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The Mapleson Cylinders - Program Notes
|Wagner: LOHENGRIN
|Band 2
(a) Act III: Final Scene excerpt: "Wir harren dein in Streites Lust" ... "o kˆnnt' er die Kunde sich ersparen!"
(b) Mapleson announcement
Jean De Reszke (t), Lohengrin
Edouard De Reszke (bs), King
Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra--
Walter Damrosch
March 29, 1901
[Snake and Glackens 120 (both refer to "Act 2"); announcement on cylinder.]
In the final scene, Lohengrin's arrival is hailed by the men of Brabant, but he has unwelcome tidings for them. (A substantial part of his exposition, during which he explains why he must now reveal his name and lineage, was cut in the performance.) The cylinder ends just before Lohengrin begins his famous narration, "In fernem Land," and Mapleson adds his announcement (which, in the IRCC 78 rpm issue, was placed before the music).
Pronti di gi‡ noi ti attendiam,
con te alla gloria ci apprestiam!
Mein Herr und Kˆnig, lass dir melden:
die ich berief, die k¸hnen Helden,
zum Streit sie f¸hren darf ich nicht!
KING and CHORUS
O Ciel! che intesi! Che mai parlÚ!
Als Streitgenoss bin ich nicht herkommen:
als Klager sei ich jetzt von euch vernommen!
Zum ersten klage laut ich vor euch Allen,
und frag' um Spruch nach Recht und Fug:
da dieser Mann zur Nacht mich ¸berfallen,
sagt, ob ich ihn mit Recht erschlug?
KING and CHORUS
Siccome la terra tu lo punisti,
per sempre il dinni il ciel fra i tristi!
* * *
So hˆrt, ob ich an Adel euch nicht gleich!
Ciel, qual mistero deggio or io ascoltar!
Ah! possa ancor l'arcano a noi celar!
Was muss ich nun erfahren?
O, kˆnnt' er die Kunde sich ersparen!
Ready for battle, we await you;
led by you, certain of victory.
My Lord and King, be informed:
these proud heroes whom I summoned--
I may not lead them into battle!
KING and CHORUS
God help us! What bitter words he speaks!
I come here, not as your companion in arms:
as a plaintiff let me now be heard by you!
First, I charge aloud before you all,
and ask for judgement before the law:
since this man tried to slay me by night,
say, whether I was right to slay him?
KING and CHORUS
Just as your hand struck him on earth,
so God's punishment will fall on him now!
* * *
Now hear, if I am not your equal in lineage!
Heaven, what mystery must I now hear!
Oh, could this secret but remain concealed from us!
What mystery must I now hear!
Oh, could this secret but remain concealed!


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[Intro: *guy talking*]
Good evening. Police, do not try to adjust your radios. There is nothing wrong. We have takin control over this city as to bring you this special bulletin and we will return this motherfucker to ya as soon as the National Guards move in
[Verse 1:]
The cops wanna catch the nigga that won't fetch
But I'll blast ya, never call ya master
Who is that kickin up shit much faster?
Rollin on a scooter, you know I might do ya
See a black cop and my buckshots run right thru ya
I never knew ya
Cos I'm not a trick
You can suck the biggity-dick, I'm not the piggity-pig
I get away quickity-quick
On the plane to South Central
Never get played by the monkey wrench ho
Steady mobbin' I'm just like Robin Hood
Up to no good, so many bitches on my wood
To the right of me and to the left of me
Bitch, I got so much game I need a referee
Throw a penalty of ass interference
Damn, y'all over me, so bitch get on the bench
Here comes the cops so I better hit the fence
Better run fast cos the dobermans pinch
And I won't play mine in the daytime
Goddamn, here comes the canine
Four legged copper that wants to use Ice Cube as a whopper
But who's the first nigga to outrun a chopper?
No lie say hi to the bad guy
[Interlude: *Cube talkin with officer*]
Fuck! (Hey guys, where ya headed?)
Nowhere, man (Got your licence and registration?)
Yeah, hold up, right here (Hey, what's in that box back there?)
Nuttin, aah, nuttin (They happen to be donuts?)
(Ya got a glazed donut? How bout a bearclaw?)
Aaah... (If you don't have one, I got ta gaffle ya)
What? You gon' gaf... Yeah!
[Verse 2:]
See one-time, hit em up
Cos you know the Lench Mob is down to get em up
People think Ice Cube roll with the gangs
Cos I'm in a coupe dat' sittin' on thangs
Ain't gotta tell me twice about the jack
See a got a 9 in my lap ta take care of that
Caps get peeled on the regular
Cos niggas try to get me for my cellular
Knick knack paddy wack, the mack daddy's back
Kidnappin hoes like the Patty Hearst jack
Have the white ho with a fo'-fo'
Go rob a liquor store, they can't blame it on a Nigga-o
Bring the money to the rooster
Had the bitch and the Mob bein the booster
Damn, can't stand when the bitch get sent to Sybil Brand
And come back a man
You wanna point the finger at me cos the OG
Is souped like Chef Boyardee
Humpin, jumpin, had the place jumpin
Goddamn, gotta break you off somet'in
You wanna know why I bust and how
Now look at you now
Huh, and I'm out real fast
Get the paper out yo' ass, baby
Yo, here we go, listen to the pro
Shoot the bo-bo and act like ya know, ho
Fuck with the flow and die
When I walk by say hi to the bad guy
Ai yo man, there's just one left (I'll make a deal with ya)
What? (Aah, ya got one of those powdered donuts?
(How bout that twister? If it have cream in the middle, I'm gonna have to
Gaffle ya!)
You gon' gaffle us? (Hey, can I reach back there and get one?
Aaah yeah homie, go on and reach ahead here
Tuck ya head in there, man
*gun shots*
(What kind of a cop killer are you?)
The title and refrain are one of Cube's many references to the 1983 movie Scarface.
Like the main character of the movie, Ice Cube has accepted and even relishes in his role, here as the bad guy of hip-hop.

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In one month last year Americans spent 63.5 billion minutes engaging in social media. Drawing conclusions from another study, a January article in the Telegraph warned that people "are becoming increasingly addicted and dependent upon social networks."
Online communication also can hamper college students' growth and development, according to Barbara Hofer, psychologist and co-author of The iConnected Parent.
So how do we find balance? A technological fast could be one way of regaining perspective.
Karen Edmisten (@Karen_Ed), a home-schooling mother of three and blogger from Nebraska, offers these tips for online fasting:
• Tweet-fast: If Facebook and Twitter use is merely for recreation, "giving it up each Friday of the year or during Lent could be helpful in assessing its place in one's day and one's level of balance."
• Book vs. blog: Edmisten will periodically weigh her book reading against her blog reading. "If I find that every time I sit down to read for enjoyment I'm reaching for the laptop instead of a book, it might be time for a fast."
• Involve kids: Encouraging kids to decrease time on their favorite websites during Lent can help them learn about sacrifice in a way that is very immediate and real to them.
• Honest assessment: "My rule of thumb is that if Internet communication is causing me to say no to other good and valuable things that are right in front of me, it's time to reassess my level of use."
Lisa Hendey, CatholicMom.com founder, says some families forgo Internet use for longer phases when parental monitoring isn't possible. Monitoring kids' online activity "can be overwhelming, just as is teaching them math or making sure five kids have their teeth brushed every night," she says. "Many families say, 'We can't supervise it, so we're not going to do it,' and that's OK."
For adults, it's more a matter of self-control, according to Hofer. "Social media is only as consuming and invasive as one allows it to be."
This article appeared in the July issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 76, No. 7, pages 28-32).


