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It's no secret that the Twins are looking for starting pitching this offseason. The free agent market looks like it is filled with plenty of intriguing arms but there could be other ways of acquiring hurlers. Another way of accomplishing this task could be to trade away current MLB players or minor league prospects for the services of a starting pitcher. There have been rumors of the Twins inquiring about a couple of different starting pitchers but a new name has emerged on the market.
Word leaked out earlier this week about the Arizona Diamondbacks possibly being ready to shop top pitching prospect Trevor Bauer. It sounds like there is a division between Bauer and the D-Backs over his future with the club. Of course, it would take a lot to acquire a 21-year old pitcher with a ton of upside. If they are truly willing to shop Bauer, there will be plenty of interest from multiple clubs.
Bauer was the third pick of the 2011 amateur draft out of UCLA. During this past season, he made his debut with Arizona and he got roughed up in his four appearances before being sent back to Triple-A. His numbers in the higher levels of the minor leagues have very good as he has a low 2.42 ERA and 157 strikeouts in 130 innings pitched. Bauer made it to the big leagues in less than a year and he still has plenty of potential.
The one downside to Bauer looks like his command of the strike zone because he gave up 61 walks over his 130 minor league innings in 2011. During his small sample size in the major leagues, he averaged almost a walk an inning. This doesn't sound like the type of pitcher Terry Ryan and the Twins would target. It doesn't fit the mold of soft throwing strike throwers but it could be time for Minnesota to go in a different direction.
For Minnesota and Arizona, finding trade pieces could be tough for a couple of different reasons. The one area of surplus for the Twins is in the outfield and Arizona has so many outfielder that they are trying to trade away Justin Upton after already parting ways with Chris Young. This means the Twins could save their surplus in the outfield for a different trade but it also means the Twins would have to part with some of their top prospects.
The results were not so good the last time the Twins traded a top prospect for pitching. Wilson Ramos looked to be ready to break-out at the major league level but the Twins sent him to Washington for Matt Capps. A trade with the D-Backs would take on a different light because Minnesota would be trading for a rising star in the pitching ranks and not a closer with mediocre stuff. This still leaves questions about what the Twins could send away from their prospect ranks.
In my preliminary Twins prospect list for this offseason, there are some very good players at the top of the list. Would the Twins be willing to part with a couple of their top 10 prospects to get Bauer? How about a couple of players in the top 5? Which players would you say are untouchable?
1. Miguel Sano, 3B (Age 19)
2. Byron Buxton, OF (Age 18)
3. Aaron Hicks, OF (Age 23)
4. Oswaldo Arcia, OF (Age 21)
5. Eddie Rosario, OF/2B (Age 21)
6. Kyle Gibson, RHP (Age 25)
7. Jose Berrios, RHP (Age 18)
8. Travis Harrison, 3B (Age 20)
9. Max Kepler, OF (Age 19)
10. Joe Benson, OF (Age 24)
It could take quite the haul to bring in Bauer so it doesn't seem likely for the Twins to empty out their farm system for the chance to acquire a young starting pitcher. The upside of Bauer is enough to get fans excited about the chance of him joining their organization this offseason. A deal might not be likely at this point but the right combination of prospects could make this trade a reality.
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VaCA-CIE Film - "Smoke Signals"
When Friday November 8, 2013 @ 8:00 PM (1353 days ago)
Where University Commons, 170, MainStage Theater
Duration 2 hours
Smoke Signals is a film based on EMU's 2013-14 Common Read, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexi. Alexi wrote the screenplay for Smoke Signals, the story of young Native American, Thomas, who is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories which people receive with polite reluctance. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and baby Thomas was saved by family friend, Arnold. Arnold soon deserts his family and his tough son Victor hasn't seen his father for 10 years. Upon news of Arnold's death, Thomas offers Victor funding and companionship for the trip to get his father's remains. Thomas and Victor hit the road. (Note: This year's book for the.)
Dr. Jerry Holsopple, professor of Visual and Communication Arts, will lead a talk back following the film.
This is the first in a series of five interfaith and/or intercultural films shown throughout the weekend.
Intended Audience General Public
Contact Information
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Slush Cup brings out the brave, the wacky, the freezing
MARTOCK, N.S. – "I never want to do that again," shouts a shivering seven-year-old fresh out of the water at Ski Martock.
The United Nations and the Vatican went head to head recently regarding the church's lack of progress regarding its dealings with clergy who have abused children for years. The Vatican's response was swift and very much on the defence. In an attempt to minimize and swing attention to this intense situation, authorities in the church say the UN is being unfair and is distorting the truth.
Kudos to the Committee for finally dealing with this long-standing issue in demanding action by the Roman Catholic Church to come clean.
Curiously, Pope Francis has so far been silent. Aside from abusive priests, the UN also chided the Vatican's stance on gay equality and abortion. The Pope has previously made an attempt to gather support from the gay community by saying, "who am I to Judge?" During that same interview he indicated that church doctrine will not change and that has been substantiated by other Vatican leaders. The flowery language from the Pontiff sounds promising and would indeed be a welcome development.
Discrimination remains rampant in spite of the positive changes we witness on a daily basis. The changes we do experience are not initiated by the world's religions and that remains serious as the fires of intolerance keep burning. How refreshing it would be when those who judge and do not accept people for who they really are see a way to welcome everyone.
The fact remains that we are born with our sexual orientation intact, whether homosexual, bisexual or heterosexual. Similarly, we are born with blue eyes, various skin colours and many other aspects that make each one of us unique, loving, accepting and contributing members of society.
Most religions close their doors firmly and refuse to accept diversity. The Vatican seems to protect those who abuse children, yet does not protect the victims. Those who fall in love with a person of the same sex are condemned and humiliated by the church, consequently contributing to empty pews. This is twisted philosophy that defies common decency. The Vatican must be held accountable and not be allowed to be above the law. The world community must insist on a positive outcome that will eventually embrace all who love and accept the diversity of the world's inhabitants, but please, protect the innocents and the vulnerable.
Gerard Veldhoven is a longtime activist for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. His column appears Wednesdays in The News.


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She spoke with Jane Ciabattari about playing with Russian history and the Rasputin myth.
Part of what Rasputin did for the royal family was healing their youngest.
The gossip of the time speculated that Rasputin was having sex with the tsarina and her daughters.
"The man's lips ought to be closed," Steinhauer had written to Rasputin only a week before.
That first morning spent with Rasputin was full of interest.
"You did well, General," declared Rasputin, with an evil smile.
Rasputin had put on his oldest and most ragged monk's habit, and carried a staff.
That is why one was never sure that the stranger who denounced Rasputin and his friends was not an agent-provocateur.
Rasputin's "religion" was not a novel one, as is generally supposed.
When Rasputin spoke His Majesty seemed cowed and thoughtful.
acquired name (Russian, literally "debauchee") of Grigory Yefimovich Novykh (c.1872-1916), mystic and faith healer who held sway over court of Nicholas II of Russia. His nickname is from his doctrine of "rebirth through sin," that true holy communion must be preceded by immersion in sin. His name used figuratively in English from 1937 for anyone felt to have an insidious and corrupting influence.


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From HaskellWiki
The semantics of LGtk is given by a reference implementation. The reference implementation is given in three stages: lenses, references and effects.
