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NFL teams, coaches and front office executives never admit there's a team they fear. But is there a team they would prefer not to have to play?
We asked our writers who they thought was the one team no one wanted to play, and their answers were as diverse as this year's field, which just might tell you a little bit about how the postseason could unfold.
Vic Carucci: Chiefs
The Chiefs have tremendous potential to keep their feel-good story alive for a few more weeks. Although they've been far stronger at home, they're built well enough to succeed in the postseason. With the NFL's best rushing attack, the Chiefs can utilize a ball-control attack anywhere to help minimize the most explosive opposing offenses and allow their own offense to be effective in the worst conditions Mother Nature can deliver. Matt Cassel is peaking at the perfect time under the guidance of Charlie Weis, who has plenty of experience calling plays in the postseason. Romeo Crennel, also no stranger to this time of year, has put together a playoff-caliber defense. And Todd Haley is smart enough to let his coordinators coach.
Steve Wyche: Saints
Taking the wild-card route won't matter for New Orleans, especially since the first game could be a momentum-building victory at Seattle. The Saints are a dome team, but their O-line will allow them to run when they have to, regardless of the climate -- as long as Pierre Thomas stays healthy. Defensive coordinators hate going against Sean Payton and Drew Brees because of their aggressiveness in scheming and executing matchup advantages, which they have, offensively, over every team in the NFC. With rookie TE Jimmy Graham emerging as an X-factor, the Who Dats are even scarier.
Pat Kirwan: Patriots
Off the record, I can usually get a coach to admit that avoiding a certain team isn't a bad idea. There are a number of solid teams in the playoffs that fit the bill, but there's no team like the Patriots. Bill Belichick is a factor, especially at home, and a guy with a rich playoff history. He has a knack for getting his team ready and creating a scheme that is problematic to any opponent coming into Foxboro. Then there's Tom Brady, who is 27-1 at home, including the playoffs, since 2007. Brady appears to be more driven than ever. He has led an offense that averaged 33 points a game this season at home (where the Patriots will play all of their playoff games), more than enough to overcome a defense that is a work in progress.
Bucky Brooks: Bears
Chicago has a dominant defense that excels at creating negative plays, and its ability to get turnovers allows it to win games without much help from the offense. Julius Peppers, Brian Urlacher and Lance Briggs are dominating games on a weekly basis with their speed and athleticism, which sets the table. Devin Hester has regained his touch as a returner, which consistently puts the offense in favorable field position. With Jay Cutler avoiding the costly mistakes that plagued the offense earlier in the season, the Bears can turn any contest into a low-scoring affair decided in the fourth quarter. To win in the playoffs, a team must excel in all three phases, and the Bears clearly have the blueprint to get it done.
Elliot Harrison: Ravens
No one should want to play the Ravens right now. Baltimore plays a physical game on both offense and defense. The Chiefs' main strength is their ground game, but they'll face the league's fourth-best run defense -- a unit that forced four fumbles Sunday against the Bengals. Many consider New England the Super Bowl favorite, but the Ravens destroyed the Patriots in last year's playoffs and took them deep into overtime at Gillette Stadium earlier this season. Perhaps the most impressive thing about the Ravens right now, besides their five-game win streak, is how effective Ray Rice and the running game have been (104-66 run-pass ratio over the last three weeks.)
Michael Lombardi: Packers
Every year there is usually one playoff team that is feared. The makeup of those teams is always the same -- a great quarterback combined with a defense that plays well in front and can create turnovers. The Cardinals and Giants reached recent Super Bowls with this formula; this year it is the Packers. With Aaron Rodgers at quarterback and a talented group of receivers to go along with the right combination of speed and pass-rushing ability on defense, no one wants to play the Packers, who are Super Bowl contenders.
Jason La Canfora: Ravens
No one in the AFC wants to face the Ravens as a wild card. They've won three road playoff games the past two seasons, Joe Flacco is much improved, and the run game has looked better down the stretch. They have won at Pittsburgh, managed to let the Patriots off the hook in overtime in New England (they won at Foxboro last year in the postseason), and have a playmaking defense. They're playoff-tested, and they don't mind going on the road. Peyton Manning has had their number, and avoiding what appeared to be a likely wild-card meeting with the Colts already bodes well for them.
Albert Breer: Packers
The Packers grew offensively in their one game without Aaron Rodgers -- against New England -- and the sky is the limit, as long as their offensive line holds up. The defense continues to ascend, too, and most of the team has some playoff experience (whether it was just last year, or it goes back to their 2007 run). So long as they can protect the franchise quarterback, there aren't many holes on this team.


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In August, a startup called KeyMe launched an app that allows users to scan and store digital copies of their house keys, which a locksmith can use to cut a new copy in case of a lockout. KeyMe is now further enabling New Yorkers to lock themselves out of their apartments consequence-free by opening a service that promises to deliver new keys in under an hour.
That's 60 glorious minutes you basically have to spend at the local bar by yourself, not stressing about when your roommate is going to get home.
In order to make this happen, the startup is working with locksmiths who have cutting tools installed in their vans. And in the interest of keeping things anonymous (because front door keys), the locksmith is given an approximate address for delivery, and they'll call when they're close to schedule a rendezvous point.
"We really don't want to know where you live," said founder Greg Marsh.
KeyMe is launching their delivery service in Manhattan, with New York's other four boroughs to follow. Boston is up next, and eventually the plan is to scale it nationally.
Marsh said that since the app's release this summer, KeyMe has seen tens of thousands of keys stored in their cloud-based system. Of those, quite a few have already started getting emergency keys made.
"We're seeing a mid-single digit percentage of our user base getting locked out, and that's in a very short period of time. We're talking ten to 14 weeks, so it's a really encouraging number," Marsh said.
Encouraging in the sense that there's a market here. KeyMe also has five kiosks installed in New York 7-Elevens (and one Bed, Bath & Beyond) that allow users to scan and make duplicates of their own keys. Next year, the plan is to roll out kiosks in non-New York cities, although scaling them is a tougher proposition simply because of the hardware involved.
As KeyMe seeks to take a larger portion of the locksmithing market, their best bet is to focus on growing the user base of their cloud storage, since there are no geographic bounds to that.

