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By BILL O'REAR
Tribune-Herald sports editor
Joey Rodriguez scored 17 points to lead four players into double figures as the University of Hawaii at Hilo defeated St. Martin's University 75-65 on Friday night.
It was the season opener for both teams, and the first night of the four-team PacWest-GNAC men's basketball series at McCabe Gym in Honolulu. Host Chaminade played Western Oregon in the nightcap.
The Vulcans (1-0) take on Western Oregon at 5 p.m. today, followed by Chaminade against St. Martin's at 7:30 p.m.
UHH, under first-year coach GE Coleman, led 43-34 at the intermission, then knocked down some clutch free throws down the stretch to earn the victory. The Vulcans made 28 of 34 free throws (82.4 percent) from the line and only turned the ball over seven times compared to St. Martin's 18 miscues.
"We were able to turn them over 18 times," Coleman said. "We didn't play well offensively, but we only turned it over seven times. That helped us overcome them outrebounding us by 14."
Rodriguez, a junior 6-foot-1 guard out of Cotati, Calif. and Marin Junior College, hit 3 of 7 field goals and 11 of 12 free throws for his game-high 17 points. He also tied teammate Brandon Thomas, a 6-6 returning senior, for team-high honors with four rebounds and stole the basketball three times.
Darnell Williams, a 5-11 junior guard, followed Rodriguez with 14 points while senior Lucas Swanson and junior Jamario Clayton (6 of 6 free throws) each added 10 points in a balanced attack. Senior Derek Owens and junior Jeff Perkins had eight points apiece.
Coleman, who likes to play a fast-paced, high defensive pressure style, played 10 players and nine scored at least a basket.
Ryan Rogers led St. Martin's with 12 points.
UHH shot 38 percent from the field, 33 percent (5 of 15) from 3-point range and a productive 28 of 34 from the free-throw line. St. Martin's hit 44 percent from the floor, 33 percent (3 of 9) on treys and 70 percent (14 of 20) from the line.
The Vulcans had 11 steals compared to the Saints' six steals. St. Martin's held a 43-29 rebounding advantage.
Coleman, 31, was hired in early July to take over the UHH program from 15-year coach Jeff Law, who stepped down at the end of last season to take the head coaching job at Western New Mexico University.
At the time of his hiring, Coleman was the Central Washington University associate head coach.

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Archive for July, 2009
Moldovan journalists document election fraud
Posted by Brigitte Alfter in EU on July 30, 2009
Yesterday, Moldova went to vote. Again. The election was a repeat of the vote in April. Already today, however, the morning following the second attempt, some observers are wondering: How comes, that the exit polls yesterday showed only 41 percent of support for the ruling communist party, while today's first counts show 58 percent?
Following the April vote the 4, 3 million populations living between the EU member state Romania on one side and the Ukraine on the other, experienced heavy riots, arrests of journalists and numerous European headlines. Do we know much about that part of the world? Should we be interested? Well, we should. After all, Moldova is a direct neighbor to the EU.
How comes, curious Moldavians asked after the April election, that all of a sudden the electorate had grown by 800.000 voters? No explanations really seemed to fit. Had the usual death rate decreased significantly since the last election? Had there been produced several hundred thousand extra identity cards for voters?
Journalists Lilia Gurez and Igor Volnitchi wanted to know. They both work for Moldovan media, but in order to document at least some of the fraud, they needed a bit of extra time and they needed money to travel around the country. They turned to Scoop, a Danish aid project giving work grants to investigative journalists, applied for a work stipend and started their research. And they published a significant article lifting the April allegations to a concrete level and giving the fraud victims human faces.
The team looked into double voter id-numbers – where only one physical person was to be found. Coincident? They found numerous votes cast by Moldavians living abroad. They followed up on allegedly dead voters. They met people who were angry, when they were told, that their identity was used in another part of the country too. They gathered evidence on how mentally ill patients were lead to the ballot boxes. They found voting boxes, where the obligatory minutes of the procedure, that are supposed to be put in the boxes as documentation by the officials at the end of the day, simply were lacking.


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Review and Meta-analysis of Couple-Oriented Interventions for Chronic Illness
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Evidence continues to build for the impact of the marital relationship on health as well as the negative impact of illness on the partner. Targeting both patient and partner may enhance the efficacy of psychosocial or behavioral interventions for chronic illness.
