text: > that means:-) in addition to commensurate amounts of tape backup. The ick! our big-storage plans very, very much hope to eliminate tape. > tape backup is relatively straightforward -- there is a 100 TB library > available to the project already that will hold 200 TB after an > LTO1->LTO2 upgrade, and while tapes aren't exactly cheap, they are > vastly cheaper than disk in these quantities. hmm, LTO2 is $0.25/GB; disks are about double that. considering the issues of tape reliability, access time and migration, I think disk is worth it. from what I hear in the storage industry, this is a growing consensus among, for instance, hospitals - they don't want to spend their time reading tapes to see whether the media is failing and content needs to be migrated. migrating content that's online is ah, easier. in the $ world, online data is attractive in part so its lifetime can be more explicitly managed (ie, deleted!) > The disk is a real problem. Raw disk these days is less than $1/GB for > SATA in 200-300 GB sizes, a bit more for 400 GB sizes, so a TB of disk > per se costs in the ballpark of $1000. However, HOUSING the disk in > reliable (dual power, hot swap) enclosures is not cheap, adding RAID is > not cheap, and building a scalable arrangement of servers to provide > access with some controllable degree of latency and bandwidth for access > is also not cheap. no insult intended, but have you looked closely, recently? I did some quick web-pricing this weekend, and concluded: vendor capacity size $Cad list per TB density dell/emc 12x250 3U $7500 1.0 TB/U apple 14x250 3U $4000 1.166 hp/msa1500cs 12x250x4 10U $3850 1.2 (divide $Cad by 1.25 or so to get $US.) all three plug into FC. the HP goes up to 8 shelves per controller or 24 TB per FC port, though. > Management requirements include 3 year onsite > service for the primary server array -- same day for critical > components, next day at the latest for e.g. disks or power supplies that > we can shelve and deal with ourselves in the short run. The solution we pretty standard policies. > adopt will also need to be scalable as far as administration is > concerned -- we are not interested in "DIY" solutions where we just buy > an enclosure and hang it on an over the counter server and run MD raid, > not because this isn't reliable and workable for a departmental or even > a cluster RAID in the 1-8 TB range (a couple of servers) it isn't at all > clear how it will scale to the 10-80 TB range, when 10's of servers > would be required. Robert, are you claiming that 10's of servers are unmanagable on a *cluster* mailing list!?! or are you thinking of the number of moving parts? > Management of the actual spaces thus provided is not trivial -- there > are certain TB-scale limits in linux to cope with (likely to soon be > resolved if they aren't already in the latest kernels, but there in many > of the working versions of linux still in use) and with an array of I can understand and even emphathize with some people's desire to stick to old and well-understood kernels. but big storage is a very good reason to kick them out of this complacency - the old kernel are justifiable only on not-broke-don't-fix grounds... > partitions and servers to deal with, just being able to index, store and > retrieve files generated by the compute component of the grid will be a > major issue. how so? I find that people still use sensible hierarchical organization, even if the files are larger and more numerous than in the past. > a) What are listvolken who have 10+ TB requirements doing to satisfy > them? we're acquiring somewhere between .2 and 2 PB, and are planning machinrooms around the obvious kinds of building blocks: lots of servers that are in the say 4-20 TB range, preferably connected by some fast fabric (IB seems attractive, since it's got mediocre latency but good bandwidth.) > b) What did their solution(s) cost, both to set up as a base system > (in the case of e.g. a network appliance) and I'm fairly certain that if I were making all the decisions here, I'd go for fairly smallish modular servers plugged into IB. > c) incremental costs (e.g. filled racks)? ? > d) How does their solution scale, both costwise (partly answered in b > and c) and in terms of management and performance? my only real concern with management is MTBF: if we had a hypothetical collection 2PB of 250G SATA disks with 1Mhour MTBF, we'd go 5 days between disk replacements. to me, this motivates toward designs that have fairly large numbers of disks that can share a hot spare (or maybe raid6?) > e) What software tools are required to make their solution work, and > are they open source or proprietary? I'd be interested in knowing what the problem is that you're asking to be solved. just that you don't want to run "find / -name whatever" on a filesystem of 20 TB? or that you don't want 10 separate 2TB filesystems? > f) Along the same lines, to what extent is the hardware base of their > solution commodity (defined here as having a choice of multiple vendors > for a component at a point of standardized attachment such as a fiber > channel port or SCSI port) or proprietary (defined as if you buy this > solution THIS part will always need to be purchased from the original > vendor at a price "above market" as the solution is scaled up). as far as I can see, the big vendors are somehow oblivious of the fact that customers *HATE* the proprietary, single-source attitude. oh, you can plug any FC devices you want into your san, as long as they're all our products and we've "qualified" them. > Rules: Vendors reply directly to me only, not the list. I'm in the > market for this, most of the list is not. Note also that I've already I think you'd be surprised at how many, many people are buying multi-TB systems for isolated labs. there are good reasons that this kind of scattershot approach is not wise in, say, a university setting, where a shared resource pool can respond better to burstiness, consistent maintenance, stable environment, etc. regards, mark hahn.


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In light of recent events it is difficult for all of us to return our focus to the business at hand. Crops must be harvested and plans made for the next plantings.
What is the right mix of crops? How much wheat do we plant in November? What will cotton bring? Do we plant beans next April/May? Will we still have some sort of peanut program? If so, what will it be?
All these decisions by growers seriously affect the mix of pesticide products that our industry must manufacture and distribute in order to have the needed items available at the right time and in the right quantities.
Our industry, like the rest of the country, has been in turmoil. It seemed several years ago that "life sciences" was the way everybody in our industry was going. Monsanto had the lead but most others were moving fast. — Then even as growers planted more and more GMO seed, resistance particularly in Europe, caused many companies to wonder if this new technology would ever be profitable. Many of the "big boys" (major drug and chemical companies) now, it seems, have decided that "life science integrated companies" are not the way to go and are separating their ag divisions from pharmaceuticals.
Most ag divisions of the major companies are rapidly being set up as independent operating companies, readily available for spin off to the first willing and well-heeled buyer.
As our companies sort themselves out for the future, regulatory problems and attacks by environmental activists continue unabated. The effort to rid the country of so-called "unsafe pesticides" is as strident as ever. Not having great success with direct intervention in Washington, focus seems to be on dealing in indirect ways to eliminate the use of pesticides — GMO's and all.
In the U. S., more and more efforts are being made using obscure provisions of the Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, and Endangered Species Act to thwart the use of pesticides. Costs to our industry to fight all the various lawsuits are astronomical.
Yet we must continue fighting if we are to stay in business and have available for the farmer the best products possible when needed and at a fair and reasonable price.
