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Zack's Kernel News
The Linux kernel mailing list comprises the core of Linux development activities. Traffic volumes are immense, often reaching ten thousand messages in a given week, and keeping up to date with the entire scope of development is a virtually impossible task for one person. One of the few brave souls to take on this task is Zack Brown.
Our regular monthly column keeps you abreast of the latest discussions and decisions, selected and summarized by Zack. Zack has been publishing a weekly online digest, the Kernel Traffic newsletter for over five years now. Even reading Kernel Traffic alone can be a time consuming task.
Linux Magazine now provides you with the quintessence of Linux Kernel activities, straight from the horse's mouth.
Maintainer Updates
Kentaro Takeda has created an entry for the Tomoyo Security Module in the MAINTAINERSHIP file and listed himself and Tetsuo Handa as co-maintainers.
The I2C mailing list is following the general stampede of Linux mailing lists away from their own individual servers and onto vger.kernel.org. Greg Kroah-Hartman has posted a patch removing all references to the old mailing list at lm-sensors.org from the MAINTAINERS file and replacing them with references to mailto:email@example.com.
Thomas Sujith has created an entry for Intel's Menlow thermal drivers and listed himself as the official maintainer.
Bjorn Helgaas has added himself as a co-maintainer, along with the existing maintainer Adam Belay, of plug-and-play support. Actually, he added himself back in August, but with Andi Kleen pushing the code upstream and Len Brown taking it and incorporating it into the kernel, a multi-month gap developed.
Making Sense of All the Clocks
Jonas Bonn has been thinking a lot about clocks. A given system can have various clocks, including the CPU clock, the bus clock, and clocks on various external devices. The tools available to deal with the various clocks, such as cpuidle and cpufreq, tend to provide overlapping features, Jonas says, while requiring special handling on a system-by-system basis. Jonas has proposed creating a single overarching API to allow the programmer to set various constraints, such as the target power usage on a given system, while handling the coordination of all clocks on the system behind the scenes so the developer won't have to think about it.
Various folks like Jon Smirl spoke in favor of this general idea but also pointed out that it was similar to other efforts already underway. As Mark Brown pointed out, Dmitry Baryshkov had been working on a generic version of the existing clk API, and Alan Jenkins mentioned an OMAP project coming out of the Ottawa Linux Power Management Summit in July. After examining these various alternatives, Jonas decided that the best way forward would be to enhance the API in the existing clk code. He said, "I have implemented this interface for the S3C2410, and it provides the functionality that I want, namely that clocks become first-class citizens and can be adjusted without specific knowledge about all the underlying devices that may or may not be using them at any given time."
ConfigFS Supports IR Devices
Jon Smirl has coded up support in ConfigFS for infrared input devices. With the use of his code, pressing buttons on IR input devices will cause a lookup within the ConfigFS directory tree to identify the appropriate keycode to generate and, from there, the corresponding keystroke. Therefore, it is now possible to use infrared keyboards under Linux that will comfortably transmit user input through ConfigFS and into the system.
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With Game Update 1.6: Ancient Hypergate now on live servers, we thought it would be a great time to take a second look at the additions to Space Combat and put together a guide. If you have played any of the new missions you likely noticed how hard the missions are, almost seemingly gated to players with Grade 7 gear. Well, with enough prodding with Grade 6 ship parts I was able to beat every single one. How did I do it? Hit the jump to find out.
Note: While we cover only the Imperial side in this post, the Republic ones should be the same for the corresponding missions.
General Tips
- DO A BARREL ROLL! – No seriously, the immortal words from Star Fox could not be true. Hit that space bar and roll like crazy. If you are not rolling, you are probably taking more damage than you should be.
- Move at all times – The basic movement of space combat is that the ship follows the mouse, but you can also adjust this slightly using the W,A,S,D keys (or whatever you're basic movement and turning keys are.) Even with the mouse still, you can circle around your targeting reticle by using these keys. W to go up, W and D to go to the right, D to go right, D and S to go down and to the right, and so on until you make a complete circle. Use this any time you are not dodging something your ship can physically hit (Debris, barricades, asteroids, etc.), and use it with barrel rolls, and you will dodge the majority of incoming fire.
- If you are not worried about the bonus objectives (Jedi/Imperial ship and 40 fighter) then play very defensively. Keep your power conversion set to full shields when they are not full and you do not have an objective target. While shields recharge, you can use regular missiles to whittle down targets. At full shields switch the conversion to blaster power and take down a few fighters or easy targets, but be ready to switch back to shields as soon as you take a bit of damage.
- Your power conversion is your best piece of equipment. If you buy any one grade 7 upgrade, I recommend you spend the 300,000 credits on the upgraded version of this. Be sure you switch to your blaster conversion every time you are shooting with the guns, and switch to your shield every time you do not have an important target. Do not ever fire randomly or needlessly, as this is time when your shields are not charging. Your shield only charges when you are not using your blasters. Remember you CAN fire missiles while charging your shields.
Space Combat: Far Cradle Strike
Objectives: Destroy the Republic Command Bridge (2 Proton)
Destroy Communications Array (2 Proton)
Destroy 8 defense satellites
Make sure you use your proton torpedoes on the Republic Command Bridge and the Communication Array (The Communication Array target is basically the long shaft at the bottom of the space station) every time you make a pass. You get two really easy passes for each one to destroy it, and you need both shots to bring the target down. If you miss these opportunities, it will be very hard to get the shot off at another time.
On defense satellites, hit them with everything you have as you pass them. If you are focused on surviving Far Cradle with grade 6 materials, you could very easily miss your chance to destroy one or two of the satellites. Every time one is on screen, bombard it with missiles and hit it with charged blaster shots.
Save your EMP until you're making your first full pass over the capital ship. This happens with about 2:40 remaining in the mission. The EMP can take down most if not all of the capital ship's gun turrets, which will make your life so much easier every time you go near it.
