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Knoxville, Tenn. --- The Tennessee State University women's basketball team dropped a, 94-43, decision to No. 3 Tennessee, Tuesday night in Thompson-Boling Arena.
Rachel Allen led Tennessee State (3-8) in scoring with 12 points as she was the only Lady Tiger to score in double digits. Chelsea Hudson finished the game with nine points and seven rebounds.
Tennessee improved to 10-0 on the season.
TSU fell behind 6-0 in the opening moments of the first half and it was an uphill battle the rest of the contest. The Lady Tigers got on the board when Rachel Allen connected at the free-throw line with 16:25 on the clock.
Later in the half, Rachel Allen buried a three-pointer from the top of the key to end a five-minute scoring drought but by that time TSU had fallen behind, 42-12.
The Lady Tigers saw the Lady Vols knock down 66.7 percent of their shots in the first frame as the home team carried a, 54-19, advantage into the halftime break.
After being outscored, 9-4, in the opening four minutes of the second half, TSU traded buckets with UT over the next several possessions.
The Lady Vols, however, maintained a comfortable lead throughout the remainder of the contest.
TSU made 14-of-74 from the field while only making one of 22 three-point attempts. The Lady Tigers only committed 16 turnovers while forcing the opponent into 21 miscues but got outrebounded 58-35.
The Lady Tigers return to action later this week at the Gator Holiday Classic. TSU will face host Florida on Friday, Dec. 20 before matching-up with either FIU or LaSalle on Saturday.


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I'm baiting this pot of honey with a reflective post by John Sawyer, All Forensic Investigators Are Not Created Equal at the Evil Bytes Blog.
There are forensic "experts" who have a narrow specialization in investigating individuals. Some examples off the top of my head are law enforcement forensic examiners looking at a computer to see if it was used to send threatening e-mails, search for information on making bombs, or view child pornography. The primary, and often only, source of evidence is the suspect's computer that is sometimes accompanied with some corroborating information from the suspect's ISP or a Web/mail hosting provider.
On the extreme opposite end of the spectrum, you have those who work on a much larger scale, taking into consideration many sources of information. I'm not sure there's a good term for them -- security investigator or enterprise incident responder or similar title -- but they go far beyond looking at just one system. Logs from routers, firewalls, and a numerous other types of systems all come into play in order for the investigator to crack the case.
I can't consider myself really in the same class as true/certified "forensics" specialists. If I had to place myself somewhere, I guess it would be with those in the second paragraph; one of those "enterprise incident responders." I have to know enough about Windows systems, typical/non-typical user behaviors, network elements, and hardware stuff. Then I have to be able to successfully integrate all those elements together when I approach and analyze a system. Is it harmless? It is potentially criminal? I have to get hard-data to come to a supportable conclusion, then present that material in a manner that is clear, logical, and fair; often to folks who are not technical in their knowledge base.
Since I don't have any "formal" forensics training, I have to rely of the stream of material from the real experts and apply that information to our operational environments. We have a limited budget and a growing workload. Luckily I've been able to thrive with many freeware/Open Source tools shared kindly with the community by the developers bringing them to life. I'm very grateful for both the knowledge-sharing and the tool-sharing. That alone helps encourage and drive me to blog so tirelessly. It's a way of paying it forward.
In John's post, he references this Infosecurity (UK) - The black art of digital forensics post by Steve Gold. Steve starts out with dissecting issues of timeline building and the conflicts that can arise when dates are disparate. Then he moves on to the new "GUI-based" (by that I think he is referring to all-in-one commercial forensic suites) that help "aid" the investigator by parsing out volumes of system data and auto-magically sorting it out (bow optional) for the investigator. He then counterpoints the benefits of such applications with leaving the investigator in a possibly weakened position if confronted by a skilled trial-lawyer who may bring doubt in if the investigation doesn't know how the software arrived at the data. Finally he concludes with observing that many forensics experts have had to learn on their own how the systems are working, so they can parse out the data needed, interpret it accurately, and wrap it up.
After the IPSEC steps, he claims, it's usually a simple matter to classify the data collated and then analyze it fully.
Good digital forensics, he says, is not rocket science, but it does take a lot of thought to be able to complete an investigation and research all the relevant angles thoroughly.
"The bottom line with good IT forensic analysis is that you need to think about what data you have and how you can use it to your best advantage", he says.
I'm not sure about that last point "…you need to think about what data you have and how you can use it to your best advantage." In my possibly naive way of looking at things, you need to understand what data you have, and work with what it tells you." Depending on your collection skills and knowledge base, that may be very little or almost the whole story.
To me, the successful analyst/forensic expert, whatever their hat may be, must be first and foremost a successful knowledge integrator. They have to understand what tools they have at their disposal, what data the system is/is-not capable of providing, and apply the first to the second to extract the key and correct data needed. Only then can they tease out the story it tells. And in many ways, a successful analyst/forensic expert isn't just a technical expert, they must excel at being an accurate storyteller, spinning the truth and reassembling the plot from the pages of a book come unbound.
- RegRipper Wishlist – Harlan Carvey is taking suggestions for improvements to his RegRipper tool. I've recently got to "live-fire" deploy it and found it incredibly useful for helping me go from a global-view of the system down to the specific areas I needed to focus on. While it didn't produce a smoking-gun by itself, it highlighted all the shell-casings (if you will) that moved the search along quickly.
- Stuff – Windows Incident Blog then focuses on highlighting some useful source material, tips, and technical papers. Good reading material abounds.
- Tools for mounting images – Harlan then moves on to showcasing a list of (mostly) free tools that can be used to mount drive image files. ImDisk is fitting my systems analysis needs quite nicely as I generally work with raw IMG format files, though a rare .dd image file still is captured from time to time.
- Thoughts on Tool Verification – Harlan then moves on to touch on one of the issues that Steve Gold pointed out earlier…that investigators don't always know exactly what and how the tool they are using is working under the hood. He has helped that process a bit by seeding output of RegRipper with some basic tips/guides in some key areas. That's a nice touch and certainly helps keep folks on track understanding what they are (or actually are not) seeing in the data.
- Mo' Stuff -- And Harlan teases me about my blogging output!. He's able to find time to post regularly during the week. I have to save it up for the weekend! In this post, among the many great tool finds, timeline incongruities and the NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate value, as well as Mark Woan's tools (more on that in a moment). Back to timelines…on a system I was dissecting, I had observed two different login events that the timelines just didn't make any sense on. Instead of chalking it up as "just one of those things" I made note and set it aside. Eventually, after additional analysis work and data collection I finally was able to realize that the event element wasn't "wrong", but that I had made the initial mistake of placing in the timeline where I expected it to normally be, rather than where in the timeline activity sequence it really happened at. Once I did that, I was back on the right track and a whole new door of system activity became clear and fell into place. Data and the elements that lead to timelines can be manipulated, destroyed, or "spoofed" by skilled folks, but doing so globally is very challenging. In the absence of evidence casting doubt on the validity of that data, sometimes you have to accept (with a grain of salt) what it is telling you and trust it to clear things up down the road if you are faithful to it.
