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From the time John Walker first appeared four years ago at the Islamic Center of Mill Valley, in California's Marin County, it was clear he desperately wanted to fit in with his adopted faith. Raised a Catholic, he peppered other members with questions about the Koran and Islam, which they found charming but also a bit odd. At times Walker, who was then only 16 and had taken to calling himself Suleyman al-Lindh, could seem almost as credulous as a child. "He was the sincerest person I've ever met," says Amed Johari, 24, a Bay Area floor finisher who worships at the mosque and befriended Walker. "But maybe he was too sincere, too curious. And curiosity killed the cat."
Or at least led to serious trouble, which is where Walker, 20, now finds himself. On Nov. 25 he was discovered among 150 or so Taliban fighters being held prisoner in a fortress near the Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif. It was there that Walker was interrogated by CIA operative Johnny "Mike" Spann, 32, who was killed hours later, when the Taliban prisoners rioted. Three weeks later it is not clear if Walker, who was wounded in the leg, played a role in the assault on Spann—and only slightly clearer how an American from a privileged family ended up as a zealous follower of the Taliban. Whatever the case, his family is standing behind him despite the storm of outrage over his actions. "We love John," says his father, Frank Lindh. "He's our son, and like any parents, we're going to support him through this."
The middle of three children, John Walker Lindh, named after John Lennon, spent his early years in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Takoma Park, where his mother, Marilyn Walker, 51, was a homemaker and his father, 49, worked as a government lawyer. Neighbors recall the family as normal, with an interest in natural foods and alternative medicines. Aside from the fact that Marilyn became a follower of Buddhism, there was nothing remarkable about their religious beliefs—and nothing unusual about John. "We played football and soccer together, and G.I. Joe," says Andrew Cleverdon, 19, his best childhood friend.
When John was 10, the family moved to the affluent Marin County town of San Anselmo after his father took a job as an attorney with Pacific Gas & Electric. After one semester in high school John transferred to Tamiscal High, a local alternative school for self-directed students. It appears that John, who had started using his mother's surname, was searching for some identity. On Internet postings disclosed by the Daily News, he posed as a black rap enthusiast. A turning point came when he was 16 and read The Autobiography of Malcolm X, which inspired him to become a Muslim. At 17, he passed the state high school proficiency examination and quit school. Around the same time, he began visiting the Islamic Center. By then his Internet postings had also veered into denunciations of homosexuality, drinking and Disneyland.
He developed such a thirst for knowledge of Islam that in 1998, with his parents' blessing, he set off for Yemen in the hope of learning the form of Arabic that is closest to that used in the Koran. His ultimate ambition was to study in Saudi Arabia, but snags with his visa forced him instead to Pakistan, where he enrolled in a madrasah, a fundamentalist Islamic school, near the northwest town of Bannu. Through it all, his parents went along with his increasing immersion in Islam, even supplying him with money. "I never had any major misgivings," his father, who separated from wife Marilyn two years ago, told reporters.
In the end, Amed Johari believes, the Taliban were able, in effect, to brainwash Walker. "They probably did a lot of boasting to him, impressing him," he says. "Suleyman could be very easily impressed." It appears that Walker spent some time training at an al-Qaeda terror camp in Afghanistan. Now being held at the Marine Camp Rhino near Kandahar, Walker, who at first refused to talk, is cooperating with U.S. interrogators.
Though President Bush referred to Walker as a "poor fellow" who was "misled," there have been popular calls that he be tried for treason. Whether that happens or lesser charges are brought, it promises to be the next—and perhaps most daunting-phase of John Walker's lifelong search for answers.
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The summary below is from the full report titled "Economic Analysis of Influenza Vaccination and Antiviral Treatment for Healthy Working Adults." It is in the 20 August 2002 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine (volume 137, pages 225-231). The authors are PY Lee, DB Matchar, DA Clements, J Huber, JD Hamilton, and ED Peterson.
Influenza is a virus that causes the flu. Flu symptoms include fever, sneezing, coughing, muscle aches, and exhaustion. Flu is more severe than the common cold, keeps people from their normal activities for up to a week or longer, and can be complicated by bacterial infections, such as pneumonia. Experts recommend flu vaccine to prevent infection in older people and in people with diseases that put them at risk for having a complicated course of flu. Treatment of flu generally involves rest, fluids, and medication to decrease fever and aches. However, antiviral medicines can shorten the course of flu when patients take them within 24 hours of developing symptoms. Available antiviral medicines for treating flu include amantadine, rimantadine, oseltamivir, and zanamivir. Although vaccination is an option for anyone, regardless of age or disease, recommendations do not specifically encourage healthy adults under the age of 60 to get flu vaccine. It is unclear whether the benefits of antiviral medicines for flu are worth the side effects and costs.
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oh, how we have had similar nights. i often think that about my own childhood. did i see the way my mother pushed back the curtains in my room to allow the sun to shake me softly from my dreams, or did i only see the way the light intruded upon me, mad at her for doing so... oh, that our littles see us in our full messy selves. imperfect, but made true with love.ReplyDelete
Wow, i could have written this.ReplyDelete
Yes, yes, and yes. I LOVE this. Especially the last line.ReplyDelete
Amen momma. We've had many nights like this lately... and, wow the last line.ReplyDelete
Oh this line hits home for me. "I hope my heart remembers my good parts, too." So often I feel bad for getting irritated so easily. It makes me sigh at myself.ReplyDelete
I can totally relate to this. I am sick more than I'm not...and while I don't blame my illness...I often worry what he'll remember of me.ReplyDelete
Sounds like you're doing a fabulous job. You sound like you are a wonderful mom who cares for those babes so much.
Oh. This let me take a deep breath.....I hope my boys remember more of the good stuff and less of my growling. I think I say this prayer a hundred times a day. XOReplyDelete
Hi, I'm visiting via Just Write. I can so relate to this post. I'm sure all of us mommas can. Perhaps these moments allow us to offer grace to our own parents and allow us the opportunity to redeem the memories.ReplyDelete
You gave a beaautiful snapshot of real life with little people. And you will treasure that you can read this and remember some day. I know, mine are teens now. Nice to meet you through Just Write.ReplyDelete
You're every mom. I hope so, too.ReplyDelete
Yep. You got this right. :)ReplyDelete
While sitting in the Detroit airport last weekend, I chatted with a woman whose 4 week old son was sleeping on her chest, she was wearing him in a gorgeous wrap with an owl on the front, and because I read your blog, I correctly guessed it was a Mei Tai :) Just wanted to let you know that I was thinking of you, so I stopped by, and then read your lovely words.ReplyDelete
It's so hard to know if our kids are seeing all that we do for them, the little things like saying yes to a glass of chocolate milk instead of white, or picking up a new box of crayons for them at Target 'just because', or any of the other things we do because it makes us happy to see them happy. When mine complain about something they aren't getting, I remind them to be grateful for everything we have. And I try to remember to be grateful too.
