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April 9, 2009
Probable Starters:
Friday: NIU LHP Chuck Lukanen (3-4, 4.35, 41.1 IP, 49 H, 18 BB, 25 SO) vs. Akron RHP Tom Farmer (1-5, 6.21, 42 IP, 47 H, 21 BB, 38 SO)
Saturday: NIU LHP Dave Reynolds (0-2, 6.85, 23.2 IP, 42 H, 6 BB, 17 SO) vs. Akron RHP Frank Turocy (2-4, 8.59, 36.2 IP, 57 H, 17 BB, 21 SO)
Sunday: T.B.A.
DeKalb, Ill. - The Northern Illinois baseball team is set to head to Akron, Ohio this weekend for a three-game series against Mid-American Conference foe Akron (6-23, 3-6) at Lee R. Jackson Field that starts on Friday at 2 p.m. CT. The Huskies (11-18, 4-4 MAC) then play the Zips at noon on Saturday and Sunday in the last two games of the series.
NIU leads the all-time series against the Zips 14-7 and has won seven of the last nine games, including the last four. Under head coach Ed Mathey, the Huskies are 10-5 against Akron as both teams will enter the series looking to stop losing skids. The Huskies will hope to end a four-game skid, while the Zips have lost four of their last five.
"You are going to have a couple hungry teams out there," said Mathey. "They are at home so that gives then an advantage. We have to figure out how to close out leads and once we figure that out we can get back into the mix of things.
"In two of the last four games we were in command and let them go late. We need to figure that end out of it and the defense needs work, but our hitting has been good, especially in the early parts of the games, so we need to continue to hit the ball well."
Jordin Hood (Hawthorn Woods, Ill./Lake Zurich) paces the NIU offense with a .413 average, 27 runs, 43 hits, 12 doubles, five homeruns, 27 RBI, nine steals, a .692 slugging percentage and a .516 on-base percentage. He has homered in three of his last five games and has at least a hit in all five of those games. Dave Reynolds (Orland Park, Ill./Sandburg) ranks second on the team with a .340 average, 35 hits, six doubles and a .419 on-base percentage. Matt Behren (Elmwood Park, Ill./Holy Cross), Troy White (Chicago, Ill./Whitney Young), Nick Badgley (McHenry, Ill./McHenry C.C.) and Alex Jones (Kansas City, Kan./Piper) are all also batting over .300.
The NIU bullpen is anchored by Kyle Glancy (Oak Park, Ill./Oak Park-River Forest), Tom Zelasko (Lansing, Ill./Mt. Carmel) and Zach Oates (Wheaton, Ill./North). Glancy leads the `pen with a 4.50 ERA in 13 appearances that cover 20 innings. Zelasko is tied with Reynolds for the team lead in saves with three in a MAC best 19 appearances and 23.2 innings with a 4.56 ERA. Oates has 19 strikeouts in 18 innings over 17 appearances and has a team-low opponent batting average of .239.
The Akron offense features six players batting over .300 in Brian Kordal (.337), Jake Plata (.333), Grett Savage (.333), Matt Roberts (.330), Brandon White (.324) and Kevin Haas (.320). Roberts leads the team with 26 runs and three steals, and is tied for the lead in homers with Haas (4). Kordal leads the Zips with 25 RBI and a .541 slugging percentage, while Haas has a team-high 40 hits. Plata has a team-best .441 on-base percentage along with 20 walks.
The Zips' bullpen is led by Ryne Romick, Scott Foster and Chris Bassitt. Romick leads with a 3.38 ERA and two saves in addition to having 15 strikeouts and only five walks. Foster has a 4.18 ERA and has a team-high 23.2 innings pitched. Bassitt has a 4.24 ERA, one save and 18 strikeouts in 17 innings, while he has held opponents to a team-low .182 batting average.
"Akron is a good hitting team and they always have been," said Mathey. "We are going into this one with a different psychology than last weekend because we are on our heels after a few losses. It will be interesting to see how we do going on the road as we try to compete in this conference.
"Akron graduated three pretty good hitters, but has some good guys returning that have improved. On the mound, they have two guys that have been a pretty good challenge for us in the past. Farmer handcuffed us last year. Turocy pitches well at times and did well against us last year, too."
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|Determining the strength of Ramsey's theorem for pairs (RT^2_2) is a long standing problem in Computability Theory and Reverse Mathematics. The following two theorems are the significant contributions to this problem. In 1990s, Seetapun proved the cone avoidance theorem for Ramsey's theorem for pairs, which implies that RT^2_2 is strictly weaker than ACA_0. In 2001, Cholak, Jockusch and Slaman constructed a low_2 omega-model of RT^2_2 by using Mathias forcing, and showed that the first-order part of RT^2_2 is weaker than the system of Sigma_2-induction. In this talk, I will introduce another proof of Seetapun's theorem given by Dzhafarov and Jockusch, which is based on Mathias forcing used for the latter theorem.
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I look forward to Inside Tucson Business each Sunday. If you do business in this community you should be reading it.
I especially miss Steve Emerine's column. Steve wasn't afraid to shake up the local powers. He had a straight forward yet polite way to praise and poke our elected officals. With Emerine's passing Tucson and Inside Tucson Business lost a strong voice. Dave, who I know personally, tends to take a safer road in his editorials. I suppose he has to given his position and balancing advertisers. Well looks like Hatfield is getting fed up too.
ITB would be remiss if they didn't take a few jabs at the Tucson City Council and the insanity that's going on over there. As the voice of business ITB should be out front, offering solutions and educating their readers.
As the Tucson business community circles the drain, don't expect the Star to give any constructive solutions. The Star's ad revenue dives and yet their editorial board continues to ignore the sad climate created by our local government. Great job on this one Dave, keep em coming.
Reaction to
Tucson being pathetic
By Dave Hatfield – Click HERE for full story.
Published on Friday, April 17, 2009
OK, OK, OK. Talk about getting reaction. Last week's column headlined "What a pathetic city Tucson is becoming" got plenty of it.
I heard from natives and other long-time residents, high-ranking executives including CEOs of businesses employing hundreds of people as well as people who run small businesses, representatives of biotech and other industries targeted in Tucson Regional Economic Opportunities' economic development blueprint, representatives of the financial sector, real estate, tourism and the arts. I even heard from a couple of politicians. Some were frustrated and others ashamed but all agreed with the sentiment.
