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ALBRIGHT, W.Va. — A nondescript crevice-dwelling snail with a shell the diameter of a quarter played a starring role in the preservation of a 7.5-mile stretch of Cheat Canyon under an agreement finalized late last week.
The Conservation Fund, working with The Nature Conservancy, purchased the property, which includes a 3,800-acre, rim-to-rim tract of canyon stretching northward from the outskirts of Albright to a segment of Sandy Creek, from The Forestland Group, a timber investment fund. Over the next two years, the land will be transferred to the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources and become a wildlife management area focused primarily on rare species protection.
As a WMA, the land will be open to the public for waterborne recreation, fishing, hiking, birding and hunting, although segments containing key habitat for rare species are expected to be closed or marked with caution signs.
The canyon contains the best whitewater of the lower Cheat, used by commercial rafting outfitters and their clients, and thousands of kayakers annually. It also supports a smallmouth bass fishery that is rebounding following years of pollution from acid mine drainage now being neutralized through limestone sand treatments in its tributaries. A segment of the 330-mile Allegheny Trail that had been declared off-limits to hikers by a previous landowner, causing a major detour, runs the length of the property.
The canyon is also the home of the Cheat three-tooth snail, "one of the world's rarest land snails" according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. That agency, through a pair of Cooperative Endangered Species Protection grants totaling $1.5 million, got the ball rolling on funding the acquisition of the canyon.
Cracks and fissures in the boulder fields and cliffs of Cheat Canyon encompass Earth's only known population of the Cheat three-tooth, a species of land snail known to exist only since 1930. "This canyon is one of the world's most diverse land snail areas, with 60 species known to live here," said DNR wildlife biologist Craig Stihler.
Stihler said the canyon segment is also the home of Cornwell Cave, where a small population of federally endangered Indiana bats is known to over-winter with other bat species in its three miles of passages.
"Every management decision here will involve the protection and recovery of the snails and bats," said Curtis Taylor, chief of the DNR's wildlife section. After developing a recovery plan for the Cheat three-tooth and Indiana bats living on the property, the DNR will be taking up such management issues as the possible development of a river access site midway through the canyon segment, and where and whether to build a possible trailhead parking area for the Allegheny Trail.
"In many ways, this is the New River Gorge of northern West Virginia, although it's not that well known outside this area," said Rodney Bartgis, state director of The Nature Conservancy. The property's steep canyon walls rise up to 1,000 feet above Cheat River and provide habitat for such state species of concern as Allegheny woodrats, red bats, green salamandersotters and bald eagles along with a variety of other non-threatened species.
Except for a section of the Allegheny Trail that was converted into a haul road for log trucks by a previous owner,there is no easy access to the property. The tract's relative inaccessibility and steep, rocky terrain "should make this a fairly marginal area for hunting," Taylor said. But those fishing or floating the Cheat through the canyon during slow summer flows "will have a true wilderness experience,"he said.
"Tracts this big almost never become availble any more," Taylor said. "It took a piecemeal funding mosaic involving a lot of organizations to make this happen, but that's the way this kind of business will be done from here on out."
The Forestland Group gave conservation organizations a chance to buy the property before it went on the market, Bartgis said, making it possible for the Conservation Fund to negotiate a purchase agreement.
After the $1.5 in endangered species protection grants from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service were announced, The Nature Conservancy in West Virginia was selected from affiliates across the country to receive a $3 million grant made possible by a private donor to help purchase the tract. That money pays for a 2,300 acre section of the tract that will be owned by the conservancy as a nature preserve, but will be managed by the DNR as part of its wildlife management area. People visiting the wildlife management area won't be able to tell when they're on DNR land or TNC land, Bartgis said, because they will be managed as one unit.
A total of $400,000 in mitigation money received by the state Division of Environmental Protection through its In Lieu of Fee Program also went into the purchase, along with monies from the West Virginia Outdoor Heritage Conservation Fund. The state chapter of The Nature Conservancy is raising an additional $500,000 by the end of the year to cover remaining costs.
The entire acquisition project will end up costing about $7 million, Bartgis said.
The purchase will conserve nearly all Cheat Canyon land not already included in Coopers Rock State Forest and the Snake Hill Wildlife Management Area.
"No state tax money or hunting and fishing license fees were used in this project," Taylor said.
Except for river users, the tract won't likely be open to the public until this fall, after the DNR completes its initial management plan, according to Taylor.
Reach Rick Steelhammer at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-5169.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misidentified the agency that is raising an additional $500,000 by the end of the year. The agency is the state chapter of The Nature Conservancy.


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New Jersey, US
Assistant Project Manager, Large scale, multi-disciplinary architects office with a staff
High rise office building (400K sq. ft.,17 stories) with parking facility and 3K sq. ft. café restaurant.
Office Tower: The Office tower will incorporate sustainable design technologies and practices in order to achieve a minimum LEED certification for core and shell rating. The tower consist of 25,741 sq. ft rentable floor plates. The building core will consist of seven elevator, a single mechanical room. Men`s and women`s restroom with fixture counts that meet current city codes, electrical, telephone and maintenance closets as necessary to meet requirements. The configuration of the core elements has been reviewed by all team members to determine a final layout.
The configuration impacted lease depths, structural layout, elevator locations, multi-tenant add-on factors, and the ultimate building footprint. It did not impact the total rentable square footage or number of floors.
The exterior materials consist of precast concrete panels and insulated glazing/curtain wall systems. The lobby finishes is high end "class A/B" level. The roof penthouse is metal panel.
The tower has been served by seven full height elevator. There is a covered delivery and loading doc between the office building and garage. The office building has been connected to the garage via 12' wide air condition connector.
Status: Built
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The Brazilian left-back believes he will still have a career with the Gunners once he returns from Gremio, despite falling out of favour and the signing of Nacho Monreal
The Brazil international signed for the Gunners in 2011 for €7.9 million, but has slipped behind Kieran Gibbs and January signing Nacho Monreal in the pecking order, making just 13 Premier League starts for the club.
The 29-year-old maintains that he will return to play for the club as per Arsene Wenger's wishes, however.
"I talked [with Wenger] and we decided together this would be a good chance for me to get on top of my game," he told the Evening Standard. "He gave me a hug and told me Arsenal would always welcome me back with open arms.
"He did [want me to stay] but he wanted to see me happy and if I am not performing all the time, then I am not happy. Do I have a future at the club? For sure.
"I always wanted to stay here until the end of my contract. This is a club where I feel comfortable and honoured to play. However, when the club acquired another left-back it was clear to me that I will not play.
"Hopefully, when I am back, I will be on top of my game and then I will be able to help the team the way I want to."
The relationship between Santos and the fans at the Emirates took a turn for the worse after the defender swapped shirts with Robin van Persie at half-time during a defeat to Manchester United, something that left the Arsenal player confused but remorseful.
He continued: "The relationship was very good until the incident with Van Persie. I have apologised and moved on.
"I have all my respect to the fans of Arsenal. Hopefully soon I will be back and giving them many happiness."


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This is one of the many strange little things I have in my collection. I clean real estate and my mother owns a thrift store, so I find all kinds of wonderful things. This one kind of freaked her out. Haha. I asked her if I could have it, and she said "Really? That thing is ugly."
