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Distributed Hash Tables, Part I
In the world of decentralization, distributed hash tables (DHTs) recently have had a revolutionary effect. The chaotic, ad hoc topologies of the first-generation peer-to-peer architectures have been superseded by a set of topologies with emergent order, provable properties and excellent performance. Knowledge of DHT algorithms is going to be a key ingredient in future developments of distributed applications.
A number of research DHTs have been developed by universities, picked up by the Open Source community and implemented. A few proprietary implementations exist as well, but currently none are available as SDKs; rather, they are embedded in commercially available products. Each DHT scheme generally is pitched as being an entity unto itself, different from all other schemes. In actuality, the various available schemes all fit into a multidimensional matrix. Take one, make a few tweaks and you end up with one of the other ones. Existing research DHTs, such as Chord, Kademlia and Pastry, therefore are starting points for the development of your own custom schemes. Each has properties that can be combined in a multitude of ways. In order to fully express the spectrum of options, let's start with a basic design and then add complexity in order to gain useful properties.
Basically, a DHT performs the functions of a hash table. You can store a key and value pair, and you can look up a value if you have the key. Values are not necessarily persisted on disk, although you certainly could base a DHT on top of a persistent hash table, such as Berkeley DB; and in fact, this has been done. The interesting thing about DHTs is that storage and lookups are distributed among multiple machines. Unlike existing master/slave database replication architectures, all nodes are peers that can join and leave the network freely. Despite the apparent chaos of periodic random changes to the membership of the network, DHTs make provable guarantees about performance.
To begin our exploration of DHT designs, we start with a circular, double-linked list. Each node in the list is a machine on the network. Each node keeps a reference to the next and previous nodes in the list, the addresses of other machines. We must define an ordering so we can determine what the "next" node is for each node in the list. The method used by the Chord DHT to determine the next node is as follows: assign a unique random ID of k bits to each node. Arrange the nodes in a ring so the IDs are in increasing order clockwise around the ring. For each node, the next node is the one that is the smallest distance clockwise away. For most nodes, this is the node whose ID is closest to but still greater than the current node's ID. The one exception is the node with the greatest ID, whose successor is the node with the smallest ID. This distance metric is defined more concretely in the distance method (Listing 1).
Listing 1. ringDistance.py
# This is a clockwise ring distance function. # It depends on a globally defined k, the key size. # The largest possible node id is 2**k. def distance(a, b): if a==b: return 0 elif a<b: return b-a; else: return (2**k)+(b-a);
Each node is itself a standard hash table. All you need to do to store or retrieve a value from the hash table is find the appropriate node in the network, then do a normal hash table store or lookup there. A simple way to determine which node is appropriate for a particular key (the one Chord uses) is the same as the method for determining the successor of a particular node ID. First, take the key and hash it to generate a key of exactly k bits. Treat this number as a node ID, and determine which node is its successor by starting at any point in the ring and working clockwise until a node is found whose ID is closest to but still greater than the key. The node you find is the node responsible for storage and lookup for that particular key (Listing 2). Using a hash to generate the key is beneficial because hashes generally are distributed evenly, and different keys are distributed evenly across all of the nodes in the network.
Listing 2. findNode.py
# From the start node, find the node responsible # for the target key def findNode(start, key): current=start while distance(current.id, key) > \ distance(current.next.id, key): current=current.next return current # Find the responsible node and get the value for # the key def lookup(start, key): node=findNode(start, key) return node.data[key] # Find the responsible node and store the value # with the key def store(start, key, value): node=findNode(start, key) node.data[key]=value
This DHT design is simple but entirely sufficient to serve the purpose of a distributed hash table. Given a static network of nodes with perfect uptime, you can start with any node and key and find the node responsible for that key. An important thing to keep in mind is that although the example code so far looks like a fairly normal, doubly linked list, this is only a simulation of a DHT. In a real DHT, each node would be on a different machine, and all calls to them would need to be communicated over some kind of socket protocol.
In order to make the current design more useful, it would be nice to account for nodes joining and leaving the network, either intentionally or in the case of failure. To enable this feature, we must establish a join/leave protocol for our network. The first step in the Chord join protocol is to look up the successor of the new node's ID using the normal lookup protocol. The new node should be inserted between the found successor node and that node's predecessor. The new node is responsible for some portion of the keys for which the predecessor node was responsible. In order to ensure that all lookups work without fail, the appropriate portion of keys should be copied to the new node before the predecessor node changes its next node pointer to point to the new node.
Leaves are very simple; the leaving node copies all of its stored information to its predecessor. The predecessor then changes its next node pointer to point to the leaving node's successor. The join and leave code is similar to the code for inserting and removing elements from a normal linked list, with the added requirement of migrating data between the joining/leaving nodes and their neighbors. In a normal linked list, you remove a node to delete the data it's holding. In a DHT, the insertion and removal of nodes is independent of the insertion and removal of data. It might be useful to think of DHT nodes as similar to the periodically readjusting buckets used in persistent hash table implementations, such as Berkeley DB.
Allowing the network to have dynamic members while ensuring that storage and lookups still function properly certainly is an improvement to our design. However, the performance is terrible—O(n) with an expected performance of n/2. Each node traversed requires communication with a different machine on the network, which might require the establishment of a TCP/IP connection, depending on the chosen transport. Therefore, n/2 traversed nodes can be quite slow.
In order to achieve better performance, the Chord design adds a layer to access O(log n) performance. Instead of storing a pointer to the next node, each node stores a "finger table" containing the addresses of k nodes. The distance between the current node's ID and the IDs of the nodes in the finger table increases exponentially. Each traversed node on the path to a particular key is closer logarithmically than the last, with O(log n) nodes being traversed overall.
In order for logarithmic lookups to work, the finger table needs to be kept up to date. An out-of-date finger table doesn't break lookups as long as each node has an up-to-date next pointer, but lookups are logarithmic only if the finger table is correct. Updating the finger table requires that a node address is found for each of the k slots in the table. For any slot x, where x is 1 to k, finger[x] is determined by taking the current node's ID and looking up the node responsible for the key (id+2(x-1)) mod (2k) (Listing 3). When doing lookups, you now have k nodes to choose from at each hop, instead of only one at each. For each node you visit from the starting node, you follow the entry in the finger table that has the shortest distance to the key (Listing 4).
Wrong Algorithm
the last else in distance should return (2**k)-(b-a), otherwise id would exceed the longest possible distance, i.e. the ring size.
Btw, nice article ;)
Re: Wrong Algorithm
After the last else in the distance function, b < a, so (b-a) is negative. The sum of (2**k) and (b-a) will still be less than (2**k).
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The findNode should return
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HENRYVILLE — We Survived: A Hopeful Spirit after the Storm
Trish Gilles sat curled up on her new white sofa, carefully guarding her left hip from pressure. Just the week before, Trish endured what she hopes to be the last surgery related to injuries sustained in the Henryville tornado.