Use your Electronic Warfare Pod (Invulnerability Shield) whenever your shields drop quickly from a massive amount of damage. You should use it to protect your HULL not your shields.
Space Combat: Kabal Station Defense
Objectives: Destroy the Republic Command Bridge (2 Proton)
Destroy 3 Republic Frigates
Destroy 30 Bombers
The start of this mission is definitely the most important. You will have a long sweep and fly in towards the incoming Republic fleet. You can pop a few fighters as they come towards you if you want, but be sure you keep your shields full by the time you reach the capital ship. You want your mouse over the bridge as you near, so you can lock on with a proton missile as soon as possible. Get that first shot in right away and the second missile will reload in time to hit it again and destroy it in the first pass. Around the time of your second shot, you should be pretty much right over the ship. This is the perfect point to pop your EMP as it will take out most of the capital ship's offenses, and should hit one of the nearby Frigates pretty hard.
Whenever you pass over a frigate, hit the red targets with your blasters, and try to hit the yellow targets with your missiles. They're a little harder to see because of the color schemes, but the main two you want to get are in the back of the ship, in front of the engines and between the circle of turrets going around the body. By hitting the frigates with missiles in those spots, and calmly circling around to take out the red targets with your blasters, you should be able to disable them with relative ease. Do not get frustrated if it takes two or three passes though, you do have a few opportunities at them! Do not forget to keep rolling in circles around your targeting reticle as you do this.
When the first wave of bombers comes, do not worry about missiles. You have a nice long pass with just them to use your blasters to take them down. Their lasers are also really easy to dodge with the spinning circles. The Jedi/Imperial fighter that appears shortly after is by itself for a good bit of time too, so I recommend just bombarding it with blaster fire to take it down and get it out of your way.
If you successfully used your EMP on the capital ship earlier, then your second pass on the frigates should be fairly easy. I was actually able to bring two of them down on this pass with the capital ship disabled.
Deal with the bombers as they come in their second wave, which again is not too large or too dangerous. There is a Jedi/Imperial fighter mixed in, and really, he is just a distraction. I recommend ignoring him and being careful not to waste too many shots on him.
Towards the end is when you will have a massive swarm of bombers going for the station. There are easily five or six sizable groups totaling perhaps 30-40 bombers. Try to stay focused on one group at a time for as long as possible with your blaster fire, and shoot every missile you have as often as you can. If you used your EMP on the capital ship at the start, then it should be back up by now! Wait until you are over the outpost and flying up and away from it, when you have all the bombers spread out right in front of you, and pop that EMP. It will not kill them all in one hit, but it will make them much easier to finish off.
Space Mission: Kanz Minefield
Objectives: Destroy 4 Defense clusters
Destroy 1 Minelayer
Destroy 1 Satellite Hardpoint
The Defense Clusters are new enemies, but not hard to deal with. They consist of one main satellite in the center, surrounded by two rings of three mini-satellites at the top and bottom. Destroy the CENTER larger piece first, as it provides a shield to the other six. They don't take too much firepower to bring down, just make sure you're hitting the right target. Then the six mini-satellites go down with ease.
The minelayer comes up without too much firepower around it. Just hit it with a barrage of missiles and blaster fire. You should be able to cripple it severely in your first pass, making it easy to finish off when you see it later.
On this mission, there are many small fighters, but they are very fragile, and go down with just a few blaster shots. After the first minelayer, there are dozens of them on screen and in the distance. I recommend shooting down as many of them as you can. They have a nasty habit of swarming around your objective targets if they're alive, so the fewer you leave standing the more shots you'll be able to land on your objectives later. I found this to have a very significant impact on the final pass of the satellite hard point.
Jedi/Imperial fighters can be a bit annoying here, and you do not have many great opportunities to engage them. I recommend ignoring them for the most part. Especially when a Jedi/Imperial fighter with 3 heavy fighters go through a chase. You have a lot of ice and debris to dodge during this portion, and they have way too much health. In addition, during this time you do not have many other primary objective targets. Keep your shields up and focus on dodging as much as possible rather than destroying the ships.
The Satellite Hardpoint is larger than the defense clusters, and has a red health bar to signify it. With this be sure you destroy the satellites orbiting it first, as they provide the shield, focus on the central part to bring it down. You will have a few passes at it, so do what you can each time, but do not be so reckless that you get yourself blown up (There are a lot of fighters flying around).
The Hardpoint is by far the toughest part of this mission. I ran it several times without dying, but unable to bring down that hardpoint. I brought it down by focusing my missiles and blaster fire on two of its shield satellites at a time, and then barraging the last one with as many missiles as I could before it went out of sight. I was able to disable all but one and left that one crippled. On this first pass it may not be a bad idea to use the EMP here to try and do some damage to the shield satellites. If you do this try to spread out your missiles and blaster fire between them rather than focusing one target down all at once. The second time I made the pass I was able to quickly finish off the last shield and start doing damage. Every time it came in to view I tried to put at least 4 missiles and some blaster fire in to it. On the final pass in the last 45 seconds or so of the mission, it seems as if every living fighter begins to swarm the hard point to protect it. The more you killed earlier, the less protection it has. Do your best to time your missile barrages so that you are locking on to the hard point between the formation gaps of the fighters, and focus all of your fire power on it. I recommend using your Electronic Warfare Pod (Invulnerability) on this last bit so you can stay locked on and just unload everything you have, including your EMP if it is up. This one may take a few tries just to destroy that Hardpoint Satellite, but do not give up.
Space Mission: Duma Strike
Objectives: Destroy Bridge on the Destroyer.
Destroy 2 Corvette Class Ships
Destroy 4 Enemy Frigates
The hardest thing about Duma Strike is that it doesn't allow you nearly so much of a chance to play defensively as the previous three. There are times where you just have to take a beating and do your best to dodge as much as possible to dish out an offense. Four frigates, two corvettes (highly-durable fighters), and a capital ship are all on the target list for this one.
