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Web banner image: Michael Kline, Jar (detail), 2013, Stoneware, Collection of Marc Poland
Named after an important primary trade route from Philadelphia through Roanoke and south through Tennessee and North Carolina that was established in the 18th century, this exhibition presents the work of nine contemporary artists whose work and lives have been influenced by generations of ceramic artists who came before them. The Great Road was the name of the specific route that passed through Roanoke. These transportation routes linked this region of early American potters together. This exhibition includes the work of Rob Barnard, Josh Copus, Kevin Crowe, Judith Duff, Dan Finnegan, Naomi Dalglish, Michael Hunt, Mark Hewitt, and Michael Kline, nine contemporary potters who reside in the same geographic regions of these old trade routes.
Many early potters settled along the Great Road because of the trade and local clay. All pottery was fired using wood as the fuel to heat the kilns. Over the last 40 years many potters moved to North Carolina and Virginia who were attracted to the region for its natural beauty, less expensive land, access to local clays and the early pottery traditions, which themselves were naturally very influenced by English pottery. Wood-fired pottery took on another dimension beyond utility with many contemporary potters when a strong Asian aesthetic was first introduced to America by Shoji Hamada, from Japan, and English potter Bernard Leach, when they traveled and taught extensively here together fifty years ago. Hamada and Leach were both internationally renowned and influential potters of their time and their legacy continues. Today, there exists a familial connection between Southern, English, and Asian pottery traditions that is evident in contemporary pottery making.
In the work on view, each artist claims the influence of one or more of these traditions and they all choose to fire in wood kilns, just as the potters in this region before them, but with an emphasis on the look and feel that wood-firing brings to their work. From sake cups to jars and large vessels, the artists use a variety of glaze and slip techniques on their wood-fired work. The work ranges from brightly colored copper glazes of Michael Kline, whose work references old traditions of the Catawba Valley potters in North Carolina; the pebbly salted glaze surfaces of Mark Hewitt who is from England but settled in North Carolina as a young potter; the unglazed, untraditional powerful forms of Josh Copus who uses clay that he has dug himself; to the quiet subtle forms and surfaces of Rob Barnard who spent many of his formative years making pottery in Japan. From the 18th century ceramic origins developed in our region, the nine exhibited artists display – through the work on view – their historical predecessors' influences transformed into unique and powerful personal objects.
The Great Road: Contemporary Wood-fired Ceramics is organized by Donna Polseno, Adjunct Curator of Ceramic Art and will be on view in the David R. and Susan S. Goode Gallery February 18 - May 17, 2014.


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Career Clinic: The best time for a junior banker to move
Despite bonus numbers being broadly in line with last year, there seems to be a real shift in momentum. After five years of false starts and a flaky market it finally feels like we have a real upturn on our hands, at least where hiring is concerned.
This time actually is different (at least for now). Good junior bankers aren't just getting one offer, they're getting multiple offers; there's more than one interesting buy-side opportunity out there; newly qualified accountants are firmly back in vogue; headhunters aren't just calling senior bankers more often - they're taking their own advice and changing jobs themselves.
But after your first few years as a younger banker, when do you make the move? There's no bullet-proof advice around what is such a big and personal decision, but hopefully by asking yourself a few basic questions you should be able to feel more secure in your decision:
Is the grass genuinely greener? After a disappointing comp round, it's tempting to look ahead to resignation day with utter glee whilst forgetting about the fact that you actually like your boss, you work for a decent franchise and you're still paid OK. Is the promised payoff worth the risk?
Does this move offer you what you're looking for? Increased responsibility, faster career progression, an upgrade in brand, a change in lifestyle. Whatever they are, remember what your push-factors were, and make sure the pull-factors genuinely match.
Don't be afraid to be different. The best opportunity for you might not be the same one as your colleague on the opposite desk, so don't be afraid to make a brave choice just because it isn't the obvious one in the eyes of your peers. Warren Buffett didn't need to move to NYC to make a pretty good living.
Listen to your gut. OK, it's not the most scientific method, BUT logic doesn't tell you where you're going to have the most fun, or where you'll get the most peer/senior support. Close your eyes, pretend it is a Sunday, and think about having to head into your new office. Does it still excite you?
Perhaps most importantly, regardless of the level at which you're entering a firm, it is important to consider your situation a few years into your new job. What's the timeline for and next promotion? What, and how many, are your exit options? What will you be paid in five years? How soon are you going to hit a ceiling? Are you going to get enough deal/investment experience to keep you relevant? Does this preclude you from switching from sell-side to buy-side or the other way around later on? Does this asset class have legs? Next time the industry downsizes, will you be supported or canned?
Whilst it's sometimes necessary to make an interim move in order to get to where you want to be eventually, it's absolutely imperative to house yourself somewhere you'll be happy, productive and busy, and somewhere where you have the potential to excel.
During the last boom market between 2003 and 2007, money-motivated individuals were job hopping like nobody's business, just for an extra few quid and a guaranteed bonus. These people were exposed when the market turned in 2008 — they looked disloyal and hadn't built up enough political capital or goodwill at any firm they had worked for to enable them to find a decent job. Lots of them ended up having to leave the industry or ended up in comparatively poorly paid, uninteresting roles.
This time, make sure it's different.
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Leo J. GendronMay 22,2013
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BEVERLY HILLS, Fla. Leo J. Gendron, 86, of South Monroe Street, died May 16, 2013, at his home. He and his family were longtime residents of Upper Websterville, Vt., and on South Main Street in Barre City, Vt. Leo was a retired employee of the United States Postal Service.
Born Feb. 18, 1927, in Barre City, he was the son of Wilfrid and Marie-Ange (Demers) Gendron. He graduated from Spaulding High School and following his honorable World War II service in the U.S. Navy from April 1945 to July 1946, he received an associate degree in business from Burlington Business College in Burlington, Vt.
On Nov. 26, 1949, he married Patricia M. Smith in Barre City. Following their marriage, they made their home in Upper Websterville, Barre City and Morrisville.
After his retirement, he and his wife have been residing in Beverly Hills, Fla.
Following his graduation from college, Leo began his career with the U.S. Postal Service as a railroad mail clerk on the Central Vermont Railroad. Later he was a postal clerk in the Barre City post office and was promoted to postmaster in East Calais, and retired as postmaster in Morrisville in 1985.
He enjoyed hunting, golfing, skiing and hiking Spruce Mountain in Plainfield.
His memberships included St. Monica Catholic Church in Barre, Lady of Grace Catholic Church in Beverly Hills, Fla., Barre American Legion Post 10 and its drum and bugle corps, as well as veterans organizations near his Florida home.
