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Operation Ranger was a series of nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Proving Ground (now called the Nevada Test Site) northwest of Las Vegas. Los Angeles TV station KTLA televised one blast from the roof of a Las Vegas hotel.
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The original color version (slightly edited) of a 1955 atom-bomb test in Nevada shows the effects of a nuclear blast on test houses and utilities located at various distances from the detonation site.
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A nuclear weapon is detonated underwater to test its effects on nearby ships (location unknown).
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Tsar Bomb is 'King of All Bombs'
The Soviet Union's Tsar bomb was tested October 30, 1961, in Novaya Zemlya, an large island in the Soviet Arctic. After the 57-megaton bomb exploded, a 64-kilometer (40-mile) mushroom cloud rose into the sky.
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Remodeler Sues Woman Over Negative Reviews, Helps Force Another Critic Out Of Her Own Home
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You can't satisfy every critic. Sometimes people just want to complain. But when complaints surface, the worst thing you can do is make legal threats in response. This automatically gives every complaint against the company, no matter how specious, a veneer of truth. And if the complaints are justified, the time and money being deployed to shut up critics would be better utilized fixing the problems.
But some companies never learn. Or if they do learn, it's only after they've been exposed to the glaring sunlight that is the Internet. Baybrook Remodelers of Connecticut, and its owner Ken Carney, are now in that position.
Baybrook Remodelers has been pursuing one such critic for the past two years. Kristen A., who runs a website dedicated to her legal entanglements with Baybrook Remodelers, has been dealing with the company's attempts to curb her criticism since late in 2010. As she details on her site, she first attracted the remodeler's negative attention when she posted negative reviews detailing the company's refusal to honor its contractual design work after she decided to use someone else for the actual construction.
The signs posted at "another person's house" belong to Kristen's mother, who hung two signs critical of Baybrook Remodelers on her upstairs deck after issues she had with the company. The first sign simply said she did not recommend Baybrook Remodelers. After the owner tried and failed to have her remove this sign (attempts that included approaching Kristen's supervisor and asking him to intercede on his behalf), she hung another one -- one that specifically called out the company for its tendency to file lawsuits against critics, as well as being named in several lawsuits brought by unhappy customers.
Baybrook Remodelers responded by sending this ridiculous letter purporting to be a genuine legal threat.
Not only is the letter riddled with grammatical errors (and covered with Kirsten's coffee), but the address of the unnamed attorney traces back to Mailboxes, Etc. Readers will also note that the letter is unsigned and features nothing more than the words "Attorney at law" where a signature (and the name of the attorney) would normally be found.
When this failed to result in the removal of the signs, the remodeler approached the city of Milford, which obligingly circumvented its own statutes in order to yank the house's zoning approval, citing supposed violations from 2003 and 2004. The city also apparently tried to give itself instant, perpetual access to the house (ostensibly to check for further code violations) for as long as she remained living there. The city basically told her it wouldn't issue zoning approval until her signs came down, using the alleged violations -- which fell outside the city code's own six-year statute of limitations -- as leverage. Kristen's mother moved out of her own house in 2011 rather than continue battling Baybrook Remodelers and the city of Milford.
Kristen, however, continues to be hassled by Baybrook Remodelers for her reviews. As was noted at the beginning of the post, the case has dragged on since March of 2011. It appears Baybrook was hoping this case would never make it to trial.
Ken Carney's lawyer has requested and been granted 15 extensions of time. On one occasion, he went 7 consecutive months without doing what was necessary to keep his case alive, and on another occasion he went another 4 consecutive months without moving his case forward. His lawyer has had 5 chances to rewrite his lawsuit to try to fix whatever was wrong with it.Here's a look at the docket, which is filled with little else other than the plaintiff's extension requests. As Kristen notes, a trial is forthcoming, with jury selection beginning in March. This is what Baybrook's been avoiding. Obviously, it hoped its threats would be enough to quell the criticism. That has backfired and now the company is in the awkward position of having to explain itself to a jury. This isn't the only case Baybrook is dragging its heels on. Another Tort case filed by Baybrook Remodelers in 2010 is still ongoing, with numerous extensions having been filed here as well. A motion for summary judgement has been filed by the defendant who is obviously hoping to finally have this seemingly endless suit tossed.
Finally, the case has a trial date. This was pushed by my lawyer, not Ken Carney's. Based on their actions so far, Ken Carney and his lawyer would have been happy to let this go another 2½ years.
Kristen's site contains even more details of Baybrook's shady behavior. She noticed that shortly after she posted her negative review detailing the 40+ lawsuits the company was involved in (Dec. 6, 2010), a flood of Baybrook's "admirers" took to these same sites to post glowing reviews of the company. Most of the reviews were posted Dec. 15-17, which either means the company was posting its own reviews or had just wrapped up a ton of contracts for deliriously happy customers. Some reviews even copy-pasted wording from positive reviews written years earlier. Other identically-worded reviews surfaced under different names in January of 2011. One was even posted on Baybrook's website using yet another name.
