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If you are using, or planning to use Linux, a good incentive is the relative security that is implemented by default. Linux systems are insensitive to a good majority of Windows and Mac OS viruses, and the GNU project in itself assures the authenticity of the software. However, every (paranoid) geek knows that there is no such thing as a completely protected system. Today, we will show you how to beef up your Linux security by making a few changes to your Firewall settings.
Instead of just reviewing Firewall software, I will focus more on the firewall settings, such as the rules and ports, as they stand for the basis of an efficient firewall.
The traditional program for a firewall in Linux is the command-based IPTables. Directly derived from the ideal of Unix, it is very powerful, and yet extremely complicated for a beginner. IPTables does not launch itself at the boot, so it is the user's duty to configure the firewall in a script and run it right after the login. An easier option is to use UFW (Uncomplicated FireWall). UFW is a command-based firewall, but with a much simpler syntax. It launches itself at boot, and comes with the same security level as IPTables. An even easier way to bypass the command line altogether is to use gUFW – a graphical interface for UFW.
In Ubuntu, all you have to do is to use the command (you can also install via the Ubuntu Software Center):
sudo apt-get install gufw
Run the gUFW application. You should be prompted with a nice gray window.
To operate properly, gUFW needs the super-user's rights, which means that in a terminal, you will be using the command:
sudo gufw
If you launched it from the Application Menu, you can click the gold lock at the bottom right of the gUFW window and type your password to elevate the user permission.
The window should come to life and you can now begin the configuration.
First, you want to activate the firewall by clicking on the bar next to "Status" so that "On" is displayed. You can then choose what you want to do with the incoming and the outgoing traffic. By default, the incoming is denied and the outgoing is authorized. This is a good basis, but in general with Linux, you want to use your full control to go further than the default. The configuration as it is now will prevent something from coming into your computer but will not stop your computer from communicating. Imagine that your computer is already infected or that a malware succeeds in going through the firewall. In this case, UFW will not stop him from communicating with the Internet and maybe from transmitting your data to an evil cracker.
I therefore advise you to apply drastic measures: deny everything – incoming and outgoing!
At this moment, you will find that you have cut yourself off from the Internet. By denying everything, you also deny any web traffic from coming in/out to your system. Worry not, we are going to set rules to only allow the applications you need and trust to access the web. Adding a rule is simple. You just have to click the "+" button at the bottom left of the window. Equally, the "-" button is to delete rule.
Now, click the "+" button. You should now be in front of a new dialog box with three tabs.
The "Preconfigured" tab is for creating some rules for defined and specific tasks, like for Skype or Transmission. It is the easy way to set rules quickly: decide what program or service you want to use from the list, if you allow incoming or outgoing, and the rules will add themselves.
For example, if you decide to allow in Skype connections, gUFW will allow incoming connections to port 443 using the TCP protocol.
As easy to use as this tab is, it is however incomplete. There is still a bunch of stuff that you cannot do without going into the "Simple" tab. I promise, we won't go any further, no "Advanced" tab for today.
This tab is not very complex to use. All you have to do for adding rules is to choose between incoming or outgoing connections, the protocol used, and the port number. I am not going to teach you the difference between UDP protocol or TCP, but instead, I will provide you a non-exhaustive list of ports that you may want to keep opened, and the reasons why.
Non-exhaustive List Of Ports
Outgoing connections:
- 80/tcp for HTTP
- 53/udp for DNS
- 443/tcp for HTTPS (secured HTTP)
- 21/tcp for FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
- 465/tcp for SMTP (send emails)
- 25/tcp for Insecure SMTP
- 22/tcp for SSH (secure connection from computer to computer)
- 993/tcp&udp for IMAP (receive emails)
- 143/tcp&udp for Insecure IMAP
- 9418/tcp for GIT (version control system)
Incoming connections:
- 993/tcp&udp for IMAP (receive emails)
- 143/tcp&udp for Insecure IMAP
- 110/tcp for POP3 (old way to receive emails)
- 22/tcp for SSH (secure connection from computer to computer)
- 9418/tcp for GIT (version control system)
Again, this list is incomplete, but it is a good start. Don't hesitate to search if you have other needs, and check the "Preconfigured" tab first.
Some services, like IMAP, require an incoming and an outgoing connection to work properly. And in some cases, encrypted connections ask for a different port.
Now you are ready to perfectly control your own firewall and assure yourself your security. Lastly, UFW needs to be added to your daemons at boot. Use the command:
sudo update-rc.d ufw defaults
And in other distributions like Archlinux, edit your /etc/rc.conf file. It is of course better to add the UFW daemon before the daemon that establishes an Internet connection (like wicd or network-manager for example).
Do you use another firewall? Or do you have some other rules that you recommend? Please let us know in the comment.


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I hate kids. Oh c'mon! I know you have thought of it at some point of time. It has crossed your corrupt minds to kill one of these little things that suck away the life out of you. Oh yes, they are cute alright, you would like to toss them around like a soft toy, but apparently it is isn't as amusing to them. So what amuses these ominous, notorious, irksome, pesky creatures who are, if am to banally add, God's apparent gift to us? I am going to pretend to care and thus analyse how they affect our lives.
I gather that, taxonomically, they come in two contrastive types. The notorious, mischievous, vexatious types can murder the shy, diffident types on any field day. But it just requires for your timid, delicate darling to make a cute face to sweet poison her notorious sibling. The girls around the world stood up one fine day and went rallying around in soft undertones that they would henceforth borrow ideas from the kids. They would too, make baby-faces and the likes, pucker, pout and crawl to get the best out of the race of men. They said they will have dolls tucked under their pillows, color their walls pink, caparison their poodles, intentionally let a drip of melting icecream trickle down their lips and adorn their pretentious barbie-dolls with plaited hair. You would have guessed that they would declare war against the kids with whom they compete for attention and space. But the pugnacious race of women did just the opposite. They embraced the kid-kingdom with all magnanimity, declaring peace.
Ironically, you, my dear reader, know all of this already and yet fall prey to their innocence. Every other advertisement, save for the animated , has a cute kid sauntering around when his/her/it's size zero mommy telling you to buy the ever so delightful product. They know that you get easily mollycoddled and hence have imprinted the idea that 'kids are godlike' in your minds. So just like with any other idea that has been sold to you in this consumer-driven world, you have accepted it with revered servility, never questioning the true essence of it all. Consequently the idea spawns to such meaningless and wayward proportions that it vanquishes the original idea, vaporizing it with all glory.
You have hyper sensitive moms running around with their kids to dance, music, karate, yoga, drawing, chess and whatnot classes; grabbing away, in the well-worn slow motion style of Hindi cinema, the life out of these kids. For every gaffe, these days, that your little one commits, you extol the virtues of his mis-behaviour, you glorify it with photos which are paeans to his inglorious achievements. I might come off as being desultory, but you fail to notice the chalked circle linking the the two aforementioned facets, 'kids being condemnably cute' and 'you being paranoid about your kid' . It all has the same behavioral etymology risen to a form of bullshit , that George Carlin calls Child Worship.
Shutting the cynic in me, I must admit Kids are by far the best of subjects for photography. They never fail to make funny, innocent faces. They are playful and naughty and can make your day count. They encompass possibly every positive and negative expression there can be. It is just too cute when they cry, laugh, giggle, pick their noses, shout, scream or be angry, just to name a few. If you caught a kid dancing, as a photographer, you would leave your 10 EUR Coffee to go cold, to capture a priceless moment. Infact photographing kids is so adorably popular a hobby that people have dedicated techniques and equipment for the same.
I have myself come across many such instances on my extended trip to Finland and Estonia. I have so many photographs of kids doing a variety of things that I was myself astonished by the sheer influence they had on my photography. They offer you a lot to learn, photographically and otherwise, and ofcourse just their smile can make your day. So I recant all my cynicism and offer you my humble apologies. I might go as far as arranging a carnival for your kids for my heinous comments before. Ah, but then that would be akin to manipulating the consumer in you all over again. But I hear you do not mind!
Well I am just being a just sales agent here. I'd like our consumers to be informed. My fellow photographers have capitalized on this child-worship evolution. A cursory glance on any random portfolio of a budding photographer, would reveal that he has a montage of kid-photographs. Had I been a marketing student I would have predicted that in no time the bullish trend would be snapped cut by a cute bear.
At this opportune moment I give you in hand, my collection.

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dislekcia wrote:Lujo wrote:If it allready works that way, make a note of making it more clear because one of the guys who's spent the most time playing the game wasn't aware of it, hasn't made the connection and has never found a reason to replay a challenge after being done with it (short of litterly forcing myself by making a new profile).
So you didn't know that doing a Silver challenge again re-issued you with the item that it originally unlocked?
I did, but re-doing Rogue, Bloodmage or many other silvers seemed like such a terrible time investment once I've cleared it, it compared so badly to doing anything I haven't already that I couldn't imagine it could be taken as a serious proposition. Same reason I can't unlocker the Fabulous Treasure. I wasn't mad or anything - this happened with every other such instance spontaneously. The connection people naturally make with quite a bunch of that stuff is - I'm glad I'm over with it, I never want to see it again. Especially if it was a learning expirience and it took them a while the first time. The playthrough where bloodmage silver was giving me a hard time was so frustrating, and the time loss of banging my head against the wall instead of doing regular runs eventually had me give up on challenges alltogather*, even accepting that gold challenge veto slots "were not for me" and not even attempting them. Then I went to beat VGT over and over. EDIT: And made videos of it - much better investment of my time, even if took a lot more time.
I went to test it just now, and tried to relocker Soul Orb via the gnome puzzle - since I forgot the solution, 20 minutes later I'm still a Soul Orb short. I can tinker scum a Soul Orb, but nothing in the world can give me my 20 minutes back.
