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Bishop Amat softball routs Irvine in first round of CIF-SS playoffs
PUBLISHED: May 1, 2019 at 9:28 p.m. | UPDATED: May 1, 2019 at 9:28 p.m.
LA PUENTE — For the Bishop Amat High softball team, the mantra going into every game is to not strike out.
In Wednesday's CIF Southern Section Division 3 first-round playoff game against visiting Irvine, the Lancers had no problem putting the ball in play.
Led by a pair of two-run doubles by senior Ryan Brizo and five shutout innings from ace Amanda Hernandez, Bishop Amat's productive hitting carried the Lancers to a 10-0 victory over the Vaquerors in six innings.
"Our job is to not strike out," Lancers coach Gabe Carmona said. "If we get up and put the ball in play it puts the pressure on their defense. If we do that we're going to be in every game."
Bishop Amat (14-7-2) will face La Quinta or Diamond Ranch in the second round on Tuesday.
Bishop Amat took a 2-0 lead in the bottom the third inning. The Lancers led off with a pair of singles off Vaqueros starting pitcher Mia Estrada. After senior Haley Moran popped up on a sacrifice bunt attempt, Bishop Amat got on the scoreboard when Brizo slammed the first pitch of her at-bat into the left-center field gap for a two-run double.
"We knew she (Estrada) was coming inside and we came out pretty pumped up," Brizo said. "All our seniors and underclassmen really came through today and pumped up for round one, and we were ready."
The Lancers added five runs in the bottom of the fourth thanks to five walks, Brizo's second two-run double and a sacrifice fly by Moran.
Carmona knew that once Bishop Amat got to Estrada and forced Irvine coach Jim Knapp to bring in relievers, the Lancers were going to be in good shape.
"One thing we knew about them is that they're a good hitting team and we knew that once we got rid of their No. 1 (pitcher) we were going to start attacking and putting runs on the board," Carmona said. "We know that we can hit and we have the hitters to do it. (Desiree) Morin had a great game. She had three hits and she's been one of our sparkplugs as well with a little juice in her bat."
Hernandez finished with four strikeouts through five innings and allowed four walks and three hits.
Given Hernandez's poise, there was never any concern for Carmona about the senior's ability to work out of a jam.
"When she's in that circle she's in her world," Carmona said. "She understands her job is to throw strikes and keep us in the ballgame and she did that today. First two innings she struggled a little bit but then found her groove and then just went ahead and attacked and did her job."
Irvine (10-12) threatened to score first. The Vaqueros managed to get a pair of runners on in each of the first three innings. But the Vaqueros struggled to cash in on those opportunities.
"They capitalized on opportunities and we didn't," Knapp said. "We had runners on a lot and we just weren't able to get that key hit. Their pitcher did a good job of keeping us off balance."
The third inning turned out to be a back-breaking one for Irvine.
After left fielder Delaney Morgan and shortstop Elleana Rodriguez reached with two-out singles, Irvine had another chance to get a run in against Hernandez. But Hernandez once again escaped trouble by getting second baseman Sofia Chambers, who singled off Hernandez in the second, to ground out to Brizo at third to end the inning.
Estrada pitched 3 1/3 innings. She allowed five hits and a pair of walks and was responsible for three runs.
Marin drove in a pair of runs and juniors Hannah Becker and Jacklyn Silva each drove in a run for Bishop Amat.
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Q: Sysvolcheck returns error on backup DC upon each replication I have two DCs in my Samba AD with sysvol replication via rsync set up to run every 5 minutes.
On the PDC, samba-tool ntacl sysvolcheck returns no errors.
On the BDC, samba-tool ntacl sysvolcheck returns this error:
ERROR(<class 'samba.provision.ProvisioningError'>): uncaught exception - ProvisioningError: VFS ACL on sysvol directory /var/lib/samba/sysvol/<my domain> O:LAG:BAD:(A;OICI;0x001f01ff;;;LA)(A;OICI;0x001200a9;;;LG)(A;OICI;0x001f01ff;;;BG)(A;OICI;0x001200a9;;;BU)(A;OICI;0x001f01ff;;;BA)(A;OICI;0x001f01ff;;;BA)(A;OICI;0x001200a9;;;LG)(A;OICI;0x001f01ff;;;BG)(A;OICI;0x001200a9;;;BU)(A;;0x001f01ff;;;BA)(A;;0x001f01ff;;;LA)(A;;0x001200a9;;;WD)(A;OICIIO;0x001f01ff;;;CO)(A;OICIIO;;;;CG)(A;OICIIO;;;;WD) does not match expected value O:LAG:BAD:P(A;OICI;0x001f01ff;;;BA)(A;OICI;0x001200a9;;;SO)(A;OICI;0x001f01ff;;;SY)(A;OICI;0x001200a9;;;AU) from provision
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py", line 186, in _run
    return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/ntacl.py", line 453, in run
    provision.checksysvolacl(samdb, netlogon, sysvol,
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/samba/provision/__init__.py", line 1896, in checksysvolacl
    raise ProvisioningError('%s ACL on sysvol directory %s %s does not match expected value %s from provision' % (acl_type(direct_db_access), dir_path, fsacl_sddl, SYSVOL_ACL))

I can run sysvolreset on the BDC which fixes the problem, but then after 5 minutes when the rsync job finishes replication the error returns on the BDC once again.
And during all this the PDC still returns no errors. It seems like something going on exclusively on the BDC's end.
As far as I can see, this isn't really causing any problems...group policies still work on the domain. Should I just let this go then?
Any help would be appreciated!

