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I don't understand how he could have been impeached but did not have to leave office.
Bill Clinton was acquitted. The senate did not reach the 2/3's majority needed to fully process his impeachment.
To further break it down.
Clinton was impeached by the House on two charges. The first being perjury, and the second being obstruction of justice.
Following this he was acquitted by the senate.
The "impeachment" process takes place in two steps.
First, a President has to be impeached in the House of Representatives. that is the equivalent of an "indictment."
Then, the President is tried in the Senate, with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presiding. It requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate to remove an impeached president.
President Clinton was impeached in the House (on two counts) but not removed by the Senate. Ditto for President Andrew Johnson (who survived by one vote). President Nixon resigned before the impeachment was completed in the House because it was clear that the Senate would have voted to remove him had the proceedings gone that far.
Simply put, Bill Clinton WAS impeached. The impeachment process is similiar to a Grand Jury in which the House stands as the jury and decides whether or not sufficient evidence of a high crime or misdemeanor is sufficent to turn it over to trial in the Senate. So yes Bill Clinton WAS impeached...but the Senate accquitted him so he was not ousted from office.
Interestingly enough, the charges - which was perjury (lying under oath) - were enforced by the judge of the trial in which he lied. Bill Clinton was fined and lost his license to practise law.
So while he was not punished by the Senate, the judge DID enforce the charge...which BTW WAS true...the court transcripts were proof of that.
An Indictment from the house results in impeachment but after such charge, the impeached, are then tried before the senate and must be removed by a 2/3rd's vote as in.
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I installed Ubuntu 11.10 and the installation runs through fine. It then says reboot, and the machine says 'inserts a boot disk' which means the hard disk isn't bootable. The primary hard disk is an EFI device, and nothing seems to work.
The machine in question is an Acer Aspire M3970 desktop. Core i5 2300, with 8Gb Ram. Main boot drive is an SSD (Vertex 2E 60Gb). I am trying to install the 11.10 x64 version. The installation I have tried from CD and USB stick. It goes through the install, allows you to partition the drives then installs all the packages. At the end it goes for a reboot, and asks you to remove the installation media.
The PC then restarts and says no bootable disk. I tried it many times. In the end I have installed Fedora 15 x64 which works straight away with no messing. Unless this issues is fixed I have to drop 11.10 as a viable option.
From my experience F15 isn't quite as polished as Ubuntu, but in this case - it works!!
Is this a widespread problem or am I unique?


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Charlotte golf will compete at its lone home event of 2013, the Irish Creek Collegiate, co-hosted by Charlotte and Davidson and the Charlotte Sports Foundation, with a 36-hole opening day Saturday, April 6 and an 18-hole final on Sunday, April 7.
The tournament field includes a massive 17 teams, including Charlotte and Davidson, and many others from North Carolina. The 49ers and Wildcats will be joined by in-state participants Appalachian State, East Carolina, North Carolina, North Carolina State and UNC Wilmington. Richmond and VCU will join from neighboring Virginia, and Akron, Kansas, Kennesaw State, Louisville, Marshall, Mercer, Notre Dame and Xavier round out the field.
For the first time this year, Charlotte will be putting three freshmen into the lineup for an event to go with juniors Joe Toland (White River Junction, Vt. / Hartford HS) and Franco Castro (Alpharetta, Ga. / LSU). The young players have been nothing short of amazing at time for the 49ers this season. Freshman Thomas Rowland (St. Bedes Catholic School & Sixth Form College) was the A-10 Golfer of the Week on March 27 for leading Charlotte at the rain-shortened Linger Longer Invitational in late March, while Dan Hendry (Dubai, United Arab Emirates / Dubai College) has been previously named Golfer of the Week (September 19) and Riley Davenport (Woodstock, Ga. / Sequoya HS) was named Rookie of the Week in the league on February 27.
Those five will compete for the team score, with freshman John Boehme (Jacksonville Beach, Fla. / Sandalwood HS) and senior Braeden Cryderman (Huntsville, Ontario / Queens University of Charlotte) on the course competing as individuals.
Mercer junior James Beale took medalist honors with a 13-under score in last year's event, and past team champions in this year's field include five-time winner Charlotte (2005-2008, 2010), VCU (2000, 2009), and North Carolina (1999, 2003).
The Club at Irish Creek, located in Kannapolis, is the third course to host this event, which will be in its 16th year of competition. Irish Creek will prove a tough test of golf at par-71, 7,099 yards.
Teams will tee off in a shotgun format, beginning at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, concluding with an 18-hole final round Sunday, also starting at 8:30 a.m.
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I have been trying access a server via ssh in terminal/ Everything works when I am working on Ubuntu.
I copied the ssh key to my Mac but it always tells me
Permission denied(public key) (see below).
When I'm able use secureCRT and CyberDuck, everything will work.
Once I use secureCRT to access the server, I'll be able to access it in the terminal.
Here is debug output from the connection attempt:
tracyliu:~ apple$ ssh -vT email@example.com
OpenSSH_5.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to xx.xx.xx.xx[xx.xx.xx.xx] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /Users/apple/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/apple/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/apple/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/apple/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_4.3
debug1: match: OpenSSH_4.3 pat OpenSSH_4*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.6
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
debug1: Host 'xx.xx.xx.xx' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /Users/apple/.ssh/known_hosts:1
debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: Roaming not allowed by server
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/apple/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/apple/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
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The local chapter of the Forty and Eight awarded the Nursing Training Scholarship to DWU nursing student Briana Jung Wednesday evening at the Mitchell American Legion.
Hugh Holmes, Chef de Gare (local commander) of Voiture 481 (local chapter), awarded the $500 scholarship to Jung, a junior nursing student at DWU from Warner, accepted the scholarship.
The Forty and Eight, also known as La Societe des Quarante Hommes at Huit Chevaux, is an independent, by invitation, honor organization of U.S. veterans, first established in 1920 by 16 members of the American Legion Post 297 in Philadelphia. The Forty and Eight first began giving nursing scholarships in 1941 and established the national Nurses Training Program in 1955. Since the program's inception, there have been nearly 50,000 nursing students assisted and more than $30 million given. Each locale – or chapter – establishes the amount and guidelines for recipients.


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It is the summer of 1950 and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw.
To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story, that of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower 30 years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder, but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse.
An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions and a rich literary delight.
©2009 Alan Bradley; (P)2009 Random House Audio
"Brilliant, irresistible and incorrigible, Flavia has a long future ahead of her...Bradley's mystery debut is a standout." (Kirkus Reviews)
"Fun for the reader.... Fans of Louise Fitzhugh's iconic Harriet the Spy will welcome 11-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce, the heroine of ... Bradley's rollicking debut." (Publishers Weekly)
To say that Jane Entwhistle read this audiobook and did it justice would be a grave understatement - this book absolutely leapt to life for me in her amazing reading.
At its core, there is a mystery afoot in the life of Flavia, a young girl in a rambling estate in the UK of the 1950's, and though certainly the arrival of a corpse in the cucumber patch would be enough to send a weaker soul to faint, Flavia is not that soul.
Flavia is hands down my favorite character of 2009 to date; she has a strong mind, a true love of chemistry, and a special fondness for poisons. Her mind is a joy to step inside, and her realization that her father might go down for the murder of the man in the cucumber patch is enough to put her considerable gumption and knowledge to the task of proving him innocent.
Alan Bradley has spun a delightful and completely engrossing tale here, and I look forward to more.
