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If this whole Miss Marm thing falls through, I'm going to start a new career as a college admissions officer. It's so fun to read intensely personal essays, like this one by Stefanie.
Dad's the One She Loves the Most
My mom lifted me out of the backseat of the car. She made sure to cover the crown of my head with her hand so that I would not hit it on the outline of the door. She placed me on the ground and asked me, "You aren't going to cry when I leave right?" I was three years old and always cried when she left. "No mommy I won't cry." I promised her. She stepped into the sunlight, and it made her look like an angel the way the rays of sun hugged her tight. I turned and saw my dad waving at us from the living room window. "Hi daddy!" I yelled. My mom retrieved my overnight bag from the trunk of the car and my dad joined us in the driveway. I ran and hugged him around the hips. "Hey baby." He said to me. My mom bent down and engulfed me in the sea of her arms. "I love you Stefanie." She said. "I love you too mommy." She walked back to the car and got in. As I held my dad's hand, I watched her drive right out of my life. That was 1997 and it is now 2010.
Growing up with my dad as a single parent was hard for both of us. On my behalf, I had to deal with growing up without a mother. I had to learn how to wear makeup, how to deal with personal issues, and learn about boys from my grandma, and my auntie. It is just natural order to learn those life lessons from your mother. I did not have a mother to confide in and to love. On my dad's behalf, he had to struggle with being without her too because he was a single parent with only one income. Even I can tell you it costs a lot of money to raise a child, because I am the one who asked for the money. He had to pay everything from doctor's bills to school lunches and that causes stress plus all of the other expenses of living. My dad always had a weak spot for alcohol, and that's what he used to "relieve" his stress. I really needed him in those awkward preteen and teenage years, and he was not there when I needed him the most. Consequently, I had to grow up fast and learn to fend for myself. I cooked dinner most nights for myself, I had to take care of our two cats, and be a house keeper at the age of 12. I was the rock for him that I needed him to be for me. To make matters worse, when the economy crashed my dad's business was barley crawling so he could not afford out condo anymore. As a result of that, we had to move back to my grandparents, his parents. That was the last thing he wanted to do because he had lived with them his whole life until he was 35, and it had only been four years since we moved out.
While at my grandparents house my dad really cleaned up his act and constantly kept applying to jobs. After six months of endless waiting he finally got hired for a maintenance position at Gilbert and Company. The only downfall to this exciting news was that he had to move to [redacted, New Hampshire which is a half an hour away from our hometown of [redacted]. I see him once a week on a good week and twice a week on a super good week. I have never been without my dad, and I guess it's a good thing to get me prepared for going off to college and being on my own but I miss him so much it hurts and it's not fair that both of my parents have been taken away.
Growing up with a single parent has made me the independent, self achieving, and confident young woman I am today. I still think about my mom every once and a while but it's my dad who I think about every single day. He is the one who fought for me, and raised me with the help of my wonderful family. My growing up was different from a lot of my friends because I lived with my grandparents and my dad, but to me it was the most normal way of living because it was the only way I knew. I am so proud of my father for being one of the few men who fight for their children and he gets the praise he deserves for being a man. My dad always says that I am a piece of his heart and a piece of his soul, and I always answer him "Daddy, you are my heart, and you are my soul."
What a touching essay! I do have a few suggestions for how to make it even more effective as an application essay.
1. Include more details about how you've grown and become strong because of what you've experienced. In this draft, there's really only one moment when you explain how your childhood has made you a strong candidate for college ("Growing up with a single parent has made me the independent, self achieving, and confident young woman I am today."). You need more sentences like this to show how you've turned heartache into independence, and become someone who would thrive at a university.
2. Make sure your language is precise. Look for phrases that don't quite make sense or aren't idiomatic in context ("self achieving," "he gets the praise he deserves for being a man," "on my behalf"/"on his behalf"), and rewrite them.
3. Punctuate dialogue correctly. "Hey baby." He said to me should be, "Hey baby," he said to me. You have a lot of compelling dialogue in your first paragraph. Let it shine by getting the grammar right, so that your readers aren't distracted by periods that should be commas, and can instead focus on the power of the scene.
Sparklers, how else would you advise Stefanie to improve her essay?
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We have been looking for a bar fruit holder for some time now never found one big enough or for the right price. Just happend by a yard sale today and this is what Chef comes back with for $1!! The lady was trying to tell him what it was....no need to he knew exactly what it was.
Can wait to try this at the next big pizza party! What fun to have all the funky pizza toppings in one long container, instead of lots of those gladware or ziplock plastic containers all over the prep area!!
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What a great find! And a steal!
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I'd buy that for a dollar!
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Used it tonight. Made things so much easier, out outdoor kitchen is small, so any way we can make things compact its a blessing.
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Nice! Not as cheap, but still a good price, I use these:
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We never thought to look on Amazon.com! Not a bad price, the ones we had been looking at were in $30 - $50 for new and $20 - $40 for a used and trashed one. We had been looking in resturant supply stores...who knew!
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Yesterday, National Treasury informed me that the transfer of funds to the ANC-led Nala Municipality in the Free State has been stopped following four years of financial mismanagement as identified by the Auditor-General (AG). This is the first time such an intervention has taken place.
Section 216(2) of the Constitution dictates that National Treasury "may stop the transfer of funds to an organ of state if that organ of state commits a serious or persistent material breach of those measures".
The AG had identified serious problems in Nala municipality way back in 2008. These included maladministration, flouting of procurement processes, corruption and fraud. The municipality also failed to submit audit reports and financial statements for 2009/10 and 2010/11, or to complete performance management reports as required by the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA). None of the AG's recommendations were implemented, and no one was ever held accountable.
