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Water withdrawal plans put on hold in Old Lycoming Township
Plans to withdraw 250,000 gallons a day from a well in Old Lycoming Township to supply the natural gas drilling industry have been put on hold – at least for now.
A conditional-use hearing scheduled by township supervisors Wednesday night at the Old Lycoming Township Volunteer Fire Co. was canceled because the project's developer took the plans off the table. Supervisors booked the fire company's social hall expecting a large turnout.
Centura Development Co., 1000 Commerce Park Drive in Loyalsock Township, was authorized by the Susquehanna River Basin Commission on Dec. 14, 2012, to withdraw well water from the Lycoming Creek watershed basin. The site was planned to be behind the former BiLo building at 3231 Lycoming Creek Road.
"The application has been withdrawn," Bob Whitford, township manager, said about Centura's paperwork to the township.
Those plans, however, still are valid with the SRBC until Dec. 13, 2016.
The Susquehanna River Basin Commission found that the planned water withdrawal would have "no adverse impacts" and would not negatively affect the "present or future use and development of the water resources of the basin."
"My guess is that sometime down the line, we'll see it come back to us," Whitford said.
Since plans for the water withdrawal surfaced a little more than a year ago, township residents in the area who are served by wells voiced their concerns about the project, worried that the volume of water taken from the ground would disrupt adequate supplies.
Bimbo Bakeries, 3375 Lycoming Creek Road, also had concerns about the project because the company relies on well water in its manufacturing process, Whitford said.
"Everybody's on a well up here. There's no city water," said Patricia Spangler, of 1856 Janet Ave., who collected more than 100 signatures against the project. "That was part of our worry."
There are at least five other withdrawal sites north of the Old Lycoming Township site in Lewis Township that are extracting water from the Lycoming Creek watershed.
Whitford said Centura Development would "have to start from scratch" if it wanted to resubmit plans to the township for water withdrawal.
He said the township's planning commission and supervisors had numerous concerns about the project.
"The township won't be acting on it unless the applicant has a new (submission)," Whitford said.
Whitford said he did not know the exact reason why the application to the township was pulled back, but estimated that a lull in the natural gas drilling industry could have been a factor.
Calls to Centura Development were not returned Wednesday.


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If you're like most people, you probably don't think much about flushing your toilets, taking showers, washing dishes, or doing laundry. All of that wastewater you create just goes down the drain as if by magic, and you just don't give it a second thought. But it isn't magic. Each time you flush something down a toilet or drain in your house, all of that water (and whatever else is in it) collects in a cesspool in your yard.
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On Monday morning, Feb. 7, 2011, Deutsch LA's creative team for the Volkswagen account woke up in a post Super Bowl daze -- their ad, featuring a pint-sized Darth Vader, had just dominated the most competitive advertising event of the year.
"I don't care what people say about Chrysler's ad," Mark Hunter, the Chief Creative Officer at Deutsch LA, told Business Insider, referring to Eminem's appearance in the other carmaker's Detroit-themed ad. "['The Force'] killed the Super Bowl last year."
The commercial not only "killed" the Super Bowl, which drew an audience of 111 million viewers, but it had an afterlife and went on to win awards, get re-shot twice in Europe, and continue proliferating online.
"It's like, we thought it would be successful for sure, but not almost 50 millions on YouTube a year later," Michael Kadin, the executive creator for the VW account, told Business Insider.
But after the euphoria wore off, a hard realization set in: how on earth were they supposed to beat their own best work for Super Bowl XLVI?
The Pressure Is On
"To some degree, [the planning process for the next big game ad] starts when the hangover after the Super Bowl party ends ... literally," Hunter said. "It's so much pressure, oh my God; it was that difficult second album that bands often face."
Matt Ian, who had been working at CP&B in Boulder, Colorado when "The Force" aired, joined Deutsch LA to partner with Kadin on the Volkswagen account when the Super Bowl creative process was really heating up in July.
"I was coming into the agency after that happened and it was a very intimidating atmosphere," Ian said. "You are going into the account that arguably did one of the greatest ads ever done. It set the bar ridiculously high. The process was long and somewhat grueling. We couldn't punt, we had to make it great."
The pressure wasn't only internal.
Kadin, who helmed both "The Force" and the 2012 ad, recalled having been confronted with near-impossible expectations on a regular basis. Coming home at 11 p.m. on a Friday from a late night creative session -- it was not atypical for the team to pore over hundreds of pitches until midnight or 1 am multiple days a week -- Kadin was greeted by a broken sink. When Kadin explained his rush to get into an early Saturday creative session to employees at a Los Angeles hardware store at 7 am the next day, his occupation inevitably came up in conversation.
"They asked if they'd seen any ads I'd worked on and when the mini Darth ad came up 20 people swarmed down to talk about it," Kadin said. "One woman came down in tears."
