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Archive for September, 2010
My own referral…?
Posted by gmconklin in Life and Existence, Solaris, Systems on September 30, 2010
Funny story… at least I thought it was… I was on-site @ a customer's data center the other day and I was tasked with configuring a SUN LTO-3 Quantum tape drive, similar to the photo on the left here, among other things… No biggie right…? Any way… in my usual way I was Googling lots of stuff, because I don't remember anything… and while doing so, I came across my own blog, this very one you are reading for the answer. I thought that was awesome… I answered my own question… LOL 🙂
Backup Takanga… RHEL v5.5… Sounds like a dance?
Well what a surprise and well kind of an embarrassment I faced the last 2 days… I guess I have gotten pretty lazy these days as I wouldn't have expected to miss this one, but I did. I was building a new system for a customer upgrade and they selected RHEL v5.5 as the platform… Cool. So as usual I sent in my request to our Dell "Gold_Team" rep with specs of what I wanted for this build. Nothing fancy, a nice PowerEdge T410, dual quadcore procs, 8GB RAM, RAID1 (Perc6i of course) and the infamous RD1000 internal tape drive. Now I posed the question because I am, well lazy, inquiring to include Symantec's 2010 Backup EXEC application if it in fact runs on a Linux server. Well that's all it took to screw things up a bit. I guess this can go either way, but what they shipped was the remote Linux agent for Symantec backup EXEC due to the fact (which they failed in let us know) that Backup EXEC does NOT run natively on any Linux platform as a standalone master server. Great… I guess I should have known and shame on me for wanting a commercial app to run on Linux, but hey… I also didn't know that the tapes for the drive are NTFS formatted by default and of course Linux cannot play with that filesystem formatting, but nothing a little fdisk-ing couldn't fix… I am waiting for a quote back from Dell on their NetBackup 7.0.1 product (Also from Symantec…LOL)
, but I think it will be overkill to say the least for 1 server. So in the interim, I whipped up a temp fix in the event that we opt for nothing…
Here is what I came up with:
# A straight forward system backup script
#BACKUP_ROOT_DIR="a boot var etc" ## Backup dirs; do not prefix /
BACKUP_ROOT_DIR="a" ## Backup dirs; do not prefix /
NOW=$(date +"%a") ## Get todays day
TSTAMP=$(date +"%l:%M:%S") ## Get time stamp H:M:S
TDATE=$(date -I) ## Get todays date
TAPE="/dev/sdb1″ ## Backup device name
TAR_ARGS="" ## Exclude file
EXCLUDE_CONF=/root/.backup.exclude.conf ## Named file for file exclusion
LOGFILE=$LOGBASE/$TDATE.backup.log ## Backup Log file
FILELIST=$LOGBASE/$TDATE.backup.file-listing.log ## Backup Log file list
# Path to binaries
local old=$(pwd)
cd /
$TAR $TAR_ARGS -cvpf $TAPE $BACKUP_ROOT_DIR
cd $old
# Make sure all dirs exits
local s=0
for d in $BACKUP_ROOT_DIR
if [ ! -d /$d ];
echo "Error : /$d directory does not exit!"
# if not; just die
[ $s -eq 1 ] && exit 1
# Make some kind of status report
touch $LOGBASE/$TDATE.backup.file-listing.log
echo " "
echo " ————————————————————————- "
echo "| |"
echo " Backup start time: $TSTAMP "
echo " Operating System: `cat /etc/redhat-release` "
echo " Size of the complete archive: `tar -tvf /dev/sdb1|wc -c` Bytes "
echo " Size of the logged archive: `cat $FILELIST|wc -c` Bytes "
echo " File count of the completed archive: `tar -tvf /dev/sdb1|wc -l` Files "
echo " File count of the logged archive: `cat $FILELIST|wc -l` Files "
echo "| |"
echo " ————————————————————————- "
echo " "
# Make sure log dir exits
[ ! -d $LOGBASE ] && $MKDIR -p $LOGBASE
# Verify dirs
# Okay let us start backup procedure
# If it is Monday-Friday make a full backup;
# Weekend no backups
case $NOW in
Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri) full_backup;;
*) ;;
esac > $FILELIST 2>&1
# make the simple report
Ahhh… The "Ghetto-scripts" live on… 🙂
This is the output that I guess I could send in an email blast:
| |
Backup start time: 9:27:36
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga)
Size of the complete archive: 4295 Bytes
Size of the logged archive: 4295 Bytes
File count of the completed archive: 93 Files
File count of the logged archive: 93 Files
| |
Multidimensional Ramblings on String Theory
Posted by gmconklin in Life and Existence, Quantum Physics on September 22, 2010
So as I was falling asleep last night and driving to work this morning I just had so many thoughts in my mind that I thought I would simply "jot" them down here… That being said, nothing here is intended to really make any "typical" sense, but then that is the point isn't it? Oh and the photo… is g-string theory… LOL ya I know it's lame, but who doesn't like the pic?? common'.. really?
As I was thinking about multidimensional space and how the 5th dimension is curled up so small that we cannot perceive it, it made me wonder if in fact we are looking at everything upside down. To elaborate, although we exist in the 3rd dimension, as we understand dimensions, the 3rd dimension could be the highest dimension in PHYSICAL existence. So if in fact we are going to count them and try to visualize them, 3 would be the MOST physical and 26 the least (or 10) so we are on top. Not sure if order is even relevant in terms of visualization but I am trying to get my mind around a concept which cannot be conceived in a visual sense from a 3 dimensional perspective. I have found Bosonic String Theory to be a complex mathematical postulate, with a difficulty in rendering a physical model, although this site has made an attempt to do just that. Here is an overview:
The 26 dimensions of Closed Unoriented Bosonic String Theory are interpreted as the 26 dimensions of the traceless Jordan algebra J3(O)o of 3×3 Octonionic matrices, with each of the 3 Octonionic dimenisons of J3(O)o having the following physical interpretation:
4-dimensional physical spacetime plus 4-dimensional internal symmetry space;
8 first-generation fermion particles;
8 first-generation fermion anti-particles.
This interpretation is consistent with interpreting the strings as World Lines of the Worlds of Many-Worlds Quantum Theory and the 26 dimensions as the degrees of freedom of the Worlds of the Many-Worlds.
Ya that's a tough one right? We somehow need to get this into a frame of reference for our collective peoples. Is that even possible? Do you even care?
Although we cannot really comprehend any of this, to illustrate something, I will start with a singularity. In a black-hole there is postulated to be a singularity @ its center, of ultimate power. This is the power source behind the nearly immeasurable power of the black-hole. The comparison I draw is this… although the singularity is immeasurable, and frankly my not even exist in our 3 dimensional space, it's influence is massive to say the least. From this indescribably small point the incomprehensible power of the black-hole is realized in the 3rd dimension. Therefore, possibly this model represents the underlying power of influence other, sub-physical, dimensions have upon everything we experience in physical reality. Would it be unreasonable to think that if were were to traverse a black-hole we would in fact be traversing all 26 dimensions? Something we could not possibly survive based on the immense amount of energy required to bend space-time in that way?
So this begs the question, can we experience God? Possibly we can only experience the influence of God, just as we (all lots of other stuff 🙂 ) experience the influence of a black-hole. It is in fact an indirect experience relative to position… LOL I had to throw that in there 🙂
OK… so I completed a build yesterday and of course being the great engineer that I am (LOL), I didn't add the final disk set to the vm for the bulk of the filesystem to be used for the native application. I figured it would be easy enough to create the RAID array without clobbering the whole system and starting over… I was right… and it was a cool learning experience to boot. I have sort-of (and I am really stressing that) created it as an interactive "ghetto-script" but I wrote that part AFTER I did everything manually… so be fore-warned.
# Create a RAID 1 array from (2) new disks added to the system
# Determine what the new disks are (If you do not already know)
cat /proc/partitions
echo "OK your disk choices are listed above…"
echo "Select the first disk, press [ENTER]"
read disk1
echo "Now select the 2nd disk, press [ENTER]"
read disk2
echo "Just to confirm, these are the 2 disks you selected $disk1 & $disk2, enter[Y/N]"
read yesorno
if [[$yesorno == "Y"|| $yesorno == "y" ]]; then
echo "Great let's move on";
else echo "OK, let's start again…";
echo "ready?"; sleep 2;
bash test.sh
echo "OK, there may be some interaction here"
echo "Also keep in mind that this will create a single full partiton on the disk(s)"
for i in $disk1 $disk2; do mkfs -t ext3 /dev/$i; done
echo "OK the file systems have been created. let's create the array now"
mdadm –detail –scan
echo "What name would you like to use for your md device? i.e. md4, md5, etc…"
echo "Select something NOT listed above… :)"
read mdname
echo "Also, I need to know what RAID level u desire (0=stripe, 1=mirror, etc…)"
read Rlevel
mdadm –create /dev/$mdname –level=$Rlevel –raid-devices=2 /dev/$disk11 /dev/$disk21
# Make the ext3 filesystems on the new RAID device now
mkfs -t ext3 /dev/$mdname
uuid=`mdadm –detail /dev/md5|grep UUID|awk '{print $3}'`
echo "ARRAY /dev/$mdname level=raid1 num-devices=2 uuid=$uuid" >> /etc/mdadm.conf
echo "ARRAY /dev/$mdname level=raid1 num-devices=2 uuid=`mdadm –detail /dev/md5|grep UUID|awk '{print $3}'` >> /etc/mdadm.conf
echo "OK what r u going to mount this new array on"
read mountpt
echo "/dev/$mdname /$mountpt ext3 defaults 1 2" >> /etc/fstab
mount -a
df -h
Begining of the Notes section of the process:
for i in c d; do mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sd$i; done
[root@cent55vm ~]# cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
8 0 15728640 sda
8 1 104391 sda1
8 2 10498477 sda2
8 3 2562367 sda3
8 4 2562367 sda4
8 16 15728640 sdb
8 17 104391 sdb1
8 18 10498477 sdb2
8 19 2562367 sdb3
8 20 2562367 sdb4
8 32 12582912 sdc <– NEW Disk
8 48 12582912 sdd <– NEW Disk
9 0 10498368 md0
9 2 2562240 md2
9 1 2562240 md1
9 3 104320 md3
[root@cent55vm ~]# for i in c d; do mdadm –query /dev/sd$i; done
/dev/sdc: is an md device which is not active
/dev/sdc: No md super block found, not an md component.
