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The two whippoorwills in the apple tree beside his window woke Davin up, as usual, a half-hour before sunrise. The pair, usually spirited but softly so, trilled away their medley this morning with unusual pitch and vigor. The song, shrill but not unpleasant, took a full year for Davin to get comfortable waking up to. Every morning, although less so over time, he couldn't help but be reminded of his mother who believed whippoorwills were bad omen. "They catch the spirits of the dead," she told him when she had first visited his farm. "There's too many around here to get rid of all of them, but you're asking for trouble leaving that apple tree right next to your window. You're inviting in bad things."
Besides the whippoorwills' disconcerting energy, that morning seemed typical enough: his overalls were neatly folded inside his dresser, his ledger was balanced quickly, and his farmhand, Talia, had left breakfast out on the stove. Davin ate breakfast slowly, savoring the fresh eggs from yesterday's collection and the yeasty bread that Talia must have picked up from Bree during her trip out to the marketplace yesterday. Cutting his knife into the ripe tomato, he watched the vegetable's inner-jelly ooze onto his plate and thought that treating himself to a fresh bath might be a well-earned treat before starting today's work. He grabbed a towel and put on his boots. The stream was only a mile away, so the detour shouldn't prove too much of a burden.
The sun was just peeking up from the horizon when he walked outside. There weren't many clouds in the sky at all. This was disconcerting, since there wouldn't be any protection from the heat later. Summer had been especially rough this year, and everything suggested that the heat this afternoon would be merciless. He would have to check on Old Taberlaine in the neighboring farm later. With heat this bad, the old man wouldn't be able to manage well. Davin had helped him sheer his sheep last week and figured that the old man wouldn't have the energy to take care of his livestock this week, either. Damn heat. Maybe a bath was a bad idea since there was enough work, as is. But, if he wasn't going to take time out for himself, what was the point of leaving his father's business? Perhaps, because he had so much to do today, a bath was more necessary than ever.
When he arrived at the river, Davin's hedonism gave way before his pressing sense of responsibility. The water was refreshingly cold, perfect for a summer morning, but he only allowed himself a ten minute soak and felt guilty throughout. Talia must have started working almost two hours ago, judging by the breakfast left on the stove. The chicken coop would probably be just about clean at this rate, and the cows would be getting ready for pasture. Talia had only started two weeks ago, and showed up out of nowhere with no references, but she had proven herself to be amazingly proficient. Davin had been reluctant to take her on—she was too much of a stranger-- but he needed the help and she was willing to work for room and board alone. Not that he could afford to pay her much more anyway, but if she was willing to work for so little, then he figured it was only fair to afford her privacy, too. Why look a gift horse in the mouth?
On his walk home, Davin noticed the latch for the cattle pen was still closed. The leather straps he used to keep the gate secure overnight were bound fast, so Talia must be running behind. They had just collected eggs yesterday, and while that didn't usually cause any extra trouble, Davin suspected the chicken coop might be messier than usual. The bath was a bad idea after all. He had relied on Talia's extraordinary efficiency and now the farm had fallen behind. Walking towards the chicken coop, Davin wondered if Old Tamerlaine might forgive him if he didn't offer his help this afternoon.
The first thing he noticed were her shoes. Inlaid with fine brown threads, Davin had immediately recognized their quality the first time he met her. He couldn't help from commenting: "My father used to trade in silks and furs. The horsehair in those inlays look as fine as anything I've seen come out of Rohan." She just smiled and said nothing. Maybe those shoes had indeed come out of Rohan. Closer to Gondor, the trade routes were more frequent and the prices lower, but anywhere, especially this far out, Davin wondered why such fine goods were being wasted out on a field. Being from a complicated but wealthy background himself, he figured it wise not to push the issue.
The first thing he noticed was her shoes. Just lying there. The soft brown leather soles darting up from the grass like the stomachs of two curious meerkats. "Talia?" He asked, confused. She wasn't one to sleep on the job, but he had only known her for a brief time. Still, his stomach clenched up with uncertainty.
Drawing nearer, she didn't look dead. Her auburn hair fanned out in the grass like a beautiful palm leaf. Her skin, white and pale, looked like the finest sea shells he had ever seen. Her clothing showed no signs of struggle; it smelled like the lavender from her perfume. She hadn't even started working yet, since her skin showed no signs of sweat. If he hadn't spoken with her yesterday, he would have imagined her a doll, a beautiful child's toy grown suddenly large. She was an exquisite corpse. Rolling her over, apart from a small circle of necrotic flesh on the back of her neck, it was hard to tell she was dead at all. Poison? From a needle prick on the back of her neck, maybe? But when? Perhaps when she was in market? Perhaps on her way back? What if it had been on the farm? Had she even felt it?
Her necklace, the one with the strange pink topaz, was missing. Everything else, her gold bracelet and her copper earrings, were still there. Turning her over again to examine the dark patch of flesh on her neck, a small slender strip of paper, no longer than a pencil, peeked out from inside her boot:
"In emergency, check front pouch of satchel."
His hands shook. Davin had never dealt with a dead body before. How does one get rid of such things? Did she have family and how would he contact them? There would be no work on the farm today, he was certain now. He wondered if this satchel might have answers, but something in his stomach told him that it would just pose more questions. He almost didn't want to check it, but he knew he had to. If the satchel didn't help, maybe Old Tamerlaine would know what to do. If he was lucky, he'd be spared making a trip to the doctor out in Bree.
Walking back to the farmhouse, he heard the two birds finishing up their morning song. They never sang this long into sunrise. He couldn't help but think of his mother. Damn birds. First thing he was going to do once he sorted all of this out was cut down that tree. Mother had been right.
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Lev — who teaches art history at Duquesne University's Italian campus — took me and a group of my fellow journalists through the museums. We were attending a seminar called The Church Up Close: Covering Catholicism in the Age of Benedict XVI, held Sept. 8-14 at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross School of Church Communications in Rome.
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News Release 2009-42 | April 21, 2009
FinCEN and OCC Assess Civil Money Penalties Against the New York Branch of Doha Bank
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WASHINGTON — The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today announced the assessment of concurrent civil money penalties, each $5 million, against the New York Branch of Doha Bank, Doha, Qatar ("the Branch"), for past violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). The Branch, without admitting or denying the allegations, consented to payment of the civil money penalties, which will be satisfied by a single payment of $5 million to the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
In September 2006, due to Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) program deficiencies, the OCC issued a Cease & Desist Order (C&D Order), by consent, to the Branch. The C&D Order mandated a look-back of wire transfers, demand drafts, and pouch items processed by the Branch. The look-back was completed in January 2008 and covered transactions that took place at the Branch between May 1, 2004, and January 16, 2007.