We will continue to do our best and need the support of all to make and keep production agriculture a strong and viable occupation.
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Israeli naval forces on Friday successfully intercepted a two-ship flotilla attempting to break the maritime blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
An Irish yacht and a larger Canadian ship were both stopped and escorted to the Israeli port of Haifa after having set sail from Turkey earlier in the week.
Israeli naval commandoes met no resistance from the 27 activists aboard the ships, and did not find any weapons.
Learning from the May 2010 interception of a Turkish-led flotilla attempting to reach Gaza, the Israeli forces were armed with cameras and immediately uploaded images and footage of the operation to international media outlets.
In the 2010 raid, the Israelis were lynched as they boarded the flotilla's largest ship, the Mavi Marmara. After two soldiers were taken hostage, the remaining commandoes opened fire both to defend themselves and quickly rescue the two abducted men. The Israeli army's delay in broadcasting images and footage of that incident allowed Israel's detractors to put forward exaggerated and falsified stories of "Israeli brutality" that formed the backdrop of all subsequent reports on the topic.
A UN-backed inquiry later acquitted the Israeli navy of any wrong doing, and reiterated the legitimacy of Israel's Gaza blockade, but the damage had already been done.
Thanks to the improved PR efforts of the Israeli military, Friday's maritime interception received far less attention, and again proved that Israeli forces as a policy only use violence as a respones to violence.
Six of the activists brought to Ashdod were immediately released, while the other 21 insisted on remaining incarcerated in order to "keep authorities busy." The activists admitted their sole purpose had been to provoke Israel.
The fact that the activists were permitted to continue drawing attention to themselves while voluntarily remaining in jail, and were not treated violently despite admitting to a provocative action, again spoke to the enormous difference between Israel and its neighbors when it comes to human rights.
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New York Jets coach Rex Ryan is fond of referring to Darrelle Revis as the best defensive player in the NFL. It should be no surprise that Ryan reportedly wants to keep his cornerback.
My old boss, Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk, reported Thursday that Ryan doesn't want to trade Revis. The cornerback is coming off anterior cruciate ligament surgery and has only one year left on his contract, so Jets owner Woody Johnson has made it clear he wants to explore all options with Revis.
To recap: The owner might want to trade the team's best player. The coach wants to keep him. The general manager, who was just hired, is caught in the middle. The coach and general manager don't know each other.
On top of all that, Johnson wasn't exactly effusive in his praise of Ryan to prospective general managers in interviews. Former Denver Broncos executive Ted Sundquist interviewed with the Jets and said Johnson's wildly supportive news conference of Ryan was not reflective of the owner's feelings behind closed doors.
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"I think Mr. Johnson realizes there are weaknesses and deficiencies there," Sundquist told ESPNNewYork.com. "He was adamant about how the players love Rex, their connection with him. But then he was like, 'That said ... ' -- and he listed X, Y and Z, the things Rex needs to improve upon."
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Bride's lawyers: investigators twisted statements in husband's death in Glacier National Park
HELENA, Mont. – The attorneys for a Montana woman accused of killing her new husband say investigators failed to record most of her interrogation and twisted her statements.
Jordan Graham's attorneys are asking a judge to dismiss the indictment accusing her of first-degree murder for allegedly pushing Cody Johnson to his death in Glacier National Park in July.
Prosecutors say Graham admitted that she and Johnson were arguing about her doubts over their eight-day-old marriage when she pushed him over the cliff.
Federal public defender Michael Donahoe writes in court documents filed late Friday an FBI interrogation specialist questioned Graham alone for nearly one and a-half hours without recording it.
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News Release 06-133
2006 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners Announced
Winning entries appear in this week's Science magazine
September 22, 2006
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Sometimes the best way to express a scientific idea is through an image that grabs the eye and invites viewers to wonder what they're seeing.
Fourteen images and multimedia presentations, each using innovative approaches to encapsulate a scientific story, have won the 2006 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, a competition sponsored jointly by the National Science Foundation and the journal Science, which is published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Currently in its fourth year, the contest recognizes outstanding achievement in the use of visual media to promote understanding of research results and scientific phenomena. The judges' criteria for evaluating the entries included visual impact, innovation and accuracy, among others.
Winning entries communicate information about complex mathematical concepts, the intricacies of the human body, air-flight patterns, the latest scientific imaging technologies to analyze Leonardo da Vinci's art, and more. The Sept. 22, 2006 issue of Science features all the entries, which will also be freely available at www.sciencemag.org/sciext/vis2006/show/. The entries are also displayed at the National Science Foundation's Web site, http://nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/index.jsp?id=win2006.
The winning entries are in five categories:
First Place:
Richard Palais, University of California, Irvine
Luc Benard
Still Life: Five Glass Surfaces on a Tabletop
Second Place:
Caryn Babaian, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, Penn.
A Da Vinci Blackboard Lesson
First Place:
Nils Sparwasser, Thorsten Andresen, Stephan Reiniger, and Robert Meisner, German Aerospace Center
Hawaii, the Highest Mountain on Earth
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Louis Borgeat, François Blais, and John Taylor of the National Research Council, Canada
Christian Lahanier of the Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France
Mona Lisa Montage
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Robert Cheng, Paul Brown, and Rebecca Fahrig, Stanford University
Christof Reinhart, Volume Graphics
An Egyptian Child Mummy
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David Yager, University of Maryland
Cockroach Portrait
First Place:
Travis Vermilye, Stephen Humphries, and Andrew Christensen, Medical Modeling, Golden, Colorado
Kenneth Slayer, International Craniofacial Institute, Dallas, Texas
Conjoined Twins
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Jack Bradbury, Guillaume Iacino, Erica Olsen, and Robert Grotke, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University
A Real-Time Audio and Video Sound Visualization Tool
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Aaron Koblin, University of California, Los Angeles
Flight Patterns
Drew Berry and Francois Tetaz, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne, Australia; Jeremy Pickett-Heaps, University of Melbourne
Body Code
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Curtis DuBois, Lummi Island, Washington
The Handwritten "e"
Matt Heying, Changwon Suh, and Krishna Rajan, Iowa State University
Simone Seig, Universität de Saarland
Materials Informatics
Jennifer Brennan, ADNET Systems Inc./NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Waleed Abdalati,
Horace Mitchell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; and Walter Meier, National Snow and Ice Data Center
A Short Tour of the Cryosphere
Flavio Fenton and Elizabeth Cherry, Cornell University
Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmias
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Troy Duster
Troy Duster served as President of the American Sociological Association from the close of the 2004 ASA Annual Meeting and through the 2005 ASA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia in August 2005. During the August 2005 ASA Annual Meeting, Duster presented his Presidential Address, entitled " Comparative Perspectives and Competing Explanations: Taking on the Newly Configured Reductionist Challenge to Sociology."
