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Cisco TelePresence TX9000 Series
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- Deployed on premises or on demand as a cloud-based service
- Easy access to presence, instant messaging, voice and video, desktop sharing, and conferencing
- Consistent experiences on any device: PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, Nokia, or BlackBerry


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I used a tortuous work-around to set up the captive portal, requiring dnotify.
The elegant way of doing it is based on http://www.andybev.com/index.php/Usi...captive_portal
1. Allow apache to write iptables rules, edit SUDOERS so:
2. Obtain client MACCode:www-data ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/iptables
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I've tried every possible variation without success. Can any php-guru kindly make any suggestions?

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The new Lexus RC operates in a field that includes the BMW 435i, Mercedes-Benz C350 and Audi A5. At nearly every turn, the RC out performs one or all, be it in standard features, pricing, or outright performance. Lexus understands the competitive nature of the luxury sport coupe segment and the RC is poised to dominate.
Compare the 2016 Lexus RC 200t against similar models
The RC coupe may only be one model year old, but it's already expanding its offerings. For 2016, Lexus adds two new powertrains, a new 241-hp turbocharged 2.0L engine and a 3.5L V6 capable of 255 horses. The V6 is available with all-wheel drive.
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The Lexus RC is a rear-wheel-drive luxury sport coupe that's right for swift jaunts on country roads. It's almost three inches shorter than the smallest Lexus sedan, the IS, but more than one inch wider. It competes with the BMW 4 Series, Audi A5, Mercedes-Benz C-Class, and Cadillac ATS coupe. It's not on their level but it's getting closer.
Like its close siblings the IS and GS sedans, the Lexus RC uses a double-wishbone front and multi-link rear suspension tuned on the firm side, but suitably compliant for casual driving. It might not be ready for aggressive cornering, but it hits the right balance of ride and handling for this class. Meanwhile the electric power steering feels settled and quick.
For 2016 there are two new models, the RC 200t with a turbocharged four-cylinder engine, and RC 300, an all-wheel-drive V6. Two existing models are the RC 350 with a more powerful V6, and RC F with a strong V8.
The Lexus RC 200t is the most affordable, in sticker price and fuel economy, but you pay for it with time, zero to sixty in 7.3 seconds, with that full-throttle pause we've complained about in the Lexus GS and IS having the same engine connected to the same 8-speed automatic transmission and same electronic program with the same result.
The RC 300 gets to 60 mph in a quicker 6.3 seconds.
We like the sounds from the 306-horsepower V6 in the RC 350, good grunting noises. Its adaptive controls for the transmission, throttle and steering give it a nice balance, with a few rough performance edges.
The RC F is designed to go after the BMW M4 and Audi S4, with its 5.0-liter V8 rippling with 467 horsepower. It blasts the coupe to 60 miles per hour in 4.4 seconds and 170 top speed. It uses an 8-speed automatic with paddle shifters, and four modes. For traction it's got Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires and a Torsen limited-slip differential. For handling and stopping it's got 19-inch wheels and tires, firmer bushings and roll bars and bigger Brembo brakes. We've had it on the track, where it's happy and composed. We like the firmer ride from the adaptive dampers, but we're not sold on the variable-ratio steering and rear-wheel steering.
IIHS calls the Lexus RC a Top Safety Pick Plus, with all Good marks and an Advanced rating for front crash protection, with the optional safety equipment, including emergency self-braking.
The RC 200t gets 22/32/26 miles per gallon City/Highway/Combined. The RC F sinks to 16/25/19 mpg, which is good considering its 3958 pounds and big horsepower.
Prices for the RC start in the low forty-thousand dollars for an RC 200t and climb to the mid-sixties for an RC F. Standard equipment includes leatherette upholstery, automatic climate control, LED headlamps and taillights, satellite radio, and Bluetooth audio streaming. Options include real leather upholstery, 19-inch wheels with summer tires, heated and ventilated front seats, sunroof, navigation, and 17-speaker Mark Levinson audio system.
The graceful Lexus RC coupe styling borrows from other Lexus models. We see some Lexus GS in the nose, some of the outgoing IS C in its profile, and some IS in its tail. And if you squint it might look like a Scion FR-S. But its surfacing is more subtle, curvaceous from all points of view, with an attractive but thick roofline and sweet kick where the shoulder touches the rear fenders.
The spindle grille looks sinister compared to other Lexus models, as it should given its more aggressive thoughts. Especially on the F Sport models and RC F, which flaunt black mesh instead of the standard bars. The RC F features other aggressions, for example finned vents and stacked exhausts at the rear, under a wing that raises at 50 mph or, in track mode, at 80 mph.
The cabin ventures the horizontal theme of other Lexuses, including some of the same misfires, for example off-center bits and strangely stacked components. The dashboard is divided into operational and display zones, with the top zone holding the gauges and 7.0-inch navigation screen, and a layered center with the touchpad. The center stack lacks elegance as it rides over the curved console, with no trim to separate a line of vents on the passenger side. And the sound system is mounted out of kilter with the console trim. While we're at it we don't like the offset of the LCD screen.
The steering wheel is slightly elliptical, while the high-backed, low-slung seats are wide and supple, with high-density foam under leather that's elaborately stitched. Big bolsters and shoulder wings. Padded center console. Two occupants are good, but the back seats are merely a beautifully upholstered shelf, that can be folded to access the trunk, except not in the RC F.
Trunk volume is slim, 10.4 cubic feet, just big enough for two golf bags.
The 2.0-liter turbocharged engine in the RC 200t engine also comes in the IS and GS sedans, also coupled to an 8-speed automatic transmission. It makes 241 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque, which would be great if it were there for you when you floor it, but there is that lag. If you buy an F Sport and keep it in Sport Plus mode, you can get around it.
The new RC 300 comes only with all-wheel drive, biased 30/70 to the rear wheels, and connected to an older 6-speed automatic transmission. Its detuned V6 makes 255 horsepower and 236 pound-feet of torque. That's not as much as the RC 350, but if all-weather grip is your priority, it's the RC you want, and it will likely be fast enough. If not, the RC 350 is available in all-wheel drive.
The RC 350 is unchanged for 2016, with its 306 horsepower and 277 pound-feet of torque propelling it to 60 mph in 5.8 seconds. Like other V6 engines we know, namely Nissan, Ford, and Mercedes, it has a bit of a coarse growl. the former gets to 60 mph in 5.8 seconds, the latter in 6.0 seconds. It will go 143 mph with rear-wheel drive and 130 mph with all-wheel drive, electronically limited because of the tires.
The paddle-shifting 8-speed transmission has Normal, Sport, and Manual modes, and blips the throttle for downshifts. There are also Normal, Sport, and Eco modes for the driver to steering assist and throttle response.
The F Sport package adds adaptive dampers, firmer suspension (but still comfortable), 19-inch wheels, and Sport Plus mode. Available for rear-wheel-drive RC 350s is variable-ratio steering and rear-wheel steering in Sport Plus mode, which quickens the car's reaction. Imagine a cow falling out of a livestock truck on the freeway in front of you, or a six-foot kangaroo jumping across the two-lane highway at night in Tasmania; rear-wheel steering will help you swerve with stability, to avoid the smash to your spindle grille.
If it were us, we'd go for the RC 350 for its 306 horsepower, in F Sport trim for the handling. After all, it's a coupe. Of course, if you want the style while saving many thousands, the new RC 200t is there for you.
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Will be really interesting to see how Braulio transitions into MMA. Wonder who will be his first opponent.
"You can't have that, you're far to fat"
Ive said it before. Braulio has potential to do well IF he trains his stand up and wrestling hard!! Theres no doubting his ground game though.
Good luck Braulio.
Scary on the ground. Can he take a punch?
