Heroic Newtown teacher Victoria Soto to be buried

By Tracy Connor, NBC News

Obtained by NBC News

Victoria Soto, 27, first-grade teacher at Sandy Hook elementary. Soto had taught for five years and was known by students as silly and loving.

Four of Newtown?s children have been buried ? and now one of its heroic teachers will be laid to rest on Wednesday.

Victoria Soto, whose family said she died protecting her terrified students from rifle fire, will be remembered in her hometown of Stratford, Conn., where the 27-year-old still lived with her close-knit family.

It?s expected many of the mourners will be wearing scarves and ribbons of green ? Soto?s favorite color. Her family is certain to talk about her devotion to her students, so many of whom were murdered despite her selfless efforts.

?They brought a smile to her face always,? her sister, Carlee, told TODAY on Sunday. ?She loved those students more than anything. She didn?t call them her students. She called them her kids.?


Soto?s aunt was a teacher, and she always knew she wanted to follow in her footsteps. At Sandy Hook Elementary, where she was in her fifth year of teaching, she presided over Classroom 10 with a warm smile.

On Friday morning, she was finishing up her daily morning meeting with the class when gunman Adam Lanza began his rampage.

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Her cousin, Fairfield County Police Officer James Wiltsie, said the family was told by authorities that Soto hurried the kids into a closet behind her, ?trying to shield them from the spray of bullets.?

?Doing instinctively what she knew to do,? he said.

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Some of the children in her class managed to survive the slaughter. Many did not.

The parents of one of Soto?s slain students, Dylan Hockley, praised her in an obituary for their 6-year-old.

?Dylan's teacher, Vicki Soto, was warm and funny and Dylan loved her dearly,? they wrote.

David Friedman / NBC News

A nation mourns after the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history at Sandy Hook Elementary, which left 20 children and six staff members dead.

Slain hero teacher's family: 'She loved those students more than anything'

Hundreds of people turned out for a Saturday night memorial to honor Soto in Stratford. Her funeral will take place at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Lordship Community Church.

She will be buried less than a week before Christmas, her favorite holiday -- ?she was the only one allowed to pick out the tree and put up the lights,? her obituary noted.

She also loved flamingos, the New York Yankees and her dog, Roxie. The loyal pet ?waited for her to come home every day and is still waiting, lost without her,? her family wrote.?

Gene Rosen was finishing up his morning routine this past Friday when he noticed six small children sitting at the end of his driveway. He soon discovered they were some of the lucky ones to escape gunfire alive. He talks about taking them into his home and learning that their teacher, Victoria Soto, had been killed.

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Soto?s funeral, one of several scheduled for Wednesday, follows services for four Sandy Hook 6-year-olds ? Jack Pinto, Noah Pozner, James Mattioli and Jessica Rekos ? held earlier this week.?

Heartbreaking details of young lives snuffed out continue to emerge as Newtown?s students return to classes and as the renewed debate over gun control rages across the nation.?

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Wyatt family photo

Allison Wyatt, 6, victim of Sandy Hook school shooting.

The parents of Allison Wyatt, 6, released a statement Tuesday that recalled how she once offered her snack to a stranger on a plane and would transform sections of their home into an ?art studio? with taped-up pictures.?

?Allison made the world a better place for six, far too short years and we now have to figure out how to move on without her.? She was a sweet, creative, funny, intelligent little girl who had an amazing life ahead of her,? they wrote.?

?Our world is a lot darker now that she?s gone.?

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Pocket Sees 240M Saves In 2012 From 7.4M Users, Obama And Gangnam Style Most-Saved Items

240m-pocketSave-for-later service Pocket reported today that it has seen 240 million total items saved to its platform during 2012, from 7.4 million followers. That represents growth of around 85 percent for the year, but the really impressive figure is the activity metric: 240 million saves adds up to more data synced to the service in 2012 than in the previous four years combined, during which there were 170 million total saves.

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NFL Free Picks: Atlanta at Detroit Betting

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    Alums Demystify Financial Services with Unbiased Analytic Tools

    NerdWallet logoWhen it comes to financial services, companies use everything from talking babies to Vikings to persuade people to use their products. You practically need a degree from MIT to decide on the best checking account or credit card rewards program. Which is exactly why the friends and family of Jake Gibson ?04, who majored in math and finance at the Institute, sought him out for basic financial advice.

