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WordPress drag & drop builders are powerful tools that provide non-coding website owners with easy solutions to build websites that have elegance, style, and variety. Here are 40+ Drag and Drop WordPress Themes that will help you create unique, responsive WordPress sites—no coding necessary.
1) inVogue
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Responsive drag-and-drop layout builder WordPress theme intended to power professional photographers blogs or sites coming with complex image gallery options.
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It is especially designed for Business, Financial Advisor, Accountant, Law Firm, Wealth Advisor, Investment and general corporate website. This theme comes with super powerful page builder which allow you to create your site using drag drop ability. It comes with necessary feature for your website such as blog, portfolio, testimonial, personnel, etc.
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It is a powerful and flexible theme that comes with very rich tools and options to make creating website as simple as possible. For example one of its tools is Smart Page Builder. In short, this is an awesome drag & drop page building tool. By this tool you can create any page (for example home page) layout with very rich collection of web elements in a minute without writing html or touching even one line of code. In other words, you can quickly design unlimited unique looking pages in simple drag & drop visually.
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The theme provides a very flexible, drag drop tool to manage your gallery. You can create both full screen gallery or if you like the traditional way, you can build it as column style as well.
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It may be used both as a personal and agency portfolio and a business website. With a powerful Theme Options panel and an extensive documentation you will get your site up and running the way YOU want in no time.
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Versatile, responsive and high-performance WordPress theme, it gives you the power to create a unique-looking website with an easy-to-use drag and drop page builder that?s fully responsive, retina-ready, and SEO-optimised.Designed and developed as an ultimate web building platform of design elements, styles & features, VEGA will help you build modern, high-performance website in minutes, without coding knowladge.!
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16) Brooks WP
Brooks is a fresh look at design, thousands hours of work on code, usability and functionality. You can easy create your perfect site with user friendly theme settings, good organized layout designs and "Drag and Drop" content builder.
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A very convenient drag-n-drop PageBuilder for WordPress. It should provide you with the smoothest experience while creating your website. Tihs is fully responsive, every gadget will have its looking as nice as on a PC.
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21) Modernize
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22) Agenzy
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23) The Wedding Day
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29) Blue Diamond
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30) The Edge
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31) Tulip
Visual Composer allows you to build beautiful pages with an easy Drag & Drop system without messing around with Shortcodes and HTML Code. No programing knowledge is required to use it!
32) ER BeautyPress
You can create unlimited layout and unique design with Drag and drop features without knowledge any code.
33) Labomba
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34) Azoom
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36) Cuisine
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37) Lines
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38) Kalia
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39) Polytechnic
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41) Memento
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42) Rime
Variety of portfolio showcases can be generated using the theme such as ajax based sortable showcases capable of displaying images,videos and slideshows with client information.The theme is packed with showcase solutions including shortcode thumbnail generations that supports multiple image drag and drop capability.


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The war erupted in 2008 when Georgian troops failed to regain control over the Moscow-backed breakaway province of South Ossetia, ending with a France-brokered truce.
Georgia marked the tenth anniversary on Wednesday of the outset of its 2008 conflict with Russia over the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
The war erupted in 2008 when Georgian troops tried unsuccessfully to regain control over the Moscow-backed breakaway province of South Ossetia and Russia sent troops that routed the Georgian military in five days of fighting.
August 8, 2008 was the first full day of fighting.
In Tbilisi on Tuesday night, activists protested outside the Russian embassy.
The war ended in an agreement brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy under which both sides were to pull troops back to pre-war positions.
'Restoration of territorial integrity very close'
On Wednesday, Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili marked the anniversary with a wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial cemetery in Tbilisi for Georgian soldiers killed in the conflict.
"Ten years have passed since the August tragedy. I want to remind everyone that this was not the first aggression against a free Georgia," Margvelashvili said.
"First Russia tried to punish us during the first years during the restoration of independence. This was the war of the 1990s which Russia was conducting in Abkhazia and South Ossetia."
Margvelashvili said 2008 was another wave of "perfidious" attacks against Georgia.
"Today, when we think about the past we see that victory and restoration of our territorial integrity is very close."
EU voices support for Georgia
After the war, Georgia entirely lost control of both South Ossetia and another separatist region, Abkhazia.
Russia has strengthened its military presence in both regions and recognised them as independent states, but only a few countries have followed suit.
The EU on Tuesday reiterated its "firm support to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia within its internationally recognised borders" and lamented the Russian military presence in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Ukraine have elaborated a joint communique calling on Russia to withdraw its troops from Georgian territories.

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Since Sunday was Mother's Day, I decided to make my mother's favorite bar recipe, Mounds Bars, to take to the cabin. She made these often for many of the weekends at the lake during my childhood. It seemed fitting to have them this year as a tiny reminder (more…)
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text: The new WGBH headquarters in Brighton has a 30x45ft. LED display visible from the eastbound Mass. Pike below. During the day they run a series of digital murals, the one pictured is "Giraffes Don't Huff", and at night an image of the evening sky. The display is part of a $85M building on Guest St. designed by Polshek Archecture Partners. I really like that they added several smaller LED displays on 2 sides of the building that makes it seem more organically part of the structure.


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Archive for November, 2017|Monthly archive page
'Thanks', plural of 'thank'
In part because it's American Thanksgiving and in part as preface to my launching a new chapbook this Sunday, I post here a sequence of faux haikus originally shared over a number of days on my Facebook author's page in 2016 that each mark (or, more philosophically, "trace") a moment or spot-in-time of gratitude.
Walk to work over Park Mont
Royale: birdsong &
melt burble in stereo.
Ekphrastic "tiny heroes
hunting flying grass-
hair butts" from an ex-student.
Facebook messenger giggle
threads nearly daily
with ex-student writer friend.
Not my fault but likely got
a student expelled
& yet I still feel regret.
Is it the Waldmeister garb?
Everyone asks me
directions on the Mountain!
Suffocating poetry
festival panel:
Happy, two friends to sit with.
An invitation to watch
a friend's family eat
chicken, vegetables for all.
"He thinks everything he says
is a pearl"—a brown
pearl, a soft brown oblong pearl.
[This gratitude haiku is
in breach of Facebook's
Terms and Conditions of Use]
A session on the Holy
Mountain, the Living
Room, Eichendorff Anlage.
The Extending the Table
cookbook my sister
gave us years back used daily.
Everything for tomorrow's
Basic Raw Vegan
Protein Overnight Oats on hand.
A damp, cool, April Monday
morning; walk signal
turns as I step to the curb;
green buds heart high on
pussy willow; chickadee
trio met on Mont
Royale for palmseed breakfast;
lithe black Lab mongrel
mindless joy hunting squirrel,
redpink tongue aflap;
retiree, I imagine,
crouches down before
March End Prill, camera balanced
to film the melt stream.
Feeding the Mountain
chickadees again this time
four & lower down.
Fritz Lang on meeting Goebbels
& high-tailing it
out of Germany on YouTube.
Realizing a friend's "today's good"
status updates are
his own gratitude haikus.
Rainer in Heidelberg e-
mails me RE: a fish
& crow for a new haiku.
I'm here! Chickadees call; in
among roots, under
a bench two tiny Chipping
Sparrows; standing still
roadside a Mallard I could
look in her black eye;
white underwing then bark grey
back of a Cooper's
Hawk pair; trunks and branches arch
a hall for birdsong;
quack honk pair call overhead
two Canada Geese.
Haematite & red
jasper pendant stones gifted
from friends worn daily.
Overhead overheard a
sparrow hen's sighing
invitation to her cock.
Searching for chickadees I
spot a hawk broad wings
spread glide in two slow circles.
The gratitude haiku I
could write every day
about my Bedrock of Love.
More to be grateful
for today than seventeen
syllables can say.
Kisses waking me
three times last night after three
days cities apart.
Discussing poems
& coming to understand
some matters are style.
One martini to
dissolve pedagogical
Sunday morning sun warms rain
wet pavement; German
summers rise to memory.
Sitting myself free
from an intoxicating
toxic old mentor.
Getting progressives
have fought so much against they
forget what they're for.
That uncanny first
green of grass & full foliage;
May in Montreal.
Scholarly duties
discharged—time to write & read
& think—poetry!
Morning walk to school;
chance meeting with Adrian,
gentle bookseller.
Distant Keel scholar
friend reads my latest poems:
"More soon! Herzlich, d."
Brunette shoulder-length
mop, fair-face toddler; behind-
soother grin, "Bonjour!"
Doktor Pfeiler asks to read
"Bochum" at the Ruhr
Uni Anniversary.
France outlaws food waste;
Neckar gulls rise & circle
Hölderlin's tower.
[Dear friend, the pseudo
haiku means thanks for the news
& Celan's poem!]
I read hash high mice
horny but too stoned to climb on
yawn then lick themselves.
Tropical muggy
Montreal summer monsoons
cooling afternoons.
Despite knowing better grave
nostalgia wins out;
music of my youth.
Day after I'm told
chemo's on the horizon
Archer season six.
The chick says Feed me!
The cock says Fuck me! The hen
says Leave me alone!
Message with Georg
about how The Walking Dead
is a great Western.
Every day Petra's
home not teaching I ambush
and stroke her soft skin.
The naturopath
asks if I was an athlete
in my younger days.
The inanities
of my fellow travellers
to Toronto end.
Cloudless skies warmer
than forecast; little Grey Goose;
yellow fields like home.
The wisdom of George
mindful of his feet; Uncle
Andrew's belly breaths.
A baker's dozen
sparrows flutter dust bath tubs
in reno dirtsand.
Three hot tropical
I imagine days; frozen
red grapes to snack on.
Rigpa, Amor, learning, Poesie: what more do I need in my life?
What I have to say to you friends needs more than a haiku's syllables
Couchlock or sitting full lotus, meditation bench, or straightbacked chair
Empty the cache, re
boot, meditate, and get back
down to the real work
New Chapbook: Blank Song / sangue blanc
Though it's been six years since my last trade edition, March End Prill, I haven't been utterly unproductive.
Sunday 26 November I appear with four other performers at Montreal's Words and Music show where I'll launch my new chapbook, Blank Song / sangue blanc, that collects recent, miscellaneous poems along with the collection's title sequence that addresses my recent experience with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.
The show happens 20h30-23h30 at the Casa del Popolo, 4873 Boulevard Saint-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec. Entrance is CAN$6.00.
Copies of Blank Song / sangue blanc, in a limited edition of 26, lettered, signed, and handbound by the author will be available.
The event's Facebook page is here https://www.facebook.com/events/201784977033640/


