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After 15 months of speculation, frustration, and general inertia, the former online poker players of America finally heard the good news on Tuesday. A deal had been struck between the online gaming sites Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars, and the Department of Justice. Another deal between the DOJ and Absolute Poker was reported with details forthcoming. The early details are startling: PokerStars, one of the three companies shut down last April, will purchase its former competitor, Full Tilt, and pay the U.S. government $547 million to settle a civil lawsuit the government brought against Full Tilt. A portion of that money will be used to reimburse U.S.-based Full Tilt players who had their accounts frozen during the shutdown. PokerStars agreed to directly pay back another $184 million to non-U.S. customers to settle their outstanding balances.
The agreement signaled the imminent return of online poker in the United States after a lengthy hiatus that damaged the poker industry with dropping television ratings, waning interest, and a litany of lawsuits against sites like Full Tilt. Nobody thinks that PokerStars would have invested $731 million without some certainty that online poker would soon be legal in the United States.
It's worth asking, though: Has poker's moment passed? Has the biggest fad in the past 25 years of gaming — one that spawned movies, TV series, clothing companies, hundreds of books, and its own pidgin language — given up the ghost?
On April 16, 2011, the poker industry — a term that loosely refers to a collective of casino companies, offshore gambling websites, publications like Card Player and Bluff, and several major television networks — faced an unprecedented problem. At a time when print media, restaurants, car dealerships, and every other manner of industry scrambled to figure out profitable ways to move their businesses online, poker's stewards were charged with analogging a database-driven game that had already matched pace with the processing and networking power of the Internet. On April 15, 2011, now known in poker circles as "Black Friday," the Department of Justice unsealed indictments against Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars, and Absolute Poker. The spectacular, frankly bizarre allegations against three of online poker's biggest sites and the subsequent locking of player accounts effectively put an end to real-money online play in the United States. There are still poker sites that are allowed to operate in the United States, but according to most estimates, the total amount of money wagered has fallen by more than 80 percent in the past year. The industry has since learned — not surprisingly — that the sudden death of online poker in the United States had no spillover effect. The online whizzes, degenerates, and losers did not drive to their neighborhood casinos.
Before Black Friday, poker's rise as a viable, televised industry traveled along a highly trafficked and widening circuit. Events like the World Series of Poker inspired people to play, and many of those new players found games online. As tournaments grew in size and prize pools got gaudier, television and the publishing industry both got more involved, thereby opening up more advertising space for said online sites. When those websites, for all intents and purposes, ceased to exist, a shadow world crumpled in on itself.
Everything in poker is down these days. It's not clear if or when online poker will make a full return to the United States, and it's possible that in the interim, something else might fill poker's place as America's card game of choice. Which is why, at this year's World Series of Poker, one of the world's richest and most accomplished showmen — a man who has been to space — got together with a former Internet gaming pioneer and put together something that might give poker a much-needed kick in the ass.
Last October, Guy Laliberte, a street performer turned billionaire and founder of Cirque du Soleil, invited his friend Mitch Garber, CEO of Caesars Interactive Entertainment and former head of PartyGaming, an online gambling site, to a Montreal Canadiens game. Laliberte, who has carved out a niche as one of the billionaires who occasionally show up at televised poker events, told Garber about his plan to create the richest poker tournament in the history of the world. Roughly 11 percent of the total cash pot would go to One Drop, Laliberte's charity organization. The buy-in for the tournament would be one million dollars.
The players for the One Drop would be comprised of the world's most celebrated poker celebrities, a few businessmen with unfathomable wealth, and perhaps a couple dreamers who qualified via satellite tournaments or through a lottery drawing held in Quebec.
Who wouldn't sign off on that elevator pitch? Forty-eight of the world's richest and most skilled gamblers converge on the World Series of Poker to battle it out for an $18.3 million first prize!
Does the amount of money really make a difference in the public's interest in poker? The origin story of the "poker boom" starts in 2003, when a young accountant named Chris Moneymaker qualified for the main event of the World Series of Poker through a $39 buy-in tournament on PokerStars, then took down the grifter legends of the game and won a $2.5 million first prize. The gulf between Moneymaker's investment and his payout, along with his frankly remarkable unremarkableness, coincided with a giant leap in the game's marketing and popularity. The origin story would have you believe that the poker boom happened because average people suddenly realized that by stringing together some luck and skill, they could climb the mountaintop to TV millionaire fame. This, in part, was true. But real business needs proper infrastructure to grow, and in poker's case, the ease with which people could deposit money into online sites created an instant outlet for anyone who got the itch. Moneymaker's narrative gave the poker explosion a Horatio Alger feel, but what was really happening was much more mundane — TV told consumers to play poker on the Internet. Because it was easy and fun, those consumers complied. Everything else that happened — the alleged criminal activity, the millions of dollars earned by kids who would otherwise be in college, the unspooling of a billion-dollar industry — came from that simple, thoroughly American exchange of television advertising and consumer spending.
According to the tournament's organizers, the One Drop would be something different. The people watching at home would not think, Hey, I could do that. And they certainly couldn't sign onto an online poker site, deposit $1 million, and invite 47 of their richest friends to play in a tournament. The spectacle of the One Drop was not replicable, online or in any casino.
Twenty-two years after it first opened, the all-suite Rio Las Vegas Hotel and Casino has become one of those iconic Las Vegas bad ideas, a bruised thumb that sticks up over Interstate 15, a half-mile off the Strip. Aside from competitive room prices, there is no good reason to stay there — the casino ceilings are low and smell of mold and cigarette smoke; the tables aren't as cheap as they should be; the food options range from Burger King's "high-concept" Whopper Bar and a dated seafood restaurant where a half-dozen ethered lobsters drag themselves around a saltwater bath. In the context of a city in which the word "vacant" means more than it does anywhere else in the world, the Rio stands out as a particularly visible reminder of just how optimistic we all must have been in better economic times.
For the past seven years, the Rio's convention halls — a collection of wide hallways and massive ballrooms rigged with thousands of surveillance cameras — have been the home of the World Series of Poker. Roughly 50,000 people will play in one of the official tournaments over the course of the 50-day event. Thousands more will play in side games in any of Vegas's better casinos. The vast majority of players will be white men between the ages of 25 and 50. They will talk in poker's strange, modern language — a blend of stats, profanities, origin questions, and religious terminology, all delivered in a high-pitched, condescending whine.
Poker breeds a weird sort of celebrity — men who have made a choice to earn their living in the antisocial climate of casinos, back rooms, and the Internet get shoved in front of cameras, where they are asked to exude some semblance of charm. This almost never works. Poker's true millionaires tend to shy away from the cameras and the spotlight, lest the IRS come knocking at their door. As such, poker celebrities are chosen almost entirely on the merits of their personalities and how they translate to camera. Sure, you can't be terrible and show up at every televised game, but poker differs from other televised competitive events in that no score is ever kept. Nobody really knows how much money Phil Ivey made last year. If you believe the heavily trafficked bulletin boards on poker sites like twoplustwo.com, every poker celebrity is always on the verge of going broke. Because the spectacle of poker is largely arbitrary and random and because there's less visual proof of greatness than, say, in basketball, pretty much anyone who can afford a few buy-ins has the potential to become a poker celebrity. All you really have to do is tell a few jokes, get pissed a couple of times, and ham it up for the cameras.
Back in televised poker's heyday, Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, and Phil Hellmuth joined old poker legends like Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, and Barry Greenstein to create a cast of stand-ins for the seedier, more volatile reality of professional poker. These new celebrities were cast along traditional, predictable type — Ivey as the stony, simmering pro (at the start, when racial sensitivities weren't what they are now, Ivey was known as "The Tiger Woods of Poker"), Negreanu as the chatty, affable nerd, and Hellmuth as the explosive, ill-tempered bully always railing against the unfairness of a world full of donkeys who beat him on flush and straight draws. We learned through the producers of shows like The World Series of Poker, High Stakes Poker, World Poker Tour, and a host of others that Negreanu was from Canada. We learned that Ivey had grown up playing cards in Atlantic City. We learned that Hellmuth was an asshole. But we never learned how much money each one had won over the course of his career. We never learned how much they had lost or how bad things had gotten for them. This withholding was key in the creation of poker's stars. If it turned out that Hellmuth had less in total assets than, say, a New York City public school teacher, he would instantly devolve — the "difficult" mad genius laid bare as an abrasive, delusional degenerate.