EDIT: * because even a chance of running into something that could take so much time and doesn't simultaneously = (unlock an item + you only have to do it once) made it "not worth it". I didn't even unlock Vampiric Blade that time because of this. Veto slots weren't appealing to me - I only did the minimalist run to prove a point.** Nothing could make me risk running into another bloodmage silver style time sink. Time is very, very precious, what drove people bonkers with this whole topic is you guys apparently stubbornly EDIT: being cavalier about the way DD taxes it, while at the same time it being the most precious thing in the world. The game is already a huge time sink, even for the most rich, and the biggest layabouts.
EDIT:** The point, even back then was: "There are better ways to play than ones which include wasting time scumming for CYDSTEPP" primarily. More accurately: "Any way, even complete cheating, makes more sense than wasting time scumming for CYDTEPP". I unlocked only things I needed to play VGT not to give me more power - I've beaten it many times before - but to save TIME. I begged you to take mana burn off Horatio to save time it takes to scumm up a Soul Orb on every run where I want to prep another item. This is probably the most consistent phenomenon you've seen throughtout the beta - people going out of their way to dodge any artifical time sink and giving up on power and experimentation if it means it will take more of their time then the game already does.


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by George Zamora
SOCORRO, N.M., September 9, 2003 – New Mexico Tech has been named the lead management organization for the Southwest Regional Partnership for Carbon Sequestration, part of a newly formed nationwide network of universities, state agencies, and private companies tasked with studying the best approaches for capturing and permanently storing, or "sequestering," greenhouse gases that affect global climate change.
The state-supported research university will be joined by the Western Governors Association (WGA) in coordinating the regional partnership, which is part of the federal initiative announced late last year by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as a key component of President Bush's Global Climate Change research program. The role of the WGA is to coordinate communication and technology transfer among the Southwest partnership and six other national partnerships.
"Carbon sequestration" is the technical term used to describe methods for removing carbon gases from the exhausts of power plants, or from the air itself, and then storing the gases in geologic formations, soils, or vegetation.
Besides New Mexico Tech and the WGA, the partners that make up the Southwest Regional Partnership for Carbon Sequestration also include 21 state government agencies and universities, five major electric utility companies, seven oil, gas, and coal companies, three federal agencies, and the Navajo Nation.
The seven partnerships involved in the DOE network have been commissioned to develop, test, and set up emerging carbon sequestration technologies that are best suited for their specific regions of the country.
"I think New Mexico Tech became the lead organization of the regional partnership because of the enthusiasm with which Tech embraced the project, including high-level support and encouragement from Tech President Daniel López," says Brian McPherson, a hydrology professor at New Mexico Tech who is serving as principal investigator and director of the Southwest Regional Partnership for Carbon Sequestration.
"In addition, Governor Richardson was also explicitly supportive of the project," McPherson adds, "since, as you will recall, he is the former U.S. Secretary of Energy and is keenly interested in these issues."
As a hydrogeologist, McPherson's research focus will be on geologic carbon sequestration, or examining the possible injection of carbon dioxide from power plant flue gases into deep subsurface aquifers and depleted oil and gas reservoirs.
"My students and I have spent several years developing computer programs, or 'simulators,' to simulate carbon dioxide flow processes, including chemical reactivity and how carbon dioxide affects or changes deep rock and groundwater over time," says McPherson.
Most of McPherson's work with the regional partnership will not involve actual research though, since his key role as primary coordinator of the group will keep him busy overseeing the "bigger picture" goals of the research consortium.
"With over 40 groups involved, it will be a challenge," he says. "However, the New Mexico Tech research group — which includes the university's Petroleum Recovery Research Center, the departments of Earth and Environmental Science, Materials Engineering, and Petroleum and Chemical Engineering, and the New Mexico Bureau of Geology — will also continue its ongoing geologic carbon sequestration research and will contribute to the partnership's goals in that capacity."
Over the next two years, the DOE will provide more than $11 million to support the newly established carbon sequestration partnerships. Each group will receive up to $1.6 million, with participating organizations contributing matching funds totaling nearly 40 percent of the initial federal funding.
Within the past five years, carbon sequestration research at the DOE has grown from small-scale, experimental studies to become one of the highest priorities in the federal agency's energy research programs.


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If you do not remember the face or the name, you will certainly remember some of the headlines from the late 1980s when John Cappas was the flashy embodiment of all that was the cocaine culture.
John Cappas is older now (43), a bit heavier than in his wrestling-martial arts practicing prime, a great deal more humble, and more than a bit contrite. Fifteen years in prison will do that to a guy.
He tells his story in a new book, "Tall Money," self-written, self-published and surprisingly self-aware.
The book's title comes from something one of his lawyers said in response to a question about how much dough Cappas was making in the old days. Before he turned 20, he was raking in $25,000 a week, give or take, selling cocaine. At the height of his illicit enterprise, he had more than 30 people working for him, many of them young pals from Marist High School, from which he had just graduated, or neighbor kids in Oak Lawn, where he lived with his parents.
Twenty-five thousand a week was (still is) a lot of money, and Cappas spent it lavishly on such indulgences as glitzy cars and stylish clothes as he and his pals/employees, always in the company of flashy, big-haired women, became stretch limo-riding regulars on the local club scene.
It all came crashing down when federal warrants were issued for his arrest. Before surrendering — "I could have run but decided to face the music," he says — he famously (for those who watch the local news) and notoriously had a pizza party on a friend's boat, accompanied and filmed by WBBM-Ch. 2 reporter Giselle Fernandez, who then controversially accompanied him to his arrest by federal agents.
"I still talk to Giselle every once in a while," he says. "She's doing great."
After a six-week-long trial that included the testimony of 72 witnesses, the 23-year-old Cappas stood in front of Judge Charles Kocoras, who said that "you turned into someone your parents and friends would never recognize. I am struck by who the real John Cappas is, the one who lost his soul."
It was May 23, 1989, and Cappas, then the youngest person ever indicted under what is known as the "kingpin statute," was sentenced to 45 years in federal prison.
"I was mad at the world," Cappas says, recalling that day. "I learned a valuable lesson too: In life, if you have more friends than fingers on your hand, count again. In this world, everybody is out for themselves."
He still harbors some bad feeling for some of those who testified against him but writes, proudly, "I did not testify against anyone and made no plea bargains."
Though his sentence was eventually reduced, he did serve 15 hard years, and much of the book is devoted to his experiences in jail.
"In prison, these guys don't fight with their hands," he says. "They just get a knife and stab a guy."
When he got out of prison in 2003, Cappas celebrated with family members at the Greek Islands restaurant and started working as a car salesman.
He didn't like it. "I was good at it, but all the arguing, all the pressures weren't for me."
So with the help of a couple of uncles knowledgeable about the food business, he opened Johnny's Wee Nee Wagon in south suburban Markham, not far from where he lives, in Tinley Park. Located at 15743 Crawford Ave. and open from 10 a.m.-10 p.m. every day, it was formerly known as Willie's Wee Nee Stand, an area hot dog oasis since the mid-1950s.
"My uncles told me I need to serve French fries and custard instead of ice milk," he says. "I really think I have the best weenies in the whole area. It's an honest business."
The place is colorful and the food quite good. A lot of families drop in.
Second chances don't come around often, and Cappas is genuinely grateful for his.
"Of course I am sorry for what I did to myself, to my family, to other families," he says. "But I don't have a time machine. I can't change things. My penance is going to talk to churches and schools and meeting with kids one-on-one to tell them not to follow my same path."
He says that he has never "before or since put a line of cocaine in my body." He doesn't go to bars but maybe "just a movie once a week" with his girlfriend. He works seven days a week. He appreciates life.
"Just to be able to walk around," he says, "without someone looking over your shoulder."
Rick Kogan is a Tribune senior writer and columnist.
"Tall Money"
By John Cappas, AuthorHouse, 232 pages, $29.99


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Jewish World Review Jan 6, 2014/ 5 Shevat, 5774
Congress and the President need to find a way to freshen the air and freshen their outlook
By David Shribman
JewishWorldReview.com | A new year begins, and we are haunted by some of the old questions. But before Congress returns to the Capitol and before the White House creaks back into action, we might pause to examine the state of our politics.
This is an election year. The contours of the 2016 presidential campaign will begin to take form. Vital budgetary, military, and diplomatic questions will need to be confronted.
The year will open with a blast from the past, the memoir of former Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Because he served in the Pentagon under both a Republican and Democratic president, Mr. Gates ought not to be dismissed as a cranky geezer who is befuddled by memories of rosier days.
His book will salute George W. Bush and Barack Obama for their chivalry, but criticize many of their decisions. It also will excoriate Congress as "[u]ncivil, incompetent in fulfilling basic constitutional responsibilities (such as timely appropriations), micromanagerial, parochial, hypocritical, egotistical, thin-skinned, too often putting self (and re-election) before country. …"
That is a searing, but not a daring, assessment. A McClatchy-Marist Poll released last month showed the President and Congress with all-time low ratings. About two-thirds of the country view the nation as on the wrong track. So much for the glad tidings of the holiday season.
It may seem wearisome to read about governmental dysfunction and public disapproval, since they are such hardy perennials. Two generations of Americans have come to maturity with the conviction that government is bad, that politics is worse, that things are deteriorating at an ever-quickening pace, and that hope should be abandoned at the exit door of the maternity ward.
This is the legacy of Vietnam, the credibility gap, Watergate, the pardon of Richard Nixon, inflation, the Iran hostage crisis, Iran-contra, Whitewater, a presidential impeachment, terrorism, financial collapse, congressional paralysis, and much more.
But each presidential administration, and each new Congress, has the chance to start anew. There have been moments of great hope in the past third of a century.
They came on the right with the election of Ronald Reagan and on the left with the elections of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. These were times when young people and even wizened old veterans longed to be in Washington, to breathe the new fresh air and to shape the new fresh outlook.
