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Wednesday's airing of "The Ultimate Fighter" reality television series on Spike TV was one of the most-talked about in recent memory. During the airing of the show, former University of Iowa wrestler Paul Bradley was dismissed from the cast of competitors after it was determined that he had an outbreak of Herpes Gladiatorum.
Herpes Gladiatorum is a skin condition not uncommon within amateur wrestling and it is contracted through skin-to-skin contact. The show depicted an emotional Bradley revealing that he had quit his job as a wrestling coach at the University of Buffalo in order to try and earn a UFC contract. Soon after, the last image we saw of him was his exit from the show.
The developments were fascinating and dramatic but left a lot of unanswered questions. Fortunately, Bradley was gracious enough to agree to an exclusive interview with FiveOuncesOfPain.com (www.FiveOuncesOfPain.com) where he revealed more information about his condition; updated his current status in regards to his personal life and professional career; gave his thoughts on how his dismissal was handled; and much more.
The full transcript of that interview is now available.
Sam Caplan: I wanted to thank you for doing this interview at what must be a very emotional time for you. You obviously lived the event itself but was last night the first time you had seen how it was portrayed on television? And if so, how do you feel the decision to dismiss you from the show was portrayed?
Paul Bradley: Yes, that was the first time, and honestly I was expecting the worst out of the whole episode but it kind of hit it right on. There were obviously a few things that got cut out but nothing too much. Pretty much everything that was on the show was portrayed pretty truly.
Sam Caplan: What's today (the day after the airing) been like for you after re-living such an emotional situation like that?
Paul Bradley: Emotionally I'm fine. All of the emotion was pretty much right after the show. About a month after it I had thought about giving up the sport for good. I talked to my manager about it. I really didn't see the point in doing it anymore. I had given up so much for it; I had given up a great wrestling job at the University of Buffalo so I really had nothing to come back to.
Emotionally, I'm fine today. I feel good where I am at with EliteXC. I'm going to head out to Hawaii soon to train at B.J. Penn's camp for a month and then I'm also working on a job possibly (as a) trainer full-time down in Cocoa Beach, Florida with an MMA team and being their club wrestling coach as well as coaching high school kids in the summer. So things are looking up since the show is over but right away for a month after I didn't want to talk or see anyone other than my family. But things are going well now.
Sam Caplan: So Paul Bradley is going to be fine?
Paul Bradley: Yeah, exactly. What doesn't kill us only makes us stronger. Juanito (Ibarra), Rampage's coach, I went out to dinner with him after I got booted off. Juanito is really religious, and I'm religious to a point, but he stressed that "God is taking care of you and things happen for a reason. Things are going to look up from here." And he certainly hit it right on the button because I got the call from EliteXC that we're going to sign a contract and here I get another call about possibly being able to train full-time and make a living doing it and I'm pretty happy right now.
Sam Caplan: I know it's TV, but the process in which they dismissed you seemed so open and shut. Was there a lot of deliberation that went on before making the decision to dismiss you? Were they in contact with your management? Did they refer to any of your medicals? Did they give you an option of getting a second opinion?
Paul Bradley: That was pretty much an open and shut vote. I didn't any kind of time to talk about it. What wasn't shown on there was when I was talking to Dana and he was throwing me out, that was the first time I had heard about being kicked off because I was sent to the doctor that morning and actually saw the doctor and he said exactly what I thought he would say.
Like my college trainers say, in college wrestling you deal with this a ton because of the skin-to-skin contact. If you wrestle five years and don't get it, you're pretty lucky, I'll tell you that much — at least at the elite level like Division I.
I went and saw a doctor that morning and he's like, "Two days on these meds (the Valtrex) and you'll be fine." And I'm like, "Alright, great." So I went back and then Dana brought in his close, personal friend and the guy is saying this and that about that I can still give it to someone, but that's not how it works. It's got to be broken out, which it was but two or three days on the medicine and it was going to be gone. It works kind of like this; I get it once a year, maybe twice a year, at most.
