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Roald Hoffmann
I meet Ansgar Bach first through his writing. He sends me an endearing account, in German (which I can read, because I was once a refugee in post-World War II Germany), of a trip he took to New York. In the middle of the 47th Street Diamond District, Ansgar spots an oasis (sadly gone today): The Gotham Bookmart. In it he finds my second poetry collection, Gaps and Verges, signed. The bookstore sign says "Wise men fish here." Ansgar fishes, writes about it, sends me what he writes and catches a new friend.
Books mean much to Ansgar. I discover that when I do what can only be done today, an Internet search on his name. From the many sons of Bach and still more Bach festivals, I excavate an interesting fact: He is an unusual chemist. For although he does at this time have an institutional affiliation—the Department of Chemistry at the Free University of Berlin—he also runs a small business: Literarisch Reisen. The phrase is resonant; in one sense it means "Travel in Literary Fashion." And indeed Bach's firm organizes excursions in his region of Germany that follow the footsteps of Thomas Mann or visit the sites of a series of stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann or Heinrich Heine. Very German. Very literary. And most unlike what chemists do.
Ansgar is on a path quite different from that of most academic scientists. Like him, like many other scientists, I have wide-ranging interests that include literature and art. But can one professionally embrace those multiple interests? Can one successfully pursue scientific research only on a part-time basis, with the rest of one's attention focused elsewhere, no matter how gripping or worthwhile the other pursuits might be?
Ansgar and I continue to correspond. He sends me a detective story he has published, Ukrainische Verbindung (The Ukrainian Connection). In German such stories are called Krimis, for Kriminalromane. The story, quite an exciting one, begins in a German paint factory, and part of the action takes place in the Ukrainian city of L'viv. Another connection, for I was born in Zloczów, some 60 kilometers from L'viv! My father had gone to the Lwów Polytechnic University, as it was called in Polish days. Earlier, during the Austro-Hungarian days, L'viv was Lemberg. A crossroads of the world it was, our historic region of Galicia. And it was also a place for waves of ethnic cleansing.
One day in 2002 Ansgar comes to visit. He is spending a month in a lab at the State University of New York at Buffalo, practically next door. Only snow divides us. He is a young man in his mid-30s, with what I might call a Ringo Starr haircut. He has an easy smile, a gentle voice, and is unnecessarily timid about his more-than-adequate English. True, he is in a minority of German scientists who have not done a postdoctoral year in the United States. The center shifts; there was once a time when every U.S. chemist went to Germany; now they come here. Twenty-two German postdoctoral associates—or postdocs—have spent a year or more in my group.
Ansgar gives a lecture about his work. The talk is not about what he did his doctoral research on, but what he does now, crystallography. I know about crystallography by "osmosis" because I got my Ph.D. in the lab of a great crystallographer, William N. Lipscomb. I did not do crystallography; I was simply in daily contact with clever people who were learning and practicing the technique. I also knew of it out of necessity, because in my work as a theoretician explaining molecular shape, I have had to make judgments as to which seeming structural anomalies are worth pursuing, and which are to be disbelieved.
What I will say next about crystallography is not anything a crystallographer would say. When the experimental technique was difficult and a crystal structure took a year to do, there was no problem; everyone wanted to have a crystallographer friend. As crystallography became easier, an almost routine technique, the field went in search of a raison d'être. Some practitioners took on complexity—proteins, for instance. Others looked at large groups of molecules for trends and regularities (these researchers I especially value; I have written previously about them ("Crystal Cloudy, Crystal Clear," American Scientist 86[1]:15–18, January–February 1998). Such crystallographers do just what I did in my theoretical work. Still others got the technique better and better, so that they could see not just where are the atomic nuclei and electrons near them, but also where in space reside the chemically important electrons involved in bonding and reactivity. Such a direction brings this subset of crystallographers in contact with theoreticians, who compute such things.
This is exactly the research being done both in Ansgar's group in Berlin and in the one he is visiting in Buffalo. For my own prejudiced reasons I'm not too crazy about the work, but I won't bore you with my prejudices. Suffice to say that when Ansgar visits Cornell, I give my guest a politely hard time during his seminar. He handles it well, as he does a pretty disconnected set of questions from the only two professors who find time to come to his talk, one of two that day, six that week. The rest of the audience is students who, as usual, sit quietly.
At dinner that evening, over a bottle of Corbières, Ansgar tells me part of his story. He always loved chemistry. And he always read; German literature was close to him. Originally from Cologne, Ansgar did his Ph.D. at the Free University of Berlin in the group of Hans Hartl. Now that was a name I knew well. Hartl and his students had made some copper compounds whose shapes had two, three or four tetrahedra that shared faces. I saw these once and thought, hey, why not an infinite chain of face-sharing tetrahedrals? David Nelson, a physicist at Harvard who once had been a student of mine, came up with the same structure in a different context, and Chong Zheng, a brilliant student fresh out of China, set to work figuring out for which elements might such a structure be stable.
We thought we were original—until one of us saw a sculpture by Ted Bieler in front of the Marathon Realty Building in Toronto, with three such helices passing by each other. And then we saw Arata Isozaki's 100-meter tower in Mito, Japan.
It looked like we weren't that original. Actually, neither were the architects and sculptors (but they didn't need to write footnotes, as we did), because this "tetrahelix" was the centerpiece of a chapter in Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics!
In time, Hartl and his coworkers made the molecule, a copper iodide compound. It was as we had predicted; 12 orders of magnitude smaller than Isozaki's tower, there it was.
But I have been mixing my story with Ansgar's. On finishing his Ph.D. on zinc and cadmium halides (making them and using crystallography to determine their structures), Ansgar went to work for a couple of years in a paint and coatings company, which he didn't like. At least the company, which will remain nameless, provided the setting for one of his detective stories. I hope there were no bodies in industrial paint mixers in real German companies.
Meanwhile, Ansgar's literary-tour business grew into a moderately successful enterprise. For a time after I met him, he was a part-time researcher—a different path indeed in a profession addicted to a permanent search for the new, and that is a time-consuming, addictive search. To remain part-time in research Ansgar had to find a sympathetic group leader—a professor who would recognize that another obsession shared the mind of the talented young scientist and give Ansgar half of his time for his literary activities. Peter Luger in Berlin did it. However, today (in 2010) Ansgar devotes all his time to Literarisch Reisen.
But back to our first meeting, at Cornell in 2002. At dinner, we talk of why he doesn't "do" Goethe (as everyone else does), and we talk of Caro, Kleist, Borodin and von Arnim. In the middle of such literary talk, Ansgar says: "You know, what I'd really like to do is to go back to something strange we found for zinc iodide." He tells me a reaction he once ran in Hartl's laboratory, with zinc iodide (ZnI2) and water. Out of the yellow solution came one crystal, a long, colorless needle. They "stuck it in a diffractometer," and what emerged was a structure of an inorganic polymer (right).
The ZnI2 in the structure is unexceptional; it came into the mixture as a reagent. But where did the HOOH, hydrogen peroxide, a potent bleaching agent, come from? From the water, to be sure. But what oxidizing agent, puller of electrons, could be there, to take electrons out of the OH– part of water and make the OH in HOOH? We were both chemists; the same question occurred to us, as it would have to Primo Levi, or as it will to every future chemist.
Ansgar doesn't know. He has also run a similar reaction in acetone, the common solvent we see as nail-polish remover. Acetone is CH3COCH3. They got a linkage of the acetone units through the oxygens, and a polymeric structure through bridging with Zn2I4 (right).
This result is still more remarkable. "I've never seen anything like that coupling," I say. The central coupled acetone unit, (CH3)2C–O–O–C(CH3)2, should be a very reactive species. I begin to write mechanisms and orbitals on the paper tablecloth conveniently supplied at this favorite restaurant. Chemists cover napkins with drawings of molecules; you can always tell where they've sat.
Now comes the tragedy. Ansgar says one student was able to repeat the synthesis. "But then it shut down," he says plaintively. I am not an experimentalist, but I know exactly what he meant. I know the feeling in another context—the words falling in place after the seventh draft of a poem; an inkling of an orbital explanation. It's not a gift, it's a portal we open ourselves. It opens to the one poet in us all, as Reiner Maria Rilke wrote to Marina Tsvetaeva. Or to the one scientist who understands. And then the universe takes a jog, our attention snaps, we're out of the flow. It shuts down.
Hans Hartl, Ansgar's mentor, gives us more detail:
Waiting for ZnI2 that we had ordered, we used some available ZnI2 from our own chemical inventory. The compound had been bottled in a small glass flask and stored many years before. This ZnI2 sufficed only for the first experiments, which produced some crystals of the mysterious compounds. However, it was not possible to synthesize these compounds with ZnI2 bought or produced in our lab. We tried all sorts of experiments, for example storing the ZnI2 in the dark, or placing it on a window with sunshine, UV irradiation and so on. For many years we regularly repeated our attempts, but all were in vain. Thus we cannot publish these compounds.
Has Ansgar made a species that immediately went extinct? An instant fossil? Maybe. Days later I ask a talented German postdoctoral associate in my group, Beate Flemmig, to do a calculation (that's our métier) on Ansgar's molecule. No matter what Beate does, the strangeness of the acetone coupling does not go away. She then has the bright idea of trying, instead of a C–O–O–C linkage in the polymer, a C=N–N=C. The bonding is now normal, and the geometrical parameters fit Ansgar's compound.
Ansgar thought that the plausible C=N–N=C linkage could come from the reaction of acetone with hydrazine (H2N–NH2). But where did the hydrazine come from? That remains a mystery. One day someone will reinvestigate the reaction, and we will learn.
We go back to my office after dinner. There is an angel to be found, a sick student to worry about, and a lecture to write.
The angel: Carl Djerassi and I have written a play, Oxygen, which had its German premiere the previous year in Würzburg. Ansgar describes his visit to the play:
I arrived there just after you left, on Tuesday. The officials told me tickets were gone—no chance to get one. So I went to the box office in the theatre and got the same answer: no chance—sold out. But I stayed there, maybe about ten minutes, and a blond-haired angel appeared. She asked, "Do you want a ticket?" I said, "Thank you, you're an angel." She then said with a smile that I would meet her that night—and she was a quite attractive person. At night, shortly before the performance started, I looked around in the auditorium for the angel. I saw Carl Djerassi (my first impression of him: a Hemingway of science) who was some seats behind me. The performance began and I recognized my angel: She was playing Madame Lavoisier.
I must say that when I first came across the word angel in his email, I thought of another angel, one in Berlin: The angel who becomes a man in Wim Wenders's classic dramatic film Wings of Desire, in order to experience human love and emotion.
Ansgar's angel was female. I knew her, but I did not know her address or contact information. But I was sure that the director of the Würzburg production would be able to put the young people in touch. How could an angel not be in favor of love?
When Ansgar comes into my office before dinner, a Cornell police officer is there talking to me. A former student of mine has had psychological problems for a while. Troubled communications from him had crossed a line the day before; a threat was made. The police officer is there to talk about it. This also is a part of my life. Maybe it will find its way into Ansgar's next Krimi.
We talk into the night, of Hans Bethe and his father-in-law P. P. Ewald, one of the great figures in crystallography. Also of Hans Hellmann, perhaps the first German theoretical chemist, who was executed in the Soviet Union in 1938 (that's another story). And of that strange structure again.
But I have to send Ansgar home to his hotel. For the next morning, there is a class to be taught—a "World of Chemistry" general-education course, science for the citizen. The class tells young people about chemistry, its connections to culture, how chemists think. I should have told them Ansgar's story. But I didn't have the courage; I spoke of water instead.
©Roald Hoffman
I am grateful to Ansgar Bach for telling me his story, to him and Hans Hartl for allowing me to quote from their correspondence, and to Beate Flemmig for the calculations mentioned in the text.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/2010/2/two-lives/1
© 2016 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society


