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Male, March 6: After spending 24 hours in detention, former Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed on Wednesday walked out of police custody as his trial for alleged illegal detention of a judge has been deferred by four weeks.

During the hearing, which lasted for over a one-and-a-half hours, 45-year-old Nasheed sought deferment of trial till the Presidential polls in September. The Prosecutor too had agreed to the proposal.

However, noting that the Elections Commission is yet to announce Nasheed as a presidential candidate for the elections, the Bench postponed the trial by four weeks.

"Nasheed has walked out as a free man. He was taken into custody on orders of the court because he was evading Court summons and not because of any vendetta as he claims," President Mohammed Waheed's Press Secretary Masood Imad told PTI.

He added, "We have maintained right from the beginning that we cannot interfere in judicial matters. Even the trail against him has been postponed by four weeks only because of the wishes of the Court".

Nasheed was arrested on Tuesday less than a fortnight after he left the Indian High Commission in Male where he was holed up for 11 days to evade arrest in a case concerning the detention of the Chief Criminal Judge during his presidency.

His arrest led to protests by Nasheed's supporters who also indulged in violence. President Waheed's brother too was allegedly roughed up by protesters.

Police too cracked down on protesters and took into custody over 70 people including women.

Asserting that India was monitoring the situation very closely, the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi had said yesterday that it "expects due process and the Rule of Law would be followed".

Nasheed claimed the trial was "politically motivated" to bar him from contesting in the presidential elections.

If convicted in the case, he will face a maximum sentence of one year in jail. He will also be barred from contesting elections for three years.

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Today’s feature “Survivalist Series: WWE vs. Glenn Beck”, by Grantland contributor The Masked Man, takes a close look at the feud between the conservative media personality and the wrestling mega-business.  The piece examines the WWE’s history of using racially-charged storylines with a focus on the current characters Jack Swagger and Zeb Colter and their conflict with Beck.

The Masked Man asks the question: could McMahon and Beck be conspiring to combine pro wrestling and political radio into an unholy amalgam of lowbrow hucksterism?

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Here are two things you can always count on from WWE: It will always crave mainstream attention and it will always try to lure celebrities into the wrestling world. From WWE’s perspective, it applies a sheen of pop-culture acceptance to wrestling’s pug-nosed image, and it shows how wrestling is intertwined with the worlds of sports and entertainment. From ringside appearances by celebs — Fred Durst! Rick Rubin! Members of the Baltimore Ravens! — to the uninspired roster of guest hosts on Raw in recent years — Bob Barker! Al Sharpton! Florence Henderson! — to the higher-wattage stars trotted out for WrestleMania — Lawrence Taylor! Floyd Mayweather! Snooki! — WWE’s desire for crossover appeal is constant. The trend started with WrestleMania I, when Muhammad Ali, Billy Martin, Liberace, and the Rockettes were all imported for the fragile WWF’s make-or-break moment. For the past couple years, the main celebrity slot at Mania has been filled by The Rock, whose biggest claim to fame, perhaps paradoxically, is his wrestling career. Rock is headlining again this year, but is he enough to fulfill Vince McMahon’s never-ending quest for cultural relevance? Could there be another high-profile name up WWE’s sleeve? Could that person be Glenn Beck? Could McMahon and Beck be conspiring to combine pro wrestling and political radio into an unholy amalgam of lowbrow hucksterism?

As Beck might say, I’m just asking questions.

Alberto Del Rio won the World Heavyweight Championship in January. Long saddled with the character of an evil Mexican millionaire, he had recently turned face and found communion with WWE fans, 20 percent of whom (according to WWE) are Latino. With Rey Mysterio’s looming retirement, WWE has been searching for a new ambassador to Latino fans in the United States and Latin America. They tried Sin Cara in that role, but he broke into a thousand tiny pieces, so Del Rio got the call. Now they needed to establish this new star, and what better way than by finding a vile, Latino-hating villain to serve as his foil?

Enter Jack Swagger. Swagger had been around for a while, mostly as upper-mid-card filler. His all-American visage and collegiate wrestling background pigeonholed him as a poor man’s Kurt Angle. For much of his career, Swagger has been called “The All-American American,” which may be a nod to John McCain’s “the American president Americans have been waiting for” motto from 2008. But “John McCain” was an even weaker wrestling angle than he was a presidential candidate. Swagger seemed every bit as doomed and purposeless as McCain’s ill-fated campaign. Recently, however, Swagger has evolved into something darker. After a five-month hiatus, Swagger returned in early February with a scraggly beard and newly shaggy hair hanging from his 6-foot-6 frame. He looks like a survivalist Übermensch. He had new entrance music that sounded like it was lifted from a Fox News segment about the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He also had a new mouthpiece in Zeb Colter, a Vietnam vet and tea-party militiaman who directed the brunt of his patriotic fury at undocumented Mexican immigrants who “steal” jobs from hardworking Americans.

It was hard to figure out what to make of this story line, given WWE’s not-so-progressive history with Latino and immigration issues and its stereotype-driven treatment of race. As far back as the 1980s, WWF commentators Jesse “The Body” Ventura and Bobby “The Brain” Heenan flung racial jeers at Latino wrestlers. Ventura would refer to Tito Santana as “Chico” and call his finishing move the “flying burrito.” When Santana was taking a beating in the ring, Ventura would say things like, “I betcha Chico wishes he was back selling tacos in Tijuana right now!” Heenan was no better: “Tito Santana is like a cue ball — the harder you strike him, the more English you get out of him.” Even in the modern era, WWE has introduced characters like The Mexicools, three luchadors who rode a “Juan Deere” lawnmower to the ring; and “Los Guerreros,” a thugged-out Latino tag team (made up of two experienced and widely admired wrestlers) who drove a lowrider to the ring and proclaimed, “We lie, we cheat, we steal.” John Bradshaw Layfield, whose (final) character was a conservative Texas moneyman, played the anti-Latino angle from the opposite side. In one story line, he traveled to the Texas border, found a family of crossers, and literally kicked them back to Mexico. His reward for this act was a match with Eddie Guerrero for the WWE Championship.1 WWE fans understand that all wrestling characters are drawn in the broadest of strokes, and that the sport tends to be an equal opportunity offender when it comes to racial prejudice, jingoistic xenophobia, and sexual innuendo. But even within that context, Latino wrestlers have had it particularly bad in recent years.

But there is something different about Swagger and Colter. They aren’t merely the latest chapter in wrestling’s unfinished treatise on Latino stereotyping. When Swagger and Colter created a YouTube channel to promote their rants, their story line found its groove. The first video was an underproduced one-shot monologue set against a wooden fence with a Gadsden flag bobbing in the breeze. It begins with Zeb turning on the camcorder and walking back in front of the camera to start talking. It was an awkward, rambling revelation titled “IMMIGRATION” and lamented the end of the American dream with all the passion of a drunken discourse in a small-town dive bar. Their description of undocumented immigrants as “greedy, selfish, criminal delinquents” is offensive, sure, but it’s supposed to be — Swagger and Colter are heels. Throughout its history, pro wrestling has handled the tricky issue of race by painting racist characters as the bad guys they are, while turning minority wrestlers into heroes. This formula made the Junkyard Dog a huge star in the 1980s South. Wrestling fans know that race-baiting is part of the show. Offensive as it may be, it’s part of the tapestry of sexism and homophobia and violence that takes a hundred offensive threads and sews them up into a ramshackle, modern Iliad.

