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HipHop for PHP is a Facebook open source project that turns PHP source code into highly optimized C++, then compiles it with g++ to build binary files. You keep coding in simpler PHP, then HipHop executes your source code in a semantically equivalent manner and sacrifices some rarely used features -- such as eval() -- in exchange for improved performance.
Facebook claims that it sees about a 50% reduction in CPU usage when serving equal amounts of Web traffic when compared to Apache and PHP. Facebook's API tier can serve twice the traffic using 30% less CPU.
According to Facebook senior engineer Haiping Zhao the main challenge with the project was bridging the gap between PHP and C++. PHP is a scripting language with dynamic, weak typing. C++ is a compiled language with static typing. While PHP allows you to write magical dynamic features, most PHP is relatively straightforward. It's more likely that you see if (...) {...} else {..} than it is to see function foo($x) { include $x; }. This is where we gain in performance. Whenever possible our generated code uses static binding for functions and variables. HipHop for PHP also uses type inference to pick the most specific type possible for our variables and thus save memory.
The transformation process includes three main steps:
- Static analysis where developers collect information on who declares what and dependencies,
- Type inference where they chose the most specific type between C++ scalars, String, Array, classes, Object, and Variant
- Code generation which for the most part is a direct correspondence from PHP statements and expressions to C++ statements and expressions.
Facebook has also developed HPHPi, which is an experimental interpreter designed for development. When using HPHPi you don't need to compile your PHP source code before running it. It's helped us catch bugs in HipHop itself and provides engineers a way to use HipHop without changing how they write PHP.
Overall Zhao says that HipHop lets Facebook keep the best aspects of PHP while taking advantage of the performance benefits of C++. To date, they've written more than 300,000 lines of code and more than 5,000 unit tests, all of which has been released under the open source PHP license.


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It was a beautiful little mountain church— not in Europe, but the Ozarks, that first introduced me to St. Elizabeth of Hungary.
The catholic church of that name is nestled into the wooded hills of Arkansas was a stop on a visit to see family in the area, and I was captivated by the beautiful garden, the sweet chapel, and the statue of the young woman at the top of the path leading down to it all.
That statue was of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, who through fragments of stories I've learned was a beautiful and kindhearted princess, born in Hungary and married to a Germanic prince.
Faithful since childhood, young Elizabeth and her betrothed had a loving relationship that led to an increase in both their faiths, and three children.
Elizabeth, as affluent as she was, was determined to spend her time caring for others— especially the sick and poor near where she lived. She built a hospital at the foot of the mountain of her castle– Wartburg Castle in modern-day Germany, and after her husband's death she devoted herself entirely to caring for the sick and less fortunate.
There are many tales associated with Elizabeth— about her sneaking food, such as bread, out to the poor and when being questioned about it by those who didn't agree with this practice, the bread she carried turned to roses.
I am happy to share that prints of this painting are now available in my etsy shop! They are professionally printed on linen paper and would make a sweet gift for anyone who admires this popular saint.
To celebrate the completion of this painting and its promise of spring (how I enjoyed painting roses and look forward to blooms again!) I am giving away a FREE PRINT to a lucky winner. All you need to do is comment on THIS POST— tell me why you'd like to have St. Elizabeth in your home!
I would love it too if you shared this post on your facebook, instagram, twitter, etc. and if you do— let me know! Leave an additional comment and increase your chances of winning!
I'll choose a winner on Thursday February 11. Best of luck!~

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Modern Freezer-Longliner for Blue North Fisheries
A new longliner set to enter Alaska's cod hook-and-line fishery in October 2014 will offer state-of-the-art environmental and safety advantages, and an ultimate goal of 100 percent utilization of the versatile fish harvested by Blue North Fisheries.
"It's the biggest story to hit the waterfront in Seattle in a long time," said Kenny Down, Blue North president and chief executive officer. "It's really cool."
Sen. Maria Cantwell, (D-WA), heralded the announcement, saying the new vessel would "support shipbuilding jobs in Anacortes while adding to a strong legacy of building cutting-edge fishing vessels in Washington state."
The vessel, designed by Skipsteknisk AS, a Norwegian ship design firm, will be built by Dakota Creek Industries in Anacortes, Washington, Blue North officials said May 7.
The 191-foot, $30 million-plus hook-and-line vessel, will be the only freezer longliner in the Alaska fisheries with a fillet line, and safety features that include heated indoor working space to gaff each fish coming into the moon pool, from a line coming up through the bottom of the boat.
"They have engineered this so that in seven-meter seas with 20-foot waves, the level of water in the moon pool will only fluctuate half a meter," said Pat Burns, vice president of Blue North.
For crew, the internal haul station means they will no longer be exposed to rough seas and freezing temperatures for hours on end, and the risk of falling overboard during hauling is reduced. The vessel also is being built with a heavily weighted box keel design, to keep weight low, as well as an anti-roll tank. These features combine to provide an extremely stable working platform, further enhancing safety factors and crew comforts designed into every detail of the vessel.
The internal haul station will also help reduce bycatch mortality, Down and Burns said. According to the International Pacific Halibut Commission the halibut bycatch mortality is 10 percent, based on a 10-year rolling average, but Blue North's goal is to cut that loss to 5 percent. The hook-and-line gear itself will leave a greatly reduced environmental footprint on the bottom of the ocean, they said.
"The attention to crew comfort is so important," Down said. "It's so much safer.
All the staterooms are one man or two man staterooms, each with its own head."
"We typically sail with about 22 crew, so we should be able to sail with the same amount of crew and with the automation and the factory (on board) they will be able to work on ancillary products, so we'll be able to put out more product with the same amount of people," Burns said.
The Blue North, which will head for the bering sea fisheries in October 2014, will probably do four-week trips, with the freezer cargo capacity for about 1.5 million pounds of frozen product, including those cod heads, which will be sold in Africa as a source of protein.
"There are robust markets for these other parts of the fish," Down said.
While the market for cod is currently a little soft, "we have no problems at all selling our fish," Down said. "I would say the demand for this product is very high. We will still sell wholesale, but we will also offer a variety of consumer ready products, that will go directly from our vessel to distributors. The vessel is designed to produce boneless cod fillets, cod loins, and a host of vacuum-packed consumer-ready cod products on board. Each fish will be individually handled, immediately processed and frozen within minutes of processing.
Blue North currently sends about 10 percent of its yearly catch to domestic markets, primarily located in the Boston area," said Lance Magnuson, managing director of Blue North Trading Co., and president of the Alaska Longline cod Commission. "We believe that this new vessel's production will open up further domestic markets, so that Americans can take pleasure in the same quality fish as foreign markets have enjoyed for many years."
"It's amazing to us that this hook-and-line Alaska cod is not available to most US consumers," he said. "They want a product that they can purchase, throw in the oven and have on the table, and that product is not really (currently) available in this kind of quality."
Blue North products will be also be sold in traditional global markets, including Japan, Norway, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Brazil, and demand is also increasing in China, company officials said.
Plans are to efficiently utilize proteins currently going to waste, and that said, the new Blue North vessel will focus not on catching more fish, but onboard processing that will use more of the fish that are caught. Every consumable product will be retained, including the liver, stomach, roe, milt and head. Currently many hook-and-line fleets that process onboard only use the dressed fish, or 50 percent of the entire weight. The rest of the fish is ground up and discharged overboard, due to lack of space, refrigeration capacity or onboard labor.
"This present practice is extremely wasteful and inefficient," Down said. "We believe we can implement significant processing changes that will make considerable sustainability and efficiency differences."
The new vessel will also offer lower emissions and fuel savings of an estimated 30 percent or more, compared to conventional designs. The vessel will be cleaner too, thanks in part to the unique use of diesel electric twin-bladed dual-azimuth propulsion, and the boat will be one of the first fishing vessels in the United States built to meet new Tier III emissions standards set by the federal government.
The vessel will feature a molded or formed hull, which has a more efficient flow through the water because of decreased resistance.
"This boat is the culmination of 30 years in business," said Michael Burns, Blue North's chairman. "Not only is it cutting edge in terms of technology, the environment, safety, and comfort for the crew, but it's also a beautiful vessel."
Blue North Fisheries, in operation since 1983, currently owns and operates eight head and gut freezer longliners and one crab catcher vessel. The company harvests and processes a variety of fish, mostly longlined Pacific cod, black cod, pollock and turbot, as well as opilio and king crab.


