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Hollywood and Vine have decided to do a daily wrap-up of all the shit that other media outlets have fucked up!
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Midori, July 2010
Here's another review from last summer that was originally published on violinist.com in July of 2010: Midori at the Minnesota Beethoven Festival. Here's the link to the first part and the second part. (I split it in half because it ended up being so long. Oy!)
Tuesday afternoon I made the ninety-minute drive to the Minnesota Beethoven Festival in Winona, Minnesota, to see Midori in recital.
I remember the first time I ever heard Midori, many years ago. I was watching the Arts Channel – a collection of classical music videos pumped through a local television station over lunch – and saw this.
Needless to say, I stopped chewing. This is still one of my favorite performances of all time. I eventually found the disc of the rest of the concert at a second-hand shop. It was my first introduction to the lovely ebullient Strauss sonata, Debussy's dreamy Beau soir, and Ernst's wildly difficult Last Rose of Summer. These performances alone made me a big fan. But over the years, as I heard more and more snippets of Midori's biography, I became even more impressed. She is a UN Messenger of Peace, she is passionate about many other things outside of music (she has a master's degree in psychology), and she is committed to playing for audiences in smaller towns that might not otherwise have had the chance to see an artist of her caliber. Ever since writing an essay on the history of female violinists and the life of the first great female violinist, Wilma Norman-Neruda (shameless self-promotion; click here to read it), I have been thinking about the role that women have played in our beloved art, especially over the last hundred years since Wilma's death. To me, seeing a woman like Midori – who is both a tremendous artist and a well-rounded human being – is more than just seeing a great musician; it is seeing a fulfillment of what those women a hundred years ago aspired to. Midori is taken seriously not as a woman violinist, but as a violinist, period, and she can do it all while pursuing the things that fulfill her not just as a musician, but as a human being. We've come a long way.
The concert was held in the 900-seat Somsen Auditorium at Winona State University, a surprisingly intimate hall from 1924. After some remarks from the artistic director, the stage door opened and out came Midori. She is a very tiny, very delicate looking woman – I read after the concert that she is four-eleven, and that sounds about right – but despite her size, she was clearly in charge from the minute she walked out onto the stage. She flashed a warm, welcoming smile at the audience before raising her del Gesu to her chin and beginning the fourth sonata of Beethoven.
She plays in a way that I would never advise a beginning violin student to emulate – she scrunches her shoulders for emphasis, and her scroll is usually pointing to the floor. I have always wondered how she and others who play in such an unnatural position (like Bell, Vengerov, Chang, etc.) don't hurt themselves; it seems as if practicing that way for hours a day for years on end would take a great physical toll. But it obviously works for her, so I'm not criticizing. Her sound – at least as I heard it from the front row of the balcony – was clear, classic, elegant, beautiful, but maybe a bit small, and focused at the center of the hall, as opposed to extending out to the sides. It may have been the repertoire, or the acoustic of this particular stage, or my seat in the balcony, or that I am used to an unnatural violin-piano balance on recordings, or any other number of things; I don't know. But even if it wasn't a particularly large sound, it was always an exceptionally beautiful one. She brought a great deal of detail and character to the Beethoven, alternating between elegance and passion and fury, especially in the last movement with all of its rapid shifts in character. She was warmly applauded, and the buzz of the crowd below the balcony stepped up a pitch after she was finished.
The next piece on the program was the Ravel sonata. I have loved it for many years and I consider it to be a very dear musical friend. (Isn't it funny how we often feel as affectionate toward beloved pieces of music as we do people?) I've never heard it live before. As we were waiting for Midori to return to the stage, I had a fleeting thought of how unnatural it is to know a work solely from recordings. Don't get me wrong, I love recordings – without them, I'd never know the Ravel sonata, period – but I wonder what Ravel would have thought of me loving this work so dearly for so many years, without ever having heard it live. About the time that Ravel composed this piece, he was becoming very interested in the possibilities presented by recordings, so perhaps he wouldn't think it strange or odd at all, but I never feel as if I really know a piece until I can be in the same room in which it's being brought alive. Living in a place where I can see relatively few live performances of classical violin music, it's so vital for me to stay connected with the performance side of the art, both as a listener and as a violinist. Analysis of the score – comparing recordings – reading biographies of the great composers: those things will only get you so far. A vital portion of the appreciation of these great works has to be done in a concert hall, in hearing them as they were originally intended to be experienced.
Midori wrote the program notes for the Ravel. Apparently this sonata was written for Hélène Jourdan-Morhange, a highly-regarded French violinist born in 1892. She asked for a concerto but got this sonata instead. (A Ravel violin concerto! Can you imagine?) I had always heard that Ravel was never one for romantic attachments, but, Googling about a bit, it seems that he may possibly (emphasis on the possibly) have had unrequited feelings for Hélène. There are even rumors that he once asked her to marry him, and she turned him down. At the very least, they were extremely close friends – they shared many interests, including a deep mutual affection for cats – and although she was not able to premiere the sonata due to arthritis, it was written for and dedicated to her. (Ravel seems to have been inspired by female violinists; Hélène also premiered his violin/cello duo and his lovely little violin and piano piece Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Faure – and of course Jelly d'Aranyi was the inspiration for Tzigane.) So even seventy miles away home and from my project of researching the great female violinists, I was given a new lead to follow up. Who exactly was this Hélène Jourdan-Morhange? What was she like? Who did she study with? What violin did she play? What kind of relationship did she really have with Ravel? Why when I Google her does her name appear to have been lost to history, even though she is the dedicatee of a major piece that most every violinist knows and loves? How could we as a community of violin-lovers have possibly forgotten her?
Midori's performance of the first movement kept reminding me of water – water in a brook, ripples in a pond, rain trickling from eaves, puddles, waves, lakes… I'm not one for seeing visual imagery when I listen to music, so it was a very strange, very magical experience. There wasn't much vibrato, and the shifts were clean and lean. If you have heard Midori's Carnegie Hall recording (I'm thinking of the shifts in The Last Rose of Summer, and Milstein's Chopin transcription in particular), you'll know right away what I'm talking about. Once and a while she would really dig into a slide, anticipating that second blues movement. And as it should, everything felt like it was leading up to that glorious endless bow at the end of the movement. As the piano quietly wrapped up the theme beneath her, you could feel the audience collectively leaning forward. Even after the sound had died away, she stood motionless and left her bow on the string, giving us permission to linger in that achingly gorgeous sound-world for just a few more precious seconds. Funnily enough, it turned out that one of my favorite parts of this concert were the silences – the parts of the performance where the sound slowly died away and my attention was drawn out of the music toward the awed, appreciative reaction of the other concertgoers.
Then came the blues in the Ravel's sexy, sexy second movement. Is there a more blatantly erotic movement in the violin-piano literature? If there is I've yet to hear it. Now that I have read that Ravel may have had some kind of attraction to its dedicatee, this movement…takes on a new significance, shall we say? I had never thought of this sonata as a love-story before, but dayum when I listen to it now… What a dialogue between the violin and the piano. All of those lilting arco lines on the fiddle – the slow slides – those gutsy, suggestively strumming pizzicatos… And then that blazing third movement, a meshing of violin and piano, ending in a brilliant unified ecstasy… There is that famous quote by Ravel that basically says that in this sonata he wanted to explore the differences between a violin and a piano, rather than minimizing them as other composers had in their violin-piano sonatas. I highly doubt he was also thinking of emphasizing the fundamental differences between men and women, but oh, it would have been so interesting if he had. It quickly becomes tempting to imagine this as a composer's naughty daydream, with Ravel on the piano and Hélène on the violin.
Midori really sunk her teeth into the blues. Lots of slides, lots of swing in the snappy pizzicato parts. It was just delicious to hear. And she simply took everybody's breath away in the third movement's perpetual motion. Every single one of the flurry of the notes came clear and strong and graceful, even toward the end when the low notes on the G-string start coming into the picture, where some performers have a tendency to start blurring the sound. During the last few measures it sounded as if her del Gesù was about to go up in flames. Apparently during the sonata's lengthy gestation, Ravel wrote to Hélène that he didn't think it would tire her hand too much. Hopefully that was before this last movement came into being, because looking at the score, I can't imagine a much more demanding exercise for the left and right hands alike. The audience loved it, and a few people even gave a standing ovation.
