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Hi all, I'm seeking advice from anyone with experience or knowledge in International Schools.
I've been reading this forum with great interest, trying to ascertain if the teaching abroad life is for me.
I'm a qualified high school teacher with three years full-time experience in Australia. English is one of my teaching subjects. I'm looking at getting TEFL qualified this year.
I have often thought of getting TEFL-qualified and travelling around exotic countries teaching English. In theory, the idea really appeals to me. However, now that I'm a bit older and wiser (particularly after having read this forum), I'm still not sold on it. I don't know if the hassle of dodgy companies, low-paying schools, difficult visas and high-risk is for me - particularly since I would be doing this solo. And female.
I can't help but feel that an International school is a safer way to go. From what I have read, my qualifications are good enough to give me a chance, at least, at high-end positions like this. I don't have IB qualifications, which i imagine would be a bonus. But, I'm not sure how to go about starting?
Specific questions:
*I've visited a few different internationals schools as a student, and my understanding is they operate generally the same as Western private schools - where are you are teaching your specialised subject area to native English speakers. Is my impression correct?
*Am i correct in thinking that they're a safer, more legitimite option?
*What has people's experience been like as a teacher/administrator/parent there?
*Where do i hunt for jobs? Should I contact schools directly, or are there reputable organisations that gather job notices together?
*Is TEFL/TESOL a general requirement at internationals schools?
I appreciate any help or advice you are able to throw my way!
Thanks in advance.


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Petey, the Canisius mascot, has been voted the Best Catholic Mascot after the week-long, 32-team Catholic Mascotology Tournament held on BustedHalo.com.
Petey won the championship after a back-and-forth battle on Friday with Iggy of the Loyola Greyhounds. Petey advanced to the championship round with a 17-vote victory over the Fordham Ram in the semifinals.
Petey got to the semifinals with a decisive victory over the Iona College Gael. He opened the 32-mascot tournament with a win over the Wolf from St. Bonaventure in the first round and then defeated the Eagle from Boston College in the second round on Tuesday.
Thank you to all of our fans during the past week for voting every day and spreading the word throughout social media to other fans, friends and alumni of Canisius College to help vote Petey as the Best Catholic Mascot!

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The Starship vs. Spaceship Earth
Eric Steig & Ray Pierrehumbert
One of my (Eric's) favorite old books is The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower It's a 1970s book about a father (Freeman Dyson, theoretical physicist living in Princeton) and son (George Dyson, hippy kayaker living 90 ft up in a fir tree in British Columbia) that couldn't be more different, yet are strikingly similar in their originality and brilliance. I started out my career heading into astrophysics, and I'm also an avid sea kayaker and I grew up with the B.C. rainforest out my back door. So I think I have a sense of what drives these guys. Yet I've never understood how Freeman Dyson became such a climate contrarian and advocate for off-the-wall biogeoengineering solutions like carbon-eating trees, something we've written about before.
It turns out that Brower has wondered the same thing, and in a recent article in The Atlantic, he speculates on the answer. "How could someone as smart as Freeman Dyson," writes Brower, "be so wrong about climate change and other environmental concerns..?"
Brower goes through a number of possible explanations for the Dyson paradox, some easily dismissed (senility; he's a theoretician with no sense of practicality) some not so easily dismissed (he's only joking, don't take it seriously, he doesn't take it all that seriously himself). But in the end, for Brower, it seems to come down to two conspiring things about Dyson. The first is that Dyson has an abiding faith in the ability of technology to do anything we want it to. It's not surprising, then, that Dyson thinks we can 'fix climate' as well. That, in itself, makes Dyson not so much a "global warming skeptic" as an extreme techno-optimist. In fact, even leaving technology aside, he has a touching faith that whatever humans may do to the environment, it usually turns out for the best. In this essay, he writes:
"The natural ecology of England was uninterrupted and rather boring forest. Humans replaced the forest with an artificial landscape of grassland and moorland, fields and farms, with a much richer variety of plant and animal species. Quite recently, only about a thousand years ago, we introduced rabbits, a non-native species which had a profound effect on the ecology. Rabbits opened glades in the forest where flowering plants now flourish."
We daresay that the Australians have a somewhat less benign view of rabbits (as the New Zealanders do of possums). And that maybe Dyson has a thing or two to learn about the biodiversity of unmanaged ecosystems.
Second, Dyson's obsession has always been the stars, not the earth: he spent many years working on the design of a spaceship (hence the title of Brower's 30-year old book) that would take him there. It's not so much that he doesn't care about our home planet — he must have learned something about 'spaceship earth' from son George over the years. Rather, he is simply very confident that we can always get off if we have to. "What the secular faith of Dysonism offers," Brower writes" is, first, a hypertrophied version of the technological fix, and second, the fantasy that, should the fix fail, we have someplace else to go." Dyson has stated in many places, and in various ways, that he thinks global warming is not a big problem, and that its importance has been exaggerated. To put things in perspective, though, Dyson doesn't particularly think that the extirpation of all life other than human would be a particularly big deal "We are moving rapidly into the post-Darwinian era, when species other than our own will no longer exist, and the rules of Open Source sharing will be extended from the exchange of software to the exchange of genes," he is quoted as saying in Brower's article. Dyson's idea of what constitutes a "big problem" may be, well, just a bit different from what most of the rest of us might have in mind.
Brower's conclusions sound right on the mark to us, but don't fully explain Dyson. Perhaps Brower is being gentle, since he is an old friend, or perhaps he simply isn't aware of it, but one issue he does not touch on in his article is is how deceptive (apparently deliberately) Dyson can be.
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Discussion in 'November 2013' started by roscoe36, Oct 21, 2013.
When comparing Offensive ratings, I like to use an opposing player of similar height.
Note, I have this theory. You play a guy out of position, like Singler trying to guard big physical NBA small forwards, you get too tired to hit 3's. Anyway, Singler might do us better if he is played at shooting guard some, and meanwhile JJ could then play some small forward where he is at his best. In any case, Datome is waiting in the wings for his shot to show us how good his shot is. While on the subject of shooting, Pope knows he is struggling with his long range shots - but he still has to take at least some to try and get over the jitters. He did not shoot us out of the game, and he did switch to trying several inside shots after missing some outside ones. (And as I mentioned, 3 of his misses were slammed back, and another we got the offensive rebound.) I think Pope's shooting was very balanced between development of his shot, and helping us win the game at hand. That said, if Datome can shoot, and proves to be a bit more of a defender than Singler is, he could end up being our starting shooting guard.
Hell yeah! 1 down and 82 more to go! Some observations:On any given rebound opportunity, it looks like Piston bigs have the hoop surrounded. We will be top-5 in boards this season. The triple towers already seem to have some great chemistry with each other. On several occasions, Penguin, Moose and J-Smoove seemed to be tryin to out-do each other in a "drop a sweet dime to my fellow big man" contest. All three of these cats can dish!Maybe I'm just used to coaches that don't have an interest in winning games but I thought that coach lipstick did a pretty good job of managing the game. Other than sitting Drummond too long in the 2nd half, there's not much I would have liked him to do differently. I liked the way he let Kentavious play through some mistakes. It's nice having a coach that will actually call a timeout when the opposing team starts to get some momentum.With Jennings, I like our guard rotation. With Stuckey, not so much.Who says Josh Smith can't shoot 3s.Chauncey is like Lithium for this team. He calms everyone the efff down when things get haywire out there. He's our closer this season.This is gonna be a fun season!
Literally AOTG.
Just finished watching the game, the first must win-game win of the season! One of the advantages of living in Sweden is that our coverage of NBA is non-existent so I don't even have to avoid the sports pages unless TayJ goes off for 40+. The front court looked better than during preseason. It's going to be alot of fun to watch Detroit this season. Alot of wide open looks from three for Washington but that will most likely improve. KCP looks Drummond like from behind the arc so far but I like his overall game. What's up with the Wiz pick? They drafted a SF with the third pick, signed Webster to a fairly large deal and start Ariza.
Mo is catching some flack for Drum sitting in the 4th but it was the right move. I know the Drummond fan club doesn't want to hear it but the kid just ain't ready yet. He's struggling on defense, limited on offense and a poor FT shooter....until he fixes those things he should sit on the 4th especially when he has 5 fouls.
I don't know what AOTG means. Anyway, just pointing out, Pope's shooting, by luck or whatever, did not hurt us in this particular game since we kept getting the offensive boards, including 3 slam backs.
Chauncey looked much better than I expected. I think the front line is bigger, stronger, and faster than most everyone in the NBA. Moose was a machine last night, and Dre had some spectacular dunks. Smoove did a little of everything and did it very well. That being said, Drummond is still very raw, and I got the feeling there was quite a bit of confusion on defense, and some ad-libbing the offense. Once these guys get a little playing time together, I think they might really be something. Right now, I expect that they will be pretty inconsistent. I totally agree. He looks much better than he did 6 or 7 months ago, but Andre Drummond still has a ways to go to be a complete player. Watching Moose get it done in this game helped to highlight how raw Dre still is.