People who aren’t wrestling fans, on the other hand, aren’t in on the joke. This is clearly the case with the tea party movement, which Swagger and Colter both portray and lampoon. With so many excitable conservative commentators (and so many on-air hours to kill), it seemed inevitable that WWE would succeed in provoking the tea party.

First up was syndicated radio host Alex Jones, who took to the airwaves on February 19 to complain that the Swagger character was an attempt to demonize the tea party by mainstream Republicans Vince and Linda McMahon. In subsequent broadcasts, Jones surmised that WWE cast Swagger as a villain because “now there’s nothing worse than a white person” in America, and he implied that the departments of Justice and Defense were funding WWE’s anti-American agenda. But how, one might ask, could WWE be anti-American when they put on those “Tribute to the Troops” shows? “It doesn’t mean ‘thank the troops,'” Jones explained. “They thank the police state, they thank the global empire, they thank the New World Order2 to get us ready for troops on the streets.” One imagines WWE writers listening to this, smirking, and scribbling feverishly.

Next, the conservative blogosphere jumped to attention. Michelle Malkin snarked that the story line was “ripped straight from yesterday’s headlines”3 and wrote “It’s hard to imagine a bigger PR blunder. Expect a mea culpa any minute now.” Before long, Glenn Beck was in the mix. Beck, a blustery, conspiratorial shape-shifter with a penchant for showmanship that rivals McMahon’s,4 was a near-perfect target for WWE. Beck started by addressing Linda McMahon, who twice ran for a Connecticut Senate seat, nominally as a tea party candidate: “Linda McMahon, I’m sorry you didn’t win. … Now we know how she really feels.” As Beck dissected the first Colter promo, he accused WWE of caricaturing its own fan base. When one of Beck’s sidekicks pointed out that wrestling has always had over-the-top villains like The Iron Sheik, Beck said, “The problem is that a bunch of sheiks were not watching WWE. You’re making a villain out of 80 percent of your audience who are tired of being miscast.” But it’s Beck’s bias that shows through. Wrestling fans aren’t a bunch of hillbillies. As Marc Ambinder put it: “Wrestling might not seem ‘progressive’ to him, but wrestling fans are young. They’re of the Obama generation. They like to be on the right side of history. Actually, if you look at wrestling storylines years back, you’ll see how the script matches or tries to catch up with the political zeitgeist.”

Overall, however, Beck was less defiant than gloomy. “I can take it from a lot of people,” he said, “but I can’t take it from the stupid wrestling people.” This is the quote that has been most commonly reproduced in news stories and blog posts, but Beck’s comment was actually a self-critique of sorts. Look what directly followed it: “I can’t take it from the stupid wrestling people, especially since a lot of the people that watch wrestling are not New York elites.” Beck wasn’t saying “Get off my lawn” or “Get out of my country,” but instead “Get away from my audience.”

WWE’s immediate response was to try to lead Beck into a confrontation. They invited him onto this past Monday’s Raw, but Beck tweeted that he was busy “doing anything else,” so WWE sent announcer Michael Cole to Beck’s production studio to shame Beck for his indifference in a weird cross between Geraldo Rivera and the D-Generation X Invasion of WCW.

The most impactful response to Beck, however, came not from the WWE front office but from Swagger and Colter, who recorded a new wooden-fence oratory. But, this time, after the promo ended, the camera angle changed, and Colter and Swagger were revealed to be standing on a soundstage in front of a green screen. They introduced themselves by their real names and explained in plain, straightforward terms how the pro wrestling enterprise works. Those anti-immigration speeches? Those were just promos, said Zeb — “a scene we record to elicit a positive or negative reaction from our fans.” The substance was irrelevant. “We aren’t in the political business or the immigration business,” he continued, “we are in the entertainment business.” After shaming Beck with a litany of audience demographics, Zeb and Swagger launched back into their rant as if nothing had happened. And Monday on Raw, even when Zeb mentioned Beck, he didn’t have to break character to do it. That was probably the most revealing thing about the broadcast — of course WWE was going to keep talking about Beck if it meant more mainstream attention, but they didn’t need to address his wrestling illiteracy on the air. They didn’t need to explain why Zeb and Swagger act the way they do, because everybody knows wrestling is staged. Beck should understand this, too, because as much as anyone, Beck knows what it is to be a performer.

Back in 2010, Beck, speaking about his business, told Forbes that “we’re an entertainment company” and that he “could give a flying crap about the political process.” Sound familiar? One can only assume that Beck took this message to heart. Being a jackass is easy; playing one convincingly requires talent.

The WWE-Beck feud was so obvious that one wonders why it hadn’t already happened. Immediately after Beck lashed out at WWE, rumors began swirling that Beck was in on the act, although his lack of interest in responding to WWE probably rules that out. Unlike WWE, Beck and his ilk may be self-aware in Forbes interviews, but not in their product. WWE’s decision to have Zeb and Swagger break character was the most galling thing it could have done, because on some level, even wrestling fans think Beck was right. They think other wrestling fans are idiots who don’t know wrestling is fake. That video was a formal acknowledgment by WWE that there’s no difference between smart fans and marks anymore. Everybody is in on the joke.

Some things, however, are too real to make it into the story line. On February 19, Swagger was pulled over and arrested in Mississippi for driving under the influence and for marijuana possession. In the past, wrestlers have been suspended and even fired for similar offenses, and there was widespread assumption that the same fate would befall Swagger. But that was not to be this time, not with the attention his character was getting. When TMZ asked about the incident, WWE came back with a rather libertarian response — “Mr. Swagger is responsible for his own personal actions” — and that was that. The great irony of the situation is that for all his disgust at WWE, Glenn Beck probably saved Swagger’s career.

Beck is less interested in defending his ideology than he is in defending his turf, which is likely why he refuses to help draw eyes to WWE. But that won’t stop WWE from trying to keep using the situation to its advantage, and that’s something Beck surely understands.

In 2011, when Donald Trump was using every opportunity to call President Obama a Muslim or a foreign national, Beck tried to express his discomfort. “The last thing the country needs is a showboat,” he told Bill O’Reilly. “I would hope we could get serious candidates who could shake things up by not saying provocative things, just by stating the truth of what’s going on.”

“But then you and I would be off the air,” O’Reilly answered, “because we’re provocateurs. We do that every day.” Somewhere, Vince McMahon must have been nodding his head in approval.

— The Masked Man (@AKATheMaskedMan) is David Shoemaker, author of the “Dead Wrestler of the Week” column.

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    Fri, 2005-03-18 09:07 — Adisa Banjoko

    Calm Under Fire: Interview with Luke Stewart.

