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U.S. News & World Report compiled its list of the best diets this month, the DASH diet came out on top -- for the fourth year in a row.
The magazine reported:
U.S. News evaluated and ranked the 32 diets below with input from a panel of health experts. To be top-rated, a diet had to be relatively easy to follow, nutritious, safe and effective for weight loss and against diabetes and heart disease. The government-endorsed Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) snagged the top spot.
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, who developed the diet, describe it as:
Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) is a flexible and balanced eating plan. DASH was one of three eating plans that were compared in research studies sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).
The goal of this research was to study the effects of diet on high blood pressure. The results showed that the DASH eating plan lowers blood pressure.
The plan:
- Is low in saturated fat, cholesterol, and total fat
- Focuses on fruits, vegetables, and fat-free or low-fat dairy products
- Is rich in whole grains, fish, poultry, beans, seeds, and nuts
- Contains fewer sweets, added sugars and sugary beverages, and red meats than the typical American diet
The Dash Diet Plan website says:
Why has the DASH diet been ranked as the best diet, the healthiest diet, and the best diet for diabetes, 4 years in a row? The expert panel of physicians assembled by US New & World Reports chose DASH because it is proven to improve health, has a balance of healthy food groups, and it actually works. It has been proven to lower blood pressure and cholesterol, and is associated with lower risk of several types of cancer, heart disease, stroke, heart failure, kidney stones, reduced risk of developing diabetes, and can slow the progression of kidney disease.
The DASH diet plan is pretty standard mainstream medical advice. There is a focus on whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables and lean protein sources. Sugar, salt and fat are restricted, as is alcohol.
U.S. News says it's easy to follow the DASH diet:
First, decide how much you want to read. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), which helped develop DASH, publishes free guides on the plan. One (PDF here) is 64 pages while another (PDF here) is six. Both take you through the same process of determining how many calories you should eat for your age and activity level, tell you where those calories should come from, and remind you to go easy on salt. It's as simple as that.
The report says it's likely that people who follow the diet will lose weight, especially if they plan the diet with a "calorie deficit."
The plan is considered a good diet for:
- lowering blood pressure
- increasing good HDL cholesterol
- decreasing bad LDL cholesterol and triglycerides
- preventing or controlling diabetes
- losing weight
The DASH diet can also easily accommodate vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, kosher, halal and low-sodium diets.
Huffington Post summarized what U.S. News had to say about all 32 diets that U.S. News reviewed (including the Mayo Clinic diet, the Mediterranean diet, Jenny Craig, vegan diets, the macrobiotic diet, Weight Watchers, the Flexitarian diet, the raw food diet and the lowest-rated Paleo diet) here.
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The 2014 NFL season will begin on Sunday, September 7, for the St. Louis Rams, with a Dome Opener matchup against the Minnesota Vikings at the Edward Jones Dome in downtown St. Louis.
Kickoff that day is scheduled for noon, and will pit two clubs against one another that are both looking to bounce back from an injury-plagued 2013 season that saw both the Rams and Vikings miss the playoffs and finish the year with losing records.
"This is always one of the most anticipated days of the NFL offseason," Rams head coach Jeff Fisher said in a statement released by the team. "We're excited to open the season at home in front of our fans against Minnesota. The Edward Jones Dome is one of the toughest venues in the NFL because of the atmosphere our fans create. It's a great place to begin our quest to becoming NFC West champions."
St. Louis, which won seven games for the second consecutive year under Fisher, was the only team in the NFC West Division that didn't have a winning record last year, as the eventual Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks, the San Francisco 49ers, and even the Arizona Cardinals all won at least 10 games.
Playing home-and-home series with those three teams already ensures the Rams of having a tough schedule in 2014, but with additional matchups against teams from the NFC East and AFC West, it's not a stretch to believe St. Louis might have the toughest schedule in the entire league.
The Rams will play seven games against teams that made the playoffs last year, including both Super Bowl participants and three of the four that played in last year's conference championship games.
On the road this year, St. Louis will play at Seattle, San Francisco, and Arizona, while also traveling to Tampa Bay, Philadelphia, Kansas City, San Diego, and Washington.
Home games this year at the Edward Jones Dome will feature matchups against the three NFC West opponents, the Dome Opener against Minnesota, and visits from Dallas, Denver, Oakland, and the New York Giants.
The 2014 Rams home schedule will also feature both of the club's primetime national television matchups.
On October 13, St. Louis will host San Francisco in the weekly Monday Night Football matchup on ESPN. Then on December 11, the Rams will host Arizona in a Thursday Night Football game that will be televised on CBS.
The home finale is December 21 against the Giants, with the regular season finale coming the following week at Seattle. That contest will mark the fourth time in the last five seasons that St. Louis will end its season with a road game against the Seahawks.
2014 St. Louis Rams Schedule
August 8 vs. New Orleans Saints ....... 7 p.m.
August 16 vs. Green Bay Packers ..... 3 p.m.
August 23 at Cleveland Browns ......... 7 p.m.
August 28 at Miami Dolphins ............. 6 p.m.
Regular Season
September 7 vs. Minnesota Vikings ............ Noon
September 14 at Tampa Bay Buccaneers ... 3:05 p.m.
September 21 vs. Dallas Cowboys ............ Noon
September 28 *** BYE WEEK ***
October 5 at Philadelphia Eagles ................ Noon
October 13 vs. San Francisco 49ers .......... 7:30 p.m.
October 19 vs. Seattle Seahawks .............. Noon
October 26 at Kansas City Chiefs ............. Noon
November 2 at San Francisco 49ers .......... 3:05 p.m.
November 9 at Arizona Cardinals .............. 3:05 p.m.
November 16 vs. Denver Broncos ............. Noon
November 23 at San Diego Chargers ........ 3:05 p.m.
November 30 vs. Oakland Raiders ............ Noon
December 7 at Washington Redskins ......... Noon
December 11 vs. Arizona Cardinals ........... 7:25 p.m.
December 21 vs. New York Giants ........... 3:05 p.m.
December 28 at Seattle Seahawks ............. 3:25 p.m.

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A. Exactly. Men tend not to remember those kinds of details, and that's why women often sit up at night after a fight, while men are snoring away. The psychological conflict of stress registers more deeply in the female brain. Researchers don't know exactly why, but when we do functional MRI scans, the emotional circuitry of the female brain lights up more during states of emotional conflict. Men may seem as if they don't care, but that's not really what's going on. Their brains are not structurally designed for emotional conflict to be laid down in their long-term memory. The seat of memory formation — the hippocampus — is larger in females, as is the brain circuitry for observing emotions in others. Men, by contrast, have two-and-a-half times the brain space devoted to sexual pursuit, as well as larger brain centers for action and aggression.
Q. So how does knowing about these brain differences help women, day to day?
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Buy Dr. Louann Brizendine's The Female Brain›
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A/N: So sorry for the mega delay on posting this! I had a good chunk of this written out before and wrote a little at a time when I had the time. (Mostly distracted by other things and kinda got lazy, sorry) But I wrote the rest of it yesterday and just finished it and am posting this now.. in the middle of the night. Go me. XD I'm still not quite used to writing the Late Night Crew, so if they're acting OOC (out of character) then I'm sorry. I'm still learning and pretty rusty in terms of writing fics and stuff.
Pairing: None
Rating: PG 13+(Better safe than sorry)
Chapter 1 - Enter the Mad
Russ Money watched over the group as they set about making sure all the systems and equipment were good to go before they would even allow Cry to sit on that dentist chair. Scott and Snake were at one of the computers typing a message; well Scott was typing it and the mostly silent and gruff man glared at the computer as if it offended him in someway. Everyone easily knew why though. Red was checking the lone server that stood not far from the chair, and hooked to the wall of monitors so everyone could see 'CyberSpace' within it, but it truly wasn't CyberSpace at all, if anything it was just a portion solely created for this battle, also served to prevent Virus from escaping if things went sour for him. Minx and Krism were helping Cry into the chair where he would spend the entire time on. And none of them even wanted to think how long that would be.
Once he was laying back as comfortably as he could possibly feel, Minx had the unfortunate job of strapping him snugly against it. She let out a soft whimper as she placed one of his wrists against the soft yet sturdy cuff and secured it as tightly as she could without cutting off the blood circulation to his hand. Before she moved away to secure his ankles, the British gamer jumped slightly as a hand gently rested on hers. The hand was bigger and didn't at all feel like Krism's, so she looked out of the corner of her eyes and traced the arm that connected to the hand. Green fabric. She twitched and looked at Cry who had turned to face her. His mask covered his expression but on some level she knew he was trying to give her a reassuring smile.
"I'm scared too."
"You don't have to do this," Minx pointed out as she gave his hand a friendly squeeze, hoping to talk him out of it. He chuckled and squeezed her hand back in reassurance, turning away from her.