- USB Key Analysis vs. USB Drive Enclosure Analysis and Updated: Computer Forensic Guide To Profiling USB Thumbdrives on Win7, Vista, and XP – two great posts on the SANS Computer Forensics, Investigation, and Response blog. With the proliferation of portable storage devices, this is one area incident responders need to be familiar with. BTW, many locations that deploy "whole disk encryption" may also be able to set policies to force encryption of attached USB storage devices. I point that out because if the encryption policy is set with a remote server, that server may also contain log data of portable USB device usage on the local system. That could be valuable "witness" information to corroborate findings on the local system. Regripper will provide great registry information on connected devices as will Nir Sofer's free USBDeview utility.
- woanware – Amazing toolset collection – As mentioned earlier, via Harlan's post, I tripped over to Mark Woan's incredible collection of utilities. Way too much to mention in this post. However, I really have been focused on both RegExtract which contains at least 65 plugins to query a Windows Registry for "key" data as well as gmailparser to look for browser cache remnants of Gmail usage, and ChromeForensics for parsing data out of Google Chrome/Chromium usage. The micro csv2html tool is one of those brilliant tools that simply does what it does (turn a CVS formatted file into HTML table format) very well. ipsorter, NetCalc, and NoteTaker might appeal to the broader sysadmin audiences as well. Hop over there and make Mark proud.
- ChromeAnalysis - Google Chrome Forensics from forensic-software.co.uk (and FoxAnalysis) could be useful in a pinch. I always like having more than one tool that does the same thing so I can get a "second-opinion" if I'm not 100% sure about the validity of what I am capturing. It also goes without saying that Nir Sofer's collection of Browser Tools must be in your toolbox by this point.
- I've been banging my head on my cubicle desk lately as I've been having to process a disk IMG file or two and a few of the Nir tools (and others) that I have been needing to use are "verboten" by our Symantec AV solution. I guess I could make a whole nother physical system sans Symantec but it's a lot of work transferring my otherwise stocked utility kit to that system. But executing, even in memory, any of those tools sets off a slew of "infection" alerts. I finally arrived at a clever (to me) workaround. As I am mounting the Image files (read-only mode) to my system, they then become visible as a drive letter. So I created a Windows Virtual PC system, left off SAV, and configured it to attach (share) the same drive letter as my image file is using proper. Then I can download/execute the particularly offensive system utilities safely and easily within the VM and point them to the "mounted" source image as needed. No alerts and I am able to use the tools. It's not elegant but it does the work in a pinch.
- Matthieu Suiche has put out a Call for Beta-Testers :: windd utility RC2 (32-bits & 64-bits). If testing out a memory-imaging tool is your thing, drop Matthieu a line. He specifically is looking for folks that have more than 4GB system RAM to test it with. See also his Windd Windows Physical Memory Imaging Utility info page as well as his direct link to windd RC2.
- Decrypting a PointSec Encrypted Drive Using Live View, VMWare, and Helix -- SANS Computer Forensics, Investigation, and Response blog. It's a lot of work but it is in process a bit similar to what I have to do using my Custom Win PE Boot Disk geared for PGP WDE systems. You can either decrypt the entire drive (long and time consuming), or you can boot with a PGP driver-injected PE disk, pass off the encryption authentication token/passphrase, and then rip an image (through the PGP driver) of the "unencrypted" physical drive at the sector level. I've done a few and it works like a champ.
- Welcome to the Rule 26 Blog – interesting IT/forensics blog from the legal-eagle perspective. IAMAL so a few of these sites go a long way to helping me appreciate the issues (and procedures) needed to keep on the good side of incident-response legal issues. They also have some nice forensics-response material (tips) as well. .
- EDD Update: The Death of Imaging – Eric Blank seems to be--what we as kids would say—hard at work "…poking at a fire-ant bed with a stick too-short". That said he does make a few interesting observations, including the storage-space race to the 1TB level and beyond. As these capacities become more and more common-place, the thought of taking a forensic image becomes more daunting. Not impossible, but challenging; particularly when actually filled with that much data. Instead Eric seems to prognosticate that "Live file extraction will become the de facto method of gathering ESI." In fairness, Eric does clearly acknowledge the value of bit-based imaging and the data it provides. However he seems to suggest that live-file extraction (only those visible to the system) and not in the unallocated spaces will the the way to go. Then drop down to the comments as Wayne Kerr reminds Eric that he is not addressing "live-image" forensic imaging software and methods. I would add that I didn't see forensic live memory captures or network forensic captures mentioned in the post either. Both provide critical additional data to understanding a suspect system that is volatile and when not captured, may vanish for good if not captured. Eric's response to Mr. Kerr was telling, "Live forensic imaging (as described in your comment) is an invitation to disaster and spoliation. … Live imaging exposes electronic data to inadvertent destruction and alteration." Eric does (point agreed) that network based live-imaging can be very slow as well. However, in some cases, this might be the best and least intrusive manner to capture critical data that would otherwise be lost and destroyed…which is where the casenotes and detailed documentation comes into play. And while by nature, executing code on a suspect system (memory image capture or "remote" disk-image sector capture) impacts it, if done correctly it could be minimized and the benefit might outweigh the "spoliation". Kudos to Eric for bringing the discussion to the table.
- Finally for all you Google Trends
voyeurswatchers and Google search addicts, two posts from McAfee Avert Labs blog were a bit interesting from the security-watch front this past week: Searching for Malware Data Likely to Lead to More Malware and Google Trends Suffering Abuse Today. Bottom line is that rogue A/V makers are seeding Google with linkage back to their sites so that unwary users looking for solutions to malware, trojans, viruses may be tricked into visiting their sites looking for relieve but instead find themselves hammered with more virus/malware headaches than they had to begin with. Sad. Likewise, they also seem to be keeping an eye on hot Google Trends and seeding sites of their own creation in a way to also appear in the top of 'hot search' result pages as well. Check those search-links carefully before you click that link! Know where you are going and avoid those darker alleyways unless you really know what you are doing and are well shielded.