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I have a problem with my neighbors and it's bothering me more than I like to admit. I like having good neighbors and was raised to be a good neighbor, but there's basic problem we can't seem to resolve: They fear and hate dogs; my husband and I have two dogs.
Our problem may sound simple, but it's a complex situation. So I decided to use complexity as a lens for exploring what's going on. The idea to do so came to me while attending an online webinar recently.
During the webinar, we learned how to use a mind mapping tool that I already use often for presentations. So I used that same mind mapping tool to try to understand the complexity that's driving our neighborly conflict.
My neighbors—a couple—are terrified of dogs. The man and the woman both share the same level of deathly fear toward all pooches.
Our trouble with the neighbors started one afternoon some weeks ago when our rescued, black Labrador Retriever ran up to one of them—the husband—and started barking fiercely. Our lab startled him. She had escaped from our yard earlier that day after I accidently left the garage door open when I went out to run a few errands.
That mistake never happened again, but it sparked our current predicament. So I wondered, could trauma have something to do with this?
Rescue dogs have a complexity of their own. Both our dogs are rescue dogs. Where they came from and who their parents were are mysteries to my husband and me. Before adopting them, we learned that one of our dogs had been thrown over a fence when he was five weeks old and nearly died. The other dog—our black lab—was on her way to the pound when we took her in.
The black lab is protective—too protective sometimes, especially when she gets scared. I can only guess her reactions are rooted in any trauma she experienced as a puppy. When she's in our yard, she's leashed, and we work with her to keep her calm. She doesn't hurt people, but she does bark if she feels threatened. We have worked with her on our own and with a trainer. Maybe we need the Dog Whisperer or something?
What our black lab has in common with the neighbors is fear that's generated from some kind of past trauma that gets triggered in the present. I don't know my neighbors' stories, but as I said, they're both deathly afraid of dogs.
Trauma often gets reactivated in the present by an experience that reminds us of the initial traumatic experience. When this happens, our amygdala triggers and reacts by sending messages to the brainstem. The brainstem decides whether to freeze, fly, submit, or attack, and as our brain is processing the threatening experience, it limits our thinking, shutting down the prefrontal cortex that can help us accurately assess the threat level. These reactions are complex neurological responses that happen in seconds and without our conscious control.
After the accidental, runaway dog incident that happened a few weeks ago, we've made extra sure our dogs are behaving. We don't let them out to hassle the neighbors, and we limit their barking with a bark collar—things we had already been doing.
Despite our efforts, the neighbors emailed me this week to say they're afraid to leave their house. They also complained of recent, bad dog behavior. None of their concerns match the behavior I've seen in my dogs. I work at home and the dogs are usually right by my side, sleeping on the floor in my office. If they bark, I stop them. They never go out into the neighborhood without a leash.
I don't want to go talk to my neighbors by myself. Their fears at this point seem irrational to me and my mistrust is too great. My husband and I fear that they've harmed other dogs, including one of ours, in the past in an effort to eliminate their perceived dog "problems," which adds another layer of complexity to this human relationship. So I'm reluctant to go over and talk to them, which would be my preference for trying to resolve this situation. This complex interfamily system is fraught with fear and discord, it seems.
How to resolve this conflict? Two things I'm not going to do: (1) go to a lawyer, or (2) go to the police. That kind of action would bring way too many unintended consequences by involving punitive systems that are designed to deal with violence or litigation. Nor am I going to file a complaint because I think the neighbors are simply harassing us. I have to find some way to mediate our differences somehow. I'd really like to have a good relationship with my neighbors and will hold that vision in mind.
Sometimes in human affairs, things escalate and spiral out of control. My little microcosm is a fractal of bigger challenges that humans experience. Complexity interweaves elements of daily life seamlessly: the mind-mapping webinar, this blog and the technology and people who support it, rescue dogs, trauma and its aftereffects, systems for conflict resolution, peaceful residential neighborhoods, and the challenge of human relationships.
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The Analytics cluster is the Hadoop cluster and related components that runs the Analytics Data Lake. Its most important functions are providing:
- Webrequest computation (ingestion from caches, refinement, pageview extraction, computation of metrics, extraction into other systems, ad-hoc querying)
- MediaWiki history computation (ingestion from DB, history rebuilding, computation of metrics, extraction onto other systems, ad-hoc querying)
- Hadoop
- A collection of services for batch processing of large data. Core concepts are a distributed filesystem (HDFS) and MapReduce.
- Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). HDFS is a distributed, scalable, and portable filesystem written in Java for the Hadoop framework. Each node in a Hadoop instance typically has a single namenode; a cluster of datanodes form the HDFS cluster.
- NameNode (Hadoop)
- Manages HDFS file metadata.
- DataNode (Hadoop)
- Responsible for storage of HDFS block data.
- YARN (Hadoop)
- Yet-Another-Resource-Negotiator. Compute resource manager and API for distributed applications. MapReduce (v2) is a YARN application. Although not technically correct, YARN is sometimes referred to as MRv2. Also used to refer to WMF's corresponding (private) web interface at https://yarn.wikimedia.org/cluster/scheduler.
- ResourceManager (Hadoop)
- Handles YARN application (job) submission from clients.
- NodeManager (Hadoop)
- Runs on each compute node (and/or HDFS DataNode) and accepts jobs from the ResourceManager.
- MapReduce
- Programming model for parallelizing batch processing of large data sets. Good for counting things. Hadoop ships with a Java implementation of MapReduce.
- Hue
- Hadoop User Experience. Web GUI for various Hadoop services. (HDFS, Oozie, Pig, Hive, etc.) Written in Python Django. Also used to refer to WMF's instance at https://hue.wikimedia.org.
- Hive
- A system that projects structure onto flat data (text or binary) in HDFS and allows this data to be queried using an SQL-like syntax. Hive provides two main components: the Hive Metastore, which catalogs all the datasets available in HDFS, and the Hive Query Engine, which translates SQL to executable code.
- Iceberg
- A high-performance format for huge analytic tables. Iceberg brings the reliability and simplicity of SQL tables to big data, while making it possible for engines like Spark and Presto to safely work with the same tables, at the same time. Iceberg leverages the Hive Metastore for cataloging purposes.
- Spark
- General purpose distributed runtime engine. Writing jobs in Spark is easier than with lower level MapReduce. Also has a nice Hive / SQL interface. You'll use Spark over Hive when you need more flexibility than you can achieve with just SQL and pre defined tables.
- Oozie
- Scheduler for Hadoop jobs. Used for automated reporting based on data availability.
- Kafka
- Distributed pub/sub message queue. Useful as a big ol' reliable log buffer.
- Gobblin
- Kafka -> HDFS pipeline. Runs as a MapReduce job in Hadoop and consumes from Kafka into HDFS. See Analytics/Systems/Cluster/Gobblin.
- Zookeeper
- Highly reliable dynamic configuration store. Instead of keeping configuration and simple state in flat files or a database, Zookeeper allows applications to be notified of configuration changes on the fly.
- jmx
- JMX (Java Management Extensions) is a widely-adopted JVM mechanism to expose VM and application metrics, state, and management features. Nearly all the above-listed technologies provide JMX metrics; for example, Kafka brokers expose BytesIn, BytesOut, FailedFetchRequests, FailedProduceRequests, and MessagesIn aggregated across all topics (as well as individually). Kraken is using jmxtrans to send relevant metrics to Grafana and elsewhere.
- Refinery
- Refinery is a code repository that contains scripts, artifacts, and configuration for the cluster.
Log Producers - varnishkafka
Frontend varnish cache servers use varnishkafka to send all webrequest logs to Kafka brokers in EQIAD.
Log Buffering - Kafka
Kafka Brokers store a 7 day buffer of data. This gives us time to consume this data into HDFS and recover if there are any problems.
Batch Analysis - Hadoop
Raw webrequest logs are imported into HDFS using Apache Gobblin. (Raw log data is not world readable.) Analysis of these logs is done by Hive, Pig, and other MapReduce jobs.
Oozie is used to schedule and chain runs of Hive or other scripts based on the availability of data in HDFS. Workflows are triggered once the data is available.
Data pipelines
Traffic data
- Loading traffic logs
- Refinement and curation
- Datasets computation
- Pageviews / Projectviews
- Mediacounts
- Unique devices (last access method)
- Mobile uniques
Edit data
The pipeline providing Edits data in the Data Lake has seven steps:
- Loading - Import data from MySQL to hadoop (1 hadoop job per MySQL table per wiki, so a lot of jobs !)
- User and page history reconstruction - Spark jobs rebuilding user and page history that don't exists as-is in MySQL. See also: Page and user history reconstruction algorithm.
- Revision augmentation and denormalization - Enhance historical revisions with interesting fields and join with user and page history for a fully historified denormalized table.
- Check data quality against previous snapshot - To prevent data-errors chiming in, we have an automatic validation step checking a fully denormalized dataset snapshot against a previously generated one (assumed correct).
- Metrics computation - Compute some standard metrics from the denormalized table and store them in Hive.
- Prepare Mediawiki History Reduced for Druid - Compute a reduced version (less details, some pre-aggregations) of the fully denormalized dataset to provide a dataset better suited for druid serving layer (see below). There also is a validation step after this job, but since it almost identical to the one presented above (see 4.), we don't detail it here.
- Serving layer loading
- 2 years of the fully-denormalized tabble in the Druid cluster available internally for the foundation
- Full reduced version of the dataset in the druid cluster serving data for the Wikistats 2 AQS API.
- Full version published on dumps
See also: edit history administration
More details
- Getting Access
- Hue jobs and logs
- Hadoop
- Kafka
- Zookeeper
- Hive
- Dataset documentation
- Oozie
- Refinery
- Refinery-source
- Spark
- Webrequest partitions
|Hadoop master (primary NameNode)
|Hadoop standby master (standby NameNode)
|Cluster coordinator (Hive, Oozie, MySQL, Camus crons, other crons, HDFS balancer)
|Hadoop workers (DataNodes)
|Hue and YARN web interfaces
|Analytics Query Service
|Kafka Jumbo brokers
|kafka1012–1014, kafka-jumbo1001-1006
|Druid Analytics nodes
|Druid Public nodes (for AQS)
Some puppet modules used by the Analytics Cluster.
How do I...
retrieve a file from HDFS?
hdfs dfs -text /wmf/data/archive/browser/general/desktop_and_mobile_web-2015-9-27/*
list files on a directory?
hdfs dfs -ls /wmf/data/archive/browser/general/
calculate the size of a directory?
hdfs dfs -du -s -h /wmf/data/wmf/webrequest
recover files deleted by mistake using the hdfs CLI rm command?
If you have deleted a file using the HDFS CLI rm command then you should have got a message like the following:
18/04/11 16:52:09 INFO fs.TrashPolicyDefault: Moved: 'hdfs://analytics-hadoop/user/elukey/test'
to trash at: hdfs://analytics-hadoop/user/elukey/.Trash/Current/user/elukey/test
In this case,
/user/elukey/test was not deleted but moved to a special
.Trash directory in
/user/elukey (it will be different for each user issuing the hdfs command of course). By default the HDFS Analytics file system will keep deleted files (only via CLI) for a month as precautionary measure to help in case of accidental deletes. For example, in the above case, what if I realize after a day that
/user/elukey/test is needed? How would I recover it? The files under
.Trash are organized in daily checkpoints, namely every day at midnight UTC a new directory under
.Trash is created and all the files deleted between the last checkpoint time and the current one will be placed under it.
In my case:
elukey@stat1004:~$ date
Thu Apr 12 08:15:32 UTC 2018
elukey@stat1004:~$ hdfs dfs -ls /user/elukey/.Trash
Found 1 items
drwx------ - elukey elukey 0 2018-04-11 16:52 /user/elukey/.Trash/180412000000
elukey@stat1004:~$ hdfs dfs -ls /user/elukey/.Trash/180412000000/user/elukey
Found 1 items
-rw-r--r-- 3 elukey elukey 15 2018-04-11 16:51 /user/elukey/.Trash/180412000000/user/elukey/test
As you can see the file
/user/elukey/test, that was deleted on Apr 11th, ended up under the 180412000000 checkpoint. At this point the last thing to do is to move the file to recover in a safe place using the hdfs CLI like this:
elukey@stat1004:~$ hdfs dfs -mv /user/elukey/.Trash/180412000000/user/elukey/test /user/elukey/test
elukey@stat1004:~$ hdfs dfs -ls /user/elukey/
Found 6 items
-rw-r--r-- 3 elukey elukey 15 2018-04-11 16:51 /user/elukey/test
And as you can see the file is now back to its original place!
See also
- Logging Solutions Overview - 2013 overview of the distributed logging solutions surveyed back then.
- Logging Solutions Recommendation - An in depth description of Kafka and why we like it (2013).
- Cluster Infrastructure TechTalk Slides (2014-07)
- Infrastructure Tech Talk (2014-07-15)
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Wow, grazie per l'avvertimento! Quanto le devo?
La settimana scorsa, la camera dei rappresentanti del Sud Dakota ha approvato il decreto HCR 1009 che prevede l' "insegnamento bilanciato del riscaldamento globale" nelle scuole pubbliche del Sud Dakota.
I rappresentanti del Sud Dakota propongono come cause per i cambiamenti osservati: " Una varietà di effetti climatologici, meteorologici, astrologici, termologici e di dinamica ecologica". A parte l'astrologia (ma anche la "termologia" non è niente male), il documento è una bella collezione di leggende climatiche che illustra bene cosa succede quando i legislatori si improvvisano scienziati. Visto che c'erano, potevano anche abrogare la legge di gravità, così miglioravano la sicurezza degli aerei!
Certe volte mi viene quasi da tirare un sospiro di sollievo: ma allora i nostri legislatori non sono proprio i peggiori del mondo......
Ecco il decreto completo, se vi incuriosisce.
State of South Dakota
Introduced by: Representatives Kopp, Bolin, Brunner, Cronin, Curd, Feickert, Gosch, Greenfield, Hamiel, Hoffman, Hunt, Iron Cloud III, Jensen, Juhnke, Kirkeby, Lange, Lederman, Moser, Novstrup (David), Olson (Betty), Olson (Ryan), Pitts, Putnam, Rausch, Russell, Schlekeway, Sly, Steele, Tidemann, Turbiville, Van Gerpen, Verchio, and Wink and Senators Brown, Abdallah, Bradford, Haverly, Maher, and Schmidt
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, Calling for balanced teaching of global warming in the public schools of South Dakota.
WHEREAS, the earth has been cooling for the last eight years despite small increases in anthropogenic carbon dioxide; and
WHEREAS, there is no evidence of atmospheric warming in the troposphere where the majority of warming would be taking place; and
WHEREAS, historical climatological data shows without question the earth has gone through trends where the climate was much warmer than in our present age. The Climatic Optimum and Little Climatic Optimum are two examples. During the Little Climatic Optimum, Erik the Red settled Greenland where they farmed and raised dairy cattle. Today, ninety percent of Greenland is covered by massive ice sheets, in many places more than two miles thick; and
WHEREAS, the polar ice cap is subject to shifting warm water currents and the break-up of ice by high wind events. Many oceanographers believe this to be the major cause of melting polar ice, not atmospheric warming; and
WHEREAS, carbon dioxide is not a pollutant but rather a highly beneficial ingredient for all plant life on earth. Many scientists refer to carbon dioxide as "the gas of life"; and
WHEREAS, more than 31,000 American scientists collectively signed a petition to President Obama stating: "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, or methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the earth's atmosphere and disruption of the earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide will produce many beneficial effects on the natural plant and animal environments of the earth":
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the House of Representatives of the Eighty-fifth Legislature of the State of South Dakota, the Senate concurring therein, that the South Dakota Legislature urges that instruction in the public schools relating to global warming include the following:
(1) That global warming is a scientific theory rather than a proven fact;
(2) That there are a variety of climatological, meteorological, astrological, thermological, cosmological, and ecological dynamics that can effect world weather phenomena and that the significance and interrelativity of these factors is largely speculative; and
(3) That the debate on global warming has subsumed political and philosophical viewpoints which have complicated and prejudiced the scientific investigation of global warming phenomena; andBE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Legislature urges that all instruction on the theory of global warming be appropriate to the age and academic development of the student and to the prevailing classroom circumstances.