/dev/sdd: is not an md array
/dev/sdd: No md super block found, not an md component.
[root@cent55vm ~]# mdadm –create /dev/md5 –level=1 –raid-devices=2 /dev/sd[cd]1
[root@cent55vm ~]# mdadm –stop –scan /dev/md5
mdadm: stopped /dev/md5
[root@cent55vm /]# mkfs -t ext3 /dev/md5
mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
1572864 inodes, 3144688 blocks
157234 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=3221225472
96 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16384 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
This filesystem will be automatically checked every 24 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
[root@cent55vm ~]# mdadm –query /dev/md5
/dev/md5: 11.100GiB raid1 2 devices, 0 spares. Use mdadm –detail for more detail.
/dev/md5: No md super block found, not an md component.
[root@cent55vm ~]# cat /etc/mdadm.conf
# mdadm.conf written out by anaconda
DEVICE partitions
MAILADDR root
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 uuid=d8f8e0f1:caa5c290:62f0c003:e5ed749b
ARRAY /dev/md3 level=raid1 num-devices=2 uuid=ff5e4f19:159926bd:d6f963ca:e2b5dd18
ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid1 num-devices=2 uuid=fdddc210:d340c10e:abec408b:83be0dfe
ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 uuid=9a79ae00:c847b003:d1212b6b:e1698b20
[root@cent55vm ~]# mdadm –detail /dev/md5|grep UUID
UUID : 746ec738:0867caf1:bcb45960:2e9b2dde
[root@cent55vm ~]# echo "ARRAY /dev/md5 level=raid1 num-devices=2 uuid=746ec738:0867caf1:bcb45960:2e9b2dde" >> /etc/mdadm.conf
[root@cent55vm /]# mdadm –detail /dev/md5
Version : 0.90
Creation Time : Tue Sep 21 09:18:15 2010
Raid Level : raid1
Array Size : 12578752 (12.00 GiB 12.88 GB)
Used Dev Size : 12578752 (12.00 GiB 12.88 GB)
Raid Devices : 2
Total Devices : 2
Preferred Minor : 5
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Tue Sep 21 09:59:58 2010
State : clean
Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
UUID : 746ec738:0867caf1:bcb45960:2e9b2dde
Events : 0.2
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 33 0 active sync /dev/sdc1
1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1
Posted by gmconklin in Scripts, Software Builds, Systems on September 16, 2010
So I was messing around with VNC this past week since I haven't posted anything in a while I thought I would share this trivial yet useful process to be up and running in a few minutes… Sorry if my notes are a bit scattered…
Set up VNC server:
for root:
[root@oracler5u5 ~]# rpm -qa|grep vnc
from /root: Or the users home dir:
mkdir .vnc
cd .vnc
vi xstartup
# Add the following line to ensure you always have an xterm available.
( while true ; do xterm ; done ) &
# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80×24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
twm &
cat /etc/sysconfig/vncservers
VNCSERVERS="1:root 2:gmc 3:emf"
VNCSERVERARGS[1]="-geometry 1152×864″
VNCSERVERARGS[2]="-geometry 1152×864″
VNCSERVERARGS[3]="-geometry 1152×864″
[root@oracler5u5 ~]# service vncserver restart
Shutting down VNC server: 1:root 2:gmc 3:emf [ OK ]
Starting VNC server: 1:root
New 'oracler5u5.proserve.local:1 (root)' desktop is oracler5u5.proserve.local:1
Starting applications specified in /root/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /root/.vnc/oracler5u5.proserve.local:1.log
New 'oracler5u5.proserve.local:2 (gmc)' desktop is oracler5u5.proserve.local:2
Starting applications specified in /home/gmc/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /home/gmc/.vnc/oracler5u5.proserve.local:2.log
New 'oracler5u5.proserve.local:3 (emf)' desktop is oracler5u5.proserve.local:3
Starting applications specified in /home/emf/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /home/emf/.vnc/oracler5u5.proserve.local:3.log
Add approprite ports to iptables:
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m state –state NEW -m tcp –dport 5900 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m state –state NEW -m tcp –dport 5901 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m state –state NEW -m tcp –dport 5902 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m state –state NEW -m tcp –dport 5903 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m state –state NEW -m udp –dport 5900 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m state –state NEW -m udp –dport 5901 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m state –state NEW -m udp –dport 5902 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m state –state NEW -m udp –dport 5903 -j ACCEPT
Connect with VNC Viewer:
192.168.11.53:5901 root user as defined in /etc/sysconfig/vncservers
192.168.11.53:5902 gmc user as defined in /etc/sysconfig/vncservers
192.168.11.53:5903 emf user as defined in /etc/sysconfig/vncservers
cat /etc/sysconfig/vncservers
VNCSERVERS="1:root 2:gmc 3:emf"
VNCSERVERARGS[1]="-geometry 1152×864″
VNCSERVERARGS[2]="-geometry 1152×864″
VNCSERVERARGS[3]="-geometry 1152×864″


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Betty Jeanne Lockerby
Betty Jeanne Lockerby, age 86 ,of Woodville, Wis., formerly of Minneapolis, died Sunday, Dec. 30, 2007, at Park View Home in Woodville.
She was born Jan. 1, 1921, in Ellsworth, Wis., the daughter of Francis and Meda (Packer) Lockerby. Betty's family moved to Bloomer, Wis., where she attended school, graduating from Bloomer High School with the class of 1938.
Betty spent summers visiting her grandparents and other relatives in Delano.
She continued her education at the University of Minnesota, receiving a bachelor of science degree, in 1942, specializing in library science.
Betty was employed at the Eau Claire Public Library, and then worked over 30 years for the City of Minneapolis Public Library, where she was a children's and bookmobile librarian, retiring in 1979.
A world traveler, Betty visited many foreign countries during her lifetime.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Francis and Meda (Packer) Lockerby; and a brother and sister-in-law, Jay and Sunnie Lockerby.
Betty is survived by three nephews: Michael (Kalo) Lockerby of Red Wing, Hugh (Diana) Lockerby of Wilson, Wis., and Frank (Cindi) Lockerby of Waukesha, Wis.; grand nieces and nephews: Joy, Jon, Hugh, Sonja, Dustin, and Drew Lockerby; Lillian Balfany; and cousins Mary Nolan and Sylvia Diem of Delano.
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Overview: Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0
Previous: 7 The MathML Interface
Next: A Parsing MathML
8 Document Object Model for MathML
8.1 Introduction
8.1.1 MathML DOM Extensions
This document extends the Core API of the DOM Level 1 to describe objects and methods specific to MathML elements in documents. The functionality needed to manipulate basic hierarchical document structures, elements, and attributes will be found in the core document; functionality that depends on the specific elements defined in MathML will be found in this document.
The actual DOM specification appears in Appendix E [Document Object Model for MathML].
The goals of the MathML-specific DOM API are:
This document includes the following specializations for MathML:
MathMLElement interface derived from the core
Element. MathMLElement specifies the operations and
queries that can be made on any MathML element. Methods on
MathMLElement include those for the retrieval and modification
of attributes that apply to all MathML elements.
MathMLElement to encode
syntactical restrictions imposed by MathML.
MathMLElement representing all
MathML elements with attributes extending beyond those specified in the
MathMLElement interface. For all such attributes, the derived
interface for the element contains explicit methods for setting and getting
the values.
Node and
Element interfaces must clearly remain available, it is felt
that in many cases they may be misleading. Thus, for instance, the
MathMLFractionElement interface provides for access to
numerator and
denominator attributes; a call to
setDenominator(newNode) is less ambiguous from a calling
application's perspective than a call to
MathML specifies rules that are invisible to generic XML processors and validators. The fact that MathML DOM objects are required to respect these rules, and to throw exceptions when those rules are violated, is an important reason for providing a MathML-specific DOM extension.
There are basically two kinds of additional MathML grammar and syntax rules. One kind involves placing additional criteria on attribute values. For example, it is not possible in pure XML to require that an attribute value be a positive integer. The second kind of rule specifies more detailed restrictions on the child elements (for example on ordering) than are given in the DTD. For example, it is not possible in XML to specify that the first child be interpreted one way, and the second in another. The MathML DOM objects are required to provide this interpretation.
MathML ignores whitespace occurring outside token elements. Non-whitespace characters are not allowed there. Whitespace occurring within the content of token elements is `trimmed' from the ends (i.e. all whitespace at the beginning and end of the content is removed), and `collapsed' internally (i.e. each sequence of 1 or more whitespace characters is replaced with one blank character). The MathML DOM elements perform this whitespace trimming as necessary. In MathML, as in XML, `whitespace' means blanks, tabs, newlines, or carriage returns, i.e. characters with hexadecimal Unicode codes U+0020, U+0009, U+000a, or U+000d, respectively.
It is expected that a future version of the MathML DOM may deal with issues which are not resolved here. Some of these are described here.