At intermission, I eavesdropped in the women's bathroom – the best place for any classical music critic to get an unbiased review – and heard someone say, "She's so good, she tires me out!" While waiting for me, my companion at the concert overheard another woman saying, "I sure wasn't expecting that blues movement – but I loved it!" Indeed.
After intermission came Mario Davidovsky's Duo Capriccioso. Before the performers came onstage, the resident piano lackey came out and disassembled the part of the piano underneath the music stand. So it was clear from the beginning that this was not your typical violin-piano duet. The piece was filled with a variety of novel violin and piano techniques, including – you guessed it – pizzicato inside the piano. It was interesting, to be sure, but at times I felt as if it was just a series of tricks. Gripping and atmospheric tricks, to be sure; but tricks nonetheless. I need to find a recording of the piece and listen to it a few times before passing final judgment; works that I'm not thrilled about at first hearing often later reveal previously unheard depths once I become more familiar with the score. Once again, Midori was committed to her performance a hundred percent. This music was obviously close to her heart and she was thrilled to share it with us, and that alone made me want to work as hard as I could to understand and appreciate it.
The last piece on the program, the Brahms third sonata, was actually the reason I wanted tickets for this concert in the first place. I instantly connected with this piece the first time I heard it, and to this day it's still my favorite Brahms sonata – although, once again, like with the Ravel, I have never heard it performed live. The first recording I ever heard of it was David Oistrakh's, with Vladimir Yampolsky on the piano. For some pieces, I don't have a favorite recording; I'm happy with a wide variety of interpretations. With others, I find a recording that I fall in love with, and all subsequent versions feel a bit…wrong in comparison. The Oistrakh Brahms third is one of those recordings that I have completely and totally fallen in love with, and no other performance of the Brahms third satisfies me in quite the same way. Oistrakh's warmth and sincerity fits in so perfectly with this intensely personal piece, and the slightly muffled sound quality of the older recording is just the icing on the cake.
No performance was going to live up to that one of Oistrakh's for me, but Midori's rendition was still very, very special nonetheless. In the first movement she brought a searing tone and a real rhythmic pulse, especially on those string-crossing passages that Oistrakh tended to linger over. Unfortunately there were moments, especially in the lower register, when her sound seemed to disappear into the piano texture. But this is nit-picking. It was extraordinarily beautiful and masterful playing.
The second movement was a real highlight of the entire concert. Finally hearing it live convinced me it must be one of the most beautiful things ever written for the violin. Midori left more space in between the notes than Oistrakh, to beautiful effect. Those yearning upward stretches in the violin – the whispered double-stopped thirds at the very end… As the music came to a gentle close, one could feel the silence just throbbing in the hall. And amazingly enough, that feeling didn't release even after she finally took the bow off the strings; it lasted as she went into the third movement presto. That was pretty special. I'm quickly learning how an audience's response is just as much of a part of the performance as what an artist does onstage. In a great performance, it really is a conversation without words.
Midori exploded through the double-stops in the last movement. Her sound, although always pretty and striking, remained a little bit small for my tastes, but once again, this is a nitpick. She obviously felt this music very deeply, and by the time that glorious F-sharp toward the end of the final movement – one of my favorite single notes in classical music – any reservations I might have had over a small tone were forgotten. I felt giddy with the beauty of Brahms, and that's the definition of a great performance, right there.
There was a lengthy standing ovation. Finally she came, set the music-stand aside, and re-tuned. The del Gesù was being a tad picky and the crowd began to giggle. Finally she was satisfied and turned back to the audience. "We will play Souvenir of Moscow by Wieniawski," she said. I wasn't familiar with the Souvenir but the glorious thing about Wieniawski and Sarasate and Vieuxtemps is that you don't really need to be familiar with them to fall in love with them. All those pyrotechnics – all that character – all the slides and various bow strokes… Talk about pieces that were written to be performed, as opposed to recorded! When she set the music stand aside and launched into those opening chords from memory, her sound totally changed. For the first time that night, I could firmly identify that instrument as a del Gesù, without a doubt. The sound just screamed stereotypical del Gesù – rich, throaty, a tad gritty, especially in the lower half. None of those characteristics were traits that I associated with Midori's playing before, either in her recordings or during the rest of the recital. Was it the flashier repertoire, or the fact she was now playing from memory, or another reason altogether? I don't know, but I heard a definite difference. As her fingers flashed up and down the fingerboard, I couldn't suppress a wry smile as I remembered that Wieniawski had played a concert with Wilma Norman-Neruda in Moscow, and, after picking a fight with a general when he tried to convince the audience he was the better player, was ordered out of the city. I haven't been able to find when the Souvenir was written, but it has an early opus number (6), and I wonder if it was after this little altercation?
In my twelve years of playing, I had never heard a great violinist take on one of the great showpieces live. Let me tell you, the difference between a live performance of Wieniawski and a recorded performance is the difference between fried chicken and tofu. There is an element of spice, personality – even danger – that is totally absent from a recording. One knows that in a recording, the strings will never break, and the performer will never have a memory lapse, and they will always hit each and every note each and every time – that kind of thing. But there are no such assurances for live performances. The audience teams up psychologically with the player in the hopes that he or she will make it through the piece unscathed. That bond is an incredibly powerful one, and for the first time I really began to understand emotionally what made these traveling Victorian virtuosi so beloved by their audiences. Nowadays these "parlor pieces" are considered light fare, musically suspect, not serious enough, but they are such an important part of our art, and they are received so enthusiastically by audiences, that I personally don't think a recital program is complete without one. I would have been delighted to see one in the main body of the program.
As you can imagine, the subsequent applause and whoops and hollers just about brought the house down. She came out to bow again and again, ever gracious. She was greeting people in the lobby afterward, and I got her autograph and a picture. Her writing was just as bold and confident as her onstage manner.
Now whenever I listen to that beautiful recording of the Chopin Nocturne from Carnegie Hall, I will remember the sweetness and delicacy and beauty of everything I heard Tuesday night. There is simply nothing else in life like seeing a great violinist play a live concert. Absolutely nothing at all.
Except…maybe seeing one of the greatest orchestras of our time playing two Beethoven symphonies. Which is what I get to see tomorrow, when the Minnesota Orchestra takes on the fourth and the seventh in the closing concert of the 2010 Minnesota Beethoven Festival.
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Q: ZFS reports wildly different sizes from Windows and what should be available Before we start, yes i know the setup is not optimal, but we're working on a plan to setup everything from scratch. I inherited this from a part time student that doesn't work here anymore.
This is a question on a potential solution.
We have a pretty urgent fault that needs to be fixed before the rebuilding of our NAS though.
The setup:
2x servers, 1x Windows server 2012r2 (referred to as Vmhost) and 1x FreeBSD (referred to as Nas) with 8x 300GB disks in Raidz2.
The nas exposes 2 luns to vmhost with iscsi.
Vmhost is running a couple of VMs (duh) that is stored on these iscsi disks.
The problem:
There is 1 VM that has snapshots (or checkpoints) in hyper-v that are 2 years old (don't ask why), which has resulted in that the snapshot file is just as big as the actual disk file (vhdx disk).
We are running of space on our nas and that makes our VMs slow or unresponsive.
One thing i do not understand (but is probably very easily explainable) is that Windows reports that the iscsi disk have almost 4TB of data on it, while i don't have more than 300*6 (+2 parity) GB of HDD installed.
Is this just good compression on ZFS's part?
Screenshot of size in windows
Proposed solution:
Move the vm's disk to some other disk and correct the mapping in vm config, then just press "delete checkpoint" in hyper-v and let hyper-v merge the snapshot to the disk and then move it back to the iscsi disk.
Question on is is:
If the vhdx disk is 1tb and the snapshot file is 1tb, is a 3tb disk enough as a merge disk?
And will it actually unlock 1tb? (the vhdx's size is fixed) or will it not do much (since it obviously is not reporting correct size)?
Bigger question:
Since the sizes does not really make sense any direction, what numbers can i trust?
I have way over 4tb data in total on 1800gb of space if i go by numbers.
Is zfs so smart that is can see that some data in the snapshot might the same as on the disk and not use extra space?
zfs list
zpool list
hyper-v
windows explorer

