Democrats Are Stupid, Too

Even many Republicans agree that they lost the battle over the shutdown and the debt ceiling. The Tea Party walked the country to the edge of economic ruin and their party to the edge of political catastrophe until Republican leaders in Congress flinched. Maneuvering themselves into that defeat was an act of insane recklessness by Republicans and a political gaffe of the first order. Perhaps they’ll do it again in a few months.

Democrats, though, have little to celebrate.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/10/22/democrats_are_stupid_too_318399.html
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Mayor helps new theater dedication in Brooklyn

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, director Julie Taymor and actor Mark Rylance gathered Tuesday in Brooklyn to help cut the ribbon for a jewel box-sized, shiny new theater, the first permanent home for Theatre for a New Audience in its 34 year existence.

It is the city's first new theater designed expressly for Shakespeare and classic drama since 1965, and is the first permanent home for the itinerant company, which was founded in 1979 by Jeffrey Horowitz. He estimates it will attract an audience of between 30,000-to-40,000, many public school children.

"Friends, Romans, Brooklynites," the mayor intoned inside the $69 million theater, which was created with public and private pledges. "Lend me your ears. We come not to praise Shakespeare, but to stage him."

In addition to a 299-seat main theater, the 27,500-square-foot company's home also houses a 50-seat rehearsal space and a lobby cafe. It overlooks a new public garden plaza and sits along a walking path between the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Opera House and Harvey Theater. The city pledged some $34 million to the project.

Designed by Hugh Hardy of H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture, the new theater has a large glass facade, gunmetal gray panels, a 35-foot-tall main stage, a second-floor lobby and a central staircase. The building went up in a former parking lot and has been named the Polonsky Shakespeare Center after a gift from the Polonsky Foundation.

The new theater boasts an ability to morph into seven different stage and seating configurations. Hardy said building it posed an interesting challenge: "How do you make a small building important?" The answer was to tilt the square structure and help it stand out by using glass and shiny metal.

"I can imagine a child coming in here and saying, 'Yeah, but it's empty. It's got nothing in it,'" said Rylance, the two-time Tony Award-winning English actor who is alternating between starring in "Twelfth Night" and "Richard III" on Broadway. "It's wonderful for plays. It doesn't have a character that forces itself on you. It's a neutral space that is waiting for the words of the actors to fill it."

Taymor, of "The Lion King" and "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" fame, has accepted the theater's invitation to direct the official 2013 inaugural production, "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Taymor has already directed four plays for the troupe, including Carlo Gozzi's "The Green Bird," which moved to Broadway in 2000.

Taymor has already been hard at work getting "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and her cast of 36 ready for its Nov. 2 opening. "I've been in the dark. Oh, I shouldn't have said that," she joked, referring to her rocky ride with the comic book musical.

"I love being here. It's the perfect play to open this theater because it is a blessing of the house," she said. "The theater is flexible and it's small and intimate. How many times do you get a space that's dedicated to that and dedicated to experimentation?"

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Texas dad alleges bullying in 91-0 football game

In this Oct. 18, 2013, photo, Aledo's Daythan Davis, left, runs past Western Hills Jacoby Powell (6) , and Desmond Mize as he races for a first down in the first quarter of a football game in Aledo, Texas. Aledo defeated Western Hills 91-0. A parent at Western Hills high school has filed a bullying complaint against the winning coach. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Bob Haynes) MAGS OUT; (FORT WORTH WEEKLY, 360 WEST)

In this Oct. 18, 2013, photo, Aledo's Daythan Davis, left, runs past Western Hills Jacoby Powell (6) , and Desmond Mize as he races for a first down in the first quarter of a football game in Aledo, Texas. Aledo defeated Western Hills 91-0. A parent at Western Hills high school has filed a bullying complaint against the winning coach. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Bob Haynes) MAGS OUT; (FORT WORTH WEEKLY, 360 WEST)

In this Aug. 31, 2013 photo, Aledo High School football coach Tim Buchanan watches from the sideline during the second half of a game against Highland Park, in Allen, Texas. A parent at a Texas high school that lost a football game 91-0 has filed a bullying complaint against the winning coach. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that Aledo High School coach Buchanan learned of the online complaint against him Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013, the day after his team beat Western Hills in a 4A matchup. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Bob Booth) MAGS OUT; (FORT WORTH WEEKLY, 360 WEST)

In this Oct. 18, 2013, photo, Aledo High School player Ryan Newsom (17), runs between Western Hills players Shane Little, left, and Jacoby Powell during the first quarter of a football game in Aledo, Texas. Aledo defeated Western Hills 91-0. A parent at Western Hills high school has filed a bullying complaint against the winning coach. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Bob Haynes) MAGS OUT; (FORT WORTH WEEKLY, 360 WEST)

In this Oct. 18, 2013, photo, Aledo's Jess Anders races past Western Hills's Desmond Mize to score the touchdown during the second quarter of of a football game in Aledo, Texas. Aledo defeated Western Hills 91-0. A parent at Western Hills high school has filed a bullying complaint against the winning coach. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Bob Haynes) MAGS OUT; (FORT WORTH WEEKLY, 360 WEST)

In this Aug. 31, 2013 photo, Aledo High School football coach Tim Buchanan watches from the sideline during the second half of a game against Highland Park, in Allen, Texas. A parent at a Texas high school that lost a football game 91-0 has filed a bullying complaint against the winning coach. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that Aledo High School coach Buchanan learned of the online complaint against him Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013, the day after his team beat Western Hills in a 4A matchup. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Bob Booth) MAGS OUT; (FORT WORTH WEEKLY, 360 WEST)

Texas high school coach Tim Buchanan benched his starters after only 21 plays, kept to a conservative ground game and even allowed the clock to run uninterrupted after halftime to hasten the final whistle. Still, his Bearcats won 91-0.

Now the coach is facing formal accusations of bullying.

The impressive victory for undefeated Aledo High School, a football powerhouse in suburban Fort Worth that has put up similar numbers against other schools, has forced an investigation after a parent from the opposing team filed a bullying complaint. The complaint, which must be investigated under state law, says Buchanan should have done more to prevent the lopsided score.

