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Disk Maintenance under Linux (Disk Recovery)
The next utility we'll look at is dumpe2fs. To invoke this utility, type dumpe2fs device, to get the block group information for a particular device. Actually, you will get more information than you're likely to use, but if you understand the physical file system structure, the output will be comprehensible to you. A sample output is shown in Listing 1.
We really need only the first 22 lines of output. (The very first line with the version number is not part of the output table.) Most of these lines are fairly self-explanatory; however, one or two could use further explanation. The first line tells us the files system's magic number. This number is not random—it is always 0xEF53 for the ext2 file systems. The 0x prefix identifies this number as hexadecimal. The EF53 presumably means Extended Filesystem (EF) version and mod number 53. However, I am unclear about the background of the 53. (Original ext2fs versions had 51 as the final digits, and are incompatible with the current version.) The second line indicates whether a file system is clean or unclean. A file system that has been properly synced and unmounted will be labeled clean. A file system, which is currently mounted read-write or has not been properly synced prior to shutdown (such as with a sudden power failure or computer hard reset), will be labeled not clean. A not clean indication will trigger an automatic fsck on normal system boot.
Another important line for us is the block count (we'll need this later) that tells us how many blocks we have on the partition. We'll use this number when necessary with e2fsck and badblocks. However, I already know how many blocks I have on the partition; I see it every time I invoke df to check my hard drive disk usage. (If this were a game show, the raspberry would have sounded.) Check the output of df against dumpe2fs—it's not the same. The block count in dumpe2fs is the one we need. The number df gives us is adjusted to show us only the number of 1024k blocks we can actually access in one form or another. Superblocks, for example, aren't counted. Have you also noticed that the "used" and "available" numbers don't add up to the number of 1024k blocks? This discrepancy occurs because, by default, the system has reserved approximately five percent of these blocks. This percentage can be changed, as can many other parameters listed in the first 22 lines of the dumpe2fs readout; but again, unless you know what you are doing, I strongly recommend against it.
By the way, the information you are reading in the dumpe2fs is a translation into English of the partition superblock information listed in block one. Copies of the superblock are also maintained at each group boundary for backup purposes. The Blocks per group value tells us the offset for each superblock. The first begins at one, the succeeding are located at multiples of the Blocks per group value plus 1.
While we don't really need to use more than the first 22 lines of information, a quick look at the rest of the listing could be useful. The information is grouped by blocks and reflects how your disk is organized to store data. The superblocks are not specifically mentioned, but they are the first two blocks that are apparently missing from the beginning of each group. The block bitmap is a simple map showing the usage of the blocks in a group. This map contains a one or zero, corresponding to the used or empty blocks, respectively, in the group. The inode (information node) bitmap is similar to the block bitmaps, but corresponds to inodes in the group. The inode table is the list of inodes. The next line is the number of free blocks. Note that, while some groups have no free blocks, they all have free inodes. These inodes will not be used—they are extras. Some files use more than one block to store information, but need only one inode to reference the file, which explains the unused inodes.
Now that we have the information we need (finally), we can run badblocks. This utility does a surface scan for defects and is invoked by typing, as a minimum:
badblocks /dev/
The device is the one we need to check (hda1, sda1, etc.) and the blocks-count is the value we noted after running dumpe2fs (above).
Four options are available with badblocks. The first option is the -b with the block size as its argument. This option is only needed if fsck will not run or is confused about the block size. The second option -o, which has a filename argument, will save to a file the block numbers badblocks considers bad to a file. If this option is not specified, badblocks will send all output to the screen (stdout). The third option is -v for verbose (self- explanatory). The final option is -w, which will destroy all the data on your disk by writing new data to every block and verifying the write. (Once again, you've been warned.)
Your best bet here is to run badblocks with the -o filename option. As bad blocks are encountered, they will be written to the file as a number, one to a line. This will be very helpful later on. In order to run badblocks in this way, the file system you are writing the file to must be mounted read-write. As root—and you should be root to do this maintenance—you can switch to your home directory, which should be located somewhere in the root partition. badblocks will save the file in the current directory unless you qualify the filename with a full pathname. If you need to mount the root partition read-write to write the file, simply type: mount -n -o remount,rw /.
Once you have your list of bad block numbers, you'll want to check these blocks to see if they are in use, and if not, set them as in use. If a block is already marked in use, we may want to clear the block (since the data in it might be corrupted), and reset it as allocated. Print the list of bad blocks—you'll need it later.
As long as the hard disk is
As long as the hard disk is not toasted, completely broken, or data is overwritten, you can retrieve your data. When a file is removed from the hard drive, it is not actually deleted.
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A file which iNode is 0
My system is Linux 5
here is a file: .bash_profile
when I run the command: ls -ai
The result return by shell is :
> ----------------------------------
> cd dmsystem
> ls -ai
> [root@TCJ dmsystem]# ls -ai
> 21200897 . 21200909 data 21200906 .mozilla
> 2 .. 21200898 .emacs 21200994 src
> 21201266 .bash_history 21200944 exe 21200984 .viminfo
> 21200901 .bash_logout 21200903 .kde 21200900 .zshrc
> 0 .bash_profile 21201265 .lesshst
> 21200902 .bashrc 21200986 log
> ----------------------------------
Who can surrport to me some command so that I can delete the file: .bash_profile
Wow, over 10 years old. Good
Wow, over 10 years old. Good info. Thanks.
Magic Numbers.
> The EF53 presumably means Extended Filesystem (EF) version and mod number 53. However, I am unclear about the background of the 53.
I've always assumed the `5' is meant to be read as an `S' since hexadecimal doesn't have an S and the intention is Extended File System 3.
The author says: "The file
The author says:
"The files in these directories will have the form ./#nnnn, where nnnn is the inode number used as the file name. You may be able to determine what the file is by inspecting it using cat. If cat returns what appears to be garbage, you probably have a binary file. In this case, you can do a chmod +x #nnnn, and then run the file. These procedures should give you enough information to learn what the file is."
