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B AutoYaST FAQ—Frequently Asked Questions #
- 1. How do I invoke an AutoYaST installation?
On all SUSE Linux Enterprise Server versions, the automatic installation gets invoked by adding
to the kernel parameter list. So for example addingautoyast=http://MYSERVER/MYCONFIG.xml
will start an automatic installation where the profile with the AutoYaST configuration gets fetched from the Web servermyserver
. See Section 6.3, "Invoking the Auto-Installation Process" for more information.
- 2. What is an AutoYaST profile?
A profile is the AutoYaST configuration file. The content of the AutoYaST profile determines how the system will be configured and which packages will get installed. This includes partitioning, network setup, and software sources, to name but a few. Almost everything that can be configured with YaST in a running system can also be configured in an AutoYaST profile. The profile format is an ASCII XML file.
- 3. How do I create an AutoYaST profile?
The easiest way to create an AutoYaST profile is to use an existing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server system as a template. On an already installed system, start › › . Now select › from the menu. Choose the system components you want to include in the profile. Alternatively, create a profile containing the complete system configuration by running
sudo yast clone_system
from the command line.Both methods will create the file
. The version created on the command line can be used to set up an identical clone of the system on which the profile was created. However, usually you will want to adjust the file to make it possible to install several machines that are very similar, but not identical. This can be done by adjusting the profile using your favorite text/XML editor.
- 4. How can I check the syntax of a created AutoYaST profile?
The most efficient way to check your created AutoYaST profile is by using
.See Section 3.3, "Creating/Editing a Control File Manually" for details.
- 5. What is smallest AutoYaST profile that makes sense?
If a section has not been defined in the AutoYaST profile the settings of the general YaST installation proposal will be used. However, you need to specify at least the
password to be able to log in to the machine after the installation.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE profile> <profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns" xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns"> <users config:type="list"> <user> <encrypted config:type="boolean">false</encrypted> <user_password>linux</user_password> <username>root</username> </user> </users> </profile>
- 6. How do I do an automatic installation with autodetection of my sound card?
Use the following
section in your profile:<sound> <autoinstall config:type="boolean">true</autoinstall> <configure_detected config:type="boolean">true</configure_detected> </sound>
- 7. I want to install from DVD only. Where do I put the AutoYaST profile?
Put the profile in the root of the DVD. Refer to it with
- 8. How can I test a merging process on the command line?
To merge two profiles,
, run the following command:>
/usr/bin/xsltproc --novalid --param replace "'false'" \ --param dontmerge1 "'package'" --param with "'a.xml'" --output out.xml \ /usr/share/autoinstall/xslt/merge.xslt base.xmlThis requires sections in both profiles to be in alphabetical order (<software>, for example, needs to be listed after <add-on>). If you have created the profile with YaST, profiles are automatically sorted correctly.
parameter is optional and an example of what to do when you use thedont_merge
element in your profile. See Section 5.4, "Merging of Rules and Classes" for more information.
- 9. Can I call Zypper from scripts?
Zypper can only be called from AutoYaST init scripts, because during the post-script phase, YaST still has an exclusive lock on the RPM database.
If you really need to use other script types (for example a post-script) you will need to break the lock at your own risk:
<post-scripts config:type="list"> <script> <filename>yast_clone.sh</filename> <interpreter>shell</interpreter> <location/> <feedback config:type="boolean">false</feedback> <source><![CDATA[#!/bin/sh mv /var/run/zypp.pid /var/run/zypp.sav zypper in foo mv /var/run/zypp.sav /var/run/zypp.pid ]]></source> </script> </post-scripts>
- 10. Is the order of sections in an AutoYaST profile important?
Actually the order is not important. The order of sections in the profile has no influence on the AutoYaST workflow. However, to merge different profiles, sections need to be in alphabetical order.
- 11.
blocks the installation withFile not signed
. I need to manually interact. linuxrc
found an unsigned file, such as a driver update. To use an unsigned file, you can suppress that message by passinginsecure=1
to thelinuxrc
parameter list (together with theautoyast=...
- 12. I want to install from DVD/USB/HD but fetch the XML file from the network.