    "It's the silent, still water that kills a man."
    African Proverb

    Luke Stewart is one of Ralph Gracie's most technical
    fighters. He has fought many of the worlds best jiu
    jitsu guys from America and from across the water.
    Luke however, is VERY mellow and quiet. He's not
    arrogant, or conceited. He's just naturally a quiet,
    highly focused guy. He's does not talk about things-
    he does things.

    At the Gracie Open next week, what he's doing, is
    going head up against the UFC's own Nick Diaz. This
    will prove to be one of the best fights of the day and
    is one of the main reasons I'm going to the Gracie
    Open this year (among other kick ass super fights that

    I was able to talk to Luke and get some ideas about
    his opinions on Nick, his future in jiu jitsu and how
    he says so damn calm under fire.

    Your upcoming match is possibly the most highly
    anticipated event at the Gracie Open. Where is your
    head just days before the fight?

    Im excited to fight Nick, he is a great competitor. I
    feel confident that i will do well against him. I felt
    very discouraged after my loss against his teammate
    Vinicius in Sep., and hope to redeem myself in this
    fight. Im very prepared physically and mentally for
    this fight.

    2. What do you think Nick's 3 greatest strengths are
    and what do you think your 3 greatest strengths are?
    Nick is a very experienced fighter, so he is very
    mentally tough, he also has good takedown ability, and good flexibility.

    I think that going into the fight, my advantage will
    be first, that we are fighting in the gi, since i know
    nick trains mostly gi-less, and i train a lot in the
    gi. I think my main strengths are my technique, and
    adaptability, i have great training partners with all
    types of games, that push me everyday.

    3. One of the things I've always liked about you is
    your genuine relaxed nature. How do you find that
    center and keep it before, during and after bouts like
    the one with Nick?

    I try to train as hard as i can before a fight, when I
    feel prepared i feel relaxed. All i can do is fight my
    best, and see what happens . I've fought tough
    competitors before, and train with tough guys
    everyday. I think that the training for a fight is
    much harder then the fight itself.

    4. Have you guys ever met or competed before? How did this come about?

    Nick and i have never fought before, i was originally
    looking to rematch Vinicius, who i fought last sep.
    and lost to by advantage. Ceasar didn't want us to
    fight, and offered the fight with nick, which i was
    happy to take. I seen nick compete a lot in the past,
    and always knew that we would meet eventually.

    5. In your mind, is this any different than your match
    against Matt Hughes?

    I feel that this fight is a lot different, I think
    nick is a much more well rounded fighter then Matt
    Hughes. I knew exactly how my fight with Matt Hughes would go, although very tough and effective his style is very one dimensional.

    Nick's game is much more dynamic, I have to be
    prepared for several scenarios.

    6. You always push yourself and go against the best in
    the mix, when they are arguably at their best. Any
    chance we'll see you in the UFC or PRIDE?

    I don't know. I love training and competing in jiu
    jitsu, and would love to possibly test my jiu-jitsu in
    the ring.

    7. Outside of the physical training...What do you do
    to mentally or spiritually prepare yourself for

    I've been trying to work more on visualization, and
    specific strategy. This helps me to be more confident,
    and relaxed before the fight

    8. Any last words?

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The Super-Tuesday presidential primaries will be on 2/5 this year. We hear that we need to ask questions of the candidates. I have one and I would like the candidates of both parties to answer as precisely as possible. What will they do about the Acts and Executive Orders that have been passed by this president and administration since 9/11? (All documents available on the internet.)

The Patriot Act was obviously written some time before 9/11. We all know it was passed in a panic, and although it has been modified somewhat over the years, it is still dangerous to our civil rights.

The Military Commissions Act, passed on 1/3/06, takes away our Constitutional right of habeas corpus (give me the body). Before, the government could not arrest someone and keep them imprisoned indefinitely without legal counsel. Now, if deemed to be an unlawful enemy combatant they can. The initial statement in the Act reads, "To authorize trial by military commission for violations of the law of war, and other purposes." Under Sec. 948 a. Definitions, "(1) unlawful enemy combatant ""(A) The term 'unlawful enemy combatant' means--- "" ¦(ii) a person who, before, on, or after the date of the enactment of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, has been determined to be an unlawful enemy combatant by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal or another competent tribunal established under the authority of the President or the Secretary of Defense."

According to this someone can be judged to be an unlawful enemy combatant for something done or said prior to 1/3/06. Therefore this act repudiates habeas corpus as well as the principal of ex post facto (illegal arrest for something done prior to a law being passed.)

On 5/9/07, President Bush issued the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, which confirms the direction the government will go after a catastrophic emergency. This is defined under (1) (b) "'Catastrophic emergency' means any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions." We thought insuring the continuity of our government was the job of the U.S. Constitution. What is this Directive trying to accomplish? Martial law made easy?

The Executive Orders have gotten increasingly onerous. There is "Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq." 7/19/07 This allows the government, without due process from the courts, to seize the property of anyone it deems has in anyway thwarted their efforts in Iraq. And to seize the property of anyone who tries to help them! Define stabilization efforts. Securing our seizure of Iraqi oil? Thwarting efforts by donating to Democrats or peace organizations?

The "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007" has already passed Congress, and now faces a vote in the Senate. According to a summary of the Act by Bruce Fein in the Washington Times, 12/28/07, "Denuded of euphemisms and code words, the act aims to identify and stigmatize persons and groups who hold thoughts the government decrees correlate with homegrown terrorism, for example, opposition to the Patriot Act or the suspension of the great writ of habeas corpus. The act will inexorably culminate in a government listing of homegrown terrorists or terrorist organizations without due process; a complementary listing of books, videos, or ideas that ostensibly further "violent radicalization;" and a blacklisting of persons who have intersected with either list."

Considering these profound threats to our civil liberties, I want clear and concise answers as to what the candidates will do. Keep them? Or not?
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Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] trunk compilation errors in jenkins
From: Gilles Gouaillardet (gilles.gouaillardet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-30 02:16:16

#4815 is indirectly related to the move :

in bcol/basesmuma, we used to compare ompi_process_name_t, and now we
(try to)
compare an ompi_process_name_t and an opal_process_name_t (which causes
a glory SIGSEGV)

i proposed a temporary patch which is both broken and unelegant,
could you please advise a correct solution ?

On 2014/07/27 7:37, George Bosilca wrote:
> If you have any issue with the move, I’ll be happy to help and/or support you on your last move toward a completely generic BTL. To facilitate your work I exposed a minimalistic set of OMPI information at the OPAL level. Take a look at opal/util/proc.h for more info, but please try not to expose more.


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Re: Searchbase Bug in slapd?

At 11:33 PM 10/7/00 +0000, Jim Hud wrote:
>If I use Outlook to run a search against slapd (which has defaultsearchbase
>configured) I get data back OK.

You've demonstrated that the defaultSearchBase kludge works for
clients which don't send an appropriate search base.

>If I then configure the Outlook search base
>to the correct base (same as set in defaultsearchbase) I still get data
>back, OK so far.