At the start, you have three frigates coming up on you from behind. I found this to be the best time to use my EMP, as it considerably weakens the three ships and gives you an opportunity to bring them down quickly. I was unable to destroy all four frigates by the end without using an EMP on them. Be sure to focus your missiles first on the center hard points, yellow targets in the back portion but towards the front of the engine, under the satellite array and between the circle of turrets. While using your missiles on that point, bring down some of the turrets around it, then use any more missiles you get to hit anything you can on it as hard as possible.
Your defensive maneuvers are a little limited in many parts of the asteroid field, when you have half of your flying space cut off from you. Be on the lookout too for the capital ship about a minute and a half in. It flies in from the bottom of the screen, somewhat in the distance while you are dealing with the first corvette. This is a perfect opportunity to get in your first proton torpedo, and you will be hard pressed to finish the thing off without this shot. As for the first corvette, you have plenty of time to bring it down with a stream of missiles and blaster fire.
I recommend saving your Electronic Warfare Pod for your second run-in with the capital ship, when you fly directly overhead and are dealing with its barrage of turrets. The ten seconds of shielding once you are in range of its turrets will give you plenty of time to hit the bridge with your proton torpedo and finish it off, and then make it away safely before taking too much damage.
The second corvette proves a more difficult kill than the first as it's also escorted by 8 or so bombers that can soak up a lot of damage. Do your best to keep your blaster fire focused on the corvette while using missiles as freely as possible and dodging like mad. This is one of the parts where you need to be aggressive, so try and bring it down as quickly as possible and then get your shields recharged again right after.
Space Combat: Lorta Escort
Objectives: Destroy Bridge on the Destroyer
Protect the Bomber
Destroy Enemy Jedi Ships
After doing the four prior to this one, especially Duma Strike, Lorta Escort seemed a lot easier. This is probably the easiest one so far. In the first part, when you are escorting the bomber, you are on all out offense. Most of the enemies will target the bomber, not at you. Some shots do go your way so still use your defensive maneuvers. Otherwise just shoot down incoming enemy fighters and weaken the frigates as much as possible. You do not actually have to destroy the frigates, so focus your guns and missiles on taking down as many of their turrets as possible.
You only have to protect the bomber for the first minute or so of combat, so do not worry if it seems to drop in health quickly, you do not have to protect it the whole time. The mission gives you several clean passes on the capitol ship as well, so bringing the bridge down with protons is not really a problem. Just hit it when it is in sight.
The only challenge here might be making sure you kill the three Jedi/Imperial Fighters. You actually do take a lot of incoming fire when they are honing in on you, so be sure to move defensively while shooting at them. Make sure you are shooting! Your window for killing them is not too small that every second counts, but it is not large enough that you want to waste a lot of time either. Keep a steady stream of blaster fire and missiles on them and you will be fine. Do not worry about their escorts of fighters until after they are dead.
Space Combat: Cha Raaba Assault
Objectives: Take out the Shuttle
Eliminate the Mandalorian Commander
Destroy the Republic Frigate
Let me just be clear about one thing. Cha Raaba is hard. If you think grade 7 space missions have been hard this far, then just consider Cha Raaba grade 8.
This mission begins with you dancing around asteroids taking on two heavy mercenary fighters. Dodge when you can, keep your shields up whenever they are not directly in your line of fire, or when you pull off shooting them to avoid an asteroid, and you should have little trouble bringing them down. Make sure your shields are full after that, because coming up is a turbo laser minefield, and they do not die easy. Your best bet is to dodge as much as you can through the first one, and then as you enter in to the second large patch punch your Electronic Warfare Pods, try to do this before the damage really picks up so your shields are hopefully still up. You will want to be able to unleash as much blaster fire as possible on the frigate as you approach. As you reach the frigate, pop your EMP and you'll wipe out the minefield (at least everything that can give you trouble for the rest of the mission) and do a lot more damage to it. Do not expect to kill it here though (unless you're really good at popping these things!)
Beyond the minefield, I am not sure that it is possible to clear this with grade 6 stuff. The asteroids after this point are extremely challenging objects to avoid, and there is one after two tight dodges that I have not been able to keep from hitting after ten tries. On top of that you have your target shuttle, the target Mandalorian commander (both very heavy on defenses) and two turbo laser equipped mercenaries that are unloading on you the entire time. It is very difficult to move defensively to avoid their shots, harder still to hit them, and you do not have any real good opportunities to recharge your shields. You are either dying or you are attacking, and it never feels like you can do enough damage (at least with grade six). After a dozen attempts I was not able to survive past the 30 second remaining mark, and was not ever able to destroy any of the three targets (much less ALL three).
Up until this point, I had been using all G6 components except for the G7 power conversion module (I had 300,000k to spend easy). And it would take a lot more practice to even stand a chance at Cha Raaba without some upgrades, even then I'm not sure if it's possible except for maybe some godly gamer who has mastered every facet of the mini-game. So I used a few cartel coins to get the Grade 7 Starship Offensive Bundle (550 coins), and picked up the upgraded shield recharger for 150 daily commendations.
First off, the upgraded shield recharger was probably the most important upgrade. You will not beat a mission like this by letting your shields drop, and the faster shield regeneration actually let me get my shields up high enough to get some shots in during this fight. So if you only get one upgrade, get that one. Even with it though, the amount of damage you need to be able to put out to finish this mission is intense.
So using the same strategy to get to and past the minefield, I was able to get my shields quickly recharged before entering in to the final chase. Here it is just a lot of rapid switching between shield boost and blaster boost on the conversion module. Even if you only get in 3 seconds of a charge with the shields, it is worth it, so switch often! I recommend taking down at least one of the heavy mercenary ships too, as they tend to ride directly in front of you hitting you with turbo lasers, keeping you too much on the defensive. Pop the one that is in your face and you will have a lot more breathing room to take on the commander and shuttle. Do not forget to look out for the frigate too. You will have two short windows to shoot some missiles and blast away at it. If you did good damage to it back in the minefield, it should not be hard to bring down in a few seconds.
