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CHICAGO (STMW) — Three people have been killed and at least 11 wounded in acts of violence throughout the city since Friday, police said.
An elderly woman was found dead in her South Shore home early Sunday following a domestic-related incident, authorities said. Catherine Glenn, 82, of the 7800 block of South Euclid Avenue, was discovered with signs of trauma, but an official cause of death has not yet been determined, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
Police were questioning a person of interest Sunday afternoon, though no arrests have been made.
About 4 p.m. Sunday, a man was shot to death in his vehicle in Englewood, police said.
Ronald Baskin, a 21-year-old from Chicago Heights, was shot multiple times in the 6500 block of South Green Street. He was pronounced dead at the Stein Institute at 7:26 p.m., according to the medical examiner's office.
About 3:30 a.m. Sunday, police found a man in his 20s unresponsive in the 2800 block of East 76th Street in the South Shore neighborhood, police said.
He had been shot multiple times in the head and body, and was dead at the scene, authorities said. He remains unidentified, and no arrests have been made in connection with the slaying as of Sunday morning.
At least 11 other people were wounded in the city over the weekend.
Early Monday in the Englewood neighborhood, about 1 a.m., a man was shot in the leg in the 5500 block of South Sangamon Street, police said.
The man, believed to be in his 20s, was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County in good condition, police said. No one was in custody as Area South detectives investigated.
Sunday night, a man and a teen were shot in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood, police said. The two were shot about 6:15 p.m. in the 1700 block of West 79th Street.
A 20-year-old man was shot in the head taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition, police said. A 15-year-old boy was shot in the arm and taken in "stable" condition to Christ.
About 7:16 p.m. Sunday and 18-year-old man was shot in the chest in the 1600 block of South Millard Avenue in the North Lawndale neighborhood.
He was taken to an area hospital in serious condition, police said.
About 3:45 p.m. Sunday, a teen boy was shot in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood. The 17-year-old was shot once in the left shoulder in the 7700 block of South Seeley Avenue, police said.
The teen was listed in "stable" condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
About 10 p.m. Saturday, a 19-year-old man was shot in the side near the intersection of East 76th Street and South St. Lawrence Avenue, police said.
The man was standing on the sidewalk when an unknown suspect approached him and opened fire. He was taken in "stable" condition to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County.
A woman was stabbed in a domestic incident Saturday night in the 2700 block of South Kildare Avenue in the South Lawndale neighborhood, police said. The 27-year-old woman was taken in serious condition to Mount Sinai Hospital.
Police suspect the woman was stabbed by her boyfriend, who was not in custody late Saturday.
About 7 p.m. Saturday a man in his 40s was shot in the chest and back in the Chatham neighborhood, police said.
Officers found the man unresponsive on a sidewalk in the 8300 block of South Maryland Avenue, and he was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said. Information on the man's condition was not immediately available.
About 12:45 p.m., a man was shot multiple times in the West Englewood neighborhood, police said.
The man was shot in the back and leg in the 2000 block of West 68th Place, police said. He was taken in serious condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
Early Saturday, a man in his 20s was shot near 61st Street and Ashland Avenue, police said. He walked into the 7th district police station about midnight with a graze wound to the leg. He was treated at the station and released.
About 8:18 p.m. Friday, a 21-year-old woman was shot in the leg in Humboldt Park, police said.
The shooting happened in the alley of the 1600 block of North Spaulding Avenue. She was walking with her boyfriend when an unknown offender shot her from behind a pole in the alley.
She was listed in "stable" condition at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County late Friday.
(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2013. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)


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Tuesday, turning cloudy with snow likely, mainly after 2 p.m. High near 36. Breezy, with a north northeast wind 5 to 10 mph increasing to 12 to 17 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70 percent. Total daytime snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible.
Tuesday night, snow likely, mainly before 11 p.m. Then gradual clearing, with a low around 14. East northeast wind 5 to 11 mph becoming west southwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 17 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70 percent. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.
Wednesday, sunny with a high near 48. Light and variable wind becoming southeast around 6 mph in the morning. Wednesday night, partly cloudy with a low around 28.
Thursday, sunny with a high near 53.

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Mexico's Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) use various types of social media to influence and manipulate public opinion. At the most basic level, DTOs regularly post videos to Youtube of interrogations, beheadings and dismemberments of rival gang members, to intimidate other groups and the public. Myspace is another soft influence tool; profiles abound that glorify the narco-life, including photos of fast cars, blinged-out weapons, and scantily-clad women. Narco-ballads, increasingly banned on Mexican airwaves, are also available on Myspace. Blog del Narco and parrot sites provide direct interaction between DTOs and the public. These sites anonymously post images of DTO communications hung on freeway overpasses or pinned to victims' bodies, delivering threats to rival gangs, politicians, and police, and seeking the public's favor. Citizens once used Twitter to warn of violence along routes to work and school. Now, DTOs pose as concerned citizens and to encourage the online citizen watch to help them locate rival gangs and law enforcement. DTOs use smart-phone applications to communicate, and to navigate the border region without law enforcement detection.
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The Zoo has one black forest cobra. The male was born on February 27, 1995. He arrived at the Zoo on June 9, 1998 from Montecasino Bird Gardens in Johannesburg, Africa.
The forest cobra is usually resting on the highest branches in the exhibit.
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The coloration of this species can vary greatly. Dorsal coloration is usually a yellowish brown or completely black. The ventral coloration is usually a white or creamish color.
18 years in captivity.
This snake is a highly adaptable and intelligent. It has adapted to surivive in forested areas as well as savannahs from sea level to elevations over 9000 feet.
A female forest cobra will lay 15-26 eggs.
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Black forest cobra's are carnivorous. In the wild, they eat a variety of prey including small mammals birds, amphibians and other reptiles. Forest cobras use a neotoxin to incompacitate and kill their prey. At the Zoo, the snakes are offered rats appropriate to the size of the snake. During the late spring to late fall the snake will eat biweekly – in the winter the snakes become very inactive and feed less frequently.
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March 13, 2003
Today the UCSB men's basketball team begins a new season as the Big West Conference Tournament gets under way. With the goal of being crowned Big West champs and earning an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, the Gauchos take on University of Pacific. The Tigers enter tonight's game as the No.8 seed in the tournament, the last team to make it in, while Santa Barbara leads the pack as the No. 1 seed. Records and stats no longer matter, it's survival of the fittest and only the best team will survive to earn the bid to the NCAA Tournament. The game will be played at the Anaheim Convention Center and will be broadcast on KEYT 1250.
UCSB Probable Starting Lineup:
The UC Santa Barbara starting lineup for today's game will be littered with winners of Big West accolades. Starting at the point guard position will be Big West Defensive Player of the Year Jacoby Atako. Atako was the leading man in all UCSB's most impressive defensive showings, continuously shutting down the best guards in the conference. He powered the defense that held opponents to 56.1 points per game during conference play. Alongside Atako will be Big West Player of the Year Branduinn Fullove and Co-Big West Hustle Player of the Year Nick Jones. Fullove earned the top honors by leading the Gauchos in scoring at 15.3 points per game. He shot 48% from the floor and connected on 42% of his three-point baskets. Fullove was also a guarantee from the free throw line where he cashed in on 100 of his 121 free throw attempts. Jones earned his award by consistently providing a spark with his intensity on defense and his streaky yet potent offensive showings. He is currently third on the team in scoring at 12.4 points per game and he leads the starters in field goal and three-point shooting percentage by connecting on 49.8% of his field goals and 43% of his treys. On the blocks for the Gauchos will be Big West First Team member Mark Hull and sophomore Casey Cook. Hull made the first team for his second time in two years and with the honor he becomes the first Gaucho in 29 years to earn first-team all-league honors twice. Further, this is the third time Hull made an all-league team as he was a member of the second-team during his sophomore season. He is averaging a steady 13 points on the season and leads the team in rebounding with 4.9 boards per game. Cook finished the regular season with a scoring average of 5.3 points per game. He is pulling down 3.6 rebounds per game and is shooting a 45% from the floor.
Pacific Probable Starting Lineup:
Starting in the backcourt for the Tigers will likely be Demetrius Jackson and Miah Davis. Jackson has started 23 of the 27 games this season for and he leads the team in scoring at 14.1 points per game. He is shooting 40% from the floor on 123-of-304 shots. Jackson has drilled 47 three pointers as well and is dangerous from the free throw line, connecting on 82% of his free throws. Davis leads the team in minutes averaging 33.7 per game and he is scoring just about 10 points per a contest. He too is outstanding from the free throw line having connected on 52 of 58 free throws. Davis is second on the team in assists with 65 on the season and he has picked up a second best 24 steals as well. The forwards for the Tigers will likely be Christian Maraker and Tom Cockle. Maraker is second on the team in scoring at 11.7 points per game and he is second on the team with a .460 field goal percentage. Maraker leads the team in rebounding by pulling down 6.2 boards per game. Cockle ranks fifth on the team in scoring at 6.1 points per game. He has connected on 21 of 61 three-pointers and is pulling down about three rebounds per game. At the center position for Pacific will be Tim Johnson. Johnson is averaging 5.6 points per game and leads the team with 28 blocks.
Scouting the Tigers:
Pacific has two legitimate scoring threats in Demetrius Jackson and Christian Maraker. Jackson will penetrate, get to the line, and shoot from outside, while Maraker will take the ball down low and shoot the occasional three when he is open. Aside from those two, it can really be anybody on any given night that ends up contributing for the Tigers. On occasion it is Miah Davis or Matt Kemper, and sometimes it is Tom Cockle lighting it up from downtown. Jacko Korajkic also has the ability to get hot and do some significant scoring for Pacific. The Gauchos will have to defend Jackson, Davis and Cockle outside. All three have demonstrated the ability to shoot the rock from downtown. Inside, Maraker is the main option so Hull and Cook will have to try and keep him off the boards and out of the lane. At the same time as you never really know which Tigers will show up to score, you never really know which Pacific team will come to play as a whole. During a period between December and January, the Tigers won seven straight games, however, during their last seven games, Pacific has dropped four. They definitely appear streaky having posted winning streaks of seven and three while also recording two losing streaks of three. Either they're hot or they're not and that's all there really is to it. Regardless, the defense of the Gauchos will have to be on its game if they want get past the first game of the tournament with a victory.
Scouting the Gauchos:
Coming into today's game, an opponent might possibly be disturbed by the fact that Santa Barbara has the Big West Player of the Year, the Big West Defensive Player of the Year, one of the Big West's Hustle Players of the Year, and an All-Big West First-Team member starting for them. Not to mention the Big West's Coach of the Year in Bob Williams. On paper, it looks like nothing other then a perfect combination of players and coaches. As has been the trend all season, the defense will set the tone today, and Jacoby Atako will be at the forefront. The Gauchos will bounce around between defenses trying to confuse the Tigers and throw them different looks considering the teams have already seen each other twice this season. Expect to see pressure zones and presses as well as the occasional intense man-to-man defense. Offensively, UCSB will do its best to get the ball into the hands of the big three, Branduinn Fullove, Mark Hull, and Nick Jones. Each of these scorers is averaging about 12 points and 3.5 rebounds per game. They contribute 62% of the team's total offense and at least one of the three has lead the team in scoring in 28 of 29 games. Count on seeing some production from the bench as well with backup point guard Chrismen Oliver and freshman phenoms Cecil Brown and Josh Davis. Brown and Davis both narrowly missed selections to the Big West All-Freshman team after accounting for 11 points per game between the two. Additionally, both play outstanding defense and can be counted on to lift the team offensively and defensively once they enter the game.
Key Match-up:
The key match-up for today's game will come in the backcourt as Jacoby Atako has the challenge of shutting down Pacific's leading scorer, Demetrius Jackson. Jackson gets the job done on the offensive end for the Tigers where he averages 14.1 points per game and connects on 40% of his three-point shots. He also has a knack for getting into the lane and drawing fouls. At the foul line he is superb, netting 82% of his freebies. It will be up to Atako to keep Jackson in check today. If he contains Pacific's star guard throughout the contest, Pacific will have to rely on scoring from somewhere else, and this will put the Gauchos in a very good position to win game No.1 of the Big West Tournament.
What to look for:
Look for the beginning of a new run for the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos. The overall record and the Big West record are now irrelevant; the only thing that matters is to keep on playing. The best team will get to play the most games and Santa Barbara is poised to make a run. The awards have been handed out and congratulations have been made. Now it is time to get back to work, time to dust off the tuxedo, time to get back to the Big Dance.