"I know but it'll never stop if I don't try, will it?"
"I suppose it won't."
The British YouTuber sighed and went about to securing the rest of his limbs. She hated this, to see him do this and she knew damn well how obvious everyone else hated it. If only there was something more they could do to help him, then Cry wouldn't be risking his life on this suicide mission. She sighed and finished securing his legs before going around the chair to his free hand. As she grabbed his wrist to place into the cuff, Minx turned her head to glance at the others.
Russ looked tired she noted, seeing him lean on rails to the small upstairs platform where it led to a fair sized kitchen. He had his arms on the railing, rubbing at the bridge of his nose wearily as he slightly leaned into Red's comforting hug. Minx's eyes then slid over to Scott and Snake as the two seemed to glare at the computer screen before them. Snake muttered something under his breath then slightly jumped when the other male thumped his arm with the back of his hand in slight retaliation without looking at him. She had to smirk at Snake's expression when he semi-glared at his friend then shrugged it off and muttered again. The British gamer was just looking over at Krism when she heard Cry mumble her name. She didn't turn, watching her love double check the server.
"Hmm?" She kept her gaze on Krism, wanting to just forget the whole situation for a few seconds and just get lost in an almost dream like state as she watched her fuss over some random cable. She was sure Cry would understand that she needed this distraction for just a minute or two...
The hand she held quickly slipped away then snatched at her wrist, gripping it tightly in one swift motion. Startled, Minx yipped at the painful grab, knowing Cry would never hurt her or any of them unless he was terrified or something was very wrong. She turned to see what it was and came face to face with Cry's mask...
Only it wasn't his anymore.
The mask was only a twisted parody of the poker faced one. Deep black scribbles circled the eyes chaotically; and the mouth -if it could be called that- was nothing more than a jagged, toothy smile that was scrawled in place by unsteady hands. What scared Minx more was the eyes surrounded by all the scribbles. They flashed bright red as Cry leered at her, making her shriek in shock. 'That's not Cry!' She reminded herself as the rest of the crew twisted in place to see what happened.
Mad had paid a visit.
"Why don't you turn those lovely eyes to me, Minxy?" The double purred darkly, the mask smiling wider as he tightened his grip on her wrist, making her yelp again in pain, "What's the matter, love? Don't see me and Cry as sexy anymore?"
Mad chuckled as a barrel of a gun was pressed against his temple, keeping Minx trapped as she pulled on her arm to get free of his grasp. He wasn't the least shaken at the sight of the weapon as he turned and pressed the mask against the barrel, grinning up at Snake in the eyes. He knew it unnerved the man, to stare directly at him as his red eyes flashing with barely contained blood lust. "Hello there, friend. Come to play with me? You'll have to wait, Minxy seems to be in a kinky mood." He giggled as the British woman growled and jerked on her arm.
"The hell I am, you bloody freak! I'll kill you if you don't let go!"
"Ooh, is that a promise? I love you too, my bloody murderer."
Snake growled and pressed the gun further against Mad's face. "Let her go. Or I'll give you another hole to breathe out of."
Red gasped as she and the others gathered close. "Snake, you can't shoot him! You'll kill Cry too!"
Russ was quick to put a hand on his friend's shoulder to get him to look at him and firmly told him to put the weapon down, but the man didn't waver. Instead, he kept his gaze and gun steady, even as that god awful stare creeped him out. He didn't want to yet he still saw Cry in Mad; still saw that innocent man trapped by possession but he kept himself steady. There was no way in hell he was going to let this madman win.
"Snake, put the gun down."
Mad stared at him, tilted his head almost innocently as if to study him then the mask's grin grew wider. He chuckled lightly then laughed. "You're actually serious in keeping that promise to him aren't you?"
Scott looked confused. "Wait... what promise?"
"Oh that's right, they never told you any of you, huh?"
"They didn't need to know." Snake snapped as the insane counterpart of their friend continued laughing; completely ignoring the man's warning growl, Mad began to tease the group with the news.
"Your cheeky chums here made a cute little pact! A bloody one at that. I'm pretty proud actually."
"Shut up!"
"What pact?"
"A pretty good one! Say, did Cry ever request how he wanted to-?" Mad went on giggling, enjoying situation.
"I promised Cry that I would kill him, if he couldn't regain control from Mad or if Mad hurt or attempted to hurt one of us!" Snake finally confessed, managing a flinch when the group gasped and Mad laughed again. The Late Night Crew looked at each other in horror, letting the information sink in. Had Cry gone to such extremes to protect them? Go as far as to ask one of his own friends to kill him if he lost total control in secret? They couldn't believe it, almost rejected the idea but then it was Cry. They knew the dangers he carried but perhaps they didn't really realize the full impact of what could happen and their masked friend had taken measures to ensure their safety. Whether they liked it or not, he would go beyond normal means to make sure he would end the threat. Or at least one of them.
Of all things, Snake wanted nothing more than to fire his weapon then just fall right down and cry at the thought of taking a good friend's life to save him. He didn't want to, god he didn't want to think of it but Cry trusted him. Knew that Snake would take situation serious and not withdraw at such a request. And that was what Snake hated about himself, that he wouldn't back away and flinch. That he would indeed kill Cryaotic in order to quell one problem.
Mad grinned at their distraction and took full advantage of it. With Minx's wrist still trapped in his grasp, the darker double yanked the woman over and nudged the mask aside a bit with his fist seconds before Minx practically fell on him. And with that done, Mad did the unthinkable in front of the entire Crew.
He stole a harsh kiss from the British gamer, grinning as she pulled away and shrieked in embarrassment and disgust. It even caught Snake off guard enough to pull the gun back. He just jerked aside to avoiding firing the weapon and hitting Minx by accident, eyes wide to take in what Mad had done. It was exactly what the madman was going for; riling her up to peak her temper and watch her rage. He always found it attractive at how fast the Brit could go violent and actually enjoyed her laughter in those videos of Murder. He flashed Minx an insane grin as she aimed her fiery gaze at him and clenched her fists as she wrenched herself free of him.
"Y-you! You did not seriously just kiss me!"
"Ohhh.. I seriously did, my sexy Minx." He licked his lips and made a kissy face at her, smiling as she made a strangled sound that ended with a growl. "You have such a dark taste about you... Did you enjoy it?"
"I'm going to fucking kill you!"
"Minx wait!" Red yelled out too late, realizing what Mad had planned.
Minx snarled, balled her hand into a fist and fired it at Mad, blind with rage for just a split second. And in that same second, Mad smiled darkly and thrust control back to Cry -
"Agh... Damnit Mad, you doing that makes me..." Cry grumbled dizzily, dazed from having control again so suddenly.
-just before the fiery woman's fist hit him dead on, cracking and sending the mask flying off.
"AWK!" The YouTuber screamed, his hand flying up to press where Minx's fist had slammed against. He writhed on the chair, twisting in place as the pain still coursed through his face and black dots danced at the edge of his vision. "WHAT THE FLYING FUCK!?"
At hearing the masked gamer shriek then rage in pain, Minx's own anger vanished from shock before her hands flew up to cover her mouth, appalled by her own actions. "Oh my god..." she whispered in horror. "I can't believe I did that..." Mad had tricked her into giving acting out with her temper and knew full well that she would attack him but practically threw Cry under the Minx bus to take the hit. That was his plan, to make Cry suffer, if only for a little bit and he did so enjoy watching and creating pain on others. "Cry, I'm so sorry...! I-I-... oh hell... I knew- I knew what he was doing and I-!" The British woman babbled, flustered at what had just happened and stumbling over her words to explain; but stopped short when Cry held up his hand to get her to quiet down before pressing it back to the bruise on his cheek.
"I... I think I got the idea..." He muttered, still rubbing his cheek gingerly and wincing as the pain continued to linger. He ran his tongue over his teeth as he worked his jaw to see if anything was broken. The pain sharpened at the movements but he didn't feel if anything was broken or chipped, so he deemed he was fine, if only bruised. He pressed his hand back against his cheek and grimaced, "Damn you hit hard, Minxy... What did he do this time to piss you off that much?"
The group looked at each other then at him, lifting brows. "You... you don't know?"
Cry shook his head, "No. Was it really that bad?" he asked, then his eyes went to Minx, who rubbed her wrist absently and noticed the forming bruises. He tensed at the sight, "I... Mad didn't hurt anyone.. did he?" He looked to Snake to question him and saw the gun drawn, his blue eyes widen more in fear at the conclusion that dawned on him. The other man blinked then cursed softly, having forgotten the weapon was in his hands and quickly went to holster it. "I did, didn't I? I hurt Minx."