You need to pass
. This is required to set up the network, otherwise AutoYaST cannot download the profile from the remote host. See Section C.3, "Advanced Network Setup" for more information.
- 13.
Is installation onto an NFS root (
) possible? Yes, but it is more complex than other methods. The environment (DHCP, TFTP, etc.) must be set up very carefully. The AutoYaST profile must look like the following:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE profile> <profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns" xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns"> <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <device>/dev/nfs</device> <initialize config:type="boolean">false</initialize> <type config:type="symbol">CT_NFS</type> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <filesystem config:type="symbol">nfs</filesystem> <fstopt>nolock</fstopt> <device>10.10.1.53:/tmp/m4</device> <mount>/</mount> </partition> </partitions> <use>all</use> </drive> </partitioning> </profile>
- 14. Where can I ask questions which have not been answered here?
There is an AutoYaST mailing list where you can post your questions. Join us at http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/.


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Hosted by Cecily and Mary
October 1: I love October.
It's my favorite month of the year. The weather is perfect. The colors are at their boldest. And college football is in full swing.
But this October started off with a fizzle...namely due to my team.
I don't usually take pictures of the television, but the slaughter on the screen was too much for me to look away from. I know you're thinking that 16 - 31 is a respectable score...
But not when you're BYU, and this is your fourth straight loss. And not when you're playing Utah State -- one of the worst college football programs in the nation -- a team you've beaten ten straight times, and twenty of the last twenty one times. And not when it's nationally televised.
The good news: things can only get better from here.
October 2: Multitasking has really gone too far.
Who would have thought that there would be a need to wash your car while tie-dyeing your clothes?
October 3: Every time we go to my mother's house, this little face calls to me.
"Chriiiiiissssssss......take my picture, Chriiiiiisssssssssssss......" it says.
You know, I think I've been hitting the Nyquil a little hard lately...
October 4: The greatest day of the whole year!
...He said, modestly....
Today was my birthday, and I was just curious enough to see if I could jam 38 candles into a standard cupcake.
And then I was just curious enough to see what would happen if I lit them...
The flame was four feet high.
October 5: If my son, Matthew, could buy me a football for every gift giving occasion, he would.
And I'd be okay with that.
Throwing the football in the back yard is one of the strongest bonds my son and I have. Would it seem weird if I told you that I also feel the presence of my father, when Matt and I participate in this family Fall ritual?
October 6: Um...Yep.
This one's going to cost us a pretty penny.
It's pretty bad when your teeth look like gag teeth.
October 7: The gifts just keep on coming!
I got a birthday package in the mail today from Pam.
You may know that Pam is my sister-in-law, that she lives in Germany, and that she's one of the best friends I've ever had.
In my package today was a book on Exposure, an authentic Oktoberfest T-shirt (made in Honduras), and a wide selection of German chocolate and other candy, that I'm apparently supposed to share with the rest of the family.
And to think, all I gave Pam was Chlamydia.
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Sara Evans Hopes Her Mother Won't Read Her Memoir, 'Born to Fly'
Sara Evans' memoir Born to Fly is intentionally incomplete. The longtime country hitmaker, one-time reality show star and occasional outspoken social commentator didn't stuff every story from her life and career into the 21 chapters because — well, she has her reasons.
There's one off-limits topic and a few that might still need processing or time for her children (two teenagers and a 21-year-old) to mature into. At 49, Evans is young for a memoir, and she seems to recognize this by dedicating the second half of the book to things she's learned about love, divorce, step-parenting, the music business and communication instead of granular details around songs like "Suds in the Bucket." The appetizers (if you want to call them that) are up front, while the more substantial pearls come later.
Born to Fly the book is in many ways the story of Evans' relationship with conflict. The abandonment she felt from her father after her parents divorced when she was 12 sets up a series of events with men (including physical and attempted sexual abuse) that she didn't really sort through until she was well into adulthood. These memories, Evans tells Taste of Country, may upset her siblings (including older brother Jay) and her mother. As she describes recent panic attacks had while imagining their response, it's easy to understand why she may have held back.
"Like the part where I talk about how my mom told us to ask our dad for the child support. I don't wanna make her feel bad about that, but it did happen," Evans says. "Hopefully that won't offend her, but we're kind of an easily offended family and we have a hard time talking things through."
