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Given the therapeutic and prognostic importance of the unipolar-bipolar dichotomy, predicting which patients will become bipolar subsequent to index diagnosis of major depressive disorder (MDD) is of paramount clinical significance. We sought to characterize the profile of patients with MDD who would convert to the more subtle bipolar subtype (known as BPII) on the basis of clinical and personality variables obtained during MDD episodes.
A total of 559 patients, comprehensively evaluated with the Schedule of Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia and "unipolar" MDD at entry, were administered 17 self-report personality measures. Hypomanic and manic episodes were systematically recorded over a prospective observation period of up to 11 years. We compared 48 converters to BPII (8.6%) with 22 converters to bipolar I (BPI) (3.9%) and the remaining larger group of unipolar patients.
Except for greater acuteness, severity, and psychotic symptomatology, BPI converters were essentially similar to MDD nonconverters. By contrast, BPII converters were robustly distinguished from those with MDD who remained unipolar on the basis of self-report measures along the newly derived factors of Mood Lability, Energy-Activity, and Daydreaming. This profile was associated with early age at onset of MDD and pleomorphic psychopathology beyond the usual affective realm, high rates of substance abuse, as well as educational, marital, and occupational disruption and minor antisocial acts prior to discrete hypomanic episodes. Overall, BPII switchers had a more protracted and tempestuous course with shorter well intervals. "Habitual self" descriptions of temperamental instability during MDD episodes provided useful clinical information for predicting which depressed patients will switch to BPII, attaining a sensitivity of 91% for all three factors combined (23 items); Mood Lability alone (nine items) was the most specific predictor (86%), though of lower sensitivity (42%).
The BPII subtype is best understood by such lability intruding into, and possibly its accentuation during, depressive episodes, thereby creating an intimate interweaving of trait and state. Clinicians must note that the foregoing temperamental profile appears more fundamental in defining the affective dysregulation of the BPII subtype than hypomanic episodes emphasized in DSM-IV.
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A Nevada City man spotted trying to break into a vehicle in Grass Valley has been linked to a number of similar burglaries in the area, said Grass Valley Police Sgt. Clint Bates.
A woman living in an apartment complex in the 500 block of Whiting Street called 911 at about 12:30 a.m. Monday to report that a man just tried to break into her vehicle but was scared off by the alarm and ran. She said he also had been in the neighbor's car, according to dispatch reports.
Officers did an area check and saw the suspect leaning into a vehicle while using a flashlight, Bates said.
The man, identified as Keith Alexander Rushing, 19, of Nevada City, allegedly was found with meth in his possession.
"An investigation revealed (Rushing) entered at least seven vehicles in the area," Bates said. "And we've taken a total of nine (similar) cases over the last five days in that area. We're doing follow-up; this is still under investigation."
Rushing was booked into county jail on suspicion of second-degree burglary, possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia. He was being held in lieu of $20,000 bail.
According to Grass Valley Police Capt. Rex Marks, there frequently is a correlation between drug abuse and property crime.
"It's not in every case, but more often than not, there is a definite correlation between property crime and illicit drug use and sales and distribution," he said. "It's the cycle of needing the income to support the habit; it's pretty common."
It's tempting to think of Nevada County as a safe, crime-free environment, but that is no longer the case, Marks said.
"People need to realize that (crime) can happen, and it does happen," he said, adding that complacency can create an invitation for would-be criminals to take advantage.
Marks stressed that residents need to follow basic safety tips.
"Don't leave your valuables in plain sight," he said. "Keep your vehicles secure. Keep areas clean and well lit.
"Being aware of what your neighbors are doing, getting to know them — that in itself can be a huge deterrent if everyone knows everybody," Marks added.
Investigating burglaries can be very time intensive for law enforcement agencies because so few victims can readily identify their valuables, particularly electronics, Marks said. He suggested keeping a record of serial numbers or purchasing an engraver.
"Take the time to take some photos or video of your property and keep it in a safe place," he said. "These are the things that people often don't think about e_SLps The insurance companies will love you."
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As people move into middle age, most put on a few pounds. For these expanding adults, Chris Crowley and Jen Sacheck, the authors of "Thinner This Year," mince no words.
"Being a hair or two overweight at our age is not OK," they write. "Stored fat makes you ugly and sick."
Thinner This Year
Chris Crowley and Jen Sacheck
Workman Publishing
Follow their advice, the authors promise, and you will be not just thinner and healthier, but "more energetic, cuter and way more fun." Your "third act," they add, will be played by the real you, "not some fat, ridiculous impostor."
Their advice—exercise more, eat less, eat right—is not exactly new. But "Thinner This Year" provides some fresh insights on how the body processes food and burns calories. And what the authors lack in originality they make up for in enthusiasm when it comes to the importance of starting and sticking to a diet and fitness regimen.
Some of this territory was covered by Mr. Crowley and internist Henry S. Lodge in their previous two "Younger Next Year" books, which focused on exercise as an elixir of youth that can reverse aging processes inside cells and spawned a website, DVDs, workout gear and Aspen retreats. For this book, Mr. Crowley, a former litigator and fitness buff who confesses he still had a few pounds to lose himself, teamed up with Dr. Sacheck, a nutrition expert, to delve into the science of nutrition and its role, along with exercise, in weight loss.
The two add their voices to the general alarm about the obesity epidemic and its culprit, "the fast food, dead animals and processed junk" which they label "a mountain of slop and despair." The book is aimed at 40- to 60-somethings who the authors see slipping into a sedentary lifestyle and an extra 20 or 30 pounds.
The authors, who write in alternating chapters, share anecdotes about their own experiences in a tone that is breezy and chatty (sometimes excessively so). The meat of "Thinner This Year" is in its chapters about components of a healthy diet and the fast food, processed products and other "dead foods" that cause weight gain. There are helpful primers on the role of different fats, the importance of protein and how excess weight plays into harmful inflammation in the body, which is linked to heart disease and other chronic conditions.
The book is also chock-full of easy recipes, meal plans and exercise diagrams. The prescriptions are tough—vigorous exercise six days a week—but they provide useful tips on the balance of exercise between aerobics and strength building, and the importance of interval training to avoid burnout and build endurance.
Dr. Sacheck debunks many popular diet myths. Gluten-free diets are pointless and even unhealthy except for people with celiac disease, she says, and the trend of doing a "cleanse" to expel toxins is "complete nonsense." As for what to eat, "Thinner This Year" leans toward a plant-based diet, recommending that fruits and vegetables make up half of a person's intake, with whole grains and lean protein at about 20% each and the remaining 10% in low-fat dairy.
Fortunately they are not extremists: While Mr. Crowley acknowledges eliminating alcohol is recommended by some weight-loss experts, "it is too depressing to me." But everything in moderation: two glasses of wine for men, one for women.
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According to 'Thinner This Year,' there are five categories of food that 'promote a whole cascade of negative health effects.'
Fried food: French fries, breaded and deep-fried fast foods, chips
Sweet stuff: Doughnuts, scones, cakes, pastries, candy, muffins
Butter and related foods: Cream, sour cream, mayonnaise, ice cream
Processed and cured meats: Bologna, salami, sausage, hot dogs, bacon
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The background study finds that both volunteering and social activism are important strategies for fostering people's participation in social change and human development.
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Flavia Pansieri, the Executive Coordinator of UNV, said, "This initiative among UNV, CIVICUS and IAVE which had its beginnings during the International Year of the Volunteer (IYV), stemmed from our joint recognition that volunteerism is a powerful means of engaging people in tackling development challenges and that it can transform the pace and nature of development."
CIVICUS' Secretary General, Ingrid Srinath, expressed her hopes that "This paper will help promote greater dialogue and engagement between volunteering and social activist organisations around shared development objectives – and in so doing, strengthen citizen participation aimed at reducing poverty and inequality around the world."
Echoing this sentiment, the President of IAVE, Kang-Hyun Lee said, "I hope this paper is widely utilised to further partnerships between volunteering and social activist organisations and encourages people's participation for human and social capital development."
The paper argues that volunteering, like social activism, can be purposeful and change-orientated. Volunteering can be directed at influencing agenda-setting, policy-making, decision-making and representation, and is also an important mechanism for promoting empowerment, personal transformation and social inclusion.
The paper also highlights the complementary and supporting roles that volunteering and activism play in fostering participation. For example, social activism plays an important role in providing leadership, defining areas for engagement and mobilising individuals. However, social activism depends on the contributions of volunteers to effect the change it seeks.
"We must celebrate the distinctive contributions of diverse forms of participation, both through volunteering and social activism, and draw on these experiences to create stronger and more enabling environments for people's participation," noted co-author Helene Perold.
Embracing best practices in volunteer management, and creating diverse opportunities for individuals to take action, is also critical for promoting people's participation in development.
In the paper, CIVICUS, IAVE and UNV call for a shared understanding of the common and interdependent characteristics of volunteering and social activism, so that the vast potential of volunteerism for advancing human development and social change can be released.
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Mayor de Blasio Drops City Lawsuit Challenging Racial Profiling Law
Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday his administration will dismiss a lawsuit filed by his predecessor that sought to scuttle a law banning biased-based profiling and expanding New Yorkers' ability to sue police officers for racial profiling.
In September, the Bloomberg administration filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court alleging that Local Law 71 of 2013 "is unlawful because it is pre-empted by the State Criminal Procedure Law," which already makes racial profiling by police illegal. The Bloomberg administration was seeking a permanent injunction preventing the implementation of the law, which the council approved over his veto.
Last year, Mr. de Blasio, who was the city's public advocate, strongly backed the passage of the racial-profiling law and another that created an inspector general to monitor the Police Department.
Mr. Bloomberg had argued that the law would jeopardize the safety of police officers and the public, but Mr. de Blasio said he believed the law would create a safer city by building a deeper partnership between police officers and the communities they serve.
