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Collected by: James Ward Lee
and Ralph E. Roberts for
Mary Celestia Parler
Transcribed by James Ward Lee
and Ralph E. Roberts
Conversation with:
Martha Hawkins and
Winifred Ralston
Combs, Arkansas
July 26, 1958
Reel 241 Item 1
James Ward Lee: Do you remember in what year you were born?
Granny Hawkins: 1873.
James Ward Lee: That makes 1881.
Winifred Ralston: 1881 Grandma.
GH: And there wasn't a one in our crowd that ever had saw a
passenger train— never had, and—
WR: You didn't come on the train, did you?
GH: We come on the train, oh, yes, and my grandfather come
with us and he was, oh he was...him and my grandmother
and my Uncle Isaac Witt and my Aunt Polly Ann. Aunt Folly
Ann Witt was a sister to my mother and my Uncle Isacc was
a sister to my father and they came with us and when the
train pulled up there to the depot and we all was fixing
to get on,it looked like every one of us was scared of
that train— never had saw one,..
JWL:Now where was this at in Kentucky?
GH: We got on at London, Kentucky, and they had never saw a
WR: Do you know what county that is in, Grandma?
GH: No, I don't remember.
JWL: Where did you get off; where did the train come to?
GH: It come to Ozark.
JWL:To Ozark?
GH: Yea, we came--we got off at Ozark, and then we hired
wagons to bring us and we landed over here on Richland
and we stayed over there two weeks and then Daddy he
found a little streak of land and bought it and Uncle
Isaac he rented that year and then after that why Daddy
found a good home and he homesteaded it.
JWL:That's up by Greasey Creek?
GH: Um hum, he homesteaded it and I was raised right there.
JWL:Has this country changed much in..?
GH: Law, hit's a sight on earth how hit's changed since then.
The woods was full of cattle, hogs and everything, you
know, free range and everything...
GH: Yea, I guess so.Guess there was plenty of them and theys
lots of cattle, and cattle wasn't worth anything. You
could buy all the good milk cows that you wanted for ten
dollars a piece— ten dollars a piece— good cows, and people
just couldn't sell them, you know, no market— no market
in here for anything. The closest market was Fayetteville
or Ozark..
JWL:What kind of town was Fayetteville then?
GH: Hit was pretty good. Hits built alot course, since then ,
but it was a right smart town and hit's still a buildin'
you know, all the time and Ozarks built alot too.
JWL:Have we ever been in Ozark?
GH: But Ozark hit's a old town too. Fayetteville— Fayetteville
was a pretty good little town in the time of the old Civil
War. My brother-in-law said that they got so bad in here
they called them the Bushwhackers, and they had a company
of their own, you know, and they just went all over the
country and just robbed and they done everythin'.
JWL:Were they Yankees or were they Confederates?
GH: Theys..and they would just go in and rob people. lake
everything they had to eat and take their blankets and
quilts and take 'em off and never see them no more, you
know, and they couldn't say a word.
JWL:I've heard folks say that a lot of folks in here be on
the Union side and a lot of them oh the Confederate side.
GH: Well I guess they guess they was on both sides, don't you
Mary? I don't remember what about that, but the bunch that
was in here they told us about, they was on the Southern
JWL:Would you tell about the Fourth of July celebrations they'd
have, you know, with all that marching and the old soldiers
Would they all be Confederate soldiers— or would there be
Union soldiers that— ?
GH: They-they-you see, they march together. They had peace
then, you know,and just marched together.
JWL:Were there about as many blue as there were gray?
GH: I think so.
JWL:I didn't know that.
GH: I think they was. They looked like they was. They was
dressed just like they was, you know.
JWL:This was in St. Paul?
GH: UH-hum, up to St. Paul. Well, you know, St. Paul wasn't
built fer a long time. It wasn't until after I was married.
JWL:Oh, is that right?
GH: And then is when they went to havin' reunions and the old
soldiers would march and they'd give them all-allof the old
soldiers—they'd have a big free dinner fer 'em and every
one of 'em would come to that dinner--
It sounds so crazy. It makes a body think twice and speak
once, don't i t . Clatter* away
Ever since I got my false teeth I— I can't speak my words
all plain—
JWL:But, Mr. Witt—
GH: Can you— Can you
JWL:Just speak a little louder.
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RAMSEUR — "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison is banned from the shelves of Randolph County Schools libraries.
By a 5-2 margin, the Randolph County Board of Education voted Monday night, at its regular meeting held at Eastern Randolph High School, to remove all copies of the book from school libraries.
The action stems from a Randleman High School parent's complaint about the book. Committees at both the school and district levels recommended it not be removed.
Voting in favor of the ban were Board Chair Tommy McDonald and members Tracy Boyles, Gary Cook, Matthew Lambeth and Gary Mason. Voting against the action were Board Vice Chair Emily Coltrane and member Todd Cutler who both first introduced a motion to keep the book in the schools. This first motion was defeated by a 2-5 vote.
The book, originally published in 1952, addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African-Americans in the first half of the 20th century.
It was one of three books from which rising Randleman High School juniors could choose for summer reading for the 2013-14 school year. The others on the list were "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin and "Passing" by Nella Larsen; honors students had to choose two books.
There was little discussion after the board was presented with the Central Services Committee recommendation concerning the parent's complaint about the book. All board members had been supplied with copies of the book last month to read.
McDonald asked if everyone had read the book, stating, "It was a hard read."
Mason said, "I didn't find any literary value." He also objected to the language in the book. "I'm for not allowing it to be available."
Cutler asked if there were other options to which Catherine Berry, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, replied that there were other choices. She also explained that the book is on the N.C. Department of Public Instruction's list of suggested supplemental works for high school students.
It was at this point that Cutler made the original motion which was defeated. Lambeth then made the motion to ban the book which passed.
The board action was prompted by a complaint about the book from Kimiyutta Parson, mother of an RHS 11th-grader. She submitted a request for reconsideration of instructional media form, which detailed, in a 12-page supplemental document, her reasons for the book's removal.
She stated, in part, "The narrator writes in the first person, emphasizing his individual experiences and his feelings about the events portrayed in his life. This novel is not so innocent; instead, this book is filthier, too much for teenagers. You must respect all religions and point of views when it comes to the parents and what they feel is age appropriate for their young children to read, without their knowledge. This book is freely in your library for them to read."
Parson also objected to the type of language used in the book and its sexual content.
A school-based, six-member media advisory committee met, according to board policy, and recommended it not be removed from the library.
A 10-member District Media Advisory Committee also met, agreeing with the school-level group's decision. According to its recommendation, "the committee appreciated the parent's concern for their child and the interest taken in their education. The District Media Advisory committee unanimously agreed that the book does relate directly to curriculum and RCS should keep the book on the shelf and as a literature piece for instruction."


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Haha, ok, Cher Do you believe? Uncle Kracker - follow me .
Haha, ok, Cher Do you believe? Uncle Kracker - follow me .
Don't dislike that Cher song (though don't really like it either), not heard of the other.
Backstreet Boys are immense . You're just jealous that I'm unique.
Thought i'd take a crack at this, i've got 2218 songs on my iPod so anything could happen here...........