But the most damning indicator of the company's negative reputation is the 40 pages of complaints filed with the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection. The complaints detail a variety of issues with Baybrook Remodelers, including its tendency to do shoddy work and leave cleanup and damage repairs to the client. Other complaints point out how reluctant the company is to engage with dissatisfied customers ("owner won't answer his phone").
Baybrook Remodelers (and Ken Carney) apparently feel the hole they've been digging isn't big enough. A legal threat was recently sent to Kristen's hosting company, Dreamhost. As she correctly points out, Section 230 of the CDA makes this a particularly futile act, something attorney Thomas Daly should have known. Of course, maybe Daly's focus on personal injury and landlord/tenant disputes hasn't yet exposed him to the limits of secondary liability.
Additionally, the letter contains no specifics about what Daly (and his client) believe is "defamatory." It just vaguely claims that the sites are and expects Dreamhost to roll over and shut Kristen's sites down. Considering it's been eight days since the takedown demand, it would appear Dreamhost isn't falling for Baybrook Remodeler's vague claims of defamation. (As Ken White at Popehat often states, vagueness in legal threats is the hallmark of meritless thuggery.)
Kristen has admirably stood up to a meritless thug, one that will soon have a chance to explain its tactics to a judge and jury. It will be hard-pressed to point out exactly where Kristen has crossed the defamatory line and will hopefully be made to answer for its endless court delays and nearly three years of harassment.
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Paul Draper will unveil 'Mysteries of the Mind' at the Egyptian Theatre
November 16, 2012
During Paul Draper's "Mysteries of the Mind" performance, the illusionist and magician, will demonstrate how he can read thoughts and tell when people are lying.
He will also bend spoons with his mind, and after duct taping his face with steel, cloth and leather recite serial numbers of dollar bills and other objects the audience members have in their pockets.
Draper, who lives in Salt Lake City and Las Vegas, Nev., will do this at the Egyptian Theatre this afternoon at 2 p.m.
Prior to that, at noon, he will host a magic workshop at the theatre for youth ages eight to 13.
The illusionist said although some of the tricks he does seems mystical in ways, there is nothing evil, dark or spooky about how he does them.
"Some people have asked if I was struck by lightening or born with these strange powers, but I wasn't," Draper said during an interview with The Park Record. "I want people to know that what I do is all through training and education, and through those two things, with persistence, anyone can do amazing things."
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The workshop is for children who want to learn magic tricks.
"Usually, when I do workshops, groups are more interested in the Mysteries of the Mind offering, so I talk about how to tell if people are lying and different motivations and cultures," Draper said. "But the Egyptian was interested in inspiring the youth, so I'll bring some fun magic tricks to help young people learn something they can share with their friends."
Magic is a great tool to help young people develop self-esteem.
"I helps them break out of their shells and to help them create conversation and inspire others," Draper said. "It's a fun activity that anyone can participate in."
Draper's interest in magic was kindled by three pioneering Salt Lake City-based performers from the 1970s and 1980s Paul Brewer, Dan Paulus and Christopher Fair.
"They were great and got me interested in learning how they did things," Draper said.
Spurred by his interest in humankind, which stemmed from the fact that half of his family were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the other half was Jewish, Draper went on to study cultural anthropology and received a masters degree in political rhetoric.
"My best friend's family was Presbyterian and Muslim," Draper said with a laugh. "So, in short, I was and still am interested in knowing everything about people."
Draper worked for many years in Utah with what is now called the Inclusion Center, where we taught diversity training and advocacy.
"I learned about the similarities and differences of the human universe, and I found it is much more fun to use that in a Sherlock Holmes-styled stage show than it is to teach it in the classroom," he said.
When his desire to learn about different cultures took over, Draper began studying with psychics and shamans and other "unusual people all over the world," he said.
"I have seen how they do the things they do and, instead of trying to lead a religion, I put on a show," Draper said. "The show I will be performing at the Egyptian Theatre is a mix of mind reading, psychology, anthropology and a general interest in people."
During his studies, Draper found that the skills he uses in his shows could not be developed on his own.
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These days, Draper performs hundreds of shows and meets people around the world.
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Draper has appeared on various TV programs featured on the History Channel, HBO, A&E and HGTV."
I would like to host my own show or series one day," he said. "I would also like to expand my shows into India and China. I've performed in both, but would like to do more."
Illusionist Paul Draper will bring his magical, interactive show, "Mysteries of the Mind" to the Egyptian Theatre on Saturday, Nov. 17, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $5 for youth, and $8 for adults. He will also hold a magic workshop for children ages eight to 13, at noon. Tickets are $25. Tickets can be purchased at http://www.parkcityshows.com For more information, visit http://www.paulwdraper.com .