The purpose of this report is to present a cross-disease review of the characteristics and findings of studies evaluating couple-oriented interventions for chronic physical illness.
We conducted a qualitative review of 33 studies and meta-analyses for a subset of 25 studies.
Identified studies focused on cancer, arthritis, cardiovascular disease, chronic pain, HIV, and Type 2 diabetes. Couple interventions had significant effects on patient depressive symptoms (d = 0.18, p < 0.01, k = 20), marital functioning (d = 0.17, p < 0.01, k = 18), and pain (d = 0.19, p < 0.01, k = 14) and were more efficacious than either patient psychosocial intervention or usual care.
Couple-oriented interventions have small effects that may be strengthened by targeting partners' influence on patient health behaviors and focusing on couples with high illness-related conflict, low partner support, or low overall marital quality. Directions for future research include assessment of outcomes for both patient and partner, comparison of couple interventions to evidence-based patient interventions, and evaluation of mechanisms of change.
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- Title
- Review and Meta-analysis of Couple-Oriented Interventions for Chronic Illness
- Journal
Annals of Behavioral Medicine
Volume 40, Issue 3 , pp 325-342
- Cover Date
- 2010-12-01
- 10.1007/s12160-010-9216-2
- Print ISSN
- 0883-6612
- Online ISSN
- 1532-4796
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
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- Topics
- Keywords
- Couples
- Chronic illness
- Intervention
- Meta-analysis
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, 118 Henderson Building North, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
- 2. Department of Psychiatry and University Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- 3. Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- 4. School of Aging Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
- 5. Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA


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What is the ideal Miralax dosage should you give to your child?
This is in addition to a previous request....
I went to the store to get Miralax for my son who has pooping issues. One the bottle it says not for anyone under 17 years old. Is there a children Miralax that I did not see or do you just adjust the dosage for your child? My son is almost 4 and 37 pounds.
Miralax child dosage may varies based on the child age. A 4yr old and 33lbs is on it per the Doctor and he gets 3/4 tablespoon twice a day for constipation. Another mom gave a 19 month/26 pound daughter 1/2 the adult dosage which is 1/2 the cap. Some takes mineral oil mixed with the Miralax as per doctors order. We think the safest way is to consult your child's pediatrician.
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On Monday evening I gave him 1/2 teaspoon of the Miralax in his milk. Yesterday (Tuesday) he "went" FIVE times!!! Poor little guy! And each time it was quite a bit. I think I am going to stick with the same dosage every few days and see how it goes. Thanks everyone for your advice! It really has helped!!
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My daughter has been on Miralax for a long time. she is two and a half now, but started on it when she was a small baby. She also takes mineral oil mixed with the miralax as per doctors order. We have had better success since starting the mineral oil and it is much cheaper. www.livegreeneasy.com
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Just the one kind of Miralax. My pediatrician told me to give my 19 month/26 pound daughter 1/2 the adult dosage which is 1/2 the cap.
E.M. answers from Allentown on June 23, 2008
My son is three and also had pooping issues. The Dr. had me get regular old miralax and give him half a capful once a day. That did the trick. She also said only give as needed because you can become dependent on it. Hope that helps.
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R.M. answers from Philadelphia on June 23, 2008
I know when my little girl had constipation issues we used Babylax- Liquid Glycerin suppositories. It is made by Fleet. Within 5 minutes of using-the problem was solved! They work great and the dosage is already pre-measured.
Hope this helps- good luck!
J.K. answers from Philadelphia on June 23, 2008
Hi K. -
I use Miralax for my 19 month old twins. You just adjust the adult dosage. We started (at around 1 year old) to give about 1/4 of a capful. Now we use about 1/3 of a capful. Your pediatrician should have let you know how much to use. Maybe call and ask. The Miralax works like a charm, but it took about 4 days after the initial dose to really see results. Good luck!
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M.D. answers from Philadelphia on June 25, 2008
My 4yr old and 33lbs is on it too per the Doctor and he gets 3/4 tablespoon twice a day for constipation. He does great b/c it doesn't change the taste of what he is drinking it in and he actually asks for it now b/c he knows it helps! Good luck.
M.S. answers from Lancaster on June 23, 2008
I give it to my 6 year old and I have a friend who has given it to her 5 year old for a few years. I also work at a children's hospital and we use it there on our patients. I would give him no more than 1/2 a dose, less if it does the trick. Before you do though, I would run it by your son's pediatrician. Good luck!
