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It was the best of times for Erin Alexander, turned suddenly into the worst of times.
UCSB's junior basketball star was still smarting from a double-overtime, upset loss to the University of Pacific at the 1996 Big West Conference Tournament when she got word of something more disturbingly distressing:
Jeff Rio, her boyfriend since their days at Santa Ynez High School, had been killed in a car accident.
She could've retreated into a shell. Instead, she headed straight for the basketball court.
"It was the one place in the world where I could feel completely at peace," she said, recalling the events 16 years later. "There were so many people there who supported me. And still, to this day, I can't even describe another place in my life where I could feel like I had no cares in the world.
"That's why coming back to the Thunderdome means so much to me."
That will happen today when the former Gaucho star, now known as Erin Alexander Brown, returns to be unveiled as the latest Legend of the Dome during halftime of UCSB's 2 p.m. game against Cal Poly.
"I can't tell you how much I grew up as a human being in that building," she said.
Her coach, Mark French, watched it happen during a four-year career in which she scored a then-school record 1,588 points.
How she got 66 of them in spite of misty shooting eyes during three games at the 1996 WNIT Tournament in Amarillo, Tex. left a lasting impression on her Hall of Fame coach. Alexander was voted as the event's most inspirational player after scoring 27 points to upset Western Kentucky for the consolation championship.
"When she walked onto the court to accept the award, arm-in-arm with Jeff's parents, there wasn't a dry eye in the house," French recalled. "How we responded to the disappointment of being left out of the NCAA Tournament, and then to Erin's adversity, and how we rallied together is still the No. 1, all-time memory of my coaching career."
It trumps even a dozen Big West Conference championships and an NCAA Sweet 16 finish in 2004.
French can barely remember the details of recruiting the 5-foot-6 guard out of Santa Ynez, the first in a parade of valley girls who would star for the Gauchos.
"The one thing we learned about Erin early on was how really deceptive she was," French said. "Here was this cute, little, blonde, Santa Ynez girl. Some people said she looked more like a cheerleader than a basketball player — that she'd be somebody you could kind of bully and push around.
"It was quite the contrary. She turned out to be one really tough cookie in many ways."
French became a surprise to her, as well. When Alexander told him that she'd be coming to UCSB, he advised her to take the rest of her recruiting trips.
"He wanted me to make sure that this is where I wanted to be," she said. "He didn't want me to regret any decisions.
"When my mom sold her house in Solvang, she found a journal that I'd kept at the time. I just read one of the entries which said, 'Went to Weber State, and it was pretty cool.' But it also said, 'Going to UCSB is going to be the best thing ever.'"
It wasn't all fun and games at the start, however. The Gauchos, who were coming off their first two NCAA Tournament seasons of 1992 and 1993, finished just fourth in the Big West and 14-13 overall during Alexander's freshman season of 1994.
"I didn't even play that much," she recalled. "Here I was, this big fish from the little Santa Ynez pond, sitting on the bench in Santa Barbara and thinking, 'What is going on?'
"I was a young 18 and immature, expecting to come in and lead the team. I had to grow up a lot."
But French wound up teaching her as many life skills as basketball skills. His reading assignments weren't just scouting reports but also books such as Stephen R. Covey's "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People."
"I can't even describe to you how he helped me grow," Alexander said. "It sounds so cliche, but he believed that basketball was just a short stop in our lives. He wanted to help make us better women — women who were going to be able to face life's challenges and be responsible for our behavior.
"He talked about life lessons so often that we'd even joke about it. But now, I can't even thank him enough for what he gave me during four years of my life."
French's recollections are of a petulant Alexander during the early years.
"When she'd get upset on the court, or during individual meetings, she'd raise her nose in the air a bit," he said. "There was this feistiness about her."
Channeling Alexander's spirit in the right direction helped the Gauchos win 24 games and the Big West regular-season championship during the tragedy-marred, WNIT season of 1996.
The next year, she led UCSB into the NCAA Tournament for the first time in four years, winning Big West Player of the Year honors. She averaged 18.9 points and, together with forward Amy Smith (19.3), formed the greatest one-two scoring punch in Gaucho history.
And Alexander was best against the best. She averaged 25 points, eight rebounds, five assists and three steals during one three-game week in which UCSB played powerhouses USC, Utah and Colorado.
She followed that up the next game with 20 points and six steals against top-ranked Connecticut.
"I can't think of a better four-game stretch against that caliber of opponent for any player we've ever had in our program," French said.
The way Alexander reacted to her school-record 40 points in the overtime loss to USC probably explained her competitive verve more than anything: "We lost! I mean, we lost! It was such a bummer! Yeah, maybe it's great to score 40 points, but we lost!"
Her last game as a Gaucho, a last-second defeat to Tulane at the NCAA East Regional, was also difficult to stomach even though she rallied UCSB from a 17-point deficit by making six 3-pointers during a 26-point second half. She still holds every one of the school's 3-point records.
"I had zero in the first half — it was like I'd never touched a basketball before," Alexander recalled. "And then we got homered at the end. Stacy Clinesmith had a fast break and dished to Kristi Rohr for a layup, but the referee called a charge on Stacy.
"I actually threw up a shot at the end and it looked good — it looked like it was going in and we were going to win — but it went off the back rim."
Alexander withdrew from school to play half a season with the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks. She was then picked up by the Utah Stars for a 10-day contract to fill in for an injured player.
"The plan was for me to get sent home after we returned from a road trip," she said. "I showed up at the Delta Center to get my travel arrangements and found a home jersey in my locker instead — they were keeping me.
"Everyone looked kind of bummed. I asked what was wrong and they said, 'They cut Fran!' It's a different experience than in college, where a lot of people are pulling for you."
Alexander later returned to UCSB to finish her degree and then trained to become a firefighter, overcoming another challenge to become the first woman ever hired by the Newport Beach Fire Department. She now holds the rank of engineer.
"There were some guys who weren't stoked about having a female in the fire department, so I had to deal with that," she said. "I did what I could with it. I knew I'd have to be a hard worker to be accepted, and I think I did that.
"I grew up playing basketball with guys, after all."
She married former Gaucho swimmer Tannon Brown and had twin daughters, Riley and Haley, who are now 8 years old. She's now putting more life lessons into play.
French saw it the last time his little blonde guard returned to the Thunderdome to celebrate Barb Beainy's unveiling as his first Legend of the Dome.
"One of her twins was misbehaving in the office, and Erin had to go over and scold her," French said. "Her daughter walked away, her nose in the air and her pony-tail back, and I went, 'There it is! There it is! Erin Alexander, now you get to deal with it!'"
She laughed it off, knowing how well he had taught her how.
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Sunlight sparkles on the ocean and palm trees sway gently in the glorious seascape of this brand-new estate directly fronting 100+/- feet on the tranquil sands just a few minutes from Ocean Drive, where all the attractions charming downtown Vero beach are close at hand. Created by Clemens Companies, a family-owned builder of award-winning luxury homes, this pristine six-bedroom residence was designed by architect Gregory Anderson in a timeless style that brings a fresh, current sense to the classic tradition. Light stone finishes are a key element of the neutral-toned decor, accented by light fixtures that add artistic glints to the designer look.
Stepping inside the handsome mahogany entry, the bright open floor-plan is designed for easy living and entertaining, having the ocean as the backdrop for the indoor and outdoor gathering spaces, both anchored by glowing gas-flame fireplaces. The main living and dining rooms are placed off the showpiece chef's kitchen, while a summer kitchen serves outdoor dining by the sleek pool terrace, a relaxing spot to enjoy the ocean views, surf sounds, and fresh-air breezes. Gazing at the ocean from a private first-floor wing, the airy peak-ceilinged master suite is haven of serenity. Accompanying the five upstairs bedroom suites, the large media/game room with full bath could easily be converted into additional guest quarters if desired, expanding the already ample room for large groups of family and friends. Ready to fulfill the dream of living right on the beach, this brand-new oceanfront estate is perfect in every way.
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Fronting 100+/- feet on the ocean, this brand-new architect-designed estate captures the gorgeous view from private 0.64+/- acre grounds lined with lush palm trees. Walls of sliding glass doors open the home's ocean side to the resort-style outdoor entertainment space where a lounge terrace surrounds the sleek pool and spa, next to a fire-lit verandah with summer kitchen.
Six bedrooms, eight full baths, and a three-bay garage are included in the grand total of 9,499+/- square feet, all fitted with impact-rated windows and exterior doors. Stone floors carry through the main living areas, while the bedrooms have wide-plank wood floors.
