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I'm trying to picture in my minds eye the businesses on the West side of 106 where the parking lot adjacent to First Edmonton place 106/Jasper Ave.
Wish I had a 1970's photo of the area because I had often thought there was a radio station adjacent to the old Embers night club.
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Veteran Canadian Film Producer and Broadcaster Felix "Fil" Fraser Dies at 86
Fil Fraser, who worked as a broadcaster, writer, radio, TV and film producer over five decades, died on Sunday of unspecified causes. He was 86 years old.
...Fraser launched the Regina Weekly Mirror newspaper in 1960, and in 1969 became program director and senior producer for Canada's first educational TV station, the Metropolitan Edmonton Educational Television Association, the forerunner of Alberta's ACCESS Network.
From there, Fraser moved in 1971 to the CBC TV station CBXT-TV in Edmonton, where he co-anchored the local supper hour news program from 1971 to 1973, before hosting ITV Television's Fil Fraser Show. Besides doing radio and TV work in Edmonton during the 1970s, Fraser also ran his own indie production company.
CJCA shut down briefly and was reborn (pun intended) as a Christian station backed by Doug Main. When the mainstream CJCA shut down, a number of people moved over to CHED. That mey be where the confusion comes from.
If I recall CJCA had an hour spot playing "underground music" from 11 to midnight. This would be about 1978. I further thought that out of that came K-97 because they had a sign on the Henry Singer building roof.
I liked Doug Main, great broadcaster. He might even be a c2e member for all I know.
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I didn't know much of Fill Fraser but I was aware of him.
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Really? I always knew it as 930
According to the history KC posted CJCA bounced around the AM dial in the early days, occupying a few different frequencies that would go on to host other stations that we came to associate with those frequencies (like 580 AM that CKUA used to use).
I am in no way entitled to your opinion...
^Thanks for that.
I know unrelated to this topic but since when has that stopped c2e posters before?
When i was working at the Army & Navy in the late 1970's Great West Saddlery building while they were moving house to what's now known as Cobogo lofts, I came across a couple large recordings in generic sleeves of The Shadow. These were probably 18" platters. My boss at the time said I could have them. There were 2 records. So I took them over to the Hobbit shop and gave them to Carmine, since i knew he had a little side business of old time radio shows on cassettes. True story.
I only found out recently that Orson Wells, played the radio voice of The Shadow.
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I used to work at Hobbits, all three locations. I remember seeing them. Unfortunatly Camen passed away a few years ago so I have no idea what happened to them.
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Last I heard Bruce was teaching at MacEwan. It was a long time ago but I have a vague memory of you. So many people though.
I used to wear glasses, hung later with Richard Lord and Ellen. I recall, you used to have short rust/sandy coloured hair, about 6'2 something. Hard to believe that Bruce is teaching. Was teaching his day job in the Hobbit days? A little confused about the Embers, did it burn down or was it just demolished?
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Do I detect a Kumbaya moment here despite all the rancor? Sorry guys I couldn't resist but it's good to see people reconnect.
Did my dog just fall into a pothole???
^ I was confusing you with Wes and i recall there was a "younger fellow" there at the time a bit later, shortly before the first location was moving house. I remember Derek. He was into formula One race cars. I remember when the new vcr's came in that da and Carmen was so excited over them. These were the vcr's with the long remote control cords (if I recall) Do you remember Gerald Schiller? Don't know if the name is spelled right. What became of the embers building? I wish I had a street photo of 106th street lookin East/West. Good times. I believe the locations were, 106th street, Boardwalk basement, and finale ~ 1985 near the Manulife building.
I'll lt you have the last word here.
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Former NHL defenseman Zarley Zalapski, 49
You have to dream big. If we want to be a little city, we dream small. If we want to be a big city, we dream big, and this is a big idea. - Mayor Stephen Mandel, 02/22/2012
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Pat DiNizio of the Smithereens Dies at 62
Permanently bricked up Behind the Wall of Sleep - fond farewell to one of my favourite bands says 15 year old me.
Some high profile executive deaths in just a short time span
Hunter Harrison, CSX CEO and former head of CP Rail and CN Rail, dies at 73
Apotex founder Barry Sherman and wife, Honey Sherman, found dead in North York home
You have to dream big. If we want to be a little city, we dream small. If we want to be a big city, we dream big, and this is a big idea. - Mayor Stephen Mandel, 02/22/2012
Former Edmonton mayor Terry Cavanagh dies at 91
You have to dream big. If we want to be a little city, we dream small. If we want to be a big city, we dream big, and this is a big idea. - Mayor Stephen Mandel, 02/22/2012
Eternal kudos on saving the Mac. That's the jewel of downtown Edmonton, and it's awful to think that we actually coulda lost it.
Now, having said something nice, I will proceed to a not-entirely flattering memory of Mayor Cavanagh(also alluded to in the Journal's quote-list). My father attended one of the campaign debates where Cavanagh tried to red-bait Jan Reimer as a "socialist", and according to my dad(who was a Cavanagh supporter), the tirade succeeded only in working the audience into a frenzy against Cavanagh. The debate was held in one of the provincial constituencies that went NDP even before "Redmonton", and Reimer apparently had already given a really good speech before Cavanagh got started. So all that followed by his own tone-deaf speech just conspired to make it a very bad night for Cavanagh.
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The first person to conduct a free, untethered spacewalk, Bruce McCandless II, has passed away at the age of 80. McCandless was a naval aviator and the son of a U.S. Medal of Honor recipient who served as the CAPCOM when Neil Armstrong successfully placed humanity's first footprints on the Moon and who helped redefine what it was believed astronauts can do.
Noah's ark was built by volunteers...... The Titanic was built by professionals.
Sound of Music actress Heather Menzies-Urich dies at 68
Toronto-born Menzies-Urich was married to actor Robert Urich, who died in 2002
Heather Menzies-Urich, the actress perhaps best known for portraying Louisa von Trapp in the 1965 film The Sound of Music, has died at age 68.
Her TV credits included Dragnet, Bonanza, Marcus Welby M.D., The Bob Newhart Show and a starring role as Jessica 6 in the series Logan's Run.
Maple Leafs legend Johnny Bower dead at 93
Hall of Fame goalie led Toronto to 4 championships
Canadian hockey legend Johnny Bower died Tuesday.
The 93-year-old was battling pneumonia, according to a statement from his family.
Rose Marie, of The Dick Van Dyke show and all the way back to her vaudeville debut at the age of 3, 94
Rose Marie, best known for her role as Sally Rogers on "The Dick Van Dyke Show," who had a nine-decade career in show business, died Thursday in Van Nuys, Calif. She was 94.
Notable deaths 2017 - BBC News
People we've lost in 2017
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Jim Shaw, former CEO of Shaw Communications, dead at 60
Joined company founded by his father in 1982 as a cable installer
Jim Shaw, the former CEO and vice-chairman of Shaw Communications, died Wednesday at age 60.
The Calgary-based telecommunications giant said in a statement that Shaw passed away after a brief illness.
He's survived by his wife, Kathryn, and five children.
Shaw was CEO from 1998 until 2010, when he handed the reins to his younger brother, Brad.
^ Of course he's the guy who moved Shaw HQ from here to Calgary.
You have to dream big. If we want to be a little city, we dream small. If we want to be a big city, we dream big, and this is a big idea. - Mayor Stephen Mandel, 02/22/2012
^, ^^
from the CBC article...
Jim joined the company in 1982 after dropping out of the University of Calgary and trying his hand at a series of business ventures as a cable installer, doing front-line customer service.
He was appointed vice president of operations in 1987, president in 1995 and CEO in 1998.
During his time with the company, he was involved in launching its foray into the internet, digital cable and its purchase of 11 radio stations and seven TV channels from Rogers.
He also oversaw the acquisition of assets from Western International Communications, the relocation of the company headquarters from Edmonton, and its acquisition of Canwest Global Communications in 2010.
He stepped down after reportedly displaying belligerent behaviour toward investors.
Also Dutch on Soap & Doc Cottle on Battlestar Galactica
Donnelly Rhodes, Canadian actor known for 'Da Vinci's Inquest', dies at age 80
Ray Thomas, founder member of the Moody Blues, 76.
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Motorhead Guitarist 'Fast' Eddie Clarke Dead at 67
So that means all 3 members from the Ace of Spades era are gone now.
You have to dream big. If we want to be a little city, we dream small. If we want to be a big city, we dream big, and this is a big idea. - Mayor Stephen Mandel, 02/22/2012
Dolores O'Riordan, the lead singer of '90s rock band The Cranberries, has died suddenly at the age of 46.
