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May 12, 2013
FLORENCE, Ala. - The University of North Carolina-Charlotte team of Eric Self of Lawndale, N.C., and Shane Lehew of Charlotte, N.C., won the FLW College Fishing Southeastern Conference Invitational on Wheeler Lake with a two-day total of 10 bass weighing 35 pounds, 13 ounces. The UNCC team beat second-place Auburn University of Montgomery by a mere 1 ounce. The victory earned the UNCC bass club $4,000, and the team will now advance to the 2014 FLW College Fishing National Championship.
"Neither Eric or I have fished this lake before," said Lehew, who is coming off a second-place finish at the 2013 FLW College Fishing National Championship held in April. "I guess I did fish it once, but that was like seven years ago. So we Google Earthed it, found docks, and fished what we are most comfortable with the entire weekend.
"We basically flipped shallow docks and any wood we could find with E.R. Lure jigs and stuck with our plan," added Lehew.
According to the team from UNCC, the water dropped significantly between Saturday and Sunday and seemed to plague the remainder of the top 10 teams. Self indicated that most of the other teams were flipping shallow brush, and when the water dropped the fish left the areas that the other teams were fishing. Not so for Lahew and Self; because they were fishing docks, the fish just moved out toward the end of the docks and stayed in the same areas.
"We fished our strength both days," said Self. "We targeted the same stretch of docks both yesterday and today. There was a seawall between the docks where we could see the shad spawn going on yesterday. It stopped today, but we figured a few bass would still be hanging around, so we stuck to the same area. With the exception of one fish - which I caught yesterday on a white spinnerbait - all of our bass came off a black and blue jig.
"I lost a pretty big one on my fourth cast this morning," Self added. "Shane finally caught another nice one in the last 15 minutes of the tournament. That really took some of the pressure off me. That lost fish haunted me pretty much the entire day. We were finally able to cull a 2 1/2-pounder after carrying it around most of the day, and if we hadn't culled, we wouldn't have won."
This was the last chance that each of the anglers would have to qualify for the FLW College Fishing National Championship, as both graduated this month with a degree in Criminal Justice. Self will be making his first trip to the National Championship. Lehew will be making his second visit.
Rounding out the top 10 are:
1st: University of North Carolina-Charlotte: Eric Self, Lawndale, N.C., and Shane Lehew, Charlotte, N.C., 10 bass, 35-13, $4,000
2nd: Auburn University-Montgomery: Tyler Strock, Slapout, Ala., and Dalton Darnell, Millbrook, Ala.,10 bass, 35-12, $2,000
3rd: University of North Alabama: Dawson Lenz, Peachtree City, Ga., and Evan Horne, Florence, Ala., 10 bass, 34-6, $1,000
4th: Troy University: Connor Bedsole, Arab, Ala., and Bradley Norred, Morris, Ala., 10 bass, 31-4, $1,000
5th: Young Harris College: Grayson Payne, Blairsville, Ga., and Furman Thompson, Clayton, Ga., 10 bass, 28-12, $1,000
6th: Auburn University: Timmy Ward, Childersburg, Ala., and Garrett Roberts, Cullman, Ala., 10 bass, 27-12
7th: Georgia Southern: Dean Mullett, Marietta, Ga., and Dalton Anderson, Peachtree City, Ga., 10 bass, 26-7
8th: Lincoln Memorial University: Chris Hunt, Loudon, Tenn., and Kyle Warwick, Oak Ridge, Tenn., 10 bass, 25-12
9th: Florida State University, Nicholas Harris, Marianna, Fla., and Brooks Woodward, Thomasville, Ga., 10 bass, 25-5
10th: University of Tennessee-Chattanooga: Parker Bacon, Nashville, Tenn., and Taylor Bolton, Chattanooga, Tenn., seven bass, 23-1
FLW College Fishing teams compete in four qualifying events in one of five conferences - Central, Northern, Southern, Southeastern and Western. The top fifteen teams from each regular-season tournament qualify for one of five conference invitational tournaments. The top ten teams from each conference invitational tournament will advance to the 2014 FLW College Fishing National Championship.
College Fishing is free to enter and FLW Outdoors provides boats and drivers for each competing team along with travel allowances. All participants must be registered, full-time undergraduate students at a four-year college or university and members of a fishing club recognized by their college or university.
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Researchers headed by Maria Macias an ICREA researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and Joan Massagu, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York, have identified a new molecular mechanism that plays a crucial role in the control of the activation of certain genes associated with cancer.
Through detailed structural and biochemical studies, the researchers identified a key domain present in a family of proteins called Smads, whose binding determines whether the transcription of genes controlled by the TGF-beta and BMP signaling cascades will be bound by activators or labeled for degradation. These processes are critical to the correct development and maintenance of tissues and organisms.
When looking at inhibitory Smads , the researchers found that the specific domain binds directly and constitutively to their targets. This is in contrast to what happens with receptor-activated Smads, where the proteins must first undergo processing by phosphorylation a chemical change whereby the proteins are first activated and then labeled for degradation after completing their transcriptional function. The study appears online today (August 23) in the journal Structure.
Smads are key proteins in the signaling pathways of the hormones TGF-beta and BMP, which are known to participate in the control of stem cell pluripotency and differentiation and in the development and maintenance of metazoan organisms. In this study, the researchers looked at the interactions of Smad7 a protein inhibitor of TGF-beta signaling with molecules implicated in the cascade, including three ubiquitin ligases and YAP, a transcription coactivator. They identified the domains in the four proteins that interact with the same region of Smad7 and quantified these interactions in terms of affinity values.
Previous work by the groups on a similar type of protein, called receptor-activated Smads, has shown that in order for transcription to take place, these Smads undergo the process of phosphorylation. In this study, which focuses on inhibitory Smads, the researchers found that this step of molecular processing was not necessary and that the four proteins bind constitutively and directly to the targets.
The TGF-beta pathway is tightly regulated. Its regulation includes a feedback process whereby the two sets of Smads play complementary roles in the same signaling cascade, as they can either inhibit or trigger gene transcription, depending on cell type and the physiological needs of the tissue or organism. As with most biological processes, achieving a fine balance between the two is key, since uncontrolled gene transcription is a hallmark of serious diseases such as cancer. This latest discovery helps to shed light on how organisms achieve this balance.
One of the keys to success of this project was the unique combination of perspectives and methodologies that the partners contributed. Macias' team at IRB Barcelona used a mixture of biophysical and molecular biology techniques to decipher the minute structures of subdomains within the proteins at the atomic level. "The problem," she says, "is that we are looking at small sections of the full proteins in vitro, isolated from their cellular environment. Using techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance, we are able to see the details down to the atoms in the binding sites. But because we zoom in so closely, we can lose sight of what the interactions we characterize can actually mean for the function of the entire protein in the cell."
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Flags of Our Foul-Ups
(1) Talk to the Misfits about improving their squad. (2) Convince Mags to respect the squad and work with them. (3) Convince Razz to respect the squad and work with them. (4) Convince Poindexter to respect the squad and work with them. (5) Return to O'Hanrahan.
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Have you been to Camp Golf yet? It's the random NCR encampment towards the eastern side of the Mojave Wasteland, just to the north of Lake Las Vegas, and due west from the Fisherman's Pride Shack. When you head over there, you'll find a rather ragtag crew of NCR soldiers that barely constitute themselves as a fight force worth mentioning. If you head into the commander's headquarters (the tent in front of the gigantic mansion on the premises), you'll undoubtedly run into a man named Sgt. McCredie. The Sergeant is rather rude and curt with you, but it's to be expected. After all, his soldiers are all but incompetent. If you offer to help him out, he'll tell you that you can, though he has no confidence in your ability to actually do so.
