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By David Gabler
UTSA Assistant Vice President for Communications
(Sept. 18, 2006)--Officials at The University of Texas at San Antonio have determined that an unknown person or persons gained unauthorized access to a server containing electronic records at the university.
There is no evidence that any data was copied, altered or lost during the compromise, which was discovered Aug. 16 during a routine risk assessment of servers at the university.
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"It is our highest priority to ensure the safety of electronic information contained on computers and servers at UTSA," said UTSA President Ricardo Romo. "The university's IT security team is working with UTSA police, state and federal officials to conduct a thorough investigation of the incident."
The compromised server contains faculty and staff personnel information for individuals who have been employed at UTSA during the last four years. It also includes information pertaining to students who received financial aid during the last four years.
Even though no data was compromised during the incident, letters and e-mails were sent Sept. 15 to those who were directly affected, providing information on protection from identity theft.
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exploiting vulnerable http methods and ./ directory traversal ?
and i have found that web-site is using or supporting many http methods other than HTTP get and post..
Is it really vulnerable to exploitation?
if yes how to exploit these methods "properly"?
Also I want to know how I can "manually" find a site is vulnerable to ./ directory traversal attacks,I know this can be easily done with "accuentix v6 and 7 " and some other scanners,
but i just want to know how to find those vulnerabilities manually?
Because this is my personal belief (I just don't want to be dependent or limited myself to using tools)
is it possible to do?
Looking for some guidance....

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As I write this I am busy working, doing accountant things.
You know: responding to emails, organising jobs, taking phone calls and reviewing productivity spreadsheets for one of my clients.
Sounds like a normal professional day, right?
Who would have thought that a couple of minutes ago a cat came running into the room, stirring up two dogs into a barking frenzy.
I had to get up, walk over, tell them off, return to my desk, get up and tell them off again before the cat would leave, looking suspiciously satisfied. The dogs then took out their aggression on a cushion, allowing me to turn my attention back to work.
This is one disadvantage of working from home.
It's been highlighted in a Regus study that shows more than half of people who work from home are distracted by children wanting attention.
More than a third say their kids or pets disturb their phone calls. Others say difficulties accessing office equipment or getting a good internet connection is a problem.
John Henderson, director, Regus Asia Pacific, says: "Working from home is becoming increasingly popular but as more people experience it, many are also discovering the downsides. Having to adapt your personal space to accommodate professional activities is not always easy, and maintaining the right mindset for work while balancing family demands has been flagged by many New Zealanders as the main obstacle to working from home."
Working remotely or from home has its advantages, but you do have to be disciplined.
Even though on a day working from home I don't have to shower or change, I do have to be in the right mindset, even if I am collecting a coffee from the kitchen on the way.
There's no commute to the office. There are fewer staff interruptions, meaning I am more efficient at work output from home.
Effectively, I have 24/7 access to the office, so even if I've been away or been sick I can still keep in touch with what's going on; that's got to be good for me and my clients.
It's there, it's flexible, it's great and I don't mind the cat or the dogs really, maybe they're just there to remind me to have a break from work, and maybe I should just take them for a walk.


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st: RE: RE: How to adjust the content of a local macro?
"Nick Cox" <email@example.com>
st: RE: RE: How to adjust the content of a local macro?
Wed, 9 Dec 2009 17:24:19 -0000
Having looked again at the code, the problem appears to be identifying panels for which the number of non-missing values of -TotalReturn- is at least a predefined value stored in a local macro -requiredEstimationPeriod-.
That is
egen nvalid = count(TotalReturn), by(id)
drop if nvalid < `requiredEstimationPeriod'
Nick Cox
Martin answered the question here, but various secondary points arise from looking at the code. Most are on style and most are of some wider interest.
1. The loop consists of repeated -drop-ping of observations not desired, working with the remaining subset and then a -restore- of the original. It is difficult to say in general what is most efficient and what most elegant but for a situation like that below I'd normally just add an extra condition excluding the observations not wanted, rather than repeatedly doing major surgery on the dataset. However, others could equally point out that applying -if- on a very large dataset can be time-consuming.
2. If only the minimum and maximum are needed from a -summarize- it is best just to use a -meanonly- option. (The name -meanonly- is misleading, as I've had occasion to remark before.)
3. Code like
local `minDate' = r(min)
<stuff> if <stuff> date >= ``minDate''
looks legal but odd. You are probably using more levels of macros than you need. It's hard to tell because the code isn't completely self-contained (that's not a criticism; it wasn't necessary for your question).
4. Code in which you loop over the contents of a local macro and change that macro within the loop can be tricky. Watch out!
5. The -if- condition in
summarize totalReturn if totalReturn != .
is unnecessary as -summarize- always ignores missings.
6. To get minimum and maximum dates in a panel, no looping is necessary as
egen mindate = min(date), by(id)
egen maxdate = max(date), by(id)
will do it. Similarly it looks as if your main problem does not need any looping either, as it should yield to -egen- operations. Look at -egen, count()- in particular.
7. More generally, it is not always positive to know too many other languages if they lead you to seek a Stata equivalent of other code when there's a Stataish way to do it without any real programming.
Joachim Landström
I have what I hope to be a minor problem that I nevertheless fail to find a
solution to. Suppose that I have a local macro panelVar that contains panel
ids. Based on a selection criterion I wish to remove some panel ids from
panelVar. How do I do that? I use Stata/MP 10.1 in Windows XP 32-bit.
More specifically see example below. Suppose the panel id is called id and
the time series variable is date. Per id & date I have the actual content in
the form of totalReturn (tDelta is 7):
**** Begin Example ****
local estimationPeriod = 3
local requiredEstimationPeriod = `estimationPeriod' * floor( 365 /
``tDelta'' )
levelsof id, local(panelVar)
quietly foreach i of local panelVar ///
restore, preserve
drop if id != `i'
summarize date if totalReturn != .
local `minDate' = r(min)
local `maxDate' = r(max)
summarize totalReturn if totalReturn != . ///
& date >= ``minDate'' & date <=
if `r(N)' < `requiredEstimationPeriod' ///
***** Here I wish to update the local macro panelVar
such `i' is removed *********
else ///
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Please don't read this review. Really, I'm begging you. If you do, I won't be able to get another plate of pasta at Italian Corner for the next few months. See, the place is a delicatessen and market, but it serves dinner on Saturdays from 5:30 to 8. Damn this foodie compulsion to tell anybody who'll listen about our favorite meals.
Some interesting details about the character of the place can be determined from their website. First of all, while "Italian Corner" is in a modest type, at the very top of the page "Home Made Pasta" is emblazoned large; apparently, they're all about their work. Overly modest, though — there's a picture of the chef, Massimo Dellolio, but he's not identified. Finger-snapping efficiency is indicated by a notice that you get free potato chips for every sandwich paid online. And while too many restaurant websites are left obsolete, with not even accurate hours, theirs keeps up-to-date with specials (Saturday's are made more enticing with appetizing pictures).
Since it's reservations only, we were not surprised to see elegant name cards for every party on all of the tables, attractively provided with burgundy tablecloths and matching napkins. They were serving a little more than 40 diners this evening. The dining hall is the same space that at other times has shoppers at one side strolling the four rows of stacked shelves for olive oil and boxed pastas and such while others are across the room perusing the delicatessen.
