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Wondering How To Reformat Windows 8? Let Me Explain
You probably want to perform a clean installation. With Windows 8 The Windows 8 Guide This Windows 8 guide outlines everything new about Windows 8, from the tablet-like start screen to the new "app" concept to the familiar desktop mode. Read More , Microsoft slightly changed the terminology and added a few more options, which make a re-installation much more convenient.
Moreover, since Windows 8 typically runs on computers with modern hardware, formatting isn't an accurate procedure anymore. What you do instead, is reset the computer. Let me give you an overview.
What Is Formatting?
Technically, you can't format Windows. What you can do is format your hard drive disk How to Format a USB Drive and Why You Would Need To Formatting a USB drive is easy. Our guide explains the easiest and fastest ways to format a USB drive on a Windows computer. Read More (HDD) or solid state drive (SSD), although we don't recommend the latter, see below. Formatting simply means erasing all data on the disk.
But not all formatting is made equal. When you perform a quick format The Difference Between Windows Full Format & Quick Format [Technology Explained] When installing Windows, the installer will ask you a strange question - how do you want to format your hard drive? For Windows systems, there are only a few possible answer choices. You either format... Read More , you only erase the information in the file system.
The file system is like a database What A File System Is & How You Can Find Out What Runs On Your Drives What is a file system and why do they matter? Learn the differences between FAT32, NTFS, HPS+, EXT, and more. Read More , which has a record of where information is stored on the drive. By clearing this database, the computer will eventually overwrite the stored data. Until then, nothing gets deleted and with the right tools, it's possible to recover the data What Is Data Recovery And How Does It Work? If you've ever experienced a major loss of data, you've probably wondered about data recovery -- how does it work? Read More . At least if we're talking about anHDD.
How Do I Know Whether I Have an HDD or SSD?
Click the key combination Windows key + R to launch the run command window. Type in msinfo32 and hit Enter. This will launch the System Information. Expand Components, then Storage, and look for what it says under Disks. The Description or Media Type should reveal whether your drive is a hard disk or solid state disk.
How Can I Format My HDD?
If you want to prevent the recovery of sensitive data Why It Is Impossible To Recover Data From An Overwritten Hard Drive [Technology Explained] Recovering deleted data from a hard drive is generally possible because typically the actual data is not deleted. Instead, information about where the data is stored is removed. In this article I will explain how... Read More from your HDD, you should irreversibly delete the data by overwriting it 5 Tools To Permanently Delete Sensitive Data From Your Hard Drive [Windows] In a recent article I explained why it is impossible to recover data from a hard drive after overwriting it. In that post I mentioned that simply deleting files or formatting your hard drive typically... Read More . A full low level format How to Completely Wipe a Hard Drive There are two ways to wire a hard drive. Here's what you need to know to get it done quick and easy. Read More with a tool like Darik's Boot And Nuke will do that. In case you have an SSD How Do Solid-State Drives Work? In this article, you'll learn exactly what SSDs are, how SSDs actually work and operate, why SSDs are so useful, and the one major downside to SSDs. Read More , read on.
Can I Format My SSD?
Formatting an SSD can damage it How to Securely Erase Your SSD Without Destroying It SSDs can only be written to a limited number of times. Then how can you securely erase your SSD? Here's what you need to know! Read More ! Besides, due to the way SSDs manage data, it's not necessary. What you do instead, and only if you must delete sensitive data, is run the ATA Secure Erase command, which essentially resets the drive.
This is what my colleague Tim wrote on the topic:
This command does not actually write anything to the drive. Instead it causes the SSD to apply a voltage spike to all available NAND in unison, resetting every available block of space in one operation. By doing this, you will use one whole program-erase cycle for your drive – a small dent in drive life, but still unnecessary unless you're troubleshooting.
You need to check with the manufacturer of your drive for a tool that can reset your SSD using ATA Secure Erase. Alternatively, you can use Parted Magic (our review Parted Magic: A Complete Hard Drive Toolbox On One Live CD Take control of your hard drives. Whether you want to edit your partitions, clone an entire drive, check SMART data or otherwise manage the way your computer's data is organized, Parted Magic is the tool... Read More ), boot it from a USB stick, and erase your disk, as Tim describes in his article.
Is There an Easy Way to Reinstall or Reset Windows 8?
Yes, several. With Windows 8, you don't have to format your entire drive to start from scratch. You can restore, refresh, or reset Windows 8 How To Restore, Refresh, or Reset Your Windows 8 Installation In addition to the standard System Restore feature, Windows 8 has features for "refreshing" and "resetting" your PC. Think of these as ways of quickly re-installing Windows -- either keeping your personal files or deleting... Read More .
Briefly, a restore reverts your system to an earlier state; a refresh is like a fresh Windows installation, but your personal files remain untouched; a reset is like starting from scratch, with a fresh Windows installation and all personal data removed. All three options can be launched from within Windows, as Chris's article linked to above explains.
If you can no longer boot into Windows, it will hopefully offer the Advanced Startup Options screen (shown above), which allows you to refresh or reset your PC. If that doesn't work, you can boot from the manufacturer's recovery partition, use a Windows 8 recovery disk How to Create a Windows 8 Recovery Disk The days of reinstalling Windows when it acts up are long since gone. All you need to fix Windows 8 is a recovery disk, either on CD/DVD, a USB or an external hard disk drive. Read More , or Windows 8 installation media to perform a factory reset or recovery 4 Ways to Factory Reset Your Windows Computer Want to know how to factory reset a PC? Here are the best methods to reset a Windows computer. Read More . We have covered all these options previously, please follow the respective links above.
As mentioned before, it's not recommended to format your drive if it's an SSD.
What If I Want to Install Windows 7 Over Windows 8?
Boot from your Windows 7 installation media (you might have to change the boot order How to Change the Boot Order on Your PC (So You Can Boot From USB) Learn how to change the boot order of your computer. It's important for troubleshooting issues and tweaking settings, and it's a lot easier than you think. Read More via the BIOS How to Enter the BIOS on Windows 10 (And Older Versions) To get into the BIOS, you usually press a specific key at the right time. Here's how to enter the BIOS on Windows 10. Read More ), select a clean install, and before you choose the drive to install Windows 7 on, click Advanced Options to format the drive. Only do this if your drive is an HDD. Otherwise, use Parted Magic or skip the formatting step.
Have You Backed Up Your Data?
Before you proceed with formatting your drive or re-installing Windows in any way, be sure to back up your data 6 Safest Ways to Backup & Restore Your Files in Windows 7 & 8 By now, we're sure you've read the advice over and over: Everyone needs to back up their files. But deciding to back up your files is only part of the process. There are so many... Read More !
What made you look into an article about reformatting Windows 8? And did you find an answer to your question? If not, please use the comments below.
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Samsung is to host two press conferences at the IFA technology trade show in Berlin on 3 September. The company will be live streaming both online as they happen, and although plans for the first remain under wraps, the second is where we will see the Gear S2 smartwatch in the flesh for the first time.
IFA is often used by Samsung to announce its latest Note smartphone, but instead that event took place in New York two weeks earlier, leaving IFA to host the company's latest smartwatch, the Gear S2. We also expect to see some new televisions and household products - ovens and washing machines, try not to switch off...
The first press conference takes starts at midday local time (1pm BST) and is expected to last for around one hour. The second event, which will see the launch of the Gear S2, starts at 7pm local time (8pm BST) and is also expected to last for between 60 and 90 minutes. This will be followed by hands-on time with whatever is announced.
Both conferences will be live streamed on Samsung's YouTube channel, as well as on the company's own website.
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Medtronic executive turns breast cancer diagnosis into a mission to improve outcomes for others.
Countless breast cancer patients may someday benefit because of Suzanne Foster's battle with the disease. She clearly remembers her reaction to the diagnosis.
"The first thought is 'why me,'" she said. "I exercise and take care of myself. Why would something like this happen?"
During the course of her treatment, Foster found her reason 'why.'
"I stopped searching for 'why me' and I started to realize it had to be me, because there's some change that needs to happen," Foster said.
Now fully recovered from breast cancer surgery, Foster says her journey uncovered something surprising -- a significant need for surgical tools designed specifically for breast cancer procedures.
"It was a huge surprise. Prior to going through this I thought that breast cancer was very well-served from a patient perspective. But when you go through it personally, you realize the treatment is just not up to the standard of other levels of surgery," she said.
Foster, 45, is uniquely qualified to do something about that.
As Vice President and General Manager of the Advanced Energy business unit at Medtronic, she leads an organization that makes precision products to help surgeons perform hip and knee replacements, spine surgery, pacemaker generator and lead replacements, ear-nose-and-throat procedures, and certain cancer surgeries.
And, now with even greater focus, breast cancer.
Foster is turning a lot of the attention and resources of her team toward creating innovative new surgical tools for breast cancer surgery – the gap she discovered as a breast cancer patient.
The business studied each step in how breast cancer patients receive treatment. "What we found was alarming," said Adam King, Advanced Energy's Senior Director of Marketing. "Infection rates of 18 percent, repeat surgery rates of more than 20 percent, surgical staging errors of 20 to 25 percent. We want to radically improve the path that patients have to follow to be successfully treated for breast cancer."
The effort is already well underway.
In August, Medtronic acquired a company called Intact Medical Corporation. Intact developed a biopsy technology that is able to remove an entire breast lesion for evaluation, avoiding a second surgical procedure for patients if the lesion proves to be benign.
Medtronic is also partnering with leading breast cancer surgeons to identify new and innovative surgical tools and techniques that will make surgery easier for doctors and better for patients. Forty percent of the research and development team at the Advanced Energy headquarters in Portsmouth, N.H. is now working to identify and design the next-generation tools that meet those needs.
"As engineers, we all work here to make medical devices that help people," said Mark Wladkowski, Senior Director of Research and Development. "We're going after a truly unmet need and the opportunity to improve the patient experience is huge. It's very exciting to be part of it."
Medtronic device already making a difference
One surgeon advising Medtronic is Dr. Beth DuPree of Holy Redeemer Hospital in Philadelphia. (Dr. DuPree has a consulting relationship with Medtronic). She is among the leading experts in the United States on a procedure known as a nipple sparing mastectomy, where surgeons remove the underlying breast tissue but spare the nipple and the outer skin. The breast is then reconstructed with implants. It's a relatively new procedure that is far less invasive and disfiguring than traditional mastectomy, which removes the breast entirely.
It's also the surgery Dr. DuPree performed on Suzanne Foster.
"It's a very technically challenging procedure that requires meticulous attention to the details," DuPree said. "And it also requires some advanced technology to be able to perform."
DuPree found that a Medtronic dissection device called the Plasmablade™ worked extremely well in nipple sparing mastectomy cases.
"The very first time that I used it on a nipple sparing mastectomy, I told my OR director that I could never do this operation again without this device. It was one of those things that I knew was going to enhance my ability to provide my patients the best care possible," she said.
The challenge for the Advanced Energy business will be to identify and develop other innovative products that further improve the surgical process for doctors and elevate the quality of care for patients.
Eventually, Foster hopes, Medtronic can provide tools across the entire care continuum, from first diagnosis through surgery and post-surgery follow-up.
"Medtronic is committed to finding therapies that improve patient outcomes," Foster said. "When you couple the resources of Medtronic with our Mission and our patient focus, that's how we make a difference in the breast cancer space. That's what I'm interested in building."
Foster's last breast cancer surgery was in September of 2015; she completed her last radiation treatment in December of 2015. Today she says she feels better than ever. And she no longer asks 'why me.'
"It's a perfect irony of circumstances," Foster said. "It's allowed me to see the world from the patient perspective. And having the privilege of the position I have at Medtronic allows me to make a difference and use what I've learned to help people."
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Felted wool starfish. With squibillions of tiny beads. I have been making them for Christmas gifts this year. I do this in the late night. It is relaxing. It is meant to be relaxing.
Now, I am truly one of the most unorganized gals in the world when it comes to craft and art supplies. My house is littered with brushes, glue, wires, ropes, tiny wooden figures.....it is chaos.
My glass beads on the other hand are a different story. I spend hours colour matching them, putting them in tiny clear containers. My embroidery floss is wound on little cards. It is a very tidy thing, my bead box. You would be impressed.
Yesterday, I found it upside down, billions upon millions of beads everywhere. All over the house. They are small beads. In fact, they are practically invisible. Floss and yarn strewn across the floor, wrapped around the table legs.
SHE says she didn't do it. Lily and BooBOO tried to deny it, but they both have tiny turquoise beads stuck in their claws. I will never forgive them. Ever. This is not relaxing at all.
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Pensioner's festive display makes top ten in NI
A Newry pensioner who has lit up his home for the last 8 years in aid of the Southern Area Hospice says he is delighted his Christmas illuminations have been featured on Cool FM's top ten list of the Best Christmas Light Displays in Northern Ireland.
Big hearted Bernie Hughes lights up his Derrybeg home and his community's spirits with spectacular displays each Christmas, transforming his front garden into a dazzling festive wonderland which attracts daily donations from generous onlookers keen to lend their support.
The 85 year old makes sure the season of goodwill shines brightly in his neighbourhood with his ever expanding light spectacle, raising thousands of pounds for the hospice in the process.
Speaking to The Examiner about the latest recognition of his renowned display, the spritely octogenarian, who is also a tireless church and community worker, credits his late wife Immelda with first coming up with the idea of lighting up their home for charity. In fact Immelda is still very much remembered in the display, with a notice in her memory erected with the donations box each year.
Bernie reveals that generous donations of lights and decorations over the years have also helped the spectacle get bigger and better each Christmas.
The unstoppable pensioner has a helping hand from his grandsons who have set up the display for the last few years, but he insists that, given the chance, he could put it all together himself "in a week."
"I sort out all the decorations and lights every year, testing and checking that everything works," he says.
"I don't do much climbing now with my new knee so they put it all together now!
"People are very good in the area, they don't park in front of the house so the display can be seen and the donations have grown every year from we started out."
Unaware that his grand-daughter Linda had submitted a photo of the illuminations to Cool FM, Bernie says he is very grateful to have been named on the list and hopes to continue his festive fundraising spectacle for many years to come.
Congratulating the Derrybeg grandfather, Grainne Mulgrew at Southern Area Hospice said,
"Bernie has put so much work into his Christmas Lights display at his home for over 8 years now and has raised a magnificent amount of money for his local Hospice.
"It is a great achievement and a well-deserved one that he has made Cool FM's Top 10 Christmas displays in Northern Ireland list. We are delighted for him and truly appreciate his continued support".
Grainne also took the opportunity to congratulate another local man who is celebrating his tenth year of Christmas illuminations in aid of the hospice. The Southern Area Hospice encourage everyone to come and support Tommy O'Hare and his family as they continue to raise funds for their local Hospice at Christmas with their wonderful display at their home in Leode Road home in Hilltown.


