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The first step in diagnosing thyroid nodules is a medical history and physical exam. Thyroid nodules often are found during a physical exam or during a CT scan or ultrasound of the neck, chest, or head done for another problem. Most people do not find thyroid nodules on their own, because they are difficult to feel and usually do not cause symptoms.
If your doctor finds a thyroid nodule, he or she may refer you to an endocrinologist for more tests and treatment.
Common tests for people with thyroid nodules are:
- Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) test. This is a blood test to see how well your thyroid gland is working.
- Fine-needle aspiration guided by ultrasound. Material that is removed from the nodule is checked for cancer cells. This is a simple procedure that can be done in your doctor's office.
Thyroid ultrasound. Ultrasound uses reflected sound waves to create a picture of organs and other structures inside your body. Ultrasound cannot show whether a nodule is cancerous, but it can help your doctor:
- Confirm that you have thyroid nodules if other tests have not been clear.
- See what is happening to nodules that are not going away.
- Find your nodule during a thyroid biopsy with a fine-needle aspiration.
Other tests you may have include:
- Thyroid hormone tests. These blood tests are done to see if a nodule is causing your thyroid gland to make too much or too little thyroid hormone.
- Calcitonin test. This test checks your level of a hormone called calcitonin as a way to help find out if you have cancer. This test will probably be done if other people in your family have had thyroid cancer or any other type of cancer of the endocrine glands.
- Thyroid scan. This test uses radioactive material and a camera to get information about your thyroid gland and nodules. This is done if the level of thyroid hormone is high. Another test called an uptake scan can be done at the same time to see how well your thyroid gland is working and to see if you have hyperthyroidism.
Ongoing exams
If your nodule is not cancerous, your doctor will see you regularly to monitor the size of your nodule. He or she may do other tests, such as checking your thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels or doing a thyroid ultrasound. If your nodule grows, other tests or surgery may be needed.
If your thyroid gland was removed because of cancer, your doctor may test for thyroglobulin, a protein made by both normal and cancerous cells. High levels of thyroglobulin may mean that the cancer has spread (metastasized) to other parts of your body.


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I've just written to the federal Environment Minister Tony Burke about the need to protect the Tarkine. My letter is below. Please join me - The Greens have a form on their website to make it easy for you. You need to send your email by 2 December when Minister Burke will be making his decision whether or not to include the Tarkine on the National Heritage List. See the Save the Tarkine facebook site for more info.
If more than 10 of my facebook friends, twitter followers or webpage readers send off an email to Minister Burke and let me know ( comment below or on facebook or twitter), I'll run a competition and one of you will win a weekend at our holiday house at Sister's Beach on the north coast of Tasmania, just an hour's drive frorm the Tarkine forests!
Dear Minister Burke
I live in Melbourne and have a holiday house at Sisters Beach on the north coast of Tasmania. My partner and I intend to retire there.
A key reason why we purchased this property four years ago was because of its proximity to the Tarkine forests and coasts. We have had the immense pleasure of visiting the Tarkine a number of times since, and look forward to many trips in the future.
I strongly believe the future prosperity of Tasmania lies in its natural areas remaining natural - both for their own right and also for their economic benefit to all Tasmanians, Australians and the citizens of the world. They are increasingly rare, increasingly valuable special places on the planet.
I am writing to ask you to immediately place the Tarkine on the National Heritage List, to ensure that any impacts to national heritage values from the mining proposals currently are properly assessed.
The Tarkine is the last disease-free refuge for the endangered Tasmanian Devil. I've yet to see a Tasmanian Devil in the wild - it's something I look forward to and something I hope my children and any future grandchildren will also be able to look forward to.
But because the Tarkine is not on the National Heritage List, damage as a result of mining exploration, including extensive roading and clearing for test drill sites has not been subject to any environmental impact assessment- yet your government has previously recognized that roading poses a significant threat to the Tasmanian Devil, and granted emergency heritage listing for this reason. Why won't you do so now?
I call upon you as Environment Minister to use the powers available to you to ensure that the Tarkine and the Tasmanian Devil are afforded the highest level of protection. Please place the Tarkine on the National Heritage List, or provide me with the reasons why you as Environment Minister are placing the interests of mining ahead of conservation.
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Joe Carnahan: Teasing Juggernaut or Teasing Vinnie Jones?
by Alex Billington
November 27, 2007
I highly doubt Marvel would make an X-Men spin-off with Juggernaut, but if you think about it, that could be kind of cool. Now I bet you're wondering where the heck that came from. Well, Smokin' Aces director Joe Carnahan wrote a blog update today with "I'll let you guys go nuts on this one…" and an image of Juggernaut (the one seen above next to a laughing Joe), and that's it. Quite a tease, but through some decisive thinking, Peter at SlashFilm has narrowed it down to the possibility that he's teasing Vinnie Jones, who played Juggernaut in X-Men 3, instead of an actual Juggernaut movie.
If you remember, Carnahan was that crazy filmmaker who posted complete scripts to his upcoming movies and told readers to tell him what he should direct next. The rumblings in Hollywood are that he's actually gearing up to start production on White Jazz, the 1950's set LA crime thriller that recently lost two of its big stars (George Clooney and Chris Pine). Since the possiblity of a Juggernaut movie is a bit "off the map," it would make a bit more sense that Carnahan could be teasing that Vinnie Jones has been cast in White Jazz instead.
However, for the hell of it, we're going to still kick around the idea of a Juggernaut movie. Now if you start at X-Men 3, that might be the problem, because with the script and the way Brett Ratner presented him, Juggernaut was really just a cheesy added-on side character with a few funny lines. From X-Men 3 alone, he couldn't hold his own movie, but if you consider actually putting someone who is a big comic book fan on it, maybe they'd actually be able to make a good movie. SlashFilm had an interview with Carnahan a while back, and he mentioned numerous comic book references and spoke about comics like he was a true fan, which I'm certain he is.
Just think about the character of Juggernaut and what kind of havoc-wreaking badass action movie could be made about him. It wouldn't be anything really good, but it would be entertaining. He's kind of a more pissy and more metalized version of the Hulk, in a very abstract way, and given how idolized that character is in Marvel (and that they're working on the second Hulk movie right now), I could see a Juggernaut movie being made. What do you think? Would a Juggernaut spin-off be so bad?
