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Front load washers have been all the rage with many consumers because they are touted as being more energy efficient than top loaders because they save time and money by cutting down on electricity and water use.
But now, thousands of consumers are complaining online and to the makers of the machines.
A Team 6 investigation found that numerous lawsuits have been filed against multiple manufacturers over what some say is growing inside of their front load washing machines.
Tammy Fox-Isicoff says her house smelled so bad that her husband hired environmental engineers to determine if she had a mold problem in her house.
She said: "Everything came out fine – the only mold was coming from the wash machine."
She said she also felt the problem had begun impacting her health, "was having trouble breathing, and literally by the end of every day, by 3 o'clock every day I had no voice…"
Fox-Isicoff says she telephoned the maker, Electrolux, and wrote to the manufacturer, to fix the problem, but they wouldn't. So, she hired attorney Stuart Eppsteiner and filed a lawsuit against the company.
Eppsteiner said he had engineers take Fox-Isicoff's and other Electrolux machines apart.
"It doesn't have the rinsing aspect of a top loader, and the dirty water stays in the unit after the wash cycle is over. You close the door and it stays hot and moist and then bacteria, and mold and other organisms starts to grow inside of the machines…" Eppsteiner said.
When Team 6 Investigators contacted Electrolux, they said the following in a written statement: "Electrolux takes the safety of its products very seriously. To help prevent odors, mildew or mold, consumers should leave the door open for a few hours after use or if more convenient, when the washer is not in use." Electrolux and many other front load manufacturers do instruct users that consumers leave the door open.
Fox-Isicoff eventually settled with Electrolux for $1,500, ditched her front loading wash machine and bought a new top loading washer and dryer. She said she is much happier and much healthier now.


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Whitney Houston's Will -- Approved By Judge
Whitney Houston's Will Approved By Judge
Whitney Houston's will has been validated by a judge, and now her daughter Bobbi Kristina stands to inherit her mom's fortune.
Under the will, Bobbi Kristina is Whitney's sole beneficiary. But the will -- which was amended in 2000 -- provides that if the 19-year-old dies before probate is completed, ex-hubby Bobby Brown and various relatives would split up all of her assets -- but she left it up to them to agree on how to divvy things up. There is one thing that Whitney didn't want to put up for grabs -- her jewelry. In the event Bobbi Kristina died, all of Whitney's baubles would go to her mom Cissy.
In addition to Brown, Whitney named her mom Cissy, her dad John and her brothers Michael and Gary as beneficiaries.
Now here's the catch ... If Bobby and the others couldn't reach an agreement on who gets what, the will says all of Whitney's stuff would be sold and they would just divide the cash.

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2 Tasting Notes
Much thanks to Teavivre for the sample! It was very generous to offer samples to someone so inexperienced in the tea game (not to mention how generous the samples themselves are).
This was my first milk oolong tea, or oolong tea at all, honestly, so I wasn't sure what to expect, but it wasn't terrifying to try; I'm brave. So I brewed it up in a pot, using a couple spoonfuls of the dry tea and taking the water all the way to boiling. I wasn't completely sure how to go about brewing a full pot since it only had directions for one cup, but I think that it turned out great.
I loved the scent of the tea, which turned out mostly floral. The flavor was just as good. Sweet, hitting the same floral notes as the scent, and slightly creamy, which I figure is the milk flavoring. It was lovely.
The second brewing was similar. Slightly less of the creamy taste, but still nice. I haven't gone for a third time, but I'm sure that it will be good.
I would definitely recommend this tea and it was a great introduction to loose leaf teas.
Now I'm excited to try the rest of the Teavivre samples.


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Automotive Master Technician - Military Veterans
at Pep Boys
Position Summary
The Master Technician requires experience and technical expertise to diagnose drivability, air conditioning and electrical systems. It is expected to use leadership and mentoring skills to drive a team to increase customer care and satisfaction A successful Master Technician will have direct interaction with customers and deliver superior service through educating the customer on the problems and proposed solutions for their vehicle.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Diagnose and repair to specifications -- brake and hydraulic, exhaust, primary and/or advanced fuel ignition and electrical, suspension and alignment, air conditioning and computer systems.
- Perform job duties of all lower job descriptions (Technician A, Technician B, Mechanic, General Service Technician)
- Adequately explain technical diagnoses and needed repairs to non-mechanical individuals which may include employees and customers on an as-required basis.
- Continuously learn new technical information and techniques in formal training sessions in order to stay abreast with rapidly changing automotive technology.
- Assist fellow technicians/mechanics in performing technical activities.
- Keep store management aware of mechanical repair problems as they occur.
- Maintain and organized and neat shop
- Adhere to all company policies, procedures, safety, and environmental rules
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
This position is a leader in the shop. We expect you to help set the pace and tone while helping to develop the team around you. Collaboration and a team first mentality are a must if you are looking for success in this role. In addition, we require review the following to measure your fit for this role:
- A High School Diploma or GED
- 5+ years of strong automotive mechanical diagnosis, problem-solving and repair experience.
- 8 or more ASE certifications are PREFERRED for this position (A1 through A8)
- Section 609 Certification required
- State Inspection license if applicable
- High level of motivation, energy and a customer-focused attitude
- Must have a valid driver's license
- Successful completion of a pre-employment background check
- Availability to work days, nights, holidays, and weekends as needed
Physical Demands/Work Environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
Physical Demands
- Extensive standing, walking, pushing and reaching.
- Need full range of motion for reaching, bending and stooping.
- Repetitive movement of hands, arms, legs.
- May drive a vehicle if needed.
- Lifting of heavy equipment >50 pounds is required.
- May work outside and be exposed to weather.
- Exposure to adverse weather conditions, chemicals, odors, dirt and dust.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
City Of Orange, NJ
Pep Boys was founded by Navy veterans in 1921 and today, we proudly employ military veterans and reserve-duty servicemembers like you throughout over 900 locations. If you're passionate about vehicles and servicing the communities that depend on them, your unique and valuable skillsets will be a perfect match for our service bays, distribution centers, or store support centers.
We offer a variety of career options across the United States and Puerto Rico, as well as extensive training and development opportunities and a wide array of health and wellness benefits. Our mission is simple: to make quality car care simple, convenient, and accessible for everyone.
At Pep Boys, we go further to help your career go farther.


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As I began my PhD journey 3 years ago I never thought it would lead to exploring economic models. In my graduate program in the 90s I had taken two semesters of economics and healthcare finance and I must admit it was painful. I considered those courses my foreign languages. As a nurse, I was… Read more »
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The Future I Desire
The other day, I was scanning the shelves at the half-price bookstore, and came across a book entitled Imagine What the World Could be in the 21st Century: Visions of a Better Future from Leading American Thinkers, edited by Marianne Williamson. It was published in the millennium year 2000 and contained about 40 short articles… Read more »
5 Things Managers Should Say to Employees
Now that the economy is beginning to pick up, it's becoming harder to retain quality employees. And just because your company may offer many attractive benefits and good wages, doesn't mean you'll be able to hold on to your best performers. Research has found that people join a company due to its reputation, but they… Read more »
Listening Into Others to Gain Influence
No matter what line of work you are in, you are likely seeking ways to be more productive and successful. And, regardless of the profession, how effective you interact with and influence other people can greatly determine your fate. That's because it is all about relationship, and relationships should always be about the long term…. Read more »
Intention: Vital to Effective Action
"He who has a why can bear almost any how." — Friedrich Nietzsche We all know intention without action leads to nothing, but what about action without intention? When we focus on accomplishing something before fully considering the purpose behind it, the action can be a wasted effort. Your intention is important because you gain… Read more »
Getting Over Happiness: A Contrarian's Meditation
An emerging field of research informs us about relative "levels" of happiness reported in various countries. I learned that Finns are the happiest people in the world, except perhaps for the citizens of Bhutan, who regularly report their Gross National Happiness Index. I assume that the residents of tropical paradises are also happy. But I… Read more »
Is the "Eco-System Economy" Ready for Prime Time?- A Review of "Leading from the Emerging Future"
For anyone interested in 21st century organizational effectiveness, sustainability, integral leadership, conscious evolution and/or societal transformation who has not yet delved into Otto Scharmer's concept of "presencing" — the practice of "sensing" future possibilities and acting from the presence of what wants to emerge – I invite you to prepare for a most satisfying journey… Read more »
Sometimes, It Pays to Think
Bill Gates apparently took time out of his busy schedule to guest edit the December 2013 issue of Wired Magazine. In that issue is an article entitled, "This is the Man Bill Gates Thinks you Absolutely Should be Reading." The article opens with the quotation from Gates, "'There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.'" … Read more »
Great Leadership Requires Asking Questions
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The Other Side of Leaning In
I love Cheryl Sandberg–her incredible presence, her role as adult supervisor to a difficult tech leader, her social commitment and philanthropy, her role as a parent and spouse, and her new book, Lean In. But I also felt a bit uncomfortable when I read it. I liked and shared her positive emphasis on empowering yourself, and… Read more »