- Alex Eckelberry's Sunbelt Blog has been an excellent digest of malware-related issues and topics. It has traditionally been the place to go for information on emergent rogue anti-malware products plaguing users. However, in case you missed the link in the item above, Sunbelt Software is now also hosting the Rogue Antispyware blog which provides a constant stream of current information regarding this particular "class" of malware infections. Malwarebytes blog also identifies many of these rogues and provides removal tools and tips as well in most all of their "rouge" posts. Finally the Microsoft Malware Protection Center also details updates to their handy MSRT (Malicious Software Removal Tool) as well as providing interesting rogue/malware analysis details from time to time. (Sadly, even the official MSRT tool isn't immune from being spoofed by its own rogue version: Different Strategies of Win32/FakeAV - CA Security Advisor Research Blog).
In the wise words of HP world Auror Alastor Moody: "Constant Vigilance!"
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In searching for some thoughts to offer in honor of Presidents Day, we first turned to the words of those called to the office during our nation's formative years. There, at the end of Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural speech, we found the following:
"Relying, then, on the patronage of your good will, I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make. And may the Infinite Power which rules the destinies of the universe, lead our councils to what is best, and give them a favorable issue for your peace and prosperity."
Jefferson's mantra of obedient servant to a nation, a people and God was in many ways an echo of George Washington, our first president.
What is also striking about reading their inaugural addresses is the sense of humility they brought to the challenges facing a new nation.
In Washington's first inaugural address he speaks of his desire to remain in retirement, no doubt due to the long war for independence. He struggles with his call back to service.
"On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one who, inheriting inferior endowments from nature, and unpractised in the duties of civil administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies."
He continued: "In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver is, that it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected.
On Jan. 20, 1961, during his first and only inaugural speech, John Fitzgerald Kennedy also touched on the themes of selflessness, humility and servanthood:
"We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom — symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning — signifying renewal, as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago."
It was in this speech that Kennedy uttered the words which would move coming generations forward, long after his assassination.
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."
On this day, Feb. 18, 2013, as we honor the legacy of Washington, Jefferson, Kennedy and others to come it is important to remember the humility with which they helped build a nation and worked to insure its continuation.
As we seem to tear each other apart of over budget deficits, gun control and the like, let us not forget that we are still and must remain one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice — for this is the one true way to celebrate Presidents Day.


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Was singing along to Eulogy last night, and the rest of EKMB, and usually I find myself drifting into the accent of the singer I'm listening to, or going 'choral' as I'm in a Gilbert and Sullivan society, but last night I went completely Yorkshire with it. I don't know why! I think the spirit of Eulogy fits really well with the accent though... (not quite Arctic Monkeys, but not far off, as I live about 40 minutes from Sheffield...)
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Ah well never mind I am sure you can get some help and medication to help with this........
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I think where possible its best to sing in your natural accent, in my opinion its the most honest way of doing it.... ......Having said that when I first started singing everything I sang sounded like I was American, had to force my self to stop doing it (with mixed results for a while). My pet hate these days are British singers who inexplicably sound like they were Born in the USA (hey, how did Springsteen slip in here!?)
Also, a Yorkshire accent is an excellent accent to sing in, I mean, I'm from Yorkshire so there no way I could be biased about this right?
Also, a Yorkshire accent is an excellent accent to sing in, I mean, I'm from Yorkshire so there no way I could be biased about this right?
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Selena Gomez: How She Dissed Justin Bieber On His Birthday
Justin was looking for a little sympathy from Selena after his bummer birthday party, but his ex-girlfriend shut him out, HollywoodLife.com has EXCLUSIVELY learned! Read on for all the inside scoop.
Justin Bieber turned 19 on Mar. 1 and, according to his Twitter, had the "worst birthday". Though he's been split from Selena Gomez for some time now, the bummed-out birthday Biebs was hoping to get a little love from his former flame to cheer him up, but Selena, 20, dissed him instead!
Selena Gomez Ignores Justin Bieber On His 'Worst Birthday'
A source close to the former Disney princess tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively that the Biebs tried to get in contact with Selena, but she didn't want anything to do with cheering him up! "Justin texted Selena about how depressed he was about his birthday party being a disaster, but she just ignored him," the insider tells us. "She's been laughing about his ridiculous outfits and thinks he's just being needy. She's moving on and having fun with all of her friends and family — she doesn't have time for him."
Justin Disappoints Fans In London
Justin's been having quite a tough time as of late. Not only was his birthday party at London's Cirque du Soir nightclub an unmitigated disaster, ending before it even began, the heartthrob faced some angry fans at the first of four concerts on the UK leg of his Believe tour at the O2 Arena on Mar. 4. Arriving on stage 40 minutes late, Justin faced boos!
The Biebs Apologizes For His Tardy London Concert
The singer took to Twitter the following day to explain his tardiness and apologize to his fans. ""I was 40 min late to stage. there is no excuse for that and I apologize for anyone we upset. However it was great show and Im proud of that and tonight we will run on time and look forward to putting on an amazing show for everyone in attendance."
Do you think it was cruel of Selena to diss Justin on his birthday, HollywoodLifers?
Watch: Justin Bieber Birthday: Fan Trampled, Justin Kicked Out Of Club
— Billy Nilles, Reporting by William Earl
More Justin & Selena News:
- Justin Bieber Vs. Selena Gomez — Their Biggest Revenge Disses
- Selena Gomez: Don't Be Jealous Justin Bieber's Partying With Girls On His Birthday
- Selena Gomez Looks Stunning While Justin Bieber Turns 19


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The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Canadians
by Greg Oliver
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The dark secret of professional wrestling? Canada.
By population, no other country on Earth has sent as many top performers to the upper echelon of the squared circle. But to this day, the Canadian origins of these superstars have been hidden or played down by promoters.
Now, everything's about to change.
Here, for the first time in print, respected wrestling author Greg Oliver
blows the lid off the secrets: Rowdy Roddy Piper was never from Scotland, he's from Saskatche-wan; Mad Dog Vachon, billed from Algeria, was from Quebec; Abdullah the Butcher learned to use a fork in Windsor, Ontario; Val Venis isn't a porn star from Las Vegas but a wannabe helicopter pilot from southern Ontario.
The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame details all of the top stars to come out of Canada. From the golden era of wrestling's itinerant early days, to
Pay-Per-View billionaires and Wrestlemania x8, top names like Chris Jericho, Whipper Watson, Chris Benoit, Gene Kiniski, Rick Martel, Killer Kowalski, Edge and Christian, Chris and John Tolos, Yvon Robert, and Sky Low Low are profiled.
