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- Robert McKevitt, 27, was fired from Polaris Industries' plant in Milford
- A supervisor saw him lifting, then dropping a candy machine with a forklift -- repeatedly
- McKevitt: "This issue was blown way out of proportion"
For some, a Twix bar is the delicious chocolate-caramel candy with a cookie crunch. But for Robert McKevitt, a Twix cost him his job and, he says, his house and girlfriend.
On October 22, McKevitt, a veteran, was working his shift as a forklift operator at Polaris Industries' plant in Milford, Iowa. It was a temp job that he had secured thanks, in part, to a government program that gives companies tax credits for hiring veterans.
McKevitt, 27, toured Kosovo and Afghanistan as part of the Army National Guard.
"It was about halfway into my shift and I had a few extra minutes. I was going to the restroom and the vending machine was next to it," McKevitt told CNN by phone from his brother's home in Spirit Lake, Iowa. "I was going to grab a candy bar and then go to the restroom."
McKevitt said Thursday he was riding his forklift and as he approached the restroom he noticed the vending machine was a few feet from the wall.
"I thought it was a safety hazard," he said. "I don't know why I decided I wanted a candy bar, but I did. So I put in a dollar and it spun like it was going to give out the candy bar, but it didn't. It got hung up on the spiral thing that ejects the candy bar."
What happened next is a matter of debate between McKevitt, Polaris Industries and a judge.
According to a legal decision filed by an administrative judge with Iowa Workforce Development, McKevitt was involved in "misconduct."
The document, the result of an unemployment claim appeal filed by McKevitt, contains a statement from a Polaris representative saying that McKevitt "was observed by a supervisor lifting a candy machine about one to two feet off the ground with a forklift and then dropping the machine to the ground, which he repeated fix or six times."
"When confronted," it reads, "he had gotten about three candy bars out of the machine, and he claimed he had only shaken the machine to get out the candy bars that he had paid for that had not dropped on their own. As a result of this conduct, the employer discharged the claimant."
Though he was fired in October, and the judge denied his unemployment claim in December, the Des Moines Register covered McKevitt's story Wednesday, pushing it into national headlines.
McKevitt told CNN his version of what happened after the Twix got stuck.
"I tried shaking it by hand, but it didn't do anything. Then I tried putting in another dollar and nothing happened. I could see the candy bar dangling and I was already having a rough day. My girlfriend was nine months' pregnant and it was rough," recalled McKevitt.
"I shook the machine and the candy bar dropped so I was happy about that. But then I was upset that I had spent two dollars on a 90-cent candy bar," he said. "Then I took it upon myself to move the machine back with the forklift."
At this point, McKevitt said, a supervisor showed up and assumed the worst.
"It may have looked like I was stealing candy bars, but the machine stole money from me," he said.
The next day, according to McKevitt, he met with human resources and his supervisors to discuss the incident and a day later he was suspended, pending an investigation.
"I was fired two days after my daughter ... was born," he said.
After he was fired, the financial stress proved too much for McKevitt. His relationship with the mother of his daughter ended and, unable to make rent payments, McKevitt moved out of his house and in with his brother.
McKevitt filed for unemployment, which Polaris denied.
"At that point I realized no one was going to hear my part of the story," said McKevitt, who filed an appeal with Iowa Workforce Development, including a 17-page letter detailing his side of the story.
But, as bad luck would have it, McKevitt says he never got the notice for his hearing, so he skipped it. Only after his benefits were denied in appeal did he realize he had missed his chance to set the record straight.
"I had to take a job at Walmart making about half of what I was making at Polaris. I'm making just under $9 an hour and before I was making about $16 an hour," McKevitt said. "This issue was blown way out of proportion."


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This is something that my mom used to cook pretty often when I was little. Mom's original version was without the green and cooked with cubed pork belly. She loved to use preserved soy bean in cooking, the best was baby shark in this style.
I love it with steamed rice but T prefers noodles, just like those boiled noodles tossed in special sauce (干捞面) selling at hawker.
200 g pork belly, sliced thinly
1 tbsp ginger strips
1/4 onion, cut into wedges
1 clove garlic, chopped
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp cooking oil
A: 1 tsp oyster sauce
1 tsp soy sauce
1 tsp preserved soy bean
1 tsp cooking wine
1 tsp corn starch
- Marinate pork with ingredients A for about 15 minutes.
- Heat pan or wok, add in oils and stir-fry ginger on low heat till fragrant. Stir in garlic and onion, cook till onion turned translucent.
- Stir in pork, stir-fry with medium-high heat till cooked. Add some water, bring to a boil then simmer till sauce is reduced.
- Preserved soy bean itself is salty, taste and add salt to taste if required. Some cooking wine can also be added just before dishing out to add extra aroma.

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Remember in 1990 when Tom Cruise was in Top Gun again, but this time he was strapped into NASCAR cars instead of fighter jets? Well, that movie has its own title and story and everything— Days of Thunder. Cruise plays NASCAR racer Cole Trickle (named in tribute to racer Dick Trickle, the man with the funniest name in all of motorsports), and, most significantly, the movie has lots of cars.
The Volo Auto Museum claims to have one of the cars from the movie, specifically one they claim was driven by Tom Cruise himself. An owner of a genuine and verifiable car from the movie tells us this is, charitably, bullshit.
Volo claims the Days Of Thunder car pictured above was driven by Tom Cruise himself and is valued at $250,000. Currently, they're selling it on a no-reserve eBay auction, where the current price is about $9600
James Ricker, the owner of an actual movie car, has this to say about the vehicle being sold by Volo:
The Volo 'museum' is at it again - they have a long track record of selling fake 'screen used' cars, the most notorious being the Corvette Summer car that they said was driven by Mark Hamill in the movie but was oddly left hand drive (all the cars in the movie were RHD - it was a huge story point). I'm a little perturbed that this place keeps getting away with this nonsense. Normally I'd laugh at it - but now they're crapping in my garage by selling what they're claiming to be a screen used Days of Thunder car. At first glance I counted about 15 things that are incorrect on this particular forgery.
A brief list; Tom Cruise actually still owns the car he drove in the movie - there were many used - but Tom had one that was specifically his. The rest of the cars were driven by stuntmen and NASCAR drivers because they were being driven in actual races. The motor is wrong, the suspension is too modern, the air cleaner is wrong, the engine is wrong, the cut out in front of the windshield is too small, the fuel cell looks to be incorrect for the period, the interior is wrong; most notably the fire extinguisher placement and the electronics. The exhaust tips come out in the wrong place by about 6". There is no wiring or holder for the driver's radio. Decal placement is fantastically wrong and mostly crooked. I know the pictures are distorted slightly but the body still just seems oddly wrong....like is that a Pontiac body with Lumina bumpers? The slave cylinder for the brakes is incorrect - the movie cars had a dual reservoir setup so they could leave the fronts empty for rear-brake-only action. And the icing on the cake is whatever the nonsense over the window is isn't even close.
Ricker is an authority on these cars, and knows their details as well as anybody. Still, he did contact Volo to hear what they had to say about the car and the verifiability of their claim that it's a Tom Cruise-driven movie car:
The previous owner used it for promotion for his business. He added some decals, changed the seat (orig. included). There were more than 1 built. There is no chassis number on the car, several people have looked. Theory is, since it was built for film, not racing, that they may not have assigned it a #. I made attempts to talk to Hendricks on the car but never got a call back. Since there is no chassis # and the letter of authenticity does not show a chassis #, no, I can not be 100%. The previous owner was very confident that it is screen used and did stipulate that as part of the terms of the bill of sale.
So, even though the main graphic says in large, Myrtle Beach T-Shirt-style lettering, "Driven by Tom Cruise," Ricker says there's no hard evidence of any kind that Tom Cruise has even seen this car. And really, for a car like this, the association with the famous bonkers Scientologist and associations with the movie are really the basis for any value the car has at all.
I spoke with Brian Grams at Volo about Ricker's skepticism, and he said it was up to Ricker to "prove it isn't." He went on to explain that the letter from Hendrick Motorsports forms the basis of their claim that the car was in the movie and driven by Cruise, and the significant differences can be explained by the fact that the car was "over-restored."
Grams stated that 38 cars were built for the movie, and none had actual VIN numbers to aid in identification, and there is no specific photographic or other evidence that the car is actually the one driven by Cruise or even used in the movie, save for the letter of authenticity from Hendrick Motorsports.
He went on to suggest that Ricker's questioning was based on Ricker's desire to preserve the value of his own investment, and that Ricker "overpaid" for his car. As he stated in an email:
The gentleman that is making these claims of the car not being legit has never seen the car in person, has no knowledge of the car prior to us posting it on eBay, knows no history at all of this car and is basing his opinion of authenticity off of the few photos posted on eBay. After he made his claims to me, I asked him if he knew a way to tell for sure because if it was not the car, I would pull the auction avoiding selling a fraudulent car. He could not provide me with a way to either prove it or disprove it. Therefore if he cannot prove his claims that it isn't the actual car, I don't see how his claims can be taken seriously and are anything more than rumor. The reason this man is so concerned about the sale of this car is to protect the value of his Days of Thunder car. It's my impression from his e-mails that he paid considerably more for his car than what ours is currently bid. If I am correct, there was one sold in 2007 for $40k from profilesinhisotry.com and that might be the car he owns. He wants to discredit our car because if the auction ends at a low price he's worried it will affect the value of his, as he stated in an e-mail to me.
I have attempted to contact Hendrick Motorsports for further comment, but have yet to receive a reply; I'll update if I do.
Selling cars based not on their intrinsic value but on cultural or historical association will always require a delicate combination of evidence and trust. Remember the fake JFK hearse? It's really not any different than the art world, where forgeries can poison the market for everyone.
The Volo representative was friendly and forthcoming, but that doesn't change the fact that much of the car's value hinges on one unverified letter and doesn't hide the significant differences between the car shown in the movie and what's actually being sold. Still, this isn't exactly an uncommon situation in the celebrity-car business, where one letter is often all the proof offered.
So, you know, caveat emptor.
UPDATE: Volo's Brian Grams sent us this statement in response Ricker's claims:
I am always open for discussion when it comes to authenticating a movie car. Many people believe they know more than they really do. Mr. Ricker's claims are based on opinion. Its his opinion our car isn't legit, its my opinion it is. However bottom line, we are not establishing a price, the public is. I have also put forth the documentation I have to back up the claims about the car publicly so a buyer can make their own conclusion. These are claims that have come with the car, not claims made up by Volo Auto Museum and there has been no undisputable evidence to suggest otherwise. I am not frauding anyone or hiding anything and am happy to answer any questions a buyer may need to conduct their own research. If solid proof turns up that the claims made about the cars movie use are false, I will have no problem retracting them and representing the car as what the evidence reflects.
However it is unfair for Ricker to state as a fact that we have a long history of frauding people by us claiming our cars are screen used when they are not. If we were frauding people like this, don't you think there would have been a law suit? Or at least a report to the BBB? Do you think we would be in business 52 years if this was how we conducted ourselves? His example of fraud stems from the sale of the Corvette Summer car, which we never claimed as screen used. It was sold as an exhibition car; the buyer of the car was not under the impression that it was screen used so why is Ricker under this impression?
Ricker is a self proclaimed authority. Because he simply owns a movie car, does not make him a movie car expert. I own a Ford, am I a Ford expert? No. The REAL movie car authorities have high regards for us. A few of the true authorities that will back us are Picture Car Warehouse, Cinema Vehicle Services, Star Car Central and Television Motion Picture Car Club. It is true that not all of our cars are actual screen used cars and if they are not, we represent it as so, for example the Beverly Hillbillies truck that is also listed in our Star Car Auction, it's represented as a replica.


