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Margaret Ann Romines, age 63, of Seymour, passed away Friday, January 11, 2013. She was a member of Union Valley Baptist Church. Preceded in death by her father Clayton Dinkins and sister Mary Jane Teeters.
Survivors: husband, Jim Romines; son, Scott Romines and wife Susan; daughters, Chandra Richards and husband Scotty, Jill Smith and husband William; mother, Dorothy Dinkins; grandchildren, Stephen and Sara Romines, Adrienne Richards, Brandon Dykes, and Blake Smith; sister, Loretta Roberts; half sister, Beatrice Dale; special friends, Sandra Tipton and Dot Hicks.
In lieu of flowers memorial may be made to Union Valley Baptist Church, 855 Union Valley Rd., Seymour, TN. 37865.
Funeral Service 7 p.m. Monday in Atchley's Seymour Chapel with Rev. Hudson Chesteen officiating. Interment 10 a.m. Tuesday in Boyd's Creek Cemetery. The family will receive friends 4-7 p.m. Monday at Atchley Funeral Home, Seymour 122 Peacock Court, Seymour, TN 37865 (577-2807).


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University of Vermont
UVM Police Services
Prevention Services: Safety and Prevention
Rape Agression Defense (R.A.D.) Training
"To develop and enhance the options of self defense, so that they may become viable considerations to the women who is attacked."
—Larry Nadeau, Founder and Executive Director of R.A.D. Systems
R.A.D. (Rape Aggression Defense), a self-defense course is being offered through UVM Police Services for all UVM women. It is a 12 hour course designed to empower women, teach valuable defense skills, physical confrontation skills, and how to take control for yourself. You will learn how to use your mind, your voice, your body, and your skills in this course.
The first 3 hour class is lecture style to disseminate information regarding crime awareness and prevention. The next two 3 hour classes are focused on physical self defense techniques. The final class is a review of self defense techniques and simulation (optional) which consist of scenarios allowing the students to use their skills.
The enrollment is a minimum of 10 and a maximum 20 participants.
Enrollment is FREE but REQUIRED. To enroll for the course or for more information,
please contact Officer Sue Roberts at email@example.com or 802-656-8009.
Two individual courses will be run on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
The Tuesday night classes will begin on September 25, 2012 and will be from 6:00 to 9:00pm for 4 Tuesdays (9/25, 10/2, 10/9, and 10/16).
The Wednesday night classes will begin on September 26, 2012 and will be from 6:00-9:00pm for 4 Wednesdays (9/26,10/3, 10/10 and 10/17).
Rape Aggression Defense Systems (R.A.D.) is the largest women's only self defense program in North America with over 2,000 instructors who have trainedover 80,000 women. R.A.D. is dedicated to teaching women defensive concepts and techniques against various types of assault, by utilizing easy, effective and proven self defense tactics. In addition there are discussions about avoidance techniques through self awareness, prevention and risk reduction.
Each program is broken down into 3 sessions:
Session 1: Using the R.A.D. student manual we discuss risk reductions strategies, date rape mentality, continuum of survival, defensive strategies and basic principals of defense. Also the development of a defensive mind set, understanding offensive and defensive postures, recognizing vulnerable locations and identification of personal weapons.
Session 2: Students will begin the hands on training. The techniques are simple gross motor skills which are developed through repetition so that the techniques can be recalled in a time of need. Students are given the opportunity to practice the techniques versus striking pads.
Session 3: Students continue to work on techniques in preparation for the "Simulated Assault." Each student is given the opportunity to participate in a number of "Simulated Assaults" versus a well padded attacker. These "simulated Assault's" are based on real life scenarios that take place at 100% full contact versus the attacker.
Contact R.A.D. instructors below to schedule you place in a class.
- 1 out of every 4 women polled was sexually assaulted during four years at college. (Ms. Magazine Study of Sexual Assault and Rape)
- According to the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics between 1973 and 1987 over 2.3 million women reported sexual assaults in the United States. 71% of these survivors avoided being raped by taking self-protective measures.
Contact UVM Police Services' R.A.D. Team:
Officer Sue Roberts
Officer Skyler Genest
Officer Bill Sioss
Officer Christiana Coyner
As long as we have rape in our society, there will be a need for women to do what we can to protect ourselves and be safe. In most cases,rape on a college campus occurs between people who know each other. Rapes usually happen in the home of the victim or perpetrator, and very often drugs or alcohol have been used by the perpetrator and or victim. Rape is NEVER the woman's fault. The following ideas are here to help people be safe. Nothing is guaranteed to keep one safe, but using common sense, paying attention to "inner voices" or gut feelings and being smart about your personal safety can help keep you safe.
In order for a crime to occur, there must be a victim, a perpetrator, AND an opportunity. The following tips are designed to remove opportunity:
- 90% of self-defense education is about knowing RISKS. Be aware of risks, recognize risks, reduce and avoid risks.
- Maintain sobriety. Men will rape women who are intoxicated, and it is MUCH easier to reduce your risk by being sober.
- Watch the drug / alcohol use of dates. Intoxication can bring out the worst.
- Watch your drinks! "date rape drugs" such as Rohypnol, are real. They incapacitate victims and create amnesia.
