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Horrible! Do they behave like this- atrocity towards computers.
Hey, who sent in a picture of my keyboard?!
I Open it up and dust at least every six months.
The worst offenders I've encountered were the early almost direct copies of the original IBM PC cases which only had one fan sucking the air out through the power supply. One good look, and it didn't take much to realize that the only air entry was THROUGH the floppy drive!
How does this computer rate? (I think I have already cleaned my really bad ones) https://www.dropbox.com/s/q5gzkkxydgmqz4c/IMG_0210.MOV
Speaking of blowing computers with compressed air and the cool
whizzing sound fans make when you direct air at them, here's another
reason I heard it's wise to stop them spinning. Spinning a fan with
compressed air can turn the fan into a dynamo and generate potentially
damaging current back into the component its connected to so I have made
it good practice to do stop fans spinning where practicable.
If cannot get compressed air can, just use an empty clean rubber bottle of tomato sauce or anything similar. Squeeze and release( repeat) aim the nozzle to where you want to blow the dust off.
I just recently had to give last rights to my brother-in-law's Compaq that he's had for close to 5-6 years, because the cooling fan/heatsink of the CPU was caked in dust. He called me when it stopped working, and sometimes, the cooling fan inside would speed-up just as the machine ground to a halt. I removed the dust, but found the OS (Win-XP) had been corrupted by forced shut-downs when the machine stopped all together. He's back up & running with a new machine, with XP, but only 1/4 the RAM, but I was able to transfer the hard drive from his old Compaq, to the new machine..
Some of the old Dell Home entertainment models had a fan in front , driving air to the back of the machine.
We had some video cards so covered with dust in them. That they would fail. Once , vacuumed of the dust. They would work fine.
I like both PC's & Macs. But when I saw this :
I'm like...isn't that design going to just suck all the dust , hair & dirt directly onto the new Mac's boards???
Re: "Dirty Keyboard" - ah the joys of hot-desking.
Canned air is great for quickly blowing off small & not-to-dusty items (a CD, for example), but any attempt to blow a system out with it while indoors is counterproductive, not least because you're just recycling the dust.
I use compressed air (from an air compressor; even a small "pancake" unit works like a charm) and take the unit outside. Use a dust mask (not the 5-for-a-dollar type, but something north of $2 a pop) and don't neglect to pinch the metal clip to close the gap between the nose and eyes. Something about the lingering taste that remains after inhaling "computer dust" tells me that it is something you don't want in your lungs!
A "pencil" type blow gun is ideal (Milton P/N S115, for example), because you can adjust the flow by turning the barrel from "mouse breath" to full-force, thus eliminating the need for pressure regulation. Excessive pressure can damage components, so use common sense.
If your compressed air contains moisture, use a moisture filter designed for painting. Mine traps the moisture in replaceable paper filters that resemble small rolls toilet paper, though the paper appears to be kraft paper.
And, yes, use a non-metallic object to prevent fan rotation while blowing them out; the "whizzing" sound is cool but is actually the sound of the bearings being tortured. Blocking fan rotation also allows you to increase the pressure used to blow out the fan (within reason) thus doing a better job of cleaning the blades without disassembly.
Don't get me started on the systems that smell like they are chain-smoking when they are running...long story short, I won't work on them anymore! The last one made me sick, literally! The only upside is that they present an opportunity to incentivize the user to kick the habit. : )
I own a repair shop. We have a can of Lysol spray for use after the "lysol people" leave. Their computers usually come from an environment where the cats, dogs, spills, and cigarette tar create a loathsome smelling tarry dust interior which smells up the shop as soon as the computer is turned on. Often the CPU fan has been so plugged the motherboard is fried.
Most, though, respond quickly to the canned air.
Some of these look like the inside of my furnace. Dust bunnies have no bounds!
I used to maintain about 50 computers. At first the workstations sat on the floor and sucked in everything. I found an easy way to clean. I disconnected, took outside, took the cover off and blew them out with my leaf blower. I did knock loose a cable or two over 15+ years and I did put my pocket screwdriver through some grids so as not to blow the bearings out on the fans. It is fast and efficient. Also, be sure to station your body upwind or you will be dirtier than the computer. I have taken many keyboards apart and washed in the sink with a scrub brush as the ladies liked to put hand lotion on just before they started the day. I have had some keyboards recently where this process does not work.
I used to work on RAMAC's (DASD boxes the size of a refrigerator). I opened the door on one a dust rat, not bunny, fell out (it was a HUGE and nasty glob of dirt). I think I spent an hour cleaning the thing before I could get to work on it. As I recall the machine had spent the previous five years or so at the Port Authority bus terminal in New York.
But with all of that the thing worked perfectly. I swear you could take a shotgun to one of those suckers and still get your data out.
Odd that this article from 2009 in making the rounds again.
mgravel, I had the same problem, try reloading the page, it worked for me.
I click on the arrows, nothing happens... what give?
Love these galleries, always nice to see that somewhere, other IT specialists also deal with dirty machines. Always gives me a feeling of satisfaction once they're cleaned, running quieter/cooler, the customer is happy, and my wallet is full. Haha!
I am a help desk tech so i deal with these things daily... I recently started a new job , with a boss that doesn't really work in IT.. Famous last words of my boss.. Computers can clean themselves.. He wont order me canned air so i have to improvise and use a vacuum cleaner....500 employees and i am running around with a vacuum cleaner.. I love my job
I used to deal with this sort of thing every day
a while ago a disk of a RAID unit failed.
upon removal, i noticed that the lower side of the failed disk was covered by many ovoid-shaped "things". I think they were eggs laid by some insect ot other bug. Incidentally, there were none on the working disk. I still have to understand whether the eggs were the cause of the disk failure, since many of them had been laid on the disk electronic board. maybe they were conductive enough to cause a short that led to the disk failure... but since the mess was rather disgusting I never went on with the investigation...