    ?I realized that there was no trusted resource for them to find answers,? Gibson says. So he left his job at JPMorgan Chase and cofounded San Francisco-based NerdWallet, a website that helps consumers make informed choices about their personal finances by creating free, simple tools and resources using a numbers-based, analytic approach. Users can do personalized searches based on their spending habits and receive unbiased results?the company?s tagline is ?We do the homework for you.?

    Here are just some of the comparison tools on the NerdWallet site:

    • Credit cards based on the best balance-transfer offers, lowest interest rates, or most cash back
    • Brokerage firms broken down by best data-analysis tools or research reports or lowest fees
    • Checking accounts filtered by age and stage (teens, college students, seniors, or everyone else) as well as by type of financial institution (big, community, or Internet bank or credit union)
    • Student loans based on estimated repayments
    • Online shopping deals organized by cash back, points, or miles for purchases as well as those offering coupon codes and promos (there were nearly 46,000 deals and promos at press time, and you can sort by independent retailers and Etsy coupons as well)

    One of numerous tools NerdWallet offers to compare financial services, like checking accounts, brokerage firms, and student loans.

    Articles on the NerdWallet site provide advice on everything from investing to food stamps. NerdWallet Education offers a scholarship search and compares colleges based on highest employment rates and salaries for grads as well as schools with the most students volunteering or traveling after graduation. The education section of the site is completely free of ads and commercial referrals.

    NerdWallet also provides advice on travel with a feature called TravelNerd. There?s an online tool to compare various airline fees, and a newly launched smartphone app helps at the airport by recommending parking and transportation (including any taxi-sharing offers and phone numbers for car/shuttle services), amenities, and terminal maps.

    The site has been getting great buzz this year, with its services and tools recommended by and mentioned in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, Time, Money, Huffington Post, and more.

    NerdWallet is a labor of love for Gibson and his employees, many of whom took pay cuts and gave up successful corporate trajectories to help people and further the company?s mission of transparency in the realms of financial, travel, and educational services.

    So, has it been worth it?

    Joseph Audette ?05, VP of education and financial literacy, says it has. ?My cousin just emailed me saying she used our site to know which bank was the best on her campus,? he says. ?You don?t get those emails when you are working at a hedge fund.? A site like NerdWallet would have helped him with his own finances. ?After MIT, I consolidated my loans privately and ended up paying much more than if I had consolidated using the federal system,? he says. ?I just didn?t know that was an option for me. That is why we created NerdWallet Education as a pro bono resource.?

    In the coming year, NerdWallet plans to release additional resources that focus on financial literacy and college affordability. It?s also expanding nonprofit partnerships by working with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on a new grant to help first-generation students and parents complete the FAFSA.

    Source: http://alum.mit.edu/pages/sliceofmit/2012/12/18/alums-demystify-financial-services-with-unbiased-analytic-tools/

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    Daily iPhone App: Sleepwalker's Journey

    Sleepwalker's Journey is a game that arrived a few months ago from 11 Bit Studios, the creators of the popular Anomaly: Warzone Earth (that's set for a sequel very soon). But while that game is a reverse tower defense title with military stylings and lots of gunfire and explosions, Sleepwalker's Journey is very different. It's a physics puzzle game, of sorts, with a cute, sleepy character and some gorgeous storybook picture graphics.

    The idea is that the sleepwalker is traveling along a 2D stage, and it's your job to lift up platforms and pull down switches as it goes, allowing him to grab stars and moons to be collected for points. The game is actually very similar to Anomaly, in that you don't have any direct control over the players, but instead you put various things in or out of their path to guide them.

    Sleepwalker's Journey is fun, but the aesthetic is the real draw here -- the graphics and the music are really top-notch. I think the upcoming Anomaly Korea will be very impressive as well, but if you want a taste of 11 Bit's work before that one arrives, Sleepwalker's Journey is available right now for 99 cents.


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    Molten gold signals revival in California?s Mother Lode

    Sutter Gold Mining Company mill superintendent Paul Skinner pours the first thin stream of glowing molten gold into a mold, forming a shiny one-inch pyramid near Sutter Creek, Calif. Photo by The Associated Press.