"It wasn't good for anybody," Buchanan said of the Friday win over Western Hills in a Class 4A matchup. "I've sat and gone over and over and over it on what we could have done differently. The score could have very easily been 150 to nothing."

Western Hills coach John Naylor told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that he disagreed with the bullying allegation, which Buchanan said suggested his coaches "should have made their payers ease up and quit playing that hard." Naylor did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press seeking comment Tuesday.

Under state law, Aledo's principal must investigate the complaint and prepare a report. The complaint was filed with the school district, which the law requires to provide bullying complaint forms on its websites.

The University Interscholastic League, the governing body for high school sports in Texas, only has a mercy rule for six-man football that ends a game when one team gets ahead by 45 points by halftime or later. There is no mercy rule for 11-man football, though coaches can agree to end a game early, UIL spokeswoman Kate Hector said.

Buchanan said Tuesday he wasn't aware of that option.

There were about 1,500 fans still in the stands at the end of the game, most of them Aledo's, he said. About 5,000 were at the Bearcats' stadium in Aledo at the beginning because it was a recognition night for band members' parents. A cold front that brought rain added another reason to leave when the game started to get out of hand, Buchanan said.

While blowouts are not uncommon in Texas high school football, Aledo has racked up several of them this season, due in part to being placed in a new district that has not been as strong in football. The Bearcats' average victory margin in four district games is 77 points.

The University Interscholastic League bases its realignment decisions on enrollment and geographic location to minimize travel time, a move aimed at reducing class absences. When Aledo was placed in a different district before last season, its travel time to the furthest location was cut from two hours to about 35 miles, Buchanan said.

Buchanan's team, which is averaging 69.3 points a game with a 7-0 record, ran just 32 plays but scored on about every third one during Friday's game. Aledo rushed for 391 yards. It scored eight touchdowns on the ground, two each on passes and punt returns, and one on a fumble recovery.

"It certainly didn't seem like they were trying to run up the score in this case," Hector said.

Western Hills had 79 yards rushing and 67 yards passing.

The UIL follows NCAA rules, but most other states follow guidelines of the National Federation of State High School Associations, said Bob Colgate, the federation's director of sports and sports medicine.

Colgate said many of the federation's 48 member states and the District of Columbia have adopted a mercy rule in 11-man football. He noted that a survey published in February found that 16 states reported using a mercy rule with point margins, which are set by individual states, ranging from 30 points to 50 points.

Aledo Principal Dan Peterson said his report on the bullying complaint should be completed this week. It will be given to the father who filed the complaint and the staff at Western Hills.

Hector said anyone can submit a proposal for a rule change which could then be considered by the UIL's legislative council.

Buchanan said his school, winner of four state titles since 1998, and district are very supportive of the football program. The same, he said, cannot be said of Western Hills.

"It's not so much money as it is lack of emphasis," he said. "If you're going to have a program, support it."

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Bellator signs 28-0 featherweight prospect 'Morceguinho'

Bellator has added another finisher to its roster.

Undefeated featherweight Julio Cesar Neves Junior, better known in Brazil simply as "Morceguinho", has signed a deal with Bellator after racking up an impressive 28-0 record in the Brazilian regional circuit.

The 19-year-old fighter has gone the distance only three times in his career, finishing 17 fights via knockout -- including this "knockout of the year" candidate -- and eight via submission since his MMA debut on October 2011.

Neves, the younger brother of Bellator tournament winner Rafael "Morcego" Silva (21-3), has won 18 fights over the last 12 months, and the date and opponent for his Bellator debut are yet to be announced.

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Lucy Wainwright Roche: In The Family Business

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Songs by Lucy Wainwright Roche seems to be told with a shrug, a note of apology, or modesty. And, yet, her father is the witty and acerbic singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III. Her mother is Suzzy Roche — one third of the harmonious Roche sisters. Her half-brother and -sister are Rufus and Martha Wainwright, each acclaimed singer-songwriters in their own right.

But Lucy Wainwright Roche looked around at all that talent and didn't really want to be a part of it.

"I had no interest in being a musician because I was surrounded by them. It seemed like a terrible plan," Roche tells NPR's Melissa Block, laughing.

There's a Last Time for Everything is available from Amazon and iTunes.

Her own shyness was also an initial problem.

"The very first show I did alone had been a terrible, awkward, horrible disaster," she says. "And then the second one — about halfway through I realized I should just be the way I would be if I was just talking to one person. That solved the problem. Then I was like, 'Oh, I'm not really building the mystique. I'm just sort of being normal. And that helped because I'm not much of a mystique builder."

None of Roche's family appears on There's a Last Time for Everything. That's in part due to the short recording schedule, but she says it was "great to do it in a little bubble away from the family."

Somewhere in the middle of the album, Roche covers the empowering Robyn anthem "Call Your Girlfriend" and strips it down to what a friend of her calls a "sad snoozer."

"When I first heard that song, I was like, 'Wow, I have never heard someone say exactly that in that way in a song before.' I'd never heard somebody say, 'Look, call your girlfriend. Tell her we're going to be together now and tell her it's fine.' I thought it was a quite direct and interesting approach, although I'm not sure how well it would work in real life. But I was smitten with the idea of the song."

The first time listeners might have met Lucy Wainwright Roche was in a 1985 song written by her dad and aunt, Terre Roche. "Screaming Issue" is a beautiful lullaby about Roche as a screaming baby. She loves it now, but as a kid, she really didn't like it "because people would always sing it to me."

Her parents split up when she was two years old, and since Loudon Wainwright spent part of his time in England, father and daughter didn't see each other very much during her childhood. Roche says as an adult, she's traveled a lot with him on tour.

"I think it's a thing that most people who don't spend a lot of time with a parent as a kid, [they] rarely get to make it up," Roche says. "And we have in a way. So that's been a really interesting chapter for us, I think."

Source: http://www.npr.org/2013/10/22/239739332/lucy-wainwright-roche-in-the-family-business?ft=1&f=1039
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Mayor helps new theater dedication in Brooklyn

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, director Julie Taymor and actor Mark Rylance gathered Tuesday in Brooklyn to help cut the ribbon for a jewel box-sized, shiny new theater, the first permanent home for Theatre for a New Audience in its 34 year existence.

