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The Oregon women's tennis team's top duo clashed against USC's 77th-ranked Cristala Andrews and Alison Ramos in the morning looking to make up some ground in the national rankings. Instead, the Trojans' pair dealt the two Ducks an 8-3 loss in the morning. UO's pairing leaves the Pac-10 Championships with a 22-13 overall record.
Smatova (No. 107 in singles play) also worked in another singles match to conclude her weekend, taking on Washington's Aleksandra Krsljanin in a put together match. The Ducks' senior ended her stay on a high note by downing Krsljanin (6-4, 6-1) in straight sets.
The win was Smatova's 23rd of the season, tying Katie Glynn for the sixth most in UO history. After the Pac-10 Championships, the Plzen, Czech Republic native carries a career record of 52-47 on the singles court and 50-46 in doubles play.
2011 Oregon Women's Tennis
Pac-10 Championships
4/28-5/1/2011 -- Pac-10 Championships
4/28-5/1/2011 at Ojai, Calif.
|Singles competition
|#107 SMATOVA, Pavlina (Oregon) def. PANTIC, Nina (UCLA) 6-2, 6-3
|#99 CHRISTIAN, Kaitlyn (USC) def. SKOWRONSKI, Patricia (Oregon) 6-2, 6-0
|#2 SANCHEZ, Maria (USC) def. #107 SMATOVA, Pavlina (Oregon) 6-2, 6-1
|#107 SMATOVA, Pavlina (Oregon) def. KRSLJANIN, Alek (Washington) 6-4, 6-1
|Doubles competition
|#77 ANDREWS, Cristala/RAMOS, Alison (USC) def. SKOWRONSKI, Patricia/SMATOVA, Pavlina (Oregon) 8-3
|Tournament Notes
|All bracket singles matches played 4/28
|Doubles match played 4/29
|exh=Exhibition match played 4/29


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Lazard Capital Likes Dow-S&P Index Deal
Lazard Capital Markets analyst William Bird is giving the thumbs up to a possible combination of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 into a new joint venture. The stock market doesn't seem as high on the idea.
Deal Journal collagues Gina Chon and Preeta Das first brought you news about talks between CME Group and McGraw-Hill to combine their indexes businesses, which include the DJIA and the S&P 500. (News Corp., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, owns a minority stake in CME's Dow Jones indexes.)
"Indications of a potential index JV with CME are supportive of our thesis that MHP has multiple ways to drive value with its own propeller," Bird writes in a research note this morning. For McGraw-Hill, which has been pressured by activist investors to break apart, the possible index joint venture could add $2 a share or more to the company's stock price, Bird believes. His stock price target is $52.
Bird writes:
"Assuming 1.5 yrs. of growth (and not accounting for leveraged equity returns), the CME/DJ business is now worth an estimated $775M with CME's 90% stake around $700M. Therefore the implied value of the potential MHP/CME JV is around $2.8B, putting MHP's reported 75% stake at $2.1B pre-synergies. Synergies could likely boost MHP's value by ~$200M to $2.3B, above most analyst estimates for S&P indices of ~$1.7B."
McGraw-Hill has already announced plans to split off its education division, one of the moves the activist investors had advocated. Bird said he also is keeping watch for other changes at McGraw-Hill, including cost cutting announcements and the reworking of other company businesses such as its Platts energy-information company.
Correction: An earlier version of this post said Bird works for Lazard, a separate company from Lazard Capital Markets.

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Kluis Family honored as 2013 Murray County Farm Family of the Year
August 16, 2013
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Murray Countys Farm Family of the year is the Kluis family, Chandler, MN.
By Norma Dittman
Bonded by love of family, and the hard, but rewarding, work of being dedicated to agricultural production, the Kluis Family, Chandler, Minnesota, was honored as the 2013 Murray County Farm Family of the Year on Thursday, August 8th, at Farmfest.
Currently farming together are brothers Mike and Aaron Kluis. They are proud to be third-generation farmers. Their grandparents, Felix and Henrietta Kluis began farming in Fenton Towship, Chandler, Minnesota, during the 1940s.
Mike and Aaron's parents, Jim and Joan Kluis, took over the farming in the 1960's. They moved to Slayton in 2009. Jim, who retired from farming in 2009, continues to help with the farming during spring planting and fall harvest. He sells crop insurance through Crop Insurance Specialists.
During the 1990's Mike and Aaron began farming together. The fifty-plus years tradition of growing corn and soybeans, and raising cattle and hogs continues at Kluis Farms. Today, Mike and Aaron tend 3,200 acres of corn and soybeans, as well as raising cattle and hogs.
Mike started farming in 1991. He had attended South Dakota State University, where he met Jan, the love of his life. After college, he worked for five years with Centrol Crop Consultating. He was already farming when he made the decision to ask Jan to be his wife. He sold soybeans in order to purchase an engagement ring for Jan, the couple recalled. "I quit working in town to concentrate on the farming," Mike explained.
"I moved here from Aberdeen, South Dakota. During 1993, I couldn't help but wonder what we were doing," Jan commented. (Area farmers will recall that 1993 was the year when many local producers were forced to disc crops under because weather conditions did not allow for the growth of grain on the corn or soybean plants. )
"That was a difficult year for all area farmers, but farming has always been good to us. Somehow it always balances out," Mike stated and Aaron agreed with a nod of his head.
Mike and Jan are the parents of Austin and Logan. Austin is in college at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities. Logan will be a junior this fall at Murray County Centra, Slayton.
Aaron began farming with Mike in 1997. He graduated from college in 1998. He is married to Bridget, who is a first grade teacher at Murray County Central. The couple have four children: Camdyn, who will be in the fourth grade at Murray County Central (MCC); Derek who will be in third grade and Dylan, who will be in first grade this fall. Dugan is four years of age.
Speaking of the way that work is accomplished on the farm, Mike stated, "Everybody works together to do everything. Early on, Jan did everything that we did. She'd work in town and help with all aspects of the farming plus keeping up with all of the meals and housework. Somehow it all works out when you are dedicated to working together."
"Taking good care of the land and the livestock is how we make our living. Being a part of agriculture is very important to all of us," Aaron stated.
The Kluis Family is aided in their farming activities by Larry Van't Hul, Edgerton, and Tim Holm, Chandler.
Even now the members of the Kluis family acknowledge that there is a lot of "bonding" time. "There is a lot of time spent together working, but we also spend a lot of time just being together," Aaron commented. As is typical with farm families, the children like to "ride along" as work is done.
Both families are involved in the Murray County Fenton Friends 4-H Club. "Aaron's children are just getting started with 4-H and our's are just to the point where they are getting done with 4-H," Jan commented. "We have all been 4-H leaders because our Club rotates leadership."
Mike currently serves as the supervisor for Fenton Township. He served for nine years on the Chandler Co-op Board. Jan works at Crop Insurance Specialists, and is on the Murray County Fair Board and the Nobles Cooperative Electric Operation Round-Up Board.
Aaron is currently on the Chandler Co-op Board and Bridget is a Community Education Camp Coach.
The Minnesota Farm Family Recognition Program has been in existance for over twenty years. It honors farm families from throughout the state for their contributions to the agriculture industry and to their local communities.