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i made a usbasp avr programmer and it worked with avrdude without root.
Today i want to use it, but i got error:
avrdude: Warning: cannot query manufacturer for device: error sending control message: Operation not permitted
avrdude: error: could not find USB device "USBasp" with vid=0x16c0 pid=0x5dc
With root it works. Tried in this page: http://blog.vmario.org/2008/10/22/progr … -linuksie/ but nothing happens...
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seems to be a permissions issue.
First do a lsusb as root. Then you should be able to chmod the permissions on the corresponding /proc/bus/usb/<bus#>/<dev#> file to 777.
I believe that this ought to fix your problem.
Hofstadter's Law:
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hmm dont works:
ubituks@myhost ~]$ su
[root@myhost ubituks]# lsusb
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 025: ID 16c0:05dc VOTI USBasp AVR Programmer
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c05a Logitech, Inc. Optical Mouse M90
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0606 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 Hub / D-Link DUB-H4 USB 2.0 Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
[root@myhost ubituks]# chmod 777 /proc/bus/usb/001/025
chmod: cannot access `/proc/bus/usb/001/025': No such file or directory
Okay, I found another fix that's worth trying using UDev rules. create a new whatever.rules file in /etc/udev/rules.d and add this line:
SYSFS{idVendor}=="16c0", SYSFS{idProduct}=="05dc", MODE="0660", GROUP="users"
Then restart udev and it should work.
(it's stuff like this that reminds me why I use RS-232 serial ports for everything! much easier to work with.)
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Hofstadter's Law:
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Thanks, it works now
old topic, but I have the same problem and adding line
$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/USBasp.rules
SYSFS{idVendor}=="16c0", SYSFS{idProduct}=="05dc", MODE="0660", GROUP="users"
doesn't work ...
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 16c0:05dc VOTI shared ID for use with libusb
$ ll /dev/bus/usb/004/
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 384 02-17 13:36 001
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 386 02-17 22:21 003
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Solved by:
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="16c0", ATTRS{idProduct}=="05dc", GROUP="users", MODE="0666"
from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ud … mm_Devices
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Registered just to post this: (captcha!!! : what the output of date -u +%W$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g' :-) )
Kinda obvious, but you need to desconnect/reconnect the usb board after udev restart.
ubuntu 12.10: service udev restart
Thanks you all for helping solve the problem.
Please don't necrobump https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.22
Solution, as pointed out, is in the Wiki
Arch + dwm • Mercurial repos • Github
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According to BC.Com:
Hard Rock Cafe Barbie doll embodies a gothic punk vibe. The doll's black and red goth glam ensemble features a lace up corset top, short flared skirt, vibrant red fishnet stockings, edgy boots, and fingerless gloves. Modeling raw energy and independent spirit, Hard Rock Cafe Barbie doll comes with a jamming HRC "guitar" and collector pin. Rock on!
The writer forgot to add that her hair does not look like it does in the promo shot, (which is not really surprising.) It's flat and has overheated frizzy ends. There is a short spritzy clump of hair sticking straight up from the top of her head while the rest of the up-do just hangs down. Her 'side-burns' are gelled to her face so she looks as if she's got a helmet on and her bangs have been cut too short.
The outfit is quite adorable; however, it is sewn on to the dismay of those that would debox and play. Her jewelry is very cute. The guitar is an attractive marbled plastic. My own preference would have been to have closed-toe boots but they are stylish like the rest of the outfit.
The color of her skin is quite light and in contrast to the heavy make-up is striking.
The retail price of HRC 2008 which is a Gold Label item is $76.
My recommendation is to make sure you don't pay the full retail price for her. If you are a completist, then of course you must get her. Otherwise...get a doll you can play with.