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I have been experimenting with my Gluten Free Oats and Jules Gluten Free Flour over the past couple of weeks. First I made Oatmeal Raisin Cookies that disappeared so fast that I was thankful I had saved a small amount of the dough and hid it in the freezer! Surely my family wouldn't find it buried under the edamame, right? As I was browsing my email one morning, I came across a recipe that Jules shared for Oatmeal Cake. Being that it is National Oatmeal Month, I thought it was only fitting that I made it.
The recipe for the cake can be found here. I made a minor change or two that I will share below:
1. I used Mott's Apple Juice instead of apple cider. I could have purchased the apple cider, but no one would drink it, so I went with the juice.
2. I used Sun Maid Raisins in place of baking raisins. I could have boiled the raisins to plump them up, but I was in a hurry, so I didn't.
3. I used Silk Pure Almond Unsweetened for the milk
Another modification that I chose to add was a drizzling of non-fat vanilla yogurt (Stonyfield) when I served the cake.
This cake was very moist and flavorful. I loved the combination of the pumpkin pie spice & cinnamon. The cake held together well and the vanilla yogurt was a nice compliment to the flavors. This would be nice to serve at a brunch as a coffee cake along side a large bowl of fruit salad or fruit skewers. It was the prefect ending to a freezing cold winter day. The next time I make this, I will be using Jules homemade apple butter in place of the applesauce, as she suggests. Yum!
You can see the Oatmeal Cookies here…I think I will be pulling them out of the freezer today and baking when no one else is looking. That may be hard seeing as we have a snow day and everyone is home.
Are you snowed in? I am more than ready for spring!
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Novel Bio-Artificial Pancreas Providing Immune Protection and Oxygen Supply
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Introduction: In the early post-transplant period, transplanted islets are affected by inflammatory reactions and hypoxia. Additionally, immunosuppressors are associated with islet toxicity and significant morbidity in the patient. Thus, strategies to promote islet engraftment and immune-tolerance are the moving-spirit for the proposed study: Utilization of a specially engineered macrochamber that provides complete immuno-isolation of islet grafts and allows for controlled oxygen supply.
Materials and methods: Isolated rat islets were macro-encapsulated and transplanted subcutaneously into STZ-induced diabetic rats. Oxygen supply was provided by daily s.c.-refuelling during follow-up of 90 days. The model was carried out in a syngeneic and allogeneic setting.
The model was then translated to large animals using minipigs as recipients of allogeneic and xenogeneic encapsulated islets. To test for biocompatibility and graft survival, healthy pigs were implanted with islet-containing devices. After 4 weeks the devices were explanted and assessed for viability and function. In first pre-clinical experiments, the device was tested in pancreatectomized diabetic minipigs.
Results: All transplanted rats showed normalization of blood glucose independent of syn- or allogeneic setting. After retrieval, the animals quickly reverted to hyperglycaemia. Explanted islets were morphologically and functionally intact. In the large animal model, biocompatibility of the device could be proven by absence of local inflammation or fibrosis. Retrieved islets were found intact and functional. Diabetic minipigs showed immediate and sustained normoglycemia following device implantation.
Conclusion: We have demonstrated successful application of an oxygen-refuelling macrochamber for sustained islet function and immuno-protection in rodent and large animal diabetes-models. This work opens up avenues for porcine islet xenotransplantation.


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|Eight-Tails Subduing Team
|Volume #52, Naruto Chapter #494
|Naruto Shippūden Episode #244
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The Third Raikage's rule was noted to be riddled with the jinchūriki of the Eight-Tails losing control of the beast, and going on a rampage. To deal with these epidemics, the Third assembled a special team tasked with restraining the Eight-Tails whenever this happened. They would bind the Eight-Tails with chains — which in the anime, were said to be imbued with a fūinjutsu — and distract it, giving the Third enough time to use the Kohaku no Jōhei to seal the beast. The inability of jinchūriki to control the Eight-Tails cost Kumogakure many lives, including that of Furui who was a member of the team. After the Eight-Tails was sealed into Killer B, he was able to control it, bringing an end to the rampages and the assumed disbanding of this team.


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Gluten and Sugar-Free Lemon and Poppy Seed Scones
If you like a little tart with your sweet, try these scones from The Joy of Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free Baking. Best of all, they're a quick and easy teatime treat.
Reprinted with permission from The Joy of Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free Baking by Peter Reinhart & Denene Wallace. Copyright © 2012. Published by 10 Speed Press. Available wherever books are sold. All rights reserved.
- Yield:makes 20 to 24 scones
- Active time: 15 minutes
- Total time:45 minutes
- 4 cups (1 lb / 454 g) almond flour
- 1 1/4 cups Splenda or Stevia Extract in the Raw, or 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons New Roots Stevia Sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
- 3 eggs (5.25 oz / 149 g)
- 1/2 cup (4 oz / 113 g) fresh lemon juice
- 1/4 cup (2 oz / 57 g) salted butter or margarine, melted
- 3 tablespoons grated lemon zest
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon liquid stevia
Position 2 oven racks in the middle of the oven. Preheat the oven to 350°F (177°C). Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone mats or lightly mist them with spray oil.
In a medium bowl, combine the almond flour, Splenda, baking powder, salt, and poppy seeds and whisk until well mixed. In a large bowl, whisk the eggs, lemon juice, butter, lemon zest, vanilla, and liquid stevia together until thoroughly blended. Add the flour mixture and stir with a large spoon for 1 to 2 minutes to make a thick, sticky batter that will hold its shape when dropped from a spoon
Drop the batter onto the prepared pans, using 2 heaping tablespoons of batter per scone and spacing them 2 inches apart.
Bake for 10 minutes, then rotate the pans and switch racks and bake for about 10 more minutes, until the scones are golden brown and firm to the touch.
Immediately transfer the scones to a wire rack and let cool for at least 10 minutes before serving.
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Forza Motorsport 3 has sold more than a million units worldwide, and Turn 10 celebrates by selling you even more in the form of the Hot Holidays car pack.
More than a million racing fans snapped up copies of Turn 10's Forza Motorsport 3 during its first month at retail, with players logging more than 6.6 million man hours playing online. Those man hours (as opposed to dog hours - dogs can't drive) were spent in more than 64 million connected sessions covering approximately 590 million miles of track.
In other words, a lot of people have been playing Forza 3.
And perhaps a good portion of those million people will be picking up the Hot Holidays car pack, available today, featuring ten of of the world's most anticipated race cars of 2009 and 2010. Cars like the new Ferrari 458 Italia and the latest Nissan GT-R Spec V. Cars like this:
1. 2010 Ferrari 599XX
2. 2010 Mercedes SLR Stirling Moss
3. 2010 Lamborghini LP6700-4 SV
4. 2010 Porsche Panamera Turbo
5. 2010 Ferrari 458 Italia
6. 2010 Jaguar XFR
7. 2010 Audi S4
8. 2009 Aston Martin #007 AMR Lola
9. 2009 Audi #2 Sport Team Joest R15 TDI
10. 2010 Nissan GT-R Spec V
Yes sir, that is definitely a list of cars, all of which can be yours today for 400 Microsoft points. Just make sure to save some points for January 12th, when Turn 10 releases another pack to coincide with the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.