- AnonymousMay 23, 2012 4:58 PM
Your kids will ALWAYS remember the good parts of you.And your heart will too. You are such an amazing wife, mother, daughter,and pretty much everything else. You are such a great woman in general. You write such great and gravitating posts. This is one of your best posts, I'm telling you. :)ReplyDelete
Wether good parts or bad ones, I believe they will still love you, in spite of it all.ReplyDelete
Thanks for an inspiring post. It made me remember when I once told my kids that I was not perfect and yet chose to love me still .
Sigh...why do I always feel so much more at peace after I read your posts? I think it's because it feels like reading an echo of myself. Thanks for being so open.ReplyDelete
Amen, let's all frame that last line..."I hope they'll only remember the good parts of me. I hope my heart remembers my good parts, too."ReplyDelete
They'll remember. As moms, we worry too much about being perfect for our children all of the time. They are much more resilient than we are. Think of your own memories...do you remember each time your mom wanted time for herself? No..not really. And even if you do remember...I'm sure you understand. :)ReplyDelete
This post just brings tears to my eyes.ReplyDelete
I growl sometimes at night too!ReplyDelete


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Although South Carolina's report cards tell a good story about the state of its schools, national test results released Thursday made it clear the state still has room for improvement.
By the numbers
Fourth- and eighth-graders' scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress are reported on a 0-500 scale. The two subjects are measured on separate scale.
District 2013 4th-grade math 2011 4th-grade math 2013 4th-grade reading 2011 4th grade-reading
South Carolina 237 237 214 215
Nation 241 240 221 220
Source: National Assessment of Educational Progress
South Carolina students are trailing the nation in reading and math, and test scores show they haven't made significant gains during the past two years, according to results on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation's Report Card.
That's in contrast to the country as a whole making progress on those same tests, with the nation posting its best-ever math scores. Reading scores also reached an all-time high for eighth-graders, and fourth-graders' scores were bested only by those in 2011.
State Superintendent of Education Mick Zais said South Carolina schools are making gains, but not as fast as he would like. He's convinced that the state needs to devote more attention to what he described as a desperate problem statewide — reading.
"If you can't read, you can't learn," he said.
He has worked with lawmakers on the Read to Succeed Act, which would strengthen the state's focus on reading. That proposal will be considered during the upcoming legislative session.
The latest Nation's Report Card scores aren't the only indicators showing trouble for South Carolina, and Zais referenced the state's letter grades that are part of its federal accountability system.
Letter grades fell statewide, although the goals schools had to meet were higher. Still, Zais said the state report card ratings were positive.
"It's cause for celebration, but it's tempered celebration," he said.
NAEP tests were given this year to a sample of fourth- and eighth-graders nationally, and it's the only exam that allows states to compare elementary and middle students' academic performance in multiple subjects. Individual district results were not available.
The tests measure achievement at three levels — "basic," "proficient" and "advanced" — and the aim is to have all students performing at or above the "proficient" level.
Since the tests were last given in 2011, South Carolina students' average scores declined or remained stagnant, with the exception of eighth-grade reading, where students posted their best scores since 1998. The differences in the 2011 and 2013 scores weren't statistically significant.
In terms of whether students met the "proficient" benchmark, the state again saw flat or shrinking percentages, with the exception of eighth-grade reading.
South Carolina was one of 11 states that had a lower percentage of fourth- and eighth-graders scoring at or above "proficient" in math compared with the national average; it was one of 14 that fell into that same category for reading.
During a conference call with reporters, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan praised a handful of states, such as Hawaii and Tennessee, and the District of Columbia for making noteworthy gains, and he said that happened because leaders took on difficult and controversial work in raising standards and focusing on teacher effectiveness.
He said the flip side of courage would be those who are more timid, and that's where "you're seeing less progress."
"The 2013 NAEP report card provides encouraging but modest signs of progress in reading and math for U.S. students," he said. "U.S. students are still well behind their peers in top-performing nations. If America's students are to remain competitive in a knowledge-based economy, our public schools must greatly accelerate the rate of progress of the last four years and do more to narrow America's large achievement gaps."
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May 28, 1998
Torah Portion
Parashat Bamidbar (Numbers1:1-4:20)
Martin Buber was wrong. Buber proposed that "alllife is meeting," and that all human interactions fit into twocategories: I-Thou and I-It. I-Thou describes those close, mutual,responsive relationships in which we become genuine, unique personsto one another. I-It is for everything else -- all the functional,impersonal, perfunctory, objectified relations that fill daily life.But he failed to notice that there's a third category -- and it isone I witness regularly working in the Jewish community. It's called"I-You-*'@%?'@!!!" This is the relationship wherein a difference ofopinion or a complaint quickly and seamlessly turns into a bitterpersonal attack. I don't object merely to the position you representor the job you've done; I object to you!
My own experience is in Jewish education. There'ssomething about Jewish education that breeds this sort ofrelationship in a big way: It's not enough to complain, "My child'sneeds aren't being met," or "My child is unhappy," or "My childwasn't treated fairly." We feel somehow compelled to add, "Becauseyou -- teacher, principal, rabbi (fill in the blank) -- don't care,are insensitive, are incompetent, are unkind."
I understand the dynamics of parental anxietyabout schooling, particularly among Jews. I'm well aware of all theexpectations and aspirations that are laid on the shoulders of theeducator. I realize that the bottom line of any educationalenterprise is a fragile bond of trust.
But why so vicious? Why so cruel?
Is it any wonder that in education, andparticularly in Jewish education, there is an astonishingly highprofessional mortality rate? Is it any wonder that we have suchdifficulty attracting the best and the brightest to this field? Whoneeds this tzuris? Moses had a magic stick and a daily pep talk fromthe Master of Universe, and even he became discouraged at thecarping, the whining and the personal invective aimed at him. How dowe protect those precious souls who commit their lives to Jewishteaching?
