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We would like to announce the Submit the Documentary Anti-Bullying T-shirt Design Contest. We need you to design a t-shirt that Middle School and High School students cannot wait to put on! Not only will kids want these shirts, but we will be distributing them to all ages across the world in promotion with our film "Submit the Documentary" which gives solutions to the growing trend of cyberbullying. This contest is ideal for aspiring graphic design students in High School or College.
The challenge: The design must emulate anti-bullying or cyberbullying. It does not need to be literal. The design can be conceptual, but must be able to make the connection that the concept is standing up to bullies. It must also relate to our cyberbullying film Submit the Documentary. What is "Submit the Documentary": The way we hurt each other has evolved ™. In today's digital generation, we stay in touch with the world and our friends through our phones, tablets and laptops. Digital devices are glued to our hands. It is easy to be invisible online. Anyone can be a cyberbully. Submit features interviews from affected teens, parents of victims, educators, experts and law enforcement as they tackle this worldwide issue, while offering solutions to this complicated problem. Prize includes contest winner's bio and picture featured on our website and promoted on our social media networks. Have your design featured world-wide at our film screenings and film festivals.
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Rules: Open to ages 16 and up. Open to residents in the US and Canada.
Contest: Ends at Midnight on July 1, 2013
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Cyberbullying is truly a year-round problem and Submit the Documentary is taking action to spread awareness and we hope that you help us spread the word. Even if you are not eligible for the contest host your own private screening of Submit the Documentary to raise awareness on cyberbullying and that this growing trend #NeverQuits.
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A multi-video series about the restoration of the dioramas in the Jill and Lewis Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals, now on amnh.tv and on the Museum's YouTube channel, documents their renovation. In this post, the fourth in a series, we share one of the videos, which explains how the animal models were originally created.
Marcus Samuelsson On Jan 10 Museum Panel "How To Feed a Growing Planet"
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Chef, author, and restaurateur Marcus Samuelsson joins activist Raj Patel and geneticist Molly Jahn for "How To Feed a Growing Planet"—an exciting roundtable at the Museum on January 10, 2013.
Adventures in the Global Kitchen: Root Vegetables with Alex Guarnaschelli
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Often overlooked root vegetables such as turnips and rutabaga can have a major impact on the Earth's ecosystem and biodiversity. In this podcast, join chef Alex Guarnaschelli and Eleanor Sterling, Director of the Museum's Center for Biodiversity, in a discussion about how our food shopping choices can affect sustainable agriculture.
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Witness the longest insect migration on earth—and the decades-long passion of one scientist—as the mystery of the monarchs unfolds in Flight of the Butterflies, which opens this Saturday, January 5, in the Museum's LeFrak IMAX Theater. Watch the trailer.
Theodore Roosevelt Tour of the Museum: Wading Birds Diorama
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The restored Theodore Roosevelt Memorial is now open, and a new self-guided tour—available as part of the Museum's Explorer app, or on our website—highlights exhibits and places around the Museum with a connection to TR, who was President from 1901 to 1909. In this post, the sixth in a series, we visit the Wading Birds diorama, in the Leonard C. Sanford Hall of North American Birds.

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The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra has been in the headlines for holding its own, at a time when many orchestras are struggling.
But that doesn't mean our orchestra has to play it completely safe. The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra's 2013-14 season, just announced, has a lot of surprises.
Some are sure bets. The BPO will be welcoming back the Sequinned One himself, former Principal Pops Conductor Doc Severinsen, for a sparkling evening in the fall. The concert for Mozart's birthday, a year from now, pairs Mozart's 24th Piano Concerto with a fascinating first for the BPO: Rimsky-Korsakov's "Mozart and Salieri," which Music Director JoAnn Falletta calls "a little jewel of an opera." And a concert of bracing Bartok, to be recorded for Naxos, is paired with a Beethoven concerto featuring celebrated pianist Simone Dinnerstein.
Other off-the-beaten-track music might challenge the audience more.
Percussionist Colin Currie is playing a concerto by Jennifer Higdon. Roman Mekinulov, the orchestra's principal cellist, is performing the world premiere of "Concierto Tango" by Miguel del Aguila, who wrote the concerto for him as a gift.
The opening gala features Yo-Yo Ma. He is not playing any of the traditional concertos, though. He is playing "Azul," a 25-minute piece by Osvaldo Golijov.
"It's an audience-friendly piece," Falletta says. "It also shows that Yo-Yo is the kind of person who is never resting on his laurels. He's always trying new things. He's a very curious, searching, enthusiastic person. He really wanted to do this piece. He said to us, 'This will really be a great piece for the audience.' He's doing the piece later that year with the New York Philharmonic. He's happy to do it in Buffalo."
BPO Executive Director Dan Hart has previewed the piece and gives it the thumbs-up.
"The one thing about new music these days is, people are writing in new and exciting ways," he says. "Just because you don't know something doesn't mean it's not melodious, rhythmically exciting, or powerful and emotional. I think that's the one thing JoAnn has the knack of," he adds, alluding to Falletta's care in choosing contemporary works. "We want to have a commitment to music of our time, contemporary composers. Just because it's new doesn't mean that it's not something people want to hear. There was a time when that was the case, when it turned people off."
Yo-Yo Ma kicks off a season of intriguing soloists. The next season promises to be a fine year for pianists. Philippe Bianconi, a success here in the past, is playing the demanding Rachmaninoff Third. Enrica Ciccarelli is playing Mozart, and Yakov Kasman is performing Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2. Jon Kimura Parker is bringing the season to a glamorous close with Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini."
Other soloists include Ricardo Morales, playing Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, and Benjamin Beilman, playing the famous violin concerto of Felix Mendelssohn. Soprano Heidi Grant Murphy, whose singing Hart admires, will be the soloist in Samuel Barber's poignant "Knoxville: Summer of 1915."
Hart is enthusiastic about the guest conductors. Gunther Herbig, conducting Bruckner, is heir to the great European traditions. Lawrence Rachleff is conducting a contrasting double bill of Beethoven and Ginastera. A newcomer from right down the road is Arild Remmereit, music director of the Rochester Philharmonic. Remmereit, who has been in the news recently because of his orchestra's problems, is presenting a program rich with Wagner.
In the realm of the pops, the BPO is famous for offering the unexpected. The orchestra lives up to its reputation with an appearance by cabaret artist Ann Hampton Callaway, singing the songs of Barbra Streisand. A tribute to Ray Charles is also on tap, and an evening of cirque performers.
Perhaps the most exotic concert is a Classics concert, called "East Meets West." The soloist is Wu Man, who plays the pipa, a four-stringed Chinese instrument. She is performing a pipa concerto by Zhao Jiping.
It is easy to believe Falletta and Hart when they say the season has something for everyone. Falletta is proud of that.
"We don't think of it as a small orchestra trying to play everyone's favorites," she says. "I look at Dan and I said, you know, this could be a Cleveland Orchestra, a New York Philharmonic Orchestra program. We're adventurous, we're challenging the audience and giving them things they love, but also bringing in new things. Our artists are wonderful, and we're recording interesting pieces. It's a sophisticated season. But we could only do that in Buffalo, because our audience is so there for us.
"It makes me happy," she adds. "I can take chances I can't take in other places."
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The 2013-14 BPO season
Here is what's in store next season at Kleinhans Music Hall. Concerts are at 8 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. The popular Friday morning Coffee Concerts series will also continue. For ticket information, visit www.bpo.org or call 885-5000.
Sept. 18: For the season-opening gala, Yo-Yo Ma plays Osvaldo Golijov's "Azul." Falletta also conducts Stravinsky's "Firebird" Suite.
Oct. 4 and 5: Brahms' Symphony No. 1; "Medea's Meditation" and "Dance of Vengeance" by Samuel Barber; and Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1, with Vadim Gluzman as soloist.
Oct. 19 and 20: Clarinetist Ricardo Morales is the soloist in Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. Also, Ravel's "Mother Goose Suite" and Bartok's Suite No. 1.
Nov. 2 and 3: Arild Remmereit conducts excerpts from Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" as well as Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2, with Yakov Kasman as soloist.
Nov. 16 and 17: Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers is featured in a concert including Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons"; Haydn's "Miracle" Symphony; and de Falla's "El Amor Brujo" Suite.
Nov. 22 and 23: Pianist Simone Dinnerstein plays Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2. Also, Enesco's Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1; and Bartok's "Two Portraits" and "Kossuth."
Dec. 6 and 7: Matthew Kraemer conducts "Classic Christmas."
Jan. 17 and 18, 2014: "Amadeus" comprises Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24, with Enrica Ciccarelli as soloist, and Rimsky-Korsakov's "Mozart and Salieri."
