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Protecting civilians in peacekeeping operations. On June 10, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development Jean-Marc Ayrault will chair a ministerial meeting at the Security Council on this issue; it will also be attended by the UN secretary-general and the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross. A meeting will also be held in early June on sexual violence in conflicts.
Africa, with the renewal of the mandate of peacekeeping missions in Mali (MINUSMA), Sudan/Darfur (UNAMID), and the authorization of the African Union operation in Somalia (AMISOM). The Security Council will also closely monitor the situations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Guinea-Bissau, and South Sudan.
North Africa and the Middle East, with the renewal of the mandate of the UN mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and careful monitoring of the crises in Syria, Libya, Yemen and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. With respect to the latter, France is introducing a Middle East peace initiative. In late June, the Security Council will also receive the UN secretary-general's report on the implementation of Resolution 1701 on Lebanon.
The French presidency will also work on election deadlines within the UN system, continuing the process to designate the new secretary-general, the election of the future president of the UN General Assembly, and the election of new non-permanent members to the Security Council for 2017-2018.
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UltraViolet on Fox News Firing Bill Shine
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, May 1, 2017
For Months, UltraViolet Called on Fox News to Fire Top Executives Found Covering Up Sexual Assault at the Network
NEW YORK — Moments ago, Fox News issued a statement announcing new executive appointments and confirming that the Fox News has cut ties with former Fox News co-President Bill Shine.
In reaction to the news, Shaunna Thomas, co-founder of UltraViolet, a leading women's advocacy group that had called for Bill Shine to be fired since August, issued the following statement:
"For years, Fox News co-President Bill Shine actively provided cover for serial sexual abusers and misogynists – creating a culture where Fox News employees and hosts were allowed to make racist and misogynist comments on-air and sexually harass their co-workers with no accountability from the network.
"21st Century Fox recognized that Bill O'Reilly and Roger Ailes were symptoms of a toxic work culture and that as long as Bill Shine was at the network, Fox News would never be a safe working environment for the women who worked there.
"Fox News still has a lot to do to make sure that the women who work at the network are free from sexual harassment and abuse – but getting rid of Bill O'Reilly and Bill Shine are definitely steps in the right direction."
Since August 2016, UltraViolet, in collaboration with allies at Color of Change, the Women's March, the National Organization of Women (NOW) and Media Matters for America, called for Fox News to fire Bill O'Reilly and Bill Shine and launch a full investigation into sexual harassment and abuse at the network. As part of that effort:
UltraViolet released an online video ad targeting members of the board of 21st Century Fox ahead of their board meeting Thursday to decide the fate of Bill O'Reilly. The video documented stories of women sexually-harassed by Bill O'Reilly.
Members of UltraViolet and survivors of sexual assault protested at Fox News' HQ's in New York Citydemanding the company fire Bill O'Reilly.
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In January 2017, after the New York Times reported that Roger Ailes secretly settled sexual harassment claims against O'Reilly, UltraViolet demanded the network fire O'Reilly.
More than 87,000 UltraViolet members have signed onto a petition calling on 21st Century Fox to fire Fox News CEO Bill Shine and Fox News host Bill O'Reilly over their role in taking part in and covering up abuse at Fox News.
More than 60,000 UltraViolet members have signed onto a petition calling on advertisers to the O'Reilly Factor and Fox News to cut ties with the network over the lack of accountability for sex crimes.
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Auto Care Association responds to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Massachusetts telematics November ballot question
A vote in favor of Question 1 would give Massachusetts vehicle owners the ability to access their mechanical data and to provide authorization to share that data with their independent repair shops.
Representatives from the Auto Care Association and its membership met with James Owens, deputy administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), on Friday, July 24, to discuss the data access referendum that will be included as "Question 1" on the ballot for Massachusetts voters this November. A vote in favor of Question 1 would give Massachusetts vehicle owners the ability to access their mechanical data and to provide authorization to share that data with their independent repair shops. The meeting focused on a July 20 letter the NHTSA sent to Massachusetts state legislators echoing the contention of the automakers that access to data by vehicle owners would create cyber security concerns.
Auto Care President and CEO Bill Hanvey took issue with the agency releasing the letter without first approaching the association to address its concerns. "We would have preferred to have the opportunity to present information on how data can be safely and securely transmitted between a vehicle and the owner before your letter was released," said Hanvey. Hanvey further stated that the NHTSA's letter was being used by the vehicle manufacturers to unnecessarily scare Massachusetts voters from supporting Question 1.
During the meeting with NHTSA, Auto Care representatives discussed the importance of data access to ensure car owners continue to have choices in where they have their vehicle repaired, Auto Care cyber security and diagnostic tool experts shared how data can be shared cyber-securely—pointing out that industry standards developed by vehicle engineers around the world are already in place that would permit owners to control access to their mechanical data. "These standards not only ensure mechanical data can be controlled by owners, but they provide significant protections for critical vehicle safety systems from improper intrusions," said Hanvey.
Owens thanked the association and its members for the detailed discussion of the cybersecurity issue and declared that the NHTSA supports right to repair and the need for owner's access to data. Owens further offered to work with the association to develop a better understanding of the measures being proposed by the Auto Care Association in order to permit the secure transmission of data.
"We look forward to continuing discussions with the NHTSA on the need for competition in the vehicle repair industry and the Auto Care Association is confident that NHTSA will recognize the extensive work being done by expert engineers globally so that vehicle owners can control the mechanical data being transmitted by their vehicle," said Hanvey.
For more information about the Massachusetts Right to Repair referendum, please visit the Auto Care Association's Right to Repair webpage or contact Aaron Lowe, senior vice president, government and regulatory affairs, Auto Care Association, at aaron.lowe@autocare.org.
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← For Whom The Bell Tolls (Best Picture Also-Ran 1943)
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Born Yesterday (Best Picture Also-Ran (1950)
Directed by George Cukor
Screenplay by Albert Mannheimer, from the play by Garson Kanin
Starring Judy Holiday, William Holden and Broderick Crawford
It was only a few short weeks ago I mentioned the sorta-coincidence of doing back-to-back entries in this series on Best Picture losers starring William Holden. I also speculated it was likely we'd soon see another, given Holden starred in a good number of Best Picture losers in the 1950s. Well, whaddaya know – my prediction came true![1] Meaning we've now gone three-out-of-four with Best Picture losers starring William Holden.
So here, I give you Born Yesterday.
Coming out in 1950, Born Yesterday was at the leading edge of William Holden's golden years, right there with Sunset Boulevard. One of those films is an all-time classic and if it had won Best Picture, it would have been one of the five best Best Pictures. Unfortunately, Sunset Boulevard is just sour enough to get it in the race, but will never win. As for the other, Born Yesterday? While enjoyable it's just too slight to actually have a shot at winning.[2]
Either way, those two films would kick off the 1950s well for Holden and by the end of the decade he'd win an Oscar for Best Actor in Stalag 17, star in Best Picture 1957, Bridge on the River Kwai, and go on a hot-streak almost unrivaled.
Yes, the 1950s were a heady time to be William Holden.
But, just as every man has his golden years, every man must also endure a fall. Once the 1950s became the 1960s, Holden's relevancy waned. Sure, he could occasionally find his way into something great – The Wild Bunch and Network in particular – and would win other awards – an Emmy in 1974 – but he'd still end up the man who'd slip on a rug while drinking, hit his head on a bedside table, and bleed to death, his body undiscovered for four days.
An undignified way to go out if there ever was one for somebody of his stature.
Of course, his undignified death was sapped of some of its indignity when it was immortalized in Suzanne Vega's song, Tom's Diner, which would then become the 'Mother of the MP3.' So, in one way William Holden's death was undignified, but in another way it was historic.
Holden and Holliday
Harry (Broderick Crawford) is a crass, blustery, but often brutal junkyard impresario. His best, only gal is Billie (Judy Holliday), a former chorus girl who's also a bit crass, and dim. On an extended stay in Washington D.C., where Harry has come to buy a congressman, he pays a journalist, Paul (William Holden), to tutor Billie and make her more palatable to D.C. society. Inevitably, Billie proves intellectually curious, and smarter than she lets on. Also inevitably, Billie realized she has no need for Harry, falls for Paul, and follows her bliss.
In short, Born Yesterday is a romantic-comedy about a battered woman who betters herself and finds the courage to leave her abuser.
This is not a plot-heavy film – crass asshole buys education for his dim-bulb gal, only to have her wise up and run off with the teacher – and is more about the characters than anything else. And none of the three leads are really supporting players, given each gets roughly-equal screen time, and have similar coverage of their backstories, which is minimal. Just enough to give you the idea of where they're from, and maybe why they do what they do. Given it's basically a three-hander, the film lives and dies on the three leads, and on their chemistry.
Despite the equality of screen time, Holden is the de facto star, by virtue of not playing the villains role, and by virtue of being young, handsome and charming. And in his part his acquits himself well. He's got timing, he's got comic instincts, and he's just enough of a smart-ass to appeal to the kids. He does his William Holden thing and does it well and that's all we really need to say.
