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In terms of execution, the Presidents Cup has consistently gone the Ryder Cup one better. It eschews the dinners and functions the competitors loath, as well as the narrow "almost 50" age window for potential captains. It grows less rough to encourage more birdies and mandates less benching to encourage more team harmo...
It was true again in Montreal, where the vibe was as mellow as Malibu. But as much as golf functionaries might have appreciated the smooth machinery and lack of incident, the Presidents Cup, yet again, was played in a buzz-free zone.
Most of America's most important daily newspapers -- including The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times -- chose not to staff the event. Jack Nicklaus, in an overzealous gesture of sportsmanship, unnecessarily slackened the tingling tension of endgame competition when he asked Phil Mic...
Such a condition, while previously fine in counterbalance to the overzealous Ryder Cup, is precarious now. Because of the FedEx Cup, professional golf has entered a streamlined age, where events without the highest stakes and standards become expendable, erstwhile bonanzas turned burdens. It's also an age in which the ...
In this climate the Presidents Cup could find itself wanting. It offers no remuneration, no World Ranking points, no obvious mark in history. While its individual parts are stellar, the international team collectively remains a bit amorphous as a dragon the Americans long to slay. The host sites to this point have been...
The Ryder Cup is in the same boat, except for one important difference: a team bonded by fire that presents an easy-to-grasp enemy, which translates to competitive heat and high drama. So suddenly, it's legitimate to ask, "Does the Presidents Cup bring enough to the table to remain relevant to the game's biggest stars?...
Of course, the one star who matters the most has always seemed to play team events with a difficult-to-read ambivalence, and the way Tiger Woods pulled his drive into the water on the final hole of his singles match against Mike Weir -- the kind of mistake he never makes when tied or leading on the 72nd hole of a strok...
It's no secret Woods would rather not play a team event every year. Indeed, if he hadn't been so heavily criticized for skipping this year's first event of the FedEx playoffs in New York, Woods may very well have decided to miss his first Presidents Cup. But Woods may be approaching the point in his career and life whe...
Meanwhile, the game's second most viable star, Mickelson, could potentially use the threat of not playing in future Presidents Cups as a lever to persuade the tour to make some of the changes he is seeking in the implementation of the FedEx Cup.
In an effort to head off such an insurrection, the tour has been predictably sensible. To create some breathing room for team play that did not exist this year nor will for the Ryder Cup in 2008, the 2009 Presidents Cup at San Francisco's Harding Park will be held Oct. 5-11. The 2011 event in Melbourne, meanwhile, is s...
But while San Francisco offers enough star-quality resources, Australia will be a litmus test of the Presidents Cup's true growth. The same site in 1998 produced the most desultory American performance to date -- a 20½-11½ pasting. If Woods and/or Mickelson decide against the trip, it could start the Presidents Cup the...
Asked about the future of the event, the assessments of several principals ranged from defensively optimistic to non-committal. The former stance, not surprisingly, was taken by PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem. "I saw the enthusiasm, and I don't know why you are asking me about this," he said Sunday after the matches...
Ty Votaw, the tour's vice president of communications and international affairs, seemed even more comfortable. "I think in terms of the Ryder Cup and the Presidents Cup, the players really don't have a choice," he said. "They can't skip them. It's God and country."
Votaw's criteria indeed holds up for the great majority of players, who are actually most enticed by the opportunity to deepen friendships with peers. "I'd play whenever and wherever they have it," said Scott Verplank. "I think everyone likes representing their country. But it's really the experience we have all week. ...
But it gets more complicated for the big guns, whose absence would truly wound the Presidents Cup. While Mickelson took the same tack as Verplank and Toms, he did so only after declining to say specifically whether he was confident he would keep playing in the matches. "What do you mean?" he said, before giving a more ...
Also vague was the International player with the most marquee, Ernie Els. Asked if he considered it more likely that he would skip FedEx Cup events or the Presidents Cup, he hesitated: "If I say the Presidents Cup, I'll be kicking my teammates." After pausing, Els continued, "The FedEx Cup turned out to be a big deal a...
