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Chris details and demonstrates the fundamental movements and suggested left hand position for legato playing -- specifically hammer-ons and pull-offs. He also provides exercises for developing the technique.
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Any tips on doing this with an acoustic guitar with no amp? It's easy on my electric guitars, but not on an acoustic. I can make my pinky attack harder, but then I get a nasty 'thud' sound from doing it too hard, I think. Perhaps I need to find a happy medium?
Excellent lesson. Really well done.
is there any more information on muting with your left hand. I don't seem to be grasping the concept just yet. Do you have any other pointers on this?
Chris, i'm playing on basic fender squier sttart with humbuckers & crappy fender 15g starter amp. It's very hard to play hammers on as i dont get enough sound although i have adjust my gain. do you think it's mainly equipment fault or just not setting up my amp correctly? i want to upgrade soon to a blackstar tube amp & epiphone les paul.
It's really hard for my pinky to do a pull off!!
these are awesome chris, thanks alot! i really enjoy your lessons on here
Chris when i do hammer-ons it sounds very weak.
getting your hammerons to sound good is a combo between the right attack and the right tone. Try inching your gain up a little bit and using a little more attack with your fingers. Just make sure your'e not getting your arm involved like I showed in the lesson.
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Chris Liepe quickly demonstrates the chorus pedal with some 80's style licks. This pedal can create a deep and rich addition to solos or add the illusion of multiple guitars.Length: 3:28 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Key Signatures! How do they relate to one another? Chris Liepe explains them in lesson 16 of his beginner series. Getting familiar with your key signatures will help pull everything together that has been...Length: 15:21 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Chris Liepe demonstrates how to take a key signature (the set notes within a key) and stack 3rds on top of a root note to form chords. With the help of a modulating backing track, this should be a fun...Length: 30:02 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Chris explains and demonstrates the very basics of alternate picking. He also provides simple exercises to develop the technique in your own playing.Length: 16:03 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Chris details and demonstrates the fundamental movements and suggested left hand position for legato playing -- specifically hammer-ons and pull-offs. He also provides exercises for developing the technique.Length: 16:11 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Chris talks about proper palm muting and discusses potential snags when first attempting the technique. He offers a number of exercises and patterns to help palm muting become a part of your rhythm playing.Length: 9:22 Difficulty: 1.0 FREE
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Chris talks about what it means to play in position and teaches three of the five "CAGED" major scale positions in the key of G.Length: 12:44 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Chris continues in his teaching of the five basic "CAGED" major scale positions in the key of G.Length: 11:39 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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By Hiufu Wong, CNN • Updated 19th June 2014
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When Jay Kwon Yang died from stomach cancer in Virginia in 2012, he left a dream unfulfilled: world travel.
The environmental engineer and owner of a dry cleaner wanted to see Europe. And Africa. Even California or not so far away Florida.
But he never got the chance.
He was just 52 when he died.
For more than a year, his 25-year-old daughter, Jinna Yang, couldn't grow past the grief of losing her father, who had raised her, along with a brother and half-sister, almost single-handedly.
So she decided to take her father on the trip of his dreams.
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moving tribute to her father
on her blog.)
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Traveling for a month in April with a portable, life-sized cutout of her father, New York-based Yang trekked across Europe and posed for pictures in front of famous landmarks, from Skogafoss Waterfall in Iceland to the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
"I have a good friend whose father is an industrial designer -- he helped me score the cutout so that it folded in and out," Yang tells CNN. "It became portable enough to carry around after I folded it up."
Skogafoss Waterfall in Iceland was one of many dramatic stops for the dad-daughter duo.
courtesy Jinna Yang
"I took the time to appreciate the little things," says Yang. "In every city I went, I took time to sit and soak in sights.
"Whether it was a huge waterfall in Iceland or a local cafe in Florence, I just sat. I loved watching the couples pass by in the romantic city of Florence, water crashing against rocks on the Italian Riviera, even the peacocks I saw on the island of Lokrum off the coast of Croatia."
Iceland was the most "life-changing" destination for Yang.
"I had never done anything so adventurous, and the entire country seems like another planet sometimes," she says.
Her cardboard travel buddy stirred curiosity throughout the trip.
"Many people stopped me in the street, asking me if it was a famous person," says Yang. "Most of the time when you see a life-sized cutout, it's of Justin Bieber or One Direction, and it's usually in a nine-year-old's room.
"Lots of people stopped to take photos as well."
Worldwide attention
When she returned to New York, Yang posted her collection of photos on her blog (see gallery above).
The photos touched people around the world, though not all of the feedback has been positive.
Some commentors on Yang's site have suggested the photos are faked, an accusation Yang denies.
"It's really unfortunate to hear these false accusations but I guess it goes with the territory," Yang tells CNN.
"The cutout I took with me was a flat board that stood six feet tall. I scored (it) into three sections so I could fold it up and take it around with me. So, no, I didn't have to pay for an extra seat for dad!"
"behind the scenes" photo
of Yang carrying the cutout in front of the Louvre appears on her Instagram page.
"I consider myself an artist, and when I set out on this mission, I wanted to honor my father's memory and take beautiful photos to showcase the project," Yang says. "As any photographer knows, in order to create that 'perfect image' there are times that editing is required.
After visiting London, Rome and the Louvre in Paris (pictured), Yang hopes to return to Europe in July.
courtesy Jinna Yang
"I do edit my work, and so does my photographer friend who took the photos. The white border around the cutout was cleaned up to make for a more beautiful photograph in many of these shots.
"It is sad that people are questioning the authenticity of the entire project, but ... I am grateful for the positive support I've received from the community.
"The purpose of this project was not to make the perfect picture, but to bring peace to my family and inspire people to find hope and the courage to continue."
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Now back in New York, Yang is planning another European tour she hopes to take in July.
"Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom to know which direction to go," says Yang. "I was broken, and because I allowed myself to accept that, I found the strength to make a change.
"I had talked about going backpacking through Europe, but when I (actually) booked the ticket and started planning the trip, it gave me something to look forward to again.
"I became confident in my ability to do something, and discovered hope in my future again."
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I've installed the new Version of Ubuntu 13.04. It works great but i think the system can run more faster with the right driver of my hardware. I actually use the NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 M.
I'm sorry, but my english is as bad as my linux knowledge ;-)
I'm not sure, which driver i should take. Currently the X.org Driver is selected but is this the best i can take?


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Here's a quick glance at my healing and questing specs on the grind from 80 to 85. My mentality behind this was to select talents that would give me an edge in either survivability or efficiency. I went for talents that helped reduce mana costs or gave me mana back. I also opted for talents that made me a little bit tougher to kill.
Starting from level 80
As Shadow (Link to talent calculator)
Improved Psychic Scream – In case things get dicey with an overpull, I can couple this talent with Glyph of Psychic Scream. I don't send mobs flying every where and pulling even more stuff. But it might buy me the precious seconds I need to DPS something down and heal up.
Mental Agility – Cheaper dots. 'Nuff said.
Veiled Shadows – Wishbone gets to come out more often. … What, don't you guys name your Shadowfiends?
As Holy (Link to talent calculator)
I chose holy as my dungeon healing offspec. Mana won't be a terribly challenging issue with the opening instances like Blackrock Caverns or Throne of the Tides. But you'll want to consider grabbing Mental Agility on the way up.
Desperate Prayer – Yeah, yeah, not many people would choose this. But I personally like having a safety net in dungeons in case I pull something.
As Discipline (Link to talent calculator)
Chose Empowered Healing over Divine Fury. Cast time isn't as big a factor when you're leveling up via dungeons, I found. Still going to be using a combination of shields and Flash Heal to get over the top.
