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Six months later, the Demon Internet CEO is replaced with the Fluffy Bunny CEO, after a sexual harassment lawsuit is filed by half of the board of directors. Fluffy Bunny commits to network neutrality, and cheap, high speed internet access for all. Demon Internet CEO seen a short while after the trial on the corner wearing black boy shorts and a bow tie as the newest strawberry in the unemployment line. Fluffy Bunny calls Sally into the office, makes her the new head network administrator, and she installs
Six months later, the Demon Internet CEO is replaced with the Fluffy Bunny CEO, after a sexual harassment lawsuit is filed by half of the board of directors. Fluffy Bunny commits to network neutrality, and cheap, high speed internet access for all. Demon Internet CEO seen a short while after the trial on the corner wearing black boy shorts and a bow tie as the newest strawberry in the unemployment line. Fluffy Bunny calls Sally into the office, makes her the new head network administrator, and she installs linux on everything, saving the company a fortune. And since this wouldn't be slashdot without some kind of sexual commentary -- Sally also sets up her own dungeon between several racks of blade servers, a webcam, and begins posting her payback sessions to fund some much-needed hardware upgrades.
The stories are funnier when they are fictitious, Sally.
Great, I just got an diabetes and an erection from reading your post.
Sounds like you need an insulin erection.
Storing user passwords unencrypted in an excel spreadsheet should be a crime.
Maybe it isn't. But I consider it to be a criminal level of negligence with significant public harm.
Having a company be able to SEE any user's password should be a crime. Standard practice is that NOBODY, not even sysadmins can see it. They can change it but not see it.
I thought it was bad when places emailed you your own password, but this is prettty 'special'...
That's one of the first things I thought of when reading the summary.
What kind of jackass stores passwords in plain text on a DB? At the least: store the hash+salt, compare the input's hashe+salt. You should NEVER store the password in a retrievable manner.
Then again, I suppose it's the same kind of jackass that doesn't do a QA run to make sure something pesky, like say, the ENTIRE client list, gets attached to your invoices.....
Someone please ID this idiots+management and post it out for the world to see
Standard practice is that nobody knows the password - you just store the hash.
Not even the user knows their own password... now that's security!
If even the computer knows the password somebody has made a hash of the job
Of course you mean that if even the computer knows the password, somebody failed to make a hash of it. Good call though!
Having a company be able to SEE any user's password should be a crime. Standard practice is that NOBODY, not even sysadmins can see it. They can change it but not see it.
It is now a bit naive to think that things work like this in the industry. Years ago, this was indeed the forward thinking, "engineered" best practice, and though not directly, why systems like Kerberos were originally created.
Sadly however, with the advent of the web, SSL, LDAP, and hundreds of other possible databases to need access, most PHB types quickly bought into "identity management" schemes being pawned by multiple vendors. These schemes end up "managing" your kept password(s) into "secret stores
Having a company be able to SEE any user's password should be a crime. Standard practice is that NOBODY, not even sysadmins can see it. They can change it but not see it.
That depends on who you ask. A LOT of IT organisations keep passwords around, since users just can't take their passwords seriously enough. With company data (or any other data really) encrypted using passwords/keys, it's not simply a matter of resetting the password and continuing as if nothing had happened.
That's all well and good until the ISP everyone flocks to has a data breech.
Their biggest competitor is BT [bt.co.uk]
There's always Orange, I guess...
(...and to think that I bitch about Comcast...)
A voluntary decision to stick with a reliable ISP. Seriously, most ISP's in England are terrible. I know people using various ones, and the only I NEVER hear complaints about is Demon.
So, do you want privacy or reliability? You only get to pick one apparently.
I stayed with them for a few months after their takeover by Thus, until a new ISP installed ADSL+ in our exchange. In that time, the bandwidth I was getting deteriorated enormously, and their customer service changed from an engineer who understood "I can see your pings hitting my firewall" to a call centre worker in India who could only say "reinstall windows". And after I left, they forgot to remove me from their billing system, so they kept sending me letters threatening court action and bailiffs.
That mu
Demon, once upon a time at least, was a VERY good ISP (ex-customer and I don't recall leaving them due to dis-satisfaction, I think it was the move to ADSL which prompted the switch).
Anyways, http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/ [thinkbroadband.com] is a good place to get real user feedback on ISPs. Somewhat strangely there are 666 new posts for Demon (I kid you not). I personally am unable to recommend any ISP though. Clara.net shafted me for £100 years ago when their channel bonded ISDN service just wouldn't work for me so I'd recommend you avoid them like the plague; Nildram used to be GREAT but apparently have been taken over by talktalk and users don't look happy; and personally I'm currently stuck with Virgin who routinely cause my blood pressure to rise but because they offer the best speeds blah blah blah.
On the business side I'll say that NewNet and Spitfire have done what they say on the packet overall.......
Anyways, yes, if someone finds a decent ISP let us know please.
Anyways, yes, if someone finds a decent ISP let us know please.
I've been with Zen's ADSL service for a couple of years now, since moving house. Give or take rare small glitches (and even then, they've had fewer of those than anyone else I've used) their service has always been fast and reliable. They don't have 24/7 tech support available, which did worry me to start with, but since I've never needed to call tech support once the service was set up that no longer bothers me. It does cost significantly more than the cheap providers as well, but I guess you get what you pay for. YMMV, caveat emptor, etc., but I'd sign up with them again.
More importantly, hasn't this company ever heard of password hashing?
I know this is a joke, but it should really be modded insightful instead. This just reveals the already-existing incredible insecurity of their setup. If they were doing it right, the file would only have hashes, or preferably, hashes and salts. It would certainly still not be good to have it leaked, but the results of that happening would be significantly less serious. Instead, we have this.
... that privacy 'policies' don't mean squat...
10 Bucks says it comes down to a cat on the keyboard.
10 Bucks says it comes down to a cat on the keyboard.
50 bucks says that cat was pictured in the act in a lolcat image.
50 bucks says that cat was pictured in the act in a lolcat image.
I can has passwurdz?
Like this? [youtube.com]
I can't believe this still happens. They shouldn't even be storing the passwords anywhere, even in their primary database, much less an Excel spreadsheet. Use a one was hash with salt, folks!
Also "the company introduced a different ebilling system some months ago, but returned to paper billing following technical difficulties". Who hasn't managed to implement an ebilling system by 2009? Especially an ISP. They must be truly incompetent.
Ummm. Where I work spreadsheets are called "databases". I get stupider things in my email every morning at work than the email described here.
And incidently, since POP and SMTP were switched off to force us to use outlook the number of misdirected emails has gone through the roof. Humans search by first name but Outhouse searches by last name. I have a common last name... And so does a certain senior manager.
Ummm. Where I work spreadsheets are called "databases".
But surely you don't have an ebilling login system trying to look up passwords in an excel spreadsheet? Or even an MS Access database? Although maybe Demon Internet does, given their extreme lack of clue.
(and spreadsheets aren't databases, you can't write SQL queries against them)
(and spreadsheets aren't databases, you can't write SQL queries against them)
I know. Where I work they would probably employ an intern to copy and paste passwords between the database and the spreadsheet because the database in complicated while everybody understands excel. SQL has been pretty much replaced by the scripting and macro languages supported by excel anyway.
(and spreadsheets aren't databases, you can't write SQL queries against them)
You realize there's been ODBC and JDBC drivers for Excel spreadsheets for many years now, right?
Understanding SQL isn't a requirement to be considered a database.
In fact, spreadsheets are databases. Wikipedia refers to these as end-user [wikipedia.org] databases.
You are confusing the term database with an RDBMS or Relational Database Management System (and even that doesn't necessarily depend on the use of SQL).
I can't believe this still happens. They shouldn't even be storing the passwords anywhere, even in their primary database, much less an Excel spreadsheet. Use a one was hash with salt, folks!
While having it in an excel document is unexusable, there is a real reason why password are stored as plain text, and I hated it as a sysadmin. Look up CHAP vs PAP authentication... Basically, PAP sends the password in plain text across the wire from the modem server to the radius server, which can then look up the salt, hash it, and then verify the password.
However, since this means sending passwords in the clear, most modem concentrators (most ISP's resell for a handful of large telcos that operate the modems nowdays) prefer to use CHAP, which hashes the password with something at the terminal server and sends both to the radius server. In order for the radius server to authenticate the session, it must have access to the original plain text to hash with the provided salt. Thus, the ISP must store all passwords in plaintext somewhere.
That said, it should be stored in a hardened and dedicated server that only handles the storage (sql or ldap) and the radius server. Any billing interaction should only be to update the password, never to read. And it should never be put into a excel or word doc!
I run a movie theatre and send and receive a lot of freight (film cans and advertising materials) by bus. I have an account with the provincial bus company so they send me a bill once per month containing all of the waybills for that month.
This story goes back several years, as you will see.
Originally, I got a monthly bill that consisted of a strip of adding machine paper stapled to an invoice that totalled up my waybills for the month. Then the bus company decided to modernize and send out bills printed by computer, which were apparently aggregated by having a computer in each bus depot send in each days transactions by modem to a central computer that printed the monthly bills.
For the next year and a half, I got bills for anywhere from $10 to $30/month, nowhere near the $600-plus that I usually spent on bus freight.
18 months later I got a (manually generated) bill for $13,000.
