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Lenovo's ThinkPad X230 Tablet: "Best of Breed," For Now
For the past few weeks, I've been using a Lenovo ThinkPad X230 Tablet as my primary work machine, mostly running it with the Windows 8 consumer preview and Office 2013. It works well, but ultimately looks like a machine in transition—more like the old generation of Tablet PCs than the new hybrid devices that will come out aimed at Windows 8.
The tablet PC concept goes back more than a decade to when Microsoft introduced it. Most of the tablet PCs I have used weren't pure tablets, but rather "convertible" machines that look like notebooks with screens that can flip around to be used as tablets in addition. The ThinkPad brand, along with entrants from Fujitsu and Toshiba, have been the most consistent supporters of the concept, while Fujitsu and Motion Computing are known for their "slate-style" tablet PCs as well.
Of these, I've spent the most time with the ThinkPad series, which now culminates with the X230 Tablet. Like its predecessors, it looks like an ultraportable with a large hinge that swings the display around. (Indeed, it's very much like Lenovo's X230 ultraportable computer, but with a the rotating display, touch screen, and a stylus.)
It's an attractive device with a 12.5-inch screen and a third-generation Intel core processor, but at slightly more than an inch thick and weighing 4.15 pounds, (a version with a smaller battery weighs 3.67 pounds), it is an anomaly in a world of iPads and thin Android tablets.
Compared with the earlier X220 tablet, there are two notable changes: It now has an Ivy Bridge processor, and the unit I used came with a speedy 2.6GHz Core i5-3320M. It also has a new "island" style design for the keyboard. This essentially means that there is a little space between each key. I've always been a fan of ThinkPad keyboards, so I was a bit skeptical of the change when I first saw it on the X1, but it's easy to get used to and it continues to have a very nice feel.
Like most ThinkPads, it has a TrackPoint pointing stick, as well as a touchpad. There are times when it's easy to press on the touchpad accidentally, so I know people who have disabled that feature, which is simple enough.
The 12.5-inch, 1366-by-768-pixel IPS display looks good, though you can see some color differences side by side. The touch-screen panel adds a little thickness, but one good thing is that it seems to do a better job of resisting fingerprint smudges common on many touch screens I've seen. It supports only two touch points at a time, which is all Windows 7 used, but it isn't ideal for Windows 8, which supports multi-point gestures. It comes with a nice stylus about the size of a ballpoint pen that snaps in the side and feels pretty good to write with.
The tablet comes with a number of ThinkPad utilities (for Windows 7), some of which I like a lot (including the Battery Stretch feature), and some of which seem to duplicate functions in the OS a bit too much (such as the wireless radio control). It has three USB ports (including one for USB 3), both VGA and DisplayPort video out, Ethernet and wireless connectivity, an SD card slot, a webcam and microphone (with a dedicated button for switching these off), and an ExpressCard slot (which doesn't have much use these days). As a tablet, it also has buttons that lock or rotate the screen. It has a removable battery and hard drive for easy servicing. All these make it an exceptionally flexible machine.
As a general-purpose notebook with touch-screen and stylus features, I found the X230 Tablet to be fast and reliable with a pretty good battery life. (Lenovo claims up to 18 hours with the battery back it includes.) It has a great keyboard feel, although it's notably heavier than the regular X230 ultraportable, which weighs 3.46 pounds.
As a tablet, it just feels a bit too much in today's world. It works well, but it's not the kind of thing you'd really want to carry around in your hands for too long. As a combination, though, it's good and certainly feels solid.
For right now, this is as good as Windows convertible Tablet PCs get, and that's saying a lot. I'm looking forward to lighter, thinner devices aimed at Windows 8, including "hybrid" machines like Microsoft's Surface and Lenovo's IdeaPad Yoga. I saw a lot of these kinds of machines at Computex, and while Windows versions aren't available yet, they indicate where these machines are going. The whole category looks set for a major overhaul, but for now, the X230 Tablet is the best of breed.


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President Obama reacts to the election of Kathy Hochul:
I want to extend my congratulations to Kathy Hochul for her victory in New York's 26th Congressional District. Kathy and I both believe that we need to create jobs, grow our economy, and reduce the deficit in order to outcompete other nations and win the future. Kathy has shown, through her victory and throughout her career, that she will fight for the families and businesses in western New York, and I look forward to working with her when she gets to Washington.
The White House was obviously quite pleased with the NY-26 special election. The statement was emailed to reporters and posted at WhiteHouse.gov before Hochul even gave her victory speech.

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The encryption bug that has the Internet on high alert also affects the equipment that connects the Web.
Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO, +0.20% and Juniper Networks Inc. JNPR, -0.70% , two of the largest manufacturers of network equipment, said Thursday that some of their products contain the "Heartbleed" bug, meaning hackers might be able to capture user names, passwords and other sensitive information as it moves across corporate networks, home networks and the Internet.
Many websites -- including those run by Yahoo Inc. US:YHOO , Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -0.23% and Netflix Inc. NFLX, +1.83% -- quickly fixed the hole after it was disclosed Monday. But Cisco and Juniper said the security flaw affects routers, switches and firewalls used in businesses and at home.
These devices likely will be more difficult to fix. The process involves more steps and businesses are less likely to check the status of network equipment, security experts said.
Bruce Schneier, a cybersecurity researcher and cryptographer, said, "The upgrade path is going to involve trash can, a credit card, and a trip to Best Buy."
To be sure, the products available at retail stores now likely were shipped before the bug was revealed on Monday, and may also contain the defective software, from an encryption code known as OpenSSL.
Companies often use firewalls and virtual private networks to protect their computer systems. But if the machines that run the firewalls and virtual private networks are affected by the Heartbleed bug, attackers could use them to infiltrate a network, said Matthew Green, an encryption expert at Johns Hopkins University.
Read the full article at WSJ.com.
More From MarketWatch:
5 rules for using the Internet after 'Heartbleed'
'Heartbleed' bug warning: 'Time to change passwords everywhere'


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Contact Music reports that Mark was so upset over the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl that it even started a fight with his wife. Here is the article:
Mark Wahlberg has been banned from watching the Super Bowl at home with friends following a row with his wife after his beloved New England Patriots lost to rivals the New York Giants in February (12).
The passionate Boston, Massachusetts sports fan was so upset when the Giants won he kicked all his pals out of his house and then yelled at his wife Rhea Durham when she told him to calm down.
The movie star admits he has regretted the confrontation ever since and now he accepts he may never be able to watch his Patriots in the American football final if his wife is at home.
He says, "She was so upset I wasn't able to make it up to her until Valentine's Day... She said, 'You know, you're never watching the game again (at home),' but now she just hopes that the Patriots make it back to the Super Bowl so she can go on, like, a week vacation."
Wahlberg admits he's still coming to terms with the Giants' come-from-behind victory: "It was bad. I always tell myself I'm not gonna get upset, but you just can't help it."
In fact, he's more cut up about the defeat that Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.
Wahlberg adds, "He's doing good. He handled it better than I did. He came to visit me... and Tom feels, like, they're gonna win this year."