We do not have such opportunities in 2014, but Congress and the President need to find a way to freshen the air and freshen their outlook. The country simply cannot continue the "decay in the quality of American government," as political theorist Francis Fukyuama puts it.
The prospects for revival-tent conversion are dim. In a widely discussed essay published last month, Mr. Fukuyama took aim at the role of interest groups in American politics, with a swipe at Congress.
This part of his critique is especially worth examining:
"It is commonly and accurately observed that no one in the U.S. Congress really deliberates anymore. Congressional 'debate' amounts to a series of talking points aimed not at colleagues but at activist audiences, who are perfectly happy to punish a legislator who deviates from their agenda as a result of deliberation or the acquisition of greater knowledge. This leads then to bureaucratic mandates written by interest groups that restrict bureaucratic autonomy."
Embedded in that one paragraph are several great truths. The Senate, which describes itself as the world's greatest deliberative body, is no such thing.
Politicians' views are shaped for, and shaped by, special-interest groups. Ideological rigidity and foolish consistency are celebrated rather than deplored.
Maybe what America needs is a little less consistency from its politicians. Start with the notion of making congressional debates and White House negotiations actual debates and actual negotiations.
Perhaps the presence of so many lawyers and the lure of the closing argument has warped our politics. But if politicians viewed their scripted talking points only as opening arguments rather than as the last word, if they listened to the views of their rivals, and if they then evaluated their views against their opponents', they might find a middle ground, or at least learn to respect views that clash with theirs, and the men and women who express them.
Our politicians believe that the speech — and the negotiation, or the House-Senate conference committee — is less for persuasion than for exposition. Let's consider celebrating the politician who changes his or her mind — not for mean advantage, but for principle.
It's time to heed the wisdom of science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov: "Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."
So let's scrub the windows of our politics. Let's not abandon our principles. Instead, let's consider whether we might abandon our positions, especially if they were furnished on memos prepared by the special interest groups that govern our politics — or if they were conjured by politicians who hope to appeal to those interests.
Politicians: Heal thyselves. Politicians: Think for thyselves.
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Re: South Florida law schools
Reply #20 on:
February 12, 2014, 07:19:37 PM »
Hi Tampadave,
First off, I'm not a Florida lawyer and I don't have any personal experience with the market, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
That said, if I were in your daughter's position I would seriously consider the FIU at a discount over UM at full price. UM does have a reputational advantage over FIU, but it's not exactly an elite school, either. So the question is, does the reputational advantage justify the additional cost?
My guess is that a top student from UM (law review, etc.) probably has a better shot at big firms in Miami than a top student from FIU, but that mid-low ranked students from both schools probably face similar job prospects. If your daughter ends up competing for jobs at small and midsized firms, the lower debt from FIU can allow more flexibility.
Best of Luck to her!
Re: South Florida law schools
Reply #21 on:
February 14, 2014, 05:06:37 AM »
It really depends on what your daughter wants to do with her degree. If she is committed to private practice or is not sure what she wants to do with her degree after graduating, FIU is the safer bet because she won't rack up a lot of debt in the process. Be advised however, that almost every midsized and small firms will almost always take a UM grad over any grad from another local school because the alumni base down here is that strong for UM. Like your daughter, I got in at both UM and FIU but will be attending UM at full price because I am committed to working in the public sector (I work at my local state attorneys office and have already been offered an internship after 1L) and plan to take advantage of pslf/ibr. FIU is too new of a law school to really have a strong alumni base that will get her a quality job. As a South Florida resident, I can tell you that networking is in some ways more important than grades and going to the king kahuna (UM) down here IS going to make a difference. But again, it all depends on what she wants to do with her degree
Re: South Florida law schools
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February 14, 2014, 08:32:34 AM »
From my experience down here in Miami (speaking with managing partners at big law firms, smaller law firms, businesses, and even ancillary legal organizations)....
1) The top top top top top kids from UM (think valedictorian) will have a (slight) shot at big law. Big law is not going to happen for any fiu kid (unless they already had the connections to begin with, i.e. their parents are hiring partners of the firm).
2) Generally speaking, UM has a slight edge in terms of reputation - however, almost every hiring lawyer has said that they are extremely impressed with FIU's program (even UM alum attorneys are saying this!). My bet is that within 10 years, FIU's program will at least be neck and neck in ranking with UM if not better.
3) From my impression, it seems that the only people who are really saying UM 100% are recent UM grads (within the past 10 years). The older folks down here (the ones actually hiring) are much more positive either way - and if anything are telling kids to strongly consider FIU given the cost.
If the costs are about the same (also factor in their loan repayment programs), I'd certainly go UM. If you are more than likely going to be the top of the class, I'd go UM (which, if you were a strong contender for the top of the class, you would have a serious scholarship and the prior consideration would take hold). In almost every other case, though, UM's slight ranking advantage does not make up for the cost difference. At some point, a law degree is a law degree is a law degree. If the employment stats were gravely different, then ok - but they aren't.
In sum, then...
Job Prospects: Both UM and FIU are about the same for the majority of students with maybe a
edge given to UM
Bar Passage Rate: FIU's 90% beats UM's 80%
Employment Stats: FIU's 57% is statistically the same as UM's 59%
Reputation: UM nominally beats FIU, however, tides may be turning...
Location: Subjective... UM is in a posh neighborhood and the students tend to be from white middle and upper-class families. FIU is far from anything and the students tend to be from hispanic middle/low-middle class families. But both are in the greater Miami area! <3 Miami
Campus: I must admit, UM's general campus is far prettier, however, UM's law school is both old looking and feeling. FIU has an okay general campus, however, the law facilities are amazing (and new).
Cost of Attendance: FIU's 120k beats UM's 210k. This disparity is worse given you have scholarships from FIU and not from UM. So its more like FIU 70k and UM 210k...
So the big question... Is UM's nominal boost in reputation and lesser bar passage rate worth over
of extra debt?
Re: South Florida law schools
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February 17, 2014, 05:30:35 PM »
I think the reality is that the law school you attend is given a lot more attention than it deserves. Miami is a fine school as is FIU and another ABA school. When I was in law school I was caught up in rankings, etc, but once I entered the real world I realized how trivial it all is. Obviously Harvard, Yale, Stanford etc will open doors, but I cannot imagine to many firms or agencies in Miami will simply a hand job to a someone from Miami instead of FIU.
The legal profession is a pretty much like anything else results matter. If you finish in the bottom of 25% of the class at Miami, have no internship experience, didn't participate in any activities, no professor relationships employers will not be knocking your door down. That same fact pattern goes for any law school.
If you finish in the top 10%, were a mock trial champion, law review, great relationships with professors, etc you will have a lot of doors open for you no matter what law school you attend.
However, even if you are top of the class etc you will have to open the doors and that means applying to jobs, dealing with some rejection etc. Very few firms or agencies simply say he went to X school hire him. Cravath and some of the major firms do that with Ivy League Gradus, but the Miami District Attorney will not say oh Miami Law School hire him/her.
I really think any student is better off getting out with as little debt as possible unless they are going to attend Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia or a school of that caliber that is nationally known. Otherwise don't pay $100,000 dollars more to attend the 47th opposed to the 74th best school nobody really cares.
Just some advice from an anonymous internet poster so take it for what it is worth.
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The freestyle board has come a long way in the last ten years. First,everyone thought cutting the nose and tail down would reduce swing weight.Then there was the whole "let's see who can make the lightest board"phase, which resulted in hundreds of kids hiking down the mountain holdingonto two separate chunks of what used to be one snowboard. Oh, wait-remember those boards with dual camber? What the hell was that all about?Or how about the ones with the four edges? I mean, really, what in goodgravy were they thinkin'?
Thank the sweet lord above that during the last two or three years,freestyle snowboard design has reached its apex. That's with the exceptionof Travis Parker's new CAPiTA pro model. "Put your seat belts on, kids, it'sthe world's first-ever double-swallowtail freestyle shred machine, and it'smeant to get nasty,"says CAPiTA Owner Blue Montgomery. Well, at leastthey're not serious.
But like everything else in snowboarding, picking the right board for youis all personal preference. Do you like to turn between jumps? A shredcyclewith some sidecut is what you're going to need. Maybe the jib bug bit yourass, and all day long dreams of back-lippin' a 40-stair handrail are bouncingthrough your head. Then you should look for something that is soft and forgiving.
Speaking of handrails, all you urban shredders should know that companiesincluding Forum and Burton have gone ahead and gotten rid of those nastyedges for ya. "The Dominant Slick gives you added confidence," saysJeremy Jones. "But don't be fooled, you still need to put it on the rail right.I've locked up just as hard on the Slick as I have on any edge board. But it'shelpful for the mind, fo sho!"
And last but not least, all you dudes and dudettes out there in Shredville,take all the time necessary to pick out your new sick stick, 'cause no onelikes spending 500 dollars on something that sucks.-Chris Coyle
Andreas Wiig
Age: 23
Height: 6′
Weight: 170 pounds
Home: On the road/Oslo, Norway/CostaMesa, California
Roots: Oslo, Norway
Sponsors: Vans, Agency, Planet Earth,Electric, Jeenyus, Grenade
Stance: Regular, 23 inches wide, with 21degrees on the front foot and negativefifteenon the rear.
Board: Jeenyus The Woods 159 ($420)
Boots: Vans BFB, size nine ($190)
Bindings: Agency Eleven34 ($160)
Goggles: Electric EG1 ($79-$90)
Jacket: Planet Earth Andreas Wiig ($250)
Pants: Planet Earth Andreas Wiig ($184)
Gloves: Grenade The Napalm ($34)
Riding style: "Like someone just threw thecat off the balcony."