After 20 years in the computer industry I am amazed that this has even got a comment. Most sites do not ever open up their computers. Perhaps, my most memorable 'case opening' was a mouse nest complete with 4 baby mice only hours old in an old Compaq server. In addition I once had to replace a motherboard on a server where mouse wee had corroded/rusted the pins on one of the chips. So dust does not even rate.
I build my stationary computers. A trick to avoid 80% of the dust is to reverse the main chassie fan. Instead of sucking out air resulting in sucking in air from lots of other places I reverse it so it sucks in air. Then I place a filter on the outside where the fan is. Easy to clean, Simple and effective
3 years ago I passed a suggestion to Lenovo for the fan of the laptops : make it easy to clean, meaning one click to acces the fan, remove and clean, then one clack to put it back.
Still waiting for the implementation...
a long time ago... I found a rat inside!!!
If I ever let my computer get like any of those above, I'd kill myself. I'm glad I married a computer techie. I'm a real nut when it comes to keeping my computer clean. Hubby does the cleaning for me every couple of months whether it needs it or not. I've seen loads of computers come in to our place to have them "fixed" When hubby opens them up and sees all the gook and gunk we automatically know what 3/4 of the problem is. If people love their computers so much, why don't they take care of them, or at least learn the do's and dont's of their computers. I've never had a problem with my computer, and that's just the way I like it.
Primary reason why I blow out my desktop's case twice a year, check all the cable, adapter card, and memory module connections and seating, run system clean up weekly, scan for viruses and malware, and backup my working files. This is a prime example of pay me now, or pay for it later. I did the same thing for the warehouse computers in a dusty environment for a previous employer. Nice company, but extremely cheap when it came to upgrading old systems. Don't really know if they appreciated the preventive maintenance.
Body shop dust is really sticky and thick. The old 133mhz computer running in the back room had nearly an inch of dust in it (one of those lay down computers with the monitor on top). Fortunately, the system was fanless and only had a tiny heatsink on the processor. It never got hot. The dust probably helped keep it warm in the winter, the back room had had its heating lines broken for a couple of years and in the winter it was often -10C in there, colder if the door was closed. +30C in the summer, no air-conditioning. I don't know what happened to that machine, I think we sold it in a garage sale in 2010 still working perfectly. You can just imagine the keyboard and mouse..... with everyone touching it with the grease, paint, dust, etc. It was truly disgusting.
Seriously, that's of my computer
Come On,,, We now have liquid cooled pcs, Just Design, ( and Patent ) a box that has filters "replaceable" at the air inflow of the PC,, DUH !
I've seen some of those wonderful entities inside computers (dust, insects, etc.) while servicing them. And, in the tropic (or in a boat) you get oxide and rust. And that, my friends, means a certain repair of some sort.
I supported an industrial environment in the American West several years ago, very dry conditions, very dusty......when we opened cases to make upgrades, the dust literally was compacted so much that it filled all the spaces inside the case, you had to pull it out by the hand fulls.
Automotive shop with black soot and dust bunny colonies.... Or that dentist office using the same equipment for 11 years and wondered why that tape back stopped working using the original tape....
These are all fairly standard, not by any means the worst. I've seem motherboards covered in over 3/4" of muck. The absolute worst though was one (actually two) from a chinese takeaway where the grease from frying had entered the computers and the dust was stuck to that! They asked me to clean it, I tried with some isopropanol but that wouldn't even touch it. I finally gave up, returned the computers to the customers and told them "no charge" get a new one, but not from me!
For years and years, I've been telling friends, family and customers to clean their computers at least once a year. Thank you for making this article. I've posted it on my Facebook and sent via email it to people I know who aren't on FB. I've been cleaning computers for years and have seen horrors as bad and even worse than the ones in these pictures. I've even found roach colonies in them before. I'd add to this article that it is vitally important to wear an anti static wrist strap when they clean computers. Also, if they use any liquid at all, it needs to be the highest % or proof alcohol they can get their hands on so that it evaporates quickly. These precautions are fairly inexpensive but can save your computer. A $20 wrist strap will save your multi hundred dollar computer from static shock. If they have some one else do it for pay, they should only have someone do it who has CompTIA A+ certs. Would you rather have a shade-tree mechanic or Mr. Goodwrench to take your car's engine apart and clean it?
I'd throw that keyboard out, or burn it.
Having done many service calls as a subcontractor for an computer company that built their own POS for resturants and bars, I dug many a foreign object from units. Cockroaches and dead mice become the most horrifying when they begin to offer you food and drink while you work. I don't think so, thanks. UUGGHH. I'll never eat there, or any number of chains of cantinas. Goodness, don't let the patron see that. I participated in a fire investigation that the cause was centered in a PC roll around cabinet. Turned out a mouse got in and built a nest of tractor fed paper in the power supply of the printer. Caught a box of fanfold paper on fire and his cremated remains were still hanging over the heatsink. This was at a pesticide manufacturer and shows just how good their products are.
I was thinking the same thing, as I had a heavy smoker bring his computer in one day so I could look at it for him. It was disgusting, yellow, sticky and dust filled.
Opening a computer from a heavy smoker and finding the inside is covered with a sticky yellow film of tar and nicotine. We once opened a case and there was a perfect spiders web spun behind the case with dead bugs in it.
For the real bad machines I use my leaf blower! Don't laugh. It's amazing! But be careful and make sure you lean the case up against something. You don't want to do it indoors nor near any loose gravel. Also lean it upwards like against a wall or railing that way you don't pick up anything in the air flow that will fly into the case and cause damage. Start with the blower on low and don't hold it close. As you see progress being made and you're sure that the air flow won't pick up anything to harm the PC, move in a little closer. Move the blower around. There's no where for the dust to hide! It cleans out a PC in less than a minute! Hasn't failed me yet and cheaper than canned air! Also I don't have to pay for a compressor.