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Did you not keep the gift?
Quote from: yokozbornak on January 01, 2013, 05:15:21 PMDid you not keep the gift?Presumably it's still here somewhere, but I don't know what it was, and DH insists that he doesn't, either. I never even saw it wrapped so I can't guess based on size of wrapped package. I know it sounds insane but I have NO CLUE.
Dear Uncle XXX, Thank you so much for sending our Christmas gift with mil and fil! It was such a disappointment not to be able to spend time with you this Christmas. I hope we will have the chance to visit soon...." Basically talk around the gift and focus on a separate, but related subject...it's a little iffy, but if you have no way of finding out which gift it was, that would be my best advice.
I'd be making DH cal his parents to clarify what was from them v what was from Uncle. His mistake + his parents who can help = his problem to fix.
DH decided to write a vague thank you card and focus more on hoping his cousins are well etc. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions!
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What do I need to know about Child Abuse?
Child abuse is common. The newspapers and TV news are so full of reports
about child mistreatment that you cannot help but wonder how safe your child really is. Although it is a mistake to become overprotective and make your child fearful, it is important to recognize the actual risks and familiarize yourself with the signs of abuse. Approximately three million cases of child abuse and neglect involving almost 5.5 million children are reported each year. The majority of cases reported to Child Protective Services involve neglect, followed by physical and sexual abuse. There is considerable overlap among children who are abused, with many suffering a combination of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and/or neglect.
Most child abuse occurs within the family. Risk factors include parental depression or other mental health issues, a parental history of childhood abuse, and domestic violence. Child neglect and mistreatment is also more common in families living in poverty and among parents who are teenagers or are drug or alcohol abusers. Although it is certainly true that child abuse occurs outside the home, most often children are abused by a caregiver or someone they know, not a stranger.
Sexual abuse is any sexual activity that a child cannot comprehend or consent to. It includes acts such as fondling, oral-genital contact, and genital and anal intercourse, as well as exhibitionism, voyeurism, and exposure to pornography. Studies have suggested that up to one in four girls and one in eight boys will be sexually abused before they are eighteen years old. Physical abuse occurs when a child's body is injured as a result of hitting, kicking, shaking, burning, or other show of force. One study suggests that about 1 in 20 children has been physically abused in their lifetime.
Child neglect can include physical neglect (failing to provide food, clothing, shelter, or other physical necessities), emotional neglect (failing to provide love, comfort, or affection), or medical neglect (failing to provide needed medical care). Psychological or emotional abuse results from all of the above, but also can be associated with verbal abuse, which can harm a child's self-worth or emotional wellbeing.
Signs and Symptoms
It is not always easy to recognize when a child has been abused. Children who have been mistreated are often afraid to tell anyone, because they think they will be blamed or that no one will believe them. Sometimes they remain quiet because the person who abused them is someone they love very much, or because of fear, or both. Parents also tend to overlook signs and symptoms of abuse, because they don't want to face the truth. This is a serious mistake. A child who has been abused needs special support and treatment as early as possible. The longer he continues to be abused or is left to deal with the situation on his own, the less likely he is to make a full recovery.
Parents should always be alert to any unexplainable changes in the child's body or behavior. While injuries are often specific for an incident of physical abuse, behavioral change tends to reflect the anxiety that results from a stressful situation of any type. There are no behaviors that pinpoint a particular type of child abuse.
Physical Signs
Any injury (bruise, burn, fracture, abdominal or head injury) that cannot be explained
Genital pain or bleeding, as well as a sexually transmitted disease
Behavioral Changes that Raise Concern about Possible Abuse
- Fearful behavior (nightmares, depression, unusual fears)
- Abdominal pain, bed wetting (especially if the child has already been toilet trained)
- Attempts to run away
- Extreme sexual behavior that seems inappropriate for the child's age
- Sudden change in self-confidence
- Headaches or stomachaches with no medical cause
- Abnormal fears, increased nightmares
- School failure
- Extremely passive or aggressive behavior
- Failure to gain weight (especially in infants) or sudden dramatic weight gain
- Desperately affectionate behavior or social withdrawal
- Big appetite and stealing food
Long-Term Consequences
In most cases, children who are abused or neglected suffer greater emotional than physical damage. Emotional and psychological abuse and neglect deny the child the tools needed to cope with stress, and to learn life's lessons. So a child who is severely mistreated may become depressed or develop suicidal, withdrawn, or violent behavior. As he gets older, he may use drugs or alcohol, try to run away, refuse discipline, or abuse others. As an adult, he may develop marital and sexual difficulties, depression, or suicidal behavior. Identifying a child victim is the first step. Recognizing the importance of early trauma to future development is crucial to assisting the victim.
Not all abuse victims have severe reactions. Usually the younger the child, the longer the abuse continues, and the closer the child's relationship with the abuser, the more serious the emotional damage will be. A close relationship with a very supportive adult can increase resiliency, reducing some of the impact.
Getting Help
If you suspect your child has been abused, get help immediately through your pediatrician or a local child protective agency. Physicians are legally obligated to report all suspected cases of abuse or neglect to state authorities. Your pediatrician also will detect and treat any medical injuries or ailments, recommend a therapist, and provide necessary information to investigators. The doctor also may testify in court if necessary to obtain legal protection for the child or criminal prosecution of a sexual abuse suspect. Criminal prosecution is rarely sought in mild physical abuse cases but will occur in cases involving sexual abuse.
If he has been abused, your child will benefit from the services of a qualified mental health professional. You and other members of the family may be advised to seekcounseling so that you'll be able to provide the support and comfort your child needs. If someone in your family is responsible for the abuse, a mental health professional may be able to treat that person successfully, as well.
If your child has been abused, you may be the only person who can help him. There isno good reason to delay reporting your suspicions of abuse. Denying the problem will only make the situation worse, allowing the abuse to continue unchecked and decreasing your child's chance for a full recovery.
In any case of abuse, the child's safety is of primary concern. He or she needs to be in a safe environment free of the potential for continuing abuse.
Preventing Abuse
The major reasons for physical and psychological mistreatment of children within the family often are parental feelings of isolation, stress, and frustration. Parents need support and as much information as possible in order to raise their children responsibly. They need to be taught how to cope with their own feelings of frustration and anger without venting them on children. They also need the companionship of other adults who will listen and help during times of crisis. Support groups through local community organizations often are helpful first steps to diminish some of the isolation or frustration parents may be feeling. Parents who were themselves victims of abuse as children are in particular need of support. Confronting, addressing, and healing old wounds take uncommon courage and insight, but doing so is often the best assurance that the cycle of abuse is not passed on to the next generation.
Personal supervision of and involvement in your child's activities are the best ways to prevent physical and sexual abuse outside the home. Any school or child care program you select for your child should allow unrestricted and unannounced parental visits without prearrangement. Parents should be allowed to help in the classroom on a volunteer basis and be informed about the selection or changes of staff members. Parents should pay careful attention to their child's reports about and reactions to his experiences at school. Always investigate if your child tells you he's been mistreated or if he undergoes a sudden unexplained change in behavior.
Although you don't want to frighten your child, you can teach him some basic rules of safety in a nonthreatening manner. Teach him to keep his distance from strangers, not to wander away from you in unfamiliar territory, to say "no" when someone asks him to do something against his will, and always to tell you if someone hurts him or makes him feel bad. Always remember that open, two-way communication with your child provides the best chance that you will know when a problem occurs. Emphasize that he will not get in trouble if he tells you about abuse or other confusing events. Emphasize that you need to know this to be able to keep him safe and that he will be OK if he tells you. Instead of teaching him that he's surrounded by danger, teach him that he is strong, capable, and can count on you to keep him safe, as long as he can tell you about it. Teach him that it is not OK for adults to touch his body if he does not consent or understand what is happening.
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UCLA beats Washington 59-57 on buzzer beaterUCLA's Shabazz Muhammad (15) shoots over Washington forward Shawn Kemp Jr. (40) in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Los Angeles on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- With the game on the line and the clock ticking down, Shabazz Muhammad always wants to take the last shot for UCLA.
This time, he didn't get the chance.
Larry Drew II ignored Muhammad clapping for the ball at the top of the key and launched a jumper of his own at the buzzer, lifting UCLA to a 59-57 victory over Washington on Thursday night, ending a two-game skid.
''The defense pretty much dictated it,'' Drew II said. ''My eyes were on the rim and I just had an opening and had confidence in my shot.''
The fall-away jumper by Drew II over Washington defender Shawn Kemp Jr. was his third game-winning basket of the season.
''I wanted the ball, but Larry is such an aggressive player,'' Muhammad said. ''When the ball went up I knew it was going to be good. Everyone was attacking him. I knew he was either going to have something broken or come up with some scratches.''
Drew II, the Bruins' lone senior, emerged from his teammates' celebration unscathed and glad that coach Ben Howland didn't call one of his numerous timeouts as the seconds ticked down.
''I don't think he wanted to slow us down,'' Drew II said. ''He just let me go. Coach Howland had an idea in situations like that what I can do.''
Howland said he probably would have called a high pick-and-roll for Drew II if he had used a timeout.
''He did a great job waiting until the final second to shoot the ball, worst case scenario we're going to overtime,'' he said. ''That play was all on his own.''
Shabazz Muhammad had 22 points and eight rebounds for the Bruins (17-6, 7-3 Pac-12). Drew II and Travis Wear added nine points each as the Bruins overcame their worst shooting game of the season to win. Drew II had six assists and is best known for feeding his teammates.
''I'm a pass-first point guard, old school if you want to call it that,'' he said. ''We have so many horses and so many guys I can get the ball to and fill up the basket, I feel like my playmaking ability for others is equally or better than to put the ball in the basket myself.''
Drew II made another big play with 1:26 to play when he stole the ball and found Muhammad alone at the other end. Muhammad took the pass and a step toward the basket before finishing with a one-handed dunk, part of his own 5-0 run for the Bruins.
''We weren't shooting the ball well at all,'' Muhammad said. ''Him stealing the ball and for him to step up and hit that big shot, he's our senior leader.''
Aziz N'Diaye had 11 points and a career-high 18 rebounds to record his 10th double-double of the season for Washington (13-10, 5-5), which has lost six of its last seven games. C.J. Wilcox scored 15 points and Abdul Gaddy added 13.
''We needed this game big-time, but it slipped away from us,'' Gaddy said. ''We knew at the end of the shot clock we wanted to make Drew take a tough shot and we were going to bring it to make sure Shabazz didn't get it. We felt confident that if we could get to overtime we could win the game.''
With the Bruins clinging to a 56-55 lead, Muhammad made one of two free throws. Wilcox's lay-up tied the game at 57 with 10 seconds left.
''Whether it was Larry Drew or someone else, we shouldn't have been in that position,'' Washington coach Lorenzo Romar said.
The Bruins shot 33 percent and were out-rebounded 46-36 but stayed close due to 19 Washington turnovers. They were coming off a 75-71 home loss to USC a week ago.
''The USC loss was such a bad loss, but we know we can play with anybody in the country,'' Muhammad said. ''If they're going to doubt us and say we can't play with anybody, we know we can.''
The teams traded baskets for much of the second half. Washington led 43-41 when the Bruins reeled off eight straight points to take their largest lead of the game, 49-43. Gaddy answered with the Huskies' first 3-pointer of the game after they had missed their first 12 attempts. He made another one a few minutes later to close the Huskies to 52-51.
Norman Powell's 3-pointer at the buzzer helped UCLA pull into a 28-all tie at halftime. The Bruins twice led by five points, then fell behind by three when the Huskies took their first lead since making the game's opening basket. Drew II then fed Powell for the buzzer-beating shot.
Both teams shot under 40 percent in the half, when the Huskies had 13 turnovers and missed all five of their 3-point attempts.