- Communicate clearly with dates. Body language may seem perfectly clear to you, but not to your date. Assert yourself firmly, and be very aware of anyone who tries to talk you into something you're not comfortable with.
- Listen to your "gut feeling." Instincts are very important.
- Avoid pairing off with someone at party to be alone in a room. Rapes often occur with loud parties going on in the same building.
- Avoid anyone who doesn't respect your caution, and your limits.
In relation to general safety from crimes perpetrated by strangers or acquaintances:
- Try "casing" your own home. How easy would it be to break in if you wanted to?
- Close drapes and shades in the evening.
- Use good outdoor lighting
- Keep bushes and shrubs trimmed so no one can hide behind them.
- Keep doors locked, use a deadbolt. Consider a one way peep hole.
- When someone knocks, ask who it is before you open the door. Check and verify all professionals, including police
- Keep windows locked.
- Have a phone with a lighted key pad for night time emergencies.
- If you return home from being out and something seems out of the ordinary, call the police and have them enter first.
- Look in the windows of a car before you get in.
- If you think you are being followed, DON"T GO HOME, go to populated areas, or better yet right to the police.
- Carry keys in your hand with one finger through the key chain so you won't drop them if you are startled suddenly.
- Avoid walking alone at night as much as possible.
- If you are being followed on foot, yell - as opposed to scream - "STOP! NO! GET BACK! Stay away from me!"


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Kenny Shiels has spoken of the sadness that has enveloped Kilmarnock following the death of midfielder Liam Kelly's father, who collapsed following Sunday's 1-0 Scottish Communities League Cup final win over Celtic at Hampden.
Jack Kelly, 59, suffered a suspected heart attack within moments of the final whistle and received emergency treatment from paramedics next to the Kilmarnock dugout.
As the Killie players and supporters celebrated winning the trophy for the first time in the club's history, thanks to substitute Dieter van Tornhout's header, Liam Kelly went up the tunnel in a state of distress.
The 22-year-old midfielder rushed to the nearby hospital where his father was taken, but he died shortly afterwards.
The rest of the players were told the news of the death as they toured the Ayrshire town on an open-top bus.
"We are all feeling for Liam and his family," Kilmarnock boss Shiels said.
"It is very sad. I spoke to him this morning and he is distraught, of course he is.
"It is going to be hard for him, he's only a young boy and we shouldn't forget that.
"Apart from feeling for Liam and his family, we wanted to enjoy the achievement and we did that with the trip around the town last night, but it was tinged with sadness.
"Liam is one of the Kilmarnock family and the compassion shown towards him and his family by the players and staff has been tremendous."
In the wake of the tragedy, Shiels was reluctant to get too involved in the controversial decision by referee Willie Collum not to award Celtic a last-gasp penalty when striker Anthony Stokes went to ground following a challenge by Kilmarnock defender Michael Nelson.
Collum booked an incredulous Stokes for simulation, a decision described by Neil Lennon as "criminal", with the angry Celtic boss accusing the official of costing his side the chance of the treble.
"I don't want to do an Arsene Wenger (and say I didn't see it) but I genuinely didn't have a clear look and I haven't seen it again, although I will look at it today," said Shiels.
"If it should have been a penalty then I must apologise because then we didn't deserve to win the cup and Celtic were unlucky.
"But we know all about not getting penalties which we should have got. Sometimes it goes for you, sometimes against you.
"Our performance deserves credit, even under these circumstances.
"We were playing against a team of internationals who had not been beaten in 26 (domestic) games and we took risks.
"But the most important thing is the Kelly family and we will do everything we can to provide pastoral care.
"He and his family have got to deal with what has happened and we must respect that."
Lennon expressed his shock at the news on the Parkhead club's official website.
"All of the management team, players and backroom staff wish to offer our thoughts and prayers to Liam Kelly's family," he said.
"Myself and the entire team are shocked and saddened with this news and our heartfelt condolences go to Liam."
Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell added: "Everyone at Celtic is devastated by this terrible news.
"All at the football club are thinking about Liam and the entire Kelly family at this very sad time."
Meanwhile, Kilmarnock chairman Michael Johnston revealed that he intends to hold new contract talks with Shiels, whose current deal ends in the summer.
"I spoke to Kenny a few weeks ago about extending his contract until next season at least,'' Johnston www.stv.tv.
"Kenny said he would speak to (assistant manager) Jimmy Nicholl about that so we had open discussions on that.
"I'm delighted that Kenny has gained this well deserved success.
"It's a fantastic achievement for Kilmarnock Football Club and now we've got our own treble.
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CLARINDA — Lenox's Rebekah Kroese was the top area finisher at the Clarinda Invitational here Tuesday, placing 30th in the varsity girls race with a time of 16:00.
Steph Shuler led the Southwest Valley girls with a 41st place finish, running 16:21.
The Timberwolve boys finished 10th in the team standings with 309 team points, and were paced by Lane Peterson's 39th-place finish. Peterson crossed the line in 17:21.
"Once again, we had a very hot night to compete, but overall we performed very well," Southwest Valley head coach Sandy Winter said. "Our team continues to improve and the times did drop from the first meet. Quintin Oldenkamp ran his first race and did very, very well so he will join the varsity boys team next week. Connor Haggerty ran his first varsity meet and also ran well."