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"A little slice of the English countryside"
I bought this just yesterday looking for something light and fun to listen to and I was not disappointed. My only hesitation had been that the eleven year old heroine might be a bit childish, but I was very surprised to discover that I liked the intelligent tomboyish Flavia immensely. She is a precocious, mischievous little Sherlock Holmes who never once lost my attention. The stodgy English backdrop to this little mystery is full of wonderful characters that flesh out the scene and give life to Flavia's world. The mystery is reminiscent of a Holmes scenario and it too had me itching to get back to the audio book as soon as I woke up this morning. It's a very intelligent story full of interesting chemistry tid-bits and historical references that made me feel as if I'd found a delightful juvenile detective series on BBC to lose myself in for a bit. And I found the narration to be superb! I listened to the sample as a few reviews suggested and never once found Entwistle to disappoint. Im downloading the second book now without hesitation!
"Terrific story...spot-on narration"
A nicely written mystery with all the classic elements: an English estate, an argument late at night, a dead body in the garden, a murder investigation. In the hands of a lesser writer, these elements could signify a contrived, cookie-cutter mystery. This is far from it. It follows some basic patterns expected in a mystery, but delivered in the first person narrative by a completely likeable, precocious eleven year old, it turns into a very engaging, suspenseful, funny and entertaining story.
I loved Jayne Entwhistle's reading, her voice and inflections perfectly capture what one might expect of an eleven year old telling her tale and really brings this story to life. This was so thoroughly enjoyable that I will probably let it sit in my ipod for awhile longer so I may listen to it again later.
"very enjoyable"
I really enjoyed this book (if you couldn't tell from my title). I probably would have given it a 4.5 if it had been possible because the mystery wasn't super tight, but leaned to the 5.
It was well narrated. Many have complained about this, but I think each voice is perfectly done. The heroin is a 9 year old precocious aristocrat. It may be that those who found the voice annoying really would find the heroin annoying if they were to meet her in real life. If that is the case you probably shouldn't be listen to this series. On the contrary I found that they nature of the characters and their world was the most intriguing part of the story. Flavia behaves as a precocious 9 year old would. Her area of interest just happens to be chemistry. In the world of high mindedness and proper English living it would not be that unusual.
The mystery is done very much in the vein of Sherlock Holmes where details are everything and the pieces slowly start to fall into place by the end of the story. Again, the mystery does not have the tight reveal of some books, but is well done none the less.
Over all I would highly recommend the book for the character development, its fun flair, the narration, and the way the story transports you to the period in which it is written.
I'll have another piece of that pie please! Seriously, this is the most delightful surprise. I wasn't expecting that much and in fact, put off listening until a few days ago and now I cannot bear for it to end. Jayne Entwistle is absolutely brilliant in her portrayal of Flavia and I am savoring every morsel of this debut novel. Looking forward to the next one in the series and praying that the author gives us lots more of Flavia.
The Dog Mom
"What a heroine! What a book!"
To think that a man can create a smart-as-a-whip, chemistry-genius 11-year old girl who lives in an English manor home in a charming British hamlet is nothing short of astounding!
Alan Bradley has conjured up the most adorable, charming, engaging and humorous character to grace the pages of books in a very long time. Bradley has a gift - an amazing gift at that. He has given Flavia de Luce every quality and characteristic to make her nothing less than completely enchanting and memorable. Having noted this, Flavia also plays tricks on her very nasty sisters (I would also given these two as siblings), has a tendency to create lies when it suits her purpose, and - of course - is a brilliant detective. All this in one character whom I have grown to love, cherish and respect. If I had had a child, I would have wanted one just like Flavia.
The reader of this book is magnificent. She doesn't have an annoying little girl voice that could drive a listener to distraction, but makes Flavia nearly jump off the pages into your lap, her skills are so adept at reading Bradley's words. Of course, her fabulous English accent helps a good deal!
I seriously think Mr. Bradley is worthy of an OBE, so we can call him Sir Alan. What a masterpiece! I'm reading one book in hard copy and listening to two other Flavia novels. I can't get enough of her, her family, village and Gladys, her trusty bicycle.
I'd love to sit down with the author one day and understand how Flavia came to him and where he learned to write in such a masterful way.
Read every book, if you want to fall in love with cozy mystery at its finest. This is the first one and what a rocket-launcher it is!
"wonderful heroine"
This book was excellent -- the heroine, Flavia, is a delightful girl fascinated by chemistry. I loved the narration -- I thought it fit the main character very well. It was a mystery that was easy to follow. An excellent book to listen to.
"A brilliant narrator"
It's so interesting how narrator affect listeners. Both my wife and I can't find enough good things to say about Jayne Entwistle. I want to listen slowly just to make both the story and narration last forever. Will look for both author and narrator in the future.
Retired and living in Spain, I am an avid reader. Audible has added a new dimension as I can experience excellent readers/actors too.
"Absolutely first class in every respect"
The heroine is an eleven year old chemistry genius who is a fine detective. The stories are excellent and the humour and tension are, in equal parts, superb.
The plots are well crafted and believable, even though the heroine is young.
I can't pick one scene as a favourite as the whole book is wonderful in so many different ways.
Suitable for all ages.
The author has a gift for writing a credible and edge of seat gripping yarn and enable us to put ourselves in the place of his heroine.
Alabama Heretic
"Charming Heroine, Fabulous Narration!"
The 11-year-old protagonist in this story, Flavia, is intrepid, hilarious, brilliant, and delightful. Jayne Entwhistle does a spectacular job of capturing her quirky, humorous personality, and the story races along with more than a little intrique and suspense. Most of the charm is in the heroine's perspective of the world and how she approaches the thorny problem of solving a murder and clearing her father's name. 1950s England springs to life through Flavia's eyes and her adventures, both at home with her trying sisters, and in the world at large detecting crime, are captivating. Highly recommended!
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The 5 Most Horrifyingly Bad Mothers in the Animal Kingdom
Moms are heroes in any species. In many, they do not only the birthing and nursing, but also the hunting and fighting and protecting. And while human mothers certainly deserve all of the flowers and phone calls they get on Mother's Day, we dare say that there are other species where motherhood is an even more trying and/or terrifying ordeal. For instance ...
#5. Tasmanian Devil Moms Can't Feed 90 Percent of Their Babies (by Design)
Even if you only know Tasmanian devils from the Warner Bros. cartoons, you can guess that their family life isn't a goddamned Norman Rockwell painting. Pound for pound, Tasmanian devils have the strongest mammalian bite in the world. They eat everything down to the bones, and then they eat the bones ... and then the clothes and shoes. They're mean, gluttonous little cusses who will chew through metal if the mood strikes them.
"I'll eat through this screen if it means getting to your delicious face meats."
They get their training in animal badassery early, as their very first act of life is basically a Thunderdome death match that fewer than one in 10 will survive. The problem is that the mother will give birth to as many as 50 pups ... but she only has four lactation dispensaries (aka boobs) with which to feed them.
And Tasmanian devils don't share for shit. Because there are only four milk spigots, only four pups will survive. Plain and simple. As soon as they're born, there's a race to see who gets one of mommy's feeding nozzles. Whoever makes it there first and can hold on wins.
The remaining 46 starve to death within hours.
In short, nature goes through the trouble of creating 50 squirming newborns and then lets 92 percent of them die pretty much immediately for no reason other than to drive home the point that sharing is for losers.
Wayne McLean
Which is why there are no Tasmanian devil copyright violators.
#4. To Protect Their Kids, Horse Moms Have to Bone Everybody
If you like to sneak around ranches so you can secretly watch horses have sex, you've probably noticed something: After a mare gets pregnant, she immediately starts engaging in promiscuous sex with everyone. From an evolutionary perspective, this might not make sense -- she is, after all, already pregnant, so you'd think her urge for huge stallion boners would decrease. But there is a strategy at play.