The following introductory article, entitled "Troy Duster: A Biography in History," was published in the August 2004 issue of Footnotes:
Troy Duster: A Biography in History
by Harry G. Levine, City University of New York-Queens College, and
Craig Reinarman, University of California-Santa Cruz
A recent Scientific American profile of Troy Duster told of a 1997 meeting at the National Human Genome Research Institute. The eminent geneticists agreed on a mantra: "Race doesn't exist." They insisted that because the DNA of people with different skin colors and hair textures is 99.9 percent alike, the notion of race had no meaning in science:
Years before the Human Genome Project had begun, Duster had already been patiently explaining that while genetic research cannot find race as a biological reality, race remains very much a social reality—with important biological outcomes, such as sharply higher rates of hypertension and prostate cancer in racialized populations. When the revolution in molecular biology arrived, Duster warned that DNA markers linked to ancestral origins would be used to attempt genetic explanations of these conditions—a dangerous pathway to the reinscription of the biology of race. "In large part, thanks to Duster," the Scientific American article said, "Collins and other geneticists have begun grappling with forensic, epidemiological and pharmacogenomic data that raise the question of race at the DNA level." As a result, says Collins, "Duster is a person that rather regularly gets tapped on the shoulder and asked for help."
Troy Duster has been doing this kind of thing for many years on many issues—using solid data and telling examples to shift scientific conversations, and sometimes, political debates as well. He is, to use Michael Burawoy's four-fold schema, a professional sociologist, a policy sociologist, a critical sociologist, and a public sociologist.
Distinguished Scholarship
Duster's research and writing have ranged widely across the sociology of law, science, deviance, inequality, race, and education. In addition to numerous book chapters, he has published in an extraordinary array of scholarly journals including Nature, Social Problems, Science, Ethnicities, Representations, the Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique, The American Sociologist, Philosophy and Social Action, Politics and the Life Sciences, Crime and Delinquency, Society, Social Psychiatry, The Black Scholar, Les Temps Modernes, and The Japanese Journal of Science. His research has been translated into French, German, Italian and Japanese.
His first book, The Legislation of Morality: Drugs, Crime, and Law (1970), a classic in the drug field, showed that when the demographics of opiate addiction shifted, so did its definition and the law. When addicts were predominantly white, middle-class, middle-aged women, addiction was a health problem dealt with privately by physicians. But when addiction spread among more "disreputable" groups like poor young men, it was redefined as a crime problem dealt with publicly by imprisonment.
Duster's other books include the seminal Backdoor to Eugenics (1990), which The Nation called a "lucid landmark." In his introduction to the second edition (2003), Pierre Bourdieu applauds Duster for showing the dangerous slide toward a "covert eugenics" that has emerged as "old mythologies" about intelligence and crime are "dressed in the biological sciences."
Duster's most recent book is Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society (2003; co-authored with Brown, Carnoy, Currie, Oppenheimer, Shultz, and Wellman). It received extraordinary critical acclaim, won the Benjamin Hooks Award, and was a finalist in 2004 for the C. Wright Mills Award. "Framed as a response to conservative analysts who claim that racial problems are essentially solved," wrote Andrew Hacker, Whitewashing Race is "a brilliant, seamless book on America's deepest divide."
Duster has been an editor for Theory and Society, Sociological Inquiry, Contemporary Sociology, The American Sociologist, and the ASA's Rose Monograph Series. He is currently a member of the Social Science Research Council, and has served on committees for the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Association of Law Schools, the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and he was Chair of the Ethical, Legal and Social Issues Committee of the Human Genome Project.
Among other awards, Duster has received a Guggenheim Fellowship at the London School of Economics, an honorary Doctor of Letters from Williams College, and the DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award from the American Sociological Association. He's currently Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University, as well as Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1970.
Scratch a Theory . .
Troy is fond of saying, "Scratch a theory, you find a biography." It follows that careers like his don't come out of the blue.
Troy's grandmother, Ida B. Wells, was born as a slave in Mississippi in 1862. As Phillip Dray (2002:53) has written, Wells grew up in the exhilarating spirit of Reconstruction "believing fervently in the promise of black citizenship and accomplishment, and for the rest of her life chose to behave as though that promise had never been withdrawn." In the 1880s, her sharply worded articles about the challenges facing African-Americans were published in many black newspapers. The editor of the New York Age wrote of Wells, "She has plenty of nerve, is as sharp as a steel trap, and she has no sympathy for humbug."
In 1892, three black shopkeepers in Memphis were lynched for competing too well against white merchants. When local protests brought no results, Wells wrote newspaper articles about their lives and what had been done to them. The lynchings, she explained, had been "an excuse to get rid of Negroes who were acquiring wealth and property and thus keep the race terrorized." She investigated lynchings throughout the south and produced a series of articles for the national black press challenging the widely believed claim that lynchings were mainly responses to black men raping white women. Her writings launched the first national campaign against lynchings. Frederick Douglas called her articles "a revelation" and admitted that until he had read them he himself had believed "that there was increased lasciviousness on the part of Negroes" (Dray, 2002:67).
Death threats forced Wells to move from Memphis to New York City where she became an even more prominent writer and speaker. Ida B. Wells was a star of the first generation of writers who invented the field of investigative journalism. She helped found the NAACP as well as the National Afro-American Council, serving as chair of its Anti-Lynching Bureau, and she worked tirelessly alongside W. E. B. DuBois and other leading lights of racial justice. She raised six children and died in 1931, five years before her grandson, Troy, was born. Wells was brave and brainy beyond measure, but despite all her accomplishments she could not leave her family the financial assets for a comfortable life.
When Troy was nine his father died and Troy was raised in poverty by Wells's daughter, Alfreda Duster, and his three older brothers and sister, in the heart of the ghetto on the south side of Chicago. His mother was a community organizer who taught him many valuable things, including: to get a good education, to contribute to the community, to play bridge skillfully, and to not mention his famous grandmother so as to avoid putting on airs—a habit he retains to this day. Even some long-time colleagues do not know, or learned only from elsewhere, about Duster's extraordinary grandmother. In recent years, he has been more public about Wells. With his siblings, he established the Ida B. Wells Foundation to give awards to journalists and researchers working in Wells's tradition of writing and speaking out for civil rights, civil liberties, and social justice.
Troy attended the local high school, was editor of the school newspaper, and graduated first in his class. He went to Northwestern University on an academic scholarship, one of only three blacks in his class, studying journalism and sociology. He was mentored by Raymond Mack, who encouraged him to go to graduate school at the University of California,Los Angeles, where for two years he studied ethnomethodology with Harold Garfinkel and methodology with W. S. Robinson. Mack then invited Duster back to Northwestern, where he wrote a dissertation on social responses to abnormality and mental illness, receiving his PhD in 1962. He then did research in Sweden where he met—and argued about race in America with—Gunnar Myrdal.
