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(Or Tim, does this still get sent via large packets, only fewer of them?)
I can live without waterfall, but it is tough without the panadapter trace!
I am on a hardwired fibre connection 320 MB/s down, 115 MB/s up and the site of the equipment in Maryland is also hardwired and gets 50 down, 15 or so up which is plenty, but neither of us are using wifi.
I did packet traces and keep getting malformed packets on the vita 49 protocol, which is from my understanding the protocol the waterfall and pan trace would depend on.
I am very surprised at the battle we're having to get this going. It seems so straight forward. What are we missing?
Well, that was my one good idea.
You certainly have enough bandwidth up and down at both ends of the connection. For sure, There is a clog in the drain somewhere.....
Serious Networking troubleshooting is out of my league. The guys at FRS will sort it out eventually.
Note that streaming with NetFlix (for one example) is a *far* simpler problem than implementing SmartLink. It's unfortunate that you happen to be one of the folks who are experiencing one of the issues.
That there are some issues showing up here and there speaks to the difficulty of the problem, not to any deficiency in the engineering team.
(a network protocol architect in a former life, and implementer of some non-Flex related pseduo-real-time streaming code)
There is a wrench in the works somewhere in your network, obviously. Purely guessing here, to kill time while the experts look into it......perhaps some obscure networking parameter configured on one end or the other of your network connection (router or firewall settings.). Or perhaps even CAT5/6 patch cable problems. Or something the internet provider on either end of the connection is doing. Or some strange deal in the handoff between one provider and the other as it crosses the border?
Yeah... no. Nothing nearly so elegant or interesting, I'm afraid.
Several years back, I wrote a program called ScannerCast that streams "live" scanner audio over the Internet from user PCs to the Radio Reference web site. I learned a lot about Internet streaming on that project.. which was definitely only pseudo-real-time as it buffered several seconds of audio before transmission.
IF I reboot the local PC or my Flex 6500 and then restart SmartLink it seems to work again.
OK, I'm going to start this from the start. I have a 6500, hard wired via ethernet cable to a router. My desk PC, Windows 10, i7, is also hard wired via ethernet cable to the same router. I downloaded 2.0 and installed it on my desk PC. Then booted the 6500. Bought the license, installed 2.0 on the 6500, rebooted all. Started SmartSDR on my desk PC and it works fine. Spectrum scope and water fall working fine. I can unlink the meters on the right and move them to another monitor, real neat.
I then installed 2.0 on my Maestro. The Maestro is connected to WiFi that is on the other (outside) of the router. The Maestro could not see the 6500 direct. Download speeds are over 60mps and upload is around 10mps. When I logged in with SMARTLINK on the Maestro, the Maestro saw my 6500 ready. I connected to it. So, my Maestro is going "over the internet" to come back and connect to the 6500. It connects, shows freq, meters, changes freqs, changes bands, ATU works, get audio, I can key the radio, look at menus etc, EXCEPT no spectrum scope, other than about 1 inch. And no waterfall at all. Rebooted all a couple of times. Same story.
So, I linked my Maestro to my Android phone hot spot. Same story, can connect fine, no spectrum or waterfall.
I then installed SmartSDR on my MS Surface Book, Windows 10, i7. Connected to my home wifi the laptop saw the 6500 and I connected. No waterfall or spectrum scope. Again this was thru the internet and SMARTLINK.
Next I went to McDonalds with the MS Surface Book and connected to McDonalds Wifi. Had a good wifi connection. Started SmartSDR than logged in via SMARTLINK and the laptop saw my 6500 at home... YEA. Connected. Everything seemed to work but the spectrum and waterfall.
An observation. The waterfall area has about a 1 inch square in the middle that is totally black/empty. Odd. I have photos of the screen and the network numbers. below
Connect to the router and ensure uPNP is enabled (what model router?).
If that does not work then you might need to use manual port forwarding..
Dave wo2x
Call in tomorrow to see if blocking by waterfall traffic. Display is same as others here.
73, Russ K5OA
If you wish me to demo to you via Teamviewer I can do so. Give me your direct line # and I will call you.
So, a couple of things. One. my internet does pass the large packets. Because I could use my wifi and internet to connect and operate the others 6500, and he could connect and operate mine.
Two. But, I cannot get spectrum and water fall with my Maestro or laptop connected to the same wifi and internet provider. How can this be???
I even tried using the phone hot spot and Maestro connecting to my friends 6500 across town. EVERYTHING worked, including the scope and waterfall.
Then I tried my MS Surface Pro book thru the phone hot spot, could not see the 6500 spectrum or waterfall. Connect to my friends 6500 and everything worked.
So, my home wifi was not in use for this. My 6500 is hard wired to the router. And my friend can connect to my 6500 and everything works.
That is one possibility. The VITA-49 spectrum data (yes, it is UDP) can be larger than the 1500 byte payload of an Ethernet frame, but this is OK because the network stack in the radio is responsible for fragmenting the data into 1500 byte payloads and the network stack on the client end does the re-assembly. This is a tried and true feature of TCP/IP because not all data quanta fit nicely in 1500 byte chunks. So we are sending full sized Ethernet frames (1518 bytes).
I have run into this MTU problem before in a previous life where an MTU on a piece of equipment (I'll refrain from rating out the offending manufacturer) was set for 1500. But a "full" Ethernet frame is actually 1518 bytes (payload + MAC header+ CRC). Most devices interpret a 1500 MTU as 1538 bytes. However, in this situation, this was not the case. Needless to say, when we started streaming full-size data frames from one host to the other, nothing got through. Packets that had data payloads of 1482 bytes made it through.
Assuming that's the issue, If we are very close to a limit (that is imposed by some significant number of networks out there), could the packet size be reduced slightly to accommodate this?
If there are other troubleshooting actions that you think might address this issue (no Panafall at remote user site), I would greatly appreciate a summary of them.
What's the (max) Interface MTU on the radio? Can we gain some perf in the local LAN case by enabling Jumbograms on our LAN and end system? Increasing our local MTU to, say, 9K?
(To be clear: For me, this is really of academic interest. I don't see myself playing SmartLink anytime soon, due to the lack of decent IP infrastructure where I live.)
Let me add that ... in this case of no panafall, both ends are wired. One with fiber (300 Meg down and a flock of speed uplink) the other is coaxial system testing at 90 down and ~15 up. So it is not a WiFi issue for us.
Just trying to think outside the. Oz.
Dave wo2x
IF the radio generates JumboGrams (we don't know if it does, I actually doubt it) then having a router on the LAN that handles these without fragmentation would only be a good thing, wouldn't it?