He should have a big reach and height advantage which should help him in his striking till he can get it to the ground.
hope he focuses a lot on boxing and boxing defense more than general kickboxing, as in mma 90% of ko's for grapplers are big overhands which they fail to defend as well as messing up kicks i.e. maia best example. I hope he gives a good account of himself, i'm sure he will
"A boxer is the best predator on land. The Lion, but throw him in the shark tank and he becomes just another meal" Renzo Gracie.
How old is he?
BJJ White belt, 2 stripes.
General badmotherfucker.
As long as you have a world class Dutch/Japanese kickboxing or Muay Thai trainer, it keeps you out of punching range.
Demian Maia's problem was his very rudimentary and bad training. He didn't set up his low kicks with preparation punches which is a huge no-no.


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Madalyn Walters is headed to the girl's state track meet. Walters captured the Region 8-AA championship last week in the 3,200-meters at East Jackson High School in Commerce. Walters finished a considerable distance ahead of second place runner Dorie Faber of North Oconee who was 23 seconds behind her.
The Dawson County varsity boys' soccer team is headed to state.
The Lady Tiger soccer season has come to an end. Dawson lost a close match to East Jackson, 1-0, last Wednesday that eliminated the team from region tournament play.
The boys and girls golf teams lost to Jackson County April 13.
The boys and girls track teams finished the regular season last week in a tri-meet held at Johnson High School in Gainesville.
The Dawson County High School Tigers varsity baseball team was on a four-game winning streak before first place Fannin County came to town April 11.
The Dawson County High School Tigers are playing great baseball. Not only is the team scoring runs, 38 in the last three games, but the team is playing great defense behind really good pitching.
The Dawson County High School boys and girls golf teams traveled to Big Canoe Golf Club for a match against Pickens County High School on March 24.
The Dawson County High School girls' tennis team is headed for the region tournament.
The Dawson County High School varsity boys' soccer team played host to Union County on March 29.
The Dawson County High School varsity girls' soccer team will enter the region tournament this week as the No. 3 seed from the North.
Dawson County High School senior Tiger basketball player, Jacob Evans, was named to the second team All-Area by the Gainesville Times.
Under windy and cold conditions March 31, the Dawson County High School track team held Senior Night at Tiger Stadium.
The Dawson County High School boys' tennis team had a tough week. The team lost at Banks County, 4-1, and at home on Senior Night to Rabun County, 3-2.
The boys and girls golf team played a match at Big Canoe Golf Club on March 24 against neighboring Pickens County.
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i use the same alfa and i have the same problem. i can easily inject, i can easily connect to the AP but i cant do anything else. i cant connect to the AP, i cant surf the web etc.
and no, the LED is not on....
btw, you can max. your tx by typing:
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Two Americans Have Now Been Diagnosed With Ebola in Record Outbreak
At least two Americans are now infected with the Ebola virus, part of an "out of control" outbreak that the World Health Organization is calling the worst on record.
Late last week Dr. Kent Brantly, a 32-year-old family practice physician working in Liberia, became one of the first Americans to develop the virus. He currently is in isolation and being treated in Monrovia, in the Consolidated Case Management Center (CMC) he had managed prior to becoming ill.
According to Dr. Brantly's employer, Samaritan's Purse, a U.S.-based international relief organization that has operated in Liberia for 13 years, Dr. Brantly first felt ill July 23 but tested negative. Despite that negative result, he was placed into isolation—a provident decision. His symptoms soon worsened, and a repeat test on Friday night showed evidence of the virus.
Interviewed Sunday night by The Daily Beast, Ken Isaacs, vice president of programs and government relations for Samaritan's Purse, said Dr. Brantly is "stable" for now but that he is "not out of the woods yet." Isaacs, who wrote a piece last week for The New York Times about the Ebola crisis threatening several West African countries, said his organization is working closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and Medicins sans Frontières (MSF, or Doctors Without Borders), among other groups, to determine whether experimental anti-viral treatments might be tried. There is no plan as of yet to evacuate Dr. Brantly to a Western facility, Isaacs said.
Isaacs also disclosed in the interview that a second American, Nancy Writebol, a volunteer with the relief organization SIM, also was diagnosed this weekend with Ebola infection and is in isolation. Over the weekend, a high-ranking Liberian physician and health official, Dr. Samuel Brisbane, died of the disease.
Writebol was in charge of the decontamination "wash-down" station that was used in the ELWA center, now a 20-bed unit in Monrovia dedicated to treating Ebola patients. According to Isaacs, her exposure may have occurred when a local worker in the unit contracted the disease but continued to work; this individual, whose name was not disclosed, died of Ebola over the weekend.
The wash-down station is part of a very formalized and well-planned infection control approach to decontaminating workers who have spent time with Ebola patients. Isaacs estimated that on one day, July 24, staff spent about 48 hours in direct care of the 16 patients with Ebola. Dr. Brantly probably saw each patient twice on a regular day. While caring for patients, clinical staff is heavily robed with gown and apron; three pairs of gloves; a hood; and goggles.
The break in technique may have occurred—though it is "completely speculative," said Isaacs—in the wash-down area, where workers emerging from the isolation ward are sprayed with a chlorine solution, a cheap and effective killer of the virus. It is possible that the local employee worked in this area while contagious; in this area, staff members remove their gowns and gloves, and therefore are not fully garbed and protected. Additional information will be necessary to determine whether this theory plays out; if so, teams will need to rework the decontamination approach to assure there is no preventable moment of vulnerability.
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Here, this more to your liking? Sorry for the crap quality, had to hold the comp and the notebook and press the goddamn button haha
Here, this more to your liking? Sorry for the crap quality, had to hold the comp and the notebook and press the goddamn button haha
all the letters need to be the same height. define your W and M more. and change your S
Fuck off.
does my shadowing still need work?
swim: make the lines in the m and w longer...
Con- Shadowing is good. Now work on the flow of your letters.
I need crits/help on my throwies
these were both done in less than 2 mins in pen so yeh
stuck - i like that throwie, but in the E i reckon u shud just put one line through so it flows better
con- decent throwie but i guess its lacking flair especially since u only have 3 letters to work on
faser make ur letters the same size they get bigger and bigger or at least in that second one they do
"Its like mushrooms X 1000000 + aliens" -joe rogan
nmm that first one... the a is clean man.
Stuck- shits good. just i feel the lines are a little sloppy. keep doin over and over and over til its burnd into ur brain n flows right outta u.. but ima say keep it the way it is.
posted few days ago n got dissed....
i desided i realie am happy with the SAW, i have a good f.. just fucked this one up.. but ive gone threw so many fucking T's and can not find one to fit this style.. can any one help me out please? id really appreciate it
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Im not trying to be mean but that shit sucks! Its not in proportion. The S is basic, but why did you get huge when it came to the W. You cant see a T there at all. If your gonna do a T you need to show both sides. I'm not trying to be mean I'm just trying to help you out. The S and the F are the only basic letters. I know this might sound harsh but when you get better and look back on this your gonna understand.
I know my throw sucks but I tried your name.....
this was my first time out in 6 or 7 months n i drew it out like 30 min before. n i did it in like 20 min on a hot as fuckin spot 2 am, pitch dark... trust me, it looks like i suck. but thats not my origonal shit. its also the first time i spelt it SAWFT. all my other premeditated shit is soft. the shit i already worked out the kinks.. so give me credit and take the enviorment and new letters... n a little bit of booze.. into concideration... imma post the origonal drawing and show u what the W was sposed to look like. but yea man, what u drew actually really helps cuz i dig that style. it cool if i kinda work from it?_______________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ______________________
soo this is what i drew 30 min before we got to the spot (remember i was tipsy lol so im really not that bad) hopfully ull see what i was tryin to get at.
though still a terrible sketch. drew it with cell phone light in a car
Last edited by crystalmeth and abortions; 08-16-2009 at 01:15 PM. Reason: added throw
Everytime anyone on here sees a flick of a bomb, we are already taking all that shit into consideration. Besides paper and legal walls, there is no such thing as the perfect or normal environment for writing. Everytime you go out crazy shit is going down and there is always something to hamper your ability to paint.
no im sayin i pretty much stoped drawing graf for that long in general.. they are excuses. but any one that stops for a min has to get there barrings back.. but u think the paper is more a reasonable consept than the wall?_____________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ________________________ tryin to find flix of my old shit with SOFT n all i could find is my shortned toss n this flick is actually the first time i painted the SO lol. i gotta go out and get flix of all my shit i took time on
but i dig my s for the SO... im just to lazy to think up a F n T
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Black flag just said it all... No excuses.