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Press releases
For media, analyst, and speaking inquiries, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com
Zendesk Expands San Francisco Presence
April 3, 2014
Zendesk Continues Its Love Affair With the City by the Bay
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Jun 3, 2011 – Zendesk, the leading provider of proven, cloud-based help desk software, today announced its expansion plans in the city of San Francisco. The rapidly growing company outgrew its current SOMA office space and is signing a three-year lease, with expansion rights, for a new headquarters at 989 Market Street, in the Central Market neighborhood. Zendesk is one of the first technology companies taking advantage of the new tax incentives to revitalize San Francisco's mid-market neighborhood.
Mikkel Svane, Zendesk's CEO, said, "Zendesk was founded in Denmark and moved to San Francisco in 2009. We have been humbled by the wonderful way we have been welcomed to this city. In return, we are proud and happy to help invigorate this up and coming neighborhood."
Zendesk is moving from its current location in the start-up center of 410 Townsend, where it employs 80 people. The company plans to hire more than 70 new employees this year alone. Svane expects the move will take place in early summer 2011.
"We are fortunate that San Francisco has bold and visionary plans for the Central Market area," said Svane. "Plus, the payroll tax exclusion for the neighborhood is just another example of why San Francisco is a great place to grow a business. All of us at Zendesk are proud to be citizens of a city that has the vision and ability to execute on making San Francisco a better place to live and work."
"I'm pleased that Zendesk has chosen to expand and invest in the Central Market neighborhood of San Francisco," said San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee. "This city has proven that its combination of abundant creative and technical talent, connectivity to transportation, access to capital and vibrant startup ecosystem make it a world class location for world class companies. We are ecstatic that Zendesk will continue their commitment to San Francisco."
About Zendesk
Zendesk is the leading provider of proven, cloud-based help desk software. For growing organizations, Zendesk is the fastest way to enable great customer service. More than 10,000 Zendesk customers, including Adobe, MSNBC, Sony, OpenTable and Groupon, trust Zendesk with their most valuable asset, their customers. Founded in 2007, Zendesk is funded by Charles River Ventures, Benchmark Capital and Matrix Partners. Learn more at www.zendesk.com.
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eval command calculates an expression and puts the resulting value into a search results field.
- If the field name that you specify does not match a field in the output, a new field is added to the search results.
- If the field name that you specify matches a field name that already exists in the search results, the results of the eval expression overwrite the values in that field.
eval command evaluates mathematical, string, and boolean expressions.
You can chain multiple eval expressions in one search using a comma to separate subsequent expressions. The search processes multiple eval expressions left-to-right and lets you reference previously evaluated fields in subsequent expressions.
Difference between eval and stats commands
stats command calculates statistics based on fields in your events. The
eval command creates new fields in your events by using existing fields and an evaluation expression.
eval <field>=<expression>["," <field>=<expression>]...
Required arguments
- field
- Syntax: <string>
- Description: A destination field name for the resulting calculated value. If the field name already exists in your events, eval overwrites the value.
- expression
- Syntax: <string>
- Description: A combination of values, variables, operators, and functions that are run to determine the value to place in your destination field.
- The syntax of the eval expression is checked before running the search, and an exception is thrown for an invalid expression.
- The result of an eval expression cannot be Boolean. If, at search time, the expression cannot be evaluated successfully for a given event, eval erases the resulting field.
- If the expression references a field name that contains non-alphanumeric characters, it needs to be surrounded by single quotation marks. For example, if the field name is
server-1you specify the field name like this
- If the expression references literal strings it needs to be surrounded by double quotation marks. For example, if the string you want to use is
server-you specify the string like this
eval command is a distributable streaming command. See Command types.
When you use the
eval command, you must specify a field name. The results of the
<expression> that you want to evaluate are placed in that field.
If the field name that you specify matches a field name that already exist, the values in the existing field are replaced by the results of the eval expression.
Number and string values that are returned by the
<expression> can be added to the
field that you specify. Expressions that evaluate to Boolean values cannot be added to the field. However, you can convert Boolean and null values to strings by using the
tostring() function. The resulting string values can then been addd to the field.
During calculations, numbers are double precision floating point numbers subject to all the usual behaviors of floating point numbers. Operations resulting in NaN assigned to a field will result in "nan". Positive and negative overflow will result in "inf" and "-inf". Division by zero will result in a null field.
If you are using a search as an argument to the
eval command and functions, you cannot use a saved search name; you must pass a literal search string or a field that contains a literal search string (like the 'search' field extracted from index=_audit events).
You can use a wide range of functions with the
eval command. For general information about using functions, see Evaluation functions.
The following table lists the supported functions by type of function. Use the links in the table to learn more about each function, and to see examples.
|Type of function
|Supported functions and syntax
|Comparison and Conditional functions
|Conversion functions
|Cryptographic functions
|Date and Time functions
|Informational functions
|Mathematical functions
|Multivalue eval functions
|Statistical eval functions
|Text functions
|Trigonometry and Hyperbolic functions
The following table lists the basic operations you can perform with the
eval command. For these evaluations to work, the values need to be valid for the type of operation. For example, with the exception of addition, arithmetic operations might not produce valid results if the values are not numerical. When concatenating values, Splunk software reads the values as strings, regardless of the value.
+ - * / %
Operators that produce numbers
- The plus ( + ) operator accepts two numbers for addition, or two strings for concatenation.
- The subtraction ( - ), multiplication ( * ), division ( / ), and modulus ( % ) operators accept two numbers.
Operators that produce strings
- The period ( . ) operator concatenates both strings and number. Numbers are concatenated in their string represented form.
Operators that produce booleans
- The AND, OR, and XOR operators accept two Boolean values.
- The
!=, and
==operators accept two numbers or two strings. The
==operators accept two numbers or two strings. The single equal sign (
=) is a synonym for the double equal sign (
- The LIKE operator accepts two strings. This is a pattern match similar to what is used in SQL. For example
string LIKE pattern. The pattern operator supports literal text, a percent ( % ) character for a wildcard, and an underscore ( _ ) character for a single character match. For example, field
LIKE "a%b_"matches any string starting with
a, followed by anything, followed by
b, followed by one character.
Field names
To specify a field name with multiple words, you can either concatenate the words, or use single quotation marks when you specify the name. For example, to specify the field name Account ID you can specify
AccountID or
'Account ID'.
To specify a field name with special characters, such as a period, use single quotation marks. For example, to specify the field name Last.Name use
You can use the value of another field as the name of the destination field by using curly brackets, { }. For example, if you have an event with the following fields,
aName=counter and
aValue=1234. Use
| eval {aName}=aValue to return
Calculated fields
You can use
eval statements to define calculated fields by defining the
eval statement in
props.conf. If you are using Splunk Cloud, you can define calculated fields using Splunk Web, by choosing Settings > Fields > Calculated Fields. When you run a search, Splunk software evaluates the statements and creates fields in a manner similar to that of search time field extraction. Setting up calculated fields means that you no longer need to define the eval statement in a search string. Instead, you can search on the resulting calculated field directly.
You can use calculated fields to move your commonly used eval statements out of your search string and into
props.conf, where they will be processed behind the scenes at search time. With calculated fields, you can change the search from:
sourcetype="cisco_esa" mailfrom=* | eval accountname=split(mailfrom,"@"), from_user=mvindex(accountname,0), from_domain=mvindex(accountname,-1) | table mailfrom, from_user, from_domain
to this search:
sourcetype="cisco_esa" mailfrom=* | table mailfrom, from_user, from_domain
In this example, the three eval statements that were in the search--that defined the
from_user, and
from_domain fields--are now computed behind the scenes when the search is run for any event that contains the extracted field
mailfrom field. You can also search on those fields independently once they're set up as calculated fields in
props.conf. You could search on
from_domain=email.com, for example.
For more information about calculated fields, see About calculated fields in the Knowledge Manager Manual.
Search event tokens
If you are using the
eval command in search event tokens, some of the evaluation functions might be unavailable or have a different behavior. See Custom logic for search tokens in Dashboards and Visualizations for information about the evaluation functions that you can use with search event tokens.
Basic Examples
1. Create a new field that contains the result of a calculation
Create a new field called
velocity in each event. Calculate the velocity by dividing the values in the distance field by the values in the time field.
... | eval velocity=distance/time
2. Use the
if function to determine the values placed in the
status field
Create a field called
status in each event. Using the
if function, set the value in the status field to OK if the error value is 200. Otherwise set the status value to Error.
... | eval status = if(error == 200, "OK", "Error")
3. Convert values to lowercase
Create a new field in each event called
lowuser. Using the
lower function, populate the field with the lowercase version of the values in the
username field.