Was a computer used by a dog trainer/kennel. I opened up a constantly overheating computer to find a layer of Dog hair and Dust 1 inch thick. It came off in single matted sheet. I have no idea how that machine didn't burn out, but it sure as hell got a lot faster after I removed it. I had to have a shower after that call, I felt itchy for quite a while!
friend call said hi system was acting up .pull the cover and the whole machine was a block of dust bunnys you could not see anything but this gray mass filling the whole thing
I think we can agree that we've all found some pretty disgusting things inside (and outside) various computers. My worst was on a system that shutting down for overheating. When I opened the case and got past all the grime, I found that something was entwined in the processor fan and keeping it from running. As I began to free it from the fan, I realized it was a condom. I don't know why. I don't want to know why. A bottle of hand sanitizer later and it still creeps me out to think about it. But I did charge double for the service.
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While those are pretty bad (especially the first picture), ive actually had worse. I went to a persons house because their desktop PC had stopped working. I knew it was going to be bad when I could see something very much like the first picture without opening the case. To cut a long story short, it had dust, dog hair, and what looked like talc. the house was humid, so the moisture had allowed all of that to congeal and get hard as the PC was pulling the air through the case. It was like cement. opening the case, that "cement" was on any area that had an opening, no matter how small. Every fan had it in there to the point none of the fans worked. In some places it was (and im not joking) between 1 inch and 1.5 inches deep. The PC stopped not from over heating, but ants had made a nest in the Power supply, and some lucky ant slept in the wrong place. That was the desktop PC. The keyboard was another matter. it had so much disgusting human stuff (finger nails & boogers for a start) and also bit of food, that most of the keys stuck a little (the user said she was used to it and didnt mind it, figure that out) I touched a few keys and my finger tip would stick to the keys! I pulled my own keyboard out of my bag. Funny thing, she wasnt embarrassed a bit about how disgusting it was. it took me several hours to clean it up before i could even replace the PSU. She paid me in cash, and yes, the money was really filthy, covered in who knows what.
I work in a printing plant. Most of our machines are run by servers that are basically PC's in a hard, multiventilated industrial casing. They have multiple inlet filters nevertheless we clean them every 2-3 months. You wouldn't believe the paper lint we take out of them. Same goes for the office computers.
to suck so much dust from outside when circulating air inside the case to cool disks. Take the cover of the old CD drive, drill 2 holes near the back edge for holding the fan on one side and fasten assembly to the free 5inch slot. The fan blows slantwise down to the disks in the 31/2 slot. Two screws to hold the fan are enough. Circulating air is cooled partly through the case walls, partly refreshed by the fan in the power supply.
As an electrical engineer with more years experience than most IT techs are old, canned air or air compressors are the last thing you want to use to clean electronic equipment. The blast of air can blow dirt into all those small places you absolutely do NOT want it. Like the pc slot connectors, RAM connectors, optical drives, and yes even hard drive thru the wee small vent hole.
@jcqs.bchrd I would absolutely love to see this implemented in laptops and desktops... Even if it was a simple tray-designed filter!
It's a VW, not a GM And how old is the A+ cert?. Mine is over ten years old and although I've done the best I can, I haven't had to stay current because it's not relevant to my job. How many other people are in that same boat? If I wasn't going to do the work myself, I'd look for a good electronics shop rather than take the PC to some tech with an A+, but no understanding of why the PC works the way it does.


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Tweaking the compiler configuration
Whether you are using groovyc to compile classes or a GroovyShell, for example, to execute scripts, under the hood, a compiler configuration is used. This configuration holds information like the source encoding or the classpath but it can also be used to perform more operations like adding imports by default, applying AST transformations transparently or disabling global AST transformations.
Compilation customizers
Before Groovy 1.8.0, doing tasks like adding imports transparently (for DSLs) was a bit complicated. It involved writing a custom GroovyClassLoader and lots of trickery. The goal of compilation customizers is to make those common tasks easy to implement. For that, the CompilerConfiguration class is the entry point. The general schema will always be based on the following code:
Compilation customizers must extend the org.codehaus.groovy.control.customizers.CompilationCustomizer class. A customizer works:
- on a specific compilation phase
- on every class node being compiled
You can implement your own compilation customizer but Groovy includes some of the most common operations.
The import customizer
Using this compilation customizer, your code will have imports added transparently. This is in particular useful for scripts implementing a DSL where you want to avoid users from having to write imports. The import customizer will let you add all the variants of imports the Groovy language allows, that is:
- class imports, optionally aliased
- star imports
- static imports, optionally aliased
- static star imports
The AST transformation customizer
The AST transformation customizer is meant to apply AST transformations transparently. Unlike global AST transformations that apply on every class beeing compiled as long as the transform is found on classpath (which has drawbacks like increasing the compilation time or side effects due to transformations applied where they should not), the customizer will allow you to selectively apply a transform only for specific scripts or classes.
As an example, let's say you want to be able to use @Log in a script. The problem is that @Log is normally applied on a class node and a script, by definition, doesn't require one. But implementation wise, scripts are classes, it's just that you cannot annotate this implicit class node with @Log. Using the AST customizer, you have a workaround to do it:
That's all! Internally, the @Log AST transformation is applied to every class node in the compilation unit. This means that it will be applied to the script, but also to classes defined within the script.