The bus company has since stayed with manually generated bills and has never tried to computerize that part of their operation again.
You did end up paying the bill, right?
Tge moral of the story is:
When sonmeone implements a crappy system , it can effect that company and customers for years afterwords.
Really, there is no reason not to modernize this shit.
This reminds me of when I was hired to do some maintenance on a small fantasy racing team website. The website seemed pretty well implemented and the database seemed reasonable. I then took a look at the account info table and was horrified to find that everything was stored in plain text, passwords, real names, user names, CC numbers, addresses, etc. I'm not exactly a database/web guru, but come on! How hard is it to use md5() to store passwords?? And I don't like the idea of some random guy (me in this case) being entrusted with everyone's credit info. There has to be a better way.
I learned my lesson though. I will never pass my credit info to a small-time website. To think that a fairly large ISP would be this stupid in the year 2009 is mind boggling.
Credit Card info? That's a violation of PCI DSS right there along the lines of the great Web Hosting Talk fuck-up of last year. You can be fined millions for that.
PCI DSS isn't a law, it's a set of standards that the card industry wants you to follow if you're going to handle credit cards. There are no fines, you just lose your right to do CC business if you can't pass the audit. And the audits aren't perfect.
You see, when a company fucks up, they call us at The Goat and we send them a person. Said person "works" there and takes all the blame and gets fired. The company looks good and we make money.
Legal fuck ups cost $100,000 for the goat plus our markup of 100% for a total of $200,000. The $100,000 for the goat allows him to live for a while until the public forgets about him. Goats for white collar illegal activities will run on a sliding scale. But let's say you have another Enron t
Someone had better lose their job.
Why? And who, exactly?
Hard to believe that anyone in that type of position working for an ISP could be so careless. If anyone should know better, they should.
It's probably less a case of knowing better, and more a case of clicking on the wrong file (something like "attach User-list.xls, mailmerge against User-list.xls" instead of "attach User-instructions.doc, mailmerge against User-list.xls"). Knowing that all of us organic beings are subject to error, is a single incident like this something to fire someone over? Or are you saying to fire whichever programmer or spec writer or system architect didn't think to build a mass-mail function in
I think that we should start putting ficticious information (something blob-like, like a customer name) into sensitive databases that matches one or more virus signatures. This would cause email filters to block the content before it leaves the premises. (Yes, I realize that we'd need to be filtering out-going mail, but unless you're a spam generator, that's a small fractgion of your incoming email. Some of use are already doing this, although not for this reason.)
That is going to be _awesome_ once the local antivirus program deletes it off a system with stale exception lists
My very first email address was on a
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Smart [mailto: Bob.Smart@[-------].co.--]
Sent: Thursday, 23 September 2008 10:53
To: [-------] Outbound Contact Team
Subject: FW: eBill template
Hi Team,
Please send this template below to all customers in the attached spreadsheet. You three can divide the work amongst yourselves.
Dear customer-name-here,
Step 2: Your keyboard jockeys forward the email, deletes the header and Boss's message. Inserts customer details into template. Send, Boom, Done.
By default, forwarding in pretty much all mail applications keeps the attachment.
I'm sure this is the principal way documents are leaked from just about any organisation.
I ROFLd very hard at this. Now who hasn't heard of something like this happening or been in a work place where this has happend? Of all the security measures companies fret over these days they fail to recognise the threat of abject stupidity.
Many moons ago, I was told a tale about sending out mass mailings, not this "slip of the mouse" email stuff.
The bank's marketing and finance guys have come up with this glossy brochure of stuff for their top customers, based on something like highest 5% balance holders. There's a letter drafted to accompany the brochure, it just remains to do the little personalising touches for the final run.
Someone forgets to replace the output placeholder with the salutation generation program that'll even spew out "Dear Sir Whimsey-Porpoise".
The final letters are printed, enveloped, and mailed. The salutation from the placeholder piece of code? "Dear Rich Bastard,".
That's old. And it's probably an urban legend, as it's usually a charity emailing or sending letters to their biggest donors.
Snopes [snopes.com] says it is true.
I also like the idea of Wells Fargo sending this to customers:
You owe your soul to the company store. Why not owe your home to Wells Fargo? An equity advantage loan can help you spend what would have been your children's inheritance.
I actually prefer this bit:
An interesting element not generally related as part of this story just goes to prove you can never please everyone: The little UK firm responsible for the gaffe received a complaint from a potential customer who felt himself qualified to be a rich bastard yet had not received the letter he deemed appropriate to his station in life.
Many moons ago I used to work in the credit industry. On the evening shift things would get kind of slow, so we'd find ways to keep ourselves occupied. One such activity was doing lookups on names you know couldn't exist - and it was damn funny when they actually did. I could just see typing in the name "Bastard" and seeing a response, "Bastard, Richard M.
Yes, really. It's called CHAP authentication, and it requires plain text passwords. see my other post [slashdot.org]
In the case where you want to use the same password to authenticate across multiple channels, and use human interaction, storing plain passwords (with appropriate control) is u
I realize most people don't use negabases or other things that would prevent marketing twats from getting their filthy grubby hands on information--but why was there a password field even available to anybody to start with?
Four years ago I inherited an application with plaintext passwords. Yes, it took me *two years* to fix it because of other even worse problems--but it was fixed in the end (SHA1, salted per user in the front and tail).
Our support team bitched and moaned that they could no longer troubles
any DNS changes to a domain has to be done via fax on a letter with the company's header.
While I can understand that this is a royal pain in the Ass, it's also a fairly good procedure. Faxes have the sending phone number on them usually, which is a decent validation component. The letterhead is another decent step, assuming they compare it to something on file. I don't think you want people changing your routing just based on a phone call without more identification somehow. These are exactly the steps
...when a corporate is involved it always is a MISTAKE.
When an individual hacker exposes weak security, he is a terrorist.
Talk about double standards.
Why can't the corporate be sued on SAME grounds like hackers?
A hacker didn't accidentally get into a system,
"...when a corporate is involved it always is a MISTAKE.
When an individual hacker exposes weak security, he is a terrorist."
Solution: Instead of being an individual hacker, form a security corporation.
Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.


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Bristol City boss Keith Millen has rubbished rumours linking him with a loan move for QPR striker Patrick Agyemang.
The frontman has been the subject of speculation of a return to Ashton Gate, having spent an injury-hit spell at the Championship club over the second half of the 2009/10 season during which he made just seven appearances.
But Millen told City`s official website: "There`s absolutely nothing in it. We've not even made an enquiry."
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Main Site - :: Why Won't God Heal Amputees? ::
Quote from: SkyWriting on June 18, 2013, 09:17:29 AMDrowning is painless. Living is way more painful than drowning, any day of the week.Sky, should drowning be considered in any way mitigation in a murder case, on the grounds that it is painless?Or might the jury feel that the fear and the terro experienced going through the process would make it just as horrible a way to be murdered than by slicing their head off? Indeed, might not drowning be considered MORE horrific a way to be murdered than beheading (especially if that beheading were done from behind without warning), because of the 2 minutes it would take before you lost consciousness? What about the last few hours clinging to a piece of driftwood knowing that help would never come, watching your children, your parents, slipping beneath the waves? Point being: Yahweh could have just stopped all the bad guys hearts, simultaneously. Or just made it so they went to sleep one night and just never woke up. There are MANY ways he could have murdered them without any pain, and with a lot less fuss and bother.But he didn't. He chose a way that would cause maximum fear and despair in each and every one of them. Imagine the fear the toddlers would have felt, as the rains kept coming and coming and mummy and daddy are running and screaming and the waters close over you and you start to choke but mummy saves you and you hold the wood but mummy closes her eyes and she goes under the water and you cry and cry for mummy and then the water gets in you and you choke and you can't breathe CAN'T BREATHE CAN'T BREATHE......Tell me again how loving your god is. Read that paragraph again, and try to justify what your god CHOSE to do to that child.
Drowning is painless. Living is way more painful than drowning, any day of the week.


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Privatisation in Botswana: A Case of Firsts Not Happening First?
The late 1980s and early 1990s were characterised by unprecedented waves of privatisation in the world. Like other developing economies, Botswana jumped into the bandwagon and laid the legal framework for privatisation by way of promulgating a Privatisation Policy for Botswana in 2000. It is notable that despite the promulgation of the Policy, privatisation will only commence with the privatisation of the National Development Bank (NDB) in late 2011. This paper, relying on a variety sources; for example, newspaper accounts, personal interviews etc traces the privatisation process beginning with the appointment of the Privatisation Task Force in 1997, the passage of the Privatisation Policy for Botswana in 2000 and right up to the aborted privatisation of Air Botswana and the recent decision to privatise the NDB. Largely drawing from the Air Botswana saga, the paper argues that key firsts, being the delineation of an institutional-legal framework and public education on privatisation, either did not happen first or sloppily happened. As it is, Botswana has crossed the Rubicon, therefore, there is no going back on privatisation. Hence, as the government goes ahead with the privatisation of NDB, and the Botswana Telecommunications Corporation thereafter, there is a need to either do first things firstly or do them correctly so that the privatisation project can be successfully delivered. Principally, the powers of the both the executive and legislative arms of government must be delineated in regard to privatisation and public education must be an ongoing exercise to ensure a buy-in.