As Shadow (Link to talent calculator)
Sorry guys, I can't say this is the final form of the raid spec I plan to use as shadow. I'll use this as a baseline to work with though at least.
As Holy (Link to talent calculator)
Yup, I kept Desperate Prayer and Inspiration for raiding. Darkness is another option when your mana regeneration hits a point where it isn't a big a factor. I won't be switching to it until I accumulate more potent gear.
As Discipline (Link to talent calculator)
So many options here. You can take out the points from Veiled Shadows and place them into Surge of Light or Inspiration (In case your party doesn't already have one with it). But Disc by far seems to offer the most variety when it comes to talent placement.


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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
On-line version ISSN 2078-5135
Print version ISSN 0256-9574
SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.99 n.5 Cape Town May. 2009
Qualified ethics nod to doctors downing tools
Chris Bateman
Two top medical ethicists have given a qualified nod to doctors downing tools.
Professor John Williams, former head of the World Medical Association Ethics Unit, and Professor Ames Dhai, head of the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics at the University of the Witwatersrand, were speaking at a forum on 'Ethics and professional practice in a resource-constrained environment'.
The burning issue arose during the Steve Biko Centre's acclaimed 'Ethics alive' week from 16 to 20 March this year in which students, seasoned physicians, academics and top legal experts thrashed out topical, historical and potential future problems.
Professor Martin Smith, Head of Surgery at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, put it to (topic presenter) Williams that he was 'right now sitting with two letters on my desk insisting we withdraw services because of resource constraints'. 'We're suffering because we never close our doors (to patients). What about a clinician withdrawing services to achieve better patient care?' he asked. Williams, currently Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Ottawa University, said that in several countries physicians had gone on strike for the good of patients when it was felt to be 'the only way of getting the attention of decision makers to bring about change'.
Downing tools can help patients in long run
The tactic of withdrawing services was controversial both in and out of the profession, with some arguing that it should never be done and others taking the 'longer view' that it would help the majority of patients in the long run. 'Some say that it's justifiable to inconvenience some in the short term. It's a matter of deliberation and judgment but there must be a realistic expectation that it will have the desired effect. It needs groundwork, behind-the-doors discussion with friendly politicians, that if we do this you'll respond favourably,' he warned.
The danger was that if physicians had 'no idea of potential success', it could prove counter-productive, losing the support of decision makers, the public and patients who'd see the inconvenience as 'something unjustified'. Williams added, 'I would say in some cases it's justified but it very much depends on the circumstances. What's required is to weigh up the circumstances to see whether the prospects of success are worth the effort.'
Professor Dhai said she believed it was a question of 'looking at the lesser of two evils'. 'If resource constraints lead to faulty equipment with the possibility of loss of life of patients our physicians are faced with this all the time which is the lesser evil? Do you go ahead and do surgery and risk loss of life or down tools and use this as a bargaining situation with advocacy to get better support? I don't think one can make a blanket condemnation of the downing of tools,' she said.
Smith revealed that his department had run a single CT scanner for several weeks recently, with his neurosurgeons telling him they could no longer see emergency patients. Patients were getting woefully inadequate treatment. 'Basically our neurosurgeons said that if it (the second CT scanner) was not fixed within a certain time they'd refuse to see patients,' Smith added.
Pressed on what doctors should do when faced with loyalty to proper clinical care versus the administrative processes that so often bedevil it, Deputy Director General of Health, Dr Kamy Chetty, stressed 'reasonable procedure'. She said, 'The question really is what are some of the procedures that you'd use to voice those concerns? In different facilities you may have different individuals who raise various concerns there can be opportunism it's extremely important to agree on how these things get raised.'
Health Deputy DG: 'Always ask us first'
Chetty said she appreciated that the normal channels of communication were not always necessarily open and 'where necessary actions are not being taken'. 'As professionals we have to ensure that we get correct procedures and policies for our patients. If that fails we need to agree as to what the strategy is thereafter at no time can we say that this was not brought to the attention of the authorities,' she stressed.
George Bizos, celebrated human rights lawyer, said strong legal precedent existed in South Africa, 'where the will of the practitioners has trumped contrary policy positions and given relief to people. Medical independence is generally respected by the courts in terms of our constitution and legislation, and particularly the common law.'
He gave an example of where a hospital stopped giving an AIDS patient newly available medication after six months because it was no longer available free of charge. The patient, backed by his doctors, took the case to court and won, with the court ruling that 'you can't treat an individual in terms of general policy'.
Chetty said she accepted that when it came to loyalty to the employer versus the patient, 'the patient comes first', but qualified this. In a resource-constrained environment the State had a responsibility to help as many people as possible.
'So we draft policies in line with our Constitutional mandate of the progressive realisation of health care. If there's a problem with protocol we need to tackle it to see if it's reasonable and what the implications are for other patients.'
She said protecting patient rights needed to concur with 'following processes'.
Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission, Jody Kollapen, disagreed. He said that while he recognised protocols, 'they undermine the duty to speak out this needs to be revisited. At the heart of the problem are not just interests of the department but those of the broader public.'
Asked by Professor Martin Veller, head of surgery at Wits, whether viewing the controversy from a 'demand instead of a supply perspective' might be helpful, Williams said several countries had a huge backlog of unmet demands with little or no resources. 'It's not that easy to reduce demand overall, especially when so many people are ill.' He conceded that the ideal approach would be to put a greater emphasis on prevention, citing road accidents, tobacco control and lifestyle changes but this fell outside of the health care system. 'The question is how many resources do you put into those programmes which will eventually but not immediately reduce demand on the health care system? But this takes money from acute care to preventive care,' he added.


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The mentioned power consumption is true only for the quadcores, but the single or dualcore are a completely different story. And yes if you want to see Intel 'suck' in terms of power consumption then compare e.g. the dualcores of both brands.
Furthermore I don't see the need for a big nVidia card as emphasized above, you can play games like Quake4 (via Linuxulator in FreeBSD) with a 7300GT quiet well (1280x1024 without stuttering) - advantage: less power consumption than the 8800 monsters and they are really _inexpensive_.
>My typical goal will be to run a desktop, although, the further I come in studying the books I bought, the more tempting it might become to try to set up some servers as well.
*BSD != Vista or Mac OS X, so you don't need lots of horse power. I'm using OpenBSD at my Asus EEE900A (Intel Atom), FreeBSD stable on four machines: 2 Intel, 2 AMD - all of them are dualcores. The 'slowest' is the laptop with a C2D 1.66GHz and guess what? Compiling world with ccache _is_ fast =)
At the institute we're using FreeBSD (and some Linux) too, _because_ of the small footprint of the system. So we don't need lot of memory, quadcores etc. The typical use is as servers and workstations (lot of TB for pictures of forensic quality etc. pp.). Apart from that we're using two big Apple machines for modeling and rendering (Maya).
So if you don't want to game with you machine, remember FreeBSD and/or Linux aren't the best candidates for the hardcore gamer. Even the casual gamer sticks with Windows or buys some Playstation, Nintendo etc. pp.
In the end the best question would be: which hardware should one avoid? The golden rule: the newer, the messier is true especially in *BSD. So don't let cloud your mind with fanboyism, benchmark mumbo jumbo and so on. A dualcore _is_ fast in Linux or *BSD, even a single core. 1G of memory is enough even for KDE4 and OO3, 2G of memory a great for compiling world (FreeBSD) with several jobs - I guess you got the picture?