"I just wanted to have as much sex as possible before you ruined my life."
Male horses don't like competition, so when they come across a foal that isn't theirs, they have a tendency to kick it to death (think about that the next time you see a bunch of horse posters in a little girl's bedroom). But they won't do it to their own kid. So mom's goal is to make it so that none of the males in the herd know for sure the kid isn't theirs ... by having sex with every single one of them.
In other words, being slutty saves lives.
So mamma's giving it up like a back alley hooker to protect her precious child. Is there any story more inspiring than a mother willing to sacrifice everything, even her dignity, for the safety of her offspring? But then, of course, if she's not allowed to screw every swinging dick in the pasture, she'll just go ahead and abort the pregnancy.
Yes, horses can totally do that. Though scientists aren't quite sure how this is done, it's believed to be the result of a natural chemical process within the mare if she senses that the eventual foal would be in danger from aggressive males vying for dominance. Research done on zebras showed that if even a single new male was brought into the herd, the foal's chances of survival fell to less than 5 percent. Yes, even worse than the Tasmanian devils up there.
Each stripe is one more infanticide.
#3. If a Pipefish Mom Is Ugly, the Dad Will Eat Her Eggs Rather Than Have Ugly Kids
You may be aware that male seahorses give birth -- it's one of those quirky factoids they try to hold your attention with in fourth grade science class. Well, it's the same for pipefish (who are members of the same family as the seahorse). The female passes the eggs to the male, who holds them in his belly until they grow up. It naturally makes pipefish sound like the most devoted fathers on earth. But then scientists noticed something rather odd: Sometimes babies would go missing.
"Oh, so you want me to give birth and give a shit about the little brats? Unbelievable."
To solve this mystery, scientists laced the mother with mildly radioactive amino acids. Unfortunately, the experiment was a dismal failure, because the mamma pipefish did not develop any super powers whatsoever. It did, however, let them track the eggs and find out that dad was eating them like embryonic popcorn. Now, you may say that this isn't all that weird as far as animals are concerned -- animals are stupid, after all, and one day dad probably just got hungry and was like, "Hey! Somebody left some eggs here!"
"Oh, don't look at me that way, honey. We'll forget about this in three -- hey, somebody left some eggs here!"
But researchers also discovered that males would eat more of the embryos of small or unattractive females. They will sometimes abort/eat up to half of the younglings of a homely mate. By restricting the flow of nutrients to the brood pouch, the babies are left to fight for the scarce resources. Only the strong survive ... and dad consumes the rest. Which only makes sense. If you're going to have ugly kids, why not just eat them before they hatch?
Steve Childs
Oh sure, that's a fine rule for fish. But the second you apply it to cats, everyone starts yelling and calling the police.
Science speculates that pipefish do this because they simply don't want to waste resources on offspring that aren't genetically fit (i.e., the ugly ones). So yes, they devour babies and they're shallow.
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Dick Harmon: BYU, Raiders tight end Todd Christensen was a larger than life superstar on and off the field
Mark A. Philbrick, BYU
LaVell Edwards will put to rest another one of his BYU football players. It's a list that is growing as the Cougar football patriarch heads toward his ninth decade on this earth.
Todd Christensen, a larger-than-life personality on and off the field at BYU and the NFL, died early Wednesday morning in Salt Lake City after receiving a liver transplant. He never woke up from the complicated procedure. He was 57.
"Todd was a very, very interesting guy," said Edwards. "He had great size, was very smart, a great athlete, a student of the game who was intelligent and always had a way with words."
Christensen was a top-notch superstar, transforming the fullback position in offensive coordinator Doug Scovil's mid-'70s Cougar offense to a deadly yard-gobbling weapon. Later, with the Oakland Raiders, he became one of the NFL's hottest tight ends, a big-time playmaker who made five Pro Bowls and was All-Pro twice.
"He was the ultimate go-to guy," said his BYU quarterback, Elder Gifford Nielsen, who's now a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
"He was a great teammate, raised a great family and was successful in every part of his life," said Nielsen, who pointed out how small the world is when he explained, "More than 25 years after we played together, my son Giff and Todd's son Toby were missionary companions in Barcelona, Spain."
For Edwards, the number of players who have preceded him in death is growing as natural diseases, freak accidents and even a homicide have ended many lives before their time.
That list includes former players Glen Redd, Craig Garrick, Scott Norberg, Ray Linford, Mark Allen, Dev Duke, Lloyd Jones, Brad Martin, Phil Nauahi, Ken Griffith, Mike May, Paul Crawford and Terrance Harvey. Griffith was the victim of a homicide. Norberg mysteriously died in an Arizona jail. Provoan Duke was volunteering in a Fourth of July booth when a microburst picked up the small shack and crashed it into him.
Christensen's death, like many that come early, is a heart-wrenching affair for his loved ones. He'd waited as a sick man for many months to get his name atop a liver transplant list. When he made it, his family celebrated the blessing, the chance for Todd to have a healthy, extended life. He got the transplant but never woke up.
"I remember after Todd was drafted by the Cowboys and then went back east, he called me on the phone and we talked about his new team. I assumed it was back in New England, where he'd moved," said Edwards. "He laughed and told me, no, he was in Oakland with the Raiders, 'and they don't care about personality.'"
Christensen was a personality. After his football career, while working as an NBC, ESPN and Mountain network commentator, he gave the world a glimpse of his famous vocabulary, his talent for turning a phrase, setting in motion a string of words that would make George Will blush with envy.
Elder Nielsen remembers at BYU, Christensen would use words in the huddle the rest of the team would have to later look up in a dictionary.
"He was outspoken. He had his opinion," said teammate Roger Gourley, now a retired Provo fireman. "Sometimes it would drive you nuts with his big words and we'd tell him, 'Shut up. You're driving us nuts.'"
Smart, very intelligent, Christensen was always looking for ways to get better as a player, as a TV guy, and as a man. "He worked extremely hard. He was driven" said Gourley.
As a young sportswriter, I remember Christensen running out of the backfield in practice for passes. He was huge; it was like Nielsen was throwing to the canvas sail on a boat.
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The Bayfield High School volleyball team made short work of Monte Vista in an Intermountain League road match Thursday night.
BHS, ranked No. 3 in Class 3A by coloradopreps.com, beat the Pirates 25-9, 25-20, 25-15 to improve to 13-1 overall, 4-0 in the IML.
�It wasn�t very crispy, but we found a way to battle back,� BHS head coach Kelley Rifilato said.
�All three games, we started in the hole, which isn�t good,� Rifilato said. Service errors initially hurt the Wolverines.
�But our bench helped out a lot,� Rifilato said.
BHS sophomore setter Suzie Rhodes led the Wolverines� offense with 22 assists.
�She did a great job (Thursday night),� Rifilato said.
Fellow sophomore Kirstie Hillyer had 11 kills and only two attacking errors. She also had a solo block in the IML win.
Senior Jen Phelps had nine kills and just one hitting error.
Rifilato said senior Layne Bulwan had an outstanding match.
�She had four aces in 14 attempts,� Rifilato said. �And she had nine digs. On the defensive end, she was all over the place digging balls.�
Monte Vista fell to 1-13, 0-4 in the IML.
The match was the first for the Wolverines in the new Monte Vista High School building which opened this fall.
�They have a beautiful new gym and a beautiful new school,� Rifilato said.
The Wolverines will play at Piedra Vista in Farmington on Saturday afternoon.
Piedra Vista handed Bayfield its only loss of the season, 3-1 on Sept. 11.
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UK Software Chart: Titanfall crushes Dark Souls' No. 1 hopes during week of March 15thWritten by: / / 9 Comments
As expected, Titanfall has become the new No. 1 on Chart Track's UK Software Sales listing this week, becoming the biggest release of 2014 so far in the region.
