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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg admits that Facebook "missed the mark" with its recent privacy changes, promising that simpler privacy controls are on the way. In an op-ed piece published in the Washington Post Monday, Zuckerberg loosely outlines the company's plan to make things easier on users and promises that Facebook is taking the recent criticism about its decisions to heart.
Zuckerberg's piece is a bit heavy on the PR-speak, but it does admit that Facebook may have made incorrect assumptions about what users wanted when it came to privacy controls. He says that the company tried to move quickly to keep up with Facebook's meteoric growth and assumed users wanted many granular controls over different aspects of their profiles. This was apparently not the case, and Facebook is now hoping to roll out new changes to accommodate user feedback.
"The biggest message we have heard recently is that people want easier control over their information. Simply put, many of you thought our controls were too complex," Zuckerberg wrote. "We have heard the feedback. There needs to be a simpler way to control your information. In the coming weeks, we will add privacy controls that are much simpler to use. We will also give you an easy way to turn off all third-party services."
Complaints about Facebook's privacy settings, changes, and overall stance toward user info have snowballed in recent months—so much so that the company has no other choice but to give users (at least some of) what they want. Zuckerberg himself hasn't exactly taken user privacy all that seriously in the past, but with possible FTC investigations and groups of users shutting down their accounts and leaving, it seems self-destructive to keep going along the path Facebook has recently trod. Today's piece marks quite a reversal for a social network that made a reputation for itself by being the most private years ago, and Facebook is looking to get back to some of that.
In addition to Zuckerberg's statement in the Post, he also wrote a candid letter to Robert Scoble (published on Scoble's blog with Zuckerberg's permission) about the state of Facebook privacy. "I know we've made a bunch of mistakes, but my hope at the end of this is that the service ends up in a better place," Zuckerberg wrote.
It's a relief to see that the Facebook team may, in fact, be making changes that will assuage users' fears. But is it too little, too late? For longtime Facebook users, it's disappointing that it has taken this long for the company to make serious changes. And, given the company's recent track record, there's some chance that the changes won't be enough to appease critics. In the meantime, make liberal use of the Reclaim Privacy bookmarklet and keep your fingers crossed that Zuckerberg and gang mean it when they say they're trying to make things right again.


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A hillbilly draftee turns the Air Force upside down.
Will Stockdale, an affable, guileless hillbilly, is living with his Pa on a remote farm in Georgia when draft officer McKinney arrives, accusing Will of dodging the draft. Will immediately deduces that his crotchety but loving father has been tearing up the draft board notices, and explains that he considers the fact that Uncle Sam wants him, as the posters in town declare, to be a personal honor. At the bus station, as they await the bus taking them to the air force base where the new inductees will be classified, McKinney handcuffs the burly Will to a gas pump and assigns cocky Irvin S. Blanchard in charge of the boys. Just before the bus pulls out, recruit Benjamin B. Whitledge races up, and as Will befriends the bespectacled bundle of nerves, Irvin confiscates a letter that Ben's mother has written requesting that Ben be transferred to join his six brothers in the infantry. While defending his new friend, Will pulls the handcuff free of its metal bar, a feat of strength that leaves Irvin quaking in fear. At the base, barracks commander Sgt. Orville C. King delivers a speech containing a sardonic offer of friendship, which Will takes literally. When Irvin leads the other boys in calling Will "plough boy," Ben, ever the pessimist, convinces Will that he must "whomp" them. Will challenges Irvin to a fight, and after King chastises them all, Ben fears that they have now lost their chance to obtain a transfer to the infantry. Will lays awake considering how to help Ben, and decides to talk to the sergeant immediately, despite the late hour. King, whose professional philosophy values "coasting" over "making waves," distracts Will, who wants to bring Ben's letter directly to the captain, by appointing him "in charge" of cleaning the latrine. Will, thrilled with his new responsibility, stays up all night cleaning, and beams with pride when King, hoping to keep Will quiet and out of trouble, names him PLO, or permanent latrine orderly. King's plan works until the captain arrives for his customary inspection, at which point Will innocently praises King to the captain as helpful and kind, and repeats every negative phrase about the captain that King has uttered. In retaliation, the captain threatens to fire King unless Will is classified and shipped out within a week. To assure that Will passes his classes despite the expedited schedule, King finagles all the exams ahead of time and promises Will his watch if he succeeds. On the day of the final tests, after flummoxing manual dexterity tester Corp. John C. Brown by using brute strength to link two iron bars, Will gapes at a W.A.F. officer, and takes to heart Ben's advice to see only her rank rather than her gender. Soon after, Will takes his psychiatric test with Maj. Royal B. Demming, who becomes increasingly agitated as Will eludes all of his simplistic diagnoses. As King waits nervously in the mess hall, Ben is at first overjoyed to learn that his psychiatric diagnoses¿delusional with an inferiority complex and secondary anxiety¿has secured him a transfer to the infantry, but later tears it up to avoid having to leave Will. When Will arrives at the mess hall, King happily assumes he has passed all of his tests until the female captain enters and Will declares that he cannot see that she is a woman, prompting King to believe that Will must have failed his eye test. Irvin, noting King's dismay, suggests that they get Will drunk that evening so he will fail the next day's inspection and be thrown out of the regiment. They bring him to a nightclub, but Will, used to his father's rotgut whiskey, stomachs the liquor easily, while Irvin and King get steadily inebriated. King picks a fight with an equally drunk infantryman, after which the entire bar erupts into a brawl, and only Will, blithely striding back to the base, avoids the M.P.s. The next morning, King is still missing when the captain and colonel arrive for inspection, which Ben leads. The officers are pleased with the barracks, despite the fact that Will has rigged the latrine so each toilet lid lifts in unison as a special salute to the colonel. Before they leave, however, a disheveled King sneaks into the latrine and accidentally exposes his hiding place by setting off the toilet lids. The captain strips King of his stripes and orders him to go to gunnery school, to which, King is appalled to discover, Will and Ben have also been assigned. The three are sent to an obsolete airfield for training, where King soon regains the rank of sergeant. On their first flight, Will and Ben serve as rear gunners while the pilots sleep in the cockpit. When an engine fails, the pilots order Will to take over radio communications. He and Ben manage to contact the nearest radio tower, which resides in an atomic proving ground command post run by Gen. Vernon Pollard. Pollard, realizing that the plane is headed straight for his tower, demands that they turn around, and when Will and Ben question his authority, calls air force general Eugene Bush to complain. King is serving as Bush's aide, and upon hearing Will's name, instructs the general to tell Will that if he turns the plane around, King will give him his watch. Thrilled, Will complies, but after he informs the pilots of their error and declares that Ben should be awarded a medal, the pilots order Will not to bother them further. Therefore, when the plane flies too near the atomic plant and catches fire, Will grabs Ben and parachutes out of the plane rather than notify the pilots. The two land safely and travel for days back to the air force base. Once there, they come upon a funeral, not realizing that they are presumed dead and the ceremony is for them, an attempt by Bush and Pollard to reposition the debacle into an heroic atomic test flight. They approach Bush, but in his hurry to preside over the ceremony, he brushes them aside without learning their names. King spots them, but is too late to stop the general from awarding posthumous medals to the soldiers, who are still alive. Upon discovering Will and Ben's existence, Bush, fearing that public humiliation will befall him if the news gets out, arranges for them to be transferred to Pollard's branch. To maintain complete secrecy of this illegal act, the generals transport Will and Ben to the woods and keep them under armed guard. Will, however, refuses to sign the transfer unless Ben is awarded a medal, and in desperation, Bush orders Pollard to give the boy one of his own decorations. Ben, who has assumed that he will be shot, is thrilled instead to receive a commendation and be transferred, finally, to the infantry. Even King is pleased finally to be rid of Will, until Bush informs him that he will join the privates at their new command.