The intervention by National Treasury is the first of its kind and sets a welcome precedent. The DA is satisfied that the Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan, has taken a bold step by approving the intervention, which sends a clear message to public entities that corruption and non-compliance will not be tolerated.
Whilst the intervention is welcomed, the implementation and the corrective measures put in place to rehabilitate the municipality need to be closely monitored.
In this regard, the DA will be asking Minister Gordhan to commission the drafting of a report, to be presented to the Standing Committee on Finance, that explains the following:
As the custodian of state funds, how does National Treasury intend to ameliorate Nala Municipality's financial management practices?
What mechanisms has National Treasury instituted to ensure that Nala Municipality's future expenditure is aligned with state priorities?
What timescale does National Treasury envisage with regards to the resumption of financial transfers to the municipality?
The Minister must be commended for taking decisive action in this case and setting a promising precedent. The next step is to ensure that Nala municipality is rehabilitated effectively and efficiently to ensure that the people of Nala finally get the services they deserve from government.
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My daughter was born @ 841 am on friday Nov. 19th by c-section. I was 38 weeks 2 days. She weighted 7lbs and 0.7 ounces.
I had some trouble with pain the first few days but Iam healing up nicely and we are home now. She is beautiful. Mt nipples are a bit sore but we are working on it. DP is the most amazing man I have ever known. He is a great father and I am falling more in love with him every moment I see him caring for our dd.
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FUTURE treatments for breast cancer may include an unusual target - perfectly healthy cells. The idea is to prevent cancer cells from recruiting healthy cells to help them grow and spread.
Two new strategies to stop this kind of collusion in breast cancer were presented at the annual conference of the National Cancer Research Institute in Liverpool, UK, last week. One would forestall the dampening of the immune system after cancer treatment, that seems to allow surviving tumour cells to proliferate. The other would stop breast cancer reaching organs like the lungs by blocking an accomplice vital to any such spread.
The first strategy would mean that women who have already had treatment for breast cancer would take an additional course of a cheap, relatively non-toxic anti-cancer drug, cyclophosphamide. A study of 35 women showed that the drug might prevent cancer relapses by reducing levels of regulatory T-cells which suppress the immune system. These cells are more common in women with particularly large and aggressive breast cancers.
"If you use cyclophosphamide at low doses, you can reduce [numbers of these cells] substantially without affecting other cancer defences," says Oleg Eremin of the Queen's Medical Centre at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Eremin got the idea of using cyclophosphamide by tracking levels of regulatory T-cells in women with breast cancer before, during and after treatment. All the women had large breast tumours and some had six times the normal level of the T-cells. This suggested that the cancer cells somehow ramp up the number of their "accomplices".
After shrinking the tumours with chemotherapy, which included cyclophosphamide alongside two other drugs, then surgically removing any tumours still present, Eremin's team found that the women's regulatory T-cell counts fell substantially but remained above normal. They also began to creep up again once the chemotherapy had ended. His hunch is that resistant cancer cells might linger in the body and stimulate the production of the T-cells.
Before probing whether a second course of cyclophosphamide can stop this and so help prevent relapses, Eremin hopes to follow the same women for at least six months to see whether their regulatory T-cell counts keep rising. If so, this would reinforce the rationale for attempting to keep these cells in check with cyclophosphamide, he says.
Meanwhile, Clare Isacke and her colleagues at the Institute of Cancer Research in London have made headway in the battle to prevent breast cancer cells from spreading into the lungs, liver and other tissues.
The process begins with the cancer cells binding to the surface of blood vessels in the lungs. Isacke has discovered that the cells can only do this if they attach to a protein "accomplice" in the blood, and that this binding can potentially be blocked with drugs.
Isacke also found that cancer cells were least invasive if they lacked the surface sugars indispensable for grasping the protein. Blocking the protein, which she will name when she publishes her results in full, might be enough to reduce cancer's spread, and Isacke is confident drugs can be found that do this. "We'd like to find ways to disrupt this collusion without harming normal interactions between healthy cells," she says.
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I don't see where a data cable would even plug into it. The jack on the bottom is just a standard power plug. The phone itself was designed to communicate via bluetooth, but as I stated in the other post, Virgin Mobile has disabled all but the handsfree profile. Since Kyocera designed it to communicate via bluetooth, I doubt there is any way to plug a data cable into it.
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TBT: Guns N' Roses Concert Ends with Riot in St. Louis
Lead singer Axl Rose dove into the crowd at a fan to take away his camera.
Springsteen, Chris Martin & More Fill In With U2 At World AIDS Day Concert
Bruce Springsteen and Coldplay's Chris Martin took the place of Bono at a concert Monday night in Times Square.
CVC Offers Waiting Lounge for Parents During One Direction Concert
The St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission will offer a special waiting lounge for parents in the plaza lobby beginning at 5 p.m. until one hour after the conclusion of the One Direction concert.
St. Louis Aldermen OK Music Festivals
St. Louis will apparently be host two big annual music festivals starting in 2015.
Woman Dies at Electronic Music Concert
An investigation is underway after a young woman died of a drug overdose following an electronic music concert at the Crystal City Underground.
Night Vision with Jon Grayson – December 5th, 2013
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No, it's both irrelevant and a weak attempt to derail the thread so you can avoid arguing the point. Stick to topic.
Actually, it's highly relevant because if you don't even think stealing business secrets or breaching contract should be illegal then it's pointless to discuss anything with you.