Around 1:20 remaining, there is a tight under-over dodge you have to pull off. You will know it after you run through it once or twice. The flight path will force you to the very bottom of the screen to get under one asteroid, and then immediately expect you to fly straight up in order to avoid hitting the asteroid right behind it. This is a tough dodge, and I hit this rock a dozen times before I successfully got past it. You have to make sure not to roll as you are going under the previous one, and then as soon as you start to clear it, move your mouse straight up and use the roll to sneak in over it. Its tough, and you can expect to hit this asteroid a lot, but it is possible to dodge it.
If you can get that far, and have your G7 shield regeneration up, then it should be fairly smooth sailing from there. Just play it safe, keep shooting away at the targets, do not hit any more rocks, and you should be able to finish this one off nicely!
The first time you beat any of these missions, you will receive 20 fleet commendations. The next day you should receive a daily to do one of them. Completing the daily will reward you with 2 Black Hole Commendations, 40 Fleet Commendations, and 5 Daily commendations.


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French colonial rule ended in 1956, and Tunisia was led for three decades by Habib Bourguiba, who advanced secular ideas. These included emancipation for women - women's rights in Tunisia are among the most advanced in the Arab world - the abolition of polygamy and compulsory free education.
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In 1987 he was dismissed on grounds of senility and Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali became president. He continued with a hard line against Islamic extremists, but inherited an economically-stable country.
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Militant Islamists have been an issue of concern for the authorities. A suicide bomb attack on an historic synagogue in the resort of Djerba in 2002 killed 21 people. Suspected Islamists were killed in shoot-outs with security forces in 2006-7, and pro-al-Qaeda groups have been active on the Algerian border since 2012.


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Welcome back to foxnews.com live on heavy and brown and let's talk about travel are you looking for interesting destination well according to one of -- foxnews.com.
Is a great place to go it's been around a 140 years and that -- Crandall says it's better have.
-- -- -- I caddie and I think you -- -- -- front nine -- -- wolf there are plenty of sites to see in this national heart.
And you don't have to leave this state to see some big -- most wondrous creations.
It's one of our national treasures.
I've -- to Africa and come back to Yellowstone they don't have anything over on us welcome to a magical land.
Called Yellowstone National Park so it early morning sunrise trip through Lamar valley to spot the walls.
Despite the grizzly bears bison and elk it's really -- neat way to start your day.
The director of Austin mean an adventurous -- Austin says now is a great time -- visit.
Or revisit our country's first national park you've got geothermal features.
More geothermal features in the rest of the world combined you've got the wildlife you've got the western history you've got geography and geology I mean it really is fascinating place.
Specially for young kids -- your vacation schedule is flexible.
Austin who lives in Montana recommends visiting in September.
A lot of the -- have gone home and allow like for a little bit more adventurous the spot exert more frequent Austin says by traveling through the park with -- tour operator like his company.
Guess will go behind the scenes of popular attractions.
Like a Grand Canyon -- -- Yellowstone.
It's probably the most visited site in the park but instead -- coming in the front door.
We do a beautiful trail through the back country and come in the back door and and we really don't see anybody until we actually go -- links.
Creating a unique experience.
To -- sites and animals for even visitors who have -- -- They incoming to the park for years it takes a bit of a trained eye especially when you're talking walls because they're usually at a distance.
And then we'll set up spotting Scopes and really zero in on -- be -- to see it at all you'll see black bears brown bears bison.
Elk deer primary -- she coyotes wolves it's just really amazing -- like a trip to a wide open -- And often says unlike as do you wanna -- -- more than just a day -- in fact he recommends at least a couple of days to really -- and the whole experience.
Yeah I you have a lot of advice on how to maximize your trip to Yellowstone and -- going to be in this article on foxnews.com that's -- -- be posted on the site later today.
But one of your tips is don't spend too little time allow a lot of time.
Exactly at least three days is what he recommends and also keep in mind that's three days of exploring the -- doesn't mean driving around the park.
You want to drive to a destination with an.
Get out of the car go on a hike a wanna -- Made it on horseback ride or a boat trip down the river.
Season really experience it feel it smell it all of those things have really take it and you can't really get at all from the car -- have only you could stay in the park.
Yes there are several hotels in the park.
You of them are quite old and pack one comes from before -- nineteen.
That they've been renovated don't expect though to see things like.
Internet or TVs phones.
They don't have that kind of stuff you know -- -- so that's right don't know what I -- yeah I'm -- a you know my name's Tracy nearby rivers that are now I want they play.
The time that -- it's to keep you enough serene experience that you really taking it and and being a part.
The natural environment that is Yellowstone.
The other option is campaign but the campgrounds book early and they get crowded they didn't wanna look at least six months in advance it's quite a ways.
On but to make sure that you can get and he also recommends.
-- outside the part of -- going to go camping because really inside it's so crowded that he says the tents are just right on top of another.
Which if you're going to get up early stuff -- I this is a disaster -- For a lot of people who maybe want a more open space experience.
So he recommends going to.
By the galaxy river red -- campground you don't just outside the park really only thirty minutes away -- -- a much better experience okay you all unplugged it.
Patty and we're we're just like this all the time yeah I mean just -- finalize everything.
-- a little anxious just the thought of not having those things that I -- -- very liberating you also say be prepared for anything including snow in July.
Yes it's pretty crazy the weather there is such a pleasure it's such a high elevation here about 7000 feet.
He just never know what to expect so we need to expected anything and everything that means snow -- even in those summer bring -- a blanket bring along a jacket.
Gloves hats.
-- and and then of course if you're going in the winter you really need to be prepared.
And watching weather forecasts and you can go alone or you also recommend getting these -- tour is led by Rangers.