Duster's first professorship was at the University of California-Riverside. In the aftermath of the 1965 Watts riots, Duster was asked to speak at a large public meeting in conservative, white Orange County. His remarks were brief and polite, but still he received threatening phone calls and found garbage dumped on his lawn. Friends say this eventually convinced him to move to the University of California-Berkeley and take a position at the Center for Research and Development in Higher Education. Even before becoming a professor at Berkeley, he was regularly asked to address the Academic Senate to help faculty understand racial controversies on campus.
Duster's many years of service at UC Berkeley included being Chair of its Sociology Department, and founding and directing (for 17 years) the Institute for the Study of Social Change. He also directed Berkeley's path-breaking Diversity Project and authored a major report on the effects of a generation of affirmative action. In countless committees and behind-the-scenes negotiations, he has been an indefatigable advocate for opening up higher education to those historically excluded. He also served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and was principal author of ASA's 2003 official statement on race.
Over the years, Duster has actively mentored a great many PhD students, over 65 of them Asian, African American, Latino, or Native American. As the child of Alfreda Duster and Ida B. Wells, he embraced the women's movement as part of the struggle for civil rights and social justice. At the Institute for the Study of Social Change and elsewhere, his quiet generosity created humane environments where many students, researchers, faculty, and visiting scholars could do productive work. In Berkeley and New York he has hosted innumerable seminars, dinners and informal get-togethers where students at all stages mingle with top experts from almost every field.
In the past 15 years, Duster has given more than 250 public speeches and invited lectures around the world, from community colleges to world conferences. He travels so much he is recognized by the staff in many frequent flier lounges. After taking a position at NYU, he joked about coming out of the closet as "bi-coastal" in order to reassure California friends that he would not be spending all his time in New York. Given how frequently he is airborne or on other continents, it may be more accurate to describe him as "multi-coastal," or even "post-coastal."
Public Intellectual, Private Life
How can Duster do all the things he does with such aplomb? Among other reasons, he is culturally multilingual—he is a code-switcher. He can talk to white audiences about racism and the need for affirmative action, to administrators about student needs, to geneticists about how society works, and to sociologists about how genes work.
Duster also seems able to see around corners and three or four chess moves ahead of ordinary mortals. His sociologist switch is rarely turned off, and whether engaged in research or just walking down the street, almost nothing escapes his analytic attention. He is a dazzling student of social life, from the microscopic level of the utterance to the macroscopic realm of historical conjunctures. His brain seems to click happily along at all levels all the time, and he's never so far into any one paradigm that he forgets he's in a paradigm.
Duster is a public intellectual with a rich private life. In his Berkeley brown-shingle home, he built a kitchen that allowed his many friends to gather around while he crafted gourmet meals without missing a conversational beat. When he became a ceramic artist, he built a potter's atelier, complete with kiln in the garage. He adores music, plays the cello occasionally, and younger family members eagerly await Troy's high quality hand-me-down stereo gear. Close friends say he never met a gadget he didn't like. Before the iPod existed, he had a 20-gigabyte mp3 player with a large library of music that he takes on all trips. His preferred communication device is a Blackberry, which contains both addresses and salad dressing recipes. He even manages to keep running a now-antique Ford pickup.
Troy Duster is an extraordinary blend of playful and passionate, a man with a great capacity for intellectual engagement and enjoying life. He is humorous, upbeat, charming, and graceful—a cosmopolitan at home in the world, and down home, too. He's many other things as well, and this year, the hundredth anniversary of the American Sociological Association, he's the President.
Dray, Philip. 2002. At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America. New York: The Modern Library.
Lehrman, Sally. 2003. "The Reality of Race," Scientific American. January 13.


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everybody wishes they had jael for a big sister.
i know, she makes me nervous too.
poor suga plum!
the faces in that top photo are pretty priceless.
vicar: "oh no, it's the bucket woman. drive, drive!!"
likey, likey
"hm, no. no, i want - i want milk in it."
what my husband sings when i go shopping
"you'll never forget the first time you see one"
there's an app for that
mr. bean is hot
rule britannia!
"you don't even want to learn how to cook dahl!"
the wifely duty
sniper no snipey
how to be free from bitterness
contraception: why not?
for your education in basic morality
"don't think it's yours just because you marked it with your urine!"
ooh la la
"north and south"
"every sperm is useful, every sperm is fine"
cranford (a town brimming with hyacinths)
the slowest book ever, turned into the slowest movie ever. score!
"me cheese!"
"in the end he died, and god's people were glad."
"so make the bad horse gleeful, or he'll make you his mare..."
a happy little working song
the family meal
minnie the moocher
the story of jael (in legos)
to the dogs, or whoever
if you're into it
business socks
mr. bean
god's gonna cut you down
fruit rain
i like alan tudyk
*sigh* horatio
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NBA Draft Picks by School Part IIPosted by rtmsf on June 27th, 2007
Thanks to everyone who took a few moments to look at our post from yesterday – NBA Draft Picks by School (1949-2006). There was an overwhelming response, and we appreciate all the commentary and advice, which is how we learn how to manage this thing a little better day-to-day.
First, let's address a couple of the points we heard from you via email, msg boards and commentary.
- The "modern draft" refers to the era in which the NBA began using a round-by-round system. Even though there was an NBA Draft in 1947 and 1948, the round system did not begin until 1949, which is why we decided to start there.
- Following up on that point, we also chose to only review the first two rounds of the NBA Draft during this period. The current version (two rounds) began in 1989, and after a cursory review of the "extra" rounds – which totaled as many as twelve over this era, we realized very quickly that the vast majority of the players drafted in rounds 3+ never saw action in the NBA. For that reason, we decided to focus solely on the first two rounds.
Now, on with the data. We promised a breakdown by round and by decade, and we'll deliver on half of that promise today. We also have sliced the first round into a "Top 10" and "Top 5" pick column, just for kicks. See Table B below.
Table B. NBA Draft Picks by School & Round Taken (1949-2006)
Notes: this table is sorted by the 1st Rd column, and is limited to schools with six first round picks since 1949. The yellow shading refers to the highest value in that column.
Super Six. Remember what we were saying about the so-called Super Six yesterday? Well, these six schools – UNC, Duke, UCLA, Kentucky, Indiana and UCLA – take a larger piece of the action the higher up the draft board we go. They collectively comprise 13.4% (149 of 1115) of the all-time first-rounders, 14.8% of the top 10 picks (86 of 580), and 17.6% of the top 5 picks (51 of 290). In other words, more than a sixth of the top 5 picks in history came from one of the above six schools.