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The former pizza shop manager who's already been sentenced to multiple life terms for kidnapping and sexually assaulting two young boys has entered pleas in other charges in court on Oct. 10.
Michael Devlin pleaded guilty to coercing one of the boys into sexually explicit conduct to produce photographs and pornographic videos.
He also pleaded guilty to transporting the boy across state lines.
Sentencing is set for December.
The Oct. 10 appearance was the last in a series of court proceedings this week in which Devlin pleaded guilty to dozens of child kidnapping and sodomy charges.


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Avi Roseman is the author of the popular and controversial Jewish dating guide Secrets of Shiksa Appeal. A 2007 graduate of The Johns Hopkins University School of Engineering, Ms. Avi spent three years in IT Consulting, and is a matchmaker, JMag columnist (JDate Magazine), and is currently a graduate student in New York City.
Reading your book I was wondering who's the bigger idiot - the lady needing to be told to "only bother with men who are into you", or the guy needing the boost of
dates that "make him look like a stud muffin!"?
You'd think women would automatically know to let men come after them, but unfortunately, they don't. The roles of women and men in today's society are blurred. Women are brought up to "go for it" and to be aggressive in their educational and work lives. I should know, I'm the daughter of a feminist-activist woman raised in the 1950's who got a PhD in Math and was a Senior Managing Director at JP Morgan. What parents don't tell their daughters is that love is different than business. In love, you don't chase after men to pursue them. Those women who do so are the ones who are 40, single, and wondering why! Either a guy is attracted to you or he isn't, and working harder to get him will just make you act more desperate.
To answer the other part of the question, the whole shtick about letting the Jewish man shine on a date is just allowing the Jewish man to reclaim his masculine role in the relationship. To clarify, this means if he's a master bowler, then a great date would be letting him teach you to bowl. If he's a European art connoisseur, let him show off his knowledge at the Met. On the flip side, if you're a great tennis player, then just wait a few dates (or months) before you smash his ego to pieces on the tennis court. Let him show off first.
One critic (Renee Ghert-Zand of the Forward) wrote that you "freely call these non-Jewish women 'shiksas,' with apparently no concern that she might come off
sounding like a huge bigot." Are you a bigot?
How does using the word shiksa make me a bigot? I don't recall anyone claiming that Seinfeld is racist for saying Elaine has Shiksappeal? I wouldn't take anything Renee says too seriously because she clearly missed the boat on this book. She neglected that this is first and foremost, a fun dating guide, and was not meant to be social commentary. To understand, read on:
The story behind the book is that it began as just a Jewish dating guide on tactics to attract Jewish men. But no one would have cared (and you probably wouldn't be interviewing me) if I'd called it"The Jewish Dating Guide." The shiksa aspect was added to the title for spice. But unfortunately, some critics fail to see past the title and miss the solid advice in the book (advice on how Jewish women can lure Jewish men).
Please explain in two or three paragraphs, what does it mean for a Jewish woman to adopt "shiksa" tactics?
This perfect shiksa I speak of in the book is a non-existent mythical creature. Jewish and non-Jewish women make the same dating mistakes, nothing to do with religion. The main difference I highlight with regards to shiksas is that Jewish men view them as a challenge. The non-Jewish woman is less likely to be impressed (or act differently) just because a man is Jewish. The other difference is that a man will often-times feel less pressure with a shiksa because he assumes the relationship cannot go anywhere. A phone number leads to a date, which leads to a relationship. The key for Jewish women is to minimize talk of marriage and the future in the beginning of the relationship to alleviate pressure on the man.
As far as dating advice, here's some topics covered in the book to attract Jewish men:
- Dressing for men, not women and staying in shape.
- Being a confident woman and leaving the entitled JAP attitude at home
- Challenging Jewish men and treating them no different because they are Jewish
- Allowing men to pursue
- Attending both Jewish and non-specifically Jewish events to meet men
- Using all the resources available today including online, speed-dating, and set-ups
- Not moving in before 100% positive he is planning to propose
Details magazine explained just recently that "ladies of the tribe. It seems that America can't get enough smoking-hot Semitic tush lately" - if Jewish women are so hot, why would they even need advice on getting men?
Well, that's one article. Ask around, the stereotype of the overbearing, overweight, nagging, Jappy, annoying, loud Jewish girl still is the predominant stereotype on the street. In the off-Broadway hit Jewtopia, the lead desires to marry a Jewish girl so he'll "never have to make another decision in his life." Also, just because someone is "smoking hot," doesn't mean they can attract a high quality man to start a relationship. Even though looks are the first thing that will attract a man, personality and how you act during the courtship period are just as vital.
On the flip side, when a non-Jewish guy on JDate was asked, "why in the world are you on JDate?" he responded "Jewish women tend to be large on top, easy to get with, are giving sexually, and pretty smart." Jewish women are so diverse in looks/personality, that no one stereotype can be completely accurate.
If every young Jewish woman reads your book, how many more in-marriages should we expect?
Whether Jewish men choose to seek out Jewish women has very little to do with me or my book. If we really want to effect change in keeping more Jews marrying Jews it begins with strong and loving Jewish families, encouraging young people to explore their Jewish identity through their communities, and keeping teens involved in Jewish life after the age of 13.
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Below is a Introduction to Project-Based Learning Power Point. It's nothing fancy – I chose not to do a Prezi because of the amount of info I included. It's full of information on the Why, The What, and The How and there are links to a tremendous amount of resources. Make sure to follow the 10-2 rule if you decide to do a presentation – talk for 10 minutes; have the audience interact or reflect to process the information for 2 minutes (of course you might have to be a little flexible with the amount of time). When I use this preso with a group of educators there are at least 4 opportunities to process the information. As a matter of fact, the original presentation has some Polleverywhere slide built into it. They were removed because they would no play in slide share. Remember learners are all the same – children or adults. They need time to process, reflect and/or apply, and communicate their learning.
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Margaret is Sunday and features editor and has been an editor at The Gazette since 1993. She previously worked as a business reporter, business editor and regional editor at the Post Star in Glens Falls; and in New York City as an editor for the U.S. arm of Inter Press Service, an international wire service focusing on the developing world. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Connecticut and lives with her husband and children in Hadley in northern Saratoga County. She writes the weekly Greenpoint column on the Sunday Environment Page.


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I've gotten this email a couple times now so I thought I'd share the most recent one:
I just recently found your blog site. I have always struggled for gold and i have learnt so much in the 4-5 days from reading your blogs.
Took me a while to find a decent one for me but i picked up some great stuff.
Anyway to the point. Whilst i was flying around trying to find you "#1 best farming spot in WOTLK" Loc.
I got lost... and i found a different cave. This cave is GREAT for farming crystalized fire.
1 single eternal fire goes from 20-30 gold on my server. It has about 33% drop rate with the occasional
2. The mobs have the same amount of health as the Scions of storm and die quite quickly, but unfortuneately. they have a charge effect.
But this place is great if fire is worth more on the server or air is being farmed out. Great place.
Check it out loc (62, 41) Storm peaks
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7 comments: on "Crystallized Fire - Another Farming Option"
KevMar said... September 2, 2009 at 9:10 AM
I love to farm these on my ret pally. For some classes like that, the charge works well to get the mobs in close. My priest on the other hand hates the charge that they do.