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First try roll bread
Three days ago, I tried to bake roll breads, quite exciting for the results which I've found that roll bread is quite easy to make. Will do recipe when it gets better
After making all ingredients into a dough it was half bowl size
After let it rise for an hour, I was happy to see it was double in size. Yeyy
It was coming out nicely from the oven and it tasted good too! Huhuhu 😉


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How to Score Good Marks in Freshersworld CEAT Test 2018-19 – Today most of the companies has lower their hiring numbers and competition among placement aspirants is scathing than ever. This leads to most important questions of the hour and talk of the town in job industry that how to get most out of the available opportunities.
This article on "How to Score Good Marks in Freshersworld CEAT Test" will answers all the doubts that are airing. If you have recently passed out or joining the placement queue anytime soon then please read the information carefully.
How to Score Good Marks in Freshersworld CEAT Test 2018-19
First of all, we will start with overview on freshersworld and benefits you may derive if you score good marks in CEAT Test.
So what is it?
Corporate Employability Assessment Test, better known as CEAT, is one of the top 5 National Employability tests for freshers graduates. It basically checks the employ-ability factor of the candidate by evaluating aptitude, technical and communication skills.
CEAT helps in analysing the strength and weaknesses. It also assesses the areas to be improved through the scores and the report card.It is conducted by Freshersworld.com. It has processed more than 1 crore resumes and is the most trustworthy sites for applying for jobs. It also offers Premium membership after registration.
The Fresherworlds Premium membership gives more visibility to the recruiters and increases the chances of selection and getting more offers.
This test is in simple terms, an employability assessment test or in other words, a test to check how ready you are as a professional. It is designed to test your aptitude as well as technical skills.
The aptitude section, which is the test that almost all corporates use in the first round of interviews, is mandatory for all candidates. It does not focus on any specific skill set but the very basic knowledge of the candidate along with their ability to think logically.
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Rank: Private
Army Number: 4859927
Unit: 1st Bn
Biography: Home address given as Leicestershire. Enlisted 15.9.1939. Served in the Malaya Campaign 1941-1942. Died as a prisoner of war 11.2.1943, aged 24. He is buried in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand.
Place of Birth: Leicestershire, Son of George and Betsy Stapleford
Date of Death: 11.2.1943
Place of Death: Thailand
Period of Service: 1930s
Conflicts: WW2
Places Served: Malaya
(Thanks to the Royal Leicestershire Regiment Tigers website.)


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Duncan Green\
Truth or Profit?
The Ethics and Business of Public Accounting
The images will not go away–huge multinational corporations failing, well-dressed executives being led away in handcuffs, and public accounting firms being charged for complicity. How do we make sense of the reality behind these images? Is it, as cynics claim, that public accountants are self-seeking, offering a form of window-dressing for greedy corporate executives? Or is public accounting a profession doing the best it can in the face of difficult circumstances? Are public accountants driven by the profit motive or are they seeking a truth in accounting? Neu and Green argue that it is impossible to answer these questions without examining the historical evolution of public accountancy. Their analysis illustrates that public accountancy is simultaneously a business and a public service–thus to try to understand it in any other way misses the tension that is always present between these two faces of the profession.