J.J. answers from Altoona on June 23, 2008
Hi K.~ our pediatrician prescribed this for our 3 yr old son (he weighs 30lbs), to take 17 grams (which is equal to 1 Tbsp) I dissolve it in about 1/4 c of water 1st, then fill the rest of his sippy cup with juice. I dont give it to him every day, though. Just when I see that he has a hard time pooping. Call your Dr, get their opinion. I started out with a smaller dose, not knowing what the "out come" would be like! Rather be safe (& clean) than sorry!!
Hope this helps you & your little guy! :)
L.R. answers from Pittsburgh on June 23, 2008
We have used miralax with my daughter who has issues with her system from being born 10 weeks early. The dose is the same as the adult dose. I questioned this myself also.
My husband is also a pharmacist so I also asked his opinion. We have switched over to dried fruit like apricots and plums with drinking seltzer water. giant Eagle has some flavors and they have no sugar or calories. This seems to keep everything working pretty well most of the time. We only use the miralax now if we have a problem. Hope this helps.
J.R. answers from Philadelphia on June 23, 2008
I am a pediatric nurse and give the stuff almost every day at work! It is safe and works really well for most kids. The dose is the same (a "capful" is 17gms.). Mix it with 4-8oz. of juice or water and they have to drink the whole thing. I find the best way to mix it is to shake it up in a bottle for awhile, it seems to dissolve better that way, giving you a better chance of getting it all in. Good luck!


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Young's early music sounds very much of its time, a sticky rolled-up ball of jazz, blues, gospel, rhythm and blues, and soul. "Some Thorny Blues" is Schwartz's showcase for himself, a thick and heavy rhythm through which his blues guitar rolls slow and powerful. Tenor saxophonist Joe Holiday is featured on his own "Exercise For Chihuahuas," where he and Young deeply dig into the sax-organ soul-jazz bag later stitched together by Sonny Stitt with Don Patterson and by other combos too. Young's title track voices the respective ecstasies of religion and funk which merged in many organ players who grew up in the church.
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K - Kids & Their Names? Brian
L - Life Is Incomplete Without? Besides my family, my answer would include: the internet, coffee, Good Morning America, warm pajamas, books and tea.
M - Marriage Date? August 23, 1986
N- Number Of Siblings? 4 sisters
O - Oranges Or Apples? They are both so good. Apples are grown in these parts. Going to a cider mill was a treat each year while growing up.
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"The concept of this light-object is based on telling a story like in a old-fashioned slideshow. This story is about me, as a closure of the study. Each of the 2016 frames contains a picture form my own archive: inspiration, models, sketches, etc."
"In short ideas and memories, which made me to the designer I am now. the black slides represent the future and form a silhouette on the wall, summarizing the story."


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Hands up who would make a mod and share it publically if you knew you for an absolute fact (first hand experience) 100s or 1000s of trolls would make your life a hell if you did so.
NOBODY would share anything under those conditions, so why do some idiots expect me too ?
Fact is getting to the mods is easy, you just have to behave your self, read the intro forum stickies which explains what you have to do, then post until I am sure you are not a troll and the downloads will open as if by magic. The system is only annoying once for decent people, when you get past it you never see it again. From that moment on all future downloads and updates are instantly available to you.
Given how fast I work and how good at modding I am.... that is something to look forward too. A steady supply of brand new mods from one of the better more experienced modders and all you have to do is follow the rules and they are yours.
Of course I do realise that for those who fail to respect my wishes and read the stickies and rules, the system can be extremely annoying and frustrating when you keep getting your account deleted and have to do it all again and again and again. All I will say to that is GOOD, it was designed to do that. To follow a sites rules, you have to know the site rules and anybody that chooses not to read them, has chosen not to follow them and will lose their accounts for it. It is that simple.
The TEG system allows me to enjoy sharing mods with you without getting 1000s of trolls pissing me off every week. Without it you would not get any mods from me at all, I simply would not share anything publically anymore. I have seen public downloads on TEG get abused far too often to want a return to those days again.
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This is the new NCR V3 Video for you all to enjoy.
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The NCR V3 is now available in TEGs download area. I did not make the 10 quest story line for it because I am currently lacking the voice actors to do it. Instead I have added some new repeatable quests and other new features.
Medics are now allowed to do Ranger Battles and Patrol missions and get paid for doing them, as well as experience. They are the only unit that can do other units missions but do not get the other units kit, they still only have access to the medic kit. Every unit should have a medic even if the AI never needs one.