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U.S. newspapers are increasing their use of co-opetition practices, that is, cooperating with competitors to reduce costs, create synergies, or reduce risk in new markets. Such activities are permissible if they are not designed to create cartels or control prices for advertising or circulation.
The latest example occurred this week when the Boston Herald announced an agreement with the Boston Globe for its competitor to print and deliver the Herald. The move creates cost savings for the Herald by allow it to cut printing, trucks, and delivery perronnel, while simultaneously creating production and distribution economies and an additional revenue stream for the Globe--a win-win for both companies.
Such service agreements do not violate antitrust laws because the papers remain independent, set their own prices, and create their own content. If papers were to engage in such actions they would have to apply for an antitrust exemption under the Newspaper Preservation Act (see John C. Busterna and Robert G. Picard, Joint Operating Agreements: The Newspaper Preservation Act and its Application. Ablex, 1993), but those agreements have not proven successful in the long run.
The Boston agreement comes on the heels of numerous printing agreements, including that of the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times, that have been made among publishers in the last couple of years.
Another example of co-opetition is seen in the 59 newspaper and information companies—including New York Times Co., McClatchy Co., Washington Post Co., E.W. Scripps Co., A.H. Belo, and Associated Press—that have now banded together to create NewsRight to track use of digital content and ease its licensing. By cooperating with each other, the companies have brought more than 800 content sites into the operation and created a significant player in the digital industry.
Daily newspaper companies have historically disliked cooperation unless it was absolutely necessary—as in the case of news services. The new types of cooperation emerging show that the preference to go it alone is being eroded by contemporary financial conditions and the difficulties of operating independently in the digital environment.