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I just spent a few days sitting at a table at Wizard World, a comicbook convention. Small compared to ComiCon, it still dwarfed the biggest mystery convention, Bouchercon, the biggest thriller convention, Thrillerfest, the biggest horror convention, World Horror Con, and it even beat Romantic Times in terms of crowd attendance.
Two semi-profound things struck me at this convention, as I watched thousands of people browse hundreds of booths.
1. There are a lot of talented people in the world. The pros, as seen walking through Artists Row and gawking at theiir incredible works on display. And the layman, sporting elaborate costumes that took more time to create than it takes me to write a novel.
2. After someone creates art, someone else, somewhere, somehow, will find it and embrace it.
Fandom is an interesting aspect of human experience. I believe there is a storytelling gene which we're wired into. I also believe that once we identify with something--it could be a mate, our kids, our friends, or something like a TV show, book, or movie--we take ownership of it.
At Wizard World, you could identify fans by sight. These folks dressed to express their love of genre, character, actor, writer, artist, or performer, either by advertising or imitating.
Yes, there were folks dressed as Jedi. And superheroes. But I'd say at least 90% of the attendees also sported tee shirts or outfits that loudly shouted what they liked.
How strange. And how obvious.
Identifying and aligning ourselves with some sort of artistic expression is part of what makes us human. We try something. We accept it. We embrace it. We defend it.
Could be sports. Could be religion. Could be Battlestar Galactica. It's what makes us, us.
Which brings me to creative endeavors.
If Wizard World taught me anything, it's that an audience--and corresponding marketing potential--exists for anything we as humans can dream up.
This is a Good Thing.
It's also a Hard Thing.
As an artist, the desire to express yourself is strong, but the desire to have the masses embrace your expression (and for you to benefit from it) is just as strong.
So how do we decide what to Do? How do we know if what we're Doing will find some sort of universal embrace?
We don't.
Star Wars, Harry Potter, Twilight--these things happened to strike universal chords.
Many artists disregard popular art. They belittle and berate the huge successes.
That's crazy. It's like disregarding your potential audience.
No artist deserves success, and no art is worthy of universal acceptance. But when it happens, it should bear closer examination.
On one hand, if you want to create something truly unique, chances are you'll find some people who will like what you've created.
On the other hand, if you want to reach a large audience, pay attention to the things that reach a large audience.
The point of writing is to be read. It can't hurt to pay attention to what people are reading. And I'm sure it is possible to do this while still being you.
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The other day at a seminar, a martial artist who is now dabbling with and reading into pistols asked me,"So, I guess you are one of those guys that suggest shaving the sights off the barrel for instinct shooting?""Oh no,' I said, "anyone with a pistol may have to make a Hail Mary shot at any time, and everyone's Hail Mary distance is different. I would never dream of shaving the sights off of anything."I have not heard of this idea in years. Are people still doing it? Suggesting it?Hock
I have to step into this one! And call complete BS to the similar post under one of the shotgun sections. At no time do any soldiers, operators, LEOs, or any other armed professionals remove the sights from their duty weapons. YES, your higher end "operators" have been know to remove the sights of their pistols FOR TRAINING PURPOSES ONLY!!!!!!! M. Ayoob also conducted tests on this. That is to help them learn "instinctive shooting". But for actual missions the sights are on the weapon.There were other BS comments about slings ect. I won't get into that one though.Contractor
This is so much fun...I just go googling for pictures of Brit and Aussie soldiers on patrol and almost none of them are wearing slings...Getting the idea yet?
Never did I say the French didn't use them...I said when I was in the Aussie cadets we weren't allowed...nor is my mate in his unit...I also said the rifles often have slings they're just not allowed to sling them...read carefully Prof.From an Aussie SAS troopers account of his favourite rifle..Officially, sixty LIAI rifles were modified for selective fire capability, specifically for use by the SAS. In addition to the ability to fire bursts of fully automatic fire, the modified SAS rifles had both sling swivels and the flash eliminator removed, and the back sight permanently raised. In contrast to the relieving infantry units who carried their individual weapons into South Vietnam at the time of their deployment, the modified rifles remained in South Vietnam and were handed on to the relieving SAS squadron at each deployment.and here, from an SAS troopers account of working with the Afghanis"Another priority was banning the slings that they used to strap their weapons to their backs. They pinned religious tokens on them, which jingled as they trudged up the narrow mountain paths or waist deep in snow. I explained that there is only one place for a guerrilla's gun: in his hands. Poised. Ready for use.The point I was making was that on patrol..the Brits, Aussies and NZ etc do not favour slingsThe contractor was stating that they are always used and to suggest otherwise was BS...I think I've proved my point PS: Even though it's 1916 you'll notice none of the Aussies have slung their rifles...


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Lathrop Library news in "Stanford Report"
One of the news features in today's Stanford Report highlights the newly renovated Lathrop Library. The report details the many new amenities of the library, including its vast amount of space, which has allowed for more resources readily available from the East Asia Library, more open and closed study areas, event spaces, and classrooms. The article also boasts of Lathrop's state-of-the-art classroom and state-of-the-art technology throughout.
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Safety and an understanding of the law were stressed during a recent concealed carry class.
Certified instructors from the Twin Towers Gun Club were offering aNov. 16 class in Oregon to train a dozen people with the rules and regulations. A second portion of the class, practical skills, includes range shooting and additional safety demonstrations.
"A gun is a tool of self defense," said instructor Scott Schultz. "No one needs to know you have the gun."
He said having a concealed carry permit does not give the weapon's owner the right to go up to people and wave their gun around.
Students in the class learned that Illinois defines a concealed firearm as a loaded or unloaded handgun on or about a person. A firearm is concealed if it is completely or mostly concealed.
"If you can see the gun it is not concealed," Shultz said. "If it is accidentally visible that is allowed."
A concealed gun could be revealed when bending over or raising arms above your head, he said.
Training is required to earn the privilege to carry a concealed carry permit.
"In Illinois you need to be 21 years old, and complete the training," said Schultz. "The license is only valid for five years."
Training consists of an 16 hours which includes classroom time and pistol class at a gun range, both with certified instructors.
To qualify for a license a shooter needs to be 70 percent accurate on a target over 30 rounds. Ten are at 5 yards, 10 at 7 yards, and 10 at 10 yards on a standard B-27 target.
"In addition to being accurate, you need to follow all of the instructors instructions during the range class," said Schultz.
To renew a license, an additional three hours of training is required.
The permit fee is $150.
During the application process, local police agencies will have the ability to view who is requesting a permit and can make an objection to the application.
A situation that will come up for concealed carry permit-holders are routine traffic stops.
Any interaction with a police officer, including a traffic stop, the officer can request a concealed carry license.
Schultz said the permit-holder does not need to disclose the permit or if a gun is on their person or in their car unless specifically asked by an officer.
"You are not required to tell the officer you have a gun, but after a request you need to tell them about the weapon," Schultz said.
Instructor Jason White, who is also the Mt. Morris Police Chief, had a suggestion for permit-holders.
"Do not yell 'I have a gun' because an officer might pull a gun on you," said White. "Maybe hand your concealed carry permit with your license to let the officer know."
He said officers in the future may be able to see whether someone has a license on their squad car's computer by running the vehicle's tags.
A student in the class asked what should happen if the officer asks to see the gun.
"If the officer asks, then let the officer know where the gun is," said Schultz. "They may have you exit the vehicle and check for the gun."
Another section of the class discussed the 23 prohibited areas where guns are not allowed to be concealed.
Loaded firearms are not allowed on any form of public transportation, but an unloaded gun in a bag or case is allowed.
"At events like Autumn on Parade you can not attend the event with a concealed firearm," said Schultz. "You can go through to get to a home or business. You also can not attend the Oregon Trail Days beer garden with a concealed firearm."
Other locations that are not allowed include government buildings, public parks, and any facility displaying the 4 by 6 inch sign showing guns are not allowed.
A concealed carry permit-holder may bring their firearm to certain parking areas as long as they store the unloaded firearm out of view in a locked vehicle or case.
However, there are some locations where guns are never allowed.
Any property that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission oversees prohibits firearms from the property. This also prohibits the firearms from being in the vehicle.
In Ogle County that means anyone going to the Byron Generating Station may not bring a firearm to the property.
For additional information about a concealed carry course contact the Twin Towers Gun Club by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Wordless Wednesday: Fall Weekends in New England
Why I love New England...
