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Grand jury probing LA County Sheriff's…
Grand jury probing LA County Sheriff's Department's handling of inmate-deputy altercation
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva. (2021 photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
PUBLISHED: August 8, 2022 at 9:41 p.m. | UPDATED: August 8, 2022 at 9:41 p.m.
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County criminal grand jury has opened an investigation into the Sheriff's Department's handling of an altercation in which a deputy knelt on the head of a handcuffed inmate for three minutes, sparking comparisons to the fatal tactics used by Minneapolis police against George Floyd.
The altercation led to allegations of an attempted cover-up within the Sheriff's Department, allegations that Sheriff Alex Villanueva has repeatedly and vehemently denied. In a statement late Monday, Villanueva acknowledged the grand jury investigation, and said his office is fully cooperating.
"On Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022, the Sheriff's Department received notification of a criminal grand jury subpoena for records regarding a use of force incident in the San Fernando Court lockup from March of 2021," Villanueva said in the statement. "Any allegation of misconduct is of deep concern to the department, and this one is no exception. Hence, we are conducting a thorough internal investigation, and we are fully cooperating with this subpoena.
"To date, our investigation indicates that the allegation of misconduct was orchestrated by involved department executives to falsely portray themselves as whistleblowers in order to avoid discipline, up to and including termination. The district attorney has been given this and all other relevant information."
The Los Angeles Times, which first reported the grand jury probe, reported Monday that several subpoenas have been served directing department officials to testify beginning later this week.
The investigation focuses on the department's handling of a March 10, 2021, altercation that was caught on surveillance video between a handcuffed inmate and deputies at the San Fernando Courthouse. A 24-year-old inmate named Enzo Escalante allegedly punched sheriff's Deputy Douglas Johnson in the face. Johnson and other deputies wrestled Escalante to the ground, with Johnson putting his knee on the inmate's head.
Security video of the altercation, first obtained by The Times, shows Johnson keeping his knee on Escalante's head for three minutes after he was handcuffed and did not appear to be resisting.
After the Times published the story and video, Villanueva held a news conference and denied any effort to cover up the incident. He acknowledged that there were internal failures in the department, saying a criminal investigation should have begun immediately after the altercation, but only an administrative probe was launched. He insisted he didn't see the video until November, and immediately launched the criminal investigation.
Villanueva has stuck with that timeline, but some department executives have challenged his assertions, contending that the sheriff actually saw the video shortly after the altercation occurred but worked to cover up the incident to avoid bad press for the agency.
Sheriff's Cmdr. Allen Castellano filed a damages claim alleging retaliation as part of an effort to downplay Villanueva's knowledge of the use- of-force case. Former Assistant Sheriff Robin Limon also filed a damages claim. Both contend that Villanueva watched the video of the altercation shortly after it occurred. Limon said she physically brought a DVD video of the altercation to Villanueva's office and watched it with him five days after it occurred.
Others in the department, however, have backed Villanueva's version of events, including Undersheriff Timothy Murakami, who denied seeing the video when Limon claims he and the sheriff watched it.
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Legacy of Latino Lynching
An Overview of the Era of Lynching of Latinos in the Southwestern United States
DBQ: Photographs
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Unidentified photographer, "Unidentified Execution," numbers 3, 5, and 6 of 6. n.d. (Gonzales-Day, 2006, p. 74)
What is happening in the sequence of photographs? How many people are in each photo?
Explain how you know that these photographs document an actual event. How does the sequence give us clues regarding what is happening and contribute to its authenticity?
Interpret the role of Anglo American men in the community as the executioners. Discuss the role of race.
Compare and contrast the three photos, and analyze the meaning of their differences and similarities.
Evaluate how the composition of the images indicates the moral acceptability of vigilante justice.
Imagine you are family of the victim. In light of Anglo American racial views of Latinos in in the western U.S. Argue for the prosecution of the executioners.
Unidentified photographer, "Breaking down the Door," 1933.
(Gonzales-Day, 2006, p. 109)
Describe the photograph. What are the men doing?
Indicate whether this a photograph documenting a real event. How do you know?
Interpret the ensuing significance of breaking through a locked door to retrieve a prisoner.
Analyze the young man with dark hair running away from the door. What are his obligations/responsibilities as a part of the mob?
Assess role of established law enforcement in executing justice in a situation like this.
Write proposal for a law that would provide consequences for the local law enforcement if a prisoner under their care is lynched.
Unidentified photographer, "The Stripped Body of Jack Holmes," 1933.
What has just happened in this image? Describe what you see.
Identify what information indicates that this is an authentic image of a real event.
Interpret the role that lynching plays in the perception of community safety in regard to racial stereotypes of Latinos during the mid-1800's to early-1900's.
Distinguish the characteristics of both ceremonious and unceremonious executions. Elaborate on the meaning of stripping the clothes off the body of victim.
Argue whether or not extralegal violence such as this is ever appropriate. Define and support your criteria for either side of the argument.
Write a proposal for an anti-lynching law.
Edgar Wade Howell, "Lynching of Null, Stemler, Moreno, and Johson," 1895.
What has happened in the photograph? Describe the setting.
Locate the clues that indicates whether this photograph represents an event that really happened.
Interpret the significance of recording the lynching in both text and image. For what purpose might one preserve these details?
Analyze the legal actions that families of the victims can take in this environment and what potential consequences they might face for doing so.
Evaluate the setting of the image and appraise its significance relative to cultural conceptions of justice.
Write both a defense and a prosecution argument for the lynched victims.
Unidentified photographer, "...der Wild West Show," n.d.
What is happening in the photograph?
Is this a real lynching? Explain why or why not?
The text at the bottom of the image says, "der Wild West Show" (an entertainment show). Use your knowledge of entertainment during the late 1800's and early 1900's to explain why a lynching would be included in a Wild West Show?
Compare this image to an image of an image of an authentic lynching. Analyze the differences and explain how the social conception of lynching differed from a real lynching.
Assess how contemporary uses of racial stereotypes and violence in entertainment are the same or different that what is portrayed in this photograph.
Create the scene before this. How will social conceptions of race play a role?
Unidentified photographer, "Hanged at the Water Street Bridge," 1877.
Describe the photograph. What is interesting about the shot?
Select the elements of this photograph that indicate its authenticity.
Interpret the meaning of the presence of young boys; examine implications for gender roles.
Examine the motivations of the mob and the role of pursuing justice in their motivations.
Evaluate the photographer's moral perception of the lynching by assessing the carefully shot artistic compositional elements.
Record the lynching as though you were one of the boys in the crowd.
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Nearly 65 Percent of Properties Eligible for State Debris Removal Program Cleared of Woolsey, Hill Fire Debris
April 24, 2019 Greg Renick 0 Comments ACMs, asbestos abatements, asbestos containing maerials, asbestos surveys, Cal OES, California Governor's Office of Emergency Serives, CalRecycle, Consolidated Debris Removal Program, debris removal, Debris Removal Operations Center, DROC, erosion control measures, fiber rolls, hill fire, Los Angeles County Public Works, mulch, Right-of-Entry permit, site assessments, soil samples, Ventura County Environmental Health Division, Woolsey Fire
State contractors have removed debris generated by the Woolsey and Hill fires from nearly 65 percent of the properties affected by the Woolsey and Hill fires that are currently eligible to participate in the state's Consolidated Debris Removal Program, officials with the Debris Removal Operations Center (DROC) in Calabasas reported today.
To date, crews have removed debris from 596 – or 64.5 percent — of 924 eligible properties in both Los Angeles and Ventura counties.
Under the state program, administered by CalRecycle and the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES), property owners who opt in incur no direct costs for the removal of eligible debris.
In Los Angeles County, contractors have cleared 538 — or 64.7 percent — of the 831 eligible properties affected by the Woolsey Fire of all eligible burned metal, concrete, ash and contaminated soil.
In Ventura County, crews have cleared 58 – or 62.4 percent – of the 93 eligible properties affected by the Woolsey and Hill fires. The 58 cleared properties include 55 – or 63.2 percent — of the 87 eligible properties affected by the Woolsey Fire and half of the six eligible properties affected by the Hill Fire.
According to DROC officials, crews have finished implementing erosion control measures on 174 of the cleared properties in Los Angeles County and on 23 of the cleared properties in Ventura County. Erosion control measures include the installation of fiber rolls and the application of a wood-based, environmentally friendly mulch.
Officials also have submitted final inspection reports to local officials for 144 of the cleared sites in Los Angeles County and for 14 of the cleared sites in Ventura.
Submission of the final inspection report for each property followed the completion of site assessments; asbestos surveys; asbestos abatements, where needed; debris removal; analysis and testing of soil samples by a state-certified laboratory; the implementation of erosion control measures by state contractors; and a final walkthrough by state debris removal officials and operations staff.