Tucson is losing population in relation to what's happening elsewhere in Arizona and that means it's losing political clout. The lack of direction being shown by the current Tucson City Council members will come back to haunt their successors. This will start to manifest itself after the next census numbers come out when the region loses one, possibly two, legislative districts. And when those district boundaries are drawn, no amount of gerrymandering will keep much of a voice in the Legislature Within the region, Oro Valley, Sahuarita, Marana and unincorporated metro areas are literally running circles around Tucson…….MORE
(Editor's Note: This was veteran newsman Steve Emerine's first column for Inside Tucson Business. It appeared in the June 20, 2005, issue and dealt with an idea at the time to build a 27-story high-raise in downtown Tucson called the Century Tower. Estimates were that it would cost $60 million to $70 million. That week, the Tucson City Council decided against giving Bob McMahon, owner of Metro Restaurants, and Don Martin, owner of Competitive Engineering, their requested exclusive negotiating rights to buy the city-owned property for the tower. As a result McMahon and Martin never pursued the idea.
We reprint the column in tribute to Steve Emerine and as an example of the knowledge and institutional memory he brought to local issues.)
So where in the world did restaurant owner Bob McMahon and manufacturer Don Martin get that idea of building a 27-story high-rise next to the Joel Valdez Library in the middle of downtown Tucson? Are they crazy? Well, it wasn't their idea. And no, they're not crazy.
For 40-plus years, experts have told officials in cities whose downtowns have crumbled because of outlying shopping centers with plenty of free parking to do exactly what McMahon and Martin are proposing.
They told Tucson to do it. I wrote stories mentioning buildings like the McMahon-Martin proposal when I covered City Hall in the 1960s for the Tucson Daily Citizen (the afternoon paper's official name when it was owned by the William A. Small family.)
In those days, urban experts were urging cities to let the private sector build tall structures with underground parking, retail stores at street level, several floors of office space, upscale residential units above the offices, and a restaurant or night-club on the top floor.
The last idea was the only one Tucson adopted then. We had the Skyroom, which later became the Tucson Press Club, at the top of the nine-story Arizona Land Title Building at the northwest corner of Stone Avenue and Alameda Street, and the posh Old Pueblo Club later took over the top two floors of the Tucson Federal Savings Tower south of Pennington Street on the east side of Stone.
Buildings at those locations are now owned by Pima County. The title building was gutted and rebuilt to house development services. The former savings tower is mostly occupied by county lawyers. And the night-clubs and restaurants in both buildings are gone.
Tucson finally jumped on the national urban renewal bandwagon, but it followed advice from other urban planners to pursue the tourism and convention business. Once historial neighborhoods that had been taken over by sleazy bars, flop houses, prostitutes, drug dealers and other frowned-upon uses were condemned.
They were replaced by the Tucson Convention Center Arena, Music Hall and Leo Rich Theatre, the hotel currently known as the Radisson City Center (Editor's note: now the Hotel Arizona), and the rambling multi-colored La Placita complex. Recommendations to build a building like McMahon and Martin have suggested were put on hold.
City officials were told that the Diamonds department store chain would anchor La Placita. When Diamonds decided to go to shopping centers and not downtown, the promoters swore La Placita would thrive anyway with restaurants and lots of small shops and offices on all levels.
That didn't work. In hindsight, it might have if they had let people live on upper floors of La Placita so the ground-floor businesses could have some customers within walking distance. When that idea was proposed later, the cost of adding adequate plumbing for residential uses was too high.
So La Placita joined the title building and the savings tower building to house more offices for government workers to hang out in from 8 to 5, five days a week.
That brings us back to McMahon and Martin, who want a six-month option to buy land next to the library at its appraised market value so they can study the feasibility of their tower idea. If it will work, they would buy the land and go ahead. If not, the city would keep the land.
Some opponents decry the loss of a grassy patch next to the library and say the tower would block their views of the mountains and the old Pima County Courthouse.
But the grass is relatively new, replacing what was an old green-colored office building and a parking garage. And some of the views have already been blocked by other things.
At least the tower would help hide that ugly red cockroach statue at the library.
I just got word that Steve Emerine has passed after a medical procedure. Steve was a voice in Tucson that will be difficult if not impossible to duplicate. Steve brought so many perspectives to an issue. He was a newspaper man, elected county assessor, political consultant and radio/TV personality.
I met Steve a few years ago. He was one of the first few calls I made when I was contemplating a run for office. He was candid and open and gave me some great advice.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading his weekly column in Inside Tucson Business and often referenced his posts HERE, HERE and HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE.
The last correspondence I had with Steve was an email, which I was telling him about Facebook as a way for him to promote his column. Here is Steve's reply;
Sorry, Joe, but my antiquated computer can't access Facebook, U-Tube, etc. -- steve
People have asked me why we reprint Emerine's articles in their entirety here on our blog. My simple answer is that Steve speaks truth to power. His institutional knowledge of our region makes his opinion's especially pointed. In our world of 24 hour news cycles and spin induced smoke and mirrors, Steve sums up the issues presented to our community in about a clear as way possible. We are glad he has a platform to preach from, we hope to give him another pulpit with our blog.
This weeks article opinion is addressing the our local governments approach towards funding of our law enforcement agencies. FBI statistics show violent crime and murder decreasing all over the county. Locally we had a record breaking year in homicides. What's governments core function again?
While crime rises, local politicos look to spend money elsewhere
Published on Saturday, January 10, 2009
Only Tucson and Pima County would insist on doing more crazy things than a columnist could comment on 52 times in a year.
Republican Mayor Bob Walkup and Democratic Council members Regina Romero, Rodney Glassman, Karin Uhlich, Shirley Scott, Steve Leal and Nina Trasoff use every opportunity they get to profess their undying support for Tucson police.
The men and women in blue need that backing. Tucson just experienced 74 murders in 2008 – more than in any year in history.
But the mayor and council are about to cut three proposed police academy classes to only one, knowing that it won't produce enough new officers to replace those the department will lose through retirements and resignations.
Yet the mayor and council are also about to approve $7.6 million in bonds to build new solar panels on seven city buildings.
Why? Because they want some "free" federal money and solar power is a cool topic.
The federal government would pay part of the interest on the bonds, leaving the principal and up to 2 percent of the interest for the city to pay.
Think of when your supermarket cashier announced you'd saved more than $20 on your last grocery shopping trip. It may have cost you $80, but look what that plastic store card did for you!
Are you tempted to come back after lunch to double your savings or do you realize you can't afford to spend another $80?
Solar panels aren't groceries, but we're constantly bombarded by messages extolling the virtues of anything "green" or "sustainable."
Most products using those words cost more, but we're told that if we use them long enough, we'll eventually save money.
That's probably true. But it doesn't mean a family whose breadwinner has just been laid off should rush to buy a green gizmo before their savings account is exhausted.
Richard Elías, the Democratic chairman of the county Board of Supervisors, and his colleagues (Democrats Ramón Valadez and Sharon Bronson and Republicans Ann Day and Ray Carroll) also have problems.
They must also reduce their current budget and make more cuts or raise taxes in 2009-2010. They'll probably have to do both.