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Posts Tagged 'linguistics'
Sunday Morning Links!
Because Saturday Night Links just weren't enough.
* Catching Up With the Next Generation of Sci-Fi Writers at the Village Voice.
* My name is Wil Wheaton. I Live With Chronic Depression and Generalized Anxiety. I Am Not Ashamed.
* Diversify your workforce the Marvel way!
"We're 100 percent committed to diversity…Marvel is the world outside your window and we want not only our characters but our creative talent to reflect that world and it hasn't been an easy road to be honest with you. Going back to the 60s when Marvel were created it was created by a number of white men here in New York City who were working in our studio… But now, we do not have any artists that work in Marvel. All our writers and artists work — are freelancers that live around the world so our talent base has diversified almost more quickly than our character base has."
* Accountancy used to be boring – and safe. But today it's neither. Have the 'big four' firms become too cosy with the system they're supposed to be keeping in check? The financial scandal no one is talking about.
* The implications of this authority are breathtaking. Trump, in their view, has unlimited control to open or close any federal investigation. Meanwhile, they keep openly admitting obstruction, and nothing matters.
* During one December 2013 hearing, still available online, Scott questioned an applicant about illegally voting after his release from prison. When the man replied he voted for Scott, the governor chuckled and, seconds later, granted his voting rights.
* I used to be a 911 dispatcher. I had to respond to racist calls every day.
* Families of Four of Eight Students Killed in Santa Fe Shooting Are Suing Gunman's Parents.
* "The most common complaint I receive from students and faculty members is that we don't have enough administrators."
* "All of the theoretical work that's been done since the 1970s has not produced a single successful prediction," says Neil Turok, director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. "That's a very shocking state of affairs." Say what you will about critical theory in the humanities, it's predicted just about everything that's happened since…
* The one thing that we can I think be sure of is that if we get a signal, we will know it's an artificial signal [and not from an astronomical source]. And then we'll know that we are not alone. Will we ever be able to understand it? I don't know. The researchers who study alien linguistics.
* The Soviets' secret map of Seattle tells a lot about us.
* Itsa me!
* And I'd at least give it a watch.
Monday Morning Links!
* My superhero identity has finally been scooped.
* Lots of people are sharing this one, on hyperexploited labor in the academy: Truman Capote Award Acceptance Speech. As with most of this sort of adjunct activist some of its conclusions strike me as emotionally rather than factually correct — specifically, it needs to find a way to make tenured and tenure-track faculty the villains of the story, in order to make the death of the university a moral narrative about betrayal rather than a political narrative about the management class's construction of austerity — but it's undoubtedly a powerful read.
* I did this one already, but what the hell: Ten Theses In Support of Teaching and Against Learning Outcomes.
* Open Access (OA) is the movement to make academic research available without charge, typically via digital networks. Like many cyberlibertarian causes OA is roundly celebrated by advocates from across the political spectrum. Yet like many of those causes, OA's lack of clear grounding in an identifiable political framework means that it may well not only fail to serve the political goals of some of its supporters, and may in fact work against them. In particular, OA is difficult to reconcile with Marxist accounts of labor, and on its face appears not to advance but to actively mitigate against achievement of Marxist goals for the emancipation of labor. In part this stems from a widespread misunderstanding of Marx's own attitude toward intellectual work, which to Marx was not categorically different from other forms of labor, though was in danger of becoming so precisely through the denial of the value of the end products of intellectual work. This dynamic is particularly visible in the humanities, where OA advocacy routinely includes disparagement of academic labor, and of the value produced by that labor.
* Bring on the 403(b) lawsuits.
* On being married to an academic.
* It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe: Nobel academy member calls Bob Dylan's silence 'arrogant.'
* Eugenics and the academy. Racism and standardized testing. Whiteness and international relations.
* Language Log reads the bookshelf in the linguist's office set in Arrival (out next month!).
* After years of neglect, public higher education is at a tipping point.
* Mass Incarceration And Its Mystification: A Review Of The 13th.
* Springsteen and Catholicism.
* White masculinity as cloning.
* Parenting is weird. If God worked at a pet store, He'd be fired. Part Two. It's a mystery!!! Wooooooooooh! The Fox and the Hedgehog. Science and technology have reached their limit. Self-destructive beverage selection: a guide. Motivational comics. Has the media gotten worse, or has society? Understanding the presidency. The oldest recorded joke is from Sumeria, circa 1900 B.C. There's a monster under my bed.
* Tenure Denials Set Off Alarm Bells, and a Book, About Obstacles for Minority Faculty.
* Trump's Milwaukee Problem. Let's Talk About the Senate. From Pot To Guns To School Funding: Here's What's On The Ballot In Your State. Todd Akin and the "shy" voter. The banality of Trump. The latest polls indicate the possibility of a genuine electoral disaster for the GOP. A short history of white people rigging elections. Having not yet won it back yet, Dems are already getting ready to lose the Senate (again) in 2018. The Democrats are likely to win a majority of House votes, but not a majority of House seats. Again. Today in uncannily accurate metaphors. This all seems perfectly appropriate. Even Dunkin Donuts is suffering. But at least there's a bright side. On the other hand.
Slavery: Colorado
Yes, you read that right. There is a vote on slavery in 2016. The Colorado state constitution currently bans slavery and "involuntary servitude" … except if it's used as punishment for a crime. This amendment would get rid of that exception and say that slavery is not okay, ever.
* And so, too, with the new civic faith enshrined in Hamilton: we may have found a few new songs to sing about the gods of our troubled history, but when it comes to the stories we count on to tell us who we are, we remain caught in an endless refrain.
* Speaking of endless refrain: Emmett Till memorial in Mississippi is now pierced by bullet holes.
* District Judge John McKeon, who oversees a three-county area of eastern Montana, cited that exception this month when he gave the father a 30-year suspended sentence after his guilty plea to incest and ordered him to spend 60 days in jail over the next six months, giving him credit for the 17 days already served. His sentence requires him to undergo sex offender treatment and includes many other restrictions.
* On Anime Feminist. (via MeFi)
* Today in the Year of Kate McKinnon: ten minutes of her Ghostbusters outtakes.
* Jessica Jones's Second Season Will Only Feature Female Directors.
* I don't really think they should do Luke Cage season two — or Jessica Jones for that matter, as Daredevil proved already — but just like I'd love to see a Hellcat series with Jessica Jones as a supporting player I'd love to see Misty Knight guest starring Luke Cage.
* The Case against Black Mirror. I haven't been able to tune in to the new season yet but the backlash surprises me. This was one of the best shows on TV before! What happened?
* Famous authors and their rejection slips.
* How much for a hotel on AT&TTW? AT&T to buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion.
* "This is still the greatest NYT correction of all time imo."
* This is [chokes] great. It's great if they do this.
* This, on the other hand, is unbelievably awful: Thousands of California soldiers forced to repay enlistment bonuses a decade after going to war. Everyone involved in trying to claw back this money should be ashamed of themselves.
* Gee, you don't say: U.S. Parents Are Sweating And Hustling To Pay For Child Care.
* I've discovered the secret to immortality.
* And there's a new Grow game out for that mid-2000s nostalgia factor we all crave. Solution here when you're done messing around…
Tuesday Links!
* One last bit of self-promotion for my Octavia Butler series at LARoB, reviewing the forthcoming eBook Unexpected Stories and the never-to-be-a-book Parable of the Trickster.
* Meanwhile, my new best friend Levar Burton says Octavia Butler is the writer he most wishes he'd met.
* John Oliver for/against the World Cup. Five Thirty Eight's World Cup Predictions. How to Nerd Out about Soccer. The World Cup and the Corporatization of Soccer.
* An itinerary is by no means the only thing required for setting out on a trip. And the itinerary will change along the way. But for a deliberate departure from capitalism, rather than a blind flight, a preliminary itinerary will be necessary. Whatever we think of the term communism, the crossroads Marx and Engels glimpsed in the Manifesto is coming more clearly into view: either a left alternative to capitalism or "the common ruin of the contending classes".
* The Church of Science Fiction.
* As horrific as recent mass killings have been, the idea of a slide into ongoing domestic terrorism is just nightmarish.
* Meanwhile: War Gear Flows to Police Departments.
* Dads Want To Spend Time With Their New Children, If Only We'd Give Them Paid Leave.
* Leaving Homeless Person On The Streets: $31,065. Giving Them Housing: $10,051.
* We're not giving moms credit when we pose them as the decisive factor in a child's development, we're sticking them with the bill.
* The Prison-Industrial Complex and Orange Is the New Black.
* Temple University is investigating an ethics complaint that two of its professors did not properly disclose funding from the private prison industry for their research on the cost of incarceration.
* Grad Students Could Win Big as Obama Slashes Debt Payments. Understanding the CBO's bullshitting about how the government doesn't make money on student loans. Lawsuits and the end of the NCAA. College's inequality disgrace: Millionaire university presidents and indebted students. In the Near Future, Only Very Wealthy Colleges Will Have English Departments. Yes, the Humanities Are Struggling, but They Will Endure. And Now We Know I'll Never Be MLA President.
* Emily Bazelon covers the Title IX crisis in American colleges. Taekwondo Is Great but Not the Solution to Campus Rape. U. of Oregon Student Who Alleged Rape by Athletes Writes Open Letter. And then there's George.
* Jezebel covers Wikipedia's internal fighting over #YesAllWomen.
* How to drive through all 48 of the contiguous United States in 113 hours.
* The unbearable sadness of Milwaukee tourism videos.
* I thought this was genuinely stunning even by Fox's already low standards: Fox News Guest Launches Race-Based Attack On Neil deGrasse Tyson.
* Waffle House Forces Waitress To Return $1,000 Tip.
* "The way US immigration laws operate is absurd."
* The media warns readers about violent pimps stealing girls from malls, but most victims' stories are very different. I know this because I was a teen trafficking victim, and my experience reflects much of the research that's been done with trafficking victims.
* The rise of the noncompete clause.
* A Brief History of the Gendered Pronoun in English. In defense of the singular "they."
* Yes, Nixon Scuttled the Vietnam Peace Talks.
* If We're Lucky, There's Going to Be a Clone High Movie–IN MY PANTS.
* Review getting picked up: five stars.
* And 4°C only sounds like no big deal.
A Few More
* Divestment from guns. Go after guns like tobacco; start with the advertising.
* Why do these young white male people whom we routinely characterize as crazy—as exceptions to the rules of civilized comportment and moral choice—always rehearse and recite the same script? If each killer is so deviant, so inexplicable, so exceptional, why does the apocalyptic ending never vary?
* Cory Booker dumps his oppo research on the New York Times.
* Why there's a "b" in the word "doubt."
* Which Wes Anderson Character Are You?
* And coming soon: the fabulous LEGOLand Hotel.
Random Link Friday
Random Link Friday.
* Happy 90th Birthday, Nelson Mandela.
* With the passage of a major new wind power initiative, is Texas now the most energy-conscious state in the union?
* Top
10 7 religions you never knew existed. (Who didn't know about Jainism, Falun Gong, and the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church?)
* Wikipedia's list of unsolved problems in diverse fields like physics, linguistics, economics, cognitive science, and philosophy.
Tuesday Links
Man, I've been slack today. Here are a few things I've been looking at:
* A list of science fiction with a linguist bent.
* 'The Return of the Paranoid Style': How Iraq brought us not John Wayne but Jason Bourne.
* Every bit of spoiler news there is about the upcoming season of Battlestar Galactica.
* New York Governor David Peterson's daily revelations are becoming sort of hilarious.
* Eric Alterman on the death of the American newspaper.
* The end of suburbia, this time in the Boston Review.
* We're #22! We're #22!