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Britney Spears is living with a couple of pranksters!
The pop superstar's two sons decided to play a joke on their unsuspecting mom, and catch it on video using her own phone.
In the hilarious clip, Sean Preston tells the camera (which is presumably being held by Jayden), "We're about to scare the heck out of mom. We just stole her phone!"
As Spears enters the room in her PJs, the two boys scream in unison, causing the singer to scream and fall to the ground.
"My damn kids," she captioned the clip.
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I don't know if I will ever understand the blinkered reasonings of the lazy political journalists that inhabit the UK. Obviously, there are exceptions, but most of them appear just to swallow Government propaganda and regurgitate it without thinking.
I am thinking right now of Nick Robinson's reaction to Alastair Darling's 10p compensation statement:
"Labour MPs are happier than they have been for weeks and the Tories, for the first time in a long time, look wrong footed."
First things first, why does everything have to come down to the political implications? I know Nick Robinson is a political journalist, but does that mean that he must see everything in terms of which party is up, and which is down? What about the actual details of the policy? What about the fact that this is a catastrophic mess? The Government have shown themselves up as completely incompetent; they abolished the 10p tax rate, and are now, partway through the tax year, introducing retrospective changes to undo that measure. What about certainty in tax matters? What about the fact that the compensation package will cost £2.7 bn, which will have to be funded through borrowing? Are these not issues upon which any reputable journalist worth his salt ought to be making sustained comment?
(For what it's worth, I don't think the Tories have been wrongfooted. Nobody is looking at them; rather, all eyes are on this blundering Government as it tries to find its way out of its labyrinth of incompetence.)
Anyway, back to Nick Robinson. Maybe he needs to get out of Westminster once in a while for an appreciation of how Government policy affects real people. I remember last year, after Gordon Brown decided not to hold a General Election, Nick Robinson made a comment to the effect that the decision did not have major consequences for the nation. Maybe not for him, but try telling that to people who have been affected by Labour's damaging policies, and who would have wanted an opportunity to vote them out. Elections can be life-changing events for voters; however, for political journalists, things continue the same. Regardless of who wins or loses, or what policies they implement, these journalists get to hang out with the politicians, conspire in their schemes to withhold information from us, and accept without thinking whatever the politicians choose to tell them.
It's one thing for a journalist from a commercial enterprise to behave in this way, but when it is a BBC journalist, we should sit up and take notice. We hear a lot of bleating about the value of public service broadcasting. At the very least, we should expect a political journalist from the BBC to have a broader perspective of the issues at play in the country. Hard as it may be for such people to realise, politics is not an end in itself. It affects real people living real lives, way beyond Westminster's cosy restaurants.


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Picture: Shilpa Shetty International India Film Academy - IIFA 2011 Toronto Awards Gala at Rogers Centre - Arrivals Toronto, Canada - 25.06.11
Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty is pregnant with her first child.
The 36-year-old actress has confirmed she is expecting a baby with her husband Raj Kundra and she told fans the happy news in a post on her Twitter.com page.
She writes, "Yes an addition to our family is our confirmation to all queries... We seek blessings from all in this very beautiful phase of our lives."
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Money – is that every one know and every one has in life (little or much). It's so common with us. But the question is how many people know the way to manage their money? I think the answer is "not much". Yes, that's the reason why now I introduce you one very useful method


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Cocos2d-x 3.14.1 using NDK r10cSDKBOX (just downloaded, reports v188.8.131.52 in terminal) unzipped and added folder to PATH
Add to bash_profile.. export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Changed to my [Project] root directory.
$ sdkbox import admob --dryrun[Enter]
.... lost of lines!!!! ....
no obvious errors though the process reports:patch_file .../lib/Cocos2dxActivity.java Nonepatch_file .../Classes/AppDelegate.cpp None
Run again
$ sdkbox import admob [Enter]
process reports...downloading package sdkbox-googleplayservices_v188.8.131.52.tar.gz[##....##] 100%Installation Successful downloading package sdkbox-admob_v126.96.36.199.tar.gz[##....##] 100%failed to patch file AppDelegate.cpp
Do I now just try a manual setup? or what?
Failed to patch AppDelegate.cpp is fine, that just means you have to initialize admob yourself.
Thanks, I assume that means I just go through the manual setup process.
Hello, trying to install iap under cocos2d-x 3.14, i get this error:
sdkbox import -b iap -p <path to my game>
Copyright (c) 2016 SDKBOX Inc. v188.8.131.52
downloading package sdkbox-iap_v220.127.116.11.tar.gz
[###################################] 100%
failed to patch file AppDelegate.cpp
Please reference the online documentation to finish the integration:
Some installation steps failed.
Please refer to the online documentation, for instructions on how to complete the installation manually.
Installation completed with errors :|
¿Is this also fine?
It is fine.
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One of the most daunting problems in current world politics is Iran's brazen determination to build a nuclear weapon. Also ominous is the prospect of Israel launching a preemptive strike on Iran, sparking a conflict that could derail America's hopes to foster peace in the region.
The Sixth Crisis, exploring the three strands of the Israel-Iran-US crisis, is the first full account of the situation since Obama took office. Authored by two international security experts, including a former senior director in President Bill Clinton's National Security Council staff, this vitally important volume begins with an incisive overview of the technical and political aspects of Iran's nuclear program, and then explains how Israel's panic about Iran's nuclear threatcombined with its policy toward the Palestiniansis complicating its alliance with America. The book also reveals how Tehran is exploiting tensions between Arab regimes fearful of a nuclear Iran and an Arab public that is angry about the plight of the Palestinians and resentful of Israel's nuclear monopoly in the region. Against this volatile backdrop, readers get an up-close look at the intricate diplomacy underway to rein in Iran's nuclear program, and its ramifications for international security. Finally, The Sixth Crisis emphasizes that President Obamawho understands the catastrophic consequences of maintaining the status quois taking a big gamble by staking his legacy on a resolution of the Israel-Palestine and Iran nuclear crisis.