Leave headquarters thereafter. There are four soldiers around camp you can speak with to attempt any number of ways to finish this brief side quest, but by far the easiest and most straight-forward technique is to find and speak with a man named O'Hanrahan. When you speak with this guy, you can learn a bit about his backstory. When you talk to him about why the fighting force here (known as the Misfits) aren't up to snuff, O'Hanrahan thinks it has a lot to do with the fact that no one likes or respects anyone else. Offer to help him out, and you'll have to use moderate Speech skills to convince his three friends of the same thing.
You can speak to his three friends in any order you'd like, but we spoke to Mags first, Poindexter second, and Razz third. You'll need to appeal to each of these three people in different ways, but a moderate Speech skill will do the trick with each of them. Just be sure to explore the conversation paths that require you to get on the subject of camaraderie with one another. They all have various hang-ups, but a Speech check with each will bring them back together. Then you only have to speak with O'Hanrahan to wrap this side quest up. Keep in mind that if you don't have a moderate Speech skills, you can still get through this side quest, though you'll need to find other conduits (with their own unique skill checks) in order to do so.


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Adan Salazar
February 7, 2013
Former LAPD officer Christopher Jordan Dorner, 33, is in the middle of a brutal retribution campaign against what he says are lying, racist and criminal members of the LAPD and their Board of Rights, according to a so-called manifesto allegedly posted to Facebook by the ex-officer.
According to police, the manifesto appears to be written by Dorner because of details mentioned only he could know.
In what Dorner calls an attempt "to correct and calibrate" the "morale compasses" (sic) of the LAPD "to true north," Dorner has reportedly killed three people and promises to target more police and their families, while supposedly seeking to bring the department's alleged entrenched culture of lying under oath and brutality against innocent civilians to light.
If this is real and not some kind of psyop, his "mission" is totally discredited by saying that he will target officers' families.
There is also the huge irony that in the unedited version of the alleged manifesto, he states he fully supports an assault weapons ban and the push to restrict the Second Amendment, while simultaneously embarking on a psychotic killing spree.
If reports are true and this man would target police member's families, in other words innocent people, this "vigilante" embodies a psychopathic mindset and contradicts his own stated agenda.
He says the LAPD dragged his name through the mud and cost him his position as a Commanding Officer of a Naval Security Forces reserve unit, his relationship with his mother and sister and several relationships with close friends. He rhetorically asks, "What would you do to clear your name?" all the while admitting he knows his days are numbered.
According to an edited nine-page version of the manifesto posted by KTLA.com, Dorner was relieved of duty by the LAPD after filing a report against an officer who kicked a handcuffed suspect twice in the chest and once in the face.
Dorner infers he was the target of retaliation because of this and that reporting such activity must have crossed "their supposed blue line," a reference to the "blue code of silence," an unspoken code of conduct cops are rumored to adhere to which demands they stand up for each other at all times.
In the lengthy document, he states that an internal affairs investigation was also launched against him after he reported two officers for using the word "nigger" while traveling in a van with them, an allegation he owns up to in the document: "At that point I jumped over my front passenger seat and two other officers where I placed my hands around XXXX's neck and squeezed."
"No one is saying you can't be predjudiced or a bigot," he says, adding, "We are all human and hold prejudices. If you state that you don't have prejudices, your lying! But, when you act on it and victimize innocent citizens and fellow innocen officers, than that is a concern." (sic)
Dorner also reveals sordid, grisly tales of routine police life, telling of officers that would take photos of "recently deceased bodies with their cellphones and play a game of who has the most graphic dead body of the night with officers from other divisions."
He also tells of an officer nicknamed "Chupacabra" – because of her penchant for drawing blood from her victims – who performed an Indian burn on a 70-year-old woman while cuffing her for spraying a neighbor with a garden hose, intentionally ripping the flesh off the arm of the grandmother.
In Dorner's own words, "The department has not changed since the Rampart and Rodney King days. It has gotten worse. The consent decree should never have been lifted. The only thing that has evolved from the consent decree is those officers involved in the Rampart scandal and Rodney King incidents have since promoted to supervisor, commanders, and command staff, and executive positions."
Like an aberration of the comic book character The Punisher, Dorner says he will bring swift justice to those that have turned their back on the oaths they swore to uphold: "Your lack of ethics and conspiring to wrong a just individual are over. Suppressing the truth will leave to deadly consequences for you and your family. There will be an element of surprise where you work, live, eat, and sleep." (sic)
Thousands of state and local police are now looking for the man who says he will not stop until the department comes clean about his innocence: "The attacks will stop when the department states the truth about my innocence, PUBLICLY!!!"
However, police seem more intent on eliminating the threat rather than admitting any wrongdoing, even to the point of firing on innocent victims in vain efforts to capture him.
According to the Huffington Post, "Officers from the Hollywood division of the LAPD shot two people who turned out to have no connection to Dorner's crimes. They were transported to the hospital with gunshot injuries." The LA Times reports that the two women shot were delivering newspapers when police riddled their pickup truck with bullets, shooting one in the hand and the other in the back.
Dorner's manifesto makes it clear that he will not be an easy target and labels efforts by police to arrest or kill him "reactive and predictable."
"I will bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in LAPD uniform whether on or off duty. ISR is my strength and your weakness. You will now live the life of the prey… I have the strength and benefits of being unpredictable, unconventional, and unforgiving," he says. "Do not waste your time with briefs and tabletops."
Dorner acknowledges that he will not be around to hear police recant their claims against him, stating, "Unfortunately, I will not be alive to see my name cleared."
Read Dorner's unedited "manifesto" here and here.
Hear Alex's take on the "vigilante" cop killer who, if we are to believe the manifesto, is anti-gun and pro-Obama.
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After some information/advice if anyone has any details:
Can anyone tell me what the cause is for 5 calling areas in NZ to not allow porting to VFX? Is it exchange equipment that will be resolved at some point or something else?
One option is setup and forward the number to an VFX Palmerston North number which is not ideal as their local calls are now toll calls. Anyone know the costs for setting up Telecom to forward a number to another provider?
According to 2talk website they have Levin as a region and states all their regions are number portable so appears that is another option (weird they seem to do it but not Xnet?). http://blog.2talk.co.nz/regionalnumbers.html


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Malcolm said Devas generally don't associate themselves with humans because we stink.Nicholas Weeks wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2017 8:54 pmMaybe, but there are many kinds of devas with differing qualities.
Also he said that most spirits people interact with are hungry ghosts.
Perhaps your Master's shout out to the bible god was skillful means.


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Bad decision. At least for brunch.
The decor of the restaurant is very plain and cold, there isn't much sunlight in the back half of the dining room, and I couldn't even believe how small the portion sizes were.
Next time I'm craving a Mexican brunch, I will happily make the trek up to Midtown West for El Centro's.
Scotch Egg, $6: chicken chorizo, masa tempura. Delicious! The fried outside was dense and reminded me of a dim sum dish. The egg was perfectly yolky. Order this.
Scrambled Eggs, $12: roasted potatoes and crumbled house made chorizo.
Pork Shoulder Hash, $14: slow poached egg, salsa papanteca. Not the nicest presentation, but this dish was fine. The pork had a good ratio of fat, but this was definitely too stingy of a portion. This should pass as an appetizer size.