We had come here a few years ago with an out-of-state friend who was visiting again, so we brought her along. It was like taking a kid to a favorite toy store, so she was grinning happily as she described that first meal in detail. Some of the items we enjoyed then were still on the menu. The antipasto platter ($14.50 and $21.50) was memorable for such touches as having more than one kind of prosciutto and including fat white anchovies. Still on the menu are some items you don't often find, such as a popular rabbit cacciatore with polenta ($21.50) and linguini alla Bottarga with a caviar of dried tuna eggs ($25). That dish made me peruse the menu for other unusual opportunities. The pasticcio Veneziano ($16.50) would qualify: lasagna done Venice-style, with layers of béchamel sauce as well as meaty Bolognese ragu.
There were just five items under Antipasti, besides tortellini soup and the mixed green salad (both $5.95). My appetite was up for the carpaccio di bresaola ($13.50), the beef tenderloin bolstered with white truffle olive oil, arugula, and goat cheese. But my companions were not avid meat eaters, so we went for the appetizer special, insalata calamara ($13.50). Considering how large the squid were, with lengthy tentacles and lengthwise slices of the rest, they were reasonably tender, tossed with olive oil, slices of raw garlic, and a restrained touch of red pepper flakes. Thoroughly enjoyed.
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Back to the boat for breakfast, then up to "my spot" on the top deck as we sailed toward Luxor. Then our itinerary changed from most people on the boat. The boat stopped and let us off in Esna, a small town where all the boats have to lock through. They let us off because our tour folks were smart enough to know we couldn't get to Luxor and everything we wanted to if we stayed on the boat, so we forfeited the afternoon on the boat for an afternoon of temple viewing.
You should have seen us get off the boat. They lowered the gang plank and we were off and they were back under weigh in less than 5 minutes. Most of our shipmates were confused...thought maybe we had been banished from the ship, or something. Nice folks on board packed us box lunches, which we ended up sharing with our driver and tour guide on the way to Luxor. A man got off the boat with us and he was going to be with us until our guide came. Of course, he had us wait in the little shop of his "cousin." Forty bucks later, we had souvenirs for everyone and his dog! Not sure how we're going to get them home.
Anyway, our driver showed up and he, along with a tour guide took the 45 minute ride to Luxor, where we met another tour guide who would show us the Temples of Karnak and Luxor...they were the best, biggest and most beautiful temples yet...glad we saved them until the end. Have you added up how much I've had to tip all these guys???? Too much, but it gets the job done. Back to the temples. These two temples are also on all the Egypt brochures...simply faulous...complete with sphinxes, obilisks, and 134 carved columns in one massive room. Fantastic!
Then, we piled into the van and the driver took us back to where our boat was docked...we thought...it was not. Half hour later, we determined it had not docked at all yet and so we waited until we saw it dock and boarded.
Sandy's tired and sick, Laura's getting better the the two sickies are giving me a mild sore throat. Thanks for sharing!!!
We check out of the boat tomorrow, have one more scheduled tour and then fly back to Cairo for our flight home tomorrow night. It truly has been the trip of a lifetime!!!
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Serving Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, the Pacific Islands, and Tribal Nations
Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base
State: California(CA)
County: San Diego
City: Camp Pendleton
Congressional District: 48
Other Names: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
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Description and History
NPL Listing History
NPL Status: Final
Proposed Date: 07/14/89
Final Date: 11/21/89
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The Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base site covers 125,000 acres in San Diego County, California. The base provides housing, training, logistical and administrative support for the Fleet Marine Force units. Past disposal practices have contaminated the groundwater and soil. In an initial investigation, the Marine Corps found nine areas of contamination. Waste generation operations at this site include maintenance and repair of vehicles (trucks, tanks, and aircraft); landfill operations; waste disposal areas, such as scrap yards; and fire fighting drill areas. The base contains wetlands, streams, and rivers which feed into the Pacific Ocean. This land is the only remaining undeveloped area between Los Angeles and San Diego.
Contaminants and Risks
Contaminated Media
- Groundwater
- Soil and Sludges
- Environmentally Sensitive Area
Groundwater and soils are contaminated with volatile organic compounds (VOCs), spent oils, fuels, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), pesticides, metals and herbicides. Though groundwater provides drinking water to the entire installation, the current drinking water supply is within drinking water standards.
Investigation and Cleanup Activities
The site is being addressed in four long-term remedial phases focusing on cleanup of soils; landfills, surface impoundments, and groundwater; other soils and groundwater; and remaining areas.
Site Studies
Group A (OU#1): In 1990, the Marine Corps began an investigation to determine the nature and extent of contamination of the soil and groundwater at six subsites where data were already available. The investigations were completed in the fall of 1993, and final cleanup measures started in mid 1996. The OU#1 Record of Decision (ROD) was signed in 1995 and included institutional controls and monitoring for Site 9. The remaining sites called for no further action.
Group B (OU#2): Landfills, Surface Impoundments, and Groundwater: In 1990, the Marine Corps began an investigation of the nature and extent of contamination in the landfills, surface impoundments, and groundwater. The OU#2 ROD was completed in 1997. The surface impoundments were included as no further action sites. The groundwater sites were deferred to OU#4 and the Site 7 landfill was included as part of OU#3. The landfill is capped as part the OU#3 remedial action.
Group C (OU#3): Other Soils and Groundwater: In 1990, the Marine Corps began an investigation into the nature and extent of contamination of soils and groundwater on the base located in the Santa Margarita watershed, where data was not yet available. The investigation was completed in 1996, and the ROD was signed on February 11, 1999. The remedy selected was excavation and disposal at an on-base landfill that was designated as a Corrective Action Management Unit (CAMU). The remedial action was completed in 2002. A methane capture system for the site has been constructed. The site is covered with solar panels to generate energy for several on-base projects, including powering the methane recovery system. An Explanation of Significant Differences was completed in 2008 to cover the work .
OU#4: Remaining Areas: An investigation of the nature and extent of soil and groundwater contamination in subsites outside the Santa Margarita watershed on the base has been completed. The ROD was signed in June 2007. Soils removal has begun and several sites have been cleaned. Remedial Action Completion Reports were completed in 2010.
OU#5: The OU-5 ROD contains Sites 1D, 1A1, 21, 1111, 6A & 13 . The OU is comprised of sites which required a greater level of cleanup funding than previously proposed or were uncompleted when Site 7 was pre-maturely closed. The ROD was signed in 2007 and soils removal has begun. Site 1-D has encountered unexpected groundwater not contemplated in the ROD and a ROD amendment is being prepared by the Navy. Soils remediation at the site will be ongoing.
Camp Pendleton is participating in the Installation Restoration Program, a specially funded program established by the Department of Defense (DOD) in 1978 to identify, investigate, and control the migration of hazardous contaminants at military and other DOD facilities. It is not a closing base, but a growing base. At the same time, the Marine Corps is maintaining biodiversity at the site.