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HARRISBURG, Pa. — A small Pennsylvania town police chief and his friend were charged with raping a child over a seven-year period when they were teenagers starting when the girl was 4 years old, state prosecutors said Wednesday.
Brent Getz, 27, was arrested and charged Tuesday along with Gregory Wagner, 28. The alleged victim said both men sexually assaulted her, often at the same time, from 2005 to 2012.
The investigation began in 2012 when the child, who was 12 at the time, reported Wagner had been assaulting her, prosecutors said. No charges were filed following an investigation.
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Always in search of the perfect balancing
A history started in 1922 and still today looking at the future.
During many years the company developed and delivered different products, always tied together by a connecting line, sometimes not evident. The first products were small electric motors and electric drills, until the first balancing machines in the 50's, then during the 70's and 80's the turbomolecular pumps. Finally from the 90's the high vacuum thin films deposition systems.
The continuous technical research and development, competition and specialisation have brought recently Elettrorava to concentrate its resources on two product lines: the present production includes the balancing machines and the high vacuum thin films deposition systems.


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Let's give Netflix Streaming the cold shoulder today on account of how it put us through the emotional wringer last week and forced me to eschew my much needed beauty sleep! Let's go visit our unreliable and fickle old pal YouTube instead! I usually don't feel entirely comfortable wrapping a post around a YouTube movie as you never know when they too will skip out on you, but today's flick is so good it has inspired me to throw caution to the wind. I also sometimes worry that if I get folks to watch something for free (!) then somebody somewhere, a bag lady perhaps, is not getting her royalty check! Karma-lamity! The thing is this one isn't on DVD anyway and my theory is if you watch it on YouTube now, you'll be happy to buy it if it ever does become available and then save that hypothetical bag lady! You can't save her if you don't know the movie exists! Yes, I'm only pretending to care!
Anyway, today's fantastic flick is called NEXT OF KIN! If you've already seen it you know what I'm talking about and if you haven't, get ready for your next favorite thing in the world. Just listen to these incredible stats! It's from Australia, it's a lady vs. awesome house tale, it's from 1982 the magical year for perfect movies, the cinematography is outstanding, it has one of the best horror scores of literally all time (Viva KLAUS SCHULZE!) and the strapping love interest is the psycho from WOLF CREEK (thumbs up JOHN JARRATT!)!!! I would not be terribly surprised if NEXT OF KIN was an influence on TI WEST's HOUSE OF THE DEVIL. It's got the same lazy stroll pace and then just when you are all warm and snuggly, it crashes your cranium with an iron frying pan. Although, allow me to say, I think NEXT OF KIN carries the superior clobber! It's a lightening bolt! It's a veritable goth-gasm! Nobody deserves to be as happy as it's sure to make you! I'll let you in on a secret. I've watched this movie a couple times now and I'm still unclear about why folks want to kill this lady. I'm not sure it matters. Now, think of a movie in your head! NEXT OF KIN is better than that movie!!! It's my favorite type of thing except this time it's actually done well! It's proof positive that there is gold in them there hills just waiting to be unearthed! Watch it now!!!! Or don't!


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New to Grace First
Welcome to our community of faith.
Come as you are. There are no perfect people here.
Come with your wounds, your failures, your joys, and your celebrations.
Come and receive God's grace and compassion.
Lay your burden down and pick up your life.
You Are Welcome Here
Service Times
Sunday at 9:30 am
Special services offered at Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter
Visitors: What to expect
Please make yourself at home. We are a family friendly church. Visitor name tags are available at the entrance to the church. Large print bulletins and hearing enhancement devices are available. The Ushers can assist you with those items, as well as, activity bags for children. The Nursery is available in the upper level of the church. The Nursery is open from 9:15 am to 11:15 am. Visitors are welcome to use these services. We request that you complete the attendance card that is placed on your chair & that it is returned in the collection plate. We offer a children's sermon after the Gospel & all are welcome at Communion. Following Communion, all children are invited to join in Sunday School (Grades Pre-K to 5th) and the Youth (Grades 6th,7th,& 8th) in the upper classrooms. Please accompany your child the first time & introduce yourself to Barbara Novelli (Director of Children's Ministries) and/or Christina Jacobsen (Family Ministries Coordinator). Sunday School will end at 11:15 am. Please collect your children at that time. Following service, we offer Fellowship in the Family Center.
Reverse Offering
The members of G.F.L.C. are committed to supporting our local Neighborhood Impact and Salvation Army. On the first Sunday of every month, we ask our members to bring a non perishable food item for Neighborhood Impact. During Lent we collect food every Sunday up to Palm Sunday for Neighborhood Impact. In November and December we collect items for the Salvation Army Christmas baskets.
Fragrance Free Facility
Grace First Lutheran Church, in the spirit of maintaining our "all are welcome" mission, is dedicated to implementing a fragrance-free environment. Having taken the first step in eliminating fragrances from our cleaning products we will continue to educate our membership and ask them to help create an environment that allows people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) to worship and share fellowship with us in the confines of our church.
New Members
All are welcome at Grace First Lutheran Church. If you are interested in learning about possible membership, please contact the Church Administrator, Lynn Heilman at firstname.lastname@example.com or phone 541-382-6862. We offer New Member Classes twice per year, which reviews information about the church and Lutheran practices. This is a great opportunity to ask questions. Transfers can be added at anytime. To honor our new members, we host New Member Sundays twice per year.
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Reid Stewart, Lifetime Collective
Reid Stewart is the co-founder and creative director of Lifetime Collective. He's also the editor of the collective's Free Thinkers Zine. He was visiting from Vancouver for the zine launch, so we met up with him to chat about creative process and how skateboarders get into art.
When Trevor [Fleming] and I first started Lifetime, it revolved around this feeling of creativity. Clothing was a good medium to work with our friends who were in other creative avenues, from photography and film to skateboarding and surfing. We collaborated and did projects together. We still do, we work with people all over the place.
This is the sixth issue, we do two a year. It's a biannual publication. We decided to use newsprint because it's cheap and accessible for everyone. All of our retailers get copies and we're growing the distribution to include bookstores and record shops. We make 10,000 copies and they go so fast. I want to treat the zine as its own brand, in a way. We interview people who are part of Lifetime Collective, but also people that aren't, so it's a little more broad.
The overarching theme in Lifetime Collective's Free Thinkers Zine is creative process. It's what I'm interested in. Whether I'm interviewing a photographer, painter, designer or skateboarder, I want to know how they got to the end product. For the sixth issue, we were in New York and I got to see my friend John Copeland, who's a painter, and it was amazing to go through his studio and see his drawings, sketchbooks–anything really that him to that point.
Clothing was a way to tell our story. For example, our friends in bands would go on tour and we'd make shirts for them. It's interconnected. For the collective's artists, we print t-shirts and put on shows. We only make one t-shirt design per artist. Each shirt has a story–the idea behind the work and how the artist got there. I've curated shows in San Francisco, New York, Tokyo, and now for this zine launch we're in a sushi restaurant in Toronto. I love it.
I didn't have a background in curation. I used to walk into skateboard shops and be like, 'The artwork is amazing.' I was a little skate rat and that's how I got into art. We didn't have a background in clothing either. We just did it. The one thing Trevor and I both share is that we're not afraid. We just do it. We figure it out. It can't be that tough. We talk to people that are doing it and fucking figure it out. We decided what we wanted to do and made a business plan.
Free Thinkers is my passion. It's the most fun part. We design clothing and put together the collection, shoot the catalogue and spend so much time with everything that goes into that process. The zine takes me away from doing the main thing for a bit. It's also getting better. Just like anything else, the more we do it, the better it gets.
–Reid Stewart, as told to Studio Beat
photos by Courtney Vokey