With Studs Like These, How do They Ever Lose?
Blue Heaven. The school with by far the most first-round picks, the most top 10 picks, and the most top 5 picks clearly resides in Chapel Hill. Let's put this in perspective. UNC has had more top 5 picks than all but ten schools have had first round picks. It accounts for 6.2% of the top 5 picks in history all by itself, and dominates each of the above categories. That's unbelievable. Nobody can ever say that Carolina hasn't had a surplus of talent. Maybe that criticism of Dean Smith "only" winning two national titles at UNC has some legs after all.
Who doesn't belong? Notre Dame, and again, Minnesota, seem to be the extreme outliers here. Was Digger Phelps really so bad of a coach that the Irish can produce twenty first-rounders (fifth on our list) and five top 5 picks but ND has only been to one F4 in its history? Guess so. We still can't figure out Minnesota either. The Gophers are behind only UNC, Duke, UCLA and Kentucky in all-time top 10 picks. All we can guess is that Whitey Skoog, Ed Kalafat and Dick Garmaker must have been tremendous players back in the day. Also, a tip of the hat to Alabama and Missouri for producing a combined 27 first-rounders with nary a F4 to show for it. Nice work, gents.
Digger Must Have Been Even Worse as a Coach
We have a lot of good, but not great, players. The second round is always a fascinating hodgepodge of players who may have been fine collegians but were undersized, overslow or otherwise fraught with concerns about their transition to the League. Nothing says slow like Indiana, who coincidentally leads the way with 22 second round picks. Of course, Arizona follows up with 20 and UCLA with 19 second-rounders, so maybe that theory is a little half-baked. Nevertheless, it was cool to see the schools that consistently produce top talent vs. mediocre NBA talent (in the eyes of the GMs, at least). For UNC, it's first round or bust, mostly (81% of its draftees went in the first round); for a school like LSU, either you're drafted in the top 5 (8 of its 12 first-rounders) or you're likely to end up in the second round (11 of the remaining 15 picks). One other neat example is Utah, where 9 of its 10 first-rounders went in the top 10 picks – maybe praying to Joe Smith (not the former Terp) or whatever it is that they do out there for a high NBA pick only works if you're taller than 6'9 (e.g., Andrew Bogut, Keith Van Horn, Tom Chambers, Bill McGill).
Evidence that Penn St. Basketball Exists
Who is missing? Several schools with some solid history, including Marquette (5 first-rounders and 14 (!!) second-rounders), Pittsburgh (4/4), Xavier (4/6), Gonzaga (3/3) and UTEP (3/8), didn't make our cut. Just for fun, the BCS schools with the least successful draft histories belong to… South Florida (only one second-rounder) and Penn State (two second-rounders). USF we understand – they're new to the Big East and all – but Penn State? – that school has been in the Big 10 for almost fifteen years. That's pathetic.
Coming Next: the final installment will take a look at draft picks by decade, so we can see how things have trended over the years. Which schools have consistently supplied talent to the NBA and which have long since passed or are rising fast? View Part III here.


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Blowhard UK MP Says Ban Twitter Because Grandstanding Is Fun
from the not-gonna-happen dept
The UK seems to have a rather interesting relationship with Twitter for some reason. For the purposes of this discussion, recall that UK police have demanded the deletion of photos from the microblogging site before, in some attempt to have the internet forget certain things happened. Also, keep handy the knowledge that, in the UK, you can apparently be jailed for acting like a jackass on Twitter.
With that in mind, it's ironic that acting like a jackass in government gets you a job as an MP. Such is the case, at least, with George Galloway, who is calling for a ban on Twitter nation-wide until the site agrees to fully cooperate with UK police in all of their many deluded demands.
Filing the motion named "Twitter and the detection of crime", the MP believes the social-networking site should defer to UK authorities or be sanctioned by the Government – those sanctions involving a ban on the service.
"Twitter is now a very widely used mode of social networking; is a US-based enterprise whose primary motivation is to maximise its profits; Twitter is now used for a variety of criminal activities including sending malicious communications," reads the filing.Non-Brits like myself will recognize this tactic of wanting to ban services that don't bend over a barrel for local police, having seen it so many times with services like Craig's List. In the case of Twitter, the company already complies with police requests that are matters of life or death and does so voluntarily. What they don't allow is law enforcement to go on fishing expeditions in non-serious matters. Now, should you think that such petty action by UK LEOs is unlikely, please keep in your mind all the links provided above. Were I Twitter, I wouldn't want to open up that can of worms either.
Luckily, that prevailing opinion is that Mr. Galloway is simply trying to draw media attention to himself. The Parliament's own website concurs.
"Although there is very little prospect of EDMs being debated, many attract a great deal of public interest and frequently receive media coverage," claims the website, whilst summarising, "The majority will attract only one or two signatures."Given Mr. Galloway's rather, ahem, colorful history, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised by such a move on his part. That said, fear not, my dear Brits, Twitter will remain for now.
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Johnathan Lee Iverson is a lucky guy — and he feels that way every day.
"I am humbled to be the voice of such extraordinary talent — human and animal," said Iverson, the ringmaster of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. "I am so fortunate to get to tell their stories to the audience. It's remarkable being able to live the dream that is the circus."
From Wednesday through Aug. 3, Iverson will be sharing that dream with Southern California audiences in the circus' new show, "Legends," an event showcasing wonders from the marvelous to the magnificent.
Its first stop is Los Angeles' Staples Center, then Ontario's Citizens Business Bank Arena and, finally, the Honda Center in Anaheim.
The show features more than 100 performers from 25 countries, including such unique acts as the China National Acrobatic Troupe and double trapeze. The show also includes more than 85 animals from nearly every continent.
For those who like to get in a little extra fun, show up early to experience several exciting interactive aspects, included with the ticket price. Families can step onto the arena floor and meet performers, learn circus skills and try on costumes. Ontario and Anaheim audiences may visit the Animal Open House to get an up-close look at some amazing animals.
VIP ticket holders can get a "behind-the-curtain" sneak peek, which includes walking the Ringling Red Carpet, stepping inside the "Globe of Steel," many photo opportunities, an up-close elephant encounter and the opportunity to meet several show stars, including ringmaster Iverson.
"People are going to be thrilled and amazed," Iverson said. "We have a woolly mammoth, a unicorn and a Pegasus, and so much more. Though the human aspect is amazing, my personal favorite has to be the animals. Alexander Lacey's remarkable lions and tigers presentation — amazing. We two-legged animals understand that we are second billing."
Lacey, who grew up in a circus family, has become an award-winning animal trainer specializing in big cats.
