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Udi's, Gluten Free Granola, Vanilla, 12 oz (340 g)
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Udi's, Gluten Free Granola, Vanilla, 12 oz (340 g)
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Certified gluten free oats, wildflower honey, canola oil, almonds, vanilla (extractives of vanilla beans, water, alcohol).
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|Serving Size: 1/4 cup (30 g)
|Servings Per Container: About 11
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|7 g
|3 g
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|*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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I bought the Natural flavor for over a year before I realized this vanilla flavor was also gluten free. Yum! I eat this every morning for breakfast alongside my protein shake. Yes, I eat it plain because it has a ton of flavor. It's not an overwhelming vanilla like some foods. It is actually a bit addicting and always satisfies my taste buds. I do switch on and off between this and the natural flavor though. The vanilla bag doesn't seem to last as long, because the pieces are bigger, so I end up eating more of it. I believe the bag says 11 servings, but I get about 4 servings out of the vanilla and maybe 6 out of the natural. This is good to sprinkle in yogurt or on pancakes with syrup too. So many uses, but I mainly eat it with a spoon right out of the bowl. It's really tasty. If my review helped you please check the yes box. Feel free to visit my page to see more than 100 honest reviews!
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I love this product, finally I found a granola that is gluten free and sugar free that is tasty and tasets just a "regular " granola. Already orded me another pack..
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Best granola out there.
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I love Udi's granola but can't find it in my local store. Fortunately iHerb had it, the price was great and it arrived quickly.
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Bakngeb River cave adventure!
So if you ask me what to do in Bakngeb River Cave? My short answer is don't go there just for the subterranean river rafting. Go there to immerse with the Tboli culture. Eat, drink and sleep in a tribal house like what Tbolis do. Dance with them or learn to. These are very accommodating, genteel people.
Here's the thing. "If you're going to Bakngeb just for the river cave rafting, you'd probably end up wanting for more".
I have been to Bakngeb 7 years ago, when it was still just a subterranean river. No rafting, no ropes and no guides either. We barely made it 100 meters from the cave entrance. We're swimming against a strong river current. Add the fact that somewhere in the middle of this subterranean river is a spooky, narrow deeper portion with high canyon like walls. You can hardly hold or stand on something to rest. So we just swam back to the entrance and enjoyed the river pool just outside. Except for the inflatable rafts, ropes, guides not much have change in Bakngeb River since then.
What is new is how the people of Sitio Lacohon worked with their LGU tourism and DOT 12, packaging Bakngeb River Cave with the Tboli culture immersion as a unique ecotourism destination. This ecocultural tourism destination is ran by the local community itself! Thats brilliant I say. Where do you often see this brand of tourism? Usually abroad and in some destinations in Luzon. When you blend an adventure destination with cultural immersions, you get a meaningful, cross cultural adventure experience right in our own backyard!
- Register or log in at Tboli tourism office in Tboli town proper of your intention to go to Bakngeb River Cave
- Travel to Sito Lacohon Brgy Bakngeb. Habal-habal is the mode of transport. Pick ups could also be use but be careful with driving here as there are many industry vehicles passing through a small rough road.
- Register at Tourist Receiving Center to avail of your accommodations, food and possible cultural shows.
Overnight stay at the Tourist Center is Php 150 per person. Food and food preparation is per arrangement with the homestay. I highly suggest you try the Tboli prepared food.
- Plant a tree nearby! One way you can help preserve this natural resource!
- Explore the area. Take photographs of the people and the place. No sunsets here but should be nice to practice slow shutter/long exposures at dusk time.
- Talk to people in the community especially those assigned to the Tourism Reception area. Immerse on their traditions.
- Afternoon coffee. One of my favorite, especially that coffee brewed on fire place and served on bamboo cups. Should be very nice if serve with cooked sweet cassava or any root crop available.
- Take a bath at the river pool. Its very cold here, so I was imagining a hot coffee by the river side should be very nice. 🙂
- Dinnertime Tboli style! Enjoy food cooked inside bamboo and aromatic leaves.
- Cultural show? Or you can have group activities at the camping area near the river.
- Lights out!
- Tboli breakfast. More coffee for me 🙂
- River rafting and canyoneering. Wear your life vest and know your guides. Do not attempt to go inside the cave/river on your own.
Some areas have narrow passages and the river are quite deep. The current is too strong for swimming. It's also almost impossible to hold on to the walls in most areas.
- Tboli Lunch.
- You can say your gratitude to the Tbolis for their awesome hospitality. More picture taking.
- Go home happy!
Let me clarify this is just my own itinerary and is obviously biased towards my quirks. You can change it to your preference. I'm pleading though, please go there to enjoy and immerse with the people, community and the natural resource. Don't go there just for the river cave rafting alone. You can do that as often as you desire but to mingle with the awesome, culturally rich Tbolis is an experience for your soul!
(Thank you to LGU Tboli, DOT 12, Sox Outdoors and the people of Brgy Bakngeb Sitio Lacohon for bringing and taking care of us at the Bakngeb River Cave. Credits to Neil Cuenca for some of the photos included in this post.)


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I would think this is the best too. Too many options and novices won't know what to use and how it works, then more questions in the forum.RogerClark wrote: So its safer to do as @stevstrong has suggested, and document how to overclock, but not put it on a menu where inexperienced users can select, something which makes their system non functional.
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Green World: Entry for Picture This photo contest
Since Earth Day is in two days, it seems particularly apt that the theme for this month's Picture This photo contest over at Gardening Gone Wild is "Green World." This is my entry, taken at Chanticleer Garden in Pennsylvania, one of the most incredible gardens I've ever seen. If you haven't visited, you should.
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When I was a kid, that last bell on the last day of school was the signal that summer had begun, and I'd have 10 weeks or more of precious time. But alas, like most adults, I don't get those kinds of breaks anymore. Last year, when "the bell went off in my head," it meant I had just a short time to sail, swim, relax -- and get some work done.
