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I didn't orgasm: does that mean I'm still a virgin?
Heather Corinna replies:I had my first real sexual experience a few months ago, but I don't really like to talk about it. The problem was that I guess I was a little too anxious and I didn't go about it quite the right way and as a result, I never reached orgasm. I am also not too sure if she did either, I can't even remember. I believe I am too young to be considered impotent, I have no problem "finishing" if it is by myself. At any rate, does this still make me a virgin?
Shaun: if not reaching orgasm with a partner during intercourse meant a person was still a virgin, there would be an AWFUL lot of women in their forties who have been having sex for two decades but were still virgins.
Virginity isn't some medical state or condition, or something you can get some sort of official credential for. It's a cultural idea -- one not even everyone subscribes to -- and a pretty arbitrary one, at that. People's definitions of what virginity is vary pretty widely. So, while overall, a majority of people who do subscribe to virginity ideas simply define it as either being "lost" with first-time intercourse or any kind of first-time sex, it really is up to you how you define it for yourself. But defining it based on orgasm from intercourse would indeed mean a WHOLE lot of people -- especially women -- were virgins that sure didn't think they were.
It's very normal for either one or both partners not to reach orgasm during first-time intercourse (or second-time, or twenty-fifth time...). Often, that's just about being nervous: nervousness, anxiety or an internal freakout is a big hindrance to arousal and orgasm. In order to reach orgasm, we usually have to feel pretty relaxed, even if we're sexually stimulated and keyed-up. Since for so many heterosexual, cisgender couples, first-time intercourse is SUCH a huge deal, it's no shocker that it's often not exactly the most physically fulfilling sex ever, and that often, one or both partners don't reach orgasm or feel very satisfied.
And it doesn't mean that anyone is doing anything wrong, just that with all those pressures and all that nervousness, it's rarely the best environment for orgasm, especially if vaginal intercourse is the only sexual activity included in that sex. Even if you find that over time, intercourse isn't an activity that brings you to orgasm all by itself, that's okay: it doesn't do that for a whole lot of people. Since partnered sex not only doesn't have to be only about one sexual activity in a given session (and for most people, it's frequently unsatisfying when it is only about one activity), you get to engage in whatever activities you and your partner want to, which are satisfying for you both, and can include whatever activities DO get you there. If you like intercourse, but it turns out not to be the big ticket, you just also add on an activity which is.
Not reaching orgasm also doesn't mean you're impotent: just for your own understanding, impotentcy isn't even about orgasm, but about being unable to achieve erection.
None of this is something you should feel awkward or ashamed about: in fact, it's the rule rather than the exception that any kind of first-time sex is pretty fumbly, bumbling, awkward stuff. That's okay: so long as couples keep in touch with each other and talk about it together, all that fumbling can actually nurture some pretty cool bonding and intimacy you might not have had before, and that extra closeness and communication helps things just keep getting better.
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|2007-03-01, 13:36
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Tejas
Age: 43
Since Rightstuf is having another 25 DVDs for $100 sale (though only ADV DVDs are in the sale), my most recent order was actually today:
Chrono (Chrno) Crusade DVD 1 (Hyb): A Plague of Demons + Artbox
Chrono (Chrno) Crusade DVD 3 (Hyb): Devil
Chrono (Chrno) Crusade DVD 4 (Hyb): The Devil to Pay
Chrono (Chrno) Crusade DVD 5 (Hyb): Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea
Chrono (Chrno) Crusade DVD 6 (Hyb): Devil's Advocate
Chrono (Chrno) Crusade DVD 7 (Hyb): Hellfire
Elfen Lied DVD 1 (Hyb): Vector One
Elfen Lied DVD 2 (Hyb): Vector Two
Elfen Lied DVD 3 (Hyb): Vector Three
Elfen Lied DVD 4 (Hyb): Vector Four
Excel Saga DVD 1 (Hyb)
Excel Saga DVD 2 (Hyb)
Excel Saga DVD 3 (Hyb): When Excels Strike (Out)
Excel Saga DVD 4 (Hyb): Doing Whatever It Takes!
Excel Saga DVD 5 (Hyb): Secrets & Lies
Excel Saga DVD 6 (Hyb): Going Way Too Far
Kino's Journey DVD 1 (Hyb): Idle Adventurer + Artbox
Kino's Journey DVD 2 (Hyb): Emerging Lanes
Kino's Journey DVD 3 (Hyb): Warning! Curves Ahead
Kino's Journey DVD 4 (Hyb): Not Without Reservations
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi DVD 1 (Hyb) + Artbox
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi DVD 2 (Hyb): It's a Mad.. Alternate World
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi DVD 3 (Hyb): Impractical Magic
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi DVD 4 (Hyb): There's No Place Like Home
Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok DVD 1 (Hyb): God & Detectives + Artbox
Sadly they were out of Chrono Crusade vol 2. Also, the only DVDs in the list of sale items appear to be things that were released before 2006 (approximately), so only the first volume of Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok was in the sale. Still a happy day - especially considering that ADV has started cutting the special features from their thinpacks.
EDIT: The last thing I bought before that was Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid vol 2 and Pani Poni Dash vol 2.
|2007-03-02, 20:03
|Link #23
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Mortuary : D
Spoiler for Knetter's purchases :
Wowee thats a lot of Anime Related Purchases . I havnt watched most of the anime mentioned in your post Indeed I am envious , envoius isnt the word more like " I want them bad ". I wont even bother to ask about your Overall Anime Collection that would be humongous .
|2007-03-10, 00:22
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Mortuary : D
Saiyuki reload is an excellent purchase . Its always good to archive really good series in their DVDs . Though Gunlock was extremly pale in comparision to Reload I purchased that too . Now all thats remaining unpurchased in my Saiyuki kitty is Gensomaiden OVAs . I need to watch them before buying them though
|2007-03-10, 01:37
|Link #26
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: California
Age: 31
I almost participated in RightStuf's sale. But I held myself back so I could save money. Now I regret doing so because I just spent over $60 today on anime :/
-Galaxy Angel volume 2
-Galaxy Angel volume 3
-Galaxy Angel volume 4
-Di Gi Charat: The Original Series
And I finally decided to pre-order Rozen Maiden.
Ugh, if I had bought from RightStuf's sale, it would have been the Angelic Layer, Kaleido Star, and Maburaho. Damn...Now it's too late and I already spent the money I would have used.
|2007-03-11, 16:49
|Link #32
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Oslo, Norway
Age: 31
I've just ordered
Elfen Lied total collection
Ai Yori Aoshi ( the first 4 DVD's)
Suzuka Vol. 1-4
Love Hina (All Volumes)
AI Yori Aoshi (Vol. 1-15. I have just recieved them )
pre-ordered Ai Yori Aoshi Vol. 16
I would have ordered the Elfen Lied manga too but I cant read Japanese so....
and Soon I'll order the Ichigo Bankai sword "Tenza Zangetsu" in real steel too.
cant wait to get that sword
|2007-03-13, 07:26
|Link #34
Senior Member...ish
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: CA
Age: 35
I just ordered Elfen Lied - complete collection a few days ago as well. At the same time I ordered the Gunslinger Girl: Complete Box Set, Full Metal Panic: Fumoffu - Complete Collection, Cowboy Bebop - The Perfect Sessions, and the BECK soundtrack. I debated on whether or not I should spend my money on Girls Bravo...
|2007-03-13, 20:49
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
I bought the first uncut subbed Naruto box set two months ago. I got into it slowly, but once they got into the Zabuza arc I was hooked. I downloaded the rest and watched up to episode 135 before the filler begins. I once watched 33 episodes in the span of two days along with Wings of Honneamise and two episodes of 2x2=Shinobuden(Ninja Nonsense). It was the first two days off I had after finishing the first Naruto box set and I did nothing but watch anime. That Chuunin Exam arc was too good for words. I plan on buying the rest of it when it comes out on dvd. I know I'm like the last person on Earth to discover Naruto. It's actually gotten me back into anime after a long break. Last thing I watched was Gantz a long time ago.
|2007-03-14, 00:47
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Senior Member...ish
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: CA
Age: 35
|2007-06-21, 11:47
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Currently, Leicester UK
Your Latest Purchase
This is a thread to post any purchase you've made related to any anime or manga series, and to discuss future purchases.
I'll start us off with my ever increasing Ghost In The Shell collection Sry for the picture quality, i had to use my camera phone =3
(bought these today for £25, may have been a bit much but i couldnt resist)
(and my collection now [not showing the psp game])
If i can get my hands on GitS on the PS1 then my game collection will be complete(i hope). Then its jsut onto the soundtracks for the movie and series, and purhaps the manga, although i dont really read manga that much.
