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text: Thanks Андрей, Do you have a rotor? If it works OK which program do you use to drive it? ----- Original Message ---- From: Придворов Андрей <ua0lnj at bk.ru> To: linux-dvb <linux-dvb at linuxtv.org> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:45:02 PM Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] mantis vp1041 with strange diseqc rotor commands I think, this is becouse "Initial support for Mantis VP-1041" not usability yet. I use patch from Hans Werner for 1041, works better. ----- Original Message ----- From: Simeon Simeonov To: linux-dvb Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 6:47 AM Subject: [linux-dvb] mantis vp1041 with strange diseqc rotor commands Hi, I am using the latest mantis drivers from Manu's repository: http://jusst.de/hg/mantis/ with my Azureware twinhan vp1041 based card. Locking to DVB-S channels works fine almost all the time with the patched szap or patched mythtv. Did not try DVB-S2 yet. But what I am having troubles now is the diseqc. I have a switch behind a diseqc 1.2 rotor (goto stored positions). The switching works fine under Windoz. I have no problems also using it with my other card in the same box - Twinhan 102g. Initially with the vp1041 card after a couple of diseqc commands I would get stb0899_diseqc_fifo_empy timeout. It turned out that I had to use some very long pauses before sending a repeat command. If for the 102g standart 15ms worked fine, for the vp1041 I had to use 1s! pause. Then the rotor will start moving very slowly with small steps - as if it is does one step , stops and then continues to the desired position.If one is patient enough the rotor gets to the desired position. I checked using voltmeter the voltages that come out of the card and they seem to be good. For sending the commands I used both mythtv and hacked version of Michel Verbraak's gotox program. Has anyone experienced something similar with stb0899 frontend? Perhaps you can give me an idea what might be going wrong? Thanks, Simeon ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb at linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb at linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/attachments/20080211/275a913f/attachment-0001.htm

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Former UFL coach gets Coastal Carolina football job
CONWAY -- Joe Moglia, former head coach of the United Football League's Omaha Nighthawks, has been hired as the head football coach at Coastal Carolina University, President David DeCenzo and Director of Athletics Hunter Yurachek announced Tuesday in a press conference at Adkins Field House. "I am excited to have a man like Joe Moglia lead our football team," DeCenzo said. "His proven success on and off the football field will be a great asset to Coastal Carolina University, its football program and our community. His passion for the game and its players, his knowledge of the game, and his strong desire to succeed are perfectly aligned with the mission of our athletics program. He has all the ingredients that will take our football program to waters uncharted." "There are consistent words of praise from those whom I have talked to about Joe such as 'successful,' 'leadership,' 'detail-oriented' and 'organized,'" Yurachek said. "Most importantly, it was made clear he has the skill set to be a great head coach with a passion for molding student-athletes into men. I am excited for each of our student-athletes who will learn from the life and professional experiences that Joe will share with them as our head football coach." Moglia, who will begin his 20th year as a coach in the 2012 season, is also Chairman of the Board for TD Ameritrade, a position he has held since 2008. "I cannot imagine anything more rewarding in helping 18-22 year olds become men through football," Moglia said. "To have that opportunity at Coastal Carolina University is truly an honor. I am grateful to Dr. DeCenzo and Hunter for this opportunity." Moglia, who coached the "Stars Team" at the 2011 Eastham Energy College All-Star Game, spent this past fall coaching the Nighthawks in the third year of the UFL's existence. Moglia's team led the UFL in passing offense, sacks, tackles-for-loss, punt returns and blocked kicks. Also, the Nighthawks produced the 2011 UFL Defensive Player of the Year, Stuart Schweigert. Moglia joined an elite roster of UFL head coaches including Dennis Green, Jim Fassel, Marty Schottenheimer and Jerry Glanville. From 2009-10 Moglia served as Executive Advisor to the Head Football Coach at the University of Nebraska in preparation for achieving his original lifelong pursuit, being a collegiate head football coach. In his two seasons at Nebraska, the Cornhuskers won two Big 12 North championships and played in the Holiday Bowl each season. In 2010, Cornhusker football student-athletes elected Moglia to receive Nebraska's prestigious U.S. Grant Sharp Admiral's Trophy for Leadership and Service. Moglia has been inducted into two high school halls of fame and the Omaha Business Hall of Fame while receiving the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, Columbus Citizens Foundation Leadership Award, National Italian American Foundation Special Achievement Award in Business, American Institute for Stuttering Lifetime Achievement Award and National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame's Man of the Year. Moglia is the only person to publish books on both football and investing, including "The Key to Winning Football: The Perimeter Attack Offense" (1981) and "Coach Yourself to Financial Success: Winning the Investment Game" (2005), while contributing to numerous national football coaching journals. He has also been a keynote speaker at the 2011 American Football Coaches Association ("It's About Being a Leader") and 2010 National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics ("Leadership in a 24/7 Stress Filled Environment"). Moglia served as TD Ameritrade's Chief Executive Officer for seven years (2001-08). Under his leadership, the company had a 500 percent return on investment, and the firm's market cap increased from $700 million to $10 billion. Prior to joining TD Ameritrade, Moglia spent 17 years working with Merrill Lynch (1984-2001). Before entering the business world, Moglia was a football coach for 16 years. He won two Ivy League championships as defensive coordinator at Dartmouth (1982-83), set defensive and special teams records at Lafayette (1978-80) and turned around two high school programs. He has served on the board of several not-for-profit and educational organizations, including STRATCOM Consultation Committee, Creighton University, Fordham Preparatory School, National Italian American Foundation, Omaha Chamber of Commerce and Boy Scouts of America. Moglia graduated from Fordham University with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1971, earning Dean's List recognition and acceptance into Omicron Delta Epsilon (National Economic Honor Society). He went on to receive his Master of Science degree in education from the University of Delaware in 1974 and holds honorary doctorate degrees from Fordham University (Humane Letters) and Bellevue University (Commerce). Moglia is married to the former Amy Harvey. He has six children: Kelly, Kim, Kara, Kevin, Johnny and Jeff.