These mobs have an unlimited spawn rate. As soon as you kill the last one, a new one pops up. It works well to double team this instance. Have one person circle the front and someone else circle down below.
Do crystallized fires actually sell for less than 1/10 of the price of eternals on that server? Because usually buying eternals to convert to crystallized is good business.
Anonymous said... September 2, 2009 at 3:50 PM
just wasn't doing it for me. i had much lower drop rate on crystalized fire.
Wiggin said... September 2, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Any smart auctioneer should watch Eternal and Crystallized markets closely. Quite often one or the other will take a dive while the other will skyrocket. Recently, Eternal earths were selling for only 7g while their crystallized brothers well selling for 2g a piece, easy money.
Also check the cost of these items to see if their prices have dropped, sometimes a new recipe, or new items available make some eternal/crystallized mats less in demand, it is at that point you will want to buy/craft/DE.
noSleep said... September 2, 2009 at 5:50 PM
best part about these mobs is the drop a ton of greens.. you'll find you'll get as many boe drops as crystallized fire and lots of greys. This is a great farming spot.
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Asher said... September 6, 2009 at 2:43 AM
This is a great spot for farming crystallized fire. I ran through here for two hours recently, and had no competition. I was able to almost continually pull the entire time, this made it a very efficient farming spot. After 2 hours, I had 210 crystallized fire, 10 greens, and 90g in vendor trash.
This spot is superior to Wintergrasp, simply because there is no competition.
Now take this post down Marcko! :D
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I was sitting there, with a glass of wine, when I recognized the man next to White Zen. At the same moment, the juxtaposition of reckoning beckoned us off our stools and we hugged. Dancing Bear, I've missed you, I said, or something like that. Dancing Bear is a New York Santa Fe success. Unlike so many people I've met, he lives here, works globally, and he's in big demand right now.
Dancing Bear smiles even if his mouth isn't smiling, but you know he is inside. He's in the tidal wave of dreams coming true, but not without their own claim ticket on your soul. Someone is always disposed if you're catching big tuna. Now this night, it goes like this.
"Look if I don't screw up this dance, if I don't screw it up, it's going to be something I'm really proud of," he says. He emphasizes this with one hand, raised eyebrows and a slight bend in his neck.
"And you didn't," I said. "How long have you lived here?"
"Do you know how I ended up in Santa Fe? I was living in Los Angeles, driving on that freeway all day, and a friend said, 'Hey, you otta come to Santa Fe.' Never even heard of it, so I came, that was 1983 — I think it was 83 — and bought a house, and moved here permanent a few years ago. I could live in New York — in a minute, I love New York, Los Angeles. No, what for, my daughter's not growing up in the Palisades."
He looks at Raul. They share another story because they've known each other years, and then Dancing Bear slaps the wooden bar with one hand, and his face creases into a private memory. "El Farol!" he shouts. "Those are the memories, everyone was there, and it was the most amazing time."
"John and I used to go every Tuesday," he said. Dancing Bear wasn't listening; he was swept into the memory. His eyes looked right through the mirror behind Raul's bar. I wished I had seen it then. I didn't get to El Farol until 1998.
" Now — O.K. — I mean right now, after all these years,
I have my ex-wife-ex-wives, and their children, husbands, whatever, and they are in my life — O.K. — they are in my life," he said.
I tried to speak, but his bear mouth wiped me out.
"They are in my life … forever," he said.
"What does Dancing Dora say about that?" I asked.
"I'll tell you what she says; they all sit down to her table at Thanksgiving. All of them. And it's cool. Not all the time — this one with that problem, the kid with that — but in the end it works. It works," he said.
"It didn't work with John and me," I said.
"You got nothing to be ashamed of. A lot of people cannot handle it. My friends think I'm crazy," he said.
"So do mine," I said.
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According to CBC Sports, Canada is firmly in second place in the team figure skating competition at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi after Saturday.
Team Canada has 41 points, and are six points back of Russia and are seven points up on the United States who are in third place.
On Saturday, the Canadian pair of Kirsten Moore-Towers of St. Catharines, Ontario and Dylan Moscovitch of Toronto finished in second place in the pairs long program behind the Russian pair of Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov. Also in the ice dance short program, reigning Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of London, Ontario picked up nine points when they finished second to Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White.
On Sunday, the competition will conclude with the men's, ice dance and ladies long programs. The men's long program will take place Sunday morning at 8:00 a.m., the women's long program will take place at 9:00 a.m. and the ice dance long program will be at 10:00 a.m. All times are mountain and all events will take place on CBC.


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By Sid Salter
STARKVILLE – The stagnant economy of the last few years has produced varying degrees of human impact across the nation. U.S. Census numbers released last week show that median household income declined in 18 states between 2010 and 2011 and that the percentage of people in poverty increased in 17 states over the same time frame.
But in Mississippi, those same indices of economic progress saw no real movement. Mississippi remains in the lead in the U.S. in the poverty rate and dead last in the index of median household income. Census numbers showed Mississippi with a poverty rate of 22.6 percent in 2011 with median household income of $36,919.
Nationally, the poverty rate is 15 percent while the median household income is $50,054. The diagnosis for Mississippi based on those numbers is far more people than the national average in poverty struggling to live on far less income than the national average.
While the economic impact is undeniable, the political impact in Mississippi is negligible. Mississippi remains a state that is heavily dependent on government subsidies, welfare, public health care and a host of other federal transfer payments. Mississippians continue to pay in far less per capita in federal taxes than they receive in federal spending.
Despite those facts, Mississippi remains a "red" state based on social issues. As the Democratic Party saw party platforms evolve on issues ranging from civil rights to abortion to gun control to questions of religious freedoms, the Republican Party began to make inroads not merely at winning the votes of the majority of Mississippians in federal elections but ultimately in state elections as well. Today, Mississippi's poverty and median household income numbers suggest that the political fields should be ready to harvest for candidates preaching big government solutions to basic economic problems like health care, elder care, nutrition and cooperation with Big Labor.
But the numbers show emphatically that the facts of Mississippi's poverty disconnect with Mississippi's voting behavior on social issues. The majority of Mississippians still oppose abortion on demand. The majority of Mississippians oppose any erosion of their gun rights. Likewise, the majority of Mississippians still oppose any intrusion they perceive on the free expression of their primarily Protestant, Judeo-Christian faiths.
Barring a misstep of gargantuan proportions by Gov. Mitt Romney, he will carry Mississippi on Nov. 6.
Some will dismiss that outcome as race being the common denominator in Mississippi politics. To do so dismisses more fundamental facts. Even the poorest Mississippians have bedrock beliefs – some founded in their faith, some founded in their sense of right and wrong and much founded in tradition.
They vote their beliefs, not necessarily their wallets. But at some point in the future, as Mississippi's population evolves, poverty and lack of resources may one day trump social issues. That day won't be in the 2012 presidential election.
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Joseph Stewart is a good choice for the camping, picnicking, fishing, boating and water skiing. In addition, the park offers group camping, biking, hiking and swimming.
Take a hike or bike ride on our 8-mile trail system, through the forest with year-round streams and ample wildlife viewing. Take a swim in the cool mountain water. Rent a boat from the marina and troll the 10 mile lake for trout and bass … an angler's dream. Or bring your own boat and water skis and spend a few days in the sun. Lost Creek Reservoir is stocked with trout and is accessible year-round.