During the interview, Trish was not her typical upbeat self, instead revealing a significantly more pensive side of her personality. This is the last interview in the follow-up series, "We Survived: A Hopeful Spirit after the Storm," although there are plans to catch up with the Gilles family at the tornado's one-year mark.
Darrell sat on the floor, leaning his arms on the coffee table as he listened to his wife of 14 years talk about their new home and life in recovery after March 2.
The Gilles boys (Caleb, now age 12 and Collin, now 11) were in the basement playing video games, while 9-year-old Mia fidgeted on the couch next to her mother. The family moved into their new home Sept. 21 and immediately welcomed friends and family back to the same location where their first home stood. Driving down the gravel road to the Gilles home for the first time is a bit eerie, as large mounds of wood, dirt and debris remain on both sides of the road.
The mounds are the remnants of the Gilles' previous home and until they can be removed, stand as a constant reminder of their lives before March 2. The mounds contain the only home known to the Gilles children and the one where Trish and Darrell first became an independent married couple. Trish was clearly happy in that home filled with cherished memories. She spends time now wondering if anything will ever be the same and most days she is sure it will not.
The EF-4 tornado charged into the Gilles' home nearly eight months ago and each of the children have since celebrated their birthdays and countless major changes in their lives. While Trish and Darrell are grateful and fully aware of the significance of each child celebrating another birthday, they both wonder if life for them will ever settle into a comfortable pattern.
"You see, these kids have had to really grow up quickly," Darrell explained. "They saw things they never should have had to see and have come through it all with strength and resilience." Trish adds, "The words we use to describe our lives now are challenge and change."

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Man Creates World's Largest Message Using GPS and 12K+ Miles of Driving
Here's a method of scrawling gigantic messages that puts skywriting to shame: Nick Newcomen spent 30 days driving 12,238 miles across 30 states in a GPS-logger equipped car, tracing the message "Read Ayn Rand" across the face of the United States. Ayn Rand is a Russian-American novelist and philosopher who write two bestselling books (The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged) and introduced a philosophy called Objectivism.
After the road trip, he loaded the location data from the logger (a Qstarz BT-Q1000X) into Google Earth to produce the end result: the world's biggest writing.
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Chemical makers ordered to pay $178 million for contaminating water
Three chemical manufacturers were ordered to pay the city of Modesto, California $178 million for contaminating its water with suspected carcinogens. According to the Associated Press, jurors in San Francisco Superior Court found the companies acted with malice because they failed to tell dry cleaners how to use the chemicals perchloroethylene or trichloroethylene without harming the environment. The jury levied more than $175 million in punitive damages late Tuesday and $3.2 million in actual damages for groundwater contamination. Vulcan Materials Co. was ordered to pay $100 million in punitive damages, Dow Chemical Co. was ordered to pay $75 million and RR Street & Co. Inc. to pay $75,000. Pittsburgh-based PPG Industries and Occidental Chemical Corporation, of Dallas, were ordered to contribute to the $3.2 million awarded in compensatory damages. Modesto filed the lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court in December 1998, but the case didn''t go to trial until February.


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WINDHAM, N.H. — Raymond Bellia sees himself as the poster boy of 21st century entrepreneurs: His $1 million-a-year online police equipment company launched with a single sale on eBay, and the money he's making is now going into his first bricks-and-mortar store.
The 28-year-old New Hampshire small businessman credits e-commerce for his success, but thinks the investment in his new storefront is a smart complement.
"Online retail is a much more competitive marketplace," said Bellia. "There's a lot more comparative shopping going on. It helps to also operate a store, to be in both places."
He's wary of federal legislation compelling online retailers to start collecting sales taxes -- like bricks-and-mortar stores do -- on cyberspace transactions made in states and municipalities with sales taxes.
"It would hurt my business," said Bellia. "There are too many taxes as it is. Why should government be taking even more money from us?"
Sales taxes, after all, are a foreign concept to Bellia. In New Hampshire, where he works and lives, there isn't one. Only four other states share that distinction: Alaska, Delaware, Montana, and Oregon.
A patchwork quilt of sales tax rates and rules abound in the other 45 states. Kentucky, for example, collects 6 percent, but exempts food; Oklahoma collects 4.5 but exempts prescription drugs. Indiana has a single, statewide rate while neighboring Illinois lets local governments piggyback their different rates.
Legislation introduced in the last seven sessions of Congress has aimed at streamlining the sales tax to make it more uniform across the U.S., and to compel online retailers to collect on transactions made in states with a sales tax.
E-commerce advocates have pushed back, fearing federal efforts will make compliance more complicated and costly.
"It's going to crush small online retailers," said Carl Szabo, policy director for NetChoice, a coalition of online retailers. "If small business is the backbone of the American economy, why would you want to do anything to stifle it?"
Raymond Bellia launched his small business, Granite State Police Supply, through eBay, a NetChoice member. He used the online shopping site to sell a used bulletproof vest given to him by a police officer friend, then quickly realized he could develop a business from selling used law enforcement equipment.
Bellia eventually expanded to include new equipment and decided to open a bricks-and-mortar store when several New England police chiefs told him they wanted to see the gear before they bought it.
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From his teens the lead singer of the great Bembeya Jazz National — here in more intimate, all-acoustic settings, spotlighting his voice and songs and those rolling, melancholic Guinean grooves.
Classic, headlong Congolese dance album recorded in Nairobi in 1983 (plus a couple of 1977 extras) by the siver-throated, husky Moreno Batamba, mainstay of the Orchestra Virunga and Samba Mapalanga.
Saboso from mid-seventies Dar Es Salaam. Complex, fluid guitars and congas; pithy songs.
Daniel Owino Misiani's great benga, from Kenya. Clattering percussion, pumping bass, dazzling and nuts guitars. Overproof, five-minute, dancefloor shots.
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Saxophonist and keyboard-player Keletigui Traore's classic Guinean dance music.
The first volume of a long-awaited retrospective — spanning 1953 to 1980 — of the Congolese colossus.
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Don't miss the fine tributes to Afrobeat and Congolese rumba.