Feb. 1 and 2: Pianist Philippe Bianconi is the soloist in Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, preceded by Dvorak's Symphony No. 6.
Feb. 22 and 23: Guest conductor Gunther Herbig conducts Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, with Benjamin Beilman as soloist, and Bruckner's Symphony No. 8.
March 7 and 8: Guest conductor Lawrence Rachleff conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and Ginastera's "Variacones concertantes."
March 22 and 23: Barber's "Knoxville: Summer of 1915," with soprano Heidi Grant Murphy; Vaughan Williams' Overture to "The Wasps"; and Mahler's Symphony No. 4.
March 29 and 30: "East Meets West" features Kraemer conducting Griffes' "The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan"; Borodin's "In the Steppes of Central Asia"; and Debussy's "Nocturnes." Wu Man is the soloist in Zhao Jiping's Pipa Concerto.
April 11-13: Webern's "Im Sommerwind"; Schumann's "Rhenish" Symphony; and Korngold's Violin Concerto, with BPO Concertmaster Michael Ludwig as soloist.
April 26 and 27: Colin Currie is the soloist in Jennifer Higdon's Percussion Concerto. Also, Moross' Symphony No. 1 and the American premiere of Russell Platt's "Euridice"; and dances from Bernstein's "West Side Story."
May 10 and 11: Rachmaninoff's "Symphonic Dances"; Ravel's "La Valse"; and BPO principal cellist Roman Mekinulov performs the world premiere of Miguel Del Aguila's "Concerto Tango."
May 31 and June 1: Jon Kimura Parker plays Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini." Also, Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony and Tcherepnin's Prelude to "The Faraway Princess."
Sept. 28: Bernadette Peters.
Oct. 12: ABBA: The Hits.
Oct. 25 and 26: Doc Severinsen Returns.
Nov. 9: One Singular Sensation: A Tribute to Marvin Hamlisch.
Dec. 13, 14, 15: Falletta conducts Holiday Pops.
Jan. 25, 2014: Cirque Musica, with cirque performers joining the BPO on stage.
Feb. 15: Ann Hampton Callaway's Streisand Songbook.
March 1: The Beatles' Classical Mystery Tour, featuring Tony Kishman as Paul McCartney.
March 15: Chris Botti.
April 5: Ellis Hall's Tribute to Ray Charles.
May 3: Matt Catingub's Big Band Salute.
May 23 and 24: Star-Spangled Pops.
Special events
June 7, 2014: The 2014 JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition.
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February 28, 2013
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If Manchin were truly clued in to the gun rights community he would know well that the folks at NAGR have a long reputation of being nothing but scammers. The smart move on his part would have been to ignore them. Go to google and search on NAGR + SCAM and read for yourself.
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Hey Jenkens, dont forget to BITC* about the deer in Huntfield and the cars on George St as you always do in the J.Junction.
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WOW, good for Joe. Now we need to get rid of liberal politicians in Charles Town that would ban guns like City Councilmen Ms. Poeanessa, Slovver and Bringetot. You know they are all from liberal states like NY, IOWA, DC, NC and the like. Did you happen to see their families there when you were in those other States on vacation last year? That's where they are all from! Maybe you could do a story on liberal people moving to Charles Town and Slovver, Bringetot and Ponessssaa getting them to run for City Council the first year they are here. If makes me wonder what they could know about our City when they have only lived here a few weeks?
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I trust him about as far as I can throw him.
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Joe's going to fight a NAGR commerical with a u tube video. Yeah Joe, but no one is buying your crap.
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"Poll: 9 In 10 Americans Support Background Check For All Gun Sales."
Really? Where did you find that...the Huffy Post?
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As Biden has said "We do not have the man power to enforce the gun laws already on the books" So who is going to enforce gun registration and all the other laws? Just enforce all the laws that are already on the books.
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but with Obaamacare we need a list of all the doctors in the area that are pro gun. and doctor can say "He/ she is mentally ill" just because they dont like guns. Manchin is a back stabber himself by supporting this BS
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Suppose the liberals banned the sale/possession of ALL cutting tools with a blade over 6 inches long--"assault knives" that criminals & psychos occasionally used as murder weapons. Knives that "nobody NEEDS." And suppose Manchin, while supporting that ban, said the law is aimed at "keeping assault knives from criminals and the mentally ill." If the law doesn't really prevent any murderer from murdering, then should it be passed merely because of its claimed intent? I say no. Prove it will actually prevent the bad events you're claiming it will prevent FIRST. Otherwise, it's a big fraud and waste of time and money.
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Manchin said "the only gun-related legislation he has been working on relates to keeping firearms from criminals and the mentally ill." That's what pretty much all the OTHER liberal-based infringements on the good guys were described as, so it's worthless, deceptive rhetoric. It doesn't matter what they CLAIM the restriction was intended to address. What matters is who REALLY ends up being affected by the restriction. If those criminals & mentally ill are the ones who the law doesn't prevent from committing murder, then the law was a stupid waste of money and L.E. resources.
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HBurDUMB go hold hands with your boyfriend.
pd you are right on.
Joe is a douche. Never voted for him and never will.
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Well said, PDfromWV.
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Joe Manchin affirmed that the 2nd amendment is only about hunting. He doesn't believe it's about self defense and protection from tyranny. When I wrote him on his own web site for clarification I never received a response. How typical. Regarding background checks, they're already done in the majority of situations. Private individuals are allowed to transfer guns to one another. How would you enforce background checks among private individuals without total registration? That's another thing that Manchin supports. Oh, and when a senator uses profanity to defend himself then the truth must be hurting him.
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Aside from the gun issue, there are two blaring things about this that prove that even okay politicians like Joe are still idiots in reality. First, the title should read "Joe Manchin Talks Honestly..." Poor grammar. Second, learn how to hold the camera sideways when shooting a video.
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Nice try Senator. You might as well own your previous statements instead of backpedaling. I guess the hole you dug is deeper than you thought!
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We'll see.
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WASHINGTON – Rep. Tom Reed today joined the growing ranks of Republicans backing away from a decades-old pledge signed by nearly all federal GOP candidates in which they promised not to raise taxes in any way, shape or form.
In a conference call with reporters, Reed reiterated his willingness to increase federal revenues through limiting tax deductions.
And when asked about the tax pledge pushed by GOP activist Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, said Reed, who is from Corning and represents a district that stretches across the Southern Tier. "I would say the pledge is not a barrier to a deal," so long as any new revenue goes to pay off the national debt and so long as Democrats agree on an additional $1 trillion in debt reduction.
Reed's comments are significant because he is a member of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, which would be central in any tax reform, and because he was elected in 2010 as part of the tea party wave that gave Republicans control of the House.
While some old-school Republicans – such as Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Rep. Pete King of Long Island – have stepped away from the pledge in recent days, those first elected to Congress with tea party support in 2010 have been more reluctant to do so.
The pledge, which Reed signed, supposedly binds lawmakers to "oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rates for individuals and/or businesses" and "oppose any net reduction or elimination of deductions and credits, unless matched dollar for dollar by further reducing tax rates."
In contrast to the pledge, "what we've said in the last few weeks is that we will consider revenue on the wealthier segment of American society and we are open to that and we'll continue to take that position," Reed said.
While President Obama has instead insisted on higher tax rates for upper-income wage earners, Reed said he is by no means alone in the GOP ranks in showing a willingness to raise revenues through limiting deductions.
"Our willingness, many of us on the Republican side of the aisle, to consider revenue is a positive sign in moving us to a potential deal" to avoid sending the nation over a so-called "fiscal cliff" at the end of the year, Reed said.
That's when tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush, along with other tax breaks enacted under Obama, are set to expire – at the same time as a series of deep pre-programmed budget cuts are set to take effect. Economists such as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have warned that the combination of tax hikes and spending cuts could throw the nation back into recession.
While saying that Republicans have been willing to compromise on taxes, Reed added that Democrats have not replied in kind with an agreement to use that additional revenue to pay down the debt or to propose any further spending cuts. The lack of a Democratic response is causing him "great anxiety," Reed said.
As the only New York Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, Reed is in a position to be a player not only on the fiscal cliff, but also on a pending $30 billion request from New York State for aid in wake of Superstorm Sandy.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has invited the state's congressional delegation to New York today to discuss the request. Reed said he would not be attending and is not even sure if his staff saw an invitation, but he nonetheless pledged to fight for the aid package.
In the long term, though, such aid has to be offset by other cuts in the federal budget to make sure the deficit doesn't grow even further, he said.
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DEV541: Secure Coding in Java/JEE: Developing Defensible Applications
- Contents | Schedule | Additional Info
- Instructor: Frank Kim
DEV541 will help change the way the developers in my organization code. We have not placed a high amount of emphasis on secure coding before.