You have to dream big. If we want to be a little city, we dream small. If we want to be a big city, we dream big, and this is a big idea. - Mayor Stephen Mandel, 02/22/2012
American racing legend Dan Gurney dies
I am in no way entitled to your opinion...
Long-time Montreal Canadiens reporter Red Fisher dead at 91
MONTREAL Legendary hockey writer Red Fisher had his idiosyncrasies.
He didnt talk to rookies because he felt they hadnt yet earned the right to talk. He never called the Montreal Canadiens the Habs because he worried the diminutive of the word habitants might be demeaning to French-Canadians.
But Fisher, who died Friday at 91, was also a larger than life character who broke major stories and covered the biggest events in hockey and occasionally other sports over six decades as a writer and sports editor at the Montreal Star and Montreal Gazette.
The fine people of Montgomery are in Top_Dawg's thoughts.
May they find strength in their loss.
Paul Bocuse, the master chef who defined French cuisine for more than a half-century and put it on tables around the world, died Jan 20, 2018. Bocuse, shown in a March 2011 photo, was 91.Newsday's obituary for Paul Bocuse
I went to one of his restaurants in Lyon a few years back. Not overly impressed. His main restaurant had a 3 month waiting list.
The French have such a flair for overstatement.
"French gastronomy loses a mythical figure," French President Emmanuel Macron said. "The chefs cry in their kitchens, at the Elysee (presidential palace) and everywhere in France."
Whoa, Nelly!
Just spotted this news!
Keith Jackson, 89, announcer with Whoa, Nelly! call, dies | National Post
Pioneering, inspiring snow-sports filmmaker Warren Miller, 93, dies at Orcas Island home
I remember going to his films when he still narrated them live.
"If you don't do it this year, you'll be one year older when you do." – Warren Miller
"Don't take life too seriously, because you can't come out of it alive." – Warren Miller
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong"
He really did a lot of good for skiing, sad to see him go, but 93's a damn good life. Just about to head to K3 Cat Skiing, I'll send something in his honor!
You have to dream big. If we want to be a little city, we dream small. If we want to be a big city, we dream big, and this is a big idea. - Mayor Stephen Mandel, 02/22/2012
^ A stalwart and incalculable resource for musical development in Edmonton for decades. Tommy's positive influence on young musicians might never be replaced.
Sad day. Tommy was a great ambassador on so many stages. Wouldn't be surprised but that it was Tommy who convinced Big Miller to make Edmonton home.
... gobsmacked
there aren't many people about whom one can say cities and provinces and countries are poorer with their passing, not just their friends and families, but tommy banks could stand at the head of that line.
"If you did not want much, there was plenty." Harper Lee
1:00 Saturday on CKUA (ckua.com) Kody Hutchison will devote his show to Banks' music.
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Steve Macleod on Jazzology CJSR Sunday 9 - 11 has a great tribute planned for the Senator.
I wasn't around for Tommy Banks' hey-day but I was lucky enough to hear him play at the Yardbird on occasion in the last 20 years. Always enjoyed seeing him at John Ducey Park no matter who was playing. A great Edmontonian - he built the template shaping the attitude adopted by many civic boosters in the last little while, "We can do it here".
I really can't think of a greater Edmonton legend than Tommy Banks. R.I.P.
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It was before my time here, but Tommy Banks was the house band of the Embers upstairs, before Hobbits took it over. Tommy Banks and the Banknotes. TB and the Commonwealth games here was epic. I remember the interview and table top hockey game with Gretzky and Tommy. Classic stuff. RIP Tommy.
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Sad news. As a child TB was to me the biggest Canadian celebrity.
Did my dog just fall into a pothole???
Noah's ark was built by volunteers...... The Titanic was built by professionals.
Make the RIGHT choice before you take your last breath......
I guess it probably does make things like beds easier to move about(well, until you want to move them again). And, if the DIY aspect made the price cheaper, that could have been a draw for some people. It seems to me I had an Ikea bookshelf at one point. Can't imagine how I got it together, must've fobbed that off on some friends.
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Fidel Castro Jr today by suicide.
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Dennis Edwards, lead singer with The Temptations, 74.
One of the great soul voices.
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^Ah, Martin. Played a good part in that show.
Gone............................and very quickly forgotten may I add.
Also Sy Flembeck on Cheers where he had an amusing exchange with his future son.
Archbishop Joseph MacNeil
I got my Confirmation from him in the early 80s some time. A few years back, I had a brief chat with him outside Le Marchand, where I believe he was living at the time. Seemed like a nice guy, but I didn't know him well.
Vic Damone 89
Did my dog just fall into a pothole???
this short-lived Canadian game show.
Not surpised it only lasted a year, since the premise was kinda lame. Assuming that all the given punch-lines "worked", then there'd be no real reason to think any one was more legitimate than the other. And if only the original punch line "worked", that would be the obvious choice. From what I remember, all the punch lines more or less made sense.
One of those weird shows featuring D-list celebrities that ITV would always run in the '80s. They rarely lasted more than a season, if that, and when they were cancelled, they were forgotten forever.
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Noah's ark was built by volunteers...... The Titanic was built by professionals.
99? God was in no hurry to get him in, then.
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I'm not 100% sure but wasn't Billy Graham here in Edmonton at one time being courted by Max Solbreken?
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I wasn't a Christian back then so didn't attend but I remember watching some of his other crusades on TV later and feeling God calling out to me through his message (sorry Joy Behar but God does "speak" to people but not usually with an audible voice, at least in my experience)
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David Odgen Stiers -- best known for playing Major Charles Winchester on "M*A*S*H" -- has died after a battle with bladder cancer ... according to his agent.http://www.tmz.com/2018/03/03/mash-star-david-ogden-stiers-dead-at-75/
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Make the RIGHT choice before you take your last breath......
I had the pleasure of meeting Mr Stiers a number of years ago and he was really nice. One of my friends worked with him for a number of years and said he was one of the nicest actors he met, and just an awesome person. Sad to hear of his passing.
They're going to park their car over there. You're going to park your car over here. Get it?
^ Nice anecdote there. I always liked David Odgen Stiers as Winchester. He made me laugh.
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Sir Roger Bannister, the world's first man to run a mile in under four minutes.
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Canadian country star Ronnie Prophet dead at 80
Singer, guitarist known for his television work and one-man shows mixing music and comedy
Country music star Ronnie Prophet, a familiar face on Canadian television in the 1970s and 1980s, has died at the age of 80.
Prophet passed away Friday morning, according to a Facebook update posted by spokesperson Dave Bancroft on behalf of the entertainer's family.
Adam West is left out of the Oscars 'in memoriam' section | Daily Mail Online
Outrage as Batman star Adam West and Glenn Campbell are LEFT OUT of the Oscars 'in memoriam' section - along with some other well known-names and faces
West was more of a TV star than a movie star. I'm a fan but I can see why he wasn't on the list. It's the Academy of Motion Pictures after all. And I don't remember Glenn Campbell being in a movie, at least not in a substantial role.
I remember him in True Grit with John Wayne
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Throwing raptors into flight
NAME: Rob Domenech
VOCATION: founder and lead biologist for Raptor
View Research Institute
Missoula, Montana
KNOWN FOR: banding
more golden eagles in the U.S. than all other banding stations
SPARE-TIME SPORT: grappling jujitsu
On an exposed ridge in Montana's Helena National Forest, high on the blustery Rocky Mountain Front, Rob Domenech recoils from the wind in his baggy jeans and knit hat. From a cage of cooing pigeons, he takes two birds and tucks them gently into the pockets of his windbreaker. He walks 100 yards across the ridge, where he pulls out one pigeon, wraps it in a Barbie-doll-sized leather vest and clips the vest to a fine polyester string connected to a pole. Then he huddles inside a camo-painted and branch-covered 4-by-8-foot blind, binoculars at hand. He sits back, looking through the 4-inch-wide windows, and waits for a raptor to swoop down for the pigeon.
It's just another day on the job for the founder of Raptor View Research Institute. Since 2001, Domenech has banded 105 golden eagles — more than any other banding station in the U.S. Along with banding raptors, his 4-year-old institute tracks migratory goldens with satellites, monitors ospreys for heavy metals near a Superfund site, and studies nesting Swainson's hawks. But it also aims to educate kids who aren't necessarily honors students — giving them the chance to launch a banded raptor skyward.