The park is about 40 miles from Crater Lake National Park, and makes an excellent jumping-off point for an exploration of southern Oregon.
Vital stats: Open March – November. The campground features 151 electrical sites (maximum site 80 feet), 50 tent sites; and 2 group tent areas. The campground offers a volleyball area, hot showers, flush toilets and an RV dump station. Day-use facilities include a picnic area, kitchen shelters with gas stoves, and a horseshoe pit.
: Climate in this region varies with elevation and from east to west. The western portions of this region experience higher precipitation and more moderate temperatures year-round. The eastern end of this region is much more arid, with warmer summer temperatures and colder winter temperatures. The higher elevations receive abundant winter snowfall which stays on the ground until early summer in the high mountains.
Location: Joseph Stewart is located in Southern Oregon, off Oregon Highway 62, 35 miles northeast of Medford.
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TMZ decided to kill The Enquirer's report that Stacy Keibler was nearing a return to WWE. According to the aforementioned report, a return to wrestling isn't what Keibler had in mind but the offers [from WWE] were getting "too good to refuse."
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By Zach Peters | Posted at 2:55 am on Friday, February 26, 2010
A mix of video highlights from the baseball team's trip to face Baseball America No. 5 Arizona State from Feb. 19-21 has been uploaded onto YouTube and is posted above. Enjoy!
Also, be sure to catch the Huskies taking on Austin Peay State in Clarksville, Tenn. this weekend, starting today at 4 p.m. CDT. The Huskies and Governors will also play at 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Click here for a preview of the series.
By Joe Summins | Posted at 9:35 am on Friday, February 26, 2010
The lone senior of the NIU women's basketball team, Kylie York, will be making her final Convocation Center appearance of her career this Saturday when the Huskies play host to Eastern Michigan at 3 p.m. York, who has already set NIU's record for career three pointers has her sights set on another milestone, the 1,000-point plateau. The native of Fishers, Indiana enter Saturday's action just 15 points shy of the mark.
By Donna Turner | Posted at 2:35 pm on Thursday, February 25, 2010
Only five more installments of NIU Live left this school year so it's no time to be missing the weekly 30 minute show that is all about Huskie sports. Especially when head coach Ricardo Patton joins host Andy Garcia to discuss an exciting last second win over Central Michigan! Hear Coach Patton break down last night's game and meet NIU Senior Associate Athletic Director Christian Spears on this week's show, which airs at 5:30 p.m. on WLBK 1360 AM in DeKalb and on WSCR 670 AM The Score in Chicago.
By Donna Turner | Posted at 2:30 pm on Thursday, February 25, 2010
Congratulations to incoming Huskie gymnast Kim Gotlund, a senior at Warren Township High School, who won the 2010 Illinois State title in the all-around at last weekend's state championship meet in Palatine, Ill. Gotlund totaled a score of 38.275 to take the all-around title Friday night and won the uneven bars (9.65), while taking second on both vault (9.75) and balance beam (9.575) on Saturday."To me, she's a college athlete, a college gymnast -- right now," said Dana Klemm, one of Gotlund's coaches at Warren. Gotlund, who took second in the all-around at the state meet as a sophomore, did not compete for her high school team as a junior in order to concentrate on improving her skills while competing on her club team. She is one of two signees added for 2010-11 by the Huskies in the fall. There are plenty of stories of her triumphs this season, including this one from the Gurnee Review. The Daily Herald, Sun Times news group and Chicago Tribune have all featured Gotlund in their prep pages this season.
By Zach Peters | Posted at 10:23 am on Thursday, February 25, 2010
2010 baseball signee Anthony Andres (Western Springs, Ill./St. Rita of Cascia) is a core member of the No. 13th nationally ranked St. Rita of Cascia high school baseball team, according to Baseball America's preseason high school top 50 rankings.
Andres was a second team All-Chicago Catholic League Blue as a junior on last year's Illinois class 4A state runner-up squad that went 35-7, 11-3 in league play. In his junior campaign, he hit at a .440 clip with 20 runs, three home runs and 21 RBI in 38 games, and was 5-0, with 39 strikeouts, one save and a 3.87 ERA in 38 innings over 13 games on the mound.
By Joe Summins | Posted at 9:35 am on Thursday, February 25, 2010
Miss NIU's thrilling 67-65 victory over Central Michigan last night? James Nokes of the Daily Chronicle was on the scene and filed this story in today's paper. Darion "Jake" Anderson drove the lane and scored the game winning shot on a layup with 00.1 on the clock.
Nate Rucker, pictured at left, celebrates Melrose's district championship Tuesday night.
By Brett McWethy | Posted at 12:09 pm on Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Nate Rucker is making the most out of his final season of high school basketball. The 6-foot-7 Northern Illinois men's basketball signee scored nine of his 17 points in the fourth quarter during Melrose High School's 71-64 win over White Station in the District 16-AAA title game Tuesday night.
By Joe Summins | Posted at 10:02 am on Wednesday, February 24, 2010
The NIU men's basketball team is in action tonight in its second to last home game when the Huskies take on Central Michigan in the Convocation Center. The Huskies' Xavier Silas is averaging 19.7 points a per game, and 20.5 points per contest in conference game in his first season in the MAC.
By Brett McWethy | Posted at 9:59 am on Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Mike Buda of the Northern Star went one-on-one with Lindsay Chouinard, Northern Illinois' head softball coach, in the latest version of "Coaches Corner." Check it out RIGHT HERE.
By Brett McWethy | Posted at 9:41 am on Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Brian Smith of the NIU baseball team will be blogging for NIUHuskies.com throughout the season. He filed his latest entry Monday, after the Huskies' three-game set at Arizona State.
By Brett McWethy | Posted at 9:34 am on Tuesday, February 23, 2010
The Huskie women's basketball team will invade Worthen Arena in Muncie, Ind., tonight, beginning at 6 p.m. CST. With a win, Northern Illinois would leapfrog Ball State into the eighth slot of the MAC standings. While the teams would have the same record, the Huskies would hold the tiebreaker by virture of their win over Ohio.
Ben Gross of the Northern Star provided this preview.
By Brett McWethy | Posted at 1:11 pm on Monday, February 22, 2010
Thanks to Lew Freedman of Basketball Times, for this feature on junior guard Xavier Silas. Freedman caught up with "X," the "Late, Great James Silas" (Xavier's father, who starred in the NBA) and head coach Ricardo Patton last week. He was also in attendance for NIU's BracketBusters game at Eastern Illinois last Saturday.
By Brett McWethy | Posted at 10:40 am on Monday, February 22, 2010
Memphis native Nate Rucker, a 6-foot-7, highly-recruited power forward that signed his National Letter of Intent at NIU in November, is thoroughly enjoying his final season of high school basketball. Rucker scored 18 points, including five in the final 1:46 of regulation, and eventually led his Melrose High School team to a 62-53 win in overtime on Saturday.
If you haven't check out Rucker's game via the internet, go ahead and check out his YouTube selection. His offensive skill-set and ability to get to the rim should immediately help the Huskies offensively.