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Immediately after Argentina's 4-0 quarterfinal loss to Germany on Saturday, Maradona was understandably upset. And according to Argentina's Deportes y Noticias, he let a group of German fans know it. A translation of their report:
Argentina national team coach Diego Maradona had an altercation with German fans after the end of the match that marked the elimination of said team from the 2010 South Africa World Cup.
Apparently upset over post game celebrations by fans located behind the Argentinean bench, Maradona approached and scolded them, until Dalma, one of his daughters, entered the field and contained him.
It's a shame the man who has entertained us all over the last few weeks with his exuberance and delightful antics had to get involved in something like this. He would go on to say that this loss was "the most disappointing moment in my life" which shows just how devastated he must have been as he walked off the pitch and saw German fans in red and yellow wigs partying like it's Oktoberfest in July right behind him.
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Hilary Duff Opens Up About Feeling 'Lost' and 'Shutting It All Down' in Candid Fan Interview
Hilary Duff may have been out of the music scene lately, but that doesn't mean she isn't keeping busy learning about herself, raising her son Luca and dealing with those pesky paparazzi.
In a recent and very open interview with the fan site Hilary Duff News, Duff opened up about the joys of motherhood as well as getting back into the studio.
When asked about her son, Duff gushed, "He is my everything. He's the sweetest little guy. He's such a good, pure spirit. It's just amazing to be with him every day. But I don't want to just be a mom. I have so much more inside of me."
"Once I had him I thought I was going to want to get back into the studio again and it didn't work out that way. I was just really happy being a mom and enjoying my time with him. Then I think when he was at 12 months it felt good enough for me to be away for a little bit and still feel like myself again."
Despite this freedom, she thinks it may be hard to go on tour without him. As she explained, "I can't imagine not being with him. I think the longest I have been away was three days without him. I think it's healthy to get away, have a little bit of separation and some Hilary time. I miss him so much, he is such a part of me. I'm a little worried about that, but I want to be on tour."
When asked what she has learned about herself while on hiatus, Duff replied, "When you are so busy, you have your whole day planned out for you, every day, and it's all about work. It's hard to really start figuring out 'this is what I want.' Your vision gets cloudy. Like, what do you like to do? Who do you like to hang out with? What do you really thrive on? What makes you happy? I think at one point I was just feeling pretty lost. I had to just shut it all down."
"When my tour was over, I fired my manager," she continued. "I was done with my label; I didn't owe them anything else. I shut down my whole clothing line. I just shut it all down. And it was all really successful, so people were shocked. I just needed a breath. I needed space. I think in that time, I realized how to take care of myself, because there was so many people taking care of me."
"I learned to live alone," she revealed. "I learned that I loved cooking. I remodeled the house. I learned that I love interior design. And I had to cut out a bunch of friends that I realized weren't good for me. I found my own group and it was a small one. But it's people that I really, truly, care about and that care about me. It was just an all around cleanse," Duff said. "I learned how to be strong. I learned how to stand up for myself. Even to some of the closest people near me. It was a really empowering thing."
As for her interactions with the paparazzi, Duff admitted, "I try to be polite, but I'm not always smiling because they are always freaking there. One of them that I hadn't seen before – I think he was some Russian guy, he was such a jerk – [was] just getting way too close to me and overstepping his boundaries and I just went off. Mama bear came out, and then I turn around and someone was filming it. I don't like to lose it like that, it takes a lot for me to really get pushed there but I'm sure that people understand."
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I have been trying to help a friend with a problem in his map, and after several unsuccessful attempts I felt I should ask you. The problem is where when a unit (the computer's hero in this case) is told to attack a player's hero, and there are towers in the way of the shortest route to the player's hero, instead of the computer's hero running to the towers and attacking them, he simply sees them as a wall and tries to find another way around. Do you think you would be able to fix this so the computer's hero just simply attacks the towers and then runs to the player's hero?
My idea was to have a trigger constantly check offsets in front of the computer's hero to detect whether there is a building closely in front of it or not, and if so, enable collision and force the hero to attack it, and if there is no building within a close range in front of him, it would disable collision, allowing the computer's hero to follow a hero even if there is a building in the way, and then of course, when that building is detected, collision would be re-added and the hero would be forced to attack it.
The above method, the way I made it anyways, seems to sometimes work, and other times not. It mainly works when the computer's hero is pretty close to you when it tries to attack you. Also, for some reason, I notice that sometimes when the collision for the computer's hero is off, it will let him walk through the buildings (like it should, so that it's able to click through it and walk to it), but other times it acts as if the building is a wall and doesn't bother to try walking through it.
Sorry if this seems extremely redundant, I'm just trying to give you a good overview of the situation and since it's 6 A.M., I'm far too tired to re-read and edit it right now.