If the AST transformation that you are using accepts parameters, you can use parameters in the constructor too:
As the AST transformation customizers works with objects instead of AST nodes, not all values can be converted to AST transformation parameters. For example, primitive types are converted to ConstantExpression (that is 'LOGGER' is converted to new ConstantExpression('LOGGER'), but if your AST transformation takes a closure as an argument, then you have to give it a ClosureExpression, like in the following example:
The SecureASTCustomizer
This customizer will allow the developer of a DSL to restrict the grammar of the language, to prevent users from using some constructs, for example. It is only "secure" in that sense only and it is very important to understand that it does not replace a security manager. The only reason for it to exist is to limit the expressiveness of the language. This customizer only works at the AST (abstract syntax tree) level, not at runtime! It can be strange at first glance, but it makes much more sense if you think of Groovy as a platform to build DSLs. You may not want a user to have a complete language at hand. In the example below, we will demonstrate it using an example of language that only allows arithmetic operations, but this customizer allows you to:
- allow/disallow creation of closures
- allow/disallow imports
- allow/disallow package definition
- allow/disallow definition of methods
- restrict the receivers of method calls
- restrict the kind of AST expressions a user can use
- restrict the tokens (grammar-wise) a user can use
- restrict the types of the constants that can be used in code
For all those features, the secure AST customizer works using either a whitelist (list of elements that are allowed) or a blacklist (list of elements that are disallowed). For each type of feature (imports, tokens, ...) you have the choice to use either a whitelist or a blacklist, but you can mix whitelists and blacklists for distinct features. In general, you will choose whitelists (disallow all, allow selected).
If what the secure AST customizer provides out of the box isn't enough for your needs, before creating your own compilation customizer, you might be interested in the expression and statement checkers that the AST customizer supports. Basically, it allows you to add custom checks on the AST tree, on expressions (expression checkers) or statements (statement checkers). For this, you must implement org.codehaus.groovy.control.customizers.SecureASTCustomizer.StatementChecker or org.codehaus.groovy.control.customizers.SecureASTCustomizer.ExpressionChecker.
Those interfaces define a single method called isAuthorized, returning a boolean, and taking a Statement (or Expression) as a parameter. It allows you to perform complex logic over expressions or statements to tell if a user is allowed to do it or not. As an example, let's think of a DSL for which you want to make sure that users only call methods for which the name is in lowercase:
Here, we say that if the expression is a method call expression, then we can check the name and return true only if it's all lowercase. Otherwise, the expression is allowed.
The SourceAwareCustomizer
This customizer, available since Groovy 2.1.0 only, is a bit special in the sense that it may be used as a filter for other customizers. The filter, in that case, is the org.codehaus.groovy.control.SourceUnit. For this, the source aware customizer takes another customizer as a delegate, and it will apply customization of that delegate only and only if predicates on the source unit match.
SourceUnit gives you access to interesting things, in particular the file being compiled (if compiling from a file, of course), which gives you the potential to perform operation based on the file name, for example. Here is how you would create a source aware customizer:
Then you can use predicates on the source aware customizer:
The customization builder
If you are using compilation customizers in Groovy code (like the examples above) and you are using Groovy 2.1+, then you can use an alternative syntax to customize the compilation. A builder org.codehaus.groovy.control.customizers.builder.CompilerCustomizationBuilder is available. Creating a customizer has never been so easy!
The code sample above shows how to use the builder. A static method, withConfig, takes a closure corresponding to the builder code, and automatically registers compilation customizers to the configuration. You can use:
For the AST customizer
Secure ast
Source based
Inlining a customizer
Inlined customizer allows you to write a compilation customizer directly, without having to create a dedicated class for it.
Multiple customizers
Of course, the builder allows you to define multiple customizers at once:
Configuring compilation using groovyc or the ant task
For now, we've shown you how to customize compilation using a CompilationConfiguration access, but this is only possible if you embed Groovy and that you create your own instances of CompilerConfiguration (be it with GroovyShell, GroovyScriptEngine, ...). But if you want it to be applied on the classes you compile (with groovyc, ant or gradle, for example), until Groovy 2.1.0, there was no way to do that.
Since Groovy 2.1.0 (and Groovy 2.1.1 for the groovy Ant task), it is possible to use a compilation flag named configscript that takes a groovy configration script as a parameter. This script gives you access to the CompilerConfiguration instance before the files are compiled (exposed as a variable named configuration), so that you can tweak it. It also transparently integrates the compiler configuration builder above.
Static compilation by default
Since static compilation has been released, many people asked for it to be enabled by default. For various reasons, including the fact that we think you should only limit static compilation to pieces of code where you have performance problems, we never included such a feature. Other people asked for default imports too. Since we didn't want to add lots of flags for each and every magic that Groovy can do, we decided to go for a configuration script. This means that having static compilation by default is just a matter of compiling classes using this configuration file. And the content is very easy:
You don't need to add an import for the builder, it's automatically added. Then, compile your files using the following command line:
We strongly recommand you to separate configuration files from classes, hence the src/main and src/conf directories above.
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Hi, in the second code block there is a:
// "aliased static" import
// import static java.lang.Math.PI as pishouldn't it be icz instead of ica?
Here are an example for the imports: http://www.jroller.com/melix/entry/customizing_groovy_compilation_process from Cedric. It shows how you can use them.


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As a Division II baseball power, Mount Olive is accustomed to being the team opponents target to beat.
The Trojans just don't permit it very often.
"We've had a pretty good season so far," coach Carl Lancaster said. "We'll see what we do in this tournament."
The event he's referencing is the first Conference Carolinas Tournament to be held at Burlington Athletic Stadium, where the double-elimination event with the league's top six teams begins today.
Mount Olive arrives with a No. 1 national ranking and a 21-game winning streak to accompany its 43-4 record when it takes on Erskine in the first round's nightcap.
The Trojans won't need to win the conference tournament to secure a spot in the NCAA regionals, though doing so would wrap up the chance to be a host when the national tournament begins.
"It seems like every weekend we're playing someone who's it's (their) World Series," Lancaster said. "Since we won it a few years ago, recruiting is still hard but we're getting interest from kids who are a little bit more talented."
