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The day before he got the phone call that he had been anticipating for months, LaQuan Williams' patience, tried and tested throughout his football-playing life, had just about run out.
He was holding a part-time job at a Sherwin-Williams store in Washington, manning the cash register, mixing paint and labeling products. It was the last place that Williams expected to be, but he needed to pay the bills and support his infant daughter, Layla.
He was still working out and staying in shape. He had already auditioned for the UFL, and his agent, Jason Sklar, had explored opportunities and tryouts for him in Canada and seemingly everywhere else where football is played. But with no encouraging leads and the NFL lockout still in full effect, Williams spent the day playing a flag football tournament in New Jersey with two of his former University of Maryland teammates.
As Lassell Williams drove his son from Baltimore to his apartment in Laurel later that night, LaQuan felt further away from his NFL dreams than ever before.
"He said, 'Dad, I'm frustrated,'" Lassell Williams recalled. "As an adult, you understand that if you work hard and you can't see the outcome, anybody is going to get frustrated. I just told him, you have to keep trusting, keep believing that you're going to get what you're supposed to get. At the end of the day, he wanted to be home. He wanted to play for the Ravens. He's living his dream right now. He worked hard for it and nobody can take it from him."
The NFL lockout, which lasted for more than 4 1/2 months, was supposed to be a death knell for undrafted free agents like Williams. They were given precious little time to find teams, and then impress their new employers once they did sign. But LaQuan Williams persevered, just as he did coming out of Poly as a lightly-recruited player, just as he did at Maryland when injuries and academic issues dropped him further and further down the depth chart.
Williams, who grew up in East Baltimore, signed with the Ravens a couple of days after the lockout ended. He not only made the active roster, but he's occupied a key role for the 3-1 team. He's returned kickoffs and punts, and served as the third receiver with Lee Evans injured. In the Ravens' 34-17 victory over the New York Jets Sunday, Williams made his second NFL catch, an 11-yard reception on a Joe Flacco pass.
"The kid is a survivor," said Vanderbilt coach James Franklin, who worked with Williams while on Ralph Friedgen's staff at Maryland. "He always had a huge weight on his shoulders with all the things that he's had to overcome. You always saw it in his eyes, you saw it in his mannerisms. At the end of the day, it's a great story. You talk about a kid that just kept fighting through it and now look at him. He's got his college degree and he's chasing his dream, playing in the NFL."
When Williams, 23, was informed by Ravens coach John Harbaugh that he had made the team, he said that he left the room and dropped to his knees.
"I just kept thanking God," Williams said. "It was a blessing. The odds were against me not only to make the team, but to be on the 53-man roster. It's definitely a great feeling, but it's still a steady grind to make sure you do your job properly. I have to prepare everyday to be the best player I can be."
Shifting his focus
Williams has spent part of the bye week at the Ravens' complex, working out, catching balls and continuing to master the playbook. He said he's moved well beyond the euphoria of just making his hometown team, and inhabiting the same locker room as Ray Lewis, Ed Reed andRay Rice.
It had long been Williams' goal to become a professional athlete. He just never figured it would happen on the football field. Williams was a star basketball player, averaging more than 20 points per game, at Poly. He played quarterback and safety on the football team too, but his focus and preparation were on becoming the next great Baltimore basketball standout. That was before he had a conversation with one of his coaches and mentors, Corey Johnson, the summer leading into his senior year.
"I told him, 'You're a great basketball player but I can find 50 guys in the city that have your comparable skills. In football, I can't find five guys that have your skills," said Johnson, currently the head football coach at Patterson. Johnson was Williams' JV football coach, and then varsity defensive coordinator at Poly. "I wasn't trying to put down his basketball skills. He was a heck of a basketball player. But here is a kid who was rangy, very athletic, and he did some freakish things on the football field.'"
Before one of the annual Poly-City showdowns, Johnson moved Williams from safety to cornerback and matched him up with Duke-bound receiver Sheldon Bell.
"I told him, 'Shut him down. He has a [college] offer and you don't.' He did a great job, held him without a catch," Johnson said.
While he stood out on the field and on the basketball court, Poly girls basketball and volleyball coach Kendall Peace, who taught Williams during junior and senior years, remembers a motivated and humble student who didn't want special treatment and was content just being "one of the boys."
When Williams knew he was going to miss a week of class because of a family vacation, he asked Peace if she could arrange for him to get his Vector Mechanics textbook early so he wouldn't fall too far behind in class.
Williams has dropped by Poly several times since leaving the school to say hello to his former teachers and speak to students, but Peace admitted that she was still slightly taken aback when she turned on the television last Sunday and saw him back to return a kickoff against the Jets.
"It surprises me because you know what the odds are," Peace said. "Some kids had personalities of entitlement. He never had that. He had an attitude of, 'No matter what I do, I'm going to work for it.' I never said for a moment that he was a straight-A student, but he was always giving his best. We see tons of Baltimore City basketball players and other athletes make it to big-time status. But it doesn't become personal until you know the behavior and details of the kid. This wasn't a kid who everybody followed around and said that he was going to be great."
Days as a Terp
Williams initially gave a verbal commitment to James Madison, one of the few schools that recruited him heavily. However, a late scholarship opened up at Maryland, and he changed his mind. Williams, who started his college career as a defensive back but switched to wide receiver, had a promising season as a redshirt freshman in 2007, starting seven games for the Terrapins and catching 15 passes for 217 yards. However, he sustained a knee injury and missed the final three games, including the Emerald Bowl versus Oregon State.
His sophomore year was doomed from the start. He hurt his foot during spring practice, tried to come back and then broke the foot during warmups before the Terps' game against California. He eventually had surgery, triggering a difficult phase that had Williams pondering quitting football.
Depressed about his injury and the fact that others were passing him on the depth chart, Williams stopped going to class regularly and was ruled academically ineligible for the fall semester in 2009.
"I was having a pity party and my grades suffered," Williams said. "My biggest challenge was just staying focused off the field. It came kind of easy to me and I kind of ignored it at times. That set me back some. I just had my priorities mixed up as far as school, social life and football. The toughest part was I felt like I let my Mom down. I wanted to put a smile on her face so I didn't like the feeling of letting her down."
Williams was eventually reinstated and played his junior and senior seasons in College Park, but mostly in a diminished role as first Darrius Heyward-Bey and then Torrey Smith became Maryland's top targets. Williams caught 16 balls for 200 yards and three touchdowns over his final two years and embraced his role on special teams, ultimately being voted captain of that unit.
"It was injuries, it was a lot of factors," Franklin said. "LaQuan always had a lot of things on his plate that he's had to overcome. Now, his focus is strictly on football and his family. He was always an extremely athletic guy, extremely talented. Now he's able to focus and show everybody what he's all about."
Williams acknowledged that he didn't feel like he got a "true opportunity" to regain his starting wide receiver spot after the injury and academic issues, but he said that he harbors no ill will toward Maryland.
"It made me grow up as a man," Williams said. "It humbled me and gave me a greater passion and fire for football. It's not just a gift and I'm playing, I have real passion for it. All the things that I went through, fighting injuries, school, fighting for my spot on the team, it helped me learn and get to this outcome."
Fulfilling his dream
The LaQuan Williams that Smith got to know from their days together at Maryland had unlimited confidence.
"He has a swagger where he'll let you know about his abilities," Smith said. "He'll tell you he can beat Michael Jordan one-on-one and then you'll look at him, and he means it."
The Williams that Smith worked out and regularly communicated with after the April draft was uneasy and unsure.
"All he wanted was a shot and he kept saying, 'I don't know if I'm going to get one,'" said Smith, the Ravens' second-round pick. "He was ready to go to the military. I know what challenges that he'd had. It's tough not knowing your future. The stress he was under was crazy. He was being a man about the situation and worrying about his daughter's future."
Sklar admitted that there was a period of time where he was getting no calls about his client, who was "starting to panic" when the lockout was close to ending. But the Ravens got a positive recommendation on Williams from special teams coordinator Jerry Rosburg and assistant special teams coach Marwan Maalouf, and immediately had interest when the signing period began.
A total of 58 players from this year's class of undrafted free agents made NFL active rosters.
Williams, who said that he hopes he can serve as a role model to other Baltimore city kids, beat his own set of odds. When he was informed that he made the team, he hugged his "friend and brother" Smith, who called the moment something that he'll never forget. He then called his mother, who he felt that he disappointed so greatly with his period of academic struggles at Maryland. Daphne Boone called her son back several times after receiving the news because as Williams put it, 'She wanted to make sure she wasn't dreaming."
Indeed, she wasn't. In the previous eight months, her son had graduated from college and become a father.
"Being this girl's father is one of the best feelings ever," said Williams, who now lives with his nine-month-old daughter and girlfriend in Baltimore. "She's my biggest motivation."
Then he beat enormous odds to make his hometown team.
"Being here in Baltimore, we see all the hardships, we see all the things. But here's a kid who grew up in East Baltimore, went to the best public schools in the area and he made it," Johnson said. "It re-energized me as far as coaching is concerned. The kids see what's happened to him, how hard he's worked. It's not as farfetched to them anymore."
An earlier version of this article gave the wrong record for the Ravens and state the wrong game in which Williams made his first catch. The Baltimore Sun regrets the errors.