The featured table at the World Series of Poker is lit up like a shame-free cabaret show. The black tile floor looks like it has been taken straight from the stage at the Spearmint Rhino. A digital banner that hangs above the table flashes advertisements for Jack Links Beef Jerky. Two hours before the start of the One Drop, six sculpted, body-painted performers beat on massive drums that had been set up at the back of the stage. Three overly feathered women in body-paint bikinis high-stepped aimlessly around the stage while a small army of production assistants coiled cord and adjusted camera angles. Nobody could really explain the drums — some said they were Brazilian, others said they were Cirque du Soleil creations.
There was an announcement for all the players in the One Drop to please congregate at the featured table for a photograph. Spectators began to fill the seats, including one wide-hipped woman with mom jeans and a badly burnt perm who hung over the railing and screamed for Gus Hansen's attention. When Hansen, who looks like a very handsome Danish Skeletor, walked over to greet his fan, she leapt out, kissed him on the side of the head, and then proceeded to do a touchdown dance inspired, in part, by Terrell Owens. Hansen smiled sheepishly, thanked the still-dancing woman, and walked back to the table.
After a lot of wrangling, 47 of the 48 players arranged themselves and had their photos taken. The 48th was Phil Hellmuth, whose personal brand demands he show up late to everything. After the photos, the players were asked to walk down into a tunnel behind the stage. Then, to the deafening beating of drums, each player was announced, professional-wrestling-style, to the crowd.
Richard Yong, a 69-year-old businessman from Malaysia who travels with a fleet of handlers, including a butler in full tuxedo, was the first to be announced. An hour before the tournament started, Yong stood holding a cup of coffee in a cordoned-off holding pen. His butler came running up from the refreshments table with a spoonful of sugar, and after executing a short, deferential bow, dumped the sugar into his boss's cup. There was no such order to Yong's WWE entrance at the One Drop. When the announcer yelled out his name to the hundred or so people in attendance, Yong, a tiny, bald man wearing a T-shirt and what appeared to be hospital scrubs, walked out toward the table, realized that he had no idea where he was supposed to stand, and began wandering around the stage. A production person quickly ushered him to his spot at the table, where he stood, a bit embarrassed, under the flashing lights from the banner above.
That march was repeated another 47 times. A player would be announced, emerge from the tunnel, and wander around until someone told him where to go. When the scene degenerated from comic to kinda sad, I asked a poker writer why they hadn't bothered to rehearse any of this. The writer chuckled and said, "You can't get poker players together to do anything except gamble."
When the silly parade finally ground to a halt, the emcee said he wanted to bring a very special person up to the stage, the founder or the One Drop Foundation and the man who brought this wonderful tournament to life. "Please welcome," the emcee said, building up the bass in his voice in the style of ringside announcer Michael Buffer, "Mister GAY Laliberte!"
About half of the 48 players laughed out loud. Laliberte ignored the mispronunciation, bounded up to the microphone, gave a short speech about the greatness of the tournament, and then yelled out, "Shuffle up and deal!"
What, exactly, is a million-dollar buy-in? Outside of the billionaires, for whom an extra $18.3 million would be mostly meaningless, was anyone really putting a significant amount of cash on the line? The reality of the One Drop was much less of a gamble than advertised. None of the contestants pulled up stakes for one big shot at glory. It's true that the professional poker players who entered the tournament were among the most famous and skilled in the world. Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth, Gus Hansen, Tom Dwan, and Daniel Negreanu all played in the One Drop. Each has a higher Q-score than your average NFL lineman. Each has accumulated millions in lifetime tournament poker earnings. The colorful businessmen gamblers showed up as well. Dan Shak, a hedge-fund manager currently embroiled in a custody battle with his ex-wife over her million-dollar shoe collection, joined fellow financier David Einhorn, Russian high-roller Mikhail Smirnov, former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya, the aforementioned Richard Yong and his butler, and a whale from Macau named Paul Phua. But the premise of the richest tournament in the history of the world got lost somewhere in all the chatter and hedging that accompanies big-money gambles. Nearly all the pros had sold off their action, meaning that their buy-in money was split up between several investors who stood to earn a share of winnings proportionate to their stakes. Mike Sexton, a longtime poker pro and the color commentator for the Travel Channel's World Poker Tour, didn't contribute a penny of his $1 million buy-in. From a pure monetary standpoint, the One Drop was an opportunity for most of the professionals to turn something between $30,000 and $50,000 into something between $500,000 and $1 million.
Not a bad living for three days' work, sure, but nothing compared to some of the blackjack and craps runs that occur nearly every day in Las Vegas. And certainly not much compared to the money that was being thrown around the Internet back in 2010.
Few people felt the hit of Black Friday more than Daniel "jungleman" Cates. In 2010, Cates, then a 21-year-old college dropout, moved up to the nosebleed stakes of several online poker sites and began winning at an astonishing rate. By the end of the year, he had earned somewhere between $5 and $6 million, mostly in heads-up No Limit hold-'em cash games. I spent a few days with Cates in January of 2011 and ultimately wrote a profile on him for the New York Times Magazine. When we spoke, Cates, who played between 10 and 16 hours of online poker a day, told me that he was searching for more balance in his life. The millions were mostly meaningless — yes, it had been nice to buy a Lexus and to eat whatever he wanted to eat, but Cates had never really seen poker as anything more than another video game. It was more Minesweeper than hedge-fund portfolio.
Black Friday forced Cates into a real-life decision — he could stop playing poker, he could move to Las Vegas to play in live games, or he could move to a foreign country and continue his online poker career. After a short stop in Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker, Cates tried to move to Vancouver, British Columbia, but was denied a six-month visa. He then tried to enter Portugal, again unsuccessfully. Cates ultimately settled in Watford, England, a northern suburb of London, and began to rebuild a bankroll that had been decimated by the Black Friday scandal and the alleged criminal activities of Full Tilt Poker. Cates estimated that he had somewhere more than $1 million locked up in Full Tilt and Ultimate Bet, another poker site that has not yet paid out all of its players. Of the $6 million he amassed in 2010, Cates has been able to cash out approximately $1 million, after taxes.
Cates admitted that Black Friday had forced him into some decisions he might not have otherwise made. He now takes time away from poker to travel and enjoy his fortune. He has learned to stop reading reports about the possible payouts coming from Ultimate Bet or Full Tilt. He is now considering going back to college as a part-time student to study either "a language or something like psychology." Cates had dropped out of the University of Maryland during his sophomore year and felt like he had missed out on the "typical college experience." The swings of online poker had finally caught up to him, and at 22 years old, he has found solace and stability in yoga. "Poker," Cates explained, "still feels a little bit like a video game, but now that I have been playing more in casinos and the rush isn't what it was when online poker was legal in the United States, the stress of losing money feels a little bit more real."
"I'm learning through yoga that pain is illusory and that emotions like stress or grief or " Cates paused and asked, "What is that word for something you did that you wish you didn't do?" I suggested guilt. Cates said, "No, no. Not guilt. Like the pain of something you did in the past that you wish had gone differently." I suggested regret. "Yes, regret. I try to just focus on what's real these days. I don't think of what could have happened, you know, if Black Friday hadn't gone down."
It's a strange fallout: A population of whip-smart young millionaires whose particular set of skills — as impressive as they might be — do not translate anywhere else in the workplace. As tempting as it might sound, you simply cannot take a kid who has made calculated gambles at a breakneck speed for the past five years and place him in, say, a hedge fund. Gambling success, especially the immediate and volatile type enjoyed by Cates, makes doing anything else in life pretty much impossible.
About three hours into the first day of the One Drop, Mikhail Smirnov, a Russian businessman and well-traveled high-stakes poker player, called a raise from Tom "durrrr" Dwan, a pro like Cates who earned a small fortune in online poker. A fellow businessman named John Morgan also called Dwan's bet. The flop brought the jack of spades, the eight of clubs, and the seven of spades. Smirnov bet out, Morgan called once quickly, Dwan folded. On fourth street, another eight fell, giving Smirnov four eights. He bet again and Morgan, who, according to Smirnov's comments at the end of the day, seemed "very excited," called again. The king of spades fell on the river. Smirnov bet again. Morgan pushed all his chips into the middle of the table. After not all that much deliberation, Smirnov folded his hand face-up, showing the table the four eights.