Here is my friend's map that includes the solution I was working on, so you can look at that if you want to. I would recommend testing it on RoC, as the few times that I tried it on TFT the computer's hero didn't seem to want to even attack me, whereas on RoC it was normal.
P.S. I'm really tired. Good night.


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Love the attitude and all the butt hurt patriot fans, maybe next time Brady will think twice before calling out Sherman and Thomas before the game is even played
BigMeach wrote:I don't care about public shit talking. Especially when it's on his own Twitter account and after the game. I do however not like it when someone talks mad trash pregame and then goes into the game and drops every ball thrown to him ...
Sorry, bad memory.
Tical21 wrote:To be honest, Sherman is starting to bug me a bit. There's a fine line and I don't know that he has the control to stay under it. Wait til he gets burnt and a player taunts him the way that he taunts them. I can just about guarantee he's going to get a 15-yarder.
abqseahawkfan wrote:Dare i say, we are the new Steelers?
HansGruber wrote:Anyway... I love it. I love the nasty attitude. It was that nasty attitude that kept this team alive yesterday.
twisted_steel2 wrote:The comments after the article on the BostonESPN page are hilarious.
It's 1000 comments like, "How many SB's do you have!" /cry
I love it.
The Radish wrote:Welcome back, glad to hear from you.
Was that your user name then? Like Todd I've been around from the first.
HansGruber wrote:I LOVE IT.
This team has the nastiest attitude I've ever seen in Seattle, from ANY team. The Sonics were kinda nasty with The Glove back in the day, but even they weren't like this.
Did anyone see that pic that Sherm posted on his twitter account? He ended up taking it down already. Anyway, it was a picture of Sherm up in Brady's face after the game and Sherm had typed "You Mad Bro?" above it. Freakin classic. I LOVE this kid! I love this defense!
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Now that the dust has settled on a big weekend on the Bay, we've finally processed our Treasure Island experience (we think). Here's what we learned this year.
Public Enemy hates BET, Flava Flav will take that clock off (after 25 years) if they get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and two random dudes in camp make the best backup dancers, Oh, and they have an album out this year?
Sick of all the ferris wheel photos? We can't help it. This thing is the most photogenic place or thing we've seen. We think of it as the Ryan Gosling of carnival equipment.
Two stages means that you don't technically ever have to move if you plant your blanket equidistant from both. Blankets, bathrooms, and buses all told, this fest is A+ for convenience, comfort, and low-stress good times.
Glow sticks serve an actual functional purpose: to demarcate where people are passed out so that others don't step on them in the such to see M83.
Good music for sleepy time: Tycho, Joanna Newsom
Good music for sexy sleepy time: Youth Lagoon, The xx
Good music for happy face dance aneurisms and blissed-out flailing: Araabmuzik, Porter Robinson, Girl Talk, M83
What do you get when you cross Wet Hot American Summer with Moonrise Kingdom? Workshop SF's Camp DIY.
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Silent discos are where you go to regain your sense of humanity, love your fellow man, and get your groove back.
What makes people in San Francisco break into a dead run? The burning need to Instagram a lovely sunset, of course.
Bear hats, shiny leggings and hula hoops are still, in music festival years, fresh and new.
You can, if you try, put your baby in a tree.
San Francisco is the best city in the world.
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CLERMONT, Fla. – Messiah scored the final two goals of the game to break a 12-all deadlock and defeat McDaniel 14-12 in non-conference women's lacrosse action on Tuesday.
Julia Jacobs (Stevensonville, Md./St. Mary's) led the Green Terror (4-1) with four goals while Sam Barbeito (Wolfsville, Md./Middletown) added five points of her own on two goals and three assists.
Carly Bejus paced the Falcons (2-4) with four goals and four assists.
After McDaniel notched three goals capped by a Barbeito free-position goal with 4:24 to play, Bajus recorded her final two assists of the night to reclaim the lead for Messiah.
Just 58 seconds after Barbeito's equalizer, Bajus found Casey Daggett for the lead.
With 2:28 to play, Bajus hit Lizzy Kenney, who found the back of the net for the fourth time with an insurance goal.
Jacobs got the Green Terror on the board early, scoring twice in the game's first 5:57. She finished off a feed from Barbeito with 27:24 on the clock before taking a pass from Danielle Entrot (Ellicott City, Md./Centennial) nearly three-and-a-half minutes later.
Goals from Keeney and Jenna Stover 29 seconds apart drew Messiah back even with 22:06 on the clock.
Jacobs put McDaniel back in front 48 seconds later before the Falcons reeled off three straight goals to take a 5-3 lead midway through the opening half.
Barbeito then found Bridget Bopst (Westminster, Md./South Carroll) and Mallory Michel (Lititz, Pa./Warwick) just 2 minutes, 45 seconds apart to even the game once again.