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Will health care cost slowdown last?
Maybe health care won't bankrupt the country after all.
A dramatic slowdown in the growth of health care spending in recent years could be here to stay, according to two studies published Monday by Health Affairs.
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But whether the deceleration is just a temporary byproduct of the job losses and belt-tightening from the recession or the result of more enduring systemic changes is among the most controversial and potentially consequential debates in health care policy, and it's by no means settled.
( Also on POLITICO: Study: Medicare cuts help insurers)
A study led by Harvard economist David Cutler found that if the recent trend holds up, projections of government spending on health care would plummet by $770 billion over the next 10 years, a figure large enough to have "an enormous impact on the U.S. economy and on government and household finances," the study notes.
The researchers found that only about a third of the reduction in growth of health spending could be attributed to the 2007 to 2009 recession and that fully 55 percent is unexplained. That unexplained portion could be the result of more lasting changes, such as a slower introduction of medical device technology and new pharmaceuticals and a trend toward higher cost-sharing that forces people to be more careful about how health care dollars are spent, the researchers say.
"The evidence thus suggests at least as strong a case for structural changes as for cyclical factors," the authors write.
( Also on POLITICO: Unhappy insurers hawk Obamacare)
A second paper by Harvard health policy researcher Michael Chernew and colleagues examined the role that increased out-of-pocket costs played in the slower health spending of large employers, and they found that changes in the design of benefits were partly responsible, but other factors also played a part.
National health care spending from 2009 to 2011 increased by about 3 percent per year — half of the nearly 6 percent growth that was seen over the previous 10 years.
In 2010 and 2011, health care spending by large employers grew even less — by 1.4 percent and 2.1 percent, respectively.

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Myra A. Gallond Autograph Album
Myra Gallond (1849-1924) was the eldest daughter of the proprietor of a successful boarding house and livery stable on South Prospect Street in Amherst, Mass. After marrying Henry E. Paige, a veterinary surgeon and brother of Massachusetts Agricultural College faculty member James B. Paige, Myra maintained her own boarding house on South Prospect.
This diminutive autograph album was assembled in Amherst, Mass., between 1867 and 1874, presumably at the boarding house Myra Gallond's family operated on South Prospect Street. Gallond's long association with nearby Massachusetts Agricultural College included taking in boarders from the school and working there briefly as a housekeeper, and she was the sister-in-law of one of the college's best known faculty members. Several of the College's earliest students appear in the album, including three of the first international students, Saitaro Naito (Japan), Gabriel Codina (Spain), and Elesbam Fiuza Barreto (Brazil) and several from the Pioneer Class of 1871.


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I have been more than a little busy this week!
I wanted to do a "Top Posts of 2011" post like I did last year for 2010.
However, I don't actually know how to manipulate Google Stats to just show the top 10 of this year.
I took the posts from my top 10 all-time views (there are 7 of them from this past year!) and then I added three of my favorites that are also popular.
#10 (my pick)
Repurposed Craft Supply Organizer
#9 (my pick)
This little reupholstery project is really popular.
#8 (my pick)
Non-gathered, flat front Yoga Skirt Tutorial
Stuffed Dinosaur Tutorial & Pattern
Thanks for reading my blog! I have taken a needed break from sewing/crafting during this time of Christmas/New Year's, but I'm itching to get back to work soon.
My husband and I just finished a project that I'm anxious to share. I just have to get some good sunny days to take pictures of our final product!
Happy New Year!


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Shane Victorino was a great Phillies player, and now he's in Hollywood. He was traded by a Phillies team that has decided to shave down the payroll and along with him, the Phillies right fielder, Hunter Pence was moved to the West Coast to San Francisco.
The Phillies will still give out the Pence Bobble in Mid-August, or you can politely tell them to keep it, now that they've traded him away!
These two players weren't the cause of the demise of this Phillies team this year. So why were they moved?
Victorino played 8 good years with the Phillies. I wasn't always his biggest fan, but he could play. He tracked down a lot of fly balls that some fielders couldn't think about getting. I think you can count Victorino as one of those 'lifetime' type of players for the Phillies. He's played 987 games with the team, and he's been with them for the glory years and the not so good years. The Phillies were paying him $9.5M this year, and they didn't want to even see if they could possibly sign him to more years, as they have a lot of money tied up with a few players already on the Phillies. Vic may be out in LA now, but he's always going to be a Phillie, like Willie Montanez or Bake McBride. Shane is a World Series winner with the Phillies and that in itself keeps his legacy at the forefront of some Phillies fans minds forever.
Dodger blog, True Blue LA, reports that Victorino is not in LA yet, so he didn't make the starting lineup today. He will be soon enough, and I'm sure he'll help the Dodger blue.
Hunter Pence was probably the Phillies best offensive player this year, besides Carlos Ruiz who is just having the best year of his career so far. Pence didn't deserve to get traded. He was a gift to the San Francisco Giants who snapped him up for next to nothing in return. That is my biggest gripe of both of these deals, the Phillies got very little in return.
If we were trading to get better, we most assuredly did not. These two guys were responsible for a lot of offense this year, and probably will be for a few years to come.
If the Phillies management is banking on John Mayberry Jr. and Domonic Brown to do the same as these two players, I think we're in for even rougher times ahead.
It's safe to say that a fire sale has started for the Phillies, and it's probably not over. Ruben Amaro isn't making great deals though and he's giving All-Stars away now, and getting nothing in return for them? It's just not the way to be a GM in this day and age if you expect to contend.