Chart Track notes that EA now holds the first and second positions for best-selling games of the year as Titanfall "more than doubles" the sales of FIFA 14 in 2014, which until last week remained the best performer overall. Chart Track also reveals that Xbox One hardware sales were helped with the launch of Titanfall, jumping 96% on the back of the Titanfall bundle offer which accounted for over 70% of Xbox One consoles sold this past week.
Dark Souls 2, meanwhile, appears at No. 2 during its first week on sale in the UK enjoying a 20% boost in launch week sales compared to the original Dark Souls in late 2011.
Elsewhere on the chart, South Park: The Stick of Truth (sales down 47%) slips down two places to No. 3, The LEGO Movie Videogame (sales down 31%) is a non-mover at No. 4, Thief (sales down 63%) steps down three places to No. 5, and FIFA 14 (sales down 31%) loses one position and moves to No. 6.
Plants VS Zombies: Garden Warfare (sales down 41%) drops from No. 3 to No. 7, and a two-place shift cascade begins as Call of Duty: Ghosts (sales down 18%) moves to No. 8, Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (sales down 9%) skips to No. 9, and Battlefield 4 (sales down 29%) appears at No. 10. Another debut title, Yoshi's New Island, shows up at No. 12 during its first week on sale.
The Top Twenty All Format UK Software Sales Chart follows below:
– 1.) Titanfall (EA) [New]
– 2.) Dark Souls 2 (Bandai Namco) [New]
– 3.) South Park: The Stick of Truth (Ubisoft)
– 4.) The LEGO Movie Videogame (Warner Bros. Interactive)
– 5.) Thief (Square Enix)
– 7.) Plants VS Zombies: Garden Warfare (EA)
– 8.) Call of Duty: Ghosts (Activision)
– 9.) Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (Microsoft Studios)
– 10.) Battlefield 4 (EA)
– 11.) Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Ubisoft)
– 12.) Yoshi's New Island (Nintendo) [New]
– 13.) LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (Warner Bros. Interactive)
– 14.) Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar Games)
– 15.) Aliens: Colonial Marines (SEGA)
– 16.) Rayman Legends (Ubisoft)
– 17.) Forza Motorsport 5 (Microsoft Studios)
– 18.) Need For Speed: Rivals (EA)
– 19.) Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures (Bandai Namco)
– 20.) Killzone: Shadow Fall (Sony)
You can read last week's UK Software Sales Chart over here.
Source: Chart Track
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. � Investigators found no evidence of mechanical failure to explain why a pilot lost control of a small plane that nosedived into an Arkansas ridge, killing the Oklahoma State women�s basketball coach and three others, according to a federal report.
An examination of the wreckage revealed no instrument failure and no anomalies in the engine or airframe before the Piper PA-28-180 went down near Perryville, Ark., on Nov. 17, 2011, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a report dated Wednesday.
Oklahoma State coach Kurt Budke, 50, and assistant coach Miranda Serna, 36, were killed in the crash, along with the 82-year-old pilot, Olin Branstetter, and Branstetter�s 79-year-old wife, Paula. They were flying from Stillwater, Okla., to North Little Rock to scout two prospective high school recruits.
The NTSB concluded that the probable cause of the crash was Branstetter�s loss of control of the aircraft, but investigators found no evidence that the pilot had a medical issue that may have contributed to the accident. The board early on ruled out weather as a factor.
�The reason for the pilot�s loss of control could not be determined,� the report concluded.
Holdsclaw is indicted with an aggravated assault charge
ATLANTA � Prosecutors said former WNBA player and Olympic gold medalist Chamique Holdsclaw is being indicted in a November 2012 shooting in Atlanta.
Fulton County District Attorney�s spokeswoman Yvette Jones said Wednesday that a six-count indictment charges the 35-year-old with aggravated assault, criminal damage and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
Holdsclaw was arrested after an argument with Tulsa Shock player Jennifer Lacy, who told police she was Holdsclaw�s ex-girlfriend. The two also were Atlanta Dream teammates in 2009. Police said Holdsclaw broke the windows to Lacy�s car and shot at it. No one was injured.
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Mexico�s popular NASCAR series to debut in the U.S.
AVONDALE, Ariz. � The most popular motorsports series in Mexico will make its U.S. debut today at Phoenix International Raceway.
The Mexico-based Toyota Series will hold its season opener at the track with a 75-lap race held after Sprint Cup Series qualifying. The series is running as a support race to Sprint Cup, Nationwide and the K&N West Series at PIR this weekend.
The Mexico Toyota Series began in 2004 but moved under the NASCAR banner in 2007 and has been NASCAR-sanctioned since. Drivers run a 14-race schedule on eight different tracks in Mexican V8 stock cars. All but one event this season are on an oval track.
Rapids trade with Timbers for forward Danny Mwanga
PORTLAND, Ore. � The Portland Timbers traded forward Danny Mwanga to the Colorado Rapids for a first-round pick in the 2015 MLS draft.
Mwanga scored three goals in 18 games with the Timbers last season after the Oregon native was acquired from the Philadelphia Union in June. He has 15 goals in 79 matches for his three-year MLS career.
Costa Rica pulls out as host of the U17 World Cup
ZURICH � FIFA is looking for a new country to stage next year�s Under-17 Women�s World Cup.
The tournament had been planned for Costa Rica, but construction delays mean the stadiums will not be ready in time.
Costa Rica won hosting rights in March 2011, beating out Ghana, Turkey and Uzbekistan. The 16-nation tournament likely is to be scheduled in September 2014.
FIFA said it will evaluate potential hosts before a decision by its executive committee March 20-21 in Zurich.
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What are the most common best practices on length and data type on common fields like:
- First Name
- Last Name
- Address
- Sex
- State
- City
- Country
- Phone Number
What are the most common best practices on length and data type on common fields like:
I would tend to be very suspicious of any set of universal best practices because, for most of these fields, the devil is in the details. Just because the information is relatively common doesn't mean that your application uses the data in exactly the same way that other applications use it. That means your data model may need to be slightly different.
You may as well guess based on sample data and expected audience. It depends on your location.
Some notes:
Phone number: International code, length, mobile vs house, allow mobile as only number
In addition to the great answers above, don't forget to accept unicode characters. Just because you are in the US doesn't mean that you don't want to accept foreign characters into your columns.
That said, I usually recommend 50 characters for names. 320 should be more than enough for an email address (you can check the ANSI standard to be sure). For address error on the side of caution with 255 characters. While you'll probably never need an address that big, you might if you include C/O lines and stuff like that. City should be pretty big, there are some pretty long city names out there. For state go with a child table, same with country. For Zip code don't forget about international postal codes which are longer than US zip codes. Just because you don't support international you still might be. There are lots of US citizens who live in different counties including military folks.
Don't forget that state should be optional as many countries don't have states.
My bum is getting sore from sitting on the fence, so I am going to just throw out some answers and hope to not get down-voted into oblivion. Please offer constructive criticism.
E-mail Address:
min: 6 (firstname.lastname@example.com) . Or 3 if you want to track local domain email addresses
The amount of code to validate an email is actually insane, so let's just assume it's valid if it has a "@"
You may want to abstract an email address as a "communication method", so that you can easily list all methods with which to communicate with a user.
Gender can change over time, so you could track that if it's important to you. Follow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_5218
Addresses: NORAM
I am gonna take the cheap way out and stick to North American addresses.
It is convenient to abstract countries, divisions, cities, and counties mostly due to taxation. Taxes can apply at many levels, so if you can point a tax rate at an abstract geographic area, you are golden.