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If your tradeshow and event schedule either slows down or stops completely for retooling during the summer months, this is your chance to start your personal retooling and get your program in a better place.
First of all, TAKE SOME TIME OFF ALREADY, especially if you haven't in a while. Personal time allows you to recharge physically and mentally. Plus, it gives you the opportunity to reflect and see things with a higher degree of clarity.
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When you return to work, put everything on the table -- the whole program -- and test it to see if it all makes good sense. Look at last year's plan, and challenge everything -- the people, the partners, the properties and, of course, the results. Ask yourself all the hard questions and see if the plan is worth repeating or amending, or if it should be tossed aside.
Next, poll your internal clients: you know, all those people who make your life "interesting" during the busy times. Find out what they've been thinking about. Focus on the results, and challenge their methods of delivering the best experiences possible. Imagine you're a reporter (maybe one of those folks from 60 Minutes) who listens, takes notes and asks the tough questions. Take this information and make it a part of your next plan. But remember, you may be the only person in the process with a global view of the entire program, so take all comments into consideration, but don't take them as orders.
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Winter 2001 - In this course, we will explore issues of phonetic perception, approaching the topic by focusing on case-in-point: the phenomenon referred to in phonetic and phonological theory as incomplete neutralization, and in sociolinguistic theory as near-merger. The topic of incomplete neutralization represents one area of interface between linguistic phonetics and sociolinguistics. A phonological contrast is said to be neutralized when a stable, minimal phonological distinction between sounds is lost. An example of one such neutralization process is "word-final devoicing", which has been cited for voiced and voiceless word-final consonants in Russian (Chen, 1970), Polish (Slowiaczek and Dinnsen, 1985), and German (Dinnsen and Garcia-Zamora, 1971) among other languages. Sociolinguistic and experimental phonetic research hassuggested that in many cases, speakers produce contrasting words differently, but without being able to reliably discern the contrast in their own speech or in the speech of others. Thus, for example, in certain posited cases of near-merger in vowels of one variety of American English, it appears that small, but systematic low-level phonetic effects to retain the contrast. We will explore how contrasts may be maintained using low-level phonetic phenomena. Across the quarter, we will explore the literature on incomplete neutralization, and examine acoustic phenomena using data the students produce in a series of laboratory experiments.
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Parmesan Polenta
Polenta is a creamy Italian dish made of boiled cornmeal—which traditionally takes lots of time and stirring on the stovetop. Speed things up with this version, which uses instant polenta and plenty of delicious Parmesan.
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- Bring 3 cups of water to a boil. Gradually whisk in the polenta. Cook, whisking frequently, until thickened, 3 to 4 minutes.
- Stir in the Parmesan, butter, salt and pepper.
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From small fry to big potatoes: The Black Keys talk to Kevin Courtney,
Their cookin' mix of Motown, Delta blues and glam rock has propelled The Black Keys to huge success, but what they really want, Dan Auerbach tells Kevin Courtney, is lots of spuds
'HOW YE BE doin'?" chirps Dan Auerbach down the phone from Gothenburg, in an accent that, frankly, sounds more Swedish Chef than Irish leprechaun. Luckily, he stops there, and doesn't continue with "top o' the morning" or "let's wear green, drink a lot and have fights". You see, we're still a bit sensitive about cultural stereotyping after the flood of Oirish cliches that followed Katie Taylor's Olympic win. The last thing we need is some blues-breaking scuzzball from Ohio getting all Darby O'Gill on our asses.
Oh, what the hell, let's go for it. These days, everyone has some far-fetched claim to Irish ancestry, so tell me, Dan, in what way are The Black Keys Irish?
"We like potatoes," offers Auerbach. "What way do we like potatoes? I dunno, man, any way you can make 'em. Mashed is good. Gotta have plenty of butter on 'em. Is that Irish enough?" Your passport's in the post, Dan. We'll be welcoming Na hEochracha Dubha home on Wednesday when they play the O2, their biggest Irish gig to date. Before they hit the big-time with their 2010 album Brothers, then hit the even bigger time with last year's El Camino, Auerbach and his bandmate, Pat Carney, swore they'd never get themselves locked in an endless tour/tour/record/tour again cycle. Now that their albums are big potatoes, their concert calendar is stretching further into the future, and the venues are just getting bigger and bigger. Looks like the pair won't be stepping off the treadmill anytime soon.
"The tour is never-ending. It does not end. We've been touring for like 10 years! I mean, we finish this, and we go to the west coast of America, South America, then Australia, New Zealand, then we come home and we're gonna be in the studio, and then we go out again . . . it just doesn't end. That's just sorta how it is for right now. Someday it'll change, but not right now."
When Auerbach does manage to get time off from touring, he heads straight into his Easy Eye Sound Studio in the band's adopted home town of Nashville, usually in the company of a bona fide musical legend or serious up-and-coming talent. Recent visitors to the studio have included Dr John, LA band The Growlers, Tuareg guitar prodigy Bombino and garage rockers Jeff the Brotherhood and Hanni El Khatib.
"My favourite place to be is in the studio, so when I'm home, I try to get into the studio whenever I can and work with different people. Try to get together with musicians that I like and I admire. I'm very fortunate cos I get to work with bands that I like."
He's also found time in between collaborations and production work to devote some time to the day job. Just last month, he and Carney got back into the studio to start work on their eighth album, the follow-up to El Camino.
"We started working on it just before this tour. We had no plan, just went into the studio and started messing around. We came up with some cool ideas. But there's no apparent direction as yet. Although I know it's just going to be Pat and me. It'll sound like us, no matter what ends up happening or what influence it has. But nothing has taken shape yet."
El Camino was clearly influenced by the stomping glam rock of The Sweet and T Rex, along with the band's usual dollop of Motown, Muscle Shoals and Mississippi delta. Can Dan give us some insight into what influences will drive the new record? Like, what's on your vinyl iPod?
