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I've often thought that I should send an annual letter to the Observer
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In it I would simply offer brief, real-life rebukes to all the recycled douchebaggery that manifests itself in the viewpoint section of the Observer. For example, this year's might read:
(Caution: language and irritation)
Dear current ND students,
Let me save you all a lot of time and typing by summarizing what the world outside 46556 thinks of your issues:
-To the guys wearing the "Gay? Go to hell" shirts: You are giant shitheads whose point--actually wrong, per the catechism--is entirely eclipsed by the sheer failure of your attempt to be clever. You are neither clever nor correct, and I dare you to wear that shirt off the ND campus someday.
-To the folks who annually whine about meat not being served in the dining halls on Lenten Fridays: Get over yourselves. We have a word for you in the real world, and that word is "really fucking annoying." Go to Burger King and get a super-sized helping of go fuck yourself.
-To the students who have written in and called for Weis' firing or to decry the efforts of the football team: Give me your football tickets. I will distribute them to people who aren't complete pussies, and then I will come to your dorm rooms and give you a brief powerpoint presentation about the accomplishments of the Weis era w/r/t the Davie/Willingham eras. There will be a brief Q&A session, followed by me kicking the ever-loving shit out of you.
-To the dipshit students who publicly make fun of St. Mary's women and the St. Mary's women who earnestly defend their honor in this paper: Both of you just stop it. Get together in a dorm room with a couple of cases of cheap beer, turn on a Dave Matthews CD, and hook up with each other. Nothing could be more beneficial to the inter-school dynamic than if you'd all just shut the fuck up and make out.
-To Zahm: You suck. Thank you for continuing to embrace it.
-To anyone who complains about the content of the Keenan Revue: I have added your names and addresses to the subscription lists of the following magazines--Penthouse Forum, MAD Magazine, Model Airplane Monthly, and Dog Fancy. Why? In order, because you need to learn what offensive content really is, you have no sense of humor, you have too much time on your hands, and you're a whiny bitch.
-To those people who write in to decry the Vagina Monologues: If you will simply shut the fuck up, the play will disappear for lack of interest. It's a shitty play regardless of your feelings about it, and no one would ever go see it if it weren't for the constant stream of controversy drummed up by thin-skinned cretins like yourself. Stick a sock in your yammering gob and have some patience, you daft knob.
-To anyone who complains about parietals: You have two options. First, you can transfer to another school where parietals don't exist. I must warn you, though, that people will probably think you're a shithead there too. Secondly, I take it you are aware that you can live off campus? I know you've probably never been invited to a party that wasn't run by Flipside, but there are actually other places to live than under the oppressive regime that is apparently keeping your booming social life under wraps. BTW, I actually lied--your third option is to realize that a whiny little faux-activist dipshit like you won't ever have to worry about breaking parietals, you miserable prat.
-To the ladies and wanna-be ladies writing in about the sexism inherent in the Victory March: We get it. We really do. We just want you to understand that the song was written by Jesus almost 2000 years ago, before women were admitted to Notre Dame and before you had the right to vote or hold property. As such, it's grandfathered into the category of "things that don't get touched by the PC police" along with "Blazing Saddles" and the right of men to pull one another's fingers before farting. If you want to change the words to the fight song, take it up with Jesus. He lives on the library. In the meantime, sing the fucking song however you want to sing it and shut the fuck up about it already.
-To the few remaining fartsniffers who are against the ROTC presence on ND's campus: Nobody likes war, but shit happens and not everything in this world is puppy dogs and ice cream. And if somebody has to be in command of a Trident submarine or a B-2 with nuclear weapons, I want that somebody to be the guy down the hall from me at ND and not some military automaton from State U (or a wishy-washy hippie like you). It will be a cosmic event if you wankers grasp what I've said, but barring that I order you to pull out your credit cards and pay for the students who otherwise couldn't afford to go to school here if not for ROTC funding. Doing so will prevent, or at least delay, the impending ass-kicking I plan to deliver unto you.
Giggity_Giggity, ND '98


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Boulou - With The Paris All Stars Barclay LP-80254 (Fra) 1964
The 13 Years Old Jazz Sensation From France!
Boulou Ferré was born of gypsy origin in Paris on the 24th of April 1951. At five years, Boulou sang all the solos of Dizzy Gillespie but started his musical studies at the age of seven with his father, Pierre Matelot Ferré, one of the main musicians in Django Reinhardt's and Stéphane Grappelli's Quintette du Hot Club de France. Along with jazz guitar he starts to study classical guitar with Francisco Gil and gives a first concert at the Guimet Museum at the age of eight.
At twelve, he accompanies Jean Ferrat who fell under his charm, it was then he signed with Barclay and recorded his first album in '63. In 1964 he plays during the first part of John Coltrane's concert at the Jazz festival of Juan les Pins. Boulou & les Paris All Stars is in fact his third album and features Pierre Michelot, Eddy Louiss, Kenny Clarke and Maurice Vander amongst other stars. This album was an homage to Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and was given 4 stars from Down Beat Magazine.
At the beginning of the Seventies, he appears with the vibraphonist and multi-instrumentalist Gunter Hampel, then with Steve Potts in company of Christian Escoudé and the Japanese pianist Takashi Kako. In 1974, it's with The Corporation Gypsy Orchestra, he grabs the attention of Carlos Santana and Frank Zappa et al.
Boulou went on to study harmony and composition with the french organist and composer Olivier Messiaen - and participate in a wide repertoire with several musicians such as Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Clarke, Wayne Marsh, Philly Joe Jones, Chet Baker, Stéphane Grappelli… He also composes music for movies and for television.
1) Mack The Knife
2) Groovin' High
3) Night & Day
4) Undecided
5) Blue'N Boogie
6) Salt Peanuts
7) A Night In Tunisia
8) Bluesette
9) I'll Never Smile Again
10) Ow
11) The Girl From Ipanema
12) Ascott
Thrill at the marvels of this thirteen year old. In his vocals you can hear he's but a boy but that's where the kiddiness ends! All this under the direction of Maestro Alain Goraguer. A treasure...don't you think so?


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My cell phone has about 32 tennis partners in it. If I know you from tennis I'll add you to my address book this way "T Andy" or "T Jeff" for instance. Then I can easily scroll through the tennis partners and see who I am in the mood for.
In your opinion, what makes the perfect tennis partner?
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Columnist Mike Parker talks about growing up during the Cold War
The sound track in my head contains several songs from �Fiddler on the Roof.� I feel a kinship with a number of tunes in the musical about the little Jewish village of Anatevka.
In one of my favorites, Tevye and his wife Golde sing as they watch their daughter Tzeital marry the tailor, Motel Kamzoil. During �Sunrise, Sunset,� Tevye muses:
�I don�t remember growing older. When did they?�
That song has been on my mind today, my 62nd birthday.
The number 62 has a sort of magic.
First, I qualify to draw Social Security, once called the �Old-Age Pension.� As far as �Old Age,� I do not feel that old.
Still, I remember quite a bit of 20th-century history.
When I was born, the United States had 48 states, and the U.S. Constitution had only 21 amendments. The 22nd Amendment, which established term limits for the U.S. President, was ratified in 1951.
When I was born, Truman was president. Two years later, Eisenhower was elected.
In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down segregation in the nation�s schools with Brown v. Board of Education. One young lawyer who argued the case, Thurgood Marshall, later became the first black American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
I remember being called to the school auditorium in 1956 or 1957 (after all, I was only six or seven) to receive a pink vaccine on a sugar cube to protect me against polio. I was vaccinated against smallpox twice � then and in 1968.
