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txplowgirl replied to txplowgirl's topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithBack in 2012, I had an endoscopy and they found slight villi blunting as well as severe chronic gastritis. Gastro dr told me he didn't think I had Celiac but in his mind I had a sensitivity at least and suggested I go gluten free. But I had just beeb diagnosed with the Lupus which I was told was incurable, so that just took over and I went downhill in the depression dept. The ovarian cancer woke me up and i'm getting back on the bandwagon. I won't eat any gluten free store foods, they make me sick so I will do what I did before. I'm going back to a whole foods diet and kick out the nightshades, soy, dairy, and there were a few other things that I was having reactions to but can't remember what they are. I know i'll find out a few weeks down the road. It shouldn't be as rough this time as I know what i'm doing where I didn't before. Looking forward to feeling better and losing this weight that I gained back. Hopefully by the end of this new year i'll be feeling a lot better and have lost a lot a weight, knock on wood.
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txplowgirl replied to txplowgirl's topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithHi Notme, I no longer drive truck, wish I could. I intend to go back to gluten free. I have been thinking about it for several months and I just needed something to give me the motivation to do it. The diagnosis, of Hashimoto's Thyroiditis the day before Thanksgiving did it. I wanted to wait until after the holidays and tommorrow is the first of the new year and eating differently.
Is There Gluten In Levothyroxin?
txplowgirl replied to txplowgirl's topic in Celiac Disease - Related Disorders & ResearchI am supposed to have a check up in another 2 weeks to see how it's working. Dr. started me on a low dose of 25, then she will up to 75 and so on. Thanks for that link StephanieL, I will definitely check that out. And Molly, yes, I am lactose intolerant so that may explain it. Thanks everyone.
Is There Gluten In Levothyroxin?
txplowgirl posted a topic in Celiac Disease - Related Disorders & ResearchI was put on Levothyroxin around Thanksgiving due to finding out I have Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. I read somewhere that Levo has gluten in it. Does anyone know if that's correct. I have actually felt worse ever since taking it.
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txplowgirl replied to txplowgirl's topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithThanks Peter, appreciate it. I hope so.
I'm back After Being Gone For Awhile
txplowgirl posted a topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithHi everyone, well, I guess i'm back with my tail between my legs. I left back several years ago because of several problems. Mainly I quit working because I got really sick. I nearly died. I was hospitalized with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. I already had Fibromyalgia. Anyway, the lupus was attacking my kidneys and dr. told me I needed to go on disability. That I was so sick I wouldn't be able to work again. She was so right. Some of you may remember me. I drove truck and sometimes panned for gold in my off time. I turned out to be super sensitive to gluten. During my truck driving days I managed to lose 70 lbs and felt a lot better. Some of my issues resolved and I felt a lot better. When I found out the Lupus was incurable and I had to go on disability I went into a deep depression and I went back to eating everything in my path. Fast forward 4 years now and I have gained most of the weight I lost back, I have systemic Lupus, Fibro, Connective Tissue Disease, Rhuematoid Arthritis, Chronic Fatigue syndrome, Lupus Nephritis, Raynauds, Chronic Anemia, High blood pressure, Degenerative Disc Disease, Depression, 2 bulging discs in my neck with bone spur and 2 bulging discs in my lower lumbar, my social Anxiety is back, my IBS is worse, 5 months ago I wound up being rushed into emergency surgery for an 11 lb cancerous ovarian tumor that had ruptured, had a complete hysterectomy as well as an appendectomy. Thankfully all biopsies were negative for cancer so I didn't need chemo or radiation, thank goodness. The day before Thanksgiving I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's disease, my immune system is attacking my thyroid. Reading up about it from what I can understand a gluten free diet will help. The last few months i've been thinking of going back to gluten free but I just haven't really had the motivation. But with this latest diagnosis I decided I better whether I like it or not. I will be sharing my home with 2 gluten eaters who refuse to go gluten free which will make it even rougher, my husband, I got remarried 3 years ago and my only son has been living with us for the last 4 years also. So, Anyway, i'm back and trying to remember what I had learned before. So, here's hoping the new year is a lot better.
I'm Back And I Think I'm As Close As I'm Ever Gonna Get To A Dx
txplowgirl replied to txplowgirl's topic in Celiac Disease - Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & SymptomsGrrr, Kareng, That just kind irritated me just a bit more. The first 1 seemed to go a good way towards being Celiac and the second just blew it out of the water because it could be something else. But the 1 thing that sticks out is my immune system. Lupus, Connective Tissue Disease, Rynauds and other stems from immune problems plus gastro problems. Geeze Louise, I need to be gluten-free but it's gotten to be such a darn hassle plus my depression dosen't help matters as well as stressors on top of everything. But do appreciate the help Karen. Thank you.
I'm Back And I Think I'm As Close As I'm Ever Gonna Get To A Dx
txplowgirl posted a topic in Celiac Disease - Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & SymptomsHi everyone, I use to be on here almost everday for a long time but the crazyness of not knowing if I had Celiac or not and my SO not believing it I went back to eating gluten after being gluten free for several years, loosing weight and feeling lots better. Well, since I been here I went back to being sick, gained back all the weight I had lost and have been dx'd with Lupus/Conective Tissue Disease, with Fibro type symptoms, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Rynauds Syndrome, Degenerative Disc Disease, Endometriosis, Chronic Anemia and the really big one Severe Erosive Gastritis. Here a while back I kept getting sicker and sicker and I wound up in the hospital with a Lupus/Connective Tissue Disease flare and I had lost so much blood that I wound up needing a blood transfusion. While I was in they wanted to track down the bleeding so my dr contacted the hospitals gastro dr and he came in to talk with me and since he was going to do a Endo and Colonosopy on me I asked him to take enough biopsies to check for Celiac disease. I told him that I definetly had symptoms of when I ate gluten but that none of the blood tests showed I had it, So he said he would check. Well, this is what my official paperwork says. Gastric Antral Biopsies: Superficial fragments of gastric antral mucosa with severe hemorragic erosive gastritis and vascular congestion. Negative for tumor, Immunohistochemical stain for Helicobater negative. Several biopsies taken shows villi has slight blunting which is indicative of mild gluten sensitivity. That's it. So, for the old timers here. SHould I consider this Celiac Disease? When I talked to the gastro dr he was like the villi wasn't destroyed so I don't consider you to have Ciliac. But until you get your gastritis under control I would avoid gluten if I were you. Arrggghhh! Just frustrating but I guess I need to be gluten free no matter who gives me crap about it. Guess I need to redo my signature post down below.
Iron Defency Anemia & Iron Infusions
txplowgirl replied to KristenS's topic in Celiac Disease - Related Disorders & ResearchHi Kristen, I have had Chronic anemia all my life and I have been taking 325 mgs of iron 3 times a day and told to eat liver every night but I kept getting worse and worse. Finally went to a Nuerologist and she said I have Lupus on top of needing a blood transfusion. My GP Doc didn't think I needed anything else done because it was chronic. But I cant get the transfusion until I have my Ablation procedure on Thursday because of Endometriosis, heavy bleeding. My going gluten-free only helped for a little while, like a year before I started going down hill again. You've only found out 2 weeks ago. It will take a little while to start feeling better. Try to be as strict as you can, for some it can take just a couple of weeks for some they didn't start feeling better until a year in. It took me 6 months before I started feeling better. Not to mention you may go through withdrawals which will make you feel worse.
Found Out I Now Have Lupus With Connective Tissue Disease
txplowgirl posted a topic in Celiac Disease - Related Disorders & ResearchMy Neuro diagnosed me after she checked to make sure I don't have Epilepsy and MS. She checked me for almost everything else.But it is Lupus for sure. But she said something that i'm confused about. She said I had a low positive ANA. I'm going tomorrow to get my paperwork. I am so Chronically anemic I need a transfusion. I cant get the transfusion until I have an Ablation procedure because I have been doing some heavy bleeding. I have endometriosis. Anyway in the next couple of weeks it's gonna be busy and tiring. These are the results I have so far. Anybody have any info about these? Test level Normal Level Hemocrit, Blood 26.8 35-60 Hemoglobin 8.2 11-18 Ethrocytes 3.90 4.00-6.00 Mean Corpuscular Volume 68.8 80-99.9 Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin, RBC 21.1 27-31 Protien, Total Serum 6.3 6.4-8.9 Albumin, Serum 3.9 3.5-5.7 Alanine AminoTransferase Serum 9 U/L 7-52
Brief Depression
txplowgirl replied to bridee's topic in Gluten Intolerance and BehaviorNot just gluten but soy and dairy also causes me to have depression anywhere from 12 to 48 hours.
Gluten Free Since August 10 2012 - Feeling Tired
txplowgirl replied to Canadian's topic in Celiac Disease - Post Diagnosis, Recovery/Treatment(s)It could be withdrawal or it could be an intolerance. A lot of secondary intolerances pop up when going gluten free. Dairy causes my sinus's to act up so bad my sinus's swell as well as the roof of my mouth swells and blisters pop up. When that happens I usually have about a week and a half of pure heck.
A Relative Is Diagnosed Celiac- Won't Go Gluten-Free
txplowgirl replied to LeahBanicki's topic in Celiac Disease - Friends and Loved Ones of CeliacsI have a cousin who has a son who has all the signs of Celiac and is so allergic to MSG he has to carry an epipen with him. H'e like 12 now, and she would rather him have his epipen than try to avoid MSG let alone gluten.
Interesting Observation - Coffee
txplowgirl replied to troykm's topic in Celiac Disease - Post Diagnosis, Recovery/Treatment(s)I have never been able to drink coffee. Always made me sick to my stomach, headaches and put me to sleep even the smell would nauseate me. What was interesting is cigarettes did the same thing. Found out a few years ago it was due to the tannins in the coffee and cigs. Didn't like the taste of cigs or coffee anyway so no biggie.
Help Me With Some Cases
txplowgirl replied to justaguy's topic in Celiac Disease - Teenagers & Young Adults OnlyJustaguy, I'm sorry to say but some people don't see an improvement until about 3 months in and for others not until a year or more. All you can do is just give it time and try not to rush.


