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Ross Kemp In Afghanistan details
Format: | 15 DVD |
Starring: | Ross Kemp |
Genres: | Documentary, Television |
Studio: | 2 ENTERTAIN VIDEO |
Name | Discs | |
Ross Kemp In Afghanistan - Disc 1 |
15 Disc 1 | |
Ross Kemp In Afghanistan - Disc 2 |
15 Disc 2 |
DVD Information
Run time: | 3 hours 3 minutes |
Rental release: | 07 Apr 2008 |
Main languages: | English |
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By SoUtHeNdUniTeD (10 reviews) from Holywell , 03 Apr 2008[Highly rated reviewer]
This was a fantastic TV program. I don't usually bother with these types of programs but this really gave a good insight to what our soldiers and there family's have to go through everyday.
Ross Kemp is awesome as always and if you like Ross Kemp on gangs you will simply love this.
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By Sickbullet (4 reviews) from Oldham , 10 Aug 2011Forget your War Movies, Real life at Afghanistan with Ross Kemp at the Front Line being shot at bombed at with his Camera man filming everything its just utter brilliant.- Was this review helpful to you?
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By redevil08 (36 reviews) from Lancing , 15 Oct 2010Brillant actor on british tv,he has more guts then anyone to do what he does just for us to watch,i am ready to watch the return to afgan.- Was this review helpful to you?
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By a customer from Norfolk , 14 Feb 2010Ross Kemp shows just how dangerous it is for our lads in Afghanistan. It's certainly an eye opener and just proves what our soldiers go through and how brave they are. A must see- Was this review helpful to you?
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By simes (241 reviews) from near Gloucester , 15 Dec 2009Another brilliant Ross Kemp DVD, this man is a star, very brave and a brilliant maker of documentaries.
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Watch: 3-D Printed Assault Rifle Breaks After Just 6 Shots
Wiki Weapons Project conducted its first live test, and the partially printed AR-15 fell apart fast.
A field test of a 3-D printed assault rifle ended quickly over the weekend, with the printed plastic parts breaking apart after six rounds. It was the first live test of the printed AR-15 assault rifle, the Wiki Weapons Project's target for the first blueprint of a fully 3-D printed gun. There are still plenty of improvements to make before the team will recommend assembly, as the test shows.
The Wiki Weapons Project aims to create a working blueprint for a 3-D printed gun and distribute the digital design file online for free. The legal implications are cloudy at best (we reviewed some of them here). But whatever you think of the project, it's well on its way to producing a workable firearm.
In this case, only part of the gun was manufactured with a 3-D printer--just the lower receiver, which is the trigger and handgrip. The rest of the rifle was put together with off-the-shelf parts, according to the Wiki Weapons Project's blog. The result was a sleek rifle with a DayGlo midsection.
There you saw Cody Wilson, who heads the project, test-fire one round to see if it worked, and then hand the weapon to another member of his group, who only unloaded five rounds before the gun fell apart. The magazine had 10 rounds.
The team thinks the problem was recoil, which caused the plastic to become unhinged. The threads connecting the receiver to the stock worked just fine--the o-ring just snapped. The group explains further in their blog post.
The WikiWep team writes that they have several improvement ideas in store, but final exams (Wilson is a law-school student) and the holidays might put a damper on their progress. Read more about the recent test over at Danger Room.
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Law student or not, I still feel like this is a misguided redneck with too much money and free time. I have no issue with people owning guns, but being able to print out most (if not all, which is where this is trying to go) of an untracable gun is a capability I'm not sure we need.
Why do I feel like he is going to start a firm specializing in gun law for this new market/problem he is creating. Kind of clever I guess.
@phoenixamaranth - He's trying to get this year's Darwin Award. I was thinking the same thing you were. You have to be pretty stupid to test fire an unproven weapon without lab testing under controlled conditions. I was hoping it was going to explode in his face. :/ Ah well...
In space, no one can hear a tree fall in the forest.
@People above this
He shot the gun because he BOUGHT the rest of the parts... These parts have been proven in every other weapon and are made of metal. The chance of a misfire that would actually hurt someone is very low, if it did misfire it wouldn't have even set off the cartridge. The parts that they produced are not integral to the trajectory of the bullet.
Why not just print out directions on how to make nuke why stop with simple 3D weapons?
This is stupid Popular Science and I don't agree with your reasoning to flaunt national gun laws making it illegal to make your own weapons without a license, etc.
The Government should intervene here.
One of the problems obviously is, that a part that had originally been designed in metal was now made out of a rather weak plastic. If one started from scratch and designed the gun with weak plastic in mind, it might look a lot different.
In due course better materials and designs will be developed.If a process can be developed that for example would incorporate glass, metal or carbon fiber in the plastic, the materials printed could have much better characteristics. From a purely technical point of view the result is encouraging.
@african rover, i think you're more right than anyone here, if i was to design that catch and handle grip for plastics instead of metal it would have more of a bubble like shape and maybe add in some arch patterns to save on material. the over all bubble shape of it would increase the strength of the part, the trusses and arches would allow the same amount of strength but with less material. all in all it's going to be bulkier by far and you'd be lucky if it weighed the same as the normal component, the attractive part of this build though is, as always, that it was built not in a factory but in a house, at home, in a place outside of the government's eye. we need to step away from the government as a means to keep us in line and re-examine the absent social contracts that SHOULD be in place to keep us from Killing each other even when there's no higher authority.
being able to produce you're own means of defense is very important even though it won't help in a home robbery, it won't help in a hold up, it won't even keep your house from being robbed. owning guns isn't an insurance policy against criminals and people who would think they could take your life, it's an insurance policy against our own governments.
As V from V for Vendetta said: "...governments should be afraid of their people."
to mars or bust!
@haywall, while you are correct that the chances are low of him having a catastrophic misfire since he only printed the lower receiver, there was still the possibility of fluke failure. Murphy's law still holds true and, I for one, would not have fired that weapon until it was test fired for safety.
As for those who are upset about this, remember that a standard lower receiver is usually forged or cast aluminum which is pretty easy to do at home. It's up to the individual to decide to obey the already standing laws.
@Gizmowiz, it actually isn't illegal to make your own gun, as long as it isn't rifled and you aren;t selling them out of the trunk of your car the police couldn't literally care less.
however if you read the article you'd understand that the gun IS actually registered, seeing as he BOUGHT the trigger mechanism, the barrel, and the bolt, including the clip/magazine and ammunition. each of these have a serial number which is catalogued and stored in the same bloody databases that normal guns are entered into.
in fact having a law against homemade firearms would be IMPOSSIBLE to enforce because it's impossible to tell when anyone is doing it, and you would need a warrant to search for it in the first place. the 2012 patriot act may mean the government doesn't need to say it's sorry but i doubt they are going to use it on everyone who puts a shotgun shell in a pipe and hits it with a hammer.
to mars or bust!