MangaMinx thrust her arms behind her in vain attempt to hide her shaking hands and bruising, looking everywhere else but Cryaotic. The rest of the crew were silent for a bit, trying to piece together in what to say about the events that happened. The masked YouTuber took it as a silent confirmation that he had indeed hurt her and closed his eyes in shame, making a pained sound of guilt. He had felt Mad stirring before he took over, he tried to warn them... but failed. He could have done more, could have fought Mad's control that much more fiercely.
"You see? This is why I need to do this. I'm too weak to even stop Mad now... I let him hurt someone..." he whispered almost painfully on the verge of tears. "Oh Minx... I'm so sorry..."
Snake sighed at the negativity practically drowning everyone in the room, listening to Cry murmur the same sentence over and over until he felt something was off. He almost... heard laughter, quiet and very faint but there. He listened more carefully to his friend's words, something nagged at him about the words. Then he caught on.
"Wait, Cry... didn't you say that you didn't know what happened?"
"Yeah, but I honestly don't want to know what he did to Minx... all I need to know is that he hurt her through me..."
Scott frowned, also catching on. "But he didn't, Cry."
Minx blushed brightly in embarrassment, bringing her arms back into view as she rubbed her wrist, where the finger marked bruises were forming. "He... uh.. he didn't hurt me much, per-say." Her face turned a deeper shade of red as Cry gazed at her, worry, anguish, caution and a very bit of hope warred in his eyes. "He... Mad... kissed me..."
The brunet YouTuber tilted his head in confusion and suspicion, "He did what?" When she remained silent, he pressed his question. "Minx... what did he do to you, if he didn't hurt you?"
"He kissed me..."
Cry jerked his head back in both horror and shock, "What?!" Well there was something you don't see everyday.
Krism looked upset but crossed her arms under her bust, scowling. "The jerk kissed my bebeh."
"Are you fucking kidding me?!"
"Nope. The bloody wanker caught my arm when I wasn't looking and kissed me." Minx replied with a scowl, then looked concerned, "I didn't think he could shift control that fast... he never had done it before."
"But why would he-? I thought..."
Snake frowned further and tapped his fingers on his arm from where he crossed them over his chest. "Don't you find it odd, Cry? You don't know what happened when Mad took over and yet we all know he enjoys letting you see everything to torment you. But he kept that away from you this time. He made you think it was worse than it was by letting you think he hurt Minx."
"Worse for me... you weren't the one that got kissed, Snake."
He only smirked briefly before going back to his serious self as realization dawned on the masked YouTuber. "It was a set up."
Cry let the information sink then gritted his teeth, ignoring the pain that shot from his cheek and exploded in anger. "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!? MAD YOU SON OF-!" He raged before his voice dropped off and his right eye flashed red briefly, signifying Mad had taken partial control. The knife loving maniac laughed, smiling as he felt the pain pulse.
"Aww, they found me out. Still it came out like I hoped, Cry nearly cried... hahahaha! Cry cried!" He licked his lips at Minx, grinning as both her and Krism bristled at the act. "A painful right hook, Minxy. Did it feel good to hurt him? Want to hit Cry again? Or you want to hit me? Oooh, I hope its me!"
"Masochist freak!" Cry snapped at his darker twin, shoving his double aside for control, angry that he was tricked all for Mad to enjoy his torment. "What is wrong with you?!"
"All of me is wrong with me! Ahahaha! I am called MAD for a reason! What did you expect me to be? Sane?" Mad crowed, grinning sharply at the Late Night Crew, who stepped back collectively. Now that their friend no longer had his mask, they could clearly see his face, or rather... Mad's face. And it wasn't a pretty sight to them. His eyes, a pastel shade of blue, were bright with nothing else but insanity. They were wide, his pupils were pinpricks against the mass of blue and devoid of any emotion but twisted glee of whatever happened to run through his mind. It was very unnerving and unsettling to see the two different shades of blue eyes on the YouTuber's face. What scared them most was it was paired with a sharp and maniacal grin. That was one thing that hardly changed on Mad's face... his smile. He always smiled.
It was when he isn't smiling that people should fear most.
When Mad stops smiling... it means that he didn't want to 'play' with you anymore. And victims tend disappear a lot faster when he isn't in a playful mood.
"Aww, look at all of you so scared of me! Stop, you're making me blush!" the blood loving twin giggled, then his grin turned cat like as Cry grumbled at how he wanted to just break Mad's teeth if only to shut him up. "You all have something planned... Cry boy here is blocking me from it... so it has to be very vital if even I can't see it through him."
"Yeah, like I'm gonna tell you what it is, you twisted fuck." Cry growled lowly as Mad looked at the cuffs and tugged on them, before setting his gaze on the wall of monitors. His pale eye swept over the room, his smile never wavering as he took in everything. Then did something that shocked the group a second time.
He settled onto the chair, didn't yank or pull on the cuffs to free himself. Just closed his eyes and hummed softly. "I like this chair... remind me to get one for me use later. Unless... you plan on just killing Cry while he's helplessly strapped here?"
"Of course not!" Red snapped, glaring at him even though Russ settled his hand on her shoulder, his body ready to restrain her if Mad riled her up enough to attack him herself. "We're not barbaric as you, just going around and killing people while they're defenseless!"
Mad kept his eyes closed and let out a slow and dark laugh. "Red... such a pretty color, a lovely shade of blood... If you think that is barbaric then you honestly have no damn idea of what its really like." He chuckled, turning his head to focus his pale eye at her only. "No no no, sweetie... What I do is barbaric. They're only toys to me. I choose them, use them then break them in a way I please. I chase down my victims... I play with them, make them think they have a chance when they have none at all. It's so much fun to see them tremble as they hear my laughs and taunts as I follow them, watching them trip and stumble over each other in exhaustion." He kept giggling, smiling in memory of those he killed, "I enjoy torturing them, Red. Its like holding a slab of meat over a chained dog dying of starvation, just out of his reach. I dangle their lives and freedom of escape in front of them in the same fashion. I kill them slowly, drive them to near madness of my level. Make them wish death would be swift but I keep them alive for the sheer love of seeing them in pure agony. THAT way of killing is truly barbaric."
"Monster." the woman whispered shakily, staring at Mad in horror. How could he speak of those things with a smile and feel nothing for those poor people? The answer was simple really. Mad has lost nearly all of his sanity, and whatever was left merely twisted his view of the world to be that of a game. No right or wrong, but purely fun on the expense of others.
"Thank you Red, such a kind compliment!" He purred, smirking as Red turned pale at his description. Ignoring Russ's death glare for it, Mad focused his gaze at Scott, who had in the time wandered from the group and sat ridged at the computers. He turned away and closed his eyes, settling into the chair once more and drifting to let Cry take over enough to let him hear what is going on but still speak to the others. "But if you're not going to kill him, then all the more fun for me. I'd be disappointed if you killed him before I did, plus, gives me a chance to plan all my games out for each and every one of you. It'll be fun. But I'll leave you guys to it now, friends... Someone check on Scotty there, his posture suggests he saw something scary... ooh, I wonder what it is?"
"That's 'who' it is, you knife wielding maniac." a corroded and warped voice griped from the speakers. The monitors on the wall displayed a swirl of data that reformed itself into another mirror image of Cryoatic. He glared at Mad from his only visible eye from his broken mask before looking to the Late Night Crew and smiled coldly, "I got the message, Cryaotic... Are you absolutely sure you want to go down this path?"
Cry's right eye flashed red again briefly as Mad returned in interest. "Ah, a new game to play?" he asked eagerly. He was always up for a new game to play, he hoped it was a bloody one.
The YouTuber snatched control back from his darker self before he expressed any further interest and ignored Virus for a moment, staring up at the ceiling of their command center. Everything was riding on this plan... he had to come out on top... or at least give these two pains in the ass hell before he let them take his body. He inhaled deeply... then exhaled, strengthening his resolve.
"Then so be it."
Right then, Chapter one! (Fucking finally, I know.) In this one... obviously is when Mad drops by, (especially those that saw the Sneak Peek). He causes trouble, no shit, and shows just how craft he can be. i'm sorry, I do end up getting off track in this chapter, writing Mad is fun and I kinda got carried away with it but in the end, it makes up for an extra long chappy and got to explore how Mad thinks and plans... somewhat.
Anyway... Next Chapter is Virus' turn. Not sure how long that will be... so i may end up shifting to the actual beginning of the battle. And bring in Anti-Cry. I'm totally sure, I tend to write and make it up as I go. XD; Not a good idea, but then it happens.
Anyways, I hop you guys enjoy this chapter! I made you guys wait long enough for the first damn chapter. XD
Chapter 2
Art -
Anti-Cry belongs to
Cry -
Mad and Virus - whomever made them
Story by me -
Welp, since I finished, posted and edited it a little bit in the middle of the night, while playing Pokemon Y and RPing... There were a lot of mistakes I decided to fix. Or at least the obvious ones I saw, now I'm not exactly top notch in punctuation, so please excuse me if there are those kinds of mistakes but didn't fix them. I didn't see and wouldn't mind having someone point them out to me in a note. :3
But yeah, I even added a bit more to the chapter that came to me as I edited.