The only possible hand that beat Smirnov's four eights was the 10 and nine of spades, which would have given Morgan a straight flush. Morgan and Smirnov had roughly the same number of chips, and a call against a straight flush would have effectively knocked Smirnov out of the tournament. If the pressure of the One Drop, the scrutiny from the television cameras, and the weirdness of the event were all engineered to forge a moment where a Russian billionaire folded quad eights to a Midwestern retail-store mogul who has earned less than $100,000 in lifetime tournament poker winnings (while raising over $5 million for charity), the pageantry was well worth it. If they ran back the One Drop every year for the next two decades, there might be only one or two other instances where four of a kind was beaten by a straight flush. And the chances that the person holding quads would fold his hand are next to zero.
Quad eights versus god knows what was the lone highlight in what ended up being a brutal, tedious event. Because so much money was on the line, every player started with enough chips to withstand a few bad decisions and unfortunate swings of luck. The idea behind this, of course, was to maximize the value of poker skill — if hundreds of thousands of hands and years in the casino gives professionals a 0.5 percent advantage per hand over a rich amateur, that margin must be reaped via a large volume of hands. At your typical Tuesday-afternoon $125 buy-in event at Commerce Casino in Los Angeles, 48 people can finish a tournament in less than six hours. The One Drop ended up taking 30 hours spread over three days. During that time, the crowds thinned out and the talk among the thousands of poker players in the Rio shifted to more mundane topics. Most of the people I talked to thought the tournament was ridiculous, including one young player from Los Angeles who said that the One Drop was the "most irrelevant thing to ever happen in poker ever." By the time Antonio Esfandiari stood up from his seat in triumph, curiosity had mostly soured into cynicism. Most people around the Rio were speculating on just how little of his own action Esfandiari had owned and how the great spectacle of the One Drop had really just been about a bunch of billionaires trying to catch a thrill.
If one million dollars can't do it, can poker celebrities save the game? And if the One Drop was set up as an exhibition of poker "skill," can anyone outside of poker's insular world of hard-core players, commentators, and media really appreciate what's going on? There might be some beauty in knowing when to three-bet a nit, and there's certainly an admirable amount of discipline involved in waiting out a dude on tilt to finally have the second best hand, but those talents are lost on the general public. More important, much as the basketball player who makes the extra pass and boxes out properly will see less airtime than the selfish dunker, "good play" in poker will always take a backseat to the pyrotechnics of bad beats, insane bluffs, and the always vague and mostly meaningless concept of "championships" in a game that only values a long-term, running score.
Is it possible that a generation of poker players has grown up only knowing the heavily edited version of televised poker? And that they then played out all that drama in the fast-paced, unsustainable, and allegedly fraudulent online version of the game without ever learning or even seeing the older, more stable version that built fortunes for Brunson, Ivey, and so many other poker celebrities? I guess what I'm asking is this: Outside of the very small population of pros who make their living in casinos and backrooms, did Black Friday effectively collapse the model for all poker in the United States? The Moneymaker revolution, or whatever you want to call it, would not have happened without the infrastructure of online poker. So how, really, could any effort — even a million-dollar one — reverse what wasn't really reversible in the first place?
By the end of this calendar year, most experts believe that online poker will make a legal, secure, and fully backed return to the State of Nevada. Buoyed by statements made both by the Obama White House and the Department of Justice that defended the right of individual states to determine whether or not they would allow Internet gambling, traditional casino companies have partnered with government officials at all levels to bring back what was once a $1.8 billion industry. John Pappas, executive director of the Poker Players Alliance, an organization committed to a "secure, safe and regulated place to play," believes that government oversight, improved security, and the trusted brand name of some of the biggest names in the casino industry can bring back players who might have been scared off by Black Friday.
Yesterday's settlement between PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and the Department of Justice certainly points toward a return in the near future. By acquiring Full Tilt's assets, including its software, databases, and reach, PokerStars has set itself up to own even more of the U.S. market. Black Friday might have kneecapped the poker industry, but the stewards of the game — at least those who weren't facing federal charges — limped along under the assumption that online poker would eventually return as a regulated, taxed, and viable business. The speed with which players flock back to sites and the rate at which these legitimized sites will grow will be of massive interest to traditional casino companies and the city of Las Vegas, which is still looking to boost its own declining revenues.
In large part, the success of any Internet product comes from its ability to model and speed up payout, whether that be financial, social, or career-related. The appeal of online poker did not come from the ability to play a $25 sit-and-go with Phil Ivey, but rather from the way the flux in players' accounts could make them feel like they were well on their way to some vaguely defined fortune. Before Black Friday, million-dollar bankrolls could be built within weeks and then lost in a single day. And because poker was easy to learn and because any run of luck could convince a donkey that he was the next Ivey, everyone from housewives to Hollywood stars began playing. As long as a 20-year-old can buy into a $5 satellite that gets him a seat in a $55 satellite, which, in turn gets him a seat in a $225 Sunday tournament that guarantees $350,000 for first place, online poker will continue to draw new players. The fantasy will remain.


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Mafatu is afraid of the ocean. As a young member of the tribe on the Polynesian island Hikueru, a people for whom sailing and fishing are a fundamental way of life, Mafatu's fear is a major social stigma. Although he experienced the great trauma at the age of three of nearly drowning and seeing his mother die, those around him have little sympathy or understanding for his fears. Even his father is ashamed of the way Mafatu behaves. As a result of his inability to go out in a canoe and fish, Mafatu is left behind to build spears, nets, and other necessary tools.
Other youth his age tease and reject Mafatu, and one night he overhears their taunts and cannot stand it any longer. He doesn't want to continue to live with his fear and his shame, so he resolves to go out alone and face his inner demons on the sea. Mafatu takes a canoe and with his canine companion Uri and their albatross friend Kivi, he heads out toward the open ocean. Mafatu has not gone prepared however, and a storm nearly destroys his canoe and sweeps away the few things he brought with him, even his clothing. Uri and Mafatu drift in the canoe for days, growing more starved, dehydrated, and sun burnt. Just as it seems all hope is lost, an island appears in the distance. The current carries the canoe towards this island, and although the coral reef surrounding it smashes the canoe, Mafatu and Uri make it to shore alive.
When Mafatu comes to, he drinks some fresh water from a stream and bandages a cut on his leg. Revived by this, he begins to explore his new surroundings. The island has thick jungle and an inactive volcano at its center, and this terrain is strange to Mafatu, who comes from an island of flat plains and few palm trees. Towards the top of the volcano there is a plateau which offers an excellent view of the whole island.
On the other side of the island from the beach upon which he landed, Mafatu discovers a clearing with a pyramid and idol in it. This is a sacred site of sacrifice for the savage eaters-of-men, a cannibalistic tribe of which Mafatu has heard terrible stories. He is extremely frightened, because although there is no one on the island now, they are sure to return at some time. However, he sees a well-made spearhead at the shrine, and knowing it will be very useful to him he snatches it up before running back to the plateau. Mafatu will use this good vantage point to carefully watch out for any sign that the eaters-of-men are returning.
Meanwhile, there is much work for Mafatu to do in order to survive and make himself comfortable on the island. All of his time on Hikueru constructing tools and perfecting those skills is now coming in very handy. He builds a fire to cook his food, and a shelter from bamboo and woven leaves. Mafatu begins to make a new canoe that he can use to return home. He creates all manner of tools, such as nets, fishhooks, bowls, and mats. Mafatu replaces his lost clothing, and creates spears and knifes from a whale skeleton he is lucky to find. He makes a raft to use until the canoe is complete, and a fish trap for catching more food farther offshore.
There is one problem with the fish trap, however, and this is the hammerhead shark that regularly raids the trap before Mafatu can get what he has caught. One day Mafatu goes out with a knife to end this trouble once and for all. When he sees the shark he grows afraid, however, and can do nothing even as the shark completely destroys the fish trap. It isn't until Uri is knocked into the water that Mafatu is driven to act. He dives in to save his friend from being eaten, and stabs the shark with the knife, succeeding in killing it. Mafatu helps Uri back onto the raft, grateful to have found the courage to rescue his companion.