A: In general, ZFS could easily achieve 1.2:1 compression of VM disk. It also is smart and doesn't save any zero blocks on disk. Databases compress better. In general, I wouldn't be surprised if 4Tb virtual disk of some good-compressible will fit into array with 1.8T physical space.
If you make snapshot with ZFS, it will be CoW snapshot. In the beginning, ZFS would know that data is the same and just store same data on disk once. When some copy gets a block written to, that block gets copied and stored in some other place (that's copy on write, CoW), then one of copies gets changed. From on now, even if you revert copies to have same data, they wouldn't be merged in general case.
You can merge any blocks that happened to be the same, even if you not beginning with snapshot. You can tell it to check if the data area has some duplicate blocks and, you guess it, store them only once. This feature called deduplication, but I don't see you are using it, because you have DEDUP 1.00x in zpool list. Also, beware, this feature consumes a LOT of memory.
I'd begin your case with booting your suspicious Windows VM some disk backup software which does backups by taking sector-by-sector copies and do a complete backup of virtual disk from within of that VM (i.e. backup what Windows sees). Or/and backup virtual disk images. That will allow to at least not to lose data you certainly can access. Then act as you described.
Also a side note. I see something called "virtual backup" on your screenshot. Don't do backups like this. Don't rely on same logical structure. You'll lose that backup together with data it has to protect if some rare error in your stack (NTFS in virtual disk over NTFS on base disk over ZFS pool) destroys on-disk structures, and it is impossible to do forensic recovery of data from such double cake. It is often best to store backups into a simplest possible structure which is independent from main storage, i.e. a separate disk, just bare partition table without advanced volume management, simplest file system. That's easier to access and recover in any case.

