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Photo-sharing company allows customers to load and view more photos, much faster, with dramatic database improvements powered by SanDisk.
The Challenge
Lockerz is one of the top Internet media-sharing websites in the world. It draws high volumes of site traffic and gets more than 50 million requests a day.
The success of Lockerz and other photo-sharing sites hinges on site availability and accessibility. Site response time is directly related to customer return and retention.
Lockerz's SQL Server database performance faced an access pattern that presented a daunting challenge to maintaining high performance:
Daniel Marashlian, CTO of Lockerz, knew that his challenge was to find a way to eliminate the bottleneck of Lockerz's slow disk drives.
The Solution
As Daniel investigated the problem, he contacted a colleague who was the director of a bank's I.T. department and had vast experience with disk I/O bottlenecks. His colleague told him the bank had benchmarked SanDisk's Fusion ioMemoryTM solutions against their huge SAN with "amazing results" and highly recommended Daniel check out the Fusion ioMemory ioDrive® cards.
"After a lot of research and discussions with other technology professionals, I concluded that SanDisk doesn't really have any competition," said Daniel.
Eliminating Disk Queuing
By implementing ioDrive cards on its database servers, Daniel was able to take Lockerz from ever-increasingly clogged request queues to a streamlined, super-fast website and database that can handle even Lockerz's global-sized request loads.
The ioDrive cards eliminated the queuing created by write operations. Disk queue length shrunk by more than 10 times—from 2.5 to 0.2 seconds. Database response time improved by 10 times on average, dropping from one second to as low as 10 milliseconds. Daniel estimated this doubled Lockerz's overall database load capacity.
Finally, the average load time for requests made from the IIS web servers was reduced by almost four times, dropping from an average of 1.8 seconds to as low as 0.4 seconds.
Daniel told us, "Before we had multiple seconds of queuing on the disk, but now the disk queue has more or less gone away. The ioDrive cards handle all the random reads almost like RAM and, at worst, write queues last about a second instead of the minute it used to take. Our performance monitoring graphs used to look like a mountain range, but now they look like the Great Plains."
Daniel Marashlian
CTO, Lockerz
An additional benefit that Daniel noted was the improved reliability of Lockerz's systems. With just two servers, Lockerz created a complete, mirrored database layer.
Daniel said, "When you have parts that move, you have a higher instance of failure. Implementing the ioDrive cards eliminated a lot of moving components in our disk arrays and improves the reliability of the system."
Improving Customer Conversion and Retention
For Lockerz users, any delay in viewing or uploading photos is unacceptable. The improved database performance reduced the wait time between a photo-upload request and the actual display of the photo by 2/3.
As a global site there are no real "off-business hours" in which to tune and optimize performance or work to anticipate coming performance spikes. The ioDrive cards improved both the performance and the availability of the site.
"Google and Facebook have demonstrated how critical 24x7x365 global availability is for customer retention," said Daniel. "With SanDisk, everything on our site is just a lot faster. Data loads quickly and without perceptible slowdown under even the heaviest spikes in traffic."
Competitive Advantage
Daniel told us that SanDisk has greatly helped Lockerz in the race for competitive advantage. Installing ioDrive cards powered its performance and availability past one of its primary competitors. Another primary competitor "didn't touch their servers for a year. They just focused on doing whatever it took to achieve peak performance to assure that their site was always accessible," Daniel said. "We were able to match the value of that investment with the purchase of a couple ioDrive cards. Meanwhile we've developed the most robust photo-sharing API on the market."
Expert Implementation Support
Lockerz's need for the ioDrive cards was pressing, so it initially installed and moved just the database files. Once the I/O bottleneck was tamed, Daniel took advantage of SanDisk's expert services to help him move all web log files onto the ioDrive cards and optimize Lockerz's architecture for the best performance and availability.
Daniel said, "Initially, we just moved the database files to the drives, but a SanDisk solutions engineer helped us optimize our system for even greater performance and efficiency—something other SSD vendors rarely provide."
2 x servers, Dual Intel 5500, QuadCore, 48GB RAM
Replaced the two 4 disk arrays with two 160GB Fusion ioMemory ioDrive cards in each server.
Implementing the Fusion ioMemory solution gave Lockerz the following benefits:
"The ioDrive cards delivered the best performance and reliability for the money," Daniel said. "Our only other option would have been to implement a SAN solution. That would have meant adding hundreds of disks and by extension, many more failure points. The cost savings on the ioDrive cards over a SAN delivered an immediate 100% ROI."
About Lockerz
Lockerz' mission is to be the homepage for men and women ages 13 to 30, building a community of trendsetters and tastemakers who love to shop, play and connect on the web. As a members-only site, Lockerz has grown to nearly 19 million members worldwide, offering major discounts on the best fashions, electronics, music and more. Members earn PTZ® ("Pointz") by watching videos, listening to music, answering daily questions, and through social commerce. Lockerz PTZ are then used to lower the prices of merchandise at will. Based in Seattle, Lockerz was founded in 2009 by former technology and retail executive Kathy Savitt. Lockerz is backed by Liberty Media Corporation and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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Florida is close to selling the same number of football season tickets as it did a season ago.
Florida is close to selling the same number of football season tickets as it did a season ago.
But that hasn't stopped a campaign to try to ensure Florida Field is filled to capacity for all six home dates this season.
"We have a lot that is in the pipeline right now to try to make a final push before the first game on August 31 (against Toledo)," Florida associate athletics director of external affairs Mike Hill said. "We feel great about the position that we're in right now based on the numbers, but we still have more room to sell."