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If you can believe Teddy's lies then he was a cop who had worked on the case of the break in, attack on Leonard and rape of Leonard's wife. He then worked with Leonard and helped him track down and kill John G. Teddy claims that he believed in Leonard and thought that helping him track down the killer would help Leonard feel peace. Now Teddy is an outside observer so he knows very well what Leonard's condition is, also since he was there since the initial investigation he knows how much Leonard has warped his own reality of what happened. So why is Teddy using Leonard?
Teddy seems to at the best be a dirty undercover cop (if he's even still a cop at all) at the worst he's a drug dealer(and may be the original John G.). He seems to be using Leonard to kill people whether it's some form of vigilante justice or just killing the competition it doesn't really make sense why he would use someone who not only couldn't be trusted from literally minute to minute but who also had to be led around and talked into every action. I can see the usefulness of a revenge obsessed man who has the perfect documented alibi of "I can't remember what I did or who I was with", but it seems like a lot of effort and patience for not much payout. Is Teddy getting some actual satisfaction from making Leonard happy or does Leonard just amuse Teddy? Does Teddy even feel like he needs to help Leonard?
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It has become a tradition among the mayors of towns involved in a sports championship to make a friendly wager hooked to which team wins out. Usually the prize is food or some sort or wearing the other teams jersey for a day. Since this is now known as the Disneyland Vs. Disney World NBA finals (a fact I'm sure makes Disney's marketing gurus happy beyond belief despite its origin on TNT sports) it only makes sense that the 'mayors' of those two theme parks and resorts make their own wagers.
Walt Disney World President Meg Crofton and Disneyland President Ed Grier have decided to take the team jersey approach and will wear Mickey Mouse ears with the opposing teams colors if their city's team loses.
I lived in Los Angeles during the Shaq/Kobe championship runs. That was quite an amazing time for a sports fan. Of course, now I live in Orlando. So who do I root for? I have to say my heart is with the Orlando Magic. They're a great team and its a deserving community. Plus they're named 'Magic' how can you get more Disney than that?
The full press release is below the cut:
Walt Disney World, Disneyland Resort Presidents Celebrate NBA Finals With Friendly Wager
ANAHEIM, Calif./LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (June 3, 2009) – Walt Disney World President Meg Crofton and Disneyland President Ed Grier are squaring off – all in fun – as their local teams, the Orlando Magic and the Los Angeles Lakers, head for the NBA Finals.
With both Disney parks asking guests "What Will You Celebrate?" in 2009, Grier and Crofton are getting in the act, making a celebratory wager on the outcome of the NBA Finals:
If the Magic win, Grier will walk down Main Street, U.S.A., at Disneyland park wearing a pair of specially made Mickey Mouse ears in Magic blue and silver. If the Lakers win, Crofton will don a pair of Lakers' purple and gold mouse ears and walk down Main Street U.S.A. at Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom.
"The Lakers are going to make your team very Grumpy this week," predicted Grier to Crofton.
"But we have 'Magic' on our side," countered Crofton. "And isn't that what Disney is all about?"
Crofton and Grier went through their respective parks Wednesday looking for supporters. Grier shot some hoops with Donald and Pluto in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland, while Crofton (along with Minnie, Goofy, Chip and Dale) drummed up Orlando Magic support in front of Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World.
The park presidents even pledged to turn the lights of their respective castles to their team colors in celebration of the historic pairing.


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Job hunting? This week's unusual openings
Every week, Monitor staffers comb the job listings in search of interesting places to work.
The eight most intriguing jobs we found this week are in Greensboro, Vt.; Salt Lake City; Albion, N.Y.; Oakland, Calif.; Ridgeland, S.C.; Seattle; Palatka, Fla.; and Columbia, Md.
1. Circus tour wardrobe supervisor
Employer: Circus Smirkus
Wages/salary: Not listed
Details: Plan for the safe and efficient storage and transport of costumes while on tour; launder, dry, and iron all costumes on a daily basis or as needed. (Click here for more information.)
Location: Greensboro, Vt., (pop. 770; median family income $45,000) is headquarters for the circus, including the summer Big Top Tour. Circus Smirkus is a nonprofit group that trains 10- to 18-year-olds in the circus arts.
2. Ice cream maker
Employer: Dreyer's
Wages/salary: Not listed
Details: Set up, monitor, adjust, and service equipment as necessary to maintain product, quality, and safety specifications. (Click here for more information.)
Location: Salt Lake City (pop. 180,651; median family income $44,120) sits in the northeast corner of the Salt Lake Valley. Winter ski resorts in the area receive 500 inches of snow annually.
3. Main Street program manager
Employer: Downtown Albion (N.Y.) Revitalization Team
Wages/salary: $30,000 to $40,000
Details: Responsible for coordinating a three-year grant focused on the revitalization of historic downtown. (Click here for more information.)
Location: Albion, N.Y., (pop. 8,042; median family income $39,281) is on the Erie Canal route through western New York.
4. Railroad carman
Employer: Amtrak
Wages/salary: $23.87 an hour
Details: Responsible for the turnaround maintenance of Surfliner, Superliner, and California Cars. (Click here for more information.)
Location: Oakland, Calif. (pop. 397,067; median family income $$54,191) is the fourth busiest container port in the US and the commercial hub of the East Bay.
5. Scalehouse attendant
Employer: Waste Management
Wages/salary: Not listed
Details: Operate computerized scale at landfill facility; provide assistance to customers entering the facility; and complete statistical reports. (Click here for more information.)
Location: Ridgeland, S.C. (pop. 2,591; median family income $38,047) is the state's newest waterfront town and a short drive from Hilton Head Island, a popular tourist destination.
6. Military sealift command pumpman
Employer: Military Sealift Fleet Support Command
Wages/salary: Not listed
Details: Performs work necessary for the safe and proper operation of liquid cargo transfer system. Repairs and rebuilds valves, pumps, and tubes. (Click here for more information.)
Location: Seattle (pop. 594,210; median family income $70,133) is known for its many coffee shops, including the headquarters of the Starbucks chain.
7. Water user analyst
Employer: St. Johns River Water Management District
Wages/salary: Not listed
Details: Perform complex geospatial/geostatistical analyses to assist in the development of projections of water use and population. (Click here for more information.)
Location: Palatka, Fla. (pop. 10,804; median family income $26,076), is notable for its unchanged, small-town, Southern rural culture. Its inland location means hot, 90-degree days are common from April to October.
8. Visual merchandising coordinator
Employer: L.L. Bean
Wages/salary: Not listed
Details: Responsible for bringing the company's "catalog to life" in a new store by supporting corporate merchandising and communications strategies through linkages with advertising, promotions, and product development. (Click here for more information.)
Location: Columbia, Md. (pop. 88,254; median family income $94,966) is an early planned community, opened in 1967 with the intent of eliminating economic and racial divisions. It's roughly halfway between Baltimore and Washington, D.C.


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It is said that the Inuit have many words for snow, but when it comes to the Northwest Passage only one type of frozen water matters: multiyear ice. It can slice through the hull of a ship like a knife through butter and it persists in the passage's waters despite unprecedented warming in the Arctic Ocean, thwarting shippers in search of a shortcut between Europe and Asia.
The fabled Northwest Passage has made headlines ever since it thawed last year for the first time. For three centuries the quest for an expedited route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans rivaled today's space race, with European superpowers vying for the prize. Hundreds of sailors and countless expeditions ventured into Canada's Arctic waters, including such naval luminaries as Sir Francis Drake, Captain James Cook and the ill-fated Henry Hudson, who left his name—and lost his life—on the Canadian bay that marks its entrance.
Slide Show: View satellite images of the possible Northwest Passage
Now, with the Arctic's sea ice shrinking at a rate of 10 percent per decade, this coveted shipping lane has opened for business—but shippers are not rushing to use it. The reason: as fate would have it, global warming appears to also be increasing the amount of potentially deadly multiyear ice chunks lurking in the newly opened pathway.
Sea of Ice
"The thing is, the Canadian Arctic has a totally different ice regime than the Arctic Ocean," says Stephen Howell, a climatologist at the Interdisciplinary Center on Climate Change at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.
In fact, the Canadian Arctic Archipelago acts as a "drain trap" for ship-wrecking multiyear ice, Howell says. This year, for example, when the first-year ice in the passage had melted, it opened the way for multiyear ice (MYI) from the Queen Elizabeth Islands to flow into and clog the Northwest Passage. "We call it a 'MYI invasion' and that's going to be the threat as we transition to an ice-free summertime Arctic," he says.
"The first-year ice, that's sort of like Swiss cheese and you can just plow through it," Howell says. This ice freezes over a winter and is seldom thicker than three feet (one meter). Often, first-year ice melts the summer after it's frozen, but if it doesn't, it becomes thicker the following winter and becomes multiyear ice. "The multiyear ice isn't like Swiss cheese; it's solid and trouble" for ships that collide with it, he says.
"In places it was three meters (nearly 10 feet) thick, but in other places we had a five-meter (16.5-foot) drill bit and we still did not reach the bottom," says Bruno Tremblay, an atmospheric and oceanic scientist at McGill University in Montreal, who was taking ice cores of multiyear ice in the Canadian territory of Nunavut's Viscount Melville Sound last year.
"It's very dangerous," adds Ivana Kubat, an engineer at the National Research Council's Canadian Hydraulics Centre in Ottawa. "If a lower type of vessel hits a piece of multiyear ice, then the vessel can sink depending on the speed and damage." One study showed that multiyear ice was to blame for 74 percent of the damage suffered by ships traveling in the Canadian Arctic between 1976 and 2007.
A Route to Dodge Danger?
Still, there are several ways through the Northwest Passage. The southern, shallow and circuitous route through Peel Sound in Nunavut has been open the past three summers, thanks to warmer temperatures. "That's because that region is mostly first-year ice so with warmer temperatures it melts and it clears," Howell says.
But the northern route, which runs through the McClure Strait in a straight shot from Baffin Bay west of Greenland to the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska, is another story. "Everyone wants the McClure route because it's quicker, it saves money," he says.
The McClure route opened last year, and once before that, in 1998. The European Space Agency reported that the strait opened up this year—open water was visible from space—although it wasn't safe for ship crossings.
"You could in principle navigate through it [this year], avoiding ice floes, and looking for the narrow opening, but the wind can move the ice around within hours so it can be a bit tricky," says Christian Melsheimer, a researcher at the Institute of Environmental Physics at the University of Bremen in Germany, whose research group produces daily maps of sea ice. "Some interpret this as 'the passage is open'; some would rather wait until the ice concentration is near zero percent across the whole passage."
The minimum sea ice cover in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago shrunk by 6.6 percent and the hazardous multiyear ice by 8.6 percent each decade between 1979 and last year. So the amount of sea ice in the region is indeed decreasing, just not in the right way for the Northwest Passage to become a viable alternative to the Panama Canal anytime soon.
"Obviously, if the climate is warming then you would have less first-year ice," says Kubat. "But, based on our analysis of our work, there is ice [in the passage], and with some melt of first-year ice you have more multiyear ice in the shipping lanes."
Global Impact
Climate models predict that even as sea ice disappears from the Arctic Ocean in the summer, the northern part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago will remain a stronghold for multiyear ice. That means hard, ship-wrecking multiyear ice in all the channels of the Northwest Passage.
"Even in 2040, when there is no more summer ice in the Arctic, the archipelago will still be clogged with ice," Tremblay says.
As a result, ships may be able to sail plumb across the Arctic Ocean to Eurasia before they can navigate the Northwest Passage to ply the waters along North America's Arctic coast safely. But by that time any gains from a shipping shortcut will have been dramatically offset by potential losses elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere due to the effects of climate change. "There are certainly some positive benefits at least in the short term economically," says Walt Meier, a research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., "but the negative impacts, I think, ultimately outweigh that."
The U.S. Southwest, for instance, will dry up; ocean circulation, jet streams and storm tracks will probably all change, he says. "There definitely will be impacts on all the U.S. and Europe and Asia," Meier notes, "and at least [on] all of the Northern Hemisphere due to the loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic."