Brett Hanson, Agrium
Actually coding the examples from a 'find the weakness' and 'fix it' standpoint, as you do in DEV541, is a big help.
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The Difference between Good and Great Programmers
Great programmers have traditionally distinguished themselves by the elegance, effectiveness, and reliability of their code. That's still true, but elegance, effectiveness, and reliability have now been joined by security. Major financial institutions and government agencies have informed their internal development teams and outsourcers that programmers must demonstrate mastery of secure coding skills and knowledge through reliable third-party testing or lose their right to work on assignments for those organizations. More software buyers are joining the movement every week.
Such buyer and management demands create an immediate response from programmers, "Where can I learn what is meant by secure coding?" This unique SANS course allows you to bone up on the skills and knowledge required to prevent your applications from getting hacked.
What Does the Course Cover?
This is a comprehensive course covering a huge set of skills and knowledge. It's not a high-level theory course. It's about real programming. In this course you will examine actual code, work with real tools, build applications, and gain confidence in the resources you need for the journey to improving the security of Java applications.
Rather than teaching students to use a set of tools, we're teaching students concepts of secure programming. This involves looking at a specific piece of code, identifying a security flaw, and implementing a fix for flaws found on the Top 10 and CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors.
The class culminates in a Secure Development Challenge where you perform a security review of a real-world open source application. You will conduct a code review, perform security testing to actually exploit real vulnerabilities, and finally, using the secure coding techniques that you have learned in class, implement fixes for these issues.
Common Web Application Vulnerabilities
- Cross-site scripting (XSS)
- Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
- SQL injection
- HTTP response splitting
- Parameter manipulation
Data Validation
- Input validation
- Whitelisting vs blacklisting
- Output encoding and escaping
- Parameterized queries
- Using frameworks and APIs
- How to use encryption and certificates
- Protecting session ids
- JEE based authentication
- Basic and Forms Based Authentication
- Client certificate authentication
Session Management
- Session hijacking
- Session fixation
Access Control
- JEE based authorization
- Declarative and programmatic access control
- Using annotations
- Spring Security
- Java Security Manager
- Client certificates
Java Programming and Language
- Race conditions
- Logging & error handling
- Class security
|Course Contents
|DEV541.1: Data Validation
|Frank Kim
Sun Mar 10th, 2013
Improper data validation is the root cause of the most prevalent web application vulnerabilities today. Cross Site Scripting (XSS) has become the most widely reported issue with web applications. It has reached the point where the Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) estimates that over 80% of the web sites on the Internet are vulnerable to this attack.
Beginning on the first day, you will learn about some of the most prevalent web applications vulnerabilities such as XSS, CSRF, SQL Injection, HTTP Response Splitting, and Parameter Manipulation. You will see how to spot some of these issues and how to recreate them in a running application. Then you will use a variety of methods to actually fix these vulnerabilities in your Java code.
The course is full of hands on exercises where you can apply practical data validation techniques that you can use to prevent common attacks.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
|DEV541.2: Authentication, Session Management, and Access Control
|Frank Kim
Mon Mar 11th, 2013
Broken authentication and session management are common issues that can compromise the integrity of your system. Weak authentication protections can allow an attacker to expose your most sensitive secrets: your data! You will learn about these vulnerabilities and what you can do to design and code stronger authentication protections from the start. You will learn how to use JEE Container Based Authentication and setup both Basic and Form Based Authentication. You will also learn about Spring Security, which is the popular security system for Spring.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
|DEV541.3: Java Language and Security APIs
|Frank Kim
Tue Mar 12th, 2013
Java is the language of choice for the development of many mission critical applications. As such, it is vital to understand the security features and implications of using the Java language itself and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Through numerous hands-on exercises you will learn about the Security Manager, how code privileges are managed, and how to sign jar files. You will also learn about Exception handling and try/catch/finally blocks as well as the importance of logging. With hands-on exercises you will also write code to encrypt both data in transit and data at rest using the Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) and the Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) as well as String immutability, integer and double overflows, and about numerous Java language features that you should consider while writing secure code.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
|DEV541.4: Secure Development Challenge
|Frank Kim
Wed Mar 13th, 2013
Using what you have learned about Web application vulnerabilities, you will conduct a security review of a real-world open source application. You will see first hand how to integrate security in your software development life cycle (SDLC) by first conducting a code review of a large, widely used open source application. Once you have identified various vulnerabilities in the code itself you will then perform security testing and actually exploit these weaknesses. Once they have been exploited you will then fix them using the secure coding techniques you have learned in class.
The Secure Development Challenge introduces you to what is needed in a Secure SDLC and shows you how to do it first hand!
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
|Additional Information
|Laptop Required
You will use VMware to perform exercises in class. You must have a
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VMware Player can be downloaded for free. Alternatively, if you want a
more configurable and flexible tool, you can download a free 30-day
trial copy of VMware Workstation or VMware Fusion. These products are
available at http://www.vmware.com. VMware will send you a time-limited
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VMware Player.
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It is recommended that students download the Java SE 7 and Java EE 6
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documentation can be found at oracle.com.
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Convert XML to CSV the ugly way using Unix utilities
I recently wanted to export my email address book from Sylpheed email client and import it into my Gmail account. Unfortunately, Gmail wants to import contact lists as CSV files, and there isn't an export-address-book-to-csv feature in the otherwise wonderful Sylpheed. Worse, the Sylpheed address book is in XML format, and XML-to-CSV conversion isn't straightforward.
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A young adult who hangs out on the street in a big city or near the entrance of an outdoor concert(see the French Quarter and Jazz Fest in New Orleans). Typically s/he is selling hemp or blown glass products, sports dreadlocks, and is accompanied by one or more mangy looking dogs. Sometimes s/he may also be administering home made pamphlets on topics such as the utility of hemp or communal living.
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Two-faced person who tries to ruin others' happiness, because they can't have what they want.
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Would you move from Android or iOS to Windows Phone 8?
0. phoneArena 20 Jun 2012, 13:51 posted on
So, Microsoft has introduced us to its new Windows Phone 8, which which will probably arrive in time for the Holiday season, and we wondered, what do you, Android- and iPhone-sporting fellas think about this... Did Microsoft's presentation of WP 8 manage to get you excited about the platform...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. thedarkside (Posts: 652; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
but seriously, id rather have angelina jolie.
66. tegradragon (Posts: 68; Member since: 23 May 2012)
*me too :P
57. XiphiasGladius (Posts: 813; Member since: 21 Aug 2011)
no need to mention, that's a default answer anyways. ..
59. givesomeshot (Posts: 2; Member since: 21 Jun 2012)
This is too funny..I even register to reply to you!
Seriously, I choose Angelina Jolie, and then pick up a WP.
2. thunderising (Posts: 232; Member since: 25 Nov 2011)
Wow. Soo few picked... Jolie
If only it was some one else (Hathaway for instance)
22. tedkord (Posts: 11733; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Angelina has Billy Bob Thornton germs. There are certain men who taint a woman forever. Dennis Rodman. Any Baldwin. And Billy Bob Thornton.
Christ only knows what diseases she's got.
37. good2great (Posts: 1042; Member since: 22 Feb 2012)
30. Muhannad (Posts: 455; Member since: 20 Sep 2011)
B*tch please! Scarlett Johansson!
3. GuiltyBystander (Posts: 199; Member since: 05 Mar 2012)
Can I have both?
33. jmoita2 (Posts: 930; Member since: 23 Dec 2011)
Can I watch them both??? lol
4. snotyak (Posts: 27; Member since: 05 Jun 2012)
Why even have an answer like that?
7. GuiltyBystander (Posts: 199; Member since: 05 Mar 2012)
Why not? :)
14. snotyak (Posts: 27; Member since: 05 Jun 2012)
Dissuades users from the real answers.
29. items17070 (Posts: 70; Member since: 20 Dec 2011)
58. XiphiasGladius (Posts: 813; Member since: 21 Aug 2011)
For Humors sake, you know that one right?
5. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
Why bother put Angelina Jolie name in their? SHES NOT HOT like she used to be
41. kainy (Posts: 165; Member since: 10 Aug 2011)
Shame on you!
45. JongLong206 (Posts: 8; Member since: 26 Dec 2011)
maybe she's still hot for our author here lol
55. B3BLW29 (Posts: 238; Member since: 02 Mar 2012)
How old is our Author ;).....
62. Owlet (Posts: 450; Member since: 21 Feb 2011)
She has CLASS.
