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Posted by Eve Maler on October 24, 2011
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Back in July, I wrote about a new RESTful API that cloud providers and provisioning vendors are working on for doing identity provisioning and synching: Simple Cloud Identity Management, or SCIM (like the milk). At last week's Internet Identity Workshop -- only five months after this draft spec made its formal debut! -- I had a chance to see the SCIM developers' live interop session in action. The interop saw successful participation by the likes of Cisco, Ping Identity, Sailpoint, salesforce.com, Technology Nexus, and UnboundID, with user accounts being securely created and torn down rapid-fire over the ether.
What's more, in talking with a more traditional on-premises identity vendor later in the week, I discovered that they loved how SCIM was shaping up, and planned to check it out ASAP as a way they could expose their own provisioning functionality.
In this Zero Trust world, with perimeters melting all over the place, I'm seeing signs that this lightweight API trend for IdM functionality is only going to accelerate. What do you think? If you're coming to Forrester Security Forum in a couple of weeks, I hope you'll grab me for a conversation about how this trend impacts your plans.
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Simple Cloud User Management
Comment from Saqib Ali on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 12:12
So how many rounds did the "Simple Cloud User Management" joke make at the IIW???? :)
Comment from Eve Maler on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 19:31
At least as many as the South Lake Union Trolley jokes around Seattle did in the last few years!
Securing the 3LO for Mobile/Installed Apps
Comment from Saqib Ali on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 20:53
Btw, did you get a chance to attend the IIW talk with Scotty, Travis and Tarik about securing the 3LO for Mobile/Installed Apps??? If so, what are your thoughts on the scheme they proposed?
p.s. I do miss the witty titles on pushing strings :)
Mobile client registration
Comment from Eve Maler on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 09:10
The model they proposed is really quite interesting. I have to study it in more depth, but if they've cracked the "mobile client instance registration" problem, that would be really key. I was thinking it looks a little bit like the solution a bunch of us outlined in this I-D:
(I'll work on that whole witty title thing... Wait till you see the new research report I've got coming out any day now.)
Rather cumbersome
Comment from Saqib Ali on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 09:26
Would really like hear your thoughts on the scheme once you have studied it in-depth.
Personally, I think it is an interesting idea, but rather cumbersome. From an enterprise point of view, using a Mobile Device Management suite to whitelist a marketplace of trusted apps would be a easier way to address problem with untrusted apps. However, I understand that only addresses the enterprise use case, and not the consumer use case. For consumer space, a scheme like what Scotty, Travis and Tarik proposed would be required.
Adoption of SCIM
Comment from Emmanuel Dreux (not verified) on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 15:18
SCIM will be adopted by all Cloud provisioning actors.
We are also following SCIM since the beginning of the project and it will be integrated in our provisioning platform.
Standalone, our product also works perfectly with the Microsoft meta directory (Fim Synchronization services) and permits to extend the capababilities of FIM 2010. Customers who have invested in this platform will be able to maximize their investment. Connected to FIM 2010, our product CloudAnywhere plugs FIM 2010 to the Cloud and will integrate SCIM into FIM 2010.
More informations at http://www.bcpsoft.fr/en/synchro/cloudanywhere-en/
Comment from andrew ferguson ferguson (not verified) on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 08:32
Totllly agree on SCIM. We are in the process of adding support for it in our Flagship ViewDS Discovery Server (Directory) and our new ViewDS Identity Bridge Synchronisation and Integration Engine.
Andrew Ferguson
Additional SCIM support
Comment from Eve Maler on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 10:24
Andrew, thanks for letting us know about your product plans!
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One battery has a higher charge than the other.
Quick question here before I bother Jack again....
I've got some of the two cell 2150 Li-Ions. One is an older 2000 that's on the engine ignition, the other two are the newer 2150's I got these a few months back and hadn't used them as I was waiting on the new radio.
When I tried charging them, one battery would not play as the yellow charge lead was loose in the charger connector. I called the guys and they replaced the battery with a new one.
Now here's the concern;
The new battery charges to about .2 volts above the other battery and load tests with 1 amp at .45 volts higher than the one that's a few months older. When I first tried this, the difference was only about .25 volts. I called and talked to Jack and he said not to worry about it and use them for a bit. But now after using them for a bit, the difference is increasing, not decreasing.
The 2000 charges to 8.2 give or take a few hundreth's and load tests through the black lead at 7.50 volts. The first 2150 is almost exactly the same. The newer 2150 load tested at 7.96 after this last charge where it had been about 7.75 at first.
This doesn't seem kosher to me, got any ideas?
Re: One battery has a higher charge than the other.
This is normal. Older one is getting a little weaker. The true reading is from the yellow lead as the black lead is always .2-.3 lower than the batteries due to the diode. I am using same battery 2000 on my ignition and actually your reading and mine are almost the same but this will not impose a problem to us because ignition demand is not much and the battery will not see 4 amp load! If battery was in a high draw application you need to change them when the cells get a little weak.
No worries.
Re: One battery has a higher charge than the other.
Perhaps I didn't make my question/setup clear.
I've got two of the 2150's running the airframe with the new JR 2.4 stuff. This is a 50cc size model and the batts are running through a Smart-Fly BatShare. So what's happening is post flight, the power is being drawn down on the higher battery. I understand enough about electricity to know if the load gets up there a bunch, it should draw amperage from both batteries, but running on one most of the time kind of bugs me as the other battery and voltage regulator are basically just sitting there.
