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ROCKFORD — The golfer with more city titles than anyone in history vs. the man with more titles without a city title. It sounded like a heavyweight title match.
And looked like one for awhile, too.
"We were exchanging blows there for a bit," Jamie Hogan said with a laugh Sunday after Kevin Flack knocked out the field at the Greater Rockford Men's Classic.
Flack, who has now won seven of the past 15 local tournaments, pulled away with a 2-under-par 70 at Aldeen to win his first Men's City title by seven strokes over Hogan and Danny Gorman.
"This means so much to me," said Flack, who finished at 8-under 278. "It's been a goal of mine since I was 15."
Flack began Sunday with a four-stroke lead, but Hogan cut the lead in half with a birdie on No. 9 and a three-putt bogey from 50 feet by Flack.
But Flack returned the favor on 10 when Hogan, who owns a record eight Men's City titles, three-putted from 45 feet and Flack made birdie after hitting an 85-yard wedge to 12 feet.
"I had a good wedge; that's one of my go-to shots, so I just went right at it." Flack said.
"That was huge," Hogan said. "The pendulum swung back the other way."
After the ninth hole was the only time in the last 34 holes that Flack's lead fell below three strokes. But Hogan landed another punch with an 8-footer for birdie on 11 and missed a 6-footer for birdie on 12. He then tried to get it back to two strokes with a 30-foot downhill birdie putt on No. 13, but Flack answered back with a blow of his own by sinking his 18-footer for birdie.
Just as he had promised his mom/caddy.
"I told my mom, 'This is in. Mom.' I didn't really believe it, but I told myself that to try to convince myself to make it," Flack said. "Then when Jamie made his, I knew I needed it. That was huge to get that one to go."
Flack basically won the tournament two holes later with another two-shot swing. Hogan, who would drive into a bunker three holes in a row, made bogey on the 190-yard par-3 15th, while Flack hit his tee shot to within 2 feet for what turned out to be his second of three birdies in a four-hole stretch.
"Kevin did everything right all day long," Hogan said. "A few loose screws, but nothing that shook the ship."
Flack was most proud that he shot under par all four days. No one else shot par or better more than twice. That included Gorman, who shot the lowest round on the first and last days, but left with no regrets.
"I had the right mindset the whole tournament; I just didn't perform well the second and third day," said Gorman, who opened with a 66 at Ingersoll and closed with a 69 at Aldeen. "I made seven birdies today, so I know I was playing good golf. I don't have much to be mad about."
Defending champ Robert Dofflemyer III finished fourth at 290, five strokes behind Gorman and Hogan. Kyle Slattery (292), three-time champ Eric Burch (294), Matt LaMarca (294), Elliot Horst (295), Matt Marinaro (295), Boylan golf coach Johnny Canova (298) and Paul Burd (298) rounded out the top 10.
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Young US Virgin Islander Taylor Canfield had an impressive Alpari World Match Racing Tour victory today when he went 3-0 up against Johnie Berntsson at the Argo Group Gold Cup in Bermuda.
Canfield joins a list of previous winners including Russell Coutts (7), Peter Gilmour (3) and Ben Ainslie (2), who each have their names etched on the side of the historic King Edward VII Gold Cup. As a non-Tour Card Holder, Canfield is now looking to appear more regularly at the top table of match racing in the coming years.
"This is the most prestigious event we've ever won and to join names like Russell Coutts on the trophy with seven wins, I guess that's a good goal for us to try and aim at in the next few years," said Canfield. "Winning a Tour event has always been a dream so this means a tonne to me and the crew, who did so well every day. We've put a lot of time and money into getting to this stage and for a young team, this is a great reward.
"We have big aspirations and the next step after this is to see if we can get a place at the Monsoon Cup in December. Looking ahead, we'll put an application together for a Tour Card next season so that we can start racing these top guys more regularly and some of this prize money will go towards preparing for our Tour application."
Canfield becomes the second US Virgin Islander to win the event since Peter Holmberg lifted the trophy in 2001. The youngster has competed at the event three times since getting his first experience of Bermudian sailing when competing at the Junior Gold Cup in Optis as a youth. Canfield said: "We're used to the sailing area and the IOD boats out here and we felt pretty good all week. We knew the Final was going to be tough because Johnie [Berntsson] has also been here a few times."
The final took place in 9 to 12 knots of consistent wind on Hamilton Harbour, and Canfield wasted no time in taking the win in the first match with racing tight throughout. It remained a close contest into the second and third races but key manoeuvres went the way of the US Virgin Islander. A turning point came in the second match as Canfield responded to being rolled by Berntsson on the first downwind leg, luffing his opponent until umpires decided that the Swede was guilty of not keeping clear. The resulting penalty was quickly taken by Berntsson by crossing Canfields stern - a new rule introduced on the Tour this year - which kept the Swede in contention. Canfield managed to retain the lead and went to match point, setting up a tense third match.
A penalty on Berntsson in the third prestart coupled with a poor start left a spirited comeback out of reach. Berntsson reflected on his second consecutive Argo Group Gold Cup Final, remaining gracious in defeat: "I'm happy to have challenged for the Final again this year but when they sail as well as they did today, it was really tough for us to get into the matches. We're really disappointed not to have taken the title but all credit to Taylor, they're a nice team and we're happy for them.
"I felt that we had to choose our tactics and stick with them. If things change, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. It's tight racing here and you can't take anything for granted.
"We've got some extra points to take us up the Tour leaderboard so we're looking ok for the Monsoon Cup. If we can do well there then we'll finish the year in good shape."
Earlier in the day, Berntsson had closed out his Semi Final match after restarting against reigning Tour Champion Ian Williams and his GAC Pindar crew with a 2-0 lead carried over from yesterday. He knew he needed one win from three to progress and he had to be fully focused to close out the tie 3-0 at the first time of asking. Having lost the lead to the Brit going into the final downwind, Berntsson found enough breeze to roll his opponent coming into the finish.