The OCC based its assessment of a $5 million civil money penalty, and the issuance of the C&D Order, on the Branch's failure to maintain a compliance program reasonably designed to assure and monitor compliance with the recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the BSA, and other related BSA compliance violations. Specifically, the Branch did not adequately identify, research, report, and monitor suspicious activities occurring through the Branch's funds transfers, pouch activity, demand draft services, and correspondent relationships, and did not adequately audit and independently test such activities. The Branch also failed to conduct sufficient due diligence on its foreign correspondents. The look-back mandated by the C&D Order confirmed the BSA program deficiencies cited in the C&D Order.
"It is critically important that institutions have effective systems in place to identify and report suspicious transactions in a timely manner, especially with regard to higher-risk products and services," Comptroller John C. Dugan said. "Today's action signifies our ongoing commitment to the goals of the BSA, and will help ensure that all institutions remain vigilant in the fight against money laundering and other illicit activity."
In assessing a $5 million civil money penalty, FinCEN determined that the Branch failed to implement an adequate system of internal controls to ensure compliance with the BSA and manage the risk of money laundering or other suspicious activity, or to conduct independent testing to allow for the timely identification and correction of BSA compliance deficiencies. The absence of effective internal controls and independent testing at the Branch resulted in numerous violations of the requirement to timely report suspicious transactions, and the extended period of time over which the violations occurred impaired the usefulness of the suspicious activity reports to law enforcement investigators.
FinCEN Director James H. Freis, Jr., noted, "Despite the current economic and resource challenges that many banks may face, Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) compliance efforts must not be diminished. Timely, complete, and accurate Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) are critical tools available to law enforcement as a means to deter and detect criminal activity. Used in conjunction with additional financial intelligence, SARs help law enforcement to ferret out criminal elements and combat fraud that threatens our financial system. As such, failure to follow BSA rules deprives law enforcement of valuable information in the investigation and prosecution of crime. FinCEN continues to collaboratively ensure that all financial institutions follow BSA rules which in turn serve to protect our financial system."
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Welcome to Creative Cloud, emc design (@emcdesignltd). This UK-based design shop recently announced on their blog that they've signed up for Creative Cloud for teams. In their post, they list several of the features that are helping them streamline their workflow and create even better work.
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In 25 days DEAD HEAT will be available wherever books are sold. Yeah! I'm very excited about the eighth book in the Lucy Kincaid series.
It's Friday, and I have nothing more to say (actually, I have a LOT to say, but it would be rants, so I'm going to be good and keep my mouth shut!)
For the weekend, I wanted to remind you that I have TWO free stories posted here on my blog. "Her Lucky Day" which was originally published in the Horror Writers Association anthology BLOOD LITE II: OVERBITE and "Killing Justice" which was originally published in KILLER YEAR edited by Lee Child, and is now available in my 3 story anthology by the same name. And at the end of the month, right before DEAD HEAT hits stores, I'll be posting "Vacation Interrupted", the Lucy Kincaid short story that was originally published in LOVE IS MURDER edited by Sandra Brown. So stay tuned!
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WASHINGTON, U.S. - The U.S. Senate handed the country's President Donald Trump a double defeat, after voting to not only withdraw the military aid for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, but also to blame the Kingdom's crown prince for the murder of veteran journalist, Jamal Khashoggi.
The vote for the Senate, was the first time in history that any chamber of the U.S. Congress had backed a measure to withdraw U.S. forces from a military conflict under the 1973 War Powers Act.
The non-binding War Powers Act of 1973 limits the President's ability to commit U.S. forces to potential hostilities without congressional approval.
However, the vote, which received large support from Senate Democrats and even from seven key Republicans, is largely symbolic and is unlikely to become law.
The historic vote was passed by 56-41 on Thursday but to become a law, the resolutions would have to pass the House of Representatives.
As per the resolution, the U.S. Senate has called upon Trump to remove all American forces engaging in hostilities in Yemen, except for those combating Islamist extremists.
Last month, the U.S. chose to cease refuelling Saudi war planes but if Thursday's resolution is passed into law, it would prohibit that practice from resuming.
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Sanders said the outcome was a signal to "the world that the United States of America will not continue to be part of the worst humanitarian disaster on the face of the earth."
He added, "What's next is to do everything possible to demand that the House of Representatives do what the members of the House want done, an opportunity to vote on this. I think we're going to win in the Senate and I think we are going to do what the American people want, that is to end our participation in this horrific and destructive war."
So far, the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen's civil war has led to the death of tens of thousands of people and has triggered the world's most dire human crisis.
The United Nations has said that the ongoing war has brought the country on the brink of a famine.
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Following the vote on the Yemen war, the Senate backed a resolution blaming the young Saudi Crown Prince and de facto leader Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of Khashoggi, who was killed inside the Kingdom's consulate in Istanbul, Turkey in October this year.
The U.S. Senate voted unanimously and insisting that Saudi Arabia hold anyone responsible for his death, accountable.
On Thursday, the Senate vote added pressure on House leaders to allow a vote on the Khashoggi resolution before Congress adjourns for the year.
Commenting on the vote over the murder of Khashoggi, who was a U.S. resident and a columnist for the Washington Post, Republican Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and sponsor of the resolution said in a statement, "Unanimously, the United States Senate has said that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is responsible for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. That is a strong statement. I think it speaks to the values that we hold dear."
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
Pre-Game: Can Wings Keep Oil Slipping?
Detroit (5-3-1) VS Edmonton (4-3-3)
In their first afternoon game of the year, the Detroit Red Wings will play host to the similarly banged-up Edmonton Oilers. The Oilers can definitely sympathize with Detroit's injury woes, having lost their last four games while having lost three of their four top centers. The Wings also got some bad news heading into this match in the form of losing Todd Bertuzzi for a least a few days with back issues.
Joakim Andersson has been called up from the Griffins in light of Bertuzzi's injury, but there has been speculation that coach Mike Babcock might give Dan Cleary some time on the top 2 lines after getting his first goal of the season last game against St. Louis.
Goaltender Jimmy Howard should be back between the pipes after getting a well-deserved rest as Petr Mrazek made his NHL debut in St. Louis. Howard's play had not been necessarily bad, but it had been obvious that he needed the time off, as Detroit's defense is still in flux between injuries and the loss of Nicklas Lidstrom and Brad Stuart before the start of this season.
The Red Wings have defeated Edmonton in the last five appearances the Oilers have made at Joe Louis Arena, and hope to continue that streak today, as a win this afternoon would move Detroit one point past the Blues, who currently sit in 7th in the West and have the day off.
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BALTIMORE, Md. (AP) Kansas State's Collin Klein has won the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, given to the nation's top upperclassman quarterback.
Klein passed for 2,490 yards, ran for 890 and accounted for 37 touchdowns (22 rushing and 15 passing) for the No. 7 Wildcats (11-1).