But nowadays there is a program called 'file' that is a much better idea. Just run:
$ file #nnnn
... and it will try a very good guess at what is the file's format.
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When Bill Monroe wowed the Grand Ole Opry with a newfangled high, lonesome sound in 1939, youd better believe he was wearing a tie.
The father of bluegrass always wore a tie and dress shirt usually with a full suit and hat while performing, and anyone on stage with him was expected to adhere to the same dress code. It wasnt just a matter of preference: Monroe wanted to distance himself from the look and sound of hillbilly music popular at the time, and he wanted to let audiences know he meant business.
Today, the traditions of bluegrass are alive and well, even as the genre reaches in new directions, and bands still use fashion to send a message to the audience.
Its respect to the music, said John Teer, fiddle and mandolin player in Raleigh-based bluegrass band Chatham County Line, which plays the Wideopen Bluegrass Street Festival Saturday on the City Plaza stage.
From the very beginning, we had always been inspired by a lot of the older, great bluegrass through some of the legends in bluegrass like Bill Monroe, Flatt and Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, he said.
So right from the start, the four members of Chatham County Line decided two things: They were going to play and sing around a single microphone and they were going to wear suits with boots onstage.
My whole motto is if you look good, you play good, Teer said. It becomes this confidence factor. What we do on stage, and presenting it to the audience, its respect to the people who come to the show. They feel like theyre going to get a great show.
A cohesive look
One dramatic change in the look of bluegrass since Bill Monroes heyday is the number of women in bands, both traditional and progressive. And many of those women chose their outfits thoughtfully, a nod to the roots of bluegrass but also to todays fashion consciousness.
You wont catch members of the all-female bluegrass band Della Mae in matching ensembles, but they do coordinate their outfits so that they add up to a cohesive look.
Basically, its a conversation before every show, said mandolin player Jenni Lyn Gardner. Someone might ask, What are you wearing tonight? This is what I was thinking and well kind of go from that.
The band, playing on the Red Hat Amphitheater stage on Saturday, isnt really trying to achieve a certain look, she said, so much as making sure their clothing matches the venue, the event and the mood.
Everyone sort of has their own individual style, she said, and weve never tried to make a mold out of our style. We really try to feel as comfortable in our clothes as we can, and everyone expresses their individual style in a cohesive sense that will work in the band.
But even in a casual setting, the members of Della Mae dress it up a bit.
Weve really tried to look professional first, Gardner said. We take our jobs very seriously. Stepping on stage, to all of us, is what weve worked so hard for, and we take it very seriously and we want to dress in a way that is respectful to the music and to our audience.
Present-day inspiration
Reaching back to the earliest days of bluegrass doesnt yield a lot of female style icons, but the women of Della Mae draw inspiration from the present.
Gardner listed Sheryl Crow, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss and even Dolly Parton (even though shes a little more flamboyant with her style) as fashion inspirations from the music world, but she said the group draws inspiration from all around them.
Everyone in the group loves clothes and fashion so much. Being an all-female band, more note is taken of that, she said. Theres so much emphasis on fashion with women in general. We really try to take that and do our best with it.
Youll still see blue jeans
Not every modern bluegrass band is so conscientious, said Lorraine Jordan, frontwoman of North Carolina-based Carolina Road.
Ive seen a big change over the years with that, she said. People walk up there with blue jeans, flip-flops and a ragged T-shirt on. Thats just not the way bluegrass was. If youve got the traditional roots with the Stanley brothers and all those people, you know part of bluegrass is to be dressed.
The five members of Carolina Road four men and one woman coordinate their outfits to both embrace tradition and present a modern look.
Our roots are with Bill Monroe and Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt, said Jordan, who lives in Garner. And back in the early days of bluegrass, they all dressed alike. They had their suits and their bow ties and their dress shirts and they even wore hats. We dont go to that extreme, but we try to keep the tradition alive.
Sometimes the band, playing a Bluegrass Ramble Evening session at the Long View Center Saturday night, will perform in jeans, she said, but pair them with similarly styled button-down shirts in different colors.
We respect the traditional roots, but our music is a little bit fresher and our dress is a little bit fresher, she said. But were not getting so far away from it that were not respecting what bluegrass is about.
Most important, said Della Maes Gardner, is making sure the look and the sound work together, because the audience is paying attention to both.
We try our best to feel completely comfortable within our own skin and on the inside so that shows on the outside, she said. So far, its been working really well.
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By CLINT FOSTER
On Tuesday morning, in the Palo Pinto County Courthouse, a jury will hear a criminal case five years in the making.
Timothy Robert Hoskins, 49, of Mineral Wells, stands accused of engaging in unlawful sexual contact with two local boys, ages 5 and 9, according to
District Attorney Mike Burns who will serve as the prosecutor representing the State of Texas in this case.
Burns said Hoskins received two indictments in 2009 for indecency with a child by sexual contact – a felony offense – stemming from the incident that happened in January of that year at a residence in Mineral Wells.
The parents of the victims, Robert and Peggy Crutsinger, told the Index it has been frustrating having to wait so long before the case could finally go to court. However they said they understand that is the way of things in the judicial system.
Robert Crutsinger declined to comment much further, stating that he would rather wait until after the case is over.
There is little doubt however about how much pain this incident has caused their family and that they will be hoping that justice is served on Tuesday.
Hoskins was originally arrested in 2009 by Palo Pinto County Sheriff's Office detectives and jailed under two $50,000 bonds. He was reportedly living in Salesville at the time.
Sheriff Ira Mercer had this to say about the case:
"It's got to go to trail before we know what's going to happen, but it was obvious to us that something was wrong," he said. "We absolutely felt like we did the right thing making the arrest.
"But we're at the point now where it's not about what we think, we have to see what the jury's going to say.