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Brothers in Arms: Furious Four owes less to Saving Private Ryan than to Inglorious Basterds; it's a bloodthirsty rampage starring a quartet that resembles an unholy cross between The A-Team and The Village People.
If history has taught us anything, it's that it is totally fine to take a giant dump on the Nazis. Make them space Nazis or zombie Nazis if you like, but make them Nazis - and give us lots of ways to make them dead Nazis.
Gearbox has caught onto this design principal. After half a decade of producing serious, thoughtful and altogether sombre Brothers in Arms games, it has unexpectedly decided to change tack entirely: Furious Four owes less to Saving Private Ryan than it does Inglourious Basterds; it's a bloodthirsty rampage starring a quartet that resembles an unholy cross between The A-Team and The Village People.
I'm not sure if the new game will win many new fans among service veterans, but on the basis of its E3 showing it certainly looks like it could be a good laugh.
Brothers in Arms: Furious 4 is a four-player FPS romp that appears to borrow heavily from Borderlands in terms of its co-op emphasis, class-building shenanigans, and cartoon sense of humour. According to the game's tongue-in-cheek narrator, the story begins "somewhere in Germany" during 1944. The eponymous quartet have been tasked with the ultimate goal of whacking Hitler, and have an inkling that their target might be in a small town where there's an Oktoberfest-style party going on.
The group swiftly decide to discard any pretence at subtlety, and it seems that the same could be said for the action itself. Within seconds of the demo's start the bodycount has hit double figures, and by its close it seems as if our four protagonists have wiped out half the entire town. The specialists themselves are somewhat bewildering in their appearance: there's a former lumberjack, still clad in much of his workwear; a Scottish chap in a flatcap with massive lambchops; a Texan cowboy with a branding iron; and a Native American with a Mohican.
As you might guess, each of the characters has a skilltree that fits their particular style. The Mohican guy can throw tomahawks, the cowboy has a flamethrower (because Texans like barbecues, I suppose), and the Scottish chap has a cattle prod (no, I can't work that one out either). In the E3 presentation it's the lumberjack, Montana, who gets to hog the limelight. Naturally he's got a hatchet he can hurl into Nazi faces, but he also gets to lay down bear traps; if you upgrade the right skill, you can also lace the latter with grenades. A guard will walk along, yelp in agony as the jaws clamp shut, and then explode as his mates rush in to see what the fuss is about.
Gearbox says that you'll be able to combine your own class abilities with those of your team mates for maximum effect, but during the presentation these smaller details were largely obscured by the general bedlam unfolding on-screen. Aside from the clear Borderlands influence, there's a strong tang of early id Software: there's a nod to Doom in Montana's chainsaw - a special ability weapon that relies on a cooldown mechanic - while the presentation of the Nazis themselves is pure Wolfenstein 3D. Towards the end of the demo the central four squared off against shock troopers in red-tinged jetpacks, and then take on a strange-looking helicopter, accompanied by a helpful pointy label bearing the message "wreck this thing".
After the event, describing the game in the cold light of day, it sounds as if Brothers in Arms: Furious 4 is skating on the thin ice of bad taste. It may well be, but when you're actually in the presence of live play the action seems wickedly enticing. Whether or not we'll have to class the game as a guilty pleasure remains to be seen, but the Borderlands-style humour is gleefully irreverent. Beyond this, there's something magnetic about the balls-out brazenness of it all, particularly during a "Kill Or Be Killed Sequence" in which the squad gatecrash a beer hall with the help of a stolen truck, blowing away the punters in slow-motion.
You could ask, quite reasonably, why Gearbox has decided to put this out under the Brothers in Arms name. While it's clearly a spin-off, it's a massive departure from what the brand has stood for in the past, perhaps even a contradiction to it, and I wouldn't be surprised if that puts a few noses out of joint. All the same, this first showing has certainly done enough to grab my attention.
Just don't expect to see it at gamescom this August.
Brothers in Arms: Furious Four is due for release on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in 2012.