Plus a special section features the famous fighting families like the Harts, Cormiers, and Rougeaus. Full of photos and fascinating stories and facts, The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame is a must for any wrestling fan whether they hide their country of origin or not!
Greg Oliver has been writing about professional wrestling for over 17 years, starting with The Canadian Wrestling Report newsletter when he was still in high school. Upon completing a degree in journalism from Ryerson University, he continued to write about wrestling for the Canoe.ca Web site, Sun Media newspapers, and various wrestling magazines. He has also written on a number of other subjects, including science fiction, books, and sports.
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An artist's conception shows a SpaceX Dragon capsule firing its retros to land on Mars. Scientists hope to use an advanced Dragon and a Falcon Heavy to deliver a life-detection experiment to Mars.
NASA officials emphasize that the Curiosity rover is not designed to look for signs of life on Mars, but other researchers say it could come across those signs in spite of itself — and still others are planning experiments to take on the "life on Mars" question directly for the first time in decades.
Every time the question comes up, it stirs a controversy: It was that way in 1976, when some of the researchers working on the Mars Viking mission contended that they saw evidence of biological activity on the Red Planet. It was that way in 1996, when researchers at Johnson Space Center said they spotted nanofossils inside a meteorite from Mars. And it was that way in 2004, when other researchers suggested that whiffs of methane detected on Mars hinted at the presence of life.
Perhaps because of those controversies, NASA tends to downplay the question during the current Curiosity campaign. "Whether life has existed on Mars is an open question that this mission, by itself, is not designed to answer," the mission's press kit declares. But Gil Levin, who still argues that Viking discovered life on Mars, believes Curiosity could confirm the discovery.
He says one of Curiosity's chemistry analyzers, known as Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM, could detect organic compounds that would fill in the pieces that were missing during the Viking mission. And he's hoping that Curiosity's high-resolution color cameras will pick up the spectral signature of lichen-type growth on Martian rocks. Such organism might well have hitchhiked to Mars on meteorites that were blown into space from Earth.
"Preserved, frozen, they could survive the entry to Mars and grow under Martian conditions," he told me a few months ago.
Follow the methane
Robert Zubrin, a rocket scientist who's the president of the Mars Society, has a different perspective but arrives at the same bottom line when it comes to Curiosity. "It has the ability, in my view, to detect life on Mars," he told a Mars Society gathering on Saturday night.
The SAM analyzer not only has the capability to detect methane in the Martian atmosphere, but can also break down the distribution of different carbon isotopes to determine whether the gas was created through biological or purely geochemical processes, Zubrin said. "It could catch the scent of life on Mars," he said.
Even John Grunsfeld, NASA's associate administrator for science, acknowledged today that the analysis of Martian methane was one of the promising avenues of research available to Curiosity. Because methane tends to be broken down relatively quickly, the supply in the Martian atmosphere has to be replenished regularly. Emanations from volcanoes or gas hydrates could do it, but so far there's little evidence of that type of activity on Mars.
On Earth, much of the atmosphere's methane comes from biological sources, such as the digestive tracts of cows. Grunsfeld joked that if there were cows on Mars, the resolution of the camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is so good that "we would have seen them." But microbes? If Curiosity even hints that biology may be responsible for Martian methane, that could well become the prime focus of future Red Planet missions.
Drilling for life
Some NASA scientists and engineers are already thinking about those future missions. For example, Carol Stoker, an astrobiologist at NASA's Ames Research Center, is part of a team that's drawing up a proposal for a life-detection mission known as Icebreaker. During this week's Mars Society conference, Stoker said it was "quite possible that there is modern life on Mars," based on the chemical analyses conducted by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander in 2008.
She'd like to see Icebreaker return to the north polar region visited by Phoenix, carrying a drill as well as a device known as a Signs of Life Detector, or SOLID for short. SOLID uses a microarray with hundreds of different antibodies to test for the presence of a wide variety of microbes, including the sorts of extremophiles that some experts think could survive beneath the surface on present-day Mars.
"We believe we can answer the question, 'Is there Earthlike life at that site,' with a Discovery-class mission" costing no more than $425 million, Stoker said. She said a proposal could be prepared for NASA's next solicitation for Discovery-class or New Horizons missions, whenever that happens.
To hit that price tag, the experiment would be launched inside a next-generation SpaceX Dragon capsule, atop a next-generation Falcon Heavy rocket. The plans for a "Red Dragon" trip to Mars made a splash last year, but a lot of the technologies to back up the concept have yet to be developed. The Falcon Heavy is still under development, for example, and the proposed landing scenario for the Dragon relies on a system called supersonic retro propulsion.
"That's at a relatively low technology level," Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters, told me today. But some smart people are studying how to make the mission concept work — including Adam Steltzner, the head of the group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that developed the unorthodox sky-crane system for putting Curiosity on the ground.
Could it work? And is it plausible to think biochemical tests at a single site could turn up evidence of life on Mars? Or is NASA's deliberate, step-by-step approach the way to go? Feel free to weigh in with your comments below.
More about Mars:
- Mars Curiosity comes in for a landing
- Last-minute guide to the Mars landing
- What will we see from Mars, and when will we see it?
- Why we're obsessed with Mars
- Mars probe provides radiation revelations
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As the spring building season fast approaches, there are already clear signs that the real estate market is rebounding and development activity is expanding. Unfortunately, a motivated commercial real estate market could be restrained by capital lending markets which seem to be lagging behind in terms of growth and access to funds. Therefore, builders are still forced to consider more innovative funding sources. The growth in popularity of tax credit lending, as well as the more broad-scale utilization of mezzanine funding, shows that real estate firms are constantly seeking alternative financial arrangements. A somewhat lesser known funding option, but one which has shown significant growth in recent years, is the immigration related EB-5 program. Created through the Immigration Act of 1990, EB-5 allows a foreign national to qualify for permanent residency in the U.S. under the employment-centered fifth preference category (thus the moniker "EB-5"). A foreign national seeking to take advantage of EB-5 can either invest directly in a U.S.-based business or, as is more typical, invest through an existing EB-5 investment company. The latter system provides the financing conduit most useful to real estate development. Typically, EB-5 lending and investment activities are coordinated through regional centers designated by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS). These regional centers, several of which are located in Northeastern Ohio, focus on specific geographic areas. The regional centers work to promote economic growth through increased exports, increased productivity, new job creation, and the expansion of domestic capital investment opportunities. From a foreign national investor's financial perspective, the key component of EB-5 directed investments are the resulting jobs created through investment. While the base investment amount is $1 million per person, the required investment, if it is made in a targeted employment area--a rural or urban area with an unemployment rate that is at least 150 percent of the national average--is only $500,000. From a commercial real estate investment and funding perspective, EB-5 money can be used for almost any commercial real estate project -- office, industrial, hotel, multi-family and others. A developer may approach a regional center (or vice versa) as a means to diversify a project's capital stack or simply to take advantage of the lower-interest rate financing typically offered through an EB-5 loan. EB-5 investments can be made either as direct equity or, as is more typical, a loan. It must be cautioned that projects which utilize EB-5 generated funding are subject to USCIS review and approval, and the ultimate delivery of funds can take considerable time. An EB-5 investment will weave through a 9-to-12- month review process both with respect to the project and the investors. This process will include a detailed review of the project and its business plan; negotiation and execution of the lending/investment documents between the project sponsor and the regional center; marketing of the investment opportunity overseas; securing of foreign investment funds; application, review and processing of visa applications of investors; and, following all reviews and approvals, delivery of investment proceeds to the project, pursuant to the financing/investment documents.