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So repeatedly calling a woman a slut is actually a form of harassment? An indictment was filed Thursday against Jerusalem resident Shlomo Fuchs, 44, an ultra-Orthodox man who hurled sexist slurs at a female soldier on a public bus in the capital. The court also stated that sexual harassment does not only apply when the …
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Her provocative behavior
Dec 29 2011
Comedy Hour
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Dec 28 2011
Jason Thibeault says why it's useful that Rebecca Watson draws the pus of frothing misogyny out into the open where we can see it and then pour bleach on everything in sight. Maybe not so good for her, but for all of us. These magical superpowers of hers are probably a curse for her own …
Dec 28 2011
We have to base our behaviour according to scripture
It appears that David Cameron is jealous of theocracy. He wants him some of that extra goddy power! Prime Minister David Cameron has said the UK is a Christian country "and we should not be afraid to say so" in a speech in Oxford on the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible…. And he …
Dec 27 2011
Just for fun
Dec 27 2011
Post-born children don't matter so much
There's a thing called Personhood USA. The Primary Mission of Personhood USA is to serve Jesus by being an Advocate for those who can not speak for themselves, the pre-born child. We serve by starting / coordinating efforts to establish legal "personhood" for pre-born children through peaceful activism, legislative efforts and ballot-access petition initiatives. By …
Dec 27 2011
Aesthetic interlude
Just to knock your socks off – Photography in the style of traditional Chinese painting of the Song and Yuan dynasties by Don Hong-Oai. There are lots more; go look. They're sensational. Via Julia Galef at Facebook.
Dec 27 2011
Decent women don't have "crisis pregnancies"
And if we haven't had enough religious bullying today, here's another batch. As ThinkProgress has reported, so-called "crisis pregnancy centers" that claim to help women in need are actually established by anti-abortion activists with the sole objective of shaming women out of having abortions. Despite receiving federal and state funding, they have a history of …
Dec 27 2011
Not a touch
Hmmm. Massimo Pigliucci did a skeptical post on Hitchens a couple of days ago, and Jerry Coyne defends Hitchens today. I mostly agree with the defense, but…hmmm. Misogynyist? Does Pigluicci know what that means? Let us check the Oxford English Dictionary. "Misogyny: Hatred or dislike of, or prejudice against women." I don't think Hitch hated, disliked, …


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Though Brazilian, the charming chef-owner of Tutto's Mare extends his love of seafood across borders and continents, from spaghetti alla vongole to Creole shrimp in mashed yuca, with mostly good results.
Joao Oliveira's quirky, off-the-beaten-path spot in The Roads neighborhood is a place worth taking the whole family. An affordable, cut-above kid's menu with rigatoni, chicken Milanese and real fish means you often seen several generations dining together.
The low-ceilinged space with gray tile floors and tightly packed tables is clean and comfortable, fronted by a handsome blond-wood bar and freshly refurbished patio. The open kitchen is framed by cushy booths, swirly oil paintings and amber lighting.
The neatly dressed servers are friendly, knowledgeable and attentive in Spanish, English, Portuguese and even Italian.
The strongest flavors here are Latin American. On two visits we sampled some of the freshest and best-balanced ceviches I've had in Miami. A rather tame habanero version with slices of tender corvina in a celery sauce gets texture from plump kernels of purple corn and a perfectly golden medallion of fried plantain. The so-called crispy ceviche is topped with ringlets of calamari that add nice crunch and chewiness.
A gorgeously lithe octopus leg is silken and well-seasoned. Topped with a briny olive tapenade and served alongside a boiled baby potato with sprigs of infant arugula, it exemplifies what's best about this neighborhood gem.
Spaghetti alla vongole (with a noodle more square than round) is exceptionally well done, its intense sauce given depth by white wine and lots of fresh parsley. The clams are tender and tasty though slightly gritty.
The soul-satisfying arroz con mariscos is loaded with pinky-sized shrimp, lobster, supple lozenges of white fish and baby black mussels in a tomato-tinged criolla sauce.
Perhaps my favorite dish, the bacalao al la portuguesa, is a must-order for salt-cod lovers. The tender, flaky, fist-sized hunk of fish is bathed in a sweet tomato sauce dotted with shiny kalamata olives.
A few dishes we sampled fell short, including a dense artichoke soufflé, overly cheesy scallops gratinée and a flabby half Maine lobster served with chewy hanger steak. Freshly baked bread arrived at the table still warm, along with a watery eggplant dip, but had an odd, off-putting aroma.
The sprawling menu, with more than 50 items including specials, could use editing, as could the ho-hum wine list. It offers the basics (a dozen Old and New World whites and a few more reds) at reasonable prices but with no descriptions or vintages and few-by-the-glass options. We hoped for a glass of albariño from Rias Baixas, but they were out. It's perhaps safest to stick with a simple, fruity sangria.
Desserts are uneven. Jiggly panna cotta di maracuya benefits from fresh, tangy bits of passion fruit, but a so-called flourless chocolate tort tasted instead like one of those ubiquitous chocolate molten cupcakes, served with vanilla ice cream shot through with shards of ice.
There's a little too much going on at this ambitious newcomer, but much of it is good.
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The family of Kenneth Bush would like to thank everyone for all the prayers, visits, cards, flowers, food and the lovely tributes to Kenneth. The service was a true tribute to his life of service and we will miss him every day.
We appreciate the kindness of the staff at First Baptist Church, Becky Gordon for the music, and all those who provided the lunch. Also, thank you to Sevier's Funeral Home for your kindness and help in this very difficult time and for the service you provided.
We shall never forget how everyone surrounded us with love.
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Corsicana —
June 20
Arbors of Corsicana is hosting a blood drive on Thursday, June 20 from 4 to 8 p.m. at 1300 N. 45th Street in the front parking lot on the Carter BloodCare bus. For more information, or to schedule an appointment time, contact Kelly Callaway at (903) 872-4894.
June 22
The American Legion Post 22, 632 N. Beaton St., will host Karaoke Night with Country Sue from 8 p.m. to midnight. Come on out, sing and have a wonderful time with your friends and family. For further information call (903) 874-3936 after 2 p.m. or Like us on Facebook (American Legion Post 22 Johnson-Wiggins).
June 27
The Corsicana Newcomers' Club will hold its annual Summer Social at 11 a.m. at the Kinsloe House. This year's event will be a Flip Flop Party! Decorate your flop flops to win one of the prized offered. Paula Butler from TAMU AgriLife Extension office will talk to us about cooking with herbs and Helen Griffiths' Corsicana Cloggers will entertain us. Come enjoy this summer party. Call Marge Oslick at (903) 872-3508 for more information and confirmed reservations.
June 28
Second Annual Senior (50+) Dance — Let's Go to the HOP!!! The Cook Center, 6 to 8 p.m. Get out your poodle skirt and saddle shoes and join in on the fun. Listen to the 50s music performed by the Corsicana Swing Band. Photo booths, ice cream sundaes, ice cream floats and more. For tickets or more information… Contact Connie Beal – (903) 654-6892 or Alicia Rogers – (903) 872-2521. You must have a ticket to enter – seating is limited!
June 29
Richland Volunteer Fire Department will be having a fish fry fundraiser from 4 to 7 p.m. at the fire station at 103 West Main. All you can eat, with adults $10, kids 10 and under $5. All proceeds will benefit the Richland Volunteer Fire Department.
