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The euro zone's economy slowed in the third quarter, sending a worrying signal to other global economies that demand from one of their biggest trading partners could fall back.
The annual gross domestic product of the 17-country group grew by just 0.1 percent in the third quarter of 2013, marking a slowdown from an expansion of 0.3 percent in the second quarter.
The latest figures from Europe's statistics agency Eurostat showed that growth in the 17-nation bloc had contracted 0.4 percent from this time last year. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected growth of 0.2 percent in the third quarter.
The latest data signals that the euro zone could be sliding back towards recession after it had pulled out of an 18-month stretch of negative growth -- and the longest contraction in continental Europe in over 40 years -- in the second quarter, with gross domestic product expanding by 0.3 percent from the first three months of the year.
"The bleak third-quarter GDP estimate shows just how fragile and hesitant the euro zone's recovery is - so much so that it's questionable whether current economic conditions even qualify as a recovery," Nicholas Spiro, head of Spiro Sovereign Strategy, told CNBC on Thursday.
"The deceleration is, psychologically speaking, a major setback for the euro zone."
The euro fell to $1.34365 versus the dollar after the data was released, from $1.3447 beforehand.
Earlier on Thursday, data showed that the euro zone's largest economy Germany expanded 0.3 percent in the third quarter - and the country's statistics office delivered a broadside to those in Brussels and Washington who criticized its budget surplus earlier this week.
Its near-neighbor France, reported disappointing GDP figures, also on Thursday, as concerns about reforms to its economy grow. In Italy, meanwhile - the third largest economy in the euro zone after France -- the economy contracted by 0.1 percent quarter on quarter, marking two and a quarter years of recession for the country.
(Read more: EU exec opens Germany probe)
The data not only augurs more struggles ahead for the single currency area but could impact growth in the U.S., China and U.K, the euro zone's three largest trading partners, according to the European Central Bank (ECB).


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31243, Hymns, In Our Lovely Deseret, no. 307
1. In our lovely Deseret,
Where the Saints of God have met,
There's a multitude of children all around.
They are generous and brave;
They have precious souls to save;
They must listen and obey the gospel's sound.
Hark! Hark! Hark! 'tis children's music-
Children's voices, oh, how sweet,
When in innocence and love,
Like the angels up above,
They with happy hearts and cheerful faces meet.
2. That the children may live long
And be beautiful and strong,
Tea and coffee and tobacco they despise,
Drink no liquor, and they eat
But a very little meat;
They are seeking to be great and good and wise.
3. They should be instructed young
How to watch and guard the tongue,
And their tempers train and evil passions bind;
They should always be polite,
And treat ev'rybody right,
And in ev'ry place be affable and kind.
4. They must not forget to pray,
Night and morning ev'ry day,
For the Lord to keep them safe from ev'ry ill,
And assist them to do right,
That with all their mind and might
They may love him and may learn to do his will.
Text: Eliza R. Snow, 1804-1887
Music: George F. Root, 1820-1895
Proverbs 22:6
Alma 37:35

subset: commoncrawl


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In my tribute to Ella Fitzgerald on her birthday last week, I mentioned mentioned that, after he sold the Verve label, Norman Granz founded the Pablo label to continue recording Ella. To test the market for a new label, Granz put together an all-star concert featuring Ella and the Count Basie Band at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in June 1972 that was to be recorded and released (unsuccessfully, with distribution by mail only) on four Pablo albums. That memorable evening is now preserved on the three-disc set Jazz at the Santa Monica Civic '72.
The evening culminated in the performance of "C Jam Blues." Scott Yanow's Allmusic profile observes:
Fitzgerald's later years were saved by Norman Granz's decision to form…Pablo. Starting with a Santa Monica Civic concert in 1972 that is climaxed by Fitzgerald's incredible version of "C Jam Blues" (in which she trades off with and "battles" five classic jazzmen), Fitzgerald was showcased in jazz settings throughout the 1970s with the likes of Count Basie, Oscar Peterson, and Joe Pass, among others.
Tad Hershorn describes Fitzgerald's performance at the Santa Monica concert this way in his biography of Granz:
Fitzgerald and the Tommy Flanagan Trio swung through a list of numbers before the singer, backed by the Basie band, did "Shiny Stockings," a Cole Porter medley and a version of "I Can't Stop Loving You" that left the audience roaring their applause. Even then, she had really just been warming up for the finale, "C Jam Blues," the highlight of the evening. Dueling with each musician, she introduced them in song and imitated their styles and sound as they traded fours. Whether her interplay was with Al Grey's rambunctious plunger mute, Stan Getz's piercingly florid attack, the twists and turns of Harry Edison, the gruffness of "Lockjaw" Davis, whose exchange with the singer most audibly brought down the house, or the fierce incandescence of Roy Eldridge, Fitzgerald inspired some of the evening's most memorable and humorous peaks.
The live 1972 recording of "C Jam Blues" is available on a YouTube video that lacks a visual element apart from the title. Take a listen and I guarantee (no money back if I'm wrong) it will elicit a smile or two of pleasure.