On the other hand, if you think it's OK to steal from someone or breach contracts with them as long as it's Opera you are a dishonest hypocrite, and I think people reading this discussion have the right to know that you are.
So which one is it? Do you agree that someone who does what this guy was accused of should be sued?


text: I absolutely love this family! They were incredible troopers through the VERY cold day! We met at the Hendersonville Library where we found really great train tracks and a park. After we convinced Ryman (the adorable little man!) that a train wasn't coming, they became all smiles and laughs – I just LOVE the moments I captured with them really enjoying being with one another. So much love and joy with them. One of the reasons I love being a photographer is getting to spend time with families and observe the dynamics between them. This family really is all about enjoying each other.


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new 19" summer and use 18" 400M for snows?
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new 19" summer and use 18" 400M for snows?
So I am torn on what to do with snow tires right now. I got the staggered 18" 400M with summer tires but since they are expensive run flats ($1400 to replace and its a lease) I am considering just putting snow tires on the 400M wheels and making those my winter set, then buying a set of Black Breyton Race GTS wheels 19" and some Michelin Super Sport summer tires (non run flat).
then the summer my lease is up just putting the 18" performance run flats back on it, turning it in with almost new tread wear, so they won't charge me for that.
Cost wise it would only be about $1200 more than going with the same wheels in 18" form and putting the winter tires on it. So for $1200 I get 19" wheels instead for the summer and better summer tires plus no concern about a charge from BMW if the original tires were near bald when I turn in the lease (which they probably would be).
only downside is that I was going to use the Breyton Race GTS 18" for my next BMW (M3 or M4 GC) as my winter set (just use some spacers). If I go with 19" wheels then it kills that plan, and I am not too keen on using 19" for winter on a M3/M4 even though Blizzak does have that size for the LM60. And the 19" winter tires are about $150 more than 18" versions which also still might have some tread left, would just ave to toss those...
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| Pyongyang, October 8 (KCNA) -- Staff members of the mission of the UNFAO here laid a floral basket before the statues of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill on Tuesday before paying tribute to them on the occasion of the 68th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
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By STEVEN NALLEY
Engineering representatives working with the city of Starkville presented two alternatives for expanding South Montgomery to three lanes at a public meeting at the Starkville Sportsplex Monday.
Both of the alternatives used right-of-way the city already owns for the three traffic lanes as well as areas for pedestrians and bicyclists, although the possible need to purchase additional right-of-way for utilities and certain intersections remained. More than 40 community members were in attendance, and several of them commented, giving the representatives feedback needed for the firms to formulate their final recommendations to the city.
The city commissioned the consulting firms of Smith Seckman Reid, Inc. and Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. to evaluate a 2.7-mile section of South Montgomery Street stretching from Poor House Road to Academy Road. Wain Gaskins, project manager at Kimley-Horn, presented findings from the traffic studies and assigned grades from A to F for traffic flow in different directions at each intersection.
"We're used to our children bringing home A's and B's, but truly, C is a good grade from a traffic perspective," Gaskins said. "You may have to stop, slow down just a little bit to make a turn — something like that — but it's really very good traffic operations. (Grade) A is really free-flow; it means they're not having to stop for anything."
Gaskins presented morning and afternoon ratings for current peak traffic flow at South Montgomery's intersections, where the only rating below C was a D for eastbound afternoon traffic at the intersection with Academy road. More D's appeared in traffic projections for the year 2035.
Gaskins said Starkville Mayor Parker Wiseman also asked the firms to evaluate what would happen to traffic if growth exceeded expectations, so he showed a graph evaluating traffic at 150 percent of projections for 2035. On that graph, several intersections, including Academy Road, dropped to F in at least one direction.
Most of South Montgomery Street's traffic issues could be boiled down to left turns, Gaskins said. When drivers turn left out of neighborhoods onto the street, he said, they cross two lanes of traffic which do not stop. When drivers turn left off the street into neighborhoods, he said, they stop traffic coming from behind them.
The latter is a key cause of frequent rear-end collisions, Gaskins said. Out of 33 vehicular collisions documented over the course of three years, he said, 16 were rear-end collisions, six left cars in ditches or embankments and five were collisions with deer.
"The critical part of (expanding the street to three lanes) is the central turning lane," Gaskins said. "If you have a turning lane, people that are wanting to exit thru traffic can get in that turning lane and be protected to some extent while they're waiting to make that turn across the traffic, allowing the thru traffic to move on through."
The first of the two alternatives Gaskins presented places bicycle lanes and sidewalks on either side of the traffic, with a small strip of landscaping between the curb and the sidewalk per city regulations. The second alternative also includes landscaping strips on each side, but it localizes all pedestrian and bicycle traffic to one larger lane on one side of the street.
Both alternatives would allow motorists to maintain a 3-foot distance from cyclists, Gaskins said, and both alternatives fit within the 60 feet of right-of-way the city owns on South Montgomery. That does not mean no right-of-way would need to be purchased, he said; for example, intersections would need extra right-of-way for the extra roadway to properly wrap around turning radii.
"We'd also need to extend some drainage, so we may be looking at drainage easements in some locations, (or) slope easements (or) utility easements," Gaskins said. "Really, in terms of roadway construction it would be minimal when you compare it to any other type of roadway."
During the comments section of the meeting, South Montgomery resident Mack Flynn asked if additional right-of-way would need to be purchased for utility poles, and Gaskins said the poles could be located on the landscaping elements flanking the curbs in both plans. Flynn said some properties are still too close to the right-of-way to safely expand the street as proposed.