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Dr. Drew Pinsky – well-known as TV and radio host "Dr. Drew" – is dealing with criticism after court records revealed that he took $275,000 from GlaxoSmithKline for "services for Wellbutrin."
GlaxoSmithKline recently agreed to a $3 billion settlement — the largest ever involving a pharmaceutical company – over the federal government's charges that the company illegally marketed some of its medications.
Prosecutors allege that the British pharmaceutical giant's tactics included paying doctors to prescribe its medications.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Pinsky promoted Wellbutrin on his radio sex-advice show "Loveline", telling listeners he prescribes it and other medications to depressed patients because it "may enhance or at least not suppress sexual arousal" as much as other antidepressants do.
That isn't the only legal controversy involving GlaxoSmithKline antidepressants. A number of studies have linked antidepressants classified as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, with potentially dangerous heart and lung defects in newborns.
Pinsky's Wellbutrin payments, made by a communications firm working for GlaxoSmithKline, were revealed in an attachment to a complaint the U.S. government filed in October 2011 in federal court, disclosed during the announcement of the settlement.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Pinsky said the following in an emailed statement: "In the late '90s I was hired to participate in a two-year initiative discussing intimacy and depression which was funded by an educational grant by Glaxo Wellcome," one of the companies that later merged to form GlaxoSmithKline. He added that the campaign "included town hall meetings, writings and multimedia activities in conjunction with [a] patient advocacy group … My comments were consistent with my clinical experience."
Patients should consult their doctors before making any changes in their medication. A consultation with an SSRI lawyer is also important if there are significant injuries from SSRIs.
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Day 20 of 40 abstaining from Facebook.
In which your host recognizes why he majored in arts, not mathematics; muses on the nexus between discipline and faith; then ponders what matters.
Day 20 gets an asterisk, as I somehow missed 18 and 19. No matter how bad I was at math, even I can answer this story problem: If your first post, and first day off of FB, was on January 2nd, what number post must you be making on January 21?
Clearly "20." How the hell did I lose days 18 & 19? I expected blackouts early on, during the "shakes" and "tweaking" phases, not 3 weeks in to successful recovery!
But is it successful? Yes, I've been writing and reading more, both of which are priorities in my writing life. But I've also been reading WaPo, playing more online Scrabble, and opening Twitter much more frequently.
I am not where I want to be, and moving there requires establishing a belief and acting on it with discipline. I fear I have not improved discipline, yet, in this Facebook fast.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
— Max Ehrmann, Desiderata
Yes, Max, I hear you, but substituting one distraction for another is not a good sign. Succumbing to distractions that I KNOW are distractions does not move me closer to where I want to be.
There is no substitute for discipline. Discipline is the act of adopting a belief and continuing to act as if it is true, even when the evidence is not immediately available. Write everyday. Workout. Put money away for retirement. Discipline is the humanistic analog to "faith." Sticking with an action, in the belief that it will take you where you want to be. Discipline does not guarantee success. It enhances probabilities, though.
How do I distinguish good habits from distractions? Passionate initiative from addiction? I must ask if the activity is getting me where I want to be. That requires goal setting, and prognostication: not only about what I "should" be doing to reach the goal, but prediction that the goal is right — that the "there" there is worthy. Will I still "want" to be there when I arrive?
What matters?
The things that matter are not ends, results. Results happen as a consequence of doing the things that matter with discipline. Or not. An athlete cannot control his opponent, and games will be lost, but with diligent preparation the chances of winning are higher.
I cannot throw out intention completely, or persistence, or simply acting to attempt to achieve whatever goal I aspire to. I also can't focus on one activity to the exclusion of all others, lest I risk losing the others.
- I need to focus on what matters.
- More than one thing can truly matter. (Not according to Curly!)
- If I want to do what I want to do, I had better work hard to improve at doing well the things that I decide matter.
What matters to me?
- Doing what it takes to meet my family obligations.
- I like my wife and kids; I'd like to stay in their good graces.
- Writing better — through disciplined, regular practice, reading, and collaboration.
- Finish the book, as well as I possibly can. Keep running!
- Working harder to learn (and do) the things that lead to publication. (New industry training/research, essentially.)
- Staying healthy; exercise.
I might need to shuffle — or, god-forbid —multi-task, but this has got to be my list. I need to assess every action, including blogging, against that list. (Conveniently, blogging fits under items 2 and 3: blogging improves writing, and according to many publishing sites, maintaining an audience "platform," in the form of a blog or social media, contributes to a publisher's willingness to take risk that you have a potentially profitable reach.)
I don't see "Access social media every time you feel bored, distracted, or anxious that you're not getting where you need to be" anywhere on that list.
Showing up here and staying off Facebook for 40 days (and beyond?) is.


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By Reuters
After Germany's success at the Confederations Cup and Under 21 European championship over the last few days, coach Joachim Loew must feel like a kid in a candy store as he maps out his plans for next year's World Cup title defence in Russia.
Despite resting more than half a dozen key players this summer, Germany won the Confederations Cup for the first time on Sunday by beating South American champions Chile 1-0.
Two days earlier, the country's Under-21 team secured the European title, shocking favourites Spain by the same score and confirming the country's stellar work at youth level.
The 57-year-old Loew, now in his 11th year in charge, has a pool of more than 40 players to monitor as the clock ticks down to next year's World Cup finals. All of them battle-tested and with tournament experience.
"Joachim Loew now has the big chance, with a mix of experience and dynamism, to put together a strong squad (for next year)," said German Football Association (DFB) President Reinhard Grindel. "We have a big pool to chose from."
The biggest problem for Loew is likely to be who to leave out.
Players like Confederations Cup top scorers Timo Werner, Lars Stindl and Leon Goretzka, who all netted three times at the tournament, have every right to believe their fine performances in Russia will be a stepping stone to the 2018 World Cup squad.
Antonio Ruediger, Sebastian Rudy and Mathias Ginter also rose to the occasion while Julian Draxler, who captained the team in the absence of Manuel Neuer, was voted player of the tournament.
"We certainly have a lot of players who in those two tournaments have filled up on confidence," Loew said.
"But for those players the work is just starting, the big tournaments are still to come. To get to world class level is an even bigger challenge."
Loew has long preached the importance of having two players for every position to be successful at international level.
Judging by performances over the last few days, it appears he may have at least three.
At the top of the pile are Neuer, Jerome Boateng, Mats Hummels, Toni Kroos, Sami Khedira, Mesut Ozil, Thomas Mueller and Marco Reus, who all sat out the tournament to be fit and fresh for the coming year.
Injury kept several other first team players from the Confederations Cup, such as Leroy Sane, Ilkay Guendogan, Julian Weigl and Jonathan Tah.
But no one can afford to feel their position is secure with the likes of Under-21 players Jeremy Toljan, Niklas Stark, Maximilian Arnold, Max Meyer, Serge Gnabry and Davie Selke pushing for a place in the full squad.
While Loew was delighted to win both tournaments, he said the World Cup would be an entirely different proposition.
"Germany will always be one of the favourites, no matter what tournament," Loew said. "Winning the Confederations Cup and the Under-21 Euro win are no guarantees.
"At a World Cup there are five, six teams you battle against and everyone must almost be superhuman to succeed."