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Throughout human history, Evil has often emanated from the comforting lights of deceit.
For around 500 years, starting in the mid to late 1400s A.D., one peculiar social class, coming out of one particular continent, has attacked, invaded, plundered, tortured, enslaved, and murdered the mysterious magic behind Earth's existence.
This estate of people were the class climbing ambitious ones who wanted noble titles with the rights that came from such titles. They birthed from the continent of Europe, which was a civilization that sanctified the slothful, lazy and parasitical, and yet at the same time, formulated the heinous lie of the 'hard work ethic.'
Ultimately, this social class of deceivers invented the most evil ideology in human history: racialism, all in order to maintain their wicked clutch of power. Europe was a strange civilization indeed. Who, what, when, where, why and how could describe such a bizarre continent?
The first monstrosity that poisoned the Soul of Europe was the Judeo-Christian Monotheist Cult. This poisoning did not begin with Constantine's acceptance of the Christian religion into the Greater Roman Pantheon of Cults during the 4th Century A.D. Most of Europe's culture was pagan until well into the 7th Century A.D.
In the north of Europe, modern Scandinavia, northern Germany, and in eastern Europe, mostly around the Slavic, Baltic and Hun lands, such as Lithuania, Finland, Eastern Poland and Southern Russia; most of Hungary, Dalmatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, a greater part of Romania, most of the people in those nations retained their old European pagan traditions.
By the 15th century, almost all of Europe adhered to some form of Christianity mixed with ancient pagan concepts, whether Celt, Roman, Greek, German or Slav, or all the above mixed together for heightened effect. Bad historians love to praise such a cultural mix as the birth of medieval civilization.
The various medieval regions represented the Byzantine sphere of influence, the Holy Roman Empire sphere of influence, the Frankish imperial domains, the Muslim Caliphate of Spain, or around the Maritime slave trading-raiding empires of the Normans, Genoans, Pisans and Venetians, the Mamelukes of Egypt, and the Muslim Sublime Ports in the Maghreb.
Medieval Europe did have its enchanted sides, especially in the heroic epics of just kings and noble knights; however, the Judeo-Christian monotheist ideology began to rot the thinking of many Europeans. Unlike the heroic gods of the Celts, Romans and Germans, the Christian God hung on a wooden torture device, the Cross. And yet, the Crucifixion torture device gave its God supreme powers.
The power of the Cross signified the mental anguish of vengeance with the fury of extreme violence for the Murder of God, or the Grand Deicide. The story also meant the conquering of bodily sin and the guilt of confession, according to the mad monks, often using violent methods, such as chains, whips and brutal disciplines.
The further struggle entailed the fight against the Evil One, or Satan, and his demonic kingdom. Ultimate Justice implied the Final Judgment of the Victorious Sacrificial God who will punish the Evil Apostates that refused to submit to his power. All of the non-believers will end up in the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, or Hell – tortured for all Eternity. Not even Hitler or Stalin could compare to this vengeful and violent God.
Christianity's religious-ideological position has centered on a movement for revenge, extremism through faith, and the encouragement of suffering, meaning physical and mental suffering heightened together – all for the conquering of sin and evil through the example of Christ and his kingdom of the Saints.
This ideology of vengeance and zealotry explains its penchant for extreme violence, only found in the History of Christianity, such as Crusades, Papal Pornocracies, Inquisitions, Religious Wars, Witch Burnings, Ideological support for the African slave exterminations, Political alliances with Fascists, Gunmen attacking Women's health clinics, and other fanatical acts of mass murder.
This ideology also encourages mental diseases and sexual perversions, such as madness, pederasty, sexual molestation and pedophilia, due to its obsessions with mental and bodily repressions versus sin, vices, doubts, backsliding and evil. Mental repression, guilt and anguish only cause further obsessions on the prohibited evil acts and thoughts.
In sum, the ideological-religious detritus of extremism, violent brutality and the mind-body repression-madness-perversion, infected European medieval culture. Instead of just killing one's enemies, one had to develop the technologies of torturing the physical body in order to make the hated ones suffer even more horribly.
The World History of Torture is a nasty section of Humanity's vices. But the European Medieval period is especially sick in regards to its favorite tortures and murders against the Human Body.
The medieval State encouraged the legal form of torture and murder, but in copying the Church and the State, ancient European families introduced the brutal disciplinary procedures of beatings and punishments. There were also the common torturers who used hand weapons, usually canes, whips and chains. Fathers, both secular and religious, often utilized such torture methods against adepts, wives, children and servant slaves.
Once the father uses those brute methods in educating his children, the children become permanently damaged and they often fight back through their own modes of violence and the abuse of intoxicants, or simply self-medication – or even using both forms together.
During the 15th century, when European class climbers began to fix their gazes at the greater Earth, they carried over their mental sufferings from those extremist ideologies. This ideological mix-up included the extermination of pagan-non-Christian religions for the one true faith, punishments against the human body in relation to nakedness, normal sexual diversity, or sodomy. The Triumph of the Judeo-Christian Cult was so thorough that most Europeans referred to their hodgepodge of lands as a united Christendom, well into the middle of the 1700's.
While the Judeo-Christian ideology twisted the thinking of Medieval Christendom, Europeans also began to admire the lifestyle of the Christian corporate institution, The Church. The priests received the taxes, or tithes, from the peasants, and from there, they had to kick up the tithes to the Hierarchy.
The bishops, or captains of the region, lived like the Dux, or dukes, the knighted regional commanders. From the Bishops, they had to kick up the money to the Papal Court, the Pope and his consiglieri, or advisers, or as they used the term, La Curia, which included selected Cardinals who maintained each Congregation.
No king, nor emperor lived as sumptuously as the Papal Court. The most important congregations, or administrations in the Papacy, represented the Treasury, the Holy Office of the Inquisition, the Bulls, or funding, of the Holy Crusades, and the Papal mercenary armies, or condottieri.
Jealous of the pride, sloth, gluttony, luxury, avarice, legal violence and envious nature of the Papal Court in Rome, the secular powers had to copy such vileness. The Church was also the greatest land robber in world history. Unlike the Papal States, The Mosque in Medieval Islamic Civilization did not have a separate corporate identity, nor did it have a clergy possessing special powers with autonomous legal privileges.
The Church transformed into the first corporate institution to putrefy ancient Germanic and Roman Law in demanding both corporate legal rights and individual rights, through the legal theft of common lands; while at the same time, the Church also had another set of rights, meaning the rights of State, due to governing a vast territory in central Italy, called the Papal States. There were also the numerous religious orders inside the Church, who not only possessed the corporate rights of the First Estate, but also held the corporate rights of an organized, military-like, corporate religious order, such as the Franciscans and Dominicans.
Again, the secular elites, or knights without noble titles, copied their religious overlords in stealing lands from surrounding communities through their own, legal rights of conquest.
The Church seconded such pronouncements through encouraging a continuous Crusade for the conversion of souls. The Spanish first used this method in Al-Andalus, southern Spain. In the Americas, Spanish and the Portuguese knights again used the exact same methods in exterminating the native nations and then stealing their lands.
Even the Church's religious enemies used such tactics, the Orthodox Church in league with the Tsars copied such sinister techniques during Russia's wars both against the Catholic Polish and Germans, and against the Muslim Khanates, or Tatars. The Protestant English Knights-Lords, in league with the Established Church, used kindred procedures against Britain's peasants, through the Enclosure Acts, and later against the Irish Catholics in Ulster – and even later, against the Highlander Clans in Scotland. The biggest supporters of Luther's Protestant Crusade were the class climbing knights that plagued the German States of the Holy Roman Empire.
This ingenious legal conquest system allowed knights without noble titles to conquer the lands of the Enemy, and thereby receive noble titles for meritorious services, later becoming Nobles of the Sword, or in French, noblesse d'épée, Their medieval legal privileges did not stop with such noble titles however.
Due to the historical writings about the Noble Spartans who defended the Greek cities from the Persian Asiatic Horde, once a knight received his noble title from royalty, the man could not do any laborious work with the hands – or he would lose his honor.
The 'new man' then changed his name to the title, just like a person received a new name after taking Holy Orders, in becoming a priest, monk or nun. The nobles of the sword transformed into loyal allies of the throne becoming token administrators of the conquered lands, called the landed aristocracy.