"When you get to Fairfield Commons where those houses are right on the property line, right at the utility line ... there's no way to move," Flynn said, "unless you buy houses or go across the street and zigzag with people going excessively fast on South Montgomery now."
John Montgomery, a Starkville attorney, asked Wiseman if there were plans to relieve traffic from South Montgomery Street to Mississippi State University by connecting Poor House Road to it. Wiseman said MSU was "well on their way" to building a south loop project which would create such a connection.
"One of the issues with the south loop is it is considerably further south than where a lot of the densest development on South Montgomery is," Wiseman said. "It may be desirable to go south and then go on campus, but I don't think it's going to be a major reliever of traffic for the existing subdivisions, which are further north than where that south loop is going to be."
Another question pertained to the cost of the project and the sources the city would use for funding. During the presentation, Gaskins said the project would likely be conducted in phases, with the first phase covering 35 percent of the corridor, reaching slightly south of Banyan Road, costing between $2.9-$3.4 million. Ward 3 Alderman Eric Parker said he had originally planned to use State Transportation Improvement Program dollars to fund the project, but STIP no longer allows cities to store up their grants for multiple years to fund large projects.
"Now it is a bidding process where they still have the STIP money, and we missed the 2013 budget year, (which is) what we were trying to get this under for the bidding process," Parker said. "The more shovel-ready ... and more impactful the project is, the better chance you have of getting that federal money. The goal now, for the 2014 budget year is to have everything ready. Any right-of-way acquisition we would have to do, we would have that in process. We would have a shovel-ready project when we got ready to apply for those grants."


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FC Dallas release statement on President/CEO Doug Quinn
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New FC Dallas president Doug Quinn says the team's youth system and fans are among his top priorities.
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FRISCO, Texas (Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012) -- FC Dallas President and CEO Doug Quinn is taking an indefinite leave of absence from the club to attend to personal matters, FC Dallas announced Wednesday. Hunt Sports Group Vice President Dan Hunt will lead FC Dallas on an interim basis, effective immediately.
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The Ontario Warriors extended their record to 7-0 with an 84-79 win over Clear Fork in overtime Saturday evening at the "O" rena. The Warriors with Brandon Wagner and Cameron Mack each scoring 22 on the night, seemed in control for most of the first half leading 19-10 after one and 40-32 at the break. But the Colts led by Ridge Winand who scored 31 and Kadin Chrastina who had 21, stormed ahead in third quarter outscoring the Warriors 21-11, to grab a 53-51 lead at the end of three. With less than a minute to play and the game tied at 65 all, the Colts Kadin Chrastina appeared to have hit the game winning shot with 3.3 seconds to play giving his team a two point lead and forcing Ontario to go the length of the floor to get off a shot. On the inbounds pass, Josh Plieninger threw the ball into the front court to Cameron Mack who put the ball on the floor, drove inside the circle on the left side and went up with a shot with the Colts Griffen Robinette defending. The ball went through the hoop as the horn sounded forcing overtime at 67 all. In the extra period, the Warriors outscored Clear Fork 17-12, earning most of their points at the foul line and giving them their seventh win in seven tries, while dropping Clear Fork to 2-3. In addition to Mack and Wagner's 22, Lenell Shelby had 15, Paul Homan 10 with Plieninger and Tyler Boatwright getting eight and seven points. Other than Chrastina's 21 and Winand's 31, the Colts got 11 from Griffen Robinette and eight from Sam Van Dyke. Both teams are back in conference play next week with Ontario at Shelby Friday and Clear Fork hosting Orrville.
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Home > collabs > Vans Vault x Ray Barbee x Proper
Vans Vault held an event at Proper in Long Beach, California on Saturday to celebrate the release of the new Ray Barbee collection and to celebrate his 20 years of influence on skateboarding. In an amazingly rad display, Proper had all of Barbee's boards from 1989 to the present including Powell-Peralta, The Firm, and his upcoming deck with Element. The Element artwork was done by none other than Sean Cliver, the man responsible for the original Barbee Ragdoll graphic. As if the night couldn't be steeped in any more legendary-ness, Barbee and Tommy Guerrero closed things out with a jam session. Check out the boards after the jump. Via Sean Cliver/DisposableBlog. Read Cliver's super dope essay on Barbee here.
At last a feature worth reading on this site, that celebrates true skating & a pioneer rather than the collector/fan boy/ limited colourway shite thats usually rolled out on here….
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This exciting school assembly uses song, humor, puppetry, and plenty of audience participation to teach K-6 students how everyday products are made from our valuable natural resources. Seasoned actor, musician, and performer Mark Beckwith motivates students to be more environmentally responsible by demonstrating the reasons why it is wise to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
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Ride Maestro 2014 - 2012 Review by The Good Ride
The Ride Maestro is a great binding for the price. Even though it's borderline expensive you get a lot of tech. The Maestro is basically a softer freestyle focused version of the El Hefe. The 2012 and 2013 are very similar but the 2013 and 2014 has a softer high back and the new smaller disc called a micro disc. They are the call over the old models.
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> > Measuring a real world workload in real world conditions. Short
> > of that I'd recommend bonnie++ and "PostMark: A New File System
> > Benchmark"
> Right now all I have been doing is cron'ing iostat to give me snapshots
> every few minutes.
Very reasonable. Although thats a snapshot. iostat 60 or iostat 600
will give you a more complete picture (24/7 totals instead of occasional
> Yea, the worst is always what I plan for with these sorts of things,
> but I guess no system is foolproof or failsafe.
Indeed, but offsite offline backups are a great place to start.