Danny Kass
Age: 21
Height: 5'7″
Weight: 150 pounds
Home: June Lake, California
Roots: Vernon, New Jersey
Sponsors: Gnu, Quiksilver, Grenade,Vans, Agency, Jack's Garage, Propaganda,Boost Mobile
Stance: Regular, 22.5 inches wide, withfifteen degrees on the front foot andnegative-twelve on the back.
Board: Gnu Danny Kass 153 ($489)
Boots: Vans Danny Kass, size 9.5 ($210)
Bindings: Agency Tro'it ($200)
Goggles: Grenade Danny Kass model($32-46)
Pants: Quiksilver MAGDA pant ($100)
Gloves: Grenade DK-Pro ($64)
Riding style: "Jibtastic."
David Benedek
Age: 24
Height: 5'9″
Weight: 145 pounds
Home: Innsbruck, Austria
Roots: Munich, Germany
Sponsors: Salomon, Bonfire, Anon,Ratiopharm
Stance: Regular, with twelve degrees onthe front foot and negative-nine on the back.
Board: Salomon David Benedek 155($550)
Boots: Salomon David Benedek ($260)
Bindings: Salomon SPX Pro (220)
Goggles: Anon Figment ($70)
Jacket: Bonfire Optic Balance ($270)
Pants: Bonfire Optic Balance ($170)
Gloves: Bonfire Spring gloves ($50)
Eddie Wall
Age: 22
Height: 5'8″
Weight: 155 pounds
Home: Mammoth Lakes, California
Roots: Rome, Pennsylvania
Sponsors: Jeenyus, Agency, DC,FourSquare, Smith, Grenade, Jack'sGarage, Mammoth Mountain, Snowcreek
Stance: Goofy, 23-inches wide, with eighteendegrees on the front foot and negativetwelveon the ar.
Board: Jeenyus Rental 153 ($300)
Boots: DC Judge, size nine ($249)
Bindings: Agency Implants ($180)
Goggles: Smith Fuses ($85)
Jacket: FourSquare Lowin ($180)
Pants: FourSquare Satyricon ($180)
Gloves: Grenade Eddie Wall ($50)
Riding style: "Hella tight."
Chad Otterstrom
Age: 27
Height: 5'8″
Weight: 157 pounds
Home: Breckenridge, Colorado
Roots: Shoreview, Minnesota
Sponsors: Academy, Smith, FourSquare,Active Ride Shop, DEFCON, ThirtyTwo,Etnies, Alycium, Bluebird Wax, DelphicDesigned Hats
Stance: Goofy, 22-inches wide, with eighteendegrees on the front foot and negative-nineon the back.
Board: Academy Chad Otterstrom 156.5($475)
Boots: ThirtyTwo Lashed, size nine ($189)
Bindings: Burton with mixed-up parts
Goggles: Smith Prodigy ($95)
Jacket: FourSquare Tandon ($230)
Pants: FourSquare Arak ($190)
Gloves: DEFCON Goliath ($66)
Riding style: "Freestyle."
Erik Leines
Age: 24
Height: 6'1″
Weight: 165 pounds
Home: Salt Lake City, UtahRoots: Big Lake, Minnesota
Sponsors: Ride, Volcom, Vans, Oakley,Celtek, Nixon
Stance: Regular, 24 inches wide, withthirteen degrees on the front foot andnegative-nine on the rear.
Board: Ride Theory 159 ($520)
Boots: Vans Hi Standard, size ten ($130)
Bindings: Ride Flight Tomcat ($250)
Jacket: Volcom EKG Puff ($220)
Pants: Volcolm Inspector ($210)
Gloves: Celtek Weapon ($50)
Goggles: Oakley Wisdom ($95-140)
Lukas Huffman
Age: 25
Height: 5'6″
Weight: 140 pounds
Home: Around the way
Roots: Montpelier, Vermont
Sponsors: Nitro, Legion, Anon,Northwave, Drake, Bakoda, HurleyStance: Regular, 21 inches wide, with21 degrees on the front and negativetwelveon the rear.
Board: Nitro Suprateam LH 157 ($479)
Boots: Northwave Vintage, size 8.5 ($179)
Bindings: Drake Mikey LeBlanc ($159)
Jacket: Nitro Ride The Lightning L1 ($269)
Pants: Nitro Creeping Death L1 ($229)
Gloves: Bakoda Kevin Jones ($65)
Goggles: Anon Figment ($80)
Riding style: "I ride whatever's in front ofme on the way to the jump I spotted."
Tyler Lepore
Age: 24
Height: 5'7″
Weight: 145 pounds
Home: Vancouver, British Columbia
Roots: Gibsons, British Columbia
Sponsors: CAPiTA, Oakley, ThirtyTwo,Etnies, DaKine, Lifetime, Alive AthleticsStance: Regular, 21 inches wide, with 25degrees on the front foot and five on the rear.
Board: CAPiTA Yeti 161 ($459)
Boots: ThirtyTwo Forecast, size nine ($220)
Bindings: TechNine Scott E. Wittlake ($189)
Jacket: Oakley Detonator ($725)
Pants: Oakley Filter ($360)
Gloves: DaKine Cobra GT Mitt ($70)
Goggles: Oakley A Frame ($120)
Riding style: "I like to ride fast and just use the whole hill."
Bjorn Leines
Age: 27
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 157 pounds
Home: Salt Lake City, Utah
Roots: Big Lake, Minnesota
Sponsors: Forum, Volcom, Oakley,Celtek, Circa
Stance: Regular, 22.75 inches wide,with eighteen degrees on the front footand negative-eleven on the rear.
Board: Forum BJL Warrior 158 ($440)
Boots: Forum Freestyler, size nine ($200)
Bindings: Forum Freestyle ($200)
Jacket: Volcom Carpal Tunnel ($240)
Pants: Volcom VMX ($190)
Gloves: Celtek BJL Signature ($55)
Goggles: Oakley Wisdom ($95-140)
Riding style: "All conditions."
Mark Landvik
Age: 24
Height: 5'9″
Weight: 180 pounds
Home: Bellingham, Washington
Roots: Juneau, Alaska
Sponsors: Lib Technologies, Scott USA,Volcom, Vans, Drop, Boarderline AlaskaStance: Goofy, around 23 inches, with23 degrees on the front foot and negativeeighton the back.
Board: Lib Tech Phoenix 157 ($489)
Boots: Vans BFB, size nine ($190)
Bindings: Bent Metal BMX ($199)
Jacket: Volcom Hanz And Franz ($180)
Pants: Volcom Nation ($125)
Gloves: Drop DP Webb ($50)
Goggles: Scott Messenger ($55)
Riding style: "Snowboarding on snow."
Annie Boulanger
Age: 24
Height: 5'6″
Weight: 128 pounds
Home: Whistler, British Columbia
Roots: Montreal, Quebec
Sponsors: Salomon, Billabong, Anon, Drop
Stance: Goofy, 21.75 inches wide, with fifteendegrees on the front foot and negativesixon the back.
Board: Salomon Ivy E.R.A. 154 ($470)
Boots: Salomon Women's F22 ($280)
Bindings: Salomon Antidotes ($180)
Goggles: Anon Figment ($80)
Jacket: Billabong Butterfly ($120)
Pants: Billabong Blondie ($120)
Gloves: Drop Se§orita ($50)
Anne Molin Kongsgaard
Age: 25
Height: 5'3″
Weight: 122 pounds
Home: Kongsberg, Norway and CostaMesa/Mammoth Lakes, California
Roots: Kongsberg, Norway
Sponsors: Burton, Oakley, Gallaz, Nixon
Stance: Regular, 22.5 inches wide, with21 degrees on the front foot and negativefifteenon the back.
Board: Burton Troop 151 ($400)
Boots: Burton Emerald, size six ($180)
Bindings: Burton Mission ($170)
Goggles: Oakley A-Frame ($120)
Jacket: Burton 2L Strategy ($240)
Pants: Burton Strategy ($200)
Hana Beaman
Age: 21
Height: 5'9″
Weight: 170 pounds
Home: Mammoth Lakes, California
Roots: Big Bear Lake, California
Sponsors: Rossignol, RS Clothing,Grenade Gloves, Vans, Smith, Red Bull,Boost Mobile, Mammoth Mountain,Pharmacy, Atmosphere
Stance: Regular, with eighteen degrees onthe front foot and negative-twelve on the back.
Board: Rossignol Premier 156 ($480)
Boots: Vans Hi-Standard, size nine ($130)
Bindings: Rossignol Amber ($230)
Goggles: Smith Fuse ($85)
Jacket: RS Unit Parka ($230)
Pants: RS Elevate 2L ($180)
Gloves: Grenade 1969 ($64)
Riding style: "PH balanced-strongenough for a man, but made for a woman."
Kelly Clark
Age: 20
Height: 5'4″
Weight: 140 pounds
Home: Mount Snow, Vermont
Roots: Mount Snow, Vermont
Sponsors: Burton, Smith, Mount Snow,RVCA
Stance: Regular, 20.5 inches wide, witheighteen degrees on the front foot andthree on the back.
Board: Burton Raven 152 ($500)
Boots: Burton Sable, size seven ($250)
Bindings: Burton Mission ($170)
Goggles: Smith Fuse ($85)
Jacket: Burton AK Essence ($190)
Pants: Burton Exposure ($150)
Priscilla Levac
Age: 23
Height: 5'2″
Weight: 110 pounds
Home: Whistler, British Columbia
Roots: Quebec, Canada
Sponsors: Ride Snowboards, RideOuterwear, Northwave, Drake, Bakoda,Nikita, Spy, Gallaz, Atlas Snowboard Shop
Stance: Goofy, 22 inches wide, withtwelve degrees on the front foot andnegative-nine on the back.
