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Midway officials are evaluating the coverage provided by the Davidson County Sheriff's Office.
Midway officials are evaluating the coverage provided by the Davidson County Sheriff's Office.
Members of the Midway Town Council recently discussed the possibility of making a request to Davidson County Sheriff David Grice for two deputies to be assigned exclusively to the town. This comes after Midway resident Randy Lovett approached the town council concerning more patrols in his subdivision off of Gumtree Road.
Lovett first presented the idea of assigning deputies to the town about a year ago after a rash of vehicle break-ins in Midway. He said he's inquired about the subject with town officials each month since making the request.
""I think it will cut back on the break-ins, the speeding where people go flying around in the neighborhoods and stuff like that," Lovett said of two deputies being assigned to Midway.
Midway Mayor Norman Wilkes said town officials have requested figures from Grice concerning the cost for two deputies to be assigned specifically to the town. The mayor confirmed Midway pays $75,000 annually for coverage.
"We appreciate what the sheriff is doing, but I know some citizens have concerns (and) would like to see more (patrol activity) in the subdivisions," said Wilkes, who favors a satellite office being located in Midway for the DCSO.
For the annual $75,000, Midway has deputies who respond from three of the sheriff's department zones around the clock in northern Davidson County, Grice said.
"They have a whole lot more coverage than any other place that the county has," the sheriff said of Midway. "I think they get exceptional coverage. We are going to proceed slowly with it. When they get a cost estimate, it would be represented of the real cost. I think they would be going backwards in their expectations."
Devoting two deputies to Midway could result in some repercussions, Grice said.
"If we dedicate two people there, it might result in the perception that we don't need the others patrolling as intensively," he said. "… We have to have a clear-cut understanding of their expectations and our expectations, and I haven't achieved that. I haven't talked that closely to them yet."
In the event he assigned deputies to Midway, he would not be placing his newest deputies there, Grice said. He said it would be deputies who have reached the deputy II rank. The sheriff said he also would factor in the cost of vehicles, mileage and support staff.
"I think it's a slippery slope to get into in regard to the other towns," Grice said of assigning deputies to Midway.
In addition to the unincorporated areas of Davidson County, the sheriff's office also covers the Town of Wallburg. Denton, Thomasville and Lexington each have their own police departments.
Wilkes said there has been some discussion concerning Midway establishing its own police department. However, Midway officials discovered it would cost between $150,000 and $200,000 to start a department.
"We feel like at this time, we are getting what we need until we come to that avenue about having maybe a police department or a satellite office," Wilkes said. "… Looking 24/7, it gets quite expensive."
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Here's a brief list of ongoing art exhibits featuring works by CalArts School of Art alumni.
Stephen Prina
In the 1980s, while walking on La Brea Avenue, Stephen Prina (Art MFA 80) and fellow artist Christopher Williams (Art MFA 81, Music BFA 79) encountered a bright pink object on a storefront display. Upon closer inspection, the object turned out to be a built-in desk for a house designed by architect R.M. Schindler. The object had been removed from its context and presented as a stand-alone unit. Prina said of the almost three-decade-old encounter, "It appeared to us as an amputated limb."
For As He Remembered It, an ongoing exhibition at LACMA, Prina used surviving plans and photographs of two now-demolished Los Angeles houses designed by Schindler to build copies of their unit furniture and lay them out on the exhibit floor, following the lines of the original walls. The result is a ghostly arrangement of 28 objects painted Pantone Honeysuckle 2011 Color of the Year, evoking a sense of architectural absence.
As He Remembered It is on view through Aug. 8. The exhibit is part of Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.
Above is a video of Prina discussing the exhibit.
Edgar Arcenaux, Victoria Fu, Andrea Bowers, Kara Tanaka
At the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, a group exhibit that includes the works of Edgar Arcenaux (Art MFA 01), Victoria Fu (Art MFA 05), Andrea Bowers (Art MFA 92) and Kara Tanaka (Art MFA 08), is on view until Sept. 1. Titled Approximately Infinite Universe, the show references and borrows from existing science fictions, including those made popular by Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia E. Butler, Samuel R. Delany and Star Trek.
From the program notes:
The seventeen artists featured in the exhibition understand art as a vehicle for time travel, employing an array of mediums as means to move backward and forward through time. Their work re-visions fraught histories and en-visions utopian futures, with the effect of gaining insight into the complexities of the present.
Laddie John Dill
In Laddie John Dill's (Chouinard BFA 68) Elementary (ongoing until July 26 at NYC's Nyehaus) colored sections of glass tubing filled with gases of varying intensity are encased in individual containers and recessed into the wall. Chosen from Dill's colored light series Light Sentences, the nine pieces offer a contrast from past exhibits, where the argon, neon, helium, xenon or mercury-filled glass tubings were displayed with industrial hardware, therefore almost diluting the colored lights' effect by bringing into focus extraneous light projections on the wall. In this current iteration, "the compressed space intensifies and contains the light like a firefly cupped in one's hands. It took addition to create the sense of subtraction," according to the program notes.
Also on view are miniature sculptures composed of sand, light and glass. The panes of glass, arranged in an arc, glow blue at the edges."They could be models for updates of Stonehenge, monuments for a new cosmic paganism," notes The New York Times.
Event Details
As He Remembered It, Approximately Infinite Universe and ElementaryAs He Remembered It
April 7 through Aug. 4
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles
Tickets: $15 General Admission, free for members
Approximately Infinite Universe
June 8 through Sept. 1
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego at La Jolla
700 Prospect St., La Jolla, Calif.
Tickets: $10 General Admission, free for 25 years and younger
May 8 through July 26
358 W 28th St., New York

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Grenade at City Hall - threat or prank?
Bridgeport: 'Inert' grenade delivered to police Internal Affairs Division
BRIDGEPORT -- Was it a stupid prank?
Or a deadly message?
Whatever the case, a grenade hidden inside a covered cardboard coffee cup was delivered to the Police Department's Internal Affairs Division, located in the Margaret Morton Government Center on Broad Street shortly after 11 a.m.
The discovery led police officials to empty the building and call in the State Police bomb squad, explosive-sniffing dogs and an armored vehicle. They detoured pedestrian and vehicular traffic away from a section of State Street and the intersecting Broad Street for nearly two hours Wednesday.
The explosive was later determined to be "inert" and without a fuse, police said.
"There is no way to know what this person's motivation might have been," said Mayor Bill Finch, who was not in the building at the time of the evacuation. "The incident is currently under investigation and it would be premature of anyone at this point to speculate as to the cause."
The scare came at a time when members of the Internal Affairs Division are investigating several police officers as a result of two highly publicized excessive-force complaints lodged within the past month, as well as a police shooting.
It also jolted many of the 200 employees, already unnerved by the Sandy Hook shootings. They were forced to leave the building, known as the City Hall Annex, which houses many city officials and workers, including Finch, who has come under enormous public criticism for the difficulties in removing snow and towing parked cars following the Feb. 8-9 blizzard.
Since January, the Internal Affairs office has been investigating a May 20, 2011, police beating in Beardsley Park, video of which was posted on the Internet. The footage caught Officers Elson Morales, Joseph Lawlor and Clive Higgins kicking and stomping a downed man, Orlando Lopez-Soto, after shooting him with a stun gun.
Then there is the complaint lodged by the Jennings family, who claim they were harassed and arrested following a Jan. 23 tussle and stun-gun shooting outside their Pleasant Street home.
Finally, there is the shooting of "Little Mikie" Stinson, who claims to have been hit 10 times by a hail of police bullets, some of which penetrated a wall, whizzed past a mother and her young daughter, and blew out their television. Police officials maintain the Stinson shooting was justified, but are questioning whether the bullets were too high-powered.