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All's well that end's well. Earlier today Warner Bros. announced a May 2013 release date for The Hangover Part III, and now a press release has been sent out that confirms filming on the conclusion to Todd Phillips' trilogy is targeted to start this September. Phillips has been talking up the concluding chapter since The Hangover Part II came out, and last we heard stars Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms were poised for a major salary increase to reprise their roles. Everyone is now set to return in order to close out the trilogy, and Phillips promises fans will be surprised by their "fitting conclusion to our three-part opera of mayhem, despair and bad decisions." I sincerely hope that means deviating from the first film's formula that was directly copied in the sequel.
Phillips co-wrote the script with The Hangover Part II co-writer Craig Mazin and will return to the director's chair a final time. The Hangover Part III is slated to open on May 24th, 2013. Hit the jump to read the full press release.
BURBANK, CA, March 22, 2011 – Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures are reteaming with Todd Phillips for "The Hangover Part III," the third installment in the record-breaking comedy franchise, which is slated for release on
May 24, 2013. The announcement was made today by Jeff Robinov, President Warner Bros. Pictures Group.
"The Hangover Part III" will star Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis, who will reprise the roles of Phil, Stu and Alan, collectively known to moviegoers as "the Wolfpack." In the previous two films, the three friends' attempts to plan a celebration have resulted in disaster for them, but led to a combined billion-dollar success at the worldwide box office.
In making the announcement, Robinov stated, "We are extremely pleased to have Todd Phillips and the guys back together again for another 'Hangover,' and we look forward to collaborating with them on another great movie."
Phillips said, "I'm so excited to embark on another 'Hangover' film with Bradley, Ed and Zach. We're going to surprise a lot of people with the final chapter we have planned. It will be a fitting conclusion to our three-part opera of mayhem, despair and bad decisions."
Phillips is writing the screenplay with Craig Mazin, who also collaborated with him on the screenplay for "The Hangover Part II." Phillips is again producing the film under his Green Hat Films banner, together with Dan Goldberg. Thomas Tull and Scott Budnick will serve as executive producers.
Production on the film is projected to begin in September 2012.
A presentation of Warner Bros. Pictures, in association with Legendary Pictures, "The Hangover Part III" will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.


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Over 100 million Americans—nearly 1 in every 3 people—have diabetes or prediabetes. This staggering figure comes with a $327 billion price tag, and that's just in the U.S. Globally, epidemiologists have coined this era 'The Great Diabetes Pandemic.' Optometry has the opportunity to redefine its continuum of care and help stop the spread.Read more >
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Saturday, February 17, 2007
Cooking with friends: a special bottle of burgundy wine, a chantarelle cappuccino, a boeuf bourgoingnon, and a matcha loaf
A fortnight ago K. and I were invited to have dinner with some good old friends of his, Peter & Kristel. We had a lovely meal, drank some good wine (and pomegranate juice) and watched holiday pictures from South Africa, where the couple had spent the New Year's Eve. It was my first visit to their place, so I was shown around the house (lots of lovely art, a captivating fish tank). Before we continued with biltong and fig compote, we stood for a while next to the couple's wine collection.
It was then that K. spotted a precious bottle of Burgundy: Clos de la Roche, Patriarche Père et Fils (Beaune, 1992). K. adores Burgundy, so he came up with a cunning idea.
So it happened that last Sunday, Peter & Kristel turned up at our doorstep with that very bottle of Bourgogne, as K. had managed to convince them that it's indeed a good idea to drink this wine together. As a good bottle of Burgundy needs a good Burgundy dish, then I made my Boeuf Bourguignon again. We invited another couple, Paavo & Kristina and their little daughter Gretel over, too (yep, the ones who almost ate all my apple cake few months ago:), who contributed a starter. And not just a starter, but a stunning wild chantarelle cappuccino.
Cooking the chantarelles with herbs and cream:
The soup is ready – it does look like a real thing, doesn't it? We used our new (well, we bought them in November) iittala Origo bowls and Arabia plates:
The incredibly smooth chantarelle cappuccino was garnished with thyme and served with stuffed baked portabello mushrooms - being made on the photo below. As you can see, then little Gretel (aged 5) is a good hand in the kitchen, although only half of the blue cheese ended up on the mushrooms, as Gretel ate the rest of it. Note that we all need some moral support in the kitchen – hence the wine glass on the worktop (for the mother) and the teddy bear (for Gretel):
For the main course, I made Anthony Bourdain's boeuf bourgoingnon again.
And for the dessert, we had my matcha loaf (third time in less than ten days), this time made by K. and supplemented with some finely chopped almonds. K. also candied some fresh kumquats and piped some Madagascar vanilla flavoured whipped cream on top:
And as for the wine? Well, it was definitely good enough excuse for a lovely night in with old (for K.) and new (for me) friends. It was full of character for sure, even if the other bottle, Bourgogne A. Rodet (Antonin Rodet, 1998) was more to my liking..
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- Anne said...
What a lovely meal! The soup looks great - and I love the bowls. Per doesn't like stripes, so I'm not allowed to get them :) I'm always happy to see them anywhere else though. :)
- 11:24 am, February 17, 2007
- Valentina said...
Pille, what a lovely post. I enjoyed every word. And the meal..ula,la..everything seems divine. I have to read some of your past post which i have missed.there is so much to catch up on.till next time.
- 8:19 pm, February 18, 2007
- Freya said...
it all looks wonderful, particularly the dessert! I am also intruiged about the biltong, what is it like?
- 12:44 pm, February 19, 2007
It looks like you had a wonderful evening with delicious food!
- 3:49 pm, February 20, 2007
What a fantastic meal! I love each and every dish :) I'm bleeding at the ears with envy of the chantarelles AND your iittala bowls!!! And K is quite active in the kitchen...will he share his candied kumquat recipe? :)
- 4:46 pm, February 20, 2007
- Pille said...
Anne - the soup was wonderful. And I'm glad that K. agreed to buy those stripy Origo bowls quite easily - I had been dreaming about them for a while:)
Valentina - it's really nice to see you back in blogosphere again! (and I have to make your raspberry and pistachio cake soon!)
Freya - the matcha loaf is a recent favourite of ours - we've made it on several occasions. It's simple to make and the colour is so festive and exciting. Do try it!
Dagmar - it was fun and enjoyable indeed. Entertaining and cooking for friends is a really pleasurable..
Joey - oh please, don't be envious. You've got lovely things in your kitchen that I wouldn't mind having, so we're even:) Re: the candied kumquat recipe. Well, I asked K. He said he halved the kumquats and then added a little water and not too much sugar (maybe 1/4 of the weight of the fruit) and then simmered until thick. But that's not really a recipe, isn't it? Your kumquat marmalade looks pretty identical, if sweeter.
- 4:01 pm, February 26, 2007


