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Fast Food, Family Feuds
Fresh ingredients, yes, but an old story of ambition, wealth and in-fighting.
It's not easy to make a story about hamburgers interesting, but as we discover in Stacy Perman's "In-N-Out Burger," at least one fast-food narrative comes complete with tasty helpings of drug smuggling, corporate espionage, untimely death, conniving ex-wives, feckless in-laws, ne'er-do-well progeny, heroin, Christian fundamentalists and Dan Quayle. It's an odd assemblage, linked only by the ill-fated and often unlikable members of the Snyder clan, founders of a string of West Coast hamburger restaurants known as In-N-Out Burger. And since Ms. Perman's overcooked book means to celebrate the Snyders and their company as "a testament to old-fashioned values . . . reminiscent of a simpler time when people, loyalty, and a freshly-made juicy hamburger meant something," she's in a bit of a pickle.
"Harry Snyder's dream was a modest one," Ms. Perman writes, by way of introduction. "He was going to start his own little food business -- a hamburger stand." And we're off. The year is 1948. The place, Baldwin Park, 17 miles east of Los Angeles. Our budding mogul is a 35-year-old first-generation American, a veteran and a newlywed. Harry and Esther gin up $5,000, buy a small lot fronting what is soon to be a major artery between L.A. and Palm Springs, and begin selling burgers for a quarter and soft drinks for a dime.
Good timing. Tender shoots of fresh highway crisscross California, cars are plentiful and cheap, and the family meal has already begun its migration from dinner table to dashboard. Harry sticks a microphone and speaker on a pole, strings a wire from the lot to the grill, and rides the car-hop wave. By the book's end, In-N-Out is pulling down $450 million in annual sales. We're getting ahead of the story, though.
Ms. Perman is a business writer, most recently at BusinessWeek, and "In-N-Out Burger" is published by Collins Business. Thus one cracks the book expecting a business lesson or two. And voilà: Harry Snyder's formula for success, we learn, "was not based on some fancy management methodology"; it was "based on three simple words: 'Quality, Cleanliness, and Service.' " This is relayed on page 44. If you've bought the book seeking business wisdom, you can stop reading. You're done.
In-N-Out Burger
By Stacy Perman
(Collins Business, 345 pages, $24.99)
Ah, but our tale is not, though it unfolds in a way that Ms. Perman cannot soon control. She wants us to admire the chain and its plucky founder, à la Sam Walton, but the company benefits mostly from blind luck, and her protagonist is a bit of a martinet. Fearful of debt, Harry Snyder expands on the pay-as-you-go plan. As it happens, such flintiness serves the company well. It never overreaches, never over-extends. While Ray Kroc (McDonald's) and Carl Karcher (Carl's Jr.) attach franchise-fueled booster rockets to their fast-food businesses, Ma and Pa Snyder take it slow and steady, one or two million in sales at a time. The relative scarcity of their burgers only adds to the appeal, and the chain gains a mystique.
Cut to 1976. McDonald's boasts 4,000 restaurants; Harry has only 18, but things are going pretty well. Then, rather abruptly, he dies. Passing over the elder Snyder son, Guy, Esther and the board install 24-year-old, portly, dyslexic Rich Snyder as president. "The upending of primogeniture created a conflict between the two brothers whose relationship was already exacerbated by personality clashes," Ms. Perman writes. "It had the emotional intensity of the biblical story of Jacob and Esau without, of course, the bloodlust or deceit." Um, sure.
Rich's reign lasts 74 pages. Not much of a tinkerer, he leaves untouched most of his father's less-is-more business practices, except for an unconsummated flirtation with a chicken sandwich. Learning of the plan, Guy went "ballistic," according to a friend. "He was not going to go for that at all."
Crisis averted, Rich devotes his energy to buffing his conservative bona fides. He gives hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Republican Party and adds "The Best Enterprise is a Free Enterprise 'God Bless America' " to In-N-Out stationery. He prints Bible verses on the chain's soda cups and signs off on In-N-Out radio spots that ask listeners to let Jesus into their lives. Confronted with the inevitable complaints, Rich snaps: "Well, that's too bad. This is God's company, not mine." Soon he's supping at the White House, eating roast loin of veal with Dan Quayle. He marries a woman 14 years his junior, builds a mansion and, then, rather abruptly, dies in a plane crash. At the funeral, hamburgers are served.
It's now 1993. Enter Guy Snyder. Awkward, also portly, and prone to substance abuse, he is not an ideal chief executive for a company now generating $133 million in sales. Before long Guy is shooting heroin, sending a company executive into Mexico to smuggle drugs, and getting busted (on Christmas Day) with a briefcase stuffed with pot, Valium, Klonopin, a 9mm Glock, a switchblade and $27,475 in cash. Poor Ms. Perman does her darnedest to put a sunny spin on things. "It was due in no small part to the talented and loyal executive team that In-N-Out Burger remained on a stable and successful course." No doubt.
We're running of out time, so let me speed things up. Rather abruptly, Guy dies in 1999 of a drug-related heart attack, precipitating an ugly tussle for control of the burger chain between one of Guy's ex-wives, 79-year-old Esther, and one of those talented and loyal In-N-Out executives. Charges fly over the misuse of corporate funds and sweetheart deals. Lawsuits get filed. At one point, Esther is made a prisoner in her home, with phone calls and visitors screened by her ex-daughter-in-law.
Then, rather abruptly, Esther dies in 2006, leaving Guy's 24-year-old daughter to inherit the company (now worth almost half a billion dollars). With only a high-school education and an affinity for joining off-beat Christian sects, Lynsi Martinez "lacks sufficient personal maturity, experience, and skill necessary to successfully run In-N-Out," or so testifies an In-N-Out board member. No matter, as Ms. Perman writes: "The dynasty had been preserved."
So, what to make of all this? Ms. Perman repeatedly tells us that the story of this "family-owned, fiercely independent chain" is in fact simply the story of America, writ small. Alas, she may be right.
Mr. Tayman is the author of "The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai."