Chilaquiles Verdes, $12: sunnyside egg, chicken confit, black beans. I adore chilaquiles verdes and I was so disappointed with this. Just one egg? Really? The dish was fine but it was gone in 10 bites or less. There wasn't much chicken in it either. It was simply too small. I wouldn't mind if the portion was bigger and the price slightly higher.
Bacon, $5: Not crispy enough, but at least it helped fill my tummy.
Buttermilk-Masa Pancakes, $10: with smoked maple syrup and mole poblano butter. These pancakes were quite soft, fluffy, and not too sweet.
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Also, Ryan Gosling was nearly a Backstreet Boy. Somehow that seems relevant to us.
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- Oh the Humanity
- So You Had a Bad Day
- Get Out of My Dreams
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- There Can Be Only One
- No Love for 'One Love'?
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Stop-and-frisk policy might cut violence, Ed Lee says
Tactic could reduce crime, get weapons off streets, Lee says
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said Wednesday he is considering implementing a controversial stop-and-frisk policy similar to that used in New York and other cities, where officers try to reduce violent crime by searching people they consider suspicious in an attempt to seize illegal weapons.
"This is under consideration as a way to make sure that we keep homicides and some of these other violent crime(s) down," Lee told The Chronicle's editorial board. "I think we have to get to the guns. I know we have to find a different way to get to these weapons, and I'm very willing to consider what other cities are doing."
It's a surprising move for a mayor who has described himself as "a progressive before progressive was a political faction in this town" and who leads what is viewed as one of the most liberal cities in the country.
"Wow," said Supervisor Malia Cohen, who represents a large swath of southeastern San Francisco and hadn't heard about the idea until contacted by The Chronicle. "That's shocking and alarming."
Profiling feared
Civil rights groups and others have denounced stop-and-frisk policies in various cities as a racist approach that disproportionately affects Latino and African American residents. Several thousand demonstrators marched through New York's streets this month to protest the policy.
A recent report by the New York Civil Liberties Union found that the vast majority of people stopped by police there were black or Latino, and that of 686,000 people stopped in 2011, 88 percent of them had done nothing wrong.
In Philadelphia, city officials agreed last year to court monitoring of their stop-and-frisk program to settle a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and others, who alleged that police officers used racial profiling and stopped people with little or no justification.
Supporters of stop-and-frisk policies say the approach helps reduce crime and get guns off the streets.
A risky move
Lee did not provide details but acknowledged he is considering tactics that "might be edgy" to reduce gun violence, particularly in the city's southeastern neighborhoods and in public housing projects such as Sunnydale, the scene of four recent shootings.
Other attempts have been thwarted, such as a 2005 voter-approved ballot measure banning the sale or possession of handguns within city limits that the courts ruled invalid.
"It's controversial. I will be tagged - as the minority mayor of this city - for racial profiling," said Lee, a former civil rights attorney. "But I'm going to let everybody know that if it works ... I'm going to do something in that direction."
Lee said he wants to explore the idea after having "a good conversation about stop-and-frisk" with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Later Wednesday, Lee's spokeswoman, Christine Falvey, said the mayor would not mimic New York or Philadelphia. "He wants to talk about what's working there."
Generating support
Lee said he will meet soon with the Rev. Amos Brown, president of the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP, to try to get him and other black ministers to join him in supporting a new policy in the city.
Brown said it's true that gun violence in the city's African American and Latino communities is "out of hand."
But he said he will support a stop-and-frisk policy only if police officers will enforce it without using racial profiling and in a calm, compassionate way.
"I'm not supporting any rough, gruff officers coming in like they do in a police state," he said.
If done wrong, the approach could undermine the city's community policing efforts, where an increase in foot patrols and contact with residents and merchants breeds trust and greater cooperation, some analysts said.
"It is a legitimate tool, but it's also one that is abused and has the ability to destroy community-police relations," said David Rudovsky, a civil rights lawyer who represented eight people who sued Philadelphia over its stop-and-frisk approach.
Alan Schlosser, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, said he was shocked that Lee is considering bringing stop-and-frisk to San Francisco.
"San Francisco for years has tried to develop ... policies that reduce racial profiling," Schlosser said. "This just seems like a total reverse of that."
Ex-gang member skeptical
Shawn Richard, a former gang member who now leads the nonprofit Brothers Against Guns in the Bayview, said racial profiling would occur here, too. He's doubtful that a white person driving through the Bayview would be pulled over under the policy.
"Who does that leave? People of color, right?" he said.
Richard said there are "a lot" of concealed weapons carried in Bayview-Hunters Point and that shootings in the neighborhood are rampant. He shared Brown's feeling that the policy could prove helpful - but only if it's applied without regard to race.
Police Department figures show that in 2009, homicides in the city were more than halved, from 97 the previous year to 46, and have since held steady at 50 for both 2010 and 2011. There have been 37 homicides so far this year, but Police Chief Greg Suhr said shootings overall are down 10 percent year to date.
"We know we're doing it right," said Suhr, whom Lee appointed last year. "We have no interest in racially profiling here. ... I think we're more of the model in the country on how to do it right." Lee takes the news of shootings in the city very personally, Suhr said.
"He's more upset than I can tell you," the chief said. Suhr is confident that once the mayor "hears the downside of this and how it was not well received in New York or Philadelphia or by law enforcement in general, he'll see that's not the best way to do business here."
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Patrick Kane's taxi cab showdown has created an usual occurrence—lawyers from both sides of the incident complaining that the media has blown it out of proportion. That's no fun.
Naturally, the lawyer for the hockey star claims that his client committed no crime. It was just a simple misunderstanding over a fare. Maybe Kane's cousin might have thrown some haymakers, but he's just a simple country lawyer and wouldn't know anything about that. But why would the cab driver, the supposed victim in all this, try to downplay the whole thing? Is it because he doesn't have a driver's license and he maybe tried to lock Kane and his cousin in his back seat?
The cab driver, Jan Radecki, did what most Buffalo cab drivers do after they pick up two drunk dudes on Chippewa Street at four in the morning. He took them to their destination, but then locked the door, so that they couldn't get out before they paid. Not a bad financial move, until the punches start flying. But his lawyer says it wasn't like that either.
"There was a dispute over the fee and it just kind of escalated from there," LoTempio told the station. "It was not really a robbery. That is probably a large distortion of what happened."
Asked if the case would end up as a felony, he said: "Absolutely not."
"I think we should be able to work things out," he added.
Oh, and the fact that the cabbie didn't have a valid driver's license because of DUI problems stemming back to 1999 might be contributing to his generous nature. Maybe just let the $15 go if it keeps the cops off his back.
So ... problem solved! Nobody knows nothing about nothing. The end.
Patrick Kane's lawyer said the Chicago Blackhawks star did not rob or assault cab driver [ESPN Chicago]
Cabbie's attorney says Patrick Kane incident overblown [ESPN]
Cabbie in Kane case had no valid license : Home: The Buffalo News [Buffalo News]


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Description of Course:
"Drawing: the act of making a mark by dragging a tool across a receptive background, usually a piece of paperâ€, hardly conjures the impressions left us by the great masters such a da Vinci, Delacroix, or Rubens. In this class we will investigate a variety of drawing techniques, drawing's interpretive nature and the potential uses implied by the language of drawing in both a contemporary as well as historical context.