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Combat tactics
Gravitational superweapons
Yuuzhan Vong culture
Yo'gand's Core
Yo'gand[1]
Circa 15,000 BBY[1][2]
First employed
Ygziir[1]
Last employed
Duro (Variation)[3]
Notable employments
Sernpidal[1]
Kalarba[3]
Destruction of planetary bodies[1]
Terror tactic[4]
Clearance of objects from orbit[3][5]
Terraforming[6]
Requisites
Dovin basal[1]
Utilized by
Yuuzhan Vong[1]
"You and me, Shedao Shai; the bones against Ithor."
"How long until we meet?"
"A lunar cycle. I'm a Jedi. I want to fight under a full moon."
"Remember the lesson of Sernpidal. I can make it so you will fight beneath a full moon."
―Shedao Shai threatens Jedi Knight Corran Horn with Yo'gand's Core[src]
Yo'gand's Core was a battle tactic employed by the extra-galactic Yuuzhan Vong species to destroy entire planets. A warlike race, the Yuuzhan Vong utilized biotechnology in all spheres of life; one of the many creatures they made use of was the dovin basal, an organism capable of manipulating gravitational fields. During a war to gain control of the Yuuzhan Vong galaxy, the warrior Yo'gand was confronted by the forces of a rival warrior, Steng, who was based on the heavily fortified world of Ygziir. Rather than fight Steng's forces directly, Yo'gand created an innovative tactic. He secretly installed a dovin basal on Ygziir and instructed the creature to harness Ygziir's moon through gravitational manipulation. The dovin basal then pulled the moon in closer to Ygziir until its orbit decayed and it crashed into the planet, wiping out the bulk of Yo'gand's enemies in a single strike. Use of the tactic proliferated and the Yuuzhan Vong species eventually left the ruins of their galaxy and headed into the Intergalactic Void in search of a new home.
Thousands of years passed before the tactic of Yo'gand's Core was employed again. When the Yuuzhan Vong finally reached another galaxy and selected it for invasion, an advance force was sent first to pave the way for the main Yuuzhan Vong fleet. To lessen the chances of detection, the leader of the advance force decided to wipe out the well-populated planet Sernpidal, utilizing Yo'gand's Core to convince the other inhabitants of the galaxy that a freak natural disaster had occurred. Sernpidal's moon Dobido was subsequently pulled out of orbit and impacted with the planet, destroying both spheres. Yo'gand's ancient tactic was again made use of in 26 ABY, when Hosk Station, an Esseles-class space station built into the surface of the moon of the planet Kalarba, was dragged down onto the world, destroying the planet and leaving the Kalarba system strewn with radioactive material. Although the principal purpose of Yo'gand's Core was that of a terror tactic, several variations existed and it was used for a number of reasons, such as cracking a planet open in order to harvest resources beneath its crust, pulling unwanted objects out of orbit, or reconstructing star systems.
Purpose Edit
Military Edit
"Sernpidal's got seven hours."
―Han Solo[src]
Yo'gand's Core was designed to wipe out entire planetary bodies quickly and efficiently, without the need for extended conflict. Against opponents who were unaware of the tactic, it could be employed without the tactician needing to reveal his presence. Furthermore, by positioning the dovin basal in a certain location, or through instruction of the creature, the Yuuzhan Vong could ensure that the satellite hit the planet at a precise location, such as upon a city or an ocean, if this was their wish.[1] The Yuuzhan Vong's ancient strategy also had its use as a terror tactic and was used to instill fear in those whom it affected.[7][8] It was not always used in isolation of military conflict; the satellite was sometimes brought down on the planet during a battle for tactical purposes, to prove Yuuzhan Vong dominance, or to pull unwanted objects, celestial or artificial, from orbit.[3] Due to the gravitational disturbances wrought by the destruction of planets, as well as the radiation that could sometimes be spread, the tactic could render whole systems inaccessible or uninhabitable.[8][9]
Resource harvesting Edit
"They did it to make ships. They grow the ships as they grow all of their tools. They feed the young ones on broken planets."
―Kyp Durron[src]
Notably, Yo'gand's Core was also utilized for the purpose of generating new resources. Many planets harbored a wealth of minerals beneath their crusts which were largely unobtainable from the surface.[7] When a moon impacted upon a planet's surface, tremendous forces subsequently shook the world and eventually caused it to fracture. The result was an asteroid field full of rich minerals that the Yuuzhan Vong could use in the construction of their organic starships. Younger ships were given fragments of destroyed worlds to break down and digest.[9] Shipwombs, the Yuuzhan Vong equivalent of shipyards, were thus ideally located in the ruins of shattered planets, where vast resources could be obtained close at hand.[7][9] Lastly, Yo'gand's Core could be used to bring smaller meteorites down upon a planet's surface that contained desirable resources such as water. It was thus a prominent element of Yuuzhan Vong terraforming.[6]
Features Edit
"Look at the descent. Every time it crosses this part of the planet, it comes down steeper. Something's pulling it down."
―Anakin Solo discusses Dobido's descent toward Sernpidal's surface[src]
The Wookiee Chewbacca is immolated by the inferno caused by the moon's descent.
For all its cataclysmic potential, Yo'gand's Core took only a matter of days to destroy a planet. The Yuuzhan Vong would drop a powerful dovin basal onto the planet, within a crater of their own making if they desired secrecy or protection for the creature.[1] Sometimes it was not one but instead a number of dovin basals that were seeded on the planet,[8] although in recorded cases only one was deployed. Once placed on the planet's surface, the dovin basal was instructed to use its gravitational field manipulations to anchor itself onto the planet's core while simultaneously latching onto a passing satellite.[1] Although any object, such as floating cities or space stations could theoretically be pulled out of orbit on to the planet's surface, it was typically a moon if the goal was the destruction of the entire world.[3] The dovin basal was forfeit once the process became irreversible, although the Yuuzhan Vong typically did not bother to attempt to retrieve the creatures, especially since evidence of dovin basals would be lost with the planet. If the dovin basal did come under attack, however, it was able to refocus all of its gravitational manipulation on the core and drag itself deeper underground.[1]
Every time the moon's orbit brought it over the point at which the dovin basal was located, its orbit would decay sharply, bringing it closer to the planet's surface. As each successive orbit decayed further, the orbits became more rapid. As the moon came closer to the planet, phenomena would begin to occur on the surface. Winds would pick up, becoming erratic and forceful. Groundquakes and the sudden creation of fissures would become a regular occurrence, leading to the collapse of natural or artificial structures such as mountains or city buildings. If bodies of water were present on the planet, tidal patterns were also offset by the moon's descent, leading to rushing and chaotic seas that created floods and tsunamis. Once the moon broke atmosphere massive compressive forces arose due to the sudden arrival of a significant mass. As this occurred, the moon would also begin to suffer the effects of atmospheric entry, trailing flames due to the friction of its approach. Once the moon's orbit was broken and it had entered the atmosphere, Yo'gand's Core became irreversible. Tremendous upheavals of the ground became commonplace and winds picked up to titanic speeds, becoming so forceful that they could knock spacecraft out of the sky and topple entire buildings. Any detached debris would be picked up by the winds and hurled around, proving lethal to any remaining inhabitants.[1]
As the moon began its final, fiery descent, the massive compression that was the result of its full entry into the atmosphere would cause compounds such as air to burst, triggering sweeping firestorms. At the moment of impact, the atmosphere essentially detonated and was torn away entirely, leaving the affected planet incapable of supporting atmospheric lifeforms. The impact of the moon typically dislodged the planet from its orbit and created a giant cloud of planetary and satellite fragments at the location of the collision. Once the planet was rendered uninhabitable,[1] it was not long before other effects of the collision manifested themselves.[8] The force of the moon's impact typically caused the planet to break apart into gigantic fragments and dispersed a wide field of debris that could sometimes form into an asteroid field. The loss of a planetary body also typically caused the star system to become unstable, creating large fluctuations in gravity and offsetting hyperspace entry and exit points.[9]
Creation and the Cremlevian War Edit
"The Yuuzhan Vong embarked on a nomadic lifestyle following the end of the Cremlevian War, in which Supreme Overlord Yo'gand defeated Warmaster Steng by dropping a moon on his encampment."
―Voren Na'al, writing the historical records of the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances[src]
Circa 15,000 years before their invasion of the galaxy,[2] the extra-galactic Yuuzhan Vong were engaged in brutal internecine warfare that threatened to bring extinction to the species.[10] The Cremlevian War was fought for years between different Yuuzhan Vong tribes. The warrior Yo'gand, faced with a rival domain on the planet Ygziir, who were heavily entrenched and possessing resources to resist a frontal assault, decided to try a new approach to vanquishing his opponents. Making use of a dovin basal, Yo'gand placed the creature on Ygziir and instructed it to pull the planet's moon down onto the surface,[1] precisely where the encampment of Warmaster Steng, Yo'gand's rival, was located.[11] The resulting impact destroyed Ygziir,[12] wiping out all of Yo'gand's enemies on the planet,[11] except Steng, whom Yo'gand defeated in single combat.[13] As such, the tactic was credited with unifying the Yuuzhan Vong,[8] and the Battle of Ygziir proved the turning point of the conflict.[10] Due to the nature of the tactic and the dovin basal's anchorage to the target planet's core, it became known as Yo'gand's Core.[1] Following the end of the Cremlevian War, the unified Yuuzhan Vong embarked on a war for supremacy in the galaxy. Although the Yuuzhan Vong found a way to counter the tactic with other dovin basals, the tactic proliferated during the conquest of their galaxy and was later credited with rendering it uninhabitable due to the destruction of so many worlds.[1][8] The destruction of their galaxy and of their homeworld, Yuuzhan'tar, forced the Yuuzhan Vong into the Intergalactic Void, whereupon they wandered for millennia in search of a new home.[14] Eventually, the species set its sights upon another galaxy, which they approached with the intention of total conquest.[1][3][10][14] For millennia the tactic of Yo'gand's Core went unused, as the long journey through the Intergalactic Void meant that there were no planets to conquer.[1]
During the Yuuzhan Vong War Edit
Sernpidal Edit
"Make your noise, Prefect. Destroy Sernpidal and plan your expansion."
―Nom Anor, to Prefect Da'Gara[src]
Only when the Yuuzhan Vong invasion was launched in 25 ABY against the inhabitants of the galaxy that had been targeted by the Yuuzhan Vong did the tactic come back into play. Its first use was against the planet Sernpidal in the Julevian system. Once the Praetorite Vong, who acted as the advance force of the main Yuuzhan Vong fleet, had established their first base on the icy planet Helska IV, they looked toward expansion. Prefect Da'Gara, who led the Praetorite Vong, believed that any further expansion was risky unless Sernpidal, a nearby world that saw a sizable amount of communications and shipping traffic, was somehow silenced. Unwilling to initiate a fullscale assault due to the unwanted attention such action would bring, Da'Gara asked his peer, Executor Nom Anor, for advice on how to proceed. Anor agreed that Sernpidal was too well-connected a planet on a galactic level for the Yuuzhan Vong invasion to go unnoticed there and together he and Da'Gara considered other means by which the planet could be silenced without the galaxy immediately being made aware of the invaders' presence. Eventually, Da'Gara alighted on the idea of utilizing Yo'gand's Core, as the Sernpidalians and the rest of the New Republic would be unaware of what was causing the moon's descent and assume it was a natural phenomenon. Any New Republic warships sent out to investigate could subsequently be destroyed.[1]