AOTG=Assist Off The Glass I think Darko used to get a lot of these.
Thanks, Roscoe. Glad you all are still holding it down in here. I thought Billups first game back was a good time to reappear. : ) Last night, for one night at least, it kind of felt like old times. I think we are headed in the right direction, finally.
raxret- i think we will be able to get something for Stuckey. I don't know about Bynum. In any case, neither of them is garbage, and I am not making any unrealistic proposals. Just saying I'd like to move them and get some D in return. I don't think Joe D has WANTED to move Stuckey. He has a man crush on the dude since his rookie year. In any case, it's a discussion for down the road, as I stated.
I like Drummond in the high 20 minute range. At least for the first few weeks. Can go 100%, foul whenever etc. His defense is raw to say the least. He was looking around for his guy a lot of times when there were multiple screens and action / motion.
The idea of being able to get a Tony Allen type lock down defender for Stuckey isn't realistic. It just comes down to player evaluation and how badly Joe wants to actually dump Stuckey. Either way, the front line looked great. Defense was lacking, but rotations and feel for one another will come in time. Anxious to see the line up when Jennings finally gets back...Pope can be a big part of this team, he needs to just work his way into the speed and flow of an NBA game. His defense looked strong. DEEETROOOIIIIT BAAAASKEEETBAAAALLLL!
Also, what a change of identity from going to work. We had like 50 points in the paint. No more 8 minute droughts of missed jays and treys over and over.
Aaahhh yes...the much vaunted 83 game season!
1st game and over 1,200 views for this thread. My guess is 200 of the views belong to Roscoe.
Last nights game was about as perfect as you could get. • Great games from the ballyhooed front court. • Josh Smith was about as awesome as you could hope for- 19 points, great shooting % , a crucial block, drew 2 charges, 5 Asts.....he just did it all. • Billups played near perfection and that 4th qtr gave him a great deal of credibility in the eyes of his team. • Solid game from the rook • Solid bench play Yesterday was a beautiful game to watch, we'll find out how legit it was on the road against Memphis.
I rewatched the game. Probably will watch it again tomorrow. Anyway, I concentrated on how our guards got the ball inside to our bigs. First of all, Bynum managed this twice in the game. Early 3rd, and early fourth quarters. Basically, we did get paint points from Bynum - from Bynum calling his own number. Very little from ball handling ability. Indeed, Bynum's ball handling ability was near non - existent in this game. Sketch: Bynum whips the pass to Singler. Almost a turn, but Singler manages to snag the ball. Then Singler drives and scores the conventional 3 point play. And this is as good as it gets for Bynum handling the ball. Much more often, he dribbles the ball to no point, finds a big out on the perimeter totally out of position to receive the ball, and a turnover soon results. I call that basketball abandonment by the point guard. Further, a lot of those passes resulted in turns, where it was questionable whose fault it was for the turn. Me, no, I am not being biased, I blame all of them on Bynum. Very bad passes from him all night. The good Bynum did, he knocked / stripped several balls loose. But the number of turns caused by Bynum was far less than the number of times Washington's gaurds blew past him, or shot over him, as if he was not there. Just to contrast that, sure, Pope made a couple of rookie mistakes, but he and Billups were extremely solid in this game on defense. More and more toward the end of the game, Washington went after our weak link, Bynum. Wall in particular had a field day scoring around Bynum and laying it in. Really, only some bad free throw shooting by Washington kept this game from getting too close to where coach would finally have to address the issue of Bynum repeatedly getting burnt by Washington. More to the good for Bynum. He only made the one 3, no other outside shots. Which means he scored 16 points going inside, either making the layup or getting fouled and making his free throws. I always do like someone who can draw fouls, especially. For our starting unit, the other four guys needed a ton of watching by Washington defensively. Keeping our post up scorer, Monroe, from scoring. Keeping Drum Drum off the glass. Keeping Smith off the glass and keeping him from nailing 3's or scoring inside. Keeping Billups from launching 3's. And they also had to watch Bynum who would sneak in on them and score the bucket. So Bynum may have helped in that respect. Me, in my opinion, we would have been better off using Siva, getting way better defense, and someone who can really handle the ball. I also watched Chauncy operate. Wow, he has lost like nothing, save, like I mentioned before, his midrange shot. Its the same old Billups, drive, and dish before the defense can react. Of course, Billups will have to start hitting his midrangers, and posting up people successfully to keep that effectiveness. I suspect that will be no problem for him. (as it would seem the hardest thing for Billups to keep up with is that certain outside shot.) Billups had 5 assists in this game, to just one turn. And he never gave the ball up without having improved our positioning toward getting a score. Just the usual, masterful, Chauncy Billups game. Now, Smith can handle the ball. We absolutely could move Mitchell into the starting unit and have Smith play shooting guard. He can bring the ball up and dish the assist as well as anyone. An extremely multitalented guy. I have read about this aspect of his game, but I never really paid attention to it when he played against us. Could he guard the opposing shooting guard. Maybe not. But he could do it better than Singler, who started as much as anyone for us at shooting guard last season. I am not saying it is a great idea, but I would say we should try it upon occasion. Can you imagine an extended front line of all of Smith, Mitchell, Monroe, Drummond? So anyway, ball handling was the main thing I looked for. I noticed that Pope made some good passes too, and of course all our bigs are willing passers to their fellow bigs. Can't remember though seeing the inside out type of stuff, say where Smith posts up and kicks it out to Billups for a 3. I imagine that will start happening though soon enought. Well, maybe anyway - so far they keep managing to find each other even closer to the basket. PS, Smith can bring the ball up and score, or dish and assist after bringing it up. A very unselfish player. And all 3 of his triples looked sweet too - one even kind of well contested. Let me see, was there anything else I happened to notice this time viewing the game? Got to mention the nice drive by JJ for the conventional 3 point play. No 3's made by JJ. Singler missed well short on all but his first 3 try, which went in. I don't think 3 is the right place for him. And I really think we would have done even better in this game if Singler had started along side Billups as the shooting guard. He could not have possibly done any worse on defense, and could not have done any worse on ball handling either. And that would have meant JJ got some time at small forward, where we could use him for now, at least until Datome is in the rotation. Monroe got the 3rd putback on a Pope miss - Drummond had the other two, both slam backs. Maybe Bynum was tired at the end of the game or what, but we simply quit even letting him touch the ball toward the end of the game. Billups and the other 3 guys ran plays, avoiding giving the ball to Bynum, who basically could not figure out what to do with the ball. (Still, Bynum did get 5 points for us in crunch time, 3 crucial free throws included.) After that 3rd consecutive made triple (by Smith after Billups made two), we were up 14 with just 4 minutes left in the game. A defensive substitution to get Bynum out of the game, and another to get Drummond in, should have been all she wrote. Too much drama at that point, including Bynum launching some ill advised misses too early in the shot clock. We really just had to play some solid D. If we had done that, we would not have needed any more scoring. But they were blowing by Bynum with near zero time ran off the clock. Singler did get that one key offensive rebound for us late in the game. It looked like a mighty chore for him though. JJ should have been in instead at the small forward spot if we could not get Drummond back in the game. Thats enough for this time. Probably will be watching it one more time. PS. After rewatching this game, there is no way I would say anything negative about Stuckey starting the next game, as long as it means getting Bynum out of the mix.
PS. To those who think my reporting of what I see is slanted against Will Bynum. You are wrong. I love watching Piston Basketball. I love to see the Pistons win. I was looking for the story on ball handling in this particular game, and expecting to find a whole lot of instances where Bynum did well. Instead, I found just two. And a ton of failures by him in doing anything with the basketball to help his teammates score. I am sorry, if you are one of the people who are a fan of Bynum. However, I report what I see, and that is that.
Forgot to mention, Pope did play a wee bit of small forward in this one.
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CARY, N.C. - North Carolina sophomore Esben Hess-Olesen has advanced to the championship match of the 2012 Intercollegiate Tennis Association Carolinas Regional in singles action. Action has been going on since Thursday at the Cary Tennis Center.
Hess-Olesen will play Cameron Silverman of Elon in Monday's championship match at 1 p.m. at the Cary Tennis Center. Silverman upset top-seed Henrique Cunha of Duke 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 in the other semifinal match on Sunday.
The sophomore from Viby, Denmark defeated second-seeded Chris Mengel of Duke 7-6 (5), 6-2 in Sunday afternoon's first semifinal match. Hess-Olesen was down 3-5 in the tiebreaker of the first set against Mengel, but then won four straight points to win the breaker 7-5. The ninth-seeded Hess-Olesen then won the second set over Mengel 6-2 to advance to the championship match.
In doubles Sunday, Hess-Olesen and Nelson Vick, the #7 seeded team, fell to top-seeded Henrique Cunha and Raphael Hemmeler of Duke in the quarterfinal round, 8-4.
2012 Intercollegiate Tennis Association Carolinas Regional
Cary Tennis Center
Cary, N.C.