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One new thing.
This will be short, because there's not much to say. I did say I'd keep you guys current though.
As I said before, it doesn't need to be big.
I spontaneously went on a solo walk around a park I've only been to once to go ice skating. I had never walked the trails before.
It was 27 degrees out, I didn't have a hat, and was ill prepared. But…it was different, spontaneous, new, and the air was crisp and fresh. I didn't last more than thirty minutes round trip. I'm glad I went, and can't wait to go again when it's warmer.
A new experience doesn't need to be glamorous… or in this case warm.
Sometimes, it's nice just to change things up. Drive a different way to work. Try a new fruit, vegetable, or product at the grocery store. *Travel Tip: This is one of my favorite things to when I go to foreign countries! Head to the grocery store!
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As regular readers of this blog will know (and I know there are more than the 2 "followers" displayed – I can see some statistics!), I have already read and reviewed volume 3 of N.T. (Tom) Wright's magnum opus, Christian Origins and The Question of God. That was mainly due to my not realising at the time that it was part of a series, something I probably ought to have known, having met Wright a couple of times while he was the Bishop of Durham, though at the time we were discussing So it only seemed right to go back to the beginning and do the whole series. My hope is to be able to go through volume 2 (Jesus and the Victory of God) before he publishes volume 4 (Paul and the Faithfulness of God), currently due out at some unspecified date in 2012.
The book was something of a revelation (if you'll pardon the pun) as it is the longest introduction I have ever read. Wright spends about the first third of the book (which is 500 pages long – and they ain't exactly small pages in large print) discussing his methodology and setting out his stall in meticulous detail. I know this may not be of particular interest to readers who want to get the Wright's summary of Judaic and early Christian history, but it is well worth it, I think, as it demonstrates the level of care needed to approach this topic.
Having set himself up, Wright then proceeds to give a summary history of Judaic thought roughly from the time of Judas Maccabeus through the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. He acknowledges that this is a summary rather than a detailed analysis and does provide plenty of references for the interested reader to follow-up on. At times, it is a bit dry and it took me a while to go through; I would readily admit to not being having taken it all in.
From here, Wright gives what is, in my opinion, the most fascinating chapter: an overview of Christianity from roughly A.D. 30 to A.D. 125. Wright acknowledges the difficulty in trying to study the history of the church given the scarcity over the contemporary sources, and their reliability (e.g. not trusting what Eusebius had to say without at least a pinch of salt).
In both his sections on Judaism and early Christianity, he looks at what they did (praxis), believed and hoped for. The reader should always be aware that this is an introduction, so Wright brushes on topics he intends to look at in much more detail later on. It serves as a useful appetiser and I can't wait to get going on Jesus and Victory of God.
There were points in it where I was not convinced by Wright's arguments, though these tended to be on comparatively minor areas. Overall, it is a work of immense integrity and scholarship. It will of interest to anyone who is interested in how historical and theological research is carried out by the best scholars in their field, to those who want to find out about the history and beliefs of the early Christians and the world in which they lived and will be of immense value to all who read it.