Cleanup Results to Date
In December 1995, 14,000 cubic yards of soil containing trichloroethane (TCE) and Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH) was removed from a former fire-fighting drill field. The TPH contaminated soil was treated through bioremediation and the TCE contaminated soil was removed and disposed of at an off-site landfill. In January 1997, approximately 12,000 cubic yards of soil containing organochlorine pesticides (maximum of 140 ppm DDT and 1280 ppm DDD) was removed from a former pesticide disposal area--Site 3. The soil was stabilized at an on-site treatment facility and disposed of at an on-site landfill. Thirty-two 55 gallon drums of material containing pesticide and medical waste were also removed and disposed of off-site. In January 1997, approximately 25,000 cubic yards of soil containing pesticides, metals, and PAHs was removed from Site 6 and stabilized at an on-site treatment facility and disposed of at an on-site landfill. In February 2007, Site 1111 was excavated to remove drums containing pesticides and solvents. Groundwater was removed from the excavation, treated on site and removed form the facility. The excavation was continued until all soils were clean. Four new monitoring wells were installed and will be monitored to assess if further groundwater remediation is necessary.
In 2002, the Marine Corps completed construction of a landfill cap for a 28 acre class III landfill which operated from 1946 to 1970. The Marine Corps followed EPA's presumptive remedy guidelines for landfill caps with oversight from EPA under the Federal Facility Agreement (FFA). Construction began in April 1997. The landfill was designated as a CAMU as part of the OU#3 ROD.
The Five Year Review Report completed in March 26, 2014 concluded that:
- Remedies that have not yet been completed, but are still in the construction phase for IR Sites: 12 Area Site 13, 33, 1115 and 22/23 Area groundwater(OU-5); and 1114, are expected to be protective upon completion and in the interim, exposure pathways that could result in unacceptable risks are being managed.
- The remedy for IR Site 7 was found to be protective of both human health and the environment. The methane levels in compliance gas monitoring probe GP-9 have been addressed by the installation of a landfill gas mitigation program.
Potentially Responsible Parties
Potentially responsible parties (PRPs) refers to companies that are potentially responsible for generating, transporting, or disposing of the hazardous waste found at the site.
Online information about the PRPs for the site available.
Documents and Reports
Community Involvement
Public Meetings: The base maintains its community involvement program with respect to its clean-up activities, including holding public comment meetings.
Public Information Repositories
The public information repositories for the site are at the following locations:
Oceanside Public Library
330 North Hill Street
Oceanside, CA 92054
The most complete collection of documents is the official EPA site file, maintained at the following location:
Superfund Records Center
Mail Stop SFD-7C
95 Hawthorne Street, Room 403
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 820-4700
Enter main lobby of 75 Hawthorne street, go to 4th floor of South Wing Annex.
EPA Site Manager
Mail Code SFD
75 Hawthorne Street
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EPA Community Involvement Coordinator
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San Francisco, CA 94105
EPA Public Information Center
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After the "debate" at the Oxford University Museum, 140 years ago this June 30, Samuel Wilberforce and Thomas Henry Huxley became part of science's mythology. Bishop Wilberforce is supposed to have asked Huxley sarcastically whether "it was through his grandfather or his grandmother that he claimed descent from a monkey." Huxley supposedly whispered an aside to Sir Benjamin Brodie, "the Lord hath delivered him unto my hand," and then responded, "If then the question is put to me whether I would rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed of great means of influence and yet employs these faculties and that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion, I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape." Or words to that effect.
Unfortunately there is no verbatim account, although summary reports were published in journals such as The Guardian, The Athenaeum and Jackson's Oxford Journal. Four contemporary letters written within months give us clues: Joseph Hooker to Darwin on July 2, John Richard Green to Sir William Boyd Dawkins on July 3, Balfour Stewart to David Forbes on July 4 and Huxley to Henry Dyster on September 9, 1860. How pivotal that session of the British Association for the Advancement of Science was in terms of shifting the weight of popular and scientific opinion to an evolutionary viewpoint is as unclear as what was actually said. Also uncertain is the damage that it did to the clerical cause against Darwinism. But the stakes were high for both sides—at Oxford most of all.
For most of the first half of the 19th century, science at Oxford was in a parlous state, despite the presence of the Reverend Professor William Buckland, the distinguished geologist, and other luminaries, such as Charles Daubeny. In the 1840s, a group of dons began lobbying the university for the establishment of a new Honours School of Natural Sciences and a new building to house Oxford's scientific collections, based on those of the Tradescants, father and son, and vigorously enlarged over the years.
Sadly, Dean Buckland refused to support something so "alien from what is thought to be the proper business of the University as natural history in any of its branches." On his elevation to Dean of Westminster, the young Dr. Henry Acland (Dr. Lee's Reader in Anatomy at Christ Church) took up the cause and persuaded the University Convocation, in 1849, to approve an outline plan for a new museum to house all of science at Oxford, from medicine to chemistry. (Except botany; by this time Daubeny had pre-emptively created a laboratory for himself at the University Botanic Garden.) That the funds for the project came from the surplus in the University Press's Bible account was only appropriate for a building dedicated to science as a glorification of God's works.
The winning design for the new museum was for a Rhenish-Gothic building by the Dublin architects of Dean and Woodward, incorporating all the contemporary ideas of John Ruskin. A modern secular Gothic building was almost inevitable given the growing influence of Ruskin as an artist and critic. Ruskin had been a fellow student with Acland at Christ Church and had studied with Buckland. The result, combining elements of a Venetian palace and the Cloth Hall at Ypres, is now considered to be one of the jewels of English architecture. Ruskin believed that "the museum of this University was founded to bring the light and beauty and life of the works of God to their eyes...."
The British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting of 1860 marked the public inauguration of Oxford's new cathedral of science. That Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection... had been published only seven months before gave a particular emphasis to the deliberations, whereas the presence of the Bishop of Oxford as an Honorary Vice President of the meeting provided an additional frisson. Wilberforce was already an implacable foe of evolutionary ideas, whether expounded by Robert Chambers or Charles Darwin, and had as his scientific second none other than Richard Owen, the great anatomist and palaeontologist, another determined enemy of "development" theory. With a "versatile facility and persuasive expediency" Soapy Sam Wilberforce could be relied on to gather a crowd and indeed to "smash" this new and dangerous heterodoxy.
The events of June 30 really began Thursday, June 28, when Professor Daubeny read a paper: "On the final causes of the sexuality in plants, with particular reference to Mr. Darwin's work...." With Huxley in the audience, Owen countered with the exaggerated claim that the brain of a gorilla was more different from that of a human than from that of the lowest primate. As Huxley was known for using the similarity of ape and human brains as evidence of evolution, this was a blatant challenge. Huxley, having previously stated that he "did not think that a general audience, in which sentiment would unduly interfere with intellect, was a fit place for such a discussion," got up and contradicted Owen flatly but politely. With that, one senses the knives were well and truly out. By Friday evening, Huxley, exhausted by all the argument, intended to decamp. But Robert Chambers begged him not to desert the battle when he was needed most. Perhaps mindful of the way that Wilberforce had attacked Chambers for his Vestiges of Creation (1844) at the 1847 meeting, Huxley agreed to stay on.
