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It is a bit a mystery why Sigma actually waited so long to enter this segment. After all that company featured much more exotic 'primes', like those with 20, 24 or 28 mm focal lengths. Perhaps one of the reasons is an early introduction of the Sigma 30 mm f/1.4 DC EX HSM which satisfied the needs of most amateur photographers with an APS-C/DX reflex cameras. Several years ago Sigma aimed its products mainly at people who shoot pictures for fun, not for profit. Now two aspects of that situation have changed: firstly, there are more digital full frame cameras available on the market, secondly Sigma aspirations increased significantly; currently the company wants to compete on equal terms with the best. Their intention is that the "A" series lenses, like the new 1.4/35 model, should be able to perform as well as their most reputable rivals. Can they really handle it? Let's read the following chapters and find out on your own- enjoy your reading!
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This tree of wiki pages is a "commentary" on the GHC source code. It contains all the explanatory material that doesn't belong in comments in the source code itself, because the material is wide-ranging, usually covers multiple source files, and is more architectural in nature. The commentary can also be considered a design document for GHC.
For the dedicated, there are videos of Simon and Simon giving an overview of GHC, at the 2006 GHC Hackathon.
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- Notes about Template Haskell?
- Notes about the new code generator
- Type families/type functions: Notes concerning the implementation of type families, associated types, and equality constraints as well as the extension of the type checker with a contraint solver for equality constraints.
- Intermediate Types: Notes about the type system of GHC's new intermediate language (in the HEAD since ICFP'06)
- DPH: Notes about the implementation of Data Parallel Haskell
- Rewrite Rules: Notes about the implementation of RULEs in GHC
- Backend Ideas: Some ideas and notes about the back end.
- Cmm: Implementing Exception Handling: Implementing exception handling for primitive operations in Cmm
- Cmm: Using Kinds to implement calling conventions: Pointers to explanations of what a
CmmKindis and why you might find one useful.
- GHCi Debugger: Some notes about the implementation of the GHCi debugger. Probably uninteresting unless you want to work on the debugger.
- New GHCi Debugger: The new GHCi debugger.
- New Prim Ops: How to add new primitive operations to GHC Haskell.
- Replacing GMP: Notes from an effort to replace GMP with another Bignum library.
- External Core: Describes the process of bringing External Core up to speed. Once finished, this will simply describe what External Core is, and how it works.
- Haddock: Some notes about how the Haddock comment support is implemented.
- Explicit Call Stack: Notes about maintaining an explicit call stack, to support error attribution and profiling.
- SQL-Like Comprehensions: Notes on the ongoing implementation of SPJs "Comprehensive Comprehensions".
- SIMD: Notes on adding SIMD instructions and primOps to GHC
- Scrap your boilerplate page written by Ralf Lammel.
- GHC Source Abbreviations: Abbreviations used in the GHC code
- Safe Haskell: The design of an extension to Haskell around 'Safe' code.
- The Runtime System
- Garbage Collector: Notes about GHC's existing single threaded garbage collector and development of a parallel GC.
- GMP Memory Managment: Describes how the garbage collector cooperates with GMP for Integer.
- SemiTagging: Describes how the semi-tagging optimisation will be implemented.
- PAPI: Measurement of program performance using CPU events (cache misses, branch mis-predictions).
- Other Cross-cutting concerns: topics which span both the compiler and the runtime system
- Haskell Program Coverage: How HPC works
- Benchmarking: The nofib benchmark suite
- Parallel Haskell Variants: All aspects of the GpH and Eden parallel variants of GHC. (work in progress)
- Hackathon presentations (video)
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Finally, here are some generally-useful, but now somewhat-out-of-date resources:
- The old GHC Commentary: Information on the internals of GHC, in various states of up-to-dateness. We are keen to move this stuff out of its current location and onto this Wiki. If anyone is willing to help do that, even for just a part in which you are interested, we would be delighted.
- GHC Papers: Papers and pointers to other documents that relate to the inner workings of GHC.


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LOS ANGELES (CNS) – The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County was unchanged today, remaining at $4.044, one day after dropping one-tenth of a cent.
The average price is six-tenths of a cent more than one week ago and 19.7 cents higher than one month ago, but 9.7 cents less than one year ago, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service.
The Orange County average price was also unchanged, remaining at $4.03, one day after dropping three-tenths of a cent. It is one-tenth of a cent more than one week ago and 18.4 cents higher than one month ago, but 7.8 cents less than one year ago.
"We are strongly urging consumers to aggressively shop around for the best gas prices because based on wholesale costs, pump prices should actually be dropping right now," said Jeffrey Spring of the Automobile Club of Southern California.
"In most areas of Southern California, drivers should still be able to find gas stations charging less than $4 a gallon. If more drivers are price- sensitive and patronize lower-priced stations, they can have an impact by spurring competition, provided that our local supplies are adequate."


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Outokumpu's investments in the 2000s have added up to over 400 million euros, mainly related to projects to improve energy efficiency and dedusting equipment in several units as well as acid regeneration plants in Sweden and Germany.
In 2015 costs for environment-related activities were 89 million euros in 2015 of which costs associated with operational environmental management totaled 81 million euros. Operational costs include process-related treatment, disposal and remediation costs for waste and emissions into air and water. 40.5% of the environmental expenditure was for air and climate change, 31% for water protection, 8.9% for waste management and 0.5% for soil and ground water. Provisions and guarantees in connection with environmental consideration totaled 63 million euros, including provisions for the aftercare of former mining sites of 1.4 million euros.
In Tornio, Outokumpu participates in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal investments in 2015-2018. Tornio is today the biggest consumer of propane in Finland. The terminal is expected to be in operation during the first half of 2018. The investment will decrease Outokumpu's CO2 and NOX emissions by an estimated 10%.
Research and development
Process development focus areas include energy and material efficiency, quality and by-product utilization: the very essential areas of environmental performance.
Best Available Technology (BAT)
One of Outokumpu's operating principles is to use best available techniques (BAT) to reduce emissions and minimize harmful environmental impacts that could result from the Group's operations. In this context, BAT means the best available pollution prevention technology from both technical and economic perspectives. Outokumpu is also an active participant in the process of updating the reference documents (BREFs), which specify related technologies, helping to set the high standards applicable within the European Union.
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Outokumpu is a part of international associations such as ISSF and Euro Inox. Active involvement in national research programs, European R&D projects. Education programs and thesis work are part of our systematic approach. Outokumpu supports students and researchers through two foundations: the Outokumpu Stainless Research Foundation and the Foundation of Finnish Steel and Metal Producers.


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It is not putting too fine a point on it to say that, while MS has distinct traces and patterns, each person's multiple sclerosis is unique unto them. The way MS touches you, the manner in which you respond (or don't) to medications, your mental outlook on life, the list could go on… All of these are yours and yours alone.
Were someone else to look at the way you "work" your disease, they might find it 180° from the way they take care of themselves. You might read someone's comment here and bite your tongue (or don't) at the way they have decided to live their life with this disease. The point is, it is your life, it is your decision and if there be consequences they are yours with which to contend.
In general I believe that the overwhelming majority of our blog community members see life with MS that way. I also think that many in our community strive to help one another when it comes to things that may or may not have worked for them in the past. I hope that you'll take what I'm about to say in the vein in which it is offered.
The way you treat your MS is Crazy (and the way I treat mine is crazy too)!
We either take a drug that we think is working (because nothing bad is happening) or we ignore scientific evidence and we decide not to take those same drugs.
We reject or accept ideas, concepts, and treatments for the most diverse of reasons and then do the exact opposite for the very next one in line.
We trick ourselves into believing some things and we try not to believe others.
We allow people close to us to do more damage to us than the disease on some days and we push away those who try to help.
We judge a medication as much for its side-effects as for intended effect.
We comfort ourselves (sometimes) in that fact that it could be worse and we pray like hell that they don't worsen.
We find ourselves reaching out to one another here in the Life With MS Blog - to people we'll never meet - and have conversations more intimate than with our spouses, partners, family or doctors.