I tested again a few hours ago and it still doesn't make any difference here that I have noticed. Perhaps the router and modem have different settings?
Anyway, it is back off again for good.
I notice that DAX is NOT streaming the audio. I have channel 2 selected on the Slice for DAX but nothing streaming. I've logged out of Smart CAT and logged back in and it seems connected, but DAX still shows nothing streaming. Going to to play with it some more and see. Will try resetting the hardware at home when I get back and maybe try it again.
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Jul 28 15:28:59 Whole System ACK Flood Attack from WAN Rule:Default deny<br>
D-Link router 3 or 4 years old.
Dave wo2x
In an early post to this thread, Tim mentioned fragmentation ... that was the answer for me and VO1IDX. My cable modem firewall had an option to block fragmented packets. I unchecked it and the panafall works fine in Newfoundland. We re-enabled the blocking feature and the panafall goes away. So, you need to be allowing fragmented packets through any firewall involved.
Sam K3KLC
Chris VO1IDX
The fun starts now!
Ken - NM9P
This WILL help MANY people.
>My cable modem firewall had an option to block fragmented packets
There are third-party firewall/AV products that also block fragmented packets... so knowing that you must DISable this blocking will be very helpful to folks going forward.
I very pleased to hear you found the solution.
(Having SAID that, it would be nice if the MTU was discovered by SmartLink and this was not necessary... but, maybe that will happen in some future release).
It doesn't matter: If the radio is generating 1500 byte packets... or even 1200 byte packets... it is *extremely* likely that on the path from SSDR to the radio over the Internet there will be SOME intermediate system that can't handle a packet that large.
You can check this out by looking at the WireShark/Ethereal trace and seeing the largest IP packet you receive.
There's really very little risk to passing fragmented IP packets, and allowing fragmented packets to pass is extremely common. Anybody doing gaming will need to allow fragmented IP packets, for example. There *are* some very basic IP fragmentation exploits, but they are pretty mundane and easily countered by any good system or piece of network equipment.
I never have jumbo frames enabled on any of my networking equipment but figures I'd ask so I understand if it would affect other users who may have it enabled in the router..
Dave wo2x
Thanks, Russ K5OA
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Tomorrow (January 4) at 8 pm EST the Earth will be at perihelion. This is the point in our orbit around the Sun that is closest to the Sun. Why do we care?
Because SDO takes a lot of pictures of the Sun. At perihelion they appear a little bigger than they do at aphelion in July. Here is a comparison of HMI Quick-Look continuum images from January and July. The two horizontal lines show how high the Sun appears today. When those lines are extended to the left, the July image is a little over 3% smaller. When we designed the instruments on SDO we had to make sure the largest appearance of the Sun would fit on the CCDs.
Looks like we did a good job!
Have a Happy Perihelion Day!

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So you know how you were thinking about going out and buying a used McLaren F1 and a brand new McLaren P1 so you could park them side-by-side and really scrutinize the differences? Well, you're in luck, because I'm going to save you about $2.5 million dollars or so, thanks to Jalopnik's amazing new Dynaslide Image Comparitorization System (DICS) technology.
You're welcome.
As you can see, the new P1 pretty significantly updates the McLaren look, perhaps most dramatically in the way the less-sloping C-pillar emphasizes the car's cab-forward/rear-mid engine layout. The detailing is significantly cleaned up and updated to a more modern design vocabulary, and the blacked-out intaglio surfaces give the profile a dramatic, graphical look.
The front and rear treatments are also significantly updated, as you can see in the sliders below.
Both ends have shed their somewhat parts-bin feeling lights and indicators, and now sport units that flow seamlessly into the liquid, flowing contours of the body. The front and rear treatment of the old F1 have arguably been the car's weaker spots, styling-wise, and the new P1 makes a pretty dramatic improvement.
I'm convinced. As soon as the wagon version comes out, I'm totally getting one. Or maybe the pickup.
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Clickers are "personal response systems" that work much like TV remote controls, allowing each student to respond to questions posed in class by "clicking" a button that transmits their response to a receiving station. These come with additional tools that aggregate all the responses and generate graphs that can be displayed for the class to see.
For more information about how clickers can be used, see:
How Do I... » Data Collection and Analysis » Survey/Polls
Middlebury has a number of these clickers available for use in classes. Contact Shel Sax for more information about reserving these for your class.
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what is a loose meat sandwitch??11!
I DO want to know!!!!
what is a loose meat sandwitch??11!
I DO want to know!!!!
gangster lean? that's funny.
comfort food with a twist. yes, a must try!
Please, please come up with a recipe for Suave Steve. Preferably something with lobster tails. Btw, the next thing I'm cooking at home will be your technique for making hamburger buns using the no-knead bread recipe. That was in your "Sloppy Giuseppe" recipe, which makes this "Sloppy Tom" recipe at least your third sloppy recipe, so we really are overdue for a suave recipe.
Ground turkey. Haha, good one chef!
tater tots... the official side dish of anything sloppy!
I tried this out and made some loose meat fajitas. Very good! Because of your video, I was unafraid to boil 1.5# of frozen turkey to get it thawed and into the pan in a timely fashion. I also added some cumin, chipotle, and chopped green peppers to make it healthy. :) Thanks John
Hey Chef John,
Was there a particular reason you left out the garlic, bell pepper, and mustard that you use in your beef version of sloppy joes for this recipe?
Since it was my first time with turkey, I was afraid to do too much. Next time I will embellish.
Might use/specify ground turkey thighs (dark meat)instead of the lean stuff -- Dark meat is a little more amenable to browning?
Just found your site! This is cool to watch a GUY cook...must have the hubby watch you!! I married a man that doesnt cook!! Arrrrgh!!! Well...pisgetti...but so can a 3 yr old!! [yea I know...a 3 yr old shouldnt be by the stove!!] Now I am off to watch more of your videos!! 'Gangsta lean...' funny guy you are!! Love it!!....Pam
The ground turkey meat looks like mechanically recovered meat (MRM), rather like the like pink slime some fast-food chains call burgers...
You seriously make the most simple food more interesting! Keep up the amazing work!
PS, yes I DO want to know what a loose meat sandwich is!!
Thank you for what you do here on Foodwishes. You've inspired me, and given me enough confidence to try cooking. My husband thanks you too!
PS- funny commentary!
On this one, I tried imagining you doing this like an elementary school lunch lady (circa 1960-70's style) with the hair net and all.
Great spin on a classic, Chef J.