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cranking a hand extractor a few hours today finishing up the last batch of supers, listening to the grateful dead and can't stop yawning, about done for the season here most likely. Just a bit of time left - dandelions going and some goldenrod and wildflowers at the wildlife set aside up the road, just letting the bees finish up the season before wrapping, pretty much up to weight and they still have a fair amount of drones going, still a bit of brood rearing going on but it isn't far till winter here.
Waiting for my lemonade mead to finish out, batches of ancient orange spice mead and some cyser and pumpkin wine going for winter projects.

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text: Who here drives a forklift for a living? I drive a Yale Veracitor for Dr. Pepper Snapple Group. With my GPS speedo app on my phone I clocked it at 10mph in the parking lot. Good times. Once while loading a 32ft trailer with the tractor attached, I forgot to set the brakes on the tractor trailer. I went into the trailer and when I stopped the forklift the tractor trailer rolled out of the dock about 4 feet, I looked back as the truck rolled back to the dock because the ground slopes back to our docks. Another time I was driving full speed in a shadowy part of the warehouse where there are vertical steel support beams that go to the ceiling. One of the beams was hidden behind the right side mast of my forklift as I was driving, I slammed into it and got the fork stuck in the beam. Had to push it out with another forklift. I've been driving a forklift for about 13 years now. Nice to be behind the wheel of something for most of the day. And the fact that im used to steering with the rear tires, makes counter steering in my car/truck in the snow pretty easy and fun.


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Evergreen cemetery in Backus receives donated mower
With the financial support of the Backus American Legion's charitable gaming program, a mower manufacturer and DC's Motor Sports and Small Engine of Backus, the community's Evergreen Cemetery received a gift of a new Hustler commercial/industrial, zero-turn 54-inch mower.
The Legion donated $8,500, the Hustler manufacturer awarded a 10 percent discount and DC's — where the mower was purchased — donated $500. The cemetery received $500 for trading in its 1996 mower.
The Legion has provided the cemetery mowers in the past and contributed toward construction of the current maintenance and storage building.
The cemetery, in honor of those who have served in the military, has provided space for a veterans memorial and 100 grave sites for veterans.
The Legion charitable gaming program includes the post, Willard's Saloon & Eatery and, until recently, Triolo's Restaurant & Lounge.


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Smith says we can't grow our way out of this mess. Cutting waste is commendable but it doesn't have much of a financial impact. Neither does cutting foreign aid. He agrees with Wes French. It is about reining in Social Security and health care costs. Seventy-seven million baby boomers are about to swamp the system — Smith calls it a "financial tsunami" — and we've got a bunch of people in Washington, including the president, who are not exactly inspiring confidence by their partisan gamesmanship.


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I wish you luck finding your hives. I think you downplay too much most people's fears of even approaching occupied hives, as well as the amount of time and effort and machinery involved in moving that number of hives.
If the thieves loaded by hand, it would have taken them hours, and they would have still needed trucks and/or trailers large enough to haul that many hives. So many hives won't fit in the bed of a pickup at one time. And moving that many hives even with machinery takes time (and previous experience to cut that time down).
As much as I dislike stating it, I think a beekeeper or at least someone with beekeeping experience is your thief.


