 2, the developers quickly implemented a center-of-gravity snap point to address this issue. Although this fix works for symmetrical objects such as cubes or torii, it still doesn't work for an object that has a center of gravity that isn't the same as the center of its dimensions, such as the aforementioned L-shaped block. Although it's only a partial solution, I commend the developers for responding so quickly.
Creativity with a Click
In addition to rethinking the standard tools, Bonzai3d features several specialized tools that make otherwise tedious tasks practically effortless, freeing users to focus on creating rather than on the mechanics of modeling. For example, the Roof Generation tool can automatically create roofs of various styles given nothing but outside walls. Even more impressive is the Stair tool, which generates entire staircase models in various styles with surprising ease and control. Create a path to outline a staircase, select the Stair tool, move the cursor to set the over-all height, and the software creates a fully realized staircase, complete with an interactive palette to modify and preview parameters such as individual step height, railings, landings, and more. The Windows and Doors tool not only automatically creates a properly sized hole in the walls of your model for the window or door you are placing, it also correctly positions the frame and casings on both sides of the wall and adjusts the spacing as needed.
One of my personal favorites is the idea-inducing Match View tool that you can use to superimpose a 3D model onto a photograph, matching the size and perspective of the photo perfectly to help you visualize, for example, what a new addition to your house would look like. I admit that between the Stair tool and Match View, I spent several hours imagining the hidden remodeling possibilities in my own house instead of doing actual work. It was just so easy and fun.
The image on the left shows a 3D model's perspective mapped to a background photograph. The image on the right shows the final adjustment and positioning of the model by the tool based on the calculated matched perspective using the Match View tool.
Another of my favorite features is the Scenes palette that allows you to show, ghost, or hide various objects in your work area and save each configuration as a scene that can be recalled with a single click. It's a great feature when you are recording various stages of a model teardown or when you want to isolate different parts of your model quickly and repeatedly.
Other great utility features include an automatically generated reference plane that matches the currently active face, as well as the ability to create an unlimited number of user-defined planes, each with its own size, orientation, and grid settings. The software also supports nested layers for organization, and ghosted objects that let you show the spatial relation of your models without cluttering up your working area.
One seemingly small but surprisingly effective feature is the new Shaded Full view mode. This feature is similar to the more standard Shaded view (or Solid in other programs) but adds smoother shading, a fixed light source, and shadows cast right in the working area. This view isn't rendered output; it's a fully interactive model on which you can use any tool of your choice. That extra realism really helps with visualizing your projects while working on them.
An example of the three primary view modes: Wireframe, Shaded, and Shaded Full.
Other notable features in Bonzai3d include the Reshape tool for sculpting objects, real-time Booleans and 3D sections, NURBS, and solid printing.
Overall, Bonzai3d truly is an impressive piece of software; however, I feel a few areas need to be addressed. Bonzai3d supports the family of 3Dconnexion navigation devices, but this needs a lot of improvement to be usable as a primary input device. And although the program works great on a single-monitor configuration, the fact that it uses separate windows and docks for all parts of the user interface makes it inconvenient to use on a multi-monitor system. The ability to save various layouts would have gone a long way here.
The sticker price of $499 might dissuade users in smaller shops from even considering the program, which offers great payback on saved training time alone. Lowering the price by $100 or so might help alleviate that reluctance.
Bottom Line
It has been a long time since I have been this productive with a modeling program, let alone had so much fun experimenting with different ideas. I've found myself intentionally creating new projects around my home simply because I can experiment so easily with different designs. It's impossible not to feel an extra sense of creativity when using this program. In its current form, I would rank Bonzai3d a solid 8 out of 10. If AutoDesSys adds the ability to rotate around the dimensional center of an object, that number would easily rise to 9. Fix the 3D controller support, enhance the windowing for multi-monitor support, and drop the price to between $300 and $400, and Bonzai3d would be pretty close to perfect.
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|I've tried the trial version of this software and liked a lot. I'm wondering what others think about using this software to create scenes for models from other programs. I often need to take a model from another program, match it to a photographic background and add trees, bushes and other items. Bonzai3D seems to do that very well. I especially like the perspective matching tool.


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The idea here is to create a companion thread to "The Ideas Collection" that can hopefully help us nail down a final architecture for this new engine.