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Apple in Education Profiles
Interactive books and apps on iPad help students excel at this historic girls' school.
The Inspiration
At the beginning of the 20th century, Singapore was changing rapidly. Though independence was still decades away, the city had become a sophisticated and prosperous crossroads of the world — a place where new ideas could quickly take root and grow.
Nanyang Girls' High School, one of Singapore's top public schools, dates back to this vibrant, optimistic era. The school was built on the then-revolutionary idea that girls, like boys, should be educated in order to realise their full potential.
"The founding fathers believed we needed capable women to build a good society," explains Vice Principal Dr Seah-Tay Hui Yong. "They thought it was important to bring them up not just cognitively, but with character and a sense of zeal for society."
"We need to use a medium and an approach that's exciting for the girls, so they become independent learners."
— Madam Heng Boey Hong, Principal,
Nanyang Girls' High School
When it was founded in 1917, the school was based in a modest Singapore shophouse, with a class of just 100 students. It was a far cry from the current campus, a stately nine-acre facility with resources such as technology-equipped classrooms with broadband Internet access. Today's Nanyang is an academically demanding school with 1,700 students. Alumni have become prominent government officials, scientists, musicians, media professionals and educators.
As it approaches its second century, Nanyang Girls' High School is revolutionising learning again. By placing iPad in the hands of teachers and students, the school has discovered innovative ways to connect classrooms with the larger world. With apps and Multi-Touch books on iPad, routine schoolwork is transformed into interactive explorations that challenge students to enhance each lesson with their own contributions.
"Students these days are wired differently from our time," says Madam Heng Boey Hong, the school's current principal. "We need to use a medium and an approach that's exciting for the girls, so they become independent learners. iPad has made students more excited about going to class. They are eager to show the teachers and their peers what they know, and to share that knowledge."
The Implementation
In the past, classes at Nanyang Girls' High School followed traditional educational methods. Teachers lectured, students listened and lessons were confined to the classroom.
But the school's teachers and administrators wanted more for their students. They hoped to foster greater self-confidence and collaboration, and provide resources that would encourage the girls to participate more fully in the learning process.
"With iPad, students can look up the basics on their own, so the questions they ask are higher-level."
— Dr Seah-Tay Hui Yong, Vice Principal,
Nanyang Girls' High School
So in 2011, Nanyang Girls' High School initiated a one-to-one program to introduce iPad to teachers and students over a two-year period. The program began with a single grade level and gradually expanded to include the entire student body.
Instructors in subjects from maths to Chinese were chosen to explore the possibilities of teaching with iPad. The long battery life and easy Wi-Fi connectivity made it possible to extend lessons outside conventional classroom walls. And the teachers quickly discovered their own innovative ways to make classes more exciting by creating their own interactive books and using apps to demonstrate concepts in ways they never could before.
With iBooks Author on Mac, history teacher Ong Lee Hua assembled an engaging Multi-Touch book for her lesson on the Hock Lee bus riots, during which striking workers and students clashed violently with police in post-WWII Singapore. In addition to reading text and viewing photos of the event on iPad, the class could watch historical video clips, listen to songs from the era and test their knowledge with quiz questions. If they came across an unfamiliar term, they could simply tap to select the word and find a definition.
"The interactive features definitely appeal to and engage the students more," says Ong. "Some students prefer to watch videos. The messages get through to them more easily, and it makes the subject much more interesting and alive."
In Cressandra Tan's language arts class, iPad helped students collaborate on a project analysing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Students and teachers exchanged ideas and answered each other's questions in an online forum, and created presentations in Keynote on iPad — complete with animations and graphics — to share with their peers.
"iPad has changed the way teachers and students interact. Teaching doesn't just happen in the classroom — now the learning is more real-world learning."
— Mark Shone, Teacher,
Nanyang Girls' High School
"The collaborative element of using iPad is pretty relevant in today's world," Tan says. "Not just relying on your own strengths, but the strengths of your group. With iPad, students can easily take notes and reference other people's opinions. They can see what others have posted, and learn from each other."
For physics teacher Mark Shone, iPad offers a way to bring the scientific method out of the lab and into the larger world. "The students are building and firing water rockets, and using iPad and apps not only to document the process, but to measure the angle of launch, create velocity time graphs and map the rockets' trajectories," Shone says.
Using the built-in HD video camera and science apps designed for iPad, students can see the physics behind each rocket launch in real time. "They're having fun, but at the same time learning about kinematics," says Shone. "With these apps, everything appears in front of you."
The Results
Today, nearly every teacher and student at Nanyang Girls' High School has an iPad. Students use iPad throughout the day to access course materials, record notes, join virtual discussions and search online for supplemental information about the topics they're studying.
The impact of iPad has been remarkable. Shy students speak up more in class and participate more readily in online discussions. Because iPad is so portable, the girls can collaborate anywhere on group assignments outside school hours. And academic researchers tasked with evaluating student interactions at Nanyang found that with iPad in the classroom, students ask questions that indicate greater comprehension and engagement.
"The collaborative element of using iPad is pretty relevant in today's world. Not just relying on your own strengths, but the strengths of your group."
— Cressandra Tan, Teacher,
Nanyang Girls' High School
"With iPad, students can look up the basics on their own, so the questions they ask are higher-level," Dr Seah notes.
Whether they're designing scientific experiments or documenting the results, brainstorming ideas about literature or presenting them in public, these students are inspired to achieve more when iPad brings lessons to life. "iPad has changed the way teachers and students interact," Shone says. "Teaching doesn't just happen in the classroom — now the learning is more real-world learning."
Above all, iPad helps ensure that today's students at Nanyang Girls' High School are prepared for tomorrow's successes, wherever their future paths take them.
"After trying out iPad, I find that it is really the right direction to go," Madam Heng says. "We can build on the excitement and energy of this technology, and encourage the girls to continue to explore, continue to enjoy learning, and continue to see their own relevance in the community, the society and the family."
Apps in useKeynote
Create and share captivating educational presentations on iPad. Learn more about Keynote for iOSGarageBand
Turn iPad into a full-featured recording studio, complete with virtual instruments, drum loops and built-in lessons. Learn more about GarageBand for iOSiBooks
Read, search and highlight Multi-Touch books and PDFs, including dynamic learning materials with video clips and quizzes created in iBooks Author. Learn more about iBooks for iOSClinometer HD
Measure slope and inclination angles using any side of your iPad. Learn more about Clinometer HDBamboo Paper
Capture handwritten notes, ideas and drawings in a digital notebook on iPad. Learn more about Bamboo Paper


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Walnut, Thick Shell bark Hickory Juglans laciniosa MIC333 $55 Sale Price: $27
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The North American Sylva by Francois Andre Michaux, with the supplement by Nuttall is the most comprehensive work on North American trees ever to be published. It was the work of the Frenchman, Michaux, who was commissioned by the French government in the early 1800's to explore the forests of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. By 1813 Michaux had completed the Sylva, with illustrations by Pierre Joseph Redoute and Pancrace Bessa, two masters of botanical art. This work is of unrivaled beauty and importance, giving the first significant & most comprehensive description of North American forest trees.
The North American Sylva is a landmark in the literature of America. In addition to being the first significant survey of American trees and soil, it serves as a fascinating travelogue, providing detailed portraits of the developing American landscape. With Nuttall's supplement, it is no exaggeration to remark that it is the most complete work of its kind, and is a production of unrivalled interest and beauty, giving descriptions and illustrations of all the forest trees of North America, from the arctic limits of arborescent vegetation to the confines of the tropical circle" (Sabin 48694-5).
We are delighted to offer a selection of prints from the very first English translation of The North American Sylva, published in Paris in 1819. This rare first edition is highly prized for its superior hand coloured stipple engravings from drawings by Redoute & Bessa. The prints are in good condition, with a little minor foxing as show in the images. The strong chain lined paper is a creamy white and measures approximately 6 1/4 inches by 9 1/8 inches. A copy of the title page accompanies each print and some descriptive text is included as available. For all who love the forests and trees of North America, these vibrant & highly decorative prints are truly a special prize!
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MKR recap: Harry and Christo's second chance
Life, as someone probably never said, is all about second chances, and it's nice that Harry and Christo get a shot at redemption tonight, attempting to convince the world that they are not quite as hilariously pathetic as their first instant restaurant suggested.
The episode which begins with Harry singing in the shower and strengthening suspicions that there was something weird in the water where he grew up; and ends with the heat death of the universe.
Manu takes a look at the menu and wisely declares that cooking the entrée correctly will be an important element of the entrée.
Meanwhile, Christo is informing a butcher of his plans for the pheasant, and the butcher is staring blankly at him. Back in some room, Pete says pheasant is a very unforgiving bird, which is a bit hypocritical.
Harry and Christo's instant restaurant is called "The Green House", and they will work hard to make sure their guests feel uncomfortably warm and moist. As they get to work on their prep, God laughs at them and the power goes off.
For a moment they are plagued by horrific visions of Manu telling them that a good chef always has a backup generator, but then the power comes back on, and once again the only obstacle in their way is their cooking ability.
The guests arrive. David says the relationship between them and the boys has been a little bit frosty, but you'd think he'd be used to that by now.
He and Corinne are both disappointed that the instant restaurant looks the same as last time. Or to put it another way, he and Corinne aren't disappointed at all but enjoy slagging people off.
Tresne thinks the room looks great – "it's just like walking into a real greenhouse!" she exclaims, as if that's a good thing.
Entrée is calamari, one of the more disgusting sea monster-based foodstuffs used in modern cuisine.
While Harry and Christo sweat over the squid, David makes heavily sexualised conversation about pheasant breasts and one has to marvel at his ability to make two completely different groups of people loathe him on one TV show.
Harry and Christo need to cook the calamari till it's opaque. Neither of them know what opaque means. Remember, aspiring cooks: buy a dictionary!
In the dining room David is showing off his specialty: bitching about food he hasn't eaten yet. Cathy and Anna are slightly taken aback by David's personality, having spent most of their lives among human beings.
Out comes the entrée. "Boring!" David cries.
Everyone thinks the entrée looks simple, which is a little ableist of them. Manu continues this bigotry by saying it's TOO simple. Pete says he liked the sound of it on paper, and as they say, 80% of cooking is the sound of it on paper.
Main is roast pheasant with bread sauce, which I think is some kind of typo: bread sauce?
Sauce made from bread? What the hell is going on? Christo isn't happy with the bread sauce, so he ditches it and starts again, but makes the fatal error of making more bread sauce.
"Pheasant's a game bird," says Harry, giving his opponent its due credit. In the dining room, Anna repeats his assertion – there seems to be general agreement that pheasant is pretty game.
Anna notes that pheasant needs to cook for a long time. David notes that it only takes a couple of minutes. Everyone has a bit of a chuckle at David. Unfortunately Harry has no idea how long pheasants take to cook, and when he takes them out of the oven they're raw.
He sticks them back in for an inadequate amount of time and they're still raw. He repeats this process several dozen times.
Back at the table David is doing the severed thumb trick, Kelly is doing something weird with her shoulders, Josh has a crush on David, and Chloe seems to be dead.
Harry takes the pheasant out again. "They look happy," he says, and this is most likely because they've realised they are never going to be cooked, a problem exacerbated by Harry and Christo's oven, which apparently doesn't have a temperature control. In the dining room the guests are delirious with hunger.
"We've just gone back into our immature 12-year-old state," says Carly, who had a considerably shorter distance to travel.
Three hours after beginning to cook the pheasant, Harry and Christo may have actually cooked the pheasant.
They take a few more hours to sigh with relief and congratulate each other and make some more comments about breasts, before finally serving the main course to the collection of windswept skeletons at the table.
Pete begins by telling Harry and Christo that they need to plan better so as to serve the main during the same decade as the entrée.
However, the judges loved the dish, though starvingpeople generally do love whatever they are given.
The guests also love it, except for David and Corinne, whose enjoyment of the pheasant is spoiled by the bitter ashes of hell that permanently inhabit their mouths.
Dessert time. The nectarines look ugly, and they decide to start again as the sun rises. The crumble mixture is runny. Christo needs to make it less like wet cement, and more like a crumble. To that end he strains out the cement which, in retrospect, he probably should have never put in there.
Corinne says she's looking forward to some quality ice cream, meaning she's looking forward to gloating at how terrible the ice cream is.
Finally, dessert is ready, and the evening looks like it might come to an end well before the next appearance of Halley's comet.
Manu and Pete love the dessert, and David and Corinne's hearts burst into flames. Pete, in fact, loves it so much I think he's having a stroke.
The guests mark Harry and Christo down due to the fact they have all become eligible for the pension during the meal. Still, they do better than they did last time, when several guests refused to give scores and simply rang the poisons hotline.
The judges hated the entrée, loved the main, loved the dessert and hated the geological timescale the whole thing was scheduled upon.
Harry and Christo score 65, shattering Josh and Danielle's dreams of finishing third-last and meaning they'll have to settle for simply second-last ahead of David and Corinne, who will have their chance to fail horribly again tomorrow night.