As for "older" batteries. I'm not concerned about the ignition battery which is older, but the 2150's were purchased direct from Duralite and I think were in the four month full warranty period or they wouldn't have replaced the one?
A few months difference in the age of the batteries shouldn't make a difference that I can see. What it looks like to me is that something has changed in the manufacturing, chemistry or something that allows this slightly newer battery to pack more punch?
1/2 a volt difference on a redundant systems seems like a lot, and yes I know there is approximately a .2 volt drop on the black lead, but as long as the difference is consistent between the two leads, which it is, I see no problem with using either one as long as that's kept in mind?
Oh, one other thing and it's part of the reason I have this concern. I've got an identical setup, two batts, two regs, BatShare on my 33% Edge only the batts are the 2800 four cells. When I charge those, they'll be within a tenth of a volt of each other and after flying as they start to discharge, they'll ususally be either identical or within a 1/100th of a volt of each other on the way down.
Re: One battery has a higher charge than the other.
What charger are you using? On the new 2150s The difference you are seeing is most likely due to variation of the safety circuit. Charger is designed to stop the charge at 8.25-8.3, Circuits are designed to cut off charging at 8.4 in case charger didn't stop the charge in time. There is almost always a variation in these circuit, most of the time is not the cell. And to specifically answer your question on the cells, they have not changed in chemistry or productions! Same exact ones as used to be. 2 2150 on 50cc and even 2.4 is a great set up. Better way of checking to see how much more one battery is used during a flight than other would be charging both batteries to full with a charger that shows the capacity and see how much one takes to charge vs. other. I have never had a Battshare but there is always a small variation in electronic circuit that can cause one battery to discharge 50-100 mah more than the other per flight!
I think you are perfectly fine but Jack would be more than happy to speak with you if you want to call him.
Re: One battery has a higher charge than the other.
It's the four port Duralite charger. There does seem to be a bit of difference in the various port outputs, but I spoke to Mark about that when I first started using the Duralite stuff some time ago. Along with that, there doesn't seem to be much friction on the plugs of the charger, but I've tried all the ports at one time or another with the #3 port consistently turning off before the others do i.e. I can switch a battery from the #3 port to another port and it will charge more. The #1 port seems to be the highest output using that method of switching plugs after a battery has finished charging.
Re: One battery has a higher charge than the other.
That's exactly right. Ports have variations. One puts out higher voltage than other but even though one seems to put out more charge than other, the amount that one charges more than other(s) is very insignificant, like Max 30-40 mah! Not much, because when your battery hits the 8.2 or so voltage the charge rate drops to less than .1 amh.
Re: One battery has a higher charge than the other.
The bat share will draw from the highest battery then start to draw from both when their voltage under load is equal. I would not be concerned. If you pull a heavy load the voltage under the strong pack will drop under load then if needed the additional current will come from the other battery. I personally don't use a bat share when using redundant batteries on a single receiver, because in my opinion it introduces a single point failure to an otherwise redundant system, I believe in(duplicate or eliminate any single point failure). Its almost impossible to get a requlator to match perfectly, even 100th of a volt difference it will draw on one battery more than the other. I typically have one battery require 1000+ mha to charge and the other require less than 100mha to charge, but to cycle the batteries evenly I switch them every 20 flights or so. This is not a problem on my dual receiver setups, because the sides of the plane are mechanically and electrically isolated so each battery is forced to power 1/2 of the servos. Like I saidd this is just the way I personally prefer to set up my stuff, just do what works for you.
Re: One battery has a higher charge than the other.
Well okay, I'll fly it some more and see what it does, it does kind of bug me.
Then of course I've been known to get a bit a*al about things at times....
So it may be a case of "over thinking" the situation??????
Thanks Reza and Dan!
Re: One battery has a higher charge than the other.
You don't have a problem.......everything is working as it should.
The battshare draws from the highest battery. That way it equals your packs as you fly. This way one pack is not consistently drained while the other is a backup.
Also older batteries will lose some voltage capacity. I wouldn't worry about a thing right now as your voltages are well within the norms on charge and discharge after a flying.
Re: One battery has a higher charge than the other.
I appreciate the input, perhaps I've just gotten spoiled by what the batteries do on my Edge. But I've got 7 Duralites now and they're all within just a really small margine of each other on nominal voltage and the 1 amp voltage check except this one. And yes, be it the BatShare or the usual tendency for the power to be drawn from the highest voltage pack, this one higher battery is the only one being used when I fly. I even bought the Duralite discharge unit and cycled the first 2150, it came up 1/10th of a volt...
Maybe the Edge setup is just a fluke an now I'm dealing with what I see folks talking about all the time?
Any way, thanks Sam....
Re: One battery has a higher charge than the other.
No problem.....I'm sure over some more time what you will see is that the capacities will equal out as the higher one will get used more.
Have you also tried switching the battery inputs on the battshare or measuring the outputs for voltage? Maybe the unit is malfunctioning and always drawing from one side. Just a thought
Re: One battery has a higher charge than the other.
Yes I've tried switching stuff around and measuring directly off the batteries as well as through the switches. I had a problem with the single switch on my last 50 size model that Jack pointed out to me. I thought it was a battery problem and it turned out to be the switch, that's why this one's got two.....
Yeah this power system is way overkill for a 50cc size, but I feel better especially with the JR 2.4 radio.
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I am gutted about one thing: after I took this photo I happily ate and had a good chat to my brother.
Hold on...my viewers won't actually be able to see what is IN THE PIE!