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The UCLA Film & Television Archive is no small place. The Library of Congress aside, it's the biggest collection in the country, with film holdings alone numbering a staggering 85,000 titles. Wouldn't you like to take a peek at the rarities hidden in the dark corners of the archive's massive vaults? Now you can.
Starting Saturday night and running for the rest of May, the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum in Westwood will be showing "Unburied Treasures," classic films preserved by the archive. None of these films is available on DVD and all of them figure among the most unusual works in anyone's collection. Expect the unexpected: You won't be disappointed.
You also won't be lacking in entertainment value, because some of these films are so diverting, it's surprising they're not better known.
Chief among these is 1930's "The Royal Family of Broadway," based on a play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman. Only the third film to be directed by George Cukor, it was already bristling with delightful screwball comedy energy and a wonderful off-the-cuff feeling.
A charming valentine to life on the stage based loosely on the celebrated Barrymore family, "Royal Family" stars Ina Claire as an actress who wonders if she can give up acting for the love of one of the world's wealthiest men. But the film is clearly stolen by the irresistible Fredric March, who got a best actor Oscar nomination for playing the movie star in this theatrical group, "a madman in a family of maniacs."
Reefer madness
Playing on the same May 18 bill is 1934's "Murder at the Vanities," a wacky musical celebrated for one of its production numbers, "(Sweet) Marijuana," complete with a chorus dressed as cactus buds and lines like "you alone can bring my lover back to me / even though I know its only a fantasy." Not surprisingly, the Hays Office ordered the scene removed from all release prints, but UCLA managed to procure an untouched copy.
The series opens on Saturday night with two atypical films by director Josef von Sternberg, including 1929's early sound "Thunderbolt," starring Fay Wray as Ritzi, "the most decent kid in the rackets," and George Bancroft as the gangster who loves her.
Even more unusual is the rarely seen 1931 "An American Tragedy," Von Sternberg's early version of the Theodore Dreiser novel that later became a huge success for director George Stevens and actors Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor in 1951's "A Place in the Sun."
While Stevens' work was magisterial, Von Sternberg's is so lively it was banned in England, South Africa and Italy and caused Dreiser to sue Paramount for misrepresenting his novel. (He lost.) Notable is the film's sympathy for the wronged girlfriend, played here by Sylvia Sidney and later by Shelley Winters.
Also on the program is a 1930 short called "The Hard Guy," which was one of an impossibly young Spencer Tracy's first film appearances.
If that all sounds too grim, there's the May 28 program, which has Ava Gardner at her loveliest in "One Touch of Venus" and Irene Dunne starring in the 1937 "High, Wide, and Handsome," featuring a score by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. With Randolph Scott costarring as a man obsessed with drilling for oil in 1859 Pennsylvania, you might think of this as a kindler, gentler version of "There Will Be Blood."
Perhaps the most compelling program of the series is the May 22 double bill of Ernst Lubitsch's "The Man I Killed" and the Noel Coward-starring "The Scoundrel," as unexpected a pair of films as anyone could want.
UCLA is billing 1932's "The Man I Killed" (sometimes known as "Broken Lullaby") as Lubitsch's only dramatic film of the sound era, and that is putting it mildly.
Here the director, known for his exceptional comedies, takes on the poignant, potent story of a French World War I veteran (Phillips Holmes), haunted by a man he killed in battle, who goes to Germany to connect with the devastated family. Lionel Barrymore is excellent as the dead soldier's bitter father and Nancy Carroll is affecting as the bereaved fiance. But the real star is Lubitsch, who had the daring to make a surprisingly strong antiwar film from deep within the Hollywood system.
"The Scoundrel," written, directed and produced by the team of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur in 1935, has the feeling of a literate, sophisticated independent film half a century before Sundance. Coward stars as a big-deal New York publisher with a caddish heart of ice and steel who is fated to walk the earth undead unless he can find a friend to cry for him after his plane crashes -- as strange as it sounds.
'Psycho' western
When the Los Angeles Herald Express reviewed "Ramrod" back in 1947, the headline read "Western Goes Psycho," which is not a half-bad description for this brooding vehicle starring Joel McCrea as a man with a past and Veronica Lake, tiny but fierce in Edith Head gowns and cascading hair, as a would-be cattle baroness.
On the same double bill Sunday is the full-length 124-minute version of Budd Boetticher's 1951 Mexican epic, "Bullfighter and the Lady." Originally released at 87 minutes, it stars Robert Stack as a callow American who thinks he wants to be one of "the men who play with death" and Gilbert Roland as the Mexican torero who is the real deal.
Unusual as it is to see any of these films on the big screen, it is almost unheard of to see the two German silents that will be screened on May 11, complete with subtitles and live musical accompaniment. Melodramatic, obsessive, stunningly photographed, the Pola Negri-starring "Sappho" and William Dieterle's "The Saint and Her Fool" are so rare that the second film has been totally lost in its home country.
When UCLA talks about "Unburied Treasures," it's not fooling around.