We don't "give in" to using an assistive device because it would mean reliance when that very device could allow us to no longer rely on a number of other things.
We lay awake at night, burdened by the weight of total exhaustion.
We laugh at our symptoms when others cry and we cry for no apparent reason at all.
We stick ourselves with needles when a fear of sharp objects once paralyzed us.
You are a crazy bunch of people; you people living with multiple sclerosis. I sure am glad that you're out there… I'd hate to have to face the today and tomorrow and the next day with MS as the only crazy bastard in my life!
Well done to you. Well done to all of us! Let us all remember, the next time we're giving advice on how someone "should" or what someone "must" or that someone "might" that we're each just a little bit crazy and the person on the other side is too. It makes everything so much easier.
Wishing you and your family the best of health.
You can also follow me via our Life With MS Facebook page, on Twitter, and in our group on MS Connection.org. Also, check out our bi-monthly MS blog for the United Kingdom, and don't forget to check out TrevisLGleason.com.


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I thought I'd share the very easy method I have used to create stone walls......
I use the thin and low quality cardboard that you get as packaging for shirts produced in the far east. This card is shiny white one side and a stone gray fibrous finish on the other.
Cut a strip of width just over twice the height you want the wall to be. It doesn't matter if the width drifts...the wall will end up varying in height slightly! Unlike what I did...which shows in one of the photos below....if you mark the card for cutting, do it on the white side! Fortunately, most of the line you can see will be obstructed by undergrowth!
Now an important bit.....carefully hand crease the strip down its length and fold in half, crimping the fold just using finger and thumb. Don't be tempted to press the crease flat on a flat surface, or with a ruler, etc. You want the crease finish to be non-uniform! Apply a bit of glue inside the creased card and squeeze closed so you have what you can now see as a stone wall with an undulating top. Here's a couple of close-ups to illustrate what you should now have: On the left is the creased card; on the right it is glued down.
Once dry, the wall is ready to fix down on your layout. Using lots of pins, fix the wall into position, ensuring it sits down on the ground surface. Use pins inserted at an angle to hold it down, as you can see in the photo below.
Using a small paint brush, put a line of neat PVA glue along the bottom of both sides of the wall. Here's a close-up of where I got to on a couple of walls on The Bridge:
Leave the PVA to dry overnight and then carefully pull the pins out. Here's the end product....a stone coloured stone wall:
I've used a similar fixing technique for fixing wood panelled fencing, but use a single thickness of plain thin white card that has been pre-painted the right shade of brown.


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Jackson Hole and Teton Valley usually send a distinguished delegation to the Great American Beer Festival in Denver every year and come home with a lode of medals. This year, judging from a quick look at the awards list, Black Tooth Brewing Co. of Sheridan claimed the hardware for Wyoming.
Fortunately, our local brewers escaped the wrath of this investigative reporter from Conan who sniffed his way around the festival.
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Role Models are delighted to be running one of our Life Skills Courses in Riyadh at Alfaisal University for 8-11 and 12-15 year olds.
Course price: £580 (approximately SR 2660).
The course price includes a 45-minute Parent Class webinar and three follow-up videos to help embed the skills learnt on the course. Please see the bottom of the page for information on our multi-buy discount scheme and friend referral coupons.
Please note that children will be in mixed male and female groups and that this course will be lead by both male and female Role Models.
Our courses follow a well-established education framework developed over many years with input from teachers, education experts and business leaders. This framework defines the skills and knowledge that children need to thrive in the 21st century. The world is changing very quickly and preparing children for their life to come is critical. They are under pressure from an incredible array of things today. Your children need tools to help them develop the right levels of confidence and resilience to build a future for themselves. Communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creative problem solving and the ability to lead are not handed to them at birth. These are skills that your children need to develop throughout their lives if they are to fulfil their potential. The earlier they start to develop these skills and understand how important they are, the more chance they have to lead an extraordinary life full of passion and purpose. Our courses help children do that.
Our education framework corresponds to the work of the Partnership for 21st Century Learning. We'd encourage all parents to click here to take a closer look at their work
Life and Career Skills
Learning and Innovation Skills - 4Cs
Critical thinking - Communication - Collaboration - Creativity
Information, Media, and Technology Skills
Key Subjects - 3Rs and 21st Century Themes
The framework we use recognises the importance of developing life and career skills. It focuses on learning and innovation skills alongside the key subjects and academic skills. Our 'Learning to Fly' courses are designed to help children develop the 4Cs – creative problem solving, critical thinking, communication and collaboration. We also teach and develop other essential character attributes such as leadership, resilience and growth mindset. We believe that talking and thinking should be given as much weight as reading and writing in any child's development and our courses are designed to support that belief.
Our programme includes four 5 day courses for children in the school holidays. These separate courses can be completed in any order, on their own or as a complete programme. The 5th 'Mastery' module is designed as our 'graduation' course for children who have completed all four courses. This course pulls together all of the strands from the previous four courses and gives children a set of tools and a process for understanding how they can find ways to use all of the life skills that they have been taught on a daily basis.
In the video below, one of the children who participated in our Leadership course in Saudi Arabia in July 2018 talks about what he has learned and gained from the course.
Learning To Fly with Role Models: The Course Curriculum
Leadership – 'Flying high and bringing others with you' – developing leadership and emotional intelligence
Why is Leadership important?
Leadership is being able to support, encourage and motivate others to achieve a shared goal. It's also about having a positive impact on others, in any context. One of the most important qualities in order to do this is a high level of empathy and emotional intelligence. In order to work with and lead others, we must first learn to identify and understand our own emotions, strengths and weaknesses. This self-awareness allows us to make our own best contribution and our empathy allows us to recognise the feelings, needs and strengths of others. This level of emotional awareness is an essential skill for building any type of relationship or interaction, whether with family, friends, peers, or work colleagues.
What does the course focus on and what activities will the children complete?
The course is designed to develop an awareness of what great leadership looks like and why. The week includes fun activities which encourage the children to explore different ways of working together and leading others. They will be encouraged to reflect on the power of connection, listening and developing trust and respect amongst the people you lead. Specific activities include exploring leadership language, taking it in turns to lead the team in completing timed challenges and leading the team to create different shapes with a rope while they are blindfolded.
Impact on Others
Strengths and Areas for Development
Leadership Language
What can my child expect the course to be like?
Fast-paced, high energy and challenging. Your child will be active and moving around for most of the week. None of the tasks are easy; in fact, we don't mind if the children struggle with many of the exercises at the first attempt. It's through this process that resilience and strength of character can be built in a fun, pressure-free environment.
A big part of our Role Models courses is about building confidence, thinking skills and independence. We would like to request that parents and carers leave their children with us for the hours of the course each day rather than staying at the school. As I'm sure you can appreciate, this allows for a much different experience and the children are encouraged to really grow their independence.
Our courses are always based on three things…
Our courses deliver three things…
they empower the children
The knowledge, understanding and insight gained from our courses should allow the children to think differently and make them feel that what they think and say really matters.
they embed sustained behaviour change
Our courses give children the tools to use the skills and strategies in their every day lives to form new habits of behaviour.
they give children a framework for future success
Through the content, language and skills that we teach, our children are given ways of working that they can fall back on and use time and time again.
Example Course Timetable
*Subject to change
What type of child is the course designed for?
Our courses are not designed specifically for children who struggle with leadership, we believe everyone should be developing this important life skill. Perhaps your child has great leadership potential but lacks the opportunity to demonstrate and develop it further. The course is a great opportunity for someone who may already be a 'natural leader' but needs to develop their empathy and ability to understand the impact of their actions on others. Developing the skills of collaborating and communicating with others can boost general self-confidence and self-awareness. The course is also a great way for children to explore being outside of their comfort zone within a fun environment.
Who delivers the course?
All courses are led by our top Role Models; all of whom are passionate about character education and trained in our unique content.
The quality of our Role Models is paramount to the success of our courses so we recruit people who inspire children. All of our Role Models undergo a rigorous application procedure and we are totally focused on recruiting people who are talented, engaging & fun. With academics, professional sportsmen and women, actors and musicians, we have a variety of personalities to suit every child and our Role Models are young enough for children to connect with. We look for people who celebrate unique thinking and resilience; whilst ensuring that a holiday course should, above all things, be a lot of serious fun.