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On Saturday my fiance and I decided to go to Portsmouth, New Hampshire– a supposedly cool city just an hour's drive from Boston. We got there around noon, walked around for a few minutes and then stopped at the River House for lunch. Although the restaurant's on the water, we decided to eat inside because it was so hot out. The highlight of the meal was certainly the seafood chowder, which is shown in this picture.
It contained lobster, scallops, shrimp, clams and haddock, and was so so good. I guess that's no surprise considering it won first place awards at the 2009/2010 Portsmouth Chowder Festival. The above picture also shows my fiance's tasty lobster roll and hand cut potato chips. I had a lobster Lorraine quiche with a house salad.
Everything was fantastic! And they even gave us a free bowl of chowder (sort of an accident, but we gladly accepted)! After lunch we got some coffee at Breaking New Grounds in Market Square. We vowed to return later in the day (they had tons of delicious-looking pastries and gelato), and we did. Look at these gelato flavor combinations we came up with.
It would have been nice to sit outside of the coffee shop and people watch, but alas it was too hot. These photos will give you a feel for Market Square:
We walked around for a while, went shopping and saw some cool things.
I got a couple of shirts for super-cheap in this consignment shop.
And we discovered a beautiful garden area.
Turns out this area is called Prescott Park. It's right near an old cemetery, with gravestones dating to the 17th century.
It's not far from the water either.
On our way back to the car we came across the Oracle House, one of Portsmouth's oldest homes (circa 1702).
And the Liberty Pole, a flagpole commemorating our freedom from British rule. At this location in 1766 colonists hung a banner reading "Liberty, Property and No Stamp" to protest King George's Stamp Act (it imposed taxes on newspapers, stationary and documents).
We saw this just before leaving. It pretty much sums up our experience in Portsmouth.


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[Journals]: Are We Wrong about Santa's Reindeer?
For Immediate Release:
The University of Chicago Press / Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
Contact: Dr. Perry S. Barboza / email@example.com / (907)474-7142
The results of recent research may change what the world has historically assumed about the airborne sleigh-pulling octet of quadrupeds escorting Santa Claus each year. A researcher from the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, has just released a report of findings on the home page of the journal Physiological and Biochemical Zoology (journals.uchicago.edu/PBZ), to potentially earth-shaking effects.
Perry S. Barboza, a professor of biology with significant experience with the nutrition and physiological characteristics of ruminants such as reindeer, muskoxen, and caribou, analyzed various flight and endurance requirements of an individual member of Santa's team. His research took into consideration the energy stores needed to complete a one-night international journey and the power-to-mass ratios of individuals of different flight-capable ruminant species, among other factors. In his report on the PBZ site, he concludes "what has been reported in sightings as 'eight tiny reindeer' are therefore likely to be young caribou."
The study results are timely, released only days before Christmas. Barring statements to the contrary by Claus or a representative of the North Pole Workshop, Barboza's findings represent a possible paradigm shift in the field of Yule Studies and a subsequent need for the revision of thousands of holiday songs and poems.
Perry S. Barboza "Santa's 'Reindeer' Are Actually Young Caribou." Release on Physiological and Biochemical Zoology website:
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology (https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/journals/journal/pbz.html) has presented current research in environmental, adaptational, and comparative animal physiology and biochemistry since 1928. PBZ publishes the results of original investigations in animal physiology and biochemistry at all levels of organization, from the molecular to the organismic, focusing on adaptations to the environment. PBZ covers a wide range of subdisciplines, with a specific emphasis on studies that investigate the ecological and/or evolutionary aspects of physiological and biochemical mechanisms.


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Getting a Terrence Malick film to theaters is never easy, but it appears that his next film just took a giant step toward release.
The Motion Picture Association of America, the bizarre, often arbitrary cabal that rates movies, has given Malick's "Tree of Life" a PG-13 rating, noted Rope of Silicon. This of course means that the film must be reasonably close to being a finished project.
The film stars Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain (who is about to be insanely famous if her IMDB page is to be believed) as 1950s parents of a young boy who is played in adulthood by Sean Penn. "Each parent contends for his allegiance, and Jack must reconcile their claims. The picture darkens as he has his first glimpses of sickness, suffering and death. The world, once a thing of glory, becomes a labyrinth," accroding to an old sunopsis dug up by /Film. Oh, and there are dinosaurs involved.
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Rope of Silicon also pointed out that Apparition, which has been undergoing massive restructuring (read: layoffs), was no longer listed as the distributor, rather a company called Cottonwood Pictures was.
A call to Apparition offices here in New York confirmed that they are still planning to release the film, but the release date was still up in the air, as was the movie being ready for the Venice Film Festival, which starts Sept. 1.
When we asked why they were no longer listed as the distributor, we were told they "don't have a comment on that right now."
A little googling for "Cottonwood Pictures" revealed a website that looks like it was made in 1998 and several indications that it was involved in making "Tree of Life." We even found a phone number, but when we called it we got the answering machine of a company called space direct. We also sent an email to an address we found and are waiting to hear back.


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One of my long-standing pet projects – Consistent Network Device Naming, is finally coming to Fedora (emphasizing the 2 of the Fedora F's: Features and First), and thereafter, all Linux distributions. What is this, you ask?
Systems running Linux have long had ethernet network devices named ethX. Your desktop likely has one ethernet port, named eth0. This works fine if you have only one network port, but what if, like on Dell PowerEdge servers, you have four ethernet ports? They are named eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3, corresponding to the labels on the back of the chassis, 1, 2, 3, 4, respectively. Sometimes. Aside from the obvious confusion of names starting at 0 verses starting at 1, other race conditions can happen such that each port may not get the same name on every boot, and they may get named in an arbitrary order. If you add in a network card to a PCI slot, it gets even worse, as the ports on the motherboard and the ports on the add-in card may have their names intermixed.
While several solutions have been proposed over time (detailed at Linux Plumbers Conference last year), none were deemed acceptable, until now.
Enter biosdevname, the tool Dell has developed to bring sanity (and consistency!) to network device names. Biosdevname is a udev helper, which renames network interfaces based on information presented by system BIOS.
The new naming convention is as follows:
- em[1-N] for on-board (embedded) NICs (# matches chassis labels)
- pci<slot>#<port> for cards in PCI slots, port 1..N
- NPAR & SR-IOV devices add a suffix of _<vf>, from 0..N depending on the number of Partitions or Virtual Functions exposed on each port.
- Other Linux conventions, such as .<vlan> and :<alias> suffixes remain unchanged and are still applicable.
This provides a sane mapping of Linux network interface name to externally visible network port (RJ-45 jack).
Where do we get this information? The algorithm is fairly simple:
- If system BIOS exposes the new PCI Firmware Specification 3.1 ACPI _DSM method, we get the interface label and index from ACPI, and use those.
- Else if system BIOS exposes an index and label in SMBIOS 2.6 types 9 and 41, use the index value.
- Else if system BIOS exposes index via the HP proprietary SMBIOS extension, use that.
- Else fall back to using the legacy PCI IRQ Routing Table to figure out which slots devices are in, sort the PCI device list in breadth-first order, and assign index values.
How will this affect you?
If you have scripts that have hard-coded eth0 or have assumptions that ethX is a particular port, your scripts are already broken (you may just not know it yet). Begin planning on using the new interface names going forward, adjusting your scripts as necessary.
Fedora 15 will be the first distribution to use biosdevname by default. There will be a Test Day on Thursday, January 27. I encourage you to download the Live image, boot it on your system, and verify that your network interfaces are now named according to the above convention, and that all works as expected. You may also take the opportunity to review your custom scripts, looking for hard-coded ethX values, and prepare for the coming name change.
Once we get sufficient exposure and verification using Fedora, I expect to see this change roll into other Linux distributions, and other operating systems, over time. Consider yourself warned.


