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The American Cancer Society lists 14 risk factors for colon cancer, and it breaks those 14 factors into 3 categories: risk factors you cannot change, lifestyle-related factors, and factors with uncertain, controversial, and unproven effects.
Going through the list, I do not seem to be a prime candidate. And yet I have Colon Cancer anyway, seemingly because of one, or possibly two risk factors.
Risk factors you cannot change
- Age
- Personal history of colorectal polyps or colorectal cancer
- Personal history of inflammatory bowel disease
- Family history of colorectal cancer or adenomatous polyps
- Inherited syndromes (Familial adenomatous polyposis, Turcot syndrome, Peutz-Jeghers syndrome)
- Racial and ethnic background (African Americans, Jews of Eastern European descent)
- Type 2 diabetes
Lifestyle-related factors
8. Certain types of diets (diet that is high in red meats)
9. Physical inactivity
10. Obesity
11. Smoking
12. Heavy alcohol use
Factors with uncertain, controversial, or unproven effects
13. Night shift work
14. Previous treatment for certain cancers (testicular cancer, prostate cancer)
The first risk factor for me is Age: 90% of the people diagnosed with colon cancer are at least 50 years old. I am 69, almost 70.
But that doesn't explain why I developed Colon Cancer, it only means that I'm in the same age bracket at the people who get Colon Cancer.
The second possible risk factor is a bit of a stretch. I am not a heavy drinker. You won't find me sitting at the bar every day after work, and I don't spend my weekends socializing at any of the local bars. That's just not me.
But there have been two times in my life when I drank more than the currently recommended "no more than two drinks a day for men."
The first time was during the Vietnam War when I was flying combat missions over North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
I flew 104 combat missions, and after every combat mission if you weren't flying the next day, it was common practice for the aircrews to sit in the bar at the Officer's Club at Takhli RTAFB and drink the night away.
At the time, my preferred drink was Johnnie Walker Black, scotch whiskey, and I would have more than two drinks to deal with the stress.
But that stopped when I came back to the States in June 1969.
The other time I drank "more than two drinks a day" was in the mid to late 1990's, when I was active in the Irish-American community here in Rochester.
Somewhere during that time, I picked up the idea that the limit for drinking was more than three drinks a day, "One for the Father, one for the Son, and one for the Holy Ghost."
That is a pretty Catholic way of putting things, and for years I thought I'd gotten the idea from the Irish writer Walter Macken, author of Seek the Fair Land, The Silent People, and The Scorching Wind, historical novels set in the time of the Potato Famine in Ireland when the English used the available grain to feed the cattle and let the Irish people starve.
But when I went looking through my collection of Walter Macken's books I could never find that quote.
But yesterday I discovered that the quote isn't from Walter Macken at all. It's from Graham Greene, the British writer who converted from converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in 1926 when he was 22 years old.
I've always loved the straightforward way Greene wrote in novels such as The Third Man, The Heart of the Matter, and The Quiet American.
In fact, I think that The Third Man might be the best mystery novel ever written.
Yesterday, I stumbled across an article by Graham Lord of the Daily Mail, who wrote about meeting the 83 year old Graham Greene at his home in the South of France, four years before Greene 's death.
Lord wrote that while they were having lunch at Greene's favorite pavement café, where they shared three bottles of wine, Greene to told them "how he had once been travelling around Spain with a Catholic priest, and had one day suggested that they should have a third bottle of wine with their lunch. 'Why not?' said the priest. 'One for the Father, one for the Son, and one for the Holy Ghost.'"
So I had inadvertently picked up the idea from a notoriously heavy drinker. Not a good idea.
In the meantime, I found out that I had come back from Vietnam with a wicked case of PTSD.
I'd wake up in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat, and shaking with fear, after having another nightmare reliving the worst moment of my life, in the sky near Vinh North Vietnam when my unarmed reconnaissance place was jumped by a North Vietnamese MIG who fired an air-to-air missile right up our tail.
How the missile missed or failed to explode, I will never know. He had us dead to rights and I should be a dead man.
But I'm not. Instead, I have PTSD.
My doctor told me my young daughter was afraid of me because of the way I'd explode in rage over the weirdest things. So I went to the Veterans Outreach Center for help and after a while they passed me on to the VA, which classified me as 80% disabled because of my PTSD.
During my treatment at the VA Outpatient Clinic in Westfall Road, Amy Warner, a Nurse Practitioner, asked me how much I drank. When I told her never more than 3 a day, she told me that was too much and that I should limit myself to "no more than two drinks a day."
So I went home and started an Excel spreadsheet to track my alcohol consumption and make sure that I kept to the rule of "no more than two drinks a day."
Now that I know the rules, I'll keep them. But for all I know, the damage had already been done.
The American Cancer Society doesn't specify any time limits on when the heavy drinking took place.
But as Shakespeare wrote in The Tempest, "The past is prologue." It's an event that leads to another event or situation, but we can't do anything to change it.
There is also a third possible risk factor for why I developed Colon Cancer: Agent Orange.
According to the VA, "The following Veterans may have been exposed to herbicides: "U.S. Air Force Veterans who served on Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) bases at U-Tapao, Ubon, Nakhon Phanom, Udorn, Takhli, Korat, and Don Muang, near the air base perimeter anytime between February 28, 1961 and May 7, 1975."
For years, the Pentagon denied that it had used Agent Orange in Thailand, but a declassified Department of Defense report written in 1973, Project CHECO Southeast Asia Report: Base Defense in Thailand 1968-1972, "contains evidence that there was a significant use of herbicides on the fenced-in perimeters of military bases in Thailand to remove foliage that provided cover for enemy forces."
Whenever I flew back into Takhli during the rainy season and looked down, the entire area around Takhli was covered with lush green tropical vegetation except for a small area, perhaps 100 yards wide, around the perimeter fence.
The around the perimeter fence was totally brown. Nothing grew there at all, not even a blade of grass.
Now the Air Force wasn't particularly careful about where they sprayed and how they sprayed. For example, they use to spray the entire base with insecticides to keep the mosquitoes down.
To do the spraying, a tank truck would drive through the streets of the base spraying a huge cloud of insecticide into the air, coating everything in sight; the trees, the lawns, the hootches, the squadron buildings, everything.
And it was your job to stay out of the way. The trucks just drove down the street spraying. That's the way the Air Force was. If it was the day scheduled to spray insecticide, they sprayed insecticide.
As a navigator-bombardier, one of my duties was to take my turn in the rotation and help grade every take-off and landing made by an EB-66 at Takhli.
This meant spending a morning, and afternoon, or an evening in a bunker near the landing end of the runway, so we had a close up view of each approach and landing by an E-66.
There were two bunkers, one at each end of the runway, and if the wind changed, we changed bunkers
As we looked out from the bunker, the perimeter was right in front of us, maybe a hundred yards away, and I can remember watching them spray the perimeter with what I later learned was Agent Orange.
However, in May 2010 the VA issued a Compensation and Pension Bulletin that set down the process that the VA would follow in handling any and all Agent Orange claims for Vietnam Veterans stationed at: U-Tapao, Ubon, Nakhon Phanom, Udorn, Takhli, Korat or Don Muang in Thailand. In effect, the ruling segregate Veterans who served on those bases into "Those that were on the perimeter" and "those that were not on the perimeter."
According to an article published in the Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health.
Colon cancer, was found to have a relationship with Agent Orange in this study, even though it did not show a relationship in previous research.
As recently as May 2010, the Department of Veterans Affairs has ruled that
"Colon cancer is not on the list of disease presumed service connected in Veterans exposed to Agent Orange."
So it seems, that like alcohol use, Agent Orange exposure is not a prime suspect in why I developed Colon Cancer and other people my age have not.
Perhaps I'll never know, why me?
To Be Continued in One Mistake Led to Another (Part VII).


