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At this point, I think it's safe to assume that we're all on Facebook. Or that, if you're one of the holdouts, you at least have a decent idea of how it all works: a bunch of people you don't always know all that well come together online to chat about all kinds of stuff, but mostly funny cat videos, political protests, and poorly framed pictures of the setting sun.
It's also, occasionally, a wonderful window onto various subcultures that thrive on the Internet: gamers, TV junkies, and foodies are all well represented on The Book.
This week, a friend of mine who is an avid poker player was discussing with friends a hand that had been played at this year's World Series of Poker. Facebook being what it is, I had a front row seat to a conversation that quickly went over my head. I think this was the line that finally drove the point home: "If you watched someone fold quads to your all-in, you don't think you'd show jacks full to attempt to put him on tilt?" I'm still trying to parse that one, but even if I didn't understand it, I loved reading it all.
I was reminded of the exchange—with its mysteriously compelling nuggets of poker argot—when I noticed that Lisanne Skyler's film Dreamland would be playing in Northampton. Originally aired by PBS as part of its POV series, Skyler's 2000 film is an attempt to dispel some of the romanticism that surrounds hard-core gambling, and to shed light on how problem gambling—so often seen less as an addiction than a hobby—can quietly destroy lives. (For the record, the friend I mentioned above does not fall into this category.) Even a native Las Vegas weekly remarked that "not since Martin Scorsese's Casino has the naked truth about Las Vegas been captured so perfectly on screen."
Skyler's film follows some of Vegas' year-round residents over a two-year period as they make their livelihoods in a city that goes far beyond the glitz of the Strip. Squint hard enough to see past the glare of the bigger casinos and you'll find that the Las Vegas that most of its own know is another world. It's a place of threadbare and dirty gambling halls with more sadness than stage show. Here, the people who make up Skyler's documentary struggle with—and sometimes, for a moment, escape—the compulsion that keeps them coming back for more. They are retirees, they are middle-class people with jobs and families. Skyler finds that even casino dealers—who surely know the odds as well as anyone—fall victim to the lure of a big score.
The director focuses in particular on Lou Gerard, a retired tailor from Los Angeles who moves to Vegas with thoughts of an easy retirement: cheap rent, free meals comped at casinos, and a bit of gambling. What he gets isn't quite so easy. Though happy at his usual haunt—Benny Binion's Horseshoe Casino—his losses begin to add up, forcing the retiree to pick up work on the side to cover his debts. But Skyler isn't merely a scold; she sees problem gambling as akin to drug addiction, with its sufferers trying, on some level, to escape some hidden pain or loneliness by giving themselves a fleeting high that gets ever harder to recreate. Watch Lou in his retirement, and you might agree.
Also this week: Matthew McConaughey's abs pick up a mighty big paycheck for their work in Magic Mike, a new film out now that explores the world of male stripping. Channing Tatum (21 Jump Street) stars as the title character, a dancer who dreams of being a furniture designer; McConaughey plays Dallas, the owner of Xquisite, the club where Mike makes the ladies swoon. The film is a tale of mistakes and redemption, and of following your dreams wherever they take you—indeed, it's based on Tatum's own story; the actor worked as an exotic dancer early in his career before hitting it big as a hunk in Hollywood. Directed by Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh (Traffic), it's worth a look—don't let a fear of thongs keep you away, even if you're watching through your fingers.
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I have searched around so I thought I would post the question.
Anyone know of any or have links to any XML admin, or web based editors built with PHP?
I built a Flash website for a client that calls an XML doc and they want me to add an admin section so they can update the site without having to edit the XML doc directly.
I really just want to get some ideas and perhaps a starting point. Any help is much appreciated.
EDIT - Would prefer ones that do not let the user edit tags. SO it just lets the edits of the nodeValue, possibly attributes and to add/duplicate nodes.

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Think up a really cool super hero name. Then we can you welcome you as an overlord. Assuming that you can get Natalie Portman to deliver the Hot Grits!
...and his "quirky" sidekick Violetboy.
And his sidekick Violet.
Obviously, with his new found UV-vision powers, he is ready to decode the hidden alien propaganda spread throughout our daily lives. Him and Roddy Piper should get together and finally put a stop to the ruling class of alien invaders!
After having a ten minute fight scene, of course.
Though I guess that could be open to misinterpretation.
Don't go out of your way to expose your eyes to UV!
Then again, remember that sunlight contains lots of UV light, so those levels are fine (except if you're a basement dweller)
They have this new fangled device, called "sun glasses".
For people who have had their lenses replaced, it's strongly advised to use UV filtering sunglasses. I'm one of them, for almost 20 years now, but only in one eye. I haven't actually checked, but I'm fairly sure that you are right. I can see UV, but I suspect my pupils don't contract, as I my night vision is maintained normally. Bright UV tends to hurt, so I normally react by closing that eye. At least that natura
Then again, remember that sunlight contains lots of UV light, so those levels are fine (except if you're a basement dweller)
Except that the filter that prevents the UV reaching the back of his eyeball is now gone... There is probably a good reason why you have that filter there in the first place!
That was my first thought, even with normal eyes UV isn't good for them, but if the OP has lost a layer of protection, then he needs to be even more careful about exposure as there's that much less eyeball protecting the nerves in the back of the eye.
Had it been IR sensitivity that would have been cool. But because UV unlike IR is higher energy than light in the visible spectrum you're much more likely to have eye problems in the future.
UV is a very wide spectrum. Near-UV isn't too scary.
UV-A (400-315 nm) is OK for short-term exposure. Your pupils won't constrict like they do for visible light, so keep the intensity low. Plain old blacklights are 350-400nm with the peak at 365nm, plus a small peak in the very bottom of the visible spectrum (which is the purple glow).
UV-B (315-280 nm) will probably be invisible, and it will do bad things to your eyes, so please stick to very low intensities if you want to fool with this. Read up on the risks first.
UV-C (280-100 nm) is utterly hostile to biology - the upper atmosphere filters this range out so life never evolved mechanisms to deal with it. Actually, UV-C is hostile to damn near everything: just from my own experience, it bleaches everything, and most plastics will degrade and become brittle with mere hours of exposure. I've test-fired a 185nm lamp in the open for a few seconds (wearing goggles!) and even across the room you can instantly smell ozone forming as it starts ripping oxygen apart. Stay away!
You have the better of the replies so far (I've worked with UV devices daily, for 20 years). Many flowers have colors that can only be seen in the barely sub 400nm range, high into UVA, and just passed violet in the rainbow. This is where blacklights work as well. Staying above 315nm (and better above 350nm) presents much less risk, and is likely where his extended vision is anyway.
UVB exposure to the eyes should be avoided by everyone, and I don't recommend very long exposures of longer wave UVA either,
UV-C (280-100 nm) is utterly hostile to biology - the upper atmosphere filters this range out so life never evolved mechanisms to deal with it. Actually, UV-C is hostile to damn near everything: just from my own experience, it bleaches everything, and most plastics will degrade and become brittle with mere hours of exposure. I've test-fired a 185nm lamp in the open for a few seconds (wearing goggles!) and even across the room you can instantly smell ozone forming as it starts ripping oxygen apart. Stay away!
Next month's Slashdot headline: WickedLasers introduces 185nm 5W "My 1st Death Ray" for $150
Sorry; you do not have special UV-sensitive super-powers. So-called "black" lights are not, by any stretch of the imagination, UV-only. They have a filter on them that blocks most, but not all, visible light. They are called "black" lights because the UV causes appropriately fluorescent and phosphorescent materials to glow out of proportion to the visible light emitted by the bulb.
3. Use this ability for a stealth motion detector. If a robber can't see in the dark, but you can, this would be a advantage.
That would be infra-red, not UV...
4. Use this ability to sneak in late at night to prevent people yelling at you!
He said he was a middle-aged Dad. He's more likely to use it to detect the sneaker than to be him.
Which naturally gives off UV which could make this power very useful? Aside from being able to see UV bulbs...
I can't remember much from physics
Flowers are often more varied in the UV [naturfotograf.com] than in the standard visible light range.
Flowers are often more varied in the UV than in the standard visible light range.
Go forth and pollinate.
Raptors use UV vision. I read a couple of articles about birds floating in the sky, watching the ground for fresh rodent urine. The urine gives off a bright glow under UV, that is invisible in the "visible" light spectrum.
Raptors use UV vision. I read a couple of articles about birds floating in the sky, watching the ground for fresh rodent urine. The urine gives off a bright glow under UV, that is invisible in the "visible" light spectrum.
Don't tell Randall about this! He's just recently calmed down.
I understand that the definitive text on ultraviolet astronomy was written about then by an astronomer who had also been through the operation.
For him astronomical objects with high UV emission were "naked eye objects". He could just look through the telescope eyepiece and zero in on interesting stuff, when others had to wait for the film to be developed.
Not as big a deal these days, with 'scopes aimed using semiconductor image sensors rather than naked eye. But may still be an advantage.
I dunno. I remember my great grandmother talking about sitting with her grandmother watching for this on the coast along with a naval officer to report. It could very well still be sealed, which considering how useful it would still be today, wouldn't surprise me at all.