You've demonstrated that slapd responds with a properly configured

>However when I clear the Outlook search base to nothing I
>get no data back from slapd.

This is correct behavior for a server which doesn't hold the
root namingContext (or doesn't have a defaultSearchBase set).
If slapd cannot locate the base of the search, it cannot
return any entries.

>In fact the logs appear to say that Outlook is
>giving a base of "c=UK".

If the client requests "c=UK" and "c=UK" doesn't hold "c=UK", it
cannot return "c=UK".

>Restarting slapd makes no difference, nor does
>rebooting the slapd machine.  Looks like an Outlook problem doesn't it.
>BUT if I then do the same but instead of slapd I use an MS Exchange LDAP
>server then it resets OK.

What resets?  Outlook?  That's its business.

>Also if I create a new directory account on
>Outlook with no searchbase set it does not work until I stop and restart

You likely changed something, like setting a defaultSearchBase, to
change slapd behavior.

>My theory is that the logic of dealing with null search bases is wrong

Some clients expect servers to somehow guess at what they mean
when given an empty search base.  However, LDAP/X.500 prescribes
this behavior quite clearly.  If the server is not configured
to hold the root namingContext, it cannot return any entries
for a subtree or one-level search when an empty base DN (if
scope is base, the RootDSE is returned).

defaultSearchBase can be used to purposely break LDAP/X.500
semantics and specify a defaulting to some DN.  Whether you
use this mechanism or not is your choice.


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Re: OpenLDAP + MD5 + PHP != Work

Don't encrypt your $pw in your code.  When you send your plain pw across
to the LDAP server, the server "MD5's" (because it knows it's local
password is stored that way) it, and compares it against it's internal
MD5 store.  If that comparison matches, you win.

When you send your "MD5'd" password, LDAP receives it, encodes it
*again* because it doesn't know you've already encoded it, and compares
it against the local hashed password.

Use TLS or a SASL mechanism instead of simple auth if you need to
protect the password.

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 14:03, Steven Hildreth wrote:
> Hi,
> Attempting to connect to an OpenLDAP server to authenticate a
> user, just want to see if the password the user passes is the stored
> password if true. I can get the LDAP connection to connect to the
> server, but unless I switch the LDAP server to use only clear I
> continually get a 'Invalid Credentials' error (passwords dont match).
> I am using LDAP MD5 to hash passwords on the server. If I take and
> echo out the password the routine below is using and compare it to the
> password on the server they match exactly?! Even if I include "{MD5}"
> at the front it still always gives me "Invalid Credentials".
> Here is an example of the code I am using to check the password:
> function CheckPassword($username,$password){
>  $dn = "uid=" . $username . ",ou=People,dc=<domain>,dc=net";
>  $pw = trim(base64_encode(pack("H*",md5($password))));
>  $ldapconn = ldap_connect("ldaps://<server_address>/") or die("Could
> not connect to LDAP server!");
>  if ($ldapconn) {
>          $ldapbind = ldap_bind($ldapconn,$dn,$pw);
>          if ($ldapbind) {
>                  return true;
>          }
>  }
> }
> I am using OpenLDAP v2.1.30 and PHP 4.3.8, for what its worth I am
> using Gentoo and my make flags include "ldap".
> Thanks for any pointers.
> Regards,
> Steven
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Re: openldap queries to w2k3 active directory fails

At 10:04 AM 1/17/2007, javier rojas wrote:
>ldapsearch -v d 1 -h w2k3server -p 389 -X "admin"

Did you really want to do a SASL authentication?  If not,
see ldapsearch(1) for information about how to disable use
of SASL (the default).  Otherwise, I suggest you, at
least initially, use the -Y option to specify the desired
SASL mechanism.

>i get a list of stuff and the bottom of it i get:
>ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Unknown authentication method (-6)
>                additional info: SASL (-4): no mechanism avvailable

This error is discussed here in the FAQ at:

>what does the -6 and the -4 stands for?, what am i missing?

ldapsearch(1) doesn't have -4 and -6 flags, so they
stand for argument error I guess.  See ldapsearch(1).

Regards, Kurt


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Debts $0
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Contributions from this PAC to federal candidates (list recipients)
(0% to Democrats, 100% to Republicans)
Contributions to this PAC from individual donors of $200 or more ( list donors) $9,850

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legend Full Disclosure $1,170,799 (98.6%)
legend Incomplete $4,750 (0%)
legend No Disclosure $12,350 (1.0%)

Based on data released by the FEC on March 25, 2013.

Indirect Expenditures That Target This Member

Committee NameAffiliateTotalForAgainstType
American Federation of Teachers$335,118$335,118$0CC
Environment America$33$33$0IE
Fair Share Action$84,810$84,810$0IE
Fair Share Alliance$119$119$0IE
Human Rights Campaign$471$471$0CC
International Assn of Fire Fighters$511$511$0CC
National Education Assn$15,286$15,286$0CC
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legend Incomplete $9,725 (0%)
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Based on data released by the FEC on March 11, 2013.

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which then examines its cache to see if the appropriate CRL or OCSP response exists and is still valid. If so, that entity is returned to Security.framework. If no entry is found in cache,
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SharpGL or OpenTK

For the record I am a newbie when it comes to OpenGL I've generally dealt with DirectX(generally with a library not low level) and I'm looking to develop my game engine on top of OpenGL mainly because this way it can be compiled on any system and the platforms I plan on reaching are.
- iOs
- Android
- Windows(2000-7) Yes many people still use 2000, I use 7 for graphical/tools reasons otherwise XP is a good Os still.
- Mac OS X Intel (10.5-current)
- Linux (Will be testing on Arch Linux)

I don't think sharpgl or opentk will have a problem with this, I'm just wondering what are the differences between sharpgl and opentk to make an educated decision.

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As far as I know, OpenTK is the way to go because it powers MonoTouch (iOS) and MonoDroid (Android).

I don't know about SharpGL, you will have to contact the developer of the project and learn more about the capabilities of the library.

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Opengl have cleaner api, and with opentk, it is very nice to program with ogl (because of these enums). And can do cross-platform applicati0ns.

SharpDX/SlimDX, you write only windows software. Dont know these apis, cant say anything bad (and good ;) ).

If you want to develop to android, I suggest changing to java (its compiler is free, monoandroid isnt).
And if you check java, check jme3, there you can write very easily android software, I checked and writed little demo to my galaxy mini in 30min. But, it is java, and I just changed it to c# again, I, myself, dont like java..

But, keep testing ;)

(edit): Oops, My bad, I first read sharpDX, not sharpGL :D But, OTK then, is the way to go.

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OpenTK supports OpenGL ES and is bundled with MonoDroid/MonoTouch for Android and iOS. Last time I checked SharpGL did not support OpenGL ES at all.

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Been playing with both, OpenTK just seems "more" complete.
For the DX side I preferred slimdx.


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AFC West Offseason Needs: Broncos, Chargers, Chiefs, Raiders

The AFC West was one of the best divisions in the NFL in 2013, putting three teams into the postseason. That means it could be a bit of an arms race this offseason, as the teams know that competition within the division will be tough in 2014. Let’s take a look at the offseason plans for the four teams in the AFC West.