That includes Florida opening The Swamp on Aug. 17 for a select-a-seat event from noon to 2 p.m. during UF fan day. In addition, Florida announced Friday it will open four preseason practices (Aug. 15, 17, 19 and 20), creating a buzz that could result in increased single-game ticket sales.
Hill said Florida has had a 90-percent renewal rate on last year's season ticket base of 53,000, in addition to some new orders. Florida's student ticket allotment of 21,500 sold out last week.
"We're hovering right around that 50, 51(thousand) mark now so we're closing in on that same number from a year ago, which is great," Hill said. "We're really pleased with that, but, that said, the job isn't complete."
To remind fans to renew season tickets, Florida launched an aggressive social media campaign on platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. Another new initiative this season included a recent graduate program. In the recent graduate program, students who have received a degree from UF within four years (2009-13) can purchase season tickets for $200. That comes out to $25 per game for six games, plus a $50 Gator booster contribution.
"We carved out 1,000 seats for recent graduates and essentially have sold those out," Hill said. "I think we've got at last count 40 tickets out of 1,000, and we'll I'm sure sell those out before kickoff."
Not long ago, full capacity at Florida Field was the norm. The Gators had a string of 137 straight sellouts from 1989-2011. But times and technology have changed. For many, high-definition television and better access to Wi-Fi have made watching the game at home more appealing than sweating it out live at The Swamp. Florida averaged 87,590 in paid attendance last season, about 97.5 percent capacity of the 90,000-seat Florida Field.
It's a trend that's carried over to all 14 schools in the Southeastern Conference. Nine of 14 schools saw a dip in home football attendance last season, according to a Chattanooga Times Free Press report.
Hill sits on a SEC fan experience committee that includes Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity and Mississippi State athletic director Scott Stricklin. This past season, the committee successfully pushed through a change in replay policy to show multiple replays for calls that are under review or controversial.
"Before you weren't permitted to do that," Hill said. "The idea is that the in-stadium experience is something that is competing now with the living room experience, and you get a million replays at home. So we need to do a better job at the stadium with that."
Improving wireless connectivity at Florida Field, Hill said, is more tricky. But Florida began the process of trying to improve signal strength within the stadium last season.
"That is a high priority on our radar," Hill said. "I don't know if this season we're going to be at 100-percent satisfactory in terms of the connectivity we can deliver to fans, because of just the massive amount of broadband space that's being used now by fans. (It's) not just texting and making calls, but using their mobile devices to transmit photographs, images and video. So that is something we are considering to try to ramp up even more."
Another issue impacting SEC football attendance — fans aren't traveling like they used to. When Florida didn't sell out last season, more often than not, it was due to an opposing team being unable to sell its allotment of tickets. A home team has about a week window to try to distribute those unsold tickets.
"A school that might have brought 5, 6, 7,000 might only bring only half that now, or 2,000," Hill said. "So you've got an additional number of seats that opponents would have occupied that are on the market, that will be on the market. So that gives us more inventory so you have to work harder to push that."
The SEC's $3 billion in television contracts with ESPN and CBS have brought unprecedented revenues to the league. But it's also come at a price to the fan experience. Television has dictated start times through the league that aren't always conducive to fan comfort. Florida's season opener will kick off at 12:21 p.m.
It's the third time in four seasons that the Gators have had an afternoon kickoff for a home opener. August and September are traditionally the hottest and most humid months in Gainesville.
"We would not by choice select a 12:21 kickoff for a game on August 31," Hill said. "While we're happy that the game is going to be televised, we're not happy about the fact that the heat could be an issue.
"We've expressed our concern to the league. We've expressed our concern moving forward so that there is at least some consideration factored into that. The heat has to be a mitigating factor in these decisions."
Despite those obstacles, Hill said he expects sellouts this season for home games against Tennessee, Vanderbilt and rival Florida State. UF's home game against Arkansas on Oct. 5 also is closing in on full capacity.
"The fan response has been very good again, very positive in terms of renewal," Hill said. "We're making that one final push here to try and close the game to try to hit the number that we were at a year ago."

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Microsoft announced its latest TPC-H benchmark score, which was quite impressive. Microsoft's latest score—posted on May 21, 2007—was 60,359 queries per hour (QphH) @3t with a Price/QphH of $32.60 compared with Oracle's best score—posted on May 14, 2007—of 37,813 QphH @3t with a Price/QphH of $38.00. Almost double the performance for a lower cost per query? Sign me up!
A few years ago, many people questioned Microsoft's ability to handle enterprise-class performance needs. Today, I find that most people, even Microsoft naysayers, are willing to accept that Windows and SQL Server solutions can be scaled to meet their needs. Microsoft naysayers now focus on other reasons for not liking Microsoft. Microsoft's score should reassure SQL Server customers who might have lingering doubts about SQL Server's ability to handle their performance needs.
Impressive TPC benchmarks are important and interesting, but realistically most customers don't need the amount of horsepower displayed in these tests, and the customers that do need that much horsepower have such specialized needs that a generic TPC test is probably of little relevance to them. However, relational database management system (RDBMS) vendors love to play the TPC leapfrog game. Now that Microsoft has trumped Oracle's TPC score only a week after Oracle posted its record breaking number, I can only wonder how long it will take Oracle to leapfrog Microsoft's score.
The inner child in me can't help but get excited about the big and impressive performance database tuning numbers that vendors put in front of me. I'm especially susceptible because I've earned my living as an RDBMS performance tuning geek for most of my professional life. I suspect that anyone tempted to daydream about Panasonic's 103" plasma TV trumping Samsung's previous "world's biggest TV" at 102" might also be susceptible.