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Amy Donaldson: Grantsville wins Unified Soccer title, but it wasn't the wins that transformed the student-athletes
Amy Donaldson
GRANTSVILLE — Had it not been for the P.E. credit required for graduation, Daniel Gosling might not have been willing to give Unified Soccer a try.
"I wasn't sure," said the Grantsville junior, who participated in the state's first interscholastic league that allowed high school students with intellectual disabilities to compete alongside other student athletes. "Coach Ciervo and my mom said it would be fun, and I needed P.E. credit. I'm neutral on sports."
In fact, like several of his teammates, Gosling had never played organized or competitive sports before Grantsville's athletic director, Patrick Ciervo, approached him about joining the team's first Unified Soccer team a few months ago.
Unified Soccer is a joint endeavor of Special Olympics of Utah and the Utah High School Activities Association. The partnership created a league where special-needs students, referred to as the league's athletes, compete on teams with regular students, knowns as the partners. In addition to several practices each week, the teams compete against each other.
The season ended with the first-ever Unified State Soccer Tournament last weekend. Hosted by Hillcrest, 144 student-athletes participated on 12 teams. The state tournament was divided into divisions, which were based on the season's results.
Grantsville won Division 2, while Brighton was second, Mountain Crest third and Lone Peak fourth. In Division 1, Utah School for the Deaf and Blind and Skyline won the title, with Wasatch second, Bingham third and Hillcrest finishing in fourth. In Division 3, Jordan won the state title with Spanish Fork earning second, Sky View third and Alta fourth. The league was funded with a grant from the U.S. Department of Education and support from the Special Olympics of Utah.
When Ciervo decided to organize a team at Grantsville High, he wasn't even thinking about state championships. He was, however, thinking about the many benefits he thought his community would enjoy through supporting a team.
"We have special-needs students at our school, and I really wanted Grantsville to get involved," he said. "I knew this was something we could really wrap our arms around."
Ciervo felt recruiting the right mix of student-athletes was critical to the program's success. He looked for willing participants, but also those who were leaders at the school.
He knew participating in the soccer league could be more than an enjoyable experience for a handful of students. If handled correctly, this could send a message to the students and the community that supports them that inclusion should be something society strives for everyday.
So he sought students who were both willing and high-profile. One of the first athletes he approached was all-state basketball and football player Devin Adams, who signed a basketball scholarship with Dixie State University.
"I needed a special group of regular athletes, kids that could work with and understand these kids," Ciervo said of the partners. "When I found out Devin had done an internship with the special education (class) last year, and he's one of our best athletes and our student body president, I thought, 'Will I be able to recruit him to play?' "
Ciervo asked, and Adams didn't hesitate.
"He said, 'I'm in. It sounds really cool,' " Ciervo said. "Everyone I asked thought this was a cool idea. They found out it was great for them also."
Adams said it was inspiring to play in the league.


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Senator Joseph Biden, citing his poor showing in Thursday night's Iowa caucuses, announced he's giving up his bid for the White House. The veteran Senator from Delaware finished with 0% in the Iowa tallies last night. He was in the basement along with Christopher Dodd, Bill Richardson and Dennis Kucinich. The Hartford Courant newspaper also reported Thursday night that Connecticut Senator Dodd is dropping out of the competition. He had even rented a home in Des Moines allowing his wife and daughters to campaign in Iowa.
The campaign now moves on to New Hampshire after Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama scored solid wins in Iowa last night. The Democratic 1-2-3 finish went to Obama, Hillary Clinton, then John Edwards, each tallying about one-third of the vote.