October 18-21, 2012
Thursday, October 18
Singles First Round (Round of 128): Zack Bost (Appalachian State) d. James Coxe (UNC), No Result Available; William Parker (UNC) d. Hunter Whalen (Coastal Carolina), 6-1, 6-3; Stuart DePaolo (UNC) d. D.J. McCall (Duke), 6-2, 6-3; #7 Nelson Vick (UNC), Bye; Connor Daly (UNC) d. Tyler Droll (Furman), 6-2, 6-4; Josh Levine (Duke) d. Oystein Steiro (UNC), 6-3, 6-4; #9 Esben Hess-Olesen (UNC), bye; Tomas Bizon (South Carolina State) d. Taylor Meyer (UNC), 6-3, 3-6, 6-4; Brett Clark (UNC) d. Thiago Pinheiro (South Carolina), 6-3, 7-6 (3). Andrew Gores (UNC) d. Anton Protsenko (South Carolina State), 6-3, 6-3
Singles Second Round (Round of 64): William Parker (UNC) d. Dominique Maden (Clemson), 7-6 (3), 6-1; Cameron Silverman (Elon) d. Stuart DePaolo (UNC), 6-4, 2-6, 6-1; #7 Nelson Vick (UNC) d. Kaue Pereira (UNC Wilmington), 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; Hunter Harrington (Clemson) d. Connor Daly (UNC), 7-5, 6-3; #9 Esben Hess-Olesen (UNC) d. David Orces (The Citadel), 6-4, 6-2; Brett Clark (UNC) d. Peter Nagovnak (Winthrop), 7-5, 6-0; Kosta Blank (UNC Wilmington) d. Andrew Gores (UNC), 7-6 (1), 6-2
Consolation Singles First Round: Robert Lindgren (Elon) d. James Coxe (UNC), 6-1, 6-3; Oystein Steiro (UNC) d. Jose Fabara (N.C. Central), 6-4, 6-0; Taylor Meyer (UNC), Bye
Friday, October 19
Singles Third Round (Round of 32): William Parker (UNC) d. #9 Jason Tahir (Duke), 7-6 (3), 1-6, 6-3; #7 Nelson Vick (UNC) d. Hunter Harrington (Clemson), 3-6, 7-5, 7-5; #9 Esben Hess-Olesen (UNC) d. Josh Levine (Duke), 6-2, 6-4; Brett Clark (UNC) d. #6 Raphael Hemmeler (Duke), 7-6 (5), 6-2
Singles Fourth Road (Round of 16): #5 Andrew Adams d. William Parker (UNC), 6-1, 6-1; #9 Michael Redlicki (Duke) d. #7 Nelson Vick (UNC), 6-7 (5), 7-6 (4), 6-2; #9 Esben Hess-Olesen (UNC) d. #8 Andrew Mellow (Furman), 6-2, 6-3; Sam Williams (UNC Wilmington) d. Brett Clark (UNC), 6-1, 6-7 (6), 6-2
Consolation Singles (Second Round): Oystein Steiro (UNC) d. David Clavera (Campbell), 6-1, 6-2; Taylor Meyer (UNC) d. Simon Norenius (NC State),, 6-2, 6-3
Consolation Singles (Third Round): Oystein Steiro (UNC) d. Thomas Weigel (NC State), 6-2, 7-6 (2); Taylor Meyer (UNC) d. Carloa Arboleda (Elon), 6-1, 3-6, 6-1
First Round (Round of 64): Brett Clark/William Parker (UNC) d. Chip Cox/Kyle Koch (South Carolina), 8-4; Tomas Bizon/Anton Protsenko (South Carolina State) d. Stuart DePaolo/Oystein Steiro (UNC), 9-8 (5); Gerardo Meza/Ayrton Wibowo (Clemson) d. James Coxe/Andrew Gores, default; #7 Ebsen Hess-Olesen/Nelson Vick (UNC), Bye; Brian Allanic/Sebastian Lopez (College of Charleston) d. Connor Daly/Taylor Meyer (UNC), 8-2
Saturday, October 20
Singles Quarterfinals: #9 Esben Hess-Olesen (UNC) d. Yanick Maden (Clemson), 6-3, 6-7 (1), 6-3
Consolation Singles (Quarterfinals): Taylor Meyer (UNC) d. Joe Schaffer (Davidson), 5-7, 6-4, 6-3
Consolation Singles (Semifinals): Chip Cox (South Carolina) d. Taylor Meyer (UNC), 6-4, 6-3
Second Round (Round of 32): #7 Nelson Vick/Esben Hess-Olesen (UNC) d. Austin Powell/Thomas Wiegel (NC State), 8-6; #6 Michael Redlicki/Jason Tahir (Duke) d. Brett Clark/William Parker (UNC), 9-8 (6)
Third Round (Round of 16): #7 Nelson Vick/Esben Hess-Olesen (UNC) d. Pedro Mol/Zach Hablitz (UNC Wilmington), 8-5
Consolation Doubles (First Round): Stuart DePaolo/Oystein Steiro (UNC) d. A Baro/Adrien Rossignon (Campbell), 8-6
Consolation Doubles (Second Round): Stuart DePaolo/Oystein Steiro (UNC) d. John Schmitt/Mario Martinez (East Carolina), 8-6
Sunday, October 21
Singles Semifinals: #7 Esben Hess-Olesen (UNC) d. #2 Chris Mengel (Duke), 7-6 (5), 6-2
Doubles Quarterfinals: #1 Henrique Cunha/Raphael Hemmeler (Duke) d. #7 Nelson Vick/Esben Hess-Olesen, 8-4


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Finished the 45 the other day. Still need to test fire, but it hand cycled rounds just fine. I still need to refinish a few parts that I had to grind on/fit. Wood furnature with all gray parts right now. It'll either stay gray or get guncoated in that dark gray parkerized/olive drab color from KG Guncoat. Here's a run down on the 45's components:
Aussie L1A1 Lower with coachwood stock/grip
Modified metric Bolt/Carrier - Rhineland
45 Thompson mag adapter - Rhineland
161/8 inch 45ACP Barrel (Rhineland) with Inch type gas block installed
Aussie laminated handguards
Century Type 3 receiver
I used a Century receiver on this and the 9mm. The typical issues with them aren't a player in these simple blowback conversions. The conversion parts were had from a market place buy. The gas block only serves to hold the front sight and as a mounting point for the handguards.
US Parts:
Original Thompson Magazines (count as 3 parts)
Only need 5 since the muzzle is nude and the gas piston is ommited. A fairly cheap project....for a FAL that is. This one came in at about $475.
Short and stubby with a fat barrel. It's a toss up of which I like better. This one or my all black L1A1/Sten 9mm conversion.
The 9mm I did last summer. It runs just fine. I might swap out the alluminum front sight base/fake gas block for an L1A1 gas block when I have some spare time. That'll make it look a bit more proper. US parts on it are the barrel, bolt/carrier unit, receiver, FSE H/T/S.
Crappy Pix, but the best I can do for now....
The pair, but with a shorter Sten mag I modified
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This is a great book to have for those who are security practitioners. While some may say this is very similar to those "hacking" books out on the market, I see a difference. One thing stands out is that the author provides a lot of his experience drawing from the field. He does not just talk about how to use the tools, he also goes into the reasons/depth behind why this is happening. For example, in the Windows Networking Services, I learned a lot about the Samba exploits and brute force password attacks. Another good example is the format string overflow, where the author provides a lot of pointers for further readings on the topic. Finally, the list of hacker sites listed in the Appendix comes in handy because there are tons of evil hacking tools (or treasures, depending how you look at it) out there that every security practitioners should know about to combat against these malicious hackers.James Ko, CISSPOAM & Security, Data Network Engineering
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The sample chapter is definitive, covering all the right bases of network mapping and scanning techniques. I've preordered a copy, and think its great that someone with a past has written this (instead of others who have written very simple books aligned with SANS and other organizations). Can't wait to get this book in the post in the coming weeks!!
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By xavier mitchell
hmm,I found the sample chapter pretty useful - perhaps I'm not as clever as some of the other people here.is this a witch hunt? I'm not from USA, not read the *whole* book which hasn't been released yet, but looks to me like a lot of very excited people in US. yawn. I can't find the book on PDF to download. seems like a lot of talk. also labtekwon who are you? you can't find some guy on google - so its a conspiracy... hahah we make fun of people like you over here. I searched for your name, but couldn't find it. post some links to where you are mentioned - maybe you are all same person! I wish people just review the book, your comments are all worthless.
By Shahid
Chris, I read the beta chapter and your book is a eye opener! I already preordered it and desparately waiting for its release. Keep up the good work and ignore the ignarant people.
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Just a note of clarification - the "reader review" referred to earlier was deleted because it contained an explicit call to violence and was not in fact a review of the book at all.