Here are some examples of our course staff:
Saria is an engaging and passionate Creative Arts Graduate. She has done a lot of work for Role Models, across all different areas, from SEN work to 1-2-1 Leadership Programme delivery. She is passionate about helping people with disabilities to learn life skills and improve their confidence and hopes to do master's degree in Art Psychotherapy in order to help young people to reach their full potential by better understanding how art can be used to deal with complex and confusing emotional issues. Click here for Sarai's full profile.
Ed is currently a science specialist private tutor and volunteer who is working on a project called 'Motivation of the Invisible' which looks to humanise those sleeping rough across the UK and highlight the ever-growing problem through interviews and social media. A qualified teacher, Ed completed the Teach First graduate programme in North London, teaching for three years as well as being Head of Chemistry in a large secondary school. Whilst teaching, he completed a Masters part-time in Leadership from University College London which has given him a greater understanding of how to lead but crucially, the knowledge of leadership as a concept to pass onto others around him. Click here to read Ed's full profile.
Catherine is a London based artist and community arts facilitator. She has endless experience working with children creatively. After graduating from the University of the West of England with a degree in Drawing and Applied Arts, she stayed on in Bristol and began teaching art in primary schools and afterschool clubs through companies such as Superstars Ltd. and GoSketch. Catherine continued to work with children through fantastic community arts and playwork organisations such as Kumiko Community Arts, APE project and still facilitates art workshops for all aged children each summer at music festivals such as Shambala, Starry Skies and Greenman. Click here for Catherine's full profile.
What do others say about the courses?
Our track record
We are proud of the difference we've made to thousands of children since we started. The results of our previous course surveys reflect that:
- 90% of all of our parents would be interested in a future life skills course.
- 95% of parents said that their child enjoyed or really enjoyed themselves.
- 91% of students said that they would be likely or extremely likely to recommend a course to a friend.
- 85% of students strongly believe that you can get better at anything you put your mind to.
"The positive feedback he received really boosted his confidence and on holiday he was not phased by asking staff for something whereas previously he would ask us to do it."
"She has been a lot more tolerant & better at problem solving in a mature manner especially with her younger sister."
"She seems more confident about attending senior school interviews and has said that the course really helped her to prepare."
"She said she wished school was like this. She absolutely loved it. Thank you."
"I love the detailed feedback for him and what you were able to get from him."
"He came back home everyday in a very upbeat mood and very talkative about the day activities. His mood and behaviour during the school holiday was best we seen in a long time, listening more, showing maturity when asked to do chores, demonstrating empathy with his brother's problems."
Click here for additional testimonials.
Click here for course photos in our Gallery.
In the video testimonial below, a mother tells us how one of our courses had a beautiful impact on her child and that she would like Role Models to come back again.
Course logistics
The course runs from 10am – 3pm daily. The slightly later start ensures it doesn't feel like a school day.
Please arrive 15 minutes early to ensure the course can start at 10am and run efficiently, especially on the first day.
The courses focus on ages 8 – 11 and 12 – 15 (split into groups of 15 children according to age and personality).
This age is a crucial period of their development and encompasses their step up to secondary school.
We have children attend our courses who may have mild additional needs and SEND. As our courses are challenging by nature and the content is ambitious, it's important to us that your child is able to access the learning and that the environment and level of support is appropriate for them. If your child requires additional support with their learning, behaviour or physical needs, we would suggest the course may not be right for them. We encourage parents to give us a call and discuss their child's needs in detail with us, in order to make an informed decision.
1. Reflection
During the course there is time set aside for the children to reflect on their learning and progress and they are encouraged to set themselves targets with support and feedback from the Role Models staff.
2. Written Report
Parents receive a written report from the Role Model facilitators via email after the course, highlighting their children's strengths and areas of improvement. They also have the opportunity for a one-to-one discussion with the Role Models at pick-up time at the end of the week.
3. Parent Class Webinar
It's really important for you as parents to know what we've done so that you can support your child's learning at home. We always invite parents and carers to attend a 45-minute 'Parent Class' webinar. This will be held at 11.15am on the first day of the course. The Parent Class webinar includes an overview of what your child has covered, ongoing strategies for how this learning can be supported at home and information on of our key frameworks, Growth Mindset, and how it can support your child's development.
4. Follow-Up
Parents receive email communication after the course which includes ideas and strategies for supporting their child at home within collaboration, creative problem solving, resilience and leadership. They will receive three short follow-up videos which are designed to embed key themes from the course. These videos will be fortnightly and presented by our Head of Character Education who designed the content of each course.
Groups will be no larger than 15 children per Role Model, to ensure a high level of support, however we may have more than one group of children per course. We also aim to have volunteers on every course to increase the support.
Groups for the week will be split according to age and personality. The whole group will come together for communal sessions such as the morning welcome, lunch and assemblies.
Yes. Children should bring a snack, a packed lunch and plenty of water to drink throughout the day. We encourage healthy lunches which should also be nut free.
The normal course price is £580 (approximately SR 2660).
See the section below for discount information.
Multi-Buy Discount Scheme
When you purchase more than one course place, you will receive a £50 discount on each subsequent course place, e.g.
- £50 discount if you purchase two course places in one transaction;
- £100 discount if you purchase three course places in one transaction;
- £150 discount if you purchase four course places in one transaction; and so on.
To take advantage of this discount scheme, all course places must be purchased at the same time (in one transaction) and all courses must be of the same type, e.g. non-residential courses for international students. You can mix and match the course title within this group, e.g. you could purchase one place on our Leadership Course and another place on our Resilience Course (both in Riyadh) and still receive discount.
Referral Coupon
We also offer a £50 referral coupon. This works by providing you with a coupon code after a course is purchased that is valid for 14 days. If another parent uses your coupon code they receive a £50 discount and you receive an automatic £50 refund on your card. This coupon code can be used by an unlimited number of parents and you will receive a £50 refund each time it is used (up to the amount of the original order).
- For bookings, please click on the "Book Now" button to add the course to your cart.
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- All multi-buy discounts will be automatically applied at this stage.
- On proceeding to checkout, you will be asked to provide some details including credit/debit card information, prior to placing your order.
- Once the order has been placed and the booking has been confirmed, you will receive a booking confirmation email.
- You will also receive a referral coupon email.
- A member of the team will be in touch prior to the start of the course with our Pre-Course Form and further Pre-Course Information, such as directions, what to bring, what to wear and details on the Parent Class.
- Please ensure that you complete this Pre-Course Form in a timely manner, as we require these details to tailor the course to each child and ensure that specific needs are met – no later than 2 weeks before the course start date.
For any questions, please contact Sophie Lake on WhatsApp; +44 (0)7946 345091
If a customer wishes to cancel a course prior to its commencement, the customer needs to provide us with at least 28 days' notice. If at least 28 days' notice is provided to Role Models then the customer shall receive a full refund. If less than 28 days' notice is provided to Role Models then neither a reimbursement or credit note can be provided.
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All of these courses recognise a new educational framework built around the importance of developing confidence and resilience in our children. As importantly, they also recognise and teach what has now become known as the 4 Cs of innovative education. Our children need to learn how to communicate, collaborate, critically think and creatively problem solve and almost every employer globally is telling us that these are the skills they want to see developed amongst this generation of young people.
I congratulate the Role Models team for putting these courses together and for giving young people globally the opportunity to start developing these important skills. I'm sure your children will benefit hugely from being a part of this important drive towards skilling as well as schooling the next generation."


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As the region commemorates the anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, tensions are flaring anew over the Diaoyutai Islands (釣魚台), with the arrest by Japan on Wednesday of 14 Chinese, Macanese and Hong Kong activists after five of them swam ashore to one of the disputed islets to reaffirm China's sovereignty.
The symbolic feat, accompanied by protests by activists in front of Japan's representative office in Taipei, has fueled speculation that President Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) administration, which upholds the Republic of China's (ROC) sovereignty over the islets, could work with Beijing to corner Tokyo on the issue.