According to DROC officials, contractors had removed 270,248.34 tons of eligible debris through April 21. The total includes more than 238,410.22 tons from Los Angeles County and 31,838.12 tons from Ventura County.
Debris removal officials also reported that contractors have completed site assessments on 976 properties – 869 in Los Angeles County and 107 in Ventura County.
During site assessments of properties whose owners have opted into the state program, contractors document and photograph property lines, the location of septic tanks, the footprints of foundations and ash, as well as objects that pose a hazard or hamper operations such as trees, pools and vehicles.
Contractors also have completed 964 asbestos surveys – 864 in Los Angeles County and 100 in Ventura County. In addition, they have abated 125 of the 132 properties in Los Angeles County where they found bulk quantities of Asbestos Containing Materials (ACMs). In Ventura County, crews have abated 14 of the 21 parcels where they identified bulk quantities of ACMs.
Debris removal experts from Los Angeles County Public Works and the Ventura County Environmental Health Division are available at the DROC from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 9 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturdays to meet with property owners who have submitted Right-of-Entry (ROE) permit applications.
Debris officials will notify property owners who have opted in to the state program 24-48 hours prior to the start of debris removal operations on their property. Property owners can meet with crews before work begins.
For more information in Los Angeles County, visit lacounty.gov/LACountyRecovers or call 1-626-979-5370. For more information in Ventura County, visit www.venturacountyrecovers.org or call 1-805-504-7869.
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Despite billboard, atheism is contrary to logic and against reason
Posted Dec 2, 2010
By George Berkin/NJ Voices
Tariq Zehawi/The RecordPhoto of a billboard that has been posted on the New Jersey side of the Lincoln Tunnel calling Christmas a myth. An opposing billboard is on the New York side.
Atheists love to claim that they are men and women of reason. The claim is nonsense. Atheism is contrary to logic and against reason.
Still, you often hear atheists claiming to embrace reason. The latest example is a billboard on the New Jersey side of the Lincoln Tunnel, sponsored by an atheists' association.
Above a "Christmas" scene (men on camels riding toward a manger), the sign proclaims: "You know it's a myth. This season, celebrate reason."
I see, reason equals atheism. Some people are offended by the billboard, but its sponsors have every right to advertise their views. However, let's examine the atheists' claim that reason supports their belief in the non-existence of God.
Anybody who objectively considers the easily available evidence won't remain an atheist very long. As C.S. Lewis famously said, anyone who wants to remain an atheist can't be too careful about what he reads. (Or what evidence he looks at, I might add.)
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Let's start with a basic flaw in the atheist's logic. It's called looking for the Pink Elephant.
As a matter of sheer logic, you cannot make an absolute, dogmatic, assertion that no Pink Elephant exists in the universe. To do so, you would have to know everything. You would have to search every nook and cranny of the universe, and verify that the Pink Elephant is not hiding there. You would have to search every dimension, and verify that the Pink Elephant is not hiding there, either.
Obviously, it is a logical impossibility to make any such absolute negative assertion ("God does not exist.") with absolute certainty. In fact, the God of the Bible does exist -- he's just "hiding" in a place you haven't looked yet.
Next, listen to this piece of stunning illogic offered by many an atheist. "God may work for you, but that god stuff doesn't work for me. You can have your beliefs, but you can't make absolute statements that apply to everyone."
How many times have we heard that? But again, think about what was just said. "You can't make absolute statements that apply to everybody." Didn't you just make an absolute statement that applies to everybody, including me? So much for atheist so-called "logic."
Along with telling us that they are using "reason" to arrive at their dogmatic belief in the non-existence of God, atheists like to tell us another whopper: "You don't need religion to be a good person." In other words, atheists claim they are "good" people even without any help from a supposed God.
Think about that statement for a moment. Atheists like to accuse Christians of being "holier than thou," or "self-righteous." But any Christian who takes the Bible seriously realizes that he is not a "good" person at all. He realizes that he is mostly self-centered. Even the nice things he does are usually tainted by self-centeredness.
So who, against both logic and experience, is the self-righteous one? The Christian who realizes that everything good is a gift from God, or the atheist who is proud about what a "good" person he is?
But what about The Inquisition and other terrible things practiced by religious people? (This is one of atheists' favorite arguments.) Here, again, atheists are not being very logical.
The atheists' argument goes something like this. People who claim to be religious and/or Christian are acting in very irreligious ways.
Atheists think they are so smart that nobody (except them) ever noticed that people who claim to be religious can be acting in irreligious ways. Duh, I think Jesus noticed it. Jesus drew the logical conclusion: those pretending to true religion needed to repent. Atheists draw an illogical conclusion – there is no God. How does that follow?
So let's look at where that God that atheists have missed might be hiding. Let's look at the remarkable claim by a certain individual in history: Jesus Christ, who claimed to be God come in the flesh.
(By the way, atheists sometimes try to fudge the issue, by claiming that 1) there was no such person or 2) his claim to be God was "made up" by others, or any of a number of other red herrings. But any serious historical examination -- too many to discuss here -- tosses those "what if" questions out the window.)
The purpose of those red herrings is to keep us from facing this startling claim recorded in the biblical text: Jesus, in his monotheistic culture, claimed to be Yahweh God in the flesh. So what does logic do with that stunning claim?
Logically, there are three possibilities. First, as C.S. Lewis points out, anyone who claimed to be God, and demanded that others worship him as such, while knowing he was not, would be a deceiver and liar. But deceiver and liar does not fit with the character and moral vision presented by Christ as testified to by the many witnesses in the New Testament.
Second, if that same person wasn't lying because he really believed he was God (even though he really was not God), that person would be a lunatic. On the order of, to use Lewis' phrase, a "poached egg." But again, that doesn't fit with Christ's words and character.
There's only one logical possibility left: Jesus really was (and is) God. Again, anyone who uses reason to logically consider the alternatives can no longer be an atheist.
Then there's the matter of Christ's resurrection. In the hostile environment of first-century Jerusalem, opponents of the early Christians would have done anything to disprove the claim of Christ's resurrection by producing his dead body. They were not able to do so.
Nor does it make logical sense that the disciples "stole" the body. Many were martyred for their belief in Christ's physical resurrection. But people do not die for something they know is false. Nor is the "theory" that Christ somehow "swooned" on the cross and then somehow "revived" in the tomb make any sense.
The biblical text (including widely circulated letters which all scholars acknowledge were written shortly after the events) mentions hundreds of witnesses of the resurrected Christ.
These are all pieces of reasonable evidence for the resurrection of Christ, and thus for the reality of God. It takes a lot of "faith" for the would-be atheist to ignore this pile of evidence. (For a more in-depth treatment, might I suggest "Who Moved the Stone" by Frank Morison or "(The New) Evidence that Demands a Verdict" by Josh McDowell.)
Nor can we ignore the wealth of Old Testament prophecies that give a detailed picture of the Messiah, that he would be both God and man. (For example, there's a reason why people expected the Messiah to be born in Bethlehem, and of a virgin.)
Nor can we ignore the fact that a faith in this God regularly changes people's lives. Atheists like to claim that the change doesn't really "prove" God's existence. They maintain that a person simply "straightened himself out" under the influence of a certain belief.
But again, the atheist has engaged in a willing ignorance of facts. There is too much evidence, of both people in history, or perhaps in the atheist's own neighborhood, to logically deny that something more than mere self-improvement is going on here.
We didn't even mention Creation, the world around us. The natural world, which even die-hard evolutionists admit "appears" to be designed, fairly screams God. My computer is designed, and has a designer. My car is designed, and has a designer. This blog post is designed, and has a designer. It's only my body, much more complex, that just "happened by chance." Huh?
(By the way, if atheists were intellectually honest, they would permit intelligent design to be debated in the classroom. Instead, they hide under false definitions of religion and science, and use the courts as "muscle" to enforce their censorship of any discussion of evolution.)
Of course, most of the time, atheists simply ignore this evidence, or don't do a serious investigation of it. It's a lot easier for them to simply accept, second-hand, the misinformation they've heard from people who have an ax to grind.
The problem is not logic. The evidence for God is overwhelming. In contrast to the atheist, a one-note Johnny who simply repeats "reason, reason" and then refuses to think through his assertions, our evidence has many dimensions – logic, history, prophecy, Christ's character, what we know about human behavior.
At bottom, the problem is not with the atheist's head. Logically, all the evidence points to the existence of the God of the Bible.
Rather, the problem is with the atheist's heart. In the face of all the evidence (or by choosing to remain ignorant of all the evidence), the atheist simply doesn't want to believe. (Interestingly, that very refusal fits with the biblical description of man – a rebel who is willingly ignorant of God.)
After all, if the atheist were to admit that the God of the Bible is true, he'd have to change a lot of things. Maybe he'd have to change his sexual habits. Maybe he would have to give up his self-righteousness. (The "I'm really a good person" would have to go.)
Maybe he'd have to admit that he isn't "smarter" than everybody else – and that the atheist billboard has it all wrong.