They've told Sheriff Clarence Dupnik they'll try not to cut his current budget if he agrees to not replace any deputies he loses between now and June 30.
You can see that the supervisors, like the council members, also favor law enforcement and oppose crime. Unless it costs money.
Solar panels aren't the supervisors' addiction. They're hooked on vacant land.
They've bought 159,000 acres of ranch land and acquired 127,280 acres of leased land in recent years, but it isn't enough. Nearly 12 percent of Pima County land is still privately owned. Until last year, it was 13 percent.
The supervisors are about to adopt their fifth draft habitat conservation plan for their Sonoran Desert Conservation project. They'll submit it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for approval, then hold a bond election to raise more money for their addiction to dirt.
They plan to spend $324,000 a year from 2009 to 2011 and $568,000 for the 2011-2012 fiscal year to monitor and study their vacant land. The total cost for the next decade would be more than $40 million.
Despite a tight budget, they say they must ensure they own enough land and have enough rules in place to guarantee survival of their favorite critters.
Surely you've also been worried about the Huachuca water umbel, the lesser long-nosed bat, the Marana piranha, the southwestern willow flycatcher, the western yellow-billed cuckoo, the Gila chub and Mexican garter snake.
But neither you nor the supervisors have seen all of them or discussed their status with anyone.
I made up the third one on that list because I just might apply for a county grant of a couple of million bucks to keep writing about the Marana piranha.
Frankly, though, I'd really rather have a few more deputy sheriffs.
Contact Steve Emerine or e-mail comments for publication to email@example.com. This column appears weekly in Inside Tucson Business.
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Extreme by Design: video about Design Thinking applied to real-world problems
EXTREME BY DESIGN, a new documentary produced by Hawkview Pictures and Kikim Media, premieres Wednesday December 11, 2013, 10:00 – 11:00 p.m. ET (check local listings) on PBS. The documentary vividly brings to life an educational sensation at Stanford University by capturing the experience of 40 students from the Institute of Design (d.school) as they design and build products that may save thousands of lives in Bangladesh, Indonesia and other developing countries they visit. The students use the "Design Thinking" approach being taught in a class called Design for Extreme Affordability.
The student teams, from multi-disciplinary backgrounds, apply freewheeling design methods, tapping previously undiscovered creativity and draw on methods from engineering and design, and combine them with ideas from the arts, tools from the social sciences, and insights from the business world. Believing that they can and will make a difference, the students open their hearts and brains and remarkably, almost magically, their products take shape and work.
Complementing the film are a series of educational workshops and courses, some of which will be included in PBS LearningMedia, a national classroom- ready digital resource library. Stanford educators used parts of the film in a five- week MOOC (massive open online course) on Design Thinking held last summer for 45,000 registrants. Currently, a 10-week after-school enrichment program, "Creating Change That Matters," under the auspices of Citizen Schools, is engaging middle-school student teams in tackling real-world problems at their schools. And a series of workshops, "Watch+Design," for students and educators, serves as a mini-introduction to Design Thinking methods and helps to prepare participants to apply the process of innovation in post-workshop projects.
You can find out more about the project and how to get screenings for educational use at www.extremebydesignmovie.com
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Marlies blank Bulldogs, 6-0
(CP) -- The Toronto Marlies used a strong power-play unit to shut out the Hamilton Bulldogs 6-0 in American Hockey League action Wednesday.
Keith Aucoin, Joe Colborne and Ryan Hamilton had power-play goals and Jerry D'Amigo scored shorthanded for the Marlies, while Aucoin and Greg McKegg also scored at even strength.
Toronto went 3-for-6 with the man advantage and denied all four of Hamilton's power-play chances.
Marlies netminder Ben Scrivens (13-7-1) faced only 14 shots for the shutout victory, and was at his sharpest during a 5-on-3 advantage for the Bulldogs midway through the second period.
Colborne, who scored for the second time in four games after going 18 contests without a goal, added two assists while Aucoin also had a helper for a three-point game. Toronto defenseman Mike Kostka chipped in with two assists.
The Marlies won for the 11th time in 14 contests (11-1-1-1) to improve to 20-9-1-2 in front of 7,851 fans at Ricoh Coliseum. Toronto padded its lead in the Western Conference and moved to within two points of the first-place Syracuse Crunch in the AHL's overall standings.
The Bulldogs, shut out for the third consecutive game, fell to 11-18-1-2. They have gone 180 minutes, 30 seconds without scoring a goal.
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Why ADHDers Act the Way We Do: Understanding ADD Behavior
Keys to understanding our ADHD thinking and behaviors -- from preferring the company of fellow ADD adults to hyperfocusing all night, to doubting our ability to perform when others want us to.
Why We're Overwhelmed
ADHDers experience life more intensely than neurotypicals. The ADHD nervous system wants to be engaged in something interesting and challenging. Attention is never "deficit." It's always excessive, constantly occupied with internal engagements. When ADDers aren't in The Zone, in hyperfocus, they have many things rattling around in their minds, all at once and for no obvious reason, like five people talking to them simultaneously. Nothing gets sustained, undivided attention. Nothing gets done well.


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Memorial Day weekend brings forth shows for everyone. For the kids, there's Derby Dinner's Princess Penelope's Dragon, a comedy in the vein of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. For women, Always a Bridesmaid is set to take place. For everyone else, the comedy Cash on Delivery will go on at Derby Dinner.
Don't forget about the ongoing shows as well as the auditions, including a new one at Alley Theater. Enjoy!
Derby Dinner Playhouse presents Cash on Delivery until June 29. http://www.louisville.com/content/derby-dinner-has-cash-delivery
Eve Theatre presents Always a Bridesmaid until June 1. http://www.louisville.com/content/always-bridesmaid-takes-stage-eve
Derby Dinner Playhouse presents Princess Penelope's Dragon until June 21. http://www.louisville.com/content/pink-dragon-blamed-derby-dinner
Ongoing shows:
Louisville Repertory Company presents Sylvia until May 25. http://www.louisville.com/content/mans-best-friend-versus-woman-lou-rep
Whodunnit Murder Mystery Theater presents The Specter at the Seance: The Spirit's Revenge until June 21.http://www.louisville.com/content/fortunes-told-whodunnit-murder-mystery
Hayswood Theatre presents See How They Run until May 25. http://www.louisville.com/content/running-hayswood-theatre-show
Alley Theater holding auditions for Boeing Boeing on May 31. https://www.facebook.com/events/683224328410177/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
The Drama Studio holding auditions for The Fantasticks on June 3.https://www.facebook.com/events/657729367619360/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
Hardin County Playhouse holding auditions for Jesus Christ Superstar on June 16 and 17.http://www.hardincountyplayhouse.com/auditions.html
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February 15, 2015
On Friday, February 6, I received the ACCJC Action Letter informing us as to the action that the Accrediting Commission took on January 8, 2015 relative to our 2014 Self-Evaluation Report and the visiting team report. This was our 6-year review. I am pleased to announce that the Commission acted to grant us reaffirmation of our accreditation status which means that we are clear for the next 6-year period, from 2014-2020.