The time bomb of Iran's defiance and Israel's panic has the potential to spark a firestorm that would imperil US interests in the Middle East and engulf Obama's presidency. With the outcome of this unfolding crisis far from certain, The Sixth Crisis is required reading not only for policymakers, but also for anyone interested in world politics.


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As you are now probably aware I do not live in Hampstead. You have searched every bistro and boutique but to no avail. Although Adventure Trail appeals to the AB group (top socio-economic assemblage in the epi-fauna) I have not succumbed to embarrassed recognition in high society but instead stand unaffected in the cool northern rain waiting for the occasional omnibus and knowing only too well that here it's all about where you bought your flat cap and how deep is the froth on your beer. For more ostentatious affectations one must move south.
You set off as a nobody somewhere in north-west London (i.e., nowhere) watching an undemanding, insubstantial, feeble-minded, spontaneously exciting, light entertainment show, 3-2-1! On the dole with no money and the corollary, no friends, you sit in your dingy council flat torn between viewing the non-stop entertainment on Nor following the clouds of smoke from your window as they belch toward you from the local power station. You can look forward to a life of lying, cheating, stealing and defrauding as you scheme your way to Hampstead but for now you must busy yourself with the task of finding that UB40 card. Should you, in real life, be Hampsteaded, or simply exist in nonplussed brain death in Surbiton, the booklet gives exact details concerning the card's use and the elaborate etiquette that surrounds it, such as, queue orderly and don't sleep throught the part where your name is called. The problem is you must attain Hampstead but think it unlikely you'll find many friends in Hampstead dole office.
Indeed, subsequent research proves this line of reasoning correct. Denizens of Hampstead fill their time with occupations that have them cast as critics, playwrights, architects and designers, actors and academians, some of whom, like yourself at the start of this adventure, were nobodies living nowhere. To go up in the world you try to gain the admiration and respect of your fellow man, and there's more to it than a fat bank balance. In Hampstead it helps to give the impression you know something of art and to be seen in the right places, with the right people and wearing the right clothes. Be careful not to be flamboyant - it's unseemly to be seen as a social climber in Hampstead so you had better settle there only when you have everything you need.
It helps to know something of London even if it's just the sites found on a monopoly board. You choose your route from the following: St. John's Wood, Richmond, West End, Covent Garden, Waterloo, The City, King's Cross and Cambridge. This isn't as easy as it looks as a pleasant suburb may provide such comfort that it becomes too onerous to leave and you join the ranks of the malcontents who never quite made it.
What about the game itself? Much effort (alas not enough) has been expended to conceal its use of The Quill, in the Spectrum version in any case, but the cursor and the distinctive R for Redescribe location are evidence enough to pinpoint the source of the program. Perhaps the changes 90 beyond the simply cosmetic, but surely if this were the case to any great extent all signatures of The Quill would have been vanquished. Quilled adventures haven't done well in the charts but this game may well prove an exception due to its uniquely funny storyline.
The adventure has opulent packaging with a sixteen page booklet and a very attractive casing. It sees itself as suitable for a wide range from beginner to experienced, taking several weeks to complete. The '100% machine code' reflects its Quilled origins. The loading screen depicts the home of Hampstead Man which is over two hundred years old, deep within leafy suburbia surrounded by rows of neatly-clipped hedges. On the colourful sofa lounge a Pair of matching Afghan hounds.
As you set off on your quest you would be wise to remember what you've read in the Hampstead Booklet which gives you precise details on just how you might achieve that coveted diploma in social climbing. The help offered includes question and answer sessions. One goes like this. Q: Why do dustbins have no lids in Hampstead? A: In order that passers-by may see the week's completed Guardian crosswords stacked neatly within. The booklet is very entertaining and amusing, if not enlightening for those who know little of London society, but reaches the heart of the matter on page 10; Hampstead - what's the point: 'Everybody wants to feel superior. This feeling takes two forms. Those without money must be content to feel morally superior.
Those without morals can financially superior. But only in Hampstead is it possible to attain superiority in both. 'So now you know. It's well worth making a thorough search of the house before you leave; the lack of one item in particular will see your sudden exit from the game. You meet this sudden social death with grudging acceptance struck by the reality that you had underestimated just how peculiar social climbing can be. Careful analysis of your every movement will have you in Hampstead before you can say 'colour supplement' but any disparity will be ruthlessly exposed.
Hampstead is the most original adventure theme to appear this year and is accompanied by the wittiest book I've read in quite a while. Spectrum owners might like to note that on this occasion the Commodore 64 has acquired the better deal as its version features graphics. Despite this the Spectrum Hampstead has powerful EXAMINE and SEARCH commands which make the early stages very easy helping the occasional adventurer into what is a very amusing and enjoyable game.
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Presentation: Good
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Disclaimer: None of it is mine.
Author's Notes: This one-shot piece is meant as a follow-up to my 2010 Exchange gift for Kribu, Emissary (also archived under this pen name here at ffnet). This plot bunny attacked me and I just couldn't make him leave. It's part of the same universe as Emissary, and is also told from David Granger's perspective. It will probably make more sense if you read Emissary first
He and I found each other, not surprisingly, by the fruit and cheese spread, the one refuge where the few other hapless blokes congregated during the baby shower. He looked terribly glum, even for him.
In the two years since I acquired him as my son-in-law, I have grown quite used to his reticent ways. He is not anti-social, precisely, but solitary. He is never the one to initiate conversations at family dinners. He always finds a reason to turn down my invitations to grab a pint at the pub. He is a man of few words and extraordinary reserve, rather too stiff for my taste, and one, whom I admit, would not have been my first choice for my Jeanie. Jane and I kept a hawk's eye on them when they were first married. We really couldn't help ourselves, you see. You would think that after raising a witch, putting her through Hogwarts, and living through the aftermath of a wizarding war, we would have learnt by now not to be too shocked by things. Yet there we were, giving our girl away to a taciturn tyrant, and for months we could barely sleep. But it was clear from the beginning that Jeanie had different opinions, and though her poor, old father would have dearly loved to believe otherwise, hers was the only opinion to matter in the end. Even Jane was impressed by the extent to which Jeanie bloomed. "Obscenely happy," was how she put it. And so, with a parental shrug, we welcomed Severus Snape to the family.