So it wasn't going to happen again throughout the whole show — I can guarantee you that. Especially when I was taking that medicine every day. But I was just dumbfounded. I was shocked. First it was shock then it was acceptance and then it was the emotion afterwards.
Sam Caplan: So it was a pre-existing condition. Had you disclosed that when you submitted your medicals?
Paul Bradley: Well, I had submitted all of my medicals from college so I'm sure it was in there. But like I said, I can name a ton of fighters in that organization that have it right now. Of course I won't (name them), but half of the guys are wrestlers and I can name a couple off the top of my head right now. A couple of them I keep in touch with and they couldn't believe it. They couldn't believe it because it is so common in amateur wrestling and in wrestling in general you hear about it all the time. It was no big deal in my wrestling room at Iowa. "I got the herps" today is what you would say and you'd have to sit out a few days and get your medicine and you're good to go within two or three days.
I was just shocked when Dana said he had never seen anything like this because with jiu-jitsu, wrestling, or any sport with skin-to-skin contact, you can acquire it. So I was pretty shocked when he said he had never heard of this kind of thing.
Sam Caplan: Just to clarify, your condition is called Herpes Gladiatorum?
Paul Bradley: Yes, that's right. There's type I and type II. Type I is sexually transmitted and type II, which is what I had, is transferred from the skin. It's basically a cold sore but I get it on my neck.
Sam Caplan: In some of the basic research I've done, it says the condition is not uncommon with wrestlers and I spoke with your manager, Mike Camp, who informed 5 Oz. of Pain that you have a physician's note from the University of Buffalo Sports Medicine department that clears you to compete. Did that clearance come after the show, or before it?
Paul Bradley: It came after the show. Of course, there were rumors going around about what had happened and someone leaked what had happened. Obviously, I don't know who did it but it was on message boards and what not. EliteXC wanted to know that I'd be okay to compete with them, which I was fine with as far as getting a letter because I can see where they're concerned, because they might not know much about it either. I went and got my letter and I'm good to go.
The thing about it is, is that when you're stressing your body out is when it comes out so I'm going to make damn sure every time I am training hard and getting ready for a fight that I'm just taking the pills every day just as a precaution.
Sam Caplan: After you had received that note was there a decision made to go back to the UFC and essentially say, "Hey guys, we've got a note that says I'm okay. Let's reconsider things" or "Let's sign another contract." Was there any attempt to do something like that after you had received the note?
Paul Bradley: Not after I got the note, but I waited around for a month and a half or a few months after I got booted off the show and I had one of the producers' numbers and I genuinely thought I had a shot at the finale; maybe bring me back on the finale because I know they've done that before with people that have injuries. I don't know if a skin condition has ever been needed to bring someone back but I was hoping to make it back for the finale and I had called one of the producers and I asked what are my chances, pretty much, and she didn't say I wouldn't be back but she kind of said that they [his chances] weren't very good. I mentioned something about possibly signing with another organization and at that time it seemed like a good idea so I went ahead and did it.
Sam Caplan: All the fighters that appear on "The Ultimate Fighter" have traditionally been signed to contracts of some sort so that the UFC retains their rights. In order for you to sign with EliteXC my assumption is that you had to have been released from the UFC. Did you receive a full release?
Paul Bradley: Yeah, about a week or two after I was kicked off the show I got a release and one the producers called me and said my contract was cut and that I could fight elsewhere. I was pretty upset because when they (cut) my contract they pretty much said I wasn't going to be back. I was hoping for maybe a shot back because like I said, I knew it was going to be cleared up.
Once they cut my contract, it was like man, I don't even have a job. I came back to Buffalo with no job, or nothing. I pretty much had to take a fight on March 15 just to be able to live. I had no money but thankfully my family was great through the whole thing and helped out financially until I got back on my feet.