In brief, here are the results:
I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you for joining in on this heroic effort to help regain Cuesta College's rightful place as a leader in excellence. We are seen as a model college, and the Action Letter included this statement from the Commission:
"The Commission would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate Cuesta College on the remarkable turnaround that it has accomplished between 2011 and 2013. It has followed all Commission directives for reports and visits and resolved the considerable deficiencies in practices that led to the College to non-compliance with the Accreditation Standards. The College has resolved those deficiencies, meets Standards and should take pride in its accomplishments."
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Cooking Fire to Blame for Early Morning Fire in West Seattle
November 19, 2012—A cooking fire is to blame for an early morning fire at a West Seattle home according to Seattle Fire Investigators. The fire is being ruled as accidental, caused by transients cooking in the living room of the boarded up home.
The initial 911 call came in at 5:09 a.m. reporting a fire in a home located in the 9000 block of 16th Avenue SW. Engine Company 11 arrived to find flames coming from the single-story home. Those flames were exposing to houses on both sides of burning structure.
Firefighters had to cut through the boards to make their way inside the basement. The fire was extinguished within 45 minutes.
The fire investigator found evidence the home was being used for transient habitation.
The damage estimate is $151,000.
Posted: November 19th, 2012 under Battalion 7 (W Seattle), Fire Line, Fire Prevention, Fires.
Tags: Accidental, cooking fire, transients, West Seattle


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Orange Cover is a beautiful little town that is a short drive from Fresno. The jogging trail in Orange Cover is paved and very easy to go jogging on. There is a multitude of young trees lining this jogging trail which provide shade with minimal tree litter. The jogging trail runs through both commercial and residential areas of the city. The jogging trail runs from James O Eaton Park to a residential area. The most amazing thing about the trail is that while jogging you can stop at small businesses and enjoy a refreshing treat. There is a small food truck that is not uncommonly seen at the park with amazing Horchata drinks. There are also several small restaurants on the jogging path that feel like you are eating in your grandmother's home. Additionally as you are jogging if you want to go shopping there are amazing honey roadside stands. Another amazing thing is that if you bring your backpack you can buy and take some fresh fruits and vegetables from road side stands so you can have a healthy meal.
The town can be reached by heading south from Fresno. There is ample parking at James O Eaton Memorial Park. The parking at 690 Sixth Street has easy in and out access. However this is a tiny farm town so there is rarely any problem with traffic or parking in the town as a whole.


text: In <firstname.lastname@example.com> Richard B. Johnson (email@example.com) wrote:RJ> On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Khimenko Victor wrote:>> Devfs DO NOT need major/minor system. It uses major/minor system for existing>> devices to simplify conversation but it's not requirement.RJ> What? The only reason for any of the stuff in the /dev directory isRJ> to associate a major/minor number with a file-descriptor. This happensRJ> during open(). This is Unix and that's the way Unix works. the choiceRJ> of putting such "devices" in the "/dev" directory is policy. TheyRJ> could be anywhere.Why it's so important ?RJ> Any 'devfs' cannot violate the Unix policy or you don't have Unix.And what if I'm not want Unix ? Keep something to be "unix way" just for sakeof keeping it "unix way" looks really stupid to me.RJ> This whole discussion is moot. What is needed is a larger dev_t.Devfs can do much more then just expanded dev_t ...RJ> It could be a structure (as proposed) or it could be a N-bit word.RJ> It doesn't matter, these are implementation details. Because ofRJ> the way dev_t, both in the kernel, and in the C runtime library, isRJ> accessed, any change will break practially everything. So changesRJ> must be carefully thought out.On other hand adding devfs breaks MUCH less things.RJ> Presently, a kernel that uses 'struct dev_t' will boot and thenRJ> fail to do anything useful after that. Every program that accessedRJ> files (practically all, if they use standard I/O), will have toRJ> be recompiled using a new 'C' runtime library that was modified toRJ> use the new dev_t structure. This is a lot of work, but will probablyRJ> eventually have to be done.Hmm. With devfs you can avoid all this. Even if it's not "Unix way".RJ> Something called 'devfs' where only existing hardware has entriesRJ> written in 'dev' fails to address the problem. It is not the amountRJ> of names (directory entries) that we are running out of, it is theRJ> amount of available values in major/minor device numbers.Correct. And when device is identified by name and not by major/minor numberinternally you have no such problem in first place.RJ> The Unix-like kernel knows only major/minor device numbers, not names.Which POSIX standard says how unix-like kernel acts inside ???RJ> If you have so many devices that you need major number N, you areRJ> presently screwed if N is greater than can be represented in theRJ> current dev_t.You hardly will have more then 65536 devices (dev_t size) and still nowwe have size of dev_t as limiting factor...RJ> So instead of inventing a new Operating System that doesn't useRJ> major/minor device numbers, I feel that time would be better spentRJ> extending the current dev_t. I personally like the structure approachRJ> because shifts/ANDs/ORs are machine-specific while a properly alignedRJ> structure is not.Unfortunatelly dev_t structure is also not "unix way". Since you can notuse assignment in C for dev_t. And if we are going to go out of "unix way"anyway then why it should be dev_t definition and not some other thing ?-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to email@example.com read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/


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Stare (Izumo x Reader)
My eyes squinted as I think hard with my next move. Me and Mikoto have been playing pool for awhile ever since Izumo bought a pool table in the bar. I've been at this for 2 days and Mikoto still wins! And I didn't even get a single win! Not even once!
I bit my lip in concentration as I did my next move carefully so I could win a score. I bent down and hit the white ball with my pool stick. It hits a black ball and it rolls into the pockets of the pool table as it gave me a score.
"Yes!" I cheered. I faced Mikoto who was sitting on the couch smoking.
He smirked. "Not bad... But you're still 9 scores before me." My face dropped to a pout.
It was still my turn to hit the ball, but I felt an uncomfortable feeling behind me. Like someones watching me.
I turned around to face Izumo who was smiling to himself. Like he was basking over something. "Who are you looking at Izumo-kun?" I asked him.
Izumo blinked when I called his name. "Huh? Oh, nothing." He smiled and continued to do what he always does... Wiping glass wines.
I tilted my head with bewilderment. I turned to Mikoto who had a smirk plastered on his face. "Just ignore him." He said. "He's just staring at you ass whenever you bend down."