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If both the project and an investor are approved by the USCIS, each investor will receive a conditional two-year green card. The investor, spouse and any unmarried children (under age 21) can then apply for permanent residency based on the investment. If approved, the investor and his/her immediate family become permanent green card holders and can later apply to become U.S. citizens. Upon receipt of conditional permanent resident status, the investor and immediate family are entitled to the same benefits as other lawful permanent residents. For eligible projects, EB-5 funds may provide yet another option to consider as developers seek to diversify a project's capital stack. Although there is no stated minimum project- based investment required, given the cost and time involved in securing necessary funds and approvals, projects requiring less than $5 million through the EB-5 program may not be cost effective. Sponsors of large development projects, particularly those with lengthy lead or build times, however, may find significant benefits and financing cost savings using EB-5 funds. As with many new and developing programs, rules and regulations applicable to the EB-5 program remain quite fluid. Thus, developers wishing to utilize such funds should consult experienced EB-5 counsel to ensure appropriate compliance is maintained to allow for a successful project.
Attorney Geoffrey Goss is a partner in the Real Estate Practice Group of Cleveland-based Walter & Haverfield.


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Tool Boxes work by offering a tool storage solutions, they have space for hand tools, power tools and testing equipment, compartments for accessories and handles for carrying. There are various designs available dependent on the application and are typically the preferred choice to a tool bag or tool chest.
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Strong metal
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Cantilever Tool Box:
A cantilever tool box opens up to reveal a tiered storage system for easy access to tools and parts. The unit is made from metal for long lasting use and durability. The construction of this tool box is protected by a heavy-duty powder coat paint finish, making it easy to carry, organise and store your most commonly used tools.
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By: Jack Moore
Each week we'll be providing you with insight into the best (and worst) baseball players to play in your fantasy baseball league.
1. Ben Zobrist, SS, TBR: Zobrist gained shortstop eligibility over the week, adding flexibility and the toughest non-catcher position to his name for the last month of the season. With the trading deadline past, that gives Zobrist about as big a spike in fantasy value as a player can get at this point in the season. He's already been one of the best fantasy players over the last two months – .315/.412/.532 and a 21 homer, 105 run per 162 game pace since June 7th.
2. Jaime Garcia, SP, STL: Garcia's return from the disabled list Sunday was overshadowed by the Pirates' 19-inning victory, but don't let him slip under the radar. Garcia threw eight innings, allowing just two unearned runs, five hits and no walks while striking out 10. He was still available in three of my five standard mixed money leagues – relatively competitive fare – and so it's worth a peek at your waiver wire. If he's there, he should be a top-100 player down the stretch.
3. Chris Carter, 1B, OAK: For some time, Carter seemed like just another failed A's prospect to throw on the heap. He managed just a .585 OPS in his first stint (24 games) in 2010 and an atrocious .310 mark in his second (15 games). Luckily, 39 games don't define a career. In his 37 this season, Carter is hitting .281 with big power: 10 homers and 23 RBI, to go along with 25 runs powered by an 18.1% walk rate. Carter, at 6'4", 245 pounds, is big enough to hit them out anywhere, and his rise has gone largely unnoticed by fantasy owners.
4. Todd Frazier, 3B, CIN: Normally, I would consider Frazier's hot season far too basic for this column. It doesn't take an expert to shed light on a guy having his kind of year. He'll enter play Monday hitting .288/.342/.547, with 17 home runs in just 339 plate appearances, giving him a great shot at NL Rookie of the Year. Somehow, though, he's still owned in less than half of Yahoo! leagues and available in 38% of ESPN leagues. That's unacceptable. Go get him.
5. Hisashi Iwaukma, SP, SEA: Iwakuma looked out of sorts coming out of Seattle's pen, giving up six home runs in 30.1 innings and a 4.75 ERA. But since moving to the rotation, with the stability offered there, he's settled down. In 48 innings, Iwakuma has allowed just a .239/.308/.394 line against, a 3.19 ERA, and even three victories in eight starts. He's worth a look, especially when he's pitching at friendly SafeCo Field.
1. Mark Trumbo, OF, LAA: Trumbo's plate discipline issues are returning. Over the last 30 days, Trumbo is hitting just .233/.282/.320. The power will return and probably sooner rather than later, but a strikeout rate of 32.7% and walk rate of 4.5% don't portend well for his overall batting line. This lackluster plate discipline is what categorized Trumbo's rookie season. He slugged .477 and hit 29 homers, but he mustered just a .254 batting average and scored just 65 runs in 149 games.
2. Dan Uggla, 2B, ATL: Uggla has still provided some value in OBP leagues or other leagues where a low batting average won't tank a squad. In standard leagues, though, with chances to deal Uggla on name value out the window, it may be time to consider dropping him. A .172 average over the last month has kept his average and with a 28% strikeout rate he isn't primed to turn things around. Unless you're prepared to punt batting average, check for a replacement on the waiver wire.
3. Derek Holland, SP, TEX: Holland has once again pitched with great strikeout and walk numbers in his return to the Rangers' starting rotation – 8.3 K/9, 2.1 BB/9, for nearly a 4.0 K/BB. But the problem of the home run ball remains. He has a 2.41 HR/9 over the last 30 days, and although that number is certain to come down, he has a history of similar issues (1.35 HR/9) and as a result is quite unlikely to put up an ERA below 4.00 – frankly, a necessity out of a starting pitcher in a 12-team mixed league with offense as low as it has been in 2012.