Crouched in the blind today, Domenech peers through binoculars at a distant black speck in flight. Beside him, a teenage boy from Missoula's youth home squints to make out the bird. Is it a golden? Like most visitors to Domenech's raptor banding station, the boy can see the faraway dot, but can't distinguish it from any other bird.
Domenech sees himself mirrored in these kids. When he was in fourth grade, his father died, leaving his mom to raise the four children alone. "It was all about keeping lights on and food in the fridge," says Domenech. "I was lucky I didn't get in any more trouble as a kid." He survived his teens by quietly daydreaming his way through school. A loner disappearing into the classroom walls, he penciled dinner plate-sized drawings of golden eagles on desktops. "No one was making me get through school," he says. "If I had dropped out, no one would have objected."
This fall, his work with at-risk kids will pay off when one participant from Missoula's Flagship Program joins the banding station's full-time staff. "He's been exposed to more field science at 19 than most university wildlife biology grads," Domenech notes.
Bird-watching was a skill he gleaned from his mother, who always pointed out hawks. At the age of 18, Domenech accompanied a friend to New Jersey's Appalachian Trail, where a curt researcher counting raptors snapped at hikers interrupting his work. "He called in a merlin that did five tight concentric circles and then zipped off out of sight," remembers Domenech. "I was hooked."
Domenech was the kind of kid who memorized field guides — he used to argue with his grandfather that buzzards were really called turkey vultures — but it took him eight years to get his degree at the University of Montana. "I was way too restless to sit in class when I knew the migrants were flying," he laughs. In fact, he took off every fall semester during migration season. Camping in his Ford Escort with Scratch, his Rhodesian ridgeback-rottweiler cross, he spent months navigating logging roads to find good places for watching raptors.
Back in the blind with the scared pigeon, searching through his binoculars for a golden eagle, Domenech mutters, "They are wiley." As he flicks birdseed from his jacket pocket, he tells me about his design for robotic marmot lures to replace live pigeons. He also recently acquired a grant to fund three more satellite transmitters on adult eagles to establish migratory patterns.
The second a golden swoops down for
the pigeon, Domenech deftly pulls strings to release the trap. He
leaps out of the blind to hood the eagle before it injures itself
or kills the pigeon. The Missoula youth-home youngster follows
eagerly on Domenech's heels — this is his bird, his
golden to throw into flight.
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In late summer 1863, while in Texas to consider accepting the pastorate of the Houston Baptist Church, William Carey Crane was asked to consider instead the presidency of Baylor University. He had previously served as president of three colleges but initially turned down the offer to lead the school that had only 15 students. However, he changed his mind a few days later and accepted the proffered position at an annual salary of $3,000.
An alumnus of schools in Virginia, Maryland, and New York, Crane was a fascinating case study in contrasts. His private diaries were filled with melancholy, self-pity, and gloom, while publicly he appeared to be a brilliant, confident leader with no misgivings as to his lot in life.
One of his first acts as president was to reclaim the buildings where Confederate soldiers had been living. They were floorless, windowless and roofless because the soldiers had burned everything that would ignite for cooking and warmth. Then Crane focused on increasing enrollment. He enjoyed some success, due in part to his willingness to accept bartered goods and services to pay tuition and fees.
Crane wrote prolifically and corresponded voluminously with people across Texas and the U.S. He also managed a full load of pastoral and administrative responsibilities, including teaching eight hours a day, five days a week. In addition, he did yeomans duty as business manager and public relations director for the University. He personally repaired fences and buildings, planted crops, killed hogs, kept books, built fires, counseled students and parents, solicited funds, attended conventions, lectured on a variety of subjects, wrote numerous articles and several books (including a classic biography of Sam Houston), and was a full-time pastor. He maintained an arduous speaking schedule that included presentations to a myriad of religious, government, education, and temperance groups. He served as the first president of the Texas State Teachers Association and chaired the committee that recommended the founding of Sam Houston Normal Institute which later became Sam Houston State University.
During his two decades at the helm of Baylor, Crane made a valiant but futile attempt to develop a strong, permanent university. He used significant personal wealth in the effort. Much of his time was spent in confrontations with Rufus Burleson who, because he wanted Waco University to be the primary Baptist school in Texas, fought Crane for the public eye and the Baptist dollar. Cranes death in office on February 27, 1885, ended the controversy and opened the door for the unification of Baylor and Waco Universities the following year.
William Crane was born in Richmond, Virginia, March 17, 1816, to William and Lydia Dorset Crane. In 1838, he married Alcesta Flora Galusha who died in 1840. His second wife Jane Louise Wright died in 1842. In 1845, he married 17-year-old Catharine Jane Shepherd of Mobile, Alabama. They had nine children.


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e4rat stands for e4 'reduced access time' (ext4 file system only) and is a project by Andreas Rid and Gundolf Kiefer. The e4rat range of tools are comprised of e4rat-collect, e4rat-realloc and e4rat-preload.
Current version is 0.2.3
- 1 Process
- 2 Installation
- 3 Getting it to work
- 4 e4rat and init systems
- 5 Bootchart
- 6 Troubleshooting
If you look at a classical bootchart you will notice that neither disk nor CPU are utilized fully during the boot process. e4rat changes this to make full use of both disk and CPU during boot process and thus reduce boot time drastically. It consists of three stages:
- e4rat-collect - collect files for a specified time (default 120 seconds but this can be adjusted)
- e4rat-realloc - reallocate files
- e4rat-preload - preload them
Who benefits, who does not
e4rat has proven to be extremely effective for typical single user set-ups which boot straight into X, perhaps even with a number of programs open. If you have a server set-up and boot only into the CLI your boot time decrease may not be as drastic. Users of SSD drives do not benefit because there are no moving parts and thus (almost) no disk latency - Ureadahead might be worth looking at.
It is always better to be safe than sorry. Just make backup if you cannot afford to lose data on your partition.
Install e4ratAUR from the AUR.
Getting it to work
Now for the nitty-gritty:
To have e4rat collect a list of files you will need to append
init=/sbin/e4rat-collect to your kernel parameters. For example:
kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH init=/sbin/e4rat-collect ro 5
This will only have to be done once so you may prefer to append this command on the grub command line itself.
Upon booting e4rat-collect will watch your system for a default of 120 seconds. So if you boot, log into X, open your favourite browser and email client all within 2 minutes, every one of those activities is logged. To change the default of 120 seconds edit
/etc/e4rat.conf. To manually stop e4rat-collect type:
e4rat-collect -k
pkill e4rat-collect
Upon successful boot and after having waited the allotted time you should see the file
Do not forget to remove the e4rat-collect command from your boot loader configuration file (not necessary if you inserted it on the grub command line).
For the reallocation process change to init 1
sudo init 1
e4rat-realloc utility however, switching to rescue mode in systemd with
systemctl rescue may allow for more inodes/blocks to be reallocated as some may not be free while in multiuser.target
Log in as root and run:
e4rat-realloc /var/lib/e4rat/startup.log
This can take a while depending on how many files you have in your startup.log file.
init=/sbin/e4rat-preload permanently to your kernel parameters.
Alternative: e4rat-preload-lite
An alternative preload binary has been developed by jlindgren, it saves a few extra seconds from your boot time.
The savings come from
- using pure C with no external library dependencies, which drops the number of linked .so files from 22 to 3
- preloading only the first 100 files (both inodes and file contents) before starting /sbin/init, then continuing to load the remaining files in parallel with the normal boot sequence.
You can install e4rat-preload-liteAUR from the AUR.
Append (or replace)
init=/usr/sbin/e4rat-preload-lite permanently to your kernel parameters. Reboot and enjoy.
e4rat and init systems
e4rat-collect defaults to replacing itself with
/sbin/init upon completion. If you need to specify another process with PID 1, such as /usr/lib/systemd/systemd, you can change this in
/etc/e4rat.conf by setting the init parameter:
init /usr/lib/systemd/systemd
This allows to launch both e4rat-preload and bootchart in the same boot sequence.
You will see a noticeable improvement but nothing can beat a nice Bootchart. Have it run before and after e4rat installation and gawk at the difference.
bootchart 0.9-9
This version of bootchart automatically stops logging as soon as a display manager comes up. Supposedly the following overrides that and continues logging but it does not work for me:
To continue logging adjust your
/etc/bootchartd.conf as follows:
To stop it manually type:
# bootchartd stop
To run both e4rat-preload and bootchart append the following to your grub kernel line:
init=/sbin/bootchartd bootchart_init=/sbin/e4rat-preload
To get bootchart2 working together with e4rat edit
/sbin/bootchartd and replace the line where it says
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New gun laws are so Andrew
Last week, as one after another of our state legislative leaders speaking with distinct downstate accents came to the microphone to congratulate themselves and Gov. Andrew Cuomo on successfully sticking it to primarily upstate legal gun owners, the thought occurred anew that among politicians at this level, the capacity for self-delusion and self-love are bottomless.