Williams was disappointed with the loss, but remained bullish about his overall Tour prospects for the season, saying: "This regatta wasn't the most important for our overall standings for the year but we wanted to win and haven't. Conditions were still shifty out there but certainly more stable than yesterday. No excuses though, we just didn't do what we had to."
Eric Monnin and his Okalys Corum team was Williams' opponent in the Petit Final, the Swiss having lost out to eventual winner Canfield 3-2 in their morning Semi Final, despite having held match point himself. Monnin tasted further defeat against Williams to take fourth in the event for the fourth time but his team gave a good account of themselves, fighting back from a point down before losing 2-1.
Monnin said: "Both in the Semis and the Petit Final today we were in a position to win so there are certainly a lot of regrets. Overall we're happy with our regatta and we matched our ambitions. We could have been out after a close Qualifying so if we'd thought we'd get so close to the Final, we'd have taken it.
"The Petit Final is a tough match to race after the disappointment of not making the Final, especially after being 2-0 up on Taylor [Canfield]. Today could have been very different. The positive is that we were able to come close to both of these top sailors, so we're not too far away ourselves."
Argo Group Gold Cup, Hamilton Harbour, Bermuda – Final:
Taylor Canfield (ISV) Canfield Racing vs. Johnie Berntsson (SWE) Berntsson Sailing Team
Argo Group Gold Cup, Hamilton Harbour, Bermuda – Petit Final:
Ian Williams (GBR) GAC Pindar vs. Eric Monnin (SUI) Okalys Corum 2-1
Argo Group Gold Cup, Hamilton Harbour, Bermuda – Semi Final (continued from yesterday):
Taylor Canfield (ISV) Canfield Racing vs. Eric Monnin (SUI) Okalys Corum 3-2
Johnie Berntsson (SWE) Berntsson Sailing Team vs. Ian Williams (GBR) GAC Pindar 3-0
Alpari World Match Racing Tour Standings – After 7 Stages:
Ian Williams (GBR) GAC Pindar – 102
Björn Hansen (SWE) Mekonomen Sailing Team – 93
Keith Swinton (AUS) Black Swan Racing – 79
Peter Gilmour (AUS) YANMAR Racing – 71
Pierre-Antoine Morvan (FRA) Vannes Agglo Sailing Team – 71
Laurie Jury (NZL) Kiwi Match Sailing – 65
Johnie Berntsson (SWE) Berntsson Sailing Team – 57
Phil Robertson (NZL) WAKA Racing Team – 56
Taylor Canfield (ISV) Canfield Racing – 41
William Tiller (NZL) Full Metal Jacket Racing – 37


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The other day we walked in to a little jewelry store. The owner, noticing my husband's yarmulke, began to speak in Hebrew. He was Israeli – and friendly – and the sales pitch began. He was creating a relationship with us and it was very hard to resist. I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he was in fact happy to have some fellow Jews walk into the store (and we are such a charming couple!) but he also wanted to sell me some earrings. And he kept showing me pair after pair after pair…I felt guilty not buying anything and we barely escaped with our bank balance intact. What is the best way to handle such a situation? It's hard to be friendly but firm.
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Was I rude? Friendly but firm did not seem to work.
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It's not that easy being polite under some of these circumstances. Sometimes we lose our temper. Sometimes we erupt in frustration. But if we exercise self-control, if we act with caring and concern, then we have made a Kiddush Hashem; we have sanctified the Almighty's name.
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deluge is available from the official repositories.
# pacman -S deluge
The gtk UI requires additional dependencies as does the webui. Inspect the pacman output to determine which are right for the intended application.
python2-notify: libnotify notifications pygtk: needed for gtk ui librsvg: needed for gtk ui python2-mako: needed for web ui
Daemon Setup
Deluge can run as a system daemon which is accessible to any system user or it can run in a non-daemon mode. The focus of this article is on the daemon mode of operation. Users wishing a more simplistic setup, i.e. running
/usr/bin/deluged as them-self should be able to read on and simply substitute the systemctl commands for the live files on the system.
/srv/deluge/.config/ manually or from
/usr/bin/deluge-console. The rest of this guide is written using the gtk client to do this from convenience of a GUI.
Start the deluge backend daemon like any other systemd service:
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Create a User
To allow interaction with the daemon, create a user:password:level in
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The number 10 corresponds to a level of 'Admin.' Refer to the following table for additional values:
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Define Options
- Load the gtk client
- Disable classic mode from the Edit>Preferences>Interface.
A restart of the client is required for these changes to take effect. Exit the client and reload it.
- Setup the client to point to the daemon from Edit>Connection Manager.
- Delete the dummy server by hightlighting it and clicking the "Remove" button.
- Create an entry to the daemon via the "Add" button populating the resulting dialog with either the IP address or the word "localhost" as the hostname. Populate the "Username" and "Password" fields with the username and password used in the daemons setup. and then click the "+ Add" button.
Hostname: localhost Username: delugeuser Password: p422WoRd:10
If the correct credentials were populated, a green light should appear options for interaction adjacent to the name of the server. To connect, hit the "Connect" button.
Users can now configure their server from the GUI. Most of the options are self explanatory and intuitive. More details are available on the official Deluge wiki for details.
Interacting with the Daemon
As previously mentioned, users have three options to connect to the daemon:
- Deluge-GTK
- Deluge-Web
- Deluge-console
The gtk client has already been covered in the previous section. Users should now have a fully functional client.
Deluge-Web (Optional)
To enable encrypted connections to/from the daemon, simply edit the https variable in
/srv/deluge/.config/deluge/web.conf changing the default value of false to true as shown:
"https": true,
Take note of the doublequotes and the trailing comma!