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Construction to Commence on the Around the Mountains Cycle Trail
A new funding agreement has been signed between Nga Haerenga, The New Zealand Cycle Trail, and the Southland District Council—clearing the way for construction of the trail to begin.
NZ Cycle Trail project manager John Dunn says the new funding contract will enable the Southland District Council to start construction on the 175km trail.
Mr Dunn says the new contract is worth $4 million, with co-funding to be underwritten by the council.
"Trails in pristine and iconic areas, such as the Around the Mountains Cycle Trail, are the most challenging to get off the ground. The Southland District Council is to be commended for their tenacity and passion that got them to this point," Mr Dunn says.
Southland District Council Mayor Frana Cardno says Council is now working hard on getting the best price it can for the tenders and hopes to be under way as soon as possible.
"We are really excited and thank the community for all their support, and also for hanging in there with us. We are looking forward to completing this trail and seeing the positive impact on these communities," Mrs Cardno says.
The trail will be completed in two stages—the first by 31 October 2013 and the second by December 2015.
Read more about the trail online at: http://www.nzcycletrail.com/around-mountains
A joint initiative between the Green Party and the Government, the New Zealand Cycle Trail is currently managed by the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE).
The long term vision for the New Zealand Cycle Trail is of creating a nationwide cycling network that attracts more international visitors and gets more New Zealanders cycling.
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History of the Department of Social Work
Social Workers are change agents– we make change happen. The early history of the structure of the Department is one of frequent change. The Department of Social Work at Western Connecticut State University began in 1974 as a program within the Social Science Department in the Macricostas School of Arts and Sciences, called the Social Welfare Program. Phyllis Singerman was the first Program Director. In 1975, Professor Beatrice Nemzer was hired and in 1976 she became Chair when Dr. Singerman retired to Florida. Professors Nemzer and Anna Morton were then the full-time faculty of the program.
Social Work became its own department in the School of Professional Studies under the deanship of Fred O'Neil for a short time in the late 1970s. Jerry Fox joined the Department briefly when Anna Morton returned to private practice. In 1980, Professor Patricia W. Ivry was hired. In 1981, the Department learned that the proper papers had never been filed at the State Dept. of Higher Education for department status, so it became part of the Social Sciences Department again, as a social work major. From 1981-1994, Social Work was part of Social Sciences, but maintained autonomy in most areas, including having its own director and budget. In 1994 the University approved the program to become a Department again, in the School of Professional Studies, under the Deanships of Dr. Walter Bernstein and then in 2001 of Dr. Lynne Clark, and 2012 of Dr. Jess House
In 1984 the Department received its initial national accreditation from the Council on Social Work Education with the expert consultation services of the late Dr. Ronald Federico. The Department has maintained continuous accreditation since then with reaffirmations in 1989 and 1997, and in 2005 received its unconditional reaffirmation of accreditation through 2013.
Professor Nemzer retired in 1990 and Patti Ivry took over as Chair, hiring Dr. David Iaccona-Harris for one year, and then Associate Professor Marjorie Steinberg. Subsequently, Professor Robert Veneziano joined the faculty in 2000, Assistant Professor Kit Hinga in 2005, and Assistant Professor Deneen Harris in 2008; Professor Emeritus Dr. Phyllis Ross, who joined the faculty in 1994, retired in 2005. Other faculty in the Department included Roz Kopfstein, Edgar Colon, Robert Page, Thomas Kidder and Beverly Kidder. Adjunct faculty over the years who have taught from one to several courses include: Alex Berardi, Terry Blackmer, Barry Boriss, Lisa Buck, Donna Campbell, Karen Chuck, Bruce Freidman, Tom Foster, Ann Goelitz, Mary Harrington, Connie Huntington, Cathy Lipper, Bill Mack, Helloise "Petey" Millner, Joan Pollack, Linda Puoplo, Jake Romo, Cheryl Roundtree, Dolores Vidal Roy, Pam Samaha, Holly Schardan, Shirley Schop, Stephanie Shaughnessy, Dick Steinberg, Mary Strauss, Ray Strolin, Joe Sullivan, Dennis Torres, Donald Tutson, Stan Watkins, and Arlette Werner.
From 2001 – 2004, Professor Marjorie Steinberg served as the department chair. In 2004, Dr. Robert Veneziano assumed the position of department chair.
Since its inception the Department has had only three secretaries, Kristine "Mikki" Jacobellis, Molly Berger, and beginning in July 2007, Katie Koulogianis. Their expert services have provided the underpinnings to smooth functioning and added to student supports; they have enhanced the program's community relations.
In 1974 Professor Nemzer created an annual Social Work Symposium, and brought Congressman William Ratchford to campus to discuss Aging in America. The Symposium has been held every spring since then and included luminaries in the field such as the late Dr. Richard Cloward, Dr. Nancy Humphries, Dr. Janice Wood Wetzel, Prof. Lorrie Gardella, Prof. Graciella Castex, Dr. George Applebee, and The Hull-House Revival group (i.e., music reflecting the history of social welfare). The symposium has also had key note speakers such as leading authorities including the State of Connecticut Attorney General and nationally recognized researchers.
The faculty has been very involved in University life, collectively serving in almost every elected capacity within the governance structure, serving in various appointed positions at the pleasure of the administration, and advocating for change toward greater excellence within the University community.
Over the years the curriculum has evolved too. Branching out from the traditional BSW curriculum, WCSU's program has added a yearlong Community Organizing Project. Topics have included: in 1990 advocating for a child care center on campus (which became a reality within a few years); community education on AIDS bringing the AIDS Memorial quilt to campus; hosting fairs to reduce violence and promote cultural understanding, and introducing legislation in Hartford toward those goals; building a websites to educate others about hate crimes, and conducting data based research which lead to subsequent initiatives, hosting regional meeting on immigration and leading the University in a campaign against human trafficking.
A Senior Integrative Seminar has been added as well. This capstone course uses a case study format and requires students to integrate their professional values, knowledge and skills in the final semester of the senior year. A Cultural Diversity course is offered yearly. The required research course was brought into the Department in 1997 and electives in AIDS and Child Welfare have been added. Additionally, the Department is participating in the Freshman Cluster course concept begun in 2000, pairing Introduction to Social Work with American Studies and American History. Elective courses in the Department over the years have included: Aging; Sex Drugs and Violence; AIDS: A Social Work Perspective; Writing for the Human Service and Health Care Professions; and Child Welfare. The Department was part of an interdisciplinary team developing a graduate level Certificate Program in Gerontology, and has offered courses in the Honors Program.
The Department has strengthened its community bonds over the years. In 1983, a conference on childcare was held at the University. For a number of years, the department hosted the CSU-BSW student conference. The Department also helped to create the Coalition United to Stop Gun Violence, and participated in the Alliance for Justice's First Monday program. Voter Registration has been a focus for recurring social action. The Executive Forum, which is a collaborative with the WCSU Management Department, has become an integral part of the Department and University, with generous support from the Fairfield County Community Foundation, the United Way of Northern Fairfield County, the WCSU Foundation, and the Norman Morris Foundation.
Additionally, the community and our alumni have supported the Department with financial contributions, providing agency training for student practica, serving on our Community Advisory Committee and on ad hoc committees for special projects, and attending and participating in events sponsored by the Department. Recently, an annual alumni gathering has been added.
The Department has been recognized nationally by receiving the Influencing State Policy Award in 2000 and 2001. The faculty are recognized as experts, being invited speakers at national conferences and meetings, making presentations and facilitating sessions at national and regional conferences. They serve on editorial review boards, national, state, regional and local commissions, boards, and committees; they publish in professional journals. Innovative teaching techniques and curriculum ideas have also been highlighted nationally and within the University. Faculty have been trained in "Writing-to-Learn," and have incorporated these techniques into the curriculum.
From the beginning, the Department has had a student-run Social Work Club, and majors are visible on campus through their projects and leadership roles. A Community Advisory Committee was begun in 1981. The Phi Alpha Honor Society began in 1991, recognizing scholarship in coursework and applied practice. Awards to Outstanding Seniors began in 1978, and an Outstanding Junior Award was added in 1979. Upon Professor Nemzer's retirement, these awards were named after her. The Alice Fales Service Award began in 1998 when Ms. Fales graduated. The Ray Strolin Writing Competition Award, begun in 2005 in memory of a beloved adjunct, is presented each year at the annual symposium. The Department also offers three scholarships, each named in memory of a late student/graduate in the Department: Scott Andrews, Laura Duffy and Craig Lundwall. It is the generosity of graduates and friends that supports all these awards.
As noted earlier, the 1970's were marked by Department growth and flexibility albeit with fits and starts. These challenging beginnings were typical of those years in social work education. Once stabilized, the Department was successful in its quest for accreditation. The decade of the 80's was marked by the Reagan years in national politics which de-emphasized human/social services. As a result, fewer students majored in Social Work and the Department struggled to keep social work issues on the agenda. During this period the University administration continued to support the program. The 1990's brought another change, with Social Work again a valued service career. The number of majors increased, as did the opportunities for extending the Department's influence on campus and in the region. This continues into the new millennium. Indeed, because of increasing enrollment of students as social work majors from 2003 to 2007, the Department was approved for a new, additional full-time tenure-track faculty beginning Fall 2008.
The original mission of the Department was to "create a cadre of qualified well trained professional entry level social workers to serve the region." That mission continues to be fulfilled. With several hundred graduates, many of whom are practicing social workers in the CT area, the Social Work Department has indeed provided well-qualified professionals to serve the region. Many have returned to the program by serving as field instructors and/or supervisors for current students. Others have connected in the community through interagency collaborations, advocacy actions, or by engaging in peer supervision and informal supports. We thrill at the stories we hear of our graduates meeting together professionally and discovering the WCSU Department of Social Work connection.


