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As the clock creeps towards today's 4pm trade deadline, die-hard Phillies fans are sure to be glued to their rumors source of choice. Last night's report that Jake Peavy is headed to Boston put a sizable dent in the Phillies chances of moving Cliff Lee, leaving only the Tigers, Cardinals and Dodgers as plausible suitors for the prized left hander.
At this point, there is little doubt that Lee is available, and the reports that say so also indicate that the Phillies' asking price for him is steep, as it should be. Many saw Boston as the frontrunner to pry Lee from the Phils, but in the end it sounds like the asking price (Xander Bogaerts perhaps?) was too high, so the Sox moved on to Plan B and the Phillies were left with little hope of a monster return for their most valuable trade asset.
Bogaerts wasn't going anywhere for many of the same reasons that Domonic Brown was never available when the Phillies were hunting for aces of their own over the past five years. Prospects of that ilk are rarely moved, regardless of the stakes, and especially when surrendering them also requires picking up a $70 million tab in the process. Assuming Bogaerts, or even Jackie Bradley Jr., were the sticking points in negotiations with the Sox, it is safe to say that any team hoping to acquire Lee's services today will have to submit an offer that blows Amaro away. Which leads to the question, has Amaro set the bar for Lee too high?
Trading established stars for prospects is risky business. No one knows that better than Amaro, who has acquired Lee, Roy Halladay and Roy Oswalt in recent years for packages that have yet to yield much at the major league level. He also traded Lee before the 2010 season for a haul bad enough that he's since admitted it was a mistake. But in the Phillies current situation, that shouldn't be an argument not to move Lee. Quite simply, that is because one could argue the risk of not trading him is greater than the risk of again moving him for a flawed return.
This is not to suggest that the Phillies dump Cliff Lee. Amaro should be asking for the moon for him. What he shouldn't be doing is refusing to move the lefthander if he doesn't get it. While his contract may prohibit the Phillies from acquiring top 10 MLB prospects, Lee can still undoubtedly fetch an impressive package. This Phillies team, with Lee, is going nowhere fast and he is their most coveted asset. Without a youth infusion, they're going to be right back here next year – stuck between bad and good with a farm system too weak to get the arrow pointing skyward.
Sure, with a huge TV deal looming, the Phillies have bottomless pockets. But free agency has changed. Teams have smartened up, locking up their stars young and leaving the free agent market with only a few aging impact players per offseason, sure to get drastically overpaid due to supply and demand (think Josh Hamilton and Albert Pujols). There are still deals to be found for under-the-radar types, but let's face it, this Phillies team, as currently constructed, needs to add elite talent, and a lot of it, if it wants to return to contention. Let's pretend it's a perfect world, and the Phillies stand pat and then land Shin-Soo Choo and Matt Garza this offseason. Does that get them to the playoffs? Not in my eyes, and that is in a perfect world.
With that in mind, isn't holding onto everyone (except Michael Young presumably) – and in turn assuring themselves of mediocrity – riskier than taking a chance on a very-good-but-not-great package for Lee? Or, for that matter, for any aging player on their roster with value?
Look at what the Rays did with James Shields this offseason. They knew they had little hope to keep a pitcher like him after his deal expired in 2014, so they capitalized on his value and landed top prospect Wil Myers, who has an OPS of .900 and has been pivotal to their rise to the top of the AL East. The teams and situations are very different – Lee won't fetch a Wil Myers and the Phillies have plenty of money – but the rudimentary philosophy is similar. The innovative Rays recognized their situation, and acted accordingly. The Phillies should learn from an organization much smarter than they are, and do the same.
Regardless of the haul the Phils would get for Lee, it'd be impossible to predict the outcome on the spot. Sometimes teams get burnt, like the Phils did with Curt Schilling. Sometimes teams get immediate returns, as we saw this year with the Rays and Myers and the Brewers with Jean Segura (acquired in the Zack Greinke deal). And sometimes, as Jonathan Villar showed us last night, it can be somewhere in between.
What isn't impossible to predict, is that the only way this team will return to relevance anytime soon is for the front office to get creative. Improving the farm system by moving valuable-but-aging assets, and then spending the money saved intelligently in free agency (the opposite of giving a closer $50 million) qualifies as creative. Stubbornly refusing to recognize that your roster is flawed, and doing nothing, does not. Maybe Amaro can keep everyone and pull a rabbit out of his hat and we'll be talking playoffs a year from now, but I wouldn't put my money on it. Would you?
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No I wouldn't put my money on it either. My only disagreement with your article is that patience is THE key negotiation tool. July 31st is not the end of the world. If they feel teams are low balling them for their tradable assets, they simply should not make deals at this time.
Speaking of time, there is plenty of it after today. "Revocable" or "trade assignment" waivers start tomorrow. Passing through the teams that can't afford a high priced vet is not as hard as it may seem. You can get to the team you originally wanted to make a deal with but maybe felt they didn't offer enough. Maybe thy change there minds, or our FO does, and a trade can still happen. Or if you still don't like the deal, you pull "said player" off waivers.
Then comes the offseason and players no longer need to pass through waivers to be traded again. Then FA's are available and Rule 5 guys can be taken. "Take it slow or take it easy" was a common way of saying goodbye to someone for a while. It was meant as a warm sentiment. It's a good sentiment today as well. We all know things need fixing, but it doesn't always happen in one day, take it slow. Like a good hitter waiting for a pitcher to make a mistake.
I share your fear that Amaro doesn't recognize the reality of the team.
But that said, waiting too long to pull the trigger on Papelbon (if that is what happened, and we don't know if there were even any legitimate offers made) doesn't serve as a reason to jump the gun on Lee. They should not be making deals just for the sake of avoiding "doing nothing," unless the player is soemone (lke Young) who will be gone anyway after the season.
Wow, this is a brutal article. Brutal.