6. josephnero (Posts: 555; Member since: 16 Nov 2011)
never ever.Android FTW
26. andro. (Posts: 1998; Member since: 16 Sep 2011)
Customers day in day out hated the original live tiles it was one of the principle reasons for the very poor sales,they have enhanced them a bit but like you the vast majority will instantly pass windows on again for android
8. Mozarrt (Posts: 301; Member since: 08 Oct 2011)
Might go to Android or iOS if they really give me this 7.8 crap.
9. mrvid (Posts: 77; Member since: 02 Oct 2008)
angelina jolie?? Come on now! There's a bunch of women that are 100 times better than her!! Granted she could suck start a Harley!
10. Non_Sequitur (Posts: 1111; Member since: 16 Mar 2012)
I really like WP, but I'd rather have Windows for desktop and Android for mobile right now. WP is my next choice though.
12. mrvid (Posts: 77; Member since: 02 Oct 2008)
They do work well together.
11. lumialove (Posts: 75; Member since: 16 May 2012)
Dual cores,windows phone can support upto 64 cores
27. NexusKoolaid (Posts: 480; Member since: 24 Oct 2011)
Perhaps, but it would need 64 batteries to power it.
60. givesomeshot (Posts: 2; Member since: 21 Jun 2012)
You want to make a rocket with WP?
13. alazabe (Posts: 2; Member since: 20 Jun 2012)
what about recording in 1080p ??
and what is the new langs add ??
15. OptimusOne (Posts: 694; Member since: 22 May 2012)
really though... if all the androids seem really lame I will probably get a wp8 device but if I see a really good android device then f*** wp8
17. axllebeer (Posts: 271; Member since: 05 Apr 2011)
Guess I'm the only one that is keeping my eye on BB10...
31. nishant (Posts: 5; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Dude u r true BB boy,,,,,
35. axllebeer (Posts: 271; Member since: 05 Apr 2011)
No point in denying it :)
42. hepresearch (unregistered)
Good for you! Stick by your guns! +1
47. Damien_666 (Posts: 37; Member since: 16 Oct 2011)
Good luck, mate! I hope BB also turns out something exciting.
We all need some competition.
18. Dameon (Posts: 31; Member since: 06 Mar 2012)
i plan on moving to wp8 when it releases. i want to try it something different. if it doesnt suit me or i dont like i still have an android device to fall back to, but from the looks of things i dont think that will happen
19. wsucoug13 (Posts: 164; Member since: 04 May 2012)
If the Windows phones can get their specs up to par with the likes of the Android and iPhone I would certainly consider it. I use a PC and that windows to windows compatibility would be awesome.
24. theBankRobber (Posts: 681; Member since: 22 Sep 2011)
I agree about the specs part, they will see that lag and slow downs happen when your limited to hardware while doing real multitasking.
20. homeedition88 (Posts: 10; Member since: 16 Jun 2012)
I will never use anything about m.s . I bought a new nokia lumia phone and now i stuck with old windows 7.5...
They done it already xbox - xbox 360. This is not a good example of "customer relation"
21. Dr.Phil (Posts: 1176; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
I like what Windows Phone has done to improve their OS and if they come out with a WP8 version of the Note (as rumored) then I will probably buy it unlocked just to have as a secondary device. I really kinda wanted Microsoft to come out with an Xbox phone. I just think it would have set them apart from the crowd, especially if it had some monster specs to make it special than the other WP8 devices. Plus, I still think Microsoft needs something to compete with the DS and Vita. Not to mention it would have made use of that patent they got for the interchangeable keyboard/joystick thing. Well, maybe within the next year they'll do it.
23. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
Honestly I'll keep an eye on them, but I'm rather happy with android and I look forward the I/O event that will probably make android faster and better and who knows, maybe we see more awesome things going on, anyways I/O is so close I can smell it. and Google could improve their game even more with even deeper integration with their services
25. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5711; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
yeah, i wish there was a choice there for us but since i just had to choose, i chose yes, i would go for Windows Phone 8. o:
28. omacmagics (Posts: 42; Member since: 27 Dec 2011)
The thing is, Android development is not staying stagnant and I for one can't wait to see what Jellybean is bringing to the fore front. It's good to see MS stepping up but they won't make me jump ship. I love my Android, yeah some quirks need ironing out and it will be the perfect versatile phone OS. On the tablet scale I could see myself owning a Surface if not too expensive.
48. Damien_666 (Posts: 37; Member since: 16 Oct 2011)
That's an unbiased opinion, I must admit.
Have you thought about the single unified platform that's going to be Windows now?
Win8, WP8, Win8 RT, XBox...
Android's getting better ofcourse, but not sure if it can offer this seamless experience.
32. snowgator (Posts: 3586; Member since: 19 Jan 2011)
WP is a couple of years away from truly competing with Android or iOS. But, the cross platform integration done right will absolutely get some sales to WP. I was really hoping to see WP at about 10% worldwide sales by the end of 2012, but it seems unlikely that they will have that kind of success with iPhone on deck and Android ICS having such a head start. But, I have no doubt they will hit that in 2013. Where they go from there does depend on RIM and BB10, and if they can get Android and iPhone casual users to give it a try....
34. JGuinan007 (Posts: 684; Member since: 19 May 2011)
I would never go back to windows phone til they get their act together I had a Tilt 2 from AT&T had 6.1os on it for 2 months the was upgraded to 6.5os 6 months later windows 7 came out and no more support or development for Winmobile now looks like windows phone is doing the same thing no windowsphone 8 for windowsphone 7 owners at least they can still use the Market.
36. denied911 (banned) (Posts: 361; Member since: 31 May 2012)
no way in hell
38. good2great (Posts: 1042; Member since: 22 Feb 2012)
it seems more like an android rival than an iOS one...
39. Phaze0085 (Posts: 112; Member since: 22 Sep 2011)
Ive used WP7 and I loved it, but switched to the G-Note due to Screen Size. If someone comes out with a new WP8 device with 5" screen or bigger you can count in me.
40. hepresearch (unregistered)
iOS to Windows Phone... traditional homescreen with icons vs. interoperability and compatibility across most common Microsoft platforms... I'll take WP any day. Android to Windows Phone... file manager and browser capabilities vs. smoother operation... I am not sure yet. Both have pros and cons, but they seem rather balanced right now. When I need a new PC replacement, it'll have to be Windows 8 or RT, but I am really not sure about a new smartphone yet. If I have Windows RT, it will probably be pointless to get an Android device because I probably cannot have a file manager on an RT tablet PC, anyway... annoying, but that is the only answer that makes much sense here in this post-modern post-traditional-PC post-classical-smartphone context. Either way, I will not stoop to emptying a bank account to get a Mac just to keep a traditional desktop with icons, to have a file manager, and deal with incompatibilities with just about the whole rest of the world. Anything Apple is totally out for me...
50. Damien_666 (Posts: 37; Member since: 16 Oct 2011)
Way to go!
I'd rather see a healthy competition between Android and WP (and others like BB), at the cost of iOS.
Apple has created a huge market for smartphones, no doubt.
But I just can't their arrogant attitude and prices - so hoping they'd fade into irrelevance soon
43. Saamic (Posts: 119; Member since: 20 Feb 2012)
Not to be a hater, but I just feel like the W8P will be on par with some Android devices and the iphone. It doesn't look like anything extravagant or amazing to me
44. gayasarafe (Posts: 25; Member since: 06 Mar 2012)
The 4th option really take the cake!!!!
46. jroc74 (Posts: 6006; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
I didnt answer cuz I'm content right now.
BUT...if I ever did get tired of Android....I would go WP before iPhone. I still get choices with WP.
49. BattleBrat (Posts: 1458; Member since: 26 Oct 2011)
If they make a "Desktop mode" that morphs the phone interface into Windows 8 (Sorta like Motorola's Webtop) when plugged into a TV and connected to Keyboard/mouse. I will switch in a heartbeat.
53. jroc74 (Posts: 6006; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
That would be nice. I think Webtop now goes into Tablet mode. Some ppl like it, some dont.
WP 8, Windows 8 is looking good. MS, I almost gave up on ya...lol. Looking good.
51. Mube1 (Posts: 153; Member since: 22 Sep 2011)
Windows 8 is arriving thats a great news but whr is the phone running with windows 8 lol:-D


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5 Ways Delivering Food Is Like Living in a Tarantino Movie
The first job I ever had was working as a delivery driver for Mr. M's, the shadiest sandwich shop in the history of creation. "Mr. M's sure is a strange name for a sandwich shop!" you might be saying to yourself, and I couldn't agree more. The only reason the place was named Mr. M's is because the business that was there before us was a sub shop called Mr. Jim's, and my manager cunningly realized that it is far cheaper to simply remove two letters from the sign than buy a whole new one. The front of the building literally read "Mr. __m's", with the eerily naked spacing of those two missing letters staring out at you like a photo in a child's obituary, demanding to know how the world could've allowed this to happen. That sentence also describes what it was like to work there for a summer.