"There is absolutely no contradiction in protecting the public safety of New Yorkers and respecting their civil liberties. In fact, those two priorities must go hand-in-hand," the mayor said in a news release. "No New Yorker should ever face discrimination based on the color of his or her skin. We are going to be explicit in setting fair and effective standards that prevent bias in any form."
The law allows individuals the right to bring lawsuits to stop bias-based profiling, but doesn't authorize the award of any monetary damages.
"This law protects individuals in our communities against bias-based profiling," the city's top lawyer, Zach Carter, said. "At the same time, police officers acting within the scope of their duties and in conformance with NYPD guidelines will be represented by the law department, in accordance with the law."
Mr. Bloomberg vetoed the measure in July, saying the bill would make lawsuit-weary police officers "hesitate to act" and possibly "imperil the hard-earned gains" the city has made in reducing crime. He also said that state law already prevented racial profiling.
Michael Cardozo, who headed the city's top lawyer under Mr. Bloomberg, said the administration sued because there is an "important principle at stake here."
"Local legislative bodies should not be passing laws affecting the regulation of law enforcement activity in this way. This is a matter governed by the state Legislature," he said.
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Look chick, I want you to grab my meat rattle and give it a mike check.
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Mark Wahlberg's four children with wife Rhea – Ella, 10, Michael, 8, Brendan, 5, and Grace, 4 – keep Mom and Dad on their toes.
"It's not easy," says the star of Transformers: Age of Extinction. "But it's how we always pictured things."
After his own troubled upbringing in South Boston, the devout Catholic is determined to raise down-to-earth children as a Hollywood power player. "I pray for patience," he says. "But the kids test me."
Of the many lessons learned, keeping the kids humble is top priority.
"I want to give them all the things I never had but make sure they understand it's not normal and that it takes hard work to get what you want," says the actor, 43. "You have to provide them with the tools that will make them good people."
Having an even split with two boys and two girls in the household, Wahlberg is faced with challenges on both sides.
"I'm dreading the teenage years with my daughters; it's not going to be easy for them to go on a date," he says with a laugh.
And with the guys, "My boys are obsessed with everything sports," he admits. "The first thing out of their mouths in the morning when their eyes are barely open is, 'Dad, did the Clippers win?' "
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Advanced Care Veterinary Services – Canine Rehabilitation
Advanced Care Veterinary Services the first Veterinary Pain Management & Rehabilitation Clinic opened in Lewisville, TX in May 2013! This canine rehabilitation center is the first of its kind in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex! It boasts a state-of-the art 3,800 square foot facility, equipped with the first indoor dog pool associated with a veterinarian in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Other services will include physical therapy, including modalities such as acupuncture, electrical stimulation, low level laser therapy, orthotics & prosthetics, aqua-therapy, intra-muscular dry needling, shockwave therapy and therapeutic exercise/activities. Multi-modal pain management services will be a huge focus that will offer cutting edge protocols to treat osteoarthritis, inter-vertebral disc disease, cancer, etc. We will also offer obesity/weight management, geriatric and sport conditioning programs. Visit www.stoppetpain.com and https://www.facebook.com/AdvancedCareVeterinaryServices for more details.


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SYCAMORE - Kamryn Troike accounted for the lion's share of her team's points and rebounds Thursday as St. Wendelin beat Midland Athletic League foe Mohawk 41-39.
Troike tallied 24 points and 16 rebounds to help the Mohawks (4-3, 1-3 MAL) earn their first league win.
Edy Mowrey added eight points, Makenzie McAfee netted six points and Allie Rutter turned in eight assists and three steals.
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Mohawk's Julie Adelsperger (front) and Ally Weinandy pressure St. Wendelin's Allie Rutter during Thursday's game in Sycamore.
Julie Adelsperger's 14 points, four rebounds and three steals sparked the Warriors (3-4, 2-2).
Clara Adelsperger added nine points and five boards, and Ally Weinandy and Kasey Adelsperger each chipped in eight points and five boards.
Seneca East holds on late
NORTH BALTIMORE - Brittany Brookes and Seina Adachi handled the scoring in a key fourth quarter Thursday as Seneca East slipped past North Baltimore 49-47 in Midland Athletic League action.
The Tigers led 38-32 after the third period, but North Baltimore rallied to make it close.
Brookes scored six of her 13 points in the final quarter and Adachi added five of her game-high 17. Amber Enders and Hannah Hahler both chipped in six points.
FHS can't hold back Otsego
FOSTORIA - Otsego erased a two-point halftime deficit by outscoring Fostoria 15-8 in the third period, then held on Thursday for a 51-49 Northern Buckeye Conference win.
Foul shots didn't help Fostoria's cause, with the Redmen going only 9 for 20. The Knights went 21 for 34 at the line.
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Jada Hampton scored 14 points for FHS and Erica Moore and Olivia Valenti both tossed in 11. Alexus Smith grabbed six rebounds.


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Kinases are a class of highly regulated enzymes that play a central role in the regulation of numerous cellular processes. Due to the prevalence of aberrant kinase expression in many types of cancer, kinases have become a popular drug target in the war against cancer. But kinases also happen to be extremely difficult to target. Specifically targeting a single kinase in a pool of up to 500 different kinases in a human cell is no small feat, especially since kinases share a significant amount of structural similarity with one another.
To help assist in the development of anticancer therapies that target specific kinases, researchers have developed kinase assays for a variety of applications, ranging from fundamental biological studies to kinase inhibitor discovery and characterization.
At the recent American Association for Cancer Research conference in Chicago, a number of scientists discussed how they utilize various kinase assays in their investigations on cancer.
Potential drug targets are often identified by looking for proteins that are overexpressed in cancer cells. However, if researchers do not understand how a particular protein works in concert with others, it can be difficult to develop inhibitors that effectively downregulate the overexpressed protein in diseased cells.
Aurora B kinase is overexpressed in many types of cancer. To lay the groundwork to develop more effective therapeutics that target Aurora B, researchers need to understand how the kinase is regulated by other proteins in the cell. With this goal in mind, Ming-Ying Tsai, Ph.D., assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and graduate student Jyoti Iyer performed a research study that helps shed light on the cellular mechanism of Aurora B kinase.
The team studied the role of mitotic protein TPX2 (targeting protein for Xenopus kinesin-like protein 2) in Aurora B regulation. In the cell, Aurora B is part of an enzyme complex known as the chromosomal passenger complex (CPC), along with three other proteins: INCENP, Survivin, and Borealin. Iyer first performed in vitro binding assays to determine which residues of TPX2 are sufficient to enhance the interactions between Aurora B and Survivin, a known activator. Using this fragment of TPX2, composed of residues 138 through 328, she performed an in vitro kinase assay with Aurora B and found that the TPX2 peptide fragment was able to increase Aurora B kinase activity.
In a subsequent in vitro kinase assay, Iyer incubated recombinant, bacterially expressed CPC proteins and histone H3, a known substrate of Aurora B, in the presence or absence of the TPX2 fragment. She performed a Western blot with an antibody specific to phosphorylated histone H3 and found an increase in histone H3 phosophorylation in the presence of the TPX2 fragment compared to the control. The results suggest that TPX2 functions as a coactivator of Aurora B and serves as a scaffold protein for the assembly of the CPC.
"I anticipate these findings will open lots of doors for future research" on the role of TPX2 in regulating Aurora B and the CPC, Iyer says.
Beyond fundamental research studies, scientists in both academic and industrial labs are looking to kinase assays to discover and develop new anticancer treatments.
Oncolytic viruses are a promising approach to treating cancer due to their potential to selectively kill cancer cells in the midst of healthy tissue. In a collaboration spearheaded by Bruce Bejcek, Ph.D., and Karim Essani, Ph.D., both professors at Western Michigan University, researchers are currently exploring the potential of tanopox virus (TPV) as an additional tool in the arsenal of oncolytic therapies.
Tumor suppressor protein p53 is a promising target for virotherapy since it is mutated in more than 50% of cancers. To determine the potential of TPV as an oncolytic therapy, Dr. Bejcek's team performed in vitro assays with the 142R protein of TPV, which has a serine-threonine kinase domain that is homologous to the p53-phosphorylating B1R gene in the more well-known vaccinia virus. The team found that 142R interacts with p53 in vitro and is thus a good candidate for creating a conditionally replicating virus that can selectively target cancer cells and leave healthy cells unharmed.
The kinase assay involved mixing recombinant, bacterially expressed 142R and p53 in the presence of radiolabeled ATP. The researchers ran the proteins out on a gel and observed that radioactive phosphate was added onto p53 only in the presence of 142R, suggesting that 142R phosphorylates p53. The team plans to determine if 142R is able to phosphorylate p53 in cells, and also hope to determine whether knocking out 142R can cause TPV viruses to selectively replicate in, and ultimately kill, cancer cells lacking wild-type p53, Dr. Bejcek says.
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WVU athletics in trouble
March 21, 2013
MORGANTOWN - Anyone who reads daily newspapers or listens to the evening news should be well aware of the fact that there is — and has been — considerable turmoil athletically at West Virginia......
Oliver Luck has continued the legacy of Ed Pastilong. He has pimped the university athletic teams out for the highest dollar without regard for the consequences. The average Joe, like my wife and myself, struggle to pay for our football season tickets because we have to offset the travel costs to Texas, just so we can go to home games and sit beside the drunks who fight and vomit in the stands. Mickey is right - WVU IS in trouble.
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The most overrated coach in basketball made $230,000 per win this year. Chew on that.
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you're not wishing your alma mater well .. in fact you've become a primary source of turmoil because the old boy network, of which you were an integral member, has been disbanded. Ever since that has happened you've done nothing but spew vitriolic hatred toward your alma mater. Do us all a favor and retire.