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(covers information from several alternate timelines)
The navigational deflector (also known just as the deflector, the deflector array, the deflector dish, the main deflector, the nav deflector for short, or the parabolic dish) was a component of many starships, and was used to deflect space debris, asteroids, microscopic particles and other objects that might have collided with the ship. At warp speed the deflector was virtually indispensable for most starships as even the most minute particle could cause serious damage to a ship when it was traveling at superluminal velocities. (VOY: "Alliances", "Collective")
Technical data Edit
The deflector commonly took the form of a dish-shaped force beam generator containing heavy-duty subspace accelerators at the extreme forward end of the vessel's secondary hull. It performed its primary function by emitting low-power deflector shields to deflect microscopic particles and higher-powered deflector beams and/or tractor beams to deflect larger objects. (Star Trek: First Contact; VOY: "Alliances", "Shattered")
On the Constitution-class starships, the navigational deflector was a combined system with the ships' main duotronic sensors. (TNG: "Datalore" computer screen; DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations" computer screen)
A deflector's energy could be extended outward to protect other ships. In 2266, the USS Enterprise extended its deflector shield around Harry Mudd's stolen class J starship, Stella, to temporarily protect it from asteroids while its crew were transported to safety. (TOS: "Mudd's Women") The 24th century Federation starship navigational deflectors could easily deflect laser fire. (TNG: "The Outrageous Okona")
Ordinarily, Federation starships were equipped with a single external deflector dish. In the 2250s these devices were sometimes known as the ships' meteorite beam. (TOS: "The Cage") In the late 24th century, some starships were known to have more than one deflector. One example of this was the Intrepid-class, which had its main deflector located between the extreme forwards of decks 10 through 13, while the secondary deflector was located on the extreme forward of deck 6. (VOY: "Caretaker")
The deflector of the USS Enterprise-E was charged with antiprotons while the Borg were modifying it. This proved to be a potential hazard as particle weapons fire hitting the deflector could destroy much of the ship. (Star Trek: First Contact)
Components of the system Edit
- Booster modulator
- Collimator
- Deflector field
- Emitter array
- Force beam generator
- Induction stabilizer
- Maglock
Other uses Edit
Due to its ability to project a wide variety of energies and particles, the navigational deflector was an extremely versatile piece of equipment. Many starship crews made one-time modifications to the dish to solve several problems they were facing.
Enterprise (NX-01) Edit
In 2154, the navigational deflector of Enterprise NX-01 was used to generate a deflector pulse which destroyed Sphere 41, thus disrupting the entire network of spheres in the Delphic Expanse. Modifications had to be made, however, to prevent the pulse from rupturing EPS conduits throughout the ship. (ENT: "Countdown", "Zero Hour")
Later that year, the NX-01's deflector was modified to emit a positron burst, which disabled Harrad-Sar's barge when it passed through the grappling line of his ship. (ENT: "Bound")
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Edit
The USS Enterprise used a deflector beam to attempt to shift a large asteroid off course when it threatened the planet Amerind in 2268. The attempt failed and caused damage to the ship's power. (TOS: "The Paradise Syndrome")
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) Edit
In 2293, Captains Montgomery Scott and James T. Kirk modified the deflector of the USS Enterprise-B to produce a resonance burst in order to simulate an antimatter explosion when the ship became caught in the Nexus energy ribbon. (Star Trek Generations)
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Edit
- The crew of the USS Enterprise-D used the deflector to channel an extremely large amount of energy at a controlled rate - both as a weapon against a Borg cube in 2366 (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds", "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II") and as an energy source hoping to escape a Tyken's Rift in 2367. (TNG: "Night Terrors") Although the energy beam had a greater power output than the ship's complement of weapons, using the deflector for this purpose was extremely impractical and only ever used on two occasions for three reasons:
- Channeling such a large amount of energy through the deflector made substantial drains on the ship's power systems, notably from the warp engines. This also meant that the beam could only be fired if the ship was traveling at sublight velocities.
- The deflector dish would burn out following the energy beam discharge, requiring extensive repairs, possibly replacement of the deflector altogether.
- The high levels of radiation produced by the energy beam require the evacuation of the entire forward half of the secondary hull and the lower three decks of the saucer section of a Galaxy-class starship.
- Also in 2367, the Enterprise-D's deflector was modified to amplify and reflect the subspace frequencies produced by a cosmic string fragment to change the trajectory of a group of two-dimensional beings that threatened to destroy the ship. (TNG: "The Loss")
- In 2368, the deflector dish was modified to send five beams of light for exactly 8.3 seconds into the clouded atmosphere of Penthara IV, together with a modified phaser blast. This ionized dust particles in the planet's atmosphere, which were converted into high-energy plasma. This plasma was then absorbed by the deflector shields of the Enterprise-D and redirected into space. Warp power had to be rerouted to the deflector dish to create enough energy for the massive undertaking. (TNG: "A Matter of Time")
- In three different alternate timelines, the deflector was modified to emit an inverse tachyon pulse to scan beyond the subspace barrier, this being done to ascertain the workings of an anti-time eruption. The convergence of the three tachyon pulse at the same point in space in multiple timeframes caused a paradox which created the eruption in the first instance. (TNG: "All Good Things...")
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) Edit
- A group of Borg attempted to modify the deflector of the USS Enterprise-E to perform as an interplexing beacon so as to contact the Collective of the 21st century. The crew of the Enterprise prevented the attempt by detaching and destroying the deflector. The movement controller unit of the Enterprise-E deflector was labeled "AE-35". (Star Trek: First Contact)
USS Defiant (NX-74205) Edit
- Navigational deflectors could also be used to emit graviton pulses. (DS9: "Once More Unto the Breach")
- In early-2372, the USS Defiant's deflector was used to shunt an excess amount of warp energy from the ship's warp core that threatened to destroy the ship in a warp core breach. (DS9: "The Visitor")
- During 2372 the deflector of the Defiant was modified in just ten minutes to perform as a single-shot phaser emitter when the ship was under attack from a Jem'Hadar fighter in the atmosphere of a class J gas giant. Only one shot could be fired with this makeshift phaser emitter as it overloaded with the first shot. (DS9: "Starship Down")
- During the same year, the focal array of the Defiant's navigational deflector was used to generate a subspace tensor matrix in the attempt to create a stable artificial wormhole. (DS9: "Rejoined")
- In 2374, the Defiant used its deflector to fool the numerous externally powered orbital weapon platforms defending one of the planets in the Chin'toka system into destroying their own remote power source by projecting a false Federation warp signature onto the power station. (DS9: "Tears of the Prophets")
USS Voyager (NCC-74656) Edit
- In 2371, the crew of the USS Voyager modifed the ship's main deflector to emit a dampening field and warp particles diverted from the nacelles, along with a dekyon beam. The navigational array was also part of an analysis for possible issues in regards to being stuck in a type-4 quantum singularity. (VOY: "Parallax")
- During the same year, the deflector was used to emit an inverted magnetic pulse to drive off a swarm of space-dwelling lifeforms. (VOY: "Elogium")
- In 2372, the transporter signal was boosted on board Voyager by re-routing the transporters directly through the deflector. (VOY: "Non Sequitur")
- During the same year, Voyager's deflector was used to fire dozens of radion beams to conceal a transporter signal into one of the beams. (VOY: "Resistance")
- In 2374, the ship's main deflector was modified by Seven of Nine to generate resonant graviton beams to open a quantum singularity into fluidic space. (VOY: "Scorpion, Part II")
- During the same year in an alternate timeline, a heavily damaged Voyager lost the capabilities of its navigational deflector array along with many other systems during the Year of Hell. Encountering a moving micrometeoroid field, they were unprotected without their deflector and the ship began suffering even more damage. Captain Janeway restored the navigational deflector field, although she was burned due to a massive fire in Deflector Control. This timeline was negated when the Krenim weapon ship was deleted from history. (VOY: "Year of Hell, Part II")
- In 2375, Chakotay was able to induce a paralateral rentrillic trajectory for the ship as a way out of chaotic space by routing Voyager's sensor array through the ship's deflector dish, thereby increasing the deflector's amplitude. (VOY: "The Fight")
- Before her time on Voyager, B'Elanna Torres used a deflector array combined with a holoemitter to project a starship into space. (VOY: "Prototype")
- The Borg "children" used a tractor beam in an attempt to steal Voyager's main deflector, to use it as an interplexing beacon for contacting the Borg. (VOY: "Collective")
- Chakotay used the deflector as a "lightning rod" to stop Voyager from being fractured into different time periods by a temporal anomaly. (VOY: "Shattered")
- In 2378, Voyager used an anti-tachyon pulse to seal a temporal rift, which had been generated by Janeway's counterpart from an alternate 2404. (VOY: "Endgame")
Other starships Edit
- A kamikaze attack on the navigational deflector of the USS Odyssey in 2370 caused a chain reaction resulting in the ship's destruction. (DS9: "The Jem'Hadar")
External link Edit
- Navigational deflector at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works


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Justin Timberlake Talks MySpace TV, Debuts Scruffy Look
Justin Timberlake debuted a new look this week, stepping out with a full beard. The newly engaged star was entertaining techies at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (where another Justin will promote a robot company today). Timberlake he was on hand to discuss his plans for MySpace's revival. What does 'The Social Network' star have in store for this social network?
Timberlake, MySpace's creative director and co-owner, unveiled a plan for MySpace TV. According to Rolling Stone, the innovative idea will be a social TV service for Panasonic televisions. "We're ready to take television and entertainment to the next step by upgrading it to the social networking experience," Timberlake said in a Panasonic press conference. "Why text or email your friends to talk about your favorite programs after they've aired when you could be sharing the experience with real-time interactivity from anywhere across the globe?"
What exactly does he mean? MySpace TV will allow for instant communication between users while they watch their favorite music videos and listen to the service's 42 million songs. Down the line, the network will also incorporate sports channels and reality TV into its lineup. Said Timberlake, "As the plot of your favorite drama unfolds, the joke of your favorite 'SNL' character plays or even the last-second shot of your favorite team swishes the net, we're giving you the opportunity to connect your friends to your moments as they're actually occurring. This is the evolution of one of our greatest inventions, the television."
"The future of MySpace is about what you're going to do," Timberlake said. "About who you're going to become. MySpace TV is the first foray into that future."