CHS Calicos Dance Drill Team will hold "At the Car Wash" at Bush's on Seventh Ave. from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Come get your vehicle sparkling clean as you support the Calicos Dance TEAM!


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Tennessee really huffed and puffed this day in 1995 to gain a 12-7 victory over Vanderbilt and complete a 10-1 regular season, marred only by that second half collapse against Florida many weeks earlier, final score 62-37.
Tennessee trailed by the narrowest of margins, 7-6, most of the day, but finally got the attack kick-started in the fourth quarter to the south end zone. Once Jay Graham found the orange and white checkerboard, and Vol defenders withstood one last surge by the black and gold, the Vols could look forward to a Jan. 1 clash with Ohio State in the Citrus Bowl.
It was the first of three tightly fought games between the Vols and their ancient rivals from Nashville, the others ending 14-7 in 1996 and 17-10 in the SEC title season of 1997. The Vols had been heavily favored in each game, but had to struggle mightily for the win each occasion.
(In 1996, one Vol fan was so disgruntled with the officiating that he saw the officials running toward their hotel on West End Avenue after the game and wished them all kinds of bodily harm. It was a very specific request on his part. Enough said about that.)
But win they did, and the triumphs kept Vol fans from flinging themselves out the nearest window in case the unthinkable had happened.
Things were better in the national championship season of 1998, when the Vols won 41-0 before an overwhelmingly partisan crowd in Nashville dressed in orange and white.
This was one game that the Vols weren't going to lose.
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By Mannix Porterfield
Register-Herald Reporter
Frequent fliers are using the E-ZPass discount system in higher numbers, but West Virginia Parkways Authority officials are convinced even more should be taking advantage of reduced costs to use the Turnpike.
"There's an increase in usage," finance director Parrish French said after Tuesday's meeting of the governing board in Beckley.
"But there are still people out there I know could use the E-ZPass and get a discount, but they insist on paying cash, for whatever reason."
Turnpike Manager Greg Barr said he cannot explain why more commuters aren't signing up to use a transponder that allows cheaper travel.
"I think maybe it's a lack of understanding, or realizing how much money they can save using it," he said.
Rather than shell out $2 in cash at a toll plaza, a motorist can whiz on through with a transponder for a savings of $1.30. Truckers realize a savings per toll of $1.50.
"It's just surprising," Barr said. "Maybe we need to do more advertising."
In a related vein, Barr led the authority into approving a $41,000 change order for TransCore, the coast-to-coast outfit with an office in Pennsylvania, to tweak the system so that any remaining bugs are removed.
"This will enable us to modify the Web interface and to allow the individual E-ZPass customers to have their accounts processed more efficiently," Barr said.
With this approval, change orders now have reached $50,000 in the $6 million system, the Turnpike manager said.
"We're still well under 1 percent of the total contract change orders," he said.
A new audit, meantime, finds the authority is managing the 88-mile toll road operation in a clean, efficient manner.
"We did not find anything of a material weakness or a significant deficiency," Joellen Lucas, a certified public accountant with the Charleston firm Suttle & Stalnaker, told the authority.
Travel over the long Thanksgiving week holiday was down compared to last year's four-day totals by about 1.5 percent, Barr told the board.
But through the end of November, this year's traffic is still running about 1.2 percent ahead of 2011, he said.
"We're running in the vicinity of that 1 percent increase we were looking for," he said.
The board agreed to award a contract for $84,000 to West Virginia Glass to replace or repair doors at Tamarack, the artisans showplace at the Beckley exit.
In another matter, the board recognized Ron Hamilton, who is retiring after nine years as maintenance director, although he will return next year in a different role on a temporary basis.
His old post will be split into two positions, one of director of maintenance to be filled by Jim Meadows, while Ha-milton will serve as chief engineer, although his work time must be limited since he cannot exceed $15,000 in salary while collecting a state pension.
"He has done a great job for us," Barr said of Hamilton. "He is a great planner and implementer of ideas and setting goals. We're going to miss him."
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Woodward, Okla. —
By Michael Kinney
CNHI News Service
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Denver Nuggets were riding their longest winning streak of the season when they strolled into Oklahoma City on Wednesday. They were expected to provide a battle for the top team in the Western Conference.
Instead, the Nuggets got a lesson in just how big the gap is between them and the Thunder. Oklahoma City dismantled Denver 117-97 at Chesapeake Energy Arena.
"We didn't have a good offensive game, we didn't have a good defensive game," Denver coach George Karl said. "We didn't have a good energy game. They seemed to be the hungry team from the very beginning. You are playing maybe the best team in basketball. They played with a high level of commitment and they wanted to kick our butts. And they did."
Denver (24-17) saw its run of wins end at six games, and the Nuggets dropped eight games behind Oklahoma City (31-8) in the Northwest Division standings.
Russell Westbrook led all scorers with 32 points on 12-for-20 shooting, his second consecutive 30-plus point outing. Kevin Durant had a quiet 20 points to go along with five steals and four assists. Neither played in the fourth quarter. Kevin Martin came off the Thunder bench to chip in 20 points.
"We just try to play up to our level," Durant said. "We have a level we want to reach every single game. It's the Thunder way of basketball. Guys are buying in. If you have a team full of guys that buy in, then anything can happen. I learned that from Ray Lewis."
Kosta Koufos paced the Nuggets with 16 points and nine rebounds. Reserve center JaVale McGee contributed 15 points and three blocked shots for Denver. Other than that, Oklahoma City shut down one of the league's top scoring offenses.
"I think we did a good job defensively," Westbrook said. "It showed from the start of the game. I thought we did a great job of getting back in transition."
The Thunder started the night off slicing up the Nuggets' defense. Denver looked like a team playing the second night of back-to-back games, which it was, and Oklahoma City took advantage with ball movement and dribble and isolation plays.
Westbrook led the charge, scoring 16 points to give Oklahoma City a 34-18 advantage after one quarter.
As efficient as the Thunder's offense was, the Nuggets were just as lackluster. Koufos was the only Denver player who had any energy whatsoever. The rest of the squad sleepwalked through the entire first half, and the Nuggets trailed 67-47 at halftime.
Denver never got the deficit above 17 in second half, as the Oklahoma City bench of Reggie Jackson, DeAndre Liggins, Perry Jones III and Jeremy Lamb kept the defense rolling. All four players have seen time on the franchise's D-League team, the Tulsa 66ers.
With its own five-game winning streak in hand, Oklahoma City now hits the road for 14 days on its longest road trip of the season. Despite the Thunder's recent success, Durant doesn't expect his team to slow down any time soon.
"We're greedy," Durant said. "In this league you have to be greedy. Just as quickly as you can win four or five in a row, you can lose four or five in a row. We know we can never be complacent and that's the best part about our team."