"I'm anxious to see what the jury's going to say about this case."


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By Sarah Hogsed
Register News Writer
This fall, Madison County officials began discussing in earnest plans to expand the county jail by 50 to 100 beds.
This is not a new topic to the fiscal court, however. In an April 2007 fiscal court meeting, Magistrate Larry Combs said building a new jail must be a top priority.
"We've dodged the bullet too many times, and I feel it's eventually going to catch up with us," Combs said then. "It's not fair to our jailer to ask him to keep 250 prisoners when we only have 180 or 190 beds."
With daily inmate numbers running around 260 or more a day, the county has lost thousands in revenue as the state Department of Corrections continues to pull prisoners from the facility every time it goes over 125 percent capacity, Jailer Doug Thomas reported recently.
Not once in the past six months has the Madison County Detention Center been under 125 percent capacity, according to weekly population reports submitted to the Department of Corrections.
On Thursday, with an inmate population of 271, MCDC was the second largest jail in the state that was over capacity. It also was third among the state's jails for number of prisoners (76) over capacity.
State prisoners and revenue
In decades past, Kentucky felons who were sentenced to more than a year in prison were sent to state-run penitentiaries. However, after Kentucky toughened its criminal sentencing laws in the late 1980s, and again in the late 1990s, the state facilities became overcrowded.
Kentucky's Department of Corrections found a solution by housing lower-level felons in county jails, which originally were built to house people awaiting prosecution or serving misdemeanor sentences.
Today, about one-third of Kentucky felons are housed in county jails, according to the state Department of Corrections. Only Louisiana, which has 50 percent of its felons in county jails, ranks higher than Kentucky, according to a New York Times report.
Keeping felons in county jails not only relieves overcrowding in state prisons, but it also lowers costs. In 2011, the Department of Corrections reported that the average cost for a prisoner in a state-run facility was $60.14 a day. However, the average cost for a state prisoner at a county jail was just $34.79 a day.
County jails are eager to take in state prisoners to keep their beds full and generate the $31.34 per diem that the state pays for each inmate. Madison County Jailer Doug Thomas estimated at a recent fiscal court meeting that state prisoners bring in $54,000 to $70,000 a month in state funds to the detention center.
County Judge/Executive Kent Clark said in the current fiscal year, about $1 million had to be appropriated from the general fund to run the jail. The facility brings in about $1 million in revenue from housing state inmates and jail fees, but with the reduction in state prisoners, this number is expected to drop, leaving county taxpayers responsible for footing more of the jail's bills.
Overcrowding and its causes
In 2011, the Kentucky legislature pass House Bill 463, which allowed police to cite offenders for certain, low-level crimes instead of automatically jailing them. It also pushed for more rehabilitation for drug offenders.
The ultimate aim of the bipartisan Public Safety and Offender Accountability Act was to relieve overcrowding in Kentucky jails, reduce incarceration costs and increase public safety.
"It has not worked for us," Thomas said, adding that when the bill passed, Madison County's jail was housing about 240 to 250 inmates a day. Now it often has 275 to 280 inmates a day.
Thomas pointed out that while the bill allowed officers to issue citations for certain crimes, arresting and jailing a suspect is still up to an officer's discretion.
Thomas said several causes contribute to jail overcrowding. Locally, the court system is clogged with cases as dockets and indictments have increased dramatically during the past several years. That is true, even as crime rates in Kentucky have generally stayed the same or even fallen in some jurisdictions, including within Richmond city limits.
The county's population has grown significantly since the 195-bed jail was built in 1990. The U.S. Census Bureau shows the county added 25,400 people in the past 20 years, an increase of nearly 50 percent from 1990's population of 57,508.
Plans for jail expansion
Currently, about 40 people are on the county's home incarceration program, which was implemented this year, Thomas said.
"It's saved the taxpayers some money, but it's not the solution," the jailer said.
Earlier this month, the fiscal court voted unanimously to inform the Kentucky Department of Corrections that the county is interested in building a 100-bed facility for Class D felons behind the current jail.
"We sent a message that we're very interested about building this type of facility," Clark said.
Once the state approves a permit for the expansion, the county will begin drawing up architectural plans and evaluating costs. The judge/executive said that by using the county's own concrete and construction crews, costs could be reduced about 60 percent.
Clark said the expansion would roughly cost about $800,000 to $1 million, which would be funded out of the county budget and with bonds.
"I think it could pay for itself in about one and a half years," Clark said.
Clark noted there are few jails in Kentucky that break even or make money. His goal is for the jail to bring in enough revenue to reduce its yearly general fund appropriation by $100,000 to $200,000.
Calling the proposed 100-bed jail expansion a "10-year fix," Clark acknowledged that with the county's population growth, both facilities could reach capacity, but at that point "we could afford to let the state take away some of their prisoners," he said.
The county simply doesn't have $12 million to $15 million to build a larger, regional jail, and finding a place in the county where the residents would be willing to have such a facility would be "impossible," Clark said.
Ultimately, it's a balancing act to abide by state regulations on jail population and living standards while also trying to generate income for the county's general fund, he said.
"We're doing everything we can to reduce the overcrowding," Clark said. "But we can't just put these drug dealers and thugs back out on the street."
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Comment: Re:Is it someone creative saying this? (Score 2) 126
I can do stuff such as saw metal, engrave glass, grind and polish gemstones; all while watching and listening to a movie.
I can generally get the plot line of a movie while listening; I don't have to keep my eyes glued to the screen all the time.
The one thing that I have yet to master (and give me time) is to sing and dance with Julie Andrews in the Sound Of Music while welding without burning my finger off
Comment: I use slashdot to kill time while my welding cools (Score 1) 126
I am creative. I create artistic clothing and jewelry.
I also use slashdot.
Right now, I am welding together a necklace. I am on slashdot now because I have to let the welds cool down so that I can move the work and then weld another section. If I don't wait for the weld to cool down, I will burn my finger off. And that means 'ouch' and a trip to the emergency room.