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The reach of the StumpJump 50K trail's fame was clearly evident Saturday. The first- and third-place finishers were from the state of Washington -- at least when they registered -- and the runner-up represented Flagstaff, Ariz. And the first and third female finishers came from Colorado.
It's an ultra-distance event, after all.
Dr. Robert Pritchett, a 36-year-old South Africa native who began teaching exercise physiology this semester at the University of Georgia, won the 12th annual StumpJump in 4 hours, 33 minutes, 40 seconds. Late in the Salomon Rock/Creek Trail Series race he overtook Salomon-sponsored Eric Bohn of Arizona, who led by as much as seven minutes according to reports from the trail.
Erin McMahon, 32, of Boulder was the women's winner in her first trail race and 24th overall in 5:36:44 for the 31 miles. Sponsored runner Gina Lucrezi of Carbondale, Colo., was the leading female before rolling an ankle and plugged away to finish third in 5:56:54. Erin Hannen, 23, of Atlanta was second in 5:42:48.
"I'm not really a trail runner," said Pritchett, who with his wife -- a sports nutrition professor at UGA -- previously taught at Central Washington University and lived in the Pacific Northwest the past six years. "This was really only my third trail race."
The first was in Alabama nearly seven years ago when the former Western Kentucky University runner was working on his Ph.D. in Tuscaloosa. He ran another trail ultra early this year.
"You've just got to run your own race," Pritchett said. "A run like this is a process, start to finish. I tried to run consistently the whole way. At the aid station at about 19 miles, I felt good so I ran hard, but later I thought I may have overcooked it a bit.
"But I came around a corner and saw the guy in second [Jose Savala of Hickory, N.C., who finished fifth], and I was able to pass him. Then later I came around another corner and there was the first-place guy [Bohn]. A race of this distance is won in the last 40 minutes, so if you're feeling good toward the end you can pick up a lot of ground."
The 32-year-old Bohn was feeling good early, but the unseasonable heat and the Tennessee humidity eventually took its toll.
"We're at 7,000 feet [in Flagstaff], so the altitude helped me on the climbs and allowed me to pull away early without using too much energy," Bohn said. "But the heat finally got to me around 22 miles, and it was a war of attrition after that. [Pritchett] got me with about three miles to go. I picked it up but couldn't get him."
Bohn ran alone for about 15 miles.
"Typically I don't like to run from the front," he said, "but I felt good and I think my natural cadence led me to pull away. We started with a six- or seven-man group, and then it was a three-man group, and then I pulled away."
He said the StumpJump had been on his "to-do list for a while." Like many other elite runners, he said races often are "excuses" to see new parts of the country.
The third-place finisher in 4:38:02 was Brandon Sullivan, 31, of Seattle, but he has been there only three years. He grew up in Dickson County, Tenn., and flew home to visit family and come to race; his sister and her children accompanied him on the drive. He ran the StumpJump previously in 2009 and 2010, finishing eighth that latter year.
"I'm in better shape now. I think those Washington mountains whipped me into shape," Sullivan said.
McMahon came with her boyfriend, Denver resident Chris Marcinek, who finished 11th Saturday. He had been "hyped up" for the StumpJump by friends from Chicago who ran it last year.
"It's a great course," said McMahon, who has run road marathons in San Diego, Seattle and Las Vegas and bore some scratches from falls Saturday. "Chris said it would be a good one for my first ultra.
"But it was hot. We don't get any humidity, and it was snowing when we left Colorado. I kept drinking my water and it would be gone before I would get to an aid station."
Atlanta residents Tim Tatarka and Stephen Arnold were first and second in the 11-mile race, with Chattanooga's Kevin Boucher third. Elizabeth Callaway of Atlanta was the first female.
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Voters in the Lehigh Valley and across the state were running head-first into the remnants of a storm Tuesday and it wasn't Hurricane Sandy. It was a cyclone of confusion created by Pennsylvania's voter ID law, which was put on hold last month after a court challenge.
The confusion did not affect turnout, which was expected to match or even beat 2008's high numbers.
Many voters, however, arrived at the polls to find uneven enforcement about the voter ID law, which was suspended by Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson last month.


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Funding to Support Upcoming Autism Diagnostic Clinical Trials
Lexington, MA – February 21, 2012 –SynapDx Corporation today announced it has secured $2 million in funding from Laboratory Corporation of America® Holdings (LabCorp®) (NYSE: LH). This investment will support the clinical development of SynapDx's breakthrough blood-based autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnostic test, designed to help clinicians identify children with autism earlier than they do today. This test will be the first step toward SynapDx's building of a broader pediatric neurodevelopment testing offering.
"LabCorp and SynapDx have a shared vision about the future of diagnostics," said Stanley Lapidus, CEO, SynapDx. "The investment is validation of LabCorp's commitment to innovation and SynapDx's transformational approach to autism diagnostics."
"SynapDx has the potential to revolutionize ASD diagnosis and offer pediatricians, patients and families the opportunity to begin treatment earlier, a key factor in improving ASD outcomes," said David King, Chairman and CEO, LabCorp. "We are very excited to support SynapDx's upcoming research efforts."
LabCorp's investment follows SynapDx's recent announcement of a $6 million round in financing supporting further development of its early ASD diagnostic test. SynapDx is working closely with ASD experts at leading institutions across the country and will use the investment to fund further studies slated to begin later this year.
"LabCorp is a leader in diagnostic technology, and its strategic investment in SynapDx demonstrates support for the development of new and better approaches to ASD diagnosis," said Bill Geary, Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners.
About SynapDx Corp.
SynapDx is a private company providing laboratory diagnostic services to physicians who suspect children of developmental disorders, with the initial goal of enabling earlier detection of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). The company collaborates with ASD experts at leading institutions, including Boston Children's Hospital. SynapDx was founded in 2010 and is based in Lexington, Mass. Its investors include North Bridge Venture Partners and General Catalyst Partners.


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Theatre Learning Objectives
Theatre students will benefit from a foundation in all aspects of theatre and will have opportunities to participate actively in campus theatre productions. A major in theatre will help you gain knowledge in theory, history, literature and criticism.
The Department of Theatre productions will supplement classroom study, providing hands-on experience. Exposure to acting, lighting, sound, properties and stage and box office management will prepare you for career success.
On-campus opportunities include independent research, workshops and guest lectures.
After completing a theatre degree at the University of Mount Union, students will:
- Effectively apply analytical and critical skills in understanding and evaluating play scripts, theatrical performances, and theatre criticism
- Demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental skills important to each area of theatrical production: acting, directing, design, technical production
- Develop at least foundational proficiency in the practice of one of the above areas of theatrical production
- Recognize and solve problems inherent in ethical theatrical production
- Demonstrate an understanding of the history of theatre, with particular attention to the evolution of stylistic and aesthetic trends
- Communicate clearly and effectively both orally and in writing


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Help Is On The Way
In the midst of a horrific month of July that has seen the PawSox go 3-14 with a team batting average of .210, the team desperately needs help.
How fast can Chris Duncan get here?
The Red Sox traded Julio Lugo to the Cardinals on Wednesday for Duncan and a player-to-be-named later (how 'bout Pujols?) or cash.
Duncan is having a tough year. He was batting .227 with 5 HR and 32 RBI in 87 games with the Cardinals, and has 1 hit in his last 31 at-bats.
But he hit .293 with 22 HR last year and .259 with 21 HR the year before. Call me crazy, but I think we can find a spot for him on a Pawtucket team that's gone 2-14 in its last 16 games while averaging 2.9 runs.
According to this story and this story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chris had been the target of harsh criticism from Cardinals fans – due in part to the fact that his father Dave is the team's pitching coach. It sounds to me like he needs a fresh start.
And while I'm sure he's bummed that he won't get to see his dad every day, he will get to see his brother Shelly eight times when the PawSox face Scranton/WB.
Who knows, if he really hits well for Pawtucket, maybe they'll even name a chain of Donut shops for Duncan.
* * * * *
Ready for a Nostradamus-like prediction?
If the PawSox continue to struggle, Manager Ron Johnson will get thrown out of a game by the end of the weekend.
It's really not a bold call on my part. RJ admitted he might do that in hopes of lighting a fire under the team.
"Yea, you start looking for stuff," Johnson said. "I'm sure that the way things have been going – you may see an act here in the next few days. If there's a play that comes along where you look at it and say, 'there may be some value in going out and putting on a little show for the boys,' then you do it. I've done it before where it didn't work, and I've done it at times where we've wound up winning. We'll play it be ear, but yea; I'm definitely thinking about it."
RJ apparently blew off some steam in the clubhouse a few nights ago, when he closed the door to reporters for a few minutes to address the team after a particularly shoddy performance.
What was his message?
"Professionalism . . . hustle . . . it's all about effort," RJ said. "I told these guys in our first meeting of the year that they'll never be yelled at for wins and losses. What will cause the hair on the back of my neck to stand up is if I see a less-than-100% effort."
I suspect the next time Mt. Johnson erupts, the explosion will be directed at an umpire.
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He played baseball and hockey at Trinity College.
He was the Red Sox Minor League Offensive Player of the Year in 2006.
He does an outstanding job with his "At Bat With Nat" interviews.
And yes, Jeff Natale even makes pasta.
And least when his girlfriend tells him to.
Thanks to Leigh for sending the photo. Her company is Nella Pasta and you can check it out here.