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While I respect Mickey's long service to WVU athletic supporters, he needs to realize that had JC and OL taken his advice, we would still be in the conference formerly known as the Big East, enjoying a payout of 3 million dollars per year as opposed to the 40 million we will realize from the Big XII once we are fully vested. Sure we will have short term pain, but that is the cost of getting a seat at the big boys' table. It will all be worthwhile in the end and our teams will be competitive in our new conference.
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No way he becomes a more offensively complete player than Flip. And that assist number is crazy, look at his career.
Aside from the obvious post just to knock Filppula, he scored 10 goals in a little more than half a season last year and the season before that he had 14 assists with a full season. Playing with Z and Pav for a whole year and getting some confidence/experience, I could see him doubling those numbers. I'm not saying it absolutely will happen, but it's more than possible.


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Greg Bauch is sort of the fifth Beatle for WGR's Schopp and the Bulldog Show. Well, maybe the third, after Mike Schopp and Chris "The Bulldog" Parker.
Bauch produces the afternoon sports talk show, which is often a behind-the-scenes role that involves screening phone calls, booking occasional guests and consulting with the hosts about the day's topics.
Bauch also gets drawn into on-air discussions with Schopp and Parker, often to provide some comic relief.
"I jump on the air a lot and goof around," Bauch said Friday at WGR's studios in Amherst. "I'm in charge of making sure the show doesn't stay too serious. I almost attempt to take it off the rails once in awhile."
Bauch is the creator of the Greg Buck comedy segments, involving a fictitious old-time sports announcer. He also anchors sportscasts throughout the afternoon.
In addition to radio work, Bauch has gained a following of his own by branching out into standup comedy and novel writing. He has been doing standup for nine years, primarily in Buffalo-area clubs, and recently was an opening act for Mike Birbiglia at Helium Comedy Club downtown.
"My brother and I always used to watch A&E's 'Evening at the Improv' growing up," Bauch said. "That's the only standup comedy that was on television and our mom and dad would let us stay up late to watch it. I fell in love with comedy, always wanted to do it. I talked about it enough where my wife finally pushed me to take a class, at Comix Cafe before it closed.
"Comedy is really just a hobby; sometimes I'll get paid to do it, which is nice, but I just love the process."
Writing is another love of the 36-year-old Bauch. His weekly recaps of the TV show "The Bachelor" are a popular feature on WGR's website. And last summer, Bauch self-published his first novel, a comic tale called "Frank Dates," about a Buffalo guy's misadventures in the minefield known as dating.
"I'm always writing … it's always been a habit of mine. My mom was a writer. I just grew up in a house where I was hearing a typewriter. …
"She wrote a book, a novel that was ahead of its time about corruption in the Catholic Church. My mom was a full-time registered nurse. … She raised seven kids and she wrote a novel. So I guess my mom was my inspiration for a lot of stuff."
His novel "just kind of fell together. It took about a year and a half to write."
The book has sold around 400 copies, Bauch said. "I think that's pretty good, since I just promote it myself – though I have a radio station that helps."
How does he muster the will to turn off Twitter and other online distractions in order to crank out pages of a novel?
"It's very hard," he said. "But I write on an old computer that doesn't connect to the Internet. I would recommend that for anybody that's trying to write something, pull the Internet plug out."
Bauch has more than 5,300 followers on Twitter, a medium he does enjoy when he allows himself back online.
"Twitter has made watching the Bills and Sabres so much fun," he said. "It's like a party. You get the instant gratification if you tweet something funny or interesting."
His favorite feature of Twitter is the 140-character limit.
"I think the key to writing is editing. Too many words usually kills something, and picking the exact right word is kind of a passion of mine. I love finding the right word in a conversation. And sometimes it's even nonsense, but the right word fits.
"And that 140-character limit causes everyone to have to really check their work. I love Twitter for that – I think it helps writing in general."
Bauch studied broadcasting at SUNY Buffalo State. In his sophomore year, while working at the college radio station, Bauch got a foot in the door at WGR thanks to a fellow student named Mike Maniscalco, who then worked at WGR. Bauch learned the business by working overnight shifts with the late John Otto, a Buffalo Broadcasting Hall of Famer, on what was then called WGR News Radio 55.
"The John Otto show was really, really neat, because of who John was. I hit it off with John. I worked with him for five years, and he worked right up until he passed away.
"So I did overnights for a long time and just kind of learned radio, which is nice. People don't really have the opportunity to do that any more because radio has kind of run into this automation thing, where most overnights are kind of automated.
"I had the luxury of kind of getting good at radio overnight."
Bauch enjoys his job, he says, but that doesn't mean it doesn't contain some moments of high stress. He said that technology hiccups can drive him a little crazy.
"Sue O'Neil works at Star [102.5 FM] next door and she comes in here a lot to see what I'm screaming about. I like to yell a lot, I find that it helps, so I'm always yelling."
And then there is the Buffalo sports scene, which Bauch finds can bring him down.
"Mondays are tough; you come in after a Bills loss and there's a lot of negativity. And I don't like negativity. And I'm able to just watch a Bills game, be upset and then let it go.
"I understand what we do here is we are the voice of the fan, I guess. And a lot of those fans are unhappy and they need a voice to complain about it. Negativity can be a stress, definitely.
"But when it's good it can be awesome. Like that run in '99 by the Sabres. When the Bills start 5-1, this is like THE place to be, it's kind of like a big party."
If a Bills or Sabres losing streak gets him down, Bauch can always come back to "The Bachelor" for some mindless fun. Bauch said he started emailing a friend back and forth with quotes from the TV show a couple of years ago. Then he started writing recaps of the program on his personal blog.
"And then I put it on our station website, at wgr550.com. And Andy Roth, our boss at the time, said, 'You can't put this on the website.' But it got hits, so he's like, 'Well now you've got to do it every week.'
"So then it turned into a job. The show's terrible. It used to take itself very seriously and that was the fun in recapping. It took itself seriously, but it's about a guy that dates 25 women, so right there I have license to do whatever I want with the show.
"Because even if you believe in true love, even if you think it's very sincere, there's a man dating 25 women on television. The gloves are off, I think at that point.
"It's gotten to a point actually where I love recapping the show. … As terrible as that sounds. Saying that out loud is very sad."
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Tchaikovsky's Winter Dreams Violinist Gil Shaham returns in Mozart's Fifth ("Turkish") Violin Concerto with sweet melodies and a hint of military-Turkish music. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Walker was co-commissioned by the PSO and three other orchestras to write "Strands." And guest conductor Arild Remmereit leads Tchaikovsky's Symphony #1 Winter Dreams" is one of his earliest and masterful works.12/14/2012
'Tis the Season for Singing A choral concert featuring John Rutter's Gloria with brass and organ. Philip Aley conducts.12/14/2012
Holiday Concert with Joe Negri The Orchestra of the Alleghenies (formerly McKeesport Symphony), gives its annual holiday concert with legendary guitarist Joe Negri (Mister Rogers Neighborhood). Bethel Park High School (Dec 14 @ 7:30pm) & McKeesport High School (Dec 16 @ 2:00pm).12/14/2012
Continental Christmas Tenor Joseph Gaines has recently turned heads in performances with Pittsburgh Opera, Houston's Ars Lyrica, and Apollo's Fire. Now he joins Chatham Baroque for a celebration of seasonal vocal music from the Old and New Worlds, featuring music of Bach, Handel, Corelli, as well as some of America's earliest Hymns and Carols.12/14/2012
Navidad Caribe - Coro Latinoamericano Coro Latinoamericano's Christmas concert, Navidad Caribe," is a joyous and rhythmic celebration of songs from all over the Caribbean. Free admission, donations suggested. Info: 412 345-1047.12/15/2012
Transeamus The Pittsburgh School for the Choral Arts & Oakland Girls Choirs invite you on a musical journey from darkness to light featuring Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols, the Pittsburgh premiere of Frank LaRocca's Magnificat, carols from around the world, and carols arranged by David Willcocks, John Rutter, et. al.12/15/2012
Youth Philharmonic Plays Sounds of the Season The Pittsburgh Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and Prelude Ensembles play a free concert of festival holiday music.12/15/2012
A Christmas Festival Anderson: A Christmas Festival; Corelli: "Christmas Concerto"; Holst: Christmas Day; Anderson: Sleigh Ride; Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker excerpts. Vocals by Maria Mauti.12/15/2012
Decembersongs Imagine four acclaimed singer-songwriters, Grammy nods among them, criss-crossing the USA throughout December, trading original holiday songs in a Bluebird Café-styled "writers-in-the-round" tour before intimate rapt audiences. That was the brainchild when Amy Speace conceived of Decembersongs in 2010 with her colleagues Jon Vezner, Dan Navarro and Sally Barris.12/15/2012
Songs of the Season Carl Iezzi conducts Christmas on Broadway, arranged by John Higgins; Christmas Joy, by Sammy Nestico; Miracle on 34th Street, by Bruce Broughton; and Christmas Festival, by Leroy Anderson. Plus, Neil Stahurski directs the choir from the Church of the Assumption in Bellevue.12/16/2012
Messiah Sing-Along You're invited to sing five choruses with the Calvary Renewal Choir and Festival Orchestra conducted by David Bridge. Soloists include QED's Anna Singer, and Paula Signorino-Richter, Christopher Quigley, and Daniel Teadt.12/16/2012
Festival of Lessons and Carols Short seasonal scripture readings are followed by choral or handbell arrangements of traditional carols telling the story from the fall of Adam to the birth of the Christ child. Info: 412 835-4415.12/16/2012
Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols In the English tradition, a sequence of choral Christmas music and short scripture readings followed by High Tea in Brooks Hall.12/16/2012
Messiah Sing-Along St. Brendan's Episcopal Church in Franklin Park presents its 5th annual Messiah Sing Along conducted by Woody Brown. Free admission. Bring your own score, or purchase at the door.12/16/2012
Seasons: A Celtic Christmas A sibling harp and hammered dulcimer trio. All three play piano and try their hand at percussion.12/18/2012
Latshaw Pops Christmas Show The Latshaw Pops Orchestra, singers and dancers give two performances of a holiday variety show with Christmas songs and carols, and a special visit from Santa.12/19/2012
Works of Britten, Elgar, and Neruda Erin Yanacek solos in Johann Neruda's Trumpet Concerto. The ensemble also plays Edward Elgar's Serenade for Strings and Benjamin Britten's Simple Symphony. Edward Leonard and Marice Staton conduct. Free, donations welcome.12/19/2012
Highmark Holiday Pops Celebrate the season with carols and much-loved holiday music, including "Sleigh Ride" and selections from The Nutcracker. This multitude of holiday treats conducted by Daniel Meyer features vocalist Rachel DeShon, winner of Marvin Hamlisch's Search for a Star competition, and the return of singing detective Ricky Manning.12/20/2012
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As their goodwill tour of Asia continues, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are "saddened," angry and considering legal options as French magazine Closer published topless photos of Kate on Thursday.