Prefect Da'Gara sent forth his agents to install a large dovin basal east of Sernpidal City, the major population center on the world. Sernpidal had two moons, one of which was named Dobido—a small satellite twenty kilometers in diameter and ideal for the purposes of the tactic. The dovin basal, secretly installed in a crater in an unpopulated field, latched onto Dobido and the planet's core and began the process of decaying the moon's orbit. The Yuuzhan Vong instructed the dovin basal to bring Dobido down directly on Sernpidal City. As Dobido continued its orbits, its trajectory became lower and lower each time it passed over the dovin basal's location. The inhabitants of Sernpidal began to worship the moon as Tosi-karu, a Sernpidalian goddess whom they believed had arrived. Chaos and panic struck the city and a mass exodus began as many realized what was occurring. On other parts of the planet, settlements were wiped out by the many natural disasters the moon's descent precipitated. A coastal village south of Sernpidal City was leveled in a tsunami while groundquakes began to demolish buildings and mountain ranges. The rising winds made evacuation efforts difficult as fleeing ships were buffeted out of the sky. The arrival of the light freighter Millennium Falcon brought with it Jedi Anakin Solo, along with his father Han Solo and first mate Chewbacca. The crew was able to study Dobido's descent patterns and realized that its orbit was affected every time it passed over a certain location. Along with the Mayor of Sernpidal City, Anakin Solo investigated, discovering the dovin basal and firing a blaster shot at the creature. By this time, Dobido's orbit was sufficiently decayed and the moon's impact was inevitable. The creature retreated further toward the planet's core but was eventually killed when the mayor leapt down the crater with a thermal detonator and eliminated it.[1]
The Millennium Falcon flees the explosion created by Dobido's impact with Sernpidal.
The death of the dovin basal did nothing to prevent the descent of Dobido; the moon, having already breached the atmosphere, began its final descent toward Sernpidal City, trailing flames and instigating massive disasters across the world. As the air burst due to the titanic compressive forces caused by the moon's fall, sweeping firestorms and winds caused chaos and destruction in the cities. In total, 20,000 people escaped the planet, due chiefly to the relief efforts of Han Solo, captain of the Millennium Falcon. Millions perished in the resulting impact, however, as Dobido collided with Sernpidal and exploded, tearing the atmosphere away. Among the dead was the Wookiee Chewbacca,[1] one of the Heroes of Yavin.[15] Sernpidal was left uninhabitable following the impact.[1] Dobido's impact, having torn away the atmosphere entirely, pounded loose a chunk of one hemisphere,[16] and left Sernpidal wobbling off its orbit.[1] The planet fragmented over time, fracturing into large and small chunks that left an asteroid field dispersed across the system.[7] The Yuuzhan Vong used the ruined planet to create a shipwomb—the invaders' equivalent of a shipyard—in which a new worldship could be constructed to house the young, infirm or elderly members of the species. The fragments of Sernpidal were broken down by Yuuzhan Vong creatures and harvested for minerals. In terms of its role as a terror tactic, Sernpidal's demise spread fear among the citizens and leadership of the New Republic as it proved the vast potential of the Yuuzhan Vong for destruction.[7][9] The Yuuzhan Vong commander Shedao Shai later threatened the planet Ithor with the same fate during his negotiations with Jedi Knight Corran Horn, although on this occasion Yo'gand's tactic was not employed.[7]
Kalarba and other theaters Edit
"In the assault against Kalarba, the Yuuzhan Vong used a copy of the Sernpidal tactic, drawing in Kalarba's moon Hosk and destroying both spheres."
―Voren Na'al[src]
Ten months after the destruction of Sernpidal the Yuuzhan Vong made use of Yo'gand's ancient tactic again, this time on the planet Kalarba and its famed satellite, the Esseles-class Hosk Station. Part of Warmaster Tsavong Lah's campaign to sever the Corellian Run trade route, the Battle of Kalarba was a loss for the New Republic that witnessed the destruction of the planet. As with Sernpidal, the Yuuzhan Vong placed a large dovin basal on the surface and instructed it to harness Hosk Station, an ancient space station that had been built onto the surface of one of the planet's two moons, and drag it down onto Kalarba. On this occasion, however, Yo'gand's Core was accompanied with military support. A Yuuzhan Vong fleet invaded the Kalarba system and attacked the New Republic presence there once the descent of Hosk Station was underway. Hosk Station took heavy punishment from the weapons of the Yuuzhan Vong vessels as it fell; the space station's defenses were crippled and it began its descent to Kalarba's surface in ruins.[3] The resulting impact destroyed Kalarba and Hosk Station,[11] distributing radioactive material across the Kalarba system that rendered it uninhabitable for centuries.[8] The Yuuzhan Vong had no use for the system and moved on with their advance upon the Core Worlds.[3]
Kalarba, the second planet destroyed during the Yuuzhan Vong War by the tactic.
At the Battle of Duro, which took place a short time after the devastation of Kalarba, a variation of Yo'gand's Core was used. In Duro's orbit were twenty or so floating cities, which housed the Duros population who had long ago left the polluted surface of their homeworld. Viewed as abominations by the technology-hating Yuuzhan Vong, the cities were marked for destruction. Although some were rammed or demolished by warships or other creatures such as an ychna,[3] the rest were dragged to the surface by dovin basals and destroyed upon impact,[11] among them Orr-Om and Bburru.[3]
Later on in the war, at Borleias, Supreme Commander Maal Lah placed a dovin basal on the planet's moon and used it to latch onto the numerous orbital defenses protecting the world. To make the assault of the planet easier, Lah had planned for the dovin basal to then sweep the orbital defenses aside so that the planetary invasion could commence. The tactic was not utilized in this case, however, as Warmaster Tsavong Lah, directing his subordinate, came to believe that a different strategy was necessary in order to take the world quickly.[5] In the Yuuzhan Vong restructuring of the Coruscant system, following the conquest of Coruscant, in the image of the star system of their ancient lost homeworld, Yuuzhan'tar, dovin basals were also placed on the surface of the planet to drag meteorites down on to the surface that contained water, bringing natural rain to Coruscant for the first time in thousands of years.[6]
"So when the…dovin basal is down the hole and pulling down the moon, it's locking onto the gravity of the planet and focusing a segment of that gravity more directly upon the moon. Can it be done? I don't know."
―R. A. Salvatore during an interview on Vector Prime[src]
Yo'gand's Core was introduced in The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime, the first installment in Del Rey's New Jedi Order series. The tactic was notable in Vector Prime as it resulted in the death of Chewbacca, who, while not the first movie character to die in the Expanded Universe, was certainly the most well-known.[1][17][18] It proved a way for Del Rey to add an element of tension into the novels, removing the "protective bubble" that had surrounded the heroes.[19] In her novel The New Jedi Order: Balance Point, released in 2000, author Kathy Tyers used Yo'gand's Core in the opening sequence of the book, in which Jaina Solo combats the Yuuzhan Vong over the doomed planet of Kalarba.
Due to Chewbacca's death and several other elements of the novel that a number of Star Wars fans found displeasing, author R. A. Salvatore came under, in some cases, fierce criticism. Among the criticisms were questions about how the science of the Yuuzhan Vong worked and the opinion that tactic of Yo'gand's Core was unrealistic and implausible. Salvatore had in fact obtained the idea for a device capable of manipulating gravitational fields from a 1950s science-fiction film he had watched. Although he was uncertain whether gravitational manipulation to the extent portrayed in Vector Prime was theoretically possible, Salvatore decided that a number of other scientific Star Wars elements, such as the lightsaber, were never explained scientifically and thus dovin basals did not deserve undue criticism.[20]
Dobido's fiery descent onto Sernpidal's surface and the Wookiee roaring his defiance at the incoming moon became an oft-referenced Expanded Universe scene, placed in Abel G. Peña's article 20 Most Memorable Moments of the Expanded Universe and in other online polls.[21][22]
The tactic was erroneously named Yo'Gand's Core in The New Jedi Order Sourcebook and its creator referred to as Yo'Gand. The mistake was repeated in 2009 with the publication of The Essential Atlas. As all other sources and novels in which the tactic or its creator are referred to uses the lower case lettering, this article assumes the correct spelling to be Yo'gand.[1][8][11] In the Databank entries which refer indirectly to the tactic, it is also stated that more than one dovin basal was placed on Sernpidal; as Vector Prime refers only to one and states that the gravitational manipulation ended with its death, this article assumes the Databank entries are in error.[1][23][24][25] The New Jedi Order Sourcebook does state that several dovin basals are seeded on the designated planet, although once again, this cannot have been the case with Sernpidal.[1][8]
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Star Wars: Chewbacca (Appears in flashback(s))
Invasion: Refugees 4 (Appears in flashback(s))
The New Jedi Order: Dark Tide I: Onslaught (Indirect mention only)
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The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial (Indirect mention only)
The New Jedi Order: Balance Point
The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory II: Rebirth (Indirect mention only)
The New Jedi Order: Star by Star (Mentioned only)
The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force (Mentioned only)
The New Jedi Order Sourcebook (As Yo'Gand's Core)
The New Essential Guide to Characters
The Official Star Wars Fact File 105 (YUU7–8, Death of a Hero) (Indirect mention only)
"20 Most Memorable Moments of the Expanded Universe"—Star Wars Insider 83
Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide
The New Essential Chronology
The Essential Atlas
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↑ Interview with R. A. Salvatore on the writing of Vector Prime
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Value of forfeited property remains low
by Steve Wilson | Wednesday September 25, 2019 | Justice & Due Process
The Mississippi Center for Public Policy continues to perform an analysis of the data from the civil asset forfeiture database and the results continue to raise more questions than they answer.
The law — which created the database — has been in effect for two years now and there have been 476 seizures as of September 20 (there were 315 by January), with a total value of $4,294,535.
The average seizure has increased slightly from $7,490 per seizure in the initial analysis done in January in the database's first 18 months online to $7,952.
While that sounds like a substantial increase, there are several outliers that skew the numbers. Ten of the seizures were of $100,000 or more and the sum of those added up to $2,042,206 or 47 percent of all seizures. Those 10 seizures had an average value of $204,220, but only represented 2.1 percent of all seizures.
The highest dollar seizure remains the bust of several vape shops for selling spice (synthetic cannabinoids) by the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics. MBN seized $644,421 in cash in Rankin County on August 5, 2018.
Removing the seizures of $100,000 or more lowers the average to $4,837. The average of the seizures with a total value of less than $50,000 was $4,274 and represented 96.6 percent of all seizures.
The vast majority of seizures, 399 according to the database, were less than $10,000, representing 83.8 percent of all seizures. Even smaller were 161 seizures for less than $1,000 or 33.8 percent of the total.
Value of forfeited property Percentage of all forfeitures
>$100,000 2.1%
>$50,000 3.4%
<$10,000 83.3%
<1,000 33.8%
What was seized is also instructive. Most seizures (376 out of 476) involved currency and those averaged about $9,662. There were also 264 weapons seized, worth an average of $357 per firearm.
There were 89 vehicles seized, with an average value of $5,727.
Among the more unusual items included an Xbox One video game system (the department valued it at $129) that was forfeited to the DeSoto County Sheriff's Department on June 10. Agents found 14 grams of marijuana, 100 THC-infused vape cartridges and some edibles at the home of the Xbox's owner, who also lost a 2014 Ford Mustang to forfeiture.
A collectible $5 bill from 1963 (valued at $100 according to the Yalobusha County Sheriff's Department) was seized on May 6 along with $10,314 in cash in a drug bust that included methamphetamine, marijuana, ecstasy, alprazolam, carisoprodol and hydrocodone. The forfeiture was contested in court.
There were also four televisions that were also forfeited.
The picture the database paints is incomplete, since the law requires only law enforcement agencies to list the description and value of the item seized, a copy of the notice to intent to forfeit, any petitions by property owners to contest the forfeiture and any judge's order that would include those that cover final disposition of the seized property.
There are no requirements that law enforcement agencies list the type of drug that was involved with the seizure, the circumstances of the seizure or whether charges were filed in connection with the seizure.
Some law enforcement agencies, including the North Mississippi Narcotics Unit, include the related incident report that provides maximum transparency with the drug type and quantity, circumstances of the arrest, charges (if any) and the location.
Others provide this information, such as the DeSoto County Sheriff's Department, in the notice to forfeit.