I made this last night; I really like the way the onions kind of melted into the whole thing and the turkey was in small bits. It was "pasty". I did, however, really doctor is up with a lot more Worcestershire, mustard, cocoa, red pepper flakes. big hit! Thanks for such a great foundation.
Thanks so much for this recipe. "The Man" doesn't do beef, pork, or fried foods, so any help you can give me in keeping translating more dishes into chicken and turkey only is very appreciated!
I think I'm going to make this for my superbowl party...but miniaturized as sliders. I think my place is going to be a mess though
Chef John,
You have inspired me to try cooking after years of avoiding it. Your videos are very easy to follow and you have a great way of inspiring confidence and making it less intimidating. Not wanting my 13-year old to grow up like I did not knowing to cook, we are learning together - and made your Sloppy Toms tonight - YUM! THANK YOU for sharing your talent!
Austin, Tx
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You aren't really arguing with the point that I was originally making, so I'm not sure how to proceed.
lol? Your point was "Western PA developes hardly talent"
false, imo
your other point was "People expect a **** ton from Pitt and they get much more critics than other programs because they think PA is a talent hotbed and they use NFL facilities"
I really don't think thats true at all
They get a lot of heat but c'mon a lot of teams do


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UH planning professor named to national boardUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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HONOLULU — Dr. Dolores Foley, associate professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at UH Mānoa, has been elected to the board of the National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI).
Established by the Kettering Foundation of Dayton, Ohio, NIFI is a nonpartisan organization that works with a network of civic, educational and other groups and individuals, and ensures that they are supported with issue books and other materials that stimulate serious public deliberation on major issues that Americans face locally and nationally. The organization also presents outcomes of forums at congressional hearings and other policymaking venues around the world.
Foley was formally invited to join the national board by David Mathews, president and CEO of the Kettering Foundation, who praised her efforts in promoting public deliberation. By joining the board, Mathews hopes Foley can expand her role to assist communities across the nation working on complex public policy issues.
"This is a significant honor for Professor Foley, recognizing her expertise and outstanding efforts in promoting deliberative democracy, and we look forward to her continued active involvement with Kettering and the NIFI," stated Karl Kim, chair of the Urban and Regional Planning Department.
Foley, who holds a Ph.D. in public administration from the University of Southern California, has been organizing forums and workshops in Hawaiʻi and around the world for the past seven years. Her research focuses on public deliberation of public policy issues and strengthening the connections between communities and the university.


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With BlizzCon coming later this week, we'll soon be inundated with information about the next expansion. Or at least, I think most of us assume that Friday's "World of Warcraft: What's Next?" presentation will reveal the next expansion. I guess it's possible that they'll do something completely different, like announce that the entire WoW dev team is being transferred to project Titan and that WoW will go free-to-play with user-generated raid content. But that seems pretty unlikely.
So in the spirit of being able to look back at old posts and say "told you so," it seemed like an appropriate time to make some predictions about what we'll be seeing on Friday. I'm not going to speculate on the name or theme of the expansion, because frankly, lore isn't exactly my wheelhouse. Instead, I want to focus on mechanics.
I've split each main idea up into two sections: a Prediction and a Wish List. The prediction is the general thing I think we'll see, whereas the wish list is more of a "this is what I'd do if I were trying to address the issue."
Hit & Expertise Changes
Prediction – I think we'll see a change to either hit or expertise to alleviate the awkwardness of reaching both caps, and especially to try and minimize the need to use an optimizer like AskMrRobot to reconfigure your entire gear set every time you get an upgrade. It's also just sort of weird from a systems point of view. The best description of the problem I've seen can be attributed to Hamlet of EJ/Druid fame. To summarize his point: there are two systems in the game (gemming and reforging) whose primary job is to ensure that players always hit their target. In other words, these two mechanics are both trying to subvert/fix a third mechanic, which is the hit cap.
Blizzard sources have been offering up comments about this problem all expansion, so we know it's on their minds. It's not a huge stretch in logic to guess that they'll try to fix it in 6.0.
I don't think it's likely that both hit and expertise will go away, though. There's something to be said for the planning/preparation aspect of having to dance around hit and expertise cap. But it's far more painful than it has to be due to the way itemization is allocated. Each item can have an essentially random amount of hit or expertise rating. Sure, it's constrained by a formula, but only mildly, and you can have almost any amount of hit on an item by adjusting the other stats to compensate. That's the reason it's a problem – it's not a trivial problem to figure out exactly what needs to change on other gear when you replace an upgrade. As anyone who's worked on optimization problems in the past will tell you, once you have multiple parameters and several caps to consider, the math gets really ugly.
Wish List – My solution to this problem would be to make two significant changes. The first is to remove the expertise-capping problem. Rather than requiring 7.5% hit and 7.5% expertise, I would just require 15% hit for melee. The first 7.5% removes misses, the second 7.5% removes dodges, just like expertise works currently with dodges and parries. This removes the "two-cap" part of the problem and vastly simplifies the solution space.
I wouldn't remove expertise as a stat, though. I would convert it into another combat benefit. Potentially something like The Secret World's 'Crit Power,' which increases the damage you do with a critical strike. Instead of crits automatically doing double damage, they could do 150% damage baseline, and each point of expertise increases that by 1% (i.e. to 151%). They've already laid the groundwork for this sort of effect with the crit amplification trinkets in Siege of Orgrimmar, which might be an indication that they're testing the waters for this idea.
Finally, I'd make one slightly more radical change to the way hit is itemized – I would quantize it. In other words, let's say that we need 10,000 hit rating to cap (choosing a nice round number). Items would never contain a random amount of hit rating. There would be nothing in the game that gives 2751 hit rating, like there could be currently. Instead, hit rating only ever shows up in multiples of 1000. A piece of armor could have 1000 hit rating, 2000 hit rating, 3000 hit rating, and so on. The stats on the piece would still be bound by the itemization formula, so the second stat would just soak up the rest of the item budget. In other words, a pair of hit/crit legs with 3000 hit would have more crit than a pair that had 4000 hit.
Similarly, gems would have even multiples, maybe 1000 each. Getting a new upgrade would then generally mean you need to swap a few hit gems around, but the math would be very easy – just replace N gems, where N*1000 is the amount of hit you need. Reforging could work as-is, though it would probably be easier if the amount of reforge could be increased to 50% just so that you could reforge hit to other things without getting odd amounts of hit. While you could reforge a non-hit piece (i.e. crit/mastery) into hit and get an odd number, in practice this shouldn't be terribly necessary since you could just gem for it. There could always be edge cases where it's slightly more optimal to do so, but for the most part they'll be insignificant enough that all but the very hardcore could ignore them.