1 Lenses
LGtk uses simple lenses defined in the data-lens package:
newtype Lens a b = Lens { runLens :: a -> Store b a }
getL :: Lens a b -> a -> b
setL :: Lens a b -> b -> a -> a
lens :: (a -> b) -> (b -> a -> a) -> Lens a b
1.1 Lens laws
The three well-known laws for lenses:
- get-set: ===setL k (getL k a) aa
- set-get: ===getL k (setL k b a)b
- set-set: ===setL k b2 (setL k b1 a)setL k b2 a
Impure lenses, i.e. lenses which break lens laws are allowed in certain places. Those places are explicitly marked and explained in this overview. (TODO)
2 References
2.1 MotivationLet
We have the following goals:
- Define a structure similar to in which(Lens s, State s, Reader s)is not accessible.s
- Extend the defined structure with operations which help modularity.
The first goal is justified by our solution for the second goal. The second goal is justified by the fact that a global state is not convenient to maintain explicitly.
2.2 TypesWe keep the types
Instead of giving a concrete implementation in Haskell, suppose that
- is a fixed arbitrary type,s
- ~Ref :: * -> *; references are lenses fromLens sto the type of the referred value,s
- ~R :: * -> *; the reference reading monad is the reader monad overReader s,s
- ~M :: * -> *; the reference modifying monad is the state monad overState s.s
The three equality constraints are not exposed in the API, of course.
2.3 OperationsExposed operations of
- The instance ofMonadandRM
- The monad morphism between andRM
liftReadPart :: R a -> M a liftReadPart = gets . runReader
- Reference read
readRef :: Ref a -> R a readRef = reader . getL
- Reference write
writeRef :: Ref a -> a -> M () writeRef = modify . setL r
- Lens application on a reference
lensMap :: Lens a b -> Ref a -> Ref b lensMap = (.)
- Reference join
joinRef :: R (Ref a) -> Ref a joinRef = Lens . join . (runLens .) . runReader
- The unit reference
unitRef :: Ref () unitRef = lens (const ()) (const id)
2.3.1 Reference laws
From lens laws we can derive the following reference laws:
- ===liftReadPart (readRef r) >>= writeRef rreturn ()
- ===writeRef r a >> liftReadPart (readRef r)return a
- ===writeRef r a >> writeRef r a'writeRef r a'
- ===liftReadPart m >> return ()return ()
- ===liftM2 (,) (liftReadPart m) (liftReadPart m)liftM (\a -> (a, a)) (liftReadPart m)
2.4 Reference creation
New reference creation is our first operation wich helps modularity.New reference creation with a given initial value extends the state. For example, if the state is
We could model the type change of the state with an indexed monad, but that would complicate both the API and the implementation too.Instead of changing the type of the state, we use an extensible state, an abstract data type
empty :: S
extend :: a -> State S (Lens S a)
such that the following laws hold:
- ===extend v >> return ()return ()
- ===extend v >>= liftReadPart . readRefreturn v
Question: Is there a data type with such operations?
The answer is yes, but we should guarantee linear usage of the state. The (constructive) existence proof is given in the next section.
Linear usage of state is guaranteed with the above refereces API (check the definitions), which means that we have a solution.Can this extensible state be implemented efficiently? Although this question is not relevant for the semantics, we will see that there is an efficient implementation with
2.4.1 Reference creation APILet
- ~C :: (* -> *) -> * -> *, the reference creating monad, is the state monad transformer overStateT S.S
The equality constraint is not exposed in the API. The following functions are exposed:
- New reference creation
newRef :: Monad m => a -> C m (Ref a) newRef = mapStateT (return . runIdentity) . extend
- Lift reference modifying operations
liftWrite :: Monad m => M a -> C m a liftWrite = mapStateT (return . runIdentity)
- Derived instance ofMonadTransto be able to lift operations in theCmonad.m
2.5 Running
The API is completed with the following function:
- Run the reference creation monad
runC :: Monad m => C m a -> m a runC x = runStateT x empty
2.6 Lens-chains
2.6.1 MotivationWith
The problem is that we cannot remember the value of the entry field if the checkbox is unchecked! Lens-chains give a nice solution to this problem.
2.6.2 SpecificationSuppose that we have an abstract data type
empty :: S
extend' :: Lens S b -> Lens a b -> a -> State S (Lens S a)
such that the following laws hold:
- Law 1: ===extend' r k a0 >> return ()return ()
- Law 2: ===liftM (k .) $ extend' r k a0return r
- Law 3: ===extend' r k a0 >>= readRefreadRef r >>= setL k a0
2.6.3 UsageLaw 2 is the most interesting, it sais that we can apply a lens backwards with
Consider the following pure lens:
maybeLens :: Lens (Bool, a) (Maybe a) maybeLens = lens (\(b, a) -> if b then Just a else Nothing) (\x (_, a) -> maybe (False, a) (\a' -> (True, a')) x)
Backward lens application can solve long-standing problems with application of lenses, but that is another story to tell.
2.6.4 Reference creation API (revised)Let
- ~C :: (* -> *) -> * -> *, the reference creating monad, is the state monad transformer overStateT S.S
The equality constraint is not exposed in the API. The following functions are exposed:
- Dependent new reference creation
extRef :: Monad m => Ref b -> Lens a b -> a -> C m (Ref a) extRef r k a0 = mapStateT (return . runIdentity) $ extend' r k a0
- Lift reference modifying operations
liftWrite :: Monad m => M a -> C m a liftWrite = mapStateT (return . runIdentity)
- Derived instance ofMonadTransto be able to lift operations in theCmonad.m
newRef :: Monad m => a -> C m (Ref a) newRef = extRef unitRef (lens (const ()) (const id))
2.6.5 ImplementationWe prove constructively, by giving a reference implementation, that
Overview:The idea behind the implementation is that
When a new reference is created, both the state and the lens-chain are extended. The dependency between the newly created state part and the old state parts can be encoded into the new lens in the lens-chain.
When a previously created reference (i.e. a lens) is accessed with a state after several extensions, a proper prefix of the lens-chain makes possible to convert the program state such that it fits the previously created reference.
Definition of
Reference implementation:
type S = [Part]
data Part = forall a . Part (S -> a -> a) a
Note that instead of lenses, just set functions are stored, a simplification in the implementation.Definition of
empty :: S empty = []
Auxiliary defintions:
app :: S -> Part -> Part app s (Part f a) = Part f (f s a)
snoc :: Part -> S -> S x `snoc` xs = xs ++ [x]
extend' :: Lens S b -> Lens a b -> a -> State S (Lens S a) extend' r1 r2 a0 = state f where r21 = setL r1 . getL r2 r12 = setL r2 . getL r1 f x0 = (lens get set, Part r12 (r12 x0 a0) `snoc` x0) where n = length x0 get = (\(Part _ a) -> unsafeCoerce a) . (!! n) set a x = foldl (\s -> (`snoc` s) . app s) (Part r12 a `snoc` r21 a (take n x)) (drop (n+1) x)
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Along with all other cats, African lions are in the order Carnivora and the family Felidae. Felidae has 18 genera and 36 species. Lions and other big cats such as tigers, leopards and jaguars, are in the genus Panthera.
African lions live in Senegal east to Somalia, East Africa, Angola, northern Namibia and from Kalahari east to Mozambique and northern Natal. Prides on the Serengeti maintain and fiercely defend home ranges of 8-160 square miles (21- 414 sq. km). Some lions are nomadic and range an area of up to 1,600 square miles (4,144 sq. km).
Their primary habitat is grassy plains, savanna and open woodlands.
The head and body of males measure from 5.6-8.3 feet (1.7 - 2.5 m) in length. The tail adds an extra 3 - 3.5 feet (0.9 -1.1 m) in length. They stand approximately 4 feet (1.2 m) at the shoulder. Female African lions are 4.6-6 feet (1.4 -1.8 m) in length, with a equally long tail. Females are also shorter, approximately 3.5 feet (1.1 m) at the shoulder.