In 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik and started the �space race.� That year also started a massive effort to make U.S. schools more competitive on the international scene.
In 1959, Hawaii and Alaska were admitted as the 49th and 50th states.
The first presidential race I remember was Kennedy v. Goldwater. Please understand: even at 10, I worried about that race. The adults around me seemed consumed with political discussions.
A chief question was whether Kennedy, a Catholic, would be under the influence and direction of the Pope. This country had never elected a Catholic as president.
I remember the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and John Glenn orbiting the earth. I remember sitting in a junior high school classroom when school officials announced the assassination of President Kennedy. Nov. 22, 1963, was one of the saddest days of my life.
In 1964, I was in the first integrated high school class in the Richmond (Va.) City Schools. When I entered John Marshall High School as a freshman, 25 percent of my classmates were black.
I spent two years at John Marshall before my dad�s job took him to Columbus, Ohio. In those two years at John Marshall, I never saw or heard of a single angry word or violent incident involving black and white students. I saw white students fight each other. I frankly do not remember a single fight between black students.
I graduated from Reynoldsburg High School and entered Ohio State in 1968 � at the height of the Vietnam War. That year saw the assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I was at Ohio State for the student riot in 1970. Five thousand Ohio National Guardsmen were stationed two miles from OSU. We had to pass through military checkpoints to enter campus. I also remember the May 4 shooting of four students at Kent State.
In 1971, I moved to North Carolina and began teaching. Forty-one years later, I am still teaching.
I remember being warned in the 1960�s and 1970�s about global cooling and an impending ice age. I have lived long enough to hear warnings about global warming and impending green-house effects and abrupt climate change.
Perhaps before long, Goldilocks may find the porridge �just right.�
So far, I have lived through 12 U.S. presidents, at least four wars, numerous �police� actions, and three or four recessions.
I have also lived through raising four kids, at least as much of a challenge as the recessions. I am watching 11 grandkids grow up � the oldest is nearing 14 and the youngest just turned 1.
But despite everything I remember, I do not remember growing older.
I guess I just grew older.
�Sunrise, sunset.�
Mike Parker is a columnist for The Free Press. You can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or in care of this newspaper.


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|Statement by Chinese Permanent Representative Wang Guangya at 58th GA Session on Agenda Item 56: Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Related Matters
Mr. President,
Please allow me to express my thanks to Mr. Kavan, Chairman of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) of the last GA session and the two Vice Chairmen Ambassador Ingolfsson and Ambassador Kasemsarn for their hard work to ensure the smooth progress of the OEWG. We believe that under the leadership of Mr. Hunter, the new Chairman, the OEWG will continue to hold constructive discussions.
The past year has been an extraordinary year for the Security Council. On the one hand, positive progress has been made in its efforts to help seek solutions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire, thus contributing to the maintenance of peace and stability of the countries and regions concerned. This has been widely acclaimed by the international community and especially the African countries. On the other hand, the Security Council has been confronted with unprecedented challenges on the Iraqi issue. Some people have thus felt frustrated about the failure of the Security Council to reach consensus on this issue. Some are worried about whether the Security Council is able to fulfill the responsibility of maintaining peace and security. However, the general debate of the current session shows that the basic consensus of the vast Member States remains unchanged. That is, in face of the new situation, the role of the Security Council in maintaining world peace and security should be further enhanced rather than weakened. The authority of the Security Council should be reinforced rather than reduced.
Mr. President,
As was pointed out by Secretary-General Kofi Annan during the GA general debate, it is necessary to reform the UN agencies, including the Security Council, so that they can better respond to the new issues created by the new situation. China agrees with the view of the Secretary-General. We have consistently supported the efforts to keep pace with the times and conduct appropriate and necessary reform of the Security Council. The reform should be aimed at enhancing the capacity of the Security Council to face new challenges and threats and at realizing more equitable representation.
Security Council reform should start from its unbalanced composition. Now, representation of the developing countries is insufficient in the Security Council. Priority should therefore be given to increasing representation of the developing countries according to the principle of equitable geographical distribution. Discussions on increasing the membership of the Security Council have been going on for 10 years at the OEWG. In the current circumstances, we should both have the patience for extensive and in-depth discussions, and the urgency to speed up the reform as well as the wisdom of making appropriate compromise. The Chinese Delegation is ready to continue to take an active part in OEWG discussions in a constructive manner. We look forward to creative discussions among all parties during the current GA session in this regard.
We also support the Security Council in further improving its working method so as to increase transparency of its work and raise its efficiency. In recent years, marked progress has been made in improving working method with more open meetings and good communication and cooperation with troop contributing countries. This has been received positively by the vast number of Member States. The Chinese side is ready to continue to work with other members of the Security Council in this field.
Mr. President,
China welcomes the proposal put forward by the Secretary-General on setting up a High-Level Panel of eminent personalities. We believe that the composition of the Panel will reflect geographical balance. We also hope to see positive proposals produced by the Panel, which can reflect the consensus of the majority so as to provide the vast number of Member States with a basis for further discussion and decision.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Department has questioned the timing of a planned North Korea visit by Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and former ambassador Bill Richardson.
In her media briefing, State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland said the two will be making the trip as private citizens.
"They are traveling in an unofficial capacity," Nuland said. "They are not going to be accompanied by any U.S. officials. They are not carrying any messages from us. Frankly, we don't think the timing of this is particularly helpful, but they are private citizens and they are making their own decisions."
North Korea has come under intense criticism from the United Nations and rest of the world for its long-range rocket firing last month which violated U.N. Security Council resolutions as it was seen as a test of its ballistic missile technology. The isolated Communist country is under tough sanctions for conducting two nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009.
Nuland said Schmidt and Richardson, former New Mexico governor, energy secretary and U.S. ambassador to the Untied Nations, are "well aware of our views" on North Korea.
The Wall Street Journal, quoting a source, has reported Schmidt intends to join Richardson and other members of a group planning the trip, likely to take place this month.
When asked if the trip might be tied to winning the release of a U.S. national being held in North Korea, Nuland said: "Again, they are not going on our behalf. No American official is going with them. They are not carrying any messages from us."
As regards the detained U.S. national, Nuland said the United States is "in contact with" North Korea through the Swedish Embassy. She said Swedish diplomats have been granted consular access to the U.S. national.
Nuland also reminded that U.S. companies are subject to restrictions stemming from U.S. economic sanctions against North Korea, while noting the United States supports the right of all people to have access to the Internet. Communist North Korea strictly limits Internet access by its people.


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Some Los Angeles Kings fans were celebrating the team's Stanley Cup win outside the Staples Center last week when they noticed a Phantom-model quadcopter drone buzzing above, surveying the scene.
Angry at the intrusion, they knocked it down using a T-shirt and smashed it into bits with a skateboard.
What remains of the drone is sitting in a Los Angeles Police Department property room, waiting for its owner to claim it. If the owner steps forward, police will give him back his drone but do little else. Flying a drone in public is not illegal, police concluded.
"It was kind of an eye-opener for us that this is something we really need to pay attention to," said LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith about the drone outside the Kings game. "It's certainly something that's growing enormously."
Drone use is becoming an issue as the unmanned aircraft become more popular, especially as a way for hobbyists to create videos. YouTube is filled with drone videos taking in the views of Yosemite, prompting rangers last month to issue a public notice saying the machines are banned. At the Grand Canyon recently, a drone crashed, stunning visitors who were there to take in the sunset.
On Friday, the National Parks Service announced that it intended to ban low-flying drones on the 84 million acres of land it manages, citing concerns about visitor safety and the impact on wildlife.