But the excitement quickly turned to a barrage of questions: "Well what are you doing this year? That's so much pressure." Etc., etc.
"It feels good in the moment, and then the panic sets in," Kadin said. "And if ten plumbers [speaking] Spanish are adding to the pressure that you already feel, you think, wow this [ad] really has to be good."
A Sequel?
While Deutsch LA knew that the ad was going to follow some precedents set by "The Force" -- Kadin and Ian said there was never a question of sticking with a simple story as opposed to Super Bowl "hyperboles" of explosions and aliens and farting horses -- the VW account had immense difficulty deciding how "Star Wars" and "The Force" would relate to their new ad.
"Do you replicate it or do you ignore it?" Kadin remembers asking himself and the rest of the creative team. "Yeah, there's a Godfather 2, but there's also a Godfather 3."
In the end, they decided to do both.
VW released its Super Bowl 2012 spot on February 1. The beginning of the ad follows the travails of an obese dog who goes on an intense exercise and diet regimen so that he can fulfill his dreams of fitting through a dog door and chasing a VW Beetle. Then things get meta. As the ad "ends," viewers are taken into the Star Wars Cantina turned sports bar and shown a group of aliens watching the spot. In these final 15 seconds, which will not play after the Super Bowl, the aliens have an intense debate that many game watchers will be having when the ad airs today. Who's better: the baby Vader or the dog?
"We thought we should embrace the elephant in the room—how do you follow up the Force?" Kadin and Ian wrote B.I. in an email. "You know the conversation's being had, and we wanted to have fun with it."
If the ad seems disjointed, that's because it is.
The cantina ending came first. It wasn't until much further along in the writing process that the pudgy dog gained creative life. "We thought that dogs versus kids is always a good Super Bowl debate, and something that was likely to get talked about in a bar," Kadin and Ian continued.
And is the dog better than the Vader kid? While their teaser of dogs barking the "Imperial March" has garnered over 11 million views on YouTube, the commercial itself has 3 million views (although it had a later release). Matthew Broderick's recreation of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" for the Honda spot is already at 11 million.
The ruling on the ad's success will come soon.
Although Kadin and Ian recognized that this kind of pressure beat the alternative.
"One thing we told the team a lot was that, 'Listen, there will be a point in your career when you are working on heart-smart buttery bread and you'll miss this.'"


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The Thursday Playlist: American Idol Results, a Glee Milestone and Raj Gets a Second Date
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- Women talk more than men do. This one has been used for years to embarrass women into silence. Reserchers note that the gap's been described as huge, with some estimates saying that women speak 20,000 words a day but men speak just 7,000. But research shows that women and men speak about the same number of words every day, on average: 16,000. The difference? Men prefer to use "report talk" and speak publicly; women prefer "rapport talk" that builds relationships and is mainly one-on-one, according to linguist Deborah Tannen.
- We can't find any women qualified to be speakers (or, we only want the best speakers). Cancer researcher and university administrator Elizabeth Travis notes that this is one way women are challenged and put on the defensive in program committee meetings. It's not a numbers issue: Even in professions where women dominate, they often are still in the minority as speakers on professional society conference programs, research shows. Historically, efforts to keep women from speaking in public were blatant and noticeable; today, it may have gone underground, but it's still a barrier.
- Women get ignored in meetings because they aren't as good at men at speaking up. In fact, women can be just as effective as men in communicating, yet their points are more frequently ignored--or claimed by others as their own. From a book that offers an exhaustive study of men's and women's behavior and language in meetings: "Study after study has found that, when other variables are controlled (education, expertise, etc.), women are responded to more negatively than men as measured by facial expression, gaze behavior, individual evaluations, and decision reached in task-based groups." In this case, the myth belies an underlying attitude that's tough to shake. Some research on how women leaders are perceived suggests that women can be competent or likeable, but not both.
- It's women's speaking style that sets them back--they're too emotional and not tough enough. This myth has pushed many women in public life into mimicking a traditional male style of speaking: louder, more forceful, less emotional. In fact, what rhetoric refers to as the "effeminate" speaking style is the one successfully employed by the U.S. presidents considered to be among the best speakers: Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. But, as Kathleen Hall Jamieson points out, women's natural speaking style is a double-edge sword. She writes that "only a person whose credibility is firm can risk adopting a style traditionally considered weak." So as long as women are discredited as speakers, they'll ironically have a tougher time succeeding with the style that comes naturally to them.
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'Gauss' cyberweapon targeting Middle-Eastern banks, says Kaspersky Lab
- 10 August, 2012 13:25
Cybersleuths at Kaspersky Lab have announced the unmasking of yet another apparently state-sponsored cyber-weapon dubbed 'Gauss' which appears to be attacking banks and individuals in a number of Middle-Eastern countries but not, for once, the usual target, Iran.