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Brazil Brings Real Benefit to FloridaFLORIDA TREND
By Mike Vogel
In a year when Florida's economy continued to struggle, the most notable economic players were the Brazilian companies, visitors and entrepreneurs who stepped up their presence in the state — turning 2011 into a watershed year.
In November, local business and community leaders gathered in a sixth-floor meeting room at the Port of Palm Beach to celebrate a new arrival. Two Brazilian entrepreneurs had chosen the Riviera Beach port as the base for their new venture, America's Natural Caffeine, a caffeine supplier to manufacturers. It would occupy an unused building, turn out tons of caffeine a month and create 75 jobs paying an average of $62,000, 40% above the county average. All told, the company would invest $25 million, with nary a dollar in government incentive money.
Kelly Smallridge, president and CEO of the local economic development group, the Business Development Board, says she believes it to be the first sizable Brazilian business investment in Palm Beach County.
It's hardly a first for Florida. Indeed, 2011 became the year that cemented Brazil's importance to Florida. For the first time, Brazil surpassed the United Kingdom as the top source for overseas tourists. Brazilians played a key role in soaking up Miami's distressed real estate to the point that developers began new condo projects. Aircraft maker Embraer opened its first factory in the United States in Melbourne to make executive jets, and in December it opened a new customer care center there. Brazil, as it has been since 1998, was again Florida's top trade partner. Florida captures 22% of all U.S.-Brazil trade and runs a surplus, exporting $13.8 billion to Brazil while importing just $2.2 billion.
The relationship was underscored by Gov. Rick Scott when he made a trade visit there in October with 115 companies from Florida. Companies that participated say they expected more than $95 million in export sales in the next 12 months thanks to the mission.
It was while Scott was in São Paulo that America's Natural Caffeine co-founder Luis Claudio Goldner announced the Riviera Beach deal. Caffeine, nearly all synthetically produced, is used in more than 20,000 products in the cosmetics, beverage, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Goldner says there's a market for caffeine derived naturally from Brazilian guarana fruit. He plans to ship guarana to the Palm Beach port, extract the caffeine and sell it to food and beverage companies and other firms.
Significantly, says Smallridge, Goldner's first investment in Florida was a second home he bought in Fort Lauderdale two years ago. "One of the ways to open their eyes is to get them here as a tourist first," Smallridge says of recruiting businesses.
If so, the pipeline is growing as Brazilians flock to Florida for second homes and rental property. "Culturally, it's similar because there's a Latin environment here," says Saulo Ferraz, a Miami banker and president of the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce of Florida. Brazilians — who speak Portugese, not Spanish —make up 8% of foreign buyers of Florida homes, says the National Association of Realtors. (Canadians are first with 39%.)
A condo that costs $600,000 to $700,000 in Brazil might cost $300,000 to $400,000 in Miami. "Brazil is, of course, the big story," says Miami real estate broker Alicia Cervera. "Brazilians' love affair with Miami continues to grow. A lot came as kids with their parents." Indeed, Goldner's parents have had a second home in Florida for 30 years.
In selling condos for developers, Cervera furnishes models and common areas with furniture from Artefacto, a Brazilian manufacturer with a Coral Gables store. "No sooner do we furnish them than we sell them," Cervera says. The Saturday after BrickellHouse, a proposed 374-unit condo tower on Brickell Avenue, opened for sales in October, Cervera had a team in Brazil selling units, the first stop in her international outreach.
While Canada is by far Florida's largest market for non-U.S. visitors, the state has seen "astronomical" growth from Brazil, says Will Seccombe, chief marketing officer at Visit Florida, the state's tourism development arm. Brazil visitor numbers increased 50% in a year to just more than 1 million in 2010; their spending increased 78% to $1.4 billion. Through the first three quarters of 2011, visitors from Brazil were up 41% to 1.1 million, eclipsing the United Kingdom as the lead country for overseas visitors for the first time.
Brazilian visitor numbers are all the more remarkable given that the United States doesn't waive the visa requirement for Brazilians as it does for residents of the U.K. and 35 other countries. To visit here, Brazilians have to apply more than 100 days in advance for a visa and travel to the U.S. embassy or the three U.S. consulates in Brazil for a personal interview. If Brazil were added to the visa waiver list, Brazilian tourism would increase significantly, Seccombe says.
Brazilian companies, meanwhile, find Florida ideal for testing the U.S. market. Such is the case for family-owned, fast-casual restaurant chain Giraffas, one of Brazil's largest chains with 350 stores. It opened its first U.S. store in July in North Miami. "Our target is not the Brazilian community. It's the general American population," says marketing director Carlos Vanegas. The chain plans to invest $25 million to build its U.S. footprint in the next few years with each restaurant costing $600,000 to $1 million to develop and employing 25 to 30. The restaurant features Brazilian grilled steaks such as the country's signature beef cut, the picanha, along with Brazilian burgers, farofa and — in keeping with immigrant influences on Brazilian cuisine — stroganoff and pasta. Giraffas joins at least 40 Brazilian-owned concerns that Enterprise Florida counts here, including gunmaker Taurus in Miami, steel supplier Gerdau in several cities and Odebrecht, the conglomerate that has been a major contractor at Miami International Airport, builder of American Airlines Arena and is the private-sector partner in the proposed Airport City, a hotel, office, retail project at the Miami airport.
Since the mid-1990s, Brazil firms Citrosuco and Cutrale have controlled a sizable share of the Florida orange juice processing market through plants it bought here. And Florida-founded and Miami-based Burger King has been Brazilian owned since 2010, when 3G Capital acquired it for $4 billion.
More recently, Brazilian investor BVCC bought a 105,000-sq.-ft. office building at the Boca Village Corporate Center for $33 million and Millport Associates, a subsidiary of a Brazilian industrial conglomerate, signed on to lease 25,000 square feet in the Miramar Park of Commerce for its first facility in the U.S. to manufacture structural panels for the construction industry.
Though the lion's share of Brazil's influence is felt in south Florida and Orlando, other parts of the state have benefited. Callaway, in the Panhandle, will see 300 new jobs in coming years thanks to Eastern Shipbuilding Group's deal announced in 2011 to build five ships for Boldini, a Brazilian company active in that nation's offshore oil industry.
The Brazilian financial sector is expanding here, too. The Burmaian family, active in various businesses in Brazil, including banking, is among the players through its Coral Gables-based Sunstate Bank, a three-branch community bank with $170 million in assets. Banco do Brasil, a large government-owned bank that long has had an agency in Miami, has proposed buying EuroBank in Miami to reach U.S. customers. Another bank, Banrisul, in 2011 decided to close its New York branch in favor of opening a new foreign agency branch in Miami.
Ferraz says the Brazilian-American chamber receives three to five inquiries a month from Brazilians interested in doing business in Florida. And, as evidenced by the Brazilian flags flying outside businesses in Pompano Beach in Broward or other Brazilian enclaves in Florida, there are a host of smaller enterprises owned by some of the estimated 300,000 Brazilian immigrants in Florida.
How Brazil investment and spending in Florida grows depends, of course, on the Brazilian economy and the exchange rate with the real. The nation has weathered the global economic crisis better than many, and the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation projects its growth pace will remain well ahead of other developed countries, though slowing to under 4%, below Brazil's 4.5% trend line. The nation's economy will be stimulated as it prepares for and hosts the World Cup in 2014 and the Summer Olympic Games in 2016.
Goldner expects his caffeine plant to stimulate Palm Beach County. The United States is his largest market, and he wanted a U.S. factory so that it would be easily accessible to customers and to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. "We felt a very warm welcoming to us," Goldner told the leaders in Riviera Beach. "We look forward to working with you and to grow the economy as much as possible."


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MeritBadgeDotOrg talk:Community Portal
From MeritBadgeDotOrg
Community Portal Discussions, a.k.a., The Cracker Barrel...
Welcome to the cracker barrel! (Would you like some cheese with that?) Discussion pages are also known, in wiki lingo as the "talk" pages. --RWSmith 05:10, March 26, 2007 (EDT)
Adding to the discussion... <-- This is the "Subject/headline"
To add (or start) a post here, simply click on the "+" sign, above. <-- And this is the body of the text. --RWSmith 05:10, March 26, 2007 (EDT)
- Pretty exciting so far (yep, I like tech stuff)! Let's see how it goes. --WVBeaver05 18:26, March 26, 2007 (EDT)
- Looks like I need to setup some stuff. Wayne
Uh, is there a problem with the "old" Discussion Forums?
I can't open them. I get a SQL error. Sounds serious. Is it related to this test site or just coincidence? --WVBeaver05 21:00, March 26, 2007 (EDT)
- MeritBadge.net is back up and running as of 9:20 EDT --Optimist 21:34, March 26, 2007 (EDT)
Sample Subjects / Threads
I think it would be good if we could create some sample subjects and add a few threads to them to see how this will work compared to the "old" discussion forum.
What do you all think?
--WVBeaver05 07:19, March 28, 2007 (EDT)
Go ahead and try something thats why you were recommended to try it
First impressions on the new site
What were your first impressions on the new site and the wiki format?
Mine were very positive. I was pleased to see this set up as a wiki, so that information from many sources could be combined, with out overloading a few volunteers. It was apparently set up in a clear and very easy to maneuver format. Kudos to those who started this.
--SM890 15:35, April 7, 2007 (EDT)
- I think it's great! I contribute to wikipedia and wanted to incorporate wiki on the Philippine Merit Badge website, but just didn't find time. Kudos to all. Great job indeed. -- Jay Lee 14:47, April 10, 2007 (EDT)
Categorization of merit badge pages
Completed placing categories under each merit badge page [[Category:Boy Scouts]] [[Category:Merit Badges]]. --Jay Lee 18:07, April 11, 2007 (EDT)
- I may be a little late, but i would suggest making a merit badge template and a rank template, etc. to put on each page. that way, i you decide to change the organization, it is very easy. --Yakatz 22:52, April 11, 2007 (EDT)
- here is how it's done http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Template --Yakatz 23:02, April 11, 2007 (EDT)
- We can probably use the templates for Merit Badge groups and stuff. Its been a long time since I did a template I forgot all about it already. Jay Lee 01:27, April 12, 2007 (EDT)
- I knew there was a better way! I knew why; but my brain lock-up on the how – templates. Oh well. Learning process. By the way... Thanks, Jay!----RWSmith 02:51, April 12, 2007 (EDT)


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Zac Efron: Goodbye LA Rain
Zac Efron is fifty shades of grey as he arrives at LAX airport in Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon (November 29).
Hopefully, the 25-year-old actor is headed for warmer weather away from the rain.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Zac Efron
It was just recently announced that Zac will star opposite Harrison Ford in You Belong To Me.
The flick follows a psychiatrist (Ford) who is reeling after one of his female patients commits suicide. The doctor winds up becoming close with her brother James (Efron), but things take a turn for the sinister when the latter begins seducing the psychiatrist's wife and daughter.


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Bob Barr claims Census workers can enter your home when you're not around.Friday, May 28th, 2010
This appears to be idiotic, plain and simple. Yet this Bob Barr fellow who is a former Congressman and now writes for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution seems to believe what he's writing, and he's got a lot of comments in his comments section. However, it doesn't make sense that someone looking to enumerate would want to visit an EMPTY household:
Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence
6:00 am May 26, 2010, by Bob Barr
Thousands of census workers, including many temporary employees, are fanning out across America to gather information on the citizenry. This is a process that takes place not only every decade in order to complete the constitutionally-mandated census; but also as part of the continuing "American Community Survey" conducted by the Census Bureau on a regular basis year in and year out.
What many Americans don't realize, is that census workers — from the head of the Bureau and the Secretary of Commerce (its parent agency) down to the lowliest and newest Census employee — are empowered under federal law to actually demand access to any apartment or any other type of home or room that is rented out, in order to count persons in the abode and for "the collection of statistics." If the landlord of such apartment or other leased premises refuses to grant the government worker access to your living quarters, whether you are present or not, the landlord can be fined $500.00.
That's right — not only can citizens be fined if they fail to answer the increasingly intrusive questions asked of them by the federal government under the guise of simply counting the number of people in the country; but a landlord must give them access to your apartment whether you're there or not, in order to gather whatever "statistics" the law permits.
In fact, some census workers apparently are going even further and demanding — and receiving — private cell phone numbers from landlords in order to call tenants and obtain information from them. Isn't it great to live in a "free" country?