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Ok folks, remember Halloween 2006? We had what started out as a small contest – ya know… a costume, gadget, haunted house & jack-o-lantern contest, that is, until thousands of entries came pouring in! It became clear to everyone that Halloween is the holiday for Makers, so we're doing an entire issue on Halloween this year! DIY HALLOWEEN 2007 is from the editors of MAKE & CRAFT and brings you 40-plus DIY projects for the holiday that's made for makers. From the craftiest costumes to amazing animated props and the latest in computer-controlled haunted house effects, this special issue will include: headless Marie Antoinette costume, mechanical ghosts and ghouls, LED and laser jack-o'-lanterns, creature makeup and blood-spurting wounds, DIY coffins and tombstones, T. Rex rooftopper, flaming LED skulls, kid-tested haunted house tricks, and a special "Ghoulbox" section with Halloween kits, tools, and gadgets. Plus demonic decorations, hideous party snacks, and profiles of extraordinary makers and their creepy crafts.
If you're going to Maker Faire, bring your costume and Halloween projects, if you're working on something amazing now – let us know. Happy Halloween!


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October 2018
January 2018Oregon's Drinking Water Program, Loss of water system pressure requires a boil water advisory, beef up your budget with better planning, operator certification corner, low-cost fudning for drinking water system improvements, source water assessment updates, make sure there are no bypasses around treatment plants, outstanding performers, meeting calendar, training calendar.
January 2017Program update; 2016 renewal and audit: Lessons learned; Are you ready for a water emergency?; Low-cost funding for drinking water facility improvements; Congratulations to our Outstanding Performers!; Dave Leland retires!; New DWS section manager; Meeting calendar; Training calendar.
August 2016The Flint, Michigan lead crisis, aftermath and ramifications, State agencies announce plan to help school districts and childcare centers reduce lead in drinking water, Ensuring proper sample site selections, Lead and copper implications when adding a new source or treatment, Reporting requirements under the Lead and Copper Rule, Consumer notification of individual results, Guidance for lead and copper sample collection, Funding available for service line replacements, Finding lead resources on the DWS website, Fact sheet: Information for schools and childcare facilities, Meeting Calendar, Training Calendar.
March 2016Drinking water fee increases take effect January 2; Thirtieth anniversary of primacy in Oregon; Does your storage tank need maintenance?; April showers bring... new requirements for seasonal water systems; No joke, new rules for coliform bacteria arriving on April 1, 2016; 2016 source water assessment updates; Congratulations to our "Outstanding Performers"!; Meeting Calendar; Training Calendar.
October 2015Coliform Monitoring Changes; Is Your Water System's Coliform Sampling Plan Up-to-Date?; Level 1 and Level 2 Coliform Investigations; New Requirements for Seasonal Water Systems; Staff Updates; Congratulations to our "Outstanding Performers"!; Meeting Calendar; Training Calendar.
September 20152015 Legislature Authorizes Increased Drinking Water Fees; Allowable Continuing Education Unit Topics for Operators Expanded.
October 2013Cryptosporidiosis outbreak in Baker City; Program update; Emergency awareness apps; 100-foot setback requirement for wells and springs; Gutter-drain style hatches for reservoirs; Meeting calendar; Training calendar
April 2013 - Revised from print editionProgram update; Stage 2 disinfection byproducts monitoring; Plan review update; Are my drinking water chemicals safe?; Consumer Con?dence Reports: Update on electronic delivery; Staff updates; Congratulations to our "Outstanding Performers"!; Calibration and care of pH meters; It's coming — no more deadlines; Meeting calendar; Training calendar
September 2012Program update; Drinking Water Program Performance Survey; Loss of water system pressure requires boil water advisory; Congratulations to our outstanding performers; Fall 2012 advanced small water system training courses; Shutdown tips; Meeting calendar; Training calendar
April 2012Program update; Stage 2 Disinfection Byproducts Rule; Congratulations to our outstanding performers; Operator Certification Corner; It's coming! mark your calendars!; Advanced small water system training course rides again in 2012; Start-up tips for seasonal groundwater systems; Handy tips for lead and copper sampling!; Meeting calendar; Training calendar
Summer 2011Program update; Reminder: 2011 Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey is now under way; Congratulations to our outstanding performers; Staff updates; Drinking Water Program organizational chart; Meeting calendar; Training calendar
Spring 2011Oregon Public Health and the Department of Justice work to bring safe water to a Lincoln County public water system; Program update; Congratulations to our outstanding performers; Resources for cyanobacteria and drinking water; What is your certification number?; Surface water systems - Do you need a tracer study?; New! Advanced Small Water System Training Course 201; It's coming! Mark your calendars! (2011 State Revolving Loan Fund Letter of Interest); Meeting calendar; Training calendar
Winter 2011Program update; 2011 Drinking water infrastructure needs survey; Congratulations to our outstanding performers!; ITT publishes findings from value of water survey; O&M manuals - What's in it for me?; Update on monthly source assessment sampling under the Ground Water Rule (GWR); The three pillars of an asset management program; Staff updates; Meeting calendar; Training calendar
Fall 2010Program update; Congratulations to our Outstanding Performers; Drinking Water Program actively enforces safe drinking water requirements; Know your system score; Operator Certification Corner; Triggered Monitoring under the Ground Water Rule; Annual source sampling reminder; DEQ report looks at sediment impacts on public water systems in coast range; Calendar
Summer 2010Program update; Is your system an Outstanding Performer? It's coming: the fall 2010 Letter of Interest (LOI); Staff updates; The City of Creswell: Meeting the challenges of growth; EPA Fact Sheet; Ground Water Rule sampling; Calendar
Spring 2010Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund awards top $200 million; New water treatment plant in Sweet Home; What is the point of it all? Questions about the new ground water rule; New requirement for groundwater systems; Operator certification corner; Staff updates; Calendar
Winter 2010Oregon's public drinking water sources; Drinking water emergency; Staff updates; Labeling coliform sample locations; Sending your public notice to the state; Preparing for the flu; Updating the coliform reporting form; Operator certification corner; Calendar; DWP organizational chart
Summer 2009Recap of the 2009 Legislature; Best management practices for service outages; Third Annual ORWARN Conference will take place October 14-16; Updates to the coliform sampling plan template for small systems: Incorporating the provisions of the Ground Water Rule; Why Clorox®?; Operator certification corner: OESAC Web site look is NEW; New small system vulnerability assessment and emergency response plan tool available; Meeting calendar; Training calendar
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BauZ! 2017 Congress - Call for Papers
Net decarbonising the world economy by 2050 – that is what 195 member states of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change have agreed upon on 12 December 2015 in Paris.
What does this mean, as of now, for life in planning and building in all its colours? BauZ! 2017 Congress will focus on this question and the following topics:
- Developing the location
- Buildings as the node between energy supply and energy generation
- Joining forces!
- Criteria for future-proof and at the same time cost-efficient buildings
- Considering the life cycle
- Measuring success, ensuring quality
IBO is calling for contributions and best-practice examples related to these topics. Further information is available on the event-website www.bauz.at .
Contributions (talks/workshop proposals) should be submitted online by 24 June 2016.
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By Tami Salmon
September 28, 2011
In October 2010, ICI began to work with staff at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to obtain no-action relief from a recordkeeping requirement of the "pay-to-play" rule, which the SEC adopted in July 2010. SEC staff recently granted that no-action relief, a positive development both for advisers to mutual funds and the SEC's staff.
Naturally, funds remain subject to the rule's prohibition on pay-to-play activities, which aim to eliminate the connection between state and local political contributions and the awarding of government investment advisory business. The no-action relief, however, addressed what was shaping up to be a serious recordkeeping challenge for funds, one that would have resulted in widespread industry violation of the rule.
How so? The pay-to-play rule sets up several detailed reporting and recordkeeping requirements for fund advisers. Prior to the no-action relief, one of those requirements imposed an obligation on fund advisers to obtain government-account information that resided with intermediaries such as brokers, bank trust departments, insurance companies, and others that hold omnibus accounts on the fund's books and records. And yet, these intermediaries are not legally obligated to provide such information to fund advisers. So, even with advisers' best efforts to get the required information, it would have been very difficult—if not impossible—for them to comply fully with the recordkeeping requirements of the pay-to-play rule.
The no-action relief solves this dilemma by requiring an adviser to a fund to maintain a list that includes the following:
- government entities that maintain an account in their name on the fund's books and records;
- 529 plans that are invested in the fund; and
- government entities that have been solicited by a covered associate, regulated person, or client servicing employee of the adviser.
The last item is not required of other advisers subject to the rule—only mutual fund advisers. Still, the no-action relief is a clear improvement because the only government entities that advisers are required to include on their lists are those that hold accounts directly with the funds. So these entities are known to the funds, enabling fund advisers to satisfy the rule's recordkeeping requirements by maintaining information that is within the adviser's control and possession.
The no-action relief is also a win for the SEC staff because, by requiring advisers to maintain a list of their government solicitation activities, it will provide them greater access to information to determine whether any pay-to-play conduct has occurred.
Tami Salmon is Senior Associate Counsel at ICI.
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CINCINNATI (AP) Sean Kilpatrick scored 25 points and led a second-half surge that carried No. 11 Cincinnati to a 60-45 victory over Xavier on Wednesday night, renewing their crosstown rivalry amicably one year after it was marred by a brawl.
Cincinnati (11-0) won its 18th straight game at a downtown arena that has become the rivalry's stage for the next two years, an attempt to take the nasty edge off the annual game.
No technical fouls, no showing off, no on-court dust-ups. It was back to being a good old rivalry.
And the Bearcats got the better of it in the second half behind Kilpatrick, who scored nine points in a 17-4 run that put them ahead to stay. Travis Taylor led Xavier (7-3) with 12 points.
Xavier and Cincinnati fans were seated on opposite sides of the arena. Both schools hoped for a clean, exciting game so they could finally get past last year's ugliness.