Kaspersky describes the malware as "a nation state sponsored banking Trojan which carries a warhead of unknown designation," capable of stealing data from Windows systems and coming with an unknown, encrypted payload waiting to execute.
This almost sounds like the remit of conventional malware, but there is more to it in Kaspersky's view, starting with the fact that Gauss appears to have been built on the same development platform that resulted in the Flame cyberweapon that caused huge fuss when it was revealed (also by Kaspersky Lab) in May.
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So why not attack Iran? This is not clear. All of the other weapons on the list above had a connection to that country.
And why use a banking Trojan? The credential stealing and account monitoring (rather than money-stealing) is the most likely motivation; Gauss will steal bank logins but it will also steal any logins, including social media, email, IM and browser passwords, spreading via USB sticks and stealing and monitoring the system and attached drives.
Beyond that, the malware was set loose with a Firefox plug-in to target a number of banks in the region, including Bank of Beirut, EBLF, BlomBank, ByblosBank, FransaBank and Credit Libanais, Citibank and PayPal, Kaspersky said.
The Lebanon connection could be a clue to Gauss's purpose. That country is often cited as a clearing point for business conducted by Iran, sometimes involving Shia anti-Isreal militants Hezbollah. Speculatively, cyberspies could be attempting to monitor Iran's money movements and business web, including individuals connected to it.
Kaspersky said it isn't sure how Gauss spreads. It doesn't have a worm component so the best guess is that it was designed as a slow-spreading piece of malware, possibly via USB sticks. Unlike Flame, the company has not found any zero-day exploits.
"There is enough evidence that this is closely related to Flame and Stuxnet, which are nation-state sponsored attacks. We have evidence that Gauss was created by the same "factory" (or factories) that produced Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame," said Kaspersky Lab in its analysis.
As with the enigmatic Duqu programme that experts struggled to interpret, Gauss is an odd one. Kaspersky Lab has clearly been studying it for some time as it was discovered during the same trawl at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) that uncovered Flame.
Whatever Gauss turns out to be, Kaspersky Lab gives every indication of being a company enjoying itself. Having been the firm that discovered Duqu and Flame, it is now almost single-handedly outing cyber-malware programme after cyber-malware programme, which has raised questions in US circles about the motivation of the company.
Many if not all of these programmes are assumed to be the work of the US and Israel and to have an anti-Iran focus, which caused one journalist recently to get into a public spat with Kaspersky Lab founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky Lab about his alleged connections to the Russian FSB and Kremlin.
That seems far-fetched, perhaps (Kaspersky is Russian after all and worked for the KGB long ago) but in the unfolding world of cyber-malware almost everything seems far-fetched. With every new revelation, the world thinks it knows more whilst being able to assume less.


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3rd Quarter, 2011
In this issue
- Membership Drive...Keep that Independence Day Spirit
- Minnesota Welcomes NCSF next March!
- Meet Your Board!...New Member- Julian Wolf
- Update: Kinky is NOT a Diagnosis
- Consent Counts Expands Educational Focus
- Coalition Corner - Meet the New Mexico Leather League
Membership Drive
Keep that Independence Day Spirit and become a freedom fighter by joining NCSF!
NCSF is having a membership drive until July 31st!
NCSF is there when you need help, and now NCSF needs you. Join NCSF to keep our important programs alive:
Our Media Outreach program gives media interviews on alt sex, and produces the Media Updates, helps events work with press and media when asked, and responds to negative characterizations about BDSM, swing and poly in the media.
Consent Counts is working to change assault laws and decriminalize BDSM and educate our own communities about consent.
The Educational Outreach Program presents informative presentations around the country on everything from zoning issues for SM groups to child custody and divorce issues.
The Kink Aware Professionals list is free referral list for doctors, mental health professionals, and more. Incident Response and Reporting program worked with more than 600 people and organizations in 2010 and helps protect events from attacks.
NCSF's Incident Reporting & Response provides assistance to individuals and groups within the BDSM, swinging and poly communities who are experiencing discrimination or need assistance because of their interests and activities. In addition to providingassistance, the program collects confidential and anonymous reports of discrimination, abuse, etc. against members of the alt.sex communities. This information is critical in helping demonstrate the level of discrimination and violence members of alt.sex communities experience continually.
NCSF relies on you! For only $25 per year, you can support the rights of consenting adults. Please join or renew your individual membership at: https://ncsfreedom.org/get-involved/join.html
Minnesota Welcomes NCSF next March!
By: Sassy, CP Rep - Minnesota Stocks Debentures & Bonds
Minnesota proudly welcomes the NCSF for their annual Coalition Partner meeting March 16 - 18, 2012! The gang in MN has secured a hotel in a south St. Paul suburb with great rates, great space, hot breakfast, and we are planning a few surprises -- good surprises. Stay tuned for more details -- and start saving your pennies for an affordable meeting in a location that often has great airfare deals.
Meet Your Board!