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1896, "aggressive, exuberant, touchy," American English, with -y (2) + feist "small dog," earlier fice, fist (American English, 1805); short for fysting curre "stinking cur," attested from 1520s, from Middle English fysten, fisten "break wind" (mid-15c.); related to Old English fisting "stink," from Proto-Germanic *fistiz- "a fart," said to be from PIE *pezd- (see fart), but there are difficulties.
The 1811 slang dictionary defines fice as "a small windy escape backwards, more obvious to the nose than ears; frequently by old ladies charged on their lap-dogs." Cf. also Danish fise "to blow, to fart," and obsolete English aske-fise, "fire-tender," literally "ash-blower" (early 15c.), from an unrecorded Norse source, used in Middle English for a kind of bellows, but originally "a term of reproach among northern nations for an unwarlike fellow who stayed at home in the chimney corner" [OED].
Truculent; irascible: They said the president was a feisty little chap/ He was having trouble with a feisty old lady who didn't want to move
[1896+; fr feist, found by 1770, ''small, worthless cur, esp a lapdog'']


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|2004-04-18, 13:52
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: east coast usa
Age: 36
Now if you want to know why our brains interpert things the way they do... we can go into Freud (I'd rather not )
Lucid dreaming is a bit different... I guess that would be when your brain keeps going with the dream and stops interperting sensory "spasms". Thus you have control with your dream- there was a time where I would lucidly dream everynight. When i was real young, I would actually start dreams staring all of my favorite cartoon characters (gi joe, thundercats, silver hawks, he- man, she-ra, etc.- and with me as the main character of course) everynight. Those were fun days...*sigh*. Can't do that anymore... don't know why.
|2004-04-18, 15:24
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|2004-04-18, 20:09
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Alright, so I lied plus 1) I've been procrasting on my homework all day 2) I think that I'll forget it by tomorrow night.
Friday night after my little umm...drinking fun, I had this dream:
I was some kind of leprechuan thing to start off with. IDK where this came from just did. I was in a crowd at a stadium, Paul Brown, and I was enjoying myself greatly. Then these men started coming after me out of nowhere . I started running but they caught me. The took me back to my hometown where I used to play baseball. They wanted me to make something happen b/c they figured that I could. The thing is that in order for me to do it, I have to formally greet them (saying hi my name is_______). So these guys were trying to get me to introduce myself to them so that they could get their wish or some junk. Every time they did it, I would back away refusing to greet them. Every where I turned there someone was trying. I some how went through some legs and managed to escape.
The place I played baseball is like in BFE so there's nothing but country. Well...as I was running I figured that I would turn the land over to slow them down. The land was tiled, yes...like a bathroom floor tiled, some had velcro on the bottoms others didn't. So I was flipping these over and sliding on some trying to get up this hill away from the men. When I made it to the top of the hill, I was at the stadium again As I was trying to find a seat to hide, I saw that they too had made it back. After this I just woke up b/c it was too weird even for me plus the alcohol wasn't agreeing with the rest of my body, still isn't.
And that's that.
|2004-04-19, 06:34
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That's my thoughts anyways..
|2004-04-22, 10:04
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Jaz: I still want to hear about the 100ft sesame street monster!! You're killing me here.
Age approx 8, the only dream I had that actually made me go to my parents room.
I had just went to the State Fair had lots of fun and stuff. While I was there, I saw a fun house there, but I've never went in it. I guess my curiosity and too many cartoons had a play in the dream which goes something like this.
I went into the the fun house with some people. It was dark as hell and loud. After walking in there for awhile we all get separated. I start freaking out b/c I can't find anyone but I can hear them. Every so often someone would scream whether in pain or fun...I didn't know. I finally make it to a mirror maze. This is when I start to lose it b/c I don't know which was it which. After a while, I make it out into this room with a moving floor. I couldn't get anywhere in this room b/c every time I try to make progress the floor would spin me around. Soon the floor started rotating and picking up speed. It became fast enough to where I couldn't stand up no matter what so just spun around. The walls then dropped to reveil that there was this enormous cliff. The floor kept spinning faster and faster but started tilting towards the cliff edge. I ended up falling off and some how manage to grab the edge of the cliff. So here I am dangling while this merry-go-round thing is spinning in front of my face getting closer and my grip is loosening. After a couple of seconds of debating to get decapitated or falling, I chose to fall. The fall was endless but being that age I completely freaked and woke up sweating and short of breathe. Then I got up shaking and went straight to the parent's room.
|2004-04-22, 10:44
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Poor little Spiggy
Anyway. A-hum...
I was standing on long road. No trees in sight, only metallic lampposts but it was day so they were not on. To my left, there is this huge building with a lot of windows, (like the skyscrapers, only this on was not so high, but more horizontally long). Then in front of me, is standing this huge blue furry 100ft. tall creature, fortunally for me with it's back towards me. I decide to be carefull and to sneak towards the entrance of the building.
Suddenly when I leave the road to sneak towards the entrance, the huge creature turns around and notices me. (It actually had a orange bobble as it's nose) It doesn't say anything, it only started moving toward me. At that point I decided my best escape was to run towards the building. I ran too the building with the ground pounding of the monsters footsteps, then it began to run, even more pounding. I jumped through the entrance and ran towards the staircase. The monster then smashed the into the building with it's arm, completely destroying the ground floor. I got nocked down from the staircase back to the ground floor, I got up and ran toward a plaza in the middle of the building. Then I saw the monster looking over the building into the plaza, it reached and grapped me.
Then I woke up...
I always seem to wake up at the most scary part
|2004-04-22, 11:05
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Location: Nashville TN/ Valencia California
Age: 33
O_o all these scary dreams...I wonder if we tend to have less of these types of dreams as we grow up.
I remember I used to have tons of bad dreams when I was little including, but not limited to: driving my car and crashing, being chased by monsters, looking at a demonic head screaming at me, and falling off a very high building. Hehe I was pretty much a wimp. But now, I watch Ringu and I dream about...shopping?
Does anymore else feel the same way?
Also...dreams that come true. Aren't they kinda weird? I mean do you believe that they come true because our subconsious analyzed facts and then came up with situation which just happened to occur in real life? But I dont really know if I can believe that. It's weird, I think...
|2004-04-22, 19:06
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Dreamt i was a german ww2 soldier who went to destroy a catapult in a swedish base... :/
Managed to convince every swedish soldier that i was swedish.... i just pretended to be german.
The army messes up your mind... (im swedish btw).
|2004-04-22, 20:43
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oink- you fooled the swedens into thinking you're swedish by being a german when you were infact german.. I'm usually pretty good at figuring out things but this one...I need to think on it. Is there a cultural reference that I'm missing? WTF am I thinking...it's a dream, most dreams aren't supposed to have meaning even though they most likely do. Sorry for that psychoanalysis
Nightkiller - Umm...no, I'm 24 and I still have scary dreams every so often. It all depends on what's going on with your life with dreams. Everyone who's posted opinions about them all agree that it's your brains way to make sense of all the signals bouncing around. Dreams that come true....in high school I sometimes had this deja vu type feeling. I'm not sure if I dreamt something 4 yrs ago and it's just now happening, or if I'm just so caught up in my usual activities that when I finally stop to think about it...it feels like a dream.
|2004-04-23, 08:39
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ok first off im know for having wierd dreams so dont judge me.
ok i guess ill tell you guys about two wierd dreams i had in the same night.
the first one starts off with me in a one room apartment all by myself, standing near the front door, when all of a sudden 100s of millions of cocker roaches come flooding into the room from the bottem of the front door. then they all start to come together to for a woman w/ short black hair dressed in some shiny black leather outfit. i remember saying something 2 her then her replieing with ''This one is mine'' suddenly she whips out this strange looking gun and a big ass cocker roach, loads the roach into the gun and fires it into my chest, then i look down and watch as the cocker roach burrows in my chest. (and i wake up)
Later that night i went to sleep and proceeded to have another dream where i was baby sitting a mutant baby (it was all pale and vieny w/ a big head and a crack baby's body) any way it was jumping up and down on the bed dont ask my why, but it got to close to the edge and fell off and when it hit the ground it got a 5 inch pin stuck in the side of its head (from back to front like in the skin) i ran toward to baby and tried to pick it up but it was scraching the hell out of my fore arm w/ its foot, and all i kept saying was O my god O my god O my god over and over. (then i woke up some how while laying down on my bed jumping to my feet while staying stiff as a board repeating O my god over and over really fast.)
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|2004-04-23, 09:54
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Wow, interesting dreams. And yes, I read them all. I don't often remember mine unless I wake up in the middle. But that happened two days ago so I will share that one.
I was with some guy (I'm a girl) and we had to go and rescue a girl in a fortress on the other side of a river. I can't swim IRL (Yea I know thats bad I just never learned.) so the guy was going across alone to go and save her. There were ropes in the river like you would see in a pool with the floaties. From the shore, I was watching him swim and was in awe at how fast he was maneuvering under them and then back to the surface. But somehow the guy gets hurt and is back on the shore with me. He says he can't swim across and so it's up to me to go and save the girl.
So I start off going slowly and trying my hardest to keep my body relaxed. I wasn't worried about how exactly I was going to save her once I got there, my main concern was being able to cross the river. I move from rope to rope and when I go under one I would take a deep breath and hold on till I was resurfaced, pulling myself up with the rope.