The interfaces described to represent MathML elements include access to a
number of attributes (in the sense of XML) belonging to those elements. The
intent of these methods in the core MathML interfaces (the `get'/
`set' pairs) is only to access explicitly specified
attributes of the elements, and specifically not to access implicit
values which may be application-specific. Calls to these interfaces to get
attributes that have not been explicitly specified should return nothing (an empty
It seems important to belabor this distinction in light of the nature
of the MathML elements and their attributes; all of the attributes defined
for MathML presentation elements are declared in the DTD with a default
value of
#IMPLIED, for instance. This is particularly relevant for
the interface of the
mo element, where the
form attribute may be inferred from context if not given
explicitly, but other attributes are normally collected from an operator
dictionary available to a renderer. The variety of applications which may
need to implement the MathML DOM may sometimes be concerned with
validation, computation or other aspects of the document to the exclusion
of rendering or editing; such applications do not need to resolve many
#IMPLIED attributes, and thus there is no access to such
resolution implied in this version of the MathML DOM.
On the other hand, methods for obtaining the current cascaded and computed values of certain style attributes are considered desirable due to the need to make frequent calls to discover style information and the current script level and display style. Mathematics is characterized by recursive nesting of objects, frequently with implications for the calculation of style parameters such as font size. As anyone who's implemented math rendering knows, there's a constant need for this information, and it must be obtained very quickly. Consequently, it might be wise to provide an optional module in the MathML DOM which would allow style values or implied attributes (e.g., operator dictionary values) known to the processing application to be `attached' to a DOM instance and subsequently queried.
However, we feel that introducing methods now for dealing with these issues would be premature. CSS and XSL support for mathematics is still evolving, and the mechanisms for handling style issues in MathML documents may well evolve with them. Additionally, these issues also apply to the core XML DOM. Thus far (XML DOM level 2), issues such as privacy with regard to user-side style sheets have resulted in no core DOM methods being defined for obtaining the cascaded, computed or actual style values for a specific element, with DOM access being limited to providing the style declarations which are in effect. If a future iteration of the XML DOM were to expand this access, the methods used there would apply to the MathML DOM as well, and render any specifications we might make now obsolete.
Additionally, it is likely that a need will become obvious for MathML-specific specializations of interfaces belonging to the Traversal and Range Modules of XML DOM Level 2. The order of traversal of bound variables, conditions, and declarations - or whether they should be omitted from a given traversal altogether - offers an example of a potential utility for such specializations. Again, however, we feel that it would be premature to specify any such interfaces at this time. Implementation experience will be necessary in order to discover the appropriate interfaces which should be specified.
Overview: Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0
Previous: 7 The MathML Interface
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Pecos is 3-1 on the season after their 25-7 win last week at Fabens.
It's the Eagles' best start since going 5-0 to open 1993, and a win
Friday would allow them to equal their victory total for all of last
Kermit, meanwhile, has already surpassed their two-win total of a year
ago, after a 34-13 victory last Friday over McCamey. Seagraves and
Seminole were the Yellowjackets other two victims, and second-year head
coach Todd Pearson said a more experienced starting lineup has played a
role in the resurgence.
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same offense and defense for a second year," Pearson said. "We've had
good consistency in our games the last four weeks."
Junior fullback Louie Bossett ran for 148 yards and a trio of scores
last week against McCamey, and gained 68 yards a year ago against Pecos,
in the Eagles' 21-13 win. Overall, he ran for 850 yards as a sophomore.
"That Bossett kid is a tough runner. He ran well against us last year,"
said Eagles' coach Mike Belew, who added that halfback Robert Henderson
is also a threat. He had a 71-yard TD run a week ago.
"We try to spread it out as much as possible, but he (Bossett) does get
the most carries," Pearson said. "That's to be expected, with the way he
performed last year."
Quarterback Todd Allen got hot late in last year's game, after tossing a
third quarter interception Jose Contreras returned for a touchdown to
give Pecos a 21-0 lead. Allen was 10-for-20 for 155 yards, though
Pearson said with an improved running game this season, "He's not
throwing as much as he did before."
"Allen get the job done passing. They like to run `flood right,' and get
three receivers out there," Belew said. Wide receiver Jack Keen and
tight end Jared Mills are his main targets.
Mills is also the Jackets' top defensive player, at inside linebacker in
an `80' defense. "It's fairly similar to what we saw last week from
Fabens. It puts a lot of pressure on your running game," Belew said.
"Hopefully, we'll be able to pass effectively and take some of the
pressure off."
"Jared's doing very well for us, and we've had several other kids help
out the cause," Pearson said.
Pecos will hope for another strong game from quarterback Jason Abila. He
was 7-for-10 passing for 116 yards and a touchdown in the first half
last week, hooking up with Oscar Luna on the 41-yard TD pass just before
halftime that broke a 7-7 tie. Pecos also ran for 276 yards, 109 of that
by Lucio Florez, in his first start at fullback in place of Richard
"Lucio will start at fullback and Mark (Abila) at tailback, and
hopefully Hector (Garcia) and Jason Aguilar will also get some playing
time in the backfield," Belew said. Garcia scored twice last week and
Aguilar had a 58-yard run to set up the Eagles' final touchdown.
Kermit held McCamey to 93 yards rushing last week, and contained
returning 1,000-yard rushers from both Seminole and Seagraves the
previous two weeks, in avenging losses from a year ago. "I'd like to
think that they are that much improved, but you never know until you get
up against a quality opponent like Pecos," Pearson said.
Both coaches said their teams are fairly healthy heading into their
final non-district game. Pearson said Kermit had, "some bumps and
bruises, but nothing major as far as holding anybody out," while Belew
said the Eagles came out of last week's game against Kermit fairly well.
Jason Abila was banged up slightly in the win, while Jason Payne
replaced Moses Martinez at strong safety a week ago, and Joseph Torres
and Rudy Nunez saw action at the corners. "Moses was injured a little
bit, so we were trying to hold him out. Jason (Payne) played good, and
hopefully he and Orlando Matta can come ad do the same this week," Belew
Friday's game is the first of four at home for the Eagles over the next
five weeks. They'll stay in Pecos for their District 4-4A opener next week, against Big Spring.
Zavala and Crockett will both play at 5 p.m. at the eighth grade and
high school practice fields, while the freshmen and JV will start at 5
and 7 p.m. in Kermit.
The eighth, ninth and JV squads will be trying to get their first wins
of the season, while the seventh grade will be looking to remain
unbeaten in their game. Zavala has wins over Alpine and Monahans so far,
while Crockett's eighth graders lost to Monahans and tied Alpine a week
The freshmen will be trying to avenge their 32-0 loss from last week
against Kermit, in a last-minute game that came about after Kermit's
regularly-scheduled JV game was canceled. Last week was an open date for the Eagles' JV.
Manager Davey Johnson stacked his lineup with righties, benching Rafael
Palmeiro, Roberto Alomar and B.J. Surhoff, then watched the Orioles
rough up Randy Johnson and the Seattle Mariners 9-3 Wednesday night in
Game 1 of their AL division series.
Overpowering against most everyone else, Randy Johnson is merely mortal
against the Orioles. He lasted just five innings this time and left down
The 20-game winner has faced Baltimore four times this year and is 0-3,
with the Mariners also dropping his no-decision. Overall, he's 3-8
lifetime, his only losing record to an opponent.
``I don't know, maybe I've got a phobia or something about the
Orioles,'' Johnson said. ``Tell all the Baltimore Orioles to go and put
on another jersey.''
Even though Johnson struck out two in the first inning, his command
seemed to be off and his fastball appeared inconsistent.
A crowd of 59,579, the largest ever to watch baseball at the Kingdome,
saw Johnson give up five runs on seven hits and four walks, with only
three strikeouts.
``His control was off today,'' Mariners manager Lou Piniella said. ``He
was behind on the count to quite a few hitters. Randy wasn't sharp. It
was just one of those days.''
Mike Mussina, however, was in complete control. The Orioles ace pitched
seven innings and allowed five hits, including home runs by Edgar
Martinez and Jay Buhner. Mussina walked none, struck out nine and
improved to 9-1 lifetime against the Mariners.
Marlins 7, Giants 6
Florida got a lucky bounce to win in its last at-bat for the 26th time,
most in the majors. The Marlins won their playoff opener 2-1 a day
earlier on Edgar Renteria's two-out single in the ninth.
Gary Sheffield, who homered earlier, started the ninth with a single
off Roberto Hernandez and stole second without a throw. After Bobby
Bonilla walked, Alou singled up the middle to break an 0-for-8
postseason slump.
Center fielder Dante Powell appeared to have a play at the plate, but
his throw home hit the back of the mound and popped high in the air,
allowing Sheffield to score easily.
Braves 13, Astros 3
After playing close games against Houston all season, Atlanta enjoyed a
The Braves took advantage of eight walks by Mike Hampton, including
four straight with two outs in the fifth inning to force home the
go-ahead run.
Tom Glavine, like Greg Maddux a day earlier, shut down the Astros'
``Killer Bs.'' Craig Biggio, Derek Bell and Jeff Bagwell, the top three
hitters in the Houston order, are a combined 1-for-25 with no RBIs in
the series.
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Share | | •Printer-friendly•CommentsThe dining room of the Lambert's Cove Inn will be transformed into an elegant nightclub this weekend as new general manager Mike Rego launches a series of Dinner-and-a-Show evenings, which will run through the remaining winter months.
Photo courtesy of Liam Vincent
Comedic hypnotist Liam Vincent will hypnotize willing diners at Lambert's Cove Inn on Saturday.
Liam Vincent, the hypnotist performing on Saturday, had a successful 10-year career as a stand-up comedian in his native Britain, where he was featured in a BBC comedy special, before moving to New York and developing his hypno-shows. He will blend PG-rated comedy, impersonations, and showmanship with his playful use of hypnosis subjects as entertainers.