New Member- Julian Wolf
1) Do you have a history of activism and community involvement?
Yes, my parents instilled a sense of responsibility to my community at an early age, so it was a natural transition once I became an adult. I came out of several closets in 1999 and volunteered at my first Leather event. It's been a slippery slope from there; I've spent all but a few months since 2002 serving on various boards throughout the queer and BDSM communities.
2) What specialties do you bring to the board?
Primarily, I'm a wordsmith. I've been writing in formal and informal capacities since grade school and while I'm not degreed I do seem to be able to beat words into informative submission. Additionally, I'm "blessed" with having a vocation where I'm on one computer or another for several hours every day, so I'm able to do things such as Media Updates and newsletters with some ease.
3) What inspired you to become involved in NCSF?
Sex Positive legislation is incredibly important to me as a polyamorous, kinky person who thinks swinger's parties are pretty keen. Even if I was not personally involved in the communities that the NCSF supports, I would still feel strongly about fighting for our rights and the personal freedoms of adults.
Educator, wordsmith and performer Julian Wolf is an active participant in the alternative scene in the Southwest and beyond. You are invited to peruse www.JulianWolf.net for more details.
Update: Kinky is NOT a Diagnosis
By Susan Wright, NCSF Board Member
As the discussion around the proposed DSM-V criteria for the Paraphilias continues, a recently published article mentioned NCSF's work on behalf of sexual sadists, masochists, fetishists and transvestic fetishists. Author Michael B. First, MD, a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University and Department of Clinical Phenomenology at New York State Psychiatric Institute, notes these "nondisordered paraphilias" could be further destigmatized by listing them under the "Other Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention" chapter of DSM-5. Other Conditions functions as a repository for conditions that may be a focus of treatment but are not considered mental disorders, such as normal grief.
First adds, "Thus, the Paraphilic Disorders would be listed in the front, mental disorder, section of the DSM-5 (with associated F codes, indicating their status as mental disorders), whereas the nonpathological paraphilias, which may be encountered by a clinician in the context of a diagnostic evaluation but would not be a focus of treatment, would be listed in the back, nondisordered, section (with associated nonmental disorder problem codes from the Z section of ICD-10-CM)." The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
NCSF will continue to participate in the national discussion about the proposed DSM-V criteria until publication in 2013 through its DSM Revision Project: Kinky is NOT a Diagnosis.
Consent Counts Expands Educational Focus
By: Judy Guerin
A major priority this year is development of a continuing legal education program for attorneys and law school outreach program, planned for launch in 2012, on consent and BDSM. Additionally, NCSF is developing talking points for presenters and others to emphasize the importance of prior and ongoing consent within our community. NCSF also plans educational outreach to the National Coalition of Anti-violence Programs and the National Police Association on consensual BDSM. We are encouraging local BDSM groups to do outreach to their local domestic violence programs and law enforcement and we have workshops available in our Education Outreach Program to help teach local groups ho to do this important work.
For more information on the Consent Counts project and the state of the law, visit our website.
Coalition Corner - New Mexico Leather League
By: Julian Wolf, NCSF Board Member
Meet the New Mexico Leather League
1) What is the mission of your group?
Since 2006 the primary purpose of the New Mexico Leather League is to provide a resource foundation for individuals and organizations within the leather/kink/fetish communities of New Mexico. As part of its mission, the League regularly produces BDSM events in Albuquerque. NMLL also works to co-sponsor and promote other events originating from within the leather/kink/fetish community-at-large.
2) What inspired your participation with the NCSF?
The mission of the NCSF and NMLL is very complimentary, so when some of our members told us about the NCSF after attending a regional conference where they attended workshops by NCSF members, we easily voted to join as Coalition Partners and are proud to increase our activities with the organization this year. (Our CP Rep attended the Annual Meeting and Judy came to Albuquerque and gave a presentation on Consent Counts.)
3) What's your favorite way to do your NCSF fund raising?
We've had great luck over the years with Top/Bottom auctions at events! We select an auctioneer and then they "sell" a scene (and/or an hour of training) with pre-selected people for one of the play parties at that event. It's a great opportunity for people to try new things while supporting a great cause. When done correctly, Top/Bottom Auctions can be entertaining for the crowd, fun for the winners and profitable for NCSF.
The New Mexico Leather League meets the third Saturday of every month in Albuquerque and can be found online at www.newmexicoleatherleague.org.