As for the tech involved, polymer lower receivers are already on the market and work quite well. This is just about being able to reproduce that same setup with a lower temperature plastic. I think it will be quite doable. With a little materials research, they should be able to increase the structural integrity of a printed piece. Shapeways already has come up with several composites for 3d printing and can print in aluminum and a steel/bronze mix.
It is perfectly legal to manufacture a firearm according to batf as long as you are legally allowed to own a firearm, no felons, etc...
The only serialized part on a ar-15 is the lower receiver so no, there is no database of homemade weapons. Rifled barrels are also ok as long as the homemade firearm is in the style of a common firearm.
Check eBay for "80% ar lowers". My question is why do you call it an assault rifle? An ar-15 is essentially a ruger 10/22 with a larger cartridge.
First, Popsci needs to hire someone who has actually used a firearm to write these articles for them.
(1) The only part of a gun that IS the firearm is the reciever. In split reciever guns, it is the lower reciever. That is why the printed part is the lower reciever (they also printed a pistol grip - but that was just extra printing).
(2) Every part other than the lower reciever can be purchased online by anyone (even felons) completely within the rule of law (Commiefornia and New Yorkistan do have a 10 round magazine cap, since they have laws against standard capacity magazines, requiring undercapacity mags in those states).
(3) Lower recievers are usually milled out from aircraft grade aluminium blocks and can be made on the same machines and materials as custom hubcaps are (rims). This is completely legal, so long as you never sell or give the reciever away. If you do wish to sell it, all you have to do is give it a unique number and record who you sell it to. You can also purchase a lower that is ALMOST finished, and with a press drill and pattern complete it to have your own, unregistered, unnummbered, and TOTALLY LEGAL firearm.
(4) The reason the lower reciever can be plastic is because the propellent burned (improperly called explosion by many instead of expansion) is in the upper reciever / barrel / bolt. This means the lower reciever does not experience much heat - only force from the recoil and movement of the bolt. A true composite lower would likely have held up (many handguns have composite lowers).
(5) This is NOT an "assault rifle." AR stands for Armalite, the company who originally designed the Armalite Platform #15 (AR15). It is a semi-automatic firearm. To be an assault rifle, it would need to be select fire (capable of fully automatic or multi-shot burst fire). If you see the words "assault weapon," then you are seeing a fictional combination of words that refers to nothing. It would be like calling a stroller an assault stroller because you could use it to fling a baby at someone.
(6) Even if capable of full auto, this firearm would still be legal to make if you purchased a tax stamp from BATF and registered it. Unfortunately, BATF won't sell you the stamp, making it functionally illegal (much like owning a car would be if you owed property tax on it but the county refused to take your tax money making it impossible to pay the owed tax and thus illegal). BATF does regularly sell these stamps, but only to government agencies and politicians. So, if you want to have a full auto you can pay a ton for an old one that was grandfathered in, you can become a senetor and ask for a stamp to be granted so you can buy a new one "for your bodyguard" or some other BS, or you can break the law.
(7) For the $30,000 of a good printer I could purchase over 30 good AR15s, a dozen 30round mags each, and the ammo to fill them all at any Walmart, or I could purchase a milling machine and make all the lower recievers I could ever desire. 3K and a ffl license later and you can sell them (most stripped lowers go for $150-200 these days).
(8) Anyone looking to commit crimes with a gun can purchase one illegally easily enough - it isn't like the criminal world is hard up for firearms. It is in the law abiding community that gun laws are obeyed and shortages occur.
(9) Considering that the SCOTUS just ruled that the government can compell you to buy anything, so long as all they do is tax you if you don't (actually, so long as they tax everyone and then exempt those from the tax who purchase what they want), what the government should do is compel every citizen to purchase, own, and maintain a shotgun, a handgun, a high powered rifle with optics, a .22LR firearm, and a semiautomatic modern sporting rifle (AR, AK, FAL, etc) with sufficient ammo for each.
When every person is in possession of a full assortment of firearms, when the use of those arms is standard ciriculum in the public schools, and once the select handful of genetic misfits and antisocials have Darwined themselves out of the world - then we will have a peaceful, polite, and free society.
D13 - would you comment so snidely on what I said if you were in the same room with me? How about if you were in the same room as me and I had on a sidearm?
An armed society is a polite society.
It would not stop all crime, but it would certainly decrease it, because in an armed society the cost of entering crime is so much higher. Your average street thug is a coward at heart, because he is motivated only by selfishness. When everyone is armed, theft does not provide "easy money" and so only those who are willing to work for their crimes continue to commit them.
So, Picaso thefts would stay the same while muggings, rapes, and assaults would decrease.
Compare the murder rates of cities to see which ones have the highest rates - they are usually the most disarmed. Chicago? Have their gun restrictions made the streets safe?
Gun control only works if you can get ALL the guns (which means it will never work in the US). If you have guns, criminals will get them (illegal purchase, theft, etc). Therefore, in the US, the only logical solution to gun violence is to put guns in the hands of as many non-criminals as you can.
# of mass shootings at gun shows, shooting competitions, or NRA meetings? 0
# of mass shootings at schools, government buildings, or theaters where carrying guns is not permitted? many
Under federal regulation, you can and are allowed to make a homemade gun. you have to follow the regulations set for pistols, shotguns, and rifles. If you are wanting to build an NFA item, you can request permisson from ATF to do such. Once it is built, you will have to go through the tax process like any other weapon.
However, to note, once you have built a homemade firearm, you can not transfer and/or sell it. That would be a violation of tax code and you will be subject to criminal prosecution.
making it illegal to build your own guns is totally impractical and virtually unenforceable. you'd never know someone had an improvised weapon unless you either illegally searched them, or found it on them while investigating a different crime. and since US law treats the lower of the gun as the registered "firearm" regardless of the upper used with it, this is all entirely legal.


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Alok's post on the Formula of Success inspired me to pen-down a Formula that I have been following myself for a couple of years now, on how to estimate if a Services Quotation is Fair or Inflated.. I hope it comes handy to my fellow Rodinhooders too..
An Entrepreneur is often faced with a situation where he / she has to avail the services of an External Agency to execute a certain part of the Project.. And more often than not, an Entrepreneur is also faced with the dilemma of deciding if a Quotation that they have been offered is actually Fair or should it be further negotiated or should they find some other Vendor and will that impact the quality of Service and so on..