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Business pitch contest yields diverse field of entries via popular social media platform.
Anyone looking for proof of Pinterest's viability as a social media platform for government need look no further than Maryland. Gov. Martin O'Malley recently announced winners of a first-of-its-kind contest that challenged entrepreneurs to make a case for their existing business or idea via the visually oriented, bulletin board-style site.
While public-sector social media gurus are inundated with options as to where to focus their efforts at citizen engagement, recent reports rank Pinterest right behind Facebook and Twitter as the platform of choice. And government agencies are taking notice.
O'Malley is active on Pinterest, with six boards featuring pins on books he recommends, policy goals for the state and photos he took at various public events. His latest pins are the winners of the business pitch contest.
Part of a broader effort to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in the state, the contest invited business-minded Marylanders to submit 10 images to sell their idea for a business. Existing small businesses were also eligible to compete.
In all, 43 entries were received in two categories: student entrepreneurs and "boot strappers." While most entries were highly visual, most competitors included written captions with their pinned images that told the story of their business or idea, offered compelling statistics and market information, and other details to round out their pitch.
Entries ran the gamut — from existing brick-and-mortar stores seeking a boost, like the Sweet Hearts Patisserie in Annapolis, Md., to an online tool rental site offering a price break over the same service offered by major home improvement stores. The Pinterest package from "Route Rider" tells the story of an Android app promoting public transportation, while "Husky Power" uses dogsleds with wheels to promote and educate the public about the sport of mushing.
Winners were named at an event on May 31. Student entrepreneur Grady Booth took home top honors in his category. The 13-year-old offered a well developed pitch for his business featuring custom-made duct tape wallets. Discreet Secrete Solutions was the runner-up, offering a concealable breast pump intended for initial sale via Amazon.
First place in the boot strapper category went to the local developer of the BeerGivr app, which partners with local watering holes to allow friends who have to miss the party an easy way to buy a drink for the guest of honor. The runner-up boot strapper was Mission: Launch, offering post-incarceration mentoring and retraining services for transition back into society.
In addition to promotion on the governor's Pinterest page, first-place winners received a MacBook Air notebook computer, while runners up got an iPad. Prizes were provided by contest partner Baltimore Angels, a local tech investment group. Other business pitch contest partners are the University of Maryland College Park, the Future of Information Alliance and the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development.
O'Malley described the Pinterest business pitch contest as an extension of the state's culture of fostering entrepreneurship.
"From our many incubators to our diverse centers and institutions of higher learning to our strategic tax credits, we encourage entrepreneurship at every level," said O'Malley in an announcement. "Whether you've been in business for years or are just getting started, Maryland is the ideal place to do business."
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So the boys are done with the puking and the fevers and now the illness is apparently leaving my precious ones in the form of liquid yellow poison........shot out their butts.
On to the BRAT diet we must go,
Apparently, this stops the yellow poison.
It's always worked in the past, so we must embrace it's wisdom.
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BRAT For Us
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- Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah said...
I'm losing it. I am a mother of young children, and when I first started reding this, I was thinking you were feeding them bratwurst.
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That would an interesting way to go.......combat diahrea with bratwurst.
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Above: Amanda Cavaciuti (bottom row, second from left) poses with other members of SBA and Jack Belsito, CEO of Voss Water.
The Student Business Association, also known as SBA, is a fairly new club at the Mount. Formed in the fall of 2013, this club is designed to teach and educate students about the work force. The club is not limited to business students, and is open to all students here at the College.
I recently joined this past November. As a public relations major, I thought it would be a great opportunity.