... | eval lowuser = lower(username)
4. Use the value of one field as the name for a new field
In this example, use each value of the field
counter to make a new field name. Assign to the new field the value of the
Value field. See Field names under the Usage section.
index=perfmon sourcetype=Perfmon* counter=* Value=* | eval {counter} = Value
5. Set sum_of_areas to be the sum of the areas of two circles
... | eval sum_of_areas = pi() * pow(radius_a, 2) + pi() * pow(radius_b, 2)
6. Set status to some simple http error codes
... | eval error_msg = case(error == 404, "Not found", error == 500, "Internal Server Error", error == 200, "OK")
7. Concatenate values from two fields
Use the period ( . ) character to concatenate the values in
first_name field with the values in the
last_name field. Quotation marks are used to insert a space character between the two names. When concatenating, the values are read as strings, regardless of the actual value.
... | eval full_name = first_name." ".last_name
8. Separate multiple eval operations with a comma
You can specify multiple eval operations by using a comma to separate the operations. In the following search the
full_name evaluation uses the period ( . ) character to concatenate the values in the
first_name field with the values in the
last_name field. The
low_name evaluation uses the
lower function to convert the
full_name evaluation into lowercase.
... | eval full_name = first_name." ".last_name, low_name = lower(full_name)
9. Display timechart of the avg of cpu_seconds by processor, rounded to 2 decimals
... | timechart eval(round(avg(cpu_seconds),2)) by processor
10. Convert a numeric field value to a string with commas and 2 decimals
If the original value of x is 1000000, this returns x as 1,000,000.
... | eval x=tostring(x,"commas")
To include a currency symbol at the beginning of the string:
... | eval x="$".tostring(x,"commas")
This returns x as $1,000,000.
Extended Examples
11. Coalesce a field from two different source types, create a transaction of events
This example shows how you might coalesce a field from two different source types and use that to create a transaction of events.
sourcetype=A has a field called
number, and
sourcetype=B has the same information in a field called
sourcetype=A OR sourcetype=B | eval phone=coalesce(number,subscriberNumber) | transaction phone maxspan=2m
eval command is used to add a common field, called
phone, to each of the events whether they are from
sourcetype=A or
sourcetype=B. The value of
phone is defined, using the
coalesce() function, as the values of
number and
subscriberNumber. The
coalesce() function takes the value of the first non-NULL field (that means, it exists in the event).
Now, you're able to group events from either source type
A or
B if they share the same
phone value.
12. Separate events into categories, count and display minimum and maximum values
|This example uses recent earthquake data downloaded from the USGS Earthquakes website. The data is a comma separated ASCII text file that contains magnitude (mag), coordinates (latitude, longitude), region (place), and so forth, for each earthquake recorded.
You can download a current CSV file from the USGS Earthquake Feeds and upload the file to your Splunk instance if you want follow along with this example.
Earthquakes occurring at a depth of less than 70 km are classified as shallow-focus earthquakes, while those with a focal-depth between 70 and 300 km are commonly termed mid-focus earthquakes. In subduction zones, deep-focus earthquakes may occur at much greater depths (ranging from 300 up to 700 kilometers).
To classify recent earthquakes based on their depth, you use the following search.
source=usgs | eval Description=case(depth<=70, "Shallow", depth>70 AND depth<=300, "Mid", depth>300, "Deep") | stats count min(mag) max(mag) by Description
eval command is used to create a field called
Description, which takes the value of "Shallow", "Mid", or "Deep" based on the
Depth of the earthquake. The
case() function is used to specify which ranges of the depth fits each description. For example, if the depth is less than 70 km, the earthquake is characterized as a shallow-focus quake; and the resulting
Description is
The search also pipes the results of the
eval command into the
stats command to count the number of earthquakes and display the minimum and maximum magnitudes for each Description. The search results appear in the Statistics tab.
The following table shows an example of the search results.
13. Find IP addresses and categorize by network using eval functions cidrmatch and if
|This example is designed to use the sample dataset from Get the tutorial data into Splunk topic of the Search Tutorial, but it should work with any format of Apache Web access log. Download the data set and follow the instructions in that topic to upload it to your Splunk deployment. Then, run this search using the time range Other > Yesterday.
In this search, you're finding IP addresses and classifying the network they belong to.
sourcetype=access_* | eval network=if(cidrmatch("192.168.0.0/16", clientip), "local", "other")
This example uses the
cidrmatch() function to compare the IP addresses in the
clientip field to a subnet range. The search also uses the
if() function, which says that if the value of
clientip falls in the subnet range, then
network is given the value
local. Otherwise,
eval command does not do any special formatting to your results -- it just creates a new field which takes the value based on the eval expression. After you run this search, use the fields sidebar to add the
network field to your results. Now you can see, inline with your search results, which IP addresses are part of your
local network and which are not. Your events list should look something like this:
Another option for formatting your results is to pipe the results of
eval to the
table command to display only the fields of interest to you. (See Example 13)
Note: This example just illustrates how to use the
cidrmatch function. If you want to classify your events and quickly search for those events, the better approach is to use event types. Read more about event types in the Knowledge manager manual.
14. Extract information from an event into a separate field, create a multivalue field
|This example uses generated email data (
sourcetype=cisco_esa). You should be able to run this example on any email data by replacing the
sourcetype=cisco_esa with your data's
sourcetype value and the
mailfrom field with your data's email address field name (for example, it might be
To, From, or Cc).
Use the email address field to extract the user's name and domain. The
eval command in this search contains multiple expressions, separated by commas.
sourcetype="cisco_esa" mailfrom=* | eval accountname=split(mailfrom,"@"), from_user=mvindex(accountname,0), from_domain=mvindex(accountname,-1) | table mailfrom, from_user, from_domain
This example uses the
split() function to break the
mailfrom field into a multivalue field called
accountname. The first value of
accountname is everything before the "@" symbol, and the second value is everything after.
The example then uses
mvindex() function to set
from_user and
from_domain to the first and second values of
accountname, respectively.
The results of the
eval expressions are then piped into the
table command. You can see the the original
mailfrom values and the new
from_user and
from_domain values in the following results table:
Note: This example is really not that practical. It was written to demonstrate how to use an
eval function to identify the individual values of a multivalue fields. Because this particular set of email data did not have any multivalue fields, the example creates one (
accountname) from a single value field (
15. Categorize events using the match function
|This example uses generated email data (
sourcetype=cisco_esa). You should be able to run this example on any email data by replacing the
sourcetype=cisco_esa with your data's
sourcetype value and the
mailfrom field with your data's email address field name (for example, it might be
To, From, or Cc).
This example classifies where an email came from based on the email address's domain: .com, .net, and .org addresses are considered local, while anything else is considered abroad. (Of course, domains that are not .com/.net/.org are not necessarily from abroad.)
eval command in this search contains multiple expressions, separated by commas.
sourcetype="cisco_esa" mailfrom=*| eval accountname=split(mailfrom,"@"), from_domain=mvindex(accountname,-1), location=if(match(from_domain, "[^\n\r\s]+\.(com|net|org)"), "local", "abroad") | stats count by location
The first half of this search is similar to Example 12. The
split() function is used to break up the email address in the
mailfrom field. The
mvindex function defines the
from_domain as the portion of the
mailfrom field after the
@ symbol.
Then, the
if() and
match() functions are used: if the
from_domain value ends with a
.com, .net., or .org, the
location field is assigned
local. If
from_domain does not match,
location is assigned
eval results are then piped into the
stats command to count the number of results for each
location value and produce the following results table:
After you run the search, you can add the
mailfrom and
location fields to your events to see the classification inline with your events. If your search results contain these fields, they will look something like this:
Note: This example merely illustrates using the
match() function. If you want to classify your events and quickly search for those events, the better approach is to use event types. Read more about event types in the Knowledge manager manual.
16. Convert the duration of transactions into more readable string formats
|This example uses the sample dataset from the Search Tutorial but should work with any format of Apache Web access log. Download the data set from this topic in the Search Tutorial and follow the instructions to upload it to your Splunk deployment. Then, run this search using the time range, Other > Yesterday.
Reformat a numeric field measuring time in seconds into a more readable string format.
sourcetype=access_* | transaction clientip maxspan=10m | eval durationstr=tostring(duration,"duration")
This example uses the
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I was madly trying to get my work done by high noon on Friday because it was the kick off to another fine year of fooling around for myself and KC.
As I pounded away on my computer, I heard a noise, glanced up to see that my little red bird was back again. This time, peering through an open window so I could snap a better shot.
Allow me to repeat what I typed up above, just in case you missed it. Red Bird was peering through my open window.
While it's 26 BELOW zero at my brother's house, (he gets no sympathy from me; I told him to move) and miserably cold in all corners of the blogosphere... We're blessed with bright skies and comfy temps.
* FAC is short for Friday Afternoon [Hiking] Club, invented last year to stave off boredom, get in shape and embrace the wild world that surrounds us.
After 12 solid months of regular meetings we still only have 2.5 members: KC, Bad Dog and me. As I type this, all stiff and sore from yesterday's hard work, it's dawning on me as to why it's so hard for us to recruit new members! :)