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Well it's 3:50am on Sunday morning, and I've been talking to Kyle and my editors about some character assassination attempts by an individual who seems hell-bent on branding me as a terrorist. What is funny to me, are the convictions and motives of this anonymous individual, who is part of the GOBBLES group, and responsible for similar character assassination attempts in the past (leading to Ryan Russell's dismissal from SecurityFocus.com, for example). ORA have provided me with a lot of support over this, and my book will be published.In response to this individual's allegations, which contain some elements of truth, but a lot of incorrect details, I've put together an article for O'Reilly, titled The Journey From Poacher to Gamekeeper, which fully documents the truth of my career as a teenage hacker (from 1996-1999) and as a security consultant (from 2000 to present), including my membership of various groups, including Rhino9, and Masters of Downloading. This article is available for you to all read from Monday, in black and white, so that you can draw your own conclusions.My book is not plagarised from the ISS Ethical Hacking PDF, which was co-incidentally written by one of my technical reviewers a number of years ago! Also, I have a number of personal and professional references from individuals in USA and UK government and law enforcement, so I can't see how I could possibly be a terrorist with this endorsement.Anway, on to the book--It is a technical attack and penetration guide, written in line with UK (CESG CHECK) and USA (NSA IAM) testing standards. I use my experience from both sides of the fence to fully discuss all of the techniques used by blackhat attackers and security consultants alike, allowing readers to correctly fortify and protect their networks from attack into the future.A number of technical reviewers from professional security consultancy companies, the US military, government, and other areas, have given glowing reviews, and provided me with some excellent insight into areas of improvement for the book. Hopefully, by reading the book itself (which is not distributed until March 19th), you can draw your own conclusions, and post an accurate review in your own words here.
Considering the fact that this book has not yet left our warehouse, I'm suprised by the amount and vehemence of the criticism. I hope that when the book reaches a larger audience, we'll have an informed and spirited dialogue about its strengths and weaknesses.For the reviewer who last read the manuscript while it was still being written (I wont comment on the "hacking Chris's system" part), I hope you'll try again now that the book is finished, considering that significant changes are made in a book as it is developed.One more thing,I think most folks who are familiar with O'Reilly know that supporting terrorism is not what we're all about...Happy Friday.
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Re: Inspired by Alley Cat
Excellent + want; love the way you did the fence and the coloring.
Re: Inspired by Balloon Fight
love the energy
Re: Inspired by CAVE STORY
cute : )
Re: Inspired by Wolfenstein (Chibi Version)
Re: Inspired by Star Fox (RESUB)
Re: Inspired by Star Fox Adventures
This. Is. Awesome!
Re: inspired by Wolfenstein 3D
This makes me happy.
Re: Inspired by Castlevania
This castle is so vain it can't stop staring at itself in the mirror.
Re: Inspired by StarFox
Crazy Crazy Good
Re: Skooma Lover - Inspired by Skyrim
No text this week. You might want to redo this... or just give it up since text seems to be the main thing.
Re: Geek Food - Inspired by Several VideoGames
no text this week. you might want to remove and resub.
cfadden wrote:While simple I think this design is also @!#?@
But they might get you on the no text rule this week.
want. love the purple
would be icing on the cake if it could be glow in the dark ! But I don't think woot does that. bummer.
Re: Caution Banana - Inspired by Mario
no text this week
Nicely done. I was hoping someone would come up with a design for Infinity Blade.
Bagging on your own design?
Re: Inspired by Pac(k)...man
You needed a comment on here.
So here is a comment.
Is that a headless kid or a blue suitcase with legs on the lower left there?
GMV, btw.
eta: This is reminiscent of early Hanna Barbera.
gameon wrote:I showed this to a friend and they didn't understand the joke. Here is a link to the kind of olives I am talking about:
A pair of cans (hush) would have probably been more identifiable than individual olives, maybe?
Re: Inspired by MINESWEEPER
Re: Inspired by Katamari Damacy
So many cats! I like it!
Re: Inspired by Final Fantasy
Love the way you did the shadows, Ocho!
Hey - does anyone think it's too late to throw a design in?
This is really a good design, well executed and looks great on the shirt color. Too bad that it's not getting more votes because I would like to wear this one.
Re: Inspired by Portal
This looks like the beginning of Myst, when the man is falling. Though a different game, this shirt is pretty cool!
cfdunbar wrote:Hey - does anyone think it's too late to throw a design in?
I would say yes, but the last time I said that to SpiritGreen, he got selected for print. I say go for it, and if you don't shoot up in 24 hours, yank it.
Re: Inspired by Super Princess Peach
tomspc wrote:I've seen shirts rejected for hieroglyphics in a no text derby.
In derbies where the rules state 'no text', this means that any symbol, letter, or number is prohibited. This applies to any key on the keyboard, foreign language script, dollar signs, exclamation points, 'at' symbols, etc.
where are music notes at on the keyboard??
by the way, i love this design! Great job
Re: Inspired by Wolfenstein 3D
kinda agree i would like it a lot more without the glasses. but i still love it and it got my vote... but i would actually buy it if it didn't have the glasses
Haha thanks. This submission needs some love...
It's actually one if the kids wearing a blue blanket trying to be a ghost. Probably needs some eyes to push it across but I didn't want to show the front of any of the kids. Oh well :D
This one wants to glooooooooow. ^_^
This makes my eyes hurt.
I totally want one.
Re: Inspired by Street Fighter
Oh, I like this design. *squeal*
L3g3ndQ wrote:where are music notes at on the keyboard??
by the way, i love this design! Great job
alt 13 and alt 14
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Re: Inspired by Duke Nukem
So is this a reference to John Wayne?
Re: Inspired by: Monkey Island
nice coconuts
voolan1180 wrote:Oh no! So horrible! (I like it) +1
Thanks Voolan! I'm actually surprised it's not doing better- must be TOO HORRIBLE... ;)
fuacka wrote:Love Steampunk style!
Thanks Fuaka! Seemed appropriate on multiple angles- I imagine Lucca carrying around this weapon!
j5 wrote:A pair of cans (hush) would have probably been more identifiable than individual olives, maybe?
Yeah, you're probably right. Oh well, live and learn
nimrond wrote:So is this a reference to John Wayne?
Indeed it is. (Or at least it is trying to be.)
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Beck Walks All Over Detroit In Pursuit Of "His Own Agenda"
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For the past week, Glenn Beck has been heavily criticized for bashing Detroit and for comparing the Michigan city to Hiroshima after it was bombed during World War II. This isn't the first time Beck has railed against the city; he has attacked Detroit for years in pursuit of what one local pastor calls "his agenda."
Detroit Pastors Challenge Beck's Attacks On Their City
Detroit Pastors: There Is A Side To Detroit "That's Often Ignored In These Negative Portrayals And Pounding." Following Beck's Detroit-Hiroshima comparison, two Detroit pastors, Reverend Horace Sheffield and Reverend Charles Williams, reportedly requested a meeting with Beck to try to "give [him] a clearer perspective" of the city. ClickOnDetroit.com reported:
"We indicated that we weren't here to rant and rave and jump on tables but we thought there was another side to the story that's often ignored in these negative portrayals and pounding on Detroit," Sheffield said.
The two ministers had a conversation with a program director and exchanged e-mails with Beck's producer.
Sheffield said the goal is to sit down and discuss issues.
"Detroit is much more than the few vignettes that were shown. I mean, Detroit is a city that could have gone down the tubers if people had not stayed inside and fought and the last is going to be first. So just stay tuned, we're not through yet," Sheffield said. [ClickOnDetroit.com, 3/2/11]
MLive.com: Sheffield "Believes That Beck Simplified Detroit's Story To Serve His Own Agenda." In a March 4 MLive.com article reporting on how Beck did not meet with Sheffield and other pastors to discuss his comments, Jonathan Oosting wrote:
Sheffield -- along with Rev. Charles Williams an attorney Karen DeSoto, who has appeared as a guest on Fox News -- attempted to confront Beck in NYC for "a broader discussion as opposed to just his diatribe," he told host Frank Beckmann Thursday on WJR-AM 760.
To no one's surprise, Beck didn't take the meeting. But Sheffield said he talked with program director Bill Schein and laid the groundwork for a future conversation.
"My message, quite simply, was that we're in the process of reframing Detroit," Sheffield said, noting he didn't disagree with Beck on all fronts. "People have a rather narrow lens through which they judge us. Yes, we have some responsibility to get out of where we find ourselves. There has been political corruption. There is crime. There is decay.
"But on the other hand there's an ignoral of year's of social policy, the decline of population and other some other factors that have led to Detroit being in the situation it is."
Sheffield, who previously challenged NBC executives over an hour-long Dateline special on Detroit," believes that Beck simplified Detroit's story to serve his own agenda. In the process, he said, Beck failed to address the citizens struggling to make a difference in their city despite recent corruption.