Yes it's kind of a cool idea there's two different ways to do additional long range -- tourists.
Which are provided by the National Park Service where you're really planning aaron's record itinerary but then you can tag along with some of their adventures like spotted wolves or something like -- On another option with two to go with a tour groups such as the -- -- adventures.
And what they do is they have a full package.
Where they've got -- hotels here meals a tour guide going with you and it's one guy for every six people so it's a pretty intimate -- And also when you're in that type of situation you're doing the back door to a lot of things such as.
The Grand Canyon at the atlas sound they don't take you up -- -- -- for everyone else says.
What I am told is that they go through a back hike to get to it -- and -- people until you're at the end of the -- So it's kind of cool experience that he -- and there or if you really want to instill this in your kids that this is something that is important in the national treasure.
It's kinda way to help.
Take that trip to the next level right you mentioned kids yes how is a lot of hiking and stuff involved though I -- is it is -- kid friendly for younger kids or.
-- the -- party your kids.
I think you can definitely take younger kids in fact this morning it's just looking at -- photos from week we went.
My siblings are probably three and four seasons -- -- -- profit obviously -- curtail the activities to fit what they're gonna do we -- fishing a host an extraneous hike yeah so you just wanna make sure that it's appropriate.
And especially talk with a guide or talk with a range LA tour -- operators now now let's fast break people in your -- Okay never Crandall and again -- this article is on foxnews.com you just don't click on the travel tab and that's one of the articles that you'll find there and of this article will be hosted by the end of today.
And -- -- I'd like to go check out Yellowstone now also a great job.
Sounds like a fun place ahead thanks a lot for joining us and it.
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Crush: Kevin
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Talent: Dancing, Singing, Playing the guitar, piano, drums,novel writing,acting,directing
Biography: Lillian is a 17 year old girl,who just wants to have fun.But what if that becomes impossible?The one guy she is hopelessly in love with doesn't even know she exists.Everyone's afraid of her because of her past.Will they learn that she is as fun and sweet as they come?
Played By: Renesmee Cullen (Clohe Dames)
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Age: 23
Species: Cross Species (Beast)
Crush: Trixy
Power: Super senses & Super strength, Super speed, animal instincts
Talent: Dancing, singing, playing the guitar & drums
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Subject: Drama
Biography: doesn't remember her past
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Biography: She doesnt remember her past since there is a block on her mind.
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Age: 20 (89)
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Crush: Zeria
power: shapeshifting,controling earth, telekinness, mind reading, sheild, stoping time.
talent: dancing, guitar, drums, fighting
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So is Aria playing Andy or not?
Gracelynn: I concentrated on the piano keys, trying not to stare, which was awfully hard.
I'm back how may I jump in?
Any way you want. We had to restart becuase I got grounded from this for like two months, so I remade it and have contacted everyone that it's back on. In a month, if they haven't contacted anyone to let me know about it, then their parts will become reserver or substituted until they come back. If they don't reply with in anothe month, I simply give them away. So they have two months tops.
oh okay
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Age: 117 (17) years old
Species: Vampire-Witch Hybrid
Crush: Edward Cullen
Power: Mind Reading, Shield, Witch Craft
Talent: Dancing, Singing, Playing the guitar, piano, drums.
Biography: She was in hiding with her parents. Her mother a witch, her father a vampire. when the villagers found out about her and her parents, the hunted them down. she escaped but her parents didn't make it. but over the years the knowledge of immortals died down, it was safer for her to travel. she's met a lot of immortals and hybrids but never a hybrid like herself. She's so lost until she finds herself at the Bridgewater academy fro the supernatural.
Played by: DeeDee (Bella Cullen)
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About Confucius' Ta-Hio
In many books about Confucius' Analects, 大學 is transliterated as Ta-Hio.
Why is this? 大學 is dàxué in Pinyin, da hsüeh in Wade-Giles, da sywe in Yale, and daai hok in Cantonese, so where does this ...


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Vomiting The Trinity
Prior to picking this one up, I wasn't familiar with Exterminance at all. But in quick succession, I ended up with two releases by this long-running outfit (if not a particularly prolific or popular one). Unfortunately, of the two I picked up, I listened to this one first, which was almost enough to make me toss out both of them in one fell swoop.
Vomiting The Trinity is a compilation that brings together 1994's The Seven Deadly Sins and nine previously unreleased tracks. Because of the questionable decision to place the unreleased demos at the beginning, Vomiting falls short of making any positive first impressions about the band. Imagine something like early Morbid Angel with weak production and a lack of focused songwriting, and you've pretty much got a good idea of it. Given the odds 'n' ends nature of the release, it's expected that the album doesn't flow terribly well, but why the nine unreleased tracks are up first is baffling. These songs are clearly demos, and they're hampered by an insufferably poor mix--a snare like a tin can, cymbals like sheet metal, guitars bass-heavy and murky. Even if this were kvlt black metal, this rawness wouldn't be acceptable—it simply distracts the listener and packs zero wallop. The whole thing plods along in a sloppy, buzzing rut that makes me want to zone out, walk off, or do anything besides stay involved with the music.
Very little within the first thirty minutes of playing time is compelling, so it's a struggle to even make it to The Seven Deadly Sins tracks that take up the latter half of the album. By that point, if you're still listening, you're treated to a better-sounding record, at least. It's still death metal in that classic vein, with noticeable doses of groove in the riffing and writing. While the band cleans up the production on these recordings--trading in the muddy riffing for a much-improved guitar tone and a more-varied vocal approach--they still aren't addressing that whole "doesn't make much of an impression" issue. There are catchy bits in the title track and "Surrogate For Suffocation," but only "Cemetary Sermon" is a full-fledged song, rather than merely a collection of riffs and ideas. Even with a decent riff here or a good groove there, all of this is still outclassed by better records that you probably already own.