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|Simson Garfinkel
|Network forensics
tcpflow is a program that captures data transmitted as part of TCP connections (flows), and stores the data in a way that is convenient for protocol analysis and debugging. Each TCP flow is stored in its own file. Thus, the typical TCP flow will be stored in two files, one for each direction. tcpflow can also process stored 'tcpdump' packet flows.
tcpflow is similar to 'tcpdump', in that both process packets from the wire or from a stored file. But it's different in that it reconstructs the actual data streams and stores each flow in a separate file for later analysis.
tcpflow understands sequence numbers and will correctly reconstruct data streams regardless of retransmissions or out-of-order delivery.
Jeremy Elson developed the first version of tcpflow in 1999 but stopped maintaining it in 2003. In 2006 Simson Garfinkel took over maintenance of the program and added:
- support for VLANs
- support for IPv6
- DFXML output of the connections in a report.xml file.
- Improved performance through the use of the C++ STL classes.
- Support for continuous operation (tcpflow now purges out old flows).
- Variable Filename specifications.
- A plug-in architecture.
tcpflow is based on the LBL Packet Capture Library (available from LBL) and therefore supports the same rich filtering expressions that programs like 'tcpdump' support. It should compile under most popular versions of UNIX; see the INSTALL file for details. tcpflow stores all captured data in files that have names of the form:
where the contents of the above file would be data transmitted from host 184.108.40.206 port 2345, to host 10.11.12.13 port 45103. VLAN information, if provided is stored in brackets.
tcpflow stores all captured data in files that have names of the form
- 184.108.40.206.02345-010.011.012.013.45103
where the contents of the above file would be data transmitted from host 188.8.131.52 port 2345, to host 10.11.12.13 port 45103.
- tcpflow does not understand IP fragments;
- tcpflow does not understand 802.11 headers.


text: Study: Financial, automotive local ad spending to climb Published on June 10, 2013. Chantilly, Va.—Local ad spending in the automotive and financial services industries in the U.S. continues to climb, and expenditures on mobile ads are expected to make strong gains by 2017, according to marketing consultancy BIA/Kelsey. According to BIA/Kelsey's "Media Ad View Plus" forecast, total local ad expenditures for the automotive sector will grow from $16.1 billion in 2012 to $17.5 billion in 2017. Similar growth is expected from the financial/insurance category, which will climb from $12.6 billion in local ad spending to $15.3 billion. The financial/insurance category will increase its share of local mobile ad spending from 1.6% in 2012 to 9.8% by 2017, the report found. The automotive industry's share of local mobile advertising will rise from 0.5% to 4.4% in that same time frame, it said. Most Popular In this article: BtoB


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Between Iraq and a Hard Place
REMUS proves its mettle in war and peace
They look like torpedoes--long and sleek and sturdy. But they do not bring harm; in fact, they sometimes help prevent it.
Remote Environmental Monitoring UnitS (REMUS) are low-cost, programmable, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) designed and operated by Chris von Alt, Ben Allen, and colleagues in the WHOI Oceanographic Systems Laboratory. They were conceived for monitoring coastal environments, mapping shallow seafloors, and conducting multiple-vehicle surveys. But in the past year, REMUS vehicles have been adopted for more immediate public service.
In March and April of 2003, the US Navy enlisted several REMUS vehicles to detect mines in the Persian Gulf harbor of Umm Qasr during Operation Iraqi Freedom. While a few Navy-trained dolphins starred in front-page headlines, the REMUS vehicles quietly tracked back and forth through the harbor, making detailed sonar maps of the likely locations of mines. Navy officials told the media that they preferred using the AUVs because each REMUS could do the work of 12 to 16 human divers, and they were "undeterred by cold temperatures, murky water, sharks, or hunger."
In June 2003, a custom-designed REMUS swam several hundred feet below the Catskill Mountains and Hudson River to inspect a 45-mile section of the Delaware Aqueduct. It was the culmination of a three-year journey for the REMUS team. As the largest and most crucial link in New York City's upstate water transportation system, the Delaware Aqueduct carries as much as 900 million gallons of water daily. For a decade, the NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has been monitoring leaks in the aqueduct's Rondout-West Branch Tunnel, which have allowed 10 to 36 million gallons of water to escape each day. Yet inspectors could not simply shut off the water and walk inside for a visual inspection because the water pressure in the tunnel-about 240 pounds per square inch-might be the only thing that keeps the aqueduct from collapsing.
In 2000, the DEP issued a call for proposals to develop an untethered, unmanned vehicle that could inspect and photograph the 13.5-foot wide tunnel while the water kept flowing. The REMUS team saw it as an unprecedented challenge, and bid for the contract. They won.
Over the next three years, the team designed and extensively tested an oversized, customized version of REMUS, known as the Tunnel Inspection Vehicle. The TIV was equipped with five digital cameras angled for 360° imaging, as well as pressure sensors, hydrophones, and navigational gear.
On June 6, 2003, the TIV completed the 15-hour survey, emerging from the aqueduct with 160,000 digital photographs and 600 gigabytes of data that fills 150 DVDs. Engineers will now analyze the TIV data to determine the nature and location of the leaks, said DEP Commissioner Christopher Ward.
REMUS was invented and continues to be developed at WHOI, and is now manufactured by Hydroid Inc. of East Falmouth, MA. The Naval Sea Systems Command recently contracted with Hydroid for $30 million of REMUS technology. Several other municipalities with water issues are closely watching the results of the NY survey, with an eye toward perhaps acquiring a TIV of their own.


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Jan. 20, 2012
BOSTON — As Sen. Scott Brown announced his re-election bid, WGBH News covered his rally and spoke to his Democratic competitors.
Brown: Kicks Off Re-Election Campaign
Warren: Responds To Sen. Brown's "Rock-Thrower" Swipe
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Check out the initial campaign kickoff materials and selected WGBH News coverage of the four candidates.
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Warren addresses supporters announcing her candidacy in September 2011.
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DeFranco appears on "Greater Boston" in January 2012.
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- DeFranco Says She Can Beat Warren
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- Touting Bipartisanship, Brown Kicks Off Re-Election Campaign
- Underdog Again: Brown Faces Stiff Contest
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text: Social media influence scores help measure social lead gen By Jon VanZile. Published on January 11, 2013. Quick, what do Britney Spears and Cisco Systems have in common? If you said loads of influence in social media, you'd be right. Spears and Cisco each have sky-high Klout scores—95 and 91, respectively. Along with PeerIndex and others, Klout Inc. measures social media influence, which can be helpful in understanding how social media efforts are paying off in attracting leads. Traditionally, b-to-b marketers have had a difficult time measuring just how much social media contributes to lead generation; and, while it isn't a perfect metric for determining that, social media-influence scoring can be an important element in any marketing tool kit. "I think a lot of people misunderstand what scores really do," said Mark W. Schaefer, a marketing consultant, marketing professor at Rutgers University and author of "Return on Influence: The Revolutionary Power of Klout, Social Scoring, and Influence Marketing" (McGraw-Hill Cos., 2012). "What all these scores do is assess the ability to create content that moves on the Internet. It seems simple, but [it] is really insanely complex." However relating this to attracting leads—and ultimately making sales—can be even more difficult, Schaefer said. "Almost every time I give a speech, I get a question like, "What good is this stuff? Does it really help sell anything?' " Schaefer said. The answer, he said, is a qualified yes. "In the marketing mix, social media supplies small, consistent provocations and opportunities for people to engage with your company and products," he said. "Hopefully that will lead to activity, trust, loyalty and eventually advocacy." At Marsden & Associates, a b-to-b marketing agency, all social media clients are tracked by Klout score, according to Sydney Graham, inbound marketing specialist at Marsden. "It gives me insight into what is working and what isn't," she said. "I keep track of what we did that week so we can understand what people responded to." Raising a Klout score to improve visibility is related to increasing a company's or person's relevance and activity on social media networks. That means that social postings are inspiring more retweets, more comments, more content and more interaction with followers. Schaefer said it's relatively easy to raise a low Klout score, but raising an already high one is much harder and requires producing content that people respond to. Graham said that when used in conjunction with other marketing tools, such as marketing automation apps, Klout's analytics are responsive enough to allow marketers to determine which pieces of content resonated most strongly across their social media networks, which social media networks worked the best and, ultimately, which performed best in attracting prospects, leads and conversions. One issue with social media-influence scores is how to handle corporate versus personal accounts. It's easy enough to assess the social media influence score of a corporate entity. But with the lines between corporate social marketing and social thought leadership from individual employees increasingly blurring, determining how to leverage employees' social activity to attract leads becomes a question. "We stress with clients that they should post on their personal pages when something big happens because that's more people they can reach," Graham said. On that topic, Schaefer gave an example from a talk he made to a large U.K. company. Before the talk, he pulled Klout scores on the company's employees, then listed them off to the audience. Later, the president of the company approached him and said, "Who are these people? I don't recognize any of them." One of the most influential people in the company was an IT employee who was active on social media and had contacted Schaefer through Shaefer's blog. "So he was the face of the company on the Internet," Schaefer said. "But shouldn't sales and PR also be on the list? It opened up a whole new world where they started thinking about employees in a whole new way" in attracting leads, he said. Most Popular In this article: BtoB