Mount Olive won the Division II national championship in 2008. Beginning in 2009, the school has been the designated host for the Division II World Series held at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary.
Lancaster has kept the Trojans in the national discussion on a regular basis. He's in his 26th season, on board during the school's transition from NAIA to NCAA Division II. He holds a 934-407-1 record at Mount Olive.
"We're working extremely hard to try to stay there," he said. "People want to beat you in the worst way."
Lancaster said the Mount Olive roster has been constructed without major input from Division I transfers, though there have been occasional players arriving in that form.
"We have some Division I talent, but we're generally getting them through junior colleges," he said.
This year's lineup isn't a power-ladened group, so the Trojans are apt to manufacture runs through base running and consistent hitting.
The pitching has been solid, but Lancaster said keeping the bullpen in good order has been something worth monitoring. Senior left-hander Zach Smith, an all-conference selection in 2012, is one of two maintstays of the pitching staff who've been limited by injuries.
"We've managed to put together a pretty good club," Lancaster said. "We've got some guys in our lineup who can really run. I don't think there's one particular area (that stands out) with our club."
In recent years, the conference tournament was held at Fleming Stadium in Wilson. The move to Burlington comes about as part of the league's centralized location for many of its spring championships.
For the Trojans, it will be a bit of a different experience. They would commute daily to Wilson in the past.
"It was kind of like a weekend series with Barton," Lancaster said. "Then again, the kids didn't that (tournament feel) except when they were on the field for the games."
But one thing that remains the same is that Mount Olive is expected to be around when the tournament concludes.
"We're the favorite," Lancaster said. "It's important to win that first one, two. The competition is way more equal."
■ EXTRA BASES …: Pete Jenkins, a former volunteer coach at Elon University, is in his second season on the Belmont Abbey coaching staff. … The tournament wraps up Sunday.
Conference Carolinas Tournament
Double elimination at Burlington Athletic Stadium
Today's first round
No. 4 seed Belmont Abbey (27-15-1) vs. No. 3 seed King (28-18), 11 a.m.
No. 5 seed Pfeiffer (18-29) vs. No. 2 seed Coker (29-13), 3 p.m.
No. 6 seed Erskine (26-22) vs. No. 1 seed Mount Olive (43-4), 7 p.m.
Note: Overall records listed. Belmont Abbey won a tiebreaker with Pfeiffer for seeding.


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|Similar to Spanish rice, red rice is a blend of vegetables, tomatoes, rice and of course for us along the Gulf Coast, our sweet, Gulf-fresh shrimp.
Southern Red Rice with ShrimpThis is one of The Cajun's favorite rice dishes and it's really easy to make. Similar in some ways to Spanish rice, this one contains some of our familiar southern elements, like Creole seasoning, hot sauce, the Trinity and one of our favorite seasonings, bacon. Some people prepare this dish stovetop, but I like the oven method, because to me it's a whole different texture and flavor level. But it's hot outside, so either way will work if you don't want to crank up the oven. You can also omit the shrimp if you like.
It's going to surprise a few of you that I'm not using my favorite Slap Ya Mama seasoning here. Well, I do actually keep a variety of Creole and Cajun seasonings in my pantry and one of my favorites is this Zatarain's Big & Zesty mix because, as you see here, it's a big flake seasoning, rather than a fine grind like Slap Ya Mama. It works really well here, but of course, use what you have, keeping in mind that if you're using a finer grind of seasoning, you'll probably want to use less.
Rather than stirring the shrimp into the rice near the end of cooking, I just give them a quick stir fry in oil and then toss them in some butter for extra richness, before spooning them over the red rice. Here's how to make it.
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Recipe: Southern Red Rice with Shrimp©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 20 min |Cook time: 45 min | Yield: About 6 to 8 servings
- 5 slices of bacon, chopped
- 1/2 cup of chopped onion
- 1/2 cup of chopped green bell pepper
- 1/2 cup of chopped celery
- 1 teaspoon of chopped garlic
- 2 (14.5 ounce) cans of diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1 (10 ounce) can of diced tomatoes with chilies (like Rotel), undrained
- 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 2 cups of uncooked long grain white rice
- 2-1/2 cups of chicken broth
- 1/2 tablespoon of Zatarain's Big & Zesty (big flake) Original Creole seasoning, or your favorite Cajun/Creole seasoning, or to taste
- Couple dashes of hot pepper sauce
- Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper, to taste
- 1 tablespoon of canola or vegetable oil
- Old Bay seasoning
- 2 pounds of small, raw shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 1 tablespoon of butter
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Use kitchen shears to cut bacon directly into a large Dutch oven and cook over medium high heat until slightly crispy. Remove with a slotted spoon to a paper towel to drain. To the rendered fat, add the onion, bell pepper and celery. Cook over medium heat until tender; add the garlic and cook another minute.
Stir in the tomatoes, with their liquid, and the sugar; bring to a boil. Add the rice and the chicken broth, return to a boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and add the Creole seasoning, hot sauce, cooked bacon; stir. Taste the broth and add salt and pepper to taste. Stir, cover and transfer to the preheated oven. Bake at 350 degrees F for about 45 minutes to an hour, or until liquid is absorbed and rice is tender. Can also finish on the stovetop if preferred.
Remove from oven and let stand covered. Heat canola in a skillet over high heat. Sprinkle the shrimp with Old Bay, add to the hot oil and stir fry quickly, stirring constantly, just until shrimp turn pink and are no longer translucent. Add butter and toss. Spoon red rice onto the plate and top each serving with a serving of shrimp, including some of the pan juices from the shrimp.
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Can also use a 3.5 quart baking dish for baking. Spray with non-stick spray, prepare ingredients in a skillet, cover tightly with several and transfer to bake.