So sorry about that, this is me all over. I get excited about a dish, start eating it then realise its too late to take a decent picture. Both tasted so good, my vocabulary cannot stretch to describe how incredibly delicious this was.
Pie and mash is one of my favourite winter meals, but yesterday heard that the UK would be having a heat wave this week! Well this 'heat wave' better be in the parts of London I hang out. All I'm seeing is pure rain and dark clouds, and then cycle home to cook something, just so I can get the right lighting for the finished dish.
The lighting like in the above picture will happen a few times a week. I use my iphone, not a digital single lens reflex big monstrous camera that gives me neck ache!
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2 unsmoked bacon rashers, chopped.
thyme (2 sprigs)
rosemary (leaves from 2 sprigs)
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50ml milk
4 chestnut mushrooms sliced.
Mashed Potato:
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Cream cheese (two teaspoons)
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Preheat oven 200°c
: Boil your potatoes.
: Fry chicken, bacon and garlic in olive oil on a low heat.
: Add the rosemary, thyme and mushrooms.
: Stir through the mascarpone cheese, season and pour into a small pie dish.
: Brush the edges of pie dish with egg and cover with a small sheet of puff pastry.
: Brush egg over the pastry and prick over with a fork.
: Pop in the oven for 20 minutes until sauce bubbles through the pastry.
: The potatoes should be done so drain water and start mashing. Add the cream cheese last, but with butter and milk add how much you want.
< Serve straight away with gravy and vegetables.
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Right, so its the clusterfuck I thought it was then. Looks like people are using "NSAC" because they think it sounds good even though it's at best meaningless in this context.
Are you serious? A UK show has used Nevada State Athletic Commission on it's belts?
Im sure i have seen it as well
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CLEVELAND - University of Cincinnati senior Alex Carl finished in a tie for 150th at the 112th U.S. Women's Amateur Championship on Tuesday at The Country Club.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Postgame notes from nine stories above Milan Puskar Stadium in the press box following West Virginia's 26-23 overtime loss to Cincinnati:
|West Virginia's Mortty Ivy has his sights on the football following Pat mcAfee's perfect onside kick attempt.
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West Virginia was trailing by 13 points with 1:11 left in the game and no timeouts remaining when, pinned deep in its territory, Cincinnati opted to take a safety to make it 20-9. That's when things began to get interesting.
West Virginia used seven plays to get into the end zone when Pat White found Dorrell Jalloh on a 3-yard pass on second and goal with 19 seconds left.
White then ran in the two-point conversion to put WVU to within a field goal, 20-17.
Then Pat McAfee executed a perfect onside kick that Mortty Ivy recovered at the West Virginia 44. A 21-yard White to Dorrell Jalloh pass moved the ball to the Bearcat 35 with nine seconds left.
An incomplete pass by White forced the Mountaineers to try a last-ditch 52-yard field goal with five seconds remaining.
Naturally Pat McAfee made it – tying his career long.
In the overtime, Cincinnati's tough D was able to force another McAfee field goal and that set up the winning play, a 2-yard pass from Tony Pike to Kazeem Ali.
"Well another boring game," joked Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly. "I hope ESPNU thanks us for the ratings. Again, I think the thing that stands out more than anything else is Big East football is a battle right to the end. West Virginia is a great program and to take the best from them you have to keep on playing."
Mardy Gilyard's 100-yard kickoff return for a touchdown to begin the game was the first one taken back for a score against West Virginia in 18 years. The last player to return a kick for a TD was Pitt's Ricky Turner, who also covered the same distance on Sept. 29, 1990 in Pittsburgh.
The last opponent to take a kickoff the distance at Milan Puskar Stadium was Penn State's Curt Warner, who went 88 yards for a TD on Oct. 25, 1980.
Cincinnati proved in the first quarter that you don't have to move the football to score. The Bearcats had 32 yards of offense and averaged 1.9 yards per play, yet still managed to score 13 points.
How did Cincinnati do it? The Bearcats took the game's opening kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown and a short, 22-yard Pat McAfee punt, coupled with a personal foul penalty, gave UC the football at the West Virginia 33.
That set up a Jake Rodgers 46-yard field goal.
Rodgers' second field goal of the quarter came as a result of a Noel Devine fumble on the Mountaineer 34-yard line.
Cincinnati's first-quarter scoring drives covered five and 20 yards.
The second half was more of the same. The Bearcats sat on 20 points for the entire second half, managing just 46 total yards before the end of regulation.
West Virginia appeared to get a turnover when Mardy Gilyard coughed up a wide receiver screen that Boogie Allen recovered at the WVU six-yard line, but the instant replay official overruled the call on the field saying Gilyard never had possession of the football.
Late in the third quarter, West Virginia challenged the referee's call that DeAngelo Smith fumbled a punt return that he was ruled down at the WVU 23. The replay officials upheld the call on the field, costing the Mountaineers a timeout.
Cincinnati's Tony Pike used both his arm and his legs to lead the Bearcats to their best scoring drive of the game. Pike hit Dominick Goodman for passes of 25, 7, 18 and 9 yards before taking the football into the end zone himself from four yards.
The key play was a Pike-to-Goodman 18-yard pass on third and 17 that moved the ball to the WVU 28. West Virginia flushed Pike out of the pocket and looked to have him sacked, but he escaped the rush and found Goodman open down the middle of the field.
That was the only third down Cincinnati successfully converted in the first half, going 1 of 6.
After a shaky start completing 3 of his first 10 passes for 20 yards, Pike finished the first half 13 of 22 for 154 yards.