Haha. Thanks for making this ☆*:.。. o(≧▽≦)o .。.:*☆
Lol!! Well mikoto so blunt! Lol!!!
so blunt mikoto
HAHAHA nice good job
Amazing xDD
I totally loved it, especially the end Oh Mikoto xDD
Keep on doing these epic fanfictions <3
Hahaha!!! That's pretty funny! Good job.
Oblivious reader is oblivious /facepalms. Thank you very much Mikoto for pointing it out as if it were the most normal thing in the world! AND IZUMO STOP STARING AT MY TOOSH.


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In the last few years, marijuana has been frequently in the news. Multiple states across the United States and countries around the world have moved toward successfully legalized medical Marijuana, and the Uruguay parliament recently voted to create the first legal marijuana market in the world. Off late, people in general have been opening up to the fact that marijuana may not be harmful as has been presented after all. On the contrary it actually has a lot of health benefits.
Marijuana offers a wide range of health benefits and multiple medical and scientific studies have confirmed these benefits of marijuana. On the other hand, arguments against the use of marijuana are usually published in Psychiatric journals, which offer no scientific evidence to prove that marijuana is completely harmful to human health. Over the years, many studies have shown that marijuana could indeed be very helpful in curing life threatening diseases like cancer.
Rick Simpson is a Canadian man who is known for treating cancer patients with his signature hemp oil. An article posted in Cannabis Culture explains how Rick discovered the benefits of hemp oil in curing cancer.
"After a serious head injury in 1997, Rick Simpson sought relief from his medical condition through the use of medicinal hemp oil. When Rick discovered that the hemp oil (with its high concentration of T.H.C.) cured cancers and other illnesses."
After he found that hemp oil could actually cure cancer and also offer other benefits, Rick decided to share his story with the world. He wanted to help those who were suffering from cancer and were at the risk of dying. He wanted to offer them with a natural and affordable alternative through which they could get relief from this dangerous disease.
The article posted in Cannabis Culture also tells us how the authorities reacted to Rick's story.
"Whe the story went public, the long arm of the law snatched the medicine - leaving potentially thousands of people without their cancer treatments - and leaving Rick with unconstitutional charges of possessing and trafficking marijuana!"
Rick Simpson has built somewhat of a cult following for his work using oil extracted from the cannabis plant to treat cancer patients. It is believed that he has helped to cure hundreds inflicted with cancer, including several terminal cases. His popularity was boosted by the success of an internet documentary film, Run From the Cure, that was released in 2008. However, Rick Simpson's success story has received very little attention from the mainstream media.


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Lauren Conrad Dating "Teen Wolf" Star?
"Lauren Conrad & Colton Haynes: New Couple Alert?" reads a headline from People, which says Conrad was spotted "enjoying the company" of the "Teen Wolf" star at L.A. club Trousdale last Friday.
According to the mag, "Conrad was clearly happy to be around Haynes – at one point draping her arms and legs around the actor in the back room of the lounge."
But the former and current MTV stars aren't getting romantic.
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UH Calendar
UH vs. Rutgers
For more information, see the volleyball schedule online.
By Federico Garcia Lorca
Directed by Keith Byron Kirk
The Mother has lost in feuds with the Felix family all her menfolks except her youngest son, The Bridegroom. She arranges a wedding with The Bride, who is loved by young Leonardo Felix. He and The Bride run away. Guided by The Beggar Woman (Death) and The Moon (A Young Woodcutter), The Bridegroom overtakes the lovers. He and Leonardo kill each other, leaving The Mother alone in her empty house.
Works by Mendellsohn, Vivaldi, and Poulenc.
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Works by McGlynn, Brumel, Mendelssohn, Gardner, and Ames.
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Ruben Garcia should be the president of the Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. fanclub. (Chris Farina).
I don't know Ruben Garcia. He might be a very nice man. I do know that Garcia was in the wrong place at the wrong time on Saturday night. More specifically, Garcia was sitting in a judge's chair scoring the fight between Nonito Donaire and Wilfredo Vazquez Jr.
It wasn't a hard fight to score. Donaire outlanded Vazquez in eleven of twelve rounds en route to a 231 to 163 show of superiority. Donaire also landed more power punches in every single round for a 147 to 56 advantage.
Judges Levi Martinez and Don Trella scored the fight 117-110 for Donaire. Every ringside report of the fight that I've read had Donaire winning by a comfortable margin. For the record, watching at home, I scored the fight 117-110 for Donaire.
Garcia scored the fight 115-112 for Vazquez.
In other words; the consensus among knowledgeable observers was that Donaire won nine of twelve rounds. Garcia gave eight rounds to Vazquez.
"Gave" is the proper word for most of those rounds. Vazquez didn't earn them.
What was Garcia watching? It was almost as though fans could have checked out "early results from San Antonio" on a boxing website before the bout and read that Garcia had Vazquez ahead by four points at the opening bell.
No doubt, some people are saying today, "What's the big deal? It doesn't matter. The other two judges got it right."
Trust me. It's a big deal.
Suppose Donaire-Vazquez had been close, with Levi Martinez scoring the bout for Donaire and Don Trella scoring the fight for Vazquez (or vice versa). Garcia would have cast the deciding ballot.
Also; think of all the fights out of the spotlight that Garcia has scored over the years. How many fighters have been deprived of a victory that might have made a difference in their lives because of his scoring?
I'm not familiar with the body of Ruben Garcia's work. It might be that he's a capable unbiased judge who simply had a (very) bad night.
That said, Texas is a state that takes pride in its sports heritage. I doubt that it wants to become known as "The Bad Officiating Capitol of America."
Al Bernstein once wrote, "Justice is not always served in boxing. Months of work and sweat and blood can be trivialized and wasted by incompetent or biased judges."
People in boxing would do well to remember Ruben Garcia's scorecard in Donaire-Vazquez.
Thomas Hauser can be reached by email at firstname.lastname@example.com. His most recent book (Winks and Daggers: An Inside Look at Another Year in Boxing) was published by the University of Arkansas Press.
Horrible scorecard turned in by Garcia. This was an easy fight to score. Vazquez hung tough but he only won two rounds at best. Maybe Garcia dozed off alot. Maybe he was on the take. I don't know but no way does he get a pencil and a rindside seat ever again.
I agree with Roast. Inept officiating has destroyed the sport.
He mr.rober garcia better not to judge again plzzzzz..he will be banned forever on boxing council.....he better judge in the wwe mania..
Yes..mr.roben garcia better banned judging on boxing..
I am just an ordinary audience and not a boxing expert but as I looked between Donaire and Vasquez's fight through our small TV, it is very clear Donaire is a clear winner with a big margin. Even my nephew who is just a 10 years of age who happened sitting beside me in our house during the fight night told me while the result was not yet announced that Donaire is the winner. How Judge Garcia scored the fight?