Most of the time the brand is important only in terms of compatibility (e.g. Wifi, ...), but quality wise there is just one rule: there is hardware which sucks less. After more than 20 years of using hardware this is my conclusion. Remember it's consumer hardware after all. So 'low quality' and high (compared to the quality) prices justified with big hype is the reality =)
use UNIX or die :-)
I'm easily convinced I notice I tend to follow Vermaden's and your advice, and go for the Core2Duo E8500 now.
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Well, now I am sort of stuck between the 7300GT that you mention and the cards that Vermaden mentions. Price is not the main issue here, but 'green computing', eg low energy consumption, is. Of course, I should be able to use my box in a nice way, so the card should be up for it.
So remaining to be done:
- The videocard
- The mainboard (the chipset Q35 Vermaden recommends).
Pfff, buying a computer was much, much, easier in the old days
If you use a separate video card, there is no reason to get the Q35. Get a P35 or P45 instead. The Q series is useful because it has on-board video.
So then i could stick with the original mainboard I selected? (I hope Vermaden doesn't shoot me for it - )
So final step would be videocard. Cabal mentioned lower energy usage for the 7300 GT, that is important to me, and so, now, for the most stupid question of the year (): does anybody know where to look that up?
- I get nothing back on nvidia.com
- This nifty tool 'Google' doesn't seem to return anything useful either (how come: Google alwaysssss finds everything immediately )
Again, thanks for all your help (!)
The 7300 is no longer made. The 9xxx series is current; there probably is a 9300 that corresponds to the 7300. It is a low-power card. The best value is the 9500GT, but the added power is probably wasted on BSD. It really depends on how much you want to spend.
Honestly, unless you play any games, there probably is little difference between the on-board Intel video and a stand-alone nVidia or ATI.
>The 7300 is no longer made.
That's true, but that's not the point it was just an example for 'low power' and enough horse power for most things in FreeBSD - even for games.
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I know you know that Oliver, but it seems that the OP is rather literal about and new to computer components. It is indeed difficult to get up-to-speed if you have not done it before, or have had a many-year break.
My suggestion, thinking more about it, is try the Q35/Intel video. Just make sure there is a 16x PCI-E slot so that a video card could be added later if on-board does not work out.
There is one other thing to consider with video cards: the more powerful they are, the more power they consume and the more noise they make. The nVidia [7|8|9]300 usually is passive. The faster ones can be made quiet too, but you usually have to add a third-party heat sink. Then again, I am very sensitive to computer noise, and not everyone else is.
I hope for Intel Larrabee or Ati in the near future. More FOSS, less blobs. nVidias practice to abolish certain 'old' graphic cards from their drivers is something to consider while observing the half-life of consumer hardware.
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That's all true, though I have had no issues with the legacy drivers. My hardware is old, and the video cards are of the 5xxx era.
I personally have no problem with blobs, but if a good open-source alternative is available, then of course I would go for it. I just don't think we are quite there yet.
Maybe it's just a bad feeling in the stomach ;-)
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All passive 7xxxx, 8xxx, and 9xxx models (So basically all models you can buy now) I've seen get pretty hot, if you look carefully at the packaging you'll see that ``A casefan is recommended''.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
I've used passive cooling on video cards without any problem. They key is to get a case that breathes well. The Antec Solo (and its equivalents) work pretty well for that, as well as enabling a quiet build. They do often get hot, but they have always stayed within nVidia's guidelines.
Heck, the computer I built for my wife has a passively-cooled 9600GT, and it works fine. The computer is nearly silent, too (but alas on Vista-64).
If you still have your old PC. I recommend you put linux or windoze (if you want to play games) in your new PC and make a BSD server out of your old PC.
Well, contrary to what you might have expected this wasn't a 'hit and run'-user I've just been extremely busy, and hence I stalled buying a new box. As my wife's box is going down very quickly I now need to buy a new box for her fast, in addition to the one I planned to buy for myself. My wife will be using her box on XP, mainly because of legacy accounting software she needs, and access to corporate software, and she will play some games. So my plan is:
A. Buy a new box for her, designed to meet both FBSD and XP (games) specs;
B. Install FBSD on it to see if everything works;
C. If B is the case, install XP on that box for her and order an exactly similar box for myself on which I will install XP exclusively.
So, on reading back this thread (keeping in mind I am an absolute noob when it comes to hardware), I am facing difficulties in deciding about the mainboard/chipset on the one hand, and the videocard on the other hand.
The thing is, some people say 'take Q35', others say 'don't take it'. Now, this mainboard, Asus P5Q-E: http://www.informatique.nl/123175
has been described 'rather high class board' in some test I've read some time ago, but it has P45, not Q35. What should I do?
On rereading this thread it seems a lot of people are favoring ATI for multiple reasons. I have no problems switching to ATI, but there isn't a native ATI-driver? Googling I found out that xorg should have support for ATI, but then my confusion starts:
1. Xorg also seems to have support for Nvidia, so why is there a separate, native driver for Nvidia? (Or, phrased the other way: why isn't it important that there isn't a separate driver for ATI?)
2. Whereas the Nvidia driver doesn't support X64, does the Xorg-driver for ATI support X64 then? Or can ATI also only be used in X32?
3. The black window problem of Nvidia, doesn't that occur on ATI?
Some people say I shouldn't use passive cooling, others say I should use passive cooling.
So I decided for E8xxxx instead of Quad core, but now, two months later, Quadcore is even cheaper than dual core. Still take dual core?
I must seem very ignorant to you all, and I apologize for that, but it's hard when at birth they decided to leave out the part of my brain that understands hardware ins and outs
Again I appreciate your help in guiding me through this wood I can't seem to find my path in by myself. Thank you for that help
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If you want identical computers, and one will be used for any significant gaming, you will *need* a discrete video card. The on-board chips are fine for routine work, but are terrible for gaming. FWIW, "gaming" does not include solitaire.
There is no binary ATI driver because ATI did not provide one for FreeBSD. nVidia did. That's why there is only one binary blob, and why it does not run on the 64 bit FreeBSD flavor. Don't hold your breath on getting a 64 bit nVidia driver any time soon. I understand that the open-source ATI driver is getting better (ATI is providing good support, but it takes time), but still does not have accelerated 3D. On FreeBSD you probably won't need it unless you too want to run some Linux games (or Windows games under Wine).
Oh, and the "nv" driver is written by the xorg people, and is open source (and without much help from nVidia). It does work, but it is much more limited than "nvidia."
On passive versus actively-cooled video cards, you have to decide how much quiet or silent computer operation is important to you. There are lots of good after-market coolers that are active and essentially silent. I'd suggest that you get the card you want, paying attention to reports of fan noise, and if it is too loud, get an after-market cooler. The passive ones work fine for less powerful cards, up to about the nVidia 9600, but the more powerful ones are hard to cool passively. You then have to pay a lot of attention to how well the case breathes, and how the air courses through your computer (and keep an eye on video temperatures when you debug the thing).
How much are you spending, anyway? Are you overclocking or not?
So what should I do with the mainboard/chipset? Is the one I selected a good one? Or should I insist on Q35?
And the CPU: still core duo, or quad?
Thanks again DrJ
EDIT: I just find this, saying the mobo I selected doesn't work with Linux due to the chipset. Now I know BSD isn't Linux, but wouldn't it be expected it would give problems under Linux too, then?
EDIT EDIT ( :-)): it seems to work with the latest Ubuntu distro:
How can I tell if the chipset will work with FBSD then? Or is this all rambling non-relevant for FBSD?
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Tell us what you budget's like and maybe someone will be able to provide more helpful advice.
Overclocking with Intel chips is almost a no-brainer these days. I took a Q6600 from 2.4 GHz to 3 GHz easily; one did not even require a voltage change, the other one required only a modest voltage bump. If you do overclock, then you would be well-advised to get an aftermarket cooler. There are a number of good ones.