I was told that it may possibly be a Chalk bank, but hours and hours, days and days these little fingers slapped around the slaves on my keyboard and to no avail.
I figure one day someone will be able to tell me about it. It was found with other banks as well; A shoe "house", like the little ole' lady who lived in a shoe kind. A carriage wagon kind of thing. An owl, and finally, a bear that seemed to of walked out of the 70's as it had flowers and once again, these strange "Demon" Eyes.
I think the colors go nicely together. Those eyes though, is why I call it "Demon" squirrel. I absolutely adore this thing.


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NAPERVILLE, Ill. & BOCA RATON, Fla. — OfficeMax and Office Depot have announced the committee members tasked with overseeing the process to select a CEO for the combined company and selection of the executives who will help to manage the integration planning process.
Office Depot board member Nigel Travis, CEO of Dunkin Donuts, and OfficeMax board member Jim Marino, former president and CEO of Alberto Culver Company, will co-chair the selection committee. The other members are Office Depot directors Tom Colligan and Marty Evans; Rakesh Gangwal, non-executive chairman of the board of OfficeMax; and OfficeMax director Francesca Ruiz de Luzuriaga.
The committee will oversee a comprehensive search process that will consider both incumbent CEOs - Neil Austrian, chairman and CEO of Office Depot and Ravi Saligram, president and CEO of OfficeMax - as well as external candidates. The committee will proceed with the objective of selecting the CEO for the combined company at or prior to the closing of the transaction.
In addition, Office Depot and OfficeMax also announced the selection of key executives from both companies who will oversee the integration planning process for the combined company.
Messrs. Saligram and Austrian will provide overall sponsorship and stewardship of the integration planning process. Together, they have appointed OfficeMax EVP, CFO and chief administrative officer Bruce Besanko and Office Depot EVP and CFO Mike Newman to co-chair the integration planning process, with the shared objective of mutually developing an integration plan designed to ensure a smooth and productive transition and capture the projected $400 to $600 million in annual cost synergies by the third year following the transaction's close.
"Today's announcements mark a key milestone in our vision to help shareholders and customers of both companies realize the tremendous value inherent in our proposed combination," said Austrian. "By bringing together several of our top executives and board members to focus on the process of integrating our two great companies, we will build on our culture of collaboration as we move closer to successfully closing the transaction and better competing in this large and rapidly changing industry."
"The formation of the CEO selection committee and launch of our integration planning process represent important steps forward in achieving our vision of an $18 billion global office solutions company," said Saligram. "We are very pleased to have launched a comprehensive integration planning process and remain confident in the combined company's ability to deliver the targeted cost synergies and to more rapidly scale key market innovations. Both companies also remain committed to working toward completion of the proposed combination by the end of calendar 2013."
Office Depot today filed a registration statement on Form S-4 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which includes a joint proxy statement of OfficeMax and Office Depot and a prospectus of Office Depot. This filing provides important business and financial information about the companies, the proposed merger of equals and related matters.
As anticipated, the companies also confirmed that each company yesterday received a Request for Additional Information and Documentary Materials ("Second Request") from the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") in connection with the proposed merger. A Second Request extends the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, during which the parties may not close the transaction until 30 days after OfficeMax and Office Depot have substantially complied with the Second Request (or the waiting period is otherwise terminated by the FTC). Office Depot and OfficeMax expect to respond promptly to the Second Request.
The companies remain optimistic about the regulatory process and will continue to work cooperatively with the FTC as it conducts its review of the proposed combination.
Transaction Details
On February 20, 2013, OfficeMax and Office Depot announced their entry into an agreement to combine their companies in a merger of equals aimed at building a stronger, more efficient competitor able to meet the growing challenges of a rapidly changing industry. The merger process is ongoing, and, as was stated in the February announcement, the transaction is expected to close by the end of calendar year 2013, subject to stockholder approval from both companies, the receipt of regulatory approvals and the satisfaction of other customary closing conditions.


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The question of when to take down the Christmas tree is debatable. The question of how to dispose of the tree is not.
Darcy Gregg, operations specialist at Waste Management in Fort Bragg, said to put the tree in the green waste bin. She said to make sure the tree is free of tinsel and other ornamentation. It is okay for the tree to stick out of the bin one or two feet.
If the tree is really large, Gregg said it is good to cut in half, if possible. It is also acceptable to place trees next to the green waste bin for pick up.
For people outside Waste Management's service area, such as Westport, Elk, Manchester and Gualala, Juan Gamez of Solid Waste of Willits said to take trees to a transfer station because Solid Waste does not offer yard waste pick up, except in the city of Willits. He said to make sure the trees are clean of tinsel or paint.
Solid Waste will accept trees for free at transfer stations, he said. On the coast, Solid Waste operates the transfer stations at Westport, Caspar, Albion and Gualala.


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Participating Krispy Kreme stores are offering Valentine's Day donuts — and a way to receive free doughnuts.
The deal, which kicks off this week in some stores, requires buying a dozen doughnuts.
With a purchase of a dozen at participating shops, receive a dozen free Valentine's cards. Each card includes a voucher for a free doughnut.
The deal is offered at up to two per person while supplies last.


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I couldn't help but notice that when I logged in to write this post about my "Thirty One Inspired Classroom Decor", I had just hit 3,100 followers. Ironic.
At this point in the year, I am usually tired of looking at my classroom and crave a change. In the past I ALWAYS did an elaborate classroom theme. I started with the ocean/beach. I then did a camping theme which the kids adored. Next up I went country with a western theme. This was followed by my Hollywood theme. Then I kicked it Jersey Shore style with an all out Jungle theme. I've always wanted to do a Sports theme because I think that is ideal for a classroom.
Last year I went a different route and opted for a "color scheme theme."
Aqua and lime to be exact. Are you surprised by that?
Honestly, I'm not tired of it yet. Not even a little bit. So I was going to just keep things the same this year.
But, it's not my style. I can't bring myself to not change things up because if I'm being perfectly honest, decorating the classroom is one of my most favorite joys in life. So why deny myself of such a simple pleasure right?
The problem is that my head is spinning with thoughts and ideas and girlfriend here has only four walls to work with. I must narrow it down to one.
I think I'm going to go the 'color scheme" route again. I had blogged before about how much I LOVE the fact that my Thirty One lunch bag and teacher tote match my classroom. I'm a nerd like that.
So last week I was at my friend Gabrielle's house. Y'all remember her right? She's the super sweet Thirty One consultant who generously offered all of my readers 15% off their entire purchase of Thirty One products if they mention this blog when they contact here.
Lean in close....the deal is still good. Yup! She said she still honors it for anyone who orders through her and mentions the Clutter-Free Classroom. Awesome deal! Awesome gal to work with. Awesome products! Check out her site {www.crazy4thirtyone.com} or Email her {gmontevecchi @ yahoo dot com}! :)
Anyhow, I had been toying with doing a grey and yellow classroom. I have a lot of black and white damask things in my room and a grey yellow color scheme would go really well. Plus, I figured all of my students work would really "POP" against those colors as a backdrop. With this in mind, I instantly fell in love with the new flowered pattern 31 had out. I was pretty much sold on the idea and went to work designing myself a whole bunch of goodies for my classroom to match.