On Saturday morning the great and near-great of British science assembled in the reading room of the museum library. Although scheduled to chair the session, Owen did not attend but asked the Reverend Robert Stevens Henslow (Darwin's old mentor from Cambridge) to take his place, perhaps shrewdly hoping to make the expected defeat of Darwin the more complete. The eye of this particular hurricane, Darwin himself, was typically absent. His intestines shredded by the pressures of public notoriety and private uncertainty, he was busy taking a cure at Dr. Lane's Hydropathic Clinic.
The centerpiece of Saturday's session was Dr. John W. Draper of New York University, who read a long, boring paper entitled "On the Intellectual Development of Europe, considered with reference to the views of Mr. Darwin and others, that the progression of organisms is determined by law." Draper is always discounted in view of the fireworks that followed, but his paper shows how quickly a Darwinian metaphor of adaptation and environment had entered what we would call social and political science. After Draper, Henslow called on the Rev. Richard Cresswell, Sir Benjamin Brodie (President of the Royal Society) and a Mr. Dingle who was shouted down by the students. After this he allowed the floor only to those with arguments not "for mere declamation."
Now Wilberforce, with assumed reluctance, accepted the invitation to speak. Wilberforce used the same arguments as were set in his anonymous review of The Origin for July's The Quarterly Review. His rhetoric, now strictly logical, now witheringly dismissive, always flamboyant, carried the audience along—a majority was with him anyway, the ladies in the window waving their white handkerchiefs, the students in the rear cheering and jeering, the clerics smugly applauding. At the end of this all-out attack Wilberforce added the one rhetorical flourish that has gone down in history. But what was it?
Green's letter differs from the authorized version: "Up rose Wilberforce and proceeded to act as the Smasher. The white chokers (clergymen) who were present cheered lustily ... as Samuel rattled on—'He had been told that Professor Huxley had said that he didn't see that it mattered much to a man whether his grandfather were an ape or no! Let the learned Professor speak for himself' and the like." The Athenaeum stated, "The Bishop of Oxford came out strongly against a theory which holds it possible that man may be descended from an ape. But others—conspicuous among these, Prof. Huxley—have expressed their willingness to accept, for themselves, as well as for their friends and enemies, all actual truths, even the last humiliating truth of a pedigree not registered in the Herald's College." These accounts have a greater ring of authenticity than the mythical account, created 30 years later. Significantly, both imply that the ape-grandfather metaphor had originally been Huxley's own coinage—if not in Thursday's discussion, then on some earlier occasion. This is confirmed by Balfour Stewart, "The Bishop said he had been informed that Prof. Huxley had said that he didn't care whether his grandfather was an ape...."
There is no mention here of grandmothers. To have mentioned Huxley's grandmother (if in fact he did) would, of course, have been an even cruder insult. Wilberforce sat down to tumultuous applause. When Huxley rose to reply, the room fell to silence. First he skillfully defended the structure of Darwin's argument. Then he produced his famous riposte, beginning, as he reported to Dyster, "I had listened with great attention to the Lord Bishop's speech but had been unable to discover either a new fact or a new argument in it—except indeed the question raised as to my personal predilection in the matter of ancestry—That it would not have occurred to me to bring forward such a topic as that for discussion myself, but that I was quite ready to meet the Right Revd Prelate even on that ground—If then, said I, the question is put ... would I rather have a miserable ape ...."etc.
Green's account agrees, "Huxley—young, cool, quiet, sarcastic, scientific in fact and in treatment gave his Lordship such a smashing....This was the exordium 'I asserted, and I repeat, that a man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for a grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling, it would rather be a man, a man of restless and versatile intellect, who, not content with an equivocal success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into scientific questions with which he had no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.'" (Huxley later disclaimed the word "equivocal.")
Although the effect was as sensational as before—Lady Brewster even fainting—Huxley was no great orator. Many never heard the end of Huxley's famous remark. For Joseph Hooker (Darwin's long friend and botanical mentor), at least, it was not the coup de grace. He wrote to Darwin, rather uncharitably, "Well, Sam Oxon got up and spouted for half an hour with inimitable spirit, ugliness and emptiness and unfairness ... Huxley answered admirably and turned the tables, but he could not throw his voice over so large an assembly nor command the audience ... he did not allude to Sam's weak points nor put the matter in a form or way that carried the audience."
The meeting did not end here; next Henslow recognized Admiral FitzRoy who "regretted the publication of Mr. Darwin's book, and denied Prof. Huxley's statement, that it was a logical arrangement of facts." Professor Beale "pointed out some of the difficulties with which the Darwinian theory had to deal," and Mr. Lubbock "expressed his willingness to accept the Darwinian hypothesis in the absence of any better." (All quotes from The Athenaeum of July 14th.)
All this time, Hooker had been growing quietly more furious. "Now I saw my advantage; I swore to myself that I would smite that Amalekite, Sam, hip and thigh ... and I handed my name up to the President as ready to throw down the gauntlet ... then I smashed him amid rounds of applause. I hit him in the wind at the first shot in ten words taken from his own ugly mouth ... I ... then proceeded to demonstrate in as few more: (1) that he could never have read your book, and (2) that he was absolutely ignorant of the rudiments of Bot. Science. I said a few more on the subject of my own experience and conversion and wound up with a very few observations on the relative positions of the old and new hypotheses ... Sam was shut up—had not one word to say in reply, and the meeting was dissolved forthwith."
One is struck by the crudity and venom of Hooker's language, and he does not miss a chance for a jab at Huxley. "Huxley, who had borne all the previous brunt of the battle, and who never before (thank God) praised me to my face, told me it was splendid and that he did not know before what stuff I was made of." Nor does Hooker mention the ape-grandfather exchange which was, after all, the point where Huxley had his success. One detects a certain rivalry as to which disciple Darwin should love best.
All sides claimed to have won the day—Wilberforce (to Sir Charles Anderson, July 3, 1860): "On Saturday Professor Henslow ... called on me by name to address the Section on Darwin's theory. So I could not escape and had quite a long fight with Huxley. I think I thoroughly beat him." Huxley: "[I was] the most popular man in Oxford for a full four & twenty hours afterwards." Hooker: "I have been congratulated and thanked by the blackest coats and whitest stocks in Oxford." But certainly the Bishop thought his prime opponent had been Huxley, not Hooker. In any case, Huxley left the meeting with new respect for the power of oratory and later perfected the art and used it well on Darwin's behalf.
Huxley's Biblical reference is a bit suspect, however, as is Hooker's. It is not just that Huxley only remembered his glee that "the Lord hath delivered him unto my hand" some 30 years after the event (he did not mention it in his letter to Dyster). Rather, there is an odd coincidence in the ways Huxley and Hooker got their Biblical references wrong. Hooker claimed to have smitten "the Amalekite, Sam, hip and thigh," but Biblical smiting by hip and thigh was performed by Samson on the Philistines (Judges 15:8), not the Amalekites. On the other hand, when in Judges 7:15 Gideon is told "the Lord hath delivered unto your hand the host of Midian," that "host" is the Amalekites and the Midianites. Soapy Sam would not have got it wrong, of course. But could Huxley's 1891 remembrance of the debate have been colored by a later reading of Hooker's letter to Darwin?