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March 16, 2004
Atlanta Ga., - University of Arizona sophomore center Shawntinice Polk has been named the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) NCAA Division I Player of the Month for February.
Polk averaged 18.1 points, 12.9 rebounds, had 22 assists and 25 blocked shots, giving Arizona a share of the program's first Pac-10 regular-season championship. Arizona tied for first place with Stanford at 14-4 in Pac-10 play and the two teams are Conference Co-Champions. Twice in the month of February, Polk has earned Pac-10 Player of the Week honors, which is her third this season.
On February 21, Polk became Arizona's all-time shot blocker in an 84-58 victory over Oregon. She also surpassed the 1,000-point mark with 22 points against Washington on February 28. To round out the month, Polk moved to 9th on the Pac-10 career list for double-doubles - 36 career double-doubles ties for most ever by a Wildcat.
The Wildcats finished 22-7 overall, and 14-4 in the Pac-10. Their 14-4 Conference mark ties for the best league record ever compiled by a Wildcat team. Arizona earned the No. 2 seed in the State Farm Pac-10 Tournament, where they advanced to the final versus Stanford and fell just short, 51-46. The Wildcats earned a No. 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament, where they will face Michigan State in the first round on Sunday, March 21.
Polk is also among the 21 finalists for The State Farm Wade Trophy.
Also nominated: Alana Beard, Duke University (Atlantic Coast); Cathy Joens, George Washington University (Atlantic 10); Rebekkah Brunson, Georgetown University (Big East); Annie Anderson, Idaho State University (Big Sky); Katie Feenstra, Liberty University (Big South); Shereka Wright, Purdue University (Big Ten); Kendra Wecker, Kansas State (Big 12); Max Nhassengo, Old Dominion University (Colonial Athletic Association); Chandi Jones, University of Houston (Conference USA); Hana Peljto, Harvard University (Ivy League); Cindi Merrill, Miami University, Ohio (Mid-American); Carlai Moore, University of Missouri, Kansas City (Mid-Continent); Liesel Harry, Coppin State College (Mid-Eastern Athletic); Desire Almind, Bucknell University (Patriot League); Armintie Price, University of Mississippi (Southeastern); Crystal Kitt, Alabama State University (Southwestern Athletic); Amisha Carter, Louisiana Tech (Western Athletic Conference).
*WBCA NCAA Division I Player of the Month honors is based on achievements during respective month for nomination and game-by-game statistics. All nominations must come from the conference office and the player's head coach must be a member of the WBCA.
Founded in 1981, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association promotes women's basketball by unifying coaches at all levels to develop a reputable identity for the sport and to foster and promote the development of the game in all of its aspects as an amateur sport for women and girls. For more information about the WBCA, please visit WBCA.org.


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What could be more shocking than a 'Susan Boyle moment'? How about a rocking Roman Catholic singing nun during the blind auditions of Italian version of the hit reality singing competition "The Voice?" Not only was the sister act one that surprised anyone viewing the show and hearing her angelic voice singing Alicia Keys' "No One," but Sister Cristina Scuccia surprised all four judges on "The Voice Of Italy" as well, as was evidenced by every judge's widened eyes and dropped jaw as each one -- Italian artists Raffaella Carra, J-Ax, Noemi, and Piero Pelu -- turned around.
The Hollywood Reporter noted (via Yahoo Movies) March 21 that the good sister had gone viral, her performance an international viral video hit on YouTube. The clip captured Sister Cristina Scuccia ("Suor Cristina" in Italian) as she belted "No One" like nobody else, reaching for the heavens with as clear a voice as any rock or pop star could want. Unlike Sally Fields, this singing nun didn't have to worry about doubting whether she was liked or not. The love came roaring from the audience, erupting from the judges, and, later, burning up the Twitterverse.
When asked if she truly was a nun, the 24-year-old Sicilian said, "Yes, I am truly, truly a sister."
And she is. She's a member of the Ursuline Sisters of the Holy Family of the Roman Catholic Church. In fact, she traveled to the audition with four of her fellow sisters, who were quite the sight jumping around in the nun habits, silver crucifix necklaces a-bouncing.
Sister Cristina's parents were also in attendance, cheering her on.
Sister Cristina told the judges, "I came here because I have a gift and I want to share that gift. I am here to evangelize."
Rapper J-Ax, according to the New York Daily News, told the singing nun, "If I had found you at Mass I would always be in church."
The performance immediately lit up Twitter and #suorcristina trended for hours.
The video of the singing nun nailing "No One" had garnered over 17 million views prior to midnight, March 22. The clip was posted on March 19 following the show.
Sister Cristina Scuccia was asked what she thought the Vatican would think of her singing. She replied: "I hope that Pope Francis will call me now."
The sister has jokes, too, apparently. Her comment was a nicely phrased allusion to the Pope's Christmas cold-call to a Spanish convent -- where he unfortunately had to leave a voice-mail message.
Pope Francis, being possibly the hippest pope in history, will undoubtedly waste little time ringing up the singing nun, Sister Cristina.
So which judge did Sister Cristina choose for her mentor and coach for the competition? The Catholic News Agency reported that J-Ax received the nun's blessing, because, she said, "I told myself that if they turned around, I would choose the first one."
J-Ax said he was thrilled to be chosen by the most popular contestant on "The Voice of Italy."
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Ravindra Talashikar (Comments) https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/feed/comments/atom 2012-11-22T11:22:16+00:00 Apache Roller https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/ultrasparc_t1_utilization_explained#comment-1300367066000 Re: UltraSPARC T1 utilization explained Wagner Pozzani 2011-03-17T13:04:26+00:00 2011-03-17T13:04:26+00:00
Hi Ravi