Despite Holden being the star, the film is really about Holliday. After all, the arc of the film is her arc, it's she who changes, and it's around her story that the other guys orbit.[3] Fortunately, she is delightful. Yes, she's got a voice in the film like Lena Lamont from Singing In The Rain, which my wife absolutely hated – hated the voice, not Singing in the Rain – but if there's anything you can complain about, that's it. And it's not as if the voice is intrusive. Holliday is not big and blowsy with it, rather she's small and modulated, almost internal. She basically goes big by being small. Using it gentle comic effect, not as a bludgeon. Better, if you're familiar with her actual speaking voice you know that her voice in the movie was part of the whole performance.
Delightful as Holliday is, her performance is always going to be viewed poorly by some because of who she beat to win Best Actress for it. After all, she took the prize over iconic performances from Baxter and Bette Davis in All About Eve, and Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard, all three of whom are a murderer's-row of toxic performances and justify 60+ years of clapping-back that followed. But while I genuinely prefer Swanson to Holliday, you can see why she might have won. After all, Davis and Baxter cancel one-another out, splitting the All About Eve vote, who cancel Swanson out in the Eve v. Boulevard vote. Leaving Judy Holliday standing alone, winning with what might have been the lowest vote totals ever received for a Best Actress win.[4] All that said, I don't begrudge her victory – I enjoyed her in the film, was genuinely tickled by her performance, and can't make much of an argument as to how she didn't give an award-worthy performance.
Interestingly, for being a film from the 1950s – or rather, the end of the 1940s – Born Yesterday is very much woke in terms of its gender politics. Well, relatively woke. After all, where the Crawford character seems to believe a woman can be hit to get her to behave, when you're not buying her trinkets to control her, and where educating her is dangerous, the film explicitly demonstrates not only is he an uncouth asshole, it shows that a woman's education is positive. It makes her alive to the notion that she is her own person, with her own choices, and agency, and not merely a trinket. Some men might find that a disgusting thought – I'm looking squarely at you, Men's Rights Advocates – but the film sees it as a virtue. And given that all but the most backward among us have moved in that direction as well, I guess we all agree on that now.
In some ways I watched this film through the lens of current politics, with Crawford's character the physical manifestation of Donald Trump – an uncouth bully – as well as the embodiment of the Republican Party. After all, both seem intent on limiting access to education, and limiting women's rights, knowing full well that most educated people, and women, prefer the Democrat over a Republican. So, rather than be better for the people and actually win their vote, they'd rather just stop the people voting altogether.
Broderick Crawford is the not-so-good of the film. Rather than give a good performance, perfectly crafted for this film, he simply falls back on his persona of being the blustering, crass bully – in short, he Broderick-Crawford's all over the place. The problem? While the others are starring in Born Yesterday, he's in Willie Stark Goes To Washington. Sure, that shtick might've won him the Oscar the year before in All The King's Men, but here it just clangs and is all the proof you need that the difference between a great performance from Crawford, and a lousy one, is more about the film than him. Match the film to his skillset – which is limited – and the film sings. Get that wrong and it's a stinker. What he needed for Born Yesterday was a slight twist on what he's good at. Sure, he can still go ahead and be crass and blustering, but he also needs to be the oaf. There's simply too much danger in what he does, too much violence, and not enough buffoonery, that puts him completely at odds with the rest of the film.
Also not so good is the love story between Holden and Holliday. Yes, they have chemistry, and attraction – that is undeniable. When they are on screen together, looking at one another, you believe it. It doesn't appear as performance at all, but genuine attraction. You see them actually succumbing to each other's charms. But, while the attraction is undeniable, and you believe they are falling in love, the actual falling in love is rushed. That part doesn't feel real at all.
Aside from that, the ending is ridiculously pat and sort of screams to an out-of-nowhere resolution, not because the story called for that resolution, but because the film seem had reached the 95 minute mark and decided it was long enough and just needed to end.
You Gotta See It
Despite taking the time to kick Broderick Crawford for what is at heart a lousy performance, I will give props to the best scene in the movie, in which he and Holliday just kill it. Tellingly, it's a scene where Crawford doesn't have a ton of dialog, nor does he have to stomp around and bluster and be a loudmouth. No, it's a game of gin-rummy between just the two of them, shot basically as an unbroken medium shot between the two of them over the table.
What makes the scene lovely are various things:
We're told all along that Holliday's character is a bit of a dim-bulb. And if the characters don't outright say it – why else would she need a tutor if not for being a dim-bulb – then we get the gist from her voice, which is purposely low-class. However, the gin-rummy game, and the way she just whomps Crawford, quick and decisively, then stands up for herself in the quietest possible way at the end, shows that despite all the dim-bulb talk, she's a whole helluva lot brighter than we gave her credit for.
The timing between Crawford and Holliday is impeccable. The way they move in unison, or in a perfect push and pull, is fantastic. There's no telling how many times they had to rehearse it to get it right, but however many times it was, it was worth it. Despite being composed largely of one long, unbroken shot, from a static camera, the scene cooks because there's so much going on. There's the testing of the dynamic between them, there's the humor, there's the upending of our expectations. And it's not just this scene where they show their timing with each other, as if the perfection in that scene was accidental, because later on when they're having an argument, and a maid keeps walking through, they stop and start perfectly with each closing/opening of the door, the same way people would if they were actually having an argument.
Finally, their reactions are what makes this scene work. The way annoyance on Crawford's face every time Holliday goes into the lengthy adjustment of her cards. His reactions every time she declares gin. The way he…look, if he's lousy in the rest of the film, he's priceless here, and probably because it's the only time he's really reined in a bit, and his bigness is brought down to earth.
If you want proof of the magic of the scene, go see it for yourself – search Youtube for "Gin Rummy Born Yesterday" and it'll be there.
One Trope to Rule Them All
It's become a thing in Hollywood to have the smart, nerdy girl made over into a beauty by doing nothing more than removing her glasses and letting her hair down so the beautiful swan fly. See She's All That, The Princess Diaries, etc.
Well, in Born Yesterday we got the demonstration of the obvious natural implication of that, which is when you have the beautiful girl[5] turn smart simply by putting on her glasses.
Ayn Rand?
Obviously there wasn't really any way Born Yesterday could knowingly predict our political climate, unless somebody involved invented time travel. Which means it was entirely accidental that the movie would have all sorts of relevance to our current president. After all, like that guy, Broderick Crawford plays a crass rich guy who believes he can bully everybody around him to get what he wants. The only resistance? Get smart and say no.
Anyway, what's real interesting to me is in a way the film presents Crawford's character as the villain. The interesting part is the screenwriter Albert Mannheimer – he wrote the film, not the source material – was apparently a disciple of Ayn Rand[6] and in that way, Crawford plays the perfect embodiment of acting in one's own self-interest at every turn. Like Donald Trump. So rather than being the villain, he should have been the hero, perfectly putting into action that whole Randian philosophy. One can only assume the reason he is the villain is because some meddling liberals mucked it up.
Better Then Best?
All About Eve won Best Picture 1950 – a fine film that some find fantastic. There are certainly parts I enjoy, such as George Sanders, and parts I don't, which is most of the stuff involved Ann Baxter. On the whole, it's fine and that's it. Is Born Yesterday better? I don't know. And it really doesn't matter because in the 1950 Best Picture race I actually prefer two other nominated films – Father of the Bride and Sunset Boulevard. And then I also prefer a film not nominated for Best Picture, The Third Man. And when you think about those five films being nominated in just that year, all of them being some level of all-time-great, it really makes you wonder if maybe we shouldn't treat 1950 as being only a step down from the quality of films in the 1939 Best Picture race, which is widely thought the pinnacle of screen achievement in terms of top-to-bottom quality.
I was recently in DC at the National Gallery of Art, so when Holden and Holliday strolled through that I was on the lookout for things I'd just seen myself. It was actually pretty cool to see A Girl With A Watering Can by Renoir go by in the background at one point and thing, "I was just there looking at that same painting." It's funny how movies play different when you've been to where they take place. In point of fact, I watched All The President's Men the day after my return from DC and, having now gotten familiar with the geography of the city, found it a much more fascinating movie experience.
Okay, not so much reading as listening. But check out the episode from the You Must Remember This series, Dead Blondes, on Judy Holiday. It's fantastic.
Please Read/Buy…
Also, don't be afraid to have a look at the thing that inspired this, The Best Picture Project. Or, you could buy the revised, updated version of that project in book form: E-Book or Paperback.
[1] It wasn't much of a prediction, knowing as I did that the Born Yesterday DVD was sitting on my coffee table as part of my to-do list for this project.
[2] Of course, slightness never really stopped musicals from winning, but that's another post for another day.
[3] Despite being about her, and her journey from dumb to not-so-dumb, I'm not sure Born Yesterday would pass the Bechdel Test. After all, I'm not sure we can count her brief chats with maids and the eye-rolling of a congressman's wife as being conversations between named female characters that are not about a man. But if it does pass, it's only just barely.
[4] Obviously, we'll never know the vote totals, as the Academy doesn't release them.
[5] Even if she's blonde, and I'm not into blondes, Holliday is certainly attractive.
[6] So says Wikipedia, which is always unassailable.