This class will focus on the initiation and cultivation of the basic drawing skills used in achieving a visually literate foundation in communicative and interpretive skills. This will include eye/ hand coordination skills, rendering techniques, composition, drawing construction, proportion and perspective. We will integrate this into the use and investigation of drawing schematically, metaphorically, descriptively, and atmospherically.
This class invites the curious novice to explore the potential of this right brain approach to communicating. Those seeking to advance their already developed drawing skills will be challenged to specific portfolio projects.
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Used Cessna 182 Skylanes
It seems like the Skylane is everyone's friend. It's certainly one of mine. The Cessna 182 was the first honest four-seater I flew after earning my license, and I loved it. If you're like me, you're probably among the thousands of Skylane enthusiasts. That's not surprising, as the Skylane exemplifies the primary qualities that have more »


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It comes up often how to connect to our office openvpn network using an iPad or iPhone. On OSX its pretty simple, use Viscosity or Tunnelblick. But to my knowledge there is nothing like that for iDevices. However its possible to connect these using a SOCKS proxy. The SOCKS server lives on your laptop connected to the VPN, and the iPhone/iPad will be setup to connect through that. Obviously you should only do this on a secured wireless network and/or secure the SOCKS server so that only you have access. I wrote these notes a couple years ago and figured its worth sharing since it comes up once in a while.
Setting Up the SOCKS Server
Setting up the server is really easy, we can use ssh – just run this command on your laptop that is connected to your VPN
ssh -N -D 0.0.0.0:1080 localhost
If you want it to run in the background also use the -f option. You may also want to setup some access control with iptables, which is a bit out of scope of this article but more information can be found here.
Setting Up the iPhone/iPad to use SOCKS
Setup the PAC File
The only way to configure the iPhone/iPad to use SOCKS is to setup a PAC file. Create a file with the .pac extension, and put this into it:
function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
return "SOCKS 192.168.X.XXX";
Make sure to use the IP address of your laptop that we setup the SOCKS server on. Now put this file in any web accessible location. It doesn't matter if its internal to your network or external, as long as you can access it from the web. How to actually serve a page is beyond the scope of this article, but if you've gotten this far you probably know how to do this.
Configure the iPhone/iPad
Now you just have to tell the iPad to use the PAC file so that it will proxy web requests through the laptops VPN.
Click: Settings -> WiFi
Then click the blue arrow to the right of your access point and under HTTP Proxy choose Auto. In the URL field, put the full URL to the PAC file that we setup. Make sure to put the http:// protocol in this URL line. For example this may look something like: http://yourserver.com/myproxy.pac
Sometimes getting this setting to stick is tricky. I recommend clicking out of the text field into another field and letting the iPhone spinner in the upper left finish.
If you did everything right you should be able to hit websites behind your VPN connection. One way to debug that its working is to startup ssh with the -vvv option. When you request pages through the proxy you will see a bunch of output. If there is no output you're not using the proxy.


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Come join us for a time of fellowship, discussion, video and prayer as we navigate the difficult and painful journey of grief. We are a group of people who "get it" and have come to learn that through sharing, prayer and the hope of Jesus, you can and will make it through one of life's toughest challenges.
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The University of Florida men's swimming and diving team grabbed five top-eight finishes and 10 total swims on the first night of competition at the 2013 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships.
INDIANAPOLIS — The University of Florida men's swimming and diving team grabbed five top-eight finishes and 10 total swims on the first night of competition at the 2013 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. The Gators tallied 97 points on the night and they are currently sixth in the standings. They collected 13 All-America honors to start the championship.
With the best finish of the day for a Gator, junior Marcin Cieslak finished second in the 200 IM with a time of 1:41.45. He went out strong and had the lead heading into the final turn but couldn't hold on as Stanford's David Nolan took the win. He finished second in the event last season.
In a blisteringly fast 200 free relay final, Florida's group of junior Brad deBorde, freshman Corey Main, freshman Pawel Werner and sophomore Matthew Curby finished eighth with a time of 1:18.29.
Their appearance in the championship final earns them each All-America honors.
Returning to the NCAA Championships after taking a year off for the Olympics last season was redshirt junior Sebastien Rousseau. He swam a solid race to finish 8th overall in a time of 4:15.32, almost the exact time of his prelim swim earlier today. He earned the seventh All-America honor of his career as a Gator.
DeBorde swam in his second of three championship finals with his appearance in the 50 free. He finished fifth in the event with a time of 19.40. It was the first time he has made the championship final at the NCAA Championships, and he earned the ninth All-America honor of his career.
Two Gators appeared in the consolation final of the 200 IM to earn honor-mention All-American. Sophomore Dan Wallace finished 11th as he improved on his personal-best from this morning with a time of 1:43.31. He earned the second All-America honor of his career with the swim. Also in the field was fellow sophomore Eduardo Solaeche-Gomez who finished 14th in a time of 1:44.30.
The first night was concluded with the 400 medley relay as Main, sophomore Matt Elliott, Cieslak and deBorde combined for a time of 3:08.40 to finish seventh overall.
They trailed early, but a strong anchor leg by deBorde, in his third event of the night, pushed them into seventh.
Here are the top-10 teams after the first full day of competition: Michigan (153), California (123.5), Auburn (112.5), Southern California (100), Texas (99), Florida (97), Arizona (81), Stanford (81), Indiana (68) and Georgia (34).
TRACK & FIELD: At Austin, Texas, seven Gators were in action on the second day of the 86th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays. Two members of the Gators stood out with their performances at the prestigious meet, held at the Mike A. Myers Stadium.
Kyle Strawn set a new personal best in the men's hammer throw, utilizing his second throw of the meet to finish fourth with a mark of 62.36m/204-7.
"Kyle stepping up in a big meet and setting a new personal best shows he has a bright future in this program," UF track coach Mike Holloway said.
Strawn has thrown personal bests in the opening two weekends of the 2013 outdoor season, besting his previous personal-best of 62.20m from the UCF Invitational last weekend.
Ugonna Ndu qualified for the finals of the women's 400-meter hurdles with her preliminary time of 58.59, just missing out on the heat victory behind Arkansas' Sparkle McKnight. Ndu will race in the finals at 7:45 p.m.
The Gators have a full day Friday, starting with the women's javelin at 10:30 a.m. and the relays beginning on the track at 10:35 a.m.
"I'm looking forward to another exciting day from the Gators (today)," Holloway said. "It's great to be a Florida Gator."
The four-day meet continues today and Saturday.


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Visual Arts Alliance
"Art is the face of Canada. We, as artists, curators, collectors, dealers, educators and supporters, are united to enhance the opportunities for Canadian art to be created, seen, understood and enjoyed. We came together in the largest gathering of the visual arts in our history, to proclaim the critical role of the visual arts in an innovative and compassionate society in the 21st century. We know what is needed: we call on the governments, nations and peoples of Canada to join us in realizing our potential."
The Visual Arts Alliance is a consortium of national visual, media, and craft arts service organizations comprised of artists, curators, art museums, artist-run centres and art dealers, brought together by the Visual Arts Summit in November, 2007.
The visual arts community recently met in Kingston, Ontario, on September 16 and 17 2011 for the 2011 Visual Arts Colloquium, under the banner "Re-Envisioning the Visual Arts". The Colloquium brought together over 60 participants from across the country that met with the objective to increase the public profile of the visual arts with the general public, government, business and media, to begin a conversation about the long-term future of the visual arts in Canada and to outline a continuing process that will help the sector develop a shared vision and ways of working together.