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JOHN OéShea wants Manchester United to reclaim from Chelsea the unofficial title of éthe most hated team in Englandé.
The Irish international believes the tag is a reflection of success - which is why he wants United to be loathed rather than loved by opposition fans.
OéShea also claims United have shown Chelsea are beatable - and insists he can see why people have criticised Jose Mourinhoés style of play for being too defensive.
He told ESPN Soccernet: éItés fair to say that Chelsea have taken our place as the most hated team in England.
OéShea believes Chelseaés style of play would not go down well if it were tried at United, and hopes other sides have taken heart from Chelseaés recent defeats.
He added: éPeople have criticised their style of play and I can see why they would do that. This is an entertainment business and possibly the fans would prefer to watch a side like Arsenal or United.
éI know some supporters just want success in whatever way they can get it, but if a new manager came into United and played in the Chelsea style, there would be grumblings from some sections of the Old Trafford crowd.
éThey would be asking what has happened to the attacking United style, but Chelsea are winning at the moment and you have to give them credit for that.
éChelseaés consistency is fantastic. They are a defending unit from front to back. Mourinhoés team works their socks off from start to finish and when you throw in that they have some great players, it means they are a very tough side to get around.
Unitedés recent success has been due in no small measure to OéShea and Ryan Giggs playing as a central midfield pairing. That would have seemed unthinkable only a few months ago, when OéShea was thought to be one of the main targets of countryman Roy Keaneés criticisms.
OéShea though believes he has learned much from the former United skipper.
He said: éKeano often criticised me and the other players, but from my perspective, I always listened to what he said and tried to take something from it.
éI never felt he was picking on me and criticising me more just because I was Irish or anything like that.
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Judge Recommends Vacating The Sentence Of One Of The FBI's Handcrafted Terrorists
from the well...-half-the-sentence-has-already-been-served-so... dept
Wed, Jan 16th 2019 9:28am — Tim Cushing
Nearly 13 years after the FBI managed to turn a California cherry picker into a international terrorist, one of its self-created terrorists is about to be turned back into regular California resident, albeit one missing more than a decade from his life.
Hayat went to Pakistan in 2003 to visit his mother and get married. The FBI and prosecutors insisted he went there to train to be a terrorist. When he returned to the US, he was arrested and indicted. Prosecutors tacked on some lying to federal agents charges because of course they did, pushing Hayat's sentence to 24 years.
This conviction was upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals but Hayat's motion to vacate his sentence has found some sympathy from a federal magistrate judge.
A federal magistrate on Friday recommended overturning the controversial 2006 conviction of a California man accused of attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan and plotting an attack in the United States.
Hamid Hayat, now 36, who was then a young cherry-picker from Lodi, has served about half his 24-year sentence.
But U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Barnes said he likely never would have been convicted were it not for the inexperience of his defense attorney, who failed to call alibi witnesses.
Hayat's lawyer was clearly inexperienced, having never defended a client during a criminal trial before. The results speak for themselves. Judge Barnes' examination of the case shows Hayat was possibly coerced into a false confession and had a decent alibi for his visit to Pakistan that -- if explored more fully -- would likely have shown the FBI's speculations about his reason for returning to Pakistan were wrong.
His attorneys argue that much of the evidence used against him was faulty, including prosecution claims that Hayat attended a terror training camp in Balakot, Pakistan, in 2003 and 2004 – a facility they say had been shut down before Hayat even got to Pakistan.
Hayat's confession was obtained during a "marathon" questioning session by FBI agents. This apparently included a special agent lying about the evidence the FBI had on Hayat's supposed terrorist training.
According to court testimony, the Hayats were interviewed twice by the FBI. The first time, they both denied they knew anything about terrorism. But during a second interview at Sacramento FBI headquarters, after many hours of grilling without a lawyer, Hamid Hayat changed his story and confessed he attended a terrorist training camp for about three months. The jury asked for a read-back of FBI Special Agent Harry Sweeney's trial testimony.
Sweeney testified that Hamid Hayat admitted to going to the camp after Sweeney asked him, "Would there be any reason why we would have a satellite image of you at a camp in 2003?"
Under cross-examination, Sweeney acknowledged there was no such photo.
Unfortunately, there's nothing illegal about federal agents lying to suspects during questioning. But there's certainly a law against lying to federal agents. The background of the case suggests the FBI may have been looking for something -- anything -- to justify its infiltration of a local mosque by one its surprisingly-expensive informants.
Naseem Khan claimed to have seen four of the world's most-wanted terrorists in Lodi, California. Over the course of three years, the FBI paid Khan $230,000 to infiltrate a local mosque, despite discovering his claims of seeing top world terrorists were completely false. It was Khan who suggested Hayat visit a terrorist training camp while visiting Pakistan. The government apparently had no evidence Hayat ever visited a training camp, relying almost solely on a confession that appears to have been coerced.
The court says there's not much here that makes the FBI look like a competent anti-terrorism force. There's a questionable confession, an even more questionable informant telling people to engage in terrorist activities, and a bunch of speculation about Hayat's activities while not under direct surveillance. As the judge points out, citizens shouldn't be locked up for things the FBI THINKS they may have done. More evidence is needed and a more competent attorney might have been able to stop this farce before it took more than a decade away from Hamid Hayat.
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Annonymouse, 16 Jan 2019 @ 9:40am
So does he get to sue the US GOV for the equivalent rate of what they paid their informant?
As for the lies, incompetence, and out and out racism shown on all fronts from the agents all the way to the judge who should have stopped the dog and poney show in his courtroom.... I highly doubt any will pay any price for this outside of the taxpayer.
Jason Yarber, 16 Jan 2019 @ 10:36am
I don't think he can sue the US Gov't as it has Sovereignty. However, he is free to sue the FBI for false arrest and damages resulting. I think he can also sue his old incompetent lawyer for malpractice under incompetence.
Bergman (profile), 16 Jan 2019 @ 7:47pm
I've always wondered how, given that our government is a representative republic and our officials represent us rather than own us, the government can be sovereign over its own bosses.
That would be like claiming that your boss can't discipline you if you screw up as an employee because you own a couple shares of company stock. And yet, courts just eat this crap up.
DeComposer (profile), 17 Jan 2019 @ 2:55pm
If his sentence is vacated, that only means he'll be released from prison; it does not mean that his conviction is overturned.
Sadly, I think there's no basis for a lawsuit unless his conviction is overturned.
Anonymous Coward, 16 Jan 2019 @ 9:55am
Without knowing the exact details of this case, it's worth noting that many (if not most or all) so called "terrorist" training camps in Pakistan were established, operated, and funded by the CIA during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. It's not unimaginable that the CIA is not still deeply connected to that resistance movement, and is now using such training camps as "honey pots" just like the many blatantly "jihadist" websites that inexplicably never seem to get taken down.
If evidence against someone was through CIA or other intelligence sources, naturally they're not going to use it and risk exposing their sources. Instead they'll manufacture other "evidence" to use in court and perhaps even have secret back-channel with the prosecutor and judge (at least that's the way it's done in Israel).
Uriel-238 (profile), 16 Jan 2019 @ 11:25am
There's not much here that makes the FBI look like a competent anti-terrorism force
Do we have any real-world evidence that the FBI may be a competent anti-terrorism force?
This, like all their known anti-terror actions seems more to suggest they're hunting phantoms and trying to justify an inflated budget.
Heck they seem so adamant about their stings on middle-easterners that they ignore entirely our domestic terrorism.
Anonymous Coward, 16 Jan 2019 @ 11:43am
"Heck they seem so adamant about their stings on middle-easterners that they ignore entirely our domestic terrorism"
Maybe it's a result of watching too many Hollywood films, including movies that have Arab terrorists shoehorned into a story in a completely out of place fashion.
wshuff (profile), 16 Jan 2019 @ 12:17pm
This article says that a U.S. Magistrate Judge recommended granting the motion to vacate. If this is a report and recommendation, then that means the magistrate handled this motion and has now made this recommendation to the District Judge, who will issue a ruling after the U.S. Attorney has a change to respond to the Magistrate's recommendation. So there's still a long way to go for the defendant. The District Judge doesn't have to accept the recommendation.
Derp. After the U.S. Attorney has a "chance" to respond, not "change."
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 16 Jan 2019 @ 2:52pm
Our biggest problem is and remains that we reward them for headlines.
Our 'leadership' cares more about headlines & good press, so we have these show trials convicting people of horrible crimes they imaged had to have happened.
Man with an IQ of around 60 (IIRC) put into motion a bomb plot to blow up a federal building?? And the media gave them pats on the back for "protecting" us.
The 'leadership' demands everything be big, showy, and not have any chance of the accused fighting back. Abacus charged as part of the banking collapse... a tiny tiny bank who operated a bit differently but within the rules... Goldman Sachs, well we decided to not bring the case because the jury would be confused by all of the experts & jargon. (Ignore the asshat who made this decision is now in-house counsel for Goldman Sachs.) Lives ruined, bail out cash giving no interest loans for CEO's wives, homes stolen by companies with no interest in the properties, and nothing done to stop them from doing it again.
We need to stop only 'rewarding' slam dunk show trials, sometimes investigations are messy & not super clear & clean but when we decline to investigate or bring to justice those who have power & influence so we can keep our same level of funding the system is horribly broken.
Its a pity it is only 1 person freed from a show trial conviction to secure more funding when there are so many others in jail for nothing more than securing the budget.
Coyne Tibbets (profile), 17 Jan 2019 @ 5:41am
It was Elvis for sure
Wow. I want to be a highly paid government informant, too. Hey FBI, if I say I saw the great terrorist "Elvis" in my town, can I get paid like that?
bwburke94 (profile), 17 Jan 2019 @ 7:36am
Apparently Hayat was a cherry picker.
But are we sure the FBI wasn't the one doing the cherry-picking?
He's a Witch - Burn Him!
"The court says there's not much here that makes the FBI look like a competent anti-terrorism force."
The court should have said that pretty much everything here makes the FBI look like an incompetent version of the Spanish Inquisition.
Personanongrata, 17 Jan 2019 @ 12:29pm
Secret Evidence and Secret Courts is Tyranny
In a nation that supposedly operates it's justice system under the auspices of rule of law all FBI's Handcrafted Terrorists would be released forthwith and all persons found responsible for railroading/entrapping them with secret evidence would be called to answer for their criminal acts before a jury of their peers.
The terrorists responsible for murdering/torturing of millions of human beings in the later part of the 20th century and beginning of 21st century can be found at:
1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington DC
The US Capitol Building Washington DC
The Pentagon across the Potomac River in Arlington Virginia
The Central Intelligence Agency across the Potomac River in Langley Virginia
These are the places the world's worst terrorists can be found. The only thing missing is the political will power (ie spine) to bring the terrorists to justice.
Uriel-238 (profile), 17 Jan 2019 @ 2:29pm
The failure of the rule of law.
It sounds like you're making the Pirates and Emperors argument, that we hold small criminals accountable for crimes against humanity, overlooking large criminals. It was less of a concern during the middle ages in which lords and kings governed by divine right, but yes, our modern nations like to pretend they are governed by rule of law.
The problem is we only selectively enforce our laws, and officials and the aristocracy continue to evade justice.
They will continue to do so until we recognize the castes in our society and that we are still ruled by lords, not law.
Our peerless leader has, more than once, made it clear he believes in divine right but then it's part of any racist philosophy.
Anonymous Coward, 17 Jan 2019 @ 2:42pm
Gee, i don't know... what possible other reason is there for visiting Pakistan, out ally in the War on Terror, if not to go to a terrorist training facility?
Coyne Tibbets (profile), 17 Jan 2019 @ 2:51pm
Oh, there are lots and lots of reasons. But training in a terrorist camp is the only one that lets us charge you with terrorism when you return to the US. So that's the one we'll accuse you of no matter what you actually did.