Denver Broncos – As long as Peyton Manning is still around the Broncos are going to do everything they can to win in the short term. Eric Decker may leave in free agency and Wes Welker is getting old, so Denver needs to find a receiver that can team up with Demaryius Thomas and Julius Thomas to make sure Manning still has an elite arsenal of receivers at his disposal. The Broncos also have a few free agents along their offensive line, and whether they re-sign those guys or bring in new players, they have to make sure that unit is strong and Manning is well protected. On defense, something has to give at cornerback, where the Broncos need help, regardless of whether or not they’re able to bring back Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie. Denver also needs to invest in a young pass rusher to complement Von Miller, who will need some help next season after coming off an ACL injury.

Kansas City Chiefs – The Chiefs have a team that can reach the playoffs, but they won’t have a team that can play at a championship level until they address certain areas. Alex Smith is likely to stay at quarterback, who is fine for now, but Kansas City needs to get him more help around him outside of Dwayne Bowe and Jamaal Charles. The Chiefs should explore the free agent market for wide receivers while also taking advantage of a deep class of wide receivers in the draft, which should help them pick up at least two talented wide outs this offseason. The Chiefs also have a few starters along the offensive line approaching free agency, which is something they’ll have to adequately address if they’re going to remain competitive in 2014. Defensively, the Chiefs are in relatively good shape, except in the secondary, where they got exposed late in the season when their pass rush wasn’t quite as dominant as they were early in the season. If Kansas City can get more talent around safety Eric Berry they’ll be in good shape on the back end of their defense.

Oakland Raiders – Dennis Allen has one more season to start turning things around in Oakland or he’s going to be unemployed. The first thing Allen will have to do is decide on a course of action at quarterback, because if he doesn’t want to commit to Terrelle Pryor or Matt McGloin in 2014, the Raiders may have to use their first round pick on a new quarterback. Once the quarterback position is figured out, Oakland may have to make due with the rest of the offense as is, because their defense needs a lot of attention. Oakland had a terrible pass defense last year, and they’ll not only need to overhaul their secondary, but they’re going to need to find pass rushers along the defensive line. On the off chance Jadeveon Clowney falls to them in the draft, they may need to take him, even if it means waiting until later in the draft to pick a quarterback, because generating a pass rush may be equally important to becoming a competitive team in 2014.

San Diego Chargers – The resurgence of Philip Rivers and the emergence of rookie receiver Keenan Allen have given the Chargers a boost and a chance to remain competitive for a few more years. Some improvement to the offensive line could be made this offseason, and it also wouldn’t hurt San Diego to add another receiver or two, perhaps a tight end that can ultimately take over for Antonio Gates. But the biggest priority for the Chargers this offseason could be cornerback, where the team may need to invest an early round draft pick while also acquiring one or two players in free agency to give that position a boost. Finally, San Diego could use another pass rusher, and if they can find a way to make a splash in that area, it could go a long way towards helping them challenge for a division title in 2014 if Rivers can continue to perform at the level he did in 2013.

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Tina Fey: Now it's time for an old favorite here at "Weekend Update" - "Point/Counterpoint". Here to debate tonight are Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter and Boston Red Sox fan Seth Meyers. Tonight's topic on "Point/Counterpoint": "Derek Jeter Sucks" - "No, I Don't". Derek, why don't we start with you.

Derek Jeter: Thanks, Tina. I know my friend Seth Meyers here is a Red Sox fan, and that's great. The fan really are what keep Major League baseball going. But I hope Seth can see that I play hard all the time, and I always do my best for the team.

Tina Fey: Seth, Counterpoint?

Seth Meyers: You suck!

Tina Fey: Seth, you still have, like, thirty seconds.

Seth Meyers: I'll elaborate. Jeter, you suck in three very specific ways. So Hard, So Bad, and Wicked Bad.

Tina Fey: Derek? Response?

Derek Jeter: Well, I’ve heard this argument before, Seth. In fact, Red Sox fans have been nice enough to share this argument with me every time I play in Boston. Or walk in Boston. Or go on a date in a fancy restaurant in Boston. Also, sometimes they drive to Baltimore, when we play the Orioles, to tell me I suck. [ Seth starts chanting "Der-ek!" in Derek's ear ] But if you look at my numbers, you'll find that I'm a very productive shortshop. Seth, what are you doing? You've been following me around all week screaming at me.

Seth Meyers: I'm sorry, Derek.. really.. I really am. It's just you and people like you ruined my entire childhood. So I swore if I ever got within six feet of a real Yankee, I'd kick his ass. But then I saw you.. and I knew that that could not happen. But, thankfully, this can happen - You suck!

Derek Jeter: Seth, I don't suck. I've won four World Series rings in six years.

Seth Meyers: Valid point. But if there was a World Series of sucking, you'd have, like, a hundred rings!

Derek Jeter: What?! Alright, look.. Nomar Garciaparr's a great player. Is it okay to say he sucks?

Seth Meyers: [ aghast ] What.. did you say..?

Derek Jeter: I don't think he sucks, I'm trying to prove a point!

Seth Meyers: [ crying ] Well, why would you say that..? You said that Nomar.. he has a broken wrist.. and he's so nice.. and he's like my best friend..!

Derek Jeter: Seth, Seth.. I'm sorry. Is there anything I can do to make you feel better?

Seth Meyers: Will you come play for Boston?

Derek Jeter: No. No.

Seth Meyers: Then, sign my hat?

Derek Jeter: Sure, man, no problem.

Seth Meyers: Will you sign it as Nomar?

Derek Jeter: Whatever.. whatever.. [ signs the hat ]

Seth Meyers: Thanks, Derek. You know, you don't suck.

Derek Jeter: Thanks, Seth. You do suck, a little.

Seth Meyers: I know.. I know..

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Ya see, the reason it hurts so bad is because the fall was so far. That's something a dirtbag Chief's fan like you just can't understand.
No class either ... couple chefs fans were howling at Sassy on Facebook minutes after it ended.

To be fair, chefs had a long fall ... from 1969 to the rest of recorded history ...
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Are you ready for some football? I know am! While summers are great for a Tennessee vacation (this year has been particularly hot and humid), our minds are now on fall and football, and there’s no better place to watch a football game than Nashville.

Home field advantage
LP Field, home of the Tennessee Titans, is an open-air, natural grass stadium surrounded by more than 20,00 trees. It’s located on the east bank of the Cumberland River and within walking distance to downtown Nashville. There isn’t a bad seat in the stadium, but in case you miss a play there are two scoreboard screens on both ends of the field and at least 60 concession stands so you don’t have to go far to find what you’re looking for.

Pre and post-game party
The field is within walking distance of downtown — where all the action is before and after the game. On the main strip of Broadway, you can find fans getting a bite to eat or a drink before the game at Bailey’s and Big River Grille (tables fill up fast, so make sure to arrive no later than 10:30am on noon game days if you want to get a seat). After eating,  everyone heads over to the game and the cheering begins on the walk over the bridge to the stadium. While we all want our team to win, the best part of Nashville football is that if you have to endure a loss, it isn’t long before you’ll start  cheering up. Just walk over the bridge towards Broadway and listen to live music in Tootsies, Legends Corner or Second Fiddle. Let the music and dancing take you away, and why not — you have the rest of the day to enjoy!