Iverson explained that many in the circus have been there for generations — but not all.
"There are three types of people in the circus: circus babies born into it; those that run away to the circus, who don't seem to fit in anywhere else; and people like me," he said with a chuckle. "People who see an ad, go to audition and try out. If you're lucky enough to be chosen, it soon gets in your blood and once in your bloodstream you are never the same. It's addictive, this community that connects people to each other from all over the country."
One performer Iverson particularly likes to watch is Abdon, an aerialist and third-generation circus performer who goes by one name.
"I am the catcher, and I must be prepared to think fast," Abdon said. "Many things can happen in the air. It is a challenge, but such excitement. I can't explain it in words — you have to come see the show."


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What really shocked her, though, was the distinct feeling of hostility she felt from her doctors.
Her complaints were suddenly greeted with suspicion. Her report of odd pains resulted in a lecture on drug seeking. She was subtlety accused of being a lying hypochondriac and manipulating the system. When she broke down and cried at this treatment she was diagnosed with "anxiety problems." She had suddenly gone from normal healthy person to the bad patient.
In desperation, she wrote Dr. D to ask, "WTF just happened?"I wish I could say that situations like this are rare, but they aren't. I've written before about Nice Patient Syndrome. Unfortunately there is also Bad Patient Syndrome, and it claims a lot more victims than the former.
While there some despicable patients out there, many of the victims of Bad Patient Syndrome are really nice folks who are getting the run around. The true illness is a mental one in the mind of medical people:
Why would doctors label you as being a Bad Patient?
1) We Suspect Everyone
MD's are a naturally suspicious bunch.
"But why would doctors who chose this profession because they want to help people be suspicious?"Doctors have control over work excuses, narcotic pain medicines, and the exams that determine disability. This makes us popular targets of sleazy folks who want to get things they shouldn't. Docs get told more lies middle school teachers and probation officers. After getting burned a few times we learn to be suspicious. We even find ourselves being suspicious of patients who have nothing to gain from fooling us.
Suspicion becomes a habit of mind. Your docs are like the grizzled old detective walking out of an interrogation muttering, "His story doesn't add up. He's lying!"
Sometimes stories don't add up because people are lying, but sometimes they don't add up because the human body occasionally does strange things.
It is often the patients with weird or atypical symptoms that get labeled as the bad ones. Diseases are typically diagnosed by identifying patterns of signs and symptoms. Doctors get pretty good at recognizing common patterns. It gets problematic when your symptoms don't fit any known pattern. We might look up your pattern in the books and run some tests and still come up empty handed. This is frustrating!
Learning the patterns of diseases is very useful. A majority of medical education is dedicated to learning these patterns, but sometimes the doctor's mind begins to slavishly adhere to patterns without exception. We start to think that symptoms that don't fit our patterns aren't "real" problem at all.
If your symptoms don't fit into any known patterns then you must be full of shit!
The human body, of course, is extremely complex and each person's body is unique and acts slightly differently from all others. The number of patients with signs and symptoms that don't fit known patterns shouldn't surprise us at all, but if you bring us a pattern we've never seen before we might just blame you.
Doctor's hate to feel helpless. Our work gives us an incredible (almost superhuman) power to identify dieases and save lives. Like all superheros we are expected to use our powers for the good of mankind. Our patients expect us to be all-powerful and we like to feel powerful and needed.
Then you come along and we can't help. Heck, we sometimes can't even figure out what's wrong with you! Suddenly we go from feeling like superheros to pathetic loosers. Not only are you kryptonite to our superpowers, but you still expect us save you when we find all of our medical powers useless. We hate feeling this way!
What we should do is admit that we aren't superheroes after all and confess that your situation has confounded our ability to help. From personal experience I can tell you this is really hard to do.Feeling powerless is a huge narcissistic injury to our superhero ego. It is a lot easier to accuse you of being a villainous bad patient who is unworthy of our heroics, that admit that we aren't as super as we would like to be.
It does happen sometimes, but I believe many of our bad patients are just getting a bad rap. So if you are one of the unlucky innocent victims of Bad Patient Syndrome I am very sorry. It really does suck!
What do you think?
Have you ever been the "bad patient" or been the heathcare provider who misjudged a patient?
Doctor D always loves to hear your stories and opinions in comments.


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"Jane the Virgin" is the adaptation of a hit Venezuelan telenovela that's bringing a different flavor to the CW palate, which is used to a diet of superheroes and vampires.
The series, based on Venezuela's "Juana la virgen," stars Gina Rodriguez as Jane, a hardworking young woman who is accidentally artificially inseminated during a routine gynecologic exam. Cue the telenovela stare of horror!
The series comes from co-creators Jennie Snyder Urman ("Emily Owens, M.D.") and Ben Silverman ("Ugly Betty"), who found themselves addressing how the series might echo the sensibilities of a certain other telenovela adapation that found success on broadcast television, "Ugly Betty," during their appearance with the cast Friday at the Television Critics Assn. press tour in Beverly Hills.
"I mean, you know, that's definitely there, I think, and I loved 'Ugly Betty,' " Snyder Urman said. "Ben here is from 'Ugly Betty.' This show is a little bit less broad, I think, in terms of I wanted it to sort of have a fairy-tale, whimsical quality. I sort of try to describe it as somewhere between "Ugly Betty" meets "Gilmore Girls" because ... the mother-daughter relationship was so central in that show. So, to me, it's that sort of the two of them together is the strange mark I'm trying to hit." (Snyder Urman wrote for "Gilmore Girls.")
The hourlong series is built around a Latino-family — and yes, Spanish will be spoken, largely by Jane's grandmother (played by Ivonne Coll). The pilot featured some subtitled dialogue, and that will continue, Snyder Urman said. That aspect adds truth to the show, Rodriguez stressed.
"When I read it in the script, I was like, 'Jennie's in my house. Jennie knows my life,' " Rodriguez said. "I do not speak back in Spanish to my grandmother at all. My grandmother only speaks to me in Spanish. She knows what I'm saying, but she refuses to speak English back, and I refuse to speak Spanish, and there's a moment in the show where I'm describing to my grandmother how I got inseminated and say, "I don't even know how to say this in Spanish.' We're talking to 50 million people in this country when we say that line.
"It is outrageous how on point" Snyder Urman is, Rodriguez said, saying she encompassed the culture and that first-, second- and third-generation story of people who hear Spanish at home, have the traditional food at home, then have hamburgers and hot dogs outside the home and speak English. "It's pretty awesome. I never watched telenovelas growing up. I watched "Growing Pains" and "Family Matters," and those were like telenovelas to me. I was the one who with "The Cosby Show" was like, "What are you doing, Rudy? Why?"