So yeah share your purchases or feel free to slam my feeble collection, just be gentle
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As much as I would love to say that every experience I have with other business owners is positive, that isn't the case. Approximately 20% of the business owners I encounter are a terror to work with. Sadly, they have no idea. They have the best of intentions, with the worst outcomes. They consistently do the same things and expect different results. When they don't get the results they expect, all hell breaks loose. It would be easy to act like I don't see the issues, but I'd be contributing more to the problem, than the solution if I sat silent.
Here are the top areas where business owners fail to lead by a positive example:
1. Communication Style:
I constantly encounter individuals with poor communication techniques. They don't know how to address situations in a positive way so everything becomes a misunderstanding or argument when you interact with them. They talk three times as much as they listen and you often have to repeat yourself to make your point, let alone gain their attention. These individuals are very difficult to work with and often aren't very successful, because they don't listen well and therefore, don't learn much.
2. Checking Voicemail:
In an age where we have the best technology available to us to communicate with each other right at our fingertips, many people don't even know how to check their voicemail. Their voicemail is full. They don't listen to any messages left for them. And God forbid they delete messages. What's the point in having a voicemail, or a phone, if you're never going to use the simplest function on it? Not checking your voicemail and/or allowing your voicemail to fill up is the easiest way to lose customers and money. It's unprofessional and no one is that busy. Not even me.
3. Surrounding Themselves with "Yes" People:
Look at your team and your staff. Is everyone afraid of you? Do they all agree with everything you say? Do they sit back while you make decisions and then mysteriously have a new job working elsewhere the next day? If so, you're surrounded by "yes" people and you're a poor leader because of it. If you don't have someone on your team with the courage to challenge you when you aren't making wise decisions, you don't have a strong team. A real leader can accept constructive criticism, listens to sound ideas based on information and data and makes decisions that empower themselves and those who work for them. A good leader knows they aren't always the foremost authority and they seek guidance from others with different perspectives, experiences and knowledge bases. A good leader is responsible for the failures and successes of their brand, but knows they are likely to be more successful and fail less when they have strong, decisive people on their teams who may not always agree with them.
4. Having Unrealistically High Expectations of Others:
Everyone's journey to success is different. What one person deals with may or may not be similar to someone else's experiences. Some people also have it easier than others due to the factors in their lives; parenting, environment, lifestyle, finances, etc. A person's gifts and talents can be recognized and appreciated by others who have been in their shoes before them. Those who recognize someone else's gifts can also motivate and encourage them towards their purpose in life and their career. However, there are some people who believe that whatever "level" they currently are on is the same level someone else should start at or aspire towards. That's completely unrealistic. People need time and space to grow into their gifts, and that requires nurturing, understanding and sometimes it may also require leaving a person alone to learn on their own.
5. Putting All their Money on One Horse In the Race:
This is also commonly referred to as "putting all of their eggs in one basket". I use betting on a horse instead to further drive the example home. The trifecta in horse raising is when you bet on more than one horse in the race, to place first, second and third. When a person puts all their money on one horse in the race, they are solely dependent on that horse to win. If the horse doesn't win, the person loses. Here's an example in business terms:
You are an independent movie producer. You're casting a production with lesser known or amateur actors and actresses. You want someone who will attract movie goers to see your film and help you recoup your $10 million dollar budget. You can either cast one successful actor/actress in a starring role in hopes of gaining their fans (betting on one horse) or you can cast three or more successful actors/actresses to costar in the film (hitting the trifecta) and gain all of their fans.
Not only is the trifecta a better business decision, but you will also have talented individuals in roles that can help improve the quality of performances by your lesser known actors and actresses instead of expecting one big name star to carry the entire film on their own.
6. Name Droppers:
There are a lot of people who brag about who they know and who they have or can work with. Big deal. Watch those individuals closely and see if the same people they name drop are actually involved in their business when it's time for them to show up. Chances are great that they are not around when it matters most to the business owner user their name to impress you or others. When a celebrity believes in you, your business or your brand, you don't have to use their name to grow, because they're telling people all about you. They're sharing what you post on social media. They are giving referrals to you. They are introducing you to people who may want or need what you have to offer. They endorse you without monetary compensation. They want to be connected to your brand on more than one occasion. Remember: you can take pictures with all the celebrities in the world, but if you're difficult to work with, unprofessional or have any of these other negative traits, they aren't going to be bothered with you. Celebrities have a lot of other opportunities they can take advantage of that are less stressful than dealing with you.
7. Fakers/Instafamers/Fronters
The only thing I can think of that is worse than a name dropper is a person who is lives by the "fake it til you make it" credo. That once worked in our lives, but it has gone entirely too far. With the growth of social media, almost anyone can call themselves anything and create a facade of being someone they are not. You know the type.
The person who is always posting their money and material possessions on Facebook and Instagram and their entire following is based on them doing so. The person who is always at an airport, but not really going anywhere impressive or didn't pay for the trip themselves. The person who works extremely hard to discredit others who are actually working hard to get to where they are but not bragging about it all the time. The person who tries to attach themselves to more successful people in an effort to either use them or try to demean them to make themselves feel good. The person who is always talking about what they are going to do "one day/one year/next time", but they never do. The person who gives shout outs to celebrities that they don't have relationships with but want to "work with".
I call these types of people The Coming Soons and what they are doing is commonly known as frontin'. If you don't know at least one person that fits into this category, you're probably the one that is guilty of this behavior. Frontin' has become nearly an epidemic. The cure is karma because the person frontin is always discovered to be a fraud sooner or later. It's better to live a life of positive experiences and slowly grow into success, than surround yourself with material possessions (whether fake or on credit) to make others believe you're a success. The latter has led to the death, demise and imprisonment of a lot of people.
I hope this gives you something to think about as you go into your day-to-day lives and careers interacting with people. You can't really avoid meeting these types of people. The only things you can do is recognize them for who they are and try not to become like them yourself.


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SANFORD, Fla. - One of the prosecution's most important witnesses in the Trayvon Martin murder case faces a second day of defense questioning about what she heard while on the phone with the teen right before he was killed.
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Nineteen-year-old Rachel Jeantel's testimony continued Thursday and is considered important to the state's case. She was the last person to talk to the 17-year-old Martin before his encounter with defendant George Zimmerman on Feb. 26, 2012, in Sanford.
Defense attorney Don West continued to cross-examine Jeantel Thursday morning asking about her phone interview deposition with Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump, challenging her about differences in her deposition.
West brought out a personal letter Jeantel wrote to Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton. The state has no objection to the letter coming into evidence, but objected to Jeantel reading it. It was written in cursive by a friend based on what she said and signed the letter with a nickname, "Diamond Eugene." West read the letter aloud to jurors because Jeantel said she couldn't read cursive.
Jeantel said Crump asked her if the incident was a "racial thing" but claims his question is missing from transcript. Jeantel said she didn't know race was an issue in the Martin case three weeks after Zimmerman shot him. She said she feels now the shooting was a racial thing because Martin was being followed.
Jeantel said she didn't believe "creepy a** cracker" is a racial comment. She said she never told anyone about Martin's comment until a year after the shooting.
"It was a personal letter to his mother," Jeantel said when West asked why she didn't write anything about thinking it was racial in the letter.
West then implied that the Martin family hid Jeantel from police because Crump said the family didn't trust Sanford police. At a news conference in 2012, Crump said he was handing over information about Jeantel to the U.S. Justice Department.
Jeantel talked to ABC News using the alias "DeeDee" after Crump on March 19, 2012, before her interview with prosecutors on April 2. Jeantel said Fulton was sitting beside her along with Martin family attorney Natalie Jackson when the state attorney first questioned her. Jeantel said Crump was driving her to Fulton's house for the state attorney interview.
"I never thought I was a witness, a serious witness ... an important witness," Jeantel said.
She told West she altered her story about Martin because his mom was in the room during the state attorney interview. Jeantel said she didn't want his mother to hear Martin use words such as "cracker." She also said she didn't originally tell Fulton she overheard Martin saying, "get off, get off."
"I did not think it was important," Jeantel said when West asked why she didn't tell Fulton.
West then focused on the timeline of the night with the 911 calls and Martin's phone call records. Jeantel said she told Martin to run and he did. Zimmerman said Martin was running at 7:11:41 and Jeantel said she told Martin to run until call disconnected at 7:11:47. The first 911 call was made at 7:16:11. Jeantel's testimony on Martin running appears to be consistent with Zimmerman's story and forensic times almost to the second, records show. What hasn't been stated is Zimmerman's location from 7:13:40 when Zimmerman's non-emergency call ends and 7:16:11, when the witness 911 call was made.