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Maybe it's a symptom of my scorn and disdain for my fellow man, but I'm a sucker for movies populated with low and petty people. Unambiguous good and evil works fine in fairy tales and American Westerns but there's something about a movie where the protagonist and the antagonist are both on the dark side that makes my Grinch-sized heart swell with schadenfreudic joy. Today's study in poor moral character is Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia's dark comedy/thriller "Common Wealth" (aka "La Comunidad").
Aging, down-on-her-luck temp real estate agent Julie has just lucked into an unbelievable opportunity. Her latest assignment is a surprisingly grand apartment hidden away in a somewhat shabby building. The apartment is so nice, in fact, that she decides that the thing to do is for her and her boyfriend to move in until she can find a renter. When the reclusive old man in the apartment above her dies, she soon finds herself pitted against a long-standing conspiracy of greed conducted by the oddball assortment of characters who also live in the building.
It turns out that the old man hit it big on sports betting and unbeknownst to the tax agency or anyone except the residents of the building, has a huge sum of money hidden away in his apartment. The old man had good reason to become a recluse: the residents had been waiting years for him to die so they can take his money and divide it up between them. Their long-standing plan is ruined, however, when Julia finds the money first and takes it for herself. What follows is an increasingly deadly battle of wills between Julia and the tenants, who will stop at nothing to get the money they think of as rightfully theirs.
The residents of the building are a colorful assortment of misfits and scoundrels ranging from a rico suave Cuban dance instructor, a socially retarded peeping tom in a Darth Vader costume and a variety of crotchety old ladies who wouldn't be out of place in a Monty Python sketch. Their interactions with Julie come to a slow boil as each side raises the stakes in their attempts to claim the money as their own. When Julie sees through their false friendliness and outright trickery they raise the stakes and resort to more lethal schemes.
"Common Wealth" is very much a love letter to classic Hitchcock films, from the darkly humorous style to the double cross-laden plot to the Bernard Hermann-esque score to the sweeping cinematography. The climax even plays out on a public monument high atop the city streets. While succeeding as a dead-on ode to the Master of Suspense, the film also shows elements of other influences such as the lurid color palette of Pedro Almodovar and a John Waters-like obsession with grotesque humor. Less successful are the Star Wars and Matrix gags that might have been fresh at the time but after ten years of nonstop lazy parodies haven't aged very well.
Carmen Maura's performance as Julie is the anchor of the film and earned her the Spanish equivalent of the Oscar for Best Actress. For most of the film she is just as conniving and petty as the building residents and there's a great deal of fun to be had in rooting for the lesser of two evils. For that reason the ending feels like a bit of a cop out. After an hour and a half of cheering on nastiness, a moral message rears its ugly head and Julie has a not entirely convincing change of heart. It feels like an unwelcome dose of medicine hidden in the last bite of an otherwise delicious steaming bowl of misanthropy. It's the kind of crowd-pleasing ending that can usually be expected in movies like this but it feels a bit out of place after such an uncompromisingly fun romp through the dark side of humanity.
If you're a fan of Hitchcock, pitch black comedy and nasty people doing nasty things to each other, "Common Wealth" will probably be right up your dark alley. There might be other movies that contain graphic scenes of full torso dismemberment by elevator played for laughs but it's a rare film that can pair that up with a scene featuring a chubby Darth Vader masturbating to a 50 year old woman in the shower. Consider yourself warned.