The Timberwolves return to action Monday at Red Oak and then host their home meet Thursday.
Clarinda Invitational
1. Griswold 85, 2. Harlan 90, 3. Gretna 93, 4. Atlantic 126, 5. Winnetonka 138, 6. Shenandoah 143, 7. Red Oak 159, 8. Clarinda 203, 9. Bedford 240, 10. Maryville 260.
Lenox — 30. Rebekah Kroese, 16:00
Southwest Valley — 41. Steph Shuler, 16:21; 60. Diana Berggren, 17:26; 64. Chloe Keefe, 17:49.
1. Harlan 42, 2. Shenandoah 66, 3. Gretna 88, 4. Red Oak 108, 5. Atlantic 179, 6. Nebraska City 217, 7. Tarkio 218, 8. Rock Port 227, 9. Griswold 278, 10. Southwest Valley 309.
Southwest Valley — 39. Lane Peterson, 17:21; 50. Garrett Newton, 18:13; 69. Connor Haggerty, 20:07; 72. Evan Baldwin, 21:11; 79. Trevor Holbrook, 24:27.
State rankings
Nodaway Valley boys are ranked 10th in the state in Class 1A on the latest cross country ratings issued by the Iowa Association of Track Coaches. Council Bluffs St. Albert is third in the class, topped by Denver.
Shenandoah boys are ranked fourth in Class 2A. In Class 3A, the Glenwood boys are 13th, two spots behind Ballard. Pella is No. 1. Southwest Iowa rated teams in Class 3A are Harlan at No. 4 and Shenandoah 12th.
Dallas Center-Grimes is eighth in 3A and has the individual leader in Madison Waymire. Bailey Kuhl of Harlan is 18th and Winterset's Brittany Sawyers is 27th.
Creston's Cooper McDermott is No. 29 in Class 3A boys, with Luke Kohut-Jackson of Ballard at 22. The Panthers run at Ballard on Monday.
In Class 2A boys, Red Oak's Josh Sunberg is 25th and Joe Blake of Shenandoah is 28th. Rebekah Topham of No. 1-ranked Griswold tops the 1A girls ratings, with Destiny Scar of Nodaway Valley 11th and Adrian Richards of Mount Ayr 24th.


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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2's worldwide gross is finally crossing the billion-dollar mark, making it the first movie of the franchise to do so. Records, they're simply powerless against these teen wizards. And just think about how much butterbeer they'll be able to buy now! [THR]
Harry Potter Now Has a Billion Dollars
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Time really flies! Today marks a month since my birthday; I'll just say I'm on the other side of my twenties 😉 . What better way to end my birthday month by sharing some deals with you? Below are a list of birthday freebies that I've received (or that I will be receiving now that I know about them ). Just a note, I have a separate email account set up for these sites, because you will be inundated with email throughout the year, not just on your b-day!
Clothing and Accessories
- Benefit Brow Bars(you can find them in Ulta) give free brow waxing on your birthday. Make sure you call before going; the one in my neighborhood doesn't offer them anymore:
- Ulta Rewards
- Sephora's Beauty Insider
- The Body Shop
- Smashbox
- Aveda
Food and Drink
- Auntie Annie's
- Bruster's Real Ice Cream
- Cold Stone
- Caribou Coffee
- Macaroni Grill
- Friday's Give Me More Stripes
- Starbucks
- Noodles & Company
That's all for now. Do you know of any other birthday freebies? Please share them in the comments!
P.S. Although this post is about birthday freebies, I couldn't end without sharing what I wore to my birthday festivities! Check the links out below to steal my style 😉


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Joe's View
With Joe Meyers, entertainment writer
Monthly Archive for August, 2009
A perfect end-of-the-summer beach book
As I head off for a two-week vacation, I want to recommend a wonderful thriller I just read, Joseph Finder's "Vanished" (St. Martin's Press). I couldn't save this perfect beach book for my own jaunt to Delaware because I had to read "Vanished" to prepare for an interview with the author that will run […] [Read More]
'A Solo Act' becomes 'Too Much Money'
I didn't have much time to write the blog posting below about Dominick Dunne yesterday — right after I put those few notes together, I had to come up with the 24-inch obit/tribute that ran in the newspaper and online this morning (see link below). "Nick" Dunne was one of my favorite interviews because he […] [Read More]
The passing of Dominick Dunne
David Patrick Columbia reported in his New York Social Diary blog earlier today that novelist and journalist Dominick Dunne lost his two-year battle with bladder cancer last night at his Manhattan home. The 83-year-old Hartford native spent a lot of his time in a cozy retreat near the Connecticut River in Hadlyme where I was lucky enough to interview […] [Read More]
Murder (and nostalgia) on the North Carolina shore
Margaret Maron has won nearly every prize given to mystery fiction for her novels about North Carolina judge Deborah Knott. Maron kicked off the series 16 years ago with "Bootlegger's Daughter." The new "Sand Sharks" (Grand Central Publishing) is the 15th book about this very wise and witty woman who manages to run into almost as […] [Read More]
Gay 'Lincoln': preaching to the converted at the NYC Fringe
With more than 200 plays to choose from spread out over two weeks — and a universal $15 ticket price — the NYC Fringe is one of the great summer bargains and theater adventures. $15 is barely more than the price of a movie ticket in New York City and in past summers I've […] [Read More]
Getting off the beaten path in New York City
I've been having fun reading the text by Naomi Fertitta and enjoying the photography of Paul Aresu in the new guide book/coffee-table book, "New York: The Big City and Its Little Neighborhoods" (Universe). The title says it all. Fertitta and Aresu take the intimidation factor out of New York by zeroing in on small neighborhoods […] [Read More]
A parent's worst nightmare