The landed aristocracy had to fight for the King when given orders. But as royal powers transcended into colonial empires, and as more European kings used mercenary forces, and recruited so-called professional armies from the ranks of the artisan and farmer classes, and even mixed racial castes, the nobles of the sword also changed their elite dimensions.
Many trained soldiers, or favorites, moved into the royal courts and lived as courtiers, often sleeping until midday in soft beds. They spent their days in luxurious sloth: hunting, practicing sword fights for possible duels, eating ten course meals well into the night, engaging in promiscuous sexual relations, gambling, and partying until the daylight hours.
Others took overseas political positions as appointed colonial administrators. While a whole other group just sat around their massive estates, putting about their 50 room manor homes, while receiving taxes and rents from the farmers that labored on the aristo's lands.
The aristocracy had no ties whatsoever to the land, nor did they even lift a hand to help maintain the fragile ecosystem. The landed aristocrats, or social parasites, simply collected legal extortion rackets from the hardworking farmers – similar to the Mafia bosses who collect protection money from businesses located in 'safe urban neighborhoods.' Royal authority sanctified the whole fraud scheme through the legal rights of private property.
Many Americans mistake the rights of private property for the rights of personal property. The rights of private property signified the rights of a family, or any corporate institution, including the State, to the complete ownership of lands, often with no historical use of the said lands.
These corporate institutions had given themselves the rights and legal privileges to open more lands due to conquest, family title, or mystical authority. This legal fraud virtually imprisoned the hard-working families who actually worked on the lands for survival.
Meanwhile, the owners collected the rents and taxes. The political-economic system containing such legal fictions allowed for the growth of Capitalism's second stage, Mercantile Capitalism.
Mercantile Capitalism was simply a corrupt economic system where royal families favored particular merchants or venture capitalists who also had special access to funds from the royal treasuries.
Those capitalists could use those royal funds because the same royal families, and also their aristocratic cousins, and other social parasites, were always the first investors.
The investors also formed military grade institutions, called companies, which possessed greater legal rights than the poor individuals in the flunky courts. A few of these companies even controlled large naval armies and administered their own foreign colonies, such as the East Indies and West Indies Companies. What was their most profitable business during that epoch?
These companies made most of their heinous profits through world history's most evil, mass kidnapping and mass murder spree, called the African slave trade, with the extermination fields of export crop plantations located in the Americas. Always remember, Europe's mercantile class of royalties, aristo-parasites and class climbing miscreants managed and directed this nefarious trade.
Through the massive destruction of native and African lives, all of which led to the agricultural plantation production of cash crop-drugs, incinerator capitalism had birthed – and still this noxious scam of an economy fumigates across the Globe.
As capitalism invaded the peripheries of world Empires, this political-economic system rammed through a greater decomposition within the modern European family structure.
Family solidarity changed its particular terms and conditions. For any and all economic survival under savage capitalism, a brutal struggle ensued to grab as much inheritance capital as possible. Surviving family members could become mortal enemies to each other.
Nowadays, millions of other class climbers, in every corner of the Earth, have forsaken their honor in pursuit of cheap profits. They will murder, lie, cheat, steal and destroy everything in their path – all for the love of money – profits and even more profits. If all the other animals, plants, trees and arable land just dropped dead – those hungry ghost capitalists would continue their desperation for the next emerging markets.
Within any agricultural plantation production cycle, the most pressing issue was labor. The first sugar slave plantations in the Mediterranean used captured slaves from war booty. The European colonial powers in the Americas: Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, the Netherlands, and Denmark also utilized captured, native slaves from Conquest, and somewhat later, used indentured-convict white slaves from Europe. Those methods of overwork through death did not function well. The European mercantile elite's only recourse revolved around the kidnapping rings, liquidation murders and mass enslavement of Africans.
As the great death of native nations continued, due to introduced European diseases throughout the Americas, European elite merchants had radically changed the human map. Most colonial American cities possessed small communities of European elites representing political hacks, soldiers, clergy and slave-owning planters, while the greater half of the population comprised racial lumpens, often of mixed native-white-African roots, and then a large mass of African slaves, freemen and mulattos.
From the 1580s-1780s, the false Euro-aristos in the colonial plantations resorted to the old and true method in maintaining social control over subject populations, Divisi et vincere, (Latin, Divide and Conquer).
The colonial elites gave a few token privileges to the Euro lower classes, such as weapon ownership, legal rights, with a new social identity, as whites. Meanwhile, the Africans entered the lowest social class, permanently associated with hated slavery. Using older zoological terms for agricultural cattle breeding, the European aristo-parasites created the Great Lie of Race.
This monstrous perjury incubated the culture of American colonialism, and in all irony, it returned to the European metropolis in the early twentieth-century, as Fascism, so political dictators could murder millions of more Europeans.
The European elites have left no part of our Earth untouched. On every continent, hordes of aristo-parasites have invaded, raped, tortured and murdered for profit. Still to this very day, those same elites proclaim to us the wonders of Christianity, Capitalism and Racialism. They have successfully exterminated entire categories of plants, trees, animals and other humans. They have been so triumphant in their wicked deeds that there is no turning back for our Earth. There is no hope for reconciliation.
European elites have solidified the concluding contract with Extinction. The Earth can never heal with any humans living upon it. All of us now possess the cultural mental infections from our recent past. Mass murder does have its price – extinction to extinction evermore.
Yet, the universe will eventually recycle the refuse again, so that other forms of life leading to death, can grow into their full substance.


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- "Mulciber and Avery's idea of humour is just evil. Evil, Sev. I don't understand how you can be friends with them."
- —Lily Evans to Severus Snape[src]
Avery was a wizard, possibly the son of Avery, and a Slytherin student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. After graduating from Hogwarts, he became a Death Eater. He fought in several battles during the First Wizarding War. Avery didn't search for Lord Voldemort after his downfall, but this was forgiven, after his master's return. During the Second Wizarding War, Avery fought at the Battle of the Department of Mysteries with a group of Death Eaters, attempting to take a prophecy from Harry Potter. After the battle, he was imprisoned in Azkaban, but escaped in 1997. It is possible that he fought at the Battle of Hogwarts, too. After Voldemort's defeat in 1998, he was presumably killed or imprisoned again in Azkaban.
Hogwarts yearsEdit
Avery attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the 1970s and was sorted into Slytherin House.[1] He and his friend Mulciber amused themselves by playing nasty pranks on other students, including Mary Macdonald, on whom Mulciber tried to use Dark Magic during the 1975-1976 school year.[2] Avery was also a friend of Severus Snape, something that bothered Lily Evans, who was Snape's best friend at the time. She found Avery's sense of humour to be very sadistic and could not understand how Snape could associate with him.[2] According to Sirius Black, Avery was part of a "gang of Slytherins" who later become Death Eaters and also included Bellatrix Black, her future husband Rodolphus Lestrange, Evan Rosier, Snape, and Wilkes.[1]
First Wizarding WarEdit
Sometime during the First Wizarding War, Avery was apprehended by Ministry of Magic officials and stood trial for being a Death Eater. Avery was one of few who "wormed his way out of trouble", according to Sirius Black, since he pleaded the Imperius Curse. He was not sent to Azkaban. He was also one of the Death Eaters who didn't search for his master after his downfall.
It can be assumed Avery assisted in the Quidditch World Cup Riot a year before Lord Voldemort returned, though this is not proven.[3]
Second Wizarding WarEdit
Avery was the first Death Eater to crack and grovel at Lord Voldemort's feet during his rebirth at the cemetery, saying that he didn't look for Voldemort after his downfall because he believed him to be "finished". He begged Voldemort to forgive everyone. Voldemort responded by using the Cruciatus Curse on him and saying he wanted thirteen years repayment before forgiving the Death Eaters for the lack of belief they had in him.[3]
In 1995, Voldemort was seeking a prophecy that had been made about himself and Harry Potter, a record of which was kept in the Department of Mysteries in the Ministry of Magic. Avery told his master that it would be possible to obtain the prophecy by placing Unspeakable Broderick Bode under the Imperius Curse and having him get for them. This attempt failed, as prophecies are protected by spells that only allow them to be retrieved by the person about whom they are made. Voldemort punished Avery for this mistake.