If this was a new band, I'd say something to the effect of, "Keep trying, guys. There's potential, but you definitely need to find something to set you apart from the pack. Do that and get back to me." But this isn't a new band, or even a new record. It's a re-release of a record that was forgotten, with the dubious addition of a set of songs that weren't ever intended for commercial consumption. So if it's not that great, and you're not part of a huge cult fan-base clamoring for Exterminance outtakes, then I can't think of any reason why you should go out of your way to track this down. If you're really in the mood for an overlooked '90s death metal also-ran, then I'd recommend searching out Xtreem Music's re-issue of Morpheus Descends' Ritual Of Infinity before you bother with Vomiting The Trinity.


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[Beowulf] DMA Memory Mapping Question
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On Feb 21, 2007, at 7:45 PM, Chris Samuel wrote: > Hi folks, > > We've got an IBM Power5 cluster running SLES9 and using the GM > drivers. > > We occasionally get users who manage to use up all the DMA memory > that is > addressable by the Myrinet card through the Power5 hypervisor. > > Through various firmware and driver tweaks (thanks to both IBM and > Myrinet) > we've gotten that limit up to almost 1GB and then we use an > undocumented > environment variable (GMPI_MAX_LOCKED_MBYTE) to say only use 248MB > of that > per process (as we've got 4 cores in each box), which we enforce > through > Torque. > > The problems went away. Or at least it did until just now. :-( > > The characterstic error we get is: > > [13]: alloc_failed, not enough memory (Fatal Error) > Context: <(gmpi_init) gmpi_dma_alloc: dma_recv buffers> > > Now Myrinet can handle running out of DMA memory once a process is > running, > but when it starts it must be able to allocate a (fairly trivial) > amount of > DMA memory otherwise you get that fatal error. > > Looking at the node I can confirm that there are only 3 user processes > running, so what I am after is a way of determining how much of > that DMA > memory a process has allocated. > > I looked at /proc/${PID}/maps and saw this: > > 40028000-40029000 r--s 00002000 00:0c \ > 8483 /dev/gm0 > > which to me looks like a memory mapping, but to my eyes that looks > like just > 1,000 bytes.. > > Does anyone have any ideas at all ? Isn't this in hex? If so, it would be 4096 bytes. I do not use GM much and I do not know what this is. I just loaded GM on one node and with no GM processes running except the mapper, I have a similar entry (at a different address, but also 0x1000). I would guess this is to allow GM and the mapper to communicate. I will check internally. > Oh - switching to the Myrinet MX drivers (which doesn't have this > problem) is > not an option, we have an awful lot of users, mostly (non-computer) > scientists, who have their own codes and trying to persuade them to > recompile > would be very hard - which would be necessary as we've not been > able to > convince MPICH-GM to build shared libraries on Linux on Power with > the IBM > compilers. :-( > > cheers, > Chris I am sorry you have not had success with MPICH-GM to compile dynamic libs. Have you sent email to Myricom help? Regards, Scott
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How well do any of us ever really know our fathers? My dad is an easygoing mid-westerner who is always quick to make a joke and still dreams of being a movie star.
Growing up he taught me how to throw a football, ("over the top son" he would say as we played catch for hours) how to parallel park (to this day every time I back into a spot his voice jumps into my head "cut it, cut it, cut it") and that all of a man's hygiene needs can be met with a bar of Ivory Soap (he calls shampoo "a rip off.") I thought I knew my dad pretty well. That is until today.
Today I find myself flying onboard the "Liberty Belle," a restored B-17 World War Two bomber. My dad was a navigator on a B-17 and flew combat missions over Germany during the war. The B-17 carried so many guns, it was dubbed the "Flying Fortress." More than 12,000 of the planes were made during the war. The "Liberty Belle" is one of just 14 still flying today.
The first thing you realize when you climb onboard a B-17 is how vulnerable the crew must have been. The plane is basically a small hollow tube that was packed with ten men and a couple of thousand pounds of bombs.
To keep the plane light enough to fly with such a heavy load, its frame was wrapped in a thin sheet of metal that provided the crew inside zero protection from shrapnel and enemy bullets. Thousands of the slow moving bombers were shot down by German fighter planes and deadly accurate anti-aircraft guns. In today's world, where two soldiers killed by a roadside bomb is front page news, the casualty figures for those flying on these planes is incomprehensible.
Close to 50,000 B-17 crew members lost their lives during World War Two. The planes were not pressurized, and at 25,000 feet, temperatures in the cabin could drop to 50 degrees below zero. The crew wore heated flight suits that rarely worked properly, but that was the least of their worries. At that altitude, they depended on oxygen tanks to survive and with so many bombs and so much gasoline onboard the plane was a ticking time bomb.
Sitting in the plexiglass turret in the nose of the plane where my father sat, I try to imagine what it must of been like for him. There is a little wooden table on the side where my dad would of charted the course for the plane using a ruler and compass.
It is hard to believe now, but before G.P.S., guys like my day actually used mathematical formulas and maps to figure out where they were going. Once he had charted a course, my dad would man a 50. caliber machine gun and wait for the enemy fighters to arrive. I wonder what he must of been thinking as he watched the black puffs of anti-aircraft fire exploding in the clouds around him.
It is something Bob Hill, a volunteer pilot who helped restore the "Liberty Belle," has often wondered about as well. "It really had to be scary even for these young 20 or 21-year-olds who were in the airplane. It had to be absolutely terrifying he says.
I'm sure it was terrifying for my dad, but he has never really talks about it. He did tell me that shrapnel hitting the plane sounded like hard rain hitting a tin roof. But mostly his memories, at least the ones he shares with me, are much more pleasant. How he tilted his cap just so on his uniform to look like a cocky veteran, how he looked forward to the shot of Brandy they gave them when they came back from a 14 hour mission, how the English women loved the officers especially if you were wearing aviator wings, and how when he finally did make it home from the war, he surprised Grandma and she dropped her casserole all over the kitchen floor.