Both male and female lions are tan in color, effectively camouflaging them among the light-colored savanna grasses. However, male and female African lions are distinctly sexually dimorphic (there are observable physical differences between the sexes). Males have a mane that ranges in color from light to dark brown, to even black. The mane helps protect the male's neck during fighting and make him appear larger to competitors.
Male African lions weigh between 330 -550 pounds (150 -250 kg), while females weigh between 264 - 400 pounds (120 -181 kg)
In the wild, males live 12 -16 years, females 15 -18 years. In captivity, about 20 years.
In the wild: Prey generally consists of wildebeest, zebra and a variety of ungulates (giraffes, buffalo and gazelles). Occasionally, lions hunt the young of elephants, rhinoceros or hippopotamus. They also sometimes scavenge food, chasing away hyenas and other carnivores from their kills.
At the zoo: Commercially prepared feline diet, chickens, rabbits, mutton, beef
A female lion normally gives birth every 18-26 months. After a gestation period of about 100 -119 days, she gives birth to one to six cubs. However, litter size is usually three or four cubs, and each weighs about 3 pounds (1.4 kg). Young lions are weaned at 6-7 months after birth. Young cubs begin to participate in pride kills at 11 months, although they probably could not survive on their own until approximately 30 months of age. Lion infant mortality is very high, with fewer than 50% of newborn cubs surviving their first year of life. In the hierarchy of a lion pride, the males feed first, followed by the females and finally, the cubs. Since the pride may only kill an animal once every three to five days, it is clear why many cubs starve to death.
Lions are primarily nocturnal or crepuscular. They spend much of their time resting— often up to 20 hours per day. They rest for several reasons, including energy conservation, lack of prey, and to avoid the heat of the day. During periods of rest, lions have many opportunities for social behavior. They gather to sleep in a group, rub their heads together, and play; all of these behaviors reinforce social bonds.
Life in a group allows lions to cooperatively hunt for food . Female members of a pride may spread out around potential prey to attack from many directions. Generally, lions hunt by stalking, since they are not built for endurance running.
While hunting, lions usually give up a chase after 50 -110 yards (45-99 m). Lions strangle or suffocate larger prey by clamping down on their neck. Or, to prevent it from breathing, a lion may place its paw over the nose, mouth or windpipe of prey. A lion easily dispatches smaller prey with a swipe from one of its massive paws.
Lions are unique among the cats, since they live in large social groups called prides. A lion pride frequently has 20 or more individuals, typically two males, several females and their offspring. The pride's adult females are usually related to one another and are group members for life. On the other hand, the males are irregular members who must fight off competing males for leadership of their pride. Males remain with a pride only as long as they are strong enough to defend their group from other male pairs. A male pair normally remains with a pride for 3-6 years before other males force them away.
Woodland Park Zoo's lions live in the zoo's award-winning African Savanna. If the lions are not visible anywhere in their outdoor exhibit, they are within one of three dens inside the Adaptations building, or on the backside of the exhibit behind the heated rock near the viewing window. Other mammals seen in the savanna area are giraffes, zebras, hippopotamus and fringe-eared oryx, to name a few. Also look for a variety of African savanna birds, including white-faced whistling ducks and Egyptian geese.
Keepers at Woodland Park Zoo periodically provide fresh elephant manure for the lions to roll in; it is placed by the observation window. They roll in it, eat it, and then they chase each other. The theory that explains why lions like to roll in manure is that if they sneak up on a grazing zebra or other prey species, it's better to smell like an elephant than like a lion. The zoo's lions seem to thoroughly enjoy the experience, and it enriches their lives by providing novel and new stimulus to their daily routine. They also enjoy dead chickens; the lions pluck them and then eat them. The lions also like fresh branches (logs) and browse. At times, keepers rub scents (spices, herbs, musk, etc.) on logs and rocks in their exhibit.
Although not presently endangered, the future of African lions is uncertain. The growth in human population is the primary reason for the great reduction in lion populations. Poachers hunt lions for trophies, and because they pose a threat to humans and livestock. Many lions have died in the Serengeti due to canine distemper. Lastly, expanding agricultural and grazing regions have greatly reduced lion habitat, in turn increasing the risk of inbreeding and the loss of genetic viability.
Lions are currently rare in western Africa, eliminated in most of southern Africa, and their numbers are also greatly reduced in East Africa. Elsewhere, a few zoos have been given the opportunity to work with the Transvaal lion (Panthera leo krugeri). The very rare Asian lion (Panthera leo persica) is found in a few zoos (in Europe), with a small population (around 200) living in the Gir Forest of India. To promote lion conservation, researchers study wild populations (such as serum collections, reproductive studies, etc.).
In 2012, a pair of Krugeri lions at Woodland Park Zoo had their first offspring together, marking the first litter of lions born at the zoo in 20 years!
The lion is perhaps the most iconographic of all the African savanna species. Their presence on the savanna immeasurably increases eco-tourism. In zoos, they help demonstrate the interdependency of all species. Breeding programs that maintain healthy captive animals are essential for the future of the species. Respect for traditional lifestyle and educational support empowers local populations to help save their ecosystem and the lions dependent upon it.
Each in-situ project supported by the zoo aims to provide a broad, holistic approach to conservation, encompassing research, education, habitat and species preservation. This includes comprehensive, cooperative strategies to link the needs of animals with the people who share their ecosystems.
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Grzimek, Bernhard, ed. 1975. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, Volume 12. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, NY. 657 p.
Nowak, Ronald M. ed. 1991. Walker's Mammals of the World. 5th Ed. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London. 1,629 p.
Schaller, George B. 1972. The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Resnick, J. P. 1994. Cats. Kidsbooks, Inc., Chicago, IL. 29 p.
Zoobooks. 1992. Big Cats. Wildlife Education, Ltd., San Diego, CA. 16 p.
Zoobooks. 1992. Lions. Wildlife Education, Ltd., San Diego, CA. 18 p.
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Ok so im about to send in my handstyle but i doubt im going to have time to get the others finished up so dont hold out on account of me
pantera panther? or the other handy battle? ^
im up for a handy battle.
Regardless of what I post I don't condone any illegal graffiti, although I stayed at a holiday inn once.
Baze doesn't have any entries for the handstyle battle and Msfyt is taking a break so i'm taking over the Handstyle battle.
WORD/PHRASE: Bombing Science
SPECIFICS: One entry per person. Paper or wall.
DEADLIINE: Tuesday July 1st
RULES: No digital modifications (Only Inverting). All skill levels welcome, but polling depends on the number of entries.
MOD IN CHARGE: Proper
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wtf so theres no Order Out of Chaos handy battle!?!?!? I entered it and actual liked my entry for once, thats lame ill resend it to you or baze if neccesary but we should get some people on it.
Edit#~~ Fuck it heres my attempt at a new style. i think it has potential, its alittle sloppy cause it was my first attempt at that style but i dig it. Whatchu guys think sense theres no battle would i get a vote or 2... maybe 3?
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There were no entries to that battle therefore i'm passing on it and starting a new one. Enter that.
DUDE I SENT IN A pIC FOR THAT HANDy BATTLE....AND IT SAID MSFYT WAS THE MOD....WTF.....EVERYTIME I TRY AND ENTER A BATTLE I GET FUCKED......I HOPE THE GRAFFITI GODS AREN'T TRYEN TO TELL ME NADA
Words. Thats pretty tight man i like it
7sins instead of bombing science?