It was obvious that they felt they had accomplished something grand and worthwhile that would save lives and curtail gun violence in the state. On what basis, I have no idea. I don't think they do, either.
From our perspective up here, the bundle of bills was mostly feel-good legislation, of little consequence in terms of enhanced public safety, but a huge inconvenience and expense to law-abiding gun owners, law enforcement and counties that will now have to absorb more unfunded mandates.
Overwhelmingly, nationally and in New York, the gun violence problem is caused by illegal handguns. These new gun laws don't touch the problem.
The occasion referenced above, of course, was the hasty signing into law of the governor's now infamous gun control package, which itself moved from backroom rumor to passage in both houses with the blinding speed of a goose with a digestive problem. Democracy was kept in the waiting room. She's still there.
I don't suppose it's dawned on any of our legislative leaders, at least not yet, that what transpired over gun control in political Albany might actually increase the risk of gun violence rather than diminish it. After the law was signed, I was surprised how adamant and angry a raft of callers were, even members of law enforcement. They were ripped about being required to register their now banned weapons, which were previously legal, and pass another background check.
I am fearful there will be widespread non-compliance and certainly deep resentment, which in turn creates outlaws out of the law-abiding. In that dismal world, which in New York state is saturated already with more than a million assault weapons alone, the accountability for the buying and trading of weapons will become murkier, and that is exactly what we're trying to get away from. This gun registration business was not well thought through, or approached in an appropriate manner, and I suspect may have to be revisited. What a hash job.
The root of this problem was Andrew Cuomo's strategy to keep the people in the dark about his gun control plans, and then deprive them of input on the laws themselves. Without being vested in these laws, is it small wonder a strong element of the public may be hostile to them?
So whether Cuomo's gun law tweaks have any real merit is debatable. What is not is this: how his gun control package was passed — without the people's input — is forever linked to what was passed, and over time may likely overshadow any substance. That was a disastrous strategy.
It would be easy to blame Andrew Cuomo alone for this debacle, and that would be largely correct. He created whole-cloth the imperative for even more restrictive gun laws, even when those we had were sufficient and working just fine. If had confined himself to closing loopholes on background checks, and even outright banning high-capacity magazines, that's worthy. Most of us — even gun owners — would have applauded. But, no, he wanted a big show, so he shamelessly invoked the horror of Newtown as justification for putting us through the grand wringer, which was really just pure politics for the sake of advancing Andrew in the national eye. He set the aggressive tone, and the horrendous pace.
That said, he couldn't do it alone. There was the Legislature, currently devoid of a loyal opposition, dominated by invertebrates, kowtowing to whatever the governor wants. The Legislature failed us by not providing the time and the forum to hear all the arguments and ideas, and to let the public in. That's what we were deprived of, which will never be forgotten, and most certainly will come back to haunt Andrew.
In a twisted sort of way, it's easier to forgive Andrew than the Legislature for what transpired. Andrew is, after all, Andrew. He can't help himself. He's the scorpion on the back of the horse crossing the stream. He is true to his nature, no matter what. Even if it means going down with the horse. Endgame is most certainly not his strong suit. Look at the tax cap.
There it all was for him, too much of a temptation. Newtown. Governors in Maryland and Colorado looking to be the first to enact responsive legislation. The president and vice president crafting a national plan. The need to beat them all in speed, in the number and types of restrictions. Getting attention, regardless of any real merit or need, is so Andrew.
So out of expediency and because he could, he settled for dictating to the Legislature and the people, instead of governing and listening to the people.
What a wasted opportunity New York's gun control circus turned out to be.
Take a short step back to what already seems so long ago, when Newtown became an unspeakable reality. As a nation, we were rocked by it, and for the first time in my lifetime there was a genuine national introspection over what we can all do to corral gun violence — especially among gun owners.
It was a teaching moment, when a large population of gun owners normally hostile to change and suspicious of motives was receptive to at least considering options.
New York's response to this tentative detente? What we just witnessed. Dumb, dumb, dumb. More laws are not what New York needs. Nationally, yes, but not here, not upstate. We already have plenty enough, many hardly enforced.
What we do need, and this governor could have it done for us, is begin gently leading us through a change of attitude about guns, away from the secrecy of owning them and certainly de-romanticizing assault weapons, for example. Education, persuasion, can ultimately have more influence in individual homes on how guns, even these so-called assault weapons, are used, kept, secured, sold, even registered, than any laws. I could see a time when gun buyback programs are routine — and actually work. But the people have to be involved and brought into it. It's a slow process and would be uneven in results for sure. But anyone who doubts this could succeed should consider how well the state's hunter education programs have worked to create young generations of knowledgeable, safe gun users, resulting in fewer injuries and accidents in the field.
Working with legal gun owners rather than penalizing them strikes me as a far more productive model. Although, admittedly, it isn't very sexy, probably won't get many headlines, and is unlikely to net any real results before 2016. So what am I thinking, I know.
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Sam Shepard Epic Continues Tonight
by Jim Amidon
February 22, 2011
The Wabash College Theater Department will present Sam Shepard's epic,
A Lie of the Mind
, a gritty play set in the American West. See photographs from Monday's dress rehearsal
Directed by Michael Abbott,
A Lie of the Mind
opens Wednesday, February 23 and runs nightly through Saturday at Ball Theater in the Fine Arts Center. Curtain is at 8:00 p.m. each evening, and free tickets may be reserved
by email
or by phone (765-361-6411).
The Wabash production features an original score composed and performed live by
Tim Grimm
, a musician who has been hailed as "one of the best storytelling songwriters in America."
The production also features the talents of Wabash students Raynor Mendoza, Luke Robbins, Alex Moseman, and Reed Hepburn, as well as four guest actresses. Jordan Plohr is stage manager for the production.
"By turns aching and hilarious — and always as lyrical as its accompanying country music —
A Lie of the Mind
is the unmistakable expression of a major writer nearing the height of his powers," wrote Frank Rich of
The New York Times
when Shepard directed his own play in 1985
"Sam Shepard's impact on the American theater is both profound and enduring," said Abbott. "His magnum opus,
A Lie of the Mind
, is a masterpiece of poetic and theatrical brilliance that looks unflinchingly at love and family in the West. It is a depiction of American life that is at once hallucinatory and dirt real."
Indeed, Abbott has created a surreal production that ranges from gut-wrenching tragedy to hilarious laughter, though there is an undercurrent of sadness throughout the play.
First staged off-Broadway in 1985
, A Lie of the Mind
earned Best Play honors from Drama Desk and the New York Drama Critics' Circle, and Best Off-Broadway Play from the Outer Critics Circle.
The play tells the story of story of two families whose lives are intertwined through love, anger, fear, and abuse. Jake, played by Raynor Mendoza, falls in love with Beth, who is played by Abby Gillan. After the two are married, Jake beats Beth nearly to death and she suffers from terrible brain damage. Gillan plays the role of Beth brilliantly, trying constantly to engage with reality.
Mendoza's performance is equally heartfelt as he agonizes over the death of his own father, which he discovers was partially his fault, and the fate of his beloved Beth.
Jake's family includes his brother, Frankie, played by the talented Luke Robbins, who seems to be able to create an original character every time he steps on the Wabash stage, as well as professional actress Kate Ayers, who plays Lorraine. Ayers' take on Lorraine is part Hee Haw funny and at once terribly tragic. Ashley Kirts, a Crawfordsville High School senior, stars as Sally.
Beth's family is equally troubled. Alex Moseman looks and acts every bit the part of the rough hunter-gatherer-patriarch Baylor. Guest actress Caroline Good, who has appeared in several Wabash productions, brings her star power to the role of Meg — Baylor's wife and Beth's carefree mother, who seems oblivious to the events that have unfolded. Reed Hepburn plays Beth's very angry older brother Mike with fits of rage that border on madness.