A slight departure from the thing we all love doing (writing code) to a thing some of us may have to spend time on (system administration). We added a fourth Mac to our home network recently, and I wanted to get it backed up automatically. The solution was obvious: TimeMachine! I run a Linux server with gobs of storage. It runs Netatalk 3.0 and serves up (among other volumes) a 500GB TimeMachine volume. It works really well, except when the volume is full with TimeMachine backups from other machines. There's a way to reclaim this space, but it's not obvious or automatic.
If you're a TimeMachine user, you know that when your TimeMachine volume fills, TimeMachine will automatically remove the oldest backup(s) to make room for new backups. What may not be obvious is that when space is needed and old backups are removed, the total disk usage of the sparse bundle in which TimeMachine actually stores your backups does not change! If you have a single Mac backing up to a dedicated TimeMachine volume, this really isn't an issue. But in my case, I have one large volume which I share with multiple Macs. Two Macs have been merrily backed up for well over a year each, or more. The volume is nearly full, divided between 2 sparse bundle files.
It would be nice if TimeMachine had some advanced controls to limit how much actual disk space any one machine could use, but it doesn't. Luckily, though, there are some command line tools available to help us.
These are the paths to all your backup sets in the sparse bundle TimeMachine uses for your Mac's backups. They are listed from oldest to newest. As you can see here, my oldest backup is from February 28, 2011, and the next oldest is the following week, March 7, 2011. These are pretty old and really not worth keeping around, especially if you want to reclaim some disk space on the volume. Notice that these old backups are essentially "weekly" backups. TimeMachine will keep an unlimited number of these weekly backups. More recent backups are hourly and daily, and these are the more valuable backups to keep around.
The first thing you need to do is to remove the oldest backups, starting with the very oldest, and working your way forward in time. Be as aggressive as you feel you need to be to both reclaim disk space and feel confident that your backup sets are as complete as you need them to be. DO NOT DELETE ALL YOUR BACKUP SETS!
You'll be asked for the administrator's password, and then tmutil will chug away. If the operation succeeds, the tool simply exits without any output. If there is a problem, you'll see an error message.
Notice that I've wrapped the path to the backup in single quotes. This is because there are spaces in the path.
The tmutil delete command only removes the backup from the sparse bundle. It doesn't actually free the disk space. To do that, you have to go a little deeper.
Reclaimed 3.1 GB out of 304.1 GB possible.
That's it! In this example I reclaimed 3.1GB of actual disk space on my TimeMachine volume. While working at removing old backups on my wife's machine, a half dozen or so old backups accounted for over 63GB of reclaimed disk space! So, the results can be dramatic.
So lately I've been deleting a few backup sets and then compacting the .sparsebundle, and then repeating. I have a long way to go, between my Mac and my wife's, before there is enough space available to backup the new Mac for the first time. It's a time consuming process, but well worth the time in order to tame TimeMachine's appetite for disk space.
You can delete multiple backups at once using wildcards by escaping the spaces in the path, instead of enclosing a single literal path in single quotes. The following deletes a month's worth with one command.
Since writing this post, I have had limited success deleting old backups to free up space. And I have recently come to the same conclusion as Apple advises (although I have not implemented it yet). As you put it, the "tug of war" has become an issue because 3 machines sharing a 500GB TimeMachine volume have managed to consume it all, but not evenly. (I didn't expect they would.) That being said, I find myself running around to all 3 machines deleting old backups.
So I think one volume per machine makes some sense, as long as each is large enough for the assigned machine. My iMac has a 1TB drive, with about 1/3 of it in use. But with TimeMachine exclusions my full backup size is just under 100GB. The other Macs in the house have smaller drives. But I am thinking perhaps a 150GNB or 200GB volume per Mac is a workable solution.
In my case, my TimeMachine volume is actually a network volume served up by Netatalk running on my Linux server. Netatalk "fixes" the size at 500GB for the benefit of clients. But in fact, the TimeMachine volume lives on a 1.5TB RAID5 array with plenty of available space. So I can easily define new TimeMachine volumes (they get advertised as such for clients) in new directories on the RAID5 array, point the Macs at their new Time Machine volumes, and things should start working better. I would also expect to get a little better performance as well, since each client would be accessing it's own volume rather than a shared volume.
I cannot speak to re-partitioning an actual TimeCapsule volume, as I don't have one of those. Sorry, but good luck!
When I ran netatalk, I would create a X00 gig file, then mount it as a loopback device. Let time machine fill it up. It worked as it's own partition, but since it was a file mounted as a loopback, no need to mess with actual partition tables. If I needed more space, create a X000 gig file, move the sparse bundle over to it and mount that one instead.