"We certainly feel a red line's been crossed," a palace source tells PEOPLE of the photos, which were taken during William and Kate's private holiday in France. The source also said that the mood at the palace back home is "one of anger and disbelief."
News of the photos broke as William and Kate – dressed in headscarf – stepped out to visit Malaysia's largest mosque, in central Kuala Lumpur.
A statement from a St. James's Palace spokesman says, "Their Royal Highnesses have been hugely saddened to learn that a French publication and a photographer have invaded their privacy in such a grotesque and totally unjustifiable manner."
"The incident is reminiscent of the worst excesses of the press and paparazzi during the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, and all the more upsetting to The Duke and Duchess for being so," the statement continues. "Their Royal Highnesses had every expectation of privacy in the remote house. It is unthinkable that anyone should take such photographs, let alone publish them."
Adding that officials acting on their behalf are considering legal options, the statement says: "The Duke and Duchess remain focused currently on their Tour of Singapore, Malaysia, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu on behalf of HM The Queen."
The couple's next stop is a visit to the rainforests of Borneo.
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When he set out to run for Randolph County Commission, Kerens resident Mike House promised his supporters that even if he didn't win the election, he would seek answers to their questions about how the county was being run and how their tax dollars were being spent.
So, on Thursday afternoon at the County Commission's regular meeting, House - having lost the Nov. 6 county election to incumbent Commission President Mike Taylor - made good on his promise.
He read a prepared memo laying out questions and issues he said constituents had raised while he was on the campaign trail.
A few of those questions pertained to how county commission meetings were conducted. For instance, House, a pastor, wanted to know why county commission meetings "were not opened in prayer by one of the local pastors." House also asked why the time and location of county commission meetings - slated for the first and third Thursdays of every month at 1:30 p.m. at the James Cain Courthouse Annex - were "not made more available to more citizens of the county."
"Is it not possible to have varying times and locations?" he asked.
The majority of inquiries, however, centered upon financial matters. Noting that according to its October 2012 financial statement, the county has $4.6 million in uncommitted funds in its general account and $1.5 million in its financial stabilization (or rainy day) account, House took issue with several ways in which funds were being spent.
House asked why the volunteer fire departments were only receiving $14,000 annually when their operating budgets are approximately $75,000.
"Why has the Humane Society been budgeted $80,000 and yet charges for neutering/spaying animals they take in?" House asked. "They also refuse to take animals, at times, especially cats and are selling dogs to rescue companies ... In comparison to the VFDs, the Humane Society should be doing very well."
House also lamented the alleged failure of the County Commission to secure generators for all the volunteer fire departments in the county - especially in the aftermath of the June 29 derecho.
Contending that the county receives "several thousand dollars" from the 6 percent hotel/motel tax collected on each hotel/motel room rental in the area, House questioned why a portion of those funds were used "for projects other than tourism, such as the YMCA and Camp Pioneer."
"Why are the Railroad and tourist centers underfunded when adequate taxes are being collected?" House inquired. "Are the funds used for any advertising in high draw areas such as Pittsburgh, Harrisonburg, etc.?"
House said he hoped the commission would take the time to address each of the 12 items listed on his memo verbally at a future meeting or in writing.
"I would like to ask the commissioners to give these issues their serious attention," House concluded. "As elected officials, it is of utmost importance that you address the concerns of your constituents."
Several county officials took issue with some of House's claims.
Commissioner Joyce Johns informed House that the Randolph County Convention and Visitors Bureau did, in fact, use hotel/motel tax to pay for advertising in highly populated areas.
Jim Wise, acting director of the Randolph County Office of Emergency Management, refuted House's contention that the commission had failed to procure generators for all county VFDs.
"Those have been purchased and paid for, but we're at the mercy of the supplier and those who install them," Wise said, "but they are being put in as we speak. Between July and December, we researched them and purchased them and ordered them, and I actually think that's a pretty quick turnaround."
Wise also presented a review of the county's response to Superstorm Sandy. He said that although Sandy lasted longer than the June 29 derecho, the county had advance warning of the most recent storm and was able to amass assets - such as National Guard wellness teams and chainsaw crews - prior to it striking.
Wise said the OEM had encountered some shortfalls, the primary one being a lack of effective methods to communicate with various agencies and organizations.
Wise said the OEM has since developed a Facebook page (search for 'Randolph County Office of Emergency Management' on www.facebook.com) and will, in the future, station more amateur, or ham, radio operators at various locales throughout the county.
County Commissioner Chris See thanked Wise, who is also the E-911 director, for the "tremendous job" he'd done.
Taylor was not present at Thursday's meeting.
The Randolph County Courthouse will be closed on Monday, Dec. 24 and Tuesday, Dec. 25 for the Christmas holiday; it will also be closed Monday, Dec. 31 and Tuesday, Jan. 1 for the New Year's Day holiday.


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Webinar: Transformer and Inductor Modeling
Fanny Littmarck | January 31, 2013
Transformers are used to increase the voltage of an alternating current (AC) before moving it along the power grid via power lines. Since power lines lose energy through heating cased by electric currents, you can achieve more economical power transmission by transforming to a high voltage and low current. As a matter of fact, high voltage (HV) power transmission lines transmit portions of its power in the air surrounding it. Furthermore, as the current travels long distances through many transformer stages, small design-changes in transformers can have very large effects in overall power transmission. To show you how these design improvements can be made, we're holding a webinar on transformer and inductor modeling together with IEEE Spectrum on February 7th.
E-core transformer: the magnetic flux density norm and currents in the winding.
Transformer and Inductor Modeling, Coupling AC/DC and Heat Transfer
A transformer is made up of at least two inductors with coupled magnetic flux. Inductors are simply put passive two-terminal electrical components with energy stored in their magnetic field. High-frequency AC tends to flow through the outer layer of a conductor, referred to as "skin effect". The skin effect is important in terms of transformer efficiency as the frequency increases. As you can see, electrical and thermal effects are tightly coupled here, rendering this an excellent problem to solve using multiphysics simulation. In the webinar next week, Magnus Olsson, Product Manager of Electromagnetics, will show you how you can use COMSOL Multiphysics together with the AC/DC and Heat Transfer Module to simulate transformers and inductors. As usual, the webinar will begin with an overview of COMSOL, then Magnus will show you some examples specific to the topic. Among other things, you will see a demo video of the inductive heating of a billet as well as the modeling of a single-phase e-core transformer, with some tips and tricks along the way.
The Transformer and Inductor Modeling with COMSOL Multiphysics webinar is free-of-charge, but you will need to register in advance.
Further Reading
Find out how ABB used COMSOL Multiphysics to model transformers in COMSOL News 2012.


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Superstorm Sandy left astounding destruction in its wake left week, dumping up to 3 feet of snow on our area. The damp, heavy snow combined with high winds to bring down power lines and leave thousands without electricity for days.
Many in our area are still without power almost two weeks later, and even some whose electricity has been restored lost frozen food they had stored away for the coming winter.
The storm created a tremendous amount of need in local communities. Emergency officials and charities immediately set up shelters, providing food, water and heat to storm victims. All those who volunteered at shelters in the last two weeks are to be commended for their willingness to help their neighbors during a crisis.
Now civic-minded individuals are creating new programs and charitable events to help deal with the post-Sandy need for food in our area.
A Community and Compassion Food Drive is being sponsored by the Elkins Rotary Club, Randolph County Schools and the Randolph County Alternative Learning Center. Nonperishable food items will be collected from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. through Sunday.
Collection sites have been set up at Elkins Kmart, Elkins Walmart, Elkins Big Lots, Erickson's Service Station and Shop 'n Save Express in Elkins.
Food collected will be distributed to Tyrand Cooperative Ministries in Mill Creek, Catholic Charities West Virginia, the back pack program and the Rock.
Requests for charitable Thanksgiving food baskets from Catholic Charities West Virginia have more than doubled from last year, the organization's Cindy Hammer said this week.
With so much need, it will take more individuals and organizations displaying that "neighbor helping neighbor" spirit to make sure that no storm victims go hungry. We urge anyone who can contribute time or money to get involved.


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Prep Time 10 minutes |
Cook Time 20 minutes
1 cup Eden Caribbean Black Beans, do not drain
1 tsp Eden Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 clove garlic, minced
1/4 cup onion, diced
1/2 cup carrots, diced
1/2 cup celery, diced
1 cup water
1 tsp fresh parsley, minced
1/2 tsp Eden Shoyu Soy Sauce, or to taste
Heat oil in a saucepan, and sauté onions and garlic for 2 minutes. Sauté celery and carrots for 1 to 2 minutes. Add the black beans, and water. Cover, and bring to a boil. Reduce the flame to medium-low, and simmer for 10 minutes. Reduce the flame to low, add the shoyu, cover, and simmer another 5 minutes. Garnish with parsley before serving.