"The social decay, the physical blight that exists and is a drain," he said."It's a pull on the spirit. But my whole point is Glenn Beck's perception is not Detroit's reality." [MLive.com, 3/4/11]
Beck Has A Long History Of Skewering Detroit
Beck Invokes The "Perfect Storm" To Claim "America Will Look Like Detroit In The End." Discussing Detroit with a caller, Beck outlined what he called the "perfect storm" that hit the city and "caused [it] to go down." He then argued that "America will look like Detroit in the end":
BECK: Detroit was one of America's great cities at one point, and great, great culture came out of Detroit. Unfortunately, and it's not one -- just one thing that caused Detroit to go down. To blame it on labor unions is naïve. To blame it on the big three automakers -- I should say the big two automakers. Ford, I don't think, has ever asked for a bailout, have they?
BECK: They never took it, and I don't think they ever have. Chrysler did and GM did. Those were bad corporations that were never allowed to fail. Then you had the labor unions who were pushing them to the brink. Then you had corruption in the government and you've had at least 50 years of progressive policies. That is the perfect storm, right there. Corruption, businesses not laying -- being allowed to fail, labor unions pushing all of the buttons to the edge of disaster -- I mean, that's what we're engaging in now. And America will look like Detroit in the end. [Premiere Radio Networks, The Glenn Beck Program, 3/3/11]
Beck: "I Don't Even Know If There Are Lights Left In Detroit." On his radio show, Beck agreed with a caller who declared that her father was "prophetic" when he said that "the unions are going to ruin" Detroit. Beck then addressed the criticism surrounding his Hiroshima comments:
BECK: He was right. It was the unions. It was bad companies. It was the progressive lock on that city for more than 50 years. That's what happens. Now, Detroit is killing me for what I did last night. I guess we led the 11 o'clock news on most channels last night in Detroit. I don't know -- I mean, what are there four people left watching the local news in Detroit? I don't even know how many people are even left in Detroit?
Last one out -- well, don't turn off the lights 'cause I don't -- I mean, I don't even know if there are lights left in Detroit. But it is true. And you can either -- you know, don't kill the messenger. It is the progressive policies, along with bad companies not allowed to fail and out-of-control unions that killed Detroit. Wanna fix it? Stop those three things. [Premiere Radio Networks, The Glenn Beck Program, 3/1/11]
Beck Likens Detroit To Hiroshima "Destruction." On his Fox News show, Beck cited Detroit as an example of the "the kind of dream progressive policies lead to," and stated:
BECK: Here's a city that when Hiroshima looked like it did in destruction, this city looked like this. It was thriving. It's Detroit, Michigan. But take a look at Detroit today. One city embraced the free-market system and the entrepreneurial spirit; the other embraced progressive policies and corrupt government and unions, and companies that weren't allowed to fail -- and they should've failed 'cause they stunk on ice. They begged for a bailout and got one, and the union bosses did their fair share, too. Whereas, Hiroshima has nearly quadrupled in size since the attack. Not so much with Detroit.
BECK: Oh, you can blame Ford and GM -- their bad corporate policies, and those policies because of the progressives weren't allowed to reset. Nobody allowed them to fail. Bad policies and union deals helped rot this city from the core. This is the path, America, that we are now embracing. [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 2/28/11]
Beck: "Show Me The People That Have Been Empowered In Detroit. ... They're Enslaved." Arguing that the government, because of new health and education guidelines, is trying to "destroy" man's capability to rule himself, and is "destroying empowerment," Beck stated:
BECK: You tell me that the government isn't destroying empowerment. Look at every city where the progressive left have had control. Show me where -- show me the people that have been empowered in Detroit. Show me the people that have been empowered in Oakland. Show me the people that have been powered in Washington, D.C. They're not empowered; they're enslaved. And show me how the government is encouraging entrepreneur and the small businessman. Show it to me. They're not. [Premiere Radio Networks, The Glenn Beck Program, 2/1/11]
Beck: "Have You Been To Detroit? It More Resembles The Ruins Of Persepolis Than Anything In America." On his Fox News show, Beck singled out Detroit as one of the cities that "have been controlled by progressive Democrats for decades," and stated:
BECK: Now, let's look at the cities, shall we, that have been controlled by progressive Democrats for decades -- like Detroit. Have you seen the latest from the Guardian? It's a photo slide show of the ruins of Detroit.
BECK: Have you been to Detroit? It's -- it more resembles the ruins of Persepolis than anything in America. There you go, the ruins. Actually, that looks nicer than Detroit. [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 1/5/11]
Beck On Foreign Aid To Haiti: "Have You Been To Detroit Lately, Mr. President?" Commenting on foreign aid to Haiti in the wake of that country's massive earthquake, Beck stated:
BECK: I support going in with the Army, Navy, Air Force infrastructure, everything we have, to help secure Haiti because the people need to be safe. And we are the ones with the giant ships that are hospitals, and they're in our neighborhood, and we need to do that. But let the private sector pour in the aid; let the private sector spend the money there. Instead, Barack Obama is gonna go back and he's gonna rebuild that country -- and they're already talking about how we're going to rebuild it. Have you been to Detroit lately, Mr. President? You're not the best at rebuilding anything. [Premiere Radio Networks, The Glenn Beck Program, 1/15/10]
Beck: "No Offense, Detroit, But -- I Mean, Does Your Electricity Even Work Anymore?" While attacking the health care reform bill that had yet to become law, Beck stated:
BECK: Well, the other day I had the AARP people here. And I said, "How can you possibly be for health care," and they said, "Oh, we don't see anything hurtful to seniors in that health care package. It looks great to us."
And to me, that sounded the same as, "Well, Glenn, I just found out I'm related to a Nigerian prince. He's going to wire me $10 million. All I have to do is give him $10,000 and my bank account number," and you're like, "No, no, no, that's a scam." "Oh, stop it, you're crazy. It doesn't say anywhere in the e-mail that it's a scam, plus, he made a promise with his pinky."
How many times have politicians promised us, both Republicans and Democrats, have promised us the moon and given us Detroit? No offense, Detroit, but -- I mean, does your electricity even work anymore? You keep on voting in the same people, and in Detroit, the median home price now is $7,500. [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 8/6/09, via Nexis]
Beck Likens Detroit To "Mosquito Infested," "Desolate, Frozen Tundra." While advocating for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), Beck stated:
BECK: Now let's look at the way the media loves to portray this area. They usually show you things like this, a beautiful picture of gorgeous mountains and flowery valleys. Or maybe this, oh, it's a rainbow reaching down from the mountaintop. Where's Julie Andrews?
The truth is the pictures I just showed you are of ANWR, but did it look like a coastal plain to you? No. Those pictures are all taken in the southern part of ANWR where everything is majestic and pristine and where, more importantly, nobody is even asking to drill there.
It's like taking a picture of one house, a nice one, the one that exists in downtown Detroit, and then saying we should never, ever renovate another building in Detroit. I mean, look how beautiful it is there. You're kidding me, right?
The pictures you see of ANWR on TV do not represent the area that anyone is talking about drilling in. So what does that area actually look like? Well, here are a few pictures that the "National Review's" Jonah Goldberg took. He took a trip out there.
Wow, look how pretty that is. It's flat, it's watery. Mosquito infested for your enjoyment during the summer months. It looks exactly like Prudhoe Bay which is just a couple hundred miles in the other direction. We have been drilling for oil there for years. And when all the cute caribou leave for the winter, ANWR looks even more like Prudhoe Bay; a snowy, barren wasteland that, I say, looks pretty good with that big oil well sticking out of it.
Now, if you don't want to drill in a desolate, frozen tundra we bought for its natural resources, that's fine. I think you're an idiot, but who am I to judge? [CNN Headline News, Glenn Beck, 7/23/08, via Nexis]
Beck: "I'm Driving Into Detroit And I Swear To You It Looks Like Baghdad." On his CNN Headline News show, Beck likened Detroit to Baghdad, adding, "It is in bad shape." From the show:
CHRIS GARDNER (author): Let's look at not just how many jobs we've lost in this country, we've lost a few industries. I was in Detroit recently and I've got to tell you I love the city, it will never be the same.
BECK: Come on man.
GARDNER: It will never be the same.
BECK: I landed in Detroit about a month ago. I'm driving into Detroit and I swear to you it looks like Baghdad. It is in bad shape.
GARDNER: There is no traffic. You know why there's no traffic there? Ain't nobody got any place to go. There's no jobs.
BECK: But isn't that because of bad government?
GARDNER: You know what?
BECK: Texas, they are creating jobs left and right in Texas.
GARDNER: A portion of it might be bad government. But what about the guys who are running the automotive industry who didn't see it coming? Who didn't see, whoa, wait a minute, we've got to create a new kind of product.
BECK: You had to be blind. [CNN Headline News, Glenn Beck, 3/7/08, via Nexis]
Beck Conjures Imagery Of Detroit "On Fire." Talking about a recent trip to Detroit, Beck stated that the city "looks like Baghdad." He added: "I look out, and there are fuel refineries out there. My first thought was Detroit is on fire." From the show:
STEPHEN MOORE (The Wall Street Journal): I grew up in Chicago -- we used to actually take trips to Michigan in the '60s and early '70s. And, you know, it was the symbol of America's economic industrial might.
BECK: Right.
MOORE: You know, you'd go to those steel companies and you'd go to the auto firms and see them churning out these products. And it's sort of sad to see what's happened to this great state, that it's in -- I think Michigan is in a depression right now.