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Q: ret address points to nowhere (?) I ve written a small program in order to understand how the stack and buffer overflows work.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

    char array[20];
    printf("-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The prize pool is 2000$ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=\n");

    printf("-=-=-=-=-=- Whatever you supply goes to array! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=\n");

    strcpy(array, argv[1]);

    printf("Array now is %p \n\n", &array);

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(gdb) run `perl -e 'print "A"x20 . "\x95\x84\x04\x08"x4'`
The program being debugged has been started already.
Start it from the beginning? (y or n) y

Starting program: /root/tests/c-tests/myownexamples/simpleover2 `perl -e 'print "A"x20 . "\x95\x84\x04\x08"x4'`

By setting a breakpoint in the last printf we are able to see that:
Breakpoint 3, main (argc=134513813, argv=0x8048495 <main+65>)
at simpleover2.c:19
19  printf("Array now is %p \n\n", &array);
(gdb) info frame
Stack level 0, frame at 0xbffff4a0:
eip = 0x8048489 in main (simpleover2.c:19); saved eip **0x8048495**
 source language c.
 Arglist at 0xbffff498, args: argc=134513813, argv=0x8048495 <main+65>
 Locals at 0xbffff498, Previous frame's sp is 0xbffff4a0
 Saved registers:
 ebp at 0xbffff498, eip at 0xbffff49c
 (gdb) disassemble main
 Dump of assembler code for function main:
  0x08048454 <+0>:  push   ebp
  0x08048455 <+1>:  mov    ebp,esp
  0x08048457 <+3>:  sub    esp,0x1c
  0x0804845a <+6>:  mov    DWORD PTR [esp],0x8048560
  0x08048461 <+13>: call   0x8048384 <puts@plt>
  0x08048466 <+18>: mov    DWORD PTR [esp],0x80485a4
  0x0804846d <+25>: call   0x8048384 <puts@plt>
  0x08048472 <+30>: mov    eax,DWORD PTR [ebp+0xc]
  0x08048475 <+33>: add    eax,0x4
  0x08048478 <+36>: mov    eax,DWORD PTR [eax]
  0x0804847a <+38>: mov    DWORD PTR [esp+0x4],eax
  0x0804847e <+42>: lea    eax,[ebp-0x14]
  0x08048481 <+45>: mov    DWORD PTR [esp],eax
  0x08048484 <+48>: call   0x8048364 <strcpy@plt>
  => 0x08048489 <+53>:  mov    eax,0x80485e2
  0x0804848e <+58>: lea    edx,[ebp-0x14]
  0x08048491 <+61>: mov    DWORD PTR [esp+0x4],edx
  0x08048495 <+65>: mov    DWORD PTR [esp],eax
  0x08048498 <+68>: call   0x8048374 <printf@plt>
  0x0804849d <+73>: leave
  0x0804849e <+74>: ret

So I have overwritten the RET address but with an address that lies in the CURRENT stack frame.
Following step by step the execution till leave and ret instructions
(gdb) nexti
0x0804849e  21  }
(gdb) i r eip
eip            0x804849e    0x804849e <main+74>
(gdb) i r eip
eip            0x804849e    0x804849e <main+74>
(gdb) nexti
0x08048495 in main (argc=1435550665, argv=0xc35de589) at simpleover2.c:19
19  printf("Array now is %p \n\n", &array);
(gdb) i r eip
 eip            0x8048495   0x8048495 <main+65>

We see that the execution INDEED goes there and following with nexti we get :
 (gdb) nexti
 0x08048498 19  printf("Array now is %p \n\n", &array);
 (gdb) i r eip
 eip            0x8048498   0x8048498 <main+68>
 (gdb) nexti

 Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
 0xb7eeae97 in strchrnul () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6

So why it segfaults ? Also it looks like it indeed calls printf() for 2nd time but it will not show up..
 ./simpleover2 `perl -e 'print "A"x20 . "\x95\x84\x04\x08"x4'`
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The prize pool is 2000$ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=
-=-=-=-=-=- Whatever you supply goes to array! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Array now is 0xbf8ed894

Segmentation fault

Again, why it doesnt printf() show since ret points to that? and how and the execution continues there since leave and ret instructions have been executed that actually POP the whole stack frame?

A: Your overwritten return address is changed to main+65 after LEAVE restores the program's original registers. So after "returning" to main+65, you call printf with different parameters than you think, so printf could try to print something that isn't null-terminated. It could then run off the end of the allocated page and cause an unexpected page fault on an unallocated page -> segfault.
I can't tell what ABI you're using, so I don't know which registers are used to pass the parameters to printf.

A: You're changing contents of array, not it's address (you can't change the address actually!!). &array means '-address of array-', which I'm sure isn't what you intend. If you want to know the address of the character array on the stack simply refer to array without the & operator.

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Charlie Chaplin Creative Writing Assignment
While studying the 1920's, two of my children wanted to do Charlie Chaplin projects. We all watched several silent Charlie Chaplin movies, and my kids loved the humor and the corny editing of these early movies. My 13-year-old son Stephen wanted to do a creative writing assignment about this famous actor to include in his Modern History binder. Another one of my sons decided that he wanted to make a black-and-white Charlie Chaplin short movie, and whenever he does that, we will put it into the Unit Study Treasure Vault.
Here is Stephen's description of Charlie Chaplin and his silent movies:
Charlie Chaplin was the king of slapstick comedy (sorrowfully, not the Three Stooges) in the period known as the Roaring Twenties. He starred in those old-fashioned black-and-white silent films, which weren't all that silent because of some crazy guy banging out an ancient tune on a weather-beaten old piano.
Our clumsy clod sported a fake-looking mustache and black bowler hat. He also wore a waistcoat and baggy trousers. He was very sensitive about his hat's position on his head and was constantly adjusting it.
Those silent films were always without any talking whatsoever (I have no idea how the audience could put up with it) and staged most of the time in a random town or house somewhere. In one of them, Charlie was so poor he had to resort to thievery to get money. In that movie he hid an alarm clock in his pants (the last place I would want to put an alarm clock), and it started ringing. He jumped around like my aunt Betsy when her socks are on fire, trying to extingui—I mean silence—the alarm clock (weren't there snooze buttons back then?)
Another movie was made during the end of WWI which was criticizing and making fun of the trench warfare. In it he pretended to be a tree as he was spying out the enemy lines. He was a good tree. When a German soldier went to get wood, he immediately went for the Charlie Tree. The tree whacked the soldier on the head whenever he turned his back, eventually knocking him out cold (reminds me of my half cousin). His friends came and saw him lying there, and soon they too were lying on top of him.
In the trenches he had a varied assortment of odds and ends he took with him, including a mousetrap and cheese. The other soldiers in the trench constantly got their fingers stuck in it. On the first night the trenches got flooded, and they had to sleep face-deep in dirty, ice-cold water. As Charlie was rubbing some life into his feet when he woke up, he accidentally grabbed someone else's foot and started rubbing it. Naturally the foot in question woke up its owner in a very grumpy mood.
In a different movie, Charlie was working in a factory when the manager and some weird dudes walked up with this crazy contraption which consisted of a large rotating disc with soup, some cubed food, a napkin strapped to a fat horseshoe, and corn-on-the-cob on a spinning arm. They chose Charlie as their first target and shoved him into it. Then they turned it on. It first lifted the soup bowl and poured some into his mouth. Then it lowered, and the napkin was rubbed across his face. The disc then turned a quarter-turn, and the plate with the cubed stuff was lifted. Then an arm pushed the stuff into his mouth as the plate spun slowly. The napkin cleaned him off and malfunctioned. It started to massage his face quicker, and quicker, until it was a blur. They managed to turn it off, fix it, and restart it. It failed again, and this time they couldn't fix it. It went out of control and caught fire (don't ask me where the fire came from). In the end Charlie was released, and the contraption was thrown away.
Charlie Chaplin was the best of the best in his time. Nowadays there are better actors, but back then he was a rarity. Editing must have just been invented when he was around, and pretty basic editing at that (like speeding up and cutting-and-pasting). That added a bit more humor to this already funny guy.
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Erin @ Nourishing My Scholar says:
I love that your kids wanted to learn about Charlie Chaplin!
They laughed so hard at his antics!