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First Came Electronic Cigarettes – Now there's Electronic Liquor.
Electronic Liquor may become a Tool to End Alcoholism, this Innovation could simply revolutionize the way we drink.
The Arkay Electronic Liquor is the name of the product, is a small molecule placed inside the drink. In contact with the tongue, the drink sends stimuli to the brain, the illusion operates, and the mucous membranes of smell and taste saturate and make the consumer believe that he is drinking alcohol. Beer, wine, strong liquor, everything is possible.
But beware, no drunkenness, no adverse effect, this is the advantage of the Arkay Electronic Liquor. It reproduces the taste of the liquor but none of the negative effects of the alcohol.
Beyond the enormous progress in public health, the concept is also of interest to the moderate consumer. John Taylor participated at the e-drink tour in March without alcohol, so he is particularly interested in Arkay E-Liquor to reduce his alcohol consumption. This week, he went to the only liquor store that distributes the Arkay E-drink in Texas called "The Electronic Liquor Store". There an electronic liquor bottle costs $25 plus shipping and handling. Richard Simmons, the head of the company, said: "We distribute the bottles in the USA, we really believe in the potential of this new product and we think it will change the habits of millions of consumers; First Came Electronic Cigarettes – Now There's Electronic Liquor."
As surprising as it sounds, the brain is totally lured. To the eye, it is water but the taste is there. John Taylor is one of the few American to have tested the concept. He is convinced: "What is crazy is that by drinking it, we really feel the liquor to be extremely precise in the mouth, we really taste the liquor, a true copy of the original one. On this copy of Electronic Vodka, I have the side very pepper spicy, a little menthol, a little vanilla, I have very notes Peppered and a lot of kick and burn, and it's crazy!"
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Howard finally returns from space on Thursday's The Big Bang Theory — and if you ask Simon Helberg, he may as well have been in orbit too.
"I was actually isolated, confined to a tiny area, when we were shooting the space station stuff, so it lends itself naturally to that theme," he tells TVGuide.com. "I was separated from the cast, I was shooting on a different day than the cast. It was like I was in space, or on a completely different show. I was lonely and I was nervous that I would incinerate upon entering their atmosphere or something. I mean, talk about an easy way to kill someone off! It's like Suzanne Somers on Three's Company when everything was shot via phone calls on a separate set."
Vote for your favorite new TV shows in our Fall Popularity Contest!Unlike Somers and Chrissy Snow, Helberg and Howard Wolowitz are not going anywhere, except back to Earth now that Wolowitz's space mission is complete. But his re-entry doesn't exactly go according to plan — his plan, that is. Expecting a massive hero's welcome, Wolowitz is bummed to return to just his wife Bernadette (Melissa Rauch ), who is unfortunately nursing a cold. Everyone else is entrenched in a highly combative Battle of the Sexes game night, and even his overbearing mother is preoccupied — with her new boyfriend and Wolowitz's dentist Dr. Schneider (Ken Lerner)."Nobody seems to care and everybody's doing other things. ... Howard walks in later [on their game night] and hopes they will roll out the red carpet, and nothing," Helberg says. "Bernadette's the only one at the airport for him, so immediately he's like, 'Oh. My friends are not here. At least I'll be with my wife tonight.' But she's sick and passes out, so then he decides, 'Oh, I'll get some affection from my mother,' which is basically banging your head against the wall. He resorts to seeking out his mother! Then she turns out to be with his dentist! Of all the things he was expecting when he came back, it definitely wasn't a sock on her door."
Big Bang Theory's Melissa Rauch: Howard can't handle two Mrs. Wolowitzes in his lifeThe readjustment period is something actual astronauts go through, Helberg learned after discussing it with Mike Massimino, who recurs as himself as a member of Wolowitz's space crew. "People are nice and obviously excited when you get back for a moment, but then it's back to reality," Helberg says. "It's a sort of culture shock. I don't know what the right expression would be. Planet shock, maybe. You've just been looking down on Earth for however long and now you're back, and the same sh-- is going on and you're not a big deal. You're just one of a billion people."Not that Wolowitz will realize this right away, of course. Instead, he will maintain the astronaut schtick in hopes of fielding public adoration. "He's wearing the NASA shirt every single moment he can. He works in something about space [into conversations] and it's starting to drive people crazy," Helberg says. "But it's a good icebreaker to throw that in. You could only imagine what [a good pickup line] it'd be if he wasn't married!" It's not until Bernadette tells him to cool it in next week's Halloween episode — in which they dress as Smurfs! — that it all comes to a head. "Everyone is tired of hearing about his adventures in space, so it reaches a breaking point at this costume party and it's hilarious."
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Once Wolowitz figuratively comes back down to Earth, he'll have to deal with the most pressing matter at hand: His and Bernadette's living situation. The mama's boy still hasn't worked up the courage to move out, let alone tell his overbearing mother. "He's sort of half in both places at this point," Helberg says. "It's clear to both of them that he technically lives with Bernadette, but he's got enough stuff at his mom's that he hasn't quite cut the cord. It's like the Annie Hall thing: I have my place and the reason I have it is because I know I have it. That starts to create some tension."
But shouldn't knowing your mom is hooking up with her beau next door be enough impetus to move out? "You'd think," Helberg laughs. "You hear enough that it's clear something terrible is happening. I'm warning everyone right now: It's scary."
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Doesn't get much bigger than this.
The Hip-Hop Archive and Harvard University's W. E. B. Du Bois Institute today announced the founding of the Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellowship. The endowment will "fund artists and scholars who demonstrate exceptional creative ability in the arts in connection with Hip-Hop."
The Press Release reads as followed:
(July 16, 2013 – New York, NY) The two decade (plus) career of multi-platinum Def Jam Recordings artist Nas is at the heart of a joint announcement by the Hip-Hop Archive and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, to establish the Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellowship. The Fellowship will provide selected scholars and artists with an opportunity to show that "education is real power," as it builds upon the achievements of those who demonstrate exceptional capacity for productive scholarship and exceptional creative ability in the arts, in connection with hip-hop.
The mission of the Hip-Hop Archive is threefold: to seek projects from scholars and artists that build on the rich and complex hip-hop tradition; to respect that tradition through historically grounded and contextualized critical insights; and most importantly, to represent one's creative and/or intellectually rigorous contribution to hip-hop and the discourse through personal and academic projects. Personal projects of fellows may include manuscript projects, performance pieces, album work, curriculum planning, primary archival research, and exhibition preparation, among others.
"Having welcomed various artists and scholars, the Hip-Hop Archive and Research Institute is uncompromising in our commitment to build and support intellectually challenging and innovative scholarship that reflects the rigor and achievement of hip-hop performance," said Marcyliena Morgan, Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and founder and director of the Hip-Hop Archive and Research Institute. "With the introduction of the Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellowship, we will continue to be the leading resource for those interested in knowing, developing, building, maintaining, and representing hip-Hop."
Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, added, "Nas is a true visionary, and he consistently shows how boundaries can be pushed and expanded to further the cause of education and knowledge. The work of the Du Bois Institute is enriched by the addition of the Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellowship."
Nasir Jones, or Nas, critically acclaimed for his lyrical skill, social analysis and commitment, has helped usher in an original form of hip-hop debate and analysis that reflects on and represents urban youth angst and conflict as well as intelligence, confidence and ambition. A quintessentially honest artist, Nas has taken great risks in exposing his deepest vulnerabilities while still staying relevant to a wide audience. He has tackled both intense political issues and hardcore street topics. In doing so, he has inspired a generation. This Fellowship honors his work while supporting the work of others. Fellows are chosen by a selection committee comprising members of the Harvard University faculty.