This week, we begin the reading of Bamidbar, theTorah's fourth book. Bamidbar means "in the wilderness," for the bookcommences in the wilderness of Sinai. But more than a physicallocation, Bamidbar depicts a social wilderness, a human wasteland.This is a place where everything falls apart. It portrays a peoplewandering -- without a shared vision, shared values or shared words.Leaders attempt to lead, but no one listens. The people of thiswilderness, driven by fear and jealousy, moved only by hunger, thirstand lust, have no patience for God's transcendent vision.
It falls heaviest on Moses. In the course ofBamidbar, everyone in his life will betray him. Miriam and Aaron, hisfamily, betray him, murmuring against him. His tribe rebels againsthim under his cousin Korah. His people betray him, accepting thedispiriting report of the 10 spies over the vision of the two. And,finally, even God betrays him. Told to speak to the rock, he hits itinstead. And for this, he will not see the journey's end. But, ofcourse, he hit the rock! Nowhere in Bamidbar do words function.Nowhere do words nourish, inspire or heal. This is a book of noise,frustration and pain -- the world according to Jerry Springer.
Bamidbar is not a place far away. It is within us-- in our community and in our souls. The world was created withwords. It is within our capacity to annihilate it with words. Destroydiscourse, and civilization collapses. Ravage the spirit of ourteachers, and our future shrivels. Bamidbar is not just a book, butis an anguished cry of warning in the increasingly barren wildernessof our culture.
Ed Feinstein is rabbi at Valley Beth Shalom.
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In the juried competition her photographs from her Americana collection will be exhibited on the Arts Guild N.J. web site for the month of February. The exhibit can be viewed on the Arts Guild New Jersey website at agnj.org.
Chandoha's Americana photographs emphasizes small town USA, with it's parades and picnics—the county fairs, schools and church suppers, it's farmers, farm markets and local mom and pop stores—and most of all, our flag flying and displayed everywhere. Still another facet of her Americana photography are pictures of classic vehicles, back when the American steel industry produced all of our trucks and tractors, motorcycles and cars—all of which were proudly made in the U.S.A.
For the past 24 years, Chandoha has worked side by side with her father, Walter Chandoha, archiving his vast collection of animal and garden photographs. Additionally, she is honing her skills as a photo journalist as a contributing photographer with the Bucks County Herald in Lahaska PA.
A special exhibit, titled 'American Steel', of these vintage vehicles will be shown at the R.S.I. bank's headquarters at 1500 Irving St in the downtown Rahway arts district. Chandoha's creative close-ups of parts and pieces of these old vehicles has changed mere photographs into collectible fine art. R.S.I. bank has partnered with the Arts Guild New Jersey to showcase each Artist of the Month. The show will run through March 3.
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Operating Systems Design
OS design isn't taught in "OS design" classes and books like Operating Systems Concepts by
are a sick joke. What happens is that you get an instructor or writer who doesn't understand the first thing about OS design, doesn't know the state of the art, probably doesn't even understand what design
. So what do they do? They teach you how to reimplement Unix, a 30 year obsolete architecture! How can they be so stupid? See
So what does a fresh eager student do if they want to avoid having their imagination utterly destroyed by an Andy Tanenbaum spouting irrelevancies like global vs local address spaces, synchronous vs asynchronous messages, and the 23 secret ways to resolve deadlocks? Start with a
. Also learn the
and meditate on them a lot.
(The discussion of capability and ACL security models that was here, has been moved to
aren't fundamental OS concepts at all, only implementation details. And
) are obsoleted by
as a fundamental OS concept.
People agree with this? Isn't
? --
s help us out here -- It seems that a team of 6 could build a better
in a month, and then could continue to add features as it got smaller and smaller over time.
used to be small, RAM was expensive. Now they are big and getting bigger. What exactly are the requirements (tell some stories) of an OS?
Scheduler of processes
Handler of interprocess communication
Speaker to low level InputOutput
Q: does the OS really have to do this or is a process sufficient? and do you
multiple processes?
examines the whole topic from a humanist perspective.
The OS should, on a multiuser system, be able to preempt a running process, to keep a user from locking the system with their own malicious (or just poorly written) program. However, all the OSes I have seen are based on the
of computers. Perhaps it is time for new thinking, open up alternatives to memory-mapped io or DMA.
You're focusing on two things you should never talk about when discussing design goals. First, you're talking about implementation details (eg, a "process"). Second, you're not even talking about the abstractions and principles which the users will see after you've abstracted away the hardware. Rather, you're talking about the ones that YOU see coming from the damned hardware! So not only are you doing a miserable job of expressing design goals, but you're not even talking about design goals at all.
In case it escaped your notice, all programmers talk about OSes the same way you do. Even the ones that build them. This should tell you that they're all incompetent fools. Which they are, with very few exceptions.
So what's an OS all about? It's something that provides STORAGE, COMMUNICATION, and COMPUTATION. Hence, the storage, network, graphics and process stacks. That's what an OS is all about; several interrelated stacks of ABSTRACTIONS. -- RK
I thought #12 of the
was "
". Exokernels have the explicit philosophy that operating systems
should not
provide abstractions. That's a task better left to user-space libraries, because
. Instead, the interface that user-space sees mimics the physical hardware to the greatest degree possible. It's the library designers' job to abstract away the hardware. --
I don't understand the distinctions between user-space and kernel-space, nor between daemons and libraries. I suspect this is because they are artificial low-level bullshit. To the limited extent that I understand these distinctions, I am
that they are artificial low-level bullshit.
I never did get around to fixing up the
page the way I wanted to; never got feedback on the subject.
My position on the issue can be found at
/12 and also at
In other words, I do NOT think of
as a low-level feature. I don't think of it as a feature at all but rather as a general organising / design principle. Which is what it must be in order to qualify for inclusion in
An OS is not an exokernel just because it's limited in its scope to the point where it's useless crap. An OS is not an exokernel just because it's got some insignificant feature buried at a level of abstraction so low that operating systems architects (the smart ones anyways) don't bother thinking about.
Rather, to be an exokernel, an OS has to separate multiplexing from abstraction at EACH AND EVERY layer of abstraction. And there's a boatload more layers of abstraction even in the computation stack than just "cpu" and "processes". --
In most (all?) modern processors, the hardware supports certain instructions that are only available in "protected mode". These do things like access the TLB, set and clear interrupt flags, and handle I/O - all the nitty gritty implementation details that you're rather not worry about. The operating system is the only program that has access to these instructions. If an application wants to make use of these services, it has to execute a system call (eg. SYSENTER and SYSEXIT instructions on the Pentium). These switch the protection level on the CPU, and then transfer control to an address specified in the kernel's trap table. The kernel then has to perform the specified operation on behalf of the application, because the application doesn't have privileges to perform it itself (and note that this is a
restriction, not something brain-dead OS designers cooked up).