One other problem: Even if you pony up to get a top FA OF, like Ellsbury or Choo….with Asche at third, you are entirely too left handed. Only Rollins, and whatever catcher you bring in would be RH. It's a crazy corner this team is painted in….they can't even afford to pony up for a really good FA to help contend, even if they have the cash.
I completely agree with you on this, i think that if Ruben was not able to get an elite prospect he should have tried to get a couple great prospects. The Red Sox have tons of pitching and honestly I think the Phillies could have ended up with a deal around Owens, Ranaudo, Workman, Brentz and a PTBNL. That type of a deal would have left the Sox with their top 3 prospects and given the Phillies a lot of help in the rotation and Brentz would have become a good RF. I am also concerned with durability and health long term for Lee, look at what happened to Halladay its conceivable that Lee could have issues too. Final thought in 3 years would you rather have a 37 year old Lee or 3 potential starting pitchers and a RF?
Alex, what you think and what was actually put in play are most likely two entirely different things.
No what I was saying was Ruben should have been more open to getting prospects other than Bogaerts and Bradley. He was asking for Xander, Bradley, Workman and Iglesias, if I were the Sox I would have turned that down to. And the prospects I mentioned are ones that I like but the point was he could have gotten 4 or 5 good prospects and helped to rebuild the system. Clearly we need to fire Ruben because he does not know how to make trades period.
Once again, you're speculating. Certainly the Phils wanted more than the Sox or any other team would have given up. The first rule of negotiation is to overshoot what you'll settle for. But none of us knows where the compromise point might have been. It's quite likely that Amaro was willing to take less, but Boston decided to go in a different direction before an agreement could be fully negotiated. It's also possible that they had no real intention of trading for Lee in the first place; they could have been tire-kicking only. Since last year they've been subtracting large contracts, not adding them.
Really agree with this. I will add, rather than garza I think the better FA option this offseason would be to win the posting on Japanese pitcher Masahiro Tanaka. He'll be 25, has put up #s similar to Darvish in the pacific league, throw 91-93 with a plus slider and good command. Might cost similar to Darvish altogether ($100+ million) but gives you a durable #2 type through the prime of his career which I'd perfer to matt garza who's had trouble staying healthy recently and has had some elbow scares already.
They need to start trading missed opportunity with the red Sox,I don't wanna trade Lee but if we could have gotten prospects and salary relief even if we didn't get xander that's a big screw up on rubes part… not to mention Garcia is gone from the tigers so papelbon to the tigers is likely all over with even if there wasn't much chance before there is 0 now…
Time to can amaro, it's been obvious from day one this team needed to sell and he still is standing pat, real smart Ruben
People who want salary relief seemingly haven't noticed the lack of decent free agents this offseason that can be signed with all that saved cash.
Sorry, folks, but I'm feeling really contrary today. I don't particularly care for being told by various and sundry "fans" that the best player on the team right now should be traded for some vague "package" before the team is doomed, or that the trade deadline means the end of the world.
Lee is a valuable commodity. If you can't get what you need for him, you keep him. He's not going to hurt the team by being an Allstar, and he might even help keep the Phils from being a 3rd place team next year. AAA prospects might not even be ready by 2014, and where would the team be then?
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I think Marla Hooch and All the Way May straight up for Lee would be ideal.. think about it.. Marla brings revenue to the phillies with her amazing looks and body ( TV and Jersey Sales!!) .. All the way may is a great club house girl who can teach the younger ones how to perform on and off the field.. thoughts?
What about Kit Keller and Mae Mordabito? Pretty sure coach Dugan was refering to those two when he said that girls were what you sleep with after the game. Not Marla Hooch!
Can we just remove Cliff Lee and Chase Utley from these unending discussions on trading them? There must be almost a million words on the different blogs about trading Cliff Lee over the last year and a half. The truth is that the Phillies need a couple of very good and very popular players for fans to watch while they rebuild. And it simply isn't at all true that the only way they can rebuild is to trade Cliff Lee. It never comes down to one player except in the minds of some posters.
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Great article Alex, two points on why I think keeping Lee is a good idea:
First: Trading Cliff Lee has historically not worked out for the team he leaves. Each time he was traded, Cle-Phi-Sea-Tex-Phi the team sending Lee didn't receive squat in return. Remember when the Indians demanded Carasco in return for Lee? He now has a 17 ERA in the minors. WOOF!
Second: I wouldn't overlook the value of Cliff Lee mentoring our younger pitchers. Cliff Lee has continuously been promoted as a great mentor, this is an invaluable addition to our team.
Good thoughts, but Lee really didn't sign here to be a $25 million secondary pitching coach. He had expectations of pitching for a perennial contender. Judging by some of his quotes this season, he doesn't sound like he's enjoying the current state of the organization. Will he eventually approach management and ask to get out of here like Schilling did? It wouldn't surprise me.
I still think we can be a contender just got to get a little creative. Any team can be a contender as long as you get the lucky breaks and have the right team chemistry. Imagine if Doc didnt tear his rotator cuff, if Howard was just healthy, if Revere didnt get hurt.
You never know. i say keep Charlie. I dont trust Sandberg there is a reason why he still hasnt become a manager and Bo Porter is a manager and Robin Ventura became a manager.
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Same as VLC for Windows, OS X, and various Linux/Unix flavors, VLC for Android promises to play every audio and video format in every container… ever. For now hardware decoding is experimental, so one would need a fairly beefy device to do software decoding, especially for HD video formats. Contrary to its full-fledged-OS brethren, VLC for Android also features a media library and touch gesture controls, as expected from a portable application. Network video streaming is also supported, which comes in mighty handy when one wishes to have one's whole movie collection in one's hand.
My favorite Android video player, MX Player, just ditched DTS audio support due to licensing issues, and – to the best of my knowledge – no Android player so far supports newfangled Hi10P video. For these two issues alone I'm looking forward to VLC.