A Carly Bajus free-position goals with 3:30 to play and an Ida Ehrhardt goal tally from Bajus 1:18 later made it a 7-5 game at the break.
Messish extended the advantage to 10-5 on the other side of the break before Michel hit a free-position shot with 18:43 to play.
Bajus and Jacobs traded markers to keep it a four-goal game with 10:50 remaining.
Barbeito found the back of the net for the first time after a three-assist first half to make it an 11-8 game just 30 seconds later.
After Jacobs closed the deficit to 11-9 with 7:54 on the clock, Casey Daggett responded for Messiah to push the lead back to three with 6:23 showing.
Bopst rocketed home a laser shot with 5:17 on the clock before Entrot was awarded the ensuing draw control when the Falcons called for a stick check but were informed by the officials that they did not have any of their three requests remaining.
Entrot trimmed the margin to one, finishing a Maggie Quinn (Crofton, Md./Archbishop Spalding) feed from the left side with 4:44 on the clock before the Barbeito equalizer 20 seconds after that.
McDaniel finished with a slim 29-27 advantage in shots while Messiah held the edge in ground balls, 22-20.
Entrot added five draw controls while Lauren McCadden (Bel Air, Md./C. Milton Wright) added three draw controls, three ground balls and two caused turnovers.
The Green Terror returns to action against No. 6 Trinity (Conn.) to wrap up the trip to Clermont, Fla., on Thursday. Game time is 5 p.m.


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i want more display space, so i deleted the xfce panel 1 , and add some launcher of application to panel 2 .
now, when more application are minimal, only use alt + tab switch application, but it's uncomfortable .
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how to do this or use another method can reach this purpose, thanks!
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The Board of Health has tried operating since March with one less member.
The Iroquois County Board voted then to remove Dr. Alexander Michalow and replace two of Iroquois County's other four board of health representatives. The reason cited was for alleged "neglect of duty." Two of the positions have since been filled, while County Board Rod Copas serves as Iroquois County's other board of health member.
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The Flood, The Water Heater, Spiders, And The Rat
Last Friday it started to rain, a hard rain that quickly flooded ditches, streets, and yards. The runoff from the rains in my yard tend to filter into my basement; which is a small quarter room with the dirt floor crawl space visible throughout the underbelly of the house. In one corner of the room sits a hole in the floor with a sump pump in it. And although the rains poured in the little old sump pump worked like a dream and kept the basement fairly dry. The Saturday rains were hardly noticeable but somewhere in the runoff into my basement it was enough to wash debris into the hole clogging up the sump pump. This meant that the Sunday night rains gathered in the basement flooding it to the point of about four inches. Not as bad as it has been when it was thigh deep once, but still bad enough for it to extinguish the pilot light on the water heater.
Monday morning I waded into the basement after my wife announced to me that there was no hot water. After unclogging the pump and scooping out as much debris as I could with my hand in the cold, cold water I went up stairs to clean my arm and legs with rubbing alcohol as the little sump worked for hours pumping out the basement; I was afraid that the water in the basement mixed with god knows what contained some kind of flesh eating crud that was going to eat away my hand and feet if I didn't sterilize them quickly. I had no idea I had that many little cuts and scrapes on my feet and hands. They burned like hell. Later that day I went back into the basement and opened the door on the water heater to let it air dry more easily. My hope was that the eight hours I was at work the sump would stop any more flooding and the heater would dry out enough for us to have hot water in the morning. When I came home for dinner at seven thirty my wife announced to me that we had a rat in the house, she had seen evidence of it and she wanted it dead!
At eleven Monday night, when I got off work, I was changed into old jeans and tee shirt with my shop shoes and a ball cap armed with a fireplace lighter, flashlight, screwdriver and a lot of hope. Perched on a milk crate we had in the basement I worked on the pilot light till it lit and stayed lit. Replacing all the parts I eased the temperature gage till the burner in the heating chamber came on and started burning all the air and what ever else there was out of the system. As I waited something moved behind me. I spun to look but there was nothing in the cramped space under the stairs next to the heater except some debris I had never moved out.
The furnace in the water heater went out. I went back to work opening it back up and relighting it, returning everything to it's place and bringing the temperature gage back up to warm from the vacation position I waited for all the junk in the little chamber to settle down and give me a steady flame that would heat my water. Truth be told I was waiting for something to go incredibly wrong, something to catch fire. So I sat there in the basement on fire watch.
Again, a noise from behind me. With flashlight in hand I spun on my milk crate to see nothing! Then I noticed the rat on the floor casually strolling from the shadows under the stairs towards me like he was a curious neighbor and wanted to know what I was working on. All I could think to do was say, "Hello." I stood up slowly not so much to keep from frightening it away but my back was hurting and I couldn't have stood up quickly. I picked up the milk crate and dropped it over the rat. A milk crate with hundreds of holes this thing could easily slip through but it didn't, it just sat there passively. I held the flashlight on it as if I were holding it in some kind of force field of light and I eased my self over the duct work that made the corner the water heater in so damned difficult to get to and I looked around for something to truly capture the rat with all the while keeping it in place with my flashlight force field.