Coalition Partners as of July 2011
Adventures in Sexuality (Columbus, OH) * Albany Power Exchange (APEX) (Albany, NY) * Arizona Power Exchange (Phoenix, AZ) * Beyond Leather (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) * Black BEAT Inc. (Baltimore, Maryland) * Black Rose (Washington, D.C.) * Boise BDSM Society (Boise, Idaho) * Bottom's Buffet * Brandon Longwood - (Maryland) * FetFest * CAPEX (Gastonia, NC) * Center for Sex Positive Culture (Seattle WA) * Chicago Age Players * Club X (San Diego, CA) * DC TNG (Washington DC) * DFW PowerExchange (Dallas, TX) * DLH Productions - (El Sobrante, California) * Dr. Clockwork"s Home for Electrical and Medical Oddities * Eau Claire Munch (Bloomer, WI) * Evergreen Leather Events (Kenmore, WA) * Females Investigating Sexual Terrain (FIST) (Baltimore, MD) * FetLife * Fox Valley Coalition (Neenah, WI) * The Group in Fresno * House of Decorum (Greenville, SC) * International Ms. Leather (IMsL) * JacksonvilleTNG * Kevin Carlson (Boise, ID) * Knights of Leather (Minneapolis, MN) * LA Noble (New Orleans, LA) * Leather SINS (Chicago, IL) * Leigha Fleming (Denver, CO) * Lesbian Sex Mafia (New York, NY) * Lifestyle Alternatives Centre (Lake Worth, FL) * The Mark by CPI : Tennessee * Midwest Alternatives , (Lincoln, NE) * Midwest Fantsay Adventures (Chicago, IL) * Minnesota Kinky Youth (St. Paul, MN) * Minnesota Stocks, Debentures, and Bonds (MSDB) (Minneapolis, MN) * MN Rope - (Minneapolis, MN) * MOB New England * Mollena.com * MTTA * New England Dungeon Society (New England) * New England Leather Alliance (Boston, MA) * New Mexico Leather League (Albuquerque, NM) * Northern Lights * OhioSMART (Cleveland, Ohio) * The Red Chair (Birmingham, AL) * Riverbound (Iowa/Illinois) * Robin Spector (San Leandro, CA) * Rochester Kink Society * Scarlet Ranch (Denver, CO) * The Sanctuary (Dallas, TX) * The Siege (Tennessee) * smOdyssey, Inc. (San Jose, CA) * Society of Janus (San Francisco, CA) * South Florida Munch Group (Margate, FL) * TABU Social Club (Baltimore, MD) * TES (The Eulenspiegel Society) (New York, NY) * Threshold (Los Angles, CA) * TNG Baltimore (Baltimore MD) * The Treasure Coast Kinksters (Stuart, FL) * Tulsa Dungeon Society (Tulsa, OK) * Windy City Boys Troop (Chicago, IL)


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God Gave Us This Country: Tekamthi and the First American Civil War
Atheneum, Jan 1, 1989 - History - 369 pages
In the mid-eighteenth century, red and white Americans commenced a struggle to determine which race would be sovereign in the "Old Northwest," as the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley was once known. The nearly fifty years of strife that ensued were filled with hundreds of hit-and-run raids by small partisan bands, occasional battles between armies of warriors and soldiers, and innumerable acts of treachery, terrorism, and torture. When the fighting was over, thousands of men, women, and children were dead, and the once-free Indian nations had been broken and their surviving people exiled. This long, bitter conflict was truly, as Bil Gilbert writes, "the first American civil war." In this book, the author provides a panoramic view of the events and the people who shaped this chaotic and critical period of North American history. In the forefront of this account is Tekamthi (often remembered as Tecumseh), the brilliant Shawnee warrior, orator, and political strategist, long renowned as the most astute and able of the red leaders. In the early 1800s be became convinced that his people could defend themselves against the United States only by forming a single racial federation. From a base at Tippecanoe in Indiana, he traveled between the Great Lakes and Gulf Coast, recruiting supporters. Though there were fewer than 100,000 free reds in these territories versus the 7 million whites of the United States, the westward advance of Manifest Destiny was slowed, in large part, by the formidable reputation and charismatic influence of Tekamthi. In a confidential report to the War Department, William Henry Harrison, then federal governor of the West, called his great adversary "one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the established order of things." Tekamthi's defense of his people's lands and liberties led him into the War of 1812, on the British side. In 1813, after the British surrender in the West, Tekamthi's forces were defeated on the Thames River in Southern Ontario. It was there that Tekamthi died- and the red resistance movement in the Northwest with him. Rich in character and drama, this book is a fascinating account of this little-studied period in the fight for the American frontier. -- from Book Jacket
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By Rick Eymer
Palo Alto Online Sports
Stanford football coach David Shaw took a page out of the lecturers' handbook Tuesday and provided his audience with a power-point explanation of why quarterback Andrew Luck should win the Heisman Trophy.
McKissick Auditorium looks like your typical lecture hall on a major university campus, except you don't feel like you're in the next zip code when sitting in the last row.
A split-screen collage of the Heisman Trophy and Luck in a similar pose, an actual game picture captured during Stanford's 28-14 victory over Notre Dame on Saturday, was hard to miss when entering the auditorium.
Shaw was escorted into the auditorium by Assistant Athletic Director of Media Relations and Communications Jim Young and given a microphone and electronic pointer. He took his spot behind the podium off to one side.