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Do not wait 48 hours to report your child missing. There is no time limit that you must wait to report a person as missing, whether he/she is considered missing or a runaway.
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The Missing Persons Guide instructs parents or guardians how to take action on missing or runaway children. The guide also provides parents with instructions on immediate action for missing children. The first 48 hours following a missing or runaway episode are the most important in locating your child. While many runaway children return home, or—in the case of missing children—are located during this period, it is critical to take every action available to help locate and safeguard your children.
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- FBI Crimes Against Children Site
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Persons other than children or teens who are considered missing are handled by the district police stations. If you feel this situation is serious, please dial 911 or locate your district station.


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Reg LOHAN spaceplane: Punch and Judy show in comedy non-explosive climax
SPEARS blows a fuse, scuppers motor test flight
It's with more than a degree of staring at the heavens in exasperation that we confirm what those of you watching the live coverage of yesterday's Punch and Judy test flights had already deduced - that the Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) team failed to make fire in the sky.
A blown fuse in the Special Project Electronic Altitude Release System (SPEARS) board resulted in a completely non-spectacular climax to the Punch mission, designed to see if we can persuade a solid-propellant rocket motor fire at altitude.
The offending fuse is to prevent a nasty premature ignition event, should there be a firing circuitry fault. We're not sure what made it go pop, but it'd already blown by the time the Punch payload reached the programmed ignition altitude.
Cue a certain amount of effing and blinding, although we're long enough in the tooth to know these kind of things come with the territory.
Having done all the legwork in the Rocketry Experimental High Altitude Barosimulator (REHAB) chamber, we're pretty certain we have the ignition problem cracked, but obviously we need solid proof.
Accordingly, the team will reassemble shortly for "Punch 2", and if that doesn't pan out, someone has a date with the wicker man as we attempt to appease the sky gods with a human sacrifice.
In brighter news, the Judy flight showed that our Vulture 2 spaceplane rocket motor heater set-up works a treat. That's a very good thing indeed, because we know solid propellants really don't like the cold.
Furthermore, the two cheap Chinese cameras we sent up yesterday performed creditably, given their price and limitations. Here's a frame from the upward-facing "Electronics-Depot HD1080P" aboard Judy:
So, we've got a couple more strings to our mighty imaging capability bow, which is a bonus.
And if all that's not enough heartening tidings to sweeten the bitter taste of non-ignition, Dave and Anthony Stirk ran the first test of the dedicated new "Pi in the Sky" board, which sits on top of a Raspberry Pi and handles the chore of beaming live images to earth. That's working, and we'll shortly be installing one in the Vulture 2 as part of its Pitastic package.
You'll excuse the brevity of this report, but I'm due down at Portsmouth this afternoon to lug the Vulture 2 spaceplane back to Spain. We'll bring full details, photos, post mortems, etc, from the Punch and Judy flights next week, after I get back to the SPB's mountaintop HQ.
Regarding the spaceplane, yes it's been painted and vinyl wrapped and yes it looks bloody marvellous, as you'll find out imminently... ®
Please join us in offering a round of applause for team member Anthony Stirk (pictured at left, below, with Dave Akerman), who rose at the crack of dawn yesterday to drive down from Yorkshire for the launches. He originally wasn't going to come, due to work commitments, but the siren call of balloon tomfoolery proved too strong.
More from the lovely LOHAN:
- You can find full LOHAN coverage right here.
- If you're new to LOHAN, seek out our mission summary for enlightenment.
- There are photos our our magnificent Vulture 2 spaceplane here, and detailed structural plans here.
- For your further viewing pleasure, we have all our photographic material stored on Flickr.
- Our LOHAN and Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) videos live on YouTube.
- We sometimes indulge in light consensual tweeting, as you can see here.