A few years back we had some plumbing work done and the plumbers left a four-inch diameter section of PVC pipe abut two feet long in the basement. It was the only thing I could find so I picked it up and crawled back over the duct work to the water heater corner when the rat climbed out of the crate through one of the dozens of holes in the top and laid down on the thing presenting me it's belly just like my dogs do when they want me to rub their bellies. After my "what the fuck?" reaction, I told the rat he had to get off my crate so he climbed down and started his slow saunter towards the water heater again. I quickly slid the PVC pipe over the rat trapping him in the pipe and myself in the basement since I had to hold the pipe up right and pressed against the floor to keep it from getting away. I had no idea what I was going to do if this thing crawled up the inside of the pipe. Looking down the hole with the flashlight I saw it was just sitting there content, kind of happy to be in a pipe.
For a while I sat there on the crate in the basement holding the PVC pipe on end with one hand the flashlight on the other hand. Keeping one eye on the top of the pipe and the other on the little viewing window of the water heater. All I needed was for the flame to go out and the gas still pouring out killing us both from a gas leak. Or worse yet, the water heater would explode killing us both in a blaze. Those of you reading this who know about water heater may be saying neither of those would happen because of the so-n-so device would keep that from happening. Well I know enough about the gas works of water heaters to be dangerous and until you have trapped yourself in a damp basement with a rat don't tell me what will or will not blow up.
After a few minutes the rat decided he wanted out of the PVC pipe and tried to crawl up. I quickly stood and shone the flashlight down the pipe only giving him a better view of where to put his feet. Luckily he couldn't find a foothold and stayed at the bottom of the pipe. He gave up and just sat in the pipe. I don't know what your time limit is on holding a rat trapped in a basement is but I reached my limit at about five minutes. Having nothing to near me to use to keep this rat trapped hands free I decided I was going to have to yell for my wife who was asleep two floors above me in our bedroom. So I bellowed out her name, "Ronnie!" No answer.
"Ronnie!" nothing.
After several times of yelling her name. I called the dogs to the basement steps and like Timmy in the well I gave them my instructions. "Go get mama. Wake mama up." And I gave yelling her name another shot, "Ronnie, I need some help down here." The dogs joined in with a choir of barking and howling as I bellowed from he basement.
Nothing. After a minute or so of that one of the dogs came to the top of the basement steps and said, "Sorry daddy, I guess she didn't hear us, I'm going tot go to bed now." And off he wondered. The other one was loyal enough to stay down stairs and sleep on the living room floor.
I took to banging on the furnace hoping the sound of my banging would travel up the pipes and into our bedroom making enough noise to wake her up. I added to this by keeping up the calling of her name, "Ronnie, I need some help down here. Ronnie wake up." Bang, bang, bang on the furnace.
Then I tried the 'I've fallen and can't get up' voice hoping that her motherly instincts would kick in and she would somehow since deep in her slumber that I was in danger and sit bolt upright in bed fearful that I might actually be in danger. "Ronnnieee, hellllp meeeeee." The rat asked if I was ok. Nothing from the rooms above.
I adjusted the water heater setting up to hot knowing I was going to need a very hot shower when I got out of this mess. I continued to hold the tube upright with the rat trapped in the bottom, I continued to cry out her name "Ronnie" I continued to bang on the furnace, I continued to think of ways to trap this rat without me having to hold this tube upright. My hand was getting sore, my voice was giving out and I was not thinking clearly. I don't know how much time had passed when at one point I called out her name, "Ronnie" and I heard a reply. I called out again and received another reply "Ronnie" came the call from the street followed by laughter. A couple of people walking down the street in the middle of the night heard my cry and mocked me.
People outside the house hear me calling why the hell couldn't she hear me? Now I was mad. Cupping my free hand to my mouth I mustered up all the lungpower I could and with the force of a drill instructor dressing down a recruit I bellowed with all the force and anger I had, "RONNIE, RONNIE WAKE THE FUCK UP!" the furnace and duct work vibrated with my effort, the rat tried to make itself even smaller in defense, bit's of the house fell off like a precursor to a landslide. I'm sure that somewhere in dreamland she heard me call out her name and nestled comfortably in our bed she probably muttered in her sleep "I love you too" before drifting further into a sleep of the dead.
Sitting there tired, frustrated, damp, and angry I looked around the basement again and noticed we hand a lot of spiders in this room with me. And they all seemed to slowly be moving closer. My mind raced with thoughts of all the old horror films I had seen over the years about things in the basement, all the stories of H.P. Lovecraft started to come to mind. I had flashes of the movie 'The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!' A silly movie; I knew I had to get out of the basement now.