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Grip & Lighting Equipment
About Grip & Lighting Equipment
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Sunday, 7 August 2016
Dance Plus - tag line "Ise Kehte Hain Dance"' is an Indian dance competition reality television series, which premiered on 26 July 2015 and broadcast on STAR Plus.
The series is produced by Frames Productions. The auditions for the show were carried out in thirteen cities in India, started from 3 June 2015 and ended on 11 October 2015.
The Winner of Dance + was V Company from Team Dharmesh. The series is hosted by Raghav Juyal, while Remo D'Souza judge the show.
Dharmesh Yelande, Sumeet Nagdev and Shakti Mohan are the mentors of the show. The Season 2 of Dance Plus starts from 2 July 2016.
The auditions takes place across several cities of Indian from 3 to 26 May 2016.
Source : Youtube (Channel)
Guide of the month: January 2018
Traveling gives us the opportunity to disconnect from our regular life. You get to forget your problems/issues for a few weeks, it can also help you figure things out that you would not have understood without the distance traveling can give you. We all have crazy schedules, work and a family to take care of, going away alone or with some friends can give you distance and perhaps even make you realize how important these people are for you. Like the saying says: we never know what we have until we lose it.
Another great benefit is the relaxation you get to do. It's nice to live life to its fullest and enjoy a stress free time with yourself. Going on vacation lets us recharge our "batteries" by disconnecting us from our regular life. When we come back we feel invigorated and we are happy to be back in our day to day routine. It's a very good stress remover that has a lot more to give than most people are willing to accept.
Traveling increases our knowledge and widens our perspective. To view new customs, different ways of living is fantastic for the mind. It gives us a new perspective about life and especially our life, it can help us change some of our habits or even create new ones. When I travel I usually make it a point to try new food, some cultures don't have fries in their diet and they are all skinny, others use spices to give taste and not oils or fats. Discovering different values and ways to get by in life is really interesting. You also need to visit exotic new places and discover what this wonderful world has to offer.


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- Nov 18:
- Deadline for flood victims to apply for relief in Superior extended to Dec. 9
- Nov 14:
- Sunshine Canyon Drive, Flagstaff Road to reopen to all users Saturday
- Nov 6:
- Superior Chamber establishes relief fund for residents affected by floods
- Oct 15:
- Boulder County homeowner haunted by mysterious concrete block
- Oct 5:
- Boulder area car buyers warned how to avoid flood-damaged autos
- Boulder Reservoir draws 300 volunteers for flood clean-up, repairs
- Oct 4:
- Vail Resorts to put 150 employees to work fixing flood-ravaged Coal Creek Trail
- Oct 3:
- Superior launches Flood Buster program to match volunteers with victims
- Oct 1:
- Superior to hold rescheduled flood repair volunteer project Saturday
- Superior to hold flood impact public meeting tonight
- Sep 25:
- Superior to host volunteer project day Saturday to repair flood damage
- Sep 22:
- Boulder County flood victims facing housing crunch
- Sep 21:
- Boulder ceremony honors memory of couple lost in flood
- Sep 18:
- Collection for flood relief at final Art Night Out on Friday in Lafayette
- Sep 15:
- 'Camp Erie' to provide activities for kids during flood-related school closure next week
- Sep 14:
- 234 people remain unaccounted as rescuers gain ground
- Residents, officials: We will come back.
- Road closures in Boulder, east county and surrounding area
- Closings, cancellations and re-openings post flood
- Boulder area canyons remain isolated
- Boulder County's major reservoirs holding steady, despite week's deluge
- Fifth-graders stranded at Cal-Wood near Jamestown return to Louisville
- Officials: Extensive road damage still being assessed
- Boulder County to provide community dumpsters for flood cleanup
- 234 remain 'unaccounted for', rescuers slowly gain ground
- Boulder remains under flash flood watch through Sunday afternoon
- Sep 13:
- Rescue crews help Lefthand Canyon residents evacuate
- St. Vrain schools closed until Thursday, BVSD officials still deciding when to reopen
- In the mouth of Boulder Canyon: The aftermath of a 100-year flood
- Football: No make-up date yet as CU postpones game against Fresno State because of flood
- East Boulder County emerges from a tough night of evacs, road closures
- Boulder to see some relief, but more rain in forecast
- U.S. 36 reopened in both directions between Denver and Boulder
- 181 'unaccounted for,' at least 3 dead in Boulder County
- Flood-related closures in Boulder County for Friday, Sept. 13
- List of Boulder County road closures due to flooding
- Boulder police chief tours flood damage, says 'things are looking better'
- Eldorado Springs residents ordered to evacuate due to high waters, mudslide risk
- Sep 12:
- Surge of water carrying cars, other debris flattens in Boulder Canyon
- Evacuations ordered for 4,000 residents along Boulder Creek
- Flooding claims at least 2 lives in Boulder, Jamestown
- RTD suspends numerous bus routes in Boulder
- 2nd Boulder flooding fatality was recent Centaurus grad Wesley Quinlan, friends say
- 100-year-flood: Boulder rainfall records swamped in dueling weather systems
- Louisville, Lafayette open shelters as creeks swell; downtown Superior under evac order
- Homeless people turned away from Boulder flood shelter
- Flooding prompts evacuations near Erie; community center to serve as shelter
- BVSD: Students at Jamestown's CalWood Education Center are safe
- Closures: Host of area roads closed, as well as CU, Naropa, Boulder Valley, St. Vrain schools
- Firefighter trapped by 'wall of water' rescued, suffers severe injuries
- Boulder registers wettest 24-hour period, and month, on record
- Sheriff asks Boulder County residents to stay home today, keep roads clear
- 500-year flood nearly cuts Longmont in two, forces evacuations
- National Guard carries evacuees from Lyons, delivers supplies
- Boulder flood: Live social media coverage of flash-flood emergency
Boulder will begin inspections Monday of flood-damaged homes to determine quickly which ones are safe for occupancy.
Inspectors from the city of Boulder and the Colorado chapter of the International Code Council will look for structural and mechanical issues visible from the exterior of the home. They'll start with the areas that were most affected by the recent flooding and focus on properties in the 100-year floodplain, in the conveyance zone and in the high-hazard zone.
If your property isn't in one of those designated areas and you want an inspection, call 303-441-1880.
"They'll be looking for any potential safety threats, anything that indicates it's unsafe for people to occupy," said city spokesman Nick Grossman. "It could be related to the integrity of the structure itself, a problem with the electrical system, a broken gas line."
Inspectors will place one of three colored placards on the houses. A green placard indicates the house is safe to occupy.
A yellow "restricted use" placard indicates there is a safety issue with the structure, the electrical system or the mechanical system that warrants restricting how the property is used. The placard will explain how and why the use is limited. Those properties will need a more detailed evaluation before occupants can return to regular use of the building.
A red "unsafe" placard indicates significant work is needed to make the home safe. In the meantime, no one should enter the property. A red card is not a demolition order.
Property owners are asked to leave the placards up for at least a week, unless a city representative tells them they can take it down.
Grossman said the city will be following up to ensure that necessary repairs are made to buildings.
The city is waiving permit fees for most flood-related repair work.
Owners of flood-damaged property can ask for a "2013 Flood Recovery, Restoration and Repair Permit." Customers can download the application from boulderplandevelop.net, submit the paperwork and get an over-the-counter permit during the same visit.
Some types of work are exempt from this permit.
There will be no fee for the permit or the subsequent inspection, though customers still will have to pay taxes.
If you have questions about the process, you can visit the Disaster Assistance Center, 5495 Arapahoe Ave., from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily, or the Planning and Development Services Center, 1739 Broadway, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
A permit is required for repairs to plumbing, mechanical and electrical systems. A permit is not required to replace drywall or carpeting.
Properties in the floodplain may be subject to additional requirements.
Contact Camera Staff Writer Erica Meltzer at 303-473-1355 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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[Alt: 'How about a little ... *family growth*?' 'Dude, that's not until round two.' ]
Let's talk about art. More specifically, let's talk about how comics use certain symbols to represent concepts that are inherently undrawable. For example, speech. The usual convention is that a character's speech is either contained in "bubble" which points to the character speaking it, or, there is a line connecting the person's mouth to their words. None of these bears any particular resemblance to what happens in reality when a person speaks, but it is a necessary convention in order for comics to work at all (or at least, non-silent ones). Moving on.
What happens when two characters need to say the same thing, at once? The usual convention is to have the text written only once but have it connected to both characters. As you can imagine, this can be tricky if, say, the characters are on opposite sides of a crowded room, or if the characters have other lines to say. Now, I firmly believe that a good cartoonist can find a way to make this work, but sometimes it can be tricky.
I bring this up because the first panel of today's xkcd offers a helpful example of a massive failure in this sort of problem. He has two characters, who each say one unique line and one shared line. I think a better way to deal with this situation would be to have the lines in separate panels - so that the panel with both of them saying "Wait, who are you?" doesn't have any other text. As it is, there is a continuous path going from the man, through his first line of text, through the shared line of text, into the woman's line, and then into the woman herself. This is very bad. We naturally read left to right of course (at least, when we are reading in english) and so we'd be inclined to read the text in that order - Man's Line, Shared, Woman's. The line tracing that path only makes it more natural to read that way.
But that's not the way it should be read - the shared line has to be last, because the unique lines are both said before the character realizes there's a mistake. Anyway, it ends up making the whole comic get off to a hugely confusing start.
Also, the woman has some kind of spider sponge monster attacking her neck but I assume that is just usual xkcd bad art.
The second panel, I am happy to say, is not as awful as the first. Astute readers will figure out the premise of the comic from here - that characters from different cliched pornographic films are interacting in a situation they are not prepared for. The less astute readers should hopefully understand it by the end of panel 3.
Let's pause and let me point out that, glaring flaws in panel 1 aside, this set up could be amusing. What could have conspired to have these people all in the same room, all expecting certain other people but not the ones who are there? More importantly, will anyone have sex? It must be a complicated plot - after all, all the characters are actors, knowing that they are in some kind of film. Unless the author thinks that people actually behave this way. But I doubt it. In any case, yes the first three panels seem unrealistic - but they also seem like they could be a good way to set up a great punchline.
Alas, the only punchline in this comic is the "line" that my fist traces as it "punches" Randall Munroe in the face. I'm sorry. I do it out of love.
As I tragically learned, none of our questions were answered. Instead, the comic took a jarring turn, having all the characters begin to play a semi-unknown board game. We don't find out why they are where they are. We don't see any consequences. The Jones family, whose house was broken into by these sex workers, can't muster any sort of reaction beyond the first half of a sentence, and that sentence is filled not with anger, but with simple confusion.
Now, most of this comic is not enough to send me into a spittle filled rage. But then there are those pesky little details -
Look. I'm sorry Randall. I know you are a nerd and you are proud of it. I know your audience loves nothing more than realizing that you play the same nerdy games as them ("OH EM GEES, Randall plays Settlers of Catan? I DON'T KNOW ANYONE who plays that game except the people I play it with and most of the Internet!"). But goddammit that does not mean that porn stars all love the same games as you. I don't really care why you made this comic because the ultimate feeling I'm left with is that you wanted to make a comic where extreme sexiness was forever linked with playing your danged resource-based tabletop game and all the characters suddenly start acting like socially mistaken middle schoolers and hey holy fuck! that's what your entire audience is made of!
The problem is that none of this makes sense. In the world, humans tend to make choices and actions based on the present situation as they understand it, past knowledge that they have (firsthand or otherwise) and desired future outcomes. BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE THAT THREE STRANGERS, TRYING TO HAVE SEX ON CAMERA WITH NON-PRESENT PEOPLE, AND FINDING OTHER SIMILARLY CONFUSED PEOPLE AROUND THEM, WOULD SUDDENLY DECIDE TO START PLAYING YOUR STUPID GAME. that is not what happens. ever.
God, using that game is such horrible fan pandering. Why does it have to be that game? Why can't it - and again, I'm here temporarily conceding that it makes any damn sense for them to play a board game of any kind at this point in their sorry little lives - be a more normal game? One that a variety of confused stranger may actually know the rules to? Because xkcd readers won't feel special that way! xkcd readers want to come to the site to find out that their own little quirks and joys - the things that make them so unique and special in exactly the same way that every other pseudo-nerd is - are shared, appreciated, and most importantly, acknowledged as special. If the game had been scrabble or monopoly or clue or chess or checkers or backgammon or anything reasonable, then hell, anyone could have appreciated that joke! Even NON-NERDS might have laughed at it!
I'll pause to let the xkcd lovers out there have a heart attack or two at that thought.
Luckily, Randall knew to pick the sort of game that would make pretend nerds fall over with glee merely to read the name of. Do you think this does not happen? YOU ARE WRONG, MOTHER FUCKER.
But look - terrible middle school sex fantasies aside, and stupid nerd pandering aside, the biggest problem with this comic is that it simply makes no sense. We don't know why they are in the house. We don't know why they seem not to care. We don't know if they are meant to be actors or merely people acting in real life the way certain actors reportedly act in certain films. I'd be happy to suspend my incredible amounts of disbelief if it were worth it - for example, that's what I did only one comic ago. But that doesn't help! It doesn't make anything make more sense. We're still just left with confused, sexed up strangers playing games like they are at an all boys 8th grade sleepover birthday party but they are in a stranger's house. I just - I guess I just give up. This comic utterly confounds me.
Perhaps the alt-text will redeem it? Or perhaps you are a silly fool who hasn't learned the way this always ends?
Let's talk about the alt-text. I can't quite decide what the joke is - it's either that in the game you can "grow" your family my having the two parents make a child; presumably they do this through having sex (shown off screen). In that case, the alt-text is taking the concept of "having sex" and using it as a euphemism for the act of having sex. OR, it is a joke because in the game your family grows larger, whereas while having or preparing for sex, a man's penis grows larger. What I'm trying to say is that there are complex layers of humor here.