So I took that fight in Florida just to pay my bills because if anyone knows anything about Buffalo, the job market here is not great. So it was pretty much a do or die situation at that point in Florida as it was kind of like whether I was going to each or not for the next month.
Sam Caplan: You mentioned earlier in the interview about rumors going around, and there were a lot of crazy ones that were out there. I even heard one that said you were kicked out because you accidentally hit Dana White while trying to break up a fight. Were you aware of the extent of the rumors that were going around?
Paul Bradley: Yes, I actually kept up a little bit on the message boards just to see what people were saying. And a lot of these people have no clue when it comes to anything about the sport. I remember reading one where someone said, "This guy looks like someone who would lose their temper and punch a cast member."
There were some others with people saying I had gotten homesick because of a girlfriend and one that I didn't make weight. They were so far off that I didn't pay much attention to that because the truth of the matter was that I was on that show for the long haul and it just didn't work out for me.
Sam Caplan: With the way everything went down is there any animosity on your part towards the UFC?
Paul Bradley: No, not at all. It was strictly business. Dana White was very professional about it and he was very kind about it. It just sucks because it didn't work out and I really wanted to be in that organization but at the same time I feel like I'm at a very good place right now with EliteXC.
Sam Caplan: Towards the end of the show there was a heart-felt segment where you talked about how you made a huge sacrifice to be on the show. You gave up your job as a wrestling coach. Can you talk a little bit more about what coaching at the University of Buffalo meant to you?
Paul Bradley: It was everything to me. It was pretty much the best job ever. If you watched the first season (of TUF), it was actually the same position Josh Koscheck had when he went on the show and he came back and left the team after the end of the season. So the head coach here wasn't too happy when he found out that the UFC wanted me but at the same time he became accepting of it because he knew that I had a dream of being a professional athlete.
It's great getting to help young athletes go through tough times because I've been through it all. There are situations like with what I just went through here, where guys break out and you've got to make sure they get on the medicine and do this and that for them. It's just rewarding getting to help kids and see them get better and help them accomplish goals that they've set out to do. I just wish that coaching college wrestling and fighting professionally went hand-in-hand but at this point in time, they don't.
Sam Caplan: You mentioned that you're in EliteXC now and I wanted to know if you could talk about how many fights you've signed for?
Paul Bradley: I don't know the exact terms so don't quote me on it, but I want to say that it's a three fight deal and then after that I think we're going to talk more about another deal. So I want to say it's three fights.
Sam Caplan: Has you've been given any indication about when you might debut for the promotion?
Paul Bradley: We're trying to get me on the June 14 card in Hawaii, which is going to be after the CBS card but it will probably be the undercard. My best friend Dave (Herman), I think they are trying to get him set up with Ron Waterman as one of the featured bouts but I'd love to be on the undercard because me and that kid have been through a lot because I coached at the University of Indiana last year and I used to train with him a lot so hopefully we can get both of us on that card.
Sam Caplan: Your initial win was shown on the show during the season premiere and Dana White was critical of your performance. Did you happen to hear his comments and if so, how do you feel about what he said?
Paul Bradley: The thing about it was that I had gotten the heads up going in that I was actually going to have to fight my way onto the show. Somehow my manager, Mike Camp, found out. So that was no big surprise; he actually saw a smirk on my face when they said we were fighting our way into the house. But we had a gameplan, which was to go in there and win.
I know it wasn't the most exciting fight — I know that — but again, from wrestling, my coaches had always taught me do what you do best and when you're fighting a guy who is a Muay Thai guy, and I believe he was 10-0 in Muay Thai, it would be pretty stupid of me to stand up up with a guy when that's his game. It just made more sense to take him down to the ground and control him there.
My first priority was making that show because I had made a huge sacrifice to be on the show and I was going to be damned if I didn't make that show.
Sam Caplan: You were a former All-American wrestler and you remained active in the amateur wrestling community as a coach after you graduated. Do you still keep up with the amateur wrestling scene, and if so, who are some wrestlers everyone should keep their eye on during the Beijing Games?