"Man, there's just so much stuff, too much stuff. And it's a little schizophrenic what I've been listening to, so I think that might be part of the reason why there's no direction. There's, like, acoustic, south American
classical guitar music, and then there's hiphop, and then there's punk rock. I don't know what's going on in my brain sometimes."
If someone had told you two years ago that a dirty, lo-fi rock and blues duo from Akron, Ohio, would become one of America's biggest bands, you probably would have replied, "sure, why not?" The music world is so crazy and unpredictable these days, anything is possible.
So it was no surprise that a beardy, balefuleyed guitarist and a gangly, bespectacled drummer, both in thrall to old blues, soul, punk and hip-hop managed to steal into the party and nab all the the rock-star kudos. Brothers scooped three Grammys, while El Camino has featured prominently on most rock mags' end-of-year lists. The singles
Lonely Boy and Gold On the Ceiling are so ubiquitous on the airwaves, they already feel like classic hits – a 20th Century Boy and Jean
Genie for our times. "It seems like every other day, something crazy happens to us," says Auerbach. "Inter
view magazine just called me and asked me to interview an actor. We just played a show with Johnny Depp playing guitar. We're gonna do a show with Neil Young in Central Park. Every week something kind of weird gets thrown on the table."
The danger now, though, is that, having tasted mainstream success, the duo will become the very thing they set out to destroy: a fake, showbiz version of rock'n'roll that has lost all connection with its roots. In a recent interview, Carney blamed the popularity of faux-grunge band Nickelback for hastening the death of rock'n'roll. Do they ever get paranoid about becoming the Chad Kroeger and Fred Durst of their generation?
"No, not really. Pat and I are such nerds, we feel uncomfortable wearing sunglasses indoors. I feel like a prick when I have sunglasses on inside. I've started to, but it's not cos I'm cool, that's for sure."
Certainly, you don't hear much about drugs or wild sex in stories relating to The Black Keys. In a world where rock star memoirs compete to tell the most salacious sex and drug stories, are The Black Keys the cleanest dirty blues-rockers on the block?
"Well, you know, we just don't really like talking about it. Most people who talk about all the drugs and stuff, they're just talking about it. They're poseurs, and it's part of their persona. That's not what we're about. We always love music first. If we're gonna be doing drugs, we're not gonna be telling everyone about it. That's like a gangster telling everybody that he's a gangster."
Although Auerbach promises mindblowing tales of drugs and debauchery whenever they get around to writing their autobiography, you get the impression that the duo are driven not by inner demons but by that demon rock'n'roll.
"I think that certain people are prone to self-desctruction, and some people are not. It's in the genes. It's not really about what profession you choose. I think Sid Vicious was gonna die at the same age, whether he was a rock'n'roll star or a trashman. He was destined for that path."
The Black Keys play the O2 in Dublin next Wednesday
Winning recipe: Pat Carney and Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. Below, the band jam with Johnny
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There are 1,220 TIFs in Illinois inside of 455 municipalities. In 2010 they extracted $1.12 BILLION in property taxes from taxpayers across the state. What do we know, collectively, about all this economic activity? Precious little.
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- Sign our online petition to demand that all TIF activity be placed on the property tax bill. If you have a property inside a TIF district, your tax bill should say so and tell you how much of your property taxes that TIF collected.
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- To become a TIF Illuminator and take on some of the shared research, go to this page on the Illinois Comptroller's Office web siteand click on "View Submitted TIF Reports" and pick your town or city. Make sure you are starting with the 2011 year. Next download the TIF reports from that city.
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- If we all pitch in, we can swiftly illuminate the REAL story behind the $454 MILLION property taxes that Chicago's TIF districts collected in 2011!
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We all feel loyalty to certain brands. Certain companies turn out superior products or have ethics that compel us to buy their wares. But it's also easy to feel jaded in the face of big corporations and things like demographics and targeted marketing strategies. At the WIE Symposium earlier this month, I met two business women who impressed me with their stories and commitment to delivering products that recognize how important it is to see the big picture in selling and manufacturing.
I met Veronique Gabai-Pinsky, Global Brand President for Estee Lauder/Aramis and Tara Smith, founder of Tara Smith Hair Care. Both women work in the field of beauty. Gabai-Pinsky works with fragrance. She's leading the team that has developed pureDKNY. Earlier this month, they released the second pureDKNY scent based on notes of verbena grown and harvested in Togo. Smith's company is based in the UK and will launch in the States in 2012. Her line of hair care products is made from organic ingredients and features an affordable price point.
While it's easy to point to the sustainable, organic beauty products as a marketing trend, I'd like to think there's more to the story. Launching products of this caliber with careful attention to their impact and ethical manufacture is no easy feat. Considering the bottom line is important, but here's what I learned about their philosophy.
The pureDKNY fragrances are produced with sustainability in mind, and the fine attention that has gone into every stage of production is impressive. Veronique and her team worked with CARE to produce the pureDKNY Verbena scent. It starts with uncovering the crop they'll use as the hero of the fragrance. This is decided on and dictated by available crops. The company guaranteed the farmers growing the verbena a steady price for the crop. In working with CARE, microfinancing was set in place to allow the women doing the growing and harvesting a chance to plan and start their own small enterprise. The fragrance is then manufactured in a plant powered by wind. The bottle for the perfume is recyclable. The packaging is created with Certified Forest Paper and the cello wrap is biodegradable and made from cornstarch.
In her talk at the WIE Symposium, Gabai-Pinsky highlighted the process her company developed in creating this fragrance:
"...the core component is the wish to give back to this community and really help them so we associated ourselves with CARE who helped us with developing a system of microcredits and loans. And really helping these women to save a little bit of money so that they would not be in terrible situations. If they needed to send their kids to school they could, if they needed doctors they could have them. Those types of things are very important.
You know, I always say to my team this Chinese proverb which is "if you want to help somebody don't give him a fish, teach him how to fish." And that's really what this whole thing is about. Helping these women become confident, more secure and help them in building their own enterprise, if you will. I have to tell you this has been a labor of love because it's more difficult to do things that way, but it's one very rewarding project."