It is the city's first new theater designed expressly for Shakespeare and classic drama since 1965, and is the first permanent home for the itinerant company, which was founded in 1979 by Jeffrey Horowitz. He estimates it will attract an audience of between 30,000-to-40,000, many public school children.

"Friends, Romans, Brooklynites," the mayor intoned inside the $69 million theater, which was created with public and private pledges. "Lend me your ears. We come not to praise Shakespeare, but to stage him."

In addition to a 299-seat main theater, the 27,500-square-foot company's home also houses a 50-seat rehearsal space and a lobby cafe. It overlooks a new public garden plaza and sits along a walking path between the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Opera House and Harvey Theater. The city pledged some $34 million to the project.

Designed by Hugh Hardy of H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture, the new theater has a large glass facade, gunmetal gray panels, a 35-foot-tall main stage, a second-floor lobby and a central staircase. The building went up in a former parking lot and has been named the Polonsky Shakespeare Center after a gift from the Polonsky Foundation.

The new theater boasts an ability to morph into seven different stage and seating configurations. Hardy said building it posed an interesting challenge: "How do you make a small building important?" The answer was to tilt the square structure and help it stand out by using glass and shiny metal.

"I can imagine a child coming in here and saying, 'Yeah, but it's empty. It's got nothing in it,'" said Rylance, the two-time Tony Award-winning English actor who is alternating between starring in "Twelfth Night" and "Richard III" on Broadway. "It's wonderful for plays. It doesn't have a character that forces itself on you. It's a neutral space that is waiting for the words of the actors to fill it."

Taymor, of "The Lion King" and "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" fame, has accepted the theater's invitation to direct the official 2013 inaugural production, "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Taymor has already directed four plays for the troupe, including Carlo Gozzi's "The Green Bird," which moved to Broadway in 2000.

Taymor has already been hard at work getting "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and her cast of 36 ready for its Nov. 2 opening. "I've been in the dark. Oh, I shouldn't have said that," she joked, referring to her rocky ride with the comic book musical.

"I love being here. It's the perfect play to open this theater because it is a blessing of the house," she said. "The theater is flexible and it's small and intimate. How many times do you get a space that's dedicated to that and dedicated to experimentation?"

___

Online:

http://www.tfana.org

___

Follow Mark Kennedy on Twitter at http://twitter.com/KennedyTwits

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China Mobile profit down on tougher competition

BEIJING (AP) — China Mobile Ltd., the world's biggest phone carrier by subscribers, said its latest quarterly profit tumbled 8.7 percent due to tougher competition.

Profit in the three months ended Sept. 30 was 28.4 billion yuan ($4.5 billion), down from 31.1 billion yuan a year earlier, the state-owned carrier said.

"The group experienced severe difficulties and challenges arising from increasingly complex competition," China Mobile said in a statement.

Beijing restructured China's phone industry in 2008, creating three carriers each with a mix of mobile and fixed-line assets, to spur competition and innovation.

Since then, China Mobile and rivals China Telecom Ltd. and China Unicom Ltd. have suffered reduced profit margins despite rapid growth in new customers, especially for third-generation service.

China Mobile's revenue for the quarter rose 11.3 percent to 159.9 billion.

The total number of 3G subscribers was 169.5 million as of Sept. 30, up from 137.9 million a year earlier.

The company said it expects both new opportunities and more competitive pressure once Beijing begins to roll out fourth-generation services.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/china-mobile-profit-down-tougher-competition-135112240.html
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China Mobile profit down on tougher competition

BEIJING (AP) — China Mobile Ltd., the world's biggest phone carrier by subscribers, said its latest quarterly profit tumbled 8.7 percent due to tougher competition.

Profit in the three months ended Sept. 30 was 28.4 billion yuan ($4.5 billion), down from 31.1 billion yuan a year earlier, the state-owned carrier said.

"The group experienced severe difficulties and challenges arising from increasingly complex competition," China Mobile said in a statement.

Beijing restructured China's phone industry in 2008, creating three carriers each with a mix of mobile and fixed-line assets, to spur competition and innovation.

Since then, China Mobile and rivals China Telecom Ltd. and China Unicom Ltd. have suffered reduced profit margins despite rapid growth in new customers, especially for third-generation service.

China Mobile's revenue for the quarter rose 11.3 percent to 159.9 billion.

The total number of 3G subscribers was 169.5 million as of Sept. 30, up from 137.9 million a year earlier.

The company said it expects both new opportunities and more competitive pressure once Beijing begins to roll out fourth-generation services.

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China Mobile Ltd.: www.chinamobileltd.com

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Strong Encryption, Natural Language Search Make Potent Cocktail

By John P. Mello Jr.
TechNewsWorld
10/22/13 5:00 AM PT

Encrypted data may be relatively safe from prying eyes, but it's often inaccessible to authorized users as well. "Encryption can break an application," said CipherCloud CEO Pravin Kothari. "It can make an application useless." Through a gateway between an organization and its encrypted data in the cloud, CipherCloud allows applications to work with the encrypted data as if were plain text.

Strong encryption and natural language search can be like oil and water. That's because encrypted data can't be digested by your typical search engine. However, CipherCloud announced a solution to that knotty problem last week.

The latest version of the 3-year-old company's cloud-based service includes something it's calling "searchable strong encryption." It allows data encrypted with the strong AES 256-bit standard to be searched within popular cloud applications such as Salesforce.com, Box, Microsoft Office 365, Google Gmail and Amazon Web Services.

"Encryption can break an application," Pravin Kothari, founder, chairman and CEO of CipherCloud, told TechNewsWorld. "It can make an application useless."

Through the use of a gateway between an organization and its encrypted data in the cloud, CipherCloud allows applications to work with the encrypted data as if were plain text.

"If you looked into the cloud application, what you would see is gibberish -- but using our gateway architecture, we can allow all popular operations, like search, and give a user the full usability of the application," Kothari explained.

"Customers had to previously choose between protection of their data and usability of an application," CipherCloud SVP and Chief Marketing Officer Paige Leidig told TechNewsWorld. "With our new product, they can get the best of both worlds -- highest security of their data and full searchability and sortability of the data."