Other drone-filmed videos are also popping up that show sporting events, local beaches and even DUI checkpoints.
Although the Federal Aviation Administration has a host of regulations about how private businesses and law enforcement can use drones, there are few rules covering the casual hobbyist.
A ruling by a federal oversight committee in March further complicated regulation. The National Transportation Safety Board's Office of Administrative Law Judges found in favor of a pilot who was issued a $10,000 citation for flying a drone over the University of Virginia as part of a photography project. The FAA is appealing the ruling.
The FAA estimated in a report that there could be 7,500 civilian hobbyist drones in use within 5 years. Federal officials said they hope to craft clearer civilian drone rules by 2015, but some experts said that's too optimistic a timeline.
The rise in civilian drone use comes as prices for the aircraft decline. Prices now range from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.
Torrance resident Daniel Saulmon, 42, has been flying his drone around the South Bay for about a month. He created a website on which he regularly posts videos shot at police DUI checkpoints. He said he records officers to monitor abuses of power.
"My attorney told me there isn't really much regulation on them," said Saulmon, whose recordings are well known to South Bay officers. "I don't think it's a substitute for a hand-held camera but its definitely a complement."
Saulmon also has flown his drone over South Bay oil refineries and along the Hermosa Beach pier.
He doesn't see any privacy violations in his recordings.
But the presence of drones is causing a backlash.
"Once drones become widely used in our society, there's going to be a lot of concern," said Jennifer Lynch, a senior attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based digital legal advocacy group. "It's because they're so in-your-face. It's easy to see the drone, it's easy to recognize the privacy implications."
At Hermosa Beach last year, an irate mother confronted a lifeguard about a drone that hovered near her and her daughter, and snapped photos while they were tanning.
In Connecticut, a man flying a drone over a beach was attacked by a woman who accused him of trying to take pictures of her.
And at Mt. Rushmore, a ranger confiscated a drone after it flew around the monument and over the heads of visitors.
In April, volunteers at Zion National Park in Utah watched a drone buzz over a herd of big horn sheep, separating the adults from the young.
"That's harassment," said National Park Service spokesman Jeffrey Olson. "Those are the kinds of things that have been going on."
The FAA said recreational drone use is generally permitted as long as pilots don't fly recklessly. Voluntary guidelines for model aircraft created in 1981 suggest flying at safe altitudes and distances away from airports, and avoiding crowds.
Police said there are some activities they consider illegal, including drones interfering with aviation activities. Using the planes to spy on neighbors would also raise red flags.
"I have to weigh it on a case by case basis," said Lt. Phil Smith, assistant commanding officer for the LAPD's air support division.
But most cases police deal with aren't sinister, often involving drones capturing beautiful scenery or historic moments like the Kings' Stanley Cup victory celebration.
"It's going to take one of those dropping out of the sky and hitting someone, or a movie star making a big issue out of it," said Terry Yamamoto, L.A. County Fire Department's South Bay lifeguard division chief.


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We need a cache per connection because that's the way jdbc drivers work. Any preparedstatements returned are specific to that connection.
If we want to take advantage of this cache,We need to use parameterized queries so that they will match ones already prepared in the cache. Most application servers will allow you to tune the size of this prepared statement cache.
So there are good reasons to use prepared statements:
- Save on query parsing
- Save on data conversion and copying
- Avoid SQL Injection
- Save memory on handling blobs
- Query cache does not work
- Extra server round trip required if statement used only once
- Not all statements can be prepared. So you can't use prepared API exclusively you'll need to fall back to normal API for some statements
- Newer and sometimes buggy code. I had a lot of problems with PHP prepared statements. It is getting better but still it is less mature than standard API
- You can't use placeholders in place of all identifiers. For example you can't use them for table name. In certain version it even does not work for LIMIT boundaries
- Inconvenient list handling. Unlike in for example PEAR emulated prepard statements there is no nice way to pass list of values to IN
- Harder tracing. Logs were now fixed to include full statement text not only "Execute" but in SHOW INNODB STATUS you would still see statements without actual values – quite inconvenient for analyses.
For a prepared statement executed via the binary protocol, comparison with statements in the query cache is based on the text of the statement after expansion of ? parameter markers. The statement is compared only with other cached statements that were executed via the binary protocol. That is, for query cache purposes, statements issued via the binary protocol are distinct from statements issued via the text protocol.
We can't re-use a mysql statement prepared during a previous request in php.
If PHP application uses connection pooling to the database, and the database caches prepared statements, then yes, the caching will persist between pages. If the prepared statement caching is done by the client library, then this is more nebulous.
Reusing the same variable name in PHP won't invalidate the MySQL prepare "cache".
$stmt = $dbh->prepare("SELECT column_A FROM Table1 WHERE id=?");
$stmt->bindValue(1, $id, PDO::PARAM_INT);
$stmt = $dbh->prepare("UPDATE Table2 SET column_B=? WHERE column_A=?");
$stmt->bindValue(1, $name);
$stmt->bindValue(2, $column_A);
MYSQL persistent connection
Mysql server offer statement caching.
mysql> PREPARE stmt_name FROM "SELECT name FROM Country WHERE code = ?";
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.09 sec)
Statement prepared
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
| name |
| Finland |
1 row in set (0.03 sec)
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
When a request is served php "cleans" the instance and frees resources and other variables. This is done in several steps. Since apache keeps the process alive after a request not all steps are executed and not all memory is freed. There is e.g. EG(persistent_list) which is used by mysql_pconnect(), pg_pconnect(), ... This list isn't emptied between requests as long as the process keeps alive (could be, depending on the actual implementation, but that would defy the purpose of EG(persistent_list)). If you use persistent connections your script might get a "re-used" connection established during a previous request.
To (re-)use a prepared statement directly you need the identifier for that statement (and that connection). When using (php-)postgresql this is simply a (connection-wise) unique string you pass to pg_execute(), so your script has no problem to gain access to the statement previously prepared by another instance (using the same connection).
Using mysqli or PDO-mysql you need a resource/object as statement identifier. That's kind of a problem since neither the mysqli nor the pdo extension seem to offer a way of storing the resource in EG(persist_list) between requests and you can't recreate it either, so it's seems impossible to re-use a mysql prepared statement directly.
But as we know we should not use persistent connection , here are some good points.
- When you lock a table, normally it is unlocked when the connection closes, but since persistent connections do not close, any tables you accidentally leave locked will remain locked, and the only way to unlock them is to wait for the connection to timeout or kill the process.
- Normally temporary tables are dropped when the connection closes, but since persistent connections do not close, temporary tables aren't so temporary. If you do not explicitly drop temporary tables when you are done, that table will already exist for a new client reusing the same connection. The same problem occurs with setting session variables.
- If PHP and MySQL are on the same server or local network, the connection time may be negligible, in which case there is no advantage to persistent connections.
- Apache does not work well with persistent connections. When it receives a request from a new client, instead of using one of the available children which already has a persistent connection open, it tends to spawn a new child, which must then open a new database connection. This causes excess processes which are just sleeping, wasting resources, and causing errors when you reach your maximum connections, plus it defeats any benefit of persistent connections.
Also Try to use it smartly. For example.
$ids = array(12,34,56);
$sql = "SELECT * FROM address WHERE address_id = :address_id";
$databaseHandle = CustomDB::getDBH();
$rows = array();
$preparedStatementHandle = $databaseHandle->prepare($sql);
foreach ($ids as $id) {
$preparedStatementHandle->execute(array('address_id' => $id));
$result = $preparedStatementHandle->fetchAll();
$rows = array_merge($rows, $result);
It doesn't make sense when we can get gain using SELECT id FROM address WHERE address_id IN (12,34,56);
Prepared Statements are useful when they are related to session-long caching alongside a database wrapper that's just good enough to programmatically generate most typical lookups.