Great script. It works fine on a server without pool facility actived.
 I would appreciate very much your help. I am working on server with 32 cores, and 256 threads, distributed on some pools that are assigned to same numbers of containers. Running corestat on global zone give me statistics for the global zone only (pool default). Trying to execute cpustat on a processor set, I got message "psrset: cannot exec in processor set 1: Operation not supported" (because pool facility is active). Trying to run cpustat on a local zone (container) I got "cpustat: cpu100 - No such file or directory" for each thread on that local zone. Could you help me on this problem? Is it possible to run cpustat on containers??
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/ultrasparc_t1_utilization_explained#comment-1299060585000 Re: UltraSPARC T1 utilization explained Achintya 2011-03-02T10:09:45+00:00 2011-03-02T10:09:45+00:00
Hi Ravi,
 The information has not grown old. Found it really useful for my understanding.
 Thanks,
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/corestat_core_utilization_reporting_tool#comment-1296510065000 Re: Corestat karthik 2011-01-31T21:41:05+00:00 2011-01-31T21:41:05+00:00
Hi

I am interested to know if corestat is available for T3 processors.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/corestat_core_utilization_reporting_tool#comment-1270707140000 Re: Corestat Ivan Ratschkewycz 2010-04-08T06:12:20+00:00 2010-04-08T06:12:20+00:00
This is my second attempt at posting here.

We believe there is a bug in Corestat v1.1 that causes the program to give undue weight to the last instruction count in any interval such that if the counts were 50,55,60,65 & 70 the calculation yields an answer of 65.3125 and if the counts were reversed (70,65,60,55 & 50) it would now give an answer of 50.3125. The code segment is at at line 163 : $cpu_stat_pic1[$cpu_id][$mode] = ($cpu_stat_pic1[$cpu_id][$mode] + $instr_ctr)/2 ;

If we have misinterpreted what the code is meant to do, please could you explain it to us?
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/corestat_for_ultrasparc_t2#comment-1261064370000 Re: Corestat for UltraSPARC T2/T2+ user 2009-12-17T15:39:30+00:00 2009-12-17T15:39:30+00:00
shouldn't the instr count be added with in the minsamples timeframe rather than assigning or does the cpustat command take care of that?

 if ($nsamples < $minsamples) {
 $cpu_stat[$cpu_id][$mode][$INT_TYPE] += $instr_ctr;
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/ultrasparc_t1_utilization_explained#comment-1260536974000 Re: UltraSPARC T1 utilization explained Marvin Hecht 2009-12-11T13:09:34+00:00 2009-12-11T13:09:34+00:00
Hi,

I've downloaded corestat. Can you tell me exactly how to install it on my T5220?
 Thanks.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/ultrasparc_t1_utilization_explained#comment-1254487658000 Re: UltraSPARC T1 utilization explained Pramod 2009-10-02T12:47:38+00:00 2009-10-02T12:47:38+00:00
Is there any tool to load different cores in a CMT processor? For example, I want to load say 4 (out of 8 cores available) cores to 100% utilization.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/corestat_for_ultrasparc_t2#comment-1253681709000 Re: Corestat for UltraSPARC T2/T2+ Henkis 2009-09-23T04:55:09+00:00 2009-09-23T04:55:09+00:00
If you have problems and get error messages like:
 "ERROR : Invalid cpu counter information!"

Make sure /usr/sbin is in your $PATH.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/corestat_for_ultrasparc_t2#comment-1251980508000 Re: Corestat for UltraSPARC T2/T2+ steve mitchell 2009-09-03T12:21:48+00:00 2009-09-03T12:21:48+00:00
We can't get this to run on any or our T2000's either.

{root@testbox1}/var/tmp/corestat.v.1.2.3
 $ ./corestat.v.1.2.3 -g
 Frequency = 1000 MHz
 ERROR : Invalid cpu counter information!

{root@testbox1}/var/tmp/corestat.v.1.2.3
 $ ./corestat.v.1.2.3 -r 1000 -g
 Frequency = 1000 MHz
 ERROR : Invalid cpu counter information!

{root@testbox1}/var/tmp/corestat.v.1.2.3
 $ cat /etc/release
 Solaris 10 10/08 s10s_u6wos_07b SPARC
 Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
 Use is subject to license terms.
 Assembled 27 October 2008

{root@testbox1}/var/tmp/corestat.v.1.2.3
 $ uname -a
 SunOS testbox1 5.10 Generic_138888-08 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/corestat_for_ultrasparc_t2#comment-1250152994000 Re: Corestat for UltraSPARC T2/T2+ Aditya Dhruva 2009-08-13T08:43:14+00:00 2009-08-13T08:43:14+00:00
Hello Ravindra,

We are seeing this unusual behaviour of our application on the T1/T2 processor - we have a multi-process application & expect that all of them are equally loading the cpu.

Due to performance problems we used corestat to check the core utilization. Why is only core 1 (and we see inside it's always thread 1) showing significantly more load than others? Why is there no equal distribution of the application across the cpus?

BR
 Aditya

 Core Utilization for Integer pipeline
 Core,Int-pipe %Usr %Sys %Usr+Sys
 ------------- ----- ----- --------
 0,0 29.44 5.54 34.98
 0,1 7.90 2.07 9.97
 1,0 12.67 2.80 15.46
 1,1 5.64 1.02 6.66
 2,0 9.83 2.31 12.14
 2,1 4.49 1.78 6.27
 3,0 11.69 3.04 14.74
 3,1 6.01 2.02 8.03
 4,0 8.06 3.45 11.51
 4,1 4.73 3.12 7.84
 5,0 10.50 7.63 18.13
 5,1 3.88 1.68 5.56
 6,0 11.26 2.43 13.69
 6,1 4.82 1.32 6.14
 7,0 9.53 3.87 13.41
 7,1 4.77 2.87 7.64
 ------------- ----- ----- ------
 Avg 9.08 2.93 12.01
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/corestat_for_ultrasparc_t2#comment-1245723147000 Re: Corestat for UltraSPARC T2/T2+ Tomas 2009-06-23T02:12:27+00:00 2009-06-23T02:12:27+00:00
corestat + zones + pools

I configured a processor set, associated it with a pool and then set-up a zone with that pool.

So in my system cores 0&1 are bound to the zone - using the pool and pset, and cores 2&3 are in the default pool in global zone.

When I run corestat from global zone
 it reports the data about core 2&3.