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE — For generations, Lake Tahoe has inspired untold numbers of people fortunate enough to view its pristine waters and forest-cloaked mountains. For countless summers, American Indians of the Washoe, Maidu, and Paiute tribes foraged, fished and hunted the region's natural bounty.
Their ancestors, prehistoric nomadic tribes who spent their winters in the high desert and California valleys, also took advantage of the mild alpine summers in the Sierra Nevada to collect edible and medicinal roots, seeds and marsh plants. In the Truckee area, there is archeological evidence of Washoe villages dating back at least 8,000 years. The Washoe had named the Truckee River "a'wakhu wa't'a," and they called Lake Tahoe "da'aw."
The region's nomenclature changed dramatically in 1844 when Captain John C. Fremont led a small expedition into present-day Western Nevada. Fremont had earlier surveyed the Rocky Mountains, but this was his first mapping mission of the geographical region he later named the "Great Basin."
The Paiute chief Truckee was certain that the Anglo-Americans were the tribe's ancestral white brothers and he greeted them warmly. In his journal, Charles Preuss, a European cartographer with the Fremont expedition, noted one of their first encounters with the tribe: "January 15, 1844. During a short day's march we reached a deep lake [Fremont named it Pyramid for the giant pyramid-shaped rock near its eastern shore], but do not yet know whether it is Mary's Lake or not." [Mary's Lake was the name for the end of the Humboldt River. Pyramid Lake is the terminus of the Truckee River.] Preuss continued: "The lake has no outlet, but a small river flows into it. Near where we are camping, the river is swarming with magnificent salmon-trout. We traded a few trinkets for a whole load of fish from the Indians and I almost ate myself into oblivion. The winter is rather mild here, if only the wind would not blow so often." After observing the abundant fish in the desert stream, Fremont called it "Salmon-Trout River."
The name would be changed to Truckee River later that same year after the chief helped the first immigrant wagon train (Stephens-Murphy-Townsend) in their epic overland crossing into California.
Fremont and his band continued their journey south, where they came upon two more streams emanating from the snow-covered mountains. Fremont named the first one "Carson" after his friend and guide Christopher "Kit" Carson. The third and most southern of the rivers was named for Joseph Walker, a noted mountain man accompanying this expedition. He blazed Walker Pass in the southern Sierra, the first snow-free route to the Pacific Ocean. Fremont spoke to the Indians about reaching California. One of the tribal elders told him that "before the snows fell it was six sleeps to the place where the whites lived, but that now it was impossible to cross the mountain on account of the deep snow. And showing us that it was over our heads, he urged us strongly to follow the course of the river [Carson], which he said would conduct us to a lake [Tahoe], in which there were many large fish."
In desperate need of supplies, Fremont decided to tackle the mountains despite the warnings. He wrote: "In the morning I acquainted the men with my decision, and explained to them of the beautiful valley of the Sacramento, with which they were familiar from the descriptions of Kit Carson, who had been there some 15 years ago, and who had delighted us in speaking of its rich pastures and abounding game. Carson drew a vivid contrast between the summer climate less than 100 miles distant, and the falling snow around us."
The men prepared as best they could by dressing in leggings, along with moccasins and heavy clothing to resist the snow and cold. Fremont's men were uncharacteristically silent, but they pushed on using large wooden mallets to break the snowpack's crust. Pruess complained, "This surpasses all the hardships that I have experienced until now. Here all we have is a buffalo hide on the snow as our bed." On Feb. 14, 1844, while climbing an isolated peak, Preuss and Fremont "discovered" Lake Tahoe. Fremont named it Lake Bonpland in honor of Aime Bonpland, a French botanist.
But for once Fremont's official appellation didn't stick because in 1854, supporters of California's governor John Bigler named the lake for him. During the Civil War, Union sentiment objected to calling the lake Bigler because the former governor was an outspoken secessionist, and a political movement was started to designate the phonetically-sounding Washoe name, "Tahoe" meaning "water in a high place." California did not restore the lake's original Native American name until 1945, when the State legislature officially renamed it Lake Tahoe in honor of the first "Americans" to call it home.
— Tahoe historian Mark McLaughlin is a nationally published author and photographer. His award-winning books are available at local stores or at www.thestormking.com. Follow Mark's blog at www.tahoenuggets.com


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KENNESAW, Ga. - The Stetson men's basketball team (4-9, 1-1) evened its Atlantic Sun Conference record with a road victory over Kennesaw State (1-13, 0-2) on Wednesday. The Hatters scored the final 10 points of the game to top the Owls 70-60 in the final contest of a five-game road trip.
With 2:40 left in the game, senior Adam Pegg stole the ball from Kennesaw's Myles Hamilton and fed junior Chris Perez for a layup on the break to give Stetson a 60-54 lead. Four straight points by the Owls' star Markeith Cummings and a jumper by Hamilton tied the game at 60-60 with just 1:29 to play in the contest.
With their backs against the wall, the Hatters went through the flow of their offense to find Pegg in the post for his fifth basket of the game. The center powered through a Kennesaw State foul to score the bucket and then converted the three-point play at the free throw line to start the late Hatter rally.
"The best part of the and-one was that it came through execution of the offense," Stetson head coach Casey Alexander said. "We want Adam to stay under that defender. [Junior] Aaron [Graham] caught it ready to feed, he made a good pass, Adam expected somebody to be there to help, and he played through it, and he got us a huge three-point play."
The Owls missed a three-pointer on their next possession and Perez connected on a second-straight conventional three-point play to give the Hatters a late six point lead. With a couple of defensive stops, and a 4-for-4 final 20 seconds from the free throw line for senior Joel Naburgs, Stetson concluded its 10-point run and went on to win 70-60.
The Hatters shot the ball efficiently all night, going 25-of-41 (61.0%) from the floor and 8-of-15 (53.3%) from beyond the arc. The field goal percentage marked the first time Stetson shot 60 percent or better since a road win at USC Upstate on Jan. 8, 2011.
Kennesaw State was able to stay in the game by forcing Stetson into 18 turnovers, which the Owls turned into 20 points, and grabbing 14 offensive rebounds. KSU scored 11 second chance points, and held Stetson to just four offensive boards.
"I think it was completely the reason they were able to stay in the game," Alexander said of KSU's offensive rebounding. "They got all of them, and I know they didn't get a lot of first shot scores. We were much better defensively."
Working off of its defensive success against Mercer on Monday, Stetson held Kennesaw to just 39.3 percent (24-of-61) shooting from the floor and a dismal 18.8 percent (3-of-16) shooting from three-point range.
The only Owl who had much success shooting the ball was Aaron Anderson, who went 5-of-10 from the floor and scored 12 points. Cummings led Kennesaw State with 19 points and seven rebounds, while Hamilton finished with team highs of three assists and four steals.
Perez led the Hatters with 19 points on 8-of-10 shooting from the field, while adding six rebounds and a team-best three steals. Graham added 15 points on 6-of-8 shooting from the floor, including three triples.
Pegg chipped in with 14 points and a game high eight rebounds. Naburgs gave Stetson four players in the double figures, totaling 12 points, including his 4-of-4 free throw shooting to end the game.
The Hatters, now 1-1 in A-Sun play, will return home for the first time since Dec. 9 to host North Florida on Saturday, Jan. 5 at 3:15 p.m. Stetson will then welcome Jacksonville to the Edmunds Center on Monday, Jan. 7 before heading back on the road to take on ETSU and USC Upstate.


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South Carolina lawmakers insist they are not trying to censor our public colleges.
Noooo, they would never do anything as backward or heavy-handed as that.
The state House of Representatives this week stripped $52,000 from the College of Charleston's budget - the exact cost of its "College Reads" program - because it doesn't want to pay for any liberal indoctrination hooey that the faculty or staff might push on freshmen.
Even though the state's meager appropriations to the college don't actually pay for the program, or much of anything else anymore.
That's not censorship, they say. But that's the way it's going to be, unless the state Senate stands up for the college. So if the College of Charleston wants to hold on to that minuscule percentage of its budget that actually comes from the state, perhaps the faculty should stick to this safe, informative and politically approved reading list:
The Steve Spurrier Story, because there is nothing as patriotic, inspirational or important to a college education as winning at football.
The South Carolina Ordinance of Secession. But whatever you do, don't pull out the accompanying "Declaration of Immediate Causes of Secession."
The 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, because all freshmen need to know it is their right to carry a gun in a King Street bar.
Note: Just skip over the 1st Amendment because in South Carolina there is no guarantee of free speech. Or, apparently, academic freedom.
Last summer, an advocacy group called Palmetto Family got upset when the College of Charleston selected "Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel as its "College Reads" book for the upcoming academic year.
This program encourages students to read things they might not otherwise, and the books are selected for their subjects and ability to be discussed in several disciplines.
"Fun Home" was critically acclaimed when it was published, but Palmetto Family doesn't like it because it deals with homosexuality. And because it's a graphic novel, the book - gasp - includes pictures. Palmetto Family said because a handful of the pictures include nudity, the book is darn near pornography.
And they should know because they looked at every single page - twice.
Too bad they didn't read it because "Fun Home" is a sometimes disturbing, always unvarnished look at a complicated issue. It far from glorifies homosexuality.
This is a subject that college freshmen often know little about, and college is supposed to be about expanding your knowledge - learning about different things and making up your own mind. Students were not required to agree with the book, or even read it. They were supposed to discuss it. That's learning.
You know, it's funny how conservatives preach about keeping the government out of people's lives, but then use it to shut down anything they don't like. So the Legislature, led by some Upstate busybodies, yanked the C of C money and said "Fun Home" is inappropriate for "children."