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Middlesbrough boss Tony Mowbray admits he is interested in signing Kieron Dyer
Middlesbrough boss Tony Mowbray has held talks with free-agent Kieron Dyer about a move to The Riverside.
Last Updated: 27/01/13 1:43pm
The 34-year-old Dyer is searching for a new club after he was recently released by QPR and Boro are keen to secure the former England midfielder's services.
Injuries have repeatedly disrupted Dyer's career in recent years, but Mowbray still believes he could play a key role in the club's bid to secure promotion from the Championship.
"I've had some conversations with Kieron," Mowbray said. "If Kieron was fit and playing for us then he would be a huge asset for our club.
"I've watched some footage of him playing against Gareth Bale for QPR and he did well.
"He's scored in the FA Cup against West Brom and he's been available, fit and playing. I'll have to see if something can be done and we might be close to that.
"If Kieron plays football for us and helps win football matches then I think he would be an asset."


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A Look Inside Two Of The Most Powerful Challenge Engines
It takes horsepower to be competitive in our Engine Challenge, and the two small-blocks we're featuring this month made plenty of it. In fact, the R.M. Competition entry was just shy of winning, placing a very close Third in our tightest competition to date. The Mid America Racing Engines entry also impressed us by making the most combined power of any engine in this year's Engine Challenge, screaming to more than 560 pump-gas-friendly horsepower and nearly 500 lb-ft of torque. Equally as important as the power these engines produced was the budget the builders adhered to. Since the cost of each engine is factored into the combined power, engine builders had to carefully spend money where it benefited their combination the most.
This month, we'll go inside the Third Place entry of R.M. Competition and the Fourth Place entry of Mid America Racing Engines, detailing the parts and techniques that made each engine competitive.
|2007 participants
|Diamondback Engines
|Indy Cylinder Head
|8621 Southeastern Ave.
|Richmond, TX 77469
|Indianapolis, IN 46239
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|MRL Performance
|1945 W. 18th St.
|4651 Culley Ln.
|Washington, IA 52353
|Jackson, MI 49201
|Muscle Motors
|R.M. Competition
|2085 Glenn St.
|28648 Maple
|Lansing, MI 48906
|Roseville, MI 48066
|Schurbon Engine and Machine
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|131 W. Lang Ave.
|Maquoketa, IA 52060
|West Covina, CA 91790
R.M. Competition
Roseville, Michigan
Engine builder Randy Malik came very close to winning this year's Engine Challenge. Placing a close Third, this engine was mere decimals away from the Second and First Place entries in ouandy placed so well was his careful selection of budget parts, and making more than 500 hp on the dyno certainly didn't hurt. This engine was a well thought-out combination of powerful parts and was built on a tight budget since cost matters as much as power in our contest.
Starting with a production Chrysler 360 core motor, Randy performed the necessary machine work in-house. The factory block was bored to accommodate Keith Black hypereutectic cast pistons and Perfect Circle piston rings. A Scat stroker crank was matched with factory connecting rods to net a displacement of 406 ci. A production 360 oil pan was also utilized to keep costs down, and a custom windage tray was fabricated in-house. Melling was the manufacturer of choice for the oil pump, timing set, and lifters, and Federal Mogul and Durabond bearings were used in this engine. Knowing the importance of camshaft selection, Randy chose a large Lunati flat-tappet unit to work with the Weiand tunnel-ram intake.
To top his stout bottom-end, Randy chose Mopar Magnum cylinder heads from Engine Quest. Magnum heads adorned the top three finishers in this year's contest and make great power for the money. REV engine valves were utilized along with valvesprings matched to the Lunati bump stick. Harland Sharp roller rocker arms with a 1.7 ratio were used on the intake side, while Crane 1.6 ratio rockers were chosen for the exhaust side. A composition head gasket was used to seal the combustion chambers, and Randy claims compression ended up right at 12.2:1, pushing the limit for pump gas. While the Weiand tunnel-ram intake isn't really what Randy would recommend for a street car, it worked great on the dyno where peak horsepower and torque were used to help determine the winner. While no special coatings per se were used on this engine, he did paint the bottom of the intake with epoxy paint to help insulate the intake from the hot oil. A matching pair of Edelbrock carburetors topped the engine, and an air cleaner was fabricated from wood, again to keep cost down.
Mid America Racing Engines
Washington, Iowa
Engine builder David Bruns of Mid America Racing Engines has brought competitive engines to all our competitions to date. The Hemi he brought to the first Challenge was a solid street engine with very broad torque and power curves, and last year's big-block impressed us with awesome power and torque, winning the '06 Engine Challenge. This year David brought yet another good engine to the contest, impressing everyone in attendance by making nearly 570 hp and 490 lb-ft of torque for a contest-leading combined score. While the expense of aluminum cylinder heads and a roller cam kept him from another win, we were still impressed with the power and reliability of this engine, earning Mid America Racing Engines a Fourth Place finish.
Like most competitors this year, David used a stock 360 core block as the foundation for his build. The block was machined in-house for Probe forged pistons with PBM piston rings and an Eagle 4-inch stroke crankshaft. Scat connecting rods were utilized for their durability; the compression ratio of this 410ci small-block was 11.7:1. To handle oiling, David chose a Moroso oil pan, which he modified by adding oil control baffles, combined with a Milodon windage tray and Clevite oil pump. Oil from the top end was routed to the pan via the back of the block and away from the rotating assembly by metal plates under the camshaft tunnel. King rod and main bearings kept everything spinning freely, and Clevite cam bearings held the Cam Motion solid roller camshaft in place. A PBM timing set was used to spin the cam and enclosed by a stock timing cover.
Going for big power numbers meant utilizing aftermarket cylinder heads, and engine builder David Bruns chose Indy 360 H1-1 units to top his engine. These heads were machined in-house for stainless steel 2.125-inch intake and 1.65-inch exhaust valves and PBM roller valvesprings. David also ported the cylinder heads himself, reshaping the exhaust ports to mimic the proven profile and volume of Mopar W-2 cylinder heads. To actuate the valves, 1.6-ratio Indy roller rocker arms were used along with 3/8 -inch-diameter hardened pushrods. Knowing this combination would like an intake with big runners and a high plenum volume, David chose the Indy 360-14-3R aluminum single plane intake for induction duties. Double carb spacers beneath the Holley 1,000-cfm 4150 series carb provided additional intake volume, and additional power for this combination. Ignition was handled by an MSD distributor.