Leo was a trusting, loving and caring husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, brother, uncle and friend, leaving his wife, Patty, of 63 years; his son Timothy and wife Jody, of Milton; and seven daughters: Kathleen Chatot and husband Phillip, of Georgia, Ellen Greenough and husband Bradley, and Joan Gendron, all of Barre City, Marie Brock and husband Tom, and Margaret Fournier and husband Norman, all of Barre Town, Eileen Robison and husband John, of Wooster, Ohio, and Jean Gosselin and husband Gary, of Washington; as well as 20 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by his daughter Maureen and son Patrick; his sister Angie Loso, and his brothers Jerry and Wilfred Gendron.
His Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated Monday, May 27, 2013, at 11 a.m. in St. Monica Catholic Church. Later interment will be made in St. Sylvester Cemetery in Barre Town.
Friends may call at the Hooker and Whitcomb Funeral Home, 7 Academy St., Barre, on Sunday, May 26, from 6 to 8 p.m.
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Glenn and Lea Fry are celebrating their 12th Wedding Anniversary on January 31st.
Glenn has served as a Staff Sergeant in the United States Army for 14 years as a Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic and is a member of the 7th Engineer Battalion at Ft. Drum. He has served 4 deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.
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So ladies, I am pumping exclusively, and my LO has been having HORRIBLE nights. She is up 2-3 times an hour. Not to eat, and she does not wake all the way up, but she cries enough for me to go check on her.
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Do I NEED to get up and pump overnight, or will my day sessions make up for the missed night session??
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The first week tally is in for Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol". The verdict for the Kindle? Nothing special.
The Lost Symbol sold just 100,000 in e-books format according to Doubleday. Overall Doubleday sold 2 milllion copies. The 5% ratio of e-books to print is about in-line with the average for book sales.
The first day sales of "The Lost Symbol" were better on the Kindle than in print for Amazon, so if there's good news for the young e-book industry, it's that people like to buy books right away on their Kindles. Other than that, there's nothing much to crow about.
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Originally Posted by -Finn-
Yes but the snake didnt get away.... which is what was said....
it's oro... he can escspe, trust me
Originally Posted by HenrikXXX
it's oro... he can escspe, trust me
Im not doubting that its oro in this weeks scans, but the one escaping totsuka sword got burnt by amaterasu, just saiyan
looks like it is going to be a great chapter
Originally Posted by -Finn-
Im not doubting that its oro in this weeks scans, but the one escaping totsuka sword got burnt by amaterasu, just saiyan
but the means oros soul is not in totsuka which is the point.
Welcome back Lord Orochimaru we have been waiting for you
noooo fuc.king sheat ... again kabuto.... i dont give a crap about him.... and now a discusting sheat that looks like orochimaru ... no the pedofile and the snake boy ..... kill them or seal them kishi stop with this boring ass chapters :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: Go back to madara or to naruto ... or make sasuke and itachi do something more intersting :mad::mad::mad:
I knew that snake on his stomach was Orochimaru or something! I feel so important right now!
Seriously though, I wonder what the Uchiha brothers reaction will be...
Is there Izanami used or not? I was a little confused about that.
here is what i read on a site about the chapter
Kabuto goes on talking about his identity, that he is Orochimaru incarnate
Itachi denies this
Kabuto claims that what he is doing is not unlike what Sasuke has done, in trying to mimick Itachi
Goes on rambling about how Itachi has forged his own identity and how much he admires him
Itachi denies again
Itachi gives him a lecture on how false his ideas are
Kabuto disagrees and shows a pertruding Orochimaru face from his chest
Kabuto vs Itachi and Sasuke!
Kabuto uses sound based snake (natural?) genjutsu on the brothers
Itachi's Susanoo grasps Sasuke and hardens, cancels sound based genjutsu
Kabuto uses natural energy attack (?) to bypass Amaterasu wall (?)
Itachi splits himself into 2 using Izanami
One Itachi half fuses himself with Sasuke
The other Itachi half latches on to Kabuto
Kabuto thinks it's a clone
Kabuto: Ha! You think you can fool me?
Itachi turns into vapor and fuses into both Kabuto and Sasuke
Fusion complete!
Itachi-Sasuke: Sorry Sasuke, another time
Itachi-Kabuto shocked: What is this? Itachi's mind is in me?
Itachi-Kabuto: It's time to stop the war
Itachi's mangekyo sharingan appears in the eyes of both characters
Last panel shows Itachi possessing (?) both Kabuto and Sasuke
Itachi: It's done ...
Itachi-Sasuke and Itachi-Kabuto's eyes start to fade and turn black
This jutsu seems to be Izanami (trying to confirm), it sacrifices both the user's eyes, one each, to possess 2 different people using 2 ghosts (?). Effect is permanent, but the user gets destroyed in the process.
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Kabuto : That's why I always looked up to him.
That's why I don't want your lecture, I want to know about you and I want your abilities.
You're a leaf ninja, you're a member of the Uchiha.
You managed to awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan.
You want to stop the war, knowing the secrets you know.
You possessed huge jutsus and power.
You wouldn't be Itachi if you didn't had all these things
There's no one as fit as you to be in my Edo Tensei army.
My pawns are my own power.
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Itachi : You're overestimating me.
In reality I'm a failure.
Kabuto : No, even if in front of me, the "Uchiha" name is worthless ...
I envy that name.
Itachi : The name "Uchiha" show your roots and your people.
It would be meaningless for you to have it.
Kabuto : No, it would have a meaning.
Page 3 & 4
Kabuto : Only by absorbing Orochimaru-sama !
So, Sasuke-kun ? Do you remember this ?
Sasuke : This is ...
Itachi : Kabuto. You are NOT Orochimaru.
You can copy the one you admired, that's fine by me.
But stop pretending you're him.
It's not like you can him anyway.
Kabuto : To achieve great things, someone must first find someone he can copy.
Like you did in the past, Sasuke-kun.
Fugaku : Now become as good as your brother.
Kabuto absorbed The Sound 5 inside his body and can use freely any of their jutsu.
Trying to defend themselves with Susano'o, the brother are trapped and paralysed by Tayuya's sound Genjutsu.
Kabuto absorbed Orochimaru's body too. But I have a felling that he's the one who's going to be absorbed.
Sasuke and Itachi's teamwork enable them to escape the pinch.
Itachi starts using Izanami when Itachi divides into two.