A Summary Report of the Colloquium can be downloaded here.
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Addiction is a strong mental and physical dependence on, most
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Madrid is one of the cities with most trees in all Europe. It has parks which were originally Royal Sites, and are now recreational areas open to everybody. The Casa de Campo and the Buen Retiro parks are a couple of good examples.
Royal Botanical Garden in Madrid
An avenue in Retiro Park
Campo del Moro Gardens with the Royal Palace in background
Amazing as it may seem, there are several places in Madrid where you can forget you're in a major city. Amid the busy roads and the buildings there are plenty of spots where you can enjoy some fresh air, nature and peace and quiet. The Spanish capital's parks and gardens are a welcome surprise that is well worth discovering. Madrid is green too. Come and discover it.
Madrid is culture, business, shopping, entertainment… and countryside too. The Spanish capital's extensive green areas cover over 250,000 hectares. Pay a visit to Madrid and you'll find that its many parks and gardens are the lifeblood of the capital and much more besides: places to walk in, play sport in, learn, look at monuments, watch shows, or just relax in the open air amidst the trees. Below is a list of just some of Madrid's most welcoming and famous gardens. Enjoy!
The Retiro: a park for everyone
The Buen Retiro Gardens are like a second home for the people of Madrid. Amidst the fountains, trees and monuments of this huge park in the heart of the city you will always find people enjoying a boat trip, roller skating, jogging, cycling... There is lots to do amongst the trees and monuments. You can also visit exhibitions at the Palacio de Cristal, pick up a book or two at the Book Fair or enjoy a relaxing drink at one of the terrace cafés. The large lake is a popular spot for weekend visitors, much frequented by musicians, puppeteers, mime artists and even fortune tellers. Take a stroll along one of the Retiro's many paths, however, and you're sure to come across secluded leafy corners where the only noise is provided by birdsong.
Take a walk of discovery at the Botanical Gardens
The Royal Botanical Gardens are situated very close to the Retiro. The gardens feature over 30,000 plant species from all over the world and the herb garden is one of the largest in Europe. Stroll through its landscaped terraces and you'll come across aromatic and medicinal plants, roses of every hue and trees as unique as a two hundred year-old cypress tree and a giant sequoia. Venture into the greenhouses and you will find exotic specimens from desert, temperate and tropical climes.
The lush gardens of the Royal Palace
The Royal Palace is a monument that is well worth a look inside and out. It is surrounded by three gardens: Plaza de Oriente, Sabatini and Campo del Moro. Statues, fountains and lush vegetation combine to create a magnificent natural setting as grand as the palace itself. It is little wonder then that this is a popular location with newly-weds for their wedding-day photographs. Don't forget to take your camera - take a walk through the Campo del Moro and you are sure to come across strutting peacocks, swans and ducks.
Parque del Oeste Park and the finest roses
One of the most magical experiences in Madrid is to sit in the Parque del Oeste and watch the sun go down. Climb up to the Debod Temple, an Egyptian monument from the 2nd century BC and find out for yourself: the views are spectacular. Do not forget to visit the Rose Garden either, particularly in May, when the International "Villa de Madrid" New Roses Competition takes place, an event that attracts the finest specimens from around the world with the winner being decided by a popular vote.
Animals and fun at the Casa de Campo
The Casa de Campo is a green area covering 1,722 hectares. You can take a walk through its wooded areas, populated with holm oaks, pines, ash trees and poplars, and inhabitated by twittering goldfinches, nightingales and hoopoes, or while away the hours visiting its many man-made attractions, including the Amusement Park, the zoo, cable car, exhibition centre and the lake, where you can often see people canoeing.
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Monday, March 10, 2014
The New Question Associations Should be Asking Every Day
If you feel so empty
So used up, so let down
If you feel so angry
So ripped off, so stepped on
You're not the only one
Refusing to back down
You're not the only one
So get up!.....Riot, Three Days Grace
I just saw this article published in the Chronicle of Higher Education. It details a fundamental shift in the way public colleges and universities are being funded and actually posits that public funds for higher education in some states may move to zero (ZERO) in the coming years. If nothing is done about the current system, income inequality will continue to drive the middle class to the brink of destruction and all the dues we complain about not getting now will disappear for good.
Obviously, I've talked about disruption in the secondary and post-secondary environment for a while now. Workforce development in the United States is foundering on stormy economic seas and our skills gaps are getting larger and larger. If all you do is think about how to serve your current members you are destined to fall victim to the forces of entropy, erosion and attrition.
More importantly, is what to do with the thousands of young people who feel like they don't have any options, or their options are becoming more limited and fraught with the specter of increased costs for little demonstrable value. There are a lot of people out here who are angry about these conditions, and rightly so.
In my opinion, success today depends on asking new questions. "What is our value proposition?" is a legitimate question, but its an old one. It feels contemporary, but looking back through association literature from the last century, we've actually been hammering on "value" since the early 1900's. In light of changes in our economy and educational system, maybe we need to try a new question. What if we redirected some of our time into asking - "What does it take for an individual to become eligible to pay membership dues?" There are thousands of hungry high-schoolers, young adults and the long term unemployed out there who need guidance that you may be able to provide. Maybe you have a fantastic gingerbread house, but if you aren't laying down the right kind of breadcrumbs how do you expect future members to actually find you in the middle of the woods?
Serving current members is important, but it's a strategy built around the past and present, not the future. Future strategy includes creating robust student programs and pathways into your industries and professions. You should be using data to get VERY specific about where your industry and professions are seeing shortages, and how you intend to solve those shortages. Without a major shift into that kind of predictive thinking, you will be forever playing catch-up and "selling" to a smaller and smaller audience.
There are a lot of angry, hurting people out here, but if we shift our gaze and start providing solutions for them instead of figuring out ways to feed off of them, we have a better shot of living up to a legacy that we can all be totally stoked about.
Let's not start another membership brochure, let's start a riot!
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- AnonymousMarch 26, 2014 at 9:43 AM
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Trailer Tires Trouble
Posted 25 September 2010 - 07:01 PM
The guy that sold me the new tire today said trailer tires are only good for 3 to 4 years. The one they replaced was made on the 50th week of 03. The remaining tire was made the 30 week of 05. Lesson learned, no damages to us, the trailer or anyone else. WDH and sway bar in place and we tracked straight and true.
Posted 25 September 2010 - 07:19 PM
Plano, TX
2000 FD "new to us" in 2008
2008 Chevy Avalanche
traded the Chevy S10
Posted 26 September 2010 - 07:32 AM
2006 Tundra
Posted 26 September 2010 - 01:33 PM
I suspect this is why so many Casita owners have switched to Commercial Tires in a higher load rating than the OEM "ST" tires in Load Rating C that come with Casitas unless otherwise specified.
There HAVE been failures with these as well, though FAR fewer.
Posted 26 September 2010 - 06:48 PM
1. Have tires balanced when mounted.
2. Always inflate tires to maximum pressure as shown on sidewall.
3. Never tow faster than 60-65mph.
4. Replace tires every 3 years (including spare) regardless of remaining tread.
5. Visually check tires before each trip. (especially for cracks in sidewall and between treads)
Trailer tires serve a different purpose than car or truck tires and usually wear out from fatigue on the inside long before the tread wears out.
Additionally, be very careful not to overload the tire's capacity rating. If tires are wearing unevenly, you may want to have your axle alignment checked.
I believe trailer tires should be replaced every 3 years. Car and truck tires should be replaced every 5 years.