My prescription glasses have the tint that goes from essentially clear to sunglasses depending on light. I've noticed if I look at black light with them on, they go kind of foggy, which I guess makes sense given that IIRC, it's actually ultraviolet light that makes the shift happens, which is also why they're less effective in cars. Anyone else have this effect?
"purple tights and cape to become a crime-fighter?"
Of course not!!! They should be black as in Batman and possibly some green as in the Green Lantern!
Purple?! No way for a dad!
But if you are serious with fighting crime on a regular basis i guess the police blue would fit too, and if you get the badge then you're set.
No Capes! [youtube.com]
Do I really have to suggest to a bunch of
My gut level guess is very little clothing is UV transparent, but bleached underclothes might fluoresce brightly beneath regular clothes, maybe.
In a completely unrelated topic, does anyone know of any (long term) UV phosphors? Perhaps the original poster could see glow in the dark "whatever" that most of us couldn't see. I'm not talking about short term florescence, bu
Do I really have to suggest to a bunch of
If I could see through clothing, I don't think I could ever shop at Walmart again.
Just turn it into a game, if you can find 10 people from here, [peopleofwalmart.com] you win.
One interesting oddity is that I can now see ultraviolet light — it seems that there are a few people who have photoreceptors sensitive below 400nm into the UV spectrum. I've done some testing with a Black Light and UV filter
1) Purchase a UV source and filter the heck out of it to output purely UV (no purple leakage). Ask a geologist or perhaps a scorpion exterminator, they'll know what to buy...
2) Visit astronomical telescope parties and offer your safety assistance... help walking down the mountain, help reading directions, help stepping off the road curb without tripping, just
What to them is pitch black, to you, could be lit up like a searchlight, at least until your batteries die.
We should be breeding this trait RIGHT NOW.
We should be breeding this trait RIGHT NOW.
Well, he did refer to himself as a "suburban dad" - so he's been doing his part...
One interesting oddity is that I can now see ultraviolet light â" it seems that there are a few people who have photoreceptors sensitive below 400nm into the UV spectrum.
In World War II the OSS recruited elderly cataract patients as coastwatchers --- able to read Morse sent over UV light.
Stanley Lovell's "Of Spies & Stratagems" can be found quite cheaply in paperback and as a legit free download on the web. It's well worth a read.
Lovell was the head of R&D for the OSS, their "Professor Moriarity," and it is here you will learn why.
I can't say this has been particularly more useful to me although I do think I see rainbows as 'wider' than most people with a much thicker "purple" band than others seem to see. Totally subjective and something I can't substantiate but I think I am more sensitive to sunlight as well.
It can also be different in each eye.
My right sees farther into the UV, and my left a bit into IR. It can be confusing when trying to match colors, especially to what someone else wants.
And then mark the cards with UV paint.
Anything where your ability to see a custom display that others cannot gives you an advantage. An alphanumeric LCD with a UV back light and filter for example.
". As a typical Slashdot reader, I've been myopic since childhood,"
Seriously, WTF?With that kind of biased reasoning, it's no wonder you have convinced yourself you can see into the UV.
As a typical Slashdot reader, I've been myopic since childhood,
Hey now, that's uncalled for. Sure, there are some around here who are still expecting the next Year of the Linux Desktop, but you can't let them speak for all of us!
But more seriously, I've had great vision more or less for my whole life. I don't think it's entirely genetic either (though my father has never needed glasses either), and I have always done a lot of reading/computer in my time as well. I just make sure to look away every few minutes and focus on something far away so my eyes don't adjust too
I'll ask around and see what I can find. Work has a lab to specifically measure human eye sensitivity across the spectrum, but unfortunately it's in Illinois. However, I'm wondering if you couldn't build a DIY spectrophotometer using a DVD as a diffraction grating, and see what your sensitivity/wavelength/intensity graph would be.
...though "ability to see into the UV part of the spectrum" is not quite as useful as "ability to smell into the future" (my personal fave).
You're correct; you'll be wanting ultraviolet pants for this job...
1. Mark some nice decks of cards in ultraviolet ink and give them to all your friends.
2. Develop an interest in poker.
3. Show restraint.
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Dutch_Master wrote:+1 for the cli... It's often quicker then using a GUI, I found. But, it's your time
dd if=/full/path/to/source of=/full/path/to/destination bs=<size of block during copy>
dd if=/dev/sda of=dev/sdc bs=1M
Dutch_Master wrote:Let me tell you a secret: so do we! Seriously though, this is the opportunity to give it a try. The dd command is what you're after, and that syntax is pretty basic:
For copying a full harddrive, use bs=1M (1 MB) to speed things up.
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dd if=/full/path/to/source of=/full/path/to/destination bs=<size of block during copy>
Example, assuming your old drive is at /dev/sda and the new drive is /dev/sdc:
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dd if=/dev/sda of=dev/sdc bs=1M
Your turn now
PS: in case you don't have it yet, here's a site with Bash commands and their syntax: http://www.ss64.com/bash/
rsync [options] /full/path/to/source /full/path/to/destination
Dutch_Master wrote:Yes Nelz, but isn't that the purpose of cloning, to make an exact replica of the original?
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Artists Wanted: Pre-Conference on Careers in the Arts for Artists with DisabilitiesUniversity of Hawaiʻi
University of Hawaii
Shannon Simonelli, (808)956-8710
University of Hawaii
The 19th Annual Pacific Rim Conference on Disabilities will be held February 10-11, 2003, revolving around the theme "Collaboration and Change: A Future of Choices for Mind, Body, and Spirit." Three pre-conference activities will be held in conjunction with the Pacific Rim Conference: "Putting Creativity Work," "Arts for All, All For Arts," a showcase of fully accessible performing arts; and "Arts for All, All for Arts," a two-day exhibition during the Pacific Rim Conference. Organizers are looking for creative artists that show expression through drawings, paintings, photograph, and poetry, and are currently accepting submissions through November 1, 2002.
The pre-conference on "Arts for All, All for Arts" will give artists the opportunity to participate in a live art house. This will include music, dance, fun, comedy, film, and drama. It will be held all day on February 9, 2003. The second "Arts for All, All for Arts" consists of a visual exhibition, artist and patron reception, and a two-day art sale on February 8 and 9, 2003. "Putting Creativity Work" is a professional development how-to workshop for artists with disabilities who want to learn more about careers and entrepreneurial skills in the arts, and will also be held on February 8 and 9, 2003.
The Pacific Rim Conference on Disabilities was first held in 1985. Since then, the conference has grown and now includes participants from the U.S. Mainland, Alaska, Pacific Islands Nations, Japan, Australia, the Philippines and many other countries. The conference is geared towards bringing people together to support persons with disabilities. The people involved are not limited to those with disabilities; participants include family members, researchers, policy-makers, and nationally known role models in the field of disabilities. The 2003 theme for the conference was created to reflect the opportunities that exist through partnerships.
Topics at this year's event include Arts, Culture, and Disability; Early Childhood; Health for People with Disabilities; Learning and Living; Positive Behavioral Supports; and Postsecondary Education, Transition, and Employment.
The 2003 Annual Pacific Rim Conference is co-presented by VSA arts of Hawaiʻi-Pacific and the University of Hawaiʻi Center on Disability Studies. Proposals should address involvement in arts and culture and disability access to the arts and culture. For submission details and contact information for all activities, visit the VSAarts of Hawaiʻi-Pacific website http://vsarts.hawaii.edu/professional/professional.htm. The deadline for submission has been extended to November 1, 2002.
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Over the last couple of weeks I've steered Ford Shelby Mustangs through Sonoma wine country, drag raced these super-ripped 550-horsepower pony cars on a race track and watched a series of superfly Mustangs thunder around a Long Beach street course ahead of the Grand Prix weekend that kicked off there yesterday.
But none was as fun as sitting in the passenger seat beside
drift racing world champion Vaughn Gittin Jr. as he spun, skid, drifted and damn near stuck my eyelids to my helmet as he raced me in a heavily modified
Ford Mustang GT around a coned course in the massive empty lot at
Inglewood Forum.
Gittin competes on the drift racing circuit, a relatively recent style of racing popularized in the "Fast and the Furious" movies that largely involves a driver skillfully maneuevering a rear-wheel-drive car around a track by skidding around it. Points are awarded for style and control, and drivers sometimes work in teams, putting their cars through moves that are never seen in regular car racing. Gittin's here to compete in a Formula Drift race a week ahead of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.
Gittin is a great kid whose length of ambition is only paralleled by the shortness of the gearbox throw in his heavily modified Ford Mustang GT, which as a result of its supercharger and bundle of other upgrades now pushes out more than 750 horsepower -- or basically a rocket to you and me. It was the first non-Japanese car to win a Formula D series, driven of course by Gittin, who finished fourth in Formula D in 2006.
Watching him at the Long Beach Formula Drift event a couple of days later therefore was a fantastic experience even though he was knocked out at the quarter-final level of the competition, which featured the top 32 pre-qualified drivers ripping around Long Beach streets and all the fun of the Grand Prix weekend, but without the low-profile race cars.