West Virginia escaped three more points when Jake Rodgers hit the left post on a 29-yard field goal attempt that would have put the Bearcats up 23-7 with 1:32 remaining in the first half. Cincinnati got into scoring position when John Goebel was able to slip through a couple of West Virginia tacklers and run to the Mountaineer 13 on a 66-yard play.
West Virginia has trailed at halftime in five of nine games this year: Cincinnati (20-7), Connecticut (13-7), Auburn (17-10), Colorado (14-7) and East Carolina (17-3). WVU is 2-3 in those games.
West Virginia had five three-and-out possessions in the first half and four straight to start the second half. West Virginia's initial first down of the second half was a hook-and-lateral play from White to Jock Sanders, who pitched back to Noel Devine for a seven-yard gain. WVU's other big play on the drive was a 15-yard personal foul penalty on Connor Barwin that advanced the football to the Bearcat 22.
West Virginia's drive stalled at the Cincinnati six and on fourth and four, the Bearcats stopped White a yard short of the sticks.
"We played very well defensively today," Kelly said. "We needed to play that well. Team defense: but at the end of the day you are going to have to make individual tackles on one or two of those guys and we came up with them all night."
None of West Virginia's starting possessions in regulation began on its side of the 50. Here is where West Virginia began its offensive drives against Cincinnati: WVU 28, WVU 21, WVU 23, WVU 24, WVU 23, WVU 22 and WVU 20 in the first half. In the second half its possessions began on the WVU 32, WVU 16, WVU 10, WVU 24, WVU 47, WVU 40 and WVU 38 and the WVU 44.
West Virginia had two opportunities to score touchdowns to get back into the game midway through the fourth quarter and both times Cincinnati's defense turned away the Mountaineers. WVU went for it on fourth and four from the Bearcat six and Pat White came up a yard short.
On WVU's next possession, West Virginia got to the Cincinnati two and once again UC stopped the Mountaineers on fourth down. This time White's pass out in the flat was intercepted by DeAngelo Smith at the three.
West Virginia ran 17 offensive plays inside the Bearcat red zone before finally getting a touchdown (Jalloh 3-yard TD) with 19 seconds left to make it 20-17 after Pat White's two-point conversion. In overtime, West Virginia ran five more plays before settling for a field goal. Add it all up and WVU had 22 red zone plays after intermission and came away with just 10 points.
West Virginia averaged more than 300 yards and four rushing TDs per game in its last three games against Cincinnati. On Saturday, the Bearcat defense held the Mountaineers to a season-low 98 yards rushing on 42 attempts.
As a result, Pat White was forced to try a career-high 38 pass attempts, completing 20 for 219 yards and a pair of touchdowns. White was sacked four times and threw one interception.
West Virginia is 14-2-1 all-time against Cincinnati and all three blemishes on the ledger have come in Morgantown. In 2003, Cincinnati upset West Virginia 15-13 on a late field goal. The Bearcats also tied the Mountaineers 7-7 in Morgantown in 1940.


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Mike Lozanski died from what his family says was a lung infection at 35. His relatives are awaiting an autopsy report.
All died in the last five months. All were professional wrestlers with bulging muscles on sculpted bodies. The deaths received little notice beyond obituaries in small newspapers and on wrestling Web sites, typical of the fringe status of the $500 million industry.
Yet their deaths underscore the troubling fact that despite some attempts to clean up an industry sold on size, stamina and theatrics, wrestlers die young at a staggering rate. Since 1997, about 1,000 wrestlers 45 and younger have worked on pro wrestling circuits worldwide, wrestling officials estimate.
USA TODAY's examination of medical documents, autopsies and police reports, along with interviews with family members and news accounts, shows that at least 65 wrestlers died in that time, 25 from heart attacks or other coronary problems — an extraordinarily high rate for people that young, medical officials say. Many had enlarged hearts.
Illegal steroid use in professional sports has gained plenty of attention: President Bush in his State of the Union address in January urged athletes and professional sports leagues to stop steroid use, and a federal grand jury has been investigating Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative.
However, it is pro wrestling where the problem appears to be the most pervasive and deadly. In five of the 25 deaths, medical examiners concluded that steroids might have played a role. Excessive steroid use can lead to an enlarged heart. In 12 others, examiners in medical reports cited evidence of use of painkillers, cocaine and other drugs.
The widespread use of drugs and the deaths associated with it raise questions about a largely unregulated business that is watched on TV and in arenas by an estimated 20 million fans a week, including children. Those fans will tune in Sunday for the industry's biggest event, WrestleMania XX.
Fifteen current and former wrestlers interviewed by USA TODAY say they willingly bulked up on anabolic steroids, which they call "juice," to look the part and took pain pills so they could perform four to five nights a week despite injuries. Some admit to use of human-growth hormones, a muscle-building compound even more powerful and dangerous than steroids. And many say they used recreational drugs.
"I experienced what we in the profession call the silent scream" of pain, drugs and loneliness, says wrestling legend "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, 49, who has been in the business more than 30 years. "You're in your hotel room. You're banged up, numb and alone. You don't want to go downstairs to the bar or restaurant. The walls are breathing. You don't want to talk. Panic sets in and you start weeping. It's something all of us go through."
Scott "Raven" Levy, 39, says he used steroids and more than 200 pain pills daily before he kicked the habit a few years ago. "It's part of the job," Levy says. "If you want to be a wrestler, you have to be a big guy, and you have to perform in pain. If you choose to do neither, pick another profession."