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I am a bit of mascara whore at the moment, using one for a week, getting bored the discarding it for something else.
My newest mascara lust is Bobbi Brown Lash Glamour Lengthening Mascara (which I will do a full review for later). I saw this on a You Tube video and ended up slapping down £17.50 for a tube of this at my local BB counter.
Obviously, my first thought was how similar it looks to Eyeko's Long & Luscious Lashes mascara!
Both come in similar tubes – I love the tube idea, means you can control the amount to apply. Both are decently packaged, no winner here.
Quantities – you get slightly more with the Bobbi Brown:
0. 3oz in the Bobbi Brown
0.28 oz in the Eyeko
The Brush!
Very important is the mascara brush. Both of these brushes have a spiral style comb,with wide gaps that tends to put quite a lot of product on the lashes. This is ok….if you have the kind of lashes that can take it and if you have a brilliant formula!
The Eyeko brush is thinner than the Bobbi Brown one. The BB is a bit more bristly than the Eyeko but I found the Eyeko easier to use because it's that bit smaller.
Color wise, the BB mascara is called "smoke" which implies it's a dark grey – but it is black. Eyeko's is black. Side by side they look pretty much the same, both are quite dark and give a decent colour:
Formula is very important of course. Both of these mascara focus on 'length' as opposed to volume. Both do lengthen, but one does a much better job in my opinion.
I found that both of these formulas (when new) are a little on the wet side.
I've used a photograph of Eyeko from when I first got the bottle (to make it fair as the Bobbi Brown is brand new). So the angles aren't perfect for side by side comparison, but I hope it is of some use.
2 coats of each mascara:
Eyeko adds a lot of length, it is quite dramatic and nice to use. It also does a good job of holding and emphasising curl which is great for something that is quite a wet formula. I found that the Eyeko starts to go clumpy after about a month.
Bobbi Brown:
Hmmm. Bobbi Brown's formula I found, was heavier and clumpier than Eyeko's. It added more volume but not enough length. It also weighed down my lashes a lot so there is not way it will hold curl.
I just found the brush quite big and cumbersome – hence I kept getting it on my eyelids.
I am all for posh make up, but in this case, paying more didn't get me better results – prices: £8 for Eyeko* and £17.50 for Bobbi Brown.
*£8 isn't really that cheap, I've noticed that even drugstore/highstreet mascara's cost a fortune these days!
I suspected there would be little difference between the two products, there is actually quite a big difference and I would say the Eyeko is far better for creating a clump free lengthening effect.
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Wray and Grace (2007) propose that the structure of a language is dependent of the social structure of the population who speak it. Lupyan & Dale (2010) later showed this using statistical analysis. This has been discussed extensively on this blog before:
One of the proposed reasons for why large population size is thought to affect linguistic structure is that larger populations will have a larger ratio of second language (L2) speakers to first language (L1) speakers.
Languages within exoteric niches (large population and geographical spread with many language neighbors) have been shown to be more more morphologically isolating and, as a result, regular. This has proposed to be because of the biases of adult second language learners.
Esoteric languages are more irregular and morphologically complex and idiosyncratic. This is thought to be because of the biases of child learners.
There are studies which show that adult learners have a tendency to regularise languages but only under some circumstances. Hudson Kam & Newport (2009) show that adult learners will regularise unpredictable variability but only if it exists above a certain level of scatter and complexity.
As for the learning biases of children, Wray & Grace (2007) cite only one study which looked at children who were 'native' speakers of Esperanto (Bergen, 2001). Bergen (2001) found that the language that the children learnt displayed a loss of the accusative case and also displayed attrition in the tense system. Although Wray & Grace (2007) suggest that this explains patterns seen in esoteric communities, it may not be as straight forward as they suggest. The evidence suggests that esoteric conditions are going to display more morphological strategies in their languages which is the opposite to the biases the child learners of Esperanto are displaying. The children are rejecting morphological strategies in favour of attrition and word order.
I wanted to point out in this post that there is evidence to suggest that adult learners preserve irregularities and idiosyncrasies, while children learners regularize (suggesting the opposite to Wray & Grace).
Studies which have addressed these problems include Hudson Kam & Newport (2005) where adult learners of an artificial language preserved unpredictable variation and child learners of the same language regularized it. Hudson Kam & Newport (2009) show in a similar study that child learners of an artificial language will regularise unpredictable irregularity but, as mentioned above, adult learners will only do this where the irregularity passes a certain level of complexity.
However, some evidence does support Wray & Grace's (2007) proposal about adult learners. Smith & Wonnacott (2010) show that despite there being a tendency within individual adult learners to maintain the level of unpredicted variability within the language learning process, when put into a diffusion chain of adult learners the language regularises. Smith & Wonnacott (2010) suggest that gradual processes such as this can explain the regularisation of languages over time. While this fits nicely with Wray & Grace's (2007) theory there is still the problem that children are just as liable to regularise as adults if not more so.
This is just some relevant experiments which I thought lent something to the debate. I know there are other factors which have been proposed to have an effect on linguistic structure. I was just curious about people's opinions on quite to what level L2 speakers have an effect.


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Faculty members at Penn State Shenango are encouraging students to engage in undergraduate research projects. Engaging in undergraduate research helps students appreciate the scientific research process, helps students develop project and time management skills that carry over to the workplace and promotes critical and creative thinking. The Council on Undergraduate Research, a national organization that promotes student-faculty collaboration on research and scholarship, also suggests that undergraduate research increases student retention and future enrollment in graduate programs.
Kathy Mastrian, associate professor of nursing and nursing coordinator, offers a research series in sociology for students enrolled in the Letters, Arts and Science baccalaureate program. The series consists of two courses: Sociology 471, Qualitative Research Methods in Sociology, and Sociology 494, Research Project. In the Sociology 471 course students learn the fundamentals of the qualitative research process. Qualitative research involves the collection and analysis of information from multiple sources such as first-person accounts, life histories, visual records, semi-structured and open-ended interviews, and informal and formal observations in natural settings.
This type of research in sociology almost always involves human subjects, therefore students are required to complete the CITI (Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative) to ensure that they understand how to protect human subjects in research. The CITI training is nearly universal for colleges and universities, so once students have completed this initial training they are certified for a period of three years and can carry this certification forward into graduate programs. After earning certification, students in Sociology 471 design and carry out a qualitative research pilot study, presented as a class project. The purpose of designing and carrying out a pilot study is to give students firsthand experience with the research process and to provide a basis for carrying the research forward in Sociology 494.
In the Sociology 494 course, the students revise and refine the pilot project and earn Office of Research (ORP) protections approval to carry out the study and disseminate the results. Federal regulations for the responsible conduct of research require that all research involving human subjects and disseminated outside of the classroom must be approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the ORP. The application for IRB approval is lengthy and requires the student to describe all research procedures such as recruiting subjects, sampling, data collection, data analysis and dissemination of results to the satisfaction of the board.