'Unburied Treasures'
Where: Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood
When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday ("An American Tragedy," "Thunderbolt"), 7 p.m. Sunday ("Ramrod," "Bullfighter and the Lady"), 7 p.m. May 11 ("Sappho," "The Saint and Her Fool"), 7 p.m. May 18 ("The Royal Family of Broadway," "Murder at the Vanities"), 7:30 p.m. May 22 ("The Man I Killed," "The Scoundrel"), 7:30 p.m. May 28 ("High, Wide, and Handsome," "One Touch of Venus").
Price: $10
Contact: (310) 206-FILM or www.cinema.ucla.edu


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Odds are if you're using Windows Phone that you're using SkyDrive, the cloud storage and syncing product from Microsoft. The file hosting service offers users access to their data through a web interface as well as clients for every major mobile or desktop operating system. The desktop clients in particular were released about six months ago and Microsoft has just shared in a blog post that usage has doubled.
Today, the team has also announced a few new features to the service that make using SkyDrive more powerful. Read on to find out what...
Selective Sync
The first new feature detailed by Microsoft is selective sync and it's exactly as it sounds. Users can chose to have a majority of their desktops folders and files sync with SkyDrive, but on a specific device only chose to sync specific selection. This scenario is suited for portable devices, like a tablet, where storage space isn't a luxury. Check the video out below to see the feature in action.
A new way to share and app updates
SkyDrive also has a nifty new way to share documents and pictures. You can now just right-click and select share to send your files, this will open your web browser and from there you can select which method you want to send it. In addition, a few days ago the team released an update for Windows Phone 8 and Android. If you're curious about the Windows Phone update you can read what's new here. For Android users, they can look forward to:
- Upload all file types from SD card
- Rename SkyDrive folders & files
- Custom sort orders for every view
You can download desktop versions of SkyDrive here or wait for the update to roll out if you're already using it. Windows Phone users can grab it from the Marketplace or use the QR code below.
Source: The Windows Blog


text: Re: Lustre failover I've worked on a number of large'sh lustre configs over the years, and all of them have been configured with Active/Active type mappings. There are a few issues being confused here: 1) Active/Active does not mean both OSS are accessing the same luns at the same time. Each "pair" of OSS nodes can see the same group of OST Luns exist on shared storage, but each OSS normally accesses only it's 1/2 of them until an OSS dies. 2) Active/Active does not mean *automatic* failover. In all but 1 case I have worked on the choice was made to have a rational Human Being like creature decide if the safest/fastest repair was to bring back the original OSS, or to failover the orphaned luns to their alternate OSS node. When the phone rings at 3am the rational and human being like descriptors are diminished, but still smarter than most scripts at assessing the best response to a failure. 3) Automatic Failover is completely doable if you can STONITH the failed node (Shoot the other node in the head). With a good network controlled power strip you can kill the failed node so it can't come back and continue writing to the OST Luns it used to own (which confetti's your 1s and 0s). Linux HA with heartbeats on Serial and TCP/GbE is the most common approach to automation. Once the failed/ suspect node is guaranteed not to make a surprise comback, the OST's it left behind will need to be started by the surviving OSS. 4) IPMI Power control has just enough lag/inconsisteny that the "Shooting draw" between 2 functional OSS servers can result in BOTH servers (or neither) powering down.... don't depend on it unless your IPMI implementation is ultra responsive and reliable. Make sure your script verifies it's "tripple dog sure" the other node can't come back before taking over the abandoned OST's. **Shameful Plug** DataDirect has a whitepaper that demonstrates many Lustre Failover Best Practices complete with pictures etc that is spot on from my experience. Here's the link: http://www.datadirectnet.com/resource-downloads/best-practices-for-architecting-a-lustre-based-storage-environment-download ***** Cheers! Greg On Sep 10, 2008, at 8:05 AM, beowulf-request at beowulf.org wrote: >> >> With OST servers it is possible to have a load-balanced active/active >> configuration. >> Each node is the primary node for a group of OSTs, and the failover >> node for other > ... >> Anyone done this on a production system? > > we have a number of HP's Lustre (SFS) clusters, which use > dual-homed disk arrays, but in active/passive configuration. > it works reasonably well. > >> Experiances? Comments? > > active/active seems strange to me - it implies that the bottleneck > is the OSS (OST server), rather than the disk itself. and a/a means > each OSS has to do more locking for the shared disk, which would seem > to make the problem worse... >


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We heard a rumor that Roehr was teaming up with Hyosung to build an electric streetbike, and low and behold a press release in our inbox today confirmed the news, as the 2011 Roehr eSuperSport is a spitting image of the Korean company's Hyosung GT650R..except you know, with batteries, electric motors, and a slightly higher price tag. That's of course because the new Roehr eSuperSport is essentially an electric conversion of the Korean bike.
Announcing a "closer relationship" with Hyosung (the company then states "Roehr Motorcycles LLC does not express or imply any affiliation with Hyosung Motors USA"), Roehr has taken its electric drive system, and placed it in the GT650R rolling chassis to create a 67hp, 100+ mph electric street bike. Though you might scoff at the conversion bike premise, our favorite part about the bike is the $17,995 price tag, which isn't terribly expensive for a a machine that should go about 75 miles or so on a charge.


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Boy catches purse at Mardi Gras parade, finds $100 bill to 'pay it forward'
Duris Lee Holmes was watching the parade when he caught the glamorous purse
Duris Lee Holmes was watching the parade when he caught the glamorous purse
One lucky boy who caught a prized Krewe of Nyx purse is following through with the wishes of the woman who picked him out of the crowd of revelers.
Nyx rolled Wednesday evening on the traditional Uptown route. The krewe, one of the largest all-female krewes in New Orleans, is known for throwing their signature, beautifully decorated purses to the people watching the floats go by.