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INTEGRITY: It's Like Being a Little Bit Pregnant
Vicki Hinze
On encountering an injustice, a friend once told me, "Having integrity is like being a little bit pregnant. You either have it or you don't."
There is no such thing as being a little bit pregnant. You are or you are not. When it comes to integrity, you either have it, or you don't. If you do, it can lead to uncomfortable situations. You can be put into a position of having to admit things that go against what you want, what you believe, and negatively affect outcomes you prefer.
If you don't have integrity, however, all of those same challenges apply to the situation or event at hand and every other situation or event you encounter. Your assessment, judgment, and assertions are always questionable and your history of spinning or lying or lacking integrity flows over into everything you ever again assert. Doubt about your honesty has been injected, and you injected it.
I'm referencing people, human beings and characters in books as they relate to conflict, but the same is true of entities. Years ago, tobacco companies insisted smoking was safe. But when it was proven to be unsafe, it infected everything ever told by or about those companies. This has happened over and again with entities. It happened with our health care. Remember being told if you like your doctor or plan, you can keep it? But then you lost both? That you'd save money, but it costs more? And surely there has been someone at home or work who told you something that later proved false. That generated doubt in everything that person had ever told you—and that doubt carries over to everything they ever will tell you.
Integrity is being honest and driven by moral principles. Doesn't sound that hard, does it? And many will tell you, lacking it is no big deal. Everyone spins. Everyone fudges a little now and then. Little white lies are common, and often told to spare someone's feelings. We don't want to hurt other's feelings. The problem is all that is like being a little bit pregnant.
You are or you aren't. You have integrity, or you don't.
We have all heard, and lived with the fallout, that the cover up is often worse than the crime. Why is that? Because one lie requires another, then another, and another. So what was a little, insignificant prevarication becomes an intricate web of deceit.
The fact is, it is hard to be a person of integrity in a world filled with corruption and deceit. But isn't that all the more reason we need to rise to the challenge and embrace integrity? To be the shelter in the storm where truth is respected and we can trust?
How many people lacking integrity do you respect and admire? How many do you go to for advice when you're in trouble? When something important is going on in your life and you need help?
In books, readers seldom cheer the villain. In life, people seldom cheer those they don't respect. The absence or lack of integrity is a character flaw that becomes monumental when trouble comes and challenges need to be solved. We turn to those we can trust. Those we respect. Those we can count on to be honest. We turn to those we consider to be people of integrity.
We do this because they are who they are. And because we are who we are. We want to know when we are told whatever we are told that it is the truth and we can rely on it.
In crafting fiction, or a life, whether an entity or an individual, seek integrity. Engage with it, and embrace those who have it. It makes life less complicated, more stable, and our relationships more worthy—of others and us.
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The 100 wealthiest people on the planet added $380 million to their collective net worth after the Standard & Poor's 500 Index reached its highest level since October 2007 last week.
However, Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, shed $3.9 billion from his net worth as shares of America Movil SAB slid 10.8 percent after the mobile phone operator said slower economic growth in Mexico hurt revenue. Slim, 73, has a net worth of $74.1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
In the markets, some advisors are not selling despite the market surge.
"One of the reasons why we haven't declared victory and sold is because there's a chance for continued investor risk-taking," Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank in Chicago, which oversees about $66 billion in assets, said in a phone interview. "It's entirely possible that more people like Dell, Buffett and others will exploit the valuation differential between stocks and bonds."
The S&P 500 closed at 1519.79 yesterday, up 0.12 percent for the week. The index capped a seventh straight weekly gain, the longest streak in two years. Better-than-forecast manufacturing and consumer confidence data fueled optimism in the economy. The yen erased gains against the dollar as Group of 20 finance officials met in Moscow.
The MSCI World Index lost 0.25 percent during the week to close at 1406.92.
Gates No. 2, Buffett No. 4
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, 57, is the world's second- richest person with a $66.2 billion fortune.
Amancio Ortega, the 76-year-old founder of Inditex SA, the world's biggest clothing retailer and owner of the Zara clothing chain, is No. 3 with a net worth of $57.4 billion, $3.9 billion ahead of Warren Buffett.
The 82-year-old's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and 3G Capital, an investment firm backed by three Brazilian billionaires — Jorge Paulo Lemann, 73, and his partners Marcel Telles and Carlos Alberto Sicupira — agreed to buy Pittsburgh-based HJ Heinz Co. for about $23 billion on Thursday. The trio have a combined net worth of $35.5 billion. Lemann is the country's richest man.
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The most interesting thing you'll watch today is this video about the geographic border between Canada and the ol' U.S. of A. Yes, really.
In his latest video, the always-entertaining C.G.P. Grey expounds on the northern hemisphere's 49th parallel – the circle of latitude that ostensibly separates America from the Great White North. But as Grey explains, the parallel's application as a strict, undeviating and linear international border has proven to be precisely none of these things.
Sez Grey:
While these sister nations get along fairly well, they both want to make it really clear whose side of the continent is whose. And they've done this by carving a 20-foot wide space along the border. All five and a half thousand miles of it.
With the exception of the rare New England town that predates national borders or the odd airport that needed extending, this space is the no-touching-zone between the countries and they're super serious about keeping it clear. It matters not if the no-touching-zone runs through hundreds of miles of virtually uninhabited Alaskan / Yukon wilderness. Those border trees will not stand.
Which might make you think this must be the longest, straightest deforested place in the world, but it isn't. Deforested? Yes. But straight? Not at all.
It only gets crazier from there. Trust us, this is one you want to watch all the way through.
For more musings from Grey (he has many – and they're all pretty entertaining), visit his website – or check him out on tumblr.


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TAIPEI -- A man who sat down on the toilet in his rural home got a frightening and painful surprise when a snake bit his penis.
As soon as he sat down, he suddenly felt a knife-like pain and reacted instinctively by standing up, the China Times reported. When he looked down, he saw what is believed to be a rat snake.
The 51-year-old man was not seriously injured and was being treated Tuesday, according to Reuters. Local television stations showed footage of the black and yellow snake, being pulled out of the commode. Snakes often enter homes in rural Taiwan and other sub-tropical regions of Asia.
"As soon as he has passed the risk of infection, he can go," said the director of the hospital that was treating the unidentified man. "A snake's mouth isn't always clean."


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Breakfast at Ailana Shave Ice
Left: green tea waffle with azuki, ice cream and mochi, right: pancakes with fruit
Ailana Shave Ice, one of my go-to spots for shave ice, recently started serving breakfast, and it's like everything I love about its shave ice—fresh fruit flavors and the uji kintoki, a shave ice sundae with green tea syrup, azuki beans, mochi and ice cream—is now available in breakfast form. There's a green tea waffle with all the components of the uji kintoki, even the mochi, and all of it drizzled with green tea syrup. It's not the crispiest waffle I've had, but the flavors are good. Fluffy, tender pancakes arrive with fresh cut fruit, including avocado. On the side: maple syrup as well as coconut and mango syrup, more of Ailana's housemade fruit syrups. It's kind of genius, the repurposing of shave ice syrups for breakfast.
The chicken fried rice omelette is popular, but it's not my favorite—the fried rice is more like a ketchup-y rice. I'll stick with sweet things at Ailana. Expect a leisurely breakfast here; everything is prepared and cut to order, including that fruit salad that accompanies the pancakes.
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So, an emperor, a chief and a queen are all in a room together. The emperor is from Uganda. The chief is from the Dominican Republic. And the queen is from the Philippines. Who's in charge?
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annabelle May 1, 2011
I love the way they all laugh together!
Crazy to think how God would bring friends together from all over the world
I'm the girl one of my friends calls when he wants food. It makes me laugh, he'll just call and ask me to make him soup. I love it, and I always go cook for my guy friends.
Mike Stephens October 31, 2009
Just so you guys know "Bob's Red Mill" Brown Rice Farina is what I often have for breakfast with organic mangoes. Available at all Whole Foods' locations. I love rice as long as it is accompanied with meat, hot sauce, salt, possibly eggs. Or in the case of breakfast…mangoes. I have been to the Philippines, the Dominican Republic but not Uganda or Africa at all yet…but I had mangoes put in my eggs at our hotel and I thought that was really neat. They also had mango sauce which I was amazed b/c it tasted so good. It was probably mango and sugar. I will say it again…"I have been to the Philippines!!!!!!!! ;)' I have been to the Dominican Republic twice and the first time I was too weak to mix cement with a shovel, but the second time they said "fuerte" which I was extremely proud to redeem my failure from the first trip 😉 One last time I have been to the Philippines!!!!!!!!!!;) I am so thankful I was able to earn enough CA$H so I could pay for the trip to visit the boys I sponsor. I was even given a coconut but it didn't have any milk in it. I remember eating chickens in the Dominican Republic and I think they were the chickens that were running around us. I got some terrible stomach sickness either from those chickens or the water but it felt so good once it went away. This old lady gave me this pill called "lemodil" that made me not go the bathroom for 24hrs. Without her medicine I would have been completely out of it for a good part of the trip. After that little incident I can see how diahrea can be such a serious problem!
Amy Wallace October 31, 2009
They look like they would be so much fun to hang around with!
Juli Jarvis October 30, 2009
I have not been able to to to Uganda or the Philippines, but I can tell you the rice in the Dominican Republic is wonderful! Also the plantains — I'm surprised you're not missing the plantains, Tony —
Caitlin October 30, 2009
I have grown up in America with a fair amount of rice among our meals, but more like 2-3 times a month rather than 2-3 times a day. And I liked it. I spent three weeks in Congo…and I remember the first night, I got home, I bit into a burrito, that just happened to be loaded with rice, and I was really disappoint. They eat soooo much rice in Congo, that when I got home, I had no desire to eat rice for several months! With that said, as missionaries, we were lucky that we were able to eat rice with some sort of meat every day.
Dwight October 30, 2009
We in the USA do not eat rice. I did not know they eat rice in Affrica. It looks like most of the world eats rice.
I was in the Philippines for 2 weeks in October and I was so sick of rice…at the hotel they had an "American" breakfast, so they called it but it had rice. I would not think that something like rice would be a big deal for the students. Something new learned.