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Tory Shepherd: Colourful Senate a challenge for Abbott
- From: The Advertiser
- September 09, 2013
IT WAS a "new birth of freedom", Abraham Lincoln declared in the Gettysburg Address. "Government of the people, by the people, for the people."
It's become a definition of democracy - but in light of the clusterschmuck forming in the Australian Senate, Winston Churchill's comments are probably more apt: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time".
The Coalition is optimistic the new Senate - from July next year - will be more workable for them than the current one. Right now the Greens hold the balance of power, and you can bet London to a brick (with eyes) that they don't want Tony Abbott to realise his oft-brandished dream of abolishing carbon pricing.
(Let us take a moment here to reflect that at one point Mr Abbott, talking about an emissions trading scheme, asked: "If you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax?")
So, Australia, let's look at this likely Senate you've picked.
We're a proud sporting nation. To the point of fanaticism. To Australians, too much sport is barely enough. But it's gone too far now, you quasi-religious football fanatics, V8 watchers, rugby loons.
Why did you have to go and vote for the Australian Sports Party?
We don't know much about them or their WA candidate Wayne Dropulich, but we know they "enjoy sports and exercise achievements". Sounds healthy enough. They might turn out to be the Peter La Fleur of the Senate - Vince Vaughan's character in the movie Dodgeball. All round good guy. Then again, they could be his antithesis, White Goodman.
Then there's the Australian Motoring Enthusiasts. The revheads just really like cars and support "the unimpeded recreational use of the environment". Under the ''policies'' tab on their website there are exactly 187 words. But in another section they outline little one-line belches of policy.
We could well have a Liberal Democrat, David Leyonhjelm, who wants to legalise marijuana and thinks we should carry handguns, which doesn't really seem like the best combination.
In South Australia we are set to have Family First's Bob Day speaking up for white-picket-fence families and pushing an anti-gay marriage, anti-abortion, anti-euthanasia, pro-families-as-long-as-they're-like-us agenda.
Then there are the PUPs - the Palmer United Party candidates. There might be two of them including the aforementioned ''brick with eyes'' Glenn Lazarus - and Mr Palmer himself is a prospect for the House of Representatives.
Clive Palmer fell out with the Liberals after being a former member. Our ears pricked up when he talked about bringing back long lunches. His dinosaur theme park and plots to build Titanic II were quirky but interesting.
Then things unravelled. Reports that he was not all he seemed prompted a tinfoil hat meltdown and he accused Wendi Deng of being a Chinese spy. There's colourful and then there's psychedelic, and having the latter in Parliament presents an interesting challenge for Mr Abbott.
How, for example, would the Coalition deal with the Palmer policy on asylum seekers? Mr Palmer is against offshore processing and has suggested the Government let asylum seekers fly here with or without visas.
I suppose it sort of fits in with ''stopping the boats'', putting them on planes.
Then of course there's that Nick Xenophon bloke we've all heard so much about recently.
There will be much chatter from straight conservative men about their mandates.
The Coalition - who repeatedly declared that the election was a referendum on the carbon tax - will say that their rollicking victory means the country has spoken, and Labor and the Greens should stand down and let them abolish it.
But the Greens, and Labor can claim, really, to have their own mandate. They are elected representatives. As for the flotsam and jetsam, the jocks and the petrolheads, they are also elected but through sly deals and preference harvesting, but that won't diminish their ultimate power.
Mr Abbott may well say he has a mandate, but he's going to need to work on his other relationships.Originally published as Colourful Senate challenge for Abbott
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PREVIEWS: "Daredevil," "Uncanny X-Men," & More Marvel Comics On Sale August 3, 2016
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Reading Hawkeye month to month instead of in trade is an awesome experience, but it can sometimes be rather confusing for readers, especially in the most recent arc in which Matt Fraction played a bit with the timing of each issue. It was only during the recent Hawkeye #13 that the full timeline of events came to light, and now Fraction has posted his outline for the full arc on his blog.
Fraction's photo shows 28 index cards with timestamps, issue numbers and brief description of events from Thursday at 8 p.m. to Wednesday evening in an almost-hourly breakdown of plot. The descriptions make perfect sense once you figure out Fraction's code ("C" means Clint, "K" means Kate most of the time, "B" means Barney, "L" is Lucky the Pizza Dog.), and it's certainly a cool insight into the most recent arc and Fraction's process.
Marvel is about to give people another artist to fall for in the pages of Hawkeye #8, arriving Feb. 27. This special Valentine's Day issue by Matt Fractiona and Javier Pulido will have a guest star as young artist Annie Wu takes part in the issue, as recently announced on Twitter by editor Stephen Wacker. According to Wacker, the "outstanding" Wu will provide several illustrations for the issue, which promises "Valentine's Day with THE heartthrob of the Marvel Universe? This will be… confusing. Xoxo, Hawkeye."
Wu is short on actual published comics on her bibliography, but creators and fans up and down the aisle have been anxiously watching for more work for her. She did a short story in a 2011 issue of DC/Vertigo's House of Mystery, and some fashion illustrations with comic sensibilities for magazines. Wu is currently a color designer for the animated series The Venture Bros., and is rumored to have been working on a long-form project for DC this past year. On her site you can see more of her work, from covers to the upcoming First Comics' title Public Relations and excellent costume redesigns she did for Project: Rooftop.
Rough around the edges but as precise as a Swiss clock. It's an apt description for the Marvel character Hawkeye, and also the work of series artist David Aja.
Born and raised in Valladolid, Spain, the same town Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes called home, Aja earned a college degree in illustration as was on his way to a career in magazine illustration before he followed his childhood ambition: comics. After a prosaic debut in the Marvel anthology X-Men Unlimited, Aja grew by leaps and bounds before becoming the signature artist of the cult-hit series The Immortal Iron Fist with writers Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction. After the conclusion of his run, Aja did a series of one-off stories for titles like Secret Avengers, Daredevil and Wolverine: Debt of Death while he and his wife added two children to their home already filled with animals. This year, Aja and Fraction reunited for another series, this time taking on classic Avenger (and newly minted movie star) Hawkeye in a self-titled series that focuses on the archer's life when he's not working as one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
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Never made any pies from this tree but I have an apple tree.
Cool.I have a lemon and pomegranate tree.They are just now growing.My mango tree died out.It was a few months old and died...I don't know how.My orange tree isn't growing at all.It stopped all of a sudden.My pineapple died a few days ago and My new pineapple plant is coming but it'll take a few years for the fruit to develop like my last one.I have pictures of my pineapple in my gallery but I might have deleted it? Not sure.
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Sixth year in a row for a Jordan QB to be first team All State.
- 8:15 p.m. Dec. 1, 2011
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I miscounted. This is seven years in a row
- 8:18 p.m. Dec. 1, 2011
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Congrats to Luke Hollingsworth #31 Fremont....now off to the PAC12 young man!
Nick Vigil MVP Awesome!!
- 7:48 a.m. Dec. 2, 2011
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From Dicks Sporting Goods Utah to all the First Team 5A selectees, a very hearty
Dick's Offensive Player of the year: Fremont's Nick Vigil.
Dick's Defensive Player of the year: Fremont's Luke Hollingsworth.
Utah High School Football Rocks!!
- 9:05 a.m. Dec. 2, 2011
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congrats to the kids who made All-State!
- 9:37 a.m. Dec. 2, 2011
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congrats to all the kids who made it! Im not a LP fan just have watched a lot of high school football. My question is how did Talon Shumway from lp only get an honorably mention? That kid is one of the best skilled postion players in the state and a freak athelete! Hopefully he will be playing in the Pac-12 someday! aka the U.
- 12:16 p.m. Dec. 2, 2011
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Burger Barn in Roy UT has fed #31 Luke Hollingsworth the "Lucky Pre-Game Meal" all year.....1 Double Elk w/cheese, 1 Double Cheeseburger and a Chocolate-Banana-Peanutbutter Malt. So glad all those calories paid off. So proud of all the great kids of Utah, the great athletes of the 5A, and our local hero Luke Hollingsworth.....we will miss you when you leave for college next year.
- 1:13 p.m. Dec. 2, 2011
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7 straight years of Bingham having a 1st-team all state running back. BHS BABY!!!!!!!
- 2:17 p.m. Dec. 2, 2011
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Talon is a freak athlete and a stud. Unfortunately he was injured and missed several games this year which is probably why he only got what he got here. They listed him as a sr. and that is incorrect, he is a JR. I wouldn't hold out hope on him going to the U however as he is a lifelong BYU fan, his dad Jay played there and it has been his dream for his entire life to play there.
I suppose it is possible he would go to the U, after all Chase Hansen's situation was pretty much the same as Talon's, but I don't think so with this one. Plus Talon is also a D1 basketball prospect, which Chase is not, and it may turn out Talon decides to play basketball in college instead.
- 2:30 p.m. Dec. 2, 2011
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YA YA, the difference between Bingham having an all state rb for 7 years in a row and Jordan having an all state qb all those years is that Bingham actually has won some titles along the way while Jordan hasn't won any titles in that time, not even a region title.
- 2:54 p.m. Dec. 2, 2011
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Congratulations to Troy Hinds. Davis' opponents prepared every play with Hinds in mind, either running away from him or double blocking him. He still dominated the field.
- 3:17 p.m. Dec. 2, 2011
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Congratulations to all of these kids, it is a great honor! Congrats to the Northridge Knights! 4 first team players is incredible (fremont and lone peak are the only other teams with 4) 3 of them on offense (more than any other team) That's great! Congrats Casteel, Adams, Clark, and Tate!
- 6:46 p.m. Dec. 2, 2011
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It was a down year for QBs in the state this year, minus chase
- 10:21 a.m. Dec. 3, 2011
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It is true that teams prepared for Troy H, but he did not dominate in anyway. He is not even listed when looking at the leaders state wide for tackels. He has 60.. Great player but didn't dominate. Congrats Troy on all-state you earned it last year. Im excited to see him at the Y. Go BYU
- 4:07 p.m. Dec. 3, 2011
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Fun year watching high school football and all the these players giving their best. Congrats to all of them. The future looks bright Diggers. Young gun at QB. 3,188 yards, 23 TDs, 21 rush TDs crazy numbers for a Freshman. Awesome job Kafentzis, Cavendar, Babka, Loomis, Larsen, and Savini.
- 10:54 p.m. Dec. 3, 2011
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D News and Tribune both slighted TEs. Really? There aren't ANY tight ends in the whole state worthy of 1st team? Crazy!!!!!
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I had a few questions several days ago that I'll answer today. Let's start off with this:
just wondering when the tutorials that were never posted in late june will be posted. really want to read them :(
It's been held off at the moment as I am working on the new version of Manga Tutorials. It's still at the top of my To-Do List though so should I ever get tired of working on the new version of this site, I may take a break and do a tutorial. Keep your eyes peeled.
Second, I wanted to share this email with everyone as it is not something I talk about unless you happen to drop by the forum:
First, thank you for putting together such a comprehensive and collaborative. I was looking through the forums gallery and it looks like a lot of folks are using primitive software like MS Paint. Would you consider a link to GIMP.org?
I work with Photoshop and Illustrator at work, but I've been using The GIMP at home for over 10 years. It's free, very full featured for advanced users, and yet easy enough for my 8 and 10 year old daughters to use.
Michael L.
Anytime someone asks me about graphic software's I always recommend Photoshop if they have money at hand or GIMP if they do not. Other cheaper software alternatives include PaintTool SAI, Corel Draw, Photoshop Elements, and Sketchbook Pro. There are many others like our own online drawing tools Oekaki or Groupboard but those I have listed are relatively the main drawing tools used.
I'm not sure why most of the folks who submit to the Your Art Gallery use MS Paint but I assume it's simple interface and easy access is what draws people to it. Who knows? Maybe they have never heard of GIMP or cannot install it whether it's not their own computer they use, they don't have the minimum requirements to run the installation, or some other reason.
It is always my hope that whoever needs the information will eventually stumble upon it whether it's in this site, talking with other artists, or just randomly browsing the net. Thanks for the email and it's always good to remind everyone out their of their options!
Well, that wraps up another Mailbox edition. Until next time!