But will "Jane the Virgin" elicit the same passion from viewers? Speaking to the idea of finding a following on the network now largely associated with supernatural and sci-fi fare, Silverman said he hopes the show finds its footing.
"I'm hoping [the CW] will have the patience with this show to allow it to find its audience and to grow, because it's a show that I anticipate hopefully coming out the gates strong," he said.
"Jane the Virgin" premieres Monday, Oct. 13, at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time.
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Oh yeeeeeeah! Guys, as devotees of all things Peter Dinklage, we've been waiting for the release of the LARP-centric comedy Knights of Badassdom for years. No, literally: years. But now Entertainment One has proved our hero, committing to distribute the film in theaters and on VOD. All that remains is for eOne to announce when we should don our best DIY battlegear and head to the movies.
It's been a long and arduous journey for Knights of Badassdom to win this theatrical release. Dinklage was attached to the project back in January of 2010. By that summer, True Blood hottie Ryan Kwanten, consummate character actor Steve Zahn, and Community's Danny Pudi were also signed on to co-star. At the time, Kwanten described the project as Shaun of the Dead meets Role Models." So, we were sold. But in case you still need convincing, here's the film's plot synopsis:
A huge group of dedicated, costumed LARP-ers (Live Action Role Players), dressed like knights, elves & various characters, give up their cell phones and take to the woods for the Central New Jersey Knights of Badassdom Adventure Society, where they are set to re-enact a dungeons and dragons scenario right out of the mythical Middle Ages. After being dumped by his sexy girlfriend Beth (Margarita Levieva), Joe (Kwanten) reluctantly decides to join Eric (Zahn) and his Larping friends (Dinklage, Pudi) in the woods rather than stay behind and feel sorry for his newly single status. There he meets hot, ass-kicking, intimidating huntress LARPer Gwen (Firefly's Summer Glau), and finds himself a surreal adventure wilder than he ever imagined when a make-believe wizard casts an all-too-real spell from an ancient book he bought on eBay, releasing an actual demon with a taste for human blood -- and souls -- that starts systematically decimating the players in this suddenly deadly "game." Will our guys become the heroes they have been pretending to be before time runs out?
Knights of Badassdom went into production in Spokane, Washington in July of 2010. The following February IndieVest Pictures, which produced the pic, released a teaser image of Dinklage , who was about to take his badass reputation to a new level with the premiere of Game of Thrones. More images followed, but no new information on when the film might open theatrically. Then came the summer of 2011, and with it Knights of Badassdom took to San Diego Comic Con. There all of the cast mentioned above turned out, as well as It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's hysterical Jimmi Simpson for a panel Q&A and premiere of the film's first trailer, a variant of which you can watch below:
And still no release date was announced. Their website promised a 2012 release, but it wasn't until January of 2013 that the trailer resurfaced, suggesting IndieVest was finally close to finding a distributor. And here we are! Knights of Badassdom will get a theatrical release…eventually. We're hoping eOne will end out anxiety by unleashing a release date soon. A new trailer would be nice too.


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My father began decades ago to give away Bibles as a Gideon, and now, about 50 years after I first saw him do it, here I am carrying on the tradition," says David Hayes, member of the Luther Seminary Foundation Board of Trustees. Hayes and his wife, Andrea, notable donors to Luther Seminary for the past 14 years, have given a gift and a challenge to the seminary, which has recently been extended to its graduates: give away as many Bibles as possible.
The program, named The Bible Initiative: Pass It On Project, began a year and a half ago when the Hayes
offered to donate 400 hardcover pew Bibles to Luther Seminary's Chapel of the Incarnation and Chapel of the Cross if the seminary agreed to replace the Bibles when they were given away. All of the initial 400 Bibles have been given away, and the seminary is in the process of ordering more. "We are distinguishing ourselves by lifting up the use of Scripture," says President Richard Bliese. "We are striving to become who we actually are as Lutherans; that is, people centered in the Word, which
are people of Word and Sacrament."
Given the great success of this initial gift, the Hayes family decided to expand their contribution to
the broader church. They set up a fund named for David Hayes' father, Lloyd P. Hayes, to which other
seminary trustees--including Michael Schwartz, Diane Kosnick Nelson and Lee Sundet--have already contributed. With money from that fund, up to 20 students each spring will be invited to participate in the Pass it On Project and receive Bibles for the pews of their new congregations. Like the Bibles gifted to the seminary, these Bibles also will be inscribed with an invitation to take the book home or to where it is needed.
In turn, the congregation will commit to replacing the Bibles that are given away. Once the congregations have given away and replaced one-half of their Bibles, the congregation will
officially be recognized by Luther Seminary as a Book of Faith: Pass it On congregation. They will be
publicly recognized by the seminary and receive a small gift in recognition of their contribution to the project.
This program is a part of Luther Seminary's involvement in the Book of Faith Initiative, a major initiative of the ELCA to increase fluency in the Scriptures, the first language of faith, over the next five years. "[The Pass It On Project] seems to be a great complement to the wider church's Book of Faith effort, so God's timing is, as always, perfect," says Hayes.
"Both of these projects [the Pass It On Project and the Book of Faith Initiative] help us take seriously the agenda of the church: we should help all baptized Christians feel more at home in the Scriptures and allow them to help make its stories their stories of faith as well," says Seminary Pastor
John Mann. "This is a wonderful way to get seminarians concerned about their responsibility to teach the first language of faith--the understanding of the Scripture. It's also a wonderful way to familiarize congregations with the use of the Bible in worship and study, and to introduce Scripture to
people who have never owned a copy of, or read, the Bible."
Seminary graduates of the 2008-2009 academic year who wish to participate in the project are required to take a workshop either this spring or summer. Spots are limited to 20 and available on a first-come, first-serve basis. The workshop, co-taught by Mann and Diane Jacobson, professor of Old Testament and director of the Book of Faith Initiative, will introduce both the specifics of the program and general pointers on Bible teaching in the parish. All senior students who participate will receive significant
gift incentives.
"Seminary students really need to recognize that their questions and the things that will excite them in
understanding the Scriptures are really quite different from lay people's questions," says Mann. "They need to learn how to listen to their congregation members, anticipate their questions and engage them in learning how God is present and at work in everyday matters. The workshops will help teach them how to do these things."
Bliese agrees. "This project shows our commitment to teaching the Bible, teaching how to teach the Bible and giving away the Word of God," he says. "The Bibles are a subtle yet powerful symbol that speaks volumes about who we are as both students and leaders."