"Though only one of the addled characters in this drama has been officially diagnosed with brain damage, all appear to be suffering from gravely advanced disorientation," wrote
New York Times
reviewer Ben Brantley when the play was revived in 2010. "But if these people don't understand who they are, we do, with a grasp that stings like a handful of nettles… In the process a breath-by-breath case is made for
A Lie of the Mind
as Mr. Shepard's richest and most penetrating play, a 20th-century masterwork of a family portrait to be compared with Eugene O'Neill's
Long Day's Journey Into Night
and Harold Pinter's
Once again, James Gross has created two perfect worlds on the Ball Theater stage — Jake's memory-filled bedroom and the Western ranch-style living room of Beth's home. Andrea Bear designed the western wear for the cast — from Lorraine's tidy dresses and aprons to Mike's Wrangler jeans.
Another of the many highlights of the play is the live music performed throughout the production by acclaimed singer-songwriter Tim Grimm.
Grimm, a writer, musician, and actor, returns to Wabash less than four years after he performed in the project "Wilderness Plots" — a multi-media production of music and lyrics drawn from the short stories of Scott Russell Sanders.
A native of southern Indiana, Grimm lived in Los Angeles, where he spent two seasons on the NBC drama
Reasonable Doubts
and appeared in three motion pictures, including
Public Enemies
with Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. He returned to Indiana to focus on music and farming, and in 2010 recorded his seventh album — the critically acclaimed
Farm Songs
for Vault Records.
Grimm also has a connection to Wabash; his brother, Luke, attended the College in the mid-1980s.
A Lie of the Mind
contains language and adult themes that may be inappropriate for young children.
Wabash College
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The soap opera that is our lives - some funny, some tragic, some just downright incomprehensible. We all started out as eBay sellers and as we grew to know each other, some things just needed venting - so here it is!
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May 11, 2009
Ranking the Squads #1: 2005
1. 2005
Record: 13-3
Postseason: Won NFC West, Won NFC Title, Lost in Super Bowl XL
Offensive Rank: 1st out of 32 teams
Defensive Rank: 7th out of 32
Turnover Ratio Rank: 7th out of 32
Team Co-MVPs: Matt Hasselbeck, Shaun Alexander and Walter Jones
High Point: Seahawks 34, Panthers 14
Low Point: Steelers 21, Seahawks 10
2005 is still fresh in our minds. The joy we felt after the NFC Championship Game hasn't faded into oblivion, and the pain of XL won't completely dissolve until a Seahawk is holding the Lombardi Trophy skyward during a confetti blizzard.
I was lucky enough to attend three games in '05: The win over Atlanta, where we all worried that the Hawks would blow a 21-0 halftime lead; The Hawks took their first step towards erasing fears of a 2004 redux by holding onto a 21-18 win. Then I was at the Colts game, where we clinched HFA and saw the team echo 1983 and take a post-game victory lap...
I was one of 67,837 lucky bastards who got to see the Hawks win the NFC Championship in person... allow me to quote myself from back then:
When I was 8 years old, I started refusing to go to church to watch the Seattle Seahawks. That was the beginning of my march down the path of damnation, in both the spiritual and sports-fandom senses. My eternal soul may still be doomed depending on which thousands-years-old book you've taken to heart, but the Seattle Super Seahawks have freed my sporting spirit from the purgatory of mediocrity and broken dreams.
In a real sense, my experience at Qwest Field was as close as I'll ever get to that sense of joy, bliss and peace that true believers enjoy. If my personal faith is the Seattle Seahawks, salvation arrived on Sunday night… Thirty years of dashed hopes, first-round busts, fourth-quarter collapses, phantom touchdowns and 8-8-ness were shattered in the deafening noise generated by 67,837 disciples and buried in a flurry of blue and green confetti.
Steve Smith? Erased. Those road-warrior Panthers? Reduced to quivering piss-stained wrecks by our smothering D and the assault of the 12th Man. Jake Delhomme? Don't EVER claim he's half the QB Hass is after that display of inept chucking and diving… The "soft" Seahawks? Ask Nick Going's concussed brainpan about that one.
After the final kneel-down, grown men cried, including a little bit of misting up on my end.. Complete strangers hugged each other, and our howls of triumph cut through the damp Seattle night sky.
For 22 years I've waited for this, and it's even better than all those scenarios I've imagined for years. Though I love the Sawx, this easily trumps the gleeful 2004 playoff run for me, and I'd say it's the best moment of my life as a sports fan…
Beside that glorious January night, my most vivid memories of '05 are:
-Babs picking off Bledsoe and streaking into FG range, followed by Josh Brown nailing the game winner and throwing his helmet off after the final gun... Then, just delirium and joy.
-Feely missing, missing, missing and Shockey's premature celebration... and false starts galore for Eli and NYG.
-A sweep of the Rams begun with J.P. Darche falling on a fumble at STL, and ending with SA running for one of his 28 TDs in the rain at Qwest.
-Hasselbeck's great day against DC in the playoffs, after Alexander got knocked out of the game and we were supposed to implode. I'll never forget Hass beating Shawn Springs to the pylon, and SA's ecstatic reaction on the sidelines. Then of course, there was Mack's game-clinching run on a key 3rd down late in the game...
What are your favorite memories of 2005? NO XL talk on this one! Let's just speak of the good times for once.
8 comments:
- Aaron Weinberg said...
How can it not be Steve Smith's meltdown or Delhomme's Int massacre.
- May 11, 2009 at 8:43 PM
- gonzhawk said...
Easy, Hass leaving hater springs in the Dust!! oh, and a close second, Seneca's catch on Kenny Lucas...
I guess I get bitter about those trash talking CB's that left, but then we had the last laugh!!! springs did have a hole in his head, err, I mean hamstring....
- May 11, 2009 at 9:22 PM
I, too, thought the last 3 or so minutes of the Dallas game were some of the finest for the Seahawks. A backup tight end catches the tieing touchdown, Babs' interception, and without any timeout, Josh quickly trots onto the field and nails a 50 yarder....
Another great memory was the MNF game against the Eagles. Remember Shaun Alexander's prophetic run-up commercial "You may not know me...?" And then it was a total effort...a crushingly long touchdown drive with Matt throwing across his body for the TD and three TDs from the Defense. I cried from laughter during that game...
The Panthers playoff game was great, but the goddamn ticket ordering process flumoxxed me. I had my cordless phone and laptop in my hand at the same time, made sure my laptop was set to the Naval observatory clock and concurrently called and refreshed the ticket ordering page for 15 of the most frustrating minutes of my life. There was no hold queue, I just never could get through.
Sorry...just the good stuff....focusing back in now.
How great was it to see us receiving some national attention? Remember being featured as the #2 team in the league (behind the Colts) in ESPN's Power Rankings? Here's a link:
I couldn't get enough news on the Seahawks that year. It just seemed magical. I went to an Olive Garden in the Lakewood area right after the NFC Championship game and saw jerseys all over the place in the restaurant. Got hugged by a guy I didn't know (we were both wearing jerseys and for true fans, that was enough, I suppose).
Anyways, great blog. And I happen to live in Belleville, IL...so if you go to the Seahawks-Rams game in St Louis, stop by and say hi. I have front row seats immediately to the right of the visitors tunnel at the bottom of the stadium.
- May 11, 2009 at 9:52 PM
1. Hass sliding into the end zone holding the ball up in the air.
2. Tatupu's int for TD on MNF
3. Chanting SuperBowl! SuperBowl with 6 minutes left in the NFC Championship game
- May 11, 2009 at 10:42 PM
- Unofficial Voice said...
"all this hollerin' don't mean nuthin, this is our house!"
Famous last words from the NFC Championship game in 2005.
See it at about 2:45 in my "ode to the 12th man" called "Unspeakable"
- May 11, 2009 at 10:43 PM
- etherbrand said...
Romo mishandling the FG attempt and Babs coming around the corner dropping Romo short of the first and the goal line. I've never seen my dad cry like he did that day. Class
- May 12, 2009 at 12:00 PM
I have very personal memories of that Superbowl year. My Dad -- a transplanted Texan, retired school superintendent, former coach and lover of all things football --enjoyed going to the Seahawk games immensely. Dad became a Hawk fan soon after our family move to the PNW and he relished going to Qwest to cheer on "the team with class."
In 2003, about a month after we had moved here, we took Dad to his first professional football game at Qwest. He was gobstruck at the beauty of the stadium and the kindness of the fans who noticed his struggle to climb to our nosebleed seats. We weren't wearing Hawk gear, but no fewer than three groups of fans offered to trade seats so my father would be more comfortable. It brings tears to my eyes just to recall my dad's reaction. The die was cast from that day on: we were Hawk fans.