I don't know how Judge Garcia scored it 115 - 112. It must be on his vantage point that he viewed the fight. If that is so, let me have a humble idea that in every judge of boxing event, let there be a recording camera (preperably a small camera attached to his head, this is to synchronize his head movement with the camera) that can be viewed after the fight so that if the judge score is questionable, just review the recorded event on that vantage point of the judge. This precautionary measure of putting camera will not only caution the judge of making a bad decision but will find out if a judge is competent enough to be a judge. No hokus pokus?
honestly, i got vasquez winning only 5 rounds, but the 9th round knock down made it hard for him to win. so if judge ruben garcia had it 115-112 in vasquez favor then that knock down may not have been counted and donaire only won 5 rounds the most.
my dog had nightmares cause of this judge
Ditto the Roast! He's DA MAN! Holla!
Guy scored the fight like an ignorant, excited fan might have scored it - having an orgasm every time Vasquez landed a single jab or right, convincing himself that the Donaire's punches didn't matter. Thing that blows me away, also, is that it isn't anonymous. Who in his right mind would willingly put up an incompetent or fraudulent scorecard knowing full well that the boxing world and the big money players are watching? Is this guy self-destructive? Insane?
Dr Ruben Garcia scored it "correctly", except that he had thought Donaire was Vasquez and vice versa. In his notes Donaire was wearing black globes and Vasquez red globes.
He should never be allowed to judge any contests again, not even amateur singing contests.
Don't forget to mention the 10-8 round. Ruben Garcia is obviously Latino. I've seen this kind of biased judging when it comes to Latino judges and their fighters. Call me racist if you want but that's not the point. I've seen this happen way too many times not just Latino judges but referees officiating in favor of their kind. It's even worse when it's Mexican for Mexican.
@maromero, HEHEHEHEHEHE! That was a classic. You are one funny dude. I bet the fleas on the neighbor's dog had a nerve-wracking breakdown. Holla!
In my Charles Barkley voice that judge was terrible!!!!!
Well with all the obvious indicators for Mr Garcia and yet he still scored it for Vasquez....I can't help but the only way I can think of is he got some extra pay....as simple as that. This guy has to be investigated. It is ruining the sport, robbed the boxers and made a fool out of the fans. This guy Dr. Garcia is a SICK DOCTOR!
Bad judging? Read this from NowBoxing.com:
Who will win the Sergey Kovalev vs Andre Ward fight?


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The ORDINARY of NEWGATE his Account of the Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn on Wednesday the 7th of February, 1704/1705.
AT the Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the 15th, 16th and 17th of January last, Six Persons, viz. 4 Men and 2 Women, receiv'd Sentence of Death. The two Women being found with Quick Child, and Two of the Men having obtain'd Her Majesty's gracious Reprieve, are respited from present Execution; and the other Two, namely, Joseph Johnson, and John Norton, are order'd for it.
The Day on which they receiv'd that Sentence, I visited them in the Condemned Hold. And from that time forth to this, I had them brought up twice every Day to the Chappel in Newgate, where I instructed them in the Word of God, pray'd with them, and exhorted them to Repentance, and to the making a careful and right Use of the few Moments which they had to live in this World; wherein they had (at least some of them) so far as it appeared, done so much Evil, and no Good at all; and wherein they had now so little time to stay, to undo the one, and perform the other, i. e. To repair those great Defects and hainous Offences, both of Commission and Omission, which (by the Providence and Justice of God) had brought them to this Condemnation, and if not rectify'd by the present Amendment of them all, even those of them who might possibly expect to live longer than the rest, would bring them at last to that wofull State of Eternal Condemnation, which is far, nay infinitely, beyond the dreadfulness and Misery of any Temporal Judgment, how terrible and severe soever it might be.
On the Lord's Day, the 21st of Jan. last, I preached twice to them, viz. in the Morning and Afternoon; and took for my Text, these Words of the Prophet, Isai. 55. 6, and 7. (being part of the First Morning Lesson) Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: Call ye upon him, while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his Way, and the Unrighteous Man his Thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have Mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
From which Words, I discours'd upon these 4 Heads, viz.
I. The Command which is doubled here, Seek ye the Lord: Call ye upon him.
II. The pressing Exhortation to our Obedience to that Command; from this twofold Consideration; 1. That God is not always to be found; And 2. That he is not always near at Hand, to help those that neglect to seek him, and to call upon him in due time. Seek the Lord, while he may be : Call ye upon him, while he is near.
III. The Disposition requisite for our Seeking the Lord, so as to find him; and calling upon him, so as to be heard. Let the Wicked forsake his Way, and the Unrighteous Man his Thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord.
IV. and lastly, The great Encouragement we have to do this, viz. That God will have great Mercy upon us, and will pardon us, not only a few or small Faults, but many and most heinous Faults, yea all our Sins of what degree, and nature, or number soever they be; provided we do timely and sincerely repent of them. Let the Wicked forsake his Way, and the Unrighteous Man his Thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have Mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Having explained and inlarg'd upon those foregoing Heads, I then reduced the Exhortative Part of my Discourse to these following Particulars, viz.
1st, The Necessity of seeking to God; because without him we are under the greatest Loss, and in the most lamentable State that can be imagin'd.
2dly, The Manner of this Seeking. It must be with great earnestness, and the most fervent application of the whole heart. So we find, Deut. 4. 29. If thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy Soul. And to this purpose, God himself thus speaks by his Prophet. Jer. 29. 13. Ye shall seek me, and shall find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
3dly, The Time of doing this: viz. the present time, as soon as ever we can, without any delay. Prov. 8. 17. I love them that love me, and those that seek me early shall find me.
4thly, The great Danger of putting off this Duty, and doing it too late. Prov. 1. 28, 29, 30. They shall call upon me, but I will not answer: They shall seek me; but they shall not find me; for that they hated Knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord, they would none of my Counsel; They despis'd all my Reproof.
5thly and Lastly, - The infinite Advantage which Men may and shall certainly reap from their seeking to God in due time, and with all the vigor of their Souls. Psal. 119. 2. Blessed are they that seek him with their whole heart. And Psal. 9. 10. They that know thy Name will put their trust in thee: For thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. And this assurance we have from God himself. Amos 5. 4. See ye me, and ye shall live.
On the Lord's Day the 28th of January, I preach'd again to them, both in the Forenoon and Afternoon, upon part of the 2d Morning-Lesson, viz. Matth. 25. 46. And these shall go away into everlasting Punishment, But the Righteous into Life Eternal.
From which Words I shew'd, That there will be a Judgment pass'd upon all Men; and that Judgment shall be twofold, as the Persons to be judged shall be of two different sorts.