Unfortunately, "good enough" caching looks complicated:
Example Queries:
SELECT * FROM address WHERE address_id = 12;
SELECT * FROM address WHERE address_id = 34;
SELECT * FROM address WHERE address_id = 56;
Example Code, assuming PDO & PHP, to produce those queries using Prepared Statements with caching:
$ids = array(12,34,56);
$sql = "SELECT * FROM address WHERE address_id = :address_id";
$databaseHandle = CustomDB::getDBH();
$rows = array();
if (!Zend_Registry::isRegistered(self::PREP_STMT_CACHE_KEY)) {
Zend_Registry::set(self::PREP_STMT_CACHE_KEY, Cache::getInstance());
$preparedStatementHandle = Zend_Registry::get(self::PREP_STMT_CACHE_KEY)->get($sql);
if (!$preparedStatementHandle) {
$preparedStatementHandle = $databaseHandle->prepare($sql);
// Use the sql itself as the index/hash
Zend_Registry::get(self::PREP_STMT_CACHE_KEY)->set($sql, $preparedStatementHandle);
foreach ($ids as $id) {
$preparedStatementHandle->execute(array('address_id' => $id));
$result = $preparedStatementHandle->fetchAll();
$rows = array_merge($rows, $result);
Prepared Statements fail
- Prepared Statements only exist for the current session, so holding onto a handle after a session closes will lead to failures
- Each Prepared Statement consumes a handle from the instance's Prepared Statement pool, which is the "max_prepared_stmt_count"
- Out Of Memory on the client side
A connection closes while a cache of Prepared Statement Handles exists
Update your PDO wrapping class to have a __destruct method defined to clear the relevant cache of Prepared Statement Handles before calling the parent's destruct method.
Case 2:
The max_prepared_stmt_count value is reached on a database
Immediately drop all local caches of Prepared Statements and try again. If there is still an issue, activate PDO's ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES flag to silently convert calls of ->prepare and ->exec into standard SQL Statements.
Case 3:
Out Of Memory (OOM) on the client-side.
Reduce the Prepared Statement Handle Cache size. The cache does not have to be large if it is well managed. Even my company's complicated webapp's web requests do not fill a 200-statement-long FIFO cache.
Remaining Points:
- Monitor (ie: Nagios) Prepared_stmt_count vs max_prepared_stmt_count
- Monitor (ie: StatsD) the Prepared Statement Handle Cache hit, miss, and purge rate.
- An LRU's extra minimal overhead is only worthwhile over a simple FIFO if your Prepared Statement Handle Cache is too small for all the queries that should be cached.
- Note: Your cache should be small due to the unbounded and invisible memory consumption of Prepared Statement Handles on the database server
- A best-case Prepared Statement instantiation against localhost with a simple select costs me, on average, about 300 microseconds. Pulling a handle from a cache is about 6 microseconds.
- Coworkers have shown me that long lists of Named Parameters (ie: ":id1, :id2, :id3, [...]") get more expensive with quantity whereas long lists of Ordered Parameters (ie: "?,?,?,[...]") remain cheap even in large number. Numerically quantifying this slowdown will be a future post.
- Ordered Parameters' values are not decoded in SHOW PROCESSLIST. Named Parameters' values are displayed, however, which makes them, to me, far preferable.


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Feb. 9, 2007
By Nate Rau, Sports Correspondent
February 09, 2007
There was a time during their high school years at Harding Academy in Memphis when JanAndre Williams, and not his younger brother Trey, seemed bound for college basketball stardom.
JanAndre was the point guard of a Harding Academy team that contended for the state title both of his final two seasons. Trey was a talented and skilled guard too, but he didn't display the promise of JanAndre's game.
"He was always pretty much the best player on the team," Trey said of his brother. "Growing up, I always looked up to him as someone to follow."
In the last five years, things have changed and roles have been reversed. JanAndre has gone from high school star, to sandwich shop worker, to team manager, to Division I college basketball player. Trey's journey wasn't so adventurous. He went from living in his brother's shadow to becoming the superior player on the court. But despite the winding road that brought them here, the Williams brothers are teammates once again.
Trey is the star point guard for the Lipscomb Bisons. JanAndre is a sparsely used walk-on who spent two years as team manager before earning a spot on the team.
`Someone had to be the man'
It was prior to JanAndre's senior year in high school when their mother, Virginia Williams, needed help making ends meet. Virginia had moved the boys from their Arkansas hometown to Memphis so they could go to school and play hoops at Harding Academy.
Virginia did her best to be the sole provider, but in time she needed help. One of the boys needed to work to give the family additional income and since JanAndre was the oldest, he took that responsibility.
"A lot of things changed," JanAndre said of their situation at home. "I felt changed. [Trey] worked endlessly on his shot that summer. And I worked. Someone had to be the man."
Welcome to the sandwich shop
JanAndre took a job making subs at sandwich shop to give Virginia extra income. While his brother was serving sandwiches, Trey had the time to work on his game. Prior to his junior year, Trey's game improved so much that he passed his brother.
And ever since that fork in the road, that's the way things stayed. Trey pursued his dream of becoming a Division I basketball player and two years ago he signed a scholarship to play for Lipscomb.
This season, his game has blossomed as he's become a cog in the Lipscomb offense averaging 13 points per game. Trey gives his family all the credit for his success. "If it wasn't for the things he did and my mother did I wouldn't be in the place I'm at right now," Trey said.
A servant-hearted young man
Without an academic scholarship to put himself through college, JanAndre had to work to pay his tuition and living expenses. After initially planning on becoming the manager for the Middle Tennessee basketball team, JanAndre spent a semester at Memphis before deciding he wanted to play again.
He contacted Lipscomb assistant Shaun Senters and two years ago JanAndre became the Bisons team manager.
"JanAndre is someone who is respected by all his teammates," said Lipscomb assistant Hubie Smith, who has known the Williams brothers since their Harding Academy days. "He is quiet, but he is a leader in his own right and he's a very servant-hearted young man."
JanAndre stayed on as the manager last season but after the Bisons suffered a string of injuries that forced several players out of practice, the team needed extra bodies. JanAndre lobbied the coaching staff to let him practice with the team and the next day there was a jersey waiting for him.
While his brother was the team's starting point guard, JanAndre served as a practice body all of last year. But this season, Lipscomb coach Scott Sanderson allowed JanAndre to walk on.
Four years after playing together at Harding Academy and five years after JanAndre's sacrifice allowed Trey's game to blossom, the Williams brothers were teammates once again.
"This is going to be the last time ever for us to play together on the same team and do something special," Trey said. "We won championships in pee-wee, but in high school we always came up short. This year it would be a great ending to a great story if we could go out on top and win the Atlantic Sun tournament."
`If I can ever repay them, I will'
JanAndre is far from bitter for the way things turned out. He says he learned lessons from the hard work it required to help make ends meet. He graduates in May with a management degree and hopes to be hired on at the Sarah Cannon Research Institute, where he works as an intern.
As for Trey, his focus remains on the hardwood. He'll graduate in December, after which time he hopes to play professionally, perhaps in Europe.
"In the future, if there's ever anything I can do for my mother or my brother financially or in any other way, I will," Trey said. "I owe them everything."