By Brett McWethy | Posted at 10:24 am on Monday, February 22, 2010
John Sahly from the DeKalb Daily Chronicle and HuskieWire.com had a great feature story on the NIU wrestling team's Dan Ruettiger over the weekend. The Huskies' real-life Rudy, Ruettiger paints the picture of what it feels like to taste success after all hope appeared to be lost.
By Brett McWethy | Posted at 9:42 am on Monday, February 22, 2010
It was a busy week in NIU athletics. The women's basketball team picked up a nice win over preseason MAC-West favorite and league leader Toledo on Saturday, and HuskieWire's John Sahly was in attendance. Click HERE for a box score, recap and photo gallery. The Huskies will continue their quest toward hosting a first-round MAC Tournament game, when NIU travels to Ball State on Tuesday night.
The men's basketball team dropped a 73-70 decision at Eastern Illinois in Saturday's ESPNU BracketBusters game. The Huskies have lost the last five games by an average of just 5.1 points per game. The good news: Two-of NIU's final three MAC games will be held at the Convocation Center, and the Huskies will be eyeing regular season sweeps against two of those foes (Eastern Michigan and Toledo).
The Huskie women's tennis team posted its second-straight win, 4-3 over Eastern Illinois, despite having a shortened lineup for Sunday's matinee in Rockford. Quite the day for sophomore Emily Rogers, who picked up her first-career win at the No. 1 singles position.
Notably, the baseball team came up short with three losses versus No. 5 Arizona State last weekend -- the Huskies will head to Tennessee for a three-game set at Austin Peay this weekend. The Huskie grapplers dropped a 25-8 decision versus Buffalo, and the gymnastics squad dropped a tough decision at Kent State.
By Russell Houghtaling | Posted at 9:21 am on Monday, February 15, 2010
Have a Huskie Happening we missed? Let us know by e-mailing us here! We only have so many sets of eyes, but the Huskie Nation sees all!


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To automate or not to automate, that is the question.
With apologies to William Shakespeare, the decision to automate conventional materials handling processes may not be as profound as Hamlet's soliloquy on life's big questions, but for companies like Ferdinand Bilstein, which goes to market as febi bilstein, that decision was every bit as important.
"Logistics is a core competency for us," says Frank Boecker, logistics director for the German aftermarket auto parts manufacturer and distributor based in Ennepetal. "Our order fulfillment systems must be very fast. It is our competitive advantage."
To maintain that edge, febi invested nearly $50 million in a new logistics center with a highly automated storage and order fulfillment system (Witron Integrated Logistics). The new distribution center in Ennepetal consolidated two DCs separated by 35 miles into one 363,000-square-foot campus, which was opened at the end of October 2008 and has been fully operational since March 2009.
The new system features high-bay automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) featuring 21 stacker cranes, 40,000 pallet storage positions, and 136,000 tote storage positions along with a goods-to-person order fulfilment system. The system manages 24,000 stock keeping units (SKUs) and more than 100 million parts while processing 1,000 orders per day.
More importantly, the new system has allowed febi to increase throughput while simultaneously reducing head count from more than 400 employees to 350 in operations. Most of that savings was the result of operating two shifts per day instead of three shifts per day with the old system.
In all, febi saw a 20% increase in productivity in the first full year of operation, followed by an additional 20% increase in productivity in 2010. "Automation has been an unqualified success for us," says Boecker.
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A family-owned company, Ferdinand Bilstein has been in business since 1844. Today, the company is one of the world's leading manufacturers of after market car and truck parts, with subsidiaries in 11 countries and distribution capabilities in five of those countries.
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Over the last decade, febi faced business challenges similar to many distribution operations in North America.
• Business growth: Despite a global recession, febi's business was growing by more than 10% per year in recent years.
• Complex order fulfillment requirements: As a global company, febi was confronted by increasing customer requirements, such as country-specific legal requirements that dictate special individual labels to goods in several markets. "This is a major prerequisite for breaking into new markets," says Boecker, "but without the capabilities of our automated system, it would have entailed a disproportionately high amount of money, labor and effort."
• Smaller and more frequent deliveries: Febi's customers no longer want to stock inventory. Instead, they rely on febi to deliver smaller but frequent reorders. Compared with 2008, the company has seen a rise in small volume orders of almost 20%.
• An aging workforce: Febi was focused on increasing productivity so that it could retain jobs in a tough economy. At the same time, as with North America, febi was confronted by an aging workforce that could benefit from ergonomic solutions. "We needed productivity improvements but we also knew that ergonomics was one of the solutions that would allow us to achieve productivity gains with changing demographics," says Boecker.
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Organizational Diversity Initiatives
This listing highlights efforts by the Division of Housing and Food Service to promote residential and workplace environments which acknowledge, affirm and activate our commitment to diversity on a daily basis.
10 Elements of Organizational Diversity
- Start at the top
- Establish Policies
- Include diversity in unit documents.
- Ensure accountability and evaluate.
- Provide developmental programs.
- Develop and discuss plan openly.
- Share literature.
- Hire diverse staff.
- Publicize efforts.
- Create celebrations.
ADA Compliant Facilities
Residential facilities for persons with disabilities are available in each program area in compliance with the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). Facility accomodations include accessible student rooms, bathrooms and public spaces, Braille signage, ADA compliant elevators and smoke detectors for the hearing impaired.
Adult Education Classes
Adult Basic Education/General Education Development (ABE/GED) is provided at no cost to Division staff during business hours throughout the academic long session. Courses are taught throughout the year by instructors from Austin Community College.
Apartment Upgrades to Attract Diverse Candidates
A multi-year renovation plan of residence life staff apartments is in effect to upgrade staff apartments. The goal is to make the apartments more suitable to staff members with families. Additionally, live-in staff have been provided with a flexible meal plan to encourage family members to eat with staff in dining halls.
Area Diversity Plans
Each Associate and Assistant Director is responsible for creating, implementing and evaluating an Area Diversity Plan based on 10 points of organizational diversity. Each Associate and Assistant Director is then evaluated and held accountable with merit implications for progress made towards achieving their diversity action plans.
Big 12 Conference On Black Student Leadership
Residence Life financially sponsors two Resident Assistants to attend this conference. The purpose of the conference is to foster leadership that promotes effective cultural, social and political change through networking, motivational speakers, educational workshops and career opportunities.
Central Staff Annual Performance Appraisals
Diversity is evaluated as a performance measure within the Employee Performance Appraisal for the Associate and Assistant Directors. This evaluation is used to determine merit pay increases.
Cultural Appreciation Resident Programming
A component of our programming model is devoted to cultural appreciation. Staff provides a number of student programs in this area throughout the year.
Cultural Dining Series
This series, which began in 1995, celebrates cultures through the collaborative efforts of Division areas highlighting authentic cuisine, dress, art, music, literature and dance of many different cultures. Africa, Cuba, Thailand, Latin America, New Orleans, Mexico, Brazil, China, Germany, the Hill Country of Texas, India, Greece, the Caribbean and Italy have been among the many different highlighted cultures. Guests from the campus, community and region are invited to participate in these cultural celebrations.
Culture and Cuisine
Food information from various cultures is placed on table tents in the Division's dining room tables. The table tents provide information on the origin of the food, the culture and how the food is used.