Purses are to Nyx much like shoes are to the Krewe of Muses. They are coveted throws during Mardi Gras season.
Meet Duris Lee Holmes. He was out on the parade route looking to be one of the chosen ones when float No. 40 passed.
"Rider threw purse and was adamant we get it when it fell," wrote the boy's father, Duris Holmes, on Facebook. "Couldn't figure out why until we read the note and saw the $100 bill in it."
What did the note say? Here's an excerpt:
"This was something that I wanted to do for someone that catches this purse. If you catch it, please pay it forward," the Nyx rider wrote on a card. "Do something nice for someone else. Spread kindness always!"
Duris Lee Holmes said he plans to pay it forward by giving money to missions, a food drive and/or a hospital. The post about his lucky throw has been shared more than 100 times. His story has been picked up by the local newspapers and televisions stations.


text: Hi, I need to write a paper for my Technical Writing class on computer clustering, and I'm supposed to interview someone for my paper. The paper will be about using clusters for scientific computing. It's not specifically about Beowulf clusters. Is there someone who has experience in clustering computers, preferably for scientific applications, who would be willing to answer a few questions by email (or phone)? I would have the questions this weekend, and I would need a reply by the middle of next week. Thanks. Phil Carter


text: Andrea Venturi wrote: > here in Italy (bologna) we have a T-DMB trial from Rai and other > broadcasters. > > i got one Terratec Cinergy Piranha based on a Siano SMS1xxx chip and > indeed the T-DMB stream works on the "other OS".. (and the DVB-T works > too) > > this T-DMB stuff is still based on Transport Stream: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Multimedia_Broadcast > > as i'd like to dump a full TS of the stream, i was thinking that it was > just setting the proper mode (2) in the sms1xxx module, i would have > been able to use the same "dvb-tools" like dvbstream to tune the right > frequency and dump the whole TS. > > too easy, it seems! there were my steps: > > 1. i put the firmware file for T-DMB demodulation with the right name > "tdmb_stellar_usb.inp" in /lib/firmware > > 2. i loaded the module with the supposed right default mode: modprobe > sms1xxx default_mode=2 > > 3. i put my stick on the linux, but the module didn't got up with this > error: > > "SMS Device mode is not set for DVB operation." > > I'm halted. > > The showstopper come from this smsdvb.c where there's this control: > > ==================== > if (smscore_get_devicke_mode(coredev) != 4) { > #if 1 /* new siano drop (1.2.17) does this -- yuck */ > sms_err("SMS Device mode is not set for " > "DVB operation."); > return 0; > #else > ==================== > > of course, this seems only a safety check. > > let's hope it's not just a "marketing" showstopper (i'm going anyway to > try to relax this control, i bet i'm not going to burn anything inside > the device!) > > probably there's more to be implemented to driver correctly the Siano > chip when not in DVB mode. but how much? ask here could be useful.. > > it should be easy to "implement" the T-DMB stuff inside the same DVB > scenario! > it's already a system based on transport stream. right? > > sadly there are no open specs about it on the siano web site, just this > brief: > > http://www.*siano-ms*.com/*pdf*s/00_Siano_SMS*1010*.*pd*f > > does anyone know a solution about this issue? > > is it so though to implement T-DMB decoding inside the DVB architecture? > > are the specs available somewhere? I am working with Siano to expose all functionality of the silicon through the linux-dvb api. We didn't get up to T-DMB yet. Give a few months and there should be better info to report. Regards, Mike


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4,000 Mass. homeowners benefit from mortgage settlement
Nearly 4,000 Massachusetts borrowers have received some kind of housing-debt relief this year as part of a national mortgage settlement involving five major lenders, with each homeowner getting an average of $67,457 in assistance, according to federal report released Monday.
Massachusetts borrowers received $266 million of the more than $21.92 billion disbursed nationally as part of a settlement over improper foreclosure proceedings, the Office of Mortgage Settlement Oversight said in its preliminary assessment of the program.
Across the United States, about 278,000 borrowers received an average of $78,730 through various forms of assistance, including mortgage loan modifications, balance writedowns, and short sales.
The report comes nine months after a multistate group of attorneys general came to a $25 billion accord with the country's top lenders to settle allegations about so-called robosigning: claims that mortgage company employees routinely signed foreclosure documents without reading or properly reviewing the paperwork. The lenders include Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo & Co., Citibank, and Ally Financial Inc., owner of GMAC Mortgage.
Joseph A. Smith Jr., monitor of the national mortgage settlement, said the numbers submitted to him by banks look promising, but that his office must confirm the data over the next few months.
"The relief the banks have reported is encouraging,'' he said.
But Smith added that some of the financial aid that lenders offer borrowers does not count toward the national accord, so it is too soon to determine how close the banks are to meeting the required $25 billion in mortgage assistance.
In Massachusetts, 2,001 homeowners received $123 million in principal reductions between March 1 and Sept. 30, the report said. Another 1,115 borrowers received $108 million in help selling their properties in a short sale, a process through which a home is sold for less than the size of the mortgage, with a lender's consent.
Brad Puffer, a spokesman for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, said Massachusetts homeowners are receiving a higher percentage of assistance through loan modifications and principal reduction than borrowers in other states. He said the average amount of relief for borrowers in the state appears to be smaller than nationally because the overall numbers are skewed by a high volume of short sales in Florida and California.
Coakley's office is helping local borrowers through its HomeCorps program, which was established with settlement funds.
"Struggling homeowners in Massachusetts are beginning to receive concrete benefits from the national settlement, and we intend to keep pushing for more progress,'' Coakley said.