Experience has been tweated for some missions, so harder missions award more experience. Also the player now gets paid for doing NCR missions, the amount changes according to the difficulty of the mission and the amount of time it should take to complete it. The new Search and Destory missions may take a while until you get used to them, so it offers the most experience and the most gold.
That Experience and Gold changes make quite a difference to the NCR mods game play, for starters you can actually make a living off NCR quests now. Enough to keep you supplied with ammo and weapons. No need to do anything other than trooper work now. Unless you want too.
A new NPC called Major Freedman has been placed in Forlorn Hope, he will be of interest to you once you reach the rank of Staff Sergeant or Higher. Once you reach the required rank 2 new features will unlock.
Feature 1) Viper Squad becomes available to use on any mission you like. Viper Squad also gets some upgrades at specific ranks so they go from Troopers, to Heavy Assault and finally to Veteran Rangers. With equipement upgrades to match. They can die but will respawn. I allowed this to simulate the time it takes for replacements to arrive.
Feature 2) Search and Destroy missions.
I will add that the search and destroy missions are set up so you do have to search for the targets and they may be scattered around so you may run in to dozens of other enemies trying to find the ones your supposed to kill. Whilst means you will never know who is the target so your just going to have to kill every enemy you see just in case :)
So be sure to take Viper Squad with you :)
This release, whilst not big, is important, it rounds off the mods current features nicely, makes it more complete and starts using the Rank feature introduced in 2.2 to unlock new quests. You may see more these rank based jobs in the future.
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Before I talk about the NCR mod let me explain the issues I have with Fallout NV.
The way the main quest forces you to take the same route around the map at the start puts me off playing, lets face it, it is suicide going north too early and its repeatative going south. The navmesh bug puts me off modding since it causes all sorts of issues to arise and makes modding design difficult. Then we have the official patches unbalancing the default weapons and the DLCs adding uber weapons to make it even worse.
Levelling in Fallout NV is to blame of course, it is designed to be played one way, anti clockwise and providing you always go anti clockwise and do things in the exact same order, it is fine, but incredibly boring. It reduces the replay value of the game for by about 1000 hours for me compared to other similar games without this issue.
If not for that, I would have started modding Fallout 3 and stayed with Fallout, never returning to the Elder Scrolls.
Having an Obsidan Dev send me a spreedsheet full of Weapon Stats for Fallout NV V1 would be immensely helpful, hint hint Obsidian :)
I always prefered the weapon balance from Fallout NV V1.
On to the NCR News.
The NCR V3 will soon enter production, the master plan for this as changed because the last 4 mod I have made has came up short in voice actors. TEG Windhelm actually had 1 voice actor do 8 parts because of the shortage. So story mods which need lots of voice actors cannot really be made, and a story was what I was going to add to The NCR mod in version 3.


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PRIMAL FORMS convey implicit meanings to scientific data that give them dual resonnance
when the data are recognised as both scientific information and expressions of connection.
Ref. Roberts. Antarctic Animation: Gestures and lines describe a changing environment2010 PhD thesis
CONNECTIVITY: [E]nvironmental values derive from a sense of connectivity with nature.
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Environment and Behavior July 2007 vol. 39 no. 4 474-493
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Voice: Andrew Constable 2010
Data: Australian Antarctic Division
Music: Sophie Green, 2012
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Animation/model: Lisa Roberts
Production assistance: Ken Wilson
In 2010 scientist Andrew Constable explains what he means by modelling and challenges me to "make a scientific model attractive to people through art". This video began as a joke, a play on words: I would be an artist's model within a scientist's model of the world.
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Kuala Lumpur: Islamic Finance sector has a bright future ahead and the current position of Islamic Finance is all set to introduce substantial opportunities for growth and diversification in the coming 10 to 15 years.
This was said by the Singapore Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, in a special address at the 8th World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) 2012 in Malaysian city of Johor Baharu.
Shanmugaratnam expressed that he is optimistic about Islamic finance's prospects firstly because Islamic financial institutions have in the main escaped significant damage in the global financial crisis.
He said, "They are well-placed to grow, at a time when many of the global banks, especially the European banks, are deleveraging or focusing on consolidating their balance sheets."
"Secondly, Islamic finance has much potential to diversify into new growth areas such as trade and infrastructure financing in Asia and the emerging markets," he added.