Better Vectors

With SSE, CipherCloud has improved how it deploys AES 256. In prior versions of the solution, it used limited initialization vectors. Those vectors are used to randomize encrypted or ciphertext. So depending on the vector of your starting point for encrypting a block of data, the word "John" might be 6324 in one block and 7745 in another. That makes it difficult for codebreakers to correlate the ciphertext to its plaintext analog.

The problem with limiting your initialization vectors is that it makes a codecracker's job easier, because there's a finite set of points that need to be identified. CipherCloud has now made things much more difficult for crackers, by allowing its users to encrypt their data with unlimited initialization vectors.

In light of recent revelations about the NSA tampering with encryption standards, it's questionable whether any standard is trustworthy.

"People are concerned about everything, but AES in any of its sizes is pretty low on the list," Matthew Green, a professor specializing in cryptography in the computer science department of Johns Hopkins University, told TechNewsWorld.

"AES was developed in an international competition by Belgian cryptographers. It has been really well analyzed by the security community, and it has a good design," Green added.

Whistleblower Schizophrenia

The Freedom of the Press Foundation announced last week that it would be soldiering on with technology developed by the late Aaron Swartz to give whistleblowers safe online places to drop leaked documents to news outlets and maintain their anonymity.

The technology, called "SecureDrop," has become more important than ever because of the Obama's administration's tough attitude toward people leaking state secrets.

"This is coming about because of the Obama White House's really unhealthy obsession with leaks," Dan Kennedy, and assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern University, told TechNewsWorld.

"If the Obama administration weren't going after leakers and the journalists who they leak to as vigorously and inappropriately as they are, then you wouldn't need something like this," he maintained.

There are some inconsistencies in the administration's attitude toward whistleblowers, though.

"It's worse than all other administrations in terms of national security whistleblowing," Louis Clark, president of the Government Accountability Project, told TechNewsWorld.

"I think it's the best administration in terms of corporate whistleblowers," he continued. "So it's a schizophrenic administration."

In the current agency climate technologies like SecureDrop have become a necessity for whistleblowers, Clark noted.

"The treatment of whistleblowers has angered some people in the national security agencies," he said. "Whistleblowers feel like they have nowhere to go in their agencies, and when that happens, there's no place they can go except for the public if they want to raise their concerns."

Breach Diary

• Oct. 12. Craig Heffner, a researcher with Tactical Network Solutions, finds vulnerability in firmware code for several D-Link router models. Flaw can be exploited by attacker to redirect traffic at the router for malicious purposes.


• Oct. 14. Digital rights group Bits of Freedom releases a Dutch government report obtained under a freedom of information request revealing some Dutch telecommunications and Internet providers inappropriately used for marketing purposes information they were required to retain for crime-fighting purposes.


• Oct. 14. Germany's largest phone company, Deutsche Telecom, proposes to German government that all email and data traffic be routed within the country to curtail spying on its citizens by foreign nations.


• Oct. 15. The Payment Association of South Africa reveals that malware infecting point-of-sale terminals at a number of fast food chains has resulted in the loss to the country's banks of tens of millions of Rand. Ten Rand equal about US$1.00. The association notes an "unauthorized international organization" was behind the attack.


• Oct. 15. Kathleen Haskins claims in California court filing that Symantec mislead consumers by claiming its antivirus software would protect them from malware infections. Haskins alleges Symantec knew its software was compromised but failed to tell consumers about it.


• Oct. 15. California appellate court rules healthcare providers are not liable to patients for medical records misappropriated or stolen unless the data is accessed by a third party. The decision came in a case where a laptop containing medical information on some 16,000 patients of UCLA Health was stolen from a physician, but no evidence could be found that the data was ever accessed by a third party.


• Oct. 16. PR Newswire confirms hackers broke into its networks earlier this year and stole an unspecified number of user names and encrypted passwords. The attack has been attributed to the same group of cybercriminals who breached LexisNexis, NW3C and Adobe.


• Oct. 16. St. Louis Business Journal reports lawsuit by Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. against Schnuck Markets has been terminated. Liberty Mutual filed the lawsuit in August to avoid its liability in data breach at Schnuck that affected an estimated 2.4 million credit card accounts.


• Oct. 17. Oracle releases monster security patch for several of its products. Of the 127 patches pushed to Oracle users, 51 of them were for Java SE.

Upcoming Security Events

• Oct. 23. Policy First! Critical Role Policy Plays in Making Organization More Secure. 11-11:45 a.m. ET. Webinar sponsored by CyberArk. Free with registration.


• Oct. 28. SCADA and Me: Security Basics for Children and Managers. Noon ET. Live Web event, Free.


• Oct. 29-31. RSA Conference Europe. Amsterdam RAI. Registration: Early Bird to July 26, 895 euros + VAT delegate/495 euros + VAT one-day pass; Discount from July 27-Sept. 27, 995 euros + VAT delgate/595 euros + VAT one-day pass; Standard from Sept. 27-Oct.27, 1,095 euros + VAT delegate/695 euros + VAT one-day pass; On site from Oct. 28-31, 1,295 euros + VAT.


• Oct. 29. The Economics of Cyber Crime. 11 a.m. ET. Webinar sponsored by Dark Reading. Free with registration.


• Nov. 6. FedCyber.com Government-Industry Security Summit. Crystal Gateway Marriott, 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Va. Registration: government, free; academic, $100; industry, $599.


• Nov. 18-20. Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit. JW Marriott at L.A. Live, 900 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif. Registration: Early Bird to Sept. 27, $2,075; Standard, $2,375; Public Sector, $1,975.


• Dec. 4-5. MENA Business Infrastructure Protection 2013 Summit (Risk Management and Security Intelligence for companies in the Middle East and North Africa). Dubai.


• Dec. 9-12. Black Hat Training Sessions. Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, Wash. "The Art of Exploiting Injection Flaws," $1,800 by Oct. 24; $2,000 by Dec. 6; $2,300 thereafter. "The Black Art of Malware Analysis," $3,800 by Oct. 24; $4,000 by Dec. 5; $4,300 thereafter. "CNSS-4016-I Risk Analysis Course," $3,800 by Oct. 24; $4,000 by Dec. 5; $4,300 thereafter.


• Dec. 9-13. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC). Hyatt French Quarter, New Orleans.