On Wednesday, state and local police, using bomb-sniffing dogs, conducted a room-by-room search of the annex and a floor-by-floor search of the adjacent parking garage.
Finch said police determined the building "is safe for both the public and our own employees to enter."
The tumult all began when a man, who works with the city but is not a city employee, was approached outside the building and asked to deliver a bag to the Office of Internal Affairs. The man unwittingly brought the grenade to OIA's second-floor office and placed it on a table there.
It sat there for nearly a half hour until an OIA officer opened the bag, removed the papers inside and picked up the cup, which felt unusually heavy.
The officer removed the lid and saw the grenade. Bridgeport and state police were immediately dispatched to the scene.
One worker ran through the corridor yelling: "Get out, get out!" said a city employee, who declined to give his name.
"I looked behind him ... there was no one chasing him, but I figured I should leave," the worker said. Employees were instructed to evacuate the building and wait inside Housatonic Community College's Performing Arts Center on nearby State Street. There, they watched television, completed crossword puzzles or performed tasks on their mobile phones.
Anyone leaving the large room had to sign out, but that practice was abandoned after the first hour.
Once the device in City Hall was known to be inert and removed, detectives moved in, collecting evidence, interviewing witnesses and reviewing surveillance camera film.
An X-ray of the grenade showed that it was lacking a fuse and therefore not in danger of exploding, according to a law enforcement source.
"We are actively investigating this as a criminal act," said Police Chief Joseph L. Gaudett Jr.
In addition to investigating civilian complaints against cops accused of misconduct, the Internal Affairs Division also probes malfeasance claims against city employees and conducts background investigations on city appointees, commissioners and employees.
Special Agent Debra Seifert of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive Devices, said her agency did not respond to the incident and has not been asked to assist in the investigation at this time.
"Obviously if we are asked, we will participate," she said.
The all-clear came about 1:30 p.m. and employees filtered back across the street, still with few details.
"I was the first one ushered out of the building," said Ron Preston, the city's treasurer. "I didn't have my jacket or BlackBerry."
The center, a 149,000-square-foot building constructed in 1969, is also occupied by the City Attorney's staff, the Housing Code Enforcement Office, the Probate Court and the Vital Statistics and Registrar of Voters offices.
Staff writers Frank Juliano, Keila Torres Ocasio, James D. Shay and Daniel Tepfer contributed to this report.


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On July 15 2007, 9:22 PM, dogged wrote:That 4th dog down is huge - is that a mastiff?
Kinda sorta! He's a Cane Corso.
On July 15 2007, Beth wrote:That is amazing. Those dogs must be so well trained.
On July 15 2007, 9:32 PM, dogged wrote:Nice...do you know what kennel he is out of?
I'll have to ask his owner.what sport is this?
On July 16 2007, 7:44 AM, luvmypitties wrote:What is APPDA
On July 16 2007, 7:18 AM, iluvk9 wrote:On July 15 2007, Beth wrote:That is amazing. Those dogs must be so well trained.
And someday, Beth, we will get ours to stay off the furniture.
Which dog is yours?
I know that Greg knows Chris Duhon and Matt Hammond
how long have you been doing this type of training?
On July 16 2007, 8:13 AM, dogged wrote:I dabbled in a little Schutzhund years ago, ASR for a bit, been doing obedience for a few years now and I've been with the APPDA since its creation.
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CA Pastor Echoes Call For Gays To Be Put Into Concentration Camps, Mimics Effeminate Gay Parent
A pastor in Santa Clara, California has invoked calls of throwing gays into concentration camps into what he seems to have meant to be a Christian sermon. North Valley Baptist Church Pastor Tony Hutson basically beatified Pastor Charles Worley of North Carolina, who made headlines in 2012 after he called for Nazi-style treatment of gays and lesbians.
"A man stands up against sin, his own brethren will crucify him. Long live, Charles Worley at the Providence Road Baptist Church of Maiden, N.C. which stands against sodomites," Hutson said.
What, exactly, did Worley do to "stand up"?
"Build a great big, large fence — 50 or a 100 miles long — and put all the lesbians in there," Worley said during his incredibly anti-Christian comments last year. "Fly over and drop some food. Do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals — and have that fence electrified so they can't get out. Feed 'em. And you know in a few years, they'll die out. You know why? They can't reproduce."
Hutson didn't stop with the endorsement of gay genocide; he also demanded that the colors pink and blue be strictly gendered, impersonated what he thought to be an effeminate gay man and says he's never seen a "rainbow crib for the little sodomite baby" so therefore gay parents are unnatural.
The audience of bigots laughs and applause without abandon to Hutson's round after round of homophobic artillery.
Ready to have your mind blown, Hutson?
This pastor is far from a true Christian in my opinion. You don't have to be Christian to know this is dead wrong. Ironic, isn't it? Pastor, condemning people to the concentration camps. Why, I'd say this is the pastor version of Hitler! Is that not what the infamous Nazi-ruler did? Did he not mark the gays and undesirables with triangles and shove them into concentration camps along with the Jews and Gypsies? What pastor can hold such devilish hate in his heart?
To me, in this particular article, it doesn't matter if you are a gay supporter or completely against gay marriage, this man wants humans shoved into the same torture that the world has seen before in Germany, and so detested. Clearly, he doesn't care for the life of another.
But of course, what do I know? I'm simply an observer... who was always taught to love. I may not agree with the choices of gays, or I may. What I do not approve of is torture, much less a so called "pastor" encouraging it, and feeding an undying hatred in the hearts of his followers.
Actually, Tony Hutson pastors the Middle Tennessee Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The North Valley Baptist Church in Santa Clara is pastored by Jack Trieber. This video was made at the Santa Clara church when Hutson was a visiting speaker during a pastor and worker's conference that was sponsored by the church. It doesn't really matter, because he's still an idiotic bigoted vile man!
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April 29, 2007
Courtesy Wheaton Sports Information
NORTON, Mass. - The fourth-seeded Babson College baseball team collected 20 hits, and junior hurler Jeff Musante yielded one earned run on five hits during a complete-game effort to lift the Beavers past number three MIT, 22-2, in the semifinal round of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Tournament on Sunday at Wheaton College's Sidell Stadium. The Beavers improve to 23-11 and advance to face top-seeded Wheaton in the final round at 1:30 p.m., when Babson seeks its first tournament title since 2004. The Engineers fall to 13-13.
The Beavers took the lead for good on senior Andrew Collins' two-out RBI single in the second inning and never looked back, plating five more in each the third and fourth innings, four in the seventh and seven in the ninth. Sophomore Jeff Wojnar poked an RBI double in the third before four additional runs came home with two down, all of which were unearned. Collins knocked another RBI base hit, while freshman Peter O'Toole had a two-run single.
Wojnar added another run-scoring hit in the fourth, while Collins sent a two-run single up the middle. Wojnar's third RBI hit of the day came in the seventh before senior Ryan Campbell smacked a three-run homer later in the frame.
MIT junior Kevin Wheeler ripped his third home run in two days to put the Engineers on the board in the bottom half of the seventh.
In the ninth, the Beavers sent 11 men to the plate, as five had hits and seven scored. An O'Toole RBI single started the scoring, while Campbell's two-run single capped the frame.
Collins went 4-for-6 with four RBI out of the eight hole for the Beavers, while junior Steve Tahmoush added four hits and four runs out of the leadoff spot. Campbell finished 2-for-3 with five RBI, four runs and three bases on balls, while O'Toole and Wojnar each had three hits, three RBI and three runs. Musante struck out three and walked five during his nine-inning stint on the mound.