That's one real advantage of building your own -- you can squeeze a lot more performance out of your computer. Otherwise, you might be better off buying a pre-assembled computer, particularly as the price goes down. A home builder really can't compete on price in the $500 range (give or take), though you can make sure that you get everything you want (slots, memory, various compatible chips).
Again, if quiet computing is something you seek, look carefully at how you can control the various fans from the BIOS. That's where Abit excelled -- the GB board had only one controllable fan header, and you could not adjust that one much.
This is particularly true on FreeBSD if you compile from ports. That is still a single task, though work to parallelize it is proceeding. For ports, raw CPU and disk speed matter more than number of cores. The OS world compilation is parallelized, so cores matter, but for most people compiling ports consumes a lot more time.
Also note the various chip options. The newer generation are made using 45nm technology; they tend to run cooler, which is a good thing. On the other hand, keep an eye out for the virtualization features of the chip. The low-end ones usually don't have capabilities for hardware virtualization. You probably won't need that, since virtualization on FreeBSD is pretty terrible, and you did not mention any virtualization needs on the XP box.
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The Federal Trade Commission did consumers a favor last week by pointing out recent cases where shaking a powder on your food or lathering a skin cream on your tummy will not lead to weight loss.
Shedding pounds, for the most part, is not rocket science — but it can be complicated. Yes, we are what we eat, and the types of calories we shovel into our mouths matters. But no diet will work real magic — keeping fat off forever — unless it's controlled, contains serious lifestyle changes and involves an exercise routine.
Thus, the FTC felt compelled to remind us as that we shouldn't be such suckers when companies claim that losing those extra pounds will be easy. It likely took years to accumulate those rolls around your belly, and they won't just miraculously fade away. Take a look at TV shows like "The Biggest Loser" or "Extreme Weight Loss." Those contestants might need to lose more than the 20 pounds you have vowed to take off this year, but their agonizing journeys are further proof that there's no easy way to lose weight.
"The chances of being successful at substantial weight loss just by sprinkling something on your food, rubbing creams on your body or just using a supplement are slim to none," Jessica Rich, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement. "The science just isn't there."
Also see: 10 things the weight-loss industry won't tell you
Which is why the FTC took the makers of Sensa and three other companies to task for their advertising claims. Sensa is the highly touted weight-loss product that promises weightwatchers they can "sprinkle, eat and lose" without dieting by shaking a crystallized product that looks a lot like fine sugar on their food. Consumers generally pay $59, plus shipping and handling, for a month's worth of shakers. The company also sells fashionable cases ($10) and water bottles ($12).
The FTC, which doesn't have the authority to stop the company from operating, slapped a $46.5 million judgment against Sensa Products and its parent Sensa Inc., because the companies did not provide "competent and reliable scientific evidence" to support their claims. (The companies are paying $26.5 million of the settlement because it's "unable" to pay the rest, according to the agency.)
The FTC's complaint also charged the company's chief executive Adam Goldenberg and Sensa's creator, part owner and long-time pitchman Dr. Alan Hirsch with "deceptive advertising for making unsubstantiated claims about Sensa."
And what about all those testimonials from "average" people touting Sensa? Turns out, they were mostly compensated for their endorsements at $1,000 to $5,000 a pop — plus free trips to Los Angeles. Under the FTC agreements, the company can no longer pay for endorsements without disclosure.
The FTC also leveled charges against L'Occitane for its Almond Beautiful Shape and Almond Shaping Delight slimming skin creams, HCG Diet Direct for its liquid drops that include an unproven human hormone and LeanSpa, a Connecticut-based company that allegedly deceptively promoted acai berries and colon-cleanse supplements on fake websites. L'Occitane will pay $450,000 to settle charges of deceptive marketing while LeanSpa's owner and spouse will surrender $7.3 million in assets to settle the charges. HCG's $3.2 million judgment was suspended because it cannot pay. In total, the settlements equal $34.3 million, which the FTC will use to reimburse consumers.
Though the FTC's authority is limited to sanctions, Rich believes actions like these will help consumers get their heads out of the sand. "We want consumers to learn to recognize telltale signs of a rip-off," she said.
But what's wrong with us that we don't already know a diet scam when we see one? Some of us seriously believed that we could sprinkle a magic dust on our food and lose weight.
"People want to believe this stuff works, because they want a quick fix," says Mary Marian, clinical dietitian and instructor at the University of Arizona. "And they just move from one new product to the next in hopes that something is finally going to work."
Sensa's marketing, even after the FTC judgment, suggests that you don't need restrictive diets to lose weight. The HCG website actually discourages you from exercising beyond taking 20-minute walks, because the low-calorie diet — a mere 500 calories — that goes with the drops will leave you zapped of energy.
But dietitians say that sustainable weight loss is only achievable through a healthy combination of the right foods and exercise, noting that the couch potatoes of the 1960s and 1970s got far more exercise than most of us do today, because they at least had to get off their butts to change TV stations or answer a phone call.
"There are so many angles to why people are more obese today," Marian says. "We're not just lazy but not as active as we once were, because we drive everywhere, we have cellphones and remote controls, and we sit in front of computers 12 hours a day without moving. You're mentally busy all day so you think you're physically busy too.
Obesity expert James Hill, professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver and director of the Colorado Nutrition Obesity Research Center, is the author the "Step Diet Book." He's long advocated walking 10,000 steps a day as a weight-loss tactic. It takes about 2,000 steps to walk a mile, so you're looking at five miles of walking, running and simply moving your limbs each day. It includes getting up to make a phone call, walking to the bus or taking the stairs up those two flights.
In other words, you need to move. Start at 2,000 steps and work your way up to 10,000 steps in 500-step increments if needed.
And keep an eye not only on how much you're eating, but also what you're eating. A landmark Harvard study released in 2011 debunked the myth that low-fat diets, for example, were the answer. "The total amount of fat isn't really linked with weight or disease," according to the Harvard School of Public Health's Nutrition Source. "What really matters is the type of fat and the total calories in the diet."
It's the good fats vs. bad fats debate: Good ones are monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats that are found in plant-based foods, nuts and seafood, while the bad guys are trans and saturated fats, which are found in animal and dairy products, and hydrogenated fats that up the risks for certain diseases.
Finally, your daily management of calories in, calories out is critical, but you want nutrients too. Your body needs three types of calories: carbohydrates, protein and fat. If you use up your daily calorie allotment with a few high-calorie foods or drinks, you're missing the chance to get healthy and derailing your efforts. It's like choosing half a Big Mac at 275 calories, or eating an avocado, which is 250 calories — almost all from "good" fat. Which do you think is healthier?
"A good diet is 50% of what you eat and 50% of your behavior, or how you manage what you eat and your activity level," Marian says. "It takes constant vigilance to pay attention to what you're eating and how you're exercising. It's not going to happen on its own."
Some pointers:
- One pound of body weight is roughly equal to 3,500 calories. If you want to lose one pound in a week, you need to reduce consumption by 500 calories per day or burn 500 more calories a day than you ingest, according to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. How many calories you burn daily will depend on your weight, body size, activity level and age. Your metabolism usually slows down as you get older.
- You can safely take off three or more pounds a week with a healthy diet and lots of exercise. Limiting salts and starches will take pounds off fast, but it's water weight, not fat.
- The more you weigh, the faster the first few pounds will melt away as you eliminate salts, starches and sugars, incorporate healthier foods like fruits and vegetables into your diet, and step up your daily exercise habits.
- Exercise builds muscles. Muscles burn more calories than fat.
- Exercise can send your appetite into overdrive. Be careful not to splurge on junk food after a workout.