I. There shall be a Judgment unto Eternal Death, for Wicked and Impenitent Sinners. These shall go away into Everlasting Punishment.
II. There shall be a Judgment unto Eternal Life, for such as shall have liv'd godly and religiously, or repented truly and sincerely. They shall be accounted Righteous, as having Christ's Righteousness imputed to them; by which they shall obtain that Eternal Life, mentioned in the Text, which imports all the Glory and Happiness of Heaven. The Righteous shall go into Life Eternal.
Upon these I inlarged, and shewed both the Certainty of this Judgment, and how to prevent the Severity of it, viz. by a timely Return to God.
On Tuesday the 30th of January, being the Fast-Day, I preach'd to them again, both in the Morning and Afternoon upon these Words, 1 Pet. 2. 17. being part of the Epistle for the Day - Fear God: Honour the King.
From which Words I laid down this Proposition, viz. That they are the best Subjects and the most Obedient to their Superiours, who truly fear God.
Upon which I inlarged, and particularly on the first Part of the Text, Fear God. Which I made also the Subject of the Lord's Day that follow'd, viz. The 4th Instant, when (to this purpose) I did, both Morning and Afternoon, take for my Text, Job 28. 28. And unto Man he said, Behold the Fear of the Lord, that is Wisdom, and to depart from Evil is Understanding.
From whence I shew'd,
That as the Fear of God, Which is Religion in the Abstract, keeps us from doing Evil, and directs us to that which is good; so the want of this Fear brings Men into Sin and Misery.
This was the Subject of my then Discourses, which I summ'd up with pressing Exhortations to Amendment of Life.
On the 6th Instant, being the Birth-day of our most Gracious Queen, I (according to my Custom) preach'd in the Morning to the Prisoners in Newgate. And this (besides my other Discourses from the Desk) was my 9th Sermon to these Persons since under Condemnation. I took my Text out of one of the Psalms that came of Course then to be read; viz. Psal 30. the latter part of the 12th Verse - O Lord my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
In speaking to which, I laid down this Proposition: viz.
I. That the Service of God consists of these two great Duties, viz. Prayer and Praise. In both which Holy David, who was fervently and constantly exercising himself herein, is a fit Pattern for our Imitation.
Then I shew'd;
I. The Dispositions we ought to be in to present our Prayers, and Offer up our Praises to God.
II. The Subject of our Thanks and Praise, which is general, for all Things and for all Men, as the Apostle directs, Eph. 5. 20. and 1 Tim. 2. 1.
III. The great Priviledge, Benefit, and Advantages of our praising God.
And Lastly, I concluded with a Word or two to the Persons condemned, spoken to this Effect, That if they had, all this while they were under Condemnation earnestly pray'd to God, and heartily endeavour'd to be reconcil'd to him through JESUS CHRIST, and by Faith and Repentance, prepared themselves for another Life; they might now feel great Joy at their approaching Dissolution, in this comfortable Perswasion and Assurance, That their Sins were forgiven them; That all their Miseries were near at
an end; And that they were going to enter upon a State of Bliss and Glory, in which they should praise God for ever. But withall they must remember, that this happy and glorious State is not attainable without sincere Repentance.
And thus I ended all my Discourses here with particular Applications to the Condemned; whom I endeavour'd, by all the convincing Arguments I could think of, to perswade to this important and most necessary Duty of Repentance. This was the great Theam on which I discours'd to them every Day. Wherein I had Opportunity to observe their Behaviour, which appear'd very decent and devout, according to their weak Capacities. So that from thence I may say, I have some ground to hope that if they were inwardly affected, as they seem'd outwardly to be, those of them that are now reprieved, will lead a better Life than ever they did; which God grant they may do: And for those that have suffer'd the Law, as I left them to the Mercy of God, at their Departure oua of this World; so I leave them now to the Judgment of Men, as to what relates to their Confessions to me: Which are as follow.
1. Joseph Johnson, Condemned for Robbing on the High-way. He said, he was about 34 Years old, born in the Parish of Presbury in Cheshire: That his Father was a Husbandman, and he a Servant to him, till he came to be about 22 Years of Age; at which time he came up to London, and was a Servant to 3 or 4 Brewers successively for 7 years or thereabouts. Then turning a Porter , he ply'd in the Streets of London, under the Protection of a Freeman of this City; and afterwards, having got a little Money, he became a Fruiterer . He confessed he had been an ill Liver, breaking the Sabbath-day, and committing several Acts of Lewdness and Debauchery, as Whoredom, Adultery, and the like: But he would fain have perswaded me, that he was innocent of the Fact for which he was condemned; asserting most positively for a great while, his being innocent as to any Concern he had in that Matter. But at last he confess'd it plainly; saying, it was true that on the 30th of Nov. last he robb'd Mr. Woolley of a Silver-Watch and some Money on the High-way, being then with three Companions of his. He confess'd also that the said Watch was by a Friend of his (with his Consent) put into the Hand of Mr. Colman (the Evidence against him) in order to his pawning or selling of it. Upon my asking him several Questions, and particularly these. 1. How he came by his Wounds? For, by his own Confession, he had been shot, and received seven Bullets in his Body. 2. Whether he had ever committed, or endeavour'd to commit any Robbery, and where? And 3. Whether he was the Man that us'd to rob on the Black Mare? He answer'd to the first, That about a Fortnight or three Weeks before he was sent to Newgate, he being out upon a Horse he had hired, with a Design to rob on the High-way, in company with another Man, they did (between Honslow-Heath and Colebrook) meet with a Stage-Coach, having four Gentlemen in it, who seeing him come pretty near the Coach, and perhaps also perceiving that he had sometimes a Mask on, were (as he supposes) apprehensive of his Design of robbing them: And upon that, did (that is, one of them) shoot him with a Brass-Piece or Blunderbuss, and lodged seven or eight Bullets in his Body. To the Second Question, He said, That he had (in company with some others, that is 3, or 4 High-way-Men he was acquainted with) robb'd some Stage-Coaches and Travellers, but not many, he having begun this Trade of Robbing on the High-Way but in Summer last, when he was perswaded to it by others who had been used to it before him; adding that he never took things of great Value, nor offer'd much Violence to any Person; and that he was so far from designing Murther at any time, that he always resolv'd rather to be killed than kill; because he consider'd that Men were in the right to stand upon their own Defence; but his assaulting of them was unlawful. And this it was that kept him from killing the Gentleman that shot him near Hounslow Heath; which he said, he could easily have done. To the 3d Question, he gave me this Answer; That he had heard of a Man that used to rob on a Black Mare; but he was not the Man, nor knew him. Thus having answer'd to all these Questions, and I thereupon giving him the best Direction I could to repair (as far as possible) the Injuries he had done, and to apply himself to God for Mercy and Pardon; he seem'd to be very sensible of his Faults, and very desirous to make the World amends for them: But as he could not, so he