Linwood Barclay has come up with a terrific premise for his new thriller, "Fear the Worst" (Bantam), in which a college-age girl goes missing in the first chapter and her divorced dad learns she has been (inexplicably) lying about her summer job at a local hotel. Barclay's down-to-earth hero Tim Blake is shocked when his […] [Read More]
'A room in the house where the dad sighs'
I wish I didn't already have plans for Sunday night because I would love see the New Hampshire band, Wild Light, that is opening for The Wallflowers at The Ridgefield Playhouse. I've been hooked on the debut CD, "Adult Nights" (Star Time International/Columbia), for the past few weeks. These are songs of substance played with […] [Read More]
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Current version:
Jumbot v2.4
3D Downloads Mirror
Other stuff:
Jumbot FAQ
Jumbot Wallpaper
JRF Files (JBR)
JRF Files (scary_jeff's)
JRF Files (TNW)
sk204 (map by Hondo)
Logo done by firstname.lastname@example.com
A new bot leader/squad system has been added. In teamplay games, squad leaders will be assigned and will tell other bots in their squad what to do by using chat commands. Players can also easilly take control of a squad leader or the members of a squad by using the bot ordering chat commands (listed in the readme.txt). celtic88 (over at the Bot Epidemic) inadvertently reminded me that I wanted to add this feature a while ago.I am sure that at least one of those lovingly crafted features must catch your attention. On a side note, you may have noticed that I've removed all the links to launchers on the side of the page. This is not because I do not appreciate the efforts of the nice people who create launchers for others to use, but rather because most/all of the launchers are outdated (especially now with the revamping of the chat system), and the majority of problem e-mail I get is related to the various launcher programs out there. If you want to customize and/or use the bot, all you really need to do is read the readme.txt and have a copy of notepad.exe (or any text editor) on your system.
Oh, I'd also like to note that this version has gone through approximately 30 hours of stability testing. Here are the tests accompanied by screenshots of the results (aside from test 4, since it's fairly hard to take a shot of that):
Test 01 - 31 bots on boot_camp (teamplay) - 10 hoursSo, as you can see, the bot is completely stable (it did indeed pass all of these tests without crashing once or showing any sign of a problem). If you manage to make it crash, I can pretty much guarantee it's because of something you did in your configuration files that you should not have done.
Another thing I would like to point out is the new FAQ section linked from the side of the page. If you are having any sort of problem at all, read that before e-mailing me, or I will just have to delete your e-mail immediately and go cry in the corner for several minutes.
I suppose that is all. Just to note, I am now going to try to shift all of my programming efforts toward the hidebot for SoF to get it into a nicer state. That means that I am no longer looking for any suggestions or feature requests for the Jumbot (all of you had your chance, after all, as I did make a post in the forum requesting suggestions for features in the Jumbot while I was working on v2.4). Anyway, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to use the forum area. Before going there, however, please be warned that the forum area is a horrible place full of terrible and abusive people (Hondo and I, that is).
Gauss jumping has been improved, and bots will use it to take shortcuts if they have somewhere they want to be (they will gauss jump straight up toward the turrets in doublecross instead of taking the ladder up, for example). [as seen here]So, there you go. As always, post any comments, suggestions, or anything else in the forums.
Added teamplay bot ordering and teaching. You can use chatting to order bots to do a good number of things, including watch what you do and remember it. You can also order bots to go after specific bots (or players) on the other team, which is a completely new addition to the Jumbot ordering system (which was ported over from the SH Jumbot, in case you did not know). See the readme.txt's "Team bot cooperation" section for a list of commands and other information.Remember, post all of your comments and questions (and anything else) at the forum.
6:00 pm (EST): For those of you who don't check the main page, you may be interested in knowing that I now have a forum area set up. Please go there to talk about the Jumbot and other things (or if you're having a problem of some sort), as I'd much rather you do that than e-mail me (not that I do not like e-mail at all, but doing things on a forum will reduce the chance of the same question being asked more than once and such). So, then, go post things at the forum area and make Hondo and I happy.
The bot works with Valve's stupid new patch.Inside the pervert mound. It's such a perfect sound. Inside her perfect mind. Inside the pervert mound.
General bot movement is now smoother and more human-like (optional with the bot_smoothnav cvar).So, there you go. Enjoy.
Boosted the waypoint limit from 1024 to 4096 (though I don't think you'll ever need that many on any level).
Added a "wp_vis 2" option, so that waypoints will only be drawn in edit mode if they're already visible to you. This eliminates the pesky "flickering" which can happen if you have a lot of waypoints on a level. It does put a load on the processor, though, so you'll probably notice some lag if you use it.
Compiled with MSVC++ 6.0 Pro rather than 5.0 (I don't know how much of a difference if any this makes, but it does decrease the DLL size a significant amount).