However, the more mature IT professional lurking within me then rears its ugly head and wonders when vendors will realize that not all customers want or need server environments that cost the better part of $2 million and instead provide benchmarks that make more sense for the rest of us. Perhaps this won't happen in my lifetime, but I hope and pray for the sake of future generations of DBAs that someday benchmarks will be meaningful and relevant again. Until then, I'll be at Best Buy lustfully staring at giant TV's. For more information about the recent scores and TPC-H benchmarks, go to http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_last_ten_results.asp or http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_result_detail.asp?id=107052101.


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Duplicate? Delete it! Brought to you by.. meh!
You get into a series and you think, "Huh. This looks like it's going to be good!", then WHAM! A curve ball and it has you yelling at the book and throwing it on the ground.. Cursing the fact that you ever read the series and that if the manga-ka hadn't taken that one turn of event.. you, probably, would've really liked the series.
Has this happen to you? It has for me! If you're like me, name your top five reasons that make you stop reading the series.
Mine (count down from 5):
5) For whatever reason, the character(s) starts to become retarded. They were all, "Go, go!" in the beginning and then, all of a sudden, they take a turn for the worse and become annoying. Inoue from Bleach did that to me (but, I still like Bleach.. because I can ignore her).
4) When the series starts heading away from the original plot. One moment you're going along with the characters, laughing ('cause it's a comedy).. the next moment you're going, "Waaaah! Why did so-and-so have to die!?" Honestly, don't turn into a drama/tragedy out of nowhere!
3) When the airheaded female lead keeps accepting everything horrible and then has a break down. I'm so tired of them. Please.. come up with better female leads!! I'm begging you!
2) When the series becomes so jumbled and tangled that is has you going, "Wait.. what?"
1) When they (the manga-ka's) kill off my favorite character. My favorite character sometimes, isn't the main crew, it's a side character.. and the manga-ka's kill them off!! I can't STAND it and (since I'm stubborn) I will stop reading the series. I mean, the series was only good because of that character, why continue with it now that he or she is gone?
Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide
the manga Dazzle did this. How could she kill him off!? So, annoying!
And it just keeps esculating..
5. When a female character desides to love the best friend instead of the main character
4. When the bad guy is supposed to be dead but isnt
3. When the person i like turns out to be a bad guy
2. when they kill off my favorite character
1. Gender bending of my favorite character
5. If the ending is shitty.
4. If the characters have no development.
3. If the plot is time consuming.
2. If it's unoriginal and cliche.
1. If there's too much violence and sex.
5. Uneventful plot, aka, doesn't have that "hook" at the beginning and or leading up to a predicable ending...
4. Changing characters personality to the point where you dislike them, and all thats associated with them.
3. Cliche moments and characters we know and despise
2. Vulgar to the point where its absurd!
1. If there is a better manga series out there that grabs your attention over the manga series your reading now (since we probably read multiple manga chapters roughly around the same time.)
1.If the heroine just KEEPS HITTING the main character for everything he does or if she just hits the main character although he said that it is a misunderstanding..I would just call the police, cause she just can't understand until shit hits the van, than she always goes ''sorry, I'm soooo sorry''..Like dude you kept hitting me half to death and now you just say ''sorry'' ?A sorry isn't going to cut it.
2.If there is too much Ecchi that disturbs my reading..
3.If the Main character is a pussy who can't stand for himself, without getting stronger or when he is strong but keeps being a pussy..
4. If the main character is a girl (They tend to have personalities i just can't like.)..
5.If the story is boring..
Awake and kicking...
1. if the story is boring at the beginning (even if it gets interesting in the middle, I mean, I won't continue reading it if it's boring at the start)
2. if the speech bubbles have too many words in it (let's see, an example would be Detective Conan)
3. if the story just keep dragging on and eventually off its main point (again, Detective Conan, wasn't he looking for the men in black? now you get this load of murder case shit)
4. if the art contains too many chibis (like every page they throw in a little chibi, that tends to happen to some manhwa according to myself)
5. if the girls in the story are really annoying (serious, can they stop blushing or being frightened at whenever something happens?)
今宵 "Love or Die?"
1 if the story gets really boring .
2 if the drawing is really bad.
3 if the characters are shit.
4 if there is too much unnecessary stuff.
5 if i dont like the story .
Egypt ! :((
Well, first turn-off for me would be lousy drawings. Second, if that manga is like any other manga. I want excitement and redundant stories doesn't provide that.
I'm back!
5. bad characters
4. complex plots that take a second read to fully understand
3. bad drawings
2. characters that are whinny
1. slow moving plots really annoy me
idk i have not stop a maga
Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide
in kitchen princes i dint stop wing sora died
and cant find tokyo mew mew book 6 so i dont stop
5. When an unimportant bad guy is dying and they decide to have a flashback (bleach)
4. When the bad guy turns out to be someone from the heroes past
3. too much flashbacks
2. Make me want to care about a new character that just died
1. Terrible ending
1. TOO MUCH DRAMA (mostly romance animes)
2. Wasted too much of my time reading it...
3. If it gets boring...
4. too unrealistic ( the main characters winning every time ex. Shugo Chara)
5. disturbing
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1. A character is so stupid they make me want to jump into their world and beat them with a smart stick.
2. A character gets kidnapped so many times that I start thinking their love interest should just let them be kidnapped and not save them anymore.
3. I can't tell two or more characters apart.
4. I realize I've read it before.
And number 5. I saw the anime first so now my brain is "ruined" for reading the original, which sucks because I like to read then watch but I often don't realize that there's a manga out there till its too late.
"Next time you point a finger, I'll point you to the mirror"
1. When it takes too long for a chapter to be released = doesn't give a shit about it anymore
2. Continuous STUPIDITY.
3. Cliche stories ...
4. If i do not understand wtf is going on in the first chapter
5. When the anime is better than the manga
it\'s the last chance to feel again.