Sophomore Steven Nunez went 2-for-3 for the Engineers, while classmate Thomas Phillips drew a pair of walks. As the first of six pitchers, sophomore Stephen Toth was saddled with the loss after giving up six runs, but only two earned, over the first 2.2 frames of the contest.


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G20 world leaders are being pressured to raise violations of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Russia when they meet in St Petersburg this Thursday. They are being targeted by a Global Speak Out two days beforehand, on Tuesday 3 September. It is being coordinated by the international online activist group All Out and involves same-day protests in 32 cities around world.
London is participating with a Love Russia, Hate Homophobia rally outside the Prime Minister's residence, 10 Downing Street, from 5-8pm on Tuesday evening.
Participants are being urged to "wear red - the colour of love." They will challenge David Cameron: "What are you doing about the anti-gay law in Russia? We want answers. Tell Putin to drop the law."
Cameron says he's against a boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia but he hasn't said what he'll do instead. We are asking the Prime Minster to raise Russia's homophobic repression at the G20 summit. We want him to publicly urge President Putin to repeal the "gay propaganda law" - which bans the "promotion" of homosexuality - and to prosecute the violent homophobes who are terrorising LGBT people in Russia.
It is hoped that the 3 September protest will also ramp up pressure on the International Olympic Committee to insist that Russia gives cast-iron assurances that LGBT competitors, spectators and members of the Russian public - and their straight allies - will not be victimised for supporting LGBT equality during Winter Olympics, which are due to be held in the Russian city of Sochi in February 2014.
The Global Speak Out is just one aspect of a flurry of worldwide campaigns against homophobia in Russia.
AllOut.org has a petition urging the Russian government to eliminate anti-gay laws and violence. This petition has already gathered over 365,000 signatures.
Another petition by Change.org has more than 206,000 signers who oppose Russia's crackdown on LGBT rights and who are urging corporate sponsors of the Sochi Winter Olympics - Coca Cola, Visa and Panasonic - to condemn the anti-gay law.
Lobby for Russia is urging voters to lobby their MP.
Out4Russia is asking people to lobby G20 leaders ahead of their summit start on Thursday.
Tuesday's London protest is endorsed by the LGBT media: Attitude, Beige, Diva, G3, Gay Star News, GT (Gay Times), Out in the City, Pink News and QX magazine - plus the Peter Tatchell Foundation and London's leading weekly city guide magazine, Time Out.
One of the London rally organisers, QX magazine editor, Cliff Joannou, said:
"In June this year, Russia's president Vladimir Putin signed into law legislation that effectively bans any positive discussion, debate or portrayal of LGBT people and relationships. Gay athletes and spectators attending the Winter Olympics could potentially face fines and/or jail sentences merely for coming out or affirming their support for LGBT equality.
"The IOC charter prohibits any form of discrimination. It cannot carry on as if no human rights abuses are happening in Russia and as if these abuses will not impact on the Winter Olympics.
"There have been protests in countries across the globe over the past few weeks against Putin's legislation, including in London on 10 August. It was the huge response to this event that gave me the idea that what was needed was for LGBT communities around the world to come together on one day with a single voice against Russia's anti-gay policies and to demand that their own governments take action to press for an end to Russia's anti-gay law.
"This is particularly relevant and urgent, given that Russia currently holds the presidency of the G20 and will be hosting the G20 summit on 5 and 6 September.
"With this Day of Action we are calling on people in Britain and around the world to join us in a unified, coordinated global protest. We are not asking for the 2014 Winter Olympics to be cancelled, but Russia's homophobic discrimination needs to end and we need action by the IOC to help make sure this happens," said Joannou.
He's right. There can be no normal sporting relations with an abnormal authoritarian regime like Putin's Russia. The attack on the LGBT community is one fragment of a much wider attack on human rights in Russia. It is important to encourage an alliance between LGBT and straight Russians to defend freedom of expression for all the people of Russia. LGBT people need allies to win and all Russians who love democracy and human rights deserve our support.
Putin apologists are spreading lies. They make the false claim that the new law is solely concerned with 'protecting' minors. Even if this is true, why do young people need protecting from the reality of same-sex love? This justification is a crude cover for homophobia.
The new Russian law criminalises any public expression of LGBT identity or any advocacy of gay equality, where a person under 18 might see it. It specifically criminalises anything that suggests heterosexuality and homosexuality are equally valid. Already people have been arrested for holding gay equality signs in public and for publicly saying homosexuality is normal - even without any evidence that a person under 18 saw them.
This anti-gay legislation will prevent LGBT teens from being told that it's okay to be gay and from receiving HIV prevention information about how to have gay sex safely.
Long before this law was passed, I was beaten up with police collusion and arrested in Moscow for holding a sign saying "Gay Rights". I still live with the brain and eye injuries incurred.
Many Russian LGBT campaigners and other human rights defenders have also been bashed and arrested. They are heroes of the LGBT freedom struggle. They stand and fight. Their courage is awesome. We have a duty to support them.
Solidarity with LGBT Russians - and with all Russian people who are victims of human rights abuses. Defend freedom of expression for everyone.
For more information about Peter Tatchell's human rights campaigns: www.PeterTatchell.net


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1983 Chevy S10 Blazer - The ChopperPosted in Project Vehicles on April 1, 2010
In a world of TIG-welded chromoly, big-horsepower crate engines, and axles that cost more than a year of med school, it's sometimes invigorating to get a snap back to reality with a good old-fashion cab truck. A cab truck is defined as a fullsize truck frame outfitted with 1-ton or larger axles, a V-8 engine, and a small SUV or mini-truck cab. Seen mostly in the Southeast (but expanding its habitat internationally like kudzu), these Franken-trucks are born of ingenuity, rust, and a less-is-more attitude. In fact the cab truck was the original rock buggy. This happened when the body was pared down to the minimum requirements, making way for advances in off-road performance.
The cab truck is the kissing cousin to the original choppers of the two-wheel variety. Not the hundred-grand, fancy-paint, seen-on-TV choppers of today, but rather the strip-off-all-the-extra-junk, attach-just-what's-needed-and-maybe-a-trinket-or-two-for-good-luck-and-hit-the-road type of chopper.
The amazing specimen we have here was born in the woods of South Carolina, and like stereotypical two-wheeled chopper, this one is also captained by a big bearded bear of a man. Andrew Schaffer's Chopper is conglomeration of stuff he had lying about the shop to make his own mean machine, and we caught it running in the wet muddy trails of South Carolina.
Andrew Schaffer's cab truck, affectionately known as the Chopper, is based off a mixture of '83 Chevy S-10 Blazer and the frame of a half-ton Chevy truck. In fact only the front half of the frame is half-ton. The entire frame from the firewall back is S-10, and that made it easier to swap in the TBI 350 V-8 and a Dana 60 front axle.
Professional motorcycle race teams have beautiful women known as umbrella girls who hold umbrellas to protect the drivers from the sun as they sit along the starting line. Schaffer doesn't have an umbrella girl or a hood on his truck, but he does have an umbrella should it rain. Under that umbrella is a high-performance throttle body fuel-injected small-block Chevrolet V-8 engine, plus a bunch of wires, hoses, tubes, an old A/C unit, some lights for nighttime driving, and even an original radiator overflow bottle. Pretty cool, eh?
The steering box area of Chevy trucks is known for cracking, but that shouldn't be a concern with the Chopper's exclusive Universal Bent Ore Leveraging Tool, also known as a U-BOLT.
The interior of this machine is a mixture of exquisite barbarian-era design and futuristic utilitarianism, which mean he tore out everything he didn't need. Dash? Nope. Roll of electrical tape and shop towels? Yep. Wiring is made up of a lot of wire; the back is full of junk, trash, and spare parts; and the seats are covered in dirt, fine red dirt.