My Dad soaked in the atmosphere at every game we attended in 2005. He believed that team was something special. Of course, he was right. However, dad got ill quite suddenly the first week of January 2006. He passed peacefully one week later at age 89.
That run up to the Superbowl was something I'll never forget because, not only was it special as a fan, it was something incredibly satisfying we shared with my Dad.
Hope I didn't go on too much about this, but that Superbowl year is a flood of memories for me.
- May 12, 2009 at 11:57 PM
- Edward said...
I was a double lucky bastard that year because I was at both the Giants game where Feely missed those three field goals (the SNL skit about it the following week was sweeeet!), and I took my dad to the NFC Championship game @ Qwest.
Before the Giants game, on the Bremerton-Seattle ferry ride over, a guy was at the front of the pedestrian ferry deck holding his 12th Man Flag. The ferry crew unscrewed a mop handle and tied it to the guy's flag so he could fly it without accidentally losing it in the sound. The passengers first booed because they thought that the crew was going to make him stop, but then cheered loud as they helped him fly the flag.
I remember those poor souls wearing Panthers jerseys @ the NFC Championship game, and they were like the loneliest people in Seattle that day because no one wanted to talk to them...or gave them bad looks...or shouted at them from the many bars leading to qwest...
When the Panthers fans got to the stadium it was even worse because the crowd booed them row after row in unison until they got to their seats.
I hugged strangers. A really hot chick kissed me on the cheek on the street outside a bar after the game. The Bremerton ferry chanted "Super Bowl! Super Bowl!" The whole ride. Never seen anything like it.
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About dataGuy
"Journalists Need A Point Of View" - It would be a huge improvement for them to actually be journalists; rather than spin doctors. For a given story, provide as much of the facts as can be determined and let the audience make up their own mind. If done correctly, I shouldn't even know what the journalist's thoughts, on the matter at hand, are.
When it comes to reporting on politics, the media need to recognize that there is a whole 360 degree spectrum of thought and not just left/right or blue vs. red. Libertarianism being one example that political reporters seem completely baffled by.
Seems to me that improvement in information sharing was a key feature that sold us DHS.
As a layperson looking on from the outside, I see no signs that a decade of improved intelligence gathering has improved our lot in the least. I then balance that against the clear unmistakable fact that Americans have lost essential liberties that we are not likely to get back.
Not to mention that all these "improvements" will never give use perfect security. So I for one would, far and away, prefer more liberty and freedom than having the biggest daily intel report known to man.
As I said at the top, I usually really like your stuff so I don't want to argue with you. My stuff on the other hand can seriously use an editor.
One last point, and I'll let you move on to more useful activities: we will be very lucky to get even a tiny improvement in your liberties (in our lifetime). When dealing with congress keeping things as black and white as possible is important. So "Repeal the Patriot Act, Now" is more likely to have an impact than: "but don't forget about the hazmat suits".
Keep up the good work Dark Helmet!
I got what you were saying. My point is the small amount of good you have pointed out is hardly even worth mentioning.
To frame it another way: your suggestion, that we try to surgically save the few little healthy cells from this massive flaming ball of cancer growing so large that is pushing us ever closer to the sun, is some we should all definitely get behind.
I normally like most of Dark Helmets posts but he is way off base on this one.
Just to keep this focused: how could you possible balance your three reasons for keeping this act (which boil down to the ease of moving money around for some), against the loss of liberty for everyone one in the country; including future generations?
We have gotten so use to Congress ignoring/ignorance of the constitution that we have been placated into not tar and feathering them within an inch of their lives....
They violate their oaths of office daily, if not by the hour. They have been doing this generations (but has really picked up steam starting in the 90's). So the reality is, by continuing to vote for these idiots, the conversion of the 'home of the free' into the 'home of the whiners' is completely our fault.
Evidence? We don't need no stinking evidence! We have the government in our pockets....
I haven't heard many people suggest outlawing plea bargains. I'm not an expert in this area but it is my understanding that many countries have done just that; as they understand the corrosive effects of the whole bargaining process.
While disruption by the internet is a significant force on journalism, I think the biggest negative driver is themselves. Once reporters stop offering even the pretense of reporting just the facts of a story and openly promoted only editorial spin, their days were numbered.
It's my understanding that the wheels came off the track almost immediately; with Congress directing federal support for the city of Savannah after their great fire. They knew it was unconstitutional for congress to divert tax dollars to aid the city but they did it anyway. One more example that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I agree - NewsNow UK is a very handy site. Check it out if you have never used it: http://www.newsnow.co.uk/
This is just the latest example of why I stopped giving the NFL any of my time or attention.
real journalism has been dead for some time Fixed it for you....
Id you want to place the blame on one thing, I tend to agree with Mark Anderson that the the Board of Directors were the group in the best position to keep the market from getting out of hand:
http://www.tapsns.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/%c2%bb-an-open-letter-to-the-board-of-director s/
Newspapers died when they switched from reporting the facts and trying to keep aware of their bias to pushing their spin/agenda. This is a death that has been coming for decades; well before web browsers even existed.
I think the last election cycle, with more people reading alternative viewpoints on the web, has pushed newspaper and mass media to the edge of the cliff. I'm a little surprised that they don't know just how dead they are.
Tom thanks for the additional detail. It is helpful to hear Britannica's side of the story.
Okay, it is true that your CD-ROM came out before Microsoft's. The fact is that Britannica passed on Gates' offer and had no clue how to sell a CD-ROM. So describing it as an urban myth is misleading, at best.
PDF with the details:
http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/greenstein/images/htm/Research/Cases/Encyclopa ediaBritannica.pdf
Tom do you have a reference you can cite for your claim. I'll do a little checking on my end. I've heard this story for so long it will take more than just your word to change my mind.
To make a slightly different point, these two sentences seem to contradict one another when place together:
"...it won't take long for all the users of the closed site to move on and find these new sites. Those new sites will be harder to find and harder to shut down..."
"Making life difficult is only going to drive those legitimate customer prospects towards the very activity they were most afraid of."
I'm sure there are people who rationalize their downloading illegal copies this way. I've seen Mike use this line more and more often, of late, and feel that in some way he is providing cover for "pirates".
If I can't get what I want, when I want it, at a price I'm willing to pay then I go without. I'd rather see Mike reference lost of market size and market share rather than increasing pressure to "pirate" as the main penalty for treating one's customers like criminals.
I'm a little bummed out about it but I'm boycotting the NFL until they stop attacking Fair Use. The real drag for me is that I finally got my wife educated enough on the game that she could enjoy watching them with me. :-(


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Steinar Knutsen needed a new twitter background design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 35 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
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We are North America's leading in-home design floor coverings brand. Our company is carefully crafted on creating a discernable difference from any other floor coverings company. Out target market is high-end, residential home owners.
Our product selection covers all areas of materials you might consider for a flooring design – carpet, hardwood, ceramic tile, vinyl, and specialty products from bamboo to slate, and accents like glass. We merchandise our product selection to provide a beautiful selection from only the finest manufacturers, both from North America and around the world, and we believe it is a selection unmatched anywhere else.
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Here's an example of our existing Twitter background: http://www.twitter.com/fcitacoma. The existing design is conservative and provides the appropriate information but it is boring and does not excite customers.
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Welcome to my blog and the place where I will post my photos and musings from my life as an ultrarunner. My nickname "Shining" was given to me by a group of very special students after I finished my first 100-miler, the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100. They were the inspiration that enabled me to finish this awesome race, and I try to live each day with a "shining" attitude!
Friday, September 18, 2009
It's that time again!
view of Shenandoah Mountain from Chimney Hollow Trail, mile 18 and 82 of the Grindstone 100
Last Sunday, three weeks out of the race, Rusty, Quatro and I went out to the course and biked and ran a little. Actually, Rusty biked and Q and I ran. I brought the trail shears so I could clear the trail a bit at the top of Chimney Hollow, and we were pleasantly surprised with how good the trail looked as compared to the training run a month ago. Clearly mountain bikers and others had been up there and cleaned up quite a bit.
Today, Horton called me to ask about trail conditions since he was going up there with Clark, and they are cleaning up the North Mountain section and Chimney Hollow. Tonight they will run from Elliotts Knob to Dry Branch and then tomorrow to TWOT parking lot. He asked if I wanted to join them, and while it sounded fun, I declined. It's time for me to rest up and get ready for this baby!!
Taper time.
Last year I wrote a post about the taper after attending an informative session on marathon tapering at Ragged Mountain Running Shop. While I won't rehash that post here, I always like to write about the taper. It's a time for examination and reflection, as well as getting down to brass tacks and to start packing, planning, sorting. The homework is done and it's time to get ready for the exam!