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Q: Strings between 2 characters unix First I would like to apologies for posting similar thread which is present. But since I was not able to solve it hence I am posting it.
I have a wired string pattern ( mongo output) which I need to convert to only values.
"_id" : ObjectId("59280d9b95385c78b73252e4"), "categorySetId" : NumberLong(1100000041), "categorySetName" : "PROD GROUP", "serviceableProductFlag" : "N", "categoryId" : NumberLong(1053), "pid" : "800-319-03", "productFamily" : "PP", "productType" : "SEATS", "subGroup" : "PP SER", "description" : "^AY,EECH, NG-C", "inventoryItemId" : NumberLong(200699), "itemStatusMfg" : "S-INTV", "organizationIdMfg" : NumberLong(90000), "src" : "orcl", "syncedOn" : NumberLong("1495797136138"), "CreationDate" : ISODate("2017-05-26T11:12:16.138Z"), "CreatedBy" : "tool", "LastUpdatedDate" : ISODate("2017-05-26T11:12:16.138Z"), "LastUpdatedBy" : "tool", "itemFamilyDesc" : "PP FAMILY", "itemFamilyGroupId" : 750, "itemFamilyGroupName" : "PP SERIES PRODUCTS"

I want output like
59280d9b95385c78b73252e4,1100000041,PROD GROUP,N,1053,800-319-03,PP, SEATS,PP SER ,'^AY,EECH, NG-C', 200699,S-INTV,90000,orcl,1495797136138,2017-05-26T11:12:16.138Z,tool,2017-05-26T11:12:16.138Z,tool,PP FAMILY,750,PP SERIES PRODUCTS