I think big blue violence Posted it before but It went something like this.
"No one see's "drunk as fuck" or " First time out" and thinks oh there better now." If you havent drawn in awhile dont go out and paint its a simple as that. Go ahead and get some ideas off my letters where all here to help each other.
I Got bored waiting for work so i threw this together, The face is gay... I know.
Done with oil pastel.
oh yea, i didnt expect to go out n crush it first time out in a while. i was just goin for the fun n the rush n to get my barrings back.
just so im not just talking heres another old SOFT throw i was doin for a while
yea its not that hard to tell homeboy.. only thing hard to grasp is the attachment on top of the o... dont talk shit then not post what u got....
ANY WHOOO weakfingers. i actualy changed it up so im not usein your throw. but i really liked your A and W, n im goin to paint in a few min. imma throw it up n post later... thanks alot bro.
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Bezar- its alright i just think ur Z doesnt flow with your letters
made up a new name crits???


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Acer is expanding its Acer Aspire Predator series with the new Aspire Predator AG3600, which is equipped with Intel Core i5 2300 processor and Nvidia GeForce GT 420 graphics processor.
The AG3600 also features 8GB DDR3 SDRAM and 1.5TB SATA hard drive, and supports image output ports such as HDMI, DVI and D-Sub.
The Acer Aspire Predator AG3600 will be priced at US$899.
- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
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This Digitimes Research Special Report provides a 2015 forecast for the global tablet market and analyzes the strategies of key market players such as Google, Apple, Intel, and Microsoft.
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Ban Ki-moon (Hangul: 반기문; born 13 June 1944) is the current Secretary-General of the United Nations succeeding Kofi Annan in 2007. Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations. He entered diplomatic service the year he graduated from college, accepting his first post in New Delhi, India. In the foreign ministry he established a reputation for modesty and competence.
Ban was the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea from January 2004 to November 2006. In February 2006 he began to campaign for the office of Secretary-General. Ban was initially considered to be a long shot for the office. As foreign minister of Korea, however, he was able to travel to all of the countries that were members of the United Nations Security Council, a maneuver that turned him into the front runner.


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TNT is planning more than 17 hours of coverage related to the NBA All-Star Game, which seems like a lot for a game that doesn't mean anything.
That's not a slam at the NBA in particular. With the exception of Major League Baseball, there aren't any all-star games that mean anything. (And MLB awarding the World Series home-field advantage to the league that wins its otherwise meaningless game remains a topic for debate.)
And the NBA All-Star Game might be the one contest that actually means more to the players than to the fans.
"The first one is always the most special," said ex-player/current TNT broadcaster Charles Barkley. "You take so many people with you. I took my mother, grandmother, my financial guy, my brothers."
"It was a dream come true," said TNT's Steve Smith, who called it a "highlight" of his career.
It's certainly a chance for the players to get some recognition, which they get so darn little of in the NBA. (That's sarcasm, folks.) And it can be fun to watch if you aren't a fan of defense or team play.
On Sunday, you've got the pregame (5 p.m.); the game (6 p.m.); and the postgame. But that's just part of the story.
But there's an argument to be made that the more interesting part of TNT's TV plan won't be All-Star Game itself. The rest of the schedule includes:
• The BBVA Rising Stars Challenge (Friday, 7 p.m.): Top young players on two squads chosen by Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neal play what amounts to, um, an all-star game.
There are no Jazz players on either roster, but there is one Utah tie. Karl Malone is scheduled to be a "guest analyst" on the halftime and postgame shows. Because a game like this really needs TV analysis.
• The State Farm All-Star Saturday Night (6 p.m.) will feature the Sears Shooting Stars competition; the Taco Bell Skills Challenge; the Foot Locker and the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest ... because you can never have too many advertisers.
There is, at least, competition here. There's an Eastern Conference vs. Western Conference angle, with points tallied throughout the evening and money raised for charity.
It was hard to argue with Barkley when he said, "Everybody loves the Slam Dunk contest." Just hope that team thing doesn't ruin it.
The defending champion, Utah' Jeremy Evans, will return to compete.
• If you enjoy seeing people sit around and talk about basketball, you'll want to check out "Open Court: All-Star" on Saturday at 5 p.m. Barkley, Miller, Steve Kerr, O'Neal, Kenny Smith, Steve Smith and Chris Webber will yack it up for an hour.
Because what an all-star game really needs is lots of pregam analysis.
• And if you enjoy Barkley talking about Barkley, don't miss "Sir Charles at 50," an hour (Saturday, 9 p.m. time approximate) in which he reflects on his legacy as he approaches the half-century mark on Feb. 20.
I think I'll probably skip that. And I'm a fan of his work on TV.
Let's not be naitve. TNT paid boatloads of money to the NBA for the rights to the All-Star Game. And 17-plus hours of programming means that many more commercials to pay for it.
But it's still an awful lot of lot of TV surrounding a game that doesn't mean anything.
Scott D. Pierce covers television for The Salt Lake Tribune. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com; follow him on Twitter @ScottDPierce.


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NBA Players, Owners Respond to Decision to Ban L.A. Clippers Owner Donald Sterling For Life
NBA commissioner Adam Silver on Tuesday announced that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling would be banned for life and fined $2.5 million for allegedly making racist comments. The commissioner also said he would urge the league's board of governors to force the team's sale.
The decision came in response to a recording made public by gossip outlet TMZ. In the recording, a man pleaded with a woman to not bring black people to Clippers games, and not to publicize photographs she had taken with Hall of Famer Magic Johnson, who is black. The NBA confirmed that the voice in the recording was Sterling's.
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Buchanan extends shutout streak
Astros prospect has not given up a run in 24 1/3 innings
By Josh Jackson / Special to MLB.com | May 17, 2013 10:34 PM ET
Jake Buchanan's plan sounds simple: "Keep the ball down. Be the ground-ball guy. Sink it. Cut it. Get people out with three pitches."
Nobody can argue with the results.
Buchanan made his fifth consecutive scoreless appearance Friday night, allowing five hits over five innings as the Double-A Corpus Christi Hooks posted a 1-0 road win over Midland Rockhounds.
The Astros prospect has not given up a run in his last 24 1/3 innings of work. That stretch has lowered his ERA to a Texas League-leading ERA to 0.93. A year ago, he was 5-9 with a 4.96 ERA in 27 games, including 19 starts, for the Hooks.
"The difference for me between last year and this year is last year when I got into jams, I'd end up giving up runs," Buchanan said. "This year, I've been able to work out of them and count on my defense, too. It's been big for me and been good for my confidence, too, which has helped me pitch even better."
Buchanan (4-0) is part of a Corpus Christi pitching staff that's thrown a league-leading seven shutouts, one behind the Southern League's Mississippi Braves for tops in Double-A. The Hooks rely on a piggyback pitching system in which starters go four or five innings, then make a relief appearance a few days later before starting again. Buchanan pitched into the ninth once for Corpus Christi last year and has gone seven innings several times as a pro. But he has no complaints about the Astros' unorthodox strategy.