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Martha Sue Abell has been a photographer for over 15 years. She looks for interesting shapes, reflections, the juxtaposition of light and shadow. Martha also enjoys photographing wildlife in all its forms: birds of all types, deer, squirrel and any other wildlife that get in front of her lens. Other favorite subjects include trying to show emotions in the activities and features of her five cats: Sassy (1996-2010) and Tia (part-Manx), Budd (black and white tuxedo), Teegrr (Maine Coon), and the youngest, Cooprr (Maine Coon).
Martha is also an author (as yet unpublished). Her working career has included being a legal assistant, marketing assistant, and database manager.
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Gas prices dip in Vermont
The average price of gasoline in Vermont fell 3.3 cents a gallon in the past week, averaging $3.66 a gallon on Sunday, according to GasBuddy's daily survey of 626 gas stations in Vermont.
The national average fell 4 cents a gallon in the last week to $3.58 gallon.
Compared to a year ago, prices in Vermont were 30.1 cents per gallon lower than a year ago and 15.4 cents per gallon lower than a month ago.
The national average decreased 9.3 cents a gallon during the last month and were 32.8 cents a gallon lower than a year ago.
"Americans are spending $108 million less on gasoline every day than they were a year ago," said Patrick DeHaan, GasBuddy.com senior petroleum analyst.
DeHaan said 300 metropolitan areas saw cheaper gas prices in the first quarter than in 2012.
He said more higher-priced markets this year include locations in Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.
The most expensive market in the country was the Honolulu area, where gas was $4.157 a gallon, 3 cents more than a year ago, DeHaan said.
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Following are the 2016 Pac-12 Conference Men's and Women's Tennis All-Academic teams, announced today by Commissioner Larry Scott. To be eligible for selection to the academic team, a student-athlete must have a minimum 3.0 overall grade-point average and compete in at least 50% of the team's matches.
Osborne Earns Pac-12 All-Academic Honors, 4 Honorable Mentions
Ebony Panoho, Kassidy Jump, Stephanie Vlad and Gussie O'Sullivan earned honorable mention honors.
Season Wraps Up for Panoho/Osborne in NCAA Quarterfinals
The Australian duo fell to #3 Florida in straight sets.
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Congress should defy Obama to give peace a chance
By Kevin Uhrich 09/04/2013
With United States troops finally withdrawn from Iraq after 10 years of bloody conflict, but not yet out of Afghanistan after a dozen years of fierce fighting, the US is about to get involved in yet another war in the Middle East, this time in Syria in response to that government's alleged use of poison gas to kill its own people, including hundreds of small children.
It seems like only yesterday that President George W. Bush was comparing Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to Adolf Hitler, and his Secretary of State Colin Powell was trying to make the case to the United Nations that Hussein really did have weapons of mass destruction. Hussein was a murderous thug, but we turned a blind eye to his use of poison gas to kill his Iranian enemies — then also our enemies — in 1984 and murder thousands of innocent Kurds in Northern Iraq four years later. As it turned out, Hussein no longer had WMDs, as UN weapons inspectors had been saying before we invaded.
Fast forward a decade — after thousands of US service men and women died, another 100,000 were horribly maimed, and perhaps more than 100,000 Iraqi men, women and children were slaughtered in what did not start out as a civil war but ended up becoming one — and we hear echoes of the very same drums of war that were being beaten back in 2003.
Like that old "Twilight Zone" episode in which a man on trial for his life (Dennis Weaver) relives the same courtroom drama in endlessly recurring nightmares, only with the characters in each dream changing roles, this time it's not Bush and Powell calling for permission to wage war and calling foreign leaders the next Hitler. This time it's President Obama, who called the invasion of Iraq a mistake while a senator and as president oversaw the withdrawal of troops from that country, but now wants to go to war. And it's current Secretary of State John Kerry, who also campaigned against the war in Iraq in his bid for president in 2004, now comparing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to Hitler for what is being called a sarin gas attack that killed more than 1,400 people, nearly a third of those victims being young children.
At first, Obama appeared to have been so incensed by this wanton slaughter of innocents that last week he was ready to act preemptively, much as he unilaterally did without congressional approval in the bombing of Libya in 2011, ultimately resulting in yet another unstable Middle East country with the death of dictator Muammar Gaddafi. After that, Obama, again without a congressional OK, sent Navy SEALS to hunt down and kill Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. Frankly, after such experiences, it would be a wonder if Obama — or any president — wouldn't see himself as the world's policeman.
But Obama surely must have realized — probably not long after British Prime Minister David Cameron's pleas with Parliament to support plans to launch cruise missiles on Syria fell on deaf ears — that this is a little more complicated than those two cases. What Obama clearly heard from Parliament was that our staunchest ally really is sick of war and apparently wants no more of it, even in light of all those horrible murders allegedly committed by the Syrian military.
Of course, Iran — still our enemy — is allied with Assad. Iraq, too, appears sympathetic to Assad, allowing Iran to transport weapons to the regime over Iraqi airspace, according to The Associated Press. The Chinese and Russians, according to CNN, are also on Assad's side in his country's civil war, one in which the dictator clearly has weapons of mass destruction and, if what they say is true, has no qualms about using them.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey all want Assad out, and they back a US strike, CNN reports. But all three are likely to contribute only logistical support, not troops. And if some type of invasion occurred, what would be our mission and role? Regime change, like Iraq? Not likely, with Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping, head of China's military and general secretary of its communist party, on Assad's side. It does not help the argument for intervention that there appears to be no leader emerging to take over the fractured Syrian opposition, let alone guide a fledging government should Assad be deposed.
And what does Israel think of all this? Now we're talking about the possibility of World War III.
After hearing US Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham agreeing with the idea of limited strikes, you just know Obama's plan is a mistake. Only these two old war hawks, as well as some Republicans in the House, want an open-ended declaration of war, not just a limited strike, and that's what this resolution to wage war, if approved by Congress, would accomplish.
If that happens, there seems to be no question that there would be another war, but one unlike Iraq, in which the US would get caught up in existing civil war, and one, also unlike Iraq, in which weapons of mass destruction would likely be used against our men and women.
Before any of that happens, let's hope the growing number of Democrats in Congress who appear to be inclined toward peace will end this latest Serling-esque recurring political and military nightmare in the Middle East and Washington, DC, and vote against the resolution to wage even limited war against Syria.