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What is a religion?
This ability be an abnormal catechism for those bodies who don't accord to a religion, but for those who do, this is a catechism they are over smartly assured in, and appropriately they authority awry beliefs. Here we are traveling to amount out some absolutely important credibility which beset us to be affianced with a accurate religion. Let's activate with a little affinity of the appellation "Religion".
On rational grounds, a acceptance in the angle that's accurate with actual contest is what we alarm a "Religion". There ability be abounding questions, confusions, and even conflicts about altered religions, but as we attending aloft all the religions we authority the actuality that all of them are affiliated and accept the aforementioned "soul".
Usually, we analyze our religious behavior with others in adjustment to prove that our adoration is above to theirs; however, in my understanding, one accepted affair that serves as a courage of all religions is that all of them amplitude a accomplished band amid "good and bad". Therefore, it can be said after a agnosticism that every adoration makes us abjure from atrocity and animate us for amicableness to accomplish the apple a bigger place.
As a amount of fact, we authority religious behavior out of bequest and stick to those behavior throughout our lives; so the point of accepting the norms of an addition adoration absolutely goes out of question, let abandoned account the added adoration for overextension angelic lessons. The acumen why we can't accord a allowance in our active to appreciate to added behavior is that we accept in our appropriateness added than the definiteness of the behavior we hold. It is firstly important that we embrace the notions on the base of acumen rather than afterward a acceptance blindly as a badge of ancestors values.
Another aspect that unites all religions in a agglomeration is that the Angelic Books may accept been accounting by altered sources but they all bear the aforementioned account in their gist. A allusive abstraction of religions aswell makes you deduce accuracy on the base of acumen as able-bodied as accepting a absolute religious approach.
Why do we crave a angelic book?
A circuitous acknowledgment would be that we crave a Angelic Book so that we may apperceive how we can advance our lives according to the attempt declared in the scriptures. The acknowledgment is true. However, advancing up with a simple and the truest answer, a few words would sum up the accomplished account which is that; we "psychologically" charge it!
Take an archetype of a country that runs after a built-in arrangement or laws, it would become a accomplished lot of failure. In fact, there would be no such country lest it is some added planet. We bodies accept to accept a actual archetype of rules that should acquaint us how to advance our circadian lives lest we become barbarians. The aforementioned applies with religious beliefs.
Why are religions so important to us?
Till this moment, you accept to accept accepted the actuality that; all religions advise us about humanity, morality, and ascertain the way to reside a acknowledged life. But there's addition absorbing actuality that we charge to accept by the attempt of a adoration because we acquisition our beatitude in it. Surprised? Let's explain this with absolute activity examples.
Oftentimes there comes an agitated bearings in our activity if we absolutely charge anyone to abutment us about or to actuate us, accept in such situation, there's cipher about us to help. In such affairs if we feel demanding and helpless, those of us who accept religious behavior alarm their God/s to advice them. And if their acceptance is able they would in fact feel adequate because they apperceive there's consistently anyone to accept to them and advice them which is/are God/s.
As we canyon our worries to God/s, we apperceive that there is anyone who is allowance out of our problems. The angle that we are never abandoned and that God/s is/are watching on us gives us a faculty of achievement and action which drives us to attempt and action added finer to get rid of our problems. As a consequence, if we endeavored abundant and the botheration is apparent later; we access our acceptance and become beholden to our benefactor. Hence, this acutely suggests that the cerebral akin plays an important allotment in whichever acceptance we hold.
Why do we calculation on our beliefs?
The acknowledgment has an affinity that would bigger call my point. Consider that you're acquirements car active and there's an able disciplinarian sitting next to you, again obviously, you will drive added confidently instead of active abandoned which will accomplish you feel abashed and confused. Likewise, we calculation on our behavior because we apperceive that the academic rules will assure us from abuse and will accomplish us feel added defended in what we do.
Why do we chase a religion?
One added amazing allotment of adoration is that it charms our lives with a lot of religious contest which are a allotment of about all religions. These active contest accommodate a day to bless activity and to apperceive the agenda contest even afore the year starts. This helps us stick to the religious ethics as able-bodied as accept a analytical life.
So far we accept accepted that there's annihilation amiss about afterward a adoration and that all religions accept accepted aspects that bear somewhat the aforementioned letters from the core. All religions are created to adviser us. It basically depends aloft our cerebration and how we accept in things on the base of acumen that we may accept the angelic path. So, there are three base on the pillars of which a adoration stands:
- It teaches us about acceptable or bad and all about humanity
- It gives us a achievement and confidence
- It shines through our lives with its amazing events


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The rainforest is located in the exotic and subtropical parts on the planet. There is nonetheless a whole lot we all do not recognize concerning the rainforest, however the pursuit to earn money from all of these forests by means of deforestation and also other short term earnings generating endeavors threatens the data. So what on earth each of the understanding we have now about these rainforest may be the simple ecology that is certainly general. doğa
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- The rainforest is located in the tropical and subtropical elements on the planet. There is nevertheless a lot we.
About the world's map the location where by these rain forests will probably be positioned will fall between the latitude 23N to latitude 23S. It really is in this rainforest that people hold the most diversified species; sadly we are yet to name each of the species from the rainforest. The tropics do not have merely the very best ecosystem within the rain woodland but also inside the oceans, particularly in the coral reefs. In the forest, we have varieties which are progressively going into extinction even without having us getting to know on them.
Using the bulldozers and also the chainsaws that happen to be continuously jogging through these woodland we could not even estimation the amount of kinds that are simply being displaced off their organic environment, neither of them could we estimate the number of types that are currently being wiped out daily. These routines are now taking place daily and so are probably occurring because i write apart from anything is performed regarding this. So that we continue to reduction numerous kinds to the investors inside the rainforest. doğa
Are simply being displaced off their organic
The rainforest ecology can be a sophisticated factor to unravel. The foodstuff sequence may be considered just like the other fundamental foods chain seem generally in most ecosystem, however when we consider the food items web it will become some other accounts. The rainwater woodland in Coastal Rica, Nigeria as well as other parts exactly where they have been conserved displays a large types of Arthropods and Aves which are not present in other parts around the globe. There also are present an incredible assortment within the reptiles, mammals and amphibians.
The rainwater woodland in Coastal
The rainforest is a location that blooms flourish throughout the calendar year, this provides area for bugs and also other varieties to flourish together with the plant. Development is constant process within the rainforest as some thrive, other folks go extinct and new ones arrived at lifestyle. ekoloji
Process within the rainforest
The species of the plants and flowers and animal, which serve as the suppliers and also the primary and second suppliers are in large quantity. You will discover a complicated food items internet within the program that enables the ecosystem a really distinctive style. This rainforest do not have the most effective words and phrases to explain them, one must go to them from the South Eastern side Asia, The boundaries of Seaside Rica and the rain Woodland in Africa to take pleasure in them.
Of the plants and flowers and animal
It has become required that voices be increase to inspire us find other implies where we obtain to formulate our civilization lest we damage the splendor that mother nature has set up. When we shed them now, not only will the ecology of your rainforest be misplaced but it will require yrs well before we are going to get to have the diversity profit back to our rainforest. ekoloji