Regardless of what I post I don't condone any illegal graffiti, although I stayed at a holiday inn once.
anyone down for a sketch battle?
i like that idea, we should have more numbers. i never see numbers in pieces.
propa u gunna post that panther/pantera thing? or was i too late?
My bad about not informing you broheim. I extended the deadline until midnight Friday because no one joined. You were the first person to send in your entry.
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I'm currently running php5 with APC, the latter with default configuration. However after setting up munin to monitor APC, I'm surprised by the results:
apc.shm_size: 30
apc.gc_ttl: 3600
apc.ttl: 7200
Used: 14MB
Request rate: 100 requests/second
Fragmentation: 0
Hit ratio: 80% (dropping to 0 a few times per hour)
So the obvious question: how can I adapt the configuration to achieve a higher hitrate. I find it very strange that the available memory is not fully used which the hitratio is still below what I would expect.
Here's my munin chart showing the strange hit ratio drops:It seems that sometimes all pages are removed from the cache, but the amount of purges is zero...
Thank for any hints!
What's your php/apache setup? If you run suphp or phpsuexec then there are issues with how apc works with these.
Its fastcgi. My phpinfo() says the following:
PHP Version 5.3.19-1~dotdeb.0System Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Jan 16 16:22:28 UTC 2012 x86_64Build Date Nov 24 2012 06:58:14Server API CGI/FastCGIVirtual Directory Support disabled
BTW: I tried setting a bigger shm_size, but that didn't help.
I managed to reproduce the error by refreshing (F5) the apc.php page a few times.I also enabled debugging, but I cannot find where and why apc determines to suddenly clear everything when not full yet.
APC on fastcgi doesn't share cache across different php workers, so it might be that if the fastcgi max requests parameter is set, then a worker will be terminated and respawned minus any cache.You could also be jumping workers which have not yet built cache. Try setting PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS to 0 (though this means they never get respawned which means you can get memory leaks over time) and also set only one worker for test purposes. Alternatively, try xcache
I went on to find out about the shared caching problem, and there does indeed seem to be a problem. I have usually 1 to 3 php-cgi processes running, so if APC is not shared, this could explain why sometimes my cache is emptied (interestingly, when that happens, total requests in the apcinfo.php page also starts back from 0).So, I set up nginx with php-fpm just to test (I want to keep apache, but want to leave it intact at the moment), and there indeed the APC cache hits is close to 97% (instead of about 80%)
I was surprised though that some performance tests showed that apache with mpm-prefork (as is currently the case) did 500 php requests in about 45s. With nginx, the same 500 requests took 61s. I'm unsure why this could be, and I first need to work out why that is before I could consider switching from php in cgi/fastgi to fpm/fastcgi. Do you have any experience with this?


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My issue is i have 4 scripts which run fine if i drag and drop in a terminal window, however if i run them as shortcuts the windows close and also you cannot copy items in there..
So how do i have shortcuts from a desktop to run bash scripts OR can anyone help me make a startup menu with the x 4 options and have this running on startup with the addition of the instructions.txt file launching to help the n00boys and n00bgirls?
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Next up: OSCON. Get there if you can, and give them my regards because I can't make it this year 😦
Susan Linton at Ostatic writes a blog post about a poll taken by Tuxradar where the question is asked, "Is it time to start trusting Microsoft?"
I'll wait for the laughter to die down.
The answer is clearly, "No. Absolutely not." We should not trust Microsoft any farther than Steve Ballmer can throw a chair.
I've said this before publicly and despite being rebuked for it, I stand by it even though it's a somewhat dogmatic position on the issue: You do everything — everything — in your power to keep Nazis from entering the synagogue. Clearly and historically, Microsoft has reveled in their role as digital brownshirts since one of their many ill-conceived, all-conquering goals was to strangle FOSS and Linux — which they consider a cancer — in its proverbial cradle; though 20 years later FOSS and Linux provide a more-than-viable alternative to the products coming out of Redmond, both in a commercial and a personal-computer realms.
Microsoft uber alles? Not on my watch, pal.
So don't get me started on those who would be like Neville Chamberlain trying to achieve "peace in our time" with Microsoft when the results would more than likely be, well, catastrophic as they were in Europe in the late '30s and '40s.
A leopard (even a Snow Leopard, but we're getting off-topic) can't change its spots, and to hear folks even discuss bringing up the possibility of working with Microsoft arguably is akin to collaborating with the enemy.
Microsoft's participation in contributions to the Linux kernel, as discussed here yesterday, is based on fixing virtualization code they contributed to the kernel when it appeared that they had taken GPLed code to include in their program. So their original contribution of the code to the Linux kernel a couple of years ago was to comply with the GPL; fixing it, too, was their responsibility as outlined by the license as well. Do they deserve any special consideration for doing what they're supposed to do?
To think, even remotely, that Microsoft has somehow "seen the light" and has come around to embrace FOSS and Linux is pants-wetting laughable. Additionally, it remains to be seen how much "participation" will remain now that most, possibly all, of what they contributed may have been fixed this time around. My bet is that we'll see Microsoft drop like a large stone from it's "perch" as the fifth leading corporate contributor to the kernel, and very quickly.
So, you might ask — and even if you don't — what can Microsoft do to earn the trust of FOSS/Linux advocates?
Simple. For Microsoft to earn my trust, they can merely do one thing: Open the code on their products, GPLing or releasing it under another acceptable license — that plain, that simple.
Let's not hold our breaths for that one, since that will not happen, period. And let's not kid ourselves into thinking that Microsoft, as they are today, even remotely would be a good corporate neighbor — let alone a trusted contributor — in the FOSS/Linux realm.
As my friend Ken Starks likes to say at the end of his blog posts, "All-righty then."
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I recently updated my arduino ambient orb to use some boards I got cut at a boardhouse in Colorado, and handed off a few of the finished products off to various friends of mine. Well, my good friend John Erickson tossed together an awesome script for the election returns tonight. The orb starts off dark, and the script periodically checks the election results. As the results come in, the orb will gradually get brighter and brighter blue or red based on who is pulling in the EVs.
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The Lord is NOT my shepherd
Freyr is literally one of the words for 'Lord' in old Norse. In other words, it's not just a well-known God's name but his title. One of Odin's many heiti (by-names and titles) is Herjan-- also another word for 'Lord' with a warrior connotation, 'leader of hosts'. While both Gods are associated with kingship in Scandinavia, Freyr is mythically attributed in Ynglinga Saga as the ancestor of the royal house of Sweden (much as Egyptian pharoahs claimed descent from or symbolic right to rule as inherited from Osiris-- which also means 'Sire').
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The Lord is not my shepherd.
He teaches not submission but resilience.
In the face of the impossible, there are no guarantees. Not even for Him.
But victory was never born without valor. Even love has a sacred price:
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Trickster, sage, lover, father, brother, husband, nephew, son;
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Wise-one, show me the way
Not to follow but to be inspired
To both grow in worthiness and to recognize the abundant worth in others.
I am not a sheep, nor was I bred for docility:
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Cool picture, Shirl. It took me over half a century to realize that the 23rd Psalm only tells half the truth - the Good Shepherd may protect his flock, but to what end? So they can eventually be turned into lambchops and mutton. Ouch!· Shirl Sazynski and Cynthia Savage likes this comment.
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Terrelle Pryor was back at Raiders practice on Thursday after taking Wednesday to rest his sprained MCL. He split the first-team reps with backup quarterback Matt McGloin . Scott Bair of CSN Bay Area said the two will split the reps again during Friday's practice. Why?
"Try as they might to determine explosiveness and durability, the Raiders won't really know how Pryor will respond until game time," Bair wrote. So, Oakland has to prepare as if Pryor won't respond well.