Taking their place were multiple Ford Mustang GTs, Dodge Vipers and several Japanese econoboxes outfitted with the latest specialized drift gear that made a spectacular showing, although both drivers fell early in the competition.
But back to Gittin, who says he got his start in drift racing by pulling some pretty crazy maneuvers in empty carparks where he grew up in Annapolis, Md.
Reason he got into the sport? "Fun. It's fun. But I was out there drifting and I didn't know I was in it. I used to go to the parks, fishtail, and have fun," he tells LAsplash.
"But somehow, driving around and burning tires turned into gold. Now that I've had my fun, it's how far can I push it. How fast can I go before the bottom of the car lifts right up and I tip over."
"The thing is it's more of a lifestyle than a hobby. The peope that are into drift racing, it's like guys that are into skateboarding, that's what they do, that's their life."
Gittin talks a bit about his car, describing the multiple upgrades that set it apart from a stock, or unmodified car, but adds that most of the upgrades including supercharger and brakes and suspension can all be bought through local suppliers. Just make sure you pick up a spare pair of tires when your first set burns out. And be careful.
Ford this this week celebrates its Mustang's 45-year anniversary at a great-looking event in Birmingham, Ala., though it would have to go some way to eclipse the fun and huge amount of racing talent on display in Long Beach at a great family event that offers the opportunity to catch Gittin and his stable of drifting cohorts demonstration the skill, speed and power of their craft. The Grand Prix event runs through Sunday.
John from Lakewood, who's watched drift racing for three years and is here in Long Beach watching Formula Drift for the second time, said: "It's fun to come here to the Long Beach area, take some cool pictures of the cars. There are a lot of good drivers out here."
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Joseph Ball
has an interesting article on planned economy here clogic.eserver.org/2010/Ball.pdf
I was generally sympathetic to his aims in writing it: to
defend socialist planning. I
think that it makes a very interesting point in focussing attention on innovation
and the comparative role of subsidies versus temporary prices. I had not heard
this argument before.
I am not sure that I find it entirely convincing as a long term explanation of
the slowdown in the diffusion of technology. If there was gaming over the
temporary prices, would there not have been similar gaming over subsidies
in the long run with enterprises applying for subsidies for products that
they claimed were new, but which were actually just slight mods of old ones.
Similarly if the planners forgot to downgrade the temporary prices in the 60s
might they not have forgotten to remove subsidies in the 60s had these been
My own feeling is that whilst the difference between subsidies and temporary
prices may have had some effect the existence of either of these mechanisms
depended on two key features of the soviet economy from the 30s on:
1. The continued existence of money rather than labour accounts
2. Associated with this, the existence of enterprise as accounting centres which
were proto capitals.
These factors were both there under the soviet economic system of the stalin,
kruschev and breznev eras.
On top of that you had the continued existence of the wage form which meant
that only part of the labour time that went into making something appeared as
the cost = the part that went to replace the consumer goods bought on the
market. This means that the cutof point in investment decsions replacing
living with dead labour was skewed towards the living labour end, hampering
the use of labour saving machinery.
I think he overplays the difference between Stalin and his successors.
The real break did not come in 1953 but with Gorbachov.
Both Krushchev and Chou en Lia for their different reasons wanted to
make a big thing of Krushchev being a big break with the past, but I
think looking back from more than half century later it is hard
to give as much significance to it as they did.
Stalin opposed the extension of market relations, but he gave no evidence of
a deep understanding of the labour theory of value or how Marx envisaged using
it in a socialist economy, thus his Economic Problems, whilst defensive against
proposed changes towards the market economy, did not offer a way forward.
It was better than the position put forward by Trotsky in his Soviet Economy in Danger which prefigured the Dengist or Gorbachovite policies of China in the 80s or the USSR in the late 80s.
(( Trotsky Soviet Economy in Danger ))
My feeling is that although Stalin's position was preferable to that of Grobachov, Tito, Trotsky and the other market socialists, it still
did not get to the heard of the matter because of his failure to differentiate
between a system of money and a system of labour tokens as advocated
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Khaled Meshaal, the Hamas leader in exile, has rejected any concessions over a future Palestine state at a rally marking the 25th anniversary of the armed Palestinian group.Just to remind you, this is the person that Karl Vick of Time has said supports negotiations.
More than 100,000 Palestinians gathered in the Gaza Strip on Saturday to hear him speak for the first time in the Palestinian enclave.
"Palestine is our land and nation from the [Mediterranean] sea to the [Jordan] river, from north to south, and we cannot cede an inch or any part of it," he said.
"We fight Zionists, not Jews. We fight whoever occupied our land, regardless of religion ... Statehood will be the fruit of resistance, not negotiations," Meshaal said to cheering fans.
The same person that went on PBS to claim that Hamas doesn't support violence against civilians, while today he was speaking in front of a replica of a "M75" rocket that was fired towards civilians in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
The same person that the Globe and Mail called a "moderate" earlier this year.
The same person that the New York Times praised as having a peace plan virtually identical to the PLO's (actually, that might be correct, but not for the reasons the NYT gave.)
The BBC didn't bother noting the quotes above. Instead, they quoted this:
"As long as Palestine is ours and Palestine is the land of Arabism and Islam, we can never recognise the legitimacy of Israel's occupation of it," he told supporters.But without noting the other parts of his speech, a BBC reader may believe that Meshal is referring only to the the territories won in 1967. It would have been nice if the BBC noted explicitly that when Hamas says "occupation" he is referring to all of Israel, and when Hamas leaders say they want to "end the occupation" they mean they want to destroy Israel.
"There is no legitimacy for occupation. Hence, there is no legitimacy for Israel, however long time lasts."
But that is too much to ask from the BBC. And it is typical of Western media outlets who always try to soften the racist, genocidal rantings of terrorist leaders.
You will be hard pressed to find any mainstream Arab leader who is offended by Meshal's speech calling to utterly destroy Israel and ethnically cleanse Jews from their homeland.You will not find any op-eds in the Arab media saying that Meshal is a terrorist, or that peace is necessary, or that negotiations are desirable, or that a Palestinian Arab state cannot realistically encompass all of British Mandate Palestine.
The multiplicity of views common in Western media on any topic is not to be seen in the Arab media on this topic. There are no Arab "Peace Now" rallies in Ramallah or Amman.
To the Arab world, Meshal's Islamist supremacist rantings are completely mainstream.
That is the story that every major media outlet is missing. They are so invested in the false narrative of a moderate Arab majority interested in real peace that they will downplay genocidal Hamas rants and (mis)quote only the parts that can be interpreted as somewhat reasonable.
Here's a photo from the Gaza celebrations you won't see on any of those news outlets:
Hamas is grooming the next generation to be exactly as "moderate" as the current leadership is.


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Gallery: There's A Magazine Dedicated To Lindsay Lohan
Do you find yourself longing for the days when fresh pictures of Lindsay Lohan were uploaded to the web seemingly constantly?
We do too. That's why we're so happy to find out that someone has created Lindzine, a magazine devoted entirely to LiLo: current pictures, pictures from the past, and maybe even pictures from the future. It even serves as a reminder that there was, in fact, a time when LiLo was photographed somewhere other than in court.
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Controversial Johnny's Entertainment blogger being investigated
Kamichan was scheduled to publish a book about the Johnny Entertainment fandom, specifically concerning his treatment as a man in a predominantly female fandom. However, criticism of his alleged support of pedophilia arose, and it is now being reported that PayPal will no longer allow him to have an account.
In addition, WebGains, owner of YesAsia, an affiliate of Kamichan, received an enormous amount of complaints about his behavior and now claim to be investigating him through a form letter. PlayAsia has also decided to remove Kamichan from their affiliation program, with the link on his site being disabled and only linking to the PlayAsia homepage.
A release date for the book has yet to be announced.
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We didn't start the fire, no we didn't light it but we tried to fight it~
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IBM: New Intel-Based Servers Are Cooler
In an I.T. department that manages racks upon racks of servers, IBM says the power savings could be as high as 24 percent.
IBM unveiled five new servers equipped with 64-bit Xeon processors, as well as added power-saving and cooling capabilities. Big Blue says the features of its eServer xSeries and BladeCenter systems set them apart from its rivals' products.
IBM has been digging in for a stronger position in the server market, where it has taken share from Hewlett-Packard and Sun in the mid-range and high-end turf. With its Intel-based machines, the world's biggest computer company is eyeing the volume market now dominated by Dell .
IBM says its new machines -- the xSeries 226, 236, 336 and 346, and the IBM eServer BladeCenter HS20 -- will be available by the end of the month.
Power Savings
IBM's new xSeries and BladeCenter servers run on dual 64-bit Intel Xeon processors and employ an integrated 2MB L2 cache. The new Xeon-based servers exhibit a significant advance in the extended design of the devices inspired by the company's mainframes. IBM's Demand Based Switching technology saves processing power by adjusting to the needs of the system.
The servers also possess IBM's Calibrated Vectored Cooling, another feature originally found in its high-end machines. In an I.T. department that manages racks upon racks of servers, IBM says the power savings could be as high as 24 percent.