The visiting team
If you’re visiting from out of town, there are plenty of Nashville hotels within walking distance to the stadium, like the Sheraton, Courtyard, Hilton and Doubletree. Because these hotels sell out on Titans game weekends the rates can be a little higher than usual. If you’re on a budget, there are several options to choose from. Just across the highway is the West End/Vanderbilt area of town. Hotel Indigo, Courtyard Vanderbilt,  and the Hutton Hotel are a little less expensive and provide shuttles for guests into downtown. For even more savings, hotels near the airport are much cheaper, a cab ride to the game is only about $20 each way and you don’t have to worry about parking.

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Money reads: Feds considering helping underwater homeowners refinance

This week we bring you news about aid for troubled homeowners and Bank of America foreclosing on people who'd either paid their loans on time or early.

Refinancing: The New York Times reports that (LINK FIXED) the Obama Administration is considering a refinancing program to help homeowners whose loan balances exceed their home values. The Times report U.S. homeowners owe $700 billion more than what their homes are worth. Bankrate's Mortgages Blog says 70% of all mortgage applications in the first half of the eyar were from homeowners wanting to refinance.

Foreclosures: They accounted for one of every three homes sold in Oregon between April and June, according to RealtyTrac.

More foreclosure: A Bank of America customer in New Jersey who paid his mortgage on time still ended up in foreclosure. Meanwhile, a couple in found B of A foreclosing on them for paying their mortgage off early

Wall Street: The New York Federal Reserve's 12-member board of Governors, which oversees banks, designates three seats for members of the public. Two of them have been vacant since 2008, The Street reports

Underemployment: Bloomberg reports on the Slow Disappearance of the American Working Man. Only 81.2 percent of men age 25 and 54 held jobs, well below the depths of the 1982-83 recession. Compare that to 1969, when 95 percent of men in their prime working years had a job.

Coffee prices: Good news! Coffee is getting cheaper, CNN Money reports. No word on whether prices for those good single origin beans sold here are coming down.

Investment advice: Never heard of a "structured note" or "structured product?" That's probably a good thing, says MarketWatch's Outside The Box. "Owners of these products should ask their financial adviser some pointed questions"

Health insurance: About 1 in 10 large and mid-sized employers are considering dropping health coverage as a fringe benefit by 2014, surveys have found


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Oregon Legislature ensures Facebook's Prineville plant doesn't face higher taxes

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SALEM -- A bill that ensures Facebook won't get hit with a surprise tax bill for its Prineville data storage center passed the House unanimously Wednesday and now heads to the governor, who is expected to sign it.

Approval of the bill came a day after Apple made public its plans to build a similar data center in the same area of the state.

Both companies are building in Crook County "enterprise zones" -- areas set aside for commercial development that come with tax breaks. In Facebook's case, it doesn't have to pay property taxes at the site for 15 years. Details of Apple's deal haven't been announced.

After Facebook built its plant, the Oregon Department of Revenue said the company could be subject to "centralized taxation," which targets utilities and can tax intangibles such as the company's brand. Facebook lobbied hard for a new law exempting data storage plants from such taxes. Senate Bill 1532 does just that.

"This restores the integrity of our enterprise zones," said Rep. Mike McLane, R-Powell Butte.

Rep. Tobias Read, D-Beaverton, said the bill would encourage even more Internet-based companies to locate their server farms in Oregon. It's critical for the state to honor its commitments to tax breaks, he said.

"The world is watching how we choose to act," Read said. "This bill is much bigger than any one company."

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An audit released this month on Oregon’s dismal track record shifting people off of welfare and into jobs offers a detailed look at the effects of the recession.

The audit from the Oregon Secretary of State's Office includes maps and charts that illustrate the downturn’s toll, including a sharp rise in welfare recipients and a reduction in state services.

The graphics also show how state cuts contributed to welfare recipients’ low rate of working or looking for work. Oregon welfare recipients spent just 14.1 hours a month on work-related activities in 2010 – the lowest in the nation.

The audit, released April 16, comes as Oregon continues to struggle with high demand for cash assistance, officially called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. About 91,400 Oregonians in 34,300 families received TANF in February, according to the latest figures from the Oregon Department of Human Services.

Data show bad news on every front for many Oregonians: Unemployment spiked from 2007-09 and remains above the national rate. And most of the jobs lost in 2008-12 were middle-wage – the kind that keep families off of welfare.

The jobs coming back, however, tend to be high- or low-wage, a phenomenon state economists call “job polarization.”

The upshot: Oregonians who used to hold middle-wage jobs are competing for lower-wage jobs that often don’t pay enough to keep their families off of welfare. And less-qualified low-wage workers are being pushed out of work and onto welfare.

With all that, it’s no surprise the number of Oregon families on welfare more than doubled during the recession. Single-parent families, especially, saw reliance on welfare soar. The numbers remain well above prerecession levels and aren’t expected to dip back anytime soon.

Meanwhile, federal money for welfare is capped, forcing states to decide whether to cut services, add state money or increase staff workloads. Oregon did all three, the audit found.

While other states tightened eligibility to trim welfare rolls, Oregon slashed money for related jobs programs, reduced subsidies for child care and transportation, doubled caseloads for program managers, and cut contractors, including those who help recipients with addictions and mental health problems, the audit found.

The Oregon Legislature in 2011 cut state spending for client services by half and kept staffing flat.

Welfare recipients are technically required to participate in DHS' Jobs Opportunity and Basic Skills program. But a 50 percent budget cut in 2011 meant that only about 15 percent of those eligible could participate.

Even before those cuts, auditors found that in 2010, Oregon welfare recipients spent the lowest average number of hours each month working or looking for work. The figures include only those who can work, excluding, for instance, children and parents with disabilities.

In June 2013, DHS recorded no work activity for two-thirds of Oregon’s more than 31,000 clients, the audit found.

DHS Director Erinn Kelley-Siel wrote in her response to the audit that the department will put a higher priority on funding jobs programs as money becomes available.

"Because jobs were in short supply for even the most qualified job-seekers, the Legislature chose to prioritize TANF's family stability side" during the recession, Kelley-Siel wrote. "It left the cash assistance side of the program in place as part of a safety net for children and drastically reduced employment supports and services for adults in the program."

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Oregon Coast Aquarium launches new learning tool for teenagers, teachers

The Oregon Coast Aquarium launched the Oceanscape Network on Monday as a new online resource for teenagers and teachers to explore the coast’s natural wonders, according to Erin Paxton of the aquarium staff.

The website is It was made possible by a grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, based in Vancouver, Wash.

The network is designed to bring what the coast has to offer in natural science education to urban centers and inland communities. Studies show that young people spend an increasing amount of time staring at electronic screens and less time outdoors, so the network leverages technology that teenagers are already using to connect with nature and the environment.