So, I use slashdot to kill time until my weld cools off and I can move the work for my next weld.
Well, I guess it's cooled off enough now, so bye bye slashdot.
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I have been to house concerts here in Portland, Oregon and they are **far** different that what is alleged here
One house concert was a string quartet in somone's living room that started at 7 PM and ended at 9 PM. You could not hear anything from outside.
The other house concert was a small chorus (un-amplified) with a baby grand piano. It was also in a living room. And you could not even hear it from the front walkway of the home, let alone the neighbors. It was over at about 9:30 PM
The third house concert was a Christmas carol sing along where the family invited many of the neighbors over dessert and singing. It ran from about 8 PM to 10 PM. You could barely hear anything from the front walkway.
And Boston wants to ban these?????
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Comment: Re:What a waste (Score 1) 229
What do you define as work?
Charlie Brown calls work the crab grass of life.
I happen to enjoy what I am doing. I love to solve problems and clean up other people's messes. It gives me a great ego boost.
When I am done with that, I then do more of what you call work to creat my artistic jewelry and clothing.
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First thing; they have got to get off the darn donuts!
I just got royally chewed out big time by my doctor to stay off of donuts from now on because of my high LDL.
I have never been reamed out like this before. He told me that I was killing myself by eating donuts!
I suggest that if they stop eating donuts, they just might get more energy to do more than just sit around.
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However, I still have to purchase my tools and raw materials on line. So the powers to be know I make lighted clothing and jewelry. I have a web site for crying out loud! (www.allyn.com).
I do extensive searches on Google, Wikepedia, LinkedIn, and Facebook for techniques in TIG welding, Sewing, Lapidiary, Engraving, Plasma Welding, and many other crafts. All I do on my computer at home with cookies and all.
So now the world knows that I make lighted jewelry by tig welding scrap pieces of steel together and then polish it with tools that I purchase on line. I then light it with LED's I purchase on line from three large LED vendors.
I also make lighted clear plastic raincoats. The optical fiber I use for those I purchase on line. The high power LED's I purchase on-line. The lithium batteries I purchase on-line. The only thing I don't purchase on line is the clear vinyl, but I am engaged on an on-line discussion on LinkedIn on what materials I can use to replace the PVC for my clear raincoats.
I wear my lighted clothing and jewelry out and about. Undoubtedly, there are numerous pictures of me dressed up on-line that I don't know about. So what? Should I care?
Local police know that I do this stuff. Most likely the local FBI, CIA, Secret Service, and other 3 letter agencies know about this. You do a google search for lighted clear plastic raincoats, you will see me right up there in the images section.
And, so far, cross my fingers, no one has sent me to Guitanimio or any other place.


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HSC's Adventures in Homeschooling Conference is much more than just a conference - it's a celebration, a party, a statewide gathering of homeschooling families for learning, friendship, support, and fun!
Go to the conference website for more information.
HSC Campouts take place regularly and all over the state. Join us for some wonderful social networking time in the beautiful outdoors. HSC camping is all about community! Meet other homeschooling families and develop life-long friendships.
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PLATTSBURGH — The North Country Working Families Party has chosen its candidates for November elections.
All candidates were required to complete a questionnaire that included background material on a broad range of national, state and local issues.
Candidates were then interviewed by local Working Families Party members, and a vote was taken on each person. The results of that vote were forwarded to the party's regional office for final approval or rejection.
The Working Families Party was formed, according to a news release, "because unions that once ensured a fair sharing of corporate profits have been weakened, because equality for women has not been achieved, because minorities have been treated as second-class citizens and because corporations make decisions that benefit only their bottom line and not the welfare of their constituents."
The party has fought for minimum-wage increases and is now championing campaign finance reform, protection of public services, fair treatment of immigrants, protection of air and water resources and the reduction of global warming.
Though many of its issues are global in scope, the Working Families Party concentrates on it New York state efforts.
The party expects the candidates it nominates to promote its ideals.
The Clinton County government candidates nominated this year by the Working Families Party and the office they seek are: Andrew J. Wylie for district attorney; Kimberly A. Davis, county treasurer; Colin L. Read, County Legislature, Area 4; and Robert E. Hall, County Legislature, Area 10.
City of Plattsburgh candidates are: Mark Tiffer for mayor; Rachelle C. Armstrong for City Council, Ward 1; Michael Kelly for City Council, Ward 2; Justin R. Meyer for City Council, Ward 3; Paul O'Connell for City Council, Ward 4; Rebecca Kasper for City Council, Ward 5; and Matthew Hall for City Council, Ward 6.
Town of Plattsburgh candidates are: Jacqueline A. Bellew for tax receiver; Kevin M. Patnode for town justice; Michael Cashman for Town Council; and Paul D. Lemoy for Town Council.
Saranac candidates are: Joe Gerardi for town supervisor; James W. Facteau for highway superintendent; and Ellen M. LeMora and Daniel Carter for Town Council.
Beekmantown candidates are Michael Morales and Rufus "Joe" Deyo for Town Council.
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Woman Who Died in '03 Left in Front of TV
By TERRY KINNEY, Associated Press Writer
Tue Jan 10, 5:14 AM ET
The mummified body of a woman who didn't want to be buried was found in a chair in front of her television set 2 1/2 years after her death, authorities said.
Johannas Pope had told her live-in caregiver that she didn't want to be buried and planned on returning after she died, Hamilton County Coroner O'Dell Owens said Monday.
Pope died in August 2003 at age 61. Her body was found last week in the upstairs of her home on a quiet street. Some family members continued to live downstairs, authorities said. No one answered the doorbell at Pope's home Monday afternoon.
It could take weeks to determine Pope's cause of death because little organ tissue was available for testing, Owens said.