Now... I WILL make it CLEAR that I'm not a shipping type. I only ship those that are natural or make sense. Like Cryenne and the like. I will tease at those ships but that's it. Ships like PewdieCry (lovers sense), Crycest, CinnamonCry and the like... no. I don't ship those. At least not in the way of lovey-dovey/horny as hell way. I will ship those as friendship and nothing above that. I can tease a little in those ships but never actually do anything of the sort. Its just me using it as a bit of a joke. xD
I don't hate them, they're just not my cup of tea, you know? I do like reading them that has reason or plot besides mindless fucking.
Just don't ask me to write ship fics, I'm not comfortable doing any of the sort. I'm not really good a romance stuff. So... yeah. XD;
Anyway... Next Chapter is Virus' turn. Not sure how long that will be... so i may end up shifting to the actual beginning of the battle. And bring in Anti-Cry. I'm totally sure, I tend to write and make it up as I go. XD; Not a good idea, but then it happens.
Anyways, I hop you guys enjoy this chapter! I made you guys wait long enough for the first damn chapter. XD
Chapter 2
Art -
Anti-Cry belongs to
Cry -
Mad and Virus - whomever made them
Story by me -
Welp, since I finished, posted and edited it a little bit in the middle of the night, while playing Pokemon Y and RPing... There were a lot of mistakes I decided to fix. Or at least the obvious ones I saw, now I'm not exactly top notch in punctuation, so please excuse me if there are those kinds of mistakes but didn't fix them. I didn't see and wouldn't mind having someone point them out to me in a note. :3
But yeah, I even added a bit more to the chapter that came to me as I edited.
Now... I WILL make it CLEAR that I'm not a shipping type. I only ship those that are natural or make sense. Like Cryenne and the like. I will tease at those ships but that's it. Ships like PewdieCry (lovers sense), Crycest, CinnamonCry and the like... no. I don't ship those. At least not in the way of lovey-dovey/horny as hell way. I will ship those as friendship and nothing above that. I can tease a little in those ships but never actually do anything of the sort. Its just me using it as a bit of a joke. xD
I don't hate them, they're just not my cup of tea, you know? I do like reading them that has reason or plot besides mindless fucking.
Just don't ask me to write ship fics, I'm not comfortable doing any of the sort. I'm not really good a romance stuff. So... yeah. XD;
Ah, thank you! I will continue it, just hammer out some problems I got with it, maybe even go back and rewrite a bit of it but it'll still continue, just a bit slower since my comp got reset and lost all my files so, yeah.
I like this.
XD Really? I typed that in like... half a day (with distractions), but cool. :3 Glad you like it. lol
Ah, Mad was so much fun to write and ooh, I feel happy in making others happy at reading! ~
Ah, Mad was so much fun to write and ooh, I feel happy in making others happy at reading! ~
And I'm happy that you are happy about making us happy! XD
Your texts always makes everyone happy~
Your texts always makes everyone happy~
This is awesome!!!
lol Thanks, glad you enjoyed how the chapter is. XD I enjoyed writing Mad a little too much.
Thanks to you, I'm thinking of writing a disaster fan-fiction with Cry and the others in it.
Oh, because of the command center thing I made up for them in this fic? XD Why not? I don't know why they're there to begin with other than Cry's plan to finally end this personal war once and for all (at least in this AU XD) So the outside world beyond the underground bunker doesn't exist to me. All my focus is the rumble that's about to take place. ...I should probably do a poll for this. XD
But... wow, I'm happy I inspired you so... yeah, go for it! I wants to see what you has in mind.
But... wow, I'm happy I inspired you so... yeah, go for it! I wants to see what you has in mind.
Finally! Virus appeared. XD
lol Yup, Virus is the more cautious of the trio (aside from AntiCry since I really haven't worked out how he is yet) thus takes a little longer to respond to the 'message' Cry sent out. But he couldn't possibly pass up a free chance to get his freedom. xD


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For the past two years of my unemployment, I've been asking my hubby to take a day off from work to hang out with me. Quite the worker bee, he never obliged. No use of us both sitting at home not working, lol! And I understood–with me not working and finances being quite uncertain at times, it was never time to just have a happy fun day drinking the afternoon away. But now that I will be gainfully employed again in less than two weeks, he must've breathed a sigh of relief and took that vacation day yesterday.
In my mind, I never wanted to do anything extravagant. I would have been happy with seeing a movie and having a midday adult beverage. We never go to movies any more, as it has been more fiscally responsible to make it a Netflix night. And for the most part, it's also been just as economical to buy a
12 24 pack and sip on a 60 cent can of cheap beer on our couch. So to live the "high life" yesterday, a movie and a brew out on the town tickled my fancy just fine.
We were going to see Horrible Bosses, as we both LOVE Jason Bateman to pieces, but of course it was not showing anymore. Rise of the Planet of the Apes was also on our list, but I'm not huge on sci-fi and I wasn't feeling it. I've never been able to follow the Ape movies and didn't want to have to do a lot of thinking today, lol. So we went with The Help.
I love movie popcorn. Obsessed is more like it. This is definitely one of my guilty pleasure foods. But, and even though it may not look like it in this pic, I did get the small with no butter.
Okay–back to the movie. Here I go with my overused phrase again, but, SHUT THE FRONT DOOR. OMG this movie was amaaaaaazing. It absolutely better win some kind of award or it will be a disgrace. I cried so much during it–but please don't let that discourage you from seeing it. They weren't always sad tears. Some were just personal tears {my mother's first job was as a maid when she was 14 and I absolutely would have died before I let her go through some of the treatment I saw in the movie, but I wasn't born, duh.} Mostly, I was just sitting there in dismay at the things they had to go through. It's easy to sit here in 2011, with my white husband, and become disillusioned about the struggles that so many faced as little as 50 years ago. Mindblowing. May no person face such injustices ever again.
But there was so more to it than race. There was friendship, family, self-esteem, trust, food and going after your dreams, to name a few.
"The point is, I can't tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being rejected and put your manuscript—or painting, song, voice, dance moves, [insert passion here]—in the coffin that is your bedside drawer and close it for good. I guarantee you that it won't take you anywhere. Or you could do what this writer did: Give in to your obsession instead." ~ Kathryn Stockett
I left this film feeling so amazing, warm and inspired to help people even more than before. The actresses in it were fantastic! Cicely Tyson touched my heart and Emma Stone–love, love, love–especially. I can't wait to see it a second, third, fourth, etc. time… Go. See. It. Learn something. Do something. Inspire someone. HELP someone.
The whole time I was in the movie, I kept thinking about my roadtrip to DC last weekend. I never wrote a specific post about making a trek to visit the brand new Martin Luther King Jr. Monument, so this was as good a time as any! It was awe-inspiring to see races of ALL kinds there in the crowd. As bad as the state of affairs are out there right now, it was like seeing a little sliver of his dream come true.
So if you're going DC to hit up the tourist spots, put this on your list. It's beautiful and just as important. Sit there, look out on the water and reflect for a bit. You may feel better about where you are just by thinking about where others have been.
All righty, let's go get that beer, shall we?
As I said earlier, along with the movie on our little day of hooky, we were to stop somewhere and have a beer. So of course, we opted for The Eddy Pub.
I've been wanting to try Fullsteam Brewery's El Toro Cream Ale. I'm normally a lager girl, but I needed to give this one a try. When I was in the Eddy a few weeks ago, another customer told me he didn't like the cream ale, so of course I then needed to try it for myself.
It was a-okay by me! Crisp, delicious, light and with a hint of creaminess. Cherie-approved. I seriously am talking about Fullsteam's beer so much now that they tweeted this to me yesterday:
Hells yeah! I will of course be reminding them of this when I'm feeling especially thirsty someday. 😉
I know we went there to bask in the sun on the deck and have one beer, but it seemed like a good day for this too:
It's hard to pass up a peachy sangria! Mmmmm. We
chilled sweated there in the sun for a little bit longer and then decided to conclude our day of fun. Hubs had such a good time that I think I've convinced him not to let two years pass before we do it again. We just had to get to the flipside of those two years to see that it would all be okay and that one day, this day would come.
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IRVING, Texas - East Carolina senior Joran Vliegen has been named Conference USA's October Men's Tennis Athlete-of-the-Month. Vliegen posted a 12-2 overall singles record during the month and became the first player in school history to win the Carolina Regional title and earn an automatic berth to the USTA/ITA National Indoor Collegiate Championships. This is his second career Conference USA Men's Tennis Athlete-of-the-Month award.