I'm still a beginner coder, but I do know a thing or two about music. One of the big issues I always have with large projects is knowing what to start with. A project like this is definitely large. Even with a solid design, knowing what first piece of code to write can be difficult. So at this point, perhaps deciding on a solid design would be a good first step.
I really don't want to step on any toes here, Christian and Benno, so please feel free to reign me in if you feel I'm overstepping my bounds.


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In their research, the team has found that most young people are devoid of ethical thinking or consideration for others when using the web.
encourage us all to mentor young people on using social media for social good.
The online behaviors of youth and how to improve and correct them are part of how James feels new media can be used to address the world's challenges
Steve Ransom on 21 Sep 10The biggest take-away for me was that adults were largely lacking presence in the online life of youth. And, even though this was less true for tweens, the focus was primarily on consequences for poor choices, not digital citizenship. For me, this reflects a larger cultural shift that is occurring and the continued blurring of citizenship/morality and the destructive influence of Hollywood.


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Your smoking hot Bisophere Maxi Dress you ordered has just arrived. And as fate would have it, an invitation to a house party has also fallen on your lap.
Hot outfit? Hot invitation? Look out, World.
So, you slip into your Biosphere Maxi Dress, and arrive to the party fashionably late (of course!). You saunter over to the punch bowl. "No more cups?" You'll notice. "What a pity…" You'll say.
Not but nanoseconds after those words roll of your tongue, you'll hear a thunderous sound… of hundreds of footsteps headed your way at high speeds.
When the dust settles, and after the injured bystanders are carted away. Law enforcement will begin their questioning:
How on earth a stampede of men could simultaneously have lost all rhyme & reason, and trample countless partygoers to get to your side?
All they'll be able to tell them is this: "She needed a cup, Officer. The woman in THAT dress... she needed a cup."
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September: When temperatures cool and politics heat up.
And no race in Utah will be hotter and get more attention than Utah's 4th Congressional District battle between Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson and Republican challenger Mia Love.
With less than eight weeks to go, the candidates have increasingly been taking swipes at each other, the airwaves are jammed with nearly $3.5 million in ads from the candidates and super PACs that are backing them and there is no sign it will let up.
"I think it's going to be a blockbuster," said Quin Monson, director of the Center for Studies of Elections and Democracy at Brigham Young University. That is especially true, he said, if Love can show in the coming weeks that Matheson is vulnerable among moderate Republicans who have crossed over to support him in the past.
To that end, each has set out to define the other in the early stages of the advertising war.
Matheson has tried to paint the little known mayor of Saratoga Springs as a radical, targeting a 116 percent property tax hike she voted for while on the City Council and a series of federal budget cuts she proposed during the campaign including axing federal grants to police departments and eliminating government-subsidized student loans, which she used to attend college.
"I happen to think that positions on issues matter in elections. And I think it's important for voters to be informed," Matheson said. "She seems to be hiding from those positions now and not responding when we call her on them."
Love says Matheson's is a diversionary tactic, hammering her record and trying to make her appear extreme in order to avoid having to talk about his own votes.
"You want to know what's extreme? Stimulus. The biggest stimulus we have ever seen," she said. "That's not Utah. Supporting a president that doesn't support Utah, Cash For Clunkers, Obamacare. That's extreme."
Matheson voted for the stimulus bill and Cash For Clunkers. He voted against the Affordable Care Act, initially voted against its repeal, but supported repeal in the most recent vote.
Love, meantime, has been trying to introduce herself to voters and hitch her campaign as closely as possible to Mitt Romney and literally wrapping herself in the flag in her advertisements.
Her television ads tout her support for Romney, while the National Republican Congressional Committee ties Matheson to President Barack Obama. It is a strategy that boils down to simple math, said Guy Harrison, executive director of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC).
"I think the key point is Romney could hit 80 percent in this district," Harrison said, "so [Mia has] just got to stay within 30 points of that."
To help Love achieve that, the NRCC has committed to pouring $1 million or more into Love's campaign, a figure that Harrison said would be "a down payment." As of Friday, the committee had spent more than $988,000 buying up airtime, a bid to erase Matheson's fundraising advantage.
Love's campaign buys have been more modest a little more than $250,000 so far. The last several have just been a few ads over a few days, and Love has been soliciting donations on Twitter to stay on the air, although the campaign insists it's not running out of money.