The federal report comes as foreclosures in Massachusetts are on the rise. There were 6,486 homes seized by lenders between January and September, a 3.5 percent increase compared with 2011, according to Warren Group, a Boston company that tracks local real estate. Petitions, the first step toward a property seizure, increased to 13,876 during the first three quarters of the year, 47.3 percent more than during that period in 2011.
Lewis Finfer, director of Massachusetts Communities Action Network, a Boston nonprofit, said the report indicates that a small number of US homeowners have benefited from the settlement with lenders. But Finfer warned that the country's foreclosure crisis will be hard to quell as long as mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue to oppose principal reduction.
"The good news is that some homeowners are getting relief, but the bad news is a much greater number are not able to get help,'' he said.
Grace Ross, coordinator of the nonprofit Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending, said too much of the settlement money is still going toward short sales. "They are meeting obligations by things that are least helpful of homeowners,'' she said of lenders.


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Paul Ince and James Vaughan win Manager and Player of the Month prizes
Blackpool boss Paul Ince and Huddersfield's James Vaughan have been named Manager and Player of the Month for August.
By Pete O'Rourke - Follow me: @skysportspeteo
Last Updated: 06/09/13 2:57pm
Ince has guided his Blackpool side to the top of the Championship after winning four of their five games this season.
Seasiders manager Ince beat off competition from Queens Park Rangers chief Harry Redknapp and Burnley boss Sean Dyche to take the first monthly gong of the new campaign.
Ince paid tribute to his players for helping win the award.
"It's always nice to be recognised when we've done well, but it's not about me," said Ince.
"I've won this award because of the players, not because of me.
"If I could split the award into 18 pieces and hand it around the dressing room, I really would. The lads have been outstanding in the first five games.
"It will probably be the kiss of death now, but we'll take it."
Huddersfield hit-man Vaughan has been rewarded for his rich vein of form in front of goal with the player prize.
Vaughan has scored six goals in five games, including a superb hat-trick in the 5-1 win over Bournemouth and Terriers boss Mark Robins has challenged the striker to maintain his form.
"It's great for James and the club that he's getting the plaudits he deserves," said manager Mark Robins. "But he'll also be the first to recognise the contribution his team-mates have made towards this. They're the ones who supply him with the ammunition.
"The challenge now for James - and the rest of the players - is to keep this form up for the other 10 months of the season."


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I'm sure many of you have noticed my absence as of lately. Over the past few years, I've visited the Colorado Plateau each spring — but that wasn't in the plans for the spring of 2012. I can assure you that there is good reason though. The past several months in particular have been crunch time for wedding planning. Lyubov and I tied the knot just over a week ago. It was a fun wedding, and we spent our honeymoon in Zion National Park.
We've been to Zion many times in the past, but we saved the best hike in the park — Angels Landing — for our honeymoon. Those who are afraid of heights will want to skip this one, but the views are outstanding. I recorded much of the hike with my GoPro mounted to a chest harness. It gives a great perspective of tedious trail that climbs a razorback sandstone ridge.
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Other filesystems like {{ic|/home}} can be mounted with custom mount units. Adding {{ic|noauto,x-systemd.automount}} will buffer all access to that partition, and will fsck and mount it on first access, reducing the number of filesystems it must fsck/mount during the boot process.
Other filesystems like {{ic|/home}} can be mounted with custom mount units. Adding {{ic|noauto,x-systemd.automount}} will buffer all access to that partition, and will fsck and mount it on first access, reducing the number of filesystems it must fsck/mount during the boot process.
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Improving the boot performance of a system can provide reduced boot wait times and a means to learn more about how certain system files and scripts interact with one another. This article attempts to aggregate methods on how to improve the boot performance of an Arch Linux system.
Identifying bottlenecks
systemd-analyze command can be used to show timing details about the boot process, including an svg plot showing units waiting for their dependencies. See
man systemd-analyze for details.
Compiling a Custom Kernel
To decrease boot time, a stripped kernel is a must. Read more about compiling a kernel.
Early start for services
One central feature of systemd is D-Bus and socket activation. This causes services to be started when they are first accessed and is generally a good thing. However, if you know that a service (like UPower) will always be started during boot, then the overall boot time might be reduced by starting it as early as possible. This can be achieved (if the service file is set up for it, which in most cases it is) by issuing:
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This will cause systemd to start UPower as soon as possible, without causing races with the socket or D-Bus activation.
Staggered spin-up
Some hardware implements staggered spin-up, which causes the OS to probe ATA interfaces serially, which can spin up the drives one-by-one and reduce the peak power usage. This slows down the boot speed, and on most consumer hardware provides no benefits at all since the drives will already spin-up immediately when the power is turned on. To check if SSS is being used:
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If it wasn't used during boot, there will be no output.
To disable it, add
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Filesystem Mounts
Thanks to mkinitcpio's
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ro to
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You can also remove API filesystems from
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Other filesystems like
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Note: this will make your
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As mentioned above, boot time can be decreased by slimming the kernel, thereby reducing the amount of data that must be loaded. This is also true for your initramfs (result of mkinitcpio), as this is loaded immediately after the kernel, and takes care of recognizing your root filesystem and mounting it. To boot, very little is actually needed and includes the storage bus, block device, and filesystem. Falconindy (Dave Reisner) has begrudgingly created a short tutorial on how to achieve this on his blog.