Diverse Customer Service Training
We provide customer service training for summer conference staff on working with diverse groups.
Diversity Dialogues
Division staff participate in screenings of current developmental and entertainment videos followed by facilitated group discussions of diversity topics relevant to the campus community.
Diversity Education Hours
Each staff member is required to complete annual diversity education hours as a part of their Employee Performance Appraisal. Minimum diversity education requirements: Staff-four (4) hours, Assistant Supervisors and Team Leaders-eight (8) hours, Supervisors-twelve (12) hours and Central Management Staff-sixteen (16) hours.
Diversity Job Posting Language
Examples of suggested job posting language highlighting diversity-related experience are available to supervisors creating job postings.
Diversity Team
A Diversity Team with representatives from the Director?s Office and Administrative Services staff plan diversity education programs that include all staff members from these departments.
Maintenance staff will give same day priority to graffiti that disparages any individual or group. The graffiti will be eliminated on the same day it is discovered or immediately after the University of Texas Police Department completes their review.
Hall Staff Individual Diversity Plans
Each Residence Life Area staff develops individual 10-point diversity plans. The individual diversity plans encourage staff to seek out opportunities to grow in any number of areas related to diversity.
Hate Incident Guide
Residence Life staff members utilize a Hate Incident Guidebook that was developed by a former residence life staff member. The guide provides thought provoking training information and also outlines steps that staff should take when responding to hate incidents that occur within their community.
Human Development Resource Library
The Resource Library contains books, videotapes, audiotapes, magazines, manuals and newsletters addressing a variety of work/life topics including diversity. Continuous literature reviews are conducted to obtain the most relevant and timely materials available. Staff members are notified when new items are added to the library. Resource materials may be checked out by Division staff Monday-Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Input from Diverse Populations on all Policy and Decisions
A standing diversity precept is the inclusion of diverse populations all committees and policy boards. This provides for input and ownership from all segments of the organization.
Literature Review
Articles from national, regional and local publications highlighting diversity issues are routed weekly to Associate/Assistant Directors, Supervisors, Assistant Supervisors and Team Leaders for review and discussion.
Mediation and Group Facilitation
Mediation and group facilitation services are available within the Division to assist in resolving workplace issues.
National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI)
Organizational Diversity and Development supports and collaborates with the University of Texas Chapter of the National Coalition Building Institute.
New Employee Orientation
Conduct New Employee Orientation focusing on "organizational culture" including communication, diversity, ethics, harassment and inappropriate workplace conduct, organizational policies and procedures, and teamwork.
Professional Organization Memberships
Memberships for Associate and Assistant Directors or their designate to professional organizations focusing on the issues and concerns of under-represented groups in the workplace will be paid by the Director?s Office.
Professional Staff Development
Residence Life staff meet monthly for on-going training. A number of the on-going training topics are devoted to diversity issues. To date, training has focused on gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender, disabilities, and race issues as they relate to residential living.
Publications, including the policy manual, are evaluated to eliminate non-inclusive language, to include diverse groups in photos and graphics, and to highlight diversity. We also work with Services for Students with Disabilities to meet special needs.
Residence Life Area Wide Diversity Bulletin Boards
Each residence life area office has a diversity board for posting relevant diversity news and highlighting special months. These are maintained by office staff.
Residence Life Diversity Committee
The newly created committee debuted in the fall of 2003 and has been successful in providing staff and residents with diversity awareness and educational activities. Membership consists of staff, students, and representatives from departments other than DHFS. The following accomplishments are attributed to the work of the Diversity Committee:
- Diversity Newsletter
The Diversity Newsletter is published by the Diversity Committee on a monthly basis and provides information on current events, issues of debate, articles, and personal stories. It is posted on our web site and is available to the University community and those who visit our web site.
- Tunnel of Oppression
The Tunnel of Oppression is a virtual walk-through experience of real life happenings in the area of oppression, discrimination, hate, GLBT, alcohol abuse, and more. Each group that went through the Tunnel was offered the opportunity to participate in a facilitated discussion to process what they experienced.
Residence Life Exchanges
Since 1990, the University of Texas and the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) have participated in week-long Resident Assistant exchanges. The short visits allow participants the opportunity to learn about ITESM's residence hall systems while experiencing the customs and culture of Mexico. This exchange expanded the program to include semester long work and academic opportunities and provides students opportunities to work as Resident Assistants in ITESM's residence halls as well as study in and benefit from the academic and cultural environment of this situation.
Resident Assistant Training
A component of resident assistant training during fall and spring workshops is devoted to diversity topics. Additionally, staff in-services related to diversity awareness are presented to resident assistant staff throughout the year.
Safespace is a resident facilitated group that provides support and programming for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender staff and students. Originally created by the RA Council, SafeSpace is now fully affiliated and sponsored by the University Residence Hall Association.
Staff Recruitment
DHFS practices targeted recruitment of under-represented staff in all areas of it's operations. Staff members complete a colleague contact sheet so that an official contact can be made.
Staff Training Center
Coordinate use of the Human Development Center, which serves as the Division's primary facility or professional development activities.
Strategic Plan
Strategic goals and action plans developed by Residence Life staff and Central Staff Management Team are reviewed annually and must incorporate diversity initiatives.
Supervisor Meeting Diversity Presentations
Supervisor meetings are held every month during the fall and spring and consist of all supervisors from across the Division of Housing and Food Service. Time is allotted for discussion on topics of special interest. Cultural celebrations and achievements are often recognized during supervisor meetings.
English/Spanish translation and interpretation for native Spanish-speaking staff.


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MEDINA — When Kathy Fortney first started working at the Medina County Clerk of Courts office in December 1968, employees typed court documents on typewriters, and people had to come in to the courthouse to get copies of them.
Things are a bit different now.
Documents are entered into the computer and most are available online that day. Fortney, 63, who retires this week, said Tuesday that people have become used to the connectivity.
"One time when the Internet was down, we had never seen so many phone calls," Fortney said. "It's almost kind of funny. I asked them, 'What did you do before the Internet?' "
Fortney started as an auto title employee under former Clerk of Courts Jean Waters just two weeks before the office moved from the basement of the old county courthouse to the first floor of the new one.
"I really did come in with the brick in the new courthouse," she said.
She was among the first employees to work at the Brunswick and Wadsworth branch title offices when they opened in 1975 and 1976, respectively.
When Waters retired as clerk in 1991, Fortney was appointed by the local Republican Party to finish Waters' term. Fortney was elected to the position in 1992, and has been re-elected ever since.
Fortney said at first there was a lot about the job that was new to her, even though she'd already been with the office for nearly a quarter century. Taking the job meant a load of new responsibilities, since the clerk of courts has its hand in everything from finances to legal issues to customer service.
"There was so much I didn't know. But what you don't know, you need to find out," she said.
"I can be here for another 42 years, and I still won't know it all," she said.
One of the reasons for that is changing technology, Fortney said. The courts began keeping documents on computers in the early 1990s and began posting them online in 2008.
That was a big leap, Fortney said.
"We just have to be careful how we treat (technology). Everybody wants to know everything about everybody, but you don't want to have everybody know everything about yourself," she said.
The clerks don't put any information from domestic relations court and also are careful not to upload personal information like medical records.