Battle of the Department of MysteriesEdit
- "We'll split into pairs and search, and don't forget, be gentle with Potter until we've got the prophecy, you can kill the others if necessary..."
- —Lucius Malfoy gives orders to the group of Death Eaters[src]
Avery later fought at the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, when he was paired with fellow Death Eater Macnair. Avery was most likely sent to Azkaban along with the other Death Eaters present at the battle, save for Bellatrix Lestrange.[4] It is possible that he escaped in 1997, along with other Death Eaters. It is also possible that Avery fought in several other battles, including the Battle of Hogwarts.
After Lord Voldemort's final defeat, Avery was presumably killed during the Battle of Hogwarts or was sent to Azkaban after the battle.
Personality and traitsEdit
Avery, when he was a student at Hogwarts, was described by Lily Evans as having an "evil sense of humour". She also called Avery and Mulciber "Death Eaters" before they became two of them, meaning that they had a passion with Dark Arts and blood purity. Avery was also disloyal, as he didn't search for his master after his downfall, and was characterized as a weak individual.
Avery is an English surname derived from an Old French version of the name Alfred. The meaning of the name is derived from the Old English words aelf, meaning elf, and raed, meaning counsel.
Behind the ScenesEdit
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Avery may have been the one hit by Ginny with Reducto, as this could have been a mirror of a scene in the book in which a Death Eater (either Lucius, Mulciber, Macnair, or Avery) grabs Ginny's foot and has Pluto blown up in his face by Luna).
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) (Possible appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)[5]
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2[6]
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 27
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- ↑ Despite this character not actually being identified in the film, there were more than ten Death Eaters at the Ministry of Magic and the character was identified in the book as being one of the Death Eaters present during that battle
- ↑ Despite this character not actually being identified in the film, there were more than hundred Death Eaters at the Battle of Hogwarts.
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|Death Eaters:
Alecto Carrow | Amycus Carrow | Antonin Dolohov | Augustus Rookwood | Avery (I) | Avery (II) |
Barty Crouch Jr. | Bellatrix Lestrange | Crabbe | Evan Rosier | Gibbon | Goyle |
Jugson | Lestrange | Mulciber (I) | Mulciber (II) | Nott | Rabastan Lestrange | Rodolphus Lestrange | Rosier | Selwyn | Thorfinn Rowle | Travers | Walden Macnair | Wilkes | Yaxley
|Death Eaters who Defected:
Draco Malfoy | Igor Karkaroff | Lucius Malfoy | Peter Pettigrew | Regulus Black | Severus Snape
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I just installed 12.04, it was running smoothly and I downloaded and installed all the recommended updates.
After checking the details pane of the System Settings window I noticed that the GTX 570 didnt show up as graphics unit.
Because of this I figured I needed to download the drivers like I would have needed to in Windows. So I did this but being a complete newbie to linux I didn't succeed in installing them. (I think)
Anyway after several tries and errors i shut down the PC and restarted it. This resulted in no signal to my screen after trying to reboot--with all the monitor outs affected.
I took out the graphics card and now it boots normally but after booting it says there is a problem with the system the graphics cant be recognized.
Here are my questions:
- What do I do? I Like linux but the arbitrary aspect of the errors that occur without any changes to the system--other than physically removing my graphics card--scare me.
- Is there A beginners guide to Ubuntu where I could start from scratch because I really want this to work?
- Now that the system is (suddenly) showing these graphic errors--so far without visible consequence despite the error message--should I reinstall the GPU and give the driver installation another try or the other way around?
I'd be very grateful for any help. Thank you in advance!
Here are the specs of the system I have built.
Asus Rock Z77 Extreme 4 Intel i7 3770k 16 Gb Corsair Ram Zotac Nvidia GTX 570 bequiet! 630W Power supply 120 GB SSD
In response to comments requesting additional information here are some more steps I took.
- I checked the Additional Drivers program prior to and post trying to install the driver manually but nothing showed up whatsoever. I don't know if there is a "corrupted"/incomplete installation in existence somewhere on the system causing this.
- I don't think I did actually install anything because of the output I received from the system (which I remember as being along the lines of "I don't know what the heck you want from me").
- The only thing that did happen once was when I double clicked on something and a loading bar popped up--but at the end it said an error occurred and could only be closed.
- I am only beginning to get used to working with a terminal.
Should i physically reinstall the GPU and give the Additional Drivers route another try? Or is a manual installation of the required drivers a better Idea?
I tried the Jockey console first wehen i had the GPU installed but it did´nt shwo anything. After rebooting the PC Wouldn´t signal the Monitor so i took the card out again and wen´t through a couple of how-to´s downloading the synaptic Package amnager and adding the x-swat repository to my system and upgrading the current and settings via the Synaptics console.
After that i figured it should be fine. So i reinstalled the GTX 570 and now it says ubuntu is running in low graphics mode an sometimes wont even take any futher input from the Keyboard not even letting me into the console. So there is virtually no way of installing the drivers (again?) with the Card installed
What to do i´m beginning to lose hope since it seems to work so easily for others. Thx for the support.


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I know that many of my readers are from in and around New York. So, I'm really excited to let you know that I'll be attending the Digital Health Conference in New York City on December 1-2, 2011. It's shaping up to be a great event with keynotes from Todd park, CTO of the US HHS, and T.R. Reid, Journalist and Author for The Washington Post and PBS. Plus, they have tracks covering: Innovations in the Inpatient Setting, Advances in the Delivery of Primary Care, Chronic Care Management, and Health & Wellness.
One of the smartest things they've done is they're offering up to 9.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ That should bring a bunch of doctors to the event to get some more CME.
Plus, they've offered HealthcareScene.com readers a special discount: $200 off for non-providers and $50 off for providers. That's only $195 and $145 respectively. I can't remember the last healthcare IT conference I've seen that was that inexpensive. You'll just need to use the discount code: HCS2011 to get those rates.
Of course, the real reason I go is to meet lots of interesting people. So, I hope that a lot of you make it to the event so I can meet more of you in person. I'm sure we'll find one way or another to do a tweetup at the event. Plus, for those of you who can't make it to the event, I'll be tweeting about it on @techguy and @ehrandhit.
Here's the full description of the Digital Health Conference Event:
New York eHealth Collaborative's Digital Health Conference will bring together hundreds of health information technology (HIT) stakeholders and decision makers from across the region including providers of all types, the public sector, private industry, health plans, hospital administration, and others. The event will showcase the latest technologies, share best practices, inspire collaboration, and generally support the advancement of healthcare innovation.
Keynote Speakers
Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
T.R. Reid, Best-selling author and healthcare journalist, The Washington Post, PBS
Conference Highlights
• Learn from industry thought-leaders through a series of lectures, panels, demonstrations and otherbreakout sessions in each of the following tracks:
• Innovations in the Inpatient Setting
• Advances in the Delivery of Primary Care
• Chronic Care Management
• Health & Wellness
• Programming features an impressive array of health IT experts from a number of different backgrounds, including private sector innovators, government agencies, providers of all types, and hospital IT leadership
• Network with hundreds of healthcare stakeholders and decision-makers from across the region
• Earn up to 9.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™*
• Connect with private and public sector innovators showcasing the latest healthcare technologies and innovations
To view the full program and to register, visit www.digitalhealthconference.
*This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) through the joint sponsorship of MSSNY and New York eHealth Collaborative. MSSNY is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Medical Society of the State of New York designates this live activity for a maximum of 9.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


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Brav is a Braviary that is one of Black's main Pokémon. He is also the second Pokémon captured by Black in the Pokémon Adventures manga's Black & White chapter; the first is Musha.
Brav is a strong-willed battler and is very obedient to Black during battle. It may be that he has a close relationship with Black since his childhood and has become a loyal partner.
As a Rufflet
Brav was a Rufflet when Black was a child, and his very first catch. He was choosing a nickname for him and thought of its evolution's first half of its name which was a Braviary.
As Braviary
He first appeared in Choices where he was revealed to have evolved into Braviary before Black had obtained his Tepig from Professor Juniper. He also flew away with his trainer towards Accumula Town.
In Nacrene City, he fought against Nacrene Gym Leader Lenora in Black's second Gym battle. He easily defeats her Patrat with an Air Slash before being knocked out by Lenora's Stoutland who used Ice Fang on him, leaving Black with Musha.