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# Remove-AzureRmHDInsightPersistedScriptAction

## SYNOPSIS
Removes an persisted script action from an HDInsight cluster.

## SYNTAX

```
Remove-AzureRmHDInsightPersistedScriptAction [-ClusterName] <String> [-Name] <String>
 [-ResourceGroupName <String>] [-InformationAction <ActionPreference>] [-InformationVariable <String>]
 [<CommonParameters>]
```

## DESCRIPTION
The **Remove-AzureRmHDInsightPersistedScriptAction** cmdlet removes a persisted script action from the specified Azure HDInsight cluster's list of persisted script actions.
The removed script will no longer be executed when the cluster is scaled up.

## EXAMPLES

### Example 1: Remove a script action from the list of persisted script actions on a cluster
```
PS C:\>Remove-AzureRmHDInsightPersistedScriptAction `
            -ClusterName "your-hadoop-001" `
            -Name "Scriptaction"
```

This command removes the script action named Scriptaction from the list of persisted script actions on the specified cluster.

## PARAMETERS

### -ClusterName
Specifies the name of the cluster.

```yaml
Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: True
Position: 0
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False
```

### -Name
Specifies the name of the persisted script action to be removed.

```yaml
Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: True
Position: 1
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False
```

### -ResourceGroupName
Specifies the name of the resource group.

```yaml
Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False
```

### -InformationAction
Specifies how this cmdlet responds to an information event.

The acceptable values for this parameter are:

- Continue
- Ignore
- Inquire
- SilentlyContinue
- Stop
- Suspend

```yaml
Type: ActionPreference
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases: infa

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False
```

### -InformationVariable
Specifies an information variable.

```yaml
Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases: iv

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False
```

### CommonParameters
This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutVariable, -OutBuffer, -PipelineVariable, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216).

## INPUTS

## OUTPUTS

## NOTES

## RELATED LINKS

[Get-AzureRmHDInsightPersistedScriptAction](./Get-AzureRmHDInsightPersistedScriptAction.md)

[Set-AzureRmHDInsightPersistedScriptAction](./Set-AzureRmHDInsightPersistedScriptAction.md)