Then I flipped through the Thirty One catalog to decide which items to purchase and fell in love with a couple other patterns which made me question if I wanted to use those colors in my room instead.
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So I designed some classroom decor items to go with those hoping I could better decide if I saw them next to each other. It simply made my choices harder. I'm still on the fence. I have open house next week so I'm busy getting my classroom all "campy" for that which buys me a bit of time. However, as soon as that is over I plan to get to work transforming my room to it's new look. I just don't know what look that will be.
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My Down to Earth Bundle includes earthy tones, relaxing colors and cool patterns.
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My Clouds and Sun Bundle was named as such because of the grey and yellow color combo.
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My Bright and Cheerful Bundle is just plain fun. Vibrant colors and fabulous patterns.
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What I do know is that I will absolutely be ordering an organizing utility tote. I already use my bag as a "traveling office," but check this out...
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Eeeeek! It's a hanging file crate INSIDE a utility tote. Holy Cow! I couldn't love it more. Look at those outside pockets...stickers, calculator, all the colored Sharpies I adore. I think I need one for the house to since my office was turned into a playroom.
Cast your vote...which color scheme should I pick?
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The Last Story is an action RPG crafted by Final Fantasy creator Hionobu Sakaguchi.
The Japanese development stalwart left Square Enix to start up his own studio Mistwalker several years ago, which built the Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey RPGs on Xbox 360. That's enough in itself to suggest The Last Story will be a high quality release, which features its own unique elements.
Players take control of swordfighter Zael and his band of mercenaries who embark on a quest to become a noble knight. Like the Final Fantasy games, the battles are all about strategy and figuring out each enemy's weaknesses, with detailed character customisation options. It even has a six-player online mode.
The Last Story follows last year's well-received Wii RPG Xenoblade Chronicles. They form two of three upcoming Japanese RPGs for Wii. The third game, the Ganbarion-developed Pandora's Tower, is due later this year.
"Following the success of Xenoblade and the high anticipation of Pandora's Tower, The Last Story is sure to keep JRPG fans wanting more," Nintendo UK product manager Vanisha Kavia tells MCV.
Nintendo says previews and reviews for the game will be appearing in all major games publications, while online takeovers and banners will run on video game websites.
Sakaguchi will be attending the Midlands MCM Expo on February 18th where he will be demonstrating The Last Story to fans. He will also take part in a question and answer session at BAFTA two days earlier.
The Last Story is also available as a Limited Edition complete with a copy of the game, SteelBook cover, CD soundtrack and art book.


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Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Shadow Pencils Reviews
Outstanding Colors and Slide-On TextureI'm generally not a fan of pencil liners, as they generally drag and I find myself washing and reapplying to apply color where I want. I love the vivid colors UD offers, and these slip on almost by themselves, making application so easy and fun. — 3 years, 8 months agoGigiSD | 1102 reviews
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You have to try theseI got these from Urban Decay on sale. I really like them, and getting them on sale is even better. — 5 years, 7 months agoCaroleVonAllten | 1401 reviews
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In LOVEI love these pencils. They are technically an over-sized version of the regular 24/7 pencils, but most of these have glitter in them. Naturally, UD makes them highly pigmented so you don't have to spend a lot of time building color. These glide on effortlessly and I like the little shimmer from the glitter. They are more pricier than the regular 24/7 pencils so some people may prefer investing in those instead if they want to save a few bucks. — 6 years, 6 months agovolta | 566 reviews
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Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Shadow PencilsI bought the 5 pack they were selling over the holidays. My first reaction was to compare them to NYX's jumbo pencils (both cream eyeshadow sticks, yes?) and these knocked them out of the park! I have very hooded/not quite monolid eyes, so staying power is important. I ALWAYS use the NYX HD shadow base, and paired with these? BOOM! All day wear, no creasing, great colors. :D These pencils are amaz...read moreing. I wear contacts and live in a high-humidity climate. I've never before had a waterproof eye product that didn't at least start flaking part-way through the day, but this stays pristine for a full 12 hours (at which point I take it off regardless). I use a basic all-over face primer and some concealer around the eyes, but no heavy-duty eye primer - the pencil stays put all by itself. Plus, application is silky smooth and easily blendable, which is so important around the eyes. Finally, it comes in a wide variety of colors, from basic blacks and browns to dressier, glittery shades. Love these... Started with Sin and Rehab... went out and got Lit and Mercury... FANTASTIC stuff! I've found that if I put on TooFaced Shadow Insurance on one eye, and before it sets... swipe on the shadow pencil... extra blendability, no creasing, no fading! Just do each eye separately... then there's plenty of time to blend. And once one layer of color is on, somehow layering and blending is easier. Like others have said, I wish this was in a twist pencil form rather than using a sharpener. And- I did manage to drop one which dinked the tip... But I just pushed it back on and made sure I applied straight from the tip downward (not on an angle) and I was able to save most of the product. I'm not sure how long these will last... I think MUFE's aqua eyes may be a better value in terms of the quantity of product. Amazing! It's the best eyeshadow pencil I've ever used! These pencils are highly pigmented, easy to apply, to blend and extremely waterproof and smudge-proof. And, easy to remove. I bought two - sin and rehab. They works great as both eyeshadow pencils and eyeliners. All these two pencils plus a mascara are all I need for my eyes. With these, I don't need to check my makeup after workouts or a tough day. For $20, I think it's a fair price for the quality and the amount of product I got. Since it's versatile (eyeshadow and eyeliner), I think it's a great buy while $18 for a eyeliner which is 1/3 amount is expensive for a pencil needed to be sharpen so often. These are super creamy and can be smudged really easily, plus it stays put when applied over the UD eye primer (original). The colour payoff is incredible! I also love the fact that I don't need to carry my e/s brushes along as these are so utterly travel friendly and just my fingers will do to smudge them. I am in total love with these e/s. I have the following colours which I totally love. Total repurchase always. Narc = mossy green e/s Sin = champagne e/s which i use for highlighting when using Narc and Rehab Rehab = beautiful neutral brown that is not too reddish or orangish or dirt brownish Delinquent = purple with golden flecks of shimmer Morphine = light purple that i use mostly for highlighting when using Delinquent — 5 years, 5 months agomihshelle | 182 reviews
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A Perfect Eyeliner!I just received the Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Shadow Pencil in a teal color that is gorgeous! The color is highly pigmented, it applies smoothly without tugging, and it lasts all day and all night! If you are looking for an eyeliner that can be used as a shadow, in some fun colors and a few basics, that will last forever, pick this up! It will not go anywhere so you know you look perfect no matter what you're doing. — 5 years, 5 months agopowerwoman033 | 509 reviews
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Making eyesthis pencils are great! they remind me of a high quality version of NYX jumbo eye pencils. They last very long and are easily blendable. They also work great as a "primer" just apply eye shadow on top to "set" them and they make the shadows last long and a lot more vibrant! — 4 years, 9 months agorayshaviolet | 245 reviews
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Ok, surprise I got my computer back tonight so I am going to go ahead and try and put one of these together.
I will be honest with you I really don't want to do this as I don't want to come across as being nothing but negative, but frankly I don't know what else to be after tonight.