Among others, the Apple Daily yesterday editorialized that Taipei's stance could be part of a plan to irritate Japan and the US, and thereby "force" Taiwan to cooperate with China, thus undermining Taipei's alliance with the US, its sole security guarantor, and Japan, which, despite the absence of official diplomatic relations, remains a friendly regional power.
However, such theories collapse on the shores of political reality. The pro-Diaoyutai movement in Taiwan is a peripheral political force, and whether Taiwan has or should have control over the islets is a matter that simply does not keep ordinary Taiwanese up at night. Mobilizing them in the use of force to reaffirm such claims would have even less traction with the public, especially if doing so risked damaging relations with a country that Taiwanese hold in high esteem. The Ma administration is fully aware that adventurism over the dispute, such as cooperating with China, would be frivolous in the extreme.
Furthermore, Taipei cannot ignore the fact that the Diaoyutais are at least tacitly part of the US-Japan security alliance and that Washington would likely stand by its regional ally if antagonism turned to bloodshed.
Given the longstanding ties between the US and Taiwanese military, a relationship that includes arms sales, joint training and assistance at various levels, it is even more unlikely that the Taiwanese armed forces would risk compromising all that to protect small, barren islets in the East China Sea, or suddenly side with a military with which they have no history of cooperation and which, for more than half a century, has been the principal threat to this nation.
Despite warming relations across the Taiwan Strait, it will take far more than the Diaoyutais to convince Taiwanese military officers to abandon more than six decades of friendship with their US counterparts for the sake of illusory nationalistic adventurism. Support for such an extreme volte-face simply does not exist, not within the public, and not within the armed forces. To think otherwise is to swallow Chinese propaganda.
Ma's announcement of an East Asia peace initiative earlier this month is not a construct meant to ensnare Japan or the US, but rather an effort to give Taiwan (in Ma's book, the ROC) a seat at the negotiating table. Far too often — and this also applies to its claims in the South China Sea — Taiwan's voice has been ignored by other claimants. Proposing peace mechanisms, as over the Diaoyutais, or adopting a more muscular stance, as on Itu Aba Island (Taiping Island, 太平島) in the Spratly Islands (Nansha Islands, 南沙群島), makes it more difficult to ignore Taipei.
The Ma administration has often, and deservedly so, been criticized for adopting a low-key attitude to Taiwan's international space. However, it's difficult to ignore the irony when Ma's critics accuse him of both not doing enough and doing too much over sovereignty claims in the East and South China Sea, especially when his stance on those issues shows a large level of continuity with that of the previous administration.
Ma, like former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) before him, must play a tricky balancing act as he negotiates the troubled waters of Taiwan's relations with the US, Japan and China, while seeking to set a course of its own — hence the mixed and sometimes contradictory signals and lack of a clear policy. But cooperate with China he won't. He can't.


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Time to Grab the Brass Ring
There is an old saying, "When a door closes, another one opens". The unfortunate thing is right now that door is a trap door and it leads to a dark place that this Tampa Bay Rays team has been trying to avoid every since their rial departure from Boston's South Station.
Along the way this once enthusiastic Rays band of bros have been blindsided, mis-guided and sent along a path of self destruction. All we have to do now is figure out the culprit or aliment and drown them with a high dosage of optimism and possibly someone singing "Tomorrow" from "Annie" a few times in the clubhouse. I pick Rays rookie Matt Moore, he can't seem to do anything wrong right now.
It is just one stubbed toe, but it is also a missed opportunity by losing 5-1 tonight to a Blue Jays team the Rays have manhandled most of the season. It was the perfect time to thrust a huge H-bomb of stress and pressure upon those pesky Red Sox in their series against the high flying, playoff bound Pinstripes. Instead, it is another example of putting the wrong foot forward and stepping straight into that spiraling rabbit hole.
You want to rush past the Security Guards, push past the Clubhouse Assistants and shake a few Rays by the shoulders and make them come out of this nightmare dream sequence. It is almost like someone threw a copy of the bad independent screenplay built on despair and personal instability upon the Visitor's dugout in Boston, and everyone read it on the slow train to NYC.
There has to be a connection. There has to be a dark reason, a motive unseen that has thrust this Rays franchise deep into playing like those pre-2000 D-Rays once again when the prize is just beyond the grasp. That brass ring is just out of their reach and with each passing spin of the Merry-go-Round seems to inch further and further away with each circle.
Pressure is rising. Building up a nasty head of steam and insecurity with each and every miss-step or missed opportunity. Something has to be done. Someone needs to somehow right this ship before it hits the shoals of Tampa Bay and the season becomes a "what if" decaying fossil upon the rocks.
It is still fixable, the Merry-go-Round is still functioning and tomorrow really is another day. But the winning has to start tomorrow or the trapdoor will open below Tropicana Field and suck the life out of a any post season dreams. It is not a classic "do or die" moment, but a win will erase a little of that cloud, open up a stream of sunshine, take the blues away just like a magician and his fabled rabbit trick.
The end is too near and the prize is too vivid for it to all disappear into thin air with another loss. A win during a Rays Saturday Night Concert Series event used to be a "sure thing", a president for renewed faith, vitality and exuberance for that last trip around the Merry-go-Round. A loss and the ring will quickly go from solid brass to useless plastic.
A loss and the crowd might not be able to rebound and enjoy Miranda Lambert with gusto. But a win, a win can make Sunday brighter, the Starbucks taste better and reopen that door towards the playoffs with a firm and confident Rays step forward.


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Ariel Sharon and the Media's Talmudic Mentality of Holocaust Denial
By Michael Hoffman
______________The Butcher of Beirut is dead.
Ariel Scheinermann "Sharon" died January 11. He was born of parents who emigrated to Palestine from Belarus, in the heart of the Khazar diaspora of Eastern Europe. His face was a road map of Khazaria, sharing the physiognomy of the Kagans and the rest of the Turkic tribe who masquerade as the progeny of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and are accepted as such by the morons in the pews.
Scheinermann/Sharon is not infamous as the "Butcher of Beirut" in the way that certain Germans are universally derided as the "monster of Malmedy," the "butcher of Warsaw" and other Allied and Judaic sobriquets. Talmudic Khazarians are a protected caste and war crimes cannot be laid at their door, no matter what the actual circumstances.
Sharon the mass murderer has landed on his feet in obituaries and eulogies throughout the West as a man who ended his career "seeking peace" and "angering the Israeli right wing." What a masterful charade.
After Winston Churchill had gleefully instigated the incineration of all the major German cities during World War II, and 400,000 German civilians had been turned to ash, he had the wit to register his regret at the conflagration that engulfed Dresden, the Allies' last major German cosmopolitan crematory, which happened to have been perpetrated on Aschermittwoch (Ash Wednesday), by the good Christians in the American and English bomber planes. Most biographers and historians subsequently report that "Churchill regretted the bombing of civilians in German cities," the way most journalists this past week reported that Ariel Sharon was a "hawk" (Israeli war criminals are styled by that mild euphemism), who turned toward peace. Actually what Sharon did was engage in a little theatre for the benefit of the yahoos in America who are willing to accept that a token compulsory withdrawal of Israeli settlers from a few patches of stolen land, is tantamount to a major policy for peace.
The settlers, however, don't go in for withdrawals, token or otherwise, and they arranged for Orthodox rabbis to place the pulsa d'nura Kabbalistic curse on Sharon, who fell into a coma afterward (like the victims of Haitian voodoo he may have fallen victim to his own belief in superstitious, rabbinic mumbo jumbo).
Ariel Sharon is presented in the media as not a villain, exactly, but an ambiguous, shades-of-gray, existential anti-hero, unlike the completely rotten, no-good Iranian and German war criminals. No loyal "Jew" (so-called) can be wholly or even predominately evil. This is the dictate of the Talmudic mentality which governs "our" American media.
We anticipate the groans: Aw, c'mon, Hoffman, the media barely know what the Talmud is.