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Why Living in Paris for Two Years is Better than Studying for a Liberal Arts Master's Degree
Paris has so much to offer. It's a cultural mecca, as well as a leader in the arts. But there is a wealth of information on just about anything, no matter where you go or what grabs your interest in the city. Educational opportunities (free and otherwise) practically permeate the cobblestones.
For many, the idea of going to school to get an advanced degree is the epitome of higher learning and achievement. But what if there was another way to do the same thing? What if you could learn all you need to know—and more—by simply living in Paris for two years?
Take a Master's degree in Liberal Arts, for example. If you wanted to focus on history, Paris is full of examples of period architecture, art and museums on that topic, to name a few options for one-of-a-kind research. The Renaissance, Impressionism, the French Revolution—for all these things, the residue of times past can be seen and felt in person by taking a walk to the nearest exhibit or library, or by hopping on the Metro. Imagine all that knowledge and exposure in your own Parisian backyard!
Let's do a little digging and discover why living in Paris for only two years is actually so much better than suffering in a classroom, likely bored to tears, in order to earn a Liberal Arts Master's degree.
It's not as expensive as paying university fees.
Depending on which school you might choose to attend or in which country it's located, the fees for getting a Master's degree in Liberal Arts, or any other discipline, really, can be astronomical. Not only are you paying for each credit hour that you take, but there are various other tertiary institution costs to consider. Oh, and you have to pay a fee to graduate. Perhaps you'll have to work full time or part time, too, while going to school; pay for gas mileage; lose sleep and eventually gain an ulcer because of overwhelming commitments.
Electives would be at least 18 credit hours (six courses). Then, add in three core courses (at least 9 hours), and a thesis. If each credit hour is 400 euros (on the low end) or 1,100 euros (on the medium to high end), the cost quickly adds up. This doesn't include food, housing (on campus or off-campus), books, and the bare necessities a student needs. Full time or part time, once complete, the amount paid could be anywhere from 11,000 euros to 33,000 euros, just for tuition, depending on the school chosen and the intensity of the program.
Now let's compare all this to residing in Paris on a long-stay carte de séjour (CDS) permanent visa for two years and pursuing a different kind of "study" via life experience. The cost to get a visa is around 100 euros, not including the cost of the paperwork you need to obtain, and which accompanies the application. Then, before 90 days are up, you must be registered in the healthcare system and procure a carte vitale.
A carte vitale gives you access to health insurance in France, which is mandatory. Even with delays and possible frustrations with the application process, it's still much less than paying for just one credit hour of an advanced degree course, so far! And seventy percent reimbursement for the cost of visiting a doctor or pharmacy because of having the carte vitale is nothing to sneeze at. If you're a fairly healthy person, going to the doctor is likely to be only once or twice a year during your stay for a checkup, if that.
The cost to take public transportation is quite reasonable, too and can help you avoid the expense of car maintenance and gas prices. Riding the bus is as little as 1.70 euros one way. A taxi within the city limits at a certain time of day costs 1 euro per kilometer and just a little bit more in the evenings. You can buy a combined rail pass and renew it annually. How about renting a bicycle to get some exercise? That's cheap, too.
An apartment, you say? A single person could find a place to rent on the outskirts of Paris for between 750 and 1,000 euros a month, depending on whether you're looking for a furnished studio or a one-bedroom flat. Contingent upon the data used, it would seem that the average person, with an eye on the budget could survive on as little as 900 euros a month, including rent, shopping, meals, activities, and so on.
Think about that! This means you could conceivably spend around 22,000 euros in a two-year period. That is less than some of the most expensive Liberal Arts Master's degrees out there. And you'll be in Paris, getting everything first-hand, right from the source. What price can be placed on that?
You could "study" anything in the Liberal Arts curriculum, from a French point of view: history, literature, philosophy, sociology, theater, art, anthropology, archaeology, communication and geography. All because you reside in a city that was a mecca at one point (or still is) for many of these disciplines.
Plenty of opportunities to develop a profitable network within the Parisian arts' circle.
Network, network, network!
In Paris, there are any number of expat communities and meetups, along with online resources that can help you pursue your liberal arts passion outside the classroom. Instead of being stuck staring at a podium for two years, writing endless papers and barely keeping your eyes open in your 7:30 to 10:00 night class, now you're introducing yourself around at an expat event, drinking wine, and getting to know others with similar interests to your own, gleaning helpful information and resources on topics near and dear to your heart that you can't wait to discover the next day.
Often, these groups get discounts on events or hold outings on subjects that might be of value to you and help further your knowledge in your field of concentration.
If you were studying for a degree in the traditional way, networking opportunities would likely be limited due to time constraints and lack of contact with real-life prospects. But instead, you're in Paris, free to meet, greet and pursue what you want because it's right there. You'll get the background and experience you need with the help of others just like you.
There are all kinds of websites you can use to find a connection and network. Many opportunities can be found here: Meetup. Also, Expats Paris is a great starting point for getting to know others like yourself who are either new to Paris or have been here long enough to be a great guide and resource.
Instead of looking at books or exploring the Internet and Wikipedia to learn more about art, you can actually be in a progressive center of the art world and see it for yourself. Instead of trying to use a book to understand history, you can actually live in a city where history is the very backbone of society. Philosophy? Pascale, Robespierre, the notorious Marquis de Sade, Voltaire, Sartre—they were all French masters. Architecture? Investigate the Hotel de Beauvais, Pyramide du Louvre, and the Castel Beranger, which was the first to be built in the Art Nouveau style. Literature? The Count of Monte Cristo, Madame Bovary, The Three Musketeers, The Phantom of the Opera. Anyone?
There is no way to place a value on these experiences. And they're just a train ride away.
You'll learn almost everything about art for almost free (free library access, free museums, free conferences, free seminars, learning sessions).
Think about it. Instead of paying a ridiculous amount of money to earn your degree, and dealing with difficult team members on a class project, you're embarking on a different journey. The museums available are numerous; there are classes, talks and seminars offered for free or a mere pittance where you can learn at your own pace. And after a day spent stretching your mind, you can have a fantastic night out with new friends, which is an education in and of itself, learning through interaction with others as well as just walking around and exploring the sights.
Meetups are a great way to find activities of interest for little or nothing. A good place to start if you're interested in the arts is Art Meetup group. Or, let's say you want to perfect your drawing technique; try Drawing Meetup Group. The Expatriates Magazine has great articles and is informative.
There is an AngloInfo classifieds website that is useful. It has information on just about anything you may need, but it also lists activities that cater to expats and are quite varied. Users of this site can get discounts on events, and some of these are free. For example, the Centre Culturel Irlandais has an excellent exhibit of portrait paintings: Centre Culturel Irlandais event programs that is no charge to the attendee.
There is so much to do, and so much potential for learning in Paris. If your interest is history, it's right around the corner. Art? A no-brainer. Political science? Paris is a melting pot of people and opinions and strives daily to find a balance between cultures and ideals. What better place to improve your painting skills than on the Seine? Add to your English credentials by teaching a class in exchange for French language training. So many ways to make progress!
Now, let's look at the whole picture: if you were to study for a Master's degree in Liberal Arts for two years at a trendy university in, say, French History, you would spend close to 30,000 euros on classes alone, and likely another 5,000 or more on sundries. Your stress level would be high. You would only have access to teachers, libraries, online information and colleagues and lots of stale coffee to get you through. Instead, you could be in Paris, learning the language, exploring the city itself and soaking up that same history in person, right from the source. And there's the added benefit of new friends, great food, wine and a plethora of things to keep you occupied. And lots of opportunities to get things for free or at a great discount.
When weighed in the balance, all benefits considered, which one would you choose?
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Private Facebook Pages Are Not So Private
Security researchers announced a privacy flaw in Facebook.
June 28, 2007 -- Private Facebook profiles aren't quite as hidden as many users might think they are. Pages that are supposedly restricted are visible to anyone using searches based on religion, sexual orientation or relationship status.
Security researcher Christopher Soghoian announced the flaw on Tuesday. A quick search by Wired News for women in a major U.S. city who were interested in random hookups with men revealed the names and photos of two high school girls, including one ninth grader.
Like many social networks, the increasingly popular Facebook allows its users to mark their profile page as private, semiprivate or open. However, even if you mark your profile to be visible only by friends, that doesn't change how you turn up in Facebook searches or whether your profile is open to indexing by search engines.
Instead, users looking for privacy must also change their preferences under search, else their profiles will be indexed by internet search engine spiders and their names, photos and personal data fields will be searchable by any Facebook member who is a fellow member of a "group" such as a school or geographic area that the user elects to join.
For instance, if you are a Facebook member of your college, you could run a search to see all the people who are Christian women who are lesbians, all the women interested in women or all the Muslim men into other men. Your search results will likely include people who thought they marked their information as private, but didn't also change their search settings. (These links all require a valid Facebook account.)
Searchers still can't click through to the full profile for members who chose to make the profile visible only to their Facebook friends.
Soghoian first discovered the discrepancy in September 2006 and revisited it after speaking with attendees at a privacy conference last week, who suggested that the setup could violate European privacy standards.
Soghoian, a graduate student previously known for disclosing holes in both airport security and Firefox browser extensions, contends that the number of people whose private profiles show up in search results is clear proof that Facebook's options are too confusing.
"There is an easy way to fix this at the individual level," Soghoian said. "But the fact that so many people haven't done it easily demonstrates that opt-out privacy doesn't work."
Facebook is no stranger to privacy concerns. Last September, the networking site faced a minor riot from its members following a unilateral change in how other members learn of changes to a user profile.
A Facebook representative did not respond to a request for comment and Soghoian says his attempts to reach Facebook's privacy person were foiled when a receptionist told him that the individual did not take outside phone calls. A company representative responded to an email to firstname.lastname@example.com by thanking Soghoian for his note and said that the company would "certainly keep it in mind."
Facebook users who set their profile to private and want to keep their name and photo out of searches can do using the search preference page.