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Talk:Arch package guidelines
- What encoding (ascii ? UTF-8 ?) should be used for text files in submitted packages ? --Airbag 13:43, 15 August 2006 (PDT)
- Shouldn't we suggest using SHA1 hash and not the already broken one (MD5)? Tomato 15:47, 25 August 2010 (EDT)
- The section about custom variables ("_blah=blah") is misleading. Nowadays custom variables are a common practice since they can simplify and/or modularize the PKGBUILD a great deal. The parts where they are recommended to not to be used should be modified. --Det 13:13, 14 September 2010 (EDT)
Proposed revision (shouldn't this already be added...?)
Package Etiquette
file, or alternatively by exporting the PACKAGER environment variable before building packages with makepkg:
$ export PACKAGER="John Doe@email"
depending on which architectures it can be built on.
You can also use State 'any' for architecture independent packages.
- Add 'custom' to the licenses array. Optionally,
you canreplace 'custom' with 'custom:"name of license"'.
When pacman gets the ability to filter on licenses (i.e., make pacman download only GPL and BSD licensed software") dual (or more) licenses will be treated by pacman using 'or', rather than 'and' logic, thus pacman will consider ...
Submitting Packages to the AUR
The submitted PKGBUILDs MUST NOT build applications already in any of the official binary repositories under any circumstances. Exception to this strict rule may only be packages having extra features enabled and/or patches in compare to the official ones. In such an occasion the pkgname array should be different to express that difference. This gets repeated word for word in #Packaging Standards
To ensure the security of pkgs submitted to the AUR please ensure that the md5sum values have been correctly filled. The md5sum's can b...
Please add a comment line to the top of the PKGBUILD file that follows this format. Remembe...
# Contributor:
Your Name <address at domain dot com>
recommend the use of the namcap package, written by Jason Chu (firstname.lastname@example.com), to analyze the sanity of
your packages. namcap will tell you warn about bad permissions, missing dependencies, un-needed dependencies, and other common mistakes. You can install the namcap package by...
Don't use replaces in a PKGBUILD unless the package is to be renamed, for example when Ethereal became Wireshark. If the package is an alternate version of an already existing package, use conflicts (and provides if that package is required by others). The main difference is: after syncing (-Sy) pacman immediately wants to replace an installed, 'offending' package upon encountering a package with the matching replaces anywhere in its repositories; conflicts on the other hand is only evaluated when actually installing the package, which is usually the desired behavior because it is less invasive.
One can easily build a tarball containing all the required files by using makepkg --source. This makes a tarball named $pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel.src.tar.gz, which
you can then be uploaded to the AUR.
Additional Guidelines
Be sure to read the above guidelines first-- important points are listed on this page that will not be repeated in the following guideline pages...
License installing
It would be helpful if the wiki gave explicit instructions on how to do this, eg
install -D -m644 LICENSE $pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE


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Google Joins the $800 Club
Google entered a rarified club today, joining just three other companies whose shares trade in the $800 range. How long will it last? Scott Austin joins digits. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... the dollar spot Club has a new laptop ... Digits I'm Simon console to tells about Scott Austin timetable itself ... and also buy one get one share in the box is news the new map that it's can ago it's it's no Berkshire Hathaway at one hundred and fifty thousand dollars but said ... he did hit this milestone of eight hundred dollars a share ... um and you know issues I really do goals ... rise ... even into the stock was down quite a bit last year but ... I've shown that it's it's making money off of mobile on so investors are really putting ... your faith in the stock now ... when you really would add a new look at this market cap is still lower half of miles to half of of Apple ... which is one of the world's largest most valuable metals prices the vessel has on the five hundred audience was only four more companies and missing including Washington was and what sort of a canvas of Berkshire Hathaway seaboard and NVR gets an exclusive club ... but it doesn't mean that it doesn't tell you that ye may see Washington post they were above the hundred awhile back another way down from there ... there's another company ... um ... the ... price line ... we traded our two thousand dollars in nineteen eighty nine percent today is ... nowhere near that today Heidi really is irrelevant who left with a mark to market cap of course she ... says ... tonight is going on and so the price times the number shows at seven thousand domestic Iraqi and honey shares outstanding there ... I'm so you know how relevant this really is is is just another one of things that I would like to talk about ... really what we're looking into a stock that I think is up about nine percent a day ... of summer that may be because of the reports ... that Google is looking at opening up retail stores ... aam a showcase some of its new products everyone thinks about ... to go was a software company recently announced become a hardware company ... um so again there's there's enthusiasm about to go right now there was an as much maybe a year ago when people are wondering about its mobile ads or to conserve ... water in what is interesting is about five six years ago I pointed to low and told them how to play ... on bail outs and on the new idea but some iOS about which one would reach a thousand bucks plus Apple's going on Google's with the names of a new book about seven hundred am ... which would have left us but clearly goal to do ago the ... money mentality said no doesn't a new really again yet so with a market cap and and to ... you know Apple ... everyone thought ... Apple would be the first trillion dollar company ... maybe someday but that ... clearly it's a step back now I'm in the past few months is down about four hundred and ... sixty billion maybe spread now ... um it's a lot but to ... that's really the key is to look at the growth of these companies and the stock and think it will try to think big and all ... I really wanted to stocks with last year so that can affect the price as the blaze can be foreigner dollars that they were able to do that they're not showing