• Jan. 20-21, 2014. Suits and Spooks. Waterview Conference Center, Washington, D.C. Registration: Sept. 20-Oct. 20, $415; Oct. 21-Dec. 1, $575; after Dec. 1, $725.

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John Mello is a freelance technology writer and former special correspondent for Government Security News.

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Americans Want to Keep Obamacare Despite Problems (Taegan Goddard's Political Wire)

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Samsung Galaxy Express 2 hits Vodafone UK on October 23

Updated mid-ranger exclusive to Vodafone at launch, other operators coming later

Samsung UK has announced an updated version of the mid-range Galaxy Express handset it launched earlier in the year, the Galaxy Express 2. The LTE-capable handset features a 4.5-inch qHD LCD display, a 1.7GHz dual core processor, 1.5GB of RAM and a 5-megapixel rear camera. Based on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and Samsung's latest TouchWiz UI, the Galaxy Express 2 also features some of the software features from higher-end Samsung phones — Smart Stay, Group Play, Motion UX, S Travel, StoryAlbum and S Translator.

The Galaxy Express 2 will launch tomorrow, Oct. 23, at Vodafone UK, with other carriers to follow at a later date. It'll come in "ceramic white" and "rigel blue" color options, with the latter being exclusive to Vodafone.

We've got specs and the full press release after the break.

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Jim Leyland steps down as Detroit Tigers manager

Detroit Tigers baseball manager Jim Leyland announces his retirement during a news conference at Comerica Park in Detroit, Monday, Oct. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Detroit Tigers baseball manager Jim Leyland announces his retirement during a news conference at Comerica Park in Detroit, Monday, Oct. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland waits for the start of Game 3 of the American League baseball championship series against the Boston Red Sox Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Detroit Tigers baseball manager Jim Leyland, right, laughs with general manager David Dombrowski, left, while announcing his retirement during a news conference at Comerica Park in Detroit, Monday, Oct. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland watches batting practice from the dugout before Game 6 of the American League baseball championship series against the Boston Red Sox on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland hits during fielding practice before Game 3 of the American League baseball championship series against the Boston Red Sox Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

DETROIT (AP) — A picture of Jim Leyland's face stared out from the video board at an empty Comerica Park, next to that familiar Olde English "D'' and a message that said simply: "Thank You Jim."

After eight seasons managing the Tigers, including three division titles and two American League pennants, Leyland stepped down Monday. His voice cracking at times, his hands wiping away tears at others, he announced his departure two days after Detroit was eliminated by Boston in the AL championship series.

"It's been a thrill," the 68-year-old Leyland said during a news conference at the ballpark. "I came here to change talent to team, and I think with the help of this entire organization, I think we've done that. We've won quite a bit. I'm very grateful to have been a small part of that."

Leyland made his managerial debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1986, and from Barry Bonds to Miguel Cabrera, he's managed some of the sport's biggest stars and been involved in some of baseball's most memorable games over the past quarter-century.

In 1992, his Pirates lost Game 7 of the NLCS when Atlanta rallied in the bottom of the ninth inning. Five years later, Leyland won his only World Series title as manager when his Florida Marlins beat Cleveland in an 11-inning thriller in Game 7.

He's experienced some of the highest highs the game has to offer, but also endured difficult rebuilding periods in both Pittsburgh and Florida.

After one season with the Colorado Rockies, Leyland didn't manage at all from 2000-05 before Detroit hired him. Leyland led the Tigers to the World Series immediately after taking over in 2006, losing to St. Louis in five games. The Tigers went to the World Series again in 2012 but were swept by San Francisco.

Leyland worked under one-year contracts the last couple of years, saying he was content to wait until after the season to address his status. He was reflective late this season, mentioning to reporters that he had already managed the Tigers longer than he had expected they would keep him, but he also said in September that he still loved the atmosphere, the competition and his team.

In fact, he'd actually told general manager Dave Dombrowski in early September that he didn't want to return as manager. He expects to remain with the organization in some capacity after going 700-597 as Tigers manager.

"I'm not totally retiring today, I'm just not going to be in the dugout anymore," Leyland said. "I hope and pray that you give the next manager the same respect and the same chance that you gave me."

Leyland says his health is fine, but it's time to stop managing. He said he started weighing his decision around June.

"I started thinking this was getting a little rough. I thought that the fuel was getting a little low," Leyland said. "I knew that I'd get through it because I knew we'd be playing for something."

The Tigers figure to contend again next year, which may lead Dombrowski to look for a proven commodity who can come in and manage. Kirk Gibson, who led Detroit to the 1984 World Series title as a player, is now managing in Arizona, but Diamondbacks president Derrick Hall tried to quash any speculation that Gibson would return to the Tigers.

"We would not grant permission (to the Tigers to talk to Gibson) if asked because we want him here, and he told me this morning he has no interest in leaving," Hall said.

Detroit's players found out about Leyland's departure after Saturday night's game in Boston, where the Red Sox won Game 6 to take the series.

"You've got your head down, you lost and the season's over, and then Jim dropped that bomb on us," outfielder Torii Hunter said. "I just had a feeling that it could have been his last year. All year, he was kind of emotional, and I just felt it."

Leyland said there was no announcement Saturday because he wanted the focus to be on the victorious Red Sox. However, he was honest about how much this defeat hurt.

"With all due respect to the Boston Red Sox — who earned it, they won it, they deserve to be where they are — I truly believe the Detroit Tigers should be playing here tomorrow," Leyland said. "This is one that's going to stick with me, this is one that really hurts, because I really felt like we let it get away."

When Leyland arrived at the Tigers' spring training camp this year, it marked 50 seasons since he first showed up there as an 18-year-old prospect. His playing career never amounted to much, but his accomplishments as a manager over more than two decades have been impressive.

He is 1,769-1,728 overall during stints with the Tigers, Pirates, Marlins and Rockies.

"I had sent him a text yesterday morning, just to congratulate he and the organization," Boston manager John Farrell said. "Not only on a great team and a great year, and express the respect we have for him and certainly personally have for him throughout his career. To see the announcement today, and listen to him and know that early September this was clearly in his mind, that surprised me."

When Leyland took over the Tigers, they had gone 12 years without a winning season. During his tenure, they finished under .500 only once.