Board: Ride Vista 148 ($400)
Boots: Northwave Vintage, size six ($179)
Bindings: Drake F-50 ($129)
Goggles: Spy Soldier ($100)
Jacket: Ride Cab Parka ($190)
Pants: Ride Frontside Half Vent Cargo ($160)
Elena Hight
Age: 14
Height: 5′
Weight: 110 poundsHome: South Lake Tahoe, CaliforniaRoots: Kaua'i, Hawai'i
Sponsors: Burton, Oakley, Hurley, U.S.Snowboard Team, Shoreline Sports
Stance: Goofy, 21 inches wide, with fifteendegrees on the front foot and negative-nineon the rear.
Board: Burton Troop 146 ($400)
Boots: Burton Sable, size six ($250)
Bindings: Burton Lexa ($200)
Jacket: Burton 2L Strateg jacket ($240)
Pants: Burton Metro Pant ($190)
Gloves: Burton Basic Leather ($55)
Goggles: Oakley A Frame ($120)
Jamie Anderson
Age: 13
Height: 4'11"
Weight: 99 pounds
Home: South Lake Tahoe, California
Roots: South Lake Tahoe, California
Sponsors: Salomon, Velvet, 686Enterprises, DaKine, Sierra-at-TahoeStance: Regular, 21 inches wide, withfourteen degrees on the front foot andnegative-thirteen on the back.
Board: Salomon Ivy 144 ($470)
Boots: Salomon F20, size six ($230)
Bindings: Salomon Antidote ($180)
Jacket: 686 Girls Smarty Jacket ($139)
Pants: 686 Girls Smarty Pant ($119)
Gloves: DaKine Comet GT ($60)
Goggles: Velvet Flurry ($100)
Tyler Flanagan
Age: 11
Height: 4'5″
Weight: 72
Home: Mammoth Lakes, CaliforniaRoots: Maggie Valley, North Carolina
Sponsors: Gnu, Volcom, Vans, Celtek,Smith, Sobe, Mammoth Mountain, DemonStance: Goofy, eighteen inches wideoots: Montreal, Quebec
Sponsors: Salomon, Billabong, Anon, Drop
Stance: Goofy, 21.75 inches wide, with fifteendegrees on the front foot and negativesixon the back.
Board: Salomon Ivy E.R.A. 154 ($470)
Boots: Salomon Women's F22 ($280)
Bindings: Salomon Antidotes ($180)
Goggles: Anon Figment ($80)
Jacket: Billabong Butterfly ($120)
Pants: Billabong Blondie ($120)
Gloves: Drop Se§orita ($50)
Kelly Clark
Age: 20
Height: 5'4″
Weight: 140 pounds
Home: Mount Snow, Vermont
Roots: Mount Snow, Vermont
Sponsors: Burton, Smith, Mount Snow,RVCA
Stance: Regular, 20.5 inches wide, witheighteen degrees on the front foot andthree on the back.
Board: Burton Raven 152 ($500)
Boots: Burton Sable, size seven ($250)
Bindings: Burton Mission ($170)
Goggles: Smith Fuse ($85)
Jacket: Burton AK Essence ($190)
Pants: Burton Exposure ($150)
Tucker Drimal
Age: 12
Height: Short
Weight: 78 pounds
Home: Ludlow, VermontRoots: Long Island, New York
Sponsors: Gnu, Electric, Quiksilver,Grenade Gloves, Capix Helmets, Ipath,Okemo Mountain School, WindellsSnowboard Camp
Stance: Regular, twenty inches wide, withsix degrees of angle on the front andnegative-six on the back.
Board: Gnu Danny Kass Spook Show137 ($339)
Boots: Northwave Freedom, size 6.5 ($159)
Bindings: Drake Mikey LeBlanc ($159)
Jacket: Quiksilver Greenskeeper ($110)
Pants: Quiksilver Band Camp ($120)
Gloves: Grenade Napalm ($34)
Goggles: Electric Eg1 ($79-90)
wide, withthirteen degrees in the front and negativethirteenin the back.
Board: Gnu Danny Kass 122 (prototype)
Boots: Vans Mantra, size 4.5 ($100)
Bindings: Drake F-50 ($129)
Jacket: Volcom Wedgi-Chain ($130)
Pants: Volcom Snow Bro Pant ($90)
Gloves: Celtek Feather Weight ($35)
Goggles: Smith Fuse ($85)


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After more than two decades, the Shamrock Club of Columbus will celebrate its last Irish Family Reunion at Veterans Memorial Auditorium.
After more than two decades, the Shamrock Club of Columbus will celebrate its last Irish Family Reunion at Veterans Memorial Auditorium.
The facility, 300 W. Broad St., will be razed this year and replaced with a memorial that will not have accommodations for events such as the reunion.
As part of St. Patrick's Day festivities March 17, the reunion brings together upwards of 10,000 people, more when the holiday falls on the weekends, said Mike Murphy, the Shamrock Club's 2014 president.
"I want it to be a fun celebration of our Irish heritage," Murphy said.
"We certainly give our thanks to the people of Vets for all of their help over the years. We'd like to dwell on the positives."
Just precisely when the reunion started being held at Veterans Memorial isn't quite certain. Some say more than 30 years ago while others say 25.
Francis Doyle, a member of the Shamrock Club since 1969, said members used to celebrate the post-parade lunch at hotels throughout downtown Columbus. But in the mid-1980s, the club opened membership to all comers, and the reunions were established in the late 1980s at Vets to hold the larger crowds, Doyle said.
It's been held there ever since, save for two or three years in the early 1990s when the Broad Street Bridge over the Scioto River was being rebuilt.
The Shamrock Club pays all expenses for holding the parade in downtown Columbus and to use Veterans Memorial.
The 2014 St. Patrick's Day celebration begins at 9:15 a.m. with a procession from Rich Street and Grant Avenue downtown to Mass, which starts at 9:30 a.m. at Holy Cross Catholic Church, 204 S. Fifth St.
The parade steps off at 11:30 a.m. at Neil Avenue and Nationwide Boulevard in the Arena District. The parade will travel east on Nationwide to High Street, south on High to Broad Street and west on Broad to Veterans Memorial.
The reunion -- which includes live music, Irish stepdancing, children's activities and merchandise vendors -- will be held from noon to 7 p.m. Ceremonies begin at 1 p.m.
Admission to the event is $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at the club's headquarters, 60 W. Castle Road. It will be a party with food available at concession stands, beverages and entertainment.
Keeping with tradition, people can also bring their own food, Murphy said. A separate party, from 5 p.m. to about midnight, will be held March 17 at the Shamrock Club, 60 W. Castle Road. Admission is $5.
The Shamrock Club, which has 2,400 members, is one of many local organizations that will be forced to find a new place to celebrate when Vets is closed for demolition this spring.
Murphy said tentative plans call for moving the reunion to the Ohio Expo Center.
"We are really striving to keep it in the downtown area," Murphy said, noting there are few options that can accommodate a crowd of 10,000.
Doyle, this year's parade grand marshal, said it's truly the end of an era.
"It's just a shame," he said. "I don't know exactly what will happen next year.
"Where the family reunion will be held is up in the air right now."


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SOCORRO, N.M., March 19, 2004 – New Mexico Tech Vice President Van Romero has been named one of the state's top business and economic development leaders in the cover article of the current issue of New Mexico Business Journal.
Romero, who is in charge of research and economic development at the university, was profiled in "The Players," a special feature that identifies 14 prominent New Mexicans making up the monthly magazine's first team of movers and shakers in state business and economic development.
"Known as 'the go-to guy' at New Mexico Tech, some of the projects that Dr. Van Romero has helped to obtain funding for are: The Magdalena Ridge Observatory ($50.8M); First Responder Training (Homeland Security) ($60M); and the International Law Enforcement Academy (Roswell) ($30M)," the article states. "One measure of the impact of these programs is that from them, New Mexico Tech generates more than 50,000 hotel night stays in New Mexico each year."
The New Mexico Business Journal article also points out that Romero, in his capacity as one of the university's chief administrators, " . . . acts as an external advocate and representative for New Mexico Tech's research activities, strongly encourages diversity and affirmative action, identifies research opportunities and actively encourages development of interdisciplinary research."


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94 N. Main Street, Jasper, GA - (706) 253-2457
Annie Vincent
Mrs. Annie Lou ?Ann? Vincent, age 83 of Fairmount, Ga., departed this life Tuesday afternoon, August 24, 2010 at her home surrounded by her loving family.
Ann was born Sept. 28, 1926 in Gilmer County, Ga., a daughter of the late Joseph and Lula Mae Gibson Stafford. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Bryan ?Bossie? Vincent; son-in-law, Edward Sanford; her brothers, Oren, J.S., Elihue and Hillard Stafford; and sisters, Eva Southerland, Grace Wilkins and Opal Duckett Lanning.
Survivors include her daughters, Alice Carol Vincent and JoAnn Sanford, both of Fairmount; sister, Minnie Lee Nicholson, Ellijay; and sisters-in-law, Frances Stafford, Jasper, and Sarah Headrick, Dalton. Several beloved nieces and nephews and many special friends also survive.
A service to celebrate her life was held Friday, August 27 at 2 p.m. from the Fairmount Chapel of Ponders Funeral Home with the Revs. Jerrold Young and Spencer Evans officiating. Music was arranged by Sally Jones. She was laid to rest beside her beloved husband at Johnson Cemetery. Pallbearers were: Earnest Ledford, Hubert Lillard, Larry Nicholson, J.P. and Brandon Davis and Harry Pierce.
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Pamela Willes
Ms. Pamela Susan Willes, age 57 of Ball Ground, Ga., died Wednesday, August 25, 2010, at the Emory Medical Center in Atlanta, Ga. following a sudden illness.
Ms. Willes was born on April 10, 1953 in California.