The other finalists were Southern California's Matt Barkley, West Virginia's Geno Smith, Florida State's EJ Manuel and Alabama's AJ McCarron. The winner was announced on Monday.
Klein is also a finalist for the Heisman Trophy.
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The Hill's Alexander Bolton reports that the Senate will live on as a continuing body, Harry Reid will decline to exercise the constitutional option, and the talking filibuster is no longer on the table. In short, we're getting a very watered down version of what could have been a major step in pushing the Senate down the road to a parliamentary body.
Greg Sargent laments:
[I]n the name of Senate comity, we'll get weaker reforms that will only make it easier for the opposition to block the will of the majority for purely partisan purposes.
"Block" is such a strong word. All Democrats have to do to prevent filibusters is convince five Republicans to join their vote. Is this not President Obama's bipartisan appeal? (But I digress). I'd have preferred reforms including a talking filibuster, but about 1,000 times less than the use of the constitutional option to force it through. And, for what it's worth, this New York Times editorial urging the use of the constitutional option illustrates quite nicely their distaste for a basic part of American politics.


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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Colby Lewis had to be reminded about his last victory for the Texas Rangers. It had been a while.
Lewis allowed one run over 5 1-3 innings for his first win in nearly two years, after elbow surgery and a unique hip procedure, and the Rangers beat the Chicago White Sox 6-3 on Saturday night for their fifth consecutive victory.
"It's pretty sentimental," Lewis said. "It's one of those victories that I'm just excited about."
The 34-year-old right-hander won for the first time since June 17, 2012, a month before his last game prior to surgery to repair a torn flexor tendon in his right elbow. He was still rehabbing from that last August when he had right hip resurfacing surgery, and is the first known major league pitcher to return from that operation to remove bone spurs without a full hip replacement.
"It was awesome," shortstop Elvis Andrus said. "We're really glad for him."
Joakim Soria, the fifth Texas reliever, worked a perfect ninth for his third save in four chances. He then gave the game ball to Lewis (1-1).
Before his season debut Monday night, a home loss to Seattle when he also went 5 1-3 innings, Lewis hadn't made a major league start since July 18, 2012.
"I'm still kind of disappointed that i didn't go deeper in the ball game," Lewis said. "But I felt like the 85 (pitches) were a lot better than the 88 that I threw the other day. I felt like I was more relaxed. I was more myself."
Manager Ron Washington said that kind of improvement is what the Rangers wanted to see from Lewis.
"He came out and kept the ball down for the most part and used his pitches well, kept his stamina going for the time that he was out there," Washington said.
Texas went ahead to stay on Prince Fielder's high-arching blast to right leading off the fourth for a 2-1 lead. It was only his second homer in his 18 games with Texas.
Shin-Soo Choo and Alex Rios each had three hits for the Rangers and Kevin Kouzmanoff homered leading off the eighth, giving him a 10-game hitting streak to start his Rangers career.
Jose Quintana (1-1) allowed five runs and nine hits over five innings, and the White Sox lost their fourth straight.
"He was pretty good. It wasn't his best stuff, but they are going to get hits, just because of the way the ballpark plays," manager Robin Ventura said. "But once they start falling in, those are the ones that hurt you."
Dayan Viciedo's two-run single in the eighth got the White Sox within 5-3 before Alexei Ramirez, who entered the game with a AL-leading .379 batting average, grounded into an inning-ending double play.
Ramirez finished 0 for 4 to snap his 21-game hitting streak, the longest hitting streak by a White Sox player since Carlos Lee's franchise-record 28 in a row 10 years ago, and drop his average to .357.
After Fielder's homer, Josh Wilson had a two-run single in the fourth before Choo's RBI-double made it 5-1.
"The situation in the fourth inning changed the game for me," Quintana said. "One pitch. But now I'm thinking about the next start."
Chicago opened the second inning with three consecutive singles — equaling its season-low hit total from the night before in a span of five pitches. Ramirez then grounded into a double play to send home a run that tied the game at 1.
Texas had three consecutive hits in the first, though No. 2 Elvis Andrus got tagged out in a rundown between first and second base after his single. Rios had an RBI double for a 1-0 lead and to stretch his hitting streak to six games.
After Andrus was tagged out diving back into first, Texas manager Ron Washington took one step out of the dugout like he might challenge the play. He instead returned to his seat, and TV replays showed that Andrus was indeed out.
Notes: Chicago leadoff hitter Adam Eaton left with a mild strain in his left hamstring after batting in the fifth. Eaton and manager Robin Ventura said the injury wasn't related to a collision with 1B Fielder the previous pitch on a foul-ball roller up the first-base line. ... Viciedo's hit off Alexi Ogando ended a scoreless streak of 16 2-3 innings by Rangers relievers, who had allowed only one earned run the previous 23 1-2 innings. ... Texas LHP Matt Harrison threw eighth scoreless innings in a rehab start for Double-A Frisco on Saturday night. He could make his Rangers season debut as early as next weekend. ... The Rangers are a majors-best 9-3 at home this season.


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If you missed it in the print edition of the Houston Chronicle, you'll want to take a look at columnist Ken Hoffman's tribute to Brian Ching's career and lookahead to what's next for the legendary Dynamo striker.
Hoffman details his first meeting with Ching and his recent conversation with the Hawaiian about what the future may hold after his retirement at the end of the season. There's some laughs, but it also makes you realize just why this city and this soccer player have become inextricably linked.
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I like green teas flavored, and black teas are to me flavorful, whether they're flavored or not. I prefer plain, hearty black teas the old-fashioned British way; with a splash of milk. I would say, that the best plain black tea I have tasted is Darjeeling #37 or Russian Morning #24.
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There are incredibly detailed establishing images, quite beautiful, long shots with very little negative space […] these contrast with the more event-driven panels, which tend to be much simpler and are much closer to the characters. This is a book that will appeal to children and adults alike, and I'm already looking forward to the next volume.The Quietus
More all-ages adventures with the one-eyed yokai boy, now in a kid-friendly format!
The Birth of Kitaro collects seven of Shigeru Mizuki's early, and beloved, Kitaro stories, making them available for the first time in English, in an all-new, kid-friendly format. These stories are from the golden era of the late 1960s, when Gegege no Kitaro truly hit its stride as an all-ages supernatural series. Mizuki's Kitaro stories are both timelessly relevant and undeniably influential, inspiring a decades-long boom in stories about yokai, Japanese ghosts, and monsters.