1. Snoop Dogg - Murder Was the Case
2. Inkanyezi Nezazi - Ladysmith Black Mambazo
3. Goldfrapp - It's Not over Yet
4. The Killers - A Dustland Fairytale
5. Honky Tonk Man - Cool Cocky Bad
I don't even.
My tastes are all over the place, and I might actually kill people mentioning a few things. So I'll just mention that I have 2 playlists on youtube for an individual band. One is Within Temptation, and the other is Eiffel 65, though there's another that's mostly Freedom Call, in my defence.
Within Temptation are good
I know, they're my 'respectable' like. I was contrasting them with what a lot of people would think of Eiffel 65.
I don't give a fig for either band. In fact, I'd rather listen to 'Blue' than anything WT did...
My shuffle playlist:
1. Drake - The Ride
2. Cory Gunz - Gunz Pop Hash
3. Kanye West & Jay-Z, (Frank Ocean) - No Church in the Wild
4. Tommy Sunshine & Disco Fries - Don't Look Back
5. Drake - Crew Love
I doubt you will recognise most, if not all of these songs.
Bone Thugs n Harmony FTW!!!
Can anyone figure out what beep code this is?
I don't think I can recover any data from this but none of the system beep codes seem to match. I'm more curious than anything.
I'm not sure rancer but I'm loving that Flamers v Maple Leafs video . I'm a Maple Leaf fan myself .
But both files were quite big and I had to wait over an hour for the first one to be uploaded so I never uploaded the other one.
Wanted to go to the Raptors game against Jeremy Lin and the Knicks when they came to town and film some live footage but had a midterm the next day so perhaps next time if I got time and I got tickets...
It sucks when real life gets in the way and you don't have much time to spend on FM or the forum.
I'll have a lot of catching up to do when I get round to having a free night.
Ok so here's my 5 on my full library (minus classical stuff):
Megadeth - New World Order
Aerosmith - Same Old Song & Dance
Alice in Chains - Would?
Audioslave - Set it Off
Damageplan - Soul Bleed
And the next 5:
Sinergy - Violated
Foghat - Slow Ride
Black Label Society - In This River
Ill Nino - In This Moment
Static-X - SOM
And the next:
Van Halen - Eruption
Joe Satriani - You Saved My Life
God Forbid - The End of the World
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Forbidden - Parting of the Ways
So like one song I've listened to in the last year (Alice in Chains) out of 15. Nice one, iTunes
Yours is clearly the best one so far, Snake!
Rafa Benitez is back at Inter in the year 2014 on my save. The news item said that they were delighted to welcome him back.
My 15:
1. American Idiot - Green Day
2. Backseat Sarah - Third Place Victory
3. Lord Xenu - The Devil Wears Prada
4. I Melt With You - Sugarcult
5. Champagne's for Celebrating (I'll Have a Martini) - Mayday Parade
6. The Sirens Song - Parkway Drive
7. Turn The Lights Out - Hadouken!
8. My Shoes - Attack! Attack! (UK)
9. Treasure - Flyleaf
10. Cool To Hate - Offspring (again!!)
11. Night Drive - The All American Rejects
12. Peg O' My Heart - Dropkick Murphys
13. Inside Of Me - Dead By Sunrise
14. Danger: Wildman - The Devil Wears Prada
15. The Danger In Starting A Fire - A Day To Remember
We're up to 15 now then? I thought it was 5!
Well I thought it would be more interesting
Just a quick question for you guys, I've noticed nearly all the threads on here are with lower league or clubs in obscure nations. Would it be ok if I posted updates about my next game? I prefer using teams that I know well as I'm new to FM this year. I think it would help my save if I could share it on here and perhaps get some tips from you.
Of course, there are no restrictions at all about the sorts of teams people can post about here.
Just a hint, if you go with Utd, City, Chelsea and the like you will have probably won everything within 5 seasons and will get bored. I managed 30 seasons last year with KFK and never won a major European competition. Also "bad news makes good news" as humans we love reading about how people suffer (not in a sick way but it intrigues us) so bare that in mind.
But most of all: enjoy your career! If you enjoy it then its likely others will too! And never be afraid to ask for help, most of us don't bite
You will find that you can get very attached to a club, my save in Iceland has made me want to go there and see the football club I played as. They are currently playing in the Icelandic 4th tier (yes it exists!) and are one of the worst teams in the country
I am already 7 seasons into my new save and I haven't got bored yet, also don't try and push your computer too much. It was get noticeably slower as the years go on and it can get VERY frustrating so have patience
After 30 years the AI has basically switched off in inactive leagues, you get full teams of grey players etc and they don't really compete to buy good players. If your computer can handle it add them (even if it's only as view only) if not it won't break your save
For a club I would go one of two ways: either a new club with no history so you can make your own. Or a really old club with loads of history but is now terrible. But as delta says, its your save, you need to enjoy it
Wikipedia is always good, I started my save by just applying for loads of jobs and ended up at a club in the same city as Kim Jon Il so supposedly born!
I will be biased and say Iceland Generally people stick to Europe but there have been several good threads in Asia and South America both last year and this. It depends on what you want to do really and how long you have to sink into it.
Brazil will have you stressed and needing a huge squad, its meant to be very challenging. All perfect things for a good thread! SnakeXe is at Santos currently in his thread and it seems like he is enjoying it
Very long seasons though with state championships so it would to especially slowly. Sounds great if you don't mind though.
I think you do 60+ games a season if you want win everything so exhaustion is a major factor!
The Brazilian season does drag on a bit, although you can often win the state championship with your youth team which is pretty good.
As for long term games, I just need a long term aim. If I've not got anything to aim for then I tend to get a bit bored with it (like last year).
It helps me if I have people to chat to on Steam while I play, there is a FMCU Group on steam which most of us are part of. Other than that its winning a continental competition (which I haven't yet done!)
I'd recommend Italy (biased as ever!). It's a 4 league system and takes a while to get all the way up, it's taken me 14 years to survive just one season in Serie A TIM
Maybe just load up a handful of leagues, start unemployed, and see where it takes you.
You could load 3/4 leagues you're familiar with, for example England, Spain, Italy etc, then add a couple of other nations as wildcards. Often it can be fun managing in the unknown, but at least this way you've got a comfort net to fall back on if/when it ends in misery
Some good suggestions. Cheers lads.
There's nothing wrong with starting at a higher level either, obviously if you pick Utd or City you'll get bored easily but pick a team like Blackburn, Everton, Stoke or Swansea in the Premier League. See how long it takes you to start doing well, I know it took me a while and I'm still not there yet!
I personally love the English leagues and lower national team management. I've had two good threads this year, the first where I managed international teams starting with Northern Ireland, I absolutely loved that save and although I started a new one with the goal of dominating England starting at the bottom I carried on my international one. Sadly the both got crash dumps and were un-fixable. I tried getting into a different save but it never went anywhere and got crash dumps again. This led me onto FIFA and my YouTube channel but next year I plan on 'Conquering England' and managing international teams at the same time, making sure I back up my games!
This makes me think, when should we start a 'What are you going to do in FM13?'
But as for your save, whatever you want. Personally I love a financially crippled club, one like Preston where you get 2 promotions into the Championship and only get 20k wage budget for a whole squad!! So for me, I wouldn't want to manage Crawely, who will buy their way to way success
Does anyone have, or have a link for, French National and CFA kits?