Ocean studies are generally not part of school curriculum or standardized testing, so the aquarium’s education staff developed the program to bridge the learning gap, according to Paxton. The website will assist Oregon high school students complete a pre-requisite for graduation, while helping teachers integrate environmental learning into the classroom. Teachers across Oregon are already registered to use this new resource.

The Oceanscape Network lets users submit photos and videos, share stories or sightings of wild animals, and connect to other users through social media feeds and staff at the aquarium.

The website is designed specifically for pre-teens and teens, but internet users of all ages are encouraged to explore the Oceanscape Network.

The Oregon Coast Aquarium is open every day this winter from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the South Beach neighborhood of Newport. For more information visit or call 541-867-3474. The address is 2820 S.E. Ferry Slip Rd.

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"Head First EJB": A Brain-Friendly Study Guide to Passing the Sun Certified Business Component Developer Exam

Sebastopol, CA--It was overheard one day at the Tikibean Lounge: the Session bean grumbled to the bartender, "I'm tired of doing all the work and getting none of the glory." The bartender replied with the typical sangfroid of one who listens to such complaints day in and out, "What do you mean? Aren't you the only bean that's been required by the spec since the very beginning?" To which the Session bean rejoined, "Fat lot of good THAT does me." And so the conversation went.

You can learn a lot about Session beans in the Tikibean Lounge--about all sorts of Enterprise JavaBeans, for that matter. But the only one way you can get there is head first. That is, you'll find the Tikibean Lounge inside the covers of Head First EJB: Passing the Sun Certified Business Component Developer Exam (O'Reilly, US $44.95) by Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates. You'll also find plenty of real-world tips in the Off-Path Guides, exam traps and EJB pitfalls, and more than two hundred Coffee Cram mock exam questions with which to test your knowledge.

"Head First EJB" sees readers safely through the exam and--even better--prepares them to use EJBs in the real world. Written by the co-developers of the real SCBCD exam, the book delves deeply into the EJB architecture, session, entity, and message-driven bean lifecycles, CMP, EJB-QL, transactions, security, patterns, and what component-based development really means.

The second book in the Head First series, "Head First EJB" applies the latest in learning theory to drive knowledge straight into the brain. Readers interact with the material in unusual ways to learn more deeply and more quickly, and--most importantly--to use what they learn. Those who are already familiar with "Head First Java" will know what to expect--the unexpected. If not, get ready to engage your mind.

Although "Head First EJB" prepares readers to pass the Sun Certified Business Component Developer Exam, even those who aren't planning to take the exam will find the book a great resource for learning about EJB. "The reason the book is called 'Head First EJB' and not 'Head First SCBCD Exam'is because when we first designed what we would put into an EJB 'learning book,' the content was not related to the exam," explain Sierra and Bates. "However, the content in the exam and the content we'd planned to include in an introductory learning EJB book were almost identical. So yes, the book is great for people who want a Head-First-style introduction to really understanding the core concepts of EJB." The book is not for hard-core enterprise developers already familiar with EJB, the authors add, but is about learning and really understanding everything about the way that Enterprise JavaBeans work. And since it's Head First, that means learning in the quickest and most entertaining way, without feeling bored or flummoxed.

"Building business components with EJB is one of the most popular uses of Java," note Sierra and Bates, "but the SCBCD exam is scary. We know--we helped write it. Guilt-ridden over the toughness of the test, we thought the least we could do is offer a simulating way to pass it, and all for the cost (or less) of three extra large pizzas and a six-pack."