"I'm about the only stage hypnotist around at the moment who has come to hypnotism from an entertainment background, and it wraps nicely into the atmosphere of the show," Mr. Vincent said. "The audience comes along for the whole experience, not just the hypnosis."
The comedian/hypnotist explains that not all people can be hypnotized and he performs a couple of simple tests on potential subjects to make certain they will be able to attain a "waking-sleep" trance state where they are then vulnerable to all manner of, mostly silly, suggestions.
Even for those who have watched a hypnotist routine on TV, a live show has advantages that go beyond seeing your friends and neighbors behaving foolishly.
Mr. Vincent notes, "The audience rapport in a live show like this comes from identification with the subjects, and you just don't get that in a televised performance."
He adds, "At the same time, too, I think seeing something like this happening right in front of your eyes helps lend credibility to hypnotherapy, which has always been seen as a fringe practice."
I hired Mr V to entertain everyone at my daughter's 18th birthday party, but with an emphasis on the teens. Well, everyone, adults and kids loved his work. I never saw my adult brother laugh so hard. Liam is a keeper! -- Linda S, New York, NY, 5/20/2007
– Linda Smart-St.Vincent's Hospital,NYC
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The event led by Mr. Vincent was fantastic...the students LOVED his performance. I would not hesitate to ask for Mr. Vincent in the future.
-Amanda B, 3/8/2008, Convention, New Rochelle
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Millions of people now see their mobile phones as serious music players, all thanks to Sony Ericsson. But the popularity contest heated up when Apple crashed the Walkman brand's party with the iPhone. Will the latest Sony Ericsson W960i be a wet blanket for Apple's musical handset? We took it out on the town for some reviewing jollity.
The Sony Ericsson W960i is currently available to buy on several networks for free on a monthly contract.
It may not have the iPhone's wow factor, but the W960i is a sexy handset in its own right. A slim glossy casing houses a large colour screen and instead of the W950i's annoying keys, you get a standard keypad this time. Still, we found the keypad somewhat hard-pressed in the areas of comfort and responsiveness.
Disappointingly, the W960i's touchscreen isn't very finger friendly. It works better when you put the provided stylus to use, which isn't always convenient.
Add to this a handwriting recognition feature -- which we do like -- and we're starting to feel that the W960i's array of input options cause more confusion than anything else. The way that the W960i combines the touchscreen, keypad and scroll wheel just doesn't feel right -- it's a case of too many cooks spoiling the broth.
Another design aspect that concerns us is the metal lanyard hoop on the left side of the handset -- it gets in the way of laying the phone flat on its side for timed pictures. If you're not using the table as a make-shift tripod, then you won't find this to be a massive issue.
Of course, relative to other phones with similar features, the W960i feels slim and light and we appreciate the attention to detail here.
If it's music you're after, then the W960i comes prepped with 8GB of onboard memory, which is enough space to store up to 2,000 songs. Plus, getting music on to the W960i is a much easier process than in previous Walkman phones. Using the new Sony Ericsson media manager software is easy, which lets you drag and drop tracks straight into the phone.
The latest Walkman player lets you adjust a variety of settings including the equaliser and, in a highly considerate move, letting you categorise individual tracks by mood. For instance, you can play happy songs for when you're happy and sad songs when you're sad. Sure, it's a little gimmicky but we enjoyed making up emotional soundtracks.


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Tokyo Dome City
Tokyo Dome City, a popular spot visited by 35 million people annually.
Tokyo Dome City is an entertainment complex in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo that includes Tokyo dome baseball stadium and Tokyo Dome City Attractions. Entrance to Tokyo Dome City Attractions is free; there is also "LaQua" spa complex, "TeNQ" Space Museum, "Asobono" childrens indoor complex, bowling, roller-skating, sporting facilities etc. Apart from various restaurants and drinking establishments that suit both adults and children, you can watch boxing, baseball and professional wrestling at the nearby "Korakuen Hall".
The Tokyo Dome City contains the Tokyo Dome Hotel, a 43-story hotel. There are 4 train stations nearby, so we recommend visiting this place during your trip to Tokyo.
Train: Suidobashi Station on JR Chuo line, Sobu line, Mita line. Koraku-en Station on Marunouchi line, Nanboku line, Kasuga Station on Oedo line.
Car: 670-vehicle parking is provided, 30 minutes – 400 yen.
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The Enhanced "International Research Portal for Records Related to Nazi-Era Cultural Property project (IRP2) is a collaborative project working with archival, museum, and technical experts to create a linked database to facilitate data identification, analysis, and visualization of looted Holocaust-era information located on the Portal, a collaboration of 18 national and other archival institutions with collections distributed over multiple sites. The goal is to use both federated and graph-database search technologies to conduct automated searches across the Portal to retrieve and consolidate information on individuals, organizations, and cultural objects related to Nazi-looted cultural assets. Beneficiaries include Holocaust victims and heirs, investigators, scholars, archival and museum professional, lawyers, genealogists, and interested members of the general public.
- Portal: https://irp2.ehri-project.eu/
- June 13, 2017:o https://ehri-project.eu/exploring-renovated-international-research-portal
o https://www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-hosts-new-online-resource-international-research-portal-
• Kurtz, Michael J. America and the Return of Nazi Contraband: The Recovery of Europe's Cultural Treasures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. (D 818 .K85 2006)
Details the history and development of art restitution policies and practices. Provides a history of Nazi looting and early efforts by the Allies to repatriate art, Cold War era restitution activities, and issues concerning Jewish patrimony. Includes appendices, a bibliography, glossary, footnotes, illustrations, and an index.
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Sex: Men Desire It, and Women Control the Supply
"Our brains are identical to the ones that emerged from Africa 100,000 years ago. You take a caveman, shave him, give him a three-piece suit, and put him on Wall Street, and he looks like all the others barbarians on Wall Street. Our brains haven't changed at all in the last 100,000 years."
Michio Kaku, Theoretical Physicist
In order to succeed in any undertaking, it's crucial to identify obstacles, and to formulate a plan for maneuvering around them. For girls who want meaningful relationships with guys in the age of hooking up, it's important to consider each obstacle as its own particular challenge. Today we begin to explore the root causes for the development and pervasiveness of the hookup culture, and the resulting power imbalance between the sexes. For the most part, the forces that promote hooking up are not within your control. The only thing that you can control is your own response, your own choices. You can improve your chances of finding a great relationship by taking an active role in defining what you want and being smart about meeting these challenges head on.
It's important to remember that you are not powerless. Women hold one very important card:
Women still control the supply of sex. This is true in every culture and throughout time. Men have a strong desire for sex, and women control men's opportunities to get it.
We begin reclaiming the upper hand in dealing with boys by understanding what has led us to a culture where hooking up is the norm and dating is dead. Let's take a look at some of the key factors that got us here:
Men are biologically programmed to want sex with a variety of women. It's in their DNA. Their purpose is to inseminate as many women as possible to produce children. When a man is monogamous, he is giving up something he wants.
For women, who give birth, it is important to choose a man who can be counted on to help raise her children. Of course, young women today are not looking at guys and thinking about their parenting skills. All of that is way into the future. But we can't escape our DNA. Over thousands of generations, a preference for men who showed signs of being willing and able to commit evolved in women. The modern woman can and often does choose to have numerous sex partners before marrying. But it is in her nature to view those men through the lens of relationships.
Traditionally, dating has been the way that men and women found common ground. It gives women a way to test out different men. Because women control the sex supply, men have sought ways to please women through romance. In the hookup culture, guys are receiving the message that girls are satisfied with hooking up, and have no expectations of them. In sending that message, girls forfeit the most powerful leverage they have over men: controlling the supply of sex. If girls demand love and kindness in return for sex, they will get it.
Today, the market value of sexual access has plummeted. Sex is so readily available that men are not willing to give up much of anything to get it. Women need to start behaving in such a way as to increase the market value of sex to level the playing field and regain some control. The only way to achieve this is to restrict the supply.
The Sexual Revolution
The unintended consequences of the Sexual Revolution are another major influence on today's sexual norms. The introduction of the Pill in the 1960s meant that for the first time women could choose to have sex without fear of pregnancy. At the same time, the Women's Movement enabled women to make great gains in earning power. They didn't need men to provide for them in the same way anymore. Men found to their amazement and delight that women no longer expected much in return for sex. This newfound sexual freedom led to a "market correction" and changed the rules of the game.
The Women's Movement brought about many important changes for women. But that does not mean we are beholden to experimental notions of "free love" if they do not work for us, and do not give us what we want. These cultural forces are powerfully entrenched in our culture. To begin to change the culture, women will need to defend their right to be valued: to be treated with respect, honesty, and decency.
Women outnumber men in colleges today by 56% to 44%. At many small liberal arts colleges, the percentages are more like 60% to 40%. This imbalance is huge. It means that even if traditional dating were still the norm, the numbers favor the guys right now in a big way.
Americans are also getting married much later than they used to. In the last forty years, the average age at marriage has gone from 20 for women and 23 for men to 25 for women and 27 for men. That means that you are much less likely to meet your spouse in college than you were forty years ago. Today the college experience is about studying abroad, getting good internships, and preparing for graduate school. Chances are that any boy you meet in college will not live in the same place you do for the next five to ten years. So it makes no sense to get too attached now, because there is no way it can last.
Finally, your generation is under enormous pressure to achieve. The American Dream dictates that each generation do better than the last. You are the children of the Baby Boomers, a very high achieving group. Your parents have extremely high expectations for your future, and you've always understood this. It is important for you to get good grades and focus on excelling. Of course you're interested in boys, but you're worried that you really don't have enough time for the demands of a high-maintenance relationship on top of everything else. Boys in particular feel that college is a time to have fun and let off steam, and they say they don't want the commitment of a relationship.