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This story was updated Tuesday, April 16.
The mayhem of the bomb explosions Monday at the Boston Marathon had subsided a day later, but hospitals still faced urgent situations that tested clinical and stress management skills.
Medical personnel from various area hospitals conducted news conferences Tuesday and described the circumstances at their facilities.
The casualty count included three dead, 17 critically wounded and more than 150 others injured from the pair of explosions near the finish line Monday afternoon. The injured, almost all of whom were spectators, were taken to eight hospitals.
Some of most severely injured patients lost limbs. Others had organ damage, fractures, shrapnel wounds and ruptured eardrums. "These are very high-force, high-impact injuries so they cause a lot of damage to tissue and to bone," said Ron Walls, MD, chairman of the department of emergency medicine at Brigham and Womens Hospital.
The shrapnel wounds were jarring for clinicians to see up close. Even trauma center staff rarely handle these kinds of injuries, certainly not on such a large scale. "One of the sickest things for me was just to see nails sticking out of a little girls body," said David Mooney, MD, MPH, director of the trauma center at Boston Childrens Hospital.
George Velmahos, MD, PhD, trauma chief at Massachusetts General Hospital, told reporters 20 to 30 pieces of shrapnel nails or ball bearings, possibly items that were built into the bombs were embedded in some patients. Debris lodged in body tissue may pose a significant risk of infection. (To read a previous Nurse.com article on treating injuries from explosions, see http://news.nurse.com/article/20070103/ED/70104008.)
Alasdair Conn, MD, chief of emergency services at Massachusetts General, which treated 35 patients ages 28 to 71, said the scene at the hospital was unprecedented in his 25 years with the facility. "This is what we [would]expect from war," he told reporters. Four patients at the hospital lost limbs, with two additional patients still in jeopardy of having to undergo amputation.
In all, eight patients at the hospital were in critical condition as of Tuesday afternoon, Velmahos said. He was confident all would survive, with staff having stabilized their vital signs and stopped the blood loss, but some faced the prospect of multiple substantial surgeries. He credited patients with remaining calm and responsive in the aftermath of the explosion.
Tracey Dechert, MD, a trauma surgeon at Boston Medical Center, said the majority of injuries to patients treated at the facility were to the lower extremities. BMC received 23 patients, five of whom needed either amputations or treatment for limbs that had been blown off. Another 11 patients underwent major operations and likely will need follow-up surgery. "We are used to a lot of chaos, but this was extraordinary," Dechert said.
Stephen Epstein, MD, MPP, attending physician in the ED at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, said the hospital had treated 21 patients with morbidities ranging from ear damage to life-threatening injuries. In some of the most seriously injured patients, Epstein said, "the limbs are certainly mangled, [and]the question is can they be saved at all? We need to see what the surgeons can save."
Sushrut Jangi, MD, a resident at Beth Israel, was working in the marathon medical tent at the finish line when it was transformed into a makeshift trauma center.
In a first-person account for the Boston Globe, Jangi described a nurse who broke down crying soon after the explosions happened. But "just a moment later, she wiped her tears away and reached for an IV bag and brought it to an ailing patient," Jangi wrote. " 'Im OK, she said, 'dont worry. "
(For the latest news from USA Today on the bomb explosions, visit www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/16/boston-marathon-scene-healing/2087583/.)


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By ADAM ARMOUR
Staff Writer
Habitat for Humanity's annual fundraisers are an important part of the homebuilding process — as important as pouring the foundation, shingling the roof, laying the tile or painting the walls. It's also a part of the process in which everyone can be involved, regardless of homebuilding skill.
This year, Itawamba County Habitat for Humanity will host a beauty pageant to raise money for its sixth house, set to be built on Rose Street in Fulton. Titled the Miss Habitat Beauty Pageant, the contest will take place on April 5 at the W.O. Benjamin Fine Arts Auditorium on the ICC Fulton campus. Registration will open at 10 a.m. with the pageant beginning at 11 a.m. Registration fees are $35 at the door, and an additional $10 for photogenic entry. Early registration will cost slightly less — $30. There will be a $5 admission for those wanting to simply sit and enjoy the pageant. These fees will be tax deductible, as they count as charitable donations.
All proceeds from the event will be used by Itawamba County Habitat for Humanity in building its sixth home.
The contest is open to a broad range of people. Entrants will compete in a total of 12 different age categories and are open to girls aged infant to 21 and boys aged infant to 4 years. The attire will be formal pageant wear. A photographer will be on hand to photograph each contestant as he or she takes the stage.
Winners in each division will be awarded crowns and trophies, while the overall winner will be named Miss Habitat. This will be more than just a title, as Miss Habitat will have the option of performing some duties for the group, such as cutting the ribbon at the dedication of the group's next home.
**Preparing the pageant**
"Right now we're pretty much just trying to get our trophies and prizes lined up, our judges prepared and getting the word out. We're getting all of our 'i's' dotted and 't's' crossed," said Shanda Lindley, Habitat for Humanity member and coordinator of the Miss Habitat pageant. Work on the pageant has been moving along steadily. This is the first such event for the local organization. Last year, Itawamba County Habitat for Humanity held a fish fry and silent auction as its fundraiser, but when time rolled around for another, the group felt it should do a little something different.
Although the first such event for the group, Lindley herself is no stranger to fundraising pageants, having coordinated a similar program for Project Hope in Tupelo. So far so good for this fundraiser, as she's managed to get much of the necessary materials and supplies donated.
"So far, there has been very little overhead cost," Lindley said, adding that even items such as trophies were donated by area vendors. This is good, of course, since less money spent on the pageant means more money spent on the house.
As far as pageant turnout is concerned, Lindley's remaining hopeful, expecting to see strong support for Habitat's cause.
"We'll take as many contestants as we can get," Lindley said with a laugh. "I want to stress that this contest is open to anyone from any county, but the money we raise will stay here in Itawamba County, helping Itawamba County families … Remember, this is for charity, and it's all in good fun."
She added, "If it's a cause they believe in, then people are going to come out and spend their money to support it …You'd be very surprised at how many people are willing to donate time, money, materials and facilities. You just have to ask."
Lindley confessed that she's received a little burst of pride from working within her own county. "This is just what I believe in," she said, asserting that most people would probably feel the same way.
"People just have a heart for their county," she said. "They are just more willing to donate to the place where they live and work and where their tax money goes … That's what I've come to see: If they live here, they want to give here."
Registration forms for the pageant can be picked up at the ICDC on Wiygul Street in Fulton, Bob Steele's Flower Shop and at any county school. For more information, call Lindley at 862-9749 or Angela Gough at 862-9708.