"Yeah, it been a little different. It's benefited me a lot," the 23-year-old right-hander said. "If you know you just have to go five innings when you start, that lets you give it everything you've got. I say, 'All right, I just have to try to get 15 outs here.' If that's all you have to do, it makes it a bit easier.
"Some days you have your good stuff and you feel like you have it in you to go seven or eight and have a real good outing," he added. "But it's kind of nice. If you're doing good, you don't have to face the lineup more than two times. That's obviously helpful to you as a pitcher."
Also helpful has been Buchanan's stellar command this season. He's issued only three walks in 43 1/3 innings.
"Being able to keep people off the basepaths, that's big," he said. "Working ahead, throwing out of the stretch, not having to worry about runners ... these things are huge."
Buchanan gave up a two-out single in the first inning Friday, but his scoreless streak wasn't threatened until the second. Dusty Coleman led off with a single and stole second with A's No. 17 prospect Beau Taylor at the dish. Taylor walked on seven pitches, but Buchanan struck out Miles Head -- Oakland's No. 5 prospect -- before uncorking a wild pitch.
"It was a cutter and I choked it," Buchanan said. "Rene [Garcia] blocked it pretty good, though."
Garcia's block was good enough to keep Taylor at first, but Coleman took third.
"Got myself into a jam there," Buchanan said.
Darwin Perez smacked a 2-2 offering directly at third baseman Jonathan Meyer, who caught the liner and threw to first to double up Taylor.
"That was big-time," said Buchanan, who's allowed one run in his last 34 1/3 frames. "The guy hit the ball hard. If it was in the hole, the run would have scored. I got lucky. They say it's better to be lucky than good, and I guess I have to agree. I've had great luck down the stretch and my defense -- my third baseman, my shortstop, everybody -- has been awesome."
Meyer was crucial to Buchanan's success in the third after Chad Oberacker laced a one-out triple.
"Johnny, my third baseman, said, 'Hey, give me a ground ball. Give me a ground ball and we'll be out of it,'" said Buchanan.
D'Arby Myers followed the script, fouling off the first pitch before dribbling the next to Meyer, who held Oberacker and threw out Myers. With two down, Buchanan faced Anthony Aliotti, the league's leading hitter at .362. It took him one pitch to end the inning with a grounder to first.
"I ran it in on him," Buchanan said, "and he rolled over on it."
He plowed through the fourth, striking out the side on 12 pitches.
"I wanted to have an easy inning after the last two with runners on," the North Carolina State product said. "I started throwing the changeup there, tried to go right at them. I might have threw one [changeup] to a lefty [before] and I bounced it. It wasn't good. I don't think they were expecting to see it then, in the fourth, so I kept them off-balance with that."
Buchanan gave up a leadoff single in the fifth to Head, who advanced on Perez's sacrifice. Tyler Ladendorf followed with a single to center, but Head held at third, Oberacker struck out and Myers hit a liner right back at Buchanan.
The Hooks bullpen combined to strike out two and limit the Rockhounds to two hits and a walk the rest of the way.
"The relievers, they've all been sharp," Buchanan said. "They did a heck of a job tonight. Our whole bullpen has been awesome this year."
Buchanan has made four relief appearances himself. Is he part of that "awesome" bullpen?
"Right, that piggyback thing," he said. "It's been fun. I enjoy both starting and relieving. It's pretty much the same game. You come in, you try to get guys out."
In addition to strong pitching, Corpus Christi leads the league with 41 homers and ranks second with 74 doubles. George Springer, the Astros' No. 3 prospect, leads all Minor Leaguers with 13 homers.
"When Springer comes up, he can hit a home run anytime," Buchanan said. "That's great for our team."
Springer was 2-for-4 with a pair of singles Friday, while Astros No. 16 prospect Max Stassi chipped in two hits, including an RBI double.
As for Buchanan, he's keeping his goals simple.
"Just trying to get better every day," he said. "Don't throw any days away. Keep the ball down and get guys out."
Josh Jackson is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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Edit: actually nine blunders.
As an author, item comments are the only part of ThemeForest I interact with every day — multiple times per day. Item comments are my support channel, and they are still horribly broken.
Yes, Envato recently did some "visual" updates, but they introduced (and reintroduced) bugs that definitely should have been caught in QA testing. I've tried to ignore them, but it's becoming a real pain in the ass.
Part 1 — Notifications
Comment notifications — This situation sucks for authors. I've mentioned this before, but it needs to be addressed: http://themeforest.net/forums/thread/comment-email-notification/82362?page=1#692213
When a buyer comments he has the option of getting email notifications of replies. Authors cannot get notifications. Here is how this scenario plays out:
Buyer comments and ticks checkbox for email notifications. Buyer assumes that author also gets email notifications. Author is never notified. When he manually checks the dashboard (1 minute, 5 hours, or 10 hours later) he sees the comment and responds immediately. The buyer is notified immediately. So he responds immediately expecting the author to respond quickly. The author is never notified. He sees the message whenever he refreshes the dashboard…maybe in 20 minutes or 6 hours. The buyer gets angry that responses take so long.
There is no API for comments so authors cannot build their own tools to check for new comments. Authors scrape by providing timely support by checking ThemeForest every hour or so, which is a waste of our time and mental energy.
The comment system puts strain on the author/buyer relationship, and could be improved. It has been this way for nearly 3 years (years!) since I became an author.
If buyers can get comment notifications and trivial forum posts can get email notifications, why can't authors get notifications of item comments?
Part 2 — Dashboard Usability
Scannability — When I load my dashboard, I'm only looking at two things:
- Are there "new" comments?
- Are my sales higher?
I put emphasize on "new" comments authors cannot mark specific comments as "read". Authors have to mark all comments as read since the last time we did so. Here is a scenario where this is a problem.
- User comments on my item asking for more information.
- I respond, but need to follow-up with more info.
- I do not click "mark as read" to keep this comment on my dashboard.
- Several other users comment with different questions.
- I check my dashboard and quickly scan for new comments, while remembering that I've already answered the last comment.
The way I scan a comment is by looking for the last avatar in its thread. If it is a user's avatar, then I know I need to respond. I can discern this in 0.2s without reading anything.
If it is my avatar, then I know it's not a new comment and I can move to the next comment.
The recent dashboard updates have permanently placed my avatar adjacent to the reply textarea. In effect, I can't scan for new comments as quickly because my brain is trained to see I've already responded.
Having my avatar adjacent to the textarea doesn't help me. I know who I am when commenting. This just slows me down.
Modal Editor — Why did it have to be a modal? An edit-in-place UI would be significantly simpler and more consistent with the normal comment writing interface. Look at how Flickr handles editing for photo descriptions.
The modal textarea does not expand to the correct height of the content. So once you've posted a long and detailed reply, you notice some corrections to make. Now you have to use this 6-line modal and deal with scrolling inside scrollable pages.
Modal Editor Breaks Keyboard Nav — Yup, this bug is back. And it's exists in a context where you specifically want to use the keyboard arrow keys to precisely select text and move the caret for editing.
Part 2 — Mobile
Reality check: authors use smartphones to check their comments while on the go. We will write detailed replies to buyers on tiny 3-inch screens, and Envato makes this infuriating.
Mobile Dashboard — This is what authors actually need (since years ago). I don't think anyone is holding out hope that Envato will launch a fully responsive marketplace that considers the diversity of tasks authors and buyers need to accomplish on the site. Pinching/zooming does not cut it.
What authors need is a mobile dashboard. Build a URL we can visit that is under 25KB and only does two things: show my revenue and moderate new comments.
Icons — The "flag this comment" and "edit this comment" icons are ridiculously small targets, which require multiple pinch/zooms to get anywhere near being tappable on a smartphone. And then they're unrecognizable because it's an @1x raster graphic.