Users wishing to regenerate self-signed certificates can refer to this link.
To run the web ui, simply start the web-daemon:
# systemctl start deluge-web
Point a browser to
https://localhost:8112. Substitute the word localhost with an IP address if the server is elsewhere.
When asked for a password, enter "deluge" as it is the default password.
The preferences in the web UI is highly similar to the gtk UI. As explained in the previous section, edit the connection manager and define an entry to the daemon using the same credentials used in the setup step. Once finished, users are free to remove the dummy server entry.
Hostname: localhost Username: delugeuser Password: p422WoRd:10
Deluge-Console (Optional)
The CLI client
/usr/bin/deluge-console can also be used to connect to a running daemon. Invoke it from a shell. To connect, simply type:
connect localhost delugeuser p422WoRd:10
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The following command should return "deluge.desktop":
$ xdg-mime query default "x-scheme-handler/magnet"
If it returns a null, run this command:
$ xdg-mime default deluge.desktop application/x-bittorrent x-scheme-handler/magnet
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Awesome! Looking forward to trying these out.
Auto Overclock on these?
What are others experience at least with the 0.2 kernels when it comes to overclocking and battery life.... i would like to overclock a bit more than I do (800mhz currently) but dont want to put up too much battery life for it..... and low to standard to increased voltages...... how about those?
These are completely different than V0.2 so results will not be relevant. Only way to see is to test it out
With the .2 kernels I ran at 1 GHz perfectly fine. Battery life was good for me. I really don't know about the voltages. I ran a LV one but I'm going to try the 1 GHz SV .3 kernel.
What Roms will they work with? OR does it not mater
Well, I guess a perfect time to have 2 days in a row off work... will start testing now.... I'm gonna start testing on gpa15 stable.... once I find exactly what i like in speed and voltage I will move on to 2.3.4 betas with the same kernel.....in general, would higher voltage if it works ok with your phone usually get more performance? If not, what is the point in a higher voltage?
They're designed for GPA and BB.
Yeah higher voltage would get better performance but less battery life.
Thanks for the quick reply.
I love the LV 600 one. Always have. I run it at 125/600 on his GPA's and it's always been great. Nice work Pete.
1GHZ OC, Standard voltage=1311 quadrant score :icon_ banana:dancedroid:lifting: no reboots or anything bad yet
question: what is the kernel voltage on GPA16 currently?
i'm asking because i would like to keep the same voltage as the kernel on latest GPA16 build. its been running great for me so far at 800mhz. like really great.
should i even update to these kernels?


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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – The Harvard women's basketball team shot a season-high 57 percent and received four double-digit scoring performances Saturday night, but the Crimson could not overcome the Drexel Dragons in an 82-72 loss in the WNIT second round.
Harvard (21-9) finished the night shooting an astounding 29-of-51 from the field as Christine Clark, Victoria Lippert, Temi Fagbenle and Elle Hagedorn each went over 10 points. Clark and Lippert led the way with 15 points as Fagbenle and Hagedorn added 14 and 10, respectively. Clark and Hagedorn also set career-highs with six assists, and Fagbenle pulled down seven rebounds to pace the Crimson on the glass.
Despite Harvard's hot hand, Drexel (24-10) advanced to the WNIT's third round thanks to a 53 percent (30-57) shooting night which included nine three-pointers. The Dragons owned a 32-22 margin on the glass and scored 12 second-chance points off 14 offensive rebounds. Hollie Mershon turned in 32 points and nine assists to lead Drexel while Taylor Wootton added 20 points, nine rebounds and five helpers.
Harvard scored on each of its first four possessions to take a 9-4 lead out of the gates. Fagbenle got the scoring going with a bucket in the paint and was followed by five points from Lippert. Fagbenle added a second bucket as Clark found her cutting across the baseline. Drexel was able to keep pace, however, and evened the game at 9-9 off five points from Merson.
The teams continued to go back-and-forth with a Fagbenle and-one giving the Crimson a 14-11 edge before a Mershon three-pointer put the Dragons up, 20-18. Christine Clark scored six straight points to match baskets at the other end and keep it at a three-point game, 29-26, and a putback by Jasmine Evans moved the score to 35-32 in Drexel's favor with 2:24 to play. A 6-2 run by the Dragons to close the half sent Harvard into the locker room trailing by seven, 41-34.
Harvard and Drexel shot an identical 16-of-27 in the frame but the Dragons went 5-of-11 from deep to build their lead. Drexel also held a 14-9 advantage on the glass while going 4-of-4 at the line. Clark's eight points led the Crimson at the intermission as Lippert and Fagbenle each chipped in seven.
Fagbenle scored the first points coming out of the intermission but the Dragons answered back with seven straight to take a double-digit lead, 48-36. Evans ended the drought with a three in transition and Hagedorn followed with a three of her own to make it a 51-42 game. Drexel came back with a 6-0 stretch to extend its lead to 57-42 and maintained a 16-point margin, 69-53, with 6:37 to play.
A three-pointer from Lippert began to swing the momentum in Harvard's favor. The senior stole the ball at the other end and led a fast break which resulted in a pair of Clark free throws, edging the Crimson back within 11, 69-58. It was a nine-point game following baskets by Fagbenle and Lippert, 71-62, and Harvard had the lead down to seven, 74-67, off a Hagedorn three with under 2:00 remaining.
An and-one by Clark brought the Crimson with six, 76-70, but the Dragons hit 6-of-8 free throws in the final minute to preserve the 82-72 victory.