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The deplorable, hateful and blatant lie uttered by Croatia's Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic on the occasion of Remembrance Day for the Victims of the Holocaust last Monday 27 January can, without doubt, be interpreted as an attempt to justify WWII and post-WWII massive communist crimes rather than to pay due regard and convey deep piety to the victims of the Holocaust.
"Until April 1941 there had been no mass executions of people because of they were of a different religion and origin. That had changed during that April with the formation of the Independent State of Croatia, which had commenced with mass murders within weeks… Only at the end of June 1941 mass murders, primarily of Jews, started in Eastern Europe. That was not yet the time of concentration camps, that was the time of mass murders by firearms … We know what occurred after that. It was necessary to rise against such a State of Croatia and hundreds of thousands of Croats did that … Communism came and so did revenge… Revenge happened but before it mass murders happened … Revenge is simply not morally justified …" said Zoran Milanovic in his speech for the Victims of the Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The problem with Zoran Milanovic is that he omits, purposefully, to characterise the communist revenge for what it truly was: mass murder and mass execution of multitudes of innocent people because of their different political leanings and nationality. This was no different in nature to the mass executions and murders committed by the pro-Nazi Independent State of Croatia regime. So why not call it for what it truly was?
Perhaps Zoran Milanovic, pro-communist, took a particularly bitter issue with the symbolism of the fact that the suspected communist criminal extradited to Germany, Josip Perkovic, had reportedly just been transferred to a Nuremberg jail, pending final criminal charges!? It's obvious that Milanovic does not see all mass murders as crimes of the same nature. That is a shame for humanity, for Croatia's path to a future where all crimes from the past are dealt with and condemned with equal moral and judicial wrath is once again obstructed; and more fuel to political slinging matches on the backs of all victims of WWII and post-WWII crime has been poured by no other than the communist protégés at the helm of Croatia's government.
Although without directly pointing to what Zoran Milanovic had sad Israeli Ambassador to Croatia Yosef Amrani addressed Croatia's public with statement that clearly rebukes Milanovic's deplorable claims as to when mass executions commenced in Europe.
History is horrible enough without Milanovic's falsifications. Yosef Amrani emphasised that people were sent to concentration camps before 1941.
"Holocaust is an historic fact and an incomprehensible historical event and it cannot be tied to the date of the holding of the conference at Wannsee on 20th January 1942 and the decision by the German authorities to destroy the Jewish people through the process called 'the Final Solution' … Sadly, that process, that coordinated effort to make the Jewish people the culprits for all social and economic adversities in Europe, began before then and originates from the Nazi ideology and antisemitism … Speeches and comments regarding that important day (Remembrance Day for the Victims of the Holocaust) by people in authority should remind us of the bestiality, of the cruelty of the Nazi regime and of the apathy of the international community," stated Yosef Amrani and continued:
"Europe kept quiet, the world kept quiet. The Crystal Night (Kristallnacht), which occurred in November 1938, is a direct attack against innocent people; the revocation of German citizenship from Jews just because of their Jewish origins was not enough for Europe and the world to wake up… While remembrance and lessons are alive in our conscience, as human beings we must teach and instruct history as it really happened."
Back to the deplorable falsification of history thrust upon us by Zoran Milanovic, it's most opportune to remind ourselves that Adolf Hitler established the first concentration camps in January 1933, and Dachau was opened in March 1933. There were about 45,000 people in those camps before the Reichstag fire ( February 1933). The fact that these were not the so-called death camps at the time does not change the fact that people were murdered in their masses.
Instead of concluding that the establishment of the Jasenovac camp (in Croatia) was modeled upon the Nazi camps, Milanovic imputes in his speech last Monday that the Nazi camps were modeled on Jasenovac.
What an evil communist vomit!
What is Zoran Milanovic still doing as Prime Minister of Croatia!? Who stands behind him to give him courage to utter such blatant lies!?
It's of note that in this his anti-Croatian propaganda speech Milanovic completely disregarded the mass executions by the communist regime of Joseph Stalin and perhaps there lies the fact that Milanovic decided to talk about Europe and not the whole region affected by Nazi regime and its expansionist thrusts? But just for the record and for the devastating fact that Joseph Stalin's judges sat on Nuremberg trials against Nazis, and that Stalin was an ally of the Allies in WWII here are some facts of communist crimes in Russia, which actually strike a harrowing resemblance in nature and intensity to communist crimes in post-WWII Croatia.
In February 1989, two years before the fall of the Soviet Union, a research paper by Georgian historian Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev published in the weekly tabloid Argumenti i Fakti contains grim bookkeeping that included the following tragic episodes: 1 million imprisoned or exiled between 1927 to 1929; 9 to 11 million peasants forced off their lands and another 2 to 3 million peasants arrested or exiled in the mass collectivization program; 6 to 7 million killed by an artificial famine in 1932-1934; 1 million exiled from Moscow and Leningrad in 1935; 1 million executed during the "Great Terror" of 1937-1938; 4 to 6 million dispatched to forced labor camps; 10 to 12 million people forcibly relocated during World War II; and at least 1 million arrested for various "political crimes" from 1946 to 1953.
In "Europe A History," British historian Norman Davies (1996) counted 50 million killed between 1924-53 in communist purges, excluding wartime casualties.
And so, once again, Zoran Milanovic (and pro-communist echelons) calls the WWII and the post-WWII mass murders and mass executions of innocent people by the communists – revenge! Milanovic uses the crimes committed by the Independent State of Croatia regime as justification for the horror that occurred at the hands of communists! He uses the word "revenge" in order to soften the brutality of the communist crimes that were perpetrated – the Bleiburg massacres, the Croatian Way of the Cross … the 850 + filled mass graves of innocent Croats executed by the communists!
Clearly, Zoran Milanovic puts justification of communist crimes before piety for the victims of the Holocaust. Why else would he contaminate the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust in such a twisted and evil manner? Does he really believe that the Jewish people, the victims of the Holocaust accept revenge murder as just?
I would think that no-one bar communists can truly justify indiscriminate revenge murders that include innocent lives. Hence, a possible reason why the Israeli Ambassador Yosef Amrani found it necessary to speak out about the real truth of the beginnings of persecution of the Jews in 1930's Europe, to indirectly rebuke Zoran Milanovic's claims as to where and when mass executions commenced in Europe. And indeed, it is so important for humanity to offer each victim the respect and space he/she deserves and not to poison the remembrance and piety as Zoran Milanovic did. Ina Vukic, Prof. (Zgb); B.A., M.A.Ps. (Syd)


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Welcome to the Museum of Juggling History website. Here you'll be able to see pictures of some of the rarest and most important juggling props in the world. The items in this collection have been donated to, purchased, or rescued by David Cain, a professional juggler and juggling historian from Middletown,Ohio, USA. The collection is usually on display in the normal museum setting, located in Middletown, Ohio, but is sometimes displayed as an exhibit at juggling and circus festivals and conventions. The purpose of this collection is to preserve the history of juggling through the props that make the art possible. Mainly we are looking for props that are vintage, rare, innovative, belonged to well known jugglers, or were used in some historical context such as for a world record or important competition. If you have props that you'd like to donate or sell, please feel free to contact us. Also feel free to contact us regarding any questions or additional information that you might have. The website will be updated as additional props arrive or are acquired for the collection. To see a higher resolution image of any prop, please click on the picture of the prop.
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Sen. Joe Donnelly Opposes Obama's Assault Weapons Ban
Freshman Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly is opposing a ban on assault weapons sought by President Barack Obama. A Donnelly spokesman told The Associated Press Wednesday that the Indiana lawmaker will vote against the ban but has not decided whether he would support universal background checks.Donnelly represents a key bloc of moderate to conservative Democrats the president must win over. The announcement also marks a key early stance from Donnelly just a few months after winning a state that went heavily for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in last year's election. Donnelly called himself "a strong supporter of the Second Amendment" in a statement issued shortly before the Senate Judiciary Committee opened a hearing featuring testimony from National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre and former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.