BECK: Oh, I think -- I think Detroit is -- Detroit looks like Baghdad. It really does. There are parts of it -- I mean, I was up at the top of the General Motors building having dinner, I don't know, a few months back, and I look out, and there are fuel refineries out there. My first thought was Detroit is on fire.
MOORE: Yes. But, you know, the interesting thing about the auto industry is, you know, in the last 10 years or so, we've actually been gaining auto jobs in other states outside of Michigan. [CNN Headline News, Glenn Beck, 1/14/08, via Nexis]
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Building Wireless Community Networks is about getting people online using wireless network technology. The 802.11b standard (also known as WiFi) makes it possible to network towns, schools, neighborhoods, small business, and almost any kind of organization. All that's required is a willingness to cooperate and share resources.The first edition of this book helped thousands of people engage in community networking activities. At the time, it was impossible to predict how quickly and thoroughly WiFi would penetrate the marketplace. Today, with WiFi-enabled computers almost as common as Ethernet, it makes even more sense to take the next step and network your community using nothing but freely available radio spectrum.This book has showed many people how to make their network available, even from the park bench, how to extend high-speed Internet access into the many areas not served by DSL and cable providers, and how to build working communities and a shared though intangible network. All that's required to create an access point for high-speed Internet connection is a gateway or base station. Once that is set up, any computer with a wireless card can log onto the network and share its resources.Rob Flickenger built such a network in northern California, and continues to participate in network-building efforts. His nuts-and-bolts guide covers:
Rob Flickenger has been a professional systems administrator for more than 10 years, and all around hacker for as long as he can remember. Rob enjoys spreading the good word of open networks, open standards, and ubiquitous wireless networking. His current professional project is Metrix Communication LLC, which provides wireless hardware and software that embodies the same open source principles he rants about in his books. Rob also works with the U.N. and various international organizations to bring these ideas to places where communications infrastructure is badly needed. He hopes that all of this effort is contributing toward the ultimate goal of infinite bandwidth everywhere for free. He is the author of two other O'Reilly books: Linux Server Hacks and Wireless Hacks.
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Awesome book! It is a great read, although it focuses mostly on Linux (which is fine since Linux IS cheaper), but I would have liked to see more coverage on a windows based network since more people use Windows. Of course, I already know a lot about it so figuring out how it all works isn't all that hard. This book is awesome!
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May 08, 2015 – Jimmy Buffett receives honorary doctorate of music from University of Miami, and regales graduating students with tales from his life and why passion is key.
June 02, 2014 – Frost junior percussion major Maria Chlebus won 3rd prize competing on the marimba in the finals of the Ima Hogg Competition in Houston, Texas
February 11, 2014 – University of Miami Frost School of Music and Academic Partnerships launch Frost Online to provide conversion, recruitment and retention services for the Frost School of Music's renowned programs. (Pending SACS approval.)
February 08, 2014 – Generous gift from Swanee and Paul J. DiMare to University of Miami Frost School of Music supports fund to build new recital hall in the heart of UM's Coral Gables Campus.
December 15, 2013 – Frost School of Music proudly announces that Brian Losch, B.S. '08, a recent graduate of the Music Engineering Technology program, garnered a 2014 Grammy Nomination in Best Engineered Classical Album category for Dawn Upshaw's Winter Morning Walks.
December 12, 2013 – Grammy Award Nominations Garnered by UM Frost School of Music Dean Shelly Berg, UM Trustee and Superstar Gloria Estefan, and HMI Artistic Director Terence Blanchard.
December 07, 2013 – Clarke, a UM trustee who grew his father's Coral Gables-based engineering firm into a worldwide leader in custom-made avionics control panels and audio systems and donated funds to build a UM music recital hall that bears his name, passed away Nov 27
November 28, 2013 – UM Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music presents its annual holiday gala dinner, Winter Wonderful, on Sunday, December 8, 2013 to benefit music scholarships, choral and music mentoring programs.
August 01, 2013 – Frost students in the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra performed with Gloria Estefan during a live PBS television special taping at the New World Center in Miami Beach featuring selections from her new album 'Gloria Estefan: The Standards.'
January 18, 2013 – The Cleveland Orchestra returns to the Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music on January 29-February 1 on the University of Miami's Coral Gables campus for an expanded annual residency
January 16, 2013 – Frost School of Music presents blues-rock legend Steve Miller as part of the 2012-2013 Stamps Family Distinguished Visitors Series.
December 21, 2012 – The Department of Studio Music and Jazz at the University of Miami Frost School of Music exceed 325,000 video views this week on YouTube.
December 11, 2012 – Dean of the Frost School of Music and pianist-arranger-composer, Shelly Berg, was nominated for a Grammy award in the category "Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist."
December 05, 2012 – Shelly Berg, Dean of the Frost School of Music, and Svet Stoyanov, Associate Professor of Instrumental Performance and Program Director of Percussion at Frost were featured speakers at TEDxMIA conference in Miami Beach.
November 12, 2012 – The Frost School of Music present its holiday gala dinner, Winter Wonderful, at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, December 2, 2012 at the JW Marriott Marquis Hotel.
October 24, 2012 – UM Frost School of Music's Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra to Play Duke Ellington's "Nutcracker Suite" and Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" as part of Terence Blanchard Presents: A Concert of American Music. $15 adults, $10 seniors/children.
September 28, 2012 – The University of Miami Frost School of Music is pleased to present Leon Fleisher, Jason Moran, Charles Lazarus, Steve Miller, Peter R. Webster, and Douglas J. Cuomo as part of the 2012-2013 Stamps Family Distinguished Visitors Series.
September 21, 2012 – Florida's Premier Music Festival Announces Concert Highlights for Fall 2012
August 02, 2012 – The Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music has received a $500,000 pledge from Los Angeles-based music philanthropist Virginia "Ginny" Mancini to support the Artistic Director position of the Henry Mancini Institute at the Frost School of Music.
May 23, 2012 – The 2012 edition of Score magazine was published this month by UM Frost School of Music and distributed to all active music alumni, donors, new grads, students, faculty and others.
May 15, 2012 – Multi-Grammy Award winning music producer, singer, rapper and composer Pharrell Williams records new work for orchestra entitled 'i am Other' with Frost School's Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra.
May 11, 2012 – The Frost School of Music names undergraduate music students as the 2012 Frost School of Music Outstanding Seniors for their academic and artistic excellence.
May 10, 2012 – The Frost School of Music congratulates the Class of 2012 as they commence from university life to their professional careers.
March 11, 2012 – The Frost School of Music's goal for Momentum2 is to raise $40 million to construct new music buildings, as well as dramatically increase music scholarships, faculty endowments, and programmatic support, including outreach and mentoring programs.
March 08, 2012 – Giancarlo Guerrero, principal guest conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra Miami, coaches conducting students as well as ensembles at the University of Miami Frost School of Music.
February 27, 2012 – Star trumpeter/pianist/composer founds the Arturo Sandoval/Audio-Technica Scholarship for the Young Musicians' Camp in honor of Audio-Technica's 50th anniversary
February 17, 2012 – Institution hopes to raise $1.6 billion by the year 2016; $906 million already raised, as campaign gets under way with $100 million lead gift from Diabetes Research Institute Foundation.


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By Chris Harris
Arsenal have had their critics this season but the players never lost faith in themselves, according to Wojciech Szczesny.
Arsène Wenger's side had to settle for one point from their first two Premier League games and, although a number of players have joined the Club this summer, the departures of Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri have fuelled doubts about the squad.
When Antonio di Natale headed Udinese level on aggregate in Wednesday's vital Champions League play-off, Arsenal's run of 13 consecutive years in the group stage looked under threat. But second-half goals from Robin van Persie and Theo Walcott took the Gunners through.
Szczesny's stunning penalty save helped turn the tide in Arsenal's favour and the Polish goalkeeper insists that he and his team-mates had never lost heart.
"At half-time there might have been a lot of people questioning the team because we were 1-0 down at such a difficult venue against a very good Udinese side," said Szczesny.
"I think the only people who actually believed in the team was the team itself. All the players in the dressing room were very motivated and had the belief we could come back into the game and score the important away goal. We showed very good mental strength and in the second-half we showed good quality as well.
"The last couple of games we had disappointing results but as I said, there was never a doubt in our heads that we are a very good side. So we are going to keep going, put in a good performance at Old Trafford on Sunday and see how it goes from there. The team believes we are capable of playing very well and winning games.
"The only people who questioned the team and the manager were the media. Inside the team, we don't do that at all. We know how good we are and how good our manager is. We believe in what he is doing so I believe we answered a lot of questions last night.
"It has been very difficult but you don't expect easy games in the Premier League or Champions League anymore. It'll be tough for the rest of the season but I believe we have what it takes to come out on top."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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What is Wine.Woot?
A discussion of salamanders, gorillas and Arizonoids.