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Org. Synth. 1969, 49, 81
DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.049.0081
[Ketone, cyclohexyl methyl]
Submitted by Thomas M. Bare and Herbert O. House1.
Checked by A. De Meijere and K. B. Wiberg.
1. Procedure
Caution! Since hydrogen is liberated in the first step of this reaction, it should be conducted in a hood. A dry, 500-ml., three-necked flask is fitted with a reflux condenser, a pressure-equalizing dropping funnel, a mechanical stirrer, and an inlet tube to maintain a static nitrogen atmosphere in the reaction vessel throughout the reaction. In the flask are placed 1.39 g. (0.174 mole) of powdered lithium hydride (Note 1) and 100 ml. of anhydrous 1,2-dimethoxyethane (Note 2). While this suspension is stirred vigorously, a solution of 19.25 g. (0.150 mole) of cyclohexanecarboxylic acid (Note 3) in 100 ml. of anhydrous 1,2-dimethoxyethane (Note 2) is added dropwise over a 10-minute period. The resulting mixture is heated to reflux with stirring for 2.5 hours, at which time hydrogen evolution and the formation of lithium cyclohexanecarboxylate are complete. After the resulting suspension has been cooled to approximately 10° with an ice bath, it is stirred vigorously while 123 ml. of an ethereal solution containing 0.170 mole of methyllithium (Note 4) is added dropwise over a 30-minute period. After the addition is complete, the ice bath is removed and the resulting suspension is stirred at room temperature for 2 hours. The dropping funnel is removed from the reaction flask and replaced by a rubber septum fitted with a 4-mm. O.D. glass tube of suitable dimensions to permit the reaction mixture to be siphoned from the reaction flask when a slight positive nitrogen pressure is present in the flask.
The fine suspension in the reaction flask is agitated and siphoned into a vigorously stirred mixture of 27 ml. (0.32 mole) (Note 5) of concentrated hydrochloric acid and 400 ml. of water. The reaction flask is rinsed with an additional 100 ml. of ether which is also added to the aqueous solution. After the resulting mixture has been saturated with sodium chloride, the organic phase is separated and the alkaline (Note 5) aqueous phase is extracted with three 150-ml. portions of ether. When the combined organic solutions have been dried over magnesium sulfate, the bulk of the ether is distilled from the mixture through a 40-cm. Vigreux column (Note 6) and then the residual ether and the 1,2-dimethoxyethane are distilled from the mixture through a 10-cm. Vigreux column. Distillation of the residual pale yellow liquid separates 17.1–17.7 g. (91–94%) of the methyl ketone as a colorless liquid, b.p. 57–60° (8 mm.), n26D 1.4488–1.4489 (Note 7).
2. Notes
1. Lithium hydride of suitable quality may be purchased from Alfa Inorganics, Inc., 8 Congress Street, Beverly, Massachusetts 01915.
2. Commercial 1,2-dimethoxyethane, b.p. 85–86°, purchased from Eastman Organic Chemicals, was distilled from lithium aluminum hydride before use.
3. The cyclohexanecarboxylic acid, m.p. 31–32°, purchased from Aldrich Chemical Company was used without further purification.
4. An ethereal solution which was 1.38M in methyllithium was purchased from Foote Mineral Company. The concentration of methyllithium in ethereal solutions may be conveniently determined by a procedure described elsewhere2,3 in which the lithium reagent is titrated with sec-butyl alcohol, utilizing the charge transfer complex formed from bipyridyl or o-phenanthroline and the lithium reagent as an indicator.
5. The quantity of hydrochloric acid used is normally insufficient to neutralize all the lithium hydroxide produced when the reaction mixture is quenched in the aqueous solution. As a result, any unchanged cyclohexanecarboxylic acid will be present as its lithium salt and will remain in the aqueous phase.
6. The product is sufficiently volatile that use of a rotary evaporator or an open flask to distill the bulk of the ether and 1,2-dimethoxyethane from this solution may result in loss of a significant fraction of the product.
7. The product may be analyzed by use of a gas chromatography column packed with either LAC-728 (diethylene glycol succinate) or Carbowax 20M suspended on Chromosorb P. Using a 2.5-m. LAC-728 column heated to 100°, the submitters found retention times of 9.4 and 13.0 minutes for cyclohexyl methyl ketone and cyclohexyldimethylcarbinol. Less than 1% of the carbinol by-product was present.
3. Discussion
Apart from the reaction of cyclohexanecarboxylic acid with methyllithium,4 cyclohexyl methyl ketone has been prepared by the reaction of cyclohexylmagnesium halides with acetyl chloride or acetic anhydride5,6,7 and by the reaction of methylmagnesium iodide with cyclohexanecarboxylic acid chloride.8 Other preparative methods include the aluminum chloride-catalyzed acetylation of cyclohexene in the presence of cyclohexane,9 the oxidation of cyclohexylmethylcarbinol,10,11 the decarboxylation and rearrangement of the glycidic ester derived from cyclohexanone and t-butyl α-chloropropionate,12 and the catalytic hydrogenation of 1-acetylcyclohexene.13,14
This preparation illustrates the procedure for reaction of organolithium reagents with the lithium salts of carboxylic acids to form ketones.15 The reaction is generally applicable to alkyl, vinyl, and aryl organolithium reagents and carboxylic acid salts which do not contain other interfering functional groups. However, the reaction has been most often used with methyllithium for the preparation of methyl ketones. The reaction is known to effect the stereospecific conversion of a carboxylic acid to methyl ketone and, consequently, is a useful part of the sequence illustrated in the accompanying equations for interrelating the stereochemistry of alcohols and carboxylic acids.16,17
The reaction is believed to proceed by the indicated conversion of a lithium carboxylate to the dilithium salt18 which is stable at room temperature in the absence of proton-donating solvents or reactants. However, the rapidity with which this dilithium salt is decomposed to a ketone in the presence of proton donors, accompanied by the rapidity of the subsequent reaction of the ketone with more methyllithium, can lead to a common side reaction in which an alkyldimethyl carbinol is formed. Both of the aforementioned reactions appear to be fast compared with 0.01 second usually required to disperse components with the conventional mixing techniques. This side reaction can be almost entirely avoided by taking precautions to minimize the possibility that high local concentrations of the geminal dialkoxide and the lithium reagent are present when a proton donor is added during either the reaction or the subsequent quenching. It is frequently possible to obtain only relatively small amounts of the alcohol by-product by the dropwise addition with vigorous mixing of 2 equivalents of the organolithium reagent to a solution of the carboxylic acid. During this procedure it is not uncommon for the lithium carboxylate to separate during the addition of the first mole of organolithium reagent and then to react and redissolve as the second equivalent of organolithium reagent is added. The reverse procedure, adding the acid to a solution of the organolithium reagent, appears always to produce substantial amounts of the alcohol by-product. The procedure used in this preparation illustrates how this mixing problem may be avoided by the initial conversion of the carboxylic acid to its lithium salt with lithium hydride. In all cases it is important not to add a large excess of organolithium reagent and to add the final reaction mixture to the aqueous quenching bath slowly and with vigorous stirring if the formation of substantial amounts of alcohol by-product is to be avoided.

References and Notes
  1. Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139.
  2. W. Voskuil and J. F. Arens, this volume, p. 211.
  3. S. C. Watson and J. F. Eastham, J. Organometallic Chem., 9, 165 (1967).
  4. V. Theus and H. Schinz, Helv. Chim. Acta., 39, 1290 (1956).
  5. J. Rouzaud, G. Cauquil, and L. Giral, Bull. Soc. Chim. France, 2908 (1964).
  6. B. D. Tiffany, J. B. Wright, R. B. Moffett, R. V. Heinzelman, R. E. Strube, B. D. Aspergren, E. H. Lincoln, and J. L. White, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 79, 1682 (1957).
  7. C. G. Overberger and A. Lebovits, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 76, 2722 (1954).
  8. G. Darzens and H. Rost, Compt. Rend., 153, 772 (1911).
  9. C. D. Nenitzescu and E. Cioranescu, Ber., 69B, 1820 (1936).
  10. J. Lecomte and H. Gault, Compt. Rend., 238, 2538 (1954).
  11. R. B. Wagner and J. A. Moore, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 72, 974 (1950).
  12. E. P. Blanchard, Jr., and G. Buchi, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 85, 955 (1963).
  13. E. M. Cherkasova and G. S. Erkomaishvili, Zh. Obshch. Khim., 31, 1832 (1961) [Chem. Abstr., 55, 24593 (1961)].
  14. T. Takeshima, K. Wakamatsu, and A. Furuhashi, Bull. Chem. Soc. Japan, 31, 640 (1958).
  15. M. J. Jorgenson, Org. Reactions, 18, 1 (1970).
  16. W. G. Dauben and E. Hoerger, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 73, 1504 (1951); W. G. Dauben, V. M. Alhadeff, and M. Tanabe, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 75, 4580 (1953); W. G. Dauben, R. C. Tweit, and C. Mannerskantz, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 76, 4420 (1954).
  17. H. O. House and T. M. Bare, J. Org. Chem., 33, 943 (1968).
  18. H. F. Bluhm, H. V. Donn, and H. D. Zook, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 77, 4406 (1955).

Chemical Abstracts Nomenclature (Collective Index Number);
(Registry Number)

hydrochloric acid (7647-01-0)

ether (60-29-7)

acetic anhydride (108-24-7)

hydrogen (1333-74-0)

acetyl chloride (75-36-5)

Cyclohexanone (108-94-1)

Cyclohexene (110-83-8)

sodium chloride (7647-14-5)

nitrogen (7727-37-9)

cyclohexane (110-82-7)

methylmagnesium iodide (917-64-6)

Cyclohexanecarboxylic acid (98-89-5)

lithium (7439-93-2)

magnesium sulfate (7487-88-9)

1-Acetylcyclohexene (932-66-1)

lithium aluminum hydride (16853-85-3)

Methyllithium (917-54-4)

cyclohexanecarboxylic acid chloride (2719-27-9)

1,2-dimethoxyethane (110-71-4)

sec-butyl alcohol (78-92-2)

Cyclohexyl methyl ketone,
Ketone, cyclohexyl methyl (823-76-7)

lithium hydride (7580-67-8)

lithium cyclohexanecarboxylate

bipyridyl (366-18-7)

lithium hydroxide (1310-65-2)

cyclohexylmethylcarbinol (4442-79-9)

lithium carboxylate

t-butyl α-chloropropionate (40058-88-6)


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