Here are five of the most terrifying misadventures I had as a delivery driver for the most nefarious restaurant ever built.
#5. Nothing About My Employment Was Legal and Everyone Thought I Was a Murderer
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I got the job because I happened to see a Help Wanted sign in the window and walked in to ask about it. The manager looked like Ted DiBiase if he'd blown his knees out, nursed himself back to health on nothing but meatball subs, and then choked a man to death over a poker game. The interview he gave me consisted of two questions -- "Do you have a car?" and "Can you start tonight?" This was roughly the same interview process faced by Dennis Haysbert in Heat.
I answered "yes" to both questions, so I started that night -- he just handed me a stack of cash and sent me out to deliver sandwiches until 2 o' clock in the morning. He didn't even check to make sure I had a driver's license. For the first two weeks I worked there, the manager knew literally nothing about me beyond my first name and a general description he could provide the police in the event of my disappearance. He didn't ask for my last name, my address, or my phone number until the day he gave me my first paycheck, which I watched him type up on a personal computer in the back office. Incidentally, the "back office" was a balsa wood hobbit hut he had constructed for himself next to the fire exit behind the kitchen. It occurs to me now that in all likelihood I was never an official employee.
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For example, this is pretty much what every payday looked like.
Because I was a 150-pound teenager who had never worked anywhere before, I did my best to say as little as possible to anyone so that I would seem cool and mature. This resulted in everyone referring to me as "the serial killer" and assuming that I was on all of the drugs in the universe. So if you called in a sandwich order to Mr. M's late one Saturday night, you'd hear the guy taking your order shout out "Hey, we got another delivery for the serial killer!" just before he hung up the phone.
When an impending shutdown finally forced us all to go get food handler's cards, it consisted of us driving 30 minutes out to a rec center on the opposite side of the city and watching an instructional video from 1993 starring a bunch of 12-year-old children offering helpful tidbits like "Don't bleed in the soup" and "You can't serve gray meat." I have no idea what audience this video was intended for, but I watched intently to see if any of the kids were trying to blink "Save us" in Morse code.
#4. I Constantly Walked in on People Masturbating and/or Having Sex
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At least once a week I would show up at a customer's house and be told to wait in the front hall (or occasionally the living room) while they disappeared to get their money, and I would be standing in full view of someone either hunched over a computer wrestling out a psychotic orgasm or manhandling the genitalia of a fellow human being. Without fail, every single person I saw doing this had a face like moldy chewing tobacco. "Delivery boy walks into an orgy" may sound like the beginning of a porno until you experience it in real life, where it is closer to the prologue of an Italian horror movie.
I bore witness to more terrifying nudity than Nicolas Cage in 8MM. It's like if Tony Montana ordered a party calzone and then made the delivery guy stand there and watch him take a bath in his giant Jacuzzi tub before agreeing to pay for it. People gave me about as much regard as if the cat had just walked into the room and were content to leave me waiting in a nimbus of penis burps while they looked for their wallets, which for some reason never seemed to be directly on hand despite the fact that they had consciously called in an order for a Philly cheese steak and were presumably anticipating my arrival.
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"Here's an extra 10 for heroically keeping your feet after that wave of fuck thunder smashed into you when I answered the door."
I was once left standing in the entryway of a duplex by a guy in a Batman T-shirt watching two bare-chested Lord of the Rings villains sitting in front of a computer in the next room and screaming impassioned demands at the Internet to relinquish the pictures of Angelina Jolie's vagina it was so cleverly hiding. These men were clearly just about to start thrashing baby paste out of their doom spigots, and they wouldn't have stopped if Santa Claus had tumbled in through a secret door behind the bookcase and asked them why they were making their mothers cry.
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"Delivery, you say? Just a moment, I'm almost finished here."
#3. I Witnessed Criminal Activity on a Daily Basis, Both Inside and Outside the Restaurant
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Mr. M's was located in a strip mall that contained a sex toy dungeon, a gay bar called the Nutty Buddy with a picture of Laurel and Hardy on the side, a travel agency, and a KB Toys. It was the site of a future stop on a ghost walk. I expected Michael Biehn to appear in a lightning storm by the dumpsters at any second.
My co-workers would routinely stand outside along the front of these shops and peddle boxes of the most bizarre collection of stolen wares anyone has ever seen -- random stacks of children's storybooks with gold-lined pages, Happy Meal toys from 1987, a single nunchaku from a Ninja Turtle action figure, a La Bouche CD, troll dolls, and piles of Beanie Babies. They were like shoe boxes full of Gypsy spells. I have no idea why anyone would want to buy anything my co-workers had obviously stolen from a drugstore the previous weekend, let alone why anyone would want to buy a Tarzan coloring book from a guy with a braided ponytail standing on a cracked sidewalk in front of a dimly lit pornography shop with a single entrance, but my co-workers had new things to sell every week.
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"Wait, is that my La Bouche CD?"
Customers would try to sell us stolen stuff, too. It was like a trading caravan in Sherwood Forest. I got cornered in the parking lot by two girls with iodine-stained fingers who were determined to sell me a bag of women's cosmetics that I'm pretty sure still had shards of broken glass in it.
Also, a solid 30 percent of our customer base would be actively involved in a drug deal when I showed up with their food, either discussing one in detail over the phone or actually exchanging baggies of cocaine for wads of money as I stood there becoming a material witness. I literally had two guys look at me in alarm and mutter something to their ringleader, who responded, "Nah, it's just the delivery man," as if the relationship between crack dealers and the tuna sandwich man was one of legally binding confidentiality. Either that or he (rightfully) assumed I wasn't going to say anything.
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"I forget, do you accept cash or bullets? It's cash, right? Yeah, I thought so."


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to a new 240-page security report from Microsoft dubbed the Security
Intelligence Report, America is among the most infected countries
in the world when it comes to botnets. The report uses
information collected in the first half of 2010 via the Microsoft
Malicious Software Removal Tool.Over 2.2 million PCs in
the U.S. are infected with a virus that makes them part of one of the
internet's massive botnets. The term "botnet" refers
to a group of connected computers that can be used for ill purposes
such as spamming, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, and
mass credit card fraud.Brazil came in second place for most
infected computers, with 550,000 botnet-infected PCs. Per
computer population, though South Korea had the highest rate (though
its total number of infected machines is lower than that of the U.S.
or Brazil). In South Korea 14.6 out of 1,000 PCs are in a
botnet, versus 5.2 computers out of 1,000 in the U.S.Cliff
Evans, head of security and identity at Microsoft UK, comments to BBC
"Most people have this idea of a virus and how it used to
announce itself. Few people know about botnets."Fewer
people perhaps know about Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool
(MRT). MRT has been is a free tool Microsoft includes with
Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. First released in
2005, the tool is easy to run -- just go to "Start", type
"run" in the search bar, and then type "mrt"
(case insensitive) in the resulting popup. The tool will then
activate and be ready to scan your computer and remove many common
types of malware.Perhaps if everyone learns how to use the
MRT, America can escape earning the dubious distinction of being the
world's biggest botnet participant in 2011. Given the general
public's ignorance
of security, that seems unlikely, though.Despite the
difficulty in getting the public to practice proper security,
Microsoft is taking steps to try to win the war against botnet
masters on its own. The company recently seized
control over 276 internet domains that were being used by
botnet owners. And it has beefed
up the securityof its most recent operating system, Windows 7,
making it harder to infect new PCs.
quote: Sorry, but you are wrong. It probably supports more hardware out of the box, and certainly supports more hardware via windows update which only requires a network card to access. It is by far the best OS driver wise ever released, much better than its predecessors that is for sure. Suse and Ubuntu have certainly made great strides in the driver department, but they are nowhere close to Windows 7.
quote: Ya, if only that were true. What happens if there is not an app on the pre chosen list of repositories? Manual installation of anything can be a pain in the butt with nix, and adding extra repositories for the average user is not exactly fool proof either. Furthermore there is no guarantee the files in the repo will stay up to day. There have been plenty of times where I have had to add an extra repo because the files on the main repository have not been kept up and I needed the new version. And lets not get started about dependencies.. Even with a repository manager, you will run into issues eventually =P..
quote: Same with SuSE, you can add more repos to support more hardware like webcams. And SuSE has built in 3D support for most Intel and AMD graphics cards.
quote: And SuSE has built in 3D support for most Intel and AMD graphics cards.


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Source: AP (on PhysOrg)
quote: You can argue the Netherlands does and blah blah blah but the Netherlands is not the US.
quote: With drugs like crack, heroine, cocaine, x, etc... you are straight up addicted to it.
quote: the chemical balance in your body/brain is whacked
quote: Tobacco and alcohol has a high addiction rate because it is legal and highly available.