The approval process is an excellent learning experience for the students. Once students earn IRB approval, then they recruit subjects and collect their data. In qualitative research, data are typically collected during in-depth tape recorded interviews. Students then transcribe the data and analyze it for recurrent topics and themes that describe a social issue in a natural setting. The Sociology 494 course ends with the presentation of the research via a poster designed by the student at the Shenango Campus Undergraduate Research Fair. At the research fair, students stand with their posters and answer questions posed by students, staff, faculty and community members.
The Undergraduate Research Fair was held at the end of the spring semester. Sociology students presenting at the fair this year included Emily Astey who studied discourse markers used in everyday speech, Andrea Delgros who studied student and faculty perceptions of grade inflation, April Mills who studied expectations of military veterans in college and Maggie Cirillo who studied the changing nature of libraries. Students from other disciplines including human development and family studies, criminal justice and business, also presented at the fair. The Shenango campus faculty are planning to host undergraduate research fairs next year in both the fall and spring semesters.


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Skeletor has built a Stormbringer device with the help of Webstor. Skeletor plans to use the device to create a storm that will level Castle Grayskull. Skeletor triggers the Stormbringer, gloating that even He-Man can't defeat the weather.
Meanwhile, Snout Spout and Teela are watching He-Man and Extendar compete in front of a crowd of Eternians outside of Castle Grayskull. Snout Spout tells Teela that he doesn't feel like he's really a heroic warriors.
Skeletor and Webstor watch the storm aproach the heroes with Skeletor's spynoculars. Snout Spout is the first hero to notice the gathering storm and runs to warn the others. Extendar realizes the storm is not natural due to the heat it is putting out. He-Man uses his Power Sword to reflect lightning bolts back up into the storm clouds, which Skeletor fears will short circuit the storm.
Skeletor makes a cloud vehicle with his magic, and he and Webstor leave to go stop He-Man. As He-Man's strength is giving out, Snouth Spout arrives in the Wind Raider. He sprays water over the clouds, dousing the heat of the artificial storm. The storm dies out, and Skeletor and Webstor fall from the clouds intho the midst of the heroes.
Webstor fires his gun at He-Man until Snout Spout swoops in and sprays him with water. Seeig they're outnumbered, Skeletor calls for a retreat, but Webstor turns to take one more shot at He-Man.
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Following the principles of openness and transparency, we (Martin and Peter) decided to do the sponsoring for the Eclipse Demo Camp Juno 2012 in Hamburg slightly different and use an open crowd-funding process (described in detail below). Due to the huge success of this process, we plan to do it again! So if you or your company want to sponsor the event, feel free to add your name / your company's name to the list, including the amount of money you would like to sponsor.
Sponsoring for the demo camp is totally open and transparent to everybody. We would like to invite everybody to participate in this sponsoring. The only thing you need to do in order to participate in this sponsoring is to add yourself (you as a person or the company that is sponsoring) to this section of the wiki page. Please add your name or company and the amount of money you would like to sponsor.
This is totally open. Everybody is invited to join the group of sponsors. Companies as well as individuals are invited to participate in this. And you decide for yourself on the total amount of money you would like to spend. The more money we get from YOU all, the more we can spend at the event for drinks and food. So please start today, convince your boss or spend your own money, and add you to the sponsoring list for the next Demo Camp in Hamburg.
The event will continue to be free for all participants (as it was in the past) and you don't need to sponsor just to participate.
One additional note: We will donate 20% of the sponsored food/drinks to an organisation that supports homeless people in Hamburg. So 20% of the ordered drinks/food will not be delivered to our demo camp, but directly to that organization at the same time. We did that once in the past when we ordered more stuff that we could eat and we thought we should do this again, but this time by purpose.
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I am running for the office of mayor of the Village of Sylvan Beach in the March 19 election. In my previous role as assemblyman for 20 years, I was known for my independence and my willingness to stand up for what is right.
I have served as a village trustee for the past two years and I have initiated many important issues that have improved the village. I will continue to advocate for all of us as your mayor. I see great potential for as we move forward with the major upgrade to our sewage plant, the construction of a Nice 'n Easy on the corner of 15th Avenue and Main Street and a new bank as examples.
I wish I could talk to each of you in person. I was in the beach the week of Feb. 10 and was fortunate to speak with many of you. I hope to return before the election but I have a commitment in Florida until the end of March. Some would like to make a negative of this, but others will view it as a positive. It shows my commitment to what I get involved with.
My years of service to you are another positive for the citizens and the village. We may be the smallest level of government, but the issues we face are often similar to those of much larger cities. As a former police officer and state official, I have diverse problem-solving experience and an extensive network of contacts in and out of government who can provide assistance and counsel on a variety of key issues that we will face in the next few years. I intend to become an integral part of the Resort Committee to help assure success to our largest asset -- our businesses. We will move forward together to make the village an even better place.
I had a summer home in Sylvan Beach the late 1990s and moved my official residence here in 2006. In 2008, I relocated my NYS Assembly office to the bank building on Main Street, now occupied by Adirondack Bank, which is evidence of my commitment to the village. As a retiree, I have the time to devote my best efforts as the mayor. This means that I am committed to being a FULL TIME mayor available in Sylvan Beach 12 months a year.
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If you can't make it to Oklahoma City for the New Year's Eve Freakout you can still watch it LIVE
This New Year's weekend, Rolling Stone is teaming up with iClips to stream performances by the Flaming Lips and Gogol Bordello.
The Lips kick things off on December 31 with a New Years Eve "freakout" that will include a full-album performance of the band's 1999 fan favorite The Soft Bulletin. Then on New Year's Day, Rolling Stone will be streaming the Gogol Bordello show, live from Terminal 5 in NYC.
Fri 12/31/10
10 pm EST - The Flaming Lips (LIVE)
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If you plan to purchase any items from the Flaming Lips Store and would like them to arrive by Christmas day, be sure your order is in by 12/21 at 11:59pm and select rush shipping at checkout.
To make it a bit easier, we've created a last minute gift item in the store that includes rush shipping in the cost: The "All We Have Is Now" Book ($25.00 including rush shipping). And, because this order is $25, it will also include a free "Steven On Mars" poster.
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Flaming Lips Store Holiday Specials
Right now at The Flaming Lips store we have a few holiday specials we wanted to let you know about.
Visit the new gift guide section and spend $75.00 or more to receive free standard shipping by using code GIFT2010 at checkout
Spend $25 or more & get a free Steven on Mars Poster
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Download the "Gift Wrapped, Vol. II: Snowed In" Holiday Compilation Album Featuring The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips are featured on the holiday compilation album titled "Gift Wrapped, Vol. II: Snowed In," with their rendition of "Little Drummer Boy." Purchase and download the album by clicking here.
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How to participate in this year's MARCH OF 1000 FLAMING SKELETONS Parade
Want to participate in this year's MARCH OF 1000 FLAMING SKELETONS parade?
This Oct 23, The LIPS will once again host their annual MARCH OF 1000 FLAMING SKELETONS parade in downtown Oklahoma City¹s Bricktown district, just a stones throw away from FLAMING LIPS ALLEY.
Last year¹s second annual Ghouls Gone Wild event was a huge success that drew LIPS fans from around the globe. Naturally, this year¹s Supernatural procession will be even more incendiary as festive floats, (in)appropriately adorned cars, walking groups and plenty of surprises along with 1000 strong undead snaking through the streets of Oklahoma City.
Here's a few things you should know before purchasing your bundle at The Flaming Lips Store
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1. You can wear your costume from previous years and participate in the parade. If you choose this option you can purchase just the T-shirt and the torch for $20. All the same rules apply, you must be 18 and you can only use the torch that we provide.