Evans now lives in Nashville with her husband Jay after more than a decade spent in his home state of Alabama. The book is but a chapter marker in her career, and she makes it clear during sections that focus on country music today — and her unsavory experiences with radio programmers — that she's just as plugged into the business as she was in 1997, when her debut album Three Chords and the Truth was released on RCA Records. She also makes very clear her feelings about the business and the role radio plays in making and breaking careers. It's a familiar story told with acerbic emphasis on right and wrong. With Born to Fly (available Sept. 8) you get the sweet and the bitter.
"It's always frustrating. So many tears cried. So many days away from my kids. So many free shows that I've had to do and it's just humiliating. It's not that I didn't ever want to work hard for my career because I did. I had no problem with that. I just have a problem with no explanation for not playing great music in comparison to playing other music."
Taste of Country: What did you learn about yourself while researching and writing this book?
Sara Evans: The main thing I learned about myself is I've been through a s--t ton of hard times and drama. I look back on how I was as a child, I had a wonderful mom and an absent father, but I still had a great childhood. Growing up on a farm in the '70s and '80s was just idyllic, you know, but I look at the difference in the way that my kids have grown up and how I've really done so much and dedicated my life and my heart and soul to making their life as easy as possible, because we always want our children to have it better than we had it.
One of the main things I learned is that I really did go through so much on my own, supporting myself getting through anxiety and difficult situations, on my own.
Your dad is a central character early, especially as you talk about your parents' divorce and how that affected you. Is he still alive and will he read this?
He is. He developed early-onset Alzheimer's, so he's very bad. He is in Dallas in essentially a nursing home for Alzheimer's patients. With COVID-19, it's been awful because no one who knows him can go and touch him and see him. So he's literally just kind of fading away.
Does your brother see your childhood the same way you do?
I think so, yeah. As we've gotten older and when my dad first got sick, it wasn't easy for us five siblings because I think we each had different thoughts. I've probably been the most hard on my dad. I was the oldest girl, I was 12 when they divorced. So from birth until 12, I had him and I was the center of his attention. So that just all completely changed and went away when they divorced. So I probably harbored a lot more bitterness towards him than maybe some of my siblings. That's been difficult and divisive, but we're working through it.
You allude to how the fractured relationship with your father made you vulnerable later on to a certain type of man who might take advantage of you. How old were you when you started to understand how these feelings of abandonment shaped your adulthood?
I'm totally an empath, and I'm so susceptive to being walked on and being taken for granted. I'm too nice, way too nice. Personal relationships I am very much like that, but not professionally. Just like the story where I fire the manager who said the F-word when I told him I was pregnant. Professionally I don't put up with that s--t at all. But personally I am very much the giver in relationships.
I think it was in my 20s when I started mourning my parents' marriage and started thinking about the divorce. I remember calling my mom and having these long conversations with her where I think it kind of hurt her, because you want to believe as the parent that the kids are fine. It's been years, and, 'Why are we still talking about it?'
Your mom is going to have a hard time reading this book, isn't' she?
Yeah, I don't really want her to. I mean, that's been the most stressful part of the book, is that I want to sell millions of copies but I don't want family to read it necessarily, because it's my — this is such a millennial term — but it's my truth about my experiences and how I saw the world from my point of view. I don't want to offend siblings. I'm not trying to speak ill of my father now that he's not doing well. But at the same time, all of it is true. I did feel those ways and it did shape who I am.
You don't talk much about your first marriage and how it ended. How did you draw the line between stories you wanted to tell and what you decided wasn't worth it?
It was drawn for me because we have a gag order. Even if we didn't have that in place I probably wouldn't have, because my kids are still young. Audrey's still just 15, Olivia is 17 and Avery just turned 21. I don't think they'd want to have that out there in a book.
Professionally, what were your favorite years?
Definitely "Born to Fly" (2000) all the way to "A Little Bit Stronger" (2010). There were always hiccups along the way, bumps in the road and most of those were always country radio. The most negative aspect of my career, hands down, when I think about when I was still signed to RCA and even today … has always been dealing with radio.
Is that frustration or bitterness?