"Kitaro's Birthday" reveals the origin story of the yokai boy Kitaro and his tiny eyeball father, Medama Oyaji. "Neko Musume versus Nezumi Otoko" is the first of Mizuki's stories to feature the popular recurring character Neko Musume, a little girl who transforms into a cat when she gets angry or hungry. Other stories in The Birth of Kitaro draw heavily from Japanese folklore, with Kitaro taking on legendary Japanese yokai like the Nopperabo and Makura Gaeshi, and fighting the monstrous recurring villain Gyuki.
With more than 150 pages of spooky and often funny comics about the titular half-yokai boy, The Birth of Kitaro is the perfect introduction to the award-winning author Mizuki's most popular series, seminal comics that have won the hearts of Japanese children and adults for more than half a century.
Translated from the Japanese by Zack Davisson.
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There's no doubt that Birth of Kitaro is a great entry point into Kitaro's yokai filled world, and it's worth picking up.The OASG
Originally published in magazines between 1966 and 1968, these humorous and spooky entries introduce readers to one of the most famous characters in Japan.Andrea Lipinski, School Library Journal
Its deep background in Japanese mythology and folklore can make it slightly less accessible to western audiences, until you start to read it and get sucked in by Mizuki's ability to spin a yarn.Paste
[Kitaro] is undeniably interesting, and this collection captures its best qualities in its brevity and pacing.No Flying No Tights
[The] Birth of Kitaro is a great read for any young readers or fans of Shigeru Mizuki or yokai.Manga Xanadu
"Readers will see why Kitaro has been a popular character for decades in Japan and will want to read more volumes to discover the rest of his adventures."Library Journal
... a fantastically eerie read ... for long time readers, [Shigeru Mizuki's] early [work] is a great historical marker of his growing talent, allowing to see where this master artist got his start.Fangoria on The Birth of Kitaro
The aesthetics on display in The Birth Of Kitaro are diverse, and Mizuki's ability to affect three or four different complex styles in the same story is mesmerizing. His stories are quaint and fun—certainly enjoyable to read—but the way he draws establishes him as a titan, and his reputation as a major talent is confirmed again and again.AV Club
If you haven't experienced Kitaro before, this is a perfect place to start.The Anime News Network


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For those who are associated with this year's Intrastate Elite Eight Legion Baseball tournament, this is the wrong time for Mother Nature to be uncooperative.
The tournament got its first round of games in on Saturday, and the hope was that another four could be played on Sunday. However, early batches of rain, thunder, and lightning didn't even allow for one game to finish.
With Lowell and Kingston playing with one out in the top of the ninth, the skies opened up, cancelling play for the rest of the day at Sudbury's Feeley Field.
This means the first winners bracket game between Milford Post 59 and Greenfield will be Monday afternoon at 4:30, with Sudbury Post 191 meeting Newburyport at 7:30.
"Unfortunately, you can't control Mother Nature," Milford manager Steve DiVitto said. "But our job is just to turn the page, move on, and be ready to go each day. If we're good to go for tomorrow, our guys will be ready. The guys want to play, but with the early morning yesterday, they're also able to get some extra rest tonight."
Post 59 (22-8), the defending Intrastate champion, has been on a tear recently, winning 15 of its last 16 games with the only loss coming to Wachusett in the Zone 4 playoffs.
Things really started to click for Milford back in June during the regular season. After a mercy-rule loss to Northborough left the team 7-7 overall, Post 59 came back the next day and blanked a Grafton Hill team that was 13-1 at the time.
"Everyone goes back to that game in June when we were 7-7," DiVitto said. "I know the coaching staff as a whole felt the team was much better than we had played early in the year. We knew what type of talent we had and we knew it was going to click, but we just had to keep grinding it out and that's what we did.
"They've come to the field with a purpose and they've discovered what they need to do, which is not try and do too much."
Leading the way for Milford at the plate has been the top of its order — Matt Decina and Andrew McMillan, both of Hopkinton, and Dan Mantoni, who starred at Hopedale High.
Decina, the leadoff hitter, is batting .392 with 28 hits, a team-leading 39 runs scored, an OBP of .520, and six steals. McMillan leads the team with a .429 average and has 36 hits, 29 runs scored, an OBP of .510, and eight steals.
"Those two guys are table-setters," DiVitto, whose team has plated 195 runs this year and is hitting .322 with runners in scoring position, said. "Having those guys at the top of the order is a huge lift for us. They set the tone with their ability to get on base and their speed and they give us a chance to score early."
Then there's Mantoni — the team's captain — who will be on the mound against Greenfield.
One of just three five-year players in Milford Legion's 85-year history, according to DiVitto, Mantoni is hitting .411 with a team-leading 39 hits and he's tied with cleanup hitter Kevin Martinis for the team lead with 29 RBIs. His pitching numbers are also outstanding, recording a 5-0 record in 31 innings with an 0.58 ERA and 27 strikeouts.
"Mantoni is the pulse of the team," DiVitto said. "I remember talking to (former manager) Brian (Macchi) about how we wanted to build a successful program around guys that could help us both short-term and long-term and Mantoni was one of those guys. Being a five-year player is just a testament to how hard he's worked. He's a first-class kid, he's easy to coach, and he'll do whatever we need him to do for the team."
Like Milford, Sudbury (19-3) is another team that's also been playing some of its best baseball at the right time.
Since a loss to Hudson on July 2, Post 191 has won nine of its last 10 games, including Saturday night's 10-2 victory over Westwood. Now Sudbury will try and take down a Newburyport team that eliminated Post 191 from last year's postseason.
"It's going to be a tough game," Sudbury manager Len Noce said. "They have two pitchers that are extremely good. We've been battling Newburyport for the last four or five years now and it just seems like its inevitable that we're going to meet each year."


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Year 2012 was the year we finally admitted that, much like a ship that sails for days one degree off course, our country and our state are lost and spiritually sick.
Witness the contentious gridlock in Congress and talk of the fiscal cliff that we will fall off in January. North Carolina�s executive and legislative branch leaders were almost as bad. Major problems of state need resolution but our leaders had rather fight than solve them. Civility, the common good and consensus have been sacrificed at the altar of partisanship, vilification of those who disagree and a win-at-any-cost mentality. Budget cuts are the solution for incompetently administered government programs. We Advocate tax cuts in lieu of reforming antiquated tax codes.
North Carolina�s economy sputtered, beginning the year at a 10.2 percent unemployment rate and ending slightly above 9 percent, among the top five states in the nation. Factor in the underemployed, working full time but earning far less than before the recession, and those who have given up looking work and that rate could be 19 percent or more. Rural areas are declining rapidly and losing hope. We�ve seen no plan from any sector to put people to work while our public infrastructure goes neglected, begging for repair, replacement or upgrading that could provide jobs for thousands.