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Mr. Barrientez was born June 19, 1939 in Runge to Juan Barrientez and Maria (Salinas) Barrientez. He married Antonia "Toni" (Cantu) Barrientez July 20, 1957.
Survivors include his wife Toni; daughter, Rose Marie (Larry) Ranem of Anchorage, Alaska, son, Jaime Barrientez of Houston and daughter, Delia Escobar of Houston; 9 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren; brothers, David Barrientez of Petersburg, Ernest Barrientez of Hobbs, NM and John Barrientez of Karnes City; and sisters Margie Trinidad and Yolanda Villa of Robert Lee.
Mr. Barrientez was preceded in death by his parents; daughter, Sandy Barrientez; son, Joe Luis Barrientez and by two grandchildren, Ryan Escobar and Rachel Elizabeth Ranem and his brother, Reynaldo Francisco Barrientez.
Visitation was held Wednesday, March 28 at 3 p.m. at Rhodes Funeral Home. A rosary was recited at 7 p.m. that evening.
A funeral service was held Thursday, March 29 at 10 a.m. at St. Cornelius Catholic Church.
Burial followed at the Karnes City Latin Cemetery.
Pallbearers were David Cruz, Ruben Taylor, Luke Ranem, Jake Ranem, Zach Escobar, Julian Barrientez, Eric Barrientez and Josh Escobar. Funeral arrangements entrusted to Rhodes Funeral Home.


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6-13-09 PNC Park
I had been in a slump over the past two days, botching or missing opportunities on 9 balls. Usually, when players go into slumps, they break out of it in a big way. That's what happened to me today.
I was the first one into the bleacher area. I was looking for Easter Eggs, but couldn't find any. Just then, I noticed a ball roll into foul territory and up against the fence near the handicapped seats in foul territory.
As I got to the spot, I noticed a ball in this somewhat creepy hallway.
I quickly grabbed ball #1, caught a glimpse of something at the end of the hallway, and made my way to the field area to grab the ball that originally brought me into foul ground.
Someone had left this utility fence open,
After a few fly balls, he turned and flipped a ball, no-look style, into the crowd. Most of the people around didn't see it at first. I did, and grabbed ball #10. Double digits. Ballpark domination.
I caught ball #11 on one of Van Slyke's over hit fly balls. I had to stand up on a bleacher to catch the ball. I had tied my pe
rsonal record.
Then, some d-bag came and said, "Alright, you've got your share. I'm going to shut you down. I need one for my son. See Jimmy, I've got him boxed out." I just stared at the guy. He was some 5'7″ guy wearing a yellow Pirates shirt, and he didn't even have a glove. I stared right at him. He had no chance against me. I'm 6'5″.
His son kept screaming, "Give me the ball!" I was hoping he wouldn't get one.
Soon, Van Slyke over hit another ball. I didn't have to move much, and caught the ball once again, with the assistance of standing on the bleacher, for ball #12.
I made sure to rub the ball up and carefully inspect it in front of the d-bag that was going to "shut me down." He just looked and then moved around me to the other side that I had just caught the ball.
His son then got a ball from Joel Zumaya. It was an International League ball, a minor league ball. The kid started whining and complaining.
I stayed in this area for almost the entire batting practice. A few minutes later, Zumaya started trying to rob home runs. Van Slyke over hit another one. I was right there, catching ball #13 on the fly. At this point I could hear people around me whispering, "How many is that for that guy?"
Zumaya and Jackson took their home run robbing act a bit over into left field and away from the 410 sign near the bullpen, where I had just snagged those 4 balls. I was going to follow them, but it was insanely crowded.
Seriously, I've never seen a batting practice this crowded at PNC Park.
Not even on opening day was it this crowded during batting practice. I'm used to having an entire row open to my left and right, so I can have some range. There would be none of that today.
Batting practice ended a few minutes later. I tried to get balls during the game, but it wasn't happening.
There was a near sell out crowd. Over 31,000 were in attendance.
The left field bleachers were packed.
The center field and right field seats were packed.
Heck, the whole stadium was packed.
Which is something we're not used to here in Pittsburgh.
I left after the 5th inning to get some dessert for my wife and I.
Here's a look at today's baseballs:
And the sweet spots:
Top performances at PNC Park: (double digits)
1) 13 Erik J 6-13-09
2) 11 Erik J 4-21-09
2) 11 Matt G 9-20-08
3) 10 Bryan P 6-1-09?
3) 10 Erik J 5-5-09
Game: 13 Balls (12 hit, 1 thrown)
Season: 174 Balls (84 hit, 67 thrown, 24 device)
Games: 33 Games (4 of which didn't have BP)
Average: 5.27 Balls per Game
Career: 340 Balls
Attendance: 31,411
Competition Factor: 408,343
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Hey 13 is a really great day.
I was at this game, I got 3 balls, you might have seen me at gates before they opened, I was wearin' a white Pirates t-shirt, and in the bleachers when I switched into my white Tigers shirt.
Erik, congratulations on now holding the snagging record at PNC Park! (as far as you know). After reading about the guy that tried to sabotage your continued streak, I chuckled a bit, being 6'5″ myself and always having the "little man syndrome" guy stand next to me, trying to prevent me from further "domination." I truly hate that too my friend. If you push yourself, I believe #500 could definitely be reached this season brotha! Good luck!
– Donnie
13 wow thats great I was at the game it was an awesome game I always look for you when I go and I finally saw you there were so many people there though I got one ball from Sean Burnett and I almost got a 2nd from him but it was just out of my reach smashed my knuckle and made me bleed I felt like an idiot
Jim D


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Also in FreeBSD Basics:
In last week's article, we viewed a PC's BIOS partition table and its Unix partition table using the
fdisk and
disklabel utilities. Let's continue this week by looking at the
newfs utility and
inode tables. The
newfs utility actually formats your slice with the filesystems you previously specified with the
disklabel utility. Let's start by taking a closer look at formatting and filesystems in general so we can gain a better appreciation of
There are two types of hard-drive formatting. When you purchased your hard drive, it most likely was already "low level" formatted for you by the manufacturer. Low-level formatting creates the tracks and sectors on the drive; the intersection of these tracks and sectors creates the units of storage known as physical blocks, which are 512 bytes in size.