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A security guard for Nicki Minaj is in trouble after pulling out his phone at a concert. She was understandably upset that someone paid to protect her was paying more attention to his screen than his surrounding.
Responses ranged from supportive to confrontational about her decision to toss the guard's phone to the floor.
via @miguuelfloress1, @AzaleaThot, @TheMarcelDutch
Right or wrong, he'll definitely think twice before texting on the job again.


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The Nike Free 4.0 running shoe features a modified innersleeve construction made of sandwich mesh that provides a dynamic, sock-like fit that hugs the foot, but still allows for easy on and off. Seamless upper with engineered laser-perforated design covers the stretchy mesh innersleeve to provide a supportive, skin-like fit that moves with each stride. Tongue-wrap construction offers comfort and easy on and off. Asymmetrical lacing system is offset to the lateral side of the foot to help reduce pressure over the top ridge of the foot for enhanced comfort. Large, reflective Swoosh design trademark remains visible in low-light conditions. Low-profile, Phylite midsole provides a resilient ride and is tough enough to double as an outsole, dramatically reducing the overall weight. Sipes along the length and width of the midsole enhance flexibility and help maintain stability. Transtarsal diagonal cuts through the arch enhance natural motion flexibility and help increase foot strength. M...
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Feb 13 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a pharmacy from providing a compound execution drug to Missouri jailers to use in the Feb. 26 lethal injection of Michael Taylor, guilty in the death of a 15-year-old girl.
Missouri and several other U.S. states that have the death penalty have increasingly been forced to look for alternate drugs and sources of drugs for executions as pharmaceutical companies have raised objections to their products being used in capital punishment.
Some states have turned to so-called compounding pharmacies, which produce small amounts of drugs by prescription and are not regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, prompting defense attorneys to question the quality of the drugs and whether they could cause undue pain during an execution.
U.S. District Court Judge Terence Kern on Wednesday afternoon granted a temporary restraining order preventing one such pharmacy, The Apothecary Shoppe, from supplying compounded pentobarbital to the Missouri Department of Corrections.
The order came after Taylor's attorneys argued in a federal lawsuit filed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this week that he could suffer "severe, unnecessary, lingering and ultimately inhumane pain" if the drug is used.
"This is not an acceptable method for carrying out executions - to use an unlawful and dangerous drug - so we are hoping to stop that from happening," Matthew Hellman, one of Taylor's defense attorneys, told Reuters late on Wednesday.
The state has used compounded pentobarbital, a fast-acting barbiturate, in its recent executions.
The lawsuit sought a restraining order as well as an injunction preventing the pharmacy from delivering the drug for Taylor's execution, Hellman said.
It was unclear whether the pharmacy had already delivered the drug. An evidentiary hearing was set for Tuesday.
The increasing use of in some cases untested compounded drugs has revived the debate over the death penalty in the United States.
In Oklahoma, an inmate said he felt burning through his body when the drugs used to kill him were injected during an execution in early January. Taylor's attorneys cited the Oklahoma case in their lawsuit, Hellman said. (Reporting by Eric M. Johnson in Seattle; Editing by Kevin Liffey)


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Dead Men May Tell No Tales, But Wrecked Cakes Sure Do.
Avast, ye lily livered lubbers! Did ye not know it's Talk Like a Pirate Day?
Now raise yer mugs to winsome wench Kia M., whose bilge-water Wreck here is evidence of some focsal swab drinking up and yo-ho'ing a bit too much while on duty. Mayhaps this is why the rum is always gone, eh, maties?
That sea-sick writing and algae-ridden muck creeping up the sides should earn some scurvy swabbie a one-way ticket to Davy Jones' locker - and seriously, what self-respecting pirate keeps giant yellow inflatable flotation devices onboard? It's totally messing with the color scheme, and don't get me started on that neon "rave" ladder...er...wait, I mean...Arrrr! Yellow bad!
Shiver me soul, I'm running out of pirate lingo, me 'arties. I best be gettin' back to the Pirate ride over at Disney for a refresher course.


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Project Alphabetisation de Base par Cellulaire (ABC) is a mobile phone-based literacy and numeracy program in Niger, a landlocked country located in Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is Project ABC?
Project ABC is a collaborative initiative between Catholic Relief Services/Niger, Tufts University and the University of Oxford that uses mobile phones as a tool to promote adult literacy and numeracy in Niger. Implemented in over 110 villages in the Dosso and Zinder regions of Niger, the program includes a mobile phone module as a complement traditional literacy classes, thereby providing households with the opportunity to practice their literacy and numeracy skills via calling and SMS. This addresses an important constraint to previous functional literacy programs in Niger, where it has been difficult for adult learners to practice what they have learned by accessing timely, up-to-date, and relevant information in their local languages.


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Given the
azimuth and altitude /
latitude and longitude from the observer to the satellite, how can I accurately find the latitude and longitude of the point of intersection directly under the satellite?
This problem has been plaguing me for quite some time now, thank you in advance for your help!
Edit: I also have the L1/2 p and L1/2 c/a values.