That's all. Enjoy.
Made it so default map CFG is executed every level right before level configs, so level settings can be applied on top of the default settings.
Fixed a small bug in item retrieval.
Many other bug fixes that I've forgotten about.
Added a JRF and a CFG for Gustavo16_ElimJnr.
I know I found a good amount of bugs, I just don't remember what all of them were. I tested this version extensively on many levels (or rather I was extremely bored and felt like murdering bots for a couple hours), so it should work nicely. Of course, I am never saying "this should be the last release for a while" again, since every time I do I find some horrible bug and must make another release. Anyway, enjoy. As always, those of you who already signed contracts for the Jumbot code may contact me at any time for the latest code base.
As long as I'm updating, I should also mention that I got the SCSI card yesterday. My pathetic old system is having trouble working with it due to what I suspect as being a simple resource conflict, so I shall try to get it working today if I don't fall asleep again too quickly.


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Improving RAID performance with filesystem and RAID parameters
Bringing LVM into the Mix
When you create an XFS filesystem directly on a software RAID device, mkfs.xfs is smart enough to work out the chunk and stripe sizes for you and configure the XFS filesystem optimally. Unfortunately, if you are using a hardware RAID card or using LVM between XFS and the software RAID, it is up to you to make sure the filesystem is created optimally.
I created both a hand-aligned XFS and a XFS filesystem with default parameters to test what difference, if any, this made to performance. Many folks use LVM on top of a RAID device for improved system management and flexibility. Being able to store many filesystems on a single RAID device is very convenient. I retested the ext3 configurations to see whether using the extra LVM layer sapped much performance.
Figure 5 shows the performance of ext3 and XFS on the same RAID device. For the "raw" configuration, the filesystem is created directly on the RAID device. In the "lvm" configuration, an LVM physical volume is created on the RAID device, and an LVM logical volume is created on the LVM physical volume. The filesystem is then created on the LVM logical volume.
Notice that the gains in read performance resulting from alignment of the ext3 filesystem are gone and that read performance across all filesystems is identical. Aligning the stripe on the XFS filesystem actually made write performance worse than with no alignment attempt. LVM itself appears to be limiting block read performance, so attempts to align the filesystem are not resulting in any performance differences.
Interestingly, though, block output for XFS was greatly improved by using LVM. XFS attempts to delay writes to files for as long as possible. The delayed writes might be the reason that XFS is faster at writing with the use of LVM – if LVM maintains a write cache of its own, then perhaps data can be streamed out to disk from that cache more effectively when it is presented in large chunks by the filesystem. Notice that the read performance is significantly reduced when LVM is used.
Figure 6 shows the block rewrite bonnie++ benchmark. Here you can see that the gains in correctly aligning the ext3 filesystem have been preserved to some degree, with the aligned ext3 filesystem being almost 1MB/sec faster than the unaligned ext3 on LVM. The differences for correct alignment of ext3 are less when using LVM, however: 1MB/sec for LVM compared with about 2.5MB/sec on raw RAID.
Although differences of a megabyte per second might not seem so important, in the worst case, this means the aligned ext3 on raw RAID would be more than 15% faster than unaligned ext3 on LVM. When you consider that this is running on the same machine and same disks, 15% free performance is something you might like to have.
Because it can be somewhat difficult to compare two three-dimensional graphs by eye, I decided to graph not the two original datasets, but the difference between the aligned and non-aligned datasets. In Figure 7, I'm showing you the (ext3aligned – ext3) IOzone random read performance for LVM. Although it is not completely in favor of the ext3aligned filesystem, you can see significant performance peaks where the ext3aligned filesystem is much faster in the 256 to 4,096KB file size range (to the left of the figure).
Figure 8 shows the difference of random write performance for ext3 with and without alignment on LVM. Notice that the peaks and troughs are in the same places, although the extremes are not as pronounced. The dips in performance for the ext3align filesystem are almost eradicated.
Figure 9 shows XFS with alignment and without alignment when created on LVM for random read. Notice that the graph is much less busy for XFS compared with ext3 (shown in Figure 7). Random reads of smaller files are much faster on a properly aligned XFS filesystem, as the peaks on the left side of Figure 9 show. For smaller writes to 4MB files, an aligned XFS filesystem is slightly slower than an XFS filesystem created with the default mkfs.xfs arguments (difference graph not shown). The aligned XFS is faster for the larger writes to files of 16 to 256MB.
Digging a Deeper Hole
The Linux kernel has supported the ext4 filesystem since v2.6.28. Performance improvements over its successor, ext3, include 48-bit block addressing.
One downside of specifying the RAID stripe size at mkfs time is what happens when you add an extra disk to an existing RAID. All of a sudden, you have four data disks on your RAID 5 instead of three, and the stripe alignment that the filesystem is using is incorrect. Luckily, ext4 has a mount option to allow you to set the stripe size at mount time, so if you add a disk to a RAID or extend an LVM volume, you can tell ext4 what you've done so the filesystem can optimize future activity to fit the modified disk configuration.
Unfortunately, specifying the sunit and swidth options when mounting an XFS filesystem is only effective when the filesystem is created directly on a RAID device. So if you use LVM on your RAID and add a disk, you can't tell XFS about the change at mount time. This is once again a case in which XFS does not play well with LVM.