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If you are more involved in Amazon's ecosystem than in Google, you can now replace the Google Assistant with Alexa as the default virtual assistant on your Android phone. It will be similar to what Microsoft offered with Cortana app, last year. The feature lets you summon Alexa, instead of built-in Google Assistant, by long pressing the home button.
Step 1: Download and install the Amazon Alexa app from the Google Play store.
Step 2: Set-up the app by logging in your Amazon credentials.
Step 3: Now, head over to phone's Settings> Open Apps > tap on the three dots icon on the top-right corner and select Configure apps/Default Apps.
Depending on the ROM you are using, you can directly search for Assist apps or default apps in the settings search.
Step 4: A new window will open with multiple options, select Assist & Invoice Input> Assist App. A small pop-up will then ask you to Choose Assist App.
Step 5: Once you set Alexa as default assistant, long-press the hardware or software home navigation button, and it will prompt Alexa ready to listen to your voice commands.
Amazon Alexa has made its way to Android phones as an assistant, but its functionality is limited as of now. You can't pull off Maps or make calls using Alexa nor you can summon the AI by calling out its name or squeezing the device.


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Taliban ambush kills 15 Afghan security guards
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban militants killed 15 Afghan guards working for a private U.S. security firm in an ambush in the west of the country on Tuesday, the provincial governor said.
Taliban guerrilla fighters hold their weapons at a secret base in eastern Afghanistan in this February 3, 2007 file photo. Taliban militants killed 15 Afghan guards working for a private U.S. security firm in an ambush in the west of the country on Tuesday, the provincial governor said. REUTERS/Saeed Ali Achakzai/Files
Violence has surged in Afghanistan over the last year, up around 25 percent from 2006, with neither the Taliban insurgents, nor the Afghan government and Western troops gaining any significant advantage.
The Taliban launched the ambush near the town of Bala Boluk in the western province of Farah, killing 15 guards working for the U.S. firm US Protection and Investigations (USPI), said Farah governor Mohauddin Baluch.
Nine guards were wounded and a number were missing after the attack on the main highway that runs from the southern city of Kandahar to the city of Herat in the west. Six Taliban fighters were also killed, Baluch said.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack and said they had abducted 12 security guards, but said only two of their own fighters had been killed.
Elsewhere, U.S.-led coalition forces killed "several" militants in an air strike targeting a Taliban commander in the Kajaki district of Helmand province, in the south of Afghanistan.
Afghan and coalition forces followed up the strike with a search of compounds in the district and killed several more.
Kajaki is the site of the biggest U.S. aid project in southern Afghanistan, to repair a dam and hydro-electric power station built by the United States in the 1970s.
But the Taliban have surrounded a small British force at the dam, preventing large turbines needed to power it from being moved in.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) does not give Taliban casualty figures and the separate coalition force has also recently changed its policy on giving out the number of Taliban it kills, instead saying several were killed.
Reporting by Sharafuddin Sharafyar; Writing by Jon Hemming; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani


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Strangis: Morrow sacrificing for another Cup chance
Thursday, 05.21.2015 / 9:20 PM
Ralph Strangis - Special to NHL.com
I'll tell you a story. It's a good story. Late May 2000; second straight Western Conference Final between the Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche.
The Stars are the defending Stanley Cup champion but needed seven games to get past the Avalanche on the way to winning it. The Avalanche add defenseman Ray Bourque to help them get over the hump. Epic stuff.
Patrick Roy and Ed Belfour; Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg and Milan Hejduk against Mike Modano, Brett Hull, Jere Lehtinen. Sergei Zubov, Derian Hatcher; Sandis Ozolinsh, Adam Foote.
This time Colorado takes a 2-1 series lead with a Game 3 win at home. It's May 20, a day off between games. The Stars have a 21-year-old rookie who wears No. 45; his name is Brenden Morrow. Nobody sees him doing much in the series because he had broken his ankle in Game 1 a few days earlier. The Stars bring him on the trip but leave his gear in Dallas. He ain't a player.
He's in a walking boot. He looks at his teammates getting ready for practice, goes to the trainer and takes off the boot. He jumps up and down on the foot that's broken and says, "See? See? I'm fine; I can go."
Stars trainer Dave Surprenant is leery but relents and tells Morrow to see how he does wearing skates. Only his stuff is in Dallas, so he asks Mike Modano if he can use his.
"My feet are bigger than his, and I remember he wanted to wrap up his ankle pretty good so he needed the extra room," Modano said. "So I gave him my skates and he walked around the room for a few minutes just to see that he could stand up OK."
If the Stars lose Game 4 and go down 3-1, forget it. In those days nobody came back from that.
Dallas flies in the gear, and on May 21 the kid comes to play; he's so jacked up he's banging everything he can, clearing space for linemates Modano and Hull.
Hull scores two goals and Modano gets one in a 4-1 win. Dallas outhits Colorado 37-21. The kid set the tone.
Dallas gets by Colorado in seven games again, but this time the Stars are denied in the Stanley Cup Final by the New Jersey Devils. Jason Arnott scores the Cup-clincher in overtime in Game 6 at Reunion Arena.
Brenden hasn't been back to the Final since. But he's two wins away.
More correctly, what's left of him is two wins away. The Tampa Bay Lightning lead the New York Rangers 2-1 in the best-of-7 Eastern Conference Final with Game 4 at Amalie Arena on Friday (8 p.m. ET; NBCSN, CBC, TVA Sports).
There are pieces of Brenden Morrow strewn all over NHL rinks across North America, mostly in the West. I know because I saw when the pieces fell. Bone and cartilage have been sacrificed to the game, and the blood has long since been scraped and cleaned from playing surfaces and boards, with the rest down the drain with the melting ice.
Blessed with the speed of a bottom-six grinder and the hands of a rock hauler, Morrow, despite his first-round draft pedigree, is the classic overachiever.
"He's one guy that certainly got the most out of what he was given," Modano said. "He had an understanding, even at an early age, of how he needed to play the game."
How Morrow played it was classic north/south. Straight lines. Go to the tough spots. Take the beatings. Give as good as he got.
And he picked up a trick from that Colorado series that he still rolls out 15 years later.
"I saw Peter Forsberg use his body to block the puck and then buck back into the defender to get separation," Morrow said. "I was afraid to try it for a while. But once I figured out how to do it, I did it as often as I could."
"The Reversal" -- what we called it on Stars broadcasts -- caught defenders unaware and gave Morrow the half step he needed to get to scoring areas. But times are changing.
"I pulled it out the other night against the Rangers and I got a penalty for it," he said. "So maybe I'll have to change my tactics."
Ironically, it was that move that caused severe knee damage in 2006. Like a lot of the injuries for Morrow through the years, it was self-inflicted. Some were the result of the hundreds of collisions and became chronic issues.
"I remember seeing him stretched out in traction in the mornings to give his neck and back relief so he could get out there for the game," Modano said. "What he battled through every year was unbelievable."
Other injuries just happened, like the time Radim Vrbata's skate slashed through Morrow's wrist Dec. 26, 2007. He missed the next three months but returned in time for a memorable 2008 playoffs.
"He was unstoppable in every aspect of the game," said Drew Remenda, then a TV analyst for the San Jose Sharks, who the Stars played in the second round. "In a series loaded with big stars he was the one that took it. He physically led the way, emotionally led the way, and scored the biggest goals a guy could score."
Morrow scored five goals in the series, including two in overtime. His series-winning goal in the fourth overtime of Game 6 in front of the home crowd resonates as one of the Stars' top moments.
And all you need to know about Brenden Morrow you can get from reading that score sheet: 51 minutes played, 19 hits, and the goal that sent the Stars to the Western Conference Final.
As the play-by-play guy it was my great fortune to put the exclamation point on it as confetti fell from the rafters. "Who else?!" I yelled into the mic with the celebration underway.
Morrow is on another extended playoff run with a contending team and playing for a coach he trusts, who trusts him, and with players he calls some of the best teammates he's had.
"That 'Triplets' line [Nikita Kucherov, Tyler Johnson, Ondrej Palat] might be the best line I've ever seen," Morrow said. "And our defense is big and smart. Our goalie [Ben Bishop] is terrific. And I know what my role is here. I'm having a lot of fun."
It isn't 2008 and he isn't counted on to lead the charge. His minutes are down and he hasn't scored. But he's still out there. Don't ever count him out.
"He's a warrior," Modano said. "And if I was going to battle I'd still want him with me."
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That's what I thought as I walked into Spartan Strong, a new group exercise class inspired by obstacle-course events like the Spartan Race, in which you crawl through foot-deep mud under barbed wire, dangle hand-over-hand on monkey-bar ladders, and climb over 10-foot wood plank walls — all with the help of your friends, who must push, coax and carry you through it.
People often cite human connection as what they like most about these extreme events and what brings them back.
So, I wondered with a great deal of skepticism, how exactly were we going to replicate all that in a sterile indoor workout room at a glitzy health club? Smear our faces with mud and do human pyramids and piggyback rides?
I walked out 55 minutes later having done none of those things, but was impressed — with a lung-heaving challenge, a fast pace that made it seem to fly by in 15 minutes, and a strangely effective bonding/teamwork experience that left everyone feeling invincible.
It starts off kinda corny.
"Spartans," exclaims a male instructor. "Spartans," he shouts again. On the third floor of the gargantuan Life Time Athletic fitness resort in Laguna Niguel, where the toilets smell like cinnamon and windows overlook a palm-tree-framed, multi-pool complex that evokes a Tahitian resort, I'm suddenly being barked at by someone who seems to be channeling a drill instructor.
"But first, you must learn the fabled Spartan warrior cry. Ah-Roo," he screams. We look at each other and weakly ah-roo him back. But, I admit: By the third ah-roo, we were into it and ready for the warmup.
Quasi-martial-toned disco music kicks in. We shuffle side to side. We squat deep. We crawl forward on all fours, like bears. Then we crab walk, also moving on all fours, this time with our chest facing the ceiling. It's work. Heart rate and respiration jump.
This is where the magic is.
A pancake, the only fitness implement in the otherwise empty room, is a floppy, 10- or 15-pound neoprene disc filled with sand. We each pick one up. And using one hand or two, we do the same exercises as before, but while carrying and dragging the pancake and raising it overhead and slamming it to the ground.
"Now pick a partner," he barks. For the next two minutes, we alternate doing various exercises and relay races while holding the pancake and passing it off to our partner. At the end of this segment, we are left sitting while facing each other.
"Now give a high five with your foot," he yells. It seems so silly. Then my partner and I do it, slapping our soles together as we would our palms. And at that moment, a wondrous moment that I will not forget, we both exploded with huge, beaming smiles and a rush of joy that bordered on euphoria.
Doing a burpee (squat down, then do a push-up, then get back up and leap with hands overhead) is hard. Doing a burpee while holding a 15-pound sand pancake in one hand is a lot harder. Doing a burpee with a pancake after you've raced across the floor at full-speed to keep your team ahead of the team next door takes you to the limit.
I pride myself in not slowing down and never stopping. But on the fifth or six round of sandbag-burpee relays, I've had it. But at least you get rest as your partner does her round.
Otherwise, the pace was relentless.
There is no built-in rest on the individual exercises. We put the sandbags on our shoulders and move forward and side to side like we are auditioning for the chorus line of "Riverdance." We do deltoid flys and push-ups with a chest-touch while holding the bag. We hold the bag out at arm's length and move it in front of our bodies in a figure eight.
Hardly anyone, me included, can get through them for a full minute without stopping.
Teamwork exercises, designed to evoke the "accountability phase" of a Spartan race (those moments when you support one another), are alternated with individual exercises throughout the workout. They provide a fun, motivating break and add coordination and twisting motions while still keeping you sweating.
Near the end, we broke the whole class into two seated rows and did pancake-passing races. Ten people sat should-to-shoulder cross-legged on the floor, turning to the right to grab a pancake and to the left to pass it on, one after another. It was so simple that we could have been 5-year-olds at summer camp, yet it was so intense and competitive that you would have thought it was the Dallas Cowboys versus the Green Bay Packers.
When it was over, it seemed that Spartan Strong had met its goal.
There wasn't a speck of mud or a wooden log in sight, or any bruises and cuts to brag about. And there was no exchange of names with your partners, but you experienced a connection that made the workout fly by. Slapping a high-five with my foot ranks as one of the silliest things I've done in a while, but it was a cool bonding experience you don't often get in normal life or normal workouts. Like in an obstacle race.
Cost: Membership starts at $159 a month.


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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Bid for Arkansas Governor Endorsed by Maggie's List
Maggie's List, a political action committee promoting the election of conservative women to government posts, has officially endorsed former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders's bid to become governor of Arkansas.
The group also issued endorsements for other Republican women vying for office in 2022.
"Sarah Huckabee Sanders served as White House Press Secretary for President Donald J. Trump from 2017 to 2019," the group said on its website. "A trusted confidant of the president, Sarah advised him on everything from press and communications strategy to personnel and policy.
"For two and a half years, Sarah worked closely with the president, battling with the media, working with lawmakers and CEOs, and accompanying the president on every foreign trip, including dozens of meetings with foreign leaders. Sarah is only the third woman – and the very first mom – to ever hold the job of White House press secretary."
In a statement to The Hill, Maggie's List national spokesperson Jennifer Carroll said, "Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a proven leader who will bring so much to the governor's office of Arkansas. Her relentless work ethic, along with her fiscal conservatism and advocacy for Arkansas families, make her the right individual to serve as governor."
According to The Hill, Maggie's List also endorsed Reps. Kay Granger, R-Texas, Ann Wagner, R-Mo., and Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., for reelection. In addition, it endorsed Florida Republican House candidate Amanda Makki, who is running in the state's 13th congressional district.
"Supporting and reelecting these outstanding women to Congress will not only help take back the House but they will also safeguard and continue to promote our values of fiscal conservatism, less government, more personal responsibility, and a strong national security," Carroll said.
The Hill noted that the Arkansas GOP primary will likely emerge as one of the most watched races of the 2022 election cycle. Sanders is facing Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, the first woman and Republican to hold the position.
The Sanders' campaign had raised $9 million, officials said in July.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/huckabee-sanders-maggies-list-endorsement-governor/2021/09/09/id/1035742/


In order to comply with Europe's anti-trust ruling, Google had announced that it would promote its users in Europe about other web browsers and search engines. This will be handled by Google Play and now the version 14.3.18 of the Play Store this morning contains several strings related to the "further updates" that the company is implementing in Android after feedback from the European Commission.
The company says that it will do more to ensure that Android phone owners know about the wide choice of browsers and search engines available to download on their smartphones. It will ask existing users which browser and search engine they would like to use.
Google Play will be responsible for prompting users about additional web browsers and search services and is expected to show Google Chrome along with Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and Opera. For the search engine, along with Google Search, it is also expected to show DuckDuckGo and Bing.
The development comes after Mountain View-based tech giant made the change following regulatory action last year. The European Commission slapped Google with a record-setting $6.68 billion fine for violating antitrust laws with the way it bundled apps like Chrome and Google Search into Android.
Google's initial response was to start charging manufacturers licensing fees for the Play Store and other apps while offering to include Chrome and the Google search app for free. However, SVP of global affairs Kent Walker said that the company will offer a direct choice of services.
With the new version update, the prompt dialogue box will show the apps already installed on the phone and will help set up the new device. While the exact implementation of this is not yet known, both — existing as well as new users of Android should be prompted in the coming weeks for selection.