"I told Andrew over the next week I was going to talk about him a lot," Shaw said. "He's going to hate every minute of it and I told him not to pay attention to it and not to make a big deal out of it."
Shaw then proceeded to make a big deal of what Luck means to the team and how he is doing things that no one else on the face of the planet is doing.
His main points? No one else is 3-0 against both USC and Notre Dame. Stanford is in the top five nationally in most major offensive categories. Stanford leads the nation in fewest negative plays. The Cardinal leads the nation in scoring from the red zone: 63 of 64, including 26 touchdown passes.
"I have been avoiding statistics most of the year," Shaw said. "They are part of the story line, but not the whole story."
The meat of his lecture (I hope he grades on a curve or I'm in trouble) focused on Luck's intellectual process.
In the past Luck has said his play-making decision is based on several factors as he approaches the line of scrimmage but he always defers to the coaching staff for getting him prepared.
With a section of the playbook as background, Shaw explained that three plays are called in the huddle and Luck has the option to audible to a fourth play.
"We take up to 300 plays into a game because we can," Shaw said. "Having a quarterback making his own decisions at the line of scrimmage is unheard of. It's more than avoiding putting us in a bad play but also to check to an advantage play. I cannot compare Andrew to anyone else in the nation.
"Typically you feel good if the quarterback has the game plan down by Friday," said Shaw, named the Pac-12 Coach of the Year on Monday. "He's got it all by Wednesday and perfecting it the rest of the week. He'll watch game film on his own and we'll trrade text messages in the middle of the night with a question or comment about a segment of one play. That's how his mind works. He stays on top of it and wants to be perfect.
"Talent-wise, intellectual-wise, he is the standard," Shaw said. "He is the ideal quarterback, the ideal football player you want to have."
No matter what happens in the Heisman Trophy voting, there is general consensus he will be the No. 1 overall draft pick this season. He's been graded out at 99 (out of 100) and that hasn't changed since Luck finished second to Cam Newton in last year's Heisman voting. USC's Matt Barkley has been graded in the low 90s and no on else is close.
"We have been extremely spoiled for three years," Shaw said. "He never falters and it's unbelievable to watch. This is something I wanted to do at the end of the season when there's no game to talk about. Who is doing what other people aren't doing?


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SuperKaramba is part of most Linux distributions as it is released with KDE 3.4 and later. On most distributions it can be found in a package named kdeutils (kdeutils3-extra on openSUSE not kde4-superkaramba!) or a special package named superkaramba (on K/Ubuntu).
If your distribution doesn't come with superkaramba or you want to install it manually you can find the source package here.
To compile the SuperKaramba package manually you will need the KDE development packages and the Python development packages. Both are shipped with your distribution. Beside that you will also need a working tool chain to be able to compile the sources. These will also come with your distribution.
To start themes automatically with the KDE start you just need to keep SuperKaramba running with the themes when you log out of KDE.
On some systems (e.g. openSUSE) this will not work. In this case you need to create a link to SuperKaramba in the Autostart directory of KDE (~/.kde/Autostart/).
If you want to use SuperKaramba themes in Plasma you have to first run the theme at least once in SuperKaramba. After that the theme will appear in the Plasma Widget Browser like normal widgets do.
Delete the file ~/.kde/share/config/superkarambarc
You are probably trying to run SuperKaramba with a window manager (Fluxbox, GNOME) that isn't supported by SuperKaramba. Unfortunately SuperKaramba is currently limited to KDE due to the high integration into the KDE framework.
This also can happen on KDE when using a desktop background that is a plain color or a tiled image.
If you use openSUSE you probably installed the package kde4-superkaramba. Remove that package and install the kdeutils3-extra package. See How to install SuperKaramba
You are probably trying to run SuperKaramba with a Window Manager (Fluxbox, GNOME) that isn't supported by SuperKaramba. Unfortunately SuperKaramba is currently limited to KDE due to the high integration into the KDE framework.
You are probably trying to run SuperKaramba with Compiz or Beryl. Unfortunately this is currently not fully supported with SuperKaramba. In Compiz-Fusion, the Fade to Desktop module is known to work better than the Show Desktop module.
Make sure that you are running KDE and not another window manager. If you are running Compiz-Fusion, while it is not supported, you can enable Compiz-Fusion's Window Rules module and enter a Window Match rule for the Below and Sticky entries as needed based on the name or class values (given in "Writing Compiz Window Match rules" below). As a last resort, try restarting X.
Running SuperKaramba with Compiz, Beryl or the merged Compiz-Fusion project is not fully supported. However, it can be useful to use Window Match rules within Compiz to achieve the desired behavior. The following window matching rules are based off of xprop results for SuperKaramba. The most preferable rule to use for SuperKaramba specific behavior is either the name or the class rule. While the other rules will match SuperKaramba, it is easier for non-SuperKaramba windows to match as well.