If nothing changes at Forest or Pompey by the time FM13 comes out, then they'll both be great saves or should be imo.
No idea for FM13. Maybe Belgium.
My 15 songs, because if Flamers can do it, so can I!
1. Ghost - Elevate
2. Moderat - Seamonkey
3. Detritus - Bookburner
4. Jah Wobble and The Chinese Dub Orchestra - Dragon & Phoenix Dub
5. Sleater-Kinney - Burn, Don't Freeze
6. My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
7. Mark Lanegan Band - Methamphetamine Blues
8. DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World
9. Blood Red Shoes - Colours Fade
10. Eels - Guest List
11. The Donnas - Take It Off
12. Sparklehorse - Pig
13. Sonic Youth - Mildred Pierce
14. Mark Ronson - Ooh Wee
15. Coil - The Hellbound Heart
Boom! Disappointed I didn't get any Ben Frost in there..
Good enough for others good enough for me lol.
1. Ann Peebles - I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down
2. John Cooper Clarke - Postwar Glamour Girls
3. The Doors - The Soft Parade
4. Johnny Cash - Cry, Cry, Cry
5. Tito & Tarantula - After Dark
6. Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box
7. James Brown - I Got You(I Feel Good)
8. Marilyn Manson - Irresponsible Hate Anthem
9. Queens of the Stone Age - Do It Again
10 . The Macc Lads - Germans
11. Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls
12. Placebo - Speacial K
13. Johnny Cash - I've Been Everywhere
14. Zug Island - Sunny Day
15. Guns 'N' Roses - November Rain
There's a few on there I am not sure people will have heard of the macc lads, John Cooper Clarke, Tito & Tarantula. Glad a Doors one made it on there my favourite band ever, love them so much I have Jim Morrison(lead singer) tattooed on my chest.
I would be impressed if you knew Zug Island.
Zug Island are nothing like ICP as they are more rock with little to no rapping in them. You really know who the Macc Lads are?
I am actually annoyed at the state of music, to find something new that I like I keep going back to 70's psychedelic rock music. There is only Example that I like recently who is nowhere near what I normally listen to.
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I would just love to find a new band that really grips me the closest I can think of was The Horrors album from a few years a go. Even some of my favourite bands are starting to sound boring and have really gone down hill producing albums far from their best. Examples would be Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Monster Magnet, Queens of the Stone Age, ICP and several others associated with them. Like I said I have to go back to the 70's for people like Jefferson Airplane or Echo and the Bunnymen. Apart from that I just take a look at my dads CD's or ask him for some recommendations or ask him who he used to listen to in his youth.
I'll join in too. Here is my list:
Mansun - Being a Girl
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Abba Zaba
Beck - Pressure Zone
Nirvana - Something in the Way
Morrissey - The Never Played Symphonies
The Beatles - Eight Days a Week
Tom Waits - Diamonds on my Windshield
The Seahorses - Do it Yourself
Howlin' Wolf - Evil (Is Goin' On)
Jimi Hendrix - Little Miss Strange
Radiohead - Pyramid Song
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Radiohead - Idioteque (live)
The Beatles - Taxman
Morrissey - Billy Budd
Not bad at all. Much better than expected. Although I'm not sure how random my shuffle is, to be honest, as I got a couple of artist repeats in there (Beatles & Radiohead) and also it seems to go through similar genre stuff as it cycles through, which is kind of weird.
I decided to give it another try as my shuffle through last time didn't seem random enough.
Gomez - Machismo
The Beatles - I am The Walrus
Maximo Park - Karaoke Plays
Pearl Jam - Daughter (live)
Paul Weller - You Do Something to Me (live from Days of Speed)
The Black Keys - Till I Get My Way
De La Soul - Me, Myself And I
Morrissey - Roy's Keen
Supergrass - St. Petersburg
Eels - Last Days of My Bitter Heart
Tom Waits - The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown Traffic
Super Furry Animals - Torra Fy Ngwallt Yn Hir
Sufjan Stevens - Say Yes! to Michigan!
The Black Keys - No Trust
I am the Walrus! Awesome!
I don't know why there isn't much variation when it's on shuffle though. I probably have over 200 artists on my computer but media player shuffle seems to be repeating a lot of the same ones.
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Now we are going to get people posting 30 songs. Pretty decent songs there Crouchy.
Sorry, I was just a bit annoyed that there wasn't more variation in terms of artists!
No need to say sorry I am betting Flamers will post another 15 songs now. My itunes just won't get rid of November Rain it is there on every shuffle.
It's a fun thing to do actually as I hadn't heard some of those songs in ages. For most of the ones that came up, I'd probably have preferred to have heard a different song by the same band, but a few were classics that I enjoyed hearing again!
16. Jack Rokka vs Betty Boo - Take It Off (Fierce Dog Remix)\
17. The Gutter Twins - The Body
18. Ride - Drive Blind
19. The Twilight Singers - Decatur St.
20. The Black Keys - Everlasting Light
21. DJ Shadow - Blood On The Motorway
22. Sinner DC - Sunrized
23. Orbital - The Girl With The Sun In Her Head
24. Depeche Mode - Pain Killer (DJ Shadow's 'Kill The Pain' Remix)
25. Monster Magnet - Look To Your Orb For The Warning
26. Placebo - Every You, Every Me
27. The Rolling Stones - Street Fightin' Man
28. QOTSA - Go With The Flow (The wife's favourite song)
29. Massive Attack - Dissolved Girl
30. Scarling - Black Horse Riding Star
Anyone use itunes?
Can't find a way to randomise all my music only that stupid Itunes DJ thing that picks 100 songs.
Haha didn't even know there was one, usually just put one album on.
iTunes blows anyway. I much prefer Winamp.
These aren't my first five on shuffle on my ipod in my car, I'm over 300 in, but they are the first five that came up today.
1. The Prodigy - Firestarter
2. Amy Winehouse - Valerie
3. Joss Stone - [untitled track]
4. MeatLoaf - In the Land of the Pig, the Butcher is King
5. Sugababes - Push the Button (from Now 25 Years)
Zune <3 <3
Well seen as everyone loves my music taste here is an awesome song:
Edit: And after seeing The Vow last night (great film, may go and see it again ) I couldn't stop listening to Meatloaf - I'd do anything for love
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Run -********- DMC <3
The Jason Nevins mix of It's Tricky is better than the original.
Is anyone good at creating kits and logos?
aye, what ya after?
PM me your email i already have logos,
is it cheesy that every pre-season im going to play the FMCU Cup on my save where it will be my side, and three randomly selected side from the forum (thinking the current clubs of the top three threads so currently it would be McN7's Malaga, Danger_mouse's Crewe and Raware's Coalville town)
My 15 shuffle playlist, soon we'll have a Top 100 FMCU Shuffle playlist.
1. Heaven at Nite - Kid Cudi
2. Too Afraid to Love You - The Black Keys
3. We Run the Night - Havana Brown
4. Naughty - Elon Levon
5. Scott Mescudi vs. The World - Kid Cudi
6. President Carter - Lil Wayne
7. Hustling - Foster The People
8. Speed - Cory Gunz
9. Shot For Me - Drake
10. Drink - Cory Gunz
11. We Aite - Kid Cudi
12. The Prayer - Kid Cudi
13. Waste - Foster The People
14. Ohrwurm - Tommy Trash
15. REVOFEV - Kid Cudi
Loads of Cudi!