BOSTON—Hospitality Asset Managers Association (HAMA) has revealed the results of a multi-year study that demonstrates that revenue acquisition costs outpaced hotel revenue growth from 2009 through 2012. The results were presented in "The Rising Costs of Customer Acquisition," a white paper commissioned in late 2013.
The white paper includes an analysis of the financial results of 104 upper-upscale and luxury managed properties with brand affiliations in the U.S. and Canada. According to the association, it specifically looks at both the external costs of brand allocations (for marketing, advertising, major promotions, national and global sales offices and loyalty programs) and third party commissions (for group and transient bookings), as well as the internal costs of marketing and sales programs, including local marketing, sales staffing and other expenses, including reservations staff.
From 2009 to 2012, the room revenue of this group increased by 23%, almost 7% compounded annually; the cost of customer acquisition from 2009 through 2012 grew almost as quickly as revenue, at just under 23%, according to the company.
The study also found that while total customer acquisition costs rose by 23%, brand allocations grew by 37% and third-party commissions by 34%. Meanwhile, local property marketing (including property specific Internet and paid search) increased by only 6%, or less than 2% per year.
Other findings include the following, according to the association: As a result of the disproportionate growth of external marketing and sales costs, properties now control less of their marketing spend (44% versus 49% in 2009); For the top 10 brands included in this study, cost increases during the three years ranged from a low of 10% to a high of 72%; and room revenue of franchised properties grew by just under 22% during the 2009-2012 time frame, but their total acquisition costs rose by almost 27%, driven by increases in commissions of 48% and brand allocations of 36% and mitigated by on-property spend of only 15%.


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Q: Can I configure my Linux system for more aggressive file system caching? I am neither concerned about RAM usage (as I've got enough) nor about losing data in case of an accidental shut-down (as my power is backed, the system is reliable and the data are not critical). But I do a lot of file processing and could use some performance boost.
That's why I'd like to set the system up to use more RAM for file system read and write caching, to prefetch files aggressively (e.g. read-ahead the whole file accessed by an application in case the file is of sane size or at least read-ahead a big chunk of it otherwise) and to flush writing buffers less frequently. How to achieve this (may it be possible)?
I use ext3 and ntfs (I use ntfs a lot!) file systems with XUbuntu 11.10 x86.

A: Read ahead:
On 32 bit systems:
blockdev --setra 8388607 /dev/sda

On 64 bit systems:
blockdev --setra 4294967295 /dev/sda

Write behind cache:
echo 90 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio # too high rates can cause crash

This will use up to 90% of your free memory as write cache.
Or you can go all out and use tmpfs. This is only relevant if you have RAM enough. Put this in /etc/fstab. Replace 50% with the amount of your choose. It is always the percent of your whole RAM. Also 8G works as 8GB and 3M as 3MB
tmpfs /mnt/tmpfs tmpfs size=50%,rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0 # you can do that with more things, as the /tmp folder. The 50% can be replaced with 4G, 5G... 50% is the half of the whole ram. Also higher values work because it will go into swap

Then:
mkdir /mnt/tmpfs; mount -a

Then use /mnt/tmpfs.

A: You can set the read-ahead size with blockdev --setra sectors /dev/sda1, where sectors is the size you want in 512 byte sectors.

A: Not related to write caching, but related to writes:

*

*For an ext4 system, you could disable journaling entirely
This will reduce the number of disk writes for any particular update, but may leave the filesystem is an inconsistent state after an unexpected shutdown, requiring an fsck or worse.
To stop disk reads from triggering disk writes:

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*Mount with the relatime or the noatime option
When you read a file, the "last accessed time" metadata for that file is usually updated.  The noatime option will disable that behaviour.  This reduces unnecessary disk writes, but you will no longer have that metadata.  Some distributions (e.g. Manjaro) have adopted this as the default on all partitions (probably to increase the lifespan of earlier model SSDs).
relatime updates the access time less frequently, according to heuristics that help to support applications which do use the atime.  This is the default on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Other options:

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*In the comments above, Mikko shared the possibility of mounting with the nobarrier option.  But Ivailo quoted RedHat who caution against it.  How badly do you want that extra 3%?

A: My killer setting is very simple and very effective:
echo "2000" > /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure

The explanation from kernel documentation:

vfs_cache_pressure
Controls the tendency of the kernel to reclaim the memory which is
  used for caching of directory and inode objects.
At the default value of vfs_cache_pressure=100 the kernel will attempt
  to reclaim dentries and inodes at a "fair" rate with respect to
  pagecache and swapcache reclaim.  Decreasing vfs_cache_pressure causes
  the kernel to prefer to retain dentry and inode caches. When
  vfs_cache_pressure=0, the kernel will never reclaim dentries and
  inodes due to memory pressure and this can easily lead to
  out-of-memory conditions. Increasing vfs_cache_pressure beyond 100
  causes the kernel to prefer to reclaim dentries and inodes.

vfs_cache_pressure at 2000 causes that most of computing happens in the RAM
and very late disk writes.

A: Firstly, I DO NOT recommend you continue using NTFS, as ntfs implemention in Linux would be performance and security trouble at any time.
There are several things you can do:

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*use some newer fs such as ext4 or btrfs

*try to change your io scheduler, for example bfq

*turn off swap

*use some automatic preloader like preload

*use something like systemd to preload while booting

*... and something more

Maybe you want to give it a try :-)

A: Improving disk cache performance in general is more than just increasing the file system cache size unless your whole system fits in RAM in which case you should use RAM drive (tmpfs is good because it allows falling back to disk if you need the RAM in some case) for runtime storage (and perhaps an initrd script to copy system from storage to RAM drive at startup).
You didn't tell if your storage device is SSD or HDD. Here's what I've found to work for me (in my case sda is a HDD mounted at /home and sdb is SSD mounted at /).
First optimize the load-stuff-from-storage-to-cache part:
Here's my setup for HDD (make sure AHCI+NCQ is enabled in BIOS if you have toggles):
    echo cfq > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
    echo 10000 > /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/fifo_expire_async
    echo 250 > /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/fifo_expire_sync
    echo 80 > /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/slice_async
    echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/low_latency
    echo 6 > /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/quantum
    echo 5 > /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/slice_async_rq
    echo 3 > /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/slice_idle
    echo 100 > /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/slice_sync
    hdparm -q -M 254 /dev/sda

Worth noting for the HDD case is high fifo_expire_async (usually write) and long slice_sync to allow a single process to get high throughput (set slice_sync to lower number if you hit situations where multiple processes are waiting for some data from the disk in parallel). The slice_idle is always a compromise for HDDs but setting it somewhere in range 3-20 should be okay depending on disk usage and disk firmware. I prefer to target for low values but setting it too low will destroy your throughput. The quantum setting seems to affect throughput a lot but try to keep this as low as possible to keep latency on sensible level. Setting quantum too low will destroy throughput. Values in range 3-8 seem to work well with HDDs. The worst case latency for a read is (quantum * slice_sync) + (slice_async_rq * slice_async) ms if I've understood the kernel behavior correctly. The async is mostly used by writes and since you're willing to delay writing to disk, set both slice_async_rq and slice_async to very low numbers. However, setting slice_async_rq too low value may stall reads because writes cannot be delayed after reads any more. My config will try to write data to disk at most after 10 seconds after data has been passed to kernel but since you can tolerate loss of data on power loss also set fifo_expire_async to 3600000 to tell that 1 hour is okay for the delay to disk. Just keep the slice_async low, though, because otherwise you can get high read latency.
The hdparm command is required to prevent AAM from killing much of the performance that AHCI+NCQ allows. If your disk makes too much noise, then skip this.
Here's my setup for SSD (Intel 320 series):
    echo cfq > /sys/block/sdb/queue/scheduler
    echo 1 > /sys/block/sdb/queue/iosched/back_seek_penalty
    echo 10000 > /sys/block/sdb/queue/iosched/fifo_expire_async
    echo 20 > /sys/block/sdb/queue/iosched/fifo_expire_sync
    echo 1 > /sys/block/sdb/queue/iosched/low_latency
    echo 6 > /sys/block/sdb/queue/iosched/quantum
    echo 2 > /sys/block/sdb/queue/iosched/slice_async
    echo 10 > /sys/block/sdb/queue/iosched/slice_async_rq
    echo 1 > /sys/block/sdb/queue/iosched/slice_idle
    echo 20 > /sys/block/sdb/queue/iosched/slice_sync