Rapid changes in technology are having a profound effect on the way young people communicate. Notwithstanding the benefits of social networking sites, text messaging, instant messaging, etc., taking more of our interactions electronic has served to make communication less personal. We don't talk on the phone as much. We make most of our plans via text, which is devoid of emotion.
Guys love this! When a guy shoots you a text, he's not risking very much. Even if you blow him off, the rejection doesn't even begin to compare to your looking him in the eye and saying you have no interest in dating him. When he does text, he's likely to say, "What are you up to?" rather than "I'd like to see you." He may talk about meeting up later. Or say he'll text again once he knows what his plans are. At no time does he need to say straight out that he really wants to see you and is willing to make a plan for a specific time.
This sucks for girls. They feel like they can't initiate the conversation, and so are often left hanging as the night wears on. It's very hard for girls to interpret these messages or the intent behind them.
Your generation has been raised with unprecedented access to sexually explicit material. It boggles the mind to imagine that men were ever aroused by the glimpse of an ankle. Today, young men view porn together as a way of bonding. Porn scenarios almost always show the woman subservient to the male. And porn focuses on the pleasure of the man; the woman's pleasure is secondary and automatic. As proof that porn is now totally mainstream among guys, many of the theme parties on college campuses are taken from porn plotlines: CEOs and Office Hoes, Golf Pros and Tennis Hoes, Cowboys and Schoolgirls, Doctors and Nurses, etc. Research shows that watching porn is actually deadening guys' libidos. The number of young men seeking treatment for erectile dysfunction is skyrocketing. They literally can't get it up with a healthy, normal girl because no actual sexual experience can match the arousal they feel watching porn.
Porn has raised the bar so high that many women work hard to arouse men so that they, as women, can feel empowered and desired. From dressing extremely provocatively to baring it all in Girls Gone Wild videos, girls are offering themselves up as fresh meat. If you want to be treated as a piece of meat, just follow along. Everybody's doing it. If you hope to expect more from a guy, you will have to expect more from yourself.
So we're up against some pretty big obstacles: our DNA, a 1960s hangover, long odds, the objectification of women in the media, and technology that lets boys act so passive they're almost invisible. But we know that men and women will continue to mate. The show will go on. The next post in this series, Understanding the Hookup Environment, will ask "What's Dumb About Hooking Up?" You may be stuck with it, but that doesn't mean you have to sit quietly and like it.


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text: Share: Comments Print July 21, 2014 at 2:51 PM Marquese Chriss dazzles at Under Armour Finals Posted by Percy Allen Marquese Chriss gave Washington fans and Husky coach Lorenzo Romar and assistant T.J. Otzelberger,who were seated along the baseline, a glimpse of what they might see when he joins UW next year. The 6-9 forward from Elk Grove, Calif., who stars for AAU team Dream Vision, flushed seven dunks during Day 3 last week at the Under Armour Finals in Suwanee, Georgia. Chriss finished with 23 points and four rebounds against two four-star 2016 big men Juwan Durham and Dewan Huell, according to The Intentional Foul. It's just one highlight video, but Chriss looked very comfortable beneath the basket. Five of the dunks were in traffic and the last two were pretty special. During one sequence (0:35-second mark), he eluded a defender in the corner with a spin move, ran into another defender in the paint who knocked the ball loose and recovered the ball before flushing a two-handed jam. Chriss saved his best for last (0:43-second mark). During a fast break, he caught the ball near the three-point line and attacked the rim. Chriss eluded spun around a defender and rose over two players to flush another two-handed dunk. That's big time. Rivals.com ranks Chriss 44th on its top 150 list. It's a little old, but here's a first-person account Chriss wrote before the 2014 USA Basketball Men's U18 National Team training camp in June. He was one of 24 players invited to the tryout, but did not make the 12-man team. Chriss talked about why he verbally committed to Washington and his desires to become an engineer if he doesn't pursue a basketball career. LINKS: — NBA Summer League wrapped up this weekend in Las Vegas and several former Washington standouts, including Justin Holiday who is trying to catch on with the Golden State Warriors. He averaged 14.8 points in five games. — Here's a look at the NBA Summer League stats. Former UW standout Scott Suggs averaged 7.8 points with the Miami Heat, while Abdul Gaddy averaged 5.2 points and 3.2 assists with the New Orleans Pelicans. Jon Brockman averaged 4.4 points and 6.2 rebounds and Aziz N'Diaye 2.0 points and 2.7 rebounds with the Los Angeles Clippers. Matthew Bryan-Amaning averaged 4.0 minutes and 0.5 rebounds during four games with the Portland Trail Blazers, but failed to score a point. Former UW star C.J. Wilcox, who was taken at No. 28 by the Los Angeles Clippers in last month's NBA draft, did not play in the summer league due to a shoulder injury. — The NCAA summer recruiting schedule is winding down and things go quiet after this week's bevy of tournaments in Las Vegas, including the Adidas Super 64, Las Vegas Classic and Fab 48. — ESPN takes a look at under-the-radar sophomores and includes Colorado's Tre'Shaun Fletcher, the former standout at Tacoma's Lincoln High, and Arizona's Elliott Pitts. — Speaking of Fletcher, he remained in Boulder, Colo. this summer to rehab after suffering a knee injury Jan. 12 at Washington. He'll play in the Athletes in Action Tour that leaves for Estonia and Latvia on August 6. He told the Daily Camera: "I feel like I can have a good year this year if I keep my shot consistent and play defense and rebound." — Oregon State coach Wayne Tinkle's three assistants will make a combined $535,000 in salary, which is an increase from the previous coaching staff. However, Tinkle will earn $800,000 next season, which is less than former Beavers coach Craig Robinson's $930,000 salary in 2014-15. — Former Oregon State star Roberto Nelson is searching for consistency and a NBA team. — Former Oregon standout Luke Ridnour will reportedly play for the Orlando Magic after agreeing to a two-year, $5.5 million deal. — Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said changes are coming in the NCAA and fans aren't going to like it. Comments | More in Links, News, Notes | Topics: Marquese Chriss


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I have been continuing to make dishcloths using my stash of green cotton yarn. Here is a cute hippo dishcloth that I made last week. Here is the free pattern for it.
Then I thought that I would switch things up and crochet a dishcloth instead of knitting one. This one has bobbles all over it, which can help while cleaning. Here is the free pattern for it (its the one on the left).


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Show 138 – HP's Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Strategy and Solution
[Written by HP.]
There has been a lot of interest in the market place recently around software-defined Networking (SDN). HP has been a leader in SDN technologies from the very beginning. HP has played an instrumental role in the development of OpenFlow and continues to lead the market. For example:
- HP and Stanford began collaborating on Ethane—the predecessor to OpenFlow—in 2007.
- HP OpenFlow technology has been the leading choice for researchers worldwide since 2008.
- HP now has 29 switches that are enterprise-grade OpenFlow capable, representing the largest OpenFlow-enabled portfolio in the marketplace.
Last year, at Interop New York 2012, we announced the industry's first complete and open-standards-based SDN technologies across all three critical SDN layers—infrastructure, control and application layers that enable enterprises and cloud providers to simplify architecture across data center, campus and branch networks.
New innovations at the infrastructure layer included additional OpenFlow-enabled switches. New innovation at the control layer is the Virtual Application Networks SDN controller that centralizes the control plane. At the application layer, we announced two SDN applications:
- The first application is the HP Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) application that enables cloud providers to deliver automated, scalable and secure multitenant public cloud services to enterprises. Enterprises can also leverage HP VCN to gain the advantages of automation within their private clouds, while enabling secure integration of public cloud environments into their private environment.
- The second application is the HP Sentinel Security Application. Sentinel application can stop threats before they reach your network by leveraging OpenFlow and HP TippingPoint RepDV – a cloud hosted reputation database. We demonstrated a proof-of-concept at the Interop NYC to showcase how we leverage OpenFlow to redirect client DNS queries traffic to the SDN controller, compare the URL against the RepDV and decide whether to permit or block the connection.
Since Interop, we have been hard at work on our SDN solution, so I grabbed the opportunity for our SDN experts Bryan Stiekes and Sarwar Raza to speak with you, the Packet Pushers' audience, and share with you some of the technical details regarding our solution.
What we discussed
- HP's definition of SDN
- Why we believe SDN is important
- The application of SDN in both the Data Center & Campus
- Our SDN products: HP Virtual Application Networks SDN Controller, Virtual Cloud Networks application and Sentinel Security application
- HP's Open APIs
- HP's leadership in OpenFlow and OpenStack
For more information
You can find more information on HP's SDN product offerings
on HP.com
I would highly recommend the following:
- CERN's video on their R&D collaboration with HP
- HP's SDN Technology White Paper
We now have 29 models of switches with OpenFlow support. You can find an up to date list of all of our OpenFlow products here
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text: Eastern Congo remains deeply unstable more than eight years after the end of a civil war [Reuters] Eight people have been killed and 44 others injured during an attempted jail break in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, police said.The casualties occurred on Sunday at the Bukavu central prison after a grenade exploded in the hands of an inmate, senior regional police official Gaston Luzembo told the AFP news agency."A colonel inmate gave a grenade to a civilian inmate and told him to throw it in front of doors to create panic to facilitate the escape," Gaston Luzembo, a senior regional police official, told AFP."Not being a military man, the civilian took the pin out of the grenade but kept it and it exploded in his hands," Luzembo said."There were eight dead - four civilians and four military," he said. "There were also 44 injured, including 32 civilians, with the rest [being] military."Frequent jailbreaksHe said three prisoners managed to escape on Saturday with the "complicity" of the head of the jail. They included the man who was the official representative of the prisoners.Luzembo said the colonel then tried "to take advantage of this unstable situation", to launch the failed jail break.A Reuters witness said the early morning blast at the jail was followed by gunfire and some inmates who had sufferedserious injuries were being treated at a local hospital. Prison breaks and attempted escapes are frequent in the country. In September, nearly 1,000 inmates escaped from a prison in the eastern Katanga province after a spectacular raid by masked gunmen to spring a militia leader from death row.Prisons in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which the United Nations ranks as one of the least developed countries in the world, are known for overcrowding, tough conditions and shoddy security. Eastern Congo remains deeply unstable more than eight years after the end of a civil war, with rebels and members of the armed forces both accused of widespread criminality. SOURCE: Agencies Africa Congo Republic


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Tauranga's Mayor elect Greg Brownless says he has a bit of catching up to do before he's sworn in at the end of the month.