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Ever wonder what the future holds for your relationship or career? Don't miss an empathic psychic medium who has the ability to see your life's direction and receive messages from those that have gone before us! Vendors will also be on hand exhibiting various products and services! Don't miss this great night out on Tuesday, July 29th 2014 7pm at the Holiday Inn Syracuse. Doors open 6pm! With limited seating, tickets are sure to go fast so get yours right here from sunny 102!


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Especially with new school schedules it is important to help students understand the value of enough sleep.
Children who get more sleep get better grades in school, and sleep-deprived high school students have more auto accidents.
Elementary school children should get around eleven hours of sleep, middle school students ten hours, and nine hours is an average requirement for high school students.
If children are staying up too late, bedtime should be set fifteen minutes earlier each night until the proper time is reached to get enough sleep. Fifteen to thirty minutes of quiet time before bedtime is helpful (no TV, video games, phone calls or exercise). Caffeine should be avoided for about eight hours before bedtime.
Staying up late on weekends and sleeping late shifts our biological clock so that it is difficult to go back to a desirable schedule on Sunday night. Sleeping in on weekends one to 2 hours, however, is usually not a problem.
It is also beneficial to be a good sleep role model for our children. The average adult needs eight hours and fifteen minutes of sleep. Good sleep habits and consistent schedules help set a good example.
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Working out of Precision Ink tattoo shop, the artists at Precision Ink Permanent Makeup enhance natural beauty with professional SofTap pigments. Applied by hand, the technique creates enduring color on eyebrows, lips, and around eyes and eyelashes, resulting in shorter morning-makeup routines and ensuring faces look great even while sleepwalking.
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A wildly successful alternative to traditional day spas—its more than 300 locations blanket 36 states and half a dozen countries—Planet Beach Contempo Spa is a futuristic relaxation station where state-of-the-art machines administer all the spa and tanning services. These friendly automatons sometimes replace familiar treatments, as in the Luminous facial, a light-based service that delivers blemish-busting results similar to those of a conventional facial. But other equipment maps out new spa territory entirely: the Hydro-Derma Fusion chamber moisturizes the whole body with nutrient-rich steam in order to offset the effects of a dry climate or a rear-end collision with a salt truck. Other machines whiten teeth, spray tan skin, and massage muscles. Planet Beach operates on a gym-style membership system, meaning that members purchase packages or pay flat monthly rates. As members spend more time at the spa, they get to know the helpful assistants who are always on hand to demonstrate how to use the equipment without activating its ability to cry.
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Hello everyone! Let me start off by saying how happy I am to be blogging for AOPA and LetsGoFlying.com. Both are awesome resources for pilots, student pilots, and people interested in learning to fly. Let me start of with my name. My name is Evan Krueger and I am a student pilot. I am a sophomore at a high school just a little North West of Chicago, Illinois. Aviation is my number one passion in life by far. I love the feeling of traveling in three dimensions. The nirvana achieved a few thousand feet above the surface is indescribable. Anyways, I train out of Westosha Airport [5K6] in Wilmot, Wisconsin. A lot of people ask me why I travel (if you can call a 45 minute drive traveling) to go flying. The number one constricting factor for training, in my case, is money. I have a very supportive family, but flying is expensive. With Westosha being a non-for-profit flying club, I can train for a lot cheaper than a lot of other flight schools in my area. Plus the people at Westhosa are awesome. Dana is my instructor there and he is an outstanding guy. He does everything from teaching me how to fly, to giving me free flight time. He really is a great guy.
A little bit about my background training: I have logged 10.7 hours total. Before moving to Westosha this November, I trained at Blue Skies Flight School in Lake in the Hills, Illinois [3CK]. I got 6.3 hours there in a Piper Warrior. When I traded over to Westosha, I trained in Cessna 152's. I have about 4.4 hours in the Cessnas. In my opinion, the 152's perform better; they are more agile and easier to control. SO far I've flown 9 lessons and logged a total of 31 landings. According to Dana, I'm not too far away from solo, so that should be exciting. Some of you may alternately know me as The Flying Toga. For those who don't, I also keep a blog at TheFlyingToga.com. Although, I won't be blogging there as much, I have kept records of my past lessons. So if you're ever curious on what I've done in the past, just head over there and enjoy.
The main goal of my posts are to show everyone just what learning to fly is like. I try my best to describe everything I do both in non-pilot vocabulary, while also keeping those who fly in the know of exactly whats going on. I feel that I'm hear as a representation of student pilots to help explain just how challenging, fun, and rewarding it is to become a pilot. If you have any questions at all please don't hesitate to ask via e-mail (email@example.com). I will do my best to explain them either right back or on the blog here. I love teaching concepts to other people because it helps me to learn too. I look forward to writing for everyone. Thanks for reading!!!
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Thursday, February 20, 2003Valparaiso, Ind. - Five Crusaders scored in double figures as first-place Valpo (16-8, 10-1 Mid-Con) defeated Oakland 81-65. Stalin Ortiz led the way with 19 points and Joaquim Gomes scored 12. Raitis Grafs, Greg Tonagel and Roberto Nieves added 10 points each. Rawle Marshall led all scorers with 25 points for Oakland.
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I was reading an article about proper bench form and it talked about how it is important to arch your back.
Well thats what I did. After my 4th set of 145x5, I experienced a pain in my mid back. This was exactly a week ago and the pain slowly faded until today. When I went back to the bench today, the pain came back.
After some research, I realized that arching your back is more for a competition lifter type of person....or someone who just wants to throw the bar up to see what they can bench. A flat back is more of what I should be practicing.
Anyway....any advice for my pain? will it go away? Is it vital to take time off? Etc? The pain is bearable, and nothing to sharp.... but I'm still worried about it.
Current Age: 23 Height: 6'2" Weight: 195 lbs. [B]
Bench = 205
Squat = 230
maybe ur arching too much, extreme arches for heaviest sets, the arch should be pretty natural, but does take some time getting used to
Why live if one can not Deadlift?- John Paul Sigmasson
Accept that which is useful and reject what is not- Bruce Lee
Reason and Logic trump religion- Me
Restriction of education, Censorship of knowledge, and Proliferation of religion helps keep the masses tamed- Me
"Money does not fix everything, Smart fixes everything"
yeah...I've arched before this happened, but I think this time I went too much and then ouch.
I watched this: http://thefitshow.com/week3/milos_chest_large.htm
and that helped. I hope this pain goes away.
Current Age: 23 Height: 6'2" Weight: 195 lbs. [B]
Bench = 205
Squat = 230
Make sure your butt is on the bench, or else you may be loading the back too much.
Arching the back is the right way to bench, but it takes some getting used to. You need to work on getting your back and abs stronger as well. And as fpr said, if your butt is coming off the bench, you'll put unneeded strain on your back, so be sure it's planted firmly on the bench.