    SUTTER CREEK, Calif. (AP) ? The gold miners who made California famous were the rugged loners trying to shake nuggets loose from streams or hillsides. The ones who made the state rich were those who worked for big mining companies that blasted gold from an underground world of dust and darkness.

    The last of the state?s great mines closed because mining gold proved unprofitable after World War II. But with the price of the metal near historic highs, hovering around $1,700 an ounce, the first large-scale hard rock gold mining operation in a half-century is coming back to life.

    Miners are digging again where their forebears once unearthed riches from eight historic mines that honeycomb Sutter Gold Mining Co.?s holdings about 50 miles southeast of Sacramento. Last week, mill superintendent Paul Skinner poured the first thin stream of glowing molten gold into a mold.

    ?Nothing quite like it,? murmured Skinner, who has been mining for 65 years.

    It was just four ounces, culled from more than eight tons of ore, but it signaled the end of $20 million worth of construction and the pending start of production. The company announced the ceremonial first pour before financial markets opened Monday, marking the mine?s official reincarnation.

    By spring, the company?s 110 employees expect to be removing 150 tons of ore a day from a site immediately north of the old Lincoln Mine, enough to produce nearly 2,000 ounces of gold each month.

    The company projects reserves of more than 682,000 ounces of gold worth more than $1 billion at today?s prices. Company officials say they are confident there is far more in their historically rich section of the 120-mile-long Mother Lode region of the Sierra Nevada foothills.

    Reopening the mine has been anything but a gold rush, however.

    It took three decades for the mine?s operators to obtain more than 40 environmental permits. By contrast, the old Wild West miners wreaked such devastation that they prompted some of the nation?s first conservation efforts nearly 130 years ago.

    ?We?ve gone from no regulation to probably the other extreme,? said Bob Hutmacher, the company?s chief financial officer.

    In recent decades, most of California?s gold has come from the state?s desert regions. However, high gold prices recently spurred what authorities say was a rogue surface gold mine in El Dorado County, east of Sacramento. The owners now face criminal charges.

    Farther north, several mines have started the process to reopen. Most of these kinds of hard rock mines have recently been known more as tourist destinations, including the Empire Mine, which was once the state?s largest hard rock mine. It became a state historic site after it closed in 1956.

    Sutter Gold?s mine also hosted underground tours featuring gold mining history until about a year ago. A half-million people took the tours before they were halted for insurance reasons as the company scrambled to begin production.

    Miners have now burrowed more than a half-mile underground and are digging another half-mile network of tunnels to reach the milky white quartz deposits that contain the gold.

    Six-hundred vertical feet underground, Keith Emerald was soaking wet in a T-shirt, rubber boots and bib overalls in the damp, chilly mine.

    The only light came from his battery-operated hardhat headlamp as he leaned into a deafening 135-pound jackleg pneumatic drill, driving an 8 1/2-foot-long bit repeatedly into a wall of solid rock. The more than 30 holes he drilled were packed with explosives to reduce a head-high archway to rubble.

    ?Fire in the hole,? came a disembodied voice over the mine?s radio system hours later.

    The miners are using tools like the jackleg drill that have changed little in a century because they are searching for relatively narrow bands of quartz, averaging 2.4 feet wide. That makes it too costly to use modern mechanized equipment that would churn out tons of worthless rock.

    ?This harkens back to the 19th century where you follow the gold veins,? said chief operating officer Matt Collins. ?We?re throwbacks.?

    Their predecessors pried 3.5 million ounces of gold from the ground underlying the company?s holdings before the last mine, the Eureka, closed in 1958.

    The company has mining rights under about 4.5 miles of the Mother Lode between the quaint Gold Rush communities of Sutter Creek, population 2,500, and Amador City, with 200 residents. The mining area roughly parallels Highway 49, named after the miners who rushed to California from around the globe after gold was discovered in 1849.

    Sutter Creek is the namesake of John Sutter of gold discovery fame. The nearby mines once made Hetty Green the nation?s richest woman and propelled the success of railroad baron Leland Stanford, who went on to become governor and found Stanford University.

    Now the towns boast more about their proximity to foothill wineries and the restaurants, boutiques and antique stores that line their historic main streets.

    ?(Highway) 49 is known as the Gold Rush road. If there?s gold to be found, I think it should be mined,? said Jan Hicks, who lives in nearby Jackson but clerks in an 1869 Amador City building that once housed a general store catering to miners.