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LA Opera's new production of Puccini's Tosca, with orchestra conducted by Placido Domingo and staring Sondra Radvanovsky is directed by first-time LA Opera director John Caird. Caird is known primarily for his directing credits with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and therefore used to digging into the layers of meanings in art. He and his collaborators have come up with an approach to Tosca I have not seen elucidated before in quite the same way.
The opening scene of this ultra dramatic piece is often a bit slow, with the Cavaradossi (played in this production by Italian tenor Marco Berti), Tosca's lover and painter in the church bantering about with the sacristan (Philip Cokorinos) and discovering his friend, escaped political prisoner Angelotti (Joshua Bell) in the church. Tosca's entrance is generally grand and glamorous, her role as popular singer played up more than her identity as one a devotee who sings in the church. Generally the painting is on the ground and we don't get to see it.
In this production with both scenery and costuming attributed to British designer Bunnie Christie, the Church is turned around with the altar downstage and the altar facing the audience. The artwork is on scaffolding so it is visible to the audience. These both seem like common sense, creative ways of presenting. The stage however is very dark, lit only by candlelights, the likes of which were available in 1800. So as lush and full as the set is, it is still a bit harder to see details.
Tosca enters and we find a quieter, gentler woman. The fiery jealous banter seems milder and more playful than the usual Latin flavor. The costume is simple. A white peasant-looking dress. All this a bit of a disappointment. Cavaradossi also is less shiny, somewhat pudgy and his clothing without panache. These two artists seem humble indeed and not up to their usual more flamboyant presentations. Seems odd since in the program there is an article about how the Latin sensibility is so important in the true understanding of the piece.
Berti's first big aria is sung with a piece of paper in his hand. At first I didn't realize this was supposed to be a drawing. His hand shook a bit with nerves and it gave the appearance of a stand-in who had to read the lines. His voice did not seem completely warmed up. Though clear and strong, it had a bit of a strident tone. Another disappointment for this romantic pair.
Angelotti hides from the long and cruel arm of the law, headed up and personified by the evil Scarpia (Lado Atanali). Cavaradossi's pledge to his friend that he would protect him with his own life, is highlighted,along with Domingo's ultra dramatic conducting of the themes.
First intermission and I was hoping to see more elaborate costuming. How would this play out? Act Two in Castel Sant'Angelo is filled with beautiful statues on boxes, evidently seized by the lustful and voracious Scarpia. The set is quite elaborate and beautiful and also dark. Scarpia has a pleasant and mild face and his dark character and evil soul do not overcome his mild-mannered appearance and dulcet voice. Tosca appears in a prettier, fancier dress. It is, as in the first act, also white, and it is not particularly flattering to her body. But in the second act, the plot thickens.
Although the casting seemed not quite right physically and there even were a few physical mishaps, (as when Scarpia tells his henchman to open the bottle and have a sip, and the action has already been completed)… the beauty and the power of the music, the voices, and the plot become ever more intense. Scarpia tortures Cavaradossi and blackmails Tosca.
When this more gentle, innocent Tosca delivers her aria "Vissi d'arte" asking why this is happening to her, who always was a friend to the downtrodden, who lived only for art and love—it absolutely brings the house down. Her lament of her powerlessness lives up to what director Caird calls "one of the most heartrending arias in all of the grand opera repertoire." I have never heard the applause and cheers louder or go on longer at LAOpera than the appreciative audience responding to her strong and soulful rendition.
Quoting Caird, "The reason for the popularity of Tosca is enshrined in its overwhelming musical, human, moral and religious powers….a timeless piece for artistic and political freedom…Tosca stands as a beacon of enlightenment, a passionate plea for freedom of speech, thought, and artistic expression." As such she is wearing white in the darkness. The emphasis on the main characters' kindness and integrity make it so much the more poignant. She and Cavaradossi are led to their deaths because of her refusal to surrender her dignity as a woman and an artist or betray her beloved, and considers those more important than life itself.
Wow. Please go see this opera, and be swept away by it's power and beauty as well as the uncovering of its deep undertones and meanings.
Georja Umano is an actress and animal advocate.
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4G chipmaker Sequans Communications, 4G networking solutions provider, Greenpacket, and Packet One Networks (P1), a major 4G operator in Southeast Asia, have jointly announced that they are working together to develop LTE solutions, including dual-mode 4G WiMAX/LTE solutions for Greenpacket's global operator customers.
Greenpacket is testing Sequans' technology to develop LTE and dual-mode WiMAX/LTE reference designs as part of its strategy to launch a complete ecosystem of 4G networking solutions and devices by the end of 2011. P1 is Greenpacket's operator subsidiary in Malaysia.
P1 launched its WiMAX service in Malaysia in August 2008, and is now preparing to transition to LTE. P1 earlier announced its strategic direction to harness the power of both WiMAX and LTE. The company expects to begin a transition to a full LTE network in 2013.
The technology Sequans is providing to Greenpacket and P1 for testing is part of Sequans' recently-announced 4Sight program, a collection of advanced coexistence technologies and solutions for operators to help them transition smoothly and cost-effectively from WiMAX to LTE and enable harmonious WiMAX/LTE coexistence. Sequans develops and supplies WiMAX and LTE chips including a highly-integrated WiMAX/LTE dual-mode chip, along with reference designs for user devices, essential multi-radio coexistence and multimode handover technologies, and dual-standby architecture.
"We are testing Sequans' system-on-chip technology to develop LTE reference designs, including a dual-mode WiMAX/LTE reference design for our operator customers primarily in Asia, CALA and Middle East," said James Wang, senior VP of Innovation, Strategies and Development (ISD) at Greenpacket. "We intend to offer our solutions to early adopters of LTE such as P1 in support of its LTE/WiMAX coexistence strategy."
"P1 now has the flexibility to rollout LTE at the rate they choose and have it coexist peacefully with WiMAX, and P1 customers will have devices that work in any part of the network at any time," said Georges Karam, Sequans CEO.
P1 continues to make progress in building out its 4G network, and expects to have 65% of the population covered by the end of 2012, according to the joint statement.