Stats: Age: 34 Weight: 205 Height: 5'6"
Gym PRs: Squat:635 Bench:560 Deadlift:495
Meet PRs: Squat:575 Bench:525 Deadlift:510 Total: 1605@220
Do you ever do deadlifts?
'In order to alter the inertial mass of weights, you must become one with them, like a machine, the totality of your motion is as one'
stretch it, if you are having problems arching it, then bench flat..
not everyone is an arched bencher.
Is it the musles around your spine, or the spine itself?
Well, it is 12:00 the next day and the pain seems to have faded. I feel like if I benched again that it will be back.
Hell yeah I deadlift....its my favorite lift. I am almost doing 300 5x5. I think I could do more, but my face turns purple. Is that okay?
its not the spine itself.
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Current Age: 23 Height: 6'2" Weight: 195 lbs. [B]
Bench = 205
Squat = 230
The same things happens to me every time I bench , I just lay on the heating pad for a bit then do some stretching on a stability ball and I'm good the next day.


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Colin Firth — once an awards militant, now a convert
Honesty from actors tends to be in short supply around Hollywood's awards season. Most respond to questions about possible Oscar or Golden Globe nominations with the standard line about "the honor" of simply being nominated.
So it was refreshing when British actor Colin Firth — still perhaps best known as the deliciously wet-shirted Mr Darcy of "Pride and Prejudice" fame – admitted that he used to boycott award ceremonies. Until he did just that and lost out to a rival.
Firth has already scooped up one best actor prize (in Venice) for his "A Single Man," and this could be his year for a first shot at Oscar glory for his critically acclaimed performance as a gay professor in the film. (Read about the film here, its director Tom Ford here, and Firth here) It seems like he might be secretly enjoying the attention underneath all that typical English politeness and restraint.
"I am far more sympathetic towards the idea of awards than I used to be, having touched one. I used to be quite militant. I actually boycotted the first nomination I ever got (a BAFTA nomination for "Tumbledown" in 1988).


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A supervising nurse and key witness against an Oak Lawn man accused of sexually assaulting a then-93-year-old dementia patient at an Orland Park care facility has been fired from the facility and is now involved in a civil lawsuit, a defense attorney said Monday, Jan. 28.
Robert Phelan, 58, is out on $350,000 bond in connection to the July 24, 2011 alleged incident, where authorities say he sexually assaulted the elderly woman at the facility where he was working as a nurse's assistant. Phelan appeared quietly in a Cook County Judge Colleen Ann Hyland's Bridgeview courtroom on Monday with his attorney Howard J. Wise.
Assistant State's Attorney and special prosecutor Mary Lou Norwell told Hyland during Monday's hearing there is a "new development" in the case as there has been a civil lawsuit "filed by one of the parties in the matter."
Norwell didn't elaborate further in open court. In an interview with Wise after the hearing, however, the defense attorney said prosecutors told him a supervising nurse and major witness in the case has been terminated "due to actions taken on the investigation" and the witness is now involved in a civil lawsuit with the facility.
Wise said he doesn't have more details and isn't exactly sure what the actions were and how -- or even if -- those actions will affect his case.
However, "we've always maintained [Phelan's] innocence the entire time," Wise said. "He's a good CNA and has been his whole career. This is the most farfetched allegation there is."
Wise also pointed out the witness' involvement in the suit could be a "turning point for our case."
A preliminary search of Cook County court records didn't immediately yield a recent civil lawsuit involving Lexington Health Care of Orland Park. An administrator with the facility was not available for comment Monday afternoon.
In other outstanding discovery in the case, Norwell said both sides received encrypted photos that neither party can access; she said she would be meeting with some of the state's experts to help open them.
Wise also has a motion pending to throw out Phelan's arrest, which has been placed on hold until the next court date.
The next status date has been set for March 19.
By then, "we anticipate having all issues resolved," Norwell told Hyland.


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Oh, Megyn Kelly! Don't ever change, OK? Here is Megyn Kelly on Fox "News," informing us that there may be an "extra set of eyes" on election day and those eyes may belong to the United Nations. Note the contempt with which she says "United Nations," by the way, she might as well have been […]


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Summer time finally hit Western Pennsylvania this past week as the sun started to shine and the temperatures jumped. The little French Fries sought relief in their backyard baby pool while the Couch Potato became the Baked Potato and cranked up the air conditioner to beat the heat.
So as the cool breezes blew through the Couch Potato household, a timeless summer tradition took shape once again; Pittsburgh Pirate baseball on basic cable.
When the Couch Potato was a mere spud back in 1992, there was nothing better than watching the Pirates play as they rolled through the NL East Division on their way to their third straight National League Championship Series appearance. It seemed that this was the year that Barry Bonds, Bobby Bonilla, Andy Van Slyke and the rest of the squad would break through and finally make the Pirates first World Series appearance since 1979's championship team.
Well if you're fan, you know that Game 7 ended in heartbreak for Pirate nation. With the Atlanta Braves trailing the Pirates 2-1 with two outs in the 9th inning, journeyman Francisco Cabrera cracked a bases-loaded single to left-fielder and perennial All-Star Barry Bonds. One run scored easily to tie the game, but the runner on second base was former Pirate, Sid Bream. He was old and slow, but he chugged around 3rd base as Bonds came up throwing home trying to prevent the winning run. In what would be foreshadowing of the horrible things to come for the Bucco's, Bream beat the wild throw from Bonds and ended the Pirate's dream season.
The 10 year old Couch Spud cried himself to sleep that night due to a broken heart, but deep down he knew that next season would be the year. Well Bonds left for San Francisco after the season and the rest of the team fell apart as 1993 became an unmitigated disaster. It would be the first of 20 straight losing seasons for the Bucco's.
I have been watching the Pirates every summer since the heartbreak of 1992, even through all of the disappointment. The Pirates were never great or really even good, but maybe you remember some of the names: Tony Womack, Al Martin, Jason Kendall, Brian Giles, Francisco Cordova, Kip Wells and many more.
Even though they couldn't win consistently, they were always fun to watch. My neighbor and I had a pretty set routine during the 1990's. We would play homerun derby in my side yard after dinner, watch the Pirates play in the evening and then finish off with a miniaturized homerun derby in my basement at11:00 at night. I was Al Martin and he was Jason Kendall, always. Since I was two years older, I usually won those battles.
The centerpiece of those summer nights was always the Pirates though, and as the Couch Potato has now reached his 30's, they still are.
The past two seasons have merely been a tease as each started with the Pirates looking like they would end the generation-long nightmare of losing, only to see it continue with late season collapses. This season, the Pirates are about 15 games over .500, in second place in the division and for the first time in 20 years, will probably finish with a winning record.
Even if they don't, nothing will change as far as Pirate summer TV in the Couch Potato household. The little French Fries are now part of the tradition and while they usually can't stay up until the end of the game, they've learned to cheer hard for the Pirates.