Again I looked around the basement to see what was available to me. Everything was ten feet away across that duct work barrier I had to straddle to get in this tight corner and I saw no way of reaching any of it, at least not with my hands. I continued to bang on the furnace; I continued to call for my wife. Now I thought I tasted blood in the back of my throat from screaming so much. But I had a plan and it didn't come too soon because when I stood up to start it in motion something in my stomach flipped over and let me know I was going to have to go to the bathroom sooner than later. Great, just great.
I started to inch the tube upright across the uneven floor using both hands flashlight dangling from my mouth by a string attached to it. I had to be careful because I knew that if given half a chance the rat was going to make a break for it. I got us both pressed as close to the ductwork as possible. Slipped one shoe off and stretched my leg over the ductwork and tried to grab some old wires with my toes. It took some balancing and a lot of trying but I finally got the wire and was able to pull it towards me till it got caught on something. I was able to grab it with a free hand and yank it to me hoping it wasn't connected to anything.
"Ronnie. Ronnie" I called again. Then I inched our way back over to a spot under the stairs, flashlight in my teeth, one shoe off still. The basement floor was wet and gross. At a wooden support stanchion under the stairs I scooted the PVC pipe next to it and using the wire I snagged with my foot I wrapped the wire around the stanchion and pipe lashing them together. The rat's tail slid out from under the pipe; damn he had an out. Looking around again I found an old hand coal shovel, it was rusted and flat, that would have to work. I slid it under the pipe hoping the rat would be confused and unable to figure out how to get past this new barrier presented to him. I still had to cover the top of the pipe.
"Ronnie!" I tried again, my voice almost gone.
Looking around I found a mesh window screen and grabbed one of the many loose brick in the basement and placed them over the top hole of the pipe. It was a temporary fix but I now had the rat-trapped hands free. Free, I was free! Tired and angry I didn't go about trying to find a permanent trap for the rat or a way to kill it like I should have instead I rushed up the two flights of stairs and into our bedroom. I wanted to know why the hell with all the noise I was making didn't she hear me! I opened the door and stepped in quickly. She startled awake. All that noise, she gets startled by me opening the door. Go figure. "How do you want me too kill the rat?" I asked curtly "What?"
"I have the fucking rat trapped for now how do you want me to kill it? Where is the rat poison?" I didn't wait for a reply I was headed back down to the basement I didn't what this rat to get away, not after all this. I heard her moving around upstairs as I shown the flashlight through the top of the PVC pipe. The rat was still there. Back up stairs to the kitchen. We were looking around for poison only to find that something had eaten the rat poison we had set out under some shelves. No wonder this little bastard was so passive he was high on rat poison. We couldn't find anything else to kill it with till we spotted an empty pickle jar on the shelf.
It was one of those Sam's Club jars that held a gazillion pickles. I asked her if I could use it and she said sure. So back to the basement I went. My temporary trap still in place, the rat still in it. I removed the brick and screen slid the opening of the jar over the mouth of the pipe and in a balancing act I tilted the entire contraption upside down holding the coal shovel in one hand and the jar in the other hoping the pipe stayed in the middle. The rat slid down the pipe and landed in the jar. He looked around, tried to climb out once then just sat down in the bottom of the jar as I put the lid on top of it. I took the jar up stares and showed it to Ronnie who was amazed more at the fact that the rat seemed content to be in the jar than at the fact that we had a big rat. I will admit I kind of wanted to punch holes in the lid and keep it for a while then I got pissed off at it again as I looked at the clock. I took him out side and placed him gingerly in the trash can closed up the basement and took a hot shower. That's where I discovered one of the spiders had gotten to me. There was a red spot about the size of a silver dollar on my belly with about four puncture holes in it. To press on it was to be met by hard skin where anyone who knows me knows my belly has never been hard. I was tired and didn't think too much about it I just wanted to get to sleep. I was too worked up to sleep and finally drifted off at about 4:am waking up I felt like shit and spent most of the next day in bed with fit filled dreams of boats.
two weeks later the pest control guy came and we had him put our traps and spray the basement for spiders. The hard spot on my belly went away and I never felt sick. The rat eventually died. We went through two water heaters till we got one that would stay lit and was small enough to be placed up high in the low basement so that flood waters couldn't reach it. The sump pump was replaced and has worked just fine ever since simply because it hasn't rained like that again.