4. Ryan Vogelsong, SP, SF: The difference between 2001-2006 Vogelsong – the one nobody missed as he went a half-decade between major league appearances – and current, potential Cy Young candidate Vogelsong is control. Between 2011 and 2012 Vogelsong has nearly equal 3.06 and 3.09 BB/9 rates respectively. Over the last month, however, Vogelsong has showed the first cracks in his armor – allowing a 4.33 ERA with large help from a 4.03 BB/9 rate. It's far too early to drop him and the trade deadline is gone in most leagues, but just keep an eye on his control down the stretch (and heading into next year for keeper owners).
5. Drew Storen, RP, WAS: Perhaps Storen's job was lost for good when he came off the disabled list; inertia is a powerful thing in the world of closers. But any chance he had to wrest the job in Washington away from Tyler Clippard has been lost thanks to his utter lack of control so far. He owns a 5.79 BB/9 and his inability to throw strikes has cost him some strikeouts as well, with his K/9 sitting at 6.8. Now instead of grooming him for the closer's role again, it looks like the Nationals would settle for the Storen of old to return by the playoffs.
Jack Moore is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with degrees in Mathematics and Economics. His work can also be found at FanGraphs.com, DisciplesOfUecker.com, RotoWire.com, AdvancedNFLStats.com and ESPN. Follow him on twitter at @jh_moore.


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JACKSONVILLE, Tenn. – The Lipscomb men's and women's track and field teams finished the opening outdoor meet on a positive note led by the 1500 meter run on Saturday at the UNF Spring Break Invite in Jacksonville, Fla.
The 1500m was won by junior Katie Bunker who was victorious in the event with a time of 4:39.63. She finished just under two seconds in front of teammate Madelin Talbert. The freshman clocked in at 4:41.54. Amanda Twigg and Tessa Hoefle finished in back-to-back placing's as Twigg crossed the finish line in 4:43.81 for sixth. Hoefle's time of 4:44.39 garnered seventh place overall.
Senior Ryan Whitley took the gold medal in the 400 meter hurdles, finishing just ahead of teammate Andrew Wolf. Whitley finished in 55.77 seconds while Wolf crossed the line at 56.34 seconds.
On the heels of two second-place finishes yesterday, sophomore Houston Ward claimed the bronze medal in the hammer throw. Ward had a toss of 40.25 meters to finish third, almost six meters ahead of fourth place.
"I was really happy with the effort in the 1500m and the hurdles," Bill Taylor, director of track and field and cross country said. "Houston also had another great performance.
Sophomore Gemikal Prude finished second in the high jump with a leap of 2 meters. His jump was just two inches short of the top prize.
"It was a nice start to the outdoor season," Taylor said. "We have a lot of work to do sill, but very encouraging."


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TEDx Cooper Union: Ryan and Trevor Oakes (A'04)
POSTED ON: September 26, 2012
Ryan and Trevor Oakes (A'04), twin brothers and graduates of the School of Art, gave a talk at TEDx Cooper Union earlier this year on human vision and drawing. Most of the countless images that exist and circulate in our world are flat and two-dimensional, the two artists explained, yet our vision is not. With two eyes, many of us see the world in a spherical formation, looking out in spherical scope. The light that enters our eyes comes through in what is known as an arrayed formation—a portion of a sphere that accepts light coming from many different angles. This is a truth that has animated the work of brothers who create sculpture and drawing exploring the delicate subtleties and caveats of human perception and the way that it relates to consciousness. In their TEDx talk, the Colorado-born duo explained the fundamentals of human vision and the way they have explored its relation to drawing and art making.
"If you're going to set out to make a rendering of your visual reality—that is, if you were going to insert a picture plane between yourself and that reality—it makes more sense if the picture plane is spherical rather than flat," argues Ryan Oakes in his talk. He goes on to advocate for an evolution of drawing that takes the shape of human vision into consideration. The work he does with his brother, on the other hand, speaks for itself. In the talk above, see how the artists are innovating in drawing technique and practice, creating spherical renderings in the context of a world that seems increasingly driven toward innovative approaches to visual interface design.
You can see all of the TEDx Cooper Union talks on Youtube.


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Jason Wish necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 48 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
Kelly's Septic Service, LLC
We have recently acquired a well established septic tank and portable toilet service business here in Ohio. All four of the new owners have other careers, and this was purchased as an investment opportunity. We need a modern, updated logo, possibly with a slogan or tagline. This business has been around for over 25 years, and is well known for its excellent customer service. We want to continue this and have big plans to grow and market this business in Ohio. We believe that there is a tremendous opportunity for growth. There will always be waste created, and we have plans to create a fertilizer byproduct for production agriculture.
We will mainly operate in rural areas and small towns and cities in a five county area. Not only do we service homeowners' septic tanks, but also have some rather large commercial contracts. We also have a substantial portable toilet service at construction sites, county fairs, campgrounds and concerts. We want our customers to associate our logo or brand with prompt and excellent customer service.
We need a logo to represent our septic tank and portable toilet service business. This logo could include a septic tank pumper truck (truck with a tank on it), or a portable toilet (porta-jon), or a septic tank lid propped open with a hose coming from it, or anything else creative you can think of.
What we don't want is just a guy standing beside his truck, like many pictures used for advertising in this industry.
Would prefer no cartoons, or anything too silly. Clear, simple, bold typeface that stands out. Feel free to experiment with colors. Require files in a.i., jpeg and layered.
We have not established a website yet, but the previous owners site can be seen at: indianlake.com/kellyssepticservice.htm. Here you can see pictures of one of our pumper trucks and some porta-jons.
Please consider using the color red in the logo. Secondary color is yellow.
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3DRC is a unique racing game based around 1/28th scale RC Cars. It simulates the experience of this small scale with its fixed position players view, multiple tracks, and a pit to adjust each vehicles settings. Online Multiplayer support is included along with an integrated lounge chat to help players coordinate competitions. Our track editor allows players to create and then race friends with their own custom tracks. The Special Edition enhances this with a multitude of new features such as online Scoring (Internet play only), detailed environments, new menu systems, and improved vehicle physics.
3D RC Racing "SE" was developed by Red Hill Games, Released in 2010-01
3D RC Racing "SE" was Released on Windows
3D RC Racing "SE" is a Single & Multiplayer game


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Take some dead body parts. Stitch them together. Add one mad scientist,
and toss in a lightning bolt for good measure. What do you get? The Frankenstein
monster! Alternately portrayed as both mindless killer and a misunderstood gentle giant, the Frankenstein monster is a classic Halloween creep. Learn more about him with these 13 freaky facts. .
- The young Mary Godwin, later wed to poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, wrote Frankenstein at the age of nineteen.