The system call mechanism is the boundary between "user space" and "kernel space". Code running in kernel space has access to these protected-mode instructions. Code running in user space doesn't.
The problem the
developers identified was that the defined system call mechanism presents an interface that application developers cannot get around. If you want access to the disk, you
to go through the open/close/read/write syscalls (well, there's mmap...), because those're the system calls that the OS exposes. But that locks you into a particular filesystem: if you're implementing a
, you've got to simulate blocks on top of files, which are then built on top of blocks. The result is inefficient and inflexible.
tries to make its syscalls mimic the underlying hardware as much as possible, so you don't get this
. You expose time-slices, disk blocks, TLB contents, etc. Then user-space libraries are responsible for creating processes, threads, paging policies, filesystems, etc. An application doesn't *have* to use any particular one of these formerly-OS abstractions: it can link against a different library and get a different abstraction of the underlying system resources.
That's why I don't understand what you mean when you say "an OS has to separate multiplexing from abstraction at EACH AND EVERY layer of abstraction". The exokernel does not provide layers of abstraction at all. Those are all in user-space libraries. Instead, it just makes sure that there are no conflicts when the physical resources are accessed. --
Thank you for the exposition, I'm certain it will benefit the page.
In programming languages too there is a distinction between "the language" and "the libraries". This distinction is BS from the user's point of view. The biggest and most important part of
is its libraries. It's only from a language designer's point of view that you think about the importance of minimizing what's inherent and hard-coded into the language. And even then, if you're clever, you put in enough reflexion that the distinction simply doesn't matter.
It's the same with operating systems. By putting enough reflexion into them, you can allow users to change everything at runtime, assuming sufficient privileges. It should be a design goal of any and every operating system project to be able to replace the entire OS dynamically, at runtime. If you have that level of reflexion, it ceases to matter how big of a "kernel" you've got. The distinction between user-space and kernel-space simply ceases to matter.
Note here that we're talking about "kernels" and not operating systems. An operating system includes ALL of its libraries and other components. A good OS doesn't merely have extensive abstractions provided by its libraries but rather has LAYERED abstractions. This is obvious in the networking stack. If you've studied the subject area, its necessity is also obvious in the storage stack. If system programmers weren't fools, it would also be obvious in the graphics stack. And finally, layering is also necessary in the computation stack.
Now, in a badly designed OS, the abstractions provided in the different layers will have multiplexing mixed in. This is bad because it makes it more difficult to develop, install and test alternate abstractions in the system. For a clean and flexible operating system, abstraction should be separate from secure multiplexing at each and every layer of abstraction.
And now on a completely different topic, there is a subtle issue in exokernels that has long puzzled me. If you multiplex a resource, should its consumers be aware of each other? If they are aware of each other then you must provide abstractions to arbitrate the resource (arbitration is an abstraction). OTOH, if they are not aware of each other then the resource you're providing is a complete fiction, an abstraction.
For example, if you multiplex a CPU then you can choose to expose individual time slices of the CPU. In that case, you must provide a method for users to secure and release particular time slices in the presence of other users doing the same. In contrast, you could expose a virtual CPU devoted to each individual user. But users would no longer be exposed to any particular time slice of the real CPU.
When multiplexing RAM, this difference simply doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what particular part of real RAM you're using. The same with storage and graphics in general. In the case of the CPU, now that's an entirely different thing. Same with networking. So the question is, how do you expose time without providing arbitration abstractions? --
If you are into building your own OS (an increasingly popular sport;-) you should probably take a look at
where you will find a library of components that can be used to assemble custom operating systems tuned to your needs.
Using the flux toolkit to build your "own" custom is akin to "writing" a novel by transcribing the storyline off of one of those make-your-own adventure books. And you'll learn as little about operating systems as you would have writing. -- RK
I, as someone who enjoys the challenge of writing kernels, have spent long hours contemplating the significance of exokernels. I
the idea; however, I have never been successful in figuring out how to make them work in practice.
We all agree that they expose underlying hardware, but what if the hardware changes between runs of a system? I might have a CD-ROM in one run, but a DVD-ROM in another. Or, I might have an AMD Athlon in one, and a Pentium IV in the next (e.g., as with moving harddrives from one computer to another).
Just who is responsible for performing task switching in an exokernel? If all it did was provide protection, but no multiplexing (as is required by pure-blooded exokernel philosophy), then no task would ever switch pre-emptively. It'd be equivalent to a cooperatively multitasking environment. Ouch.
Assuming the issue of task switching is resolved, how is inter-process communications handled?
One solution is to again take advantage of protection-without-multiplexing, which mandates a shared memory buffer of some kind, with each process
to not overwrite the contents of another process' buffer contents. This sounds dangerous.
Alternatively, you can use a finite-sized shared buffer which is used to implement a
datagram messaging service
between processes. The rule here is that, if your message would exceed the size of the buffer, you must defer the message and try again later. Or just drop it. Or just wrap around and overwrite the contents of the buffer starting at the beginning. Either way, someone, somewhere, is going to have to re-send the message. This just screams for problems in the runtime performance benchmarks.
How are multiple processes that share the same library-OS able to become aware of each other? This is required, for example, if you need to swap out a few pages of another process to free up some RAM for yourself.
For that matter, what is the policy of swapping pages of processes that
use the same libOS? How is this situation handled?
This list is
exhaustive. This is just a quick recollection of the issues that I faced when I was planning on writing an exokernel for myself.
You must have, at some level,
multiplexing in order to coordinate processes. L4 is a microkernel which comes dangerously close to also being an exokernel, but even L4 provides some abstractions which I think you'll agree are necessary to make a working system.
-- SamuelFalvo
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American Conservatism': Rethinking the US Right. '
June 14th 2013
Senate Room Second Floor Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
www.london.ac.uk/map.html (includes directions)
Organised by the Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA) (School of Advanced Study) and the Eccles Centre of the British Library .