Meanwhile, running back Darren McFadden remains far off the radar for Week 11. He is still dealing with a strained hamstring and hasn't practiced in almost two weeks. Running back Rashad Jennings will get another start, this one coming against the Texans.
Fantasy Analysis:
As you could tell in that quote, Pryor is a game-time decision. He is a low-end QB2 whose fantasy value begins and pretty much ends with his legs. If he can't run for some big gains or score a rushing touchdown, the Raiders -- and Pryor's fantasy owners -- are not going to have a nice day, because he is simply abysmal as a passer right now. Considering Pryor's injury, his inability to throw the ball, the Texans' pass rush and their top-ranked defense, I want nothing to do with Oakland's entire passing attack this Sunday.
Jennings racked up more than 100 yards on 22 touches last week at the Giants. The Raiders are very comfortable giving him a big workload, and I expect him to see more than a few dump-off passes against Houston. Jennings is in the RB2 range.


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Also, MNerd said that SHSH blobs might be different when using OTA but I don't understand that part.
If I were you, I'd stay w/ the OTA update and wait for the jailbreak to come out. Then, see if you have any problems w/ the jailbreak and report them to the Devs. I'm considering downgrading back to 6.0.2 before the signing window closes and then doing an OTA update instead. The worst that could happen is that I'd have to do a full restore if I had issues after the jalibreak.
In your case, you're already talking about doing a full restore so you might as well wait and see how the jailbreak reacts to your OTA update!
The main problem with an OTA update for A5+ devices is explained here: http://blog.iphone-dev.org/
In summary, the APtickets you get would not qualify the device for a clean restore outside of Apple's signing window. (That might still be the case on 6.1, but you have a better chance with clever folks like MuscleNerd working on this.) Depending on the state of the file system, you may be able to jailbreak an OTA update, but if something went awry later (once Apple had stopped signing 6.1) and you wanted to do a clean restore, the OTA update tickets would guarantee you wouldn't be able to.
The safest option is to do a full restore through iTunes and then save your shsh blobs.
I hope Cydia is optimized for the iPhone 5 screen!
Typically the OTA does not cause problems during the initial JB. The problems arise when apple releases another update and you do a restore to a firmware they are not signing. So if you wait, and then have an issue later, you bay once again be without a JB.
Good luck bro!
Guys when i restore, should i set as new phone or restore from backup?
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One more thing.... I would suggest anyone making a mock who is ready to fill in a name do a quick search and find in say Microsoft Word to make sure you didn't already put that person in an earlier spot. Might not happen for 1 round drafts but with 2-7 you can some times forget and end up with the same player twice.
I know it's ctrl + f in Firefox and Microsoft Word, not sure about IE.
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I'm not sure if the original poster or moderator would be up for this but I have posted on one of the other boards a link to my mock draft creator spreadsheet that I do every year. (I posted on this forum as well but the thread was locked by a moderator, perhaps suspicious of it's content.)
It lists over 330 players and their measureables, has things like combine results, the draft value chart and other useful info (such as ranking the players by their average rankings from a number of dart sites). It also allows you to create a mock draft by ranking the players in the list which auto populates the mock draft sheet.
It's really easy to use and ensures that you cannot select a player twice. If it's alright I could post the link to the google docs site for people to download. If that is not allowed then anyone that wants one can send me an message and I will be happy to send them the sheet.
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How do I post a mock draft on this site?
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I just want to express how cool this site is.
It's awesome reading mock drafts throughout the year seeing how players rise or fall through a couple months of fan mock drafts. There will be no 100% accurate mock, one trade can throw everything off, but seeing the trends effect the mocks is very cool. How a player plays through the college season, injuries or player moves in the pros, the drastic changes around the combine and pro days. Just visiting once can never give a good scope of how something will turn out, you need to visit many times to follow along. It's a different kind of fantasy sport!
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I would just like to make a suggestion to people making mock drafts.
I strongly suggest using images, logos, colours, bold and line spacing to make drafts look more interesting than a generic block of text. I really take time and have pride in my mock drafts when they are completed. I use spacing, logos and colour in my mocks and I really think it looks much more 'professional' than other mocks (no offense) I also think it's just much more fun to read through.
Also, I strongly suggest using trades in your Mock. I have never understood why experts or FF members don't utilize trades in their mocks. Firstly, its realistic, when has there ever been a draft where everyone has stayed still?! Trades give another discussion point in your mock as opposed to just the picks, perhaps others can discuss whether the trade down was value and whether passing up on a better prospect was worthwhile.
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Hey guys, just a quick question.
When building your own mock draft, are you supposed to choose all your picks based on who you THINK each of the 32 teams will pick based on needs, various news reports (like how most think Houston will take a QB No. 1), rumors, etc. or are you supposed to choose based on who YOU think is the best pick to make for said team (say I think Jadeveon Clowney is the player the Texans should go with, but not necessarily the one I see them picking according to the reports that say that a QB will be the pick)?
Is it supposed to be "here's who I think Team X WILL draft with this pick" or "here's who I think Team X SHOULD draft with this pick if I was making it"?
Thanks for any answers! Just wanted to clear this up.
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It's really up to you - most people prefer to play "Miss Cleo" and predict who the actual pick will be, but some people will just go with who they think SHOULD be the pick - there's no wrong answer really
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A couple things that I'd give after having my mocks featured in Huddle Report for the last 5 years is this:
1) Is there a role for this player once this pick is made for this team?
If the player doesn't have a role on the team, why would the team make the pick?
If you can see an instant impact role, state what it is and why this pick makes sense. If you can't see the instant role, what's the long-term role that makes it make sense?
2) Does the contract situation at the position make sense?
For example, if a team has 5 cornerbacks that fit the scheme and are performing well under contract the next 3 years, why would they take a cornerback in the first four rounds?
Make logical picks and decisions that way.
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how do you add "clip-art" or pics to a player profile/draft?
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Maybe not the place for this, but I think people would make more elaborate mocks if the feedback returned was better. Maybe I am just speaking for myself though.
It's not really worth pouring lots of time and pick consideration into, if all the feedback you get is. "no, give us _____ in rd 1, and ______ in rd 3" ... or "this mock sucks, do you even football, bro?"
I mean sure, most of the mock work I do.. or should say did.. was for me and my own personal enjoyment. Just saying.. really putting lots of work into a mock generally just adds little more than that.. and that is because of the weak responses.
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Litter Two on their first day. Before they get their fur in, baby gerbils are called "pinkies". Unlike a lot of rodents gerbils are very social. Here Henry, the dad, and two of the older siblings have come to nap with Mudge and the new babies.


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Parsons may be overegging his point but both UK Tories and US Republicans share this rich man image problem.
After graduating from Parsons School of Design, she began her career with an internship at Donna Karan.
"To me, it's beauty and the beast," says Beth Dincuff Charleston, a fashion historian at Parsons The New School for Design.
Working in tech, Parsons is a leader in a field not known for its welcoming attitude toward women.
From that enterprising beginning, Lieberman moved to New York City to study at Parsons School of Design.
Colonel Parsons proceeded at once to Louisville, where he arrived on the 13th.
In the eyes of these Parsons a man who has no passion for war is unworthy of his age.
The Parsons appear to be the main tools in this coaxing scheme.
At the conclusion of the church service Mr. Parsons ascended the pulpit.
This fact, contrary to Parsons principles, had afforded the man secret enjoyment.
late 12c., from Anglo-French and Old French persone "curate, parson, holder of Church office" (12c.), from Medieval Latin persona "parson" (see person). Ecclesiastical use is obscure; it might refer to the "person" legally holding church property, or it may be an abbreviation of persona ecclesiae "person of the church."