An air conditioner had been left running upstairs, and that allowed the body to slowly mummify, he said. The machine apparently stopped working about a month ago, and the body began to smell.
"Standing outside, one could smell death," Owens said.
Police went to the house last Wednesday after receiving a call from a relative who hadn't seen Pope in years. They found a staircase behind a door blocked by a basket and climbed to the second floor, where they found the body.
It was not clear if any crimes were committed, Owens said.
Authorities did not identify the caregiver, a women in her 40s who apparently lived in the home with Pope, Pope's daughter and her 3-year-old granddaughter.
"The caregiver is not someone you'd think was from another planet or really seems off the wall (she's) a pretty normal kind of person," he said. "But I think out of loyalty, friendship and love of her friend, (she) decided to keep the body at home."
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Thats so disgusting....How could you live in a house with a body upstairs?? even with an airconditioner thats still freaky....
Thats what them COPs marathons will do to you. You know you have seen the episodes before but you just cant turn it off........even to be buriedIt is better to be tried by 12, than carried by 6.
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01-10-06, 03:05 PM #5TORONTO (Reuters) - A Toronto woman, not content with having merely a dusty demise, has become the first Canadian to donate her body for public display after she dies.
The 30-year-old mutual fund worker said the "Body Worlds" exhibition at the Ontario Science Center, which displays real human bodies, would fulfill her desire to have a posthumous purpose.
"I wanted to donate my body to science, but do something a little bit different, so this was perfect," said Stephanie Chapu, citing the educational value of the exhibits.
"Being buried or cremated -- why get rid of your body that way when you can do something else and be useful?"
Chapu said community reaction has been mixed, with friends and family mostly supportive, though some have raised religious or moral objections.
"They have the right to think that, but they should also respect my decision," she said. "I understand it's not for everybody."
More than 16 million people worldwide have viewed the traveling exhibition, organized by the German Institute for Plastination, which houses more than 6,000 donated cadavers, a spokeswoman said.
The exhibits are preserved through plastination, a technique where water and fat in the soft tissue are replaced with plastic polymers.
Whole body specimens are displayed, which reveal bones, muscle, tendons, nerves, blood vessels and organs. Among the exhibits are embryos, fetuses and a pregnant woman who died with her fetus in her womb.
"I like that you can finally see what we look like on the inside in a very tasteful manner. I don't think it's disrespectful at all to the donors," said Chapu.
The exhibition has stirred controversy in the past, with German media alleging some of the bodies were those of Chinese execution victims. The organizers have denied the reports.It is better to be tried by 12, than carried by 6.
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Though it's not even Halloween yet, a couple of area men's basketball teams will compete tonight on Marshall University's new hardwood court.
The Concord University Mountain Lions will visit the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington to take on the Marshall Thundering Herd in a 7 p.m. exhibition contest.
Kent McBride, beginning his third year as Concord head coach, said, "We wanted this year, in the third year, we wanted to test ourselves a little bit, early. Marshall, obviously, is going to be a very good test for us, to see where we are. We're excited about that game."
Both teams return five experienced players and will be assessing the development of quite a few new prospects.
Junior guard Mike Boyd led NCAA Division II Concord last season with 122 assists and 34 steals while averaging 11.6 points and 29.9 minutes per game. Woodrow Wilson graduate Cam Shannon, Alex McGlothin, Paul Byrd and Nick Moyer also return to the CU roster.
The additions to the Mountain Lions include 6-foot-9 freshman Grant Dickenson, and Taylor Smith of Mullens, who was named honorable mention all-state while playing for Wyoming East High School.
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Pittman scored 516 points for Marshall last season, including 65 three-pointers. He was named a C-USA Men's Basketball Preseason Player to Watch entering the season, and was a C-USA preseason first team pick by College Sports Madness at the forward position.
The Herd lost 74 percent of its shooting from last season, after several players transferred following the season. The newcomers in Huntington consist of four transfers, four freshmen, one sophomore and three juniors.
Expected to see action this year is TyQuane Goard, who helped George Washington High School win the West Virginia Class AAA basketball title in 2011. He sat out last year after transferring to Marshall from Ohio University.
Concord finished last season 16-11 while Marshall was 13-19. The two teams last played in an exhibition game almost three years ago, with MU defeating Concord 112-65 in Huntington. Over the years, Marshall has won 14 of 16 games against the Mountain Lions.
While tonight's game opens the exhibition season, the Thundering Herd has already gotten games under its belt. From Aug. 16-20, the Herd bused around Canada for five games in five days, covering 1,225 miles. Marshall was 5-0 during its journey.
The game with Concord will be the first on a new $156,500 hardwood floor installed at Cam Henderson Center in late September, replacing the old floor which had been in place for the past 15 years.
Concord begins the regular season on Nov. 8-9 in a tournament at Winston-Salem (N.C.) State. Marshall launches its regular-season campaign on Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. in Huntington against South Carolina State.
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For the past 64 years, I have been conducting an experiment to learn how much the human body can endure before it totally breaks down, and I think I've found the answer to that singular question. Nowadays when someone exchanges pleasantries with me on the telephone and asks me how I'm doing, I run through the litany of ailments that I'm suffering through at that moment. It can take a while.
Sometimes as I run through the laundry list of aches and pains, I think of my sweet mom as she would respond to the same question if someone asked her on the telephone. She endured two knee surgeries just so she could make the transfer from the wheelchair to the toilet, worked to learn how to use her left hand for everything after her stroke left her right hand unusable, struggled to survive in a sightless world of macular degeneration that four separate eye surgeries couldn't cure, suffered through adverse reactions to various medicines and learned to communicate post-stroke with totally different tonal speech patterns.
Still, when Mom spoke to one of her friends from Pennsylvania, and they asked how she was, she always said in near perfect speech: "Oh, I'm all right." She must have practiced that phrase thousands of times because she said it flawlessly during her every phone conversation through the 20 years after she suffered her paralyzing stroke.