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Dispatch September 24, 2004 01:05 pm
Ich bin ein Bergamasc
[Posted 1:05 PM by John Derbyshire]
Here's a thing. I was just browsing in William Ashbrook's fine book Donizetti and his Operas. On p.7 I read: "[Francesco] Salari (1751-1823), a Bergamasc by birth, had studied at Naples with Piccinni..."
That word "Bergamasc" stopped my eye. It plainly means "a native ofBergamo" (Donizetti's own home town). How striking that the Englishlanguage should have an irregular formation like that to identify the natives of an inconsequential Italian town!
There are a number of these irregulars in Britain: "Liverpudlian" for anative of Liverpool, "Mancunian" for someone from nearby Manchester,"Salopian" for the people of Shropshire, and so on. In the U.S.A., though, the only one I know of is "Cantabrigian," which I have heard used for anative of Cambridge, Mass. -- obviously borrowed from the corresponding British usage. (In re which, let's not forget "Oxonian"!)
Even setting aside these irregular forms, the business of making English substantives and adjectives to identify people from this or that place isvery convoluted. Why is a native of Paris a Parisian, while a native ofBerlin is a Berliner? (As also, notoriously, is a sticky cream-filled bun.)Why is a native of Beijing a Beijinger, while a native of Shanghai is a Shanghainese? Because the first ends in a consonant but the second doesn't? Then why is a native of Canton a Cantonese, not a Cantoner? There are deepmysteries to be plumbed here.
Is there any other language in the world as rich, varied, and mysterious as English?
John Derbyshire's most recent book is We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism (Crown Forum).
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50 Years of Text Games
HUTSPIEL and Dr. Dorothy Clark
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Aaron A. Reed
Update: Find out the latest on the 50 Years of Text Games book!
Note: this article has been revised from its original form.
Research continues for the 50 Years of Text Games book and its introduction, covering interesting ancestors before 1971. I recently learned an interesting fact about early computer game history that to my knowledge hadn't previously been reported on, and shared it in a Twitter thread today. This is just one of several cool stories that are going into the book's introduction! I remain incredibly excited about the book form of this project and hope you're looking forward to it, too.
One of the first complex computer games, a military wargame called HUTSPIEL (1955), was based in large part on the work of a woman, Dr. Dorothy K. Clark, a fact which to my knowledge has never been previously reported. #50YearsOfTextGames Thread!
HUTSPIEL has almost always been credited just to the US Army, but a bibliography dive revealed Clark as one of five authors on the original report writing it up (the author list is alphabetical—while it wasn't a consistent practice among the research group she worked at to alphabetize author names, some of the other papers from the group do follow this practice). Thanks to a librarian at the US Army War College I've acquired a document scan of this report.
I've uploaded the full HUTSPIEL report, which I believe to be in the public domain as taxpayer funded research, to archive.org. (Note: here's a backup link.) Incidentally, the report probably contains a detailed enough description of HUTSPIEL that it could be reimplemented—by someone more comfortable with differential equations than me!
So, what was HUTSPIEL? It was one of the first complex interactive games to run on a computer—nearly everything before was an adaptation of an existing game that could run on paper, like Checkers or Tic-Tac-Toe.
One exception was RAND's 1952 "Project Simulator," a huge wargame-cum-LARP for dozens of players: but this "cannot really be classified as a complete computer game" according to historian Alexander Smith since it required human refs & interpreters. (To be clear, there certainly were "complete computer games" before HUTSPIEL, like Christopher Strachey's draughts program, but nothing with a very high degree of complexity.)
HUTSPIEL ran on its own & let two players, Red and Blue, control both sides of an imagined USSR/NATO conflict in Europe. It played out in accelerated real time, though either player could pause to issue their orders.
Most 50s computers were punch-card driven batch processors with no real-time interaction, but HUTSPIEL was designed for a weird analog computer (the Goodyear Electronic Differential Analyzer) that allowed live adjustments to ongoing calculations.
Here's an image taken from the report which I've never seen before, of 2 people playing HUTSPIEL (probably in 1955). Players would read up to 40 outputs (troop strength, equipment damage etc) via ammeter gauges, and adjust their strategy using dials and switches.
Interestingly, the report notes that players usually didn't play the game confrontationally. Instead, each side would agree on a strategy in advance, and play to find out what happened! (Remember, this was a research project.)
So who was Dr. Dorothy Clark and how did she come to be involved in such a project? She was a 1937 Radcliffe PhD in history who made a career doing detailed statistical analyses of military conflicts, generalizing them into heuristics and equations.
From 1949 she'd been employed by Johns Hopkins' Operations Research Office, which collaborated with the military on various R&D projects. Its director had made a point of hiring from the humanities & across gender lines. (source, p67)
In 1954 Clark published an influential paper modeling the effect of troop losses on combat effectiveness, running thousands of numbers from seven real WWII engagements involving 44 infantry battalions to inform her models. The paper was still being cited as recently as 2017.
When ORO launched a program to develop a computer wargame, Clark doubtless seemed like a sensible person to be involved, digitizing her numerical models into a working, interactive simulation of the effectiveness of troops on a battlefield.
The report doesn't break down who worked on what, but Clark's modeling work clearly provided the basis for the game's core simulation (which was essentially just a series of evolving differential equations running in parallel). Paul Iribe, engineer and ORO computer expert, likely worked on the complex hardware (at a time when all computer games needed complex hardware). Nicholas Smith was a physicist who specialized in the rather grim calculations related to atomic bomb fallout, another component of HUTSPIEL; and Lloyd Yates was an instructor in aeronautical engineering who may have provided expertise related to the air combat portion of the simulation.
Clark would later contribute to another paper describing FOE, a non-interactive digital simulation of company-level engagements also based on her equations. The ORO (which had evolved by the '60s into the RAC, Research Analysis Corp) would go on to develop THEATERSPIEL (1961), a more famous early digital wargame.
Firsts are hard to claim, but HUTSPIEL was certainly one of the earliest complex computer games (each player had dozens of controls and readouts to monitor) & one of the first not based on an existing analog game. Dr. Dorothy Clark (center, pictured in 1966) deserves to be better known for her role in this groundbreaking project.
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Jan 27, 2022Liked by Aaron A. Reed
Another incredible find and great report. I can't wait for the book!!!
Have you seen "Top management decision simulation"? It was a computer business simulation wargame from 1957 (or earlier):
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.35128000152247&view=1up&seq=1
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Red Sox punish Yankees at home to advance to ALCS: 'We'll get the last laugh'
The Red Sox are going back to the American League Championship Series for the first time since 2013. They will play the defending World Series champs.
Red Sox punish Yankees at home to advance to ALCS: 'We'll get the last laugh' The Red Sox are going back to the American League Championship Series for the first time since 2013. They will play the defending World Series champs. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2018/10/09/red-sox-yankee-stadium-party-alds-game-4/1585450002/
Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY Published 11:43 p.m. ET Oct. 9, 2018 | Updated 2:43 a.m. ET Oct. 10, 2018
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Eduardo Nunez celebrates after the Red Sox defeated the Yankees in ALDS Game 4 to advance to the ALCS.(Photo: Noah K. Murray, USA TODAY Sports)
NEW YORK -- The Boston Red Sox, who spent nearly a century cursed by their hated rivals -- the rich and powerful New York Yankees -- have turned Yankee Stadium into their personal nightclub.
The Red Sox, for the second time in 19 days, danced and partied on the Yankee Stadium infield, sprayed champagne and beer over one another in the visiting clubhouse, and partied Tuesday night like the ball was dropping on New Year's Eve in Times Square.
The Red Sox, after clinching the American League East Division title in New York just three weeks ago, returned for the after-hours party, winning the AL Division Series with a 4-3 victory over the Yankees, taking the best-of-five series 3-1.
And just what music did they play during their celebration?
You guessed it, Frank Sinatra's version of "New York, New York,'' trolling Yankee All-Star right fielder Aaron Judge, who played the song on his stereo while walking out of Fenway Park over the weekend after the Yankees' Game 2 victory.
"Well, they know it happened,'' Red Sox manager Alex Cora said. "They talked about it. I don't know if they took it personal.''
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Red Sox troll Yankees with 'New York, New York' song
Well, no matter their music selection, the Red Sox got their sweetest form of revenge by simply beating the Yankees. The Yankees, after falling one game short of the World Series a year ago, will be staying home for the long winter. The Red Sox will travel home to open the AL Championship Series on Saturday night at Fenway Park against the defending World Series champion Houston Astros.
"They were the team we had to beat,'' MVP favorite Mookie Betts said. "They were in our way where we wanted to go. Now, they're out of our way.''
The Red Sox, considered the underdogs in this series because their rotation had never won a postseason game and their bullpen had the second-worst ERA in the AL in September, instead showed everyone why they won a franchise-record 108 games during the season, thoroughly dominating the Yankees.
The Red Sox, after splitting the first two games in Boston, punished the Yankees in these two games at Yankee Stadium, humiliating them in Game 3, 16-1, and then burying them Tuesday, surviving a harrowing ninth inning that included a game-ending replay review.
The Red Sox not only outscored the Yankees 20-4 at Yankee Stadium, but after Gary Sanchez's three-run homer in the seventh inning of Game 2 at Fenway Park, the Yankees hit .149 with only three extra-base hits. The Yankees, who set the major-league record with 267 home runs this season, didn't hit a single homer at Yankee Stadium. It was the first time they went homerless in back-to-back games at Yankee Stadium since April 7-8 against the Baltimore Orioles.
The Yankees' offense was so abysmal that it hit just .154 with one extra-base hit with runners in scoring position, compared to .400 with five extra-base hits for the Red Sox. The Yankees scored their only four runs at home on two sacrifice flies, a fielder's choice and a hit-by-pitch.
"Definitely frustrating,'' Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. "Credit to them for being able to hold us down and shut us down. You don't move on when you can't get enough big hits in a series, and they just outplayed us a little bit.''
So, go ahead, you still want to question the Red Sox? You want to doubt that they can come up big on the biggest stage? You want to ridicule their pitching staff that produced a 3.32 ERA from their starters in the Division Series, with Rick Porcello winning his first career postseason game while ace Chris Sale pitched a 1-2-3 eighth inning?
"Anybody outside the clubhouse can say what they want,'' Sale said, "but we know who we are. Just keep doubting us. Keep talking. We'll get the last laugh.''
The Red Sox manhandled the Yankees, turning what was supposed to be an exhilarating, epic series between the greatest rivals in all of sports into a rather dull affair, with no brawls, arguments, or even so much as a lead change.
The only real excitement came in the ninth when All-Star closer Craig Kimbrel entered the game with a 4-1 lead, with the last 14 Yankees retired, only to lose command of the strike zone. After two walks, a hit by pitch and a single, the Yankees cut the lead to 4-2 with the bases loaded. He retired Gary Sanchez on a deep fly ball to left for a sacrifice fly, and then got the final out on a slow roller to third baseman Eduardo Nunez, whose throw barely got Gleyber Torres at first.
The Red Sox started to celebrate, but the play was so close, Boone immediately signaled for a replay review. The Red Sox stopped, looked up at the video board, saw that Torres was out by a half-step, and slowly started to celebrate again. Still, they waited to erupt on the field until crew chief Mike Winters signaled out.
"I was praying,'' Red Sox GM David Dombrowski told USA TODAY Sports. "I said, 'Please. Please be as I thought it was. Please.' "
"Whew,'' Dombrowski said.
And the party was on.
"It's 2018 baseball,'' said Porcello, who grew up just 40 miles from Yankee Stadium. "You have to wait for replay before you know you really won.''
Said Betts: "All I know is that was weird. Really weird. I mean, I saw he was out, but you never know.''
It was worth the wait, with the Red Sox celebrating at Yankee Stadium as if the joint belongs to them, making this celebration so much sweeter since it caused so much pain to the sellout crowd of 49,641.
The Red Sox, who were swept out of the first round the past two seasons and winning just one postseason game since 2013, are back.
"This is what I've been waiting for my entire life,'' said Sale, who begged manager Alex Cora to let him pitch in this game. "We want the trophy, and the really cool ring you get, too.
"Last year left a bad taste in my mouth. It sucked. I didn't want to feel like that again.''
That feeling is gone now. The Red Sox, the only AL East team to ever eliminate the Yankees, pulled off an encore from their dramatic comeback in 2004, the last time they faced one another in the postseason.
They beat the Yankees, forcing their fans to witness the carnage.
"It was everything we thought it'd be, and more,'' said Brock Holt, who hit for the cycle in Game 3. "We're going to savor this, but we're not stopping now.''
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Unforgettable moments from the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry
2018 ALDS Game 4: The Red Sox beat the Yankees in the Bronx to clinch the series. Wendell Cruz, USA TODAY Sports
2018 ALDS Game 2: Red Sox starting pitcher David Price reacts after giving up a towing home run to Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge in the first inning. Price is pulled after 1 1/3 innings. Paul Rutherford, USA TODAY Sports
April 11, 2018; Yankees first baseman Tyler Austin charged the mound after Red Sox pitcher Joe Kelly. Winslow Townson, USA TODAY Sports
Sept. 29, 2016: The Yankees honored David Ortiz prior to his final game at Yankee Stadium. Kathy Willens, AP
Sept. 28, 2014: Derek Jeter receives a standing ovation as he leaves the field at Fenway Park for the final time. Greg M. Cooper, Greg M. Cooper-USA TODAY Sports
2004 ALCS Game 7: The Red Sox became the first team to ever rally back from a 3-0 series deficit with a 10-3 win at Yankee Stadium. Amy Sancetta, AP
2004 ALCS Game 6: Red Sox starter Curt Schilling pitches with a serious ankle injury to force a Game 7. Charles Krupa, AP
2004 ALCS Game 4: Dave Roberts' stolen base in the ninth inning kickstarted the Red Sox' historic comeback in the series. Jed Jacobsohn, Getty Images
July 24, 2004: Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez clashed with Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek after being hit by a pitch. Barry ChinN, AP
July 2, 2004: Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter tumbled into the stands after making a catch in extra innings of an eventual New York win. Frank Franklin II, AP
2003 ALCS Game 7: Yankees third baseman Aaron Boone hit a walk-off home run in the 11th inning off Tim Wakefield, putting the Yankees through to the World Series. Bill Kostroun, AP
2003 ALCS Game 3: Red Sox ace Pedro Martinez threw Yankees bench coach Don Zimmer to the ground during an altercation at Fenway Park. Paul J. Bereswill, AP
1999 ALCS: For the first time in history, the rivals met in the postseason. The Yankees won the series 4-1 and would go on to win the World Series. Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY
July 4, 1983: Yankees left Dave RIghetti tossed a no-hitter against the Red Sox in the Bronx. AP
1978 AL East tiebreaker: Bucky Dent's three-run homer in the seventh inning off former Mike Torrez put the Yankees ahead. Boston had led the division by as many as 14 games earlier in the season. The Yankees would go on to win the World Series. AP
September 1978: Trailing the Red Sox by four games in the division, the Yankees pulled off a four-game sweep at Fenway Park, outscoring the Red Sox 42-9. The series became known as the "Boston Massacre." Eric Stangel, AP
Aug. 1, 1973: Following a botched squeeze play, Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk threw down with New York's Gene Michael. AP
Oct. 1, 1961: Roger Maris hit his 61st home run of the season off Boston's Tracy Stallard, breaking Babe Ruth's single-season record AP
1941: Joe DiMaggio beat out Ted Williams for the MVP award. Williams batted .406 that season, but DiMaggio had an MLB-record 56-game hitting streak. AP
Jan. 5, 1920: The Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees for $125,000. AP