After nearly 90 minutes of cross-examination, Jeantel remained poised, composed and much less defensive than Wednesday's questioning, answering with "yes sir" and "no sir."
West even asked if Jeantel was OK because she seemed different from Wednesday's testimony, in his opinion. Jeantel said no one coached her about her performance on Wednesday and that she was acting differently on Thursday because she got sleep.
After a short recess, West showed Jeantel a map of the Sanford neighborhood, Retreat at Twin Lakes, before the state objected.
West then said, forcefully, "You don't know Trayvon Martin got hit. You don't know if Trayvon Martin didn't take his fist and drive it into George Zimmerman's face?"
Jeantel paused and said, "No sir."
West moved on to the the discrepancies in transcripts on whether she identified Martin as saying "get off." She first quoted "get off" in the April 2, 2012 inteview but couldn't then say for certain it was Martin saying it.
"Trust me, they messed up," Jeantel said, insisting the voice was Martin.
The jury was then brought out for the audio interview of Jeantel and prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda from April 2, 2012, to be played for the judge to decide if it will be admitted into evidence.
The defense says Jeantel says, "I couldn't hear it was Trayvon." Jeantel says she said "I could hear it was Trayvon."
The state objected for the defense bringing in that interview into evidence. The defense said it wants the jury to decide. The audiotape was played for the jury and Jeantel confirmed it was her saying "get off."
West then asked Jeantel to describe what "wet grass" sounds like, to which she responded, "wet." Jeantel said it sounded like someone rolling on Martin's phone headset. When asked to describe the rolling sound, she brushed the court microphone to simulate headset sound she heard and agreed with West that a sound like that could be caused by various things.
"He decided to approach this man and say 'why you following me?'" West asked.
Jeantel replied, "Yes sir."
When West asked if Martin could have attacked Zimmerman, Jeantel responded, "That's real retarded, sir."
"That's why you didn't do anything because you knew Trayvon Martin the fight, didn't you?" West said.
"No, sir," Jeantel replied, denying that she said Martin "approached" by Zimmerman.
"The man was behind Trayvon, sir ... close," Jeantel said.
The defense suggested to Jeantel that Martin may have been hiding before encounter with Zimmerman.
"If Trayvon Martin was getting ready to assault someone, he could call you back," West said.
"No, sir, he would not allow me on the phone with him I'd he was about to have a fight," Jeantel replied. "Trayvon would have told me he would call back if he were going to approach him."
Juror 5 shook her head and looked disapprovingly at West when he claimed Jeantel previously testified she could have heard Martin hit Zimmerman.
"He would not allow me on the phone if he was about to have a fight," Jeantel said.
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After lunch recess, questioning continued of Jeantel. The defense wanted the jury to hear the taped interview with the state again. The defense said the state asked if Martin said the man got out of the car, to which Jeantel answered, "you want that too?"
The defense suggested Jeantel the state fed her words. West asked Jeantel if she said that and she said she did not. Judge Debra Nelson said the jury would not hear the recording again unless Jeantel gave a conflicting answer.
West completed his cross-examination and de la Rionda started his redirect by joking if he was the "bald-headed dude" Jeantel referred to earlier in the day. De la Rionda started asking about her Haitian background and Jeantel said Creole is her first language. She said English is her third language and she can't read cursive.
De la Rionda limited his redirect questions, limiting what the defense could do on recross. West asked Jeantel about when she spoke English and Jeantel said she learned to speak Creole first, not speaking much English to her mother.
"I understand English really well," Jeantel said, but misunderstood a question from West seconds later about what "creepy a** cracker" meant in her culture. She said she didn't recall if Martin used the word "cracker."
As Jeantel was about to be released from questioning, the defense said they wanted to question Jeantel outside of the jury presence. She was allowed to go home but is still under subpoena. Jeantel appeared relieved and asked "can I use my phone?"
Zimmerman was in court on Thursday wearing a gray sport coat with a dress shirt and tie, seen talking intently with his attorney, former Local 6 legal analyst Mark O'Mara.
Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, claiming self-defense.
Jeantel bolsters prosecutors' contention that Zimmerman was the aggressor in his confrontation with Martin. She says Martin told her a man was following him.
Later, she said she heard what sounded like Martin's phone earpiece drop into the grass and heard him say, "Get off! Get off!"
Prosecutor Richard Mantei called the state's next witness, Raymond MacDonald, a manager for T-Mobile. MacDonald authenticated cellphone records coming into evidence.
De la Rionda called witness Jennifer Lauer, who made the first 911 call, which contains the screams and the gunshot. She lived in the Retreat at Twin Lakes subdivision for three years before the shooting.
Lauer said she was watching TV when the shooting occurred. Her sliding glass door was open to the backyard.
Lauer said she heard voices outside first, sounding like "loud talking" from the left--which is the north toward the top of the "T" in the path. She said one person said something then another but she couldn't hear what they were saying, describing the voices as "flustered."
"The yelps turned to helps" from one person, Lauer said, she can't identify.
She said she heard "scuffling" on pavement and grass. The scuffling led to wrestling and Lauer said she "felt like they would almost come in through the screen." They heard grunting and yelling noises so they moved away to call 911.
"We kinda just ducked down to the ground in the kitchen and then tried to scurry our way upstairs. We just tried to get away from the door," Lauer said.
Lauer said she "didn't know if it was kids fooling around" and she "didn't want them to hear me snitching on them." She and her husband called 911, estimating it took 30 seconds for 911 to connect. Records show the call connected at 7:16:11, the gunshot was heard 45 seconds later and ended the cries for help.
She said she heard her neighbor one unit south of her, John Goode, go outside and say to the scufflers "What the hell are you doing" and the "helps" continued.
Fulton left the room as Lauer's 911 call was played for the jury. Tracy Martin stayed in the courtroom with his eyes downcast and not reacting to gunshot.
De la Rionda asked if Lauer ever heard someone say "you're going to die tonight motherf*****," as Zimmerman claimed Martin told him. She said she never heard that.
De la Rionda then had Lauer identify which townhome is hers in crime scene photos. She said the house numbers can be visible from the sidewalk or not, depending on location of the bushes.
She said she received an email from Zimmerman about neighborhood watch and never formally met Zimmerman, but knew of him. She said she can't say if it was Zimmerman yelling because she never heard him do that in the meetings.
O'Mara cross-examined Lauer, asking if she could make out any words. Lauer said she couldn't hear anyone say what Zimmerman says was said or Jeantel says was said.
"It sounded like they were desperate ... Really needed help," she said about the cries, calling them "life-threatening screams."
Lauer said her husband tried to grab the knife before going outside because he didn't know where the fight was at.
Lauer was then shown a picture of Zimmerman's injuries and said she couldn't identify him with the injuries.
O'Mara then asked Lauer about Homeowner's Association concerns with people walking into complex along the same path. She said she doesn't consider Zimmerman a "vigilante" and his Neighborhood Watch program involvement was appropriate.
In redirect, de la Rionda asked Lauer about the location of the screams. The jury was then brought out of the courtroom just after 4 p.m. for a proffer after the defense opened the door to Zimmerman's prior domestic violence injunction and battery arrest during cross-examination.
The defense objected to bringing in Zimmerman's domestic violence with the restraining order from his former girlfriend and his battery arrest. Lauer said she was aware of both. The jury was not in the courtroom.
Lauer was released from the stand after being questioned about her Twitter account.
The state then called Selma Mora, a Spanish-speaker with an interpreter on hand, who lived at Retreat View Circle with Mary Cutcher, who was critical of Sanford Police Department's non-arrest.
Prosecutor John Guy questioned Mora about what she saw and heard the night of the shooting. He also questioned her about what her roommate, Cutcher, did that night.
In cross-examination, O'Mara asked Mora what direction Mora heard noise coming through using a diagram of the subdivision. O'Mara then had Mora demonstrate how she looked out of the window to see what was going on outside.
O'Mara also asked how Zimmerman appeared to act after the shooting and if Zimmerman appeared to be concerned. Mora said he could have looked concerned. Guy asked a few quick redirect questions before Mora was excused.
Court was recessed until 9 a.m. on Friday.
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Martin family attorney Daryl Parks and O'Mara held separate news conferences after court on Thursday.
O'Mara said he's happy with how the trial has gone on thus far, stating he can't believe the trial is in its fourth day.