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Double Vanilla Waffles - filled with Maple Syrup
I invested in a new kitchen gadget recently. I've worked myself up to getting it for a good while now, but I bought a new item related cookbook which helped me think I would use said gadget, and now it has arrived! My waffle maker. So of course I had to use it right away.
I had a quick look through Waffles From Morning to Midnight by Dorie Greenspan (1995) and made the first dessert recipe that I came to that I had the ingredients for in the house. Double Vanilla waffles, so called because they have vanilla bean and vanilla bean extract added into the batter, there was also some browned butter for an extra flavour dimension. There is a vanilla pear sauce in the book suggested as a topping, which would have made a lovely combination, but with our first waffles from the waffle machine we wanted just maple syrup. Ah, like the frozen toasted waffles I remember when I was a teenager – but 100 times better! They were fresh, light, soft, and deeply flavoured with the browned butter and vanilla.
I haven't actually managed to read the whole book yet, but I'm sure there will be more waffles here, and I'll give a list of some more of the recipes from it then. I've added the recipe for the waffles here, as this book is out of print.
Double Vanilla Waffles
1 ¾ (14 fl oz) cups Milk
½ large soft vanilla bean
5 tablespoons (2 ½ oz) butter
1 ¾ cups plain flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
pinch salt
1/3 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 Pour the milk into a medium sized saucepan. Split the vanilla bean in half lengthwise and scrape out the black seeds into the milk, add the pod in too. Bring the milk to the boil and leave to infuse covered for at least an hour.
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Sunday, May 03, 2009
Pancakes, Hotsprings, Bagpipes, a Brewpub and a Little Hill Climb
Startline Set Up.
Set in the mountains east of Eugene, in the small town of Oakridge, the Larison Rock Hill Climb is a hidden gem of a race. Dubbed the "Fastest Little Race in Oregon", it tied in with the town's weekend's festivities; their annual tree planting festival (which includes a parade, craft fair, and vendors.)
The race started at the Greenwaters Park in Oakridge, crossed the Middle Fork of the Willamette River, and after a mile of flat dirt running started to ascend. In a 3.5 miles, the course climbed 2,200 feet up the switch-backing, pine-needle laden Larison Rock Trail to the summit and finish line.
Rogue Valley Runners' Erik Skaggs led the charge up the mountain. Finishing just below the rock strewn summit in 42:45, Erik solidified his lead in the 2009 La Sportiva/USATF-Oregon Mountain Running Series. The Larison Rock Hill Climb is the first race in the six race series. Series creator and Portland resident Richard Bolt finished a solid second in 47:30. RVR's Ian Torrence finished third in 48:09.
Men's winner Erik Skaggs.
The Top Three Men: (L to R) Richard Bolt (2nd), Erik Skaggs (1st), Ian Torrence (3rd)
In the ladies race, Jenn Shelton out distanced herself from Eugene's Susannah Beck to win in 52:50 (fifth overall); roughly two minutes ahead of Beck's second place showing.
Women's winner Jenn Shelton.
Atop Larison Rock enjoying finish line views. (L to R) Susannah Beck, Erik Skaggs (holding Zoroaster), Jenn Shelton.
After jogging back down the mountain (a shuttle was provided if you didn't want to run down), runners were presented with an all-you-could eat pancake breakfast and awards ceremony. Shelton and Skaggs each walked away with $100 in prize money for their efforts.
Pancakes! (L to R) Alan Abbs, Bev Abbs, Erik Skaggs, Jenn Shelton.
Richard Bolt's race report and full results can be found on his blog here.
Though only still a very small event, we can surely see this hometown race reaching great heights in the future. Special thanks to race directors Alan and Bev Abbs and Catrina Davis for their work in organizing a first class show.
The intrepid Rogue Valley Runners, however, did not end their road-trip race weekend there. After awards and breakfast they headed up river to soak in the McCredie Hot Springs. Leaving the pools light headed they continued on to Oakridge's new brewpub, The Brewers Local Union 180. Post race meals were accompanied by several rounds of bagpipe serenades. The food and brews were good!
(L to R) Erik Skaggs and Jenn Shelton follow an unidentified hotspringer as they head into McCredie Hotsprings.
Posted by Rogue Valley Runners at 2:03 PM
3 comments:
- Unknown said...
Nice report - thanks again for driving all the way from Ashland for this event. I look forward to the next race in the Oregon Mountain Running Series - June 6, 2009 - Granite Man Mountain Run, 10 miles, Jacksonville, OR.
- Sunday, May 03, 2009 7:58:00 PM
- Justin Mock said...
Ha, Eric and Jenn looking fit at the hot springs!
- Sunday, May 03, 2009 8:22:00 PM
- Anton said...
shit skaggs, i'd say it's definitely time to take it easy on those stuffed bagels...
- Sunday, May 03, 2009 10:13:00 PM
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By Car—From Frankfurt
- From "Bundesstraße B43" take the A5 towards Heidelberg, Darmstadt, Basel
- Stay on the E451 towards Stuttgart, Mannheim, Saarbrücken, A67
- At the highway junction "Viernheimer Dreieck" take the A6/exit 10 towards Saarbrücken, Kaiserslautern, Ludwigshafen, MA-Sandhofen
- Take the exit 24/"Mannheim-Sandhofen" and turn right at the traffic light, heading towards "MA-Sandhofen/MA-Waldhof"
- Stay on the B44/"Frankenthaler Straße"
- Make a left turn at the second traffic light, heading towards "Schönau" which is the "Lilienthalstraße"
- Follow the "Lilienthalstraße" until you have reached Pepperl+Fuchs on the right hand side, Lilienthalstraße 200
There is visitor parking located at the main entrance. Additional parking is located at the "Königsberger Allee" parking deck.
Public Transportation to Pepperl+Fuchs
Departing from the main train station in Mannheim, do one of the following:
- Take a cab, which takes you to Pepperl+Fuchs in about 20 minutes
- Take tram 1 towards "Mannheim-Schönau" and exit at the final destination "Schönau". Then walk along the "Lilienthalstraße" towards Sandhofen. Pepperl+Fuchs is located on the left hand side at Lilienthalstraße 200. Consider 30 minutes total travel time


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Before Irish names were translated into English, Kellahan had a Gaelic form of O Ceallachain, possibly from "ceallach", which means "strife". The family is descended from Ceallachan (Callaghan), the 10th century King of Munster from whom their surname is derived, and as such, the name Kellahan is a patronymic name.
The surname Kellahan was first found in Munster. The earliest mention of the name Kellahan placed them in the barony of Kinlea, in County Cork, yet the family lost most of their original lands in the barony of Kinelea during the Anglo- Norman Conquest under Strongbow. They relocated to an area near Mallow, in the north of the county, and remained there until forced off their lands once again during the Cromwellian Invasion of the 17th century. The head family migrated to the east of County Clare and flourished, giving their name to the village of Callaghan's Mills. The resumption of the often-discarded prefix "O" has been widespread during the late twentieth century, but in the early twentieth century, Callaghans greatly outnumbered O'Callaghans, but such is no longer the case. The O'Callaghans are one of the few Irish families to still have a chief, certified by the Genealogical Office. [1]
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Kellahan research. Another 202 words (14 lines of text) covering the years 1172, 1640, 1738, 1807, 1797, 1883, 1605, 1654, 1839 and 1909 are included under the topic Early Kellahan History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Official documents, crafted by early scribes and church officials, primarily contained names that were spelled according to their pronunciation. This lead to the problem of one name being recorded under several different variations, creating an illusion that a single person was many people. Among the many spelling variations of the surname Kellahan that are preserved in the archival documents of the time are Callaghan, Callahan, O'Callaghan, O'Callahan, Calahan, Cellaghan, Kalahan, Kallaghan, Kallahan, O'Kallaghan, Kellaghan, Kelleghan, Kellahan, Kelahan, Ceilahan, Ceilaghan, Callachan, Calachan, Callagan, Calagan, Kelagan, Callighan and many more.
Another 35 words (2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Kellahan Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
In the 18th and 19th centuries hundreds of thousands of Irish people immigrated to North American shores. The early settlers were enticed by the promise of their own land, but they were moderately well off in Ireland when they decided to emigrate. Therefore, they were merely carrying out a long and carefully thought out decision. The 1840s saw the emergence of a very different trend: thousands of extremely desperate people crammed into passenger boats hoping to find any type of opportunity. The Irish of this decade had seen their homeland severely stricken by crop failures which resulted in widespread disease and starvation. At whatever time the Irish immigrants came to North America, they were instrumental in the rapid development of the emerging nations of the United States and what would become known as Canada. An exhaustive search of passenger and immigration lists has revealed many persons bearing the name Kellahan, or one of its variants: James Callaghan who settled in America in 1768; Gerhard Callaghan settled in 1764; James Callaghan settled in Pennsylvania in 1772; John Callaghan settled in Boston Massachusetts in 1764.