The second type of formatting is called "high-level" formatting. This type of formatting installs a particular file system onto a slice of your physical drive using a utility such as DOS's
format or FreeBSD's
newfs. Some examples of file systems are FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, and FFS. Different file systems may vary in performance, but they usually have two features in common:
They require some type of table to map block addresses to the files contained within the blocks
They may also use a "logical" block addressing scheme to try to optimize read/write performance
Let's pretend you're a file system for a moment. Your goal is to quickly store (write) and find (read) data given the following physical limitations:
So, how many storage blocks do you have on your cylinder?
255 * 63 = 16,065
If you put one file in each storage block, you can save up to 16,065 files. If you create a table for yourself and number it from 1 to 16,065, you can simply record the name of each file next to a free number as you save the file to the block represented by that number. If you delete a file, you have to remember to remove its name from your table. If you want to move a file, you can look it up in your table, erase it from the old location, and write its name next to its new block number. You would also quickly learn that you didn't have to go to all the trouble of physically moving a file from one storage block to another storage block; it is much easier to simply change the entry for that file in your table.
In its simplest form, this is how all file systems keep track of your files. If this was a Unix file system, that table would be called the inode table.
Unfortunately, simplicity results in lousy hard disk usage. The ability to save files in 512-byte storage units would be great if every file created by users was 512 bytes in size. But, as you know, files vary greatly in size, from just a few bytes to several kilobytes.
Still thinking as a file system, how would you save a file that was 10 bytes in size? If you simply place this file by itself into a storage block, you've wasted 412 bytes of hard disk space. Save enough small files, and you end up wasting a lot of your disk space. What would happen if you saved 16,065 one-byte files? You would use up all your blocks with 16,065 bytes worth of data. Even though there may be several MB of disk space on your cylinder, you have run out of the blocks to place files into. This is called running out of inodes (or inode table entries), and it is not a good thing.
Continuing to think like a filesystem, it would make sense not to devote an entire physical block to one small file. However, you now have to re-think how you're going to organize your table to deal with the fact that there may be more than one file in a block. If you simply start stuffing in as many files as will fit into a 512-byte block, how are you going to keep track of where one file ends and another file begins? What if you remove a 10-byte file and replace it with an 8-byte file -- how will you keep track of that extra two bytes in case you want to stuff in two more 1-byte files? You should be able to see that such a scheme would quickly become unworkable.
Most filesystems use the concept of "fragments." A fragment is a logical division of a block. Each fragment will be assigned an address so it can have an entry in the filesystem table. As a simple example, a filesystem may choose to divide each physical block into four "fragments." This effectively multiplies your number of blocks by four while reducing the block size by four. For example, if you started with 16,065 physical blocks that were each 512 bytes in size, a fragment size of 4 would give you 64,260 logical blocks that were each 128 bytes in size. Each fragment can be treated as a storage block and only store one file, meaning the table now has 64,260 entries, but you still don't have to worry about about keeping track of multiple files per logical storage unit.
Now let's look at the other end of the scale. What happens if you need to store files larger than your physical or logical block size? You're obviously going to need to use more than one block to store that file. Pretend you need to save a 1,000-byte file. This will require two physical blocks (512 * 2), so you will need to make two entries in your table for this one file. You'll also have to re-think how you are going to make those entries, as order is now important. It's not enough to know that this file lives in, say, blocks 3 and 4; you also need to know that the first 512 bytes of that file lives in block 3, and the remainder of that file lives in block 4.
If you are a filesystem that chose to use fragments, your job is actually harder when you need to save a large file. If you save that same 1,000-byte file with a fragment size of 4, you'll have to make eight entries in your table and ensure that you remember which order to keep those eight entries in.
Up to this point, we've only looked at the considerations for saving or writing files. Another important consideration for a filesystem is its read performance. The whole point of saving files to disk in the first place is so that users can access files when they need to. In order for a user to access a file, the filesystem must find out which block or blocks that file has been stored in, and then copy the contents of those disk blocks to RAM so the user can actually manipulate the data within the file.
There are several things a filesystem can do to increase read performance. One is to actually increase the logical block size, meaning that several physical blocks are grouped together into one large virtual block. When a user wishes to access a file that is contained on a physical block, the entire virtual block is loaded into RAM. This saves a lot of transferring of individual blocks from disk to RAM and then back to disk. If several blocks have already been pre-loaded into RAM, it is quite likely that all the data that user required was transferred to RAM in one transfer.
Let's see if we can summarize the considerations of a file system:
Now, let's see how this applies to FreeBSD. When you use
newfs, you are formatting your slice with FFS, or the Berkeley Fast File System. Let's take a peek at the manpage for
newfs to see what the defaults are for this file system:
man 8 newfs
We're interested in some of the switches; let's start with the
b switch:
|The block size of the file system, in bytes. It must be a power of 2. The default size is 8192 bytes, and the smallest allowable size is 4096 bytes.
Notice that this is the block size for the file system; the physical block size is always 512 bytes. 8192 bytes is actually 16 physical blocks, so this switch deals with the virtual block size or how many blocks are loaded into RAM at once. Remember that this is done to increase read performance and is one of the reasons why FFS is "fast."
Now let's look at the
f switch:
|The fragment size of the file system in bytes. It must be a power of two ranging in value between blocksize/8 and blocksize. The default is 1024 bytes.
FFS uses fragments, but it fragments the virtual block size, not the physical block size. The default fragment size is actually two physical blocks or 1024 bytes. Now the
i switch:
|number of bytes per inode
|Specify the density of inodes in the file system. The default is to create an inode for every (4 * frag-size) bytes of data space. If fewer inodes are desired, a larger number should be used; to create more inodes a smaller number should be given. One inode is required for each distinct file, so this value effectively specifies the average file size on the file system.