How can the forward-thinking winery of today reach the vast Internet-shopping hordes? Right here. Wine.Woot is a conduit through which wineries can promote, advertise, and sell their wares directly to the consumer. Like our uncouth, barely-civilized older stepbrother, Woot, here you'll find one-time-only prices that put the rest of the Internet to shame. Shame on you, Internet!
Frequently Looked-For Pages
Jump to:
- Wait, back up a second: what is Woot?
- Can I really buy wine on the Internet?
- Is this one of those monthly-fee wine club deals?
- I'm new to wine. I'm confused, intimidated, and frankly a little frightened. Can I trust that I'm being sold the good stuff?
- How do I know whether to buy a certain wine? Who can I trust in the forums?
- What if I get bad wine or a damaged shipment?
- If I like the wine - or I missed one I want - can I buy more later?
- Who is Wine Country Connect?
- Is my user information shared with the winery?
- What states can you ship to?
- How long is shipment going to take?
- What about shipping during the summer or freezing temps of winter? How do I know my wine won't get damaged in these extreme temperatures?
- What's up with the shipping charge?
- What is expedited shipping?
- I'm under the age of 21 – can I order wine?
- What if I'm not around to sign for the shipment?
- What if I am visibly intoxicated when the package arrives?
- Can I send wine as a gift?
Orders & Payments
- I noticed a sales tax charge at checkout - where does that come from?
- What's up with this "Buy Now" business?
- But I've got stuff from another Woot site in my cart. How does that work?
- I just want to buy my freakin' wine already. How do I pay for this resplendent ambrosia?
- What is "Login and Pay with Amazon?"
- How do I use "Login and Pay with Amazon?"
- What purchases made via Amazon Payments are covered by Amazon's A-to-z Guarantee?
- Fine Print (if not fine prose)
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- jump to:
- General
- Shipping
- Orders & Payments
- Wait, back up a second: what is Woot?
- Woot is the zany e-tailing upstart from whose loins Wine.Woot sprung (along with an ever-expanding roster of other sites). The one thing they all have in common is great new deals, every day. The main Woot FAQ goes into the whole story in way too much detail.
- Can I really buy wine on the Internet?
- Thanks to a ruling by our esteemed Supreme Court in 2005, wineries are allowed to market their wines directly to online consumers. Lucky for us (and you), many premium and small gem wineries are motivated, dare we say thirsty, to get their wines to the masses. It all adds up to the best wine deals in the country, one vintage at a time.
We're talking breakthrough stuff here, connecting wine producers to, er, let's say "connoisseurs" in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible. Call it disintermediation, call it cutting out the middleman, just don't call us late for the wine tasting.
- Is this one of those monthly-fee wine club deals?
- No, this isn't one of those monthly-fee wine club deals. We don't lock you into buying a series of offerings from one producer or region. Buy once a week, or once a year, or once a millennium. Pick and choose whatever sparks your tongue, the way the Founding Fathers intended. The power is yours. Use it wisely, grasshopper.
- I'm new to wine. I'm confused, intimidated, and frankly a little frightened. Can I trust that I'm being sold the good stuff?
- If you're just getting hip to the whole wine trip, you'll find a variety of premium, ultra-premium, and mega-super-premium wines from known wineries. Most of the time, anyway. On the rare occasion that the site features some off-brand rotgut, we'll tell you. And we just might throw the odd gourmet food or wine accessory at you, if we're feeling puckish - especially on Thursdays. Fear not, n00b – our wines will be great to cut your teeth on (not literally, unless something goes terribly, terribly wrong).
- How do I know whether to buy a certain wine? Who can I trust in the forums?
- Dave Studdert is a wine expert you may see in the forums (username winedavid39). He is one of the co-founders of Wine Country Connect, the company that facilitates the wineries offering their wines on wine.woot.com (also providing fulfillment logistics support and acting as a liaison between us and the wineries). He also invites the winemakers to join in the discussion of each sale, which they often do. And the most insightful posts in each discussion are highlighted in the first post of the thread, under the heading Quality Posts. Just hang around the threads for a while, and you'll get a feel for who's full of wine wisdom and who's just full of it.
- What if I get bad wine or a damaged shipment?
- First of all, if you think the wine tastes bad, wait a few minutes and try another sip. It may need to "open up" (wine term) or your palate might be "wack" (colloquial term). It's amazing how much food alters the flavor of wine: eat a vinaigrette-soaked salad first and even a '68 Rothschild will taste like Windex. But after you have appropriately cleansed the palate region (not with soap or anything – eat some bread, cheese or chocolate) and the stuff still tastes lousy, contact Woot Customer Support and we'll coordinate with the winery to send you a replacement. And of course, you can skip the palate-cleansing stuff and just get ahold of us for a replacement if the bottle is broken.
- If I like the wine - or I missed one I want - can I buy more later?
- As the gorilla told the bartender, "Not at these prices." It's possible the winery might have some more to offer you at full price, but you're on your own there.
- Who is Wine Country Connect?
- Wine Country Connect is a posse straight outta Sonoma, California, and are experts when it comes to the nectar of the gods of which we speak. They've been at this a while and gots the inside connects, if you catch our drift. They also really know a bargain when they see one. WCC identifies and sources high-value wines in their 'hood (and a sprinkling from Oregon, Washington, and beyond), and then works with the winery to facilitate them offering their wines on wine.woot.com (also providing fulfillment logistics support and acting as a liaison between us and the winery).
- Ultimately, yes. Since the winery is the seller of the wine, they (and Wine Country Connect) need this information to complete the sale and fulfill your order. We can't imagine any problems arising from this, but if being on record somewhere as a wine-drinker bothers you, you may want to think twice about ordering.
- What states can you ship to?
- "We" ain't shipping jack. Wine.Woot is an advertising platform that connects consumers like you to wineries that want to sell their products directly to consumers. The wineries do the actual selling and shipping, and each winery operates under its own peculiar web of permits and statutes. So each Wine.Woot deal is posted with its own specific list of approved states. Be sure to check that list for details. If your state's not on the list, no wine for you!
- How long is shipment going to take?
- Your Wine.Woot purchase ships directly from the vendor (facilitated by the bros at Wine Country Connect). Your Wine.Woot order will ship in 3-5 days business days after a daily sale or 5-7 business days for purchases from Woot Plus events. Wine Country Connect helps wineries get your wine to you in the best condition possible. You should have your wine in 2-3 weeks from the time you order, often sooner. To protect your wine, Wine Country Connect may select to delay or choose faster shipping. See more in the next section.
- What about shipping during the summer or freezing temps of winter? How do I know my wine won't get damaged in these extreme temperatures?
Condition of Wine on arrival is the single most important criteria for Wine.Woot.Wine shipments are carefully scheduled to avoid extreme hot and cold temperatures from the origination point all the way to its destination. In these cases, Wine Country Connect may delay the shipment for a couple days to allow for better conditions or to keep the wine from sitting in hotter warehouses for a long period of time. When refrigerated trucks (protected cross country transit) are used in the summer, you may not see tracking update until the wine is handed off from these trucks to the strategically located small parcel carrier hubs for immediate delivery.
- What's up with the shipping charge?
- Wine.Woot is decidedly weird, so shipping works a little differently than the other Woot sites. When you place an order on Wine.Woot, standard shipping is included in the item price.
- What is expedited shipping?
- If you want your wine a little faster than the rest of the folks, you can choose expedited shipping. This will ship your wine via 2-day (business days) shipping. Note that your wine will not leave the warehouse any sooner and you should plan on the normal 3-5 or 5-7 business days for your wine to ship. But once it does leave the warehouse, it will arrive in 2 business days.
- I'm under the age of 21 – can I order wine?
- You know the old adage "there are no stupid questions?" Congratulations, you've just proven it wrong. All wine shipments must be ordered, paid for, and signed for by someone aged 21 or over. No exceptions.
- What if I'm not around to sign for the shipment?
- If no one is home, the shipper (usually FEDEX) will generally attempt to deliver the package two more times, and leave a notification after the third attempt with a number for you to call to arrange delivery options. If none of that works, we'll step in and contact you to resolve the sitchee-ation. We highly recommend using a business address when ordering, to ensure that a person aged 21 or over will be present to sign for this package (assuming you live in a state that allows a receptionist or receiving clerk to sign for it if you're not available to receive it personally from the carrier, and the business isn't staffed by teenagers).
- What if I am visibly intoxicated when the package arrives?
- You will not be allowed to receive it. Seriously. That's the rule, fool. You've been advised.
- Can I send wine as a gift?
- Yes, as long as you and the person signing for the package are at least 21 years of age. Just place a separate order with their address as the shipping address. Please note though that the packing slip will show prices so there's no secrecy on how much you spent.
Orders & Payments
- I noticed a sales tax charge at checkout - where does that come from?
- The wine deals featured on Wine.Woot come direct from the wineries. Each of these wineries has its own web of licensing obligations, tax policies, and local laws to deal with. So Wine.Woot calculates sales taxes on the wineries' behalf in accordance with their instructions. These instructions vary depending on the tax laws in each state.