Game Notes: Harvard shot a season-high 56.9 percent from the floor, its best performance since shooting 60.9 percent against Columbia on Feb. 19, 2011 … Christine Clark, Temi Fagbenle, Elle Hagedorn and Victoria Lippert each scored 10-plus points, giving the Crimson four double-digit scorers for the first time since Jan. 12 against UMass … Christine Clark and Elle Hagedorn each set a career-high with six assists … Victoria Lippert became Harvard's all-time leader in games played, appearing in her 117th career contest.


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The National Security Agency is looking for help from the developer community in contributing to a label-based storage software that could be enable secure, granular access to data in large storage systems.
NSA submitted the software, named Accumulo, to the Apache Software Foundation's Incubator, citing the need for a "flexible, high performance distributed key/value store that provides expressive, fine-grained access labels."
The proposal said the software could be of most interest to "government, health care and other industries where privacy is a concern."
Accumulo is a sorted, distributed key/value store based on Google's BigTable design, and is built on top of Apache Hadoop, Zookeeper, and Thrift, according to the proposal.
What makes it unique is that it can tag each data cell with a label, Joab Jackson writes for IDG News Service. Its keys can store labels that allow precise access to data while restricting access to other information that is protected by policy rules, Jackson writes.
And because Accumulo is a distributed design that can run across multiple servers, it could be used with large systems, the article states.
NSA submitted Accumulo to the Apache Incubator because of its "strong relationship with other Apache projects," such as Hadoop, Zookeeper, and Thrift, and because it has similar goals to HBase, according to the proposal. It already has attracted hundreds of developers and is working to get more to commit.
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The No. 9 Bobcats (35-15) take to Clifford S. Cormell Field for the NCAA Southeast Regional Tournament beginning Thursday, May 13 by taking on No. 8 Mount Olive College (40-9) at 11 a.m. The Bobcats make the school's ninth appearance in the NCAA Tournament, including the second-straight and fourth in last five seasons.
As always postseason action for Bobcat baseball will be broadcast on the HomeTeam Stations, Country 102.3FM WKZR and ESPN Radio 1450AM WMVG. Scott MacLeod and Al Weston will bring you play-by-play action on the 102.3FM Thursday.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The UMBC track and field team swept the four weekly America East awards, the conference office announced on Tuesday afternoon. Senior Trae Proctor (Brandywine, Md./Thomas Stone) and sophomore Mercedes Jackson (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown), each of whom set a school record at the Penn State Relays, took the Male and Female Track Athlete of the Week awards, respectively, while seniors Shioma Obemeata (New Rochelle, N.Y./Iona Prep/St. Francis) and Amanda Deller (Aberdeen, Md./Aberdeen) swept the field honors.
Competing for the first time in 2013, Proctor set a new personal-best and equaled the UMBC school record en route to winning the 60m hurdles. The two-time America East champion matched his previous career-best of 8.02 in the preliminaries and then bettered it to 8.00 in the finals. Negasi Gerima had held sole possession of the record in the event since setting it in 2000. Proctor's time of 8.00 is the best in the conference this season and tied for ninth-fastest in the country.
Senior Shioma Obemeata
For the women, Jackson had yet another record-setting day, bettering her own UMBC record for the third time in just two meets this season. After dropping her school record time twice at the season-opening Bison Opener on Dec. 1, the sophomore did herself one better, winning the 60m dash at Penn State with a new personal-best time of 7.42, the top time in the America East in 2012-13 and seventh-fastest in the NCAA. She was not done there, however, recording her third victory of the year by taking top honors in the 200m dash (24.35).
In the field events, Obemeata recorded an IC4A qualifying jump of 14.50m (47'7.00"), a mark which sets the standard in the conference this season. In addition, he competed in the high jump competition, clearing 1.80m (5'10.75").
Despite placing fifth in both throwing events at the Penn State meet, Deller posted season-bests in both competitions and now leads the America East in the shot put. Last year's Most Outstanding Field Athlete, Deller registered a toss of 13.72m (45'0.25") to pull ahead of her conference rivals while her distance of 15.65m (51'4.25") in the weight throw stands as the third-farthest this season.
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Opinion: So Much For Punishing Assad
Editorial page editor Paul Gigot on the weekend agreement to dismantle Syria's chemical weapons. Photo credit: Associated Press.