She brought in about $250,000 around the time of a high-profile speaking engagement at the Republican National Convention, raised another $100,000 at a fundraiser with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. She has also had House Speaker John Boehner, Sen. John McCain and House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan before he was the vice presidential nominee in the state to raise money for her.
Her campaign has also seen considerable turnover and just recently replaced its spokesman and brought on Utah Republican Party executive director Ivan Dubois as a senior adviser.
Monson said Love has to show she is making inroads against Matheson within the next few weeks or the national support could dry up.
"She has had lots of high-profile media attention … and that's trickled down to some fundraising success," he said. "I think there's lots of positive signs, but for all those people to stay involved … she's going to have to make some progress. They're going to want to see her candidacy is able to resonate a little bit."
Matheson has booked more than $700,000 in airtime and has more than $1.4 million in support from Democratic political action committees.
Where the race stands is a bit of a mystery. The only polls in the race show Matheson 15 to 18 points ahead, but there haven't been any polls since the candidates began campaigning in earnest.
Damon Cann, a political science professor at Utah State University, said that, at this early stage, he thinks it is "Matheson's race to lose."
"Mia Love has kind of struggled to gain some traction," he said. "She brings a compelling background and good experience as mayor to the race, but in terms of a clear portrait of what she would do in Congress, I just don't think she's done a very good job of creating a clear contrast with Jim Matheson."
Cann said the Romney effect in Utah will likely help Republicans down ticket, but Matheson has shown the ability to persuade Utah Republicans to vote for him before. Matheson says he thinks they will support him again.
"I know there are a lot of Romney voters who are going to vote for me. I think there are a lot of similarities between me and Mitt Romney," he said. "I think Utah voters take their vote seriously, and they don't just vote party line. … I think I talk about what kind of congressman I am. She doesn't talk about what she's going to do, and she doesn't take any positions. She just ties herself to Mitt Romney, and I don't think that qualifies you to be a member of Congress."


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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey is to demand backing from its NATO allies on Tuesday at a special meeting called after Syrian troops shot down a Turkish warplane last week in an incident Damascus said was self-defense but which Ankara branded an "act of aggression".
It is only the second time in NATO's 63-year history that it has convened under Article 4 of its charter which provides for consultations when a member state feels its territorial integrity, political independence or security is under threat.
Turkey rejected assertions from Damascus that its forces had no option but to fire on the F-4 jet as it flew over Syrian waters close to the coast on Friday.
In a letter to the U.N. Security Council, Turkey condemned the "hostile act by the Syrian authorities against Turkey's national security", saying it posed "a serious threat to peace and security in the region".
Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc told a news conference Syria's actions "would not go unpunished".
The incident has further heightened tensions between Turkey and Syria already strained to near breaking point over the 16-month uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's rule.
Though not known for his restraint, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has so far been measured in his response, perhaps due to Western reluctance to commit to any military action and wary himself of anything that could trigger a regional sectarian war.
European Union foreign ministers called on Monday for Turkey to show restraint, saying they would increase pressure on Assad.
"Military intervention in Syria is out of the question," said Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal.
After a seven-hour Turkish cabinet meeting in which an air force chief gave a detailed briefing on Friday's incident, Arinc said Erdogan would make an announcement on Syria on Tuesday.
Syria's description of the event as an act of self defense, though tempered with commitment to a "neighborly relationship", seemed likely to further anger Ankara.
"The plane disappeared and then reappeared in Syrian airspace, flying at 100 meters altitude and about 1-2kms (0.6-1.2 miles) from the Syrian coast," Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi told a Damascus news conference.
"We had to react immediately, even if the plane was Syrian we would have shot it down," he said. "The Syrian response was an act of defense of our sovereignty carried out by anti-aircraft machinegun which has a maximum range of 2.5 km."
Syria warned Turkey and NATO against retaliating.
"NATO is supposed to be there to strengthen countries," said Makdissi. "If their meeting is for hostile reasons (they should know that) Syrian land and waters are sacred."
The only other time NATO has convened under Article 4 was in 2003 to discuss the Iraq war, again at the request of Turkey.