For a Southwestern Flair: Add 1 teaspoon of cumin and 1/2 tablespoon of chili powder.
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Canning preserves food by using heat to destroy the microorganisms that cause spoilage. Heat forces air out of the jar. As the jar cools, a seal (vacuum) forms. The processing times and temperatures in University of Missouri Extension publications have been set through scientific research. For safe, high-quality home-canned food, it's important that you follow these directions carefully.
Fresh foods spoil for a variety of reasons. Bacteria, molds and yeasts cause damage and so do food enzymes and contact with the air. Microorganisms live and multiply quickly on the surfaces of fresh food and inside bruised, insect-damaged and diseased food. Proper canning techniques will stop the growth and activity of microorganisms and can prevent spoilage and quality loss. Use these techniques to get safe food and high-quality results:
Only use tested recipes from Cooperative Extension, USDA or Ball Blue Book (dated 1989 or later). Follow canning procedures from the same sources dated 2009 or later.
Don't taste foods that show any signs of spoilage, and never taste food from a jar with an unsealed lid. Some types of spoilage are easier to detect in jars stored without screw bands. When bacteria and yeast grow, they produce a gas that swells lids and breaks jar seals. Examine lids for tightness and vacuum. Lids with concave (curved inward) centers have good seals.
Next, hold the jar at eye level. While rotating the jar, look for streaks of dried food that have dripped down the exterior. Also, check for rising air bubbles and unnatural color in the food.
While opening the jar, try to smell unnatural odors, but do not actually sniff the jar contents. Look for spurting liquid and cotton-like mold growth (white, blue, black or green) on the food surface and underside of lid.
Pressure canning is the only canning method recommended for low-acid foods like meat, poultry, seafood and vegetables. Clostridium botulinum, the bacterium that causes botulism food poisoning, is destroyed in low-acid foods when they are processed at the correct time and temperature in pressure canners. Canning low acid foods in boiling-water canners is absolutely unsafe because the botulinum bacteria can survive this process. If Clostridium botulinum bacteria survive and grow inside a sealed jar of food, they can produce a deadly toxin. Even a taste of food containing this toxin can be fatal. Before eating canned foods, be sure of the following:
Whether you should process food in a pressure canner or boiling-water canner to control botulinum bacteria depends on the amount of acid in the food. The term "pH" is a measure of acidity. The lower the pH, the more acid the food.
Acid foods include pickles, most fruits and jams and jellies made from fruit. (In pickling, the acid level is increased by adding lemon juice, citric acid or vinegar.) Acid foods contain enough acidity either to stop the growth of botulinum bacteria or destroy the bacteria more rapidly when heated.
Low-acid foods don't contain enough acid to prevent the growth of botulinum bacteria. Process these foods at temperatures of 240 degrees F to 250 degrees F. To reach these high temperatures, you must use a pressure canner operated at 10 to 15 pounds per square inch of pressure (PSI). The exact time depends on the kind of food being canned, the way it is packed into jars and the size of jars.
Low-acid foods include red meats, seafood, poultry, milk, all fresh vegetables and some tomatoes. When you mix low-acid and acid foods, assume that the mixture remains low-acid.
Although tomatoes used to be considered an acid food, some are now known to have pH values slightly above 4.6, which means they are low-acid. To safely can them as acid foods in a boiling-water canner, you must add lemon juice or citric acid.
It's important that you know your altitude — even in Missouri. Don't use process times recommended for canning food at sea level if you live at altitudes above 1,000 feet. (See the map of altitudes in Missouri.) Water boils at lower temperatures as altitude increases. Lower boiling temperatures are less effective for killing bacteria. You must increase either the process time or canner pressure to make up for lower boiling temperatures.
Treat all jars and cans of spoiled low-acid foods, including tomatoes, as if they contained botulinum toxin. Be especially careful if jars have come unsealed. Use tongs to lift jars off shelf, then place them in a newspaper-lined, heavy garbage bag. Try not to spill jar contents. If any spills occur, put on rubber gloves and thoroughly scrub area. Discard sponge or wash cloth in the garbage bag. Seal garbage bag tightly and place in the trash or bury in a nearby landfill.
Never open-kettle can or process jars of food in conventional ovens, microwave ovens or dishwashers. These practices do not prevent spoilage.
Steam canners are not recommended because safe processing times have not been adequately researched. Using boiling-water canner processing times with steam canners may result in spoilage. So-called "canning powders" are useless as preservatives and do not replace the need for proper heat processing.
Jars with wire bails and glass caps make attractive storage containers for dry foods, but don't use them for canning. One-piece zinc, porcelain-lined caps are also no longer recommended.
This material was adapted from the Complete Guide to Home Canning, United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 539.
For more specific information on the canning process, jars, canners, testing for a good seal and storing canned foods, see MU publications at left.
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Volcanic Eruptions Fail to Thwart Digital Preservation - the Planets Way
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It's just a fad. Buying hardware, putting a Linux distro in the CD drive, installing, configuring, driving hardware down to hosting center, installing hardware in a cage, testing, driving home, and then repeated all this when something goes wrong or needs upgrading is much more efficient. Nothing will even compete with a Linux server in a corner / basement / under a desk.


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ST. LOUIS – The Miami University volleyball team took the first two sets, and then had to withstand a comeback by Bradley Saturday morning at the Billiken Challenge. The RedHawks were up to the task as the won the fifth set to earn a 3-2 (26-24, 25-13, 26-28, 22-25, 15-10) win. Miami improves to 7-1 on the season, while the Braves fall to 6-2.
It was a career performance for sophomore outside hitter Annie Reiswig. She finished with a career-high 15 kills. She made only four errors in 33 attempts for a hitting percentage of .333. Junior outside hitter/setter Meg Riley had her sixth double-double in eight matches in 2013, finishing with 13 kills and 20 assists. As a team, the RedHawks hit .276 for the match, while holding the Braves to a .186 hitting percentage.