    Source: http://www.newstribune.com/news/2012/dec/19/molten-gold-signals-revival-californias-mother-lod/

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    Fitch to US: Fix 'fiscal cliff' or risk credit downgrade

    Fitch, a leading credit ratings agency, warned Wednesday that the US is likely to lose its top-notch debt rating if lawmakers cannot agree to a solution that prevents the economy from going over the 'fiscal cliff' at the end of 2012. Fitch called the resolution of the fiscal cliff and an increase in the debt ceiling 'pressing issues.'

    By The Associated Press / December 19, 2012

    The Fitch Ratings building is seen in New York in this 2010 file photograph. Fitch warned Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 that failure to reach a deal on the fiscal cliff could result in a credit downgrade for the US.

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    ?Fitch?warned on Wednesday that the U.S. was more likely to lose its top-notch "AAA" debt?rating?if lawmakers and President Barack Obama cannot agree on how to cut the deficit and avoid the deep government spending cuts and tax increases that automatically would go into effect next year.

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    But the?credit?ratings?agency said in a report that if a deficit-cutting plan is reached, the U.S. would likely keep its "AAA"?rating.?Fitch would then raise its outlook to stable from negative.

    "Resolution of the fiscal cliff and an increase in the debt ceiling are pressing issues that the President and Congress must address if the U.S. is to avoid a fiscal and economic crisis," the report said.

    In November,?Fitch?Ratings?said Obama must work toward a credible plan to avoid the fiscal cliff or risk the U.S. losing its "AAA"rating.?Fitch?changed its outlook for the U.S.?rating?to negative last year after Congress and the Obama administration failed to meet a deadline for a plan.

    In the first-ever downgrade of U.S. government debt, Standard & Poor's last year cut its?rating?from "'AAA" to "AA+" after the government failed to come up with a plan to reduce the deficit.

    The U.S. has never failed to meet its debt obligations. The battle over raising the debt limit in August 2011 went to the last minute before a compromise was reached.

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    HitmanPro 3.7

    If you've got a malware infestation that interferes with installing regular antivirus protection, or ransomware that keeps you from booting Windows at all, it may be time to call in a hit man. HitmanPro 3.7 is specifically designed to clear out this kind of resistant malware, and its new Kickstart module foils malware that holds your computer for ransom.

    Vendors frequently offer cleanup-only tools like HitmanPro for free. You don't have to pay to run a scan with HitmanPro, but if you want to remove malware found by the scan you'll have to pay for it ($19.95 per year for one license, $29.95 for three) or register for a 30-day free trial. On the plus side, you don't have to start that 30-day trial if the scan came up clean.

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    By default, the tiny HitmanPro executable installs a local copy on the PC you're scanning and sets it to scan at each reboot. However, you can also choose to just run a one-time scan without installing anything. In testing, I had no trouble installing this product on my twelve malware-infested test systems. That's refreshing, considering that getting some products installed has required hours of tech support intervention via phone and live chat.

    Like Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware Free 1.51, HitmanPro has a user interface that's focused on the singular task at hand. Most users will just launch it and immediately click Next to initiate the scan. Yes, there are a few configuration settings, but leaving them at their default values will ensure maximum security.

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    Healthy lifestyle during menopause may decrease breast cancer risk later on

    [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 19-Dec-2012
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    Contact: Garth Sundem
    garth.sundem@ucdenver.edu
    University of Colorado Denver

    Combination of diet and exercise may be as beneficial as drugs

    Obese, postmenopausal women are at greater risk for developing breast cancer and their cancers tend to be more aggressive than those in lean counterparts. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in the December issue of the journal Cancer Research shows how this risk might be prevented.

    "By using nutrient tracers for fat and sugar, we tracked where the body stored excess calories. In lean models, excess fat and glucose were taken up by the liver, mammary and skeletal tissues. In obese models, excess fat and glucose were taken up by tumors, fueling their growth," says Erin Giles, PhD, postdoctoral researcher at the CU Cancer Center and the paper's lead author.

    In short, if you are lean, excess calories go to healthy tissue. If you are obese, excess calories feed the tumor.

    "This implies that the menopausal window may be an opportunity for women to control their breast cancer risk through weight management," Giles says.