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I mentioned a short while ago that Genesi had become a Bodhi affiliate. They sent me one of their Smartbooks to get hacking at and today I would like to share my first batch of public files for it. The following is a short HOWTO for getting a Debian Wheezy file system with the Bodhi Enlightenment desktop running on your Genesi Smartbook.
First - Preparing the SD Card:
You will need an SD card that is at least 4GB. We need two partitions on this card, the first is a small EXT3 partition (at least 64MB) and then a second EXT4 partition that takes up the remainder of the card. Use your tool of choice to prepare the SD card, personally I prefer "GParted":
Second - Getting the Files:
Two archives contain everything you need to get Bodhi rolling on your Smartbook. Grab the latest rootfs and boot partitions from here.
Third - Extracting the Files:
Place the boot archive in the ext3 partition of your SD card and extract the files there. Place the rootfs archive in the ext4 partition of your SD card and extract the files there.
Thats it - you are all set! Simply place the SD card in your Smartbook and boot it up. In a few moments you should be greeted with an Enlightenment desktop. The default user information is:
Username: bodhi
Password: bodhi
The bodhi account is configured to be able to use "sudo", but a root account is also in existence with a password of "bodhi".
Known Issues:
This is a early release for others wanting to help me test and debug things. It is fairly functional in it's current state, but please be aware of two issues with the first release I am aware of -
- Audio is non-functional
- Shutdown/Restart/Suspend cannot be done via Enlightenment Menu
Installing to Internal Memory:
If you like the Bodhi image and want to install it to your internal system memory (typically much faster than an SC card) it is fairly easy to do so. By default the internal drive has two paritions, one located at /dev/sda1 and a second at /dev/sda2. Mount these while booted from the SD card and remove their current contents. Then simply extract the boot archive to /dev/sda1 and the rootfs to /dev/sda2. Finally, you will need to remove the default boot.scr the boot archive provides and rename the boot.scr.sda to simply boot.scr
Trouble Shooting:
If you encounter an issue getting Bodhi setup on your Smartbook please do not leave a comment here about it. Instead open a thread in the Genesi Section of our user forums.
Finally here are a couple of slightly terrible photos of Bodhi booted on my Genesi.
~Jeff Hoogland


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Our Queen Anne Victorian House, Circa 1892, Then and Now
We are so thankful to have this photo of our home as it was back in the day (now if only they would have had color photos back then!) The first thing on our wish list for the exterior is to replace that gorgeous wrap around porch but even without it, she's still a grand old house with quite a presence. I will be posting interior photos soon.


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Michael Jordan Targeted In Paternity Lawsuit
ATLANTA (CBSSports/AP) – An Atlanta woman has filed a lawsuit saying basketball Hall of Famer and Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan is the father of her teenage son.
The lawsuit was filed Feb. 6 by Pamela Smith in Fulton County Superior Court. It requests Jordan take a paternity test, pay child support and share medical, dental and hospital costs that are not covered by insurance.
The lawsuit also requests the boy's last name be changed to Jordan, and for a judge to order the Georgia Department of Vital Records to issue him a new birth certificate.
King James vs. Air Jordan: By The Numbers
Publicist Estee Portnoy says Jordan has no comment and calls to Smith's home and office were not immediately returned Friday afternoon.
According to court documents, Smith does not have an attorney and a court date is scheduled for March 12.
(© Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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What is the purpose of high school? Over the past several years America seems to have arrived at a consensus: The overarching goal of high school is to prepare students for college. The current mantra is "college ready for all," which means high school students need to be focusing on academic preparation and study skills. It's a rare issue that crosses party lines — both Republicans and Democrats can win points by pushing for a tougher, more competitive high school education.
Driven by this notion, states and districts around the country have raised high school graduation requirements by increasing the number and rigor of required academic courses and by adding exit exams. Massachusetts doesn't let students graduate unless they can pass the MCAS exam in English, math, and one science or technology subject. Americans, anxious about their competitiveness, look around the world and worry that, if anything, we're not doing enough.
But as we push harder to create more demanding high schools that are more focused on college preparation, something is also going wrong.
Emerging research in the education world suggests that a tougher approach to high school academics might leave students no better prepared for college and work, while also increasing the number of high school dropouts. The National Research Council concluded that high school exit exams have decreased high school graduation rates in the United States by 2 percentage points without increasing achievement. In Chicago, a 2010 study found no positive effects on student achievement from a school reform measure that ended remedial classes and required college preparatory course work for all students. High school graduation rates declined, and there was no improvement in college enrollment and retention rates among students who did graduate.
The United States clearly needs more college graduates: We currently rank ninth in the world in four-year college graduation rates for domestic students, and President Obama has set a goal for the United States to be first in the world by 2020.
But we also need something else: more high school graduates, and better-trained ones. And to do that, we need to think differently about what high school should be: not narrowly focused on classroom achievement, but broadly designed to keep more students engaged, reward more types of thinking, and leave young people better prepared, whatever they plan to do.
To college-minded parents and educators, rethinking high school in this way might sound like a scaling back of ambition. But it can also be a more broad-minded, accommodating vision of what school is, and who it's for. It's a vision with deep roots in American history, and one that gives more students a chance to lay the groundwork for their futures.
Despite the current focus on college preparedness, American students, parents, and public officials have long seen education as having broader goals. In 1818 Thomas Jefferson stated that the purpose of public education included giving citizens information for transacting business, the ability to express ideas in writing, and an understanding of duties to neighbors and country.
Support for a broad range of educational goals continues to this day. A recent survey of the general public, elected officials, and state legislators by Richard Rothstein from the Economic Policy Institute and his colleagues showed support for eight broad goals for public education, with "basic academic goals" being the highest rated, but generating no more than one-quarter of the votes. Other goals included critical thinking, social skills and work ethic, and citizenship.
The need for schools to do more than prepare students for college is supported by studies about jobs in the future economy. A 2010 report from Georgetown University forecasts that by 2018, 63 percent of all jobs in the United States will require a postsecondary education — but that also means that more than a quarter of all jobs will not require any postsecondary education. Indeed, the Department of Labor Statistics has projected that more than one-third of all job openings in the US economy between 2008 and 2018 will not require a college degree, and in fact will require one month or less of on-the-job experience or instruction to be fully qualified in the occupation.
So for a large number of Americans, a college degree won't matter at all. What will matter, however, is graduating from high school with a set of skills that they can use to get a job, to keep learning, to live a better life.
A number of economists, including Nobel economist James Heckman, have documented the need for noncognitive or so-called soft skills in the labor market, such as motivation, perseverance, risk aversion, self-esteem, and self-control. A 2001 report from the National Association of Manufacturers found the top skill deficiency in both current workers and job applicants was a lack of basic employability skills such as timeliness and work ethic.
Only 76 percent of public high school students in the United States earn a diploma within four years of entering the ninth grade, a rate lower than 40 years earlier. This translates into more than 1 million students who fail to earn a high school diploma each year. When these students drop out of high school, either from lack of interest or because they can't pass an academically rigorous exam, they're losing not only the chance at the diploma they'll need to get a job, but also any opportunity they might have to acquire those basic skills.
How can we keep those students in school — and better serve them when they stay? Research has shown that the key factor in student success is being engaged. Students who are not engaged are less likely to perform well in school, more likely to fail classes, and less likely to graduate. In the 2006 Civic Enterprises report, The Silent Epidemic, high school dropouts reported that the most frequent reason for leaving school was that classes were not interesting.
America's education system — and its students — would benefit from developing a broader measure of high school success, one that includes vocational and technical education as well as the arts and humanities.
Research demonstrates that career and technical education — courses that teach applied skills in agriculture, engineering, health science, and the like — increases attendance, raises completion rates, and improves earnings and employment prospects of high school graduates whether or not they attend college. International comparisons further reveal that countries offering more access to vocational options have higher high school completion rates as well as higher scores on international tests.
Such courses, if approached creatively, can also provide another way of teaching rigorous academic content. The University of California, where I work, is helping teachers design so-called integrated technical courses for high schools that meet entry requirements for the university. One example is an auto mechanics course that also teaches students college prep physics, already offered in one California high school.
A more balanced high school education would also offer students the chance to spend time in a workplace, not only learning career-specific skills, but also developing the "soft" skills needed for success. In such schools, graduation requirements could be redefined so students could succeed not just by passing MCAS-style tests, but by demonstrating mastery of an area that most interests them — whether it is math, physics, cooking, mechanics, or sports — while achieving acceptable proficiency in core academic and other areas.
High school, in short, should not just prepare adolescents for college and careers, but for successful lives as adults. And far from backing off modern notions of success, this approach actually embodies new understandings of what really helps people succeed: not just reading and math, but deeper life skills that aren't reflected on exit exams or college applications.
A long-term study by sociologist John Clausen tracked children born in the Great Depression for six decades and found that those whose lives turned out best — who obtained more education, had lower rates of divorce, had more orderly careers, achieved higher occupational status, and experienced fewer life crises such as unemployment — shared something he labeled "planful competence," a combination of dependability, intellectual involvement, and self-confidence. Those factors, he found, didn't necessarily correspond to higher education or test scores. "There's nothing that predicts better," he wrote "than what they were like in high school."
Russell W. Rumberger is vice provost for education partnerships at the University of California Office of the President and author of "Dropping Out: Why Students Drop Out of School and What Can be Done About It" (Harvard University Press).