The two figures with the most influence on the future health of the Presidents Cup are, fittingly, the two greatest ever to play the game, Woods and Nicklaus.
Woods, too, danced when asked if he was reassessing his commitment to the Presidents Cup. "Any time you get a chance to make this team and represent your country, it's always fun," he said. "You know, the guys have traveled to Australia and traveled to South Africa, and we've always played."
But when asked if the Presidents Cup would lose something for him if Nicklaus were no longer the captain, Woods seemed to suggest he would be more likely to play if the Golden Bear, who has now captained four Presidents Cups, stayed on the job. "I've always loved playing for Jack, and hopefully he'll come back," said W...
It would be hard to imagine Finchem not going back to Nicklaus if he knew it increased the chances of Woods playing. Without Nicklaus, the only icon of comparable stature would be Arnold Palmer, who would be 80 before the matches in 2009. More likely, leading captain candidates would be FOTs -- Friends of Tiger -- such...
For his part, Nicklaus appears anything but eager to step off the Presidents Cup stage. While emphasizing that he was not seeking the captaincy again, he was clear he would accept if asked. "If they want me around for awhile, then I'm around for as long as they want," he said. In fact, early in the week, he didn't rule...
"You know," he said, as his team surrounded him on the podium during the winner's press conference, "the reaction that I get from these guys and the support that I've gotten from them -- not only the support I've tried to give them, but the support they've given me -- is just something you don't [experience] very many ...
But Nicklaus, who will be 68 in January, knows his future captaincy would be at least as practical as it would be romantic. "Right now, the players are playing and they're enthusiastic about playing the Ryder Cup and here," he said. "I didn't envision that happening. I thought they would get tired. To this day, that ha...
And perhaps it won't -- at least for the next several years -- if the Presidents Cup keeps retaining Captain Nicklaus. At the very least, it would be the sensible thing to do.
Cybercrime is evolving. The lone hacker who steals and resells credit card numbers is being replaced by a well-structured business model. The game is no longer simply about hacking for fame, but rather about creating a business where you have frequent customers who buy your stolen product. The latest research report fr...
The company's second quarter 2008 report is based on data from its Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC), which specializes in the detection of dangerous vulnerabilities that could be exploited for malicious attacks. According to Finjan, "cybercrime activities on [the] Internet are booming as never before." The company...
In 2006, vulnerabilities were being sold online to the highest bidder. Last year, software packages that provided various ways of attacking websites and stealing valuable data were sold by professional hackers. These toolkits started to contain multiple exploits for new vulnerabilities and became more sophisticated, in...
Now, Finjan claims the situation has gotten even worse. Cybercrime companies that work much like real-world companies are starting to appear and are steadily growing, thanks to the profits they turn. Forget individual hackers or groups of hackers with common goals. Hierarchical cybercrime organizations where each cyber...
Finjan describes the employee structure that these cybercrime companies employ as being similar to the Mafia. In both cases, there is a "boss" who operates as a business entrepreneur and doesn't commit the (cyber)crimes himself, with an "underboss" who manages the operation, sometimes providing the tools needed for att...
Commodities (stolen credit cards and bank accounts) are priced low, while prime articles (stolen healthcare related information, single sign-on login credentials for organizations, e-mail, and FTP accounts) are much more expensive. Not too long ago, credit card numbers and bank accounts with PINs were selling for $100 ...
Successful attacks can cause long-term damage to the company's victim: loss of valuable data, loss of IP, loss of productivity, impact on profits or stock price, brand damage, law suits, and class actions. Finjan suggests deploying innovative security solutions (such as real-time content inspection) designed to detect ...
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WELLINGTON — The village is celebrating Earth Day and Arbor Day with a community event on Sunday evening.
Activities run from 4-7 p.m. at the Wellington Amphitheater, 12100 Forest Hill Blvd. Families can get free tree seedlings and native shrubs, meet Smokey the Bear and enjoy food trucks, face painting and a coloring mural.