5. When characters seem to have the same personalities. Ex: Person #1 is bloodthirsty, and he dies only to have Person #34 just as the same...Seriously...not everyone's a freak of nature that has to brutally massacre everything....
4. When the main character is a bit to stupid. Ex: Unable to see that a female character is crushing on them, or if they're completely incompetent at learning from their mistakes in fighting sequences.
3. Female characters that are whiny and cry about everything. Hell, even the ones that make the main character always worry about them and have to protect them. Seriously, gtfo of the area when people are fighting. 'Nuff said.
2. Storylines that tend to have the Dragon Ball Z effect. Turmoil -> Fight = Peace. Wait! Oh no, another bad guy! DUN DUN DUN! Rinse and repeat. Just because a series ends soon doesn't make it a bad one.
1. *drum roll* Bad guys that have the ulterior motive of world domination, the obliteration of said world, or the combination of the two, or the ones that just say, "I did it for the LULS!" /sigh
Touch the sky. Feel the Heavens. Open your mind. Become the "angel".


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2013 Annual Meeting Theme: Interrogating Inequality: Linking Micro and Macro
108th ASA Annual Meeting, August 10-13
Hilton New York and Sheraton New York, New York City, NY
No set of questions is more fundamental to sociology than those about inequality—what is it, why is it, how does it come about, and what can we do to change it? The theme for the 2013 meetings represents a promising new effort to address these core questions of our discipline. We will focus on to coming to grips with how inequality, in all its multi-dimensional complexity, is produced in contemporary societies. To do so, we will focus in particular on linking micro and macro processes and perspectives on inequality.
The first part of this task is to collectively interrogate the diverse range of inequality processes that characterize contemporary societies. These include the familiar processes of socioeconomic inequality but also the cross-cutting inequalities based on significant group identities, such as gender, race, ethnicity, or sexuality. They include culturally and interpersonally based forms of inequality such as social status in addition to material forms of inequality based on positions of power and resources.
We need to ask, what are the mechanisms by which each of these types of inequality is produced? Are the mechanisms that produce one type inequality similar or different than those that create other types of inequality? Are the mechanisms that initially create a form of inequality different from those that sustain it? And, most importantly, how do these different types of inequality and ways of making inequality interpenetrate and affect one another to shape the social organization of society and life chances within it? Social status, for instance, is a form of social inequality based on shared cultural beliefs but that interpenetrates material systems of inequality and plays an important role in group identity based inequalities like gender and race. Through what processes does this work? How can we intervene in those processes? How do these processes interact to create the intersectionality that people experience in their everyday lives?
The search for mechanisms by which different types of inequality are "made" leads to my second and major goal for the program—to alert us to the need to look across micro and macro levels of analysis to find answers to essential questions about the mechanisms that create, that reproduce, or that potentially could change multiple forms of inequality. Processes at multiple levels of analysis typically work together to support or undermine durable patterns of inequality between individuals and between social groups. Institutional and organizational processes, for instance, shape, but also are shaped by key interpersonal encounters within them. These in turn jointly shape and are shaped by individual selves and choices. Our task at these meetings is to locate the key junctures among these multilevel processes that provide the levers by which different sorts of inequalities among people and groups are systematically made or unmade in the contemporary context. This is the essential first step towards changing those inequalities.
Cecilia Ridgeway, Stanford University
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HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (AP) — A decision to bench a double-amputee high school basketball player over fears he might hurt somebody is sparking outrage among supporters who say the Colorado student should be rewarded for his courage and allowed to play.
The Colorado High School Activities Association told Bailey Roby earlier this month that his days of competition were over after game officials balked when they learned Roby didn't have an official letter of authorization to play at Mountain Vista High School in a suburb south of Denver.
Players on both teams have applauded his skill and effort. Home fans chant his name. Opposing fans forget the score and cheer in appreciation. He even has his own hashtag on Twitter, #LetBaileyRobyHoop.
At the heart of the issue is a national high school rule that bans players with prosthetic devices if they place opponents at a disadvantage or increase the risk of injury to the athlete or others, according to a story first reported by the Highlands Ranch Herald.
The Colorado High School Activities Association that regulates sports in public schools says it's the risk of injury and the accompanying liability that prompted the decision to bench Roby.
"Nobody wants to tell anybody that they can't play a sport," said CHSAA assistant commissioner Bert Borgmann. "We have an obligation to protect the students. A large part of the things we have to do is to deal with the safety of others."
Comparisons have been made to Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympian from South Africa.
Roby, 18, was born missing a crucial bone in each leg and with only three toes on each side. Doctors amputated both legs below the knee when he was 7 months old. He was fitted with prosthetic limbs at 1.
Starting in eighth grade, Roby played on Mountain Vista's Unified Sports basketball team, which includes kids with special needs. He proved such a good shooter that he made the junior varsity last year, the Denver Post reported Friday (http://tinyurl.com/mhun6wa).
When safety concerns were raised during the junior varsity schedule, the association gave him a letter of authorization, but his jump this year to the varsity team with bigger, faster and stronger competition brought worries to the surface.
No one raised the issue during the early part of the season when Roby appeared in a handful of games, but game officials questioned Roby's eligibility before a Jan. 14 contest.
Mountain Vista agreed not to play him that night. The next day, the school discussed the situation with the association, and the sanctioning body declined to approve his participation.
His coach says he sees both sides of the issue.
"I've got mixed feelings about it," Mountain Vista coach Bob Wood said. "I can understand the CHSAA side of it. They are liable for his safety. If he got hit wrong, something bad could happen."