At Castelia City, he fought against Burgh's Whirlipede in the Castelia Gym. He easily used Air Slash to knock it out, but was later defeated by his Dwebble, leaving his Tula to battle the Rock Inn Pokémon.
It is revealed that before or after Black's gym battle with Elesa, Brav is currently with White while she is on a Battle Subway train going to Anville Town.
Known moves
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Feminists' blogs have expressed disappointment with Essence Magazine for controversial issues over the last few years. But last week, the blogosphere was fired up when it learned that Essence had hired a White fashion director, Elliana Placas. This revelation was brought to us via Facebook, became viral on Twitter, and crossed over to mainstream media when the former fashion director, Michaela Angela Davis, shared with her Facebook friends this message:
"It's with a heavy heart I've learned Essence Magazine has engaged a white Fashion Director. I love Essence and I love fashion. I hate this news and this feeling. It hurts, literally. The fashion industry has historically been so hostile to black people—especially women. The 1 seat reserved for black women once held by Susan Taylor, Ionia Dunn-Lee, Harriette Cole (+ me) is now—I can't. It's a dark day for me. How do you feel?"
Michaela Angele Davis was the Essence fashion director with the crazed hair, who dressed as if she had no fashion sense. Her messiness on Facebook got her booked on morning news, afternoon talk shows and radio programs across the country claiming that Essence, a magazine for Black women, should not have hired a White woman to work for them. Not only is Ms. Davis messy but she is delusional. She is on national television telling Black people to practice racism when we are at a moment in our country where race-baiting has become nightly theater. What nonsense!
Before I go any further, let me disclosed my relationship with Essence Magazine. I have been featured in Essence. I have also been a conference speaker at the Essence's Women Who Are Shaping the World Leadership Summit. When I was chosen to be featured in the magazine, I was asked to come to New York for the photo shoot. I decided to use a Nashville photographer and makeup artists instead. The photographer was a close friend, Blair Morgan, and Nora, the makeup artist, had worked with Blair for many years. Curse me, both are White. In 2006, Angela Burt-Murray, the editor-in-chief of Essence, and I, along with 38 others, were chosen as the country's most influential African-Americans under 40 by Network Business Journal Magazine. I spent two days in New York and conversed with Angela several times. She was energetic, full of bright ideas for the magazine, and filled with joy about her role as the new editor. Since that time, our paths have crossed at annual Essence events and at New York fundraisers.
The outrage that has been fanned by the former fashion director is not worth the login time to respond to her on her Facebook page but I will anyway. She has led many astray with her backwards thinking. Black Enterprise, Ebony, and many other national and regional ethnic publications have all hired White folks to work for them. The target markets for those publications maybe race-specific but the writers, the graphic designers, the sales team, the distributors, and many others are not limited to one color. Black publications, especially, should not practice what is done at so many non-color publications around the country: avoid inclusion.
If we look at the local newspapers in Nashville, we see that the Tennessee Tribune started with a diverse staff. There has never been a "white writer's desk" in the back at 1501 Jefferson Street. For nearly 25 years, writers and staff members from every background have worked at the Black-owned newspaper. No boasting, just stating facts. There are several newspapers and magazines in the Nashville area that still have only White writers and staff. With so much diversity in our city, that is unbelievable. When asked about the lack of diversity at their publications, the usual "We can't find anyone" is the reply. Really?
When Black folks start practicing "Blacks only need to apply" in the marketplace, the lessons about equality and inclusion that many died trying to teach us are lost. When Black folks sit on TV trying to address racism in others, they look hypocritical when they buy into Davis' thinking. When I listened to Michaela Angele Davis speak on one program after another last week, I did not know if she was speaking as a disgruntled employee or a misinformed spectator. For the record, Essence is not Black-owned anymore. It is owned by Time Warner which also owns CNN and Time. For a large conglomerate that is publicly traded to hold a "Black folk only" seat at one publication is a lawsuit waiting to be filed. Yes, I know there are many "White folks" chairs at large corporations but let us be honest: the rules for one group are not necessarily rules for another.
Now, Burt-Murray did not let this Facebook-inspired madness go unaddressed; she fired back like she had swallowed her big girl pills. The editor-in-chief of Essence took to the internet and shared about her decisions to hire the new fashion director and the fake outrage that had ensued. In an editorial on The Grio.com she said:
And when I set out to hire a new fashion director I certainly had no idea I would end up making this decision. I first got to know and came to respect Ellianna when she came to work with us nearly six months ago. We were conducting a search for a new director when she was hired to run the department on a freelance basis. I got to see firsthand her creativity, her vision, the positive reader response to her work, and her enthusiasm and respect for the audience and our brand. As such, I thought she'd make an excellent addition to our team. And I still do. This decision in no way diminishes my commitment to black women, our issues, our fights. I am listening and I do take the concerns to heart.
But interestingly enough, the things I think should most upset people and inspire boycotts and Facebook protests, often seem to go relatively unnoticed. Like when Essence conducted a three-part education series this year on the plight of black children falling through the cracks in under-performing schools. Crickets. When we reported on the increase in sex trafficking of young black girls in urban communities? Silence. When our writers investigated the inequities in the health care services black women receive? Deadly silence. When our editors highlighted data from the Closing the Gap Initiative report "Lifting as We Climb: Women of Color, Wealth and America's Future" that showed that the median net worth of single black women was $5? There went those darn crickets again. When we run pieces on how unemployment is devastating black men? Nada. When we run story after story on how HIV is the leading cause of death for black women age 18-34? Zilch. The things that really are the end of our world apparently aren't.
I love the hell out of her response! Wonder how many protesting are really subscribers? In our country, we have the right to protest. But when we see one knee-jerk reaction after another, the voice of reasoning is diminished greatly. When folks inject race into the question of what team a multi-million dollar ball player is on or why Reggie Bush don't date Black women, folks come unglued. Trying to find out why so many young Black teens are killing each other or how to get young folks educated, the passionate outrage fades quickly.
Folks, we need to pick battles wisely. Remember the battles fought and won to overcome racism? When we work to better our community, we actually make progress. When we stop to address foolishness, progress gets sidetracked. We must stay focused on real issues and leave Facebook fights on Facebook.
For me, my staff at Inspired Media is White, and the hardest working people in the publishing industry, who work at Mrs. Perry's Tribune, a Black-owned newspaper, are White. All of my interns at pest control business are Hispanics. I could not run my multiple businesses without any of them.
Photo Credit: Blair Morgan for Essence Magazine


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ALLEN PARK -- The Lions' suspect running game took another hit on Wednesday when it was announced that running back Kevin Smith will undergo surgery on his thumb and will not be available to play on Sunday at Dallas. "He's been a great player for us, especially of late," quarterback Shaun Hill said. "He's been able to come in and give us sparks, things like that. We're going to miss him for sure, but somebody else has to step in and give us that spark." Coach Jim Schwartz did not give a timetable for Smith's return, but said he will not play Sunday. "Kevin has been extremely tough and dealing with a lot of different issues and giving us a spark. But there's a big difference in dealing with sore knees and ankles and hamstrings and shoulders, all the things running backs deal with. With the thumb, you're talking about ball security, catching the ball and things like that. He's very disappointed, but it's something that needs to be done," Schwartz said. He injured it just before halftime at Buffalo and tried to finish the game, but couldn't. Running back Aaron Brown, who was inactive the last six games, will be added to the mix. Smith missed the first three games of the season because he was coming back from ACL knee surgery. In the last six games, he has carried the ball 34 times for 133 yards and had 11 receptions for 123 yards. His absence is a hit for the Lions' rushing offense, which is ranked 30th in the NFL. Ins and outs Wide receiver Calvin Johnson didn't practice Wednesday, but said it was nothing serious. "I'll be all right, I'm just trying to recover, nobody is really 100 percent right now. I'm trying to get my legs back and get healthy for Sunday," Johnson said Ten Lions sat out practice, including seven starters Along with Johnson and Smith, also out were: QB Matthew Stafford, TE Tony Scheffler, Jahvid Best (toe), LB DeAndre Levy, LB Bobby Carpenter, DE Cliff Avril (quadriceps), DT Corey Williams (groin) and K Jason Hanson. Practice squad changes Running back Ian Johnson practiced Wednesday after he was signed to the practice squad on Tuesday. He replaced wide receiver Mike Moore, who was placed on the practice squad injured reserve. You may remember Johnson from the Fiesta Bowl in 2007. He was the Boise State player who proposed to his cheerleader girlfriend in the frenzy on the field following the game. Johnson was released from the Arizona Cardinals' practice squad on Sept. 27.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Henriette ``Etty'' Allen, matriarch of the Washington Redskins football family and mother of former Virginia Gov. George F. Allen, has died. She was 90.