I have tried various sed and awk but I am not able to achieve it .
sed 's/"[^"]*://g' text.txt
sed 's/"[^:]*://g' text.txt

Can someone help me with it ?
Many thanks in advance.

A: awk solution:
awk -F': +|, *"' '{ r=""; for(i=2;i<=NF;i+=2) {
         gsub(/^ *([^(]+\()?|"|\)$/,"",$i);
         if(index($i,",")!=0){ $i="\047"$i"\047" } r=(r!="")? r","$i : $i
     } print r }' text.txt

The output:
59280d9b95385c78b73252e4,1100000041,PROD GROUP,N,1053,800-319-03,PP,SEATS,PP SER,'^AY,EECH, NG-C',200699,S-INTV,90000,orcl,1495797136138,2017-05-26 11:12:16.138Z,tool,2017-05-26 11:12:16.138Z,tool,PP FAMILY,750,PP SERIES PRODUCTS

*

*-F':|, *"' - field separator

*for(i=2;i<=NF;i+=2) - iterating through all even fields

*gsub(/^ *([^(]+\()?|"|\)$/,"",$i) - replace/remove excessive instance names like ObjectId( and double quotes "

A: Some of your field values have embedded commas, so this is most likely an exercise in futility, but...
#! /bin/sed -rf

s/\s*"[^"]+"\s*:\s*\w+\s*\("([^"]*)"\)\s*/\1/g
s/\s*"[^"]+"\s*:\s*\w+\s*\(([^)]*)\)\s*/\1/g
s/\s*"[^"]+"\s*:\s*"([^"]*)"\s*/\1/g
s/\s*"[^"]+"\s*:\s*([0-9]+)\s*/\1/g


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Every Rose Has Its Thorn ist ein Lied von Poison aus dem Jahr 1988, das von der Band selbst geschrieben und von Tom Werman produziert wurde. Es erschien auf dem Album Open Up and Say … Ahh!

Geschichte
Musikalisch beginnt der Song ruhig und beinhaltet zwei Gitarrensoli, ein ruhiges und ein schnelles. Während eines Besuches der "Cowboy-Bar" The Ritz schrieb die Band den Song und komponierte ihn auch.

Bei einem Interview in VH1s Sendung Behind the Music (deutsch: Hinter der Musik) sagte der Frontmann Poisons, Bret Michaels, dass die Idee zum Song "über Nacht" kam. Alles begann als er in einem Waschsalon darauf wartete, dass seine Kleidung trocken wird und seine damalige Freundin ein Telefonat führte. Währenddessen hörte er im Hintergrund eine männliche Stimme, und sie war am Boden zerstört. Michaels ging auf sie zu und sagte "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" (deutsch: Jede Rose hat ihren Dorn).

Die Veröffentlichung des Hard Rock und Country-Rock-Ballade war am 12. Oktober 1988, in Europa erschien der Song erst 1989.

Video
Zu Beginn des Videos verlässt Michael gähnend sein Bett, in dem auch seine Frau liegt, und beide sehen unglücklich aus. Er seufzt dabei und geht weg, dann spielt er Gitarre, und Szenen seiner Bandtour werden eingeblendet. Der Rest des Clips besteht aus Aufnahmen der 1988er-Tour von Poison, doch in einer Zwischenszene sieht man Michaels Frau mit einem Ford Thunderbird eine Straße entlang fahren.

Coverversionen
 2002: Bret Michaels
 2004: Catch 22
 2010: Miley Cyrus
 2012: Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Tom Cruise und Mary J. Blige auf dem Soundtrack zu Rock of Ages

