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Marion Magruder, The Marines' Aerial Night Marauder

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Magruder grew up in Kentucky, became a Marine officer, reworked night fighting over Europe and went on to hammer the Japanese in the Pacific. AP

Magruder grew up in Kentucky, became a Marine officer, reworked night fighting over Europe and went on to hammer the Japanese in the Pacific. AP View Enlarged Image

Marion Magruder flew into the face of danger with the right skills.

But first he had to develop them.

When he was done, America had a new way to win air battles at night — on the way to winning World War II.

A Marine Corps fighter pilot who retired as a colonel in 1961, Magruder (1911-97) lifted the Navy's capacity for airborne radar intercept night fighting.

No aerial assignments were more dangerous. Lt. Col. Magruder, nicknamed Black Mac, and his men flew blind in the darkness at high speed, playing a deadly game of hide-and-seek with the enemy — while dependent on each pilot's radar counterpart on the ground to be their eyes and guide them during battle.

Additionally, night fighters, with zero visual flying perspective, had to zoom close enough to identify the radar targets to ensure they didn't fire on their own. That made the Americans further vulnerable to enemy attack.

Magruder's squadron that he trained, VMF(N)-533, called Black Mac's Killers, shot down more enemy planes, some 35, than any other night-fighting unit during World War II and was instrumental during the crucial battle for Okinawa in 1945.

Fighting With Sweat

Magruder's Keys

  • Developed the U.S. military's capacity for airborne radar intercept night fighting during World War II.
  • Overcame: Limited resources to come up with the intercept technology.
  • Lesson: Ignore those saying it's impossible.
  • "We cannot afford to make any mistakes. ... War is a terrible scourge. What we are doing ... is a deadly business. I will not have people die in my outfit ... from stupidity."

Magruder was philosophical about life and death in battle.

Son Mark Magruder, author of "Nightfighter: Radar Intercept Killer," told IBD that his father recalled "counseling his men that it was useless to waste energy on worrying about it. 'If you do your job, and do it the best you can, that's all you have control over; the rest is fate. It's OK to be scared; everyone experiences fear. What makes a man a man is how he decides to deal with it. The only things you have power over is what you believe and what you choose to do.'

"My father knew fear only survived in dark places. Once he shined his light on it with his full attention, he could see it for what it really was. If there was action he could take, he did. If the situation was beyond his control, he acknowledge this and empowered himself to give it all he had. For him, God was in control of the rest."

Magruder rewrote the night-fighting syllabus for the Navy. That in turn became the top secret night-fighting program of today.

Black Mac's Killers comprised the only U.S. fighter squadron named for its commanding officer, and for a good reason. Magruder achieved the best safety record and in the Pacific theater, losing only two men, both to friendly fire. Also, his unit boasted the best rate of planes ready to fly around the clock.

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On an occasional basis mongabay.com highlights a video or film. Any views expressed in these clips are those of the filmmaker/producer and do not necessarily reflect the views or endorsement of mongabay.com.

A new film Nosy Maitso takes a look at the people, researchers, and wildlife connected to Madagascar's Ranomafauna National Park. Apart of a World Heritage Site, the park was established in 1991 after a new species of lemur, the golden bamboo lemur (Hapalemur aureus), was discovered in its forests in the 1980s. The golden bamboo lemur is currently listed as Endangered by the IUCN Red List.

Today the park is one of the island-nation's best known protected areas and helps conserve a rich selection of Madagascar's distinct biodiversity, including 115 species of birds, 90 species of butterflies, and 160 herps (reptiles and amphibians). At least 11 lemur species are found in the park. To see photos from the park: Ranomafauna National Park.

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It was back in January when I asked the question: Mike Myers -- The New Keith Moon? Me, I'm not too afraid of the idea -- at least, not before I see what the international man of mystery can do with the life of the famous Who drummer. I never would've picked Val Kilmer for Jim Morrison, and I still can't believe how much he looked and sounded like the doomed music icon. Anyhow, this film has been gearing up for a long time, and while you might be taking comfort in the thought that it will never come to be, the flick -- See Me Feel Me: Keith Moon Naked for Your Pleasure -- is another step closer. According to The Telegraph, which recently chatted with Myers over in the U.K., the movie will start filming in January of 2008.

The zany actor talked about how he came to be part of the film: "Roger Daltrey came to see me on the set when I was filming Austin Powers 3 and said they'd like me to play Keith Moon. I felt as if I had been hit by lightning because I've wanted to do that my whole life. I loved the Who, and I loved his drumming and I'm excited because the world of rock and roll in the 60's and 70's was a fascinating place." I would imagine if anyone could pick the right guy, it would be Daltrey. However, if you're still grieving over the choice, zip over to YouTube and check out this clip to bask in true Moon-ness. It has him tearing up a faux hotel room behind Steve Martin, filmed a year before he died.
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Earth Atmosphere "Breathes," Thanks to Solar Winds

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The Earth's upper atmosphere, also called the thermosphere, "is the outer gaseous shell of the planet's atmosphere that exchanges energy with the space-plasma environment," Thayer said.

In other words, it's the region that has direct interactions with the sun's atmosphere.

"From Earth's perspective, we're embedded in the sun's upper atmosphere," he said.

Starting at about 5 miles (85 kilometers) above Earth's surface, the thermosphere has been known to experience expansion and contraction every 27 days, the time it takes the sun to rotate on its axis.

But until now few scientists had looked at shorter-term changes in atmospheric density.

Thayer and colleagues found fluctuations in density roughly every five, seven, or nine days that correspond to changes in geomagnetic activity, atmospheric composition, and infrared radiation—all signs that extreme solar weather is at work.

The team thinks coronal holes help explain the pattern of the breaths.

"Think about a searchlight" that takes 27 days to complete a rotation, Thayer said. "If you have one searchlight … and you mark down every time you saw brightness, you'd see it every 27 days.

"Now if you had three searchlights [set up] so they're all evenly distributed and you rotate those at 27 days, you would see … a bright light every 9 days."

Similarly, four lights would equal bright sweeps every 6.75 days, while five lights would yield passes every 5.4 days—the periods found in the new study.

Thayer and colleagues' data was published earlier this year in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Ringing Atmosphere

David Klumpar, a solar physicist at Montana State University in Bozeman, said that activity from the sun is constantly and randomly "tapping" Earth, creating oscillations in the our planet's natural frequencies like a spoon tapping on a glass of water.

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"The atmosphere is ringing, like a water glass when 'tapped' by solar eruptions."

David Hathaway, a solar physicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, said that, without having seen the actual data, "I'm a little surprised."

He noted that solar scientists have long known about the 27-day cycles of geomagnetic activity related to the sun's rotation.

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He added that the last two years would indeed have seen most of the atmospheric disturbances coming from coronal holes.

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For now, he said, the idea raises more questions than it does answers.

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Brian Hutchinson: NDP Leader Adrian Dix won't last long after B.C. election loss

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British Columbia NDP Leader Adrian Dix speaks to the media in Vancouver, B.C., on Wednesday May 22, 2013, for the first time since his party was defeated by the Liberal Party in the provincial election earlier this month.

Adrian Dix won't last long as NDP leader after B.C. election loss

At one point during his contrite election post-mortem on Wednesday, B.C. NDP leader Adrian Dix uttered the words that everyone else in the province has been thinking since the ballots were cast and counted.