During regional championship action, he only dropped one set in seven matches. After winning his first five matches in straight sets, which included a quarterfinal victory over No. 5 Romain Bogaerts of Wake Forest, he rallied from a set down to defeat No. 22 Michael Redlicki of Duke in the semifinals.
At the ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, Vliegen advanced to the main draw with a third round win over No. 66 Andreas Bjerrehus of Virginia Tech. Although he was beaten in the first round of the main draw, he advanced to the quarterfinals of the consolation draw with wins over No. 52 Florent Dipe of Florida and No. 3 Peter Kobelt of Ohio State.
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Aileen Wuornos, the "hitchhiking hooker" and "first female serial killer" who killed 7 men was an outlaw, a sometimes feminist vigilante heroine, and cautionary tale. Her captivating story has inspired myriad books and articles, as well as the 2003 movie Monster, for which Charlize Theron won an Academy Award. Reviled and revered in equal measure, Wuornos has become iconic of vengeful women lashing out at those who have hurt them, as well as a touchstone for women's, sex workers', and prisoners' rights.
A runaway at 13, Aileen Wuornos slept in abandoned cars in the Michigan winter after being kicked out of an abusive and alcoholic home. She survived by using her only resources – her mind, her body, and occasional charity.
Between 1989 and 1990, Aileen Wuornos shot and killed seven men in remote Florida locations. Arrested in 1991, Wuornos insisted she had acted in self-defense, but the jury had little sympathy. Condemned to death on six separate counts, she was executed by lethal injection in 2002.
Dear Dawn is Wuornos's autobiography culled from her ten-year death row correspondence with beloved childhood friend Dawn Botkins. Authorized for publication by Wuornos and edited under the guidance of Botkins, the letters not only offer Wuornos's riveting reflections on the murders, legal battles, and media coverage, but go further, revealing her fears and obsessions, her rich humor and empathy, and her gradual disintegration as her execution approached. A candid life story told to a trusted friend, Dear Dawn is a compelling narrative, unwaveringly true to its source.
Aileen Wuornos's letters to her closest friend are poignant and haunting, and show us that as destructive and devastating as true crime is, there may be nothing as powerful or redemptive as true love.
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Chef is an open source configuration management and system integration framework that is generating a lot of interest and momentum these days. At Hulu, we are also actively investing in Chef infrastructure to simplify operations.
Among the many benefits that Chef provides, I am personally intrigued by the possibility of unifying "server provisioning" and "application deployment" under single framework. Traditionally, server provisioning has been the territory of system administrators (a.k.a the ops team), while software developers usually guide application deployment.
This division is a natural one, since correctly provisioning a server or an entire infrastructure often involves fairly different skill sets and knowledge from those of software development. Nonetheless, the requirements for how applications are installed and configured come from software developers. This division is unfortunate, since it invites developers to be one layer removed from actual production considerations. This often results in an application working perfectly in the development environment, but breaking once it is deployed to production.
There is no silver bullet for this problem, but bringing system provisioning and application deployment under same framework is a step in the right direction. This creates an environment in which developers and operations can collaborate closely towards a common goal – completely automating the process of bringing up a functional application server starting from bare metal hardware.
System Provisioning
Automated provisioning process should be managed under source control, just like any application code. It should be deterministic, repeatable, flexible, well-organized and predictably convergent. Here are some of Chef features and characteristics that can help implement such an automated process.
1) Chef recipes, roles and "run lists" define the order of configuration changes deterministically. They are just Ruby code, and they will execute in the same sequence of operations every time they run.
2) Chef attributes can be overridden at multiple levels of organization, and you can normalize your configuration items (e.g. node attributes in Chef) into cookbook, environment, role or node defaults and overrides. Here is the actual node attribute precedence from low to high:
cookbook default < environment default < role default < node default < cookbook set < node set < cookbook override < role override < environment override < node overrideBy using this precedence rule, you can configure node attributes across an entire Chef environment with a single configuration change, or override one specific node's attribute without making changes to the rest of the environment.
3) Chef provides search capability in the form of a Ruby API as well as web service. This allows your recipes to query the server and make configuration decisions based on the query result. With this feature, you can write your recipes in such way that every node in your infrastructure can automatically converge towards the correct configuration for the environment to which it belongs.
The above features are only a subset of the capabilities provided by the Chef framework. There are yet other benefits, such as an active community of experienced system administrators and developers. But enough talk about provisioning-related benefits: let's examine how you might integrate your application deployment with Chef!
Application Deployment: Ruby on Rails Example
If you work on web applications, you often deploy your applications straight from source code without going through a build process or packaging system. Chef supports such deployment scenarios very well. Let's go over a Ruby on Rails deployment scenario to make this more concrete.
Once you have your Ruby environment set up, Rails scaffolding makes getting up and running with Ruby on Rails a breeze. However, when you are ready to deploy your Rails application to production there are many questions that need to be answered:
- How will you install the version of Ruby necessary for your Rails application?
- How do you create your application's service account?
- How do you set up data and log directories? What about log rotation?
- How do you set up a reverse proxy, such as nginx?
- How do you start/stop/monitor your Rails application process?
Let's look at how you can use Chef to address these questions! We will use an application called "cage" as a convenient example below. Cage is a Rails application I wrote for the Hulu Hackathon in March 2012.
Quick Introduction to Chef Concepts
Before we dive into details around the recipe for deploying a Rails application, let's review a minimum set of basic Chef concepts.
Chef server is the repository of infrastructure configuration information. It is basically a data stroage backend and corresponding web service front end that provides RESTful APIs for chef clients to access configuration information about the node that the client is running on. A node maps to a machine in your infrastructure, and every node belongs to a Chef environment. You can organize your infrastructure into multiple Chef environment for management purposes. For example, you might have production, staging, and QA Chef environments.
A cookbook is a collection of related recipes, attributes, and templates files, which collectively describe how a software package is to be installed and configured. Recipes consist of resources, which represent the smallest unit of configuration activity. For example, a "user" resource represents a local user account to be provisioned according to resource attributes, such as user ID, group ID and home directory. Cookbooks are uploaded to Chef server to represent infrastructure components that are available.
Each node in Chef has a run list that lists recipes and roles are assigned to it in the order of execution. A role consists of other roles and recipes that should be executed. Hence, you can compose a new application role based on existing roles and recipes. For example, an application role may consist of a nginx recipe, a rails recipe, and a log rotation recipe.
A data bag stores arbitrary information about the infrastructure in a nested hash structure. Just like any other Chef objects, it can be accessed via RESTful API. A data bag does not belong to a specific Chef environment, so it should be used to store truly global configuration items. You can also encrypt a data bag to store sensitive information that you need to keep out of your source code repository.
You can read about these concepts in more detail at Opscode community wiki site.
Cage Cookbook Directory Structure
Here is my cookbook structure for cage (inside Hulu's Chef git repo).
As you can see, rather than having one default recipe file, I broke up the recipe into 4 small pieces, and include them in main recipe file recipes/default.rb.
├── attributes
│ └── default.rb # default cookbook attributes
├── metadata.rb # cookbook definition
├── README.rdoc
├── recipes
│ ├── default.rb # includes service, deploy, nginx, runit recipes
│ ├── deploy.rb # cage:deploy recipe contains deploy_revision resource
│ ├── nginx.rb # cage:nginx recipe
│ ├── runit.rb # cage:runit recipe (= process init/monitoring)
│ └── service.rb # cage:service recipe
└── templates
└── default
├── logrotate.conf.erb # logrotate configuration template
├── nginx.erb # nginx configuration template
├── service.yml.erb # application configuration template
├── sv-cage-log-run.erb # runit svlogd "run" file
└── sv-cage-run.erb # runit "run" file
Ruby Installation
If you are running on an Ubuntu platform (e.g. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS), you may not have the latest Ruby package in the official Ubuntu apt repository. For example, Cage was developed as Rails 3.2 application running on Ruby 1.9.3. Also, I would like my application's Ruby installation to be separated from system Ruby installation if any.
For this, we have an internal Debian package called hulu-ruby19, which installs a clean copy of Ruby into /opt/hulu/ruby-1.9.3 directory. This package also contains the latest rubygem module as well as the latest bundler gem. The idea is that once this package is installed, any ruby gems can be managed by the bundler from there on. We also have an internal Debian repository that will serve up this package. So, in my Chef recipe, I just need to add the following line at the top of cage/recipe/deploy.rb file.
package 'hulu-ruby19'
Application Account Creations
It is usually a bad idea to run your applications as root. At Hulu, our applications run under application-specific machine-local accounts, and each account needs to be created. For Cage, I add the following snippet to the JSON file that define the service account data bag.