" Severus, wouldn't you rather be sharing the glory with Jeanie instead of sulking in a corner? Look how she's completely managed to enslave an entire kingdom with nappies and rattles," I said as I took a place next to my son-in-law.
He ceased glowering into his cup, turning tired eyes to me. "You cannot be serious. I refuse to participate in this vulgar Muggle custom."
I chuckled sympathetically. "Don't worry, my man. It's usually only with the first baby that one has to put up with such a fuss. Later pregnancies don't warrant such affairs, as much as we parents like to tell our children they're all equally adored."
Another round of ecstatic sighs drifted from the corner where Jeanie sat opening presents, surrounded by a devoted coterie of females. Her mother proudly passed around a bright pink miniature dress.
"I don't believe I have the capacity for another round," he muttered. "If she intends to return all the gifts, why in Merlin's name accept them?"
Having never dreamt that I'd be in a position to explain the mysteries of females, I rather surprised myself when I responded, "It's not the gifts that are important. It's the opportunity to congregate in a massive herd and talk nonsense together. Women love to swarm—and pity the fool who tries to intervene."
"And yet, she was most insistent upon my making an appearance here."
"As you're partially responsible for her current state, you need to be shown off as much as the presents, naturally."
He rolled his eyes, evidently not soothed by my attempts at humor. But when he looked across the room, his gaze alighting on Jeanie, his sour features smoothed and the irritated expression gave way to contemplation. As if sensing her husband's presence, Jeanie turned and met his eyes, pausing just long enough to offer a smile. Severus inclined his head to her in silent communication, lifting his glass to her in a self-mocking toast.
I watched the exchange, lightness filling my heart. Every father frets about whether their daughter will ever find a man who can read her soul from afar.
I didn't expect then, to witness the curtain of unhappiness descend so quickly again upon his visage after Jeanie returned to the party. He closed his eyes, drawing a labored breath before releasing it with a slight shake of his head. Though he was a temperamentally unyielding man even on the best of days, I'd been around him long enough to see through his usual gloom.
"Severus," I said quietly concerned, "is everything all right with you?"
He was silent for a long minute, his shoulders tense, and I thought that perhaps he would tell me to bugger off. But at length, he finally replied, in slow, hard syllables and a voice raw with bleakness, "Is it possible, David, that in my quest to give your daughter every happiness she could ever desire, that I've managed instead to precipitate a disaster?"
I blinked at this pronouncement. "What on earth are you talking about?"
He scowled, then put his glass down and shook his head. "It is nothing. I did not intend to sound maudlin."
Abruptly, he turned and left the parlor, but I was not about to let him escape me. Outside, I cornered him in the hallway and gripped his arm. The muted sounds of the festivities filtered through the parlor doorway as I yanked him back. If it weren't for the fact that we were likely discussing something that concerned Jeanie, I wouldn't have been so forward. "Don't think you can walk away after saying something like that. You'd better explain, especially if this pertains to my daughter."
He shook off my hand with a vicious curse, looking exhausted as he placed his forehead briefly over his fingertips. "My apologies."
Such behavior was peculiar for Severus and very alarming, but I knew that trespassing too quickly on his privacy would accomplish nothing. "Come in here," I said, gently steering him into the library.
I took a seat in my chair, leaving him to choose whether he wanted to sit as well. At the moment, he seemed intent on pacing, in what I suspected was habit for him.
"Severus, son, whatever it is, you had better tell me."
My words were met with a sharp intake of breath and a weary expression, and I realized belatedly that he was perhaps not accustomed to being addressed as anyone's son.
"Hermione and I are about to have a child," he said with unnecessary precision.
"Yes," I said agreeably, glad that he was saying something.
He paused and looked at me, a wild look in his eyes. "A child! A helpless being put in my charge, whom I'm expected to support, guide, and protect for the next twenty years at least." His pacing resumed.
"True," I said, nodding. "It's wonderful news, Severus, you know we're thrilled for the both of you. And I know how happy Jeanie is."
"Yes," he ground out. "Hermione, is especially pleased, and that is what has me feeling like a complete ass."
"Well, shouldn't she be pleased?" By now, I could easily see where this conversation would go. However, if he had anything in common with Jeanie, he would find it necessary to thoroughly torture himself before he could properly face the situation.
"She has convinced herself that I would make an adequate father. But how, may I ask, could someone who has never known a moment's worth of decent parenting, a son of a raving drunkard, possibly be a parent himself?"
This was worlds beyond the usual minor grumbling of fellows facing fatherhood; I wasn't sure I could even begin to set him to rights. "Has it ever occurred to you," I said in purposefully light tones, "that she might, having decided to marry you and all, know and accept everything already?"
"She may not be so sanguine if she knew what kind of life we were condemning this child to live," he said viciously.
"And that would be what kind of life, exactly?" I asked, genuinely curious.
At last, he stopped pacing and slowly lowered himself into the seat across from mine. I waited patiently, knowing that Severus was not a man who easily unburdened himself. "In my past, I have made certain regrettable decisions that have resulted in me spending two decades killing and maiming," he said, his tones steeped in bitterness. "I have served as a weapon yielded by one manipulative, powerful, and destructive wizard to wage battle against another manipulative, powerful, and even more destructive wizard. I have willingly engaged in soul-corrupting Dark magic for the sake of winning the war. With that for a father, what kind of future could a child of mine possibly hope for?"
"Now hold on for just one second, Severus," I interjected, holding up a hand. "It's one thing to have an unfortunate past, and it is another thing entirely if you manage to cast it behind you and move on, as you have clearly done. I see no reason to fear for my grandchild's future."
His brows furrowed, and deep worry lines creased his forehead. "That… is not what I expected you would say."