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I ... the administration announced a deal this weekend ... to disarm Syria of its chemical weapons in in these last hours ... the United Nations also confirmed that on August twenty first in Damascus ... there is quote clear and convincing evidence of a searing gas attack ... what is this all mean I've got editorial page editor Paul GBO here too ... you could include sales to ... fall ... in first live it's notable that meant no one's calling for a son to step down now ... at the same disarmed chemical weapons they CEO didn't want the violence discontinued with us one of the prices of this basically that ... the president Pres Obama has now made himself hostage to find it rude and and and the good offices such as they are the cars ... so basically he's proven he's counting on the side ... to cooperate with this deal ... and deliver on its terms and then coming and going ... to make the site to so I think that the EU point is well taken in all the talk about Assad Must Go ... he's now in a certain sense ... president Obama spark is this what the president so might've wanted all along ... to have a strong man in Syria ... an insurance run in having to get us involved ... politically is this the end and I don't think you would expect that the last two weeks ... that day the way I think they happen to know ... I think have ... I think this was a lifeline he grabbed on ... after he had put himself in the box Canyon ... of demanding a vote in Capitol Hill ... confronted the fact that he would probably lose that followed ... and then when that John Kerry made his ... gaffe heard round the world that I am or nine gas is the case might be that was granted by ... the Russians ... Obama then grab that life preserver and now he's in a box Canyon another box canyon ... with a coat and and and Panasonic ... so politically how will the president and spin this to Americans here and what he is already spinning this as ... well ... the salt was all about ... is what really about Assad this was about chemical weapons ... so this is has the potential to get rid of this chemical weapons that's a better outcome in by the way ... we don't need a bomb anybody to do it ... now is to believe that you have to believe that the sun will come clean ... but the declarations posts to make within a week will include everything ... that even if that declaration includes everything they will hide it ... and that even if they get rid of it ... by the middle of twenty fourteen at the walk ... we assembled chemical weapons in some other way ... I think merely to state those terms suggests ... the impossibility now in the U N doesn't exactly have a great track record of ... weapons inspections doesn't ... know they they I mean they try ... ok and I don't mean to ... to discount their efforts but ... they are ... dependent upon being led around to the sites ... and already we're seeing that the Russians and the Americans don't agree on exactly we are ... Syria has its weapons at home any weapons they have ... a big stockpiles are ... so the Russians could simply Asus well ... the declaration is total and we see a women we have intelligence that says they're not ... and and then you have a flight over the kind of a declaration last week Apple is Saddam Hussein and I think you promise you that again ... so what happens if the sun decides that he's going to do a massive ... conventional weapons attack against civilians in an oxygen but ... nothing okay I mean that's the problem here and that's when you think you see the Syrian opposition ... amid the couple Proms one is ... the site even if he gives up his weapons in you believe that which I don't ... see something punished for their yields some John Kerry said the reviews on fourteen times ... he emerges on scales from he knows now ... that this can be no use of force against him in a fundamental way as long as the cooperate on this declaration and his diplomatic dance ... and that's why the rebels don't like that so much because they know ... better that al Assad can unleash ... the conventional offensive against them ... out without fear ... of


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I've been going to cluster meetings the last few weeks. It is always true that we see a powerful change in interns between the fall cluster meeting and the spring cluster meeting. In the fall most are still in the honeymoon stage of internship. They're getting to know the congregation. They're thrilled by the chance to preach and lead worship regularly. Usually they've got an office all their own. They're discovering all kinds of fascinating things about the congregation. It is easy for them to say, "Ministry Is Good."
By the time the spring meeting rolls around they've been through a few funerals, and they can see others coming down the road. They've experienced conflict in the congregation and maybe even some conflict with their supervisors. They've discovered that some weeks are relentlessly long and demanding, that sometimes when a meeting ends at 10 p.m., you need to be back to church by 8 a.m. the next day. They've been evaluated by their supervisor and lay committee. They've had Christmas and Easter in a new place, a place where their role was up-front and not in the pew. They've discovered, in other words, that ministry isn't easy.
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The HPC cloud top research stories of the week have been hand-selected from prominent journals and leading conference proceedings. Items this week include an evaluation of a cloud storage service, an HPC cloud proof-of-concept, and a survey of cloud-based workflows.
Evaluating Cloud Storage Services for Tightly-Coupled Applications
This week's HPC cloud item comes from a team of researchers from INRIA and Argonne National Laboratory. Their work "Evaluating Cloud Storage Services for Tightly-Coupled Applications" was published as a chapter in Euro-Par 2012: Parallel Processing Workshops.
Noting that past HPC cloud research primarily focused on performance as a way to quantify the HPC capabilities of public and private clouds, the team sets out to address the topic of data storage as it relates to traditional HPC applications.
"Tightly-coupled applications are a common class of scientific HPC applications, which exhibit specific requirements previously addressed by supercomputers," write the authors. They're referring to the fact that tightly-coupled applications work best when paired with a custom-tuned parallel file system (PFS). And while virtual machines can be outfitted with any file system, including PFS, the setup introduces issues around data persistency.
The research team elect to test a cloud-based storage service, and they opt for an open source platform as opposed to Amazon. They select the Nimbus Cloud framework and its S3-compatible storage service, Cumulus.
The group runs several experiments using an atmospheric modeling application running in a private Nimbus cloud. The results show that the application is able to scale with the size of the data and the number of processes (up to 144 running in parallel), while storing 50 GB of output data on the Cumulus cloud storage service.
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Easy to Use Cloud Service
Among the many HPC cloud research pieces that were published this week was an Australian endeavor that seeks to transform complicated HPC applications into easy-to-use SaaS cloud services. Researchers Adam K.L. Wonga and Andrzej M. Goscinskia from the School of Information Technology at Deakin University in Australia set out to develop and test a unified framework for HPC applications as services in clouds.
The duo acknowledge the benefits of HPC cloud. Scalable, affordable and accessible on demand, the use of HPC resources in a cloud environment have been a natural fit for many scientific disciplines, including biology, medicine, chemistry, they write. Still they have observed a steep learning curve when it comes to preparing for and deploying HPC applications in the cloud. This they say has stood in the way of many innovative HPC-backed discoveries.
To remedy this situation and improve ease of use and access to HPC resources, the researchers are looking to the world of Web-based tools, but as they write "high-performance computational research are both unique and complex, which make the development of web-based tools for this research difficult."
The paper describes their approach to developing a unified cloud framework – one that makes it easier for various domain users to deploy HPC applications in public clouds as services. Their proof-of-concept integrates three components:
(i) Amazon EC2 public cloud for providing HPC infrastructure.
(ii) a HPC service software library for accessing HPC resources.
(iii) the Galaxy web-based platform for exposing and accessing HPC application services.
The authors conclude that "this new approach can reduce the time and money needed to deploy, expose and access discipline HPC applications in clouds."
Cloud-based Workflow
As the Internet has evolved, many related technologies have come along, such as Web 2.0, middleware, virtualization, and grid computing. All these elements contributed to what is now referred to as cloud computing. The cloud era that is now upon us has brought many advantages, but it has also introduced technical challenges, for example with regard to quality of service (QoS).
A research group from the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in Jiangxi, China, proposes that a cloud-based workflow (referred to as a "cloud workflow") can help rein in operational costs and improve the service quality of cloud computing. In a recent paper [PDF], the researchers introduce the key concepts and features relating to cloud workflows.