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Thomasville, NC> Coker College men's golf team has been honored by being selected the 2009 Conference Carolina's preseason coaches poll favorite. The Coker team will begin the 2009 spring season after the best fall season in school history. Coach Tommy Baker and the Cobras did not place below third in their four tournaments this fall, including winning the Coker Intercollegiate tournament and finishing second at the Kiawah Island Invitational, just six strokes behind No. 1 nationally ranked USC-Aiken.
Coker, currently ranked 17th in the nation by Golfstat, is led by junior Chris Marsh, a 2008 Second Team All-Conference selection, and two-time conference golfer of the month during the fall. Marsh posted a 70.12 stroke average for the fall in eight rounds of play, including setting the course record at Kiawah Island's Cougar Point with an eight under 64. Along with Marsh, junior Jimmy Gillam, sophomore John LaDow, and freshmen Diego Polo and Jared Crane will look to lead the Cobras to the conference title and back to the NCAA championship.
Barton College was picked second by the Conference Carolinas coaches. The Bulldogs return eight players from a team that was ranked No. 1 in the Atlantic Region in 2007-08, including four of their top five. In the fall, former 2007 Conference Champion and 2008 Conference Player of the Year Jonathan Burke and 2008 Regional Medalist and All-American Daniel Castleberry were joined in Barton's starting five by D-III All-American transfer Tom Muto and freshmen David Boyce and Dalton Rich in all four events. Barton set an all-time scoring record at 21-under (36 holes) in one fall event, thus expectations will be high this spring since 2007 Conference Freshman of the Year Stephen Harrison will be returning from ACL surgery.
"I believe this is the best team we have ever had," said 12th-year Barton head coach John Hackney, "but a lot of teams in our league can say the same. Our conference features some of the most talented teams in all of Division II golf this season, so the spring should be a real shootout. We can't wait to tee it up!"
Mount Olive College is ranked third in the pre season poll. Mount Olive is coming off its best fall season in history, which included two tournament championships, record tournament scores and the program's first-ever national ranking (No. 18). The Trojans captured first place in The Preview at Tillery, which featured nine Conference Carolinas schools. Mount Olive also shattered a school 36-hole record with a 21-under-par 555 in the Trojans' win at the Gardner's BBQ Dogfight, hosted by Barton College.
The Trojan's Scott Woodard, who missed 2007-08 with an injury, was ranked among the top 20 in the nation for low scoring average. Jonathan Greene took individual honors at The Preview at Tillery, while Woodard placed third.
Rounding out the golf preseason poll 4-11 was: Belmont Abbey, Queens, Anderson, St. Andrews, Pfeiffer Limestone, Erskine and Lees-McRae respectively.
Conference Carolinas Pre-Season Coaches' Poll
(First place votes in parentheses)
1. Coker College (6) 94
2. Barton College (3) 88
3. Mount Olive College (1) 76
4. Belmont Abbey College (1) 70
5. Queens University of Charlotte 63
6. Anderson University 57
7. St. Andrews Presbyterian College 44
8. Pfeiffer University 42
9. Limestone College 40
10. Erskine College 17
11. Lees-McRae College 14


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Israel and South Africa collaborated closely in rocket technology in the 1970's and 1980's. South Africa provided Israel with the uranium and test facilities it needed for its strategic weapons programmes. In exchange Israel provided aerospace technology. This included the capability of building the ten-tonne solid propellant rocket motors designed for the Israeli Jericho-2 missile. These motors were the basis of two space launchers for an indigenous 'R5b' space programme. It seems that South Africa also planned to use these motors in a series of missiles to provide a nuclear deterrent.
Two shorter-range missiles (the RSA-1 and RSA-2) were intended for use on Cuban or Warsaw Pact troop concentrations should a massed attack be made from an adjacent country. The RSA-4 ICBM was also in long-term development, possibly to deter the United States or Soviet Union from sponsoring such an attack in the first place.
The original intended payload for the missiles was said to be the uranium gun-type atomic bombs developed in South Africa between 1971 and 1989. Seven of these weapons were built, each with a mass of about one tonne, a diameter of 65 centimetres and a length of 1.8 meters. Each device contained 55 kilograms of highly enriched uranium, producing a fission yield of 10-18 kilotons. Five of the weapons were configured as air-launched bombs, but were said to be adaptable to missile launch. It was planned during the 1990's to lighten and modernise these warheads, and use tritium-boosting to increase the yield to 100 Kt. A missile using the original devices would have to be provided with a heat shield, implying a total warhead mass of around 1500 kg. This would not have permitted the RSA-4 to reach intercontinental range. Presumably the boosted, modernised warheads, that were to have been completed by 2000, would have been under 700 kg and allowed the missile to reach New York or Moscow.
Substantial facilities for assembly, test, and launch of the rockets were built at the Overberg Test Range at the tip of Africa. Overberg was also used for Israeli Jericho-2 test flights.
As a cover for and supplement to the missile development, the R5b indigenous space programme was funded. This would use the RSA-3 and RSA-4 launchers. Four South African space rockets were built. Three were launched into suborbital trajectories in the late 1980's in support of development of the RSA-3 launched Greensat Orbital Management System (for commercial satellite applications of vehicle tracking and regional planning). The range was also used for aerospace and system testing for British, Swedish and Czech programmes.
Following the decision in 1989 to cancel the nuclear weapons program, the missile programs were allowed to continue until 1992, when military funding ended and South Africa officially ended its missile collaboration with Israel. All ballistic missile work was stopped by mid-1993. In order to join the Missile Technology Control Regime the government had to allow American supervision of the destruction of key facilities applicable to both the long range missile and the space launch programmes. The RSA-3 and RSA-4 space launchers were therefore cancelled in 1994.