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Hip Hop Hall of Fame coming to NYC
It's about time, right?!
There will be a Hip Hop Hall of Fame under construction and fittingly coming to the origin of hip hop: New York City.
The NY Daily News reports that a boom-bap centralized museum will be located in Harlem by 2017 with another location coming to midtown Manhattan in 2017 as well.
Expect some cool exhibits, the history of hip hop on display, graffiti everywhere, and hey, perhaps even some hologram performances like that seen above. This makes NYC a must-visit for any hip hop fan (if it's not already).
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Reduced visibility can play a key role in traffic accidents. Lowered visibility can occur because of darkness or weather conditions such as snow or rain. No matter the cause, motorists often aren't as careful as they should be.
The bottom line: driving in poor weather adds to the risk factor, boosting the possibility of skidding off the road, being involved in a crash and other similar events. However, there are things you can do to reduce the possibility of an accident.
Twenty-five percent of the average person's driving is night driving, which is a more challenging time to travel.
According to PennState Environmental Health and Safety:
• Car crash fatalities happen three times more often at night
• More than half (55%) of fatal accidents happen at night
• Pedestrian fatalities happen much more often after dark (62%)
Some useful safe driving tips in times of reduced visibility, such as night driving, include:
• Slowing down
• Staying alert
• Using headlights
• Putting a safe distance between your car and the vehicle ahead of you; this is especially important when it's a large truck, as their spray can cause additional problems with visibility
• Choosing the middle lane during wet driving conditions
• Taking advantage of tracks in the snow made by other vehicles and driving in those tracks
• Avoiding puddles
What should you do now?
• Set up a regular schedule to check your windshield wipers. New wipers are available at Advance Auto Parts. Get free installation with purchase.*
• Always keep a supply of extra windshield washer fluid.
• Check your car lights periodically.
• If your headlights are foggy or dim, purchase a headlight restoration kit.
• Use Rain-X on your windshield. Rain-X acts as a repellant on your windshield for rain, sleet or snow.
• Always carry an emergency car kit.
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Junior high speech team concludes season
The Pequot Lakes Junior High School speech team attended the final meet of the season Tuesday, March 12, in Walker, ending the season on a high note for many speech team members.
Nova Kilbourne took home a red ribbon in Humorous Interpretation and Renee Anick earned a blue ribbon.
In Prose, Courtney Rock earned a blue ribbon, and Abby Person took first place in Extemporaneous Speaking.
Allie Miller, though not in attendance, also earned a high award — the Heartland Conference Award in her category of Creative Expression. The award is given to the student with the highest cumulative score over the course of six junior high tournaments.
For the sixth-grade students on the team, this was the last tournament they attended this season; those in seventh grade and up are still able to compete at the senior high tournaments.


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text: My bees swarmed while I was away, this is my only hive. I did a complete inspection and found a queen that was piping quite a bit. There are at least two more queen cells that have not opened. The bees have moved up into the second deep that had only wax foundation and are not doing too much on the plastic in the first deep. The second deep is full of honey with some capped brood, they never moved into the honey super which has been on for a month. Any advice on what to do next, start feeding, rotate the deeps?


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BiographyPeriphery started in 2005 as the recording project of guitarist and producer Misha Mansoor. Mansoor, who had made a name for himself in the progressive metal community through his production abilities with his project, Bulb, created the band as an evolution of his earlier works, taking the music out of the studio and onto the road, fleshing out the band with a lineup that includes guitarists Alex Bois and Jake Bowen, bassist Tom Murphy, drummer Matt Halpern, and, after running through a few vocalists, singer Spencer Sotelo. With a sound that pushes at the boundaries of progressive metal, Periphery are at the forefront of the "djent" movement, utilizing detuned, extended range instruments to create a sound that's as technically dizzying as it is heavy, joining in with the growing ranks of bands that are taking the framework laid down by bands like Meshuggah and running wild with it. Periphery released their self-titled debut in 2010 on Sumerian, then quickly went out on the road, touring the U.S. and Canada, as well as making stops in Australia and the U.K. The following year, the band released their first EP, Icarus.
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Today's earthquake will not affect BNP Paribas schedule
The Indian Wells Tennis Garden has been inspected following this morning's earthquake and no damage was found.
Play begins at 11 a.m.
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are scheduled to play unseeded opponents Monday as men's third-round play begins in the BNP Paribas Open, while the women's top-seed, Victoria , will play a night match.
Federer, the defending champion who is seeded second and second in the Association of Tennis Professionals rankings, will face Ivan in the fourth match of the day on the Indian Wells Tennis Garden's main court.
This will be the first match between Federer and Dodig, who is ranked 60th and upset 28th-seededJulien of France in the second round.
Nadal, who is seeded and ranked fifth, will face Leonardo Mayer of Argentina in the second match on the main court. Mayer is 0-11 lifetime against Top 10 players.
A third man who also once held the world's No. 1 ranking is also scheduled to play today -- Australian Lleyton Hewitt, who will face 18th-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland, in the second night match, which won't begin before 8:30 p.m.
The night session is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. with Azarenka facing 28th-seeded Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium.
In Sunday's play, Novak Djokovic, the world's top-ranked men's player, and 2012 U.S Open champion Andy Murray both dropped a set but were among the winners as men's second-round singles play concluded.
Djokovic defeated Fabio Fognini of Italy, 6-0, 5-7, 6-2, for his 14th consecutive victory this year and 19th in a row dating back to 2012.
Djokovic led 4-1 in the second set, then Fognini won six of the next seven games the set and tie the match.
"I had a very bad game at 4-2, couple of unforced errors, got him back in the match," Djokovic said. "Next thing you know, we're one set all and a couple of tight games.
"But look, I'm not concerned. I know I have been in this situation before where I had minor setbacks in a match, especially in the opening where I'm trying to get used to the court, the conditions and so forth."
Djokovic called Fognini "a good player on this surface."
"He loves playing on slow surfaces," Djokovic said. "He made me work. He made me earn my points. In the end, I have done what I needed to do. The W is there, so I feel good about myself."
Djokovic has won all four of his matches against Fognini, who is ranked 36th.
Murray, who is ranked third, defeated Evgeny Donskoy, 5-7, 6-2, 6-2, breaking the Russian's serve twice in both the second and third sets.
"One I got into more of a rhythm, I was able to dictate more of the points," Murray said. "But he played some good stuff. He doesn't force anything. I think he's pretty smart on the court too."
Other winners included seventh-seeded Juan Martin Del Porto, eighth- seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 11th-seeded Nicolas Almagro, 12th-seeded Marin Cilic and 32nd-seeded Mardy Fish, who was playing in his first singles match after being sidelined since the U.S. Open because of a heart condition.
"It's been a tough few months for sure," Fish said after defeating Bobby Reynolds, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, winning the final four games.
"You sort of feel like it was a win just to get back out there. There are a lot of pole that have sort of dealt with what I've dealt with and not come back. It's nice to just play, first and foremost, and then you get out there and you want to win."
The highest-seeded player to lose was 14th-seeded Juan Monaco of Argentina, who fell to the unseeded Australian Marinko Matosevic, 7-5, 6-0.
All the seeded players were playing their first singles matches of the tournament after receiving first-round byes.
The women began their third round of singles play with each of the four top seeded players in action winning -- second-seeded Maria Sharapova, third- seeded Agnieszka Radwanska, fifth-seeded Petra Kvitova and sixth-seeded Sara Errani.
Sharapova trailed 25th-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain, 5-4 in the first set and 3-2 in the second, before completing the 7-5, 6-3 victory.
"I thought it was a tough one," Sharapova said. "She's a quality player, capable of playing some really good tennis. She's dangerous.
"She's beaten top players in Grand Slams before and has a really solid game with a lot of variety and she can hit the ball as well. She's really tough."