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Beautiful. I love Oregon.ReplyDelete
I love all your coastal pictures. I'm so glad this big move is paying off. You were a good sport about Canton, but, wow, OREGON!ReplyDelete
Love seeing your new life. Pictures are incredible...So glad Barb & Roger are there and getting to soak up the beauty of Oregon...I miss it so much...can't wait to come back..ReplyDelete
Oh. Naps with books sounds enticing.ReplyDelete
I have to agree, we choose, but sometimes things really do feel meant for us. The pictures are perfect!
I love that you have visitors...It is so amazing that you get to live in a place that others would vacation! I'll be there someday to see it all, and it will be fabulous because you will be my tour guide. xoxoReplyDelete
Every time I see your pictures, I start getting the urge to move... ;) I am so glad to see and feel your happiness. I think you have found Home.ReplyDelete
I LOVE the Oregon Coast and it has been too long since we have been there. Maybe we'll make it down your way sometime...
So happy you are happy in your new home.
Pictures make you feel the here and now indeed. Iced coffee is great in this weather.ReplyDelete
I love these pictures, but I wish you were in some. Make that happen next time... miss your face!ReplyDelete
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You might need a new machining center, but what kind should you buy? Jason Schumacher of machine tool distributor Hartwig argues that it may well be time for a horizontal machining center. Many shops equipped with only VMCs are overdue to introduce an HMC into the mix. Among the advantages that Mr. Schumacher cites are higher spindle utilization and shorter setup times. Read more. For the right family of parts, he says, one HMC could deliver throughput equal to three VMCs.
For more on HMCs vs. VMCs, read about a shop that implemented its first HMC, as well as a shop unable to hold tolerances on a VMC that used an HMC instead.
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|Structures of Clamp-Loader Complexes Are Key to DNA Replication
DNA replication occurs when the enzyme DNA polymerase moves along DNA strands at high speed, copying nucleotides as it goes. A separate ring-shaped protein complex, called the sliding clamp, attaches the polymerase to the DNA with the help of a molecular machine, the clamp loader, whose action depends on ATP. How the clamp loader accomplishes this task was unknown until researchers from University of California, Berkeley, and Rockefeller University solved structures of the clamp loader bound to the sliding clamp, DNA, and an ATP analog. The structures, obtained at ALS Beamlines 8.2.1 and 8.2.2, reveal key insights into the mechanism by which the sliding clamp that facilitates replication of chromosomes is loaded onto DNA.
DNA replication is the most crucial step in cellular division, a process necessary for life, and errors can cause cancer and many other diseases. High-speed replication of chromosomal DNA (up to 1000 nucleotides per second) requires the DNA polymerase to be attached to a sliding clamp that prevents the polymerase from diffusing away from the DNA when it releases the DNA substrate during synthesis. In forms of all cellular life, sliding clamps are protein complexes that form rings around DNA, thereby providing a topological link for DNA polymerases to the DNA. Sliding clamps are also crucial components of various other cellular pathways, such as DNA repair, cell cycle control, and chromatin structure.
Sliding DNA clamps are loaded onto DNA by pentameric clamp-loader complexes. Among the two strands of the separated DNA (leading and lagging strands), the lagging-strand replication is semi-discontinuous; that is, it breaks into a chain of fragments (the Okazaki fragments). Clamp loaders must place a clamp at the start of each of these fragments in order to accomplish lagging-strand synthesis. Thus, the clamp loader is a crucial aspect of the DNA replication machinery. But the ring shape of the sliding clamp presents a topological problem: How is a closed circle loaded onto a chromosome?
Here is where the ATP comes in. Clamp loaders belong to the AAA+ family of ATPases, an important family of molecular enzymes that convert the chemical energy of ATP to mechanical work. When clamp loaders are in the ATP-bound state, they can bind with high affinity to the sliding clamp and, importantly, break the ring open and hold it in an open state. The open clamp/clamp-loader complex can then bind to so-called primer-template DNA to start the replication. Binding of DNA triggers the activation of the ATPase active sites. The subsequent hydrolysis of ATP causes the clamp loader to release from the clamp, which closes around the DNA. However, how clamp loaders accomplish these tasks was not known at the structural level.
To address the mechanism of clamp loading, the researchers solved the structure of the ternary complex of the clamp loader from bacteriophage T4 bound to a sliding clamp and DNA. The structure revealed that clamp-loader AAA+ modules form an ATP-dependent, right-handed spiral that matches the helical symmetry of DNA. The AAA+ spiral, in turn, holds the clamp in a right-handed, open, lock-washer shape, causing the clamp to be broken at one of the subunit interfaces.
Further, the researchers identified a mechanism occuring away from the ATPase active site (allosteric mechanism) for activation of the ATPases in response to DNA binding and also defined a conformational change that occurs in response to ATP hydrolysis. Hydrolysis of ATP begins from an end of the AAA+ spiral, which causes the symmetric AAA+ spiral to break down. This allows the clamp to close around DNA and causes the clamp loader to lose its symmetric recognition of the clamp and DNA, resulting in an elegant mechanism for ejection of the clamp loader. Thus the ATP-dependent spiral of AAA+ modules is the key for controlling the clamp loader's function.
Research conducted by: B.A. Kelch, D.L. Makino, and J. Kuriyan (University of California, Berkeley and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute) and M. O'Donnell (Rockefeller University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute).
Research funding: U.S. National Institutes of Health. Operation of the ALS is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
Publication about this research: B.A. Kelch, D.L. Makino, M. O'Donnell, and J. Kuriyan, "How a DNA polymerase clamp loader opens a sliding clamp," Science 334, 1675 (2011).
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Prescription Drug Robbery is Second in Recent Months
The second pharmacy robbery in recent months where a man demanded prescription medication took place at a Rite Aid Pharmacy in Goleta early last month.
The robbery took place just before 8 p.m. on Sept. 9 in the 100 block of Fairview Avenue. Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office requests the public's assistance to help identify the robber - a white male in his 20s, about 5 feet 6 inches tall with a slim body.
The night of the incident, he was wearing a light-colored baseball hat with a red brim and dark sunglasses as seen in the surveillance images. He walked up to the pharmacy counter and handed the teller a threatening note demanding specific narcotic medication.
The pharmacist handed over an unidentified amount of prescription drugs to the thief who then fled the scene.
Police responded within several minutes of the robbery but were not able to locate the man.
The first robbery happened at Walgreens Pharmacy on the 5900 block of Calle Real Aug. 27. The suspect later identified as 19-year-old Mehdi Benamar of Oxnard was arrested after allegedly robbing the CVS Pharmacy on Carmen Drive in Camarillo early September.
If you recognize the description or have any information on the crime or his whereabouts, you are asked to the call the Sheriff's Criminal Investigations Division at 805-681-4150. For anonymous tips, call 805-681-4171.
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NEW YORK (AP) – Edmund S. Morgan, Ph.D., a leading scholar of the Colonial era who helped reinvigorate the reputations of the Founders, probed the country's racial and religious origins and, in his 80s, wrote a best-selling biography of Benjamin Franklin, has died in Connecticut. He was 97.
Mr. Morgan died Monday afternoon in Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he was being treated for pneumonia, said his wife, Marie.
A professor emeritus at Yale University, he was a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and author of more than a dozen books, including "Birth of the Republic," "The Puritan Dilemma" and "Inventing the People," winner in 1989 of the Bancroft Prize. His other awards included a National Medal of the Humanities in 2000 and an honorary citation from Pulitzer Prize officials in 2006 for his "creative and deeply influential body of work."
Mr. Morgan shared Franklin's birthday, Jan. 17, and impish spirit. The bald, round-faced historian had a prankster's smile; a soft, sweet laugh; and a willingness to poke fun at his own prestige, joking that history books bored him and that his favorite students were the ones who disagreed with him. He attributed the success of his Franklin book to "the geezer factor." For decades, Mr. Morgan and Harvard Professor Bernard Bailyn were cited as leaders in Early American Studies. Joseph J. Ellis, who studied under Professor Morgan at Yale, dedicated his Pulitzer Prize-winning "Founding Brothers" to Morgan.
Mr. Morgan wrote several books and essays about the Founders, especially Franklin and George Washington, praising them not just as men of action, but of inaction. He cited the "genius" of Washington in declining to seize power after the surrender of the British and found the seemingly sloppy Franklin a far more effective diplomat overseas than the ever-prepared John Adams.
Mr. Morgan approached his work as both scholar and hobbyist. He had no agent and didn't accept advances because he disliked deadlines. Only when the Franklin manuscript was finished did he bother showing it to Yale University Press.