The Village Council will kick off the evening by planting a Wild Tamarind Tree in honor of Arbor Day.
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on Thursday urged Arab League member states to create a joint Arab military force to face regional security challenges.
Arab foreign ministers held a plenary session in the southern Sinai resort of Sharm El-Sheikh to prepare for the upcoming Arab League summit, focusing their discussions on the Yemeni crisis.
Shoukry, who chaired today’s meeting on behalf of Egypt as the host, expressed his hope the Arab League would take positive steps to implement Egypt’s previous proposal to form a joint Arab force.
The foreign minister told delegates Egypt's proposal aims to strengthen the Arabs’ ability to take their fate into their own hands.
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has called on several occasions for a joint Arab military force to "fight terrorism" after the Islamic State militant group beheaded 20 Egyptian Copts in Libya in January.
Shoukry said “national security” in the Arab World still faces significant “challenges” as “sectarian conflicts” expand and double the challenge “terrorism” poses.
He also reiterated Egypt’s political and military support for the Arab military operation under-way against Houthi rebels in Yemen.
The Arab Summit will be held on 28-29 March in Sharm El-Sheikh.
Four Arab Gulf states, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Jordan, Morocco, Sudan have all joined the Saudi-led coalition against the Houthis.
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ELBERTON, GA - A veterinarian in George is nursing a rescue dog back to health one meal at a time. Dr. Andy Mathis with Granite Hills Animal Care in Elberton sits inside a cage to soothe Graycie who was scared and having trouble eating. He stays inside her cage to eat side-by-side with her.
On the Granite Hills Animal Care Facebook page, Mathis explains someone called about finding a stray dog the night of Friday, January 29. The caller said the dog was in bad shape and was found on a dirt road.
Mathis said to bring the dog in and the care center would evaluate her. Graycie was emaciated and dehydrated, weighing 20 pounds. She was also hypothermic, anemic, and had a vaginal prolapse.
Graycie was first treated at the University of Georgia and after that she was returned to the Granite Hills Animal Care facility and slowly began to improve.
According to the Granite Hills Animal Care Facebook page, Graycie started eating on her own, gaining weight, tests showed that her blood levels were slowly improving and the prolapse problem was fixed.
To continue to encourage Graycie to eat, Mathis decided to sit in her cage with her so they could eat side-by-side. Mathis also reported that Graycie is spending her days curled up on towels under heat lamps, waiting for her next meal or barking at the other cats and dogs.
Before Graycie is ready for her forever home, she has to learn to trust people, walk on a leash, go to the bathroom outside, and receive a clean bill of health.
Mathis also gives credit to his entire team, affectionately called #‎TeamGraycie, for aiding in her recovery and thanks the public for the outpouring of positive thoughts and donations.
Graycie, also known as Graycie Claire, was given her name because of her gray coloring and the addition of the second name is in keeping with Southern tradition.
Strata Data Conference kicks off in San Jose, CA today and the new release announcements are rolling in.
Spark: The big data tool du jour is getting automation Spark is the hottest big data tool around, and most Hadoop users are moving towards using it in production. Problem is, programming and tuning Spark is hard. But Pepperdata and Alpine Data bring solutions to lighten the load.
This is a big week in the analytics world as both Gartner's Data & Analytics Summit in Grapevine, TX and the Strata Data Conference in San Jose are taking place. Many vendors are attending and exhibiting at both; some vendors are only at one, but just about everyone in the analytics world is exhibiting at one of them, ...
Strata, which kicks off today, is more of an announcement vehicle for vendors though, and today three big names in the Big Data world -- Cloudera, MapR and AtScale -- have new releases to announce. I'll cover these three vendors' announcement in some depth. I'll also close with a short summary of announcements -- mostl...
As Cloudera is one of the two companies behind Strata Data (O'Reilly being the other), perhaps it's fitting that we start with its announcements. To cut to the chase, Cloudera is releasing a new version of its Altus cloud service with a key new feature being released, and another one slated for release in the near futu...