2. 2010 Death March branded skeleton costumes come in 2 sizes: Standard and Large. If you order a standard costume, you will be able to only select from a small or medium shirt. If you order a Large costume, you will be able to only select from a large or x-large shirt. Each bundle comes with a torch and 2009 March of 1000 Skeletons event t-shirt. The shirts are available in sizes Small through X-Large so choose your T-SHIRT size at checkout.
3. You may only purchase 2 costumes. Every costume must be for a person so we need a person's name and e-mail address attached to each costume. You will receive an email from us if you order 2 so we can obtain the other person in your party¹s name.
4. Every skeleton will be carrying a torch with real fire. Anyone in the parade must be 18. Anyone in the parade must sign a waiver.
5. You will be told at a later date when and where to be so be sure to enter a valid name, email, mailing address and phone number at checkout.
6. A person must have the ability to march in the parade for up to 2 hours.
7. If you do not show up at the assigned time to pick up your outfit and be in the parade you forfeit your fee and will not receive a refund.
8. There are no refunds.
It¹s going to be lots of fun!!
~The Flaming Lips Crew
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New Items Available in the Flaming Lips Store
Hey Lips fans! Visit "The Flaming Lips Official Store" and check out some of the new products that are available now.
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Lips on David Letterman tonight!
Hey, everybody.
I just wanted to let you know that we will be performing live on the David Letterman show tonight. Please check your local listings and times and tune in.
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Watch the Flaming Lips perform live tonight via ustream.
Tune in to watch The Flaming Lips Perform live via Ustream at SPIN Magazine's 25th Anniv. show in NYC. Tonight @ 9:15PM ET
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Oakland, CA Tour Date Added - OCT 2nd
New tour date added:
Saturday, Oct 2nd at The Fox in Oakland, CA Tickets on sale Now!
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Boca Raton, FL Tour Date Added - Oct 16th
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Demi Lovato is hitting the road again! Just 12 days ago, the "Really Don't Care" singer wrapped her 48-stop Neon Lights Tour in Monterrey, Mexico. The three-month trek took her through North America and South America, and now the pop star's going global!
Lovato announced the North American dates for her World Tour Thursday. The concert series kicks off Sept. 6 in Baltimore, Md., at the Baltimore Arena. The "Let It Go" singer will perform in 25 cities across the United States and Canada, with shows planned in Chicago, Miami and Montreal; additional cities will be announced soon.
Singer-songwriter Christina Perri and boy band MKTO will join Lovato's World Tour as special guests.
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Sept. 14 - Miami, Florida - American Airlines Arena
Sept. 15 - Orlando, Florida - Amway Center
Sept. 17 - New Orleans, Louisiana - Lakefront Arena
Sept. 19 - San Antonio, Texas - AT&T Center
Sept. 21 - Tulsa, Oklahoma - BOK Center
Sept. 23 - Kansas City, Missouri - Sprint Center
Sept. 25 - Denver, Colorado - Pepsi Center
Sept. 28 - San Diego, California - Viejas Arena
Oct. 2 - Seattle, Washington - Comcast Arena
Oct. 4 - Edmonton, Alberta - Rexall Place
Oct. 5 - Calgary, Alberta - Scotiabank Saddledome
Oct. 7 - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Credit Union Center
Oct. 11 - Moline, Illinois - Wireless Center
Oct. 14 - Chicago, Illinois - United Center
Oct. 15 - Louisville, Kentucky - KFC Yum! Center
Oct. 17 - Uncasville, Connecticut - Mohegan Sun Arena
Oct. 19 - Montreal, Quebec - Bell Centre
Oct. 20 - Hamilton, Ontario - FirstOntario Centre
Oct. 22 - Manchester, New Hampshire - Verizon Wireless Arena
Oct. 24 - Hershey, Pennsylvania - GIANT Center
Oct. 25 - Newark, New Jersey - Prudential Center
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Lovato's World Tour is being produced and promoted by Live Nation and sponsored by the Tampax and Always Radiant Collection. Citi card members can buy pre-sale tickets beginning June 3 at 10:00 a.m. local time through Citi's Private Pass program. Tickets for the general public go on sale June 6.


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MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- It was announced today that Gray Motorsports would take on the 2014 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series in the Stock Eliminator category as a two-car team campaigning identically appearing GMPartsNow.com COPO Camaros. Veteran drag racer Jeff Strickland will join renowned Gray Motorsports driver Dave Connolly on the NHRA national event tour.
"I really can't put into words what it means to me to have been chosen to drive one of the GMPartsNow.com COPO Camaros," said the three-time NHRA Lucas Oil Series division champion. "It's a really nice car, and I appreciate that they have a lot of faith in me to allow me to drive it. I want to thank Matt Berger, Berger Chevrolet, and Gray Motorsports for the opportunity to drive for them this year. It is an honor.
"It's great to start it all off in Gainesville because that's a racetrack that means a lot to me. I've been to the final round there twice before and was runner-up both times. The first time I ever went to the final in Stock at a national event was there at the Gatornationals in 1998, and I only lost by .001-second. I got to the final again [in Gainesville] in 2008 and came up short, but maybe third time will be the charm with the GMPartsNow.com COPO Camaro."
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"I'm certainly looking forward to racing the GMPartsNow.com COPO Camaro once again this year, and it's huge that Berger Chevrolet and GMPartsNow.com saw enough value in our partnership last year to step up and run a second car in 2014. We really appreciate their support," said Connolly, a multi-category racer with 23 Pro Stock victories and four wins earned across three sportsman classes: Super Comp, Super Gas and Top Dragster.
"It's also really special because we get to do this with a good friend of mine, Jeff Strickland, who is very capable of winning. He's run Stock Eliminator a lot in the past, but I don't know if he has ever had a car as competitive as this one. I'm excited for him, and it'll be interesting to see what he can do with it. I think it's going to be a great year for all of us."
GMPartsNow.com is a division of well-known Berger Chevrolet of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Berger is one of the original muscle car dealers and is, in fact, the only original Chevrolet muscle car dealer that remains in business today from the golden age of muscle cars. The 89-year old family firm is currently in the hands of Matt Berger, a fourth-generation family member.
Matt Berger also announced that Berger Chevrolet will continue its role as an associate sponsor on both Gray Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro Pro Stockers. The Berger name will prominently appear on the front fenders of the Camaros driven by Connolly and Shane Gray.
"Everyone at Berger Chevrolet and GMPartsNow.com is thrilled to be a part of a championship team like Gray Motorsports and their highly-regarded drivers. It reminds me of the days when we had the first generation COPO Camaros on our lot," said Matt Berger. "We compete every day in the car and parts business and this allows us to compete on the track while having a little fun."
Gray Motorsports Vice President Shane Gray said, "We're happy to extend the relationship that Gray Motorsports has with Berger Chevrolet that dates all the way back to 2004 with our Managing Director, Victor Cagnazzi. Berger Chevrolet saw the potential of the COPO back in the 1960s, and now today we are proud to represent them with the GMPartsNow.com COPO Camaros and on our Gray Motorsports Chevrolet Camaros in Pro Stock."
For 2014 the NHRA Factory Stock Showdown has been expanded to a four race series. In addition to the previous tour stop at the granddaddy of all NHRA national events, the tour will now include visits to the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series events in Reading, Pa., and Las Vegas after beginning its season at the Amalie Oil NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla., March 13-16, 2014.