"I feel like I've been here for three weeks," O'Mara said, adding that he believes the initial trial length estimate of 2 to 4 weeks may be accurate.
O'Mara said Zimmerman is happy that the trial is underway.
"The only battle in this courtroom is justice and truth," O'Mara said.
Tracy Martin and Fulton stood by Parks outside of the courtroom on Thursday as Parks spoke for them, saying they praise Jeantel for coming forward and testifying.
"She is a young lady going into the twelfth grade and she did her best this family is so proud of her," Parks said.
"We believe we'll get a fair verdict we believe the evidence in this case is overwhelming," Parks said, adding that the evidence shows who the aggressor was.
Parks said that they believe race shouldn't be a part of the process and that they're not worried about the jury's makeup.
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MACON, Ga. - Lipscomb's Ryan Chastain picked up a pair of wins en route to earning A-Sun Track Athlete of the Week honors while USC Upstate's Eric Chapman put on a record-setting performance to earn field athlete honors.
A week after taking 25 seconds off the Lipscomb indoor track 5000-meter record at the UW Invite (14:53), Chastain continued his impressive season by winning the mile in 4:19.11 and the 800-meter run in 1:55.49 at the Tennessee State University Invite. Both performances also established his personal bests. His 800 time breaks the Lipscomb indoor record and ranks him first in the Atlantic Sun Conference. Chastain also ranks sixth in the mile and third in the 5000-meter run in the conference this season.
At the Vince Brown Invitational, Chapman set a school-record in the weight throw and posted a personal mark in the shot put. In the weight throw, Chapman recorded the school-record toss of 48-01.75 (14.67m) as he finished seventh in the event. In the shot put, the junior recorded a distance of 40-08.25 (12.40m) for a 12th-place finish. Chapman's toss in the weight throw ranks as the fourth-farthest this season and the longest since the calendar flipped to 2010.
Fans can follow the Atlantic Sun on Twitter and on Facebook. Visit twitter.com/AtlanticSun to begin receiving updates on conference news, weekly awards, and from A-Sun championships. Atlantic Sun followers with a Facebook account can become a "fan" of the conference by visiting facebook.com/AtlanticSunConference.
The Atlantic Sun Conference is an 11-member league committed to Building Winners for Life. The A-Sun stands for achievement with integrity in both the academic and athletic arenas, with a focus on the balance between the two for our student-athletes. Headquartered in Macon, Ga., the A-Sun boasts six of the top eight media markets in the Southeast. The A-Sun includes a blend of the most prestigious and dynamic private and public institutions in the region: Belmont University, Campbell University, East Tennessee State University, Florida Gulf Coast University, Jacksonville University, Kennesaw State University, Lipscomb University, Mercer University, University of North Florida, University of South Carolina Upstate and Stetson University.
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Gilbert Kemboi, USC Upstate (Fr. - Distance - Eldoret, Kenya - Nursing) - Kemboi, competing in just his second event of the indoor season, captured his second victory. In the 3000-meter run at the Vince Brown Invitational, the freshman posted a school-record time of 8:38.27 en route to a victory of nearly 10 seconds. Kemboi's time places third fastest thus far in the A-Sun.


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One thing that might make this less than amazing is that it would be 100% shot with blue or green screen digital background. There are countless examples of how this does not work well. More and more examples are showing us that its a do-able technique (AVATAR). We shall see....
Exclusive: 'Battlestar Galactica' sets up a Young Adama spinoff
--Posted by Maureen Ryan
Those who've been hoping for a new chapter of the "Battlestar Galactica" story may get their wish.
An online series called "Blood & Chrome" is in the works, one that would follow the experiences of a young William "Husker" Adama in the first Cylon War.
According to Mark Stern, Syfy's executive vice president of original programming and the co-head of original content for Universal Cable Productions, "Battlestar Galactica" and "Caprica" co-executive producer Michael Taylor will write the the script for the new venture.
"Blood & Chrome" is "about a young man's initiation into war: both the realities of war as fought by soldiers on the ground (and in Battlestars and Vipers), and the somewhat less real version portrayed in the media," according to Taylor.
"Blood & Chrome" would consist of nine or 10 episodes of nine or 10 minutes each, and it would make use of cutting-edge digital technology and special effects to depict the Cylon War. If it is greenlit to production, it will be filmed using green screens and virtual sets, not unlike Syfy's "Sanctuary" or James Cameron's "Avatar." Before "Battlestar Galactica" ended, high-tech scans were made of all the show's sets, so that the special-effects team will be able to re-create them (possibly even in 3D).
"I've seen the virtual, 3D version of CIC ['Battlestar's' Combat Information Center] and it's pretty damn cool," Taylor said. "And yet the movie isn't confined to Galactica. Far from it. It's a story that will take us to new corners of the 'Battlestar' world (or worlds), and yet it aims to be a very contemporary war movie in a lot of ways. I would say I'm thinking as much of Afghanistan and Iraq--the reality of 'Hurt Locker,' Sebastian Junger's 'Restrepo,' and similar movies--as I am about about the largely implied past of 'Battlestar.'"
Though Taylor said he'll strive for the kind of emotional engagement that was the hallmark of "Battlestar," which ended in 2009, expect lots of of cliffhangers and visceral suspense as well. "We're not going to be shying away from R-rated blood and guts and sex," Taylor noted. "Because this is initially meant to air online, we pretty much have no restrictions in that department."
It's not known yet if "Blood & Chrome" would star Nico Cortez, the actor cast as young Adama in "Razor," a previous "Battlestar Galactica" movie. There may be one other character from "Razor" in the new online series, but it would feature a mostly new cast.
If "Blood & Chrome" is successful, it could be the first a series of similar projects, and if it's judged very successful, it could even act as a backdoor pilot for a TV show set in that war-torn "BSG" era.
Speaking of the Cylon War, "Caprica," a Syfy drama that depicts events leading up to that conflagration, visited Comic-Con over the weekend. Audio of the panel and a brief panel report are below.
Judging by the Season 1.5 clip shown at the start of the show's panel, when "Caprica" returns in January, it will have a lot more action, narrative tension and drive. The show, which was disappointingly uneven in its first set of episodes despite its strong cast, certainly needed all those things.
Now that "Caprica's" world and characters have been established, the show's challenge is to "create situations and dramatic milieu as intense and riveting as what we did on 'Battlestar,'" executive producer David Eick said at the Comic-Con panel. That's the goal for the second half of the first season and for the second season, if the show gets one.
In Season 1.5, James Marsters will return as terrorist Barnabus Greeley, Scott Porter will be back as polygamist Nestor Willow and John Pyper-Ferguson will return as Tomas Vergis, a business rival of tech titan Daniel Graystone.
Barnabus is "looking out on a society that's eating itself alive as far as he's concerned. …. He's disgusted," said Marsters, who was on the panel (and who, by the way, confirmed that he'll reprise his role as Brainiac in the 200th episode of "Smallville").
"Caprica" will also return to New Cap City, a virtual game that was effectively showcased in Season 1's most compelling episode, "There Is Another Sky." That hour found Tamara, a character who was dead in the real world, trapped in a videogame in which she found she had special powers.
Virtual worlds like New Cap City will be important as the show moves forward, as will the robots that Daniel Graystone created in the wake of his family's personal trauma. Creating a slave class of robots will have serious consequences for Caprical going forward.
And in the second half of the season, viewers will see many more iterations of Zoe, the young woman who was instrumental in the creation of the Cylons. When it comes to what Zoe does in the second half of the season, "I don't think you're expecting what's going to happen," actress Alessandra Torresani said at the panel.
Will "Caprica" get a second season? Ronald D. Moore, "Caprica" co-creator and executive producer, said on the panel that he "firmly believes" it will. That decision will be made in coming weeks by Syfy executives.
One last tidbit related to the "Battlestar" world: Taylor is also developing a potential Syfy pilot for Scott Stuber's Stuber Productions. It's tentatively called "The Watchers," and it deals in the kind of contemporary social and political issues that "Battlestar" frequently explored.
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Home > Wellness > Health Library > Electrical Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation
Electrical cardioversion is a procedure in which an electric current is used to reset the heart's rhythm back to its regular pattern (normal sinus rhythm). The low-voltage electric current enters the body through patches applied to the chest wall.
Before cardioversion for atrial fibrillation, you will be given medicine to control pain and cause relaxation.
For nonemergency cardioversion, the timing of when you have it depends on how long you have had atrial fibrillation and your risk of having a stroke.footnote 1
In some cases, such as an emergency, your doctor might do a transesophageal echocardiogram before a cardioversion to see if you have a clot in your heart that could cause a stroke. Then your doctor can decide when it is safe for you to have cardioversion.