I have devised a formula that gives a rough idea on whether the quote is Fair enough.. The formula is,
Q = (MH x CH) x (PM x CL)
Q = Quotation
MH = Man Hours required to execute the Job (part of a Service Contract)
CH = Cost per Hour (one can research this on Elance.com for the Task concerned)
PM = Profit Margin
CL = Clients
Profit Margin Factor
- 1.25 for Companies who have been in business for 1 to 3 years.
- 1.75 for Companies who have been in business for 4 to 6 years.
- 2.50 for Companies who have been in business for 7 to 9 years.
- 3.50 for Companies who have been in business for 10 & above years.
Clients Factor
- 0.70 for relatively Unknown Clients like ABCD & Company, XYZ Corporation etc..
- 0.90 for relatively Known Clients like Meru Cabs, Zomato, Burrp etc..
- 1.10 for Large Clients like Flipkart, MakeMyTrip, Games2Win etc..
- 1.30 for Giant Clients like Pepsi, Infosys, Tata etc..
(You can use the names of Client companies that apply to your Sector)
To explain it, lets take the example of Software Development.. Suppose you want to get a website designed by a Web Development Company and following is the Data available,
MH = 200 hours
CH = $15 per hour
PM = 1.75 (supposing the Company has been in business for 4 to 6 years)
CL = 1.10 (supposing they have provided their services to Games2Win)
Q = (200 x $15) x (1.75 x 1.10) == ($3000 x 1.925)
Q = $5775 or INR 3,21,263
On the contrary, if we change the PM to 2.50 (for a 7 to 9 year old company) and the CL to 1.30 (having serviced Giant Clients), the equation would become as follows,
Q = (200 x $15) x (2.50 x 1.30) == ($3000 x 3.25)
Q = $9750 or INR 5,42,295 for the same Task..
I would love to hear any Comments / Inputs that anybody would have on the same..
Vijay the algo is fine as far as it goes but in my observation real world pricing is more a function of demand and supply and quality. For example if you hire a generic web development company that charges $15/hour and they give you a quote of 200 hours for the job, you could shop around and find one that does it for $13 for the same level of quality or you could press them on the point. But if you go to a boutique firm with coder ninjas they might charge you $50/hr but deliver it in 100 hours.
Also, there is no "fair" or "inflated" pricing. The pricing is what the market will bear. What you need to decide is whether you are dealing with a guy who will deliver an acceptable level of quality within a time frame that will work for you. I remember from my working stiff days we used to partner with Polaris (the software company) on some projects. The Polaris logo was designed at the cost of a few lakhs and they had a 50 odd page document that described the logo in detail. Things like the exact shade of yellow to use, the typography, and what not. Crazy!
It all depends on how much money you have to blow.
I'd say find the best provider for the work you need done and then negotiate the hell out with them. It's all about relationships. Alok has a piece on negotiation somewhere, you could use some of those tactics.
I have the other problem, I negotiate too hard on quality and I scare 'em away. :)
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What are the political and social consequences?
A continuation of these trends will place ever greater burdens on the working young who must support their elderly kin, as well as on government-run pension and health-care systems. China's great "demographic dividend" (a rising share of working-age adults) is almost over. Other countries are also aging and have far lower birth rates. But China is the first to face the issue before it has developed - and the shift is two to three times as fast. China can help deal with increased costs by raising its retirement age; at present, only about a fifth of urban women are still working at 55. Improving education should also raise productivity. Some experts believe such measures will be enough to wipe out the "demographic debt."
1. 4-2-1 phenomenon: In the traditional Chinese family, children, especially sons, look after their parents. But rapid aging also means China faces what is called the "4-2-1 phenomenon": each only child is responsible for two parents and four grandparents. Even with high savings rates, it seems unlikely that the younger generation will be able or willing to afford such a burden. So most elderly Chinese will be obliged to rely heavily on social-security pensions.
2. Pension Problems: At this rate, China will have a bulge of pensioners before it has developed the means of looking after them. Unlike its counterparts in the developed world, China will grow old before it gets rich. Now, 8.2% of China's total population is over 65 (vs. 13% in America). By 2050, China's share will be 26%, higher than in America. In 2000, China set up a national pensions fund, which is in crisis. Only about 365m people have a formal pension. Also, the country's unfunded pension liability is around 150% of GDP. Almost half the (separate) pension funds run by provinces are in the red, and local governments have sometimes reneged on payments.
3. Shrinking Workforce: China's workforce will shrink by 11 percentage points, from 72% to 61% between 2010 and 2050. This implies a huge contraction, even after taking the fact that the current workforce share is exceptionally large. This would be followed by soaring old age dependency ratio. Currently it stands at 11, roughly half America's level of 20. But by 2050, China's old-age ratio will have risen 4x to 42, surpassing America's. Even more strikingly, by 2050, the number of people coming towards the end of their working lives (i.e., those in their 50s) will have risen by more than 10%. The number of those just setting out (those in their early 20s, who are usually the best educated and most productive members of society) will have halved.
Source: UN, 2009.
What makes China's problem unique?
China's problems are similar to those of its counterparts in the rich Western countries which are facing rising pensions. However China has the added advantage of dealing with them in 2 ways - 1) current low tax rates offer more room for future increases to meet the rising financial commitments, and 2) low expectations of public welfare from its citizens. China is also unusual in 2 aspects - 1) it is much poorer than other aging countries, and 2) its demographic transition has been much more abrupt.
What do these consequences imply?
1. End of cheap labor and seal China's fate as the world's factory: This phenomenon would mark the end of cheap labor. It should also be noted that China faces a shortage of manual workers, despite having pools of underemployed country-dwellers. According to a study conducted by Sarah Harper of the Oxford Institute of Population Aging, China already has a strategy in place mapping the age structure of its jobs, and for which occupation, when the skills shortage will hit. She also points out the chances of becoming a future magnet for attracting world skills and estimates that by 2030 the brain drain will reverse, moving from the U.S. to China.
2. Immigration problems: China can take a page from America's book, one of the rare examples of a country that has managed to use mass immigration to build a skilled labor force. But it should be noted that America is an open, multi-ethnic society with a long history of immigration and strong legal and political institutions, which China totally lacks.