Yes we were on another back to back, yes we were tired, and yes we were missing George Hill and Jeff Foster.
None of that really matters. We've played 27 games this was Denver's 28th. While we are missing a backup center and a backup combo guard they were missing their starting forwards as Gallinari missed the entire game and Nene missed the second half.
Honestly the last time the team played a good game was in Dallas and every since then even in the games they have won they have looked very shaky at best in playing.
I wish I could put my finger exactly on what is going on because in all honesty I don't know. I would start at the defensive end as it just seems like our defensive play has slacked off and IMO a lot of that is being done on the perimeter. Earlier in the season we were getting a lot of ball deflections and even when we weren't stealing the ball or changing possessions we were causing the opponents to get set up in their offense late in the shot clock often times either forcing a shot clock violation or causing a very poor shot to be hoisted up. This just doesn't seem to be happening nearly as much lately. Also I've noticed that teams are now forcing Roy to the top of the key and sometimes beyond on the pick and roll and thus leaving the lane uncovered for what is now becoming an easy lay up at the rim.
Also on our offensive sets it seems we are starting to take more and more jump shots and it seems like our ability to work the ball into the post in the lane is waning. Now some of that is going to just be natural with teams adjusting their defense. But some of it is quick perimeter jumpers.
The worst part about all of this is that we have Miami staring at us on Tuesday night and while it is not a guaranteed loss, it will not be a walk in the park either.
Also while I'm at it I am going to do something I am loath to do, but I am going to criticize Frank Vogel for a couple of things. First and foremost he has got to stop letting other teams get such big runs before he calls a time out. I believe Denver went on a 10 point run before he made the first time out; he did this vs. Utah as well. Look I know both sides of this argument. There is the Rick Carlisle thinking that any time a team scored 2 unanswered baskets Rick was calling a time out (Ok that is a slight exaggeration but you get my point) and then there is the Larry Brown let the players play through it thinking. I'm not sure there is an absolute right way to do it, but I think we wait to long to make adjustments. Also when they have a 15 point turn around I would not only call time out after time out to get it stopped I would change out every player on the floor if it was necessary (again exaggeration but you get my point)
Second while I certainly understand the egg timer substitutions and mostly agree with it, there are times you have to turn off the timer. Granger was on fire at the end of the first. Why not let him play into the second to see if he is still going and then take him out. Not bench him, sit him for 20 min. of real time and then put him back in cold.
Like I said I hate to say anything about him but I can't help but think that these two things tonight contributed to this loss.
Let's just do grades for tonight, although I'll warn you now it won't be pretty.
Danny Granger: C Could have been much higher, but 5 turnovers and only 2 rebounds tends to drag your grade down when the team loses. Cory Brewer also looked like Bernard King for awhile tonight and while I don't say Danny played horrid defense like some will, I won't say he played good defense either. As he walked off of the court tonight he threw his towel hard into his seat and he looked very mad. I'm not sure about what either, and then I read that he refused to talk to the media. Don't know what happened there.
David West: B Very efficient offensive game, good rebounding numbers. Had a bonehead pass to kill any chance of a comeback but I'll give him a pass here because without his offensive plays we wouldn't have had a chance anyway. However when Roy is out of position, which is happening more and more, David's lack of lateral quickness is becoming more and more of a liability. Guards get beat, it happens to the best of them, so somebody has to step up and often times it is the power forward that has to do this. David is not doing it. I don't know if he can't or just doesn't.
Roy Hibbert: D I'm being generous with the D btw. In the second half of this game he was outplayed by Kosta Kofous, yes I'll say that again he was outplayed by Kosta Kofous. Roy you so far have had a great season, an all-star season but these past few games you have put in some old Roy Hibbert type games. I am just going to go pray that this is because you are tired and need some time off and that this isn't the annual drop in production that you have suffered in the past. BTW his stats tonight were worthless because if you look at them you will think he had an ok game, he did not. He was horrid; in fact we would have been much better off with West and Hansbrough.
Paul George: C- Don't let his final point on the board fool you. He did not have a good game either and if it wasn't for hitting 3 three's in the 4th he would have had a miserable game on the offensive end. His defense wasn't hideous, which is what is saving him from a Roy like grade, but there were times where Arron Afflalo looked like Dwayne Wade cutting past him. I do appreciate the fact that he does get on the boards though. But I don't like the fact that he only got to the line twice, which just tells me he wasn't driving nearly enough.
Darren Collison: C- I'm probably being to gentle here as well. Yes he did a very good job in the first half at running the offense and yes in the 4th quarter he started running a good pick and roll with West. But my God his defense on Lawson was just embarrassing. I mean its one thing to let your man get past you once or twice but the entire game? Lawson was not only able to get into the lane he was able to get wherever he wanted whenever he wanted. Yea, I'll stick with the C- but it felt worse than that.
Tyler Hansbrough: C+ Honestly we should have seen more Tyler tonight. He wasn't as active maybe as you would like early on but just before he was taken out he was really down in the paint battling. I wish he would have gone to the rim more tonight because I have a feeling they would have fouled him. In fact it is a crime we only got him 3 shots which is troubling to me as it does seem that we have gone away from the interior smash mouth basketball we were playing at the beginning of the year. Roy was dead in this game so I think Tyler only playing 17 min. was a mistake.
Lance Stephenson: B+ If only he had a jump shot. He was about the only player tonight who I was certain of who had a pulse on our team. He had a couple of great steals and a terrific rebound off of a missed free throw for a put back. Also he had a pass to Dahntay Jones that was eye popping. He is still young and still has inconsistent games but I really like where I think he is headed.
A.J. Price: B+ Yes he shot too much, it just so happened tonight he actually hit some of his shots. However that is not what merits him the high grade. He along with Lance provided a spark of life in what was a lifeless team in the 2nd & 3rd quarters. He played fairly decent defense as well. In fact he did a better job on Lawson than Collison did.
Dahntay Jones: C Was still in control, which I'm about to quit even mentioning anymore as this hasn't been a problem since the second week of the season. But he did miss some shots tonight that he really needed to hit. But then again you can say that about everybody on our team tonight (minus David West). He is still a good free throw shooter and got to the line as many times as Paul did (one was shot for a T but that is why I'm saying he shot as many and not more).
Lou Amundson: C- He was a human foul magnate tonight but he still played better defense than Roy. Oh how I wish he would not have missed that dunk, that would have been epic. But he did so it just looked bad. Not going to spend a lot of time on him because he really didn't play that much.
I am not panicking by any means; I mean it's just a three game (probably going to be a four game) losing streak. But I really am starting to be concerned, we just have not looked right for several games now.
Here this is what George Karl had to say about this game.
"We won the game because we had more effort and energy." - Denver Coach George Karl
I don't know about you guys but that bothers me.


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This burger was created with my absolute love for crawfish and crab. When I was growing up my large family would have great crawfish boil parties in our backyard.
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The recipe for Sausage and Lentils with Fried Sage was inspired by one in The Silver Spoon, a classic Italian cookbook that I think every serious cook should own. The addition of fried sage was my idea after seeing it on restaurant menus, and the fried sage was a wonderful addition to this dish, if I do say so myself.