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Syrian government says there will be no dialogue before rebels are crushed
posted Sep 8, 2012, 7:16 AM by Syrian Transition [ updated Sep 8, 2012, 7:16 AM ]
03 Sept 2012 (AP) The Syrian regime said Monday there will be no dialogue with the opposition before the army crushes the rebels, the latest sign that President Bashar Assad is determined to solve the crisis on the battlefield even if many more of his people have to pay with their lives.
The statement comes a day after activists reported that August was the bloodiest month since the uprising began in March 2011.
"There will be no dialogue with the opposition prior to the Syrian army's imposition of security and stability in all parts of the country," Information Minister Omran al-Zoebi told reporters at a news conference in Damascus.
The opposition has long rejected any talks with the regime until Assad is removed from power.
Muhieddine Lathkani, an opposition figure based in Britain, responded to the minister's comments by saying "the key to any dialogue will be the departure of Assad and dismantling of the regime's security agencies that committed all these crimes."
Lathkani told The Associated Press by telephone that after that happens, there could be a dialogue.
Earlier in the day, the new U.N. envoy to Syria acknowledged that brokering an end to the civil war will be a "very, very difficult" task.
Activists on Sunday said some 5,000 people were killed in August, the highest toll in the 17-month-old uprising and more than three times the monthly average. At the same time, the U.N. children's fund, UNICEF, said 1,600 were killed last week alone, also the highest figure for the entire revolt.
The two major activists groups raised their total death toll for the entire revolt to at least 23,000 and as high as 26,000.
The civil war witnessed a major turning point in August when Assad's forces began widely using air power for the first time to try to put down the revolt. The fighting also reached Syria's largest city, Aleppo, which had been relatively quiet for most of the uprising.
Last week, Assad said in an interview that his armed forces will need time to defeat the rebels, an acknowledgement that his regime is struggling to defeat the tenacious rebels and another indication that the civil war will be even more drawn out and bloody.
In the latest violence on Monday, activists said more than 100 people were killed — many of them in two air raids that knocked out large parts of buildings in the northern province of Aleppo. Government warplanes bombed the town of Al-Bab killing at least 19 people and the Aleppo neighborhood of Myasar where 10 people, including four children, were killed.
The two main activist groups, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees, said the airstrikes targeted a residential area in the northern town of al-Bab, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the Turkish border. The Observatory said 19 people were killed in the air raid; the LCC put the death toll at 25.
An amateur video posted online showed men frantically searching for bodies in the rubble of a white building smashed into a pile of debris. The authenticity of the video could not be independently verified.
An amateur video from Myasar showed men digging through the rubble and cutting metal to pick up the dead buried under the debris. A dead girl and a man were seen being removed in the video.
Hisham Jaber, a retired Lebanese army general who heads a Beirut-based think tank, said the government is using MiG warplanes to bomb targets on the ground with missiles ranging between 50 kilograms (110 pounds) and 200 kilograms (440 pounds).
"Those bombs fall in a shape that looks like a barrel, then explode when they hit the ground," he said.
Syrian officials said a bomb attached to a taxi blew up in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana, killing five people and wounding 23. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.
Activists, meanwhile, reported scattered violence in regions across the country, including the Damascus suburbs, the region of Deir el-Zour in the east, Daraa in the south and Idlib and Aleppo in the north.
The Observatory said 100 people were killed Monday while the LCC put the number at 205, many of them in Aleppo province.
Diplomatic efforts to solve the seemingly intractable conflict have failed so far. A peace plan by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan never got off the ground and Annan quit his post as special U.N. envoy. He was replaced Saturday by Lakhdar Brahimi, a 78-year-old former Algerian foreign minister.
Brahimi, who also served as a U.N. envoy to Afghanistan and Iraq, commended Annan on his work, saying he did "everything possible."
"We discussed this several times and I can't think of anything that I would have done differently from him," Brahimi told the BBC in an interview. "It is definitely a very, very difficult mission."
He added that he is "scared of the weight of the responsibility" and that he is "standing in front of a brick wall. ... We'll have to see if we can go around that wall."
Asked whether his task was "Mission Impossible," Brahimi said: "I suppose it is."
In Damascus, Information Minister al-Zoebi pledged that Syria will cooperate with the new U.N. envoy.
"We will give him maximum assistance the way we did with Kofi Annan."
The Assad regime made similar public statements when it signed on to Annan's peace plan, only to frequently ignore or outright violate its commitments by refusing to pull its troops out of cities and cease its shelling of opposition areas.
Al-Zoebi sought to shift some of the responsibility for the future success or failure of Brahimi's mission onto the shoulders of Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar — three of the harshest critics of the Syrian regime and strong supporters of the rebels trying to overthrow Assad.
The three countries, al-Zoebi said, must "stop sending weapons (to rebels) and close training bases," they are hosting.
The Syrian minister did not confirm or deny whether Syrian authorities are holding foreign journalists who entered the country illegally, but said that any person who does so, whether a Syrian or a foreigner, will be referred to judicial authorities.
He reassured reporters, however, that if any journalists are held by authorities "they will receive special treatment even though they violated Syrian laws." He asked journalists at the news conference to give his office any names they have of reporters that they know with certainty are held by authorities.
At least three journalists are missing in Syria and are believed to be held by the regime.
Alhurra TV correspondent Bashar Fahmi, a Jordanian citizen of Palestinian origin, and his Turkish cameraman, Cuneyt Unal, are said to have been captured in the city of Aleppo after entering Syria last month. The third journalist, American Austin Tice, has reported on the conflict for The Washington Post, McClatchy Newspapers and other media outlets, is also reported missing in Syria.
Al-Zoebi also warned against foreign power intervening in Syria, saying "if anyone infringes on our national sovereignty there will be no red lights to our retaliation. ... We will cut such a hand and make them pay a high price."
The West has shown little appetite to intervene in Syria in part because unlike the military intervention that helped bring down Moammar Gadhafi in Libya, the Syrian conflict has the potential to quickly escalate. Damascus has a web of allegiances to powerful forces including Shiite powerhouse Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah and there are concerns that a military campaign could pull them into a wider regional conflagration.
Western powers, however, have warned Assad against using chemical weapons in the conflict.
On Monday, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that if Syria uses such weapons, "our response ... would be massive and blistering."
Speaking to RMC radio, he said Western countries are monitoring the movement of the weapons in Syria to be ready to "step in" immediately. Fabius said "we are discussing this notably with our American and English partners."
Al-Zoebi also claimed some of the attacks against individuals and institutions in Syria "had the fingerprints of intelligence services, including Israel's Mossad." He did not elaborate or say which attacks they were allegedly behind.