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As part of the yPenn Speaker Series, Trustee David (W'87, WG'88) and Beth (W'88, WG'92) Ertel graciously hosted an intimate gathering of young Penn alumni at their beautiful home overlooking Biscayne Bay in Miami, Florida. Giving was definitely the theme of the night as the Ertels initiated an engaging dialogue centered around on how young Penn alumni can give back and positively impact the Penn community. A dinner reception quickly followed where we had a chance to connect in smaller groups and meet other young alumni in Miami. Great food, great company, and great conversation definitely made this night a successful one.


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struct - structure contents
struct struct_name[.member[,member]][-o][-l offset][-rfuxdp]
[address | symbol][:cpuspec] [count | -c count]
This command displays either a structure definition, or a formatted display
of the contents of a structure at a specified address. When no address is
specified, the structure definition is shown along with the structure size.
A structure member may be appended to the structure name in order to limit
the scope of the data displayed to that particular member; when no address
is specified, the member's offset and definition are shown.
struct_name name of a C-code structure used by the kernel.
.member name of a structure member; to display multiple members of a
structure, use a comma-separated list of members. If any
member contains an embedded structure, or the member is an
array, the output may be restricted to just the embedded
structure or an array element by expressing the member argument
as "member.member" or "member[index]"; embedded member
specifications may extend beyond one level deep, by expressing
the member argument as "member.member.member...".
-o show member offsets when displaying structure definitions;
if used with an address or symbol argument, each member will
be preceded by its virtual address.
-l offset if the address argument is a pointer to a structure member that
is contained by the target data structure, typically a pointer
to an embedded list_head, the offset to the embedded member may
be entered in either of the following manners:
1. in "structure.member" format.
2. a number of bytes.
-r raw dump of structure data.
-f address argument is a dumpfile offset.
-u address argument is a user virtual address in the current
-x override default output format with hexadecimal format.
-d override default output format with decimal format.
-p if a structure member is a pointer value, show the member's
data type on the output line; and on the subsequent line(s),
dereference the pointer, display the pointer target's symbol
value in brackets if appropriate, and if possible, display the
target data; requires an address argument.
address hexadecimal address of a structure; if the address points
to an embedded list_head structure contained within the
target data structure, then the "-l" option must be used.
symbol symbolic reference to the address of a structure.
:cpuspec CPU specification for a per-cpu address or symbol:
: CPU of the currently selected task.
:a[ll] all CPUs.
:#[-#][,...] CPU list(s), e.g. "1,3,5", "1-3",
or "1,3,5-7,10".
count count of structures to dump from an array of structures;
if used, this must be the last argument entered.
-c count "-c" is only required if "count" is not the last argument
entered or if a negative number is entered; if a negative
value is entered, the (positive) "count" structures that
lead up to and include the target structure will be displayed.
Structure data, sizes, and member offsets are shown in the current output
radix unless the -x or -d option is specified.
Please note that in the vast majority of cases, the "struct" command
name may be dropped; if the structure name does not conflict with any crash
or gdb command name, then the "struct_name[.member]" argument will be
recognized as a structure name, and this command automatically executed.
See the NOTE below.
Display the vm_area_struct at address c1e44f10:
crash> struct vm_area_struct c1e44f10
struct vm_area_struct {
vm_mm = 0xc2857750,
vm_start = 0x8048000,
vm_end = 0x80a5000,
vm_next = 0xc1e44a10,
vm_page_prot = {
pgprot = 0x25
vm_flags = 0x1875,
vm_avl_height = 0x2,
vm_avl_left = 0xc30fe200,
vm_avl_right = 0xc30fed00,
vm_next_share = 0x0,
vm_pprev_share = 0xc1e44a30,
vm_ops = 0xc0215ca0,
vm_offset = 0x0,
vm_file = 0xc0bfdc70,
vm_pte = 0
Display the definition and size of a vm_area_struct structure. This first
example below displays just the structure and size. The second example
uses the -o option to also display member offsets. Both examples were
run with the output radix set to 10 (decimal):
crash> struct vm_area_struct
struct vm_area_struct {
struct mm_struct *vm_mm;
long unsigned int vm_start;
long unsigned int vm_end;
struct vm_area_struct *vm_next;
pgprot_t vm_page_prot;
short unsigned int vm_flags;
short int vm_avl_height;
struct vm_area_struct *vm_avl_left;
struct vm_area_struct *vm_avl_right;
struct vm_area_struct *vm_next_share;
struct vm_area_struct **vm_pprev_share;
struct vm_operations_struct *vm_ops;
long unsigned int vm_offset;
struct file *vm_file;
long unsigned int vm_pte;
crash> struct vm_area_struct -o
struct vm_area_struct {
[0] struct mm_struct *vm_mm;
[4] long unsigned int vm_start;
[8] long unsigned int vm_end;
[12] struct vm_area_struct *vm_next;
[16] pgprot_t vm_page_prot;
[20] short unsigned int vm_flags;
[22] short int vm_avl_height;
[24] struct vm_area_struct *vm_avl_left;
[28] struct vm_area_struct *vm_avl_right;
[32] struct vm_area_struct *vm_next_share;
[36] struct vm_area_struct **vm_pprev_share;
[40] struct vm_operations_struct *vm_ops;
[44] long unsigned int vm_offset;
[48] struct file *vm_file;
[52] long unsigned int vm_pte;
Display the definition and offset of the pgd member of an mm_struct:
crash> struct mm_struct.pgd
struct mm_struct {
[80] pgd_t *pgd;
Display the pgd member of the mm_struct at address ffff810022e7d080:
crash> struct mm_struct.pgd ffff810022e7d080
pgd = 0xffff81000e3ac000
Display the pgd_t pointed to by the mm_struct.pgd pointer above, forcing
the output to be expressed in hexadecimal:
crash> mm_struct.pgd ffff810022e7d080 -px
pgd_t *pgd = 0xffff81000e3ac000
-> {
pgd = 0x2c0a6067
Display the thread_info structure pointed to by the thread_info
member of the task_struct at ffff8100181190c0:
crash> task_struct.thread_info ffff8100181190c0 -p
struct thread_info *thread_info = 0xffff810023c06000
-> {
task = 0xffff8100181190c0,
exec_domain = 0xffffffff802f78e0,
flags = 128,
status = 1,
cpu = 3,
preempt_count = 0,
addr_limit = {
seg = 18446604435732824064
restart_block = {
fn = 0xffffffff80095a52 <do_no_restart_syscall>,
arg0 = 0,
arg1 = 0,
arg2 = 0,
arg3 = 0
Display the flags and virtual members of 4 contiguous page structures
in the mem_map page structure array:
crash> page.flags,virtual c101196c 4
flags = 0x8000,
virtual = 0xc04b0000
flags = 0x8000,
virtual = 0xc04b1000
flags = 0x8000,
virtual = 0xc04b2000
flags = 0x8000,
virtual = 0xc04b3000
Display the array of tcp_sl_timer structures declared by tcp_slt_array[]:
crash> struct tcp_sl_timer tcp_slt_array 4
struct tcp_sl_timer {
count = {
counter = 0x0
period = 0x32,
last = 0x1419e4,
handler = 0xc0164854 <tcp_syn_recv_timer>
struct tcp_sl_timer {
count = {
counter = 0x2
period = 0x753,
last = 0x14a6df,
handler = 0xc01645b0 <tcp_keepalive>
struct tcp_sl_timer {
count = {
counter = 0x0
period = 0x2ee,
last = 0x143134,
handler = 0xc016447c <tcp_twkill>
struct tcp_sl_timer {
count = {
counter = 0x0
period = 0x64,
last = 0x143198,
handler = 0xc0164404 <tcp_bucketgc>
Without using the "struct" command name, display the the "d_child"
list_head member from a dentry structure:
crash> dentry.d_child 0xe813cb4
d_child = {
next = 0x3661344,
prev = 0xdea4bc4
Display the child dentry structure referenced by the "next" pointer above.
Since the "next" address of 0x3661344 above is a pointer to an embedded
list_head structure within the child dentry structure, the -l option
is required:
crash> dentry -l dentry.d_child 0x3661344
struct dentry {
d_count = {
counter = 1
d_flags = 0,
d_inode = 0xf9aa604,
d_parent = 0x11152b1c,
d_hash = {
next = 0x11fb3fc0,
prev = 0x11fb3fc0
d_lru = {
next = 0x366133c,
prev = 0x366133c
d_child = {
next = 0x36613cc,
prev = 0xe813cd4
d_subdirs = {
next = 0x366134c,
prev = 0x366134c
d_alias = {
next = 0xf9aa614,
prev = 0xf9aa614
d_mounted = 0,
d_name = {
name = 0x3661384 "boot.log",
len = 8,
hash = 1935169207
d_time = 1515870810,
d_op = 0x0,
d_sb = 0x11fc9c00,
d_vfs_flags = 0,
d_fsdata = 0x0,
d_extra_attributes = 0x0,
d_iname = "boot.log\000"
Display the virtual address of each member of the task_struct at
crash> task_struct -o ffff8100145d2080
struct task_struct {
[ffff8100145d2080] volatile long int state;
[ffff8100145d2088] struct thread_info *thread_info;
[ffff8100145d2090] atomic_t usage;
[ffff8100145d2098] long unsigned int flags;
[ffff8100145d20a0] int lock_depth;
[ffff8100145d20a4] int load_weight;
[ffff8100145d20a8] int prio;
[ffff8100145d20ac] int static_prio;
[ffff8100145d20b0] int normal_prio;
[ffff8100145d20b8] struct list_head run_list;
[ffff8100145d20c8] struct prio_array *array;
Display the embedded sched_entity structure's on_rq member and
the third pid_link structure in the embedded pids[] array of the
task_struct at ffff88011653e250:
crash> task_struct.se.on_rq,pids[2] ffff88011653e250
se.on_rq = 1,
pids[2] = {
node = {
next = 0xffff88011653aff0,
pprev = 0xffff88011653a860
pid = 0xffff88010d07ed00
For an example of displaying per-cpu variables, consider the
struct hd_struct.dkstats member, which is a percpu pointer to
a disk_stats structure:
crash> struct hd_struct.dkstats
struct hd_struct {
[1232] struct disk_stats *dkstats;
Taking an hd_struct at address ffff8802450e2848, display all
of the per-cpu disk_stats structures that it references:
crash> struct hd_struct.dkstats ffff8802450e2848
dkstats = 0x60fdb48026c8
crash> struct disk_stats 0x60fdb48026c8:a
[0]: ffffe8fefe6026c8
struct disk_stats {
sectors = {451376, 80468},
ios = {6041, 971},
merges = {386, 390},
ticks = {194877, 56131},
io_ticks = 12371,
time_in_queue = 309163
[1]: ffffe8fefe8026c8
struct disk_stats {
sectors = {0, 0},
ios = {0, 0},
merges = {7, 242},
ticks = {0, 0},
io_ticks = 23,
time_in_queue = 581
[2]: ffffe8fefea026c8
struct disk_stats {
sectors = {0, 0},
ios = {0, 0},
merges = {4, 112},
ticks = {0, 0},
io_ticks = 11,
time_in_queue = 305
[3]: ffffe8fefec026c8
struct disk_stats {
sectors = {0, 0},
ios = {0, 0},
merges = {5, 54},
ticks = {0, 0},
io_ticks = 17,
time_in_queue = 41
If the structure name does not conflict with any crash command name, the
"struct" command may be dropped. Accordingly, the examples above could
also have been accomplished like so:
crash> vm_area_struct c1e44f10
crash> vm_area_struct
crash> vm_area_struct -o
crash> mm_struct.pgd ffff810022e7d080
crash> mm_struct.pgd
crash> tcp_sl_timer tcp_slt_array 4
Lastly, the short-cut "*" pointer-to command may also be used to negate
the need to enter the "struct" command name (enter "help *" for details).