> The best idea I have of the population of files that will be stored is:
> random. I have general statistics, but they can change on even a
> daily basis. Most of the storage would be for millions of <64k text
> files, but not always.
I like to run something like:
[root@localhost perl]# time ./dirstat.pl /
scanning /
Total directories = 25807
Total files = 389283
Total size = 98441.5 MB
Average Directory = 15.1 files and 3906.08 KB
Maximum Directory = 7522 files //dev
Average filesize = 258.95 KB
real 0m21.077s
user 0m5.128s
sys 0m10.775s
[root@localhost perl]#
So things to look for:
* large directories might need application changes for smaller dirs,
ext3 htrees, reiserfs or other support for large dirs.
* average file size (for inode allocation)
> > I believe ext3 will allocate additional inodes as needed, no need to
> > preallocate.
> >
> One of the previous raid systems (scsi hardware raid) that we had ran
> out of inodes (it was formatted ufs and ran in solaris) in the first
> month or two that we used it for production. I just don't want to make
> the same mistake twice...
Ugh, indeed, I must have misremember or maybe remembering for the wrong
filesystem. Never allocate more than one inode per block though,
they will go to waste.
> As mentioned before, pretty randomized populations, and there's a high
> degree of variance between projects. Basically, we are sent huge
> populations of data, we process the data into different formats, and
> return it. The input data are mostly correspondance (email, word docs,
> spreadsheets, etc), but that is generally just a rule of thumb... The
> populations are simply moving targets that vary widely from each
> project, and that is all that I have to go on... :)
If you are ever stuck with a lack of inodes you can make a filesystem in a
file and loop mount it.
> For some projects, there can be 3 million files where 99% are less than
> 4k in size. For others there can be 3000 files where all are more than
mkfs.ext3 -T news will make one inode per 4kb block.
> 128k. Most fall somewhere in between. Knowing exact numbers would
> mean that I could tell the future and know what would be coming in the
> door (which would be cool...).
> Again, here is my dilemma. I just chose something that would hopefully
> e "good enough(tm)" to use everyday, and something that would handle 30
> gazillion 2k files (I for-sure know there will be gazillions of emails,
> most of which are less than 2k, what I don't know is the ratio of
> smaller files to larger files).
Files smaller than blocksize aren't coalesced afaik, you might need
another fs if you need it, on the otherhand you can set 1k or 2k blocks.
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LA museum boss to lead Smithsonian history museum
WASHINGTON The founding president of the Autry National Center of the American West, a group of museums in Los Angeles and Denver, has been named director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, the museum complex announced Tuesday.
John Gray will lead one of the nation's most popular museums, which is on track to host 5 million visitors this year, beginning July 23. Gray had a 25-year career in commercial banking, served in the U.S. Small Business Administration in the Clinton administration and earned a master's degree in business administration before joining the museum field.
In 1999, Gray became CEO of a museum devoted to the legacy of movie star Gene Autry in Los Angeles and is credited with transforming it into a major cultural center. Gray merged it with Colorado's Women of the West Museum and Los Angeles' Southwest Museum of the American Indian. The combined center with more than 500,000 objects also created the Institute for the Study of the American West.
Gray, 63, called the Smithsonian's U.S. history museum the "most important history museum in America." He told The Associated Press he couldn't turn down the opportunity to help lead it, even though he retired in 2010, enrolled in a master's degree program in Eastern classics and built a home in Santa Fe, N.M.
"One of the joys I have is looking at museums through a non-museum eye - what does it actually mean for me?" he said. He recalled his first visit to the Smithsonian was with his family as a child, and he has been a "compulsive museum-goer" ever since.
"Museums have always been the way I learned and understood the world," he said.
Smithsonian officials said they were impressed with Gray's experience transforming the Autry museum to tell a fuller story of American history.
"He took a museum of the American West, including the collections of Gene Autry, and transformed it into an institution representing a broader, inclusive and complicated vision of the American West," said Richard Kurin, the Smithsonian's undersecretary for history, art and culture, in announcing the appointment.
At least one exhibit from Gray's tenure there, "On Gold Mountain: The Chinese-American Experience," was shown at the Smithsonian in 2001.
The National Museum of American History, which is home to the flag that inspired the national anthem, the first ladies' inauguration gowns and Dorothy's ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz," has been criticized for not representing the full scope of U.S. history. Ten years ago, a blue-ribbon commission called the museum's layout confusing and questioned its less-than-inclusive presentation, noting that religion, immigration and slavery were underrepresented. It is in the midst of a major overhaul of its exhibition wings to broaden its scope.
In the years ahead the Smithsonian will build a National Museum of African American History and Culture, and there is legislation in Congress for a Latino American museum. Some have questioned whether that leaves the American history museum as the history of white Americans. Gray said the museum should present an inclusive view of history from many perspectives.


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When embedding an Excel chart on a PowerPoint slide, why does the text look awful?
I have a recurring problem with Excel 2003/PowerPoint 2003, where I have a nice-looking chart in Excel and try to embed it on a PowerPoint slide. Quite often, the text in the chart (labels, axis labelling, etc.) looks dreadful in PowerPoint - yet when I open the embedded chart it looks perfect in Excel.
For example, see this very basic one-slide presentation containing a simple chart. For those not prepared to download the PowerPoint file, here's a screenshot:
As you can hopefully see, the text looks very ugly - it looks like it's been rendered as a bitmap and then scaled (except that I can tell that's not what's happening, because the kerning of the characters has also gone awry).
Note that if I open this presentation using Office 2007, it doesn't look quite so bad - and if I then open the embedded chart and immediately close it, it gets much better. That doesn't happen on Office 2003, though.