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My Take: Let's Go, Team!
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Snow coming down, a layer of ice on its way to Chicagoland…Can I be faulted for letting my thoughts wander off in the direction of spring? Of course, that gets me thinking about baseball, which in turn gets me thinking about teams—our team, to be exact!
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America has not been this divided in my lifetime. Not even close. We're barreling towards the most contentious (for many, many reasons) presidential election of our generation, there's violence in our streets, we are being divided in every way imaginable, and for all intents and purposes, it would appear that the wheels are falling off the wagon of The American Dream. Michael Des Barres's new single, an incendiary cover of Marvin Gaye's classic "What's Going On?" confronts these issues in an incredibly timely and head-on manner.
What gives Michael Des Barres the right?
Michael Des Barres has lived in America for over thirty-five years, and for a member of British nobility (He is officially, Lord Marquis Michael Philip Des Barres) that speaks volumes. He's lived in America for the sole reason that he dearly loves it. His radio show can be heard on the greatest mainstream rock 'n' roll radio station on the planet, Little Steven's Underground Garage, and he's been a fixture on the scene in Hollywood as a rocker and an actor since the early seventies. You want to talk credibility? The guy has it in spades, so he's well within his rights to now ask, "What's Going On?"
The Marvin Gaye classic is Des Barres latest solo release on his own Humble Servant, Inc label, and both the song and its accompanying video could not be more timely, or rock a bit harder. Des Barres is joined by his old bandmate and legendary drummer, Clem Burke (Blondie, Chequered Past), and together they make a divine racket. The guitars bristle, the beat is savage, and Des Barres is in fantastic voice. He's also been gifted with an exceptional video (directed by Marianne Spellman) that shows how little things have really changed (and perhaps gone backwards) in the great American experiment and experience.
Des Barres is currently working on an album's worth of both classic and original protest songs for our times, and if this single is any indication (and it is), it's going to be a barnburner. Bring your torches and pitchforks, but make sure they are metaphysical, as Des Barres's message at the end of the day is that we all must learn to love one another and to practice this always. Believing in love has always been the formative philosophy of any protest worth its weight, and it's what the world needs now more than ever.
So, my question seems to have been answered. Perhaps the reason that it's necessary for an ex-pat Brit to kick off the return of the protest song in a country steeped in the tradition is that it sometimes takes the perception of an observer from outside the situation to see it clearest. Michael Des Barres has grabbed the bull by its horns and is leading the charge on this day in which America must truly ask, "What's Going On?" He's inside, and he's looking out. With love.


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A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee's Triumph 1862-1863
by Jeffry D. Wert
by Jeffry D. Wert
In A Glorious Army Wert traces Lee's command of the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days through Gettysburg. The time when nearly everything went right (until it came crashing down at Gettysburg) for Lee. This is a good recap of the campaigns the army undertook with Lee during that time frame. Wert does a good job of providing details of battles (even down to the regimental level) without getting bogged down in them, and does it all in just under 300 pages of text.
What I especially liked is how Wert brought other historians in the mix. Of course any writer would use them in a book like this but Wert would offer their interpretations right in the text and not just through a footnote. For example he would say "Gary Gallagher said that ....." Sometimes Wert would then disagree or agree and sometimes he would just leave it out there as an example of an interpretation. Having read most of those books at one time or another it was very helpful to get this little reminder of what that author had said about something.
When I read Eastern Theater stuff I sometimes think in the back of my head, "well that's all very nice but the war was won in the West, so while Lee was having great success it doesn't really matter in the end." And while I do still feel that way Wert gave a very convincing argument that Lee's audacity and aggressiveness was the only way the Confederates could hope to win. And he did win a lot and suffered tremendous losses at the same time, but it was his only hope. One thing I am forced to agree with him on, and it happens to be the last line of the book, is "No American army, against such odds and in less than a year, compiled such a record as that of the Army of Northern Virginia, and none altered the direction of a conflict more." Wert is right on that, so maybe I should give the Eastern Theater a little more respect.
Wert makes a good point in the final summary chapter of reminding us that when Lee took over the army the total war effort for the Confederates looked very bleak. To that point the Confederacy had mostly been on the strategic defensive and was losing the war. Lee's aggressiveness changed the course of the war in the Eastern Theater, which prolonged the contest as a whole because of the political aspect of the war. Later many people, participants and historians alike, would say that Lee should have operated on the strategic defensive but there is reason to believe that his offensives is the reason the Confederacy was able to stay in the war that long.
I really enjoyed this book and it slightly changed my opinion of the value of the Eastern Theater. If you wanted a highly detailed account of regimental actions covering those 12 months this is not the book for you. Truthfully I'm not sure anyone has covered all of that in one volume, so the book you want has not yet been written. But Wert's book gives a good overview of that year and also gives enough tactical information for you to get a good grasp of how Lee's army fought. A fine addition to any Civil War library and especially for Eastern Theater students.


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Back in February I had completed about 1200 tests with my Supernova 3760 XE for the month, when I noticed that when an Insulation Resistance Test was performed, the test value returned would decline- 99Meg, 63 Meg, 10 Meg till it would fail appliances that had previously just passed as OK. After a day or two of doing this, it stopped working altogether (would not turn on). I returned it to my nearest Seward Agent, who found that the main power transformer had cooked it's self, they couldn't suggest any reason.
Subsequently, I've purchased a secondhand Supernova 3760 XE, about 6 months older than my orgional machine, last month I completed about 1100 tests with it, when it started to display the same symptoms as my first did (declining Insulation Resistance Test values on known items)- neither machine gave any warning about over heating, and a reasonable mix of test types were being conducted.
Is this a common problem, or has muggins just got two duff machines off the assembly line?
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Maxwell's equations allow for wave solutions via oscillations between electric and magnetic field content.
Couldn't we generate electric waves also if that solution didn't exists? Imagine there was no magnetic field, only the electric field. If at one point in space we generated an electric field nicely varying in a sinus pattern of constant frequency, wouldn't this propagate with light speed, just like a plane EM-wave of that frequency, even though there was no magnetic field?


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Back in January of 2012, I was featured in DOCMA Photoshop Magazine in Germany. It's strange but this being my best interviewed feature to date totally slipped my mind and never got posted on my blog. It was a five page spread and sort of in story form about me but it's in German and although I have the PDF files for all five pages, Google Translate is totally useless. It makes no sense what so ever. Anyhow, I wanted to get it up on my blog since I failed to do so nearly nine months ago, duh. :)
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As usual $\sigma_k(n)$ denotes the sum of the $k$-th powers of the positive divisors of an integer $n.$ Note that $k$ is also an integer so that it may be negative.
There are no odd perfect numbers known but there are many numbers $N$ such that $$ \sigma(N) \equiv 2 \pmod{4} $$ i.e.; many numbers of the form:
$$ N = p^{4k+1}m^2 $$ with $\gcd(p,m)=1$ and $p$ a prime number with $p \equiv 1 \pmod{4}.$
Since $$ 2\sqrt{2} $$ equals the minimum of the $2z+1/z$ when $0 < z \leq 1,$ attained for $$ z=z_0 = \frac{\sqrt{2}}{2}, $$
by putting
$$ z =\frac{p^{4k+1}}{\sigma(p^{4k+1})} $$
It may have some interest the
Question: For which numbers $k$ and prime numbers $p \equiv 1 \pmod{4}$
the $z$ above is
close to $z_0$, say appears as a convergent in the continued fraction of $z_0.$
question inspired by some MO posts of Arnie Dris:
a) In his notation I am asking here when the sum below is
$$ I(p^{4k+1}) + I(m^2) = \sigma_{-1} (p^{4k+1}) + \sigma_{-1}(m^2) $$
b) Arnie wanted $2N=\sigma(N)$ so that in his case
$$ I(p^{4k+1}) = 1/z $$
$$ I(m^2)= 2z $$
so that
$$ I(p^{4k+1})+I(m^2)=2z+1/z $$