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Iran Rope-A-Dopes the West Again (FrontPageMagazine.com) by Bruce Thornton 05/23/12)
Source: http://frontpagemag.com/2012/05/23/iran-rope-a-dopes-the-west-again/
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Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, announced on Tuesday that Iran would agree quite soon to allow IAEA inspectors to search for any evidence that Irans nuclear enrichment program has been directed towards military applications. The IAEA has been particularly interested in the Parchin military complex, where it is suspected the Iranians have been testing triggering mechanisms for nuclear bombs. This announcement came a day before the start of talks in Baghdad between the Iranians and the P5 + 1 powers (the permanent Security Council nations and Germany). These talks are aimed at reaching an agreement on the framework of the beginning of a compromise as the New York Times describes with a straight face this laughably minimalist goal which would limit Irans enrichment of uranium. The deal also arrives six weeks before European sanctions on Iranian oil imports kicks in on July 1.
The timing of this paltry agreement announced by the IAEA suggests that the Iranians are once again rope-a-doping the U.N. and the West, playing for time by exploiting both Obamas fear of an Israeli attack before the elections, and the Europeans usual preference for using diplomatic words to avoid military deeds. Thus this latest breakthrough is nothing more than another Iranian tactic in its long-term strategy for acquiring nuclear weapons. As Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak responded to the announcement, The Iranians appear to be trying to reach a technical deal that will create an appearance as if there is progress in the talks to remove some of the pressure ahead of the talks in Baghdad and to postpone an escalation in sanctions. Indeed, using the talks to ease sanctions is clearly what the Iranians are up to. Parliament Chairman Ali Larijani ordered the West to stop the shell game they have played on Iran, since it would be improper for the P5+1 powers to negotiate while imposing tighter sanctions. The implication is that relaxing sanctions is a precondition for any agreement.
But even if the Iranians sign the deal with the IAEA, and even if some more definitive agreement is reached in Baghdad, the problem of a nuclear Iran will not be solved, but merely delayed. The history of North Koreas acquisition of nuclear weapons suggests the playbook Iran is following. In 1994, North Korea signed an agreement that called for the North to shut down its plutonium-based Yongbyon nuclear reactor in exchange for help in building two nuclear reactors for producing electricity. Eight years later, the Koreans admitted to a U.S. delegation that all along it had been enriching uranium. The next year, the North withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and began the six-nation negotiations over its nuclear program. That gabfest masked the ongoing development of nuclear weapons, which Korea announced it possessed a year later. Subsequent years saw more promises of cooperation and action by the Koreans when food-aid or other economic help was needed, followed by further provocations and threats, followed in turn by more Western concessions, starting the cycle all over again. Meanwhile the North has continued testing and developing missiles, threatening its neighbors, and providing rogue regimes like Iran and Syria with nuclear technology and know-how.
Given the success of the North Koreans, the Iranians are following the same strategy for becoming a nuclear power, combining diplomatic engagement, threatening bluster, meaningless agreements, and duplicitous evasion in order to keep the West off balance. Thus its no coincidence that on the same day talks begin in Baghdad the Iranians are launching a satellite on a missile that could be adapted for delivering a nuclear warhead. Meanwhile as the diplomatic dance proceeds, the centrifuges are spinning and nuclear facilities are being buried deep underground, activities that will continue until its too late or too costly for the West to do anything about Irans nukes.
Clearly, the Iranians have taken the measure of the West and the U.S. for thirty years. No matter how much humiliation they have inflicted, no matter how much American blood they have on their hands, the U.S. has not done anything to convince the mullahs that there is a price to pay for their aggression. The Iranians know that diplomatic engagement and outreach, that photogenic meetings and conferences are mere excuses not to act, and are an indulgence of that peculiar Western delusion that a violent aggressor can be bargained or talked out of his aggression, rather than seeing that for tyrants diplomacy is, as Robert Conquest put it, merely a technical adjunct to their aggression.
Indeed, since 1979, Iran has seen these offers of friendship and engagement as signs of weakness to be met with scorn and further aggression. When Obama came into office, he was eager to discard the cowboy crudity of George Bush and his simplistic axis of evil rhetoric. In his inaugural address, Obama told Iran and the Muslim world that he sought a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect, and offered to deal with the Iranians without preconditions. Yet every outreach was met with contempt. Obamas Persian new year greeting in 2009 was met with the supreme leader Ayatollah Khameneis statement that the path of Irans nuclear progress could not be blocked. A personal letter to Khamenei a few months later calling for co-operation in regional and bilateral relations was met with the brutal crackdown in June on Iranians protesting the rigged presidential elections. Obamas refusal to support even verbally the protestors until it was too late didnt earn any goodwill from the regime either. After Iran failed to disclose the uranium-enrichment facility in Qum, Obama rewarded the mullahs by saying, We remain committed to serious, meaningful engagement with Iran. And dont forget that during that whole time, and continuing until today, Iran has been helping terrorists travel to Iraq to kill Americans, and providing them with advanced weapons, funds, and training.
Given this long record of American appeasement in the face of Iranian aggression, why should the regime think anything has changed? Sure, the sanctions are biting, and Obama has finally wised up a bit about the reliability of Iranian promises and intentions. But his public undercutting of Israel during the past year, and his obvious reluctance to have a foreign policy crisis explode during his reelection campaign, suggests to the Iranians that they face no credible threat of military action, and so can once more manipulate the diplomatic process long enough to keep the Israelis at bay while the mullahs move closer to manufacturing a nuclear weapon.
Even more dangerous, any possible agreement likely to be reached in Baghdad cannot guarantee that Iran will not obtain nuclear weapons, particularly if Iran is allowed to keep enriching uranium at any rate of purity. As Saddam Hussein demonstrated, inspectors can be manipulated, obstructed, and run around for years. Access to sites can be limited. Nuclear facilities can be hidden, their existence denied. This rope-a-doping can go on indefinitely, as long as the mullahs are convinced that the West will not use military force, and that the U.S. will discourage Israel from doing so. And dont forget: no matter what happens with inspections or agreements, the Iranians will still have the technical knowledge and the facilities necessary for producing weapons, and can simply bid their time until they believe circumstances are favorable for restarting their programthe same game Hussein was playing until the 2003 invasion destroyed his regime. Any agreement with the Iranians, then, promises to end up being of no further significance whatsoever, as Hitler described the famous peace in our time pledge he and Neville Chamberlain signed in Munich.
Theres only one way to ensure that a regime of religious fanatics does not acquire the weapons that will compromise our national interests and security, and those of our allies in the Middle East. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has articulated it clearly: Iran must end all enrichment of nuclear material, Iran must remove from its territory all material that has been enriched up until now, and Iran must dismantle the underground nuclear facility in Qum. Any deal that settles for anything less is simply accepting that Iran will become a nuclear power. (Copyright © 2012 FrontPageMagazine.com 05/23/12)
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WATCH: Blazer comeback falls short in Miami
MIAMI – The Portland Trail Blazers fell to 45-26 on the season and 19-17 on the road with a 93-91 loss to the Miami Heat at American Airlines Arena Monday night. With the win, the Heat get a sweep of the two-game season series while handing the Blazers their second-straight loss.
"I was proud of the way we competed and got back into the game," said Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stotts. "It was a frustrating night from the offensive standpoint, didn't shoot the ball particularly well. But we made shots at the end to kind of get us back into it."