Longfellow's Wayside Inn, Sudbury, MA, September 2010
Rockport, MA, October, 2010
Wedding Cake House, Kennebunk, ME, October 2010
Marble House, Newport, RI, October 2010
Chinese Tea House at Marble House, Newport, RI, October 2010
7 comments:
- Barbara said...
Love your pictures Cynthia. Guess you know, I've been to all, and just this past Sunday in Rockport. When are we going to run into each other.
- November 3, 2010 at 10:55 AM
- Cynthia Shenette said...
Barbara - Now whenever I see a woman with a camera I wonder if it's you. Clearly, we know all the best places. ;) I love lunch at the Wayside Inn. I bought their cookbook a while back. Now I can have their pumpkin muffins at home! Yum.
- November 3, 2010 at 11:06 AM
- Carol said...
I see you both have the Wedding Cake house! Most amazing. I did not see the Marble house tho when Man and I were there MANY years ago. SIGHH, ohhh, a reason to come back sometime?? maybe?? hope! You both live in a truly beautiful place.
- November 3, 2010 at 11:22 AM
- Cynthia Shenette said...
Carol - Thank you for your comment. New England is beautiful, and I can't imagine living anywhere else. Of course talk to me in January when we are up to our eyeballs in snow and the temperatures are in the low teens. January seems to be the month my husband and I have our annual discussion about relocating to a warmer climate.
- November 3, 2010 at 1:12 PM
- Heather Rojo said...
Love it! You've captured some of my favorite places, too. We should start a meme amongst the New England geneabloggers to post all our favorite spots on the same day.
- November 3, 2010 at 7:09 PM
- Cynthia Shenette said...
Heather - What an interesting thought! I'm not quite sure how we'd organize it, but I think that's a great idea. I bet we'd have some of the same places between us, but I bet there'd be a lot of different ones as well. We could also do "then" and "now" photos highlighting a particular location or site. I'm in!
- November 3, 2010 at 7:17 PM
- Michelle Goodrum said...
Beautiful. It makes me want to go there for a visit!
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Distilling began in Bethabara soon after settlement in 1753, with brandy production reaching 2,100 gallons during the winter of 1776. A larger combined distillery and distiller's residence opened in December of 1778 but fire destroyed it in December of 1802.
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I installed sleuth kit but couldn't get the autopsy add-on.I tried under ubuntu the testdisk tool.No partitions found.Since i got tired i decided to format it via windows(the only OS that i was able to format it,it allowed only ntfs formatting and that's what i did).Then attached it to ubuntu to format it to msdos and format was successful.
Before i insert any data to it,i would like to ask if it is a good idea to format it under ubuntu?Would it be better if i just formated it under OBSD?
And generally what is your opinion about trusting this disk?should i consider buying a new one?If yes should i consider some specific brands since i won't it work well with OBSD,Linux and windows?
www.sleuthkit.org -- but now this is entirely academic. Your reformatting has effectively eliminated most data recovery.
Since you have an NTFS partition, you would have to use the Windows Disk Management applet to repartition the drive, and establish a FAT MBR partition instead. (From Windows XP, this is: Control Panel....System and Maintenance....Administrative Tools....Computer Management...Storage...Disk Management.)
I recommend using Windows Disk Management to repartition the drive and reformat it.
Until you have written and read to every sector successfully, and proven that there are no more "offline uncorrectable" or "pending" sectors reported by SMART, this drive is not to be trusted.
I cannot tell what problems this drive has, other than the bad sectors. I do not understand why dd and fdisk on OpenBSD have failed for you. I suspect a PEBKAC, as you know.
The typical recommendation to "cleanse" a disk of bad sectors is write to every sector, then read from every sector, then check SMART status. A lot of admins use dd for this purpose, something like this:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd0c bs=1m conv=noerror
# dd if=/dev/rsd0c of=/dev/null bs=1m conv=noerror
# smartctl -a /dev/sd0c
But since dd hasn't been working for you even to read a single sector... there is another tool which can do this more robustly: the badblocks program, which is part of the e2fsprogs package. Your ubuntu system may have it installed already.
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I should clarify that the second phase, reading sectors, is used to confirm the writes were good. Writing can be "successful" without actually being readable. This is why I like badblocks, it writes a series of patterns to each sector, and reads them. Multiple chances to clear up a bad block that way, and the patterns test each sector's magnetic storage capabilities.
You may find this recent thread from the misc@ mailing list insightful. It's about forensics of an FFS partition, rather than FAT, but the issues are much the same.
The thread begins here:
Very odd. I guess once something is NTFS, it won't let you change it. You could always zero out the MBR sector with dd ... no, wait, I guess you can't.
You can always use a command window and the Windows format command.
Start...Run....cmd if you've never used a command line on Windows before. You will get a text based window containing a command line prompt.
Use format /? to get a description of the command and its options and operands. /FS:<filesystem> is the operand of specific interest. FAT32 is the filesystem type you are looking for.
This command should change the MBR partition table while formatting. If it works at all.
Last edited by jggimi; 18th August 2011 at 04:28 PM.
Perhaps dd would work for you from Ubuntu, since it doesn't work from OpenBSD. The command would be the same, except for the device node.
# dd if=/dev/zero of=<device node> count=1
That will put zeros in the MBR sector, making the drive appear to be "blank" to Windows.
I don't think that it's worthy of any more trials.Since i'm not going to use other OS than OBSD on my desktop and ntfs is read-only on OBSD,it's just not practical.Well I got my lesson for backing up,that's SURE.Too bad that it was the 2TB disk.
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Again, I would test the drive with badblocks before putting it back in service. At the very least, it will rewrite sector 0, wiping out your MBR. Did you even try zeroing it?
If you require a single filesystem shareable by Windows, Linux, and OpenBSD, you are limited to FAT. If Windows is not involved, EXT2 is another choice.
I have not tried badblocks yet and i zeroed the disk on ubuntu:
sepuku@sepuku-laptop:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=sdb count=1 [sudo] password for sepuku: 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 7.156e-05 s, 7.2 MB/s
Also,at the moment im trying dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd0c bs=1m conv=noerror on OBSD.
It runs with no errors for about an hour.(hasn't finished yet).
The red light of the disk is on which i think it means that dd is doing it's job...i guess.
Do you happen to know how much time could it take?
edit:i stopped it with control+c:
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd0c bs=1m conv=noerror ^C104591+0 records in 104590+0 records out 109670563840 bytes transferred in 4632.680 secs (23673241 bytes/sec)
after hitting again control+c:
$ sudo dd if=/dev/rsd0c of=/dev/null bs=1m conv=noerror Password: ^C5389+0 records in 5389+0 records out 5650776064 bytes transferred in 175.096 secs (32272301 bytes/sec)
# smartctl -a /dev/sd0c
ksh: smartctl: not found
could i miss a packet?I can read normally the smartctl(8) manual.
From the Ubuntu box smartctl gives:
sepuku@sepuku-laptop:~$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb [sudo] password for sepuku: smartctl 5.40 2010-03-16 r3077 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: ST2000DL001-9VT156 Serial Number: 5YD0H1YX Firmware Version: CC96 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4 Local Time is: Fri Aug 19 17:04:16 2011 EEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED See vendor-specific Attribute list for marginal Attributes. General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 623) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 255) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x103b) SCT Status supported. SCT Error Recovery Control supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 124 100 006 Pre-fail Always - 723941472 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 092 092 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 020 Old_age Always - 1671 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 066 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 3898564 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 514 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 139 183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 083 000 Old_age Always - 472453611630 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 057 038 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 43 (0 30 43 43) 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 69 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1871 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 043 062 000 Old_age Always - 43 (0 17 0 0) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 124 100 000 Old_age Always - 723941472 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 209143432479407 241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 2313101850 242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 737485949 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 504 - # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 504 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
Last edited by sepuku; 19th August 2011 at 02:08 PM.
ExFAT is not desirable; that is a Microsoft proprietary filesystem. See
# smartctl -a /dev/sd0c ksh: smartctl: not found
OOoooooh! Sepuku, I just found something I did not know, since I don't deal with FAT outside of USB sticks and phones and cameras.....
On that ExFAT wiki page, highlight mine:
On OpenBSD:
Step 1: create a new MBR on the drive. For ease of use, I would use fdisk -i sd0 to initialize the MBR sector. This creates a single large OpenBSD MBR partition in partition #3, of type #0xa6, as described in the fdisk(8) manpage. Then I would use the fdisk editor and change the partition type to FAT32, #0x0c with sdisk -e sd0 then the command e 3 to edit partition #3, and change the partition id to 0c.