This is the first of several such victories for Mafatu. One day while climbing to the plateau to look out for the eaters-of-men, a wild boar charges at Mafatu. He wants to run away but instead acts quickly and uses a spear to kill the wild boar. This is a feat of bravery that even the warriors of his tribe have not succeeded in, and Mafatu returns to his campsite for a triumphant feast. He makes a necklace of the boar's teeth which he cannot wait for his tribe to see.
Once the canoe is finished, Mafatu takes it out to test it and to retrieve that day's catch from the fish trap. Unfortunately his knife falls into the ocean while he does so. Mafatu dives down to get it back, because he would hate to lose it, but is attacked by a large octopus while he is at the ocean floor by the coral reef. Mafatu stabs wildly at it, and he is quickly becoming desperate as his lungs scream for oxygen. It seems as if the octopus is going to win, when one well-aimed stab hits the creature in its eye. Mafatu makes it back to the canoe, gasping for air.
Distracted by all of these events, Mafatu did not check for the eaters-of-men that day, which was a huge mistake because they arrive the next morning. Mafatu observes the beginning of their ritual at the sacred site, trying to remain hidden, but he is discovered by four of the savages. They chase him back to his beach, where he leaps into his canoe and tries to get away. At first the eaters-of-men swim after him, but then they turn back and follow in their own canoes. They follow Mafatu out into the ocean and pursue him for over a day before finally giving up.
It would seem Mafatu is home free. However, the currents are now working against him, and he has difficulty making any progress towards his island of Hikueru. As days pass the food and water he brought runs out, and Mafatu once more grows dehydrated and weak. Finally, he notices signs of land in the distance, and realizes with great joy and relief that it is his home. On the beach, the people of his tribe have gathered to see this stranger that is approaching. Even his own father does not recognize Mafatu at first, but when they understand who he is they are amazed. Mafatu's father proudly announces his son's bravery, and the tale of Mafatu's adventures is told for generations to come.
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Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order restoring competition for adult cardiology services in Reno, Nevada. Under the order, Renown Health, the largest provider of acute care hospital services in northern Nevada, released its cardiologist employees from "non-compete" contract clauses, allowing up to 10 of them to join competing cardiology practices in the Reno area. The order settled FTC charges that Renown's recent acquisition of two local cardiology groups reduced competition for adult cardiology services in the Reno area.
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The probe into the sex scandal that prompted CIA Director David Petraeus to resign has also caught Gen. John R. Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan.
According to a senior U.S. defense official, the FBI has uncovered between 20,000 and 30,000 pages of documents — most of them e-mails — that contain "potentially inappropriate" communication between Allen and Jill Kelley, the 37-year-old Tampa woman whose report of harassment by a person who turned out to be Petraeus's mistress.
Meet the battlefield.
Here's Kelley and Allen:
And the first couple: Petraeus and Broadwell.
Allen, a Marine, succeeded Petraeus as the top allied commander in Afghanistan in July 2011. He also served as Petraeus's deputy when both generals led the military's Tampa-based Central Command from 2008 until 2010.
The FBI first notified the Pentagon of its investigation into Allen's communications with Kelley on Sunday evening, according to the senior defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the pending case.
Paula Broadwell has headed back to Afghanistan to avoid the American press. She is happy though. General Petraeus took this picture:
The Pentagon did not address the nature of Kelley's alleged relationship with Allen. But another senior U.S. official, who is close to Allen, strongly denied that the general and Kelley had an affair or engaged in inappropriate communication. "He's never been alone with her," the senior official said. "Did he have an affair? No."
Everybody knows, of course, that many men send 30,000 emails and texts to "friends."
But General Allen is already giving "sex tips" to his troops.
General Petraeus learned alot from General Allen.
For reference, Bill Clinton only sent one email to Monica Lewinsky. The subject line was: "Meet Me Under My Desk." General Petraeus used Bill Clinton's "desk technique" with Paula Broadwell. "Powerful men like doing it under their desks," said WWN psychologist Dr. Wendy Lingman.
Some reporters are trying to get to Broadwell to ask her questions, but she has been shooting them down:
Meanwhile, NBC has ordered 5 years worth of a drama series based on the sex lives of Generals in the army. "Four-Star Studs" will debut in January, 2013.


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Picture this. A group of six junior-high homeschoolers are bent over my large dining room table, pencils flying on scratch paper, working away at a sample set of math problems. In a few minutes time is called, and they burst out talking excitedly about how they solved many of these very tough problems - or groaning about the ones they couldn't quite get yet. Homemade cookies are interspersed with discussion of the Pythagorean Theorem and exponents and factoring and fractions and how many handshakes would be given if everyone in a group of 10 people shook hands with everyone else. The kids don't even want to leave when the time is up for the day, and they all talk about the next meeting in two weeks.
What's going on? The kids are involved in a challenging math competition called Mathcounts with homeschool friends, enjoying learning together and really working hard to stretch themselves to be ready for the upcoming team competition at a regional college. The competition includes a full-year coaching program and encourages group discussion, active hands work, and non-routine problems. It's energizing, it's lots of work, and it's worth it.
More and more homeschoolers are starting to realize that the many math competitions available nationwide are a real boost to their home programs, jumping them into types of problem solving they wouldn't have thought possible before. Just as in the Geography Bee and the Spelling Bee, homeschoolers are making their mark in these programs. Eighth-grade homeschooler Alison Miller, who won third place in this past year's Spelling Bee, was one of four homeschoolers chosen as one of the top 30 high-school-level math students from all across the country who will take part in the USA Math Olympiad Summer Program. Six of these students will be chosen to compete internationally in Seoul in the International Math Olympiad.
But most homeschoolers won't be aiming for a national top spot in math competitions. Is there still a point to taking part? Definitely! See if these plusses sound important: more motivation and less yawns and grumblings among your kids, continuing support and encouragement for hard work and perseverance, and the new idea that they don't always have to learn about new math alone. Another perk is getting a chance to try out their wings against other kids from all across the country. Let's remember that homeschoolers don't have the monopoly on good learning, and that there are bright kids and dedicated parents out there working for quality programs within the schools. The whole experience broadens our perspective on what we're doing.
To top it off, all math competitions give you excellent learning materials to use. You can use contest materials as the main focus of your math program in many ways, if you choose to. I've done this with all of my four kids at times, and they are all very sharp in math and seem to have thrived with this approach. Texts then become tools to help us solve particular problems or gain more background on a new topic brought out in a contest exercise. With contests you also don't have to do all the planning. Most are very well organized, giving you and your kids a firm framework to follow, with clearly stated goals.
You might even want to be like my daughter Molly and create your own math competition specifically for homeschool kids. Last year, during Molly's senior year of high school at home, she created and led an online math competition for homeschooled girls ages 9-12, called Talk It Out, complete with a snazzy interactive website and t-shirts for all students who completed the program (and the kids had a little contest to design the shirts, too!). She felt girls especially can benefit from talking about math together, so her competition required the girls to write out full paragraph descriptions of how they went about solving the tricky problem sets each month of the competition. Then they all were encouraged to read one another's solutions and comment on them. There was also a discussion board, where students could help each other through tough concepts by sharing and explaining, along with extra-credit activities like experimenting with Moebius strips. The girls loved it! See www.pahomeschoolers.com/math (Ed Note: No longer working) for more info on the coming year's program.
I know other homeschooling families that do something as simple as hosting regular Math Games Days at their homes during the year, where kids are invited over to play the many great math games that can get so ignored as we struggle to "cover" a math curriculum. No difficult planning here, but lots of good fun competition and thinking and doing math. Some math games, such as the popular Twenty-Four Game even have their own regional and statewide competitions sponsored by congressional representatives. In the Twenty-Four Challenge, kids from grades 4 through 8 vie to see who can gain the most cards in this fast-paced computation game where flexible and creative thinking is a must. See www.math24.com for more info on this, see if your region hosts a competition, and to find out more about this terrific game. Then get practicing and playing!