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Official Justin Bieber Thread
Discussion in 'Other Music' started by Money Maker Mike, Jul 8, 2012.
Filip god break down the door LPA Contributor
Filip, Jul 12, 2012
Whoever took that snapshot, is a legend!
Erica Meh LPA Über VIP
Erica, Jul 12, 2012
Flagrare said: ↑
Do you mean Cradle Loves Justin Bieber, right?
[thumb]http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm7/zaneroks94/Capture-8-1.jpg[/thumb]
that's the best thing I've ever seen
Andreina Proud Venezuelan LP fan. LPA Contributor
Andreina, Jul 13, 2012
jasonmarks said: ↑
I hope that snapshot is appropriately posted in the Legendary Shouts thread
Andreina said: ↑
I remember when Derek changed Cradle's name, I laughed so damn hard...
Unfortunately, it isn't. Should we post it?
Of course! It needs to be immortalized
Flagrare 'Majestic Dick. Brazilian Snake Cock. And Cunts. LPA Super Member
Flagrare, Jul 13, 2012
Some people call me Justin. 11 out of 10 times I want to tear my brain out with pliers when I hear it.
Money Maker Mike Guest
Money Maker Mike, Jul 13, 2012
Again, just like Pidgeon said, we wrote him off as a total . I was so fucking sad when MJ died, because he was really a great artist (I mean, listen to Thriller, Beat It, Billie Jean, Who Is It and so on and say he isn't...). Plus, you said it yourself, his latest album was released in 2001, and he died in 2009, last 8 years of his life, it was just scandals, did he rape this kid? Did he rape that kid? He was a person who was falling, and people watched him, laughed and mocked...
I remember that.
Ok yeah, the last 8 years of his life was a wreck.
Going back to justin bieber though, check this out: http://www.thestar.com/entertainmen...justin-bieber-sued-by-woman-over-hearing-loss
HypnoToad Glory to the HypnoToad! LPA VIP
HypnoToad, Jul 14, 2012
I actually really like his new album. /kanyeshrug
Bradley Butt makes me weep, I call it a "boo-hooty".
Bradley, Jul 14, 2012
I think Justin Bieber makes some really catchy songs. Personally I'm not a huge fan, but he seems like a good enough kid I guess haha
The only thing I hate about JB is his fanbase. Maybe not the whole fans but there are just some really annoying people that make too big of a deal about him, meaning his fans just like to make him look like he's the biggest thing in the world. But to a certain extend he kind of is just because of the mass amount of popularity not only his fans gives him but his "haters" as well. I mean think about it, he's either famous from the high amount of teen girls who like him or from the mass amount of people who just like to bash on him.
Seriously I mean I see people comment on Youtube video's like "see the dislike bar? That's the size of JB's penis" or something like that. It's stuff like that that make him infamous to his "hater" community. Even in the Internet you'll see his name from almost anyone. Love him or hate him, you have to admit that the guy is talked about from almost every opposite end from the people who like and hate him.
I don't know its just ridiculous to me that the people who hate him make him more known around the world. People love something I hate I guess haha
Overall I think he has some really great talent and with a lot of hard work and dedication, he could be really well known in history for all we know. I don't know, let's see what he brings to the table!
rundown228 Banned
rundown228, Jul 14, 2012
I don't care for him: I don't like his music, but I don't dislike him.
What I DO dislike was back around 2009, 2010, etc. people made SUCH A BIG ********** DEAL about him. Acting like he murdered music, he should die, etc. I mean, people on the internet aren't that dumb...... Are they?
Shikshak Well-Known Member
Shikshak, Jul 20, 2012
travz21 said: ↑
I like his girlfriend.
rundown228 said: ↑
I mean, people on the internet aren't that dumb...... Are they?
Yes they are, and you're the living proof of it.
cradle Foreword LPA VIP
cradle, Jul 21, 2012
The Awkward moment when i know i would be mentioned in this thread .
The Joesen One Fun-employed LPA Super Member
The Joesen One, Jul 22, 2012
Baby Minus said: ↑
Justin Bieber kicks fucking ass.
Justin Bieber should get his fucking ass kicked.
Agent Formerly known as Agent Sideburns LPA Über VIP
Agent, Jul 23, 2012
How a Justin Bieber thread has gone for 3 pages is beyond me.
cradle said: ↑
OMG, I laughed so hard to this!
Dear JB's HATERs
i owe my life to Justin
on March 9th 2009, i was on coma for 6 months after e terrible car crash
one day my nurse turned the radio to Justin's song
So i got up, and i turned the radio off !
This must be the best JB insult ever.
Panagiotis Papagianni Stay Away From Me Motherfuckerrrrrrr
Panagiotis Papagianni, Aug 1, 2012
Finally Justin Bieber made a good song
Check this out guys for me is the only good Justin Bieber song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4em3LKQCAQ
Tell me your thoughts
Minus, Aug 1, 2012
Bieber kicks ass. Also, there's an official JB thread here: http://lpassociation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37162
Blake Leave a Trace LPA Super Member
Blake, Aug 2, 2012
That song is better than most of his songs. I don't like the dude, but I'm not going to be one who goes around hating on him. People can like whatever they like


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echo $(date +%Y-%m-%d:%H:%M:%S)
# crontab clean docker instance

clean_items=$(docker ps -a | grep -e 'hours ago' -e 'days ago' -e 'weeks ago' -e Exit| awk '{print $1}')

if [[ -z "$clean_items" ]]; then
        echo 'there is no clean items found!'
else
        docker rm $clean_items
fi