Paul Bradley: I still keep up on it and actually went to the Division I national tournament in St. Louis a week after my fight. I got my tickets two weeks after I had gotten off the show because I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do yet. I had thought about possibly giving up fighting and just doing the coaching thing full-time so I wanted to be down there to be able to talk to coaches and communicate with some of them. But I still keep up and some guys you're going to want to watch are Jake Herbert, he's a stud wrestler at 185 pounds; Trent Paulson at 145 pounds; and Mo Lawal.


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Can somebody confirm that this is Leptarthrus vitripennis,as apparently this is a scarce species.
I spotted this one at my local nature reserve in Rickmansworth.
Looks correct to me but I am not an expert in this group If you don't get any conclusive replies you could do worse than post to http://diptera.info/

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If you download and plan on running what you think is a codec named "multycodecupgr.7.<20xxx>.exe" (as in "multycodecupgr.7.20680.exe"), you should be aware that users have been effected by this phony codec over the weekend and today in surprisingly high numbers. The file drops a couple of executables. In our lab they were often named a singular letter, like "a.exe", "b.exe", "d.exe", you get the idea. These few files then barrage the user with the usual shock messages that the system is infected, although now they also claim that your system is "probably" infected…
The malware drops "sav.exe" in a self created "program filesAntiVirus 2008″ directory. It's all related to the AntiVirus 2008 software, warning the user of Blaster.Sasser and other inaccurate scanning results that need to be cleaned up for a price:
Pricing can be found at hxxp://www.s-av2008.com, starting at almost 40 clams. Avoid the site:
It seems now that Atrivo/InterCage is off the grid, these groups are moving resources to host urls like "dowload -best -warez.com" (18.104.22.168, 22.214.171.124) quickly.
Update: What started out as a few redirect links from a potentially compromised small-business t-shirt selling web site is now spreading. While the pages served at the iframe-based redirect link from the original site is down, the phony codec file is showing up on numerous adult sites.
It is advisable not to run the multycodec executables in circulation right now.


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The Test Sample
What is being tested?
Syphilis is an infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum that is most often spread by sexual contact, such as through direct contact with a syphilis sore (chancre), a firm, raised, painless sore. The most common syphilis tests detect antibodies in the blood that are produced in response to a T. pallidum infection. Some methods that are used less commonly directly detect the bacterium or its genetic material (DNA). Photo source: CDC
Syphilis is easily treated with antibiotics but can cause severe health problems if left untreated. An infected mother can also pass the disease to her unborn child, with serious and potentially fatal consequences for the baby. (See Common Questions #3)
There are several possible stages with syphilis:
- Primary syphilis—the primary stage begins about 2-3 weeks after being infected. One or more chancres appear, usually on the part of the body exposed to the sexual partner's chancre, such as on the penis or vagina. However, the chancre is usually painless and may go unnoticed, especially if it is in the rectum or on the cervix, and disappears within 4-6 weeks, healing regardless of whether the infected person is treated or not.
- Secondary syphilis—if primary syphilis is left untreated, secondary syphilis may occur from 6 weeks to 6 months after the chancre first appears. It is marked by a skin rash that often is rough, red, and spotted, appearing frequently on the palms of the hands and the bottoms of the feet (an unusual place for most other causes of rashes) and that usually does not itch. There may be other symptoms as well, such as fever, fatigue, swollen lymph nodes ("glands"), sore throat, and body aches.
- Late, tertiary syphilis—if untreated, secondary syphilis may continue into a latent stage, during which an infected person has no symptoms but continues to have the infection, and this stage can last for years. If still untreated, about 15% of people will develop the complications of late, or tertiary, syphilis. In these cases, the bacteria can damage the heart, eyes, brain, nervous system, bones, joints, or almost any other part of the body. When the central nervous system is affected, it is called neurosyphilis. Tertiary syphilis can last for years, with the final stage leading to mental illness, blindness, other neurological problems, heart disease, and death.