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Recovery Shows a Soft Spot
GDP Shrinks 0.1% on Government Cuts, but Consumer, Business Spending Offer Hope
The U.S. economy shrank for the first time in more than three years in the fourth quarter, underscoring the halting nature of the recovery. But the strength of consumer spending and business investment suggested that the economy will grow, albeit slowly, this year.
Gross domestic product—the broadest measure of goods and services churned out by the economy—fell at a 0.1% annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to the government's initial estimate out Wednesday....


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Monday, December 12, 2011
another Lego bento box lunch
Today's Lego lunch:
- a row of Wheat Thin crackers
- a mini Lego container of sunflower kernels
- turkey rolls on homemade Lego bento picks
- strawberries in a jumbo-sized silicone cup
As far as I can tell these Lego food containers come in two sizes, large (which is what our big blue bento box is) and then small, which is really pretty mini (which is what the green inner Lego container is).
For some size comparisons, I took this picture.
So the big blue one is the main bento box, which fits nicely in Ethan's regular Pottery Barn retro lunchbox (seen here), then the mini Lego container is only like 4" long, this red one is the same as the green one that I packed inside today's bento (seen above). Lastly, I placed a regular old "real" Lego just so you can see the size differences.
Most of the Lego boxes at The Container Store are toy boxes and storage boxes and some of them are really big! If you order make sure you check measurements, and the description should state if it's suitable for food (and the ones that are will also say it's dishwasher safe). Also, if the photo shows it full of Legos, then it's probably meant (and sized!) for storage. :)
9 comments:
omg.. my son would love a lego bento box lunch.. where did you get the lego picks?
- December 12, 2011 at 9:57 AM
- Jamie said... [Reply to comment]
SOOOOOO cute.
- December 12, 2011 at 10:09 AM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Thanks, Jamie!
Anonymous - in yesterday's Lego lunch post I mentioned that I made the Lego bento picks. :)
- December 12, 2011 at 10:23 AM
- Jessica @ Quirky Bookworm said... [Reply to comment]
Really cute! How nice to have him so excited about his lunch too. :)
- December 12, 2011 at 10:40 AM
- Jenn @ BentoForKidlet said... [Reply to comment]
Eeep! I love these boxes so much!! And the little picks are over the top! :D I can see why Ethan was so excited!
- December 12, 2011 at 11:12 AM
LOVE the lego box...just ordered 2 of them for my almost 10 yr. old and 5 yr. old boys. I definitely WON'T be able to wait until Christmas, we will be using them right away, I'm sure. And I can't wait to make some picks, too. SO cute!
- December 12, 2011 at 11:53 AM
- Mrs. Ed said... [Reply to comment]
How cool!! My son loves legos. I love that there is a smaller container.
- December 13, 2011 at 6:25 PM
- lego sorting box said... [Reply to comment]
What great storage ideas! There are a lot of lego loving kids in our family, so I'm going to have to share these ideas.
- February 28, 2013 at 3:25 AM
- lego sorting box said... [Reply to comment]
What great storage ideas! There are a lot of lego loving kids in our family, so I'm going to have to share these idea
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Apricot Tart with Almond Cream and Kaffir Lime Ginger Glaze
I was in the mood to bake today. I thought about making apple tartes amandines but everyone said they were bored with this flavor. So to please the whole house, I paired the almond cream with fresh ripe apricots. In France, you would order "une tarte amandine aux abricots, s'il vous plait!" in a patisserie (bakery). You probably won't learn this phrase in any French for tourists books, but I'm telling you, it's essential for your survival .
For the glaze, I had Laura's apricot pie jelly, a few kaffir lime leaves left that I did not used for my sweet and sour pineapple soup and some fresh ginger. It gave a nice kick to the apricot.
I know what you're going to say about my family. How spoiled are they?
Yields: 104 eggs, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon imitation brandy extract
2-3/4 cups almond flour, (250 grams)
1-1/3 cup sugar, to taste
1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature, + extra for greasing the pans
1 pinch salt
10 (5 x 5-inch) squares puff pastry, store-bought
15 fresh ripe apricots, halved and pitted
Using a handheld mixer, whisk the eggs with about 1/2 cup of sugar until you get a pale, yellow foam. It'll take about 5-6 minutes. The consistency must be very airy. Add the vanilla and brandy extracts. Set aside.
Cream the butter with about 1/2 cup of sugar. Pour in the egg mixture. Add the almond flour. Mix until the batter is smooth.
Place the dough in 10 individual pie shells previously buttered (or in 2 9-inch pie pans). Dock the dough with a fork.
Spread about 2 tablespoons of almond mixture in each individual mold then top with 2 apricot halves and 2 quarters to create a cross.
Bake for 25 minutes at 375°F , then lower the temperature to 350°F for another 15 minutes. Before glazing the pies, broil for about 3 minutes to get a nice golden crust and caramelized apricot look. Turn off the heat (remove from the broiler), then immediately brush the tarts with the warm kaffir lime ginger glaze using a silicone brush, for a nice glossy look.
Let the tarts cool for a few minutes. You can serve them warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a nice cup of hot tea or a glass of cardamom-flavored Arnold Palmer.
Bon appétit!
FYI: 1 cup of butter = 16 tablespoons = 2 sticks of butter.
I used Laura's apricot pie jelly (apricot, lemon, cinnamon and sugar) for the base of the glaze. Her pie jelly is one of the many homemade jams and preserves that she makes. You can find her preserves at the annual Belmont Arts and Crafts fair or directly online at www.domainebrix.com.
You can either buy ready-made almond flour, or make it yourself. Remember to get a little more than 250 grams of whole almonds to get the correct amount of flour. Place whole almonds in a metal bowl, then cover them with boiling water. Let it sit for no longer than 2 minutes. Strain and transfer them into a cold water bath. Pat them dry on a towel, and the skins should come right off. Then grind them with a food processor or spice grinder. Make sure you stop before it turns into almond butter. I use the VitaMix Dry Blade Container. The result should be a fine white mill.
You can make this tarte amandine with any other fruits like plums, pears, etc... Be creative!
Don't discard the remnants of puff pastry. Make some parmesan puff pastry knots and cheese twists the next day!
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Brian Hart netted his second goal of the season for Harvard, but the Crimson could not hold on for the victory (Photo: Elan Kawesch).
Harvard Play of the Game: Brian Hart Opens the Scoring Against Northeastern
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The No. 20 Harvard men's hockey team took an early 1-0 lead but allowed five unanswered goals in a 5-1 loss against Northeastern Saturday night at the Bright Hockey Center. The game was televised on the D2 Network.
Harvard (4-5-1) was not without its chances, putting 35 shots on net, but Brian Hart was the only one to find the back of the goal as Chris Rawlings made 34 stops for Northeastern (6-9-1). Raphael Girard, who saw the bulk of the time in net for the Crimson, made 24 saves, while Peter Traber stopped nine shots of his own in just over 12 minutes of play.
Cody Ferriero paced Northeastern with four goals, while Kevin Roy added one and chipped in four helpers for the Huskies.
Northeastern pushed the pace of play early, threading passes through the neutral zone that Harvard did well to keep from becoming good scoring chances. The Crimson power play was given a chance to snap out of its rut less than five minutes in and the hosts did just that, taking a 1-0 lead. A high-sticking penalty gave the Crimson a man advantage just 3:53 into the first and the goal came 32 seconds later. Desmond Bergin settled the puck near the Northeastern bench and slid a pass along the blue line to defensive partner Brendan Rempel. The senior dished to Brian Hart at the top of the right faceoff circle, and the freshman fired true, beating goalie Chris Rawlings for his second goal of the season.
The chances improved for the guests later in the period, but Girard was up to the task, turning aside all 11 Husky shots on net.
The second period proved to be a showcase for the Northeastern power play, as the Huskies poured in three man-up goals to take a commanding 3-1 lead after two periods. Back-to-back Harvard penalties saw the guests gain a 5-on-3 advantage, and they quickly evened the score just 1:22 into the frame on a hard shot from Ferriero. The junior forward wasted little time netting his second goal of the night, putting home the puck just as the Harvard penalty ended. He struck again nearly seven minutes later, with just seven seconds left in a Northeastern power play.
Northeastern continued its surge in the third stanza with two early goals. With 14:59 remaining in the game, Roy took a pass from Josh Mansen right in front of the net and put the puck in the back of the cage to give the Huskies a 4-1 cushion. Less than two minutes later, Roy flipped the puck to Ferriero at center ice, and the Essex, Mass., native beat Girard to register his fourth goal of the evening.
Harvard put 12 shots on net in the third period compared to 14 for Northeastern, but the Crimson could not notch another goal before time expired.
Harvard next hits the ice for a pair of conference road games at Princeton and Quinnipiac on Jan. 4 and Jan. 5, respectively. Both contests begin at 7 p.m., and the Quinnipiac game will air regionally on NESN.