Tara Smith readily climbs up her soapbox to talk about the benefits of organic ingredients in her line of hair care products. Her company's tagline is "Tested on film stars not animals." While Smith is serious about natural hair care and the integrity of her company, she's also determined to keep it fun. She joined the WIE panel on The Business of Beauty.
Smith grew up in a family of hairdressers and knocked on doors until she found her way into the film business. She's done hair for celebrities such as Demi Moore, Neve Campbell and Rosario Dawson. In 2009 Smith's peers in the UK named her Celebrity Hairdresser of the Year. She brought that same energy and level of expertise to her line of hair care products and launched in the UK in 2008.
Smith shared with me her impulse for developing her line:
"In Europe, there are over 1,100 harsh chemicals that are banned and not allowed to go into products. In America, how many do you think are banned? Ten. How can we do this? What are we doing here? So I want to continue my activism and not be scaring people because my thing is that people need to look sexy and gorgeous and great, but you can do that and not have these chemicals in there and have them at an affordable price...The products are vegan approved with certified organic fragrances and no harsh chemicals. It's as simple as that.
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Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir wound up his three-day visit to Zaire today with the signing of a number of mutual cooperation agreements, including the fields of agriculture, construction and military technology. Zaire has also reportedly agreed to sign an agreement on landing rights in Kinshasa for Israeli aircraft.
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Amanaki Mafi strikes late as Japan beat Georgia in Rugby World Cup warm-up
A late try from replacement back rower Amanaki Mafi saw Japan sneak a 13-10 victory over Georgia in their World Cup warm-up match at Gloucester's Kingsholm Stadium.
Eddie Jones' side led through an early Ayumu Goromaru penalty but Georgia responded with the first try of the match after 16 minutes. Wing Muraz Giorgadze was the man to dot down and Merab Kvirikashvili added the conversion.
Another Goromaru penalty 10 minutes later saw Japan reduce the deficit to 7-6 and the scores stayed that way until Lasha Malaguradze's kick 10 minutes from time allowed Georgia to pull four points clear.
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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re: ye olde 1521
Yep, it's called direct handoff - when listener manages to start up the server process (or a server process already pre-started), listener hands off the new TCP connection to server process and server process will now respond to client, while listener can continue its job. Otherwise redirection had to be done, e.g. listener responded to client with the ip and port number where the new server process was listening, client disconnected from listener and tried to connect to new address.
This was the main problem with firewalls, that's why you had to get a sqlnet compatible firewall, which snooped sqlnet traffic and opened up the required port for client to allow redirection. Other alternatives were to use connection manager or bind a MTS dispatcher to specific port and connect directly there (you don't need a listener to connect through a dispatcher).
Handoff isn't done by fork() call since fork only creates a clone of current process, but listener and Oracle server processes are based on different executable images.
Direct handoff should work with shared servers as well. It can be disabled with listener.ora parameter DIRECT_HANDOFF_TTC_<listener name> parameter (ON | OFF), but I've never tried it.
Btw, thanks to using shared sockets, you can shut down your listener, but all server process connections on the same port will remain operational.
> Just wondering if one of my strongly held untested assumptions is wrong. I
> always thought that when you connected to Oracle via the listener in
> dedicated server mode, you would come in via the listener port (i.e. 1521,
> 1526). The listener would then validate, spawn off a shadow oracleSID
> process using some arbitrary port, and the client would then be passed to
> this process with the listener butting out at that point. The client would
> then be connected to the database through that arbitrary port.
> Last week a developer and myself checked this out. He sniffed the coming
> and going of packets, and everything used only port 1521. I looked at
> netstat (I think the parameters were asp (RedHat AS3 OS) but I'm not
> sure. That info is at work but I'm not at the moment) and the only active
> Oracle ports were also 1521. Are other ports used? Is this dependent on
> load? I searched metalink and found the question asked, but no answers
> were ever posted.
> Thanks.
> Henry
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text: Module Name: src Committed By: riz Date: Tue Oct 9 23:45:21 UTC 2012 Modified Files: src/sys/kern [netbsd-6]: uipc_usrreq.c Log Message: Pull up following revision(s) (requested by christos in ticket #593): sys/kern/uipc_usrreq.c: revision 1.140 Avoid crash dereferencing a NULL fp in fd_affix() in unp_externalize caused by the sequence of passing two fd's with two sendmsg()'s, then doing a read() and a recvmsg(). The read() calls dom_dispose() which discards both messages in the mbuf, and sets the fp's in the array to NULL. Linux dequeues only one message per read() so the second recvmsg() gets the fd from the second message. This fix just avoids the NULL pointer de-reference, making the second recvmsg() to fail. It is dubious to pass fd's with stream sockets and expect mixing read() and recvmsg() to work. Plus processing one control message per read() changes the current semantics and should be examined before applied. In addition there is a race between dom_externalize() and dom_dispose(): what happens in a multi-threaded network stack when one thread disposes where the other externalizes the same array? NB: Pullup to 6. To generate a diff of this commit: cvs rdiff -u -r220.127.116.11 -r18.104.22.168 src/sys/kern/uipc_usrreq.c Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the copyright notices on the relevant files.