Prime Contractor Houwteq had to dismantle its existing RSA rocket components, and retrieve and sequester technical data from its subcontractors. Propellant manufacturer Somchem eliminated the RSA solid propellants and rocket casings that remained in stock. Denel filled in its large engine casting pits at Somerset West and demolished its large-scale X-ray inspection equipment. The Hangklip static motor test facility at Rooi Els was converted to a nature reserve. The Overberg Test Range was allowed to remain for use by 'potential foreign partners'. Following these measures, South Africa joined the Missile Technology Control Regime in September 1995.
Houwteq's staff at Overberg grew to a peak of 500 in 1992, before the cancellations began. By 1997 the staff was reduced to 28. Houwteq's Ian Farr continued to market the Overberg facility for commercial launchers until at least 1997. Nothing came of these efforts, and it seems that the book was closed on further indigenous African space activities.
Since much remains undisclosed about the Israeli Jericho missiles and Shavit / Next space launchers, the material on the South African rockets provides some insights into Israeli programmes. The RSA-2 clearly corresponds closely to the Jericho-2, and the RSA-3 to the Shavit launcher. It is interesting that there has been no mention of an Israeli counterpart to the Peacekeeper-class first stage motor of the RSA-4. This may represent a 'reserve' Israeli capability to upgrade the Jericho-2 to ICBM range that has never been made public. However there have been reports of Israeli development of a MIRV capability for its missiles. The post-boost warhead dispenser for such a capability could correspond to the RSA-4 fourth stage.
|Launch Vehicle: RSA-1.
It is conjectured that this designation was assigned to an intermediate range single-stage ballistic missile consisting of the first stage of the RSA-3. Purported mission was to strike Cuban military concentrations from mobile launchers on South African territory. The rocket motor closely followed the design of the Israeli Jericho-2 first stage.
|Launch Vehicle: RSA-2.
It is conjectured that this designation was assigned to an intermediate range ballistic missile consisting of the first and second stages of the RSA-3. Probably very similar to, or a licensed copy of the Israeli Jericho-2 missile. A third stage apogee kick motor was added to produce the RSA-3 space launcher.
|Launch Vehicle: RSA-3.
The RSA-3 satellite launcher began development as an IRBM in the 1980's because of the perceived Soviet threat and isolation of South Africa. It was developed with the assistance of Israel and is believed to be essentially identical to the Israeli Jericho missile/Shavit launch vehicle. The objective of the satellite launcher was to place a small surveillance satellite of 330 kg mass into a 41 degree, 212 x 460 km orbit around the earth. Development continued even after South African renunciation of its nuclear weapons. However the launcher was found not to be viable commercially and so was cancelled in mid-1994. The RSA-3 was developed by the Houwteq organisation at Grabouw, 30 km east of Cape Town. The Overberg Test Range near Bredasdorp, 200 km east of Cape Town, was used for test flights. The engine test facility was at Rooi Els. At the peak of development in 1992 50 - 70 companies in the public and private sector were involved, employing 1300 -1500 people.
|Launch Vehicle: RSA-4.
The RSA-4 ICBM / satellite launcher was a planned follow-on to the RSA-3. A large new first stage optimised the vehicle and more than doubled the payload in comparison to the RSA-3. It is not known if the project reached the point of testing of the large motor, which was equivalent to the US Peacekeeper first stage.
The second and third stages were essentially those of the RSA-3. The fourth stage was clearly adapted from an ICBM MIRV post-boost bus platform. As an ICBM or orbital nuclear system the RSA-4 would have been capable of delivering a single 700 kg warhead anywhere on earth.
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I'm hoping that this will be my last post about gold/silver for a while. One can hope. But I can't control it.
We can't control when or where opportunity arises. And as you know with gold having crashed some 30% from its highs, I started rebuilding my own physical gold and silver assets in April, looking to take about 1-2 years to build up those assets to about 10%-15% of my portfolio to own/hedge/protect my family with forever.
And since I started scaling back into physical gold and silver, their crashes have accelerated further. I'm using this latest round of gold and silver spot prices showing another fresh round of intraday crashing here today to head over to my local and/or other dealers to aggressively buy another tranche of gold and silver coins and bullion. I'll probably have to pay about 7% or more over what those so-called spot prices are supposedly showing the value of gold in the real world markets today.
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Depending on your personal net worth (the lower your net worth, the higher proportion of silver simply because it's so much cheaper per oz than gold is), I'd look to have 30%-70% (big range is my whole point) in gold/silver ratio. Platinum is another precious metal I'm considering starting to rebuild my physical coins/bullion positions in. Read this about the possibility (or lack thereof, really) of another gold confiscation scheme like FDR did to bail out the banks back in his day. The short story is that they are already confiscating the people's wealth in sneakier, stealthier and more destructive ways than they did back in 1933 in the midst of the Great Depression.
Which leads us to a little more on why I'm so bullish right now on gold and silver coins and bullion and why I am so against gold and silver exchange-traded funds and other precious metal ETFs. It's my belief that the big banks who control the paper ETF and spot prices have less gold per promise than they've ever had in our lifetimes. Meanwhile, recall that just a few months ago, Germany requested 321 tonnes of their physical gold bullion repatriated back out of the U.S. Recall that just a few months before that Venezuela had requested 200-plus tonnes of their gold bullion repatriated back to their homeland. As Jesse pointed out today, the U.S. was able to fulfill the Venezuela gold bullion request in its entirety immediately. The Germany request has been met with a flat "Sure, we'll get you your gold in seven years."