The WIEF, being held from Tuesday until Thursday at the Persada Johor Convention Centre, was graced by the Malaysian Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, who is also the Minister of Finance.
Shanmugaratnam noted that these new areas will allow Islamic banks to reduce their exposure to the real estate sector, and to take advantage of the stronger growth potential of the emerging market economies.
He added that there are gaps to be filled in structured trade finance and in funding for infrastructural projects as the emerging markets grow, and as global finance consolidates.
Thirdly, he said, Islamic finance can also seek to meet the increased demand for simpler and more transparent products and 'back-to-basics' finance. Investors are now much more cautious about complex products and their risks.
Shanmugaratnam said that the (financial) crisis taught investors worldwide not only about the damage they can face from the risks that are known and unsurprising, but also from risks "that we do not know."
He further said that Islamic finance, with its focus on transparency, price certainty and risk-sharing, can ride this wave of demand for simpler and more basic investments.
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To help meet a $21 million budget shortfall, New Hanover County offered employees early retirement, laid others off, and issued mandatory furlough days. While the cuts helped balance the budget, county residents might still end up '"paying".
"On one hand you save money because people are not coming to work, but what you've done is you've reduced your workforce by 4 percent," explained New Hanover County Commissioner Jonathan Barfield.
The New Hanover County government has seen significant staff reductions, in order to meet budget shortfalls. While the budget remains balanced, the cuts have placed added pressure on remaining employees.
Director of Development Services Tony Roberts said, "It raises stress levels a little bit, in trying to accomplish our goals."
This year, the county required ten unpaid days off for each employee. To try and maintain services, the county combined several departments.
"911 services and emergency management services now work under one director, that's been merged into a single department," explained Director of Human Resources and Community Relations Dennis Inhat. "Planning and inspections are now under one department head."
The economy eased the pressure on some of the mergers, but caused extra stress for other departments.
"The human needs or the human services portion of county government are hardest hit with demand from the public, but they have lost quite a few people working in their departments," added Barfield.
For county residents, it can mean longer wait times for services they desperately need. Barfield said the county has trimmed all it's fat, but will again face a shortfall in next year's budget. "I don't see any way around our next budget cycle not having some type of a tax increase one way or the other." Leaving voters to decide whether to cut more services, or pay more for the ones they already have.
Barfield said the county will probably need both a sales tax increase and a property tax increase to avoid future service cuts or lay-offs, but voters would have to approve those increases first.
Commissioner Barfield spoke very candidly about the state of the county's financial situation. You can view the unedited interview here.


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NOBODY should get it.. they are joking about this.. but nobody gets that.. The ST LOUIS CARDINALS should have it.. duh.. but anyways no single player deserves a ball.. Wainwright and Molina had their moments but it was won as a team
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Catcher Yadier Molina, who rested a sore right shoulder for six games, returned to catch all nine innings for the Cardinals on Tuesday. He threw out a runner trying to steal, had a single in two trips and raised his average to .333 this spring.Molina also said he felt no pain in his right shoulder."He said he was going to play under control," manager Tony La Russa said. "So I asked him (after catching Matt Kemp's attempted steal of second base). He said, 'Oh yeah. I was under control.'"Molina will be behind the plate again today, and he could be looking at a lengthy game in order to catch closer Jason Isringhausen.Almost of equal significance Tuesday was that Molina drew a walk. It was the seventh of the spring for Molina, who normally doesn't get his seventh walk until midseason.Hitting coach Hal McRae, asked if this spring's numbers meant Molina, a .238 career hitter, was showing markedly more patience, said: "I hope so. It would help add some points to his average."
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It was the seventh of the spring for Molina, who normally doesn't get his seventh walk until midseason.