- Get a pedometer. "People think they're more active than they really are," Marian says. "When they use a pedometer they're amazed at how inactive they really are."
- There are a host of sites for dietary guidelines, but Health.gov is a good place to start your research.


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These are funny! 2nd is my favorite. Highlights: Stan Lee, babies breakdancing. would be interested in seeing the art/colors get a little crazier.
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As any starship captain knows, should Klingons or Romulans ever attack your craft, the first thing you do is to raise the deflector shields. On Earth, scientists are busy trying to recreate this fictional concept, not to protect astronauts from aliens, but from a much more immediate and dangerous threat – streams of charged particles shooting out from our very own Sun.
Dealing with harmful radiation is becoming an ever-more relevant consideration. The renewed interest in human space exploration – with an application process already underway to select two astronauts for an ambitious Mars mission – demands efforts to ensure the safety of astronauts venturing far from Earth's natural deflector shield, its magnetic field.
Here, below the protective magnetosphere, we are only exposed to UV radiation, which helps us tan, but also can cause skin cancer. On average, humans are hit by around 360 millirems of environmental radiation per year – the equivalent of five chest X-rays. Orbiting 350 kilometres (220 miles) above Earth's surface the International Space Station (ISS) is still within the magnetosphere, but the planet's magnetic cocoon is already threadbare, and astronauts are exposed to radiation that amounts to the equivalent of about eight chest X-rays a day. To protect them, crew quarters are lined with high-density polyethylene, several centimetres thick. This material is rich in hydrogen, and hydrogen atoms are great at absorbing and dispersing radiation.
Once you leave the magnetosphere, though, you'll be in trouble, says Dr Ruth Bamford from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) Space in Oxfordshire, UK. On a several months-long mission to the Red Planet, for instance, the unpredictability of "space weather" poses a problem. If the Sun has a sudden solar flare, or a "coronal mass ejection", space fills with streams of high-energy protons. For astronauts caught in these streams, it could mean instant death.
"Being in a solar storm is like standing in the beam of a particle accelerator," says Bamford. "Highly energetic protons can easily penetrate the walls of a spacecraft, and are able to disrupt human DNA and molecular structures inside cells. They damage your cells so much that your organs become unviable, and you have no time to develop cancer, you fall apart in a few days. Vital systems shut down." Even minor, non-fatal dosages result in short-term vomiting and diarrhoea, "which on a spacecraft are not a joke," she adds. Polyethylene could offer protection, but only if it's an extremely thick and heavy layer – and therefore may not be a viable solution for spaceships.
Moon shields
Nasa's Apollo missions are the only ones that have sent humans beyond the Earth's magnetic field – and as it turns out they were very lucky. Unlike Earth, the Moon doesn't have a magnetic field, and since its creation nearly 4.5 billion years ago its surface has been bombarded ruthlessly with high-energy particles. The Apollo 12 crew descended on the lunar surface only a few weeks after a major solar flare, which carried with it 100 rem of radiation. Between the Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 moonwalks, there was an even deadlier flare event – astronauts would have been killed, as the solar storm bathed the Moon's surface in 7,000 rem of radiation.
But, despite the Moon's lack of a magnetosphere, it may also hint at a protective solution. For decades, scientists were perplexed by bright white patches on the lunar surface, areas that did not seem to be affected much by space weather. These so-called lunar swirls look like spilled milk, and can be tens of kilometres across. Apollo missions and lunar surveys detected that these patches were slightly magnetic. But the magnetism was so weak – much weaker than the Earth's magnetosphere – that scientists assumed highly charged protons could easily penetrate these shields.
However, Bamford and her team believe that the mini-magnetospheres can protect patches on the Moon's surface from solar wind and solar flares. When the solar wind hits the weak magnetic bubbles, a much stronger electric field is generated. "Darker material is older, and these patches, which look like spilled milk, are whiter – so the material there is younger, less weathered, because it's shielded from the solar bombardment," says Bamford. The shield is not the magnetic field itself, but the resulting electric one.
To confirm the idea, the researchers tried to mimic the conditions on a much smaller scale in a plasma wind tunnel. A magnet the size of a coin was put in the path of a stream of protons. The magnet's field interacted with the plasma in the tunnel and generated an electric field that made most of the incoming particles swerve around it – similar to raindrops deflected off an umbrella.
The finding was proof the researchers needed that the concept could be applied to a spacecraft. Using magnetic fields to protect spaceships is not a new idea – it was first suggested in the 1960s. The concept was abandoned, though, because scientists believed they would need to create a huge magnetic field, something that's impossible to do on a rocket. But Bamford says that it is not the size of the magnetic "bubble" that matters, but the steepness of the magnetic rise. The actual shield can be much smaller if the gradient in the magnetic field is steep enough.
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Now that the researchers have performed the initial lab tests and done elaborate computer simulations – about to be published in an upcoming paper – their next step will be a test on a much larger scale – around a real spacecraft – in space.
The scientists propose to place superconducting coils on the sides of a spacecraft. Once coils are cooled down to extremely low temperatures using liquid helium, and then charged up with a very high electrical current, they would generate a magnetic bubble-like field around the ship. Just as in the lab test, a solar storm's plasma is expected to interact with the magnetic field and self-generate an electric field, says Professor Bob Bingham, another physicist at RAL Space. "I know it sounds very complicated, but we now have all the calculations and computer simulations to support our idea," he adds.
The big question is how practical this system is. "It might work, but such shields have never really been tested [outside the lab], and it's not a lightweight option," says Stephen Bennington from Cella Energy, a UK-based spinout of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, which is developing an alternative shield using hydrogen-rich material that is lighter than polyethylene. "On a trip to Mars and back, you need to make sure you have enough helium and you can keep that helium cool. So you've got the weight of the coils, the weight of the helium, all the thermal insulation – and the bigger the spacecraft, the bigger your kit will have to be."
The team at Cella Energy believe their hydrogen-rich material could make an effective shield for satellites because it absorbs high-energy radiation, and is less likely than current aluminium shields to emit protons and neutrons after radiation bombardment, which can disrupt electronic equipment. Nasa is currently looking into the idea, with the hope of testing a prototype on board the ISS.
Who knows whether we will achieve the dream of reaching the Moon again, or Mars. But we will still need to raise deflector shields even if human space transport is limited to the relatively more convenient destination of geostationary orbit. If this is the case, then astronauts may well be talking about different type of final frontier: magnetic shields and physical materials covering the walls of their spacecraft.
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Bill Moseley in the unreleased film NIGHTMARE ANGEL, Zoe Bertoff's 1980s adaptation of J.G. Ballard's CRASH.
Brett Taylor, who contributes regularly to VW's "Biblio Watchdog" department, sent the above photo with the following letter after the posting of my J.G. Ballard post-mortem:
This fairly mundane still is all I was able to dig up on NIGHTMARE ANGEL, an adaptation of [J.G. Ballard's] CRASH from about 1984. I got it from the director, Zoe Beloff, who was just out of film school at the time. Bill Moseley says it's better than the Cronenberg version, but he would, wouldn't he? It was shot in industrial areas of New Jersey. I think there's some loophole about adaptations where you can do them so long as they're not shown for commercial purposes. I remember Stephen King saying he allowed anybody to film his stories as long as they pay a token fee of $1. So there've been many short films of his stories that have never been widely shown.
I've sat on this still for years. It was supposed to go with my Bill Moseley interview, but then PSYCHOTRONIC went under. I kept hoping they'd come back on the Internet, but after a few years I gave up on that notion. Then I had the vague notion of writing an article on unreleased films, but didn't think the world needed another "Day the Clown Cried" article. Now my interview is several years out of date, and I don't have any particular use for this shot. So I thought you might be interested in it.