There's two immediate issues, the previous council's decision to pull the New Year's Eve celebrations and the civic heart project.
"I would like to find out what's behind it, I would like to find out what the police positon is, see what the appetite amongst the councillors is to see if we can change anything," says Greg, who received 9046 votes in the preliminary result released on Sunday evening. Watch a video from Greg after he received the mayoralty news here.
"Of course we are not sworn in for a few weeks, I will have to look and see what I can find out about it.
"It's counter intuitive to the whole idea of being originally told we needed to provide family entertainment there and that would help pout, and now to find that it's the opposite," says Greg.
"I probably would like to talk to the other councillors and try and see if there's anything we can do. Unfortunately it's all so late in the year."
The civic heart project is another current issue he is eager to hear the new council's thoughts on.
"It's a big wish list. I would like to see that refined a bit, pick off something we can actually do, rather than too much dreaming," says Greg.
"I think we also need to engage the feelings of the local architect and design people."
Some of them have offered to donate skills and time, which would make it a more local project.
Greg's been on Tauranga City Council for most of the last 20 years. He was first elected in 1995, but missed the 1999-2001 council. He was re-elected in 2001 and remained on council through the mayoralties of Noel Pope, Jan Benge and Stuart Crosby until 2010.
"All I can say is in politics its an interesting sort of a job in that you can be there one minute an gone the next – and you can be gone the next and be back again.
"I actually do feel for those who have lost their positions. I have rung them, because the first time I ran I never got into council. So I know what it feels like too," says Greg.
"They all look a decent bunch of people. I think just about everyone who puts their name forward is a good person. And they have elected all good people.
"So I think by the looks of it we can all work together. There might be a few different opinions but there is nothing wrong with that, there need to be different opinions."
Read here for a full list of Tauranga City Council's preliminary results.


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Declarations of different beliefs are stated and many questions are ask, one of this is very interesting for it questions God's existence and importance.
photo from: mommylife.net
And this is how it goes, what do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence?
It clearly means that man first of all exists before God, then encounters himself, gushes in the world and defines himself. If man is an existentialist and sees himself as not definable, it is because at first he is nothing. He will not be anything until he will be what he makes of himself. Hence, there is no human nature existing because there is no God to be conceived but man simply is. Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. I kinda agree and disagree with this, because first and foremost I am a Christian, and I believe that I am what I am right now due to the things that I have done and decided before but with God's grace. Thus, existentialism tells us that man is responsible for himself, but do not mean that he is responsible only for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for all men. So if this is the case, even though that God does not exist for others, values and morality can still be applied! Because man does things for himself, obviously these things would be good and better for him and nothing can be better for us unless it is better for all. It is just like what my High-school teacher always tells our class, that the fault of one student is the fault of the whole class! That is why we tend to be in our proper behavior in class because we know for a fact that there are other people who will be punished due to our own wrongdoings. So I think that it is still possible for morality to be evident even without God's existence.
You may or may not agree. don't get me wrong here. I LOVE GOD!


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Listen and Type
I really like the new Listen and Type exercises. They really make you think about the tones and, after only one lesson, I feel they will be really beneficial. My tendency to ignore tonal mistakes when reviewing vocab always leaves me feeling somewhat guilty about marking words as correct when running through flashcards.
When doing this exercise for the newbie lesson, "What's Up?" I got the tones correct as well as the majority of the pinyin. But for some reason I still got a score of 0/4. The spaces between words were all wrong. Is there some rule for when to put a space between words in pinyin? I've wondered this for a while, but never managed to identify a pattern at all. For example:
Phrase 1
hai2hao3 (incorrect)
hai2 hao3 (correct)
Phrase 2
zen3me5yang4 (correct)
zen3 me5 yang4 (incorrect)
If there are no rules governing the word spacing and spaces are used purely for the sake of readability, would it be a good idea to put a space between all the words for the sake of the exercises?
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Minute Change
Part 7
Bruised pride aside, his temper had cooled quickly in the winter night. Now, he stood indecisively in front of Rogue's unlocked door. Her room was empty. Remy chewed on his lip studying the tarnished doorknob. Downstairs, in an isolated portion of the mansion, he located her signature. There was little motion from it. Glowering at shadows again, her favorite past-time. Should leave her alone. She didn't need sleep, not in the way most did, not physically. More than once, he had crept through the door after a long night only to discover her lost in memory. He reached for the handle. Rarely was he given invitation, but it was almost dawn. She should be back by now. If not, she would be. Her absence was disconcerting and worrying. Swiftly, before he could change his mind, he pulled the door open.
The blinds were drawn throwing narrow bands of light on the floor and fautelle outlining in black the discarded parka.. His conscience scolded him for being curious, but he smiled. The room was an interesting combination of Spartan and hedonistic: Few bric-a-bracs, a couple of bland posters to cover the white space of the walls, a work desk that appeared to have been struck by a typhoon, the incessantly humming stereo system, a clutter of books over her collection of stuffed animals, and a carved four poster bed complete with red satin sheets and velvet drapery. Materials pleasing to the touch were neatly tucked, excluding the edge marred by a congregation of wrinkles. Seen beds like that in other places.
She going to stay downstairs all night? Scanning the room once more for clues, he spied the closet. Shouldn't go peeking. Already gone this far. The door was slightly ajar at the end of a carpet trail. Inside were secrets of a sort. He crammed his hands in his pockets. Shuffled cards. Re-pocketed them. Waiting was driving him crazy. This is nuts, I'm getting all worked up because I want to reveal horrible secrets and Rogue isn't here. He searched for a cigarette but his hand merely bumped an empty shirt pocket. Then he opened the closet door.
The cured scent of leather enveloped him. Pieces of it, jackets, pants, boots, hats in myriad dark colors. Don't recall seeing her wear those. Or the suits. Pushing aside the facade, he found the back of the wardrobe. Or the kevlar body armor with night vision goggles and ammunition belt. He crouched down with a nervous glance over his shoulder feeling like a kid pilfering cookies. Be just my rotten luck for her to walk in now. Behind the shoe menagerie light glimmered from the edges and folded handle of a pebbled carrying case. It was an unpretentious blue-black, scarred across the plastic sides, well used. There was no label identifying it as a gun case, no reason to think it. The Prof really have her do stuff like that? A minuscule movement and the legging from the armor above tapped against the case. After the initial tinge of dismay, he sighed. Enough Remy, you're here to apologize not get an eyeful. It would probably be best to let her bring this up on her own.
After a final thoughtful look at the closet, he launched himself onto the bed with a satisfying bounce. He drummed his fingers together while examining the intricate patterns of the half-canopy. Maybe I should just come back tomorrow. Tell her about him and we see if she keeps her end of the bargain. Then I'll strangle her. An image of the Z'Noxx chamber came to mind offering a solution to one of their problems. He'd asked Joseph about it. Protect my mind but not my body. He grinned at his own double entendre. She looked awful jumpy around that thing, didn't like it. The light on the wall was changing from gray to lavender to pink. Clasping and unclasping his hands, he put them under his head, scanning the room yet again. The trusted teddy bear beckoned to him. It was the ugliest thing he'd ever seen, in a loved sort of way. It was also somewhat heavy for a cloth and polyester toy, but that was Rogue's own business. Okay, it's been five minutes.
This section of the mansion was directly beneath the women's' dorms and fairly undamaged. There was no one about, most of the lights were off and only a weak glow emanated from unshaded windows. She was here, moving jerkily, in the small study crammed between two other storage rooms. He'd never entered it, for somehow, this room was more sacrosanct than her own. There was a series of bumps and thumps as Rogue fussed with the study door, then with an especially loud thump, kicked it. Remy opened it before it broke.
"Hey, y'open the door? Ah di'n'. Didja?"
"Yup. How y'doin'?" She looks rough. Her eyes were bloodshot, shoulders slumped, mouth slack and skin flushed as she swayed precariously staring at him in bewilderment. He grabbed her elbow to aid locomotion while trying to pry a bottle out of her hand. She positively reeked of alcohol. Look hard enough and maybe I can see the fumes rising.
Her grip tightened stubbornly. "Wuzzat?" The simple words took all the air from her lungs. A clumsy hand pushed hair out of her face on to have it flop back down again.
"I said, how ya doin'?" Locating his gloves in a pocket, he pulled them on and tucked her hair back. There was only one reason he could think of for this. He'd never found her well and truly drunk, he'd never given her cause to, nor ever meant to. Apparently, their...discussion that evening had upset her more than she let on. Typical, always trying to be aloof, trying not to get hurt. Looks like you fooled yourself, girl. So she hadn't meant to drive him off with the charade earlier tonight. It hurt to realize she'd gone to such petty lengths to discover the truth.
"Oh, oh, neve' bette', jus' fine, uh huh." She shook his grip off and elbowed him in the stomach. The same hand came up to grab his arm. "Lea' me 'lone, don' need yo' help."