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CIC News > Latest News > Canada > Smaller cities attracting more immigrants A recent Ryerson University paper outlines the prospects for immigration in small and mid-sized Canadian cities.
Smaller cities attracting more immigrants A recent Ryerson University paper outlines the prospects for immigration in small and mid-sized Canadian cities.
Mohanad Moetaz
Shelby Thevenot
Published on March 9th, 2021 at 04:12pm EST Updated on March 9th, 2021 at 04:12pm EST
Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver are popular destinations for immigrants coming to Canada. However, it is Canada's small to mid-sized cities that are starting to attract more immigrants from abroad.
Over the same period between 2013 and 2019, the number of immigrants settling in smaller urban centres went up by 45 per cent between 2013 and 2019, compared to nine per cent in Canada's four major cities, according to a Ryerson University paper authored by David Campbell. In the same period, the number of new immigrants increased by 40 per cent in the rest of Canada's Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs).
CMAs are major urban centres that consist of multiple municipalities around a population centre. For example, the Toronto CMA consists of the city of Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan and Pickering.
The immigration rate, which is the number of immigrants per 10,000 residents, of these smaller to mid-sized urban centres is still lower than the larger cities. This may come as no surprise since the smaller urban centres started with a lower population.
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Toronto has one of the highest immigration rates in Canada at 163 per 10,000 residents. Vancouver is similarly impressive at 128 per 10,000 residents. But how do small and mid-sized urban centres fair?
The immigration rate was over 100 per 10,000 residents for a total of 14 smaller urban centres. Regina and Saskatoon in Saskatchewan both had immigration rates of 193 and 178 per 10,000 residents respectively, both higher than Toronto.
The remaining 12 smaller urban centres with high immigration rates were: Halifax, Charlottetown, Fredericton, Moncton, Swift Current, Winkler, Steinbach, Brandon, Thompson, Brooks, High River and Wood Buffalo. These smaller urban centres saw an influx of immigrants as a direct response to the challenges faced due to an aging population and workforce.
Many of these cities have a declining natural population. This means that there are more deaths than there are births. They depend on migration between provinces to stay competitive economically, so they have begun to attract more immigrants to continue growing.
The COVID-19 pandemic, however, played a big part in reducing the number of immigrants coming into small to mid-sized urban centres. This is due to the current travel restrictions in place to curb the spread of the virus.
Even though there exists some exemptions to the travel restrictions including some international students and temporary workers, those who have a Confirmation of Permanent Residence (COPR) approved after March 18, 2020, are still not allowed to travel to Canada.
Temporary foreign workers became heavily relied upon during the pandemic. Many of Canada's export industries regularly hire short term international workers. Examples of these industries include agriculture and fish processing.
Canada will need to depend on immigration now more than ever to spearhead post-pandemic economic recovery. The country's workforce increased by 1.95 million between 2009 and 2019— almost all came from immigrants. The table below illustrates this well. It shows the growth rate of the workforce by landed immigrants and by those who were born in Canada.
The provinces with the largest growth of immigrant workers also had the fastest growing economies.
A shrinking workforce is not the only challenge that comes with an aging population. Canada is facing an increasing demand for healthcare services as well as income support programs.
Campbell concluded the paper noting that the above-average unemployment rates and increasing number of COVID-19 cases could lessen some people's support for immigration. However, for the long term, immigration will play a crucial role in the economic growth of major urban centres as well as small to mid-sized urban centres all over Canada.
Factors resulting in higher regional immigration
Regional immigration programs are mutually beneficial to immigrants and the local economy. Governments have identified gaps in the labour market that need to be filled by immigrants, in turn immigrants get to work in their field.
The Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) allows provinces to nominate immigration candidates who they think will be good fits for their labour market. These programs benefit less populous provinces, because they have more urgent needs for immigrants to support their economies. The prairie province of Manitoba was the first to sign up for the PNP in 1996, and was one of the first to start their program in 1999, along with New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador.
The launch of the Express Entry system in 2015 brought with it the first enhanced PNPs. Provincial government could search the Express Entry pool of candidates for people whose professional skills would benefit the labour market. The number of immigrants admitted through the PNPs rose from about 47,600 in 2014 to 68,600 in 2019.
Also, the Atlantic Immigration Pilot (AIP) was launched in March 2017. This pilot allows employers from Canada's four Atlantic provinces to expedite the hiring process for international employees. Through this program, immigrants come to Canada with a job and a settlement plan from a designated service provider. In 2019, 1,141 new immigrants came to the region. The most popular province for new immigrants was New Brunswick, followed by Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Island. A recent government review found that the AIP was helping to improve retention in the region.
Finally, there has also been higher regional immigration simply because Canada has been increasing its immigration levels every year. Although the pandemic caused a significant drop in new immigrants in 2020, Canada still committed to welcoming more than 1.2 million immigrants over the next three years. Of these, the PNP is expected to bring in about 80,000 per year, and the AIP is expected to welcome about 6,000.
Also, Canada has yet to come out with the Municipal Nominee Program, which will allow communities, chambers of commerce and local labour councils to sponsor new immigrants. This new program is expected to bring in about 5,000 newcomers per year after it is launched.
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This guy deserve HUGE PROPS for doing this! Please; keep on doing what you are(were) doing, Danin!
I just wanted to say a quick thank you for an awesome application. Any game without copy protection or an enhancement chip works great without much effort. I hope the new version is still in the works and look forward to it.
I just purchased the INL HiLo ROM board. I also just installed this vesrion of fireware found on first page.
I don't understand, fulkly, if I buy a 8MB board from Paul INL, it seems alot of people had issues? I am very new to SNES as I have done NES repros with Kazzo and soldering, but I am curious about the 8MB board. Pauls website advises to not use the 12MB board, so I am a bit confused.
Anyone had luck with Star Ocean?
His cart has an INL 4MB board. I already had an INL Kazzo programmer / dumper. I purchased it a few years ago to dump a prototype NES game and I'm not sure how it compares to other Kazzo board revisions. It's a 3-slot version for NES, Famicom, and SNES. The silkscreened writing on the board indicates "v1.x," "v1.2b," and "Nov2013." I offered to update his cart and he sent it to me. His cart shows "Oct2016 v1.3"
...and the video also links back to this thread.
Well, it didn't go so smoothly and I'm still trying to figure out if the INL SNES board is faulty, the Kazzo flasher, or my software / files / settings / procedure.
I verified that my ROM matches the one described on RomHacking, using CRC32. I patched and tested the ROM file successfully in Higan emulator, and also on a real SNES using my SD2SNES cart.
With the INL SNES board still set to LoROM, I erased the cart and wrote the new data from the same patched ROM I had already tested.
The game is seriously glitched. Wiping SRAM didn't help. Attempting to get past the title screen, it fades to black and the music keeps playing forever. Unpatched FF2 US has similar glitches. On the black screen I can press X to access the in-game menu and save. On reboot, there's a save file. Selecting that leaves your character stuck in an overworld with only water and no terrain (completely immobile).
All the other unpatched games were glitched too.
Unpatched Super Mario World acts really strange because Yoshi's tongue won't come out. Other than that, it seems to play. You can still run, carry items, and do other attacks that use the Y button.
Tetris Attack is missing graphics on the title screen. Try to start a game and it freezes. If I return to the title screen from the main menu, I'll see garbled graphics. If it goes to the demonstration, it freezes.
I re-flashed the firmware from the OP and wrote unmodified Super Mario World again. It still has the same problem with Yoshi unable to extend his tongue.
So all 4 ROMs I've tested behave strangely. I don't have another INL SNES board or flasher to test with. Any advice?
I feel like I've heard about the yoshi tongue glitch before and turned out to be a dirty connector..? I've heard a number of weird issues using Danin's app which I can't explain. My first suggestion would be to flash those roms onto the board using my supplied software & firmware before concluding that something's damaged.
Anyway, Feel free to submit a support ticket on my site and we can discuss repair/replacement options if it appears to be damaged somehow.
Thanks! I couldn't find the "supplied" download on the web site page for Kazzo, which is the only reason I went searching elsewhere and found the YouTube video that led me to Danin's stuff. I'll try the software you linked as soon as I get back home.
If the link is on the web page, I still can't find it. Perhaps because I'm partially colorblind, and also dealing with a poor quality LCD.
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OK, I had gone to the Firmware folder and opened a README there, which was generic and didn't help with selecting which firmware. One of the many other README docs suggested running a batch file from a parent directory, so I did that and there was no error. Hopefully it means I have the correct firmware now.
Tried to write derp32m.sfc and I get "Error : -116"
OK. I did the erase procedure this time. Now the Kazzo has a lit LED when I connect USB, but it turns off almost instantly when I try to write the 4,194,304 byte ROM file. Then the software is locked-up too.
Use the "click to load retro programmer.bat" which points to the current firmware release which is always named "retro_programmer.hex"
The LED should be on when first power up/plug in. When you properly erase the board it will go dim for ~30sec. Doesn't sound like you're actually getting the board erased. If you don't get the dim LED it didn't erase and you'll get the errors you did. Make sure 'header' is selected and "ERASE_SNES.bin" loaded, then write that to erase the board. YOU MUST WAIT for the LED to go out before writting the rom file with 4MB selected in pull down.
Thanks. I did the whole erase procedure again and waited for the light to go off. Then I attempted to write the ROM flie. The program became unresponsive, then finally failed with an error message: "Error in page : 0"
"Error in page : 0"
I ordered another SNES INL board the other day, so I guess that will tell me if this board is bad. The INL programmer is not available currently on the site, so I guess there's not much I can do if mine is bad.
No need to cancel or return the extra board I ordered. It arrived. I'm attempting to write Wonder Project J English now.


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Rate of Eating Disorders in Kids Keeps Rising
Jim Liebelt | Senior Writer, Editor and Researcher for the HomeWord Center for Youth and Family at Azusa Pacific University | Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Eating disorders have risen steadily in children and teens over the last few decades, with some of the sharpest increases occurring in boys and minority youths, according to a new report.
An analysis by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found that hospitalizations for eating disorders jumped by 119 percent between 1999 and 2006 for kids younger than 12.
At the same time as severe cases of anorexia and bulimia have risen, so too have "partial-syndrome" eating disorders -- young people who have some, but not all, of the symptoms of an eating disorder. Athletes, including gymnasts and wrestlers, and performers, including dancers and models, may be particularly at risk, according to the report.
"We are seeing a lot more eating disorders than we used to and we are seeing it in people we didn't associate with eating disorders in the past -- a lot of boys, little kids, people of color and those with lower socioeconomic backgrounds," said report author Dr. David Rosen, a professor of pediatrics, internal medicine and psychiatry at University of Michigan. "The stereotype [patient] is of an affluent white girl of a certain age. We wanted people to understand eating disorders are equal-opportunity disorders."
The report is published in the December issue of Pediatrics.
While an estimated 0.5 percent of adolescent girls in the United States have anorexia and about 1 to 2 percent have bulimia, experts estimate that between 0.8 to 14 percent of Americans generally have at least some of the physical and psychological symptoms of an eating disorder, according to the report.
Boys now represent about 5 to 10 percent of those with eating disorders, although some research suggests that number may be even higher, said Lisa Lilenfeld, incoming president of the Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy and Action in Washington, D.C.
Source: Businessweek
http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/646574.html


It was another spectacular January weekend in the California. Accompanied by a group of close friends, we caravanned a small heard of automobiles north along the coast. The surf was small, small enough to skip it and motivate to set up camp and explore the property. We climbed up the road, winding around turns, steadily separating ourselves from another humans, it was a nice feeling.
We got to the top, unloaded the gear, and set up camp. The rolling hills stretched as far as the eye could see and the ocean felt like it was under our feet, the views were insane! This would not have been the same without the people who were apart of this weekend adventure. Thanks everyone for making it happen! Here are some photos below. Enjoy!