Detroit has become one of baseball's glamour teams of late, with stars like Cabrera, Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer helping the team win games and draw fans. Cabrera won the Triple Crown and MVP award last year. Verlander won the MVP and Cy Young Award the previous season.

"It's been as much fun for me to manage Ramon Santiago as it has Miguel Cabrera, Justin Verlander," Leyland said. "Now in saying that, it was also an honor to manage the Triple Crown winner, an MVP, a Cy Young winner."

The Tigers should be able to keep their core of players mostly together for next season, but now they'll need to find a new manager to replace Leyland, who always earned high marks for his ability to keep his veterans focused.

"He really cares deeply about his players," utility man Don Kelly said. "When you go out there, the way he treats you, you want to run through a wall for him, go out there and get a win. That's the way he treated me. He treated everybody like that."

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Tom Tykwer to Develop 1920s TV Series 'Babylon Berlin'

COLOGNE, Germany – Cloud Atlas director and producer team Tom Tykwer and Stefan Ardnt are developing a high-end TV series based on the best-selling Gereon Rath novels by German writer Volker Kutscher about a police detective in 1920s Berlin.

Directors Achim von Borries (Love in Thoughts) and Hendrik Handloegten (Learning to Lie) will adapt the Gereon Rath books with Tykwer and Arndt into a 12-part TV series titled Babylon Berlin. The series will be in German but will target the international market. Arndt and Tykwer's Berlin-based production shingle X Filme will produce the series.

Kutscher's novels follow the Cologne-born police detective Gereon Rath, who is transferred to Berlin and works to solve crimes in the turbulent German capital. The four novels published so far cover a period from 1929-1932, just before Adolf Hitler and the Nazis came to power and began World War II.

Ardnt suggested the novels provide sufficient material for several seasons of Babylon Berlin.

X Filme's project isn't the only series about 1920s Berlin in the pipeline.  Leading German commercial network RTL and production group UFA Fiction will jointly develop a new period drama series set in 1920s Berlin. Just last week, German commercial network RTL and producers Ufa greenlit their own historic mini-series – Killing Berlin -- set in the same period.

German is coming a bit late to the boom in high-end TV drama but is moving fast to catch up with the trend that has swept Europe, producing cross-border hits such as Denmark's The Killing, Brit drama Broadchurch or French zombie thriller The Returned.

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Obama Says He's 'Frustrated' About Health Care Site Issues

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At the White House on Monday, President Obama acknowledged widespread problems with his health care law's website while still defending the Affordable Care Act. NPR White House Correspondent Scott Horsley talks with Steve Inskeep about the president's remarks.

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SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE: Good to be with you, Steve.

INSKEEP: OK, the president's talking about Obamacare. What's he saying?

HORSLEY: Well, this is really the first big acknowledgement by the president that the problems with the website, healthcare.gov, that people are using to access the new insurance marketplaces are more than the glitches. He'd said all along there would be glitches. It's now become clear that the problems are more deep-seeded than that.

The president said there's no sugar coating that, and that he's as frustrated as anybody else. He also said the government is working to fix those problems. They're bringing in some top IT talent from the private sector to help out. He also says some of those private sector folks anticipated this kind of problem with a big undertaking like this.

INSKEEP: They might have anticipated it but they weren't ready for it...

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INSKEEP: ..but it's going to be a problem here, isn't it, to get it fixed on the fly?

HORSLEY: Absolutely. You're trying to fix the airplane while flying the airplane, as the saying goes. But the president also stressed that what he calls the underlying product, the insurance that's available through these marketplaces is still good, even if it's tough to get access to it. And he stressed that the Affordable Care Act is more than just this website and that there are ways for people to access that insurance offline, either by the telephone or in person.

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Jessica Simpson's Baby Boy Ace: Peek Inside His Adorable Nursery

"It's been so fun to decorate the home that my kids are going to grow up in," new mom of two Jessica Simpson told Us Weekly two months after welcoming her second child, son Ace Knute, who joins big sister Maxwell Drew at home with the singer and her former NFL player fiance Eric Johnson.

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Indeed, Ace's new nursery is one sweet hideaway. Decorated by Los Angeles-based Shabby Chic designer Rachel Ashwell, the tot's nursery is a mix of flea market finds and high-end pieces. "It's traditional, but a little bit country," the designer tells Us of the blue oasis. To keep Ace and his mom comfy, Ashwell covered a chair in denim patchwork ($3,800, rascc.net) and added leather panels to an Emelia crib ($899, restorationhardware.com).

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To pay homage to Simpson's home state, she hung a Texas flag on the wall, custom-embroidered with a Neil Young lyric about "dancin' in the light" ($1,250, rascc.net). The entire room -- nestled in the $11.5 million mansion the couple purchased from Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne in April 2013 -- is painted in Benjamin Moore Caribbean Coast and Chalk White paint.

"It was cool to see it all come together," Simpson, who has her own signature home collection in the works, gushed to Us. "So creative!"

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Simpson says the peaceful pad fits with her newborn's ever-evolving personality. "Carrying Ace, I felt a connection with him. The moment he came out, I thought, He's going to have a really strong personality, but he's going to be a little more sensitive."

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Though home life with her newly formed family of four can get chaotic, Simpson wouldn't trade it for the world. "With two kids, we have our hands full, but every day is a new adventure," she muses. "I feel very at peace with being a mom. It's fun!"

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Carol Burnett receives top US humor prize in DC

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Carol Burnett launched her namesake variety show in the 1960s, one TV executive told her the genre was "a man's game." She proved him wrong with an 11-year run that averaged 30 million viewers each week.

On Sunday, the trailblazing comedienne received the nation's top humor prize at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Top entertainers including Julie Andrews, Tony Bennett, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and others performed in Burnett's honor as she received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

The show was taped Sunday and will be broadcast Nov. 24 on PBS stations.

"This is very encouraging," Burnett, 80, deadpanned in accepting the prize. "I mean it was a long time in coming, but I understand because there are so many people funnier than I am, especially here in Washington.

"With any luck, they'll soon get voted out, and I'll still have the Mark Twain prize."

Fey opened the show with some jokes about the recent government shutdown and about fears over "Obamacare."