This past week I sent my pacer and crew all the Gstone information they could ever need. Michele is my pacer. She has won races from the half-marathon to 100 miles and is one of the most experienced ultra chicks I know. I told her that I will need her to keep me focused, fed, hydrated, and out of the chair. Michele and I made a great team at Highland Sky last June when we finished third together, and I am really looking forward to her company out there...I know we will have a grand adventure together! The photo below was taken at the end of Highland Sky...sums it all up for me.
Marlin is my crew. He is also a fast 100 miler runner and knows what it takes to run this race---he ran it last year in a hair over 25 hours. Nice. Like Michele, Marlin will be committing his entire weekend to helping me, and I know he will do a great job moving me in and out of the AS quickly. Last year I took a lot of time -- up to 15 minutes in some spots-- at the AS, and a big goal for me this year is to minimize AS time. I know he will do a great job!! In this pic we are at the finish line of MMT 2009. He was so strong in those last miles---I hope I can be as calm and in control as he was at the end of that race.
This weekend, two weeks out, I will run on some of my favorite local courses with lots of downhills to trash the quads one more time. At the end of Grindstone last year, I could not run downhill and I vowed to do a better job training the quads this year. This summer I've really worked on my downhill form (thanks to some great tips from AJW) and gotten in some steep downhill training, including the weekly hill repeats. This morning Hallie, Leisa, Heidi and I ran up and over Fox Mountain which is a gradual 7 mile climb up, and then we came back over for 14 total miles. Tomorrow it is back to Carters Mountain and Secluded Farm. I ran this course two weeks out from the race last year and it is a perfect distance---about 12 miles with lots of steep climbs and descents.
I am getting very excited about the race. I can't wait to spend an entire night and day on those awesome trails! Here are a few pics of the course to set the stage...
Chimney Hollow Trail (mile 82 and 18)
Crawford Mountain Trail, miles 16/84
trail from Little Bald (miles 45/55 to Reddish Knob (mile 50)
7 comments:
- Rick Gray said...
Sophie, You got this one in the bag. You have a plan and are sticking to it. Funny how experience guides our way. With less than two weeks to go, I am also beginning my planning. Certainly don't want to rush this, as I know I will forget something important. You have great support in Michele and Marlin. They are going to get you from the start to the finish. See you in October. Rick
- September 19, 2009 at 6:10 AM
- Dan said...
I know it's an important time but I always get antsy when tapering. Good Luck on your race.
- September 19, 2009 at 6:20 AM
- Run Home Pam said...
Best of luck, Sophie! I'll absolutely be thinking about you out there. I wish you a smooth, mellow taper and a transcendent run.....
- September 20, 2009 at 5:56 AM
- Sophie Speidel said...
Thanks everyone!
Rick, I fully expect to run a lot with you out there and that you will keep me awake and entertained as we climb Little Bald (you will love Little Bald :0( heheheh).
Dan, I know what you mean. I drive my family crazy when I taper. I will be doing a lot of easy swimming in the next two weeks-swimming always mellows me out.
Pam, so sorry you won't be with us this year, but I know you will be there in spirit. Thanks for all your good thoughts and vibes! I hope you can one day get out to this incredible adventure.
- September 20, 2009 at 8:04 PM
- annette bednosky said...
I wish you and all other adventures a grand experience this coming weekend! I am truely psyched for you all! I wish you health, energy and the continued happy , life-filled Sophie spirit you share with us all!
- September 28, 2009 at 9:53 PM
- Rooster said...
You will rock it. Have a blast and run hard. Your ready!
- September 30, 2009 at 6:42 PM
- Sophie Speidel said...
Annette and Ronda,
I will carry your good wishes with me all night and day---and try to channel your own "tough as nails" ultra attitudes with me. When the going gets tough, it will be easy to answer the question,
"What would Annette and Ronda do?"
Well, they wouldn't sleep or whine...they would kick some major butt!
Thanks ladies!
- October 1, 2009 at 10:17 AM


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We're getting flooded with email and tweets about Apple automagic bumper case refunds. Looks like Apple is shifting into high gear and notifications are going out fast and furiously. Apple also launched an app today for those of you who don't yet have bumpers so you can go claim one.
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As always that was quite a show presented by John Galliano for Dior in Paris yesterday for its summer 2010 collection.
Galliano said he found the cinematic cue while thinking about Lauren Bacall. "She was a great Dior client; there are amazing photos of her in the salon with Bogart. It was that and Arletty in Hôtel du Nord," he said. That central character—a provocative, smoldering femme fatale with a side-parted, over-one-eye hairdo and red lips—gave him free reign to script a wardrobe narrative. It started with abbreviated wartime trenchcoats, flipped through silver lamé dresses, arrived at a sequence in which the heroine is seen in her scanties, and then followed her out to make a drop-dead entrance in some nightclub or other.
Galliano turned the skimpies—French lace-trimmed cami-knickers and satin teddies—into a contemporary version of this summer's shorts and playsuits, following through with a trousseau's worth of pretty boudoir baby dolls and tiny fragile flowered chiffon dresses. Cleverly, the transparencies—such as a purple satin bra-and-knicker set, apparently seen through black tulle—were an illusion created by stretch, paneled underlayers, so that the pieces are actually slipped on in one. Stocking tops seen through the sheer panels in a copper lamé dress, and bras and panties glimpsed under a semitransparent tiered blue gown, were actually shadows stitched into underslips.
By night, the glamour was amped up even further, as Galliano put his heroine into a flesh pink corset and a long, draped, mint green sequin-sprinkled skirt, a Chantilly-smothered basque and black ruffled skirt, and a vamp red satin gown. For perhaps the first time, it meant that Galliano had captured the romantic essence of his Dior couture, and made sense of it as fully resolved ready-to-wear. It'll be expensive, of course, but oh so seductive.


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Since its birth in the 1970s, neuroscience has become a vital interdisciplinary field of training in science. Advances in cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, biophysics, and psychology have all contributed to the creation of this new field of study. Neuroscientists work in many areas of the basic and clinical sciences.
The minor has both classroom and practicum components, which are divided into five major categories: (1) introduction: behavioral neuroscience and behavioral neuroscience laboratory; (2) specialty area: neurobiology; (3) electives: listed below; (4) practicum: listed below; and (5) capstone: seminar in neuroscience.
To complete the minor, students take the introductory course and lab, one specialty course, one elective course (3 or 4 credit hours), one practicum (3 credit hours), and the capstone course. Students must also take one additional course from either the elective (with a minimum of 3 credit hours) or practicum (with a minimum of 3 credit hours) categories. No more than 8 credit hours from courses required by name and number for a major can be applied toward requirements for the minor. Students must have their course of study approved by a minor adviser so that it can be tailored to their major and so that courses with variable credits will not become problematic.
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(CNN) — A new poll shows more than seven in 10 Americans support policies that would pave a path toward citizenship or residency for undocumented immigrants.
Seventy-two percent say they favor allowing those here illegally to become legal residents or citizens if they meet certain requirements, according to the Gallup survey released Thursday.
That Gallup poll was conducted at the end of January, shortly after President Barack Obama and members of Congress began resurrecting immigration reform as a top issue on the legislative agenda.
A strong majority of Americans support four other measures of potential reform, including:
– Requiring employers to verify that all new hires are living in the U.S. legally (85% approve)
– Creating a system to track the departure of foreigners who enter the U.S. through airports and seaports (71% approve)
– Increase the number of visas for legal immigrants who have advanced skills in technology and science (71% approve)
– Increase government spending on security measures and enforcement at U.S. borders (68% approve)
Also of note, a majority of Republicans support all five measures asked about in the poll, including 59% who favor a chance to become legal residents or citizens.
The survey comes as Obama and Congress have pushed immigration reform to the forefront of national dialogue in recent days. Obama met with labor leaders and CEOs at the White House Tuesday to discuss the issue and traveled to Las Vegas last week to highlight his own proposals.
Meanwhile, Republican leaders have also been calling for major reform. A bipartisan group of eight senators, including Republican Sens. John McCain and Marco Rubio, last week laid out their framework for immigration reform, which includes a pathway to citizenship.
The so-called Gang of Eight's plan would call for border security measures to a higher priority than building a pathway to citizenship, but the Gallup survey shows that Americans "give roughly equal support to both."