Add line2, and line3 if you need to.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_(geography)
Now, an address is an address. Multiple people can live at an address, and a person can have multiple addresses at the same time, and over time, so you need a many-many table for that.
Add a
Phone Numbers
A party can have multiple phone numbers, and a phone number can be used by multiple people. A phone number can be used for faxes, telephone calls, modems, etc. and can have extensions. These can all change over time too.
The min might be 3 (for "911"), or maybe 7 ("310-4NET", which is a special kind of local number that does not allow you to dial the area code)
You could split this into country code, etc if necessary.
You should use the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164 standard
Names are tough. Here's why:
From a slightly different perspective than the previous answers, and since it seems OK to talk about LDAP, RFC 4519 -- "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Schema for User Applications" may be of interest.
It may be useful if your application needs to be mapped to such a directory. Otherwise, it's probably not adapted to your requirements.
These definitions are more than just about data, they're also about some operators that can be used on the fields.
Regarding names, consider using double-quotes so you don't have to escape apostrophes in Irish or Italian names (e.g., O'Hara or D'Amato).
I'd also recommend getting a good set of Regular Expressions to use, so you can output parts of your name fields (e.g., first initial, nickname, Jr/Sr, etc.).


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PHOTOS: New Music Festival
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Award-Winning Composer Louis Andriessen in Residence at The Boston Conservatory
Andriessen Residency Part of The Boston Conservatory New Music Festival, February 4 - 9, 2014
Photo credit: Francesca Patella
Recent articles:
The Boston Globe "At 75, Andriessen, and his influence, worth celebrating"
The Boston Musical Intellegincer "BoCo Residency for Andriessen"
BOSTON, MA (Jan. 14, 2014)—Award-winning composer Louis Andriessen, one of the world's most celebrated modern composers, will be in residence at The Boston Conservatory from February 4-9, 2014. The residency is in conjunction with the Conservatory's New Music Festival, which showcases the Conservatory's unique focus on new music.
Click on photo to access New Music Festival photo gallery.
Held annually, The Boston Conservatory New Music Festival is a multi-day celebration of music's evolution throughout the ages and is dedicated to recognizing exceptional compositions by modern composers. This year's festival will honor Andriessen by performing 35 of his works over four days, including La Girò, which Andriessen wrote in 2011 for violinist Monica Germino and which she will perform for the first time ever in Boston. Andriessen will personally coach every piece before it hits the festival stage.
"Centering our annual New Music Festival on the works of a modern compositional icon like Louis Andriessen showcases the unique focus that the Conservatory has on new and modern works," says Abra K. Bush, D.M.A., director of the music division at The Boston Conservatory. "Andriessen has spent decades pushing the boundaries of musical genres and art forms, making him an ideal role model for our students."
Widely regarded as the Netherlands' leading contemporary composer, Andriessen is a central figure in the international new music scene—an extension of classical music tradition with a particular focus on incorporating elements of different musical genres. Born into a musical family, he studied the classics from an early age but later combined the influences of jazz, Stravinsky and minimalism into his style. He frequently explores political and social issues and even elements of science within his works.
One highlight of the festival will be a panel discussion with Andriessen and fellow world-renowned new music composer Gunther Schuller—the first time the two have spoken together in a public forum. The discussion, which takes place on February 8 at 1 p.m., will focus on their creative process and experiments in the blending of musical genres, including classical, jazz, pop and minimalism. The discussion will also be live streamed at https://new.livestream.com/thebostonconservatory/2014creativity.
"Although divided by an ocean, these two legends of 20th and 21st century music have worked in prolific creative parallel for nearly 50 years," says Eric Hewitt, the artistic director of the New Music Festival, who will also be conducting several festival performances and acting as moderator during the forum with Andriessen and Schuller. "They cleared the path that thousands of other artists are following today."
Louis Andriessen will be in residence at The Boston Conservatory February 4-9, 2014. Part of his 75th birthday tour around the world, Andriessen's residency at the Conservatory is made possible by the generous support of Pamela S. Kunkemueller.
All concerts and public events will take place in the Boston Conservatory Theater at 31 Hemenway Street. A full schedule of public events is below. The Box Office opens Wednesday, January 22. You can also get tickets online at www.bostonconservatory.edu/tickets or by phone at (617) 912-9222 Monday-Friday, 12-5 p.m.
Tuesday, February 4 at 12 p.m. – A Conversation on Dance
FREE: Eric Hewitt and Cathy Young host Andriessen for a video presentation and interactive talk with The Boston Conservatory Dance Division on Andriessen's works for dance and the creative process behind them.
Some video from this event.
Thursday, February 6 at 8 p.m. – Ensemble and Solo Works
FREE: Guest artists Monica Germino (violin) and Tony Arnold (voice) join Samuel Z. Solomon and The Boston Conservatory Percussion Ensemble to perform small ensemble and solo works of Andriessen, including Bells for Harlem, Xenia, Image de Moreau, Zilver, Hout, Passeggiata in Tram in America e Ritorno and more.
Friday, February 7 at 8 p.m. – Chamber and Electronic Music
FREE: The Boston Conservatory Honors String Quartet and Conservatory voice, dance and saxophone students perform Andriessen's Tuin van Eros, In Memoriam, Woodpecker and Facing Death, along with Stravinksy's Three Pieces for String Quartet and The Owl and the Pussycat.
Saturday, February 8 at 1 p.m. – Louis Andriessen and Gunther Schuller on Creativity
FREE: 20th and 21st century legends Louis Andriessen and Gunther Schuller offer thoughts and reflections on the creative process and artistic expression.
Saturday, February 8 at 8 p.m. – De Staat/La Giro
($) Guest soloist Monica Germino (violin) performs Andriessen's De Staat and La Giro with The Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble and The Boston Conservatory New Music Festival Orchestra, conducted by Eric Hewitt.
Sunday, February 9 at 8 p.m. – The Memory of Roses
FREE: Andriessen joins George Case and The Boston Conservatory Chorale, along with students, faculty and guests of The Boston Conservatory, to perform The Memory of Roses, an intimate work spanning Andriessen's career.
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(617) 431-1173
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Before the 2012 season Mike Glaser announced that this will be his last as the head football coach at St. Xavier High School. After 31 years and a record of 332-75 he'll coach in his final regular-season St. X-Trinity game on Friday night. The Tigers and Rocks kick off at 8 p.m. Friday at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium. Glaser is the all-time winningest coach in Jefferson County history. He has led the Tigers to 7 state championships. Former N.F.L star Will Wolford will take over the St. X program for the 2013 season.
Kent Taylor: How many St. X-Trinity games have you been involved in?
Mike Glaser: I'd say about 60. There have been over 30 in (my) 31 years as the head coach, with a lot of doubles in a lot of those years, and another 15 or 20 as an assistant and as a player, through 1966 on.
K.T.: What makes this week so special to you?
M.G.: Without a doubt it's the tradition of the two schools, the longevity of this school, and Trinity coming up and trying to match the St. X tradition, and their great football tradition that they have put together in recent years.
K.T.: Do you have a favorite St. X-Trinity game?
M.G.: There have been a lot of good ones; the state championship game that we won 3-0 in '97. As a young coach, I was an assistant in 1975, we had a 25-game winning streak and it looked like we were going to lose 10-9 and then with :42 seconds left, they snapped the ball over the punter's head, we got a safety and won 11-10, kept our string alive, won the state championship the next week. That probably, to beat them in that way, the excitement of the end of that game, it's probably the most memorable game for me.
K.T.: What has to happen for St. X to win this Friday?