Registration Fee Ł10 Register at http://events.sas.ac.uk/isa/events/view/13588/American+Conservatism%3A+Rethinking+the+US+Right
All Enquires to Dr Tom Packer Conference Convenor ISA (email@example.com)
09:30 Registration (Jessel Room)
09:45 Welcome and Introduction by Dr Tom Packer
10.00 Panel 1A Conservatism Before Goldwater
Chair: Dr. Matthew Hill (ISA)
Before Yalta: Herbert Hoover and the Pursuit of Economic Liberty-The Failure of American Ideology, Peter Luddington (Mt San Jacinto USA)
'Into the Maw of the Chinese Dragon': Conservative Political Opinion Journals and the Korean War, Dane Cash ( Emmanuell College USA )
One Hundred Per Cent American "Veteran Vigilantes" and the Cold War Front, Matthew Glazebrook (University of Sussex)
Conservative Artists in the 1950s: the Limit to Success, Karen Heath (Oxford University)
Panel 1B Conservative Thought Myths and Realities
Chair: Dr William Sheward (University of Winchester)
Opportunists "Traitors" and "Dupes": Re-Considering Anti-Communism Within the American Conservative Movement from Truman to Nixon, David Sarias (Universidad del Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
"As the family goes so goes the nation": New Right Women and the Battle Against Second Wave Feminism", Nadja Jannsen ( Arcadia University,USA )
The Misreading of the American Mind: The Two Receptions of Allan Bloom's Bestseller, Dylan H Morris (University of Cambridge)
Neo-liberalism, Neo-Conservatism and Urban Politics: The Case of New York City, Themis Chronopoulos (UEA)
11:50 Break
12.20 Keynote address: American Executive Power in Conservative Thought
Professor Richard Pious (Columbia University and Barnard College, USA)
13:20 Lunch
14.10 Panel 2 The 1960s and 1970s: Challenging the Liberal Consensus
Chair: Dr Eddie Ashbee (Copenhagen Business School Denmark)
An Americanist Dilemma:The John Birch Society and Civil Rights 1962—1968, Bart Verhoeven (Nottingham University)
Political Entrepreneur and Direct Mail: Richard Viguerie and a Change of Conservative Politics in the late 1960s, Takahito Moriyama (Florida State University,USA)
Resurrecting Teddy-The Historical Basis for Modern Conservatism's Opposition to the Panama Canal Treaties, Andrew Stead (York University)
'The Legacy of the Child Development Group of Mississippi: White opposition to Head Start in Mississippi 1965-1972, Emma Folwell (University of Leicester).
16.00 Tea
16.30 Panel 3 In the Shadow of Reagan- the Contemporary US Right
Chair: Professor Philip Davies ( British Library)
Three different Southern Conservatisms: Democrats, Republicans, and the Conservative Movement, Tom Packer (ISA)
President Clinton the First 'New Democrat' President, Keith Nottle (University of Nottingham)
The Nature and Influence of Conservatism in the Republican Party After the 2012 US Election, William Sheward (University of Winchester)
US Conservatives, David Cameron and Trans-Atlantic Policy Loops, Eddie Ashbee (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
18.30 Wine Reception
19.30 Informal Dinner at nearby Balfour Restaurant, www.balfourrestaurant.co.ukmap.html 75-77 Marchmont Street


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China's Financial Regulation Mess
Has China's financial regulatory regime reached its use-by date? The rapid proliferation of wealth management products in recent years could mean that it's well past.
That was one of the themes to emerge from the Lujiazui Forum held in Shanghai on Friday and Saturday, an annual get-together of the great and the good from China's financial sector. Speakers called for the standardization of rules governing the issuance, design and sale of wealth management products across an increasingly broad universe of financial institutions.


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Jo Ann Fields, Columbiana, and Ralph E. Fields, Dublin, Ga., dissolution granted.
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WASHINGTON President Barack Obama lauded Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as one of his closest advisers and said their shared vision for Americas role in the world persuaded his one-time rival and potential successor to be his top diplomat while he dealt with the shattered economy at home.
During a joint interview that aired Sunday evening, Obama and Clinton chuckled as they described their partnership and stoked speculation that Obama may prefer Clinton to succeed him in the White House after the 2016 elections.
Clinton is leaving Obamas Cabinet soon, and speculation about the former first lady and senator from New York has only grown more intense after a heated appearance last week on Capitol Hill.
Both Obama and Clinton batted away questions about future campaigns, but the joint interview the presidents first with anyone other than first lady Michelle Obama was only likely to increase the fascination with Clintons future.
The president and I care deeply about whats going to happen for our country in the future, Clinton said. And I dont think, you know, either he or I can make predictions about whats going to happen tomorrow or the next year.
Obama, who suggested the joint interview as Clinton prepared her exit from the State Department, lavished praise on his rival for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. He called her a friend and an extraordinary talent, and praised her discipline, her stamina, her thoughtfulness, her ability to project.
On the 60 Minutes interview, he praised Clintons State Department for helping him sort out what the United States can and cannot accomplish.
It has been a great collaboration over the last four years. Im going to miss her. Wish she was sticking around. But she has logged in so many miles, I cant begrudge her wanting to take it easy for a little bit, Obama said.
His comments teetered on an endorsement of a 2016 presidential bid that is still an open question.
Clinton advisers say she has not made a decision about a run, while Democratic officials suggest Clinton would be an early favorite if she decided to mount another campaign.
Obama and Clinton laughed when asked about the political future.
You guys in the press are incorrigible, Obama said when pressed on another Clinton presidency. I was literally inaugurated four days ago. And youre talking about elections four years from now.
The possibility of a presidential campaign for Vice President Joe Biden did not come up during the interview, taped Friday at the White House.


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Garry Marshall, director, writer, actor and producer. Tomorrow, he'll make his opera helming debut with "The Grand Duchess" for the L.A. Opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
Last book I bought:
"Property: A Novel" by Valerie Martin
Book I'm reading:
"1776" by David McCullough
Total number of books I own:
Over 2,000. I donate ones I've read.