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From the Board of Directors
ATRAVES was born in 2004 out of a collaboration between Nicaraguan and U.S. leaders seeking to deepen international solidarity in the service of Nicaraguan communities. This cross-border partnership has been central to our efforts to build connections among communities, organizations and people worldwide to better support development, health and educational efforts in Nicaragua. Our years of partnership have been driven by our mission to support local and autonomous approaches to development. We founded ATRAVES U.S. (a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization) in 2007 to allow us to strengthen our work in partnership with ATRAVES Nicaragua. ATRAVES has long recognized that it is the members of the Nicaraguan communities where we work, the talented staff in Managua, as well as volunteer partners and donors that have defined the organization and been integral to our shared successes. Between 2007 and 2013, ATRAVES U.S. raised more than $600,000. Our Executive Director, Brady Dunklee, worked without compensation throughout his tenure. This enabled ATRAVES to maintain a small overhead and send 97% of all funds to Nicaragua to make ATRAVES programming possible. With these funds, we paid 9 Nicaraguan staff members based in Managua, built a clinic facility, developed a thriving community health worker program, provided after-school educational programming for neighborhood youth, began a community plant nursery, and organized an adult vocational program. ATRAVES U.S. also supported ATRAVES Nicaragua by providing opportunities for over 400 international volunteers to visit Nicaragua and collaborate directly with local people on community projects.
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Capt. Carl Jones said the initial non-emergency calls indicated Bills was sick but had no history of violence.
Jones said his office had four squad cars Saturday and was swamped responding to a major vehicle wreck.
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This year's Yankees squad is loaded with problems, but the same could be said for much of the American League East so they are technically battling for first place right now. However, for the team to have any real shot at a playoff run they are going to have to improve which means trades.
With huge holes in the starting rotation it may be best to plug those holes first. The problem is, according to Joel Sherman of the NY Post, the Yankees won't be able to pry the top available names, David Price and Jeff Samardzija, away from their respective teams.
Sherman noted that Price, who will cost an arm and a leg in prospects, is unavailable to them as the Tampa Bay Rays would avoid trading within the division. Samardzija is a no-go because the Cubs want a "close-to-the-majors, high-end starting pitcher." If the Yankees had that, he'd be in the majors right now so that rules him out.
Sherman lists John Danks, Jason Hammel and Ian Kennedy as other possibilities. The problem with that group is that none are the type of front-end dominant starters the Yankees would need to make up for the fact that they have one of the worst offenses in the AL. Giving up big-time prospects for any of them seems foolish.
One interesting name that is out there is Cliff Lee. The Phillies might be willing to deal him for a number of reasons. First of all, the Phillies are in last place, second, he has been dealing with pain in his elbow, and third, on top of the remainder of his $25 million salary he's owed for this season, he's also owed anywhere from $37.5 million to $52.5 million over the next two years depending on whether or not his option vests.
That combination may give the Yankees a chance to actually be able to swing a deal. The problems are that everyone needs pitching and they won't be the only team bidding on him, that elbow pain could be a red flag warning of future injuries and the Yankees may not want to spend that kind of money.
It might be worth the risk though. As bad as the Yankees have been, they are still right in a playoff race. Lee, despite getting older, is still the same dominant pitcher that the Yankees tried to trade for multiple times in the past.
Lee is currently sporting a 3.18 ERA with a 8.1 K/9 and a 1.2 BB/9 in 68 innings. In his four seasons as a Phillie, in the latest go around, he's been pretty consistent with a 2.83 ERA, a 8.9 K/9 and a 1.4 BB/9.
Personally, I don't see the Yankees making a huge push for the World Series this season. If the can land Lee by picking up his large salary and throwing in a few prospects that's fine, but it would be hard to see them giving up some of their better chips for a guy that will be 37 next summer and will still command top dollar. Any deals the Yankees make this year, Lee included, should be made with 2015 and 2016 in mind as well.


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My God, they're playing tunes! Sort of. Goo, the major-label hello by the ex-indie guitar-rape gods in Sonic Youth, is damn near musical by their standards, a brilliant, extended essay in refined primitivism that deftly reconciles rock's structural conventions with the band's twin passions for violent tonal elasticity and garage-punk holocaust. Not that the band ever actually disdained structure in the past, despite its deconstructivist reputation. On howling broadsides like EVOL and Sister, Sonic Youth simply bent melodic convention according to the deviant possibilities of Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Kim Gordon's primordial double-guitar-and-bass pool of lava fuzz, buzzing-insect harmonics and harpy feedback. This time, the group hasn't fallen out of love with corrosion but has merely found new strength in coherence.
Goo, in other words, is anything but. "Dirty Boots" is probably the closest Sonic Youth has ever come to tough, straight guitar talk, a malevolent variation on Nuggets-style snot rock with dark staccato picking and resonant glissandi erupting into orgasmic power chords over drummer Steve Shelley's brittle, clackety locomotion. In Gordon's chilly death-wish monologue "Tunic (Song for Karen)" — as in terminal anorexic Karen Carpenter — the guitars generate a steely force field of modal droning and icy feedback, framing Gordon's wispy dreamspeak with orchestral menace. Chuck D of Public Enemy makes a guest appearance on the sexually charged "Kool Thing," growling with ominous machismo, but the real attraction is Moore and Ranaldo's air-raid siren chorale, a fearsome guitar squall effectively punctuated by Shelley's agitated drumming.
There are a couple of lapses into mere white noise. "Mildred Pierce" is a mercifully brief collision of one-note thrash and petulant feedback; "Scooter and Jinx" is sixty seconds of what sounds like a fleet of revving Harleys. On either side of those, though, you get the pulverizing "Disappearer" and the full-throttle freakout theater of Goo's big finish, "Titanium Exposé."
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A woman who warned people about a man acting suspiciously on the day two young girls were sexually assaulted in a Sydney toilet block could hold the key to finding the attacker.
Police said witnesses have told them a woman warned them of a man she saw near the female toilets at Campbell Hill Pioneer Reserve at Guildford on January 9.
Later that same day, two sisters, aged two and six, were approached by a man who indecently and sexually assaulted them within the toilet block.
The offender remains on the run from police.
Detectives on Wednesday urged the woman who gave the warnings to come forward and share her information with police.
She has been described wearing a black headscarf, an olive and black calf-length cardigan, black pants and black and white sneakers.
The man police are looking for is described as having a tanned complexion, possibly of Middle Eastern or Mediterranean appearance, aged 20 to 30 years, of medium to skinny build with black hair.