How can I get report for core 0&1 (bound to zone)? When I try corestat inside the zone, it shows only "Frequency = 1165 MHz
 ERROR : Invalid cpu counter information!".

Thank you very much.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/corestat_for_ultrasparc_t2#comment-1242111049000 Re: Corestat for UltraSPARC T2/T2+ Amir Hameed 2009-05-12T06:50:49+00:00 2009-05-12T06:50:49+00:00
Hi Ravi,
 When I try to run corestat (version 1.2.3) on my T5210 server (1415 MHz CPU), I get the following o/p:
 --
 Frequency = 1415 MHz
 ERROR : Invalid cpu counter information!
 --

I am running it as sudo. Can you please help me identify what I am doing wrong here?

Thanks
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/corestat_for_ultrasparc_t2#comment-1227179674000 Re: Corestat for UltraSPARC T2/T2+ Daniel Smith 2008-11-20T11:14:34+00:00 2008-11-20T11:14:34+00:00
I can't get corestat to work on my T5120. I keep getting:
 ERROR : Invalid cpu counter information!

I have SUNWcpc.v and SUNWcpcu installed.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/ultrasparc_t1_utilization_explained#comment-1224815123000 Re: UltraSPARC T1 utilization explained PB 2008-10-24T02:25:23+00:00 2008-10-24T02:25:23+00:00
Hi:

Is it possible to get this tool for T2+ processors?
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/corestat_for_ultrasparc_t2#comment-1216587932000 Re: Corestat for UltraSPARC T2/T2+ J Ferraro 2008-07-20T21:05:32+00:00 2008-07-20T21:05:32+00:00
Seems like you need a patch for the T5240. This seems to have worked. Hopefully it won't break the rest of the script. Can you verify?!?!?

--- corestat.v.1.2.2.orig Fri Jul 18 11:28:17 2008
 +++ corestat.v.1.2.2 Fri Jul 18 11:29:13 2008
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 \*DEFAULT_FREQUENCY = \\1417 ; # 1417 MHz
 \*DEFAULT_INTERVAL = \\10 ; # 10 sec
 \*VERSION = \\"1.2.2" ; # Version number
 -\*MAX_CPUS = \\64 ; # Max CPUs for T2
 +# JPF - 18jul08 - increase max cpus for T5240
 +#\*MAX_CPUS = \\64 ; # Max CPUs for T2
 +\*MAX_CPUS = \\128 ; # Max CPUs for T2+
 \*INT_TYPE = \\0 ; # Integer instructions
 \*FP_TYPE = \\1 ; # FP instructions
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 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/corestat_for_ultrasparc_t2#comment-1209479365000 Re: Corestat for UltraSPARC T2/T2+ Prashant Srinivasan 2008-04-29T14:29:25+00:00 2008-04-29T14:29:25+00:00
Thanks for writing this up - it's a very educative article.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/database_scaling_on_sun_fire#comment-1207138331000 Re: Database scaling on Sun Fire T2000 Todd Helfter 2008-04-02T12:12:11+00:00 2008-04-02T12:12:11+00:00
I too am seeing horrible performance. 2xT2000 8 core with Sun 3510. Oracle 10gR2. Same setup with 2xv240 is 4 times faster for the exact same database. Does anyone have any tricks for speeding up the t2000?
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/corestat_core_utilization_reporting_tool#comment-1206716999000 Re: Corestat Garry Garrett 2008-03-28T15:09:59+00:00 2008-03-28T15:09:59+00:00
Had a type-o. It should say "I found I can't run it as a SetUID program".
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/corestat_core_utilization_reporting_tool#comment-1206716852000 Re: Corestat Garry Garrett 2008-03-28T15:07:32+00:00 2008-03-28T15:07:32+00:00
corestats is nice, but I found I can run it as a SetUID program. I had chowned it to root, set the SetUID bit, taken away permissions for "other", and setup an ACL so that only the two groups I wanted to be able to run it had r-x permissions. However, if you try to run version 1.1 it you get:

Insecure $ENV{PATH} while running setuid at /dev/fd/4 line 111.

I found some info about this by running "perldoc perlsec", however, I'm not well versed enough with perl to be able to fix the script so that the PATH is not considered to be "tained". I set $PATH to just "/usr/bin" and I'm still considered to be "tainted".

I had to setup sudo to get this to work, which I can do, but next time you look at this, perhaps you could make it work SetUID?
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/ultrasparc_t1_utilization_explained#comment-1203360532000 Re: UltraSPARC T1 utilization explained Karen Law 2008-02-18T18:48:52+00:00 2008-02-18T18:48:52+00:00
I also want to redirect the output to a file and further analyse. But I also found that redirection doesn't work. Anyone can give me some hints?
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/corestat_core_utilization_reporting_tool#comment-1202251912000 Re: Corestat merill 2008-02-05T22:51:52+00:00 2008-02-05T22:51:52+00:00
Is it possible to use corestat within a non-global zone, particularly with dedicated processors (dedicated-cpu option in zonecfg)? With the pset defined, the dedicated cores are no longer visible in the global zone with corestat.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/corestat_for_ultrasparc_t2#comment-1196072404000 Re: Corestat for UltraSPARC T2/T2+ Ravindra Talashikar 2007-11-26T10:20:04+00:00 2007-11-26T10:20:04+00:00
Well, for Niagara-1, please continue using previous 1.1 version. For Niagara-2 only use the 1.2.2 version. On any other SPARC system, it will not be useful..
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/corestat_for_ultrasparc_t2#comment-1196057235000 Re: Corestat for UltraSPARC T2/T2+ Roman Pestka 2007-11-26T06:07:15+00:00 2007-11-26T06:07:15+00:00
Any reason as to why the current version 1.2.2 does not work on any of my machines even if I set the frequency to 1000?

# ./corestat -r 1000
 Frequency = 1000 MHz
 ERROR : Invalid cpu counter information!
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/corestat_core_utilization_reporting_tool#comment-1195440585000 Re: Corestat Ravindra Talashikar 2007-11-19T02:49:45+00:00 2007-11-19T02:49:45+00:00
Updated corestat for T1 version with a new V1.1 version. It has a bug fix for the MIPS calculation. Please use the new version which can be downloaded using the same link as in the blog.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/database_scaling_on_sun_fire#comment-1194602650000 Re: Database scaling on Sun Fire T2000 Raghu 2007-11-09T10:04:10+00:00 2007-11-09T10:04:10+00:00
For Oracle 9i or 10g r2 on SUN T-2000, does
 set consistent_coloring=2
 required to be set on kernel to take advantage of the high-speed memory L2 cache? Your help is much appreciated.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/database_scaling_on_sun_fire#comment-1192813175000 Re: Database scaling on Sun Fire T2000 Ramon Martinez 2007-10-19T16:59:35+00:00 2007-10-19T16:59:35+00:00
We're trying to port an Oracle9i based OLTP database from a V1280 ( 12 single core CPUs ) to a T2000 and are seeing terrible results.