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The "Wonders" (of) Punctuation...
National Punctuation Day is this Saturday, so allow me to present a mini educational series on the "wonders" of punctuation.
[Cue the cheesy music!]
Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
Now remember, boys and girls: Punctuation can be a scary thing, but skipping it all together is never the answer.
Unless you want to command everyone to love their "senoirs."
On the other hand, filling your cake with the wrong punctuation isn't the answer, either.
Ah, a classic case of WTH: "Where's the H?"
Fortunately, punctuation allows us to add an appropriate level of enthusiasm to our greetings:
Pass the tissues. I think Linda is having a moment.
...not to mention convey our "sincerity":
And we mean that, Elizabeth. Like, soooo much.
(Btw, bonus points for the random asterisk. I assume the footnote came on a cupcake? That said, "Not really"?)
Of course, it is possible to go overboard from time to time:
Not to mention that pesky "you're" business.
Yep. Pesky.
And will someone please explain this?
Parentheses? Really? Look, bakers, I'm pretty sure no one has ever - EVER - ordered parentheses on a cake, so why would you even consider...
Ok, so ONE person ordered parentheses on a cake.
That just means you're both wrong.
Thanks to Andrea M., Anne G., Anna S., Linda J., Margaret J., Lisa, Kayla H., Debb D., & Bunny B., who I hear enjoy cooking their dogs and their families. So let's eat guys!


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Carrie Underwood Thinks It's Time for Another Woman to Win 'American Idol'
Carrie Underwood first shot to stardom after winning Season 4 of the Fox hit reality singing competition 'American Idol,' but she's one of just four women to have taken top honors in the show's 11-year run. At a recent press conference, the 'Blown Away' singer said she's rooting for a woman to win this season.
"I'm always excited to watch the show and definitely will throw in some votes of my own," Underwood told a group of journalists in Nashville (quote via the Boot). "I would like to see another female take it home, I think it's time."
Of course, 'American Idol' started off with Kelly Clarkson winning its first season, and Fantasia Barrino won Season 3. Underwood won the following year, while Jordin Sparks was the last female to win the coveted title in Season 6.
Underwood said it's difficult to predict why a given vote will go a certain way. "The way the voting goes has a lot to do with the audience watching the show. I don't know how I pulled off a win the year I was on," she admits. "That year, they said a guy was gonna win and they were wrong, fortunately. Thank goodness."
She added that judges and audiences don't really know what they're looking for until it finds them, which is part of the magic of the show. "I know when I was on there, I can guarantee you they were not looking for a little blond country girl from Oklahoma singing country music!" Underwood stated. "I think the judges may see something in people they may not expect to see, things they didn't know they wanted. They will only know it when they see and hear it."
The Hollywood round of Season 12 of 'American Idol' begins on Wednesday (Feb. 6).


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The Dolphins Hall-of-Famer says he didn't intend to be automatically listed as a plaintiff in the recent lawsuit filed against the NFL, and says he is not suffering from memory loss or post-concussion symptoms
The football world was stunned Monday when a concussion lawsuit with Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino as star plaintiff was announced. Evidently, Marino himself was just as stunned to hear the news.
Late Tuesday afternoon, Marino confirmed the news that was reported by the South Florida Sun Sentinel earlier in the day: that he would withdraw the lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania as a twin to the massive concussion litigation waiting for settlement confirmation in the same court. In a statement provided to The MMQB shortly at 5:40 p.m. Tuesday, Marino said:
"Within the last year I authorized a claim to be filed on my behalf just in case I needed future medical coverage to protect me and my family in the event I later suffered from the effects of head trauma. In so doing I did not realize I would be automatically listed as a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the NFL. I have made the decision it is not necessary for me to be part of any claims or this lawsuit and therefore I am withdrawing as a plaintiff effective immediately. I am sympathetic to other players who are seeking relief who may have suffered head injuries. I also disclaim any references in the form complaint of current head injuries."
The suit was curious in the first place because Marino, as a former player in the era covered by $765 milion concussion-suit settlement, would automatically be eligible for benefits when or if Judge Anita Brody institutes the settlement that the NFL and attorneys for the aggrieved 4,000 players or player estates agreed to last September. She has reportedly been skeptical that there is enough money to cover benefits for the large number of players who could come forward claiming head injuries when they surface among retired players. For instance, players who suffer from ALS—such as Steve Gleason and Kevin Turner—would be eligible to receive settlement checks of $5 million apiece from the settlement pool. Thus the concern that there would be enough money for the legions of players who could come forward in future years.
Marino, a source close to him said Tuesday, is adamant that he is not currently suffering from any memory loss or post-concussion syndrome related to head trauma from his 17-year NFL career, which ended in January 2000.
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Ben Gordon gave the Detroit Pistons a winning end to an otherwise ugly game.
The Pistons shook off an awful first half and Gordon scored seven of their final eight points — including the go-ahead basket — to hang on for a 76-73 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Sunday night.
Gordon's three-pointer with less than three minutes to play broke a 68-all tie and he added four subsequent free throws to keep Detroit ahead. He and rookie Brandon Knight each scored 19 points to help the Pistons end a two-game losing streak.
"Obviously all game was pretty much an ugly game," Gordon said. "We just stuck it out and tried to be more persistent than they were."
DeMar DeRozan had 16 to lead the Raptors, who lost their third straight.
The Pistons couldn't celebrate the victory until Linas Kleiza's wide-open three-point attempt bounced off the rim as time expired.
"LK had a great look at the end of the game and that's all we can ask for," said Raptors coach Dwane Casey, who did not play DeRozan in the final quarter to give a handful of other players more minutes as his team plays out the final games of the season.
Alan Anderson had two chances to give the Raptors the lead in the final 20 seconds but missed both shots.
Gordon's three-pointer capped a second half that had 15 lead changes and five ties. Detroit turned 17 Raptors turnovers into 18 points and shot 20 per cent better from the field in the last 24 minutes.
Neither team will be playing beyond the end of the regular season and Pistons coach Lawrence Frank said that seemed to show Sunday night.
"Both teams obviously are in very similar situations," he said. "Almost identical records, both not going to the playoffs.
"Those games go either one of two ways: Either 130-126 or it's this."
Toronto took a 34-29 lead to intermission after the teams combined for the NBA's second-lowest halftime output of the season. The Pistons made just 27 per cent of their field-goal attempts in the opening half and the Raptors (35.1) weren't much better. Detroit's 29 points were the fewest they've scored in a first half this season.
Greg Monroe had nine points and 17 of Detroit's 41 rebounds. Reserves Kleiza and Gary Forbes finished with 12 and 10 points, respectively, for the Raptors, who also got 10 rebounds from Solomon Alabi.
NOTES: Casey said he doubted G Jose Calderon will play in either of the team's final two games. He's been out since suffering a cut above his right eye in an April 11 loss at Philadelphia. . Pistons F Ben Wallace returned after missing Thursday's loss to Minnesota to attend a funeral. . Kleiza (right knee) played for the Raptors after missing two games. . Indiana and Boston had the league's lowest-scoring first half Jan. 6 when they had a combined 58 points at the break.