Survivors include her sisters, Julieann Willes and Christine Denari, both of Los Angeles, Ca., and Carolyn Alves of Citrus Heights, Ca.; and her fiance, Jerry Blackwell, Ellijay, Ga. A memorial service was held at 2 p.m. Sunday, August 29 from Foothills Community Church with the Rev. John Reale officiating. Roper Funeral Home of Jasper was in charge of the arrangements.
Grover Anderson
Grover S. Anderson, age 81 of Pickens County, formerly of Dawsonville, died Thursday August 26, 2010 at Green Acres Nursing Center in Milledgeville following an extended illness.
Mr. Anderson was born Dec. 12, 1928 in Lumpkin County to the late Grover and Florence Anderson. He owned and operated Andy?s Barber Shop in Atlanta until retiring in 1998. Grover was loved by everyone, was an avid outdoorsman who loved bicycling. He had a very outgoing personality, a great sense of humor and always had a fast Ford which was never caught by the revenuers.
Surviving are his sons and daughters-in-law, Daniel and Cindy Anderson, Milledgeville, Jerry and Michelle Anderson, Twin Falls, Id., and Marvin and Josie Anderson, Cumming; and grandchildren, Ricky, Shannon, Christopher, Jake, Bodie, Andy, Chase and Katty.
The funeral service was held Monday, August 30 at 2 o?clock from Bearden Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Bobby Whitmire officiating. Interment followed in New Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery.
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Glenn Cheshire
Glenn E. Cheshire, age 71 of Ball Ground, Ga., passed away Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at Brian Center Nursing Home.
Mr. Cheshire retired from Haynes Lumber Company. He was a licensed minister of Sharp Mountain Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife of 50 years, Judy Cheshire; children, Jack (Becky) Cheshire and Jimmy (Caitlyn) Cheshire, all of Ball Ground, Linda (Eddie) Davis, Jasper, and Brenda Shirley, Dawsonville; grandchildren, Alicia, Ashley, Amberley, Kelly, Carmen and Jamie Lee; great-grandchildren, Westin, Haven and Levi; and brother, Marvin (Louise) Cheshire, Ball Ground.
The funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Saturday, August 28 from Sharp Mountain Baptist Church with the Revs. Larry Waddell and O?Neal Evans officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery. Sosebee Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
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Jason Angel
Roper Funeral Home announces the death of Mr. Jason Angel, age 34 of Jasper, who passed away August 27, 2010.
Survivors include his wife, Karen Angel, Jasper; parents, Robert and Verette Angel, Jasper; children, Makayla Angel, Jarred Jason Angel, Serinity Lyrik Elizabeth Angel and Jayse Daka Ely Angel, all of Jasper; step-children, Camden Alexandra Major, Jasper, and Landyn Bryce Simmons and Austin Michael Simmons, Canton; sister and brother-in-law, Angela and Robbie Martin, Jasper; nieces and nephews, Jacob, Jillian, Josiah, Jessie and Justin Martin, Brooklyn and Gracie Potter and Isiah Byrd; mothers-in-law, Brenda Byrd and Marsha Brewer; and father-in-law, Ricky Byrd. Other brothers- and sisters-in-law also survive.
The funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Tuesday from Jerusalem Baptist Church with the Rev. Mike Loner officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery. The family did accept flowers or those who desire may make contributions to the Jason Angel Memorial Fund at Community Bank of Pickens County.
Billy Rollins
Mr. Billy Rollins, age 54 of Nelson, passed away Saturday, August 28, 2010 at Kennestone Hospital.
Survivors include a sister and brother-in-law, Faye and Clifford Chastain, Talking rock; and brother and sister-in-law, Bobby and Shirley Rollins, Canton. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
The funeral service was held at 1 p.m. Monday, August 30 from the Chapel of Cagle Funeral Home with the Rev. Roger Elliott officiating. Interment followed in Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery on Hwy. 20 in the Macedonia community. Pallbearers were: Donnie, Dustin and Dalton Chastain, Jacob Henson, Lamar Young and Keith Totherow.
Ruby Duckett
Mrs. Ruby Duckett, age 72 of Jasper, passed away Sunday night, August 22, 2010.
Survivors include her son, Phil Duckett, Waleska; daughter, Patsy Parker, Jasper; brothers, Jack Stone, Jasper, Robert Stone, Calhoun, and Elbert Stone, Jasper; and sisters, Susie Young, Mary Bell Palmer and Bonnie Palmer, all of Jasper, Sandra Raffety, Kennesaw, and Margie McDaniel, Ellijay. Seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren also survive.
The funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, August 25 from the Chapel of Cagle Funeral Home with the Rev. Jess Posey officiating. Interment followed in County Line Baptist Church Cemetery. Pallbearers were: Tony and Brian Parker, Jennings Young, Billy Boles, Bud Hollingshead and Tony Golden.
Brenda Parker
Mrs. Brenda Sue Parker, age 61 of Fairmount, passed away Saturday, August 28, 2010 at her residence following several years of declining health.
She was born on Jan. 12, 1949 in Pickens County, daughter of Mrs. Jessie Lee Timms Griffin and the late J.M. Griffin. She had been employed with the Fairmount Elementary School.
Survivors include her husband, Buddy Parker, to whom she was married for 43 years; daughters, Dana Quinn and husband Donny, Fairmount, and Donna Rogers and husband Shane, Adairsville; her mother, Mrs. Jessie Lee Griffin; sisters, Linda Dilbeck and husband Robert, Calhoun, Judy Thomas and Sharon Horner and husband Billy, all of Fairmount; and brothers, Johnny Griffin and wife Jeanie, Fairmount, and Timmy Griffin and wife Naketa, Oakman. Four grandchildren, Kenly and Dylan Rogers and Bonnie and Hunter Quinn, and nieces and nephews also survive.
The funeral service was held Monday at 2 p.m. from Pleasant Grove (Ryo) Baptist Church with the Revs. Steve Morrow and Ed Pasley officiating. Pallbearers were: Jack Corn, Jonathan, Jacob and Jeremy Griffin, Dustin and John Thomas and Martin Horner. Interment followed in the church cemetery. www.maxbrannonandsons. com
Irene Goble
Mrs. Irene Goble, age 83 of Talking Rock, Ga., died Monday, August 30, 2010, at Piedmont Mountainside Hospital in Jasper, Ga., following a period of declining health.
Born Nov. 8, 1926 in Pickens County, she was the daughter of the late Patton and Vira Callahan Chastain. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Jack Goble, and a son, David Goble. Mrs. Goble was a homemaker.
Survivors include her daughters, Evelene Goble Fox, Jasper, Ora Faye Goble Nichols, Peggy Goble Southerland, Paulette Goble Watson and Margie Goble Brown, all of Talking Rock, Ga.; 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and 5 great-great-grandchildren; and sister, Bessie Richards, Gilmer County.
The funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 1 from Roper Funeral Home Chapel with the Revs. Glen Arnold and Coy Richards officiating. Interment followed in Hinton Cemetery.


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Written on Skin recounts the story of a wealthy Protector who commissions a young artist to create an illuminated book, depicting his lands and family. He is unprepared for what the boy will paint, and for the effect that it will have on his wife, Agnès.
The text is inspired by the legendary story of the medieval troubadour Guillem de Cabestaing, who fell in love with the wife of the Lord of Rossillon. The Lord killed Cabestaing and fed his wife her lover's heart. Martin Crimp has deftly rewritten the story to include references to our times, including contemporary environmental and humanitarian concerns, and to examine timeless topics such as the abuse of power.
Get a glimpse inside rehearsals of Written on Skin:
George Benjamin's score is colourful, with rich orchestration. He adds instruments including cowbells, mandolins, a bass viol and a glass harmonica to the traditional orchestra. Many of the musical textures are delicate and subtle, and though the opera's story contains violence, the vocal style is predominantly lyrical. Benjamin wrote each part with the singers performing in this production in mind and the vocal writing reflects this. Listen to the score in full.
Benjamin's first opera, Into the Little Hill, was also written in collaboration with Martin Crimp, and had its world premiere at the Opéra-Bastille in Paris. Into the Little Hill subsequently toured Europe and beyond, coming to the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio Theatre in 2009 and 2010.
Watch George Benjamin talk about composing Written on Skin and preparing the opera for stage:
Katie Mitchell's striking production of Written on Skin moves deftly between the past and the present, as contemporary angels, living in a strange, museum-like environment, watch the Protector, Agnès and the Boy as they re-enter the medieval world to re-enact their tragedy.
Written on Skin had its world premiere at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in July 2012 to rave reviews. It has since toured to Toulouse and Amsterdam, and will travel to Florence for the Maggio Musicale this summer, and to Munich and Vienna.
Written on Skin runs 13 – 30 January 2017. Tickets are still available.


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- Costume contest: Dressing up? Making your own costume? As long as you "make" something you can enter. Any costume with homemade elements on it, in it, or used is OK. Take a photo of your costume(s) then upload your photos to the MAKE or CRAFT Flickr photo pool and tag them "MAKECRAFTHALLOWEEN" Or you can email them to us, just be aware that we're going to upload them to the MAKE and CRAFT Flickr photo pool. We'll continue to post fun costumes and how-tos all this month as well – Link.


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Nicolas Neufchatel
Flemish (born in Germany), 1527–1590
Portrait of Johann Neudörfer the Elder, 1560
oil on panel
54.8 x 43.2 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of Lord and Lady Gort
Nicolas Neufchatel was one of several Flemish Protestant artists who fled the religious upheavals in the Low Countries to settle in the thriving city of Nuremberg, Germany, in the mid-sixteenth century. He later became one of the city's leading portrait painters. In the WAG picture, Neufchatel has captured the likeness of the German mathematician and cartographer Johann Neudörfer the Elder. In a brightly lit side view, Neudörfer is shown taking measurements with a compass in his right hand, his downward gaze fixed on the task. Likely used for commemorative purposes, the painting features the family crest in the upper-left corner and an epitaph in the right confirming the mathematician's death in 1563 at the age of 66.