earnestly beg'd of God and Man to forgive him, as he heartily forgave them that wounded him, and all others that had done him any harm; declaring that he died in perfect Charity with all Mankind; and protesting (upon the Word of a Dying Man) that though he had been a wicked Liver (as before confess'd) yet he never wrong'd the Masters that he serv'd, unless it were in such a small Matter as sometimes to make his Friends drink at their cost. And moreover, he said, that when he was a Porter, being often employed in carrying things of Value, as Plate and Money (which he had done sometimes to the Worth of 200l. at once) he ever was faithful to his Trust. To all he had thus told me he added, That about the latter end of King William's Reign, he being condemned (and that justly too) for stealing some Lead about High-Gate, he was ordered into His then MAJESTY's Service; but he bought it off for 4l. or better: And after that was again committed to Newgate; but it being upon Suspicion only, and no Body appearing against him at the Sessions (as there was no real Cause for it) he was then acquitted. Both these times he said, he went by another Name than that of Johnson, which is not his right Name; but that was; which he desir'd should be here conceal'd, lest it should come to his old Father's Ears, and so bring his Gray-Hair with Sorrow to the Grave. When at the first he was under this Sentence of Death, he seem'd very uneasie, and unsettled in his Mind, as being divided between Hopes and Fears; with a Mixture of other diquieting Passions, as worldly Sorrow, Love for this Life, Anger, Revenge, and the like; but in time he grew more ease, and at last, wholly resign'd himself to the Divine Providence: So that when he came to understand that there was no hope for him in this Life, and that he must certainly die, he cry'd, The Lord s Will be done. I am willing to die. The Lord prepare me for it, and grant me a better Life. From this time forwards he appeared very well composed in his Spirit, and said, he hop'd that God, for his Redeemer's sake, would forgive him all his Sins. He pray'd that all Ill-Livers, and particularly those he had been concerned with, would take Warning by him, so as to amend their Lives, and thereby prevent their Ruine.
II. John Norton, Condemned for privately Stealing a piece of Damask out of Mr. William Elliot's Shop, on the 25th of December last. He said, he was about 28 Years of Age, born at Athlone in Ireland; That at the beginning of K. William's Reign, being then about 12 Years old, he went to the Army; and having at first been an Officer's Boy , he became afterwards a Soldier under the Command of Capt. Stagby, in Brigadier Titcomb's Regiment; and served also in Brigadier Stuart and Brigadier Hamilton their Regiments, sometimes as a private Centinel, and sometimes as a Trooper. He confess'd, he had been a loose Liver, and guilty of other Felonies besides that for which he was to die: and that (particularly) about a Fortnight or three Weeks before Christmas last, he (with another Person) stole a Parcel of Stockings out of a Hosier's Shop without Temple-Bar; and that he had for his Share Nine Dozen of them, which he then sold for Two Shillings a Pair, to one that was at that time just going beyond Sea. He told me, that though his Father was a Protestant, yet his Mother being a Roman Catholick , he was baptiz'd in that Church of which his Mother was, and so desir'd to die in it. I found him very ignorant in any thing of Religion; and by his own Confession, he had liv'd without Religion in the World, having in his former Course of Life, very little concerned himself with the Knowledge or Practice of Christian Duties; for which, he said he was now sorry, and wish'd he had liv'd better. He readily, and without any Disguise, owned the Fact for which he was condemned, and said, he never was guilty of Murther: But for other the Offences he had committed (which he confess'd were not few) he pray'd, that God, and those he had wrong'd, would forgive him, as he freely forgave all Men; That was his own Expression; by which he would declare his dying in Charity with all the World. I found there was but one of all the Six condemned Persons beforementioned that could read; which was a great Disadvantage to them. However, through the Care that was taken, this was (as well as it could be) supplyed by others Reading out of the Bible and other good Books to them, while they lay under this Condemnation, which they were (in some measure) sensible that their great Ignorance of so useful a thing as the Knowledge of Reading is, had been one of the Means of bringing them to.
This Day of their Execution being come, they were carried in a Cart to Tyburn, where I attended them for the last time, and having asked them whether they had any thing to add to, or alter in their Confessions, they told me No. But desired my Prayers, and the Prayers of all the Standers-by. One of them, viz. Johnson, openly owned that he had done much Evil, but no Good in the World; and herenpon begged God's Pardon, and the Pardon of them he had offended; and earnestly desired, that as he had not by his Life, so he might now by his Death do good, and that his Suffering thus shamefully might prove an happy Occasion of other Sinners Amendment.
Then I exhorted them to stir up their Hearts to God: And after Prayers and singing of Psalms, and the rehearsing of the Apostles Creed, and their warning the People by their sad Example to avoid all manner of Sin; After this (I say) wa over, I committed them to God; and retiring from them, left them to their private Devotions, for which they had some time allowed them. Then were they turned off as they were calling upon God in these and the like Ejaculations, which they often repeated. Lord have Mercy upon us! O Father of Mercies open thy Gates unto us, and let us enter in. O Lord despise us not, Reject us not! Lord strengthen us! Lord Jesus save us through the Merits of thy precious Blood! Lord, into thy Hands I commend my Spirit, &c.
This is all the Account that can be given here of these Dying Malefactors, by
PAUL LORRAIN, Ordinary of Newgate.
Wed. Feb.7.1704.
London, Printed by J. Downing in Bartholomew-Close near West-Smithfield, 1704.


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MEMORY MAKER Samsung has announced production of embedded Multimedia Card (eMMC) chips in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB densities.
Samsung has been pushing the performance and capacity of its eMMC NAND flash chips to meet the demands of high-end smartphones and tablets. Now the firm said it has begun volume production of eMMC Pro Class 1500 modules in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB capacities.
According to Samsung its latest memory chips, which use a toggle DDR2 interface, have a sequential read bandwidth of up to 140MB/s while write bandwidth is up to 50MB/s. As for random I/O, Samsung claims the chips can do 3,500 IOPS read and 1,500 IOPS write.
Samsung also touted its ability to create high memory densities afforded by its 20nm class process node. The firm said the eMMC chips can be stacked in two, four or eight dies with the largest 64GB capacity having a thickness of 1.2mm.
Given Samsung's leading position in the NAND flash memory market, this announcement suggests that high-end smartphones and tablets will stick to a maximum of 64GB on-board storage for a year or two yet. Of course handset makers can opt to put more than one of Samsung's chips on the PCB, but given the space constraints of smartphones and tablets and the need for larger batteries, that seems unlikely.
Samsung said it expects its eMMC Pro Class 1500 NAND flash memory chips to end up in high-end smartphones and tablets. µ
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