At the time of the incident, he was wearing a black jacket with white marking and blue shorts.


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Suspected Kidnapper's Father Says Son Had Long History of Problems
Friday, August 28, 2009; 2:25 PM
The father of Phillip Garrido, suspected of kidnapping an 11-year-old South Lake Tahoe girl 18 years ago, said today his son had a long history of drug use and mental problems.
"They are treating him like he knew what he was doing, but he didn't know what he was doing," Manuel Garrido, 88, said in a telephone interview from his home in Brentwood in Northern California. "The man is out of it. He is a sick man. He should be treated that way. He should be punished but he should be treated like a crazy person."
Garrido, a 58-year-old registered sex offender, and his wife, Nancy, were arrested Wednesday in the 1991 kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard and are of holding her captive in the backyard of their Antioch home ever since. Garrido is believed to have fathered two daughters with Dugard, who is now 29. The girls are 11 and 15. Manuel Garrido said it had been more than five years since he last saw his son. He said Phillip was a sweet kid, friendly and always making jokes.
Phillip played electric guitar and had a band, and was always willing to help his parents around the house, Garrido said. "Everyone loved him."
He said Phillip started getting into trouble in high school and began using LSD.
Garrido said he tried to talk to his son and get him on the right path, but by the time Phillip graduated from high school it was too late.
"After he got the LSD pills, he was gone," Garrido said. "It ruined his life. He did a lot of crazy things after that."
Dugard disappeared on June 10, 1991, as she walked from her family's South Lake Tahoe home to a bus stop.
Despite a massive search and being featured on the "America's Most Wanted" television program, Jaycee was not found. Investigators were unable to identify a suspect.
Authorities got their break in the case Tuesday when Phillip Garrido was seen with two small children near UC Berkeley. After an encounter with campus police, he was reported to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said Scott Kernan, the department's undersecretary of adult operations.
On Wednesday, Garrido was taken in for questioning at the department's parole office in Concord, near Berkeley, Kernan said. He was accompanied by two children and two women, later identified as Dugard and his wife.
After being questioned by parole officers, Garrido revealed that he had kidnapped a female, now an adult, who was later identified as Dugard, authorities said.
Garrido had been convicted of rape and kidnapping in 1971 in Nevada, was incarcerated in federal prison in Leavenworth, Kan. He was later paroled to California.
In a rambling, sometimes incoherent phone interview with Sacramento TV station KCRA on Thursday, Garrido said he had not admitted to a kidnapping, and that he had turned his life around since the birth of his first daughter 15 years ago.
"I tell you here's the story of what took place at this house and you're going to be absolutely impressed. It's a disgusting thing that took place from the end to the beginning. But I turned my life completely around," he said.


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MLS WORKS and the Portland Timbers today will unveil a solar panel installation and environmental beautification to Hosford Middle School in Southeast Portland as part of the MLS WORKS/Continental Tire "How Green Are Your Goals?" contest.
Representatives from Major League Soccer, the Portland Timbers, Portland Public Schools and Continental Tire will unveil the many sustainable additions provided by MLS WORKS and Continental Tire during a special Earth Day event at Hosford Middle School today.
The "How Green Are Your Goals?" contest engaged MLS fans to participate and support environmentally friendly efforts leading up to Earth Day 2012. Portland was the MLS city selected as having the greenest fans with its many submissions detailing the city's everyday approach to incorporating green efforts. Reflecting this, the Hosford Middle School Environmental Beautification project included a holistic approach, with touch points and significant improvements in the following areas: energy/solar, storm water/garden and sustainable mural, transportation, recycling and CO2 reduction.
In addition to the award from MLS WORKS and Continental Tire, more than $10,000 in added donations from the Portland community and Portland-area businesses helped in making the following projects possible at Hosford:
- BEF solar panel installation and subsequent Solar4Schools learning materials
- Student-designed, green-themed mural
- Custom bike racks, including an art bike rack created by Oregon-based designer Matt Cartwright
- Helmet and bike lock giveaways to Hosford students and faculty who ride a bike to work
- Reusable water bottles for every student at Hosford
- New Elkay drinking fountain, which will reduce the amount of plastic water bottles used at the school and track the number of plastic bottles saved from landfills
- Tree-planting and beautification of the entrance to the school
- Permanent directional signage to display the environmental benefits of the project to the Portland community
- Creation of communal gathering places on the school campus
Follow @MLSWORKS and #GreenerGoals today for all the details on the Hosford Middle School Environmental Beautification.
MLS WORKS Greener Goals identifies ways to reduce our carbon footprint and helps raise awareness for environmental issues throughout the soccer community. The greening of our game will encourage MLS clubs, players, corporate partners and fans to create a cleaner, healthier environment.
MLS is a proud member of the Green Sports Alliance, a non-profit organization with a mission to help sports teams, venues and leagues enhance their environmental performance. Alliance members represent over 170 professional and collegiate sports teams and venues from across 15 different sports leagues. MLS club members include the Seattle Sounders FC, Portland Timbers and San Jose Earthquakes, and AEG teams the Houston Dynamo and LA Galaxy.
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I won't lie. I Heart TED. I Heart TED because of videos like this.
Body language speaks for us when we can't (or won't). Every look, every smirk, every gesture, every pose is part of the constant stream of communication flowing from our bodies, even when our mouths are silent.
It impacts people's perceptions of us and in time, through the power of habit, impacts how we perceive ourselves and how we act, accordingly.
The best examples of how body language can make or break a communication stream have come from the 'power poses' exchanged between candidates and their interviewers throughout the years. Compare two candidates discussing their identical resumes. Have one slouch in the seat and have the other sit completely upright. Once they both share their identical experience, credentials and skills, which of the two do you think will be considered the better candidate?
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By the age of 25, Curley had played drums with some of Louisiana's musical legends, including: CC Adcock, Steve Riley, John Hart, "L'il" Bob and the Lollipops, and his uncles, "L'il" Buck Senegal and Wayne "Blue" Burns. He toured with CJ Chenier, son of the "King of Zydeco" Clifton Chenier, and a Zydeco legend in his own right.