M.G.: We've got to play almost a flawless game. Last year I don't think we played bad in either game, both of them ended up blowouts. I think our kids just kind of got discouraged. The other night, they're playing Cathedral and it's 17-16, and the next thing you know they get the ball to James Quick and he takes it 70-something yards. We've got to stop him, we have to stop Dawkins. They have so many weapons, it's difficult to stop them, so basically we've got to score a lot of points. There's the problem, they have a great defense, maybe as good a defense as they've ever had.
K.T.: Who is the best player that you have coached at St. X?
M.G.: I'd have to say it's got to be a Bernard Jackson, a Victor Anderson, a Rick Buehner and a Deuce Finch.
K.T.: Who is the best Trinity player you have faced?
M.G.: I'm going to say James Quick. He's the guy who has been able to do more things over the years.
K.T.: When you started coaching here, how long did you think you would last?
M.G.: Never thought it would be 31 years as a head coach or 40-something years as a coach at St. X. I thought it would last about 5 years and maybe go on to something else, or maybe go to college as a graduate assistant, but I love the place. It's done an awful lot for me, there was no reason to leave. You have the greatest kids, the greatest administration, the greatest school that you could ever want to be at, and you had the chance to make a difference.
K.T.: What will you miss most about this rivalry?
M.G.: The thing I'll miss about coaching will be the kids. To be a part of this rivalry will be something that I can never match. The competition, to have the responsibility of this tradition. To take it into that game, knowing that you're the guy responsible for upholding that tradition, I've always taken pride in that. Once I get out of it, I'll do everything I can to help us get back on the winning ways, whatever I have to do to help the new coach and the new staff, I'll do.
K.T.: What do you remember about playing in the St. X-Trinity game?
M.G.: I remember the excitement of it. My junior and senior year is when it just started to become a big rivalry. When I was a freshman or sophomore, they beat us for the first time, in Coach (Jim) Kennedy's first year and it was a big, big win for them, and that's when the rivalry really heated up. My junior year, they had the game won, they were going to be state champions, they had the best team in the state and we pick off a lateral and beat them, upset them, that was great, there is nothing like that. My senior year then we beat them and we go on and win the state championship. So 3 out of the 4 years I was here we beat them, and I loved every minute of that.
K.T.: Will you have a special message at the pep rally Friday?
M.G.: I think that this game is special, it'll be special for me, the fact that it's the last one for me as the head coach, but I want to talk to the kids about, it's something they should all take pride in, take pride in their school. This is a special place, and this game gives you the chance to highlight that.
Kent Taylor is a sports anchor for WAVE 3. See more of his work at www.wave3.com or by tuning in to the NBC affiliate.


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WKU's Counseling and Testing Center and Barren River Area Safe Space (BRASS) proclaimed National Domestic Violence Awareness month today.
One Bowling Green City Commissioner saw the most extreme domestic violence first-hand. His sister was killed by her husband in 1969, and he says the effects of domestic violence never go away.
"It effects families. It effects children for lifetimes. This happened when I was fifteen years old. I'm now 58. Obviously, it still effects you," said Bowling Green City Commissioner Bill Waltrip.
Waltrip said one in four women experience domestic violence, and that rate is highest in women age 16 to 24.
WKU Counseling and Testing Center and BRASS will be holding several events throughout the month to bring awareness to the issue.
Tomorrow there will be a proclamation signing at the WKU-Glasgow campus. On Oct. 16, There will be a "1 in 4" display from 10 a.m. to 2p.m. in the Garrett Conference Center lobby, and on Oct. 30 they will hold a "reading of the names" ceremony at 6p.m. at the parking lot across from the Warren County Justice Center in downtown Bowling Green.
WKU will be collecting cell phones for victims of domestic violence for BRASS. You can donate cell phones at WKU Health Services, the Learning Assistance Center at South Campus, the Garrett Conference Center lobby, and the Counseling and Testing Center in Potter Hall.


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I want to install the Unity 3-d web player on Ubuntu 11.04. I would like to use it on different sites such as http://firecraft.games2be.com/play. Is it possible?
Their website says the plugin is only available for Windows and MacOS X:
Your best option would be to install Windows in a VirtualBox and use it to view those sites.
Unity 4 will introduce Linux support, according to their website. Unfortunately, it will be a few months before that is released.
You can check out their webpage here. You can use CTRL F to launch the find utility, then type in "linux" to scroll down to that section
This is what I would do
Mind you, this MIGHT NOT work but it shouldn't break anything. This is my technique for getting weird crap to work in wine.
The nearest result we had with unity web player is to install Firefox on Wine 1.4 and try to load Unity web player.
it will start loading the unity plugin with failed at updating it and then running it.
Sorry there is no solution with Wine currently (which is a shame)
I'm happy to see that they will support Linux in next version.
then the best way for you is to use XP in VirtualBox with 3D acceleration.
Pipelight is available to install Unity 3D web player and lots of other Windows plugins
Installation instructions are available here: http://pipelight.net/cms/install/installation-ubuntu.html
Additional steps are needed to enable to Unity 3D web player plugin in your browser, which are detailed here: http://pipelight.net/cms/plugin-unity-webplayer.html
The player you said doesn't seem to support Linux as of yet. It would be really hard to get this working and not worth your time.
Did you try using the Internet Explorer that ships with Wine? Try installing the latest version of Internet Explorer on Wine and see if that plugin installs in that browser. Download it first, put it in that virtual C drive and keep doing something until it works/ breaks.
If that doesn't seem to work, you may try VirtualBox like Sergey suggested, but i think it would be useless to play games in VirtualBox.
Something not related to question: If you want to watch some videos in 3D then try Bino player. It enables you to watch videos in 3D... So, if you wanted to watch a video in 3D, you can use it.
Or may be you can record your browser screen and later watch it in 3D, but that just sounds crazy. There are some players like this in software center, so check out if any of them helps you in watching your browser in 3D. May be you can try your luck with Firefox addons too.
They are about to launch the Unity4 preview which will provide a Linux client. I think it will be available during the summer. The best thing to do is probably to pre-order the new version just here : http://unity3d.com/?unity4
Maybe you will have a beta access :)


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This has happened to me many times, but a simple rebuild of the Open-MPI generally fixed it.
I had a perfectly working (and tested) MPI application till a few days ago. Since then, there has been some upgrades on my Linux OS (basically, the ones which the system picks up automatically).
Now, I rebuild and rerun the same application, I get this:
mpirun: orterun.c:486: orterun: Assertion `((0xdeafbeedULL << 32) + 0xdeafbeedULL) == ((opal_object_t *) (&cmd_line))->obj_magic_id' failed.
[Morpheus:24572] *** Process received signal ***
[Morpheus:24572] Signal: Aborted (6)
[Morpheus:24572] Signal code: (-6)
[Morpheus:24572] [ 0] /lib64/libpthread.so.0(+0xf2d0) [0x7fd23c9312d0]
[Morpheus:24572] [ 1] /lib64/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x35) [0x7fd23c5e7ab5]
[Morpheus:24572] [ 2] /lib64/libc.so.6(abort+0x186) [0x7fd23c5e8fb6]
[Morpheus:24572] [ 3] /lib64/libc.so.6(__assert_fail+0xf5) [0x7fd23c5e0385]
[Morpheus:24572] [ 4] /home/Morpheus/CustomInstalledPrograms/OpenMPI-1.4.2/bin/mpirun() [0x4037ed]
[Morpheus:24572] [ 5] /home/Morpheus/CustomInstalledPrograms/OpenMPI-1.4.2/bin/mpirun() [0x4032a4]
[Morpheus:24572] [ 6] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7fd23c5d3bfd]
[Morpheus:24572] [ 7] /home/Morpheus/CustomInstalledPrograms/OpenMPI-1.4.2/bin/mpirun() [0x4031c9]
[Morpheus:24572] *** End of error message ***
I have a custom installation of open-mpi, with the configure script looking like this:
./configure --enable-mpi-threads=yes -prefix=/home/Morpheus/CustomInstalledPrograms/OpenMPI-1.4.2 --enable-mem-profile --enable-mem-debug --enable-debug --enable-trace --enable-memchecker --with-valgrind=/usr --with-threads=posix
The rebuild of my application was successful.