Give the "flag" icon the text "flag" to increase its target area and improve understanding of what this icon is.
Move the "edit" button to after the comment itself. Include the text "edit comment" to increase the click area and help us discern the tiny stick is a pencil and pencils mean edit.
Self-Expanding Textarea — This does not work on iPhones. It half-expands for each line, which makes proofreading or editing my comments a complete nightmare.
Modal Editor — The kiss of death. Try editing an item comment on your phone. I bet you dollars you pesos you throw the phone out the window. It's flat out unusable. This is precisely why you shouldn't use modal overlays.
People are using your non-mobile site on mobile devices, and the design decisions you made just a month ago (feeling modern and fresh) are putting a stranglehold on our ability to support buyers efficiently.
Part 3 — Text Formatting
Blockquotes — Some buyers like to write novels in item comments. Replying to them is confusing if authors can't reference their comment using
blockquote elements. Currently there is no styling for blockquotes in item comments. This should be a 90 second fix.
In my opinion, these are all obvious and glaring problems. I'm disappointed that Envato chose to ship code with this many issues, but I'm not surprised given pace and quality of user-facing development done over the last few years.
This has been highly critical, but I hope constructive information for Envato to consider.
Consider my high-horse unmounted. I'd love for feedback from other users AND Envato.
they should hire you as UX specialist.
like really.
you know what? you just did the job for free. let's hope they will listen to your proposal.
Great post
Such a shame it's going to fall on deaf ears
SimpleSites4U said
Such a shame it's going to fall on deaf ears
Apparently so. Sigh.
There's a job opening here: http://techjobs.envato.com/roles/senior-ux-designer.html
well finally!
Put someone who know about this stuff, let him do the job, create a thread on forum, get burned alive by the community for making those changes.
In that job description they should mention the position involves dealing with wild beast on the forum. We are waiting Senior User Experience Designer. We are waiting.
GravityDept said
SimpleSites4U saidApparently so. Sigh.
Such a shame it's going to fall on deaf ears
Naaah, I'm all ears (and to my knowledge they function fairly well, still.)
I will be bringing this feedback up within the next meeting, and will of course get back to you with a reply as soon as it has been discussed. I do however expect that this will be happening early next week.
On a personal note, thank you for the elaborate post, GravityDept, I really, REALLY, enjoy reading well-written and documented stuff, aside from the fact that I also agree with most if not all mentioned issues. I would also add my bit of experience with Android using the marketplace forums, and the multiple issues with jumping text-boxes, impossible scrolling and buttons that are there (as in visible) yet when you try to "click" them, you either click the one above or the one beneath, no matter how close you zoom in or what sharp utensil you grab to fulfill this purpose.
Kind regards, CB.
@ contrastblack — Glad to hear it, and I hope the verbosity expresses the extent to which authors use and depend on a well-tuned system.
About the item comments give this a go http://themeforest.net/feeds/user_item_comments/author.atom
Sorry for not posting sooner. I did read your post minutes after you published it and it went directly on my forum report which I share with staff including our UX designer. I guess I should probably posted that I read it


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In days long past when SCSI was confined to 68-pin cables and clouds usually meant rain, IT generalists had their heyday. It was a matter of necessity, really -- more often than not, there was no other option. The folks who set up and maintained the email system were the very same people who built the network, tended the servers, fixed the workstations, and had a hand in just about every level of IT. This was not confined to small shops. In bigger shops there was more spread, but also a few people who somehow had their hands in every part of the pie -- who might be coding an app one day and programming Layer 3 switches the next.
These days, that's becoming more and more of a rare sighting.
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I suppose you could blame the IT explosion. The sheer number of tools and frameworks available for every aspect of IT today dwarfs the collection available even five years ago. The advent of virtualization has certainly contributed, introducing all manner of abstraction and specialization that defies consolidation. In short, it's becoming much more challenging to keep up with the progress of information technology, which carries with it the progress of connected devices. One PC per person used to be the rule, but now we have smartphones and tablets to worry about, desktops both physical and virtual, and security sitting atop the whole shebang, mocking us.
If you knew enough about a number of IT silos, it was fairly easy to pull off a true general IT job. Learn enough Perl, Linux, Sun, Windows, and Cisco, and off you went. You didn't necessarily need to be an expert in any of them, but with a solid enough foundation, you could usually get the job done. These days, those skills will still get you places, but there's a growing chasm of other technologies and frameworks that aren't on that list and may prove daunting to integrate.
The spread of scripting and programming languages is one example. Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, C#, JavaScript, Java, VB, and C++ are everywhere, and to become more than competent in a majority of them is the job of a developer, not a generalist. Layers of frameworks within those languages continue to expand as well, so not only are you working within a language, you might be working within a specific framework as well. Modifying or extending an existing project written in one or more of these languages can become very challenging for a generalist, especially if they don't have a solid foundation in the language to begin with.
The propagation of various virtualization platforms is another example. While most of the top-tier solutions adhere to a central set of features and rules, each is expanding that set rapidly, and not always in the same direction. New technologies like VMware's VXLAN and Microsoft's NVGRE are turning the tried-and-true Layer 3 switching model on its head and reworking networking from the foundation to the top of the stack. Adapting to the intricacies of those technologies -- as well as implementing and managing them properly -- could be considered a full-time job. This is to say nothing about the rest of the technology pile, from the hardware up to the operating systems themselves.


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African Elephant, Ngorongoro Crater
Photograph by Chris Johns
Once a giant volcano that collapsed inward millions of years ago, the Ngorongoro Crater is today the largest unflooded and intact caldera in the world. Lone bull elephants with imposing tusks—survivors of the ivory trade in decades past—roam the crater floor, while matriarchal elephant herds prefer the surrounding highland forests, which fall away to the tawny plains of the Great Rift Valley.
Photograph by Randy Olson
A seminomadic ethnic group indigenous to northern Tanzania and southern Kenya, the Maasai people own herds of cattle, sheep, and goats, which they follow seasonally in search of new grazing grounds. Tribesmen are adorned in red-checked blankets called shuka.
Plains Zebra
Photograph by Gregg Pasterick, My Shot
Boldly striped in distinctive patterns, no two plains zebras look exactly alike. They are the world's most widespread species of zebra, occupying the open, grassy plains and woodlands of eastern and southern Africa. With acute vision and hearing, zebras act as an early warning system for other large animals grazing nearby.
Herb Harvesting
Photograph by John Stanmeyer
In the highlands of Tanzania, a Wa-arusha man harvests the Chinese herb Artemesia annua, a new crop in Africa and an ingredient in today's best malaria drugs. Sub-Saharan Africa suffers 90 percent of all malaria deaths.
Giraffes, Arusha National Park
Photograph by Balazs Buzas, My Shot
A rich tapestry of habitats spanning from tranquil Momela Lakes to rugged Mount Meru, Arusha National Park is northern Tanzania's safari capital. Frequently spotted in the park are giraffes, the tallest land mammals on Earth.
Hadza Man
Photograph by Martin Schoeller
A Hadza man finds the best vantage point for spotting game on the windswept land of central Tanzania. Africa's last remaining hunter-gatherers, the Hadza subsist on wild game, edible plants, and honey, adjusting their diets depending on season and circumstance.
Photograph by Medford Taylor
When the dry season arrives at the peak of summer, herds of wildebeest, antelope, and zebra migrate north from the Serengeti to adjoining Masai Mara National Reserve in pursuit of food and water. Over two million grazing herbivores partake in this annual journey.
Ol Doinyo Lengai Volcano
Photograph by Carsten Peter
Ol Doinyo Lengai ("Mountain of God" in Masai) towers above the Rift Valley in a remote corner of northern Tanzania. It is the only volcano in the world to release natrocarbonatite lava—highly fluid lava that erupts at roughly half the temperature of more common basaltic volcanoes. Bizarre geologic formations develop as the lava rapidly hardens and decays.