Syphilis is most infectious during the primary and secondary stages. In 2014, about one-third of over 63,000 new cases of syphilis reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were primary or secondary stage syphilis. Eighty-three percent of these cases were among men who have sex with men.
Syphilis can be treated with antibiotics, preferably penicillin. Newly acquired infections can be cured easily; however, longer treatment may be needed for someone who has been infected for more than a year.
How is the sample collected for testing?
Depending on the stage of disease and test method used, different samples are needed:
- Most often, blood is drawn from a vein in the arm to test for antibodies.
- If a syphilis sore is present, a healthcare practitioner may take a scraping from the chancre on the affected area, such as the cervix, penis, anus, or throat.
- If someone has late or latent stages of the disease with suspected brain involvement (neurosyphilis), the healthcare provider will perform a spinal tap to check the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for infection.
NOTE: If undergoing medical tests makes you or someone you care for anxious, embarrassed, or even difficult to manage, you might consider reading one or more of the following articles: Coping with Test Pain, Discomfort, and Anxiety, Tips on Blood Testing, Tips to Help Children through Their Medical Tests, and Tips to Help the Elderly through Their Medical Tests.
Another article, Follow That Sample, provides a glimpse at the collection and processing of a blood sample and throat culture.
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Learning C/C++ in Puppy
I have a spare old laptop I would like to use to learn C/C++ in Linux.
Unfortunately I only have mobile broadband (works on Ubuntu) but am looking to see if Puppy already has a compiler to learn C/C++ (i.e. is there any need to download anything?).
If not I will put Ubuntu on it and download whatever is needed as I know it works with my mobile broadband but is a little heavy.
Puppy is unconventional in that it defaults to a root user and makes it very difficult to work with a normal user. This is absolutely not the type of environment you want to develop programs in, so I think you want to pick almost any other distro. I love Puppy, but it just was not designed for what you suggest.
Are you aware of any other distro that has a C/C++ compiler installed without needing an internet connection for additional downloads?
I have an old version Xubuntu (8.04) but have had many problems getting it to work.
Liberalchrist. I am a game and applications developer and I use puppy for C++, Java and Python because of the issues of permissions of users. Running in root has great advantages when it comes to developement work.
Really simple question but how do you default to root?
Do you need any further installs for a C and C++ compiler in Puppy?
There is another user called spot which is used for runnung the webserver (Hiawatha) in puppy.
[QUOTE Do you need any further installs for a C and C++ compiler in Puppy?[/QUOTE]
Yes you only require the devx.sfs file that provides the compilers and Python.
In puppy its easy to install either using the boot manager or the sfs loader depending on which version of puppy you are using. Just ask a friend to download the devx for the version of puppy you are using from http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/.
If you decide to go down this route just ask for links and instructions on how to install .sfs files if you get stuck.
Yours Topaz
Thanks for all this info. which I will keep in mind.
I actually installed the latest version of Xubuntu yesterday and ran some updates to get the C++ compiler working on it, but if I use Puppy again for that purpose I will try your suggestions.
Put the devfx***.sfs (has to match particular puppy version) file on the same location as the lupu528.sfs file
goto menu > system > bootmanager configure bootup > choose which extra sfs files to load at bootup
select the devfx file
gcc should be available in the command line
I think you can set it up to be used through geany as well, but I personally like codeblocks better as IDE
Thanks. If I ever use Puppy for this purpose then will do...
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India's lead in outsourcing stems from its pool of well-trained, low-cost engineers for IT services, but there are many issues lurking beneath the surface.
The synopsis:India's lead in offshoring stems from its pool of well-trained, low-cost engineers for IT services. That pool is smaller than it appears, and there's a risk that it may run dry in the most popular offshoring locations. For offshoring companies, India's weak infrastructure is its least attractive feature.India's policy makers must improve the quantity and quality of its graduates, strengthen its infrastructure, and disperse offshore demand for talent to second-tier cities and services other than IT.