The unarmed reconnaissance jet had briefly entered Syrian airspace as it approached land after patrolling the eastern Mediterranean, Arinc said, but was warned by Turkish radar controllers and immediately left and turned again out to sea. It then made another approach to land when it was shot down 13 miles off the coast in international airspace, he said, out of the reach of Syria's anti-aircraft guns
"According to the data in our hands, it points to our plane being shot by a laser or heat-guided surface-to-air missile. The fact our plane was not given an early radar warning, suggests it was not a radar-guided missile," said Arinc.
By invoking Article 4 of the NATO charter, rather than Article 5 which calls for military action, Turkey has signaled it wants action against Syria short of armed intervention.
"Ankara itself has been averse to consider military action against Syria so far. So it is likely that the invocation of Article 4 is designed to put more diplomatic pressure on Assad," said Clara Marina O'Donnell, a fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
In shell-shattered districts of Homs, the heart of the uprising against Assad, rebels battled troops as aid workers tried to evacuate civilians. Turkish television reported the desertion of a Syrian general and other officers across the border.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it was again trying to arrange a safe evacuation of trapped civilians from Homs. But anti-government activists reported heavy shelling on central districts, including Jouret al-Shiyah and al-Qarabis. Video showed detonations and machinegun bursts from the skeletal remains of abandoned apartment blocks.
The activist Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Assad's troops carried out raids and arrests in areas still under army control, and heavy fighting between government forces and rebel fighters was reported in the opposition centers of Idlib, Deir al-Zor and Deraa, the birthplace of the uprising.
The United Nations has said more than 10,000 people have been killed by government forces, while Syria has said at least 2,600 members of the military and security forces have been killed by what it calls foreign-backed "Islamist terrorists."
The intensification of the fighting has raised fears in Turkey of a flood of refugees and a slide into ethnic and religious warfare that could envelop the region. Ankara, like the West, is torn between a wish to remove Assad and the fear that any armed intervention could unleash uncontrollable forces.
Additional reporting by Jonathon Burch and Tulay Karadeniz in Ankara, Oliver Holmes and Mirna Sleiman in Beirut, Khaled Yacoub Oweis in Amman, Justyna Pawlak in Brussels, David Brunnstrom in Washington and Louis Charbonneau at the United Nations; Writing by Jon Hemming; Editing by Robin Pomeroy


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"I like discovering new materials," said the artist, an assistant professor at Stanford. "I like jumping from medium to medium. My work crosses a lot of boundaries. I like what technology and resources can offer, but I'm also into analog."
Like a wind chime, creating music through natural energy, her piece "When Comes the Sun" is a circular, solar-powered acoustic guitar, with a rotating plectrum that strums, appropriately enough, "Here Comes the Sun" by The Beatles at varying tempos depending on the strength of the sunlight reaching it. Weaker sun allows it to strum at a gentle, lullaby pace, while at full strength it can zoom through the tune frantically.
The tempo variation pleases Berlier, who calls the piece a throwback to pre-digital music, "like a cassette tape dying or a vinyl record." Berlier created it while working in Norway, land of nearly 24-hour sunlight, in the summertime. She said all her work in Scandinavia orbited — no pun intended — around themes of sun and time, since the seasonal tie to sunlight is so prevalent there. Incorporating solar power into her art was a natural step. Not only does she strive for eco-friendly materials, but, she said: "I like that tie to nature. It's a nice way to bring in that element, to bring life into the piece."
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"Where the Beginning Meets the End" is another circular sound sculpture, this one featuring a stretched-out piano keyboard and including salvaged computer parts. "Homespun" creates a spiral-staircase-like shape out of old banisters and discarded domestic parts. "Acoustic Locator," a large wooden horn, was inspired by early military aircraft detectors. All three were created while Berlier was in residency at Recology, a San Francisco waste-reduction company. The materials used were all plucked from the landfill to be repurposed as art.
"This Side Up, Handle With Care" is the new piece created for this exhibition. It's a half-scale, twisted version of Berlier's own Craftsman-style home, made of salvaged Douglas fir wood, plywood and piano strings. She said the classic shape and scaled-down size of the house makes it resemble a fairytale house, or a child's idea of a home.