Edited by schatzie, 26 September 2010 - 06:53 PM.
South Milwaukee, WI.
2009 Casita 17' SD
2004 Ford F-150 FX4
Posted 26 September 2010 - 10:35 PM
Switch to a load range "D" Radial truck tire (still 14") and have no more problems. I use Kuhmo.
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Posted 27 September 2010 - 05:40 AM
Posted 27 September 2010 - 06:37 AM
1. Have tires balanced when mounted.
If you ask 10 tire "experts", you'll get five on each side of this issue. Balancing definitely can't hurt, so I agree with this.
2. Always inflate tires to maximum pressure as shown on sidewall.
Absolutely not. Over inflation will cause premature wear and a harsh ride. Tires should be inflated to the proper pressure for the load they are bearing.
3. Never tow faster than 60-65mph.
Totally agree, and there would be much fewer trailer tire failures if this were adhered to.
4. Replace tires every 3 years (including spare) regardless of remaining tread.
If your trailer sits up 11 months per year and goes on vacation once a year, I agree with you. Otherwise, can I have your old tires? Regularly used trailer tires hold up very well for five years.
5. Visually check tires before each trip. (especially for cracks in sidewall and between treads)
Agree. Also, check pressures daily while traveling and visually inspect at each fuel stop.
Retirement is getting up in the morning with absolutely nothing to do, and going to bed at night with half of it done.
Posted 27 September 2010 - 03:26 PM
Posted 06 October 2010 - 12:20 PM
Both my one year old Kuhmo 14 (STs) had tread separtions on interstates. I don't think Kuhmos are good tires.
I think it's not the Kuhmo part that was bad, ....... but the "ST" part.
I've come to believe that the "ST" tires are a waste of good money, I don't buy them anymore, and my Kuhmo load range "D" truck tires are doing just fine.
Edited by LSChilders, 06 October 2010 - 12:20 PM.
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Posted 06 October 2010 - 01:47 PM
2010 Honda Ridgeline
Posted 06 October 2010 - 02:37 PM
The Goodyear Marathons on our 2003 17' SD were made in the 39th and 41st weeks of 2002, is that bad?
I would say yes. The one that gave out on me 2 weeks ago was made in 03, don't remember the week. It had been the spare on my 04 Casita, always covered and at proper air pressure. We drove with it on from Columbia, Mo to NE Tennessee to the Smoky Mountains and back to Kansas City, never over 65 mph. Then 30 miles from home half the tread came off. If they were on my trailer, I would buy new ones. It was a Goodyear Marathon.
Edited by tedinkc, 06 October 2010 - 02:38 PM.
Posted 06 October 2010 - 06:48 PM
Speed. Opinions vary, but in MY opinion, anyway, anyone who tows greater than 65 mph is an idiot, regardless of what tires he may have on his trailer. Sorry if I offend, but as long as you are sharing a highway with me, I have to stick with that one. I spent much of my life flying aircraft at insane speeds, but when it comes to towing a trailer on the public highways, if you think you can handle ANY emergency at 100+ feet per second safely (just over 65mph, you deserve my scientific mental designation. If you are willing to die if something bad happens, and you are ALONE in your vehicle, with no other innocents around you on the highway, have at it. I just prefer not to share the highway with anyone with a premature death wish, because your course may intersect mine and my family's on your way to meet your maker.
Pressure. Goodyear publishes an excellent RV Manual for Tires that lists the ideal pressures for various tire loads. Google to download it. If you think you are smarter than Goodyear, then run whatever pressure you want. If not, then you might consider listening to them. I know, Marathons in Load Range C SUCK, but their inflation charts don't, and they apply to any tire available, regardless of Load Range.
I have 25k on my Kuhmos. So far, so good. They HAVE had failures I understand, but they trump Marathon Load C tires, and mine are paid for. It seems people are having excellent luck with Maxxis tires (NOT "ST" Maxxis, however)these days. They will probably be my NEXT tires. I plan to drive no faster than 60mph on them as I have, and monitor tire pressures and heat (via a non-contact Infrared Pyrometer), as well as visually inspect them each two hours (which is as long as my 60-something bladder prefers these days, anyway) regardless of tires, since at this speed, I am unaware of any accidents from resultant tire failures. Even with a 7000 pound 4-door 1-ton dually pick-up as tow vehicle, I ALWAYS use an anti-sway device, which adds to the safety margin that reasonable speeds provide, since blow-outs CAN induce sway and instability.
Of course, as always, I have no strong opinions on this matter.
Edited by Bobinyelm, 06 October 2010 - 06:52 PM.
Posted 06 October 2010 - 06:57 PM
Edouard Trautwein, #1372
'03 17SD "Pura Vida"
'99 Toyota 4Runner, 3.4L V6 -
Casita living - Luxury on two wheels.
Posted 09 October 2010 - 10:18 PM
ST Tires: Never buy 'em...
Pressure. Goodyear publishes an excellent RV Manual for Tires that lists the ideal pressures for various tire loads. Google to download it... Marathons in Load Range C SUCK, but their inflation charts don't, and they apply to any tire available, regardless of Load Range...
I'm just double checking here: The charts in that Goodyear pamphlet appear to be for ST tires, so i checked the chart for Maxxis, and that also is for STs. I have the Maxxis UE-168 load D tires for light trucks that you previously recommended, size 205 R14 with a maximum psi of 65.
On their chart for STs Maxxis lists a 205 R15 with a 65 psi maximum, but for the R14 the maximum is 50. Based on the one time we weighed the trailer and the data given in another thread on what others have weighed at Blue Bonnet i'd guess we're running 3000-3200 pounds for the most part. On the chart the 205 R14 is supposed to have 40 psi inflation with a 1530# load, and the 205 R15 is to have that same 40 with a 1610# load. That suggests to me that we should be ballparking around 40 psi, instead of the 65 gradually dwindling down to 55 that we've been using. However, given that these are not STs, and the maximum on the tires i have is 65, not 50, even though they are R14s, leaves me a bit uncertain.
And given that i'm less than thrilled with our gas mileage with what now appears to be overinflated tires, i'm not happy about the idea of letting some air out of them. But i'll believe you if you say that for handling safety and tire longevity we should keep them at 40.


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Florida survives Memphis at Jimmy V Classic; Wichita State holds on vs. Alabama
Florida's Dorian Finney-Smith (10) reacts after sinking a 3-pointer during the Gators' 77-75 win over Memphis. (Seth Wenig/AP)
No. 16 Florida 77, No. 15 Memphis 75
After four years of talk about how Josh Pastner's squad had never beaten a ranked team, his Tigers nearly knocked off their second this month. Ball in hand and down by two with just over 10 seconds to play, Memphis certainly had its shot. But Joe Jackson's driving layup attempt, shot as he was sandwiched between 6-foot-8 defenders Dorian Finney-Smith and Will Yeguete, came up short and was tipped out beyond the arc as time expired, leaving the Gators as the team with its second resume-boosting win of December.
For those who had sit through the sludge of the first game of the Jimmy V Classic (see the Cincy-Pitt recap below), Florida and Memphis provided a welcome reward. a flowing, athletic, well-executed battle between two talented teams capable of deep runs in three months' time. It was the kind of quality basketball that should boost the perceptions of both teams. The Gators, who had knocked Kansas on its heels a week ago with a series of first-half jabs, again came out swinging, holding a 21-11 lead just over eight minutes into the game. But beginning with a pair of jumpers by Michael Dixon, Jr., Memphis made its next eight field goal attempts to cut Florida's lead to one before the Gators took a three-point advantage into halftime.