The costs are high. Wrestlers have death rates about seven times higher than the general U.S. population, says Keith Pinckard, a medical examiner in Dallas who has followed wrestling fatalities. They are 12 times more likely to die from heart disease than other Americans 25 to 44, he adds. And USA TODAY research shows that wrestlers are about 20 times more likely to die before 45 than are pro football players, another profession that's exceptionally hard on the body.
Some wrestlers bet among themselves on who will die next, says Mike Lano, a former wrestling manager and promoter.
Steroids-ingrained culture
Unlike amateur wrestling, which is a competitive sport in high school and college, pro wrestling combines sports, stunts and storytelling. The results are scripted.
Pro wrestling does not test for performance-enhancing drugs such as steroids. Nor are they banned by wrestling organizations as they are in pro football, basketball and baseball.
That is one reason, wrestlers and industry watchers say, that use of steroids and other drugs in pro wrestling has gone largely unchecked. It also has been ingrained in the culture for decades. Several of wrestling's biggest names, including Hulk Hogan and former Minnesota governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura, years ago acknowledged using bodybuilding drugs.
"There was a joke: If you did not test positive for steroids, you were fired," former wrestler and broadcaster Bruno Sammartino told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1991.
"That's a cop-out," says Vince McMahon, head of wrestling's biggest organization, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). "These guys took steroids because they wanted to.
"Because we are the most visible organization, we get the black eye," adds McMahon, noting that only two of the 65 deceased wrestlers died while working for his company. "It is alarming whenever young people pass away from these insidious causes, but you can't help someone if they don't want to help themselves."
Piper says he lived on a steady diet of muscle builders and painkillers for more than two decades.
The amateur boxer and wrestler left home in Canada at 13. A promoter noticed his "mean streak" and paid him $25 to fight the legendary Larry "The Axe" Hennig in Winnipeg. Piper made a lasting impression with his entrance: Clad in a kilt, he ambled to the ring as his bagpipe band played. Hennig pinned the 15-year-old in 10 seconds, the shortest of Piper's 7,000 matches, but Piper quickly was assigned to shows in Kansas City, Montreal and Texas.
Soon Piper had become one of the industry's best-known villains. By the mid-1980s, he was the foil to Hogan, the WWF's golden boy. Wrestling had become a pop-culture phenomenon. Both moonlighted as movie and TV stars, had their own action figures and hobnobbed with celebrities.
Even so, Piper never forgot what he heard as a penniless teenager. "A promoter said to me, 'If you die, kid, die in the ring. It's good for business.' "
A 'rock god' lifestyle
Despite, or because of, its testosterone-fueled danger, wrestling attracts mostly young men to a circuslike life built on outsized personalities, "ripped" bodies and death-defying stunts. Newcomers dive headfirst into the rough-and-tumble profession. Current and former wrestlers interviewed say they live on the edge and see few career options. Only a handful of stars have more than a high school education. During a typical 15-minute match, combatants exchange choreographed body slams and punches. Some leap from top ropes onto cement surfaces outside the ring.
In more physical "hard-core" matches, wrestlers are smashed through tables, whacked in the head with steel chairs and punctured with barbed wire and tacks. Those antics are not fake. "Wrestling is sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll because we have a rock god kind of thing going," Levy says.
Top performers make more than $1 million annually. Millions of youngsters pine to become the next Mick Foley. He parlayed death-defying stunts — he plunged more than 20 feet from steel cages and was frequently bloodied — into a multimillion-dollar wrestling career. He has since written books on wrestling that made the USA TODAY best-seller list.
But for every star, scores of others toil in obscurity at run-down gyms. "Strongman" Johnny Perry, 30, who died of cocaine intoxication in North Carolina in 2002, moonlighted as a repo man. Curtis Parker, 28, accidentally killed in practice in St. Louis in 2002, also worked at a Jack in the Box.
Some, like Hegstrand, fade from being headliners at sold-out football stadiums — as he was in the early and mid-1990s — to performing at high school gyms and armories. For nearly two decades, Hegstrand — a hulking figure with wrecking-ball biceps who died in October — freely admitted he indulged in hard living. Though he didn't specify what he took, he made it clear that pro wrestling was fraught with steroids, pain pills and recreational drugs. Then came the sobering news: Years of excess had created a tear in his heart.
"I'd put just about everything (drugs) in me that was humanly possible during my wrestling career," Hegstrand told wrestling radio talk-show host Lano in April 2003.
Hegstrand spent his last few years barnstorming in wrestler-turned-evangelist Ted DiBiase's "Heart of David Ministry" promotion. When he died, traces of marijuana were found in his body, according to his autopsy report.
Others, like Lozanski, wrestle despite serious injuries. More than 18 months after he took a nasty fall that damaged his lungs during a match, Lozanski traversed North America, wrestling for small promotions. He died unexpectedly in his sleep in December.
"That's the nature of the business," says Chris Lozanski, 31, Mike's brother and a former wrestler. "Mike felt he had to keep working. I left the business because I want to see my 11-month-old son grow up," he says.
Since he could walk, Lockwood wanted to be a wrestler. What the 5-foot-8 Lockwood lacked in height, he made up for in determination and tireless training, his mother, Barbara, says. "Everyone laughed when this kid said he would make it, but he did."
Lockwood won more than 20 titles in the WWE and a cult following from 1998 to 2003.
With fame came sacrifices. Lockwood was in constant pain and began using prescription painkillers 18 months ago. He also gained noticeable bulk and was irritable — two signs of steroid use. But when Barbara asked, her son denied using them.