I certainly am, and I thought other visitors to this blog would also be fascinated. Now how does one see NIGHTMARE ANGEL, a film I'd never heard of before, and which I don't recall being mentioned in Iain Sinclair's book on the book and film? Purely for non-commercial purposes, of course.
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With Hollywood Week over and "American Idol's" top 24 contestants chosen, last year's winner has some words of wisdom for the new crop of potential stars.
"Jumping jacks always help," Kris Allen advised during an appearance on Radio Disney. "Don't be nervous. People can tell, so just go out, be comfortable and be yourself."
And the singer already has his eye on one of the contestants.
"I thought Andrew Garcia was really good," he said, before adding that he didn't think a guy would take this year's title. "It's going to be a girl, maybe a country girl."
The star also weighed in on new judge Ellen DeGeneres' addition to the show, where she's replaced Paula Abdul.
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Hi, I am doing an assignment that requires me to input a Person with the usual params - name, gender, address, insurance number and date of birth.
I have managed all but dateOfBirth. I will post the code here. My spec:
dateOfBirth should be class Date NB: I have another class created called Date. I don't know how to do this
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Person() //after this has run, dateOfBirth, name, address, natInscNo != null; and counter incremented
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after this is run instance variables initialised with params. address != null; counter incremented
my code for class person, if you need the code for Date or Controller please ask:
public class Person { // instance variables protected String name; protected char gender; protected Date dateOfBirth; protected String address; protected String natInsceNo; private static int counter; public static int count() { return counter; } /** * Constructor for objects of class Person */ public Person(String nme, char sex, Date dob, String insceNumber) { // initialise instance variables name = nme; dateOfBirth = new Date(dob); getGender(sex); address = ""; natInsceNo = insceNumber; counter = 0; counter++; } public Person() { name = ""; address = ""; natInsceNo = ""; counter++; } public void setName(String nme) { name = nme; } public String getName() { return name; } public void setAddress(String addr) { address = addr; } public String getAddress() { return address; } public void setdateOfBirth(Date dob) { dateOfBirth = dob; } public Date getdateOfBirth(Date dob) { return dateOfBirth; } public void getGender(char sex) { gender = sex; } public void getnatInsceNo(String insceNumber) { natInsceNo = insceNumber; } public String toString() { return "Name: " + name + " DOB: " + dateOfBirth + " Gender: " + gender + " Address: " + address + " NatIns No: " + natInsceNo; } public void copy(Person other) { //creates another instance of Person name = other.name; gender = other.gender; dateOfBirth = other.dateOfBirth; natInsceNo = other.natInsceNo; } public boolean equals(Person other) { //returns true if the name and national insurance number //are the same as the values in other. return name.equals(other.name) && natInsceNo.equals(other.natInsceNo); } }
One more thing is, I am using blueJ, and part of my spec is to create a person in there by right clicking on the class person, clicking Person() and then once that is created, I have to set the name, dob etc. then clicking getdateOfBirth() should return the date of birth. But when I type the date of birth in to the box, it says:
incompatible types, found int but expected date. What do I have to enter to get it as a date? I know strings use "" and chars use ''


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(Pocket-lint) - Samsung has added a 10.1-inch model to its new Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 series on Sunday at Mobile World Congress.
The new model, follows the Galaxy Tab 2 7-inch model launched a couple of weeks ago and will be available in the UK from March onwards.
The Galaxy Tab 2 series, available in both 3G and WiFi, are light weight and portable claims Samsung.
The new model will come with virtually identical specs to the 7-inch model.
The 10-inch tablet will be a replacement for the first Galaxy Tab, feature a 1GHz dual-core processor and be the first of Samsung's Galaxy Tabs to get Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) as it will come preloaded from the box.
Unlike the Galaxy Tab 7.7 we saw at IFA in Berlin last year, or the company's Galaxy Note "phablet", there's no OLED screen on the Tab 2. Instead, its touchscreen is a WXVGA (1024x800) PLS TFT display, but the device does come with a 3-megapixel camera on the rear (VGA on the front for video calling).
It features Bluetooth 3.0, USB 2.0, Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Direct connectivity. There will be 8, 16 and 32GB models available, and each can be upgraded with a microSD card of up to 32GB (thereby offering a potential of 64GB in total).
A 3G version will also be available (HSPA+ 21Mbps 850/900/1900/2100), which will offer A-GPS and Glonass on top of all of the other features, and all models will get Samsung's new Video Hub, a marketplace to rent or buy more than 1,000 movies.


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Freedom for Thee, But Not for We
I expected and got some pushback about my post comparing the Berlin Wall to the wall along our southern border. Happily, it was more civil than the reactions I often get when I talk about immigration and free movement of people.
One fair comment focused on the key distinction between the Berlin Wall and our border wall: the direction the guards were facing.
From the perspective of the state, it's easy to conceive of border guards facing "in" or "out"—and those facing in suggest much worse than those facing out. But from the perspective of the individual, what matters is whether or not the border guards are facing you. Our border wall keeps Mexicans and Central Americans from freedom and a better life precisely the way the Berlin Wall did East Germans.
Another pointed out the inconsistency between liberal immigration policies and the welfare state. But the solution is not to wall off the country; it's to wall off the welfare state. David Friedman has pointed out that liberal immigration policies can create political incentives to hold down welfare benefits.
Twenty years ago, West Germany took into its fold an impoverished population whose capacity for self‐governance had surely been eroded by years of totalitarian rule. Today, one of that population is its center‐right chancellor. Liberalizing immigration would be a project far smaller for the United States, it would bring overall economic benefits, and it would help restore our country's status as a beacon of freedom.
Those who wish to immigrate to the United States did not create the political or economic conditions in their birth countries. Yet many treat their desire for a life like ours as blameworthy. It's incoherent for individualists to think that way about immigrants to the United States while treating the reunification of Germany as something to celebrate. Such incoherence is reflected in our 'wall' policies, which indeed boil down to "freedom for thee (Europeans), but not for we (Americans)."


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I bought and used BING to setup my single boot XP system 5 years ago and am very happy with it, though I haven't used it for much more than partition management so far. Now I'm ready to use the multi-boot option. So to start with I've fitted a 2nd drive, ssd 60G, this is intended to be my main os drive, keeping the spinner for data and other os.
Now the EMBR is in it's own HHD partition on HD0, I've copied my current xp image to the ssd HD1, but am at aloss of how to continue from here. Really I was up ALL last night. Can I install an EMBR to the ssd and change the BIOS to boot from this prior to the HDD ? If I can't install have multiple EMBR then how do I put it in the ssd HD1 ? In addition I suspect I've limited the primary partitions to 4 or under, and this is for the system not each drive I now learn. How can I change remove the limitation ?
I believe for multiple os bootIng, even from different HD I have to frormat the os partition in FAT32, can I do this without losing the os/data ?


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I can't help it, in my thrifting, when I run across a colorful scarf that appeals to me I just have to add it to my collection. I don't wear them very frequently, mostly when I have reason to dress up, ie, going to town, meetings – that sort of thing. After years of 8-5 employment and dressing for the office, I don't regret that I don't have to do the 'morning routine' each and every morning any more, but I do miss career dressing sometimes. Scarves work well for career dress up.
This is not the full collection, nor are all the scarves vintage, but I liked the color palette combination and it is cheerful to wake up to each morning. I have about 3 more collections that are more vintage. One includes a Japanese motif pink silk scarf that I just love.


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Last night at dinner, I asked the kids, "If you could design an ice cream flavor, what would you put in it?"