By default, there is one inode for every 4048 bytes worth of disk space and every file requires its own inode number. Since an inode represents the storage unit for one file, this default assumes an average file size of 4048 bytes.
There are two other switches worth mentioning at this point, as they affect the read/write performance of the FFS filesystem. The first one is the
m switch:
|free space %
|The percentage of space reserved from normal users; the minimum free space threshold. The default value used is defined by
MINFREE from
<ufs/ffs/fs.h>, currently 8%. See
tunefs(8) for more details on how to set this option.
All filesystems suffer when you start to get low on available storage blocks. Filesystems like to store files from the same directory in contiguous (next to each other) blocks; this gets harder to do as the number of available blocks decreases and the filesystem has to start searching for empty blocks. The designers of
FFS noticed that performance drastically decreases when a filesystem gets around 90% full. When a filesystem reaches the default free space threshold (8%), meaning the filesystem is 92% full, it won't let regular users save any more files. Instead the users will receive an error message and will probably start complaining to the administrator to rectify the situation. The superuser will still be able to save files and use up the remaining blocks, but his time would be better spent in coming up with a plan to save the filesystem before it runs out of storage blocks.
The second switch that deals with free space is the
o switch:
|optimization preference
|("space" or "time") The file system can either be instructed to try to minimize the time spent allocating blocks, or to try to minimize the space fragmentation on the disk. If the value of
minfree (see above) is less than 8%, the default is to optimize for space; if the value of
minfree is greater than or equal to 8%, the default is to optimize for time. See
tunefs(8) for more details on how to set this option.
Most filesystems use an algorithm to determine which blocks should be used to store which files. This switch tells the FFS algorithm to optimize itself for speed or "time." However, when the filesystem meets the
minfree threshhold, finding free blocks or "space" becomes much more important than speed.
From the default parameters, you can see that the FFS has been optimized for speed, while still creating a fair number of inodes to record where files have been stored. For most installations, the default values will be fine; in later articles, we'll look more in-depth on how to determine if the default values are not sufficient for your system and what to do about it.
At this point, you've probably learned more about filesystems than you care to admit. Let's take a break until next week when we take a look at cylinder groups, superblocks, and what type of information is actually recorded in an inode entry.
Dru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, author and international speaker. She has over a decade of experience administering and teaching Netware, Microsoft, Cisco, Checkpoint, SCO, Solaris, Linux, and BSD systems. A prolific author, she pens the popular FreeBSD Basics column for O'Reilly and is author of BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics.
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Man without a countryDecember 20,2013
In December 1863, exactly 150 years ago, The Atlantic published a short story by Edward Everett Hale, the nephew of Edward Everett, the distinguished orator whose two-hour speech preceded Lincolns two-minute masterpiece, the Gettysburg Address. The story proved immensely popular in the North.
Titled The Man Without a Country, its the fictional story of Philip Nolan, an Army lieutenant tried for treason as Aaron Burrs accomplice. (In fact, former Vice President Burr had been tried for treason in 1807 but acquitted.) The fictional story is more compelling for being presented as if it were fact, with references to specific dates, events and documents. I read this patriotic story in middle school during the Vietnam War and amidst the patriotic and anti-patriotic passions of that day. What I didnt know then was that the story is a pro-Union allegory examining the conflicting themes of love of country and rejection of ones country that were being played out in the Civil War when it was published.
In the story, Nolan is asked during his trial if he had anything to say that would prove his loyalty to the United States. Shouting, he condemns the United States and declares, I wish I may never hear of the United States again! The courtroom is shocked, and the judge sentences him to ...never hear the name of the United States again.
Nolan spends the rest of his life on American naval warships, never again setting foot in the United States his newspapers censored, books referencing the U.S. banned, and sailors prohibited from mentioning the United States in his presence.
While initially unrepentant, Nolan grows over the years more sad and more desirous of any word about his former country. In one of the storys more poignant episodes, literary critic Randall Fuller writes, the banished man takes his turn reading poetry to a gathering of sailors. Unwittingly, he selects the fifth canto of Sir Walter Scotts long poem The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Nolan begins to recite ... without a thought of what was coming. He reads,
Breathes there a man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said ...
This is my own, my native land!
Realizing how much he has lost, Nolan is unable to continue reading.
Later, he tells a young sailor not to make the mistake he made, but to remember his country and remember that you belong to her as you belong to your mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother ...!
As he is dying, Nolan shows the storys narrator his private cabin, a little shrine of patriotism that includes an American flag draped around a portrait of George Washington. The narrator, knowing that Nolan is on his deathbed, tells him everything (he) could think that would show the grandeur of his country and its prosperity. And because the narrator cant bring himself to tell him about the Civil War then underway, Nolan, not knowing about the infernal rebellion, dies contented.
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Firm's Recall Hotline: (800) 601-8418CPSC Recall Hotline: (800) 638-2772CPSC Media Contact: Patty Davis, (301) 504-7908Easy Bake Media Contact: Gail Carvelli, (401) 727-5318
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should immediately take the recalled oven away from children under 8 years of age and contact the firm for a retrofit with warning.
Name of product: Easy-Bake Ovens
Units: About 985,000
Manufacturer: Easy-Bake, a division of Hasbro, Inc., of Pawtucket, R.I.
Hazard: Young children can insert their hands into the oven's opening and get their hands or fingers caught, posing an entrapment and burn hazard.
Incidents/Injuries: Easy-Bake has received 29 reports of children getting their hands or fingers caught in the oven's opening, including five reports of burns.