Perhaps. Nevertheless, with remarkable similitude the establishment media mirrored the Talmudic mentality. The "reasonable" and "august" exemplar of the American press, the New York Times, in its January 12 edition, devoted less than one sentence to Ariel Sharon's mass murder of civilians in Beirut in 1982:
"...the Israeli invasion seemed not to end but to take on an increasingly punishing nature, including the saturation bombing of Beirut neighborhoods..."That's it.
That's all the Times had to say about the Israeli terror bombing of a major Arab city for several weeks in the summer of 1982. Notice that no casualty figure is given (tens of thousands of Lebanese were killed). This is a very callous form of holocaust denial — the denial of crimes directed by Ariel Sharon (cf. "Israeli Hawk Sought Peace His Way, New York Times, Jan. 12, 2014, p. A12).
If tens of thousands of Israelis had been incinerated in Beirut, whatever goy who perpetrated that "cosmic evil unparalleled in the annals of the modern history of the Middle East" would be branded with the Mark of Cain for the rest of his life and in lurid detail in any obituary in the corporate media.
Not so with one of the bloodiest butchers in Israeli military history who "sought peace his way." The "reasonable, liberal" New York Times wants us to remember "The Holocaust" (i.e. every detail of what they say happened to the Holy People, circa 1938-1945), while the Times devotes exactly twenty-two words to Sharon's mass murder of Arabs in Beirut. Obviously the massive loss of Arab life doesn't matter.
In the Talmud, a special category of evil is reserved for goyim and Christians. Roman emperors are burned up, reanimated and burned again, perpetually. Jesus of Nazareth boils forever in hot excrement. Rabbis, meanwhile, give God orders and defeat Him in debate.
By now some readers may be banging their heads in frustration at the chutzpah, the sheerly wrong and unjust nature of the media's hypocrisy concerning Sharon's savage crimes — similar to the hypocrisy which the fellow being macerated in feces exposed on numerous occasions some 2,000 years ago. Yet, while frustration and anger can be motivators they are not educators. Therefore, let us peer deeper into the Talmudic dictatorship over the western media.
If we were to summarize the Talmudic mentality in one word, we would describe it as pilpul, which can be detected any time a New York Times editor or a Fox News pundit is committed to "prove" his point regardless of the evidence in front of him.
Reason is not the point when pilpul rules the rhetorical roost. What counts is the establishment of a fixed, immutable position that can never be disputed: viz. Ariel Sharon cannot be a war criminal.
In this context, evidence is not primary; the status of the judge is what registers. Ergo, Michael Hoffman offering evidence of the media's double standard on Israeli war criminal Ariel Sharon doesn't count, because Hoffman has zero status in the establishment media. Consequently, "history" as written by the New York Times or broadcast by Fox News, is extra-factual; it exists without regard for the documentary record. To protest this Wonderland phenomenon would be antisemitic.
The Talmudic mentality as embodied by pilpul makes rational analysis impossible. Any dissent is criminal because it casts doubt on a point that has already been established to the satisfaction of the Talmudic media. There is no use trying to dissent inside the perimeters established by the controlled press, because any contradictory points will be twisted to validate the already-fixed position, and demonize the dissenter as either a "closet" or a "blatant" antisemite.
What makes this process possible, in part, is the cowardice of executives in the media who see through the double-standard and are privately infuriated by it. How do we know? We have letters from some of these executives. They give us an epistolary pat on the back on occasion. Someday (when they retire) they say that they will expose the Zionist enterprise. Yeah, well, after they retire there are their wives and husbands and adult children who will advise them "not to bring ruin on us," so these executives, who know the score, may very likely go to their graves with their tails between their legs.
This is one reason why we respect the Khazarians. Though they are completely wrong, they fight for their errors with all their heart, soul and pocketbook, and risk everything for it. As William Butler Yeats observed, "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity."
Tony Clifton's book God Cried, represents the main body of published photographic documentation of Sharon's terror-bombing in Beirut in the summer of '82, when clearly marked schools, hospitals and apartment blocs were deliberately and mercilessly obliterated. Tens of thousands of civilians died in this now forgotten holocaust. There is still some notice taken of Sabra and Chatila, the September massacre of Palestinians by the Lebanese Phalangists under Israeli direction, but the far more horrid and extensive massacre represented by the indiscriminate aerial bombardment of the civilian neighborhoods of Beirut is almost completely forgotten, seemingly even by many Lebanese, and certainly by the US media. But until the last copy of God Cried is stamped out, the evidence of the ocean of blood on Sharon's hands is in those pages, as it must also surely reside in the hearts of many of the unsung survivors of his holocaust.
In defiance of the Talmudic mentality, we protest this holocaust denial on the part of the pompous apportioners of German, Palestinian and Iranian guilt.
For further research:
Michael Hoffman is the author of Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare; Judaism Discovered; They Were White and They Were Slaves; Usury in Christendom; The Great Holocaust Trial; Judaism's Strange Gods; The Israeli Holocaust Against the Palestinians, and sixty-nine issues of Revisionist History newsletter. This column is financially supported by donations from readers.


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A 24-hr BCCI cricket channel
A Correspondent in Mumbai | April 13, 2005 18:04 IST
Will the Board of Control for Cricket in India launch a 24-hour pay channel exclusively for cricket?
Yes, if it decides to act on a study that recommends such a move. This study was presented to the BCCI on Tuesday.
I S Bindra, president of Punjab Cricket Association, and Lalit Modi, president of Rajasthan Cricket Association, released a feasibility study on a BCCI cricket channel on Wednesday, saying that an exclusive cricket channel has the potential to ring in revenues of over Rs 16,000 crore (Rs 160 billion) in five years for the BCCI.
This, they said, is 12 times more than what BCCI could hope to earn in the same period. The study said that the exclusive broadcast rights will be shared with Doordarshan.
According to the study, the channel could air at least 29 international test matches, 43 one-day internationals, over 118 days of domestic cricket, and at least 56 district level round robin league matches.
This not only translates into higher revenues, but also more training schools, more cricket grounds and better infrastructure in India.
The report went on to give a detailed overview of the channel's role in promoting cricket, including benefits to various state cricket associations.
Bindra and Modi are of the view that such a move will create a valuable brand that can be leveraged for multiple streams of business and revenues beyond mere trading of broadcast rights.
BCCI's increased revenues will also benefit existing and new cricketers, as their share of revenues will also see a parallel twelve fold increase.
The revenues thus garnered can be used to fund and sustain infrastructure and capacity building across India right up to the grassroot levels.
Modi said in a media statement: "As an exhaustive study of how BCCI stands to gain from the launch of a TV channel, this report presents the proposed channel as the tool the BCCI can wield to generate huge revenues to create the much needed infrastructure in a self- sustainable manner."
"We hope the BCCI will review this with the same passion that all Indians have for cricket, and therefore take the best step forward that, in the long run, will better the game of this country," said Bindra.
Highlights of the report
That's a start. Hopefully they can do a better job than D(p)oordarshan, or at least help them.
- 24-hr exclusive cricket pay channel
- Global channel which feeds from Europe, America and the Middle East, etc.
- Exclusive broadcast rights shared with Doordarshan.
- Overseas broadcast rights to be procured for archival TV footage.
- Promotion of district cricket league.
- Outlines revenue model.
- Outlines working structure.
- Concrete road map for betterment of Indian cricket.


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Now wait a minute, Susie. Just because every child can't get his wish that doesn't mean there isn't a Santa Claus.
Anyone here ever watched the 1959 Mexican film, Santa Claus? Wild and very different, but has some really cool moments in the film. I think it's horribly dubbed, but it seems the dubbed version is the only version you can get.
I Love This Christmasy Time of Year!
Mine are white christmas,i'll be home for christmas,and Rudolph of course and home alones,as i own all and many more.
This is the movie where Bing Crosby and Marjorie Raynolds sing together White Christmas..
And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless us!! Everyone!!''
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (1843)
Rudolph the red nosed reindeer
My grandmother & i Always watched this show together when i was younger, I always get a fuzzy feeling when i watch it haha
And Christmas Vacation
because my father and I watch that movie ever christmas together... guess it gives us something to bond over =]
I love miracle on 34th street, The snowman and polar express! They are my all time favourite christmas movies
And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless us!! Everyone!!''