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By Rori Raye
Are you chasing after a man and don't even know it?
When you chase a man, you not only tend to unwittingly push him away, but in the end, you don't give him the chance to show you how HE really feels about YOU.
And yet, I know how frustrating it is to sit back and let a man drift away. We want a man to know we're interested in him. We want to make it easy for him to ask us out again. We want to seem enthusiastic and easygoing.
We know we're not supposed to be chasing after him, and yet we're doing it in ways that we're not even aware of.
We think being "friendly" is the same as showing interest in a man. We are taught to think that if we act "casual" a man won't notice that we're actually chasing him.
But, the truth is, we are. And when we do things that seem like we're "chasing" to a man, it's a turn off for him. He feels smothered and feels an aggressive "vibe" from you that does nothing to inspire him to want to get closer.
Here are some things we may think of as "friendly," that are actually CHASING a man:
- Calling him before he calls you. This includes calling him because you heard or read about something interesting, or because you knew there was a great band playing somewhere, or someone told you about some great event that you want to invite him to or – anything at all. It also includes calling to ask why he hasn't called you.
- Initiating contact. E-mailing him, texting him, Facebooking him, sending him a cute card, dropping by his house, or in any way attempting to initiate some kind of contact.
- Making suggestions or plans. Inviting him to come and join you, or in any way acting like the social director of the relationship.
- Asking him how he feels. This includes, especially, asking him how he feels about "you" or the "relationship."
These are things we do almost without even thinking about it. These are things that feel natural to us, and we excuse them by thinking we're just being "friendly." And at the heart of this is one fear: Feeling like we're going to lose him by not letting him know we're interested in him.
Everything on this list is the same as putting a sign on your chest that says "Needy." It smacks of desperation. And, it's just plain not attractive to him.
He may LIKE it. He may be flattered. He may have no one else around and so he'll date you. He may even come to like you very much. You may even end up in a relationship with him.
But, you will never know how he really feels about you.
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|Can an unpredictably centrist talk-show host with a yen for "nothing" really have an impact on the national discourse?
"Warning: the following program may be inappropriate for ideologues at either end of the political spectrum," the anonymous announcer intones. "This is the Michael Smerconish Program on SiriusXM's POTUS. Proving there is passion in the middle."
"I grew up in a house that had big, fat, gaudy, colored Christmas lights," Smerconish is saying. "At some point, when my house became a little bit larger than the house in which I was raised, and I drove a car that was a little bit nicer than the car my parents used to drive—we decided we are now white-light people."
Smerconish's personal migration to the Center was driven by a number of things.
In August 2009, Obama did his first live radio interview as president. His interviewer was Smerconish, who was slightly flummoxed when the president arrived five minutes early.
Which is why, on this late-April morning, which happens to be Day Two of the NFL Draft, he's trying to maintain a dialogue with a high-school football coach from Pittsburgh. "You're caught up in the hyberbole," the coach tells him. Smerconish, who thinks that parental worries about football-related brain injuries may someday doom the sport, is diplomatic at first, but when he brings up the research by Sports Legacy Institute founder Chris Nowinski, the coach dismisses it. The head injuries are no worse than they are among soccer players, the guy says, and soon he's not listening anymore, just getting louder and more dismissive, until finally, after a warning—"Coach, I'm gonna finish my thought, whether you'd like me to or not, 'cause that's how we roll here"—Smerconish thanks him for his call and cuts off his sound. Then he addresses his audience.
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Orlando, Fla. -- FC Dallas winger Brek Shea netted a goal and an assist in a 2-0 win over the Seattle Sounders today at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Fla.
"Brek Shea was very good today," FC Dallas head coach Schellas Hyndman said following the match. "He had some great crosses, a great head ball, as good as they get, to score that goal."
Shea's header came on the second goal of the day. It gave FC Dallas a 2-0 lead in the 27th minute. On the play, Jair Benitez booted a ball forward to Marvin Chavez on the right flank. Chavez brought the ball down with his first touch before playing a ball into space for David Ferreira near the corner flag. The defending MLS MVP caught up to the pass just before it reached the end line and drove a ball back across the face of the goal. Timing his run perfectly, Shea hammered home the header after rising well above the crowd to win the ball.
"David [Ferreira] was also very good today holding the ball and penetrating," Hyndman said. "Plus Chavez – those three guys were causing a lot of problems for Seattle. And I thought Ruben did a good job considering it was the first time he really started for us. He was strong, physical and became a real handful for them."
Chavez was also involved with the first goal of the day in the 21st minute. He scored after chesting down a ball played over the top of the Seattle defense. Chavez avoided the defenders by knocking the ball out in front of him, to the right of goalkeeper Terry Boss. After catching up to the ball, Chavez volleyed a left-footed shot high into the net for a 1-0 lead.
"Defensively, we were able to get a shutout," Hyndman said. "Kevin Hartman made one very good save in the first half and I thought Chris [Seitz] made a very good save in the second half. Basically, we're playing with two full squads and so were they. It's a good result for us to get a shutout and play the last 20 minutes a man down. These are things that happen throughout the season and we'll keep getting better at it."
New acquisition Andrew Jacobson was the player shown a straight red following a tackle from behind on Seattle forward Fredy Montero.
Scoring Summary:
DAL - Marvin Chavez (Brek Shea) 21
DAL - Brek Shea (David Ferreira) 27
Misconduct Summary:
DAL - Jackson (caution) 19
SEA – Danny Earls (caution) 26
SEA – Servando Carrasco (caution) 33
SEA – Michael Tetteh (caution) 70
DAL – Andrew Jacobson (ejection) 75'
FC Dallas - Kevin Hartman (Chris Seitz 46), Jair Benitez (Moises Hernandez 46), Alexis Pradie (Scott Gordon 58), Zach Loyd, Jackson (Andrew Wiedeman 65), Daniel Hernandez (Bobby Warshaw 46), Eric Alexander (Andrew Jacobson 46), David Ferreira (Maykel Galindo 46), Brek Shea (Paul Ogunyemi 67), Marvin Chavez (Eric Avila 59), Ruben Luna (Milton Rodriguez 46, Bruno Guarda 75).
Seattle Sounders FC - Terry Boss (Bryan Meredith 46), Richard Martinez (Roger Levesque 46), Zach Scott (Taylor Graham 64), Tyson Wahl (Leone Cruz 64), Danny Earls (Michael Tetteh 46), David Estrada (Pat Noonan 64), Servando Carrasco (Osvaldo Alonso 64), Brad Evans (Mike Seamon 30), Lamar Neagle (Jonathan Prieto 64), Blaise Nkufo (Miguel Montaño 46), Mike Fucito (Fredy Montero 64).
Match Recap: FC Dallas 2, Seattle 0
Orlando, Fla. -- FC Dallas winger Brek Shea netted a goal and an assist in a 2-0 win over the Seattle Sounders today at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Fla.


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In complementing the Nouveau vs. NVIDIA OpenGL benchmark results published earlier this week on Phoronix, here are the power consumption and performance-per-Watt metrics.
Due to the current Nouveau re-clocking situation, the results aren't a huge surprise, thus this quick, one page-page write-up. The proprietary NVIDIA driver led over Nouveau on all of the tested graphics cards in power efficiency.
The power results and all system data can be found hosted at OpenBenchmarking.org for those curious about the specifics.


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The long-awaited conclusion to The Nexus Of Kellaran! Metric Edition - Uses Metric (SI) units of measurement. A USA (Standard) measurements edition is also available.
Over the last few years I've spent most of my intellectual and creative energies in writing science fiction and fantasy novels. I've been a hard sci-fi fan my whole life, but everyone else I know who's an avid reader are all fantasy fans. Over the years I've borrowed all their books, and learned to love that genre as well.