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As Bees in Honey Drown
by Douglas Carter Beane
- 2006-2007 Season – Spring Production
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The spring production, As Bees In Honey Drown by Douglas Carter Beane, will be directed by UIS Director of Theatre, Eric Thibodeaux-Thompson. A dark comic mystery set in Manhattan, As Bees In Honey Drown follows the trail of socialite Alexa Vere de Vere, a black-clad woman of mystery who's made the world of celebrity her home, and Evan Wyler, the young New York writer savoring the success of his debut novel. His book has induced Alexa to lure him to write her life story for a possible film, and Evan gets caught up in the whirlwind of fame and "instant success." What he discovers are startling revelations that lead us into the intoxicating NYC world of the play. As Bees In Honey Drown was the runaway hit of the 1997 Off-Broadway Season, with the New York Times lauding it "a delicious souffle of a satire…[an] extremely entertaining fable for an age that always chooses image over substance." Production dates are: March 2, 3, 8, 9, 10 at 8pm, and March 4 at 2pm.


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Where Do We Go Now? (2011): Not very far I'm Afraid
There is a village in Lebanon whose Muslim and Christian residents have long co-existed, in which each of the respective religious groups' house of worship is a stone throw's distance away from the other's. It is a village whose relative isolation, thanks to its remoteness and protectionism, has shielded it from interfaith strife and sanguinary chauvinism—until now. The story thus begs the question announcing the title of Nadine Labaki's second feature, winner of the Toronto International Film Festival's coveted People's Choice Award, Where Do We Go Now?
Labaki has impressively asserted her talent as actor and especially as director on the international film scene, not only having won the most prestigious audience award in world cinema for Where Do We Go Now? (2011, Et maintenant, on va où, وهلّأ لوين؟), but also for having debuted with a film that would secure theatrical distribution in the considerable US market and garner an enviable return on investment.
Caramel, Labaki's first film, was a charming piece of melodrama that showcased her ability to elevate sentimental, even maudlin fare through delicate direction, incorporating many more uninvasive long shots than typical to dialogue scenes in melodramas. The film also illustrated Labaki's (as co-screenwriter) adroit appreciation for how people communicate—perfunctorily, obliquely and fallaciously—as they aim to protect themselves and others. Caramel also demonstrated Labaki's deft humorism in both the situational and linguistic senses, having focused on the stories of select women, intimately and revealingly.
Where Do We Go Now? does much of the same, but instead of focusing on the romantic and domestic lives of its female characters, it tackles communal and societal challenges. Whereas the first film suggested and lamented patriarchic society's suppression and oppression of women, the latter suggests a solution to their subjugation: Women should take charge, especially considering how human life has been undermined by the machinations of the macho.
Where Do We Go Now? tells the story of denizens of an unnamed village somewhere in Lebanon, sometime in the late 1990s. The village's relative remoteness is communicated in an establishing shot depicting a crossing bridge drawn to a misty hillside, early in the film and again later. Such remoteness has for years served the villagers in having supported their ostensible collective wish to sustain the cohabitation of Muslims and Christians, while war waged in their surroundings, and to disallow the sectarian strife that had propelled the Lebanese Civil War from spoiling life for themselves, an effort that proves futile when long simmering sectarian tension rises in the wake of vandalism of church and mosque respectively then boils over when a young man returns to the village having met the worst of a sectarian skirmish.
Five writing credits is unusual and perhaps for good reason, for it is in the writing that Where Do We Go Now? falters, though the film does well elsewhere. The film is handsomely shot. Labaki aptly moves the camera much more than in Caramel, apt because Where Do We Go Now? includes far more scenes of the outdoors and scenes of frenzy than the more reserved Caramel (not that Caramel is particularly reserved.) Labaki elicits impassioned performances from her large cast and turns in a vital, charismatic performance herself. (Labaki was an actor before taking on directing.) The film is infused with effectively expressive music, heightening the emotional stakes of many scenes in the film. What Labaki's film accomplishes most notably, however, what explains its audience appeal (as well as that of Caramel's) is its thoroughgoing adherence to the classical Hollywood style. Indeed, Where Do We Go Now? does recall the work of Almadovar and Fellini, but the film so points to "social problem" films of 1940s and 1950s Hollywood that I couldn't help but think that if the village had lain in a boarder state during The Civil War in the United States, a village whose population's loyalty had been split between the Union and the Confederacy, that Where Do We Go Now? could well have been made by Hollywood then. The film even boasts a reproachful speech, typical to the genre, in which Labaki's character Amal excoriates the men, Christian and Muslim, in the village café over the anguish they have brought upon the village.
The film often comes off as a parable. After all, the remote village is never named and in many ways is made to seem suspended in time. The broad categorization of factions in the village as Muslim and Christian does not reflect the complex conflict and convoluted alliances that characterized the Lebanese Civil War. The film also incorporates touches of magic realism and of lyrical dance, adding to its uncanniness. Yet the parable is thwarted by at least one detail—the year of its story. If the film's story had been set in the 1930s then it would have seemed plausible that the women and religious leaders had managed to ward off the surrounding tumult by striving to keep the men ignorant about it, but not in the late 1990s! The dating of the film presents another problem: The Lebanese Civil War had ended in 1990 and no significant event of sectarian confrontation that I can think of took place in the late nineties. The dating of the story remains inexplicable to me.
Where Do We Go Now? also contains problems of moral congruity, which suggest a lack of command of the material on the part of the writers. The first of these is in the scathing attack against the town's men, most of whom are reduced to sums of their hormonal urges. Only that one of these obdurate sectarian characters happens to be Christian Amal's (Labaki) Muslim love interest, which undercuts scenes of courtship between them that could have otherwise been successful. Moreover, the only two reasonable, likeable adult males are made to be the imam and the priest. Thus, we are expected to believe that the religious leadership in Lebanon has not only contributed nothing to strife wrought by its followers, but has also contrived to prevent such corrosive behavior on the part of its followers—naïve.
Another moral incongruity involves the Ukrainian belly dance troupe that the women of the village contrive to invite and with whom they then scheme to thwart a palpable escalation in sectarian tension between the men representing both religious groups, one that could turn to bloody confrontation, now that talk about armaments has taken hold. Yet, not only does the cockamamie scheme, involving hashish, pills, belly dance and playacting serve as little more than a temporary distraction for the men, but it does nothing to benefit the Ukrainian dancers. If Labaki's film is a call for women's empowerment then why are the Ukrainian dancers permitted, by the women of the village and by the writers, having exhibited solidarity with their Lebanese sisters, to depart the village, along with their "gig manager," having experienced no amelioration in their occupational situation, considering their evident exploitation within the international (soft) sex industry. If anything, the women of the village appear to have participated in such exploitation.
Where Do We Go Now? impresses despite its faulty writing. Yet, I find myself considering that with rigorous, politically conscious writing the film could have more credibly suggested an answer to the question that its title poses.