With these Biblical allusions, the irony of the Oxford Museum having been built with Bible funds was complete. Ruskin, who died exactly 100 years ago, became a very unhappy man. He rejected the building that more than any other encapsulated his own theories. Modern science, particularly evolution and vivisection, disgusted him, as did reductionism, Descartes, Protestantism and railways. The building that had been built to glorify God's works became for him a display of: "... the Devil's working ... through disease, and his triumph over [the works of God] in death."
The doorway to the Oxford University Museum is still carved with Adam and Eve ("pretty Eve," Ruskin once wrote, "always such a good bas relief, but then there is never anybody to match"), from whom an entwined tree of life leads to a central angel. On close inspection the angel turns out to hold the Book of All Nature in one hand, and in the other three living cells, emblematic of the new science of which natural selection became a major theory, with the Oxford Debate one of its better media successes.
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Poggio San Polo Brunello di Montalcino Riserva 2006
Sangiovese from Montalcino, Tuscany, Italy
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Intense and bright ruby red with garnet highlights, it expresses the typical aromas of violets and small red berries, followed by spicy nuances of walnut husk. The wine has a deeply-woven, robust texture with a persistent finish and well-rounded tannins.
The food pairings for Brunello Riserva must be in line with its elevated stature, such as the traditional 'Fiorentina' Tbone steak, dishes prepared with wild boar, suckling pig and game. It also pairs well with very mature cheeses, such as Parmigiano Reggiano, Tuscan pecorino, provolone and Castelmagno.
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James Suckling - "A wine with dark fruit, such as ripe strawberries and raspberries on the nose and palate. Full-bodied, with round and velvety tannins. Layered and beautiful. Better in 2014."
Wine Spectator - "Lush aromas of sweet cherry and plum, oak spice and chocolate permeate this modern-style red. Its tannins are very aggressive, coming as much from the oak as the grape, as a vivid acidity keeps it focused and long. Best from 2016 through 2032. "
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The vineyards at San Polo were planted between 1990 and 2000 with the goal of making the highest quality Brunello di Montalcino. With an altitude of 1350 feet above sea level, their southern facing vineyard receives optimal sun exposure and is the highest in Montalcino. The vineyard also has natural terraces facing the stunning Sant' Antimo Valley and is entirely dedicated to Brunello di Montalcino.
In 2007, Marilisa Allegrini and Leonardo Locascio purchased the property, and with together with winemaker Nicola Biasi adhere to meticulous vineyard management, including environmentally sound and sustainable agriculture, and extremely low-yield crop management (approximately 2 tons per acre). The vines are traditionally trained according to the spurred cordon method, with south/south-east exposure. After being harvested, the grapes receive a long maceration in stainless steel at controlled temperatures (82-86° F) and are then immediately transferred to French barriques (10 months for the Rosso, 18 months for the Mezzopane, and 24 months for the Brunello). View all Poggio San Polo Wines
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I can't wait! I am going to try to get some of these done this morning (but with 6 kids running around it might be a impossible lol)
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I can't wait! I am going to try to get some of these done this morning (but with 6 kids running around it might be a impossible lol)
I have done lots of Bonnie's mystery quilts. I hope to get started on this one today. I just love her quilts and she has such good instructions.
I looked in on the yahoo group. One lady already had 75 hour glass units finished last night. She is fast!!!
OOPS! I posted this on the "Pictures" thread so thought I'd post it here too since this is the "chat" page. Sorry to be redundant to those who have read this on the other page. I'll get it right soon!!
I'm still a bit undecided about colors. I have started cutting for the first part, and boy is it a LOT of cutting. I don't have precut strips of any width so have decided to cut squares first (3 1/4 x 3 1/4"), using blacks and neutrals, like Bonnie. I did sew one to measure for accuracy, and it came out right on!!(I was wondering if Triangulations did QST too. Hmmm, thinking of buying that!!)
We leave, tomorrow, for a week of camping with family for Thanksgiving, so doubt I will get much done till after the holiday. Have fun fellow quilters and have a very happy Thanksgiving!!
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If you start off making 3-1/2" HSTs, you can make them fairly quickly. Then, if you cut them in half you have 2 QST. It's a lot easier to handle making the 3-1/2" HSTs than starting out with the QSTs. You end up in the same place eventually, but the road is less bumpy.
Karen, Have fun camping! It is about 20 degrees here, I think I will stay inside.
I started the QST yesterday. I am using the square method, although I totally cheat by cutting it 3.5 inches than true the block to 2.5 inches. I am undecided on what my two main colors are going to be but since the beginning is neutral I'll decide when I have to. Thanks Coyote for doing this. I have never done a mystery quilt. Really excited.
Bonnie made a comment on my Facebook post that her RED is the predominant color of the quilt. I was using yellow instead of red but am going to switch my yellow with my purple.
I got my rulers. Realized when I started using them that all the triangles I cut yesterday don't have all have a 1/4 seam allowance Oh well. Good thing I have lots of scraps!!


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Yes I've done her blocks. Have trouble doing flying geese the regular way...love the curve.
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Yes I've done her blocks. Have trouble doing flying geese the regular way...love the curve.
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That Christmas tree wallhanging is very cool with those pockets!
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Now, this one has got my attention, big time. Thanks so much Carol for sharing it. I think even I can do this one.
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If any of your friends are heading to Paris, be sure to send them with an extra traveler's check for 26,100 euros. The noted watchmakers Girard-Perregaux are currently selling a limited run of this retro-inspired 1966 chronograph "Doctor's Watch," available exclusively at Dubail boutique at Place Vendôme in Paris. The only catch is that there are only 20 pieces available. We're sure you must know someone who works for Girard-Perregaux that can put one on reserve, right? Taking inspiration from one of the original Doctor's Watches they produced back in 1949, this timeless piece is a must-have for any watch collector.
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If you're fresh off your stint at SXSW there are two things on your mind. A) You're giving thanks to whatever you pray to because you haven't gotten diabetes from your steady diet of Texan barbeque, beer and free dessert, and B) you never want to carry around a heavy bag full of your gadgets again. That's where the designers over at HEX come in with their good-looking, superslim sleeve that can fit a 13" Macbook Pro as well as an iPad in a quality water-resistant case that can be worn as a backpack or across the body. We love it because it can carry a lot of stuff, it's nonintrusive and it doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
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Name: The Mummy Returns™
Software Category: 3rd person action-adventure
Publisher: Universal Interactive Studios
Developer: Blitz
Rating: Teen (with Violence)
Release Date: October 2001
Platform: PlayStation2
Product Synopsis
Bring the action and intensity of this year's blockbuster sequel to
your PlayStationí'2 with The Mummy Returns. Set in 1935, 10 years after
the events of The Mummy, a band of his own servants unearth the remains
of the high priest Imhotep. Transported to London, Imhotep is resurrected…and
once more embarks on his ruthless quest for immortality.
Game Features
· Be the hero or the bad guy! You choose the path. Players can take
control of either Rick O'Connell or Imhotep.
Your Goal:
Rescue Alex, stop Imhotep, then defeat The Scorpion King and save
the world...
Your Goal:
Use your magic and all means available to raise up The Scorpion
King, so you can take his army and rule the world.
·Accessible (easy-to-learn) for a wider audience, yet enough depth and complexity for extensive gameplay.
·As Imhotep, you'll use spells and magic as an integral part of gameplay.