“This is, in my view, not a mandate for more of the same,” Mr. Dix told reporters, in the basement of a downtown Vancouver hotel

But Mr. Dix wasn’t speaking of the overhaul that his party clearly requires. Rather, he was going on about Premier Christy Clark and her B.C. Liberals, returned to government last week on a pledge to deliver on bread and butter issues most relevant to British Columbians: the economy, their livelihoods, more jobs.

The analysis Mr. Dix delivered Wednesday did not include what some NDP members wanted. He did not announce his resignation as party leader. He did not indicate that he will step aside before the next scheduled provincial election, in 2017.

I can assure you, this review will spare nothing and no one, least of all me

Don’t take this to mean Mr. Dix will be sticking around in the leader’s role. In the coming months, the B.C. NDP will “undertake a comprehensive review of this election, to learn and act on the painful lessons it has taught us,” said Mr. Dix. “It must address the strategy and tactics we employed in the election, and it must examine the fundamental questions of who we are as a party, and our relationship with the people of B.C.”

It will not be “a simple, internal review,” he added. “I can assure you, this review will spare nothing and no one, least of all me.” It was as close as Mr. Dix came to admitting that as B.C. NDP leader, he’s not for long.

Apparently, the party’s brain trust has agreed to not hold a leadership contest before the comprehensive review is conducted. That makes some sense, because there is no obvious successor to Mr. Dix right now. To be successful, and to help the NDP down the road, a change in leadership will have to appeal to more than the party’s traditional base of support, the 38% to 40% of British Columbians who reliably vote NDP.

And it will have to be done with some dignity and care: The last succession was just awful. Mr. Dix’s predecessor, Carole James, was shoved aside mid-term by 13 disgruntled NDP MLAs. Mr. Dix was the party’s so-so compromise.

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He was no match for Ms. Clark and her skilled campaign team. The B.C. Liberals overcame a significant deficit in public opinion to win the election, using tactics that are hardly unheard of, yet anathema to Mr. Dix’s NDP: negative advertising and the promise of a debt-free, prosperous B.C.

Mr. Dix acknowledged on Wednesday that he deserved the blame for his party’s election loss. He cited three campaign failures.

“Voters expect opposition leaders, in particular, to hold sitting premiers accountable for their records,” said Mr. Dix. “You have to define the problem before you can persuade people of the solution. I should have done a much better job of this than I did during the campaign.”

Second, he said, “we did not effectively communicate our platform to voters. … We put out detailed proposals in considerable volume and length in a way that didn’t resonate with enough voters.”

And third, he said, was his surprise policy shift on the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline that came halfway through the campaign. Mr. Dix went from a more reasonable, wait-and-see approach to the planned twinning of an existing oil pipeline through B.C. to one of complete opposition. That caused confusion and apprehension among voters.

“The way I made it raised a number of process issues that stuck with us,” he said. “I hold to the policy I set out on that pipeline. But, plainly, I didn’t handle that issue very well.”

Give him credit for owning up to his mistakes. But there was another deciding factor, one which he ignored Wednesday. Ms. Clark simply carried herself better than did Mr. Dix on the campaign trail. If not on substance, she outmatched him on wit, comfort and charm, personal traits that many successful politicians — Stephen Harper is a notable exception — tend to share.

Mr. Dix is an earnest, well-intentioned man, but voters found him wrong for the provincial government’s top job. He was ineffective, and now he’s just easy to ignore. After his mea culpas Wednesday, he left the hotel and walked two blocks to his party’s Vancouver HQ. It was lunch hour and the streets were alive. No one bothered the NDP leader. There were no double takes, not even a consolatory nod.

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Obama will make first trip to Israel as president this spring

Barack Obama when he visited Israel during his 2008 presidential run. When Obama visits Israel this spring, it will be the first time he's done so since he beat John McCain and was elected president.

Obama will visit Israel in spring

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will go to Israel in the spring, the White House said Tuesday, marking his first visit to the staunch U.S. ally since becoming president. While in the region, Obama will make stops by the West Bank and Jordan.

Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the visit to Israel in late January, when Obama congratulated Netanyahu on his success in Israel’s recent election. The White House has not released the date of Obama’s trip or details about Obama’s itinerary, but Israel’s Channel 10 reported that the trip had been scheduled for March 20.

“The start of the president’s second term and the formation of a new Israeli government offer the opportunity to reaffirm the deep and enduring bonds between the United States and Israel and to discuss the way forward on a broad range of issues of mutual concern, including Iran and Syria,” said National Security Council Spokesman Tommy Vietor.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama would work closely with Palestinian Authority and Jordanian officials on regional issues during his visit to Jordan and the West Bank.

Obama’s trip to Israel, coming shortly after the start of his second term, could offer an opportunity to repair a notoriously strained relationship with Netanyahu. But the trip is almost certain to raise expectations for the type of peace initiative that eluded Obama and his foreign policy team during his first four years in office. Obama has in the past warned against setting expectations too high for a breakthrough in stalled negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.

Although Obama visited Israel and Jordan while running for president in 2008, he hasn’t been back since, drawing intense criticism from some pro-Israel groups who have claimed he is insufficiently supportive of the United States’ closest Mideast ally. Other top administration officials, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have visited, and Clinton’s replacement, John Kerry, is expected to travel to Israel on his first Mideast trip.

For Obama, the trip might also be a chance to improve his image within Israel, where many view him as not supportive enough of the Jewish state.

Netanyahu’s office in Jerusalem had no immediate comment on the report of Obama’s visit. Hanan Ashrawi, a senior official with the Palestine Liberation Organization, said the visit was important given Obama’s expressed interest in playing a role in Mideast peace efforts.

“We hope that this is more than just a symbolic visit, but with a clear message and clear commitment to the genuine substance and imperative of peace,” Ashrawi said.

We hope that this is more than just a symbolic visit, but with a clear message and clear commitment to the genuine substance and imperative of peace

The announcement of Obama’s visit comes at a time of uncertainty for Netanyahu who emerged weakened from January’s election but will remain in charge if he can build a governing coalition before the mid-March deadline. The emergence of a new centrist party in Israel’s election offered hope to those urging the hawkish Netanyahu to make peace with the Palestinians a higher priority.

Negotiations have remained frozen during Netanyahu’s previous four-year term, in part because of Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians claim for their future state.

Obama’s upcoming trip was a long time in the making. In July, when Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and hammering Obama on Israel, Obama’s campaign said that if he were re-elected, he would visit Israel during his second term. Then Romney himself made the trip, where Netanyahu hosted Romney as if he were already a world leader. Netanyahu denied backing either candidate but was widely perceived as preferring Romney.

But the tenuous chemistry between Obama and Netanyahu was clear from early in Obama’s first term. On one visit to Washington, the U.S.-educated Netanyahu appeared to lecture Obama on the pitfalls of peacemaking, and gave a speech to Congress in which he appeared to be rallying support against Obama.

For Obama, starting his second term out on firmer ground with his Israeli counterpart could also make it easier to coordinate on a number of pressing regional issues of critical concern to both nations. These include Iran’s nuclear program and Syria’s ongoing civil war, plus lingering questions about what kind of partner Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi will be in efforts to bring stability to the region.

“Obama knows that he’s going to have a lot of conversations with Netanyahu this year,” said David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “Those conversations will be easier conversations if Obama connects with the Israeli public and demonstrates what he believes, which is that he has their back.”