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Leave it to San Francisco to have so much gay pride that people start feeling guilty about it. Gay Shame — a "celebration of resistance" that meets at 5:30 p.m. every Saturday at Modern Times Bookstore — isn't for casual self-loathers. If you're gay but only mildly embarrassed by that fellow homosexual decked out in Dolce & Gabbana at the gym, then you're probably not intense enough for this crew. Gay Shame exists to call attention to the whole notion of "gay culture" as it's popularly conceived: predominantly white, male, upper-middle-class, cartoonishly musclebound, and rabidly consumerist. Assimilation means annihilation; everyone has been commodified; the Left isn't liberal enough — you know the drill. Yes, Gay Shame may be doomed to fight against the inevitable mainstreaming of gay identity. But the group is a welcome tonic to the gym-bunny "inclusiveness" celebrated at Gay Pride — and you gotta love that its individual members identify themselves only as "Mary" to the press.
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The eloquence that diverts us to itself is unfair to the content
– Montaigne
The essays of Montaigne were first published in 1580, over 400 years old at this point. What I find remarkable is the relevance of his writings even today, and perhaps as a consequence, the many times I have encountered references to Montaigne and his quotes in books not about him. It is as if every aspect of human nature one might contemplate on has already been contemplated in fine detail by Montaigne, annotated with quotes from the ancients. Here are a select few of his quotes from an old edition of his selected essays, with my superfluous commentary
The absurdity of our education is that its goal has been to make us not good or wise, but learned
Montaigne might very well have been tweeting this yesterday. As a thought experiment, if Montaigne was taken seriously, if education really strove to make us wise and good, could humanity have averted the two World Wars and 60+ million deaths? Or put another way, what is the risk of not adopting this bit of important and timeless advise for the future of the world?
It is always a gain to change a bad state for an uncertain one
What Montaigne is saying is that if you are stuck in a rut, and you have a choice where there is a 50% chance of being stuck in a rut vs not, then go with that choice. Except, he says it better
Example is a hazy mirror, reflecting all things in all ways.
If you have wondered how the same incident or story could be interpreted by two people in different ways, here you have it. We observe not just with our eyes, but with our minds.
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fears
Or to quote his fellow Frenchman born 200 years later, Balzac – 'Our greatest fears lie in anticipation'. I can tell you that just being aware of this maxim works an antidote.
The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives
A more familiar version of the above is 'practice what you preach', though the Montaigne version sounds so much more profound
Let him be made to understand that to confess the flaw he discovers in his own argument, though it is still unnoticed except by himself, is an act of judgement and sincerity, which are the principal qualities he seeks; that obstinacy and contention are vulgar qualities, most often seen in the meanest souls; that to change his mind and correct himself, to give up the bad side at the height of his ardor, are rare, strong and philosophical qualities
Montaigne is getting borderline judgmental here (meanest?), though he might very well be channeling Nostradamus, divining the collective aspiration of a nation.
The world is swarming with commentaries; of authors there is a great scarcity
Reading Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy , and in one of the first chapters on the rise of the Greek civilization, is a wonderful exposition of prudence vs passion.
First, prudence, or forethought, a key aspect of civilization from the earliest civilized societies to our present day:
The civilized man is distinguished from the savage mainly by prudence, or, to use a slightly wider term, forethought. He is willing to endure present pains for the sake of future pleasures, even if the future pleasures are rather distant. This habit began to be important with the rise of agriculture; no animal and no savage would work in spring in order to have food next winter, except for a purely instinctive form of action, such as bees making honey or squirrels burying nuts. In these cases, there is no forethought; there is a direct impulse to an act which, to the human spectator, is obviously going to prove useful later on. True forethought only arises when a man does something towards which no impulse urges him, because his reason tells him that he will profit by it at some future date. Hunting requires no forethought, because it is pleasurable; but tilling the soil is labour, and cannot be done from a spontaneous impulse.
Civilization checks impulse not only through forethought, which is a self-administered check, but also through law, custom, and religion… On the one hand, the purposes of the community are enforced upon the individual, and, on the other hand the individual, having acquired the habit of viewing his life as a whole, increasingly sacrifices his present to his future.
The civilized Greek society had its detractors, and one of them was the cult of Bacchus – worshippers of the god of wine, intoxication and spiritual ecstasy. It is in the context of this group within civilized Greek life that Russell contrasts passion against prudence
The worshipper of Bacchus reacts against prudence. In intoxication, spiritual or spiritual, he recovers an intensity of feeling which prudence has destroyed; he finds the world full of delight and beauty, and his imagination is suddenly liberated from the prison of every-day preoccupations. The Bacchic ritual produced what was called "enthusiasm", which means, etymologically, having a god enter into the worshipper, who believed he became one with the god.
Much of what is greatest in human achievement involves some element of intoxication (mental intoxication, and not intoxication by alcohol), some sweeping away of prudence by passion.
Which one is better then – A prudent life? or the passionate life?
Without the Bacchic element, life would be uninteresting; with it, it is dangerous. Prudence vs passion is a conflict that runs through history. It is not a conflict in which we ought to side wholly with either party
I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber. A man who has enough to live on, if he knew how to stay with pleasure at home, would not leave it to go to sea or to besiege a town. A commission in the army would not be bought so dearly, but that it is found insufferable not to budge from the town; and men only seek conversation and entertaining games, because they cannot remain with pleasure at home.
Blaise Pascal's Pensées (Thoughts) are a collection of notes and jottings that were meant to be groundwork for a book on a defense of Christian religion. "Much of the theological argument implied in these utterances has little appeal to the modern mind", reads the introductory note, "but the acuteness of the observation of human life, the subtlety of the reasoning, the combination of precision and fervid imagination in the expression, make this a book to which the discerning mind can return again and again for insight and inspiration."
The passage quoted above is a part of several long and short notes on the topic of diversions. Pascal contends that we engage in activities and amusements as a diversion, for without such diversions, one would be left to contemplate on oneself, and would become weary by painful and disquieting thoughts.
Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.
A recurring example that Pascal uses is that of hunting hare; one is reminded that it was the 17th century in which he lived and wrote. According to him, the chase is what excites and diverts one, rather than the possession of the game.
The hare in itself would not screen us from the sight of death and calamities; but the chase which turns away our attention from these, does screen us.
Our folly lies in believing that possession of the end will bring us happiness, and not realizing that it is the pursuit that keeps us from being unhappy. The journey is the destination.
Their error does not lie in seeking excitement, if they seek it only as a diversion; the evil is that they seek it as if the possession of the objects of their quest would make them really happy. In this respect it is right to call their quest a vain one.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) is perhaps better known for his mathematics than his philosophies, notably his work on probability that includes developing the idea of expected value, a key concept in modern economics and finance, and for inventing the first mechanical calculator at the age of 19. In addition to expository passages such as the one described above, the Pensées are a treasure trove of pithy aphorisms
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us where we desire to go.
and quotable quotes
The great and the humble have the same misfortunes, the same griefs, the same passions; but one is at the top of the wheel, and the other near the center, and so is less disturbed by the same revolutions.
A monk asked Zhàozhōu, "Does a dog have Buddha nature or not?" Zhaozhou said, "Wú".
Example of a Kōan. Don't ask.
If you convince yourself that you're amongst the elite or that you alone are privy to the eternal truths about how to govern, then you can become a very dangerous person.
From an interview in Salon with Simon Blackburn, on his recent book on Plato's Republic. Of particular interest is the context in which the above statement is made.


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There is not likely going to be any shortage of commercial debt either in California or across the United States during the coming years. Though the housing sector appears to be on its way towards recovery, there is a great deal of commercial real estate debt that will likely come due during the next five years. It is believed that as much as $1.7 trillion in commercial real estate loans are anticipated to be due from now until 2018.
Legislators also are showing concern regarding this potential problem. Congressional representatives have made a legislative proposal that would make it easier to refinance much of this debt. As similar proposals have been made in the U.S. Senate and by the President, we will still have to wait to discover the nature of any legislation that actually becomes law.
It's no secret that real estate values were largely inflated during the housing bubble. Yet commercial real estate values are not expected to match these inflated prices for a number of years.
There remains concern that defaults on commercial mortgage could trigger another economic recession. It has been reported that office and retail properties are still not being picked up by prospective buyers as rates of vacancies are at the historically highest rates ever. However, it is anticipated that new loans to replace maturing debt may come in from commercial mortgage backed securities, banks, investment trusts and life insurance companies.
These new lenders will need to come up with imaginative ways to collect upon debt that has matured. They would be well advised to consult with attorneys who understand how commercial debt operates and who can initiate commercial debt collection strategies.
Source: U.S. News, "A Simple Solution for America's Looming Commercial Debt Crisis," Jason Gold, Aug. 1, 2013