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After seven hundred years of life, Marguerite Argeneau finally has a career. Well, the start of one, anyway. She's training to be a private investigator, and her first assignment is to find an immortal's mother. It seemed simple enough, until Marguerite wakes up one evening to find herself at the wrong end of a sword. Now she realizes she's in way over her head.
Julius Notte wants to protect Marguerite, and not because someone just tried to take her head off. She doesn't know it yet, but she's his lifemate and he's determined to woo her. It's been over five hundred years since he last courted a woman, but surely the techniques haven't changed. Now if only he can keep her alive--so to speak--so they can have that happily-ever-after.
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Fake PageRank Checker
Page Rank is one of the methods Google uses to establish a pages importance or relevance. Pagerank Forged is becoming a grave problem. Pagerank Fraud tool can verify if a site has a valid or fake Page Rank, as you know many people are selling Fraud domains, and they use redirects (301 or 302 redirect) to point to other sites with high PR.
Note, results with www. and without www. can significantly differ.
How to fake PR and how to detect if Page Rank is fake?
Although most search engine optimizers agree that the green PR display has few to do with the real performance of a site in Google, many webmasters still focus on sites with a high PR.
When a search robot visits a webpage URL, the server redirects the spider to a page with high Page Rank. Google bot assigns the high PR to the webpage with the redirection because it thinks that web pages are the same.
When a user visits the page URL, the server does not redirect the surfer. That means that the visitors see the page of the faker and the Google toolbar displays PR of the redirected page.
Google doesn't like Yandex cloaking, so you risk losing your rank if you use the method above.
If you suspect that a page may have a Forged Page Rank then you can do the next simple check: Search Google for info:somedomain.com. If returned URLs don't match the original URL then it's possible that the Page Rank has been faked. If Google returns the same checked url then PageRank is valid.
What is Fake Page Rank?
This article will help you understand Fake PageRank and ways to protect yourself from Fake PR.


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Quicklisp uses two text files for information about project releases (releases.txt) and systems (systems.txt). Whenever information about a system was needed (for example, where its system file can be found), both files were loaded completely, from scratch.
I made it that way because it was pretty easy. People immediately noticed that it was also pretty slow, especially when using (asdf:load-system "...") instead of (ql:quickload "..."). The penalty for frequent loading and reloading of the metadata got worse as the number of Quicklisp systems grew.
Today I released a client update that can load metadata from a fast on-disk hash table, a CDB file. The big flat files are converted to CDB once, as needed, and thereafter getting metadata is super-speedy. On my laptop, the improvement for lookups is about 100x; your results will depend on the speed of your disk.
To get the update, use (ql:update-client) and restart Lisp.
If this change causes you any trouble, please let me know via the Quicklisp mailing list.
UPDATE: This change causes trouble. I'm going to put out a fix as soon as I can. Please don't update; if you did update, you can revert with something like this:
cd ~/quicklisp/
wget http://beta.quicklisp.org/quickstart/quicklisp-2011111500.tgz
tar xzvf quicklisp-2011111500.tgz
rm -rf ~/.cache/common-lisp/
UPDATE 2: I can't reproduce the trouble I saw earlier. If you run into trouble, let me know. I really need cases I can reproduce to fix things.
UPDATE 3: Thanks to Mike Clarke, I found a serious problem with the CDB scheme. A fix will be available within a day or two.
Speeding up system info
Posted by Xach at 21:52
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Is the CDB conversion / query library integral part of quicklisp? It might be very useful for other projects.ReplyDelete
I basically cut & pasted code from my ZCDB library into Quicklisp, so no, it is not tightly integrated.ReplyDelete
I did not know about ZCDB, but I liked the format so much that I have adopted it for ECL's help file (the one that stores all the documentation strings from the library) and reimplemented it as a loadable module (require :ecl-cdb) respecting the ZCDB interface.ReplyDelete
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The Bridge is a 2D logic puzzle game that forces the player to reevaluate their preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures. Explore increasingly difficult worlds, each uniquely detailed and designed to leave the player with a pronounced sense of intellectual accomplishment. The Bridge exemplifies games as an art form, with beautifully hand-drawn art in the style of a black-and-white lithograph.
The game can be piced up at: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/the-bridge/home


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Apple's powerful iPhone 7 GPU is based on Imagination Technologies' PowerVR GT7600 architecture, and a possible successor could come next year.
Imagination will release the Series8XT family of GPUs, which could provide the underlying technology for graphics in the iPhone 8. It will succeed the Series7XT family of GPUs, which is the base architecture for the PowerVR GT7600 in the iPhone 7.
Analyst firm Linley Group said the iPhone 7 GPU is the fastest among all mobile processors when operating at peak speed. The Series8XT will be even faster, and perhaps more power efficient. The iPhone 7 GPU can overheat quickly if it runs at peak speed for a long time.
Imagination didn't provide further details on the 8XT or a specific release date, and did not say if the GPU would be in the iPhone 8. But Apple has used PowerVR in every iPhone to date, and recently started tuning the architecture to work better with its mobile devices.
Imagination designs GPUs and licenses it to companies like Apple and Intel. Apple is also a minority shareholder in Imagination.
Apple has been notoriously quiet about the underlying technology in its A-series chips. Linley Group only recently unveiled that the iPhone 7 GPU was based on PowerVR GT7600 architecture.
The 8XT could be introduced in late February at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, where Imagination is showing off its PowerVR GPU. The company has used GDC to launch new GPU architectures in the past.
The high-end 8XT architecture is a "technology generator" and will host many new GPU features developed by Imagination, said Graham Deacon, senior director of business operations for PowerVR at Imagination.
Imagination will focus on putting more performance in 8XT, Deacon said.
Beyond smartphones, the company's GPUs also are used in set-top boxes, TVs and other devices requiring graphics power or focusing on visual computing. Imagination this year released the 8XE GPU, which was focused on the fast-growing low-end and mid-range phones market. The Series8XT will offer more performance.
Imagination's PowerVR was once competitive in smartphones, but has lost share as competition grows. ARM's Mali GPUs based on the Bitfrost architecture are catching on strong, and Qualcomm, which is the mobile chip leader, has its own Adreno GPU. Nvidia has the best mobile GPU, but it is being targeted at automotive and machine learning applications.
There are other areas of growth for Imagination GPUs outside of smartphones, especially in automotive and set-top boxes, Deacon said. Imagination is developing many more technologies to boost graphics, and supporting vectors like image analysis add value to PowerVR GPUs.
There are also opportunities in machine learning, and PowerVR could play a big role in enabling self-driving cars. Imagination is developing algorithms, and has been demonstrating neural networks running on GPU computing.
Imagination is also mixing up its MIPS CPU architecture with PowerVR for drones and robots, which heavily rely on visual computing and image analysis.


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Stephen Colbert Profiles the GOP's Rising Stars
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On tonight's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert took a moment (in his one thousandth show) to profile two young Republicans who are about to burst onto the national scene as they have already proven themselves perfect ideologues in Colbert's view. Indiana's Bob Morris is opposed to the homosexual cabal that is the Girl Scouts and New Hampshire's Kyle Jones who opposed mandatory a mandatory lunch break. The future of the GOP is bright indeed.


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Months race by with a quickening pace, exaggerated by summer's dwindling warmth and a sun that goes to bed just a little bit earlier each day. 2012 slips through my fingers just a little bit more each day, as fluid and irrepressible as water trickling out of a leaky faucet. Since this is more than a mere plumbing issue with an easy fix, it's at least decent consolation that the runaway months frequently bring with them a new issue of VegNews to pour over and forget all about the usual over-scheduling woes. The September/October issue may be dominated by compelling recipes for all things cheesy and unbelievably dairy-free, but there's so much more nestled into those crisp, glossy pages, too.
There's always a need for something sweet to balance out all of those salty snacks, and Beverly Lynn Bennett's Chocolate Pumpkin Bread Pudding fills in that requirement with ease. Lightly spiked with bourbon and redolent of warm, comforting spices, merely popping this dish in the oven does wonders to soften the blow of a fading summer season. Simple enough for the most novice baker to excel, it's a recipe to hang on to for the coming holiday season. Plus, when served with the suggested sticky, gooey, Salted Caramel Sauce, it's truly a dessert to remember.
Bringing in a healthy yet hearty option, Gena Hamshaw proves that raw food needn't be contained to only the warmest of months in order to satisfy. Savory "Meatballs" made of mushrooms, sunflower seeds, and red beets top a generous mound of zucchini noodles, all smothered in a rich sun-dried tomato Marinara Sauce. A delicious departure from the standard fatty, heavy rendition of the concept, these uncooked balls pack incredible amounts umami into tiny little flavor bombs.
For an issue like this, the best part of the job is definitely "cleaning up" when each photo shoot is all wrapped up. Keep an eye out for your copy if you're subscriber, or venture out to the local bookstore if you're not, because this is one you'll want to hang on to!