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Council formally kills possibility of a Toronto casino

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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford in the council chambers Tuesday.

Council formally kills possibility of a Toronto casino

Spectators burst out cheering Tuesday as city council voted overwhelmingly to reject a new casino in Toronto and to oppose expanded gaming facilities at Woodbine Racetrack.

The 38-6 vote ended a bitter, year-long debate that fuelled inter-city bickering, divided Toronto council and prompted a slew of major casino players to swoop in with glitzy promises. In the end, it was the province’s refusal to meet Mayor Rob Ford’s revenue-sharing demands that sapped the last bit of strength from pro-casino forces.

“Hosting a casino in Toronto that does little to address Toronto’s financial needs and simply makes the provincial government richer is not in the best interests of Toronto,” Mayor Ford told council. “The province wants money for nothing. They are not going to put out one red cent into the development of a new convention and entertainment complex. The financial risk will be entirely on the private sector; they’re not willing to accept a single drop of political risk. Once again, they’ve asked the council to battle it out so the premier doesn’t get her hands dirty.”

The vote comes just days after Mayor Ford learned the province would provide the city only about half of the $100-million it sought in hosting fees, a revelation that coincided with Postmedia president Paul Godfrey’s ouster as chairman of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation.

Though Mayor Ford’s executive committee had previously recommended moving forward with a casino, Councillor Mike Layton moved two separate amendments Tuesday to nix “the establishment of any new gaming sites” in the city and to oppose Woodbine’s expansion. The anti-casino motion passed 40-4, while the Woodbine vote was tighter, passing 24-20.

“This wasn’t just about a hosting fee,” Mr. Layton said. “This was about the impact on the citizens of Toronto and the people of Ontario that don’t want us to put forward a policy that encourages more people to get addicted to gambling.”

Peggy Calvert of No Casino Toronto, which has strenuously opposed a casino for months, called it “surreal” that her grassroots group trumped intensive lobbying efforts by several gambling giants: “We could only hope way back when that this would be the outcome,” she said.

The mayor and his brother, Councillor Doug Ford — who both supported adding new slot machines and live gaming tables to Woodbine — were among the six overall “no” votes. The mayor had introduced a separate motion to kill a new casino while expanding Woodbine, but it failed 13-31.

Woodbine Entertainment president Nick Eaves warned the facility’s ability to compete would be “severely compromised” if the OLG follows through on plans to build a casino in a neighbouring 905 municipality. A separate motion passed Tuesday expressed council’s opposition to a casino complex in any of the proposed GTA locations.

“For Woodbine to be left on a status-quo basis, to compete against something that may well happen in Vaughan or Markham, is going to put our industry, the jobs at Woodbine, in an untenable position,” Mr. Eaves said, citing ongoing discussions with the province on the matter.

Before Tuesday’s vote, many anti-casino councillors brought forward petitions from hundreds of residents who opposed a casino, and delivered short speeches about the anticipated social ills and the risk of “cannibalizing” other local businesses. Others, such as Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti, spoke in favour of a casino, saying it would bring thousands of jobs into the city and help alleviate property-tax pressure.

Although the casino idea is dead, council voted to have staff pursue discussions with Ottawa and Queen’s Park about expanding convention space in Toronto.

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The campus leadership retreat is scheduled for Jan. 25 in the High Country Conference Center. Selected individuals representing all facets of the university will gather to discuss university priorities and other topics of concern. Pat Haeuser, vice president for Planning and Institutional Effectiveness, is organizing the event for the President’s Office.

Haeuser also said that NAU awaits the governor’s State of the State address and the upcoming legislative session to learn more about the FY14 budget.

William Grabe, vice president for Research, is working with other academic departments to create a policy for creating centers and institutes. Grabe said the university wants to create a consistent pathway and policy for creating and sustaining centers and institutes.

Provost Laura Huenneke reported on her office’s successes and initiatives during her first semester as provost. Included are the successful completion of the exemplary performance program and investment in technology and innovation. She specifically referred to student success coaching as a positive innovation. Huenneke wants to continue efforts to improve communication throughout the university.

The Faculty Senate’s semester came to a close with successful adoption of a learning outcomes initiative, according to Allen Reich, senate president. MOOCs and other technological changes to higher education also are being examined by members.  Senators also are working with Extended Campuses on NAU’s Personalized Learning initiative.

Workforce planning has been completed and emails are being sent to departments that are impacted, according to Jennus Burton, vice president for Finance and Administration. Burton also discussed the upcoming construction of the Science and Health building, which is scheduled to begin in the spring. The building will be located east of the Extended Campuses building.

John Morris, associate vice president for Facility Services, presented an update to a variety of projects that are under way across campus.  The dining expansion has broken ground, and work is nearly complete on some offices in the Skydome.


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Play about a couple's struggles with Alzheimer's set for Jan. 14 to 16

“Full Moon Over Montmartre”, a play by Billie Doswell that shares the struggles of a couple facing the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s dementia, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. from Jan. 14 to 16 at the Hershey Area Playhouse, at 430 Cherry Drive in Hershey, Pa.

The performance is directed by James Thomas, produced by Skip Becker, and sponsored by the Department of Humanities and The Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine at the Penn State College of Medicine in conjunction with Hershey Area Playhouse and Country Meadows Retirement Communities.

A discussion will immediately follow the Jan. 16 performance and will include panelists Tim Lambert, anchor of WITF’s Morning Edition; Danny George, assistant professor of humanities in the Penn State College of Medicine and co-author of "The Myth of Alzheimer’s"; Dr. John Messmer, associate professor of family and community medicine, in the College of Medicine; representatives of the Pennsylvania Alzheimer's Association; and representatives of County Meadows Retirement Communities. Tickets are $17 for teens and adults and $15 for children 12 and under. For additional ticket information, visit online.

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Audience gets to be Sherwood sleuths at murder mystery dinner

Is Robin Hood a hood? That's what audience members will have to figure out at Penn State New Kensington's interactive murder mystery dinner theater, "Robin Hood Ain't Lookin' So Good," at 6 p.m., Thursday, April 4, in the campus' Cafe 780.

Set in Sherwood Forest in 16th century England, the action revolves around the philanthropic outlaw and a body that has assumed room temperature. The cast, Mystery's Most Wanted, a Pittsburgh-based troupe, will help the audience of Sherwood sherlocks solve the murder.

Tickets are $5 for students with ID, $15 for faculty and staff, and $20 for the general public. Price includes dinner and the theater performance.

To reserve your seat, contact Lauren Blum, student life coordinator, at 724- 334-6063 or

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OPERA Collaborative

Part of the OPERA detector.

Faster-Than-Light Result to Be Scrutinized

The OPERA collaboration, which made headlines around the world last month when it announced that it had apparently observed neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light, has decided that it will carry out a new set of very precise measurements in order to check its controversial result. The decision means the group will delay submitting its result to a peer-reviewed journal by up to a month. The move also comes in the wake of heated disagreements between collaboration members regarding the solidity of its superluminal claim—and whether it was announced prematurely.

OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-Tracking Apparatus) uses a detector located under the Gran Sasso mountain in central Italy to study the properties of neutrinos that travel some 730 kilometers through the Earth's crust after being produced at the CERN laboratory in Geneva. In a paper uploaded to the arXiv preprint server on 22 September, the collaboration reported that neutrinos observed between 2009 and 2011 appeared to have traveled faster than light, arriving about 60 nanoseconds earlier than precise calculations predicted they should.