Here it's worth noting the low values for different slice settings. The most important setting for an SSD is slice_idle which must be set to 0-1. Setting it to zero moves all ordering decisions to native NCQ while setting it to 1 allows kernel to order requests (but if the NCQ is active, the hardware may override kernel ordering partially). Test both values to see if you can see the difference. For Intel 320 series, it seems that setting slide_idle to 0 gives the best throughput but setting it to 1 gives best (lowest) overall latency. If you have recent enough kernel, you can use slide_idle_us to set the value in microseconds instead of milliseconds and you could use something like echo 14 > slice_idle_us instead. Suitable value seems to be close to 700000 divided by max practical IOPS your storage device can support so 14 is okay for pretty fast SSD devices.
For more information about these tunables, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt .
Update in year 2020 and kernel version 5.3 (cfq is dead):
#!/bin/bash
modprobe bfq
for d in /sys/block/sd?; do
  # HDD (tuned for Seagate SMR drive)
  echo bfq >"$d/queue/scheduler"
  echo 4 >"$d/queue/nr_requests"
  echo 32000 >"$d/queue/iosched/back_seek_max"
  echo 3 >"$d/queue/iosched/back_seek_penalty"
  echo 80 >"$d/queue/iosched/fifo_expire_sync"
  echo 1000 >"$d/queue/iosched/fifo_expire_async"
  echo 5300 >"$d/queue/iosched/slice_idle_us"
  echo 1 >"$d/queue/iosched/low_latency"
  echo 200 >"$d/queue/iosched/timeout_sync"
  echo 0 >"$d/queue/iosched/max_budget"
  echo 1 >"$d/queue/iosched/strict_guarantees"

  # additional tweaks for SSD (tuned for Samsung EVO 850):
  if test $(cat "$d/queue/rotational") = "0"; then
    echo 36 >"$d/queue/nr_requests"
    echo 1 >"$d/queue/iosched/back_seek_penalty"
    # slice_idle_us should be ~ 0.7/IOPS in µs
    echo 16 >"$d/queue/iosched/slice_idle_us"
    echo 10 >"$d/queue/iosched/fifo_expire_sync"
    echo 250 >"$d/queue/iosched/fifo_expire_async"
    echo 10 >"$d/queue/iosched/timeout_sync"
    echo 0 >"$d/queue/iosched/strict_guarantees"
  fi
done

The setup is pretty similar but I now use bfq instead of cfq because the latter is not available with modern kernels. I try to keep nr_requests as low as possible to allow bfq to control the scheduling more accurately. At least Samsung SSD drives seem to require a pretty deep queue to be able to run with high IOPS. Update: Many Samsung SSDs have a firmware bug and can hang the whole device if nr_requests is too high and OS submits lots of requests rapidly. I've seen random freeze about once every 2 months if I use high nr_requests (e.g. 32 or 36), but the value 6 has been stable this far. The official fix is to set it to 1 but it hurts the performance a lot! For more details, see https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203475 and https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201693 – basically, if you have a Samsung SSD device and see failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED in the kernel log, you've been bitten by this bug.
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 with kernel package linux-lowlatency-hwe-18.04-edge which has bfq only as a module so I need to load it before being able to switch to it.
I also nowadays also use zram but I only use 5% of RAM for zram. This allows Linux kernel to use swapping related logic without touching the disks. However, if you decide to go with zero disk swap, make sure your apps do not leak RAM or you're wasting money.
Now that we have configured kernel to load stuff from disk to cache with sensible performance, it's time to adjust the cache behavior:
According to benchmarks I've done, I wouldn't bother setting read ahead via blockdev at all. Kernel default settings are fine.
Set system to prefer swapping file data over application code (this does not matter if you have enough RAM to keep whole filesystem and all the application code and all virtual memory allocated by applications in RAM). This reduces latency for swapping between different applications over latency for accessing big files from a single application:
echo 15 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

If you prefer to keep applications nearly always in RAM you could set this to 1. If you set this to zero, kernel will not swap at all unless absolutely necessary to avoid OOM. If you were memory limited and working with big files (e.g. HD video editing), then it might make sense to set this close to 100.
I nowadays (2017) prefer to have no swap at all if you have enough RAM. Having no swap will usually lose 200-1000 MB of RAM on long running desktop machine. I'm willing to sacrifice that much to avoid worst case scenario latency (swapping application code in when RAM is full). In practice, this means that I prefer OOM Killer to swapping. If you allow/need swapping, you might want to increase /proc/sys/vm/watermark_scale_factor, too, to avoid some latency. I would suggest values between 100 and 500. You can consider this setting as trading CPU usage for lower swap latency. The default is 10 and the maximum possible is 1000. Higher value should (according to kernel documentation) result in higher CPU usage for kswapd processes and lower overall swapping latency.
Next, tell kernel to prefer keeping directory hierarchy in memory over file contents and the rest of the page cache in case some RAM needs to be freed (again, if everything fits in RAM, this setting does nothing):
echo 10 > /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure

Setting vfs_cache_pressure to a low value makes sense because in most cases, the kernel needs to know the directory structure and other
filesystem metadata before it can use file contents from the cache and flushing the directory cache too soon will make the file cache next to worthless. However, page cache contains also other data but just the file contents so this setting should be considered like the overall importance of metadata caching vs rest of the system. Consider going all the way down to 1 with this setting if you have lots of small files (my system has around 150K 10 megapixel photos and counts as a "lots of small files" system). Never set it to zero or the directory structure is always kept in memory even if the system runs out of memory. Setting this to a big value is sensible only if you have only a few big files that are constantly being re-read (again, HD video editing without enough RAM would be an example case). Official kernel documentation says that "increasing vfs_cache_pressure significantly beyond 100 may have negative performance impact".
Year 2021 update: After running with kernel version 5.4 for long enough, I've come to the conclusion that the very low vfs_cache_pressure setting (I used to run with 1 for years) may now be causing long stalls / bad latency when memory pressure gets high enough. However, I never noticed such behavior with kernel version 5.3 or lesser.
Year 2022 update: I've been running kernel 5.4.x series for another year and I've come to the conclusion that vfs_cache_presure has changed permanently. The kernel memory manager behavior that I used to get with kernel version 5.3 or older with values in range 1..5 seems to match real world behavior with 5.4 values in range 100..120. The newer kernels make this adjustment matter more so I'd recommend the value vfs_cache_presure=120 nowadays for low latency overall. Kernel version 5.3 or older should use a very low but non-zero value here in my opinion.
Exception: if you have a truly massive amount of files and directories and you rarely touch/read/list all files setting vfs_cache_pressure higher than 100 may be wise. This only applies if you do not have enough RAM and cannot keep the whole directory structure in RAM and still have enough RAM for normal file cache and processes (e.g. company wide file server with lots of archival content). If you feel that you need to increase vfs_cache_pressure above 100 you're running without enough RAM. Increasing vfs_cache_pressure may help but the only real fix is to get more RAM. Having vfs_cache_pressure set to high number sacrifices average performance for having a more stable performance overall (that is, you can avoid really bad worst case behavior but have to deal with worse overall performance).
Finally tell the kernel to use up to 99% of the RAM as cache for writes and instruct kernel to use up to 50% of RAM before slowing down the process that's writing (default for dirty_background_ratio is 10). Warning: I personally would not do this but you claimed to have enough RAM and are willing to lose the data.
echo 99 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
echo 50 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio

And tell that 1h write delay is ok to even start writing stuff on the disk (again, I would not do this):
echo 360000 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs
echo 360000 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs

For more information about these tunables, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
If you put all of those to /etc/rc.local and include following at the end, everything will be in cache as soon as possible after boot (only do this if your filesystem really fits in the RAM):
(nice find / -type f -and -not -path '/sys/*' -and -not -path '/proc/*' -print0 2>/dev/null | nice ionice -c 3 wc -l --files0-from - > /dev/null)&

Or a bit simpler alternative which might work better (cache only /home and /usr, only do this if your /home and /usr really fit in RAM):
(nice find /home /usr -type f -print0 | nice ionice -c 3 wc -l --files0-from - > /dev/null)&

A: The Le9 patch adds back pressure to clean file pages (disk cache) in Linux. So they don't get removed as quickly when memory runs out.
To load files, others have already pointed to preload.

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Q: find and delete lines without string pattern in text files I'm trying to find out how to use powershell to find and delete lines without certain string pattern in a set of files. For example, I have the following text file:
111111
22x222
333333
44x444
This needs to be turned into:
22x222
44x444
given that the string pattern of 'x' is not in any of the other lines.
How can I issue such a command in powershell to process a bunch of text files?
thanks.

A: dir | foreach { $out = cat $_ | select-string x; $out | set-content $_  }

The dir command lists the files in the current directory; the foreach goes through each file; cat reads the file and pipes into select-string; select-string finds the lines that contains the specific pattern, which in this case is "x"; the result of select-string is stored in $out; and finally, $out is written to the same file with set-content.
We need the temporary variable $out because you cannot read and write the same file at the same time.