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WASHINGTON – Janet Napolitano announced today that, due to increased threats, all airline passengers will be strip-searched.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has ordered the TSA to strip search all passengers boarding international AND domestic flights starting on January, 1, 2011.
Two months ago, Napolitano announced that the federal stimulus legislation would pay for the purchase of hundreds of controversial full-body scanners. "Through the Recovery Act, we are able to continue our accelerated deployment of enhanced technology as part of our layered approach to security at airports nationwide," Napolitano said at the time.
The number of scanners has roughly doubled since Napolitano's announcement and they are now found in 68 U.S. airports, and the Transportation Security Administration says the controversial devices have proven to be somewhat of a success by they are not effective.
"The only way we can really make sure that a passenger is not carry an explosive devices is to check all their body cavities," said Napolitano.
To make it easier for passengers to deal with the strip searches, Napolitano has ordered the TSA to hire "good-looking" agents to perform the strip searches. Here are two new TSA hires:
A growing number of airline passengers, labor unions, and advocacy groups, however, say the new strip search mandate has "gone too far."
"This is a complete invasion of invasion of privacy and is way over the line," said Passenger Advocate, Betsy Quinn. "It is going to kill air travel in the United States. Who wants to have a finger shoved up their butt every time they fly? It's outrageous."
But, Napolitano is holding firm. "Passengers will be submit to the strip search, or they will sent home."
Passengers will now be ordered to get to the airport at least 3 hours ahead of ANY flight now. "It takes time to examine every passenger's body cavity," said Napolitano.
Some passengers are actually looking forward to the new requirement. "I haven't had sex in two years, so to just have someone touch me in an intimate way, really makes me happy. I've booked five flights already," said Joe McDooley, of Philadlephia.
Get ready to bend over for the TSA!


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Easter means two things to me: Cute, fluffy bunnies, and candy. Since I would hate to pass up the opportunity to celebrate pretty much any holiday, despite my pitiful lack of knowledge about it, I set about making the most festive sweet treat I could muster.
Thank goodness I still had a marshmallow kit from Angel Food, which had admittedly expired six months ago, but still worked just as promised. Thick, billowing clouds of marshmallow-y goodness were soon whipping around the beater of my mixer, dyed a pastel pink thanks to the pomegranate juice I substituted for water. Peeps are pretty much the epitome of Easter to me, but it would be a stretch to try piping out those iconic shapes, so instead the mallow was set in a baking dish, to be cut out later into appropriate shapes.
Lightly dusting the counter, knife, cookie cutter, and entire kitchen with powdered sugar, tiny pink bunnies were soon taking shape.
Carefully poking those microscopic ears and tails out of the metal form, it seemed like a task that would last me all day. Little did I know that like the real thing, this rabbits can really multiply in no time…!


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Teaching Artist (Percussion) at YOLA at Torres
September 17, 2019
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association is currently seeking a:
Teaching Artist (Percussion) at YOLA at Torres
Founded in 1919, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association's mission is to perform, present, and promote music in its varied forms at the highest level of excellence to a diverse and large audience, both at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association is dedicated to continuing its pre-eminent status in the music world of the 21st century.
Program Summary:
YOLA is the LA Philharmonic Music and Artistic Director, Gustavo Dudamel's signature program. YOLA is inspired by El Sistema, the music education system that provides half-a-million children with free musical instruments and intensive musical instruction In Venezuela. Central to YOLA's mission is the promotion of healthy growth and development through the study, practice and performance of music. Simultaneously, YOLA positively invests in each child's development as a musical ambassador of peace, hope, and understanding amongst a diverse population of cultures, backgrounds and beliefs. YOLA currently serves approximately 1000 elementary, middle, and high school students.
Position Summary:
The Teaching Artist (Percussion), reporting to the Program Manager, YOLA at Torres, will be responsible for percussion instruction at the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA) site located on the campus of the East LA Performing Arts Magnet at Torres High School. The employee will ensure the highest quality learning experience for YOLA students, support each child holistically, and create curriculum, pedagogy, and lesson plans in collaboration with other YOLA music faculty. The employee will support the YOLA philosophy and community and help facilitate community and family involvement.
Hours for this position will be up to approximately 11 hours per week.
Position Elements:
- Collaborating with YOLA faculty to create a shared curriculum and culture inspired by the ideals and philosophies of El Sistema
- Instructing beginning percussion in classes consisting of up to 10 elementary school students
- Assisting with full orchestra rehearsals, playing in the section, and collaborating with the YOLA Conductor at the discretion of the program manager
- Communicating with YOLA academic tutors and parents to understand each child holistically
- Attending music pedagogy and tutoring professional development sessions
- Preparation and communication with music teachers, YOLA Conductor, Program Manager, and LA Philharmonic Staff
- Other duties as assigned
Position Requirements:
- Demonstrated musicianship and artistry as a teacher/performer
- Strong knowledge of orchestral music, music reading skills, and music pedagogy
- Experience working with children from diverse backgrounds; experience working in underserved communities
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community
- Ability to work weekends and evenings
- Bilingual in English and Spanish a plus
- Four-year undergraduate degree with a focus on music performance, music theory, or equivalent experience preferred
How to apply:
Complete the online application by clicking here.
- Complete the application with all pertinent information
- At the end of the application, a confirmation page will appear when you have submitted your application.
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The woman above according to her Twitter profile is named "Jen" and she is a Journalist and Philanthropist. Doesn't mention who she works for or what Philanthropy she does, but I digress.
It appears just today she read the story about Nuggets Center Javale McGee and model Ayana Marie. The story was originally about Ayana wanting to warn other women about the dangers of meeting an athlete that you cared about.
At some point it turned into a story about McGee not buying her Chiptole. It got ugly for a bit, but the story had died down until this weekend when Ayana announced via her Twitter account that she was pregnant.
You can read all about that and the back story below.
Model Ayana Marie Is Pregnant; Is it Javale McGee's Baby?
You maybe asking what does this has to do with "Jen", well she is claiming to be McGee's fiancée and they were engaged at the time he was flying out and sleeping with Ayana.
She blasted out a string of Tweets which you can read below. I must warn you the language is NSFW and some of the comments are borderline racist.
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After reading the Tweets I have a couple of thoughts about "Jen's" rant.
1- While degraded "Dark b*tches" she totally ignores the fact that if she is telling the truth her fiancee was cheating on her with said "Dark B*tch". So what she is saying makes no sense, because he obviously has no problem sleeping with black women instead of his so called fiancee.
2- She offers Ayana money to stop spreading rumors, but if the rumor aren't true what exactly is the money for?
3- Is she offering her own money or Javale's money? If Javale wanted the "problem" to go away shouldn't he be the one talking not his alleged fiancee? Why she is fighting his battles?
4- Why has no one to my understanding ever heard of her before? After doing some digging there is zero information about McGee having a fiancee or even a girlfriend. If she is telling the truth what does it say about her that McGee doesn't claim her?
5- It would be almost impossible for this to be the first time she has heard of the story. This was a national story, that even McGee has acknowledge, but his fiancee has no clue what is going on?
That is just a few of the problems I see with "Jen's" story. Considering Ayana never claimed to be Javale's girlfriend nor did she know he had a fiancee I'm not exactly sure what her beef is with Ayana. If she is telling the truth her beef should be with Javale. Never blame the suppler, blame the user.
The man you are allegedly about to marry spend a weekend having sex with another woman who knew nothing about you. She needs to deal with that truth.
The truth though………..
Funny thing about that, we don't really know the truth about any of this.
The only people who really know what is going on is Ayana and Javale and neither of them are giving up concrete information. Until then the speculation will continue to run rampant.
After being aware of the the post "Jen" had this to say.