$500 Server
Such extended design makes IBM's box different and better than those made by competitors, claims Stuart McRae, IBM worldwide marketing manager for xSeries servers. "The market is very dynamic," he told NewsFactor. "There's a lot going on from the open power movement to 64-bit chips in a $500 server -- through it, we've demonstrated a stable business."
Researcher IDC reported for the third quarter of 2004 that Hewlett-Packard was the No. 1 server maker in the world in terms of number of units shipped. But IBM was No. 1 in revenue. IBM and Dell showed strong growth in the Intel-based chip category. Big Blue posted a growth rate of 26 percent compared to the year ago quarter.
"We think we have the right products compared to HP and Dell," said McRae
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The Boston Red Sox entered their Wednesday night matchup agains the Tampa Bay Rays in great spirits after the Tuesday return of pitcher Clay Buchholz helped them to a 2-0 win.
Boston came out aggressive early in a bid to increase their division lead and quickly ran out to a 3-1 lead. The Rays did manage to battle back, with an Evan Longoria single in the seventh and a James Loneyhomer in the eighth tying the game at three as it headed to extra innings.
The top of the 10th inning however, was a thing of beauty for the Red Sox as they once again illustrated the determination and depth they have throughout the line-up in late game situations.
Red Sox manager John Farrell sent Mike Carp into the game to pinch-hit for Johnny Gomes with the bases loaded and one out in the top of the 10th. The Red Sox have developed a reputation for getting big hits late in the game and this game was no different, as Carp crushed the first pitch he got into centre-field for a grand slam to give the Red Sox a 7-3 lead.
Junichi Tazawa then came into the game in the bottom of the 10th, to finish the game and give the Red Sox the victory.
The victory means the Red Sox lead the AL-East by 9.5 games and look good to win the division.
The Rays on the other hand are now only one game ahead of the New York Yankees in the race to claim the second wildcard spot in the race for October baseball.
The Yankees have been on a good run of form, mainly due to the hot bat of Alfonso Soriano, a direct contrast to the patchy form being shown by the Rays.
The wildcard race has really become competitive then, meaning the final weeks of the baseball season will be as exciting as ever.
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Press Release
Housing Works CEO Charles King Goes Under the Knife for Haiti Charity Event
Saddleback's Rick Warren Starts Bidding to Snip Off King's Ponytail at $1,000, Asks "What Will You Do?"
February 4, 2010
What: "Shear Madness" Charity Event and Auction
In an effort to raise money for the efforts of AIDS activists in Haiti, who are rebuilding that country's devastated network of AIDS services, Housing Works President and CEO Charles King will auction off his trademark ponytail at a charity auction event called "Shear Madness."
King's friends, coworkers, and colleagues in the AIDS community will gather for the event at the Housing Works Bookstore Café, where the highest bidder will have the honor of cutting off the ponytail. Purchase tickets, and bid to cut off King's hair, as well as bid on his new hairstyle.
After the high bidder cuts King's ponytail, King's hair will be styled at the Revolver salon next door. "Shear Madness" guests will enjoy hors d'oeuvres provided by The Works Catering, Housing Works' catering company, until King returns to show off his new look. King will be blogging about the experience of sacrificing his ponytail starting February 18.
The current high bidder is Rick Warren, pastor at the Saddleback Church. King, an ordained Baptist minister, has engaged in friendly debate with Warren since publicly confronting him about the failure of churches to reach out to men who have sex with men in combating HIV/AIDS.
"For Charles to part with his personal signature is a serious sacrifice by a serious man for a serious cause. When I heard he planned to do this I immediately kicked off the bidding at $1,000. The cause is worth a hundred times more than that. I pray that I'll lose this bid by a wide margin, because Kay [Warren] and I will send our $1,000 of support regardless," Warren said, adding, "What will you do?" Read more of Warren's praise for King and Housing Works.
All proceeds from "Shear Madness" will go to Housing Works' Keith D. Cylar Activist Fund, which supports the work of HIV-positive activists worldwide. This year, the fund will support the efforts of activists in Haiti as they rebuild vital AIDS service organizations in the wake of the devastating earthquake.
For more than two years, Housing Works has collaborated with grassroots AIDS organizations in Haiti to provide healthcare and supportive services. After the January 12 earthquake, Housing Works spearheaded an effort by New York City organizations to open two new HIV clinics and reopen one family health center in Haiti. Read more about Housing Works' efforts in Haiti.
King started growing his hair while at Yale Law School in 1986 to ensure that he wouldn't be hired by a white-shoe law firm and keep himself firmly on the path to fighting for social justice. The ponytail has come to represent King's commitment to 60s-style civil disobedience in the fight to end the AIDS epidemic, even as Housing Works has grown into the largest grassroots AIDS organization in the U.S. While King engages in traditional suit-and-tie advocacy -- he recently delivered the first keynote address to the White House on the relationship between AIDS and homelessness -- he has been arrested hundreds of times at AIDS-related civil disobedience actions.
This article was provided by Housing Works. Visit Housing Works' website to find out more about their activities, publications and services.


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the rate of the on/off cycle determines how much pressure and therefore how much rear wheel drive.
if you get the flashing AT Temp light the TCU thinks the duty c is bad. could be the duty c, but probably not in your case, or the wiring or the TCU. since yours is intermittent and your duty c is new i would suspect wiring / connectors or the computer.
if the duty c fails, or the voltage does not get to it, you cannot make it go into FWD. the duty c has to be good and getting voltage all the time to do that.
the power wire to the duty c (1995) is pin 3 on connector b55. but i don't know off hand if b55 is the 16 pin connector or the 20 pin connector. EDIT: it is pin 3 on the 20 pin connector.
if you have a TCU swap that in. if not, measure the voltage on pin 3 when the TB is occurring. does it have voltage? this might tell you if the solenoid is bad or the tcu.
if you cut the wire on pin 3 , on the 20 pin connector you will have 4wd ''locked'' and TB. generally this will cause your AT Temp light to flash the next time you start your car. if you put a 15 ohm, (iirc) resistor on it the light will not flash for a bad duty c. (i think, i haven't tried it yet.)
i had /have an intermittent duty c failure on my 95 legacy. i put the fuse in and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. iirc, it tends to fail when hot. there is a good thread that addresses the TB issue due to a bad, scorched, burnt, ''something'' on the TCU circuit board.
i pulled the rear section of the drive shaft and just drive it in FWD. but i kept the fuse in just to see. some times FWD lights up and sometimes the AT Temp light flashes, but either way i never have TB. i also never have awd.
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It's full of slashvertisements!!
1) Build 135TB box 2) Install Openstack.org's Object Storage system (free! Amazon S3 API Compliant!) 3) Profit? Fuck profit! STORE ALL THE THINGS!
Who said it would be better? Not the article. The article said you'd have to do it yourself, and if you're THAT good, you might make something better. If you don't want to do it yourself (FreeNAS) you can opt for their software to manage it, which GASP HORROR, they charge for.
Challenge laid down Open Source Community, make your own Management software and create a new FS that doesn't have the limitations of the EXT4 has without using LVN to get around those limitations, that is better than what these people
They don't sell the management software.. its internal. They only sell a backup service to end users, via a client.
My problem with Backblaze is their marketing is very misleading...they pit these storage pods up against cloud storage and assert that they are "cheaper", as though a storage pod is anything like cloud storage. It isn't. Sure, there's the management software issue that's already been mentioned, but they do no analysis on redundancy, power usage, security, bandwidth usage, cooling, drive replacement due to failure, administrative costs, etc. It's insulting to anyone who can tell the difference, but there are suits out there who read their marketing pitch and decide that current cloud storage providers like Google and Amazon are a rip off because "Backblaze can do the same thing for a twentieth the price!" It's nuts.
You can see this yourself in their pricing chart at the bottom of their blog post. They assert that Backblaze can store a petabyte for three years for either $56k or $94k (if you include "space and power"). And then they compare that to S3 costing roughly $2.5 million. In their old graphs, they left out the "space and power" part, and I'm sure people complained about the inaccuracies. But they're making the same mistake again this time: they're implicitly assuming the cost of replicating, say, S3, is dominated by the cost of the initial hardware. It isn't. They still haven't included the cost of geographically distributing the data across data centers, the cost of drive replacement to account for drive failure over 3 years, the cost of the bandwidth to access that data, and it is totally unclear if their cost for "power" includes cooling. And what about maintaining the data center's security? Is that included in "space"?
On a side note, I'd be interested to see their analysis on mean time between data loss using their system as it is priced in their post.
You could say the Backblaze is serving a different need, so it doesn't need to incur all those additional costs, and you might be right, but then why are they comparing it to S3 in the first place? It's just marketing fluff, and it is in an article people are lauding for its technical accuracy. Meh.
First: ALL Marketing is misleading. That is what marketing does. Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative. So complaining about that is just idiotic.
Second: You could have a couple dozen Backblaze units, pay for a tech to monitor them 24/7/365 and replace all the drives twice over for what Amazon charges for the same thing. Sure that doesn't included cost for premises, and HighSpeed Internet to multiple locations. But still, that is aggregated with all the other clients.