Hey everyone, I'm looking to start a career thread with Keflavík (local team, stadium 2 minute walk from my house) in the Icelandic Premier Division but god knows I'm not the biggest writer out there so is there anyone here that can help me with picking a good, solid format for writing updates. Thanks


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When I install passenger:
sudo gem install passenger
cd /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/passenger-2.2.14/bin
sudo ./passenger-install-nginx-module
everything is fine (no error). Nginx is downloaded and compiled and installed at the same time (when selecting the first option during passenger installation). By default it is installed in
I end up with the configuration file
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When I run
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I updated
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#4. Kaelling (Danish)
An ugly, miserable woman who yells obscenities at her kids.
If you claim to have never seen one of these, go to the laundromat. Or Walmart. Or maybe it's the woman who lives down the street and offers a Master's class in parenting to everyone in earshot. Their calls are unmistakable, from "Get your asses in this house" to "Clean up your fucking mess" and even "I'll beat the shit out of you in front of the whole goddamn neighborhood."
"Don't cry at me. You're such a child."
But where we rely on the long-winded "That-crazy-fucking-lady-down-the-street-who-someone-really-needs-to-call-CPS-on-but-no-one-will-because-she's-scary-and-besides-she-probably-set-our-house-on-fire" to describe them, the Danish invented a single word.
We do not know the kaelling's story. We are too afraid to make eye contact with her. Was the kaelling always like this? Did the father of the children know this before he made children with her? Is he now dead? Or, most frightening of all, did those kids make her that way?
Now we know that's not the way to beat an indistinct yellow offspring.
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"Soooo ... saw your erection ... cool."
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Which is why we're building one around Canada, because they refuse to take their 30 miles of Montana back.
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A person who asks too many questions.
So, your class/work meeting/couples therapy session is dragging on and you are just barely containing a hangover that's making your internal organs try to crawl out of your mouth. Just when you think everybody has finally shut the hell up, it happens.
Son of a bitch.
Everything was all wrapped and couldn't have been clearer. But not for this guy. He wants times, dates, definitions, measurements. The endless stream of questions begins. And they are all staggeringly boring:
What font should that be in?
When will the old wooden doorstops be replaced by the regulation blue plastic doorstops?
Where do I find paper for the printer, if the printer is empty and the replacement printer paper has also run out?
"I have secretly pooped somewhere. Is it on the TV or in your handbag?"
That's when you realize that the guy is simply inventing irrelevant questions because he just likes the attention. You now truly know the meaning of despair, and the meaning of "pochemuchka."
Naturally, this word comes from a country in which asking too many questions will result in death. But maybe more surprisingly, it originates from the children's book Alyosha Pochemuchka, which is the story of a young boy who constantly asks "Why?" There are no copies of it online, so we can only assume it's a parable about a Russian child who started getting too nosy about government affairs and was quickly taken care of.
He wants to ask TWO questions! Shooooot!
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They're out there. They're reading this right now. Judging, smirking, analyzing. They care nothing about the actual meaning or fun of writing, but care everything about whether you used that semi-colon correctly. While we -- perhaps inappropriately -- call them Grammar Nazis, the Finns have a much more fitting name: "pilkunnussija."
Or literally, "comma fuckers."
Check out that tail.
Let that delicious imagery sink in for a second: Some stubborn, miserable person slowly removing his or her sweater vest while caressing the pendulous dip and point of a comma before slowly climbing on top of it and thrusting away in quiet desperation. These are people who have taken the most boring, pedantic aspect of language and adopted that as their cause. It's like a child on a basketball court dreaming of one day being a referee. And these people certainly exist. Take, for example, the Apostrophe Protection Society, who feel the need to protect this "much abused" punctuation mark from the grubby fingers of people like you.
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I can't think of many people who go by the Hebrew name Adam. Any guesses why?
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Pischei Teshuvah (Yoreh De'ah 265:6) cites the opinion of Mabit, that it is best not to use names of people from before Avraham. There are indeed opposing opinions cited in PT there, and after all we see that Noach is used often enough; but this may have reduced the use of the name Adam.
It's also possible that it had to do with it being commonly used as a non-Jewish name.
Because you do not know that many people named Adam. It is a traditional Hebrew name.
Like the Zohar says, even a sefer Torah in the heichal has mazal (except ein mazal le-yisrael). Trends in names come and go. As it happens, a trend which Jews have settled in for centuries is to name after people. This is almost sufficient to limit names to those which are already in use. There aren't too many Natronais around these days either.
Personally, I think "Adam" as a Hebrew name is not popular because it does not sound nice in Hebrew. Are you saying "Adam", or "Red" or "ground"? Then there is the whole Edomite thing. But honestly, I think it's just because it doesn't sound nice. It also sounds rather boorish in Hebrew. Even the Israelis I know who have the name "Adam" pronounce it the english way and not the hebrew way.
It's sort of like the naming your kid 'Butch' today.
I once read a tshuva from Reb Moshe Feinstien ZT"L about names and he said that a name needs a kabbala in order to give it. So the traditional names like Avraham, Yitzchak, Chaim, etc. are OK; on the other hand, although we find Reb Yishmael in the Gemorah, no one today can give that name, since it fell out of use. Also names like "Yom Tov" while common should only be given if your family has a tradition for using that name. So if you want to name your child Adam because it was a name in your family over the generations then go ahead.
I don't recall the exact tshuvah but I am sure you can easily find Rav Moshe's opinion in the Yad Moshe. What constitutes a kabbala and when it starts I also can't answer for you.
My family nickname is Adam so I've wondered about this. Notwithstanding any other answers, here are some rambling thoughts:
But yes it does get used, just not that often. There is an Israeli peace activist Adam Keller, I can't think of any others.
On an unrelated note, in Kabbala there is both Adam Rishon (first) and Adam Kadmon, related to Adam Kadmoni (original) .
First of all, it is impossible to prove that something does not exist if you are not aware of other . One of my Hebrew names is Adam, and it was given to me by my parents. They are not God-hating people, and therefore they knew that naming me such a name would not be in violation of any part of our sacred Masoretic tradition.


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I am trying to calculate sqrt(-g) in terms of a background metric and metric perturbations, to second order in the perturbations. I know how to expand tensors that depend on the metric, but I don't know how to expand the metric determinant. Does anyone know how to to this or (even better) know of a source that does second order perturbation theory in GR?
Dear David, as Ted already wrote, but didn't optimize the answer for your problem, there is an identity $$\det g = \exp(\mbox{Tr}(\ln g))$$ You may easily take the square root of it; let us assume that $g$ is positive definite for a while; the resulting formulae will obviously work for all matrices. $$\sqrt{\det g} = \exp\left(\frac{1}{2}\mbox{Tr}(\ln g)\right)$$ However, as he also realized, the formula is not terribly useful for your purpose, anyway, because you would need to differentiate a logarithm of a matrix which is even harder.