Sage is something I have growing abundantly for most of the year, and when you fry it the sage flavor intensifies just a bit as the leaves are transformed into crispy morsels of sage-flavored goodness. But if you like Italian Sausage and Lentils but don't have fresh sage, this dish would still be very good without the sage.
Sausage and Lentils with Fried Sage
(Makes 6 or more servings; recipe adapted from The Silver Spoon.)
1 package hot turkey Italian Sausage (5 links, 19.5 oz.)
(I use Jenni-O Hot Turkey Italian Sausage which is gluten-free)
2 cups dried lentils
1 piece celery, cut in 3 inch pieces
1 whole carrot, cut in 3 inch pieces
1 small onion, cut in half
generous T chicken flavor base (optional, I use Better Than Bouillon Organic Low Sodium Chicken Base)
1 T + 2 T olive oil (or more, depending on your pan)
20-30 fresh sage leaves
3-4 large garlic cloves
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Lee Sung Kyung and Nam Joo Hyuk are wrapped up in dating rumors.
The rumors stemmed off from Lee Sung Kyung's recent Instagram post. The model-actress shared a photo from Coldplay's concert, which took place on April 15-16 in Korea. The picture is a blurry cut of a man's legs. The mystery guy in the photo is rumored to be Nam Joo Hyuk.
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Metro is one of my all time favorite songs. Check out Berlin's lead singer Terri Nunn on Terri on VH1's Where Are They Now? She talks about what pushed her to make the vocals and she says what I always say: The best music comes from frustration. Synths and sex forever people.
"Berlin is an American synthpop band. The group was formed in Los Angeles in 1978 by John Crawford (bass guitar). Bandmembers included Crawford, Terri Nunn (vocals), David Diamond (keyboards), Ric Olsen (guitar), Matt Reid (keyboards) and Rod Learned (drums). Learned left during the first EU tour and was replaced by Rob Brill (drums). The band gained mainstream-commercial success in the early 1980s with singles including "The Metro", "Sex (I'm A…)", "No More Words" and then in the mid 80s with chart-topping single "Take My Breath Away" from the 1986 film Top Gun." – Wikipedia
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BSB: Tar Heels Walk Off To Sweep Stony Brook
Posted February 24, 2013
Chapel Hill, N.C. — Sophomore Mike Zolk capped off a two-run ninth inning with a RBI single as No. 1 North Carolina (6-0) claimed a 9-8 win over Stony Brook (0-6) in the nightcap of a doubleheader sweep.
The Tar Heels cruised to a 7-1 win in the opener as sophomore right-hander Benton Moss struck out seven over seven and a third scoreless innings of work.
Colin Moran and Cody Stubbs each tallied a pair of hits in the opener as Moran matched a career high with three runs scored. Freshman Skye Bolt and Stubbs paced the offense with two RBIs apiece in the win.
Moss was impressive in his second start of the season as he did not allow a Stony Brook runner to reach second base until the eighth inning when he departed with a 6-0 lead.
The runner would come around to score thanks to a Tar Heel error but Trevor Kelly would salt away the 7-1 win for the Tar Heels.
Game two saw Carolina fall behind for the first time in 2013.
The Seawolves scored single runs in the third and fourth innings off of starter Chris Munnelly before the Tar Heel bats came to life in the sixth.
The first six batters of the inning reached with Skye Bolt and Parks Jordan registering RBI hits before Brian Holberton came through with a two-run double to put UNC ahead 4-2 in the sixth.
The Tar Heels would add two more runs in the inning for their third six-run inning of the young season.
Reliever Chris McCue appeared to be rolling in his second long relief appearance of the week as he retired the side in order in both the sixth and seventh innings before finding trouble in the eighth.
Stony Brook turned the tables on the Tar Heels and sent 10 batters to the plate in a six-run inning of its own.
The Seawolves managed six runs on four hits and four walks in the eighth to take an 8-6 lead to the bottom of the eighth.
Holberton opened the eighth by drawing a walk before moving to second base thanks to a balk on Stony Brook's Tyler Honahan. After an unsuccessful bunt attempt, Landon Lassiter provided a pinch-hit single to score Holberton and cut the lead to 8-7.
The Tar Heels would come up short of tying the game in the eighth before putting together another rally in the ninth.
With one out Skye Bolt hit a foul pop fly to the right side but Stony Brook's first baseman overran the ball keeping Bolt alive. The freshman made the Seawolves pay with a double into the right center field gap.
Senior Cody Stubbs knotted the contest up at 8-8 with a double to right center of his own to plate Bolt and notch his third RBI of the day.
An intentional walk to Parks Jordan brought up Holberton with one out in the inning. The junior battled to a 3-2 count before watching ball four to load the bases for Zolk.
The sophomore second baseman fell behind 0-2 in the count to reliever Chad Lee but was able to slap a pitch the other way for the walk off single to left field. Stubbs would come around to score and give Carolina the series sweep of Stony Brook.
Junior Shane Taylor earned the win for Carolina as he threw two scoreless innings of relief.
The Tar Heels will return to action on Tuesday when they close out a seven-game homestand with St. John's in a 3 p.m. contest.


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First and foremost, Danny is playing for $$$$. Missed games are missed opportunities for him to show teams that he is worth signing. Also, there's just a raw competitive aspect to it. Danny is a basketball player, and basketball players want to play. He hasn't played consistent competitive NBA basketball since May 2012, which has to absolutely kill him, as it would any pro athlete. He's seen the team enjoy tremendous success since then, and he obviously wants to be a big part of it. An athlete wants to get out there and play as soon as they feel they can. Clearly it seems like Granger feels like he can.
Vogel as the coach has to make sure that the most disciplined approach is taken. The team is winning a ton of games and Danny hasn't played in a while. Thus, from his perspective, there is no need to rush him back until he is without a doubt as close to 100% as he possibly can be. Vogel wants Granger to be contributing to this team in the Spring when the stakes are highest, so he doesn't want the team to do anything stupid by running him into the ground when they are able to win games without him. Vogel and the team have to make their decisions with the big picture in mind.
It's not surprising that their agendas might conflict a little. I don't think it's anything to worry about though.


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May 22, 2013
Tallahassee, FL - May is Asthma Awareness Month. More than 350,000 Americans die each year of lung disease, and thousands of people in the Big Bend area alone have been diagnosed. About 40 years ago, Tallahassee City Commissioner, Gil Ziffer tried his first cigarette at 16 year old.
He has since made the decision to quit smoking, not only save his life but also to protect his family. Ziffer says, "I started smoking a little bit, which led to smoking about a pack a day by the time I was a Senior in high school." Ziffer also admits "My wife has asthma. She has difficulty from time to time being able to breathe at no fault of her own and I was smoking."
Thanks to programs offered at the American Lung Association, Ziffer was able to get the help he needed to quit and has not picked up a cigarette in 20 years. He says "I went through the American Lung Association Smoking Cessation Program and they give you a little card and you fill out the 5 reasons why you want to quit smoking and the most important one for me is I wanted control of my life again because the cigarettes controlled me."
According to Ziffer, others can notice if you are a smoker, even if you hide it. Ziffer admits "I know it affected my family because I was a sneaker, I hid it from them. Not from my wife but from my kids. I have 2 sons, and I hid it from them so I would go outside after dinner or I would go outside after we did something and I would escape when we're in the restaurant."