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Richard Childress was visibly upset as he stood next to grandson Ty Dillon's black truck during Friday's qualifying at Phoenix International Raceway. It had nothing to do with Dillon's chances to win the Camping World Truck Series championship, trailing James Buescher by 15 points with two races remaining. It had everything to do with an ESPN.com report that Sprint Cup driver #29-Kevin Harvick has signed a multi-year deal to begin driving for Stewart-Haas Racing in 2014. "I've got a contract for 2013 and this is 2012," the owner of Richard Childress Racing said of his deal with Harvick. "I'm not talking to you about nothing [regarding that]. Too far out." Asked if Harvick had told him he will not drive for RCR beyond 2013, Childress barked, "You need to go talk to them people. Don't talk to me about it. If you want to talk to me about [the truck] championship, I'll talk about it. But don't talk to me about anything else." Harvick's departure will be huge, particularly if he takes primary sponsor Budweiser with him. Remember, RCR lost Chaser Clint Bowyer to Michael Waltrip Racing after last season due to lack of sponsorship and had to shrink from four to three teams. Some will say Harvick leaving only opens the door for Childress' other grandson, Nationwide Series driver Austin Dillon, to move to Cup in 2014. But plans already were in place for Dillon to make the move then, either in the fourth car that is vacant or as a replacement for Jeff Burton, whose contract expires after 2013. And by the way, while Dillon will make his Daytona 500 debut in the #33 next year, Childress left open the possibility the #3 Earnhardt drove remains a strong possibility for his grandson. "That's still on the table," Childress said. Sources close to the situation told me Childress was blindsided by the news, which explains his mood. Replacing Harvick has to now be his No. 1 goal in order to remain relevant in the series
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If the Knicks are stupid enough to buyout Marbury who would not be unemployed for 5 days with all the Postseason teams jocking around to sign him as their combo-guard.
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In the first part of this article, I shared my implementation of the Cental Authentication Service (CAS) protocol using the Jifty framework, CAS+. That article covered the basic details of how this single sign-on (SSO) system was implemented to include basic login and how a user's credentials are passed back to another web service. This covered most aspects of the CAS 1.0 protocol.
However, the CAS protocol provides much more than robust single sign-on. CAS 2.0 provides additional features for authentication by proxy. By using this extension, a web service may pass identity credentials on to additional services allowing services that are not directly web accessible, such as IMAP, SMTP, or other applications. CAS+ implements these extensions as well and this article will share, and this article will explain how those are implemented in Jifty.
This question was the biggest obstacle for me while trying to understand how the CAS protocol works. You can login, get a service ticket, validate that ticket, and then request a new special kind of ticket, and then there are callbacks and yet another set of tickets to worry about. Why?
The answer is that a certain web service might want to grant the user access to other services, especially to those that are not web-based. For example, let's say you have an intranet portal for your employees to check on vacation time, current benefits, email, etc. Your portal provides a central interface for everyone to get this information, but the vacation time is actually stored in a performance management system, the benefits are pulled from your company's financial services partner, and your email is pulled from your IMAP server. Each of these systems aren't going to hand over any information without knowing who the information is being handed to.
By using CAS to proxy the authentication, they can all be sure of the identity of the individual requesting the information while you are still keeping the actual credentials private to the CAS system.
The process of authentication by proxy is identical up to the point of service authentication. I described the first part of this process in Part 1. Now, let's take a look at how the process is modified to handle proxy authentication. I'm going to break the process down into three parts to help simplify the explanation.
The first phase of proxy authentication in CAS is exactly the same as typical authentication, login. The steps in this phase are:
Once the user has logged in and the user is redirected back to the restricted page with the Service Ticket, the client web service has to validate the service ticket. This is similar to non-proxy authentication, but an extra step is involved.
Why the extra callback? Why couldn't CAS just pass the Proxy Granting Ticket back with the username? I presume this is for additional security. A malicious attacker must snoop two different request/response pairs going in opposite directions (and crack the encryption on both) to get a complete picture of what is happening.
However, if a malicious user can snoop just the callback communication and gain just the PGT, the attacker has all that's required to spoof access to an account, which is why the CAS protocol requires this communication be encrypted. It is very important that the client web service not betray the PGT for this reason. (And perhaps a reason for a CAS server implementation to refuse to perform proxies unless the service is pre-approved for such access.)
To perform this additional callback step, the System uses LWP::UserAgent to pass the PGT and PGT IOU in an HTTP GET request. This happens in the middle of the CASPlus::Action::Validate action:
$pgt->create( service_session => $service_ticket, callback_url => $pgt_url, proxy_session => $proxy_ticket, ); # Contact the callback URL with pgt and pgtIou my $response = $ua->get( $pgt_url .'?pgt='.$pgt->proxy_granting_ticket .'&pgtIou='.$pgt->proxy_granting_iou );
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$pgt_url holds the value passed in the pgtUrl parameter. The Validate request creates a new proxy grant session and then passes the identifiers. If the callback returns success (i.e.,
$response->is_success is true), the Validate action adds the PGT IOU to the XML response with the username. The response to the client web service will look something like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <cas:serviceResponse xmlns:cas="http://www.yale.edu/tp/cas"> <cas:authenticationSuccess> <cas:user>sterling</cas:user> <cas:proxyGrantingTicket>PGTIOU-DH8TJ1...</cas:proxyGrantingTicket> </cas:authenticationSuccess> </cas:serviceResponse>
Now, the user has identified herself with the CAS server. The CAS server has passed credential information to the original web service by way of the browser and validated it directly for the web service. The web service has requested a Proxy Granting Ticket and received one via callback and linked that PGT to the user's identity. Now, the web service needs to securely pass the identity of the user on to the proxied application.
In the description of this process, I've separated the request for a restricted page from the request for a proxied application. I've done this to simplify the description of this complex process, but both actions could occur within the same request.
I've also performed the request of fetching a Proxy Granting Ticket during initial service validation. However, this could wait until later as well by invoking the login process a second time to get a new service ticket and performing a new service validation request. When such actions are performed is dependent upon the needs and implementation of the client web service.
Also, I've left out the fact that a proxied application can request its own PGT using its callback URL. Then, that application can proxy the authentication of another application. Proxied authentication may be arbitrarily nested.
How does CAS+ handle creating and returning a Proxy Ticket? Here's the rule in the CASPlus::Dispatcher that shows this:
on 'proxy' => run { my $proxy = Jifty->web->new_action( class => 'Proxy', arguments => { pgt => get 'pgt', targetService => get 'targetService', }, ); $proxy->run; set result => $proxy->result; show '/proxy'; };
Here the dispatcher sends the request to the Proxy action (CASPlus::Action::Proxy) and then response with the "/proxy" template. As with the other actions, the Proxy action spends most of the code dealing with error cases. The king work that it does is to load the proxy grant session associated with the given Proxy Granting Ticket and then creates a new proxy session record for the given targetService.