The NHRA Factory Stock Showdown, now in its third year, was designed to showcase the new generation of muscle cars. In addition to the Chevrolet COPO Camaro, the Ford Mustang Cobra Jet and the Dodge Challenger Drag Pak also compete in the Factory Stock Showdown.


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Security: Measuring Up
Metrics are the key to measuring security. Learn how to gather data and calculate the answers you need.
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Risk = Threat x Vulnerability x Expected Loss
It's useful for expressing the necessity and purpose of security. It's also equally difficult to quantify with meaningful numbers.
How do you numerically express a threat? What is the cost of a vulnerability? How do you calculate expected loss? And, when you multiply these three variables, how do you denote risk in a way that can be translated into an action item?
Security metrics--the measure of security policies, processes and products--is the much-sought-after solution to this conundrum. Security managers look for a magic formula that calculates risk and effectiveness in reducing risk, but the reality is that security metrics aren't that simple.
Measuring security is about using common sense. Managers need to determine what to measure, organize the variables in a way that makes them manageable and meaningful, and build repeatable formulas that show the snapshot status of security and how it changes over time.
We'll define some of the underlying elements required for security metrics and how security managers can use them to quantify different portions of their security programs. We can't provide all the answers, but we'll provide you with a better understanding of the complexity of security metrics and insight into how you can leverage existing data to strengthen performance measurements.Calculating Asset Value
If we accept that premise, we can assume that the minimum value of all computing assets is the amount of IT spending for a year (salaries, operations and maintenance) plus the depreciation or amortization value of the assets (hardware and software). An ERP system with a TCO of $20 million must return at least that much over its lifespan.
But such calculations need context. That's why we assign quantifiable values to information assets for objective evaluation and comparison. The following are some ways to classify your information assets' value:
Productivity Value. An asset's worth is at least as much as the costs of implementing, maintaining and using it. For a single PC, the minimum information asset value is the cost of the PC plus software, a percentage of IT overhead costs (e.g., help desk) and the user's time (salary). As you'll see later, productivity value is essential for calculating other security metrics.
Revenue Value. For some assets, worth is measured in the value of transactions. If your e-commerce Web server processes $1 million in transactions a day, it's worth $365 million annually.
Revenue value isn't always clear-cut. Supply-chain systems, such as manufacturing equipment and control systems, don't generate revenue, but your revenue generators are useless without their productivity. Their value is often calculated by measuring how much revenue would be lost if those systems were unavailable.
What isn't as easy to calculate is the revenue value of a pure information asset, such as software, music, movies and electronic documents, that can be perfectly replicated. The assets' values are usually much higher than their assigned prices, since they're sold many times over. The value of an "information asset for sale" can be estimated using historical data and/or revenue trend information.
Liquid Financial Assets Value. Those much-vaunted "assets under management" figures associated with financial institutions provide a straightforward way to assess their value. If $1 billion is under management, that amount, plus the productivity value, provides the total value that's being protected. Add to that the revenue values of transaction assets, and you've got the total value of information assets that require protection.
Intellectual Property Value. This is the most difficult asset to value. It's usually seen as "the reason" a company is in business. There are books with elaborate formulas to calculate intellectual property value; however, it may be easiest to consider intellectual property's contribution to a company's market capitalization. This value can be calculated by multiplying the amount of intellectual property captured on systems with the difference between market capitalization and book value.
Calculating Potential Loss
Calculating potential losses is a little different than measuring asset value. Information assets aren't usually "lost" in the traditional sense--they're often still available for use, and partial (or even greater) value may be lost. Some information, such as Social Security numbers, don't have an inherent value; music files that are sold multiple times will have a greater asset value than face value because of their potential revenue. Value is a matter of context.
Because asset value is linked, but not tied, directly to loss, you must consider the type of compromise when evaluating potential losses. There are five distinct types:
Confidentiality breaches occur when high-value information, such as trade secrets or financial data, is read from storage, sniffed from the network by unauthorized parties, or leaked by internal users.
Integrity breaches occur when data is modified in transit or at rest, such as with transactions that are modified to reflect inappropriate quantities or dollar values.
Availability breaches are when information is deleted or made unavailable.
Productivity breaches occur when resources are disabled, such as when an e-mail server is disabled by spam or an e-commerce service is DOS'd by transaction requests.
Liability breaches occur when systems and data are still available, but are being misused. This could be an employee using corporate resources to host a porn site or a hacker storing stolen files on a compromised server.
Determining information asset value enables enterprises to focus on their real security needs and allocate adequate resources. But asset value isn't the only thing that may be lost. It's important to consider incident costs with the lost asset value when evaluating actual and potential losses. Incident costs are the lost asset value that are specifically associated with the incident, including IT productivity, legal and regulatory costs.
The severity of an incident and its losses are calculated by correlating the type of breach with the value type. For instance, if a worm disables your network, you have an availability and productivity breach that affects the asset values of everything on the network--productivity and revenue. The loss equals productivity and revenue values, plus incident costs associated with IT productivity. Legal costs and regulatory fines are also a factor.
A popular method of calculating potential losses is annual loss expectancy (ALE), an estimate for expected loss calculated by multiplying the probability of a particular type of loss by the total loss potential. For example, if there's a 10 percent chance of losing $1 million, the ALE is $100,000.
Obviously, there's a difference between a 1-in-10 chance of large loss and the strong likelihood of a number of incidents throughout the year. One way to address this difference is by treating ALE based on the category: recurring losses or specific security breaches. These distinctions allow you to rate the viability of projections based on historical data. If you know you've suffered an average 100 malware infections a month (recurring), you know your projections have a greater validity. Predicting less-frequent attacks is much more ambiguous, making such calculations more art than science.
Measuring Security Spending
As part of the overall security management program, it's important to measure total spending and spending effectiveness. Measuring enterprise-wide security spending is more difficult than it appears. Security spending is often divided among various business units and departments, as well as being lumped in with network and infrastructure spending. Finding all of the security dollars and separating them from other budget items is a daunting task.
Sort through the IT chaos using activity-based management by classifying different forms of security activity and correlating all spending related to them. An example of this is the "Four Disciplines of Security Management": trust management (policy enforcement, security architecture, certificate management), identity management (user account management, password resets), vulnerability management (configuration hardening, vulnerability remediation) and threat management (monitoring, threat analysis, incident response, forensics). The classification system doesn't matter, as long as you're consistent in your application.
What spending information do you collect for your activity-based analysis? Everything. Spending is broken down into salaries (the percentage of people's time spent on security), hardware and software, and support and maintenance costs.
Staff (people) cost is a matter of identifying wage data for the portion of time anyone spends on security activities. The goal is to identify the percent of time staff members spend on security and calculate it as a percentage of their salaries. This is similar to calculating productivity. After doing this for every individual, the aggregate amount is the total enterprise security spending for personnel.
Allocate these amounts across each of the security activities in the model. The easiest way to do this is to allocate time by percentage for each activity. The percentages can be used to calculate spending for each activity by employee, department or the entire enterprise.
Finally, collect spending for products related to the security activities. The TCO includes product costs, and maintenance and support fees. Dividing TCO by the product's life expectancy is useful to annualize the costs (this is similar to how accountants depreciate and amortize costs over a number of years).
The result is a clear picture of how much an enterprise is spending on security, which can then be broken down by department for comparative purposes. Over time, activity-based analysis will be able to show trends in security spending. And, it's a good method for evaluating security purchases and calculating return on investment (ROI) (see "Positive Returns").