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|The Soul of the World by Roger Scruton
|Faust I & II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I understand that this month I've spent most of my time discussing sex with:
1) my husband, who used to be addicted to porn, and now talks on how damaging porn is;
2) Ally Spotts and her fiance Darrell, two awesomely attractive and super cool Jesus-lovers who write about sex and dating;
3) my 20-something friend Haley who is outrageously gifted in the relationship-advice/purpose-of-sex department;
4) young Christian girls in bible studies; and
4) sifting through countless stories from women on how casual sex broke them.
I am blessed to be a part of a movement of men and women who are willing and excited to talk openly on sex the right way. A movement that is unafraid to say, "the traditional church hasn't handled it as well as it should," and also "the world hasn't handled it well at all."
But this week, I've read some articles that have shocked me out of my sexy-just-married-lingerie and honestly, made me a little bit angry that I'd forgotten WHY I started talking about sex in the first place.
Women are giving up on being the good woman they've been striving towards, because they've stopped believing the good men are out there.
Translated: Women are embracing sex before marriage because they've stopped believing there are men who will wait for them.
No, seriously. It's true. It's why I gave in to sex, and it's why I slept with men I didn't even pretend to love. I developed an, "I deserve this, because everyone else is doing it" attitude. The men that cheated on me, left me for other women, left pornography open on their laptops, or simply dated women that slept around angered me into my own "I don't care" behavior. Men were proving to me that sex was the most important part of life, and I should be living that way too. Sex first, questions after. I stopped believing I could find a man who could prove that he meant it when he said I was beautiful and would stick around forever. If men were going to have sex any way they wanted it, when they wanted it, I was going to have it too, damn it.
Sex has become a selfish thing, and the current "me" has become more important than the future "we." This is why sex outside of marriage is self destructive.
And what I've been reading this week is re-confirming that this is why women are still embracing and manifesting their sexuality in all the wrong ways.
AskMen and So Feminine did polls this year on promiscuity. The AskMen survey that revealed 70% of men find women promiscuous between 5 and 10 partners, while the So Feminine survey reveals 55% of women find men promiscuous somewhere between their 20th and 50th partner. Only 15% of women find men with 10 sexual partners promiscuous.
Marrie Lobel "sort of" reviewed these polls in her "Promiscuous Women" post in a rant about her self-admitted out of control yet perfectly acceptable sex life, and said: "It's this perception of what makes a 'good' woman that keeps women from being equal to men. It's in women's nature to want to be accepted and thought of as worthy and good. This survey, I'm afraid, will not only set a precedent for what men think a good woman should be, but box women into living life according to what others dictate as appropriate. Well, fuck society. If I am considered a wanton woman because I have slept around with more men than another man is comfortable with, then it is his loss."
Classy, Marrie. However, you do present a problem that demands at least a hypothetical solution.
Apparently, women still aren't equal in your eyes. Not because of our civil rights or because we now make up 52% of the workforce, but because we are attempting to have as much sex as we want outside of marriage and men are thinking less of us for it.
Hypothetical solution? Women need to be averaging as many sexual partners as men, and men need to GTF over it.
The problem with this solution is actually hinted at in your own words: "Men express their desire to be with a sexually confident woman, but find her promiscuous at 5 partners."
Marrie, I'm going to tell you a little secret.
"Sexually confident" stems from one of two things. Either from a woman who is insecure in her identity and therefore overcompensates in her sexuality to find confidence somewhere, OR is confident in her identity, in which case it carries over into her sexuality. And men know this.
Men are attracted to confident women. Men are attracted to a woman's sexuality. But good men are not looking for insecure women who find their identity in their sexuality.
Marrie, I'm going to give you some words of advice, woman to woman:
Don't read the polls to determine how you should be finding your identity and living out your sex life.
Don't decide whether or not you'll find a good man based on a statistical study.
Don't make sex about yourself just because you haven't found a man who makes it about your loving commitment to one another.
Don't get angry that men still desire women who are confident enough to share her sexuality with one man that deserves it.
Don't play the numbers game with your heart just because a poll shows you the world is playing a numbers game with their body.
Don't stop believing that there is a man out there who will protect your identity before he participates in your sexuality.
PS. Can I just re-phrase "sex out of marriage" as "sex without committed, unconditional love" once and for all, please? Maybe then we'd realize that we're not breaking a rule someone else set, we're actually harming ourselves.