Third: what are you paying for in the "cloud", I mean besides ethereal concepts. Does Amazon tell you how they do things? You probably know less about Amazon (and the others) setup so you're comparing something you know something about (not everything) verses something you know almost nothing about, and the complain that they aren't doing it in a comparable way. You don't know.
Fourth: Your basic assumption is that Backblaze has no contigency for drive replacement, which is false. Since these are "new" drives there might be insufficient data about failure rates and therefore the actual cost of replacement (never mind warranties) or having drives in both Hot and Cold Spare setups. I'm sure that Backblaze in their $5/MO service figures what it costs to store data, have spares, keep the Datacenter running and profitable. Even if they double the cost to $10, it still puts the others to shame.
Have you compared the data loss rates for the last three years between Amazon and Backblaze? Can you even compare or is that data held secret (see point 1b). My point here, is that you're pulling shit out of your ass and thinking it doesn't stink. Even if it isn't directly comparable, it is at least in the realm of consideration, EVEN if everything you said is true. And at 10 times less in cost, that can buy a lot of redundancy. It is just a matter of perspective.
Amazon's S3 is based off of MogileFS (the concept, not the code): http://danga.com/mogilefs/ [danga.com]
And if you want to run an S3 compliant system internally, you'll us openstack.org's object storage system:
http://www.openstack.org/projects/storage/ [openstack.org]
Ability to provide object storage services at multi-petabyte scale
Free open source software, no licensing frees, 'open-core,' or 'freemium' model
Written in python; easy to differentiate your offering with extensions and modifications
Compatibility a
Pr0n stars? Because we all know what it's really full of...
If I ever have to admin a Petabyte cluster, I'd name it Petabear.
I know, it's crazy! Storage numbers are increasing faster than the national debt!
For a true porn collector yet.
for both internet security and privacy: each of us can now store his own local copy of the internet and surf offline!
Of course, with my 150GB/month bandwidth cap it is going to take ~70 years to fill it up...
Or can somebody tell me if the cooling of the HDs is ok if they are stacked like in the picture?
It's probably fine [imgur.com].
First, it depends on airflow. That is pretty close to optimal in the design. Second, you can monitor disk temperature and even have an emergency slowdown or shut-off if they overheat. Monitoring and shut-down is easy to script, maybe half a day if you know what you are doing.
Or can somebody tell me if the cooling of the HDs is ok if they are stacked like in the picture?
According to their blog post about it, they see a variation of ~5 degrees within unit (middle drives to outside drives) and about 2 degrees from the lowest unit in a rack to the highest. They also indicate that the drives stay within the spec operating temperature range with only two of the six fans in each chassis running.
Keep in mind these are 5400 RPM drives, not the 10K+ drives you would expect in an application where performance is critical. These are designed for one thing - lots of storage, cheap. No real worries about access times, IOPS, or a lot of the other performance measures that a more flexible storage solution would need to be concerned with. These are for backup only - nice large chunks of data written and (hopefully) never looked at again.
The article says it uses RAID 6 - 45 hard drives are in the pod, which are grouped into an arrays of 15 that use RAID 6 (the groups being combined by logical volumes), which gives you an actual data capacity of 39TB per group (3TB * (15 - 2) = 39TB), which then becomes 117TB usable space (39TB * 3 = 117TB). The 135TB figure is what it would be if you used RAID 1, or just used them as normal drives (45 * 3TB = 135TB).
And these are all "manufacturer's terabytes", which is probably 1,024,000,000,000 bytes per terabyte instead of 1,099,511,627,776 (2^40) bytes per terabyte like it should be. So it's a mere 108 terabytes, assuming you use the standard power-of-two terabyte ("tebibyte', if you prefer that stupid-sounding term).
A manufacturer's terabyte would be 1,000,000,000,000 bytes.
Tell me about it!!!
£4,561.68 still sounds like a steal. In fact, I might just steal one and save even more!
I actually spend more than that on food for the family per year. I wonder...
There is "cloud storage" management software that would be awesome on these boxes (although they might benefit from a bit more CPU and ram, and some more Gigabit nics.. When I read this blog article yesterday, I immediately went back to openstack.. The examples for Openstack Storage don't even bother with raid, since the objects on the drive will be replicated to multiple other servers automatically. This could be very, very interesting..
http://www.openstack.org/projects/storage/ [openstack.org]
RAID-6, really?
After 5+ years working with ZFS, personally, I wouldn't touch md/extX/xfs/btrfs/whatever with a 10 foot pole. Solaris pretty much sucks (OpenSolaris is dead and the open source spinoffs are a joke), but for a storage backend it's years ahead of Linux/BSD.
Sure, you can run ZFS on Linux (I did) and FreeBSD (I do), but for huge amounts of serious data? No thanks.
Sure, you can run ZFS on Linux (I did) and FreeBSD (I do), but for huge amounts of serious data? No thanks.
What do you count as a serious amount of data? And what makes the FreeBSD version inferior in your opinion (aside from being a slightly older version - I think -STABLE now has the latest OpenSolaris release)?
Genuinely curious: I'm thinking of building a FreeBSD/ZFS NAS and I'd like to know if there's anything in particular that I need to look out for. Performance isn't really important, because most of the time I'll be accessing it over WiFi anyway, which is liekly to be far more of a bottleneck than any
Both FreeBSD [freebsd.org] and FreeNAS [freenas.org], in addition to OpenSolaris [opensolaris.org], support ZFS.
... if you really care about the data.
(Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze) - If you really care about data, you *MUST* have end-to-end application level data integrity checks (it isn't just the hard drives that lose data!).
Let's make this perfectly clear: Backblaze checksums EVERYTHING on an end-to-end basis (mostly we use SHA-1). This is so important I cannot stress this highly enough, each and every file and portion of file we store has our own checksum on the end, and we use this all over the place. For example, we pass over the data every week or so reading it, recalculating the checksums, and if a single bit has been thrown we heal it up either from our own copies of the data or ask the client to re-transmit that file or part of that file.
At the large amount of data we store, our checksums catch errors at EVERY level - RAM, hard drive, network transmission, everywhere. My guess is that consumers just do not notice when a single bit in one of their JPEG photos has been flipped -> one pixel gets every so slightly more red or something. Only one photo changes out of their collection of thousands. But at our crazy numbers of files stored we see it (and fix it) daily.
When you choose which file system to use, you should consider what the purpose of the storage is. If it's to run a database, you may want to rethink the decision to go with a journaling file system, because databases often their own journaling (like PostreSQL WAL), which actually means the performance will get reduced if you put a journaling file system underneath that. [postgresql.org] Just my 0.0003 grams of gold.
They don't run databases on this storage. the ONLY way they access all this storage is via an HTTPS connection to the tomcat server running on the machine. They have some very, very interesting blog entries about how things scale when you go beyond a handful of servers.
That's not why I wrote the comment, I saw that the access is over http, I wrote it because this story is an ad for this company, but also it's talking about building a system like that for your own use, and if you do it for your own use, why would you do http only?
Why not use a SAS card?
why have three PCIe cards that are only X1 when a x4 or better card with more ports has more PCI-e bandwidth and some even have there own RAID cpu on them.
Why use a low end I3 cpu in a 7K system? at least go to i5 even more so with software raid.
Hardware RAID controllers are stupid in this context. The only place they make sense is in a workstation, where you want your CPU for doing work, and if the controller dies you restore from backups or just reinstall. Using software RAID means never having to try to get a rebuilder software to convert the RAID from one format to another because the old controller isn't available any more, or because you can't get one when you really need one to get that project data out so you can ship and bill.
No. Hardware controllers are the right solution in this context. These pods are not designed for individual users, but for corporations that can afford stockpiles of spare parts, so replacing a board can be done easily. Using hardware controllers allows many more drives per box, and thus per CPU. A populated 6-CPU motherboard is going to be less reliable, dissipate more heat, require more memory, and likely be less reliable, than the special-purpose hardware approach that allows for a single CPU.
Software RAID makes sense when you have a balance of storage bandwidth requirements to CPU capacity that is heavy on the CPU side. This box is designed for the opposite scenario, as the highly informative blog describes:
http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets/ [backblaze.com]
(Yes, I know, expecting someone to read the blog would mean that they would have to read the linked article and then click through to the original post, a veritable impossibility. Still, it is recommended reading, especially the part about their experience with failure rates and how they have *one* guy replacing failed drives *one* day per week.)
Because, for this project, raw storage capacity is much more important than performance. Besides, they claim their main bottleneck is the gigabit Ethernet interface - even software RAID, the PCIe x1, and the raw drive performance is less of a limiting factor.
Yeah, in a situation where you need high I/O performance, this design would be less than ideal. But they don't - they're providing backup storage. They don't need heavy write performance, they don't need heavy read performance. They just need to put a lot of data on a disk and not break anything.
PS: SAS doesn't really provide much better performance than SATA, and it's a lot more expensive. Same for hardware RAID - using those would easily octuple the cost of the entire system.
Besides, they claim their main bottleneck is the gigabit Ethernet interface - even software RAID, the PCIe x1, and the raw drive performance is less of a limiting factor.