Suggestions to turn parallelism on hasn't helped since this is not a DW or DSS architecture. In fact, a majority of the app runs slower.

Are there any references of sucessful porting to the T2000?
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/ultrasparc_t1_utilization_explained#comment-1190761743000 Re: UltraSPARC T1 utilization explained Prashant 2007-09-25T23:09:03+00:00 2007-09-25T23:09:03+00:00
Hi Ravi, corestat is a great tool ,i am able to run it successfully.But i am not able to redirect the corestat output to a file.
 Commnads like pipe or Redirection are not working with corestat.
 Could you please provide solution to this?
 I run corestat using "sudo corestat" command.
 Thank YOu
 Prashant
 https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/ultrasparc_t1_utilization_explained#comment-1186042058000 Re: UltraSPARC T1 utilization explained John Tavares 2007-08-02T08:07:38+00:00 2007-08-02T08:07:38+00:00 Are there any plans to make this sort of data available via an API such as kstat?? While we are interested in getting access to get this data, running a perl script as root and parsing the output is not something I am prepared to do. What I am looking for is a more programmatic solution where I do not need to fork off a process nor do I need to know the frequency. Thanks. John https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/ultrasparc_t1_utilization_explained#comment-1183598595000 Re: UltraSPARC T1 utilization explained Niki Kraus 2007-07-05T01:23:15+00:00 2007-07-05T01:23:15+00:00 Hi Ravi, corestat is great, but I'm having the same problem as @Ravindra on a T2000:
 Argument "Can't" isn't numeric in array element at /usr/local/bin/corestat line 152, <fd_in> line 1.
 But corestat works perfect on a T1000; both run with 1000Mhz. What could be the reason? I'm using v1.0 -- Kind regards, Nick https://blogs.oracle.com/travi/entry/database_scaling_on_sun_fire#comment-1182304052000 Re: Database scaling on Sun Fire T2000 yumianfeilong 2007-06-20T01:47:32+00:00 2007-06-20T01:47:32+00:00 If SQL takes very short time,then t2000 might be nice and scable. If SQL takes more than seconds and a lot of buffer gets, then sql would be much slower than tranditional machine. And from our test, t2000 is slower on data import & alter table move ,batch jobetc. Thanks, Bin


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The Mistress Cycle, which runs at the Landor as part of Aria Entertainment's From Page to Stage season, is the story of Tess, a struggling 30-something photographer who is made an offer by a wealthy, older man to "keep her" as his mistress.
As she wrestles with his proposition, mistresses from different eras and cultures come to tell their stories: a 14-year-old concubine from 12 Century China; the mistress of Henri II of France in the 1500's; a bordello madame in turn-of-the-last-century New Orleans; and Anais Nin, diarist and sexual adventuress. This eclectic material should make for a show that is full of variety. Unfortunately, that is not the case.
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The Scottsdale Civic Center Library may become an epicenter of innovation as ASU Venture Catalyst looks to create a collaborative work space for budding entrepreneurs, inventors and aspiring small-business proprietors.
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Design house Modernist produced a short film called Interference, made in collaboration with SHOWstudio's Future Tense project, at London Fashion Week. Directed by Lorna Lavelle, the three-minute black-and-white reel shows garments in full motion while creating a vague storyline of a modern day kind of Marie Antoinette who seemingly delights in her slithering black, slightly Gothic garb.
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How cute are these ugly monster cupcakes? This would be a great idea for a little boy who loves making a mess. Set up your kitchen with wax paper, and by set up I mean: COVER EVERYTHING. Every service that might incur permanent frosting damage should be covered. Try using a plastic table cloth and setting pre-mixed frosting colors into tubes or small plastic bowls. Then display an array of candies for decorating. Good N' Plenty, Mike & Ikes, Licorice and Candy Corn are great options. Monster cupcakes are great for a Halloween party or special birthday party. Any of these scary monsters would be great in our boy Patterned Cupcake Wrappers:
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Every time I try doing unmount /some/fs it says it is busy. The server has gone bye bye; anyone have any ideas?
I have tried:
unmount -f /some/fs
Illegal option
unmount -o force /some/fs
Illegal option
unmount /some/fs
File system is busy
Sometimes this works:
If there is a reason other than trying to keep things tidy, such as it causing hangs every time you accidentally enter that directory, I wonder if you could mount something else over the top. I'm not sure if lofs is in solaris 2.7 (the mount command I used works in Solaris 10), but you could try just mounting another directory over the top:
That way you won't have any issues whenever someone tried to mount that directory. You might still hit issues with commands like df though.
If that isn't an optimal solution, you could try setting up a temporary nfs server where it used to be and hope the server will succeed in connecting to it. You could create a VM for it, or even just set up an nfs share on your laptop and change the IP temporarily. Just long enough to make the server think it has a valid nfs mount and unmount it.
This is all sounding a little more work than just rebooting at an opportune time (such as when you install patches) however.
Your last entry, "filesystem is busy", implies that there is an open file somewhere on that mount, which is the real cause of your pain. Any chance you can track down that file and kill whatever process is using it?
I'm unsure as to whether my answer in Q#75883 applies to Solaris or not.