Einzelnachweise

Lied 1988
Rocksong
Country-Song
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CBS Orders 'MacGyver' and 'Training Day' to Series
by Haleigh Foutch May 13, 2016
TV upfronts are upon us, and that means some major shakeups in your weekly TV-watching schedule. So far there have been cancellations a'plenty with ABC and NBC, in particular, cleaning house to make room for their new lineups. Meanwhile, CBS finally pulled the plug on their CSI franchise by axing the last holdout, CSI: Cyber, and sent Supergirl packing to their sister network The CW. They also picked up a string of new shows, most notably the reboot/sequel series Training Day and MacGyver.
Based on Antoine Fuqua's Oscar-winning film of the same name, Training Day is a sequel series that picks up 15 years after the events of the film, finding another wide-eyed young LAPD officer (Justin Cornwell) partnered with a morally questionable veteran (Bill Paxton). Fuqua returns as Executive Producer alongside Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, Will Beall and Barry Shindel with Drew Van Acker, Katrina Law, Lex Scott Davis, and Julie Benz also set to star.
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Here's the logline:
A crime thriller that begins 15 years after the events of the feature film left, about an idealistic young police officer (Justin Cornwell) who is appointed to an elite squad of the LAPD where he is partnered with a seasoned, morally ambiguous detective (Bill Paxton).
Meanwhile, the MacGyver reboot is also a go, though reports indicate the network intends to retool the project yet again. James Wan, who was previously attached to direct a film adaptation, serves as EP alongside Peter Lenkov, Henry Winkler, Lee Zlotoff, and Michael Clear. X-Men: Apocalypse star Lucas Till is set to headline the show as the ingenious titular problem-solver with George Eads on board to co-star. Deadline reports that the pilot faced some problems, with David Von Ancken stepping in for Wan to direct, and will see all roles but Till and Eads recast.
A reimagining of the television series of the same name, following a 20-something MacGyver as he creates a clandestine organization where he uses his knack for solving problems in unconventional ways to help prevent disasters from happening.
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CBS also stayed in the Michael Weatherly business, picking up the NCIS star's psychological drama Bull, which follows Weatherly's Dr. Phil inspired character, who is described as: "Brilliant, brash and charming, Dr. Bull (Michael Weatherly) is the ultimate puppet master as he combines psychology, human intuition and high-tech data to learn what makes jurors, attorneys, witnesses and the accused tick."
They've also picked up the high-testing medical drama Pure Genius from The Path producers Jason Katims and Michelle Lee, which is set to star Augustus Prew, Dermot Mulroney, Brenda Song, Reshma Shetty, Ward Horton, Aaron Jennings, and Odette Annable in a story about "a young Silicon Valley tech titan (Augustus Prew) who enlists a veteran surgeon with a controversial past in starting a hospital with a cutting edge, "new school" approach to medicine."
On the comedy front, CBS has ordered two new multi-camera series. The first, Man With a Plan was a spec sitcom written by That 70s Show's Jeff and Jackie Filgo and fronted by star Matt LeBlanc, who also produces. The series will follow LeBlanc as a father who discovers "his little angels are maniacs" when his wife's return to the workforce prompts him to spend more time with his kids. Jessica Chaffin, Matt Cook, Grace Kaufman, Hala Finley, and Matthew McCann also star.
Finally, at least for now (CBS upfronts are on Wednesday, and there could be more to come), Joel McHale will headline the workplace comedy The Great Indoors, as a reporter who has to get with the times when he "becomes the boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of a magazine." Stephen Fry, Chris Williams, Shaun Brown, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Christine Ko, and Susannah Fielding co-star.
Stay tuned for more as upfronts continue!
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GENESEE, Colo. -- The Colorado Department of Transportation is launching a new program to try to lower the number of collisions between vehicles and wildlife, especially along rural roads.
The incentive-based safety challenge is encouraging people to submit ideas and even unconventional concepts that address wildlife-vehicle collisions.
Concepts will be judged on strategy, feasibility and application by a committee of state representatives, wildlife services representatives and CDOT.
Officials have tried deer warning signs, variable message signs and nighttime seasons speed limits, but all have been unsuccessful.
"Over half of our deaths on our roadways are on rural roads and this challenge is: How do we harness technology to be able to solve some of these challenges?," CDOT spokeswoman Amy Ford said.
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Honey Bee OD
BJFe Series | Overdrive Pedal
This item is NOW SHIPPING in North America!
This pedal needs no introduction. If you've been a long-time fan of Bjorn Juhl (BJF/BJFe) then you know that this is one of his best creations. The Honey Bee Overdrive is renown for it's warm overdrive crunch which is easily adjustable by a twist of a knob. Over the years, there have been several revisions of this sought-after pedal. We are proud to announce that this version from One Control, is the best version yet, as it contains all the revisions and improvements from previous models.
Vintage / Modern: Switch between the sound of the original Honey Bee Overdrive (Vintage) and the sound of the current version (Modern).
Volume: Adjust overall volume
Drive: Strength of the distortion.
Nature: Frequency range control that fine tunes the overall color of your tone. At the counter-clockwise position, the lows and low mids are more predominant. In the clockwise direction, a softer output is obtained. Tip: Start at the 12 o'clock position and adjust to your liking,
Input impedance: 370 K
Drive voltage: 9 V center minus
Current Consumption: 3 mA
Size: 46(W)x113(D)x64(H)mm
Bjorn's Description:
For those of you that don't already know about it, The BJFe Honey Bee OD is one of the most sought-after overdrives in the pedal market. To clarify, there have been several versions of this pedal, made in collaboration with several manufacturers over the last couple of years. However, One Control had the privilege of working alongside Bjorn to make the best sounding and newest version of the Honey Bee.
The original Honey Bee OD was inspired by the sound of an old Supro amp. The first Honey Bee was released on December 4, 2002. Although the Honey Bee OD has been in production for many years, every single revision has had improvements. It's important to note that basic tone color characteristics have not changed. However, depending on the time of production, players will notice subtle changes of certain characteristics.
Revision 1: Increased output level.
Revision 2: Increase upper midrange response.
Revision 3: Full clockwise rotation of the Nature control was changed from mild treble cut to mild treble boost. This revision occurred at approximately serial number 147
Revision 4 (One Control): Contains all revisions mentioned above as well as a 6dB gain increase. This gain increase was a very popular request among existing Honey Bee users. This gives the Drive control more range.
The Honey Bee is an overdrive pedal that resembles a guitar amp that is set to a 'crunch' setting. It integrates flawlessly with other effects and distorted amplifiers, giving your overdrive a warm tone. What makes this pedal unique is the ability to change the dynamics so easily. Change from a clean to overdrive tone by simply twisting a knob. No matter what setting you prefer, enjoy the free headroom-ish response, just like your favorite broken-in amplifier.
One Control made it possible to select both Honey Bee OD "versions":
Vintage Mode (Original sounding Honey Bee OD): With a mild and classic overdrive tone, expect a unique high frequency response.
Modern Mode (Revision 2+3+4) is the sound of the current Honey Bee OD. Compared to the Vintage mode, you'll notice an gain increase, especially in the low ends. When Modern mode is selected, the 'Nature' control range becomes wider.
The Honey Bee Overdrive's distortion affects the overtones while keeping the core tone intact; realizing both enhanced gain and pure tone simultaneously without physically increasing the gain. For flat strings, mellow tones are obtained. For round strings, a light distortion of a vintage amp will be obtained. The Honey Bee OD can also be used by bassists.
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The shower must be permanently connected to the electricity supply via a double pole isolating switch with a minimum contact gap of 3mm in both poles. The switch must be readily accessible but out of reach of a person using a fixed bath or shower, except for the cord of a pull cord operated switch. The wiring must be connected to the switch without the use of a plug or socket outlet. The supply cable selected for installation must conform to the relevant table in the current I.E.E. regulations. The size of cable required is determined by the kW rating of the shower, the distance between the shower and the consumer unit and the way the cable is to be fitted. The minimum size will be 6mm2 but in some cases 10mm2, or larger will be required. For showers rated above 8kW a minimum cable size of 10mm2 is strongly recommended. To enhance electrical safety a 30mA RCD (Residual Current Device) should be installed in all UK electric and pumped shower circuits. This may be part of the consumer unit or a separate unit. IMPORTANT! If upgrading to a higher Kilowatt shower it is essential to ensure the electrical supply and shower cable is adequate for the increased load.
Under NO circumstances must the shower be connected to the mains cold water supply.
To ensure correct operation of the shower it must be connected to a gravity fed cold water storage cistern, with a maximum head of water of 10 metres and a minimum head of water of 80mm, as measured between the bottom of the storage cistern and the top of the unit.
The shower must be fed directly from the cold water cistern with no other draw offs between the cistern and the unit. The tank connection for the cold water feed to the unit should be on the opposite side of the cistern to the ball valve. The unit must not be installed where it is subject to freezing conditions.