Some members of the 160-strong collaboration, however, believe that further checks are needed to be absolutely sure that the result was not due to an error. And there has been intense discussion within the collaboration about whether those extra checks should be carried out before submitting the result to peer review. It now appears that those urging caution have prevailed, with a new set of measurements to be carried out ahead of any submission.

The new measurements will involve a change in the CERN neutrino beam. CERN makes the particles by colliding proton pulses with a graphite target, with each pulse being about 10,500 nanoseconds long. CERN has now split these pulses up so that each one consists of bunches lasting 1 to 2 nanoseconds; bunches are separated by gaps of 500 nanoseconds. The change means that it will be possible to tie each neutrino event recorded inside OPERA to a specific proton bunch, thus enabling a very precise measurement of the time it takes neutrinos to travel between the two labs. Previously, the collaboration had to carry out a statistical analysis to establish the time-of-flight, which involved comparing the temporal distribution of protons generated at CERN with that of the neutrinos detected at Gran Sasso. Critics had argued that this analysis might not be reliable.

Sources suggest that the collaboration will carry out the measurements over a period of 10 days, probably starting next week, and that in that time it should intercept around 12 neutrinos. It's possible that will generate enough data to disprove the announced result, or else to confirm an important part of the analysis behind the result.

The new checks follow scores of papers posted to arXiv by other physicists, either speculating on the theoretical implications of the superluminal claim or arguing that the claim is flawed in some way. One such paper, written by Andrew Cohen and Sheldon Glashow of Boston University, argues that the energy distribution of neutrinos observed by OPERA is not what would be expected if neutrinos within the beam were traveling faster than light, since these neutrinos would lose significant amounts of energy through the creation of pairs of electrons and positrons. Indeed, the ICARUS collaboration, which operates a second detector in Gran Sasso to intercept the CERN neutrinos, says that the energy distribution it has recorded is exactly that expected from non-faster than light neutrinos.

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A jury finds Julie Corey guilty of killing her friend and cutting the pregnant woman's baby from her womb to pass off as her own.

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Darlene Haynes Pic: Boston Herald

A Massachusetts woman has been found guilty of killing her pregnant friend, cutting her baby from her womb and passing the child off as her own.

Julie Corey, 39, was convicted by a Worcester Superior Court jury in the 2009 murder of 23-year-old Darlene Haynes.

Prosecutors said Ms Haynes was eight months pregnant when Corey beat and strangled her.

They told the jury that Corey had been pregnant, too, but had a miscarriage three months earlier. She told her boyfriend and family that Ms Haynes' baby was hers.

Ms Haynes' body was found in a closet in her apartment on July 27, 2009.

She had been beaten around the head and strangled with an electrical cord. Her abdomen had been cut open, and her baby was gone.

Corey, her boyfriend, Alex Dion, and the baby girl were found two days later at a homeless shelter in New Hampshire.

Corey's lawyers acknowledged that she was found with the baby but said she played no role in her friend's slaying.

Dion testified that Corey, whom he believed was pregnant at the time, called him on July 23, 2009, and told him she was giving Ms Haynes a ride to a store.

Later that night, Corey called him to say her water had broken and a friend was taking her to the hospital to give birth, Dion said.

A couple of hours later, Corey called him again and said, "We had a baby", he testified.

Dion said Corey arrived home the next morning with a baby girl he believed was his daughter. He said he and Corey introduced the baby to family and friends over the next couple of days.

The girl, now four, lives with her biological father.

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Samba 4.0.10 Released with Improved CPU Load

The latest version of Samba can be downloaded from Softpedia

Samba 4.0.10, an app that seamlessly integrates Linux/Unix servers and desktops into Active Directory environments using the winbind daemon, is now available for download and testing.

According to the developers, this latest version introduces a huge number of improvements, and this can be easily seen from the official announcement.

“To ease upgrades from Samba 3.6 and older, a new parameter called ‘acl allow execute always’ has been introduced as a temporary workaround. Please see the smb.conf man page for details,” reads the changelog.

According to the developers, the NetBIOS related samba process no longer consumes 100% CPU, the share modes are now cleaned up after a hard crash, and the POSIX ACL mapping has been fixed when setting DENY ACE's from Windows.

Highlights of Samba 4.0.10:

• A build error in scavenger.c has been fixed;

• Samba now works on site with the Read Only Domain Controller;

• Starting smbd or nmbd with stdin from /dev/null n longer results in "EOF on stdin;"

• Masks are no longer incorrectly applied to the UNIX extension permission changes;

• Valid utf8 filenames no longer cause "invalid conversion error" messages to pop up;

• Samba 4.0.x is now built on AIX with IBM XL C/C++;

• The full string from UTF16 to UTF8, including embedded NULLs, is now converted correctly;

• When replicating DNS for bind9_dlz the server-DNS account is now created remotely;

• Samba is no longer “chatty” about being unable to open a printer.

As usual, every new release of the Samba branch includes all of Samba's technology parts, both a file server, which can be upgraded from existing Samba 3.x releases, and the AD domain controller previously known as “samba4.” This means that previous versions of Samba will be compatible with the newest releases.

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Surface Pro Users Get Shocked While the Tablet Is Charging

Several users are experiencing mild shocks while the tablet is recharging

Interest in the Surface Pro is amazingly high, as Microsoft is still struggling to cope with the shortage that’s affecting the 128 GB model in the United States.

In the meantime, those lucky users who have already purchased the tablet report all kinds of problems, starting with Surface pen issues and ending with random shocks while the device is recharging.

That’s right, some Surface Pro owners claim that they’re getting shocked every once in a while when the tablet is recharging, with the Vapor Magnesium case believed to be one possible reason.

According to a report by, it appears that the shock occurs when the user touches the bottom right-hand corner of the device, but only when it’s plugged in to get recharged.

“I've noticed if I have it plugged in and lay my arm near it or even have the stand touching my legs or something I get mildly shocked every few minutes,” one user reported.

“I've experienced a static shock on a few occasions. I figured it's just static, though. Now that I think about it I believe it was always during charging,” another one confirmed.

While there’s no workaround to fix this issue, the only way to deal with it is to pay a visit to the Microsoft Store and exchange the device with a new one. The problem is that the 128 GB model is still out of stock, so you may have quite a hard time trying to exchange your tablet.

Microsoft promises to make more units available at its stores and at Best Buy as soon as early March, as the company has already rolled out a pre-order program for this particular model.

Last but not least, consumer reports from the United States claim that some Best Buy stores receive a small number of tablets at random times, but most, if not all, are sold in a matter of minutes.

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Research coordinator, art librarian honored with O'Neill Awards

STANFORD -- Alice Haskett, human subjects coordinator in the School of Medicine, and Alex Ross, head art librarian, have been selected as co-recipients of the 1995 Marshall D. O'Neill Award for their support of Stanford's research mission.

A faculty panel selected the recipients, who were honored at a Faculty Club reception Tuesday, Dec. 12. The award, accompanied by a $2,000 cash prize, is Stanford's only formal faculty recognition of staff. In years when there are multiple winners, each recipient receives the full prize.

Haskett was singled out for years of helping guide faculty researchers through mazes of regulations and daunting piles of paperwork. Ross was credited with turning the Art Library from a "one-horse operation" into a world-class academic facility.