It's a bitterness. I'm very bitter about it. It was so hard every single. Every single was so hard. They always gave me so much crap. I would have a huge hit and then they wouldn't play "Backseat of the Greyhound Bus." Why? I didn't know if it was the promotions staff at RCA Records or if it was something about me. There are always these things that go on behind the scenes that people don't realize. Like, so let's just say a guy on my promotion team pissed off the programmer from Cincinnati, then he might decide not to play the new Sara Evans record. Which just screws with my life, but it might have been something between the two of them. That kind of stuff happened all the time, and I was very bitter about it, because it changed my career.
It's always frustrating. So many tears cried. So many days away from my kids. So many free shows that I've had to do and it's just humiliating. It's not that I didn't ever want to work hard for my career because I did. I had no problem with that. I just have a problem with no explanation for not playing great music in comparison to playing other music.
I'm looking at your singles discography on Wikipedia and it's No. 1, No. 32, No. 1, No. 2, No. 16 — these are the chart rankings. You can see what you're saying. Hit, hit, wouldn't play it.
Yeah, I could never get them to make me an automatic add, and I worked so hard for every add that I ever got at radio. I really do miss having songs on commercial country radio because that makes the world go 'round, you know?
Today, many of the young, female artists bond and have a conversation among themselves, which may be because of social media or because of the wider "Women in Country Music" conversation being had, but there's a sisterhood. Was there the equivalent of that in the early 2000s?
Not really — no, because we were all fighting for that space. We were all nice to each other, but there was definitely a competitiveness. As much as I liked Martina McBride, I still wanted to beat her out of that slot to get my record played. And I'm very competitive.
If we put your accomplishments on paper and took that in a time machine to Sara Evans in 1994, would she have been satisfied?
That's a great question. I would have been a little bit of both. I would have been angry that every song I released didn't climb to the top of the charts, because I am so competitive and I am a perfectionist. But at the same time, I would have also been very grateful, and I am very grateful, for my career, and my career is still going very strong.


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One of the most important, if not the most important factor in determining the chances of success in any business or professional activities is the ability to behave properly with people. Even in the early 1930s Dale Carnegie observed that the success of a man in his financial affairs, even in the technical field or engineering are fifteen percent dependent on his professional knowledge and eighty-five percent on his ability to communicate with people. In this context it is easy to explain the attempts of many researchers to formulate and justify the basic principles of ethical business communication or, as they are often called, the commandments of personal public relation or "business etiquette". Business etiquette or the process of survival and succeeding in the business world could be explained in the following six basic principles:
- Punctuality (do everything on time). Delays affect the work and are a sign that a person cannot be relied upon. The principle to do everything on time applies to all service tasks. Experts studying the organization and distribution of working time recommend adding extra 25 percent to the time period that is required to perform the assigned task.
- Privacy (do not reveal too much). In any institutions, corporations, or particular deals there are secrets that should be kept as carefully as the ones of a personal nature. There is also no need to recount anyone heard from a colleague, supervisor or subordinate about his or her performance or personal life.
- Courtesy, friendliness and affability. In any situation it is necessary to behave politely, kindly and benevolent with customers, clients, customers and co-workers. This, however, does not require being friends with everyone whom you communicate in a work setting.
- Attention to people (think of others, and not only of yourself). Attention to the people surrounding you should be extended to colleagues, superiors and subordinates. Respect the opinions of others; try to understand why they have formed a particular point of view. Always listen to criticism and advice of colleagues, superiors and subordinates. When someone questions the quality of your work, show that you value the views and experiences of other people. Confidence should not prevent you to be modest.
- Appearance (dress as expected). The main approach is to fit in your environment at work, and within that environment – in your level of contingent workers. You should look the best way, which is to dress with taste, choosing matching colors. Carefully choosing accessories is important.
- Literacy (speak and write good language). Internal documents or letters to outside agencies should be composed paying attention to the proper language used, and all proper names transferred without errors. Do not use abusive words. Even if you only quote the words of another person around, they will be perceived as part of your own vocabulary.
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It seems so long ago now: Brexit, the British equivalent of America's Trump moment. By a similar slight tipping of an almost equally divided electorate, that necessary legal fiction called The British People chose to leave the European Union.