Investment options: I believe the increase in the aging population could be one of the key growth drivers for the global healthcare, medical devices and pharmaceutical companies in the next 5-10 years. Investing in health care ETFs like Dow Jones U.S. Healthcare Sector Index Fund (IYH) can provide good exposure to this trend. The top 50 holdings of the fund include:
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Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) | 11.3 | St Jude Medical Inc (STJ) | 0.8 | |
Pfizer Inc (PFE) | 11.0 | Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc (VRTX) | 0.8 | |
Merck & Co. Inc. (MRK) | 7.7 | Zimmer Holdings Inc (ZMH) | 0.7 | |
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Pakistan Earthquake: MSF Relief OperationsDecember 22, 2005
Medical assistance:In Bagh and Mansehra, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières ( MSF) supports district hospitalsdisrupted by the earthquake. Two MSF field hospitals focus on surgery, emergencies and intensive care, enabling other departments of the district hospitals (such as pediatrics and maternity) to start functioning again.MSF teams are providing primary health care in areas where Pakistani health facilities were severely damaged, and are following up on the situation in tented settlements where survivors have gathered. MSF teams carry out an average of one thousand consultations every day in 10 permanent sites. The teams are discovering that poor living conditions—rather than the earthquake itself—are causing increasing numbers of pathologies.To avoid possible outbreaks of disease, MSF is vaccinating children against measles and polio, and the wounded against tetanus. The organization also continues to provide mental health supportto traumatized victims.MSF is also improving hygiene conditions in settlements housing internally displaced people (IDP), and the water supply in several additional locations. Distribution of relief goods (non-food items):
MSF has now completed the distribution of 11,930family tents,14,445construction kits—including iron sheets, plastic sheeting and construction tools (see sidebar)—and158,629blanketsto earthquake survivors in remote areas of Pakistan-administered Kashmir and in the country's North West Frontier Province. Relief items such ascooking kits(16,563) andhygiene kits(42,576) have also been distributed. Distributions will continue over the coming weeks in order to ensure that families have adequate shelter through winter.Staff and material:Today, 116 international staff, including doctors, nurses, surgeons, psychologists, social workers, logisticians, and water-and-sanitation experts, are working together with over450 local staffin MSF's earthquake relief operations in Pakistan.The organization has already brought more than 1,115 tons of relief goodsinto Pakistan including medical items (emergency medical kits, drugs, surgical material, dressings, plaster, dialysis machines, high-protein food, oral rehydration solution etc.), logistical material (especially water and sanitation material such as tanks, pumps and water treatment units) and shelter (tents, blankets and sleeping mats). Additional relief items, such as hygiene, cooking, and construction kits, are being purchased locally.DETAILS OF THE OPERATIONS IN PAKISTANMedical assistance:Bagh district (452,531 inhabitants): In Bagh town,MSF has set up a tented medical facility outside the compound of the collapsed district hospital. MSF's structure, made of 25 tents, includes an operating room, laboratory, delivery room, intensive care unit, emergency room, and an approximately 40-bed inpatient department. MSF's primary activity in the hospital is inpatient nursing care; a nurse-led triage system has been set up to accelerate patient processing and to save time for doctors. MSF has agreed with Pakistan's Ministry of Health to set up as soon as possible a more permanent 60-bed capacity hospital, made up of containers.Health centers are working well, and are receiving fewer cases of scabiesandskin infectionsthanks to efficient interventions.Permanent outpatient facilities are operating in Bagh town, Bir Pani, Mallot Chikhar and Bheidi.Between 100 and 200 consultations are carried out every day in each of these locations. In Chikar and Mallot, MSF medical teams are conducting outreach work to improve access to medical care for these isolated communities.Muzaffarabad district (894, 364 inhabitants): MSF has set up permanent outpatient facilities for consultations, vaccinations and referrals in the villages of Saidpur, Hattian, Lamnian,andChakmukam(near Leepa). Teams travel to the surrounding settlements by foot or by car.In each of these locations, 50 to 150 consultations are carried out every day.Mobile clinic are now operating in Charakpura,Therian,JhandgranandTimi Bhana,and a permanent clinic is operating in one of the IDP sites ofMuzaffarabad town; a mobile team follows up the situation in other settlements of the city. A pediatric ward has been opened in Hattian, and a permanent clinic is functioning in one of the IDP settlements of the locality. A mobile medical team also performs outreach activities by car in the environs of Muzaffarabad. Rapid transport in Muzaffarabad district is facilitated by the use of two MSF helicopters.Mansehra (1,361,032): OverviewThe MSF team in Mansehra continues to provide care for patients injured by the earthquake. Many were operated upon in poor conditions with little or no post-operative care, leading to infections and requiring additional surgery. Of these patients, 80 are currently hospitalized in the MSF field hospital set up over one month ago for trauma patients. MSF is also identifying patients residing in camps around Mansehra, Balakot, Atar Sheesha, and Gari Habibullah, in order to transfer those requiring further care. Teams are also distributing relief items to the displaced population. Medical villageshave been created in Mansehra town to discharge patients no longer in need of hospitalization but who still require regular follow up.Field hospital set up for surgery, emergencies and in-patient facilities
The field hospital, composed of nine inflatable tents,serves as the main orthopedic referral center for the wounded in Mansehra district. The hospital houses four operating rooms, an intensive care unit, and an emergency room. There are also five wards with a 120-bed capacity.The MSF surgical team, together with Pakistani hospital staff, carries out an average of 14 interventions per day, 70% of them related to earthquake-associated wounds. Between November 24 and December10, 251 surgical interventions were conducted on earthquake survivors, of which 159 were major orthopedic operations. The teams are also working in the new intensive care unit and the emergency room. An MSF physiotherapist, together with a team of Pakistani volunteers, carries out rehabilitative care for post-operative patients. A total of 750 patients are currently receiving physiotherapy treatment in the hospital and medical villages. An MSF psychologist team carries out support for traumatized earthquake victims. Additionally, a temporary outpatient department for the district hospital has been established, as well as a laundry room. MSF has also begun restoring the x-ray room and the internal medical wards of the district hospital. Patients are now being admitted into the gynecological-obstetric wards and the pediatric ward of the district hospital. These wards had not been functional since the earthquake as a result of overcrowding by wounded patients. Medical villages to discharge patients In association with local organizations, MSF has begun installing medical villages in Mansehra town, each with the capacity to accommodate 25 families. Patients from Mansehra hospital no longer requiring hospitalization, but who cannot yet return home, are transferred to the villages. MSF provides the tents, water and sanitation equipment, as well as blankets, hygiene kits and cooking sets. Patients who decide to return home are provided with relief kits consisting of tents, blankets, cooking sets, and hygiene sets. An MSF physiotherapist, psychologist, and doctor conduct follow-up consultations with patients.Transfer of patients and distribution of relief items in makeshift camps Approximately 100,000 people who have lost their homes and have traveled down from mountainous areas are settled in hundreds of camps around Mansehra, Balakot , Atar Sheesha and Gary Habibulah. The camps, with varying living conditions, range in size from 25 to 5,000 people. MSF is distributing relief items based on identified need. As of December 26, kerosene heaters will be distributed to 12,000 families to help them cope during the winter months. Patients in need of specialized orthopedic care are being transferred to the MSF hospital in Mansehra. In the past ten days 111 patients have been identified for transfer. Mental health support:MSF continues to provide mental health care to hundreds of traumatized victims in Muzaffarabad, Mansehra and Baghdistricts. The main conditions are psychosomatic symptoms, sleeping problems, body pains due to stress, intrusive sounds and images (from the earthquake), and grief.