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Three weeks before a teenager climbed a fence at San Jose Mineta International Airport and stowed away in the wheel well of an airliner, the Transportation Security Administration inspected and approved the airport's fence line security.
The disclosure by TSA administrator John S. Pistole during testimony before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday is likely to add increasing pressure for improvements to airport perimeter security around the nation.
"What if it was someone else with an explosive that got on that plane?" asked Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., who grilled Pistole about the San Jose incident. "Hey, this is bad news." She added later, "You cleared them and that's troubling to me."
Pistole said the TSA has been working "almost nonstop" to find out what happened.
The youth entered the airport under the cover of darkness. While airport officials have said they do not have video of the teen climbing the fence, they do have film of an unidentified intruder on the tarmac, but no one monitoring the closed-circuit video system saw it. Pistole said the airport could be fined "for allowing this to happen because it is an egregious violation of the airport's perimeter."
The Santa Clara youth, who apparently was trying to get back to his mother in Africa, somehow survived a 51/2 hour flight to Maui in the wheel well of a Hawaiian Airlines jet, landing there on April 21.
In prepared talking points, Pistole said that from Jan. 2 to March 28, TSA conducted a comprehensive inspection of the airport and found it met security requirements for perimeter systems, including the fence line and other measures.
Inspectors reviewed physical barriers and electronic access control systems; the airport's badging system; training; law enforcement support; contingency plans; and adherence to specific directives from the TSA, according to Pistole's talking points.
The airport also has a project to enhance its standards for the fence line, he noted.
The TSA regulates and inspects the security arrangements of airports outside the terminal, but airports pay for and operate the systems. Television cameras to monitor fences are not required, according to a TSA spokesman.
TSA's requirements call for a six-foot fence around airports. San Jose has an extra foot of barbed wire atop an estimated six miles of fence enclosing the airport, according to airport spokeswoman Rosemary Barnes.
"We've always met TSA standards," Barnes said. "We've been sharing that message all along. The fence meets and in many cases exceeds standards. We've always done what we've been asked to do."
Brian Jenkins, a senior adviser to the president of the RAND Corp., said in an interview Wednesday that improving fence security has a low priority because no intrusion has ever resulted in a fatality. Beefing up fences with cameras and other gear is expensive, he added, and airports have to pay for it. Jenkins also directs the National Transportation Security Center at the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State.
Pistole said that each airport is different.
"With 450 airports, there is no one-size-fits-all for each airport, so we inspect each one to assess for that location … the perimeter fencing, along with a number of other things."
He said San Jose's fencing "was in fine shape, but as at least one prior Secretary of Homeland Security said, 'show me a 15-foot fence and I'll show you a 16-foot ladder. … What we do is try to buy down risk in a measured fashion that allows us to make sure that we are doing everything possible."
Pistole said there are "a number of opportunities" for improving security along the fence line. "There could be armed officers, or with canines out patrolling. There could be better CCTV (closed circuit television) coverage. There could be a second fence in some situations," he said.
But he also observed that if Congress doesn't allocate money for enhanced security on fences, "those are unfunded mandates for the airports." A group of several congressmen is asking the Government Accountability Office to update a 2009 report on airport perimeter security. Since that report was issued, five other airports have reported perimeter violations.
Contact Pete Carey at 408-920-5419. Follow him on Twitter.com/petecarey.


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Hello I just bought this game and I bought it based on the pc version. Pc has challenges which keeps players coming back to do. if Ps4 got the same love more ppl would play like me because theirs incentives to come back. Also Dino vs Dino tdm would be awesome as well if that's possible.
Cash Shop: If you guys had a in game store. Where ppl could buy skins directly instead of going to the ps store but a actual in game store showcasing skins I think would increase revenue, this is the new age and players are more likely to buy cool skins that are advertised in their face in the game Rather then go look in the store for skins. When a game is free to play but has a cash shop that's where the money is. One GD to another you could easily implement a currency system and have ppl earn different tiered skins with currency that's accumulated over time but if a player wishes they could just outright buy from you. Or even a special currency that's pay only. The community wants more content. I'm sure this game could use more money for funding. You make everyone happy including yourselves. I know this post probably will not get a response but I know your reading. Don't pay attention to the negative this is the internet ppl will always have something negative to say can't make everyone happy.


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Minnesotans have dropped roughly $2 million on video pulltab games in the past few months, games that are eventually supposed to fund the state's share of the new Minnesota Vikings stadium. But so far, just one game manufacturer and one vendor have been allowed to operate here, a unique situation in state gaming history.
Six other manufacturers of electronic games currently are tied up in Minnesota Department of Public Safety background checks.
Minnesota gambling managers meeting Friday in Duluth for their annual convention are watching to see if other competitors will be approved. Until that happens, the potential for funding the Vikings stadium remains in second gear, they say, because many charities are holding back.
"Some of our members are saying they want choice before they make a decision [on the game]," said Al Lund, executive director of Allied Charities of Minnesota, the umbrella organization for charitable gambling groups. "As a community, we are excited about electronics, but we want to see more options."
The Minnesota Gambling Control Board, which also is meeting Friday in Duluth, has no new manufacturers of electronic games slated for approval, said Tom Barrett, executive director of the board.
However, the board is expected to approve several more games from Acres 4.0 and Express Games MN, the sole manufacturer and vendor operating in the state. That includes two new games for the iPad tablets now in use at bars and restaurants statewide, and five more games for a new iPod Touch system.
Other game manufacturers are still waiting. Minnesota Department of Public Safety spokesman Doug Neville said at least three manufacturers submitted applications to the Gambling Control Board in July and August and are awaiting background checks.
Proceeds from charitable gambling are expected to pay the state's $350 million share of the $1 billion Vikings stadium.
Creating tensions
The situation has created tension between Minnesota's longstanding gambling vendors and the new guys in town with the sole distributorship on games.
Drew Naseth, a Faribault-based games distributor, was curious about Express Games MN, so he started exploring websites last month to learn more.
He found no such name listed with the Minnesota Secretary of State office, where companies that do business in Minnesota typically must register. Surprised, Naseth said he reserved the name himself last month to call attention to the matter.
"How does the state do a background check without checking the Secretary of State?" he asked.
Attorneys for Express Games MN now have issued Naseth a request to cease and desist, said company president Jon Weaver, noting, "You can't impersonate a corporation."
Weaver said he didn't register Express Games MN with the Secretary of State because he thought it fell under one of the categories exempt from registration. The company was incorporated in Delaware in June and has an office in downtown Minneapolis.
Bert Black, legal adviser for the Office of Secretary of State, said that, generally speaking, a business with "boots on the ground" in Minnesota, one that is not conducting business solely by phone or e-mail, must register.
"If you've got someone with an office here, who is selling door to door, I can't think of a circumstance where that would not be considered doing business in Minnesota ... and is therefore required to register," Black said.
That said, there is no penalty for failure to register unless the matter is pursued by the Minnesota attorney general, he said.
Weaver notes that Express Games MN already is licensed with the state of Minnesota, and that it pays taxes to the state. He said his attorneys hope the matter can be settled. "We take this seriously," he said.
Crimp on pulltab sales?
Gambling leaders such as Lund say that, ideally, the state would have had several vendors lined up when it launched electronic gaming. But in the rush to start cranking out money for the Vikings stadium, waiting apparently wasn't an option, gambling leaders say. The pulltab vendors that have been doing business in Minnesota for decades weren't prepared to launch new electronic games.
"So this has been like drips coming out of the faucet, rather than the faucet turned on full bore," Lund said.
Meanwhile, gambling vendors long registered in Minnesota say that even if the charities they work with want electronic pulltab games, they have nothing to offer them.