Where should I fix it? and How?
Thanks for ideas.


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WHEELING - Tom Breiding would not describe himself as an activist.
However, upon attending a rally against Patriot Coal Corp. in Charleston last September, Breiding felt inspired.
"When you stand there and listen to these miners tell their stories, you can't help but feel moved," the Wheeling native said.
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PERFORMS AT RALLY — Wheeling native Tom Breiding performed his song "River, Rails or Road" at a United Mine Workers of America rally in St. Louis recently. -- Contributed
The rally, and ones like it across the country since then, are put on by the United Mine Workers of America in protest of St. Louis-based Patriot, which was created from another coal company, Peabody Energy Corp., in 2007.
Initially profitable, Patriot hit hard times in recent years, the company citing exceptionally soft coal markets, rising costs and "unsustainable legacy liabilities" tied to the spinoff.
As part of its reorganization plan, Patriot seeks drastic cuts in health care benefits to retirees.
However, UMWA officials said Patriot was set up to fail in a deliberate plan to end benefit obligations to retirees.
Though officials with both companies deny that claim, the UMWA has been holding rallies to ensure their workers are not forgotten.
At the Charleston rally, which Breiding attended through his day job at Wheeling Jesuit University's Appalachian Institute, close to 10,000 workers and supporters were on hand to share their stories and fight for their benefits and pensions.
Breiding left feeling inspired, penning a song called "River, Rails or Road," he said.
"I sent that song to the UMWA, and they adopted it as sort of a fight song," Breiding said, adding the song was used in promotional videos by the organization.
Still, Breiding wanted to do more, so he set off for St. Louis in March to play at one of the rallies, held in the shadow of the Peabody Energy building.
Breiding said the response to his song, as well as other songs from his album, "Unbroken Circle: Songs of the West Virginia Coalfields," was overwhelming.
"These people are passionate about the cause," he said. "It is so great to be a direct part of these rallies and have people be receptive."
Last week Breiding was again in St. Louis, where more than 3,000 people gathered the day before the beginning of Peabody's bankruptcy case.
He said he will continue to try to make it to as many rallies as he can to show his support for the organization and workers, and said he also hopes to take students from WJU and the Appalachian Institute with him in the future to see firsthand what is happening to workers in the region.


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For n an integer greater than 2, Can one always get a complete theory over a finite language with exactly n models (up to isomorphism)?
There's a theorem that says that 2 is impossible.
My understanding is this should be doable in a finite language, but I don't know how.
If you switch to a countable language, then you can do it as follows. To get 3 models, take the theory of unbounded dense linear orderings together with a sequence of increase constants < ci: i < ω >. Then the ci's can either have no upper bound, an upper bound but no sup, or have a sup. This gives exactly 3 models. To get a number bigger than 3, we include a way to color all elements, and require that each color is unbounded and dense. (The ci's can be whatever color you like.) Then, we get one model for each color of the sup plus the two sup-less models.


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Designing a good video game puzzle is hard. You want to force the players to stop and think, but not frustrate them to the point where they give up and go read a book instead. But as we've shown you before, sometimes developers just don't give a shit. Or maybe they hate us. That's how you wind up with ...
(Love is the greatest puzzle of all. Watch Cracked solve it in our new Rom.Com mini-series.)
#5. Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake's Owl
Long before Metal Gear Solid set bold new standards in stealth gameplay and incomprehensible storylines, the original Metal Gear games were offering up sneaking and philosophizing in eight simple bits. The second game found Solid Snake infiltrating a military prison guarded by an elite Special Forces unit to rescue a kidnapped scientist, which is a pretty serious scenario for an era where saving a princess from a giant turtle was considered heavy-duty storytelling.
The game was a gritty Mario reboot, with Africa replacing the Mushroom Kingdom.
Late in the game, you find yourself blocked by a laser fence. You can't pull off sweet acrobatic moves to get through it because there's a guard waiting on the other side, and also this is a game from 1990. So you consider your options.
There's got to be another, less obvious way inside. A hole in the wall you can sneak through, or a key card you can steal. Skulking around is Snake's bread and butter, so that would make sense. But no, you search and search and come up empty.
"No, I can't just jump the wall. It's inches taller than me."
The only hint you can find is a kid who tells you that the gate shuts off at night. A prison that turns off its security features when it gets dark makes the designer of the Death Star look like a genius, but whatever, that's just video game logic. Maybe they're trying to save on their electric bills or something.
So you need to wait for night, but at no point in the game have you seen the time of day change. Maybe you have to find a location where you can sleep in safety? You've got no better ideas, so you start wandering aimlessly. Eventually, well away from the gate, you stumble across a lab that's housing a giant, inexplicably well-guarded egg.
Soon we will see the hatching of the OSTRICH SHARK.
Uh, OK. You're not sure what that's about, but you grab it, because the first life lesson gamers learn as children is to steal everything they see. Unfortunately it's still daytime, so you keep wandering until the egg hatches into a full-grown owl that doesn't object to being stuffed in your trousers.
Oh, well now it's obvious. You take the owl out of your pants at the laser gate, because its gentle hoots will convince the guard that it's nighttime. Wait, what?
"It's owl o'clock already?!"
Remember, you're battling what is supposed to be an elite military unit. And yet apparently their soldiers tell time not with carefully calibrated wristwatches but by the calls of the local avians. "What do you mean the sun's still beating down on us? Didn't you hear the owl?"
Shockingly, these sorts of puzzles didn't make it into later Metal Gear games, because few gamers would think to resort to Doctor Dolittle antics in the middle of a war zone.
#4. X-Men's Reset Button Doesn't Exist (Inside the Game, Anyway)
The 1993 X-Men game for the Sega Genesis is mostly a standard beat-'em-up, with little strategy beyond "walk forward and punch/stab/laser eyes everything." It's a superhero action game, not Skyrim.
But at the end of the penultimate level you're left in a nearly blank room with a computer console and a single sentence for instructions: "Reset the computer." Since every obstacle up to this point has been defeated with violence, you naturally assume that you need to punch a computer into submission. (The other lesson games teach us as children: If it isn't meant to be stolen, it is meant to be destroyed.) When you can't find any computers that respond to super-beatings, you start wondering if you missed defeating an enemy or flipping a hidden switch, and you scour every inch of the level in the hopes of finding the secret to progressing.
"What if I stab every pixel?"
And you will never, ever find it. Not if you play for the next 20 straight hours, raging in frustration, convinced that you got a glitched copy of the game. That's because the solution doesn't exist anywhere within the game universe: It exists in the real world. "Reset the computer" means you have to physically reset your game console.
And think for a moment about how counterintuitive that is. Gamers generally only touch the reset button when a game freezes, because ... you know, it resets your progress. This was before games automatically saved every five minutes -- a poorly timed reset could cost you everything. Had the game been riddled with obscure puzzles and meta references from the beginning, it's possible gamers would have figured it out, but who on Earth is going to get that fourth-wall-breaking reference late in a game where the most complicated puzzle up to that point was trying to figure out why the developers bothered to include Cyclops when everyone was going to play as Wolverine?
We're surprised the game doesn't force you to translate the binary from the cutscene.