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I'm trying to capture an image from my webcam (Raspberry Pi, Rasbpbian). Using the following command:
uvccapture -v
I get the following output:
Using videodevice: /dev/video0
Saving images to: snap.jpg
Image size: 320x240
Taking snapshot every 0 seconds
Taking images using mmap
Unable to set format: 22.
Init v4L2 failed !! exit fatal
Any suggestions? What exactly is error 22? I didn't have any luck googling it. I tried adding the
-r flag but instead it then produced the error
/dev/video0 does not support read i/o.
I've managed to get the webcam to work using
motion but it's not suitable for my needs.


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Stevens gymnastic team wins USTA national team title
By Blake Schnitker on July 30 at 2:28pm
A local gymnastics team can claim the title of best in the country after their first place finish at the United States Tumbling Association's National Team trampoline competition in Knoxville, Read More
Change orders approved for Jax water plant after aldermen critique specific request
By Jim McCabe on July 30 at 10:45am
Jacksonville aldermen had some questions about new money being spent on the city's new water treatment plant this week. City Council unanimously agreed to nearly $300,000 worth of change orders Read More
South Jacksonville hosts inaugural Scot Fitzgerald 5K
By Blake Schnitker on July 30 at 9:49am
The first ever Scot Fitzgerald 5K is set to take place today in South Jacksonville. According to a report by WICS Newschannel 20, the run is to benefit the family Read More
Update on yesterday's explosion in Waverly
By Blake Schnitker on July 29 at 3:53pm
WLDS-WEAI news has received an update regarding the explosion that occurred at a residential house in Waverly yesterday morning. According to a press release from the Morgan County Sheriff's Office, Read More
Illinois College still seeking speaker for annual Phi Alpha lecture
By Blake Schnitker on July 29 at 3:30pm
It appears as though Illinois College has received some unfortunate news regarding their annual Phi Alpha lecture. The school had been in talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersch Read More


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ABIDJAN Laurent Gbagbo has called on Ivory Coast's civilians to help his forces "neutralize" suspected rebels, raising fears of a return to all out civil war as fighting continued in Abidjan on Friday.
Meanwhile, the United Nations said Thursday's bombing of civilians which it blamed on pro-Gbagbo forces may constitute a crime against humanity. Gbagbo's camp has denied responsibility.
The world's top cocoa grower risks slipping back into open conflict after a disputed November 28 election, which Alassane Ouattara won, according to internationally-recognized results, but Gbagbo refuses to concede despite sanctions and isolation.
Speaking on state-run RTI television just before midnight, Gbagbo's government spokesman Ahoua Don Mello called on Ivorian civilians to join the fight against what he called "terrorism." "His Excellency Mr Laurent Gbagbo calls on Ivorians to take a great responsibility and for a stronger collaboration between citizens and the security forces ... so that all suspect presences in our environment can be 'neutralized'," he said.
After a cabinet meeting on Friday, Gbagbo's government reiterated a call for dialogue with the opposition but Ouattara has long said Gbagbo's departure is the prerequisite for talks.
In recent weeks, the post-election crisis has escalated into full scale clashes between rival forces in Abidjan and the west, across a north-south ceasefire line from a 2002-3 civil war.
At least 25 people were killed when pro-Gbagbo forces fired a series of mortar rounds into Abidjan's northern Abobo district on Thursday, including one that exploded in a busy marketplace, the U.N. peacekeeping mission said.
"It is quite difficult to avoid the conclusion that this may be an international crime, possibly a crime against humanity," Rupert Colville, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, said in Geneva.
Pro-Gbagbo security forces said they were not responsible.
Gbagbo's use of civilian militias is seen as one of his most dangerous weapons. His "Young Patriots" -- often armed, angry youths -- have wreaked havoc on Abidjan in the past.
Youth mobs armed with automatic weapons, sticks and machetes have set up roadblocks all over town and have attacked United Nations staff and killed West African immigrants and Ouattara's Dioula tribespeople, says Human Rights Watch.
Residents of Abobo which is now more or less under the control of forces backing Ouattara, reported shooting and heavy artillery on Friday from pro-Gbagbo troop positions.
"There was a big exchange of fire. It hit some shops and quite a few caught fire," said Abobo resident Abdoul Ouattara.
A Reuters reporter heard gunfire and explosions from the direction of Adjame, just north of the central business area, and in the leafy Cocody suburb, where state TV is based.
Hundreds taking refugee from the fighting in Abobo were gathered in a church, carrying belongings they had salvaged -- suitcases, clothes, blankets and cooking pots.
"Now we're looking for a way out, because even here we can't sleep through the gunfire," said Marie-Paul Gnakadi, cradling an infant. "I'm going back to the village where I'm at ease."
The U.N. says more than 435 people have been killed in the crisis, though Ouattara's camp says the toll is 720, with another 450,000 forced from their homes by violence.
Ouattara has been recognized as president by nearly all world leaders, as well as the U.N. and the African Union, but Gbagbo has defied sanctions, with military backing.
France's foreign ministry said on Friday the former colonial power wants the U.N. Security Council to adopt tighter sanctions quickly against Gbagbo [ID:nPISIEE781].
Before Gbagbo spokesman Mello appeared on state television, a news report said the U.N. peacekeeping mission was smuggling mercenaries from Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal to fight alongside the rebels -- seemingly another attempt to stir up popular hatred against the mission and West African immigrants.
Both have been attacked by pro-Gbagbo mobs in recent weeks.
(Editing by David Lewis and Sophie Hares)
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I would like to have a submit button which contains text and an image. Is this possible?
I can get the exact look I want with code that looks like:
<button type="button">
<img src="save.gif" alt="Save icon"/>
... but I haven't found a way to have one of those for my forms. Is there a way to do that with an
<input type="submit" ...>
element? Or am I forced to go the image or text way? Thanks for your help!