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Most Ridiculous Hurricane Gustav Reporting
Now that Hurricane Gustav seems to have safely blown past New Orleans and Baton Rouge, we can turn our attention to ridiculing TV journalists who pointlessly risked life and limb to set up more of those clichéd, wind-whipped hurricane-reporting shots. Even CNN can't resist making fun of those guys, and it employs half of them. The Washington Post said storms tend to produce a "High Chance of Blowhards" and added that "no one covers a house fire by rushing into the burning building, or reports on a war by doing stand-ups in the middle of a tank battle." True, but that's just because there are firemen and soldiers to keep journalists out of those dangerous situations. They'd totally shoot there if they could! Click the video icon to watch some of the most insane moments so far.


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The Preaching Fox: Festive Subversion in the Plays of the Wakefield Master. Routledge, 2005.
Highlighted Publications
"Fairies and Feminism: Recurrent Patterns in Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and Brontë's Jane Eyre." The Victorian Newsletter (Fall 2003). Reprinted in Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations: Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, New York: 2007.
"Punning and Political Parody in The Second Shepherds' Play." English Language Notes (June 2003).
"Foolish Shepherds and Priestly Folly: Festive Influence in Prima Pastorum." Medieval Perspectives (2000)
Courses Taught
ENG 150 Honors Composition
ENG 309 History of the English Language
ENG 330/606 Chaucer
ENG 427 Medieval Literature
HON 251 Honors Humanities
HUM 211 Humanities
Areas of Specialization
Early English Drama
History of the English Language
Medieval Literature
Awards and Distinctions
Best First Book Award, Southeastern Medieval Association, 2008
Excellence in Service Award, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, 2005
Leadership and Service
Director, University Honors Program
Professional Memberships and Affiliations
International Congress on Medieval Studies
Southeastern Medieval Association
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Last week's #innochat (transcript, Bob De Jonge's framing post) sparked a lively discussion around IP management, issues and barriers for Open Innovation that inevitably led us back to the topic of organizational culture and it's impact on innovation—open or otherwise. During the course of the discussion (having jumped into the middle) it occurred to me that the root of the comments relating to control of IP at one level were rooted in Tribal Leadership Level 3 - "I'm great…(and you're not)" thinking by both the organizations and the people responsible for leading those organizations. Read the rest of this entry »


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City council Monday approved a three-year trash removal bid with Archbold Refuse Service (ARS), the only bidder. The price includes an estimate of 80 tons of trash for each of two annual pickups, scheduled during the first and third year of the contract.
ARS representative Chris Cote said the company was surprised when 80 tons was collected during the last annual collection because the amount is far above the average.
His bid covers the cost for another 80-ton removal, but a rebate will be given to the city if the amount is smaller.


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Gang of female burglars busted in Sarasota | News
SARASOTA, Florida -- "When you don't feel safe in your own home anymore, you know, you cant get that back," said Jeanette Schwaed.
Schwaed speaks calmly, but her tears tell a story of fear. Her home was just one of a slew of Sarasota residences burglarized, cops say, by four young women: Caroline Catarzi, Alyssa Conrad, Samantha Smith, and Brandy Kinney.
According to the police report, the gang had an MO. They would knock on the front door and, if no one answered, they would break in through the back. Catarzi and Conrad confessed to cutting the screen and lifting out the window of the Schwaed home.
"I noticed this odd thing sticking out of my curtains in my bedroom and I thought, 'Wow that's odd,' and I noticed that the screen has been mashed," said Schwaed.
Making the situation even more upsetting is the fact the Schwaeds just adopted 5-year-old Jocelyn and the event terrified her.
"They tried to break into my house and that never happened before and that scared me," said Jocelyn.
"I would really love the opportunity to speak with them and tell them what this did to my little girl. It's much more far-reaching than they realize," said Schwaed.
Police say the burglaries all happened in the Southgate community of southern Sarasota, and the gang of burglars were indiscriminate.
"They had an issue with prescription pills. All four abused prescription pills and they were committing these burglaries to support their habit," said Sarasota Police Capt. Paul Sutton.
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This site is the archived OWASP Foundation Wiki and is no longer accepting Account Requests.
To view the new OWASP Foundation website, please visit https://owasp.org
The Owasp Code Review Top 9
In this section, we will try to organize the most critical security flaws you can find during a code review in order to have a finite set of categories to evaluate the whole code review process.
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The 9 flaw categories
In term of source code security, source code vulnerabilities can be managed in million of ways.
Source code vulnerabilities must reflect Owasp Top 10 recommendations. Applications are made of source so, in some way source code flaws can be re conducted to flaws in application.
The following seventh family will be included as default library in Owasp Orizon Project v1.0 that will be released in October 2008.
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Here you can find the nine source code flaw categories:
- Input validation
- Source code design
- Information leakage and improper error handling
- Direct object reference
- Resource usage
- API usage
- Best practices violation
- Weak Session Management
- Using HTTP GET query strings
As you may see 3 categories out of 9 are equals to the correspondent Owasp Top 10 key point.
Let's go more in detail going deeper in describing the source code flaw categories.
Input validation
This flaw categories is the source code counterpart of the Owasp Top 10 A1 category.
The check's families contained in this category are all the ones tied to the missing validation of input data submitted by user and that they will reflect in a Owasp Top 10 A1 violation.
In this category the follow security flaw family are contained:
- Input validation
- Cross site scripting
- SQL Injection
- XPATH Injection
- LDAP Injection
- Cross site request forgery
- Buffer overflow
- Format bug
Source code design
Security in source code starts from design and from the choices made before starting coding using the editor you like most.
In the source code design flaw categories, you can find security check families tied to scope and source code organization.
- Source code design
- Insecure field scope
- Insecure method scope
- Insecure class modifiers
- Unused external references
- Redundant code
Information leakage and improper error handling
This category meets the correspondent Owasp Top 10 one. It will contain security check families about how source code manage errors, exception, logging and sensitive information.
The following families are present:
- Information leakage and improper error handling
- Unhandled exception
- Routine return value usage
- NULL Pointer dereference
- Insecure logging
Direct object reference
Also this category is the same as the one stated in the Owasp Top 10 project. It refers to the attacker's capability to interact with application internals supplying an ad hoc crafted parameter.
The families contained in this category are:
- Direct object reference
- Direct reference to database data
- Direct reference to filesystem
- Direct reference to memory
Resource usage
This category is related to all the unsafe ways a source code can request operating system managed resources. Most of the vulnerability families here contained, if exploited, will result in a some kind of denial of service.
Resources can be:
- filesystem objects
- memory
- network bandwidth
Given such category, the families that can be included are:
- Resource usage
- Insecure file creation
- Insecure file modifying
- Insecure file deletion
- Race condition
- Memory leak
- Unsafe process creation
API usage
This section is about APIs provided by the system or by the framework in use that can be used in a malicious way. In this category you can find:
- insecure database calls
- insecure random number creation
- improper memory management calls
- insecure HTTP session handling
- insecure strings manipulation
Best practices violation
The last category is about all miscellaneous security violation that doesn't fit in the previous ones. Most, but not all, of these categories contain warning-only source code best practices.
This category includes:
- insecure memory pointer usage
- NULL pointer dereference
- pointer arithmetic
- variable aliasing
- unsafe variable initialization
- missing comments and source code documentation
Weak Session Management
- Not invalidating session upon an error occurring
- Not checking for valid sessions upon HTTP request
Using HTTP GET query strings
- Passing sensitive data over URL /querystring