Five books that mean a lot to me:
"The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann
"Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert
"The Boys of Summer" by Roger Kahn
"Poetics" by Aristotle
"Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd
Last film I saw:
"Wedding Crashers" and "Lucky 13," my son Scott's movie that'll be released this spring
Last DVD I bought:
"Waiting for Guffman"
Total number of films I own:
100, including foreign language versions of my own movies — "Pretty Woman" in Russian is hilarious
Five films that mean a lot to me:
"Mon Oncle," "A League of Their Own," "The Apartment," "The Red Balloon," "Blowup," "The Other Sister"
Stereo or iPod:
Last CD or song I bought:
"Paul Williams," Paul Williams
Song currently playing:
Jacques Offenbach's "Dites-lui"
Five songs that mean a lot to me:
"In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning," Irving Berlin
"At Last," Joan Osborne
"Sing, Sing, Sing," Benny Goodman
"I Won't Last a Day Without You," Paul Williams
"Pretty Woman," Roy Orbison
Favorites bottle of wine:
Favorites charity:
Los Angeles Free Clinic
Favorites vacation:
Hawaii or Carmel, Calif.
Favorites vice:
ice cream (frozen yogurt if my wife is looking)
Five people who I'd like to see answer this survey:
Osama Bin Laden, Barry Bonds, Diane Sawyer, Placido Domingo, Wallace Annenberg


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"Isaac, be a mensch and bring in the mail."
"But Rabbi Jacobi, I am only 8 years old and the mailbags are very heavy. Surely, someone else can carry them inside?"
"Isaac, I have faith that you will be strong enough to get them. Run along now."
The last words ever spoken by little Isaac and Rabbi Jacobi, of Chicago, involved a simple daily chore of bringing in the mail.
No one could have dreamed that such an activity would bring about the end of both of their lives.
Had it not been for a tip from a "reformed" al-Qaida member and the alertness of the mail handlers in England and the United Arab Emirates, this scenario may well have played itself out in the heartland of America. Fortunately, it never happened. The lives of Americans were saved.
What we know is this: At least two packages containing explosive materials were sent from Yemen to synagogues in Chicago.
The devices were apparently created by individuals either in or closely related to al-Qaida.
Once again, another high-profile example of Islamic extremism expressing itself as terrorism. Of course, the pundits will claim that the connection between Islam and terrorist activities is merely coincidental and anyone who would suggest such an idea is a simply a bigot or Islamophobe.
This vexing issue of Islam and terrorism is the subject of a book called "Londonistan" written by Melanie Phillips in 2006 (Encounter Books). This tome was suggested to me by a "Right About Now" reader (thanks, Steve).
This book discusses how radical Islam has grown in the United Kingdom, encouraged by misguided domestic policies and dim-witted politically correct psychology that made London the capital of international Islamic terrorism.
United Kingdom-based terrorists include Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (murderer of journalist Daniel Pearl), Dhiren Barot and Nadeem Tarohammed (al-Qaida members who planned terror attacks on U.S. financial centers), Mohammed Bilal (drove a truckload of explosives into a police barracks in Kashmir), and, my favorite, Richard Reid, the shoe bomber.
The book further states that "London is home to the largest collection of Islamic activists since the terrorist production line was established in Afghanistan."
How did this happen?
The book discusses several causes including lax immigration policy, extreme religious tolerance and political correctness.
During the 1990s, activist judges in the United Kingdom decided to redefine immigration policy and allow large numbers of immigrants without regard to understanding the social impact that this large migration would have. Most of these immigrants were poor Muslims.
Phillips declares that "Britain simply lost control of its borders altogether because of the gross abuse and total breakdown of its asylum system."
This means that potentially dangerous individuals were allowed into the U.K. to sow seeds of discontent among the burgeoning new Muslim populace.
This fertile ground proved critical in the growing of an extremist organization.
The book goes on to say that "the Enlightenment in Britain put religion firmly back into its box and elevated reason to pole position as the supreme national virtue."
Further, "the downside of this robustly down-to-earth approach is that the British now find it very hard to deal with religious fanaticism."
In essence, by affirming the faith and culture of immigrants to the extreme, the British have done so at the cost of their own culture.
An additional side-effect has been the growth of sensitivity and political correctness.
For example, English authorities refuse to recognize the connection between Islam and terrorism for fear of being labeled an Islamophobe.
After four suicide bombers killed 50 Londoners in subway trains in July 2005, police deputy assistant commissioner Brian Piddick said, "As far as I am concerned, Islam and terrorists are two words that do not go together."
Fortunately, many appear to be awakening lately to the fallacy of this thinking. The United Kingdom has made strides in changing the climate that has given birth to "Londonistan" — evidenced by the detection of the attempted bomb from Yemen.
In the United States, we are protected by many institutions — a free press, free speech and a strong religious tradition.
These institutions are incorporated into the precious cloth that makes up American culture. Does this mean we are completely safe? Of course not.
In the 1960s, an Italian Marxist named Antonio Gamsci said that "the most effective means of overturning Western society was to subvert its culture and morality."
The lesson here is obvious: We must be on guard to protect our culture and avoid a new Londonistan.
Steve Lunetta is a resident of Santa Clarita and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. His column reflects his own opinion and not necessarily those of The Signal. "Right About Now" runs Mondays.


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New website to pledge your volunteer hours
29 March 2005
Edmonton, Canada: Youthone.com has recently launched Webathon 2005, a Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) initiative aimed at increasing youth awareness on volunteerism.
Webathon 2005 encourages young people to pledge hours of volunteer work and motivates them to get involved in their communities. The goal is to represent young people's collective desire to become active citizens by becoming volunteers.
The organizations says that this could be achieved by "having youth pledge volunteer hours online, by publishing articles about young volunteers from around the world, connecting them to other websites with resources and information about volunteerism, and reporting on volunteer hours pledged by youth".
To date, more than 53,000 hours have been pledged by young people from 26 different countries such as Algeria, Benin, Canada, Ghana, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Scotland, and Zimbabwe. To increase this number, the site has been translated to Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Spanish, German and Russian.
"Pledging" begins on 15 April and continues until 15 May 2005.


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who was the original drummer of the Beatles (not ringo)? hint: he calims to have created new form of drumming
Stuart Suttcliffe
Burno Koshimeder terminates the beales contract from what club on what day?
indra club, november 1, 1960
on november 29, 1960 these two beales get arrested and the next day they get exported?
Paul McCartney and Pete Best
The Beatles auditioned of what major record company and on what date?
decca record on january 1, 1962


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With release of data on race and Hispanic origin from the 2000 census, we
have set up a new website at USC that provides a full comparison of the 50
states, including details on California and Los Angeles. This site reports
findings from a project on the changing contours of race and Hispanic
origin, Race Contours 2000. (Co-investigators are Dowell Myers, Philip
Ethington, Angela James, and William Frey.)