Both are veteran Stanford staff members and each was nominated by numerous faculty members in their areas. In all, 28 staff members, representing a wide range of disciplines, were nominated.

Presenting the awards Dec. 12 was Charles Kruger, vice provost and dean of research. The award was established in 1990 and named for its first recipient, Marshall O'Neill, when he retired as longtime associate director of Hansen Laboratories. Seven other people have received the award since.

Coordinator cited by many medical researchers

Haskett, who has been the human subjects coordinator since 1988, said she hopes to continue doing the same work right up until retirement. She has held administrative positions that support research in the School of Medicine since 1978.

"I'm very surprised and very honored to be recognized by the faculty," Haskett said.

Haskett reviews the protocols proposed by principal investigators in every experiment involving human subjects at the School of Medicine, mostly drug studies and clinical trials. With an assistant, Linda Wester, she manages the protocol review for the university as well as for Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford University Hospital and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Although based in the Medical School, Haskett actually works for the Office of the Dean of Research. Her primary job is to make sure that the university complies with federal, state and its own regulations on research projects involving human subjects.

"I find my work very interesting," Haskett said. "I can put in many, many hours of work and, every day, the time just flies by. Even though the procedures are generally the same, there are always new questions, and always new regulations to keep up with."

In nominating Haskett, one faculty member said that "Haskett is a dedicated advocate for patient's rights. She has educated many researchers very effectively in the rules and regulations of human subjects protocol for research applications."

Another wrote that "it is inconceivable to me that anyone, staff member or otherwise, is more dedicated and/or could have contributed more than Ms. Haskett in supporting the research effort involving human subjects at Stanford."

Ross called 'founding father' of art library

Ross has been head art librarian at Stanford since 1975, and previously held positions with the Cleveland Museum of Art and in the fine arts library at Columbia University.

At Stanford, in addition to directing a 130,000-volume art research library of material on the history of Western and Far Eastern art and architecture and classical archaeology, Ross in alternate years teaches Art 236, Art History Bibliography and Library Methods. He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals.

Recognition for Ross is "long overdue," one faculty member wrote. "Both Alex Ross and [former art department chairman] Lorenz Eitner are the founding fathers of the department and its fantastic library."

Another wrote, "By his rare combination of dedication, erudition and astuteness, Alex turned the Art Library from a one-horse operation when he arrived in 1975 into one of the foremost art libraries in the country today."

Eitner himself noted how the library had grown both in size and quality under Ross' direction, and wrote that "Ross has been an indefatigable helper to countless students, a teacher of graduate seminars in bibliography, a valued colleague to faculty in need of advice and assistance in the discovery and procurement of hard-to-find material, endlessly willing to spend time and effort to support their work."

Ross said the award "is really recognition of a team effort, not only among Art Library staff, but with the Art Department and my colleagues in the other humanities departments around campus, some of whom probably deserve the O'Neill Award more than I do. It's not just me and my staff."

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IP Video Surveillance Suite targets small businesses.

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May 21, 2012 - In addition to NETGEAR ReadyNAS network storage devices, NETGEAR ReadyNAS® Surveillance Suite includes 5 licenses for Network Video Recorder software, which supports up to 16 simultaneous cameras, and includes intelligent search, digital watermark, and e-mapping technology. Video may be viewed on web or played back on mobile clients. NETGEAR ProSafe® Smart and Managed switches feature VLAN support, Power over Ethernet, QoS, and stacking technologies.

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Netgear Launches Industry's First Small Business Video Surveillance Suite

Press release date: May 8, 2012

Combines Business-Class Network Switching, Network Storage, Network Video Recording Software and Network Management Components

SAN JOSE, -- NETGEAR®, Inc. (NASDAQGM: NTGR), a global networking company that delivers innovative products to consumers, businesses and service providers, today announced the release of NETGEAR ReadyNAS® Surveillance, a comprehensive IP surveillance solution incorporating surveillance software, storage, switching and network management. Customers and channel partners may connect any of over 1,000 supported name-brand IP camera models to complete the package. This product suite is the first to combine business-class IP video technologies with flexible, customizable endpoint options for building reliable, affordable and simple video monitoring solutions.

Small businesses and corporate branch offices require powerful and sophisticated options for protecting physical assets, but may lack deep expertise or big budgets. NETGEAR ReadyNAS Surveillance wraps four critical NETGEAR components into an affordable and simple suite for the first time:

-- The new NETGEAR ReadyNAS Surveillance Network Video Recorder (NVR) software includes intelligent search, digital watermark and e-mapping technology and supports up to 16 simultaneous cameras, including megapixel and HD models. Video may be viewed on the Web or played back on mobile clients, including Apple® iPhone®, Apple iPad®, Android(TM), and BlackBerry® devices.
-- The NETGEAR ReadyNAS family of network storage devices is an uncompromising business-class video platform. For example, the Pro 2 model offers up to 80Mbps (240 fps @1.3M, H.264).
-- NETGEAR ProSafe® Smart and Managed switches feature NETGEAR ProSafe hallmarks: VLAN support, Power over Ethernet, QoS, stacking technologies and simple installation. -- Five NETGEAR Network Management Software (NMS200) licenses are also included. NMS200 is a single management platform for NETGEAR devices, ensuring connectivity, configuration and monitoring across all storage and switching components. Additional licenses are available to cover multi-site installations.

"With NETGEAR ReadyNAS Surveillance, we no longer have to pay for a large 16-camera system or an expensive CCTV consultant when we only need a modest solution that works with our existing infrastructure," said Robert Cortese of 7 Bamboo Karaoke Lounge. "Recording in true 1280p HD, NETGEAR ReadyNAS Surveillance meets the security requirements of our business, as well as our budget."

"The security industry is reputed for its resilience during recessions because of both real and perceived security concerns during times of financial uncertainty," said Pushan Rinnen, research director for storage at Gartner Inc. "We expect that demand for video surveillance equipment will remain strong, and SMB customers will be attracted by total solutions."

"NETGEAR ReadyNAS Surveillance brings professional quality surveillance technologies to the small and medium business market," said Matt Pahnke, senior product marketing manager at NETGEAR. "We're already the global leader in smart switching and in unified storage system units, and are delighted to bring to market the widest combination of products that's easy to implement and manage for partners and end users alike."

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NETGEAR ReadyNAS Surveillance is available on a free 30-day trial basis (16-camera license) and will be generally available on May 16. List pricing starts at $95 per camera license with volume discounts available. Specific regional bundle configurations may be available, contact a NETGEAR reseller or distributor for details.

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Student Receives Prestigious Kemper Scholarship

David Martin

David Martin, a rising sophomore from Selinsgrove, Pa., has been selected from a group of finalists for the incoming class of the Kemper Scholars Program. “It is an honor to be representing Ursinus in such a wonderful program,” says Martin, who is a double major in Mathematics and Business & Economics. Read More»

Biology Major Has Won Prestigious Math/Science Award

Ursinus College rising senior Jennifer C. Schrandt is the winner of a scholarship from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. A major in Biology, she is among 275 sophomore and junior scholarship winners for the 2011-2012 academic year.