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I use hotlink protection in Nginx and it is working very well!
For some reason it is not allowing visitors to my site using Firefox to see any images.
For visitors using IE, Chrome, Safari, and Opera, it works just fine: the images show up on my site but not if you try to hotlink.
I checked Firefox on Win and on Mac and it happens in both places. Headers sent by Firefox have the same referrers as IE and the others as far as I can tell.
The hotlink protection code looks like so
location ~ \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf)$ {
valid_referers server_names blocked *.mysite.com;
if ($invalid_referer) {
rewrite ^(.*)$ /nopeeking.png break;
location =/visitpg.png {
root /path/to/my/site;
Any ideas as to why this works in all other browsers but not in Firefox?


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Elvis Presley Experience
Herb Shapiro and Others
This book is available for download with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device, and with iTunes on your computer. Books can be read with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device.
For the first time ever, one of Rock 'N' Roll Comics most acclaimed series is collected and back in print! The Elvis Presley Experience is both scholarly and dramatic in its graphic recreation of the King's remarkable life story. Though the series was among the best selling contemporary bio-graphic comics of the 1990s, the individual issues have been out of print for over ten years. This 200 page collection features art by future Marvel and DC star Aaron Sowd (Wolverine, Hawkman, Nightwing & Flamebird, etc.), with a story co-scripted by Babylon 5 TV vet Patrick McCray (Star Wars: Sith Apprentice, Star Trek: The Continuing Mission).
- $9.99
- Category: Biographies & Memoirs
- Published: Oct 17, 2012
- Publisher: Bluewater Productions INC.
- Seller: Cosmic Ray Gun Inc.
- Print Length: 215 Pages
- Language: English


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LAS VEGAS - The United States has a ticket to Beijing - and a team capable of cashing it in for gold.
Carmelo Anthony scored 27 points, Michael Redd had 23, and the Americans clinched a spot in the 2008 Olympics by crushing Puerto Rico 135-91 in the semifinals of the FIBA Americas tournament.
LeBron James added 19 points and nine assists, Kobe Bryant scored 15 points, and the three stars keyed a dominant third quarter stretch that showed why the Americans will arrive in China as one of the gold medal favorites. Then they headed to the bench, where they sat while fans chanted their names in the final minutes.
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Bankers Join Insurers Asking IRS for Bad-Debt Flexibility: Taxes
Banks and insurers are urging the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to give them a break when it comes to dealing with write downs of bad debt, particularly mortgage-backed securities that have little or no value.
At issue is when a financial institution can count a written-off debt as a tax loss. Currently, accounting rules stipulate the point at which a debt must be discounted for bookkeeping purposes, while IRS rules on timing aren't as clear.
The lack of agreement has led to longer and more expensive regulatory examinations, the Consortium of Insurance Industry Associations says. The group this month urged the IRS to "reduce uncertainty" for the industry by permitting companies to take a tax deduction for structured securities when they're written off as losses. Bank groups say it boils down to the tax agency following the lead of industry regulators.
"Banks aren't trying to game the system," Fran Mordi, tax counsel for the American Bankers Association, said last week. "If a loan is bad, it's bad. IRS wants us to re-prove that it's bad. If the loan is bad on the books, take it for tax today."
Much of the uncollectible debt stemming from the financial crisis that peaked from late 2008 to early 2009 involved real estate, where loans went sour by the thousands. Insurers and banks that held mortgage-backed securities faced billions of dollars in losses. The IRS began considering a change in its rules after modifications in bank regulatory standards.
Evaluating Debts
Banks and other businesses regulated by state or federal authorities were allowed to apply a "conclusive presumption of worthlessness" to bad debts in the early 1990s, letting them use the same standards in writing down bad debts for both book and tax purposes, Marc Levy, global banking and capital markets tax leader at Ernst & Young, said in May. Changes in accounting rules and banking regulations have led to situations where it wasn't clear how to apply the IRS methods, Levy said.
Last year, the IRS negotiated a partial resolution with the insurance industry on how to treat securities judged partly or completely worthless, in terms of accounting and regulatory rules. By then, the issue had become the single largest audit concern for many insurers, according to the consortium. The banking industry is negotiating for a similar IRS directive.
Both industries have been in separate talks with the IRS over this often-contentious issue for years.
The agency may also lay out a more permanent solution to guide financial companies on when they can count such write downs as deductions. Recently, the IRS sought comments on whether it should change the current standards for presuming debts to be worthless.
Regulatory Conformity
Insurers have urged the IRS to conform to the rules governing the accounting treatment of the debts, according to Pete Bautz, vice president for taxes and retirement security for the American Council of Life Insurers in Washington. He said that would keep taxpayers from having to prove a debt couldn't be collected as an accounting matter and again for tax purposes.
Under the current practice, taking a tax deduction hinges on whether companies can obtain specific written orders from state regulators verifying that a debt had to be written down for accounting purposes, Bautz said. "Those letters are difficult to get," he said.
Insurers have asked the IRS to apply on a broader scale the same approach it agreed to in last year's partial resolution. In the 2012 directive, the agency offered a safe-harbor provision allowing companies to have the tax treatment of their debts mimic the accounting handling in some cases, if the obligations had to be written down because of adverse financial conditions.
Self-Certifying Losses
Insurers have also urged the tax agency to let companies self-certify losses, subject to "robust third-party review" by independent auditors or state insurance examiners, instead of requiring written confirmation from state regulators.
The industry is seeking two other changes in the way the IRS treats bad debts. The agency should let taxpayers take a deduction in the year the obligation becomes partly worthless, as long as there has been a related book charge-off in the current or a previous year, according to the consortium.
The other change sought by insurers would deal with situations where the adjusted tax basis of an asset exceeds its book basis. In this case, a partial bad-debt deduction should be measured by the higher adjusted tax basis, the letter said. The IRS should clarify that the deduction is the amount equal to the book basis after the charge-off, the consortium said.
Broader Directive
Banks are hoping to get industry-specific guidance from the IRS by late November or early December, even as the agency considers how to handle a broader range of related issues. That sort of directive may take much longer to devise.
"We're hoping to get the directive as soon as possible," said the ABA's Mordi. "A lot of banks are currently under examination."
Yet bankers hope the IRS will offer a broader directive that one just dealing with mortgage-backed securities or other types of real-estate lending and investment, Mordi said.
"We don't want to limit it to any particular types of loans," she said. "That becomes very complicated for banks."
The insurance industry consortium's letter was signed by representatives of organizations including the American Council of Life Insurers, the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America and the Reinsurance Association of America. The letter from the ABA was also signed by a representative of the Clearing House Association LLP, which counts JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. among its members.


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Gnome defaults to using Alt+LeftMouse dragging for moving windows around - I hate this feature and it breaks some apps I use. In Gnome2 you could change the modifier key in one of the settings dialogs, but I can't find the corresponding one in Gnome3, can anyone point me in the right direction?
The GNOME Shell window manager, Mutter, is based on Metacity (GNOME 2)
Use gconf-editor or gconftool-2 to change the
In recent GNOME versions, configuration is accessed through GSettings, with Linux using the
To write it directly to the dconf backend, use:
You can also find it in GNOME Tweak Tool under Windows → Modifier to use for window click actions.
Changes should take effect immediately.