Measuring and Reducing Risk
Traditionally, security managers estimate risk (the probability of something bad happening) as a percentage incorporated into the ALE formula. If the expected loss from a compromise is $100,000, and you estimate that it could happen once every 10 years, the risk is 1 in 10 and the ALE is $10,000.
But which do you pay more attention to: the 10 percent chance of losing $10,000, or the 1 in 100 chance that you'll lose $100,000? Again, risk is often like art--judged by the eye of the beholder.
Defining risk for an entire enterprise is next to impossible. A more manageable approach is breaking it down into small units and types. There are three common forms of risk:
- Manifest risk is the ratio of malicious events to total events in a computing environment. There are at least four event types: flows, sessions, program commands and transactions. You calculate manifest risk by counting the number of flows and either estimating or using historical data to count the number of malicious events.
- Inherent risk is the likelihood that system configurations will contribute to a compromise. This is calculated by counting a system's configuration attributes like open ports and services running, and comparing the number of associated vulnerabilities.
- Contributory risk is a measure of process errors or mistakes made during the normal course of operations and maintenance that contribute to a compromise. Errors associated with user account management procedures and vulnerability management procedures are fertile ground for measuring contributory risk.
Even with these three risk types, you still need to determine the security event/incident frequency. First, you can use historical data to predict the future. If you can identify, for example, the volume of malicious traffic using IDS logs and have already counted the total number of flows, you can project future risk.
Obviously, it will take some time before these numbers are available, and some may never be. But there are other benefits: Even without a number for malicious events, it's possible to measure an environment's exposure.
Exposure is about possibility rather than probability (risk). Exposure measurements can be used as a relative comparison within an environment or across companies. If one can assume that risk is constant for like-sized companies (even if we don't know the number itself), this exposure measure can act as a "risk proxy" to measure the relative difference in risk levels.
Given the elusiveness of quantifiable risk, exposure can provide a means to measure your effectiveness at reducing risk.
None of this is designed to answer all your questions about metrics. But, methodologies outlined for calculating asset value, potential loss, security spending and risk give you a foundation for gathering data and applying it to your own goals and expectations. And, it will bring you closer to assigning values to that security formula and defining what risk means to your enterprise.
- Review these resources on measuring security ROI.
- Listen to Pete Lindstrom's webcast to learn best practices for achieving ROI for security spending.
- Learn strategies for quantifying security risk.
About the author
Pete Lindstrom, CISSP, is research director at Spire Security and a contributing editor for our sister publication Information Security magazine.
Note: This article originally appeared on Information Security magazine.


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The `Radial` style and `GradientAngle` are also used for this purpose. - `FillColor` is now used by edges to set the color of any arrows. - [WebP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP) output support added. * Other attribute changes: - Use a specified data type for the `Ordering` attribute rather than an arbitrary `Text` value, and provide a documented wrapper in `Data.GraphViz.Attributes`. - `Bb` has been renamed `BoundingBox`. - `ID` now only takes `EscString` (a type alias for `Text`) values rather than arbitrary `Label`s. - The `Data.GraphViz.Attributes.HTML` module has had all values re-named and is now meant to be imported qualified. It is also no longer re-exported from `Data.GraphViz.Attributes.Complete`. * The `ToGraphID` class provides a common wrapper to help create cluster identifiers, etc. * Cabal's `Test-Suite` functionality is now used. 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Braun** with an error in his code (which took a while to diagnose as a problem with the node type). * Made more clear to people looking in `Data.GraphViz` who want to create Dot graphs by hand to look in `Data.GraphViz.Types` (came about when **Rustom Mody** stated he got confused trying to work out how to do this). * Fixed up augmentation; bug and fix spotted by **Max Rabkin**. * Fix up the TestParsing script to actually use the new type setup. It can also now take a single directory as an argument, and will try to parse all (non-recursive) files in that directory. Changes in 29188.8.131.52 ---------------------- * Fixes various mistakes in the Haddock documentation that slipped through (either in the `String -> Text` conversion or adding new modules and not checking their documentation thoroughly enough). Changes in 2922.214.171.124 ---------------------- * Forgot to explicitly list the module for Arbitrary instance for the graph representation. Changes in 2918.104.22.168 ---------------------- * Fix a bug that prevented graphviz from being built with GHC 7.2. Changes in 29126.96.36.199 ---------------------- Many large-level changes were done in this release; in rough categories these are: ### Conversions from other types * Can now more easily create Dot graphs from other graph-like data structures with the new `graphElemsToDot` function, which takes a list of nodes and edges. * It is now no longer possible to use `graphToDot`, etc. to create Dot graphs with anonymous clusters; all clusters must now have explicit names (note that uniqueness is not enforced, and it is still possible to directly create Dot graphs with anonymous clusters). ### Dot graph representations * The canonical graph representation has been moved to its own module: `Data.GraphViz.Types.Canonical`. * The generalised representation has had all its "G" and "g" prefixes removed. * Two new representations: - `Data.GraphViz.Types.Graph` allows graph-like manipulation of Dot code. - `Data.GraphViz.Types.Monadic` provides a monadic interface into building relatively static graphs, based upon the [_dotgen_](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/dotgen) library by Andy Gill. * The `DotRepr` class has been expanded, and three pseudo-classes have been provided to reduce type-class contexts in type signatures. ### Using and manipulation Dot graphs * Pure Haskell implementations of `dot -Tcanon` and `tred` are available in `Data.GraphViz.Algorithms`. * A new module is available for more direct low-level I/O with Dot graphs, including the ability to run custom commands as opposed to being limited to the standard dot, neato, etc. ### Attributes * `Data.GraphViz.Attributes` now contains a slimmed-down recommended list of attributes; the complete list can still be found in `Data.GraphViz.Attributes.Complete`. * The `charset` attribute is no longer available. * Functions for specifying custom attributes (for pre-processors, etc.) are available. ### Implementation * Now uses [`Text`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text) values rather than `String`s. Whilst performing this migration, the improvements in speed for both printing and parsing improved dramatically. - As part of this, human-readable Dot code is now produced by default. As such, the `prettyPrint` and `prettyPrint'` functions have been removed. * Now uses state-based printing and parsing, so that things like graph directedness, layer separators and color schemes can be taken into account. * Parsing large data-types (e.g. `Attributes`) now uses less back-tracking. * Now has a benchmarking script for testing printing and parsing speed. * Uses a custom exception type rather than a mish-mash of error, `Maybe`, `Either`, exception types from used libraries, etc. * Usage of UTF-8 is now enforced when doing I/O. If another encoding is required, the `Text` value that's printed/parsed has to be written/read from disk/network/etc. manually. ### Bug-Fixes * The `Rects` `Attribute` should be able to take a list of `Rect` values; error spotted by **Henning Gunther**. * In some cases, global attribute names were being printed without even an empty list (which doesn't match what dot, etc. expect). Changes in 2922.214.171.124 ---------------------- * Addition of the `Labellable` class (and its method `toLabel`) to make it easier to construct labels. * Backslashes (i.e. the `\` character) are now escaped/unescaped properly (bug spotted by **Han Joosten**). As part of this: - Dot-specific escapes such as `\N` are now also handled correctly, so the slash does not need to be escaped. - Newline (`'\n'`) characters in labels, etc. are escaped to centred-newlines in Dot code, but not unescaped. * `Point` values can now have the optional third dimension and end in a `!