The team argues that a cloud-based workflow offers benefits beyond cost reduction. It helps businesses with process harmonization, optimal organization design and change management, and "enables a complex application instance to be abstractly defined, flexibly configured and auto-operated," they write.
A Workflow Management System (WFMS) is an important tool, according to the authors, one that helps "to define, implement and manage the workflow and to support exchanging information between the group members and tasks."
The paper also lays out the technical characteristics of cloud workflows, and offers detailed scenarios of how they are used.


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SANFORD, Fla. – Sophomore Colin Markel (Scarsdale, N.Y./Scarsdale) tossed a complete-game eight-hitter, and the Brandeis baseball team scored twice in the ninth inning, but the Judges left the tying runs in scoring position as they dropped their fifth-straight game at the 2012 University Athletic Association (UAA) tournament, 5-3, to Washington (Mo.) University. With the loss, the Judges fall to 4-8, 0-5 UAA, while the Bears' improve to 12-3, 5-0 UAA, with their 12th-straight win.
The Judges, who had lost to WashU, 14-2, earlier in the tournament, opened the scoring in the top of the fourth inning. Rookie DH Dan Gad (Mansfield, Mass./Mansfield) and classmate LF Kyle Brenner (Brookfield, Mass./St. Peter-Marian) singled to lead off the frame. After Bear starter Max Gordon got a grounder to first for the first out of the inning, senior RF Zach Malis (Merrick,N.Y./Bellmore JFK) singled to second base to start the scoring and put runners on the corners with one away. WashU was able to get out of further damage when center fielder Kyle Billig cut down Brenner at the plate trying to score on rookie SS Tom McCarthy's fly ball (Yonkers, N.Y./Fieldston School).
Washington got the run back in the bottom of the fourth, when RF Brandon Rogalski singled, moved to second on a wild pitch, and scored on DH Andrew Dwoskin's single and an infield error. Markel got defensive help to escape further damage, as senior 2B Sean O'Hare (Southampton, Mass./Hampshire Regional) helped turn a pop-up into a double play. The Bears got a pair of runs in each of the next two innings to push their lead to 5-1. Shortstop Andrew Goldstick had an RBI single and Billig a sacrifice fly in the fourth. In the fifth, catcher Chris Lowery's run-scoring single proved to be the game-winning run, while 2B Noah Doppelt's sac fly added an insurance run.
Brandeis, which got just one runner past first base in the fifth through eighth innings, finally broke through again in the ninth against WashU reliever Brian Cizek, taking advantage of some early wildness. Sophomore 3B Brian Ing (Sandwich, Mass./Sandwich) walked to lead off the frame, and McCarthy was hit by a pitch two batters later. O'Hare followed with an RBI single to shortstop, while senior catcher Kenny Destremps (Mashpee, Mass./Mashpee) knocked in the Judges' third run with a hit to center field. With the heart of the lineup to follow, WashU called on reliever Max Zhang, who got a comebacker to the mound which put both runners in scoring position. Zhang then induced a fly ball to right to end the game.
For the Judges, who finished with eight hits, the big bat was wielded by Gad, who went 3-for-3 and was hit by a pitch with a run scored. Gad has hit safely in 10 straight games and is hitting a team-leading .417. Markel tossed his first collegiate complete game with eight innings of eight-hit ball. He allowed five runs (three earned) and struck out four while walking two. Markel falls to 2-1 on the season.
Rogalski was the only multiple hitter for WashU, while 1b Zack Kessinger's double was the only extra base hit of the game. Gordon improved to 2-1 on the season with eight innings of six-hit ball, allowing just one unearned run. He fanned five and walked four.
Brandeis is back in action at the UAA tournament tomorrow when they take on Case Western Reserve at 2:30 p.m. in the first of two meetings between the squads over the last three days of the tournament.


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I had a chat with Matt recently about helping out around here and it looks like I can now do a bit of moderation. I just moved a thread from "Music" to "Mixes" to prove it.
I'm conscious that there should be some accountability on Dissensus and that the moderators should be known, so I've posted this thread here about it.
There is a View Forum Leaders link on the main page which will show you which members can do more than simply post here.
I would suggest that if anyone thinks any of the moderators are unsuitable for any reason for them to take this up with Matt or one of the other moderators.
Having said all that, I think we are all pretty easy going and laissez faire about this place, so I'd be surprised if there was anything to concern people.
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A special welcome to our newest member, ykynoxac.
(CSI - Ship Ahoy! > Greg/Sara - PG-13)
Greg Sanders normally didnt lie. He may have exaggerated, stretched the truth...
Aaron Hotchner decides he wants something that is no longer his partner of ten years, Spencer Reid. Reid runs to the one place he knows he will be safe...
Nothing burns hotter than desire.
Detective Josephine Danville needed to take a step back from the man she didn't recognize anymore. She didn't believe that reconnection was at all possible...
Set after 8.14 Flash Pop. Jo Danville's sentimental thoughts.
John Curtis wanted to really punish Jo for stopping him, for not letting him live his disgusting fantasies much longer - "Means To An And" seriously re-interpreted...
Set in the aftermath of 8.09 Means To An End. Mac admits.
One phone call from Ellie late on a Friday night is enough for Jo's maternal instinct to kick in. Fear doesn't begin to describe her reaction; irrational...
Saying goodbye was hard, but not saying it, was worse, according to Jo Danville.
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2 cups water
4 TBSP honey
1 TBSP lemongrass
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
1 1/2 tsp. Serrano peppers, seeded and finely chopped
1 cup dried cranberries
4 TBSP fresh lime juice
1 TBSP fresh mint, finely chopped
1 TBSP fresh cilantro, finely chopped
1/4 cup red onion, finely chopped
Pecans to garnish (optional)
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Today's Highlight in History:
On Oct. 6, 1927, the era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of "The Jazz Singer," starring Al Jolson, a movie that featured both silent and sound-synchronized sequences.