    In this study, Giles worked with a team of scientists including postdoctoral fellows Elizabeth Wellberg and Sonali Jindal, as well as faculty members Steve Anderson, Pepper Schedin, Ann Thor and Paul Maclean. Their study also showed that tumors from obese animals had increased levels of the progesterone receptor, and this receptor appears to give tumors a metabolic advantage for growth. To extend their findings to humans, they recruited gene analysis experts David Astling and Aik-Choon Tan who analyzed 585 human breast cancers and found that human tumors expressing the progesterone receptor had the same metabolic advantage.

    "Basically, we saw an abnormal metabolic response to fat and sugar in the obese that, in many ways, mirrors the response to fat and sugar in Type II diabetes," Giles says. Noticing this similarity, the group tested the use of the common Type II diabetes drug, Metformin, in their model of postmenopausal breast cancer.

    "With treatment, tumor size was dramatically decreased in the obese, and tumors showed reduced expression of the progesterone receptor," Giles says.

    Using a pre-clinical model, the investigators found that weight gain during menopause is particularly bad for those who are obese when entering menopause. Together, the results of this study suggest that the combination of obesity and weight gain during menopause can impact breast cancer in two ways. First, tumors that arise in obese women appear to have a metabolic advantage, and second, the inability to store excess calories in healthy tissues may further fuel tumor growth.

    "While drugs may be useful in controlling breast cancer risk in obese, postmenopausal women, our results imply that a combination of diet and exercise may be equally if not more beneficial," Giles says.

    The group's ongoing studies are testing whether interventions such as diet and exercise, during the period of menopausal weight gain, can improve tumor outcomes.

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    Contact: Garth Sundem
    garth.sundem@ucdenver.edu
    University of Colorado Denver

    Combination of diet and exercise may be as beneficial as drugs

    Obese, postmenopausal women are at greater risk for developing breast cancer and their cancers tend to be more aggressive than those in lean counterparts. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in the December issue of the journal Cancer Research shows how this risk might be prevented.

    "By using nutrient tracers for fat and sugar, we tracked where the body stored excess calories. In lean models, excess fat and glucose were taken up by the liver, mammary and skeletal tissues. In obese models, excess fat and glucose were taken up by tumors, fueling their growth," says Erin Giles, PhD, postdoctoral researcher at the CU Cancer Center and the paper's lead author.

    In short, if you are lean, excess calories go to healthy tissue. If you are obese, excess calories feed the tumor.

    "This implies that the menopausal window may be an opportunity for women to control their breast cancer risk through weight management," Giles says.

    In this study, Giles worked with a team of scientists including postdoctoral fellows Elizabeth Wellberg and Sonali Jindal, as well as faculty members Steve Anderson, Pepper Schedin, Ann Thor and Paul Maclean. Their study also showed that tumors from obese animals had increased levels of the progesterone receptor, and this receptor appears to give tumors a metabolic advantage for growth. To extend their findings to humans, they recruited gene analysis experts David Astling and Aik-Choon Tan who analyzed 585 human breast cancers and found that human tumors expressing the progesterone receptor had the same metabolic advantage.

    "Basically, we saw an abnormal metabolic response to fat and sugar in the obese that, in many ways, mirrors the response to fat and sugar in Type II diabetes," Giles says. Noticing this similarity, the group tested the use of the common Type II diabetes drug, Metformin, in their model of postmenopausal breast cancer.

    "With treatment, tumor size was dramatically decreased in the obese, and tumors showed reduced expression of the progesterone receptor," Giles says.

    Using a pre-clinical model, the investigators found that weight gain during menopause is particularly bad for those who are obese when entering menopause. Together, the results of this study suggest that the combination of obesity and weight gain during menopause can impact breast cancer in two ways. First, tumors that arise in obese women appear to have a metabolic advantage, and second, the inability to store excess calories in healthy tissues may further fuel tumor growth.

    "While drugs may be useful in controlling breast cancer risk in obese, postmenopausal women, our results imply that a combination of diet and exercise may be equally if not more beneficial," Giles says.

    The group's ongoing studies are testing whether interventions such as diet and exercise, during the period of menopausal weight gain, can improve tumor outcomes.

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    Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-12/uocd-hld121912.php

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