So both the U.S. government and the banks that they've bet our future on are now in a position where they need to get their hands on as much physical gold and silver as they can and the easiest way to do that is by plundering the wealth of the world's people by artificially crashing gold and silver here to try to induce them to sell away their physical gold and silver coins and bullion at lower prices. When the Bank of India restricted gold imports that also temporarily eliminated one of the strongest and steadiest demand centers in the world over night. The physical gold trading in India has only gotten further restricted in the weeks since.
I'm going to sell half of my remaining Dow Diamond /quotes/zigman/588977 /quotes/nls/dia DIA calls, which are now more than double the price I paid for them, leaving me about 2/5 of the original number of calls I'd bought back at the lows earlier this week. And yes, once again, a wildly lopsided result to our "Who's more scared right now, the bulls or the bears?" poll was a darn near perfect contrarian indicator for the near-term emotional market move. The DJIA is up nearly 500 points in a straight line since I wrote on Monday:
"The big selloff in stocks this morning is probably taking that "bulls are more scared right now" over the 90% threshold, which means there's probably a good trade to the upside this morning here. I'm going to buy some index ETF calls this morning"
Steady as she goes otherwise. At least as steady as they'll let us keep 'er.
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So now you all are going in on Kyle Lowry?
Come on Rockets fans. This team is what it is and has been for the most part.
They aren't losing because Lowry ruined the chemistry when he returned from a month off with a bacterial infection?
They simply have picked a bad time to start playing poorly, shooting poorly and defending worse lately, especially in the second half.
They are about where they were projected to be (even by the team brass) before the season.
There have been times throughout the season when they looked better than they are and gave you hope they could be better than their parts. And there have been times they have looked worse than their parts. The last week for instance.
This is about who they are, and they might be headed to the 14th draft selection for the third straight year.
But lay the blame at Lowry's feet. Remember, they went only 9-6 when he was out. It's not like they were threatening to be one of the league's best teams.
At one point with Lowry they were 21-14, but lost five straight before he went into the hospital.
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If the Rockets win three of their final five games (say, in New Orleans on Thursday and against the Hornets again next week, and Golden State at home on Saturday) they finish at 35-31, and probably get into the playoffs. If they win four of five, I'd say they are definitely in.
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China will continue to buoy the global economy even if the Asian giant's growth stabilizes at current levels of 7-8 percent a year, Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan said on Sunday.
Swan, in Mexico to attend meetings of Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers, said a lack of growth was weighing on the global outlook and urged policymakers to act swiftly to fix problems.
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But he said China's slowdown from breakneck growth rates of more than 14 percent in mid-2007 to an expected 7.5 percent this year had been misrepresented.
"Much of the discussion about the growth rate in China doesn't appreciate the fact that the Chinese economy is now 40 percent larger than it was at the end of 2007," Swan said in an interview before the meeting.
"If it's 40 percent larger and the growth rate is 7 or 8 (percent), they are still making a very significant contribution to global growth."
Australia is heavily dependent on China as a buyer for its commodity exports and recent upbeat data has fanned hopes that China's economy may be picking up.
Annual growth is expected to accelerate to 7.6 percent in the next quarter from 7.4 percent in the third quarter, snapping a seventh straight quarter of slower expansion and paving the way to beat the full-year target of 7.5 percent.
Still, G20 countries named a weaker pace of expansion in some emerging markets as a risk to the global outlook, along with Europe's ongoing debt problems and looming fiscal tightening in the United States and Japan.
Swan said both Europe and the United States had to act swiftly to resolve their challenges in the interests of lifting global growth out of the doldrums.
"Even in Australia and Asia more broadly the lack of growth coming out of Europe on the one hand and out of the United States on the other is now beginning to weigh very heavily," he said, adding that U.S. policymakers needed to move quickly to avoid a year-end combination of spending cuts and tax hikes.
"They need to act swiftly on the fiscal cliff and then they will need to put in place a medium-term fiscal consolidation that recognizes that in the shorter term there may well need to be a boost to growth consistent with a medium-term and long-term fiscal consolidation," Swan said.
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NEWLAND, N.C. --- Freshman goalkeeper Thomas Rusling (Sheffield, England) made a pair of tremendous saves in a penalty kick shootout Saturday after the Bobcats played to a scoreless draw with fifth-seeded Pfeiffer University at MacDonald Stadium on the campus of Avery County High School.
Lees-McRae (12-4-3) outshot the Falcons (4-7-6) by a 31-3 margin on the day, including a 14-0 advantage in the second half as Pfeiffer was forced to play with 10 men for the final 55 minutes of the match. Lee Squires (Sheffield, England) paced the Bobcats with seven shots, while James Galvani (High Wycombe, England) and David Palmer (Gateshead, England) chipped in six and five attempts, respectively.
Both sides have multiple scoring chances throughout the initial 90 minutes, as Pfeiffer's Alex Moreno (Huntersville, N.C.) recorded 10 saves to keep the Falcons in the match. Rusling made a pair of stops for the Bobcats.
Neither team could find the back of the net through 90 minutes of regulation, as well as each period of extra time, to send the match into a penalty kick shootout. Sam Kennedy (The East End, London, England) and Palmer both converted their attempts to open the shootout, while Pfeiffer's Alex Landim (Brockton, Mass.) and Boo Tesh (Kannapolis, N.C.) found the back of the net in the second and third rounds to send the shootout into the fourth round even at 2-2.
Jamie Bladen (Yorkshire, England) delivered what turned out to be the deciding strike in the fourth round, burying his attempt in the back of the net to put the Bobcats up 3-2. Rusling stepped in and made two of the biggest saves of his young career, stopping the Falcons' fourth and fifth attempts to propel the Bobcats into the final.
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