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Regarding Radial extractors, Do any of you with the big powered units know at what RPM you need to run them at to get good clean extraction?
If you do I would also like to know the diameter of the extractor or its manufacturer/model number.
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Info assurance program receives NSA designation
By Wendy Frost
Director of Communications, College of Business
(Aug. 13, 2008)--UTSA was redesignated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. This designation has been granted to only 93 programs in the nation and demonstrates a commitment to academic excellence in information assurance education. The five-year designation, which originated in 2002, is based on the academic curriculum in the College of Business.
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"Our program assists in meeting the national demand for information security professionals trained to defend America's cyberspace," said Glenn Dietrich, associate professor and chairman of the Department of Information Systems and Technology Management. "We offer academic coursework and training in the areas of biometrics, cyber forensics, data mining and intrusion detection."
Information assurance comprises measures that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication and confidentiality. College faculty conduct funded research in the areas of biometrics, data mining, data visualization and intrusion detection. In addition to highly regarded academicians, courses also are taught by practitioners from leading information assurance companies as well as from military organizations such as the Air Force Operations Center in San Antonio.
The college offers an infrastructure assurance concentration as part of the master of science degree in information technology and a bachelor of business administration degree in infrastructure assurance.
Universities designated as Centers of Academic Excellence are eligible to apply for scholarships and grants through both the federal and Department of Defense information assurance scholarship programs.
The college is currently searching for a faculty member to fill the AT&T Endowed Chair in Infrastructure Assurance and Security. The chair will lead the college's academic program, establish partnerships with experts in the field and provide an interface to the greater business community.


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PARADISE — The Paradise High varsity girls soccer team seized control early against favored Chico High during the opener of Tuesday's doubleheader with the boys at Paradise's Om Wraith Field.
At least for about 10 minutes.
From there it was all Panthers, as the visitors followed up an equalizer with four unanswered goals to go on to defeat Paradise 5-1 and spoil the Bobcats' perfect mark at home.
Chico midfielder Hannah Mikles, one of the team's offensive leaders on Tuesday with a pair of goals, said the Bobcats' early score helped spark the Panthers.
"When they get a goal it's like, 'We're behind now, we're underdogs now, (so) we need to step it up and get at least one goal and then keep it going from there,'" she said.
Mikles' freshman teammate, Neala Cronin, got things started for the Panthers' attack with the first of her two scores just two minutes after Paradise's Mary Fugle converted the Bobcats' lone goal off an assist from Taylor Mundy.
Chico (8-1, 3-1 Eastern Athletic League), which grabbed sole possession of second place in the league standings, blasted Paradise's goalkeeper and the defense immediately after Cronin's goal. At the 20th minute, senior Katie Brown, the team's leading scorer who's bound for Chico State on a soccer scholarship in the fall, pounded home a header past Bobcat goalkeeper Kaylah Kempton-Anderson and into the left corner of the net for a 2-1 Chico advantage. Two minutes later, Cronin scored again at roughly the same spot as Brown, which was point-blank range where Kempton-Anderson had little to no chance at the save.
Chico coach Sarah Parker said the team's attack was by design because its passing game was all but shut down due to the muddy conditions of Wraith Field.
"Today it seemed more like kickball," Parker said. "It's rough on a field like this (where) half the field is pretty much a mud pit. It definitely throws us off our game."
Paradise (7-4, 2-2 EAL) put together a solid chance right before the half for just its second shot on frame. Unfortunately for Bobcat fans, the ball landed safely in the arms of Chico senior goalkeeper Emily Nava.
"We feel like we dominated the game the first 10 minutes," Paradise coach Rachel LeDuc said, "but Chico came back. They really know how to switch their players that were supposed to be marking very quickly. We haven't seen that this season, so that's something we have to work on."
The Panthers put the game away with a pair of goals late in the second half, both coming off the foot of Mikles.
The senior co-captain scored the first one when Paradise senior defender Lauren LeDuc made the mistake of clearing a ball toward the middle of the field. Mikles retrieved the gift pass and fired a shot into the right corner of the goal, extending the Panthers' lead to 4-1.
Mikles hit the other side two minutes later when she headed in a corner kick from within the box for the team's fifth and final goal.
Interestingly enough, Mikles said the team wanted more.
"We hold ourselves to a very high standard," she said. "Our goal is seven, eight (scores), that's what we try every single game."
Chico returns home to face rival and league leader Pleasant Valley (11-1-1, 5-0) at 3:15 p.m. Thursday, where a win keeps the Panthers on pace for at least a share of the EAL championship.
"We all want it so bad," Mikles said.
Chico 4, Paradise 1
The Chico boys were just as successful with its attack in the nightcap Tuesday, en route to a 4-1 win over the Bobcats.
Chico (7-1, 4-0 EAL) scored three times in the first half to build an early cushion, which Panthers coach Ryan Flenner said any team needs playing in Paradise.
"One of the keys was to keep possession because this field is difficult to play on and anything can happen," he said.
Chico seemed to have all the good fortune, converting a 45-yard direct kick off the foot of Patrick Quinn that landed over the head of Paradise freshman goalkeeper Blaine Gibson-Evans and into the right corner of the net for a 3-0 lead right before the half. The other goals came courtesy of seniors Jason Snedeker, Rodrigo Serrato and Brandon Boyert.
The Bobcats (3-7-1, 1-2-1) clawed back with the help of seniors Cory Wall and Jeremy Williams, who played the two-man game extremely well down near the 30-yard line of Chico territory. The two strung together a pair of passes, with Wall finishing a 15-yarder off a Williams assist, to cut the deficit to 3-1 at the 48th minute.
"I said how big is that goal we gave up right in the last minute of the first half," Paradise coach Doug Carroll said. "We were energized by Cory's goal and Chico was just a little bit rattled for a while there, but they're a good team and they got it back quickly."
Both coaches agreed that there was an additional spark plug in the game: Gibson-Evans corralled a game-high 13 saves, which Flenner said is impressive in these conditions.
"I got to give it up to him, he made a lot of good saves in a box that's at least three inches of mud everywhere," he said.
Carroll said Gibson-Evans has a chance to be a star down the road.
"He's come a long way already, I wanted to keep Cory Wall on the field (and) Blaine's enabled us to do that," he said. "Cory could be an all-league keeper, but he's made a sacrifice for the team (by) being on the field. Blaine's got a bright future; I'm hoping he keeps working at it."
Both Paradise teams take on the Panthers again Friday in a game that was rained out earlier. Kickoff for both contests is set for 3:15 p.m. at Chico High.


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A sexual position where the girl is on her stomach while the guy is in a squat position pounding her from behind with DEEP penitration.
I didn't feel like smashing that doggystile anymore so i gave her the okie dookie so i pound that pussy.
by Felixfella June 21, 2008