If anyone has any idea how I can fix this - or even knows for definite that it's a known problem that cannot be fixed - I'd be most grateful.
I have the exact same problem as you. Did you change the slide master? I just noticed that it only happens to me on one ppt and it is one where I changed the master.
If I paste a chart on a blank ppt, the chart looks great. But when I copy and paste the master from the other ppt that is when the chart gets all ugly.
In my case it has to do with some textboxes I have in the slide master. If I remove them from the master the chart will look just like it looks on the excel.
Hope this helps
I was also unable to download your file, but I have a couple of suggestions:
First, there are two different ways to embed a chart from excel. I'm not sure which one you did, but try the other. Those two ways are:
a- copy the chart in excel and paste into the PPT slide
b- make sure the chart is on its own separate sheet in excel and make sure that sheet is the active sheet when you close and save the file. Then in your PPT slide, go to the insert menu --> "object" -- and select the "create from file" option. Browse for your Excel file and it will insert in the slide.
Second (and I think this is the better option), is to create the chart in PowerPoint directly. Copy the data from Excel and in PPT create a new slide with a content layout. Choose the chart icon and it will take you to a sub-program where you can create the chart. Paste your data into the datasheet it gives you. It has almost all the same tools and options as excel charts and works the same way.
When you're done creating the chart, click on the slide outside the placeholder and it will take you back to PPT with your new chart on the slide. If you need to do further edits, just double click on the chart and it will take you back to the sub program.
As an added benefit, if you create the chart yourself, you can animate it so that it comes in by series or by category or even by individual bar if you have that much to say about each one.
I was unable to download your example, since it required a log-in, however...
When you use the term "embedded" do you mean you have you have embedded an Excel object into Excel? If so, you should be able to manipulated the font directly within the Excel object within Powerpoint.
If you have put the chart into PowerPoint in some other way my first guess is that the font you are using in Excel is nor available to Powerpoint anbd it is using a substitute font - though that seems unlikely.
If you want the chart to look better, and do not require it to be interactive within PowerPoint, then copy the chart from Excel (rightclick - copy) and paste it into PowerPoint (PasteSpecial) as a "picture enhancedmetafile)
Try this, open your chart ( in powerpoint ( Rclick-worksheet option-edit),when it opens in excel, rclick the chart,reset to match style.
When you paste the chart, there should be a "smart tag" floating in the bottom right cornet. You can click on it, and it will have the "match destination style" rcdc mentioned.
That's what I always do.
One workaround I can think right now is to edit the font in Excel - just use a smaller font and it will look almost as good as it looks in the original file. (or, just resize the chart manually)
If you add a text box with the same font size (Arial 14 in your case) you can see that it looks the same with the text in the chart.


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Rosie (pictured above left) is a Cob-Cross mare. She is a very kind and gentle horse
who teaches people well and particularly likes activities in the round-pen
Toro recently arrived from Spain where he was donated to Hannah for Sirona from Lucy Rees, one of our patrons. He is a young black Lusitano x gelding and is currently settling in and beginning his training which so far he has taken in his very relaxed stride. Toro has shown a talent for jumping, having jumped over the yard gate and out of his field so Hannah is looking forward to some jumping on him in the future!'
Chapas joined the Sirona herd last year. He was very kindly given to us by Lucy Rees and came all the way from Spain. Despite being rescued from a mountain in very poor condition and with terrible scars on his nose from ill treatment he has the most positive and cheerful nature, and is turning out to be quite a character!
Prince is a 15 HH piebald driving cob belonging to Ange, one of our horse handlers at Sirona. He has a vvery steady temperment and is going to drive our iBex chariot and hopefully help with harrowing the fields.
Beckett is a 14.3HH Welsh x TB and belongs to Jenny, our BHSAI at Sirona. He is a favourite with many of the young people who attend as he is well mannered and calm.
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In America's early days, entering a polling place "was akin to entering an open auction place," the U.S. Supreme Court once noted. That has changed: Today, all 50 states regulate how people can behave around polling places on Election Day. But should North Dakota's rules be enforced to the point where people wearing Fighting Sioux T-shirts on June 12, Primary Election Day, should be denied their right to vote? Continue Reading


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Top Democrat Says Petraeus Described Two Attacks in Benghazi: One Was Disorganized, the Other Was Carefully Planned
Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) briefed reporters after the testimony of former CIA Director David Petraeus to the House Intelligence Committee. Ruppersberger is the committee's ranking Democrat.
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) spoke to the media earlier about Petraeus' testimony.
King said Petraeus recalled stating even in the days after the attack that there was a significant terrorist element to the attack. Lawmakers have said that
Petraeus cited the anti-Islam video in the days after the attack and did not call it a planned attack.
King also said Petraeus testified that the CIA's talking points on the Benghazi attack were different from the final set of talking points that went out from the administration.
Ruppersberger said Petraeus attempted to clarify the administration's early statements about the Benghazi attack being the result of a spontaneous demonstration over an anti-Islam video. He said that Petraeus emphasized that there were really two separate attacks that took place; one on the U.S. Consulate where Amb. Chris Stevens was killed and another on the CIA annex nearby.
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Shepard makes an emergency landing for a new adventure in this montage from Mass Effect 2: Overlord.
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Johannesburg — A key tributary for a major river in South Africa's Kruger National Park has been contaminated by a toxic spill from a fertilizer company. Officials with the National Parks Service say the spill has been stopped but contributed to a massive fish kill and could have ramifications for animals who drink from and live in the river.