I am back again with yet another homemade DIY for you beautiful ladies. I am an ardent eye makeup lover, but to the contrary, I am bad at removing eye makeup. I used to go for cleansing and struggle a lot in removing the liners, mascara and eye shadows. For some lame reason, I had not thought about investing in a good eye makeup remover. This weekend, I was so bored and wanted to do some creative and useful stuff. I decided to make an eye makeup remover all by myself and I successfully did it.
1. Boil a cup of water and let it cool by itself. You may use RO purified water. As we are going to use it on eyes, I didn't want to risk any infection through water and I boiled the water thoroughly.
2. Now, pour a little baby oil (may be two spoons) into the empty container. Here, I have used an empty hair oil bottle, which is convenient to dispense the product.
3. Next, add a little amount of baby shampoo to the bottle. Shake the bottle so that the oil and the shampoo mixes well.
4. Its time to add the boiled water to the mixture and shake a little.
That's it. The eye makeup remover is ready. The eye makeup remover smells very mild, but its too good in removing the makeup.
I have tried removing Chambor's eye dazzle liner and the Chambor Jewel Eye Shadow with this eye makeup remover and wow. All the makeup was removed with just a single swipe. I tried removing my kajal from the waterline and believe me girls, it was such a magic with this remover. It did not sting my eyes and it was hassle free.
I was happy and jumping and showing the product to my hubby who was enjoying his weekend afternoon nap. He was encouraging me to come up with more homemade products. I couldn't believe I have become so creative that I could prepare my own scrubs/makeup removers. Thank You IMBB!!
This is definitely going to be a money saver. All that you will have to spend is less than 150 bucks.
I hope you all liked this post and will enjoy preparing the home made eye makeup remover.
Have a nice week ahead. Take Care!
Thanks Pari..you will love it for sure..
awesome DIY… i was actually gonna google for a DIY makeup remover and saw this… thank youuuuuuuuuuuuu…….
As the author herself mentioned, I think the safest bet would be to use olive oil as eye-makeup remover.
Please read the ingredients on the label and make sure the mentioned toxic chemicals are not a part of the product before using.
Thanks Ranju for sharing this piece of info..I just went with the brand name J&J.I really got ot check the ingrediens..
Hey Ramam! This sounds great! Was planning to buy a good remover sicne Revlon eye n lip makeup remover dint suit me much.. but this sounds super easy to make n try out gr8! Thankyou!
Pia, I've not used on face yet.will have to try..
Wow Rama, this is the most creative thing I have found on IMBB. If my 18months old one will let me, I will use her things and it's so convenient too! Thanks a lot. Mmmwwwaah!
I love the idea of DIY products, however from my past experience of being a makeup artist for the past 20+ years using any type of OIL around the eyelashes and lash line that is not removed completely will affect your eyeliner, mascara and eye shadow the next day-it will gently slide off. If you need to take a waterproof liner or mascara off then use an oil based remover.


Dive instructors commonly use this site as a safe, interesting place to take their students, during a southwesterly it is very protected. The bottom composition is Silt so it gets extremely murky, this is made even worse when students are around, but it's full of life and an easy pleasant dive. Access is from the Carpark at the end of Flinders Lane just south/west of the Malibu Dive store, walk down the steps, straight into the water and head for the marker buoys about 50 meters from shore. Ropes join the wrecks and the novice can enjoy the wreck trail with the knowledge that staying with the rope trail in sight will keep you from loosing your way. Average visibility is about 3mtrs, although on a still day it can get as good as 10 meters.
- Wrecks are covered in sponges and ascidians.
- Pomfretts & bullseyes school around the wrecks.
- Catfish, octopus and small rays under the wrecks.
- Small bream an snapper everywhere.
- A lionfish lives inside the trail of the plane wreck. Careful these are extremely dangerous.
- Armed Sea-anemones are plentiful on the sandy areas , don't touch them though, the sting hurts.