"cage": { "uid": 975, "gid": 975, "shell" : "/bin/false", "home": "/tmp", "system": true},
We store our accounts in a data bag, and create it consistently across all Linux boxes. In this case, we are creating an account called "cage" with UID/GID of 975. This is a "system" account that my application will run under, and has no interactive login credentials. Once you have this data bag item, it's trivial to map the data to the corresponding user resource in Chef DSL.
Application Directories
Now that we have the two external dependencies taken care of (Ruby installation and user account creation), let's examine how Cage is installed. All files used by our application are installed into /opt/hulu/cage directory, which is laid out as follows.
First, specific snapshots of the application repository are installed into the /opt/hulu/cage/releases/<revision> directory. Then, symbolic links are created into /opt/hulu/cage/shared directory, which survives across application deployment. Finally, /opt/hulu/cage/current symbolic link is switched to point to the latest release (in this case 5ed123d91ee74210341765d76271d314fe58f3d0 directory). We use symbolic links here because Ruby on Rails assumes that it can write to certain subdirectories from its installation root. For example, Rails will create log files under the Rails.root + "/log" directory.
$ tree -L 3 /opt/hulu/cage
├── current -> /opt/hulu/cage/releases/5ed123d91ee74210341765d76271d314fe58f3d0
├── releases
│ ├── 5ed123d91ee74210341765d76271d314fe58f3d0
│ │ ├── app
│ │ ├── conf -> /opt/hulu/cage/shared/conf
│ │ ├── config
│ │ ├── config.ru
│ │ ├── data -> /opt/hulu/cage/shared/data
│ │ ├── db
│ │ ├── doc
│ │ ├── Gemfile
│ │ ├── Gemfile.lock
│ │ ├── lib
│ │ ├── log -> /opt/hulu/cage/shared/log
│ │ ├── public
│ │ ├── Rakefile
│ │ ├── README.rdoc
│ │ ├── script
│ │ ├── test
│ │ ├── tmp -> /opt/hulu/cage/shared/tmp
│ │ └── vendor
│ └── f419316f9bc63bc20ee7f348f7519461771916ee
│ └── ...
└── shared
├── ...
└── vendor_bundle
If you have used Capistrano before, this process should be familiar. This style of deployment was directly ported from Capistrano, and is available as Chef resource called "deploy_revision". Let's examine the use of deploy_revision resource inside cage/recipes/deploy.rb below.
The above recipe code does the following:
CAGE_SERVICE_ROOT = '/opt/hulu/cage'
deploy_revision CAGE_SERVICE_ROOT do
deploy_to CAGE_SERVICE_ROOT
repo 'ssh://hulu-internal-git-repository/repos/cage.git'
ssh_wrapper "/home/chefclient/bin/gitssh"
revision node['cage']['revision_tag']
action node['cage']['release_action']
shallow_clone true
enable_submodules true
migrate false
environment "RAILS_ENV" => node['cage']['rails_env']
purge_before_symlink %w{conf data log tmp public/system public/assets}
create_dirs_before_symlink []
symlinks( # the arrow is sort of reversed:
"conf" => "conf", # current/conf -> shared/conf
"data" => "data", # current/data -> shared/data
"log" => "log", # current/log -> shared/log
"tmp" => "tmp", # current/tmp -> shared/tmp
"system" => "public/system", # current/public/system -> shared/system
"assets" => "public/assets" # current/public/assets -> shared/assets
before_restart do
Dir.chdir '/opt/hulu/cage/current'
system("/opt/hulu/ruby-1.9.3/bin/bundle install") or raise "bundle install failed"
system("RAILS_ENV=#{node.cage.rails_env} /opt/hulu/ruby-1.9.3/bin/rake assets:precompile")
notifies :restart, "service[cage]"
notifies :restart, "service[nginx]"
1) Check out the revision specified as node attribute node['cage']['revision_tag'] from the git repository specified by "repo", using the ssh_wrapper in chefclient user's home directory. This wrapper is used to specify the necessary credentials to ssh when accessing git repository. Here is the content of /home/chefclient/bin/gitssh.
The -o options given in the ssh command line above are used to avoid interactive warnings like:
exec ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -i "/home/chefclient/.ssh/id_rsa" "$@"
The -i option specifies the private key to be used for accessing the git repository.
The authenticity of host 'hulu-internal-git-repository (10.12.49.133)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 89:62:0f:9c:78:d6:f5:ce:e6:b8:36:38:e4:c7:d4:f0.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?
Notice that node['cage']['revision_tag'] attribute can be overridden at the Chef environment level (e.g. "production" or "staging" or "qa") to specify the revision to be deployed across all machines that belong to each chef environment.
2) node['cage']['release_action'] attribute may be "deploy", "force_deploy" or "rollback". The Chef client will examine the currently deployed revision, and will bail out if it determines that that this revision is already deployed — i.e. that the target release tag is the current revision tag. The "force_deploy" option is a convenient way to override this behavior, allowing a full redeployment of the application. This is particularly handy if you are debugging your Chef recipe that performs deployment.
3) Other interesting resource attributes are "purge_before_symlink" and "symlinks". These attributes specify symbolic links to be created from /opt/hulu/cage/releases/<revision>/ directories to /opt/hulu/cage/shared directory.
Note that the direction of arrows in "symlinks" attribute appear to be reversed. "system" => "public/system" means to create a symbolic link from "/opt/hulu/cage/releases/<revision>/public/system" to /opt/hulu/cage/shared/system directory.
4) There are several hooks that allow you to inject some custom actions during deployment. In this example, we are using the "before_restart" hook to precompile Rails assets (under Rails.root + "/app/assets" directory in source tree) before restarting the service. This is required if your Rails application is running in "production" mode.
5) Finally, notice the "notifies" attributes at the bottom of the resource definition. Notification resources in Chef are used to delay certain actions until prerequisites are satisfied. Elsewhere in our "cage" recipe, we defined the cage service resource and the nginx service resource. Here, we are notifying those resources to "restart" themselves once deployment is finished.
Nginx Set Up
You can use the community nginx cookbook to set up nginx fairly easily. In our example, I wanted to show how you can serve up your application from port 80, which is by default assigned to the default nginx site. Here is what our recipes/nginx.rb looks like:
Here is what cage/templates/default/nginx.erb looks like:
template "#{node.nginx.dir}/sites-available/default" do
source "nginx.erb"
owner "root"
group "root"
mode 0644
:service_name => "cage",
:service_port => "80",
:worker_port => "8800",
:nginx_access_log => "/opt/hulu/cage/shared/log/nginx-access.log",
:nginx_error_log => "/opt/hulu/cage/shared/log/nginx-error.log"
nginx_site 'default' do
options(:enable => true)
This will set up /etc/nginx/sites-available/default by instantiating the ERB template, and enable the nginx default site that will proxy for our Cage application.
server {
listen <%= @service_port -%>;
server_name <%= @service_name -%>;
access_log <%= @nginx_access_log -%>;
error_log <%= @nginx_error_log -%> warn;
location / {
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_pass http://localhost:<%= @worker_port -%>/;
Runit Set Up
Runit is a process initialization and monitoring solution often used by Opscode-authored cookbooks. One obvious benefit of using runit is that you don't need to worry about writing your own init.d script, which is often a hassle to get right. Runit will capture STDOUT from your application and log it and rotate it automatically. Also, runit monitors and restart your application process if it dies for some reason.
There is a community cookbook for Runit that works well on Ubuntu. Here is how I use this cookbook.
1) Include the runit recipe, and add a runit_service resource as follows.
We will be running our application process as 'cage', but our effective group ID will be www-data. Also, we will be using unicorn to run our Rails application.
include_recipe 'runit'
runit_service 'cage' do
:service_curr => '/opt/hulu/cage/current',
:owner => 'cage',
:group => 'www-data',
:unicorn => '/opt/hulu/ruby-1.9.3/bin/unicorn',
:logdir => '/opt/hulu/cage/shared/log',
:rails_env => 'production'
2) Create templates/default/sv-cage-run.erb, which will turn into a /etc/sv/cage/run file when instantiated (replace "cage" in the ERB file name with your application name). The content of the ERB file looks like the following.
3) Create templates/default/sv-cage-log-run.erb, which looks like.
cd <%= @options[:service_curr] %>
exec 2>&1
exec chpst -u <%= @options[:owner] %>:<%= @options[:group] %> <%= @options[:unicorn] %> -E <%= @options[:rails_env] %> -c config/unicorn.rb
Note that we are running as root here. I found this to be a bit of a quirk in runit, but nothing too serious. This file gets instantiated into /etc/sv/cage/log/run, which is the process that captures STDIO from the main run file (/etc/sv/cage/run) and writes it to the given log directory in a file named "current" (e.g. /opt/hulu/cage/shared/log/current).
exec chpst -u root:root svlogd -tt <%= @options[:logdir] %>
Once you have this in your recipe, runit will take care of starting your application during boot, as well as monitoring and restarting your application process as necessary.