Tourists, Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Photograph by Randy Olson
Camera-wielding visitors pour into Ngorongoro Crater to stalk lions, elephants, and other survivors of a wild Africa that is fading. A top attraction, this extinct caldera brings welcome revenue to Tanzania, one of the poorest nations on Earth. But the tourists also crowd narrow roads, strain scarce water resources, and disrupt wildlife.
Mount Kilimanjaro
Photograph by Ulrich Doering/Photolibrary
Mount Kilimanjaro's cone rises majestically from the clouds and soars over Shira Plateau. The mountain's snow cover, made famous in a short story by Ernest Hemingway, is predicted to be gone completely within two decades.
Dar es Salaam
Photograph by Ariadne Van Zandbergen/LPI/Getty Images
Dar es Salaam—which means "House of Peace" in Arabic—is the largest and wealthiest city in Tanzania. To many travelers, the city is just a convenient port of call en route to Tanzania's more exotic locales, but this bustling seaport offers many cultural delights, from lively markets supporting the agricultural economy to colonial-era architecture.
Mount Meru Forest
Photograph by Ian Cumming/Getty Images
The centerpiece of Arusha National Park, Mount Meru—an active stratovolcano—offers a rewarding climb through fertile forests and bare rocks up to an unparalleled view of the Rift Valley. At 14,979 feet (4,566 meters) above sea level, Mount Meru's summit is slightly lower than Kilimanjaro's.
Dhow, Zanzibar
Photograph by Paul Harris/AWL/Aurora Photos
A handcrafted boat propelled by one or two lateen sails, the dhow is a popular mode of transport for tourists visiting the white-sand beaches and historic towns around Zanzibar. Once a separate state enjoying a long history of commerce within the Arab world, this Tanzanian archipelago in the Indian Ocean is a colorful fusion of African, Arab, Portuguese, and European cultures.
Muslim Wedding, Zanzibar
Photograph by Christopher Pillitz/Getty Images
At a traditional Muslim wedding celebration in Zanzibar, thumping music, ululating women, and spirited shouts fill the air. Nearly all of Zanzibar's and much of Tanzania's coastal inhabitants adhere to Islam, while inland populations follow Christianity, Hinduism, and indigenous faiths.
Baobab Trees, Tarangire National Park
Photograph by Tom Schwabel, My Shot
Baobab trees frame a serene view of night skies in Tarangire National Park. Some species of baobab trees can live for a thousand years—potentially reaching a stunning height of 80 feet (25 meters) and a diameter of 40 feet (12 meters).
Photograph by Randy Olson
On the western edge of Serengeti National Park, Robanda is a popular place to spend the night while on safari. Fewer than 3,000 people live in this impoverished but vibrant village, where hawkers sell fresh fruit from stalls, children play games in the dusty streets, and entrepreneurial locals cater to the tourism trade.
Gazelles, Ngorongoro Crater
Photograph by Thomas Schmidt, My Shot
Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a protected region of rolling grassland, acacia woodlands, and mist-draped volcanic highlands in northern Tanzania. Together with its companion, Serengeti National Park, the area sustains healthy populations of many animals, such as these gazelles.
Maasai Woman
Photograph by Julia Rendleman, My Shot
Married Maasai women, with their shaved heads and luxuriant necklaces, do most of the work in this strongly patriarchal society. They gather wood, make camp, milk cows, and tend babies, while the men lead cattle on the never ending search for grass and water. Once true nomads, many of Tanzania's Maasai have begun the transition to a more settled life.
Colobus Monkey
Photograph by Zachary Rosen, My Shot
Africa's most arboreal monkey, the colobus leaps from tree to tree in the forest canopy, rarely descending to the ground. Hunted in the past by local tribes for their striking black-and-white coats, the monkeys' biggest threat today is deforestation.
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Hello all,
So a professor of my Computer Security course, together with the campus IT director, have offered my class a challenge. They've placed a file (aptly named secret.txt) with a secret word/phrase/something in a protected folder, and are offering extra credit if we can figure out what that word is. We aren't allowed to destroy anything or inhibit use of the server to other students, but past that anything (sans physical coercion and blackmail) goes.
The server is running SunOS 5.9. The folder, and all files within it that I know of, have 700 permissions, and both accounts I have access to are in the students group, whereas he's in the faculty group. We can print the shadowed /etc/passwd, but permission is denied to read or copy /etc/shadow.
We'll get credit whether we get caught or not, but ideas that get the secret word without alerting anybody are preferable. I'm familiar with unix/linux, but not so much with penetrating it. I come to you asking for advice and guidance in things to learn about that would aid me in this endeavor.
Thank you
Oh my goodness!
........now we've been downgraded to a homework forum
Sorry, let me rephrase then. I have some proprietary information stored in a private folder on a sun server. What are the most common attacks that I need to start working on defending against?
privilege escalation is the way to go but to do it you will need to exploit the system , iam not sure if you allowed to do so
Knowledge is Power
just give a gold handshake to your teacher.
Privilege escalation isn't a problem. For the sake of ideas, assume nothing is a problem. I'm interested in learning about this for more than just the sake of the class. The only methods of privilege escalation I know of require physical access though (single user mode, livecds, etc), and neither account I have access to has any sudo privileges.
that's why its called "escalation"
Do you have physical access to it?
What is with all these "computer security" course posts flooding the BT forums lately. If you're taking a course surely the professors are teaching you the skills to figure out these "challenges" yourself. If they aren't, the course isn't very good. Or if students feel they need to come to a 3rd party site and get others to spoon feed ideas. If one can't research, google & learn on your own. You likely won't get very far in the field. I would talk to the professor, if you lack the basic knowledge to attempt the challenge. As the concepts to attempt it, or arming you to research on your own should certainly be covered. You may want to form a student group to share ideas to help each other out. If you spent time on Google, all the information and methodology are out there. Someone really needs to talk to these teachers. It appears these security courses are sorely lacking
@mortis: No physical access to the server, just to machines the professor uses (we're working on a hardware keylogger).
@MosGuy, I understand what you mean and wish the course were more specific like that, but as it is, this class is covering the abstract concepts of computer security and infosec. He talks more about how you have to think about the various forms of protection (personnel, physical, emissions, etc) than about specific ways to exploit a system. Researching/googling on my own is generally how I've done this, but asking on a forum full of people who already understand the concepts seems like a reasonable way to get pointed in the right direction (when they're willing to point). Often times I understand a concept but googling it becomes largely a waste of time until I know the common terminology used (i.e. Evil Twin networks).
All of that said, I'm more familiar with with network exploitation than system exploitation. I've dabbled in exploits such as buffer/stack overflows, but never anything enough to get a grasp on the best way to go about this. I've also gone through and tried all the Solaris 9 exploits from milworm without success (sans a memory dump one which I have running periodically in a perl script and checking for the filename). If anyone is willing, what would you pursue next?
I second MosGuy : if you know and understand how to prevent attacks (what you are supposed to be taught), you also know how to perform those attacks... If you are not able to figure out what you can do and how, I hardly see how you can even call it a "Computer Security course"...
By the way, you don't give any interesting information.Would we want to write something to help you, we couldn't.


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I generally have had little expectations/hope that Burke can dramatically rebuild this team into a serious playoff contender this season because of the large contracts that nobody wants on the roster, but after some thinking, I think there is way he can do it. This is all pure speculation and hope, but don't we all like to do that from time to time? And as Maple Leaf fans, hope is pretty much all we have right now.