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#48029 - 11/18/01 03:08 PM metacognition Joined: Sep 2001
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I find it surprising that, among educators, metacognition (directed thinking about thinking) has been a term of art for years, yet the word is rarely included in dictionaries.
Metacognition is supposedly the highest level of thinking.
I wonder what thinking about one's thinking about thinking would be? Meta-meta-cognition? Or mebbe just metameta for short.
Just thought some mention of metacognition should at least make a cursory appearance here on the Meta-words forum.
MM (That's WW upside-down for MetaMeta; please don't make any meathead jokes.)
#48030 - 11/18/01 08:30 PM Re: metacognition Joined: Dec 2000
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I, too, find it suprising that it has been a term of art for years!
Metacognition is supposedly the highest level of thinking. According to what scale?
#48031 - 11/18/01 09:31 PM Re: metacognition Joined: Sep 2001
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Hello, Musick...
Search on Google this way:
"Bloom's taxonomy" metacognition
...You'll find numerous articles and lesson plans about using Bloom to develop higher order thinking skills and matacognition to cause the student to think about thinking at these various levels. It has been suggested by pedagogues that metacognition is the seventh level of Bloom's six. However, it can be argued that the evaluation level six subsumes metacognition.
I post two of the numerous sites below. If you perform the search, I would suggest going to the cached format so you can home in on the relevant material. These writers tend to enjoy writing at length.
It's curious to me that metacognition has been in pedagogical literature for years, and the term itself is even taught to students. However, it rarely appears in dictionaries. I don't know when the term was first used.
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#48032 - 11/18/01 10:09 PM metatheory. Joined: Dec 2000
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Now that you've posed the question, I'm sure the "first recorded apperance" is forthcoming.
Aside from the joking nature in which I'll make my points (usually), let me first say; Thanks for all the info...
... and now let me add; I'd much rather hear your understanding of *it, the way you put *it into words, and moreover, the tone in your voice doing so. This adds a sense that there will be forever missing from any non-face-to-face communication... this includes theories about *cognition. I'll work up an analogy with music theory if you'd like.
Classification (as such) assumes goals that will eventually (as reality has proven) be realized as meaningless... not that attempts to achieve them don't have value, but.
I can't be any clearer!
#48033 - 11/18/01 10:53 PM Re: metatheory. Joined: Sep 2001
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Muse, I did check my latest edition of AHD and was gloriously gratified in not finding metacognition listed even now.
One problem with education that the pedagogues point out is teachers tend to question at Bloom's lower levels.
Regurgitation of facts. Musical level one puzzle: Name the letters found in scales. Answer: a, b, c, d, e, f, g (We won't get into sharps, flats, and, heaven forbid, "h's" since that would open a can o'worms). Said student at this level has no comprehension; said student is simply regurgitating a through g.
Level two puzzle: Identify the circled pitches on this treble staff. Answer: Said student names the circled pitches.
Level three puzzle: Identify the series of pitches that move in a scale pattern on the staff. Answer: said student perhaps draws a line around the scale patterns and, being a good student, includes no repeated tone or skips.
Level four puzzle: Analyze the similarities between the melody in Example A and the one in Example B. Answer: Student notes that both examples repeat a given phrase four times.
Level five puzzle: The student is instructed to create a melody in which repeated tones are followed by ascending or descending scale patterns. Answer: Student creates the overture to "William Tell." (I'm exaggerating.)
Level six puzzle: Student is instructed to listen to a short piece of music and to evaluate whether the work was too repetitive in use of scale patterns or effective. Student makes the judgments and includes numerous examples to back up the argument.
Metacognitive theory (and I'm not a specialist...just a student myself here) would suggest that at every level, the student is taught how to examine his/her own thinking so that new questions and curiosity about the subject matter are created, efficiency and retrieval are improved, doubts may be recorded and expressed, and an exchange of ideas with other learners will be increased.
In numerous studies, it has been suggested that productive thinkers have a "habit of mind" of examining how they have come to believe what they believe and how, when they are incorrect in their thinking, they are not defeated, but energized to work out their problems. Failures are short-lived and often point the way toward new successes. Metacognitive theory encourages educators to teach their students to examine more closely how they reach conclusions, to analyze their conclusions, to correct mistakes, to ask more questions, to avoid jumping to conclusions, and to enjoy the liberty of changing their minds when the evidence points them in new directions.
This is the subject in a nutshell.
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A resident nut, Wordwind
#48034 - 11/20/01 07:41 PM Re: metatheory. Joined: Oct 2000
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This just got interesting-- I love a computer program --lotus Notes-- Other computer wonks here at AWAD have mentioned in the past--they hate it! in general, Notes is hated. I like it, because i think like Notes.. and can move through in intuitively. I use the same thought process to solve problems as the Notes developers did...
I also recognize, i articulate my thought process-- in many things. When i divorced, i moved out of the family house-- my kids stayed behind with their father.. one day, my son called looking for an odd shaped baking pan-- one he knew i had, but couldn't find-- he was wondering if i took it when i left..
I had to think too-- and asked him where had he looked for the pan. First, he said, with all the baking pans above the wall oven.. when it wasn't there, he looked in cabinet below the wall oven-- a place for odd sized or shaped pans.. as he said this, i remembered where the pan was.. i told him it was in the cabinet with infrequently used things.. as my kids had reached their teen years, i had explained to them how i ordered the kitchen storage.. Glasses were right above the sink-- so you didn't have to take even one step-- Glass to water tap! Dishes, where nearby, right above dishwasher.. No steps in unloading dishwasher.
Pans and skillets stored below cooktop... above cooktop, food that was cooked on the stove..
Oven pan above and below the wall oven.. All baking goods (flour, sugar, baking powder, etc,) in cabinet next to wall oven.. above the counter top that held the Mixer.. (No steps when baking a cake.. everything in easy reach..
Anne Tyler, (Taylor?) author of The Reluctant Tourist, had her characters store their food in the cabinets in alphabetical order.. Apple Pie filling next to canned Artichoke hearts, Peas next to Pumpkin.. to my way of thinking... it was wrong.
my kids complained about their father.. he had re organized the kitchen.. and they had trouble finding things. it wasn't that there wasn't order.. it was that their father was unable to clearly articulate the ordering process he used.. so they could never find anything.. My son hadn't looked in the cabinet of infrequently used items.. but he knew where it was.. the far side of the kitchen.. and awkward to get at.. so perfect for infrequent use!
I tried to do the same thing when ever i work things out.. to not only have an order, but to be able to explain why i solved a problem they way I did-- whether is was organizing the kitchen, or solving a geometry problem..
Dr bill did the same thing once.. explaining how to figure out how long a walk it was to mow a large lawn with a mover that cut a 12 wide swath.. he took the 200 by 300 feet of lawn, and first converted it to a strip-- 1 foot wide.. by 5,000 feet long.. only his problem wasn't near so easy, since he started with acres.. which he converted to feet, and is swath was 18 inches.. (or 1.5 feet..)
but he took was seemed to be a hard problem.. and very quickly explained how you could simplify it.. so much so, i still remember the solution, if not the original dimensions.. (and a good solution is a handy thing to have!)
I am right now in understanding Metacognitive skills? is this what good teachers should be trying to teach--ways of organizing information, that make it easier to figure out solutions? teaching how to kids to learn how they arrived at a solutions.. and learning to test whether or not their solution will solve the current problrem? I guess i had some.. i learned this skill!
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of Troy,
Good to have you on board on this subject. Today in class I told my fourth graders in a recorder class that they would be tested on identifying three notes that they've been playing for four lessons in beginning recorder: b, a, and g on the treble staff.
I reviewed the mnemonic device we use for the lines: Elvis's guitar broke down Friday (e, g, b, d, f) and FACE for the spaces.
I took them through the concept attainment model we'd used for identifying the difference between the appearance of line and space notes.
I finally showed them the three notes we had played in their first four lessons, b, a, and g. I repeated that their test would be a piece they had never seen with 50 notes, all covering b, a, and g in various note values.
Then I asked the question, "Are any of you completely confused? Please don't be embarrassed because this is the time to speak up so I can help you."
One hand slowly went up, then two more, and finally a fourth. I invited those four children up to the white board. The rest of the children talked in the background while I took the four through a couple of drills. It became immediately evident that these children had completely missed the boat on the concept attainment model and had no idea how to recognize the difference between line and space notes. I reworked the explanation of what I had presented in the model, used new language, new metaphors. The light bulbs began to come on, one child at a time. We went through some more drills, and one by one the smiles began to break out on these children's faces. Understanding had been reached. This took about ten minutes from the class's 45 minutes in their weekly lesson, but well worth it.
What is interesting to note about teaching elementary music is I can easily teach children to play by ear with kinetic references. The hard part is for them to make the connection between what they can easily pick up in ear/touch instruction and what they read on the score. But our Virginia Standards of Learning for Music do not stress ear training to the degree of training in reading notation. Both are equally important, I think.
What happened today is an example of working backwards with students to see which concepts have fallen through the cracks. It's a very low level of musical knowledge, but we will not progress to the children's composing original recorder melodies in the spring if I'm not rigorous in working up Bloom's ladder, checking and evaluating all students' understanding.
I especially enjoy showing even these early beginners tricks of the trade: wild fast trills, quick runs up and down the recorder, and quick repetitive rhythm patterns. We get these without much reference to written notation. That will be in place when they write their own compositions in composition groups. My goal in letting my students practice the tricks is to keep their interest high while we work through the challenging task of learning to read the notation. I've observed that tasks that were immediately easy for me as a child are not easy for all children. We each bring different gifts into class, and I feel driven to respect the differences. ( I am the poorest person on the court when it comes to athletic ability, but I sure can reach my athletes by approching music from its physical challenges. "Ten points to anyone in here who can ever play this passage faster than I can!" Boy, does that ever send my physical kids home ready to practice and pulverize their old music teacher at the next lesson or future lessons.)
This has probably been written to an audience of one (myself), but it was fun remembering today's ten minutes of witnessing eureka! points.
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Dear WW: I wish my music teacher had been like you. She was an old bat who hated kids.
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Thanks, wwh, for the compliment. I'm an old bat who likes kids...and especially kidding with kids.
#48038 - 11/21/01 02:34 PM Re: line and space notes Joined: Dec 2000
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Now I'm totally confused.
A) How can you not know whether a note is on a line or on a space?
2) If there's a musical diffence between line notes and space notes (and not just a graphical diference) what, pray tell, might it be?
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I wish I could dig up some of our ancestors and insult them for leavingThose are the words of outspoken Lucy Aldrich after admonishing her sister, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, to take better care of herself. Lucy's perception was that Abby was run down from doing too much and from being too conscientious and attentive to the needs of others.
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Have you ever thought of digging up your ancestors? Or insulting them for a trait you inherited or one that was taught from generation to generation? Not me! I need all the help I can get with my family history and I don't want to alienate one single ancestor.
Quote is from Bernice Kert's book, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: The Woman in the Family.