According to a statement from the Allen family, she died Jan. 2 after a long illness. A private funeral is planned for her Tuesday in California.
The daughter of an anti-Nazi resistance fighter in occupied Tunisia, she immigrated after World War II to Iowa where she met and married George H. Allen, a small-college football coach.
Over the next four decades, Allen coached winning teams with the Los Angeles Rams and Washington Redskins and earned a spot in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He died in 1993.
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I'm currently trying to compile a panel of antibodies that would generally identify individual blood cell types in murine peripheral blood and bone marrow. For example, I'm using a Siglec F antibody to identify murine eosinophils.
Does anybody else have any experience or know where I could find a good set of antibodies to label most/all murine blood cell types?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Submit your paper to J Biol Methods today!
Murine antibodies
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The EvolveFISH version of my sigil.
Nice. Better than nice–that's beautiful–gorgeous. I love it. (Yes, as of this writing, the attribution is still wrong–the original is by Mike McRae, modified by me–Kris Ryan had nothing to do with it.) Now, as the cephalopod who holds the copyright, all I want to know is… Do I get a discount?
Hey! When you get yours and put it on your car/bike/computer/office door/refrigerator/pet/congressperson/olympic gold medal/Tour de France Yellow Jersey/post-it-note, send it here, and I'll (unless you don't want me to–please let me know) broadcast it to the world!


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Suki Cheema
Such great patterns and colors, I could fill my house with
items from his home collection!
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Three down, one to go: Sox on cusp of title
ST. LOUIS -- The lefty slugger and the lefty ace. Together, they have put the Red Sox one victory from winning it all. Though the gregarious David Ortiz has been front and center in adding to his legend of late, Jon Lester has quietly carved out a pretty special October
ST. LOUIS -- The lefty slugger and the lefty ace. Together, they have put the Red Sox one victory from winning it all.
Though the gregarious David Ortiz has been front and center in adding to his legend of late, Jon Lester has quietly carved out a pretty special October in his own right.
Lester outlasted and outpitched the Cardinals' Adam Wainwright in a compelling duel of elite pitchers in Monday night's 3-1 victory in Game 5 of the World Series at Busch Stadium.
That gives Boston a 3-2 lead over St. Louis in this riveting Fall Classic, and sets up Fenway Park for a possible World Series clincher in Game 6 on Wednesday (7:30 p.m. ET air time on FOX, 8:07 first pitch).
"I'm telling you, it's going to get loud out there," said Ortiz. "Our fans are baseball fans. They love the game and they love how we've been going at it every day. And I'm pretty sure it's going to be very loud out there."
Very loud? That is what Big Papi's bat has been in his Fall Classic for the ages. Ortiz had three more hits in Game 5, and he is hitting .733 (11-for-15) with two homers and six RBIs.
"This guy right here is the epitome of a superstar and a good teammate," said Lester, "and I don't think you could ever ask for more out of an individual than what he does on and off the field. The guy's got a heart of gold, and he goes out there every single night and competes."
It was actually David Ross who had the biggest hit on Monday night, belting a ground-rule double into the corner in left with one out in the seventh, breaking a 1-1 tie.
"It was hard to tell in the dugout. [I] just wanted to make sure it stayed fair," said Dustin Pedroia. "It was a great at-bat. Guys did some really special things tonight, this whole series. We've had guys step up and find ways to win, which is what teams like this do."
After Boston's loss in Game 3, manager John Farrell went with Ross over primary catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia the next two games. Though his defense is what he's known for, Ross has been a useful hitter for the Sox this postseason.
With a slight offensive attack at his back, Lester went to work and put together a dominant performance. He went 7 2/3 innings, scattering four hits and a run, walking none and striking out seven.
In five starts this postseason, Lester is 4-1 with a 1.56 ERA, giving up two earned runs or fewer each time out. His only loss was 1-0 in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series against the Tigers.
Lester admitted that channeling his adrenaline isn't as easy as it he makes it look.
"It doesn't matter how many games at this stage you play, your nerves are going, your heart rate is going," said Lester. "It's just a matter of once you kind of settle in, realizing, like I said yesterday, it's baseball, fastball down and away. In Game 5 of the World Series, that's just as effective as Feb. 1."
Presumably, Lester's run is over this October, unless the Red Sox need him in relief in a potential Game 7. Making his performance even more impressive, Lester was dealing with tightness in his back.
"I feel like it's Oct. 28," said Lester. "There's stuff that you just kind of try to have to battle through. We've got 25, 28, however many guys in that dugout that are relying on you to go out and pitch innings, and whatever it is now, you've got to put on the back burner, just like [Clay Buchholz] did yesterday. We've got three months to recover. The time is now. We've got to win now, and that's all you can really do. That's all you can really focus on."
Farrell deemed that Lester's night was finished at 91 pitches, as he thanked the lefty for a job well done and went to indomitable closer Koji Uehara for the final four outs. With the tying run at the plate when Uehara came on in the eighth, he struck out Matt Adams on three pitches.
If Uehara has seemed almost robotic in the way he mows down the opposition, he is still grinding it out pitch by pitch.
"I am just a regular human being," Uehara said.
The save was his seventh of the postseason, tying the record shared by John Wetteland, Troy Percival, Robb Nen and Brad Lidge. If there is another save for Uehara this month, it would be the one that wins the World Series for Boston.
Meanwhile, no matter which team wins, Fenway Park will be where the World Series ends for the first time since 1975. The Red Sox are aiming for their third World Series title since 2004, while trying to prevent the Cards from winning their third since '06.
"The fact is we're going home," said Farrell. "We're going back to a place that our guys love to play in, in front of our fans. This atmosphere here, these three games, has been phenomenal. We know it's going to be equal to that, if not better. And we're excited about going home in the position we are."
The last time the Sox won a World Series at home? That would be 1918.
"We can't wait to get home," Pedroia said. "We love playing at home -- there's nothing like it. We're one win away from winning the World Series."
Through the first six innings Monday, it seemed neither ace was going to blink. The only difference was that Wainwright came into the seventh with 86 pitches while Lester was at only 69.
And perhaps that helped the Boston bats seize control in the top of the seventh. Top prospect Xander Bogaerts started the rally with a one-out single up the middle. Then came a critical at-bat, as the slumping Stephen Drew was able to work a walk. Perhaps Drew's flyout to deep right in his previous at-bat was just enough to make Wainwright be a little more careful.
"My at-bat before that, I had a good at-bat and sort of was picking the ball up better," said Drew. "Just battling. It's 1-2 and 2-2, and he made some tough pitches. I was able to lay off."
Ross followed with his big double and the Red Sox had the lead.
"How about that? It's nice to drive in runs, that's really nice," said Ross. "Luckily I was able to get something in the zone and it just stayed fair. I was talking to it really well."
Jacoby Ellsbury, who has had a quiet World Series, smacked an RBI single up the middle that scored Drew. Ross was thrown out at the plate to end the inning, but Lester had a 3-1 lead.
The Red Sox came out with a quick burst of offense in the first, as Pedroia rifled a one-out double into the corner in left and Ortiz brought him home with a double down the line in right.
Wainwright gave no thought to pitching around Ortiz.
"I don't like walking anybody," Wainwright said. "We've got a guy on second already, it's the first inning. He hit a good pitch. He's out of his mind hot right now. That was my call before the game; I said, 'I'm not pitching around Ortiz. I'm going to get him out.' He hit a good pitch, made a good swing."
Aside from the pair of doubles, Wainwright was nasty in the early going. The first six outs he recorded were all on strikeouts.
Lester had his good stuff early as well, limiting the Cardinals to two singles over the first three innings.
In the fourth, Matt Holliday hit a towering solo blast onto the berm in center to tie the game. Carlos Beltran nearly made it back-to-back homers, but his shot to left was flagged down by Jonny Gomes in front of the wall in left-center. The inning ended on a bullet by Yadier Molina that Drew made a tremendous leaping catch on.