"Ya sure, c'mon, dis way." She might not want his help, never did, but that did little to alleviate his concern. This wasn't good. He'd found her hung over twice, once for certain, the second time a possibility. According to her file, she was resistant to most toxins but it didn't say whether or not that was a conscious ability. Highly susceptible to opiates, enough tranqs put her to sleep, but alcohol? How much she need to chug? His immediate worry was that in her carelessness, she might hurt him. Then again, she'd not flying or pushing me around either. Regardless, the intently vacant expression on her face confirmed it. She's wasted.
"Ah don' wan' go that way. Y'coul' be a shape shifter like back in N'o'leans, y'know, Belle's awful dumb but Ah di'n' kill 'er 'cause y'like 'er an' Ah di'n' really min' 'cept she tried t'kill me, or... Where we goin'?"
"We're goin' to ya room, dis way."
"Oh, 'at's good. Y'comin' wi' me?" She veered in the direction of the Rec room and he steered her back towards the stairs.
She was going to kill Belle?! No wonder she didn't want me to follow. He couldn't see it, not Rogue. She's always the one who goes on and on about holding back, being better than your enemy. The gun case in her closet popped to mind and just as quickly, exited. It had been covered by a fine film of dust. Nor could he recall her carrying any weapons with her when she traveled down south. No warning, she didn't have time to prepare. Furthermore, she would have been able to pick up any one of the knives Belle threw. The Professor had asked about that, if she had tried to kill, but he'd been unable to give an honest answer. Was in the other room, didn't see. Xavier had also asked him not to mention it again in front of Rogue, he'd cited emotional insecurity and psychological instability. Maybe I should've just asked, chewed it out with her.
Taking her by the shoulders, he leaned closer to look her in the eye. She gave a loopy smile. "Now, I'm goin' t'talk real slow so dat y'can un'erstan' me, okay?"
"Uh huh, 'kay."
"I'm takin' ya to y'room. Den I'm puttin' ya t'bed. Got dat so far?"
"Uh huh. Y'goin' t'bed with me?" She sidled up to him with a sinuous stretch and ran her hands up his chest.
It was very tempting. Any other time and he would've followed her without qualm. Tonight, she wasn't in possession of her faculties. He held still but that resulted in her touch being more exploratory. Not to mention she'll kill me in the morning and that's after breaking a few bones and gouging my eyes out with a spoon. This was just the alcohol talking but his body wasn't paying mind to the healthy common sense. "No, I'm not."
"Why not?"
She was groping him. Either that or she can't keep her balance. Nor could he decide whether it was the alcohol on her breath or, possibly, the hand she was working under his waistband that disturbed him more. He tried to remove her hands discreetly, to no avail. She slapped his hands away. "You're very confused right now and you don' really wan' do dat." Not that I really mind. "You don' know what you wan'." Her hands darted back towards his shirt and he grabbed them. Got'em.
She shook her hands with a flop attempting to break his grip. "Uh huh. Ah do too." Taking a deep, preparatory breath, she segued into a raucous rendition of Closer.
Immediately following comprehension, he felt pain. I love her, I really do, but I hope she never does this in public. Also hope no one else but me awake right now. She started tottering and he held her up. "Chere." No response. "ROGUE!"
"Wha'?" The idiotic smile was still glued to her face. The white of her hair picked up the gray and blue light meandering lazily through the hall. Underneath the blur, her eyes were revealing shadows.
There was no point. Even if she was sincere, this was not the time or place. What if she is? If she was and this wasn't just the alcohol, his judgment had been misguided. From the time their relationship had become more serious, he had assumed, based on her shy or angry attitude, that sexual attention wasn't appreciated. She's the honorable sort, would've felt pressured to give me what I asked for in return for the attention. He pushed her onwards until they were almost at the end of the hallway. "Dere's no need t'be crude 'bout it. I t'ink, dat mebbe tomorrow mornin' we should have ourselves a nice long discussion 'bout-"
She wasn't paying attention. "Stairs." Her face mashed up ferociously at the unexpected obstacle. "There's stairs."
He sighed in comic relief. "Yes, dose are stairs."
"But they' stairs."
"Yes, I know. C'mon, hol' on t'me an' I carry you." An elevator would be real useful right about now. The instant he picked her up, she wrapped her arms around his neck in a hold that threatened to suffocate him. She stroked his jaw with the palm of one hand.
"Ah can't feel it." Disappointed, she tucked her chin against his collar bone. "Stupid gloves, hate 'em, hate'em, hate'em.... They hot an' make my han's sweaty an' Ah can't feel nothin' an' Ah hate'em."
He couldn't think of anything to say if he'd been able to say anything. It occurred to him that she rarely attempted to touch him, even with gloves or through cloth. Maybe that habit ought to be broken. "Well, um, uh-"
"Y'got awful pretty eyes."
"Um, t'anks." Pretty? Dangerous, seductive, frightening, but pretty? Surmounting the stairs, he paused to take deep breaths. Heavy. He took a left and headed past closed doors to her room. No sound or movement came from behind the sheets of wood. Jean lived with Scott, Elizabeth was with Warren, and Storm resided in the attic which left Rogue as the sole occupant of this wing. .
There was another problem; her bedroom door was closed. I put her down, she falls. I hold her, she'll probably fall asleep. So she falls or she falls. He put her down but she only collapsed halfway retaining a loose hold on his jeans. He opened the door, and pulled her back up. "Walk."
"Hush. Follow me, no, no, dis way, to de bed."
"Hush y'self! Remy?" She tugged on his sleeve pointing to an empty space in the room. "Bed's ove' the', see, ain'...." Puzzled, she rubbed her forehead with the tenaciously held bottle. "It moved."
"Yup. Dey do dat sometimes. C'mon."
Taking her by the shoulder, he pushed her towards the bed and turned her to face him. She sat when the backs of her knees hit the mattress. "Now, y'gonna go t'bed, by y'self, an' take a long-"
"Whoa!" Leaping back, he snatched her free hand away from his fly. "I jus' told you, dat's not what I came here for." Very good aim for someone who can't see straight. Nevertheless, this bore thought and serious consideration. She always shied away when he touched too much, too long. He's assumed it s reminded her of her powers. His earlier thoughts returned. She might be jumpy, but with a power like her's, she was informed. Look like maybe I was mistaken, maybe I've been neglecting her.
"Why not?" she asked in an exceedingly disappointed tone.
"'Cause ya drunk as a fish." Shaking his head in bemusement, he re-zipped his pants.
He rambled to distract her. "So, no. I rode out for a while but when m'fingers and toes froze I came back. Speakin' of fingers an' toes, I got t'take y'boots off if y'be kin' 'nough t'hold still." He knelt with one shoulder between her knees and untied her shoe. "Was gon' tell you somet'in' important, nice long story, but y'don' seem up to it right now so I figure dat maybe ya jus' gi'me de bottle y'holdin' and I put ya t'bed." The boot was untied, but her foot was firmly planted on the floor. Trying to pick it up was like moving a tree with one hand, in short, impossible. What is this? Selective use of powers just to make things difficult?
Watching him struggle with her leg, she giggled, making no effort to be helpful. "A secret? What kin' secret?" She played with his hair, running it through her fingers and dropping it in his face. "Ah bet Ah can guess! Ah know lotsa secrets. It is a surprise?"
"T'ought it was, I bet not anymore. I tell y'about tomorrow, okay?" Her foot was not moving. He sat back on one foot, one finger curled against his lip, ignoring the tangles she was creating in his hair. "Rogue, please pick up y'foot so I can take off y'boots."
He tickled the back of her knee and she doubled over with a shriek. The bottle flew dangerously by his ear to collide with a solid thunk against the side of the bed. He grabbed her arm while getting his knee under hers. Now that her entire right side was immobilized, he took her shoe off. Seeing that the other leg was laying half bent, he removed the other one as well, then blinked. She had a hand up his shirt. The seams of her gloves scraped lightly over his abdomen and chest. Judging it to be fairly harmless, he let it remain, while standing and still trying to pry the Vodka out of her hand.
"Me or de happy poison?"
A fierce scowl developed on her face. "Mine." Saying this obviously required all her concentration because her hand went lax.
"Hey, I don' have a problem wit' dat." Triumphantly, he swiped the bottle waving it out of her reach. "Hah!"
"Heeeey, gi' it back!" She lunged up lethargically grappling onto his waistband for support heedless of his balance or good intention.
He planted his feet twisting backwards. She wrapped a leg behind his knee and pulled harder until they both fell unceremoniously on the bed while the bottle landed on the floor with a solid thunk. She laughed, nuzzling him, while he tried to disentangle himself. Damn octopus. "NO. What did I tell you?"
A goofy smile answered him when he gripped her wrists. "No?"
"Dat's right. Very good, you remembered." His cheeks felt hot as he leapt back to sit on the edge of the mattress. She have you fooled or what? This is embarrassing. This was too elaborately insane to have been planned but it stank of improvisation. Don't get it. She's so cozy with Joseph and ignores me. True, but he'd never seen her allow him touch beyond a shoulder or arm. Always telling me not to touch. "You did dat on purpose di'n' you?"
"Nuh-u-uh," she drawled in denial. Her arms snaked under his to wrap around him from behind.
"Y'know, if you were any other woman I -- OW! Don' bite!" A barely audible murmur was his response. An angry murmur. He looked over his shoulder and lightening quick, she kissed him.
"Dieu! What y'doin'?!" He bolted up as if burned. "Ya-" With a bit of effort, the stale words were choked back. Butthead. Wonder how many times she's heard that? Her dark mutters had subsided and she lay curled on one side watching him curiously. Enough times to believe it. He rubbed his neck slowly. This was unprecedented as far as he knew. There had been a slight tingle, but he was definitely conscious. "Let's try dis 'gain'."