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Watching Our Backs
Currently, we are storing archival content (described here: formats on a Linux server, in the directory structure described here: Organization_of_completed_content_for_long-term_storage. Content which we want included in LOCKSS (ADPNET) is linked into Manifests (as described here: File_Naming_and_Linking_for_LOCKSS.
Once this archival content is placed into storage, anything linked into the Manifest.html pages should NOT be changed. However, since our new delivery platform derives from this stored content, we need to be able to update the metadata as needed. Hence, the primary metadata file is copied as a versioned file, and the versioned file is what is linked into the Manifests for LOCKSS pickup. The metadata file which is NOT versioned is the most recent, and over-writeable, copy.
MD5 Checksums
For the content which is not allowed to change, we have scripts running weekly to verify that the md5 checksum has not changed, prior to the full tape backup. If there's an error, we are notified in time to retrieve a good copy from a previous backup, before the corrupted item can be written to tape.
On libcontent, in /srv/scripts/md5/cya/, the script which calculates and checks sums is called "md5check".
First it looks for new holder areas (such as u0001, u0003, etc. in the archive). If there are any, it sets up a new location for checksums for that holder. Within each holder directory in the checksums area, there's a file for each collection. Each collection's file contains all the checksums for that collection.
Second, md5check goes through each holder area in turn, checking collections one at a time. If the collection exists, it checks the checksums for each file. If they have changed, it outputs an error. While traversing the archive it notes new content, and generates checksums for those before going on to the next collection.
Third, if any new collections were noted in the holder area, the script creates collection md5 files and generates checksums for the content before going on to the next holder area.
Fourth, the script goes through the new holder areas, finds new collections, notes any new content in existing collections.
The script then logs in with the checkscripts database to verify that it ran, the timestamp, and any errors.
Following this script, another script named storeFileSums runs. This one goes through all the gathered checksums, compares them to the ones in the md5sums mysql database, verifies (again) that nothing has changed, and enters new checksums that are found, with a timestamp.
This database is backed up monthly, and regular copies kept on libcontent.lib.ua.edu.
Errors are sent to email@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com.
This script also logs in with the checkscripts database to verify that it ran, the timestamp, and any errors.
Automated Script Verifications
Once a week, a script called "checkscripts" on libcontent.lib.ua.edu in /srv/scripts/cya looks through the entries in the checkscripts database for the past week, and compares them with the list of entries of existing cron scripts and when they are due to run.
The checkscripts database consists of 2 tables: "ran" and "scripts." Ran contains an auto-incrementing primary key (num), scriptid (identifier for the script, again a number), datestamp (for when this script ran) and errors.
Scripts contains a numerical id (which corresponds to the scriptid in "ran"), scriptname, server, directory where the script resides, the cron job that calls it, and a textual description of when it runs ("runswhen") and what it does ("doeswhat") as well as names of any scripts that it precedes (preceeds) or succeeds (succeeds) in order to work properly.
If any scripts did NOT run, which were scheduled, or any of them logged errors, this script sends emails to notify us of problems. Of course, this script also logs in with the checkscripts database to verify that it ran, and when.
Then, since any server can go down, and multitudes of error possibilities exist, a third script on a third server ("checkscriptcheck" in /home/jlderidder/cya on libapp.ua-net.ua.edu) runs to verify that the checkscripts script ran as it should. Again, this one sends us any errors, and it logs in with the checkscripts database.
Database Backups
Since the checksums are backed up in a MySQL database, and a second MySQL database manages the scripts, there's a cron script (called "backups") on both content.lib.ua.edu (in /home/jlderidder/scripts/cya; backups go into /contentdbs/backups/databases/) and libcontent.lib.ua.edu (in /srv/scripts/cya/; backups go into /srv/backups/ ) which backs up selected databases monthly. Both scripts delete backups over a year old. Currently the list of databases backed up on content.lib.ua.edu is this:
- mysql
And the list of databases currently backed up on libcontent.lib.ua.edu is this:
- InfoTrack ( see Tracking_for_the_long_term)
- mysql
- Acumen
- md5sums
- metaview (the test database for Acumen)
- steve_museum (used for Tagit social tagging of content)
- transcribe (with trmediawiki below, used for Transcribe user transcriptions of content)
- trmediawiki
These lists are subject to change.
Index Backups
And since CONTENTdm seems to be so prone to corruption, we also have a script called "indexes" in /home/jlderidder/scripts/metadata/backups/ on content.lib.ua.edu which backs up both the indexes and the binary index monitor files, for all content currently in the CONTENTdm database. These are .tar.gz compressed and stored in /contentdbs/backups/indexes, and this script also checks in with the checkscripts database, and deletes backups over a year old.


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A bigger-than-expected fall in the unemployment has brought closer the likelihood of the Bank of England raising the base interest rate from its historic low.
Official figures out this morning showed the jobless rate fell 0.3 percentage points to 7.4pc in the three months to October, meaning there were 2.39m out of work over the period. Economists had been expecting a smaller fall to 7.6pc.
Unemployment in Britain is now at a four-and-a-half-year low, with 2.39m people out of work, down 99,000 on the previous three-month period - the biggest cut in over a decade. Compared with the same period a year ago 121,000 fewer people were seeking jobs.
The jobs data saw the pound rise more than cent against the dollar and euro
Under Governor Mark Carney, the Bank of England has instituted a so-called "forward guidance" policy in which a key plank was that it would not raise the base rate from the current 0.5pc until unemployment dropped to 7pc.
When the policy was introduced earlier this year it was not expected that this level would be reached for three years but the UK's economic recovery has strengthened unexpectedly over the past few months, raising expectations that this target will be hit much sooner.
Although , Mr Carney has said the 7pc level is a "threshold" and not a "trigger" for the Bank's rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee, the pound gained more than cent against both the dollar and euro on news.
The jobs figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also revealed that the number of people in work broke through 30m for the first time, exceeding the landmark by 90,000.
Changes in number of people in work between May-July and Aug-Oct, seasonally adjusted
The employment rate for people aged 16 and over was 72pc, with 250,000 more people in work than in the preceding three months and up 485,000 on the same period a year ago.
However, this record masks the fact that 1.47m people were working in part-time jobs because they could not find full-time employment, the highest total since records began in 1992.
Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at IHS Global Insight, said: "This is an extremely strong set of labour market data, indicating that unemployment is currently coming down rapidly in reaction to the economy's markedly improved performance in recent months and much healthier business confidence.
"Markedly rising employment is supportive to hopes that a decent rate of growth can be sustained over the coming months, although a concern remains that the squeeze on consumers' spending power is currently only easing gradually."
He added the drop in the unemployment rate "can only fuel market suspicions that it is very likely to get down to 7pc before the end of 2014, thereby opening the door to the Bank of England raising interest rates".
The ONS data also revealed that the number of people who had given up looking for work was 22.1pc - the lowest level since 1991 - and 0.1 percentage points lower than in May to July 2013 and down 0.4 percentage points from a year earlier. There were 8.92m of these "economically inactive" people - 156,000 fewer than a year earlier.
Total pay rose by 0.9pc compared with the August to October period last year and the strengthening jobs market combined with rising prices could present problems for business, as employees demand better packages which companies may not be able to afford according to KPMG.
"Confidence has clearly returned to boardrooms around the UK, with employers now determined to ensure they have enough staff in place to meet customer demand," said Bernard Brown, a partner at the Big Four consultancy. "The question now, though, revolves around wages. Inflation may be falling, but with energy prices due to increase, employees will be looking at their pay packets in real terms.
"As a result employers will find it hard to attract the best people unless they can afford to offer market rates. We could find ourselves in a situation in which jobs are out there but candidates are not."


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BRANCHVILLE – The Branchville United Methodist Church will celebrate Hiram Frakes Sunday, Sept. 19.
Frakes was a Methodist minister who was born in Branchville in 1888. In 1907, he married Leota Walker, also of Branchville. His call to the ministry led him to the remote area of eastern Kentucky Appalachia. There were no roads or civilized law.
Ignorance, feuding and moonshining were prominent. Rev. Frakes established a church, post office, schools and care-giving facilities. He developed a Christian community called the Henderson Settlement.
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