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (1843)
Most favorite are
1. Surviving Christmas (really feel like watching that right now but the dam thing is in the loft arhh!)
2. Home alone
3. Home alone 2
3. Jack frost
4. The Grinch
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Hi olga,yes i have seen it and i own it also as i'm a classic movie buff to so i've got quite a collection and i enjoy it to as i love my white christmas,bells of st.marys and others.


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Permissible static loads
Very heavy loads or shock loads can permanently deform the raceways or rolling elements. In the case of super-precision bearing arrangements, permanent deformation must not occur. To make sure that static loads do not lead to permanent deformation, the basic static load rating of the bearing and equivalent static bearing load can be compared to determine if a bearing is at risk of permanent deformation. For very heavily loaded super-precision angular contact ball bearings, the contact ellipse truncation should be checked to avoid edge stress, which also could lead to permanent deformation. For additional information, contact the SKF application engineering service.
Basic static load rating
The basic static load rating C0 as defined in ISO 76:2006 corresponds to a calculated contact stress at the centre of the most heavily loaded rolling element / raceway contact. This stress produces a total permanent deformation of the rolling element and raceway, which is approximately 0,0001 of the rolling element diameter. The loads are purely radial for radial bearings and axial, centrically acting for thrust bearings.
Values for basic static load rating C0 are listed in the product tables.
Equivalent static bearing load
To compare actual loads with the basic static load rating, the actual loads must be converted into an equivalent load. The equivalent static bearing load P0 is defined as that hypothetical load (radial for radial bearings and axial for thrust bearings) which, if applied, would cause the same maximum rolling element load in the bearing as the actual loads to which the bearing is subjected.
Information and data required for calculating the equivalent static bearing load are provided in each product section.
Required basic static load rating
The required basic static load rating C0, to protect the bearing from permanent deformation, can be determined from
C0 ≥ s0 P0
For hybrid bearings, the static safety factor should be increased by 10%.
C0 ≥ s0 P0
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Guidelines for minimum values:
For hybrid bearings, the static safety factor should be increased by 10%.
For angular contact thrust ball bearings for screw drives, safety factors down to s0 = 1 can be used.


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Table of Contents
This chapter will guide you through the installation process. The concepts presented here apply to all installation methods. The only difference is in the way the distribution sets are fetched by the installer. Some details of the installation differ depending on the NetBSD release: The examples from this chapter were created with NetBSD 5.0.
The following install screens are just examples. Do not simply copy them, as your hardware and configuration details may be different!
The installation process is divided logically in two parts. In the first part you create a partition for NetBSD and write the disklabel for that partition. In the second part you decide which distribution sets (subsets of the operating system) you want to install and then extract the files into the newly created partition(s).
The NetBSD install program sysinst allows you to change the keyboard layout during the installation. If for some reason this does not work for you, you can use the map in the following table.
To start the installation of NetBSD, insert your chosen boot media (CD/DVD, USB drive, floppy, etc.) and reboot the computer. The kernel on the installation medium will be booted and start displaying a lot of messages on the screen about hardware being detected.
When the kernel has booted you will find yourself in the NetBSD
installation program, sysinst, shown in
Figure 3.1, "Selecting the language".
From here on you should follow the instructions displayed on the
screen, using the
INSTALL document as a companion
reference. You will find the INSTALL document in various
formats in the root directory of the NetBSD release.
The sysinst screens all have more or less
the same layout: the upper part of the screen shows a short
description of the current operation or a short help message, and the
rest of the screen is made up of interactive menus and prompts.
To make a choice, use the cursor keys, the
"Ctrl+N" (next) and "Ctrl+P"
(previous) keys, or press one of the letters displayed left of
each choice. Confirm your choice by pressing the Return
Start by selecting the language you prefer to use for the installation process.
The next screen Figure 3.2, "Selecting a keyboard type" will allow you to select a suitable keyboard type.
This will bring you to the main menu of the installation program (Figure 3.3, "The sysinst main menu").
Choosing the "Install NetBSD to hard disk" option brings you to the next screen (Figure 3.4, "Confirming to install NetBSD"), where you need to confirm that you want to continue the installation.
After choosing "Yes" to continue, sysinst displays a list of one or more disks and asks which one you want to install NetBSD on. In the example given in Figure 3.5, "Choosing a hard disk", there are two disks, and NetBSD will be installed on "wd0", the first IDE disk found. If you use SCSI or external USB disks, the first will be named "sd0", the second "sd1" and so on.
The installer will then ask whether you want to do a full, minimal or custom installation. NetBSD is broken into a collection of distributions sets. "Full installation" is the default and will install all sets; "Minimal installation" will only install a small core set, the minimum of what is needed for a working system. If you select "Custom installation" you can select which sets you would like to have installed. This step is shown in Figure 3.6, "Full or custom installation".
If you choose to do a custom installation, sysinst will allow you to choose which distribution sets to install, as shown in Figure 3.7, "Selecting distribution sets". At a minimum, you must select a kernel and the "Base" and "System (/etc)" sets.
The first important step of the installation has come: the partitioning of the hard disk. First, you need to specify whether NetBSD will use a partition (suggested choice) or the whole disk. In the former case it is still possible to create a partition that uses the whole hard disk (Figure 3.8, "Choosing the partitioning scheme") so we recommend that you select this option as it keeps the BIOS partition table in a format which is compatible with other operating systems.
The next screen shows the current state of the MBR partition table on the hard disk before the installation of NetBSD. There are four primary partitions, and as you can see, this example disk is currently empty. If you do have other partitions you can leave them around and install NetBSD on a partition that is currently unused, or you can overwrite a partition to use it for NetBSD.
Deleting a partition is simple: after selecting the partition, a menu with options for that partition will appear (Figure 3.10, "Partition options"). Change the partition kind to "Delete partition" to remove the partition. Of course, if you want to use the partition for NetBSD you can set the partition kind to "NetBSD".
You can create a partition for NetBSD by selecting the partition you want to install NetBSD to. The partition names "a" to "d" correspond to the four primary partitions on other operating systems. After selecting a partition, a menu with options for that partition will appear, as shown in Figure 3.10, "Partition options".
To create a new partition, the following information must be supplied:
the type (kind) of the new partition
the first (start) sector of the new partition
the size of the new partition
Choose the partition type "NetBSD" for the new partition (using the "type" option). The installation program will try to guess the "start" position based on the end of the preceding partition. Change this value if necessary. The same thing applies to the "size" option; the installation program will try to fill in the space that is available until the next partition or the end of the disk (depending on which comes first). You can change this value if it is incorrect, or if you do not want NetBSD to use the suggested amount of space.
After you have chosen the partition type, start position, and size, it is a good idea to set the name that should be used in the boot menu. You can do this by selecting the "bootmenu" option and providing a label, e.g., "NetBSD". It is a good idea to repeat this step for other bootable partitions so you can boot both NetBSD and a Windows system (or other operating systems) using the NetBSD bootselector. If you are satisfied with the partition options, confirm your choice by selecting "Partition OK". Choose "Partition table OK" to leave the MBR partition table editor.
If you have made an error in partitioning (for example you have created overlapping partitions) sysinst will display a message and suggest that you go back to the MBR partition editor (but you are also allowed to continue). If the data is correct but the NetBSD partition lies outside the range of sectors which is bootable by the BIOS, sysinst will warn you and ask if you want to proceed anyway. Doing so may lead to problems on older PCs.
This is not a limitation of NetBSD. Some old BIOSes cannot boot a partition which lies outside the first 1024 cylinders. To fully understand the problem you should study the different type of BIOSes and the many addressing schemes that they use (physical CHS, logical CHS, LBA, ...). These topics are not described in this guide.
On modern computers (those with support for int13 extensions), it is possible to install NetBSD in partitions that live outside the first 8 GB of the hard disk, provided that the NetBSD boot selector is installed.
Next, sysinst will offer to install a boot selector on the hard disk. This screen is shown in Figure 3.11, "Installing the boot selector".