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A tasty take on hash combines chunks of prepared polenta, sweet Italian sausage and bell peppers for a lively change.
Nutrition Profile:
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Serves 6
Prep Time 40 min
Total Time 40 min.
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Pierce sausage links with a fork and place in a saucepan. Cover with water and bring to a simmer. Simmer over low heat for 10 minutes. Transfer to a cutting board and let cool slightly; cut into thin rounds.
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Meanwhile, pat polenta dry and cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices. Stack slices, 4 or 5 at a time, and cut into quarters. Pat slices dry and set aside.
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Cook the sausage slices in a large nonstick or cast-iron skillet, stirring over medium-high heat, until browned, 3 to 5 minutes. Transfer to a plate lined with paper towels.
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Add 1 teaspoon oil to the pan. Add onions and cook, stirring, until soft, 2 to 3 minutes. Add peppers, season with salt and pepper and cook, stirring, until tender, about 3 minutes longer. Transfer the vegetables to a plate.
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Wipe out the pan and add the remaining 2 teaspoons oil to the pan; tilt to coat the bottom evenly. Add the reserved polenta and cook, stirring occasionally, until nicely browned, 3 to 5 minutes.
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UPDATE: Will the Admiral Theater go dark?
The aging building and the end of film might spell the end for the landmark
UPDATE July 23
According to theater Manager Dinah Brein a meeting is set for mid August with building owner Marc Gartin. Previously Gartin had sent out Request for Proposal letters to current tenant Faraway Entertainment and according to Gartin other possible tenants for the space. Upgrades to the aging building would be expensive for any tenant, but according to Gartin it would likely be less expensive for it to remain a theater, which is also his preference. A decision on Admiral Theater's fate is expected sometime following that meeting next month.
Original Post July 9
The holes in the carpet, and creaky seats are only the most visible signs that the Admiral Theater, West Seattle's only movie theater is way past its prime.
But the building which went up in 1942 also has issues with plumbing, wiring, heating and cooling and even security.
Far worse however is the impending change coming to the movie business. In January Paramount Studios announced they would stop the distribution of "film prints" actual movies on reels of film with more studios expected to do the by the end of this year. The cost of each print can be as much as $2000. In wide distribution to hundreds of theaters it can be very costly. Digital distribution via satellite could drop that cost to close to $100 each. Only 8% of theaters in the U.S. now have only film. The other 92%, or more than 40,000 screens are using digital projection. The Admiral has two theaters (once only one) each with 345 seats and two aging film projectors.
The cost to replace them, refurbish the theater and make it viable is high. Since 2008 the business of the theater has been owned and run by FarAway Entertainment LLC from Bainbridge Island headed by Jeff Brein and managed on site by Dinah Brein. FarAway also owns and operate seven other theaters in Washington State.
Brein, estimates the cost at $500,000 plus. Digital projectors alone can run over $70,000 each and the refurbishing, remodeling of the building and systems in it would not be cheap. However, in a study that was done by the company that books films for the Admiral last year, it was determined that if the building could be converted to fourplex, that is four theaters with essentially the same number of seats, around 700, it could be very successful. The reasoning? It would be the only film theater between downtown and the Tukwila area and obviously would serve the West Seattle peninsula.
This kind of shift has happened all across the nation with smaller communities coming together to help preserve their local movie house. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-last-pictu...
The Admiral was saved once before. The Southwest Seattle Historical Society mounted a campaign in 1989 when then owner Cineplex Odeon announced its impending closure. The society responded by gathering 14,000 signatures, selling buttons and finally getting the building (at least the exterior walls) designated as a Seattle landmark.
It could happen again if the community were willing to support an effort.
However, that's easier said than done. The 20 year owner of the building Marc Gartin, who also owns the land under Bartells Drugs, The Benbow Room, and the Chevron gas station on the corner, has talked with the owners of the business. He'd prefer that it stay a theater. He also acknowledges that another tenant would face substantially higher costs to rehab the building and change it to suit another purpose. But an RFP (Request For Proposal) has gone out to the theater business owners and others for the roughly 18,000 square foot space.
The building can't be torn down, due to it's landmark status, but he could easily lease it to another company who might not operate it as a theater.
So far, the hunt for financing has proven to be be unsuccessful. But Brein is optimistic. "We're crunching the numbers and looking a plan right now," he said and he feels the lending climate is much friendlier lately. The RFP is due by the end of July. Gartin did not indicate he would make a decision immediately but he needs to have the building be a useful investment.
Either way, the decision on the fate of the Admiral will likely happen reasonably soon. Forced either by the need to have a viable tenant or the availability of funding to modernize the current business, the historic building will see some significant changes, likely sometime this year.
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so in a case like this, you are not recommending stopping treatments cold turkey, but rather agressively splitting the hive and introducing new genetics?
i do respect anyone's desire not to use treatments, but in a case like this, would it not make sense to knock down the mite load with a soft treatment prior to making the splits? (with the long term goal of avoiding the 'treadmill').
(assuming vaorra is the problem)
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
...this was just posted on "another forum"....talk about a treadmill.
At the Bee conference in Tampa, FL this past week, Dr Diana Sammataro gave 3 different talks on mites. One of her studies is on: what effect does what we feed our bees have on the mites in the hive. She isolated the study into 3 groups. The first group was allowed to feed in the wild, the second were fed pollen that was collected and sold to beeks and the third were fed pollen substitutes. To control the bee's source of food, she had the second 2 groups of hives in tents. She found it is hard to keeps them alive for any great length of time in tents. All three groups had the queens in laying cages (square cage over the comb) to control the day the eggs were laid and only in the control area. On the 8th day (they day before they are capped) they were placed in hives that were heavy in mites. Each mite hive had 1 frame from each group. After they were capped the frames were removed and just before the bees hatched they were opened and the mites were counted. She just recently got the results from her first try. The natural fed bees had an average of about 43 mites on the worker brood, the pollen had an average of around 53 mites on worker brood (no drones allowed in the test cases) but the pollen substitute averaged around 273 mites on the worker brood.
As you can imagine, this was a total surprise. She showed pictures of the results. The bees from the substitute were covered with mites. She did note that these same bees were on average heaver that the other bees.
Diana is still working on this to determine what is happening with this situation.
I think the analogy of drinking is pretty apt here.
If you have a drinking problem, and you decide that you want to stop drinking, there are lots of things to consider....how are you going to stop? What are you going to do when you feel the urge to drink? How are you going to handle emotionally tough situations without taking a drink?
Well, in the end, if one wants to quit drinking, at some point they have to take their last drink...and not take another one. This doesn't mean that you won't be in a situation where you want a drink...where you think (in the moment) that a drink might help. ...it is these tough situations where the battle is ultimately won or lost, as there is always going to be something tough to deal with that seems to demand a drink.
The same is true of beekeeping. There will always be some challenge that seems to demand treatment. If you want to treat in such a situation, that is your own business (as long as you are honest about it)...but I think it is impossible to be "treatment-free" this way....parasites and disease are always evolving and changing....there will always be a challenge which would seem to be addressed by a treatment....but this is the same slippery slope of "this has been a tough day, I think I need one drink to get through it".
As long as treatments are the "back up plan", they will always be used...if not this year, then next year.
The idea that there are things called "soft treatments" and that they are somehow warm and fuzzzy is flawed in the extreme. The soft treatments (essential oils, organic acids) are more destructive to the microflora of the bees...and most definitely directly to the bees directly as well....they are substances that are less harmful to humans, but they are not "soft", and they are not "natural". Anyone that is concerned about fungicides affecting their bees (and that should be all beekeepers), should consider that thymol is a really strong antifungal agent.
The only thing "soft" about the soft treatments is the soft sell used to make beekeepers believe they are being "natural" or "organic" or "kind to the bees".
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@deknow - agree with you regarding reality of "soft" treatments. Here in Maine our state apiarist tells us that the mites have developed resistance to the "hard" treatments and so the so called "soft" treatments are what remain as effective. People need to remember that they are still treatments, and while many of them are synthetic recreations of naturally occurring substances, there is nothing natural about using them in a bee hive. That said, I have some colonies that get treated, and some that don't. The hard part for me is keeping brood frames & boxes sorted out so that the TF bees don't inadvertently get treated.
Some areas are easier to do TF beekeeping than others. Thus far my TF bees have not made much honey and many have died. I'll be very interested to see what I'm left with following winter.
I think we are talking about the danger of the beekeeper falling off the wagon because of his psychological treatment dependancy. That would seem to say that you must not ever treat or it will destroy your resolve and you will be forever damned. Carnal knowledge can never be shed. That could be true but the bees do not have such emotional connection. That is a toothless bogeyman, lol!
Now if there is a case for developing chemical dependency or functional alteration upon the part of the bee I can buy into that; bio-accumulation in brood comb with the likes of coumophos could have subtle and ongoing effects on the bees. I think there is a fair bit of evidence to support that. Most certainly it is subject to developing resistance as well. That is a bad treatment and there are others like it, but that does not make treatment in itself all bad (unless from the angle of my first paragraph).