` to indicate that that position should be used (as input to Graphviz). * `LayerList` uses `LayerID` values, and now has a proper `shrink` implementation in the test suite. Changes in 2922.214.171.124 ---------------------- * Fixed a mistake in one of the source files that was made just to make [haskell-src-exts](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell-src-exts) happier. * Fix the `Arbitrary` instance for `Point` in the testsuite (since there's only one constructor now). Changes in 29188.8.131.52 ---------------------- * Conversion of `FGL`-style graphs to `DotRepr` values is now achieved using the new `GraphvizParams` configuration type. This allows us to define a single parameter that stores all the conversion functions to pass around rather than having to pass around several functions. This also allows all the non-clustered and clustered functions to be collapsed together, whereas what used to be handled by the primed functions is now achieved by using the `setDirectedness` function. There are three default `GraphvizParams` available: - `defaultParams` provides some sensible defaults (no attributes or clustering). - `nonClusteredParams` is an alias of `defaultParams` where the clustering type is explicitly set to be `()` for cases where you don't want any clustering at all (whereas `defaultParams` allows you to set your own clustering functions). - `blankParams` sets all fields to be `undefined`; this is useful for situations where you have functions that will set some values for you and there is no sensible default you can use (mainly for the clustering function). * Expansion of the `DotRepr` class: - More common functions are now defined as methods (`getID`, etc.). - The ability to get more information about the structure of the `DotRepr` graph, as well as where all the `DotNode`s are, etc. - `graphNodes` now returns `DotNode`s defined only as part of `DotEdge`s, and will also merge duplicate `DotNode`s together. - `graphNodes` and `graphEdges` also return `GlobalAttributes` that apply to them. * The `Point` type now only has one constructor: `Point Double Double`. The `Int`-only constructor was present due to historical purposes and I thought that the `Pos` value for a `DotNode` would always be a pair of `Int`s; this turns out not to be the case. * `SortV` and `PrismOverlap` now only take `Word16` values rather than `Int`s, as they're not meant to allow negative values (the choice of using `Word16` rather than `Word` was arbitrary, and because it's unlikely those values will be large enough to require the larger values available in `Word`). * `NodeCluster` has been generalised to not have to take an `LNode` for the node type; the type alias `LNodeCluster` is available if you still want this. * Several documentation typos fixed, including one spotted by **Kevin Quick**. * The test-suite now allows running individual tests. Changes in 29188.8.131.52 --------------------- * graphviz now has an FAQ and an improved README as well as its own [homepage](http://projects.haskell.org/graphviz/). * Canonicalisation of `DotRepr` values is now available with the `canonicalise` function. * Add support for record labels; values are automatically escaped/unescaped. The `Record` and `MRecord` shapes have been added for use with these labels. **Requested by Minh Thu and Eric Kow.** * Add support for HTML-like values (this replaces the wrong and completely broken URL datatype). Strings are automatically escaped/unescaped. * Named `PortPos` values are now accepted (as required for record and HTML-like labels). * `GraphID` no longer allows HTML-like values (since Graphviz doesn't seem to allow it). * `RankSep` takes a list of `Double` values as required. * `Attribute` has a new constructor `UnknownAttribute` for use when parsing deprecated Graphviz attributes in old Dot code. * Various parsing fixes; of special note: - Statements no longer need to end in a semi-colon; - Anonymous sub-graphs are now supported. - Edge statements can now handle node groupings (e.g. ` a -> {b c}`) as well as `portPos` values (e.g. `a:from -> b:to`). - Unquoted `String`s containing non-ASCII characters are now parsed properly (though they are assumed to be encoded with UTF-8). **Thanks to Jules Bean (aka quicksilver) for working out how to do this.** More specifically: almost all Dot files that ship with Graphviz, as documentation in the Linux kernel, etc. are now parseable. * A new script to assist in testing whether "real-world" Dot graphs are parseable. * Slight performance increase when parsing: whereas parsing is done case-insensitively, the "correct" case is now checked by default which has a moderate affect on parsing times. * Split lines are now able to be handled when parsing. Changes in 29126.96.36.199 --------------------- * Added support for generalised `DotGraph`s; this optional representation removes the restriction of ordering of Dot statements. This allows for greater flexibility of how to specify Dot code. As an offshoot from this, most relevant functions now utilise a new `DotRepr` class that work with both `DotGraph`s and the new `GDotGraph`s; this shouldn't affect any code already in use. * With the **prompting of Noam Lewis**, the augmentation functions have been revamped in two ways: - Now contains support for multiple edges. - The ability to perform "manual" augmentation if greater control is desired. * Add a preview function to quickly render and visualise an `FGL` graph using the `Xlib` canvas. * Added a pseudo-inverse of the `FGL -> Dot` functions (a graph is created, but the original node and edge labels are unrecoverable). * The `Printing` and `Parsing` modules have been moved (from `Data.GraphViz.Types` to `Data.GraphViz`). * Reworked file-generating commands such that they return the filename of the created file if successful. Changes in 2918.104.22.168 --------------------- * Updated and extended functions to interact with the Graphviz tools. This now includes: - a better listing of available output types; - distinguishing file outputs from canvas outputs; - ability to automatically add the correct file extension to file outputs - Return any errors if calling Graphviz failed rather than just printing them to stderr * Improved `Color` support: - fixed `ColorScheme` values - explicitly named `X11` colors - conversion to/from values from the [colour] library [colour]: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Colour * Removed `OrientationGraph`; problems with distinguishing it when parsing from node-based `Orientation` values; its functionality is duplicated by `Rotate`. * By default, the generated Dot code is now no longer indented; you can now use the `prettyPrint` functions in `Data.GraphViz` to produce readable Dot code. * Added a testsuite; this is buildable by building with `--flags-test`. Numerous printing and parsing bugs were picked up with this. Changes in 29220.127.116.11 --------------------- * Remove some `Shape` aliases and change capitalisation of others. * Properly parse and print IDs of clusters. * Allow `NodeCluster` values to have node types different from the `LNode` they come from. Changes in 29126.96.36.199 --------------------- * When used as labels, etc., the Dot keywords `node`, `edge`, `graph`, `digraph`, `subgraph`, and `strict` need to be quoted. **Spotted by Kathleen Fisher.** Changes in 29220.127.116.11 --------------------- * Potentially fixed the `graphvizWithHandle` bug; correct approach **spotted by Nikolas Mayr**. * Fixed up `Parsing` of various `Attribute` sub-values, especially `Point` and `Spline` (and hence `Pos`, which uses them). * Pre-process out comments and join together multi-line strings before parsing. * Properly parse `Doubles` like `".2"`. Changes in 29188.8.131.52 --------------------- A major re-write occured; these are the highlights: * Re-write parsing and printing of Dot code using the new `ParseDot` and `PrintDot` classes. This should finally fix all quoting issues, as well as leaving `Show` as the code representation for hacking purposes. As part of this, the `Data.GraphViz.ParserCombinators` module has been moved to `Data.GraphViz.Types.Parsing`. * Re-write the various `Dot*` datatypes in `Data.GraphViz.Types`. Sub-graphs/clusters are now their own entity rather than being part of `DotNode` and the Node ID type is now a type parameter rather than being just `Int`. Sub-graphs/clusters can now also be parsed. * The various conversion functions in `Data.GraphViz` now come in two flavours: the unprimed versions take in a `Bool` indicating if the graph is directed or not; the primed versions attempt to automatically detect this. * Add cluster support for the graph augmentation functions, **as requested by Nikolas Mayr**. * Allow custom arrow types as supported by GraphViz; **as requested by Han Joosten**. * Fixed a bug in HSV-style `Color` values where `Int` was used instead of `Double`; **spotted by Michael deLorimier**. * Properly resolved the situation initially spotted by Neil Brown: Matthew Sackman was following Dot terminology for an edge `a -> b` when using _head_ for `b` and _tail_ for `a` (this is presumably because the head/tail of the arrow are at those nodes). `DotEdge` now uses _from_ and _to_ avoid ambiguity; the various `Attribute` values still follow upstream usage. Changes in 29126.96.36.199 --------------------- * Fix a bug **spotted by Srihari Ramanathan** where `Color` values were double-quoted. Changes in 2922.214.171.124 --------------------- * The `Color` `Attribute` should take `[Color]`, not just a single `Color`. Changes in 29220.127.116.11 --------------------- * Stop using `Either` for composite `Attributes` and use a custom type: this avoids problems with the `Show` instance. Changes in 29184.108.40.206 --------------------- * Fixed a bug where the Show instance and read function for `DotEdge` had the from/to nodes the wrong way round. This was not immediately noticed since the `Graph` to `DotGraph` functions created them the wrong way round, so for those users who only used these this was not apparent. **Spotted by Neil Brown.