It is better to differentiate the determinant directly with respect to the individual components of the metric tensor explicitly. The determinant of a $d \times d$ matrix is the sum of the $d!$ products over all permutations covering all columns and rows, with the sign counting the parity of the permutation. What is the following derivative? $$ \frac{\partial (\det g)}{\partial g_{\mu\nu}}$$ Well, it's not hard to calculate. Among the $d!$ terms in the determinant, you only pick those that contain $g_{\mu\nu}$. I will return to the evaluation after a paragraph about a technicality.
Just to be sure, $g_{\mu\nu}$ and $g_{\nu\mu}$ are treated as independent variables and the calculation is formally done for general asymmetric matrices. At the very end, we may realize that the metric is a symmetric tensor which simplifies some formulae and allows us to be more sloppy about the ordering. But at no point, we will actually be forced to distinguish the derivatives with respect to diagonal and off-diagonal elements of the metric.
OK, so the derivative of the determinant with respect to a particular matrix element is the corresponding subdeterminant of the $(d-1) \times (d-1)$ matrix in which the $\mu$-th row and $\nu$-th column were omitted. You know that the inverse matrix is defined using a similar subdeterminant - however, it must be divided by the whole determinant. It leads us to the identity: $$ \frac{\partial (\det g)}{\partial g_{\mu\nu}} = \pm \mbox{subdet} (g_{omitted\,\mu,\nu}) = (\det g) g^{\mu\nu}$$ The $\pm$ symbol indicates that I want to stay sloppy about the overall sign. However, the sign is fixed in the following step and regardless of $\mu\nu$, it is a plus sign. This is very clear if you choose e.g. $(\mu,\nu)=(1,1)$ - and the formula must have a nice form for all values of the indices. The determinant had to be reinserted to the right hand side because the inverse matrix elements are defined as ratios with the determinant in the denominator, so I had to multiply it back. If you wrote the determinant as the exponential my answer started with, the exponential - the determinant - would be recycled back to the expression because the derivative of an exponential is the exponential times the derivative of the argument.
In the $+---$ or $-+++$ signature, the determinant is negative. The right sign is still the same $$ \frac{\partial (\det g)}{\partial g_{\mu\nu}} = \pm \mbox{subdet} (g_{omitted\,\mu,\nu}) = (\det g) g^{\mu\nu}$$ because the previous formula really holds for any matrix, regardless of the signature. Now, write $$g_{\mu\nu} = \eta_{\mu\nu}+h_{\mu\nu}$$ where $\eta$ doesn't necessarily have to have the simple Minkowski form. You can Taylor-expand the determinant in $h$: $$\det(g_{\mu\nu}) = \det(\eta_{\mu\nu}) + h_{\mu\nu} \frac{\partial (\det g)}{\partial g_{\mu\nu}}|_{g=\eta} + \frac{1}{2!} h_{\kappa\lambda}h_{\mu\nu} \frac{\partial^2 (\det g)}{\partial g_{\kappa\lambda}\partial g_{\mu\nu}}|_{g=\eta} + \dots$$ I am convinced that now you can solve it. The second derivatives with respect to the metric are not too much harder; they're the first derivatives of the first derivative. However, you know how to differentiate metric components themselves with respect to $g_{\mu\nu}$; and you also know how to differentiate the determinant.
In fact, it's helpful to tell you how to differentiate the inverse metric components with respect to the original metric components, too: $$\frac{\partial g_{\kappa\lambda}}{\partial g_{\mu\nu}} = \delta^\mu_\kappa \delta^\nu_\lambda$$ That was the simple Kronecker delta differentiation. Now the more complex one, with the inverse metric $$\frac{\partial g^{\kappa\lambda}}{\partial g_{\mu\nu}} = -g^{\kappa\mu}g^{\lambda\nu}$$ This formula may be determined from the fact that the derivative of $\delta^\pi_\rho$, which may be obtained as the product of $g^{\pi\alpha}g_{\alpha\rho}$, with respect to any $g_{\delta\epsilon}$ vanishes. The Leibniz rules produces two terms for it, and that's why one of them has to have a minus sign.
I hope that you know how to Taylor-expand the square root as well, and how to insert Taylor expansions into each other - derivatives of composite functions. All of it follows standard formulae. You may forget that you're dealing with matrices; you may simply imagine that all the expressions are functions of $d^2$ independent variables $g_{\mu\nu}$.
Just for posterity, I thought I'd put up the answer I calculated using the helpful answers given above:
Write $$g_{\mu \nu}=b_{\mu \nu}+h_{\mu \nu}$$ where $b$ is the background metric and $h$ is the perturbation; and raise/lower indeces on $h$ using $b$. Then to second order in $h$ we have: $$\sqrt{-g}=\sqrt{-b}\left(1+\frac{1}{2}{h^{\mu}}_{\mu}+\frac{1}{8}{h^{\mu}}_{\mu}{h^{\nu}}_{\nu}-\frac{1}{4}{h^{\mu}}_{\nu}{h^{\nu}}_{\mu}\right)$$
I'm pretty sure this is correct as I checked it on Mathematica for a general metric.
One possible derivation goes as follows:
We will use the properties $$ \log\det = \operatorname{tr}\log\quad\text{and}\quad det{(b+h)} = \det{b}\det{(1+b^{-1}h)} $$ and the power series of $\log{(1+x)}$ and of $\exp(x)$.
Then: $$ \begin{align} \sqrt{-\det{g}} = \sqrt{-\det{(b+h)}} &= \exp\log\sqrt{-\det{(b+h)}}\\ &= \exp{\frac{1}{2}\log{(-\det{(b+h)})}}\\ &= \exp{\frac{1}{2}\log{(-\det{b}\det{(1+b^{-1}h)})}}\\ &= \exp{\left[\log{\sqrt{-\det{b}}} + \frac{1}{2}\log{\det{(1+b^{-1}h)}}\right]}\\ &= \sqrt{-\det{b}}\exp{\left[\frac{1}{2}\log{\det{(1+b^{-1}h)}}\right]}\\ &= \sqrt{-\det{b}}\exp{\left[\frac{1}{2}\operatorname{tr}{\log{(1+b^{-1}h)}}\right]}\\ &= \sqrt{-\det{b}}\exp{\left[\frac{1}{2}\operatorname{tr}{\left[b^{-1}h-\frac{1}{2}(b^{-1}h)^2+\dots\right]}\right]}\\ &= \sqrt{-\det{b}}\exp{\left[\frac{1}{2}\operatorname{tr}(b^{-1}h)-\frac{1}{4}\operatorname{tr}{(b^{-1}h)^2}+\dots\right]}\\ &= \sqrt{-\det{b}}\left(1 + \frac{1}{2}\operatorname{tr}(b^{-1}h)-\frac{1}{4}\operatorname{tr}{(b^{-1}h)^2} + \frac{1}{2}\left(\frac{1}{2}\operatorname{tr}(b^{-1}h)-\frac{1}{4}\operatorname{tr}{(b^{-1}h)^2}\right)^2\right) + \mathcal O(h^3)\\ &= \sqrt{-\det{b}}\left(1 + \frac{1}{2}\operatorname{tr}(b^{-1}h)-\frac{1}{4}\operatorname{tr}{(b^{-1}h)^2} + \frac{1}{8}\operatorname{tr}^2{(b^{-1}h)}\right) + \mathcal O(h^3)\\ \end{align} $$ In physics notation this reads $$ \sqrt{-g} = \sqrt{-b}\left(1+\frac{1}{2}h^\mu_\mu-\frac{1}{4}h^{\mu\nu}h_{\mu\nu}+\frac{1}{8}(h^\mu_\mu)^2\right) + \mathcal O(h^3) $$ To get a result to higher powers of $h_{\mu\nu}$ one simply has to keep more terms in the series expansion of $\log$ and $\exp$.