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Home El Salvador El Salvador Committed to Airport Renovation, Installs $4.2 Million in Air Traffic Control System
El Salvador Committed to Airport Renovation, Installs $4.2 Million in Air Traffic Control System
El Salvador appears to be committed to renovating its antiquated San Salvador airport, as it has announced the purchase of air traffic control equipment worth an estimated $4.2 million.
Photo Credit: Prensa Grafica
Original Article Text From Prensa Grafica via Google Translate :
New Air Traffic Control Equipment in the AIES
A new system for air traffic control is on the way to the International Airport El Salvador (AIES). The Spanish company INDRA will be responsible for providing radar control center at a cost of $ 4.2 million, as revealed by the Autonomous Executive Port Commission (CEPA).
To purchase, ECA provided $ 2.5 million and the Central American Corporation for Air Navigation Services (COCESNA) $ 1.7 million as co.
"We have the technology for aviation and airport remain the safest airport in Central America," said Alberto Arene, head of the autonomous, after closing the deal with the supplier.
The radar control center is the place where air traffic controllers receive radar data to flight plans, approaches and departures of ships.
Alirio Serrano, president of COCESNA, said the acquisition is a "big step" for the airport. "It means that when we got to have some damage to the radar or radar control center will be an immediate repair because COCESNA will have equipment in their warehouses and may remove any replacement immediately," he said.
The system will be installed in the airport terminal is known commercially as AirCon 2100 or Automation System Air Traffic Control.
This technology meets the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). According to Ezekiel Bravo, international director of Indra, the technology implemented in El Salvador is used in major European countries.
He asserted that this system controllers have much more information to plan air traffic, by making "much faster and more secure" their actions.
Commercially, the airport can also take advantage. "That is, any company, including Iberia, when the pilot lands here you will find one of the most modern equipment from anywhere in the world," said the executive.
One advantage of this system is anticipated to potential airplane crashes, Garikoitz Gauna said, one of the technicians of Indra. "Evaluate careers and when he senses that at some point they will find (the planes) warns the driver itself."
The company will train staff in Madrid airport in the country. The equipment will be installed at the airport in 2013. The acquisition is part of the modernization and rehabilitation ECA implements the airport facilities.
From Prensa Grafica


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Q: Is it possible to force flush a domain being saved in a service? On saving a domain object in a service, with a flush: true on the save of the domain, the object isn't getting saved before I have to use the object.
Domain domain = new Domain(property: something.toString()).save(failOnError: true, flush: true)

I'm unsure how to force a flush of the hibernate session in either of the services that I'm using.
For some context, I'm making an API call to an API service, which goes to another service where I'm saving the domain, then back to the API service then adding a string to a RabbitMQ queue then returning a 200OK to the user. But because the domain isn't getting saved in the second service, when the item is added to the queue, rabbitMQ is handling the message before the domain is saved.
EDIT:
My current fix:
API controller:
def apiActionCreate()
{
   Map returnMap = apiService.createAction(params, request)
   rabbitSend staticQueue, [id: returnMap.id.toString()]
}

API service:
Map createAction(GrailsParameterMap params, HttpServletRequest request)
{
   //do some logic related to a related domain
   seperateService.someAction(domain.id)
}

Service where I'm saving domain:
Map someAction(UUID id)
{
   Domain domain = new Domain(property: something.toString()).save(failOnError: true, flush: true)
}

A: You could create a transaction which will persist to DDBB when finish.
MyDomain.withTransaction{
        somecode()
}


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When a strange turn of events allows a young man to switch illnesses with the diseased, a young man uses his gift to win the approval of his sweetheart's father.
I listened to Radio Mystery Theater growing up. We heard it everytime we were on a road trip or I listened to it before I went to bed. I still enjoy it. Now I have my kids hooked.
I didn't quite buy the ending. I thought that someone would force a trade from him to lose everything or the dad would make him take his stroke if he had no compassion. The ending didn't make sense since the father would lose what he was trying to gain.
This is a worthy "remake" of the Twilight zone episode "the self improvement of salvadore ross", moreso because Henry Sleser was the original author and prrpared the adaptation of his own work. It is interesting to compare the application to two different media.
I listened to the Mystery Theater long before I ever watched The Twilight Zone. (We didn't have cable, and it wasn't syndicated in our area.) However, this was not an episode I ever heard back in the day. But, yes, it is exactly "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross." More recently, this episode was done as Episode 73 of "The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas," so there are now two audio versions of this story floating around. Fantasy, supernatural abilities.
A rough young man discovers he can make verbal deals for anything and have it come true. He bargains a broken leg for a flu, he bargains his hair for $110. After these initial experiments, he goes for larger deals. He begins to make deals that will win him the affection of his love interest, and the respect of her cultured father. This episode was extremely well developed. The plot moved along at an appropriate pace, and the twist at the end was unexpected… "Thankyou for swapping that television program for this one. We trust that you have seen pictures in your own mind that no television screen could ever match." - E. G. M.
I have been listening at work and this episode stood out. Great voice acting in this one....and with a driving force of love to move this episode along. With every trade the tension builds.....how much would you trade to gain the love of someone you love?
It's a favorite of mine, and I welcomed the chance to listen to it again. As many people here already know, the original Henry Slesar short story (published in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1961) is best-known in its TWILIGHT ZONE incarnation, titled "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross." No one loves TWILIGHT ZONE more than myself, but "Salvadore Ross" is a lesser episode, and the RMT version is a marked improvement on it; the 3-act, 45-minute structure allows the story more room for development and for clearer establishment of motivations. (Ironically, the longer running time was generally a detriment to the program--anybody who has heard many episodes knows that RMT had a terrible tendency to pad for length. Here, though, it works just right.) The only real problem with this otherwise wonderful show comes at the end--and its the same problem the original story and the TWILIGHT ZONE version had, too. We learn that the lady's father is Mr. Compassionate, and yet he knowingly takes advantage of Salvadore Ross, accepting a large amount of money from a young man he believes to be insane. Look at it this way: If someone you believed to be mentally ill offered you a huge amount of cash in exchange for your compassion, and you accepted the deal, wouldn't that pretty well prove that you lacked all compassion in the first place? So, the ending is a bit forced. And yet this story is, for the most part, a great RMT.
i agree fully. this was a sheer joy to hear again and glad it was tossed out there for us! perhaps i'm being too persnickety about it, but the one thing that intrigued me was that our "hero" was smart enough to figure out how to trade off the one-year-for-a-thousand-bucks. he didn't strike me as a very advanced thinker and it's easy enough to suspend disbelief and suppose he either had some amazing brainstorm or perhaps assistance from someone to come up with the idea, but in my opinion, Salvatore just wasn't smart enough to come up with that schtick all on his own. That was a great line and i'm glad you posted it. as soon as it was said, i cracked a smile. funny stuff!
The reason why I like this episode so much is because it does remind me of The Twilight Zone. Even the music at the end with E.G's closing was very good stuff. "You have just heard the incredible rise and fall of Salvadore Ross,....it isn't easy to make the right bargins in life.....sometimes we create our own devils the way Sal Ross did". Really good stuff.
Perhaps the reason why this episode reminds you of The Twilight Zone is because the music used in the CBSRMT *is* from The Twilight Zone TV series. The network owned the scores used in the series so it was logical for it to provide them as the basis for the canned music used for the radio shows. Some of the best (IMHO) cues were written by Bernard Herrmann, the legendary film composer who wrote spooky film scores such as Psycho and The Day the Earth Stood Still, and can be found in the first season episodes "The Lonely", "Where is Everybody", and (I think) "Judgment Night".
Fantastic story--5 stars. As the story moved through the acts, I wondered what I would give up for money, love, peace, etc... Well done story that allows the listener to come up with their own moral lesson.
Even though I did enjoy the episode, I didn't really "get" the ending. Even if he took the father's compassion, it doesn't seem to follow that the father would kill him to stop him from taking his daughter. Specifically, he would be easy found guilty of murder and, if he had thought about it, he would have been taken care of by Salvadore now that he has compassion for him. I don't remember the TZ episode, but now I can look for it.
This is plagiarism of "The Self Improvement of Savlvador Ross" Twilight Zone episode season 5, episode 136. Or else the TZ episode is a plagiarism of this. Strange no one noticed. They didn't even bother to change the character's name.
Commercials (yay!!!) + good sound quality + no annoying fake cat or dog sounds or screeching = a fine episode.
Stefano Baklers said that the father wouldn't have sold his compassion to Sal if he had much of it in the first place. But what Stefano may be forgetting is that people could swap, even if they thought it was ridiculous. The father didn't really think his compassion could be sold, but he "agreed" to the "trade" to get Sal to stop bugging him. Actually I thought the ending was a brilliant twist, especially what the father did at the end, (but I won't give it away here). I got a kick out of the scene where Sal trades pneumonia for a broken leg in the hospital. That was well done, lol! Sal was really kind of a jerk, but they made him an interesting character to listen to.
Sal was a jerk because he had little compassion. We all see how that changed!!!
This episode is fairly insulting to one's intelligence. But worth hearing Tony Roberts' putting on his "street" accent which is so unlike his normal roles.
A fun remake of a fun Twilight Zone! Well worth the listen.