Math Olympiad for Elementary and Middle Schools (MOEMS) www.moems.org Our family's first foray into math competitions came 12 years ago with this program; we were the very first homeschoolers to take part. I'll never forget the year when my now-20-year-old son Jacob (a dean's list computer science major at Carnegie Mellon University) was a 6th grader and won the top award for having a perfect score all year in the Math Olympiad, something only about 30 kids out of the over 80,000 taking part worldwide achieved that year. The program also was my children's first time meeting with others to work at math together, learning to talk with their friends about math thinking and approaches. Taking part encouraged me to be more active in math learning and teaching too - I was now planning special activities related to these problems, getting out many more of our many math manipulatives and games, and in general doing more of what I knew really worked well to develop sound math thinking. The Math Olympiad program costs $75 to register a team, and you can have up to 35 students per team. There are now two different levels; one for 7th and 8th graders and one for elementary students. This is a school-based competition - that is, you do not advance to a regional or state competition, but do the whole thing right where your homeschool group meets. To help kids be ready to enjoy the competition you can use founder George Lenchner's excellent book Math Olympiad Contest Problems for Elementary and Middle Schools (available from PA Homeschoolers, www.pahomeschoolers.com), which contains all problem sets from the first 16 years of the program, along with many teaching suggestions and full explanations for every one of the 400 problems. Calculators are not allowed during the competition. Certificates, pins, medals, and trophies are awarded to students, and there are even team awards.
MATHCOUNTS www.mathcounts.org. Our next step up in math contests was the middle school program Mathcounts, which is expanding the program to include 6th graders and individuals as well as teams. I worked with Mathcounts 10 years ago to encourage them to change their former policy of excluding homeschoolers, and ever since then there have been homeschool teams in almost every state. This program encourages regular team coaching sessions to help kids prepare for a regional chapter meet in February to select students to compete at the state level competition in March. From there it's on to the nationals in April - and many homeschoolers have found their way there. Check out the website for full info, and also to take part in the online problem solving game and to see the help for coaches and students. They even have a fun contest where kids can send in their original math problems for possible inclusion in the upcoming year's Mathcounts handbook. Cost to register a team of 4 students is $50 per year, and you'll receive a copy of the school handbook with practice problems ("warmups" and "workouts") to last the whole year, and lots of ideas for organizing practices. Calculators are allowed during some parts of the competition, and during one section the team works cooperatively to solve ten really tough problems. A regular newsletter goes out to coaches and another free newsletter goes to students who made it to the state level of Mathcounts. Many stay in touch with the competition for years and years.
American Mathematics Contests www.unl.edu/amc Another math competition my Mathcounts team takes part in each year in mid-November is the American Mathematics Contest, the lead-up competition to a whole group of high-school competitions. This is a one-time school-level group event set in mid-November, with 25 multiple-choice problems covering a wide range of math topics. There are now special guidelines for homeschool teams to follow. The website has full details and sample problems from previous years. The best part of this competition for us always comes right after the kids have completed the set of problems and the answers sheets are off in the mail - then we get to discuss problem solving strategies and compare answers . . . a real challenge, since the correct answers aren't sent out for several days after the official competition date. Costs are very reasonable (around $25 for a group of ten or under), and you'll get full and detailed results back on how all your students did, along with more comparative statistics than you ever expected could be developed based on one math contest! Special award pins and certificates add to the fun. Calculators allowed.
We've continued with the American Mathematics Contests (AMC) for the high school level, taking part in their new division for students in grade 10 and below (AMC-10), as well as the more challenging division for grades 12 and under (AMC-12), set every year in mid-February. Students who earn at least 100 out of a possible 150 points in this competition are invited to take part in the next level of the competition, called the American Invitational Mathematics Exam (AIME), with only 15 problems, but no multiple choices this time. From there a select group of students take part in the 5-question exam called the USAMO, USA Math Olympiad, where fully-developed written proofs are required. This helps in choosing the students for the 4-week summer program where the top students are chosen to represent the US in international competition. As with all math competitions, practicing with actual back problem sets is a real help, and can become part of your high school program - and you can order back sets inexpensively.
USA Math Talent Search www.nsa.gov/usamts/index.cfm. Tired of multiple-choice exams or speed tests? Want to take your time to really think and ponder and develop your mathematical ideas carefully? Then the USAMTS may be for you. This unique program was started by a professor at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, based on the math competitions he'd remembered from his younger days in Hungary where speed was not the main goal, but rather well-reasoned and thoughtful work. This is an individual distance competition, where students have 4 weeks to solve a very challenging set of five math problems, developing full written solutions, proofs, or explanations, not just an answer. You are even allowed to research any topics to gain more background and information - you just can't discuss the problems with other people. Top students receive special recognition for each of the four sets of problems, and many prizes are awarded at the end of the year (my son Jacob received a set of great math books one year). This program is free to students, and problems and full info are now up on the Internet. Although there is not a team or social aspect to this competition, all the students keep in touch through a newsletter. Excellent student solutions are published to help others see ways to develop their proofs. The emphasis is on encouraging students to only compete against themselves, learning to set high goals, work hard at very difficult tasks, and learn to achieve a higher level of competence than at the start of the program. Taking part and doing very well is another route to being chosen for the AIME mentioned above.
Casio Online Classroom education.casio.com/contests.htm This is a really neat contest with six divisions for elementary- through high-school levels. And guess what the prize is! A super Casio calculator . . . each week! Kids email in answers to fascinating problems developed by various university math departments, and a random drawing from all correct entries chooses the winner. All students with correct answers are listed right on the website each week. It's fun to see that kids from all over the world take part in this contest. A great perk - they have archives of back problems, giving you lots of practice and fun challenges.
The Math Forum Problem of the Week forum.swarthmore.edu This site has been going for about five years, and includes weekly math challenges for all levels. What's unique here? Students are expected to write out full solutions to problems, describing their solution strategy and thinking process. Recognition for correct solutions, and special notice for outstanding written explanations. The Math Forum also takes suggestions for original math problems to use on the site, and welcomes new people (even students!) to serve as mentors and readers of student solutions. There's also a full archive of past problems, along with many other resources for both students and teachers. Many students from all around the world take part in this competition. The Math Forum is for all levels, elementary on up - and it's free! (Ed Note: Not any more, looks like.)
The Mandelbrot Competition www.mandelbrot.org Started by several friends who all enjoyed various math competitions while growing up, this is both an individual and team competition, with three or four rounds of problems. Costs are very reasonable - $40 to $50 a year per team of four students (and more students can take part as individuals). There are two high-school divisions, plus a middle-school competition, and there are both individual and team components. It's billed as "the competition that teaches as much as it tests" - and I can see it does just that. No calculators.
Solve-It www.udel.edu/educ/solveit/ Want to try a summer distance math contest with a big emphasis on fun and parent involvement? Try Solve-It, sponsored by the University of Delaware, for a great program for 4th- to 8th-graders. The cost is $50 per student, and you can choose between two difficulty levels (you get to choose whichever would better match your child's current abilities - grade level is not crucial here). You'll receive problem sets in the mail, along with follow-up mailings and solutions, and prizes and awards for completing the program. Involves students writing out full solutions and telling how they went about working on the problem, rather than just giving the correct answer.
American Statistical Association's Poster or Project Competitions www.amstat.org/Education/index.cfm?fuseaction=poster1 And finally . . . how about a competition where you develop an original statistics project? Try the website for full details, registration info, sample winning posters, and much more. Also, if you live in Pennsylvania, check out the special webpage for the PA Statistics Poster Competition at renoir.vill.edu/~short/posters/ (Ed Note: No longer working.) You'll get to see lots of fun samples of winning posters from recent years (even some really cute ones by kindergartners!), helping you get your ideas together for your own project. You'll realize here that doing work with math does indeed involve the real world. No fee to enter.
Are you starting to think "beyond the box" about your math program yet? Now, I wonder what the probability is that your math program at home will improve with math contests this year . . . just ask that homeschooler who's starting to perk up about his math work, and you'll have your answer.
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Marymere Falls and Madison Falls, Photo Gallery, Olympic National Park, Washington
Marymere Falls and Madison Falls
Olympic National Park
Marymere Falls is located .85 miles from the Storm King Ranger Station at Lake Crescent. The falls drop over 80' down Falls Creek to its confluence with Barnes Creek, which continues a short distance into Lake Crescent. Madison Falls is located just off Olympic Hot Springs Road in the Elwha River Valley. Madison Falls drop 45' into a small pool, and continue into the Elwha River just over the road.