As a person who writes for a non-fiction publication, it's not in my thought processes to provide an answer that's not thorough and accurate to the best of my knowledge. That doesn't mean that I can't make mistakes. Au contraire. Lord knows that I make plenty of mistakes, even though I try very hard not to get things wrong in the first place. Still, my underlying guidance as a reporter is to always be factual and truthful. To say "Oh, I'm all right" when every bone in my body seems to be stuck in the throes of pain would not be an accurate response to the question, "How are you doing?"
It used to freak me out when Mom said "Oh, I'm all right," to someone on the phone especially if I had just finished assisting her to move from one point to another. However, now as I look back on it, I think she was probably right. In some cases, honesty might not be the best possibility.
To underscore that thought, I encountered something that reinforced that concept last weekend as I was driving to work. I had to stop at a business on Bluefield Avenue to pick something up, and when I returned to my car, a pretty young lady asked if I could give her a ride to another business a few blocks further down the Avenue. It was raining, and at first blush, I thought I could help this young person out. But when I asked her to repeat the name of the business she needed a ride to, and realized that it wasn't too far to walk when the rain cleared up, I told her I worked up the street and needed to clock in because I was already running late.
When I told my wife about the incident, she immediately shared her thoughts on what the headline in the next day's paper would be: "Bill Archer arrested in prostitution sting," she said, motioning with her hand to indicate that the headline would fill the space beneath the masthead of the paper. When I protested that it might have been a situation where a young person simply needed a ride down the street on a rainy weekend afternoon, my wife repeated the possible headline, made the same sweeping gesture with her hand and left it at that.
With a 30-year track record of doing stories and taking photographs for this newspaper, I have learned how to differentiate the real from the contrived stories when I get news tips on the telephone. The majority of the calls we receive are sincere, but some may have a grain of sincerity with a heavy dose of embellishment while other can be agenda-driven attacks brought to the newspaper by people who already struck out with law enforcement or the legal community.
While my mother gave me a good line to use on the phone, my grandson, Seth Morgan, gave me a good line to use when I might want to pass on a story I'm not too sure about. My wife brought a whole bunch of family members together for my mother-in-law's 80th birthday party a few years ago. As the party was going on, Evonda went over to Seth and asked him if he wanted to meet some of his cousins. Seth responded, "No thanks. I'm good," and that was it. Both sayings: "Oh, I'm all right," and "No thanks. I'm good," have plenty of applications in modern life.
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Cold air is coming into our area behind a cold front overnight. The northern counties will drop down into the low 50's. From Midtown to the coast, it'll be in the mid-to-upper 50's into Tuesday morning.
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May 2, 2011 – Chelmsford, MA – Desktone, Inc., the pioneer of cloud-hosted Desktops as a Service, today announced that Flagship Restaurant Group, which owns restaurants in Nebraska and Texas, has subscribed to the Desktone Cloud. Flagship is using Desktone's cloud-hosted virtual desktop service to simplify desktop access for mobile employees, enhance collaboration, and gain the flexibility needed to support company growth.
"Flagship opened two restaurants last year and we plan to continue expanding. We knew that a virtual desktop infrastructure would make it easier for managers to work from different, geographically dispersed outlets and for our company to add new employees to the network, but didn't want to spend the money or time creating our own VDI environment," said Megan Longo, Director of Marketing, Flagship Restaurant Group. "With the Desktone Cloud, we get all of the functionality of VDI without the hassle and cost of building a datacenter. Managers can use local, onsite computers and mobile devices to access their desktops—they don't have to carry their computers around with them. And now that it only takes a few minutes to add new desktops to our Desktone Cloud service, we can integrate future stores and get new employees up and running quickly."
Longo noted that Flagship is using the Desktone Cloud's file sharing capability to enhance collaboration. "It's much easier for employees in our Omaha and Fort Worth locations to communicate, now that we can work from any computer and share documents without having to email them back and forth. Personally, I really like the fact that I can leave my Flagship PC at the office, log in from my home Mac computer and access all my desktop files. Using the Desktone Cloud makes it possible to work from virtually anywhere," Longo said.
"We're very pleased that Flagship chose the Desktone Cloud as the foundation of its virtual desktop environment. Flagship's use epitomizes why businesses of all sizes are turning to our cloud-based desktop service: they want to reap the benefits of desktop virtualization but can't because of the complexities and costs inherent in internally deployed VDI. And they find that the agility and simplicity that the Desktone Cloud enables—combined with its extremely affordable price point—is unparalleled," said Peter McKay, CEO of Desktone.
The Desktone Cloud is the industry's only purpose-built product for delivering VDI in the cloud. The Desktone Cloud lets customers quickly benefit from virtual desktops at a cost of $30/desktop/month—which is significantly lower than those typically associated with onsite virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and traditional desktop environments. By moving virtual desktops to the cloud instead of implementing an internally deployed and managed data center, companies can realize all the promised benefits of virtual desktops—centralized management, improved data security and simplified deployment—without the exorbitant cost or complexities of onsite VDI deployments.


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Aging has some effect on bone marrow and blood cells. The amount of fat in the marrow increases with age, which means there is less cell-producing marrow. While this decrease generally does not cause problems, it may when the body experiences an increased demand for blood cells: the marrow of an older person may be less able to meet those increased demands. Anemia is the most common result.
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Just bought something from the points store!
I just bought the Nickelback baseball cap from the points store!! :D cannot wait til it arrives! haha
Downside is i now only have 2 points left but i will have 12 after posting this XD
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I think its such an ace idea and great way to encourage people to gain points and but their awesome merchandise :)


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The new summer shows in HD kicked off last night on HBO and for the first time ever HBO brought us 30 minute comedies in HD, which is one more reason to look forward to Curb Your Enthusiasm . For whatever reason the summer is the time for reality shows, but thankfully cable networks bring us new shows in HD.