I confess that I haven't looked at this sort of calculation in ages, but I have done other calculations involving perturbative expansions of determinants, and in those contexts the identity $$ \ln(\det M) = {\rm Tr}(\ln M) $$ has been really useful. If $g=g^{(0)}+\epsilon g^{(1)}+\epsilon^2g^{(2)}\ldots$ for some small parameter $\epsilon$, you can write out the power series of $\ln g$ to any desired order, take the trace, and exponentiate.
There may be some reason I'm not thinking of why this doesn't work in this context, in which case never mind.
The rest of these answers are fine, but another way of doing this computation is to write the metric determinant as $g =\frac{1}{4!} \epsilon^{abcd}\epsilon^{efgh}g_{ae}g_{bf}g_{cg}g_{dh}$,
where you define the Levi-Civita symbol $\epsilon^{abcd}$ by the conditions:
Then, along with some algebra, you can see that $g^{ab} = \frac{1}{3!g} \epsilon^{aecd}\epsilon^{bfgh}g_{ef}g_{cg}g_{dh}$, and then doing the variation is easy.
I guess you basically answered the question yourself. You might have to treat
$$g = \det g_{\mu\nu}$$
and the negative squareroot of it as a function of the metric as you would do for a scalar (rank zero tensor).


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Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] OMPI/ORTE and tools
From: Josh Hursey (jjhursey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-16 10:58:43
This looks interesting. Can you point me to the header files and any
ORTE tools that you may have converted to use this library already
(e.g., orte-ps)? I can port the checkpoint/restart tools to this
library and start sending you some feedback on the API.
On Jan 16, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Ralph Castain wrote:
> Hello all
> Summary: this note provides a brief overview of how various tools can
> interface to OMPI applications once the next version of ORTE is
> integrated
> into the trunk. It includes a request for input regarding any needs
> (e.g.,
> additional commands to be supported in the interface) that have not
> been
> adequately addressed.
> As many of you know, I have been working on a tmp branch to
> complete the
> revamp of ORTE that has been in progress for quite some time. Among
> other
> things, this revamp is intended to simplify the system, provide
> enhanced
> scalability, and improved reliability.
> As part of that effort, I have extensively revised the support for
> external
> tools. In the past, tools such as the Eclipse PTP could only
> interact with
> Open MPI-based applications via ORTE API's, thus exposing the tool
> to any
> changes in those APIs. Most tools, however, do not require the
> level of
> control provided by the APIs and can benefit from a simplified
> interface.
> Accordingly, the revamped ORTE now offers alternative methods of
> interaction. The primary change has been the creation of a
> communications
> library with a simple serial protocol for interacting with OMPI
> jobs. Thus,
> tools now have three choices for interacting with OMPI jobs:
> 1. I have created a new communications library that tools can link
> against.
> It does not include all of the ORTE or OMPI libraries, so it is a
> very small
> memory footprint. Besides the usual calls to initialize and
> finalize, the
> library contains utilities for finding all of the OMPI jobs running
> on that
> HNP (i.e., all OMPI jobs whose mpirun was executed from that host),
> querying
> the status of a job (provides the job map plus all proc states);
> querying
> the status of nodes (provides node names, status, and list of procs
> on each
> node including their state); querying the status of a specific
> process;
> spawning a new job; and terminating a job. In addition, you can
> attach to
> output streams of any process, specifying stdout, stderr, or both -
> this
> "tees" the specified streams, so it won't interfere with the job's
> normal
> output flow.
> I could also create a utility to allow attachment to the input
> stream of a
> process. However, I'm a little concerned about possible conflicts with
> whatever is already flowing across that stream. I would appreciate any
> suggestions as to whether or not to provide that capability.
> Note: we removed the concept of the ORTE "universe", so a tool can
> now talk
> to any mpirun without complications. Thus, tools can simultaneously
> "connect" to and monitor multiple mpiruns, if desired.
> 2. link against all of OMPI or ORTE, and execute a standalone
> program. In
> this mode, your tool would act as a surrogate for mpirun by directly
> spawning the user's application. This provides some flexibility,
> but it does
> mean that both the tool and the job -must- end together, and that
> the tool
> may need to be revised whenever OMPI/ORTE APIs are updated.
> 3. link against all of OMPI or ORTE, executing as a distributed set of
> processes. In this mode, you would execute your tool via "mpirun -
> pernode
> ./my_tool" (or whatever command is appropriate - this example would
> launch
> one tool process on every node in the allocation). If the tool
> processes
> need to communicate with each other, they can call MPI_Init or
> orte_init,
> depending upon the level of desired communication. Note that the
> tool job
> will be completely standalone from the application job and must be
> terminated separately.
> In all of these cases, it is possible for tool processes to connect
> (via MPI
> and/or ORTE-RML) to a job's processes provided that the application
> supports
> it.
> I can provide more details, of course, to anyone wishing them. What
> I would
> appreciate, though, is any feedback about desired commands, mode of
> operation, etc. that I might have missed or people would prefer be
> changed.
> This code is all in a private repository for my tmp branch, but I
> expect
> that to merge with the trunk fairly soon. I have provided a couple of
> example tools to illustrate the above modes of operation in that code.
> Thanks
> Ralph
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Are there any realties tests or criterias that prove the security of the PRNG? What kind of tests or criteria?
We currently have no way to prove that a specific PRNG is cryptographically secure. In fact, we currently cannot prove that there exists a cryptographically secure PRNG (!).
If you scale back the requirement from "mathematical proof" to "something we generally accept", there's still no way for an automated test to verify that a specific output is cryptographically secure. Yes, it can run a series of statistical tests, and verify that, from that perspective, it looks like what we expect a random stream to be. However, that is not sufficient; to be cryptographically secure, we require that someone cannot devise a clever test (using knowledge of how the PRNG works internally) that distinguishes it from random. The hard word (for an automated test) is the word "clever"; automated tests have great difficulties with "cleverness".
Here's a little thought expirement that demonstrates one of the subtleties; suppose I generate a PRNG using AES in counter mode; that is, I pick an initial 128-bit value $N$ and an AES key $k$, and produce the sequence:
If I pick $k$ and $N$ randomly, and keep them secret (and keep the number of outputs within the above sequence to significantly below $2^{64}$), then this is, as far as we know, a cryptographically secure PRNG.
However, suppose I do the same, but instead of picking $k$ randomly, I use a fixed public value. In that case, the sequence is known not to be a CSPRNG; it is easy to test (using two adjacent outputs), whether the output is from this specific PRNG.
Here's the point: publishing $k$ or keeping it secret does not actually change the output. However, even though it doesn't, it does change whether we have a CSPRNG or not.
So, going back to your question: we do have things that we believe are CSPRNG (such as the above AES counter mode with a secret key); why do we believe those? Well, that's because we have clever people (that is, people that have demonstrated skill in finding clever ways to break other CSPRNGs) analyze the PRNGs. It's not an ideal solution (it's possible that there is a way to break it, and our clever people missed it); however it's better than any other way we have.