After trailing by 17 in the fourth quarter, the Trail Blazers made a furious comeback to tie the game at 91-91 after Mo Williams hit two free throws with 30 seconds to play.
After a Miami timeout, LeBron James drove with 11 seconds to play and finished above the outstretched arms of Robin Lopez to put the Heat up by two.
Rather than calling a timeout after the go-ahead basket, the Trail Blazers push the ball up the court in hopes of catching the Heat off guard on defense.
"Make or miss, we were going to go," said Stotts of the team's plan on their final offensive possession. "We had been scoring in flow. I just wanted to push it up and create something like we did in the previous possessions."
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the j and a were giving me a hard time, so I'm just gonna borrow JA's j and a
dont hate
JA bit from me originally anyway
We should vote
Ibu gmv. Would've gone with b-36 if that J had more style to it.
vote for me and I will pick Jason as the next word. promise haha
phat 2 gmv , someeeeeeeeeee dope shit that xD
plus bring on JASON
phat gmv...... why don't you give em a weird ass lebanese name like fattal.......
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lol i can't believe you douchebags actually let me win haha... those otther mans actually spent a minute of their time to do a toss :P
ahhhhh well anyway. new word's jacob... word's harder than jason
bombing is a poor mans game, if you live above the poverty line we hatin!
the "A" is a little too hiden but ohwell.
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fucked up the proportioning
Graffiti is gay, everyone who does it is a massive homo. All graffiti posted by me on this site is in mockery of the lame movement and I laugh in the face of those who think I'm doing it for realsies. I hate you all
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Kentucky-LSU Postgame Notes
Jan. 27, 2013
Recap | Box Score | Quotes | Photo Gallery | AP Gallery
Team Records and Series Notes
- Kentucky improves to 19-2, 7-1 SEC, while LSU falls to 13-7, 3-4 SEC.
- UK returns to action vs. No. 14 Georgia on Sunday, Feb. 3, at 2 p.m. EST in Memorial Coliseum. The game will be televised on the SEC Network.
- Kentucky is in its 39th year of varsity play and owns an overall record of 675-473 (.588).
- UK is 152-217 all-time in SEC play.
- Head coach Matthew Mitchell is in his sixth year and ranks third on the all-time wins list (133-58) and first in winning percentage (.696). He is only five wins away from becoming the all-time winningest coach.
- Mitchell is now 55-29 in SEC games (regular season only).
- UK increased its school record for consecutive home wins to 34. The previous record was 30 set from Feb. 12, 1980 until Jan. 31, 82.
- The Wildcats own a 370-140 (.725) mark in Memorial Coliseum, including an 80-12 (.870) record under Mitchell.
- The Cats are now 62-2 at home over the last three seasons.
- UK is now 34-9 in SEC home games under Mitchell, including an impressive 27-2 mark in the last three seasons.
- Kentucky has won a school-record 15 consecutive SEC home games.
- Kentucky is now 11-30 all-time vs. LSU.
- UK is 5-10 against the Lady Tigers in games played in Lexington, Ky.
- The Cats are now 4-7 vs. LSU under Mitchell.
Team/Game Notes
- UK's starting lineup featured A'dia Mathies, Bria Goss, Jennifer O'Neill, Samarie Walker and DeNesha Stallworth for the 15th straight game. The Cats are now 16-1 with that lineup.
- With UK trailing 23-30 at the 4:18 mark, the Cats went on an 11-3 run to conclude the first half with a 31-26 advantage.
- The five-point halftime lead was UK's largest in the first half.
- The first half featured five ties and seven lead changes.
- UK's bench outscored LSU's 27-6.
- The Cats are now 80-6 when scoring 70 or more points under Mitchell.
- Kentucky has forced double-digit miscues in 138 consecutive games and is 104-34 during that span.
- The Wildcats extended their streak of consecutive games with a triple to 313.
- UK has had at least three players reach double figures 18 times this season.
Individual Notes
- Sophomore reserve center Azia Bishop scored a career-high 17 points on 7-of-10 shooting from the field in just 20 minutes of play.
- Junior forward Samarie Walker recorded her ninth career double-double and her sixth this season with 10 points and 13 rebounds.
- Grabbed a career-best 11 defensive boards.
- Tied her career high with three assists.
- Bishop's 17 points off the bench are the most by a Wildcat since Bernisha Pinkett scored 21 against Miami (Ohio) (11/28/12).
- Senior guard A'dia Mathies posted 15 points, marking the 19th time in 21 games she has reached double figures this season, including 12 in a row.
- With five free throws made, she moves to fourth all-time on the career list with 369, passing Samantha Mahoney (268, 2005-08).
- Freshman point guard Janee Thompson came off the bench to record eight points and tie a personal best with three assists.
- Marks the most points scored this season since tallying eight vs. Middle Tennessee State (12/9).


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It was a sparkling night that celebrated the best in P.E.I. music.
And by the time the 13th annual Music P.E.I. Awards Gala presented by Ticketpro was over, a single P.E.I. band had taken the lion's share of prize hardware.
Paper Lions, an indie rock band comprised of singer and guitarist John MacPhee, drummer David Cyrus MacDonald, guitarist Colin Buchanan and bass guitarist Rob MacPhee, won five awards. They included album of the year, entertainer of the year, group recording of the year, pop recording of the year and video of the year.
The second time band members were called back to the stage, they appeared surprised.
"Usually at these things, you just win one. This is wonderful," says John, seconds after winning group recording of the year.
Then as each additional honour was bestowed upon them, they appeared more and more humble.
"The journey has been incredible. So many people have helped us create this record and we're incredibly grateful," says John. "We want to say thank you to the Island music community and to everyone who has been with us over the past nine years. You've been there to let us grow, stretch, change directions, change our name and change our sound. You've supported us through everything. Thank you very much," says John, standing at the podium with his band mates to accept the group's fifth and final award, album of the year for the band's release My Friends.
Later, when asked about his reaction, the band's drummer had this to say:
"It felt terrific. I was also a great chance to think back about all the different people on P.E.I. who encouraged us and allowed us to go down this path," said MacDonald.
Some of those people included Rob Oakie of Music P.E.I. and guitar sideman Gordon Belsher.
"It all started during Music P.E.I. week and we were playing at the after party. I came down off stage and (Belsher) said, 'I have someone I want you to meet.' And Gordon took me over to a table to meet Grady Poe and he sat me down and said, 'I'm going to go and get you guys a couple glasses of wine.' Things started there," said MacDonald, adding that Poe became their manager and their music career took off afterward.
The drummer also praised the women in their lives - Kathleen MacPhee, Dorothy Dahn, Morgan Salnier and Julia Kun, for the support they have given band members. "We travel a lot and have for quite a long time and as anyone here in a relationship knows how hard it can be to be away from your loved ones and not to be able to get that support of your partner for an extended period of time, can be really rough. And somehow these incredible women have, through supporting each other, have become supportive of us, understanding that this is a dream of ours. They have made it possible. It's one of the absolute foundations of us, of our ability to exist," said MacDonald.
He also praised their ever-supportive followers.
"Our fans are amazing. We have 35,000 newsletter followers and 35,000 Facebook fans. Besides (help from) Islanders, Jeff Leake is here from Sirius XM Canada this weekend. He's supported the band for years and has helped us break into the United States. "We're so grateful to everyone for the groundswell of support."
The gala was held at the new P.E.I. Convention Centre located on the Charlottetown waterfront.
It was the conclusion to the nine day province-wide celebration of the achievements of Island musicians.
Click here for a slideshow of the gala
The winners are:
- Paper Lions won six awards: Album of the year, entertainer of the year, group recording of the year, pop recording of the year, SOCAN songwriter of the year and video of the year.
