Win two free passes for you and a friend to the Nightmare Screamplex Haunted House by listening to WMBC Radio. The giveaway begins today Wednesday, October 24, 2012. Check out http://www.nightmarescreamplex.com/ for additional information. Visit http://wmbc.info/ to listen to the station.

Cyber Security Mergers & Acquisitions – Striving for a
Successful Exit: Trends, Preparation, and Lessons Learned

9:00-10:30am, Friday 9 November 2012

RWD Building, UMBC Research Park
5521 Research Park Dr.
Baltimore, MD 21228

The Cyber Incubator at bwtech@UMBC will host a third CYBERInnovation Briefing on Friday 9 November 2012 in the RWD Building of UMBC's Research Park. Registration begins at 8:30am.

Cyber security acquisitions continue to heat up. Join the CyberHive community as we host a distinguished panel of cyber security executives and capital markets experts who will share their recent merger and acquisition experiences in the cyber security industry. Learn from buyers, sellers, and deal flow managers – how to drive a successful deal and be best prepared. Our panel will explore recent trends in activity, acquisition characteristics, attributes that enhance company valuation, lessons learned, process and financial preparation, retention of key employees, and offer words of wisdom.

Acquisition activity involving cyber security companies will continue to influence the economic growth of our region, as innovators from the National Security Agency, US Cyber Command, and the Defense Industrial Base launch creative business opportunities. These sessions are very interactive and we look forward to and welcome your participation.

For more information and to RSVP, contact Alexandra Gold, Sorry, you need javascript to view this email address.

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We asked the Congressman (who represents Maryland’s 7th district) what he thought was at stake in this election for students. The above video is his answer. Hope you enjoy!

Anne Rubin, associate professor of history, has been named the president of the Society of Civil War Historians. Rubin is the author of A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868

The Society of Civil War Historians (SCWH) is an association of scholars dedicated to exploring slavery, the sectional crisis, Civil War, emancipation, and reconstruction roughly from the 1830s through 1880. SCWH’s goal is to bring greater coherence to the historical field by encouraging the integration of social, military, political, and other forms of history and generally to promote the study of the Civil War era.

In a video for the blog “The Civil War Monitor,” Rubin discusses her new role and her aspirations for the next two years of her presidency.

“I’d like the society to have a voice in the ongoing conversation about the Civil War sesquicentennial,” Rubin said. “I’d like us also to have more of a digital presence, more of a social media presence.  We’re historians, we like the past, but the digital world is upon us and it’s a great tool for outreach and to get the message of the society out there to a broader and younger public.”

The video can be seen here.

 Last night we witnessed the third and final presidential debate of the 2012 election. Everybody… on the count of three, cue the collective sigh of relief.

Not to say we here at USDemocrazy don’t enjoy these events. As thoroughly nerdy blogateers, debates are like our Super Bowl (only we get three and a half of them).

We won’t take up your time with who won and who lost. The network you choose for  post-debate coverage will decide that. 

Suffice it to say, a clear distinction has been drawn between the two candidates and the never ending story campaign is coming to a close. 

We would like to take some time and ask you, the reader, what observations you have about the campaign thus far? What are your greatest criticisms? What are your pet peeves?

Because this is the time when ads and speeches and debate analysis does little to sway the electorate. All that matters at this point is what voters (you hopefully) have come to think.

By the way in case you are hoping to vote this year find your polling station here. 

Jodi Kelber-Kaye, associate director of the honors college, was featured in a recent Baltimore Messenger story on phone banking for marriage equality.  Kelber-Kaye has joined the pro-marriage equality efforts at Bolton Street Synagogue.

“I’m extraordinarily hopeful” that Question 6 will pass, Kelber-Kaye told the paper. Kelber-Kaye was one of the plaintiffs in a 2004 lawsuit challenging a state ban on same-sex marriages

The story, “Bolton Street Synagogue trying to get out the vote for marriage equality,” appeared online on October 22.