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MHS Bulldogs have rough ride vs Pintos
The MHS Bulldogs varsity basketball team drew the California Pintos in the semi-final round of the California Basketball Tournament Thursday night.
The game was close early on but the Bulldogs saw the lead slip away in the third quarter and the game ended in a 51-57 loss for MHS.
The Bulldogs held an early 18-14 lead at the end of the first quarter and a 27-26 lead going into halftime. The third quarter saw MHS stumble slightly as their shots were not falling and so they fell behind 41-37 at the end of the quarter. An offensive flurry in the fourth quarter helped the Bulldogs but they could not corral the Pintos.
Cole Jaramillo, who had 26 points on the night, led the Bulldogs' offensive efforts. James Norton added seven points. D'Milo Nunnelly contributed six points. Skylar Harrington scored five points. Wesley Oetting had four points. Malik Holman chipped in three points.
Harrington registered seven assists on the night to lead the Bulldogs in that category. Jaramillo added two assists. Nunnelly, Norton, Oetting and Holman had one assist each.
Harrington, who recorded six rebounds on the night, was barely edged out for team leader in the category by Nunnelly, who had seven rebounds on the night.
Norton grabbed four rebounds. Holman picked up three rebounds. Jaramillo had two rebounds. Oetting chipped in one rebound to the effort.
Nunnelly collected three steals for the Bulldogs. Jaramillo picked up two steals. Harrington, Oetting and Holman also tallied a single steal each.
Not content with his already busy defensive night, Nunnelly added two blocked shots to his game statistics.
Coach Brennan Scanlon addressed the slight slump in scoring in the third quarter. "We have to be more consistent as a team and individually," he said. "We have to be ready to step up every game."
The MHS Bulldogs (5-5) return to action Saturday to face off against the Marshall Owls in the third place game of the California Tournament. Tipoff is scheduled for 3:30 p.m.