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Denver, CO – Nolan Arenado drove in the go-ahead run in the bottom of the seventh inning, and the Colorado Rockies completed their first three-game sweep in nearly four months with Sunday's 3-2 victory over the NL Central-leading Pittsburgh Pirates.
Arenado's RBI double off reliever Bryan Morris (5-5) proved to be the difference, with Rex Brothers working through a bases loaded jam in the ninth to preserve his 10th save and Colorado's first sweep since taking three from the New York Mets on April 16-18.
DJ LeMahieu knocked in a run for the Rockies and Manny Corpas (1-2) tossed a perfect seventh to relieve rookie starter Chad Bettis, who pitched an effective six innings of two-run ball in his Coors Field debut.
"As quickly as it can go sour, you've got to believe you can turn it around quickly. I'm proud of our guys," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said.
The Pirates, losers of six of their last seven road tilts, received 5 2/3 innings from starter Jeff Locke. He allowed two runs -- one earned -- on three hits and four walks.
"We pack it up and we go," Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle said of the loss. "You honestly self-evaluate and move on and get ready to play in St. Louis."
Pedro Alvarez homered for Pittsburgh, but his throwing error in the bottom of the sixth allowed the Rockies to tie the game at 2-2.
With runners on first and second and two out for Colorado, Corey Dickerson grounded a ball toward Alvarez, but the third baseman's throw sailed wide and into the stands to allow Yorvit Torrealba to score the tying run.
The Rockies then went ahead after scoring another two-out run in the seventh. Wilin Rosario laced a single off the leg of Morris and hustled around the bags on Arenado's double into the gap to give Colorado a 3-2 advantage.
Matt Belisle tossed a perfect eighth, but Brothers had some trouble in the ninth. He allowed a leadoff single to Neil Walker and then a one-out double to Tony Sanchez. After Jordy Mercer lined out, Brothers intentionally walked Gaby Sanchez to bring up Alex Presley, who popped out to end the game.
The Pirates scored a run apiece in the second and third innings. Alvarez jacked his 28th homer of the season to start the second and Andrew McCutchen knocked in Clint Barmes from third the following frame to open up a 2-0 lead.
Charlie Blackmon was plunked to start the home third, and got the Rockies on the board after swiping second, moving up a base on Locke's balk and scoring on LeMahieu's sacrifice fly.
Game Notes
It's the first time Rockies have won three in a row overall since May 21-24 ... Pittsburgh's Starling Marte was not in the starting lineup after taking a pitch off his left hand in the seventh inning of Saturday's game, but did pinch-run in the ninth inning ... The Pirates were 1-for-7 with RISP.


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Dissecting CARCASS' "Heartwork" – Second Incision…Carnal Forge
October 9, 2011
This is the second in a series of articles analyzing the lyrics from the 1993 Carcass album "Heartwork". The second song on the record "Carnal Forge" is one of the more lyrically challenging songs I've encountered. When I first got a copy of the record, I sat there with a dictionary for an hour trying to figure out what on earth Carcass was talking about. Jeff Walker is known for having a remarkable vocabulary and this song proves it. Unless you scored in the top one percentile on your college boards, you are going to need help with a few of the words he uses. As a service to our readership with IQs below 160, I took the lyrics and clarified them a bit.
"Carnal Forge"
Multifarious carnage
(A massacre that takes many different forms)
Meretriciously internecine
(A vulgar, disgusting display of death)
Sublime enmangling steelbath
(A glorious, destructive bath)
Of escheated atrocities
(Of things lost to the State through terrible acts)
Enigmatic longanimity of ruminent mass graves
(Quiet graves that show a mysterious ability to suffer without sound)
Meritorious victory, into body-bags now scraped…
(A great win worthy of recognition that is shown by a high body count)
Regnant fleshpiles
(The authority and power of piles of dead bodies)
The dead regorged
(The dead shot out of their graves)
Osculatory majestic wrath
(A union of beautiful anger)
This carnal forge
(Human forms beaten and molded like a blacksmith working with metal)
Desensitized – to perspicuous horror
(No longer able to feel the awfulness of horror)
Dehumanized – fresh cannon fodder…
(Humans reduced to objects and killed on the battlefield)
Meritorious horror
(Something awful being praised for its greatness)
Perspicuous onslaught
(An obvious massacre)
Dehumanized – cannon fodder
Killing sanitized
(Murder in a way that is clean and neat)
Slaughter sanctified
(Murder made holy)
Desensitized – to genocide
(No longer capable of feeling what is wrong with mass murder)
Reigning corpsepiles
(Piles of dead bodies ruling over the land)
Death regorged
(Death shot upwards)
Sousing bloodbath
(Being drenched with blood)
Carnage forged…
(Bloodshed and death turned into something else)
In the cold, callous dignity of the mass grave…
(Respectful mass graves without feeling)
Multiferocious carnage
(Violence taking different forms and leading to a massacre)
Cruel, mendacious creed
(Evil, lying system of belief)
Sublime, murderous bloodbath
(Glorious massacre)
Of fiscal atrocities
(A massacre having to do with money)
Inexorable mettle in redolent consommé
(Unstoppable courage blended into a pleasant smelling soup)
An opprobious crucible of molten human waste…
(A disgraceful furnace of melting bodies)
Priapismic deathpiles
(Bodies piled up to the sky)
Infinitely regorged
(Endlessly shot upwards)
The smelting butchery
(A process of separating metals, a process of slaughtering animals)
Of the carnal forge
Desensitized – to pragmatic murder
(No longer feeling the horror of murder which is committed for practical purposes)
Dehumanized – into cannon fodder…
(Turned into non-human form and destroyed without feeling)
"Carnal Forge" is a searing study of the horrific nature of war. The whole "war is bad" theme has been done to death in heavy metal, but through the use of clever language and Joycean puns, Carcass is able to breathe life into a hackneyed lyrical concept. The major motif in the song is the monstrous merger between mechanized and human form. The effect is that the listener has a difficult time distinguishing between the two. This melding of forms stresses the concept of dehumanization in an even more immediate way. When Walker sings of "inexorable mettle in redolent consommé" he is giving the image of a soup made from mettle (courage) but also a soup made from metal (the human form turned into scrap). "Fiscal atrocities" means the destruction of capital, but also is meant to imply physical atrocity (the destruction of the human form). In these puns, we see a world where the lines blur between the animate and inanimate. When this line is obliterated, so are we. Our willingness to see humans as objects makes it possible for us to murder those who share our likeness. It is in the Carnal Forge of war that our human characteristics are lost.
The ultimate irony of this destruction through desensitization is that it is so engrained in some circles that it is not greeted with horror. Instead, it is celebrated. Soldiers who return are feted with parades; those who do not are given dignified, stately memorials. The dead do not care about these things. They do not care about the flags that cover their caskets, they are not interested in the soldiers firing skyward in their honor, and they do not gaze proudly at their names etched into stone walls. They cease to feel anything in the name of country or God or safety or resources or land or whatever-reason-was-given-to-them as they take their final journey into endless night.
There is no honor in death. The dead only know coldness and silence. Yet through a stroke of pure madness, many believe that the great wrongs that have been committed can be righted through ceremony. The louder we shout our love for the soldiers, the easier it is to forget the great waste of life that has been sacrificed in our names. Even the veneration of the dead is an act of objectification that makes future suffering more possible and even more likely.
Remembrance of their anguish does not wipe the slate clean. It is not for them; it is for us. A genuine act of contrition would be to create a world where massacres are entirely unacceptable, no matter who commits them. We do not live in that world. Instead, we live in a world where idle actions and traditions absolve us of our responsibility to stop the madness of war.
(Special thanks to Metal Matt Longo for his brilliant edit of this. Thanks to his fine work this article is being simulcast by the good folks over at MindOverMetal.org. Stop on by. Tell'em Keith sent ya!)