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text: > I wouldn't really say they are a "triviality" (given that I am one of > those who did much of the initial testing/research for the HSR's in > the first place) but they *are* just one of many parts of the book > that would need to be checked, though I would argue that they are > slightly less important than other issues (given how rarely we > actually have issues concerning them). Package versions must work > togethers, commands need to be correct, the book's text must be both > technically correct and readable to those new to LFS, etc... Of course. If the package instructions aren't right, whether the HSR's are correct or not doesn't matter. But we agree they aren't a triviality and do need to be checked. Just seems to me someone would (have) setup and preserve(d) a trailer system for that purpose. Guess nobody ever did. > Could there be slight variances in "how" one "enters chroot" that > could possibly affect this? I would't expect that to be likely. I could post my script if necessary. But it uses the same template, 100 lines of self-documentation for less than a dozen lines of executable commands. ;-) I suppose I could cut some of that away, if that weren't to raise questions. > Well we do mount /proc, /sys, /def, /dev/pts, and /dev/shm from the > host system. The glibc build system might be probing something > like /proc. > > Ken's method of first building the LFS target kernel in the host > system and rebooting to that would avoid potential problems here. As somebody wrote a while back, getting a config file that was still compatible with the (back-levelled) host could be a formidable task. Perhaps I didn't spend enough time on that--lots of new stuff there I'd never seen before. It seemed patching up one level was more direct. When I patched from .17 to .18, I built it as a monolithic kernel and cut out some stuff, e.g. sound, to preserve the host's kernel and modules for recovery purposes. When I get back on that box I'm going to check again for CC_STACKPROTECTOR somewhere in .18, just to be sure. > One purpose of LFS (mayhap unstated) is to help the user figure out > how she got to be lost in the midst of the sea in the first place. She > may not know where she is, but she should be able to determine just > how she got there. LFS is, in a manner of speaking, navigation by dead > reckoning. Everything should work. But sometimes your instruments are > slightly out of calibration, and one step leaves you 'elsewhere'. > After that, the rest of the journey is flawed. I might debate "flawed", by my connotations. Not recommended perhaps. But if one can establish where elsewhere is, and where the goal is relative to elsewhere, one might be able to chart a course to the goal, and come out where one wanted to go. It's how some "exploration" is done. ;-) Yes, some explorers are never heard from again--that's why they post their planned route at the trailhead. I haven't given-up trying to get there from here. Mayhap I'll pickup some disease along the way, but I don't think necessarily so. I can boil the water. > By-and-large, LFS is a great guide. The only real deficiency I've > found is in the configure options for perl; it took me a week to dig > through that script (and some source code) to find out why the > toolchain perl insisted on on needing libgdbm; simply, it was doing > exactly what it should: build to include all optional features it > finds on the host. That, of course, poisons the toolchain. I think deciding on what it "should" do should be based on instruction. In my case, I don't even NEED nscd, but I'm not given an option, without hacking one in, of course. > So, by all means, more power to LFS! In some senses at least. ;-) > > If I'm reading those correctly the problem happens when newer > > versions of gcc are compiled against an older version of glibc, > > which begs the question, why was Paul Rogers getting the "undefined > > reference to __stack_chk_guard" error in chapter 6? At that point > > the gcc he was using should have been compiled against the new glibc > > in /tools Or am I missing something? > > Nope. I think that's the nub of it. I also think it's a question worth > trying to answer. How can I help? (While I slog on, of course.) I've got my scripts--it wasn't all typed in and rolled off screen. > I agree that the problem you have uncovered is worth pursuing down to > root cause. Until we understand the root cause, we can't be sure it > won't come up again in the future. When it is understood, then either > a prevention in the sense of what a minimal HSR is can be done, or a > prevention in the sense of a patch to the build can be done. > No, you do not have to build 6.3 at all. You only have to use 6.3. I'm > fairly certain that 6.3 is capable of building 6.6, ahd you can use > 6.3 without building it. May I suggest that would be true if you had written it "in the first person." I believe I already explained how my goals differ than just producing a 6.6 by any manner possible. > That's what I said above, and you disagreed with me. Now you seme > to agree. How's the old saying go? "I know you think you understand what you thought you read, but I'm not sure you appreciate that what I wrote wasn't exactly what I meant." > Why do you have this fixation on building 6.3? Nobody but you has > mentioned building 6.3 as a part of the solution. I explained that already. I would say your question would be no different if it were, say, why someone might self-impose the constraint of building 6.6 for his i86-64 hardware answering "Why do that, it'll run the 32-bit code if you just build it as is!" Before that path had been blazed, of course. One either accepts the answer or it makes no sense. > If your goal is to get 6.6 running on your machine, then there Stop right there. Now who's got the fixation? You should know by now that's not true. I have to do it while standing on one foot and spinning a plate on my index finger, or some such. That said, yes, it has already been established I expect I can build 6.3 and eventually get from there to 6.6--but "build" is the operative word. It's not changing. Yet. Besides, if I continue this path, perhaps it will contribute to understanding the source of this problem. If I abandon it and "use" 6.3, what will be learned? That just avoids the problem, as has otherwise been the case to date. 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Eighty-one-year-old Placido Diaz Millo lives with his wife Yolanda and a hyperactive terrier named Pinky in a comfortable South Miami home that smells of delicious chicken broth. He loves offering guests anything — café, Coke, jugo, crackers — because for once in his life, he can.