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He asked her to visit him as he wanted to say her something important. She was happy because from long time nothing special has happened in between them. She was expecting that this time he is going to propose her for marriage so that they can live all life together. But she never knew its going to be her last visit, she was going to listen final *goodbye*
Final *goodbye*
As I looked into your eyes
I knew something was wrong
And then you said *goodbye*
We had been together too long
You said you didn't feel for me
The same way I did for you
And after years of our love
We were actually through
I said you won't go
You said you can't stay
But how was I supposed to know
It would all end that day
I told you how much I would miss
Each and every day
And that was when you Said Final*goodbye*
And you turned and walked away
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Spokane's Thrifty Character
SPOKANE'S THRIFTY CHARACTER Argyer "Archie" or "Arch" Cosmos Laloudakis was known not just for his tightfisted ways, but also for the devilish humor he …Read More, View Photos and Video
Firm, Fair and Friendly
FIRM, FAIR AND FRIENDLY Louis Lallas' first employer told him he would be successful in both life and business if he consistently followed the …Read More, View Photos and Video
From the Heart of Greece
As Tommy Rakus' family came from Roumeli, tin carthia tis Elathas (the heart of Greece), his passion for all things Greek originates not from the food, the dancing or the language but from his heart.Read More, View Photos and Video
Jews and Greeks Together
In about 1890 two Jewish men, Jack Policar and Solomon Calvo, were traveling in Turkey and were considering migrating to New York City. On …Read More, View Photos and Video
A Badge of Honor to be Greek
When Kenny Dudunakis was growing up in Pocatello, Idaho, being Greek was a badge of honor. He moved to Washington State in 1989 where he has developed his career in commercial real estate.Read More, View Photos and Video
Life According to George
Chris George Pallis recalls many "Georgisms" from his father that have influenced his life.Read More, View Photos and Video
Finding Good Fortune
For the three Carkonen brothers, a learned work ethic, emphasis on family values and strong relationships within the Greek community have aided their success in both business and in life.Read More, View Photos and Video
A Sister and Brother Act
Born just a year apart, Dina (Constantina) Salagianis Baker and Pete (Panagioti) Salagianis recall their early life in Yakama and Spokane while they enjoy retirement in Walla Walla, Washington.Read More, View Photos and Video
A Million Words in Photos
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Emma Holding discusses the talents of Maya Angelou. CW: sexual assault.
I first came across Maya Angelou upon hearing her poem Still I Rise. While she is predominantly known for her writing, her life was meaningful in so many more ways; there's a very good reason why she has was written a series of seven autobiographies. Angelou grew up in Stamps, Arkansas, USA, where she lived with her Grandmother and her brother which then becomes subject of her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. In her later life, she worked alongside the great civil rights activists Dr Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. It would take far too long to list her litany of achievements relating to human rights and so instead I will tell you one of the predominant reasons why she became my favourite feminist.
Angelou was sexually assaulted by her mother's boyfriend at the age of eight and bravely testified against him. After she came forward, several of her uncles beat the accused to death. Angelou blamed herself, specifically her own voice, for his death and subsequently became mute for five years. She finally found her voice again, more beautiful than ever after being encouraged to read poetry by a local woman. Finding her voice again after associating it with so much fear for five years sparked a pattern of resilience which leads her from strength to strength throughout the rest of her life. It is this resilience which makes her my favourite feminist.
Although she is known for many things, her writing, her voice and her literature are the basis of her fame. It is fascinating that this voice was almost entirely destroyed by her experience of sexual violence and oppression as a woman, but this is something she reclaims and creates, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful voices of her age. It was this resilience which instigated the pursuit of a life marked by greatness, as Angelou proceeded to become the first ever African American streetcar conductor, pursued a career in dance and theatre, as well as editing The Arab Observer and African Review among writing for other African publications. All of which came before her achievements as an author and civil rights activist.
If what I've said isn't enough to show how deserving she is of the title of my favourite feminist, then I'll finish with a few lines from Still I Rise…
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Illustration by Becky Armstrong.