Last night's shows on HBO were to par from previous seasons and the new show Lucky Louie was hilarious, it is married men comedy at its best, without a doubt the funniest since Married with Children. Yes that is a fake gun in the picture that the uncle brought as a gift for the four year old girl. HBO isn't the only one with news shows, TNT and Showtime both have a few HD offerings to look forward to.
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Redrum (often stylized as REDЯUM) is a Japanese indie rock band who formed in 1996 with the decisive goal of becoming a band similar to Portishead for Japan. The members of the band consist of Yumi (vocals), Tsuyoshi (guitar) and Kazi (drums). The role of bassist officially changed two times and was helmed primarily by Soto who joined the band early on and stayed until his departure in December 2004. Their catalogue of works consists of only a few proper albums, several mini albums and maxi singles. Some of their releases were available exclusively through mail order or at their shows and have since become out of print. In April 2006 the band announced that they would be going on an indefinite hiatus after they finished their 10th anniversary tour which ended in June. Kazi stressed that this was not a break-up and that all band members vowed to return in the future. In March 2007 the band followed through with their word and announced their comeback live which is to take place on April 22, 2007. With this announcement came the news that long-standing bassist Soto would rejoin the band after having left in late 2004. They released a "best of" album on November 19, 2008 entitled Cinematic Sound Foundation and followed up with an announcement of the band's disbandment. Yumi decided to retire from music and after a discussion with the band it was decided that Redrum could no longer exist without her or with a replacement singer. Kazi has stated that he, Tsuyoshi and Soto would eventually perform together in some capacity. The band embarked on their last tour entitled "Tomorrow Never Comes" and their final live took place on April 25, 2009 at Shinjuku Loft. Name and themes: The band's name comes most notably from Stephen King's The Shining and is the reverse of the word 'murder'. Redrum songs have the occasional line played in reverse which could take homage to their namesake but more than likely pay respect to the red room sequences in Twin Peaks, David Lynch's television series involving strange happenings related to a small town murder. The band's, and specifically Kazi's, appreciation of the works of both David Lynch and David Cronenberg are referenced thematically through many songs. Inspirations: Musically speaking, the band takes inspiration from such Western acts as Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Frusciante, Radiohead, Portishead, Massive Attack, Aphex Twin and Björk to name a few. Locally they have taken cues from contemporaries on the indie scene like honeydip, The Back Horn, nil, Cock Roach, Anoyo, and Durga, as well 1980's groups such as Gastunk, The Blue Hearts, ARB, The Roosters and The Stalin. History: Formation: Redrum is a four-piece band that was started with the notion of "making Japan's very own Portishead-like band". In 1996, drummer Kazihara Kouji, stagename Kazi, made this declaration to guitarist Takeuchi Tsuyoshi, whom he had met at a former job and soon after became acquainted with vocalist Kitayama Yumi and the three started Redrum to fulfill that goal. Their first bassist Jyunji was unreliable during their first year as Redrum and became unreachable for a week or two at a time and would nonchalantly tell his bandmates that he was 'busy'. He was soon after kicked out of the band and a bulletin at live houses and in magazines was posted looking for a new bassist: "Bassist Urgently Needed! For a Vocalist (22), Guitarist (24), and Drummer (23). To make a band in the likes of Portishead, Massive Attack, Tricky, the Bristol sound of music, and even Radiohead and Björk, in Japanese with such a raw sound!" Soto Hiroshi responded to the advertisement and band leader Kazi was initially skeptical that this 30-year-old salary man would fit in with the band whose members were barely in their mid-20s. Soto also had different musical tastes than the rest of the band and this brought some hesitation with the band. But after meeting with Soto, they extended the invitation for him to join the band which he accepted in January 1997. Throughout the year, they performed and rehearsed in the studio, crafting such songs as "Sad Song" (which would later become shinbigan to Paradox's tamashii no hana), Room, Blue Velvet, Cherry Pie, and midori no sabaku to name a few. Embryonic Years: Their big break came by chance when the members went to a Massive Attack concert at Ebisu Garden Hall in June 1998. Standing outside the live house Kazi noticed a man standing around. Kazi: Isn't that the guy from Luna Sea?, Yumi: Really?, Tsuyoshi: Yeah, it looks like., Soto: Hmm, sorry, I don't know., , Kazi who walked around with a demo tape in his pocket at all times mustered up enough courage to approach him. To his surprise, Sugizo was quite sociable and told Kazi to give him his phone number so he could call him about his thoughts on the tape. Eventually Sugizo called and said he had just heard the tape and was surprisingly floored by it and wanted Redrum to be the first band to be signed by his newly formed label Embryo. Kazi immediately called the other band members and they were all surprised considering they weren't in the style of 'Visual kei' which Luna Sea was noted for. They met Sugizo again to formally accept his offer and the band soon went into the studio to record their 1st Maxi Single 'Redrum' with Sugizo as recording engineer, L'Arc-en-Ciel and Buck-Tick's Guitar Technician, and The Star Club's Hiro as Drum Tuner. Eventually The Mad Capsule Markets' engineer Koni-Yang finished the engineering process. After playing the final mix each member of the band was equally floored by the quality of their recording because of the combined efforts of the talented technicians. Line-up: Current: Kitayama Yumi (Vocals), Takeuchi Tsuyoshi (Guitars), Kouji Kajiwara (Drums) Band Leader, Hiroshi Soto (Bass 1997-2004, 2007), Former: Jyunji (Bass 1996), Hirabayashi Naoki (Bass 2005), Honda Yuuya (Bass 2005-2006)
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In spite of her petite size and the fact that Susannah doesn't look like she could survive on the prairie, Jesse quickly discovers that his new wife is a greater blessing than he even hoped for. The years she spent as her father's veterinary assistant allow her to save Jesse's ox and twin calves and to help neighboring farmers with their animals.