I just hope and pray they're still French Fries when the Pirates finally break through.


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Sitting next to Vedder, Ament listens like a fascinated brother. Perhaps he is remembering the first impressions Vedder made upon arriving in Seattle. Friends from his early days up north recall a different Vedder from today, a desperately shy surfer, a guy with a lot of heart and little irony. One friend even called him Holy Eddie. "He was genuinely quiet and loving Eddie when we first met him," says Ament. In the band's earliest shows, Vedder had been so self-effacing, he barely looked up. "And at a certain point, he changed."
An early turning point came onstage at a club called Harpo's, in Victoria, British Columbia. It was Pearl Jam's maiden tour, their first appearance away from a nurturing audience of Seattle friends. But this Canadian crowd was far more interested in getting drunk. In midset, Vedder decided to challenge the jaded audience, to wake them up. Unscrewing the 12-pound steel base of the microphone stand, Vedder sent it flying over their heads, like a lethal Frisbee. The steel disk crashed into the wall of the back bar.
They woke up.
Vedder would never fully be the same. Gossard credits the influence of Soundgarden's Chris Cornell, who had asked Vedder to sing on his tribute to Andrew Wood, Temple of the Dog. "Cornell had already transformed himself in an intense way," Gossard says. "Eddie looked to him as a guide to help us through that time."
Vedder soon developed a new stage habit. He began climbing the stage scaffolding or the wings of the theaters the band was playing, falling into the hands of an often worshipful crowd. "I think the first time I got really worried, we were in Texas," recalls McCready. "Eddie climbed up on this girder, about 50 feet in the air. Nobody knew where he was. And all of a sudden you look up – some guy had a flashlight on him – and it was like 'Fuck!' He's up there clinging to a girder. I'm thinking, 'This guy is insane, but I'm so totally pumped.' "
"That whole thing almost turned into a circus event," adds Ament. "People weren't looking at his eyes when he was doing that. I think they were looking at the fucking freak, you know. The guy who was dumb enough to put his life on the line. Evel Knievel. But if you looked at his eyes, man, there was an intensity in what he was doing. That was his belief in himself. He was saying, 'This isn't just "rock" to me.' "
The band returned from a European tour and taped a stirring edition of Unplugged. There was a particularly galvanizing, unforgettable moment at the end of "Black." "We belong . . . together . . . together," Vedder sang. It was simple, a guy sitting on a stool, ripping his heart out, drowning emotionally, right there in front of you. After Unplugged, letters to the band's Ten Club almost doubled, many were about "Black," and they began in an eerily similar fashion: "I was recently considering suicide, and then I heard your music. . . ."
Vedder answered many of the letters himself, sometimes leaving the band's office in a wreck. But there was more work to be done. Almost immediately, the band returned to Europe to play some of the big summer festivals in front of 30,000 to 50,000 people. It was trial by fire.
"The whole thing culminated in Denmark," says Ament. "The Danish, I think, were playing Italy in the World Cup, so the city was crazed. Nirvana was playing there, and they were dealing with their fame, too. We played the show in front of 70,000 people. Eddie went into the crowd, like he usually does, and he came back, and the security didn't know who he was. They started beating him up. Half the band went down. This was during 'Deep.' I remember we stopped, and I was ready to jump down, seeing this total riot happen . . . and Eddie and Eric [Johnson, tour manager], they're totally swinging. And Mike's down there, and Dave's down there."
The previous night in Stockholm, Sweden, Vedder explains, the band had played a longer show than usual. A group of Americans had reportedly broken into the dressing room and, among other things, stolen Vedder's lyrics and journals. He had intended to give them away at the end of the tour, just as he'd done on an earlier European visit (with a backpack personalized by handwritten accounts of each show). But the theft weighed on him; it felt like a breach of trust, a bad omen. For Vedder, it was a metaphor for the growing success of Pearl Jam. The band about which Ament had once written, "Add water, watch Pearl Jam grow," was growing wildly, far beyond the small-scale plans for a small-scale debut. "It made us feel like playing those huge shows maybe wasn't as important as we thought it was," says Ament. "We packed our bags, and we left the next morning."
Sitting in the Nightlite, Ament and Vedder recall the bruising end to that 1991 tour. The band had seen their unassuming debut album, Ten, sell into the millions. Only Billy Ray Cyrus had kept them from the No. 1 slot, thankfully saving at least one achievement for later. Pearl Jam had been designed for a slow build. Instead, they were strapped to the rocket. The band held numerous meetings: "Where do we draw the line?"
The line was drawn at "Black." Eddie Vedder refused to turn the song into a video, wouldn't listen to the corporate coaching that told him the track was, as Vedder puts it, "bigger than 'Jeremy', bigger than you or me." Vedder held firm, and the band backed him up.
"Some songs," he says, "just aren't meant to be played between Hit No. 2 and Hit No. 3. You start doing those things, you'll crush it. That's not why we wrote songs. We didn't write to make hits. But those fragile songs get crushed by the business. I don't want to be a part of it. I don't think the band wants to be part of it."
The subject soon turns to video, and Ament describes a recent encounter with Mark Eitzel from the group American Music Club. Ament and McCready jammed with the band in Seattle, but within 30 seconds of conversation, Eitzel took the opportunity to challenge Ament on the "Jeremy" video. "I liked your hit," he'd told Ament, co-author of the song, "but the video sucked. It ruined my vision of the song."
The exchange stuck with Ament. "Ten years from now," he tells Vedder, "I don't want people to remember our songs as videos."
Vedder agrees. He promises that the new album will be released before any videos. "I don't even have MTV," he says with a shrug. "I don't know why I'm commenting. People stop me in the streets and tell me about this band Stone Temple Pilots. I don't even know who they are. I'm buying a sandwich, and they go, 'What's going on with the Stone Temple Pilots?' "
"You haven't seen the video?" asks Ament. "You have to have seen it."
"I haven't," he says. "I don't have MTV."
Ament tells Vedder about the "Plush" video, with the singer's uncanny appropriation of Vedder's mannerisms. Vedder's heard it before. In fact, he hears it daily. From fans, from friends, even from a French musician who complimented him on the song and his new short orange hair. (Vedder's hair is still longish and brown.)
"Apparently, it's something that the guy is dealing with, too," Vedder suggests. "It's like, am I supposed to feel sympathy? Get your own trip, man. I don't think I was copping anybody's trip. I wasn't copping Andy Wood's trip. I wasn't copping Kurt Cobain's trip, even though Kurt Cobain's one of the best trips I could ever cop. But Beth and I were part of the San Diego scene. We knew everything that was going on, and it was small enough to know. Those guys came from there? I never heard of 'em." End of subject.