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Officer holds Nicolet High school student at gunpoint
Teen tried to bring knife to school, police say
A Glendale police officer held a 17-year-old Nicolet High School student at gunpoint after the teen tried to bring a knife to school, authorities said.
According to a police report, the student showed up late to school Tuesday morning and was asked to go through the detectors, a standard procedure for all late students and visitors.
School officials said the high school junior started acting strangely.
"The student was acting suspicious. They were questioning him, and he decided to bolt out of the school, ran across the parking lot," said Dan Klemencic, communications specialist for Nicolet High School.
Officials said the student ran toward a tunnel near Interstate 43. A school resource officer followed the teen, ordering him to stop, but the teen became argumentative and told her, "I've got a gun."
Police said the officer withdrew her firearm and called for backup, eventually arresting the teen.
While being put into a squad car, police said, the student continued to complain to officers, saying, "Man, I can't believe you are going to do me like this. I was being sarcastic."
Authorities later found a knife with a four-inch blade near the tunnel. According to the report, the teen always carries the knife and forgot it was in his pocket. He didn't want to get in trouble with school staff, so he ran off. The teen told investigators he never planned to harm anyone.
The student also told officers he's struggling in school and sometimes hears voices in his head.
Parents are relieved the school's security policy thwarted any real danger.
"I was more focused on how the school responded versus the incident itself, because random things do happen, and that was my relief in knowing things were handled," said parent Minda Devorkian.
The student was issued a citation for disorderly conduct and is suspended while the school determines further disciplinary actions.


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You've seen your share of movies built around the premise of an asteroid on the way to destroy all life on earth. But probably none with the funny and bittersweet tone of "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World."
Departing from the world-saving bombast of blockbusters like "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact," writer-director Lorene Scafaria concocted an off-kilter, more intimate take on impending doom in which a emotionally repressed man (Steve Carell) sees his loveless marriage abruptly end once news of the planet's unavoidable fate is revealed.
After bonding with his free-spirited neighbor (Keira Knightley), the pair set out on a cross-country road trip in a bid to reunite him with his high school sweetheart. The two grow closer as they contend with the sad but sometimes hilarious psychological fallout experienced by the people they meet along the way.
"I was lucky enough to get that kind of cast who balances comedy and tragedy so well," Scafaria tells PopcornBiz of the delicate tonal blend she was aiming for. "Steve, especially, is one of those people who, in all of his characters, blends that together. And I've always been a person who tries to laugh during a darker time."
"I think the whole concept is so absurd that actually the humor was in what was happening – the absurdities of the event itself," Knightley explains. "So I think for both me and Steve, we were just playing the reality of the actual situation, in that it's sort of inherently, horrendously funny."
"I think you approach each scene separately and as a whole." Carell says of juggling the comedy and the pathos, determining which way to go from moment to moment. "You just go with your instincts and hope that it's the right move."
The offbeat combination of himself and Knightley as an increasingly connected duo helped make the shifts in tone work even more seamlessly, suggests Carell. "I think an unlikely pairing for this movie was actually a benefit, because it's good in the sense that we're completely opposites," he says. "No one would ever see these people having dinner together, let alone having any sort of relationship. So I think that works, because it would take something like the apocalypse, when you have this limited amount of time, your choice of partner, I think, changes."
To offset the poignancy, Scafaria surrounded Carell and Knightley with an ensemble of supporting players that carried the more comedic moments (including Adam Brody, Patton Oswalt, Rob Corddry, T.J. Miller, Gillian Jacobs and Melanie Lynskey). "I just thought that it would be fun to get a bunch of comedic actors, especially some stand-up comics that are in there and mix that up with some more dramatic actors," says the director. "I thought the balance would work in creating a whole world that humanity is represented in."
"Lorene was really open to riffing, which is important because I'm an improviser and that's sort of where my skill set lies," says Miller ("Cloverfield," "Rock of Ages"), who plays a waiter at a TGI Fridays with a unique approach to dealing with doomsday. "I'm not a great actor. I am good at seeming high all the time, and being awkward in orgies, which I think I was in the film – but yeah, my method was aligning myself with that type of thinking and then just pretending to be totally blitzed out of my mind for nearly 18 hours and touching a lot of Steve Carell's earlobes. I got to know those lobes."
"I, luckily, have only had to deal with the funnier parts," says Corddry ("Children's Hospital"), whose character anesthetizes himself for the end with alcohol and drugs. "And the more poignant, in that they were just dark – but my character doesn't really get to go too deep. He's decided to stay in the shallow end for the end of the world. He's too drunk to swim. He can't handle the deep water."
Lynskey ("Two and a Half Men") enjoyed her brief but memorable tragicomic turn as a single woman who, desperate to end the world with a boyfriend at her side, makes a relentless play for Carall's character. "She's so lonely!" Lynskey pouts sympathetically. "Instead of being like, 'Hey, look – my great friends and my family…' or whatever else, she was like, 'I need a boyfriend!.'"
Mining both the funny and sad moments certainly left the cast members ruminating on what the planet's final curtain might actually be like, but for Knightley, at least, the reality seems almost impossible to imagine. "I just don't think it's going to happen!" she admits, remembering the ancient prediction calling for the end of the world in the current calendar year. "It's the Mayans, right? I just don't think that they had an imagination beyond 2012, and I have stuff to do in 2013. So it better not end!"


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March 15, 2017
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Ooooooh! I have been averaging between 300 and 800 words most days, but I got 1132 today!!!! I am NOT posting in the 1,000 words club, because this is definitely not an everyday occurrence, but
I made a change that made it necessary to go back and change some of the pages I'd already revised. I ended up going over the whole section and tightening things up. Just as I reached the part I had been plannning on working on, the kids came downstairs and demanded breakfast. On a side note, why do all my best ideas come when I am busy with the kids and unable to write?
I worked on my WIP today. I took a word out. I put it back. Then I took it out again. But it's early yet, I may put it back in this afternoon.
Only about 300 today, but hey, that's a page I didn't have written yesterday.
I'm still going, some days better than others, esp. since I'm on a road trip with my twin toddlers (eep!), but still going is the key, right?
Why do I always feel like a cheat when I read posts like these (no offence)? I could write that and feel proud of myself.Well, it is Friday and I haven't written as well as I could have done this week, but I am blaming the fact that John is on holidays. Unfortunately, he was forced into taking them by his boss, who is making him redundant at the start of September.
My vampire is not broody, overly melodramatic, covered with sparkles, interested in protecting any other characters, or about to get someone pregnant...
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Commission releases report on Simmons homicide
Family's attorney seeks federal investigation
The Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission released its report Friday evening on the homicide of a 13-year-old boy.
The case was blamed for igniting a firestorm after the Police Department was criticized for the way officers treated the victim's mother.
Darius Simmons was shot and killed in front of his home in May, and his mother witnessed the crime.
The 10-page report focused on the hours immediately after the incident.
According to a public statement released just before 5 p.m., the Fire and Police Commission acknowledged Simmons' mother was placed in a squad car for 90 minutes, following her son's death, to be interviewed by police.
At one point, the mother asked to go to the hospital to be with her son, but she then agreed to stay at the scene.
The report concluded that the officers followed normal witness protocol but did not consider the unique circumstances of the incident. They also didn't ask the Fire Department if the mother could be transported in the ambulance with her son.
An attorney for the victim's family, Jonathan Safran, said the family is upset, and he's calling for a federal investigation into the Police Department.
"There's been some expression by the U.S. attorney, James Santelle, already that there may be an investigation done by the federal government called a pattern and practice investigation, and I and many others have requested and continue to request that that be done," Safran said.
The commission concluded that the investigation on the scene was thorough, however, officers did not consider how their actions would be perceived by the public, nor the devastating impact it would have on Simmons' mother.
The Milwaukee Police Department released a statement Friday evening.
"We recognize that sometimes professional duty can appear to trump compassion, and that even though investigators were doing justice to the victim, they were not as attentive to the needs of Darius' mother as they could have been," the statement read.
Simmons' neighbor, John Spooner, is facing first-degree intentional homicide charges in the case.
Police said Spooner accused Simmons of stealing guns from him. The weapons were never found in Simmons' home.
The 76-year-old will be back in court in November.


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Via Grrlscientist, the story of a creationist who learned, and who has paid the penalty for learning.
Reading this article makes it easier to understand why religious fundamentalists of all faiths have so much difficulty in accepting the truth since they stand to lose everything, including their very identity.
Contrast this with Mike Adams's claim that "Accepting Christianity… is far more likely [than Islam] to have come from a rational appraisal of the evidence. And it is far less likely to have come from the threat of the sword." But there are other threats besides swords, and more compelling.