Tanking Mechanics
Prediction – I think that we'll see Warriors and Death Knights get the full "DPS tank" treatment that Monks and Druids, and to a lesser extent Paladins, have gotten. It's clear from Mists that tanks love this new model, especially when paired with active mitigation. They opened a Pandora's Box when they gave Paladins Sanctity of Battle, and rather than close the box they decided to embrace the new paradigm, even putting haste on our gear. The success they've had with Paladins, Monks, and Druids will lead them to drive the remaining two "old-school" tanking classes in the same direction, fully embracing DPS stats like crit and haste as true tanking stats.
Wish List – There are lots of ways they can pull this off, so it's not worth trying to go into too much detail. But it's clear that Riposte is just a band-aid for tank DPS, not a true active mitigation tie-in. I would probably do something like tie critical strike rating into crit block chance, which indirectly ties it into rage generation, and a similar crit->resource conversion for Death Knights (maybe triggering Death Runes?). But the sky's the limit here, just because the problem is so open-ended. The end goal is clear though – make all tanks value crit/haste/mastery gear so that DPS fluctuations over a tier or expansion are less significant.
As for Paladins, I think we're pretty well-off already. At most I might give us a more direct tie-in with crit. Right now, it has some value via Eternal Flame, but it's not a large amount. If Seal of Insight and Sacred Shield could also crit, then it might have a reasonable (if not substantial) value to a tankadin.
Which leads us into our next section….
Dodge & Parry Changes
Prediction – I think we'll see Dodge and Parry reduced in significance for tanks. Passive mitigation and avoidance have never been all that interesting or dynamic for the tank, and that's no better exemplified by the envy our Warrior and Death Knight brethren have been communicating to us with dagger stares all expansion. I think that next expansion will have a stronger emphasis on "active" avoidance triggers like Grand Crusader while also reducing the amount of Dodge and Parry showing up on gear.
Wish List – Those last two thoughts may seem inconsistent, but they're really not. To explain: I think that avoidance should show up less on gear than it does now (and more haste, mastery, and crit in its place), but the avoidance that does show up should also be more powerful. One of the big problems with avoidance is that we have so much of it on gear that we're already feeling stung by the diminishing returns curves. If we had far less of it itemized on gear, each of those rating points could be more powerful, and thus make it a competitive stat.
How would I go about doing this? Well, for starters, I would nerf the Strength-to-Parry conversion rate (and similarly the Agility-to-Dodge rate for Druids and Monks). Free avoidance from gear is what we're trying to mitigate, so having that giant source of it is detrimental to our goal.
The other thing I'd do is make sure that dodge and parry were mutually exclusive on gear. In other words, you would never get a dodge/parry combination item. Parry and dodge would always be paired with something else – hit, expertise, crit, haste, or mastery. This effectively halves the possible amount of avoidance on gear, which means each point can be almost twice as effective. Thus, the rating conversion could be brought back down on-par with the other secondary stats. That would let dodge and parry feel like important stats again, because you'd really feel the difference between a low-avoidance build and a high-avoidance build.
Item Squish
Prediction – It's not really a huge surprise, since we know this is coming. Hopefully we'll learn more about the actual details at BlizzCon. But in any event, I predict we'll get that information on Friday.
Wish List – There's a huge parameter space here, so it's not really worth speculating on exact mathematical details. For example, they could just slash the item level increases for everything pre-MoP so that we're back to something in the 200 range. Or they could just completely re-tune the formula used for itemization (though that has its own side-effects). Or they could do some sort of time-warp-esque trick where stepping into a new expansion automatically reduced the ilvl of previous-expansion gear, such that next expansion starts at ilvl 100 again. Or a million other possible solutions.
My guess, though, is that it'll be something permanent rather than a phased effect. In other words, each item will get a new item level that's significantly lower than the current value, and the tuning of all content in the game will be squished according to the same formula so that DPS and healing expectations are more or less unaffected.
Everything Else
I have lots of other expectations too, but most of them are pretty banal. For example, I don't expect an overhaul of our basic mechanics (holy power, active mitigation, etc.) or talents. We've gone through a lot of iteration over the past two expansions, but the last few patches have seen very minor adjustments in terms of core class mechanics, so I expect we're pretty much where the devs want us by now. I expect we'll get some new glyphs, possibly a new spell at 95/100 (or whatever the new cap will be), but that's pretty bog-standard by this point.
I suspect we'll finally see new character models, which is interesting, but not really a mechanics thing. I don't really have any idea if we'll get a new class or new races, but my guess would be that new races are more likely than a new class since Blizz seems to alternate. If they do add new races, I hope they take that opportunity to re-balance racial bonuses to be less significant in combat. And I'd guess that we'll see some new feature that utilizes the level-scaling tech that's been observed in bugged instances over the past month or so.
That's all I have time for now, gotta pack for BlizzCon. If you're going, be sure to plan to attend Palapalooza! on Saturday at 4PM at the Meeting Stone, where you'll be able to meet myself, Anafielle, and Meloree, our friends Rhidach and Antigen (from the Righteous Defense blog), and a host of paladins that are a lot more famous than we are (Treck, Slootbag, Absallom, and Towelliee, and Kerriodos have all said they'd be there)!


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Question: I came across a weird case recently where we had a server that was running at 100% across all CPUs for a time but when I used the DMVs to look at wait statistics I couldn't see anything going on. How can I see what waits were occurring at the time?
Answer: This is a question that came up in our Performance Tuning class this week in London after I'd lectured about wait statistics.
The key point here is that in the situation described there weren't any actual waits occurring.
Many of the monitoring scripts/tools for looking at wait statistics (for instance mine at http://bit.ly/fSWeO5) aggregate all the wait statistics and return the top 95% of all waits occurring, sorted by most prevalent waits by total wait time. This is done so that your view of the pertinent waits on the server isn't obscured by those waits that are benign and always occur (e.g. from certain system tasks like the lazywriter in the buffer pool).
A side effect of this monitoring is that unless there are no other waits occurring on the system, you will not see the SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD wait type show up, even though they may be occurring in great numbers.
Why is this?
The SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD wait type occurs when a thread executing on a CPU manages to execute for its entire quantum – the uninterrupted time a thread is allowed to be using the CPU before it must allow other threads to have a turn executing. The SQL Server scheduling quanta is 4 milliseconds (and this is not configurable). When a thread exhausts its quantum, it moves off the CPU, but instead of being suspended and put on the waiter list, it moves directly to the bottom of the runnable queue in the scheduler.