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Member Review of the Week: Effortless Relaxation
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Each week, we choose five cruise reviews written by our members, one of which is showcased as the Member Review of the Week. In the spotlight this week is Cruise Critic member cjhippo's recent cruise to the Panama Canal aboard Norwegian Sun.
Overall Impression: Retired Florida couple cjhippo and her husband were looking for an easy getaway, which is easy when you live within driving distance to a few major home ports. They decided to experience the Panama Canal for its 100th anniversary, onboard Norwegian Sun. Although they endured a disorganized embarkation process, relaxation on the ship was effortless.
Onboard Highlight: Dinner at Le Bistro, Norwegian's French-inspired specialty restaurant. Since it wasn't over crowded, cjhippo and her hubby were able to snag window seats both nights.
Port Highlight: Being able to experience the full-day Panama Canal transit; cjhippo enjoyed the ship's narrator, who spoke to passengers over the loudspeaker. She did wonder why the ship didn't have more commemoration for such a significant year. i
Don't Miss: The musical quartet, Oh What a Night, which stood out among the entertainment choices (which cjhippo felt was overall good, not great).
Watch Out For: Cjhippo felt it was tough to find quiet places to read. She recommends bringing headphones to zone out the noise from fellow passengers gathering for games or drinks.
More: Read cjhippo's full review for more details about the tour and highlights onboard the ship.
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Brion, Brilliant! But this only does half the job. The links within the wiki don't respect the root URL I specified in LocalSettings.php, under $wgServer, or the forwarded URL, but all still link to the actual host URL. I don't know how to change these? Also, is there some way to tell MediaWiki to change all links to external sites to say target="_top"? Thanks! kerim On Jul 31, 2004, at 6:23 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > P. Kerim friedman wrote: >> I'm a little closer to understanding what is going on with my >> absolute failure to get MediaWiki to respect EasyDNS' domain >> forwarding. It seems that they use frames. From their website: > [snip] >> Now, my problem isn't one of getting the outside links to work, >> although that would be nice. (Movable Type seems able to support >> this.) But rather, I think the .htaccess file I am using to clean up >> the domain names is perhaps breaking the frame? > > MediaWiki includes an anti-framejacker defense shield. If you want to > take this out, open up stylesheets/wikibits.js and remove this: > > // Un-trap us from framesets(Continue reading)


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[artist id="3061469″]Lady Gaga[/artist] took the stage to open the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night (August 28), and to no one's surprise, she tore the roof off Los Angeles' Nokia Theatre with a gutsy performance of her hit single "Yoü and I" in character as her male alter ego, Jo Calderone .
The pop star emerged on the dark, empty stage wearing a loose black suit and T-shirt with slicked-back dark hair and a lit cigarette. As Calderone, Gaga then started into an emotional, near four-minute monologue about his tortured relationship with the pop star. "Lady Gaga, she left me," he started. "She said it always starts out good. … She said I'm just like the last one."
Gaga's creative director, Laurieann Gibson , was coy when asked if Calderone would appear at the VMAs. "Will Jo be at the VMAs? Hmmm, I'm trying to book him. I'm talking to his manager now, so I'll keep you posted," she told MTV News correspondent Jim Cantiello.
After the monologue, Gaga found herself in more familiar territory — sitting at the piano — to start into a jazzy take on "Yoü and I." But that didn't last long, as the pop star soon joined a group of male backup dancers in black pants and dirty T-shirts as the tempo kicked up to the single version of the rock ballad that is currently burning up radio.
Mother Monster had another very big trick up her sleeve in the form of guest Brian May, the Queen guitarist who is featured on her most recent album, Born This Way. May tore into his solo with rock-star abandon while Gaga-as-Calderone climbed on top of the piano and began spraying beer on the crowd.
While Gaga was hesitant to talk about the performance beforehand, saying she wanted it to be a "surprise," she did subtly reveal that she might not be quite herself on the VMA stage, telling MTV News she's interested in "all the different people we can become or have become in the past."
"Our potential for the future and how do we in our minds sort of compartmentalize our different personalities," she said. "So that's something that I'm fascinated with right now. It's almost as if I'm reviewing my life as a play" … a play she definitely brought to the VMA stage!
She also let us know that the inspiration for the performance came to her quickly — much as it did for her already legendary blood-soaked take on "Paparazzi" in 2009 . "It came as quickly as the last one did," Gaga said. "Any good performance flows out easily. If I have to think about it too much, something is wrong."
And the audience was stunned: The reaction shots during the performance were priceless. Katy Perry looked positively shocked (but in the best possible way), while Justin Bieber sat stone-faced, seemingly not able to really get what was going on.
As always with Gaga, it was all about the performance, so she was excited that VMA producers asked her to open the show after she told them her plans for the performance. "I was just really excited and I was really happy because they asked me after I told them what I wanted to do," Gaga told MTV News . "So it was even more exciting because I knew that it was based off the performance idea and MTV believing in me as an artist and they have, and I appreciate that, from the beginning. They always allowed me to do my version of pop music and not someone else's."
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2015: Started in all of the Ducks' 19 games … converted 14 goals during her senior campaign, good for sixth-most on the team … finished third on the team in draw controls with 20 … posted the ninth-most caused turnovers on the team with seven … scored three goals in the Ducks' game against Denver (4/24) to tie her career-high set last season … finished her career eighth on the Oregon all-time categorical list for draw controls with 92 … was named to her third consecutive MPSF All-Academic team.
2014: Started in all 18 games she appeared in…was seventh on the team with 20 goals and third on the team with 32 draw controls…netted a career-high three goals twice, first against Coastal Carolina (2/11) and then against St. Mary's (4/6)…recorded six multi-goal games…picked up a career-high six draw controls versus Colorado (4/27)…one of seven Ducks to score against San Diego State (4/20) when UO notched its 100th win in program history…earned her second-straight MPSF All-Academic team honors...also named to the IWLCA Academic Honor Roll.
2013: Made 14 starts and appeared in 16 games...finished third on the team in draw controls (31)...scored five goals and added five assists for the year...posted career-highs in draw controls (4), caused turnovers (4) and ground balls (3) against Cincinnati (2/24)...matched that career-high in draw controls with four more at Old Dominion (3/30) and at Fresno State (4/10)…named to the MPSF All-Academic team.
2012: Made appearances in 16 of the 17 games as a freshman...tallied two goals, the most recent in the 16-13 victory over UC Davis (4/8)...had a season-high three shots versus Davidson (3/27) and tallied two draw controls twice, with the last coming against Denver (4/21)...helped anchor the Ducks' midfield in a total of 14 wins, nine consecutively from March 27 through April 29.
Before Oregon: Served as a team captain on the lacrosse team as a junior...led team to the state semifinals and a fourth-place finish in the state in 2010...also earned two varsity letters in soccer...plays for the Maryland United Lacrosse club team...maintained a 4.06 GPA during the 2010 fall term...member of the National Honor Society, French National Honor Society and was named a Maryland Distinguished Scholar.
Personal: Daughter of Paul and Linda Brogan...has one sister, Kelly...majoring in journalism…mother was a member of both lacrosse and field hockey squads at the University of Delaware.