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Cincinnati Bengals rookie Geno Atkins was selected as a fourth-round draft pick from Georgia. But that was after at least one team posed a rather curious question to the 6'1, 290lb defensive tackle. "The only unusual question I got was if I was straight or gay," Atkins told the Associated Press. "And that was about it."
Atkins did not identify the team and Outsports' Cyd Ziegler suggests it's probably standard procedure: "Unfortunately, he didn't say what his answer was. Either way, you have to assume it's not just one team asking, or that Atkins was the only one asked.
And let's add that it's to Atkins' credit that he saw the question about his sexuality as "unusual"... and publicly said so.
This follows other reports that NFL draftees have been asked inappropriate and invasive questions. Miami Dolphins General Manager Jeff Ireland reportedly asked wide receiver Dez Bryant if his mother—who is a lesbian—"was ever a prostitute." Bryant was reportedly offended by the question.
In related news: This weekend, Pittsburgh Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger undergoes NFL-mandated "behavioral evaluation" following his suspension after accusations of sexual assault. And Thursday: New York Giants Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor was arrested and charged with raping a teenage runaway. Seems like the NFL is asking the wrong pre-draft interview questions on sexuality and behavior.


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The build went through well and i was able to run it well using ./mach run. But if i double click on the Nightly.app, it open firefox with a crash tab and asks to restore. but even restoring does not solve the problem. On the terminal I got this error "[Child 58166] ###!!! ABORT: LoadSheetSync failed with error 80520015 loading built-in stylesheet 'resource://gre-resources/counterstyles.css': file /src/mozilla-central/layout/style/nsLayoutStylesheetCache.cpp, line 776 "


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LAS VEGAS – UFC middleweight contender Michael Bisping (22-4 MMA, 12-4 UFC) isn't looking past his UFC 152 opponent, Brian Stann (12-4 MMA, 6-3 UFC).
But with what appears to be a bit of a four-man tournament lining up in the UFC's middleweight division – and with UFC President Dana White on Thursday declaring Chris Weidman (9-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC) the division's No. 1 contender – the question seems unavoidable.
For the record, no, Bisping does not believe Weidman deserves that type of recognition. And while he's not so sure Weidman will make it past Tim Boetsch in their December fight, Bisping likes his chances against the grappling stud.
"Weidman has got an undefeated streak going, and Dana is the president of the company, so far be it from me to disagree and tell him he's not the No. 1 contender," Bisping told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). "It's his company, but I don't think so. Weidman has a good streak going, and he's got a lot of hype around him at the moment, but I never rated Mark Munoz in the first place."
Weidman earned a brutal second-round stoppage of Munoz in the headlining fight of July's UFC on FUEL TV 4 event. It was the second high-profile win in a row for Weidman, who also came in on short notice to decision Demian Maia at January's UFC on FOX 2 card.
However, Bisping remains unimpressed by the 28-year-old New Yorker and says defeating Munoz in his first fight back from an eight-month layoff and edging out a lackluster Maia, despite dropping 32 pounds in the 10 days before the fight, isn't deserving of top-contender recognition.
"He knocked out a fat Mark Munoz, who was out of shape and coming back off a long layoff because of injury," Bipsing said. "Not that impressive if you ask me. In fact, before that it was Demian Maia – and again, it wasn't impressive. Demian Maia looked terrible in that fight, but so did Chris Weidman. 'Oh, he cut this amount of weight.' Well that's his [expletive] problem. That's not an excuse, is it? You looked [expletive], plain and simple.
"He elbowed a fat Mark Munoz and now he's the great white hype? Just because he elbowed an out-of-shape fat man? Yeah, he's got a streak, and that all counts – undefeated, et cetera – so I suppose you can see the logic, but I disagree."
Weidman is scheduled to face Boetsch in December, and the winner of that fight could very well be in line to face the Bisping vs. Stann victor for a shot at the title. Much of that will also depend on Anderson Silva vs. Stephan Bonnar and Georges St-Pierre vs. Carlos Condit and whether "The Spider" and "GSP" elect to take a catchweight superfight.
Bisping admits he's hoping Condit plays the role of spoiler and nixes the superfight, but the immediate future of the 185-pound division isn't necessarily crystal clear.
"We're going to have to see how this whole thing plays out – who wins in Condit vs. St-Pierre, what those guys want to do after that," White said. "And really, the No. 1 contender right now is Weidman. So maybe Weidman and Bisping fight. I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen yet, but Bisping is right there."
Weidman would seem stylistically to be a difficult opponent for Bisping, who is known as a striker by trade. But "The Count" believes his wrestling improvements are far more impressive than what Weidman has thus far learned on the feet.
"You could look at the skills and say I could box his [expletive] head off, as well," Bisping said. "I've certainly got better wrestling than he's got boxing.
"Just because he landed one elbow on an amateur? I've trained with professional boxers, and trust me, I more than hold my own. I could have a career in professional boxing, no problem, professional kickboxing – [expletive] it, if I wanted to be a professional wrestler, I could be a wrestler, as well."
Of course, before any of this talk matters, Bisping must get by Stann at UFC 152. Then he can turn his attention to UFC 155 where Weidman meets Boetsch. Bisping would likely await the winner, and he's not so sure that will necessarily be Weidman.
"He may just come up short against Boetsch," Bisping said. "I think Boetsch might be a tough matchup for him. Boetsch is a big, strong boy. He's not the most technical of guys, but he's a big, tough, durable guy. He's not to be written off.
"When I was to fight at him, I was looking at that as a dangerous fight. It certainly wasn't a given. He's durable. That's not a given fight for Weidman."
And if it plays out that way, Bisping is more than happy to line up a fight with Boetsch.
"I said it's not a given fight for Weidman," Bisping said. "I didn't say it wasn't a given fight for me."
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If you're suffering from mental illness and struggling with the isolation and stigmatisation that unfortunately accompanies having a sick brain, I want YOU to know right now that there IS a light at the end of the tunnel, that there is hope, and that there's an abundance of help. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. I repeat: YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
How can I make this declaration with such sweeping confidence? I am not a medical professional. I am not a therapist. I am not a social worker. I am not a counsellor. I do not have a graduate degree in Psychology, Cognitive Science, or Neuroscience.
Who the hell am I to tell you that you're not alone?
I am someone afflicted by Mental Illness. I'm Lauren, and this is my World. I'm a 30-something who's never been married and has no kids, and, while relevant in one sense of 'alone,' it's my sick brain that makes me uniquely qualified.
I've been to hell and back so many times that the arresting sense of impending descent back down no longer fazed me. The feeling of Hell itself conquering Earth permeated my life so profusely that permanent residency seemed my inevitable fate; any former experience of heaven or purgatory were but temporarily illusions. Hell had come home to roost.
Mental illness has no shame, and it will stop at nothing to get its way. Stealthy and determined, an illness of the mind is so twisted and audacious that, somewhat like a cancer, it's able to persuade its host to act counter to all survival instincts and become an instrument hellbent on intensifying one's downward spiral endlessly into a black hole, ever re-defining "the bottom."
I know what it's like to be trapped in the darkness, plagued by defeat, and exhausted by everything, even sleep. I was caught in an endless loop of desperation and exasperation. Severe depression stole everything from me. Everything— friends, family, work, even my last remaining and dearest confidants, alcohol and drugs. Yes. I felt nothing. I craved nothing. I wanted nothing. Depression took and took until it finally stole even my desire to drink and use.
I was a shell of a person, devoid of the ability to emote, disconnected socially, incapable of sensing hunger, possessing no barometer for personal hygiene, lacking any desire to live, yet— this is the kicker— void of the desire to die. I spent months that became years just existing — desperate to find my way out but stripped of any sense of direction by an ever-malfunctioning compass.
I want to share my experience. I want to help others so that they don't have to go through the hell I did. I want to raise awareness. I want to fight the stigma. I want to be able to talk about how my illness affected me without feeling like I'm being judged or that I'm making people uncomfortable. I want to be able to PROUDLY proclaim that I'm a fighter and survivor of a chronic, life-threatening illness, not shamed into a recurrence of my deadly disease.
Cancer survivors are celebrated, not stigmatised. Tanning-bed fanatics with skin cancer. Smokers with lung cancer. Do they hide in the shadows, afraid to mention anything about their struggles or medications? No. They are empowered— not stigmatised— for the most part, that is. Moreover, consider the implications for someone suffering from mental illness that's found to be caused by a brain tumour. Why should this patient be treated any differently because the source of his illness has a physical manifestation that can be seen and held? Malignant or not, you can bet that this patient will be treated differently than the patient whose illness is rooted in chemical or structural differences in the brain. WHY?
Why do chemical imbalances involving neurotransmitters mean that I cannot discuss my illness openly? Why do we stigmatise that which we do not understand?
Be the Change.
Note: This is only the beginning for me in speaking out on mental illness. I have a lot to express, and I've only just begun to write, so please forgive me if this post lacks flow and detail, jumps around, and hits on a number of complex issues. It's more important to me that I get this out to the world NOW rather than holding onto it in an attempt to massage it. I suppose that's the nature of a blog, though, right? I can wait to polish and organise the content for the book. For now, it's vital for me to publish my impassioned thoughts as-is. If you have a problem with it, blame my sick brain.
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The loaf I baked today was the best yet, great crumb and a crisp crust that "sang" as it cooled. Plus it rose like crazy, and I'm not sure whether it was my yogurt starter or the fact that I now know that I haven't been letting the starter work its magic. I can't remember whether it was Bill or one of the other great mentors who said to let the starter do the work. I kept reading that soudough was slow but somehow it didn't sink in, so now I make sure to busy myself with something else so that I'm not rushing the dough. Slow learner? I cut the huge loaf as soon as I dared so that I could share it with neighbors who suffered through some of my earlier efforts. Then I ate some with soup for supper! A.