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First a review of the problem >landscape as I understand it. > >You can try to enforce memory limits with a daemon, but you risk missing >important events, including a badly behaved process suddenly using a whole >lot of memory all at once. If that happens, your daemon is nearly useless >since swapping and/or oom_killer will be running, and not your daemon. >Your node may lock up for a while, which was what the daemon was supposed >to prevent. > >I think you really want to do it in the kernel, so that badly behaved >requests for memory (allocation and/or writing) can be cut off before they >affect anyone else. > >But the kernel doesn't really enforce anything useful. It doesn't enforce a >resident set size (RSS) limit, even though setrlimit() will let you request >such a limit. As I understand it, modern Linux doesn't even try to track >RSS, because semantics of RSS are unclear given modern memory management >methods. > >RSS probably isn't even what you want -- you probably want to limit the >amount of physical memory used, keeping the sum of the limits around the >amount of total RAM, to avoid swapping. There is no way to communicate >this limit to the kernel; I suspect it doesn't even track it except >globally. > >The kernel *is* able to enforce the amount of virtual memory allocated per >process (set with setrlimit()), but as you noted, that is of limited value >when different applications can have very different overcommit percentages >(virtual memory allocated beyond the amount actually used). > >But take a step back from considering the limits you can place on a given >process. You probably want a policy that limits memory use at the job >level, not at the process level, regardless of whether you have one job or >multiple jobs running on a node. There is no kernel mechanism for that >either. > >Seems your best bet might be to write a daemon, and hope that actual use >patterns don't cause swapping or OOM before the daemon can act. > >To end our OOM problems, we took a different route. The job launch >mechanism (via LSF) sets the per-process virtual-memory-allocation limit on >each user job process. We can prevent OOM this way, unless a job both uses >non-standard job launch methods and has runaway memory use (which is rare >in our experience). > >Other weaknesses of our method include: > >* It does not prevent heavy swapping (which would be nice to have, but at >least the user suffers the consequences most). > >* It can prevent a job from using all available RAM if the job has a larger >overcommit than our algorithm assumes. > >* When the VM allocation limit is reached, the errors are often cryptic. >Nothing appears in syslog (unlike segfaults, which are logged at least on >x86_64) -- the kernel patch to enable logging seems likely pretty trivial, >but stock kernels don't do it. A malloc() will return ENOMEM, which many >programs and libraries don't handle properly (or indeed handle at all -- >how many programmers omit checking the return value or errno?), so the user >doesn't get a useful error message. A failed stack expansion will cause a >segfault (as I recall), which is also cryptic to the user. At least >segfaults get logged... > >I'd love to hear other approaches to this family of problems. > > We have been dealing with similar problems on one of our clusters. The solution that we're coming to is that we need a non-standard solution. With Sun Grid Engine, one could build a memory consumable and then have jobs request memory. One could even require jobs to request memory. The problem is that many times a user will not know how much memory to request. We have been experimenting with using SGE 6's suspend feature with a Free RAM limit to stop (suspend) jobs that are going over the preset limit. The problem with this particular solution is that the reporting feature has a default timing of once every 40 seconds. This means that there will be some lag and that could cause problems with jobs that allocate RAM very quickly. In testing, we used some graphics jobs that will take up RAM fast. With these jobs and a limit of 1GB of free RAM, we were able to get the last 1.5GB job submitted to suspend when the system memory reached a gig on a 4GB machine (3 jobs). When the first job finished, the 3rd then restarted and completed. I won't say that there are not issues with this solution. But I believe that it can work. I still believe that the best solution is to make users aware of the memory requirements for their jobs and then have them use memory requests and common sense to get their work done. If anyone is interested in more info, please let me know and I will put you in contact with the programmer that we have working on this. Mike Davis


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I am a green building consultant, working to help people understand the choices available to them for living more lightly on the planet. I have an environmental background and live an environmentally-considerate lifestyle myself. My wife and I built a strawbale home on five acres in northeastern WV (you read about and see photos of our place at: strawhousejournal.blogspot.com).
The purpose of my work is to help others find their own green path. I offer green design consulting on new construction and remodeling projects. I also offer GreenHome Audits, a systemic review of an existing home, making recommendations for how homeowners can save energy, conserve water, reduce their environmental impact and live healthier lives.
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Henry nominated for MLS MVP prize
Former France and Arsenal striker Thierry Henry is one of three players nominated for Major League Soccer's Most Valuable Player award, the league said on Thursday.
New York Red Bulls forward Henry finished in the top three of a poll of current MLS players, coaches, club officials and the media.
The 35-year-old Henry struck 15 goals for the Red Bulls who were eliminated from the playoffs by D.C United in the Eastern Conference semi-finals.
San Jose Earthquakes striker Chris Wondolowski, who equalled the league's record for goals scored in a regular season with 27 this campaign, was also nominated along with Sporting Kansas City midfielder Graham Zusi, who had the most assists.
Ben Olsen (D.C United), Peter Vermes (Sporting Kansas City) and Frank Yallop (San Jose Earthquakes) were the three nominees for coach of the year.
The winner of the awards will be announced on November 29.


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