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GILMER/UPSHUR COUNTY (KYTX) - An update now on the murder investigation in Upshur County.
Eddie Douglas Baker remains in jail charged with killing a woman and stabbing two other men.
He is being held on $1.35 million bond.
Sheriff's investigators say he gave a videotaped statement that he stabbed 46-year-old Tana Fuller Warren and left her body in the back of their trailer home.
Warren's daughter said her mother disappeared Tuesday -- the first night she and Baker had moved into the home on Ginger Road.
"I had a feeling something was wrong when she didn't respond to my texts, and I stayed up for two days looking for her until I actually found what was really going on," said Warren's daughter, Jeanie Creswell.
Investigators have not released the identity of the condition of the two stabbing victims, who were taken to a Longview hospital to be treated.


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WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Spending by all states on the U.S. government's Medicaid plan rose 2.8 percent in fiscal 2006, the smallest such jump in a decade, says a national survey.
Adding to the good news is that tax revenues for the states rose 3.7 percent in the same period, thanks to a growing economy, the survey by the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation showed.
These figures may signal a trend in which efforts by the state-federal program for the poor and disabled to rein in costs may be paying off.
Next fiscal year, The Washington Post reports that five states plan to restrict eligibility, while 26 others plan to restore benefits and ease enrollment restrictions.
"The program continues to grow, but it is not out of control," said Diane Rowland, executive director of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
The Medicaid program currently serves more than 50 million people at a cost of more than $300 billion. States pick up 40 percent of the costs, while the federal government pays the rest.


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MUNICH, Germany, May 7 (UPI) -- Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber came back Sunday to beat doubles partner Mikhail Youzhny of Russia, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, in the final of the BMW Open in Munich.
The 23-year-old Kohlschreiber, in his first-ever ATP final, gained an early break of serve in the second set and had the only break of the third in the fifth game.
He went on to hold serve, claiming victory on his third match point to capture the first prize of $75,000.
"It's such an amazing thing to win your first ATP title and to do it in Germany," said Kohlschreiber. "I'm so happy. This is just a crazy day and I need a few days before this sinks in."
The third-seeded Youzhny, playing in his third ATP final of 2007, fell to 1-2 in title matches this season.


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Release Date: 2012 |
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Offhell yeah keep these 4.5s coming
Album Rating: 3.0Nice work. I'm intrigued by this and have been interested in the band's material for a while, so I'll probably check this out sooner or later.
Digging: Brand New - Science Fiction
Album Rating: 4.0Minus the horns, this doesn't really differentiate itself from All Eternals Deck all that much. I still love the shit out of it though.
Digging: Big K.R.I.T. - 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Offit kind of goes hand in hand with AED i think, but this one has a little something more.
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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The Paraphasic
26 January 2012
I started watching the Korean film
expecting it to be a fairly uninteresting but aesthetically pleasing story about a woman preparing to die. Lots of calm scenery and quiet struggles, a dash of social consciousness. Done.
Instead of this, I found myself sobbing through a good third of the movie. When I wasn't crying because of the heart-wrenching tragedy of the thing, I was overwhelmed by its honest beauty and realistic portrayal of human goodness. So much of the best and worst of human nature is captured in this movie, and balanced so perfectly from one scene to the next — without mood music or melodrama or unpleasant plot contrivances — that I'm tempted to offer up Poetry as the best film portrait of humanity I have ever seen. This is one of those rare works of realist cinema that gives viewers not just a startling insight into the difficulties of human nature (e.g. Cries and Whispers), or a heart-wrenching invitation to social consciousness (Umberto D), but also a vision of human joy and natural beauty that, because of its modest particularity and ordinariness, is sufficient to counterbalance the other darker truths and give us a reprieve from our grief. If ever a film attested to the grace present in creation which allows goodness to survive through evil, this was it. Watch it. You won't be disappointed.