When Burke traded for James van Riemsdyk a week ago he indicated that he expects to see him playing the wing, and in particular Mikael Grabovski's wing. This is interesting because JVR is a left winger and the left winger for Grabovski the past couple of seasons has been Clarke MacArthur and they have seen substantial success together with Nikolai Kulemin on the right side. I figured it meant that either MacArthur or JVR would move to the right side, but the optimist in me is hoping that Burke actually has another plan.
That plan, I hope, is signing Alexander Semin as an unrestricted free agent. Semin is a true right wing with elite level offensive talent and as good as MacArthur has been for the Leafs, would be a significant upgrade. As good as the MacArthur-Grabovski-Kulemin line has been at times over the past couple of seasons, a JVR-Grabovski-Semin line has the potential to be a true #1 line with 80 goal potential.
Signing Semin will not come cheap even though he is coming off a down year (in large part because he played with lower tier line mates like Marcus Johansson, Mathieu Perrault and Jason Chimera) because I think there will always be teams looking to add high end talent and there is always the KHL option for Semin. But what it does mean is that Semin likely won't command the mega long-term deals that Brian Burke refuses to hand out. It is quite possible, maybe quite likely, that you could get Semin on a 4 year deal at $6M per year. That is an increase of $2.75M over MacArthur's salary but the benefits far out weigh the extra cost. Not only is Semin is significantly better than MacArthur it will mean not having to play someone (MacArthur or JVR) on the wrong wing and it also means that it makes MacArthur available to trade for other assets. In particular, a center for Kessel and Lupul.
I am not a fan of Bozak between Lupul and Kessel because he has no defensive abilities, just like Lupul and Kessel don't. It's a bad combination. I wish we had seen more of Connolly there last year. He isn't an ideal option either but at least has some defensive capabilities, but he is undersized too so still isn't a great option. So with that said, I think Burke needs to look elsewhere for the center for those two.
As far as pieces we could trade to acquire that center, well, they are actually quite abundant. MacArthur would definitely be available after a Semin signing. Kulemin could be traded as well and would be an attractive player to many teams. Kadri is a trade possibility as there won't be an immediate opening on the top 2 lines. Franson is too but with Schenn traded would mean having to acquire another defenseman to replace him. A package of MacArthur, Kadri and maybe a prospect or draft pick should be able to land at least a second tier first line center, or maybe even a guy like Paul Stastny. With Duchene and Ryan O'Reilly in the mix at center for the Avalanche I can't imagine why the Avalanche would want to keep Stastny and his $6.6M salary. Stastny wouldn't be ideal because he isn't great defensively but would definitely be an upgrade on Bozak. So, now let's take a look at the top 2 lines if all this unfolded as I laid out.
Lupul – Stastny – Kessel
JVR – Grabovski – Semin
Ok, just reading that has me a little excited. Both those lines are capable of producing 80+ goals and the Grabovski line in particular is a defensively capable line as well. I have plugged some numbers into cap geek and came up with the following fictional lineup.
Joffrey Lupul ($4.250m) / Paul Stastny ($6.600m) / Phil Kessel ($5.400m)
James Van Riemsdyk ($4.250m) / Mikhail Grabovski ($5.500m) / Alexander Semin ($6.000m)
Matt Frattin ($1.200m) / Tyler Bozak ($1.500m) / Nikolai Kulemin ($2.750m)
Colby Armstrong ($3.000m) / David Steckel ($1.100m) / Mike Brown ($0.737m)
Matthew Lombardi ($3.500m) /
Dion Phaneuf ($6.500m) / Carl Gunnarsson ($1.325m)
Jake Gardiner ($1.117m) / Cody Franson ($2.000m)
John-Michael Liles ($3.875m) / Korbinian Holzer ($0.700m)
Mike Komisarek ($4.500m) /
James Reimer ($1.800m)
Ben Scrivens ($0.700m)
Darcy Tucker ($1.000m)
CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(these totals are compiled without the bonus cushion)
CAP SPACE (22-man roster): $896,667
You will notice no MacArthur, Kadri (both hypothetically traded to Colorado for Stastny) or Connolly. I think Burke should be able to find a taker for Connolly as he is on just a 1 year contract with no long term salary cap ramifications (which some teams might find important with the uncertainty surrounding a new CBA) but will not get much in return. Dallas (to replace Ribiero), Calgary (to replace Jokinen) and Pheonix (to replace Langkow) seem like possibly destinations to me. For now I have also left Armstrong, Lombardi and Komisarek in the line and gone with Reimer/Scrivens in goal but some moves could be made with those guys to improve the defense or goaltending situation or improve on Bozak in the #3C position. With the moves up front, it does make trading for Luongo more unlikely, but if he gets traded to Florida, I'd be ok with acquiring Theodore to backup/mentor/support Reimer.
So Leaf fans, what do you think? Are you hopeful something like this could happen this off season, or pessimistic that Burke can't/won't be able to make any significant moves to improve the team?


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What Are the Coronary Arteries of the Heart?
Like all organs, your heart is made of tissue that requires a supply of oxygen and nutrients. Although its chambers are full of blood, the heart receives no nourishment from this blood. The heart receives its own supply of blood from a network of arteries, called the coronary arteries.
Two major coronary arteries branch off from the aorta near the point where the aorta and the left ventricle meet:
- Right coronary artery supplies the right atrium and right ventricle with blood. It branches into the posterior descending artery, which supplies the bottom portion of the left ventricle and back of the septum with blood.
- Left main coronary artery branches into the circumflex artery and the left anterior descending artery. The circumflex artery supplies blood to the left atrium, side and back of the left ventricle, and the left anterior descending artery supplies the front and bottom of the left ventricle and the front of the septum with blood.
These arteries and their branches supply all parts of the heart muscle with blood.
When the coronary arteries narrow to the point that blood flow to the heart muscle is limited (coronary artery disease), a network of tiny blood vessels in the heart that aren't usually open called collateral vessels may enlarge and become active. This allows blood to flow around the blocked artery to the heart muscle, protecting the heart tissue from injury.
How Does the Heart Beat?
The atria and ventricles work together, alternately contracting and relaxing to pump blood through your heart. The electrical system of your heart is the power source that makes this possible.
Your heartbeat is triggered by electrical impulses that travel down a special pathway through your heart.
- The impulse starts in a small bundle of specialized cells called the SA node (sinoatrial node), located in the right atrium. This node is known as the heart's natural pacemaker. The electrical activity spreads through the walls of the atria and causes them to contract.
- A cluster of cells in the center of the heart between the atria and ventricles, the AV node (atrioventricular node) is like a gate that slows the electrical signal before it enters the ventricles. This delay gives the atria time to contract before the ventricles do.
- The His-Purkinje network is a pathway of fibers that sends the impulse to the muscular walls of the ventricles, causing them to contract.
At rest, a normal heart beats around 50 to 99 times a minute. Exercise, emotions, fever, and some medications can cause your heart to beat faster, sometimes to well over 100 beats per minute.
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PHOTO: Rihanna Stuns On The Cover of 'Harper's Bazaar' Arabia
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Certified style icon Rihanna isn't ready to drop any new music just yet, but she's forging ahead with her side-career as a professional cover girl by fronting the July/August issue of Harper's Bazaar Arabia.
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In France, Kiwi's bright bathing suits—not too flashy and solid enough to withstand years worth of chlorine and sun—are synonymous with St. Tropez. (In this not-huge town, they actually have three boutiques.) The brand is best known for men's trunks, but make sure to check out their adorable bikinis.
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The translated name of this quirky store—"the old sea"—says it all: It's packed with a fabulous edit of antique boat paraphernalia, from old school hooks to traditional navigation tools. Most of the finds here are too big to schlep home, but it's a great place to browse (and there are, indeed, some more smaller tabletop pieces that would even fit in a carry-on).