- As a house guest of Lord Byron, Mary Shelley was invited to participate in a challenge. Byron, Shelley, and the other guests set about writing the most frightening story they could. Shelley won, she claimed that her inspiration came from a vision she'd had, wherein a pale student of science knelt over a body which he had just imbued with artificial life.
- Doctor Victor Frankenstein is the name of the mad scientist character who created the monster and gave it life.
- Frankenstein is a German name meaning, "stone of the Franks."
- Victor Frankenstein was based on a real person. Johann Konrad Dippel, who was a physician and mad scientist obsessed with creating life through scientific means. His birthplace? Castle Frankenstein, near Darmstadt, Germany.
- The name Frankenstein is commonly, but incorrectly used to describe the monster itself. Throughout the novel, Dr. Frankenstein refers to his creation as "devil", "fiend", and other venomous epithets-but the creature is never given a proper name.
- Frankenstein was released anonymously in 1818, and was originally sub-titles: The Modern Prometheus. Both Frankenstein and the Prometheus tale serve as warning against too-high aspirations.
- The Frankenstein monster first appeared on film in Edison Studios' Frankenstein of 1910.
- Universal Studios' Frankenstein was released in 1931. Actor Boris Karloff played the role of the creature. Bela Logosi was initially offered the role, but refused.
- The Frankenstein movies paves the way for many sequels, including Bride of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein, and Ghost of Frankenstein. Some notable Frankenstein parodies include Young Frankenstein, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which features Doctor Frank N. Furter.
- The Frankenstein monster makes a modern screen appearance in 1994's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, where he is portrayed by Robert De Niro. The monster is also featured in 2004's Van Helsing.
- Herman Munster, cosmetically based on Frankenstein's monster, was the father of a nice, if creepy, family in the television series The Munsters.
- In 2006, horror writer Dean Kootz penned a series of novels that reimagine the Frankenstein story in present-day New Orleans.


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Alexandria - Cleo M. (Dorton) Wright, 99, 201 W. Broadway, died April 6, 1994 at her residence after an extended illness.
She was born Feb. 13, 1895 in Matthews, and had lived in Alexandria and rural Alexandria since 1917. She was a homemaker and a member of First United Methodist Church, Alexandria, and United Methodist Women's Society of the church. She was a 75-year member of the Order of the Eastern Star Chapter 179 of Alexandria.
Survivors include a daughter-in-law, Lola W. Wright of Anderson; a grandson, Dr. Stephen J. Wright of Anderson; three granddaughters, Mrs. Robert W. (Leigh Ann) Byrd of West Lafayette, Mrs. Scot (Cynthia) Ford of New Whiteland, and Mrs. Michael (Nancy) Catellier of Indianapolis; five great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Fred A. Wright, in 1985; a son, Orville C. Wright, in 1986; and her parents, John and Rosetta (Dunn) Dorton.
Services will be a 1 p.m. Monday at Noffze Funeral Home with the Revs. Carl Q. Baker and Steven Fritchman officiating. Burial will be at Park View Cemetery in Alexandria.
Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Eastern Star memorial services will be conducted at 7 p.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to the First United Methodist Church through the funeral home.


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Mikes Seafood and Steakhouse Gumbo in Jennings, Louisiana
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Enjoy delicious Louisiana cuisine such as gumbo and fried shrimp at the Chimes in Baton Rouge.
Tabasco hot sauce is made and bottled in Avery Island, Louisiana.
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The U.S. and China are neck and neck when it comes to having the world's largest economy this year.
But there's another race that's already been won: emerging markets have overtaken developed economies when it comes to having the largest share of global GDP.
"This is clear from new IMF data released in April," explained Jan Dehn, head of research for Ashmore Investment Management. "Clearly, both investor perceptions about and allocations to EM continue to lag far behind EM's rapid fundamental advances.
"This is true in both equities and fixed income, but especially in fixed income, where allocations by many investors lag weighting implied by simple GDP weighting by as much as ten times," the former Credit Suisse First Boston researcher noted in a report on Tuesday. "This suggests that EM's long-term technicals remain extremely strong."
According to the IMF's April 2014 "World Economic Outlook" analysis, the emerging market's share of global GDP hit 50.4% in 2013, up from 31% in 1980.
How did this happen?
These economies increased their share of global GDP by an average of 0.6% per year over the past 33 years, Dehn notes. And there's no end in sight.
"Interestingly, the IMF expects EM share of global GDP to increase at an ever faster pace going forward. According to its forecasts, EM's share of global GDP will grow by an average of 0.7% per year from now until 2019 to reach 54.5%," the ex-World Bank employee explained.
The allocations to these markets on the part of most central banks, sovereign wealth funds, public and private pension funds, endowments, foundations and retail investors, are "massively below" what would be implied by simple GDP weighting, Dehn writes.
As for major emerging markets, the expert points to positive conditions in China, where manufacturing is stabilizing.
"Official manufacturing [as measured by the Purchasers Manufacturing Index or] PMI in April was 50.4, up from 50.3 in March," Dehn said in his recent report, titled "Move Over Please!"
Though Ashmore does not expect a substantial pickup in manufacturing or growth — as China transforms its economy from export to domestic-demand led — the country's policies should produce growth sustainability "once inflation returns in the world's QE economies and EM currencies strengthen by virtue of the strong external balances," the group says.
"No country in the world will be more impacted by this change than China," Dehn stressed.
Meanwhile in India, the Finance Ministry has said it will move to makes its capital market more "investor friendly" after the current elections.
"When viewed in conjunction with ongoing reforms of the Indian banking system our reading of the tea leaves suggests an opening of the Indian domestic bond market to foreign investors in the not-too-distant future," the expert said.
And there's more good news for countries like South Korea, which recently reported stronger-than-expected growth data: April exports rose 9% year over year vs. the anticipated 5.5%.
In Mexico, Dehn points out, further reforms of the energy sector should be coming. The country should "begin to see investment in the sector with material upside accruing to Mexico through the medium and long term," he added.
In terms of where EM economies stand compared with their more developed counterparts, the analyst highlights another significant statistic: Portugal's debt-to-GDP ratio is 130%, compared with an average of 34% all 165 emerging economies.
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I'm certain that New England runners must be made of Corelle – that dinnerware that never breaks.
How else could they endure the trials and tribulations of the fickle weather for which our neck of the woods has become famous?
Consider the challenges each season provides. Let's start with Spring.
This year, the Spring Equinox begins on March 20. Spring is when the folks in Washington celebrate the Cherry Blossom spectacle. Floridians enjoy the last of their reasonable temperatures before the heat waves of summer begin. In Alaska, Ice Road Truckers know their safe roads are melting and their work year is coming to an end.
Runners in New England, however, know that challenges remain.