Our �bigger is better� mentality has taken us far off course. Exhibit A is the greedy sellout of college athletics to big donors and television networks. The Atlantic Coast Conference has succumbed to the Siren song of the almighty dollar by taking in schools nobody cares about. UNC Chapel Hill ends the year trying to restore its luster while N.C. State fires a good coach for not putting enough butts in the seats of their expansive stadium. And let�s not overlook the bungled corporate merger between Duke and Progress Energy, demonstrating excesses that damaged two once-proud corporations.
Community hospitals and private doctor practices have been gobbled up by hospital conglomerates that compete for high-dollar services like specialty hospitals, the latest costly diagnostic devices and emergency departments they proclaim as the front door to their facility. The mentally ill fill our jails, wander the streets or get placed in facilities ill equipped to care for them because we conveniently forgot our pledge to provide a safety net for those who cannot care for themselves. Healthcare players, with the possible exception of doctors, make loud protestations about wanting to fix the system but talk is about all you get; most are too busy protecting turfs and worried about losing dollars. Medicaid and Medicare�s problems are bankrupting us.
Public education is changing rapidly but rather than embrace these changes educators drag their feet in adopting new technologies and teaching methods. Only 28 percent of North Carolina�s adults have a college degree but we continue to insist our high school students take a college track curriculum instead of offering career track options.
We end this year disillusioned, distrustful and disgusted with government, business, education, healthcare and most other institutions. Perhaps 2013 will be the year we see leaders more interested in doing right than being right, listening more than talking, people who possess a strong moral compass to bring us back to true North. We can ill afford many more years like 2012.
Tom Campbell is former assistant North Carolina State Treasurer and is creator/host of NC SPIN, a weekly statewide television discussion of N.C. issues airing Sundays at 10:30 p.m. on WJZY-TV and at 10 p.m. on WMYT .


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A familiar foe struck again on The Amazing Race: bad taxi luck. After leaving the Roadblock in second place, snowboarders Amy and Daniel spent the rest of the leg aimlessly driving around Indonesia — in three cabs — putting them dead last. "We were crossing our fingers and hoping it was a non-elimination round," Amy, the show's first double-amputee Racer, tells TVGuide.com. "We couldn't lose all hope until we actually got to the mat and heard what Phil had to say." How long did were they lost for? And do they regret telling Abbie and Ryan the clue in the first leg? Find out below!
Amazing Race's Rob and Sheila: We got screwed overHow long did you drive around before you got a new cab?
Amy: We actually got three cabs. It's funny because we pretty much exhausted our resources. Anything anyone can think or question maybe why we didn't do it, we probably did it. They just didn't show us doing it, but there's not a lot of time to. We were out there for a while doing everything we could think of to find this location.Daniel: We asked if we could call information and the response was, "There's no information." [Laughs]br /> Amy: It was great that they showed that part with the lady. It really showed what we were up against there. We would ask businesses to use their computers and they would say the same thing. You forgot that things don't work like they do over here, where people just have information at their fingertips. We definitely exhausted all our resources.Daniel: The stars weren't aligned for us.None of the three cabbies knew where it was?
Amy: No. In Indonesia, there are hundreds of businesses called Wijaya. They have "Wijaya" in the name. There wasn't just one Wijaya Motors. We stopped off at Wijaya Motors all day long. I think unless the cabbies knew there was an event with a camera crew or something at a certain Wijaya Motors, they wouldn't know to take us to that Wijaya Motors. Obviously the other teams either lucked out with a cabbie who knew or just came across it. How much time did you lose?
Daniel: Four hours.Amy: All of the sudden, it hits you: We have been out here for so long!When did you start to think, "We're most likely last right now?"
Daniel: We had our heads down and were just trying to stay positive and make it to the next challenge. I don't think it was for a while until we said, "We're probably in last place." We are really competitive. We're both competitive snowboarders. Because of that, we both have that competitive instinct, but at some point, when you realize you've driven by the same Wijaya that wasn't the correct one three times and the taxi driver had no clue where he was going, you go, "We may be sunk here, but let's get this thing done and see where we're at."Do you know how far behind Gary and Will you were?
Daniel: We don't know, but it couldn't have been too far.Amy: At one point, we went back to the Roadblock to jump in another cab and we saw them still working on the balloons and we thought, "OK, we still have a chance." But then that cabbie took us on another goose chase and we ended up behind them.
Amazing Race's Phil Keoghan: There's healthier competition this seasonYou guys did well on the tasks. How hard is it getting eliminated for something out of your control when you know you've been doing well?
Daniel: We're just really thrilled that we were able to do so good. I'm just extremely excited for Amy that she was able to get as far and do as well as she did. One of the big concerns for her in preparation was, "Was there going to be an issue with her legs?" And that had absolutely nothing to do with it. I think that was a relief. We were ahead of the pack, so it is disappointing because of the circumstances, but everything we took away from the experience was great. We only gained from this. We didn't lose. Although we're bummed out, it's really a positive thing. It's clichéd and cheesy and it sounds Colorado hippy-dippy, but it's all good!Do you regret telling Abbie and Ryan were the clue was in Shanghai?
Amy: We actually loved competing against Abbie and Ryan because they kept me on my toes, so the speak. They were one of the most competitive teams. We were side-by-side most of the time, or in front of them, which was pretty awesome. It's interesting because you go in saying you're there to win the money, but when you're in the moment, your true instincts come out. For Daniel and me, we're used to working day-to-day helping people. We run a non-profit [Adaptive Action Sports], so we're always helping people. I think it was just our instinct to say, "Hey, it's that direction." We were still thinking that they had to figure out the location, of course. We didn't point it directly out. We certainly were more on the "Let's not create enemies; let's have good sportsman ship" side. I don't know if we could say it's a regret, but it's something that the next day, we realized, "OK, if somebody comes up and asks where the clue is, it's not going to be that easy."Daniel: This occurred to me the other day, but like I said, Amy and I are both competitive snowboarders and we compete in boardercross, so when we race, we're on for max 60 seconds. We're like sprint athletes. So when you put us in a situation where we're on for hours and days at a time, eventually you're going to get to the core of us. We are really competitive, but we're "on" for short bursts. When we got into that situation, I think they were able to get to us in that moment and we let our guard down a little bit. But regret is not a word I would use to describe that situation. That's who we are and that's what comes across. We're thankful for that, at least.Amy: It's been interesting paying attention to some of the fans and online conversation about it. We're surprised just to see how many people support our choice in that matter. It's almost like we were able to show who we are in that moment. I think we were looked at as not just Racers. People seemed to have actually respected that.
Daniel: It created a dialogue within the community of viewers of "Would you do it or wouldn't you?" Surprisingly, there were a lot of people who appreciated the move even though it cost us the opportunity to potentially win the $2 million. I think we're finding that there's such a large support of that that it makes it easier to not second-guess it. It was a big deal for us. The other thing that occurred to us afterward was that it takes a little bit for you to get your stride and to get into game mode. I think some of the other Racers made that transition quicker than we did, but that really jogged us and gave us a kind of knock in the head. I think that next leg, even though we got in a bad cab, showed that we really played hard. I think if we had the opportunity to continue, I think we would've played a different game. That would've been a hard lesson learned.What are you up to now?