When using LVM, metadata is stored at various abstraction layers. For example, pvcreate has various options for setting the size of metadata and data alignment. So far, I have not found tweaking pvcreate to have the same effect as setting filesystem stripe parameters, but that question is open to further investigation.
Wrap Up
As this study shows, you can get 10% to 20% extra performance if you align your ext3 filesystem to the RAID array chunk and stripe size. Although the differences were not as significant for XFS, proper alignment of XFS can make a large difference to the performance of file creation and deletion.
In summary:
- If you are using the ext3 or ext4 filesystem, you should always use -E stripe-width=x,stride=y to tell the filesystem about your RAID configuration.
- If you are using XFS directly on the RAID device, the system should detect your RAID configuration for you automatically.
- If you are using XFS on an LVM partition created on a RAID, use -d sunit= x,swidth=y at mkfs.xfs time to tell it about your RAID configuration.
- If you are using another filesystem, check that it has detected your RAID configuration – in particular, check the stripe and chunk size – at mkfs time.
The actual benefits that you reap by taking these steps will vary depending on your configuration, but regardless of the numbers, aligning your filesystem parameters with the RAID system is a good strategy for achieving better performance, especially on ext3 and ext4 filesystems.
- OSDL's Linux RAID: http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Linux_Raid
- "A Case For Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)," by David A. Patterson, Garth Gibson, and Randy H. Katz. http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~garth/RAIDpaper/Patterson88.pdf
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The Arizona legislature has yet to really tackle the issue of online poker, so we have to apply the land-based rules. So, since you aren't "artificially profiting" from playing online poker, it appears that online poker is legal in the Copper State.
As of 2015, online poker in Arizona is not 100% clear. Online gambling for entertainment purposes is illegal, and the UIGEA prevents banks from dealing with gambling transactions. However, there are no Arizona state laws specifically dealing with Internet poker sites. So what can you do? Let's go into more detail about legal Arizona online poker below.
There were several initial waves of gambling in Arizona's history at which points gambling was legal. But by 1910, most states were outlawing it with the exception of horse racing. Arizona chose to follow their lead on gambling and was even forced to take an official stance against casinos in order to gain Congressional support for statehood. Of course, there were still illegal gambling houses for many years. The residents of the state became accustomed to little gambling and voted against legal casinos gambling in 1950, though it was near that time that horse racing was joined by dog racing and charity gambling in the legal zone. In the 1980s, Arizona permitted the sale of slot machines to charity organizations and neighboring Nevada. At that point, no one could have imagined that legal Arizona online poker would ever become an issue.
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A. The general sentiment from Indian casino operators around the country is that they would prefer not to tackle online poker. There is a fear that the online business will not only be costly, prohibitively to some tribes, but it will detract from their regular foot traffic in the casinos. Concerns of diminishing the much-needed revenue that the tribes receive from the casinos prevent them from embracing the idea of online poker in Arizona.
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A. Legislators from Arizona have yet to speak openly or publicly about their neighbor's decision to allow online poker in Arizona.
Q. Will Nevada attempt to partner with Arizona for online poker?
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A. Changing a law requires an amendment, but there would need to be broad support among the legislators and voters to push for such a change. With no current push for any type of new or amended legislation, Arizona poker sites are a distant hope for many players.
It didn't for some time. Gambling laws were reinforced with stricter penalties in the late 1980s, but social gambling was exempted. That led to bar gambling and an eventual crackdown in 1990. Arizona established a lottery in 1991, at about the same time that Indian tribes began to fight for the right to transform their bingo halls into casinos, after they installed slot machines without proper compacts with Arizona. They took their fight to the courts, and a federal judge ruled that negotiations must happen. That led to the eventual conversion of casinos for more than 20 tribes, with compacts beginning to be signed in 1992 and moving forward for several years. Indian gaming compacts were then brought to the voters of the state for renewal in 2002, and it was approved to allow Indian gaming to continue. A total of 21 of the 22 tribes in Arizona have gaming compacts with the state. Native American casinos have not yet embraced online poker in Arizona.
Arizona law has addressed online gambling in general in allowing it to be done for entertainment purposes only. The outcome must not be in control of any person other than the players, meaning the house cannot have an edge in the games, and players cannot be separated from their money in order by the lure of a prize. Players must also compete with no one having an advantage over another. It is complicated but comes closer than most states in clarifying a stance on Arizona online poker. Further, the state has an unusual exemption to its horse racing law, in that wagering is allowed in person but not online. This puts the state even further apart from others and less likely to accept Arizona poker sites in the near future. To contact your legislators about these laws, click here: Arizona Legislature.
There are more than 20 Indian-run casinos in Arizona, some of which are bingo halls but most being casinos with table games like poker. The most well-known to poker players is Casino Arizona, as it hosts a number of live poker tournaments each year and attracts players from around the United States. Others have smaller tournaments and charity poker events. None have indicated any type of support for Arizona online poker, though most Indian tribes in most states have opposed the idea unless forced to deal with it by lawmakers.


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"Recently we've seen stories about interest rates being fixed, accusations of price fixing on gas rates and online companies legally avoiding huge amounts of tax to the UK.