Known for his thorough research, Mr. Morgan preferred the Founders' own words to the books written about them. He read all of Franklin and James Madison, both of whom lived into their 80s. He also worked through multiple volumes of the papers of Washington, Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
"I don't read many biographies," he said in 2002, acknowledging that he hadn't even gotten around to David McCullough's million-selling book on Adams. "I can spend all day reading Washington's papers. … I can do that all day long. But if I pick up the kind of book that I write, I go to sleep."


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Indian nations as far away as Canada and Oklahoma traveled to participate in the 2011 Annual Edisto Indian Natchez-Kusso Powwow in Ridgeville. Anthony Davidson, chief of the Edisto Four Hole Indian Organization, said a powwow is like a family reunion as tribes come together to visit and celebrate their cultures.
A tradition older than America was even more special last year as the Edisto Indian tribe gained state recognition.
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Boulder County, Colo., Youth Win National Arabian Horse Judging Contest
Boulder County 4-H Horse Judging Team members — making up the Junior Colorado Arabian Horse Club Youth Horse Judging Team — were named champions at the Arabian Horse Association National Youth Horse Judging Contest in Tulsa, Okla.
As champion team members, each individual on the team received a $250 scholarship and a Montana Silversmith trophy belt buckle from the Arabian Horse Association.
Team members were: Madison Zeier, Madison McKenzie, Ashley Doolittle and Emily Kingston.
The group was first in team halter, first in team performance and first in team reasons.
Overall, Madison Zeier placed as the high individual of the contest, receiving an additional $750 scholarship and a Dale Chavez Western trophy saddle.
Madison McKenzie was the second-high individual, receiving an additional $500 scholarship and a Dale Chavez Western show headstall. Ashley Doolittle was fifth-high individual and Emily Kingston was eighth.
Watershed protection pushed
Fires and floods have emphasized the need to protect watersheds in Colorado and should be incorporated into state water planning.
The Arkansas Basin Roundtable, which is drafting its piece of the state water plan, discussed how to evaluate which watersheds are most critical and how to prevent damage from drought, insects and fire at its meeting Wednesday.
"The question we're trying to answer is how do you expedite permitting and how do you come up with a common technical platform," said Gary Barber, chairman of the roundtable.
Forest fires in the last two years have damaged critical watersheds in the Colorado Springs, Canon City and Walsenburg areas. Grassland fires have created other problems in the Lower Arkansas Valley as well.
Fires increase the severity of flooding and increase levels of contaminants in the water.
Some watersheds may deserve higher priority because cities and farms rely on them for water supply, he said.
Barber suggested the roundtable use the same sort of method it employed for recreation and environmental uses by breaking the watershed into small units and analyzing each.
Using watershed models also would help in protecting from threats that arise in other basins, such as fires that top a ridge or spruce beetles that are blown by winds from one area to another.
Delays on long-awaited reports for Pavilion-area groundwater angers landowners
State officials said Tuesday two reports in the Pavillion area groundwater investigation would be delayed until early 2014, further angering landowners who have for years complained nearby natural gas operations contaminated their water wells. A third report will likely be delayed until after September, the initial deadline set for that study by the state, they said.
Those comments were delivered at a meeting of the Pavillion Working Group in Riverton and come after repeated delays in a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency investigation into potential water pollution. The EPA halted its study in June following a controversy over the agency preliminary finding that gas operations polluted water supplies in the area. The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality and state Oil and Gas Conservation Commission were tasked with completing the investigation, of which Tuesday's meeting was a part.
Jeff Locker, a Pavillion area farmer who claims gas operations contaminated his water, said his wife and him are consulting legal counsel about the possibility of suing Encana Corp., the Canadian company that owns and operates the 130-well gas field east of Pavillion.
Their views were hardly universal, though.
The state investigation is making good progress, said Jon Martin, a local landowner who believes the link between gas operations and groundwater contamination is false. He described Tuesday's meeting as "positive," saying it cleared up residents' questions about the investigation's process and installment of cisterns for domestic water supplies.
Greeley residents get gift of holiday beans from Young Farmers
For the 22nd year in a row, the St. Vrain Valley Young Farmers Association is making sure the 108 families at the Island Grove Village Apartments in Greeley, Colo., have food to eat through the holiday season.
Each year, the group provides enough 20-pound bags of pinto beans for each family to take one home. On Friday, families came through the apartment complex's office to pick up their bag of beans and bags of candy for the kids.
"I appreciate it dearly," said Island Grove Village resident Crystal Ramirez, who has been a resident at the complex for a year. "It's great these people are willing to give us a hand."
The St. Vrain Valley Young Farmers Association provides the $1,600 worth of beans each year, with help from Northern Food and Bean, Teasdale Foods and Twin Peaks Seed and Grain.
"This is such a great thing for us to be able to do every year," St. Vrain Valley Young Farmers Association advisor Steve Coleman said. "In a lot of ways, it makes Christmas and the holiday season even more special for all of us."
Federal crews round up bison at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge
There's still no home for some of the bison that must be culled from the growing herd on a federal refuge north of Denver, and herd managers Tuesday had their hands full rounding them up into a circular corral
"Bison are a different kind of animal. These are wild. They don't behave like cattle," said Dave Lucas, manager of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, as he looked down from a 12-foot elevated catwalk. "No human is getting down in there with these bison."
A crew of 40 staffers and biologists — using native prairie grass and water as enticement — coaxed bison into a fenced area and chutes.
After blood tests, checking identity chips and plucking tail hairs for genetic testing, federal biologists are tasked with must decide which 27 bison must be cut from the arsenal herd of 87 — to avoid degrading the prairie.
Some may have to be killed.
Arsenal refuge managers have discussed holding the rest of the bison culled from their herd through January if necessary.
This week's round-up and culling is seen as necessary intervention because the bison are multiplying too fast. The federal biologists say they must reduce the herd to 60 bison for now to avoid exhausting the prairie, where the bison roam across a 2,600-acre fenced area.


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Summer Research Apprentice Program (SRAP) is an intensive, six week, paid summer research program for high school students that targets minorities, first-generation college bound, and females.
Undergraduate Fellowships are provided up to 25 students at the University of Wyoming in the fall and spring semesters for $800 as well as in the summer for $4,500. Students must apply with a proposal addressing their intended research and have the support of a faculty member. Application can be found here.
Undergraduate Research Day is an annual event held during the spring semester to recognize and celebrate the research accomplishments of undergraduates around the state. These programs are made possible through funding provided by the National Science Foundation grant (EPS-0447681). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.


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To the Editor:
With the recent strike at Hurd Windows and Doors, there has been considerable activity outside the factory. Despite this there are some employees who feel the activity should be going on the inside of the factory. We who have families to support and believe in the traditional American work ethic continue to pass through the picket lines and perform our duties.
In retaliation, several union members have resorted to some of the most deplorable tactics available. Having served in both the Marines and the National Guard, I now find my duty to this country a target of scorn and slander. After seeing action in both the Gulf War and most recently Operation Iraqi Freedom, my sacrifice is met with such slurs as "You can defend your country but you can't stand up for your rights?" I am daily harassed and maligned by this self-appointed band of zealots.
The question I posed for these people is this: Where do you think these cherished rights come from? I submit that they come from those who are more interested in the well-being of the whole rather than their own selfish interests. They come from people who are willing to lay their life on the line for the hounding principals of this country.
Perhaps these people in their shortsightedness have forgotten the true target of their strike – the management of Hurd Windows. Maybe they have been so indoctrinated by the modern union mindset that they have forgotten the meaning of teamwork and brotherhood. Could it be that their only motivation is the almighty dollar?
I say to these malefactors that I have seen what price is to be paid for personal freedom and individual rights. And that price was paid in the blood of those who understand what is most important – honor, loyalty and patriotism. Perhaps they would understand better if they served in this manner for even one day.
I also think that most war vets would agree there's a big difference in fighting in a war than walking the sidewalks holding a sign. But to each their own.
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The Stetson sand volleyball team wrapped up its first weekend of play on Saturday with the Stetson Spring Break Tournament pairs brackets. The combination of Tiffany Creamer and Kristin Lind claimed the championship in the lower bracket. The freshmen pair went undefeated for the whole weekend in their collegiate sand debut.
In the finals of the lower bracket, Creamer and Lind faced familiar competition as they took on fellow teammates, senior Katie DiGirolamo and junior Julie Bassett. While the veteran players were challenging opponents, the newcomers ultimately came away victorious with the scores of 21-17, 21-18.
Coach Meghan Bryant was not surprised by the strong performance from Creamer and Lind.
"This year I think that they are going to bring a lot to our team because they coming in as freshmen and playing big roles," said Bryant.