I learned that we have a few strange kiddos!
The youngest one (the six year old boy) said, "SALAD! I want ice cream with vegetables in it!" Then he told us specifically that he wants, "bananas, apples, and blueberries." After a little botany lesson, he conceded that it was fruit that he wanted, but the image of salad ice cream will not leave my mind!
His brother wanted salmon ice cream.
The next oldest, Ethiopian by birth, wanted to use berbere (an Ethiopian spice) to add some kick to her dessert.
I was wondering, "Whose children are these?"
Finally, the one I have to claim, because we look just alike, piped up with, "Well I want peanut butter and chocolate in mine." Never mind that I don't really like peanut butter, I'm takin' hers!
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I'm 17 and I'm from Ireland. I adore Harry Potter (obviously) and I have read all the books and seen all the films. I'm not too much of a fan of the films. I love writing fan fics almost as much as I like reading them. My own fic is one I really like writing and I find it lots of fun thinking up new ideas. ;)
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Cam Newton threw for 287 yards and two touchdowns and scored on a 72-yard run as the Carolina Panthers defeated the Atlanta Falcons 30-20 on Sunday.
Newton piled up a career-high 116 yards on the ground as the Panthers racked up 475 total yards to avenge an early-season loss with a dominating performance against the NFC South champion Falcons.
Carolina (4-9) came in with little to play for except to gain a measure of revenge on Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan, whom they felt disrespected them after Atlanta's 30-28 come-from-behind win earlier this season at the Georgia Dome.
Ryan threw for 342 yards and two scores and had a costly fourth-quarter interception.
The Panthers dominated the Falcons through 2 1/2 quarters, opening a 23-0 lead and holding a 356-86 edge in total yards to snap a five-game losing streak against the Falcons.
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University System of NH pushes for restoration of state funding
DURHAM, N.H. (AP) � More than 1,400 alumni, students, faculty and others affiliated with Keene State College, the University of New Hampshire, Plymouth State University and Granite State College have joined the state's four-year public colleges and universities in calling for lawmakers to restore state funding.
Advocates are writing letters, contacting their local legislators and reaching out to friends and neighbors.
In 2011, the state Legislature cut support for in-state students by nearly 50 percent. The state's appropriation to its four-year public college and university system is the same now as it was in 1988 and accounts for just 6 percent of total operating budgets.
In return for restored funding, the schools pledge to freeze in-state tuition for two years and increase financial aid for students in need.


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Sectional Crisis
During the 1850s, sectional differences within the United States, largely about slavery, grew wider as the country's leaders debated whether to allow slavery to expand into the western territories and as criticism of slavery intensified in some free states. The Compromise of 1850 had temporarily settled some of the sectional divisions, but it did not solve the problems that resulted from the existence of slavery in part of the nation. Some of the county's principal Protestant denominations divided into northern and southern branches during the 1840s and 1850s. Critics of slavery became more numerous in the free states, and during the 1850s a once-small group of committed abolitionists attracted new followers. At the same time many defenders of slavery adopted a radical proslavery set of beliefs that made compromise between the extreme opponents of slavery and its most extreme defenders ever more difficult. The problems that the sectional crisis posed for Virginians and for Americans generally made their futures uncertain.
For decades before 1850, many men and women who escaped from slavery were able to avoid being captured and returned to their owners, but the Fugitive Slave Act, part of the Compromise of 1850, empowered federal officials to assist owners seeking to reclaim runaway slaves.
Settlement of the Great Plains increased rapidly during the 1850s, even while many people moved into Texas and other portions of the territory acquired as a result of the war with Mexico in the 1840s. Congress repeatedly debated whether slavery should be allowed into those large territories that were not yet organized into states.
In October 1859 John Brown and other antislavery men slipped across the border between Maryland and Virginia and occupied the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Brown hoped to arm enslaved men and lead a campaign to abolish slavery.


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News Release
Wyoming Firm Recalls Beef Jerky Products Due to a Processing Deviation
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|Editors Note: This release is being reissued to reflect the correct production dates
WASHINGTON, February 8, 2014 – Wyoming Authentic Products, LLC, a Cody, Wyo. establishment, is recalling approximately 365 pounds of beef jerky products due to a processing deviation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The Wyoming Gourmet Beef products were produced on various dates between November 4 and November 25, 2013, 2013. The following products are subject to recall: [Labels]
- 3.5-oz. (CRYOVACED) packages of "ALL NATURAL ANGUS ORIGINAL FLAVOR JERKY" with case code "05AE30811"
- 3.5-oz. (CRYOVACED) packages of "ALL NATURAL ANGUS PEPPERED FLAVOR JERKY" with case codes "06AE30821" , "05AE31021" , "05AE31711" or "05EIJ32511"
- 3.5-oz. (CRYOVACED) packages of "ALL NATURAL ANGUS HONEY FLAVOR JERKY" with case code "04AE30921"
The products subject to recall bear the establishment number "EST. 44972" inside the USDA mark of inspection. These products were sold at retail in Colorado, Utah, Washington and Wyoming, as well as Internet sales to individuals.
The problem was discovered by the company, who then brought it to the attention of FSIS. FSIS and the company have received no reports of illness due to consumption of these products. Anyone concerned about an illness should contact a healthcare provider.
FSIS routinely conducts recall effectiveness checks to verify recalling firms notify their customers of the recall and that steps are taken to make certain that the product is no longer available to consumers. When available, the retail distribution list(s) will be posted on the FSIS website at www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls.
Media and consumers with questions regarding the recall can contact David Fales, president, at (307) 587-9841.
Consumers with food safety questions can "Ask Karen," the FSIS virtual representative available 24 hours a day at AskKaren.gov or via smartphone at m.askkaren.gov. The toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6854) is available in English and Spanish and can be reached from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern Time) Monday through Friday. Recorded food safety messages are available 24 hours a day. The online Electronic Consumer Complaint Monitoring System can be accessed 24 hours a day at: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/reportproblem.
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Does time, new content is added, makes sense for search engines ?
For example - between 9:00 and 18:00, or at 23:00, or at 1:00 ?
Update 1:
I rephrase my question, to better reflect, what i mean:
Does search engine makes an assumption about what the website is, based on time of day, new content is added. E.g. when new content is added between 9:00 and 18:00 - this is possible a corporation with fixed working time. When new content appears at random time of day, this is possible a person.
Answering my own question, i think, such an differentiation is not useful. But, who knows ...


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I don't know how other people see me, but I like to think that I'm a reasonably laid-back sort of person; slow to anger, quick to forgive … that sort of thing.
3 years and 100 or so days ago, I wrote this piece about my experiences at Hillsborough on 15th April 1989.
2 days ago the Hillsborough Independent Panel published their report. They stressed that it wasn't an inquiry – they hadn't had witnesses or any powers – they had just been given access to ALL the evidence relating to the events of that day.
I was at a meeting in the morning, an important meeting about how the United Reformed Church (my employer) might most effectively meet the training needs of Ministers and lay people, but I couldn't really concentrate. I was refreshing my twitter feed every few moments as new facts dribbled out as the panel, quite rightly, first reported to the families of those who had lost loved ones.
- 164 Police statements had been altered to ensure that South Yorkshire Police Service wasn't shown in a bad light and that officers were put under immense pressure to amend their statements. If they wouldn't, it was done for them.
- The ambulance service had changed statements, too.
- Every victim (even a 10 year old) had their blood alcohol level checked and, for some, then had their names checked against the Police National Computer to see if there was a criminal record which could be used to 'offset' their innocence.
- Potentially, 41 lives could have been saved if medical attention had been forthcoming on the pitch.