"This is the first time I've ever had a house," she said of her Oakland residence, "but the idea of home is universal. Just because it's my house doesn't mean you can't have an experience with it." The model house's contorted frame and tenuous walls can be seen as representing the recent housing crash, but the piano strings, though seemingly fragile, also provide stability. The musical walls invite viewers to "play" the sculpture by plucking, or with a violin bow. Though not a musician herself, Berlier said she is fascinated by the world of sound, and encourages both experienced musicians and novices to experience her audio-enriched sculptures hands on. She hopes her pieces can challenge and inspire notions of what makes something an instrument.
"I'm not interested in putting myself on stage but in inviting musicians I'm fond of and creating a stage for them," she said.
For Berlier, collaboration with others is one of the most rewarding aspects of her work, creating not only opportunities for technical and artistic growth but friendship as well. "I really enjoy collaborations with musicians and composers as well as other artists," she said. "It was really fun to have conversations with architects and designers, tapping into their expertise."
In addition to Berlier's many recent residencies, she's also been a teacher in Stanford's Department of Art & Art History, where she runs the sculpture department, for the past six years, teaching undergraduates and MFA students.
For a number of years before her arrival, Stanford's sculpture department was largely nonexistent, she said, and enrollment remains low compared to other art classes, perhaps due to the perception that it's an especially daunting discipline.
"Sculpture programs are always fighting for survival. Anything that's not painting tends to get lumped into 'sculpture' — light installations, sound — which is really exciting but makes it impossible to teach something of that scope in a 10-week class in a cohesive way.
"It's a level of commitment that, for a student who's not an art major, can be intimidating," she said. But it's rewarding, too, she said, as students learn to work with their hands, use equipment and build and install pieces. One recent student was thrilled to find she could operate power tools, which she'd never imagined she could do, Berlier said. "It blew her world away. People that stick with a sculpture class come out empowered."
She said she tries to get her students to think about the environmental and political impact of art, particularly how an artist's choice of material itself can make a statement.
"There's meaning derived from materials. Making specific choices — to work with plastic, Gummi Bears, whatever — that's adding a layer of content," she said.
"Sounding Board" is Berlier's first "big solo show" on campus and she looks forward to her students having the opportunity to witness all that goes into putting on an exhibition. "It'll be interesting to see their reactions," she said.
What: "Sounding Board," an exhibit of sculptures by Stanford artist Terry Berlier
Where: Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery, 419 Lasuen Mall, Stanford University
When: Through Nov. 18. The gallery is open Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m.
Cost: Free
Info: Go to http://art.stanford.edu or call 650-723-2842.
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Growth Modeling of Longitudinal Data
Liuben Siarov
posted on Friday, April 08, 2011 - 4:17 am
Dear Mplus team and community,
I have encountered the following problem: I would like to decompose an observed sequence of variables into latent component processes, with known shapes (but with parameters estimated within the model). Really, the model is simple (with I_{i/1} being an indicator variable denoting whether subject i is affected by process 1, 2 processes for simplicity):
Y_{i,t} = I_{i/1}P1_{t} + I_{i/2}P2_{t}
If P1 and P2 are, e.g. Brownian or LGC, then error variances for Y_{t} follow. Both processes have no individually varying parameters.
I have attempted to estimate this as a mixture with 3 latent classes (either one or both indicators are one), but since MPlus apparently attempts to estimate parameters for BOTH processes in class 3, the model fails. So, my question is: is there any way to prevent estimation in class 3 for all parameters except the covariance of the processes and instead maximize the likelihood with argument class membership with respect to parameter estimates in Class 1 and 2? I.e. I would like for the estimation to proceed sequentially.
Can this be done in Mplus? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, April 08, 2011 - 8:48 am
Perhaps you mean that class 3 should have the process-specific parameters held equal to those of class 1 and 2, respectively, and only estimate as a new parameter the covariance between the processes. If so, that can be accomplished using equality constraints on the parameters.
Liuben Siarov
posted on Friday, April 08, 2011 - 9:33 am
Dear Prof. Muthen,
thank you for your prompt feedback; I have done this already. However, the algorithm apparently attempts to jointly maximize the likelihood with respect to the sought parameter in *all* classes (weighted, I assume, by the posterior probability of belonging to the respective class) and this fails to converge in class 3.
As an analogy, it is equivalent to estimating a mixture distribution with two means - class 1 has mean 1, class 2 has mean 2, and class 3 has the sum. Running this model will result in lack of convergence since in class 3, the model still attempts to estimate the two means. I am also aware that we can fix this with MODEL CONSTRAINT, but it quickly becomes very complex in my case (for n component processes) - not only algebraically, but also I think in terms of fiddling with the starting values.