(Note that Window Match rules are usually case-sensitive and cannot have spaces around the equals sign.)
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karamba.setTextSensor(widget, txt, 'SENSOR=DISK MOUNTPOINT="/" FORMAT="Free space: %f MB"')
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Oregon State University has once again proven that for us, it's easy being green. The university has been honored for its commitment to sustainability, making it one of the top green colleges in the nation.
The Sierra Club has released its "Cool Schools" rankings based on the 'greenness' of participating universities, and Oregon State has the highest green ranking in the state, and is listed as 11th in the nation, rising from 24th in 2010.
Brandon Trelstad, OSU's sustainability coordinator, said he is excited to see the university being honored by the Sierra Club.
"I'm delighted we have again been recognized for our sustainability efforts by the Sierra Club," Trelstad said. "It showcases OSU's strength in sustainability – a multifaceted approach that includes student engagement, reducing negative environmental impact, outstanding research and long-term cost savings, all aligned with OSU's mission."
"The recognition of Oregon State by the Sierra Club and its Cool Schools program helps the university by supporting our outreach and educational activities," he added. "Several times in the past year, I have heard of students who, when they were thinking about where to pursue higher education, selected OSU because of its reputation for taking sustainability seriously."
The Cool Schools ranking is open to all four-year undergraduate colleges and universities in the nation. The award honors 162 colleges that are helping to solve climate problems and making significant efforts to operate sustainably. Evaluations were based on survey information provided by the participating schools, as well as follow up inquiries and outside sources.
Oregon State's emphasis on "being green" begins the moment when new students come on campus, according to the survey. Sustainability is a large part of the university's new student orientation, including zero-waste food events, a Sustainability Fair, and an emphasis on recycling in the residence halls.
OSU has been honored for its efforts at supporting alternative transportation for students, faculty and staff living off campus, including ride sharing, a campus shuttle system, bike parking and lockers, utilization of Corvallis transit and WeCar sharing.
There are a number of active green student groups on the Oregon State campus, including the Student Sustainability Initiative, which is involved in everything from the restoration of local watersheds to composting on campus to sustainable food projects.
OSU offers hundreds of courses on campus with a sustainability emphasis, ranging from "Sustainable Forest Management" to "Renewable Energy Alternatives: Economics and Technology." There are even study abroad programs with a sustainability focus to places like Australia and Costa Rica.
Other highlights include OSU's leadership in the formation of Oregon BEST (Built Environment & Sustainable Technologies Center) which helps Oregon businesses compete globally by transforming and commercializing university research into new technologies, services, products, and companies, all with an emphasis in renewable energy and sustainable products.
The campus participates in an annual, month-long Campus Carbon Challenge, which encourages students, staff and faculty to reduce their carbon footprint by changing their daily behaviors. There is an emphasis on reducing waste and using sustainable products in the dining centers, and around campus, a variety of alternative energy approaches have been used, including the utilization of solar hot water systems at the Kelley Engineering Building and at the International Living Center, which supply half of those buildings' hot water needs.
To learn more about the Sierra Club's "Cool Schools" survey, go to: www.sierraclub.org/coolschools.
Lewis & Clark College came in at in 19th place, followed by Southern Oregon at 26th, Portland State University at 31st, and University of Oregon at 46th.


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Constitution Day
Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 10 am to 3 pm
Student Union Atrium
Current Students
The event serves to celebrate and educate students about the United States Constitution and voter registration. Voter registration will be available at the event. Constitution Day will have guest speakers starting at 12:30, including Dr. Sean Wilson (author of the Flexible Constitution), Brian Jarvis (City Councilman of Beavercreek), Rick Perales (State Representative for the 73rd House District). Wright State students will have the opportunity to vote for Student Government University College Senator (University College Senator voting is limited only to students who are currently part of University College) and Graduate Senator (Graduate Senator voting is limited only to graduate students). Free refreshments and raffle prizes will be provided.
Organizations in attendance include: Ahima's Army, College Democrats, Chartwell/Hospitality Services, College Republicans, Guardian Newspaper, International Politics Club, Model UN, Residential Community Association, Student Government, Student Legal Services, Student Support Services, University Activities Board, Veteran's League, WSU Bookstore, WWSU 106.9


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Jose Mourinho has reiterated his desire to return to the Premier League "in a couple of years" once his time in charge of Real Madrid is over.
The former Chelsea manager has always been open about his love of the game in England and has long been linked with taking over Sir Alex Ferguson's role at Manchester United when the Scot decides to retire.
"I am very, very happy to be in Real Madrid. It is a great experience for me," Mourinho told BBC Radio Four's Today programme.
"I believe it is probably the biggest club in the history of football, I didn't want to miss the chance to work here but my passion is England and my next step will be to go back, if possible go and stay for a long time."