Amy: We're working with our non-profit. My race outside of The Amazing Race has really just begun. I'm trying out for the U.S. snowboard team. Our organization helped get snowboarding into the 2014 Paralympic Games. I'm also right now one of the top-ranked adaptive female snowboarders in the world, so I'm training for the U.S. team and my goal is to make the 2014 Paralympics. Within our organization, our goal is to train the top snowboarders to also make the team.


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The Democratic-controlled Senate is on a path toward defeating tea party attempts to dismantle President Barack Obama's health care law, despite an overnight talkathon on the chamber's floor led by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Democratic-controlled Senate is on a path toward defeating tea party attempts to dismantle President Barack Obama's health care law, despite an overnight talkathon on the chamber's floor led by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
The freshman Cruz and other conservative Republicans were trying to delay a must-pass spending bill, but were virtually sure to lose a test vote on that legislation planned for later Wednesday.
Since Tuesday afternoon, Cruz ? with occasional remarks by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and other GOP conservatives ? have controlled the Senate floor and railed against Obamacare. By 5 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Cruz and his allies had spoken for more than 14 hours, the eighth longest since precise record-keeping began in 1900.
That surpassed March's 12-hour, 52-minute speech by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., like Cruz a tea party lawmaker and potential 2016 presidential contender. Paul was demanding information on the Obama administration's use of drones to monitor Americans.
Republican leaders and several rank-and-file GOP lawmakers had opposed Cruz's time-consuming effort with the end of the fiscal year looming. They fear that Speaker John Boehner and House Republicans won't have enough time to respond to the Senate's eventual action.
The House-passed measure is required to prevent a government shutdown after midnight Monday and contains a tea party-backed provision to "defund" implementation of what's come to be known as "Obamacare". Cruz is opposed to moving ahead on it under debate terms choreographed by Democrats to defeat the Obamacare provision.
The mechanics of advancing the bill were overshadowed by Cruz's filibuster, which included a reading of Dr. Seuss' "Green Eggs and Ham" to his daughters back home in Texas.
"When Americans tried it, they discovered they did not like green eggs and ham and they did not like Obamacare either," Cruz said. "They did not like Obamacare in a box, with a fox, in a house or with a mouse. It is not working."
Cruz's effort doesn't have a chance to succeed, however, both because Senate rules are working against him and because many of his GOP colleagues think his quixotic effort combines poor strategy with political grandstanding at the expense of other Republicans. Some of Cruz's leading allies include organizations like the Senate Conservatives Fund and the Club for Growth that frequently give financial help to conservatives challenging more moderate Republicans in primaries.
At issue is a temporary spending bill required to keep the government fully open after the Oct. 1 start of the new budget year. Hard-charging conservatives like Cruz see the measure as an opportunity to use a must-pass measure to try to derail Obama's signature health care law.
Under pressure from Cruz and tea party activists, House GOP leaders added the anti-Obamacare language to the funding measure despite fears it could spark a partial government shutdown that could hurt Republicans in the run-up to midterm elections next year ? just as GOP-driven government shutdowns in 1995-96 help revive the political fortunes of President Bill Clinton.
"I just don't believe anybody benefits from shutting the government down, and certainly Republicans don't," said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. "We learned that in 1995."
Cruz took the floor at 2:41 p.m. Tuesday, vowing to speak until he's "no longer able to stand." He filled the time in a largely empty chamber, criticizing the law and comparing the fight to the battle against the Nazis. He talked about the Revolutionary War, the Washington ruling class and his Cuban-born father who worked as a cook.
Missing from the debate were top Republicans like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Cruz's home-state GOP colleague John Cornyn, both of whom say they will vote later this week to cut off debate on the funding bill. That "cloture" vote is crucial because it would allow top Senate Democrat Harry Reid of Nevada to kill the Obamacare provision on a simple majority vote instead of the 60 votes often needed for victory in the Senate.
Democrats control the chamber with 54 votes.
"I think we'd all be hard-pressed to explain why we were opposed to a bill that we're in favor of," McConnell told reporters Tuesday. "And invoking cloture on a bill that defunds Obamacare ... strikes me as a no-brainer."
If Cruz employs all of the delaying tactics at his disposal, the Senate might not vote to pass the measure until Sunday. But with the fiscal year set to expire at midnight Monday, McConnell warned that extended delays could hamper the GOP-controlled House's ability to send a pared-down measure back to the Senate in time to try to salvage some kind of victory, perhaps on a bipartisan proposal to eliminate a new Obamacare tax on medical devices.
The overnight debate included some diversions.
Lee discussed a childhood accident in which his foot was run over by a car driven by his father. Cruz recalled his first Christmas dinner with his future wife's vegetarian parents, which he described as "just like any other Christmas dinner except the entree never comes."
Despite his tenacity, it seemed Cruz would not surpass the longest Senate speech on record, a 24-hour, 18-minute filibuster by South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond against the civil rights act in 1957.
Senate rules required the chamber to have an initial vote on the spending bill by early Wednesday afternoon ? a roll call that would end Cruz's remarks short of the record.


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From a design standpoint, the American license plate is a mess — some states' efforts are simple and appealing, but others are visual disasters. Ken Carbone of Fast Company commissioned a few designs he thinks'll clean things up. —Ed.
"Back to the future" best describes the new license plate issued by New York in April. The "Empire Gold" design now appearing on streets has been deemed "quite unappealing" by more than 80 percent of New Yorkers polled by WCBS-TV.
New Yorkers: Consider yourselves lucky.
Compared to some states, New York's design is a prize winner. Plate designs have become graphically congested and legibility is often compromised. From a design standpoint, I think license plates fall into three categories:
The Acceptable, the Unfortunate, and the So-Bad-It's-Good
Connecticut: This plate is so harmless it says nothing in the right way.
Florida: This is a "more is more" design where everything is as important as it can be.
Utah: With two state mottos, snowy peaks, a skier, and Native American petroglyphs, the only things missing are images of the Utah Jazz, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Great Salt Lake.
In many states, license plates can be a form of personal branding. The state of Washington offers no less than 45 designs from which to choose. If you want fellow motorists to know you're a Mason, a firefighter, or a square dancer, there's a plate for you. Custom plates are revenue generators for budget strapped states, so I applaud the strategy — but the designs could be better.
Rethinking the Problem
When it comes to the standard issue, I asked a few talented designers from around the country to reimagine their state license plates and to experiment with the possibilities for three designs: Texas, Illinois, and California. And here they are.