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Realty Agent Paid Less Than Public ThinksReal estate consumers see commissions paid to brokerages between 4-8% and feel that as home prices rise, agents are over compensated. Consumers would be surprised at how little of the commission actually shows up in their agent's wallet. Most real estate transactions have a listing (seller's) agent and a cooperating (buyer's) agent from different brokerages. Most agents have to split their commission with their brokerages in exchange for, marketing, administrative and technology services. Industry sources state the cost to a brokerage on average is $17,000 per year to provide services to an agent.
Fast fact. 2002 Median Gross Personal Income of REALTORSВ®: All REALTORSВ®: $52,200 Sales Agents: $39,300 Brokers/Broker-Associates: $65,300 Source: The 2003 National Association of REALTORSВ® Member Profile
Fast tip. When negotiating your listing agreement with a full service brokerage include a clause stating if your property sells in a short period of time the commission paid to the brokerage for the listing side will be reduced as their costs will be reduced.
Fast term. Commission Split: A percentage of a brokerages compensation from a property commission paid to a real estate broker or salesperson representing the brokerage in a transaction.
Real estate help desk. Dear Mark: We are considering selling our home by owner, but want to hire a brokerage that would place it in our Multiple Listing Service for a flat fee. We would still pay the buyers broker the typical cooperating commission. Could you explain how a commission is usually paid out? Terri, San Francisco, California
Dear Terri: Here is an example:
A property sells for $100,000. The seller pays a commission to his or her listing broker of 5% = $5,000.
The listing broker pays a cooperating commission to the buyer's broker of 2.5% = $2,500.
The listing broker pays a split of 65% of the listing side of the 2.5% to the listing agent: 2.5% = $2,500
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Optimus Prime is forced to confront the most dangerous and horrifying force the world has ever known...
Optimus Prime: Megatron?
No... school children!
Fandom: (Gulp!)
To all Optimus Prime fans, prepare to look away and hit mute.
It is career day at Black River Elementary School, and Optimus Prime has stopped by to lecture the children. Prime is clearly a bit frazzled by the whole thing, and it doesn't help that one particularly inquisitive child is barraging him with a series of questions, such as where his head goes when he turns into a fire truck and how he manages to see when it's tucked away. Before Prime can adequately answer these questions, however, Daniel and all the other students start excitedly demanding that he change into a fire truck. Optimus reluctantly complies and, one stock footage sequence later, assumes his altmode, much to the delight of the students. Prime then returns to robot mode eliciting yawns and groans of boredom from the others, and attempts to return to his original speech. But Daniel raises his hand once more and asks where Prime's trailer goes when he returns to robot mode. The scene fades out as Prime is seen stuttering, trying to figure out the answer to that question for himself. But that question was very interesting. How does Prime NOT know where his trailer goes when he transforms from vehicle mode? I guess that question will remain unanswered...
- Writer: Uh...
- Director: Er...
- Animation: Studio 4°C
- Original airdate: N/A - this is a short, meaning it is not televised (The DVD containing this short, Transform and Roll Out!, was released on June 17, 2008)
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance)
Daniel: Can you turn into a fire truck right now?
Optimus: Uh, well, I wasn't planning on...
Children: *cheering* FIRE TRUCK! FIRE TRUCK! FIRE TRUCK! FIRE TRUCK!
Optimus: *sighs* Fire truck... *Transform stock footage: robot to vehicle - after this, the children cheer in delight. Transform stock footage: vehicle to robot* Where was I...?
- —Prime learns that there's just no pleasing some audiences...
Daniel: Where does your trailer go when you turn back into a robot
Optimus: Uh... Trailer uh... right hmmm...
- —Not even Prime knows the mysterious disappearing Trailer trick.
DVD Release
Transform and Roll Out! was released to DVD by Paramount Home Entertainment on June 17, 2008. The DVD presents the episode in film format, showing all three parts in a single form, and contains two all-new animated shorts (this one and "Evel Knievel Jump"). Together, the two shorts run just under 3 minutes.
Target sold Transform and Roll Out! with a special bonus disc that included "Home Is Where the Spark Is."
- The DVD containing this short does not list the title or feature any production credits. This information comes from Animated designer Derrick J. Wyatt.
Animation and/or technical glitches
- In the beginning, you can hear Optimus Prime speak, but his lips do not move until a close-up, unless he was wearing his face-plate. Kids can be a little germy.
- Optimus's firetruck mode is huge, with the kids being very small, and the teacher only coming up to the bottom of his front bumper.
Transformers references
- Fans have been wondering about just where Optimus Prime's trailer disappears to when he transforms for many, MANY years. In a way, though, it's relieving to know that Prime himself is just as in the dark as the rest of us. On the other hand, if even Prime himself doesn't know, then what chance do we have of finding out?
Miscellaneous trivia
- When Optimus transforms back to robot mode, the dramatic music played when he transforms to FIRE TRUCK!!! is played again, only backwards this time.
- The kids in this century and setting are so used to robots, even giant ones that talk and originate from alien planets, that a fire truck is a lot more exciting to them. How times have changed.


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June 25, 1938
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) into law. The FLSA applied to industries whose combined employment represented only about one-fifth of the labor force. In these industries, it banned certain types of child labor, established a minimum wage, and set a maximum workweek at 44 hours.


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Apple's original implementation of "smart" file management isn't just limited to the Finder, and in fact, you've probably seen it more often in other applications like Address Book and Mail.
Here are some ideas of how you can harness the power of these two applications using the same idea as Smart Folders.
Smart Groups
Address Book provides support for smart groups which allow for dynamic content, just like a smart folder. As new content is added that meet your guidelines, the group will automatically update.
Creating a Smart Group is as simple as going to File and selecting "New Smart Group…" or by clicking the plus icon (+) in the lower left corner of the Address Book window. Then give your group a name and set of criteria. As you add your second criterion, you'll have the choice for your group to consist of any of your rules or all of your rules.
Here's some ideas for useful smart groups.
Upcoming Birthdays
Interested in who might have a birthday this month? Set the birthday criterion to include entries that occur within the next month. (This will include all birthdays within a month of the current date or when you click to view the group.)
Missing Email Addresses
To see a list of people who you do not have an email address for, set the email criterion to include entries that are not set.
My Coworkers
Most companies offer their employees an email address that uses the corporate domain. If you created a smart group for "email" that contains "yourdomain.com" then you will have a group that is always updated with all of your coworkers. An extra bonus, these Smart Groups also show up and autocomplete in Mail.
Or Anything You Want
Since the Address Book allows for a "notes" section on each card, you can use this region to "tag" cards and then use a smart group to show results based on that information. (You could also repurpose one of the other standard fields for this use.) For example, throwing the word "family" into the appropriate contacts' card would allow for you to create a smart group that just showed your family members.
Currently, Smart Groups cannot be synced to iPods or iPhones. While they also cannot be synced through MobileMe to me.com or Windows computers, they can still sync through MobileMe to other Macs.
Smart Mailboxes
Mail has its own flavor of smart file management too with the implementation of smart mailboxes. To create one, use the Mailbox menu or the plus (+) icon in the lower left of the message viewer and select "New Smart Mailbox."
Give your smart mailbox a name and choose the appropriate criteria for your mailbox. With the ability to create criteria based on recipient, subject, mailbox, date, message, attachment and more, you can create some pretty powerful mailboxes to help organize your workflow. Here's a few suggestions.
Recently Viewed
Most people process tons of email on a daily basis and frequently people have multiple email addresses for different purposes. With all of these messages, is there an easy way to find that email you were looking at last night?
Sure! Create a new smart mailbox and select "date last viewed" and choose "is in the last" and specify a number of days.
Recently Sent
If I wanted to quickly find an email that I had sent recently, I could create a Smart Group that showed me messages in the mailbox "Sent" that were "date received" in the past 2 days. Also make sure you tick the "Include messages from Sent" checkbox.
Emails from My Family
Remember the family smart group we made in our Address Book earlier? We can create a smart mailbox to show us all the messages from those family members.
Select "Sender is Member of Group" and then choose the appropriate group from the drop down menu.
Similar to Smart Groups, Smart Mailboxes do not sync to iPods or iPhones nor to me.com or Windows computers through MobileMe. They will only sync via MobileMe to other Macs.
Do you use Smart Groups or Smart Mailboxes? Have any tips you'd like to share? Share them in the comments.