Ziffer's wife, Gail Stansberry-Ziffer, says having been diagnosed with an incurable lung disease, she didn't want to see her husband face the same fate. She says, "I know how frightening it is when you can't breathe, so I really didn't want him to have long term damage and he had smoked for many years and so I was concerned, I love him."
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Greg Biffle looks around Roush Fenway Racing and he is in an unusual position.
He doesn't see Matt Kenseth, his teammate since Biffle began full-time Cup racing in 2003. Kenseth is gone, having left for Joe Gibbs Racing.
— TOP 25: Dale Earnhardt Jr. takes a step forward
He sees Carl Edwards, who nearly won the 2011 championship but struggled and finished 15th in the standings in 2012.
He sees Ricky Stenhouse, a rookie who will replace Kenseth.
For the first time in six years, Roush Fenway will enter a season with only one driver who made the Chase the previous year.
Biffle admits that it's a strange position, and he feels like his No. 16 team will enter the season as the leader of the organization.
"It looks like I'm the only guy, considering the last four or five races of the season, the 99 (of Edwards) copied everything the 16 did, part for part and spring and shock," Biffle said.
"With Matt gone and Ricky not really competing before in the Cup series, I'm sort of the lone soldier."
Biffle doesn't mean that he expects Edwards – the 2011 Sprint cup runnerup – to remain uncompetitive. But Biffle has the lone Roush team that can ride some momentum into 2013 and seems headed in the right direction.
And even then Biffle doesn't have the momentum that he had for much of 2012. He led the standings for more than half of the 26-week regular season but had a disappointing Chase before rebounding the last few weeks to finish fifth in the standings.
"When the Chase started, I'm walking around Chicago (before the Chase opener) with an inch of air underneath my shoes, I'm like on Cloud 9," Biffle said.
"And flying home from Chicago, my hands were in my head like, 'What happened?' Somebody stole my spoon. And we just never got it back. About halfway through we got going."
What perplexed Biffle was that he finished 13th at Chicago after placing fifth at the similar Kansas track earlier in the season. Then he went to New Hampshire and he finished 18th at a track he had finished ninth at earlier in the year. Then came Dover, where he was 16th — five spots worse than in the spring — because of a loose wheel.
Things finally rebounded about a month later at Martinsville, where he finished 10th at a track where he is not usually strong. He finished the season with four top-10s in the Chase.
"When the Chase started, we looked like a 25th-place team that just got lucky and made the Chase instead of coming into the Chase leading and dominating like we were," Biffle said.
Biffle believes his team, led by crew chief Matt Puccia, can get that back even though he will have one teammate (Edwards) looking to bounce back and another teammate (Stenhouse) trying to get his footing in Cup.
They will all have a hand in the development of the new Sprint Cup car.
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He needs to be brought off the bench as the backup 2 where we can make him aggressive. Hes too damn passive offensively as the PG.
His defense is consistently laughably bad, but he needs a role where he's encouraged to shoot. Even if he's missing, at least he'll kind of look useful.


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In anticipation of the 2012 LA Auto Show, Jaguar has released full images of its XFR-S. The new vehicle is Jaguar's fastest, most powerful sedan ever and features an aggressive and intimidating design. The XFR-S will most likely included a supercharged 5.0-liter V8 engine, producing somewhere between 540 to 550 horsepower.
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Shipping Cupcakes in a Jar
I have been wanting to make these for MONTHS now. Cupcakes in a jar seem like the perfect gift to send someone. More than half of our immediate family members have birthdays in October, November, or December, so I thought this would be a great opportunity to try this out on some of them.
I decided to make two flavors of cupcakes and send one of each to the lucky family members. I wanted to go with relatively ordinary flavors, so I went with yellow funfetti cupcakes with chocolate frosting, and chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. I also threw in some add-ins with the cupcake and frosting. In the yellow cupcake jars, I added sprinkles and in the chocolate cupcake jars, I added crushed up Oreos.
For the girls, I used my hot glue gun to attach some ribbon to the ring of the jar. I didn't figure the boys would like ribbon on their jars. Once I got the cupcakes made, I froze them. Then I put them in the jars with their frosting and froze them overnight. I shipped them the next day so they would defrost as they made their way to different parts of the country.
The yellow cupcakes were split in half (down the middle) and frosting was piped down in between the two halves of the cupcake. Then more frosting was piped on top of the cupcake with more sprinkles. With the chocolate cupcakes, the tops were pulled off and a layer of frosting and crushed Oreos was added. Then more frosting and Oreos were layered on top of the cupcake top.
Based on what I heard from the lucky birthday boys and girls, the shipping cupcakes in a jar is a good way to go. The cupcake to frosting ratio will have to be perfected. Fellow cupcake lover, Clara, did recommend that shipping cupcakes this time of year is better than in the summer. If you're shipping to locations where the temperature is hot, you want to be careful with your ingredients – cream cheese frosting could be a bad idea in that case…
My sister (Happy Birthday Brooke-i-poo) sent me a picture of her cupcake just before taking a bite. She did say it was a bit dry. But in my defense, the box did sit in her apartment office for four days! Also, the top part of the cupcake did stick to the top part of the lid because of the frosting. Maybe I shouldn't fill them so full next time… Or put them upside down so the frosting isn't on the top? I'll have to think about that for next time…
For the chocolate cupcakes, I used my go-to chocolate cupcake recipe and a standard cream cheese frosting. The yellow funfetti cupcake and chocolate frosting recipes are shown below.
Not-So-Yellow cake, from Confections of a Foodie Bride – I made a half batch and got about 15 cupcakes
3 cups cake flour – I used AP
1 Tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup unsalted butter, cubed and softened to room temperature
2 cups sugar
5 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1 1/4 cups buttermilk
1/4 cup sprinkles
Preheat oven to 350. Butter and line with parchment paper two 8×2-inch pans (These cakes rose over the top of my 2-inch pans – you could very well have a mess on your hands if you try 1.5 inch pans). Set aside.
In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Place butter in the large bowl of an electric mixer, fitted with a paddle attachment. Beat for 3 minutes on MEDIUM-HIGH speed until the butter is light and creamy in color. Stop and scrape the bowl. Cream the butter for an additional 60 seconds.
Add the sugar, 1/4 cup at a time, beating 1 minute after each addition. Scrape the sides of the bowl before each addition. Add the eggs one at a time. Reduce the mixer speed. Stir vanilla into the buttermilk. Add the dry ingredients alternately with the buttermilk. Mix just until incorporated. Scrape the sides of the bowl and mix for 15 seconds longer. Stir in sprinkles.
Spoon the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top with a knife or off-set spatula. Lift up the pan with the batter, and let it drop onto the counter top a couple of times to burst any air bubbles and allowing the batter to settle. Center the pans onto the lower third of the oven and let bake 45 to 50 minutes or until the cake is lightly brown on top and comes away from the sides of the pan and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Let cool completely in the pans before removing the cakes and frosting.
Hershey's Perfectly Chocolate Frosting
1 stick (1/2 cup) butter or margarine
1/3 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
3 cups powdered sugar – I used 2 1/2 cups
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Melt butter. Stir in cocoa. Alternately add powdered sugar and milk, beating to spreading consistency. Add small amount additional milk, if needed. Stir in vanilla. About 2 cups frosting.