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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - You're probably sitting on one right now - a couch made mostly of urethane and coated in flame retardants. Both make up a cluster of compounds in the foam in most modern furniture.
In certain amounts, it can pose serious problems. Elizabeth Crowe found out firsthand when she had her new couch tested.
"It's actually one of the only pieces of furniture that I've ever bought new in my life," explained Crowe.
The foam in her couch was made up mostly of urethane. Crow - out of curiosity from her work with the Kentucky Environmental Foundation - had a sample of the foam tested at an out-of-state lab. What scientists found wasn't expected. Chlorinated tris, a flame retardant the Environmental Protection Agency describes as a probable producer of cancer, came up in testing.
"Hazardous flame retardants are really everywhere in our homes," said Crowe.
"The flame retardants, they tend to be smaller molecules. Which means they're more easily able to get into the blood. You can more easily inhale them. And that's where really the danger lies," explained the John C. Hubbard Professor of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky, Dr. John Anthony, "sometimes those flame retardants can themselves pose some health risks. But it's an issue of weighing the issue of setting a house on fire versus the potential health risk from the flame retardant additive."
Flame retardants may keep a fire from spreading sooner, but Lexington Fire Battalion Chief Jeff Nantz says the smoke they put out from flame retardant furniture isn't any easier to fight.
"We don't notice a difference. Once it's on fire it's on fire," noted Chief Nantz, "the plastics and the foam and everything that makes up modern day furniture puts off such an acrid smoke and such a black sooty type smoke that you can't really tell exactly what is burning."
Crowe isn't pleased with the findings, but she's still keeping her couch.
"We can't shop our way out of this problem," she says, "what we do is try to vacuum it off, try to keep the dust content to a minimum as best as we can."
Getting couches tested to find out what's in the foam isn't easy because lab testing isn't widely available for families. You can check the label on furniture, and that will often show the percentage of urethane, if any, inside the foam.


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When his forearm smacked hard into Tyler Hansbrough's face, the first thing Kevin Garnett did was grab Hansbrough's arm, almost apologetically.
It didn't matter.
Garnett said it was unintentional.
"I came, I was firm, I didn't mean to get him in the face like that," Garnett said. "I was actually trying to swipe the ball. They called it what it was. It was a physical game. That's what it was. Part of the game."
Hansbrough thought it was dirty.
"I guess that's his game plan," Hansbrough said. "That's how he plays. Definitely thought it was cheap though."
After looking over the replays, referee James Capers ruled it a flagrant-2 and ejected Garnett with 8:24 left in the Celtics' 94-75 win over the Pacers Friday night. It had been two seasons since Garnett's last ejection, when he was bounced for appearing to hit an airborne Channing Frye mid-jump shot.
In this instance, Hansbrough said, "I thought they got the call right."
At that point in the game, Garnett's loss was negligible.
"We were up 20," said Rajon Rondo.
Celtics coach Doc Rivers threw his hands up in disbelief immediately after the ruling, but said he understood.
"Honestly, it was so much crap going on at that point," Rivers said. "I just think [Capers] has been around the game a long time. I think he was thinking, 'I'm going to do Kevin a favor and get him out of here, because it was getting chippy.' "
So chippy, Rivers said, that he had Brandon Bass at the table ready to spell Garnett anyway.
"I could see that, too," Rivers said. "I really think sometimes that's what officials do and you can't blame them for it if that's what it was."
Bass starts
After using eight different starting lineups through the first 31 games, Rivers gave the Rubik's Cube another twist.
He reinserted Bass into the starting lineup along with Garnett, Paul Pierce, Rondo, and a healthy Avery Bradley, going back to the lineup that pushed the Celtics to the postseason a year ago after losing 17 of their first 32 games.
The Celtics are in a similar hole this season — albeit with many more games left — and there were reasons for putting Bass in and moving Jason Collins to the bench.
"We want to stay as big as possible," Rivers said. "What we didn't like [about having] Jason in the lineup now that we're going to play him every night was that with he and Kevin off the floor we get small quickly. So this way, we can keep a big on the floor at all times.''
Rivers also hoped the move would jump-start Bass, whose scoring (8.0), rebounding (5.3), and minutes (26.1) are all down from last season.
Bass had 4 points and 8 rebounds in 22 minutes.
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Having found a home with the Pacers, Gerald Green can look back on his journey from lottery pick to castaway to reclamation with regrets but also perspective.
"When I came here, I was fresh out of high school, didn't know nothing but thought he knew everything," Green said of his time with the Celtics. "Now I just feel like I'm a whole lot smarter, a whole lot better of a person on and off the court.
"I had to take a tough course just because of the things I didn't do. I wasn't preparing myself like I should have before games. I wasn't being the professional I should have been. I had to learn the tough way about going overseas and being a professional."
Green underachieved in two seasons with Boston after being drafted 18th overall in 2005, then washed out of the league in 2009.
After playing in Russia, an opportunity arose last season, and Green played 31 games with the Nets.Julian Benbow can be reached at email@example.com