But Roby, who is used to the rough-and-tumble of competitive sports and has never seen his prosthetic legs cause injury, is frustrated by the decision.
"It just doesn't make any sense at all," he said.
He played in last Friday's game against Littleton High School, the first home game in which he had seen varsity action, after athletic director Pat McCabe negotiated a one-game waiver. Roby's parents got additional padding for the prosthetic legs and McCabe huddled with the Littleton athletic director and coach, explained the circumstances under which Roby might play, and got their consent.
With Mountain Vista well ahead, Roby entered the game with a little less than four minutes to play. Although he generally seeks out his jump shot, he scored on a layup to the delight of the home crowd, which chanted, "Bay-lee! Bay-lee!"
"It made me feel happy to be out there in front of all the other students," said Roby, who also performed in front of visiting out-of-town relatives. "I'd been waiting for that chance to play in my first home game."
Now, despite the earlier ruling, there's a chance Roby could see further action on a game-by-game basis, as long as Mountain Vista and its opponent have an agreement to ensure safety.
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Chances are by now you've seen "Real Beauty Sketches," a video released a few weeks ago by the Dove soap people. It documents a social experiment: Women describe themselves to a forensic sketch artist, who draws them from behind a curtain. Then the artist draws the same women based on descriptions from people who've only just met them.
The accounts don't exactly line up. "My mom told me I had a big jaw" turns into "she was thin, so you could see her cheekbones." "I kind of have a fat, rounder face" turns into "she had nice eyes."
Saturated in soft, silvery light and accompanied by a moody, minimalist score (think "Friday Night Lights" when the team loses) the subjects are shown the sketches side by side and, eyes misting up, admit to the artist that their self-appraisals were hindered by poor self-esteem.
"I should be more grateful for my natural beauty," a woman named Florence says earnestly, adding that beauty "impacts everything [and] couldn't be more critical to your happiness." The screen fades to white and this message appears: "You are more beautiful than you think."
Although a lot people claim to have been genuinely moved by the project, some of the professional commentariat have been less generous. They've deemed the women too young, thin and light-skinned to represent the "real." It's also been pointed out that labeling big jaws and round faces as undesirable is insulting to people who have those features.
Then, of course, there's the dark irony that the folks behind all this self-love also have a profit-making interest in encouraging a certain amount of self-loathing. Remember Dove's original "Real Beauty" campaign? The one with ads featuring average- and larger-sized non-professional models posing in their underwear? The one that purported to subvert standard notions of beauty by showcasing bodies of all shapes and sizes? Dove was flogging cellulite cream.
Back in 2005, I called those ads not only hypocritical — by claiming to celebrate ordinary bodies while selling products meant to improve them — but also discomfiting. For a lot of women, seeing "regular" female bodies on a billboard felt a little too much like seeing themselves in public in their underwear. And because those bodies were objectified as much as any other mostly naked female body on a billboard, it had the whiff of a personal violation — or at least self-consciousness — you just don't get when you're looking at a professional model.
"Sketches" isn't that squirm-inducing The women aren't splayed across the side of a bus in their skivvies. They're fully dressed and speaking in their own words. Still, I found the video discomfiting. I couldn't stop thinking about how the kinder, gentler sketches were based on cues from women being asked to describe another woman's looks, someone they might meet again in the process of making the ad. Wouldn't you put the most positive possible spin on things?
The subject could look like Ursula the Sea Witch from "The Little Mermaid" and the operative phrases would still be "smooth purple skin" and "shapely tentacles." And that is because there is no greater taboo than criticizing a woman's appearance to her face. There is one acceptable answer to "Do you like my new haircut?" or "Does this make me look fat?" — and its relationship to the truth is irrelevant.
Conveniently, all of the "Sketches" women easily meet culturally sanctioned standards of attractiveness. None of the video participants was forced to thumb through a thesaurus looking for a nice way of saying "has three heads." And, to Dove's credit, this "Real Beauty" campaign has started some useful conversations about mediated womanhood and the real thing.
But the problem with being told you're more beautiful than you think is that you're still being told that beauty matters a lot. And though there is a sad truth to that, it belies the politically correct pretenses of the experiment.
"I have some work to do on myself," Florence wistfully tells the sketch artist, referring to the labor of self-esteem-building. It's a poignant moment. Still, what would have been downright radical is if she'd simply looked at her watch and said, "Gee, I need to get back to work."


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When you've lived in a home for several years it isn't easy to move, as Hubby and I recently discovered.
When you've lived in a home for several years it isn't easy to move, as Hubby and I recently discovered.
Deciding what to do with everything is a major challenge, especially if you're married to a man who doesn't understand how sentimental value can be attached to worn out furniture items that even the Salvation Army wouldn't take.
If it was up to Hubby, everything except his man cave decor and his collectible beer glasses would be labeled as "give away."
Our home wasn't cluttered enough to lose our children for more than a day. Even so, we needed to downsize. Getting Hubby to compromise on what stuff I was allowed to keep and what was to go practically took an act of Congress.
Conversations leading up to the move went something like this:
"Remind me again why you are keeping three boxes of paperback books when you have a Kindle and an iPad?" Hubby would ask.
I would begin to explain, but Hubby's eyes would roll back into his head and he momentarily stopped breathing until I stopped talking.
Towards the end of packing when the boxes began to seem insurmountable, Hubby lost his patience.
"We are going to need a moving truck the size of China to move all your "sentimental" items!" Hubby shouted. "Downsizing is supposed to mean reducing in number or size!"
"So if I get rid of you is that downsizing?" I calmly asked.
After that he stayed in his corner and I guarded my boxes in my corner.