This is absolutely true. Even with a pair of bonded 1Gb Ethernet connections, it's not nearly enough to keep up with a PCIe x1 in the real world. I'm moving to a single 10Gb connection from each server to iSCSI SAN because of this.
Very simple: Best bang for the buck. Your approach just increases cost without any real benefit in the target usage scenario. For example, the i5 is just a waste of money and energy. Hardware RAID drives cost, but the only "advantage" is has is that it is easier to use for clueless people.
An Intel i3 540, more powerful than the CPU on most hardware RAID controllers.This thing will be doing very little other than handling the RAID sets.
But the raid cpu is on it's own where the system cpu has to do the video, networking, and the OS on top of doing the raid work.
If you're in the SF Bay Area check out http://geeksessions.com/ [geeksessions.com] where Gleb Budman from Backblaze will be speaking about the Storage Pod and their approach to Network & Infrastructure scalability along with engineers from Zynga, Yahoo!, and Boundary. This event will also have a live stream on geeksessions.com.
Full Disclosure: This is my event.
50% discount to the event (about $8 bucks and free beer) for the Slashdot crowd here: http://gs22.eventbrite.com/?discount=slashdot [eventbrite.com]
Hi Jim
I'm quite a few timezones East of you, meaning the live stream will start at 0300 local on Wednesday for me. I'm willing to tough it out and stay up to watch it if necessary but it would be much more civilised if I could watch a playback. Will it be available for download later or is it live only?
It sucks I've only just learnt about geeksessions
Here [backblaze.com] is a link to Backblaze's actual blog entry for the new pods 135TB, and here [backblaze.com] is the original 67TB pods. The blog article is actually quite fascinating. Apparently they are employee owned, use entirely off-the-shelf parts (except for the case, looks like), and recommend Hitachi drives (Deskstar 5K3000 HDS5C3030ALA630) as having the lowest failure rate of any manufacturer (less than 1% they say).
I found it kinda amusing that ext4's 16TB volume limit was an "issue" for them. Not because its surprising, but because... well, its 16TB. The whole blog post is actually recommended reading for anyone looking to build their own data pods like this. It really does a good job showing their personal experience in the field and problems/not problems they have. For instance: apparently heat isn't an issue, as 2 fans are able to keep an entire pod within the recommended temperature (although they actually use 6). It'll be interesting to see what happens as some of their pods get older, as I suspect that their failure rate will get pretty high fairly soon (their oldest drives are currently 4 years old, I expect when they hit 5-6 years failures will start becoming much more common.) All in all, pretty cool. Oh, and it shows how much Amazon/ Dell price gouges, but that shouldn't really shock anyone. Except the amount. A petabyte for three years is $94,000 with Backblaze, and $2,466,000 with Amazon.
P.S. I suspect they use ext4 over ZFS because ZFS, despite the built in data checks, isn't mature enough for them yet. They mention they used to use JFS before switching to ext4, so I suspect they have done some pretty extensive checking on this.
With the latest bandwidth caps I'm seeing on my provider (AT&T U-verse), I can download data at a rate of 250 GB per month. So it'll take me 45 YEARS to fill up that 135 TB array. Something tells me they'll have better storage solutions by then.
In the meantime, I'm just waiting for Google to roll out the high-speed internet in my locale next year - maybe then I'll have a chance at filling up my current file server.
Crazy enough, you can actually *buy* content instead of downloading it from Pirate Bay.
These pods are not intended for the individual user. Your ability to saturate a home pipe without filling up 135 TB isn't relevant.
I did something a bit similar on a smaller scale about 9 years ago. (Linux software RAID, 12 disk in a cheap server). The trick is to make sure that you pay something like 70% of the total hardware cost for the disks. It is possible, it can be done reliable, but you have to know what you are doing. If you are not a competent and enterprising engineer, forget it (or become one). But the largest cost driver in storage is that people want to buy storage pre-configured and in a box that they do not need to unde
But the largest cost driver in storage is that people want to buy storage pre-configured and in a box that they do not need to understand. This is not only very expensive, (when I researched this 9 years ago, disk part of total price was sometimes as low as 15%!), but gives you lower performance and lower reliability. And also less flexibility.
You aint kidding. I have installed systems for people that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and they cant even give me basic information in order to complete the install. How many disks to each head? No Idea. How big do you want your RAID groups? No idea. Excuse me sir this IP and Gateway are in different subnets can I have another? That last one has actually happened more than once.
What the hell else is Sean doing with his time? That's what the articles are really missing...
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. -- James Bryant Conant


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I'm very new to Yii.
I'm starting a new project with backend and frontend. I found andy_s cookbook reciept "Organize directories for applications with front-end and back-end using WebApplicationEnd behavior", I thing it is great idea, and project structure suits my application the best.
I've done everything like in this reciept, but I'm having problem with redirection to login page. When I try to get to backend and application should redirect me to login page, the web browser throws an error "Invalid redirection".
Here is my admin config file:
return CMap::mergeArray( require(dirname(__FILE__).'/main.php'), array( 'components' => array( 'user'=>array( // enable cookie-based authentication 'allowAutoLogin' => true, 'loginUrl' => array('admin/login'), ), 'urlManager' => array( 'urlFormat' => 'path', 'showScriptName' => false, 'rules' => array( 'admin'=>'site/index', 'admin/<_c>'=>'<_c>', 'admin/<_c>/<_a>'=>'<_c>/<_a>', ), ) ) )
What could be wrong?


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Art major exhibits senior thesis
- 04-06-2011
- By Amanda Kenyon Waite
When senior art major Grace Weaver came to UVM, she planned to study biology. A painting class with professor Steve Budington during sophomore year won over her intellectual affiliation, but her scientific curiosity lives on.
She may have traded a microscope for a foam brush, but make no mistake: Weaver is still engaged in research and investigation, and her senior thesis, an exhibition titled "Thin-Skinned," shows it. With the help of a prestigious URECA grant -- most commonly awarded to students in the sciences -- she secured her own studio space on Pine Street. There, Weaver has been immersed in an exploration of "the surfaces that separate the body from the external world" and the ways in which we strive to know and interact with the world around us.
Watch this slideshow to see images of Weaver's line drawings, paintings and objects, and hear her talk about the show, her influences and the unusual materials she's chosen.
See the exhibition in person, Thursdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., through April 30 at The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, 266 Pine Street, Burlington.


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Last week I wrote about a woman who has been writing to a pen pal in Australia for 77 years. Seems like letter writing runs in the family. One of her daughters, Cindy Rupe, took on the unique task/pleasure of writing a thank you note a day for nine months. Yep.
Cindy teaches second grade at James Elementary School in Ottumwa. She got the idea of the daily thank you notes from an article she read by John Kralik, "365 Days of Gratitude."
Cindy started her thank-you-a-day note writing on Thanksgiving two years ago. She made a list of 25 people she wanted to express thanks to and started in. These were friends, family members, acquaintances, people she worked with, church friends and leaders — most anyone she had come in contact with.
Cindy radiates positive feelings and receives them back. Sometimes, these thank-you notes were simply gratitude for being her friend, or a thank-you for services rendered, or gratitude for that person being part of the village that helped raise her three sons.
And the results of this note writing were overwhelming — for the recipients and her personally.
One lady was about to quit her job, when she received the "thank-you-for-what-you-do" note. It turned her whole outlook around, gave her strength to carry on, and made her realize that what she does is indeed needed and appreciated.
Fr. Nick, a former well-known priest in Mt. Pleasant, was also a priest in Ottumwa. When he first came to Ottumwa, Andrew, Cindy's oldest son, was Fr. Nick's first baptism. In the note, Cindy thanked Fr. Nick for the positive influence he had been on Andrew, and relayed the good news that Andrew, now 24, was about to be married.
Fr. Nick wrote back that he had never received a note like that and how grateful he was to receive it. He went on to thank Cindy and her family for all the work and support they provided to the parish.
Cindy does most of her writing in the morning — she's a morning person. When she writes to someone, that person is in her mind. She's thinks about that person's good qualities and tries to emulate them.
Can you imagine the positive influence a teacher like Cindy would have on second-grade students? She encourages her students to write thank-you notes to guest readers, and student teachers.
All three of her sons, and her mother, have been guest readers. One of her sons, Patrick, is a Navy copilot on an F-18. One of her students wrote him a thank-you note for being a reader, and Patrick wrote back, "Listen to your teacher, she is very smart."
Cindy aspires to what newspaper columnist Jim Davidson describes as the three stages of life: learning, earning, and giving back. In the first 25 years of your life, you are learning. The second twenty-five is devoted to earning. The last twenty-five should be giving back.
Cindy is in the "giving back" stage.
New Year's Day is approaching, the time of reflection and resolution. Cindy has decided she is going to fire up the daily note writing again, starting on New Year's Day. This time she is shooting for the full year.
Watch out world!