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Fledderjohann hits 1,000 point mark, goes for 40 pts. in loss to Van Wert
ST. MARYS — Garet Fledderjohann wasn't content to just score his 1,000th point in his next-to-last home game at Memorial High School. The St. Marys senior guard put on a fourth-quarter display that had an entire gymnasium gawking during the Riders' 60-52 loss to Van Wert on Friday night.
Fledderjohann became just the fourth Roughrider boys basketball player to score 1,000 points in a career with 7:56 left in the fourth quarter with a free throw. Fledderjohann then went on to score 40 points – with 26 of those points coming in the fourth quarter on 7-for-10 shooting.
"I've always wanted to score 1,000 points and I'm happy to get it out of the way," Fledderjohann said. "Everybody's been talking about it. I was nervous all day because everybody kept texting me about it. It was a relief....I always wanted to make my mark on St. Marys basketball."
With the hoopla over hitting the millenium mark behind him, Fledderjohann became a one-man scoring machine, knocking down contested 3-pointers and long, acrobatic jumpers and flying around the floor with a smile on his face most of the time.
"Once I got going, everything felt good," Fledderjohann said. "I didn't think I'd hit 40 points. I was just trying to get us a win."
Van Wert head coach Dave Froelich after one such circus shot simply turned to St. Marys head coach Dan Hegemier along the sideline, smiled and shrugged his shoulders.
"We've played against a lot of good players," said Froelich, whose team snapped a five-game losing streak. "I'm talking Jamar Butler, Jon Diebler, William Buford, the Pollitz twins, Aaron Hutchins. We've played against a lot of good players. That's as good of an individual offensive performance that I've ever witnessed sitting on the other bench. Some of those shots, he wasn't even looking at the basket when he went up. I'm not sure he hit the rim. God bless him, that was unbelieveable."
Hegemier has watched his point guard mature from a 3-point hoisting freshman to a full-fledged offensive threat over the past four seasons.
"Garet showed a lot of heart and never quit when things went down," Hegemier said. "He had two or three guys on him. I've been doing this a while. I don't know if I've ever had a kid that has had to do so much for us. I'm just very proud of him. I'm very proud to coach Garet. He deserves everything he gets."
St. Marys slipped to 6-14and 1-7 in the WBL. The Riders go to Sidney Lehman Catholic on Tuesday night.
Fledderjohann's 40 points is tied for the second-most points in a game in Memorial High School history, tying him with Wes Clark and Adam Johns. Johns also scored 40 points in the game he reached his 1,000th point against St. Henry in 2007. Clark's 40 point night came against Jon Diebler's Upper Sandusky squad in a regional semifinal game. Only Dave Williams' 43-point performance against Van Wert during the 1964-1965 season was more prolific in St. Marys history. Williams went on to be a diver at USC.
Fledderjohann was hugged by the players on the floor when he made his 1,000th point. The game was stopped and the Rider senior was congratulated by both coaches. Hegemier flipped the game ball to Fledderjohann's family sitting just behind the scorer's table.
Fledderjohann passed Scott Vossler, who scored 996 points and was in fourth place on the scoring list. Vossler went on to play football at the University of Dayton in the mid-2000s. Fledderjohann is now 43 points behind No. 3 on the scoring list, Adam Johns. Johns went on to play collegiately for Capital University.
Fledderjohann scored 26 of St. Marys' 28 fourth-quarter points and nearly brought the Riders back from a 15 point deficit to start the fourth quarter. The Roughriders just couldn't make enough free throws to make the comeback stick. St. Marys went 16-of-29 at the charity stripe.
"You've got to make'em," Hegemier said.
Van Wert had four players in double figures. A.J. Smith his his averages with 15 points, Matt Bidlack scored 13, while Nathan Stoller and Conner Holiday each scored 11 points.
Van Wert improved to 10-10 and 3-5 in the WBL.