Yeah, that's not the Legislature's job. Otherwise people might start to get the idea that their kids shouldn't attend college in a state run by a bunch of redneck legislators.
They'd better watch out; that could screw up Spurrier's recruiting.
Go private?
College professors and staff from schools around the state are pretty worried about this.
The Legislature not only has docked the College of Charleston over this but also cut funds at USC's Upstate campus for carrying a book with homosexual themes. Lawmakers also briefly considered cutting the budgets of any college that used nude models in art class - by $1 million.
What's next, burning people at the stake or making them wear scarlet letters?
Funny, lawmakers don't seem much like prudes when you see them in the Columbia bars after hours.
MUSC's Faculty Senate passed a resolution this week urging lawmakers not to restrict academic freedom. That was pretty bold, and a sign of how serious this is.
Let's hope MUSC gets a better reception than the College of Charleston's Student Government Association. The students sent letters to lawmakers asking that they restore the funding and allow academic freedom on campus.
State Rep. Stephen Goldfinch, a Georgetown Republican, replied that if they didn't like it, the school could go private.
"At that point, you can require obscene pornographic mandatory reading without any intervention from the people who fund your school now," Goldfinch wrote.
First, the college might as well be private, given how little the state contributes to it. And second, that's a great way to talk to students - particularly when his wife is on the C of C Board of Trustees.
It's pretty bad when a bunch of college students have a better understanding of academic freedom - and constitutional rights - than politicians. But then, opportunists like Goldfinch are only concerned with pandering to their basest base.
Our lawmakers need to get their narrow minds out of the gutter and let colleges do what they want. Remember: knowledge is good.
Unless, of course, you depend on a widespread lack thereof to keep getting re-elected.
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By Todd Irwin
Altoona senior T.J. Brandt has close to 100 medals since he started wrestling in elementary school, and he's kept all of them.
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Altoona's T.J. Brandt tries to turn BEA's Joseph Powers during the 138-pound finals.
The gold medal that hung around his neck Saturday night at the Altoona Fieldhouse will have a special place.
"This is going on my wall," he said with a smile.
Brandt (26-3) , the school's all-time win leader with 120, added another first by becoming the first Mountain Lion to win four District 6 Tournament titles, pinning his way through the tourney, including one in 2:27 of Bald Eagle Area's Joe Powers in the finals.
"It feels good," Brandt said. "Something I've been looking for all year. Now, I can look forward to regionals. [Winning a title] feels different every year."
"The one good thing about that is nobody can ever beat that when you win four," Altoona coach Joel Gilbert said. "As long as their is wrestling, he'll be among the greatest District 6 has ever had."
Then, he added another highlight later as he was voted the Outstanding Wrestler by the media. It's the first time an Altoona wrestler has been voted OW. It's his third OW award of the season.
Altoona went 2-for-4 in the finals as D.J. Hollingshead (132) also won a title, and Markief Knode (160) and Mante Barnes (195) fell in the finals. Hollidaysburg went 2-for-2 as Damian Huff (106) and Matt Barton (285) captured titles.
[Hollingshead and Brandt] looked very tough out there," Gilbert said. "T.J. Brandt was the Outstanding Wrestler and took it to every opponent he had, and so did D.J. Hollingshead. Both of those men work very hard, train very hard and all of their hard work paid off."
"That was absolutely fantastic," Hollidaysburg coach Mike Moore said. "Matt has been working on trying to deal with Poorman's underhook the last couple weeks, and he obviously got that done tonight. We're ecstatic. I can't recall the last time we had two champs [2005]. Great feeling, great night."
Philipsburg-Osceola's Brian Evans (126) and Jay Prentice (170) had to settle for second place.
Mifflin County captured its first team title by nine points, 198.5-189.5, over Central Mountain, stopping the Wildcats' six-year run. Bald Eagle Area (166.5) was third.
Brandt, who finished his district career with nine pins, a technical fall and a major decision, took a 5-0 lead over Powers into the second period, where he hit a cement mixer, put Powers on his back and got the fall. Brandt had a big smile on his face as he ran off the mat.
The most joyous reaction among the area champs was by Barton, who had never beaten Bellefonte's Garrett Poorman. Barton (25-3) broke open a scoreless tie in the second with a takedown, rode tough the rest of the second and all of the third before scoring two back points as the buzzer sounded to win, 4-0.
"To finally beat him in the district championship is just amazing," Barton said. "It feels great.
Before the referee even raised his hand, Barton jumped into the arms of much smaller coach Mike Moore as the Hollidaysburg section celebrated.
"My sophomore year, I finished fifth here, and I decided back then if I ever won districts, I was going to jump into his arms," Barton said. "I was just excited, and he handled it."
"When you weigh about 140, and you have 280 pounds coming at you and jumping and you've got a bad neck, I almost went down," Moore said. "But, it was well worth it. He did a great job."
Huff (21-2), who finished fourth in last year's tournament, reached the finals with a 12-1 win over Bald Eagle Area's Coby Bainey in the semifinals, and then he earned the title with a 5-1 victory over Bellefonte's second-seeded Luke Leathers.
Huff struck first against the taller Leathers with a takedown in the first period, and he led 2-1 entering the third. Leathers gave up an escape, and Huff took him down at the edge of the mat with 1:12 left.
Huff rode him the rest of the way, he pumped his fist when the final buzzer sounded. Huff high-fived coach Mike Moore when he got back to his corner, and he climbed into the Hollidaysburg section later.
"It feels good," Huff said. "I've been at it for three years now, and I managed to pull it out this year. I worked hard over the offseason, and I just got it done."
"He wrestled pretty cautiously in the finals," Moore said. "He probably could have done more to open it up, but he wrestled a smart match."
Huff, a returning state qualifier, said last year's experience at a deep weight class helped him.
"It showed me I need to work harder," he said, "and not only could I beat them, but I could also get to that state level. Regionals is going to be a lot deeper. There's a lot of tough kids there."
Hollingshead (31-3), a returning runner-up, piled up three takedowns and an 8-4 lead on Mifflin County's Lucas Besch before he pancaked Besch to his back and pinned him in 3:54.
"It just kind of happened," Hollingshead said of the pancake. "I had a pretty comfortable lead. This feels amazing after taking second last year."
"He hit it quick, didn't he?" Gilbert said. "When you do stuff like good things are going to happen to you, no matter who it's against."
Knode dropped a 1-0 decision to Central Mountain's top-seeded Gavin Caprio in the finals. Knode forced the action in the third, but he wasn't able to get a takedown.
Barnes dropped a 7-4 decision to Bald Eagle Area's Aaron Varner. Varner was leading 5-3 in the second, but it appeared Barnes had scored a takedown right before the buzzer. Gilbert questioned the referee, but the call held up. A Barnes late takedown attempt was stopped and called a stalemate.
"I tell you what, there were a few questionable calls out there," Gilbert said, "and I think it cost us the bout tonight. I feel bad for the kid.
"We also lost a 1-0 match, and I have to give kudos to the kid from Central Mountain. The Caprio boy has very good head, hands defense. We're just unable to break that this evening."
Evans dropped a 4-1 decision to Mifflin County freshman Noah Stewart, who had a first-period takedown and second-period reversal.
Prentice was beaten by Bellefonte's returning champion and 2012 Outstanding Wrestler Nick Shawley, 5-0. Neither P-O finalist could get off the bottom in the third.
"We were too close to the vest in the finals," P-O coach Tim McCamley said. "There were a lot of nerves working, I'm sure. It's the first time they've been in a big match like that, but they wrestled hard. They had a good tournament. They're the two hardest working guys in the room."
Notes: P-O, Altoona and Hollidaysburg advanced a combined 16 wrestlers to the Northwest Regional. P-O had seven qualifiers, and Altoona had six. Hollidaysburg advanced three to regionals. ... Mifflin County coach Kirby Martin was voted the Coach of the Year. ... Altoona, P-O and Hollidaysburg finished fifth, sixth and seventh. ... BEA's Jake Taylor won his third title.CLASS AAA TOURNAMENT
1. MC-Mifflin County 198.5; 2. CM-Central Mountain 189.5; 3. BEA-Bald Eagle Area 166.5; 4. B-Bellefonte 134.5; 5. A-Altoona 128.5; 6. PO-Philipsburg-Osceola 115; 7. H-Hollidaysburg 89; 8. J-Johnstown 27.
106-Huff, H, maj. dec. Bainey, BEA, 12-1; Leathers, B, maj. dec. D. Wilson, MC, 12-2; 113-Giedroc, BEA, maj. dec. Witherite, B, 13-5; Hidlay, MC, pinned Bottorf, CM, 4:52; 120-Corl, B, dec. Andrus, CM, 7-2; Underhill, MC, pinned Sills, SC, 2:39; 126-Stewart, MC, dec. C. Hanley, CM, 3-2; Evans, PO, dec. Rosenberger, B, 2-1; 132-Hollingshead, A, tech. fall McCaslin, BEA, 16-1, 5:07; Besch, MC, dec. Watt, CM, 5-0; 138-Brandt, A, pinned Bair, MC, :34; Powers, BEA, pinned Shively, PO, 5:09; 145-B. Wilson, MC, dec. Yarger, PO, 7-3; Horner, SC, dec. Kephart, B, 6-3.
152-Reese, CM, tech. fall Cable, B, 16-1, 5:32; Knarr, MC, pinned Ca. Walls, H, 3:45; 160-Caprio, CM, dec. Stover, SC, 3-1; Knode, A, dec. M. Taylor, BEA, 7-1; 170-Shawley, B, dec. Verbitskey, BEA, 6-0; Prentice, PO, dec. Stacey, CM, 4-1; 182--J. Taylor, BEA, pinned Kephart, A, 1:01; Buckwalter, CM, maj. dec. Lumadue, PO, 8-0; 195-Varner, BEA, pinned Pulcine, H, :30; Barnes, A, pinned Hannon, MC, 2:46; 220-Sharkey, BEA, dec. Gray, PO, 5-1; Porter, CM, dec. Kahley, MC, 5-4 OT TB; 285-Poorman, B, dec. Rhodes, MC, 2-0; Barton, H, dec. Rosenberry, A, 4-1 OT TB.