Lester then settled right back into his groove -- the one he's been in for the entire month. His four wins in this postseason tie his friend and former teammate Josh Beckett (2007) for a team record.
"Jon, he came up to the big leagues at a time where we were going to the playoffs and winning World Series," said Ortiz. "And as a young player, he's always looking around and trying to improve himself and get better. As a player, he told me straight up that he was going to be the future of the organization, the ace. And there he is, doing what he does at his best."
The Red Sox go home knowing what is left to do.
"It's a tough spot when you get to 3-2, because you know you're close -- that's the biggest challenge," Ortiz said. "You've got to come back on Wednesday and continue playing the way we have."
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brownie Points, and follow him on Twitter @IanMBrowne.


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brick-and-mortar, charity, Cupid, cynicism, faith, fighting, Halloween, hatred, heart, hope, ideal, internet, love, Phantom of the Opera, sleepy, spell, Target, Till death do us part, tired, walls, Walmart
In a land, by many,
Purposely ignored,
There lived a man
With a wuthered heart—
He had lived with someone
For more than thirty years,
For as many, maybe, as before
There was a Walmart.
They fought and fought
And fought some more.
They fought so long
And built such walls
That they no longer knew otherwise—
The man no longer
Believed in love.
It became merely an ideal,
Or the image of a Phantom Of The Opera
Halloween disguise.
He became so tired, so
Tired, and sleepy, so
Sleepy, as if under a spell—
He became cynical, so
Much so that his stored-up
Hatred, he could not quell.
He hated the world.
He hated most all.
He hated his someone.
He hated himself.—
Yet, he lived on with that someone
As if under a spell.
He lived on and on,
Setting love further and further
Back on the shelf.
"Who cast the spells?" he asked
What did he do?
Walmart and Target sold everything
Was a cure to be found there—
No, sadly, and no again.
There was no cure in any
Brick-and-mortar or internet store.
There was no cure, he believed,
From religion, or even Cupid.
There was no cure anywhere.
So, he resolved himself to carry on.
He resolved that there was hope in that.
He didn't care that in a land,
By many, purposely ignored, he would
Live under the spells
"Till death did us part."—
He believed in hope.
It was an ideal he could
Get his wuthered heart around.
He believed in hope and
Disdained Cupid's dart.
Once upon a time
In a land, by many,
Purposely ignored,
There lived a man
With a wuthered heart—
He lived with hope,
And faith and charity.
He had lost his belief in love,
And from his someone,
He resolved not to part.
by S.A. Bort / 11 June 2016
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A directory with several loose files is not a convenient package for distribution. So the final step is to make a package. This is a compressed archive containing the directory structure and all the files. The package can be in ZIP format (with a .zip extension), in TAR-gzip format (with a .tar.gz extension), or in TAR-bz2 format (with a .tar.bz2 extension).
If your template is in a directory mytemplate/ then to make the package you can connect to that directory and use commands like:
Note to template developers using Mac OS X systems: the Finder's "compress" menu item produces a usable ZIP format package, but with one catch. It stores the files in AppleDouble format, adding extra files with names beginning with "._". Thus it adds a file named "._templateDetails.xml, which Joomla 1.5.x can sometimes misinterpret. The symptom is an error message, "XML Parsing Error at 1:1. Error 4: Empty document". The workaround is to compress from the command line, and set a shell environment variable "COPYFILE_DISABLE" to "true" before using "compress" or "tar". See the AppleDouble article for more information.
To set an environment variable on a Mac, open a terminal window and type:
export COPYFILE_DISABLE=true
Then in the same terminal window, change directories into where your template files reside and issue the zip command. For instance, if your template files have been built in a folder in your personal directory called myTemplate, then you would do the following:
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A major league baseball source has told The Washington Times' Thom Loverro that there will be an announcement today regarding the future of free agent first baseman Mark Teixeira.This report has been picked up by the Globe, ProJo and WEEI.
While the source declined to discuss specifics, there are strong indications that the Red Sox will announce that they have landed the highly-coveted slugger ...
It is still unclear how much the Red Sox offered Teixeira, but there were reports last night that the Nationals had boosted their bid in a last-ditch effort to sign him.
MASN's Roch Kubatko reported last night that Nationals might have upgraded their offer to the first baseman to an eight-year deal worth between $178 and $184 million.
ESPN's Peter Gammons and Buster Olney, stated earlier today that a Teixeira decision is "seemingly imminent".


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Rockefeller great-grandson dies in Westchester plane crash
Richard Rockefeller, great-grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller, was killed Friday morning in a small-airplane crash, minutes after he took off from Westchester County Airport in adverse weather.
He died fewer than 24 hours after flying into Westchester County to celebrate the 99th birthday of his father, David, a banker and philanthropist.
"He was a warm and extraordinary man, brilliant and idealistic about medicine and social issues," said Greenwich resident Florence Phillips, a close friend of the Rockefeller family. "It's inconceivable that this happened."
Rockefeller's Piper Meridian single-engine turboprop went down in the yard of a house on Cottage Avenue in Purchase, N.Y., a hamlet about a mile from New York's border with Greenwich. Rockefeller, 65, was the only person on board.
The plane narrowly missed the two-story house, which was occupied at the time. No one on the ground was hurt.
Wreckage was strewn across the yard Friday afternoon, with plane parts lodged in a stand of trees the plane clipped before impact, smashing trunks and scything off branches.
Residents of the home were not available for comment Friday.
"It's a terrible tragedy," said Rockefeller family spokesman Fraser Seitel. "The family is in shock. Richard was a wonderful and cherished member of the family. He was an experienced pilot.
"He was a medical doctor, and it's horribly sad."
Rockefeller was bound for Portland, Maine, in weather that aviation officials described as extreme.
"It was foggy conditions outside," Peter Scherrer, Westchester County Airport operations manager, said at a news conference Friday. "You can only see about a quarter-mile down the runway ... Indications are it was a 200-foot (visibility) ceiling, but indefinite, meaning he couldn't visually see the ceiling. Those are extreme conditions."
That visibility fell below the standards of visual flight rules, which are based on the principle of "see and avoid" -- meaning a pilot can navigate by sight. Scherrer could not confirm whether Rockefeller was qualified to fly under the more complex instrument flight rules.
Rockefeller had a private pilot's license, according to a Federal Aviation Administration database.
He was apparently cleared for his flight to Portland, with Scherrer reporting that Rockefeller followed all of the airport's rules and regulations before taking off.
"The pilot makes a decision on whether he's able to go," Scherrer said.
Shortly after Rockefeller departed from runway 16, the FAA's control tower notified airport operations that Rockefeller was missing from radar and that it could not make contact with him.
Local emergency services were then alerted to the missing aircraft.
At approximately 8:20 a.m., the Harrison Police Department informed airport operations that the plane had crashed.
An investigation is underway, led by the FAA and National Transportation Safety Board. Flight tapes had not yet been reviewed Friday, but Scherrer said there was no mayday signal from Rockefeller or any other reported signs of distress from the pilot. The airport was briefly closed after the crash. It reopened around 9:45 a.m., according to officials.
The loss of Rockefeller was also felt acutely in Westchester County, where the Rockefellers have deep roots.
"They're very much a part of Westchester County and its history, so our deepest sympathies go out to David Rockefeller and the entire Rockefeller family," Westchester County Executive Robert Astorino said at the news conference.
A nephew of Nelson A. Rockefeller, a former vice president and governor of New York from 1959 to 1973, Richard Rockefeller was a family physician in Falmouth, Maine. He also practiced and taught medicine in Portland and was involved in a variety of health-related nonprofit activities, according to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
He founded and served as president of Health Commons Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to improving American medicine through the use of computer-based information tools and shared decision making between patients and physicians.
He chaired the U.S. advisory board of Doctors Without Borders from 1989 to 2010 and served on the board of Rockefeller University until 2006.
Rockefeller is survived by his wife and two grown children.
Frank Juliano contributed
to this report.


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A projection mapped shoe. All done in camera with no post=production, for the footwear label Hogan.
A projection mapped shoe. All done in camera with no post=production, for the footwear label Hogan.
Fractoid 2.1 is the second in a series of projection mapped sculptures. Fractoid 2.1 is synched to futuristic beat-machines and operates based off of audience interaction. When certain combinations of keystrokes are entered on the midi controller, the kinetic sculpture has the ability to rotate into different 3 shapes. Full credits listed on the Vimeo page.