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A consistent ratings juggernaut for much of the last decade, there was little doubt that CBS's Two and a Half Men would be see a full-season renewal for the fall of 2013. However, speculation has run rampant as to whether former child-actor Angus T. Jones (The Rookie) would return to show with leads Ashton Kutcher (Jobs) and Jon Cryer (Due Date).
Let said speculating end, as it looks as if Jones has opted not to return as a regular cast member. Reports indicate that he may occasionally appear as a guest star, but Two and a Half Men will soon be lacking its "half" more often than not.
CBS confirmed via Twitter that Two and a Half Men has been renewed for season 11, which is set to air this fall. The network also announced that Angus T. Jones has decided to leave full-time employment with the show to pursue a college degree – a move that he has put off due to his obligation to the series. Jones is currently in negotiations to appear in a number of guest spots.
There is no doubt that Jones' decision was affected by the November release of a video featuring his religious testimony, in which he decried Two and a Half Men as "filth." Despite a public apology to his co-workers, many wondered whether his time with the series was running short.
This is, of course, not the first time that Two and a Half Men has experienced the controversial departure of one of its leads. In 2011, Charlie Sheen was dismissed from the series after a vicious dispute with creator Chuck Lorre (The Big Bang Theory). Sheen subsequently embarked on a series of highly-publicized meltdowns that have resulted in the actor becoming something of a cultural punchline (see his turn in Scary Movie 5). Kutcher was afterward brought in to replace Sheen in the show's lead role.
Having already reconfigured itself more-or-less successfully after the sudden departure of its lead, Two and a Half Men will no doubt soldier on without Jones. Before his absence was confirmed, rumors began circulating that Miley Cyrus might take his place as a cast regular. Plans to retool the show have no doubt been in place for months, just in case Jones finally decided to abandon ship.
Despite this, one has to wonder whether the cast and crew of Two and a Half Men should start readying to close up shop. With two of its original leads gone, the dynamic of the show will probably be all but alien to longtime viewers. At this point in its life-cycle, a sitcom needs to either reinvent itself drastically or fade into late-season obscurity. Can the writers and producers of Two and a Half Men spin Jones' departure into a successful revival? Only the fall premiere will tell.
Two and a Half Men will continue to appear on CBS on Thursdays at 8:30 p.m.


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A performance lab for guitarists focusing on combining jazz style harmonic techniques with the development of rhythmic flexibility. This course is for students who wish to develop these skills in an interactive setting.
A Guitar Department course in which students will study methods and techniques specifically related to the accompaniment of vocalists in a variety of styles and settings. Students will learn repertoire-appropriate chord and melodic techniques, including drop two and three, voicings; walking bass techniques; chord soloing techniques; and finger- and pick-style playing; as well as techniques for working with male and female vocalists in solo, duo, trio, or larger settings.
This lab is an introduction to rhythmic displacement in comping and soloing by the use of various polyrhythms and polymeters against a standard 3/4 or 4/4 time signature.
A lab for guitar principals that develops approach patterns and trains the ear for improvisation in all idioms.
A course exploring a wide range of creative, aesthetic, conceptual, and technical aspects of recording electric and acoustic guitar. Topics will include the creation of overdubbed parts in a recording session and related aspects of tone; orchestration and concept; recording media; direct recording of electric guitar; microphone use and theory applied to electric and acoustic guitar; use of equalization, compression, and other effects in a recording environment; and mixing and production concepts.
Performance of material from Country Guitar Styles, including single-note solos, pedal steel style, folk fingerpicking, and western swing.
Study and performance of guitar riffs, leads, and grooves as recorded by Harrison, Lennon, and McCartney. Role of the guitar in pop/rock recording and production, including triads, four-note voicings, characteristic rhythms, phrasing, effects, layering, and the mini-orchestra concept. Developing typical accompaniment patterns for contemporary songs.
A continuation of ILGT-221 using standards that present greater challenges. Tunes are prepared (melody, chords, bass line, and improvisation) for critiqued performance on a weekly basis. Techniques for and approaches to improvisation, including the application of melodic and harmonic minor scales and diminished and whole tone scales.
A lab for guitar principals continuing the development of harmonic and voice-leading concepts introduced in ILGT-223. Various string combinations and voicing sizes will be introduced, and a more in-depth examination of modal harmonies and upper-structure triads will be developed.
A systematic technique developing a complete rhythm section style of accompaniment playing, ideal for duo and trio situations. Class participation involves weekly performance of standard, jazz, blues, or Latin tunes.
Students will record solo guitar pieces of their choice, which may include original arrangements, transcriptions, adaptations in various genres, and Guitar Department-produced handouts. Recordings may also include chord soloing with rhythm section.
Applications, scope, and limitations of guitar synthesizers. Understanding the operating principles of guitar synthesizers as they have evolved with developments in technology. Discussion of appropriate performance techniques and related problems.