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Lipscomb coach Jeff Forehand sat alone in the dugout for several minutes of quiet reflection as rain clouds once again started to form.
In a game that required parts of two days to complete the Bisons, the No.2 seed, fell 7-4 to top-seeded Jacksonville Sunday afternoon here at Melching Field at Conrad Park. The Bisons came from behind last season to win the A-Sun Championship 10-9 against Gardner-Webb in 15 innings.
"That happened last year, but it doesn't happen very often," said Forehand. "Jacksonville had the momentum at the end.
"I am proud of our players for getting to the championship game. It is sometimes harder to lose out in the championship game than it would be losing earlier in the tournament. It is never easy to lose a game when it is all on the line."
This marked the first time since 1981 that the previous two Atlantic Sun Tournament Champions have met in the championship game. Lipscomb won in 2008 and Jacksonville won in 2007. In 1981 Mercer, the 1979 Champion played Georgia Southern, the 1980 Champion. It was also the first time since 2002 that the top two seeds battled for the championship.
The Bisons placed three players, pitcher Rex Brothers, first baseman Justin Sanders and right fielder Antonio Butler, on the A-Sun All-Tournament Team
"I just can't say enough about our team and how we battled," said Forehand. "We battled all year long. We played a very, very tough schedule and took a lot of bumps to get ourselves into this position. We all look forward to trying to get back here next year."
Junior right-hander Josh Smith, credited with the 5-4 win over East Tennessee State Saturday afternoon in the semifinals, started Saturday night, but the game was called in the top of the second with one runner on base for Jacksonville and two outs.
Smith was back on the mound when the game resumed. He lasted 5.1 innings. He gave up three runs, two earned, on two hits. He walked six and struck out six.
The Bisons struck first in the game. Lead-off hitter M.L. Williams was hit on the hand by a pitch from Jacksonville starter Carson Andrew. Allen Bolden followed with double to deep left field that scored Williams.
In the fourth Jacksonville tied the game at 1-1. Thomas Myers singled to right field to lead off the inning. Alex Martinez walked. Alex Swenson put down a sacrifice bunt to move both batters up a base.. Jamaal Hawkins also placed a sacrifice bunt to score Myers.
Jacksonville took a 2-1 lead in the fifth inning. Glen Johnson opened the inning with a walk. Chuck Opachich flied out to shortstop Branden Cadavid. Kyle Fleming lined a single to left center to send Johnson to third. Jeremy Gillan hit a sacrifice fly to right field to bring Johnson home.
In the sixth Jacksonville added another run as Opachich hit a hard grounder through the left side of the field to score Martinez who had reached base on when Smith hit him with a pitch. Senior right-hander Kyle Tognazzini relieved Smith and pitched out of a bases loaded jam with only the one run scoring.
"Smitty gave us more than I could have ever asked for," said Forehand. "Togs came in and we squelched their scoring opportunities in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh innings with them just getting one run."
Sanders trimmed the lead back to one when he slammed a solo home run more than 335 feet over the left field fence to open the inning. It was the 12th home run of the season for Sanders. Andrew then walked Tennyson Dodd and was replaced by left-hander Matt Tomshaw.
Tomshaw then hit both Ryan Wilkins and Logan Hostettler to load the bases. Jacksonville went to the bullpen and brought in right-hander Sean Green.
Dodd scored from third with tying run when Tyler Wilson hit a grounder to Jacksonville's shortstop, who tossed the ball to the second baseman to force Hostettler.
After Green walked Antonio Butler he was replaced by left-hander Kyle Kriech who also faced a bases-loaded situation.
Wilkins gave the Bisons a 4-3 lead. Bolden went to first base on a call of catcher's interference on a swing by Bolden.
Jacksonville tied the game in the seventh when Myers blasted a solo shot to left center that cleared the scoreboard.
With two outs in the seventh Ryan Wilkins lined a triple to left center that bounced to the wall.
Jacksonville decided to bring in right-hander Matt Loosen. Hostettler lined to shortstop to end the inning.
Junior right-hander Matt Bowling relieved Tognazzini with one out and one runner on base in the eighth. Chris Connelly reached base with a line drive single to right to open the inning. He went to second when Glen Johnson grounded out to first. Bowling forced the first batter he faced to fly to right and the next batter grounded out to second to end the inning.
Bowling returned to the mound in the ninth. After forcing Gillan, the lead-off hitter, to pop up to first, he walked Myers and then gave up a two-run homer to Martinez over the left field fence. Right-hander Brandon McClurg entered the game . Senior right-hander Charles Williams hit Opachich with a pitch to bring in Hawkins with the third run of the inning.
The Bisons had five hits off of five Jacksonville pitchers.
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"Hats off to Jacksonville. They are good team. They played well and got the hits when they needed them."
Bowling was given the loss, finishing the season 1-2. Loosen, 4-1, was credited with the win for Jacksonville.
Tognazzini gave up four hits and one run, while striking out two, in two innings. Bowling threw 1.1 innings and gave up three runs while walking three. McClurg walked one batter. Charles Williams closed out the game pitching one-third of an inning.
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:25 pm
Post subject: I am a little late but better than never
On Jul 7, 2005 at 6:46 PM, Brenda (guest) said...
My Grandfather always has bacon with the "rind" on at his house in SW Arkansas. I'm sure that he bought it from the local butcher. It was always an exotic treat.
I believe what you are talking about is hog jawl. You can ask your grandpa about it. If he is an oldtimer than grew up on a farm, he might know that hog jawl is eaten on New Years Day along with black eyed peas with a coin in them for good luck.
Hog jawl can be bought in a Kroger or Publix or larger grocery store from time to time. They usually cut it too thin tho. It should have a thick skin on it that takes a long time to completely chew up. You can cut the skin off and chew it seperately during the day to get the bacon taste. It will help you not be hungry between meals if thick enough and cooked right.
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:10 pm
Post subject: Bacon drippings
If you ever build a wood fire, one of the best ways to do it
is fill up an empty cardboard egg carton with bacon drippings.
Put it under the wood and light it! Just as good as lighter fluid.
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:32 pm
Post subject: Cooking Bacon
Cooking bacon in the oven is definitely the best way to go. However, the way I have always done it is at 350 degrees for about 12-14 minutes. You can adjust the time for your preferred doneness. Here at the restaurant this is done in a convection oven so it runs about 50 degrees hotter than the conventional oven. And we use parchment paper as a liner instead of the foil. I believe that cuts down the heat slightly from not being directly on a metal type surface. It comes out perfect every time.
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Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 4:03 pm
Post subject: makin bacon
Cooking meat with high levels of preservatives by direct heat source results in nitrosamines which are known to be cancerous.
That is why microwaving above the floor plane of a microwave oven is preferred. Exciting water molecules is actually a safer way to cook these meats that are known to be high in preservatives. If you can get rid of the fat - all the better.
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 10:34 pm
Post subject: My opinions on bacon cooking from much experience
bacon. I buy it in 3 lb packs from a discount wholesale store. I usually eat a bit after cooking and refridgerate the rest to eat as a snack out of ziplock bags like chips. I have tried almost all of the methods listed above. The best method I have found so far is based on the microwave (although grilling arguably makes for a better taste and has its own advantages listed at the end of this).
A favorite saying of mine: "Everything tastes better with bacon, even bacon."
Take a pyrex dish or bowl. I prefer the large wide mixing bowls since you can fit more slices in per batch and only have to clean the bowl once at the end of all of your cooking. The wide opening also gives you the advantage of fitting whole slices of bacon if your microwave is large enough. Place a bamboo rack on top of the bowl. I have also used wooden spoons and bamboo skewers before, but they can be a pain to use since they roll if you're not careful while placing the bacon. Place two stacked paper towels on top of the bacon to keep it from splattering in your microwave. Cook the bacon in your microwave for about 4-5 minutes at 70% power. Experiment with the power settings and time to find what works best for you. I use a lower power to more evenly cook the bacon. Most of the fat will drip into the bowl. Clean up is remarkably easy. Dump the fat into some empty soup cans and let them cool before you throw them away. Use some dish soap to get the residue from the bowl. I usually handwash the bamboo rack as well, but you could place the bowl and rack in a dishwasher, too, for a more thorough clean.
+ Your bacon will be less greasy.
+ Easy to clean and makes no mess.
+ Using the microwave timer, you can note exact times required for different levels of cooking: limp bacon for sandwiches, crisp bacon for a breakfast side. This makes future cooking a breeze.
- The bacon can tend to cur
l downward at the ends. You can correct for this by using a bamboo rack, or by better placement of the wooden spoons or bamboo skewers.
Disadvantages of other methods:
- Constant supervision
- Splatter
- Greasier
- Harder to clean
- Greasier
- Takes a long time
- Same as oven, except for the tendency for burning as Michael notes in the article
George Foreman grill:
- Seems to take a while and you can't fit that many slices at once.
- Also, I only have the small version and have to cut the bacon in half.
Special microwave dishes for bacon:
- They tend to
after the first batch or two! I've tried the one above and several others.
- Can only cook 4-5 slices at a time, usually.
- The vertical ones leave your bacon looking funny with a "V" shape. Matter of taste(pun not intended), I guess.
+ The bacon tastes good.
+ Can cook ALL of your bacon at once if your grill is large enough
- Takes a while, but the results can be worth it.
- Messy to clean. You
clean your grill, don't you?
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Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:01 am
Post subject: Cooking Bacon
I have found that cooking bacon in the oven utilizing a cooling rack/grid over a half sheet pan gives the best results with little clean up around the kitchen. The bacon comes out of the oven crisp and drip free and is bacon that you can use right away and do not have to drip dry it in paper towels. You do have to clean two pieces of equipment (rack and sheet pan) but it is worth it.
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Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 2:40 pm
Post subject: bacon reply
i really love the makin bacon tool. i myself have owned one for about to years and it is now the only way i cook my bacon. it is light and crisp with so much flavor. i woulh HIGHLY recomend purchesing a makin bacon for your self here is the link:
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Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 11:06 pm
Post subject: bakin bacon is best
I agree with chlychef. Bake the bacon in the oven at 350F for 15 min (or to desired doneness). There is no messy splatter (like pan frying), no checking or watching the bacon, and you can bake more slices in an oven than in a microwave or pan. During the 15 min. of carefree baking you can prepare the rest of the meal. As chlychef said, it comes out perfect every time.
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Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 1:32 am
Post subject: bacon
I've baked my bacon for years - while we do like pan-fried bacon, the baked bacon has a subtly different taste that we enjoy; also, we can devote our time, attention, and stovetop to other dishes while the bacon is cooking. Here's how we do it:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil. Lay bacon directly on the foil, not touching. Turn bacon over at about 10-12 minutes; very thin bacon may be done now, thicker bacon will take as long as 12-16 minutes total. Remove to a paper-towel-lined plate. You can eat it right away, or put it aside for a bit and, covering it with a paper towel, reheat it for 30 seconds in the microwave (for those of you who have trouble getting the timing right with multiple dishes).
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:57 am
Post subject: Aussie bacon
Bacon available in Australia is the whole strip - that is the round shaped fleshy bit (known as Canadian bacon), with a streaky end (known simply as bacon in the USA). It's actually shaped a bit like a number 6 on its side.
Personally, I usually trim most of the fat off the streaky end and keep just the pink bits. Oh, and pan frying it is usually best (although I haven't tried baking it for 3 hours!)
Aussie in America
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Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:45 pm
Post subject: I love American Bacon
I guess it depends on what you grow up with. Me, although not American, grew up with American style bacon (streaky bacon) and even though I live in Australia now, I cannot get used to the taste of Aussie bacon. It just isn't bacon. It's ham. Australians bash American bacon just because theirs have more meat, but Aussie bacon really lacks the smoky flavor. It's just salty ham. I'm still trying to find the American kind here...
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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 5:12 pm