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|View Poll Results: Romance is in the air. Multiple selection available!
|Layfon x Felli
|Layfon x Nina
|Layfon x Leerin
|Layfon x Gorneo aka --LayGor--
|Layfon x Mei
|Layfon x Naruki
|Savaris x Layfon x Dixerio
|Dein Dee x Dalshena
|Dein Dee x Nina
|Harley x Nina
|Layfon x Kallian
|Felli x Shante
|Layfon x Other
|Other x Other
|Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 251. You may not vote on this poll
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|2009-02-20, 11:57
|Link #102
Portable Dude Mk. II
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: All ghillied up spying on someone ~2,000 yards away using telescope sights.
Age: 29
Regarding Leerin's letter in ep 6, I found out something... it seems that not even Nina rests easy knowing about it. Although it's not shown in the anime (so guess where I knew that). But yeah.
|2009-02-20, 13:25
|Link #104
?Clannad Troll¿
Join Date: Oct 2008
You misquoted me, but your post was proper in response to mine. As for Felli, sorry homeslice but it's just not going to happen IMO. You say Layfon is dumb as an ox but he was able to accurately read Mei's invitation to dinner as a date, the SCP discussing his Kei analysis, the entire Temp Police scenario. I think Layfon has accurately surmised Felli's growing affections yet during EP 6 when Felli asks him if he has free time he replies "Yeah, but...." as if trying to keep an option to bail out on her.
The only reason I say Leerin has a chance with Layfon is because the only scene I've seen with them they were kissing. Ultimately I assume this will end like all other shounen/action series where the hero nevers resolves his harem.
|2009-02-20, 13:38
|Link #105
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2004
I guess I should've been clear enough in my definiton that 'dumb as an ox' as in the way girls feels about him. He's quite oblivious in the romance department so far.
|2009-02-21, 03:04
|Link #107
?Clannad Troll¿
Join Date: Oct 2008
@ Trueknight
I did bother reading your post . About the only thing I specifically disagreed with you on was that he's not dumb when it comes to relationships. The whole leerin thing was simply a preface to the "He'll end alone" bit. I assume he'll end alone, I think Leerin has the highest chance, but I want him to end with Nina. It was mainly just a rhetorical tidbit into my Regios romance theory. Anywho.
I still don't think he's dumb when it comes to the girl's affections. He saved mei and when was asked to go to a GROUP dinner he agreed. When the other two girls bailed he asked if she wanted to cancel it (I assume because he knew it wasn't simply an outing with friends) and only agreed (while smiling slightly which I assume means it's an acto f compassion not affection) after watching Mei squirm around unable to express her feelings. Fast forward to Felli and when she asks a similar styled question about spending time together he tries to leave an opportunity to decline until she states her brother wants to meet him.
Now there are two possible ways to interpret this. One is he's just retarded at understanding their intentions, OR he fully understands their intentions but doesn't want to pursue them because he has an emotional attachment to someone else (Presumedly Leerin). Now if he wasn't a Heaven's Blade at the age of 10 nor could he accurately interpret the SCP's subtle hints nor could he generally predict the outcomes of nearly every situation he's placed into, then I would assume it was the former and not the latter.
Really, TBH, I'm just tired of the whole "I'm too dumb to understand women though I can crush everyone around me" cliche of anime and I'm hoping for a refreshing new perspective. Of course, your guess is probably the more accurate one, but I can still hope, right?
|2009-02-21, 03:50
|Link #108
Mad Scientist #0000
Or tries to refuse them because he has no romantic interest in them(i mean Felli and Mei) or there's a little chance that he wants to get closer to other girl on Zuelni(most propably then Nina)...but who knows...guessing from the ep 7 pictures Layfon somewhat become Mr. Echi(i mean he accidentaly do perverted things...like the breast-pillow at ep 5 and now Narki's chest grabing...) and what comes with that? Most propably an emotionaly dumb character who know nothing of romance...(i hope it's not true). And i think Leerin's kiss with Layfon probably was just a teasing from the authors and she must fight hard to earn Layfon's affection as any other "harem-mate". So i think his emotions towards Leerin(in romantic sense) not as strong to refuse that kind of invitations just because of that...
|2009-02-21, 04:46
|Link #109
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Philadelphia, Pa
I hope it goes something like this:
Mei- Unrequited love for Layfon(this one is pretty certain). Part of harem for fanservice and moe factor.
Felli- Unrequited love for Layfon. Comedy, moe, and allows her character to change and grow because of him.
Nina- Ambiguous relationship that has a lot of underlying romantic undertones at times. There for drama, plot, and character development.
Leerin- Requited/ambiguous feelings but complicated by relationship with other girls. There for plot and relationship drama(jealousy?).
I don't see Narki get much more than that accidental breast grab. She'd better treasure that moment. I don't care how big Layfon harem gets as long as it's fairly clear who he has possible romantic feelings for and who he just thinks of as friends. Trying to give him romantic feelings for each girl or make it seems as he does just cheapens his character IMO.
|2009-02-21, 08:30
|Link #111
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2004
From what I see Layfon fell into the type of typical japanese RPG's heroes where all the girls wants to go inside the lead's pants but the lead somehow being ridiculously dense, oblivous and retarded to even notice the girls obvious advances. Let's see, Senel from Tales of Legendia, Llyod from Tales of Symphonia, Lyner from Ar-tonelico, and umm others.
Layfon is also responsible for unconsciousnessly making the girls smitten and affected by him by doing them good deeds, talking and encouraging them and helping them unconditionally. He didn't mean it romantically and he's doing it at good nature basis, but unfortunately the girls being fantasy-minded they are thought about it otherwise. He's not to blame, yes. But lol he didn't think about the aftereffect.
In the end in CSR's case I think its the girls who's eventually going to make all the blitzkrieg romantic advances towards him while Layfon just sitting there wondering what the hell are they doing. Maybe he thinks he's already badass enough so he doesn't need to make any advances.
|2009-02-21, 14:17
|Link #113
A gentle ripple
Join Date: Aug 2004
It's ok, if Layfon doesn't end up with any of these four he still has the SCP. I mean, they're always on the same page. The chemistry is astounding.
I really really hope they don't make Naruki chase after him too, that would be a waste of screen time as we already have a "Probably not going to happen." in Mei, and we know how much screen time she has singlehandedly "wasted" by herself.
I'd have to agree that Lilin has the highest chance at the moment with her little sneak attack in ep1. You can't disregard that she writes letters to him on a frequent basis. Layfon probably has some kind of bond with her as he doesn't act the way a single person would at all when he is advanced on, either that or he has nerves of steel. Retarded male lead notwithstanding.
|2009-02-21, 14:41
|Link #115
Welcome to Kourindou
For layfon probably the bond with leerin is only childhood/sister like; probably in the orphanage layfon considered all the children part of his family, probably same for leerin; however surely this is not for leerin, so she kiss him to try to understand layfon that he is important to her, but all we know that he is a bit moron, so probably he don't know because leerin kiss him or probably think that was a kind of goodbye lol
|2009-02-21, 16:17
|Link #117
Join Date: Feb 2009
mostly all romance anime they make the main guy character dense/retarded lol but I have watched a lot of romance animes and I always get the feeling of whos going to end up with who, well sometimes, mostly the main couple I get xD. I dunno but I think Felli might end up with Layfon, I haven't seen Leerin yet so xD.
|2009-02-21, 16:38
|Link #118
Join Date: Apr 2007
As an ardent shipper, this show has made me very happy with the number of flags it has risen . Original material isn't a romance story, yes, but I hope Regios becomes popular enough for a spin off game, similar to what was done with Code Geass and ToraDora. My shipping fantasies must be realized for ALL pairings!
|2009-02-21, 18:02
|Link #119
Portable Dude Mk. II
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: All ghillied up spying on someone ~2,000 yards away using telescope sights.
Age: 29
But to become a game Regios has to be a super-magnificent RPG (and I would be in despair if it's going to be in any of these 3rd-gen consoles, notably 360 and/or PS3) due to the way the story was created... also, trying to implement the dating sim function into it would be a difficult task to do :P
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Evolution Hoax
In Sochi, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's explanations regarding Caucasus opening called attention as far as his words about Islam is considered.
The Russian leader evaluated the present status with the leaders and religious scholars of Caucasus region and carried out talks with the Chechen President Ramazan Kadirov and Ingushetia President Yunus-Bek Evkurov as well as some other leaders.
"It is impossible for us to solve the Caucasus problem without receiving any help from Muslim leaders. Therefore, you will always feel the full support of Russian Government by your side." said Medvedev and promised to provide every kind of support to the religious scholars who practice studies in the region.
Medvedev suggested that principals of Islam are to be expressed by means of TV channels as well as Internet and continued his words as; "Now, digital broadcast is on the stage and it has a serious potential. We should consider of starting a TV channel in our country that presents Islam and traditions."


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|Durango, Colo.
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|Durango HS
2014 Sand Season
Went 1-5 during the first half of the season with Lauren Aikels at No. 2, before finishing the year by going 3-3 with Madeline Cannon at No. 2…Lovett and Cannon won three of their last five matches of the season, including victories over Cal Poly, Stanford and San Jose State…with the scored tied at 2-2 against Cal Poly, Lovett and Cannon provided the match clincher with a 21-17, 21-19 victory…with Aikels, she beat a doubles team from San Francisco.