The site address is: http:www.usc.edu/sppd/census2000
Contents focus on findings from the new multiracial question in the census,
and highlight spatial differences in racial patterns. Graphs compare all
50 states (especially Mississippi and California!).
In California, we have identified a "multiracial belt" in the center of the
state. (It is not in San Francisco.)
Also on the site is an evaluation of where total population growth in
California counties, or growth of specific racial groups, exceeded what was
previously forecast.
Within Los Angeles County, we have posted a unique set of *animated maps*
that traces the spread of racial diversity from 1940 to 2000. We call
these maps, displays of growing "racial majorities." The site also includes
measures of exposure and dissimilarity from 1940 to 2000 for four main
race-etrhnic groups.
Soon to be added is a summary of changes in compostion and growing
diversity for specific communities in the Los Angeles area.
Of general interest to all: the site includes a resource of some
importance. "Overlap" is the title of our multi-section user guide to race
and Hispanic origin in Census 2000. The major changes in the 2000 census
necessitate much more careful consideration by all census data users.
We welcome your visit! http:www.usc.edu/sppd/census2000
Dowell Myers
Project PI


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What makes life so beautiful on earth?:nice::pleased::happy:
Re: Whos gat it?
The life itself.
Re: Whos gat it?
You earn more money and makes life happy it's my opinion only.
Re: Whos gat it?
Shabbir, its a great one.
Re: Whos gat it?
In my opinion mainly money makes life more beautiful, coz If you have no money, you will have no computer (just imagine it ...). Although life is very beautiful itself, with money you can make it even more beautiful than it is :D
I think money, because if you have money, you have all happiness.
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Cicero Town Supervisor Judy Boyke has proposed a tentative 2011 budget of $10,783,188, which is up about $510,000 or 4.96 percent from last year's budget.
It didn't take long for syracuse.com users to start commenting, noting that higher taxes is what is driving business and employees to move out of state. One syracuse.com user, Cicero2112, couched her criticism in numbers:
"$256,460 for health insurance on 15 people. Lets do a little math..... $256,460/15 = $17,097 per person. $17,097/52 = $328.79 per week. $328.79/40 = $8.22 per hour. I would be willing to bet there are more benefits than health insurance. Maybe the town could reduce the number of employees, cut benefits, cut non essential department spending, and reduce taxes. It seems that maybe a consultant, lawyer, or accountant should negotiate on behalf of the town."
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On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:28:45 -1200, Kadaitcha Man sat in thee Comfee
Chaire, and didst finally confess, after taking Muche Tea:
> thanatoid, ye tickle-brained fiend of hell, leave now thou vain
> bibble-babble, ye yielded:
>> catchme wrote:
>>> Tony wrote:
>>>> If i remember correctly back to 9/11 in 2001 it was the country that
>>>> you come from that was responsible for all the attacks on the twin
>>>> towers. That's right CanaDUH let the punjabs through Montreal and they
>>>> FROGGED the twin towers.
>>> lol.
>>> riiight- and let me ask you
>>> 1) have you ever crossed the border yourself? 2) if so, which side do
>>> you meet the US guards?
>>> the answer is, the US guards are patrolling the entry INTO the US.
>>> Therefore, it is the US who let the terrorists into their country. This
>>> applies to airports as well- if you land at an american airport, you
>>> encounter US customs officials. sorry you drank the CNN's kool-aid.
>> WHAT will it take for you people to see the light?
>> Arguing about the straws and failing to see the haystack is about to
>> burst into flames.
>> The only enemy you have to fear is your own government. The people
>> behind Bush the puppet did it, as someday you will all find out, unless
>> evil triumphs totally. I am still waiting to see if we get elections or
>> martial law this fall.
>> Osama is a good pal of the Bush family, going back for years. That's why
>> he "hasn't been found". Well, he could be found in about 5 minutes, but
>> nobody wants to kill him. If they wanted to, you don't think they would
>> have? Hussein was a good friend too.
>> Anybody can be a good friend of the USA until the CIA decides s/he's
>> "inconvenient" after they've served their purpose.
Eh, the US government's full of them. At least he's got some facts, for a
change. Unlike when he's trying his hand at tech support.
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Hail Eris! Usenet Ruiner #5; Most Hated Usenetizen of All Time #13
Benedict Snodgrass Jr., Demon Prince of Absurdity; COOSN-029-06-71069
Official Chung Demon
Top Asshole #3; Lits Slut #16; AUK Psycho & Felon #21
Gutter Chix0r #17; BowTie's Spuriously Accused Pedo Photographer #4
Parrot & Zombie #2; Anonymous Psycho Criminal #18
"Lola Stonewall Riot" is not part of my email addy.
"For those of you without hope, we have rooms with color TV, cable and
air conditioning"
Barbara Woodhouse Memorial Dog Whistle
Trainer of PorchMonkey4Life
Pierre Salinger Memorial Hook, Line & Sinker, June 2008
Hammer of Thor, July 2008
"Oftentimes people ask me, 'Why is it that you're so focused on helping
the hungry and diseased in strange parts of the world?'" --George W.
Bush, Washington, D.C., April 18, 2008
Things We(TINW) Didn't Need To Know About Icebreaker, #5:
"I expose myself all the time" Message-ID:
"Hey Theophan, I need your help again. Will you please come assist me
again? aggreen is after me again. He has been after me for a year and
counting now. I want you to destroy his character for me. I can't do
it." -- Olympiada: Not too proud to beg for help when it comes to
character assassination, and Mistress of the Bleeding Obvious.
MID: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
"I think we have taken care of the net.KKKopping in alt.gothic. Could
all the kookologists trim alt.gothic from their headers and leave us
alone now? It has gone on long enough. I can take care of myself in there
from here on out. Thanks. I know how to fight off trolls now. Thank you
for the education." -- Olympiada thinks she's had an education, and that
means it's time for those nice kookologists to go away and leave her
sandbox alone now, in MID: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
"Who booby-traps a dead end? That's just not right." -- Cordelia
>> Are you the Peter J Ross that I've heard so much about?
> Probably. I'm the one who doesn't resort to forgery after losing an
> argument.
"You're the one with the extensive brain damage... okay I see. You're
gonna be easily to own them." -- PorchMonkey4Life: Not aware of too many
things. MID:
At last! See Joxer The Mity Monkey on camera! Watch him freak out!!