106-Catral, SC, dec. Moore, CM, 7-2; Bryan, A, tech. fall Quick, PO, 15-0, 3:48; 113-Barnhart, PO, pinned Querry, A, 2:03; 120-Kociola, H, dec. Kachik, BEA, 6-0; 126-Stine, BEA, dec. Hagg, H, 9-5; 132-Kephart, PO, pinned Hall, J, 2:35; Co. Walls, H, dec. Musser, B, 4-1; 138-Holden, SC, pinned Toscano, H, 1:55; Knepp, CM, maj. dec. Ault, B, 9-0.
152-Haun, SC, pinned N. Scheinberg, A, 2:19; White, J, pinned Guy, PO, 2:07; 160-Wilson, J, pinned Shuey, PO, 4:03; Pierce, MC, dec. Wolk, H, 9-3; 170-Bilofsky, H, pinned Dillen, A, 1:35; Corson, MC, pinned Piscatello, J, 1:36; 182-Litvin, J, pinned Servello, H, :43; Cain, B, pinned Vandervort, SC, 1:59; 195-Long, CM, pinned Benford, B, 1:20; 220-Putnam, B, dec. Forrer-Lewis, SC, 9-3; 285-Gawryla, BEA, pinned Kusmierz-Mobley, SC, :54; B. Hanley, CM, pinned Eckenrode, J, 3:36.
106-Catral, SC, dec. D. Wilson, MC, 6-1; Bainey, BEA, tech. fall Bryan, A, 17-1, 4:31; 113-Bottorf, CM, pinned Bowser, H, 1:32; Witherite, B, maj. dec. Barnhart, PO, 14-0; 120-Descavish, PO, pinned Sills, SC, 2:34; Andrus, CM, dec. Kociola, H, 10-5; 126-Myers, SC, dec. Rosenberger, B, 8-2; C. Hanley, CM, pinned Stine, BEA, :26; 132-Watt, CM, pinned Kephart, PO, 2:14; McCaslin, BEA, dec. Co. Walls, H, 4-2; 138-Shively, PO, dec. Holden, SC, 2-1; Bair, MC, dec. Knepp, CM, 5-3; 145-Kephart, B, dec. Bender, A, 2-0; Yarger, PO, dec. Masorti, CM, 3-0.
152-Ca. Walls, H, pinned Haun, SC, 3:53; White, J, dec. Cable, B, 4-0; 160-M. Taylor, BEA, maj. dec. Wilson, J, 15-5; Stover, SC, dec. Pierce, MC, 3-1; 170-Stacey, CM, pinned Bilofsky, H, 4:20; Verbitskey, BEA, dec. Corson, MC, 10-4; 182-Lumadue, PO, pinned Litvin, J, :38; Kephart, A, pinned Cain, B, 2:04; 195-Hannon, MC, dec. Alvarez, SC, 3-2; Long, CM, maj. dec. Pulcine, H, 12-4; 220-Kahley, MC, dec. J. Scheinberg, A, 10-4; Gray, PO, pinned Putnam, B, :59; 285-Rosenberry, A, dec. Gawryla, BEA, 8-3; Rhodes, MC, pinned B. Hanley, CM, 1:38.
106-D. Wilson, MC, tech. fall Bryan, A, 16-0, 2:07; 113-Bowser, H, pinned Barnhart, PO, :59; 120-Sills, SC, tech. fall Kociola, H, 16-0, 2:44; 126-Rosenberger, B, pinned Stine, BEA, 1:10; 132-Kephart, PO, maj. dec. Co. Walls, H, 14-3; 138-Holden, SC, dec. Knepp, CM, 9-5; 145-Masorti, CM, pinned Bender, A, 2:57.
152-Cable, B, dec. Haun, SC, 5-0; 160-Wilson, J, dec. Pierce, MC, 6-4; 170-Corson, MC, dec. Bilofsky, H, 9-6; 182-Cain, B, dec. Litvin, J, 8-4; 195-Pulcine, H, pinned Alvarez, SC, 3:56; 220-J. Scheinberg, A, pinned Putnam, B, :20; 285-Gawryla, BEA, dec. B. Hanley, CM, 4-2.
106-Bainey, BEA, pinned Catral, SC, 2:22; 113-Bottorf, CM, pinned Witherite, B, 3:16; 120-Andrus, CM, maj. dec. Descavish, PO, 12-4; 126-C. Hanley, CM, dec. Myers, SC, 4-2; 132-Watt, CM, dec. McCaslin, BEA, 6-0; 138-Bair, MC, won by injury default over Shively, PO; 145-Kephart, B, dec. Yarger, PO, 3-0.
152-White, J, dec. Ca. Walls, H, 1-0; 160-Stover, SC, dec. M. Taylor, BEA, 1-0; 170-Stacey, CM, dec. Verbitskey, BEA, 3-0; 182-Lumadue, PO, pinned Kephart, A, 3:51; 220-Gray, PO, dec. Kahley, MC, 3-2 OT UTB; 285-Rosenberry, A, dec. Rhodes, MC, 6-0.
106-Huff, H, dec. Leathers, B, 5-1; 113-Hidlay, MC, maj. dec. Giedroc, BEA, 9-1; 120-Corl, B, dec. Underhill, MC, 5-1; 126-Stewart, MC, dec. Evans, PO, 4-1; 132-Hollingshead, A, pinned Besch, MC, 2:27; 138-Brandt, A, pinned Powers, BEA, 2:27; 145-B. Wilson, MC, dec. Horner, SC, 6-4.
152-Reese, CM, dec. Knarr, MC, 2-1; 160-Caprio, CM, dec. Knode, A, 1-0; 170-Shawley, B, dec. Prentice, PO, 5-0; 182-J. Taylor, BEA, dec. Buckwalter, CM, 7-3; 195-Varner, BEA, dec. Barnes, A, 7-4; 220-Sharkey, BEA, maj. dec. Porter, CM, 11-1; 285-Barton, H, dec. Poorman, B, 4-0.
Outstanding Wrestler-T.J. Brandt, Altoona. Coach of the Year-Kirby Martin, Mifflin County.


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A bitterly cold Alaskan summer has had surprising results. For the first time in the area's recorded history, area glaciers have begun to expand, rather than shrink. Summer temperatures, which were some 3 degrees below average, allowed record levels of winter snow to remain much longer, leading to the increase in glacial mass.
"In mid-June, I was surprised to see snow still at sea level in Prince William Sound", said glaciologist Bruce Molnia. "In general, the weather this summer was the worst I have seen in at least 20 years".
"On the Juneau Icefield, there was still 20 feet of new snow on the surface [in] late July. At Bering Glacier, a landslide I am studying [did] not become snow free until early August."
Molnia, who works for the US Geological Survey, said it's been a "long time" since area glaciers have seen a positive mass balance -- an increase in the total amount of ice they contain.
Since 1946, the USGS has maintained a research project measuring the state of Alaskan glaciers. This year saw records broken for most snow buildup. It was also the first time since any records began being that the glaciers did not shrink during the summer months.
Those records date from the mid 1700s, when the region was first visited by Russian explorers. Molnia estimates that Alaskan glaciers have lost about 15% of their total area since that time -- an area the size of Connecticut.
One of the largest areas of shrinkage has been at the national park of Glacier Bay. When Alexei Ilich Chirikof first arrived in 1741, the bay didn't exist at all -- only a solid wall of ice. From that time until the early 1900s, the ice retreated some 50 miles, to form the bay and surrounding area.
Accordingly to Molnia, a difference of just 3 or 4 degrees is enough to shift the mass balance of glaciers from rapid shrinkage to rapid growth. From the 1600s to the 1900s, that's just the amount of warming that was seen, as the planet exited the Little Ice Age.
Molnia says one cold summer doesn't mean the start of a new climatic trend. At least years like this, however, might mark the beginning of another Little Ice Age.
As DailyTech reported earlier, Arctic sea ice this year has also increased substantially from its low in 2007.
quote: Getting off fossil fuels, means using less over time until you use none. It does not mean drilling here.
quote: If smog issues are solved, how come we still have smog? How come we have asthmatics who can't go outside on red days? Why do we still have red days? Maybe you just don't go outside.
quote: You would probably still gripe about solar energy even if solar panels were being given away for free.
quote: As for nuclear... I noticed that you failed to include safe in your list of the benefits of nuclear power. I personally am not against nuclear power in concept. I am against using outdated technologies that result in abundant amounts of untreatable waste, and do not address sustainability and safety.


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BELLEVILLE - Paul S. Zook, 92, of Valley View Haven, Belleville, passed away peacefully at 3:15 a.m. Wednesday, July 10, 2013, at the Haven.
Born Feb. 13, 1921, in Belleville, he was a son of the late Frank and Sadie (Stoltzfus) Zook. His first wife, Elizabeth (Alexander) Zook, preceded him in death on March 24, 1993. His second wife, Elizabeth G. (Heaps) Fleming Zook, of 250 Hartzler Drive, Belleville, survives.
He is survived by: children, Franklin A. Zook and companion, Mary Lee Sheaffer, of Reedsville, and Paula Hoenstine and husband, Bill, of Lewistown and Orlando; grandchildren, Jason and Jennifer Zook; great-granddaughter, Brooke Hoenstine; sister, Lois King; sister-in-law, Janet Zook, both of Belleville; as well as a number of special nieces and nephews.