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Episode 3:
In this episode, the whole family goes to a café. They
discuss what they are going to order but Jon finds it
difficult to choose what to eat. When the waiter comes to
take the order, Jon is finally able to make a decision. Dave
appears and is invited to join them but he has a previous
arrangement with friends. Anna's attitude to Dave again
gives Mark the opportunity to make fun of her.
Functional language
Scenes 1, 2 and 3 Offering and ordering food and
drink; asking and saying prices
Before you watch
Elicit what happened in the previous episode. Ask
students how often they eat out. Where do they go?
What are their favourite cafés or restaurants?
Vocabulary to be pre-taught or checked
Choice hurry up a slice of smoothie sir/madam
Extra questions
Scene 1
What kinds of food are healthy?
Scene 2
What would you order?
Scene 3
What kinds of food do you think are 'yummy'?


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Our teachers are Mrs Moxon and Miss Harris. We also have Miss Chandler as our Teaching Assistant and Mr Lisgo who is our Governor and volunteers in our class every day! Miss Ismay comes to work with us too.
Have a go at some of these interactive sites that might help you learn a little bit more about our topics.
English: We are reading Pebble in my pocket and looking at all the things a simple pebble will have experienced over the millions of years.
Maths: We are focusing on different strategies we use for adding and subtracting and how we can solve problems using these skills.
We are continuing to improve our recall of our 2, 3, 5 and 10 times table facts.
Autumn 2 is all about volcanoes, looking at how and where they are formed, and the positive and negative impact they have.
We will be continuing to look at rocks and soils in Science.
Spring term
We are looking at the Ancient Egyptians this term. Look at us mummifying tomatoes.


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Top Ten (#9) Auto-Buy Authors
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I installed homebridge on my Synology so that I could connect my thermostat with HomeKit. Surprisingly easy, minus a few rounds of trial and error on getting the configs right.
I installed homebridge on my Synology so that I could connect my thermostat with HomeKit. Surprisingly easy, minus a few rounds of trial and error on getting the configs right.
This is the fourth and last in a series of posts describing the system I built to monitor long-running commands.
The third post explained my
mon script, which together
with my
twait script from the second post,
lights up an LED when a command in a tmux pane or iTerm window completes.
If I want to monitor a command, I use
mon twait ID, where
ID is the pane or
window ID. Or I can run another command only if the first command is successful,
by writing
twait ID && ./other_command.
Of course it would be annoying to type the window ID manually, so I have two
keyboard shortcuts. One to start
mon twait ID in a separate window that closes
automatically when it is done. The other to open a new window with the text
twait ID && followed by a space.
Tmux can be scripted through the use of unix-like commands, with arguments and options. These can either be run from the command line or assigned keyboard shortcuts.
I use Ctrl-A plus uppercase E for the first.
This splits to form a new window, 5 lines high, and runs
mon twait. The
parameter in a
tmux run command gets translated into the pane ID.
I use Ctrl-A plus lowercase E for the second.
You can do very similar things with iTerm using AppleScript.
To open the monitor in a temporary pane, I use this script. It is possible to control the height of the new pane, but I haven't figured it out yet.
I prefer new windows over tabs or split windows, so I use this script to open a new window prepped to run a follow-up command.
This is the third in a series of posts describing the system I built to monitor long-running commands.
The second post explained my
twait script, which
waits for a command in a separate tmux pane or iTerm window to complete,
and then exits with the same code.
The easiest way to get notified when
twait finishes is to chain the commands:
But this ignores the return value, which is a useful part of the notification.
You could solve this by passing the return value as an argument:
$? variable contains the return code of the last command.
I mostly use a script called
mon that takes the other command as an argument:
mon is running the command, it has access to its exit code. It can also
do some prep work before running the command. The downside is that you have to
keep the command fairly simple; using pipes, multiple commands, or shell aliases
does not work properly.
Here is the code to my monitor script, which lights my blink LED and sends a Pushover notification.
This sets the LED to a dim white at the beginning of the command, prints a
message, and then runs the command. The
$@ variable contains all of the
arguments to the script, which should be the command to run, followed by its
arguments. When we are done with the command, we capture the return code.
Depending on the value of the return code, I turn the LED green, red, or blue, and send a message to my phone and watch.
pushover script uses
curl to send a request to the pushover servers.
Those are not my token or userid. You have to get your own from pushover.
The final post in this series will show some tmux and AppleScript integrations to make this monitoring easier to launch.
This is the second in a series of posts describing the system I built to monitor long-running commands.
The first post explained how I write a text file of the form
$HOME/.local/logs/return-$ID every time a command finishes.
ID variable is the unique identifier for the tmux pane or iTerm window.
Each file contains a single line with the return code of the last command to
complete in that window.
Now that a file is being written every time a command finishes, it is not difficult to wait for a command from a given window to finish.
I call this script
twait, meaning "wait for terminal."
It takes a window's unique identifier as its only argument,
waits until the corresponding return file is modified,
then exits with the status read from that file.
This uses inotify (on my Linux machine at work) to wait until someone writes to the return file. Then it reads the entire contents of the return file (using cat) and uses that as the exit code for the script.
On MacOS, you can replace inotify with fswatch:
This is a suprisingly useful command. Although I originally built it with
only monitoring in mind, it serves as a useful way to queue up any follow-up
command. In one window I can write
and in a separate window I can write
twait %22 && ./run. This will wait for
the build to finish, and as long as it is successful, run some other command.
It is not uncommon for me to have a chain of three or four tmux panes stacked vertically, each running one of a series of commands. It makes it very easy to quickly visualize the progress of the command sequence.
In the next post, I will show how I use
twait to do the monitoring,
and in the final post of the series I will share some tmux/iTerm integrations
that make it easier to use both
twait and my monitoring script.
This is the first in a series of posts describing the system I built to monitor long-running commands.
For me, this started as a way to light a blink 1 LED at work when a long build completed, bringing me back to the more important task from whatever may have distracted me. After a recent post by Casey Liss, I've added watch notifications to the mix.
The problem, for me at least, is that I never know when a command is going to take long enough that I lose interest and want a notification, so appending a command at the end of the original is not an option:
build; notify
You could always run
build, and then when you realize you want notified, type
notify blindly, but any stray keys or sometimes even mouse scrolling might
mess up the follow up command. (Or whatever long-running command you are using
might be capturing stdin.)
What I really wanted was a way for any terminal window to wait on any other terminal window. And of course, it would be nice to be able to do something different depending on what the return value is.
The first step is to capture and log the return value of every command in every window. Not long ago, this would have seemed ludicrous, but with SSDs, it really isn't a big deal to write to disk once per command.
To be able to tell one command from another, you need some kind of an identifier
for each window.
At work, I always use tmux, which calls windows panes,
and gives each pane an incrementing identifier,
stored in the
TMUX_PANE variable.
At home, I use iTerm2,
which sets the
TERM_SESSION_ID variable.
This variable actually has two parts separated by a colon, and the unique id is
in the second part, which is accessible using parameter subtitution
Both zsh and bash can run an arbitrary command right before drawing the prompt, that is, right after any command finishes. This is a perfect place to capture and log the return value.
In zsh, this is
precmd, so you can define something like this in your
zshrc (using tmux pane):
The variable
$? holds the return value of the last command.
In bash, this is
PROMPT_COMMAND, so you can put this in your bashrc
(using iTerm window id):
In the next post, I'll show you how to use this logged value to wait for a command to finish.