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MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — A former sheriff's deputy in West Texas must serve 15 months in prison for extorting money from illegal gambling operations and tipping the businesses off to investigations.
Prosecutors say former Ector County Sheriff's Deputy David Oscar Limon was sentenced Thursday in Midland. He was also fined $13,200.
Texas law bans casino-style gambling. Some private game rooms are set up with slot-like machines, but cash prizes are illegal.
Investigators say Limon extorted more than $13,000 from several game room operators in Odessa while he was a deputy from 2010 to mid-2016. Prosecutors say he promised information about pending law enforcement actions as part of protecting the game rooms.
Limon resigned shortly before his June 2016 arrest. Limon pleaded guilty in May to affecting commerce by extortion.


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What does a AA credit rating mean? The intuitive answer is something like "it means that the rating agency rating the thing thinks it has a probability of default no higher than X% and no lower than Y%," where X and Y are the boundaries of AA- and AA+ respectively, and sure, that's about right. But there's an important loophole there which is that each rating agency can set X and Y to be whatever they want. I can make AA a ~1% probability of default, and you can make it ~20%, and no one can tell us who's right and who's wrong, because it's just some letters, y'know? There's no a priori relationship between those letters and any particular probability of default.
Not really however they want, though, since issuers hire ratings agencies to rate bonds, and if you rate everything CCC you won't get asked to rate anything, and if you rate everything AAA you also won't get asked to rate anything, because it turns out that a AAA rating from Joe's Optimistic Ratings Shack doesn't actually help sell bonds. The trick is to be roughly in line with peers, but with enough apparatus and fiddling and occasional divergence to make it look like you're engaged in an exercise with some intellectual integrity rather than just copying off someone else's test.
This becomes awkward when, as occasionally happens, the intellectual-integrity fiddling takes you too far away from everyone else, and then you lose business, so you have to fiddle your way back. And this awkwardness has a directionality, which is: if you're more lenient than your competition, and adjust to be in-line, everyone's more or less fine with that, but if you're stricter than your competition, and adjust to be in-line, everyone's all "you're lowering standards to win business because you're corrupt!," which is just a category mistake, that's not a corruption in the ratings agency business, that is the ratings agency business, there's not another part of it that's just pure intellectual truth-seeking, though some people in the business wish there was. If you build a fancy system to rate bonds and it tells you that all the bonds are junk then you are not a ratings agency, you are just a crank. To be a ratings agency you need to get paid by someone to rate bonds.
The directionality matters though. In the run-up to the financial crisis Moody's tended to rate RMBS CDOs more leniently than S&P, which was fine, since everyone can rate bonds however they want. But then S&P decided to get more lenient to match Moody's, which wasn't fine, because corruption or whatever, and now the government is suing them. They're not suing Moody's, nor would they sue Joe's Optimistic Ratings Shack. Any level of ratings is fine; the changes are the problem.
Anyway there is a Times article today that is all "S&P is lowering standards to win business because it's corrupt," because S&P a while back got out of line on CMBS ratings and so didn't rate any deals, and then last September it adjusted its system to get back in line and now rates deals. It comes with this slightly hard to read chart showing that (1) Moody's is the strictly strictest2 rater of CMBS bonds and also has the highest market share and (2) Morningstar is the laxest rater of CMBS bonds and has the second-lowest market share.
Something interesting about this is that there's a fair amount of sophisticated (or "sophisticated") argumentation out there to the effect of how in an idealized marketplace this kind of certification-not-regulation should work just great. But if you look at a situation like kosher certification where you're not going to have the state step into a religious matter so you have to rely on market solutions, what you see are constant scandals over hot dogs and passover and everything in between.
lots of buyers, deep down, want the loosest possible standards consistent with looking themselves in the mirror.
And those market forces call forth the responses that market forces call forth: the ratings agencies supply the ratings that the market demands. Even better, since the letters are utterly arbitrary, the market forces actually lead to a standardization of ratings, more or less as Congress wanted. It's just that the path to that standardization makes it a little too clear how responsive those ratings are to those market forces.
Among the non-NRSRO commenters, a majority were not in favor of standardization for many of the same reasons cited by the NRSROs. Andrew Davidson & Co. commented that credit ratings are qualitative judgments of rating committees and, therefore, are not amenable to standardization. The American Securitization Forum commented that standardization would, in addition to depriving investors of a diversity of rating opinions, discourage competition and compromise the quality, accuracy, and usefulness of credit ratings in the securitization market. The Mortgage Bankers Association also commented that standardization might lower the quality of credit ratings and, further, that it would not improve investors' understanding of securitizations.
2.That is: in the Times's sample, there are zero cases where Moody's rated any tranche of any deal higher than any other agency rated that tranche.
3.My use of terms like "strictest" is flawed because of course not everyone rated every deal. So for instance S&P rated fewer deals than Moody's in part because it would give worse ratings to those deals so wasn't asked, meaning that it was actually stricter than Moody's on a lot of deals, just not on any of the ones it actually rated. So the text is kind of exaggerated here. Indeed you could build a model where Moody's is the laxest ratings agency, on average, but each deal hires only Moody's and whichever other agency/agencies, in that one unusual instance, will give some tranches higher ratings. Still.
4.Or of course outsourcing your credit work to anyone but the ratings agencies. If you're outsourcing your credit work to the ratings agencies just stop doing that!
5.There's a too-neatness to this argument, in that an AAA rating on some crap gives the issuer an opportunity to argue that the pricing should be more AAA-like than you want, but you know what I mean. Holding price constant etc.