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He was preceded in death by: his grandson, Brian Hoenstine; his twin sister, Pauline Peachey; brothers, Loren and Floyd Zook; brothers-in-law, Mark King and Byron Peachey; and sisters-in-law, Dorothy Kocur and Margaret Rodriguez.
Paul was a graduate of Belleville High School. After graduation, he served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was on board the USS Savannah.
When he returned to Belleville, he owned and operated Zook's Grocery Store for four years. After that, he went to work in the welding and maintenance department at New Holland, where he retired with 32 years of service.
Paul attended Locust Grove Mennonite Church, was a former member of West Kishacoquillas Presbyterian Church and was a member of Stoup- Alexander VFW Post 5935, Belleville.
He enjoyed hunting, watching Penn State sports and being outdoors, especially in the mountains.
Paul was a skilled handyman; he and two of his friends built their camp, the Mule-Drift Lodge, in Stone Valley. He enjoyed spending time there with his family and friends.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 13, 2013, at Valley View Haven Chapel, with Pastors Max Zook and Gerald Peachey officiating. Inurnment will be in Machpelah Cemetery.
His family will receive friends from 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday, at the chapel.
The family will provide all flowers. Should friends desire, memorial donations may be made to Valley View Haven, 4702 E. Main St., Belleville, PA 17044, or Locust Grove Mennonite Church, 3358 W. Main St., Belleville PA 17004.
Arrangements are under the care of Henderson Funeral Home, Inc., 3813 W. Main St., Belleville.


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Speaking at the annual HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) conference in New
York, security researcher Joe Klein of Command Information said
that the internet is full of computers surreptitiously running IPv6,
unbeknownst to their owners. Compounding the problem is the number of operating
systems shipped with IPv6 enabled by default, which includes Windows Vista,
Linux's 2.6 kernel, Sun's Solaris, Mac OS X, and a variety of cell phones
operating systems, including Windows Mobile 5 and 6.
Computers with a lackluster IPv6 setup – even if they have a strong IPv4
firewall or Intrusion Detection System (IDS) in place – are just as naked in
IPv6 space as they would be in IPv4-space without a firewall, with any program
that listens for connections allowed to accept them. Most operating systems, by
default, use a handful of "listeners" used for networking and internal
processes – and it is these listeners that are frequently the first to be
targeted in an attack.
A number of computer worms, including Blaster
and its follow-up Welchia,
worked by exploiting a buffer overflow with Windows' internal RPC
infrastructure, which listens on port 135 and is ordinarily covered up by a
Network administrators who don't keep tabs of their systems face a huge
risk, said Klein. Operational dangers aside, administrators who work for
organizations that have to comply with regulations like HIPAA or Sarbanes-Oxley
risk non-compliance if they don't secure their IPv6 implementations – whether
they realize they have one or not.
"Essentially, we have systems that are wide open to a network," said Klein.
"It's like having wireless on your network without knowing it."
Security researchers have for some time found hackers exploiting IPv6. A 2002
post from Lance Spitzer of the Honeynet project observed a hacker that
broke in to a Solaris-based honeypot through normal means, enabled IPv6
connectivity in the OS, and then set up a tunnel out of the network that went
into another country. The break-in was only discovered due to network
packet-sniffing, and even then Spitzer says he was unable to decode the data
being sent out.
One of the biggest threats is the variety of backwards-compatibility schemes
designed to tunnel IPv6 traffic through an IPv4 system, like Teredo or the 6to4 system: the very act
of tunneling often circumvents firewalls by nature.
"Teredo/ISATAP is currently and will continue to be a major red flag for
networks that have both IP versions enabled, because tunneling confuses the
heck out of a lot of firewalls and IDS deployments," said an unnamed DoD
security specialist, in an interview with Wired's Threat Level.
With internet progressives trying to switch the internet to IPv6 as fast as
it can – a widget on Command Interface's web site estimates that the internet
will run out of IPv4 addresses in about two and a half years – some fear that
technological progress may be outpacing the security that keeps it safe.
quote: As touched on in another post here, this article is journalistic fear-mongering at its best.
quote: No system on the Internet behind a NAT/PAT or any hardware firewall is at any greater risk than before.
quote: So if a software firewall protecting such vulnerabilities for some reason wasn't blocking IPv6 access, then yes, IPv6 would be a big security risk at this point. Of course, if host-based software firewalls are really your last line of defense, your security schema has bigger problems than IPv6.
quote: One of the problems with IPv6 described by the researcher in the article is the ability to create tunnels using IPv6 that can evade packet inspection by firewalls that might catch IPv4 tunnels. This is a not a major vulnerability for the vast majority of organizations, and such vulnerabilities will probably always exist in some form.
quote: I am not trying to downplay or deny the fact that the very presence of IPv6 on many computers is inherently a security risk, but it's not nearly as big as the article is implying or the quoted security researcher seems to be saying.


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Module 1: Landmarks of Leadership (Online)
Tyndale collaborates with NextLEVEL Leadership to present to you a 6 session online course. The first of six sessions is "Landmarks of Leadership".
After more than a decade of engaging women across five continents in face to face training, NextLEVEL Leadership is extending its impact through the Internet. NextLEVEL Online will bring Christian leadership training to women worldwide. You will have access to leadership training designed by women for women.
You will participate in online discussion forums with other participants and your online mentor. You will use your electronic journal to record your private thoughts and reflections.
Our goal is to encourage and equip women to develop the character, confidence and competence necessary to have a credible voice in the decision making processes within the church and society, in order to influence our world for God.
Landmarks of Leadership – will cover:
- Section 1 – Thresholds: Integrative Leadership
- Section 2 – Keystones: Character
- Section 3 – Pillars: Confidence
- Section 4 – Milestones: Competence
- Section 5 – Gateways: Moving to the NextLEVEL of the Integrative Model


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Uh…that would be the cartoon characters, not the half-naked, dancing men.
Yeah, so I have been sleeping MUCH better lately. Yay for the melatonin supplement I've been taking! It really works, apparently, as I am actually able to fall and mostly stay asleep and even have REM cycles. I really like REM cycles. I am a SERIOUSLY ANGRY BEAR when I am sleep deprived.
Oh…a little side note for those of you who think like my husband…I am taking melaTONIN, not melaNOMA. Seriously, he is so weird.
But anyway, back to my dreams. I am dreaming and remembering them, which is like being reunited with an old friend of mine. I love remembering my dreams, they add extra color to my life.
So, this particular dream, myself, my husband, my friends, and (yes) Chip and Dale the cartoon characters from the days of yore are on a fishing boat in the ocean and we are fishing for sharks of all things. We aren't having much luck, so Chip (or perhaps Dale, as if it matters, lol) offer to be the bait. This works, we catch a shark. Then, when we are certain that Chip (or is it Dale?) has met his fate inside the belly of this ginormous shark, his voice startles all of us as he is looking on wondering what we are all doing standing around looking at a shark.
Then I woke up to a screaming baby.
Don't you wish you knew what happens next? I doubt it!
In case the friends are reading this, I intend to name you so that you know I have weird dreams about sharks and cartoon chipmunks (wearing next to nothing!) and YOU ARE INCLUDED! Heather, Dan and Athena…you were all there!! Mwahahahahaha!!!


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January 15, 2008
Wordless Wednesday: Oldie But Goodie
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Ohhh...soooo cute! =)ReplyDelete
Oh we have one of my boys in that same pose from PP! SO cute. Those little feet are scrumptious.ReplyDelete
Awwww...I would love to get my two to do that! What a sweet picture!ReplyDelete
so cute, I fell in love with those babies :)ReplyDelete
Aww that is so cute! Happy WWReplyDelete
This is my alltime favorite of them. Put a Big smile on my face this morning....ReplyDelete
Precious! Happy ww!ReplyDelete
oh...that is sooooo cute :DReplyDelete
My Wordless Wednesday in here
oh they are so cute ! Great pic !ReplyDelete
Oh that's GREAT!ReplyDelete
Happy WW!
Hard to believe they were ever that small!ReplyDelete
Awwww!! They look so little! So cute!ReplyDelete
Jane, Pinks & Blues
I love it! Happy WW!ReplyDelete
Oh my - what beautiful babies - I love this pic!ReplyDelete
Oh what a sweet photo... :) Happy WW!ReplyDelete
They are so sweet Steph.ReplyDelete
That's a sweet picture, and what handsome boys!!ReplyDelete
Happy WW :-)
Oh gosh, too cute!ReplyDelete
now that is incredibly ADORABLE!!ReplyDelete
Very cute! The facial expressions are priceless.ReplyDelete
Such a cute shot!ReplyDelete
awwww, that is CUTE!!!ReplyDelete
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Awwwww That is such a cute picture!!ReplyDelete
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Lovin' it! They grow oh so fast...ReplyDelete
So, so precious!!!ReplyDelete
oh my goodness! sweet brotherly love. :)ReplyDelete
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International Law from a Machiavellian Perspective
Anthony D'Amato
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
October 12, 2010
THE REALIST TRADITION AND CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, pp.82-95, W. David Clinton, ed., Louisiana State University Press, 2007
Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 10-61
Machiavelli leaves one with both an optimistic and a pessimistic prognostication for the post-Cold War world. On the one hand, the end of that conflict has opened the way for the spread of liberal, constitutional regimes, which he would say are inclined to be more and more meticulous in honoring their commitments. On the other, the temptation to use force to create new facts and thereby force international law into new paths will remain as long as politics is practiced. The contemporary relevance of Machiavelli may be seen in that he urged both realities upon us. I focus on a single incident that postdated the end of the Cold War – the show of force by the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the Taiwan Strait in March 1996.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 13
Keywords: Machiavelli, International Law, Two China Problem, Strait of Taiwan Show of Force (1996)
JEL Classification: K10, K30, K33
Date posted: October 13, 2010
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