So, are we really 'all in this together' or are huge corporations actually still making huge amounts of profit at the expense of normal people, and if so when will the government actually do anything about it?"
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Yes they are taking the **** out of all of us. Profit before humanity, it's the only way ! And no the government won't do anything about it - the poor must pay for the rich you know ! That's coalition policy !
No. We are not all in this together. Big, powerful rich people sustain themselves by siphoning off the blood, sweat and tears of lowly poor folk. I have yet to see Mister Cameron come forwards and show what sacrifices on a personal or financial level he has had to make in order to justify his claim that he is down here in steerage with the rest of us poor souls on the SS Great Britain. I have yet to see some lowly person with shares in the power industry write to a national paper and say 'Enough! this is morally wrong!'. The Government will do nothing about it, because they don't regard themselves as our elected servants- they are our rulers. Give any Prime Minister past or present the chance to have his visage on a banknote or coin and they'll leap at it. They are fully rewarded, now and in the future with pensions, EU and NATO jobs, after dinner speaking, Autobiographies, Non-executive board positions etc. They patronise us with a basic minimum wage that we should be grateful for, or offer a pittance for carers doing the right thing, who save the Government millions in care fees each year, regardless of the carer's and dependent's lack of a quality life. They cripple all that us plebs need to keep feeding them, healthcare,transport costs, heat,light and water, and claim they empathize. Reduce the number of ambulance stations, reduce policing, build bigger Council houses. Come the next election, I'll vote for me. 'Look after number one' time. Let's start a 'Number one' party', and steal a few million votes. X
Very well said sir, I will vote for you - or me as the case may be ! Some of the things that have been implemented in the name of 'austerity' are a disgrace. The people who rule only want to feather their own nests, to hell with the people at the bottom or in the middle. I'm stunned anyone still believes in any mainstream political parties, they're just vehicles for clever-dick public school types to make money.
Large corporations are run with the sole purpose of maximising their profits - very few apply any sort of ethics to the way that they achieve these vast sums of money, so aggressively avoiding tax, manipulating markets, etc. are seen by the 'bean counters' as perfectly acceptable. Unfortunately, the authorities are in general several steps behind when it comes to preventing these schemes and so more and more of these activities are being uncovered. I actually think that most governments (whichever flavour) would like to be able to stop these practices - however, due to the presence of global brands and global markets, it's incredibly difficult to prevent an organisation such as the well-known coffee shop from transferring profits overseas to a country with lower tax rates and claiming that they hardly make any taxable profits in this country. There needs to be a complete overhaul of the way such companies are taxed, but without the cooperation of other countries, most offending companies would simply shut up shop if they get hit too hard (with the associated loss of jobs that would entail....)
99% of us are slaving away, 1% are getting fatter. There is still the same amount of money (credit) in the world, it's just a case of where it is and who has it.
Unfortuantely not so Olly, else saving would be worth it. Credit is expanding probably at the fastest rate since the Weimar Republic, and that all turned out rosy didn't it.
make-redgreen, whilst the number representing value of an asset increases with 'interest' over time the actual value change is only affected by demand. To simplify just for you, the quantity of assets in the World has not changed.It's just that a few have more allot have less
If the main energy companies are found guilty of fixing the wholesale prices of gas, rather than OfGem fining them a silly amount of money which then disappears into the government coffers, why doesn't the government tell them that all their customers don't have to pay any bills for six months - that way we actually get something back / bit of relief from these profiteering companies, the UK economy has a slight chance to recover and the shareholders might miss out on some dividends... It will never happen of course because this government only concerns itself with making themselves and their wealthy friends even wealthier - they don't give a stuff about us until they need to be voted in again - they will fine the companies concerned who will then up their prices and we get stuffed by them again.
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Assignee(s): Novartis AG
The present invention is concerned with solid dosage forms comprising a) valsartan and optionally HCTZ, and b) pharmaceutically acceptable additives suitable for the preparation of solid oral dosage forms by compression methods.Patent expiration dates:
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Issued: January 24, 2012
Inventor(s): Shetty; Suraj S & Webb; Randy L
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Solid dosage forms of valsartan, amlodipine and hydrochlorothiazide and method of making the same
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'We' insist on double blind experiments because they're more stringent and exacting... not a matter of whether or not you trust the scientist
About AGW etc most of us (at least on slashdot and to a great extent anyone willing to devote some spare time) to understand the data. Instead of trusting what you read in the media (liberal, conservative, neutral whatever) go and read the papers and the data directly and based on those figure out what is going on. Yes it'll require a bit more time but will give you a better idea
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From wikipedia
The bottom 25% have no net wealth
the middle 50% (25-75) have 13% of America's wealth
While the top 25% control 87%
From another source, the top 10% control 70% of the wealth while only paying 55% (from your figures) while those holding 30% of the wealth pay 45%
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Submission + - Installing Android 2.2 "Froyo" on the Nexus One->
Link to Original Source
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Go through a list of major scientific figures from the dark ages. They rapidly accelerate till around 1100AD followed by a sharp falloff. Science had all but stopped centuries (1300AD) before the renaissance began. Can't find anything better put together googling @ the moment but - this should give you an idea
Also read up on the mutazilah who dominated the scientific (scholar) community until Ghazali gained popularity resulting in them dying out (including many being killed outright) and the asherite (conservative) school attaining dominance
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Personal anecdote: A friend of mine that was pulled over, passed all the roadside sobriety tests, passed the field breathalyzer and was arrested anyways, he then passed the test at the detention center which resulted in them calling immigration on him (I'd presume because he looked middle eastern
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The Dresden University of Technology and Bull sign an agreement for the delivery of a petaflops-scale supercomputer and initiate a research cooperation
Once the two phases of its installation are completed in 2013/14, the new supercomputer, which represents an investment of about 15 million Euros, will benefit the whole research community in Saxony. The Excellence University and the European high tech company also signed a cooperation agreement for the development of software solutions for the measurement and optimization of energy efficiency in high performance computing systems.