This makes perfect sense as the thread isn't waiting for a resource – so has no reason to be put on the waiter list. However, a wait type must be registered and so the SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD type is used and it will have a zero resource wait time. There may be a signal wait time though (the time the thread spends on the runnable queue waiting to get back on the CPU again), depending on how many other tasks are running on that CPU.
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It's taken me a long time to write about community. A lot of the blame rests on the usual whirlwind of grad school and life, but this is still a tough topic for me to articulate clearly. Here goes:
I struggled with relationship stuff for a long time. Through college and for a few years after I beat myself up over what seemed like a persistent inability to form romantic relationships (the fact that I was attracted mostly to very sexual people didn't help.) I was scared- a fear that I'm sure a lot of asexual people can relate to. I was saving a part of myself for a kind of close romantic relationship that I just hadn't figured out yet. It started to feel almost virginal, and if there's one thing I can't stand it's saving myself.
Over the course of about a year, an experiment began to formulate in my mind. I didn't have a romantic relationship, but I was constantly surrounded by incredible friends and tight communities. What if I worked with what I had? How many of those pent-up expectations that I was waiting to put on a romantic relationship could be fulfilled by the people I already had in my life? When I caught myself pining over a romantic relationship I switched my thoughts to the people already in my life. I painstakingly went through every person that I spent time with on a regular basis, inventing a language to map the relationships and their potential for growth. I thought about the things that make romantic relationships special and began to invent small, subtle ways to incorporate them into my closest friendships. Slowly, the line in my mind between romance and friendship began to disappear. As my understanding of them became more ingrained and more intuitive the relationships in my life transformed from melodic background noise to something rich, beautiful, and at least as powerful as romance.
Earlier, I laid out a language for describing relationships in terms of Time (What you do), Touch (How you feel) and Trust (What you expect.) I'm going to use these three categories to try to describe my relationship with my community as a whole. What I describe may not seem all that different from how you relate to your own community, but hopefully the language will provide an interesting new perspective.
Community: Every relationship in my life. This includes friends, coworkers, people I pass on the street, people halfway around the world that I am connected to economically, animals, plants, inanimate objects that I'm particularly attached to, spiritual relationships and my relationship with myself.
Time-Earlier this year I started business school. I showed up at orientation eager to meet the people that would be a big part of my life for the next two years. As I went around shaking hands and making introductory smalltalk, I paid close attention to the parts of the conversation where people got excited. All of us were in a scary, new environment where we hoped to accomplish great things, and all of us were going to need strong relationships to do it. I tried my best to squint and imagine what those strong relationships might look like so I could get busy creating them.
Building relationships can be slow going, but it always pays off. All of the people that I met had things that relationships could potentially help them do- finishing homework, partying in Tahoe, emotional venting, etc. At the end of the day people don't prioritize relationships because the people in them are funny or attractive, they prioritize relationships where useful things happen, so I set about trying to build relationships that were mutually useful.
I helped people with homework, I gave them a space to process the exciting things going on in our program. I also wasn't shy about building relationships that were useful to me. I spent time mapping out the things that I wanted to accomplish in the program, from getting through classes to exploring the business case for social justice, and I put extra emphasis on the relationships that took me in that direction. Before long I had more exciting opportunities to connect with people than I knew what to do with. I zeroed in on mutual utility, spending my limited time only on those activities and conversations that were most useful both to me AND to the other people involved. The result is rapidly transforming into a functional and supportive community, where I have relationships to support me in all of the things that I want to do. Because those relationships are mutually useful I know that they'll stick around, and if they don't I've got plenty of opportunities to build or deepen other relationships to take their place.
Now that my community is falling into place, it's mostly just a matter of growth and balance. By deciding which parts of my community to focus on, I can determine whether my environment is supportive, fun, intellectually challenging or chill. I can arrive in class, ask myself how I'm feeling and then pretty easily focus on relationships to match. I can also begin to think long-term. All of the people that I'm connecting with have impressive skills and abilities, so for yucks I'll nudge my relationships so that those skills and abilities come together in interesting and potentially powerful combinations. I wonder what happens if I mix an innovative sustainable product designer, a detail oriented project manager, a dynamic spokes/salesperson and someone with a background in media? Small groups of people with good underlying relationships and the right combination of skills can get some very interesting things done, so I try to grow my community in ways that let these combinations happen organically.
Business school makes a convenient example, but I can use essentially the same process to do things traditionally associated with romance. At the end of the day, romantic relationships also last because they are utilitarian- they let both people do the things in their lives that they want to do. Most of those things are fairly mundane (doing the dishes, going on hikes) and can be accomplished just as easily by a supportive community. Only a tiny portion of what happens in a romantic relationship actually requires a deep intimate connection. Confiding secrets, processing major life decisions, feeling a sense of stability and security with another person. For that stuff I've got what I call "primaries", relationships at the core of my community that happily reside in that gray area between friendship in romance. I'll discuss them later.
Touch- I was looking back over old notebooks from college, and in one of the margins I'd sappily scrawled "I wish I could fall in love for about four hours a week." That's about what focusing on my community feels like. The big, showbiz emotions of romance are distributed across all of my relationships as they heave and change. I don't get my heartbreak in big, torrential breakups, I get it in little droplets as the parts of my community that I was most excited about quietly wash away. I don't spend days at a time head over feels about a special someone, but on a pretty regular basis I'll feel that rush of excitement about the possibilities presented by a new person or (better yet) a new opportunity for people to come together.
Emotions matter. They matter because they're my best guide to creating the kind of utility that I talked about earlier. If a relationship feels exciting then there is probably something useful going on, even if I don't yet understand what. Paying close attention to how my relationships feel and how those emotions are communicated lets me stably contributing to my life and the lives the other people involved. They're the key to keeping things in the balance, and the key to uncovering the places where relationships can grow.
This is important, because it stops that deluge of emotions from across my community from becoming overwhelming. Right now I'm smugly happy about my relationships with my classmates, anxious about a good friend, giddy about a project I'm taking on and sad about a close relationship that's drifting. Because each emotion has a clear role in a distinct relationship it's easy for me to compartmentalize. When I feel something I generally know pretty clearly when and where that emotion is relevant, and I can keep ahold of it and act on it accordingly. Of course, a lot of the things that I feel are too big to fit in these sorts of boxes. I'll be bummed out or awkwardly overjoyed, and I'll pull on the parts of my community that help me express that mood until it stops being so overwhelming.