Collaborative project by artists Gabriel Pulecio and Michael Russek. Sound Design: Sam Pool
Design and Animation for a dark and moody pitch we won at Psyop NY. Directed by Jon Saunders and Laurent Barthelemy.The final spot was rendered by Jacob Slutzky, comped by Nick Tanner.
The end result of a few weeks spent at The Mill NY researching and developing various graphic styles that can be replicated through procedural trials. All of the particles were created as if in an invisible cube. They will later be projected onto a physical cube as part of the new interactive installation.
Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney's latest documentary, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, follows the controversial whistleblowing site and its even more controversial leader, Julian Assange.
It tells the story of the site's creation up to its execution of the largest security breach in US history.Below is the montage of some of my favorites graphics I produced for the film.Directed by Marc Smith at FramestoreNY.
Thru projection mapping, the user would be able to pick up his car model, change the color, and even see it parking in front of his own house.Early concepts Frames I did for Bossa studio in NY.
Also I was part of the composting team over at Hornet creating the assets for the Projection mapping final stage.
Where Guillerme directed an amazing projection mapped sequence with over 7 projectors and all kinds of technical madness.
The first iteration of the Metalloid Trooper makes it now a interactive sculpture that triggers various graphics and audio when certain volume peaks are reached in the ambient sound.
The underlying non linear story about the journey of the extra-dimensional being, trapped in earth, and poisoned by humans.
Special sound effects by Chris Lane. The sound reactive sculpture was presented at the Kernel Festival in Milan, Italy. Click here for more pictures of the festival.
An inter-dimensional journey reveals itself and continuously creates both the physical and the chain of higher metaphysical realms. Passing through the 10 Sephirots and therefore reaching the point of oblivion.Together with Felipe Posada, we created a set of visuals for Madonnas 2012 World Tour.I was in charge of designing, animating and composting all the 3d shots of the set.
An electro glaciers illustration for Armada Skis new signature TST series.
Tripping fun balls pitch for an endorphin's high phone. Working again with Guilherme at Hornet NY.
Fractoid is a projection mapped sound sculpture that works as a futuristic beat-machine. People interact with it through alight emitting midi controller composed of 36 glowing keys and 10knobs which control
and enable the live mixing of the audiovisual output, a video-camera transmitting real time feedback, a joystick moving a focal 3d light over the sculpture and a set of two directional speakers.
This installation was custom made for the Lightning in a Bottle 2012music/art festival in LA, the concept behind the whole piece was to build an interactive piece that attracts people passing by, to play and compose their one scores during the 3-day musical frenzy.
Three forces collaborated to give life to the piece, Mike Russek built the 6.5´ sculpture and designed and built the retro-looking midi console, Chris Lane created the sound design from a tight and exiting dialogue with me, who designed the
sculpture and the visuals and programmed the whole system in TD.
Awesome team, amazing experience!
Thanks to the Smart Gallery for the best camping crowd and spot in the place :)
Sound reactive projection mapped paper sculpture. Based on the Audio peaks of the ambient, this interactive sculpture will change colors, trigger videos, and also has real time feed-back camera.
New York city is the background for this a nostalgic and fast paced story about a character, a creator, who trough-out the video builds a machine heart that represents love. He fills this heart with super magnetic memory fields containing default memories (it is the problematic of one person, that represents many at the same time), only to have it burned at the end. Better kept than lived. "but I'm in love with you, want to stay in love with you…so I'm going to live alone"
Talking a little about technicalities, we can say that no light bulb was turned on, no machine/gadget was plugged in. Everything was lit and came to life through projection mapping and the animations that where created for all scenes. Everything was shot with a 7D, and a gopro Hero.
The video was done in two months by two great friends, motion designer and animator Gabriel Pulecio aka lustix.com who directed the piece and digital artist Lorena Kraus.
More pictures from the process, props and making-of HERE!
Meticulously hancrafted in El Ricaurte, Bogotá. and after many long but enjoyable drives back and forth from the workshop, Lustix letterpressed bussiness cards are finally here!
With a new 2012 holographic foil logo with UV coating on the front of the card and silver and white foil on the back, we are presented with the aftermath of uniqueness in every piece.
Some logo explorations within the post!
Creating rim paterns in the sky, second part of the amazing hyundai project i was lucky to be in, working with the amazing people at Mass Market, NYC.
Fluid metallic light sculptures, discovering parts of the new Hyundai. Boards created for Hyundai's new billboard at the Picadilly Circus in London. Massmarket, NYC
Vampires, necromancers, Trueblood Season Finale 4,Population is going down, fast. My role was design and animation, another cool camera projection exercise. Looking forward to do more of this. Mass Market, NYC.
The entire animation on this reel is made by me. It is a compilation of work done between 2006 and 2008.
Drop me a line if you need a more detailed breakdown. Music and soundFX by Jeff Dodson.
Saqueadores de calaveras / skull looters.
Series of illustrations for Marcando Calavera. A blog aiming to be the biggest and most exquisite skull archive/collection on the web.
We continue our study of exponential law for occurrences and returns of patterns in the context of random fields. Research and development for the upcoming re-branding of a sports channel. FreshPaint, NYC.
Metalloid Trooper is the first attempt to combine projection mapping and inflatable sculpting. The inflatable sculpture model was designed in 3D to be later translated into fabric and then put together as a inflatable piece that stands on its own and becomes a screen. This 3 dimensional screen is a provoking surface for the development of a series of animations. The animation explores different materials and textures along with some light effects that are carefully synked with an audio track to create an intense and perceptual immersive experience. The result was striking.
This is a quick edit with footage taken with several iPhones at the first appearance of the piece at a 3rd Ward Inflatable Sculpture Show in April, 2011. Brooklyn, NY.
Third part of the exploratory process of illustrative and vintage-e direction for a sports channel rebrand .Freshpaint, NYC
The last one of the Hyundai Saga. My role: Composting.
This issue was curated by KDU partner, Josh Vanover, KDU Core member, Victor Antonio and KDU Founder, David Gensler.
Containing over one hundred original images, it represents our continuing effort to crate the future while resisting the Digital Haze and Hype. 2011 SOLSTICE on issuu
Door designed for the KDU & Operation Design "Side by side, artists from Brooklyn's Keystone Design Union and students from lower Manhattan's High School of Leadership and Public Service".
The door-size artwork was created to benefit the school through Operation Design. The artists' panels will be auctioned on Ebay,from November 30th – December 5th [2010], to benefit future
Operation Design projects"
Of course data is continually changing, updating and refreshing. Data doesn't die or is born, it only transforms.
The implications of these are at once thrilling and worrying. Data can be generated so easily and flow beyond our control too; it will follow you everywhere you go. Framestore, NYC.
Series of Photographs taken during the Research and Development of the upcoming short THE SPILL.
We continue our study of exponential law for occurrences and returns of patterns in the context of random fields.
Research and development for the upcoming re-branding of a sports channel. FreshPaint, NYC. More info to come.
Styleframes for the Hockey Winter Classic Opening 2011. UVPH, NYC. Currently in production, more info soon.
Birds caught in the air. Fatal instants.
If people expected most conversations to be untruthful, talking and communicating with others would require distraction and misdirection to acquire reliable information.
On a given day, it is likely that most human beings will either deceive or be deceived by another person.
Collection of Drawings and Sketches running on a Tumblr blog.
Side by side, Guilleme Marcondez and I created, in just a couple of days, this fun pitch for the new reality show Jamie's Dream School. Hornet, NYC. Some pics from the process:
Series of colliding displacement landscapes.
A displacement field is an assignment of displacement vectors for all points in a region or body that is displaced from one state to another.
Cheetah patterns and melting gold. Concept and style-frames for a new show for VH1. Long Friendship, NYC.
An earthquake contained in a disk. An eruption inside a terrarium. And I really want a terrarium!
A series of dessertic spatial landscapes. Igneous polygons, which form vertex flows, when erupted, affect the lunar phases that are the result of looking at the illuminated half of the moon from different viewing geometries and they are not caused by the shadow of the Earth or umbra falling on the Moon's surface.
The most common type of first-order discontinuity is the transform fault. It appears where rigid planes slide past each other. Experimental shapes produced for a internal pitch. Superfad, NYC.