On December 30, fishermen on the Selati River, near the western entrance to Kruger National Park, found large numbers of dead fish in the river.
Within hours, officials with the South Africa National Parks Service discovered that highly acidic water from Bosveld Phosphates, a fertilizer manufacturer run out of a former mine, had spilled into the river.
Storm water drains running through the operation's land were contaminated with water used in the fertilizer operation because of a pipe break.
The Selati is the last major tributary for the Olifants River, which is one of five major rivers running through Kruger.
Officials don't know the volume of contaminated water, but the spillage was going into the river for at least a week, and was finally stopped Tuesday.
Stefanie Freitag-Ronaldson, general manager of scientific services for the parks system, said the water was highly acidic, with a pH value well below the normal level of 7.
"The pH were incredibly low. It was very acidic water that moved into the system. In the immediate vicinity of the spillage there was very, very low pH's and that's where we got the biggest fish kill, obviously," she explained.
The parks service is using water reserves to supply clean water to tourist camps in the park.
As for the animals, rangers can't keep them all away from the Olifants River. Eddie Riddell, the manager for water resources in the park, notes that larger animals can drink from watering holes and streams filled up by recent rainfall.
"From the perspective of maintaining water supply to the larger animals in the terrestrial ecosystem, it's not an issue at the moment. If it was winter, in our dry winter period, then we'd have more of an issue to deal with," he said.
But Freitag-Ronaldson says that for animals who are dependent on or live in the river, the impact is yet unknown.
"Of course we are concerned about those animals that live in the river itself, such as hippos and crocodiles, and a whole host of small biota," she said. "We are also not sure when the effects of a pollution event of this nature will be manifested in those animals. So it's basically, at this point, a monitoring game."
She says birds who feed on the dead fish might be the first sign of possible effects on other animals.
The South African parks service is awaiting numbers on how much contaminated water leaked into the river, and is starting in-depth investigations on the long-term environmental impact of the spill.


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More than 2,000 people have voted early in the Bentonville School District's millage increase election.
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Early Voting
Early voting in Bentonville's second high school millage election continues today through Monday from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. weekdays at the Benton County Clerk's Office at the following locations:
• 215 E. Central Ave., Bentonville
• 300 W. Poplar St., Rogers
• 707 S. Lincoln St., Siloam Springs
Early voting also will be available 8 a.m.-4 p.m. today and Friday at these sites:
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• Centerton Firehouse, 755 W. Centerton Blvd., Centerton
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Light Turnout
Early turnout is slow in Washington County millage elections for West Fork and Prairie Grove school districts, said Washington County Clerk Becky Lewallen. As of 4 p.m. Wednesday, one ballot had been cast in the Prairie Grove election and four ballots in the West Fork Election.
Prairie Grove is asking voters for a 6-mill tax increase to build a new wing at the intermediate school, a storm shelter and a high school varsity basketball gym. West Fork is seeking a 2-mill increase to add classrooms, restrooms and a physical education gym at the middle school.
The school election is Tuesday. Polls will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
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LONDON - It's a boy!
The Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William's wife Kate Middleton, gave birth to an 8-pound 6-ounce baby boy Monday afternoon.
The announcement of the infant's birth was put in a leather binder and driven from St. Mary's Hospital to Buckingham Palace, where it was placed on an easel for the public to see.
The announcement read, "Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge was safely delivered of a son at 4:24 p.m. today. Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well."
The mother and child will remain in the hospital overnight.
It is a historic moment for the British monarchy -- the couple's first child will become third in line for the British throne, after Prince Charles and William, and should eventually become king.
Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, released a statement, saying, "Both my wife and I are overjoyed at the arrival of my first grandchild. It is an incredibly special moment for William and Catherine and we are so thrilled for them on the birth of their baby boy. Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future."
William and Kate entered St. Mary's Hospital in central London through a side door early Monday morning, avoiding the world's media. Palace officials confirmed her arrival about 90 minutes later.
The royal birth recalled that of the baby's father, William, in 1982, at the same central London hospital. Many remember the moment when he was carried out in his mother Princess Diana's arms with proud father Prince Charles at their side.
No one can tell what political and personal changes the intervening years will bring, but the baby can be expected to become the head of state of 16 countries, including Britain, Australia and Canada, and possibly the head of the Commonwealth, which covers 54 nations.
The child will also eventually become Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
The baby represents a living link to Britain's imperial history -- the infant is the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria, who ruled at the peak of British power.
Many Britons had hoped that William and Kate would start a family shortly after their gala 2011 wedding, which drew a global television audience in the hundreds of millions.
The couple waited, however, until William was nearly finished with his military work as a search and rescue helicopter pilot based at an air base in a remote island off the coast of Wales.
That allowed Kate to ease into royal life, and to become more comfortable in the spotlight, before becoming a parent. It also allowed her to play a supporting role during Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebrations last summer.
The first months of her pregnancy were not easy, and she was hospitalized in early December with acute morning sickness that left her weak and dehydrated.
She seemed to recover her stamina fairly quickly and made a series of public appearances until the final weeks before giving birth, drawing praise for her poise and good cheer.
The royal couple and their newborn are expected to spend much of their time in the coming years in renovated quarters at Kensington Palace, where William and Harry also spent much of their childhood.
Royal officials say Kate and William will try to give their child as normal an upbringing as possible -- which may be challenging in an age when the British royals are treated as major world celebrities.


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The profits earned from Ram Gopal Varma directed "The Attacks of 26/11", about the 2008 terror attacks in the city, will be donated to victims and heroes, says the film's producer Parag Sanghvi.