For help deciding if you should have electrical cardioversion, see:
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After cardioversion, you will be monitored to make sure that you have a stable heart rhythm.
You will likely take a medicine (called a blood thinner) that prevents blood clots for at least a few weeks after your cardioversion. This medicine lowers your risk of a stroke.
Additional medicines to help prevent the return of heart rhythm problems (antiarrhythmics) also may be given before and after the procedure. Your risk of having atrial fibrillation again is greater if antiarrhythmics are not used after cardioversion.
Cardioversion is used:footnote 2
The success of electrical cardioversion depends on how long you have had atrial fibrillation and what is causing it. Cardioversion is less successful if you have had atrial fibrillation for longer than 1 year.footnote 3
After this treatment, about 9 out of 10 people get back a normal heart rhythm right away.footnote 4 But for many people, atrial fibrillation returns. Normal rhythm may last less than a day or for weeks or months. It depends on your other health problems.
Staying in a normal rhythm is more likely when the cause of your rhythm problem is not another heart problem. But for most people, atrial fibrillation is caused by another heart problem and is very likely to return.
If your atrial fibrillation returns, you may be able to have cardioversion again. But you might not stay in a normal rhythm for very long. If atrial fibrillation comes back quickly (within a week or so), having cardioversion a third time, or more, is less likely to help you. Your doctor might recommend a different treatment, such as a rhythm-control medicine, to get your heart rhythm back to normal.
If you take antiarrhythmic medicines too, they can help you stay in a normal rhythm longer.
Cardioversion may be less successful or may not be recommended if you:
Cardioversion is more likely to be successful if:
Risks of the procedure include the following:
Cardioversion can also be done with medicines. These medicines are called rhythm control medicines, or antiarrhythmics. These medicines can also help keep your heart in a normal rhythm after it has been reset. You may get pills, or the medicine may be put into your arm through a tube called an IV. If an IV is used, it will be done in the hospital. You may start pills in the hospital and continue taking them at home, or you may start the pills at home.
January CT, et al. (2014). 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society. Circulation, published online March 28, 2014. DOI: 10.1161/?CIR.0000000000000041. Accessed April 18, 2014.
Kerber RE (2011). Indications and techniques of electrical defibrillation and cardioversion. In V Fuster et al., eds., Hurst's The Heart, 13th ed., vol. 1, pp. 1088–1093. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Fuster V, et al. (2011). 2011 ACCF/AHA/HRS focused update incorporated into the ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation: A report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. Circulation, 123(10): e269–e367.
Morady F, Zipes DP (2015). Atrial fibrillation: Clinical features, mechanisms, and management. In DL Mann et al., eds., Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 10th ed., vol. 1, pp. 798–813. Philadelphia: Saunders.
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Creating a great landing page is a critical step in the conversion funnel. By viewing the page as a speed bump in the conversion process rather than an information dump, you'll find users will be inclined to move onto the next step, and they'll do so because there is less friction.
In addition, you'll be able to attach ROI measurements to your various marketing campaigns. As you test and refine your campaigns, this insight into their net values will enable you to become more efficient and effective at driving down costs per acquired customer.
Here are the top seven tips for designing an effective landing page.
1. Have a Clear and Emphasized Call to Action
When running a marketing campaign, the ultimate goal is to convert prospects into customers. Driving prospects to an online landing page is often an interim step toward this end goal.
Landing pages should be designed to make a prospective customer take action. The offer is a critical component of getting the sale, so make a big deal out of it.
Set the offer copy and corresponding call to action apart from the rest of the page to make it special. Use white space, a box around it, lines above and below and/or some sort of contrast to point out where the visitor needs to focus to obtain the item.
Finally, make sure you spell out exactly what will happen if someone fills out the form or clicks on the desired link.
2. Align Your On-Page Message and Call-to-Action With Your Off-Page Promise
Your visitors arrived from somewhere, and an expectation was set before they even landed on your page. This could have been in your pay-per-click ad, a third-party blog posting, or a comparison-shopping engine.
Make sure you understand the context from which your visitor arrived. It is critical to align the content of your landing page with their intent and expectations.
3. Simplify Design and Reduce Text
Simplify. Simplify. Simplify. The goal is to minimize distractions.
- Don't use a wide variety of font styles, colors, and sizes on your page.
- Remove images and interactive rich-media content unless it directly supports your conversion goal and is a clearly superior way of conveying important information.
- Bland landing pages are often the best conversion drivers.
People don't read on the web. Study after study has shown that less content on a landing page leads to higher conversion rates.
Ruthlessly edit your text down to simple headlines and short bullet lists. Cut out the self-promoting marketing speak. People won't read it. Detailed information can be linked to (in the footer) and made available on supporting pages.
4. Use Images Judiciously
Images are good to use on landing pages to give a visual representation of the product or service as long as these following rules are followed:
- Don't make the image too large. The purpose of the image is to add some visual candy to the page and help orient the visitor to the product and headline. If an image is too large and dominates the page, you lose the opportunity let the headline do the heavy lifting and you push other content below the fold.
- Don't make it too complex. Multiple versions of the same item in different colors won't help. Keep it simple and clean.
- Make sure it renders properly and is sized correctly. A jagged image will reduce the perceived quality of the page while a large image file will slow the page load.
- Use a caption. After headlines, captions are the next most read pieces of text.
5. Show Brand Validation
People want to feel an affinity for your product or service. By transferring recognition or good will from other sources you can help reinforce their desire to act.
Liberally use logos of well-recognized client brands. Add the badges of media sources that have covered or mentioned your company. Prominently display glowing testimonials from existing customers.
Do everything possible to reduce anxiety for your visitors, by using safe shopping seals and other indicators of your trustworthiness. The logos of trade associations, acceptable payment methods, and money-back guarantee seals can all be powerful ways to make your visitors feel that transacting with you will be safe and secure.
6. Enable Sharing and Highlight Social Validation
Social media buzz grows exponentially and also serves as a stamp of approval by others highlighting the value of an offer. Social buzz will drive more traffic to the page, validate your credibility and has the potential to help your website rank higher on search engine results pages.
Make social sharing of your landing page easy. Include popular social media share buttons above the fold and in the sign up process. If you can, enable social-login to make it easier for visitors to accept your offer and follow through on your call to action.
7. Test, Test, Test
There are many elements of a landing page that can be tested such as the use of a demo, multiple pages linked by tabs, number and length of bullet points, approaches to copy (salesy, helpful, long, short, etc.), dynamic content, etc. The key to ongoing improvement is establishing a culture of testing and tweaking.
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Logan County Love will once again provide a free
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St. John UCC, corner of
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Movie Review
Million Dollar Arm
Rated PG for mild language and some suggestive content. In English and some Hindi with English subtitles. Two hours, four minutes
Publication date: May. 16, 2014
Review by Susan Tavernetti
Released: (2014)
But the baseball movie is about as predictable as a box of Cracker Jacks. The nominal prize is the heartfelt sentiment that transcends the line-up of clichés. An underdog and fish-out-of-water tale, Thomas McCarthy's ("Win Win") screenplay revolves around J.B. Bernstein (Hamm) convincing an Asian investor (Tzi Ma) to mount a contest throughout India in search of cricket players with accurate fastballs -- million dollar arms. Bernstein also persuades USC's Coach Tom House (Bill Paxton) to develop the finalists into Major League Baseball pitchers. The stakes are high for Bernstein and his partner Ash (Aasif Mandvi), who need one big client to stay in business.
Situational humor provides interest as Bernstein, accompanied by a gruff major league scout (Alan Arkin), travel to cricket-obsessed India. The two men wear poker faces and don't react to cultural differences. Instead the spectator is expected to laugh at everything from inadequate Mumbai office space to villagers bringing cows into their homes and endless Million Dollar Arm contestants throwing baseballs too slowly or completely out of control. Local baseball enthusiast Amit (Bollywood actor Pitobash) joins the search, infusing the movie with comedy and compassion.
The second half of the film takes place in Los Angeles and lacks a strong driving force. Amit and the pair of finalists, Rinku (Suraj Sharma of "Life of Pi") and Dinesh (Madhur Mittal of "Slumdog Millionaire"), move into Bernstein's bachelor pad, train for tryouts, suffer from a bad case of culture clash, and run into a rather tame worse-case scenario: If no major league team signs them, they get to return home to India and their loving families. Without a do-or-die dream, the protagonists deflate the movie's suspense.