Altus is Cloudera's Big Data pipeline as a service cloud offering. When announced, Altus included the ability to run scheduled jobs on a clusterless/serverless Cloudera instance. Essentially, Altus launched as a Hadoop job service that didn't require the user to worry about the details of clusters, storage and so forth...
Today, Cloudera is adding support on Altus for Cloudera Shared Data Experience (SDX). This facility allows for the unified management of multiple clusters, including mixes and matches of on-prem and cloud-based clusters. This addition to Altus is being released today, Cloudera tells me.
In addition, Cloudera is announcing, though not yet releasing, a new component: Altus Data Science, which will be based on Cloudera's Data Science Workbench. Like other hosted Hadoop and Spark machine learning services, including those from Qubole and Databricks, Altus Data Science will allow data scientists and data s...
MapR, is also technically a Hadoop distribution vendor. But the company has always really seen itself as an Enterprise data platform provider. Along with that, the company is today announcing support for containerized applications that use the MapR Converged Data Platform to run under Kubernetes, the leading container ...
Using the Kubernetes Volume Driver, containerized applications can read from and write to the MapR-XD data store simply by addressing the container's local storage. The MapR Kubernetes Volume Driver then takes care of conveying those reads and writes to whatever persistent storage media is being managed under MapR-XD, ...
MapR tells me that the Kubernetes support works on-premises, as well as in managed Kubernetes cloud services, like those from Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The company also explained that unlike its previously announced Persistent Application Client Container (PACC) technology, which required the use of a specific Dock...
This is pretty neat stuff, and it proves that the data and analytics container revolution, though quiet, is being fought, and slowly won.
AtScale, the Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)-like BI platform that runs on top of Hadoop and Spark, is announcing its 6.5 release, with three major new features.
To start with, AtScale is adding automated modeling features to the product. What this means is that instead of requiring users to create their entire Universal Semantic Layer model from scratch, the product can now intuit some of that structure by looking at existing analytics assets already built on top of the underl...
Specifically, the product is able to inspect the assets contained in a Tableau workbook and from them determine which columns in which tables likely contain measures and dimensions. It can also determine table relationships by looking at the Tableau workbooks, and the data model within them. This means AtScale is now d...
Other new features include execution of n-tile calculations on the server side and a Perspectives feature, which provides simplified or audience-specific filtered views of your models. The n-tile calculations join the estimated distinct count calculations as important row-access-level work that is done on server-side.
The AtScale Perspectives feature rather closely resembles the SSAS feature of the same name. However, SSAS Perspectives are merely a convenience feature, and don't prevent access to data in the model not present in the Perspective. AtScale Perspectives, meanwhile, do in fact act as a security mechanism, the AtScale tea...
Mapbox released it Mapbox Visual for Microsoft Power BI, giving Microsoft's self-service BI platform access to mapping functionality beyond its built-in map visualizations and those provided by ESRI's ArcGIS Maps for Power BI.
Salesforce announced the addition of "conversational queries" to its Einstein Analytics platform.
Host Analytics announced the Beta release of its "Project Orion" technology that will make Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) accessible to business users, and others without significant financial/accounting backgrounds.
And Datawatch announced a new release of its Monarch Swarm product for team-oriented data prep and analytics -- this time with "Personalized Machine Learning" that drives detailed ranking and data recommendations.
One other announcement, being made today, is the launch of the StreamSets Data Protector product, which identifies personally identifiable information (PII) in data as it is ingested, and then layers on corresponding data security and broader data governance.
So many of the new product and release announcements correspond with overall trends in the industry. The growing importance of container technology; serverless, cloud-based implementations of data technology; increased support for machine learning and AI; the importance of data protection and GDPR (the EU's General Dat...
These trends move past the gee-whiz factor and address genuine customer pain points. That's good to see, and it's likely we'll see even more of it, in future announcements, at future events.
Cloudera's service will make it easier to run and pay for Hadoop and Spark jobs running on its distribution in the cloud.
Now offering specialized editions tailored for data scientists, data engineers, and BI users, what are the next steps that Cloudera will take to broaden its appeal to the enterprise? And how will it approach the cloud?