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Daisies in the meadow at Storm King Ranger Station
Bridge over the Falls Creek - Barnes Creek confluence
Club mosses, true mosses, and liverworts hang from trees and cover the lowland forest floor
There are over 1,450 types of vascular plants on the Olympic peninsula
Marymere Falls
Madison Falls
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The Marymere Falls Trail passes through lowland forests on the shores of Lake Crescent


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A New York man has filed suit against Facebook claiming he owns 84 percent of the world's largest social network. Paul D. Ceglia, the man behind the lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, claims Facebook owes him damages relating to a 2003 contract between Ceglia and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The purported contract asked Ceglia to develop and design a Website "similar to a live functioning yearbook with the working title of 'The Face Book,'" according to the Wall Street Journal.
The contract reportedly states that Zuckerberg would pay Ceglia $1000 plus 50 percent ownership in the company. Ceglia would also get an extra percentage point every month after January 1, 2004 until the work was completed.
One problem with Ceglia's claim that his contract dates back to 2003 is that Zuckerberg hadn't even registered Facebook's original domain, thefacebook.com, until January 11, 2004, according to journalist David Kirkpatrick's well-researched book, The Facebook Effect. However, Kirkpatrick's book does say that Zuckerberg started developing Facebook at some point between late 2003 and early 2004.
Although it's unclear how convincing Ceglia's purported evidence is, he has managed to have the judge hearing the case issue a temporary restraining order against the transfer of Facebook's assets.
Ceglia is no stranger to the New York court system or restraining orders himself, according to the Journal. In late, 2009 New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo issued a temporary restraining order against Ceglia's company, Allegany Pellets, LLC. Cuomo said the company had taken more than $200,000 in advance payments from customers, and promised to deliver 1,900 tons of wood pellets in the following months. The company, according to the Attorney General, failed to deliver any products or issue refunds to disgruntled customers. Wood pellets are a heating fuel typically made from compacted sawdust that can be used to heat homes. Allegany Pellets is no longer accepting orders on its Website.
Unsurprisingly, Facebook has called Ceglia's suit "frivolous," and plans to fight it out in court.
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>>Adb Berhampore >>Berhampore >>Khagra >>Rbo Berhampore >>Rcpc Berhampore >>Spbb Berhampore
It is very important to find IFSC code SBIN0000034 of correct branch before initiating a NEFT or RTGS or IMPS transfer. Though all banks will have a mechanism to verify the IFSC Code, Bank Branch, Account Type and Name and any mismatch will result in failed transaction!
The best and simplest place to verify SBIN0000034 IFSC code branch is the cheque book. Most banks now print IFSC Codes on the cheque books. Also, your account pass book should have the IFSC Code printed.
SBIN0000034 is the IFSC Code for Berhampore branch of SBI. This can be used for online funds transfer via NEFT, RTGS amd IMPS to SBI account. The address of Berhampore branch is K.n.rd., berhampore, murshidabad, which is located in Murshidabad District of West Bengal State.
In State Bank Of India IFSC Code, the first 4 characters (SBIN) represent the bank name, 5th character is 0 (ZERO), which is reserved for future use. The last 6 characters (000034) represent the SBI Bank branch code.
Find more information on IFSC Code SBIN0000034 of SBI Berhampore Branch IFSC Code Berhampore for NEFT transfer, RTGS transfer and IMPS transfer below:


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Test Results
Here you can inspect the test logs underlying our publication in APL.
Sample Data from the QRNG Device
For a quick glance at the statistical quality of the random data you can directly download some megabytes from the QRNG device.
- 1 MB random data [or download via an encrypted HTTPS connection]
- 15 MB random data [or download via an encrypted HTTPS connection]
- 100 MB random data [or download via an encrypted HTTPS connection]
Library libQRNG
You can also use the library libQRNG in your own programs to retrieve random data from the QRNG service. The library is available for Windows and Linux.
- Linux 32 Bit (libQRNG-v0.01-Linux-32Bit.tar.gz providing libQRNG.so - linking against libssl 0.9.8)
- Linux 64 Bit (libQRNG-v0.01-Linux-64Bit.tar.gz providing libQRNG.so - linking against libssl 0.9.8)
- Linux 32 Bit (libQRNG-v0.02-Linux-32Bit.tar.gz providing libQRNG.so - linking against libssl 1.0.0)
- Linux 64 Bit (libQRNG-v0.02-Linux-64Bit.tar.gz providing libQRNG.so - linking against libssl 1.0.0)
- Windows 32 Bit (libQRNG-v0.01-Windows-32Bit.zip providing libQRNG.dll)
- Windows 64 Bit (libQRNG-v0.01-Windows-64Bit.zip providing libQRNG.dll)
- Mac OS X (libQRNG-v0.01-OSX.tar.gz providing libQRNG.dylib)
Demo Programs
If you want to download more data directly into an application, have a look at the following examples qrngdownload and qrngdemo. All downloads include the source code and a pre-compiled version for the specified system. They also come with the libQRNG library.
qrngdownload (Utility and demo for C/C++):
- Linux 32 Bit (qrngdownload-Linux-32Bit.tar.gz, already includes libQRNG.so v0.0.1)
- Linux 64 Bit (qrngdownload-Linux-64Bit.tar.gz, already includes libQRNG.so v0.0.1)
- Windows 32 Bit (qrngdownload-Windows-32Bit.zip, already includes libQRNG.dll v0.0.1)
- Windows 64 Bit (qrngdownload-Windows-64Bit.zip, already includes libQRNG.dll v0.0.1)
- Mac OS X (qrngdownload-OSX.tar.gz, already includes libQRNG.dylib v0.0.1)
qrngdemo for C/C++:
- Linux 32 Bit (qrngdemo-Linux-32Bit.tar.gz, already includes libQRNG.so v0.0.1)
- Linux 64 Bit (qrngdemo-Linux-64Bit.tar.gz, already includes libQRNG.so v0.0.1)
- Windows 32 Bit (qrngdemo-Windows-32Bit.zip, already includes libQRNG.dll v0.0.1)
- Windows 64 Bit (qrngdemo-Windows-64Bit.zip, already includes libQRNG.dll v0.0.1)
- Mac OS X (qrngdemo-OSX.tar.gz, already includes libQRNG.dylib v0.0.1)
demo for Delphi and Free Pascal:
- Linux 32 Bit (fpcQRNGdemo-Linux-32bit.tar.gz, already includes libQRNG.so v0.0.1)
- Windows 32 Bit (fpcQRNGdemo-Windows-32bit.zip, already includes libQRNG.dll v0.0.1)
demo for C#:
demo for Matlab:
MD5 Checksums
See md5sums.txt if you wish to check the software downloads above for integrity.
External Software Packages Related to libQRNG
Demo for the R language:
TRQS - package for Mathematica allowing to generate true random quantum states:
RandFile - package for Mathematica allowing the exploitation of local files as sources of random data:
Plugin for Fairmat using the QRNG service for simulations in financial modelling:
mruby-libqrng - An interface to libQRNG for mini ruby:
SSL Support
If you want to obtain random data from the QRNG using an encrypted connection, you have to use the SSL functions to connect to the service / get your data. The OpenSSL library is used for SSL support.
The Linux version of the libQRNG library requires the OpenSSL library. Usually it is already installed as package 'libssl' on all modern Linux distributions.
Windows users need the two files
ssleay32.dll and
libeay32.dll to connect to the QRNG service using SSL. To determine if you do not already have these files, you can run the qrngdemo demo program and see if it complains about a failed initialisation of the the SSL part (most likely due to the missing OpenSSL libraries).
If you are under Windows and you do not have the two OpenSSL library files, we recommend you to install the following two items:
- Windows binaries of the OpenSSL Library
- Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86) (needed for the OpenSSL Library binaries)
What if the download does not achieve 150 Mbit/s
Although the QRNG device constantly delivers 150 MBit/s of random data, your download speed depends on the routing and minimum bandwidth along the path to our server
qrng.physik.hu-berlin.de. This server is located at the Department of Physics of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Berlin Adlershof. The university is currently connected via a 1 Gbit/s link to the German National Research and Education Network, DFN.