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Consider it a blessing in disguise this video is camera-phone quality and not better, because seeing it in full clarity would be even more painful than it already is. Lesson one: Use proper equipment when transporting a car. Lesson two: Sometimes when the shady guy says it's so cheap because it fell off the back of a truck, it really did fall off the back of a truck. (Thanks, we think, for the tip Adamskiy) [Youtube]
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Teenage girl savagely beaten
PUBLISHED: 11:12 09 November 2012 | UPDATED: 13:45 09 November 2012
16-year-old coughed up blood before attackers left her alone.
A teenage girl, who was the subject of a savage kicking, was only spared a further beating when she started coughing up blood.
The 16-year-old was attacked in Ottery St Mary after she became separated from her friends following the annual tar barrels event.
Police say she was taking a shortcut near Broad Street when she was grabbed from behind by a male who covered her mouth and eyes.
PC Sarah Henley, who is appealing for witnesses to come forward, said: "Once in an alleyway, he threw her to the floor and began kicking her to her abdomen and chest area.
"He then shouted 'Come on' and was joined by three or four females, who then joined in whilst the male was shouting 'Kick her harder'.
"Only when the victim began coughing up blood did the group then run off."
The victim has only just been released from hospital.
Her attackers are described as aged between 30 and 40.
The male is described as being of a muscular build, at least six ft tall and wearing a long-sleeved top.
One of the females had a gruff voice.
Anyone with information is urged to contact PC Henley on 101, quoting crime reference number KO/12/627.
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Fighting pirates off the Horn of Africa, saving lives after natural disasters and stopping terrorists from entering American ports are all missions expected of the U.S. Coast Guard, President Barack Obama told graduating cadets Wednesday.
And in a nod to the recent killing of Osama bin Laden, the president said they would soon join a military and intelligence community that made sure "the terrorist leader who attacked us on 9/11 will never threaten America again." But Obama never mentioned bin Laden by name, nor did he delve into al-Qaeda or the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Instead, the president focused on global alliances and American ideals in his address to the 228 young men and women seated in their dress whites in the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's Leamy Hall.
Even in difficult times — of war and economic plight — "we remember our moral compass," Obama said. "That we are citizens with obligations to each other... That we rise and fall as one."
Obama's 20-minute speech, while low on war rhetoric, was the third wartime address by an American commander-in-chief to graduating Coast Guard cadets in the past decade.
The commencement marked a full circle for the newly commissioned ensigns, 14 of whom are Connecticut natives. They included David Nielsen, 21, of Middletown, who was a middle-schooler when terrorists attacked the country on Sept. 11, 2001, and has lived through dual wars and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, which the graduates have now joined.
In 2003, former President George W. Bush's commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy came two months after the start of the Iraq War, when many of Wednesday's graduates were just finishing the eighth grade. That year, about 50 demonstrators carried anti-Bush signs under a cold rain outside the academy's main gates.
Bush's speech in 2007, persistently linking al-Qaeda to the war in Iraq, drew roughly 1,000 anti-war protesters to the riverside New London campus.
On Wednesday morning, two hours before the graduation was scheduled to begin, the only sign that could be seen belonged to a lone elderly woman with an affable message: "Welcome President Obama."
Obama landed in Connecticut aboard Air Force One at 10:03 a.m. at the Air National Guard base in East Granby. He received a warm reception in New London despite arriving 45 minutes late for the commencement, which was originally set for Cadet Memorial Field but was moved indoors under the threat of rain.
Last year, in a keynote address at the U.S. Military Academy graduation in West Point, N.Y., Obama defended the war in Afghanistan and then, in a rejection of his predecessor's foreign policy, outlined a national security approach that stressed global partnerships and diplomacy over pre-emptive war.
At the Coast Guard Academy on Wednesday, Obama again sought to elevate the country's moral standing in the world.
"The arc of your careers, like the course of our country, will be shaped by the values that have kept us strong for more than 200 years," said Obama, who is scheduled to deliver a major speech on American policy in the Middle East on Thursday. "We haven't always been the biggest or strongest of nations.
"There have been moments in our history when others have counted us out or predicted the demise of our improbable American experiment. What the naysayers and doubters have never understood is that our American journey has always been propelled by a spirit and strength that sets us apart."
Minutes earlier, Obama continued a presidential tradition when he jokingly absolved the cadets of any outstanding "minor" infractions. He also gave special acknowledgments to graduates Jennifer Proctor, who attended Obama's old high school in Honolulu, and Melissa McCafferty, the recipient of the academy's third Truman Scholarship in three years.
"Where's Melissa, let me embarrass you," said Obama, scanning the crowd.
As with a traditional graduation speech, the president also pointed out the proud relatives in Leamy Hall, telling the cadets, "When you chose this life of service, your families backed you up. When you thought you couldn't go on, they bucked you up. I suspect, when things got a little tight in the money department, they coughed it up."
Most of the graduates will now report to cutters in coastal areas such as Alameda, Calif., Key West, Fla., and Kodiak, Alaska. Nielsen, the Middletown native, will be based at the Coast Guard Cutter Seneca in Boston. Others are assigned to sectors around the country, and 20 will begin flight training in Pensacola, Fla.
Two are international cadets who will return to their home countries. New Ensign Jefferson Bobo of the Marshall Islands was given his oath by President Jurelang Zedkaia of the small Pacific Island nation, seated alongside Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on the auditorium stage and within several feet of Obama and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
Later, the stage almost resembled the scene of a typical commencement, with the graduates smiling for cameras as they received their commissions.
Except they were shaking hands with — and sometimes hugging — the president of the United States.
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Grand Theft Auto IV: Frictionless
You'll get GTA IV to go insane beyond Carmageddon or Postal by configuring wheel friction to a negative number. You wouldn't play any game missions using this very easy mod, but going on some bat shit insane rampages is a compulsory part of all GTA games anyway. I'll definitely try this at some point for this very purpose.
On the Windows version, this friction free effect can be achieved by editing the handling.dat file in your GTA 4 folder (the default is "C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV"), by reducing the value "wbias" to around -9 for each vehicle.
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It felt the encouragement of light
Against its
We all remain
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Did the rose
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New Animated Comedy from FAMILY GUY's Mark Hentemann and Seth MacFarlane to
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FOX has picked up BORDERTOWN, a new animated comedy about two families living in a Southwest desert town on the U.S.-Mexico border, it was announced by Kevin Reilly, Chairman of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company.
From Mark Hentemann and Seth MacFarlane (FAMILY GUY), BORDERTOWN will take a satirical look at the cultural shifts occurring throughout America. Set in a fictitious desert town near the Mexico border, the series centers on the intertwining daily lives of two neighbors: BUD BUCKWALD and ERNESTO GONZALES. Married and a father of three, Bud is a Border Patrol agent who feels threatened by the cultural changes that have transformed his neighborhood. Living next door to Bud is Ernesto, an industrious Mexican immigrant and father of four, who is proud to be making it in America. As Bud and Ernesto's paths begin to cross, their families become bound by friendship, romance and conflict.
The animated comedy is expected to debut during the 2014-2015 season.
BORDERTOWN is created and written by Mark Hentemann (FAMILY GUY). Hentemann and Seth MacFarlane (FAMILY GUY) serve as executive producers. Alex Carter (FAMILY GUY) and Dan Vebber (AMERICAN DAD, "Futurama") serve as co-executive producers. The series is produced by 20th Century Fox Television.