A: This will process all txt files from the working directory. Each file content is checked and only lines that have 'x' in them are allowed to pass on. The result is written back to the file.
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Prediction : Arsenal 1 Valencia 0
3rd April 2001 – by Myles Palmer
By Myles Palmer Valencia are strong defensively but this is a good time to play them.Coach Hector Cuper is leaving and it's a Lazio situation. Half the team dont wanna play for a coach who is leaving. So Cuper's having…
Van Bronckhurst coming
By Myles Palmer Dutch midfielder Giovanni Van Bronckhurst will join Arsenal in the summer.He is 26, left footed, a fine technician who can score from 25 yards.Arsenal need that.They don't have enough of that.Obviously this means Petit won't come back.Which…
Keown and Kanu look good
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By Myles Palmer Arsenal 2 Spurs Reserves 0Saturday was K-man day.Keown was back and he was Arsenal's best player, although Ashley Cole was not far behind.Kanu came on as a sub and looked sharp, strong, positive, creative, motivated.Tony Adams missed…
Sven coming back via Las Vegas
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By Myles Palmer Albania 1 Engerland 3 Be lucky, my son! Gary Neville did not appeal on the Albania "goal" that made it 2-2 because he knew the guy was not offside. He just stood there and hoped Rraklli would…
Sven should play split strikers
By Myles Palmer England 2 Finland 1Riihilahti 26,Owen 42, Beckham 49___________________________Spain gave up after 20 minutes.Finland never gave up, but they were unlucky.Campbell, Beckham and Gerrard grew as the game went on and showed a real determination to win it.Macca…
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By Myles Palmer England 2 Finland 1 ____________________ Riihilahti 26,Owen 42, Beckham 49 ___________________________ Spain gave up after 20 minutes. Finland never gave up, but they were unlucky. Campbell, Beckham, Gerrard and Macca grew as the game went…
Robbie Fowler is the marmalade
By Myles Palmer Robbie Fowler is England's Puskas. He is a really, really gifted footballer, on the same level as Gazza or Zidane or Raul. Robbie is 25 now and he is on the way back. He is far more…
Valencia are a Latin Arsenal
By Myles Palmer Valencia is a fabulous draw !Because Valencia are similar to Arsenal. Both teams play technical power football, attacking with pace.Hector Cuper v Arsene Wenger.Always thought Wenger's dynamic style owed something to Menotti as well as Sacchi and…
Arsene's bit of luck was overdue
By Myles Palmer BAYERN MUNICH 1 ARSENAL 0 Elber 10 min. I have seen dozens of boring Champions League games, so it would be an exaggeration to say that last night was the most boring Champions League game I have…
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By Myles Palmer I think Bayern Munich is a door. It's a door that Arsenal have to go through. It's a door that they have to go through to make up for all the other doors that they didn't go…


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Starring: Kim Hyun-Ju, Han Jae-Suk, Kim Ji-Ho, So Ji-Sup
Will Cinderella find her way home? Starring Kim Hyun Ju (Marry Millionaire) and Kim Ji Ho (Law Firm), Glass Slipper tells the story of two long-lost sisters whose fates intertwine in the most surprising of ways. Broadcast in 2002, the drama garnered phenomenal ratings in Korea and won over audiences all around Asia, becoming an instant classic.
Orphaned as children, sisters Yoon Hee (Kim Hyun Ju) and Tae Hee (Kim Ji Ho) encounter one tragedy after another, with only each other for support. On one fateful day, the two lose each other in a crowded market. From that day on, their lives go down starkly different roads. Yoon Hee loses her memory in an accident and gains a new name and life with an adopted family that treats her poorly. Tae Hee is discovered by her wealthy grandfather and goes on to a life of luxury and privilege.
After fifteen years of searching, Tae Hee finally finds her little sister - or so she thinks. Yoon Hee's spoiled and conniving adopted sister Seung Hee (Kim Min Sun) poses as Yoon Hee in order to join the wealthy family, while the true Cinderella remains unaware of her identity. The cheerful and optimistic Yoon Hee, however, is happy with her life, especially with two romantic suitors at her beckoning: the mysterious Jae Hyuk (Han Jae Suk - All About Eve and Four Sisters) and the devoted Chul Woong (So Ji Sub - Something Happened in Bali and Sorry, I Love You). When the two sisters finally meet up, various misunderstandings cause them to become rivals. Will the truth be revealed, and is it enough to save their family? Glass Slipper takes you on an amazing fairy tale journey into the heart of life's most important lessons.
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There is much that borrowers can do to stop repossession. The most important thing is to take action as soon as it becomes clear that there are going to be problems maintaining payments. As soon as payments are missed this will start showing up on credit reports, limiting the options available.
Prepare a proper budget so that they know exactly what they can afford.
Not assume that income will increase over the coming years.
Assume that interest rates will go up.
Make sure that they have read and understood the terms and conditions of the mortgage or loan they are considering.
Many borrowers rely on the advice of mortgage brokers. Brokers make their money through commissions paid when people enter into mortgages that they have recommended. Before signing any document people should make sure they have read and understood it.
Mortgage lenders have a stated responsibility to assist borrowers if they face difficulties with their mortgage. Lenders will often be very accommodating if a borrower is going through real financial problems. Some lenders may even allow a payment holiday – a number of months when a borrower does not have to pay anything. Borrowers should approach their lender as soon as difficulties arise, preferably before payments are missed.
If arrears can be kept beneath a certain level (usually two months' worth of instalments) lenders will generally not pursue a possession order - even once court proceedings have started. If the arrears are lower than the level required when a case comes to court, most lenders will ask for the case to be "adjourned generally with liberty to restore". This means that the case is effectively put to sleep. The lender is entitled to ask for another hearing if the arrears build up again. This can happen repeatedly but costs will be added to the mortgage debt every time the case is re-listed.
If a borrower cannot afford to maintain payments towards their mortgage there is nothing to stop them selling the property themselves. People are often reluctant to sell their home but this is a better option than having it repossessed and sold by the lender. Many lenders will not start repossession proceedings if they know that the borrower is in the process of selling the property.
Once a case comes to court most judges will give borrowers time to sell by granting a possession order for longer than the usual 28 days – a 56-day order is common. Judges may also postpone evictions if satisfied that the borrower is about to sell the property.
The approach of lenders and the courts to borrowers who are re-mortgaging is similar to their approach to borrowers who are selling. Many judges will happily give a borrower more time if they are shown evidence – such as a mortgage offer - that the borrower is in the process of re-mortgaging.
Opening a newspaper or doing a search on the internet will reveal that there are now many companies offering to provide re-mortgages to people who are already in arrears. Naturally these companies will charge a higher interest rate than other lenders. In the current economic climate it is likely that first-time buyers and people with bad credit ratings will find it increasingly difficult to get mortgages.
Taking out a loan to clear the arrears on the mortgage may seem like an easier option than re-mortgaging. However, the borrower will then have to pay the monthly instalments on both the mortgage and the loan. If a borrower obtains a secured loan, and fails to maintain payments, the loan company will be entitled to start repossession proceedings. This is often only a short-term solution.
There are companies who offer to buy properties quickly so that repossession can be avoided. In some instances the borrower may stay in the property as a tenant. Some companies will pay a borrower a lump sum to clear the arrears, help the borrower to sell the property through agents and then take a percentage of the equity when it is sold. Both of these options will result in a borrower selling their home for substantially below the market value.
Borrowers should take action as soon as problems become apparent. This will maximise the options available: the more options available, the greater the likelihood that repossession can be avoided.


Are you ready for Halloween? Haunted houses are popping up all over. My son, daughter and grandson checked out one on Saturday night. Kaden and most boys his age around here are into Zombies right now. As you know I am not a fan of zombies, werewolves, vampires and such scary things but Kaden just loves them. I would have been scared to death but he thinks they are quite funny. As you can see from the picture below he had a very good time.
This Great Escapes Tour stops tomorrow!
she will be my guest for Cozy Wednesday this week!!!
My October Just For Fun Read!
Nancy Coco will be my guest next week for Cozy Wednesday!
I am ready for a good spooky mystery…I impulsively decided to read Dark Witch this week (I downloaded it in January!), so we shall see. Enjoy your week!


Erewash residents will be able to find out next week the candidates standing in May's Borough Council and Parish elections when the names are confirmed on Thursday 4 April.
You can find the list of names on this website as soon as they are announced.
The 2 May elections will see voters elect 47 borough councillors in total and those elected will represent a total of 19 wards across the borough. Erewash has 13 Parish Councils and elections will be held in those parishes – although it is possible that some may be uncontested, in which case an election will not be necessary.
Residents who still need to register to vote can do so easily and quickly online at www.gov.uk/register-to-vote before the deadline of Friday 12 April.