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Emeril's Hurricane
Total Time
Prep 5 mins
Cook 0 mins
From Emeril's.com; posted for ZWT 5.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 354.88 ml pineapple juice
- 236.59 ml orange juice
- 236.59 ml pomegranate juice, preferably a filtered (not cloudy)
- 118.29 ml grenadine
- 118.29 ml simple syrup
- 59.14 ml plus 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 59.14 ml plus 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 354.88 ml light rum
- 59.14 ml triple sec
- 118.29 ml dark rum
- orange slice, for garnish
- lemon slice, for garnish
- maraschino cherry, for garnish
- In a large pitcher combine the pineapple juice, orange juice, pomegranate juice, grenadine, simple syrup, lemon juice and lime juice and stir well to combine.
- Add the light rum, Triple Sec and dark rum and stir well.
- Serve in 16-ounce glasses over lots of ice and garnish each glass with 1 orange slice, 1 lemon slice, and 1 maraschino cherry.
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Just like NOLA! I scaled down the drink since it was for only one. I left out the simple syrup because hurricanes in general are too sweet for me. It was very good indeed! Made for ZWT5 - RRR.
Awesome! Made multiple pitchers for my neighborhood holiday progressive party. Everyone loved these and I was asked for the recipe. We omitted both the grenadine and simple syrup based on reviews because we don't like sweet drinks. Obviously no one missed them! Thanks for a winner!
This is a delicious killer cocktail! I love the juiciness of it and the rum is the complimentary but not overpowering. I made it as written except for cutting out the simple syrup and using half the grenadine. I don't understand the 1/2 cup serving designation on the serving size. Making two we had two 16 oz tumblers filled to the brim before adding ice, so we split one and saved the other for another night. I don't know if it was all the sugar from the juices or what but both nights we had these I had a really difficult time going to sleep - I guess I'll be drinking them earlier in the day from now on! Thanks for sharing alli! Made for ZWT 9 by one of the Appliance Killers.


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Due to where I live, I'm forced to hear Pittsburgh sports radio. All the talk on Keenen Lewis is good and from what I hear is someone they want back . But between him and Cortez Allen they will...
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Due to where I live, I'm forced to hear Pittsburgh sports radio. All the talk on Keenen Lewis is good and from what I hear is someone they want back . But between him and Cortez Allen they will...
What position is Banner then?
Having Richardson in the offseason really would have helped him out. Plus Weeden is throwing to young wideouts. I'm really impressed with Gordon, Schwartz, and Johnson.
I know its probably been said in some thread already, but what are ppls thoughts on Andy Reid in Cleveland? Sources are saying this will be his last year in Philly and we all know Shurmer is out....
I live about 35 minute drive outta Pittsburgh and listen to their sports radio on occasion. The browns are getting dogged. Hard. Their one radio guy basically said they could sign an undrafted guard...
I think that if the Browns keep it up we will play ourselves right away from Jarvis Jones. I'm ok with that. For some reason I see the Browns picking #7. I don't know why it just flashes in my head....
I might be wrong but wasnt seely our st coach when we had the #1 special teams in the league. Back when cribbs was returning everything?
The only name mentioned above other than rodgers I would want in Cleveland is JJ Watt. Man I wish we would have snagged him up.
I think we can honestly say that the Browns are in a position where best player available can be taken and it would be ok. Excluding Qb and Rb. I didn't like the Weeden pick but he has slowly started...
I had heard reports of different firms bringing him plans for a dome to be built over the existing stadium
Call it a homer pick but I would rather see them trade down and pick up a #2 pick, go for a wr, cb, then de. I say homer pick cause I would love to see John Simon in Cle. He reminds me a lil bit like...
It's a sad fact that I even chose the Browns to lose. Maybe just maybe they get lucky but I just don't see it happening.
Hey don't forget to add Terry Robiskie
Ok so were three games in and about to get to the meat and potatoes of our schedule....looking at what we've seen so far this season, how do you think the rest of the season will go? Call me...
Can someone explain to me how Merecic made this team? I thought Smelley outplayed him.
Adam Shefter reported today that the Redskins released TE Chris Cooley. Anyone think we have a chance on picking him up.
My buddy called the other day to complain and they gave him a discounted price for total service as well as a huge discount on the NFL package.
Anyone think there is a chance the Browns grab Gonzalez? Saw he was cut from Patriots
I think for them to salvage this draft they really need to trade back up into the second and get a wr and rt
Still have a shot at some decent players. Still just shaking my head though.
Upset with the Weeden pick. Should have been OL. Hell I even would have taken Hightower over Weeden.
Is it just me, or dies it seem like TRich and his family weren't happy the Browns got him?
Mike Mayocks mock draft last night had the Browns passing on TRich and selecting Blackmon the picking up a RB at 22
My vote would be for Claiborne.
I think with thus mock the Browns would have to choose from Kendall Wright/Jonathan Martin/Stephen Hill.