With Bradley in front, 10-9, in set one, a kill by sophomore middle hitter Jenny Ingle was part of a 5-1 run that put Miami ahead, 14-11. A kill by Riley helped maintain the advantage at three (18-15), but the Braves scored three straight points to tie the score up and force a RedHawk timeout. Out of the break, kills from Ingle and junior middle hitter Chelsea Visk, along with a service ace by freshman setter Krista Brakauskas were part of a 6-2 run that gave Miami set point at 24-20. Bradley fought it off by scoring four consecutive points, but back-to-back kills from Chaney and Riley gave the 'Hawks a 26-24 win.
Tied at six in set two, two straight blocks from Visk and senior outside hitter Madison Dodd sparked a 7-1 run that put Miami in control at 14-7. After the Braves scored a point, back-to-back kills from sophomore outside hitter Annie Reiswig and Riley off senior libero Madison Hardy's assists helped put the RedHawks up by 12 at 21-9. That proved to be more than enough as Riley and Chaney put down kills to help Miami finish off a 25-13 victory.
Set three proved to be tight throughout as only once was a team able to manage a lead of three points. With Bradley up 17-14, a block by Dodd and Visk followed by two straight kills from Reiswig tied the score at 17. Miami built the lead to 23-21, but the Braves fought back with three straight points to earn set point. A kill by Riley and a block from Riley and Ingle gave Miami match point, but this time Bradley fought it off. With the score tied at 26, BU scored two straight to earn a 28-26 win.
Bradley built an early 8-5 lead in set four. Kills by Dodd and Visk, along with a service ace by Visk and a block by Dodd and Ingle put the RedHawks up, 10-9. The lead changed three more times until a run by the Braves put them in front, 19-16. A block by Visk and freshman outside hitter Maris Below was part of a 4-1 run that tied the score at 20. However, Bradley answered back with a 5-2 run of its own to take a 25-22 victory and force the match to a decisive fifth set.
It looked bleak early for Miami in set five as the Braves scored the first three points. The team fought back as a service ace by Brakauskas and a kill and a block from Riley was part of five straight points for the Red and White to put them in front. Several Brave attack errors allowed Miami to expand the advantage to five at 11-6. With the score 13-9, the Visk and Dodd teamed up for a block to give the RedHawks set point. After a service error, a Bradley setting error gave Miami a 15-10 win and the match, 3-2.
Ingle finished with nine kills, while Chaney had eight and Visk contributed seven. Brakauskas led the 'Hawks with a career-high 33 assists, while Hardy had 20 digs. As a team, Miami recorded 13 blocks, led by eight block assists from Visk.
The RedHawks will look to earn their third straight tournament championship when they complete play at the Billiken Challenge against Youngstown State later Saturday at 5:30 p.m. (EDT).


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JON CARDINELLI finds out whether it's the players, the referees or the impractical laws that are to blame for the profound mess at the scrum.
The loosehead prop paws the turf, the whistle blows and the crowd groans. The commentators take aim at the referee, the prop wears a look of disbelief and his captain shakes his head bitterly as his opposite number gestures towards the goal posts.
Moments later, the two packs set for another scrum. 'Crouch, touch, pause …' begins the referee before signalling a free kick for early engagement. This time the captain is livid with the official for a laboured delivery of the four-word credo, but all complaints are given short shrift. The referee is, after all, just fulfilling the IRB's mandate.
Rugby's governing body will claim to have the game's best interests at heart, and that the current law set ensures scrums are safe as well as competitive. There are many coaches and players, however, who believe the laws and the application thereof are de-powering this set piece as well as spoiling the spectacle.
The 'crouch, touch, pause, engage' calling system has been widely criticised, while penalties against the loosehead for placing his hand on the ground have sparked an outrage in the front-row fraternity. These are the two sanctions that have generated the most confusion and frustration, and few teams have been able to adapt completely.
When players are penalised for putting their hand down after the hit, they are technically guilty of dropping their bind. Former Springbok prop Ollie le Roux says it's a pedantic penalty that doesn't consider the physics of two 900kg packs slamming into each other at an incredible force. Le Roux argues that if a player uses a hand to steady himself after the hit and then rebinds, play should continue.
'It's a diabolical call,' he seethes. 'It's difficult for props to bind these days because players wear thin shirts instead of jerseys, and when these shirts become saturated with sweat, it's even tougher. It seems that lawmakers and referees just don't appreciate the difficulty of making the hit and getting the bind when there's not a lot to hang on to. There should be allowances for a player who's able to recover after dropping his hand to the ground.'
A high percentage of the total number of penalties (13%) were awarded at the scrum during Super Rugby, while the statistics also confirmed that as many as 10% of all scrums ended in sanction. Some referees were stricter than others, but the numbers suggest that most officials targeted the loosehead prop.
Former Saracens director of rugby Brendan Venter believes the absence of a balanced approach to refereeing is robbing the game of a contest at the scrum.
'The defending loosehead is getting murdered,' Venter says. 'I'd like to see a change to ensure there isn't such an overwhelming focus on one side of the scrum. It seems the law is there for the benefit of the refs, they're looking for what we call "pointers", which are illegal things worthy of a penalty.'
Another former Bok prop, Robbie Kempson, is even less enthused with the way the game is being managed, and says the referees need to make more of an effort to understand the intricacies of the scrum.
'They are reverting to the laws instead of doing their homework. The laws are up for revision at the end of the year, and whoever rewrites them should do so with the aid of a prop. At the moment, they are designed to absolve referees of responsibility, and the net result is that we're not seeing a contest. The way the game is going the IRB may as well get rid of the scrum altogether and complete the move from rugby union to rugby league.