I think there are treatments that physically home in on anatomical vulnerabilities of mites for instance that have little effect on bees and do little more than temporarily altering the ph of the comb surfaces. A lesser evil perhaps than the mite would otherwise inflict on the hive. I think that would be a good treatment and I cannot see it creating any crippling dependency like being stuck on a treadmill. I think we should be very, very cautious about any treatment but I think it is irrational to avoid any and all as a mantra.
I will use a personal experience to create an analogy for treatment. I was instructing a course on heavy equipment operation for a bunch of rather raggedy ath and bob tailed men and came down with persistant jock itch from the foam seats. Medicated powder every nite curatively and every morning profilactically gave me great relief. Now I could have just continued to scratch if I were so inclined but this seemed a good treatment.
Amongst some of my Commercial Beekeeping friends we oft times talk about how it seems like we spend a lot more time nowadays throwing medications/treatments on our hives to keep as many as possible alive and populous, which was much much less so 30 years ago. Presently we are almost Honeybee Veternarians(sp?).
What one does is determined by what one's goals are.
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Thanks Ramona. For the computer illiterates like me a Link would make life easier. Also, isn't it a Rule when quoting an outside source? But thanks, I'll write down the first sentence and websearch it.
Mark Berninghausen
I just recognized the name, Dr. Sammataro. I saw one of her presentations at The Big Bee Buzz in Tusla OK this spring.
Inspected again 10/12. 1 Hive and 1 Nuc expected to over winter. Nuc is headed by a purchased Russian Queen. Nucs made up with Queen Cells (swarm) have not thrived.
This yard has not produced any surplus honey since it was established and has required feeding each fall (sugar water)
No treatments have been made for Nosema and/or Varroa.
The yard is on an organic farm, within flying distance of a National Park. Plenty of forage.
Another yard with TF Russians on another farm established in 2011 (6 colonies) made 1 shallow of summer honey, and the same inspector guesses 1 hive will be alive next Spring there. That one is from a split made up this year using a swarm cell queen open mated with whatever is nearby. Same issues (Varroa).
Both farms are about 1.5 hours away from where I live. They were much closer when first established, but then I moved. Hives likely to survive the winter have been wrapped.
At the Bee conference in Tampa, FL this past week, Dr Diana Sammataro gave 3 different talks on mites.
Tampa, FL vacations, air travel to, real estate
Sammataro sumo wrestling tickets, vacations to Sumatra
mites Raid pest control products, mitre saws
And who knows what else.
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Australian conservationist John Seed will give two multi-media presentations in the R.J. Wills Lecture Hall on Monday, April 23, in observance of Earth Day at Pulaski Technical College.
Seed's presentation, entitled "Climate Change, Despair and Empowerment Roadshow" will take place at 11 a.m. and again at 7:30 p.m. Both presentations, sponsored by PTC's Student Government Association, are free and open to the public.
Seed will address the psychological and emotional issues surrounding global warming and discuss the roles public and personal denial, helplessness and despair play in the fight against climate change.
John Seed is founder and director of the Rainforest Information Centre in Australia. Since 1979 he has been involved in initiatives to protect Australian rainforests. In 1984 he helped initiate the US Rainforest Action Network. In 1987 he co-produced a television documentary for Australian national television about the struggle for the rainforests.
He has written and lectured extensively on deep ecology and has been conducting "Councils of All Beings" and other workshops in Australia, North America, Japan, India, Thailand and Europe for 15 years. With Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming and Professor Arne Naess, Seed is a co-author of Thinking Like a Mountain - Towards a Council of All Beings (New Society Publishers) which has been translated into 10 languages. He founded World Rainforest Report in 1984 and currently remains one of the editors. (www.rainforestinfo.org.au)
He is an accomplished bard and songwriter and since 1981 has produced five albums of environmentally-themed songs.
In the last few years he has scripted and produced several videos, the latest of which is called "Work in Progress." He regularly lectures at universities in Australia, the United Kingdom, Asia and in the United States.
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Hot Pit Sideshow: Airstream Interstate 3500
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You see them most everywhere, ambling along America's highways and byways like gentle whales. Inside sit recently retired couples who have managed to shove the bulk of their earthly possessions into a full-size, bus-size RV. And 40-footers aren't uncommon. They're even towing a Mercury Sable because, let's be honest here, nobody wants to try and park a rig of this size anywhere near an Olive Garden. Bigger is of course better -- so say the great state of Texas and a large portion of what makes up our American consciousness. But if size and nothing else mattered, Alaska would be twice as fabulous as Texas! And as any Lone Star Stater will tell ya, that simply ain't the case.
Meet the Airstream Interstate 3500, a luxurious and compact recreational vehicle. Compact is a relative term, as the Interstate is based on a full-size dually Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van that shows up "naked" weighing 5562 pounds. Once Airstream is done with its converting, the 22-foot-long, 80-inch-wide van tips the big scale to the tune of 8436 pounds, with a GVWR of 11,030 pounds and a GCWR of 15,250.
However, the 3.0-liter Blue Efficiency V-6 engine is more than up to the task of moving around an extra ton, a startling fact when you consider that the small diesel makes just 188 horsepower and 325 pound-feet of torque. Even with those (relatively) small numbers, our Interstate had no trouble whatsoever keeping up with traffic and maintaining a 75-mph cruising speed up and down the 101 from Los Angeles to north of San Francisco.
Better still, loaded up with me, my wife, our dog (a 13-pound miniature pinscher mutt named Knuckles), and enough stuff for a six-day road trip (including 26 gallons of fresh water, 27 gallons of gray water, and 14 gallons of liquid petroleum gas), the Interstate averaged 18.6 mpg over 934 miles. Not bad at all and, as Airstream points out, 30 percent better than a similarly sized and equipped gasoline-powered RV.
Aside from head-scratchingly decent fuel economy, the other surprisingly good attribute of the Interstate is the big boy's maneuverability. From freeways to dirt roads to cramped parking lots and even a racetrack paddock, the Airstream was simple and easy to finesse into place. Forget the Olive Garden, you could effortlessly take the Interstate through a Mickey D's drive-thru if it had 10 feet of clearance (with the A/C unit in place, this rig stands 9 feet, 8 inches tall). This isn't too surprising as the most striking physical feature of the Airstream Interstate is its width, specifically the lack thereof. You won't notice at first glance, but poke your head down around the rear of the vehicle and you'll see that this mini RV is in fact a dually. Only unlike our heavily extroverted American duallys, the wheels fit within the body.
One area where the Interstate didn't impress was inside. Oh, sure, the materials were pretty nice -- glossy, polished gray wood with white leather and lots of shiny chrome accents -- though not nearly as elegant and impressive as the 16-foot Airstream Sport my wife and I spent our wedding night in. Also, all the pieces seemed to be screwed together just fine. So what was lacking? In a word, space. There's just not very much room for your stuff, at least compared with other RVs I've taken on trips. And the Interstate is by no means small.
Now, a caveat, if I may. The wife and I packed our bags for a near-weeklong trip. I don't know about you and yours, but for us that's a bunch of stuff. Moreover, we were headed up to Infineon Raceway so I could reprise my recurring role as a 24 Hours of LeMons Supreme Court Judge (AKA Judge Jonny). Not only that, but LeMons Chief Perp Jay Lamm hired my wife, the much-heralded sideshow performer Amy Amnesia, to freak out some of the more miscreant drivers with the possibility of having to hammer a nail up their nose. Meaning that poor Knuckles rode the 450 miles up to Sonoma County lying on a bed of nails covered by a ratty green towel.
The possibility exists then that we might have brought more stuff (and more oddly shaped stuff) than Airstream anticipated. But I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. The Interstate's interior is half-ringed with head-level storage bins. I had to go pick up the Airstream in the Valley, run home to grab the wife, dog, and stuff and then hit the road, so the aisle was hastily clogged up with luggage. However, if we owned our own, we'd have packed it differently and as a result would have had more space. Enough? Yeah, probably, even with Amy's ladder of machetes on board. But imagine if we had kids? Mercedes-Benz does make an extended-length version of the 170-inch-wheelbase Sprinter (the Interstate is based on the standard-length 170-inch-wheelbase, high-roof Sprinter Van), which might be the ticket in terms of packaging, though at the expense of mileage and motility.
Speaking of packaging, Airstream saw fit to include everything, including a kitchen sink with a vegetable sprayer. Running it all down, you get seating for six, sleeping for four (though really, two) a restroom with a shower, a full kitchen with a microwave, and a 19-inch flat-screen TV. Literally all the comforts of home, and we put these to good use when we parked the Interstate on Infineon's hot pit to use as our mobile LeMons HQ. The 13,500-BTU air-conditioning unit running off the liquefied propane generator had no trouble keeping Knuckles cool (since the bed of nails was in use, she had moved herself to the front seat), while the extendable awning provided excellent and ample shade for the rear seat from a 1975 Citroën DS we use as a couch.
And the Interstate's usefulness didn't stop there. One of the more classic 24 Hours of LeMons penalties is simply called Arc Angel. Long story short, good pal Christine Rotolo dons a pair of white angel wings and welds a representation of a barnyard animal to your race car. Trouble is, welders need electricity. Solution: Plug the welding machine into the Airstream Interstate -- what could possibly go wrong? As it turns out, nothing. The Arc Angel was able to weld about a dozen pigs, rats, roosters, and humping bunnies over the course of two days without blowing a single fuse or having any sort of power interruption issues whatsoever. As Larry David would say, that's pretty, pretty, pretty good for a small RV.
Taken as a whole, the Interstate represents a curious mix of attributes. On the positive side, the Airstream's a good-looking and well-appointed alternative to a big old road hog. It's not as handsome or iconic as an actual Airstream trailer, but then you don't have to mess around with a trailer hitch, either. Speaking of not towing, the Interstate is surprisingly nimble and easy to park, even in medium-dense cities. And nearly 19 mpg for an RV is great news in the modern world of $4-per-gallon gas. Still, $121,274 is not cheap by any definition, especially with slightly used full-size motorhomes on fire sale everywhere for less. Finally, it's just not that spacious. But that might be the entire point.