Tech Specs 1983 Chevy S-10/1/2-ton Drivetrain Engine: TBI 350 V-8 Transmission: TH400 Transfer Case: NP205 Front Axle: Dana 60, Detroit locker, 5.13 gears Rear Axle: Welded Eaton with 5.13 gears
Suspension Springs & Such: Leaf springs from a half-ton up front, S-10 out back Tires & Wheels: 14/42-16.5 Super Swamper Iroks on recentered 16.5 HMMWV double beadlocks Steering: Box with crossover Other Stuff: Lots of style points. No, this isn't an April Fools joke.


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If you had to sit down and think of a game idea guaranteed to make billions, don't waste your time thinking of something new. That's madness! Too risky!
It's safer to just throw two existing properties together. Sort of like what Pokémon x Nobunaga's Ambition (aka Pokémon Conquest) is doing, only mix Pokémon with something everyone would want to play.
Plants vs Zombies should do it. The mechanics remain the same on PvZ's side, while on Pokémon's side, you're still collecting them. Sort of. Only instead of sending them into harmless battle for the pleasure of humans, they'll be sacrificing themselves for the sake of your lawn.
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Sunday, February 10, 2008
Pain (Warning: dull alert)
EDS pain is apparently a bit unusual (I wouldn't know - it's the only type of pain I really know about) in that it's both chronic and acute, and can come from several different sources. For me, the most common of these is joint pain, but if I understand correctly, it will be different for every EDSer. My joint pain then comes in two flavours. There's the sudden, pretty awful shooting pain that tells me I've either subluxed something or hyperextended it too far. That happens a lot. And there's the all-day ache where I've overused something, or where a subluxation has hurt it. My shoulder was doing this yesterday from sleeping funny on it. My knees do a fun combination of these two a LOT, often when I'm trying to sleep. Gets boring. Cold affects this. I wear a lot of clothes and have the heating up higher than most people (yes, I know it's not good for the environment). Too much movement affects it too. Wheelchair is about the only thing that helps.
Then there's the muscle pain that I think of as Fibromyalgia pain because it's related to that particular diagnosis. Unlike the other types of pain, which I had all my life but which have got worse over the last few years, this arrived really suddenly when I had the post-viral thing that kicked everything else into a higher gear. This is a bad, constant ache that feels like the muscle sheath is being *pulled* very tight all the time. It can get really distracting. I get a lot less in my upper body than I used to, thanks to Lyrica (my miracle drug), but my legs can get quite bad this way. Recently they've been killing me. I do not know why. There's evidence to suggest that this part of my pain is mainly neurological, as FMS has the effect of making people feel this sort of pain more. So when my joints hyperextend, as they've been doing for 29 years or so, the cumulative effect on my muscles is then felt more strongly because my brain is confused by it all. That's my interpretation of the theories, anyway. Heat packs, hot baths etc help this. Cold makes it intolerable.
Finally there's the 'miscellanous' EDS-related pain. Headaches are in one category. Nearly-daily migraines are currently driving me completely round the bend, mainly because, if I have even a hint of a migraine headache, I can't take my painkillers for joint stuff, or the migraine will be truly horrendous and I'll be throwing up for hours. (This is why I was hoping the pain specialist would give me some solutions that would work for both general pain and migraines. She did not. She is stupid.) Another category is nerve pain. I used to get this more before I was taking the Lyrica. Tends to be shooting pain down a nerve that I've either trapped or irritated. For this reason TENS machines are utterly useless to me (irritate the nerves further) and acupunture hasn't always been a good idea (although I plan to give this another try, as I've been referred for a course on the NHS).
Then, as I was attempting to explain to Esther last night, there's the stuff that isn't quite about pain but is somewhat related to it. A lot of my mobility issues are about this sort of thing. My joints are weak and 'go' underneath me rather regularly and unpredictably. I have poor balance. And there's the fatigue, which I believe is related to my rubbish autonomic nervous systems (basically, EDS-related heart problems that fall just under the radar. I need tests soon). And other related things that I could explain if I had more time, and if anyone reading this was remotely interested. But I doubt anyone will be.
There you are. I did warn you that was going to be dull. Happy Sunday, all. I'm off to a Quaker meeting. Cool.
5 comments:
- Elizabeth McClung said...
Thank you - that wasn't dull to me at all but really, really facinating. I have heard medical professionals say that fibro is a form of nerves being unable to STOP sending information (like pain) - is that consistant, as it seems to be with what you describe here.
Also, because of Marfans I have hyperflex, like I can't ski becasue my knees will bend backwards because there isn't enough muscle support but that is super painful in the muscle, but what you describe is in the joint, yes? Also, how much do things like, sitting in cramped pews or sleeping too long on one side affect the EDS, if you don't mind me asking? Does the subluxation build or go at once. I am going to read more about this.
I am VERY sorry about the migrane and the vomiting and meds which sounds like Hell's tightrope. I am going to look up Lyrica, I know Milaciprine. Also odd how TENS machines are all over there and here, I can't even find an RN or caregiver who has heard of one. Thank you for telling me about your pain, I have a better idea of what you have to think about, judge, determine, look for signs regarding and be aware of WHILE you are trying to do....LIFE. So thank you, I am interested. I can't know what it is like, but I am interested (and I do care, I don't have the magic wand but I do care).
- 9:24 am
- Lisa said...
I feel bad writing about pain here, which is why I usually try not to, because I really don't have the pain levels that I know a lot of people live with.
I think that's kinda rubbish.
One thing you can never compare with someone else is pain. No 2 people feel it the same.
You could have 2 people with 100% identical injuries, and both of them would experience pain differently. Some people have very high pain thresholds, some people have very low pain thresholds. Some people have the psychological ability to cope with pain, some don't.
And it even varies within one person. I can psychologically deal with the constant pain in my ankle, no problem, it doesn't bother me. But when I injure a different body part it often gets me down because it's something I'm not so experienced at dealing with.
So, yeah. Saying you can't moan about your pain because you perceive it as being less than someone elses is twaddle.
And, besides. They've probably got cooler drugs than you.
- 11:32 pm
- yanub said...
Ooh, the nerve pain. The excitement of suddenly feeling like you must be spontaneouly combusting. The inquiries of companions as they watch you yelp and try to claw out the offending burning nerve. The assuring everyone that everything is just fine, only to have the same thing happen repeatedly over the next 10 minutes. I am so glad it only happens to me sporadically and in a limited way, because I think I would go completely around the bend if I had to put up with it all the time.
- 11:55 am
No one will understand until they go through similar situations.
Pain affects so much of your lifestyle, sometimes it's hard when people have no idea and tell you to just get on with life.. How frustrating that can be.....
Undiagnosed Illness
- 2:17 am
- Laurie Ashton said...
Yeah, I feel your pain. Literally. I also have EDS and today, it's the shooting nerve pain that's the worst. Think I could dig it out with a knife and be done with it? ;)
- 4:35 am


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A versatile artist, cellist Carol Ou is known for her "fiery, marvelous" and "meltingly melodic outpourings" (Boston Globe) and her "wonderfully pure cello tone and incisive technique" (The Strad).
A founding member of the Buswell-Ou Duo, Ou often appears in solo, chamber music, and concerto performances with violinist James Buswell. As the cellist of the Carpe Diem String Quartet, she frequently tours all over the U.S., performing an eclectic mix of classical string quartet repertoire with many crossover genres of music. Ou has collaborated with celebrated artists such as Midori, Hillary Hahn, Kim Kashkashian, Timothy Eddy, Pascal Rogé, András Schiff, Raul Juarena, and Jayme Stone at the Marlboro Music Festival, Summerfest La Jolla, Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Austin Chamber Music Center, Nevada Chamber Music Festival, and other noted music festivals.