18 Responses to "Shipping Cupcakes in a Jar"
I love it! Where did you get the jars? Now I totally wanna do this for xmas gifts!
I looked everywhere and just couldn't find them. I ended up ordering them from Amazon. They weren't very cheap so that was a bummer…
Ah bummer. What size are the jars? I wonder if Ikea would have them? Whats the amazon link?
I ordered them from here. You want the wide mouth jars so the cupcakes fit and the 1/2 pint size is perfect.
The yellow cupcakes didn't rise much so I added more frosting to fill the jar and the chocolate ones rose quite a bit so they had less frosting. My sister said that the chocolate one had the perfect amount of frosting or could use a smidge more, so you want a cupcake that has at least a small dome.
haha, i've never seen that before 🙂 love it!
OH FUN! I've seriously always thought about doing this and never did. I'm starring this post to remind myself at Christmas. Too cute!!
I have been dying to try this ever since I saw it last year on someone else's blog. They actually baked the cake in the jar and then iced it like a cupcake. I am going to have to order some of those iddy jars! Too cute!
Hmmm…might have to do this for Christmas instead of those "ingredients in a jar" thing we were thinking of.
I really want to try this, but I keep reading online that you shouldn't put frosting in the jar because it will get moldy by the time it reaches its destination. I'm sure you would have heard if it was moldy when it got to your friend right? I would just be so embarrassed if that happened. Any help?
Renee – I've done this twice and both times haven't heard of any mold. I froze the cupcakes/frosting in the jars prior to shipping them. I also shipped in the winter. My one sister even didn't go get her package from the office until a week after it arrived and it was still good. I would guess she ate her cupcakes about 10 days after I sent them. I'm not sure if shipping in warm weather will have an impact on potential mold…
Alright I'll definitely give it a try then. It will make for a very good Easter present for my faraway friends =)
Oh that's a good idea!! I might have to order some more jars and do the same myself…
What a clever idea! I would love to get a cupcake in the mail! 🙂 Maybe I'll send out Valentine's Day Cupcakesnext year!
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Love these!! We have featured you on our blog. http://cutecupcakesallthetime.blogspot.com
Did you freeze them before shipping? The jars looked frosted…
What shipping method did you use? Overnight or Express???


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For me, my overstable Roc was never my primary Roc. My seasoned Roc is my $$$ Roc and takes the majority of my throws. The overstable Rocs take longer to break in because I just don't throw them as often.Drowsy wrote:victorb wrote:If I ventured a hypothesis, I'd say a brand new dx roc takes 2-4 months to beat it's initial overstability out. The wear process slows significantly after that phase - though it's still easy to have one primary that you throw a lot and get it to a beat stage. Most people will put something similar to an x comet or ontario mold roc in the bag until they get a rancho nice and worn in for a turnover disc.
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Furthur wrote:Either get a lighter one, throw harder, or find a disc with more glide.
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JActor Cluster Platform
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Getting Started with JAConfig
To run JASocket you will need the JAR files for compatible versions of JActor, JID, JASocket and JFile. Download these projects from here and extract the jar files to a common directory, in our case c:\jaconfig. You will also need jar files from slf4j, sshd, joda-time and jline.
Next you need a few shell scripts. Here are some which work with windows:
Your directory should now look something like this:
The basic configuration of JAConfig is handled by JACNode. If you are familiar with JASocket, this code should be largely self explanatory:
Running JAConfig
Open a command window, go to the directory containing the jar files (you will need to be able to write to this directory) and enter the node command:
Now log in with the name admin and password admin.
Enter help to see the list of commands. There is nothing new here, as the commands are all implemented in JASocket:
Now we can use the localServers to see what is running on the local node:
We see that the config, kingmaker, quorum and ranker servers were started by node (class JACNode), while hostManager was started by kingmaker.
Authentication of operator passwords is handled by the config server, so a good starting point is to see what commands this server supports:
The very first thing we should do is to change the password for admin, and then test it.
The config database now holds the new admin password.
Accounts for operators are created just by assigning a password. Any operator can do this, but you will need the admin password. Note however that there is no difference between creating an operator account and changing another operator's password.
A quorum requires the participation of N/2+1 hosts. So with one host, you need one host to achieve a quorum. With two hosts you need both hosts running to achieve. But with three hosts, only two hosts are needed. Fault tolerance then is only achieved when running with 3 or more hosts.
The quorum server tracks the number of hosts that are available and gets the total host count from the config database--which must be manually assigned.
As soon as the total host count is set to 1 we achieve a quorum. The kingmaker, which was listening to the quorum server for a quorum notification, immediately starts up the cluster manager server.
Setting the totalHostCount back to 2 means we loose quorum and clusterManager stops running:
SSH Server
JAConfig has an alternate implementation of SSH server that subclasses HostServer. This allows us to use the host manager to run one copy of the SSH server on every host.
The port number used by the SSH server, 8889, is specified in the assignment to hostManager.ssh.
Multiple Nodes per Host
Starting a second node on the same host, we need an unused port. But when specifying the port, a console is not opened.
C:\jaconfig>node 8881
When more than one node runs on the same host, only one instance of the host manager is run, as well as only one instance of each host server.
Multiple Hosts
Running a node on another host establishes quorum. In this case we will explicitly specify a port of 8880 to prevent the opening of another console:
The new host runs an instance of host manager, and an instance of each of the host servers. A single instance of the cluster manager is now running in the cluster.
As we define new cluster servers, one instance of each is run on the cluster. The nodes chosen to run the new servers are those least loaded.
Taking down the second node on the first host, the load has been rebalanced between the two remaining nodes.
JAConfig--Extensible Cluster Manager
The JASocket package makes it easy to create distributed, scalable software. JAConfig, in turn, makes it easy to manage in production.
The Config DB
JAConfig provides a fully replicated non-transactional, eventually consistent, key/value pair database for maintaining both configuration data and operator passwords. The database also provides change notifications, so servers can react to configuration changes. Every node in the cluster has a copy of this database both on disk and in memory, ensuring that the database is fully robust and supports fast queries. And there is neither a separate log file nor any need for a recovery mechanism--on startup, if the database is not valid its contents are discarded.
The underlying assumption of the database is that changes are infrequent, and that the system clocks of all the nodes in the cluster all have roughly the same time. Key/value pairs in the database always carry the timestamp of when the last change was made. Changes are propagated across all nodes in the cluster and shared when a node connects to another node. For each key, the change with the latest timestamp is retained.
The database is peer-based. So there is no single point of failure. And because there is no master copy, there are no warm or hot backups and fallover time is effectively 0. On the flip side, status information is completely out of scope, as frequent updates will break the underlying assumptions.
A cluster can be split into 2 or more smaller clusters by something as simple as a loose cable. If these smaller clusters act independently, inconsistent results can occur. This is managed by knowing the total number of host computers in the cluster and only allowing some activities to occur the the number of hosts currently connected to a given cluster is equal to or grater than (totalNumberOfHosts / 2) + 1. Clusters connected to this number of hosts have what is called a quorum and as there can not be two sub-clusters with a quorum of hosts, at most only one sub-cluster will be active.