Adhering to its tagline -- Sometimes to win, you have to change the game -- the Disney production isn't really a sports movie at all. The real story is about Bernstein transforming from a slick businessman into a human being, as the art of the deal gives way to matters of the heart, giving viewers a game changer both charming and uplifting.
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Leftover Candy
- by Ty
I have a few tips to help you get rid of too much Halloween candy. My first tip is for those of you who may have too may suckers like Blow Pops, Dum Dum's, and Tootsie Roll Pops, etc. You can tape four or five lollipops together to make a bundle. Tie a fancy bow around them and place on top of gifts with name tags for kids or adults.
Second tip is for anyone who has leftover candy corn and caramels. These candies make lovely sauces. Melt down candy in a saucepan with water and butter or you can use a double boiler so the candy doesn't stick to the pan. Once candy is smooth and melted pour over your favorite entree meat or over steamed vegetables.
And my third idea for left over Halloween candy is for any type of candy like smarties, Butterfingers, milky-way, Mike and Ikes and etc. You can make your own homemade Christmas tree ornaments. There are two ways to make them. One way is to place a couple pieces of candy into a small organza bag. Drawstring the top and place a Christmas tree hook at the top of the bag. Repeat these steps and hang finished bags all over the tree. The other way is to use small cellophane bags. Once you have filled the bag with a small amount of candy use a twist tie to close the bag. Then insert hook onto the twist tie . Repeat those steps and hang desired amount onto your tree. I hope this will help anyone who has an abundance of unwanted candy. Please post comments and other ideas of your own.


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Yesterdays edition of Sigma Xi Student News had a great example of a cool science outreach idea with a really stupid, unnecessary twist:
Casting 25 to 35-Year-Old Male Host for Science Adventure Show
Objective Productions (UK) and The Discovery Channel are in search of a 25 to 35 year old male host for a new adrenalin fueled and action filled show. Our host will take on seemingly impossible challenges with crazed enthusiasm while placing his faith in science no matter how crazy the task appears. DANGERMAN is a documentary style reality series that replicates the extraordinary stunts performed by daredevils, stuntmen and showmen and explains the scientific principles that make the most amazing feats possible. Applicant MUST BE A SCIENCE GRADUATE (minimum bachelors degree). You must have an interest and passion for extreme and dangerous sports and related areas. Please submit a recent photo (from the last six months) along with a bio or resume and letters stating your interest in the show, science, adventure and extreme dangerous sports. All submissions can be e-mailed to ___@___.com (email me if youre interested and want the link), which is in London.
Aw now common. Disqualified by boobies.
If anything, it would be better TV if the host is a chick. Not that I dont love Bill Nye, Beakman, Mr. Wizard, and the Kratt Brothers, but why not a science-TV Lara Croft? This could have been a great opportunity to show a tough young woman having FUN with science. Guys would like it, girls would like it, YAY!


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Ok. Thanks for the clarification. It's to run an HBase job, so it will be one node restriction for me. JM 2012/12/8, Harsh J <firstname.lastname@example.com>: > In case of HBase, the locality is bound to be restricted to one node > (the node hosting the region asked for). Otherwise, replication > affects locality (N options). > > On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari > <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >> Hi Harsh, >> >> Thanks for your help. >> >> mapred.fairscheduler.locality.delay seems to be working very well for >> me. I have set it with 60s and JoInProgress picked up only "Choosing >> data-local task"... It seems to do the job for my usecase. And as you >> are saying, if I'm loosing a node while the job is running, the task >> will still run after 60 seconds on another node >> >> I have not yet looked at CapacityScheduler, but will most probably later. >> >> One last thing. I have a replication factor set to 3. Does it mean 3 >> TaskTrackers might be able to take any of the tasks and run them >> locally? Or only 1? >> >> Thanks, >> >> JM >> >> 2012/12/8, Harsh J <firstname.lastname@example.com>: >>> Answer depends on a couple of features to be present in your version >>> of Hadoop, and is inline. >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari >>> <email@example.com> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Is there a way for force the tasks from a MR job to run ONLY on the >>>> taskservers where the input split location is? >>> >>> There is no severely strict version to do this, but there are >>> improvements you could make to configuration to make conditions more >>> favorable to have data local tasks. >>> >>>> I mean, on the taskdetails UI, I can see all my tasks (25), and some >>>> of them have Machine == Input split Location. But some don't. >>> >>> It is sometimes normal to see non-data-local tasks among mostly >>> data-local tasks in MR - this is due to availability of >>> slots/resources during job scheduling. >>> >>>> So I'm wondering if there is a way to force hadoop to run those tasks >>>> "locally" or else discard them and wait for the local server to be >>>> able to run them? >>> >>> You need a good scheduler that can address your needs. >>> >>> For FairScheduler, in 1.x or so, you can utilize >>> mapred.fairscheduler.locality.delay, set in milliseconds in your >>> mapred-site.xml, to indicate the maximum period of wait for a task to >>> get scheduled with demanded locality. Ideally you'd want to set this >>> to a period slightly greater than the average time between two >>> heartbeats from a single tasktracker to the jobtracker. The 2.x one >>> does it automatically, seems like. >>> >>> For CapacityScheduler, there isn't any form of delay factor in 1.x >>> releases. In 2.x however, CapacityScheduler has the >>> yarn.scheduler.capacity.node-locality-delay config property that can >>> be set for a similar effect. >>> >>> Note that the reason MR does not do absolutely strict scheduling is >>> for many reasons, one of them also being to counter failure or >>> unavailability of the target node for an assumed infinite period. Most >>> users would not prefer their tasks to hang in wait forever due to any >>> of such situations, and a few non-data local tasks in the job don't >>> hurt the overall execution time too much. >>> >>> -- >>> Harsh J >>> > > > > -- > Harsh J >
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Most of you have probably encountered an NFC-enabled credit card. Most major US banks employ this tech in their credit/debit cards. There may even be one in your pocket without you knowing it! (Just look for the little sideways Wi-Fi signal sign in the corner). The hack involves taking one of these cards and cutting it to fit into an iPhone between the rear casing and the battery. Unplggd has the full instructions.
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SEATTLE — The government shutdown is now delaying death benefits to families of soldiers killed in combat.
Over the weekend, four Americans were killed in combat, including 1st Lt. Jennifer Moreno, assigned to Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
"We are all deeply saddened by the tragic loss of this great American Soldier," said Col. Ramona Fiorey, Madigan Army Medical Center commander. "We've lost a superb officer and a caring nurse."
Moreno's family has been notified it will not receive the $100,000 benefit normally given to relatives to help cover funeral costs and expenses. They also won't be flown to Dover Air Force Base to witness the return of their loved one.
Following is CNN story out of Washington, D.C.:
A lapse in benefits normally paid to the families of U.S. service members killed in combat is adding to the already existing anger over the partial federal government shutdown.
With a good majority of the Pentagon workforce returning to work despite large-scale furloughs hitting other federal agencies, the benefits typically paid to families of the fallen have yet to be restored during the current government shutdown.
"This particular situation is unthinkable," Rep. Renee Ellmers, R-N.C., said on the House floor Tuesday. "A great injustice is being done to our service members and their families."
Among the benefits being withheld are a $100,000 cash payment typically paid to a service member's family within three days of their death in the combat zone. Burial benefits, which include reimbursement for recovery, care, as well as the funeral and interment of remains are also included in those benefits.
A gratuity for travel to funeral or memorial services, or for travel to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware where the remains of the fallen typically go to upon return to the United States, are also included in the benefits to family members.
For people like Amy Neiberger-Miller, who lost her brother Chris in Iraq, the loss of these benefits to families comes as they are living their" worst nightmare."
For "families with limited means, these benefits are especially critical," said Neiberger-Miller, who now works T.A.P.S., a support network for families of the fallen.
In addition to the death benefits, emergency funding used to support certain intelligence activities, as well as certain funding for commanders on the ground, are also currently unfunded according to the Pentagon.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel noted the lapse in benefits in a meeting with top Defense Department officials on Monday, and assured them "he would work closely with them to address these challenges," according to a written readout of the meeting.
In a letter to Hagel, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., said the lapse in funding was due to a "careless legal interpretation" by the Pentagon to a resolution passed by Congress prior to the shutdown that called for the continuation of all benefits to military families.
"I am at a loss about why [the Department of Defense] did not take a more active role in notifying Congress and insisting that changes in law occur immediately," Hunter wrote. "And until a correction is made to the law, it is up to you to make the appropriate judgment based on a more correct interpretation."