It's no wonder that most gamers either got stuck or figured it out by accident. And that's not counting players who reset the game for real by holding the button down too long or played the game on the handheld Sega Nomad, which incidentally didn't have a reset button. The last level could have been a montage of satanic rituals and orgies for all the people who actually saw it.
Meanwhile, the Nintendo DS RPG The World Ends With You, whose developers are firm believers of the "fool me twice, shame on me" school of game design, pulls basically the same trick. One of the game's special enemies is a sleeping pig who runs away the moment you attack it. If for some reason you're really dedicated to murdering this innocent animal, you need to close your DS to put it in sleep mode. Get it? Because the pig was sleeping? No?
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Later, in an even more difficult puzzle, you figure out how the characters keep their pants from falling down.
#3. Discworld's Mustache
Discworld is based on the offbeat comedic fantasy novels, so naturally some of the puzzles are a little out there. But there's a difference between "out there" and "so far out there that you'd seriously doubt the sanity of anyone who gets it without help," and the effort needed for you to acquire a mustache falls firmly in the latter category.
Heroes need muscles and mustaches. This game was set in the good ol' days.
At one point you need a mustache to help you defeat a dragon (don't ask), and obviously you get a suitable fake by snipping off the corner of a donkey's tail. But how are you going to get the donkey to settle down long enough for you to have at it?
First you need to grab water, soap, a pot, and a brush from four distant corners of the game. This will allow you to clean the donkey cart's license plate, because when you're on a quest to save the world, your first priority will naturally be to clean random property and memorize license plate numbers as though you have a very specific form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Oh, what a majestic adventure you're on.
So you've got the number. What next? Why, it's off to the assassins' training grounds, of course! There, a novice assassin is proving his mettle by running an obstacle course that includes ladders set between rooftops. If you climb up and sabotage one of the ladders with your knife for no apparent reason besides being a complete asshole, the assassin will plummet to the ground and suffer a nasty knock.
Instead of fleeing the scene of the crime, you can go down and chat with your assault victim, who'll ask, "Did you get the number on that donkey cart?" which is a running joke told by the game's many head trauma sufferers. But this time you'll have an answer because of your random act of cleaning. The plate, incidentally, is "SORE-ASS," because what better way to reward players for what was almost certainly hours of monotonous trial and error than with a terrible pun?
It doesn't even contain any numbers!
The result of all this is that the donkey gets locked up in the stocks, because apparently the assassin was cognizant enough to report a crime and yet suffered enough brain damage to completely forget that he fell off a roof. It's now a simple matter of snipping off a corner of the donkey's tail ... assuming you found the tiny scissors hidden in a few pixels in the barber shop.
Jesus Christ -- Rube Goldberg would consider that to be needlessly elaborate. There's no logic to this puzzle; you're just committing random acts that magically produce the result you want. Think about all the other, more straightforward ways a player would try to come across a mustache first. Like doing something with the facial hair you have on your own goddamn face.
"Needs more crusted donkey shit."


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I have a bunch of .sql files in a directory that I need to import. Although I can do it manually, for scripting purposes I need to be able to apply them in bulk. How can I do that though? What combination of options and commands do I need?
The mysqlimport command goes like this:
mysqlimport [options] db_name textfile1 [textfile2 ...]
I need to be able to add all the text files to the end. I would prefer a command than a convoluted for loop if possible.
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RAMAPO, N.Y. -- Police Officer Modestino Giusto Jr. is getting married Saturday, but he isn't likely to spend his wedding night in a honeymoon suite or dance the evening's final dance.
Giusto, 33, is out on disability and under departmental orders to remain home from 4 p.m. to midnight Saturday, eight hours that constitute his shift.
His marriage is scheduled for 11 a.m. that morning. However, barring a court order, he will have to cut the cake early and leave his reception, which is scheduled from 1 to 5 p.m. in New Jersey, to be home on time.
Ramapo Police Chief Peter Brower and department officials are not letting Giusto take the night off or change his shift, said Rey Mauro, who represents the officer through the Ramapo Police Benevolent Association.
"This is the singularly most obnoxious, arbitrary and vicious police administrative directive I've ever seen in my career," Mauro said Thursday. "The town won't budge. It makes no sense. This is a sweet kid. He doesn't bother anybody. They are mad at him. They can't even explain it."
State Supreme Court Justice Margaret Garvey will be asked Friday to intervene and order the Ramapo Police Department to allow Giusto time to enjoy his wedding day and night without interference.
Officers on line-of-duty disability get paid tax-free, including all raises and benefits, but cannot take time off, Mauro said.
Attorney Brian Nugent of Feerick Lynch MacCartney of South Nyack is a former Suffern police lieutenant who represents the town in police labor issues.
Nugent said what Giusto is asking for is, essentially, a "timeout" from the disability statute that has kept him out of work for 15 months.
"It's unprecedented," Nugent said. "There's no case that I know of where someone has been given this type of release. He's basically asking to substitute a vacation day in the place of disability leave and the town cannot legally allow that."
Nugent said the town is in no way preventing Giusto from getting married or from enjoying his reception. Giusto, who is believed by the town to have begun planning the wedding in September 2011, could have avoided the issue altogether by scheduling the event on a day that doesn't coincide with work; the department's 2012 schedule was posted nearly a year ago, Nugent said.
Giusto could not be reached for comment, but Barbara Wilson, his future mother-in-law, said Giusto made the situation known to his supervisors three months ago and had been told it would not be a problem. Only recently did the department inform Giusto that he would need to be home for his Saturday shift, Wilson said.
Wilson said forcing Giusto to leave his own wedding early would be disastrous for him and her daughter, 27-year-old bride-to-be, Sarah Narun.
"My daughter, this is going to hurt her so badly. ... It's her day to be a princess and marry her prince," the Suffern woman said. "If she has to explain this -- she can't. We can't stand there and tell all these people this story. That would be ridiculous. Tino feels the same way. He'll be heartbroken. How do you leave the wife you just married?"
Giusto went on disability leave in June 2011 after being injured in a training exercise involving the department's newly acquired Taser stun guns, which shoot electrified darts into a person to temporarily disable them. As part of the training, officers must experience being stunned.
Giusto took a shot in the back and suffered an injury to his cervical area of his neck, causing him to spasm and need hospitalization, Mauro said.
The state workers' compensation determined he suffered a line-of-duty injury and a temporary disability, Mauro said.
Wilson contends that Giusto eventually recovered to the point where he was able to work in a transitional capacity, but was told by the Police Department that no such position was available. The department's stand on the wedding day issue is personal, she said.
Capt. Brad Weidel, speaking for Brower, said the department's case would be made clear in court.
"The Police Department has no prohibition against an officer getting married nor are we preventing him from getting married," Weidel said. "It's a personnel matter."
Nugent said the only way the town will be allowed to grant Giusto's request is if it is court-ordered.
If Garvey rules Giusto should be allowed to attend his wedding reception in full, the town will abide, Nugent said.
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In astronomy, telescopes are most commonly built with mirrors, but there are refractors using lenses. All cameras I know of for Earthly purposes — portraits, landscapes, etc. — use only lenses, not mirrors. Are they some special purpose cameras based on mirrors, other than for astrophotography?
There are mirrors available for most SLR cameras, but their limitations make them fairly special purpose instruments.
Edit: @Marc raises a good point: to be at all fair, I should probably point out some of the strengths of mirrors:
There are some mirror based lenses, such as Nikkor 500 f/8 mirror. You can see it here: http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/5008.htm.
It does confirm what Jerry wrote, that all mirror lenses are fixed aperture and with high focal length.
Advantages of mirror: lower weight and shorter length
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