On this date:
In 1536, English theologian and scholar William Tyndale, who was the first to translate the Bible into Early Modern English, was executed for heresy.
In 1683, thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America's oldest settlements.
In 1884, the Naval War College was established in Newport, R.I.
In 1928, Chiang Kai-shek became president of China.
In 1939, as remaining military resistance in Poland crumbled, Adolf Hitler delivered a speech to the Reichstag blaming the Poles for the Nazi-Soviet invasion of their country.
In 1949, U.S.-born Iva Toguri D'Aquino, convicted of treason for being Japanese wartime broadcaster "Tokyo Rose," was sentenced in San Francisco to 10 years in prison (she ended up serving more than six).
In 1958, the nuclear submarine USS Seawolf surfaced after spending 60 days submerged.
In 1973, war erupted in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria attacked Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.
In 1976, in his second debate with Jimmy Carter, President Gerald R. Ford asserted there was "no Soviet domination of eastern Europe." (Ford later conceded he'd misspoken.)
In 1979, Pope John Paul II, on a week-long U.S. tour, became the first pontiff to visit the White House, where he was received by President Jimmy Carter.
In 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade.
In 1989, actress Bette Davis died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, at age 81.
Ten years ago: American Paul Lauterbur and Briton Peter Mansfield won the Nobel Prize for medicine for discoveries that led to magnetic resonance imaging. Democrat Bob Graham announced on CNN's "Larry King Live" that he was ending his presidential campaign. Akhmad Kadyrov, Russia's hand-picked man to lead Chechnya, was declared winner of the republic's presidential election. (He was assassinated in May 2004.).
Five years ago: As Wall Street reeled and global markets plunged, President George W. Bush said the U.S. economy was going to be "just fine" in the long run, but cautioned that the massive rescue plan would take time to work. The Dow industrial average dropped to 9,955, its first close below 10,000 since 2004. Germany's Harald zur Hausen and French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine.
One year ago: Five terror suspects, including Egyptian-born preacher Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, widely known as Abu Hamza al-Masri, arrived in the United States from England and appeared in court in New York and Connecticut. Mustafa is accused of conspiring with some Seattle men to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon and of helping abduct two American tourists and 14 other people in Yemen in 1998.
Today's Birthdays: Broadcaster and writer Melvyn Bragg is 74. Actress Britt Ekland is 71. Singer Millie Small is 67. The president of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams, is 65. Singer-musician Thomas McClary is 64. Musician Sid McGinnis (TV: "Late Show with David Letterman") is 64. CBS chief executive officer Les Moonves is 64. Rock singer Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon) is 62. Rock singer-musician David Hidalgo (Los Lobos) is 59. Former NFL player and coach Tony Dungy is 58. Actress Elisabeth Shue is 50. Singer Matthew Sweet is 49. Actress Jacqueline Obradors is 47. Country singer Tim Rushlow is 47. Rock musician Tommy Stinson is 47. Actress Amy Jo Johnson is 43. Actress Emily Mortimer is 42. Actor Lamman Rucker is 42. Actor Ioan Gruffud is 40. Actor Jeremy Sisto is 39. Rhythm-and-blues singer Melinda Doolittle (TV: "American Idol") is 36. Actor Wes Ramsey is 36.
Thought for Today: "Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom." — Author unknown.


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Michael Waltrip was 'scared' by team's NASCAR scandal
LOUDON, N.H. – Michael Waltrip put on a brave face Friday morning at New Hampshire Motor Speedway but admitted his Sprint Cup team's involvement in a team orders scandal has been frightening.
"It's been a rocky couple of weeks (and) yes, I was scared," Waltrip said. "I was uncertain of our future. After speaking with the folks from Aaron's and all of our partners, they're supporting us, they're going to stick with us and believe that we are a quality first-class organization. We will race forward with respect and appreciation for being able to be here. We'll start to regain trust."
In the wake of NAPA electing Thursday to end its $18 million annual sponsorship on Martin Truex Jr.'s No. 56 Toyota with two years remaining on its contract, Waltrip said he didn't expect 5 Hour Energy to leave Clint Bowyer's No. 15. A company spokeswoman said Thursday the company was reviewing its NASCAR investment and would make a decision after the season, but Waltrip said the 5 Hour Energy president would be at the track this weekend and "we believe with all our heart that they will stay and we'll race Clint for the championship again in 2014."
RYAN:Waltrip in biggest fight for survival
That still would leave a significant funding gap on Truex's Camry, but Waltrip said the team planned to continue fielding three cars next season. Waltrip said co-owner Rob Kauffman, who became a billionaire through hedge fund investment banking, could cover funding shortfalls through his RK Motors restoration business. RK Motors has filled sponsor vacancies on several races for Bowyer this season.
Kauffman has been quiet since NASCAR bounced Truex from the Chase for the Sprint Cup after NASCAR ruled Michael Waltrip Racing had manipulated the outcome of the Sept. 7 race at Richmond International Raceway, where Bowyer spun to bring out the final yellow and Brian Vickers pitted under green after being directed by spotter Ty Norris, who was suspended indefinitely.
Waltrip said Kauffman remains active with the team and called 10 minutes before his interview session Friday morning.
KYLE BUSCH:Driver sympathizes with Truex Jr.'s plight
"The reason Rob's been quiet is because he has been in Europe," Waltrip said. "He had some business to take care of over there. I told him I was really looking forward to chatting with (the news media) and watching our team. I think this really has brought us closer together as an organization. It's easy to get bogged down in all the negativity that when you see people smile and pat you on the back and say, 'We're going to get through this,' it means a lot."