Lower bracket play was single-elimination with only one set to 28. During the semi-finals, the scoring returned to the normal two-out-of-three sets to 21 for a match. Stetson played pairs from Tulane, Warner University, and Florida Gulf Coast University in addition to its own. The bracket consisted of all pairs except the top two seeds from each school.
All the Stetson pairs in the lower division performed well. The Hatters had four of their six pairs make it to the quarterfinals, and every pair scored over 20 points in the first round of play. From there, the duo of junior Maren Rygh and senior Jordann Dierickx reached the semi-finals along with the pairs of Creamer and Lind as well as DiGirolamo and Bassett.
Likewise, Stetson proved to be tough competition in the upper bracket. In this division, the top two pairs from each team competed in a double-elimination bracket with regular scoring.
Stetson's second seed junior Savannah Byl and sophomore Madison Tormey went 2-2 for the day. The pair beat Warner's top seed in the first round of play 21-9, 21-13. In the quarterfinals, the pair narrowly lost to Tulane's top pair of freshmen Tea Juric and sophomore Jackie Wegner. Byl and Tormey rallied back and defeated the Tulane second seed before falling again in a tough three-set match against FGCU's Kaitlyn Holm and Whitney Masters.
In the same bracket, senior Kaley Melville and freshmen Kaylee Anderson went undefeated until the finals, where they faced Juric and Wegner. Despite having beaten the Tulane pair during the semi-final round, Melville and Anderson fell to Juric and Wegner in back to back matches and finished second in the upper bracket of the tournament.
"I was really proud of Kaylee," said Melville of her partner. "It's not easy to play at the one seed as a freshman, but she played her heart out today."
This weekend the Hatters travel to Cocoa Beach for the Ron Jon Beach 'N Boards Fest.


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On Monday morning outside the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad depot, a man wearing sunglasses, a goatee and heavy black combat boots posed in front of �Whinney and Friends,� a bronze sculpture of recumbent horses, smiling, as his identically dressed friend snapped a picture.
Like thousands of tourists before them, they were reveling in Durango�s public-art collection, which, said Sherri Dugdale, the city�s public information officer, was recently appraised as being worth more than $1 million.
In 2005, the collection was valued at just $675,000.
How Durango � a small town with a strong, though not traditionally affluent, artistic tradition � came to acquire such a font of public art in just seven years and despite the recession is largely the story of the Durango Public Art Commission, its longtime chairwoman Carol Martin and Phyllis Alden, who has donated more than half a million dollars in sculpture since 2003.
Martin is a jewelry designer who grew up in Colorado. She planned to be a dentist until college, when she visited Florence, Italy.
�It changed my whole perspective on life,� said Martin.
Sherri Dugdale said Martin�s contribution to public art in Durango was unparalleled, pointing to her uninterrupted tenure on the art commission.
�She must be doing something right,� said Dugdale.
Alden is more mysterious. Her friends say she spent about 10 years in Durango, but now lives part time in Florida and part time in Italy, near the Amalfi Coast. Political donations place her in Durango in 2007, when, according to Federal Election Commision receipts, she worked as a self-employed investor. In 2003, she donated the �Life Wall,� a 40-piece collection of portraits cast in bronze by Willa Shalit and Dean Ericson that now stands at the library, currently valued at more than $250,000.
In 2012, she donated four sculptures to Durango, valued at just less than $400,000.
Martin, who met Alden through her gallery, described her as �very private.�
Despite multiple attempts, Alden could not be reached for comment.
The commission
The Public Art Commission unofficially began in 1998.
�Chiara Amoroso, Brian Wagner, Phyllis Alden: Those were three key people. Then we started working with the city,� Martin said.
It swiftly organized the installation of pieces loaned by Alden on East Second Avenue: �Puck� and �Mudra,� bronze sculptures by Elizabeth McQueen, and �My Children,� a bronze by Allan Houser.
Because of its early success, the city made the Art Commission official in 2004, selecting Martin as its chairwoman.
But times got rocky in 2005, when the committee recommended that Michael Clapper, a Denver-based sculptor, build a $50,000 sculpture in Three Springs � of which $20,000 was to be financed by the city, $20,000 by the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and $10,000 by Mercy Regional Medical Center.
At the time, an unscientific Durango Herald online poll found �67.3 percent polled� disliked Clapper�s proposed sculpture.
As a result of the controversy, Martin said that the Southern Ute Tribe declined to fund the sculpture. Afterward, the commission altered its selection process so the public could react to pieces before it made a selection. Martin said.
�That was the beginning of our public art �call to artists� process. We actually have not had a controversial piece since then. I think people love being involved in the process. It�s public art, so they take ownership in it.�
The committee�s tastes also evolved.
�We�re careful to select pieces that are more representational. We�re not trying to push the envelope in terms of cutting-edge work. We�re getting wonderful work that can be enjoyed by the majority of people,� Martin said.
Navigating the downturn
When the recession hit in 2008, the city reduced its financial support for public art to subsistence levels, so the commission instituted a program whereby local artists loan their work to the city for one or two years, and local businesses underwrite more ambitious projects.
Three months ago, it asked Bank of Colorado to fund a design competition to commemorate Durango�s hosting the USA Pro Cycling Challenge this summer. The Bank ponied up $20,000.
�The Bank of Colorado was thrilled to support public art in Durango. It�s part of what makes this town unique,� said John Dowling, local bank president.
�Venture,� the winning design by Josh Weiner, will appear in the Florida Road roundabout near Chapman Hill.
Martin said there are many suitable sites for public art.
�One new piece is going behind the botanical gardens at the library. There are places along the Animas River Trail that we�ve designated as great for art. And we�re relocating the pumas to a puma reserve,� said Martin, referring to the 11 puma sculptures that the San Juan Mountain Association has strewn across Durango.
Martin wants Durango to be recognized as an art destination.
�We�re a small town. We can�t compare ourselves to Florence, galleries like in Santa Fe. But so many people vacation, retire, raise kids and live here because of the culture. We just want to keep enriching that,� Martin said.
Asked why public art was important, Martin produced a five-sentence written statement that she had prepared, unprompted, ahead of the interview. �Public art contributes to a city�s visual character, texture and history,� said Martin, reading aloud. On concluding, she looked up. �Phyllis Alden would tell you the same thing,� she said.


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He then asked if I was talking to God in church that night. And I said, "Well, yes. In Praise & Worship I was singing praises to Him. And in prayer, I was talking to Him, too."
"No, who was the guy in the blue shirt that you were talking to?" He asks.
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Incentives to lure more teachers to South Carolina's struggling school districts may be on the way, if talks between Gov. Nikki Haley and legislators pan out.
Exactly what the incentives might be remains unclear, but Haley and the chairmen of the House and Senate education committees say they generally agree some incentive may be one way to get more teachers to poor districts where they are needed.
Among the possible incentives discussed are signing bonuses, increased salaries and college loan forgiveness.
Haley initiated the education talks in January when she called for legislators to explore ways to provide more help to school districts that lack sufficient tax bases to provide for their public schoolchildren.
The state is supposed to make up for that lacking local money but has cut what it supplies on a per student basis by as much as 20 percent over the past six years.
That loss of money strikes rural districts particularly hard because state cash makes up half or more of many of their budgets.
Haley has told The Post and Courier she believes the state funding formula for schools needs to be revisited to give more help to poor districts.
However, she has not offered any specifics.
The state's failure to adequately support schools in those districts, 10 of which rank as failing, is one of the findings in The Post and Courier's recent series "Forgotten South Carolina."
Last week, Haley pointed to the word "Forgotten" in the series' title and said she plans "to get the forgotten out of Forgotten South Carolina."
Haley said her key objective of "jobs, jobs, jobs," is the surest way to improve education and health in Forgotten South Carolina.
Since Haley took office in January 2011, she has announced 6,765 new jobs and $917 million in capital investment from businesses expanding or moving to rural counties, her office reports.
Haley first publicly mentioned the incentives idea after attending a ceremony last week at Manning Junior High School to congratulate students for their high score on a federal student performance test.
John Tindal, superintendent of Clarendon School District 2, which includes Manning Junior High School, said his district and other rural districts need teachers who will stay, not just come for a year or so and leave.
Republican Sen. John Courson, who chairs the Senate Education Committee and heads the Senate as president pro tempore, said reducing the number of school districts through some form of incentive also has been discussed.
He said he wants Haley to submit a formal plan to improve education, especially in struggling districts.
Pickens County Republican Rep. Phillip Owens, chairman of the House Education and Public Works Committee, said "I think we've been in the bottom nationally for a long time. None of us are proud of that."
Reach Doug Pardue at 937-5558.