Placido spent 27 years as a political prisoner in rancid prisons throughout Cuba. Father and son can count on one set of stubby fingers the number of times they saw each other during that span. But today, in their own quiet way, they understand each other better than anyone else. "Everybody in Cuba has to live a double life," Placido explains when asked if he felt betrayed by Nelson calling Castro's béisbol as he floundered in prison. "He never denied me. He was always proud to have a political prisoner for a father."
Police officers took naval officer Placido on Nelson's eighth birthday — August 29, 1962 — after an evening his son had spent watching American flicks on a cineplex screen in the Vedado district of Havana. Nelson says he doesn't remember much about the raid, just being awakened in the middle of the night along with 4-year-old Barbara, and the olive-colored uniforms of cops with guns at their waists.
It was the job of Nelson and Barbara's tough-as-nails mother, Nieves Blanco — "Snow White" in Spanish — to explain: Dad had plotted against Fidel Castro. Now he might never come back.
Nelson, an aspiring catcher who was named for Cuban baseball moonlighter Rocky Nelson, suddenly found himself thrust into his father's shoes. The family fled the turmoil of Havana to the smaller town of Güira de Melena. "He was very strong," Barbara says. "It was just the three of us for all those years."
But as Nelson hit his teens, his prospects as a player faded, and it became clear he wouldn't survive on brains alone. "He wasn't very smart," Barbara allows with a chuckle. He's "medio bruto" — halfway stupid — she says.
So it was provident that Nelson discovered umpiring in his 20s. He enrolled in the 45-day course at Escuela Rafael De La Paz, the arbitros' academy named for a Cuban pioneer of the trade. Nelson, it turned out, had the build (foreboding) and the brain (clear of distractions) of a born ump. He was the on-field cop, enforcing not the whims of a despot but the just mores of the weathered rule book in his back pocket. To Nelson, who missed his dad's revolutionary genes, baseball was an escape from the high-tension nerves and fraught decisions of life in Cuba.
Even as Nelson started his own family, having two sons with a former phys-ed student named Odali, Placido remained in prison. He refused to submit to a criminal's uniform, for decades wearing only loincloths made of torn bedsheets, and so was denied visits. And he spat on the carrot of "political rehabilitation" — the acceptance of Communism — that would have set him free, even as his wife begged him to comply. After one final ultimatum, Nieves Blanco separated from Placido and remarried. Placido later married Yolanda, a cellmate's sister.
In May 1988, the stubborn plantado was freed through an international agreement and shipped to Miami for refuge. Virtually all of Nelson's relatives — his mother, sister, sons, grandparents, cousins, and, eventually, grandchildren — ended up in the United States.
But Nelson remained a rock in the tide. He started another family, marrying Maritza, the daughter of a cigar roller, and having two girls, Islen and Yaritza.
He was a monk of baseball, worshipping the craft of umpiring and his own stature within it. He was paid 38 pesos, or $1.35, a game but experienced a phenomenon mythical to most Cubans: travel. He worked tournaments throughout Latin America, the United States, China, Australia, and Japan.
He wasn't about to jeopardize it all. "I had the ability to travel in and out of the country," he says. "I had a car and a house. I was comfortable. I had it made."
Placido understands why his son always refused to join him in libertad. "We're the same," he says. "I decided to stand by my politics no matter what happened. He stood by baseball."
Crammed into the back of a Toyota coupe, alongside his Cuba Olympics travel bag full of umpiring gear, Nelson has no idea where he's headed. "We're going far, huh?" he observes at one point.
We're going to Fort Lauderdale, he's told, but Nelson hasn't heard of it.
It's been a familiar feeling since he came to Miami. Friends set up games for him and give him rides or very detailed directions to the field; he shows up, umpires, collects a check, and heads straight home.
With a thinly veiled motive, New Times offered to drive Nelson to his cover photo shoot. A reporter drives, a translator rides shotgun, and he's stuck in the back, forced to answer questions — to finally cough up the truth. There's no way he can be so doggedly Zen, no way he can have no real opinion on Fidel, no way he can be so emotionally indifferent in a life marked by tragedy, loss, and dilemma.


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