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Horison Seminyak Bali, Seminyak
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- This hotel is arranged over 4 floors
- Check-in time starts at 2 PM
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- One child stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- No cribs (infant beds)
- No pets or service animals allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
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- Airport shuttle (available 24 hours) *
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I'm totally unsure what's going on here. But it's worth some discussion and dissection. Is anyone else familiar with this mysterious story?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0366jd5 wrote:The incredible story of a mysterious nanny who died in 2009 leaving behind a secret hoard - thousands of stunning photographs. Never seen in her lifetime, they were found by chance in a Chicago storage locker and auctioned off cheaply.
Now Vivian Maier has gone viral and her magical pictures sell for thousands of dollars. Vivian was a tough street photographer, a secret poet of suburbia. In life she was a recluse, a hoarder, spinning tall tales about her French roots. Presented by Alan Yentob, the film includes stories from those who knew her and those who revealed her astonishing work
See http://www.vivianmaier.com, paying particular attention to the self-portrait section...
Here is one minor disinfo forum venture into the possibilities of hoax, and the 'Maier' phenomenon (see http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/new-street-photography-60-years-old/?_r=0 (obviously a trivially-simplistic solution)
So did conspiracy theories. "Could this be a hoax?" wondered a commenter under the name Film Noir Anti-Hero. Another, known simply as Greg, replied: "The idea being that somebody has been running around taking a lot of photos of people dressed up as if they were living in the '40s with a T.L.R. in order to publish them on the Web and giving all the credit to someone who has recently died?"
There is something very odd going on here, I feel. Opinions / comments are most welcome, including perhaps "hey, don't be so paranoid, she was simply a totally-unknown visionary artist that was ahead of her time"


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I do all kinds of embarrassing things, but fortunately most of them go unnoticed. Yesterday, not so much.
I came out of the grocery store with my purse on one arm and several bags of groceries on the other. As usual, my plan was to drop it all on the passenger seat. I don't always lock the doors since the radio was stolen because I prefer to let potential thieves into my car without breaking a window, especially now that there is no radio for them to steal.
Anyway, I was a little annoyed to find the passenger door of my car locked – then I remembered that I had locked the doors while driving, and only unlocked the driver door when I got out. Of course the passenger door was locked.
I stopped jiggling the handle with a little grunt of frustration. Then a voice inquired from right behind me,
"Is there a problem? Because that's my car."
My car was 6 spaces up.
And just for the record, my passenger door was locked too.
On a similar note, and also because today is the first of November, traditionally a month dedicated to thankfulness: I am thankful to have a Mustang. Even if it's the most common car and color in the state of Texas. It's not a fancy car, not an expensive car, and not even a particularly comfortable car. But it's my dream car.