Republicans are drafting legislation that would restore death benefit payments, which the Pentagon says were frozen under the shutdown, to the survivors of service members killed in action, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers told CNN.
Discord over the lapse in funding was seemingly bipartisan.
"I want immediately for the $100,000 death benefit and flight to Dover to be immediately given to these families," Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D.TX) said on the House floor Tuesday. "I am reaching out to the Pentagon, writing a letter and asking that this be immediately resolved."
Fisher House, a group that offers assistance to families of troops in need, has offered an advance grant to such families during the shutdown, according to a letter from Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., to Hagel.
A spokeswoman for Fisher House said the group would work out a repayment plan with the families once the government begins to reimburse the death benefits.
"We're also already helping several of them with free airline tickets, and of course, most will be staying at our Dover Fisher House," the spokeswoman said in a written statement. "If the house is full, we'll pay the hotel bill and any incidentals."


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Another Turtle in the Water
Barely two months after an artist was arrested while sailing a crudely built loose interpretation of David Bushnell's Revolutionary War submarine, the Turtle, in New York Harbor, a more accurate version made her maiden voyage without much splash. On 22 October, Roy Manstan, a retired engineer and U.S. Navy diver, provided the power for the vessel's propeller during a brief test run on the Connecticut River off Essex. The ungainly sub was more a passenger of the passing tide than a controlled vehicle as it bobbed like a cork and was pulled off course. The voyage, nevertheless, was deemed a success.
This Turtle is the third incarnation of the 7-foot-tall ovate boat built by Fred Frese, the technology education teacher at Old Saybrook High School. Building her took four years with the help of two retired engineers and at least 50 of his students. His first was built in 1976 for the country's bicentennial and is on exhibit at the Connecticut River Museum in Essex. His second Turtle is on display at the Submarine Force Library & Museum in Groton. This reproduction will go to the David Bushnell House Museum in Westbrook, owned by the Lee Company, which helped finance her construction.
The sub is built of white oak and held together by iron bands. Her human-powered propeller moves by way of a connection to a foot-operated treadle akin to those of manually operated sewing machines. One of the very few concessions made by Frese and his team to modern technology was to include a battery-powered bilge pump, which proved useful on the first trip. A number of leaks were discovered—not unexpected with the type of construction used—and quickly plugged using a vintage method: Sawdust rubbed on the ship's outer hull is quickly sucked into the small holes and, according to Frese, "stops leaks dead."
The Connecticut River Museum was set to christen the submarine in November and inaugurate a research project, with the participation of local high school students, to determine what became of Bushnell's original creation. Local lore has it that Bushnell hid the Turtle in his brother's barn in Old Saybrook, but the fate of the submarine after that is a mystery, Jerry Roberts, executive director of the Connecticut River Museum said. Trying to find out should prove instructive. "It's a good history lesson for everyone that the first submarine ever built was built about 20 miles away from where they are still being built today," he said.
Not a Shot Fired
The USS Texas (BB-35) won a significant battle on 7 November when Texas voters approved State Proposition 4 that includes $25 million in funding for the restoration and permanent dry-berthing of the battleship. Barry Ward, executive director of the Battleship Texas Foundation said: "This gives us a sense of validation after spending the last decade trying to preserve the ship. It is worthwhile to the people of Texas."
The Texas, on display at LaPorte, is the last dreadnought and a veteran of Veracruz in 1914 and both World Wars.
Heroic Tales Afloat
San Antonio, home of the Alamo, is a place where people know the valor of underdog heroes. Remembering the 63rd anniversary of the Battle off Samar, U.S. naval history's greatest upset victory, the city hosted veterans of the escort carriers USS St. Lo (CVE-63) and USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) in late October 2007.
The banquet keynote speaker, Captain Robert C. Hagen, USNR (Ret.), is the senior surviving officer of one of the three ships that were sunk trying to save the carriers, the destroyer Johnston (DD-557). Hagen, then a lieutenant and gunnery officer, drew a standing ovation for recounting the details of the 25 October 1944 action against Rear Admiral Takeo Kurita's Center Force, which included four battleships, the superbattleship Yamato among them.
"Admiral Kurita had to guess whom he was fighting. Were we a fast carrier task force, or a half-fast one?" Hagen said, his wordplay drawing laughter. "He guessed wrong." Kurita's tactical errors, according to Hagen, included mistaking Taffy 3 for Admiral William F. Halsey Jr.'s Third Fleet, ordering a pell-mell general attack, and failing to turn loose his two destroyer squadrons in offensive action.
Hagen described how the destroyer's captain, Commander Ernest E. Evans, turned out of the screen to make a solo torpedo attack against the Japanese force, a feat that Hagen observed from his aerie in the destroyer's Mark 37 gun director. The Johnston opened fire shortly before launching her ten torpedoes at around 0725. When she was sunk nearly two hours later, her magazines were down to proximity-fused rounds. Hagen recalled the peppering his battery gave the Japanese with radar-detonated shells that burst in the air short of their targets.
The Johnston was the last of the Task Unit 77.4.3. screen to be sunk while fighting in defense of Rear Admiral Clifton Sprague's carriers. The Gambier Bay preceded her, succumbing to gunfire from Japanese cruisers and battleships, the only U.S. carrier in history lost in that way. The St. Lo survived the surface action unscratched—then became the first U.S. warship lost to a kamikaze. More than 400 St. Lo survivors were rescued by the USS Dennis (DE-405). Hundreds more took their chances with the tides and the sharks in a two-day-long ordeal at sea. The rest of the story of the Battle off Samar can be found in history books. What won't be found there is the sense of pride that filled the room as Captain Hagen spoke—and the poignant testimony given afterward by carrier survivors to the men of the Johnston and the Dennis for putting themselves in harm's way one October morning 63 years ago.
—James D. Hornfischer
Home from the Seas
A likeness of famed Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind (1820-1887) off the bow of the Nightingale—one of only two known figureheads saved from extreme clipper ships—is being offered at auction by Sotheby's in January. Research by its owner, Swedish antique shop operator Karl-Eric Svardskog, points to the liklihood that it is the sole extant carving done by John W. Mason of Boston, Massachusetts, in the mid-1800s. Mason is cited by many experts as the United States' foremost wood carver of the period. The figurehead was estimated to bring more than $100,000 in the auction.
Svardskog obtained the figure in 1994 when a supplier offered him a "scarecrow" that he had bought from a farmer near Gothenburg. Thus began a 13-year investigation into the origins of the depiction of a saint-like woman with beautifully sculpted hair, masterfully carved blue eyes, red mouth, and pronounced eyebrows.
The figurehead matched in considerable detail an engraving of Jenny Lind in a dramatic scene from Giacomo Meyerbeer's Robert Le Diable. With further research, Svardskog discovered that Samuel Hanscom Jr., an Eliot, Maine, shipbuilder, had named a clipper ship he launched in June 1851 the Nightingale after the "Swedish Nightingale"—Jenny Lind. After tracking the clipper's history from the Chinese "tea races" though the slave trade, Civil War service, and later freighter use, he reached a dead end with her 1893 abandonment in the North Atlantic. How did her figurehead get to Sweden—if it was her figurehead?
After reading that her last homeport had been Kragero, in southern Norway, a day's sail from Gothenburg, Svardskog contacted area residents. One, of Kirkeholmen Island off Kragero, confirmed that the Nightingale had been at the shipyard there for repairs in 1885 during which the figurehead was removed. To help close the circle, the eldest man on a farm where it was found remembered that as a child he had heard that a relative bought the beautiful scarecrow after it was taken off a large ship in Norway.
Despite the promising circumstantial evidence, Svardskog still needed to make the physical link between the figurehead in his possession and the Nightingale.
An article in the March 1932 issue of American Yachting Journal, with drawings of the ship with the figurehead clearly visible, proved devastating at first, but eventually was proof for Svardskog. The artwork showed the figure with both arms outstretched, but his Jenny's were not. Closer examination of the sculpture revealed that the left arm was not original. It was of a different type wood from the figure and anatomically incorrect for its placement. Analysis of the figure's gown showed that the original arm would be outstretched as depicted. A computer-generated recreation of the original arm, based on the existing figure's details, produced an outstretched replacement. Further, a contemporary 1854 painting of the Nightingale by James Edward Buttersworth shows the clipper under way with Jenny at the bow. The likely pose of the figurehead's original arms corresponds to how the arms are positioned in the painting.