"No? I bet you didn't." My equanimity surprised even myself. Yet, I found that in spite of the unsavory details he had just revealed, my estimation of him remained high. Severus was a decent man, from whom my family has so far known nothing but honor, and I was determined that he would know the same from me. "Certainly, your misdeeds in the past mean you have a lot of things you need to figure out for today. Jeanie was never willing to fully disclose the details of your life to us. Jane and I tried our best to make inquiries, but you don't need me to tell you how bloody impossible it is for non-magical people to find out anything about you wizards. But I believe that my Jeanie is a good enough judge of character that she ought to be able to make her own decisions about you. And as far as Jane and I are concerned, we see only the courageous, honorable man whom we first met on our doorstep ten years ago."
He watched me intensely as I said this, and though I found the scrutiny blasted unnerving, I allowed it, for something told me he would not believe me otherwise. His rigid demeanor suggested that he was having difficulty understanding my meaning, and in fact, my trust seemed to rattle him. "David," he said awkwardly, "this is not to imply that I am not pleased to be having a child with Hermione. I merely fear that I have judged myself in error."
"I know that," I said. "No need to explain, son. It would, on the other hand, not kill you to give yourself a little more credit," I insisted firmly.
"She acted as if I hung the moon when I agreed to start a family. Her happiness is so… inviolable to me that I find it impossible to begin any sort of meaningful conversation. Not that a conversation would necessarily be productive, as there's not much to be done at this point, is there? The child will be born, whether I am fit to be a father or not," he said harshly.
"Severus, there's not a father in the universe who becomes a parent thinking he's worthy of the role. We all come at it from the same place—hopeless, daft, stupid fools who have done an endless litany of moronic things and who are praying from the moment they first hold their offspring that they won't bollocks the whole thing up."
The line of his mouth thinned, and I could see an objection building up in the way his jaw twitched. "I suppose you'll try to tell me that you've been through it," he said with a touch of sneer.
"And I would point out that I have," I replied evenly, " My credentials may have been slightly better than yours, but not a far sight more—I at least didn't off anyone."
He raised his brow. "You pick a strange moment to jest."
"If it helps soothe your nerves, Severus. Because that's exactly what's getting to you. When Jeanie was born, I wasn't in much better shape."
His grip on the armchair relaxed marginally. "What… was your experience?" he asked with guarded interest.
"She was premature. Carrying her to term took a terrible toll on Jane, and I wanted to rip myself to pieces for putting her in that state. That wasn't to mention the terror I felt at the prospect of caring for a potentially disabled child, since Jeanie could have very well been one. What the devil did I know about caring for a healthy kid, never mind a disabled one? When it turned out Jeanie and Jane were both all right, I called my mother and blubbered like a boy. So look, we all figure it out along the way."
"I do have similar crises of confidence," he confessed. "There are moments when I wonder what kind of hell I have got myself into. I often return home to find Hermione in tears for no fathomable reason. She'll beg my forgiveness and say it's the baby, which naturally I find no comfort in at all—hence my questioning the sanity of this whole proposition."
I couldn't help but laugh. "You poor old bugger. Don't lose sleep over that. It's not your fault, though it bloody well feels that way. They swear they'll never forgive you, but they can't help it, and they certainly don't mean it. Their bodies are being overrun by hormones, which makes them blasted miserable sometimes. Just hold her hand and tell her you love her."
He closed his eyes, pinching the bridge of his nose between two fingers. "And then I wonder also whether I would have the fortitude to guide this child firmly but kindly or would I merely be the disgrace that my father was. I dare not think about how I would explain my… history when the child grows old enough to question."
I nodded. "Hard questions, with no easy answers, I'm afraid. But you somehow found a way to pull through that terrible wizarding war, didn't you? I would place my wager on you again, Severus. I know you'll sort everything out."
He looked so doubtful that I felt compelled to take his shoulder and lock gazes with him, the way I used to do with Jeanie when she was despondent. It was a moment of rare vulnerability for my stoic son-in-law. "Here is the secret, son, which I will let you in on early: when they're born—when they come out of the womb screaming their lungs out, tiny and flailing, the doctor is going to ask you to cut the cord. The second you first lay eyes on them, their little fists grabbing your shirt, your fingers shaking like crazy as you're struggling to cut the cord, you're going to decide right then and there that no matter what it takes, you'll figure out all the answers, no matter how impossible."
"I see," he murmured.
"Trust me. It will be fine."
Before he could respond, a knock sounded on the door, and Jeanie poked her head in. "Severus? Is everything all right?" She frowned at the two of us, then toddled into the room in the way only very pregnant women could. "Are you giving him a hard time again, Daddy?"
Springing from his seat, Severus went to my daughter, carefully leading her toward the door again. "No, my dearest. We were only discussing the baby."
"Civilly, I hope?" she muttered as she was ushered out.
He turned to me before exiting, casting me a look which communicated far more words than the two he actually uttered. "Thank you."
He was born on April 20th, a pleasant spring night, my first grandchild. Jeanie and Severus decided eventually to name him Julian David Snape. They took him home to their flat in Hogsmeade, where a nursery had been prepared and waiting for months. With a shrug, Jeanie transformed—or was it transfigured?—all the pink dresses she had received to blue tuxedos. They showed him off in the apothecary, where all the potioners, herbalists, and little old ladies of the realm came to pay homage.
But before all that happened, before little Julian had even opened his eyes to take his first glimpse of the world, his grandfather stood outside a delivery room and watched a doctor place him in the arms of his father. His father being a rather dignified type, it was hard to tell what he was thinking. But all it took was one look at his glittering black eyes, filled with unshed tears, and the corners of his lips lifted in a trembling smile, for one to know that all would be well.
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The present invention relates generally to networking systems and more specifically to packet processing systems that use graphics systems to process packets.
The X86 computer (personal or workstation) is a common data processing platform. Although no specific definition exists for an X86 computer, one skilled in the art of computer design will recognize such a system by its components. The major components include a central processing unit which executes the X86 instruction set. Examples of such processors are the Pentium processors from Intel, Athlon processors from Advanced Micro Devices or PowerPC processors from IBM. DRAM memory is utilized to store the instructions and data, and a set of peripheral components are utilized to provide data input and output. Typically, these computer systems execute either the Microsoft or Linux operating systems.