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Somewhere out there is a little girl
with hair and eyes like mine.
She belongs to someone else now
and that's OK, but
I dream about her.
A sibling to my real son,
she loves notebooks, pens, and paper,
her room is filled with books,
and her belly with bread
that we've learned to bake together.
She begs me to brush her hair at night.
I know what she looks like and
I can smell her
Barbie, vanilla frosting, and lip gloss.
I wonder if she would have made me a real mother.
My son has a real dad,
a parent I can't compete with.
My boys leave me out.
I feel like my little girl would have held my hand tightly
and would have thought I was the most amazing mom ever.
Kelly, Marisa, Sophie
she's had many names
but always the same soul
that has found her way to this earth and ended up in the arms of another
lucky, more deserving mother.


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Project for juross14madrid
Budget $5 USD / 時間
Hi juross14madrid, My name is Simon and I'm looking to get some work done on my wordpress website. I see you have experience using wordpress and ONTRAPORT which we currently use for our business.
I am looking to build a membership website using wordpress / ONTRAPORT. We have a membership website at the moment but I'm not happy with it and would like it re done.
Please see the below link, Which gives you more details.
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Is think something you think you would be cable of doing ? There will be some design work. Do you have any experiences with a membership program ?
This will be ongoing and the large project so I'm happy to pay the $5 per hour.
Let me know your thoughts. Contact me by email.
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This can be useful for those who have mounted NetApp file-systems with snapshot activated.
Takes filenames and directory names and replace space to '_'.
I needed to get a feel for how "old" different websites were, based on their directories. Show Sample Output
tested in csh on solaris.
Run this in your music folder, or give the path directly after "find". The sed pattern filters away the basename. Show Sample Output
Create backup (.tar.gz) for all first-level directory from current dir. Show Sample Output
create tar.bz2 package from files "-type f" modificated today "-mtime -1" in ~/project
rsync from source to dest all between >30
-t, --target-directory=DIRECTORY (copy all SOURCE arguments into DIRECTORY).
NOT MINE! Taken from hackzine.com blog. It creates a tree-style output of all the (sub)folders and (sub)files from the current folder and down(deeper) Quoting some of hackzine's words "Murphy Mac sent us a link to a handy find/sed command that simulates the DOS tree command that you might be missing on your Mac or Linux box. [..split...] Like most things I've seen sed do, it does quite a bit in a single line of code and is completely impossible to read. Sure it's just a couple of substitutions, but like a jack in the box, it remains a surprise every time I run it." Show Sample Output
"." is current dir, maxdepth is the level, -print0 | xargs -0 fix spaces in names, -i interactive , ./ is the current dir {} actual name , and {,.bak} is the atual name + bak
This is quite usefull in Unix system share via NFS or AppleTalk with OSX clients that like to populate your filesystem with these pesky files
This will get the job done in the most efficient way -
spawning only one `rm` process.
"On-the-fly" find data is displayed through `tee` and
you should have plenty of time to ctrl-c if needed before it's too late.
You may need to re-run this after major Software Updates.
To leave more languages in, add more ``-and \! -iname "lang*"'' statements:
sudo find / -iname "*.lproj" -and \! -iname "en*" -and \! -iname "spanish*" -print0 | tee /dev/stderr | sudo xargs -0 rm -rfv
**Edit: note the 2nd sudo near the end of the pipeline - this is necessary.
Run this in the directory you store your music in. mp3gain and vorbisgain applies the ReplayGain normalization routine to mp3 and ogg files (respectively) in a reversible way. ReplayGain uses psychoacoustic analysis to make all files sound about the same loudness, so you don't get knocked out of your chair by loud songs after cranking up the volume on quieter ones.
Recursively removes all those hidden .DS_Store folders starting in current working directory.
simple find and exec example
This command will delete files i a given path (/dir_name) , which older than given time in days (-mtime +5 will delete files older than five days.
This assumes you have the package installed necessary for converting WMF files. On my Ubuntu box, this is libwmf-bin. I used this command, as libwmf is not on my wife's iMac, so I archived the directories containing the WMF files from OS X, ran them on my Ubuntu box, archived the resulting SVGs, and sent them back to her. Quick, simple and to the point. Searches directories recursively looking for extensions ignoring case. This is much more readable and clean than -exec for find. The while loop also gives further flexibility on complex logic. Also, although there is 'wmf2svg --auto', it expects lowercase extensions, and not uppercase. Because I want to ignore case, I need to use the -o option instead. Works in ZSH and BASH. Haven't tested in other shells.
You also can sum the file usage of all files
find /usr/lib -maxdepth 1 -type l -print0 | xargs -r0 du -Lch
Useful if you want get all the md5sum of files but you want exclude some directories. If your list of files is short you can make in one command as follow:
find . -type d \( -name DIR1 -o -name DIR2 \) -prune -o -type f -exec md5sum {} \;
Alternatively you can specify a different command to be executed on the resulting files.
commandlinefu.com is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again. That way others can gain from your CLI wisdom and you from theirs too. All commands can be commented on, discussed and voted up or down.
Count lines of source code excluding blank lines and comments
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find previously entered commands
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Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server
storm 7
export iPad App list to txt file
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Find all files with root SUID or SGID executables
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Find the package that installed a command
pdxdoughnut 4
Open a file with specified application.
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Calculates the number of physical cores considering HyperThreading in AWK
emphazer 1
Remove Suspend option from XFCE logoff dialog
snafu 1
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x86 Servers: Not A Good Business For IBM
For IBM, getting out of the entry-level server business would probably be good news for its bottom line.
IBM's x86 server business is not just stagnating, it's tanking. Gartner in December estimated that IBM in the third quarter of 2013 sold a total of 185,634 x86 servers, enabling it to remain the No. 3 server vendor. However, that is down 29.8 percent over the 264,524 x86 servers it sold in the third quarter of 2012.
Almost as bad, IBM in the third quarter of 2013 had estimated revenue of nearly $1.2 billion from its x86 server business, down 17.6 percent over its prior-year revenue of more than $1.4 billion, Gartner estimated.


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At first, it appeared Jarome Iginla had gotten his stick on the puck, tapping it past Columbus goaltender Curtis McElhinney. Upon review, Milan Lucic was credited with the goal instead of an assist.
That would normally be a good thing. And it was, though the resident Bruins stat geek was left slightly disappointed at his close call at the team's second straight game with a Gordie Howe hat trick.
"It would have been nice to have gotten the Gordie, especially after [Zdeno Chara] got it," Lucic said of Chara's goal-assist-fight trio Friday. "But not going to complain with a goal over an assist."
Nor was he going to complain with two of them, bringing his total to 11, and giving the Bruins the 3-1 win over the Blue Jackets at TD Garden Saturday. That win gave Boston points in each of its 10 home games in November. The Bruins are 9-0-2 in their last 11 home games, last losing in regulation on Causeway Street Oct. 26 to the Devils.
The Bruins were outstanding defensively, allowing just 14 shots on goal, the second straight game they have limited their opponent to fewer than 20.
"We were two steps behind," Columbus coach Todd Richards said. "They were bigger, they were stronger, they were faster."
Part of that was Lucic, who scored his first goal on the power play at 14:58 of the first after Patrice Bergeron opened the scoring at 9:02 of the period. Lucic's goal came just 22 seconds after Ryan Johansen was penalized for hooking, as the winger redirected a point shot from Torey Krug. It was his first power-play goal in two seasons, his last coming on March 3, 2012.
Lucic scored his second 2:15 into the third, the slap shot needing a friendly bounce (though not help from Iginla).
"[I scored] Two goals without getting a real direct shot at the net," Lucic said. "Just one I think they tipped it and it went off me and in. The second one they tipped it again, and it went up and over everyone and into the back of the net. Sometimes they go in like that. Fortunately I had some puck luck here tonight."
But it wasn't just that.
"I thought even [on Friday], I told him he was skating extremely well and he was doing the right things," coach Claude Julien said. "I think the one thing I thought is that he was maybe gripping his stick a little bit tight there in certain areas and just to go out there and play."
Lucic, who finished the night with a swollen chin and cuts along his nose, added the fight at 8:34 of the second period, tangling with Dalton Proust after the teams had been engaging in some pushing and shoving earlier in the game.
"Just one of those things that happens," Lucic said. "It was really the first time I've actually been challenged since the [Joel] Rechlicz fight [in the preseason], and first willing combatant as well. I think before that the game was kind of getting a little chippy and so I think it calmed it down after that."
But it was notable that the Bruins increased their physicality in recent games. As Chara said, "We have to be physical as a team and emotionally attached to those games, and that's when we're playing our best. That's the identity."
That physicality — the absence of which leaves the Bruins looking for "that spark," as Chara put it — combined with the re-emergence of the team's top two lines, has been crucial. Both lines went through a dip over the last few weeks, leaving the bottom-six forwards to pick up the slack.
But the top lines have been better of late.
"We had some good stretches this year, and then we've had a couple slow games," Iginla said. "So we're really trying to make a conscious effort to get back to moving and forechecking and trying to turn pucks over down there, trying to make it hard on the other team's D and be hard around the front of the net, like Looch's first goal."
They were successful. And combined with a 14-save effort from backup goaltender Chad Johnson, the Bruins turned around a week that started with a game-tying goal by Pittsburgh with 0.3 left in regulation and a blowout loss to the Red Wings.
Since then, the Bruins have brought the emotion they were lacking in that debacle in Detroit, doing exactly what Julien had asked. As the coach put it, "You take a bad loss and you turn it into a positive thing." He told his team that it could finish the week strong winning three of four games, and that was just what the Bruins did.
"We talked about carrying it over from [Friday's] emotional game, and it was good that it was there here tonight," Lucic said. "I think it was a full team effort from the goalie out. We talked about having a good, strong game before this little break we have, before the big game on Thursday coming up.
"We ended off on the right note. Other than that Detroit game, it was a pretty good week."Amalie Benjamin can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @amaliebenjamin.