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If you knew then what you know now, would you have been more involved with faith and religion, and would you have given a bigger role to charity in your life?
Every now and then a newspaper story makes the rounds about how the poor give more to charitable causes than people of means. As a percentage of their income, this may be true. But the generosity of high net worth families is incontrovertible.
According to a 2010 study conducted by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, high net worth households account for between 65 and 70 percent of all individual charitable giving in the United States. Contributions don't come simply in the form of dollars, either. High net worth individuals volunteered an average of 307 hours in 2009 — the equivalent of nearly eight weeks of effort at a full-time job.
The alumni of Harvard Business School's Class of 1963 confirm the value of sharing their time and money with others. One graduate summed up the equation of social responsibility by citing the Parable of the Faithful Servant from the New Testament: "To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked."


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Annual list of Georgia's 'Dirty Dozen' waters cites categorical threats, five victories
By David Pendered
This year's edition of "Georgia's Dirty Dozen," a report of threatened waters, marks a shift from specific locations to broader categories including groundwater, well water and public health.
This is the sixth edition of the Georgia Water Coalition's listing of the 12 worst offenses to Georgia's waters. The coalition is a consortium of 236 conservation and environmental organizations that represent more than 250,000 Georgians, according to the report.
The coalition notes that the report doesn't aim to represent the most polluted waters in the state, and doesn't rank the threats in any particular order.
Rather, the coalition notes that the Dirty Dozen represents a plea for help to these waters and a call to action – mostly by the Georgia Legislature and governor – to address the concerns.
A lack of funding for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources is a major concern cited in the report. In particular, the report notes that the budget for the Environmental Protection Division is $1 million lower than in fiscal year 2005, when EPD received $31 million, according to the report:
- "As a result, more than 27 percent of the major permits regulating what industries and municipal sewage treatment plants can discharge to our state's rivers, lakes and streams are out of date. A program implemented in 2003 to hire EPD inspectors to ensure that construction sites were not polluting rivers and streams with mud and dirt remains largely unfunded. The program was expected to provide enough money to hire 80 state inspectors. There are less than 10 on payroll today."
The report also makes what has become an annual notice of the Solid Waste and Hazardous Waste Trust Fund. Fees were enacted in the 1990s when tires are purchased or trash is dumped at a landfill. Of more than $500 million generated by the program, nearly $200 million has been redirected to pay for other items in the state budget, according to the report.
At this point, the report shifts to a discussion of systemic issues resulting from what the coalition cites is "legislative inaction:"
- "At a time when the purity of the state's groundwater faces unprecedented threats, during the past two years, the General Assembly has actually weakened protections for the state's well water, allowing a moratorium on the controversial practice of aquifer storage and recovery to expire. "Meanwhile, the efforts of some legislators to enact comprehensive groundwater protections have been stonewalled.
- "Likewise, in the wake of a 2015 Georgia Supreme Court ruling, legislative efforts to ensure that all of Georgia's rivers and streams are protected by a natural buffer to keep pollutants out have thus far failed, in part because EPD remains reluctant to enforce this most basic of water protections.
- "In October, this reluctance to fully protect the state's water and the people that depend upon it manifested itself when the Department of Natural Resources Board adopted rules on the disposal of coal ash from power plants that, among other things, allow coal ash to be stored in unlined ponds that can leach toxic contaminants into groundwater. It is not surprising then that four of the Dirty Dozen are problems stemming from coal ash disposal and coal- red power plants.
Here are the 12 "worst offences" that are cited in the 2016 edition of Georgia's Dirty Dozen:
- "Georgia's well water: Coal ash disposal at landfill threatens well water;
- "Georgia's ground water: While toxins seep into our well water, protections remain lax;
- "South River: DeKalb County's aging sewers pollute urban river;
- "Coosa River: Coal-fired power plant dumps toxins in river;
- "Georgia's public health: Legislators steal funds intended for toxic sites, mosquito-breeding tire dumps;
- "Northwest Georgia's drinking water: Fracking for natural gas fraught with dangers under Georgia's outdates regulations;
- "Lake Sinclaire: Future of coal ash pond looms over Oconee River lake;
- Georgia's coast: Oil exploration threatens coastal tourism, devastates wildlife;
- "Chattahoochee River: $99 million nuclear power plant study squeezes ratepayers, water and clean energy;
- "Cumberland Island National Seashore: Camden County rocket launching project threatens coast, historic barrier island;
- "Chattahoochee, Flint, Withlacoochee rivers and Floridan Aquifer: Gas pipeline company, federal government run roughshod over state, local government property rights;
- "Georgia's rivers, streams and lakes: Agency charges with protecting state's water thwarts legislators efforts to protect all Georgia waterways with natural buffers."
The five victories cited are:
- Newton County abandons plans to build Bear Creek reservoir;
- Offshore drilling threat ended until 2022 by federal action;
- Altamaha Riverkeeper wins lawsuit compelling cleanup of waste spilled into river;
- Little Satilla and Penholloway Creek protected from runoff from strip mine;
- Coalition created to file federal lawsuit against a mill's practice of spraying wastewater on land surrounding the plant.
The coalition concluded its report with this statement:
- "The Georgia Water Coalition publishes this list as a call to action for our state's leaders and its citizens to correct ongoing pollution problems, address pending threats to our water and ensure that programs to keep our communities clean and safe are properly funded."


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Ronald Reagan was a truly transformational leader who brought about American prosperity after the stagflation-hit 1970s and revitalizing American conservatism in late-twentieth century politics.
Comey's Testimony: A Big Fat Juicy Nothing Burger
As former FBI Director James Comey prepares to testify about his knowledge of President Trump's alleged dealings with Russia, liberals are gearing up for impeachment parties and happy hours running specials on Russian vodka.
Russian Dressing, No Beef
If the Democrats and liberal mainstream media want to preserve democracy as they claim to, they must accept the election results instead of pushing baseless conspiracy theories. It is time for the witch hunt to end.


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IDF Soldier Injured as his Car Hit by Stones in Ramat Beit Shemesh
Police on Monday morning reported that a stone that was thrown at an IDF soldier driving in the neighborhood of Ramat Beit Shemesh neighborhood caused the driver to deviate from his path and hit a pole.
The driver was lightly injured and evacuated by Magen David Adom (MDA).
The police were called to the scene and opened an investigation.
The MDA Spokesperson reported that at 10:05 AM a report was received at the 101 phone center of MDA in the Jerusalem area about stones that had been thrown at a vehicle which, as a result, collided with a pole on Rabbi Elazar Street in Beit Shemesh.
MDA paramedics provide medical treatment and evacuated the injured soldier, 20, to Hadassah Hospital, in light condition.