Lockwood was released from his WWE contract after five years on July 1 because it did not have "further plans for his character," the WWE said in a statement.
He was about to move back to California, where he planned to reunite with his high school sweetheart and their 7-year-old daughter. He planned to perform in Japan and train young wrestlers. "He was on his way home, but he didn't make it," Barbara says. Lockwood died in November in Florida. He was 32. A medical examiner ruled it a suicide from an overdose of painkillers. But Barbara thinks it was an accident. "Mike had too much to live for," she says.
Wrestling on trial
When anabolic steroids were cast as a controlled substance in 1991, federal law made purchases and possession of them illegal except for medical purposes. Two grand jury investigations shortly thereafter resulted in admissions of steroid abuse by a handful of big wrestling names and the 1991 conviction of a urologist, George Zahorian of Harrisburg, Pa.
He was convicted of 12 counts of selling steroids and painkillers to a body builder and several WWF performers, including Piper (whose real name is Roderick Toombs) and Hogan (Terry Bollea).
"The doctor had shopping bags with our names on them that were filled with steroids and prescription drugs," Piper says.
Shortly thereafter McMahon was indicted. But he was acquitted of charges of conspiring to distribute steroids to wrestlers.
The probes led to stringent drug testing in the WWF, but only for a few years. A few stars were suspended for flunking tests. By late 1996 the program was scrapped because of the expense — and other wrestling organizations didn't test or were lax in enforcement, the WWF said at the time.
Jerry McDevitt, the outside legal counsel for McMahon's wrestling organization, contends testing "just doesn't work" because wrestlers can fake urine tests or use designer steroids that are undetectable. "Anybody who wants to beat it can beat it. The only ones who are caught are stupid," he says.
Last year, the WWE — the WWF changed its name to World Wrestling Entertainment after a copyright dispute with the World Wildlife Fund in 2002 — let go star performer Jeff Hardy for refusing to undergo drug rehab treatment. Within weeks, several wrestling organizations lined up to hire him.
Major promoters say the industry has moved on from its "Wild, Wild West" days of the late 1980s.
Young wrestlers take better care of themselves. "The new guys play PlayStation in their hotel rooms," wrestler Sean Waltman, 31, says.
WWE, the largest wrestling organization in North America with 125 wrestlers, says it tests for recreational drugs if there is probable cause. If a wrestler refuses rehab, he is booted. It has cut weekly performances to three or four, down from about five in the mid-1990s. And it has improved training techniques to minimize injuries.
"Steroids and painkillers (aren't) a professional choice but a lifestyle," says WWE wrestler John Cena, 26, who at 6-1 and 240 pounds is the size he was when he played college football. "I've learned to play in pain. If it's a serious enough injury, I take time off."
McMahon says he requires only that his wrestlers are in shape, not that they're "the size of monsters," as many were in the 1960s, '70s and '80s. "We're not looking for bodybuilders," he says.
The No. 2 wrestling employer, NWA-TNA, is considering mandatory drug testing. In November it began offering medical coverage for injuries inside and outside the ring to its 35 contracted wrestlers — the first time a pro wrestling organization has done so. It is considering medical and dental coverage.
But such reforms help only those wrestling for the top two organizations, leaving hundreds of wrestlers largely working under the same conditions as years ago.
Not much has changed on the regulatory front, either. Attempts by wrestlers to unionize have flopped. They have no player associations, as do football, basketball and baseball players.
In most states, oversight of pro wrestling is left to local athletic commissions. They usually have lenient prematch requirements. In New York, for example, performers are subject to little more than a blood-pressure test.
"No one is standing up. Either they don't know what's going on or they're terrified of being blacklisted," says wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer, echoing the sentiment of others.
For now the only one standing up seems to be Piper. He says he forfeited hundreds of thousands of dollars in potential earnings because his outspokenness about rampant steroid and drug use got him fired from the WWE in June.
The WWE denies Piper's allegations. It says the two were unable to negotiate a contract.
Piper doesn't allow any of his four children to watch wrestling — or harbor dreams of being a wrestler. He is sober, living on a 12 1/2-acre spread near Portland, Ore. He is hardly down on his luck. He's been in 26 movies, such as They Live, and TV's The Love Boat and The Mullets since 1978. He has agreed to appear in the movie Fish in a Barrel with Burt Reynolds.
Yet he clings to hopes of another big payday in wrestling. He suggests he and McMahon take their feud over Piper's dismissal to the airwaves.
"It would be great reality TV: two strong personalities going at it over a topical issue," he says, wistfully. "Maybe we could save lives in the process."
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On 09.06.05 16:33 -0700, Burkhart, John T. wrote:
> ps auxww showed 2739 as /usr/local/sbin/mini_httpd -S -a -M 0 -E
> /var/etc/cert-portal.pem -u root -maxproc 16 -p 8001 -i
> /var/run/mini_httpd.cps.pid
> This happened after pid 2739 died...after the process died a new one
> appeared....pid 3106.
> $ cat /tmp/truss.log
> ...
Thanks for the truss output, John! I can't see anything out of the
ordinary in it - except of course for the fact that mini_httpd
received a SIGTERM, which it dutifully obeyed. For the life of me I
can't figure out what could possibly be sending it that TERM signal,
since the only way to restart the captive portal (thus
killing/restarting mini_httpd) is through manual action in the webGUI.
You say that a new process appeared after the old one died - so that
would mean there was a mini_httpd around, but not accepting
connections? What does "netstat -anf inet" say in that case?