From there, the game was played close, with both teams seemingly rising to respond to the other's every move, until a small run at an opportune time put Florida in the driver's seat: Over a three-minute span, four Gator field goals and a pair of free throws by the Tigers' Shaq Goodwin added up to a 66-60 Florida lead with 7:54 to play.
The game entered its final minute with the Gators up five, which is when things got tight. Up four with 40 seconds left, Finney-Smith missed the front end of a one-and-one, leading to a Memphis possession after a jump ball. Jackson drove past Scottie Wilbekin and changed hands to maneuver around Patric Young to bang a runner off the glass, cutting the deficit to two. After Casey Prather and Shaq Goodwin exchanged free throws, Wilbekin missed the front end of his one-and-one, which Geron Johnson corralled for the Tigers. But after Pastner called timeout, all Memphis could muster was Jackson's last-chance miss in traffic, perhaps as much an attempt to get to the free-throw line as to tie the game then and there.
Freed from the can't-beat-a-ranked-team-baggage by their win over Oklahoma State on Dec. 1, Memphis's loss can be judged on its own terms, which are pretty good as far as losses go: On a neutral floor and in front of a national audience, the Tigers dug out of an early hole against a talented SEC team and nearly sent the game to overtime.
Concerns remain on the interior - forwards accounted for just 11 of their 75 points, while the Gators had nearly as many offensive rebounds (13) as Memphis had defensive (17) - but the Tigers' quartet of senior guards (Jackson, Dixon, Johnson and Chris Crawford) proved capable of carrying them even against a team with the size and strength of Florida. If Goodwin, who played well in both meetings with Oklahoma State, continues to improve as he has already this year, this team could have the balance to make real noise.
And of course Florida, the team that actually won the game, has to be feeling much better about its prospects now than it was just over a week ago. The Gators endured their struggles to start the season, with Wilbekin (five-game suspension, ankle sprain against UConn), Finney-Smith (two-game suspension), Kasey Hill (sprained ankle), freshman Chris Walker (NCAA eligibility limbo), and South Carolina transfer Damontre Harris (suspension) all missing various amounts of time. While Harris is unlikely to ever join the team, the Gators - who may be joined by Walker soon - are now hitting their stride after consecutive wins over the Tigers and Jayhawks. (And the loss to UConn, coming as it did on a crazy, scrambling buzzer-beater against a top-15 in Storrs, was certainly not too damning in the first place.) Between the continued breakout of Prather, who had a game-high 22 points against Memphis, the interior presence of Young, the return of a healthy Wilbekin and the likely debut of Walker, there is a lot to like as Florida gets ready to duke it out with Kentucky atop the SEC.
No. 11 Wichita State 72, Alabama 67
It won't catch many eyes given the Crimson Tide's 5-5 record and fairly low national profile (for basketball, at least), but the Shockers' win Tuesday night is further confirmation that they are as legitimate as their program-best 11-0 start suggests. At the risk of sounding cliche, this was a resilient, gritty win on the court of a power-conference team that would not go away, the latest in a string of impressive victories - including at Saint Louis, against BYU in Kansas City, and at home against Tennessee - in Wichita State's encore to last season's Final Four run.
The Shockers opened a double-digit lead early, but when Cleanthony Early, Fred Van Vleet, and Ron Baker (a game-time decision after spraining his ankle last week) hit the bench with two fouls apiece midway through the first half, Alabama made it a one-point game by halftime. It was no coincidence that the Tide's, ahem, rise coincided with the awakening of Trevor Releford, the gutsy six-foot guard that drives the team on both ends.
Scoreless until hitting two free throws just under the first half's six-minute mark, Releford either scored or assisted on 14 of Alabama's next 17 points, including following a three to tie the game at 29-29 with an assist on a Rodney Cooper trey that gave the Crimson Tide its first lead on the next possession. In the second half, Releford hit consecutive threes of his own over the Shockers' zone to tie the game and then take the lead. He finished with 22 points and six assists, a performance made more impressive by the fact that he was still working through the hip injury that caused him to miss this weekend's win over Charleston Southern.
But Releford's heroics were ultimately not enough. Wichita State withstood the rally thanks in large part to its three foul-plagued starters; there was one particularly nice sequence with about three minutes left in which Van Vleet grabbed a defensive rebound then fired off an outlet to Baker, who found Early in transition for a quick bucket that put the Shockers up three. When Releford found Cooper for a layup on the other end, Early responded by contorting himself amid contact to hit a jumper in the lane that became a three-point play. Van Vleet and Tekele Cotton sealed the games with free throws, followed by Releford missing a rushed three to close out the game, but for the Shockers, it was hardly ever in doubt. "We think that we're going to win," Marshall said of his team's mindset afterward. It's hard to disagree.
Cincinnati 44, Pittsburgh 43
A trio of clock malfunctions delayed the Jimmy V Classic's first game from getting fully underway, prompting ESPN analyst Jay Bilas to joke on the telecast that "not since the peach basket was nailed up as a first possession been this long." Unfortunately, as one might expect in a meeting between these former Big East rivals, things only picked up slightly from there.
This was Pittsburgh's first true challenge after 10 straight easy wins to open their season, and the results were less than encouraging. Both teams brought strong defenses into the Garden; the Panthers' advantage was supposed to be on offense, where they entered the game 12th in adjusted efficiency (per KenPom.com) and Cincinnati, which often struggles to supplement senior Sean Kilpatrick's scoring, ranked 125th. But over one prolonged, stagnant possession after another, Pittsburgh struggled to get anything going, enduring a field-goal drought of 8:55 in the first half and one of 13:45 in the second. And while the Panthers' defense deserves credit for its blanketing of Kilpatrick, the Bearcats' continued inconsistency on that end certainly played a role in their posting a score nearly as unsightly as Pitt's.
One bright spot for the Bearcats, particularly in the first half, was the play of senior forward Justin Jackson, who scored 10 of Cincinnati's first 18 points after scoring just one in a 64-47 loss to Xavier on Saturday. Jackson finished with a team-high 12 points, yet it was the tone he set on the offensive boards that may have been most crucial. He finished with five offensive rebounds, only one of which did not extend a possession that led to points. All told, Cincinnati had 14 offensive rebounds compared to Pittsburgh's 19 defensive. None were more important than that which resulted in the game's final basket: With the Panthers up by one and less than 10 seconds to play, Titus Rubles put back a missed Kilpatrick layup to give the Bearcats a one-point lead.
The Panthers - who had missed a chance to go up by as much as three when Lamar Patterson clanked two free throws on the previous possession - inbounded to Cameron Wright, who could only manage a desperate half-court heave that died in the paint at the buzzer. With that, Pitt too fell short, and will now have home dates with Cal Poly and Albany to sort itself out before ACC play. And Cincinnati, losers of two straight heading into the game, took a step in the right direction, however ugly it may have been.