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Philosophy Major Given Highest Honor

Ursinus sophomore Alex Niedmann was given the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to study for a full year at the University of Edinburgh for the 2011-2012 academic term. The Philosophy major and Neuroscience minor was awarded the McFarland Scholarship from The St. Andrew’s Society of Philadelphia. The society awards five scholarships, including only one McFarland scholarship, for students to study at Aberdeen, Edinburgh, St. Andrews, and Glasgow, Universities in Scotland. Read More»

Jessica McIlhenny ’11 Wins Critical Language Scholarship

Jessica Mcllhenny 2011 has won the Critical Language Program Scholarship.  A program of the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program offers intensive summer language institutes overseas in thirteen critical need foreign languages. Mcllhenny will travel to Washington D.C., for orientation and then to Turkey for two months of language classes. Read More»

Merck Awards Shavonn Smith Competitive Scholarship

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International Relations Major Whitney Mayer ’12 to Live in China

A seasoned traveler, Whitney Mayer 2012 has been to England, France, Wales, Ireland, Netherlands, and Belgium. And this summer the Pittsburgh native will add a new name to the growing list of nations she has the good fortune to explore. Mayer was recently awarded the Critical Language Scholarship through the U.S. State Department to study in China for the summer. She leaves in June. Read More»

Aakash Shah ’10 Is Ursinus’s First Rhodes Scholar

2010 Ursinus graduate Aakash K. Shah, of Cliffside Park, N.J. is Ursinus’s first Rhodes Scholar, it was announced by the Rhodes Trust. Shah is now in his first year at Harvard Medical School. Shah graduated in May with distinguished honors research in sociology and honors research in biology and neuroscience. He received bachelor’s degrees in Biology, Neuroscience and Inequality Studies, with minors in Chemistry and Sociology. Read More»

Traditional Japanese Folk Music

Joshua Solomon 2008 is a graduate student at The University of Chicago’s East Asian Literatures and Civilizations Program. After graduation from Ursinus, Solomon was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study the history of a Japanese instrument called a Tsugaru-jamisen. He describes it as, “a kind of three-stringed Japanese banjo. Read More»


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Opinion: Sequestration is Here

 USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) pulls out of Naval Air Station North Island, Calif. on June, 4 2013. US Navy Photo

USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) pulls out of Naval Air Station North Island, Calif. on June, 4 2013. US Navy Photo

The dirty word spreading across the U.S. Navy and the larger defense establishment this year is “sequestration.” It was never supposed to happen, yet today it is the law of the land. Worse still, there appears to be no interest in Congress to repeal this legislation. That’s significant, since the longer this process goes on, the greater will be the cumulative damage on the long-term health and readiness of the U.S. Navy, as well as all of America’s military.

Sequestration was born out of the Budget Control Act of 2011, which stipulated that more than $900 billion in defense cuts over 10 years would begin automatically in 2013 unless Congress passed a long-term deficit reduction plan. This provision was considered so draconian that all agreed at the time that it would never be implemented. Think again.

Sequestration is here, and its impact is being felt all across the fleet every day by the imposition of thousands of cuts in hundreds of Navy commands — from the “grounding” of the Blue Angels to the postponement of hospital ship deployments to Latin America. Still, it’s not generating “big news” like that which would happen if a multibillion-dollar program like the Joint Strike Fighter or Ford-class aircraft carrier were suddenly canceled.

Instead, sequestration’s impact is covert, almost sinister, since the law mandates every program and every part of the Navy’s budget must incur the same percentage reduction. This provision leaves service leaders with no flexibility in how to prioritize cuts or shield more important efforts from the budget knife. No wonder Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has called this process “mindless.”

Fewer warships will be upgraded or overhauled; aircraft maintenance will be scaled back; routine base and facility upkeep will be postponed; personnel furloughs will likely continue into coming years. All of these issues will affect regional businesses and local jobs.

A 2012 study found that the Department of Defense spent about $20.6 billion a year in San Diego County alone, accounting for more than 311,000 jobs and generating more than $32 billion in local revenue — more than double what the region derives from tourism. As sequestration takes hold, this local economic lifeblood will undoubtedly plummet.

Keep in mind that these cuts are taking place at a time when the operational demand for Navy and Marine forces by regional commanders is on the upswing. The deployment lengths for aircraft carriers, amphibious ships and ballistic missile-equipped surface ships are all exceeding the Navy’s six-month deployment standard. Carrier Strike Groups and Amphibious Ready Groups will deploy for seven- to eight-month deployments in 2013, while BMD destroyers could deploy for nine-month tours of duty. This may well be the new normal for Navy ship deployments.

Navy leaders are attempting to identify about $10 billion in cuts from the 2013 budget — funding for which arrived six months after the start of the government’s fiscal year last October. That means this budget slashing must be done in a dramatically compressed time frame before the fiscal year expires on Sept. 30, creating yet more upheaval in Navy planning. These cuts will ax about $4 billion from the sea service’s operations and maintenance budget and $6 billion from ship and aircraft procurement accounts.

Navy officials maintain the service is prioritizing funding and commitment to ensure there is sufficient naval presence in the Asia-Pacific and the Persian Gulf. The strategic rebalancing to Asia continues to receive the highest priority, and the near-term emphasis is on those ships and aircraft units scheduled to deploy later this year and then those units earmarked for deployment in 2014. But sequestration is beginning to bite — and bite hard — on naval deployments worldwide and other vital needs.

Some 2013 cutbacks in operations and procurement include:

• Canceling one ship deployment to the Pacific, two deployments to Europe and almost all deployments to U.S. Southern Command in the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic.

• Significantly reducing the amount of time nondeployed ships get underway in home waters.

• Deferring depot maintenance on 84 aircraft and 184 engines.

• Two-thirds of the fleet will be downgraded as not mission capable and will not be certified to conduct major combat operations.

• Defer about $1 billion in facilities upgrades and sustainment ashore (which will take five years to recover).

• Cutting procurement of E-2D Hawkeye, F-35C Lightning, P-8A Poseidon and MQ-8 manned and unmanned aircraft.

• Pushing out shipbuilding schedules and “costs to complete” some ships that will have to be reconciled in future budgets.

Deft budgetary maneuvers, including using funds provided in previous budget years but not yet obligated, enabled Navy officials to deflect much of sequestration’s impact this year. But in 2014, if sequestration is not rescinded, the situation becomes more dire — and fast. The Navy cut for 2014 will be $10 billion to $14 billion below this year’s total. Programs will be reduced if not eliminated, uniformed and civilian personnel will be furloughed, and contractors will be out of jobs.

Navy officials warn this will entail wholesale reductions in naval operations, maintenance and procurement. The service will have less flexibility to reflect costs. The net result will be a Navy less ready to protect the maritime commons.

Welcome to the messy — and dangerous — world of sequestration.

  • William Bunn

    Sandwiched in the list of cutbacks in operations in 2013 is the following statement: “Two-thirds of the fleet will be downgraded as not mission capable and will not be certified to conduct major combat operations.” What is the source of that? Is there more specificity to that assessment?

  • J and KC

    Get the women off the ships, fire half the admirals, No pay raises for O-5s and above, dump the littoral combat ships and quit whining. The Navy is so PC you are getting what you deserve.


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Louisville's Gorgui Dieng shoots over Wichita State's Fred Van Vleet during the second half of the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball semifinal game Saturday, April 6, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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ATLANTA (AP) — Around the Final Four and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the games.

The Amherst Lord Jeffs have won their second Division III men's basketball national championship, defeating Mary Hardin-Baylor 87-70 at Phillips Arena.