What the fiction concealed was a polity more split than ever, and with no wish to reconcile… not to mention the widening cracks between the four countries of the British union, the United Kingdom, or between regions of England itself.
As for the Yes/No question – making it so simple, you would think – that concealed complexities that would not have fitted on ten sides of ballot paper, let alone that one tick-box. Whichever way you voted, you'd been trying to ignore the fact that half your allies looked for all the world like enemies. Even one word, Yes or No, seemed like the answer, in each voter's mind, to a whole array of different questions. Were you saying No, or Yes, to complicated bureaucratic legislation… or to globalisation… or to bloody foreigners… or to a gallant attempt to heal the fractiousness of a continent prone to internecine wars?
That was nine months ago – time for something, or at least some understanding, to have come to birth.
Some fifty years ago, I stumbled on the unappealing-sounding The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn. I do care about science, but what it suggested, eye-openingly, was more. It concerned how we change. Why is it that we don't change smoothly, incrementally, as we gain more information? Largely we don't, not individuals any more than nations; we move in jolts and lurches, with ideas seeming to seize power in sudden coups.
Kuhn's insight was that we live in a matrix of information, some of it fitting our current account of things, any things not. In newer terms, we think we know what is the signal, what is noise. We live with the freight of things we tell ourselves might be an error, or irrelevant, or just waiting to be better explained next week. Then one day, someone says What if that's not the story? What if the exceptions are the story, in the margins of the page?
In Britain's Brexit moment, we heard a blare of noise. The fact that it was being organised into a cruder, nastier and falser story is not the point. The howl of hurt unfocussed rage, of whole neighbourhoods, whole regions who saw no place for them in the current story, the yearning to uncomplicate things, violently, was going to be heard.
Was it a feeble response then, from some of us stunned by a genuine grief, to pick up our pen or laptop and write poetry? In my case, not even political poetry, not continuing the argument by other means, because my paradigm-shifting moment said: Maybe it's the story of Yes/No that's the problem, which we have to get beyond.
Alphabets are how young children come to language. A is for Apple, and so on. Trying to see what it was I felt such grief at losing, I found myself spelling out an alphabet of Europe, in the poem here. It contains some close-up details of European history that rarely feature in the headline stories, but that's part of the point. Brexit barely features. The letters spelled out a wider story – of Europe already much more various than we tend to think, Europe now reeling at the impact of an age of population shift, of continents spilling, leaking great migrations. (This is not new. It's the periods of apparent stasis that are the exceptions.) With migrant boats sinking offshore, we were struggling to be the Europe those desperate people dreamed, and we hoped, we might be. We needed to be bigger, in heart and practicality. Instead, nation by nation started backing into fear and defensiveness, into our smaller selves and stories of the way things used to be.
No, poetry is not the answer. It might look towards a better question, one that's wider, deeper, than the Yes/No story. So few words, such a slight art form. Still, it points a way to being more.
Trying to Spell Europe
Armistice: for a minute or two, we understand each other. Silence. Then the
harder part, a life's work: language must step in.
Banlieux: the writing in the margins of the city. Dark illumination. Yes, and we
will need to read it before we can understand ourselves.
Calais: the lost thing that inscribed itself not only on one dead queen's heart but
thousands, where it translates into any home or hope.
Danube: not to forget, there is this other river that shapes half of Europe, that
concentrates its melancholy in the (what else?) Black Sea.
E-numbers are a way of knowing, that's all. Of perceiving what our tongues can't
tell. Did we think Brussels hid them, microscopic numbers in our food?
Frisian: the language most germane to English, of a country on and not on any
map, its heartland those long islands, barely more than shifting dunes.
Gross: allow me, please, this little word for Big; not just because it's mine. Because it's here.
Because it feels, in its bones, the swash of centuries.
Hanseatic: now, there was an empire – without borders, without army. Gabled
houses, and the weighing out of herring shoals, their scales, their silver.
Indigenous: for us, the word is affectation, scarcely old enough for habit. It's no
time at all since the first stragglers happened on a house swept bare by ice.
John, Johann, Jean: three guys, three guises of J on our tongues, slipping from one
set of taste buds to another, as in a wine tasting: rinse, spit, taste again.