Craig Minor in Houston took the big, bad, "Don't Mess with Texas" approach but with a bilingual accent. It's a roughneck solution that makes the state's current plate look terribly silly.
Bart Crosby from Chicago strikes a contemporary note with speed and style. Left to right across the top of the plate are color coded city, state, and emission stickers that are read with a hand held scanner. The result is a "Formula 1" alternative to the muddled "Land of Lincoln" clunker.
Stefan Bucher from Los Angeles offers a 10-digit design that expands the pool of available license plates. He loads it with personal information about the driver that is ideal for our networking culture. The frame is color-coded to distinguish political leaning. A regional mark allows for "faster stereotyping," and he adds a QR code for a touch of edgy technology.
As for New York, I can imagine a stripped-down design with minimal graphics exposing the raw plate. Numbers are punched through a recycled alloy imbedded with registration information. This will complement the metallic trim on all automobile makes and models.
These forward-looking plates aren't too far away from reality. Although New York's plates — like many other states — are still stamped by inmates at the Auburn Correctional Center, there are technological advances in plate production that are changing the face of plate design. 3M's Digital License Plate (DLP) System integrates vehicle registration and logistical data with automated, on demand plate production. And license plates are also entering the social media landscape. QuickCarFlirting.com is a free social networking site that is, according to founder Sharanne Pearson, "revolutionizing the way singles meet." QCF uses license plates to help drivers connect with people they spot in traffic jams and parking lots. (It looks suspicious and has a slight air of predation about it, but...)
Current license plate design is a sadly low-tech solution for our high-tech cars, and not even a Tesla escapes having one slapped on to the bumper. Although not the highest priority for the advancement of car culture, I think some creative and innovative opportunities are just around the bend.
Ken Carbone is a graphic designer whose clients have included Tiffany & Co., W.L Gore, Herman Miller, PBS, Christie's, Nonesuch Records, the W Hotel Group, and The Taubman Company.
Fast Company is a magazine/website charting the evolution of business through a unique focus on creative individuals who spark change in the marketplace. This story originally appeared on FC.com on June 3, 2010.


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All Menyaru wants is to Save Tripa
Sumatran Orang-utan, Menyaru celebrated his ninth birthday today with his family and lots of fruit cake. But it wasn't all cake and presents as the Zoo delivered a strong message about the current crisis unfolding in the Tripa Peatland Reserve in Sumatra.
Zoos Victoria's Conservation Director, Rachel Lowry says Sumatran Orang-utans are even more endangered now than they were when Menyaru was born. Their population numbers are dropping drastically as they lose their rainforest habitat to rapidly expanding palm oil plantations.
The Tripa Peatland Forest is only one-sixth of the size it was in the 1970s, and the population of orang-utans in the remaining 10,000 hectares has dropped from more than 2,000 just 20 years ago to fewer than 200 now.
In the past six months, approximately 15% of the remaining 10,000 hectares has been illegally cleared, and more than 20 fires are raging in the reserve.
Rachel Lowry says the major reason for this unsustainable rainforest loss is the demand by food manufacturers worldwide for a cheap edible oil.
Aceh-based primatologist and conservationist Ian Singleton says the Tripa situation is critical: "For too long it's been business as usual for the palm oil industry, to destroy forests and ignore Indonesia's national laws. The time has come for the legal system to start challenging these practices, and for the destruction of the Sumatran Orang-utan habitat to stop…immediately!
"As we have seen in Tripa to date, public pressure has a major role to play in making change happen, but even then the destruction is still going on, and if these companies cannot be halted immediately the orang-utans there will be gone by the end of 2012. They have to be stopped right now!" he states.
Because Menyaru already has everything he needs for a healthy future, Zoos Victoria is making a gift on his behalf to the Tripa orang-utans: funding for two motor bikes to enable conservationists there to seek out and assist injured or orphaned orang-utans, innocent victims of the current crisis.
How you can help:
Write to your favourite food manufacturer and ask them to only source Certified Sustainable Palm oil.
Visit Ian Singleton's Sumatran Orang-utan Project website to keep to date with the latest from Tripa and how you can help.
- Visit the Don't Palm Us Off webpage for more information on how you can help support the campaign.
- Sign the petition for the restoration of Tripa


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Using custom fonts for cfimage in Lucee
In the CFML function imageDrawText() and tag <cfimage action="captcha">, you ca enter a font to be used for the text output. Unfortunately, this font must first be available to the JVM (eg. Tomcat) to be able to use it. I did have the TrueType font file available, But I did not want to manually add the font file to every Lucee instance. That's not portable code...
Luckily, I found a workaround by programmatically adding the font file to the java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment:
<cfset oFont = createObject('java', 'java.awt.Font') /> <cfset stream = createObject('java', 'java.io.FileInputStream').init(expandPath('./SoftwareFont.ttf')) /> <cfset sFont = oFont.createFont(oFont.TRUETYPE_FONT, stream) /> <cfset createObject('java', 'java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment').getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().registerFont(sFont) />
Fix for "the VM is generalized" start-up error in Microsoft Azure
Posted by Paul Klinkenberg in MS Azure on September 13, 2017
In the old Azure portal, you could simply stop a "Classic" Linux VM without doing
waagent -deprovision+user, and then create a snapshot from it.
That snapshot could then be succesfully used to create new VM instances. But, as I found out the hard way, this does not work with Azure Linux VMs through the new portal / new style VMs.
So I ended up with a VM image that can only created un-bootable VMs, AND the template VM itself could not be started anymore because it was generalized. The well-known error "Failed to start virtual machine 'templateVM1'. Error: Operation 'start' is not allowed on VM 'templateVM1' since the VM is generalized." occurs when I try to start the VM.
Luckily, I found a simple way to bypass the "since the VM is generalized" message.
1) go to the "Disks" page in the Azure Portal:
Mod_cfml now has full nginx support!
A while back, I needed to set up a new Ubuntu server for Lucee web hosting. Luckily, I came across a great install script, which not only installed Tomcat and Lucee, but also set up nginx and mod_cfml.
Having developed the 1.1 version of mod_cfml, I noticed not all options for mod_cfml were yet available in the scripts. So I added path_info support, and now also added support for the X-webserver-context header.
The X-webserver-context header makes sure Tomcat / mod_cfml only creates one Host for each server-block/VirtualHost/web-context. Without this header, if you have multiple hostnames pointing to the same web context (eg server_name *.mysite.com;), Tomcat would create a new Host for each new hostname, which can take up quite some resources.
These additions have now been added into the github repository, and have become the basis for the new mod_cfml installation steps for nginx.
Mod_cfml now supports Apache httpd, IIS, and nginx, on all operating systems. I think we have come a long way now. If you're still missing something, let us know at modcfml.org.