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There's something about those early morning hours that inspire Drake. While the world slept, the Young Money spitter dropped "5 Am in Toronto," a snap-fest filled with subtle and not-so-subtle rap darts.
Continuing where he left off with the eerie-sounding "Started From the Bottom," Drizzy starts off reminding doubters of his record-breaking accomplishments. "You underestimated greatly/ Most #1s ever, how long did it really take me?/ The part I love most is they need me more than they hate me/ So they never take shots, I got everybody on safety," he spits over the pounding Boi-1da track, which hit his October's Very Own blog on Thursday (March 7).
Without a hook, Drake takes numerous competitors and naysayers to task, rhyming for almost three minutes straight. While he doesn't get specific, Drizzy's placement at #5 on MTV News' "Hottest MCs in the Game VIII" has some thinking "5 AM in Toronto" may be in reaction to the list. "I made Forbes list n—a, F— your list/ Everything's looking gorgeous," he boasts, toasting his 2012 earnings.
Apart from the similarity in names, though, this new track has a different energy than the subdued "9 AM in Dallas," a track Drake dropped in 2010 shortly before he dropped his debut, Thank Me Later. It's clear Drizzy is aiming at unnamed targets on the newer track. He directly references his 2013 Grammy win and "bad press" from his alleged involvement in the bottle-throwing brawl last summer. And lines like "Where you think she at when she ain't with ya?" fuel speculation that the Toronto MC is taking shots at the once-rumored love triangle between him Chris Brown and Rihanna.
Drake's onetime collaborator The Weeknd may also be a target on the track.
" 'Cause I show love, never get the same outta n—as/ It's funny how money can make change outta n—as," Drizzy raps a few weeks after a verified, Drake-associated Twitter account posted a short message: "Just OVO."
In 2011, after Drake hipped his Twitter flock to the Weeknd, he and the singer born Abel Tesfaye brought their respective OVO and XO cliques together to form the all-encompassing OVOXO crew. But when the singer dropped his Trilogy album with Universal Republic, the logo for Drake's company didn't appear on the packaging.
In the end Drake, may never name names, but he does say that "he's trying to win here again" and with his third album, Nothing was the Same on the way, he seems to be preparing to meet that goal.
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George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 26, 1898, and died in Hollywood, California on July 11, 1937. He composed An American in Paris during the spring and summer of 1928, completing the orchestration on November 18 of that year. Walter Damrosch and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony gave the premiere on December 13, 1928. The San Francisco Symphony first played the work in July 1931 with Artur Rodzinski conducting; the most recent subscription concert performances, in September 2004, were led by Michael Tilson Thomas. The score calls for three flutes (third doubling piccolo), two oboes and English horn, two clarinets and bass clarinet, two bassoons, three saxophones (used in various combinations, including three sopranos, three altos, or alto, tenor, and baritone), three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, cymbals, bass drum, triangle, bells, xylophone, taxi horns, celesta, and strings. Performance time: about seventeen minutes.
In 1926 Gershwin went to England to prepare the London production of Lady, Be Good,starring Fred Astaire and Astaire's sister Adele. A short holiday across the Channel produced a big dividend: an idea for a tone poem about Paris. He departed with a highly original notion, the saucy walking theme with which An American in Paris gets under way. "This is so complete in itself, I don't know where to go next." he confided to his hostess, Mabel Schirmer.
Two years passed before Gershwin completed the work during a return visit to Paris. The piano sketch was done by August, the orchestration by mid-November, and four weeks later Walter Damrosch conducted the premiere at Carnegie Hall. The composer explained: "This new piece, really a rhapsodic ballet, is written very freely and is the most modern music I've yet attempted. The opening part will be developed in typical French style, in the manner of Debussy and the Six, though the themes are all original. Later Gershwin said, "I've not endeavored to represent any definite scenes in this music. The rhapsody is programmatic only in a general impressionistic way, so that the individual listener can read into the music such as his imagination pictures for him.
"The opening gay section is followed by a rich blues with a strong rhythmic undercurrent. Our American friend, perhaps after strolling into a café and having a couple of drinks, has succumbed to a spasm of homesickness. The harmony here is both more intense and simpler than in the preceding pages. This blues rises to a climax followed by a coda in which the spirit of the music returns to the vivacity and bubbling exuberance of the opening part with its impressions of Paris. Apparently the homesick American, having left the café and reached the open air, has disowned his spell of the blues and once again is an alert spectator of Parisian life. At the conclusion, the street noises and French atmosphere are triumphant."
—Mary Ann Feldman
Mary Ann Feldman was for many years program annotator for the Minnesota Orchestra, in whose program book this note originally appeared. Reprinted by permission. Copyright © The Minnesota Orchestra.
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Recordings— Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the San Francisco Symphony (RCA Victor Red Seal) | Seiji Ozawa conducting the San Francisco Symphony (Deutsche Grammophon) | Leonard Bernstein conducting the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra (Idi)
Reading—The Gershwins, by Robert Kimball and Alfred Simon (Atheneum) | Gershwin: A Biography, by Edward Jablonski (Doubleday) | Gershwin in his Time: A Biographical Scrapbook, 1919-1937, edited by Gregory Suriano (Gramercy) | Gershwin Remembered, edited by Edward Jablonski (Faber and Faber)


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Our environment is now largely man-made. There are at least 85,000 chemicals in commerce today. The CDC now measures 148 chemicals in human blood and urine and many of these have the potential to affect our health through subtle pathways. These pollutants are everywhere – in our water, in our air, in our food – usually in tiny amounts. Even those that pass through our bodies rapidly (the "non-persistent" chemicals, like those in plastics) are of concern, because our exposure to them is ongoing. And those that cause changes when a fetus is developing may well be affecting health in childhood and beyond.
Traditional epidemiology measures effects of high exposures to a single agent (e.g. smoking), or with exposure occurring over a short time period (e.g. an industrial accident). We are only now learning how to measure effects of low-exposure/long-term factors, singly and in combination, and starting to identify substantial impacts on health. Cumulatively, the current chemical burden we are experiencing may pose one of the greatest risks to human health that we have faced. Dr. Swan's work is to understand how to measure the effects of these environmental pollutants, and to document their effects on the health of the developing fetus, the child and the adult.
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TC TO WILLIAM ALLINGHAM ; 29 June 1850; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18500629-TC-WA-01; CL 25: 107-108
Chelsea, 29 june, 1850—
Dear Sir,
Along with Camden's Britannia (Philn Holland's, or at lowest Bishop Gibson's version),1 I ought by no means to have forgotten one Book which there is on Ireland itself that deserves, tho' at a long interval behind Camden, the name of "good." Sir James Ware's Book (or two Books together) I mean: History of Irish Writers, Bishops, &c, and History and Antiquities of Ireland;—all done into English by a Mr Harris (also a diligent learned kind of Irish man) about a hundred years ago in Dublin:2 you find it in two voll. folio (sometimes I think in 3, but my copy had 2 only); but all you can get of Ware's is worth buying,3—for he had a head, and took pains to do his best with it; and in fact has done more than any or than all that I have yet fallen in with in that Irish departt whether native or foreign. Camden, as he will teach you, and as is true, is very lame on Irish ground. Much of Ware as is fallen hopelessly obsolete, I think shd vote that this is the one good Book I could yet discover to exist on Irish matters.
"Ancient Histories of Ireland by Spencer" (the Poet), "Campion" and twoothers, were printed (reprinted, with extreme incorrectness) at Dublin some 40 years ago; and are to be had in two clumsy volumes:4—get these too, when you have opportunity;—this and the other strange glaring feature of the Anglo-Irish paladins and their mutinous subjects will bob up upon you as you read.— — If you want to know how many other Books, of little worth, of none and less than none, exist on Irish Histy, you can get Nicholson's "Irish Historical Library" (which however is far less instructive than his "Scotch" or "English" do); a cheap thin Book of a century-and-half old.5
I wd also recommend for your Ballyshannon Library, "Kennet's Complete Histy of England" 3 voll. folio,—which can be had for abt 25/ in good case, from the old-book shops here: only the 3d vol., now nearly worthless, is by Kennet (a thrice-famed Bishop in his time);6 the rest consists of many old Histies of England (masses of Ireland in it too, under Queen Elizabeth &c);—and you have a great deal of good reading, with abundant references and other helps, for your money. The Irish Counties in the Penny Cyclopedia (by one Ferguson, of Dublin) are well done; item Captn Larcom's Ordinance Map:7 all the rest that I have seen on Ireland is—what shall I say?— Yours (in gt haste)
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Sir R. Kane's Book8 (worth buying, tho' none of the best) you probably already have?—