While traveling with CJ Chenier's band, he became interested in playing the accordion and found he really enjoyed it. Curley purchased his first accordion and, within six months, had learned to play. He was told that he "played the accordion and the drums with great emotion and natural feeling."
Curley's friends and fellow musicians Keith Clements (keyboards) and Eric Minx (drums) encouraged him to start his own band. Around this same time, he received a job offer to play drums for one of the most popular zydeco bands in Louisiana - Geno Delafose and French Rockin Boogie. Curley put his ambitions for his own band on hold to play and tour internationally with French Rockin Boogie for several years. During this time, he continued to practice the accordion and write music in preparation for his first CD.
Since his debut CD, Curley has produced four more CDs of original music, making him one of the most prolific composers in Zydeco. In 2012, he released a compilation of his hits, "The #1's." His latest project "Zydeco Confessions" was released in 2014.
His bluesy, soulful vocals and the band's hard driving Zydeco beat blend to create high-energy dance music for all audiences. Curley's music is true to its roots in Zydeco and Blues, but contemporary enough to appeal to a broad range of music lovers. Curley Taylor and Zydeco Trouble tour extensively throughout the US, playing festivals and clubs from New York to San Diego and from Florida to Seattle. Often playing to audiences who have never heard Zydeco music before, they make fans wherever they go. They've played major festivals including Rhythm and Roots in Ninigret RI, the Waterfront Blues Festival in Portland OR and Jazz Fest in New Orleans. When at home in Louisiana, you can find Curley in the studio working on his latest CD, or playing in one of the local clubs around the Lafayette/Opelousas area to the delight of his hometown fans.


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If I pick a home world does that means I cannot change my home world unless I pay? even if I don't want to transfer the characters? ( like in WoW where you can pic any server but your characters will stay in their server )
also If I delete all my characters and I change my home world without paying?
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The Thunder Bay Police Service has arrested a city man on charges related to child pornography.
On Thursday, police searched a North Harold Street residence in search of child pornography images. Investigators seized 15 computers, six hard drives and roughly 10,000 DVDs.
Because of the large volume of items seized, determining the number of images in the accused's possession will take months to complete, police reported on Friday.
The Thunder Bay Police Cyber Crime Unit initiated the investigation in May 2012 when it became aware of a Thunder Bay internet user who was making use of a peer-to-peer file sharing network. Investigators flagged 244 suspected child pornography files and continued the investigation to confirm the files were indeed child pornography.
Late last month, three videos were obtained and confirmed to be child pornography.
A search warrant was prepared and executed on Thursday, and 38-year-old Dan Nawrocki was arrested at his North Harold Street residence.
Nawrocki has been charged with possession of child pornography and making child pornography available.
He made a court appearance Friday morning and has been remanded to the Thunder Bay District Jail with a court date of Nov. 18.
Thunder Bay police noted the incident is not connected to the current international child pornography investigation.
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It's New To Me – BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER ("Anne" / "Dead Man's Party")
In my years of TV watching, there have been tons of well-regarded shows that have eluded my gaze. Thanks to the magic of Netflix and other online streaming sites, I now have an opportunity to watch these shows and share my thoughts on them. It may be a classic to you, but It's New To Me!
The second season finale of Buffy The Vampire Slayer packed quite a wallop for fans of the show. Not only did we see the supposed death of Angel, but we also saw our title heroine abandon her family and friends, emotionally adrift after the events of the finale. The third season picks up a few months after that climactic event, with the rest of the Scooby Gang (with new member Oz in tow) trying in vain to fill her slaying shoes and Buffy living in Los Angeles, working in a diner as a waitress under the assumed name of "Anne," which is also the title of the season premiere. As school starts up again at Sunnydale High, the gang is disappointed to find out that Buffy hasn't shown up, though perhaps they shouldn't be because she was expelled. Willow is surprised to find out that her beau Oz is repeating his senior year, and Xander and Cordy, seeing themselves for the first time since she went on vacation with her family, find it difficult to rekindle their romance from the previous school year, with neither one of them willing to make the first move.
One day at the diner, Buffy encounters a homeless teenaged couple at one of the booths and recognizes the girl as one of the vampire wannabes from the Season Two episode "Lie To Me." She introduces herself as Lily and doesn't seem to recognize Buffy. Later that night, however, Lily approaches Buffy as she walks home at the end of her shift. She tells Buffy that she does recognize her and that she will keep her secret, stating that she knows what it's like to have to disappear. Back at Sunnydale, Xander comes up with a plan to snare a vampie that had gotten away from them the previous night, with Cordy as bait, and Giles visits Joyce, stating that he is still trying to track Buffy down, though all of his efforts have been unsuccessful so far. Giles tells Joyce that she shouldn't blame herself for Buffy running away, and Joyce tells him that she doesn't, but she does blame him. This information shocks Giles, though he doesn't argue.
After another late shift at the diner, Buffy runs into Lilly again, who tells her that her boyfriend Ricky has disappeared. She agrees to help look for him, and their attempt to get information at the local blood bank, where both Ricky and Lilly donate blood, seems to provide a dead end. While searching the streets for Ricky, Buffy comes across the corpse of an elderly homeless man that she had seen the previous night and is shocked to find that he has the exact same arm tattoo that both Ricky and Lilly had. She concludes that the dead old man is actually Ricky and that something has drained his youth from him. She relays this information to Lilly, who doesn't believe her and suggests that whatever evil force had taken Ricky away was in Los Angeles because of Buffy. As she flees Buffy's apartment, Lilly is approached by Ken, a young man who is passing out flyers for a teen runaway shelter known as Family Home. Ken convinces Lilly to come with him by stating that Ricky is living at Family Home and is waiting for her.