Distribution of relief goods:MSF is currently distributing family tents, plastic sheeting, construction kits, blankets and hygiene and cooking kits to thousands of affected people in Bagh, Muzaffarabad, Mansehradistricts:
Water and sanitation and hygiene promotion:MSF's approach combines hygiene promotion with water and sanitation work. Special attention is given to women and children by promoting safe excreta disposal, regular hand washing, and awareness of infectious diseases. In Muzaffarabad, MSF is following up closely on hygiene conditions in several IDP sites. Water bladders have been set up,900 latrinesinstalled, and hundreds of hygiene kits distributed in ten tented settlements. MSF is also supporting two water-truck points with chlorination capabilities. Additionally, 19 hygiene promoters have been trained and are operating in eleven camps inMuzaffarabad. So far, they have carried out visits to 2,838 tents, reaching 13,400 individuals. Activities include a "cleanliness drive," with prizes for children who collect garbage, and bucket distributions for poor flush latrines.In Hattian, MSF ensures water supply to the hospital and performs water and sanitation activities for the town. MSF has also set up water supply and sanitation facilities for Bagh and Mansehra district hospitals. Several water supply ramps have been installed in Bagh townand water and sanitation facilities have been established in the town's IDP sites and in many villages and camps aroundBagh,Mallot,Bir Pani, andChikar. MSF is also supervising operations in those localities to repair water supply systems. MSF has installed more than 380 latrines for an estimated population of 12,000. Tags: Pakistan, Natural Disaster |


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Q: I read your column on prostate cancer. I was surprised that you didn't discuss the PSA test. My doctor has used this method many times when testing my blood. I've heard that, for some people, this isn't a very accurate test. I am 75. Should I stop having the tests?
A: PSA testing is one of the biggest controversies in medicine. The data show that prostate-specific antigen testing leads to small (or even no) gains in life expectancy and often to a worsening quality of life because of the treatment for prostate cancer.
Prostate cancer found by PSA testing is usually not the type of cancer that spreads to bones throughout the body. Aggressive prostate cancers are hard to find using PSA testing because they spread quickly. Even yearly PSA tests might be too late to cure the cancer through surgery.
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The couch was from Costco and was also a light mocha brown. We loved it, it was a great price, and the microfiber cleaned so well with two young kids in the house. But we decided that it was barely big enough for the 4 of us, and it definitely didn't seat many guests in addition to our family. The chaise-end lacking a back really made for lost seating. But it got us by for 2 and a half years and supported our butts while we thought about the couch we really wanted.
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To ruin our search rankings... ;)
Actually, we were 'changing' our name/URL from 'E-consultancy' to 'Econsultancy' so were effectively changing the domain, URLs, logos etc. anyway so thought we would also drop the 'www' while we were at it.
Only two reasons for this really: firstly, to make our URLs shorter, secondly it seemed like this might be the way websites were going. Though not entirely convinced the latter point is necessarily the case.
Actually, the whole 'http://', 'www' and so on gubbins will become increasingly meaningless I think. Users don't care what protocol is being used, nor do they want to have to care about sub-domains, country extensions and so on. Already browsers are pretty good at dealing with people leaving out all this extra stuff. Indeed Chrome, via its search-in-the-URL-bar feature, means you can pretty much just bung in the company name. Mobile phones too are getting better as this sort of thing - you don't need to know URLs, you just use 'apps'.
I might ask Mike Grehan to chip in with his "Http/html/SEO is dead" if you really want to broaden this debate...!
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Because... and it is a big BECAUSE... we had such a great night in New York on Tuesday... I'll take the bait :-)
But here's the thing... I'm not commenting on the http and search have reached the end until people read the paper I wrote and "get it."
I'm not joining a thread where anyone like the nitwit blogger of yours who commented on my ClickZ column without reading the papers I referenced and without reading my own (in fact, he didn't even read the column properly).
I have a good debate going, a great conversation with people in the US who "get it" in fact. So it would be nice, if you force me to join a thread (when you know how much I hate forums), to have people who see both sides. Not people who still dress like Prince, brag about their keyword density analyzer and simply orgasm over ranking reports. 1999 came and went – get over it.
So, download my paper. It's a thought paper and it's all about starting a solid, healthy discussion about the future of search.
And thanks again for dinner. You should come to New York more often!
thanks for the info ashley. i'm sure you're right - that users don't care about it. but my personal opinion is that users have become so used to it that they automatically use it when typing a web address.
i think dropping it can cause minor problems though. for instance, i rely on firefox to complete addresses for me and, recently, i couldn't remember the name of a site i use. i just remembered that it started with the word 'trust'. so i typed in 'www.trust' to see what firefox suggested. however, it didn't suggest the site i wanted because they have also dropped the 'www'. the site was trustedplaces.com.
this is a very minor problem but, if there are no really compelling reasons to drop it, i think i'm going to just stick with the status quo. as they say, 'if it ain't broke ...'.


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So I check out how the VCAs are doing and see I made the final group for Most Helpful. Of course I start laughing my ass off. I'm not talking about a mild chuckle here, I'm talking a long loud laugh that lasts for a good solid minute or two and leaves me gasping for breath and seeing red spots before my eyes. I also, as it happens, laughed so hard I pissed myself. So I get up and go to the bathroom to clean myself off. I swear I didn't know my cat was in the bathroom at the time, not till I stepped on his tail at least. So the cat goes insane and starts running around the bathroom yowling in pain and this sets me off laughing again. Of all the times to see what I was up to my wife choose this one. She opened the door and saw me with my pants around my ankles and wet stuff dripping off my dick while I'm laughing like a maniac and the cat is running around screaming it's head off in pain. So anyway, long story short, now the SPCA is taking me to court. When I'm sitting in jail waiting for Bubba to look at me and say 'So you like AMVs? Wanna recreate the end of Date Rape?' I will blame each and every one of you that voted for me. Thanks, I appreciate it. So much so that I made another stupid self-pimping poster.
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I'm a very helpful person. Few people in history have been as helpful as I am. There is, in all honesty, absolutely no end to my helpfulness. People often gather together in large crowds to discuss how helpful I've been. I've been given helpfulness awards, the cub scouts gave me my helpful merit badge, and a small country in South America has awarded me several helpful medals of honor. Granted I don't have them here with me. I keep my medals and awards in my other pants. But trust me, the pockets on those other pants are so heavy from all the helpful awards I've gotten that it's a struggle just to keep them from falling down. Really. Honest. Would I lie? About this I mean, telling my wife I love her isn't a lie, it's self preservation.