A lot of you are probably reading this and gagging at the idea of keeping emotions more or less neatly compartmentalized, but the shit works. Things aren't big, dramatic and messy, but that's kind of the point. I don't avoid feeling things, I just feel them in a way that helps my relationships along rather than threatening to tear them apart. This drives my relationships to go deeper and my communities get more and more interesting, and lets me feel things that would otherwise be impossible.
Trust- If there was a core to that fear about relationships that I felt in college, it was a lack of trust. There are some things that just can't happen in relationships without monumental levels of trust. Major commitments like buying property and raising kids require a significant amount of trust in a single person, and it's hard to imagine how I could accomplish that level of connection while flittering around my community. There's something deeply compelling and simple about having someone who I can fundamentally depend on, a relationship that will be around through thick and thin. How can I build that kind of trust?
In romantic relationships that trust comes with time. It often takes years of standing together through good times and bad for that kind of quiet certainty to really take root. If I want to build that kind of trust it's a simple matter of identifying the people I care about most, making real commitments to them, and holding those commitments sacred. These kinds of extremely close relationships are vital, right now I have three of them. We openly discuss how we feel about our relationship and where we see that relationship headed. We constantly prove ourselves to one another and, about two years in, are beginning to develop the kind of trust that's normally associated with romance.
Why three? It has to do with some basic but extremely important math. If I had a romantic partner I might expect to spend about four nights a week focused on quality time with her and another three nights a week attending meetings, taking classes and visiting friends. Instead of spending quality time with one person for four nights a week, I spend one or two nights a week with each of my three primary relationships (and usually save another night for a more traditional best friend.) I still wind up spending four nights a week having quality time with someone that I love deeply- it's just not the same someone each night. All three of these relationships have all been going on for over a year now, and they feel like intimate relationships do when they settle in. The honeymoon periods with their explosive emotions are over, and we have begun to settle into our deeply comforting routines. By itself, none of these three relationships is as powerful as a yearlong romance, but in combination they're about the same. If I need someone, I know that at least one of these three will be there.
Since I've started this experiment, some incredible things have started happening. I've been able to see my community and the other communities that I observe with a newfound clarity. I've been able to envision more and more powerful ways for my community to enrich my life while I enrich the lives of the people in it, and that's where things get interesting. Good romantic relationships force people to grow. They simultaneously challenge the people involved and give them the support that they need to surmount those challenges. My relationship with my community is no different. For an individual personal growth could mean quitting smoking or letting go of inhibitions. When communities grow they tackle problems like racism and political apathy. If I see community as the source of intimacy in my life I will inevitably work to improve that community. All of that time, emotion and trust flowing around my community contributes to a fertile environment for change.


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Thomas Lehn, who hails from Cologne, plays the analogue synthesizer on this project, which is his primary instrument, although he also plays the piano. As a synthesizer player he's been omnipresent in the European improv scene since the early '90's, but only recently has begun to be documented on disc, and even then, most of the recordings are on small, hard-to-find European labels, typically in very limited quantities. This project gives a wider audience a chance to hear the man who Jim O'Rourke has described as "the world's greatest synth player" (The Wire, 1/98).
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Ex-Soldier Accuses Uganda Army Of Gross Atrocities--Report
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There have been persistent allegations that Uganda's national army has also engaged in massive human rights abuses during the 20 years war with the Lord's Resistance Army, including mutilating civilians and blaming it on the LRA. The following is an investigative news article that appeared April 28 in Uganda's The Independent newspaper, which is published by internationally-respected journalist Andrew Mwenda; Mwenda was arrested and for a while detained by Uganda security agents after the publication of this article. The Committee to Protect Journalist condemned Mwenda's arrest.)
Who maimed, killed civilians in northern Uganda?
Two weeks ago, 24-year-old UPDF Lance Corporal Godfrey Masaba was the target of a botched raid by security operatives on the offices of The Independent.
More than 40 plain-clothed security operatives and policemen descended on the paper's compound acting on a tip that Masaba was in the office. But rather than nab Masaba, the security operatives bundled the paper's gatekeeper, Herbert Labeja, in the back of their Land Cruiser, giving Masaba a chance to escape.
On March 31st, the Advertising Manager of The Independent, Godrick Dambyo, and the paper's reporter, John Njoroge, were arrested and detained by plain-clothed security operatives at Uganda's border with Rwanda.
They were accused of trying to smuggle Masaba into Rwanda. Why does the state have such an interest in Masaba? The army spokesman, Paddy Ankunda says Masaba is a deserter. But there are many deserters in Uganda and the state does not hunt them with such zeal.
Now The Independent has Masaba's tale, a story that potentially explains why he is such a wanted man. As part of investigative series on state-sponsored torture in Uganda, The Independent has interviewed more than a dozen alleged torture victims, Masaba being one of them.
Masaba ran to exile in Central Africa Republic (CAR) in May of 2007. He was arrested there and detained without trial for two months. Then on August 20th 2007, that country's president, Francois Bozize, put Masaba on the presidential jet and personally flew with him to Uganda.
He handed him over to President Yoweri Museveni at Sheraton Hotel, a fact confirmed by interior minister, Ruhakana Rugunda. It is not known what deal Museveni gave Bozize to perform this role; but it suggests that there is something big about Masaba.
Masaba's story begins in June of 2003, with an order crackling out of his army commander's receiver. "Get your men ready," the order, according to Masaba, said. "We have intelligence that the LRA will be passing through Corner Kilak in about an hour's time." As Masaba tells it, the commander of his battalion didn't hesitate. He ordered his men to form the aquifer. Masaba, then 19, hid with his soldiers behind bushes and trees, gun cocked.
The men marching down the road were caught unaware. By the time the ceasefire signal was brought down to the line, Masaba says that hundreds of soldiers were killed. "It took 30 minutes for the ceasefire to get across. I brought down my gun and I went out and looked at them," Masaba recalls. "And I realized, these were the boys we used to eat with."
The men who walked themselves straight into a UPDF ambush were not the LRA at all, Masaba says. They were UPDF soldiers, members of the 77th Battalion. Just months earlier, the two battalions, both part of the same 401 Brigade, had been training together. As Masaba stepped over the men, finally seeing past the cover of darkness that had been shielding their faces, he looked into the frozen eyes of Private James, a soldier who had brought him food and medicine when he had malaria.
According to Masaba, the friendly fire incident, which he says occurred in June of 2003, was planned. The ill-fated 77 battalion, he says, was made up of former LRA soldiers who, after being incorporated into the UPDF, were sent to the Congo to flush out Allied Democratic Forces rebels.