This past Saturday was the big day and Hubby picked up the largest moving truck the rental center had. While we were only moving from St. James to Sleepy Eye (about 25 miles), don't let the mileage fool you. Moving is a crazy, sinister proposition no matter how little or great the distance–Hubby and I have handfuls of our own hair and some of each others to vouch for that.
The day of the move only half of our help showed up at the appointed time. We began short staffed regardless. If there was one thing that Hubby and I agreed on it was getting this undesirable task over with ASAP!
The absolute worst part of a move, in my opinion, is the move-out cleaning. It's like punishment for not keeping the house cleaner the past several years.
Hubby and I were astonished at the filth we had over-looked while living in our previous home. It made us realize if we'd fired up the vacuum a few more times or occasionally cleaned out the fridge, we could have spent more time getting settled and doing fun stuff at our new place.
"None of this misery has to happen if you just pick a place and stay there," my brother-in-law reminded me the day of the move. He's been our loyal help for the past four moves. "Can you please be done moving now?" he asked.
By noon we had the truck unloaded, but not without a couple casualties. Unpacking the kitchen revealed a few broken dishes. In addition my brother-in-law did a maneuver on the plastic we laid down to protect the carpet that the U.S. Olympic gymnastic team would have marveled over.
After the dust settled Saturday afternoon it was just Hubby and me and 3,000 boxes to unpack.
A back-breaking weekend from hell, another three days of cleaning and two months to sort through cardboard boxes in search of the man cave TV remote will seem worthwhile eventually. We knew where enough stuff was after the move to make a meal in our new house and get ourselves ready for work the following Monday.
That said, I hope this is the place Hubby and I have picked to stay put. Unless, of course, we find ourselves having to move again in the next two to three years.
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October 24. 2013 9:09PM
Police officer's day in court is delayed
By JAMES A. KIMBLE
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— A Plaistow police detective was allowed to put off his arraignment while his lawyer works out an agreement on bail conditions.
George Wickson, 40, was expected to appear in Rockingham County Superior Court on Thursday to enter a plea on charges that he held a knife to the neck of a 22-year-old man and assaulted two other women during an off-duty incident on May 25.
A judge approved a request by Wickson's lawyer, Brian Lavallee, to work out an agreement with prosecutors on Wickson's bail conditions, and waive the arraignment at a later date.
Lavallee is expected to enter a not-guilty plea on Wickson's behalf.
A grand jury indicted Wickson earlier this month on a felony count of criminal threatening and four misdemeanor charges.
Those charges include two counts of simple assault, and single counts of criminal threatening and attempted simple assault for his alleged interactions with the two women.
The incident happened at an undisclosed location in Newton on May 25, according to indictments.
Wickson has been suspended without pay from his job pending an internal investigation.
Court documents say Wickson grabbed the neck of a 22-year-old man in Newton, and said, "words to the effect of 'shut up or I'll slice you.'"
Wickson allegedly grabbed a 21-year-old woman by the hair at one point, "attempted to kiss her" and grabbed her buttocks. Wickson threw the beer at a 30-year-old woman and "then lunged towards (her) as if to hit her," according to court records.
No other details in the case have been made public and Hillsborough County prosecutors who have been called in to handle the case say they cannot comment on the details surrounding the alleged incident.
The case was investigated by state police.
Lavallee said in a previous interview that the indictments do not paint an accurate picture of what went on.
"I'm not going to be able to make any particular comments on the allegations," Lavallee said. "My client adamantly denies the charges. The grand jury is a secret, one-sided process, and I look forward to getting into court and beginning his defense in earnest."
Wickson was also suspended from duty as a member of the sheriff department's Drug Task Force.
The criminal threatening charge is a class B felony punishable by up to 3½ to 7 years in prison and a $4,000 fine. The misdemeanor charges are each punishable by up to a year in county jail and a $2,000 fine.


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Joe Fleming, of Spillars Cove, Newfoundland, shot an 82-pound canine last week in the Canadian province. Wildlife officials initially believed it was a coyote, but DNA testing is being conducted on the animal to determine exactly what it is.
"I haven't seen anything like it before. I haven't seen a track like it before. … I've been hunting for a long time and this is the biggest one I've seen. The biggest one I've weighed," Fleming told The Telegram, of St. Johns.
Speculation is running wild on the Internet about what the animal could be since the canine weighs more than twice as much as a normal coyote and looks similar to a wolf, yet it was shot on an island thought to be void of wolves since the 1930s. Opinions vary from it being a coyote, a wolf, a coyote-wolf hybrid or a coyote-dog hybrid.
Hair and blood samples have been taken and testing at the Memorial University of Newfoundland will help determine what species the animal is or if it is a hybrid, according to The Telegram. Steve Carr, of the biology department at MUN, told The Telegram the animal could be a mix of a wolf and a coyote or a mix between a coyote and a husky.
Fleming found tracks of the animal that indicated it was traveling with a much smaller coyote. He decided to hunt the animal using an electronic caller in the area he found the tracks.
"I turned on a male challenge call, which means there's another male trying to take over his area or his female coyotes, and I'd say within three minutes he was coming in," Fleming told the Huffington Post.
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Machinery isn't a power, so...
Ledo from Gargantia-pilots a giant robot and is used to battle
Lelouch from Code Geass-brains and can pilot a giant robot
Simon from Gurren Lagann- can potentially pilot a giant robot that can throw galaxies around like it's nothing. Of course, we would use smaller measures
Rock Lee from Naruto-good at close melee with weapons and bare-handed. Plus, it's Rock Lee
Me-thanking the others as I walk into a field of completely mutilated zombies.