Description: The Easy-Bake Oven is a purple and pink plastic oven that resembles a kitchen range with four burners on top and a front-loading oven. "Easy Bake" is printed on the front of the oven. Model number 65805 and "Hasbro" are stamped into the plastic on the back of the oven. The Easy Bake Oven is an electric toy and is not recommended for children under eight years of age. Ovens sold before May 2006 are not included in this recall.
Sold at: Toys R Us, Wal-Mart, Target, KB Toys and other retailers nationwide from May 2006 through February 2007 for about $25.
Manufactured in: China
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The claim is that all religions have their miracles, so what makes Christianity's miracles true and other religions' false?
- Not all religious teach miracles and the Jewish-Christian religions are the only traditions that claim to prove its teachings through miracles.
- In all cases of miracles, no miracles have the historical evidence like the gospel miracles.
- Christianity's miracles are religiously significant. Jesus' miracles occurred at the climax of his unparalleled life.
- Religio-historical context distinguishes miracles from physical anomalies. When a scientific anomaly occurs it is usually assumed that some unknown natural factors are interfering, so that the law is neither violated nor revised.


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From the Romantic poetry of Blake, Shelley and Keats to the Victorian novels of Dickens, Eliot and the Brontë sisters, and beyond to fin de siècle works by Wilde, explore 55 of the most famous works of literature from 1780–1901.
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A Christmas CarolCreated by: Charles Dickens
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'A Red, Red Rose'Created by: Robert Burns
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February 3, 2012 —
"The resolution came about because the legislators heard the public and they wanted to respond." That was how lawmaker Ira Steingart, chair of the Community and Economic Development Committee introduced a resolution dealing with the Sullivan County Visitors Association (SVCA) on February 2. The resolution supersedes another resolution passed the previous week, which called for immediately issuing a request for proposals (RFP) from interested nonprofit organizations to promote tourism in the county.
That resolution sparked an uproar from some of the 300 members of the SCVA because of the timing of the RFP, and because of issues related to transparency. The new resolution calls for the county to sign a new contract with SCVA which will run until the end of the year. The county will issue and RFP in August, and a new contract will be awarded either to SCVA or some competing organization at the beginning of the new year.
Over the past 12 years, the SCVA has built up the membership of the organization from 100 to 300 members, and one concern about the proposed RFP was whether the members would automatically sign up with the new nonprofit organization, should the approximately $750,000 in room tax generated be awarded to an organization other than SCVA.
Also, some wondered if issuing an RFP for tourism services every year, with the possibility of changing the organization that promotes tourism every year, was the best way to go. Perhaps because of that, those responding to the RFP in the fall will have the option of submitting a single-year or multi-year plan.
A difference year may be the percentage of the room tax SCVA will receive. State law requires that a nonprofit tourism agency receive at least 85% of the revenues from the room tax to be used to promote tourism. For 2011, the legislature had decided to give SCVA 100% of the revenue because they had determined that provided a good return on investment. But it's not yet clear if the new legisalture will stay with that policy, or will decide to keep 15% of the revenue, which it is permitted under the law, to pay for "administrative costs."
After the vote on the new resolution, lawmaker Gene Benson said to the Roberta Byron-Lockwood, president and CEO of SCVA, "I would like to see a copy of SCVA's expense records, so the taxpayers know where that money is going."
Byron-Lockwood responded that she would be glad to respond with any records he wanted to see. County manager David Fanslau said SCVA is audited every year, and the audit for 2010, which was received in June of 2011, was available for Benson to review.
According to SCVA figures, visitor spending in the county for 2010, was $345 million, which generated almost $21 million in local taxes and about $21 million in state taxes.
At the end of the meeting, Jill Wiener, a board member of SCVA, thanked the committee for passing the new resolution. The full board will vote on it at the monthly meeting on February 16, and it is expected to pass.


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This is the first in a series of reviews rounding up the Lens Metrics Scores on 35mm primes for Canon, Nikon and Sony. We start by looking at options for Canon EF, and with several own brand and 3rd-party options on the market, there are plenty of choices available. Ranging in price from $320 to $1843, however, it's tough to decide which one is best for you. So let's take a closer look at image quality, features and value for money to help you decide.
Canon's EF 35mm f2 has been around for quite a while, launched in late 1990, 22 years ago, it predates digital photography as we know it. Does this matter? Apparently not, this small, old, cheap lens continues to be a worthwhile piece of equipment, albeit on a rather basic level, but in this age of super-zoom lenses, this light, compact workhorse is worth looking at. Here are the DxOMark test results, while waiting for those of the new version of the Canon EF 35mm f / 2 IS USM released last November.
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The Carturra is casual styling at its best with simple lines, sculpting, and shaping that accentuate the characteristics of the solid mango and rubber wood. A defining feature is the oval scoop around the serpentine pulls in an antique bronze finish. The finishing touch is a rich chocolate finish and a soft sheen throughout the collection. The Caturra will be a desirable addition to any casual decor.
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The consumption-oriented upshift indicator A in the tachometer at the right beside the digital speed display helps you to develop a fuel-saving driving style.
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text: I'm the first-time mom of a six week old little girl. She has been a great nurser from the start, but at her first pediatrician appt (3 days), the pediatrician recommended I supplement because she had not had a wet or dirty diaper since leaving the hospital and her weight was down (not quite down 10%, but close). I should have just trusted my body, but instead panicked and we started formula feeding that night. I'm afraid supplementing that early messed up my supply, and no matter what I do now I can't get my supply up and have continued ff ever since. I have been seeing a LC weekly, have taken fenugreek, blessed thistle, alfalfa, reglin, pump like crazy. I can only pump an ounce during a good pumping (and that's every 2 hours or so), which I know is not representative of how much she takes in, but it means I can't build up a reserve. And when I feed her, even in the mornings when my supply is higher, I nurse both sides for 30-45 minutes total and she usually wails because she is still hungry. Not sure how else to increase my supply. I know that every ounce of formula she gets is an ounce my body isn't producing, but I don't know how to increase my supply by nursing more without starving my baby. LC is sort of out of ideas. And so am I. Help!