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Joseph B. Morton
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P.O. Box 302101
Montgomery, AL 36130-2101
Dear Superintendent Morton:
I am writing in response to your May 31, 2005 letter in which you express interest in the interim flexibility announced by the Secretary in April 2005 regarding calculating adequate yearly progress (AYP) for the students with disabilities subgroup. Your request for this flexibility would not affect accountability determinations until Alabama's spring 2006 test administration, resulting in an adjustment to the 2006-07 school year AYP determinations.
We are pleased that you are interested in this flexibility; however, we do not yet know what flexibility will be offered next year. The Secretary expressed her willingness to provide States this interim flexibility for the 2004-05 school year while the U.S. Department of Education promulgates a regulation to permit States to develop modified achievement standards and aligned assessments for certain students with disabilities. As we move forward developing this regulation, we will know better what flexibility, if any, would be beneficial for 2005-06.
Again, thank you for expressing interest in this interim flexibility. We look forward to working with you further as the department establishes a regulation regarding the development of modified achievement standards and aligned assessments for students with disabilities and any further associated flexibility. If I can be of any additional assistance to Alabama in its efforts to implement other aspects of NCLB, please do not hesitate to call.
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A better man than Ted Nugent is a pretty low bar. Most people in jail in California can make it over that bar.
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Horrible hateful tea party racist rants...
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No doubt, the tea party has one unhappy black man that arguably "hates" liberals.
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No doubt, the tea party has one unhappy black man that arguably "hates" liberals.
Thousands of Black men willing to stand up to the soft prejudice of under expectation of the government plantation. (welfare) They are brave souls who want nothing more than true freedom.
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"Thousands of Black men willing to stand up to the soft prejudice of under expectation of the government plantation. (welfare) They are brave souls who want nothing more than true freedom."
You really buy such contrived BS? You know, I can't recollect the tea party talking about investing in public schools. Instead, they use a few black conservatives to promote school vouchers and the Balkanization of public education. Ask yourself who will really benefit from a government voucher program. Only fools would believe that it will be people of color.
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Chandler, by all accounts, education in inner cities is horrible. I'm not a big supporter of vouchers, however as a temporary solution to an immediate problem, it is a good one.
Maybe only 20% of inner city kids will benefit. But that will lead the rest into a better system. Do you really want to continue harming so many children with poor outcome?
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It never ceases to amaze me how the right never lets the facts get in the way of their belief system. I've been making my way through Diane Ravitch's new book, "Reign of Error". I've posted excerpts from her previous book, and talked about my experience in a school where about half the kids are below the poverty line. While I've also volunteered in Oakland, where there were indeed schools that were pretty abysmal, there are no easy answers to poverty and its impact on education. I see it primarily as dysfunctional kids, emotional basket cases, acting out in school. There are not stupid kids, and it is not a school system that isolates them--so it pisses off some of the parents of well-behaved kids. It is a dilemma what to do--they are angry about things outside of school, but if you kick them out of class it doesn't help with the anger, and many are on their way to the penal system. Charter schools and vouchers just ignore the problem of the hard to educate.
In fact, schools are improving. Scores on the international test, the NAEP are up for all students, and for black and Hispanic students. for math, 1973 to 2008, age 9, white students up 25 points, black 34 points, Hispanic 32 points (page 51). The achievement gap has been narrowed--but not eliminated because all scores are going up. But to make the point about poverty, here is a quote from page 59 attributed to Sean Reardon of Stanford: "The black-white achievement gap is now smaller than the achievement gap between the poorest and most affluent students..." In fact, the achievement gap associated with income is growing, while the gap associated with race and/or ethnicity is shrinking.
This is not entirely surprising since poverty co-varies with race and with family dysfunction. I can almost always tell which kids come from houses with alcohol, drug, or violence issues--they behave almost exactly the same.
Finally, I wasn't going to post this until Bard posted the latest Tea Party rant. It is sad that he doesn't understand that it makes my point, not his. There are bigots of all political persuasions, and it is sad and unacceptable that anyone would call anyone racial names because of their political views. It makes the point that racism is still alive in America. Here's an essay by Patricia J. Williams that makes the point, missed by most on the right, of what racism is still like for African-Americans:
More than forty years ago, during my first days at college, I was made instantly and acutely aware that a lot of people seemed never to have met a black person. For the most part they were not intentionally belligerent, but they were excruciatingly, unself-consciously, dopily innocent. (Leontyne Price actually studied opera? I thought she was just naturally musical )
Plus ça change, I suppose, but it is a disheartening testament to the intractability of Americas housing and educational segregation that, so many decades after the civil rights movement, many white students still seem never to have truly engaged with a black person till they get to college. More discouraging still, they then seem to turn interrogation of that void upon their black classmates right to be there, rather than upon the constrained and blinkered circumstances of their own upbringing.
The toll of that social gap is the subject of a new play, I, Too, Am Harvard, written by sophomore Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence with a broad coalition of classmates, which premiered on March 7. The play is presented in two acts, the first of which looks at the wide diversity of Harvards black students: descendants of American slaves, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, students who could (and are told they should!) pass for white, recent immigrants, mathematicians, musicians, poets, linguists, engineering students, children of all sorts of mixed marriages, poor kids and the children of Ivy League grads.
The second act looks at what those varied individuals have in common: this batch of young people is indisputably brilliant, thoughtful, humane and funny. A more pressing commonality, however, is that they are all routinely greeted as otherwise.
They are treated with open disdain, the champagne flutes snatched from their hands at cocktail parties as they are mistaken for waiters. They are figured as criminals when they walk across campus. Their sexual prowess is interrogated, their beauty denigrated. They hesitate before asking questions in classfor a dumb question from a white person isnt heard as a reflection on all white people, but any question from a black person tends to be scrutinized for inherent inferiority, proof that the students lonely little voice is the evil marker of where a more qualified white person ought to be sitting.
Only about 10 percent of the students at Harvard are black: yet that small, diverse population is hyper-visible. One young man described sitting down for dinner in the cafeteria, joined by four black friends. Later that evening, he was accused, by some white dorm mates, of self-segregating. Yet every other table in the cafeteria was all-white. He wondered aloud if his dorm mates even realized that their world is much more segregated than his. They didnt seem to see that theyre living all the time in a white world and that most other people on the planet live in multiple worlds.
As another young man put it: We are always so concerned about making everyone comfortable with our presence when we are made uncomfortable every single day.
In addition to the play, these students put together a gallery of photographs of themselves on Tumblr (#ITooAmHarvard), holding signs with actual comments made by friends and classmates (Youre really articulate for a black girl; Are you all so fast because you spend so much time running from the cops?), as well as responses to those comments (No, I will not teach you how to twerk; Please dont pet my hair, I am not an animal). Theyre evocative images, filled with gravity and grace, humor and sadness.
This project lends voice to unusually gifted, hard-working young peopleby any human standardwho nevertheless spend much of their lives hidden behind the projections of others. Along with the eloquent students at Northwestern University who are unionizing to press their case against financial exploitation of poor and often minority amateur athletes by the NCAA, #ITooAmHarvard is part of an emerging nationwide student movement led bybut not exclusive tostudents of color of all sorts. Oh, and joined by feminists, poor whites, those identified as gay/lesbian/transgender, and anyone else who has a clue of what its like to be bullied. Together, they have begun a new kind of dialogue about belonging and worth. And they are turning a mirror on the very bad manners, shall we call it, of a society that buries them beneath the history-deprived in-your-face-ness of tone-deaf provocateurs who, much like Paula Deen, never really mean to hurt your feelingsand yet who feel crucified when someone points out that they have.
This mix of insult and innocence is what some social psychologists call microaggressionthe small, often unintentional expressions of ignorance and offense. It is a blindness that is as much the product of segregation as disparate stop-and-frisk policies. Its not always as deadly as George Zimmermans constructed fears. But it represents a significant part of the unexpressed and unaccounted-for tensions within our polity.
An actors clear young voice lingers long after the performance: Blackness to me is faith having faith in what you dont see. We as a people often dont see validation. So for me, its having faith that I am significant, valid, valuable, even though everything else is telling me Im not.
Most conversations about race in American higher education focus on the endless, unwinnable effort to defensively prove merit. With gentility, restraint and admirable integrity, #ITooAmHarvard shifts the frame of this contentious landscape and asks instead: What institutional Weltanschauung is it that indulges such brutal, breezy presumptions regarding those about whom we are basically so miserably ill-informed? Whence does the entitlement come that allows such profoundly ignorant encounters within any community, never mind Harvards? Harvard! That ultimate self-promoting paragon of what the civilized world exalts as our best and brightest hope for peaceful human co-existenceyet here so persistently revealed as otherwise.
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My college experience was different. One of my closest friends was black. He recently died. On his Facebook page, (friends) were as many whites as blacks. (maybe even more whites and Hispanics) His fraternity brothers were 80% white. He made a conscious effort to move out of the comfort zone.....
Also on a similar topic, I was the only white musician in the otherwise black USC high school summer jazz ensemble at ISOMATA.
OTOH, if you hang out in the wrong neighborhood in Hawaii God bless you. You are an Effing Haole. Does that mean I'm frozen with fear, or can't make Hawaiian friends? Succeed in Hawaii? I think not.
PS, the public schools there are horrible.
PSS, my Mexican wife's friends and family in Mexico are educated, well kept, yet far poorer than the poorest Americans. I would trade them any day of the week for our poor.
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Without taking much time to read, much less think about what I posted, or actually demonstrate his point, Bard says, with great erudition:
My college experience (at the private University of Spoiled Children--which selects for conservative viewpoints) was different.
Oh, how compelling.
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Without taking much time to read, much less think about what I posted, or actually demonstrate his point, Bard says, with great erudition:
My college experience (at the private University of Spoiled Children--which selects for conservative viewpoints) was different.