At ease with the diverse music styles of the last five centuries, Ou regularly programs traditional European masterworks with more eclectic works in concert. She has recorded three of the most beloved cello concerti by Haydn, Tchaikovsky, and Elgar, and premiered several new compositions written for her. She gave the first performance of Hsiao Tyzen's Cello Concerto in Taipei and collaborated with Hsiao on the premiere of a number of solo and chamber music works throughout the U.S. and Singapore. American composers such as Richard Toensing and the late Daniel Pinkham have also dedicated works to her. Other unusual works that she has performed include Tan Dun's Ghost Opera for string quartet and pipa, Peter Sculthorpe's string quartet with didjeridu, and Reza Vali's Calligraphy No. 4 for string quartet and Persian santoor.
In the 2012–2013 season, in her new role as Carpe Diem String Quartet's cellist, Ou has collaborated with the Latin Grammy winner and master of the bandoneon Raul Juarena in Piazzolla's 4 Seasons of Buenos Aires. With banjo sensation Jayme Stone, she has performed repertoire as far ranging as Bach's Art of the Fugue, West African praise songs, Bulgarian dances, and bluegrass fiddling music.
Since 2007, Ou has also been chamber music director of the Heifetz International Summer Music Institute in Wolfeboro, N.H. and Staunton, Va. In addition to her regular teaching duties, Carol Ou has traveled extensively to give cello and chamber music masterclasses in Germany, Spain, Luxembourg, Argentina, Ukraine, Australia, Taiwan, Canada, and throughout the U.S.
Ou's solo recordings are all issued by the Chi-Mei Foundation in Taiwan. Her chamber music recordings of the 20th-century repertoire can be found on the Naxos and CRI labels. Her recording of Walter Piston's Chamber Music, issued by Naxos, won the 2001 Chamber Music America Best Chamber Music CD award.
B.A., magna cum laude, Yale University. M.M., M.M.A., D.M.A., Yale School of Music. Studies with Ronald Leonard, Janos Starker, Aldo Parisot. Former faculty of Yale, MIT, Harvard University, Gordon College (director of strings, chamber music, and orchestral studies).


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Emma Carroll - Teaching, General Teaching Projects in Nepal
The minute I arrived in Nepal, it all finally hit me. I was really in Nepal and I was really going to be teaching English to many classes with over 30 children screaming at me in a different language. My intention in Nepal wasn't just to help children have better English skills, it was to make a difference. This, however, seemed to be a very daunting task, realising that I was going to have to find ways of communication skills for me to do this, with many of the children speaking very little English at all.
When me and my friend got off the plane, Navin, one of the Projects Abroad staff, picked us up from the airport and took us straight to the hotel. The minute we left the airport, the fact that I was in a third world country hit me straight away. I couldn't believe what I was seeing, it was as if we had landed in a completely different planet. Whenever we arrived at the hotel, Projects Abroad staff were there to greet us and make us feel comfortable.
After a good nights rest, we got shown around Kathmandu where we went most weekends, and after a few times of taking detours, we quickly got to know our way around and it felt like we had been there for weeks! After two nights of staying in the hotel, we got driven to our placement, where I would be staying for the next 4 weeks.
At first, it was daunting, the minute I walked through the gates of Surya Vinyak school, I was greeted by smiling children all crowding round to kiss my right hand. It all seemed surreal for the first few hours until I got used to my surrounding and realised where I was and what I was doing. It did, however, take me a few days to get used to eating the traditional food, Dahl Bat, everyday for breakfast and dinner!
With living at the hostel directly opposite the school, owned by my host parents, the head teachers of the school, I lived with many children from the school. Most of these children were from extremely under-privileged backgrounds where my host parents were kind enough to take them into their lives. With being surrounded with children all day everyday, many people asked me if I found it hard not having my own time. I can honestly say I enjoyed each and every single minute of being with the children. I quickly grew close relationships with each one of them and grew to love them all.
I had 8 classes, ranging from the ages of 4 to 16. I was shocked at how well disciplined the classes were, especially when the children weren't allowed to enter the class without permission. They all showed me so much respect and I had a lot of fun trying to think up imaginative lessons to make the lessons more fun. If the class had gone well that day then I would teach them a new game, or song. They loved playing the game 'head down thumbs up' and asked me everyday to sing my national anthem. I also taught them a traditional Scottish dance, which I would see them practising in the playground at lunch. Seeing them doing this made me so happy, known that you have brought any kind of happiness to these children's lives gave you the biggest smile.
Before leaving for Nepal, I went on a health and safety course which gave me the opportunity to teach health and safety to my classes in Nepal. I decided not to prepare my lessons for this until I was in Nepal, as I didn't know what knowledge they would have on health and safety there. It turns out the didn't have very much, and I was shocked that even for class 8, which was full of 15-16 year olds, I had to go back to basic health and safety. Teaching young adults the same sort of thing that would be taught to 7 year olds back home made me realise just how lucky I was.
With teaching this course to the children, it meant that I was able to give them certificates saying that they had participated. I couldn't believe how happy children were to receive something such as a certificate. I gave out my certificates on my last day at the school and I even had children crying because they had never received anything like it before. Their faces lit up and it was the happiest I had seen them the whole 4 weeks I was there. I couldn't believe such a small gesture went such a long way.
My host parents, Bina and Suresh, were incredible. I had a new appreciation for the word selfless after I met them. They had taken in over 20 children. Suresh, as well as being head teacher at Surya, runs a disabled centre for children who have disabilities and any family who could not cope with this, he took the child into the hostel and cared for them. You could tell the love they had for each and every child that lived with them in the hostel, as well as their own daughter Subi, and Rohan who they had adopted when he got abandoned at the school by his mother. The amount that they done for the children, me as a volunteer there and the school was incredible and I have never met two people who are as willing and as caring as them.
On my last day at Surya, the children and teachers held me a leaving ceremony. For this, each class had prepared something different to say a farewell to me. One class prepared a dance where another learned my national anthem. It was one of the most amazing moments in my life, knowing that I was special enough to people that they would do such a thing for me, and a gesture which I will never forget. I received pictures and letters from different children and by the time I was leaving, most of the teachers, pupils, and me, were all crying.
I was, and still am, amazed at the positive attitude in Nepal. They have so little, yet I never once heard anyone complain. It was amazing at how they were thankful for so little and it gave me a big awakening at the different life and culture which there is in the world. There is not a day goes by where I don't think of my experience in Nepal and I miss my children so much. I can definitely see me visiting Nepal again sometime in the near future. It was the best experience in my life and I am so happy I got the chance to experience what I did.
Emma Carroll
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SANTA ROSA, CA — California may have a fight on its hands soon when it comes to single sex health clubs. The state has filed suit against two women-only facilities charging that they violated the civil rights of an individual based on gender. However, the International Health, Racquetball and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) plans to lobby the California legislature in 2005 to change the law, according to Kevin Buckley, deputy director of government relations for IHRSA.
Elan Health and Fitness Center in Petaluma, CA, and Body Central in Santa Rosa, CA, are being sued by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing after complaints by Phillip Kottle, who said that he was refused membership to both women-only facilities because of his gender. The state said that the clubs deprived Kottle of his civil rights in public accommodations under the Unruh Civil Rights Act.
"We are following these cases very closely," said Buckley. "We plan on fighting to change state law — as soon as the legislature reconvenes in 2005 — to exempt single-sex facilities from the Unruh Act. California is the only state at the moment that we know we will be pushing for this law change in 2005, but we are prepared to fight it wherever it is necessary."