After the massacre, rumor spread around Masaba's battalion that the LRA-turned-UPDF soldiers were demanding huge salary arrears which they had not been paid while in Congo. Rather than pay the arrears, the higher ups decided to kill the soldiers and eat their salaries. The commander of 401 brigade, who brought down the order, was taken to the Court Martial, but, Masaba says, nothing ever came of it.
The incident wasn't reported in the press and the army spokesperson, Paddy Ankunda, says he's not aware of it. But there's no doubt that Masaba – who says he was tortured in two separate CMI "safe houses", both of which he escaped from – has information the government doesn't want out.
"He's a deserter," says Ankunda. "He's a very dangerous man." Uganda's Minister of Internal Affairs, Ruhakana Rugunda confirmed that Masaba was an army deserter who escaped to the Central African Republic and was taken back to Uganda, but he claimed not to know enough about Masaba to explain why he is considered dangerous. But the CMI's raid on The Independent, and the fact that Masaba was brought back all the way from CAR suggests that the threat he poses has something more to do than mere desertion.
The government didn't always see a free Masaba as dangerous. He was a UPDF soldier for five years, and according to his own testimony, he was chosen to be part of a top-secret "Special Force Unit" called 181 comprised of the most trustworthy soldiers from 401 Brigade. Masaba claims no one expected that he would eventually defect, tell secrets about the UPDF to a neighboring head of state and escape from a torture chamber he was sent to by President Museveni.
After the ambush on 77, Masaba says that he and other chosen Unit 181 soldiers were briefed on their mission by Brigadier Nathan Mugisha, then army commander and current chief of police Kale Kayihura, and the commander of the special force unit who Masaba only ever knew as Mushabe. They were to stop shaving immediately, because in a few months, dressed in combat trousers and civilian T-shirts, they would be attacking villages in the north, posing as LRA soldiers, they were told.
"Kayihura said that after the mission we'd all get to go to Kampala, and we'd have good deployments," Masaba says. "They promised many things." On phone, Kayihura says he doesn't know who Masaba is and he called his tale about Unit 181, "the craziest thing" he's ever heard." Rugunda called both Masaba's stories, regarding the friendly fire ambush and the UPDF atrocities in the north, "outrageous."
Have there been friendly fires within UPDF before? The Independent has minutes of a meeting of senior army officers chaired by then Army Commander, Maj. Gen. James Kazini. During the discussion of problems in the army's training schools, it is mentioned that there have been friendly fires between different army units.
Masaba claims the goal of Unit 181was to gather intelligence on the individuals and communities believed to be supporting the LRA rebels in the north and to make Kony's men look so vicious that remaining sympathizers would turn off the taps.
The visits, as Masaba describes them, would typically go like this: The one Acholi-speaker of the group would say, "My commander came here today and you gave us food, now we need more." A woman would reply in a shaky voice that she didn't know what they were talking about, that she had nothing to give. And, with that, unflinchingly, Mushabe would order his soldiers to "work on her."
One or two would hold her down while another cut off her lips, her ear or her breast. Masaba, seen as too scrawny to restrain someone who was being mutilated, was given another task. After supporters who admitted to supplying the LRA were told they were free to go, he would shoot them in their backs.
It wasn't the guilt of these acts that led Masaba to talk. "I had to follow the orders," he says. What spurred his betrayal was his anger over not getting a prestigious, well-paying deployment. Unlike other former special force unit forces who had been promoted to ESO, ISO and CMI, Masaba says that, after spending almost a year in the north, he was denied any office, refused a gun, and offered a measly salary of Shs 190,000.
Then, in February 2007, Masaba ran into Moses, the Acholi-speaking Unit 181 soldier. While Moses had been a junior soldier to Masaba before the special mission in the North, he was suddenly four ranks ahead of him, a Class II Warrant Officer. "I was so angry that I told Moses I was going to release information to the media channels," Masaba says. Months after the run-in, Masaba received a terse call from a friend in the army. "He said, 'They're hunting for you.'"
In May of 2007, Masaba crossed the border into Sudan on the back of a cargo truck. From there, he hitched a motorcycle for the 12-hour drive to Obo, where the country's UN High Commission for Refugees office is headquartered. After being interviewed by police who could only speak French, Masaba, who was believed to be a spy, was handcuffed and flown to Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic (CAR).
"It is then that Francis Bozize, the minister of defense and son of President Bozize came and took me to State House to meet his father," Masaba recalls. "He was in the company interior minister Michelle Ssali, education minister Charles Dubani and former president Gen. Kolingiba." The group asked Masaba what had brought him to CAR. He said he was a refugee. President Bozize promised he would personally investigate to find out whether Masaba was a spy sent by Uganda.
Then suddenly on August 20th, Masaba was escorted into a waiting plane with CAR's President Francois Bozize and his wife. He thought he was being taken to Europe as a refugee. Instead he found himself descending on Entebbe, where Kayihura, Museveni and Chief of Defense Forces Aronda Nyakairima, were all waiting for him. (Kayihura says he was at the airport to greet Bozize, but was there only to carry out his official duties regarding the visiting President's security.)
Bozize's surprise two-day state visit in August of 2007 made headlines, but the reason for the visit was nebulous: "Reporters were not told in precise terms what President Bozize and Museveni discussed although there were suggestions that security issues could have been on the table," the Daily Monitor reported on August 24.
The real reason for the visit, according to Masaba, was that Bozize, upon hearing about Masaba from his gendarmes and, suspecting a Ugandan spy was in the country, called up Museveni and arranged a meeting.
While Masaba doesn't know what was discussed between the two heads of state, he doesn't think Bozize was aware he was sending a young man to be tortured. "The wife of the President (Bozize) gave me 50,000 shillings as they left," he says, of Bozize's wife.
Masaba, as his story goes, was then driven, in a seven-vehicle convoy, to the Sheraton Hotel, where he would be grilled by Museveni, Minister of Ethics and Integrity Nsaba Buturo, Kale Kayihura, and Rugunda.
Rugunda says he is aware Masaba came to Uganda from CAR, but he denies being at the interrogation meeting. Masaba says he was presented with the statements that he had signed in CAR, which detailed the ambush of 77 and the special force unit in the north. Masaba says Museveni grilled him about the documents for hours, but he continually told the President that he had signed the papers, which were written in French, even though he didn't know what they said.