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Russian pleads guilty to charge related to Citadel malware
ATLANTA (AP) - A Russian man accused of helping develop and distribute malicious software designed to steal personal financial information pleaded guilty Monday to a charge of computer fraud.
Mark Vartanyan, 29, who's known to have used the online alias "Kolypto," was arrested in Norway in October 2014 and was extradited to the U.S. in December. He entered a guilty plea in federal court in Atlanta after reaching a deal to cooperate with federal prosecutors, who have agreed not to seek more than five years in prison.
He's scheduled to be sentenced June 21.
Vartanyan, a native of Moscow, was involved in the development, improvement, maintenance and distribution of Citadel, which infects computer systems and steals financial account credentials and personally identifiable information, prosecutor Greg D'Agincourt said in court.
Starting in 2011, Citadel was marketed on invite-only, Russian-language internet forums used by cybercriminals, and users targeted the computer networks of major financial and government institutions around the world, prosecutors have said. Industry estimates indicate it infected about 11 million computers worldwide and caused more than $500 million in losses.
Vartanyan was involved in the development, improvement, maintenance and distribution of Citadel from August 2012 to January 2013 while living in Ukraine and again from April 2014 to June 2014 while living in Norway, prosecutors have said.
Citadel was a top-tier malware at its height but had a relatively short run compared to some similar programs because its source code was leaked early on, making it easier for antivirus companies to spot it and block it, Mark Ray, a former FBI special agent who is now director of cyber investigations at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Atlanta, told The Associated Press in a phone interview.
"What made Citadel so unique is that it was the first one that really incorporated this concept of a customer relationship development module, where the developers wanted feedback from the users on improvements and additions and new features," said Ray, who was still working for the FBI in 2014 and traveled to Norway to interview Vartanyan following his arrest.
Vartanyan was one of many people who helped develop Citadel, Ray said, adding that just like with the development of legitimate software programs, developers of malware rely on different programmers with different tools and skills to build and improve their programs.
Another Russian, Dimitry Belorossov of St. Petersburg, known as Rainerfox, was sentenced in September 2015 to serve 4 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty in Atlanta to conspiring to commit computer fraud for distributing and installing Citadel onto computers using a variety of methods, prosecutors said.
The Department of Justice investigation into the creator of Citadel is ongoing.


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My predictions this year will be pretty focused on the Internet Big Five (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook) but the first two focus on Twitter. Why? Because Twitter is poised to become a critical "free radical" whose presence affects the actions of all the Big Five players. And 2012 will be the year this becomes readily apparent. In short: In 2012, every Big Five Internet company will need to have a clear Twitter strategy. At the moment, not all of them do.
What do I mean when I use the term "free radical"? Well, taken loosely from molecular chemistry and biology, free radicals are particles with open shells or unpaired electrons – they cause change in otherwise stable systems. I take the term with a bit more license, however – to me Twitter is the only Internet service at scale that has yet to ossify into a predictable platform with a massive revenue base to protect. This fact, plus the company's liberal philosophical bent toward free speech, positions Twitter as something of a shape-shifting arms merchant in the ongoing battle between the Internet Big Five. Believe me, any one of the Five would kill to own Twitter, several of them have tried to buy the company over the past few years. It's now clear that Twitter's path is one of independence. To succeed, it must become the Swiss bank of social intent, providing its services in some kind of useful way to each and every one of the Big Five.
2011 has already set the table for how this year is going to play out. In short, Microsoft and Apple embraced Twitter, Google and Facebook rejected it, and Amazon stayed on the sidelines, for the most part.
Last year, Google allowed its search deal with Twitter to expire (not for lack of trying, I am sure), and then rolled out Google+, which is clearly a Twitter competitor (sure, it's also a Facebook competitor, but let's keep this post focused, shall we? Google+ replaced Twitter in Google's search service. Enough said.). Microsoft, on the other hand, was happy to renew its deal. It'll do more with Twitter in 2012, to be sure.
Last year was the year Facebook pretty much copied everything Twitter does, up to and including the "Subscribe" feature, which is pretty much a full copy of Twitter inside the Facebook walled garden. Meanwhile Apple embraced Twitter wholeheartedly, with a deal that clearly benefited from Facebook negotiations gone south. And as I said earlier, Amazon didn't see much reason to work with Twitter, save adding a few new handles to its corporate identity.
In 2012, every Big Five player is going to have to reckon (again) with Twitter. And it's my hope that Twitter's approach to these Internet behemoths is to force them all to play by the same rules. In other words, no exclusive deals for any of them. If Google wants to integrate Twitter natively into Android (the way Apple has with iOS), why, great. Twitter won't refuse to do so because Apple objects. Should Microsoft care to build Twitter natively into Xbox Live, again, no problem, but sorry Microsoft, Twitter keeps the right to allow Sony or Nintendo (or, gasp, Facebook proxy Zynga) the same option. When Amazon starts publicly acting like a full-blown media company (and not just a distribution or ecommerce player), it will cut a deal with Twitter for distribution and data, quite possibly in the advertising network space. Amazon's competitors will have nothing to say about it. And if Facebook ever wakes up and realizes that Twitter might play a part in its strategy in some important way, Twitter will be more than happy to figure out a deal, even if Google objects.
In short, the Internet Big Five need a neutral player they can all draw on for value and features that any one of them can't (or won't) do – for any number of reasons. This is the role Google played in the first five years of Web 2.o (but increasingly can't play due to conflicts with owned and operated properties like YouTube, Android, Google+, Places, etc.). For now, Google and Facebook still think they can out-Twitter Twitter. Microsoft and Apple have already punted on competing directly. I'm predicting 2012 is the year Google and Facebook come around and work with Twitter in some new, significant way, as will Amazon.
This is a pretty risky prediction to make, to be sure. Sitting here in January of 2012, it's quite easy to argue that the folks at Facebook and Google see absolutely no reason to work with Twitter. But there's an important reason to work with Twitter that hasn't become quite evident, yet. And that has to do with the concept of openness and the need for third party validation in the eyes of government and consumer scrutiny. More on that in a future prediction.
Predictions 2012: #1 – On Twitter and Media


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Landry Defeats Downer in Third District Runoff
In Saturday's Republican primary runoff for the Third Congressional District, attorney and businessman Jeff Landry defeated Hunt Downer. Landry had fallen 160 votes short of securing a primary victory, netting 49.6% of the vote four weeks ago. (The Third District represents the southeastern boot tip of Louisiana, outside of the Greater New Orleans area. The incumbent, Charlie Melancon (D), left the seat open in order to challenge for David Vitter's Senate seat.)
Now, Having been forced to wage two campaigns within a month to secure the Republican nomination, Landry will face a Democratic opponent who has not had to face a primary opponent challenger: Ravi Sangisetty of Houma, a 28 year-old attorney. Sangisetty is the favorite of the plaintiff's bar, and sits atop a $667,000 war chest.
LA-03 is an expensive district to compete in. Three major media markets (New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Lafayette) serve the district, but none of those cities are within the district.
LA-03 should be an easy pickup for the Republicans, but Downer's refusal to drop from the contest sapped Landry's coffers. Jeff is going to need some money help to contend on Nov 2.