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Ruby, a red-tailed hawk found dead under her nest near Fresh Pond Mall in Cambridge in April, is being commemorated by the Ruby Memorial Research Fund at the Tufts Wildlife Clinic in North Grafton.
A love affair between bird-watchers and Ruby and her mate, Buzz, ended with the death of the red-tailed hawk whose remains were discovered by Cambridge resident Susan Moses.Veterinarians quickly linked Ruby's death to rat poison, which was later confirmed by a toxicology screen in June.
The screen found three second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) in Ruby's system — substances commonly used as rat poison that have recently undergone a new wave of scrutiny by the Environmental Protection Agency.
"It's pretty common that people aren't aware that the poison in and around their homes is making its way into the food chain," said Dr. Maureen Murray, a wildlife veterinarian and professor at the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. "That's one of the insidious things about these [poisons] . . . they do have the ability to cause secondary poisoning."
In an effort to prevent similar fates falling upon Ruby's fellow raptors and other wildlife, Moses and Tufts Wildlife Clinic have established the Ruby Memorial Research Fund.
The goal is to fund research by Murray into the health impacts of rodenticides on birds of prey. The fund has already raised $2,000 toward its initial goal of $10,000, but Murray said there is no limit to the amount of money the fund could put toward her research.
Murray has been studying rodenticide poisoning in birds of prey since 2006. In a study she published in 2011, Murray found that 86 percent of 161 birds examined over five years at Tufts tested positive for rodenticide residues.
The EPA recently passed new regulations that will require all commercial manufacturers of SGAR poisons to cease distributing to the general public by early 2015, but will still be allowed to be used by professional exterminators, Murray said.
Moses, the Cambridge resident who helped create the fund, said she hopes fund-sponsored research leads to policy changes that further protect birds of prey from SGARs and rodenticides.
To donate to the Ruby Memorial Research Fund, donors can visit: https://tuftsgiving.org.Kiera Blessing can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Davey JonesHeroic Rodent PirateReal Name: Davey JonesDavy Jones' street-smart behavior and tough-guy persona may lead you to forget that he is just a small mouse creature, who wears an earring and a bandanna around his head. His rock-hard persona is nothing but mere bravado, however, and what lies beneath is a real hear of gold. Davy lived on a deserted island in the middle of one of Etheria's twelve seas and is close friends with the Falcon, the father of Sea Hawk. Although he is unfazed by the concept of standing up to Humans and even Horde Troopers, Davy's brash attitude is countered only by one thing -- cats.
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Effective March 14th
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*Daily Request's accepted due to complaints please whisper me any request you have daily!
*Times can be viewed in the Tortoise Chair Info.
Material Giveaway - Times & Items
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Saturday, March 20th (3PM PST) [10,000 Bronze]
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Saturday, April 3rd (3PM PST) [10,000 Animal Bone & 10 Capes]
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Saturday, May 1st (3PM PST) [10,000 Coal, 10,000 Gold Thread, & 10,000 Seeds]
*Item's ([?]) will be annouced on Friday.
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Events - Time's
Make the HG item: Winner's! ---> [80mil total & 2 Demain Tickets]
Winner's: pidge, iceclear, KateMoon, SharpChris85, & flameofwar.
If the Price is Right Winner's-------> [Oak, Stones, and Tickets!]PenguinFTW, Luminated, FlyingWhiteBoyz, Duncan, and resa35. (Thanks KateMoon for assisting me.)
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BATAVIA – Batavia stayed alive in a long-shot bid to repeat as Upstate Eight Conference River Division wrestling champions Friday with a 44-33 dual victory against Elgin.
The Bulldogs (4-1 UEC River) and conference-leading St. Charles East (5-0) both have one UEC River dual remaining. Batavia is holding out hopes of a possible tie for the conference crown after the Saints won last month's head-to-head meeting, 43-24.
Against Elgin, Batavia dominated the middle and higher weight classes after the Maroons won four of the five bouts from 106 to 132 pounds. Standout senior Joel Shump notched the Bulldogs' lone win at that span with a major decision at 126.
Batavia collected three falls the rest of the way, as Marc Goodin (145), Connor McKeehan (220) and Mitchell Krusz (285) had pins. Noah Frazier added a major decision at 182.
Marian Catholic 65, Marmion 42: At Chicago Heights, Marmion couldn't hang with state-ranked Marian Catholic. The Cadets fall to 5-11 on the season.
Burlington Central 46, Marengo 21: At Burlington, Central held Marengo to two first quarter points and dominated the Big Northern Conference East matchup. The Rockets (14-2, 5-0), who have won 11 of their last 12 games, were led by sophomore Alison Colby (14 points) and freshman Shelby Holt (12 points).
"We put good pressure on their guards, and that's kind of been the key to our success," said Central coach Mark Smith, whose Rockets face Kaneland at 4 p.m. today.