For several more hours, Vedder and Ament reminisce over the strange daze of the last few years. Vedder admits to Ament that it's no longer as easy, the stage appearances are tougher now. It's harder, he says, to gear up to sing the songs the way that they must be sung. And although Vedder is only an occasional drinker, he has taken to slugging at a bottle of red wine onstage. When the conversation turns to the late Andrew Wood, though, Vedder becomes reflective.
"I wonder about Andy," he says. "I relate sometimes. Not the drug part – I don't need drugs to make my life tragic – but the fact that things were going so well for him. He didn't know." Vedder pauses. "There's one song of his that I'd be proud to sing. I won't tell you which one. But there was one song of his that always got to me. Someday I'm going to sing it."
Vedder excuses himself to visit the restroom. Ament shakes his head. "First time I heard that," he says with a private smile.
It's 2 a.m. now, a chilly night in June. Ament and Vedder stand shivering on the corner outside the Moore Theater. Neither seems anxious for the night to end. Fingering their car keys, they continue talking under the darkened marquee. Tonight is Grad Night in Seattle. Last-call barflies and late-night prom couples brush past them on the street, no one recognizing the two musicians, save for one woozy grad in a crimson tuxedo. For a few minutes, he stands watching them from nearby, softly repeating a drunken mantra to himself. "Eddie, Eddie, Eddie, Eddie, Eddie," he says and then moves on.
"I don't know if it was the beer or the company or what," Ament remarks, "but I got to a place tonight I hadn't been in a long time."
"Me, too," says Vedder. "So much has changed around here."
"There's going to be a point where it'll revert back to the way that it was," says Ament. "We'll get through this whole period right now. We'll get back out there, playing. We'll get back to actually being five guys who want to work it out together."
Vedder thrusts his hands deep into his pockets. "I'd really like that," he says.
The two band mates stand in the dark for another 10 minutes, talking about Oliver Stone, about Reservoir Dogs, about attitudes in the band and sexism on the road, about their pride in the new songs and about Vedder's ultimate meltdown plan. He can always sell solo cassettes out of his house for $1.50. Finally the cold overtakes them.
"See you tomorrow," says Ament, heading for the parking lot across the street.
"Wait," says Vedder, "I'll go with you."
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Anonymous may have had a rough 2012 so far, with dozens of its most active members arrested and one of its leaders and organizers revealed as a government informant. But a quick look at the stats shows that in terms of pure information mayhem, 2011 was its most effective year yet.
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Of the 855 breach incidents from the last year that Verizon's security team analyzed, three percent were attributed to "hacktivists." That may seem like a small proportion, but Verizon's director of security research Wade Baker says it's giant compared to the same category in previous studies, which barely created a blip on Verizon's radar last year and accounted for less than one percent of incidents. Narrow the field of victims to only large organizations, which hackers within Anonymous and its splinters target for maximum exposure, and the number of hacktivist incidents rises to 25%.
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Because hacktivists were targeting larger organizations and seeking publicity rather than silent, profitable theft from easy targets, they used some tactics that Verizon says it had rarely seen before: DNS tunneling, for instance, which exploits a target's servers that convert IP addresses to domain names as an entrypoint into its networks, or denial of service attacks that served as a distraction while the attackers simultaneously penetrated another part of the network. In close to 75% of cases, hacktivist targets were warned ahead of time that they would face an attack, a tactic that rarely if ever is used by financially-motivated hackers.
"They definitely demonstrated different modes, and in many cases a lot more sophistication," Baker says.
The full study contains more data and trends in the last year's hacking incidents, and is definitely worth checking out. I've embedded the full report below.
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Can you please refrain from using such distasteful jargon to identify a global community of people trying to protect what little freedoms they have, as "radical."
At one point in time those who have shaped and excelled our beliefs for the betterment of humanity were once deemed as radicals. After centuries of bloodshed their ideas and discoveries are what we know, believe, and apply every day. What we aim to do is take our conscious-awareness to the next level, only this time we have what little power of voice and information to spread the message and obtain our goals in a PEACEFUL manner. NO blood will ever be shed by the people for the people.
Anonymous isn't perfect, and there are many well-intentioned people who are activists therein, and there are also some people who do horrible things to peoples lives for the lulz. Painting with a broad brush isn't fair, but there are some legitimate assaults on innocent people. Yeah, most online privacy issues can be prevented by common sense. Particularly problematic for many people is seeing how they post personal information on social media, neglect to use privacy settings, and are surprised when their personal information is stolen weeks later. While you can be careful about what you post about yourself, you can't prevent other people from posting about you. Also problematic for people is how there are sites like http://www.dirtyphonebook.com where people post personal information about each that can't be removed. With Google making all of this information widely available, being vigilant about seeing what people can find out you is critical to maintaining your online reputation. Facebook can do a bit more to prevent people from accidentally messing up their own lives by encouraging more sensible defaults, but in the end people have to be smart about what they post about themselves online, and this doesn't solve all potential problems. But I think that as long as Anonymous indirectly harms innocent people, they'll continue to get criticism. Government and other targets like that are fair game, but when people are harmed through the internet that's where you have to draw the line.
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Well put. Took the words right out my mouth.
They need to replace "Radical" with "Hero, or "Patriot"
You should get to know anonymous beyond what you read in the news before glorifying them. I support anonymous and have been involved in the hacktivist community going back before anonymous was around but the majority of people involved are kids who get a kick out of causing trouble. They're pranksters with a political bent not the vanguard of some kind of shift in global consciousness
Yes hactivism, the real threat to data. Never mind that most breaches were highly publicized by the hacktivists compared to hacks done by real criminals that tell no one and based on many previous reports over the years are extremely likely to go unreported to authorities regardless of current disclosure laws. Also how much easier would it be for the companies to claim that "Anonymous did it" verses revealing that the real thieves were actual criminals overseas? That would certainly seem less severe of a breach and and would spare the company a costly and extensive investigation. Additionally if I were a hacker you bet I would be pinning the blame on Anonymous by leaving a note in the systems I broke into. I would love to see a report on how many of these breaches Anonymous and Co. take credit for verses the number of breaches said to have been perpetrated by them, seeing as they do not seem shy in letting people know who the hacked.
The disclosure laws portion of my comment may have been misleading. I was stating the fact that many of companies don't report these incidents AT ALL to authorities due to the perceived damage reporting this would do. Being in the IT industry I have heard my share of stories about breaches occurring and going unreported, but the issue of how many breaches occur and how many are reported is a different discussion.
PWC has focused on another aspect of security — breaches caused by employees using their own devices for work. The report, which it will release at Infosecurity Europe next week, says that 84 percent of large organizations reported security breaches caused by staff including 47 percent who lost or leaked confidential information. Only 39 percent of organizations encrypt data downloads to smart phones and tablets. More than half of small organizations don't have security awareness programs, although it is better at large firms where only 38 percent don't.


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