"Enough politics. We are here tonight to celebrate the first lady of American comedy, Ted Cruz," Fey said, referring to the Texas senator who took a prominent role during the shutdown.

Fey quickly turned to showering Burnett with accolades for opening doors for other women comedians.

"You mean so much to me," Fey said. "I love you in a way that is just shy of creepy."

In an interview, Burnett said she was drawn to comedy after realizing how it felt to make people laugh. She went to UCLA with plans to become a journalist, but she took an acting course that put her on stage.

"I played a hillbilly woman, and coming from Texas ... it was real easy for me," she said. "I just made my entrance, and I said, 'I'm Baaack.' Then they exploded."

"I thought whoa! This feels good," Burnett said. "I wanted those laughs to keep on coming forever."

Few women were doing comedy when Burnett set her sights on New York. She caught a break when she was spotted by talent bookers from TV's "The Ed Sullivan Show" and was invited to perform her rendition of "I Made a Fool of Myself over John Foster Dulles."

Almost immediately, Burnett transformed Dulles, the former secretary of state, "from a Presbyterian bureaucrat into a smoking hot sex symbol," said Cappy McGarr, the co-creator of the Mark Twain Prize. "She sang that she was 'simply on fire with desire' and that was really her big break."

Soon after, Burnett landed a role in Broadway's "Once Upon a Mattress," and began appearing on morning TV's "The Garry Moore Show." She never thought she could host her own show, though.

"I was more of a second banana," she said. But she loved playing a variety of characters.

CBS signed her to a 10-year contract doing guest shots on sitcoms and performing in one TV special a year, but the deal also allowed her the option of creating her own variety show and guaranteed her airtime. But five years in, CBS executives had forgotten about the idea.

She recalled one executive telling her: "You know, variety is a man's game."

"At that time, I understood what he was saying, and I was never one to get angry," Burnett said. "I said 'well this is what I know, and this is what I want to do.'"

The show ran from 1967 to 1978 and included guest stars such as Lucille Ball, Jimmy Stewart, Ronald Reagan and Betty White.

Tim Conway, one of Burnett's co-stars on her show, joked that he now spends his time traveling around the country for Burnett to receive awards.

"Thank you for being such a friend," he said, "such a generous person, not with salary, but generous."

Comedian Martin Short also joined the tribute to Burnett.

"What is it about redheads on television that make us laugh so much? Carol, Lucille Ball, Donald Trump," he said.

Burnett said it's a thrill to receive the award named for humorist and satirist Mark Twain and that she's in good company with past honorees, who include Fey, Bill Cosby, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin and Ellen DeGeneres.

Coming on the heels of the government shutdown, McGarr said it's nice to bring an "intentionally funny moment" to Washington after weeks of political drama.

"You know, serious times call for seriously funny people," McGarr said.

Burnett made a special request that rising comedienne Rosemary Watson, who does impressions of Hillary Clinton and others, be part of the show. Burnett found Watson on YouTube after receiving a fan letter and thought she was funny.

"The thing is, you pay it forward," Burnett said, "because when I got started, somebody gave me a break when I was 21 years old, and I wanted to go to New York."

Before the show, Watson said that watching Burnett shaped her life as a child. She said Burnett was not a joke teller but created funny characters.

"I do what I do because of her," Watson said. "For me, she was it. She was the female comedian I wanted to be most like."

Vicki Lawrence, a co-star with Burnett on "The Carol Burnett Show," who is perhaps best known for playing "Mama" in sketches with Burnett, said she was planning to be a dental hygienist before she knew Burnett.

"I was going to be cleaning teeth somewhere," she said, "and I guess she changed that."

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Chloe Moretz: GLSEN Respect Awards Cutie

Supporting educational opportunities for all, Chloe Moretz arrived at the GLSEN Respect Awards at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Friday (October 18).

The "Dark Shadows" star looked cute in a strapless polka-dotted party dress with black heels as she posed for photos at the 9th annual event.

Each year, the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network honors those who ensure that every student is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

Sharing a pic of herself during the evening, Chloe tweeted, "Thank you so much so GLSEN for allowing me to be there tonight and meet the amazing Laila Al-Shamma she was smart, sweet, and one of the most inspiring people I've ever met. Very proud to be apart of tonight. Thank you."

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WikiLeaks Sabotages 'Fifth Estate' With Its Own Julian Assange Film

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Did Julian Assange get the last laugh?

Assange's longtime campaign against Bill Condon's WikiLeaks movie The Fifth Estate culminated with the renegade website offering free downloads of its own documentary Mediastan just as Fifth Estate was released in North America by Disney's Touchstone label.

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"This weekend," Assange said in a statement, "instead of wasting your time and money on Hollywood propaganda, why not get all your friends around and spend your time watching Mediastan instead?"

Regardless of what role Mediastan played, Fifth Estate quickly died, grossing a paltry $1.7 million from 1,769 theaters -- the worst opening of the year so far for a movie opening in more than 1,500 theaters.

There were no immediate stats available in terms of how many times Mediastan was downloaded in North America. Last weekend, 500,000 people downloaded a free copy of the documentary when it was made available to coincide with Fifth Estate's release in the U.K. (that would equal $4.2 million in U.S. box office receipts).

"We're disappointed with these results," said Disney distribution chief Dave Hollis, noting that Fifth Estate did best in big cities, including New York, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Los Angeles and Toronto. The pic also skewed slightly male (54 percent).

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Other insiders close to the film say Americans, and particularly those living in conservative states, have no interest in Assange or WikiLeaks.

Assange has repeatedly criticized Condon's film for presenting a skewed view of himself and WikiLeaks (at one point, he even wrote a note to Cumberbatch asking the actor to drop the project).

On the eve of Fifth Estate's domestic debut, Assange -- who remains holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London -- even Skyped with members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, predicting that Condon's movie would fail because it didn't present a proper underdog story.

Mediastan upped the stakes even further. Produced by Assange, the documentary recounts "Operation Cablerun," in which thousands of secret American diplomatic cables were posted by WikiLeaks and leaked to The Guardian and The New York Times.

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The logline for Mediastan states that the film features "an undercover team of journalists driving across the central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and into U.S.-occupied Afghanistan." They later regroup in Assange’s kitchen before "ambushing the editor of the Guardian, and obtaining candid footage of the New York Times editor [Bill Keller] and its publisher Arthur Sulzberger speaking about Obama."