On success, the "/proxy" template will render something that looks like:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <cas:serviceResponse xmlns:cas="http://www.yale.edu/tp/cas"> <cas:proxySuccess> <cas:proxyTicket>PT-IN94NF0M3A...</cas:proxyTicket> </cas:proxySuccess> </cas:serviceResponse>
The only other new step in this process is that of validating the Proxy Ticket. However, the nature of this validation is practically identical to that of Service Ticket validation. In fact, the CAS protocol species that the Proxy Ticket validator also be capable of validating Service Tickets. Because of this, the ProxyValidation action is a subclass of the Validation action introduced in Part 1 of this article.
If the incoming ticket starts with "ST-", it is identified as a Service Ticket and the superclass is used directly:
if ($ticket =~ /^ST-/) { $self->SUPER::take_action; return; }
Otherwise, the much of the same process for validating a Service Ticket is applied tot he Proxy Ticket instead. Much of the code used by the Validation action has been extracted into inherited subroutines to prevent a lot of code from being duplicated.
Most of the code that remains in the ProxyValidation action is related to the error handling messages that are specialized for use with Proxy Ticket validation.
There is, however, one major distinction between Proxy Ticket validation and Service Ticket validation in the output template, "/proxyValidate": it includes a list of proxies, which isn't part of the "/serviceValidate" template. As such, a typical Proxy Ticket validation response will look something like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <cas:serviceResponse xmlns:cas="http://www.yale.edu/tp/cas"> <cas:authenticationSuccess> <cas:user>sterling</cas:user> <cas:proxies> <cas:proxy>https://service2/callbackUrl</cas:proxy> <cas:proxy>https://service1/callbackUrl</cas:proxy> </cas:proxies> </cas:authenticationSuccess> </cas:serviceResponse>
That summarizes most of the major code additions required to make proxy authentication work.
Okay, I chose not to explain much about the models in Part 1 of this article, but there are enough "tickets" involved that I thought it might help to see the basics of how these are stored in CAS+. It also shows off the declarative syntax Jifty uses to declare its data models.
The SSO session is stored in CASPlus::Model::SSOSession. This is the basic building block for authentication. Here is the abbreviated Jifty::DBI model declaration:
column authenticated_user => refers_to CASPlus::Model::User; column ticket_granting_cookie => type is 'text', is mandatory, is distinct; column current_valid_ticket => type is 'boolean', default is 1;
An SSO Session record is created once the user has logged in. At that time, a cookie is set in the browser's cookie stash containing the
ticket_granting_cookie identifier. By looking up the
ticket_granting_cookie, the system can now who the user is by looking it up in
authenticated_user. If the user logs out (not discussed in my articles, but part of the CAS protocol), the
current_valid_ticket is changed to false and all other sessions associated with it are immediately invalid.
The service session is stored in CASPlus::Model::ServiceSession. When a web service redirects the browser to the CAS server, a service session is created once the user's identity is verified and the Service Ticket referring to this session is returned to the client web service.
Here's the abbreviated declaration:
column sso_session => refers_to CASPlus::Model::SSOSession; column service_url => type is 'text', is mandatory; column service_ticket => type is 'text', is mandatory, is distinct; column current_valid_ticket => type is 'boolean', default is 1; column expiration_time => type is 'timestamp', is mandatory;
Once the client web service receives the Service Ticket, it will perform a validation of that ticket. CAS looks up the Service Ticket in the
service_ticket column and returns the username associated with the
authenticated_user column of the linked
sso_session record. It also sets
current_valid_ticket to false so that validation can't be made against the same ticket twice. Finally, if validation is attempted after
expiration_time, the validation will fail (there's a 5 minute time limit between requesting the service ticket and performing validation).
The proxy grant session is stored in CASPlus::Model::ProxyGrantSession. When a callback URL is specified during Service Ticket or Proxy Ticket validation, a proxy grant session record is created. Here's the abbreviated declaration of the model:
column service_session => refers_to CASPlus::Model::ServiceSession; column proxy_session => refers_to CASPlus::Model::ProxySession; column callback_url => type is 'text'; column proxy_granting_iou => type is 'text', is mandatory, is distinct; column proxy_granting_ticket => type is 'text', is mandatory, is distinct;
Later, when a Proxy Ticket is requested, the system looks up the SSO session associated with
service_session to make sure it is still valid and then returns a new Proxy Ticket. When Proxy Ticket validation occurs, the chain of
proxy_session records is read and returned in the response.
The proxy session is stored in CASPlus::Model::ProxySession. A proxy session is created as soon as a web service or application owning a Proxy Granting Ticket requests a Proxy Ticket. Here's the abbreviated declaration:
column proxy_grant_session => refers_to CASPlus::Model::ProxyGrantSession; column proxy_ticket => type is 'text', is mandatory, is distinct; column service_identifier => type is 'text', is mandatory; column current_valid_ticket => type is 'boolean', default is 1; column expiration_time => type is 'timestamp', is mandatory;
During validation, the
proxy_grant_session is used to determine if the parent SSO session is still valid and to fetch the username of the authenticated user. The
service_identifier is the same as the service session's
service_url, except that they don't have to be URLs since proxied applications often don't have a web address. The current_valid_ticket and
expiration_time are used in the same way as they are in the service session.
The CAS 3.0 version of this protocol doesn't really change the mechanisms so much as it creates places where the messages can be modified or added to. Many CAS administrators need features like "single sign-off" where each service is notified immediately by callback when user's log out. Some want CAS to handle additional data storage of profile information, roles and permissions, or Access Control Lists. CAS 3.0 provides mechanisms for adding customizations for this purpose. I'm (slowly) working to add facilities for these to the CAS+ implementation as well.
Another related method of authentication that is growing in popularity is distributed authentication. Protocols, such as OpenID, allow a user known on one system to login to systems all over the web without the other systems having an explicit trust relationship. This is nice because it allows the user even more control over authentication and allows a user who has an account on multiple systems to login to all of those systems just by logging into their blog or corporate web site.
I'm hoping to add OpenID support to CAS+ at some point as well. It could act as both a consumer of OpenID data (signing in elsewhere via an associated OpenID account is enough to sign-in to any service trusting your CAS server) and as a provider where other OpenID servers can use CAS+ to identify users.
CAS is a very simple protocol for all the features it provides. I was pleasantly surprised to find out how easy it was to implement and am somewhat surprised that there aren't more CAS server implementations available. It is very easy. I think this experiment also illustrated the inherent flexibility of Jifty. At least one developer has tried to convince me that Jifty is not very flexible and doesn't work well in unusual cases. I think this has helped to prove to Jifty is a very workable and robust framework.
Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp is a proud Kansan and spends most of his time hacking Perl, his web site, avoiding yard work, and with his wife and son.
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Clinical Section Affiliations
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Education & Fellowships
- Fellowship: McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1991, Neurology & Neurosurgery
- Residency: University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 1984, Neurosurgery
- MD: University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 1979
Clinical Interests
- Brain Tumors; Functional Neurosurgery (Epilepsy and Movement Disorders)
Research Interests
Enhancing Central Nervous System (brain & spinal cord) plasticity & repair; Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy
Specialties & Certification
- Neurological Surgery
Diseases & Conditions Treated
- Brain Cancer
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ResearchSelected Publications
Liu, D, Schelper RL, Carter, DA, Poiesz BJ, Shrimpton, AE, Frankel, BM, & Hutchison, RE: Primary central nervous system cytotoxic/suppressor T-cell lymphoma: report of a unique case and review of the literature. Americal Journal of Surgical Pathology 27(5):682-8, May 2003.
Raibon, E, Sauve, Y, Carter, DA, & Gaillard, F: Microglial changes accompanying the promotion of retinal ganglion cell axonal regeneration into peripheral nerve grafts. Journal of Neurocytology 31(1):57-71, Jan 2002.
Zhu, WH, Carter, DA & Hodge, Jr, CJ: Neurogenesis after cortical injury. Journal of Neurosurgery 96: 444, 2002.
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Our six-year old Schnauzer Aengus has taught us a thing or two about love since we brought him home from a pet store in Port Jervis at eight weeks old. We named him Aengus, Dog of Love, knowing immediately that love was what he was all about, for us. His name was a play on words: Aengus is the Celtic god of love for whom Yeats wrote "The Song of Wandering Aengus."
When I first held him in my arms, his small body sank into my breast. The other puppies in the litter were as cute, but none were as at home in my embrace as Aengus, the runt of the litter. Later, my husband said his experience was identical to mine. Aengus had chosen us for his family.
Recently, Aengus got into some food garbage that included fatty ham, a no-no for Schnauzers. Left alone, he indulged his appetite and by the next day became so ill that a vet was needed. He had contracted a bad case of pancreatitis that grew steadily worse and required 24-hour hospitalization in the ICU. Our normally lithe and feisty pup became stiff and lifeless. He could neither eat nor drink without vomiting.
In the hospital, with intravenous fluids, anti-emetics and finally, tubal nutrition, he gradually improved enough to come home. We were instructed to feed him a prescription low-fat diet the vet sold. I looked at the label and noted the ingredients included pork by-products, pork liver by-products (toxins?), corn meal and worse, gelatin by-products (animal hooves?)
When we got home, I fed him chicken and rice for a few days until the vet insisted I start him on the prescription food. He was doing well by now, but they said he was not ready to return to his normal healthy diet of protein and vegetables. Three days later, after giving him his dinner, a walk and a playful romp with his stuffed Schnauzer toy, I went to fix dinner. Within moments my husband called out. Aengus was on the floor in full grand mal seizure, his teeth chattering, legs spasming, mouth foaming. It was terrifying.
He had two more seizures overnight and we got him to the vet, without sleeping ourselves, early in the morning. They gave him a dose of Valium and kept him for the day under constant supervision. I was already suspicious of the food and asked about a possible correlation. No, I was told, there was no correlation between the seizures and nutrition. We were offered a referral to a neurologist and a prescription for an anti-seizure medication that would a) change his personality, b) require every eight hour dosing for the rest of his life and c)cost $130 month. Afraid, we filled the prescription and took him home. The vet gave us an emergency dose of Valium and instructed us to use it if he seized again.
Then we decided to try our nutrition theory, knowing we risked neurological damage if he had another seizure. The brain can lock in a pattern of seizures, we were told. That night at home, Aengus started seizing again. I gave him the Valium, although I could have used some myself by this time. The seizure abated quickly. The next day we fed him his regular diet. He has not had a seizure since.
I am convinced now that these seizures were a reaction to the prescribed diet and a severe nutritional deficiency brought on by the pancreatitis. We have never given him the anti-seizure medication and he is still the same ornery dog of love he always has been.


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This B list comic actress switches between television and movies and her almost A list actor husband is crazy for her, but she always thinks she can do better and has been cheating with lots of random guys in search of someone else.
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Her husband ain't famous IDC. I want her to fit the blindReplyCancel
Chris Pratt can come hang out with me, I promise to be loyal to the Star-LordReplyCancel
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He is an actor and director so he is kind of famous.ReplyCancel
Oh dang. The Real Drogon beat me to the punch(line).ReplyCancel
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Don't forget about his twin brother, Kip Hackman!ReplyCancel
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Pratt is not A. He's awesomely funny and adorable-I crazy about his loveable goofball on Parks & Rec!-but if Ben Affleck is ranked as A, Pratt must most definitely be B/B- (Though I would rank him much higher than Anna who is easily a B-/high C herself so, who knows?)ReplyCancel
They're trying to make Pratt the next Channing Tatum with this Guardians of the Galaxy. I'm all for more Potato Americans on the screen, but we don't need a Budget Potato.
I think Anna may have stalled at B while this dude seems to be on the upswing.ReplyCancel
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Chris Pratt would be considered almost A, probably A if Guardians is the hit that people expect it to be. He is also in Jurassic World and had the main voice in the Lego Movie.
I love Chris and Anna together and I hope it isn't them, but they were the first couple that came to my mind too. Plus Celebitchy has a story that Anna prefers Chris chubbier than with a fit physique. Make of that what you will, if there is anything to be made of it. A part of me wonders since she's been the more famous one of their duo for a long time and now he's on the upswing is she going to handle that well? Who knows?
No way on earth is Chris (who?) Pratt A-list.
Then again, on this site, Channing "I've only done ensemble movies with co-stars more famous than myself" Tatum is A+, so what the hell do I know?ReplyCancel
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Isn't she too old and settled to be on the move??ReplyCancel
Chris Pratt seems like a genuinely nice guy
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Pratt is opening guardians which will make him A by enties definition. He must be almost A to get in that position.ReplyCancel


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"I think we're more nervous than them," chuckled Howard Kaulula'au, who joined around a 100 people at a watch party at Nocturna Lounge at Restaurant Row Monday afternoon.
He and many others at the party watched Robby Toma, Kona Schwenke, and Manti Teo grow up and bonded with their families.
What a ride it has been for Notre Dame's island boys.
"The love and aloha spirit that people from back home are showing me just makes me realize how blessed you are to grow up in Hawaii," said Toma.
"Just three local boys doing fabulous things," said family friend Lyle Hosoda.