As many as 10 Pakistani terrorists attacked Taj Mahal Hotel, Oberoi Trident Hotel, Nariman House and CST railway station here on Nov 26, 2008 and killed 166 people.
Sanghvi told IANS: "I don't look at this film as a commercial venture. The profit that will be earned from the film will be given to the victims and heroes of the Mumbai attacks."
"It is a huge film for me. It's a very expensive film. We didn't get to shoot the film in the original locations, so we had to create the entire set. We had to create the CST Station, so it wasn't easy at all," he added.
Sanghvi wants the world to see what exactly happened that day.
"The idea to make the film is that we want the world to see what happened that day. It's been a very emotional journey. We are planning to release the film early next year. I want to take this film across the world," he said.
"The Attacks of 26/11" features Nana Patekar and Sanjeev Jaiswal, among others.
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When redundancy comes for Ewan it's not too bad. It's the company he built up himself that he's leaving, and, having left his wife at almost the same time, he finds himself with a lot of money and a lot of time. He buys a flat in Dalston and settles down to watch a lot of television. His next door neighbour helps him to smoke a lot of dope, and his best friend Russell helps him to meet a lot of women.For Richard redundancy is a different story, and something that he can't see coming as he trundles into work each day at his dreary construction-business trade magazine. He dotes on his baby son and his (sometimes less than adoring) wife.What can link these two strangely compulsive - and compelling - characters as they take their individual journeys through modern manhood - and modern London THE THIRD PARTY is both wonderfully funny and deeply moving, a brilliantly observed comedy of manners for our times.
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The 570 has a slew of features, even though it's only the midrange board. Some of the following that stuck out the most to me are the HD audio in the form of the Realtek ALC883 codec. I won't be leaving my SoundBlaster X-Fi Elite Pro anytime soon, but for people without a soundcard, this is sure to be quite adequate for most sound needs. It also complies with the Azalia 1.0 specifications.
The board is also Vista-ready in that it can support up to 8GB RAM; finally a step up from the 4GB limit seen on the nForce3 and 4 boards. While there is no pressing need now for gamers and "regular" power users to have over 2GB, people requiring lots of RAM for video editing and the like should be more than pleased with the upgrade options afforded by the K9N SLI Platinum.
The included D-bracket that fits into a PCI slot opening on the back of the case is actually a very nice feature. It has LED lights that display various codes/formations when there are problems during post. If anyone has used an EPoX board in the past or currently, it is similar to the LEDs they have right on the motherboard that display various codes when/if problems arise. MSI's implementation is nice, though a bit hard to use being that it's on the back of the case.
Another nice addition that when used begs the question of "Why the hell wasn't this done a long time ago?" is the CMOS clear button. No more annoying jumpers...just push this button for 10 seconds to ensure the CMOS has been cleared power back on to have a factory fresh BIOS ready to be tweaked again (though not so aggressively this time).
In the LAN department, NVIDIA's DualNet technology has been added, which allows for the dual gigabit Ethernet ports to act as a single 2Gb port. Plus, the FirstPacket technology allows packet prioritizing so that, in theory, one could be downloading torrents and playing an online game and not experience the total bandwidth saturation that BitTorrent normally causes.
MSI also included their Dual CoreCell technology "which focuses on the 4 'Ps' - Performance Precision, Silence Precision, Image Precision and Sound Precision." For much more detailed information, MSI's site has a very nice pictorial guide showcasing all of Dual CoreCell's features.
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After Citizens United, which was decided two days after Democrats lost their 60-seat majority in the Senate, there was a push to respond to the Supreme Court ruling with some legislation adding transparency and disclosure to the process. If the Massachusetts race went another way it would have passed; Democrats consistently got 59 votes in the Senate for the DISCLOSE Act. But Republicans wouldn't budget because they reasoned that the new campaign finance system – actually not a system at all but a recipe for massive spending by corporations and the wealthy – would advantage them. In 2010 they were right.
But in 2012, Republicans, particularly in the Presidential primary, have begun to see the dangers of an anything-goes campaign finance system. The rise of SuperPACs and the way undisclosed money can alter a race has shined a light on Citizens United and its consequences. I don't know that Republicans have completely come around on the need for some order on the chaos, but polling shows the public certainly has.
So Democrats are going to take another run at it. Reps. Bob Brady and Chris Van Hollen have distributed legislation, known colloquially as DISCLOSE II, that would add disclosure and transparency to the areas of the system that have none. Specifically, their bill would, according to their Dear Colleague letter:
• Enhance disclosure by SuperPACs, corporations and outside groups of campaign funding
• Require SuperPACs, corporations and outside groups to "stand by their ads" (aka they would have to put "I approve this message" on the back end, possibly with the name of the top funder of the SuperPAC or group)
• Require corporations to disclose their campaign expenditures to their shareholders (there's no mandate on this now, though some corporations voluntarily disclose)
• Require lobbyists to disclose their campaign expenditures
Obviously the silver bullets here have little to do with these band-aids. A public financing system and tight lobbying rules would do much more for the campaign finance system. Over the long term, a Constitutional amendment on banning corporate personhood would reap benefits inside and outside the campaign finance sphere. And something needs to be done about the so-called "legislative subsidy," the unique dependance in Washington on lobbyists for policy advice and expertise.
But this isn't a bad start. Brady and Van Hollen write that "We need to restore accountability in our elections. The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent to influence the outcome of our elections. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads and they should receive this information in a timely fashion." It's hard to argue with that. And since we're seeing this play out in a Republican primary right now, maybe there's some sympathy on the other side of the aisle on these issues.
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