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Kevin James brings on 'The Boom' in more ways than one
Comedy star brings MMA reality to film with help of Bas Rutten
Kevin James lowers the boom on a serious problem that's been plaguing America for years with the shortage of education funding in "Here Comes the Boom" -- but in the comedian's unique style, he proves once again that you can address important issues in an entertaining way.
Opening in theaters Friday, the film stars James as Scott Voss -- a complacent high school teacher who suddenly finds purpose in life as he takes up a side gig in mixed martial arts (MMA) in order to raise enough money to save his music teacher friend's (Henry Winkler) job.
Think "Warrior" meets "Mr. Holland's Opus" and you've got "Here Comes the Boom." The big bonus you get here, though, is laughter.
"Comedy is a great way to bring people together so you can bring up points like this," James told me in a recent interview. "(The movie has this) aspirin in the applesauce type of thing where you've got serious problems with these schools and the funding and all that, but also it points out bad teachers and great teachers not being recognized enough. That's also what the film is about -- about becoming the best version of yourself and not settling with being complacent in your life or your job, or whatever it may be."
James, who had for years wanted to do a film about the inner-workings of MMA, said "Here Comes the Boom" gave him a unique opportunity to do just that -- and better yet, it works on more than one level.
"In this movie, we go to such an extreme with the fighting, but it's really just a metaphor for whatever obstacles people have in their lives," James said.
Taking one (or 100) for the team
James said a few punches as were landed for real when he was making "Here Comes the Boom" -- and he was the unfortunate beneficiary of them. But, the comedian insisted, they were worth it.
"The most frustrating ones were the ones where you get clocked in the face really bad, and they say, 'I'm sorry, we didn't get that. The camera missed that one. Can we do it again?' so we had to do it again," James deadpanned.
"But in training with these guys, and you get in there and the adrenaline gets pumping and they yell, 'Action!' it becomes like a mini fight -- well, maybe not for the fighters, because they're rolling around and trying to do the right thing," James added. "I feel bad for them because they're trying not to hurt me, but it did happen (that I got hit for real). It happened all the time. But it lends reality to it."
James, who co-wrote "Here Comes the Boom," said while the idea of the film was clearly inspired by his co-star, MMA great Bas Rutten, he wanted to showcase his friend for his skills as an actor, and not necessarily as a fighter.
Rutten plays Niko, a former MMA fighter whom Voss tutors for his American citizenship test. In exchange, Niko helps Voss get in shape for his MMA matches.
"I always wanted to work Bas in a way that was different," James said. "With most fighters, people put them in a movie and say, 'Oh, there's that fighter' or he's just playing a tough guy or a goon. But I know Bas has the ability to play a character. He's always had such a unique, charismatic way about him that I wanted to use. As much as I'm doing this for him, he's doing it for me because it's making my movie better."
On the flip side, Rutten told me that he was thrilled that James wanted to do a movie about the sport he's so passionate about.
"It's the fastest -growing sport in the world, and certainly in America for the past four years, People are just intrigued," explained Rutten, who joined James for the interview. "And what is there not to like? There are so many ways you can win in it and so many ways you can lose. You need to be good in everything and excel in everything. In the Olympics, you train for one sport, whether it's Judo, wrestling or boxing or Taekwondo. Here you take all four sports and put them together, and you have mixed martial arts."
Rutten said what he especially loves about MMA is that it just as much takes smarts to win as it does physicality.
"I believe there was a study at one time that said that 69 or 70 percent of the fighters have a college education, which is pretty high," Rutten said. "I totally believe that you need to be smart. I see it with my gym every day. I have 30 new sign-ups a month and 25 don't make it to the next month. People come in and say, 'I can scrap,' but then they realize it's not what it is. It's way harder."
James agreed that there's much more to MMA fighters than being the "best conditioned athletes on the planet."
"MMA is really a chess match to them. They have to mentally up their game and know what the other guy is thinking," James observed. "One guy could come along and is a Jujitsu guy or Taekwondo guy, and the next one to come along could be a Muay Thai guy -- or then a great wrestler could come along, or a guy who's great with his fists and boxing. That's what's exciting about this sport. There are so many aspects to it that you have to get good at."
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It has been a while since getting to max level took me completely by surprise.
Last night I threw my well-considered 'let's do this by zone' levelling plan out of the window. I deliberately ignored half-done quest lines in both Karasang and Kun-Lai and instead decided to get swayed entirely by shinies. Having seen the start of the Klaxxi questline in the Dread Wastes, and having picked up a Ghostcrawler tweet telling me Dread Wastes quest rewards would help in my push to get heroically-geared, off I went. My ding caught me completely by surprise, as I was totally engrossed in the plot of the zone.
I have to admit, I have no idea what ilevel I need for Heroics, and at this point I'm not really getting too stressed at throwing myself into anything until I can get my head around the sheer number of blue !'s that suddenly appeared when 90 ticked over. I ignored the Quest hub completely in the VoEB, instead going first to the Lorewalkers to hand in my Pristine Artifacts and pick up the 'solve a dig' quest and then over to my farm. As expected, my 'Discover Valley of the Four Winds' achievement co-incided with me picking up the dailies for the Tillers, all on a completely separate level (only accessible with flying) It seems quite clear from my cursory zoom around very early this morning that the dailies seem to take advantage of height as well as mobs that are, at least for me, a challenge to kill in the way I've been used to. A lot is going to change I suspect now I'm maxxed.
|Pet team needs work too... :D
I've not looked at pet battles since late last week. The only thing I'm selling atm is Living Steel while it still commands 1000g a bar (though last night I did stick some of my bag stockpile up to have it sell almost immediately) I'm doing my best to get as many people farming as possible but STILL I don't have all the alts in place doing this because, quite frankly, this has become the Mother of all Time Sinks. Having too much to do is fantastic after so much time with nothing but the problem inevitably is finding the ability to sort everything when I have an awful lot of Real Life with a greater priority. Today I have decided, I'm going to FINALLY get myself to a position where everyone is farming, where I have enough raw materials to support a couple of days Living Steel/Imperial Silk and where I can feel comfortable that I'm maximising the time I'm NOT online by using gathering resources to the best of their ability.