The NIST special publication 800-90 series (NIST SP 800-90A, NIST SP 800-90B and NIST SP 800-90C) contain a set of PRNGs and tests for cryptographically secure PRNGs. Unfortunatelly, right now (13/10/2013) the NIST website is down, however you can find copies of the NIST statistical test suite via Google at sites like this one.
The best that can be done for a PRNG is to reduce the problem of distinguishing its outputs from random (or predicting them) to some believed-to-be-hard problem. A PRNG based on AES in counter mode can be proven to be as secure as AES in some sense. Similarly a PRNG based on a HMAC-SHA256 can be shown to be as secure as HMAC-SHA256. There are PRNGs based on both in SP 800-90.
A PRNG is deterministic, so it can't provide any security unless it has some secret internal state that is unknown and impractical for an attacker to guess. Even if the PRNG algorithm is secure, the whole PRNG is secure only if it is initialized with an unguessable seed.
As mentioned, most proofs of PRNG security are really proofs of a protocol that uses some underlying construct. The proofs say, "If the construct can't be broken, then the protocol that uses it can't be broken any easier than that." That makes all these proofs subject to the assumption that the underlying construct (like factoring, quadratic residuosity, etc.) is hard to break.
To address the last part of your question, PRNGs are evaluated in a number of different settings that are meant to mimic real-life attacks they face. Typically, this includes:
In each of these settings, algorithms are evaluated for their ability to:
These papers give a formal treatment for security in PRGs:
My best advice would be to start with a statistical test suite like the one NIST describes in "A Statistical Test Suite for Random and Pseudorandom Number Generators for Cryptographic Applications" (PDF).
It's a battery of statistical tests to detect non-randomness in binary sequences constructed using random number generators and pseudo-random number generators utilized in cryptographic applications. The documentation and software is available at this page of the NIST website.
(If NIST STS doesn't feel "complete", you might want to know that other, more diverse test suites exist.)
Those tests are useful as a first step in determining whether or not a generator is suitable for a particular cryptographic application. Yet, you have to keep in mind that no statistical test can certify a generator to be appropriate for any particular use.
Simpler said: statistical testing cannot serve as a substitute for cryptanalysis. For that, you'll have to dive into the cryptanalysis of random number generators. Cryptanalysis will help you check for potential weaknesses to several attacks (eg: input-based attacks, backtracking attacks, state compromise extension attacks, meet-in-the-middle attacks, etc.) and it can help you optimize the security of your individual RNG in case you detect a flaws which leads to a successful attack.
If you don't know where to start with cryptanalysis, you might want to check on "Cryptanalytic Attacks on Pseudorandom Number Generators" (PDF). That paper provides some first insights on several attacks and provides some good examples by applying some of those attacks to real-world PRNGs.
In the end, all that will not be able to prove that your PRNG is cryptographically secure… as (up to the time of writing this) no one was able to prove that something like a "cryptographically secure random number generator" actually exists. Yet, if you do your statistical tests (and your RNG passes them) and if you invest a truckload of time to do a thorough cryptanalysis, you might be able to prove that your random number generator resists a (hopefully large) number of attacks – which is about as much as you can do to prove the cryptographic security of a random number generator.


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02] Allen Hillger of Los Angeles, California, sent us this picture of himself at 10 years old. He built this go-kart himself with a 3.5hp Briggs & Stratton lawnmower engine, rope steering, and friction brakes.
03] Jarett Simon of West Olive, Michigan, photographed his son, Max, and nephew, Lucas, at a Westphalia, Michigan, cruise-in. The kids were admiring the engine of a Pro Street Chevelle through its tilt front end.
04] Charles Patterson shot this in Flathead Lake, Montana, a few years ago. He was out for a walk in the fall when the lake was low. Could this be how the place got its name? (It's not, actually, but we can dream.)
05] Al and Lee Jensen of McHenry, Illinois, own this '57 Ford 300 Gasser under construction. They found the car in a barn in Wisconsin two years ago and are working on a frame-off redo that will include a dual-quad 351 Ford backed by a Top Loader four-speed.
06] David Cox owns Morts Custom Sheet Metal in Redding, California, which builds classic hot rods like these.
07] Mike Still of StillsLife.com in Fort Collins, Colorado, is a photographer who loves cars. He snapped this photo of the Denver, Colorado, K&L flathead dragster.
08] Mike Marasco of Phoenix, Arizona, took this photo at a Goodguys show in Scottsdale. Mike says the guys turned the most heads in their Buick.
09] John Price and Don Gaskill, crewmembers of the Wild Thing Hot Air Balloon in Park City, Utah, built this hot-air-balloon buggy based on a '78 Toyota pickup. It has a park bench for a driver seat, an old balloon basket, and a BBQ grill for the tailgate.
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http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=Quigley_Down_Under.45-110 mettalic cartridge with a 540 grain paper-patch bullet
Just caught the last part of Tom Selleck in Quigley Down Under on cable. Did they identify the caliber of that Sharps he carries?
Seems like it would have to be something with the performance of the .50BMG and I know it must be just movie making. Cool though. Thor
http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=Quigley_Down_Under.45-110 mettalic cartridge with a 540 grain paper-patch bullet
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Thanks for the caliber. I punched that into DogPile and up pops reproductions for that Sharps costing about 2K. Even said that a 45-70 was available that would be easier to come by and that the 45-70 would easily match the original caliber.
Having a 45-70 I can't imagine making 1000 yard shots but then I'm not Quigley
The .45-110 is a big honkin' cartridge....
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WADE, Robert Lee, 53, of Holiday, Florida, formerly of Wellsburg, WV, died September 27, 2012.
He was born April 2, 1959, in New Martinsville, WV, the son of Robert W. Wade and Frances Ice Wade Clark of Spring Hill, Florida.
He attended Franklin Primary and Wellsburg Middle schools before going to Romney for the School for the Blind. In his senior year, he attended and graduated from Brooke High School in 1979.
Bob was preceded in death by his father, paternal grandparents Ocal and Pearl Wade, maternal grandparents Austin and Edna Wade, and several uncles and aunts.
He is survived by his mother; wife Cynthia of Holiday, Florida; sons Jeremy (Melissa) Wade of New Port Richey, Florida, and Daniel Wade of Holiday, Florida; sister Patricia (Paul) Nolan of Spring Hill, Florida; brother Wayne (Justine) Wade of Wellsburg, WV; nieces Tiffany (Mike) Nicosia of Port Richey, Florida, and Ashley (Mike) Skiles of Spring Hill, Florida; nephews Jim Wade and Joe (Michelle) Wade, all of Follansbee, WV; a grandson, Gabriel Wade of New Port Richey, Florida; and several uncles, aunts and cousins.
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5 Depressing Realities Behind Popular Reality TV Shows
#2. Oprah Makes People Pay for Their Free Cars
Oprah is famous for giving out free stuff to her audience (which is a big switch for older readers, who may remember when she was famous for being fat and losing a bunch of weight). She started small, slinging gift cards and promotional material from her various guests, until she finally decided that all of that nonsense could kiss her billion-dollar ass and gave away 276 brand new cars to members of her studio audience.