It's not that he didn't see combat. He did. I've seen his fight logs, they saw quite a bit. It's just that like a lot of vets from that generation he prefers not to talk about it. Yet as I grow older, I see more clearly how my dad's experiences in the war shaped him for the rest of his life. I see in him and many from that generation a certain steadfastness in the face of adversity. Unlike other wars, these men had no timetable for a return home. They were in it for the long haul. There goal was to just survive the next mission.
It is a philosophy I would see countless times in my dad over the years when he faced with challenges in his own life. "One more mission son," he told me years ago as he wheeled his IV along, insisting on walking a lap around the entire floor of the hospital just hours after having a surgery for prostate cancer. I remember the look of determination in his eye. I saw it again more recently when my sister was diagnosed with breast cancer.
It is a philosophy I see now as he faces the twilight years of his own life. Sometimes now when we talk, we stumble into an awkward silence. It is a silence that comes from the realization that as much as we would like, there is nothing we can do to stop the passage of time. In those moments, I find myself telling him "One more mission dad," and in some strange way it comforts us both.
The Liberty Belle is getting ready to land and the flight is coming to an end. Before I leave the plexiglass turret and go back to my seat, I try one last time to picture my father. As the landing gear comes down, the plane shudders, and for a second I can see him. He has his oxygen mask strapped tight to his face, and the fur on the collar of his flight suit is frozen from the cold. He is a young man, and though his eyes are wide open, he can not see the wonder that lies ahead.


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Farro Salad With Cucumber and Tomato
Stand out at the next neighborhood cookout or family reunion with this unique whole-grain side dish made with farro. Also known as emmer wheat, farro is an ancient Italian grain with a dense, chewy and nutty flavor that pairs well with an array of in-season vegetables and herbs. A light, refreshing dressing of lemon juice and olive oil keeps it heart-healthy. If you can't find farro, substitute it with wheat berries or barley (not spelt).
Makes about 10 servings (3/4 cup each)
5 cups cooked farro*
1 10-ounce container grape tomatoes, halved lengthwise (about 1 1/2 cups)
1 3/4 cups seeded and diced cucumber
3 tablespoons finely chopped Italian parsley
3 tablespoons finely chopped mint
5 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
2 1/2 teaspoons finely minced lemon zest
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
* 1 cup dry farro yields about 2 1/4 to 2 1/2 cups cooked.
1. Add 6 to 8 cups of water to a large stock pot. Bring it to a boil.
2. Add 2 to 3 cups farro and cook, uncovered, for 30 minutes or until it's al dente. (It will be slightly chewy.)
3. Drain the water from the pot.
4. Combine the farro with all other ingredients in a large bowl and toss to blend.
5. Serve at room temperature or refrigerated.
Nutrition information (per serving)
188 calories
7 g protein
32 g carbohydrates
3.5 g fat (0 g saturated)
0 mg cholesterol
127 mg sodium
112 mg potassium
10 mg calcium
0.3 mg iron
365 IU vitamin A
10 mg vitamin C
4.5 g fiber
Tags: antioxidant-boost , grains , low-sodium , lunch , nutrient-rich , side dish , vegetarian , whole grain
Kim Galeaz is a registered dietitian and owner of Galeaz Food & Nutrition Communications based in Indianapolis. As a culinary-nutrition consultant, writer and spokeswoman for the food, beverage and agriculture industry, Galeaz is passionate about blending great taste with good health in all of her culinary creations.


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London duo D-E-W-L have come up with one of the most interesting songs I've heard in a while. Here's Red Velvet:
There's not that much else in terms of information, but that's ok, as not much else needs to be said. Great song, looking forward to hearing more from these 2.


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Known as the "Godfather of Go-Go," the performer, singer, guitarist and songwriter developed his commanding brand of funk in the mid-1970s to compete with the dominance of disco.
Like a DJ blending records, Mr. Brown used nonstop percussion to stitch songs together and keep the crowd on the dance floor, resulting in marathon performances that went deep into the night. Mr. Brown said the style got its name because "the music just goes and goes."
In addition to being go-go's principal architect, Mr. Brown remained the genre's most charismatic figure. On stage, his spirited call-and-response routines became a hallmark of the music, reinforcing a sense of community that allowed the scene to thrive. As go-go became a point of pride for black Washingtonians, Mr. Brown became one of the city's most recognizable figures.
- Chris Richards, The Washington Post
She became the face and voice of one of the most powerful music and cultural movements in America. As a disco icon, she projected an empowering African American femininity that would influence artists from Grace Jones to Beyonce and Rihanna, and help make her a figurehead of gay club life. As an artist, her music was incalculably influential.
Her singles with Moroder like "I Feel Love" are considered early electronic dance music, now a defining sound of today's top-grossing pop. And she survived the disco backlash of the late 1970s and early '80s to remain one of pop's most pioneering artists, whose legacy can still be heard in Lady Gaga, the Electric Daisy Carnival and countless nightclubs around the world.
- August Brown and Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times
"Go-go is D.C.'s very own unique contribution to the world of pop music, and Chuck Brown was regarded as Go-go's creator and, arguably, its most legendary artist," D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray said in a statement. "Today is a very sad day for music lovers the world over, but especially in the District of Columbia.
"Without Chuck Brown, the world – and our city – will be a different place. What a loss."
Brown always liked to tell the story of how he grew up on the streets of Washington shining shoes, then later ended up in prison. That's where he would say he got his hands on his first guitar, and the go-go revolution was on.
- Sam Ford, WJLA-TV
As well has staggering career highs, Summer also endured personal lows.
She suffered serious depression in the wake of September 11 terrorist attacks in New York.
'I was really freaked out by the horrific experiences of that day,' Summer, who was at her Manhattan apartment during the 2001 attacks, once said.
'I couldn't go out, I didn't want to talk to anybody. I had to keep the blinds down and stay in my bedroom.'