Step 2: using disklabel(8) create the OpenBSd disklabel and the appropriate BSD partition.. Provide the BSD partition with the same sector range as the MBR partition, as described earlier in this thread.
Step 3: format the OpenBSD partition with newfs_msdos specifying FAT32. If the BSD partition were "a", and you wanted a volume label of "mydisk", you might use something like:
# newfs_msdos -F 32 -L mydisk sd0a
Last edited by jggimi; 19th August 2011 at 05:08 PM.
Unable to read MBR is all i get when i try fdisk -i sd0.I finally managed to format the disk to fat32 under Ubuntu using "Gparted"(but it creates offset 256).But When i try to mount it on OBSD my pc crashes,mouse and keyboard won't respond and i have to shut the pc down using the power button.
1) Review your /var/log/messages* files -- this is your kernel message history -- and search for error messages with timestamps that match the time of this most recent crash or hang.
2) Confirm you are able to write to, then read from, every sector of the drive, and that your two tables of known bad blocks have returned to zero. As I stated multiple times in this thread, a bad sector will remain unreadable until it is replaced by a spare sector, which only occurs when a known bad sector is written. You do not need to use OpenBSD for this; you can use Ubuntu, where you seem to have more success. I'll continue to recommend badblocks.
3) An interesting test is the SMART extended offline self-test. It had been run on your drive at least once, because you have "offline uncorrectable" sectors. In this test, the drive electronics reads every sector on the drive. The value of this test are multiple: a) it finds bad sectors that are not in use by your OS, mitigating the risk of future data loss from writing to undiscovered bad sectors; b) it puts bad sectors on a list that are automatically replaced with spares when written; c) it is a test by the electronics on the drive, eliminating bus cables, connectors, or software drivers producing false positives; d) it can be run while using the drive with your OS, though drive performance will be impacted, and the elapsed time for the test will be extended. You can request one with the -t long option of smartctl; you then use smartctl with the -a option to compare results after the test has completed.
Just a suggestion, Sepuku. Install smartmontools on all your systems, and configure the smartd daemon to run short tests and long tests on a regular schedule. My systems all run the short test -- just an an electronics self-test -- daily, and the long test, reading the media, weekly.
When I get bad sectors, which happens once in a while, I take the drive out of service and run badblocks against either a single section of the drive or the entire drive, depending on symptoms. If the problem drive is part of a RAID array, the server keeps on running, and I merely return the drive to service. If it's not part of a RAID array, such as in a desktop, I schedule downtime, and use my full and incremental backups as required.
Anyway i was thinking a lot my issue yesterday and i thought something practical(if it works).I decided to create two parttions:
1)msdos ,40gigabytes as an intermediary partition from and to OpenBSD between the other OSes.
2)4.2BSD ,with the rest of the capacity of the drive.
So this is what i did:
disklabel -E sd0
$ sudo disklabel sd0 # /dev/rsd0c: type: SCSI disk: SCSI disk label: 001-9VT156 duid: ba0c2bddc8cd4a44 flags: bytes/sector: 4096 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 30400 total sectors: 488378646 boundstart: 0 boundend: 488378646 drivedata: 0 16 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] c: 488378646 0 unused i: 10490382 63 MSDOS k: 477885552 10490448 4.2BSD 8192 65536 1
newfs_msdos /dev/rsd0i
newfs /dev/rsd0k
When trying to mount :
mount -t msdos /dev/sd0i /usr/usbdevices
mount /dev/sd0k /usr/usbdevices
Now what i want to ask is:
1)I need to mount both partitions everytime i attach the disk or the one i need everytime?
2)Also how i set in which partition a file will be saved?I mean if i cd to disk i see no directories or anything.It's completely empty.
newfs_msdos /dev/rsd0i
Let us pretend you had two directories you wanted to use as mount points. You decide one of them will be /var/shared, the other will be /usr/local/stuff.
After you create the directories, and mounting your two partitions, you can then create directory structures underneath them, and save files there accordingly.
# mkdir /var/shared /usr/local/stuff
# mount_msdos -l /dev/sd0k /var/shared
# mount /dev/sd0i /usr/local/stuff
# mkdir /usr/local/stuff/things
# cp /root/myfile /usr/local/stuff/things
# cd /usr/local/stuff
# cp things/myfile /var/shared/
The creation of the mount points is only needed once. The mount commands can be simplified, if you put the information into fstab as mentioned above.
# mount /var/shared
Yes, there are graphical file managers and even mount managers that you can use with your X Windows environment so you don't have to learn to use commands in a shell.
I think the disk is useful only for recycling right now.
I think there is some sort of issue still remaining, that may be repairable. All it will take is time to make that determination, with very little actual effort.
Assumptions: Ubuntu can communicate with the disk, OpenBSD can't (right now).
If it were me with these problems, this is what I would do:
Last edited by jggimi; 24th August 2011 at 07:05 PM.
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 2:08 pm
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Urban, I wish I had started in my mid-40's, I'd be a lot better now!! I started windsurfing at 52 and have been doing it relatively full time (in between working) for about 5 years now.
So, get out there! btw, I come from a boat sailing background also.
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 2:30 pm
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Isobars, Yeah, fishing is another passion of mine. Not sure what you looked up
I was hoping I could also try and use it as an SUP for fishing. Wind blowing mount sail, no wind, grab fishing rod and paddle!
I was seriously thinking that it's just a young man's sport
Four vehicles pulled into a very windy park last year, and four drivers got out. Three of us began rigging ASAP; the fourth just watched, then finally walked over to us and said in obvious shock and awe: "I THOUGHT THIS WAS A YOUNG MAN'S SPORT!" What little hair the three of us had was silver or white; I was the kid in the group at 69.
As they say in my cancer support groups: You'll do fine.
A guy told me a couple of years ago that he had tried most SUPs, and the one that impressed him most was the Mistral Superlight ... a superb longboard which is as common as old VW beetles.
What I saw about your fishing was your video of fishing dead smack downtown in San Antonio. While everybody else was scurrying around the city doing city stuff wearing city faces and city clothes, you were making like Isaac Walton, ignoring the fact that you were fishing over concrete guard rails, stepping over collapsing urban fences, making sure your fly rod and line cleared street signs and pedestrians, spotting and pulling big fish out of what most people probably regard as just another piece of real estate they can't park their cars on. It was like skiing wast-deep untracked powder down Lombard Street, hunting pheasants on Wall Street, or logo-high down-the-line wave sailing on the Sunset Strip. You weren't just reading between the lines, you were
between the lines, enjoying a dimension almost no one else can even see. Good on ya!
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 3:10 pm
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Funny about the fishing. When we first started having kids I decided I had to cut down on a lot of my fun activities because I wanted to spend time with the family. But I did not cut out fishing because we could always do that and have ever since he could even hold his snoopy rod. Well now he is a fairly accomplished fisherman and we take the kayaks all the time, but we only have 2 so that leaves my wife and daughter at home when we do. We were actually at a fund raiser for our fishing club when he spotted the windsurfer. I thought to myself......You can strap a cooler / seat to the that for a SUP so you can take the wife and daughter too.
I love isobars post
Tight lines and sail on
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 10:19 am
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My friend Fred learned to windsurf at 76 and died on his board at 81. The average age of windsurfers in the U.S. is supposedly something like 47. I myself am 57, and sail incessantly, getting over 30 days a year, and one year 78!
Too old? Don't think so! Lots of good advice here, take it!
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 5:02 pm
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I first tried windsurfing at age 39 (1993) during a trip to Maui, but was too out of shape (250+ lb.) to do much, especially on old-style beginner gear. I tried again 5 and 6 years later on Kaua'i, and had much the same experience. Nonetheless I maintained armchair enthusiasm for the sport, and a seed was planted, though my physical condition continued only to get worse.
At age 56 amidst other major life changes, I decided to use windsurfing as part of my motivation to get into better condition. I spent 6 months with careful diet and rigorous gym work, got into better condition, and tried again on Maui. The new style beginner gear was amazingly better, and my improved condition made everything easier, though not truly easy.
I got bitten hard by the bug, came back home, and finally located local instruction and rental gear. I spent more months with diet and exercise, dropped a total of around 100 pounds, to around 186 now at age 59.
I am now in my third year of dedicated in-season windsurfing: as many weekends as conditions allow, and (now that I have gear and skills to sail a closer site), occasional weekday afternoons.