Oh, how compelling.
Wrong, Not USC, that was where I attended summer programs. You won't find that I'm a Trojan. And I did find your article to be interesting. Just not necessarily accurate in every way.
PS, if I hadn't gone to a predominantly black school in junior high, and had some black friends in college, I wouldn't be comfortable around them. I can see how a white genius from the suburbs would be at a loss for words upon being neighbor to a black genius from the inner city. All sorts of prejudices could come out........although innocent IMO.
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Bison broke through another barrier this spring when 61 genetically pure bison took their first steps onto Fort Peck Indian reservation in Montana. Defenders helped move the bison from a quarantine facility near Yellowstone National Park and is a leading proponent of returning wild bison to historic habitat on tribal lands. "These tribal bison reserves have potential for expansion and will also lead by example for tribal and public land managers elsewhere," says Jonathan Proctor, Defenders' Rocky Mountain representative. "This is a significant milestone in returning these magnificent animals to parts of their historic range." And it was made possible by thousands of Defenders supporters. Thank you.
Watch footage of this historic event and hear from Defenders' President Jamie Rappaport Clark, who witnessed the bison's return.
Outrunning off-road vehicles on Cape Hatteras
There's new hope for nesting sea turtles and endangered shorebirds now that long-awaited, permanent safeguards are in place to prevent off-road vehicles from overrunning beaches at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina.
Defenders first turned to the courts for help in getting the National Park Service to protect the important nesting habitat beginning in 2007, after unmanaged beach-driving had resulted in alarming drops in population. In 2004, only 44 sea turtle nests were recorded. But after temporary rules were put in place in April 2008 a record-breaking 153 nests were recorded in 2010, with another 147 recorded in 2011. The same thing happened for piping plover chicks. No chicks survived to fledge in 2002 and 2004, but 15 learned to fly in 2010 and 10 more in 2011.
"The new permanent rules will ensure that Cape Hatteras continues to provide enjoyment to beach users while protecting the unique wildlife that call the seashore home," says Jason Rylander, senior attorney for Defenders.
Feds help Idaho officials kill wolves
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services teamed up with Idaho state wildlife officials to kill 14 wolves in the Clearwater National Forest in northern Idaho in February in an attempt to boost elk numbers. "This is a completely unwarranted expansion of the federal government's role in Idaho's unscientific persecution of delisted wolves," says Don Barry, Defenders' executive vice president. Hunting, trapping and more government-control activities had already killed 28 others in the same area.
"These actions validate Defenders' long-held concern that wolves were prematurely removed from federal endangered species protections to allow states to drastically reduce wolf numbers," says Suzanne Stone, Defenders' Northern Rockies representative, adding that there is no scientific evidence that the ecosystem is out of balance because wolves are back. Many factors other than the return of wolves have contributed to the decline of the elk herd in the forest's Lolo region, including road-building, predation by other species, and over-hunting by humans.
Statewide, more than 400 wolves have been killed in Idaho since the beginning of 2011—more than half the state's estimated 705 total population at the end of 2010.
"It's wrong to ask American taxpayers to subsidize the killing of wolves to artificially boost game populations," says Stone. "Killing dozens of wolves without addressing these other factors is hugely misguided and defeats the purpose of restoring the species. Wolves are vital to maintaining nature's balance and should not be eliminated so carelessly."


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YORK, Pa. – The York College women's basketball team clobbered Frostburg State 74-38 in the first round of Capital Athletic Conference playoffs on Tuesday evening at Wolf Gymnasium.
The Spartans improve to 20-6 overall and advance to the semi-final round of playoffs. Frostburg finishes out their season with an overall record of 6-20.
The game started out very similar to Saturday's game, when these two teams met for the final game of the regular season. Things got out to a slow start and Frostburg was able to gain a small lead in the first few minutes of the half. Ronje James got the Bobcats on the board first with a jump shot at 18:52. The Bobcats would take their biggest lead of the game at 17:22, going up 6-2.
Kristen Haley (Silver Spring, Md./Georgetown Visitation) began to turn things around for the Spartans. At 17:22 she hit a jumper and followed it up with another 20 seconds later to tie the game back up. Another jumper by Haley gave the Spartans the lead, which they held onto for the remainder of the game.
The Spartans began to pull away from Frostburg at the 9:58 mark. York went on a 13-0 run to take an 18-point lead. Frostburg only scored three points in the last 10 minutes of the opening half. Kelsey Murphy (Olney, Md./Good Counsel) got hot from long range, hitting back-to-back three's with time winding down and pushed the Spartan lead to 26, the biggest of the half. Stephanie Straka hit a free throw for the Bobcats with one second left to make the halftime score 40-15.
The second half saw much of the same action. Frostburg continued to struggle, especially on the offensive end. A layup by Brittany Hicks (Dover, Pa./York Catholic) at 15:59 stretched the Green and White's lead to 30 points. A few minutes later, Loreta Tonuzi (Hazlet, N.J./Raritan) drained a three pointer from way outside to go up 51-20. Frostburg got a little bit of a spark after Tonuzi's three, going on a 7-0 run and cutting the Spartan lead to 24. The Bobcats kept fighting, but could not seem to close the scoring gap. Megan Lanigan's (Staten Island, N.Y./Moore Catholic) layup at 3:54 put the Green and White up 68-32. A little over a minute later freshman Abbey Rhodes (Hanover, Pa./Hanover) hit two free throws to give the Spartans their largest lead of the game, 39 points. With time expiring, Lanigan knocked down two free throws and York would finish the game up 74-38.
The Green and White had with three players in double-digits. Leading the way for the Spartans was Haley. She finished the game with 22 points and eight rebounds. Haley has now had over 20 points in four of her last seven games. Hicks and Murphy each chipped in 13 points. Hicks also added nine rebounds and finished just one rebound shy of another double-double. Murphy went 5-6 from the free throw line and sunk two three's. Point guard Aja Wallpher (Ellicott City, Md./Seton Keough) had another tremendous game. Wallpher finished the game will 11 assist and six steals. She also added six points and seven rebounds. Wallpher currently ranks third in the country in both assists and steals.
Leading the way on offense for the Bobcats was Stephanie Straka. In her final game, Straka recorded a double-double with 14 points and 12 rebounds. Both Ronje James and Brynn Arnone added nine points each.
The Spartans shot 38.1% (24-63) from the field and 81.5% (22-27) from the free throw line. York only knocked down four of their 17 three point attempts (23.5%). The Green and White once again held a wide margin in total rebounds, 50-32, and caused the Bobcats into 20 turnovers. The Spartans finished the game with 12 steals and committed 13 turnovers.
Frostburg was only 28.3% from the field and went 0-for-5 from behind the arc. The Bobcats were 53.3% (8-15) from the free throw line.
York returns to action on Thursday for the semi-final round of CAC playoffs. The Spartans will travel to Mary Washington for a 7:00 pm game.
Aja Wallpher photo courtesy of Zach Clabaugh (www.sharpedgefoto.com)


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http://mmajunkie.com Undefeated Shane Del Rosario (11-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) is the latest fighter to move from Strikeforce to its sister promotion, the UFC.
The heavyweight fighter's manager, Jason House of the Iridium Sports Agency, recently tweeted news of the new contract.
A date and opponent were not disclosed for Del Rosario's promotional debut.
Since his pro debut in 2006, del Rosario has fought primarily with EliteXC, M-1 Challenge and Strikeforce. Under the Strikeforce banner, he picked up submission wins over Brandon Cash and Lavar Johnson, as well as a TKO of Lolohea Mahe, following his 2009 debut.
All of del Rosario's wins now have come via stoppage, including 10 of 11 in the first round.
However, del Rosario hasn't fought since February. The 28-year-old Californian was slated to fight Daniel Cormier in June, but a drunk driver rear-ended him, which resulted in a herniated disc and a lengthy recovery. A rep for the fighter initially told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) the injuries could be career-threatening, though he ultimately was cleared to resume training.
Officials recently announced the upcoming elimination of Strikeforce's heavyweight division. Fighters such as Fabricio Werdum, Chad Griggs and Johnson also recently signed with the UFC, and following the conclusion of the Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix in March (and a final fight with the tourney champion), the division will be shut down completely.


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by George Zamora
SOCORRO, N.M., March 11, 2004 – Shannon Gaddy Ferrell, a graduate of Gallup High School who is now a senior majoring in materials engineering at New Mexico Tech, recently was named the 2004 Engineering Student of the Year at the state-supported research university.
Ferrell is the daughter of Leroy and Margaret Gaddy of Gallup.
In the recent past, Ferrell also was named a recipient of the prestigious Tau Beta Pi Scholarship for her demonstrated academic excellence at the university.
Having maintained a cumulative 3.83 grade point average (out of a possible 4.0) at New Mexico Tech, Ferrell continues to attend the university on both a Presidential Scholarship and the Navajo Nation Chief Manuelito Scholarship, in addition to various other non-renewable scholarships and awards she has earned over the years.
Ferrell's recent research experience includes an ongoing project characterizing the rheology of glycerol with fumed silica filler, a high-tech assignment that she's been working on for almost two years with New Mexico Tech materials engineering professor John McCoy.
Ferrell is a member of the New Mexico Tech student chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society, is actively involved in student government, serving as a student senator, and serves as secretary of the local chapter of The Materials Society.
She is avid reader of fantasy novels, and says she also enjoys watching Japanese anime movies whenever she gets a chance to do so.
"I am fortunate to have had such a supportive faculty advisor in the person of Dr. Gillian Bond for most of my time here at New Mexico Tech," Ferrell says. "I'm also proud to be finishing up such a challenging undergraduate program."
Ferrell was officially recognized for her latest achievement by the New Mexico Society of Professional Engineers at the organization's recent Engineers Week luncheon.