Besdies, Pwolf bakes little babies, grinds them up, and uses them as a topping for his waffles. Last week Scintilla was caught beating a 12 year old newbie with a baseball bat for not compressing his audio. Zarxrax is currently waiting trail for child porn because of AMV Hell 0. You wanna vote for guys like these? Didn't think so.


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yeah that is basically the entire thread and i legitimately don't want to actually post anything meaningful in there because no one will ****ing say anything remotely meaningful and/or helpful
(that and if i am legitimately posting meaningful things about my feelings on sppf that are not veiled bragging, i'm probably in dire straits)
You know what, let's do this.
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And yes, I'm being completely serious. You have been nothing but annoying in this thread, and I'm getting fed up.
If any of you see him post, use the report button and I'll get the e-mail. I'll then try to figure out if I should ban or infract. Who knows.
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One of my ears popped yesterday, finally.
It's now somewhat-back-to-normal. Not the other one though.
It's really annoying.
Y'know how sometimes some things better left unsaid, not only because it's not a great idea to say them, but also because there's no reason to say them at all? I'm thinking now might be one of those times. Mayyyyyybe.
In other resounding news that will undoubtedly affect each and every person who reads this, I never realized before that video games released not even 2 years ago could be so impossible to find for a semi-reasonable price, but evidently that's exactly the case with Radiant Historia. It's made me pretty paranoid about other games that I've had my eye on for a bit, so I finally gave in and bought The Last Story and Xenoblade Chronicles so that I won't get gouged for them down the line, but does anybody know if there's anything in particular about Radiant Historia that justifies a $50-70 price tag for a handheld game? From what I've heard, it's good, but not outstanding, and I'm pretty sure it was going for the normal ~$30 a month ago. Just the damnedest thing.
P.S. - Is there some rule that says the grass starter always has to be the worst? Because that's now the case for at least half of the games, and I'm sick of it because I always choose them. Then again, maybe a giant, pissed-off badger could be cool.
Yes, the Grass starter is usually the worst. Exceptions: Swampert, though still cool, is definitely worse than Sceptile, and Emboar's just about as bad as Serperior.
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I've only ever used one starter from each game. I 'ought to expand my horizons.
i though it was, the game would be harder with the grass starter?
either way i always pick the grass one, and this is no exeption.
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I like the Grass starter, and for the most part I've always thought it was the best line of the three. With the exception of the Turtwig line and Serperior (specifically Serperior, cos why is a creature evolving only to lose its legs), the grass starter and its evos have usually been my faves (Kanto excepting cos they're all awesome). Fennekin is one of my favourites in a while though.
Here's one for people. Without looking, what is the name of the grass starter?
That seems like a good enough reason to not want to go there, yes?
Possibly it's just people buying them all up without demand actually going down.
In short, "****in' collectors..."
I think most of them start out decent, but lose their usefulness as the game goes on. Except for the Sceptile (who are pretty sweet all around), Serperior (because of dumb gym order) and Meganium (who sucked from the beginning anyway so they don't even count).P.S. - Is there some rule that says the grass starter always has to be the worst? Because that's now the case for at least half of the games, and I'm sick of it because I always choose them. Then again, maybe a giant, pissed-off badger could be cool.
Wait, that's half of them, and we don't even know what gen 6 will be like so we can't weigh in-- oh whatever.
Oh, right. Do we mean worst as in statistically? My bad. Yeah, Venusaur excepted, they're pretty poor.
Not to mention they have the same amount of weaknesses as both fire and water starters combined. I mean, is there any good reason for them to be weak against poison types anyway?
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I've always started with the grass type on my first playthrough, I feel ya. Until Gen 5, that is, I just did not like Snivy at all. Concept was great, execution was terrible. Turtwig was fantastic, Treecko was meh, Chikorita was more bland than mayo on white bread, and Bulbasaur was also meh. It's kinda just a big pile of disappointment. I'm just a sucker for their designs, though.
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Naw, just kidding, it's Chespin.
That would make Serperior even worse, because it has the lowest stats among the other Grass-type starters' final evos, last I checked.


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I feel compelled to write a little blub today about REAPER . If you haven't heard of it, it's an amazing multitrack recording program with an insanely great price. I've been playing with various multitrack recording programs over the years, including, Acid, FruityLoops, Reason, ProTools, Cubase, various trackers (MadTracker), and a random selection of other tools, but due to the ridiculous pricing and bloated codebase of most of them, I've never really found anything I wanted to pay for, or use as my permanent multitrack recording solution. That is, until recently when I discovered Reaper. I've now replaced most of the aforementioned programs with Reaper. Why do I love Reaper so much?
What does't Reaper do?
I'm not actually sure what Reaper won't do. Every time I think I've run into something that it won't do, I do a Google search and discover that there IS a way to do whatever I'm trying to do. So, in summary, it's rare that I find a piece of software I'd recommend as highly as Reaper. Don't hesitate to give it a try if you're looking for an alternative to the high-priced bloatware offered by the old standard recording tools.
I recently did a hasty implementation of PayPal ExpressCheckout for a client and while talking to a PayPal sales rep prior to the integration he directed me to x.com for documentation, but then couldn't explain exactly how it related to PayPal and the traditional PayPal developer site. I was left wondering whether to use the docs on x.com or the docs on the paypal developer site. Then today I was reading the JanRain technical blog looking for some info about their social sign-in API and stumbled across this line in a blurb about the Innovate Developer Conference.
Now in its third year, Innovate has evolved quickly from a developer conference put on by eBay's PayPal unit to a broader event featuring X.commerce, which unifies the commerce tools and technology platforms of eBay, PayPal, Magento, Milo and other eBay companies for developers and merchants.
So now I know.
Ever been annoyed when your custom error handlers or exceptions don't catch fatal PHP errors and leave you with the dreaded "white screen of death" on your web pages instead of a useful stack trace? Me too. So I was happy to find this helpful article that shows a trick you can use to catch fatal errors such as "out of memory" errors.
<?php set_error_handler('myErrorHandler'); register_shutdown_function('fatalErrorShutdownHandler'); function myErrorHandler($code, $message, $file, $line) { //handle the fatal error however you want here. } function fatalErrorShutdownHandler() { $last_error = error_get_last(); if ($last_error['type'] === E_ERROR) { // fatal error myErrorHandler(E_ERROR, $last_error['message'], $last_error['file'], $last_error['line']); } } ?>
You may also need to put this in your script to get fatal errors onto the error stack...