Similar lawsuits have been filed in the past in other states, but most have been turned away by the courts, according to IHRSA. Several states actually already have laws that allow single-sex health clubs: Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Tennessee and Wisconsin.
The two clubs can either have their case heard by the Department of Fair Housing and Employment Commission or they can take it to civil court. Joyce Brown and LaRaye Houston, the mother and daughter who own Elan Health, have decided to take the case to civil court. A court date has yet to be set.
At this time, the Body Central case will be heard before the commission, said Paul Ramsey, chief counsel for the Department of Fair Housing.
Shannon Hartnett, owner of Body Central, has been battling Kottle for two years, initially refusing him membership, but then remodeling her locker room to accommodate him. However, he turned down her later membership offer, she said. Hartnett has already spent $25,000 fighting the case and redoing her locker room.
"In this day and age, women can't go out for a run by themselves," said Houston. "We are not discriminating against his civil rights. We are offering women a safe and supportive place to work out."
Houston is especially hurt that the lawsuit is coming from the state, which should be upholding the rights of women, she said.
IHRSA's position is that women-only health clubs should be allowed.
"Women-only health clubs should be allowed to exclude men from membership and employment because there is a legitimate gender-based privacy interest that needs to be protected, and there is no overriding public policy that necessitates the inclusion of men in these clubs," said Buckley. "The privacy issue stems from the unique setting of a health club. Women-only health clubs are not social in nature and are not places where business networking takes place. There is no economic harm in excluding men from women-only health clubs."
Hartnett and Houston's members are being supportive, but they are concerned about possible changes to their workout facilities.
"It will change everything for women in California if this happens," said Houston. "A lot of women do not feel comfortable in a gym. A woman's club offers women who feel that way an opportunity to work out." She also expressed fears that if suits like this one are successful, it will set a precedent for more "frivolous lawsuits."
However, Ramsey said that the cases are fact specific and whether the clubs would have to open up to all men or just Kottle would depend on what the judge or commission orders. An award of damages could occur in both cases, he said.


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The founding principle underlying all of Shaikh Ahmad Kuftaro's work is the obligation of every person to pursue in balance and harmony the three kinds of knowledge inherent in the classical Arabic word for thaqafa:
1) Knowledge of the world gained through the scientific method known as ayn al-yaqin, which was the pillar of the classic Islamic civilization of a millenium ago and the principle contribution of Islam to European civilization.
2) Knowlege of the purpose of everything in creation, known as haqq al-yaqin, including the history of mankind, which is gained primarily through the Divine Revelation that has been granted by the Creator through Messengers to all human civilizations, and which was the dynamo of the Islamic civilization flowering in the early Islamic period of global history before reverence for truth and purpose declined,
3) Indirect knowledge gained through the use of the human intellect, largely in the form of the maqasid or universal principles of shari`ah thought, in processing the first two direct sources of knowledge.
This third source of knowledge, known as 'ilm al-yaqin,in turn, is critically important for increasing our knowledge of the universe gained through scientific observation, as well as our understanding of true knowledge at the highest level, which is ultimate meaning and purpose, granted by ALLAH through the 'eye of the heart'.
After leaving this world, every person's knowledge will proceed from intellectual understanding, 'ilm al-yaqin to direct spiritual vision, `ayn al-yaqin of reality and truth, as promised in Surah Al-takathur of the Quran.
In this world, the product of all three kinds of knowledge is akhlaq or the development of virtuous character.
The mission of Shaikh Ahmad Kuftaro in pursuing this primary goal is reflected on his life-long organization activism in the field of education. In 1971, he established the Abu Nour Islamic Foundation which opened the four year Kulliya Da`wa Al-Islamiyya in 1992, with branches in Lebanon (Al-Awzai College of Islamic Studies) and Pakistan (Islamic Studies University), both started in 1989, as well as a branch, granting the M.M. degree, in 1992 at the Omdurman College of the Sudan. In 1992, the foundation also started the four-year Kulliya 'Usul Din in Damascus, Syria, which has more than one hundred students studing for for the M.A. degree and the first ones now studying for a Ph.D in Islamic Law. In 1994, Shaikh Ahmad Kuftaro opened the An Nour Institute for Islamic Studies and Arabic Language in Baltimore, Maryland.
In 1972-74, he lectured at various Islamic conferences in Algeria, Iran, and India, and in 1976 represented Syria in Saudi Arabia at the First Conference for the Message for the Mosque.
The major commitment of Shaikh Ahmad Kuftaro throughout his life has been to interfaith understanding and cooperation in purs- uit of peace, even at times when this commitment was not clearly understood or appreciated.
In 1954 he was a member of the Syrian delegation to a Muslim-Christian conference held in Lebanon.
Shaikh Ahmad Kuftaro has lectured widely on interfaith coo- peration as the frame work and engine of peace throughout the world including a speach at Al- Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerus- alem in 1964 and a number of lectures at Vienna and other places at the invitation of Cardinal Koenig of Austria in 1979."One of these talks, 'Islam and Christian: Two Faiths, one God', is produced in this book.
He pursued interfaith cooperation in both east and West.On April 17, 1980, by the invitation of the Vice-President of East Germany, he met with a delegation from the Theology Department of the University of Berlin and produced with them an official Protestant statement that God is One and that Jesus and Muhammad were both Messengers of God.
In 1981, he addressed the Academy of Science in Moscow on "Islam and Peace," and at the Inter-Religious Conference in May 1992 in Moscow he delivered an address on "The Principles of Peace in the World Religions, "designed to increase the awareness among professional clergy of their unique responsibilities to help prevent the development of events that can initiate nuclear war.
In 1983 and 1986, he represented the Association of Syrian Scholars at a similar conference in Prague, Czecholovakia, and in 1984, again in Moscow.
In particular, he has worked with officials of the Roman Catholic Church to develop rapprochment in the pursuit of justice and peace. In December 1985, he lectured at a number of universities throughout Italy, including a lecture in Milno on Islam and Religious Tolerance and visited His Holiness Pope John II prior to giving an address at the Vatican on "The International Prospects of Islam and Christianity." Both of these are presented in this book.
In 1987, His eminence Shaikh Ahmad Kuftaro held a second summit meeting with Pope John Paul II in Malta and gave a lecture, reproduced in this book, entitled "Co-Existence in the Mediterranean."
In June of 1991, he headed the Islamic Delegation in a "Muslim-Christian Dialogue" in Istanbul, where he spoke on "The Role of the Family in Muslim Society". This talk is reproduced in this book. The same year in November he gave
In recent years, Shaikh Ahmad Kuftaro has come to believe strongly that America can recover its religious heritage and share the Islamic heritage in order to renew global civilization in the Twenty-First Century. He acted on this belief in June, 1989, by a two-week visit, sponsored by the U.S. State Department, to lecture and visit many religious centers and leaders in Washington D.C., Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and Florida.
In August 1990, he attended "The Assembly of World Religions" in San Francisco, where he gave several lectures, including two reproduced books entitled "The Quran Extends its Hand to Mankind" and "Spirituality in the Twenty-First Century" In December 1992, during a visit to New York, he delivered the address reproduced in this book, entitled, "The Conscience of Islam."
In 1993, Shaikh Ahmad Kuftaro's Abu Nour Center opened a branch in Baltimore, Maryland, the An-Nour Institute, under the leader ship of Muhammad Bashar `Arafat, and sent it in a short message, which is produced as a conclusion to this book.