In this process I have had a few injuries, none serious. As a result of some near-misses, I strongly recommend wearing a helmet and protective eyewear, and using a PFD.
So yes, it is possible to start this sport at a later age, especially if you can use it as part of your motivation toward other beneficial changes.
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 6:02 pm
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dsgrntlxmply wrote:
I decided to use windsurfing as part of my motivation to get into better condition. I spent 6 months with careful diet and rigorous gym work
I never got near a gym until I moved away from year-round WSing, dropped my other year-round sports because they hurt too much, and wanted to hit the water on a full plane on the first sufficiently warm April day. Maximizing our fun outdoors is a good motivation for paying some dues in the gym. Equally important is finding ways to use the gym productively that are also fun ... sort of. Some people stare at some of the things I do there, but I'm having more fun than they are, benefiting far more than they are, and spending far less time there than they are. If I wanted to be an even bigger ass than some people here consider me to be, I'd love to wear a shirt in the gym that says "I just achieved more in five minutes than you do in a week". And the older and more out-of-shape we are, the more we benefit from (sound) exercise.
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 1:12 pm
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isobars wrote:
... Some people stare at some of the things I do there, but I'm having more fun than they are...
There is a machine at my gym that calls itself "Upper Back", but that I call "Popeye Windsurfing Simulator." If a trainer ever saw me using it the way that I do he'd probably object. I put 115-125 pounds on the stack, grab the handles, close my eyes, and pretend that I am wrangling a very overpowered sail with no harness.
If nothing else, it helps a little toward alleviating my withdrawal symptoms during the winter.
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:09 pm
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It seems to me that windsurfing, which is often viewed as an extreme sport, is becoming something of a geriatric sport, in that most of us seem to be at least middle aged, around 50 or so. I started like so many others here in my thirties. I got the bug bad, and moved to Maui in April of 1990, and stayed till the end of November. After returning home to Connecticut, I lost interest in the sport and sailed less and less each year. I had gotten spoiled! Several years went by where I did'nt sail at all, and I nearly gave it up. Now I live a block from the water. I'm sailing more often now, but not enough. Winds here are light. I decided that what I really need is a longboard. A new board is out of the question right now, so I finally found an earlr 90's F2 Strato 360. The condition was hardly used , much like the Comet urbanfisher located. It's bigger though, 360x 66x 218liters. The origional owner never put the straps on the board, nor harness lines on the boom. Here is something I can sail in very little wind! I can also paddle it when there is no wind.
urbanfisher, did you buy the comet? For $75.00 I don't think you could go wrong. The one regret that I have is that I sold my old Ultra Cat. Because of where i live that is the type of board one needs if they wany to sail alot. Does not matter if you can plane ot not, you can still get out there and get fresh air, exercise and enjoyment.
Believe it or not I am excited to have found a 20 year old relic, that many people would never want to step foot on, but they are the ones sailing at most 5 or six times a year where I live. Let them laugh! I'll be having fun.
Age is a state of mind mostly. You start getting old when you stop moving and having fun. I'd much rather die on my board at 80 than in an old folks home, or a hospital.
Windsurfing is one of those activities that makes you feel lucky to be alive. I believe it is keeping us all young.
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 7:02 pm
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dsgrntlxmply wrote:
There is a machine at my gym that calls itself "Upper Back", but that I call "Popeye Windsurfing Simulator." If a trainer ever saw me using it the way that I do he'd probably object. I put 115-125 pounds on the stack, grab the handles, close my eyes, and pretend that I am wrangling a very overpowered sail with no harness.
One of my "favorites" is an overhead trapeze bar on pulleys counterweighted by selectable weight stacks. It would normally be used for standing or seated lat pulldowns, but I use it as a WSing jumping simulator. I set the stack weight to roughly half my body weight, step 6-8 feet off to one side so the weights are lifted when my arms are extended, crouch a bit, then use leg power and a big pull on the counterweights to get a few feet of air as I fly about 15 feet laterally towards the other side, where I drop into a crouch again while lifting the stack again, and reverse ... and repeat ... and repeat ... in a smooth and continuous rhythm until my legs, arms, or lungs fail me. Observers named it the "Superman", and people give me lots of room pretty quickly. The footwork can go either way ... regular stance or switch stance ... for variety, and I can select the amount of counterweight to emphasize legs or arms/shoulders. It doesn't take long to get your heart rate over 100% of theoretical max, so it's an excellent component of flat-out interval training. You can adjust the rhythm to some degree to match the tunes in your iPod by changing your pendulum period by adjusting your trajectory and range, or you can just go for max height and distance and use the music to pump you up.
It's not suitable for crowded gyms.
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Location: Farmerville, Louisiana
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 4:18 pm
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I feel ya. I just started windsurfing in March of last year, and I will be 50 on New Years Day. I love windsurfing and have always been fascinated by it as well.. I took a couple of lessons in the 80's when I lived in San Fran, but I could never get it going forward. Today's gear is so much better and easier to sail. It is still a difficult sport and I feel like I am stuck in learning hell, but it is all worth it. I was at the Pumpkin Cup in Oct. and had a blast. Get a good beginner board and learn to tack and sail upwind. I just got my second board last month and am looking forward to a breakout year. Mariner Sails is an excellent shop. There is also a shop I have been dealing with in Gulfport MS. Tommy Whitman at Gulfport Boardsports is a great guy and has supplied me with inexpensive used gear. At my age I feel like this is the best thing I could do for my health. You will definitely feel it after a good session. Go for it.
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Wine announces resignation as Penn State baseball coach
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State baseball coach Robbie Wine announced his resignation Tuesday (June 18). Penn State Director of Athletics Dave Joyner said a national search will immediately begin for his successor.
"I am very appreciative of Robbie's contributions to the baseball program and Penn State," Joyner said. "We thank Robbie for his nine years of service to Penn State, and wish him all the best."
"I have decided to step down as the Penn State head baseball coach to pursue other opportunities in the sport of baseball," said Wine. "I am excited to start a new chapter in my life and look forward to what lies ahead. My experience at Penn State has made me a better coach and person. I thank the student-athletes I had the opportunity to coach, mentor and develop on and off the field. I wish them all the best of luck. They will always be a part of my family. I am proud of our accomplishments, growth and direction of the program under my leadership and I wish the best of luck to the next head coach, his staff and the student-athletes."
Wine recently completed his ninth year at the helm of the Nittany Lions with a 228-261 overall record, including a 111-135 mark in Big Ten play. He guided Penn State to the Big Ten Tournament four times with back-to-back tournament appearances in 2011 and 2012. Wine posted four winning seasons during his tenure.
Penn State had 14 players selected in the Major League Baseball Draft from 2007-12, the third-most in the Big Ten in that span. In the 2012 MLB Draft, three of Wine's players, pitchers Joe Kurrasch and John Walter and first baseman Jordan Steranka were selected. In 2008, pitcher Drew O'Neil was selected in the fourth round by the Chicago White Sox, becoming the highest Penn State draftee since Nate Bump was selected in the 1998 first round.


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S8 E12 Hope for the Hopeless
A young boy, Wes, has a tumor on his spine. The best doctors in the world have deemed it inoperable. So, it makes perfect sense that Dr. Derek Shepherd is going to operate, right? The mom says her son has no idea he has a tumor. He believes he's being treated for a bad backache. In truth, Wes is totally hip to his illness. He just doesn't want his worried mom to know he knows. He swears Lexie to secrecy.
Derek does his best to remove the tumor, but it turns out all the other doctors were right. It's inoperable. Lexie pleads with him to try, but this is truly a hopeless case. They have no choice but to close him up without removing the tumor. Wes later tells his mom not to worry because he'll soon be in heaven with his dad. It's a heartbreaking moment, but one that's not going to stop Lexie from assisting Derek on more hopeless cases in the future.
There are two big parties in the works. The first is Zola's birthday bash. The second gala is to celebrate Richard's 10,000th surgery. The former chief nixes the idea of confetti because it might get in the cake. The man didn't get to do all those surgeries without looking at the big picture.
Richard's operation involves a kidney transplant between a couple of bickering sisters (guest stars Peri Gilpin and Nia Vardalos). Things are going well until a confused Adele shows up after being found wandering the streets. Meredith suggests that Richard recall a happy memory to help ground her, so he sings "My Funny Valentine" because they were married on February 14th. This works wonderfully, but Richard knows his celebratory party must now be canceled.