I don't have a lot of pet peeves – one is people who read what I type over my shoulder as I type it, and the other is when people use the terms keyword and search query interchangeably. Keywords and search queries are both components of pay per click and related – but they are not the same. Know the difference between these two terms and you have a highly profitable PPC account, confuse the terms and find your PPC account in shambles. When your PPC account is in shambles you get very angry at the internet. When you get angry at the internet you find yourself yelling at your screen in a Starbucks commanding the people on the Internet to buy your product. Don't yell at your screen in a Starbucks – we are here to help! In this blog first we help you to understand the difference between a keyword and a search query. First we define a keyword, then we define a search query, and finally we tell you how to use this new-found knowledge to your advantage.
Keywords: Keywords only exist on the advertisers end. Keywords are words or phrases you bid on in pay per click, and you input into your PPC account. You bid on keywords in the hope that users search the words and phrases or similar words and phrases in their search query, which trigger your ads – leading to clicks and sales.
Search Queries: Search queries are what the user actually types in to Google to trigger your ad to show. They exist on the user's end. Search queries may be misspelled, have words in strange order, or only be somewhat related to your keyword. Search queries are the words and phrases that are actually typed in by a user to trigger your ad.
You have access to see the users search queries that triggered your ad to show. This report is found within your adWords account in something called the search query report. The search query report allows you to see how users search and how they actually act upon their searches. At NDIB we are not huge fans of surveys because we find that consumers often say one thing in a survey and perform a different action when it is time to actually take out the credit card and make a purchase. However, when you have access to search queries you have real life behavioral and business data. You know exactly the terms and phrases that users do and do not make purchases with when they search.
You then have a list of every search query that a user typed in, as well as if it resulted in a conversion (digital marketing jargon for a goal like a sale or form fill out).
A. People whose search query triggers your ad to show, but the search query doesn't make much semantic sense for your business. With the way some companies setup adWords accounts, search queries trigger your ads that are not semantically related. Let's say for example you are selling surfboards (NDIB is based out of Philly and all I can think about is the beach in this cold weather). If you have the keyword surf board and it is set in broad match your keyword may trigger ads to show for search queries such as boogie boards or surfing clothes or even surf music. These search queries don't relate to your keyword, and you may not even sell those items – but Google is a weasel like that. What you want to do is go to your search query report and see the search queries users search for that do not make semantic sense to your business, and add them as negative keywords.
If you run a search query report and see users click on your ad for search queries you don't want to show for, add those search queries as negative keywords.
You can add negative keywords at the campaign or the adGroup level. How you decide where to add negative keywords depends on your account structure. Generally we add negative keywords at the campaign level which means that it blocks that word or phrase out for all of the adGroups in the campaign. Sometimes, though it makes sense to add the negative keyword at the adGroup level. An example of when we add negative keywords at the adGroup rather than campaign level is when we manage eCommerce accounts. We may have one adGroup for men's shoes and one for women's shoes. In this case we add the negative keyword men's to the women's shoes AdGroup.
Much like regular keywords, negative keywords also have match types. You want to take advantage of these to tell Google exactly what you want.
Negative exact match –To have a negative exact match put the words or phrase that you do not want to trigger ads in square brackets. It should look like this [keyword]. This prevents matches for search queries that only match for that keyword. Exact match is how it sounds, the search query must exactly match to trigger the negative keyword. For example if I add the negative keyword [free] in my account than my ad is not triggered by the search query free, but would still be triggered by free surfboards or surfboards for free.
Negative phrase match – This is the one I find myself using the most. To activate negative phrase match put the negative keyword in quotes. It looks like this: "free surfboards". If you activate negative phrase match your ad does not appear when someone types in the words or phrase in the exact order and the words are next to each other. In the example your ad is triggered for the search queries free surfboards in Santa Barbara or West Beach free surfboards but your ads are still triggered if they search surfboards that are free.
Negative broad match – This is the broadest in terms of restriction. Any term you add in your negative broad match keyword blocks that word in a search query from triggering your ad. To add a term in negative broad match simply type the term into the AdWords interface. For example if your negative broad match is Business Courses you do not show for search queries such as Courses about business, or courses for your business. However, this negative keyword match type doesn't take into account variations such as plurals. You ad is still triggered by the search query Business Course.
Search query reports allow you to see what an actual user typed in before they to click your ad and makes a purchase. If you see users consistently type in words or phrases in their search query that lead to a sales and you don't have those words or phrases as keywords, then add them as keywords (not negative!). To add keywords from the search query report click on "add as keyword".
But Adam, if I am already matching for the search query with my current keywords why do I want to add it as a keyword? This is a great question. What you want to do is add the search queries that lead to sales as keywords then optimize to them as specifically as possible. When it is added as a specific keyword you can then tell Google which ad to show and which landing page to go to. You want your keyword, ad, and landing page to be as similar as they can be. In the example from the screenshot above I would then create an ad that matches has the words ppc management services (which causes them to be displayed in bold, increasing click-through rates) as well as a landing page that is specific to ppc management services rather than a more general ad that may be about PPC consulting. By being as specific as possible you increase sales and lead generation.
How have you used search queries and keywords in the past?


Volunteer and nominate! ASLO relies on volunteers and nominees in all its activities, especially to populate the ASLO Board of Directors as well as Standing and Ad Hoc Committees. Board and Standing Committee members serve staggered terms, so new members are needed each year. Ad hoc committees, such as the Publications Committee and Public Policy Committee, are formed to accomplish specific tasks over a limited period (usually two years) but may still need new members to cover particular areas of expertise. Enthusiasm, new ideas and new insights are always welcome!
ASLO relies primarily on volunteers among its members to nominate other ASLO members for awards. Take a look at the list of ASLO awards and past recipients and consider making such a nomination.
ASLO also relies on volunteers to assist with meetings. As just one example, Student Poster Awards are given at each ASLO meeting to recognize the accomplishments of scientists early in their careers. The Student Poster Award program is intended to have a positive impact on future research plans and employment opportunities. The program is entirely dependent on volunteer reviewers.
If you are interested in service on the Board of ASLO or can suggest another good candidate, please contact the Nominations Committee. If you are interested in volunteering or nominating someone for committee service, we provide a convenient form. To volunteer for service at an upcoming meeting, contact the Organizing Committee for the meeting. Your interest will be greatly appreciated!


debut for Esquisabel - 6ft3 tall.
Kongolo won the vacant EE-Eu 175 lb title on scores of 119-110, 116-113 and 117-111.
vacant GBU 154 lb title - and yes, Chiruta is now World champ!
Kabayel retained the EBU title with a close, upset win over Chisora, who again showed a little too heavy and didn´t work hard enough. It was scored 115-113, 115-114 and 114-114.
McDonnel retained the WBA title as he was cut in an accidental headclash and the fight had to be stopped and declared a No Contest.
39-38 and 39-37 for Eubank and 39-37 Bechelaghem.
fight off as Wassing got injured and had to pull out.
A big martial arts event that included 19 fights.
WBC and WBO middleweight titles.
WBFed Int´l 140 lb title.
End of the line for Harroche Horta, who is no middleweight. Floored twice in the fourth and again in the 8th before it was stopped. IBO I/C title at stake in his battle between journeymen de luxe.
WBFed female superbantam title, 96-95, 96-94 and 96-94.
39-37 and 40-37 for Tsurov and 39-37 Bocharov.
Rodriguez retained the Spanish superbantam title, scored 94-92, 95-92 and 94-93. Rodriguez was down in the fourth and fifth and had a point deducted in the ninth. Castro was hurt to the body and went down in the eighth.


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Pregnancy › CUTE VIDEO: Mum confused after her son and daughter-in-law literally put a 'bun in the oven'
CUTE VIDEO: Mum confused after her son and daughter-in-law literally put a 'bun in the oven'
It took this adorable soon-to-be nanna a little bit longer than anticipated to understand the cute pregnancy announcement from her daughter-in-law and son.
Shantelle and Wesley Dozier had literally put a bun in her oven, but she looked quite confused at first.
The Louisiana couple had tried to fall pregnant for 15 years, and they were on the verge of giving up when they found out their final round of fertility treatment had worked and Shantelle was expecting twins!
That's when they decided to surprise Wesley's mum Cynthia… but it took her a while to understand what they were trying to tell her.
Mum confused after her son and daughter-in-law put a 'bun in the oven'
In the hilarious post, Cynthia can be seen opening her oven to find a bun inside it.
"A bun's in the oven, who put the bun in the oven?" she asks, confused. "You put the bun in the oven?"
"Maybe not that oven," Wesley tells her.
Eventually, Cynthia understands what they are trying to tell her and burst into tears.
"Are y'all pregnant?!" she says before coming over to give them a hug.
What a sweet moment.
The cute reveal
"My mother-in-law is just a simple person who has a love of life. We always play jokes with her!" Shantelle tells People.
"At one point I was thinking if she was going to figure it out, or if we were just going to have to tell her! Everybody in the house was laughing!"
Shantelle and Wesley. Source: Supplied
Wesley says of the pregnancy reveal, "It was one of the best feelings in the world.
"We've been trying and waiting to say those words for so long."
What a lovely reveal! Thank you Shantelle for giving us permission to share your story with us.
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