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Health Care Premiums Less Costly Now, Provide More Benefits than Prior to the ACA
By USC Schaeffer Center
Press contact:Stephanie Hedt(213) 821-4555
Editor's Note: This analysis is part of USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative on Health Policy, which is a partnership between Economic Studies at Brookings and the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. The Initiative aims to inform the national health care debate with rigorous, evidence-based analysis leading to practical recommendations using the collaborative strengths of USC and Brookings.
Although news stories have focused on the rise in health care premium costs since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) first took effect two years ago, individual market premiums actually dropped significantly, on average, upon the law's implementation even as consumers got better coverage, according to a new analysis from the Schaeffer Initiative for Innovation in Health Policy published July 22nd in Health Affairs. This trend will hold in 2017, too, even if premiums increase by the 10 or 15 percent rate that some are predicting.
In "Affordable Care Act Premiums are Lower Than You Think," USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy Associate Director Loren Adler and Initiative Director and Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies Paul Ginsburg find that while parts of the law did increase premiums (guaranteed coverage regardless of health; more uniform premium pricing; requiring "essential" benefits; limits on out-of-pocket costs; and elimination of lifetime coverage limits), other parts lowered premiums by more (market expansion due to the mandate and subsidies; getting more healthy customers; creation of transparent marketplaces and competition), netting an overall savings for consumers.
Ginsburg is also director of public policy at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics.
Utilizing Congressional Budget Office (CBO) data, Adler and Ginsburg find that the average annual premium in the individual market in 2009 was $3,480 (or $290 per month), and covered roughly 60 percent of an enrollee's covered health expenses (an actuarial value of 60 percent), whereas the average premium in 2014 for the second-lowest cost silver-level (SLS) marketplace plan was $3,800 according to CBO, only 9 percent higher despite the passage of five years. Adjusting for the difference in actuarial value, this premium was actually lower in nominal dollars than that in 2009.
The analysis further finds that average premiums in 2014 for the SLS marketplace plan were between 10-21 percent lower than average individual market premiums in 2013, before the ACA, even while providing enrollees with significantly richer coverage (17 percent more of an enrollee's over health expenses) and a broader set of benefits.
Moreover, ACA marketplace SLS plan premiums are still lower in 2016 than individual market premiums were in 2013, on average, and are a full 20 percent below what the Congressional Budget Office originally estimated they would be during Congressional debate around the law in 2009.
"Health insurance was expensive before the ACA and continues to be, but the ACA appears to have had a salutary impact on premiums even while providing more robust coverage," they write.
The authors note that some of the recent slower growth in premium costs is the result of the recent larger, system-wide health care spending slowdown, due in part to the slower than expected economic recovery (though growing evidence suggests that the ACA has played some role). But, ACA marketplace premiums have beaten projections by significantly more than other areas of health care spending, implying that the marketplaces have been particularly effective in driving down premiums.
Adler and Ginsburg do caution that premiums through 2016 have likely been too low to be sustainable, as evidenced by the financial difficulties many insurers are having, whether from underestimating the cost of serving new populations or from strategies to build a customer base at an initial loss to them.
"However, barring increases much larger than foreseen today, premiums are likely to remain notably below expectations or where they would have been in the absence of the ACA," they note. Specifically, Adler and Ginsburg find that "even if ACA marketplace premiums increase by 15 percent in 2017, the average cost of purchasing the second-lowest cost sliver plan would still be roughly 25 percent lower than what an equivalent value plan might have cost in the absence of the ACA."
"Experiences do differ widely across the nation, though, so consumers in some regions have fared more poorly and some markets suffer from minimal competition. The results of this analysis do not mean that no work remains. Health reform is an ongoing challenge, and there is still much room to increase the quality and competitiveness of marketplaces," they conclude.


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Dime tour: Inside Loyola's Alumni House
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The Rev. Brian F. Linnane, S.J., Alumni House is a welcoming place for the university's 64,000 alumni when they're back on campus.
Located on the southern side of Loyola's Evergreen campus at 208 E. Cold Spring Lane, the three-story brick colonial was built in 1927 and sits on an acre of land adjacent to Armiger House, the President's residence.
The initial owner of the property was Dr. Clyde A. Matthews, a dental surgeon at the Johns Hopkins Clinic Center. Loyola acquired the house in 2013 from the former president of the Baltimore Opera Company, Michael Harrison.
John Cochran III, '73, a former trustee, and his wife, Patricia, earmarked a portion of their $5 million gift during the university's Bright Minds, Bold Hearts comprehensive campaign to the purchase, renovation, and repurposing of the house—and named it the Rev. Brian F. Linnane, S.J., Alumni House.
The Alumni House opened its doors to the Loyola community on January 13, 2014.
Stop by, tour the house, and connect with the alumni association
Furnished, living room-style lounges on the first floor are open to alumni who stop in during the week, and staff are available to help graduates connect with the university and its alumni resources and services.
The offices of alumni engagement, advancement events, and donor relations are located on the upper floors in office areas in the Georgian architectural style.
The house and its grounds are used for alumni events, gatherings, and meetings throughout the year.
Life at Loyola
Enjoying the great outdoors—right next door
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Memorial Hospital (Memorial) (operating in Colorado) did not fully comply with Medicare requirements for billing inpatient and outpatient services, resulting in overpayments of approximately $161,000 in calendar years 2010 and 2011. These errors occurred primarily because Memorial did not have adequate controls to prevent the incorrect billing of Medicare claims within the selected risk areas that contained errors. Specifically, these errors occurred primarily because of human error or lack of training.


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A humanitarian exhibition will take place on March 28th at 7pm at CZKD, as part of the campaign Domiraj with the aim of raising funds to help restore the houses destroyed by fire in October in the settlement Vuk Vrčević.
Artists of a good will are invited to donate an unlimited amount of works in all media, which will be sold at the exhibition. The works should be brought to CZKD on Thursday, March 28th between 11am and 3pm.


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'Krypton' Canceled After Second Season on Syfy
Posted by Miranda Siwak | Aug 19, 2019 | News, Science Fiction, Series, Superheroes | 0
After the second season of Krypton concluded earlier this year, Syfy confirmed the series will not be returning to the network, according to Variety.
In addition, Syfy — owned by NBCUniversal — has confirmed they will not be moving forward with a Lobo spinoff as initially planned. The spinoff was previously announced in June and starred Emmett J. Scanlan's character. According to Variety's sources, Warner Horizon Television plans to shop the new pilot to other outlets.
What I feel above all is gratitude. I spent 3 years living an impossible dream. I will always be a proud son of Krypton.
Keep believing in a better tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/LqMBedxpdf
— Cameron Cuffe (@thecameroncuffe) August 16, 2019
Krypton was set two generations before Superman's home planet was destroyed and followed a young version of his grandfather Seg-El (Cameron Cuffe) in an attempt to save his home planet. The first season is currently available to stream on DC Universe, with the second set to arrive on the platform next year.
Hear that Krypton fans? Don't abandon all hope yet; you may just see Seg-El save the day again! Following the news, the fans even created a change.org petition to bring the show back for additional episodes. With more than 1,000 passionate supporters backing the cause, only time will tell if the network or another will un-cancel the program and give us the content we want.
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When it comes to dining, this is a very small sample of all that Red Bank has to offer. A hungry diner could easily wind their way through borough streets for hours and still not uncover every last restaurant.
From Bridge Avenue to Monmouth Street and Broad Street to Leighton Avenue, here is a look at some of the newer additions to Red Bank's robust and ever-changing dining scene, plus a few older places that are changing things up. For even more restaurants, scroll through the gallery below.
John Yarusi, owner of Johnny's Pork Roll and Coffee Too, is opening a restaurant in Red Bank.
After years of waiting, Triumph Brewing Company soon will open its doors in Red Bank. As of press time, the acclaimed brew pub, which also has locations in Princeton and in New Hope, Pennsylvania, was planning to opening on Bridge Avenue later this month. Triumph combines elevated classic American dining (smoked corn chowder, duck confit salad with goat cheese) and chic riffs on tavern fare (housemade tater tots with cheese curds, nachos with andouille sausage) with accessible and interesting in-house brews, with its flagship offering being the Bengal Gold India Pale Ale. 1 Bridge Ave.; triumphbrewing.com.
A Halloween-themed ice cream cone from Coney Waffle, which opened this summer in Red Bank.
Staff writer Alex Biese contributed to this story.