Netflix's new post-apocalyptic thriller Bird Box is set in a world where just looking outside the window can get you killed, so we're here to explain the movie's mysterious monsters and its nail-biting ending. Sandra Bullock stars as Malorie, a woman who is trying to keep her two children - simply called Boy (Julian Ed...
Directed by Susanne Bier and based on the novel by Josh Malerman, Bird Box switches between two time periods: the immediate aftermath of the outbreak, and Malorie's fight for survival, and her efforts five years later to get herself and the kids safely down the river to a promised sanctuary. To begin with she finds her...
Malorie and Tom are eking out a mostly peaceful survival in the woods when they receive a call on the radio from someone called Rick (Pruitt Taylor Vince), who tells them that if they can make it down the river there's somewhere safe for them. It's a big risk to take, and one that Malorie is resistant to at first, but ...
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After the sweet but too-trusting Olympia (Danielle MacDonald) lets a stranger, Gary (Tom Hollander), into the house, it's eventually revealed that he is one of the people who can survive looking at the entities, but are corrupted in the process and driven to fanatical worship. Recognizable by their warped irises, these...
At this point Bird Box moves forward five years in time, to shortly before Malorie takes the kids on the trip down the river. She and Tom are now a couple and have a mostly stable set-up where they can grow their own food, but they've already stripped almost all of the nearby houses bare of resources. After a frighteni...
The next day, the whole family heads out on a supply run to a neighboring house, but while they're inside the group of marauders arrives at the house. Tom tells Malorie to take the kids and head for the boat if he doesn't return, and then goes to the front of the house to confront the marauders. He succeeds in wounding...
Malorie is distraught upon realizing that Tom must have sacrificed his own life to save them, and decides to carry out his dying wish to try and get herself and the children to the sanctuary. The movie then jumps forward to the moment when their boat is about to go over the rapids, the most dangerous part of the river,...
The final part of the journey proves to be the most difficult. Walking blindfolded through unfamiliar woods is treacherous, and Malorie trips and falls down a slope, briefly knocking herself out. The children wander off in different directions and the entities whisper to them in Malorie's voice, encouraging them to tak...
Banging frantically on the door as the entities gather behind her, Malorie begs the people inside to at least let her children in. Eventually the door opens and the three of them are ushered inside, where their eyes are quickly checked for signs of infection. Once they are cleared, Malorie realizes that the sanctuary i...
Malorie is then reunited with her OB-GYN, Dr. Lapham (Parminder Nagra), who has also survived and is relieved to see that Malorie made it as well. She asks the children what their names are, and they tell her they are called Boy and Girl. Malorie then decides to finally give them names, calling the girl Olympia (after ...
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Children of the Wild Pipeline Procession The theater ensemble 'Children of the Wild' will host six 'Pipeline Processions' in Western Mass and New Hampshire, hiking to places directly in the line of Kinder Morgan's proposed natural gas pipeline.
ASHFIELD -- Art met activism Monday in a rural and isolated area of Ashfield.
The roving theater ensemble "Children of the Wild" led local residents on a surreal "pipeline procession," hiking through the woods as a quartet of ghoulish musicians performed dirges and ashen-dressed actors dramatized themes of hope and despair.
The procession began at the Beldingville Road home of Jim Cutler and traveled to a powerline that would be widened and dug up to accommodate the proposed Kinder Morgan natural gas pipeline known as Northeast Energy Direct.
The event was a fundraiser for Pipeline Awareness Network of the Northeast (PLAN-NE), a regional coalition fighting the pipeline in three states.
Donations also helped the Wastelands Project, an art-theater concept that will carry Children of the Wild and its busking folk band in a sailboat across the Great Lakes from Buffalo to Duluth next fall.
The group seeks to change cultural consciousness so as to "rewild industrial spaces and the human spirit." Attendees were asked to imagine what must be abandoned, and what must be nourished "for life to grow out of the ashes of these industrial fires."

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