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ElanX Wrote:I'd even be willing to use the NZXT Sentry-2 5.25" Touch Screen fan controller you used, because I'm not using the external 5.25" bay for an optical drive. But can't I just use software like SpeedFan to lower the fan speeds? (ASRock A75M mb) Isn't that better?
I don't think you are going to be able to do it with that fan. Sentry is nice. You can turn off the screen if it bothers you.


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Joseph Sylvester might be one of the luckiest people in the region.
On July 3, he matched all five numbers in a Cash 5 drawing, winning the top $100,000 prize. He'd done the same thing exactly three months earlier, on April 3.
With the money from his first winning ticket, Sylvester paid off bills and bought a new truck.
He bought his latest winning ticket at the 7-Eleven at 1500 S. Fern St. in Arlington. The winning numbers were 11, 15, 19 26 and 27.
Sylvester used Easy Pick and allowed the computer to randomly select the numbers on his ticket. His first reaction upon seeing he'd won again? "Gotta get my picture taken again."
Our advice? He should probably buy another ticket on Oct. 3. You know, just in case.
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LAKEWOOD >> A woman was found dead in her home, and sheriffs officials are investigating the case as a homicide — the first in Lakewood this year.
The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office identified the victim Wednesday as Margaret Mae Rion, 57, of Lakewood, who was found unresponsive by a relative inside her residence in the 4100 block of Maybank Avenue at 6:37 p.m. Tuesday.
The incident has been ruled a homicide based on trauma found on the Rion's upper torso, according to a sheriff's department statement Wednesday morning.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Rion's death is the first homicide in Lakewood this year, said Lt. Daniel Beringer of the Sheriff's Lakewood Station. There was one homicide in the city in 2013.
Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500.
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With a hypercurated members' list (including a limit on the number of agents), this outpost of the private London social club reigns as an inarguable hit four years in. The 14th-floor aerie is a hub for everything from awards-season jockeying (Harvey Weinstein routinely screens his films there) and peacekeeping (NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt noshed with Jay Leno during a peak talk-show crisis moment last summer) to screenwriting and networking. "It's like a reunion here every day during lunch," says FX senior vp series development Nicole Clemens. "You see everyone without having to set up a meeting." Last year, chef AndreaCavaliere added an upgraded equivalent of a salad bar, The Garden Table. "We get 300 people all pretty much at 1:15, and these are the ultimate modification clients. Everyone is on some special diet. The table lets them get a salad, a protein and a grain in their own way," he says. Billionaire Ron Burkle upped his membership two years ago with a $383 million cash infusion to expand globally. A second L.A. location, mostly likely downtown, is expected.
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If you haven't read a book that made you laugh out loud on the bus or the Tube in a while, try Christopher Snowdon's superb release, The Spirit Level Delusion (SLD).
But the book's subtle humour is not the reason I am recommending it. The SLD is, above all, a book that delivers and goes well beyond the promise of its subtitle – "fact-checking the left's new theory of everything".
It starts by exposing the empirical flaws in Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level (SL), which claims that just about every social problem is caused by income inequality. Using where possible the same data sources as the authors, Snowdon shows that the results have been influenced by the choice of countries and indicators. Including just a handful of additional countries is enough to make many of the SL graphs, which show data points scattering around a straight line, dissolve into shapeless point clouds. Approximating the same abstract concept with a different proxy measure does either the same, or even reverses the correlation shown in the SL. And where this is not the case, an alternative explanation for the observed pattern is usually not too difficult to find.
Snowdon does not, of course, conclude that inequality "causes" positive social outcomes, or that the English-speaking countries perform per se better than Scandinavia. The SLD is not the inverse of the SL. Its message is merely that if you were searching for the philosopher's stone, keep searching. The SL does not contain it.