Buffy breaks back into the blood bank, convinced that they have something to do with Ricky's death, and she finds his name in a record book with the word "CANDIDATE" written beside it. When one of the nurses spots her, Buffy convinces her by force to give her more information, which leads her to Family Home. She forces her way into the building and discovers a strange ceremony being conducted by Ken in which Lilly is being submerged in a pool of black water. Buffy battles with Ken, and both of them fall into the pool, which is actually a portal into another dimension where healthy young runaways are enslaved by a race of demons. Ken reveals himself to be one of these demons by removing his "face," which is nothing but a mask, and tells Buffy that time moves much faster in this dimension than on hers. When one of their "candidates" grows too old to work over the course of several decades, they are brought back up to Earth to die.
When the new crop of slaves is being indoctrinated, they are instructed to say "I'm no one" when asked their names, which is exactly what the older version of Ricky said the last time Buffy saw him alive. Buffy defies the demon and proudly states her name and title before knocking him out and leading Lilly and the other runaways in an escape attempt. Ken sneaks up on Lilly and holds her at knifepoint, but as he rants to Buffy about the importance of their work, he is pushed off the platform they are standing on by Lilly. As the group runs to the portal, Ken once again tries to stop them but is impaled by the falling gate and is killed when Buffy smashes his head in. When the runaways pass through the black pool, the portal disappears. Meanwhile in Sunnydale, the Scooby Gang's plan to ensnare the escaped vampire works, albeit not without a little dumb luck, and in the heat of the scuffle, Xander and Cordy reignite their passionate and tempestuous relationship. The episode ends with Buffy returning to Sunnydale and embracing Joyce when she arrives at her door.
For a season premiere, and especially after such a strong second season, "Anne" is slightly disappointing in many aspects. I like that the "Buffy On The Run" subplot only lasted one episode and that we got frequent cutaways to her friends' amusing attempts to try to keep the vampire population down while she's away, the main threat of this episode seemed undeveloped. I understood that the demons were meant to symbolize sweatshops that run on child labor, but I would have liked to have gotten more information on what they were making before their inevitable defeat. Buffy's decision to return to Sunnydale is also never fully explained in a satisfactory way, since facing a supernatural force in LA might have also influenced her to stay on the run to battle other dark forces. I'm glad that she is back in Sunnydale and that her exile won't be stretched over the entire season, but as a single episode, "Anne" only gets 3 out of 5 Incorrect Gandhi Comparisons.
Things start to get back to "normal" in the next episode, "Dead Man's Party," in which the gang discovers that Buffy has returned to Sunnydale, and they in turn tell her that she has been cleared of Kendra's murder. Joyce tries to get Buffy reinstated in school, but Principal Snyder gleefully refuses. While discussing her future, Buffy and Joyce discover that a stray cat has died in their basement, and they quickly bury it. The next day, the Scoobies discover that the cat has risen from the grave, and Giles captures it in order to determine the reason behind its resurrection.
While things seem to have gotten back to the way they used to be, Buffy feels a bit of tension between herself and her friends, as well as with Joyce, but no one really talks about what's bothering them. The Scoobies decide to throw a little get-together at Buffy's house to celebrate her return, but instead of it being an intimate affair with only Buffy's close friends and family present, they decide to make it a large, impersonal house party with a bunch of people that Buffy doesn't even know. Neither of Buffy's friends seem willing to talk to her, and when she overhears Joyce talking about her to her friend Pat, whom Buffy had only met the previous day, she decides to run away again. Willow catches her packing in her room and angrily berates her for ducking out on her. Meanwhile, Giles discovers something horrible about an African tribal mask that Joyce had brought home from her art gallery and rushes to the Summers home. On the way, he runs over what appears to be a man, but when he gets out of his car to help him, he discovers that he has actually hit a recently-revived zombie. He is then surrounded by a horde of reanimated corpses, all of whom have been awakened by Joyce's mask. Back at the party, Buffy and Willow's argument spills out into the living room, where Xander joins in, stating that Buffy's decision to bail was selfish and inconsiderate. Their fight is interrupted by the arrival of the zombified corpses of Sunnydale's dead citizens, all of whom invade the house. Buffy, Joyce, Xander, and Willow run upstairs to hide out in Buffy's room with the injured Pat, while Cordy and Oz hide out in a downstairs closet. When they make it to the bedroom, Willow discovers that Pat has died.
Giles arrives at the Summers residence and finds Oz and Cordy. He explains to them that the zombies are attracted to the mask, which contains the soul of a demon named Ovu Mobani, and that any zombie who puts on the mask will essentially become him. At that moment, the zombified Pat rises and puts on the mask, becoming the demon, and the other zombies cower before her. Buffy discovers that looking into the mask's flashing eyes will induce hypnosis and pushes "Pat" out the window before she can kill Willow. During their battle outside the house, "Pat" locks eyes with Oz and briefly hypnotizes him until Buffy kills the demon with a shuffle, ridding them of all the zombies. Victorious, the group, along with Buffy's mother, puts aside their differences and embraces. The next day at school, Giles convinces Principal Snyder to let Buffy return to school by threatening him with physical violence, while Buffy and Willow chat about Willow's newfound interest in witchcraft.
The threat presented in "Dead Man's Party" was incorporated into the plot a lot more effectively than in "Anne," and it provided a much more poignant metaphor for the plot. The zombies coming out of their graves provided a strong visual parallel to the characters burying their feelings about Buffy's self-imposed exile until they finally come out in an ugly argument. Aside from the strong storytelling, this episode also provided a handful of choice Giles moments, from his secret moment of celebration upon discovering that Buffy has returned to his vocal frustration toward Joyce's careless handling of an evil artifact. I also enjoyed Oz's hilariously deadpan reaction to Buffy's violent takedown of the zombie demon and am looking forward to seeing more of his character now that he's been added to the regular cast as of this season. While the premiere was underwhelming, "Dead Man's Party" quickly brought the quality back up to its usual level and earns 4 out of 5 "Hootenannies."
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