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If the Maine Turnpike Authority were a country, it'd be North Korea.
Consider these uncanny parallels:
• Both the turnpike authority and the communist nation have resisted all efforts to unite them with their spiritual relatives — for the latter, with South Korea; for the former, with the Maine Department of Transportation.
• Both behave in ways other government entities find reckless — North Korea fires off missiles and torpedoes ships; the pike bosses hand out hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of gift certificates and sponsorships to organizations that have nothing to do with running a toll road, award no-bid contracts to an engineering firm with which it has a long and cozy relationship, and refuse to turn over surplus money to MDOT as supposedly required by state law.
• North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il lives in splendor while much of the population is on the verge of starvation. As Maine struggled through a crippling recession, the MTA handed out bonuses and awards to favored employees and allowed traveling executives to stay in first-class hotels, rent limos, and watch pay-per-view porn.
Bizarre statements? North Korea's official pronouncements read like the work of a drunken, second-rate pulp novelist: "The US imperialist robbers have stretched their crooked tentacle of crime-woven aggression with wild ambition." Now, here's turnpike spokesman Scott Tompkins, quoted in the Kennebec Journal last month, responding to a report critical of the authority's practices: "When you take a step back and get to the 20,000-foot level, it's an extremely well-run organization. Practices that no longer exist are being scrutinized so much."
One-party rule? In North Korea, it's the Communists. At the pike's headquarters, a bunch of aging Democrats are still in charge.
Of course, there are some differences between the two. Unlike Kim Jong-Il, MTA chairman Gerard Conley doesn't require his followers to cut their hair in a bizarre, cactus-inspired fashion and dress like ex-members of Devo. (Turnpike employees do that on their own.) Conley lacks Kim's power to have his critics thrown in prison or summarily executed. He can, however, order their vocal cords removed. Without anesthesia. And while there's no doubt the North Koreans possess atomic weapons, the turnpike is merely rumored to have the capacity for nuclear retaliation.
For decades, world leaders have been trying to resolve the Korean problem. For nearly as long, state leaders have been attempting to figure out how to regain control over the state's major highway. Neither group has made any detectable progress. Now, Republican Governor Paul LePage is promising to succeed where others have failed.
LePage has told Kim to "kiss my butt" and pledged to "punch [him] in the nose."
A spokesman for the governor later explained that when LePage made those remarks, he was referring not to the North Korean, but to Conley. "He gets them mixed up," the spokesman said. "It's the weird haircuts."
It might also be the debt. North Korea is virtually bankrupt. Its official currency, the turd, is considered worthless on international monetary exchanges, except that it can be used to purchase stock in Borders bookstores. If the two Koreas became one, the South would be forced to pick up an enormous tab. Not to mention a zillion remaindered copies of Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino's book.
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[quote user="mjg407"]Yep I'm here and okay. Just got back from dropping a plane off in Spain.
Good to see you safe.