- What's up with this "Buy Now" business?
- No Shyamalanian twist here. "Buy Now" means your Wine.Woot purchase bypasses the shopping cart process. When you click "Buy Now," you'll be whisked away to the checkout page to complete your purchase.
- But I've got stuff from another Woot site in my cart. How does that work?
- Those items will have to be purchased in a separate transaction from your Wine.Woot purchase. That's kind of obnoxious and a little cumbersome, but it'll make the wine taste that much sweeter.
- I just want to buy my freakin' wine already. How do I pay for this resplendent ambrosia?
- You need to use Login and Pay with Amazon to purchase items from Wine.Woot.
- What is "Login and Pay with Amazon?"
- Login and Pay with Amazon is a handy set of features that links your Woot account with your Amazon-stored shipping and payment settings. It enables you to complete the checkout process with all the speed and finesse of a soaring falcon, if falcons were oenophilic capitalists possessing opposable thumbs.
- How do I use "Login and Pay with Amazon?"
- To begin using Login and Pay with Amazon, you need to have an Amazon.com account. If you don't have an Amazon.com account, let us be the first to welcome you to Planet Earth. You're going to love it here. Once your Amazon account is set up, just head over to our sign-in page and click "Login with Amazon." Enter all the relevant payment and shipping info. Boom. Done.
- What purchases made via Amazon Payments are covered by Amazon's A-to-z Guarantee?
- Purchases of wine made on Wine.Woot are NOT covered by the Amazon Payments A-to-z Guarantee. Please feel free to contact Woot's customer service for any issues you might have with your orders. Please click here to see the full terms of the A-to-z Guarantee.
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- Winery is the seller of record. All state and federal laws are adhered to in the marketing of this wine.


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Exeter conference: Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
The conference last week in Exeter on "Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change" grew out of a speech by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. He asked "What level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is self-evidently too much?" and "What options do we have to avoid such levels?". The first question is very interesting, but also very difficult. As Roger Pielke has noted the conference organisers actually choose three "key questions":
- For different levels of climate change what are the key impacts, for different regions and sectors, and for the world as a whole?
- What would such levels of climate change imply in terms of greenhouse gas stabilisation concentrations and emission pathways required to achieve such levels?
- What technological options are there for achieving stabilisation of greenhouse gases at different stabilisation concentrations in the atmosphere, taking into account costs and uncertainties?
It is worth thinking about the difference between the initial aim and the "key questions" chosen. Question 1 is essentially IPCC WGII impacts); question 2 is firmly WGI (how-much-climate-change); question 3 is fairly WG III (mitigation, including technical options). I guess they switched questions 1 and 2 round to avoid making the identification too obvious. The conference steering committee report makes it very clear that they are building on the IPCC TAR foundation.
All in all it would seem that the bold vision of the politicians has been tempered by the conference organisers into something more manageable – a set of questions that can be discussed within the usual scientific framework and by the usual people. And probably that was sensible, because the initial question really is very hard – not merely because all the science isn't in, but because even if it was what is "dangerous" is probably a political rather than scientific question. And this was a largely scientific meeting.
So, what's new? On the impacts front, the final report says that there is more clarity and less uncertainty since the TAR, which is what you would hope for after 4 years of research. They identify a few "thresholds" that are dangerous for certain processes – 2.7 ºC local for melting Greenland; coral bleaching above 1 ºC global. Extremes, and the 2003 european heatwave get a mention. On climate change, they note that restricting the global temperature change to 2 ºC with a fair degree of confidence would require stabilisation at 400 ppm CO2 equivalent (CO2 itself is at 380 already, but "equivalent" includes other GHG's and the negative effects of sulphates; see here for more). If you were prepared to accept more risk of exceeding 2 ºC then 550 ppm would be possible. For technical options, they note that the IEA predict a 63% increase in CO2 levels by 2030, in line with IPCC estimates. There are a whole raft of options that could be taken to reduce emissions, and they do mention the word "nuclear".
All in all, it looks like progress as normal. In summary, they note that work is needed on both mitigation and adaption – which is to recognise that climate change is occuring and will continue, although possibilities for slowing it exist.
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"Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites." - Thomas Jefferson
"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma." - Abraham Lincoln
"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God." - Thomas Edison
"During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution, human fantasy created gods in man's own image who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate influence, the phenomenal world... The idea of God in the religions taught at present is a sublimation of that old conception of the gods. Its anthropomorphic character is shown, for instance, by the fact that men appeal to the Divine Being in prayers and plead for the fulfillment of their wishes... In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal God, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vase power in the hands of priests." - Albert Einstein
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'What's Sabres defenseman Marc-Andre Gragnani capable of producing over a full season? Fifty points perhaps? Were the rookie's late-season heroics just a fluke? Can he continue his clutch play?'
Archives for August 2011
Sabres re-sign Gragnani
Gragnani, Sabres agree to one-year deal
'Gragnani appeared in a career-high nine regular season games during two call- ups for Buffalo last season, recording a goal and two assists for his first career points.'
Sabres re-sign D Gragnani to 1-year contract
'Gragnani will have a tough test cracking the NHL this year after Buffalo upgraded its defense by adding veterans Robyn Regehr and Christian Ehrhoff.'
Seneca Gaming adds ex-Sabre for PR work
"Robitaille, now a Sabres' broadcaster, will work with Seneca Gaming to develop hockey-related events at its three area casinos, Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel, Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino and Seneca Allegany Casino & Hotel. He will also represent Seneca Gaming at various community events during the year including making appearances at Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino immediately after Buffalo Sabres' home games at HSBC Arena, which is just a few blocks away from the casino."
Sabres lock up Gragnani for another year
"Gragnani followed up his regular season performance with a team-leading seven points (1+6) in Buffalo's seven-game loss to Philadelphia in the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals. Gragnani's six assists were a Sabres rookie record for assists by a defenseman in one playoff series, and he also tied Pierre Turgeon (1988) for rookie points in one series. Despite playing in just seven playoff games, Gragnani's seven points led all rookie defensemen in the postseason, and he finished fourth in rookie playoff scoring."
Buffalo Sabres 2010
"Buffalo Sabres 2010-11 Plays of the Year"
Sabres sign Ryan, Szczechura
'The 25-year-old Szczechura played 79 games with the Admirals last season, collecting 52 points (22+30). He has 16 points in 83 career games with the Lightning.'
Sabres sign Ryan, Szczechura
'Ryan has quietly morphed into an elite AHL scorer, compiling 79 goals and 137 points in his last 151 games. The Sabres originally acquired his rights from Dallas in the 2003 Stu Barnes trade. Ryan has seven goals, 18 points and 34 penalty minutes in his NHL career.'
Sabres sign Ryan, Szczechura
'Szczechura spent last season with the Norfolk Admirals. He appeared in 83 games with the Tampa Bay Lightning during parts of the 2008-09 and 2009-10 campaigns, totaling nine goals and 16 points.'
Paul Szczechura signs with Sabres
'Brantford's Paul Szczechura has found a new home in the National Hockey League.'
Armia disappointed, but Sabres like what they see
'"After the first game here (Monday) I think it was fairly evident the hands he's got and his shot," Sabres Director of Pro Scouting Jon Christiano told NHL.com. "You don't question some of his offensive instincts and offensive skills from the blue line in. He made a real nice play setting up their first goal. He had a great chance where he blew down the left wing and deked (U.S. defenseman Justin) Holl and pounded the puck wide. Kind of like that. He's filling into his body a little bit, that's expected; he's still a young kid. On the offensive end of things, you have to like the natural skill."'
Sabres sign LW Ryan, C Szczechura to 1-year deals
'Ryan rejoins the Sabres after spending five seasons — from 2003-07 — in Buffalo's system. He spent last year with AHL Adirondack, where he had 25 goals and 41 points in 52 games. He has seven goals and eight assists in 83 career NHL games split between Buffalo and Carolina.'
Sabres add depth at forward
'The Buffalo Sabres added something old and something new today with the signings of free agent forwards Michael Ryan and Paul Szczechura to a pair of one-year deals.'
Sabres sign Ryan and Szczechura
'Buffalo Sabres GM Darcy Regier today announced that left wing Michael Ryan and center Paul Szczechura have both agreed to one-year contracts.'
ROB RAY signing autographs
"Tuesday night baseball at Dwyer stadium brings the Brooklyn Cyclones back to Batavia. The NY Mets short season single-A team. It also brings former Buffalo Sabres Rob Ray to Dwyer for pre-game autographs. Buffalo Sabres Legend Rob Ray will sign autographs in the concourse pre-game. Gates open at 6:05pm. First pitch is 7:05pm."


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a bullet will dispatch the coon quickly, but how to do that? Probably any good killing shot will also have the bullet going through the coon's head..and what is it going to hit on the other side? the metal trap? Then we have a ricocheting bullet, which has a good chance of coming straight back at the shooter.
So we don't want to shoot the coon. That leaves a). Poison :thunder: B). Clubbing :deadhorse: and C). drowning :drowning:.