Scottish Author Honored
Brian Lavery has been awarded the prestigious Desmond Wettern Maritime Award 2007. This honor is given to the writer, broadcaster, media person, academic or similar figure who is considered to have made a major constructive contribution to publicizing the importance of the United Kingdom's maritime interests.
Lavery, born and educated in Scotland, is curator emeritus of ship technology at the National Maritime Museum and a renowned expert on the sailing navy. He is a broadcaster and advisor to major feature films and has written a number of books that have achieved classic status. Among them are Nelson's Navy: The Ships, Men and Organisation 1793-1815 (Conway Maritime Press, 1990); Churchill's Navy: The Ships, Men and Organisation 1939-45 (Conway, 2006); Jack Aubrey Commands: An Historical Companion to the Naval World of Patrick O'Brian (Conway, 2003); and The Island Nation: A History of Britain and the Sea (Conway, 2005).
Fort Monroe and the National Park Service
It was a surprise to most observers when the historic Fort Monroe, Virginia, Army post was put on the chopping block as a result of the 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment (BRAC) Commission's decisions. The old fort had been a military fixture, indeed a waypoint, in the careers of some of the service's most stellar officers. Its closure has prompted discussion that is rapidly reaching the front burner. At issue is not the historic, moated area of the fort, which will be preserved when Fort Monroe closes in 2011. The questions for the Fort Monroe Federal Area Development Authority—the planning agency for future use—hinge on the post's remaining 570 acres of land, bounded by Mill Creek to the west and the Chesapeake Bay to the east.
The National Park Service (NPS) is conducting a "reconnaissance survey" of its historic resources to determine whether Congress should authorize a more detailed study that would "determine if Fort Monroe, or portions of its historic resources, can meet the stringent criteria for congressional designation as a unit of the National Park Service." The survey is expected to take up to nine months and will involve site visits and research by a NPS team of planners, historians, architectural historians, collections and archives specialists, and those with expertise in park operations.
In a press release, NPS Northeast Regional Director Dennis R. Reidenbach noted, "Regardless of any potential future NPS involvement, the extensive resources and important American stories associated with Fort Monroe deserve to be protected and interpreted for public understanding and appreciation of current and future generations."
Americans at War
The U.S. Naval Institute christened the brand-new Westin Annapolis Hotel in high style, holding its annual Honors Night there in October to bestow awards on its book and magazine Authors of the Year. Earlier in 2007, the organization's leaders were trying to arrive at a dazzling central theme for the event. After weeks of deliberation and formulation of alternative plans, it actually turned out to be a no-brainer.
What had the Naval Institute accomplished over the past year that it had never done before? Simple. Its television series, Americans at War, went on the PBS airwaves for the first time. This called for a celebration, so we invited several subjects of our little 90-second vignettes to join us so we could honor them, too. With us that night were nine veterans who had shared their stories.
Only a few people knew exactly what was up our sleeve. After the powerful videos played on a wall-size screen, there weren't many dry eyes in the house. When the last of the nine had played, we asked our guests to stand and be recognized. They, in turn, received a standing ovation from the audience, most of whom had no idea until then that these heroes were actually in their midst. It was a truly magical moment.
But the magic did not end there. Each of the Naval Institute Press and Proceedings Authors of the Year subsequently delivered poignant, heartfelt, and even moving acceptance remarks. But well-known historian Richard Frank—the Naval History Author of the Year for his matchless series of articles on the World War II Guadalcanal campaign in the August 2007 issue—stunned the crowd.
One of our Americans at War honorees that night was retired Marine Corps Colonel John Ripley, who earned the Navy Cross for single-handedly blowing up the bridge at Dong Ha and thus stemming the southern movement of North Vietnamese Army troops on Easter Sunday 1972. What none of us knew was that Mr. Frank had been stationed with the U.S. Army in Da Nang at precisely that time. To the astonishment of those gathered, he proceeded to thank Colonel Ripley from the podium because the Marine's heroic act "saved my life."
Colonel Ripley's retelling of events in
the Naval Institute's Americans at War Series
The 90-second Americans at War interstitials will continue to air on PBS in 2008, and plans are in the works to produce 40 more. Already "in the can" is a half-hour special featuring the best of the first 40, and we plan to produce three one-hour documentaries, under the Americans at War umbrella, over the next year, an exciting time at the Naval Institute.
—Fred Schultz, Associate Producer


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Cities battle to gain most Twitter followers
The city of Tigard is challenging other local cities to a duel.
A virtual duel, that is.
The city is competing against Hillsboro, Beaverton, West Linn and Washington County to see which government body can reach 2,014 followers on the social networking site Twitter by the end of next year.
It kicks it up a notch for some cities that are trying to decide how much value social media has, said Kent Wyatt, a senior management analyst and the man behind @CityofTigardOR, the citys official Twitter account.
With more and more young people turning to social networking sites, Wyatt and other Tigard city officials have turned their attentions online when it comes to spreading information.
You can reach out to audiences we wouldnt necessarily reach otherwise, Wyatt said. Those are the kinds of people who are not attending council meetings; they are not interest in government, per se.
Community building
The challenge, which will be formally announced Dec. 30, is a friendly competition, said Patrick Preston, public affairs manager for the city of Hillsboro, which issued the challenge to the cities.
It helps everybody, Preston said. It grows the lists (of follwers we have) and inspires people to pay attention to news and information coming out of their cities.
Most cities in Washington County have about 800 followers apiece.
Tigard currently leads the pack with 887 followers.
The standings (as of Dec. 20)
Tigard: 887
Beaverton: 832
Hillsboro: 829
West Linn: 675
Washington County: 515
Preston said he looks to Tigards Twitter feeds as inspiration.
Their tweets are fantastic," he said. "The amount of thought they put into this, the way they make it so easy for somebody to participate in the online conversation, those are all things we've noticed.
Tigard operates about a half-dozen different accounts on Twitter, covering everything from recent economic development to construction projects.
When Mayor John L. Cook took office last year, one of his first actions was to set up a Twitter account of his own to connect with residents.
People are always curious about what mayors do, Wyatt said. Most people dont know what the mayor or city planners do. We can use Twitter as a way to get that across in a relatively inexpensive way.
The city reports scores at Tigard High School football games, posts photos from around town and promotes events.
Thats obviously more than just official city business, Wyatt said.
Im clearly a big proponent of this, but there is some community building in that, Wyatt said.
Twitter played a big part in the city's recent community attitudes survey, Wyatt said.
Half the people who took our online survey took it through a Twitter link, Wyatt said. Thats a powerful statement.
List of Tigard's active Twitter accounts:
@CityofTigardOR - The city's official Twitter account
@TigardMayor - Mayor John L. Cook's official account
@TigardCM - Tigard City Manager Marty Wine's official account
@TigardPolice - Tigard Police Department
@TigardLibrary - Tigard Public Library
@TigardMainSt - Major construction work on Main Street is set to begin next month
@Tigard_Roads - Paving and street maintenance
@KennyAsher - New businesses and economic news , run by the city's Community Development Director Kenny Asher
'Serve our neighbors'
But not everyone is behind making Twitter a priority.
At a Tigard City Council meeting in December, some councilors were against the idea of engaging in social networks, saying residents wouldnt be able to use the service to dig into the complexities of city government.
Kids who use Twitter and texting, you cant explain a lot of what we do in 140 characters, its not feasible, said City Councilor Gretchen Buehner. Texting doesnt tend to be long and allow you to explain relatively complex concepts. Kids are missing out on learning what they need to learn because of their preferred method of conversation.
Whatever method the city uses to spread information, getting information out to the community helps the city to do its job, Preston said.
At the city, we are working to serve our neighbors, he said. We want them to have good information about the city and information they can use to have conversations among their peers.
How to get started
For those new to Twitter, heres how it works:
The website allows people to post short, simple messages of no more than 140 characters.
Thats not a lot of room to pontificate, but the social network has exploded since its launch in 2006, with more than 5.5 million users, and 135,000 new members joining every day.
Members can follow other members to regularly receive their posts known as tweets in Internet-speak.
The more followers you have, the more people there are reading your posts.
The site was originally designed for friends to send messages back and forth to one another, but more and more companies and local governments are turning to the service as well.
Its a great method of reaching out to people quickly with no cost, said Patrick Preston, public affairs manager for the city of Hillsboro. If we continue to grow the number of followers we have, we can continue to see increases in attendance at city events, and we have a more informed population, which is our goal.
The site is especially useful for up-to-the-minute information, such as when the city issued a boil water notice the day before Thanksgiving in 2012 and needed to alert residents.
For timely information that you cant plan for, you cant beat twitter, Preston said.


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