Also, note that when the captive portal is in HTTPS mode, there are
two mini_httpd daemons running: one in HTTP mode on port 8000 (to
intercept outgoing HTTP connections by non-authenticated clients),
and one on port 8001 (in SSL mode). Could it be that the port 8001
mini_httpd is working OK, but instead the one on port 8000 is
misbehaving? (of course that wouldn't explain the SIGTERM) - You can
check that by trying to load https://<m0n0wall-addr>:8001/
In that case, some truss output on the port 8000 mini_httpd would be
helpful too.
- Manuel


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I tried the beta for Fiesta and it was similar to FLYFF. So which you like better?
I tried the beta for Fiesta and it was similar to FLYFF. So which you like better?
I pick FlyFF for gameplay, but since Fiesta has such a pretty character select screen, I'll choose it.:] Yeah, I know it's a weird reason. >.<
Fiesta's kingdom quests is really interesting(kinda reminded me of piggy run). You enter a maze with 14 other players(3 different party) and work together to finish the quest within the time limit. If theres no teamwork, it will surely be a failure.
So I had to go with Fiesta.
Fiesta is my choice because flyff have alot bugs and hacker since is older
You can get off your boards in certain places and get stuck in the sky with no ability to warp, move etc. Also, you can blinkwing in certain places and get stuck. And sometimes you can die and click revive and get stuck. It happened to me several times and it's happened to several people I know.
I've yet to get bugged in Fiesta, so yes, it does mean something to me. A game's age doesn't mean everything... o_O
Edit: Oh, you were talking about that guy saying it has bugs BECAUSE it's older. Sorry. Well no, that doesn't make sense, but the hacking thing does. Usually *note, usually* people don't hack newer games, but FlyFF has quite a few hackers.:]
At least in FLYFF you can fly a hoverboard across the whole map.
When you get good at flyff you realise there is nothing more to it than popularity and drama. You get these people everyday who are over emotionally influenced by this game. They go too far and have 'pixel secks' and romance to the other characters.
Fact: Over half of the population of Flyff's girl characters are boys.
Flyff is mostly played by high school drop outs and losers who have intention of getting a good pay job or doing well. The game developers are more interested in monopolising this game by making new cash shop shit daily. They're so focused on taking every penny away from the already poor suckers.
Game-wise, I have to go with Flyff. It's simply more polished than Fiesta.
That said, I think Fiesta is going in a better direction. It seems to be improving, while Flyff is stuck with endless cash shop updates. Seriously... Who cares about those? =/
considering Flyff does'nt work on my computer because i have vista but Fiesta does i think fiesta shiits on flyff
You cannot run away from weakness;
You must sometime fight it out or perish;
and if that be so,
why not now and where you stand.
It didn't work for vista for like a week that it came out. They fixed that a long time ago. When does open beta come out?
i played beta fiesta till level 24 and thought meh id say flyff wins by far even with the whole kingdom quests etc flyff still has wayyyy better gameplay and more balance
i saw flyff simply because it challenged me to a decision all the classes were just so cool that i quit just cause i couldnt make up my mind on what i want to be also cause hoverboards PWN.
I pick FlyFF because it's more unique, and Fiesta has been an overall disappointment for many people. And to all the people who say FlyFF has hackers, I've yet to see a hacker on FlyFF.
Currently playing: FFXIV (Elucifer Arclight, Leviathan server), LoL (Trash Tier Waifu, NA server), SMITE (Zacewing)
Fiesta since it has Kingdom quests. Eventhough I like the style of flyff more, I had more fun playing fiesta since the grind to me wasn't as bad, and there was more to do. Also I had no expectations for fiesta flyff is cool, but all to do is grind lvl 10 new class, grind, lvl 20, hoverboard ,grind, lvl 50 or 60 I think, job change, grind, lvl 99....pvp?
At least in fiesta there are KQ's which breaks up the grind a bit, plenty of quests, and sub skills like crafting, scroll making, potion making which were cool and easy to use add-ons. Also pvp.
But to me personally both games ain't that great. I just like fiesta a bit more then flyff.
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A world of sin and shadows....delightful.
Currently Playing:DDR(various), Anarchy Online(PC), Borderlands(360), WOTS3(360),Dragon Age: Origins(360), COD:MW2(360).
Wants to Play: All the stuff I'm currently playing.
Waiting For: The Secret World:Online(PC), SW:TOR(PC).
The amount of hackers FlyFF has is nothing compared to HackerStory -cough- I mean, MapleStory.
Currently playing: FFXIV (Elucifer Arclight, Leviathan server), LoL (Trash Tier Waifu, NA server), SMITE (Zacewing)


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Home > Darling Diverting Dexter
I'm trying to get motivated about writing again–I always feel happier–more balanced–when I'm writing, but because it isn't something someone can force one to do it can be as neglected as exercise.
Writing is very similar to exercise, now that I think on it. The more I do it the easier it becomes and the more I want to do it–it's just getting into the routine that takes some doing.
Anyway, my fiction is dark and humorous and has some other similarities to the Jeff Lindsay Dexter novels so I figured if I re-read those they'd inspire me to return to the darker parts of myself from whence my characters spring. Between that and finding the right music to listen to whilst writing (done) I'm ready to get cracking. [I've already got ideas and notes for stories set in my fictional world.]