At this point, the BIOS partitions (called slices on BSD systems) have been created. They are also called PC BIOS partitions, MBR partitions or fdisk partitions.
Do not confuse the slices or BIOS partitions with the BSD partitions, which are different things.
Some platforms, like PC systems (amd64 and i386), use DOS-style MBR partitions to separate file systems. The MBR partition you created earlier in the installation process is necessary to make sure that other operating systems do not overwrite the diskspace that you allocated to NetBSD.
NetBSD uses its own partition scheme, called a disklabel, which is stored at the start of the MBR partition. In the next few steps you will create a disklabel(5) and set the sizes of the NetBSD partitions, or use existing partition sizes, as shown in Figure 3.12, "Edit partitions?".
When you choose to set the sizes of the NetBSD partitions you can define the partitions you would like to create. The installation program will generate a disklabel based on these settings. This installation screen is shown in Figure 3.13, "Setting partition sizes".
The default partition scheme of just using a big
/ (root) file system (plus swap) works
fine with NetBSD, and there is little need to change this.
Figure 3.13, "Setting partition sizes" shows how to change the
size of the swap partition to 600 MB.
/tmp to reside on a
RAM disk
(mfs(8)) for extra speed may be a good idea. Other partition
schemes may use separate partitions for
/usr and/or
/home, but you should use your own
experience to decide if you need this.
The next step is to create the disklabel and edit its partitions, if necessary, using the disklabel editor (Figure 3.14, "The disklabel editor"). If you predefined the partition sizes in the previous step, the resulting disklabel will probably fit your wishes. In that case you can complete the process immediately by selecting "Partition sizes ok".
There are two reserved partitions, "c", representing the NetBSD partition, and "d", representing the whole disk. You can edit all other partitions by using the cursor keys and pressing the return key. You can add a partition by selecting an unused slot and setting parameters for that partition. The partition editing screen is shown in Figure 3.15, "Disklabel partition editing".
After defining the partitions in the new disklabel, the last item is to enter a name for the NetBSD disk as shown in Figure 3.16, "Naming the NetBSD disk". This can be used later to distinguish between disklabels of otherwise identical disks.
The installer now has all the data it needs to prepare the disk. Nothing has been written to the disk at this point but, and now is your last chance to abort the installation process before actually writing data to the disk. Choose "no" to abort the installation process and return to the main menu, or continue by selecting "yes".
After confirming that sysinst should prepare the disk, it will run disklabel(8) to create the NetBSD partition layout and newfs(8) to create the file systems on the disk.
After preparing the NetBSD partitions and their filesystems, the next question (shown in Figure 3.18, "Selecting bootblocks") is which bootblocks to install. Usually you will choose the default of BIOS console, i.e., show boot messages on your computer's display.
If you run a farm of machines without monitor, it may be more convenient to use a serial console running on one of the serial ports. The menu also allows changing the serial port's baud rate from the default of 9600 baud, 8 data bits, no parity and one stopbit.
At this point, you have finished the first and most difficult part of the installation!
The second half of the installation process consists of populating the file systems by extracting the distribution sets that you selected earlier (base, compiler tools, games, etc). Before unpacking the sets, sysinst asks what information you would like to see during that process, as shown in Figure 3.19, "Choosing the verbosity of the extraction process". You can choose between a progress bar, a display of the name of each extracted file, or nothing.
Now sysinst needs to find the NetBSD
sets and you must tell it where to find them. The menu offers several
choices, as shown in
Figure 3.20, "Installation media". The options are explained in
detail in the
INSTALL documents.
When selecting "CD-ROM / DVD",
sysinst asks the name of the CD-ROM
or DVD device and the directory in which the set files are
stored, see Figure 3.21, "CD-ROM/DVD installation". The device is usually
cd0 for the first CD-ROM or DVD drive,
regardless of whether it is IDE or SCSI (or even USB or FireWire).
If you don't know the name of the CD-ROM/DVD device, you can find by doing the following:
Press Ctrl-Z to pause sysinst and go to the shell prompt.
Type the command:
This will show the kernel startup messages, including the name of the CD-ROM device, for example cd0.
If the display scrolls too quickly, you can also use more:
dmesg | more
Go back to the installation program with the command:
Figure 3.22, "Mounting a file system" shows the menu to install NetBSD from an unmounted file system. It is necessary to specify the device ("Device"), the file system of the device ("File system") and the path to the install sets ("Set directory"). The setting for the "Base directory" is optional and can be kept blank.
In the following example the install sets are stored on a MSDOS file system, on partition "e" on the device "sd0".
It is usually necessary to specify the device name and the partition. Figure 3.23, "Mounting a partition " shows how to specify device "sd0" with partition "e".
In Figure 3.24, "Accessing a MSDOS file system" the file system type is specified. It is "msdos" but it could also be the NetBSD file system "ffs" or "ext2fs", a Linux file system. The "Base directory" item is left blank and the binary sets are stored under "/sets". Choosing "Continue" will start the extraction of the sets.
If you choose to install from a local network or the Internet via FTP, sysinst will configure the system's network connection, download the selected set files to a temporary directory, and then extract them.
NetBSD currently supports installation via ethernet, USB ethernet or wireless, and wireless LAN. Installation via DSL (PPP over Ethernet) is not supported during installation.
The first step shown in Figure 3.25, "Which network interface to configure" consists of selecting which network card to configure. sysinst will determine a list of available network interfaces, present them and ask which one to use.
The exact names of your network interfaces depend on the hardware you use. Example interfaces are "wm" for Intel Gigabit interfaces, "ne" for NE2000 and compatible ethernet cards, and "ath" for Atheros based wireless cards. This list is by no means complete, and NetBSD supports many more network devices.
To get a list of network interfaces available on your system, interrupt the installation process by pressing "Ctrl+Z", then enter
ifconfig -ane2: flags=8822<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 address: 00:06:0d:c6:73:d5 media: Ethernet autoselect 10baseT full-duplex status: active inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 0.0.0.0 inet6 fe80::206:dff:fec6:73d5%ne2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 33196 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ppp1: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 296 sl1: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 296 strip0: flags=0 mtu 1100 strip1: flags=0 mtu 1100
To get more information about all the devices found during system startup, including network devices, type
dmesg | more
You can return to the NetBSD installation by typing
Next, you have a chance to set your network medium.
It is unlikely that you will need to enter anything other than the default here. If you experience problems like very slow transfers or timeouts, you may, for example, force different duplex settings for ethernet cards. To get a list of supported media and media options for a given network device (ne2, for example), escape from sysinst by pressing "Ctrl+Z", then enter:
ifconfig -m ne2ne2: flags=8822<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 address: 00:03:0d:c6:73:d5 media: Ethernet 10baseT full-duplex status: active supported Ethernet media: media 10baseT media 10baseT mediaopt full-duplex media 10base2 media autoselect
The various values printed after "media" may be of interest here, including keywords like "autoselect" but also including any "mediaopt" settings.
Return to the installation by typing:
The next question will be whether you want to perform DHCP autoconfiguration as shown in Figure 3.26, "Using DHCP for network configuration". Answer "Yes" if you have a DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) running somewhere on your network, and sysinst will fetch a number of defaults from it. Answer "No" to enter all the values manually.
We will assume you answered "No" and go into all the questions asked in detail.
Figure 3.27, "Entering and configuring network data" shows the questions asked for the network configuration. The values to be entered are:
This is the name of the domain you are in.
The name by which other machines can usually address your computer. Not used during installation.
Enter your numerical Internet Protocol address in "dotted quad" notation here, for example, 192.168.1.3
The netmask for your network, either given as a hex value ("0xffffff00") or in dotted-quad notation ("255.255.255.0").
Your router's (or default gateway's) IP address. Do not use a hostname here!
Your (first) DNS server's IP address. Again, don't use a hostname.
After answering all of your network configuration info, it will be displayed, and you will have a chance to go back and make changes (Figure 3.28, "Confirming network parameters").
sysinst will now run a few commands (not displayed in detail here) to configure the network: flushing the routing table, setting the default route, and testing if the network connection is operational.