Now that Mer-Der have Zola, April thinks it's time to move out. She wants Jackson as a roomie, but would prefer to ditch Alex. That's not gonna happen. They need rent from all of them to get a decent place. In other news, Meredith needs to declare a specialty. General surgery seems to make the most sense, but Meredith worries that will make her just like Ellis. Richard assures her that she's nothing like her mother.
Callie and Arizona believe Mark is afraid to say "I love you" to Julia because Lexie broke up with Jackson. They try to convince him that the Lexie ship has sailed (and sank). The two ladies aren't subtle in their attempts to get him to say those three little words to Julia. But Mark refuses to rush into things like he did with Addison and Lexie. Just call him McMaturity.
Teddy has been receiving lots of sympathy casseroles from her colleagues. She's also been doing lots of surgeries with Cristina right by her side. Owen wants them both to get some rest. He orders them away from the latest trauma case which involves a man who has part of a fence lodged near his heart. Owen is also trying to find a way to get Teddy to stop hating him. Somehow we don't think another casserole will do the trick.
Teddy and Cristina go behind Owen's back to scam their way into operating on Fenceman. When the Chief of Surgery learns of their deception, he demands that they both report to him after the operation. Owen overhears Cristina and Teddy laughing at him on his way out of the OR.
Meredith swipes some of Teddy's widow casseroles for Zola's party. She also makes use of her baby girl's birthday cake to celebrate Richard's 10,000th surgery. Still no confetti though. But there are fireworks once Owen shows up. He and Cristina get into a loud shouting match in the kitchen. It starts out about the surgery then segues into other issues. Owen believes their lives revolve around Cristina getting whatever she wants. He says, "You killed our baby. You don't ever forget that!" Suddenly no one is in much of a party mood.


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The success of the GTO gave Pontiac—and John DeLorean—lots of sway within the halls of General Motors. DeLorean got a lot of what he wanted in the wake of the GTO's impressive launch, but not everything. DeLorean's wish list included a 2+2 fiberglass sports car codenamed Banshee. Pontiac designed the Banshee to be powered by a 230ci overhead-cam six. Pontiac's engine group was way ahead of the curve and had completed work on this engine in 1965. But with no Banshee to put it in and the Firebird not ready for production until 1967, the OHC six was made available for the A-Body Tempest.
Pontiac based its OHC six on Chevrolet's 230-inch six of that era, but the cast-iron block and head castings were unique to Pontiac's application. A single overhead cam was driven by a fiberglass-reinforced timing belt. The front timing belt cover and valve cover were cast aluminum. The base version for the '66 LeMans, with a single-barrel carburetor, produced 165 hp. The Sprint version featured a hotter cam, higher compression (10.5:1), larger valves, a split exhaust manifold, and a Rochester Quadrajet four-barrel carburetor. These improvements allowed the Sprint engine to produce 207 hp in the '66 LeMans and, after the addition of 20 cubic inches, 215 hp in the '67. In addition, the overhead cam allowed this unique six to easily rev to 5,500 rpm. Transmission choices included a three-speed manual (standard), a four-speed manual, and a two-speed automatic. The Sprint option could be added to any Tempest or LeMans model except a station wagon.
Pontiac didn't see the sales success with the Sprint it had hoped for. Jim Wangers, Pontiac's marketing guru at the time, recalls, "It had a delightful exhaust rumble, and rather capable performance. Though it was promoted quite aggressively and received very good enthusiast press, it flopped. The '60s were the time for the V-8 engine in the U.S. market. Nobody wanted any kind of Pontiac that wasn't V-8 powered, no matter how many camshafts or where they were located."
Regarding the Sprint, Wangers recalls DeLorean saying, "It's a V-8 world, guys. In fact … it's a 400ci V-8 world."
Jerry Harder of Oceanside, California, was originally looking for a mid-'60s GTO when he found this bargain-priced, Sprint-optioned '66 Le Mans. He originally intended to build a GTO clone out of it, so he didn't care about the poor running six-cylinder engine it had or the three-speed transmission. But after the first car show, where the OHC engine drew lots of attention, Jerry changed his mind and decided to keep the six.
The car was very straight, had just been painted, and had received a fresh interior. Jerry rebuilt the front suspension and added disc brakes. He was about to have the engine rebuilt when someone told him about a completely rebuilt Sprint engine for the low price of $500. For drivability Jerry added a Tremec five-speed harvested from a local wrecking yard. He fabricated an offset to the shift lever so it exits the console in the correct factory location. When Jerry had the exhaust installed, his instruction was, "Make it sound European." And sure enough, it sounds like a BMW and not a tractor.
Jerry's Sprint OHC six, with the overdrive transmission, registers fuel economy numbers in the low 20s on the road, making it a fun cruiser. And the engine still draws a crowd at car shows like a fight in a school yard. Recently, Jerry's Sprint was one of several cars brought to a local TV station for the promotion of an upcoming car show. While surrounded by several high-horsepower, V-8–powered hot rods and muscle cars, it was Jerry's Sprint six the announcer focused in on. Wouldn't DeLorean have been pleased?
At a Glance
1966 Pontiac LeMans Sprint
Owned by: Jerry Harder, Oceanside, CA
Restored by: Previous and current owner
Engine: 230ci/207hp OHC I-6
Transmission: Tremec 5-speed
Rearend: 3.55 gears
Interior: Black vinyl bucket seat
Wheels: 15x7American Racing Torq-Thrust
Tires: P225/60R15 BFG radial
Period Performance: 16.7 seconds @ 82 mph (Jan. '66 Motor Trend road test)


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FBI investigating threat to water systems in Midwestern cities
The FBI is investigating a threat against water systems in four Midwestern cities, including Wichita, Kan.
FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton said Friday the FBI hasn't substantiated any threats to the four cities. She would not name those cities, saying only that they were confined to the Midwest.
Wichita spokesman Van Williams said security in the city's system is being increased after an unspecified terrorist threat. He says the city's water is safe to drink.
The Wichita Eagle reported that an internal city email it obtained Friday asked city employees to be vigilant during the next 30 days about anything hooked to a fire hydrant. Another e-mail advised plumbers to call police if they see someone they don't recognize "messing with a fire hydrant or vent pipe."


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Mission: Locate Resources at SJSU
San Jose State University offers a variety of resources that will assist you in accomplishing your mission:
- The Career Center can help you to build your civilian resume, translate your military skills, and prepare for your upcoming interview.
- The Counseling Center offers free and confidential personal /educational counseling services to all San José State University students.
- The Accessible Education Center (AEC) offers a variety of services to help you succeed in the classroom regardless of your disability rating at the V.A. The AEC has many tools and resources that will assist you in achieving your educational goals.
- The Veteran's Services Office is your first stop when coming to San José State University. Here you will find a one-stop center where you can make sure that you are getting all of the benefits you earned, as well as information about other veteran's resources, on campus and off.
- The Veteran's Student Organization is an on-campus community of veterans dedicated to creating a community of vets helping vets.


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In the U.S., Hispanic consumers' usage rates of smartphones, television, online video, social networking and other forms of entertainment make this group one of today's most engaged and dynamic populations in the digital space, according to Nielsen's recent State of the Hispanic Consumer: The Hispanic Market Imperative report. Mobile presents a significant avenue of opportunity for marketers looking to reach Hispanic consumers – Hispanic mobile users send or receive 941 SMS (text) messages a month, more than any other ethnic group. They also make 13 phone calls per day, 40 percent more than the average U.S. mobile user.
Social is another platform where Latinos are especially active and rising in numbers. During February 2012, Hispanics increased their visits to Social Networks/Blogs by 14 percent compared to February 2011. Not only are Latinos the fastest growing U.S. ethnic group on Facebook and WordPress.com from a year ago, but also Hispanic adults are 25 percent more likely to follow a brand and 18 percent more likely to follow a celebrity than the general online population.
Other digital findings from the report include:
For more information on Hispanic consumers, download Nielsen's State of the Hispanic Consumer: The Hispanic Market Imperative report.


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If you haven't been on my blog for the last few days, I've got a new ebook experiment going on.
Earlier this year, I asked three fellow writers if they wanted to collaborate on a horror novel. I've worked with each of them before (F. Paul Wilson, Jeff Strand, and Blake Crouch) and they're all consummate professionals.
The result of our efforts, DRACULAS - A Novel of Terror, will be released on Kindle, October 19. You can currently download the first 50 pages for free, and pre-order the ebook.