Sometimes people dance when they are supposed to sing.
miyamoto mushashi-vagabond/musashi
mikasa-shingeki no kyojin
raiden-metal gear saga
me- swordsman in training lol
Don't need a team. I'd just bring her and that's it.
hey im back
whos that in your speed fighter?
Sail around the world and tell themm all to keep singing LALALALA
-kairu wrote:
whos that in your speed fighter?
Yoite from the anime Nabari no ou
If this world seeks my destruction ...it goes with me.
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-kairu wrote:
whos that in your speed fighter?
Yoite from the anime Nabari no ou
Sail around the world and tell themm all to keep singing LALALALA
Going with the original layout here. Sorry about the lack of pictures.
Team Leader: Minato Arisato from Persona 3. He's freaking omnipotent and has the omnipotent orb. Can Salvation (the spell) stop the zombie infection? Plus, ARMAGEDDON! He's OP!
Brawler: Son Goku from DbZ. Lots of people say him, but it's a pretty obvious choice.
Weapons Expert: Gilgamesh from Fate/Stay Night. Gate of Babylon? Ea? Come on folks!
Brains: I'm going to agree with MaRv3n054 and say Lelouch. He took over the gosh dang world.
Medic: Shenron from DbZ. Lol. Wish 'em back to life. Maybe we can wish away the infection?
Speed Fighter: Minato Namikaze. Hiraishin. EVERYWHERE!!!
Mascot: Reborn. That's right, the sun arcobaleno from Katekyo Hitman Reborn himself. Because he's a badass even as a baby.
Guy Who Dies First: Either Godou Kusanagi from Campione, or Servant Berserker (Heracles) from Fate/ Stay Night. Godou can resurrect with the Ram as many times as he wants, and Berserker has 12 lives and can't be killed by anything that already killed him. Lolz.
Going even further...
Old Sage Guy: Hagomoro (the Rikudou Sennin or the Six Path Sage) from Naruto. He's pretty OP. Made the moon. Ya' know. Still, compared to some of the others, meh.
Insane Guy: Sephiroth. Sephiroth. I'm not saying anything else.
Mad Scientist: Stein from Soul Eater or Verde from KHR.
Vehicle of Choice: Death Star. Can't save the planet, blow it up and keep the zombies there.
Mage: Gandalf. Gandalf. Just..... Gandalf.
Badass Swordsman: Kirito from Sword Art Online. Before they nerfed him. Either that or Zoro or Mihawk from One Piece.
Really Unlucky Guy: Touma from A Certain Magical Index. I agree with the reasons why stated above in a different reply.
Samurai: Rurouni Kenshin
Cook: Sanji from One PIece, or Shirou Emiya from Fate/Stay Night. Pick which path he's from.
Troll: Zelretch. I am not worthy.
Annoying Guy: Excalibur from Soul Eater.
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Roronoa Zoro-One Piece
Makunouchi Ippo-Hajime no Ippo
Nara Shikimaru-Naruto
Black Leg Sanji-One Piece
Guts from Berserk
Revy from Black Lagoon
Alucard from Hellsing
King Bradley from FMA
Vicious from Cowboy Bebop
I didnt really put much thought into it but I think they'd fare pretty well.
Someone is bumping threads today...
His Holiness Optimus Maximus Decimus Meridius Colossus Nemesis Nexus Genesis
Hmm..this might be tricky. if 5 = 5 others besides me, I would say this...
Tenma from Monster. A doctor and a pretty good cop/badass. I would definitely trust him...might need some time to get to side with him
Shou from Akumetsu. He's just awesome in many ways. From his intellect and weird ways of thinking, plus his attitude is pretty funny and relaxing to be around. Would trust him with anything.
Squid Girl for comedic purposes.
Kazumi Asakura from Negima. Reconnaissance and scouting are nice to have, so I'd take her :>
Blanc from Hyperdimension Neptunia anime. I can't deny her in anime form. Plus that hammer.
If it was 5 including me, then i'll get rid of Squid Girl... sorry D:
Imma cow~
everybody from Hunter x Hunter
and from Gintama what, we gotta get our laughs amidst running away/slaughtering man eating monsters
you wouldn't believe your pants, if ten million fire ants
Levi- Attack On Titan
Keima Katsuragi- World God Only Knows
Kenji Harima- School Rumble
Shinra Kishitani- Durarara
Layfon from Chrome Shelled Regios - OP keeper of a heaven blade
Ayaka Kagari from Witch Craft Works - OP girl with magic and combat skills
Inner moka from Rosiro + Vampire - OP girl who is a vampire.
Tokiko Tsumura from Buso Renkin.
This list is open to change if i think of better people in the future. But for now this is all i can think of
"Come with me." "To where?" "To eternity."
Reki (Aria the Scarlet Ammo) - Sniper, recon
Laura Bodewig (Infinite Stratos) - Combat specialist
Stein (Soul Eater) - Medic, cure research
Asuna Yuuki (SAO) - Cooking
Me - Equipment maintenance
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Yaakov Katz in the Jerusalem Post takes a look at what went wrong and what went right in the war with Hezbollah. The primary subject of the inquest is, as it must be, the delay of a large-scale ground invasion. Prime Minister Olmert has attempted to shift blame for the delay to the military by claiming that the first time he saw a plan to invade Lebanon with tens of thousands of troops was the day before the plan was approved by the cabinet on August 9.
As Katz notes, however, Major General (Northern Command) Udi Adam says that the force for the massive attack was in place a week earlier. While Olmert may only have seen the plan on a map laid out on his desk on August 8, he was certainly familiar with such a plan way before. Indeed, the logic of a major push to the Litani River was apparent early on — high-ranking members of the General Staff were already pushing it in the first weeks of war, based on intelligence reports that close to 70 percent of the rockets raining down on Israel were being fired from areas just south and north of the Litani River. Thus, if Olmert wanted to see an invasion plan on a map before giving the go-ahead, he should have ordered that one be produced to him early on.