·Variety of weapons and opponents, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.
·Multiple-action camera provides dynamic views of the characters and locations.
·Rich sound effects, music, and graphics for a rewarding experience.
·Intense gameplay will provide a chance for the player to re-live the excitement of the movie.


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Associate Professor - Music History, Multimedia
Richard Cole taught in public schools for many years before joining the faculty at Virginia Tech in 1971. At Virginia Tech he has served as Chairman of the Music Program and as Associate Head of the Department of Music. He currently teaches Music History with an emphasis on American Music.
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Three of my piano teachers were very influential in my decision to pursue the arts. Earliest was Miss Johnson, my piano teacher in the early 1940s. My brother and I studied with her and were privileged to go with her to hear the Chicago Symphony (conducted by Frederick Stock) at Symphony Hall, Chicago. These experiences probably fostered my love for piano and orchestral music. The second teacher was Floyd Robbins in Lincoln, Nebraska. I would ride the trolly into town to take my lesson every Saturday morning. He introduced me to Chopin, who remains a life-long favorite of mine. My third teacher was Vivien Bard, with whom I studied for five years during my college years at Indiana State University. She taught me many techniques she had learned as a student of Joseph Levine. All three of these teachers were completely dedicated to music and to teaching, and instilled in me a love for the same things.
Of course I had other piano teachers for shorter periods of time who also influenced me. I grew up in an art-centered family where my grandparents, parents, siblings, children and grandchildren, uncles, aunts, and cousins all participated in the arts of one kind or the other. So pursuing a life in the arts was almost a given. If I had a 'do-over', would I do it again? Of course I would! What else is there?
There is always something new in the arts, something to be discovered, a new color, timbre, combination, something to learn. There is always a new dedicated student willing to learn and explore.
My favorite place? Probably my office/studio. I have had eight (8) different offices on campus: War Memorial Gym, PAB, Patton, Lane, and Squires. Squires is the best but not perfect. It is small, but I do have almost everything needed to work, prepare, listen, consult, have a cup of coffee, meet with students and faculty.
To make a gift to the School of Performing Arts visit the link below, enter your gift amount, and click on the blue "designate your own" button. Then type in School of Performing Arts.Make a Gift


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[quote user="bigblue4417"]It's that time of year when mock drafts start coming out. With just four
teams left in the playoffs, including the Giants, fans and the media
are looking ahead and trying to predict which players each team will be
targeting in a few months.
While the Giants' draft position is still in question (the Giants
can pick 29th, 31st or 32nd), that doesn't mean we can't take a guess at
who they will be choosing in the Draft. In Mel Kiper's first mock draft of the year, he has the Giants going with an area of need.
Kiper has the Giants taking offensive tackle Zebrie Sanders from Florida State to beef up their offensive line. With Kareem McKenzie a
free agent after the year and the offensive line having an overall down
year, it would make sense for the Giants to target an offensive lineman
in the draft. It's also unknown at this point whether rookie James Brewer will be ready to be a starting right tackle next season.[/quote]
i still say Beatty to RT


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Baffling Banned Books: A Fun (Disturbing) Quiz!
If you've waited to celebrate the chance to be Officially Subversive during Banned Books Week, it's not too late! Sure, you probably figured that Huck Finn is a perennial favorite for its politically incorrect language and Fifty Shades of Grey for its Crimes Against Ink and Trees, but I am willing to bet there are quite a few that will make you say, "Ummm. What?" The alleged "reasons" for protecting Our Nation's Youth are even more bizarre than you can imagine.
Take our quiz and see if you can guess the actual arguments that succeeded in getting the following ten books on the Naughty List. Answers at the end of quiz!
1. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
a) The National Pork Council feared declining bacon sales
b) Children were trapping dangerous spiders and being bitten
c) A Kansas school district decided that talking animals are blasphemous and unnatural
d) Girls were being encouraged to defy their fathers
2. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
a) Removed from classrooms in Miller, Missouri, for 'making promiscuous sex look like fun.'
b) Removed from Texas libraries for "encouraging revolution"
c) Attempted ban in California for "focusing on negativity."
d) Both a and c


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GWP National Consultations Reinforce Call for Dedicated Water Goal
15.05.2014 -
The UN-Water Partner, Global Water Partnership, has published a report on national stakeholder perspectives on a water goal and its implementation. The most important conclusion was a broad consensus that the proposed goal of 'Securing Sustainable Water for All" is fundamental to future development. In addition, there was strong support for targets that advance approaches to water management, in particular the five targets proposed in the UN-Water Technical Advice paper. Read more about the process


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hello from canada. i've been bitten by the bee bug and built 3 KTBHs in the last two months. Nucs coming in a couple weeks-whenever dandelions start. spring is very late this year. I attended a workshop saturday with bee yard lessons on may 14. i discovered from my mom and an auntie that 3 and 4 generations back, my folks were beekeepers. i guess it's in my levis-i mean genes.
this forum is really cool, i've learned a few things already. thank you to all posters, past and future.
Question-do or can aromatic plants near hives repel or somehow control SHB and varroa?
Question-does lawn mower noise disturb bees to point of defending their area?
"when the student is ready, the teacher will appear"


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As the technology continues to advance in the vineyards and in the wineries around the world, Cousiño Macul has seized this opportunity and taken a grand leap into the future. Although moving quickly into the future, they take with them the most important part of their long history - their genetic plant material that was originally brought into Chile in 1863. The Cousiño's vineyard and winery in Macul became the proudest achievement of the family. The new vineyard and winery in Buin are now in the hands of the sixth generation. View all Cousino Macul Wines
About ChileView a map of Chile wineries (CHEE-lay)
Photo of the sun break following morning fog over the vineyards of Veramonte Winery (located in the Casablanca Valley)
Notable FactsThe main regions of Chile include Maipo (pronounced MY-poh), known for reds like Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Carmenere; Casablanca Valley, a region producing delicious Sauvignon Blanc, as well as other whites & some reds; Colchaugua, an inland district creating amazing red wines from Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon, particularly in the Apalta sub-region; and Rapel Valley, settled right under Maipo and producing the same red varietals. A couple of smaller regions to watch include Limari and Elqui, two valleys further north, producing some delicious cool-climate Chardonnay and Bio Bio, an area further south, which is also focused on cool-climate varieties. Chilean wines are growing in exports and more consumers are enjoying the delicious values coming from the country. Red wines of the region, though they cannot be generalized, make the whole gamut of wine quality – quaffable to collectible. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot & Carmenere are the main players, though Syrah is also making a splash. Some of the best reds are blends of the above varieties. As for whites, Sauvignon Blanc is typically crisp, herbal and racy, while Chardonnay is richer in style with full-bodied texture and tropical fruit flavors.
About South America
Young, organically farmed Carmenère at Chile's De Martino estate vineyard


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Just purchased my Zam shoes on ebay and I think they are going to look really great. Was wondering what others thought? <be gentle>
I saw the suggestions about the Pradas but just didn't want that high a price tag so I went looking for other shoes also made with a similliar type of Vibram sole. Right now on Ebay, a seller has some Uggs, just like the ones I bought. They either have a sueded tan top (which is what I went for because it will take color so easily) or are brown leather. Fully fleece lined, they are uber comfy and can be worn bare foot or with socks in winter or summer. Natural sheep fleece has some great properties. Plus they are slip on so have no lacing or zippers to cover up and atm are only about $90 U.S. w/o shipping. Cheaper than pradas any day! Just type in Uggs and Vibram together in the Ebay search and they should come up.