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Sam Worthington as Perseus
Liam Neeson as Zeus
Ralph Fiennes as Hades
Jason Flemyng as Calibos / Acrisius
Gemma Arterton as Io
Alexa Davalos as Andromeda
Tine Stapelfeldt as Danae
Mads Mikkelsen as Draco
Luke Evans as Apollo
Izabella Miko as Athena
Liam Cunningham as Solon
Hans Matheson as Ixas
Ashraf Barhom as Ozal
Mouloud Achour as Kucuk
Ian Whyte as Sheikh Sulieman
Pete Postlethwaite as Spyros
Directed by Louis Leterrier
This reimagining of the 1981 classic falls flat on almost every level – the characters, the creatures, the story, the music, and on and on. You can see the film they were trying to make if you look hard enough, but it's a mighty struggle… and no thanks to the ham-handed '3D' experience.
The new "Clash of the Titans" centers around the same core characters as the Desmond Davis-directed original, with the notable addition of two major roles – Hades, played by Ray Fiennes and Io, played by Gemma Arterton. Perseus (Sam Worthington) is not the young romantic in this one. He is a cold, angst-filled demi-god bent on revenge after Hades, God of the Underworld, kills his adopted family after sinking their fishing boat during the sacking of Argos. Perseus learns he may be able to weaken and defeat Hades if he can destroy his pet – the Kraken. So for revenge, and not love, Perseus sets out on a similar quest to the original film, albeit with different motivations.
Full disclosure – I consider myself a fan of the original "Clash of the Titans." So, yes, there will likely be some of you that think this review is just a case of sour grapes. So be it. But distancing myself as best I can from the original, this "Clash" is still not a good movie.
Let's start the deconstruction with the characters. I hazard to guess you will not care about one of them. Not one. Perseus is a buzz-cut gladiator with one gear – mad. (And where did he get that haircut anyway? A feat no one else, not even the Gods, could manage in this film.) Io is a cold, meaningless narrator-type brought in as a love interest to Perseus. Andromeda (Davalos) is given little to do but charity and possibly die. Zeus (Neeson) is the bi-polar father of man that offers to forget man and forgive him in almost the same breath. Hades is a conniving, Denethor look-alike that at his weakest early on had more in common with Little Nicky than Lucifer. Fiennes' Voldemort from the "Harry Potter" series is more assuming, off-putting character. The only character you might have some feeling for is Spyros (Postlethwaite), but he is only in the first 20 minutes of the film.
The creatures? The Kraken is ok, but never given much definition beyond a few giant tentacles and a small, Rancor-like head and toothy maul. Pegasus is black, but fine other wise. Medusa is a mess. The decision to make her 'pretty' did not translate well to the screen. It made her look like a cheap video game cut scene character… and for a tragic figure, she sure is in a good mood. What's with all of the laughter? The Calibos bloodline is all fouled up and he's also reduced to looking like the third orc from the left from any generic "Lord of the Rings" knock off. The Djinn were new characters, kind of desert nomads that looked like they were made from driftwood – kind of the bastard children of the Ko-dan from "The Last Starfighter." Charon? Nope. Surely they got Cerberus right? Maybe, but he's not in the movie. Bubo?! Yes! Bubo looks good… because he is exactly the same, but sadly reduced to the equivalent of a Jay and Silent Bob fart joke. The only creatures I thought were a marked improvement from the original were the Stygian Witches, but their new 'eye' was a setback for them, and the scorpions, which play a bigger role in the film.
The music? Uninspired. Going back and listening to the rousing score from the original–its brass-heavy heroic themes that were over the top, but completely hummable—was a real treat after hearing the music in the latest movie. I can safely say that I cannot remember one measure from it. It added absolutely nothing to the film… and given the grandeur of the source material, that's sad.
The 3D experience? Don't bother. This was a post-shoot 3D job and it is not a good one.
I could go on, but I think I'll stop here. I didn't really touch on the specific changes to the story from the original, but you can get the idea from the descriptions above that they are numerous. I think there is a good movie buried deep within the idea of this reimagining, but director Louis Leterrier and his crew did not come anywhere close to finding it. In the end, I recommend you stay home and watch the original. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, it will be like the 2010 "Clash of the Titans" never happened.


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Three-Mile-High Supercomputer Poses Unique Challenges 80
Nerval's Lobster writes "Building and operating a supercomputer at more than three miles above sea level poses some unique problems, the designers of the recently installed Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Correlator discovered. The ALMA computer serves as the brains behind the ALMA astronomical telescope, a partnership between Europe, North American, and South American agencies. It's the largest such project in existence. Based high in the Andes mountains in northern Chile, the telescope includes an array of 66 dish-shaped antennas in two groups. The telescope correlator's 134 million processors continually combine and compare faint celestial signals received by the antennas in the ALMA array, which are separated by up to 16 kilometers, enabling the antennas to work together as a single, enormous telescope, according to Space Daily. The extreme high altitude makes it nearly impossible to maintain on-site support staff for significant lengths of time, with ALMA reporting that human intervention will be kept to an absolute minimum. Data acquired via the array is archived at a lower-altitude support site. The altitude also limited the construction crew's ability to actually build the thing, requiring 20 weeks of human effort just to unpack and install it."


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posted by Eugenia Loli on Wed 2nd Apr 2008 01:30 UTC
Amanda developers released Amanda 2.6.0 today. This is a significant update to Amanda backup software with improvements in ease of installation and configuration, security, scalability and robustness. Amanda 2.6.0 is available for download (in both source and binary-package form) here. Update: Other interesting open source releases today: Inkscape 0.46, AbiWord 2.6.0 and Ardour 2.4.0.


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SMF Support > IPB
[SMF Converter] IPB 1.3.x
<< < (2/34) > >>
Truncate the table and try again. I just reuploaded the file.
Puc conDoin:
Did you mean that I had to empty the table?
I reinstall SMF (after deleting all SMF tables) every time I have an error on the conversion. Then I restart the conversion from the beginning.
I used your newly uploaded sql-file, but got the same error on the same table:
Duplicate entry '12-0' for key 1
Puc conDoin:
Even when I remove entry 12 from the original database, I still get the "Duplicate entry"-error. On the next database row that follows.
Try this one.
Puc conDoin:
Thanx! The error on the poll choices table didn't show up anymore! ;D
But unfortunately, another error has come up:
--- Quote ---Converting personal messages (step 1)... Unsuccessful!
This query:
INSERT IGNORE INTO `forzona`.smf_personal_messages
(ID_PM, ID_MEMBER_FROM, msgtime, fromName, subject, body)
--- End quote ---
--- Quote ---Caused the error:
Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes
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Oct. 3, 2008
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The UC Santa Barbara women's volleyball team returned to the Thunderdome for the first time in 2008 on Friday evening and gave its home fans plenty to cheer about, unfortunately the Gauchos were unable to close the door on Pacific, falling 23-25, 25-20, 21-25, 25-23, 15-13 to the Tigers.
With the win, Pacific remains perfect in Big West play with a 3-0 conference record and improves to 3-8 overall. UCSB falls to 6-8 on the year and drops to 2-1 in conference. The loss snaps the Gauchos' season-best three match winning streak.
Charlene DeHoog led the charge for UCSB as she tallied a career-best 22 kills in the loss and hit a solid .362 during the match (5e, 47att). The sophomore outside hitter also contributed three block assists and six digs. Lauren McLaughlin was second on the squad with 20 kills and she chipped in 16 digs for her fifth double-double of the season.
Junior outside hitter Rebecca Saraceno rounded out the double-digit kill group with 10 to go with her 10 digs. She also chipped in a team-high two service aces and five blocks.
Sophomore setter Dana Vargas tallied 45 kills and seven digs while senior libero Leigh Stephenson tallied a team-best 21 digs.
Alexa Anderson paced the Tigers with her 21 kills and .375 clip (3e, 48att). Mallori Gibson and Svenja Engelhardt each posted double-doubles in the win with Gibson chipping in 14 kills and 15 digs and Engelhardt tallying 11 kills and 10 digs.
Shannon Krug led all players with 52 assists and also had 11 digs for a double-double of her own and Pacific libero Kara Uhl tied Stephenson with a match-high 21 digs.
Set one saw the Gauchos break an early 3-3 tie with a four-point run behind the serving of Saraceno to give UCSB a 7-3 advantage. UCSB held the lead, reaching an eight-point advantage at 16-8 on a kill from Saraceno. The Tigers posed a comeback late in the set and were able to tie the game at 21-21, the deadlock remained until UCSB used a kill from Saraceno to reach match point and a block by Kasey Kipp and Saraceno ensued, sealing the win at 25-23. The Gauchos hit a match-best .318 during the set.
Pacific dominated the second frame, forcing the Gauchos to take their timeouts early while trailing 5-1 and 12-2. A Gaucho service error would grant Pacific its biggest lead of the set at 15-4 before UCSB put together a 4-0 run that included four consecutive blocks to climb slightly back into the set. The Gaucho turnaround was evident and when they put together a 5-0 run that included two more blocks, UCSB was in striking distance at 21-17. It proved too much ground to make-up however, as Pacific was able to capture the set win at 25-20.
Set three saw nine tied scores and three lead changes as the two teams battled for the advantage. Tied 19-19, DeHoog landed a kill and then assisted Lily Lopez on a block to give UCSB a two-point advantage. The attack was all DeHoog the rest of the way as her three kills carried the Gauchos to the 25-21 victory and the 2-1 advantage.
The fourth set was perhaps the most closely contested as the teams were tied 14 times and the lead switched hands on six occasions. The Tigers took a timeout with the set tied 20-20 and a kill from Meagan MimMack followed by an ace from Engelhardt separated Pacific by two points. A Gaucho attack error put them ahead 23-20 before UCSB climbed back into the set with back-to-back kills from McLaughlin topped off with a Saraceno ace. Unfortunately for the Gauchos, consecutive kills from Anderson sealed the Tiger win at 25-23 and sent the match into the fifth and deciding set.
The Tigers jumped out to a 5-2 lead at the beginning of the frame causing UCSB to call a timeout. It was an effective break as UCSB came out and went on a 5-0 run behind the serving of Saraceno. The Gauchos held the lead until Pacific put together a run of its own and deadlocked things at 10-10 and then took the lead at 13-10. UCSB climbed back within one when DeHoog landed a kill during the first match-point, but a service error on the next play did the Gauchos in as they fell 15-13 in the set and 3-2 in the match.
UCSB will complete its two-match home stand on Saturday when they host Big West foe UC Davis at 7 p.m. in the Thunderdome.