Wolverines? Cardinals?

There's no better nickname in Atlanta than the one sported by Amherst, which is playing in the Division III championship game at Philips Arena. Ladies and gentlemen, the Lord Jeffs.

The school and its namesake town in Massachusetts were named after Lord Jeffery Amherst, a famed officer in the British Army during the 1700s. Hence, the unique moniker for the college's athletic teams.

— Paul Newberry —

Louisville will be playing for its third national championship on Monday night.

The Cardinals are 2-0 in championship games, beating UCLA in 1980 and Duke in 1996. Coach Rick Pitino's team will take a 15-game winning streak into the final. It is Louisville's longest streak since the 2003-04 season.

The last team to beat the Cardinals was Notre Dame, in overtime, on Feb. 9.

But Cardinals center Gorgui Dieng said Sunday that going 3-0 will depend on how effective Louisville's press is against Michigan.

"We could not win without our pressure," Dieng said.

Louisville's come-from-behind 72-68 semifinal victory was its 34th of the season, a school record for wins.

— Charles Odum —

It took Amherst about 3 minutes to seize control of the Division III title game.

The Lord Jeffs scored the first 10 points, and while Mary Hardin-Baylor never allowed them to stretch that lead much, the Crusaders never managed to trim into it, either.

Amherst has had to play most of the first half without national player of the year Aaron Toomey, who picked up two fouls and earned a seat on the bench next to coach David Hixon.

Amherst led 38-30 at the break.

The highlight, though, belonged to the Crusaders, who picked up a loose ball and passed it ahead to swingman Thomas Orr, who left the entire goal rattling after a thunderous dunk.

— Dave Skretta —

Mary Hardin-Baylor is carrying the weight of Texas on its shoulders.

The Crusaders became the first program from the Lone Star State to appear in the Division III national championship when it faced Amherst on Sunday.

Not only that, the Crusaders are doing it in a year in which none of the Division I schools from the state so much as managed to make the NCAA tournament. The closest was Baylor, which was left off the bubble on Selection Sunday and then ran roughshod through the NIT tournament.

Metropolitan State, which will play Drury for the Division II title, knocked out San Antonio-based St. Mary's University earlier in the tournament. That left Mary Hardin-Baylor, based in Belton, Texas, as the pride of the state this season.

— Dave Skretta

Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed will lead up to 3,000 kids who will dribble basketballs on a one-mile trek through downtown Atlanta on Sunday.

Those taking part in the Final Four Dribble will make their down Andrew Young International Boulevard through the heart of events that are part of the national semifinals.

They picked a great day — it's sunny, 70-degrees in Atlanta once again.

— Charles Odum

Fans of college basketball who've grown weary of the wrestling matches that take place in Division I hoops these days ought to make their way to small-college games.

Amherst and Mary Hardin-Baylor are playing in the Division III championship on Sunday, and there wasn't a single whistle blown — not for a foul, a turnover or even for a ball that went out of bounds — for nearly five minutes at the start of the game.

Just crisp screens, solid defense, good shooting and a nice tempo.

The way basketball used to be played.

— Dave Skretta

Louisville and Michigan fans aren't the only ones left partying in Atlanta.

It's time for the Division II and Division III national championship games. He will be played Sunday at Philips Arena, a short walk from where those two will play for the Division I title Monday night.

First up is Amherst takes on Mary Hardin-Baylor in the D-3 title game, followed by Drury and Metropolitan State for the D-2 title. The games are being played as part of Final Four weekend for the first time as the NCAA celebrates its 75th anniversary.

And while they may not be as numerous, fans of all four schools are just as vocal.

There was a contingent of about a dozen students who drove from Texas to root on Mary-Hardin Baylor, and they made quite a racket a couple hours before tip as they marched toward the arena dressed in everything from a garish golden toga to a snazzy purple bodysuit.

When one curmudgeon shot them a "keep it quiet" glance, one of the students replied cheerily, "I didn't drive 16 hours not to yell!"

— Dave Skretta

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The GOP advantage: Geography or gerrymandering?

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This photo taken March 20, 2014 shows a portrait of Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry hanging in a hallway at the Statehouse in Boston. For centuries, politicians have been drawing odd-shaped elections districts in an effort to give one political party an advantage over another. In 1812, the practice got a name: gerrymandering. That year, Gov. Gerry signed a bill passed in the Massachusetts legislature to redraw state Senate district map. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans helped solidify their hold on the U.S. House when GOP legislators in key states drew new congressional maps after the 2010 Census. But was it geography or gerrymandering that gave Republicans an edge in state after state?

The Republican advantage is significant. In the 2012 election, Democratic candidates for the House received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponents, yet the GOP maintained a 33-seat majority. It was only the second time since World War II that the party receiving the most votes didn't win a majority of House seats.

It is an edge the Republicans will carry into November's midterm elections and perhaps beyond.

Democrats blame Republicans for drawing districts that favor GOP candidates. "We've never seen a level of gerrymandering as severe as in 2010," said Matt Bennett, a former aide to President Bill Clinton.

But some experts say geography may be just as responsible as gerrymandering for the Republican advantage.

Living patterns in many states make it relatively easy to pack Democrats into fewer congressional districts because they are much more likely than Republicans to live in dense urban areas, said Norman Ornstein, an expert on Congress at the American Enterprise Institute. Republicans are more likely to live in suburban areas, which can be more politically diverse, or in geographically large rural areas.

"Democrats are at a disadvantage here," Ornstein said. "It's not as difficult for Republicans doing a redistricting to concentrate the Democrats in districts where they can win 80 or 85 percent of the vote."

Gerrymandering is the practice of drawing election districts in a way that gives an advantage to one political party over another. One goal is to pack voters from the other party into the fewest districts possible. It often leads to odd-shaped districts that split counties, cities and even neighborhoods.

If done well, gerrymandering can protect incumbents and maximize the number of districts in which one party has a majority of voters.

But aggressive gerrymandering isn't always necessary for Republicans to gain an edge, said Thomas Mann, an expert on Congress at The Brookings Institution.

"A lot of the Republican advantage — by no means all of it — a lot of it is the result of living patterns," Mann said.

Two political scientists, Jowei Chen at the University of Michigan and Jonathan Rodden at Stanford University, are popularizing the idea that geography is more important than gerrymandering. They did a study using computer simulations to see whether the political makeup of Congress would be any different if congressional maps were drawn without partisan bias.

"In the vast majority of states, our nonpartisan simulations produced Republican seat shares that were not much different from the actual numbers in the last election," Chen and Rodden wrote in a New York Times article. "In short, the Democrats' geography problem is bigger than their gerrymandering problem."

Not so fast, said Michael McDonald, a political scientist at George Mason University. Living patterns only matter if districts are required to be geographically compact. And even then, McDonald said, it is not hard to draw maps that favor Democrats.

Congressional districts are large, averaging more than 700,000 people. That makes it easy in most cities to combine urban, suburban and rural voters within a compact district, McDonald said.

"If Democrats controlled the process, they could draw pretty much whatever they wanted to draw," McDonald said. "It's just who controls the pen."

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Subject: [CHURCH] Re: Richard Church of Virginia
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 14:44:39 -0400

Yes, I knew about this Richard Church who was a Burgess since my husband
is a direct descendant of him. I have some information on this Church
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Marv wrote:

My busy work schdelue does not permit me to continue with
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half an hour for a work out.