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Shoots Bear, Submits to Husband
The fascinating marriage of Mike and Janet Huckabee.
Read more of Slate's First Mates series about the marriages of the presidential candidates.
When I ask Mike Huckabee's best friend since second grade what his buddy's marriage tells us about the kind of president he'd be, Lester Sitzes III, a dentist in their hometown of Hope, Ark., answers, "Those two folks were virgins when they got married, I can tell you that.''
And though this straight-to-the-promised-land response is unexpected, it's not off-point: The couple's covenant marriage actually seems a highly relevant guide to what the candidate has assured us would be a Bible-based executive branch. His wife, the former Janet McCain (no relation to John), grew up in Hope, too, and she and Mike have been together since high school, where he led prayer sessions in the school auditorium and she attended them, if she didn't have basketball practice. Their first date was cheeseburgers at the local truck stop, and they got married when they were 18, in a ceremony at the bride's home. Her sister played "Here Comes the Bride'' on the piano as she came down the stairs, wearing a white eyelet dress her mother had made for her, and in lieu of a real ring, the groom slipped a soda can tab on her finger.
But Sitzes, who was the best man that day, May 25, 1974, says everything you need to know about Mike Huckabee really goes back a little further than that, to his drama club turn as the narrator in Horton Hatches the Egg. "Mike playing Dr. Seuss was like Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow; he was so good we won state on the strength of that performance. If you're around Mike now, you'll hear him say, 'I say what I mean and I mean what I say.' Well, I hear that and think, That's Horton! 'I meant what I said and I said what I meant, an elephant's faithful, 100 percent!' " He's told this story to reporters before, he notes, and to sadly little effect—but never to a one-time drama camp portrayer of Mayzie, the lazy bird who skips off to live it up while Horton sticks around and hatches her progeny." So you will appreciate this,'' Sitzes says, grateful to have found a taker at last: "Mike is Horton, and he's been true to his wife and never had any kind of—there will be no Monica Lewinsky or Gennifer Flowers—because Mike and Janet are what they are."
Perhaps it's predictable, in our up-is-down political funhouse, where war heroes are made to look like cowards and vice versa, that the right's recent knock on the former Baptist minister is … that he is somehow insufficiently committed to the one-man, one-woman thing—not personally, but as a matter of policy. In 2003, after the Supreme Court struck down the sodomy law that had criminalized homosexual sex in Texas, Huckabee said on his monthly radio show, Ask the Governor, that the decision in Lawrence v. Texas "probably was appropriate" since any law that "prohibits private behavior among adults" would be difficult to enforce. As Huckabee's campaign took off last month, economic conservatives panicked at the prospect of an actual theocracy, as did liberals who'd been pretending we already live in one. So they dusted off an old Arkansas Democrat-Gazette news account of Huckabee's shrug over the Lawrence decision, under the headline, "Huckabee Says Sex Lives of Adults Not State Affair,'' to undermine him with his Christian base. Ann Coulter crowned the effort, winkingly calling him "one of those pro-sodomy, pro-gay marriage, pro-evolution evangelical Christians.'' (Pro-evolution? Yes, because he thinks it should be taught in schools, along with creationism.) Rush Limbaugh, who calls him "the Huckster," and on one occasion "Clintonesque," put out the word that Huckabee is "not a conservative" at all.
For Huckabee's Republican critics, the unforgivable sin is not that he's wishy-washy on traditional marriage—oh, not true—but that he also wants to drag all kinds of other Christian arcana into the public square, with his relatively moderate stands on education and immigration and downright progressive, Jesus-y views on how we're to care for the least among us. And in this, his detractors on the right are correct: Fiscally, and in his attitude toward social funding and even criminal justice, Huckabee has a record any DLC Democrat would be proud of. (And Huckabee never speaks ill of Bill Clinton, either, perhaps realizing that the "next man from Hope" narrative would be diminished were he to do so.) In his book From Hope to Higher Ground, Huckabee includes a whole chapter called "STOP the revenge-based criminal justice system." He writes about how racial inequities are built into the system, and he approvingly quotes one prison official who told him, "We lock up a lot of people that we are mad at rather than just the ones we are really afraid of," and another who "astutely observed we don't have a crime problem, we have a drug and alcohol problem."
So, when Janet Huckabee joked that she'd like to build a Habitat for Humanity house on the White House lawn—she's hammered nails for such homes in 20-some states already, and slept under bridges with homeless people once a year to bring awareness to their problems—Republicans in Arkansas were half-afraid she wasn't kidding. Because back home, the Huckabees' empathy for the luckless is one thing that has never been in doubt: "Janet's very headstrong and, even more so than he, contemptuous of critics, and has a chip on her shoulder,'' says John Brummett, an Arkansas News Bureau columnist. "But if a tornado hits your house, one of the first people in your yard is probably going to be Janet Huckabee. And when Arkansas got evacuees from Katrina—and by all accounts Huckabee did masterfully—she decided, accurately, that these people were exhausted and the last thing they needed was to sit in line and be processed, when they could be processed on the bus." Then she got on the bus with some of them and pitched in on the paperwork.
In a way, such efforts are a natural extension of their 20 years in the ministry. "I know there are people who would be concerned about him having been in the ministry and think that's a little bit creepy,'' says Huckabee's sister Pat Harris, a seventh-grade teacher in Little Rock. "But having been in the ministry, he and Janet have also seen all kinds of things about life; his phone would ring in the middle of the night and up they'd go, to the hospital or the morgue or the jail. Because he was on TV, a lot of these calls were from people who weren't in his church and very often they weren't believers, but the rubber had met the road and they needed somebody." The Huckabees' shared faith defines both of them, and their relationship. And it would be an understatement to say it influences their politics: Their faith makes their views on religion and government indistinguishable. "Those who believe God created humans have a different worldview from those who believe humans created God," Huckabee writes in Character Makes a Difference. "Politics are totally directed by worldview. That's why when people say, 'We ought to separate politics from religion,' I say to separate the two is absolutely impossible."
But the Huckabees also seem to relate to the have-nots because they know what it feels like to be looked down on. Class resentment runs through their comments and writings. When Lt. Gov. Huckabee became Arkansas governor in 1996, after Jim Guy Tucker was had to resign after a fraud conviction, "Dozens of hate-filled letters were sent anonymously," Huckabee remembers, while "others, proudly signed, proclaimed that we lacked the 'class' to live in such a fine and stately home. My wife was viciously attacked for everything from the manner in which the azaleas were trimmed to the fact that we had made the governor's mansion smoke-free and removed alcoholic beverages. … One would have thought that we had turned off the water, put old cars on concrete blocks on the front lawn, hung laundry on the fence, and raised chickens and hogs in the backyard!" (They did famously move into a triple-wide trailer while the mansion was under renovation, and hung a sign on it that said, "My other home is the Governor's Mansion.") Huckabee also goes on at some length about how hurtful "snobby elitists" have been to his wife over the years: "For her, one of the most difficult aspects of being Arkansas' first lady was the inevitable confrontation with some of the snobby elitists who had always been on the side of the culturally correct in Little Rock." On one of the rare occasions Janet has spoken out on the presidential campaign trail, she jokingly suggested it was only her faith that kept her from strangling some of them: "There's times you just want to wring somebody's neck, and only by the grace of God we don't."
Both of the Huckabees grew up in modest circumstances themselves; Mike's dad was a firefighter with an eighth-grade education, and Janet McCain's single-parent home made her future husband's family look like the Bushes by comparison. According to Sitzes, after her mom had her fifth child, her father "shagged out and went down to Louisiana'' to work as an oil rigger, leaving Janet's mother to be the Horton in their family. She had a job as the Hempstead County clerk, but with five kids, money was so tight that their big treat of the week was buying a single large soda, putting a scoop of ice cream in it and sharing the one Coke float between them every Sunday night.
Janet was a standout as an athlete—the star of her basketball team, and a girl who more than held her own in pickup games with the guys. Though Hope is a small town—population 10,467, at last count—she and Mike attended different churches—he Garrett Memorial Mission Baptist and she First Baptist—so they didn't know each other well until high school. (They also didn't know fellow Hope native Clinton, who is nine years older and had moved to Hot Springs by the time they came along. Though Clinton's mom did work as a nurse for the doctor who delivered Mike, and both Bill and Mike attended kindergarten at Miss Marie Purkins' School for Little Folks, where there must have been an emphasis on oratory and daily EQ skill drills.)
In Mike and Janet's sophomore year, she became friends with his sister, who was two years ahead of them in school. "I was working on the yearbook and covering sports,'' including girls' basketball, "so I got to know Janet that way, and she started coming over to the house,'' says Huckabee's sister Pat. "And before long, I had lost my little friend, and they were toddling off holding hands. Mike and Janet have a similar sense of humor—both like to play practical jokes—and from the beginning, she was a good audience for his Billy Graham impression." (Years later, when he was governor and his repertoire of impersonations had expanded to include President Bill Clinton, Clinton called Huckabee, who assumed it was a friend playing a joke. "And so Mike does the Bill Clinton voice right back to him," his sister says, "until he realizes it really is Bill Clinton. I don't know if Clinton remembers that, but Governor Huckabee does.")
For all they have in common, though, Mike and Janet are temperamental opposites. She excels at leisure, while he can't sit still, is a big list-maker, and the first to arrive at any event. He keeps perfect order in his sock drawer and compulsively lays out his breakfast the night before, so when he gets up at 4:30 a.m. he can shave a few minutes off his morning routine. "Mike's the one who is—I don't want to say the word anal," his sister says, "but Janet is more fun-loving."
Mike was born-again at age 15, preached his first sermon at age 16, and was all but running the local radio station by then as well. And he was already serious about a future in both the ministry and politics, especially after attending Boys State, where he was elected governor, during the summer before his senior year. Rick Caldwell, who met Huckabee at Boys State, also became a minister at a young age and married Mike and Janet. He got to know them as a couple the year before they married, when they were all freshmen at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia. "My wife and the governor would talk about serious world events, and Janet and I would be planning our next fun thing to do. But I remember sitting with him in our dorm room and talking about what we wanted to do, and he said, 'I want to be involved in something that helps people improve our nation.' This was pre-Christian Coalition, but even then he had a sense of destiny," a destiny in which church and state converge, as do public and private life. The center of both is the marriage relationship, in which the wife's submission to the husband is meant to reflect the church's—and the Christian's—submission to Christ.
At a recent debate in South Carolina, Huckabee was asked about his views on marriage, expressed for all to see in a full-page USA Today ad he and his wife co-signed in 1998, thanking the Southern Baptists for putting out a message that "a wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the leadership of Christ." Carl Cameron of Fox News wondered if that position was "politically viable" for Huckabee now, given that so many women voters in both parties see it otherwise. He did not answer the question, but his response was: "First of all, if anybody knows my wife, I don't think they for one minute think that she's going to just sit by and let me do whatever I want to. That would be an absolute, total misunderstanding of Janet Huckabee." That ad "really was spoken to believers, to Christian believers. I'm not the least bit ashamed of my faith or the doctrines of it. I don't try to impose that as a governor and I wouldn't impose it as a president. But I certainly am going to practice it, unashamedly, whether I'm a president or whether I'm not a president." At the debate, this was a big applause line.
Later, he told fellow Baptists that, yes, he still believes that's how marriage works, but added that that belief "has nothing to do" with his qualifications as a candidate. Yet since he has so forcefully promised to put traditional marriage at the center of our society, bring government in line with God and the U.S. Constitution in line with "the Word of the Living God," his views on men, women, and marriage are absolutely germane.
Though his wife signed the letter, too, and by all accounts espouses the same clear views, it's also true that, as he suggested, submissiveness has never really been Janet Huckabee's best event. She unsuccessfully ran for secretary of state in 2002, while her husband was a sitting governor, in a move widely perceived as overreaching. She's also got a long memory, a strong will, and a history of pushing back forcefully against real and imagined adversaries. Adversity has made her tough: She quit college after a year to help support him, and was working as a dental assistant when she started having severe back pain at age 20. "Everybody thought it was a slipped disc," Caldwell recalls, but it was spinal cancer—and required treatment that doctors warned her might leave her unable to walk or bear children.
In his book Character Makes a Difference, Huckabee describes his wife as handier than he is—at changing a tire, for instance—as well as physically tougher and braver: "I will take non-physical risks, such as running for office or taking a job that may not work out; Janet will take physical risks—climbing cliffs, parasailing, racing cars or stalking bears." She also went back to college in her 40s and, when her husband isn't running for president, works for the American Red Cross.
Arkansans have been surprised at how little her booming voice has been heard on the presidential campaign trail, almost as if Huckabee's team was trying to hide her. "My impression is that she does not have much voice in this campaign," says Hoyt Purvis, a political commentator and professor of journalism at the University of Arkansas. "It does appear there's been a conscious decision; is it that she might prove to be an embarrassment? A lot of people have asked that. For whatever reason, she's stayed in the background, and I suspect that's been hard on her." And on us, given the unfortunate dearth of political spouses who have jumped out of planes, trapped bear, or openly mocked their grown children. (She once likened their oldest, John Mark—no, he's not the one who killed the dog at camp—to a radio signal that fades in and out, so that you only catch every third word: "You tune in a radio and every now and then you'll hit a frequency and think, 'Man, I wish I could get that,' and you don't quite get it, but every now and then you get it? Well, John Mark is kind of like that.")
In fact, in a country in which the Bushes were rewarded for acting down-home, and the Kerrys punished for being their windsurfing, polyglot selves, most of the criticism of Janet is so class-based, it would turn out to be great PR: She likes her pie, is middleweight boxing champ Jermain Taylor's biggest fan, and, with the help of her Baptist decorator, made a hash of the Arkansas governor's mansion, jettisoning draperies to let the light in and stowing antiques in favor of faux. She slams doors, packs heat, and, like most of us, will never be confused with Jackie Kennedy: "Janet is not White House material; I doubt she's learned which fork to use," says one of her Little Rock detractors, who was apolitical before Mrs. H. made him apoplectic. "She's such a big old horsy woman, she has no grace. I've seen her chew gum on television!" So it's a shame she doesn't give more speeches and interviews, because what a lot of Americans would say to a person of such poor comportment and little breeding is: Come and sit here, by me.
Janet may not like the media but, oh, the media would like her, the anti-Teresa Heinz, just as they do her husband. (See how excited ABC's Claire Shipman was—"This was a big deal!"—when Janet shared how early in their marriage, Mike sold his guitar collection to buy her a washer-dryer, so she wouldn't have to wash poopy diapers at the Laundromat?) With all of the other Republican candidates' wives mum, too, for various reasons, handing a speaking role to such a plain-talker was, alas, too high a risk. But underfunded as Huckabee is, hiding a woman who has "earned media" written all over her, and who so clearly is in touch with the concerns of ordinary voters, may turn out to have been the worst campaign decision since Rudy wintered in Florida.