Kick out the Ks, unsettling letters. Tolerable when accompanied, as at each end of
knock. They are the crackling of boots through Northern, Eastern, forest dark.
Lulled, on the other hand, by languid sounds of Languedoc (disregard the silenced
voice in that word too) as if L was a lingua franca we could speak.
Médecins Sans Frontières, there's a clue: not that our wounded borders are in need
of healing, but that borders are themselves the wound.
Nation: a shape that casts its shadow in the light of something other – maybe the
glare of empire; also the tiny candle of a stranger in the corner of the room.
Overseas is a word that comes too easily to islanders. Offshore (yes, with its stain
these days of dodgy dealings), that may be more to the point.
Pétanque, pelota, pesäpallo: we should give some time to other people's games.
Not to compete, just listen to the tunk or whap against the wall next door.
Q'ran: he's learned to write it; it disturbs him still, that letter abroad without its U,
old rules unput, and the sound of its catch in the throat.
Renaissance, Reformation, Risorgimento: it seems we never make a move without
the prefix glancing back at what was lost before.
Stars in too snug a circle on their blue-sky flag? As we know, it's only where we're
standing, looking, that makes any constellation hold.
Tundra crisping the Northward edges of our vision. And the South wind on the
windscreen with its gauze of desert sand. Both these define us.
Urals: there's a skyline, and a far one, but why should this crimp in a landmass
make a continent, unless it mirrors some crimp in our minds?
Volte face or viva voce or (in acclamation) viva anything… From now, there'll be
examinations on the border, to turn the voice back, though it only wants to live.
West is the wall we're backed against, with, we would like to think, the setting
sun. Then it too takes ship, off, out. Leaves us standing on the shore.
X is that otherness, that and the Z, Basque shows us. As if any easy kinship was
being nixed. It's a cross in the box, but no one tells us what the question is.
Yogh: that Saxon letter, never travelled, still leaves its guttural trace on our Y, a
shadow on each clumsy impulse towards Yes and You.
Zero, now, and zenith… Zodiac. I could go on. Wherever did you lay your hands
on words like these, their smell of spice route, alcázar, bazaar?
- Guest Post, Philip Gross: Beyond Yes or No - April 8, 2017
- Guest Blog Post, Philip Gross: Three a.m., in Boston - May 12, 2013


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By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala., thus launching the modern-day civil-rights movement. Monday, Feb. 4, is the 100th anniversary of her birth. After she died at the age of 92 in 2005, much of the media described her as a tired seamstress, no troublemaker. But the media got it wrong. Rosa Parks was a first-class troublemaker.
Professor Jeanne Theoharis debunks the myth of the quiet seamstress in her new book "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks." Theoharis told me, "This is the story of a life history of activism, a life history that she would put it, as being 'rebellious,' that starts decades before her famous bus stand and ends decades after."
She was born in Tuskegee, Ala., and raised to believe that she had a right to be respected, and to demand that respect. Jim Crow laws were entrenched then, and segregation was violently enforced. In Pine Level, where she lived, white children got a bus ride to school, while African-American children walked. Rosa Parks recalled: "But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world."
In her late teens, Rosa met Raymond Parks, and they married. Rosa described Raymond Parks as the first activist she had ever met. He was a member of the local Montgomery NAACP chapter, and, when she learned that women were welcome at the meetings, she attended. She was elected the chapter's secretary.
It was there that Rosa met and worked with E.D. Nixon, a radical labor organizer. Rosa Parks was able to attend the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, in 1955. The school was a gathering place for activists—black and white together—committed to overcoming segregation, and for developing strategies and tactics for nonviolent resistance to it. It was there that Pete Seeger and others wrote the song "We Shall Overcome" as the enduring anthem of the civil-rights movement.
Parks returned to Montgomery and her job as a seamstress. On Dec. 1, 1955, she left work and got on the bus to go home. "The driver said that if I refused to leave the seat, he would have to call the police. And I told him, 'Just call the police,'" Parks told Pacifica Radio in April 1956. "The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed." Her arrest that day sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which would last more than a year. It was led by a young minister who had just moved into town: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Rosa Parks helped to launch Dr. King. Some 50,000 African-Americans carpooled, used church vehicles, rode in African-American-owned taxis and walked. The boycott crippled white businesses and the public transit system. Parks and others mounted a court challenge to the segregation, and in June 1956, a federal court ruled segregation on buses as unconstitutional.