There still are many lingering questions for MWR, starting with the future of NAPA and Truex. Waltrip said he didn't know if NAPA would stay in NASCAR (a release said it was re-evaluating its commitment to motor sports). There's been speculation the auto parts supplier might follow Truex to another team, and Waltrip indicated he wouldn't stand in the driver's way. Truex ended a six-year winless streak in June and is having one of the best campaigns of his eight seasons on NASCAR's premier circuit.
After qualifying fifth Friday, Truex told reporters he wanted to stay with Waltrip, but had to consider all his options for 2014.
"Given the timing, we have to look at all our options," he said. "There's not a whole lot out there. It's awful late in the season. We've got to look at everything we can to make sure I can be in a race car next year.
"I really enjoyed my last four years at MWR and feel we're getting to where we want it to be when we started. This is obviously going to set us back. I'd love to be there, but there's no guarantees now. Just depends on how everything goes down."
Truex said bringing NAPA as a package deal to another team could be an option but indicated it hadn't been discussed seriously.
"We do have a great relationship," he said. "This all happened so fast. Obviously, they're going to need a little time for the dust to settle and figure out what their next move is. So I just have to wait. I feel I've represented them well. I know they're happy with the job I've done on and off the racetrack. We'll just see where that leads, but right now I have no idea what's going to happen."
The Mayetta, N.J., native said he felt like a victim in the Richmond incident but didn't harbor any ill will against MWR.
"Decisions were made in the heat of battle, obviously they were wrong," Truex said. "We have to deal with the consequences. We can't go back in time and undo anything. I'm just focused on the next nine races and trying to figure out what I do next year.
"All we did at Richmond was race our car as hard as we could. A lot of bad stuff has happened to us that we really had no control over. It's no different than running a race as hard as you can and get a flat tire. Some things in life you can't control. Those things you can't worry about. We'll move on. I'm looking forward to the future and winning races. I always hoped I'd be at Michael Waltrip Racing a long, long time. That really hasn't changed, but it's a lot more confusing at this moment."
Waltrip said Truex had agreed to give the team some time to sort out its situation.
"If he came to me tomorrow and said, 'I got a deal to go (do) something,' then obviously I would not hold him back," Waltrip said.
"His support and loyalty to our organization has been amazing. He drove some kind of crappy cars when he first got to our shop. We were able to build those cars better and make them faster. He's been able to be a race-winning Chase guy. I owe him a lot for his loyalty and his passion for our team. I wouldn't hold him back from doing something he wanted to do, but I'd like him to hang around so we can attract a sponsor and keep him in our cars."
PR EXPERT:'MWR is staring at the possibility of extinction'
Waltrip also reiterated his team didn't orchestrate an elaborate scheme to put Truex in the Chase at Richmond. Norris has claimed he acted alone in ordering Vickers to pit, and Bowyer has denied spinning intentionally.
"I feel like as a whole, we're a very respectful, appreciative, humble organization, and we didn't have a master plan in order to manipulate the race," Waltrip said. "That wasn't even discussed in any way, form or shape. Hopefully, you earn your trust. We've disappointed some fans, and we're going to work our butts off to gain that trust back."
Other highlights of Waltrip's18-minute session with the news media:
• Waltrip said NAPA told him its sponsorship was being vacated because "the events of the last 10 days had spiraled out of control a bit." It's the second time a NAPA-sponsored car had run afoul of NASCAR in a major way. NASCAR discovered an illegal fuel additive in Waltrip's No. 55 in qualifying for the 2007 Daytona 500.
"They felt like what we were involved with and NASCAR penalized us for was more than they were comfortable dealing with, more than they were comfortable with accepting," Waltrip said. "They worked hard to try to figure out a way to hang around. They've been an amazing part of my life the last 13 years. We worked really hard with them to try to come to some sort of solution to move forward. They weren't totally thrilled with the way the whole situation was handled, and that played into a part of it, but we put them in that position and put them in a bad spot. They certainly have been there for me when I didn't make races and had problems being competitive and having the fuel problem. I have nothing but praise and thanks to them."
Waltrip, who won his first race with NAPA in the 2001 Daytona 500, said he wasn't surprised by the company's decision and hinted that social media outrage likely played a role.
"We live in a different world today," he said. "You can hear everyone's opinion pretty easily. A lot of folks voiced a lot of concern for our team to them. They had to react. I can't say I was overly surprised. I knew it was certainly a possibility.
"I also believe you have to look at what a respectable, honorable group of folks that make up NAPA. They didn't call us beating on the desk. They said, 'Give us some time, we're going to try to work through this. They gathered all the facts they could. It's a fair decision to hang around with us until the end of the year. I'll always wear NAPA blue. I'm thankful they were a part of my life. I'm just disappointed we let them down and put them in this position."
NATIONWIDE:Company won't sponsor NASCAR series
• Waltrip said he wasn't angered by NASCAR's penalty but initially was confused by what constituted team orders before chairman Brian France and president Mike Helton clarified policies before last week's race at Chicagoland Speedway.
"We now clearly understand what is and isn't acceptable behavior," Waltrip said. "As long as we know the rules, and we're all governed the same, then we'll say that we've learned a lot from this situation and we'll be better prepared to race forward."
Did he think NASCAR could have handled his penalty differently?
"It's done," Waltrip said. "They made their decisions and penalized us the way they did. It was pretty huge. Other folks didn't get as big a penalty for some things they did. I don't like to speculate. We have to accept what we were given. We can't worry about what other people were given."
• Waltrip said he's visited fans in the infield at Chicagoland Speedway and Thursday night at New Hampshire, playing games of cornhole and soliciting their opinions.
"The last two races, you wonder a little bit what people are thinking," he said. "The fans are very, very supportive and appreciative of who we are. We made a mistake in the heat of the battle. One hundred percent of the folks I met last night were supportive and felt like we just needed to focus on our cars and move on."
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