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Jim Carrey shocked viewers of ELLEN DeGENERES' talk show on Wednesday (17Dec08), by pretending to propose to his girlfriend JENNY McCARTHY.
In a staged stunt DeGeneres put the pair on the spot, daring Carrey to pop the question, during his appearance on the show to promote his new movie Yes Man.
After calling McCarthy onto the stage, DeGeneres said, "He says yes to everything, and you've all been together for three years. We thought you should propose to her on the show." Shocked audience members and millions of viewers then watched Carrey fall to one knee, and coo, "I love you so much and I know we never planned on doing this, because we never felt we needed a third party to tell us our relationship was sacred. But Jenny, would you....." before he stopped and was interrupted by a jingle and DeGeneres, who kicked off another segment of the show.
Earlier this year, Carrey insisted he would never marry McCarthy, saying, "No, we won't get married, although it is wonderful to have someone who entertains you and gets your jokes!"
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- "We've been trying to get her down for a month but we think she put a Permanent Sticking Charm on the back of the canvas. Let's get downstairs, quick, before they all wake up again."
- —Sirius Black talking to Harry Potter.[src]
The Permanent Sticking Charm (incantation unknown) is a spell that magically fastens one object to another. It is extremely difficult to remove anything fastened with a Permanent Sticking Charm.
Known uses
First mentioned in 1995, when Sirius Black suspected that his mother's painting was fixed to the wall with such a charm. A few days later, Fred and George Weasley "offered" to use it to stick Ron Weasley's prefect badge to his forehead.
In 1996, it was implied that the portrait in the Muggle Prime Minister's office also has such a charm on it. In 1997, Harry Potter discovered that it was used by Sirius Black to permanently affix his Muggle and Gryffindor-based pictures and posters to the wall in his room to prevent his parents removing them after he ran away.
Behind the scenes
- It is never said whether the charm prevents the object from being removed by cutting away the section of the wall.
- The Muggle Prime Minister hired a builder who failed to remove a painting in his office that was likely put there with this charm.
- It seems that once this spell is applied, it is impossible to remove the said object from the portion of the wall since there seems to be no counter-spell for it. However, this might not be completely true since Sirius mentioned that he attempted to remove his mother's painting for months; his refusal to give up may indicate a possible solution.
- Epoximise may be a variation of the Permanent Sticking Charm, or even the incantation for the actual charm. This appears to not be the case since Epoximise, which is from the Harry Potter Trading Card Game, is labelled as a Transfiguration spell on its card, not a Charm. However, errors have been found with other cards. For example, the Severing Charm is incorrectly labelled as a transfiguration spell in the card game.
- Unlike some spells, the effect of a Permanent Sticking Charm does not seem to expire after its caster dies; the charm on Sirius's bedroom wall remained over a year after his death, and Walburga's portrait remained charmed over a decade after her death.


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The St. Louis Cardinals named former OF Willie McGee as a special assistant to the general manager.
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Former St. Louis Cardinals OF Willie McGee is in camp as a guest instructor on base running and other areas.
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The Associated Press reports CL Bruce Sutter, appearing on the Hall of Fame ballot for the 12th time, received 344 votes (66.7 percent), up from 301 last year but 43 shy of what was needed this time. He was followed by OF Jim Rice (307), CL Rich Gossage (285) and OF Andre Dawson (270). OF Willie McGee, also on the ballot for the first time, received 26 votes, exactly at the 5 percent cutoff to avoid being dropped in future years. OF Darryl Strawberry, another first-time eligible, got six votes and OF Pete Rose, ineligible for the ballot because of his lifetime ban from baseball, received nine write-in votes, six fewer than last year and his lowest total. Rose, who admitted last year that he bet on the Cincinnati Reds while managing them in the late 1980s, has been written in on 239 of 6,687 ballots (3.6 percent) over 14 years.
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Ira Glass is the iconic voice of American public radio program This American Life. The program first debuted in November 1995 and since its very first episode Glass has served as both the show's host and executive producer.
In this four-part video series Ira Glass discusses the building blocks of a great story, how hard it can be to find a decent story, good taste, and the common errors that beginners make.


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DAVIS, Calif. (AP) - Ryan Moore had 21 points and 10 rebounds to help UC Davis beat UC Santa Barbara 72-63 Thursday night.
Fowzi Abdelsamad had 13 points and Phil Rasmussen added 11 for the Aggies (9-14), who had lost eight straight to the Gauchos since beating them in their first meeting ever in 1939.
Josh Davis had 13 points and eight rebounds, and Alex Harris and Michael Chambers added 12 points apiece for UCSB (8-13).
UC Davis made six 3-point shots to finish the first half with a 32-21 lead.
Ryan Moore's 3-point basket gave UC Davis a 53-31 margin midway through the second half. The Gauchos came back with a 27-11 run of their own to cut UC Davis' lead to 64-58 after Joe See made one of two free throws with 1:24 remaining.
Despite a few turnovers late in the game, the Aggies made eight of 10 free throws in the last 1:22 to hold on to the victory.


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Belmont Housing Resources for WNY has received a $10,000 charitable donation from the First Niagara Foundation for Belmont Housing's Financial Education and Housing Counseling programs.
"Belmont Housing is grateful for First Niagara's contribution that is targeted to services that we offer free to area residents to help them successfully manage day-to-day financial skills and to secure quality housing," said Elizabeth Huckabone, Belmont Housing president. "We are proud to add new programs for high school students, in addition to the workshops, classes and one-to-one counseling programs we offer annually to many thousands of area individuals and families."
In 2013, Belmont Housing extended its financial education programs to two schools in Buffalo: Bennett High School and the Charter School for Applied Technologies. Presentations to students focused on basics, such as opening a bank account, saving on a regular basis, budgeting, and on effective renter/landlord communication.
"First Niagara believes in making our community a better place," said Buford Sears, First Niagara Buffalo market executive. "We are proud to partner with Belmont Housing Resources to provide educational opportunities for local youth and families to develop the knowledge and skills necessary for financial independence and success."
Belmont Housing has been producing affordable housing opportunities for families, seniors and special needs individuals since 1977. Through its offices in Buffalo, Hamburg and North Tonawanda, it administers a variety of housing and community development programs for municipalities, develops and manages affordable housing, and provides home ownership counseling.