Everything is going smoothly, and then when I go to resurface after a rope, there is a blue tarp above me. I start to panic, but my head is telling me to relax. I had just taken a deep breath, so I knew I was ok for a minute. (For some reason, I didn't think of turning back) I tore through the tarp and pulled my head through the hole and took a deep breath. But then I realized that there was another tarp! It felt like the breath I had just taken hadn't done any good even though my brain was telling me that it had been actual air. I tore through the next tarp, took a deep breath only to open my eyes and panic again at another tarp. This repeated and then at the fourth tarp, I was struggling and couldn't tear through it. I was sinking and out of air. I started thinking "This is it....I'm going to die" I wasn't so much concerned for my death, but that I wouldn't be able to go and rescue the girl.
Then I woke up and sat straight up while gasping for air. I'm sure someone could psychoanalyze that, but I tease myself and say I just need to learn how to swim. ^_~
|2004-04-23, 11:03
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You can't swim..... .....
Interesting dream, funny how subconscious mind can play tricks on you. I've never had a dream about drowning, nor about water that I can remember. I'm a very dry dreamer.
But suffocating is said to be a painless and quiet death.
|2004-04-23, 14:22
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Taboo - man...that would really suck. Kind of like watching those movies where the person is trapped under ice.
The1Voices - That's creepy...just plain creepy.
Jaz - I would kill to see a 100ft Cookie Monster ravage some big city. "Mmmm...me want cookie!!!"
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|2004-04-25, 22:51
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Location: right outside your window
Age: 18
i dont usualy remember my dreams but the worst one i remember, i remember vividly. i was around 11 years old. the dream started off with me and my brother playing a card game outside on the sidewalk. then my stepmother called out that they were going to go look at a house to move to and if any one whanted to go. i wanted to go but when i went to stand up my legs didnt work. some they left without me. my stepbrother didnt want to go and my sister stayed home to finish the laundery. for some reason my step brother was living in this brocken down car in the front yard and had said to put all the laundry ontop of the car for isulation. while i was still outside trying to get my legs to work my sister came out with a basket of laundry. she stoped just outside the door and then set the basket down and grabed out a shirt and said it was one of my other stepbrother's and started to fold it. i looked away for a secound and all the sudden i heard my sister screaming. my step brother was hitting her in the head with a hammer. the intire time she was rolling around in the yard trying to get away from him i couldent move my legs. all i could do was watch.
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|2004-04-26, 01:14
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Tekkaman Blade!
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bakersfield, CA, USA,
Age: 30
When I was about 5, I had a series of nightmares that had the Boos from Mario in them. They just got closer whenever I looked back...
Does anyone else have any anime dreams? I've had a few...
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Am I wrong? Need help..
I have some questions about my attempt to Ketosis. I suppose to be taken 1300-1500 cal daily. (not so overweight, but i want to lower my bodys fat).I composed a list by myself but not sure if its right..
I eat only:
cream cheese
butter with salt
tea or coke sugar free
black olive
and thats it. i eat these up to 1300cals maximum.
please your opinions? do this work? am i trying in vain or will i get weight instead of lose? i need your ideas..
your opinions? do this work? am i trying in vain or will i get weight instead of lose? i need your ideas..
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Location: Kansas
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Just a thought, but you are taking in alot of salt..and not alot of protein. Your protein grams should be at least 60-70 grams a day and I doubt if you are getting that in your sausage/salam and one egg.
Use fitday to figure out your percentages..Your fat should be around 65 percent of your
calories, protein 25 percent and 10 percent carbs.
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Thank you so much CarolynF. So you mean "first percentages, then calories"? My thought was: -I eat carb. unwillingly with my other food stuff, so i neednt more- now, iam thinking about this again..
This is my two days
1- two boiled eggs, 4 little chicken sausage, 5 olives
fried salam with papper (in a huuuge plate)
scrambled eggs and light coke
2- 4 sausage and melted cheese top of it and tea (no sugar)
two fried chicken meatballs ( i dont like meat so much except sausage&salam :/ )
i will eat an boiled egg salad with white cheese and olives, and maybe coke
yes i eat the same things with different combinations, its hard but these are the foods i liked anyway. but am i on right way? and one more thing in my mind, if i eat little piece of sweet thing or any kind of simple carb. as long as my ketosis period, do all of my works go away? do my body stock all the fat i consume?
and iam going to fitday again..
"Eat fat" sounds easy, but when you begin, not that much..
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One of the benefits of this type of living is that protein and fat do not convert to body fat easily so you tend to expel the excess rather than put on fat tissue.
Your body won't be in ketosis 100% of the time anyway.
The problem with regular sweets, and some 'sugar-free' sweets, is that they may spike your insulin levels. While insulin is high fat cannot be used from fat cells (all things considered) and your body cannot be in ketosis.
No one, as in zero, gets fat from eating fat. They get fat from eating too many calories. Fat is very calorie dense so it is very easy to overeat if you are eating a lot of fatty foods, especially if you are not low-carb. Not all fat is equal either. Coconut oil is, perhaps, the perfect fat. Crisco, on the other hand, is not.
Take some time to read through the posts here and elsewhere.
The time you spend reading up will greatly enhance your success.
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Your calorie requirement is very low. So, no worries about eating chicken or turkey to keep calories down but keep protein up.
I do this myself depending on what my little goal is for the day.
I use fitday every day. The last week or so I've been mapping my day out by adding what I'd like to eat to see where it will put my overall calories and how my percentages will look.
For example, today I knew I was going to eat about 8oz of delicious pork chop so I added that this morning when I was drinking coffee so I could see where it would put me for the day. Knowing where I'd be after having that for lunch lets me plan what I can have for dinner and stay where I want with calories and percentages.
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reddarin, i appreciate your explains in detail thank you so much!
These all what i need. I got lots of point about body fat/fat, "cute" sugar-free things, tiny but highly important to me, iam getting it really more now. and Dr.Eades' blog has becoming indispensible just like fitday. The more i learn the more i trust myself.
Again thank you so so much!
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So, when I went to a gram/ ounce conversion chart, it says that 60 - 75 grams only equals around 2 something ounces. Is that correct? Surely we can have more than 2 ounces of protein a day.
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No..60 grams of protein is about 10 ounces of pure protein.
There are about 6-7 grams of protein in an ounce of protein.
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Someone said it is hard to get in fats. May I offer some suggestions.
My BF calls me "The Fat Lady" and I smile and Hug him cause he means I know how to add fats to almost everything!
I cook with butter as much as I can. I slow fry fish in it. I sautee veggies in it. I add it to savory soups for a extra dimension of flavor. I sautee onions for recipes in it.
I take a pound of butter and heat it on medium in a pot and skim off the solids and let the water evaporate, and I get a golden liquid butter fat. Then I can fry with it without it smoking. I don't mean deep fry but quick high temp stove top cooking.
This butterfat is delicious on veggies, and even on top of Low Carb Ice cream. I make cocoa bark with it, a blend of coconut oil, ghee(butterfat) and cocoa and sweetener.
Another way to increase fat easily is to buy leaner meat but NOT pour off the cooked fat. the 75% fat beef is processed with added fat and water. By the time I finish cooking it, it's a pool of fatty water. I found when I went leaner, it seemed to have less water and less fat,so it was proportional to the meat, and I didn't have two cups of liquid to pour off. I started buying 90% and higher meat and just leaving the fat in and I think I'm eating more of the fat than if I poured it off.
Cream cheese is a great fat food. I like to warm it up with buffalo sauce as a chicken dip for when I had dry breasts. I make clouds as a sweet treat and it's a combination of unsalted butter and cream cheese, a total fat bomb! It's a good product to make creamy soups or casseroles. Try cooking some chicken breasts or thighs 4-6, shred them and mixing in a can of rotel and a block of cream cheese. A spicy chicken dip or stew. It also calls for a half can of corn and a can black beans but you choose depending on your carb levels. I like the little bit of starch for the variety and texture.
if you like instant pudding, instead of making it with low fat not milk, use cream and water. Increase the fat percentage.
Another REally FAtty recipe I use when I need a fatty full breakfast is to melt some hard cheese like colby or cheddar in a skillet and cook it till it solidifies. Then down the middle I'll add a strip of cream cheese, some cooked veggies like mushrooms or onions, some chopped bacon, etc. then I use a spatula to turn the edges of the fried cheese over the middle like a burrito. When I set it on the plate and it cools a bit the cheese has formed a crispy crunchy shell with all your toppings in the middle. If I need more protein, I'll crack an egg over the fried cheese and let it cook till the whites are solid before adding the veggies and meat.
Sorry to ramble. I'm excited to see someone in the EFGT thread. It's been so quiet lately. I need to get back into it myself. Life gets in the way, but EFGT is actually easy to do with regular people and food arouond cause I don't have to be so sticct about carbs and I can make up my fat % later.
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A 4-year-old child died in a house fire northeast of Brush in Morgan County on Sunday night.
His mother, grandmother, aunt and two other children were able to escape the smoke and flames, said Sheriff James Crone.
Crews with the Brush Volunteer Fire Department were not able to reach the room where the child's body was found.
The child's name was not released pending notification of other family members, Crone said.
The cause and origin of the fire are under investigation, but Crone said foul play is not suspected.
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"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."