As the QRNG server also uses a 2TB harddrive cache, your resulting download speed may be even more than 150 MBit/s (= 18.75 MByte/s). You may actually obtain up to 100 MByte/s when the cache is full. On the other hand, if many users are downloading data you may get less.
If you are not sure if you have already reached your maximum download speed, please try the following instructions to "debug" any speed problems:
Determine the maximum download speed to our server
Download these speedtest files from the webserver and test for the maximum average and peak download speed.
Files: 1MB, 5MB, 15MB, 50MB, 100MB, 500MB
Under Linux you may use wget to download the file - if you use /dev/null as output file, your hard drive will not limit the download:
wget http://qrng.physik.hu-berlin.de/files/speedtest-100MB.bin -O /dev/null
Increase the buffer space for libQRNG
For every qrng_get_* command the libQRNG library sends a download request to the server and retrieves the sent data, writing it into a buffer given by the user. If you want to download a lot of data, you have to chunk your download by executing the preferred qrng_get_* function several times. Due to the TCP slow start algorithm, the download speed increases steadily after the beginning. Nevertheless we noticed that the sender's TCP window does not increase after the download of the first chunk. Especially users with a high bandwidth (50-1000 MBit/s) will suffer from this problem. In such cases try to increase the maximum chunk size - in the qrngdownload program this value is defined by
MAX_WRITE_BUFFER. Change it from
100*16*65536(100 MB) or
200*16*65536(200 MB). Do not forget to recompile the qrngdownload program. As a drawback it will use up to 200MB of memory on your system.
Play with the given option. Also run bandwidth monitoring tools like NetMeter under Windows or
nloadunder Linux (preferred command line options:
nload -u M -U M -t 500 eth0) to obverse the average and peak speeds and any "gaps" in the transfer.
In Linux run qrngdownload with
/dev/nullas filename to measure the download speed without any effects of your hard drive.
Example command:
./qrngdownload /dev/null 1024 <QRNG username> <QRNG password>
Finally your download speed should be almost equal to the results obtained in step 1.
Please note: The QRNG service runs on port 4499. Maybe your provider intentionally throttles traffic which does not come from webservers (port 80). For this reason the numbers between step 1 and step 2 may not be comparable.
Try multiple connections
If your download speed results improved by the suggestions above but the bandwith of your Internet connection is not saturated yet, repeat the process with multiple connections. Try to download two speedtest files simultaneously. If the overall datarate doubles, it may be worth to also run two instances of the qrngdownload program.
Nonetheless, do not hammer the server by using tens or hundreds of connections!


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If someone is misbehaving, it is a mitzvah (a commandment) to rebuke them. We get this from the Holiness Code in Leviticus:
.לֹא-תִשְׂנָא אֶת-אָחִיךָ, בִּלְבָבֶךָ; הוֹכֵחַ תּוֹכִיחַ אֶת-עֲמִיתֶךָ, וְלֹא-תִשָּׂא עָלָיו חֵטְא
You shall not hate your brother in your heart, and you will surely rebuke him, and you will not bear a sin because of him. (Leviticus 19:17)
There are three parts to the commandment: (1) don't hate other people (2) definitely tell them if they are doing wrong and (3) don't bring sin upon yourself in the process.
We Jews excel at part (2) of that commandment. We love to tell other people when we think they are in error. However, lately we in the Diaspora been doing a lousy job of (1) and (3).
For the past three weeks on various social media, Diaspora Jews have melted down into a frenzy of rebuke. Pro-Israel, anti-Israel, anti-Israel but anti-Hamas, pro-Palestinian but anti-Hamas, seeking one state, seeking two states, words flying like shrapnel. The name-calling is out of hand, with Jews hurling words like "Nazi" and "traitor" at one another. In some cases, these are educated Jews, too: people who should know how to conduct an argument for the sake of heaven. Our tone has too often grown hateful. If we do not yet actually hate other Jews, we are paving the way there with these words that dehumanize the other.
And then there is the matter of "don't bear a sin because of him." Rebuking another person in public, causing them shame (or hoping to shame them) is a sin. In Bava Metzia 58b, the rabbis liken public shaming to murder. Immediately after that passage, they tell the story of Akhnai's Oven, in which the rabbis cause Rabbi Eliezer shame, with tragic results.
Talking about others is lashon hara, evil speech, another sin. It is not simply gossip (rechilut) or spreading lies, but also speech that damages another's reputation. Saying about another person, "She is a traitor to the Jewish people" or "He is a bloodthirsty murderer" when your talk about it does not have an important purpose (to save a life, for instance) is lashon hara. One may say, "well, that's my opinion" but the point is, we are forbidden to spread around opinions like that. If you have a problem with a person, talk to him directly and privately.
With the backdrop of the dreadful situation in Israel and Gaza, emotions run high. However, we can and must control our tongues and our keyboards. Hateful speech does not help Israel, and it does not help the innocent victims of violence. Statement of the facts, pointing to sources, giving tzedakah: those things can help. Organizing peaceful demonstrations can help. Letters, emails and phone calls to powerful people can help. And yes, some situations may call for proper rebuke: rebuke that happens quietly, without name-calling, that asks for specific changes in behavior.
This week, when we observe Tisha B'Av and remember the great disasters in our history, our teachers will remind us that the Temple was lost because of sinat chinam, senseless hatred.
My brothers and sisters, we in the Diaspora cannot afford to scream at one another on Twitter and facebook. We cannot afford to hurl hateful speech at one another. We have seen in the past what comes of this behavior.
Our Israeli cousins are running for shelters, IDF soldiers are dying and wounded, and civilians are dying in Gaza (never mind for a moment whose fault, people are dying.) Around the world, we are seeing a resurgence of anti-Semitism that smells sickeningly like the 1930's in Europe. Mobs are marching in Europe, chanting "Death to the Jews." Jews were beaten in the street in Canada. Canada!
Now is a time for purposeful action and purposeful speech. There is indeed much that must be done. It can be done without name-calling and without public screaming matches. No matter what your opinion, those are wastes of valuable time and energy, and they carry the seeds of tragedy.
Ribbono shel olam, You who know our inmost hearts, help us to act and to speak with holy purpose.


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ARLINGTON, Texas – Matt Prater kicked a 28-yard field goal as time expired and Peyton Manning and Denver overcame the first 500-yard passing game in Dallas history to keep the Broncos unbeaten with a 51-48 victory over the Cowboys on Sunday.
Manning maintained his record pace of touchdown passes to start the season and finished with 414 yards and four scores for Denver (5-0).
Tony Romo threw for 506 yards and five touchdowns for Dallas (2-3), but he was intercepted by Danny Trevanthan inside the Dallas 30 to set up Prater's winning kick.
The teams combined for 1,039 yards of total offense in the second-highest scoring game in regulation since the NFL-AFL merger in 1970, according to STATS.
Cincinnati and Cleveland combined for 106 points in the Browns' 58-48 win in 2004.
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In my previous article I had created linked server, to access and query a database. However, it is just the basic step to try and bring two different RDBMS systems linked together.
In this article I will discuss about creating a SSIS package to transfer data from MS SQL Server 2008 to MySQL 5.5
SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio
MySQL Connector Net 5.2.7
You can download this package from http://www.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/
Connector/Net is a fully-managed ADO.NET driver for MySQL.
MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1 (Which is already installed, in our previous article)
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Ichiro Suzuki has four hits as Mariners beat Athletics in MLB opener
TOKYO -- Ichiro Suzuki gave his fans in Japan a performance to cheer about.
Suzuki had four hits in his return home, Dustin Ackley homered and singled in the go-ahead run in the 11th inning, and the Seattle Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics 3-1 Wednesday night in baseball's season opener.
"It was very special to open in Japan," said Suzuki, who spent nine seasons in Osaka with the Orix Blue Wave. "I wanted to have fun and give the fans something at this special time and wanted to share a special moment with them."
Major League Baseball and the players' association are using the series to assist rebuilding in Japan following last year's earthquake and tsunami. A group of players and coaches traveled to the disaster zone on Tuesday to conduct a baseball clinic.
Felix Hernandez combined with two relievers on a six-hitter as MLB opened its season in Tokyo for the fourth time.
Seattle and Oakland complete their two-game series Thursday. The rest of the big league teams get going starting on April 4, when the renamed Miami Marlins open their new ballpark against the World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals.