- Meaghan Blanchard won country recording of the year and female solo recording of the year.
- Dennis Ellsworth took home two awards including roots contemporary recording of the year and male solo recording of the year.
- Colour Code: New artist of the year.
- Wild Cat: Rock recording of the year.
- Gordie Mackeeman & His Rhythm Boys: Roots traditional recording of the year.
- Tim Chaisson: Touring artist of the year.
- UPEI Wind Symphony: Achievement in classical music.
- Barry O'Brien: Weekend warrior.
- Jon Matthews: Producer of the year.
- Charlottetown Pop: Event of the year.
- Trailside Café: Venue of the Year
- Gordon Belsher: Lifetime achievement award.
- Andrea MacDonald: Lynn Grishko bursary.
- Alan Dowling: Educator of the year.
- Pat Deighan: Industry person of the year.
- Todd MacLean, The Guardian: Media person of the year.
- PixbyLorne: Visual artist of the year.
- Dan Ledwell: Rooted to the Island award.


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PHOTO: Kim Kardashian, La La Anthony, & Baby North have a girls day
We just live for a new North West picture, don't we?
Kim Kardashian was hanging out with her bestie La La Anthony in New York — Kanye West was in town for two shows — and the three ladies had a girl's day.
Kimmy shares this snap of North and her tiny hand gripping Kim's manicured finger; the other hand hung on to La La's.
Awww. Spa Day?


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'That helped Buffalo win its fourth straight and sent New York to its seventh loss in eight games (1-6-1) despite a 43-17 shots advantage. Derek Roy also scored for the Sabres, who split the four-game series after losing twice to the Islanders in the first two games of the season.'
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Anyway, i have been trying to get lorcon to work on my pc.
I want to play with some nice wireless exploits on framework that only work
with lorcon.
I have 2 cards: dlink wmp54g - ralink rt61, alpha 500mw usb - rtl8187.
The second one is not supported by lorcon, i tried to run it with the rtl8180 setting but
I get : Lorcon does not support setting the tx rate for this card
However, the first one is supported by lorcon, I set the driver setting on lorcon
at rt61 (I tried rt2500 too) but i get : Lorcon could not initialize the interface
I tried to modify the source code of lorcon to skip some steps but I couldnt
compile it :p (sorry i'm completelly noob in programing)
So, any ideas? Is there anyone who has managed to get lorcon working with
either rt61 or rtl8187?


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Scientists pinpoint gene influencing age-at-onset of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have located a gene on chromosome 10 that they believe influences the age-at-onset of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Using a novel method to match the genes of people affected with these diseases with the age at which study participants started developing symptoms, the scientists found that one gene, GSTO1 (glutathione S-transferase, omega-1), suspected to be involved in inflammatory responses in the body, was significantly associated with late onset of both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. "This important work gives us a new gene to look at which may affect the timing of late-life forms of these devastating neurodegenerative diseases," says Marcelle Morrison-Bogorad, Ph.D., associate director of the NIA for the Neuroscience and Neuropsychology of Aging Program, which supported the study, along with funding from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).* "Further study of this gene and how it works could open up new avenues of research for delaying the onset of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, which share some clinical and pathological characteristics."
The findings will be reported in the December 15, 2003, issue of Human Molecular Genetics (published online October 21) by lead investigators Yi-Ju Li, Ph.D., Margaret Pericak-Vance, Ph.D., Jeffrey M. Vance, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, along with Jonathan Haines, Ph.D., of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and collaborators at Harvard University, University of California Los Angeles, and the GlaxoSmithKline Genetics Research Directorate.
The GSTO1 finding comes days after Duke scientists from the same laboratory reported genes associated with age-at-onset of AD in regions of two chromosomes not previously linked to the disease: a region on chromosome 2 strongly linked with early onset AD and another on chromosome 15 with very late onset AD. That study, by William Scott, Ph.D., and Dr. Pericak-Vance at Duke and Dr. Haines at Vanderbilt, appears in the November 2003 issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics (published online October 17) and was funded primarily by the NIA, based on Drs. Pericak-Vance and Haines' genomic screen in AD.**
Genetic factors affecting the risk of developing these diseases have long been studied and several have been identified. But neuroscientists have also become increasingly interested in a specific set of genes that might regulate the age-at-onset of neurodegenerative diseases, influencing not whether, but when, a person might develop a disease. Delaying the onset of symptoms of Alzheimer's disease by even 5 years could greatly reduce the numbers of people who will get the disease, Dr. Morrison-Bogorad adds.
Last year, Drs. Pericak-Vance and Li with colleagues at Duke reported a region on chromosome 10 that harbors at least one gene affecting age-at-onset of the diseases. The current study used an approach that these researchers term "genomic convergence" to identify candidates from among the large number of genes in that region which could be associated with age-at-onset of the two conditions. The approach applied gene expression studies (which look at changes in the amount of any gene products, such as proteins, in the brains of people with the disease), genetic linkage studies (finding out which regions in a chromosome harbor genes that have effects on the age-at-onset of the disease), and allelic association studies (looking at how different forms, or alleles, of a gene affect the variation of age-at-onset within family members) to discover that the GSTO1 gene and possibly its neighbor GSTO2 were the genes most likely to be involved in the regulation of age-at-onset. Studies in other populations with other study approaches will be required to confirm the GSTO1 association, Dr. Morrison-Bogorad of the NIA points out.
The research involved an Alzheimer's study population of 2,600 people (1,773 with AD and the others as controls) from four sites (Duke, Vanderbilt, NIMH, and Indiana University) supported by the NIA. The brain tissue samples were collected by the Kathleen Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Duke University. There were 1,362 participants in the Parkinson's research (635 with PD, and the others as controls) collected in coordination with Duke's Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Center of Excellence, supported by NINDS and directed by Dr. Vance. In this study, the mean onset of Alzheimer's disease occurred at about age 71 and mean onset of Parkinson's disease occurred at about age 59.
The discovery of GSTO1 is of particular interest, researchers say, because another recent study has suggested that it is involved in modifying the inflammatory molecule interleukin 1 beta. Inflammation may play a role in the brain in both Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, and research is underway to see if reducing inflammation in the brains of patients with these diseases will reduce symptoms or even prevent the diseases.
Currently, the NIA is expanding its Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Study in an effort to speed up the discovery of genes involved in AD. The study, coordinated by Columbia University with participation of Indiana University's National Cell Repository for AD (NCRAD), features a partnership with the Alzheimer's Association to recruit more than 1,000 families with late-onset AD. A related press backgrounder giving additional details on the genetics study is available by calling NIA at 301-496-1752.
*Funding for Li et al research was also provided by the American Federation for Aging Research, the Alzheimer's Association, the Institut de France, the California Department of Health Services, the Fran and Ray Stark Foundation Fund for Alzheimer's Disease Research, and GlaxoSmithKline, Inc.
**Support for the Scott et al paper comes from the NIA, the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), and the Alzheimer's Association.
The NIA leads the Federal research effort on AD and age-related cognitive change. More information on AD, including downloadable graphics for the media, may be found at www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers, the NIA's Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR) Center web site. ADEAR can also be reached toll-free at 1-800-438-4380. NIA, NINDS, NIMH, and NCRR are components of the National Institutes of Health, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.


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#3 – Kindness – This former A list mostly movie actress who has battled drugs and everything else her whole life surprised a bunch of kids at a hospital with memorabilia from her greatest role and just gave it all away after signing it. Worth a ton of money and she gave it away. Really nice.
Carrie Fisher