Initially intended for personal use, these computer systems are being utilized in building communication appliances such as routers, switches, load balancers and network security appliances. These X86 computers are cheap, readily available and are undergoing constant improvement.
However, the computing demands of a communication appliance typically limit the performance of appliances based on these platforms.
Accordingly, what is needed is a system and method for overcoming the above-identified issues. The present invention addresses such a need.
The present invention provides a cost effective method to improve the performance of communication appliances by retargeting the graphics processing unit as a coprocessor to accelerate networking operations. A system and method is disclosed for using a coprocessor on a standard personal computer to accelerate packet processing operations common to network appliances. The appliances include but are not limited to routers, switches, load balancers and Unified Threat Management systems. More specifically, the method uses common advanced graphics processor engines to accelerate the packet processing tasks.
Game consoles, such as the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, have powerful graphics processing units. Using this invention, these platforms may also be used to build cheap, high performing communication appliances.
The present invention relates generally to networking systems and more specifically to packet processing systems that use graphics systems to process packets. The following description is presented to enable one of ordinary skill in the art to make and use the invention and is provided in the context of a patent application and its requirements. Various modifications to the preferred embodiments and the generic principles and features described herein will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown, but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and features described herein.
In the illustrated embodiment system 100, data packets from external sources are transferred over high speed buses 108-110 into the input/output nodes 105-107. Data packets may range in size from 4 bytes to many hundreds of millions of bytes long. The input/output nodes pre-process the packets and transfer them to main memory node 102 via node 103 and 104 and high speed buses 111-116. The central processing unit 101 transfers the packet data from main memory node 102 via node 103 and high speed buses 115 and 116 into its internal processing circuits. The central processing unit executes software programs to process the packets.
Once the packets are processed, central processing unit 101 transfers the packet data into main memory 102 and then schedules the packet for transmission through input/output nodes 105-107 if needed.
The central processing unit 101 and the main memory unit 102 are the main bottlenecks limiting the amount of packet data system 100 processes. The central processing unit 101 is built with limited parallel compute nodes and cannot speed up operations by processing many packets in parallel.
In the embodiment shown in
Graphics processors are built to process graphics data such as fonts, windowing systems and 3D games and to display the processed data onto a monitor.
Network processing units such as the Intel IXP 2800 are examples of devices invented and developed to accelerate the processing of packet data. However, these devices are expensive and do not integrate well into an X86 based system.
A system and method in accordance with the present invention retargets the graphics processing unit as a networking processor delivering a cheap, tightly integrated high performance communications system. To describe the features of the present invention in more detail, refer now to the following description in conjunction with the accompanying figures.
In the embodiment illustrated in
Modern graphics processors such as the Nvidia 7800 contain compute nodes that have been designed to process graphics data. A system and method in accordance with the present invention retargets these compute nodes to do packet processing operations instead of graphics operations.
The block diagram in
The present invention utilizes the plurality of computing nodes to process packet data and networking operations in parallel to greatly improve the performance of the system. The computing nodes are coupled to a high speed memory subsystem through memory control nodes 311 and high speed buses 313-314 and bus 204. This invention uses the high speed memory to store databases for routing, pattern matching and other networking operations.
For illustration purposes, the graphics processing node 201 may be programmed to perform a longest prefix match operation. The graphics memory 202 (texture memory or frame buffer memory) is preloaded with a route lookup database. The compute nodes in the graphics processing unit 201 are instructed to execute programs that extract the required fields of data from the packet data and to perform lookups in the database to find the appropriate longest prefix match.
To further illustrate the process,
Another important operation that may be accelerated is pattern matching, i.e., finding patterns in the packet data. The patterns may be a database of variable length strings or a collection of regular expression strings.
A person skilled in the art may program the graphics processing unit 201 to execute different packet processing operations. These operations include, but are not limited to pattern matching, internet protocol lookup, content filtering, virus scanning, spam scanning, malware scanning, XML parsing etc. This is only an illustration and is not intended to limit the scope of the invention. A person skilled in the art may also apply the present invention to processing large volumes of data residing on a hard disk or main memory by partitioning the data into packets and using the mechanisms described.
For example, virus scanning of emails and files is a common but computation expensive operation to perform on the central processing unit. The email and files may be transferred from external systems through input/output nodes 105-107. The emails or files may be stored on a hard disk before processing. In an illustrated embodiment, the virus database is loaded into the graphics memory 202. The emails or files are encapsulated into one or more packets and are transferred via high speed bus 203 and 204 into the graphics memory 202. Parallel pattern matching programs executing on the plurality of compute nodes 302-310 search the data in the emails or files and virus database for patterns that indicate the presence of a virus.
Application based forwarding is another example that will benefit from this invention. In this case, the plurality of compute nodes are used to parse one or more packets to determine how to further process and subsequently forward the packets to their next destination.
In summary, a method and system in accordance with the present invention describes how existing graphics processing unit 201 is utilized to accelerate packet processing operations. In addition, the method and system shows how existing graphics processing engines may be utilized to accelerate packet processing tasks. A general technique and examples are provide to illustrate some of the embodiments of the invention. These examples serve as an illustration of how such tasks are offloaded to the graphics processing engine. It is clear that one of ordinary skill in the art would be able to use this system and method to accelerate other networking operations.
Although the present invention has been described in accordance with the embodiments shown, one of ordinary skill in the art will readily recognize that there could be variations to the embodiments and those variations would be within the spirit and scope of the present invention. Accordingly, many modifications may be made by one of ordinary skill in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the appended claims.
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Normally the earth slowly releases energy stored from its formation and from on-going radioactive decay, but sometimes the releases are very rapid. Such releases create disasters catastrophic to humans-landslides, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts and floods. In this talk, she will describe some recent events and their causes and a possible way forward for coexisting with these natural processes.