The Parks moved to Detroit. She continued her work, responding to the Detroit riots in 1967, conferring with members of the Black Power movement like Stokely Carmichael. She opposed the war in Vietnam. Historian Theoharis notes that Park's biggest hero was Malcolm X. In the 1980s, Rosa Parks fought against apartheid, joining protests outside the South African embassy in Washington, D.C.
When she met Nelson Mandela after his release from prison, he told her, "You sustained me while I was in prison all those years."
When Rosa Parks died, she was the first African-American woman to lie in state in the Capitol rotunda. I raced down to Washington, D.C., to cover her memorial service. I met a young college student and asked her why she was there standing outside with so many hundreds of people listening to the service on loudspeakers. She said proudly, "I emailed my professors and said I won't be in class today; I'm going to get an education."
Rosa Parks has much to teach us. In fact, she and other young women had refused to give up their seats on the bus before Dec. 1, 1955. You never know when that magic moment will come. This Feb. 4, the U.S. Postal Service will release a Rosa Parks Forever stamp, a reminder of the enduring mark she made. Rosa Parks was no tired seamstress. As she said of that brave action she took, "The only tired I was, was tired of giving in."
Amy Goodman is the host of "Democracy Now!," a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on more than 1,000 stations in North America. She is the co-author of "The Silenced Majority," a New York Times best-seller.
© 2013 Amy Goodman


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This morning, Steve Jobs started by saying how great the iPhone 4 is, so great in fact that Apple has sold 3 Million so far, or about 1 Million per week. He also said that this was not unique to the iPhone 4 and showed the same thing happen on a Blackberry Bold 9700 (I have not been able to reproduce this on mine). He added that HTC, Nokia, Motorola and others were not immune to the problem either and showed photos of the same Death Grip issue on the HTC Droid Eris and the Samsung Omnia II. This is a fact of life, Steve Jobs says.
Apple also said that it has been testing its products extensively in a state of the art facility at a cost of $100M and 18phD engineers.The more interesting statistics is that Apple says that only 0.55% of customers have called the support line about the reception problems. We suspected that it was few, but not that few. The second piece of information is the AT&T return rate on the iPhone 4 is 1.7% compared to a 6% return rate for the iPhone 3GS (during the same period after launch). Then, Steve Jobs talked about the AT&T call drop rates (from the AT&T logs): the iPhone 4 drops less than 1% more calls than the 3GS, but yes, it does drop more calls. "Now, even less than one is too much for us. We want to find out why. But this does put it in perspective", Steve Jobs says.
"Iit's hard to escape the conclusion that there is a problem, but that problem is affecting a very small number of users" (Steve Jobs). Apple wants to make every customer happy, so -just as we expected- Apple will give away a free case. If you already have one, you'll get a refund. This will be valid for every iPhone bought from the launch to September 30.
If this still doesn't work for you, return the phone within 30 days, and Apple will give you a full refund, without any restocking fee (assuming that the phone is not damaged).
On that note, we're back to other iPhone 4 news: the White iPhone is shipping late this month, and the iPhone 4 will launch in a bunch of countries on July 30: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland.
Apple ends with "We love our users".
I suspect that there's going to be a second round of tests from various media outlets to prove or debunk what Steve Jobs has said, but basically, it's a free case or you can return the phone. As for the Sep 30 date, I'm not sure if it means that Apple will improve the situation permanently (see rumor), or if it just means "you've been warned, so no more free cases". Don't missour in-depth review of the iPhone 4.
Update: Steve jobs has commented about yesterday's Bloomberg's story that Apple knew about the issue (and implied that Apple did not deal with it). "That's a crock, and we've challenged them to show proof that that. If anyone had said this thing has problems, we would have dispatched people to deal with that issue." (Steve Jobs)
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Unfortunately our government filters the SSH protocol so now we can't connect to our Linux server.
They do the filtering by checking the header of each packet in the network layer (and not by just closing port). They also do away with VPN protocols.
Is there any alternative way to securely connect to a Linux server?