Huh. That's funny. I'm a tax accountant working 7 days a week, usually
12 - 15 hours a day. I'm also the mother of three small kids.

Nevertheless, I've managed to go running three times this week, done
spinning on my bike once, and gotten in two half hours of "push
something pull something squat something get out" workouts this week.
Last week I didn't run as much but got to the pool for a swim.

Can you explain why your work schedule is worse than mine? Or perhaps I
just have more hours in my day.

I think it is just that you are a bloody marvel Dolly, and an
inspiration and an example to us all! ;o)

Did ya know she was also an athlete? How she achieves all that is simply

I think the "Atlas Stone Lifting" will raise her once and for all, to
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OMG that will make her even more intimidating than she already is! We are
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Dental Hygiene Habits Developed Early May Help Heart Later

It’s a domestic struggle unfolding nightly in millions of households across the nation: Parents nagging kids to brush their teeth, and kids retorting with something along the lines of “Don’t have a heart attack, Mom!” Well, actually Junior, it’s YOU who might be having the heart attack down the road if you fail to develop good dental hygiene habits as a child.

That’s the unavoidable conclusion of a fascinating study recently published in theBritish Medical Journal which compared dental hygiene and heart attacks among 11,869 middle-aged men and women. Of these, 71% brushed twice a day, 24% brushed once a day, and 5% rarely or never brushed at all! Compared to the conscientious brushers, the brush avoiders were 70% more likely to have suffered a cardiovascular event (e.g., heart attack) over the course of the eight-year study — while once-a-day brushers were at 30% increased risk (incidentally, 170 of the 555 attacks were fatal).

Lazy brushing habits may simply reflect an overall lackadaisical attitude toward one’s health — but it’s also true that dental neglect can aggravate inflammation, which significantly contributes to heart disease. If you’re among the ranks of the non-brushing public, do your heart (and folks around you) a favor by flossing and brushing twice a day, and maintaining a healthy weight, as excess pounds can triple your risk of periodontal disease as well as your odds of having bad breath.

Bonus: Did you know raisins could actually help you prevent cavities and gum disease, thanks to phytochemicals that suppress bacterial growth? Also try tea to fight tooth decay.

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A more democratic Internet

At a forum on campus this week, the FCC discussed how its new broadband plan will help citizens engage in democratic deliberation.

On March 17, the Federal Communications Commission will present the U.S. Congress with its National Broadband Plan, a set of recommendations for bringing high-speed Internet access to the millions of Americans who don’t yet have it. The plan is likely to determine the allocation of the $7.2 billion in stimulus money intended to bring broadband to rural and underserved areas, and many observers believe that the government is already planning to augment that investment with billions more in discretionary spending.

In anticipation of the plan’s unveiling, the FCC is holding a series of regional forums on particular aspects of the plan. On Monday evening, in an event co-hosted by the MIT Media Lab’s Center for Future Civic Media, Eugene Huang, director of government performance and civic engagement for the National Broadband Plan, spoke at MIT on the plan’s provisions for better engaging the public in the democratic process.

Huang began by describing the FCC’s attempts to engage the public in the creation of the broadband plan itself, describing the agency’s 35 public workshops on the topic, held between August of last year and the end of January, some of which had as many as 1,000 live attendees and another 5,000 online participants. He also commended the launch, last May, of data.gov, an online index of publicly available government data maintained by the White House. “But,” he added, “data.gov includes only a small amount of federal-government data, and we believe that all data and information that the government treats as public should be made available online, in machine-readable formats.” Huang said that the broadband plan recommends that data from the legislative and judiciary branches, too, be freely accessible online, pointing out, for example, that the federal courts’ Public Access to Court Electronic Records system, or PACER, charges for access to judicial decisions. In fact, Huang said, “The U.S. federal courts themselves pay private contractors $150 million annually for electronic access to judicial documents.”

Huang also said that the plan urges the creation of a public archive of historically significant video — a kind of YouTube for policy deliberations and news footage. To that end, he said, the FCC will call on Congress to revise copyright law to make it easier for news organizations to donate historical footage to the archive.

In addition, he emphasized that the federal government should make better use of social media, pointing to the success of the Centers for Disease Control in using Twitter, YouTube, podcasts, and other social-networking technologies to disseminate information about the H1N1 flu outbreak.

When he turned to the topic of how government can draw citizens into the deliberative process, rather than simply providing them with better information, Huang became a little more vague: “Government is just beginning to think about these types of issues,” he acknowledged. But in thinking about how to use digital tools to directly engage the citizenry, he said, the government is using digital tools to directly engage the citizenry. The White House’s Open Government Initiative, Huang said, has used what he described as “public brainstorming blogs, a wiki, and a collaborative drafting tool” to solicit public participation in determining just what its project should be.

Huang grew more specific, however, in describing how Internet access could facilitate the process of voter registration and make voters’ records more portable. “One recent study estimates that voter registration problems resulted in more than two millions voters’ being unable to vote in the 2008 general election,” Huang said. “Providing broadband to more Americans provides an important opportunity to fix the problems in the existing process.”

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Federal regulators are conducting an extensive investigation into an alleged mortgage insurance kickback scheme that pushed up costs for homebuyers dating from the mid-1990s.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in disclosing its first action Thursday, said the investigation revolves around a scheme in which banks and other lenders required private mortgage insurers to seek backup insurance from lender-owned reinsurance companies.

The backup insurance essentially was worthless and amounted to an improper payment to the lender by the mortgage insurer to acquire new customers, consumer bureau officials said.

Such a scheme was made possible, they said, by the general lenders' requirement that buyers with less than a 20 percent down payment take out private mortgage insurance to cover the additional risk of the loan.

The consumer bureau said Thursday that it had settled accusations against four major private insurers, including giant MGIC Investment Corp., that they improperly kicked back money to lenders that steered homebuyer business to them. The four insurers agreed to pay a total of $15.4 million in fines for actions that accelerated during the housing boom.

The bureau added that its ongoing investigation into other mortgage lenders could produce more substantial results.

The agency has been investigating the practice for more than a year, after an earlier federal inquiry resulted in no action. In 2011, American Banker magazine reported that many of the nation's largest banks had received more than $6 billion in kickbacks through the scheme over the course of a decade.

“The mortgage insurance business can be lucrative, and our investigation indicates that lenders sought to leverage their control over the business to capture some of those revenues for themselves,” Richard Cordray, the consumer bureau's director, said Thursday.

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Q: Your predecessor, President Roger Webb, left a legacy of bringing the University of Central Oklahoma closer to the community with projects like the Jazz Lab in Edmond and the Academy of Contemporary Music in Bricktown. What do you hope your legacy will be?

A: The vision of being connected to the community will continue. Those projects express UCO's commitment to be in and of this place. We've also been able to raise enough money to break ground on the UCO boathouse on the Oklahoma River. The boathouse will be home to the UCO women's rowing team, and it will also be a venue for art and musical performances.

I hope to leave the legacy of helping students learn and helping the community thrive. UCO has thousands of graduates in the Edmond area. Regional universities like UCO have to power to affect their communities because students tend to stay in the area after they graduate. We want to make people's lives different.

Q: Student debt is becoming a national concern, especially with interest rates on subsidized federal student loans doubling this summer. How concerned are you about student debt?

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