The chronological evolution of Shaikh Ahmad's priorities thoughou his life shows that he first focused inwardly of rebuilding Islam through education, freedom of religion, and da'wa among Muslims, and then shifted his focus outwardly through Islam to rebuild the world through interfaith cooperation, stewardship of the earth,and developing America moral leadership for the twenty-first century.


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What's Wrong With You People?
Our technology choices reflect our values. People willing to yield some control to Apple for their needs are more likely to enjoy the benefits that Apple's products bring by exerting that control. But people who don't like being told what to do — people who believe they know what's best for them, want full control over everything, and are willing to accept the resulting responsibilities — will be more comfortable with the alternatives.
— Marco Arment, in a blog post entitled "Anti-Apple Anger"


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GREEN BAY, Wis.—Keifer Sykes had 16 points and five assists to help Green Bay recover from a tough defeat with a 68-59 victory over Detroit on Saturday afternoon.
Jordan Fouse added 12 points and seven rebounds, and Kam Cerroni scored 11 off the bench, for the Phoenix (13-12, 7-5 Horizon League), who outscored Detroit 38-26 in the second half. Green Bay was coming off Thursday's 70-68, double-overtime loss to Wright State that snapped a seven-game home winning streak.
Conference scoring leader Ray McCallum had 30 points and four steals for the Titans (16-9, 8-4) but didn't get much help. McCallum was 12 of 19 from the floor, but his teammates were a combined 10 of 35.
The Phoenix took the lead for good, 49-48, on Sykes' three-point play with 9:01 left and went on to lead by as many as 11.
Detroit still leads the all-time series between the schools, 24-21.


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Greyhole is an application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they are connected), and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails.
Install from AUR
Install greyholeAUR from the Arch User Repository.
Manual Installation
1. Install the required packages
# pacman -S mysql php php-pear samba base-devel rsync postfix
2. Download the latest source package from here
3. Extract the Greyhole files
# tar zxvf greyhole-*.tar.gz # cd greyhole-* # GREYHOLE_INSTALL_DIR=`pwd`
4. Create work directory for Greyhole
# mkdir -p /var/spool/greyhole # chmod 777 /var/spool/greyhole
5. Install Greyhole files
# install -m 0755 -D -p greyhole /usr/bin # install -m 0755 -D -p greyhole-dfree /usr/bin # install -m 0750 -D -p greyhole-config-update /usr/bin # install -m 0644 -D -p logrotate.greyhole /etc/logrotate.d/greyhole # install -m 0644 -D -p greyhole.cron.d /etc/cron.d/greyhole # install -m 0644 -D -p greyhole.example.conf /etc/greyhole.conf # install -m 0755 -D -p greyhole.cron.weekly /etc/cron.weekly/greyhole # install -m 0755 -D -p greyhole.cron.daily /etc/cron.daily/greyhole
6. Two files required for php-pear do not seem to be supplied with archive so grab them from Github and move them into the required location
# wget https://raw.github.com/gboudreau/Greyhole/master/includes/common.php # wget https://raw.github.com/gboudreau/Greyhole/master/includes/sql.php # include_path=`php -i | grep include_path | awk -F':' '{print $NF}'` # mkdir "$include_path/includes" # install -m 0644 -D -p includes/common.php "$include_path/includes" # install -m 0644 -D -p includes/sql.php "$include_path/includes"
When setting the include_path if PHP complains about the timezone then set your timezone in the
/etc/php/php.ini file.
7. Install the Samba VFS module Find out what version of Samba you are running
# smbd --version
If you are running Samba 3.4
# if [ -x /usr/lib64/samba/vfs/ ]; then cp samba-module/bin/greyhole-x86_64.so /usr/lib64/samba/vfs/greyhole.so; else cp samba-module/bin/greyhole-i386.so /usr/lib/samba/vfs/greyhole.so; fi
If you are running Samba 3.5
# if [ -x /usr/lib64/samba/vfs/ ]; then cp samba-module/bin/3.5/greyhole-x86_64.so /usr/lib64/samba/vfs/greyhole.so; else cp samba-module/bin/3.5/greyhole-i386.so /usr/lib/samba/vfs/greyhole.so; fi
If you are running Samba 3.6 then you will need to compile the module manually
# SAMBA_VERSION=`smbd --version | awk '{print $2}'` # wget http://samba.org/samba/ftp/stable/samba-${SAMBA_VERSION}.tar.gz # tar zxf samba-${SAMBA_VERSION}.tar.gz && rm samba-${SAMBA_VERSION}.tar.gz # cd samba-${SAMBA_VERSION}/source3 # ./configure
Before building the module we need to fix a few files to work with Samba 3.6. Firstly copy the code from here in to a file called
# patch -p1 < Greyhole-Samba-3.6.patch
Next copy the code from here into a file called
vfs_greyhole.c in the
modules directory.
Now we can build Samba
# make
This step may take a long time depending on how powerful your machine is. Once the process has finished you can copy the Greyhole module to the correct directory
# if [ -x /usr/lib64/samba/vfs/ ]; then cp bin/greyhole.so /usr/lib64/samba/vfs/greyhole.so; else cp bin/greyhole.so /usr/lib/samba/vfs/greyhole.so; fi
8. Now (re)start Samba
# systemctl start smbd
# systemctl restart smbd
9. Next we need to install the Greyhole init script however this will have to follow at a later date as I have not yet made one. A generic Linux example init script is supplied with the Greyhole source and is called
1. Setup Samba
/etc/samba/smb.conf and add the following 2 lines to the
[global] section
unix extensions = no wide links = yes
For each of your shares, add a '
dfree command' and '
vfs objects' lines, as seen below.
Example share definition:
[share_name] path = /path/to/share_name create mask = 0770 directory mask = 0770 read only = no available = yes browseable = yes writable = yes guest ok = no printable = no dfree command = /usr/bin/greyhole-dfree vfs objects = greyhole
Restart Samba
# systemctl restart smbd
2. Setup the database If using MySQL: Ensure MySQL is running
# systemctl start mysqld # mysql -u root -p -e "create database greyhole; grant all on greyhole.* to greyhole_user@localhost identified by '89y63jdwe';" # mysql -u greyhole_user -p89y63jdwe greyhole < /usr/share/greyhole/schema-mysql.sql
3. Customize the greyhole configuration at
4. For each directory you defined as 'storage_pool_directories', execute the following command, to create a hidden file in the root directory of each partition:
# touch <dir>/.greyhole_uses_this
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The economic crisis that began in 2007 triggered a sense of financial insecurity among big and small institutions as well as individual investors. The housing bubble, subprime lending and deregulation were all thought to contribute to market instability. Ru Jun Han '14 believes another, more technological, component was also responsible.
Interested in economic regulation, Han is discovering how automated trading impacts financial markets. In particular, he is looking at high frequency trading (HFT), a complex system of computer hardware and programs that use small transactions to accumulate wealth over time. A Levitt Summer Research Fellowship makes his research about HFT possible. Automated trading, which has existed for decades but is new in practice, uses a computer algorithm to monitor stocks and trade assets without human assistance.
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Professor of Economics Chris Georges, who has developed a financial market model for previous research, is advising Han. Han "is mostly interested in using programming and mathematical tools to solve real problems," and is writing additional source code to increase the complexity of the model. Everything in their model can be manipulated, from agents' decisions to stock values, providing the sort of flexibility "that is not attainable working with historical data." The program generates unique stock price trends, dictates agent's behaviors and sets trade frequency. It can generate scenarios that closely mirror current markets, or it can generate different values for more experimental purposes.
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HFT has been heavily criticized since the crisis, and many analysts suggest that this kind of trading introduces volatility to financial markets. Han said, "Automated trades happen so fast; even a minor fault in the algorithm can lead to huge mistakes." Computers are programmed to capitalize on price fluctuations and may not recognize errors in securities listings.