"Until we have a product [to sell], we're just biding our time," said Mike Rizzi, vice president of the Fridley-based Pulltabs Plus.
Weaver said he agrees there should be more competition. But he doesn't think his company should be criticized for being prepared from the get-go. He also noted that his contracts with charities lets them switch vendors with a 30-day notice, allowing them to try new products as the competition moves in.
Some of that competition will be on hand Friday in Duluth, when up to five electronic games manufacturers will demonstrate their products, said Lund. Lund said he is "keeping his fingers crossed" that the Gambling Control Board will approve some new players.
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"The Runaways"
Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning star as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie respectively in this film that recounts the rise and fall of one of rock's great all-girl bands.
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Paint N Party – Painting Class with Cocktails — October 8, 2013
- Cost:
- $40
- Brothers Bar and Grill (upstairs)
- 119 5th Avenue South, St. Cloud, MN 56301 United States
- Phone
- 320-257-7224
Additional Information
Paint N Party -- a paint class at a bar while you enjoy a few cocktails.
Paint your very own canvas painting while you enjoy some adult beverages and appetizers. It happens every Tuesday night, from 6 p.m. -.8 p.m. upstairs at Brothers Bar and Grill at 119 5th Avenue South in Downtown St. Cloud.
Be the artist you never knew you could be. No experience painting? No worries. Your instructor will guide you through to help you create your very own masterpiece in a fun and relaxed atmosphere. You'll go home with a 16 x 20 canvas painting that you created. It's a fun night out with your girl friends and even a fun date night.
Register ahead of time. Spaces are limited. $40 gets you two hours of class and instruction time, two drinks and a shared appetizer. Check below to see the different paintings offered.
There are limited spaces available for each class so be sure and get signed up early.
What Should I Wear?
Aprons will be provided but we recommend wearing casual, comfortable clothing. You might get dirty.
What Is Your Cancellation Policy?
In the event that you would not be able to make it to the class that you are signed up for, you may reschedule, for another class, within 4 weeks of your cancellation. Please contact Vicky, to reschedule your class, at 320-257-7224 or email@example.com.
What Is Provided?
Each paid participant will receive 2 hours of class and instruction time, 2 alcoholic drinks of their choice (or non-alcoholic, if you'd prefer) and a shared appetizer. The canvas, paints and all supplies will be provided. If you wish to order more drinks and food, beyond what we provide, those will be your responsibility and will need to be paid for by you. Don't forget to tip your server. Gratuity for all food and beverage items is your responsibility.
Do I Need To Sign Up Ahead Of Time?
We recommend signing up ahead of time. There are a limited number of spots available for each class, so it's best to sign up early. Sign up by going to TheValueConnection.com. Call Townsquare Media at 320-251-4422 for more details.
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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Memorandum of Understanding Addresses Agencies in Noncompliance
WASHINGTON - Jacqueline Berrien, chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and Carolyn Lerner, head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), today signed a renewed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to enhance efficiency and enforcement of federal sector equal employment opportunity laws. The full text of the MOU is available online at www.eeoc.gov/laws/mous/index.cfm.
"Renewing this important interagency agreement will increase efficiency and lessen duplication of efforts between our two agencies in joint enforcement efforts to further protect federal workers from employment discrimination," said EEOC Chair Berrien during a signing ceremony at the Commission's headquarters.
"We are pleased to renew our collaborative relationship with the EEOC," said Special Counsel Carolyn Lerner. "This agreement helps ensure that civil rights violations in the federal government don't go unpunished."
The MOU, which supersedes all prior ones, includes -- but is not limited to -- the following:
The EEOC's Office of Federal Operations and OSC's Investigation and Prosecution Division are designated to coordinate and implement the MOU's provisions.
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Summer Art Camp for five-year-olds was a success! Throughout the week-long camp, campers were led on tours through the galleries by artist Carol Benson. The children drew inspiration from multiple works, including: Untitled (1967) by Donald Judd, Male Head IV (1995) by David Bates, and Aschenblume (1983–97) by Anselm Kiefer. The campers were taught how to work with a variety of materials. Plaster was new to all of the children, and most agreed that it was their favorite.
The children also had the opportunity to work with wood and wire, and they collaborated to make a large-scale mural. The mural was exhibited at the reception for their parents, culminating their week of hard work.
The vote from the children was unanimous: Summer Art Camp was "so much fun!" We hope to see them all back again next year.
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Join us at the Nags Head as a scintillating season of continental combat concludes with an unprecedented and unmissable pair of all-English clashes. The two biggest prizes in European football are guaranteed to be won by English teams for the first time ever, make sure you don't miss out on this special occasion!
If you can't get enough of the football we will also be showing the EFL Championship Final to see who will net a place in the Premier League next season.
There will be no better place to catch the action than the Nags Head with a fantastic atmosphere, great food and drink, and a fantastic range of deals to enjoy during the matches.
What are you waiting for? Gather your friends and get down to the pub!
Liverpool face Tottenham in the Champions League final in Madrid, hoping to put aside the pain of last year against Real Madrid and get their hands on the coveted Champions League trophy for the first time since the memorable comeback in Instabul in 2005. While Liverpool will be looking to net their sixth European crown, Tottenham will be competing in their first ever European Cup final, though they will be no pushovers.
Both sides mounted spectacular semi-final comebacks to reach this stage, each recovering from three goals down to progress, so this tie could be set to have many twists and turns on what could be a memorable night of football.
There have only been two all English finals before, so these occasions aren't to be missed!
Fierce London rivals Chelsea and Arsenal meet in the final of the Europa League in Baku. Both sides have enjoyed up and down seasons domestically, whilst having a more comfortable time in the Europa League. Chelsea go into the game favourites, however it would be a brave move to go against Unai Emery who is the the joint most successful manager in the competitions history having won the competition three times.
Both sides won the home games when they faced each-other in the Premier League, so it is expected to be a tight affair with not much in it. Both sides have shown themselves to be temperamental at the back and filled with attacking talent, so expect a hugely entertaining game with plenty of goals!
If you can't get enough of the action, we will be showing all of the play off finals live here so get yourself down to the pub to see who will be making the step up ready for next season!
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There was concern that South Korea's rating board was throwing a monkey wrench in Diablo III's certification. If the game went unrated, then Blizzard's planned worldwide release would go right out the window.
The Korean Game Rating Board finally rated the game, giving it an 18-and-up rating. What was holding up the game's rating was the Diablo III's "auction house" feature.
Now that's rated, all systems go for a worldwide release!
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Savage: "Everything's about Brown v. The Board of Education ; it's sickening"
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The day after the fiftieth anniversary of the historic civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education, nationally syndicated radio show host Michael Savage made known his views of the court case and racism in the United States. During the May 18 broadcast of Savage Nation, Savage's comments included: "I am so tired of the race thing, leave me alone already"; "In fact [minorities are] given priority treatment everywhere"; and "Everything's about Brown v. The Board of Education, it's sickening. ... [E]verywhere you turn is racism again, and you gotta listen to the garbage."
SAVAGE: Bush was hugging people of color. President Bush, with the 16th Street Baptist Church Choir of Birmingham, Alabama, at the Monroe Elementary School saying that there's no racial equality in America. Trying to out maneuver Kerry on the race issue. He said the habits of racists in America have not all been broken. Oh I'm sick of it. I am so tired of the race thing, leave me alone already. Leave me alone already; I don't want to hear it anymore. Get over it. Get over it, you know what I mean? Everyone has an equal shot in this country.