A capacity crowd of 44,227 at Tokyo Dome was a sea of flashes every time Suzuki came to bat. He got a standing ovation when he took his position in right field in the final inning.
Dropped from leadoff to third in the batting order as he started his 12th big league season, Suzuki singled in the first when be beat shortstop Cliff Pennington's throw after his grounder over the mound was deflected by Oakland starter Brandon McCarthy.
Suzuki singled on a grounder to shortstop in the fourth, singled to center in the sixth and had an RBI single to center in the 11th.
"We're trying to stretch out the lineup and have the guys feed off each other," Seattle manager Eric Wedge said. "I think Ichiro hitting in the third spot is the right place. We're going to be a very offensive ballclub this year."
The 38-year-old Suzuki set a big league record with 10 consecutive 200-hit seasons before falling short last year.
"He's a hitting machine," said Oakland manager Bob Melvin, who managed Suzuki with the Mariners in 2003 and 2004. "It doesn't matter where he bats in the lineup. That's what he does -- hit."
Ackley homered in the fourth off McCarthy, and Oakland's Kurt Suzuki doubled in a run in the bottom half. The score remained 1-1 until the 11th, when Brendan Ryan doubled against Andrew Carignan (0-1), Chone Figgins sacrificed and Ackley singled to center.
"I was able to put a good swing on that one," Ackley said. "Our team is off to a good start, and that's all that matters."
Jerry Blevins relieved, Ackley stole second and Ichiro Suzuki singled for a two-run lead. Brandon League closed it out for the save.
Tom Wilhelmsen (1-0) got the win with two hitless innings.
Cuban defector Yoenis Cespedes, who signed a $36 million, four-year contract with Oakland, was 1 for 3 with a seventh-inning double and two strikeouts in his major league debut.
Hernandez, coming off a 14-14 season, allowed five hits in eight innings, struck out six and walked none, throwing 104 pitches.
McCarthy gave up one run and six hits in seven innings with three strikeouts and no walks.
While Oakland threatened repeatedly, the A's were 1 for 14 with runners in scoring position.
"They got bigger hits than we did at the end," Melvin said. "We hit some balls hard, but they just didn't get in."
Game notes
It was 3:09 a.m. Pacific time when the game began. It was not televised live in the U.S. outside the markets of the teams involved, and was shown on a delayed basis by the MLB Network. ... Bartolo Colon starts Thursday the A's, opposed by Jason Vargas. ... The New York Mets and Chicago Cubs opened in Tokyo in 2000, followed by the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay (2004), and Boston and Oakland (2008). Seattle and Oakland had been scheduled to play at the Tokyo Dome in March 2003, but the series was scrapped because of the threat of war in Iraq. ... A pregame video presentation honored victims and survivors of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. The video was narrated by Derek Jeter, Bobby Valentine and Cal Ripken Jr.
Series tied 1-1
Game Information
- Umpires:
- Home Plate Umpire - Tom Hallion
- First Base Umpire - Jeff Nelson
- Second Base Umpire - Marvin Hudson
- Third Base Umpire - Dan Bellino
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The tricks and idioms for silencing
make described in the
previous section can be useful from time to time, but we've seen that
they all have their serious drawbacks and limitations. That's why
automake provides support for a more advanced and flexible way of
obtaining quieter output from
make (for most rules at least).
To give the gist of what Automake can do in this respect, here is a simple
comparison between a typical
make output (where silent rules
are disabled) and one with silent rules enabled:
% cat Makefile.am bin_PROGRAMS = foo foo_SOURCES = main.c func.c % cat main.c int main (void) { return func (); } /* func used undeclared */ % cat func.c int func (void) { int i; return i; } /* i used uninitialized */ The make output is by default very verbose. This causes warnings from the compiler to be somewhat hidden, and not immediate to spot. % make CFLAGS=-Wall gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"foo\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"foo\" ... -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"foo\ 1.0\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" ... -DPACKAGE=\"foo\" -DVERSION=\"1.0\" -I. -Wall -MT main.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/main.Tpo -c -o main.o main.c main.c: In function 'main': main.c:3:3: warning: implicit declaration of function 'func' mv -f .deps/main.Tpo .deps/main.Po gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"foo\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"foo\" ... -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"foo\ 1.0\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" ... -DPACKAGE=\"foo\" -DVERSION=\"1.0\" -I. -Wall -MT func.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/func.Tpo -c -o func.o func.c func.c: In function 'func': func.c:4:3: warning: 'i' used uninitialized in this function mv -f .deps/func.Tpo .deps/func.Po gcc -Wall -o foo main.o func.o Clean up, so that we can rebuild everything from scratch. % make clean test -z "foo" || rm -f foo rm -f *.o Silent rules enabled: the output is minimal but informative. In particular, the warnings from the compiler stick out very clearly. % make V=0 CFLAGS=-Wall CC main.o main.c: In function 'main': main.c:3:3: warning: implicit declaration of function 'func' CC func.o func.c: In function 'func': func.c:4:3: warning: 'i' used uninitialized in this function CCLD foo
Also, in projects using
libtool, the use of silent rules can
automatically enable the
libtool's --silent option:
% cat Makefile.am lib_LTLIBRARIES = libx.la % make # Both make and libtool are verbose by default. ... libtool: compile: gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"foo\" ... -DLT_OBJDIR=\".libs/\" -I. -g -O2 -MT libx.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libx.Tpo -c libx.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libx.o mv -f .deps/libx.Tpo .deps/libx.Plo /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -o libx.la -rpath /usr/local/lib libx.lo libtool: link: gcc -shared .libs/libx.o -Wl,-soname -Wl,libx.so.0 -o .libs/libx.so.0.0.0 libtool: link: cd .libs && rm -f libx.so && ln -s libx.so.0.0.0 libx.so ... % make V=0 CC libx.lo CCLD libx.la
For Automake-generated Makefiles, the user may influence the
verbosity at
configure run time as well as at
run time:
configure will cause
build rules to be less verbose; the option --disable-silent-rules
will cause normal verbose output.
make run time, the default chosen at
time may be overridden:
make V=1 will produce verbose output,
make V=0 less verbose output.
Note that silent rules are disabled by default; the user must
enable them explicitly at either
configure run time or at
make run time. We think that this is a good policy, since
it provides the casual user with enough information to prepare a good
bug report in case anything breaks.
Still, notwithstanding the rationales above, developers who wants to
make silent rules enabled by default in their own packages can do so
by calling
AM_SILENT_RULES([yes]) in configure.ac.
Users who prefer to have silent rules enabled by default can edit their
config.site file to make the variable
default to 'yes'. This should still allow disabling silent rules
configure time and at
make time.
For portability to different
make implementations, package authors
are advised to not set the variable
V inside the Makefile.am
file, to allow the user to override the value for subdirectories as well.
To work at its best, the current implementation of this feature normally
uses nested variable expansion '$(var1$(V))', a Makefile
feature that is not required by POSIX 2008 but is widely supported in
practice. On the rare
make implementations that do not support
nested variable expansion, whether rules are silent is always determined at
configure time, and cannot be overridden at make time. Future versions of
POSIX are likely to require nested variable expansion, so this minor
limitation should go away with time.
To extend the silent mode to your own rules, you have a few choices:
AM_V_GEN as a prefix to
commands that should output a status line in silent mode, and
AM_V_at as a prefix to commands that should not output anything
in silent mode. When output is to be verbose, both of these variables
will expand to the empty string.
@, and then use
the predefined variable
AM_V_P to know whether make is being run
in silent or verbose mode; adjust the verbose information your recipe
displays accordingly:
generate-headers: ... [commands defining a shell variable '$headers'] ...; \ if $(AM_V_P); then set -x; else echo " GEN [headers]"; fi; \ rm -f $$headers && generate-header --flags $$headers
pkg_verbose = $(pkg_verbose_@AM_V@) pkg_verbose_ = $(pkg_verbose_@AM_DEFAULT_V@) pkg_verbose_0 = @echo PKG-GEN $@; foo: foo.in $(pkg_verbose)cp $(srcdir)/foo.in $@
As a final note, observe that, even when silent rules are enabled,
the --no-print-directory option is still required with GNU
make if the "Entering/Leaving directory ..." messages
are to be disabled.
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