The first three-quarters of the SL, while ultimately unconvincing, at least make an interesting and engaging read. Towards the last quarter, the SL degenerates into a conventional anti-consumerist rant. In this part, the authors repeat the same old story that the government should curtail our wealth and force us to live more simple lives, so that we can discover the things that "truly" matter. It is therefore appropriate that towards the last third of the SLD, Snowdon broadens his attack well beyond the SL itself. He critically examines a range of popular anti-consumerist literature and exposes it for the badly concealed, authoritarian elitism that it is.
When all is said and done, the SL is a variant of this strand of literature. It envisions a social system in which wise rulers prevent us from developing aspirations by insulating us from the sight of wealth and success, and thus protect us from the dangers of disappointment, failure, stress and anxiety. If a metaphor was to be chosen for this type of social system, it would be a giant playpen.
And this is precisely the reason why Snowdon's full-scale attack is relevant. Some have argued that the SL was just a temporary intellectual fad which will be forgotten in a few years. But the wider idea that a happier society could be created by restricting people's lifestyle choices and material possessions has come to fascinate many intellectuals, and it has been around well before the SL. The parallels with the ascent of socialism, described by Hayek in The Intellectuals and Socialism, are eerie. It may well be that the next big battle for a free society will be fought against the new anti-wealth egalitarianism. Christopher Snowdon has provided defenders of freedom with powerful ammunition.
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Deck 108 Hassium Pro Mechanical Keyboard Review
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Description: As far back as i can remember I've always used regular sized
101-109 key keyboards not because that was my preference but because there
wasn't anything else in the market to choose from. As a matter of fact it's
only been a while since we've seen quite a few manufacturers offer keyboards
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wikiHow to Mount a TrueCrypt Volume in Ubuntu 12.04
While Ubuntu may not be your operating system of choice, it can be extremely useful in situations where one is unable to boot into his or her Mac or Windows partition. Mounting a regular partition is fairly straightforward in Ubuntu, but mounting a TrueCrypt-encrypted volume can be a little tricky, especially for users not familiar with Ubuntu.
1Download and burn an Ubuntu LiveCD or LiveUSB if you do not have Ubuntu installed on your computer.
2Place the CD in your computer's CD drive or insert the USB stick.
3Make sure your BIOS boot order is set correctly for the method you are using.
4Boot into Ubuntu. Download the TrueCrypt .tar.gz file for Linux. If you are unable to connect to the Internet, you may have to download the file on a separate computer and place it on a USB stick to transfer it.
5Extract the contents of the .tar.gz to a folder.
6Open Terminal and navigate to the folder to which you extracted the compressed folder.
7Enter the following: ./truecrypt-7.1a-setup-x86. Follow the steps to install TrueCrypt.
- The syntax may differ depending on the version of TrueCrypt you downloaded. The command you enter should begin with ./ and end with the name of the file you extracted.
8After verifying that TrueCrypt installed correctly, enter the following into Terminal: sudo fdisk -l
9Find the partition that contains your Windows installation. It will be under "Device Boot" and look something like /dev/sda1.
10Enter the following into Terminal: truecrypt --mount-options=system followed by a space and the address you found in the last step, followed by a space and /media/truecrypt
11Enter in the password with which you encrypted the partition.
12Your TrueCrypt volume should now show up in the file system and you should be able to access any files you need. Make sure to back them up if your boot files or installation are corrupted!
13Unmount the TrueCrypt volume using the TrueCrypt GUI, or by entering the following into Terminal: truecrypt -d /media/truecrypt
- If you get an error that the disk is in use, you can use Fuser -mv /media/truecrypt to list processes using the disk and sudo kill followed by a space and the offending process ID to kill them.
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- This is the only way to backup your data if your boot loader is corrupted and you don't have a rescue CD on hand.
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- This article is for technically adept users. Data loss may occur if the instructions are not followed properly.
- This method will only work for disks encrypted with TrueCrypt. For unencrypted disks, see How to Access Windows Files in Ubuntu.
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