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When Bros congregate to smoke weed.
by LiuKang January 02, 2010
An affection of 2 homosexuals touching each others balls. Bromance explosion is just the climax. (Also can be 2 guys to afraid to admit they are gay and too scared to come out of the closet and lose their heterosexual friends.)
2 gay males in love with each other and bum poking. Bromance explosion is the act of ejaculating on each other. (Obviosly gay.) Using the word bromance leads to becoming gay. (Bromancing the stone, loving each others testicales)
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The Chanticleer
Coastal Carolina University's unique mascot
The Chanticleer – a proud and fierce rooster – is the unique moniker for the Coastal Carolina University mascot and athletics teams. The Chanticleer is derived from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, specifically The Nun's Priest Tale. In the early 1960s, Coastal's athletic teams were known as the Trojans until a group of Coastal students and their English professor-basketball coach Cal F. Maddox brought up the idea of a new mascot. It helped that the Chanticleer was from the same family of the animal kingdom as the Gamecock, the mascot of Coastal's parent institution at the time, which was an important consideration in those days. Thus, the Chanticleer was born, giving the growing college its own identity and one of the most unique mascots in college athletics.
For the best description of Chanticleer, we turn to Chaucer's words:
For crowing there was not his equal in all the land. His voice was merrier than the merry organ that plays in church, and his crowing from his resting place was more trustworthy than a clock. His comb was redder than fine coral and turreted like a castle wall, his bill was black and shone like a jet, and his legs and toes were like azure. His nails were whiter than the lily and his feathers were like burnished gold.
On July 1, 1993, Coastal Carolina became an independent public university, ending a 33-year relationship with the University of South Carolina. Some people thought that was the time to send the Chanticleer packing and make a complete split from USC. As he had before Coastal Carolina gained its independence and as he has since that time, the Chanticleer continues to overcome the battles and reigns supreme. The Chanticleer has made a name for himself and Coastal Carolina University around the world and has captured a place in the hearts of CCU fans.
The proper pronunciation of Chanticleer is SHON-ti-clear. You may also hear Coastal's athletic teams referred to in abbreviated form as the Chants (SHONTS). The mascot is called Chauncey.
As part of 2011 football Homecoming game, a new tradition began at Brooks Stadium when Maddox, the "live" mascot made his debut. The new mascot received his name via student vote – and honors the legacy of former Coastal basketball coach and English professor Cal F. Maddox.
Note: Maddox (Callie Franklin Maddox Jr.) died December 3, 2014, at the age of 79; his obituary included the following line: "He held positions at Coastal Carolina University (where he named the athletic mascot "Chanticleers" and where students voted to name their live mascot "Maddox")...".
Evolution of the Chanticleer logo
Anatomy of a Mascot
What's in a Nickname? The story of the origins of Coastal's endearing and enduring mascot is a case of survival of the fittest.
As we all know, Coastal's athletic nickname and mascot, the Chanticleer, is derived from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, one of the obligatory texts in the college English lit canon. We are also aware – as was made clear by the feather-ruffling controversy that arose last year when yet another opinion survey was conducted to assess interest in changing the mascot – that our Chauncey is a true survivor. What is not as widely known is how and why we chose this sly, witty chick magnet with phenomenal staying power to serve as the visual and attitudinal symbol of our athletic program.
Cal F. Maddox, now retired and living in Columbia, taught English at Coastal for three years beginning in 1962, the year the present campus opened. Coastal was then a two-year branch campus of the University of South Carolina with just under 100 students and a faculty of 12.
There was no athletic department then, and when Coastal formed a basketball team to compete in a regional league in 1963, Maddox became the coach "sort of by default," he says. "I was no coach, but when Dick Singleton asked me to do it, I accepted."
Maddox says he was coach enough to understand that, in order to compete against seasoned teams such as Pembroke State and USC Spartanburg, his young team would have to rely on something other than physical strength or experience at the collegiate level. Just as Chaucer's rooster was saved from the hungry fox by his quick wit – plus the aid of Pertelote the hen and the old farm woman – Coastal players would have to use their heads and support one another very closely as a team.
"As it happened, most of our guys were good players and very bright," says Maddox. "Many of them – Jimbo McLaurin, Dorn Backman, Richard Hawes, Worth Dudley, Seth Williams and others – had played in high school and had had the benefit of some good tutelage."
Eschewing the man-to-man defensive approach, Maddox and his team focused on zone defense. "The guys knew how to position themselves and did it naturally," says Maddox. "We also enjoyed the benefit of having a great center, Morgan Gilreath, who was 6-foot, 8-inches, the tallest guy in the league. He was great at blocking shots and that sort of thing."
The simile linking his promising new team to Chaucer's barnyard allegory was obvious to the young English professor/coach. The chanticleer was also from the same family of the animal kingdom as the gamecock, the mascot of Coastal's parent institution, which was an important consideration in those days. (USC-Aiken had chosen "The Biddies" as its first athletic moniker – it was dropped after two seasons.) In fact, at Maddox's suggestion, Coastal's newspaper had already adopted The Chanticleer as its new title, replacing the original, The Fledgling. (right, Oct. 23, 1964, issue of the "new" Chanticleer newspaper)
Although he considered the chanticleer an appropriate and original nickname for the team, Maddox wanted his players to make the final decision. "I asked the guys what other names they might like to use. The 'Seahawks' and the 'Sharks' were two that were considered, but they finally chose 'Chanticleers,' and it stuck like glue."
At the end of the first season, Maddox asked Singleton if he thought a formal student-faculty poll should be conducted to decide on a permanent nickname. "Singleton advised against it," says Maddox. "We had gotten a lot of ink in the press about our unusual, original nickname. He was pleased with the coverage and the popular response the name seemed to generate."
Maddox says he has no strong feeling one way of the other about keeping or discarding the nickname he created, and he admits that, with the coming of football to Coastal in 2003, the name loses its metaphorical resonance. "A football team will have to rely on physical strength to a substantial degree. There's no way around it."
A short time after Maddox returned to the University of South Carolina in 1965 to earn his Ph.D., a straw vote was held to check the campus pulse regarding the mascot's popularity. This and every subsequent survey have testified to Chauncey's appeal and emphasized his likeness to Chaucer's triumphant original.


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Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Is the store open to everyone or only dealers?
Have fun and don't forget to put up a piccy of what you end up buying.
Aloha Karen
Enjoy your trip to whittles fabric!
Have fun shopping and will be looking forward to seeing your first quilt.
You need to write abook about your quilt and your experience, youre a riot show us what you buy, plese.
Oh my my! I juts checked out their website. I, too, live in Kentucky and have new place to roadtrip to. Yippee and thanks for the info!
Sew much fabric, sew little time
Boy do I wish I lived in Kentucky after checking this site. Thanks.