This was followed by images of hysterical people crying tears of joy over Oprah's saintly generosity.
Why It's Depressing
Unfortunately, receiving a luxury item as a prize on a television show doesn't exempt you from having to pay the accompanying taxes (see Extreme Makeover, above). Which is the precise situation faced by everyone who has ever been given a car by Oprah Winfrey.
You see, for the purposes of her own tax records, Oprah declared all of her giveaway cars "prizes" instead of gifts. This may seem like a trivial distinction, but as far as the IRS is concerned, anything that's designated a gift is non-taxable, but a prize is basically just like any other income. This is why you never had to pay taxes on that Super Nintendo your grandmother gave you.
"For tax reasons, I can't give you Donkey Kong Country in the continental U.S."
But Grandma wasn't able to deduct the purchase of the Nintendo from her taxes, either, which is why Oprah didn't want to go that route. So, Oprah listed the value of each car at its full MSRP of $28,500, and that money counts as income whether you received it in the form of a car or a paycheck. And like any income, the audience owes taxes on it -- this meant that each lucky audience member who received a car from Oprah had to immediately pay as much as $7,000 out of their own pocket for a car they neither asked for nor were expecting.
This isn't like getting $28,500 cash, where you expect to get less after Uncle Sam takes a bite. This is a car -- you can't just lop off a quarter of it and keep the rest. So if the winners didn't happen to have that kind of cash sitting around, their only options were to either sell the car to pay for the property tax (hooray) or forfeit the car and get nothing (hooray).
Oprah's official comment? "And why should I have paid for them ...?"
"Just because I'm a billionaire and the giveaway generated millions in free publicity?"
She's got a point -- this would be an awfully expensive giveaway if she weren't able to write off the loss ... oh, wait. Oprah never paid a cent for the cars in the first place. They were all donated by the manufacturer.
#1. Storage Wars Capitalizes on People's Misfortune (and Is Probably Staged)
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Storage Wars documents the adventures of a group of uninsurable heart disease risks who buy storage lockers at auction to (hopefully) sell the contents for a tidy profit. These are lockers full of what were once people's prized possessions that have since been abandoned.
They don't find nearly as much feces as you'd think.
The risk/reward aspect of the program has proven to be a huge draw, resulting in two spinoffs and a handful of copycat shows, because evidently the thrill of watching a bunch of slouching millionaires pay hundreds of dollars for garages full of porn and old mattresses is simply too compelling to be confined to a single television series.
Why It's Depressing
If you've ever watched Storage Wars, you may wonder why a person would leave a $6,000 coin collection in a storage unit and then default on the rent. The answer is really sad, no matter how you look at it.
Yes, even if you hold a puppy in front of your face.
You see, originally the show's producers intended to delve into the background of each locker featured on Storage Wars, but unsurprisingly, all the information they uncovered was pure, unmitigated misery. The reason these abandoned treasures are abandoned is that the original owners of the units failed to make their rent payments. This is because they could no longer afford them due to unemployment, homelessness (hence putting all their belongings in a storage locker), divorce, or illness, or because they had freaking died and were therefore no longer able to pay.
But don't worry, because according to former Storage Warrior Dave Hester, the show is all rigged anyway. Hester claims that all of the valuable items found inside the lockers are actually planted there by the show's producers, which would explain how the bidders could inexplicably find something like a Rembrandt stashed in a 6-by-12 unit alongside a box full of GamePro magazines. He also insists that all of the auctions are staged, meaning every "bidding war" you witness on the show is actually entirely scripted.
We should point out that he was totally fine with the deception until being fired from the show after three seasons.
Furthermore, the producers apparently give the "weaker" cast members an allowance, more or less, so they can actually afford to make bids (you know, on the show about people who supposedly bid on storage lockers for a living).
Big deal, so it probably isn't real. It's just entertainment, right? Well, according to this article, people in dire financial straits via debt, unemployment, or a vicious combination of both have been completely taken in by the show's "hidden treasure" aspect and have begun showing up to storage locker auctions ready to bid every penny they have left in the hopes of scoring a valuable haul. If the show is fixed, those (literally) poor bastards have zero chance of finding anything more than some old gas cans and a mummified rat, which you may notice are items that have very little resale value. They've been tragically misled into dumping what little remains of their personal assets into a fictionalized enterprise. They'd have been better off trading their money for magic fucking beans.
So in summation, Storage Wars is either staged and dupes desperate people into financial ruin, or it is real and capitalizes on painful misfortune. Either way, you're watching a bunch of assholes laugh and joke as they make money off of the tattered remains of people's lives.
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- I asked hosting company for Apache limits. I get this values for the whole shared server:
MaxClients 300
MaxRequestsPerChild 4000
ThreadsPerChild 25
- example.com/mybigpage.php and example.com/foobar.php pages are opened nearly at the same time.
- If page has txt, jpeg or other extensions they are opened instantly. If extension is php it opens very slow.
- CakePHP stores session files inside "/httpdocs/app/tmp/sessions" folder. Session files are deleted after two hours of creation. Now there is 3653 files inside that folder. Oldest file is created 2,5 hours ago.
- In my configuration, PHP handler is Apache module mod_php
New Edit: I talked with my hosting company. And told them that "foobar.php" is opened nearly in 20 seconds. Although that file has no code at all. They told me that they put "foobar.php" to other websites that we use same server. I also tried "othersite.com/foobar.php". It opened instantly. But "mysite.com/foobar.php" opened nearly in 15 seconds. What would make this behaviour? We use same PHP configuration with other sites, but they open instantly.. Can it be because of my .htaccess rules? Or other thing?
New Edit2: My provider told me that there exists no "apd.so" file inside the server. So it seems like I can't use APD.
What should I look for to find the bottleneck?
What would limit my site?
Additional data: from the phpinfo, I get this:
'./configure' '--prefix=/usr/local/lsws/lsphp5' '--build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--cache-file=../config.cache' '--with-libdir=lib64' '--with-config-file-path=/etc' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php.dd' '--disable-debug' '--with-pic' '--disable-rpath' '--without-pear' '--with-bz2' '--with-curl' '--with-exec-dir=/usr/bin' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--without-gdbm' '--with-gettext' '--with-gmp' '--with-iconv' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-openssl' '--with-libexpat-dir=/usr/lib64' '--with-pcre-regex=/usr' '--with-zlib' '--with-layout=GNU' '--enable-exif' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-sysvmsg' '--enable-wddx' '--with-kerberos' '--enable-ucd-snmp-hack' '--with-unixODBC=shared,/usr' '--enable-shmop' '--enable-calendar' '--with-libxml-dir=/usr' '--with-mysql' '--with-mysqli' '--with-gd' '--enable-dom' '--disable-dba' '--without-unixODBC' '--enable-xmlreader' '--enable-xmlwriter' '--with-mcrypt' '--enable-mbstring' '--with-litespeed' '--enable-soap' '--with-xsl' '--with-pdo-mysql' '--with-pdo-sqlite' '--enable-sqlite-utf8' '--with-pspell' '--with-sqlite=shared' '--with-xmlrpc' '--with-mhash' '--enable-pdo' '--with-imap' '--with-imap-ssl' '--without-suhosin' '--with-tidy' '--enable-zip' '--enable-inline-optimization' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--enable-bcmath'