When sensible and reasonable discussion goes awry.
For a time, I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
All of the NY Giants fans that were calling for Eli and Coughlin's heads (many of them) earlier this season who are now sitting in the front seat of the Giants bandwagon.
"The players make the manager, it's never the other way." - Sparky Anderson
Fast food drive-thru's, and the people who use them.
I went to Taco Bell for lunch and the guy literally asked me "Do you want hard beef or soft beef?" when I ordered three tacos. (Come to think of it, this could go in the "things that make you smile" thread, too.)
And how difficult is the new McDonald's method to grasp? They alternate taking orders, therefore the two lines do the same when merging. EVERY TIME I've been there since the switch, I've nearly been hit by someone who doesn't understand the concept of alternating by chronological orders.
"I saw Wedding Crashers accidentally. I bought a ticket for Grizzly Man and went into the wrong theater. After an hour, I figured I was in the wrong theater, but I kept waiting. Thats the thing about bear attacks. They come when you least expect it."-Dwight K. Schrute
"Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women." - Nora Ephron
Suggestive selling. If I want fries, I'll ask for them, likewise dessert. If I'm paying for fuel at the Flying J, and I didn't bring anything else to the counter, it's because I don't need anything else besides fuel.
The most annoying one was a couple weeks ago down in Alabama. I have been trying to cut down on the soft drinks somewhat and I've been pretty good about it, but I still like one every now and then. My idea of cutting down is exactly that, but my wife's idea is that you cut something out entirely. One evening I stopped for fuel and it was around 11:00 pm and I still had 300 miles left to do. Caffeine was sounding like a pretty good idea. I was on the phone with my wife as well because when I'm on the road we always talk right before she goes to bed. I came up to the fuel desk with a Coke in hand to pay for along with the fuel I had pumped and the clerk, who probably didn't notice the bluetooth on my ear, spoke to me like she didn't know I was on the phone. What she said was heard clearly by my wife on the other end of the phone. "Would you like some chips to go with that soda pop?"
I have nothing for respect for the people who work at fast food. We harp on people to "get a job" and then belittle them for it. Sheesh!
Its the nincompoop customers who get me. For instance, last fall I stop by the McDonalds on Haight Street, which is always on the verge of utter chaos. I just want to get some food in my gullet before I catch up with some friends at a bar. I'm in kind of a hurray (thus McDonald's) and stuck behind this young, ultra-hipster couple pouring over the menu like its the dead sea scrolls. After 5 minutes, I've had it. "Would you please order already", I say. Hipster responds, "just relax...we're ordering for a lot of people".
First, if your feeding a bunch of people, order pizza.
Second, its McDonalds, they have burgers and fries. Do a head count, order a bunch and be done with it. Its all crap anyhow.
Last, I hate being told "to relax". Its such a bs way of making the problem about my messed up chi instead of your complete obliviousness to other people. Ok, Ram Dass, I'll go meditate in the corner while you dither over the value menu. Grrrrrrrr!
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The widow is gathering nettles for her children's dinner; a perfumed seigneur, delicately lounging in the Oeil de Boeuf, hath an alchemy whereby he will extract the third nettle and call it rent. ~ Carlyle
Guilty as charged, but they'd have to put the tee box next to the green for me to be playing from a length that matches my abilities.Golfers playing from a tee box beyond their abilities
Here's what drives me crazy:
Golf technology. Like I said above- I pretty much hug it at golf, but at least I realize it's operator error.
Bicyclists who ride like they're delivering a package in downtown NYC. Except it's Bloomington.
People who can't go without snack food for ten minutes.
Next Reds manager, second shooter. --Confirmed on Redszone.
a super volcano of ridonkulous suckitude.
I simply don't have access to a "cares about RBI" place in my psyche. There is a "mildly curious about OBI%" alcove just before the acid filled lake guarded by robot snipers with lasers which leads to the "cares about RBI" antechamber though. - Nate
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26 Years and Counting...
And around here they ride on some pretty major roads and there could be 4, 6 sometimes 10 of them all peddling away like mad in front of a line of 4 or 5 cars who are sorely tempted to blast them off the road. It's like yuppy bike gangs or something. I'm waiting for them to have the gadget on the handle bars that sounds like a dirt bike when you twist it.
We don't live very far from some very rural areas where bike fans could ride to their hearts content and likely not bother too many people (be a lot safer riding too, I would think). Of course, then no one would see their nice shiney helmets and unitards. What fun would that be?
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I simply don't have access to a "cares about RBI" place in my psyche. There is a "mildly curious about OBI%" alcove just before the acid filled lake guarded by robot snipers with lasers which leads to the "cares about RBI" antechamber though. - Nate
Didn't mean to start a flameout on bikers. I'm one, but I understand why people don't like bikes; we get in your way and make it hard to pass us. The problem is that in this country bikes are not seen as a mode of transportation. If they were, there would be bike lanes everywhere. Instead bikers are treated no differently than motorists. It's idiotic.
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Being that I work at Kroger, I have one to add to this one, even though I think Steel hinted at it earlier in the thread.
People who check out 200 dollars(and I don't mean gift cards, I mean a whole buggy full of groceries) at the express lane and then look at you like you are crazy when you tell them it is express.
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It was a concern from the minute the arms race to bring out the two movies began: does an American filmgoing audience want to see two films about terrorists taking over the White House?
This past weekend, we learned the answer: not especially.
Despite an extensive marketing campaign, Roland Emmerich's "White House Down" took in just $24.9 million this weekend, according to the official figure released Monday afternoon -- a number that put the Channing Tatum-Jamie Foxx picture in fourth place for the weekend and behind openings earlier in the year of far more modestly budgeted, less starry affairs such as "42" and "Mama."
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Perhaps the most important comparison: The opening figure was about 20% lower than the $30.4 million picked up in the first weekend by FilmDistrict's Gerard Butler-starring "Olympus Has Fallen," that other White House movie with a lower budget and less marketing support that came out almost exactly three months ago.
Even with strong word of mouth, the final tally for "White House" is not likely to exceed $75 million in the U.S. (international, where Emmerich is strong, could be a saving grace) and is all but guaranteed to fall short of the $98 million Antonie Fuqua's "Olympus" took in domestically. For a $125-million-plus picture, that's a disappointment.
The question is: How much did "Olympus" play a role in its fate?
Certainly it wasn't the only factor. The male-oriented "White House" experienced several challenges -- the dads who took their kids to "Monsters University," the men who went to see the action-tinged "The Heat." (About one-third of the filmgoers who bought tickets to the Bullock-McCarthy movie this weekend were male, according to studio Fox.) And Tatum — who during casting must have seemed like the perfect double threat because of his popularity with women -- has generally opened action movies only as part of ensembles (e.g, "G.I. Joe"), not as an anchor.
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Still, one can't discount "Olympus" and its proximity to the "White House" release. The American moviegoing public forgets things quickly, but not that quickly. And despite Sony's best efforts to distinguish "White House" from "Olympus" by selling it as a buddy comedy, it's a tough camouflage. "White House" is an action-adventure about terrorists taking over the White House, and one man's crusade to protect it -- just like "Olympus."
Historically, coming out second in these similar-premise situations isn't necessarily a death sentence -- "Armageddon" fared nicely after "Deep Impact" — but more often than not, whether it's "Infamous" or "Alexander," the latter film sputters. Besides, all of those examples were a lifetime ago in entertainment years, in a time when consumers had a lot fewer choices outside the theater. (The overall size-of-the-pie issue is always intriguing too; it would be interesting to learn how many who bought tickets this weekend also went to see "Olympus.")
In retrospect, there are questions one can ask about the release strategy -- should Sony, for example, have left the film in November, where it was originally scheduled, instead of moving it up? The film might have had a little more cultural distance form "Olympus," at least. Still, the next time two action movies with the same premise come out in close succession, the second may be better off trying to come out first, or not at all.
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Day: April 14, 2012
Sri Lanka: Reactions to US Resolution at UNHRC
Filed under: Global Voices by Rezwan on Thursday, 12 April 2012
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On 22 March, 2012, 24 countries voted in favour of a US resolution at a UN Human Rights Council meeting on Sri Lanka seeking to encourage the government to implement the recommendations made by the Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) and also to credibly investigate allegations of human rights violations during the country's long lasting civil war against the LTTE.
The move was vehemently opposed by Sri Lanka right from the start and the netizens also voiced their opinions.
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka at Groundviews called the US resolution a big lie:
"One of the rankest untruths in the public domain today is that the US resolution is innocuous and unobjectionable because it only seeks to commit the government of Sri Lanka to implement its own LLRC report within a reasonable time frame."


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USU's Head Pastry Chef Recognized at Local Chocolate Festival
Thursday, Mar. 21, 2013
Utah State University's Dining Services head pastry chef Steven Wright competed recently at the annual Chocolate Festival, a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood Association and the Logan Health Center. Wright took second place honors in the professional category.
The popular annual event features competitors that include everyone from children to the talented home cook to professionals.
Wright has been with USU's Dining Services only six months, but in that short time has made it a goal to make improvements at the Triple Beam Bakery. His co-workers said his creativity and love for cooking have given him the ability to share his talents through many avenues on campus and in the community.
For the chocolate festival, Wright created a chocolate gianduja tart. The tart included gianduja, a super-silky mix of Swiss chocolate and hazelnuts with a rich, deep flavor, he said. Paired with a pie-like crust and chocolate designs, Wright topped the creation off with candied cherries.