'We didn't see many scrum contests in Super Rugby and the referees and laws were to blame. Cheetahs loosehead Coenie Oosthuizen was blown to pieces in the first part of the competition because he wasn't getting his bind up. These are the penalties that can cost teams momentum, and if the penalty is within kicking range, it can cost them points and possibly matches.'
Balie Swart was at the scrumming coalface when the Boks won the 1995 World Cup, and is employed by Saru as a scrum consultant. His job entails training referees and in some cases travelling to the five South African Super Rugby franchises when there is a major scrum issue that needs to be addressed.
After Oosthuizen was nailed by officials at the beginning of the season, Swart flew to Bloemfontein to work with the player and ensure that his coaches at the Cheetahs understood the law.
'If a loosehead is putting his hand on the ground, it's because the tighthead is winning the hit and the loosehead is not strong enough to stay up,' says Swart. 'If you can't take the pressure, you usually take a step back, but because every player wants to dominate, they don't want to take a step back to relieve the pressure. They want to put their hand down to steady themselves before having another crack at the tighthead.
'There was an issue earlier in the season when Coenie was penalised repeatedly. I never get involved from a technical perspective, but I do help players understand what the law requires. I discussed the problem with Coenie and his coaches, and they obviously made the necessary adjustments because, as we saw, Coenie improved as the season progressed.
'Players have to get it right or they are going to cost their teams points and games. It's the responsibility of the coaches to coach their teams to the letter of the law, and the responsibility of the players to ensure they don't transgress. There is no place for bad habits or tactics in today's game.'
Swart also challenges Kempson's assertion that referees don't appreciate the machinations of scrummaging.
'It's easy to assume that refs are ignorant. Most people think that because referees haven't played in the front row, they don't understand what's happening, but I know for a fact that they do understand because I'm the one who's trained the South African officials. I've made them pack down against each other and explained the different pressures that are applied and how teams will sometimes use illegal tactics to get the upper hand.
'Having said that, it's not the job of referees to coach players during a game. Referees need to blow according to the law.'
Venter believes the better teams are adapting to the four-part call, but Le Roux and Kempson are for a simpler and quicker engage. Again Le Roux suggests that referees underestimate what it takes to hold back nearly a ton of weight for a period of five laboured seconds.
'Most of the problems stem from the fact that there is too much emphasis on the hit, and players are still too far away,' says Le Roux. 'The front rows must get closer and the emphasis should be on the scrumming after the engage. That's when the better scrummagers got the upper hand in the old days. These days it's too technical and complicated.
'The players have done well to adapt in spite of this ridiculous law, but that doesn't mean it should continue. It's a cop out to automatically free-kick a team when they engage early. We see a lot of false starts before a 100m sprint, but imagine when a group of eight big men is trying to get it right. The margin for error is higher, and while I'm not saying that you can't penalise players for repeatedly jumping the gun, there has to be an appreciation for the fact that it's extremely difficult to get that engagement right.'
Swart says that professional players shouldn't hide behind this excuse. He also believes that if a referee takes control of the situation, the timing won't be an issue and fewer infringements will occur.
'There are very few problems when the referees make it clear that they won't stand for any nonsense. Craig Joubert handled the Super Rugby game between the Waratahs and Brumbies, and when he stated that they wouldn't get away with illegal tactics, there were no hands on the floor. There were also very few resets because players knew that they had to get their timing of the engage right. The Australians aren't the strongest scrummagers, so if a referee can manage them to the point where there are minimal resets and infringements, it shows the system can work.'
An IRB study has revealed that the average time taken to complete a scrum in a tier-one international has increased from 43 seconds in 2009 to 53 seconds in 2010. The study also confirmed that 60% of all scrums collapsed while 40% needed to be reset.
A full-scale investigation incorporating scrum clinics in England and South Africa will be conducted after the 2011 World Cup, but until then the current laws will remain in place. Whether the laws are altered or the referees and players are held more accountable, the reality is that something's got to give.
'I really hope the IRB sorts this out, because scrumming is one of the purest forms of the game,' says Kempson. 'We don't want it to disappear.'
Le Roux agrees wholeheartedly. 'The northern hemisphere players and fans still enjoy a scrum, and unfortunately it's the people down south who are obsessed with the spectacle. While we all want to see running rugby, it mustn't come at the cost of the forward contests. You can't have rugby without the scrum.
'The lawmakers need to keep it simple when formulating the actual laws, and perhaps there also needs to be an experiment with two referees. Most front rowers tire towards the end of a game, and that's when mistakes occur. It could be the same for referees, and perhaps the game nowadays is just too fast and intense for one referee to maintain the expected high standards.'
Venter is all for the experiment of two officials, but would like to see two referees working in tandem at the scrum.
'The ref can only stand on one side, and often it's the props on the opposite side who resort to illegal tactics. Some refs will ask for a touch judge's assistance, but in most cases the touch judge is too far away to make an informed call. Many arguments have been made for a second referee, and I believe it would help to have an extra official at the scrum. It would cut down the illegal play.'
Swart concedes that the system could do with a tweak, and believes the four-part call prior to engagement should be reduced with the word 'pause' falling away. He also says the punishment for an early engagement should be more severe, as this would force teams to perfect their timing. This would also result in a decrease in the number of resets as well as the time spent at this scrum in a game situation.
'A free kick is not a harsh enough punishment, because the worst-case scenario is that you concede 10m. For teams that are stronger on defence and at the breakdown than they are at the scrum, they won't be too worried about conceding a free kick.
'If there was a full-arm penalty for this transgression, you would see more teams getting the timing right. Teams would work harder, because they wouldn't be willing to risk conceding the three points.'
– This article first appeared in the August issue of SA Rugby magazine. The September issue – a 260-page World Cup special – will be on sale from 24 August.


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