Enable PATH_INFO on Nginx with Lucee and Railo
Update, 2 hours after posting (11-aug-2015 15:30): I pasted an older code snippet. The correct one is underneath. (nginx: [emerg] "proxy_set_header" directive is not allowed here ...)
While setting up a new Ubuntu server, I decided to install Nginx instead of Apache httpd, having been jealous at the easy config files nginx has. I was really happy to find out Pete Freitag already created install scripts for Nginx + Lucee + Tomcat + some other goodies.
One of the first problems I encountered after install, while moving existing sites to this new server, was the absence of cgi.PATH_INFO. Especially on this blog, it is used on each page, except for the homepage.
It took me a few hours of Googling and trying, and almost gave up, since all examples on how to enable it included the use of fastcgi. Which is not what I am using: I am proxying to Tomcat.
Main problem I encountered was the fact that the PATH_INFO header was just not proxied to (or picked up at?) the Tomcat backend, even while adding "proxy_set_header PATH_INFO /bla/bla" to the config.
Then, it suddenly hit me. For the modcfml project, contributor Bilal Soylu added support for PATH_INFO to his AJP connector for IIS, called the BonCode connector. AJP does not natively support sending the path_info header to the AJP backend.
What Bilal did in the BonCode connector, is adding a request header xajp-path-info, which contains the actual path_info on the IIS side. He also made sure the 3 opensource CFML engines Lucee, Railo, and BlueDragon, accept this incoming header as the fallback path_info source. For example, see Lucee's cgi.path_info implementation at Github. The header is supported in Railo since May 2012, according to the JIRA ticket.
So that's cool: we can use a different header to send to Tomcat, which will still be picked up as regular path_info by Lucee/Railo/BlueDragon!
The following nugget should be placed somewhere in your nginx config:
set $pathinfo ""; # if the extension .cfm or .cfc is found, followed by a slash and optional extra if ($uri ~ "^(.+?\.cf[mc])(/.*)") { # remember the filepath without path_info set $script $1; set $pathinfo $2; # rewrite the url to match the filepath wthout path_info rewrite ^.+$ $script break; } # set the custom path_info header proxy_set_header XAJP-PATH-INFO $pathinfo;
After a reload of Nginx, your path_info should be working! If it isn't, let me know.
Mod_cfml 1.1 is out – furiously fast, bugs smashed, and new features!
Mod_cfml is software which shares webserver configuration with Tomcat, eliminating the need to configure hosts (or websites) in Tomcat.
I am very proud to say that I had a major role in the current new release. I rewrote the Apache httpd component in native C, added new features, fixed bugs, and generally improved speed by a factor 5 to 10. That's at the moment when it's actually used by the way; on the first hit of a website after the server started up.
The Tomcat part is much improved:
- Speed: creating a new host context now takes 1 second at most (5 – 10 times faster then before), because jar scanning is now disabled by default.
- Speed: "waiting for context files", the slow part of previous mod_cfml, is gone.
- Speed and memory footprint: only one Tomcat Host container is created per Apache/IIS virtualhost. All aliases / default site hosts / IP-based hosts, are now added as aliases. Which takes about 200 milliseconds.
- Thread safety bugs fixed
Apache connector improvements:
- The Apache 2.4 connector is rewritten in C. No more need to install Perl, just compile or drop in the mod_cfml.so file, and add a few lines of config!
- Full support for path_info. Previously, URLs like /some/page.cfm/id/123 would not work in Tomcat. With mod_cfml 1.1, now they do! Thanks to a great idea which was already implemented in the BonCode connector.
- Security: a shared secret key implementation is added, to prevent unauthorized context creation.
- Virtual directories, or "Aliases" in Apache, are now by default sent from Apache to Lucee, for the current request.
IIS connector:
- Bilal Soylu added the same features in the IIS BonCode connector, which can be downloaded from http://tomcatiis.riaforge.org
The updated Documentation and Installation instructions can be found at www.modcfml.org.
So… what are you waiting for? Install! Upgrade! And have fun with CFML!
p.s. if you're interested, the source code can be found at https://github.com/utdream/mod_cfml


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Further details have emerged on International Film Trust (IFT), the new sales company that Screendaily reported on exclusively last month. The first two titles to debut in Cannes will be King Of The Kastle and Exists.
Backed by Michael Benaroya of Benaroya Pictures and D Todd Shepherd and George Waud of Miscellaneous Entertainment, IFT has brought in Cannes-bound president Ariel Veneziano and head of sales Christian De Gallegos, while industry veteran Peter Wetherell joins as head of operations.
IFT will handle sales of titles produced by Benaroya Pictures and Miscellaneous Entertainment on a non-exclusive basis as well as third party product. It is understood that Killer Films, Richard Saperstein and Cassian Elwes will be among the feeder producers. The enterprise launches with an initial $15m acquisitions fund.
Alessandro Tanaka and Brian Gatewood wrote and will direct King Of The Kastle, a comedy to star Clive Owen as a philanderer blackmailed by a teenager. Jacki Weaver is also attached to star in the Benaroya Pictures production. Jonathan Gordon and Benaroya are producing and have earmarked an autumn start in Georgia, USA.
Exists is IFT's first acquisition and is a horror-thriller directed by Eduardo Sanchez based on a screenplay by Jamie Nash about friends in the Texas woods who are stalked by the mythical Bigfoot.
The project is in post and marks the second co-production between Court Five and Haxan Films. Robin Cowie, Jane Fleming, Mark Ordesky and Andy Jenkins produced and Reed Frerichs, Gregg Hale, George Waud and Shepherd served as executive producers. WME Global and Stuart Rosenthal at Bloom Hergott negotiated the deal for the producers.
Veneziano most recently served as president and CEO of Recreation Media and before that was president at Icon Entertainment International. He has served in executive roles at GreeneStreet Films International and Alliance Atlantis Communications.
De Gallegos arrives from Voltage Pictures where he served as vp of sales and distribution.
Wetherell has represented filmmakers and financiers for many year and formed Magus Entertainment in 1996 to provide senior advisory and executive producer services.
"As producers now acting as sales agents, we know what is the most important service to provide to our producing partners – reliable estimates and a sound distribution strategy," said Benaroya.
"Having worked with Michael on Parts Per Billion we were kindred spirits in wanting to find a good partner to represent our films," said Shepherd and Waud. "By launching IFT we have found a way to share our goals with other top producers in town and under Ariel's guiding hand feel we have made the first step in the right direction."
"The diverse and highly skilled pool of producers behind this exciting new operation has demonstrated a continued ability to attract fresh material and top talent, while maintaining responsible budgets – a perfect recipe to stand out in today's demanding worldwide marketplace," said Veneziano.


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