SAVAGE: If you wanna go back to this whole Left Wing brainwashing all over again; that every day we're gonna hear about racism, and the race card, and the oppression of blacks, and the oppression of Hispanics, and how poor minorities are under -- under this, under that; and the gays are oppressed -- if you wanna listen to that rubbish for the next four, eight years, then vote for Kerry.
SAVAGE: Yeah, yeah here it is, though. Here was the pictures, "Rivals Attack Racism," New York Post today. It showed George Bush repeating a line right out of the Democratic side, "the habits of racism in America have not all been broken," said Bush. And he goes again to the same story that the liberals have been going to. I mean I don't want to hear this anymore. You know he says that there's no -- what, racism still exists? Well okay, where does it still exist? Can you tell me of some minority here who can't get ahead in this country if he's smart, or she's smart, and she pushes, as much as a white person?
CALLER: Nowhere. Nowhere.
SAVAGE: In fact they're given priority treatment everywhere, you know that. Except at the highest levels, but the fact of the matter is, no white person who isn't connected, gets access either.
SAVAGE: Here, here's Kerry yesterday: Kerry said that 50 years after the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education case [sic], schools remain underfunded, and divided by income. Rubbish. Pure rubbish. And it has nothing to do with money -- or little to do with money, I've told you that. Little to do with money, I've proven to you over and over again. I can show you one minority school after another, with more funding per capita than surrounding, suburban white schools, and the kids still do badly. Okay? Take that -- put that in your pipe and smoke it, and go explain it to yourself, because I know the reasons why.
Savage also attributed the occurrence of the first legal gay marriages in Massachusetts on the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education to a "Left Wing cabal":
SAVAGE: See all we're hearing this week is race, race, race, race -- the liberals built up for this now -- for now. They're planning this one, it's like a ballgame. Everything's about Brown v. The Board of Education, it's sickening. And here it comes out like a pre-planned, everywhere you turn is racism again, and you gotta listen to the garbage, and the gays get married the next day -- it was like a seamless connection between the black civil rights movement brought into your face Monday, and the gays getting married the same -- it's unbelievable to me -- how carefully planned the entire Left Wing cabal really is - plan -- plans things. There is Left Wing cabal in this country; they run the major organs of disinformation.
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A Gallery of the Greatest Legs You've Ever Seen
These ladies have legs and they know how to use them! We wish they didn't, because it would make chasing them MUCH easier.
We love women with great sets of gams (another word for legs). Summer is great for leg watching and these ladies have pins (also a word for legs) that we can't keep our
hands off of eyes off of.
Check out these women with amazing legs, and for the love of god ladies, STOP RUNNING SO FAST!


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Diamond Foods (NASDAQ:DMND) said ex-CEO Michael Mendes formally resigned this week nine months after he was placed on administrative leave for an accounting scandal.
Diamond's former chief financial officer, Steve Neil, who was also put on leave earlier this year,also officially exited this week, the company said in a securities filing on Wednesday.
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Neither executive will be paid severance.
In a separate agreement, Mendes agreed to pay the company $2.74 million in cash, representing the total value of his 2010 and 2011 bonuses, and return 6,665 shares of Diamond stock awarded to him after fiscal 2010. The payment will be taken from the $5.4 million Diamond owes its ex-CEO through its retirement program.
Shares of Diamond, which makes Kettle chips and Pop Secret popcorn, slumped slightly Wednesday morning.
An internal investigation by a Diamond audit committee found in February that Diamond made two shady crop payments to walnut growers in August and September of 2010, valued at $80 million.
The board's committee subsequently called for the restatement of financial statements for the fiscal years 2010 and 2011 and said it identified "material weaknesses" in the company's internal control over financial reporting.
The scandal led to the ouster of Mendes and Neil and lost Diamond Foods its planned acquisition of Pringles.


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Apple has launched a new iMac line-up, with a brand new, massively thinner design. Here, you can find out all of the tech specs and pricing of the new models.
All of the new models come with a standard of 8GB of 1600 MHz memory and a 1TB hard drive, which can be configured with up to 32GB of memory and a new 3TB hard drive, or 768GB of flash storage. They also have two Thunderbolt ports and four USB 3.0 ports.
Apple has also introduced a new storage option called Fusion Drive. "Fusion Drive is an innovative new storage option that gives customers the performance of flash storage and the capacity of a hard drive. It combines 128GB of flash with a standard 1TB or 3TB hard drive to create a single storage volume that intelligently manages files to optimise read and write performance. Fusion Drive adapts to the way you use your iMac and automatically moves the files and apps you use most often to flash storage to enable faster performance and quicker access," says Apple in its press release.
Apple says that the new iMac's display has 75 pert cent less reflection than previous models. Apple has also made the LCD 5mm thinner, and has used a process called 'full lamination' to remove the 2mm gap between the LCD and the glass, meaning that viewers are now "closer to the action".
The iMac is available in 21.5in and 27in models, and pricing starts at £1,099.
The 21.5in iMac with 2.7 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M is the starting model, at £1,099, and will be available in November.
Also coming in November is a 21.5in model with a 2.9 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M for £1,249.
The 27in iMacs will begin shipping in December. The 2.9 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 model with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M will cost £1,499, and the 3.2 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX model will cost £1,699.
The latest NVIDIA GeForce processors are said to be 60 per cent faster for gaming and graphics intensive apps.
We will continue to update this story as we find out more.
Visit our complete iMac coverage here to find out more.
Also at Apple's special event:
Apple's new 13in MacBook Pro with Retina display pricing and tech specs
iPad mini specs revealed
Apple updates Mac mini
Apple unveils iPad mini and fourth-generation iPad
Apple's iPad mini UK pricing announced
Apple launches new, 80 per cent thinner iMac line-up
Apple introduces 13in MacBook Pro with Retina display
Apple reveals new version of iBooks


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In the aftermath of the Cold War, the disintegrating Soviet Union had tens of thousands of nuclear weapons and tons of weapons-grade fissile material. In the economic and political turmoil, many feared that it would fall into unfriendly hands. However, thanks to the doggedness of an MIT professor, Dr. Thomas Neff, 500 metric tons of weapons grade material made its way into nuclear reactors in the United States through the Megatons to Megawattsprogram. During the program, about 10% of all electricity generated in the U.S. came from weapons once aimed at the country. Now, after nearly 20 years, the program is coming to an end. The final shipment of Soviet-era uranium, now nuclear fuel, has arrived in Baltimore.
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Yoga in the Park 2018
Moksha Yoga Hamilton is back and will meet every Tuesday at 6pm throughout the summer months in the Dundas Valley to offer a free* outdoor yoga class!
The class will take place in the flat clearing of grass just off the Rail Trail, close to the Trail Centre building, behind the train and near the start of the Main Loop. You can't miss them!
For more information, visit Moksha Yoga Hamilton's website.