<?php error_reporting(0); ?>
Also keep in mind, if you have any other functions registered as shutdown functions and one of them throws an error, your custom fatalErrorShutdownHandler will not work.
I recently had the unpleasant experience of weathering a rather nasty distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on one of the sites I manage. It's a high traffic site that does many tens of thousands of dollars of business each and every day. Downtime on the site costs a lot of money and makes us look really bad. Earlier this week we received a short, poorly worded email from an anonymous email address informing us that our site was under attack and demanding an unspecified ransom to cease the attack. The attack took the site down early Monday morning and I, along with a few other people, scrambled to find a solution, working with our dedicated server company and Akamai to block the deluge of traffic that had maxxed out the connections on our firewall. This particular type of attack is known as a "SYN Flood Attack". It is very hard to defend against. We tried blocking IP addresses with our firewall and some POS software from Cisco called "Cisco Guard" which proved utterly useless. Akamai tried some other things that took hours to implement and also proved fruitless. In the end, both the dedicated server company and Akamai advised us there was little we could do other than "wait it out". That was simply not an option. By late in the day, we had lost thousands in revenue, not to mention the sinking feeling of utter helplessness at the hands of some asshole "hackers" who we could not hope to track down or identify. We suspected they were in eastern Europe, possibly in Hungary, but that was about all we could deduce. We called the FBI and got a recording and a message about submitting an incident report on their web site. I called CERT's 1-800 number to see if they had any advice or knew who I could report this to and they nearly laughed at me when I told them I'd tried to call the FBI to report it. CERT also directed me to a web form where I could fill out a report, but advised me that most likely nothing would be done. Apparently the WWW in internet addresses really does stand for "Wild Wild West". When it comes to dealing with a DDoS attack, you really are on your own. So what were we to do? Would we pay some unknown stranger an unspecified ransom? Would we wait another day and lose thousands more? Would we hire our own hackers to fight back? Finally as the day was quckly turning to evening and financial losses were piling up, we called one of our business associates who runs an even bigger and more prominent web site and told them what was happening to us and asked if they had any suggestions. They had two words for us....."Call Dosarrest.com", they said. We'd already done some research online looking for solutions and came across dosarrest's web site, but we were hesitant to try them at first. There were dozens of companies out there claiming to be experts in stopping DoS attacks. Some were big, some were small, some had proprietary hardware they would want to sell us to install at our datacenter, some were just services with no explanation of how they would help. But after the recommendation from our business associates, we decided to give dosarrest.com a call. Our associates assured us that when they had gone through a similar situation, they used dosarrest's services and though it wasn't particularly cheap, dosarrest got them back online within an hour or two. We had nothing to lose. Our mounting lost revenue had already cost us far more than dosarrest wanted to get us set up with their service. We made contact with dosarrest's sales rep who told us that depending on how quick we could make the required config changes to our site and DNS, they could have us back online within minutes or at most an hour or two. The sale rep wasn't joking. Within a few minutes of agreeing to the terms of their contract and making our initial paypal payment, their support team had sent us all the required configuration information, set up a proxy server to filter our traffic and were waiting on us to make the needed changes to our web server and dns config. Within the next hour we had completed the DNS and web server updates and our site was back in business. Throughout the process, I emailed their support with questions and had answers within minutes. When I called them, I was quickly connected to a tech-savvy support person who had all the answers I needed. Each time I have contacted them via email since, I have had a response within minutes. I think the longest response time from them was about 20 minutes for a non-emergency email, but usually it's much quicker. In fact, this evening, after several days of running with their service, I made a major update to the web site. About 100 files were changed and out of that 100 files I made 1 mistake in a config file that caused an endless redirect loop on the site. Because I had updated so many files at once, it took about 15 minutes to find my mistake and correct it. When I finished fixing the redirect problem, I checked my inbox to find an email already waiting from dosalert.com support informing me that they had detected that our site was down, had determined that it was not the result of an attack, had added some additional traffic filters as a precaution and were continuing to monitor the situation. It was not an automated message, it was from an actual support person who was actually on top of the situation. I immediately emailed them back to let them know the problem was caused by a stupid mistake on my part and to tell them how impressed I was that they were so diligent in monitoring our site. And then I sat down to write this post. I'm just not used to service this good. We pay a lot of money to our dedicated server company for 24/7 support and though they are often good, they don't come close to the level of service we've gotten from dosarrest so far. In fact, our web server company is supposed to be monitoring our server for downtime too, but I didn't get any messages from them tonight when I took our server down for 15 minutes. Dosarrest was on top of it within a few minutes. My only complaint with dosarrest is that they don't offer dedicated server hosting because I'd probably bite the bullet and go through all hassles to switch to them for that too.
So, in summary, if you are dealing with a DDoS attack on your servers and don't know what to do, call dosarrest.com. Tell 'em Brett Brewer sent you. I won't say they are cheap, but I will say that if your business lives and dies by its web site, there is no substitute for the kind of service they provide. They are the real deal.
I've been getting cozy with Github lately and I thought I should share my experiences of getting a post-receive URL hook working so that when someone does a git push to my main development repository it will force my dev site to do a git pull to deploy all the latest changes from the repository to the staging server. In my case, I have a fairly secure development server running on a domain that has no public DNS records. This means that to view the site, someone must have the ip-hostname mapping in their computer's host file. This also means that Github has no way of finding the site to call any post-recieve url scripts to trigger the git pull on the remote site. What follows is a list of everything that needed to be done to make this work.