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JUPITER, Fla. – Nathan Eovaldi allowed one run in four innings and John Maine followed with two scoreless innings Friday to help the Miami Marlins beat the New York Yankees 6-1.
Maine, who hasn't pitched in the major leagues since 2010, is competing for the fifth spot in the Marlins rotation.
New York starter Adam Warren allowed four runs and six hits in four innings. In his previous two spring training starts, Warren gave up one run and one hit in five innings.
Miami's Adeiny Hechavarria had two hits and two RBIs. Donovan Solano and Rob Brantly each had two hits and scored twice. Matt Downs had an RBI double and a sacrifice fly.
Melky Mesa had two hits and scored a run, and Thomas Neal had an RBI double for the Yankees.


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By most measures, Warren Tolman should be running away with the race for attorney general. He was an accomplished state senator, has run for statewide office twice, has raised more money than his opponent, and is backed by the AFL-CIO and all four former attorneys general.
Yet Maura Healey, a former assistant attorney general making her first run for political office, has used her compelling biography as a onetime professional basketball player and advocate for gay rights to turn the contest into a neck-and-neck battle that is dividing the hearts and minds of Democratic activists.
Both candidates are tapping into different impulses within the party.
Tolman, 54, has roots in the reform wing of the Legislature, and a record of passing significant tobacco, campaign finance, and ethics laws, as well as of taking on power players such as former Senate president William M. Bulger. He enjoys strong support from veterans of those battles, as well as from labor unions, thanks in part to his brother, Steven, the president of the state AFL-CIO.
But it has been 15 years since he served in office, and many voters, especially younger ones, have no memory of the laws he passed in the 1990s, or of his runs for lieutenant governor in 1998 and for governor in 2002.
Enter Healey, 43, a former top deputy to Attorney General Martha Coakley who has excited Democrats looking for a fresh face, and a chance to elect the first openly gay woman to statewide office in Massachusetts. She has won endorsements from women's and gay rights groups, and is effectively tied with Tolman in the sprint to the Sept. 9 Democratic primary. In the Globe's latest poll, Healey has the support of 28 percent of Democratic voters; Tolman has 26 percent.
"It's caught me by surprise," said Francis X. Bellotti, a former attorney general who supports Tolman and encouraged him to run. "I thought he would do a great job, and would win it without a great deal of competition, but she's a threat."
The candidates disagree on just a few issues — he supports casinos, she opposes them — and argue more about the proper role of the attorney general. Healey sees the job in the Coakley mold: a career prosecutor targetting unscrupulous lenders and fraudsters.
"Legislators, they debate, discuss, draft legislation, and vote," she said, dismissing Tolman's experience as a lawmaker. "The AG's job is to sue, subpoena, investigate, prosecute, hold people accountable, and the arena is really the courtroom."
Tolman says he couldn't disagree more. He vows to use the attorney general's bully pulpit to pressure colleges to combat sexual assault, to fight the National Rifle Association, and to push drug companies to stem opiate abuse.
"It's not about being a courtroom litigator," Tolman said. "It's about leading: leading an office, leading people, standing up on issues that matter to the people of Massachusetts."
When they argue about policy, the focus has been on so-called smart gun technology, which Tolman has driven to the forefront of the debate.
He wants to immediately issue a regulation requiring that all new guns sold in the state use the fingerprint technology, so they could only be fired by their legal owners.
Healey contends the attorney general does not have the authority to issue that regulation; she would seek legislation requiring it.
"It's a small difference in terms of the outcome," she said.
Tolman disagrees.
"I will use the office of the attorney general to do it. Maura won't," he said. "That's a fundamental difference, plain and simple."
Both candidates come from large families — he is the seventh of eight children, she the first of five — but charted very different courses into the race.
As a legislator, Tolman helped pass a first-in-the-nation law requiring tobacco companies to disclose the ingredients in cigarettes. The measure earned him the ire of Rush Limbaugh, a badge of honor Tolman never fails to mention. He also sponsored a law that limited campaign donations and banned gifts from lobbyists to legislators.
Pushing back against Healey's attemps to paint him as a political insider, Tolman boasts that he never voted for Bulger for Senate president and helpd ban smoking in the State House "over the objections of the chain-smoking Senate president," Bulger's successor, Thomas F. Birmingham.
"I would ask someone to show me a legislator over the last 50 years who has exhibited more independence from the status quo on Beacon Hill," Tolman said.
But after leaving office in 1999, he took on more lucrative work, some of which was does not fit comfortably with his reputation as a reformer.
Last year, he earned more than $300,000 as an attorney at Holland and Knight in Boston, as a vice president of EnTrust Capital, a New York investment firm, and as manager of Etain, a consulting firm he founded.
The Globe reported in April that Tolman was also director of business development at Fast Strike Games, which promotes technology designed to make betting appealing to young people. He then cut ties with the firm.
But Healey, noting the attorney general will oversee the casino industry, said, "Who do you trust to be the better regulator of the industry?"
She leans heavily on her years as a star point guard at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, N.H., at Harvard, and in Austria, where she spent two years playing professionally for UBBC Wüstenrot Salzburg.
In her legal career, she is best known for arguing the state's case against the Defense of Marriage Act, which led in 2010 to the first ruling in the nation to strike down the law.
Both candidates have raised large sums, but Tolman has pulled in more: $1.5 million, to Healey's $1 million, allowing him to launch the campaign's first television ad on Aug. 11. Healey plans to air her first ad soon.
On the campaign trail, both have charmed and interested voters.
Greeting a group of elderly Italian-American women playing bingo in the North End, Tolman showed off an ease that comes from years in the political arena.
"I'm an Irishman. Is that all right?" he said, as the women laughed. "My 90-year-old mother-in-law is a member of the Sons of Italy in Watertown, so I can't be that bad." Then he was off, declaring that "if some swindler calls your house and tries to sell you something and then you never get it," he could help as attorney general.
Healey has her own touch, as well.
Recently, she met Celtics legend Bob Cousy, whose number, 14, Healey wore in high school and college. As Healey sat in Cousy's living room, the 86-year-old Hall of Famer told Healey he admired her support for gay marriage, but acknowledged his endorsement wasn't based purely on policy.
"At the end of the day, you're a point guard who wore number 14, so how can you say no?" he told her.
Healey put a hand on Cousy's shoulder and thanked him for the assist.
Michael Levenson can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @mlevenson.


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The Nuxeo Platform supports the following versions of Oracle:
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Oracle Text (Full-Text)
Oracle Text needs to be enabled in your database for full-text indexing, please consult your Oracle documentation.
If you fail to install Oracle Text, you will get on startup the following error:
java.sql.SQLException: ORA-29833: indextype does not exist
In addition, if you want to configure specific lexers or word lists then check http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/text.102/b14218/cdatadic.htm for configuration parameters and syntax. Lexers and word lists are used by the Nuxeo Platform when configured in its
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4096 and
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SELECT value FROM v$parameter WHERE name = 'db_block_size';
Possible error if the correct value is not used:
java.sql.SQLException: Error executing: CREATE INDEX DC_CONTRIBUTORS_ITEM_IDX ON DC_CONTRIBUTORS(ITEM) : ORA-01450: maximum key length (3118) exceeded
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Create Hibernate Sequence
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Internally, for security checks, the Nuxeo Platform executes SQL statements that need to be passed ARRAY objects (for the list of principals and permissions), but if the correct character set is not installed then the Oracle JDBC driver behaves incorrectly and Oracle actually receives empty strings. This in turn results in empty results for the queries as none of the documents will match due to incorrect security checks. The orai18n.jar fixes this.
Starting with 11g R2, Oracle does not allocate space for a table until the first row gets inserted into the table. What happens is if you take an export of the schema/database, the dump would not include any of the tables that havn't got any space allocations yet. A configuration change needs to be done to allocate space even for tables with no records.
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Amount of Nuxeo documents and Oracle configuration. Using the "sqlplus" command line tool connect to your Nuxeo database and execute the following commands:
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