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Skip to comments.FR Folding@Home Project Update -- We're Now # 55 of all teams with 20,000,000 Points
Posted on 03/03/2007 3:26:29 PM PST by texas booster
Time for a new Free Republic Folding@home thread.
Our Free Republic team of 428 members comprised primarily of Free Republic members in good standing have banded together to donate their excess CPU cycles to a worthy cause. Via distributed computing, millions of computers around the world contribute directly to scientific research, in the quest for a greater understanding of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Cancer, and Mad Cow (BSE).
Currently, the team is in 55th place (with 1,025 active CPUs - 106,120 completed Work Units and 20.25 million points).
This is an entirely voluntary program, and if you want to learn more, please see the links posted below (or read one of the previous 30+ folding threads)
EOC and other stats sites get their numbers from a comma delimited text file that Stanford puts out several times a day.
Sometimes the stats on Stanford's site will be accurate, but the script they use to produce the text file won't update. I used to do private stats for another team (don't ask me, it is a lot of work and EOC is better) and there could be days where there were no updates.
Here's the FR team's text file link...
your article has no topics assigned
Strange. We can't post an article without Topics, and when I tried to add one it came back unknown.
Probably a bad DB link in John's world.
it pretty much makes the article invisible here on FR, without an explicit search for it. Oh well! We don't exist. :)
Really maybe you should just repost this one
Yeah, still can't add topics. Bummer.
We will pass another team in 10 days, so I will start that countdown early.
Finally made it to the top 4000 of all folders.
Would have pinged Dave Maher but don't know his freeper name.
Slipping past dave, and slowly gaining on you texas.
Just got rid of two of my machines, but replaced them with another. One of my fast systems has been down for the better part of a week and won't be up until this weekend (assuming it's not too serious).
I should be adding another at the very end of this month (but it will probably replace two others), so probably not much if any of a gain.
Bump back to you and happy ides of March.
I'm getting a pop-up authentication/password request from a "udrive4us" site? Anyone got an idea what that is?
i just got same thing. Very odd. Only when displaying this particular page, never anywhere else.
My apologies for the pop up. My webhost decided to change the authentication process for my site and ftp. I'm in the process of correcting the resulting mess.
I'm really very sorry for the inconvience.
Not needed...We are all in the same boat. WE THANK YOU for folding and bringing others in to fold with us. Fold on.
Better not risk the beta on my tricky system.
Please let me know when it's debugged.
Thanks TB for the ping. I've been considering learning Linux to make use of one of these moldy old PC's in this effort. How has the team ranking been? Stable, gaining ground, losing ground, fluctuating...
Here is the link to the Pande group's "SMP for Windows" forum. All the links to the SMP beta that you will need are there, plus lots of threads about getting the clients running smoothly.
I spent a few moments dorking around and found that FR doesn't seem to recognize many of the listed topics. Tried to add "vanity; culture; misc" and got an error stating that vanity and culture were unknown topics. This despite the fact that they're listed as valid topics here:
I did finally get misc to work, so we've advanced from nonexistence to miscellaneous; an improvement of degree if not actual substance.
I went from rank 100+ to 60 since upgrading to dual core on my one machine.
I'm going to have to kick the plug a month and a half though
Nah, these systems don't generate THAT much heat!
I see, now, how the whole "Add Topic" function works; if your thread isn't posted in a forum that contains a specific topic, you cannot add that topic to the thread. Being in General/Chat, the topics available are listed here:
But that list isn't the same as the topic list available for News/Activism threads:
Look at both pages and compare the items under "General Interest". "Vanity" is listed as a News/Activism topic, but not a "General/Chat" topic, so it cannot be added to this thread. OTOH, I was able to add "Miscellaneous" because it appears in both lists.
Maybe what's most confusing about this is that the "Topics" link on the FR homepage doesn't navigate to a "master list" of topics, but links to the "News/Activism" topics list, instead, which are only applicable to threads poted in "News/Activism".
BKM (sorry for the corporatespeak) is to navigate to the "Forums" page, and pick the "topics" link displayed to the right of the forum in which the thread is posted to which you want topics added. Then, all of the topics on the displayed list will be valid for the thread you're targeting.
Yes, it depends on which master list you're under.
Browse by Forum
Bloggers & Personal
GOP Club
RLC Liberty Caucus
Smoky Backroom
I have my forum page set to 'All of the above' so I get to see everything. If you pick one then hit the "Post Article" link at the top, you can then see which topics that thread will list by hitting the button next to "Topics". You have to select one to four for the News forum; not sure that you have to in the others.
Wow, 51 systems... I guess I'll have to learn something new. Just a guess, the Linux systems are such low overhead they're probably the best choice for this. And it isn't as if I need the machines for anything else.
OK, I'm trying the Windows SMP (also running the Linux SMP on the same box but in VMWare). This will give me an easy transition to Windows if it's faster than Linux (even slowed in a VM), or back to Linux if the Windows client is a dog. Should be interesting to watch Pegasus (Linux in VM, Windows SMP and 2 single folding session to catch between WU time in the SMP clients).
I'm just a sick puppy.
Field notes for the Windows SMP client recommend a four core CPU for the SMP client.
Not 4 clients per CPU ;')
As long as the cores don't spend all their time thrashing between clients, fighting for memory and other resources, you should be good to go.
I know that Stanford likes their WUs back fairly quickly, but lots of guys are running multiple WUs on a single core system (like an Intel P4 HT chip). The WUs do not complete as fast, but the points are slightly elevated.
Let us know how it goes.
Also, the PS3 client will be released after the new 1.6 update is published, probably late Thursday night.
Ought to be a great weekend for Folding!
OK, I don't have enough computing power to run both SMP clients on a single box :(
Will let the Linux SMP client finish its current WU and then shut it down. Let's see how MS folding performs natively (why do I get a feeling I'm going to be disappointed).
It has not happened to me before.
Is there any way to tell what happened?
I am using kubuntu. I used the open office to look at the txt files but couldn't really glean anything from them.
I've had the same happen a time or two as well. I suspect Stanford will notice the error at some point and award us the missing part. Till then we just grin and bear it.
PS3 client is available.
Go to system update and download firmware 1.6 (doing so now)
Go to playstation store and download FAH
Happy folding.
Send me questions if things aren't making sense (as if I'll have a clue).
I'm right behind you. It was available at 12:40 AM Pacific time.
Took 10 minutes to DL V1.60 via PS3, 10 minutes to install and
Don't have a PS3, but here is a link to a thread on the download and setup of a PS3:
Some comments from the breathless folders gushing over the PS3:
"10 more minutes to DL F@H 50 Meg program.
"Heads Up" for F@H EULA there is NO Lisence Agreement Accept "X" option on the scroll down page - only a "O" Cancel.
Use the TRIANGLE to get to the OPTIONS window for SETUP prefs - Name, Team etc.
By 7:30 AM my first WU will be completed in six hours - 0.0439 seconds/frame.
PS 3 right side temp is 100 degrees F, back temp is 120 degrees F after one hour processing."
Wow. Only 100 degrees F?
"I'm in. Press triangle while in the visual client to change your username and team number. Press square to see what the other controls do. It took me a few minutes to figure that out...
It's working on p3128_hisvillin_e2
Running at 0.0787 seconds/frame
It's seems VERY fast and the protein model and globe are awesome. I guess the globe shows where each PS3 is? The yellow dots are hard to see in the US."
takes forever to download the client.
8 hours and 42 minutes :)
Set client and team - confirmed
(remember to click the triangle on your pad to set options)
I'm a happy folder
What happened yesterday that you garnered over 7,000 points?
Were you affected by the points server slowdown, or did your Win-SMP kick in?
Everything hit in one day. Look at the day before, it just sucked. Today will be moderate (hopefully). I could use a lot more days like yesterday if I intend to put you in my rear-view mirror anytime soon :)
Spring break?
A major folder on "The Outcast" who were gaining on us faster than Clinton can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch, seems to have given up??? zim01 http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=201576
has dropped off significantly. Could be a big break for us or it could be a school lab shut down for spring break. Is it spring break anywhere?
Spring break almost everywhere. Both of my boys have the week off :)
Just converted my second box over from Linux-SMP to Windows-SMP, but it's not having any luck grabbing a WU. Have you heard of any complaints about WU distribution (at least on the Win-SMP side)?
Well, I'm having what should be a pretty good day if any points would post :)
Hey everyone --- new thread Here!
Change that tirle to **54th** We just passed Linux!
Yep, time for a new thread. I started one about the adoption of the PlayStation 3 and Folding@home.
Next thread will have us tweaking the nose of the Linux dudes.
Where do you think we will eventually end up?
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