Now we're attempting to generate some buzz prior to the launch, by treating this like a traditional release rather than an indie release. That means we're looking for a few good reviewers.
Do you want a free advance reading copy of DRACULAS?
Here's what you do…
Send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com and confirm that:
1. You will post a review of DRACULAS by October 18 on your blog or website, along with a link to Amazon's pre-order page (which will be provided to you along with the book and press release.)
2. You will post that same review to Amazon's DRACULAS page when the book is officially launched on October 19.
3. Make sure to include your name and the web-address of your website or blog, which may be linked to from this blog when the book goes live in the Kindle store.
Your email address will of course be kept confidential, and anyone who writes a review, good or bad, will be thanked in the acknowledgments of a future edition of DRACULAS.
We anticipate having a final manuscript of the book ready to email on or before October 1.
No problem. We're going to have a dedicated DRACULAS website page. Write a review, email it to the above address, and we'll post it there. Then you can link to your review via Twitter and Facebook, if you use them. You can also post reviews on Goodreads.com and Shelfari.com.
You can also email the above address for interview requests.
Thanks in advance for helping us spread the word! And please email email@example.com and not me directly. We want to make sure your email is read, not lost in my huge stack of unanswered emails.
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The MIFAB® RHA and RHG roof hatches are designed to provide convenient, economical access to the roofs of buildings. Available in either white prime coated galvanized steel (RHG) or aluminum (RHA). All hatches are manufactured with weather resistant gasketing to ensure long life, low maintenance and ease of operation. MIFAB's roof hatches are designed for safety, durability and ease of operation. Roof hatches install easily over the roof opening and are secured from the base flange to the roof deck.
Material - RHG cover is 14 gage galvanized steel and 20 gauge steel liner. RHA cover is .090" aluminum with a .050 aluminum liner. The inside of the cover is gasketed with a neoprene weather seal to provide a flush, tight, fit. Covers are insulated with 1" (25) of fibreboard and are designed to support a snow load of 40 lbs. per square foot. The frame for the RHG Series is 14 gage galvanized steel and the frame for the RHA Series is .090" aluminum.
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LAS VEGAS – Playing to impress strangers isn't the same thing as playing to impress one's coaches, and it's easy for young guys to veer recklessly toward the former.
Sticking to a few strengths, by contrast, and filling a niche can go a long way toward opening eyes not just on a player's summer team but with all the scouts from rival clubs or even global leagues.
Bob Thornton, the Memphis assistant coach working the Grizzlies' game against Washington Wednesday, was thrilled for Jack Cooley, the undrafted rookie from Notre Dame who did the things he's good at and mostly avoided the things he's not. In the case of a wide-body like Cooley, Thornton said, that means "rebound, set screens, play defense and hit the shot when it's there."
That's what Cooley did, with an efficient 20 points on 9-for-14 shooting and 12 rebounds (six offensive) in just over 30 minutes in Memphis' 90-83 victory. Left open on the elbow on a couple of times, he boldly stuck the shots. Cooley even drained a 3-pointer when it was there, while forcing nothing. Following his lead, the Grizzlies grabbed 20 offensive boards in the 40-minute game.
Afterward, Thornton said: "He's out here creating opportunities for himself." Through four games, Cooley is averaging 15.3 points and 9.5 rebounds while shooting 52 percent — earning him a spot on our Rookie Ladder.
Non-rookie of the day: Travis Leslie, Heat. In a little more than 23 minutes off Miami's bench in its 113-66 blowout of New York, Leslie scored 23 points on just 13 shots. The 6-foot-4 guard from Georgia gets around -– he was a first-round pick of the Santa Cruz Warriors of the D-League before last season and averaged better than 15 points. He participated in the Orlando Summer League with Philadelphia.
Other notables: Jordan Hamilton, Nuggets. A 6-foot-7 guard from Texas, he scored 23 points in Denver's 87-82 victory over New Orleans, hitting four of his seven 3-pointers. Thomas Robinson, Trail Blazers. He was at it again, good for 13 points and 17 rebounds in Portland's 70-69 victory over Atlanta one day after getting 12 points and 18 boards vs. Chicago. Josh Akognon, Mavericks. The 5-foot-11 guard from Cal State-Fullerton was a sparkplug off the Dallas bench, scoring 24 points in 24:50 in a 95-89 victory over the L.A. Clippers.
Rookie of the day (after Cooley): Dennis Schroder, Hawks. He has been valued more for his defense than anything else, but the Atlanta point guard got to the line, sank 7-for-8 and wound up with 16 points despite 4-for-11 shooting from the floor (1-for-5 from the arc). He had five assists and three steals with (oops) six turnovers.
Other notables: Shabazz Muhammad. The former UCLA forward, whose selection by Minnesota at No. 14 drew some criticism, had his best day as a pro. He scored 17 points and sank three of his four 3-pointers in the Timberwolves' 92-54 laugher over Sacramento. Muhammad had been sputtering along at 7.3 ppg on 34.6 percent shooting. (Ben McLemore, the Kings' touted shooting guard, was back in struggle mode, missing all eight of his field-goal attempts.) C.J. McCollum, Trail Blazers. The combo guard continues to put up solid numbers for Portland, his 19 points just shy of his average (21.3 ppg) coming into the victory over Atlanta.
Coming up: The byes are over, the goodbyes start soon. In the new tournament format, the 10 top-seeded teams all were idle Wednesday but will take on the day's winners Thursday (and in a couple cases, each other), with action starting at 1 p.m. ET with No. 7 Cleveland vs. No. 10 San Antonio. Once everyone has five games completed, the single-elimination feature kicks in. Starting Friday, losers head home and winners keep going, with the championship game set for Monday


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Stade back hit with six-month ban
ESPN Staff
July 10, 2012
Djibril Camara will be free to play in December © PA Photos
Stade Francais back Djibril Camara has been hit with a six-month ban by French anti-doping officials (AFLD).
Camara missed three mandatory drug tests and was notified of this at the beginning of April. Camara will be allowed to play again in December but it could have been worse for the Stade back as his original ban was for 12 months but the panel opted to suspend half of it.
Camara will now miss a large section of the new season with Stade opening their new campaign against Montpellier on the weekend of August 17-18.
French winger Yoann Huget was suspended for a similar offence last season but was hit with a four month ban which meant he missed the 2011 World Cup.
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WebGL: Up and Running - new book by Tony Parisi
WebGL: Up and Running is a new book by Tony Parisi. This book will help you get off and running with a quick introduction to WebGL. From the O'Reilly website "Tony Parisi is an entrepreneur and career CTO/architect. He has developed international standards and protocols, created noteworthy software products, and started and sold technology companies. Tony's passion for innovating is exceeded only by his desire to bring coolness and fun to the broadest possible audience." The Khronos group has had the privilege of working with Tony in the past. Tony Parisi is also the founder of the WebGL Meetups in and around the San Francisco area.


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So after DearMYRTLE did a Wacky Wednesday hangout showing how easy it was to help with indexing at Family Search and with the Worldwide Indexing day in the offing I signed up to start indexing. I have tried to keep the post short but 1 paragraph per project was as short as I could manage.
3 Projects
US, Mississippi—Enumeration of Educable Children, 1850–1892, 1908–1957 [Part A]
US, Florida—Obituaries, 1980–2014 [Part C]
UK, Manchester—Parish Registers, 1787–1999 [Part A]
Although this challenge only required the submission of 2 batches I have to date submitted a total of 724 records and over 20 batches.
The Enumeration of Educable Children was a typed document easy to read but after arbitration I realised I had not read the instructions for the project thoroughly and included surnames for children which were not specified in the document.
I tried an English batch which was marked at advanced and struggled as it was handwritten and appeared to be written in Latin. I returned this batch for someone more experienced. The other English batch was a beginner's level and these are handwritten on pre-printed pages. Some have a birth date and a baptism date recorded on the page which could cause confusion. I have feedback on some entries including one where I thought a name should be Ritchie but because the t was not crossed it read as Rilchie it has been arbitrated as Ritchie.
I have submitted several different batches of obituaries and they can all be different. Even within batches each image may have variable amounts of extractable data. The biggest problems I had with obituaries are maiden names for women, or a sentence such as Lynn wife of John Snow should Lynn be recorded with the surname Snow or just the first name.


