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We think this one is better than most. Just in time for Halloween, here’s a good scary spoof.

China’s ruling party has decided that it is not a “friend” to social media.

News reports are coming in that the notoriously strict censors in China are going to crank it up a notch.

Their targets: Micro-bloggers and social media devotees.

This will be a big job. The Guardian reports

The number of registered users on domestic services reached 195 million by the end of June, triple the figure of six months earlier, according to the China Internet Network Information Centre.

Will the great firewall of China succeed?  The cartoon above has its own take. (cartoon by KAL)

Pete Eibner ’95 is enjoying his first year as the boys’ soccer coach at Perry Hall. From the full article in PressBox:

The Gators are 6-5 heading into the final week of the regular season, and Eibner could not be happier. Graduation took is toll on Perry Hall, which won the Baltimore County championship last year under Skelton with a 15-3 record, and reached the Class 4A state finals two of the last four years.

“It’s a very fertile soccer area,” Eibner said. “A lot of these kids have very bright futures. The freshmen who have come in with the eighth graders who are coming in next year want to be a part of what’s been happening here.”

Three former Gators are actually now playing for Eibner’s former team, the UMBC Retrievers: goalkeeper Phil Saunders, who played on the Baltimore Bays Under-19 national championship team this summer, forward-midfielder Joe Glos and fullback/midfielder Nick Liberto.

Read the full story in PressBox.

Read more about UMBC alumni at Retriever Net, UMBC’s alumni online community.