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hey i use zonealarm, whats the best firewall to use?
Uhm... are you kidding?
...This Space For Rent.
I've resorted to Zone Alarm on this W2K laptop after trying a couple of different ones, but it can be a pain. Sygate was my fav, but it's outdated and no longer in development, so I've given up on it. On my XP laptop, I'm perfectly content with the Windows firewall. I don't use any firewall software on my desktop/server units (they're always behind a gateway).
It's hard to beat a dedicated firewall/gateway, even if it's a $50 router. All the better if it's IPcop, Smoothwall, ClarkConnect, or a custom unit.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. Will Rogers
Alphashield Hardware Firewall simple to install/setup and it blocks everything.
I use ISA Server 2004 and planning on using ISA Server 2006. If you use a Windows or even use any Windows Applications I would say it's a no brainer to have an ISA box somewhere on your network even if it's not your front end firewall, it's very easy to setup for VPN and also web caching. It also makes a firewall in general. I know most people would laugh at using a Microsoft solution for security but I would have to say that ISA 2004 and up is an exception it really is a pretty good secure product.
Wow nobody else uses Checkpoint?
I mean I use ipfw at home and simple iptables scripts on servers, but our internet facing firewalls run Checkpoint NGX SecurePlatform.
I use IP-Cop at www.ipcop.org
and OpenVPN at www.openvpn.se
and a bunch of plugin's I have 8 of these in service
now... Overall it is easy to install. I use an old computer
with 2 NIC's Windows 98 Boxes work real well...
I have used New Dells due to customer preferences
and I was short of old boxes. (Nice to Recycle!!)
Only drawback, You have to install 2 of the packages
from the command line, and a working knowelege of
Linux is good too!!!
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Yes I do play the Bagpipes!
And learning to Play the Bugle
OpenBSD 3.8 running on a soekris box
I've used and managed all sorts of Firewalls...
Cisco PIX, Checkpoint FW/1 (on Nokia hardware), Juniper NetScreen, PF on Open- and FreeBSD, FreeBSD IPFilter (ipf). They all have their pros and cons, use the one that bests suits your situation.
The guy that said he's using iptables on FreeBSD (I've been using FBSD since 3.0) just made my day
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- Also protects it from getting kicked or even pinched, as it won't be out of sight
- Fashionable and beautiful ornament, light weight, easy to carry around, ideal accessory for ladies daily use
- The best choice for gift and private use
- Would never fade,never getting rusty
- Can be used for less than 45 mm thickness of the desk
- The hook stores neatly and stays together with a black rubber in the base
- Non-slip back to secure your handbag without falling
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Dr. John Emil Halver III, world-renowned scientist, passed away suddenly and peacefully on Oct. 24, 2012. A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, Nov. 10, at 1:30 p.m. at Bothell United Methodist Church, 18515 92nd Ave. N.E., Bothell, Wash.
He was born April 21, 1922.
Dr. Halver was married to Jane Loren of Tacoma, Wash., his bride for over 68 years, and together they have five children, 12 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Throughout the years, John and Jane also opened their home to numerous international students.
Dr. Halver was an eminent nutritional biochemist who was honored as "One of the Leading Scientists of the World" in 2005, for a lifetime of research in nutritional biochemistry, by the International Biographical Center in Cambridge, England. At the time of his death at age 90, he was still actively lecturing and consulting around the world.
A devout, lifelong Christian, John spent his life confirming his belief that "There is no conflict between science and theology. Science is pursuing truth, and God is the author of Truth."
John Halver received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Washington State College in 1944. He then was called to active duty in Europe with the U.S. Army as an infantry officer, returning from World War II as a captain and a decorated soldier, having earned a Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart, American Theatre Service Medal, European African Middle Eastern Service Medal with 2 Bronze Stars, World War II Victory Medal, Army of Occupation (Germany), Combat Infantry Badge, and the Croix d Honneur from France. Later he also received the Citoyen d'Honneur from France.
After World War II, Dr. Halver earned a Master of Science degree in organic chemistry from Washington State College and a Ph.D. in medical biochemistry from the University of Washington, after studies in nutrition at Purdue University.
Dr. Halver was the director of research for the National Fish and Wildlife Service, and as such, built and oversaw five laboratories throughout the Northwest. Using aquaculture (fish) as his experimental animal, he developed the standard test diet H440 (which stood for Halver, 440th try) resulting in the nutritional standards used worldwide for salmonids and all fish. He also worked on nutritional studies for other animals, including humans.
Dr. Halver was promoted to senior scientist in nutrition for the Fish and Wildlife Service, and in 1976 he joined the faculty at the University of Washington as professor of nutrition. He served as U.S. Science Ambassador to the World under four U.S. presidents, as well as a private consultant to more than 90 countries throughout the world.
Dr. Halver was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Washington State Academy of Science and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and received numerous accolades from around the world, including the Makila d'Honeur from Spain. He published more than 200 scientific articles and wrote several scientific books and was inducted into the Fisheries Hall of Fame as "The Father of Fish Nutrition."
He was an avid hunter, a member of Rotary, the United Methodist Church, and Reserve Officers Association. In his spare time he loved producing and perfecting his hybrid merlot wine.
Memorials may be sent to the charity of your choice, or to the John E. Halver Fellowship, School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, 1120 Boat St., University of Washington; Seattle, WA 98195. For the full obituary and guestbook, see online at www.funerals.coop.
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I didn't want to write about boogies today. I really really did not want to do that, but Magoo started talking about them this morning and I simply must share.
We, like many of you, have been sick sick sick for the past few weeks. It comes and goes. It moves from person to person. The symptoms change but someone is sick practically all the time. It's not all germ related. As I was getting over my sore throat and nasal congestion, I threw my back out while picking our fat and rather luscious baby up out of the bathtub. That put me flat on my back for a few more days. I started getting well just in time to see Laylee come down with a fever. She was the last person in the house to have maintained a clean bill of health this winter.
This morning she was sick and is staying home from school. I honestly don't know how parents handle this when both of them work outside the home. It's hard enough juggling our schedules now to take care of all the flu season casualties. I would not want to throw a full time job into that mix. To all of you dual-income families, I salute you today.
Since we've all been sick, we've been explaining to the kids all about germs and antibodies. We've especially focused on boogies, their function of getting germs out of the body, and the need to blow them out and then wash our hands thoroughly to get as many germs out of our systems as possible. The germs should not be sniffed back into the recesses of the nasal cavities and possibly all the way into the brain tissue. They should certainly not be ingested and please, for the love of PETE, they should not be gifted to another person inside or outside our family.
In our household we focus on boogies as germ fighters that work hard and must then be disposed of and that's what led us to this morning's breakfast conversation.
Laylee: I'll be glad if I get green boogies because green boogies mean my body's fighting really hard against germs.
Magoo: When you get black boogies, that means they're fighting even harder than the green ones. Last night I got a red boogie and that means it's fighting SUPER hard!
Magoo [rethinking]: But MOM! Boogies don't even MOVE! They can't FIGHT!
I said something to him about antibodies and how we can't see them actually fighting. I mean, come on. They can't even hold nun chucks or a bo staff. But the battle rages on and many are the casualties both large and small. I'm color-blind where boogies are concerned. I just want to wipe them all out and have a happy and mucus-free Christmas.


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U-505 is based on the historic clash between the USA and Nazi Germany Navies. US Navy had the mandate to seek and capture the deadly "Enigma Machine Codebook" as well as to find and destroy the notorious U-Boat.
German submarine U-505 is a Type IXC U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine built for service during World War II. She was captured on 4 June 1944 by United States Navy. Codebooks and other secret materials from U-505 assisted Allied code breaking operations. She is one of six U-boats that were captured by Allied forces during World War II, and one of four large German World War II U-boats that survive as museum ships. The submarine was towed to Bermuda in secret. The US Navy classified the operation as top secret and managed to prevent its discovery by the Germans. Prime Minister Winston Churchill wrote "The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril."
An Enigma machine is any of a family of related electro-mechanical rotor machines used for the encryption and decryption of secret messages and were used with remarkable success by Nazi Germany before and during World War II. Capture and decryption of German ciphers of this machine was so important that it is believed that it hastened the end of the war by two years. Prime Minister Winston Churchill told Britain's King George VI after World War II: "It was thanks to Enigma that we won the war."
U-505 was donated to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois. The U-505 is now a museum ship, kept indoors in a climate controlled environment to prevent corrosion.


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From the cauldron to the microwave, the Dishman/Justice Collection in the Lamar University Archive documents nearly five centuries of food preparation and recipes.
"It's a unique collection that most people don't know that we have," said Penny Clark, Lamar University archivist. "This is something really special. It's sort of a hidden treasure."
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