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Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by albertux, Oct 11, 2007.
not no, everything happened the 11, but already I solved it, of the way that I commented previously
well.. first crash in interactive mode reports
"Error in named configuration: /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/web/mulc/edit " failed: file not found"
this is where my box started complaining before i did any updates .. ( in a server room with 60 servers i had no chance to analyze or do much but take the box with me )... from there it is all downhill. what could this be?
"Error in named configuration: /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/web/multidoc/edit " failed: file not found"
.. from syslog..
/etc/named.conf:3 ... change directory to /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/web/multidoc/edit " failed: file not found"
/etc/named.conf:3 .. parsing failed...
The probelm above occurs when ISPConfig has no permissions to read the named files. Please redo the BIND configuration steps from the perfect setup for your linux distribution to ensure that the permissions of the files and directories are correct. Then login to ISPConfig and corect the path to the named conf under management > server > settings
Same problem
Hello focks,
I have the same error;
[[email protected] /]# /etc/init.d/named start
Starting named:
Error in named configuration:
/etc/named.conf:3: change directory to '/home/admispconfig/ispconfig/web/multidoc/edit' failed: file not found
/etc/named.conf:3: parsing failed
Did everything here, nothing worked... some solution?
Here are some settings:
Locate named.conf:
Named.conf ISPconfig: /etc/named.conf
Zonefile dir in ISPconfig: /var/named/chroot/var/named
Did already all the 755 chmod settings...
Please help
Please make sure that the chmod settings of the named directory are as described in the perfect setup. Then set the correct path to your named config directory in ISPConfig under management > server > settings.
Already did, but i think there is a strange thing... some Loop...
in my /var/named are the following items:
drwxrwxr-x 6 0 25 4096 Jul 24 18:51 chroot
drwxrwx--- 2 25 25 4096 Jul 24 18:51 data
drwxrwx--- 2 25 25 4096 Jul 24 18:51 slaves
if i enter chroot, then i get this:
drwxr-xr-- 2 0 25 4096 Nov 5 10:14 dev
drwxr-x--- 2 0 25 4096 Nov 5 10:14 etc
dr-xr-xr-x 135 0 0 0 Nov 2 23:22 proc
drwxrwxr-x 5 0 25 4096 Nov 5 10:14 var
Ill go to var and then named, there is the following:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 6 Nov 5 10:15 chroot -> ../../
drwxrwx--- 2 25 25 4096 Aug 25 2004 data
drwxrwx--- 2 25 25 4096 Jul 27 2004 slaves
If i enter chroot, ill start from the beginning...
drwxr-xr-- 2 0 25 4096 Nov 5 10:14 dev
drwxr-x--- 2 0 25 4096 Nov 5 10:14 etc
dr-xr-xr-x 138 0 0 0 Nov 2 23:22 proc
drwxrwxr-x 5 0 25 4096 Nov 5 10:14 var
IS it possible the Bind9 is in a loop when checking the dirs?
No, this "loop" is normal. the problem is just that ISPConfig aws not able to get read access to the bind config directoyr and thoufh set the path to /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/web/multidoc/edit what is wrong. Please do as I advised above and correct the path in ISPConfig and BIND should be able to start again.
My path config is "/var/named/chroot/var/named" in ISPconfig.
and still doesn't work...
Is the same path set in /etc/named.conf ?
i gave up my case.. there must be a bug .. when did your problems occur? Mine occured right after I changed some email accounts.
The reason for the named file change is very simple as I explained and I'am sure that there is no bug as this is a well known problem. You just have to make sure that the user admispconfig is able to read the directory with your zone files and then set the correct path in ISPConfig under management > server > settings on the dns tab and click on save.
Is the same path set in /etc/named.conf ?
No, there still stands: directory "/home/admispconfig/ispconfig/web/multidoc/edit";
The problem is that the files named.ca en named.local only are in /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/web/multidoc/edit and not in /var/named/chroot/var/named
options {
pid-file "/var/named/chroot/var/run/named/named.pid";
directory "/home/admispconfig/ispconfig/web/multidoc/edit";
auth-nxdomain no;
* If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
* to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
* directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked
* questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
* port by default.
// query-source address * port 53;
// a caching only nameserver config
zone "." {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "named.local";
Take a look here: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/sh...highlight=/etc/named.conf:3:+change+directory
exactly same problem.
I just updated some email data. After that, I couldn't login to
my imap accounts. Login by ssh also failed for every user with:
:~# ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
Rebooting the machine failed. The remote-hand-on by data center also...
tomorrow (Sunday) I've to get up early ..
driving to the datacenter in Frankfurt/Main
Version: 2.2.14
worked always fine upto now
could it be that if you perform many changes in near time, the
"systemmanger" (the smart-guy who changes the passwd and
shadow file) gets little bit "confused" by doing his job?
otherwise I cannot explain to myself what there was going wrong.
but the most curious thing is, that all this problems happend coextensive.
hoping my forum members are goint to excuse the offline time
// STATUS UPDATE: sunday 1pm
machine is on the net again. Had to restore passwd, shadows and group
thx for the tutorial "how to knoppix with lvm and raid" - was a real help to me!
if I can help tracing the failure to his roots, I will mail all needed logs to ispconfig mods.
best, give me some commands like: tail -5000 /var/log/auth.log > auth.log.txt
thereby, I can collect all you want
I'm on Debian etch,
/root/ispconfig and /home/adminispconfig are the dirs
what else attracts my attention:
- the file local-host-names lost settings beyond "#### MAKE MANUAL ENTRIES BELOW THIS LINE! ####"
- the shadow file was cropped. It only contents some webxx_* accounts. System account weren't there anymore.
Please have a look at the file /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/ispconfig.log for errors and any unusual entrys around the time where the problem started. You can also mail me the logfile to dev [at] ispconfig [dot] org if you like.
thx, I just sent you a cropped logile.
would be nice to get the problem tracked down. I've
to do some mail account settings, and don't want to
drive to the datacenter again
Today It happened to me also,..
..got corrupt somehow.
I think the ispconfig system (v2) was doing some changes and did not finish properly.
/etc/group file was empty
/etc/shadow had ":x:" instead of crypted passwords ":h/TZR#HR!j3h)nj:"
I restored these two files from backup but new users that were added after the backup are lost.
What is the best way to get the system in full shape again?
The ISPconfig interface still shows new users of course.
I need a really good advice, as I have 600 users + 10 new.
I would like to save these 600 users from backup and do the new users again.
I made a full backup in ISPconfig interface 14 days ago.
As it turned out, the problem was solved by replacing the two mentioned files from the backup, then manually running
/root/ispconfig/php/php /root/ispconfig/scripts/writeconf.php
The system then updated all users in /etc/shadow.
/root/ispconfig/php/php /root/ispconfig/scripts/writeconf.php
Separate names with a comma.


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Friday, February 18, 2011
Where I Get My Information
There are so many genealogical blogs these days. It seems nearly impossible to try to keep up with them all. I only sort of try. To make it manageable I use Google Reader. I have organized Google Reader into folders and placed the blogs by subject to make them easier for me to find. While I have many folders there are only two folders I read regularly.
The first folder I check is my "Gen News Blog" folder. That contains the blogs Dear Myrtle, EOGN, Genea-musings and Geneabloggers. I will soon be adding GeneaPress to that folder.
The other folder I read daily is my Top 10 list. These are the bloggers whose posts I don't want to miss. I won't post those here because the list changes regularly as I move blogs in and out of that folder.
I get to the rest of the hundreds of blogs I follow when and if time allows.
Otherwise, I rely heavily on "Best of the Week" posts. Certain bloggers have already taken the time to read the blogs and find the best ones. They do a good job with this and I generally agree with their judgment. Here are the best of the best.
Genea-musings - Best of the Genea-blogs - this comes out every Sunday night
Greta's Genealogy Blog - Friday Newsletter and Follow News - every Friday
Long Lost Relatives.net - Friday Follow: Around the Blogosphere - publishes on Friday
Little Bytes of Life - Best Bytes for the Week - every Friday
I also follow genealogical news on Twitter. Twitter is sort of the CNN of genealogical news. When you want the most late breaking news you'll find it first on Twitter. I use TweetDeck. I've set up a column for #genealogy so I can see all the genealogy related items quickly. TweetDeck has little flashing notifications that appear in the upper right hand corner of my screen that alert me to new tweets. This can be helpful so that I don't miss anything but it can also be annoying and interrupt my using other software programs that require pressing something in that same corner. But for now I haven't turned it off.
TweetDeck is a program that you download onto your computer. There are other Twitter programs such as HootSuite that are web-based for those who prefer not to run a separate application. I like the interface of TweetDeck so that's why I use it.
I also get news and links to blog posts from postings by my Facebook friends. This is a bit more random for me. I have a lot of Facebook friends so I tend to miss items because of the shear volume of activity. I need to use lists more in Facebook similar to what I do in Google Reader. Once I get that set up I will miss fewer things. However, some things go viral and get re-posed by many people so I don't usually miss those items.
Mailing Lists
I *try* to follow three mailing lists: the APG Private List, the APG Public List and the TGF List of Rootsweb. I've been doing better lately but it goes in phases for me.
The APG Private List is only available through membership in the Association of Professional Genealogists. The other two lists are available publicly to anyone on the internet. They are free but you need to subscribe to the lists in order to post comments. They are a great way to keep up with the genealogical community and also to learn how to become a better genealogist.
That's the bulk of how I get my information. I'd be curious to hear if you do the same or if you have a different system. I'm always open to hearing about new sources.
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I moved the TweetDeck notifications to the lower right hand side of the screen and it seems less annoying there.ReplyDelete
Thanks Linda! I didn't know you could do that. I'm off to check it out.ReplyDelete
I use the lists feature in Facebook but i tend to use twitter more. I like that i can clear "read" updates in tweetdeck. For an add-er like me it helps me keep focus. Ive abandoned my google reader because i had too many to choose from. But i like your top ten idea and best of. These are all great ideas. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
I use Genealogy News and have it set to come in daily to my email (you can choose weekly or even monthly) It's the top 10 blog posts for that day and contents are filtered so you rarely see repeats. Such as when 7 of us bloggers post the same Press Release!ReplyDelete
I use TweetDeck too but I prefer the actual Twitter interface (hate HooteSuite). In TweetDeck I have the popup window in the bottom right same as Linda
Thanks for the mention and link to LongLostRelatives.net. With all the new blogs I've added to my Google Reader, it's getting harder and harder to get my "best of" posts out by Friday! Right now I have 524 unread messages in my reader, so some of the good stuff from this week's blogs may not show up on my "best of" list until next week! Anyway - I hate to NOT scan through everything in the reader, because sure enough, I'd miss something good. Randy, Greta and Elizabeth are always sure to catch the ones that slipped past my radar!ReplyDelete
I use the Better Facebook plugin for Firefox. It took some getting used to, but it has totally changed my Facebook experience. I find it much easier to keep up and make it work for me.ReplyDelete
Thanks for a great explanation of how to use folders to organize your Google Reader. I have folders for top genealogy blogs, other genealogy blogs, quilt blogs, techie blogs (including Life Hacker), and decorating blogs.ReplyDelete
THANKS too, for the shout-out!
Thanks for sharing your top picks and how you organize them as well as all the comments! Love it!ReplyDelete
I use Sage RSS add-on for Firefox which opens a sidebar of feeds in my browser. I subscribe to hundreds of blogs, favoring none. I take an hour or so cup of tea there daily and skip around letting internal links guide me where they will. Just like genealogy itself, it's endless surprise. I don't use Google Reader because anything I have to sign in to is out-of-sight/out-of-mind. That goes for most anything else that requires a username and password.ReplyDelete
For Twitter I use Echofon which sits at the bottom of my browser as a small blue button that opens into an ever-updating list of Tweets.
Thanks for the mention and for the explanation of Google Reader folders. I may have to do that, as it's getting harder to keep up. It used to be that the number of new blogs was balanced by the number of blogs getting less active, but that's no longer the case.ReplyDelete
A second thank you! I am now beginning to organize my Google Reader with folders - I never realized I could do that before. But there has to be a quicker way to move the folders around than by dragging and dropping. Any hints would be appreciated!ReplyDelete
Great tips especially on the Google Reader.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Thanks. Also-- on my Blogger dashboard, any blog I follow on Google Reader seems to have been automatically added there -- so I can just check out blogs I follow from my blog. Thanks for all the great tipsReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing some great information and tips. I didn't know you could do folders in Google Reader. I'll definitely check that out.ReplyDelete