The process that runs our application's "run" file is a program called svrun, which will spawn the unicorn process for us. Svrundir is the grandfather process that monitors all svrun processes, and restarts them as necessary. You can use ps to see this relationship as follows.
Note that once your Rails application under runit's control, you cannot simply use UNIX kill command to stop it. Runit recipe conveniently maps /etc/init.d/cage command to /usr/bin/sv command, so you can start and stop your application in the usual way (e.g. "/etc/init.d/cage stop" or "service cage stop").
$ ps axjf | grep -e cage -e unicorn -e runsvdir
1 3776 3776 3776 ? -1 Ss 0 0:44 runsvdir -P /etc/service log: .......................
3776 9273 9273 9273 ? -1 Ss 0 0:00 \_ runsv cage
9273 9274 9273 9273 ? -1 S 0 0:00 \_ svlogd -tt /opt/hulu/cage/shared/log
9273 19694 9273 9273 ? -1 Sl 975 0:02 \_ unicorn master -c config/unicorn.rb
19694 19700 9273 9273 ? -1 Sl 975 0:00 \_ unicorn worker[0] -c config/unicorn.rb
19694 19703 9273 9273 ? -1 Sl 975 0:00 \_ unicorn worker[1] -c config/unicorn.rb
19694 19706 9273 9273 ? -1 Sl 975 0:00 \_ unicorn worker[2] -c config/unicorn.rb
19694 19709 9273 9273 ? -1 Sl 975 0:00 \_ unicorn worker[3] -c config/unicorn.rb
Role: Cage
It's also a good idea to create a role that contains your recipe, so that people always think in terms of "roles" rather than individual recipes when putting together a new environment. Here is what the role file looks like for Cage. Here "role[hulu-common]" is the common set of recipes that run on all Hulu machines, and contains basic settings such as user accounts and NTP configuration.
name "cage"
description "Automated visual verification service"
Deploying the Recipe
Once you have the cookbook and role written, you need to upload your cookbook to the Chef server, and run chef-client on your target machine to deploy the role. The chef framework provides a command line tool called "knife", which is used to administer the Chef server. Here are the knife command I run to deploy cage.
Here I am using knife ssh to run chef-client on all nodes that are supposed to be running Cage in Chef environment named "staging". And, voilà! My Rails application will be up and running in production mode on all machines that have the role "cage" assigned to them.
knife cookbook upload cage
knife role from file roles/cage.rb
knife ssh -x chefclient 'chef_environment:staging AND role:cage' 'sudo /etc/init.d/chef-client stop'
knife ssh -x chefclient 'chef_environment:staging AND role:cage' 'sudo chef-client'
knife ssh -x chefclient 'chef_environment:staging AND role:cage' 'sudo /etc/init.d/chef-client start'
Conclusion: Push vs. Pull
In this article, I tried to highlight the Chef features that are designed to help deploy your applications. If you are currently using Capistrano, Fabric or just plain rsync/ssh as your application deployment mechanism, you are used to "push" model. In contrast, Chef is based on "pull" model.
This is an important distinction, in that "push" model implies a lot of explicit actions on system operators' part. For example, operators need to worry about which machines to push changes to, and when to push the changes. The idea behind "pull" model is that each machine in the infrastructure is downloading and applying its own configuration, without explicit involvement of operators.
Moving your application deployment model from "push" model to "pull" model, you are making your application be more like regular part of provisioning and infrastructure maintenance, hence making the deployment process more scalable and robust. This increased robustness is a core benefit of Chef-based application deployment, in addition to promoting close collaboration between software developers and system administrators under a unified framework and process. This is why we are investing our time into Chef.


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Allen Frances, MD, is a clinician, educator, researcher, and leading authority on psychiatric diagnosis. He chaired the DSM-IV Task Force, was a member of the Task Force that prepared DSM-III-R, and wrote the final version of the Personality Disorders section in DSM-III. The author of several hundred papers and more than a dozen books, most recently Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life, Dr. Frances is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University. He is an active blogger for The Huffington Post, Psychology Today, and Education Update.
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Harassment is physical conduct, verbal conduct or other expressive behavior, including written, pictorial, or electronic expression that explicitly demeans any person(s), and 1) interferes with education, employment or other University-authorized activity; or 2) creates an intimidating, hostile or demeaning environment for education, University-related work, or other University-authorized activity. It is a violation of University policy to engage in harassment, or to retaliate against anyone bringing forth an honestly perceived complaint of harassment.
Verbal harassment includes, but is not limited to, name calling, slurs, and epithets, jokes or other remarks that demean the victim and/or discourage the individual's full participation in the University's community. Physical harassment occurs when a person's body, possessions, or residence are threatened or abused.
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When one considers martial arts, the first image which comes to mind is self defense. Undoubtedly, every culture has some form of martial art within its society that was originally created out of necessity. Many point to Asia as the beginning foundation of martial arts as Chinese Emperor Huang Di was known to have practiced Shuai Jiao, a form of wrestling in 2000 B.C. Boxing, which in fact is a martial art, dates back to 4000 B.C. as discovered in paintings within the pyramids of Egypt.
Unimaginable violence can be noted within the history of martial arts dating back thousands of years. In 770 B.C., tribesman of the Mongolian period introduced a martial art known as Ssirum, another form of wrestling which focused on the "lost" art of skull-bashing. Ssirum was also the first form of martial art to be practiced in Korea, introduced by the Chinese.
From Subak to Taekyon to Kwonbeop and eventually modern-day Taekwondo, the arts of self defense are internationally woven together among China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia and into the Western world. Even today, the dynamics of martial arts continue through publications, social media, television and of course, the silver screen.
There is however, much more to the martial arts than just self defense; a concept which has grown in time from the early days of combative warriors. A far greater side to martial arts exist within the philosophical aspects which have proven to be beneficial to many modern-day practitioners.
In a world that continues to explode in fits of rage and violence, within the teachings of many martial arts are the elements of hope and inspiration. Martial arts can teach one control, respect, honor and dignity. Along with self defense, martial arts can teach those the meaning of accomplishment, personal self respect and respect for others. They can be used for building up instead of tearing down.
Traditionally, martial artists are a tight-knit family, focusing on bringing together rather than dividing. Many across social media outlets share their thoughts, opinions, ideas and philosophy of various styles of martial arts, all focused on the final goal of sharing what has been a rewarding journey for their lives:
- Known as 03alwi, this martial art practitioner of 25 years shares stories of hope and inspiration covering various topics related to one's body, energy and mind through his blog: The Zeit. With over 5,200 blog followers and nearly 4,800 followers on Twitter, it is clear that many seek words of encouragement and aspiration.
- Ando Mierzwa is founder of Martial Arts Training for a Happy Life and holds black belts in Kung Fu San Soo, Tae Kwon Do and Shotokan Karate. A popular social media favorite, Sensei Ando shares his knowledge and skill through his blog posts, as well as his podcast: Fight for a Happy Life, combined with an energized sense of humor.
- Based in Washington state, the Northwest School of Martial Arts share their enthusiasm by spreading a passionate message on the life-changing aspects of martial arts, largely via their Twitter page, with a profound focus on the importance of martial arts among children.
These are just a few of many that are dedicated in showing that training in martial arts can teach us to laugh and to discover a sense of well-being and inner-peace. Most importantly, martial arts can lead one to what seemingly has become a lost form within our society; a "form" that many have forgotten its truest importance for a civilized population:
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The Nain Rouge was playing with fire, literally and figuratively. The dreaded red dwarf, in addition to his taunting of Detroiters and their city, rode in on a dragon float that emitted bursts of fire at random intervals. The dragon float is a new addition to the new tradition of the Marche du Nain Rouge, celebrated on the Sunday afternoon after the vernal equinox, which was earlier today, March 23, 2014.
The event started with the voice of the Nain Rouge taking credit for several bad things in Detroit. "I gerrymandered Michigan," he claimed, and "I put lead in the soil." He also had taunts for sports fans: "I will make sure every year is a rebuilding year for the Detroit Lions" and "I tore down Tiger Stadium."
Tom Grunow, a member of the event planning committee, dressed as Napoleon Bonaparte, expressed French camaraderie to the people of Detroit. Then, to the strains of the Imperial March by John Williams, the dragon float showed up, with the Nain Rouge on the second deck. Fire dancers from Theater Bizarre headed the parade, followed by the dragon float with the Nain Rouge seated at the tail end, the Gabriel Traditional New Orleans Brass Band and assorted revelers in costumes.
At least one person at the event thinks the Nain Rouge has been unjustly vilified. John E. L. Tenney passed out leaflets calling on people to "stop Nain shame" and explaining that the Nain Rouge's "motives have been twisted by unseen corporate masters. An invisible hand … has rallied its forces to chase this being from the very home it was sworn to protect."