Once that's done, maybe I can start working out what I need to start running Heroics properly ^^


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President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition
Lets Move in School
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Youth Promise Act - H.R. 1064/S. 435
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It's that time of year and our library has a bunch a good books on hunting, whether you are a beginner or just want to learn about the beautiful Whitetail Deer. (did you know they shed and re-grow their antlers every year? that they are the fastest growing bone in the world? that they chew their cud?)
The Beginner's Guide to Hunting Deer for Food is the most well written. Besides being informative and practical, the author actually makes an ethical argument for the benefits of harvesting meat locally, natural, organic, non-wasteful, and in the most humane way possible. He calls himself a "locavore" and says it the closest thing to being a vegetarian.
Stop by the downtown Central library and check out our other books on deer and hunting. They are arranged by subject, so they're all in the same area.
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WARRIORS OF POSEIDON, Book 1
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WARRIORS OF POSEIDON, Book 3
June, 2009
WARRIORS OF POSEIDON, Book 4
July, 2009
Alexios survived two years of unspeakable torture at the hands of a vampire goddess. Now he's been ordered to team up with a beautiful warrior and take on the most dangerous mission of his life: to retrieve the Vampire's Bane. Without it, Atlantis can't ascend to the surface and take its rightful place in the world. But when evil threatens, will Alexios be led by duty—or his heart?
Grace is part of the rebellion against the vampires and shape-shifters trying to take over her world. She is deadly with her bow, because when she takes aim, she never misses her target. But suddenly she's focused on a damaged Atlantean warrior who sees her as a weapon, not as a woman. When thousands of lives are on the line, will passion overrule, or will her aim still be true?
WARRIORS OF POSEIDON, Book 5
March, 2010
A warrior with no emotion …
Doomed by Poseidon millennia ago to live life bereft of feelings, Atlantean warrior Brennan's curse is shattered when he meets Tiernan--a human with the ancient Gift of Truth Telling. Attraction turns deadly when the woman he could never forget becomes the woman he can never remember. With the fate of Atlantis on the line, will a warrior's uncontrollable desire destroy the world?
Tiernan's job as an investigative reporter is perfectly suited to her unique ability to see through any falsehood. But when she discovers human scientists conducting hideous experiments on humans and shape-shifters alike, only a wildly sexy Atlantean can help protect her from the those determined to see her fail—and die. When the future of the world is at stake, can she overcome death itself so together they can protect mankind?
WARRIORS OF POSEIDON, Book 6
September, 2010
What could Christophe, powerful Warrior of Poseidon, have in common with Fiona Campbell, prim and proper Scottish illustrator of fairytales by day and notorious jewel thief known as the Scarlet Ninja by night? Answer: The Siren, a legendary Crown Jewel that Fiona has targeted for her next heist. It's said to be worth millions, but to Christophe it's invaluable. For the Siren also happens to be one of the missing jewels from Poseidon's trident.
But breaking into the Tower of London is a two-person job, so Christophe and Fiona team up to commit the crime of the century. As newfound passions fire their motives--and cloud their judgment--they realize they aren't the only ones after the priceless gem. A dark force is shadowing their every move, and threatening to shatter their trust with revenge, betrayal, and a haunting revelation about the past.
WARRIORS OF POSEIDON, Book 7
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2013/02/01 Minutes Economics Working Group
Recapture, recover and share the appropriated "bounty" from the Land
Planners program on TV – access rights in respect of adjacent properties. Making a public statement would hit the obstacle of 65% owner occupation and be doomed before it gained currency. Start by agreeing on the foundation of the premise – land is a unique factor of production (capital is derived from land and labour). Too simplistic – owner occupation is relevant. Need definition of terms – value, unique, wealth; Most of the 65% are mortgage slaves. Land is important; land is one of the commons; ownership promotes care of property; irresponsible tenants in social housing. Ownership is a construct – rent – ecologically unsound; God is present within everything; claim to ownership of land. Aboriginal peoples – no concept of ownership. Barren land is of no value; air; sea; all space is commodified. Can we agree that land value should be shared for the common good?
What should we do? Land taxes are not novel; shared ownership encouraged by differential tax rates to favour communal ownership; sharing value of the land; rental value of land; full open honest land registry required; object to private ownership of land and its use for profit; cooperative and careship model proposed;reintroduce exchange controls – examples: Chile and Malaysia. "Should" creates obstacles; Quilligan's transitional acceptance of LVT in his proposals for the commons to be restored. Private/common ownership; how to communicate the issue? Need to know how it will affect me? Talking about an idea. Killer arguments against land value tax – NOT: http://kaalvtn.blogspot.co.uk/; it's a political decision – carries will/weight, moral value. LVT has been suppressed by decades and centuries of landlord promoted propaganda; layers of brainwashing. Henry George – knew about Ricardo and Smith – the acceptance the immutability of private property was already firmly established. Occupy evicted from St Paul's using property law. Occupy – land; ownership?
Alternatives to LVT to be considered/discussed.
Proposition to be put forward for consensus:
Share the surplus value of the land for the common good
Discussion led to an understanding that it was generally accepted that "surplus value" referred to value arising from land itself by virtue of resources, flora, fauna or location which had in the past been shared for the common good but has been captured for private gain. It was established that this proposition is no more than an agreement in principle ie. it is recognised that there are further steps required to arrive at a policy statement.
With these reservations, the proposition "Share the surplus value of the land for the common good" achieved consensus.
Congratulations and thanks to Mark for navigating the EWG to this position through impartial, sensitive but firm facilitation.
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