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The Journal of the AAVSO is an instrument of the AAVSO, whose mission is "to enable anyone, anywhere, to participate in scientific discovery through variable star astronomy". The purpose of the JAAVSO is to promote the AAVSO's overall mission by serving as the preeminent publication venue not only for AAVSO Members, but for the entire community of variable star scientists and researchers.
Publication criteria
From John Percy, Editor, JAAVSO:
Note: the paper copy of this special issue is being sold in two parts:
JAAVSO 40.1 Part A (pages 1-276) for $12.50 plus shipping
JAAVSO 40.1 Part B (pages 267-608) for $12.50 plus shipping
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You may download this issue for free in pdf format.
Buy a paper copy from createspace.com for $12 plus shipping.
Longtime friend of the AAVSO, Dr. Chris Mauche (Lawrence Livermore National Lab), has published a paper about AE Aqr in which he uses data from AAVSO observations. It was submitted for inclusion in the proceedings of the conference "The Golden Age of CVs and Related Objects".
The ArXiv link to the black/white paper is here.
But you can download the color paper directly here.
The abstract:
Scientific Paper Session
Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:30 am — 5:30 pm
11:30 am – 12:00 pm
Variable Star Astronomy Education Outreach Initiativepowerpoint | pdf
Donna L. Young
20 minutes
Editorial Staff
Editor John R. Percy, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Associate Editor Elizabeth O. Waagen, AAVSO
Production Editor Michael Saladyga, AAVSO
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Geoffrey C. Clayton, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana


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In April, Kyle Baun walked into the Blackhawks dressing room to begin a three-game audition.
Baun, who had signed as a free agent out of Colgate, was taken aback when he looked around the room for the first time.
"There's Hall of Famers in the room, so it's definitely an intimidating place to walk into," Baun said. "It didn't sink in until my first skate. You look at all the last names and every single one of these guys is a name player."
Baun is trying to make a name for himself in a forward-heavy training camp this month. In the last few weeks Baun, a 6-foot-2 winger, has made the most of the few exhibition games he has played in, scoring three...


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|Oracle Workflow Developer's Guide
Release 2.6.3
Part Number B10284-02
An activity is a unit of work that contributes toward the accomplishment of a process. An activity can be a notification, a function, an event, or a process. A notification activity sends a message to a workflow user. The message may simply provide the user with information or request the user to take some action. A function activity calls a PL/SQL stored procedure or some external program to perform an automated function. An event activity receives, raises, or sends a business event. A process activity is a modelled workflow process, which can be included as an activity in another process to represent a sub-process.
Activities are organized beneath their respective Processes, Notifications, Functions, or Events headings in the navigator tree. You can create, edit, and delete activity definitions in the navigator tree, and drag an activity from the tree into a Process window to create a new usage of that activity in a process diagram. Each activity is depicted as an icon in a process diagram
Oracle Workflow provides an item type called Standard that includes generic activities you can use in any process you define. For example, some of the activities perform standard functions such as comparing two values. See: Standard Activities.
Oracle Workflow also provides an item type called System:Error that includes standard error processes and activities you can use to create a custom error process. You can assign an error process to a process activity. If an error occurs, the error process informs Oracle Workflow how to handle the error. See: Error Handling for Workflow Processes.
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Hadoop clusters 101
In talking about Hadoop clusters, first we need to define two terms: cluster and node. A cluster is a collection of nodes. A node is a process running on a virtual or physical machine or in a container. We say process because a code would be running other programs beside Hadoop.
When Hadoop is not running in cluster mode, it is said to be running in local mode. That would be suitable for, say, installing Hadoop on one machine just to learn it. When you run Hadoop in local node it writes data to the local file system instead of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System).
Hadoop is a master-slave model, with one master (albeit with an optional High Availability hot standby) coordinating the role of many slaves. Yarn is the resource manager that coordinates what task runs where, keeping in mind available CPU, memory, network bandwidth, and storage.
One can scale out a Hadoop cluster, which means add more nodes. Hadoop is said to be linearly scalable. That means for every node you add you get a corresponding boost in throughput. More generally if you have n nodes then adding 1 mode give you (1/n) additional computing power. That type of distributed computing is a major shift from the days of using a single server where when you add memory and CPUs it produces only a marginal increase in throughout.
Datanode and Namenode
The NameNode is the Hadoop master. It consults with DataNodes in the cluster when copying data or running mapReduce operations. It is this design that lets a user copy a very large file onto a Hadoop mount point like /data. Files copied to /data exist as blocks on different DataNodes in the cluster. The collection of DataNodes is what we call the HDFS.
This basic idea is illustrated below.
Apache Yarn is a part of Hadoop that can also be used outside of Hadoop as a standalone resource manager. NodeManager takes instructions from the Yarn scheduler to decide which node should run which task. Yarn consists of two pieces: ResourceManager and NodeManager. The NodeManager reports to the ResourceManager CPU, memory, disk, and network usage so that the ResourceManager can decide where to direct new tasks. The ResourceManager does this with the Scheduler and ApplicationsManager.
Adding nodes to the cluster
Adding nodes to a Hadoop cluster is as easy as copying the server name to $HADOOP_HOME/conf/slaves file then starting the DataNode daemon on the new node.
Communicating between nodes
When you install Hadoop, you enable ssh and create ssh keys for the Hadoop user. This lets Hadoop communicate between the nodes by using RCP (remote procedure call) without having to enter a password. Formally this abstraction on top of the TCP protocol is called Client Protocol and the DataNode Protocol. The DataNodes send a heartbeat to the NameNode to let it know that they are still working.
Hadoop nodes configuration
Hadoop configuration is fairly easy in that you do the configuration on the master and then copy that and the Hadoop software directly onto the data nodes without needed to maintain a different configuration on each.
The main Hadoop configuration files are core-site.xml and hdfs-site.xml. This is where you set the port number where Hadoop files can be reached, the replication factor (i.e, the number of replicates or number of copies of data blocks to keep),the location of the FSImage (keeps track of changes to the data files), etc. You can also configure authentication there to put security into the Hadoop cluster,which by default has none.
Cluster management
Hadoop has a command line interface as well an API. But there is no real tool for orchestration (meaning managing, including monitoring) and installing new machines.
There are some options for that. One is Apache Ambari. It is used and promoted by certain Hadoop clouds like Hortonworks.
Here is a view of the Ambari dashboard from HortonWorks:
As you can see it has a lot of metrics and tools not offered by the basic, rather simple, Hadoop and Yarn web interfaces.
It exposes its services as REST web APIs. So other vendors have added it to their operations platform, like the Microsoft Systems Center and Teradata.
With Ambari instead of typing stop-dfs.sh on each data node you can use the rolling restarts feature to reboot each machine when you want to implement some kind of change. As you can image if you have more than a handful of machines then doing this from the command line would be time consuming.
Ambari also helps to manage more than one cluster at the same time. And to build out each you can use the Ambari Blueprint wizard to layout where you want NameNodes, DataNodes, and provide configuration details. This is also useful as you can build development or test clusters and automate the build of those. You only run the wizard one time and then it saves it as an API so that you can script building new clusters.
Complete Guide to Hadoop
- Table of Contents
- Hadoop Tutorial for Beginners ›
- Hadoop Examples & Use Cases ›
- Hadoop Advantages ›
- Hadoop Ecosystem ›
- Hadoop Security ›
- Hadoop Hiring & Careers ›
- Hadoop Certifications ›
- Hadoop Resources ›
- Apache Pig ›
- Apache Spark ›
- Apache Yarn ›
- Cassandra ›
- Flume ›
- Hadoop Analytics ›
- Hadoop Architecture ›
- Hbase ›
- Hive ›
- Hadoop Administration ›
- Hadoop Clusters ›
- Hadoop Interview Questions ›
Complete Guide To Hadoop
- Hadoop Basics: An Introduction to Hadoop
- Hadoop Examples: 5 Real-World Use Cases
- Hadoop Benefits & Business Case
- Hadoop Ecosystem and Components
- Hadoop Security: An Introduction
- Hadoop Careers: Getting Hired
- Hadoop Certifications
- Hadoop Training and Resources
- Apache Pig: An Introduction
- Apache Spark: An Introduction
- Apache Yarn: An Introduction
- Apache Cassandra: An Introduction
- Apache Flume: An Introduction
- Hadoop Analytics: An Introduction
- Hadoop Architecture: An Introduction
- Hbase: An Introduction
- HDFS: An Introduction
- Hive: An Introduction
- Hadoop Administration: An Introduction
- Hadoop Clusters : An Introduction
- Hadoop Interview Questions
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