Katz analyzes other aspects of Israel's performance as well — the ability of IDF tanks to withstand anti-tank missiles (better than initially supposed); the performance of the Navy (good after the early lethal attack against one of its ships); the performance of the Air Force ("dazzling" in the early going, but not terribly effective in its attempts at targeted killings of Hezbollah leaders); and logistics (some major failings here).
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OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) — Authorities have resumed their search after a small plane crashed into the ocean off Ocean City.
Police in the resort town say the search resumed Monday morning. It was called off overnight due to dangerous conditions.
Maryland State Police say the plane went down Sunday afternoon a half mile offshore at 133rd Street. Police spokesman Greg Shipley says divers believe they have located debris from the plane and they'll return to that spot. Police say it's not clear if anyone besides the pilot was on board the two-seat plane.
Mayor Rick Meehan says witnesses told police that the aircraft spun out of control before crashing. He says the pilot is presumed dead.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast's government has displayed a "lack of impartiality" by not pursuing specific perpetrators of 2010-11 postelection violence including those who killed hundreds of men in the country's western town of Duekoue, according to a new United Nations expert report that also criticized the indefinite and inhumane detention of those suspects that are being held.
The report by independent human rights expert Doudou Diene deplored "the slowness of the proceedings before the civil courts" and found fault with indictments leveled against top suspects. It also documented the use of torture by security forces responding to a series of attacks on military installations last year.
Months of conflict following Ivory Coast's 2010 presidential elections saw at least 3,000 people killed, according to U.N. estimates. The violence erupted after former President Laurent Gbagbo refused to leave office despite losing the November 2010 runoff vote to current President Alassane Ouattara.
A national commission of inquiry last year attributed 727 deaths to the Republican Forces of Ivory Coast, the army Ouattara created by decree in March 2011, one month before Gbagbo was arrested. But Diene's report said that while 55 Gbagbo loyalists have been charged for violent crimes, no Ouattara loyalists have been the subject of any "serious procedure."
In the western town of Duekoue, Ouattara forces have been accused of killing hundreds of men belonging to the Guere ethnic group "which largely supported Gbagbo" during a single March 2011 massacre in the Carrefour neighborhood. Diene said that he was told a judge had launched a probe into crimes committed in Duekoue during the crisis but was unable to visit the town because of security reasons. Ouattara visited Duekoue during a trip to the west last April. Others were also killed in the area, although there are contending figures from various groups that range from 400 to 1,000, according to past Associated Press reports.
Ivory Coast's military tribunal handed down the first verdict related to the postelection conflict last October. Diene said he was told civilian trials would begin last November, but they still have not started.
Ivorian authorities have dismissed allegations that they are not pursuing perpetrators who fought for Ouattara, and the president has publicly vowed that all perpetrators of crimes committed during the conflict will eventually be brought to justice.
Civilian prosecutor Simplice Koffi was removed from his post for unspecified reasons earlier this month, and his replacement was not available for comment this week.
The report, based on a mission conducted in September and October, was finalized earlier this month and is scheduled to be presented to the Human Rights Council in March. A copy was obtained by the AP last week.
The report also deplored the "indefinite detention" and bad conditions of those being held for postelection violence. Diene said Gbagbo loyalists in the northern town of Korhogo were "crammed into small cells in a very advanced state of disrepair and unsanitary conditions."
Former first lady Simone Gbagbo, who is being held in the northwest town of Odienne, "showed signs of physical weakness" and complained that she was unable to be treated by the doctors of her choice, he said. The International Criminal Court unsealed an arrest warrant for Simone Gbagbo in November on crimes against humanity charges. The government has not yet said whether it plans to send her to The Hague, where her husband has been held for more than a year.
Simone Gbagbo is one of nearly 50 people charged with genocide by the Ivorian courts, according to the report. The others include seven high-level Gbagbo allies and 41 Ivorians extradited by Liberia following a June attack near the border between the two countries that killed seven U.N. peacekeepers.
The report expressed concern about Ivory Coast's use of an "incomplete" definition of genocide that does not comport with international standards, saying this could discredit the Ivorian judiciary.
The report also brought up more recent allegations of human rights abuses, notably the response to a wave of attacks on security installations throughout the country that began last August.
The local U.N. mission has documented at least 23 different attacks since August throughout the country, mostly targeting military, gendarmerie and police posts. Some 60 people have died, according to the U.N., including civilian women and children.
Gbagbo's political party has accused the government of using the attacks as a pretext to crack down on the former president's allies.
The report said at least 382 people were arrested in connection with the attacks, some of whom were subject to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Two died as a result of torture, it said. The government has denied the use of torture, as have military camp commanders.


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Recently, I've devised a way to remotely manage my daughter's OLPC XO and expanding the storage space with the SD Card slot without eating up the internal memory. However, with the method I devised, activities won't start on the OLPC XO, because, for some reason, "python /usr/bin/datastore-service" segfaults soon after boot up. If I take the 4GB EXT3 SD Card out of the slot, then the OLPC XO boots and works fine.
The details to the error is shown in this thread on my web site:
The details on how I set-up the SD Card is in this thread:
The details on how I set-up my remote sudo account on this SD Card is detailed in this thread:
Would anyone help me shed some light on this problem? The remote account works really well to help manage my daughter's laptop. And I really don't want to eat up the 1GB internal memory, which is already strained. Thanks.