The parade ended in front of the Masonic Temple, but this year Channel 4 reporter Devin Scillian wasn't there to banish the red dwarf. Instead, a man dressed in a cheesy police officer costume confronted the Nain about his illegally parked dragon float. The Nain asked around for change for a dollar, but no one would give him anything, having earlier booed him. With the Nain gone, the celebration moved inside the Masonic Temple as the real police reopened Temple Street to normal traffic.
"Great time!" is how Detroit resident Angela Colón characterized the event. "They had a fire-breathing dragon!" Events before the parade included a 5K run. Sponsors for the parade included the Traffic Jam & Snug, Recycle Here!, Green Dot Stables, Brooks Lumber, City Bird, St. Cece's Pub and many others, according to the event's website.


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BOSTON -- On the day Andrew Bailey was named co-American League Player of the Week, sharing the honors with first baseman Mike Napoli, the Oakland Athletics brought Josh Reddick to Fenway Park.
Bailey and Reddick are linked by the trade Boston made with Oakland two offseasons ago. It's a trade that looked like a disaster for the Red Sox last season when Reddick hit 32 home runs and Bailey missed most of the season with a thumb injury.
So far this season, however, Bailey has pitched like he did when he made two All-Star teams as the Athletics' closer, striking out 15 in 9 1/3 innings to go along with a 1.93 ERA while moving into the closer role in place of the injured Joel Hanrahan.
Reddick, meanwhile, has struggled badly -- and that didn't just start this season. He entered play Monday hitting a woeful .113 with a .226 on-base percentage and .208 slugging percentage. In more than 400 plate appearances dadting back to the All-Star break a year ago, Reddick has hit .200 with a .251 on-base percentage and .363 slugging percentage.
The Bailey-Napoli announcement marked the third time Red Sox players have shared American League Player of the Week honors. Mike Lowell and David Ortiz shared the prize in 2007, and Pedro Martinez and Trot Nixon did so in 2002.
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words that are allowed on this site cant explain how dissapointed i am. Im too pissed to post anything sensible right now
Expected alot better, they blew it...
But I don't expect it to stay like that, as we can all see, they can play. So no one lose too much sleep over it, 0-2 isn't a big deal, though I would've liked to see them over .500....
words that are allowed on this site cant explain how dissapointed i am. Im too pissed to post anything sensible right now
as lazy and unorganized a defensive effort as I have seen...TT better shape up...
howard stern walks out on us... wow
It's sad the knicks are laying eggs like this, but at least it early. Hopefully we can iron things out soon. Now Eddie Robinson seems like a good idea. TT seems like he's sleepwalking. If ERob can come with energy we can get rid of TT.
woooo what the hell is that?????
Could somedbody explain what happened because i didn't see anything of the game!?
F! They blew it!!!! F! F! F! F! F!
Dammit, I'm so pissed off. F! TT have let us down again! Sweets was good though.
i just couldn't believe my eyes when i saw the result. the celtics are a very lousy team, and i can't explain myself what happened there. i can't say to much since i didn't saw the game, but i believe fans payed for the tickets to see - if not a win - at least a good show. the knicks should really appologize for this loss, especially since it happened against boston
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I think its the worst idea in the world. How many guards and small forwards do we need. Can we get a big man?Originally Posted by dr.carpy
Any suggestions on whom should we go for? I mean there are lots of great centers in the L but none of them seems to be an option. We could've required ED though we went for a small guy.
The Knicks should sign Robinson. I know we're overloaded at that position, but he could be used later on in a trade. Right now he may fill the slot of Tim Thomas, because he is playing terribly right now. Signing Robinson is also a step in the right direction in buying out Shandon Anderson's contract.
I wanna see more games before we make any moves 1st....
YEs that game was bad, and im very pissed because of it, but come on guys its 2 game into our season
They have to be ashamed after a loss like that......They gotta have some pride and come back next game ready to win.
Hopefully they will otherwise we're in trouble. It's only three games yeah, but you can't start the season like that and hope for advancing to the Conference Finals, no way. Our third game is a MUST win.


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Are there any home remedies for abortion?
wht may its a part of u dear
coat hangers and a good ole fasion dc marten to the belly. ....im jokeing there are no home remedies
good God, NO!
I have heard of many horror stories of failed in home abortions. It can kill the mother. The baby can still be born but with major life long problems.
Don't even think about it ! Go to a planned parenthood clinic, they will help you.
there are but they are dangerous and often fatal. i wouldn't bother. if you can, PLEASE try to see a doctor to handle it.
ADOPTION...are you crazy, how could you even think that about YOUR CHILD, you should be ashamed of yourself. Talk to your DR. and a pschologists, and a pastor, priest, etc. You really need some mental help. Next time get your tubes tied or use a condom and the pill.
If you mean 'are there any ways for inducing an abortion at home' then NO! there isn't a single one that is safe and certain. Heaven only knows how many women have died, been rendered infertile, or otherwise suffered by trying on to bring on an abortion.
Can't you get hold of the 'morning after' pill locally, assuming that intercourse took place within 24-48 hours? If not, and you live in one of those states that manages to love the death penalty and hate abortion (how strange that the two often go together) then I hope you can find your way to one that gives you the freedom of choice.
Every child should be a wanted child, conceived and born in love. I wasn't, and nor were any of my siblings - my mother made that crystal clear - and even at age 40 my sister hasn't got over it.
Just to anticipate a couple more arguments: probably about one-third of all conceptions are spontaneously aborted, and I don't believe that the Church gave conditional baptism to sanitary protection just-in-case even when it believed that unbaptised souls went to Limbo. The conceptus doesn't have anything remotely resembling human feelings or a nervous system until at least 24 weeks; and although the anti-choice brigade will say that some can survive if born at that age, almost certainly it will be to a permanently damaged existence.
will more than likely end up dead or damaging yourself forever.
How can people in this day and age even think such a thing.
Go to your doctor and get advice. I do not believe in abortion and the other person who said babies born at 24 weeks have huge problems needs to go to a local womens hospital and see that a huge amount of babies born at 24 weeks have grown up to be healthy with no lasting problems.
Adoption is a better choice or fostering the child out until you can handle being a mum.
e are plenty of married couples who CANNOT conceive a child and who want one so bad. You will get paid for having the baby for a couple.. That means Dr. Bills paid in full and a couple of thousand for you, yourself.
Don't have an abortion!!
it up for adoption or be a MOM and take care of what you created.
Good luck. Do the right thing!!
please dont!
dont kill your baby he has no guilt, if you abort ,it has been proved that you get severe phycological traumas by the obvious reason that you are murdering your own indefense child, (even though many people dont accept it), in many cases you may not be able to have more children because your womb is hurt.
and please I beg you CHOOSE LIFE !!!!
If you attempt an abortion at home, you may or may not kill your baby and you may or may not kill yourself. If you are thinking about abortion, please visit http://Abort73.com as soon as possible.
why abortion its not the baby's problem that your having its yours because you didn't keep your legs closed so why kill it that's like blaming it for something it didn't do.you think about that just have it and give it up!!!!!
It's sad so many people judge not having walked a mile in your shoes. I don't know if it works all the time but my sister got knocked up one of many times and decided on a home abortion. She consulted a widwife and was actually told that early in the preg. 1st or 2nd month to drink a bottle of hard liqour and castor oil. It worked for her but I don't know what the actual percentage rates are.
People, don't be so quick to judge or pass your beliefs on others!
The answers post by the user, for information only, FeelBaby.com does not guarantee the right.
- What age in your opinion is a person ready for a baby?
- What should i do, pregnaut!?!?!?
- i,m 39 years old and the last 3 months i have had a dark brown almost black nasty discharge before my period?
- who likes their meat?
- Why would someone hire an attorney to represent an unborn child who is not getting vaccinated?
- How do you get rid of stretch marks after having a baby?
- please some normal advise needed?
- Emergency daycare?
- is this cruel? child support issue?
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I'm having lot's of problems with one specific account that was configured before I got to administer this server. I'm thinking about removing and recreating the account, but I'm not sure how to do a backup of it's emails. That's really the only data that I need to save.
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text: Northfield — Boy Scout Jeffrey Niquette's project to paint address numbers on the curbs of each residence in the Northfield neighborhood was a success, resulting in a $300 donation to his Troop 462. Northfield Neighborhood Association leaders asked Niquette if he would take on the project as part of his efforts to become an Eagle Scout. With equipment and supplies donated by Parkrose Hardware, the scout recently painted long-lasting numbers in front of all 215 homes in the neighborhood. In appreciation for his work, the neighborhood association gifted his troop a bulk of the money they raised in their last two National Night Out raffles.