Let's see, today is Nov. 14th....you will have done your shopping at Whittle's. How did you make out and were you able to limit yourself to just the fabrics and thread for your project? If you did, you are awesome. Can't wait to see the pics of your first quilt! Have oodles of fun!
Whittle's is a great place. My friends and I were talking just yesterday that it is time for another road trip, we love that place Have fun and happy quilting.


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These release notes provide a summary of all New Features, Resolved Issues, and Known Issues in this version of the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).
New Features
The following table describes the new features in this release.
Console support
You can now use the AWS Management Console to accomplish all of the tasks you have previously used the Amazon VPC API or command line for. There is a new guide, the Amazon VPC Console User Guide that describes how to use the console. Also, the Amazon VPC Getting Started Guide has been rewritten based on the console.
Known Issues
The following table describes known issues in this release.
|Current Limits
During the Amazon VPC public beta:
|No Direct Internet Access from a VPC
|Any VPC traffic to/from the Internet must currently route through the established VPN connection and through your existing IT infrastructure to the public Internet. You are currently unable to send/receive Internet traffic directly from your VPC.
|Unsupported AWS Services Only Accessible Via VPN Connection
|Amazon VPC allows you to deploy Amazon EC2 instances within your VPC. Resources provided by services such as Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon RDS, and others can't currently be deployed within your VPC, and, as such, are only accessible to resources within your VPC via the VPN connection, through your network, and to the respective service's public endpoint. You may need to create firewall exceptions to allow cloud-based instances to access the Internet (and possibly NAT) from your existing IT infrastructure.
|Broadcast and Multicast Unsupported in a VPC
|You are unable to employ either broadcast or multicast within your VPC.
|Increased Latency in Bundling Linux/UNIX S3-Backed AMIs
|You may experience increased latency in bundling Linux/UNIX AMIs within Amazon VPC. Such bundles are transferred from the instance, through the VPN connection, through your network and to the public Amazon S3 endpoint. You may need to create firewall exceptions to allow cloud-based instances to access the Internet (and possibly NAT) from your existing IT infrastructure."
|Service Currently Available in One Availability Zone
|Currently your VPC, subnets, VPN gateway, and any instances you launch in the VPC must all reside in a single Availability Zone in the us-east-1, or in the eu-west-1 region.
|Traffic Sent to Overlapping IP Address Ranges Is Dropped
|If your VPC's IP address range overlaps with an IP address range in use within your existing IT infrastructure, Amazon VPC will drop any traffic to said range. To avoid this, create your VPC so it does not overlap with current or expected future subnets in your network.
|Ordering of DHCP Option Values Not Guaranteed
|When you specify DHCP options, some options (e.g., DNS servers) accept multiple values. The ordering of these values is not guaranteed. After creating the options, you should use the DescribeDhcpOptions operation (or the ec2-describe-dhcp-options command) to confirm the order in which the options will be delivered to instances.
|Amazon EC2 Capabilities Currently Unavailable within Amazon VPC
|The following Amazon EC2 features are currently not available for use with a VPC:
|Configuration Changes for Windows Server 2008 AMIs
|If you've created your own Windows Server 2008 AMIs from Amazon's Windows Server 2008 base images prior to v1.02, you need to make a couple of changes to your existing configuration in order to activate your instances' licensing when launching in a VPC. In some cases, you might need to make changes for v1.02 as well, depending on your needs.
Manually Locate VPC Activation EndpointsIf you want to launch a Windows Server 2008 AMI in a VPC, you must manually set the Windows Activation endpoint in your instance if either of the following conditions are true:
The activation IP address for VPC instances are:
To set the endpoint manually, execute the following commands from the command line:
Slmgr.vbs /skms 169.254.169.250 Slmgr.vbs /ato
Update Ec2Config Service Settings
If you're using an AMI that was created from an Amazon public Windows Server 2008 image prior to v1.02, then you should also make a change to one of the Activation Settings files in the Ec2Config service to reflect the new discovery hierarchy, which includes the preceding endpoints for VPC activation.
To make this change, overwrite the file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <ActivationSettingsTable> <!-- KMS Servers are searched for/activated against based on settings in this file. Each "methodSettings" section is attempted until a KMS server is found and instance is successfully activated. --> <!-- Try autodiscovery first... --> <!-- NOTE: Autodiscover clears any KMS that is already set! --> <MethodSettings> <SetAutodiscover>true</SetAutodiscover> <TargetKMSServer/> <DiscoverFromZone/> <ReadFromUserData>false</ReadFromUserData> <LegacySearchZones>false</LegacySearchZones> <DoActivate>true</DoActivate> </MethodSettings> <!-- Try the first virtual IP for VPC instances --> <MethodSettings> <SetAutodiscover>false</SetAutodiscover> <TargetKMSServer>169.254.169.250</TargetKMSServer> <DiscoverFromZone/> <ReadFromUserData>false</ReadFromUserData> <LegacySearchZones>false</LegacySearchZones> <DoActivate>true</DoActivate> </MethodSettings> <!-- Try the backup IP for VPC instances... --> <MethodSettings> <SetAutodiscover>false</SetAutodiscover> <TargetKMSServer>169.254.169.251</TargetKMSServer> <DiscoverFromZone/> <ReadFromUserData>false</ReadFromUserData> <LegacySearchZones>false</LegacySearchZones> <DoActivate>true</DoActivate> </MethodSettings> <!-- Now search the DNS suffix list. This should already have been set by the SetDNSSuffix plugin, controlled by the setting in the primary config file. --> <MethodSettings> <SetAutodiscover>false</SetAutodiscover> <TargetKMSServer/> <DiscoverFromZone/> <ReadFromUserData>false</ReadFromUserData> <LegacySearchZones>true</LegacySearchZones> <DoActivate>true</DoActivate> </MethodSettings> <GlobalSettings> <LogResultToConsole>true</LogResultToConsole> </GlobalSettings> </ActivationSettingsTable>


text: Paper and packaging companies have been largely driven by output volume. However, this is no longer sufficient, and new business models and processes can illustrate a successful path into the future. Many organizations are aiming to design a system that better balances demand with production, focuses on profitability, and can also yield a more efficient operations and control system. This transformation requires real-time digital information and control in a digital paper and packaging enterprise.


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Gabion constructed on the River Inambari (SE Peru) to divert water for sluice mining of gold. The diversions and placer mining in the region was causing extremely high turbidity in the river. The photo was taken at a site approximately 10 km below the bridge over the Inambari on the road crossing between Sandia and Tombopata.
Photo: 1982
Limnology - The study of inland waters
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April - June 2014 - Adaptive Sports
Healthy, Active Lives for All Americans
By: Anthony Marc Robles, Council Member
Ever since I was a young boy, my Mom told me that I was made for a special reason. I believe that reason was to wrestle. When I think back to my first days on the mat in the 8th grade, I am reminded of so many obstacles I had to overcome. I was a terrible wrestler. I weighed in at about 90 pounds and didn't know a thing about the sport. But through hard work and perseverance, I became a champion. I was undefeated (96-0) in my junior and senior years of high school, and even won two Arizona state championships and the national high school wrestling championship. After high school, I went on to wrestle for Arizona State University where I won the 2011 NCAA Division I National Title at 125 pounds.
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