Finally, Museveni asked Masaba for the name of the rebel front he was associated with, telling his Ministers and UPDF commanders, "This boy is not acting alone." From there, Masaba was taken to a "safe house" in Muyenga. Hoping to extract the names of the soldiers the government was sure he must be working with, CMI guards tortured Masaba for the next month.
His torturers would make him stand on his tip-toes and hold himself up with a rope tied to the ceiling; when his arms got tired and he lowered his heels, he would step down on a board of nails. He was beaten, and clear, sour-tasting liquid that made him itch frantically, would be poured on his skin.
In one instance, men who Masaba only knows as Corporal Collins and Staff Sergeant Mugisha forced him to lie on the floor and burned a polyethylene bag on top of him, letting the bits of plastic fall on his arms and chest, where pebble-sized scars are still visible. "They said, 'Give us the names of the people who helped you leave this country, and we'll let you go free,'" Masaba remembers.
The Chief of Military Intelligence, Col. Leo Kyanda, refused to talk to the Independent about this story, referring instead to the army spokesman. Ankunda, off the top of his head, said he wasn't aware of a Collins or a Mugisha in CMI.
In the Muyenga "safe house," Masaba was detained alone in a self-contained room. "I would hear people groaning and screaming, but I never saw another prisoner," he says. During the month, men came and went through the door of Masaba's room – sometimes they would attempt to get information, other times the men in ties and suit jackets would just peek their heads to get a look at the legendary young defector.
After a few weeks, however, the stream of visitors slowed to a trickle. Masaba, sure that, since they had just dropped off dinner, his captors would leave him be for the night, plotted his escape. He wet a bathroom ceiling until one of the thin tiles was weak enough to give in. Three hours later, Masaba was outside the house and over the compound's wall. According to information he's received from friends in the UPDF, the guards of the safe house are still in jail for not preventing his escape.
But Masaba only lasted two weeks as a free man. His photo "supplied everywhere," he was picked up in Lwakhakha, near the border of eastern Uganda. That evening, he was taken to State House to face Museveni once again. "I didn't know you were a cowardly man," the President allegedly told him.
With security operatives now fully aware of his wily ways, Masaba was handcuffed the entire time, and this time his room wasn't self-contained, nor was it as comfortable. There were blood stains on his sheets and brownish-red splatters could be seen through the yellow paint cover-up on the walls.
He knew that he wasn't the only one in the house, a bungalow in Ntinda. When the guards brought him food, Masaba could see that they were carrying an extra plate for the prisoner next door. One day, Masaba's fellow inmate knocked on the wall between the two wardrobes in the rooms, and after that it became a routine: the strangers knocked at each other in the morning, at lunch, and during dinner.
The two finally met sometime around the time of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting hosted by Uganda in November 2007. Masaba could hear that there were only two guards left in the house, and they were complaining. "How can two people manage this place?" Masaba heard one say.
Later, he heard the one guard tell his colleague he had enough, and he was going out for the evening. A few hours after that, the last remaining guard, lonely and drunk on waragi, invited Masaba and the other prisoner to watch TV with him. "He even took off our handcuffs," says Masaba. With a quick look at his fellow inmate – who Masaba would later find out was a Rwandan policeman who had been illegally detained for, he had counted, 100 days – Masaba jumped on the guard and started beating him.
The Rwandan policeman joined in, and they handcuffed the guard with one of the pairs sitting on the coffee table and they destroyed his phone. "He was begging us not to kill him, he said he only had one kid," Masaba says. The two inmates interrogated their captor, a JATT military man. He told them that he had been guarding "safe houses" for nine years and he said that him and the other guards were to kill Masaba and the Rwandan "any time, any day."
The 24-year-old Masaba, who has now fled the country, could be lying as Rugunda, Ankunda and Kayihura attest.
But why would security operatives attempt to nab Masaba when he was about to leave the Independent office, alone? After all, it wasn't until the gun-toting men realized that it was the Independent's gatekeeper they had bundled up in the back of their Land Cruiser that the police and undercover army men made themselves known and began to search the Independent office.
If Masaba's stories were complete lies, why then wouldn't they want to charge him officially and detain him legally? And why would the government trace Masaba all the way to the Central Africa Republic, simply for deserting the army when soldiers desert on a daily basis?
The Independent will continue to follow up on this story in investigative series on state- inspired tortures.
(Originally published April 28 in Uganda's The Independent newspaper www.independent.co.ug/)
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INDIANAPOLIS - A.J. Foyt became a legend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway as much for throwing caution to the wind as for becoming the first four-time winner of the Indy 500.
Maybe that's why he's so fond of Takuma Sato.
The Japanese driver is in his first season with Foyt's team and will start on the outside of the sixth row in Sunday's race. And just like the owner of his modest program, Sato has built a rock star following in IndyCar with his dramatic moves, audacious passes and daring mentality.
"I go for it when I see if I can, and if there's a good chance, I definitely go for it, because that's racing," Sato said. "But I think the 500 last year, it makes it pretty clear for the fans, if I'm given a chance, I'll go for it for sure."
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He wound up talking about it after a visit to the infield care center.
Sato was driving for Rahal Letterman at the time, and trailing eventual winner Dario Franchitti down the front stretch. Sato knew the way his car was handling that his best chance was to try for the lead on Turn 1, so even though he was getting pinched, that's exactly what he did.
Sato kept going lower and lower until his left tires were in the grass, and he shot up the banking and into the outside wall. His car splintered on impact - he walked away without any injuries - while Franchitti was left alone to win his third Indianapolis 500.
"I've watched it a hundred times, maybe more," Sato said. "I don't know. I think if there's a similar chance, I'd go for it, for sure."
It's that kind of bravado that's made him such a fan favorite.
When Sato was introduced during the public drivers' meeting on Saturday morning along the front stretch, he drew one of the biggest cheers from a crowd bundled up against the chill. Asked why he was cheering for Sato, one fan replied, "Because he went for it."
"Well, Dad always told me that it's easier to calm a hard-charger down than prod a guy that doesn't want to change," explained Larry Foyt, the team manager of A.J. Foyt Racing and the one most responsible for giving Sato a full-time ride this year.
"I think we knew he was a good race driver," the elder Foyt said, adding that he wanted someone who could bring a "10th-place car home in 10th and a fifth-place car home in fifth."
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Something that Sato is slowly beginning to learn.
"I think the obvious thing is if you keep wrecking A.J.'s race cars, you have to tell him," Larry Foyt said with a smile. "It's a pretty calming effect on you."
The unlikely pairing of Sato with the hot-tempered Texan has already paid off.
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