Sad when you lose some of your own.

[/quote]In this business for four years now. Got the job because the guy who held it before me augured in during a training exercise. Hardest thing to do was move his stuff in "my office". Took me two years to start to do that. In the last three saw 6 die that I knew, an unforgiving business this is.
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My hives died of starvation this winter. One of them was extremly weak going in, so I knew the odds were against them. This was the hive that had the strange spots.
Any clues?
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Re: Failed my first attempt at the OSCP exam
CCNA Security
Blog: http://www.learn-security.net/
From the people who bring you BackTrack, there is a great online training and certification program.
hayabusa wrote:Sorry to hear it, r0ckm4n. I know it gets old when folks tell me this, but I'll pass it along anyway...
Don't get discouraged. As I'm sure you did last time, take it, learn from it, and keep growing. If it does NOTHING else, it'll teach you that, no matter how much you know, there's always things to be learned.
It's both a blessing and a curse, in the IT security realm. For those who LOVE change, there's ALWAYS change / updates / new ideas, methods and technologies. For those who don't... well... ;)
Either way, I'm confident you'll continue to grow, and you will succeed, when you're ready.
impelse wrote:Sorry about that, probably you will need to staudy everything and try different ways to attack the machines in the lab
r0ckm4n wrote:If it were easy it wouldn't be that big of a deal. It just makes me want it that much more and I will appreciate it even more when I do pass the exam.
hayabusa wrote:r0ckm4n wrote:If it were easy it wouldn't be that big of a deal. It just makes me want it that much more and I will appreciate it even more when I do pass the exam.
That's the spirit! Stick with it, and you'll get it. Great attitude!
azmatt wrote:Keep up the great attitude and effort. It's a matter of when not if.
r0ckm4n wrote:I have been on the bench since the end of December and I have a pentest next week and it will last three weeks. My over abundance of study time will be reduced, but I look forward to using what I have learned in the upcoming pentest. PWB has been very educational and I have improved a lot since I started my job as a pentester last April.
superkojiman wrote:Hey as long as you keep learning, it's not a total loss I assume you'll be tackling the exam again?
H1t M0nk3y wrote:r0ckm4n, you sound like me when I failed my second attempt!
I then waited a full month and tried again (3rd time), only to stop after 8 hours, totally discouraged...
So I decided to put OSCP on a shelve for a while. I did GPEN, CISSP and GWAPT and above all, studied quite a lot. I always had this exam in the back of my mind, always thinking about it.
2 full years after that, I felt ready and passed it with confidence. I really was a different person and it really, really felt good when I finally passed the 70 points mark!!!
So if you are failing now, it's because you had the guts to take on a great challenge. I am sure you have learn quite a lot just going through these attempts. This certification is much harder than most other ones and like you mentioned, that's why it is so good.
Don't dispair! Take a break and come back when you feel you're ready.
If I did it, you can do it too!
m0wgli wrote:It's great that you still have the determination to continue. You already pretty much said it yourself, "Nothing Worth Having Comes Easy".
I started the PWB course recently, so can appreciate the difficulty. I would be interested to know, where you felt you went wrong on this attempt.
Did you do all the extra mile excercises? And, how many of the machines in the lab did you manage to compromise before attempting the exam?
I would recommend doing all of the extra miles and hacking every machine in the lab.
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RE: st: trend in ORs across ordered levels of a 3rd variable
Maarten buis <firstname.lastname@example.com>
RE: st: trend in ORs across ordered levels of a 3rd variable
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:19:13 +0100 (BST)
--- Visintainer, Paul asked:
> What I wanted to know is whether we can detect a linear pattern of
> the ORs over levels of the confounder (which, to me, looks like a
> specific type of interaction)
--- Peter A. Lachenbruch answered:
> This sounds like a task for logistic regression using the confounder
> and the risk factor. If you want to see if there's effect
> modification, use the product of the risk factor and confounder. You
> may want to categorize these variables.
--- "Dr. med. Berthold Hoppe" responded:
> The problem seems to be similiar to one I am actually faced with.
> Have you tried an analyses like this:
> logit death consc if sex==0
> est store A
> logit death consc if sex==1
> est store B
> suest A B
> test [A]consc=[B]consc
There is no need to use -suest-, this is just an interaction term:
*----------- begin example -------------------
sysuse nlsw88, clear
gen byte grade3 = cond(grade < 12, 1, ///
cond(grade == 12, 2, 3)) ///
if grade < .
gen southXgrade3 = south*grade3
logit married south grade3 southXgrade3
logit married grade3 if south == 1
est store A
logit married grade3 if south == 0
est store B
suest A B
test [A]grade3=[B]grade3
*---------------- end example ----------------
(For more on how to use examples I sent to the Statalist, see
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/stata/exampleFAQ.html )
However, the propper interpretation of these results is a very very
tricky issue regardless of whether you estimate this using an
interaction term or -suest- and you will want to take a good look at:
There is also a second problem with this approach which is among others
discussed in this post:
Hope this helps,
Maarten L. Buis
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Poll: 28% of Republicans don't believe Obama was born in America? Update: Skeptics mostly southern
posted at 12:05 pm on July 31, 2009 by Allahpundit
On the one hand, the poll was sponsored by … Daily Kos. On the other hand, Research 2000 is a reputable pollster as far as I know and the way they posed the question wasn't slanted.
The survey of American adults asked, "Do you believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States of America or not?" It found that 77% of Americans answer affirmatively, 11% say "no," with the balance unsure.
Notably, that 11% closely tracks the — extremely stable — share of the electorate that thought Obama was a Muslim, bolstering the notion that there's a certain share of the party's base (and this may well hold for both parties) that isn't about to let facts get in the way of negative views of a president of the opposite party…
With nearly a third of Republicans believing the theory, you can see why Republican politicians are inclined to treat it with some respect.
Party-line breakdowns: Dems 93/4/3 (the last figure is "don't know"), Indies 83/8/9, and GOP … 42/28/30. Fully 58 percent of Republicans aren't willing to accept a state-issued Certification of Live Birth as proof that The One was born in Honolulu? I'm skeptical, but, er, not so skeptical that I'm willing to poll this myself at HA. Sounds like a job for Scott Rasmussen. How about it, Scottster?
Update: Voinovich 1, Vitter 0.
Only 47 percent of Southern respondents believe Obama was born in the USA. By contrast, 93 percent of Northeasterns said yes, he was born here, 90 percent of Midwesterners did and 87 percent of Westerners.
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Re: st: transparent background with graph for powerpoint
Jacob Wegelin <email@example.com>
Re: st: transparent background with graph for powerpoint
Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:20:29 -0400
In case anybody else is interested in this question, here is an answer
that Stata Tech Support emailed to me today:
There isn't an option in Stata that will allow you to create a "clear"
background for graphs. However, I have seen users add a picture or scene
as the background with third-party programs such as PhotoShop.
You can try the following instructions in PhotoShop to place a graph
on a picture background:
Open Stata graph in PhotoShop. Place graph in its own layer (not background).
Select magic wand and in the magic wand options, set tolerance to 0, uncheck
anti-aliasing, check contiguous.
Select background. If all of background not selected, select Similar from
the Select menu. Delete selection.
Place background image in layer below Stata graph.
If you're looking to match the background to a specific color, Stata graphs
will take RBG values in addition to the preset colors listed. For example:
. twoway (scatter x4 x3), graphregion(fcolor(212 55 155))
Hope this helps.
It's possible that the transparent feature could be made available in a
future release, but there hasn't been anything mentioned specifically for
an update, etc.
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Jacob Wegelin <email@example.com> wrote:
> Consider a graph created in Stata on a MacBook Pro. Is there a way to
> put this graph into Powerpoint so that the Powerpoint background (a
> texture, an image, a color, etc.) shows through?
> sysuse auto, clear
> twoway (scatter price mpg), aspectratio(1) graphregion(color(none))
> graph export junk.pdf, replace
> graph export junk.eps, replace
> graph export junk.tif, replace
> Within Powerpoint, when I Insert -> Picture and then insert either
> junk.eps or junk.tif, the plot covers up ("whites out") the background
> texture all the way through the outer graph region. When I insert
> junk.pdf, only the inner plot region whites out the texture. Thus none
> of these approaches allows the background to show through the
> "non-inked" portions of the plot. (And for display, one cannot export
> directly to pdf on a Mac because smooth curves are somehow corrupted
> in the export process.)
> A thread from 2004 (see below) suggests that this might be a Macintosh
> problem; if I did this on a PC would the graph be transparent? But
> better yet: Is there a way to do this on a Mac?
> Thanks for any insight
> Jacob A. Wegelin
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Biostatistics
> Virginia Commonwealth University
> 730 East Broad Street Room 3006
> P. O. Box 980032
> Richmond VA 23298-0032
> E-mail: email@example.com
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> From Fredrik Wallenberg <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> To email@example.com
> Subject Re: RE: st: Re: Transparent background in graphics
> Date Thu, 20 May 2004 10:54:14 -0700
> Thank you, that is excellent news. As I said earlier, it is quite easy
> to edit out the background of an eps or pdf file using Adobe
> Illustrator, so at least that is a workaround for now. The PDF format
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How-To: Rescan a SCSI bus without Rebooting
Posted by chantra on 12th December 2009
When you hotplug a hard drive in a virtual machine, the drive do not show in fdisk -l output until you reboot your VM.
In order to get the drive to appear, the SCSI bus need to be rescanned.
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When asked how old she was, the teacher replied: My age in years is
not prime but odd and when reversed and added to my age you have a
perfect square...
Can you work out how many of each kind of pencil this student
A combination mechanism for a safe comprises thirty-two tumblers
numbered from one to thirty-two in such a way that the numbers in
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Choose two digits and
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The Office of Admissions assists students with all phases of the admission process. Applications for admission to Defiance College may be completed online.
Location: Serrick Campus Center, Financial Aid Office, Room 204
Hours: M-F, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Phone: 419-783-2364
This office administers federal and college financial aid and on-campus employment.
Defiance College School Certifying Official / Registrar's Office
Location: Serrick Campus Center, Registrar's Office, Room 204
Hours: M-F, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Phone: 419-783-2551
This office is responsible for the certification of veterans for benefits through the Veterans Administration as well as scheduling of classes, degree audit checks, graduation approval, transcripts, and many other academic services.
Academic Advising
All students are assigned a faculty academic advisor within their field of study. Students are encouraged to work closely with their academic advisors throughout their college careers. Advisors are prepared to counsel students on selection of courses and overall workload as well as to refer them to important resources such as the Office of Career Development or to arrange for tutoring when assistance is needed.