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The United Kingdom is the world's leader in steel construction both commercially, technically, and in terms of quality. From humble beginnings over 200 years ago, the industry has gone from strength to strength achieving a current global turnover of £3,000 million and providing employment for over 100,000 people.
The industry has made dramatic improvements in technology, productivity and efficiency, helping it to maintain strong exports of steelwork and related products and services. Around 10% of the UK's annual steelwork production is exported world-wide and UK companies continue to win important orders against overseas competition, with large contracts in Japan, Hong Kong, the Middle East, Africa, South America and Europe.
The steel construction industry operates through an efficient integrated supply chain. There is an extensive choice of steelwork contractors available to specifiers and buyers in terms of size, expertise and capabilities, thus ensuring a competitive tender list. The recent introduction of BCSA membership assessments provides a mechanism to identify assessed companies in terms of the type and value of steelwork contract they can undertake.
The steel construction industry and supply chain are able to call upon members of the BCSA and their inherent qualities of competency and professionalism, all demonstrated by among other things, the BCSA membership assessment requirements, the Register of Qualified Steelwork Contractors for Bridgeworks (RQSC), the Steel Construction Certification Scheme (SCCS), CE Marking, and the Steel Construction Sustainability Charter (SCSC).
The BCSA membership assessment and RQSC for Bridgeworks requirements are more than just registers of companies selected from a tick list. Each company only qualifies for inclusion on the lists after being assessed by specialists who check financial and technical resources as well as track record and employed personnel; the assessments are carried out annually with a physical factory inspection every three years. Clients and their representatives can be confident that quality performance is expected without the need to go through a further time consuming and bureaucratic qualification process, and that best practice is adopted aiming to eliminate defects. Categorisation is by technical competency and maximum size of contract.
The certification scheme (SCCS) offers audit services in Quality Management, Environmental Management, Health and Safety certification assessments and surveillance auditing. An integrated audit reporting template has been introduced, designed to allow SCCS auditors to report a surveillance or re-certification assessment for a single system audit or to integrate the inputs from two or more auditors irrespective of which type of audit is being carried out, for one client at the same time.
The objective of the Sustainability Charter (SCSC) is to develop steel as a sustainable form of construction in terms of economic viability, social progress and environmental responsibility. BCSA has three levels of status in the Charter ie Member, Silver and Gold, the status achieved depends on the number of points scored following audit. BCSA requires Charter Members to formally declare to operate in sustainable ways that work towards: adding value to clients and stakeholders; optimising the eco-efficiency of steel construction life cycle; promoting resource and energy efficiency in steel construction through reuse and multi cycling; operating in a healthy, safe and environmentally sound manner; promoting respect for people and communities associated with steel construction; having high ethical standards; implementing sustainable development by constructive dialogue and enhancing knowledge of sustainability to share with and promote others in the steel construction supply chain also to implement. Benchmarking key performance indicators (KPIs) are being developed by the BCSA, not only to measure the progress of sustainable development in steel construction but to demonstrate genuine commitment.
The new standard for the CE Marking of fabricated structural steelwork has been approved by the European Commission and steelwork contractors are enhancing even further their already robust systems for factory production control, welding quality management and welding co-ordinating responsibilities. CE marking is an audited and tested declaration that a product meets specific public safety requirements and specifications throughout the supply chain, and it will simplify an important part of the procurement/construction process. SCCS will be providing certification of factory production control and welding systems to enable companies to carry out CE Marking
Structural steelwork is an engineered product utilising the most modern CAD/CAM products, ensuring a good and accurate fit. 3D and virtual reality models can greatly assist the professional staff in the quality and planning of the product design. BCSA members promote an early involvement in the design process to clearly define the design criteria and give the most cost and speed efficient quality designs over the whole life of the structure.
BCSA has a genuine commitment to addressing important issues relative to the steel construction industry and forms properly structured working committees to cover and develop solutions for Members and their Clients. The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) has recognised how BCSA goes about business, and paid a great tribute saying that it is a positive partner to work with, and that many trade associations could be benchmarked against it.
www.SteeConstruction.org provides a searchable database of BCSA members, RQSC bridgeworks members, companies certified under the Steel Construction Certification Scheme (SCCS) and BCSA's Associate Members who are suppliers of products and services to the sector.
In the UK market, 80% of all non-domestic framed construction is steel. The past 20 years has seen the industry winning 95% of all single storey framed construction and 70% of all multi-storey construction.
Being totally re-usable, steel is the ultimate environmentally friendly product. Today's steel structures will almost certainly be used for the buildings of tomorrow.