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June 29th, 2009 – by: jamartin39
The final leg of the journey what else could go wrong. My freind came to pick me up and we headed out to pick up one of my little cousins, then she dropped us off at the train station in Wouburn MA. I completely forgot the Downeaster stops at this station, so we were incredibly early. I was still thinking we had to go all the way to Boston to get on the train, I was wrong. So I purchased our tickets and now we wait. Luckily it wasnt too bad we only had 1 hour or so before the train arrived. Once we got our luggage stored and settled on the train I realized I left a whole bunch of stuff at my aunts, I hate mornings. The train ride was nice, compared to the bus it is luxury. It only takes about 2 hours to go from Boston to Portland and the trains were running on time so that was a plus. We grabbed something to eat in the snack car and just watched the scenery pass by for the rest of the time. Once we got into Portland I didnt see my father anywhere so I called my house thinking my little brother would be home, he was not. So I called his cell phone and my dad answered said they were just going to be a minute and they were almost there, so we waited outside as it began to drizzle slightly. After about 30 minutes I called back to see where they were turns out they were still pretty far down the highway, so we moved inside where it was dry. 45 minutes later they pulled up, we got our bags in the car, and we left. Finally we were on our way home, and we should be there in just under 2 hours. Wrong! I do not know what possesed my little brother to take the "scenic route" but we did. My cousin and I were soo tired all we wanted to do is get some sleep, and now we just added another hour onto our trip. To make things more exciting my little brother is learning how to drive, so he does not have the full concept of looking before you pull out into traffic, and this almost caused an accident. Despite being incredibly tired I almost kicked him out of the drivers seat and in the back when we stopped to get something to eat, after we got back on the road however I ended up falling asleep. I didnt even uppack when we got into the house I went straight for my bed, and when I woke up, I woke up with a sinus infection, and I am still sick. I have been slowly getting things done today, for example this last journal entry I can now cross of my to-do list. Why is this important, because in 2 days I will be leaving again to go to the lake, and a week after that I will be going on a road trip to California, so it is a busy month. Hopefully the next 2 trips will go more smoothly than this one.
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Pack and Play is a very good product to help your baby sleep with the parents of the baby will be more comfortable for your baby's sleep. Besides, you can visit the following address for more choices for the best pack n play for your babies. In this article, I will help you to avoid some mistakes when you caring your baby sleep.
Infants need a bath every day
The truth is that babies are not bad by smelling sweat like adults, so you bathe the children every day is not necessary. Even if you bathe the children too often will make baby skin dryness and dehydration. How to shower once a day for the baby is the most ideal. However, if your baby has diarrhea too much or mom young bathing daily routines. You just need to remember to add a layer of moisturizing cream for children.
Children want to sleep well, turn out the lights and keep absolute silence
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Listen to classical music helps increase a child's IQ
The truth is: The music can enrich a person's life, music can make them feel happy and comfortable, the music can help calm a fussy baby, helping to lull the child to sleep … However, without any specific research confirms that a baby or listening to classical music can help brain development and intelligence has surpassed. Also, the mother should give the baby listen to music no more than four times a day, each time not exceeding 25 minutes. Listening to music too much also makes them less likely to focus on the mother's voice, which can lead to slower than other kids say.
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On March 31st, The Giant Eyes and I attended the Second Annual Master of Spirits Gala Event at the Grand Hyatt, Singapore. The spirits, wine and champagne event is hosted by DFS Group, and is invitation only to its VIP clients and their guests. Approximately 600 people from Singapore, Vietnam, Myanmar, India, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Hawaii, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Panama attended the event. Participating brands included Hennessy, Martell, Chabot, Johnnie Walker, Windsor, Royal Salute, Dalmore, The Macallan, Absolut, Dom Perignon, Krug, Château Mouton Rothschild and many more. The lavish party also provided its guests with a free flow of the best spirits and wines I mentioned, and a hors d'oeuvres menu that consisted of fresh oysters, prosciutto, premium Wagyu beef, mini-burgers, gourmet cheeses… just to name a few.
While the Giant Eyes was enjoying his Dom Perignon and Macallan, I was acting like a little spy, taking pictures, asking lots of questions and taking notes – all for our Eat-Everywhere readers! Here are the pictures and notes I gathered! Enjoy!
The Macallan open bar, you can drink until you drop but I wouldn't suggest that.
This Johnny Walker 1910 Commemorative Edition is for sale at $2,940 USD. One of the cheapest at the event.
Dom Perginon Marc Newson Collaboration $4,800 USD, SOLD!
Château Mouton Rothschild $19,000 USD.
Château Petrus 1961 Magnum $86,000 USD.
Château Petrus 1982 Magnum $150,000 USD.
Taste the Royal Salute all you want and don't forget to get your name engraved on the bottle!
Royal Salute 21 YO and 38 YO.
The Dalmore 1926, and I was told there are only 4 bottles in the world! It's priced at $240,000 USD.
Johnny Walker Blue Label Private Bar by Porsche Design Studio, only 50 of these bottles are made in the world, "only" $160,000 USD for the set.
Ardbeg Double Barrel $19,760 USD, SOLD!
Macallan Linley Console with rare vintages $127,000 USD, SOLD!
The 1946 Macallan $17,900 USD
Wenjun – Chinese Bai Jiu, not for sale, but there was a visit to Wenjun distillery in Chengdu, China for sale at $5,158 USD.
Penfolds Bin 620 Imperial $27,000 USD, SOLD!
Gaja $2300 USD
Fresh oyster bar and many yummy food are provided.
By the end of the night, I saw only one person who appeared drunk and needed assistance in leaving the room. I am also certain that it was a great night for DFS and the brand ambassadors of these spirits labels, because many of the exhibiting bottles were sold! For me, I managed to not even have one sip of alcohol, as for the Giant Eyes… I don't have enough fingers to count…


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Rev Brent Allred is the Pastor to Children & Families at MBC. He is married to Glenda and they have three adult children and six adorable grandchildren.
Brent has been involved in children and families ministry for 18 years in Churches of Christ, Scripture Union and in a missions context. Glenda and he started attending MBC in April 2012 and Brent commenced his current role at the beginning of 2014.
Outside of church, Brent loves travelling to new places (especially Europe!), photography, good coffee, dates with Glenda, eating out with friends, watching movies and hanging out with his grandkids.
Brent is excited about what God is doing at MBC and the opportunity he has to minister with kids and support parents in the spiritual nurturing of their children.