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UK is the best place for buying bacon I reckon. You can get streaky middle or back; with or without rind; smoked or unsmoked.
The general American trend to cook the bacon till completely crisp is not the common way of cooking it over here though. We generally cook it till the fat has gone crispy but the meat is still chewy.
I think grilled bacon tastes far and away the best between grilled baked and fried. Never tried the microwave method though. will have to give it a go.
The first article mentioned broiling. What is that?
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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 6:23 pm
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The first article mentioned broiling. What is that?
Broiling, in this context, means to cook food directly under a heat source. In American ovens, an additional heating element is often placed at the top of the oven (either a gas jet or electrical heating element) under which you place food. The heat is very intense and localized. In older ovens, the broiling element was the same as the oven heating element (below the cooking chamber) and a special broiler drawer is used to broil food.
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:14 pm
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I am an Aussie currently in London and i loathe the bacon over here - the texture and taste is all wrong!!!!!
I saw some Aussie style bacon somewhere once but I was going to be out for the rest of the day so didn't buy any & now I can't remember where I saw it!
As a result, i have started grilling pancetta instead - its awesome!
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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:05 pm
Post subject: Bacon cooking
I found that a combination of cooking methods works pretty well for bacon. I will microwave bacon to quickly remove water and fat. Then I crisp up the bacon in the oven or in a frying pan.
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Background: I opened a feature request about a year ago requesting lrz support in pacman/makepkg. A major step is getting decompression support into libarchive; recently some pretty great news has come on this front thanks to Con Kolivas and Michael Blumenkrantz (author of liblrzip). The full libraries that are GPL licensed have been accepted into libarchive which means that the full lrzip support can be added to libarchive!
My Proposal: Lrzip offers pretty significant advantages (speed and compression ratio) over xz. Once libarchive contains the libs and once pacman/makepkg contain the ability to use lrzip, I propose we consider switching from xz to lrz for repo packages. To this end, I have prepared an analysis of the potential savings doing so would offer the Arch Community.
Please have a look at a preliminary deck of slides I spend most of today working on which summarize the data I collected which supports this proposal. Love to hear how folks feel about this (excuse any errors in the slides, I am really tired).
Link to pdf: http://repo-ck.com/bench/lrzip_comparison_to_xz.pdf
For me:
I want se a brenchm,ark for advenbtages and disadventages over both
I remmemver that one reazon for the switch is the sice of the packages (less sice less charge to the Server)
Wath is best lrzip or xz in this term
Well, I suppose that this is somekind of signature, no?
We have a ton of small packages in the repos and the mirrors are doing fine, so there's no immediate need to switch.
My questions:
- How well lrzip works for small packages? Doesn't 'lr' stand for (among other things) 'long range'? It is optimised for large files.
- How stable is it? Will I be able to access some old archives using a newer version of lrzip and vice versa?
@jristz- what? Did you read the PDF I put together?
@karol- I should have tested more smaller files. The smallest one was around 8 megs. To the stability question, ck just added some code to insure backwards compatibility. See his blog for more on that... http://ck-hack.blogspot.com/2012/03/lrzip-0612.html
Numbers are the best form to confound those po..blations and velieve that all you want
i found this Other article: http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/lrzip/lrzip- … benchmarks I know is the kernel, buth is another view point.
PD: and the pdf...ups...colourfit (from text-normal and text-url) are the same ...tanks for noticed this for my machine ... changing
Well, I suppose that this is somekind of signature, no?
great idea.
saving some bandwidth and decompressing faster are always good. consider report this in arch bug.
"After you do enough distro research, you will choose Arch."
Hi. Lrzip is quite stable and the file format is always forward compatible. At this stage no major file format changes are planned to the lrzip file format since all the major compression options and features have been established, though any future changes to the format would be planned to always be forward compatible (i.e. newer versions will always decompress older files). Yes it is optimised for large files but that doesn't mean it performs poorly on smaller files, it's just that it performs no better on smaller files. The main advantage of lrzip is that it is a format designed with the future in mind because the compression gets greater and the speed gets faster as machines get more ram, files get bigger, and PCs get more cores.
I did a quick comparison of the compression and decompression of the archlinux/core/os/x86_64/*.xz packages converted to raw tar files on a quad core 3GHz machine
Compression with xz
time `for i in *.tar; do xz -f $i ; done`
real 16m38.543s
user 16m25.092s
sys 0m8.119s
Compression with lrzip
time `for i in *.tar; do lrzip -f $i ; done`
real 7m4.677s
user 13m45.598s
sys 0m32.215s
Decompression with xz
time `for i in *.xz; do xz -dkf $i && sync ; done`
real 2m28.022s
user 0m59.477s
sys 0m10.138s
Decompression with lrzip
time `for i in *.lrz; do lrzip -dkf $i && sync; done`
real 2m8.554s
user 0m53.950s
sys 0m11.721s
Directory sizes:
xz: 828260
lrz: 825292
As you can see the overall sizes are only trivially different. What is lost on smaller packages is made up for on larger packages. However decompression is faster and compression is much faster (on quad core at least). This is a fairly easy comparison that anyone can do.
Multiple things here....
1) it has not been accepted, there has been a pull request made.
2) are the advantages of lrzip actually applicable to packages... the benchmarks are not informative in that regard.
Before this is even considered, we would need this to be in a released libarchive version _and_ a series of benchmarks showing significant reductions in package size or install time (without regressing with respect to the other).
Edit: I see there were some results posted while I was composing this reply. They show fairly minimal advantage in terms of package size, so we need comparisons of speed while installing packages. i.e. benchmarks done using pacman installing package with lrzip format.
I applied the patches to libarchive and it appears to have successfully linked to lrzip:
> readelf -d /usr/lib/libarchive.so.12.0.3
Dynamic section at offset 0x8eec0 contains 31 entries:
Tag Type Name/Value
0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libacl.so.1]
0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libattr.so.1]
0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libexpat.so.1]
0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [liblzma.so.5]
0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [liblrzip.so.0]
0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [liblzo2.so.2]
0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libpthread.so.0]
0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libbz2.so.1.0]
0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libz.so.1]
0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libnettle.so.4]
0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.6]
0x0000000e (SONAME) Library soname: [libarchive.so.12]
But pacman says no...
> pacman -U pkg-config-0.26-2-i686.pkg.tar.lrz
loading packages...
error: could not open file pkg-config-0.26-2-i686.pkg.tar.lrz: Unrecognized archive format
error: 'pkg-config-0.26-2-i686.pkg.tar.lrz': cannot open package file
bsdtar can not autodetect the format either. So the patchset appears to be insufficient for use in pacman yet.
The libarchive patches are a work in progress. I still have work to do on them and wasn't pushing for inclusion yet, simply responding to this discussion.
I'd also like to see a comparison on single core processors, as they are still relevant (netbooks, slightly older hardware).
Whatever the result will be: Nice work, graysky!
The libarchive patches are a work in progress. I still have work to do on them and wasn't pushing for inclusion yet, simply responding to this discussion.
OK - that is good to know. I'll look forward to testing it out when these are complete.
I'd also like to see a comparison on single core processors, as they are still relevant (netbooks, slightly older hardware).
Are the memory requirements for decompression the same as for xz?
On older computers, when compiling packages locally I can always use gzip or nothing at all - *.pkg.tar.* works fine.
I would also like to see lrzip added to pacman (understand: libarchive). Good luck with upstream integration ckolivas !
Btw, I enjoy reading your blog, and hope your project will prove itself useful as package format.
Memory usage is about the same as xz, as is decompression speed on uniprocessor. Binding the two applications to one core, simulating running on a single CPU machine:
time `for i in *.xz ; do schedtool -a 3 -e xz -dkf $i && sync ; done`
real 2m28.941s
user 0m59.280s
sys 0m11.326s
time `for i in *.lrz ; do schedtool -a 3 -e lrzip -p 1 -df $i && sync ; done`
real 2m25.442s
user 0m54.024s
sys 0m12.280s
I also set -p 1 on lrzip just so it thinks there's only one CPU.
Imho this is way to early to propose switching to a new compression for our packages; esp. when it's tools are still work in progress and not really finished yet.
Even tough I didn't read all the information, it seems that in respect to size and time xz and lrz are quite similar. However lrz seems to support multi threading which xz lacks in its current version. Afaik Xz 5.1 will make use of multiple cores.
But there is no need to hurry for us. While the switch from gz to xz required some work to pacman and tools like dbscripts and devtools, adding support for another compression format will be as trivial as long as libarchive supports it.
ckolivas wrote:
The libarchive patches are a work in progress. I still have work to do on them and wasn't pushing for inclusion yet, simply responding to this discussion.
OK - that is good to know. I'll look forward to testing it out when these are complete.
Allan - those changes have been merged into libarchive:master a few months ago. Would you be willing to give it a whirl in pacman?
> bsdtar -xf glibc-2.16.0-2-i686.pkg.tar.lrz
bsdtar: Error opening archive: Unrecognized archive format
> bsdtar --version
bsdtar 3.0.200a - libarchive 3.0.200a
I do not have the time to test beyond that...
Edit: for clarification. If bsdtar can not autodetect the format, pacman can not either.
Thanks, Allan. Guess additional work is needed.
It works when you add "archive_read_support_filter_lrzip(a);" to the filter list in archive_read_support_filter_all.c. I am not sure why the developers did not add it yet to the list, maybe because lrzip implementation considered unstable yet as the discussion in https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/7 suggests.
@tobias_ - I added that line but got build errors. Can you clarify?
EDIT: Ah, I see now that the latest libarchive is 3.0.4 released on 26-Feb while the lrzip commits postdate this. I built it from libarchive-git and enabled lrzip per your instruction. Seems to work fine for me. Wonder when upstream plans to invoke it.
EDIT2: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/28
Last edited by graysky (2012-10-03 00:42:00)
@Allan - Can you use the git package mentioned above to conduct whatever pacman tests you were thinking about?
Also, how can I get /usr/bin/makepkg to compress my packages to .pkg.tar.lrz natively? Adding it to the setting `PKGEXT=.pkg.tar.lrz` does not work:
==> Creating package...
-> Generating .PKGINFO file...
-> Adding install file...
-> Compressing package...
==> WARNING: '.pkg.tar.lrz' is not a valid archive extension.
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: profile-sync-daemon 3.15-1 (Tue Oct 2 20:27:11 EDT 2012)
However, pacman is able able to install lrz packages that I manually make!
% sudo pacman -U profile-sync-daemon-3.15-1-any.pkg.tar.lrz
loading packages...
Average DeCompression Speed: 0.000MB/s
[OK] - 30720 bytes
Total time: 00:00:00.00
warning: profile-sync-daemon-3.15-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (1): profile-sync-daemon-3.15-1
Total Installed Size: 0.02 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(1/1) checking package integrity [########################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [########################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [########################################] 100%
Average DeCompression Speed: 0.000MB/s
[OK] - 30720 bytes
Total time: 00:00:00.00
Average DeCompression Speed: 0.000MB/s
[OK] - 30720 bytes
Total time: 00:00:00.00
(1/1) upgrading profile-sync-daemon [########################################] 100%
Last edited by graysky (2012-10-03 00:29:40)
Also, how can I get /usr/bin/makepkg to compress my packages to .pkg.tar.lrz natively? Adding it to the setting `PKGEXT=.pkg.tar.lrz` does not work
Examine the function create_package() within makepkg itself.
Has anyone reported the lack of lrz support in archive_read_support_filter_all? It is probably a mistake not to have it...
Adding lrz compression to makepkg is easy - a one line patch I think. I have not done it yet as there is little point until a released libarchive supports reading these packages.
Also, I doubt I will have any time to look into the relative benefits/disadvantages of using this compression format until an actual libarchive release with lrzip support is made.
@Zeke-Thank you. I opened flyspray #31782 w/ patch to include support in makepkg.
@Allan- Tim K commited the fix yesterday.
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