First off, if you're using PHP like me, and your server has the slightest modicum of security, there's no way you're going to be able to successfully issue a shell_exec('git pull') command via php and have it work because php will only have the priviliges of your web server and chances are your repos and site files are owned by a different user. Enter a nice little apache module called "suphp". I can't get into the details of how to prperly set up suphp because I had my dedicated server experts do that for me, but assuming you can get that set up so that your staging server serves your development site under the same user that owns the site files and git repos, you can then set up a php script that can successfully do a shell_exec('git pull') and have it work. So, assuming you got suphp set up, or you're running a really insecure setup that allows your webserver user to run shell commands, you can create a php script on your server such as this:
<?php $payload = json_decode(stripslashes(@$_POST['payload'])); $message = print_r(@$payload,true); $message .= shell_exec('/usr/bin/git pull'); mail('firstname.lastname@example.com','gihub post receive hook fired',$message); echo $message; exit; ?>
That was my first post-recieve URL hook script. I saved it on my staging domain's webroot folder and then in the Github admin for my repos, I just entered something like http://my.staging.server.com/Github.php. This worked great so long as my staging domain had a public dns record that allowed Github to find it, but for security reasons I didn't really want most people having access to the staging server, so I removed the public dns records and just added a hostfile mapping for my domain to my computers so I could browse it like it had a normal dns record. Of course, this broke the Github post-receive url hook. The first thing I thought to do was to ask Github support for a way to map my ip to my staging server in their system so I fired off an email to them to see if they would comply and then immediately thought of a rather simple solution. Github can't find a site with no DNS records, but it could easily find my server via its ip address. Since my staging server serves some other domains, I couldn't just give Github the server ip and expect it to find the right domain to call the script on, so I created a new apache config file to handle all requests that don't map to a specific server. For example if your staging server is on ip address 22.214.171.124, you could create an apache VirtualHost container such as this:
<VirtualHost 184.108.40.206:80> ServerAdmin email@example.com ServerName 188.8.131.52 ErrorLog /var/log/default.error CustomLog /var/log/default.access combined DocumentRoot /var/www/html #turn on suphp for this site suPHP_Engine on AddHandler x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 .php5 suPHP_AddHandler x-httpd-php </VirtualHost>
This makes any requests to your main ip address look for files in the defaut apache docroot at /var/www/html. The suPHP_Engine directives force the requests for php files to be handled by suPHP so it uses whatever user you've got configured for suPHP. There are ways to get suPHP to use different users based on directive you put in the VirtualHost containers, but that's another story. We only needed one user so we've got suPHP configured to always use that user and restricted to only work in certain directories. Securing your system is up to you. So anyway, I threw my post-receive URL php script in /var/www/html and add some things to allow it to update the proper dev site....
<?php //put your own email address here if you want to receive email updates //when commits happen otherwise leave it blank or set it to false $email = "email@example.com"; //set $output_message to true if you want to be able to //view the output of the script in a browser $output_message = true; $message = "Github script called on staging server<br/>"; //look for a request var named 'site'. This way you could theoretically //have the same script update different sites depending on the site //you pass in when you call the script. $site = isset($_GET['site'])?$_GET['site']:isset($_POST['site'])?$_POST['site']:""; if($site=='my.staging.domain.com'){ $payload = json_decode(stripslashes(@$_POST['payload'])); $message .= print_r(@$payload,true); $message .= shell_exec('cd /path/to/staging/site/dir;/usr/bin/git pull'); }else{ $message .= "No valid site specified"; } if(!empty($email)){ mail($email,'gihub post receive hook fired',$message); } if($output_message){ echo $message; } exit; ?>
Then for the post-recieve-url hook in Github I used something like this:
There is an apparently undocumented feature in the Github post-receive-url hook that converts any $_GET vars passed in the url into $_POST vars, so in addition to the "payload" post var you will get any other vars you passed as $_GET vars in your $_POST array. I just included the check for a $_GET['site'] var in my script so that I can also call the script from a normal request in my browser. The above script obviously provides very little security, but since the domain I'm using it for has no public dns records, there's not much chance of someone stumbling across it without knowing the site's IP. Since the script restricts the "git pull" command to running only on the domains specified in the $_GET['site'] request var, the worst someone could do is update my staging server with the latest code in my repos if they called it with the right site in the request, which is sort of the whole point of the script anyway so that's not much of a worry. Having the script email me the results every time it runs keeps me informed of what is going on, so if anyone starts messing around with the script it will be hard to miss in my inbox.
Now all is well in my Github world.
IBM's Jeopardy-playing supercomputer named "Watson" just played and nearly beat both of the top winning Jeopardy champs of all time. I missed the show, but then found this video of the first half of it on YouTube. I had hoped to find the second half posted by the time I got done watching it, but no such luck. I did a little searching and apparently Watson played one competitor to a tie, while handily trouncing Ken Jennings, the winningest player in Jeopardy's history. So marks a milestone in computing history. The technology behind Watson can be used to answer questions of all kinds in a variety of industries, perhaps even solving problems that have heretofore been too complex for humans to reliably answer themselves. Could we be on the verge of a sci-fi like future where some giant supercomputer finds the solutions to all our problems and we simply carry out its instructions? Probably not, but I can dream.
UPDATE: Both parts are now on YouTube:


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Edward Irving Wortis, nicknamed "Avi" by his twin sister, is a prolific writer of children's and young adult literature. He has published more than seventy books and has won both the Newbery Honor and the Newbery Medal. The Man Who Was Poe was published in 1989.
Providence, Rhode Island—November, 1848
Edmund sits alone on the edge of his bed in a small corner room on the top floor of a tenement building on Ann Street. A single candle lights and heats the cold room, and the frail, sad boy sits watching his sister. She resembles her brother, and she sits in front of a fairy tale book from which she has not read in hours. It has been two days since their Aunt Pru left them, and they are worried—and hungry. Their aunt has left to look for their mother before, but she has never been away this long before. There is nothing in the house to eat, and Sis suggests they go out to buy something to eat with the half dime they have. Edmund is hesitant; he reminds her they are new to America and there are unknown dangers everywhere. Because Edmund sees himself now as the head of this little family, he finally agrees to go alone and locks his sister safely inside the building.
Fearfully, he enters the saloon on the corner and asks what food he can buy for his coin. The imposing man behind the counter cuts a loaf of bread in half and wraps it for the boy. Edmund is dismayed by the meager amount of food but leaves quickly to get back to his sister. As he rounds the corner, a bent old man calls out to him, asking for directions. Edmund is torn, for he knows he should get back to his sister but he also knows Aunt Pru would want him to help an old man in need. They walk to Shamrock Street, the old man's destination, much more slowly than Edmund would have liked. When Edmund finally arrives back at home, he unlocks the door and discovers his sister is gone.
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A rather dark, intense man with a carpetbag is striding toward his destination, sometimes with purpose, sometimes hesitantly. It is a cold, dark evening, and he thinks about where he will stay tonight. He is a writer, but he is broke at the moment. He rummages through his carpetbag and finds a letter. Though he wrote it himself, he is still not satisfied with its contents. He knows he must deliver it anyway, so he approaches the red building, Number Eighty-Eight on Benefit Street. It seems to...
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In Providence, Rhode Island, in the late 1840s, a boy and his sister have been abandoned by their aunt and are going hungry after a few days without food. The have come from London in search of their mother, who disappeared after coming to America. The boy, Edmund Brimmer, leaves his sister locked in their rooms while fetching some food. When he returns, the door is still locked, but his sister, Sis, is gone. He wanders the streets in search of help and bumps into an odd man who calls himself Auguste Dupin, who says he will solve the mysteries of the missing sister, aunt, and mother. Dupin is brilliant, quick to draw conclusions from small clues, but there are disturbing parallels between what he says of his own family and the family of Edmund— parallels all ending in death.
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