"Just because the Internet is there, we don't have to put everything out there. … It's a helpful tool, but you want to be sensitive to that tool," she said.
She said the next step in technology likely will be to have everyone, including lawyers and judges, file documents directly online. However, Fortney cautioned that it should be thought out carefully.
"Those are legal documents. Those are people's lives. It's not just something you just flip a switch and do," she said.
Fortney said looking at the court records as part of people's lives is what's guided her in her job.
"To have a career like this has been truly wonderful. It's been my life," she said. "I never want to disappoint the people of my county and I don't think I did."
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Monday, May 18, 2009
Rate Limiting and DOS protection in Mod-Security
Using Mod-Security we can deploy some Rate Limiting and DOS (denial of service) protection for Apache.
You'll use 2 scripts, one called httpd-guardian, which will use the second script, called blacklist, which will then use either iptables or the OpenBSD Packet Filter (pf) to deny IPs.
You can get both scripts here: http://apache-tools.cvs.sourceforge.net/apache-tools/.
As per the website, "..By default httpd-guardian will defend against clients that send more than 120 requests in a minute, or more than 360 requests in five minutes."
Setting this up was relatively easy. After installing Mod-Security and getting it running, we'll configure as shown below:
Fist, I downloaded httpd-guardian into /etc/apache2/httpd-guardian.
Next, I added this line:
SecGuardianLog "|/etc/apache2/httpd-guardian"
to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf.
I edited httpd-guardian and followed the directions, basically just uncommenting and setting these lines, the first to call the blacklist script:
my $PROTECT_EXEC = "/sbin/blacklist block %s 3600";
and the second lowered the maximum number of requests that one IP address can issue in a one minute window:
my $THRESHOLD_1MIN = 1; # 60 requests in a minute
Note: there is a 5 min threshold as well, but I left that default:
my $THRESHOLD_5MIN = 1; # 360 requests in 5 minutes
I also then downloaded the blacklist script into /sbin/blacklist and since I am using ipchains, I made sure this line was set in the httpd-guardian script:
my $FWCMD = "iptables";
I did as requested by the great instructions in the file itself and created a new RULE set:
iptables -N BLACKLIST
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j BLACKLIST
To make sure apache agreed with my setup, I issued the "apache2ctl graceful" command.
Then for testing, I hit the site with a bunch of requests:
#while [ 1 ]; do wget 'http://my-site.com';done
I confirmed 60+ hits (IP was changed to protect the innocent) were established in minute 2009:14:21 in my web server logs:
# grep '188.8.131.52' /var/log/apache2/access.log | grep '17/May/2009:14:21' | wc -l
And the next minute later I saw this in syslog:
May 17 14:22:13 blacklist[18464]: Blocking 188.8.131.52/32 for 3600 seconds
I couldn't connect or do a thing from my IP with my browser to my web server - it worked!
5 comments:
- voshka said...
I want to know a bit more info about this ddos protection
wont it have any affect on shared ip address that so many users have connection from that
please contact me
- June 25, 2010 at 4:43 PM
- voshka said...
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- June 25, 2010 at 4:43 PM
- ThePlayer said...
It is definitely possible if you were to block an IP address for it have some potential unintended consequences, such as if an attacker has spoofed an IP address, or if one user behaving badly behind a NAT device would thereby cause a denial of service for another well behaving user.
You'll need to make a decision upon whether this would apply well for your situation.
- June 30, 2010 at 4:15 PM
- voshka said...
I tried gaurdian but it didn't work for me
i dont know where I mistake
also having shell scripts to block those high connections of ip address has false positive result
also my main concern is how to block bot net denial of service attack
- July 1, 2010 at 2:18 AM
- voshka said...
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- July 1, 2010 at 2:19 AM


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In my earlier post ( Steampunk diorama ), I promised to introduce these steampunk terrain items to you, so here we go.
The medieval buildings you'll see below have seen a lot of use in my rpg's. I love running games in cities, so it's no wonder - and the campaign I'm just about to finish is Ptolus, a huge book having a complete urban setting for D&D 3E.
The buildings are built almost completely from cardboard + surface materials - that's same old filler powder/PVA glue mixture I've used in so many of my models.
Most frequent question I get asked on gaming sites is about how I have created fire and smoke. Now I'm releasing a tutoral about this topic - while it's actually about creating starship wrecks, it will teach you how to model fire. Another page (coming soon) will show you applications of this technique.
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Anticancer agents targeting platelet-derived growth factor receptor-beta (PDGFR-β) may also impair the heart's ability to respond to stress, according to researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. They found that inhibiting PDGFR-β in mice slows angiogenesis, which usually helps the heart respond to stress. This could explain why some targeted anticancer drugs have recently been associated with heart failure.
The study is called "Cardiomyocyte PDGFR-β signaling is an essential component of the mouse cardiac response to load-induced stress" and was published online January 11 in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Using special laboratory mice with limited cardiac PDGFR-β and mice with normal PDGFR-β signaling, the researchers performed transverse aortic constriction (TAC). During TAC a band is placed at the aortic arch, resulting in acute pressure overload.
The mice with limited PDGFR-β had heart failure. Thus, the scientists believe that cardiomyocyte PDGFR-β is an essential upstream regulator of the stress-induced paracrine angiogenic potential of cardiomyocytes. These results suggest that PDGFR-β is a regulator of the compensatory cardiac response to pressure overload-induced stress.
"We showed that cardiomyocyte PDGFR expression and activation in heart muscle cells rises dramatically in response to pressure-overload stress," says Aarif Khakoo, M.D., assistant professor in M. D. Anderson's department of cardiology and corresponding author on the study. "Furthermore, we showed that knockout of PDGFR in heart muscle results in cardiac dysfunction, heart failure, and a marked defect in stress-induced cardiac angiogenesis."
High blood pressure may put patients who receive drugs like Sutent, Nexavar, and Gleevec, which all work by targeting and inhibiting PDGFR, at an even greater risk. Anticancer drugs targeting PDGFR often cause elevated blood pressure, resulting in both added stress to the heart and lessened capacity to deal with this stress.
"Since these drugs also cause vascular stress in the form of severe high blood pressure in a significant number of patients, our findings suggest the double hit of high blood pressure and the blockade of PDGFR signaling may play a key role in heart problems when patients are treated with anticancer agents whose targets include PDGFR," Dr. Khakoo says.
"Patients with pre-existing heart disease may be at increased risk for cardiomyopathy and heart failure associated with these drugs," Dr. Khakoo explains. "If we can confirm this, it might help develop a tool to determine the individual risk for cancer patients being considered for treatment with PDGFR inhibitors and to develop strategies to prevent heart damage."
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4 children, 2 adults killed in shooting at Texas home; suspect surrenders after standoff with police
SPRING, Texas - A suspect in the slayings of six people, including four children, at a suburban Houston home has surrendered after a three-hour standoff with deputies.
The man had led a parade of almost two dozen deputy constables' patrol cars to a cul-de-sac in a northern Houston suburb shortly before 7 p.m. After hours of waiting and negotiations, the man emerged from his car, raised his hands and sank to his knees as deputies placed him under arrest.
No identity has been released.
Authorities say he's suspected of shooting and killing the six at the house in Spring. Only a wounded 15-year-old girl was left to identify the man and offer a clue to where he was headed.