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This study, conducted at the University of Pennsylvania and at the National Institutes of
Health in Bethesda, Maryland, will examine deficits in brain structure and function in
people exposed to trauma who developed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to see if these
deficits change after treatment. It also will investigate whether there is a genetic
susceptibility to PTSD.
Candidates 18 years of age and older in the following categories will be included in this
study: 1) women who have PTSD of at least 1 year's duration following sexual or non-sexual
assault; 2) healthy women (controls) who were previously assaulted but did not develop PTSD;
and 3) healthy women (controls) who were never traumatized. Candidates will be screened
with a medical history and physical examination, psychiatric evaluation, electrocardiogram
(EKG), and routine blood and urine tests.
Women with PTSD will be assigned to receive either: 1) 12 weeks of cognitive behavioral
psychotherapy either immediately upon enrollment or after a 3-month waiting period; or 2) 10
weeks of drug treatment with paroxetine (Paxil® (Registered Trademark)). Patients will be
evaluated before and after treatment with the procedures outlined below. Control subjects
will undergo the same procedures, also with a 10- to 12-week interval between evaluations.
- Neuropsychological testing: Subjects will take paper and pencil and computer tests to
evaluate memory, learning, attention and concentration, vocabulary and naming.
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): Subjects will have MRI scans of the brain to examine
brain structure and blood flow while they perform two tasks. In the first task, they
will be shown a series of faces and asked to press one button for a male face and
another button for a female face. In the second task they will hear loud noises and
see colored squares. During the scan, subjects lie on a bed that slides into a narrow
tunnel (the scanner). They will wear a headset to block the noise of the scanner and
through which they will receive instructions for the tasks. Heart rate and skin
conductance (sweating) will be measured during the scan to evaluate physiologic changes
in response to the tasks.
- Eyeblink air puff test: Subjects will hear tones and will have a light puff of air
delivered to the eye. Changes in heart rate, sweat, and eyeblink will be measured with
electrodes taped to the skin on two fingers, on each side of the rib cage, and under
one eye.
- Potential air puff delivery: This experiment has three parts. During each of the three
parts of this experiment, subjects will see colored lights and may or may not receive a
puff of air to the neck. Before each part they will be told that they will, will not,
or may receive an air puff to the neck. Each part will be repeated several times.
During the test, electrodes will be taped to the arms and chest to monitor skin
conductance and heart rate responses.
- Blood draw for genetic evaluation: Subjects' DNA will be examined to try to determine
if the risk of developing PTSD is inherited. The DNA will be examined for cortisol
receptor gene evaluation, to see if a form of this gene is found more often in patients
with PTSD than in healthy controls. The receptor for cortisol determines the activity
of the stress hormone cortisol, and genetic variations in the structure of this
receptor may be related to vulnerability to PTSD.
Patients taking paroxetine will be offered up to 3 months of additional drug therapy
following completion of the study and will be offered participation in other NIH studies
for evaluation and treatment of PTSD.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized by intrusive recollections, avoidant
behavior, anxiety and exaggerated fear response. The pathophysiology of PTSD is largely
unknown. Neurophysiological testing in PTSD reveals deficits in memory and attention.
Neuroimaging studies report increased amygdala and decreased anterior cingulate activation
and reduced hippocampal volume. Clinical observations, psychophysiological measures and
animal studies suggest that facilitated fear conditioning, delayed extinction, inescapable
shock, sensitization and protracted habituation may contribute to the onset and persistence
of PTSD.
We propose to use fMRI and the psychophysiology lab to examine the effect of treatment with
paroxetine and cognitive behavioral therapy on regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in brain
regions conceivably involved in evolution and maintenance of PTSD: Amygdala, anterior
cingulate and hippocampus. We will use emotional tasks that have elicited differences in
perfusion or metabolism between patients with PTSD and trauma exposed and healthy subjects.
Tasks performed in the fMRI will include 'masked' and 'unmasked' emotional faces paradigms
and differential delay conditioning. Contextual fear provocation and eyeblink trace
conditioning will be done in the psychophysiology lab. This evaluation will be performed
before and after a 10-week period of treatment with paroxetine and a 10-session course of
cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT).
Study population will comprise the following matched groups: Patients with PTSD; previously
traumatized healthy subjects who have not suffered from PTSD and non-traumatized healthy
subjects. Subjects from the 1st group will either be treated with paroxetine for 10 weeks,
undergo a 10-week 'prolonged exposure' (PE) CBT course, or will be put on the 'waiting
list'. It is assumed that variability in outcome will be observed in both treatment modes,
which will enable us to seek treatment response predictors.
It is unknown whether cerebral abnormalities in PTSD are state or trait phenomena. In
depression and OCD, functional imaging research shows improvement in malfunctioning brain
regions after clinically effective psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic interventions
and after administration of placebo in depression. An increase in hippocampal volume was
found in patients with PTSD after treatment with paroxetine and after correction of the
endocrine abnormality in Cushing's disorder. These findings support our expectation that at
least some brain abnormalities in PTSD are state related, and that change in these
abnormalities is demonstrable by fMRI.
Men and women aged 18-65, suffering from PTSD, healthy trauma survivors and never
traumatized healthy subjects. PTSD diagnosis will be determined using the structured
clinical interview for DSM IV (SCID)(155).
Capable of providing informed consent, obtained prior to any study procedures.
Free of all psychotropic medication for at least 2 weeks, excluding short-term hypnotics.
Patients who were treated with fluoxetine will only be included after a medication free
period of at least 8 weeks.
Good physical health, confirmed by a complete physical exam (including normal vital
signs), electrocardiogram, neurological exam, and routine laboratory tests of blood and
urine. However, if patients have participated in other research studies or have had blood
work through their primary MD within the last 6 months, these results will be used instead
of repeating blood draws for inclusion into the study.
Right handed, as determined by a handedness questionnaire.
Past head trauma involving loss of consciousness, or amnesia greater than 24 hours. This
magnitude of head trauma could contribute to psychopathology and brain structure in a
manner different than PTSD thereby confounding results.
Substance abuse (alcohol or drugs) or dependence within 3 months prior to screening. The
effect of abuse/dependence on phenomenology and biology could mask and exceed PTSD effect.
All additional DSM IV Axis I comorbidity, excluding secondary diagnoses of major
depressive disorder (MDD) or anxiety disorders (AD). Given the high comorbidity of these
disorders in PTSD, and since excluding such patients would not provide the full spectrum
of the disorder, only patients in whom axis I diagnoses of MDD and AD preceded onset of
PTSD will be excluded.
Mental retardation or another pervasive developmental disorder.
Risk of homicide or suicide.
When the trauma involves assault, a continuing intimate relationship with the perpetrator.
Current or intended pregnancy. If a participant becomes pregnant during the course of the
study, her data will be removed from the analyses.
Subjects who are doing well on medication. Although we will only recruit non-medicated
patients, the decision to stop medication will be taken purely on clinical grounds. No
subject will be taken off medication solely to participate in the study.
Deafness will NOT exclude patients or healthy controls from participation. Accomodations
and protocol adjustments (e.g., abbreviation of neuropsychological battery to eliminate
tests which would be subjected to known or expected normalization violations) will be made
as necessary for this population.
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