2013 Indoor Season
Started all but one match at outside hitter…did not play at Idaho State because of injury…led the Hornets in kills (361), kills per set (3.25), attempts (936), points (407.5), and points per set (3.67)…among Big Sky Conference leaders, she ranked fifth in kills per set, and seventh in points per set…also averaged 0.27 aces, 1.29 digs and 0.25 blocks to go with a .228 hitting percentage…posted double digits in kills in a team-high 22 matches…that included a career-high 22 kills in the season finale at Montana, the most kills by a Hornet all season…had a streak of 10 consecutive matches with at least 11 kills from Sept. 27-Oct. 31…had six aces in a home win over Southern Utah, tied for the third best mark in Sacramento State single-season history…had a pair of double-doubles, including 15 kills and 11 digs vs. Bucknell, and 14 kills and 12 digs at Eastern Washington…led or tied for the team lead in kills in 14 of the 30 matches in which she appeared…named Big Sky Conference Player of the Week on Sept. 2…recorded the Hornets' top three single-match kill totals during the year (22 at Montana, 21 at La Salle, 20 vs. Northern Arizona)…dramatically improved her numbers from her freshman to sophomore season, including averaging 2.00 kills more per set, and increasing her hitting percentage by 169 percentage points.
2013 Sand Season
Played in all eight matches during the program's inaugural sand season with partner Lauren Aikels…the tandem played at the No. 4 spot in the team's lineup all year, and finished with a 3-5 record…the three victories for Lovett/Aikels came against Cal, Pacific and San Francisco…the pair won two of their final three matches of the season.
2012 Indoor Season
Appeared in 23 matches, including four starts and 55 sets played in her first season with the Hornets…averaged 1.25 kills, 0.51 digs, 0.27 blocks and 1.50 points per set…also had four aces…posted double figures in kills three times during a six-match span from Sept. 20-Oct. 6…that included a season-high 12 kills at home against both Idaho State and Weber State, and 11 kills at Northern Arizona…narrowly missed a double-double with nine kills and nine digs at North Dakota…in the match at Northern Arizona, she also had an ace, seven digs, a block and a .250 hitting percentage (11-4-28)…season-high four blocks came against both Weber State and Santa Clara…two of those blocks against Santa Clara were solo stuffs.
High School
A 2012 graduate of Durango High School in Durango, Colo…a four-year starting varsity outside hitter for the Demons…helped lead the team to back-to-back state tournament appearances, regionals championships, district crowns and Southwestern League titles in 2010 and 2011…as a senior, she was named first team all-state and the unanimous choice as the Southwestern League MVP after averaging 4.2 kills, 2.8 digs and 0.5 aces per set…led the Demons in total kills (364) and aces (40) while ranking second in digs (244)…as a junior, Lovett was named the Southwestern League's co-MVP, honorable mention all-state, first team all-league and academic all-state after averaging 3.9 kills, 2.8 digs and 0.4 aces per set…during her four seasons, the Demons combined for a 67-31 overall record and a 31-9 league mark…was a three-time first team all-league selection (2009-11).
Parents are Robert and Valerie Lovett…an undeclared major…played five years for the Four Corners Volleyball Club of Durango…helped the team to a Fiesta Classic championship in 2009.


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Chef Keller show how to transform an inexpensive cut of meat into an elegant show-stopper with his tried-and-true recipe for ultra-succulent short ribs. He then turns the leftovers into a hearty, chunky soup and a surprise burger. Red Wine Braised Shortribs; Short Rib Soup with Mushrooms and Pearl Couscous; Short Rib Surprise Burger.
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LAHAINA - Sacred Hearts School eighth-grader J.P. Hill was recently invited to speak at the fifth annual Schools of the Future Conference at the Hawaii Convention Center on Oahu.
The keynote speakers were Dr. Yong Zhao, an internationally known scholar, author and lecturer; and Linda Darling-Hammond, professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and driving force behind the School Redesign Network, Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education.
Hill participated in the hour-long "Worldwide Voyage: Island Wisdom, Ocean Connections, Global Lessons" presentation with Hokule'a teacher crew members.
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J.P. Hill spoke at the fifth annual Schools of the Future Conference.
Hokule'a just finished a five-month voyage around the Hawaiian Islands, visiting more than 25 ports and engaging in 15 "Learning Journeys" with schools and community organizations.
Crew members discussed a sampling of "Learning Journey" findings and explained the exciting opportunities to get schools, students and communities involved with Hokule'a's upcoming Worldwide Voyage.
Touching on the role of Hokule'a in reinventing education and his classroom's experiences with voyaging canoes, Hill's impressive speech is posted online at www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3LM98HPYJs.
"Attending the 2013 Schools of the Future Conference was like being in a portal of the 21st century, learning with one foot in the past and one foot in the future. Hokule'a and the Worldwide Voyage is the bridge to link past generations of 'ohana and curriculum together," he said.
Hill did such a fine job that Mark Standley, director of the Professional Education Center at the University of Alaska Southeast, invited him, SHS Teacher Mary Anna Enriquez, Polynesian Voyaging Society Navigator Nainoa Thompson and members of the Hokule'a team to present at the Alaska Society for Technology in Education Conference on Feb. 22-15, 2014, in Anchorage.
Linda Lindsay from Seabury Hall also invited Hill to apply to speak at TEDx Youth at the Upcountry school on April 6, 2014.
The Schools of the Future Conference is a collaborative event presented by the Hawaii Community Foundation, Hawaii Association of Independent Schools and Hawaii Department of Education in partnership with the Hawaii Society for Technology in Education and Hawaii Public Charter Schools Network.
Thousands of educators from Hawaii's public, private, charter and parochial schools came together to learn from the two keynote speakers, nationally recognized featured speakers and more than 100 sessions offered by Hawaii's own teachers and administrators.


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Preseason NIT BreakdownPosted by rtmsf on November 17th, 2008
(ed. note: if you're looking for the 2009 NIT Bracket, click here.)
The Preseason NIT, the Granddaddy of all the Preseason Tourneys, begins tonight, with all sixteen teams in action at four regional pods (Chestnut Hill, MA; W. Lafayette, IN; Norman, OK; Tucson, AZ). Unlike many of the D2 and whatever-else teams thrown into the pods of the CvC last week, the PNIT at least uses all D1 teams for its sacrificial lambs. A new feature is that each of the sixteen teams was seeded, although we're not sure how BC and Arizona ended up with protected seeds over Davidson (also, why isn't #1 Purdue playing #16 Miss. Valley St., and #2 v. #15, etc.?). We suppose BC fans would buy more tickets in Manhattan next week? Whichever. Below is the regional bracket, and our thoughts and picks follow.
Best first-round game. #8 St. John's v. #9 Cornell. You don't think that Big Red is looking forward to sticking it to their Big East brethren to the south? Click here if you don't believe us. These two NY teams have never played, but we're thinking that Cornell will ride its three-point shooting to the upset win in Chestnut Hill tonight.
Other Upset Possibilities. Keep an eye on these two games in the Tucson regional:
- #3 Arizona v. #15 Florida Atlantic. Nobody has a clue how Arizona is going to respond to all of its turmoil from the offseason, or whether half of its players will even be available tonight (apparently so), but if there's one thing we've learned about college basketball and despite trite cliches to the contrary – adversity generally does NOT end well. New FAU head coach Mike Jarvis knows how to coach up a team for one game, and this could be a rude awakening for Russ Pennell as a D1 coach.
- #7 UAB v. #11 Santa Clara. The recipe for an upset here is clear. WCC talent is generally underrated. This is a west-coast team playing an east-coast team in the Pacific time zone. John Bryant inside the paint. Robert Vaden may still be feeling the effects from his recent arrest hanging over his head (4 pts last game on 2-13 FGs). UAB head coach Mike Davis has been known to lay an egg or two in his career. UAB will have no answer for Santa Clara big man
Will MVSU Break 30? #2 Oklahoma v. #16 Mississippi Valley St. Knowing what we know about Oklahoma's defense, and knowing also what we know about MVSU's inability to score the basketball, we foresee something along the lines of 75-35 in this game.
They Should Roll. BC at home v. Loyola (MD). Purdue at home vs. Eastern Michigan. And Davidson in Norman vs. James Madison. No way any of these three loses tonight.
Two Evenly Matched Bad Teams. #6 Georgia v. #10 Loyola (IL). Wow, the PNIT should commend itself for getting two Loyola into this tournament. Was Loyola Marymount not available? No further comment on this game, other than to say either team could win, and Purdue will blast said winner tomorrow night.
Regional Picks. We've got BC, Purdue, Davidson and Santa Clara (taking advantage of the FAU upset). We really didn't want to pick against Oklahoma at home, but then again, how do you justify picking against Stephen Curry? If the Wildcats can contain Blake Griffin inside, they can win that game and head to MSG.
Enough with ESPNU!!!! Three of the four televised games tonight in this tournament are on the U. Look, we understand why the games are on there. But why not also put them on the ESPN Full Court package so that those of us held completely hostage by our cable companies can actually take advantage of those games as well? We already pay for the FC service, so what possible harm could it do to expose more paying customers to your product? Make us pay $10 if you like, but just give us access to it!