"You're just mad that you got tard stomped again fagg0t. You throw
something incredibly lame out there and I ramming it right back down
your throat. And you wonder how I just did what I did to you. You wonder
how I can make something so lame that you tossed out there so gosh darn
amusing when I fling it back at ya.
"Here's the secret: Unlike you, I am *not* retarded. You're tardness
gets in your way every single time, fagboi.
"Are you still crying over your keyboard, c0ckslurper? Is your mouth
wide open and drool falling out. Is your chunky body convulsing as you
think about how you were once again made a fool of? Are yellow boogie
snots running out of your unnaturally large nose down your triple chins?
"Look at what I reduced you too, tard.. I thoroughly enjoy owning and
abusing you.. Thanks for being so tarded and so easy to beat." -- The
PorchMonkey4Life has gone on to re-define red as yellow, black as white,
and being run over by a truck as just a scratch. Message-ID:
"And no, I did not have sex with my son. But if I did I certainly
wouldn't tell you. Something so beautiful and precious should be kept
private." -- Kathy L. Mosesian, or possibly not really her, confesses
she may be a liar and committer of incest with her own son, in MID:
The reporter asked Colin Powell (or George Bush), "What proof do you
have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction?"
He replied, "We kept the receipts." -- Bill Hicks
Looney Maroon nominee for August 2006 Johnny D Wentzky foamed:
"You never asked someone who goes into areas of the internet that are
only for adults who has an underage id somehow or another if they are a
cop posing as an underage person online?
I guess lots of people just don't watch dateline or read stories much.
Why don;t you go to pervertedjustice,com and see what they do. They are
awash in their self-proclaimed glory after they lied to membners of the
They are awash in their self-proclaimed glory after they posed as an
underage person and agreed to do all sorts of sex acts wioth adult
males, and they are adults posing as teenager themselves. They make
themsleves into liars by falsely impersonating underage persons and by
not fuilfilling the words they tell the victims online in their chats.
Why don't you read it where they tell these victims of their deceit
about how they have been with grown men and such? Why don't you read it
where they say, "That would be cool." after someone makes an advance
towards an adult who is posing as a teenager? And, where they agree to
meet the person, etc.
Lost control, didn't you?
Is that why you feel as if you need to lie so much now? I see where lots
of these false impersonation games are not sticking. They feel as if
they can lie and then order the victims to get counseling in the
gayblade, governmental, pro-choice tax leech counseling centers. They
are doing nothing more than usury and fraud in many cases." -- Wentzky
almost comes out of the closet as a pedo/ephebophile in MID:
To Whom It May Concern: Michael J. Cranston attorney kook is a stalker


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FLINT, MI -- Bruce Vaughn Jr.'s house is one of the nicest homes on his small part of East Russell Avenue.
Vaughn's home at 1010 E. Russell Ave. is one of the few intact structures remaining on the three-block stretch between Saginaw and Selby streets on the city's north side.
A scarecrow overlooks a small vegetable garden in the home's tidily landscaped yard. Vaughn's home and a handful of others serve as a bastion of civilization along a street of overgrown lots and crumbling houses that are either boarded closed or scrapped out.
RELATED: Memories of multiple homicides linger in some Flint homes
But, roughly 27 years ago, the same home was a house of horrors -- six people were found slaughtered inside after the deadliest killing spree in Flint history.
Vaughn, 62, knew the home's macabre history when he moved in eight years ago but he said it doesn't bother him.
"Every home has a history," Vaughn said. "Nine times out of 10 someone died in there, just maybe not that violently."
Vaughn said his cousin initially purchased the home and gave it to him.
County and city records show Vaughn's cousin purchased the home from the Genesee County Treasurer in 2004 for $4,000, after the property bounced between private owners, the state and county following the killings.
The home has undergone a number of changes since the slayings. The home's small, covered porch has been removed and the white exterior has given way to beige.
About 20 years before Vaughn moved into the home, the actions of a single shooter left the house cemented in the city's violent history.
Hundreds of people lined East Russell Avenue in February 1987 looking for information after the deadliest homicide in the city's history.
Prosecutors at the time of the killing said a then-17-year-old Terry Morris went into the house and killed Mary Lee Williams, 44; her son, Donald "Juice" Williams, 21; Andre Adams, 17; Darryol Humphrey, 20; Teresa Spicer, 19; and Deaundric Collins, 19.
Morris, now 45, is serving life in prison after he was convicted for all six killings. He is lodged at the Thumb Correctional Facility in Lapeer.
No other homicide in the city has included as many victims, and only a 1961 Grand Blanc murder-suicide matched the body count countywide, according to Flint Journal records.
Prosecutors argued that Donald Williams was the head of a cocaine distribution ring and that he used the Russell Avenue home as his residence and the headquarters for his drug operation that consisted primarily of dealers who sold their product on street corners.
Morris, who was described as a top lieutenant in Donald Williams' operation, killed Donald Williams because Williams repeatedly embarrassed him in front of the gang, according to Flint Journal archives. The remaining victims were killed to prevent them from identifying Morris as the killer, prosecutors argued.
Even though the killings happened more than a quarter-century ago, Vaughn said people still mention the atrocities that happened inside his home.
But, he said the home's history isn't enough to drive him away from the house.
"It never really fazed me," Vaughn said. "That part of the house really don't bother me too much."


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Today Jake had a total of 3 accidents just during the morning. Don't know why, but when I woke up, there was on on the bedroom platform and one right next to the potty......Sigh, he is taking longer than Mia took. Mia took exactly one month to become fully trained. He's got about a 60% accuracy to date....That's pretty bad. By one month, Mia was at about 95% accuracy. I think maybe it is harder to train a boy as opposed to a girl. Mia was having accidents too when Jake had them. It seems to confuse both of them to have accidents.
Last night, Jake and Mia had another one of their brawls over the new City Super toy that we got them. They love all the more expensive toys. Especially the red apple squeely toy..... She takes it into the room when we go to sleep too! She rarely takes her toys inside when we sleep. I guess buy more expensive toys are worth it, at least they dont' get tired of them as quickly.
Anyway, as for feeding them, they have been pretty good so far. Right now, I am trying to teach them the command "go to your places". So that when I say that they know to immediately go to their positions where I am supposed to feed them and wait for me to prepare their meals. I have tried it for two days. Personally, I love training and feeding them. It's so fulfilling when they finally learn the command and are obedient.....
This weekend we want to take them to Stanley for a stroll along the beach. Hopefully we will be able to pick up some good doggy clothes for Jake...
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