Obama has said he'd like to see legislation pass in the first half of the year and vows to introduce a bill of his own should Congress fail to act. The bottom line is that both parties largely agree reform should take place, though they disagree on the details.
Gallup surveyed 1,019 adults by telephone from January 30-31, with a sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points.


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The next banner headline related to Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III's recovery from knee surgery will be the one that follows the announcement of his status for the first week of the regular season.
That headline will not be coming after his meeting with the media on Wednesday afternoon as it was a session that provided a prime example of why there's a saying about no news being good news. Griffin said that his knee was feeling fine, that he was receiving first team reps at practice and that he feels he's ready to play but that the final call will be made by doctors and coaches.
One of those doctors, James Andrews, examined Griffin after a pregame workout on Monday. Mike Jones of the Washington Post reports that Griffin said that Andrews' only advice about what Griffin needs to do to get cleared for the opener was to "stay the course" that he's been on throughout the summer.
So it continues to seem that it is just a matter of when Griffin gets the green light for Week One, which will make the Redskins' game with the Eagles one of the most anticipated of the first weekend of the season.


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Recently declassified papers have revealed one or two surprises, the greatest of which is surely that Peter Pan of pop, Sir Cliff Richard, was secretly recruited by MI5 in the sixties as a frontline agent in the war against Soviet Russia.
Squeaky clean, Sir Cliff (105) was given the brief to release his brand of appallingly bland music to act as a smokescreen for his more nefarious activities. He was 'activated' when performing his Eurovision 2nd place entry, Congratulations, at London's Albert Hall in 1968. His handler, Col. Nigel Wyn, encouraged him to "buddy up with Johnny Foreigner" and see what he could find out.
What Richard, real name Harry Webb, found out hasn't actually been declassified so it's assumed that it was some pretty serious stuff. After he did his duty for Queen and country, Webb, real name Sir Cliff Richard, returned to the world of pop and inflicted an immense load of ghastly bilge on the record buying public, before being knighted for his services.
Sue Barker, one time linked to Sir Cliff as a potential wife, was remaining tight-lipped last night and refused to say anything to shed any further light on the matter.


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Newt Gingrich once referred to Barack Obama as "the food stamp president," which was promptly labeled "racist" by the apologists at MSNBC. In fact, though, it sums up Obama's disastrous term in office very well. Incomes are down, employment is stagnant at best, but hey–food stamps are booming! And not only because of the hard times exacerbated by Obama's policies, but also because the administration has made a point of trying to get as many people as possible, including illegal aliens, on to food stamps. The result is depicted in this chart prepared by the Senate Budget Committee: under the Obama administration, growth in the number of food stamp recipients has outstripped growth in jobs by a factor of 75 times:
A fitting epitaph for an utter disaster of an administration.


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Jobless Claims Surge, Spending SoftensBy Reuters - | Posted 2008-01-31 Print
The number of workers filing new claims for
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of workers filing new claims for jobless aid surged last week to the highest since October 2005, and consumer spending softened at the end of last year, according to reports on Thursday that heightened worries about a possible recession.
The Labor Department said initial claims for state unemployment benefits jumped by 69,000 last week to 375,000. It was the biggest jump since September 2005 and the highest since October of that year, just after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Separately, the Commerce Department said consumer spending edged up by 0.2 percent in December after a 1 percent gain in November, just enough to keep pace with inflation.
U.S. stock markets opened down sharply on economic concerns, while the value of the dollar dropped and prices for government debt rose as traders concluded the reading on the jobs market made further aggressive interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve more likely.
However, the Labor Department said the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday last Monday may have made it difficult to adjust the data for seasonal variations, and analysts agreed.
"The holiday was a week later than in 2007, and there is a consistent pattern of seasonal adjustment problems when federal holidays shift in this way," said Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics in Valhalla, New York.
The four-week average of weekly claims, which helps smooth out fluctuations to expose the underlying layoffs trend, increased to 325,750 last week from 315,500 the week before.
Jobless claims had been on a declining path, one of the few bright signs suggesting the U.S. economy was not deteriorating sharply. While economists took the latest data with a grain of salt, financial markets were not so certain.
Interest-rate futures prices shifted to show about a 90 percent implied chance that the Fed, which has cut benchmark borrowing costs by 1.25 percent points over the past nine days, would lower them by a further half point in March.
The data on consumer spending was incorporated into a report on Wednesday that showed the economy nearly stalled in the fourth quarter, advancing at just a 0.6 percent annual pace to close out the weakest year of growth since 2002.
Thursday's report also showed that personal income in December rose 0.5 percent. Both the spending and income figures were a touch higher than economists had expected.
However, a key measure of inflation contained in the report showed prices, both overall and excluding food and energy, marched up 0.2 percent, leaving consumers treading water.
Last year, the price index for personal spending rose 3.5 percent, while the core index climbed 2.2 percent, a bit outside of the range most Fed officials are comfortable with.
"Inflation was quite high in December ... Consumers are squeezed by food and energy prices and worries of recession, credit costs are going up and housing prices are going down," said Kurt Karl, chief economist at Swiss Re in New York.
For all of 2007, consumer spending grew by 5.5 percent, the weakest growth since a 4.8 percent increase in 2003.
A separate report from the Labor Department showed U.S. employment costs rose by 0.8 percent in the fourth quarter, keeping the year-on-year gain at 3.3 percent.
(Additional reporting by Alister Bull; Editing by James Dalgleish)
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Am Govt Homework 2 Answers - Student Six
Answer the first five questions, and then two of the remaining three:
1. What do you think are the six most important powers of Congress?
War Powers
Citizenship Power
Admiralty Power
Commerce Power
Money Power
Postal Power
2. What prevents New Jersey from requiring homeschoolers to take public school exams each year?
The No Child Left Behind law prevents it. This law says that if the state requires homeschoolers to take the public school exams, then schools can't accept certain federal funding.
3. Explain what fraction (approximately) of the U.S. Senate is elected every two years, and the reason why only some of the senators are up for election on Election Day.
One third of the U.S. Senate goes up for election every two years, as it has been two years since our last senate election, one third of the senate will be up for election this November. Currently there are 53 Democrats and 47 Republicans seated. For the Republicans regain control, they must win an additional four seats from the Democrats. There is a good chance of this happening in Nebraska, but it may be negated by the loss of a seat in left-leaning Maine.
4. Describe in simple terms how a "bill" becomes law at the federal level. (E.g., a congressional committee first considers proposed legislation ....)
A bill begins with an idea for a law; this idea may be made to draft which is used by a house or Senatorial committee. During this review the draft may be passed, or killed by the committee. If the draft is passed by the committee it becomes a bill, which then goes to the House or Senate depending on which committee passed it. If the bill is passed, then it goes before the other chamber for debate. If any changes to the bill are made in this chamber, then it must chamber must go back to the first chamber for approval of the changed bill. Once both chambers have passed the same version of the bill, it is to the president's desk for his signature, the president has the power to veto the bill killing it, or sign it, making it into law. Congress can override a veto with a two thirds majority out of both chambers.
5. Give an example not in the lecture of a power the federal government lacks.
The federal government is restricted from establishing a state religion. The first amendment in the bill of rights states this.
6. What is "textualism", and do you think that "legislative history" should be considered when interpreting the meaning of a law? Explain.
Textualism is the adherence to a particular text. Legislative history can be used to help better understand a law, but the meaning of a law should never be pulled directly out of its history, as then the law may take an earlier meaning that was not meant to be used.
7. Explain a difference between the political system in the United States and the one in England.
In England, the government is based on a Parliament with two houses, one that is elected by the people, the other is appointed by a variety of different methods. This parliament elects a prime minister to lead it. This system quite different from the U.S. government system in the following ways: The UK places the Parliament at the center of their government whereas in the U.S. system the President is at the center, the U.S. president is not always the same political as the majority of congress, whereas in the UK, The Prime Minister almost always is of the same party as the house majority, thus making it much easier to pass legislation.
8. Which political party do you expect to win control of the U.S. Senate on Election Day this year, and why?
Extra credit (answer two of the following four questions):
9. Explain the role of committees in Congress, with actual or hypothetical examples.
10. The constitutionality of "ObamaCare" was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2012 based on which clause(s) of Article I of the Constitution? Discuss.
11. Draft a new law that Congress would have the power to pass to give additional protection to homeschooling.
12. Which political party controls the House of Representatives today, and by what margin (approximation is fine)? E.g., is it controlled by Democrats by a 235-200 margin? What do you think the margin will be in January 2013?
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