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Dalongeville, A., Andrello, M., Mouillot, D., Albouy, C., & Manel, S. (2016). Ecological traits shape genetic diversity patterns across the Mediterranean Sea: a quantitative review on fishes. J. Biogeogr., 43(4), 845–857.
Résumé: AimWe set out to identify the determinants of the variation in genetic diversity among fish species and test whether multi-species genetic diversity is randomly distributed in space. LocationMediterranean Sea. MethodsWe collected genetic diversity data from 39 published studies on Mediterranean fishes (31 species) along with the spatial coordinates of the sampling sites. We focused on microsatellite heterozygosity (151 data points) and mitochondrial haplotype diversity (201 data points). We used linear regressions to link genetic diversity and 11 ecological traits. We also tested for spatial autocorrelation and trends in the residuals. ResultsAmong-species variation in microsatellite heterozygosity was explained by three ecological traits: vertical distribution, migration type and body length. Variation in mitochondrial haplotype diversity was also explained by vertical distribution and migration type, and by reproductive strategy (semelparity). However, vertical distribution and migration type showed opposite effects on microsatellites and mitochondrial diversity. After accounting for the effects of ecological traits, no spatial pattern was detected, except for one of the species considered. Main conclusionsEcological factors explain an important proportion of the among-species genetic diversity. These results suggest that life history strategies of the species influence the variation of microsatellite diversity indirectly through their effect on effective population size, while the spatial variations of genetic diversity seem to be too complex to be identified in our analysis. We found very different effects of traits on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA diversity, which can be explained by the specificities of mitochondrial DNA (absence of recombination, maternal inheritance and non-neutrality).
Mots-Clés: atlantic bluefin tuna; bass dicentrarchus-labrax; climate-change; cod gadus-morhua; ecological traits; effective population-size; genetic diversity; gilthead sea; life-history traits; marine fishes; marine populations; Mediterranean Sea; microsatellite markers; microsatellites; mitochondrial; mitochondrial DNA; molecular markers; population genetics
http://www.umr-marbec.fr/r3fbas3/show.php?record=1627


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Prior to coming to TwentyTwenty, I worked for two years as an English teacher in a deprived area of Leicester. The school had a high number of disadvantaged students and I felt compelled to support them beyond the classroom. Unfortunately, my role as a teacher limited me somewhat in offering the holistic support I felt they needed, and so after completing my NQT year, I went in search of a position where I could support young people in a more meaningful way. I am now super excited to get stuck into my role as a Journey to Work Coach and work with the brilliant young people in the Derby centre.
I am a creative soul, and I love looking at and creating art. As an English teacher, I love reading fiction, and dream of writing my own novel for young people one day. My greatest hobby however is travel, and I have spent time teaching in Thailand and backpacking through Asia. I believe we learn so much through experiencing different cultures and languages, and importantly, that we are all not as different as we think. I also LOVE trying all the new foods!


In a recent Parent/Teen Safe Driving Survey released by Travelers it was revealed that when parents are good role models as drivers, their teens are half as likely to have been in an accident.
Yes, parents, YOU play a critical role. 24% of teens who report their parents are NOT good role models have been in more than one accident as a driver, compared to 10% of teens who report their parents DO model good driving behavior. 15% of teens with poor role models have been issued more than one ticket, compared to 6% of teens with good ones.
Texting ("for work") - You are 23 times more likely to crash while texting. STOP!
Speeding - Teens can't see and react as fast as an experienced driver, but they will drive as fast as you do.
Changing Lanes - if you don't use your blinker, check over your shoulder, and check your mirrors, your teen won't either.
Racing Yellow Lights , Rolling Stops, and Tailgating - all risky behaviors you are modeling for your teen.
"It's critical that parents and teens are on the same page about driving dangers and are clearly communicating the consequences for not following the rules of the road," said Henry Edinger, Chief Customer Officer for Travelers. Even though the Travelers survey found that a high percentage of teens and parents have talked about safe driving habits (96%), it also identifies some disconnect in what parents top concerns are compared to teens.
66% of teens are concerned about driving under the influence of alcohol, compared to 14% of parents.
56% of teens are concerned about distracted driving as a result of phones and texting, versus 35% of parents.
52% of teens are concerned about staying aware of other drivers on the road, compared to 31% of parents.
The survey also revealed that younger teens are more receptive to a conversation about safe driving than older teens.
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'Every moment here is magical': Essex school wins dementia award | Education
Posted By: Newsometry
A primary school in Essex has won a national dementia award for an innovative intergenerational project, which brings together isolated older adults and children in need of additional support with extraordinary results.
The project at Downshall primary school in Ilford is one of a growing number of intergenerational initiatives in the UK designed to bring benefits to both old and young, while helping to fill the gaps left by cuts to local community support services.
At Downshall, older adults experiencing isolation, depression and early dementia are referred to the project by health teams. They then come into school with volunteer support workers and take part in regular activities including music, reading and games with reception and year 4 children.
The children's progress is monitored to measure impact. According to the most recent data, while nationally reception age children make six steps of progress over the year, children taking part in the Downshall intergenerational provision make 10.
Contrary to usual trends, boys make better progress than girls, with the biggest impact seen in developing relationships – an important measure among young children – with marked improvements in communication, language, reading and writing. "The project has gone from strength to strength," said the headteacher, Ian Bennett. "The children have made such improvements across the board."
The starting point for Bennett is that it is the children's needs that are paramount, but the participating adults benefit hugely from purposeful activity, enjoying helping others and socialising not only with the children but other older adults. "We are really making a difference to lives," Bennett said.
One of the participants described looking forward to seeing the children every week and missing them during the holidays. "I feel this project is such a good idea. I do get lonely but when I'm here I'm always surrounded by good company," Sara Apoolingum said. "I feel every moment I spend here is magical, whether it's with the children or all the adults."
David Hinchcliffe, a consultant old age psychiatrist at North East London NHS foundation trust, helped set up the project two years ago. Since then, primary schools in neighbouring boroughs and other mental health trusts have expressed interest in developing similar initiatives.
"One of the reasons we set it up was to try to tackle the growing problem of loneliness and social isolation," he said. "Local authorities have had their budgets slashed for a number of years. We are having to think creatively about how we can come together as a community and keep everybody engaged and active."
Downshall is not alone in its efforts to bring together different generations. Stephen Burke, a director at United for All Ages, which campaigns on the issue, said there had been a proliferation of intergenerational projects, with thousands of links being forged between care homes, nursery and primary schools across the UK.
"The growth has been phenomenal. It's a grassroots movement. It's not been led from central government or by national policy. It's being done by people who think it's the right thing to do. We are going to see many more of these [projects] taking off."
What was needed, said Burke, was proper evaluation of the projects that were already up and running to show the impact and potential benefits to those involved. Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) has just published research into a similar project involving a school in Essex working with a local care home with very positive findings.
The Maldon Up project involved about a dozen year 6 pupils from All Saints Church of England primary school in Maldon who paid regular visits to nearby Longfield care home for two years. The initiative, supported by the NHS Mid Essex clinical commissioning group, aimed to encourage interaction between the generations, using board games, arts and crafts, and tablet-based activities suitable for residents with dementia.
Researchers found that children grew in confidence and developed emotional awareness and empathy towards the older adults. Many care home residents were "uniquely transformed" by their time with the children, experiencing an uplift in mood. The sessions also acted as a trigger for retrieval of long-term memories.
Rebecca Chandler, a research assistant at ARU's positive ageing research institute, said the experiences of the children, older adults and the care home staff were overwhelmingly positive.
"The journey and progress has been remarkable," she said. "The project provides children with an understanding of ageing, dementia and the lives of others, but they have also benefited from drawing upon the life experience of the residents and found that stimulates their own learning.
"The atmosphere in the care home has been enlivened and uplifted, and this spills over into the staff's work environment."
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