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Hmm...I'm not sure I understand what you mean but are you trying to say their is no english -fan translation that is regularly available for anyone at any time?
(Oh hello! nice you meat you too thank you for your work on that page. I honestly can't give you any suggestions because I have not completely read the whole page yet because just reading the few lines in the beginning have got me excited to the point I just did not want to spoil more things like characters and such before I find a fan translation first. So far so good so I thank again for your work )
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Section.02 Requiem of Connexion I
Alrighty... I'm not sure how I'm going to go about doing this, but I suppose I'll make it a bit interesting. :lol: As if...
We've reached MC (Mars Century) File 1. This is supposed to be about Zechs' past, but alas even two chapters in we haven't seen it yet. Next month, maybe? At any rate, Dorothy opens up the chapter with the narrative she said to Zechs upon her approach to the battleship Libra. Yes, it is exactly as she says in Gundam Wing. Why? Well duh, there's only one way to say it :/
He gives us a retrospect on history and that he doesn't believe in this "past" that's considered "history". Whether he's utilizing this as an excuse for ignoring the events of the past is beyond me, but he doesn't find a value in it and couldn't really "give a damn" about it. Cue the "history of Mars" series:
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Wow...that's a lot to take in. Looks like there's a lot going on in Chapter 5. So racial tension is still prominent despite the move to another planet? Interesting...
From what I saw in-series, there was some sort of colony racial segregation at least on L-5 in terms of Wufei's clan. However, that's solely a fan assumption. Guess uniting as one Martian race doesn't solve that problem. I assume that Quatre has his Maganac Corps with him on Mars so Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian races are represented. Of course, the West would be represented by the likes of Duo and the Peacecrafts. Wonder if they'll go into the power blocs 00 had in their first season. Overall, this premise of a new global politics on Martian soil is promising. Perhaps the UESA will be revived in some capacity in a new Martian equivalent? History is an endless waltz and all that...
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Thanks for the infodump, Deacon! This chapter's looking to be very interesting...
Another awesome REI illustration: http://pixiv.cc/usabiba/archives/2163347.html
Click the image for the full illustration.
Still really wanna see the "Little Prince" capsule.
|2011-02-06, 18:17
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Continuing on with another blurb from the chapter:
|2011-02-06, 19:38
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Then I guess there is no fan translation that is available all the time then, huh?
@Deacon Blues Is that how you learn about the story? One of you translation it? Wow, that's really good.
But why at least not collect them all together ? So that both old fan or new comers like me can read it orderly.
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OMG what an incredible feeling when you don't check on the thread for hours and hours and come back and then boom loads of new information greet your face. It's been quite a while since we got some facts. Thanks Deacon. I'mma kiss you. Ok, jokes. Don't hate me. xD
EDIT: WAIT! I only just remembered. It's not that big of a deal but did they ever elaborate on Heero's capsule? Who it resembled and all that? Is it Relena? Coz that would be epic if it was really her. xD
I also wonder if they will ever touch on Relena's capsule. If hers resembled Zechs or Heero. If it was Heero her capsule resembles, then I can only assume that it's definitely Relena whom Heero's capsule resembles... because they're epicly sappy and sentimental like that. But if it was Zechs, then there's a chance that Heero's capsule resembles someone else. I'd be crushed... and I ain't afraid to say it.
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The official art.... sigh.
edit: sorry I'm bitchy this morning XD
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|2011-02-07, 13:44
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I'll slap up the FRONT, SIDE and ANGLE parts when I get home. The rest is useless gibberish. Is it me or does Heero look a but more buff than usual? :P
Edit: Nothing special here.
FRONT: A large apparatus that spans over 3 meters. Angel wings enclose it, symbolizing the sleeping Aurora Princess. Who could the beautiful girls face resemble?
ACROSS: When the wings are spread inside the cryonics capsule is a body as if it is being completely embraced by the arms of the Aurora Princess.
SIDE: The profile is also a beautiful Aurora Princess. When the cold capsule is defrosted with it's transparent properties, countless drops of water with radiance like an aurora are given off.
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And it's okay, I kinda figured by now that no matter how people try to be polite to you, you still find a way to get annoyed at them and tell them off.
|2011-02-07, 19:14
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lmao @ the capsule- WHO COULD IT POSSIBLY BE :OOO
Guuuuueeeessss what just came in the mail! \o/
If I don't start scanning tonight (I just had to get my laptop reformatted AGAIN, like the 3rd time this month, so I'm still setting it back up =_=) I'll start tomorrow, since I don't have class tomorrow. I'll do FT first, then GotD.
For now- this month's illustrations!
Spoiler for Illustration dump! Beware, large files.:
o Katherine, wry so cloney.
This month's GotD features Howard having a flashback to when he met young Treize (who is almost adorable, btw). The chapter seems to be rather short, though, and features mostly conversation about Tallgeese (the part when Zechs first goes to see it, etc) with Trowa's attack on the base just about to start when the chapter ends.
|2011-02-07, 20:22
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Mama there goes that man!
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Location: UK
I'd rock Heero's Preventer jacket.
Looking forward to the GotD chapter. Walker!
|2011-02-07, 20:29
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Join Date: Jun 2010
There are a lot of awesome 'grumbling-at-Heero' Duo faces in this chapter. That parts-thief.
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So far the only one that I haven't really like was "2001: a space oddysey". I couldn't make sense of it. If anyone has the meaning behind that movie please clue me in.
Just watched it again last weekend from the same Blockbuster plan you have. It's one of my favorites. All of Kubrick's movies are open to interpretation, but this is one that he refused to explain, preferring to let viewers come up with their own ideas. But here is my take which is pretty consistent with general consensus.
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The movie is divided into three movements. In the first, "The Dawn of Man", the focus is on prehuman apes. A tribe of them encounters the smooth, black monolith and are drawn to it. When one ape touches it he learns to pick up a bone and use it as a tool. The apes learn to use the bones to kill and eat other animals. After eating meat, presumably for the first time, one ape uses a bone to kill another ape from a rival tribe. This is the beginning of human development as after touching the monolith the apes learn to use tools to influence the world around them.
The second movement occurs millions of years later and focuses on a space mission in which a second monolith has been uncovered, intentionally buried on the moon. This has been kept completely secret. Dr. Heywood Floyd approaches and touches the monolith just like the apes in the opening movement. The monolith emits some type of horrible high pitched noise and all of the astronauts are in visible pain.
The movie then cuts into the third movement which takes place 18 months later on board the Discovery One near Jupiter on another secret mission which is not known to the crew. The onboard computer, HAL, malfunctions and tries to kill the crew. When David Bowman manages to shut HAL down, a recorded message from Dr. Floyd (of the second movement) plays explaining the finding of the second monolith and the nature of the Discovery's mission. He says that the monolith sent a radio signal to Jupiter (which was the shrieking noise) and the Discovery was sent to explore it. The Discovery one docks with the third monolith which is in orbit around the planet. The planet aligns with its moons and the monolith and Bowman is transported across the universe to a Victorian style room in which he watches himself age and die as a fourth monolith appears. As he reaches to it he is tranformed into a fetus (called the Starchild) and the movie ends.
I think the monolith represents a higher form of intelligence that guides and inspires human development and evolution. It pushes apes forward into humans. When humans have aquired the means to find it again (buried on the moon) it triggers deeper exploration into space. The human that finds it again by exploring even further is reborn as the Starchild, which sybolizes the next step in evolution, whatever that may be. It really helps to watch it a few times to get deeper into it.
Hope that helps.