Friends eventually intervened and the born-again Christian also found strength in her faith.
'I went to church, and light came back into my soul,' she said in 2008. 'That heaviness was gone.'
- The Daily Mail
He once called his Redskins halftime performance in 2010 a "dream come true."
"I've always been a die-hard Redskins fan," he said in the press conference announcing the performance. "Through thick and thin, for me it's the Skins."
His son, Nekos, played football for Virginia Tech, and another son, Wiley, will be a fifth-year senior linebacker for the Hokies in the fall.
After hearing of his passing, athletes with ties to D.C. took a moment to pay their respects on Twitter.
- Sarah Kogol, The Washington Post
"Music is part of my life. For my judgment, music is the greatest of all the gifts," Summer told MTV News' John Norris in a rare 1989 interview. "The voice — not my voice, but the voice — to me is the greatest gift. Having a voice. You need no other instrument, all you have to do is sing. Open your mouth, and it's there."
Because her sound was so rooted in the mechanics of disco, with its glittering synths and pulsating beats, some people don't know that the five-time Grammy winner was also an amazingly accomplished vocalist. Her mezzo-soprano voice transcends even the genre she pioneered. Before she became the Queen of Disco, she sang gospel in church and in her early 20s moved to Europe, where she performed in musicals like "Godspell" and "Showboat" and joined the Viennese Folk Opera.
"When I hear other people singing, I think, 'God, it's great, it's a great gift, what a great gift,' " Summer told MTV News. "And probably one of the gifts that people want the most is to be able to sing, and for obvious reasons — it's soothing, it's stimulating, it's encouraging, it's sad, it covers every spectrum of emotion."
- John Mitchell, MTV News
"I went to see him in D.C. one time," [George] Clinton reminisced back in '94. "He knew that I was in the audience, so he played 'Up For The Down Stroke' and just crushed it. Then, on top of it, when he got to the bridge, he held it for like 20 minutes. I was like, 'Damn, this man just got up in my face and killed me with my own song. That go-go is deadly.'"
- From The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop, by Kip Lornell and Charles C. Stephenson Jr.
But, I wonder, given Donna's disco-derived image, doesn't she feel she's been manipulated too?
"Constantly," she says, tilting her head in a little-girl-share-a-secret pose. "And it can be pretty frightening when you realize you're a part of the machine. But you can always change that. In the beginning it was like being a commodity. The image and the person got characterized as one and the same, and I was saying, 'No, wait. There's more to me than meets the eye – maybe twenty pounds more.' By the time of Spring Affair [1976], it was enough. I couldn't go on singing those soft songs. I've sung gospel and Broadway musicals all my life and you have to have a belting voice for that. And because my skin is black they categorize me as a black act, which is not the truth. I'm not even a soul singer. I'm more a pop singer."
- Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 1978
She was, in short, an honorary New Yorker. Which I imagine is how hundreds of born-and-bred New Yorkers unconsciously regard the news today of her untimely death at age 63 from (reportedly) lung cancer. Regardless of where her upbringing and musical training had taken her — a childhood and adolescence singing in churches in Dorchester, salad days in Germany in the musical Hair before she met her Berlin-based studio collaborator Giorgio Moroder — Donna, to the end, belonged to all of us: outerborough ethnics; Manhattan velvet-rope aesthetes (and those who pretended); the gay, black and Latino communities.
Of course, if you're reading this in Detroit or Las Vegas or Minneapolis or Atlanta or Los Angeles or London, Donna spoke to you, too. Considering her lifelong association with a communal, hedonistic pop-culture moment, it's remarkable when one plays back her oeuvre how intimate, almost solitary her great works really were. Call her the Wanderer, for her ability to stretch, adapt and transmogrify dance music until it embraced everyone and everything.
- Chris Molanphy, The Village Voice
Indirectly, his legacy has also influenced songs like Jay-Z's "Do It Again" (sampling Go-Go band Rare Essence's "Overnight Scenario," and who were also featured on the remix of Ludacris's "Pimpin' All Over"); Wale's "Pretty Girls (sampling Backyard Band's "Girls"); and the appearance of Go-Go band E.U. in Spike Lee's "School Daze" movie (their song, "Da Butt" topped Billboard's R&B chart).
However, the union between Hip-Hop and Go-Go was not just about sampling (Go-go bands also famously sample Hip-Hop). Brown's 2007 song, "Block Party" featured DJ Kool.
In 2010, his single "Love" featuring Jill Scott and Marcus Miller, earned him his first Grammy Award nomination (for Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals).
An impromptu vigil was held in Washington, DC Wednesday night on a street recently renamed "Chuck Brown Way."
- Sia Barnes, The Source
Summer remained a force on the Billboard Dance/Club Play Songs chart all through her career, fitting, for the Queen of Disco. She notched 14 No. 1s on the chart – all the way up through her most recent hit, 2010′s "To Paris With Love." Her last studio album, 2008′s "Crayons," spun off three No. 1 Dance/Club hits with "I'm a Fire," "Stamp Your Feet" and "Fame (The Game)."
On the Billboard 200 albums chart, she claimed three back-to-back No. 1 albums between 1978 and 1980 with "Live and More," "Bad Girls" and "One the Radio – Greatest Hits Volumes I & II." She collected further top 20 albums with 1980′s "The Wanderer" (No. 13), 1982′s self-titled set (No. 20), 1983′s "She Works Hard for the Money" (No. 9) and "Crayons" (No. 17).
Summer won five Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards and was the first African American woman to be nominated for an MTV Video Music Award, for "She Works Hard for the Money."
"I don't know if I could say I'd forseen how long this music would last," she told Billboard. "I think all performers would love to see there's no generation gap in music. People still listen to my songs on the radio. DJs still spin them in the club. You just hope that the music you make will still be around and have a second life, a third life, a fourth life. I mean, look at the Beatles. Come on!"
- Billboard Magazine
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a set of 16 progressive sewing brushes
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