But Susannah's feelings of unworthiness are deeply rooted, and she can't believe that Jesse's praise-or the tenderness and love he shows-could possibly last. The thawing of her heart seems almost as distant as Spring in the midst of the winter blanketing the Dakota prairie.


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In my film classes, I show movies in tandem and my students analyze them as pairings. The choices are deliberate and center on specific themes and/or the same director.
Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963) fulfill both criteria. Hitchcock's themes and motifs overlap in many of his films, never more sharply than the bird imagery in Psycho—the threatening stuffed birds above Marion (Janet Leigh) and Norman (Anthony Perkins) in the motel parlor—that come to full violent life in The Birds.
I also often show The Matrix (1999) and The Truman Show (1998) together. Here, two worlds are depicted in which people live in ignorance of their immediate reality. In The Matrix, nearly everyone lives in a virtual reality in order to feed the necessary for the machines to dominate the earth.
The inverse occurs in The Truman Show. Only one person is deluded about his world, not knowing he is the subject of a reality show. All the world's a stage with Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) at its center. Truman keeps a monstrous machine going as well: television.
I show 14 to 16 films per course. Ultimately, I want all the films to connect in some way; by conscious or unconscious design.
An example of the former happened one semester when I chose films that had twisted, mind-blowing plots and resolutions. Either the characters in the films would be immersed in uncertain and bewildering scenarios, or both characters and my student viewers would suffer the same sense of not knowing what is happening.
The Matrix and The Truman Show represent the first possibility. The Woman in the Window (1944) illustrates the second.
Other films cover both categories. David Cronenberg's eXistenZ (1999) takes mind boggling to the extreme. A game of the same name is played in several gamers' minds and on many levels. The audience and players can never be certain when the game, or movie, is over. In essence, the game has become a reality for people in a technological universe who want only the most real games.
The ideal of the course, however, is to find the unconscious or unintentional connections and discoveries. One such experience occurred a month ago.
I had broken the scheme of tandem showings, partly to find material that interested a class difficult to please. Several times the students asked to see Psycho. I had been showing strictly comedies thus far, like Modern Times (1936), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Singin' in the Rain (1952), and Raising Arizona (1987). I thought: okay, Hitchcock once remarked that Psycho could only be a comedy.
Then I returned to regular comedies and satires like Duck Soup (1933), Dr. Strangelove (1964), and The Truman Show. The Truman Show is one of the best films about television—specifically, the reality show— made on the cusp of reality shows, starting with Survivor, at the start of the third millennium.
One day I spoke about the group of films we had watched the last three months trying to stimulate the class to write better, more interpretive papers. I mentioned how taking dialogue and specific lines make for a good way to look into film.
I specifically mentioned the long dialogue between Marion Crane and Norman Bates. The second time watching Psycho, the meaning of what Norman was saying changed. Things like: "mother wasn't quite herself," "a boy's best friend is his mother," and "a son is a poor substitute for a lover."
I quoted other lines:
Norman: You know what I think? I think that we're all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out.
Marion: Sometimes, we deliberately step into those traps.
Norman: I was born in mine. I don't mind it any more.
Then, seemingly from nowhere, I said that Truman Burbank was also born in a trap. He had been the subject of a television show since he was born. As long as the show's ratings were high, he could not leave this trap. While Truman grew up, his creator, Christof (Ed Harris), created circumstances to keep him trapped psychologically on the island town of Seaview. The major difference between Truman and Norman is that Truman started to mind being in his trap.
What could we make of this? What meaning, if any, did this parallel situation of characters in widely different films have?
At the time, I had no real answer nor did the students respond to the connection. That's the problem with these kinds of connections. There's no ready-made answer. One can make something of it; i.e., "find" meaning, or drop it as a curiosity or not worth the effort.
This is a case of it taking one film to understand another film. If we liken Truman Burbank to Norman Bates, how far do we want to take it? Norman's mental state, we are told, is the result of possessive, domineering mother. We have little or no objective evidence of this, save for a psychologist's report and the voice of the Mother in Norman's head. At best, we can say Norman was psychologically smothered and entered an unfathomable psychotic state.
Truman's upbringing is no less smothering, but is primarily a sociological asphyxiation. Every relationship in his life is false. He responds to players who are fed lines in order to prompt Truman's behavior in a particular direction. Christof believes this direction is salutary and utopian. Truman will get what he desires and, subsequently, satisfy the viewing desires of a billion watchers.
The perversity of Truman's situation is less obvious than Norman's. The suggestion of incest within the Bates family immediately implants horrific images in the viewer's imagination. Whereas, we can convince ourselves that Truman lives in the best of all possible worlds. Norman is a serial killer, creating an even stronger feeling of revulsion in us. Truman wears mismatched clothes and is afraid of water. He can be laughed at. Maybe he's a tad neurotic.
Norman gets locked away. He couldn't disentangle himself from his mother-self. Truman gets to leave his world. He had developed a healthy skepticism toward his world. He had to get out of his trap: society.
Getting out of the trap won't be as easy as it looks. What he doesn't know is that there's another, harsher society out there waiting to engulf him again. He will become the celebrity, Truman Burbank, star for thirty years of "The Truman Show". He will be trapped by his former life and hounded by people who have developed neurotic fixations about him.
I am glad there was never a sequel to The Truman Show, something that can't be said for Psycho. If there was, I wonder how more awful his experiences in the world would be compared to his former prison-trap. Yes, he chose freedom and maybe he could never go back to Seaview. The great exultations by the public at the end of The Truman Show might be a little premature.
Bob Castle is an author, teacher, film critic, and playwright. He is also the founder of the Collingswood Movie Club, which meets monthly in the public library for film showings and discussion.
Castle's writing has appeared in Bright Lights Film Journal, Film Comment, and The Film Journal. His plays have been performed during the Philadelphia New Play Festival, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and at the the Gone in 60 Seconds and "In a New York Minute" festivals.


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