Now that you have a functional network connection, you must tell the installer how to get the distribution sets, as shown in Figure 3.29, "Defining the FTP settings".
When you are satisfied with your settings (the defaults work most of the time), choose "Get Distribution" to continue.
If you want to install NetBSD from a server in your local network, NFS is an alternative to FTP.
Using this installation method requires the ability to set up an NFS server, a topic which is not discussed here.
As shown in Figure 3.30, "NFS install screen", you must specify the IP address of the NFS server with "Host", the "Base directory" that is exported by the NFS server, and the "Set directory", which contains the install sets.
Figure 3.31, "NFS example" shows an example: Host "192.168.1.50 " is the NFS server that provides the directory "/home/username/Downloads" The NetBSD install sets are stored in the directory "/home/username/Downloads/sets" on the NFS server. Choose "Continue" to start the installation of the distribution sets.
After the method for obtaining distribution sets has been chosen, and (if applicable) after those sets have been transferred, they will be extracted into the new NetBSD file system.
After extracting all selected sets,
sysinst will create device nodes in
/dev directory and then display a
message saying that everything went well.
Another message (see Figure 3.32, "Extraction of sets completed") will let you know that the set extraction is now completed, and that you will have an opportunity to configure some essential things before finishing the NetBSD installation.
The first thing you can configure is your timezone. It is Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) by default, and you can use the two-level menu of continents/countries and cities shown in Figure 3.33, "Selecting the system's time zone" to select your timezone with the Return key. Next, press "x" followed by Return to exit timezone selection.
At this point, you are given the option to choose a password encryption scheme. While "DES" is the standard algorithm used on most Unix systems, "MD5", "Blowfish", and "SHA1" allow longer passwords than DES, which only uses the first eight characters of the password that is entered. DES is still useful for interoperability with other operating systems.
After choosing the password cipher you are asked if you want to set the root password. It is recommended to set a root password at this point for security reasons.
When you agree to set a root password, sysinst will run the passwd(1) utility for you. Please note that the password is not echoed.
The next menu allows you to choose which command line interpreter - also known as a "shell" - will be used for the root account. The default is the Bourne-compatible Almquist shell, sh(1). Other choices are the Korn shell (ksh(1)) and the C shell (csh(1)). If, upon reading this, you don't have some idea of which shell you prefer, simply use the default, as this is a highly subjective decision. Should you later change your mind, root's shell can always be changed.
At this point the installation is finished.
After passing the dialog that confirms the installation, sysinst will return to the main menu. Remove any installation media (CD, floppy, etc.) and choose "Reboot the computer" to boot your new NetBSD installation.


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From the makers of Blogger comes "Medium".
Thirteen years ago a radical idea changed the world wide web – anyone anywhere could suddenly publish their thoughts to the global internet audience through a free platform called Blogger (now owned by Google). The brains behind Blogger – Evan Williams and Christopher 'Biz' Stone – are now trying to repeat history by building a new publishing platform from scratch. Called 'Medium', the new platform aims to redress the major flaw with social media and blogging communities – most services have lowered the bar for sharing information, making quality content hard to find.
The Obvious Corporation have taken on this project as they believe media is still the 'connective tissue of society'. Williams and Stone are trying to re-imagine publishing in an attempt to make an evolutionary leap forward – they want to build a community where quality content always trumps quantity. Unlike Blogger, users posting on Medium wont have the burden of building an audience. Instead, they can focus on posting quality content, organised into 'collections'. Collections are designed to give people a context to publish their own stories, photos and ideas. Users then rate the posts they visit, culminating in the highest-rated posts showing up at the top of the page, a democratic process designed to help users find the best posts easily. A green bull's eye with a score from one to ten indicates how many viewers voted for the post.
Inside Medium
The developers of Medium are still in the testing phase and posting privileges are limited to a small invited list of friends and family of the founders. As a Beta member, I was still able to view and vote on content, which currently included the boards 'Been There, Loved That', a beautiful collection of photos from around the world.
A particular favourite was the collection titled 'Look What I've Made', which included 'Orwell's Firewall' – a router constructed from the decayed remains of an HP 80138 Pulse Generator. The device plays homage to Orwell's 1984 novel with the name MINITRUE (short for the Ministry of Truth). The blinking lights are reminders that data is sent into a world of systems, corporations and governments that do not always share the maker's own values of openess, transparency or privacy.
'The Writer's Room', was a collection that displayed the musings on the mental forces involved in writing and advice on how to grapple with the sometimes overwhelming drive to procrastinate. 'The Obvious Collection' was an ode to the company behind the Medium project – The Obvious Corporation – and had articles on collaboration in business.
Will it be any good?
With such lofty goals, Medium looks set to fail in it's modus operandi. Like every other social media site that gets users to vote or 'like' content, quality content will simply be replaced by 'popular' content. Popular does not equal quality, and some would argue that it is inversely related. The Medium community will only be as good as its users – it looks good now because it has few users and fits a particular taste. As soon as Medium becomes popular, its 'taste' and 'feel' will degrade to the mainstream norm and we will be back where we started (drowning in a deluge of poor quality content).
However, where Medium can succeed is in its attempt to be the antithesis of the noisy Twitter feed. Posting on Medium looks elegant and easy and the good design will appeal to people wanting a less busy interface.


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Analysts at the Ukraine's energy ministry believe that the recent change of power in the country will accelerate the implementation of wind power and other renewables projects. Paradoxically, the dispute with Russia could aid this as Ukraine looks to reduce its dependency on Russian gas.
The new Ukranian government is also considering providing additional benefits to the investors of wind power projects, in particular reducing bureaucratic hurdles associated with granting state allowances for building new wind farms. However, the government has no plans to reduce the local content requirement for the building of wind power plants, which should reach 50% from 1 July.
Despite the current problems in the region, it also believes that the ever growing support of western countries will help to increase Ukraine's credit rating, which currently remains poor, blocking the country from receiving loans for the implementation of wind projects by potential local investors.
Large project
One of these is the LLC Wind Power company, which is part of DTEK, one of Ukraine's largest energy holding companies, owned by Ukranian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov. In April, LLC commissioned 35 wind turbines for the second stage of the Botievsky wind farm, located in the Zaporozhye region, and which is part of the Priazovsky wind project, thus increasing its capacity up to 200MW.
It will generate about 600 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually and will be the largest wind plant in Ukraine. The total investment in the construction of the wind farm amounted to EUR 340 million. Part of the funds for the project were provided by Germany's Landesbank Berlin.
In addition to Botievsky, DTEK also plans to continue developing two other wind farms as partof the Priazovsky complex: the Primorsky and Berdyansky projects. Full commissioning of the three additions to the Priazovsky complex, taking it to a total capacity of 550MW, is expected before the end of 2017. Vestas will supply all Priazovsky turbines.
Although Botievsky and Priazovsky are in the Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine, the Zaporozhe region in the south is currently stable. Still, DTEK, and Akhmetov, are believed to have a good relationship with the Russian government and a compromise deal with them could probably be achieved.
Other projects previously announced may also still go ahead, including Eco-Optima' wind farm in the Starosambirskyi area of the Lviv region, for which the investment is estimated at EUR 15 million, and a project by a consortium of Belgium Greenworx Holding NV and Turkish Guris Construction and Engineering.
According to Vitaly Murashkin, a senior analyst at the "Alternative" Association, which is one of Ukraine's leading associations in the field of renewable energy, Investors still interested in the Ukrainian wind power market include German developer WKN and French utility Compagnie Nationale du Rhône a.
The total capacity of the country's wind power plants should reach 4GW by 2030, however, according to the current Ukranian government, these plans should already be implemented by 2020-2022. At present, total capacity is estimated at 500MW, of which about 370MW is connected to the grid.
At the same time, nothing scares off investors more than political and regional uncertainty. Evidence of this follows Russia's occupation of the Crimea, where Compagnie Nationale du Rhône dropped plans to build a 50MW wind power plant. The same decision has also been taken by WKN, which planned to build two plants in the Krasnoperekopskiy and Dzhankojsky areas of Crimea before the change of power with total capacity of 400MW.