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Sources: HP Embraces Object Storage Startups, Partners Call StoreAll Product 'Ibroke'HP is promoting new object storage solutions tying its ProLiant servers to software from Cleversafe and Scality, a move that comes as channel partners report scaling and other issues with HP's Ibrix-based StoreAll solutions.
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VARs Urge Cities Like Ferguson To Archive To Ease Public Records RetrievalEmail archiving and server-based text messaging systems are vital for municipalities such as Ferguson, Mo., to retrieve public records following a high-profile event.
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Pressed On Potential EMC Deal, Michael Dell Says He Isn't Ruling Out Any Storage AcquisitionsAs opportunities arise to 'expand inorganically' in the storage market, Michael Dell says in an interview that he would consider them and that being private doesn't deter acquisition activity.
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Justin's Nut Butter, Classic Peanut Butter, 16 oz (454 g)
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- Product Code: JNB-00300
- UPC Code: 855188003004
- Package Quantity: 16 oz (454 g)
- Dimensions: 2.9 x 2.9 x 4.5 in, 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- All Natural
- Gluten-Free
- 0g Trans Fat
- 2g Sugar
- 8g Protein
- 4g Fiber
- Vegan
I like peanut butter so much I dedicated years of my life to creating an entirely new, one-of-a-kind way to make it. I know what you're thinking, how many ways can there be to make peanut butter? Well, there are at least two. What everyone else does and what we do. And I guarantee once you try our way you'll agree it was worth the effort.
Other Ingredients
Dry roasted peanuts, palm fruit oil*
*Sustainably sourced palm fruit oil
Contains Peanuts.
|Supplement Facts
|Serving Size: 2 Tbsp (32 g)
|Servings Per Container: 14
|Amount Per Serving
|% Daily Value*
|Calories from fat
|Total Fat
|16 g
|Saturated Fat
|3 g
|Trans Fat
|0 g
|0 mg
|35 mg
|Total Carbohydrate
|7 g
|Dietary Fiber
|4 g
|2 g
|8 g
|Vitamin A
|Vitamin C
|*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
It took me a solid 7 minutes to stir it to mix the oil into the peanut butter to make it smooth and there are still some chunks, but the texture and taste are great. Can't beat that it's much, much healthier than Jiffy and those other similar brands.
I really love Justin's Nut Butters. The classic flavor is ok but I enjoy my peanut butter to be a little sweet, whereas the classic flavor tastes exactly like, well peanut butter. If you enjoy slightly sweet peanut butter (or are used to skippy type brands) go for the honey peanut butter. It's fantastic! Also the chocolate hazelnut flavor is divine! Better than nutella!
love it
Posted by 5193255227493083283 on Jun 26, 2016
taste soo good, all natural.
Posted by 5384590797624843158 on Apr 05, 2016
No need to added sugar it's better without,I tried it with San Dalfor jam and was pretty good
Oil separates and it's runny
Posted by 4668530754073788657 on Jan 01, 2016
Quite difficult to stir in the oil into the PB, and it's still very runny. Flavour-wise it's ok.
Gummy and flavorless.
Posted by 4975154155631436804 on Dec 14, 2015
Gummy and lacking in flavor.
A great healthy alternative
Posted by 5295677813337403182 on Dec 12, 2015
I really like this product, I definitely recommend to stir thoroughly (shaking doesn't do much) and to store in the fridge so it hardens a little bit as the texture can be a little off putting (it separates quite a bit). Other than that, the flavour is great, I love that it only has two ingredients and that it is much healthier than your average peanut butter, I have ordered this about 3 times now and will definitely order again.


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After over 10 years, OnGuard Online is moving to a new home. Like any move, it's bittersweet. But don't worry, this isn't goodbye.
OnGuardOnline.gov is moving to the Federal Trade Commission's consumer information site. At FTC.gov/OnGuardOnline, you'll find the same great articles, blog posts, videos, games, and toolkits — to help you stay safe, secure, and responsible online.
There's a new twist on tech-support scams — you know, the one where crooks try to get access to your computer or sensitive information by offering to "fix" a computer problem that doesn't actually exist. Lately, we've heard reports that people are getting calls from someone claiming to be from the Global Privacy Enforcement Network. Their claim? That your email account has been hacked and is sending fraudulent messages. They say they'll have to take legal action against you, unless you let them fix the problem right away.
Millions of people are affected by identity theft each year. It might start with a mysterious credit card charge, a bill you don't recognize, or a letter from the IRS that says you already got your refund — even though you didn't.
If someone uses your information to make purchases, open new accounts, or get a tax refund, that's identity theft. Recovering from identity theft often takes time and persistence. That's why today's announcement from the FTC is a big deal: New features at IdentityTheft.gov make it easier to report and recover from identity theft.
Does your internet browser ever display ads that just seem wrong — for example, an inappropriate ad on a kid's website, an ad that blocks content on the page, or an ad on a government site? It might look something like this:
Unwanted software could be to blame...
Have you already decked your halls in lights, timed to blink to the strains of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? Even if you haven't reached that level of early enthusiasm, the holiday spirit is starting to spread already. If you spend any time on social media, you may have seen posts about the Secret Sister Gift Exchange.
SSGE encourages you to mail a gift worth $10 dollars to a stranger at the top of the list. Supposedly, in return, you'll get a pile of presents from other participants. SSGE and come-ons like it encourage you to hop on board an enticing cash- or gift-giving experience. Sounds like a good time, right? Sorry, Blitzen, stop that sleigh!
Did you ever get an email that seemed legit, but it asked you to click a link or give up some personal information? Well, if you play massive multiplayer online games, be warned: phishers are looking for ways to get those emails into your inbox.
Are you a nanny or caregiver who lists your services on sites like care.com, sittercity.com, or craigslist.com? A few months ago, we warned about a scam that targets caregivers like you. Here's a reminder: a con artist emails or texts an offer to hire you. The scammer also sends you a check and asks you to depofakesit it, keep some money for your services, and send the rest to someone else to — supposedly — pay for special items or medical equipment. But the check is fake, and it can take weeks for a bank to discover the forgery. If you deposit the check and withdraw the funds, you'll wind up owing the bank all that money.
The scam is called card cracking and it may start off innocently enough. You see a post on a social media site announcing a contest. Or maybe a webpage that claims to have a celebrity affiliation is offering a gift card giveaway.
The variations are endless, but here's the tip-off that fraud is afoot. At some point, you're asked for your bank account information, PIN number, or online banking credential. That's when you can bank on the fact that those "innocent" offers aren't what they're cracked up to be.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced the extradition of six Nigerian nationals from South Africa to Mississippi to face a nine-count federal indictment for various Internet frauds. These six people join 15 others who were previously charged with, among other things, conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, identity theft, and money laundering.
What were the scams? According to the indictment, the defendants found and reached out to their potential victims through online dating websites and work-at-home opportunities.
Not everyone using online dating sites is looking for love. Scammers create fake online profiles using photos of other people — even stolen pictures of real military personnel. They profess their love quickly. And they tug at your heartstrings with made-up stories about how they need money — for emergencies, hospital bills, or travel. Why all of the tricks? They're looking to steal your money.