So I've begun re-reading the Dexter novels–this is only the second time I've read them and already I'm seeing things I didn't the first time around. I was so enamoured with Dex I didn't notice the little things like the less than sparkling writing. This speaks volumes to Lindsay's talent. Typically, nothing can save a book without stellar writing, but I didn't even notice the first time.


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I would love something like this simply to see our own themes as well as others being customized to fit the customers needs. It's always interesting to see design in the wild!
Working on it
Doing my best to finish it this month
Would definetly contribute to this place, seems like a very good idea..some of the themes post-modifications look nothing like what you started with, that would even influence some buyers who would have never thought of that to begin with.
Let me know when it goes live
This is a great idea, would be cool to see how some of the themes have been totally modified and look very little like the originals. A customisation Showcase if you like.
Im in….
I just stumbled on to one of Epicera's themes. If any one is interested here is the link:
Btw. I think this is a great idea! (:
Yeah for me!
Great idea! Would love to give feedback on the idea/design proces. I think this would work even better if it were promoted by envato (since it only generates more traffic and income).
Keep us up to date
Ooh yes, why has nobody thought of this before?
I have a couple of sites to contribute already, TF themes are popular among my clients when they want a new site up quickly.


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Master Sergeant Darin Foster signs the Mustang in gold--that color represents a family member who was killed in combat -- in his case, his brother in law.
"He was working on an IED [overseas], which is basically a bomb set up to cause havoc on the military," said Foster, "He was trying to diffuse it, and the bomb went off."
The Mustang is traveling to 65 cities in 48 states on a simple mission; to show appreciation for our veterans.
The Wounded Warriors Support Program started its journey in Omaha, Nebraska back in May, driving back and forth across the country.
At each major stop, people are given the chance to sign the Mustang in permanent ink, silver for wounded vets, and gold for those who lost a military family member.
By the end of the tour, the car would have traveled over 26,000 miles, gathered hundreds of signatures, and had dozens of drivers from accross the country.
"It's quite interesting, the amount of people trying to look at the car, giving you a thumbs up as you go by," said driver Dennis Hank, "It's been quite an experience, it's very uplifting."
"It means the world just to have that on there," said Foster, "When we sign the car, we're signing our names for it, we're signing it for the wounded warriors."
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Here Dick asks a question thathas been answered, that he knows is falacious and misleading:
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From the Freep...A little snow discussion - should make Immortal happy!
After a parched summer last year that left docks stranded and boat propellers scraping sandy shallows, the Great Lakes are blissfully -- and surprisingly -- full again this year.
Heavy snow and rains since last winter have made the lakes rise. Scientists aren't sure whether this will last, but they're hopeful. The temperatures, moisture and ice cover next winter will be critical.
"If we get two more good, normal winters with normal precipitation, then we'd have a turnaround," said Cynthia Sellinger, deputy director of the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Lake Superior, which beat its 1926 record low last fall, rebounded to within 4 inches of its long-term average in July. Lakes Erie and Ontario are 2 and 4 inches, respectively, above their July averages.
Lakes Michigan and Huron are up 8 inches, though still lagging more than a foot below their normal July levels. Lake St. Clair is up 10 inches from last year and down just 2 inches from its normal for July.
After three years of below-average precipitation, all the lakes had higher-than-normal precipitation during the past 12 months, Sellinger said. Last September, the Great Lakes region got double its normal rainfall for that month, lifting Lake Superior from its record lows.
By March, meteorologists across the region said the winter had brought record snowfall that was heavy and dense with water. Grand Rapids, Flint and Saginaw had their snowiest Februarys ever, and Wellston, near Manistee, set a new record for its winter season.
From December 2007 through February, the traditional winter months, for example, Grand Rapids got 98 inches of snow, 36 inches more than normal. Sault Ste. Marie also got 98 inches, 8 inches above its usual levels. Even Detroit got 59 inches of snow during those months -- 22 inches above average.
Near the lakes, the snow was not the fluffy, low-moisture kind sucked up from the lakes by cold, dry air and dumped back on the ground. Instead, the wet snow came from storms outside the basin, adding to the lakes' depths.
That was followed by heavy rains in spring and early summer across the region. In the past 12 months, each lake's basin got 2 to 7 inches more rain than the long-term average, in 1900-99. Basin-wide, the average was 4 inches more than normal for the past year through July.
Boaters and beachgoers are happy about higher lakes, but the problems aren't over. Ships on the Great Lakes that carry coal, iron ore and cement for industry moved slightly more cargo in June than they did a year ago, but they're still loading light because some harbors still are too shallow, according to the Lake Carriers' Association in Cleveland.
Despite 16 inches more water in Lake Superior last week compared with a year ago, the Wenonah ferry from Grand Portage, Minn., to Isle Royale National Park still is not running. Last summer was the first in 30 years the 149-passenger boat couldn't get to the island.
"We're still hoping to get into the water this season," said John Szczech, chief financial officer for the ferry.
The water still is too shallow at Grand Portage to ensure the ferry won't hit the bottom in a swell, he said, but he's hoping the boat can get out of the harbor this month on flat-water days.
The lakes normally rise May-October and fall November-April.
The Army Corps of Engineers forecasts that by December, Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron and St. Clair will remain on the dry side, 4 to 14 inches lower than their long-term averages, but the two lower lakes, Ontario and Erie, will be wetter and close to their longtime normal levels. Reported by: The Detroit Free Press
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Dump Truck Rips Down Power Lines, Catches Fire In Teterboro, N.J.A fire broke out in Teterboro Monday afternoon, when a dump truck hit power lines and knocked them down from multiple utility poles.
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