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World Cup starts today and I am looking forward to a month of pure football. I am a big football fan and I watch it with great interest. And every four years the event goes global, with quite a very interesting competition. Romania didn't qualify for this year's World Cup – I don't think that we deserved to be there – this fact doesn't take away anything from my interest. And although my attention is captured heavily by the World Cup, I'll not neglect my readings and I'll have a few books reviewed this month. I am currently working on my review of Jennifer Brozek and Amanda Pillar's anthology, "Grants Pass". So, the only thing left to say is: let the games begin :)
Friday, June 11, 2010
2 comments:
- ediFanoB said...
And who will win the World Cup?
Today Greece lost 2:0 versus South Korea. I'm sure Greece will go home after the first round.
I think Germany will reach the semifinal and then we will see .... - June 12, 2010 at 4:29 PM
- Mihai A. said...
Michael, I think that Spain has a good chance to win the World Cup. But the Germans are looking good and with such a tournament you never know :)
- June 14, 2010 at 12:58 PM
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Stripper Attacked Patron Over Lap Dance Dispute
Victim called dancer a "snaggle toothed bitch!"
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OCTOBER 8--A stripper is facing an assault rap after she allegedly pummeled a male customer who turned down her repeated attempts to perform a lap dance inside a South Carolina club, cops report.
Nicole Maxine Passmore, 25, was busted late last night for misdemeanor assault in connection with the confrontation at Masters Gentlemen's Club in Myrtle Beach.
According to a police report, patron Ernest Kadlick, 31, told officers that he was "having a good time in the club" with friends when Passmore (seen at right) approached them and repeatedly tried to "dance on him" while attempting to take money that Kadlick had placed on his table.
After turning down Passmore for a third and final time, Kadlick said that the dancer--who had launched into a lap dance--told him that he had a "sweet receding hairline."
In response, Kadlick declared, "Yeah, and you're a snaggle toothed bitch!"
According to Kadlick and several witnesses interviewed by Myrtle Beach Police Department investigators, the 5' 6" Passmore then "got up and started striking [Kadlick] in the face…approximately 5-6 times." Kadlick and his friends then left the club and police were called.
When an officer arrived at the strip joint, they found Kadlick (seen at left) holding a towel full of ice against his face. A cop reported observing "a welt coming from the area of left eyebrow."
Passmore claimed that she struck Kadlick in response to being pushed by him (though there were no witnesses to corroborate that assertion). Passmore was then arrested and transported to the Myrtle Beach jail, where she was subsequently released on bond. (3 pages)


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Mountain View Cemetery was established November 8, 1890, a full year before the town of Slaughter was incorporated as a 4th class town. (The name was changed to Auburn in 1893). At the instigation of social societies, including Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, the Mountain View Cemetery Association was formed for the purpose of purchasing land well removed from White River's annual floods, which were damaging Slaughter Precinct Cemetery.
Forty acres of land was purchased from Daniel Starr, and 92 Citizens contributed $25 each for bonds which allowed them plot space and trusteeships.
During the Depression Era, the cemetery suffered due to a lack of water. In 1945, a group of businessmen formed the Thousand One Club, and their first act for community betterment was a move to transfer the cemetery to the City of Auburn.
This was completed in 1946 and the name was changed to Auburn City Cemetery. The following year county owned acreage adjoining the cemetery was purchased. The cemetery was endowed for the perpetual care January 1947. On June 6, 1967, the cemetery board formally voted to change back to Mountain View Cemetery.
Pioneer Cemetery located at 8th NE and Auburn Way North, near Fred Meyer, is also part of the City of Auburn cemetery system. The land was donated in 1878 to the town of Slaughter, Washington territory, for a cemetery. Because of its small size and spring flooding, it was only active for about 20 years. In 1917, land on the east edge of the property was given to the Buddhist Church at Christopher, for use by the Japanese community.
Today, burials at Pioneer Cemetery are rare, as only cremated remains of descendants who were originally interred there are eligible. There is at least one civil war veteran interred here as well as a relative of Chief Sealth and other early Auburn pioneers. The grounds at this historical site are under the care of the Auburn Parks and Recreation Department. This is also the site of one of the many pieces of Public Artwork that can be found throughout Auburn.
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