Wright said he was excited to compete with the Crumb Brothers pastry crew, the first place winner in the professional category with its white chocolate hazelnut cake with red berry surprise.
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Nature at 6 pm Sunday tells the present-day story of the lions and individuals depicted in "Born Free", a book and then a film that forever changed the way we think about wildlife over 50 years ago.
At 7 pm Sunday, Broadway or Bust takes viewers into the intense rehearsals, coaching and coaxing sessions that take place during one week of preparation for the auditions and the awards ceremony, popularly known as "The Jimmy Awards".
On Masterpiece Mystery! Presents: Wallander, Series III at 8 pm Sunday, Wallander become embroiled in a case of high-level corruption that threatens his entire investigation – and perhaps even his life.
New Glass at Wheaton at 9:30 pm Sunday explores the world of three young residents at New Jersey's Creative Glass Center of America, where they pursue their creative visions of manipulating glass in new and unexpected ways.
In his newest PBS special, Dr. Wayne Dyer offers viewers a detailed explanation of how to manifest that which is most important to them in Dr. Wayne Dyer – Wishes Fulfilled at 8 pm Monday.
From filmmaker Ric Burns, Death and the Civil War: American Experience at 7 pm Tuesday explores an essential but largely overlooked aspect of the most pivotal event in American history.
As fighting rages in the streets of Syria's largest city, Frontline at 9 pm Tuesday journeys to the heart of the insurgency, inside the rebel groups that are waging a full-scale assault on the forces of President Bashar al-Assad.
Hosted by Glee's Matthew Morrison, Oscar Hammerstein II – Out of My Dreams at 7 pm Wednesday celebrates one of the most acclaimed lyricists and librettists of the 20th century.
Featuring performances from various legendary clubs and hot performance spots, My Music travels on location to London and around the UK to the place where the British Rock Era was born in British Beat: My Music at 8:30 pm Wednesday.
Criminal Justice reform advocate Michael Morton discusses his life and story on Overheard with Evan Smith at 7 pm Thursday.
Arts In Context at 7:30 pm Thursday provides a unique look into Artistic Director Stephen Mills' harrowing work on survival amidst a climate of indifference and hate in Ballet Austin's production of "Light / The Holocaust & Humanity Project."
Chet travels to Spicewood to sip some coffee, swim in Krause Springs, go ziplining through the trees, and eat some delicious BBQ on The Daytripper at 8:30 pm Thursday.
Mariachi High at 9 pm Thursday and Friday presents a year in the life of the champion mariachi ensemble at Zapata High School on the Rio Grande in South Texas.
Modern-rock giants Coldplay perform hits and selections from their newest album, Mylo Xyloto, on Austin City Limits at 7 pm Saturday.


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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The Senate has unanimously approved the confirmation of F. David Martin as secretary of the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department.
Martin assumed the cabinet-level job last year after the retirement of John Bemis.
Martin previously was Environment Department secretary in Gov. Susana Martinez's administration.
He holds engineering degrees from Texas Tech and New Mexico Tech, where he was an adjunct associate professor in the petroleum and chemical engineering department.
The department regulates oil and natural gas operations and is responsible for mine safety, reclamation of abandoned mines, state parks, forestry and fire management
The Senate approved Martin's appointment yesterday.


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Spy/Ad/Malware is a very re-occuring topic here. Instead of spreading all the links, advice and knowledge across multiple threads, let's create a compendium of helpful resources here.
Please do not create posts like "i agree" "i second this" etc here, they will be deleted. this thread should become a list of ressources and step by step instructions at which we can point people when they have problems.
what we could use here:
- urls to anti spy/malware software
- how to recognize whether you have been "infected"
- precautions to avoid infection
- what to do when you are infected (step by step)
- common malware remove instructions
and NO "get a mac posts" (also no "get linux posts" if somebody wants to describe how to troubleshoot problems using a LIVE CD that would be OK though)


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You're Not Alone...Thank You.
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Dr. Bob, Thank you for your reply to Matt and Jake. I am fortunate to have a family that embraces me and loves me just as I am. A heterosexual woman that made a mistake. My family also loved my homosexual uncle through the same ordeal. The "toxic" person I had to get throught was a boyfriend, living in his own "reality". To him no one, not even himself, could handle what was happening to him (never mind that it was happening to me too and I was the one that was positive). He never tested positive and I am greatful for that. Needless to say he's no longer a part of my life. My point is I am thankful for my family. Everyone took it differently, but no one turned me or my uncle away in our darkest hours. They told me time and again through tears of worry, that they are glad they know because they wouldn't want me to go through this alone. I wish that was possible for everyone. My Mom and Sister still have their moments... but they haven't left me or made me feel ashamed. So, we'll work through it and that's okay. For Jake and Matt, sometimes the best family is the one you make for yourself. Someone else in your family may take it very well and love you were you are. I wish all of us the best of luck. Sincerely, Amber
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Hello Amber,
ON behalf of Matt and Jake (and all the Matts and Jakes), thank you for your comments and wise insight.
Stay well.
Dr. Bob
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Winter advisory continues into Christmas night
December 25, 2009
The heaviest snowfall is past us, but the Kansas City metro area continues to be under a winter weather advisory until midnight Friday.
The National Weather Service said light snow and flurries would continue in areas along and south of the Missouri River including the Kansas City metropolitan areas this evening as an upper-level storm system lingers to the northeast. Snow accumulation should remain light in nature with most areas receiving less than 1 inch of snow.
However, strong west winds will persist through this evening with sustained winds of 20 to 30 mph and gusts as high as 35 mph possible. Extensive blowing and drifting snow will reduce visibilities to one half mile at times. Numerous roads may be impacted by this drifting snow with north-to-south running roads the most susceptible to hazardous driving conditions. Travelers are urged to use extreme caution tonight.
The strong winds in combination with temperatures in the mid-teens will combine to produce bitterly cold wind chills between zero and 10 below this evening.
The Kansas Department of Transportation continues to operate snow-removal machinery on highways, which continue to be partly to mostly snowpacked in the metro area.
"Roads are still slick and the wind chills make it dangerous to be out, so be very careful if you have to travel," said Maj. Gen. Tod Bunting, director of Kansas Division of Emergency Management and the Kansas Adjutant General. "Make sure you have a full tank of gas and take emergency supplies with you including water, food, medicine, blankets and a cell phone. In these conditions, it could take emergency workers longer to reach you should you need assistance."
The weather is to blame for five fatalities on Kansas highways since Tuesday night. For information on road conditions, call 511 in Kansas or go to http://511.ksdot.org. If outside the state, call 1-866-511-5368 for conditions.
Snow and ice resulted in power outages for Westar and KCP&L customers Christmas Eve and Christmas morning, however, most of the power across the state has now been restored, state Emergency Management officials said.
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I see what you're saying. I guess even if there wasn't a technical limitation, there might still be a political one as to have a universal driver format, you'd have to have a universal binary format. You raised a good point about how windows uses DLLs and Linux uses ko's. So on one OS, PE's are the preferred binary format and on the other -Linux- ELFs are.
I'm fairly certain I read somewhere that the Linux kernel is written in such a way that it can have support for other binary blobs (in fact a.out is still natively support), but the question is, would Linus, Redmond nor any of the other kernel devs want a "foreign" (for want a better term) executable format to be supported in kernel space? Maybe I'm just being naive or overly critical, but I couldn't see that happening.
You did also raise the point about compatible source code, but Linux has a hard enough time getting source code for things like 3D graphic acceleration and Wireless chipsets, so I couldn't see any universal model working unless it supported closed binary blobs.
I don't mean to be pessimistic as I think your idea is a great one. I'm just trying to understand the logistics of it all


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Columbus' investment in new bicycle amenities includes a public survey meant to make the city a more bike-friendly community.
Columbus' investment in new bicycle amenities includes a public survey meant to make the city a more bike-friendly community.
This year, the city will spend $5.6 million on bicycling facilities and improvements, while also asking residents to help update the Bikeways Plan, adopted in 2008.
"It really comes down to some fine tuning," said Rick Tilton, Columbus assistant director of public service.
Surveys, available online at www.surveymonkey.com/s/ cbustransportation, will be accepted through Wednesday, April 23.
Tilton said there are simply more cyclists on the road, particularly downtown, where the bike-sharing program CoGo has added 300 bicycles and 30 bike stations.
So, bike safety has been on the minds of city officials for some time. Last year, the city launched the Share the Road campaign, an ongoing educational effort meant to educate drivers and bicyclists about roadway safety.
Among new facilities planned for 2014:
* 56 accent pavement markings, or sharrows, on 1.1 miles of roadway.
* 36 bike boulevard pavement markings on 2 miles of roadway.
* 1.5 miles of shared-use paths.
* 1.3 miles of bike lanes.
* 5 miles of bike trails.
* 50 bike racks.
Since 2008, the city has made considerable strides on the cycling front by adding a number of resources, including 13 miles of new bike trails, 393 bike racks, 18 bike shelters and 153 bicycle pavement markings at 48 intersections, said Dan Williamson, spokesman for Mayor Michael B. Coleman.
"Over the past several years Mayor Coleman has made it a goal to make Columbus one of the best bike cities in the nation," Williamson said.