"The way they were back then is the same they are today," said Kaulula'au, who lived right next to Te'o and Toma in Laie.
"To Manti, to Robby, to we know you're the underdogs, but in our hearts your number one," he said.
Great football, fan favorites, and major hype equated to big money in the BCS National Championship Bowl game.
Analysts projected $2 billion in bets will be wagered worldwide, it cost a $1 million for a 30-second spot, and the two teams earned more than $30 million for being a part of it.
"This is so huge, everywhere you go I don't think anybody's doing any work downtown," said Hosoda.
Hosoda spent countless hours with Manti's family, cheering on the young man who would face tragedy with the death of his girlfriend and grandmother, pass on the NFL draft to finish with Notre Dame, then win nearly every defensive award.
The BCS Championship is just gravy on a golden season for a young man with the kind of character that will follow him far beyond his football career.
"Some kids just need a little bit of motivation and hopefully I was that person for them," said Te'o.
"As we all know athleticism is just one aspect of that man, so he really makes us all look inside ourselves as humans and say hey that's what we all ought to be doing," said Hosoda.


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The voters of this city just turned down a request by city officials to sell a $15 million bond issue for the purpose of digging two new water wells and building a desalinization plant. City officials are now talking about finding another way to finance the project!
In other words, they seem determined to ignore the voter's wishes. There is another way to achieve the objective. All we have to do is follow the recommendations of the HDR report completed in 2012. The city paid many thousands of dollars for this report and then did nothing with it. In this report, HDR cited that the water contained in the aquifer located underneath the Chase Field area is the best water around. Using this water would not require the building of a desalination plant, the most costly part of the system that city officials want to ram down our throats. Drilling new wells, as recommended by the DHR report, over that aquifer would cost much less than the $15 million they're set on spending.
City Council members seem adamant in spending money provided by the citizens of this community. Just why is it so difficult for the city to go out for bids on this project? Am I missing something here or is this a personal thing between the city officials and someone else trying to help?
And while they're at it, they can also find a different way to finance this project. Placing the entire burden all on the citizens of this community is not the only way. There are other ways. Maybe they need some help there too. That can be arranged if we don't have the expertise on our city's staff.
The results of the election surely must mean something to the City Council members. They failed and need to accept that and find another way to get us water. The other way is if they would just quit dragging their feet. It's time for city officials to act responsibly and do the jobs that they were elected or hired to do. It's their responsibility.
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How Do They Work?
This is a big question! And of course, the answer differs somewhat from therapy to therapy. But one way that many mind-body therapies impact the body is by reducing stress. So it is helpful to understand what stress is and the role it plays in health and wellbeing.
To start, try this activity. Imagine the last time you felt incredible stress or anxiety. Perhaps you had an important meeting, and you missed your plane. Maybe you had a complicated presentation, and you despise public speaking. Or perhaps you underwent important medical testing, and were waiting for the phone to ring with results. Notice how you feel.
Now stop. Close your eyes. Breathe deeply for a few minutes. Gently relax your shoulders, your neck, and your facial muscles. Now how do you feel? (If you want to continue relaxing, try the activities in the left column.)
What did you experience?
Most people report that right after imagining a stressful event, their pulse rate was high, their breathing was fast and shallow, and their jaw, neck, and other muscles were tight. Some report that they felt their stomach clenching.
After breathing deeply for only a few seconds, most people report that their pulse and breathing rate decreased and their muscles relaxed.
What happens when your body perceives a threat?
The activity probably provoked what is called a "fight or flight" response because your central nervous system perceived a threat.
When you perceive a threat, your sympathetic nervous system releases stress hormones to arouse key organs, resulting in an increase in your heart and respiratory rate, greater muscle tension, coldness and sweatiness, a decrease in intestinal activity, and an increase in the size of your pupils. This is the fight or flight response. You may have observed some of this yourself.
In contrast, taking deep breaths and focusing on your breathing induces a relaxation response. This response engages the parasympathetic nervous system, which lowers the heart and respiratory rate, blood pressure, and muscle tension.
What is stress?
When you did the activity, you experienced stress. Stress is a physical reaction. Confusingly, people also sometimes use the term stress when they are talking about events that cause the physical reaction. We call these stressors instead. (Stressors can be negative events, such as divorce or death, but they can also be joyful changes, like getting a new job or going on vacation!)
Stress is what happens in your body when you respond to a stressor (an event). It is your response to the stressor that determines how your body reacts. You can deliberately change your response, as you saw when you breathed deeply and slowed your heart rate.
What are the effects of stress on health?
If you are not able to change your response to the stressors that are so much a part of modern American life, you may find yourself in a continual fight or flight reaction, which over time can lead to serious health consequences, such as high blood pressure, digestive disorders, or diabetes.
Mind-body therapies and practices can help prevent this. But note that the relationship between stress and illness is not a simple one. There is no simple, direct connection between the number and kind of stressors, how you react, and how your physical health is impacted.
Some people misinterpret the mind-body connection and end up blaming themselves for being stressed and sick. This assumes a level of control over their health that isn't realistic. Instead of worrying or blaming, do what you can to take care of yourself, including stress management, but recognize that you don't have complete control.
How do mind-body therapies help with stress?
Mind-body therapies help you change your response to stressors. Some of the ways they can do this include:
- Relaxation response. Many of these therapies invoke the relaxation response. As you may have experienced, the relaxation response reverses the physical effects of stress. To experience this, try the Body Scan activity .
- Positive thinking. Mind-body therapies can also contribute to (or deliberately create) more positive thinking. Evidence shows that people who believe they are doing better actually do better than those who have the same physical condition but aren't as positive. (Research also suggests that anxiety, hostility, depression, and other negative states affect the immune system.) For an example, try the Emotional Shifting activity .
- Placebo effect. When people believe that a therapy is working, it often does have a positive effect. This is known as the placebo effect, which is often deliberately invoked by mind-body therapies. (For example, guided imagery and clinical hypnosis can use suggestion that the patient is getting better.)
- Social support is a mind-body therapy in and of itself and is also part of many other mind-body therapies. It has been shown beneficial to health in many studies. "People with supportive social networks have been shown to have better overall health...shorter hospital stays when they do get sick, and better resistance to infection than those whose social bonds are not strong." (Pelletier, 1993.)
What are some other effects of stress?