The calendar may suggest Spring, but we know better than to pack away our winter gear.
Who can forget the April Fool's Day Blizzard of '97 (yikes, am I sounding like an old geezer?), or our winter two years ago when my last day of skiing was May 4?
For that matter, as I write this column, we are "enjoying" a March Snowmageddon storm, Stella. Training for the Boston Marathon in April?
Boston doesn't care if you must do your long runs in freezing conditions on snow-covered roads.
Try to find better odds for a spring marathon in New England? Nice try. Last year's Vermont City Marathon in May had to be stopped midway through due to high temperatures, making it extremely dangerous to continue running.
But the snow will end and melt away to make way for spring flowers. It also makes trail running an especially tricky ordeal for us. Getting off-road is a great way to avoid the dangers of auto traffic. However, runners need to fasten those laces just a bit tighter lest that sucking sound means a running shoe left behind in the mud.
Thankfully, summer does arrive on June 21 this year and hopefully grants us more favorable days than tough ones. But it isn't without challenges for runners.
Temperatures can remain temperate to cool for weeks on end. Then, when an event like the DMSE Challenge comes, the temperature can rival that to which our Florida friends have learned to adapt.
At last year's July event, featuring the opportunity to run 5K, 10K and half-marathon in one weekend, temperatures averaged in the low-to mid-90s. I'm willing to bet there will be a repeat performance this year.
My favorite season to run is the fall, beginning Sept. 22 this year. It's when temperatures can be expected to cool down from summer highs, but only gradually approach the lows of Winter.
Of course, as the Rolling Stones would suggest, "You can't always get what you want."
Talk to a local runner and you're likely to hear about a fall race that was held at either end of the temperature spectrum.
Whichever extreme it was, you can bet the previous weeks' training was at the other extreme.
So that brings us back to winter. New England runners expect it to be tough, but this year has been downright crazy. We are used to temperature extremes, but this year continues to set records. The coldest Valentine's Day since 1979 was followed by temperatures well above average.
Record highs in the 70s followed by blizzards make runners wonder if chess might be a better way to occupy their winter days.
So how does one cope? There are three important ways smart runners get by.
First is to have adequate high-tech running gear, and lots of it. Breathable fabrics, rain-proof jackets, and clever layering of multiple fabric grades is critical. There have been weeks this winter that have given us opportunities to run in shorts and T-shirts, followed by freezing rain, snow, and then back to record highs.
Secondly, we need to have a posse of likeminded runners who are not dissuaded by weather that keeps "normal folks" indoors. Knowing that you are meeting friends for a run sometimes is all one needs to make that first step out the door.
A prearranged meeting time is a powerful motivator. Nobody wants to let down friends or to be called a "weenie" for missing a run.
The third important concept is a well-guarded secret that runners have learned over the course of many years, but I'll let you in on it. Yes, we all love to complain about the awful conditions we sometimes face, and we even tease each other about how crazy we are.
But when the run is done, and the miles are recorded in the log, there is a great deal of satisfaction knowing that you got done what needed to be done. Getting comfortable with the uncomfortable is a lot like being a kid again.
Whether it's raining, cold, hot, or snowing, getting a kid to come in from playing outside is hard. They just want to play.
Guess what? So do runners.
Tom Licciardello is a founding member of the Merrimack Valley Striders. Licciardello has participated in 35 Bostons and 88 marathons altogether, and is a BAA Boston Marathon volunteer. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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In for a dime, in for a dollar
Posted by Parthian on August 31, 2007
In Reply to: In for a dime, in for a dollar posted by Parthian on August 31, 2007
: : : : : What does it mean 'in for a dime, in for a dollar'?
: : : : : Also, where did it come from?
: : : : It's a more recent version of an old English proverb, "In for a penny, in for a pound", (first recorded, and obviously used as a proverb that the audience would be expected to know) in a play published in 1695. Literally, it means that when you have invested money in anything, if more expenditure is subsequently needed to succeed you must pay whatever's needed. Figuratively, it means that if you support any cause you should be ready to support it wholeheartedly, even if it turns out to need more of your support than at first you anticipated. (VSD)
: : : Halfway measures are sure to fail, go all the way or stay out. It's all or none if you want to win. If you're unwilling to bet the farm, then don't bet. Go for broke or stay out.
: : : W.S. Gilbert, especially in libretti for his operettas with Arthur Sullivan, liked to assemble a bunch of old saws now and then. In Iolanthe, the Lord Chancellor is mustering his arguments for approaching his legal ward with love on his mind, with the help of a chorus of Lords. His verse, followed by the refrain, is:
: : : LORD CHANCELLOR: I'll take heart And make a start--
: : : Though I fear the prospect's shady--
: : : Much I'd spend To gain my end-- Faint heart never won fair lady!
: : : ALL: Never, never, never, Faint heart never won fair lady!
: : : Nothing venture, nothing win--
: : : Blood is thick, but water's thin--
: : : In for a penny, in for a pound--
: : : It's Love that makes the world go round!
: : : sort of sad that the phrase has been americanized...but then as Gibert puts it,'when at the worst affairs will mend'...all part of the rich tapestry of glib admonitions!
: :and that is why we have dogs rather than scorpions!
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Greek Community of New York City - Early Years to 1910
I was able to acquire this book through the Inter-library loan program at my local library. If you wish to purchase the book, there are several different versions available through the following link:
The Greek Community of New York City: Early Years to 1910 (Hellenism : Ancient, Mediaeval, Modern Ser)
Below you will find the Table of Contents. You can access the 343 names mentioned in the book through the following link at HellenicGenealogyGeek.com Greek Community of New York City
Good luck with your Greek family genealogy research.
Georgia Keilman nee Stryker (Stratigakos)


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Metal-reinforced seals
When installing metal-reinforced seals, the first step is to check the shaft and housing bore for proper specifications and condition. Next, coat both the seal and bore lightly with a lubricant, preferably the same one that will be used to lubricate the application. For large diameter seals, a special installation tool may not be practical. In these cases, do not hit the seal or seal case directly. Instead, use a wooden block, long enough to span the seal's outside diameter. When using this method, it is important to apply hammer-blows evenly and sequentially to the wood piece around the seal circumference to prevent the seal from tilting or skewing. SKF also recommends the use of a dead blow hammer for full energy transfer with less impact (fig 1).
In some applications, the housing is designed for two seals in tandem, or a seal might have to be recessed further into the bore depth. In those cases, first set the seal flush with the housing using the method described above. Then, use a shorter piece of wood to drive the seal deeper into the bore utilizing a sequential pattern (fig 2).


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