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Montreal along with Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Halifax and Moncton will host the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015, as well as the Women's U-20 World Cup in 2014. The announcement was made on March 3rd, 2011, in Zurich, where the FIFA Executive Committee selected host nations for its various tournaments for the 2012 - 2015 period.
"We're honoured to have been chosen to organise the FIFA Women's World Cup 2015, a decision that we humbly and proudly accept. It's the most prestigious women's sporting event in the world. The socio-cultural make-up of our nation will enable us to provide the best possible welcome for the 24 countries that qualify. We're experienced in hosting large events such as this one, and with the support of our national and federal governments, we're well prepared. We aim to deliver a World Cup of the highest quality. I promise you that 2015 will take the event to a whole new level", declared Dominique Maestracci, President of the Canadian Soccer Association.
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Trendy Samsung E950 slider with interactive touchpad controls starts shipping in Europe this week, according to the company. And it is also headed for the U.S. this fall, according to FCC site, showing that Samsung E950 has been approved for the sale in U.S. market.
E950 is an upgrade for a very succesful Samsung E900 slider with better, 3.2 megapixel camera and a very cool interactive touch pad.
The touchpad on Samsung E950 is placed instead of the navigation keys and significantly simplifies the operation of the phone. Depending on the mode Samsung E950 is in, different icons are highlited on the touchpad as operational controls. E.g. in mp3 player mode you will see only player control buttons like pause, play, fast forward, etc; in camera mode the zoom controls and other camera functions will be available.
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The Walt Harris era is over.
Just eight days into Camp 2K10, the Ravens cut-bait by releasing the 35-year-old defensive back.
Harris was originally signed in June with the hope that he would add depth to a injury-riddled secondary; however, he initially struggled to pass the team's conditioning test and only practiced sporadically because of a sore Achilles.
Hours before parting ways with Harris, the team signed cornerback Chris Hawkins, who was released by the Jacksonville Jaguars last month. Hawkins, an undrafted rookie from LSU, had good size at 6-1, 187 lbs. But during his college career, Hawkins had a history of trouble with defending physical receivers.


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College Hockey:Three SHGs Propel Niagara Past Canisius
NIAGARA, N.Y. — It's a funny game the way the puck bounces at times; how a goaltender can keep a whole team afloat until the rest of his squad gets its game legs; and in a span of one minute and nineteen seconds, how a team proceeds to kill a five-on-three power play then scores three consecutive shorthanded goals to morph a close contest into a rout.
That's how Niagara wrote the script to its 5-2 thrashing of crosstown rival Canisius on Veteran's Day at Dwyer Arena. For Niagara the glory of victory belonged to goaltender Juliano Pagliero, but the guts of the Purple Eagles' effort was personified in the play of senior Armando Scarlatto.
Scarlatto was a late freshman walk-on in 2005. He was supposed to be too slow to play Division I hockey and for most of his career he had a hard time breaking into Niagara's defensive rotation.
But when he did play, Scarlatto made things happen, often enough that Niagara's coaching staff eventually found a slot for him as a winger on the fourth line. Tuesday, Scarlatto took a regular shift, killed penalties, dove in front of pucks, and played a rugged brand of selfless hockey that his younger teammates couldn't help but gain inspiration from.
"There were times along the way when I questioned whether I wanted to continue to pursue hockey," Scarlatto said. "I've waited four years for this opportunity, so I'm not going to let it pass. Last year they (Canisius) laughed at us when they beat us in their barn. It's my role to get things going. I'll play anywhere they want me to. I love it here. We're a family at Niagara."
In a freewheeling first period, Niagara made the most of its scant opportunities. Wes Consorti and Ryan Olidis tallied for the Purple Eagles, staking Niagara to a 2-0 lead, while Pagliero stonewalled the Griffins. Pagliero took one hard to the mask early but looked no worse for wear, as the senior stood tall in his crease turning away all thirteen Canisius shots.
Niagara ignited the capacity crowd with three shorthanded goals in the second period. The first came when freshman Sam Goodwin went in on a 2-1 and waited just long enough for Griffs goaltender Andrew Loewen to commit before firing a wrist shot past him. Seconds later, Egor Mirinov broke in on Loewen and chased him out of the net with a blistering snap shot. Finally, Dan Sullivan lifted a floating puck past backup netminder Taylor Anderson, and suddenly what was a close game seemed out of reach for Canisius.
"I don't know what it meant to have our two disallowed goals (early in the second period) in terms of momentum," Canisius coach Dave Smith said. "I don't know if you would see three shorthanded goals like that in a season. And to have them back-to-back-to-back, it's just bizarre."
Canisius did get on the board in the third period shortly after squandering a second five-on-three power play. Wes Love and Peter MacDougall tallied for the Griffs to make things interesting for a brief while, but Niagara blocked 32 shots in all, none more stinging than the one that caught Scarlatto in the ribs while he dove to the ground late in the third period. He was the lone Purple Eagle in the training room after the game.
"What Armando does is just amazing," defenseman Dan Sullivan said. "We all get fired up when we see him going out there. He's a natural defenseman playing forward. It's not easy for him, but when he makes a big hit the whole bench lifts up."
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