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Following up London, Florence, Milan and Berlin, we made a trip to Paris for the Fall/Winter Fashion Week. Our photographer of course once again took this opportunity to roam the streets and snap some pictures of stylish ladies and dapper gentlemen attending the various shows and tradeshows taking place all over the City of Lights. Browse through our gallery for a carefully selected range of intriguing looks and get an impression of the city's unchallenged style.
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Lethal cleaning: Towee balks at $700 fee
What's the difference between having a wreck in Albemarle County and having a wreck in the City? Answer: If you're in the County and you need a tow, the police can call Lethal Wrecker. In the City, they can't– and that can be a crucial difference.
At least, that's what Alberto Ojeda claims. Ojeda was traveling south on 29 on October 12, 2004 when he turned left at the light toward Antiquer's Mall and was hit by a car traveling north. The County police dispatcher called Lethal to tow his car, which had been totaled.
Ojeda claims that when he went to Lethal's office the next day to collect his tags and personal possessions, he was told it would cost him $700– in cash. When he asked why the bill was so high, he says he was told it was for cleaning up the scene of the wreck. He says he protested, and was told he could discuss the matter with owner George Morris.
When he tried, however, he claims that Morris refused to talk to him. "He was very, very rude with me," Ojeda says.
According to Ojeda, he paid the $700 and reclaimed his possessions. But he couldn't let go of the sense that he'd been gouged. $700 for a tow and clean!
For one thing, he claimed, the County fire department– not Lethal– had cleaned up the scene of the accident. And since when, he wondered, did the County charge people for cleaning up after a wreck?
Eventually, he complained to Delegate Rob Bell, and Bell called me. I called County police Lt. John Teixeira, who acknowledged that there have been complaints about the company and said, "We're currently reviewing the situation with Lethal Wrecker."
Don't look for sweeping change anytime soon, however: "We're restricted," Teixeira stated, "[as to] what we can do." As for charging citizens to clean up after wrecks, however, he was definite: "We don't require that at all."
In contrast, both the City and UVA have ruled that their police departments and other agencies should not call Lethal for any tows. The university dropped Lethal from its contract in April 2004, citing mistreatment of customers.
As for the City, Lethal bid on the City towing contract in February 2002, but was firmly rejected. In a March 15, 2002 letter to Morris, City Purchasing Manager Al Elias stated that– in addition to concerns about response times and the fact that Lethal was operating without City tax decals (because Morris maintained that he should be allowed to use Louisa County decals)– there was a more serious issue.
"Of more concern to the City," he wrote, "is your failure to provide any satisfactory response to the concerns we have about what happens after Lethal Wrecker responds to a call for service. As noted by the Better Business Bureau in explanation of the 'unsatisfactory' rating assigned by it to your business, you have failed to provide any explanation of complaints involving unethical or unlawful treatment of persons whose automobiles have been towed by your company."
Elias enclosed a copy of state code section 43-32, better known as the "garage-keeper's lien," which states that although a towing company, for instance, can refuse to release a car until the bill is paid, it can't withhold personal possessions: "Any lien created under this section shall not extend to any personal property which is not attached to or considered necessary for the proper operation of any motor vehicle, and it shall be the duty of any keeper of such personal property to return it to the owner if the owner claims the items prior to auction."
Morris adamantly denies that he charged Ojeda $700. "I'm the cheapest company in town," he declared during a short but action-packed phone interview. Morris implored me to "stop picking on" him. (Instead, he said, I should "go play in the road.")
That sounds like a risky pastime– but if I do decide to play in the road, I'll make sure it's a City road.
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Building Applications in the Cloud Book Review
As cloud computing embeds itself into the computing landscape, developers unfamiliar with the challenges and complexities of writing cloud-based applications will be ill-suited to tackle many of the scalable utility computing problems ahead. Fortunately, author Chris Moyer offers assistance in the form of Building Applications in the Cloud. Read on to find out if his book hits the mark.
Segmented into three parts, the book covers cloud concept, patterns, and projects. The first part defines and reviews the history of the cloud computer, the components that comprise it, and reviews three cloud providers (Amazon, Google, and Rackspace), spending a majority of the book with Amazon's solution. The second part consists of four chapters on designing an image, architecture, data execution on actions, and clustering strategies. Part three demonstrates two projects, a simple weblog written in raw Python (right down to managing the network protocols and HTTP headers) and a rewrite of the weblog application using a custom cloud-centric framework created by the author called Marajo.
The book is optimally written for Python programmers who need to build cloud solutions using the various Amazon Web Services (AWS). Because the author contributed to the boto Python library, the large portion of the book discusses the use of the library and the variety of hooks it providers into Amazon's S3, SQS, EC2, ELB, VPC, EMR, RDS, and SNS services, among a variety of other functions. While a few brief examples are applied using Google AppEngine and Google Storage, this is predominantly a book on using AWS with Python.
The final part of the book spent too much time on the simple weblog by focusing on the minutia of handling page requests at a hand-coded level when a number of Python web frameworks and ORMs already perform this heavy lifting. I was also dismayed to see the other opt to create and promote yet another Python web framework of his own design (Marajo) rather than contribute extensions to existing frameworks like Django or pylons. To his credit, the author did state that these were options he seriously considered, but decided to forge ahead with Marajo to take advantage of AWS without the legacy overhead of pre-existing web frameworks. However, beyond the academic analysis of how Marajo is interfacing with AWS, I don't see the framework being widely adopted since beyond the tight AWS integration, it doesn't offer the rich ecosystem and large community that other Python-based web frameworks currently have to offer.
Regardless of the promotional space given the author's contributions to the Python and AWS communities, the author succeeds in sharing his expertise on building cloud applications, and sold me enough on the concepts to download the boto library to have ready in my toolbox should a Python-based AWS project come along.
[Editor Andrew Binstock adds:
By coincidence, Mike and I were both reading this book at the same time. He's kindly let me tack on my opinion of this book. I am not nearly as enthused as Mike is.
The use of Python would normally be no problem, as Python's syntax is easy enough to map to other languages. However, the use of the author's own Python library makes it nearly impossible to do this.
I also found the text rife with annoying errors and peculiar statements. In the former category I find (for example on p. 80), the comment that a given cloud service "... generally flows first-in-last-out (FIFO)." It's now up to me to clean up after the author and find out which of these is correct: the wording or the abbreviation. Numerous (and I do mean numerous) other errors of grammar and syntax are sprinkled throughout, suggesting careless writing and uncharacteristically poor editing by Addison-Wesley.
Here's an example of peculiar statements: "Developing your Software as a Service (Saas) takes you away from the dark ages of programming and into the new age in which copyright protection, DMA, and pirating don't exist." Huh?
The following sentence combines peculiarity and confused English. He's speaking of cloud providers: "Some provide query-able databases and some that provide you a filesystem, such as a resource."
After reading such content page after page, I was convinced that the author lacked substantial understanding of his topic, save for describing his own project. Not recommended.]
Title: Building Applications in the Cloud: Concepts, Patterns and Projects
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