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The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens' most celebrated characters, who so captured the imagination of his readers that while the novel was being serialised, many of them wrote to him about her fate. Dickens was conscious of the 'many friends' the novel had won for him, and 'the many hearts it turned to me when they were full of private sorrow', and it remains one of the most familiar and well-loved of his works.
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MySQL GET_LOCK() explained
I've seen many questions arise around the MySQL GET_LOCK function. Some people complain it's broken, but it's not: You need to harness the power of GET_LOCK(). It's able to do unique things.
GET_LOCK('TrekkiesAreCool', 10);
The MySQL statement above acquires a lock named 'TrekkiesAreCool' or, if the lock is already held by another connection, waits 10 seconds to get it. The returned value is 1 or 0 depending on whether we got the lock or not.
This lock has got nothing to do with any data in a mysql database, it's just a named mutex lock. For information what a mutex is see this stackoverflow question or this wikipedia article.
This all seems very simple, but why do guys like this fail to get it working in PHP? The answer to that is also very simple:
A PHP request closes the mysql connection when it's done. Because a lock is held for a connection, it is released.
If this seems annoying to you, you are probably not using mysql get_lock() what it was intended for. If you want to have a lock that is persistent over multiple requests, you might want to consider writing a file, or use a mysql table to write it to. To avoid disk writes, you could set some variable in APC shared memory.
You are probably thinking: What about this great power you were talking about?
Well: you can 'monitor' the health and existence of another PHP background process. Reliably. Without much complicated code. MySQL connections are closed by the server when an application terminates. This happens on a normal exit, a PHP fatal error, segfault or any other ending of you application. Because the connection is closed the lock is freed.
We start our background process in cron, the process is started every minute. It starts and tries to acquire a lock, with a 60 second timeout. If we succeed to get our lock, we start doing our business. Some while(true){}-like functionality, say, wait for incoming star trek transporter beams. If we'd done some bad coding, (we probably do) it's likely that fatal transporter accidents happen because PHP is going to kill us.
If we died more than a minute after we started, cron already started a second instance, trying to get the lock we are holding. As we are dying the lock gets released and the new instance will take over where we left off.
If by pure chance we didn't die, the newer instance won't acquire the lock, and because of that exit();
Because 4 lines of pseudo-code is worth a thousand words:
$sql = 'SELECT GET_LOCK("BeamMeUpScotty", 60)'; $result = $mysql->query($sql); list($gotLock) = $result->fetch_row(); if (!$gotLock) exit(); while(true) { // This is where the beaming happens }
For further in-depth analysis of the beaming code see get the manual.
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What surprised me about GET_LOCK() was that when a GET_LOCK('a') is followed by a GET_LOCK('b') in the same session, this second call automatically releases the first lock ('a'). This means that GET_LOCK() can be used to obtain only a single lock at any time in your PHP script.
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Although it's connection based, so making GET_LOCK('a', 0) on connection id. 1 and then GET_LOCK('b', 0) on connection 2 will not free the first one. One interesting thing would be to test when the mysql thread handling is not set to one thread per connection.
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my server is being overload due to
SELECT GET_LOCK('holstei_moodle-mdl_-session-37621',120)
What is wrong on this string and how can it be fixed?
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Beware when using persistent connections in your framework or webapp. I had problems with the transporter-room being occupied all the time.
And then there is a bug in mysql < 5.5.3, where, if you try to get a lock, but the lock is not free, any script requesting the same lock will wait for the entire requested time, grmbl (see the note in the mysql manual for GET_LOCK.)
So it is probably wise to first check IS_FREE_LOCK() or IS_USED_LOCK(), just to make sure Scotty has left the transporter-room.
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Cape Town - Wednesday's proceedings in the Maqubela murder trial brought lively exchanges when retired Western Cape judge Denis van Reenen was called to testify.
The judge was the first to arrive, and as he sat quietly in the courtroom waiting for the proceedings to start, he read his cellphone messages.
He then joined in a friendly conversation between a journalist and a member of the defence team, attorney Randall Titus, about the controversial protection of state information bill.
As they chatted about politics and politicians, the judge noticed, too late, that a newspaper photographer had stealthily taken a photograph of him from behind.
A heated confrontation followed, in which the judge asked the photographer what right he had to take photographs of him without his permission.
The somewhat shaken photographer tried to back off, but the angered judge said he had a constitutional right to privacy.
He warned there would be consequences if his photograph appeared in any newspaper without his consent.
When the judge left the courtroom after the completion of his testimony, photographers out in the street were waiting for him and another heated confrontation followed.
In the witness stand itself, Van Reenen had lively exchanges with Thandi Maqubela's defence counsel Marius Broeksma.
Maqubela and co-accused Vela Mabena are on trial before Judge John Murphy for the alleged murder of Maqubela's husband Patrick, who at the time of his death in June 2009 was an acting judge in the Western Cape High Court.
After clashing with Broeksma about his suggestion that Van Reenen could be mistaken about a telephone call he had received from the widow, Broeksma questioned Van Reenen about his testimony that the deceased had had a reputation for diligence.
Broeksma said: "I'm going to question you about the deceased's work ethic."
To which Van Reenen blurted: "As judges, we don't stand looking over each other's shoulders."
Broeksma then asked Van Reenen to read aloud SMS messages from a bundle of messages.
Van Reenen responded: "Why must I read this?"
Broeksma said he would suggest that, from time to time, Maqubela had not turned up for work.
Broeksma said: "There is also evidence that on the Friday of his death, the deceased's secretary called him via the intercom in his apartment, between 10:00 and 11:00, and that the deceased was able to answer.
Van Reenen replied: "For the deceased to have been at home at that time, would be incompatible with the man I knew."
The trial continues on Thursday.
Judges in the Witness box - to testify at a trial - as a character witness?? - for a colleague ?
So a murder occurred because one person never approved of the alleged character of another ? ... that's the motif ?
What about the plot, the weapon, the evidence, the execution, the cover-up (fraudulent will) ?
Ai Shame, he does not want his photo taken..........
Come on news24, where are the pictures?