* Parking fee applies, free to HCA Membership Pass holders


text: SEDE-2007 Call for Papers 16th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering July 9-11, 2007 = Las Vegas, Nevada USA http://sede07.cs.uh.edu/ Paper Submission Deadline February 26, 2007 Notification of Acceptance April 30, 2007 Registration and Camera-ready Manuscripts May 20, 2007 The 16th SEDE Conference seeks high quality submissions in all areas of Software Engineering (SE) and Data Engineering (DE). This year the conference puts special emphasis on the impact of parallel computing on software engineering and data engineering. Applied case studies will report on exemplary solutions deployed in industries like automotive, aerospace, telecommunications and finance. In the SE section particular emphasis will be placed on techniques for software specification and design of software/hardware components and the modeling of system architectures. In the DE section, the emphasis this year is on high performance algorithms that learn patterns from large volumes of data, learn and predict events, adapt to situations, rationalize, provide autonomous control, and assist in executive decision-making. The conference also includes a BEST PAPER AWARD. The conference will cover a broad range of topics including, but not limited to: Software Engineering Software Modeling, Development, & Maintenance Software requirements engineering Software Verification and Model Checking Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering AI and Knowledge-based software engineering Formal and Semi-formal Methods Object-Oriented & Model-Driven Techniques Service- and Aspect-Oriented Techniques Web Engineering and Agents Programming and Description Languages Software Visualization and Program Understanding Software Quality and Software Metrics Software Security, Safety, and Reliability Software Components & Software Architectures Software Process, Project Management Human-Computer Interaction Internet and Information Systems Development Software Engineering Education Applications and Case Studies Data Engineering Distributed, Parallel, and Peer-to-Peer Databases Semi-structured data and XML databases Data Integration, Interoperability, and Metadata Data Mining: traditional, large-scale, and parallel Ubiquitous Data Management and Mobile Databases Data Privacy and Security Scientific and Biological Databases and Bioinformatics Data Grids, Data Warehousing, OLAP Temporal, Spatial, Sensor, and Multimedia databases Taxonomy and Categorization Pattern Recognition, Clustering, and Classification Knowledge Management and Ontologies Query processing and optimization Data Structures Database Applications and Experiences Web Data Management and Deep Web Important Dates Submission Procedures Authors must submit a full paper (no more than 15 double spaced pages) by February 26, 2007. All submissions must be uploaded through the submission site: https://secure.myhostadvantage.com/V0015065FC/con-reg/default.asp?ConID= 38.


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Turkish Delight
In 1994, the 50-meter Turquoise (now La Naturalle Dee) hit the water and propelled Turkey into the world of megayacht construction. This January, 17 years later, Proteksan-Turquoise launched a 55-meter (181-foot) Turquoise (above) for the same owner. Her six staterooms and welcoming saloon and comfortable dining table (below) were designed to make her a hit on the charter market. Turquoise will be the first of three launches this year for the yard.
- Builder: Proteksan
This article originally appeared in the May 2011 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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Universal Credit is a new type of benefit designed to support people who are on a low income or out of work. It will replace six existing benefits and is currently being rolled out across the UK. The new system is based on a single monthly payment, transferred directly into a bank account. At present Universal Credit only affects newly unemployed people in certain areas of the country.
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Universal Credit is a single monthly payment for people in or out of work, which merges together some of the benefits and tax credits that you might be getting now.
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Universal Credit is being introduced in stages. Most people won't be affected to start with. At the moment, Universal Credit mainly affects newly unemployed people in specific areas of the country.
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- An article by a graduate student reflecting on both the pros and cons of publicly displaying her feminism in the form of her tattoos
- The Survivors Ink Project (pretty self explanatory, but I love that this community has a space)
- A collection of images and stories of feminist tattoos which can be found on Tumblr
- A brief look at some of the historical and cultural context surrounding women and tattoos
- A reflective look "On Ownership, Marking the Body, and Tatooing as a Feminist Act"
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Feminism and Tattoos
So because I am self absorbed and (as I mentioned in my last post) newly marked my very own feminist tattoo, I feel the need to make a post full of some articles, blogs, etc which I have come across recently that have to do with feminist ink. If you have your own feminist tattoo and something to say about it or have another online resource about feminist tattoos, I would love to hear from you in comments!
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- Adamantine said...
That link to the Survivors' Ink Project is amazing. Thanks for sharing, and welcome back!
- January 3, 2013 at 8:09 AM
- Victoria said...
I am glad you like the link, Adamantine!
- January 5, 2013 at 10:14 AM
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Diving Watches: From Sports Watches to Certified Icons
The authors of the Chrono24 Magazine hand-pick the best watch offers on Chrono24 – from affordable daily drivers to famous watch icons and exceptional collector's pieces.
If you want to buy one of the watches, simply click on the offer and place your order on Chrono24 today.
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Every watch lover makes a game out of figuring out who is wearing what watch. Any time they are out and about, they try to identify as many watches on people's wrists as they can. Whenever I played this game and spotted a Breitling, chances were very high that it was a Colt – especially while I was living in the UK. While the Navitimer is Breitling's bread and butter, we'd be remiss to forget about the Grenchen-based brand's other collections. The Colt has been around for a long time as a time-only watch and as a chronograph, with a mechanical or quartz movement. It has always represented simplicity among other more complicated Breitling models and serves as an alternative for anyone looking for a both Breitling and something relatively simple. This Colt from 2017 on a cool, black textile strap is a perfect example. It features a large, unmistakable Breitling bezel, a 24-hour scale, and comes with its original box with papers. What more could you want from a Breitling Colt for around $2,000?
NOMOS markets the Club as a watch for any occasion. Whether you're in a business meeting, playing sports, or enjoying your free time with friends, a Club will almost never look out of place. While the version with a California dial has a more distinct look, those with only Arabic numerals (like the one here) are great-looking timepieces that pair as nicely with casual clothes as they do with evening wear. The large numbers and crown lend it a bit of a military feel. At the same time, the long lugs and curved case help soften the Club. The relatively small 36-mm case also adds a certain vintage touch. The Nomos Club 36 is a special timepiece with a great movement and a very attractive price tag.
Seiko fans have all probably heard the story of the internal rivalry between the Grand Seiko and the King Seiko. This healthy competition led to not only one but two amazing model lines. While Grand Seiko timepieces became so popular and of such a high quality that Seiko eventually split into two separate brands, the King Seiko kind of disappeared from the limelight and had become all but forgotten. That was until recently when collectors and watch fans alike began paying more attention to Seiko. It's safe to say that the Japanese brand is now more popular than ever, which has had an effect on vintage pieces like the King Seiko. King Seikos are exceptionally well-made watches with high-beat (sometimes even chronometer-grade) movements and are still undervalued compared to Grand Seiko models from the same era. They've already achieved icon status among fans, but now it's time for the whole watch community to acknowledge these marvelous timepieces. If you love vintage, you need a King Seiko.
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8 ounces cooked elbow macaroni
One 12-ounce can evaporated milk
1 1/2 cups whole milk
1/4 cup (1/2 stick ) of butter, melted
1 teaspoon salt
Dash of pepper
2 large eggs, beaten
Two 10-ounce bricks sharp Cheddar cheese, grated (about 5 cups)
In a large 4-quart slow cooker sprayed with cooking spray, mix the macaroni, evaporated milk, milk, butter, salt, pepper, eggs and all but 1/2 cup of the grated cheese. Sprinkle the reserved cheese over the top of the mixture and then sprinkle with paprika. Cover and cook on low heat for 3 hours and 15 minutes. Turn off the slow cooker, stir the mixture and serve hot.
If you don't have a slow cooker, grease a 9-by-13-by-2-inch pan with butter, add the mixture and bake at 350 degrees F for 50 minutes.


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The Administrative Management Council (AMC) is the organization through which the administrators—management and professional personnel—of NYU participate in University governance. Representatives to the AMC are elected from within each school or division.
The team of human resources professionals at NYU HR provides service and support to the global network university through PeopleLink, the HR and payroll service center, and the following functions: Applications and Services; Communications; Employee and Labor Relations; Global Compensation and Benefits; Strategy and Solutions Center; and Talent, Learning, and Organizational Development.
Career development at NYU involves a partnership between the employee, his or her manager, and NYU.