Stress not only impacts bodily functions, it can impact performance at work in a number of ways:
- Difficulty making decisions
- Memory lapses
- Procrastination
- Inefficiency
- Mood swings (for example angry outbursts)
- Physical symptoms on work days, such as upset stomach
An interesting study known as the Yerkes/Dodson law shows that when workers are under stress, their performance initially rises. After a relatively short period however, their performance declines steeply, but the workers are unaware that they are failing. So while a certain amount of stress on the job might spark some initial success, ongoing stress hinders (rather than helps) your efforts.
Unfortunately, if the job itself is the stressor, we end up taking a lot of these reactions home with us. And we all know that common reactions to stress, such as irritability, impatience, indecision, or physical symptoms, make for difficult relationships and family life.
The principles that make mind-body therapies and practices effective in improving physical health, also apply to other aspects of our daily life. These therapies can improve your health and your overall wellbeing.
Is there a connection between stress and aging?
According to a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, there is a direct link between stress and aging.
The study compared the chromosomes of 39 women, ages 20-50, who had been caring for children with serious chronic illnesses (and thus had high levels of stress) with woman caring for healthy children (lower stress).
Women with the highest levels of stress had changes in their chromosomes (specifically, the telomeres) equivalent to at least one decade of additional aging compared with women with lower stress.
But it wasn't only the years of caregiving that related to the change, it was the perception of high stress. Women who had the perception of high stress levels fared the worst. Given this, could mind-body practices that reduce stress also reduce aging?


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Tina Hill spills her coffee in victory and Michael Skala plays musical chairs at the first meeting of the new McHenry County Board on Monday.
• OOPSIE – Tina Hill inaugurated her victory as the newly-elected County Board chairwoman by spilling her coffee all over her desk.
She assumed the front desk of the chairmanship without a cup of joe – not because she ran out, but because coffee and the fancy computer by which the chairman runs the microphones and sound system don't mix.
Tina, you're supposed to do that with Gatorade when you win. Gatorade, Tina. It's much less painful and it comes out easier. Ask any football coach.
• HISTORIC FRESHMAN CLASS – As I wrote, it's been at least 20 years since we had a County Board with so many new faces.
I went back through the newspaper's microfiche as far as 1992 – two redistrictings ago – and found that voters elected seven new board members. One of those freshmen, James Heisler, is now the board's longest-serving member.
A radical new map – the County Board went to the present six districts rather than three – drove much of this change. But we live in volatile political times – only a handful of precincts changed districts this time around, and not one of the 24 board members up to Nov. 6 found themselves redrawn into new districts.
For the record, the smallest turnover since then was in 2004, when only one new board member was seated – one-term member Marie Chmiel was elected to replace Mike Tryon, who was elected to the Illinois House.
• THE JOURNEY OF MICHAEL SKALA – A rite of passage after each new board is seated – the prerogative of veterans to switch seats with freshmen – almost took as long as the voting process to elect a new chairman.
Skala started the meeting assigned the front-row seat formerly held by Virginia Peschke, but he had to switch with Democratic member Paula Yensen to the second row. Yensen consoled him by telling him his new neighbor, Diane Evertsen, always brings candy, which can provide much-needed sugar rushes for those long meetings.
Ken Koehler, after losing his bid for the chairmanship, sat in the far left on the last row until he informed freshman Michael Walkup, sitting in the last seat on the right in the last row, that he wanted to "walk up" and reclaim the seat he sat in when he was first elected in 2000. This didn't sit well, pardon the pun, with Walkup, who said he needed an aisle seat for medical reasons.
So Walkup ended in Skala's seat, pushing Skala to the rear where Koehler had been sitting. But that seat has remained empty for a reason – the county clerk who takes roll call and counts votes can't see the person sitting there – and Skala had to move again.
So Skala finally ended up in Hill's old seat – hopefully they got up all the coffee – to the left of Evertsen.
"So much for my first consensus-building task," Hill joked.
As for that phantom seat the clerk can't see, I hope the guys who built the government center took a little something off of the price.
• NOBODY WANTS TO PLAY WITH ME – Why doesn't anyone want to sit next to Evertsen? She's got candy!
• YOU SAY CHIRIKOS, I SAY CHI ... CHO ... CH ... – Allow me to offer a primer on the proper pronunciation of newly-elected Democratic member Nick Chirikos' name. It's chi-REEK-ohs.
County Clerk Katherine Schultz told board members that she'd have pronunciations down by the next meeting. But given that the access road to the county Administration Building is Katherine Schultz Way, I believe that entitles her to pronounce it any way she likes.
• SPEAKING OF BEVERAGES – I couldn't help but notice that board member John Jung had two cans of Tab cola on his desk.
I had no idea that they still made Tab, or that people still drink it.
But at least he didn't spill it.
UPDATE: New County Board member Michele Aavang told me Tuesday morning via Twitter that it was indeed her Tab.I guess Schultz isn't the only one whose view is impaired by the layout of the board chambers.
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Suzhou Food belongs to Su Cuisine, one of the eight famous culinary schools in China. In sum, Su cuisine has the following several characteristics: first, with precise material choice and exquisite and fine cooking, it is made according to materials and on schedule. Second, it excels in a variety of common cooking methods such as stewing, simmering, baking over a slow fire, warming-up, steaming, sautéing and stir-frying. Next, it has a clear and fresh taste with moderate saltiness and sweetness, which is thick without being greasy and light without being thin. Finally, it places an emphasis on flavoring soup and retaining original juice.
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Crispy Rice Crust Soup
No.1 dish, also called crispy rice crust soup, is a famous traditional dish of Shi's Hotel. The special features of the dish are: shrimp meat is white and tender, crispy rice crust is golden yellow and crispy and tomato is red with sweet and sour. Fried crispy rice crust and put it into the bowl with lotus leaf soup and then pour it with boiled oil; made sauce with shrimps and tomatoes. When it served, put the hot sauce into the bowl with crispy rice crust. Legend has it that when Emperor Qianlong toured the south of the Yangtze River and tasted the crispy rice crust by chance, he could not stop praising: "the dish can be regard as the No.1 dish in the world." The name of the No.1 dish came into existence from then on.
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Sozhou was known as the "Oriental Venice" due to the rivers and the water canals in the city. Since the boats were the chief means of transportation within Sozhou, boats of all descriptions such as large flat-bottomed junk, lightship, fast boat, touring boat, variety-show boat, etc. used to be plying through the Sozhou city waters. Many of these boats were equipped with kitchens.
Local businessmen, used to take advantage of the exotic surroundings provided by the boats and entertain the businessmen from Wu area by giving banquets on boats. This practice resulted in the boat dishes becoming more and more sumptuous. The Wu banquets, as they came to be called, used to serve cold dish for drinking followed by fried dishes. The dessert used to follow the last big dish made of fish. The cooks knew the psy
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