Other notes:
South Florida 68, Florida Gulf Coast 66 (2 OT): The finish of the night was really a tease: With 0.3 seconds left and USF up by two, those Dunk City miracle-workers lobbed a full-court pass to Chase Fieler, who caught and shot the ball while leaping in the air for an apparent game-tying basket. But by NCAA rules, the only way a shot can take place within three-tenths of a second is if it is tipped in; a catch-and-shoot, even when it is seemingly executed in that time like Fieler's, is by definition not a basket. With the shot waved off, South Florida won. Watch for yourself below:
Murray State 73, Southern Illinois 65: The night's most viral-ready multimedia moment, however, belonged to Southern Illinois coach Barry Hinson. In his post-game press conference, Hinson called his team "mama's boys" and said in regards to their rebounding, "I've been telling my wife this for years: size doesn't matter." Watch below:
EXTRA MUSTARD: Southern Illinois coach explodes after loss, insists wife knows when to shot fake
New Mexico State 67, New Mexico 61: It's never easy to go into The Pit and win; it's probably even harder when you feel the mounting pressure of blowing an 18-point first-half lead. But the Aggies held on thanks to Renaldo Dixon's block of Cullen Neal's would-be game-tying layup on a fast break with 34 seconds to play and six free throws from K.C. Ross-Miller.
No. 6 Louisville 90, Missouri State 60: The Cardinals cruised in their final home game of 2013, led by Montrezl Harrell's 17 points and eight rebounds, plus an eight-assist effort from Russ Smith, eight boards from freshman guard Terry Rozier and a near double-double from freshman Mangok Mathiang (eight points, nine rebounds). Rick Pitino was impressed, telling reporters, "I don't know what was better: the defense, the offense or the offensive rebounding. It was just awesome in the first half."
No. 5 Michigan State 78, North Florida 48: Even with forward Matt Costello out with mononucleosis and Travis Trice sitting due to a foot blister, the Spartans had no trouble with the visiting Ospreys. Branden Dawson had 19 points and seven rebounds in the kind of win Michigan State needed after narrowly escaping with a 67-63 over Oakland this weekend. "Right now, we're scrambling," said Tom Izzo.
No. 7 Oklahoma State 75, Delaware State 43: It wasn't the kind of game that has Marcus Smart near the top of Wooden Award and NBA Draft lists, but the Cowboys didn't need it to be. Smart, who had eight points, four rebounds, three assists, and three steals, took a bit of a backseat to Le'Bryan Nash (14 points, eight boards) and Markel Brown (14 points), in the offense, which ramped up after halftime for a 45-point second period.
No. 13 Oregon 91, UC-Irvine 63:
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Bryan Howard
Legislative Director
U.S. Green Building Council
Representative Ron Kind (WI), alongside Senator Mark Udall (CO), recently introduced the Healthy Kids Outdoors Act. This bill would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to carry out programs and activities that connect Americans, especially children, youth, and families, with the outdoors. We asked Rep. Kind to tell us a bit more about the act, as well as how its intention relate to the goals of the green schools movement.
As an elected official and community advocate, you've long worked to protect and preserve our natural resources. You also have a strong personal commitment to physical activity and a leadership role in the Congressional Fitness Caucus. How have trends around outdoor activity changed in recent years?
Trends around outdoor activity have change significantly in recent years, particularly among our youth. Today, kids spend a majority of their time inside, plugged in playing video games or watching TV. Studies show that children spend less time outside today than at any other point in history. Kids spend half as much time outdoors as they did 20 years ago and on average 7.5 hours a day in front of electronic media. When it comes to outdoor play, children devote only 4-7 minutes each day to outdoor activity.
These statistics point toward a huge shift in the way kids "play." It is resulting in increased obesity rates and a lack of a connection with the outdoors and nature.
Could you describe what the Healthy Kids Outdoors Act does and how you and others in Congress determined this was needed?
An avid outdoorsman, there is nothing I enjoy more than spending weekends out hunting with my two boys. Unfortunately, this legacy of outdoor recreation isn't being passed down to enough of the next generation. The pull of technology and busy nature of today's families has resulted in a lack of physical activity amongst our kids and children staying indoors to play - resulting in a lack of appreciation for the outdoors and nature.
This growing nature deficiency threatens the future of conservation in this country, is impacting obesity rates, and threatens our national defense. In order to reverse these trends, I thought it was important to introduce legislation that would facilitate and promote outdoor recreation in our communities. This legislation provides state-level incentives to develop 5-year state strategies to connect children, youth, and families with nature.
As you know, Wisconsin is a leader in the green schools movement. Lake Mills Middle School in Lake Mills, WI is a LEED Platinum school, and Wisconsin was also one of 34 states that signed up to participate in the pilot year of the Department of Education's Green Ribbon Schools program. Tell us about the role of schools in promoting healthy lifestyles and how the Healthy Kids Outdoors Act can help in this effort.
Kids spend a majority of their time at school meaning that schools have to be a part of the equation in solving the obesity crisis. I have long advocated for an increased role for schools in assisting with this crisis, most notably with my Fitness Integrated with Teaching (FIT) Kids Act, H.R. 1057. This bill will work to get physical education back into schools. The Healthy Kids Outdoors Act can also provide schools with a role. The 5-year state strategies can include the upgrade of playground equipment or the addition of trails around schools, including recreation trails for students to walk and bike to school. In addition, these tools can be used during physical education class to get kids active while teaching them the importance of being active outdoors and enjoying nature.
In addition to the Healthy Kids Outdoors Act, what else will it take to end the childhood obesity epidemic?
It has to be a combination of factors, there is no silver bullet. And it can't be a top down approach from the federal government. It has to be a combination of incentives, greater family awareness, and work from community-based organizations that will help get this problem in check.
This is why I introduced the Healthy CHOICES Act during the last Congress. This bill was the first of its kind to work to comprehensively address the obesity epidemic. There are so many different areas that need to be the focus in order for us to get this problem under control that it requires work on many different levels and from many different facets. Everyone has a role to play, and passing initiatives like the Healthy Kids Outdoors Act, the FIT Kids Act, and initiatives included in the Healthy CHOICES Act will help facilitate change where it needs to happen first, at the family and local level.
How do you respond to people who question whether Congress should be involved with issues like this in light of other competing national priorities?
This issue is extremely important and should be a priority, because it affects so many other things happening in the national debate right now. Health care costs are the single largest factor impacting deficits in this country. If we don't get obesity under control, chronic health problems later in life will continue to cost the system billions of dollars each year. A lack of interest in the outdoors can also lead to a decline in the outdoor retail industry, which could seriously harm a major economic presence in rural America. Also, our military readiness is declining. Nearly one in four applicants for the military is rejected for being overweight or obese. This is why Congress has should be working to not only increase physical activity among our children but facilitate and promote outdoor recreation.
What can students, parents, educators and community advocates do to support the efforts to promote outdoor activity and pass the Healthy Kids Outdoors Act?
Grassroots support is crucial for a bill such as this. The more that people contact their representatives and let them know the importance of this legislation, the greater the chance that the member will pay attention to the cause and sponsor the bill. Gaining support and continued attention will give this bill the momentum it needs to move forward and help our children lead active, healthy lives.


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I am the new artist for Dangerous and Fluffy: the sheep of Doom! by Adam Cuerden, is it not a wondrous thing?
Subscribe to Graphic Smash so you can read it, it updates on Tuesdays. And *this* week it features Thor with no pants on, what could be better, eh?
I have discovered Super Sculpey and am making fuzzball sculptures for US$35 each, any creature you like (except not a centaur, coz I tried that and it just looked disturbing).
Also, you can order a Pantheon character around 15cm high, expect to pay at least US$50 for that. But it'll be good. Way better than the papier mache ones.
You can see the rahball I've made  here. A stachoo of Charios sniffing a flower is also on its way.
And remember, you need a soft toy fuzzball! Newest addition to the menagerie is a snowleopardball, and the dratted things are still only US$25 each! It's a miracle!