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Baby Alpaca, Super Fine Alpaca, Extra Fine Merino Wool and Nylon, blended together creating a super soft extra lightweight yarn with the meterage of a 4ply weight. The chainette construction gives the finished fabric a beautiful soft weightless feel, to knit and wear.
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Washington : Government Printing Office
|Public Law 91-283
|Sioux Tribe, Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Mont. Judgment funds, disposition.
|Sec. 2
|Per capita shares.
|Sec. 3
|Minor enrollees, protection of interests.
|Sec. 4
|Tax exemptions.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the funds appropriated by the Act of October 21,1968 (82 Stat. 1190, 1198), to pay a judgment to the Sioux Tribe of the Fort Peck Reservation, Montana, in Indian Claims Commission Docket Numbered 279A and the interest thereon, after payment of attorney's fees and all appropriate expenses, and after deducting $50,000 to be used as provided in section 5 of this Act, and after deducting the estimated costs of distribution, shall be distributed per capita to each person born on or before, and living on, the date of this Act who is a citizen of the United States and
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duly enrolled, on a roll approved by the Secretary of the Interior, as a member of the Sioux Tribe of the Fort Peck Reservation, in accordance with eligibility requirements and procedures agreed upon by the Secretary of the Interior and the tribe, or its authorized representatives.
The per capita shares shall be determined on the basis of the number of persons eligible for per capitas and the number of persons rejected for per capitas who have taken a timely appeal. The shares of those persons whose appeals are denied shall revert to the Sioux Tribe of the Fort Peck Reservation, Montana, to be expended for any purpose designated by the tribe and approved by the Secretary.
Sums payable to enrollees or their heirs or legatees who are less than twenty-one years of age or who are under a legal disability shall be paid in accordance with such procedures, including the establishment of trusts, as the Secretary of the Interior determines appropriate to protect the best interests of such persons.
The funds distributed under the provisions of this Act shall not be subject to Federal or State income taxes.
Upon agreement by the Fort Peck Sioux Tribe and the Fort Peck Assiniboine Tribe on the amount each agrees to contribute from any award to each tribe in Indian Claims Commission Docket No. 279A, the agreed contribution of the Fort Peck Sioux Tribe shall be withdrawn from the $50,000, and interest thereon, withheld from per capita distribution pursuant to section 1 of this Act, and credited to the joint account for expenditure pursuant to the Act of June 29, 1954 (68 Stat. 329): Provided, That upon request of the Fort Peck Sioux Tribe the Secretary of the Interior in his discretion may distribute all or part of the aforesaid $50,000 and interest thereon per capita to each person eligible under section 1 of this Act.
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Authors Can't Make Ends Meet, and Other NewsBy Dan Piepenbring
- New statistics—the Guardian calls them not "shocking" but " 'shocking' "—suggest that "the number of authors able to make a living from their writing has plummeted dramatically over the last eight years, and that the average professional author is now making well below the salary required to achieve the minimum acceptable living standard" …
- … So why are authors undervalued? If they're "reluctant to see what they do as a real job, deserving of a real salary, then who can blame the public for taking advantage of their work? … In the dark old days, the storyteller always had the best place by the campfire. Those days may be gone, but the power of story remains."
- On palimpsests, digital reading, and erasable books: "To make a kind of loose analogy between a palimpsest and modern technology, computers often use a codec, or program that transfers information from one format into another, and a codec often loses content when moving between formats … What information are we devaluing now?"
- Talking to Richard Linklater about his new movie, Boyhood, which was filmed over twelve years as its lead grew into an adult: "There would be few big moments. Instead, Linklater sought out the small truths of youth: friends lost forever after a move, adult choices children can't understand, dull shifts at minimum-wage summer jobs. Passivity—not drama—dominates Mason's days … Linklater admits he's 'at war' with traditional narrative."
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J. Cole Announces 'Dollar And A Dream' tour dates
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J. Cole is celebrating the fifth anniversary of his mixtape, "The Warm Up," by announcing the dates for his second "Dollar and a Dream" tour.
On the tape's fifth anniversary Sunday, the rapper revealed that the tour will kick off on July 3rd in London. He'll then head back to the states for shows in New York, Miami, Raleigh and Chicago. The trek will wrap up in Los Angeles on July 23rd. During the road trip, Cole will perform The Warm Up.
Tickets to the shows will cost fans only one-dollar. However, the venues won't be announced until the day of the shows and tickets are sold on a first-come-first-serve basis.
You got a few weeks to freshen up on the words. http://t.co/pz114qKIOX The Warm Up. $1. See you soon. pic.twitter.com/JwPQJf438z
— J. Cole (@JColeNC) June 15, 2014
J. Cole also penned a letter to fans thanking them for their continued support. Five years after The Warm Up's release, Cole says he "couldn't be more proud its impact."
Apart from being "a declaration of dedication to greatness," Cole explains that the mixtape was told from the perspective of a young man who "wants more than what his city has to offer him." After looking back on his place in life during the mixtape's making, J. Cole shifts his focus to fans, telling them to never "stop dreaming."
Here are the dates for J. Cole's "Dollar and a Dream" tour:
7/3 - London
7/15 - New York City
7/17 - Miami
7/19 - Raleigh
7/21 - Chicago
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Bulimia is formally known as "Bulimia Nervosa." Bulimia or Bulimic behaviors usually involves the consumption of more than one serving of food in a short period of time and then purging the food through vomiting, laxatives, enema, or excessive exercising. A person with Bulimia might go through a period of starvation, followed by a period of binge eating, accompanied by intense guilt.
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22nd July 2014 02:35 PM #1
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Bub not eating properly
My brother is three years old. He likes to eat candies and other sweet stuffs but he wont eat proper meals. We've tried to cajole him into eating, sometimes even threatening him with his toys. Most of the time it doesn't work and he ends up only drinking his milk.
What do you think should we do?
5th August 2014 06:01 AM #2
Hi Atrovel,
Lots of parents and carers have difficulty getting their young child to eat properly at some point.
You are right that it would be best to steer him away from sweets and candies. These will give him a sugar high and a sugar low and so have a negative effect on his behaviour. A diet heavy in sugar is also unfortunately more likely to lead to long term health conditions such as diabetes and obesity. It can also cause problems with cavities in the teeth.
As you say above also, it is best to avoid a reward/ punishment system when it comes to food. You do not want your brother to start associating emotional responses with food which could lead to an eating disorder or an unhealthy weight as he grows up.
Instead, try to offer him plenty of healthy, enticing snacks throughout the day. Many three year olds don't like to sit still for long and so can find meal-times boring and difficult. The Attachment Parenting paediatrician Dr. Sears recommends trying a 'grazing plate'. This involves putting out a low down plate accessible to the toddler throughout the day full of healthy, fun snacks. One point to bear in mind is that the appearance of food is important to toddlers. Try to make it interesting e.g. making faces out of raw vegetables. Lots of toddlers also like dips such as hummus or salsa. Put plenty of fresh fruit on the plate and you could try other healthy, wholesome snacks like: steamed chicken, tomato pieces, breadsticks, broccoli etc. Replenish the plate throughout the day.
Something else to note it that your brother doesn't necessarily need to have a fully balanced diet every day but he should eat a balanced diet over the course of a week. You may find he has a day of mainly eating meat, another where he eats loads of vegetables and then another when he eats lots of carbohydrates etc. This is fine if he gets a healthy, balanced diet over the course of a week.
Fruit smoothies and green smoothies are another excellent way to help a young child get more fruit/veg in their diet.
What does your brother eat for breakfast? This is a very important meal, especially for children, and will set them up for the day. Porridge is a good option as it releases energy slowly into the body. Sugary cereals are best avoided.
What sort of milk does your brother drink? It is good that he is getting plenty of Calcium.
Please let me know what you think of the above. Post back your reply and we will support your further with this.
Warm wishes,
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