Note that we are talking about a quorum of hosts rather than a quorum of nodes. Multiple nodes can run on each host and indeed there may be a large host which runs many of the nodes in a cluster. So if the quorum was based on nodes, it is possible that all the nodes of the quorum are running on the same host, which creates a single point of failure.
Cluster and Host Server Managers
At this time there are two types of server managers, the Cluster Manager and the Host Manager. These managers are started (and monitored) by a kingmaker server, which runs in every node. The kingmaker servers are responsible for having one cluster manager running in the cluster and one host manager running on every host.
The cluster manager uses the data in the config database to start and monitor a number of cluster servers, where each type of cluster server has only a single instance running somewhere in the cluster. The cluster manager and all the cluster servers stop running when the node is not a part of the active cluster (a cluster with a quorum of hosts).
Similarly, the host managers use the data in the config database to start and monitor a number of host servers, where each type of host server has only a single instance running on each host. Unlike the cluster manager and servers, the host manager and servers are unaffected by quorum considerations.
Load Balancing
The cluster and host managers use a server named ranker to determine which node to use when starting a server. A simple ranker is provided which provides a list of nodes ordered by the number of servers running on each node. Alternative ranker implementations can be used as they are developed.


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Produce food safety remains a work in progress as the industry seeks to influence writing of the Food Safety Modernization Act's rules.
The industry is five years into development of the Produce Traceability Initiative and inside the comment period for the FSMA's rules that will affect how it grows, packs and distributes its produce.
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Saying PTI costs too much, some companies dismiss it but are only betraying their lack of homework to see exactly how much it costs, Fleming said.
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"If we don't do it, we will have a broken system of traceability and nothing will be changed. No one has been able to successfully argue against PTI."


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I setup a page so I can practice SQL injections to get an idea of how they work, but in my page they don't work at all. My queries are like this "SELECT fields FROM table WHERE field1 = '$value' " and lets say this query is hooked up to a URL variable, if I type in ?urlvar='; SHOW TABLES; or something like that, it just escapes the ' and nothing happens. Do SQL injections only work if the inputs aren't wrapped in quotes? As in SELECT fields FROM table WHERE field1 = $value.
Hi FrogWarrior, welcome to the forums
Learning how to exploit vulnerabilities is a field in it's own right.
Believe me, there are so many variations it would take great effort and time to learn even most of them.
IMHO the best use of your time and effort is to code using best practice, with security in mind right from the start, not as an afterthought.
As far as MySQL, don't use PHP's deprecated mysql functions. Use mysqli or PDO instead, taking advantage of the improvements eg prepared statements, bound parameters.
If you're intent on learning how to hack, sorry but the SitePoint forums are not the place for that.But if you want to learn how to write secure code, this is the right place.
Gudon ya, Alan!
However, the writing of secure code takes but a bit of knowledge (the simplest steps to eliminate SQL injection attacks).
Very simply, good coding of your website requires that you check every in put before submitting it to the database server. When you create a SQL query, it's normally enclosed in double quotes (") with single quotes (') around text you associate with a database variable. Someone creating a SQL injection attack, then, would close the single quote in the input and database directives of their chosing. What a webmaster MUST do is to remove any single quote (apostrophe) from user input and mysqli_real_escape_string() does a great job of that.
Mittineague: True, exploiting is a whole skillset in itself, just being a PHP programmer doesn't by extension mean you know about exploiting. I lost that practice app that I made, but heres one I found online:http://jmchilton.net/blog/?p=23its an SQL injection practice tool called tweeter. I started playing with it there, and my knowledge of SQL isn't extensive enough to know how to effectively exploit the vulnerability.
dklynn: I never use mysqli_escape_string(). I just use regular expressions to filter out any dangerous characters. Problem there is that sometimes I need to let users enter quotes and stuff like that into the database so I've been converting them to ASCII code, but maybe the escape_string function is a simpler way to do it.
mysqli_real_escape_string () is not needed by anyone who knows how to write their database calls properly. It only exists because many people simply switched from using mysql_query to using mysqli_query (which really should only be used if there is no data to be substituted into the call at all. Where you want to pass data to the query you should use mysqli_prepare to define the query and mysqli_bind to pass the data. Keeping the data separate from the SQL like that makes SQL injection impossible and removes any need to escape the data.
First time I hear of mysqli_prepare and bind, I'll look into this, thanks. I've been using mysqli_query and mysqli_multi_query for everything.
Using MySQL procedures like Stephen suggests is another excellent way to go!
www.php.net/mysqli_real_escape_string will take you to PHP's page where it explains the options available - where the default is to encode single and double quotes.
Most webmasters don't know/understand regular expressions (or might forget to check for the single and double quotes) but that check should be done on input data anyway. The rule of thumb to use is to check all visitor input VERY CAREFULLY before allowing it to touch your database. Any of the above can protect you and ALL may be overkill but it's simpler than rebuilding your database. Error on the side of caution and CHECK EVERYTHING a visitor sends to your website (an ounce of prevention is worth TONS of cure!).
Some general rules to help prevent getting your database filled with junk and to prevent data being misinterpreted as code..
With PHP a) where a function exists that can perform the validation for you use that eg. is_numeric($_POST['num']),b) if a filter exists then use that eg. filter_var($POST[email'], FILTERVALIDATE_EMAIL))c) where neither of those exists then use a regular expression or whatever tests are required to ensure that the content of the field is reasonable.
If you are using a different language then use the built in validations where they are available as they are less likely to allow something invalid through as they will have been more thoroughly tested than your own code.
SANITIZE all other inputs (those inputs should be valid but if someone manages to tamper with the data at least you have stripped out anything that could cause problems such as injection.
Use different naming conventions for variables that have been validated or sanitized to the names used for fields that haven't so that you don't accidentally reference a "tainted" field assuming that it contains valid data. (a tainted field is one that hasn't or potentially hasn't been validated or sanitized yet and so can potentially contain invalid data - PHP got rid of register_globals because with that on all fields are always tainted).
Keep data separate from code as much as possible eg. using prepare and bind for your database calls - the code goes in the prepare statement and the data goes in the bind statement - this removes any possibility of data being misinterpreted as code.
Where the data can't be kept separate from the code then ESCAPE the data before inserting it into the code eg htmlentities() before inserting data into HTML code.
You should be doing most of these even without considering security just to ensure that vyou are only saving valid data and that valid data doesn't get confused with code. That these steps also take care of most security issues is a bonus.
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Others - save the prior post as it's spot on!
Do you guys have the full official about how to protect from SQL injection? Thanks
Use prepare and bind - injection is then impossible as the data is in a separate statement from the SQL.
This has already been covered in depth earlier in this thread so if you had read the thread you would already know the answer.
some webhosting not support sqli, maybe its up tu curl or something
AFAIK the first version of PHP to have mysqli_ was version 4.1.3 released in 2002
If anyone is using a host that hasn't upgraded in 12 years, I'd say it's high time they changed their host.
Particularly since support for PHP 4 was dropped several years ago and so probably has quite a few exploitable security holes that have been identified by now.
There will soon be hosting that doesn't support mysql_ calls (there may already be some) but all hosting should support mysqli_ calls.