I hope I've made my predicament clearer. Thank you again!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, April 08, 2011 - 8:49 pm
I am not sure I can be helpful, but let me ask:
Regarding your second paragraph, yes if the class 3 mean is the sum of the means of the other classes you would handle it by Model Constraint. But it didn't sound like this was the situation for your model (although you surely know that better than I) - I thought the 3rd class had mostly the same parameters as the first 2 classes, and added another mathematically independent parameter.
Regarding your first paragraph, yes, it is a joint maximization going on. How do you see that it is class 3 that causes non-convergence?
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If any of you brides are like I was, you're constantly thinking about your décor, how everything is going to come together….IF it's going to come together. You live with this low, constant hum in the back of your head that you know are all the details trying to sort themselves out, whirling around in a slow churn as you go through your every day routine of work/eat/plan wedding/sleep. That stuff? That buzz? That's the shit that gives you those wedding nightmares of having no dress, no groom or like me, no reception venue! Aaaaah! I think that's about when I started blogging…..but I digress.
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Sometimes when I'm talking about wedding décor, I reference the same crazy things over and over – like adorning each cute favor with an antique key. I don't know why I choose this icon, probably because at one point in time, I saw antique keys as a favor and thought they'd look really cute as part of our tablescapes and really had no idea how to find them, nor the time to do so. Antique keys are going to be the example I'm going to use for how to find good vintage décor stuffs. This can be applied to Mason jars, hobnail milk glass, mismatched floral china teacups…whatever you want/need.
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Now, I've found vintage skeleton keys ranging anywhere from $.75 to $20 each. Look for the average price. I found that the average price for vintage keys is between $3 and $5 based on several different resources. You'll want to pay $3 or less, but only if you're going to buy in quantities. If you only need a few, pay the asking price but no more than the top range of your average price. Make sense?
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Because of the fact that there is an achievement attached to finding each and every location in Point Lookout, we thought we'd outline where each mandatory point is located. Making a map is virtually impossible, because it's hard to get a clear shot of the map from your Pip-Boy (and the author of this guide isn't exactly a talented artist, so creating one from scratch isn't a possibility, either).
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- Jet Crash Site (NW) - The northwestern-most location on the map, this is a small site, and is difficult to find.
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- Marguerite's Shack (N) - This crumbling shack is essentially located as close to the center of the map as any other location.
- Ofie Clan Plot (SW) - This small graveyard can be found to the east and slightly to the south of Blackhall Manor.
- Pilgrim's Landing (S) - You'd be hard-pressed not to add this mandatory location to your map as soon as you arrive in Maryland.
- Point Lookout Lighthouse (SE) - Mandatory location on your quest, it's the southeast-most destination, on its own island.
- Point Lookout Pier (S) - The very first place you visit when you arrive at Point Lookout; it should be added to your map automatically.
- Ritual Site (SE) - Travel eastward from the Homestead Motel, and you should run right into this place.
- Sacred Bog Entrance (W) - You have to visit this place early on in your quest. It's at the far western portion of the map.
- Sub Recovery Site (SE) - Travel out into the water southwest of Calvert Mansion. This place is located due west of the Point Lookout Lighthouse.
- The Ark & Dove Cathedral (NE) - A mandatory location on your journey; you won't miss this one.
- The Homestead Motel (S) - A hard place to miss, you can find it north of Pilgrim's Landing, slightly to the west as well.
- Trapper's Shack (NW) - Travel west from the Trash Heap, north from the Flooded Sinkhole, or southeast from the crashed jet to find this place.
- Trash Heap (NW) - This enticing locale is due east of the Trapper's Shack, or northwest of Margurite's Shack in the swampland.
- Truck Wreckage (NE) - A small site that sits to the southeast of Turtledove Detention Camp.
- Turtledove Detention Camp (N) - This large area is at the far north end of the map in the center.
- USS Ozymandias (E) - Located out in the water due far to the east of the Ritual Site, this ship is hard to miss.
- Wrecked Seatub (NE) - East from the Resting Grounds adjacent to the Cathedral; the small ship sticks out pretty obviously, crashed along the watery rockface.
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