"This [Mediastan] is journalism in extremis," Assange said. "This is how it is done."

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Jackson Leads Revamped Detroit Lineup To 7-3 Win

DETROIT (AP) — Jim Leyland dropped Austin Jackson to eighth in the batting order, hoping to relax the slumping Detroit outfielder.

So naturally, Jackson's first plate appearance came with the bases loaded. After drawing a four-pitch walk to force in a run, he finally felt a little more at ease.

A revitalized Jackson delivered in Leyland's revamped lineup as the Tigers built a big lead and held on this time, beating the Boston Red Sox 7-3 Wednesday night to even the AL championship series 2-all. Detroit scored five runs in the second inning, the first coming home on Jackson's walk.

"It was a big situation right there to try to get something done," Jackson said. "I think after I'd seen a couple of pitches I was able to kind of just take some deep breaths and relax a little bit — and not worry so much about the result, just try to get a good pitch."

Jackson finished with two singles and two walks. He was 3 for 33 with 18 strikeouts in this postseason before Wednesday.

Torii Hunter had a two-run double and Miguel Cabrera drove in two runs after Leyland moved the slumping Jackson out of the leadoff spot and bumped almost everyone else up a place following the Tigers' 1-0 loss in Game 3. The Detroit manager was quick to deflect credit afterward.

"This has nothing to do with Jim Leyland, this is about the players," Leyland said. "They executed, they came out, they played well."

Jackson's bases-loaded walk off Jake Peavy in the second seemed to be a relief for most of Comerica Park. Another strikeout could have derailed the rally, but instead the Tigers broke the game open.

Doug Fister, meanwhile, provided another fine outing for Detroit. He allowed a run in six innings, and the Tigers' starting pitchers have yielded only three runs in 27 ALCS innings — and struck out 42.

After blowing a 5-0 lead in Game 2, Detroit kept the Red Sox at bay Wednesday.

Game 5 is Thursday night in Detroit. The Tigers' Anibal Sanchez faces Boston's Jon Lester in a rematch of Game 1, which was won by Detroit 1-0.

Jacoby Ellsbury had four hits for the Red Sox on Wednesday, finishing a homer shy of the cycle, but now it's Boston manager John Farrell fielding questions about whether a lineup shakeup is in order after another tough night against Detroit's pitching.

"The one thing that we've maintained is a constant approach with the lineup and not creating further uncertainty," Farrell said. "I think our guys have responded well to that."

The Tigers lost Games 2 and 3, wasting gems by Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander. Leyland left Jackson in the lineup but changed the batting order. Jackson hit eighth, and with others moving up a spot, it made for an odd-looking lineup. Hunter hit leadoff for the first time since 1999 and Cabrera was second for only the third time in his career — first since 2004.

"That was pretty good. He switched things up, kind of shake it up a little bit," Hunter said. "It gave us a different mindset. Miggy hitting second, me leading off. It gave us a different mindset to make things happen."

Leyland indicated his batting order would remain the same in Game 5 — but will he be doing anything special with the lineup card from Wednesday's game?

"I'll throw it away, unless I can sell it to some bar on the way home," he said.

Jackson found himself batting in a crucial situation right away in the second. Peavy walked him to force home the game's first run.

The Red Sox had a chance to halt that rally when Jose Iglesias hit a potential double play grounder to second, but Dustin Pedroia couldn't field it cleanly and Boston had to settle for a forceout at second that brought another run home.

"That was my fault. We've got to turn that double play," Pedroia said. "That ball was smoked. If I catch it, we're getting two."

Hunter followed with a double down the line in left to make it 4-0, and Cabrera added an RBI single.

After walking three batters in the second inning, Peavy was in trouble again in the fourth. After a leadoff double by Omar Infante, Jackson slapped a single past a diving Pedroia to bring home a run.

"It felt good to contribute to a win," Jackson said. "Just get a chance to go out there and not put so much pressure on yourself, just have fun."

Cabrera's single made it 7-0, and the Detroit third baseman — who has been running even slower than usual over the last month or so because of groin problems — caught reliever Brandon Workman and the Boston defense napping when he stole second without a throw.

In the fifth, Cabrera looked healthy enough when he charged Pedroia's slow grounder, barehanded it and threw to first for the out.

Peavy allowed seven runs and five hits in three-plus innings.

Detroit blew a 5-0 lead in Game 2 — with the bullpen responsible for most of the damage— and Cabrera and Prince Fielder both struck out with runners at the corners in the eighth inning of Game 3. The tension was building in Motown, but the defending AL champions jumped out to an early lead Wednesday.

David Ortiz's tying grand slam in Game 2 off Detroit closer Joaquin Benoit kept the Tigers from sweeping the first two games at Fenway Park.

Detroit went to Benoit in the ninth Wednesday with a 7-2 lead, and Ellsbury hit an RBI triple with none out. But Benoit struck out Shane Victorino, ensuring that Ortiz wouldn't be able to bat as the tying run later in the inning.

When Ortiz did come up for his rematch with Benoit, there was only one man on. The Boston designated hitter took another mighty swing, but his high fly to right was caught easily.

Detroit had taken a no-hitter into the fifth inning of its previous four games. Pedroia's single in the first put an end to that streak, but the Red Sox didn't do much against Fister.

Boston had a chance to score first in the second. Mike Napoli, whose homer accounted for the only run of Game 3, led off with a double off the tip of Cabrera's glove and went to third on a groundout. Cabrera caught Jarrod Saltalamacchia's foul popup against the railing of the Detroit dugout, and Fister struck out Stephen Drew.

After the Tigers scored five in the second, Boston put two on for Ortiz in the third. He pulled a grounder into Detroit's shifted defense for the third out.

Saltalamacchia hit an RBI single in the sixth, but Fister got out of a two-on, one-out situation after that. The right-hander allowed eight hits and a walk, striking out seven.

Victorino hit an RBI double in the seventh to make it 7-2.

NOTES: The Boston bullpen, which has been outstanding in this postseason, worked five scoreless innings. ... Drew Smyly got five outs in relief for Detroit, helping the Tigers get the game to Benoit.

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