** * Greatly improved `Attribute` usage: almost all attributes are now covered with allowed values. * Extend DotGraph to include whether a graph is strict or not and if it has an ID. Also move the directedGraph field. * Make `Dot` refer to the actual dot command and `DotArrow` refer to the `ArrowType` (rather than `DotCmd` and `Dot` as before). * Make the `Data.GraphViz.ParserCombinators` module available to end users again, but not re-exported by `Data.GraphViz`; it has a warning message up the top not to be used. It is there purely for documentative purposes. * Use [extensible-exceptions] so that `base-3.x` is once again supported. [extensible-exceptions]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/extensible-exceptions * Follow the [Package Versioning Policy] rather than using dates for versions. 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Beijing aiming to project its "soft power"
Paul Joseph Watson
Monday, May 21, 2012
Chinese company Wanda has announced it will buy AMC, the second-largest theater chain in the USA, increasing fears that the Chinese Communist Party is expanding its influence globally as part of a media takeover.
"Beijing is investing heavily in projecting its "soft power," or cultural influence, by boosting Chinese state media's presence abroad, including the USA, where the Chinese government has also run advertisements in New York's Times Square," reports USA Today.
Wanda's acquisition of AMC increases concerns that Chinese-style censorship of politically controversial movies may become commonplace in the United States.
"We have no plan whatsoever to promote Chinese movies in the U.S. market," said Wang Jianlin, Chairman and President of Wanda.
Billionaire Jianlin, the 15th richest person in China according to Forbes, is also a "Communist Party member, who sits on the nation's top advisory council."
However, box office money from the Chinese market is already influencing movie industry titans in America to tone down negative portrayals of China itself.
During the 2009 production of Red Dawn, a re-make of the 1984 classic which featured Soviet troops invading America, producers changed the identity of the villains after initially having agreed to portray the bad guys as Chinese troops.
When distributors became nervous about the film harming profits from Chinese movie-goers, MGM decided to ditch Chinese soldiers in favor of North Korean invaders.
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"As a result, the filmmakers now are digitally erasing Chinese flags and military symbols from "Red Dawn," substituting dialogue and altering the film to depict much of the invading force as being from North Korea, an isolated country where American media companies have no dollars at stake," reported the L.A. Times.
Despite being in the can for years, the movie has been delayed and will only be released at the end of this year – absent the Chinese troops.
"Around the time MGM first delayed the release of Red Dawn, a Chinese newspaper called the Global Times expressed concerns that the film would demonize their state and its citizens (thanks in part to certain leaked images from the set). Evidently, this may have been a factor in scaring off potential distributors who were apprehensive about what effect their involvement with the film would have on future dealings with China," writes Chris Schrader.
Undue Chinese Communist Party influence on the U.S. movie industry and the media in general is just one of numerous sectors where concern is growing about the authoritarian country's projection of its "soft power."
In 2010, China launched CNC, a global news channel run by Xinhua, the state news agency. The launch was seen as a test of "Beijing's ability to adjust its propaganda machine."
The Obama administration recently gave Beijing the green light to buy up U.S. oil and gas deposits worth billions of dollars, with the companies involved mostly or wholly owned by the ruling Communist Party.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
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This map shows the places in the world where the next deadly virus will probably begin its fatal sweep across the globe. Red areas are plague "hot spots," and green areas are regions where epidemics are least likely to break out. An international team of scientists came up with the map after years of exhaustive research into virus patterns. Researchers discovered that disease disasters have quadrupled over the past 50 years, and they have evidence showing which groups are most likely to spread a virulent disease.
Wild animals are the most likely bearers of the next plague — 60% of epidemics are from "zoonoses," diseases that jump from animals to humans living in close proximity. The more that human populations spread into previously-uninhabited areas, the more likely we are to rub up against some viruses that the local fauna are resistant to, while we are not.
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In the new study, researchers from four institutions analyzed 335 emerging diseases from 1940 to 2004, then converted the results into maps correlated with human population density, population changes, latitude, rainfall and wildlife biodiversity. They showed that disease emergences have roughly quadrupled over the past 50 years. Some 60% of the diseases traveled from animals to humans (such diseases are called zoonoses) and the majority of those came from wild creatures. With data corrected for lesser surveillance done in poorer countries, "hot spots" jump out in areas spanning sub-Saharan Africa, India and China; smaller spots appear in Europe, and North and South America.
"We are crowding wildlife into ever-smaller areas, and human population is increasing," said coauthor Marc Levy, a global-change expert at the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), an affiliate of Columbia University's Earth Institute. "The meeting of these two things is a recipe for something crossing over." The main sources are mammals. Some pathogens may be picked up by hunting or accidental contact; others, such as Malaysia's Nipah virus, go from wildlife to livestock, then to people. Humans have evolved no resistance to zoonoses, so the diseases can be extraordinarily lethal.
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Hulu, not a network, but acting like one
Hulu, one of the new programming sources shaking up the traditional TV network world, readily admits it's not a network. It's not a studio. It's a distributor. Increasingly, however, this distributor is producing its own product, from script development onward. And that makes it difficult to fit neatly into a traditional category.
Starting a couple of years ago, Hulu has been releasing original titles. It will roll out 10 more series during the rest of 2013 (six acquisitions from other networks, four originals), including Seth Meyers' animated superhero comedy, "The Awesomes," a Hulu original debuting Thursday. Two episodes will launch at first, then one will be posted weekly.
The company, a collaboration of Fox, Disney and NBC Universal, operates on two levels, the premium Hulu Plus and the free service. In general, viewers can pay extra to stream entire series via Hulu Plus, or wait and watch weekly installments for free.
The Hulu programming slate is diverse and oddly cherry-picked since, unlike a network, it has the luxury of being unconcerned with audience flow or lead-ins. Upcoming offerings: a comedic Western called "Quick Draw" (Aug. 5), an offbeat series about sports mascots called "Behind the Mask" (Oct. 29), Eva Longoria's animated "Mother Up!" (Nov. 6) and "The Wrong Mans" (Nov. 11), a "comedy-thriller" co-produced with the BBC.
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