"Bicycling has become a real part of our culture in Columbus and the mayor is going to do his part to make it easier to ride on the road or trails as much as possible."
Jess Mathews, outreach manager for Consider Biking, said she's encouraged the city is investing money in additional bicycle resources and safety, which is a concern for people who navigate the roadways with motorists.
Mathews said motorists will shout nasty things, drive too close or dangerously swerve to avoid cyclists, who are prohibited from riding on the sidewalk.
"I think everywhere it's just a lack of education," Mathews said.
"But I think it will come if we make true changes with our infrastructure," she said.
"I think if you truly change the infrastructure you're truly going to change the behavior."


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SALEM — The Democrats in charge of writing a new state budget said Friday they're casting aside proposed tax increases and public-employee pension cuts and will begin advancing early pieces of a spending plan for the next two years.
Democrats want to increase taxes, Republicans want steeper cuts in public-employee pensions, and each side is accusing the other of refusing to negotiate. Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber this week proposed a budget outline he framed as a compromise. Republicans rejected it, saying the plan wouldn't do enough in the way of pension cuts.
The governor on Thursday urged lawmakers to move on with a budget based on existing revenue.
Sen. Richard Devlin and Rep. Peter Buckley, co-chairmen of the budget-writing Ways and Means Committee, said that's what they intend to do. Time is running out to begin fitting together the pieces of the spending puzzle, they said.
"Unless someone's got a proposal they want to toss in immediately, we're going," Buckley said. "We've got to get budgets passed." The state's spending authority expires June 30, and the Legislature will need to approve a flurry of agency budgets to keep them operating.
Republicans, however, insist it's the Democrats who are being inflexible.
"The Democrats have, to this point, employed a go-it-alone strategy," said Sen. Tim Knopp, R-Bend.
Democrats got some room to maneuver Thursday when state economists delivered a revenue forecast that projected a significant increase in revenue over previous estimates. That means Democrats can fund their priorities without the new tax revenue they had demanded for months.
Republicans are holding on tightly to one key bargaining chip, however. Senate Republicans have refused to provide the two key GOP votes that would be needed to pass a tax on hospitals and nursing homes. The so-called provider tax would collect about $800 million from hospitals and nursing homes over the next two years, leveraging more than $1.3 billion in federal matching funds. It provides a big chunk of funding for the state Medicaid program, the Oregon Health Plan.
The key question will be whether all 14 Senate Republicans hold together in opposition to the provider tax in the face of pressure from hospitals, which rely on it to ensure Medicaid can cover thousands of Oregonians who would otherwise seek uncompensated care in emergency rooms. Several Senate Republicans already are on the record supporting the tax, although they've complained about the timing.
"I know that most of them realize there is no backup for the hospital tax and the long-term care tax, and that without those two the budget won't balance," Devlin said.
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So I need some help with this problem:
Newton's Law of Gravitation states that the magnitude F of force exerted by a body of mass m on a body of mass M is F(r)=(GmM)/r^2, where G is the gravitational constant and r is the distance between the center of the bodies. Suppose that one of the bodies is the earth and the other is a 1000-kg satellite. The earth's mass is approximately 5.98(10^24) kg concentrated at the center and its radius is approximately 6.37(10^6)m. G=6.67(10^-11) N * m^2/kg^2
a. Determine how fast the force between the earth and satellite changes when the satellite has launched vertically to a height of 1000 km.
b. Explain the physical meaning of the minus sign for the rate of force with respect to the distance between the bodies.
c. The determination of work required, when a force and change in distance is given, is analogous to determining the displacement when the velocity and change in time is given or the change in charge when the current and the change in time is given. Compute the work required to launch the satellite vertically to a height of 1000 km.
I really need some help trying to figure out what I need to do in order to proceed with this problem. Don't want the answers just help solving it
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ST. LOUIS, Mo.-- The Lady Panthers swept SLIAC rivals, Webster University, 3-0 in a Conference road match Wednesday night.
Corinne Coon once again lead GC with 18 points, 14 kills, and 3 service aces in the match. Coon, who has already been named SLIAC Player of the Week once this season, has been a strong offensive force for Greenville.
Nicole Schaeffer was also impressive for the Panthers offensively, getting 13 of GC's 52 points. She recorded 13 kills and 17 digs in the match.
In addition to Coon and Schaeffer, Ellen Lueking and Sierah Ruffner stood out for GC. Lueking had 31 assists and Ruffner earned 3 solo blocks for Greenville.
After the hard-earned win, the Lady Panther's record improves to 9-3 (3-0 SLIAC). Their next match is Saturday, September 21 when they travel to Eureka to take on Iowa Wesleyan at noon and Westminster at 2:00pm.


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Fall brings our nesting, comfort-dining instincts to the fore—which is why the friendly farmhouse inns of New England have such a magnetic effect. From the 5-diamond comforts of Relais & Châteaux to a homespun cottage on a working farm, these properties promise a warm welcome complete with fresh-baked cookies by the fire.
Click through the next few pages to see 11 more perfectly charming New England farmhouse inns.
|Shamrock Farm Inn, Portsmouth, R.I.
This countryside charmer on the grounds of a working flower farm is run by a father and daughter team. It offers "One Hundred Thousand Welcomes" in the Celtic hospitality tradition that proprietor William Conheeny learned from his Galway, Ireland forebears.
|Blue Horse Inn, Woodstock, Vt.
Pets and people alike get the run of the house at Blue Horse Inn, and it's always "wine hour" or time for an impromptu music performance somewhere around the property. In the summer and fall, the sloping back yard, with flower beds and a pool overlooking the river, is everyone's unofficial chill spot.
|Mayflower Inn, Washington, Conn.
Billing itself as a "country house hotel," this Relais & Châteaux property represents the most luxurious of New England inn lodgings—more manor than farmhouse, but still blissfully bucolic. With oversized soaking tubs and romantic canopied four-poster beds, the rooms are perfect for cozying up a deux during a winter storm.
|Apple Hill Inn, Taftsville, Vt.
With a gamboling Goldendoodle greeting guests in the drive and acres of green pastures and orchards rolling in every direction, this property makes guests long to quit their city jobs and move to the most rural reaches of Vermont. The proprietress did so herself, and will share her story as she bakes batches of muffins or whisks around the sunny antique-furnished atrium. The large, empty but pristine old barn in back is a popular wedding site in warm months.
|Christmas Farm Inn,Jackson, N.H.
The name makes you wonder if this might be Santa's own holiday getaway. And maybe--if Santa were rather sophisticated and enjoyed spa days and evenings drinking wine by the fire pit—it could be. A former working Colonial-era farmhouse, later doing turns as a church and a jail, the property first became an inn in the late 1800s. Since then, it's gone through various ownership changes and has been added onto and been upgraded many times, most recently in 2010.
|Warfield House Inn, Charlemont, Mass.
Farm stays are a popular way to experience rural Massachusetts. At this Berkshires property, guests can go on llama treks or horseback trail rides, in addition to "working" in the old-fashioned barnyard and/or the garden. Seasonal activities include maple syruping, cross-country skiing and leaf-peeping. Guests lodge in the main house or the "Bungalow," which has less expensive rooms including three that are shared-bath.
|Hartman's Herb Farm, Barre, Mass.
There are as many greenhouses as guest rooms at this Massachusetts garden farm. Although the five guest rooms are quite modest, the beautiful display garden, 150-person dining room and formal gardens make this a popular wedding spot. The property also hosts popular holiday brunches and weekend open houses in May.
|Inn at Valley Farm, Walpole, N.H.
Going "back to the land" doesn't get more idyllic than at sustainable, family-run Walpole Valley Farm. Lodging choices include guest rooms in the "Inn", the family-friendly cottages or the farmhouse (rented as one unit, by the week). With free-range chickens feeding freely and sheep and cows grazing in their pastures, the 105-acre farm is a tourist-friendly model of modern homesteading. Go on a farm tour to see just how much work it takes to keep everything looking so picture-perfect.
|Cabot Cove Cottages, Kennebunkport, Maine
Admittedly, this property's coastal, not country. However, the collection of adorable little free-standing cottages, all gentle pastels and country-chic interiors, sums up everything an outsider wants from a New England getaway. The fall foliage right outside is spectacular, the nearby village is great for antiquing, and every guest cottage has its own private porch with Adirondack chairs.
|Blantyre, Lenox, Mass.
This classic New England country mansion was originally built as a great estate of the Gilded Age. The first owner modeled it after his ancestral home in Scotland—thus, the name and the turreted main house not pictured. Other much-beloved features, such as the "Snow Barbeques," the specialty hot chocolate menu (pictured), the "mud baths" and the small spa housed in the former potting shed, have evolved during the Blantyre's latest incarnation as a genteel country inn—now in its third decade, and going strong.
|Sachem Farmhouse Inn, Litchfield, Conn.
Copyright: Sachem Farmhouse Inn Jennifer and Jason King restored their four-room farmhouse inn in 2007 so as to be able to welcome guests to the working farm that's been in their family since the late 1700s. Of all the country charms that nearby New Yorkers and New Jersey refugees crave – the farm fresh breakfasts, the lakeside picnics, the peaceful gardens – the most popular feature might be the adorably woolly sheep. Pictured: mama Celeste with twin lambs Alabama and Alaska.