"No, no, no." Her eyes crossed when he shook his finger scoldingly. "For all de complainin' y'do, ya sure have a one track mind. Guess dis is somet'in' else we have to discuss, eh?" Batting aside the hand roaming up his leg, he hauled her into the center of the bed. "Stay."
"Whe' y'goin'?!" Leaning unsteadily on an elbow, she entreated, "Y'a'ready wen' out 'night an', an' it's 'mornin', y's'pose t'be sleepin' an'...." Her voice trailed off with a sigh and she lay back down in slow, painful movements.
Wincing, he sat again beside her. She was crying in a frighteningly dispassionate way, not seeing him. Assuming the worst, eh? Real open-minded of you. Then again, not like I tell her what I'm about. "I'm not goin' anywhere if you don' wan' me to. Y'listenin'?" Her eyes flickered and he sat back yet again.
She was tugging on his shirt. "You want me t'stay here tonight?"
"Uh huh."
"All right. But don' you go scoldin' me for it later." He shucked his boots.
"Ah won't."
As soon as he lay down, she hooked an arm and leg over him using his shoulder as a pillow. Shifted fractionally, she pressed an ear to his arm for a minute then relaxed. He kept an eye on her hand as it hovered in the air before falling with fair accuracy over his heart. Main artery going down the arm, heard my pulse. Taking a firm grip in his hair, she relaxed the ghost scowl along with her hold on consciousness. Guess I'm not going anywhere.
"Disgustin' piece of shit! Git the hell outta my sight!" The frightening impact of glass crashing on a heavy carved door punctuated the slurred shout.
She skidded into the stairwell in her haste to escape. Whining rather than crying lest her mother seek her out, the girl nursed fresh bruises. Usually, Mother drank in the side room by the kitchen in back. So, she'd used the front door. This time, Mother had been in the living room which was the only way through the front. It was awful bad luck. But she was safe now for a little while. Mother got in a bad way every day. In the morning, she was just real quiet like and pretended not to hear folks talking to her. But soon, she'd get loud and mean. She wasn't mean on purpose.
The front door opened with a muffled rattle that Mother hated, then slammed. It rooted her to the spot. The little hand of the grandfather clock was on six. Two voices emerged through the walls and down the hall. One rising and falling eventually becoming unintelligible. That voice was angry, scared, saying things like, "No, I didn't, No, I'm not, She deserved it, Useless." It kept making noises until there was a big thud from the chair. It had fallen over again. The second voice, which had been quiet and steady before, got loud. It got really loud, and then really quiet. It made agreeing noises, soothing, gentle like a lullaby. But it was scary. It said stuff like, "Yes, I perfectly agree, You're right, You can't ignore her, Patient teaching, Firm hand to improve behavior...." And it talked, and talked, and talked until the first voice didn't talk anymore.
There were footsteps, click of loafer heels, approaching the hallway door. The girl cringed, daring a look up the stairs. He would follow her up to her room. Or outside, or downstairs in the leaky cellar where all the bottles came from, or anywhere and Mr. Marcus and Miss Goat, which wasn't her real name, would help him. Miss's Goat's real name was long and sounded funny. Uncle Lucien said "Goat-am-iy-er". Uncle Lucien was behind the hall door. Half-sobbing, she crumpled on the bottom step to wait. She'd done bad.
The hall door opened washing her in dim light. She could see all the dust in the air. It moved around making everything look kind of gray. Pretending not to see Uncle Lucien, she stared at the hairline break in the wall. It started over the trim and wandered up a few inches before disappearing. The wood trim below had two small dents in it. That's where the nails were.
"Well? Stand up properly, I'm talking to you."
She stood, trying not to fidget or crumple her dress. Uncle Lucien was a gentleman. He wore fancy suits, Mother called them fancy duds, but they didn't look fancy to her. They were brown, and black and gray and some had stripes. Mother called him handsome too. He had kind of yellow hair, called blond, and a mustache, and really green eyes and- "Ow!" She pulled her shoulders up gingerly.
"Pay attention." He loomed over her. "That's exactly the problem with you. You never listen. Young ladies do as they're told."
He was pacing back and forth in front of the stairs with his arms crossed wrinkling up his jacket sleeves. "I don't understand this. Are you just stupid or don't you remember what I told you about obeying your mother? She counts on you to help her, to be obedient when she's not well. Do the other children act so irresponsible? I can't believe you were gone all day. Look at you, you're filthy! Filthy!"
She wasn't supposed to answer those questions. He always got mad at her if she did. Every time he looked at her his eyes got squinty and his lip twisted up like a caterpillar. He was very mad. She'd gone to play with Cody and his friends on account that all the girls had a secret clubhouse and she wasn't in it because.... She didn't know why. Anyway, they'd gone frog chasing over by the loch where it turned into a muddy pond.
"Look at me when I'm talking to you!"
She jerked her head up from the brown leather of his shoes and backed up a step.
He moved in a rush, grabbing her shoulder and dragging her back. "Did I give you permission to go anywhere?"
"No." She looked straight ahead at the corner of his lapel. She had to be real careful not to look right at him or he'd tell her not to "look at him like that" whatever that meant. Her hands felt awful cold and her stomach felt funny like she was going to throw up. She tried to swallow except it didn't work.
Gently patting the bruise on her shoulder, he smiled. It was one of those fake smiles that people at stores always gave her when saying stupid things because they were grown-ups. "Good girl." The pressure increased, crushing her to the spot as his smile went away. "Now, honey, what you did today was very unladylike. In fact, I would go so far as to call it unhealthy. We both love you very much and the least you could do is act maturely. As her daughter, it's your duty to take care of her when she's unwell and until you act more responsible...."
Her knees buckled and her shoulder dropped under the force of his grip. Her mouth felt dry and sticky. All his talk was running together into a big muddy mess and none of the words made sense. They weren't mean words, and he was smart so he knew what he was talking about but it made her feel bad. Mother had gotten mad for no good reason, like always, and started hitting and yelling and there had been nowhere to go. It made her feel so angry she wanted to hit him, but if she did, he'd hit her back and he hit very hard.
"How can I take you in public when you exhibit such atrocious behavior? Where did you learn such foul language? Where did you learn that such violence is acceptable? Where?"
All the colors ran together and she blinked. He hated when she cried. He said she did it on purpose to get sym-pa-thy. The real, honest-to-goodness answer was "From you" but if she told him that he'd get madder and if she didn't say nothing he'd be even madder than that. "From school?"
He nodded slowly. "From school." Then, brushing her cheek with the back of his knuckle, "You aren't lying are you?"
She hunched away. It was worse than hitting. "N-no."
"Young ladies don't lie. Then don't use vulgar language. They don't raise they're hands against their parents." His eyes looked funny. They had the scary look. And he wasn't her father. Her father was gone somewhere. She didn't miss him or anything because she'd never met him. "And they obey their parents. You don't want to make me angry, do you?"
"No." She tried to lean away from his hand the scary look.
"I'm going to ask you nicely one more time. Where did you learn that?"
The words got stuck in her throat with all the air to say them with. She was going to start crying again. It wasn't fair. "I...uh...um...." Her whole body was shaking. It hurt to stand still. Uncle Lucien got real close so she could see the different colors in his eyes and all the lines on his nose and forehead. It was hot and cold at the same time. The light hurt her eyes so nothing was real anymore. "I don't know."
"You lying bitch. You just never learn do you?"
The last thing she saw before squeezing her eyes shut under braced arms was his saccharine smile.


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Garner Cleveland: Sports
With one title down, another quest begins
With a second consecutive conference title wrapped up, the Clayton boys basketball team is ready to shift its focus to a different kind of championship.
Behind a career night from Gary Clark, the Comets outdueled rival Southeast Raleigh 76-64 on the road Thursday to win the Greater Neuse River 4A conference outright after sharing the title with Garner a year ago. Clayton (20-4, 13-1) will grab a No. 1 seed in the state tournament which began Monday.
"Hopefully we've put ourselves in a good situation as far as the bracket. We've got to look at this as a brand new season," Clayton coach Denny Medlin said. "I don't know that there's any magic formula other than showing up and going to war every night. We're going to play good teams in the playoffs and we've got to play great and we know that as soon as we don't, that will be it. We have to approach every game like it could be our last game."
Clark scored 47 points – 27 of which came from the foul line -- to lead the Comets and spoil Southeast's Senior Night. The win was the seventh straight over the Bulldogs.
Being on the road against a rival team with the conference title on the line, Thursday's clash had all the makings of a playoff atmosphere. Neither team led by more than five points until the second half and a 14-point Clayton lead midway through the third quarter all but vanished when Myles Harris pulled the Bulldogs to 54-51 with five minutes to play in the fourth.
But Clark owned the free throw line in the final period, going 12-for-15 with Clayton sitting on the lead. For the game, Clark was 27-for-32 at the stripe and aided his point total with three thundering dunks. Clark scored 16 consecutive points for Clayton during one second-quarter stretch. Although Clark made it look easy, it was anything but against the Bulldogs (13-9, 9-7), who were paced by Harris' 21 points.
"I was very, very concerned coming in here because Southeast is a tough team. We always say every game is for the championship and this one really was because we needed to win it to win (the conference) outright," Medlin said.
Last year's share of the conference title led to a run to the state quarterfinals where the Comets were eliminated by Seventy-First, 84-69. Clayton was bounced in the third round the year before and Medlin hopes this year's conference success will translate into further triumphs in the coming weeks.
"I think our conference has prepared us well because we have a tough conference," Medlin said. "We haven't been the type of team that blows people out. We've been the type of team that plays solid and wins possessions and wins quarters. Typically in our conference we've steadily won by three or four possessions like we did tonight so I don't expect any less in the playoffs."