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Under six pounds
ASDA, Extra Special Old Vine Garnacha 2013, Spain
An outstanding bargain: just a fiver gets you this Garnacha (Grenache) from the Cariñena region in Eastern Spain. There's loads of superb old vine fruit across Spain's less celebrated regions, making wines such as this a real bargain if they are made well by consciencious producers. Crammed with fresh raspberry and buoyant cherry scents, there's a herb and flower touch too and plenty of aromatic personality. In the mouth it is dry yet fruit-filled and juicy, with soft but nicely roughening tannins, balanced acidity and a real honesty that's not always present in big brand wines being sold at such a rock-bottom price. 86/100. £5.00, Asda and Asda online.
under a tenner
Fontanafredda, Moscato d'Asti Moncucco 2013, Italy
This is a excellent example of a style of dessert wine I love: the very lightly sparkling, hugely aromatic Muscat from Piedmont in the northwest of Italy. With only 5.5% alcohol (which is typical for these wines) it is feather-light yet intense. There's the merest frothy frizzante on the tongue, but all those floral and herbal scents translate into flavour, that persists through to the shimmering, balanced finish. An absolute delight to sip, but matches with everything from the darkest chocolate puddings to fresh fruit desserts. 89/100. £9.35 per 50cl, Exel Wines. See all stockists on wine-searcher.
under twenty
Kaiken, Ultra Malbec 2012, Argentina
Twelve months ageing in French oak for this Malbec, sourced from premium vineyards in three of Mendoza's sub-zones. What a delightfully fragrant nose, with Sandalwood and burning incense, the tobacco and toast of the oak melting into the floral-edged black fruits of the Malbec, touches of chocolate and menthol, but savoury. In the mouth it is pretty sumptuous stuff, fairly big, velvety and soft with its ripe fruit, plush tannins and chocolate density of texture, but there is a lively cherry and blackcurrant-skin acidity too, in a long and simply delicious wine. Montes reckon this will have 10-years ageing potential. 92/100. £13.99, see all UK stockists on wine-searcher.
sky's the limit
Bruno Giacosa, Barbaresco Asili 2012, Italy
Along with Barolo, Barbaresco is the other 'great' wine of Piedmont, and this is a typically fresh and vital interpretation from Giacosa. Lots of cherry and bold floral and juicy red fruits, a wisp of smoke and hints of exotic incense, the nose is velvety but hugely fresh. On the palate such a gorgeous concentration without extraction. Its dry tannin structure suggests great youth and great potential, but the length and precision has chocolate and ripe plum lushness too. A 20-year wine potentially. 95/100. Currently being sold in cases of six, in-bond, and on allocation. The duty- and VAT-paid equivalent bottle price is £95.46 from Armit Wines. See all stockists on wine-searcher


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Ah! If I have correctly understood your message, you are not familiar with all the 'large/giant' breeds. When the Mrs and I wanted a dog (this was many years ago) we went around various large shows specifically searching for the largest dog we could find tat didn't have a major slobber problem. We rejected Newfies, with considerable regret, precisely because they did have the problem - many of them wearing bibs to queue up for the showring on a warm day! What we finished up with (I refer you back to the illustration!) was a Bernese Mountain Dog (they may go under slightly different names in other countries, and Americans generally go for a short-haired equivalent). At the time (early 1980s!) they often reached 8 or 9 stone (50-60Kg) but breeding has reduced the normal size somewhat since then. They do slobber a bit, but far less than other dogs of their size. They are soft, affectionate, strong and stupid. One of the breed guidebooks says they take instinctively to harness, and I found it more-or-less true (unlike our old GSD-cross, but that's another story)
My first Rottweiler didn't slobber. My second Rottweiler is nicknamed "Goober" for slobber-related reasons...


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The Grand Finale of the fbb Femina Miss India 2016 beauty pageant was held late on Saturday at Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai and the event was a star studded one with many Bollywood stars including Shah Rukh Khan, Varun Dhawan, Shahid Kapoor and Arjun Kapoor, performing at it.The winners of this year's FBB Femina Miss India have been announced after ceremony on Saturday night and Delhi girl Priyadarshini Chatterjee has bagged the crown for FBB Femina Miss India World.
Bangalore girl Sushruthi Krishna emerged as the 1st runner-up and Lucknow girl Pankhuri Gidwani was the 2nd runner-up of the contest.
On the judges' panel were biggies like Sanjay Dutt, tennis player Sania Mirza, Arjun Kapoor, Yami Gautam, Kabir Khan, Miss World 2015 Mireia Lalaguna, Amy Jackson, Ekta Kapoor, designers Manish Malhotra and Shane Peacock.


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Tuesday's event saw a smaller field of 17 players out in some cold and windy weather for a stableford event.
The winner was Maurie Walsh (12) with 38 points on a countback from Brad Grant (8) also with 38 points, with the ball rundown going to 34 on a countback.
Nearest the Pin on the third went to Bob Cullen and best sore on even holes went to Brad Grant. Tommy Britton collected the best score on the par fives.
Thursday dawned with a reasonable bit of wind blowing. The field comprised of 48 golfers for the regular Stableford event with some good scores being returned. There were three players competing in the gold event.
The winner of Division One was Nick Siperki (15) with 38 points from Bob Cullen (13) on a countback.
The winner of Division 2 was evergreen Perrin Gooding (28) with 35 points with Ken Fisher (28) on 34 points the runner up.
Ball run down went to 33 points on a countback. Nearest the pins were welcome back Rob Fankhauser on the third, Dave Waterton on the seventh, Geoff Morris on the ninth, Shaun Wade on the twelfth and Maurie Walsh on the sixteenth. The best score on holes 7-12 was shared between Nick Siperki and Bob Cullen, whilst the best score on the odd holes also went to Bob Cullen.
The rabbits were Rob Healy and Tony Crawford.
The Gold event saw Geoff Lowry (30) win again with 42 points.
Saturday, with a poor weather forecast and no carts allowed on the course, only 13 players competed.
The winner was Rob Healy (18) with a good wet weather score of 34 points. The ball rundown went to 32 on a countback.
Nearest the pin on the third was Michael Cooksey and on the sixteenth was Brad Grant.
Upcoming events
Saturday 25th August – August Monthly Medal Sponsored by the Mansfield Golf Club Golf Shop
Saturday 1st September – Stableford
Saturday 8th September – President's Day – 2 Ball Ambrose Mixed (register in the Golf Shop-it's filling fast)
Mansfield Golf Club's – Golf Premier League
Starting again on 6th September.
All players are advised that the team payment MUST be made by Wednesday 5th September. If the team is not financial, they will be ineligible to compete.
Mansfield Cup TOP 5 as at 4th August
1 Sam Sandhu – 5264 pts
2 Rob Healy – 5115 pts
3 Brad Grant – 4972 pts
4 Alan Parrott – 4479 pts
5 Shaun Wade – 3977 pts
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