The facts kept coming and coming. I wasn't sure how I was feeling – I had to pull over and stop the car to listen to the Prime Minister give his response. He sounded, on the radio, as shocked and genuinely appalled as anyone else.
My blood was beginning to boil … but I didn't know what I wanted to happen next. Having been blamed for the events 23 years ago I, my fellow fans, my football club and my city had been completely exonerated. It was a weight off my shoulders… but, as my original post had said "where there's blame, there's a claim"… the blame for the disastrous events had been laid firmly at the door of the FA, Sheffield Wednesday Football Club and South Yorkshire Police. What did I want to happen? I couldn't really think about that… I was happy, delirious in fact, that at last, 23 years on, the truth had finally seen the light of day.
Apology after apology started rolling in, starting with David Cameron and Ed Milliband. Quickly followed by SWFC, South Yorkshire Police, it took the FA a further 24 hours to apologise but even they made it eventually. The S*n and Kelvin MacKenzie apologised, too, but theirs was worthless and self-serving and, consequently, ignored by just about everybody.
David Duckenfield, the police officer supposedly in charge that day, had been allowed to retire on a full pension at the age of 46 as a result of 'Ill health'. Ill health is better than dying, eh, Duckenfield?
Then Kenny Dalglish who did so much for the families, club and city in the immediate aftermath of the disaster tweeted: "Very positive outcome. 23 years waiting for the truth. Next step justice". And I thought, "yeah; justice!"
And then I started wondering what Justice might actually mean in this context, what shape, form or action it might take. And I realised that I didn't know. I certainly wouldn't presume to speak for those who have lost in a far more tangible way than I, I can only speak for myself. What do *I* want?
Well, I would like to know that those who were responsible for all that happened that day, who caused the problem and then failed to react effectively to the problem they had caused had been censured. I would like to know that some particular individuals (David Duckenfield) had paid a practical price – although I've no idea whether he even feels in any way culpable for what he caused.
I would like to know that those who took deliberate actions to place the blame, knowing that the information they were giving out was completely incorrect, on the shoulders of Liverpool fans, both fully understand and accept their guilt and, I would hope are prosecuted to the fullest extent the law allows.
I would like to know that those in the 'establishment' who caused this whole thing to be unresolved for 23 long years understand the immense pain and hurt they caused to so many people, not just the bereaved although, God knows, their pain has been more than most.
Most importantly, I want the original verdicts of 'accidental death' to be overturned and new inquests held so that people like Anne Williams can get the answers she needs.
Having not been able to define what I mean 'justice' to be in this context, I am quite clear what it isn't: it isn't vindictive retribution. So long as people feel genuine remorse and are sincere in their apologies (although, as stated, those who broke the law should be prosecuted irrespective of how sincerely they regret their actions).
Except, maybe to Kelvin MacKenzie, the editor of The S*n at the time, who I hope burns in hell for eternity for what he knowingly did to besmirch the characters of the dead, of my fellow fans, of the football club, of the city, and of me.
My elder brother, an Evertonian, sent me a text on the evening the panel's report was published saying that he hoped I felt vindicated. At the time I replied saying that I didn't, but I did feel less guilty for having survived and being made to feel that I was, in some way responsible.
2 days later, having thought about little else, I realise that he was right – I do feel vindicated. My blog of 3 years ago was wrong – Liverpool fans were in NO WAY to blame, late arriving or not. The actions of so many brave, respectful people, from those who lost loved ones in the disaster, from people like Andy Burnham MP, Steve Rotherham MP and Maria Eagle MP who wouldn't let the House of Commons have a moment's peace until something was done and the actions and voices of people, many many thousands of people just like me in refusing to accept that what happened that day was an 'accident' and have fought for 23 years to get someone to listen and investigate has been vindicated.
People say that the most shocking revelation of the panel is that 41 of those who died could have been saved.
I would remind you that, if people had done their jobs properly in the first place, in selecting a ground which had a valid safety certificate, in allocating tickets sensibly, in stewarding the ground effectively, in postponing kick off to allow those who had been delayed by traffic to access the ground … if these people had done their jobs properly then 96 people would not have died in the first place.
Justice for the 96 … and for all those still affected by the events in Sheffield on the 15th April 1989.
Hillsborough Family Support Group


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When my buddy Pete called I was certain that he'd contacted me to see if I wanted to join him for a day of rabbit hunting. I was surprised when he suggested I head over to his house to join him and Mike for a couple hours of archery practice. Several of my buddies and I are contemplating wild boar hunts this fall and Pete said he had something to help us get ready.
The invite made me curious and with temperatures flirting with 50 degrees, I couldn't turn him down. So, after I dug my bow out of the gun safe and replaced the broad heads on my arrows with field tips, I slipped on my boots and headed out the door.
It took me about a half hour to drive to Pete's house and as I turned into his driveway I spotted Mike and him standing by several cardboard boxes in the garage. As I climbed from the truck I couldn't imagine what they were doing. However, as I got closer I noticed a huge label of a boar on the side of one of the boxes.
"Look what I got for Christmas," Pete said with a big grin. "My wife asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I told her a 3-D wild boar target. My two sons asked me the same question and I told them I wanted a wild boar target......I never dreamed that all three of them would get me one. They did and now I've got three!"
We helped Pete open the boxes and took a couple minutes to look over the targets while we talked about how we wanted to practice shooting at them.
"I think we ought to go down to your wood lot and set the targets out in front of a ground blind," Mike suggested.
"Seems like I remember a small brush pile we could get behind just inside the woods," I said looking toward Pete.
My big friend nodded in agreement and picked a marker off a work bench and drew a little diagram on one of the boxes.
"Let's make a place to shoot from behind the brush and put one of these boars broadside about 30 yards in front of the blind, then we can set the other two at angles on either aide of the blind."
"Let's do it!" Mike said as he grabbed his bow with one hand and a boar target with the other.
We spent quite a while moving things around to help us create a realistic hunting situation. Then we took the time to position each 3-D wild boar target to give us the opportunity to take some shots that we might encounter on our hunts before we reached for the bows.
"Pete, they're your targets, it's only right that you get to poke the first holes in them," Mike said. "We'll step back and you go for it."
Mike and I stood behind a clump of small maple trees as Pete pulled an arrow from his quiver and readied to take his first shot. We watched as he drew back and took aim at the target in front of the blind. It was about 34 yards away and was positioned between two oak trees, however, there was a good foot wide window to shoot through.
Pete drew back, put his sight pin on its mark and squeezed the trigger on the release. The arrow hit its mark spot on.
"If that was your hunt, you'd be dragging pig," Mike shouted.
"Let's see what you can to with that mean looking boar quartering away on your left," I suggested.
Again, Pete drew back and like his first arrow, hit his target right in the bull's-eye. His third effort was equally effective.
"OK Pat, let's see what you can do," my Irish buddy said.
I opted to shoot at the right hand target first and although my shot was a couple inches from the bull's-eye, it still hit its mark and would have done the job. After that I focused on the middle target and nearly stuck my arrow in the same hole as Pete's, however, when I fired on the left had target, my arrow nicked a tiny limb on the brush pile and it disrupted the flight on my arrow and I watched it hit a big oak tree smack in the middle.
"What the heck was that!" Pete said with a laugh. "You don't want to be doing that on your hunt."
I tried the shot again and hit the bull's-eye.
Mike went last and hit his targets dead on. After that we moved the wild boar targets around and shot another round. We all did well before moving them yet again.
When we decided to call it a day, we all agreed that these practice sessions will help give us confidence on our hunts.
"We should get together and do this often," Mike suggested. "It will only make us better."