Excitement about the project has already reached beyond the seminary. "We've received word that the Luther Seminary pilot has already begun to inspire some Lutheran congregations in the Twin Cities area to start their own 'Bible projects' in their churches to place and give away Bibles in the sanctuary. That's the kind of fire we hope to ignite and spread," says Hayes. "Andrea and I enjoy few things more
than giving away Bibles, and we're thrilled to have a new vehicle at Luther Seminary to help germinate
and spread the Word far beyond what we can do individually. Our ultimate hope is that all these Bible initiatives will one day result in hundreds of churches giving away thousands of Bibles every year."
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Our friends at the Rotary Club of Des Moines want our Readers to know what the Top 10 Reasons to attend the 9th Annual Poverty Bay Wine Festival, coming to the Landmark on the Sound Event Center the weekend of March 1-3rd, are:
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9. Live music! Including The Fabulous Roof Shakers, Carrie Clark, Meal Frog, Chad McCullough Trio and Pearl Django.
8. If you've never been inside the historic Landmark on the Sound Event Center, you owe it to yourself to see this magnificent architectural treasure (HINT: be sure to look for the amazing Masonic symbols throughout, especially the time capsule by the front fountain!).
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5. The Rotary Club of Des Moines also reaches all around the world helping people in Haiti, the Philippines, Nepal, and many other countries with our international projects.
4. Did we mention the food? Fresh bread, cheese, smoked salmon, Scotch & Vine, Forte chocolate, and our very own Poverty Bay Bistro featuring mouthwatering burgers, prawns and pasta.
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* Please read the according Changelog files for RAM limitations.
* Please read the according Changelog files for RAM limitations.
* Please check md5sum before using it.
* Please check md5sum before using it.
* [https://downloads.archlinux.de/iso/archboot/2012.
* [https://downloads.archlinux.de/iso/archboot/2012.Download 2012.04 "2k12-R2"] / [https://downloads.archlinux.de/iso/archboot/2012./boot Download /boot (PXE/Rescue files)] / [ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/iso/archboot/Changelog-2012.-1.txt Changelog] / [https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=140271 Forum thread]
* Bugfixes and uefi updates
* Bugfixes and uefi updates
* kernel 3.
* kernel 3..3 / LTS kernel 3.0.
* pacman 4.0.3 usage
* pacman 4.0.3 usage
* RAM recommendations: 768 MB
* RAM recommendations: 768 MB
====Kernel changes====
====Kernel changes====
* bump to latest 3.
* bump to latest 3..x series and bump lts to latest 3.0.x series
====Environment changes====
====Environment changes====
* synced with latest mkinitcpio changes
* synced with latest mkinitcpio changes
Revision as of 05:54, 18 June 2012
- 1 What is Archboot?
- 2 Archboot Releases
- 2.1 News
- 2.2 Burning Release
- 2.3 PXE booting / Rescue system
- 2.4 History
- 2.5 The difference to the official install media (latest version)
- 2.6 Setup features (latest version)
- 2.7 Bootparameters
- 2.8 FAQ, Known Issues and limitations
- 2.9 Bugs
- 3 Links
- 4 Restore Usbstick
- 5 Create image files
What is Archboot?
- Archboot is a set of scripts to generate bootable media for CD/USB/PXE.
- It is designed for installation or rescue operation.
- It only runs in RAM, without any special filesystems like squashfs, thus it is limited to the RAM which is installed in your system.
pacman -S archboot
Archboot Releases
- Those files are no official Arch Linux releases.
- Use them on your own risk.
- Hybrid image files and torrents are provided, which include i686 and/or x86_64 core repository.
- Please read the according Changelog files for RAM limitations.
- Please check md5sum before using it.
- Download 2012.04 "2k12-R2" / Download /boot (PXE/Rescue files) / Changelog / Forum thread
2012.06 "2k12-R3"
- Bugfixes and uefi updates
- kernel 3.4.3 / LTS kernel 3.0.34
- pacman 4.0.3 usage
- RAM recommendations: 768 MB
Kernel changes
- bump to latest 3.4.x series and bump lts to latest 3.0.x series
Environment changes
- synced with latest mkinitcpio changes
- fixed binary moving to new location in /usr
- added rEFInd boot manager support
Removed features
- floppy
setup changes
- many grub2 fixes and grub2 cleanup
- added rEFInd support
hwdetect changes
- fixed to work with latest userspace
quickinst changes
- None
Burning Release
Hybrid image file is a standard CD-burnable image and also a raw disk image.
- Can be burned to CD(RW) media using most CD-burning utilities.
- Can be raw-written to a drive using 'dd' or similar utilities. This method is intended for use with USB thumb drives.
'dd if=<imagefile> of=/dev/<yourdevice> bs=1M'
PXE booting / Rescue system
Download the the needed files from the /boot directory PXE/rescue files.
- vmlinuz_i686 + initramfs_i686.img (i686)
- vmlinuz_x86_64 + initramfs_x86_64.img(x86_64)
- vmlinuz_i686_lts + initramfs_i686.img (i686 LTS kernel)
- vmlinuz_x86_64_lts + initramfs_x86_64.img (x86_64 LTS kernel)
- For PXE booting add the kernel and initrd to your tftp setup and you will get a running installation/rescue system.
- For Rescue booting add a entry to your bootloader pointing to the kernel and initrd.
History of old releases can be found here.
The difference to the official install media (latest version)
- It runs a modified Arch Linux system in initramfs.
- It is restricted to RAM usage, everything which is not necessary like man pages etc. is not provided.
- It supports (u)efi booting via grub2 2.0beta4.
- LTS kernel boot images are provided
- It does not mount anything during boot process.
- It uses a different setup script.
Setup features (latest version)
- CD/USB/OTHER and FTP/HTTP installation mode
- Changing keymap and consolefont
- Changing time and date
- Preparing harddisk, like auto-prepare, partitioning, GUID (gpt) support, 4k sector drive support etc.
- Creation of software raid/raid partitions, lvm2 devices and luks encrypted devices
- Supports standard linux,raid/raid_partitions,dmraid,lvm2 and encrypted devices
- Filesystem support: ext2/3/4, btrfs, nilfs2, reiserfs,xfs,jfs,ntfs-3g,vfat
- Package selection support
- Autoaddition of usefull packages, like ntfs-3g, dhclient etc.
- LTS kernel support
- Auto/Preconfiguration of fstab, mkinitcpio.conf, rc.conf, crypttab and mdadm.conf
- Auto/Preconfiguration of KMS/framebuffers
- Configuration of basic system files
- Setting root password
- grub, grub2, lilo, extlinux/syslinux, grub2-uefi, rEFInd bootloader support
General boot parameters
- earlymodules
- load modules before hooks are executed
- Usage:
- earlymodules=<comma-separated-array>
- earlymodules=ahci,ehci-hcd
- disablehooks
- disable a hook which is run during bootup
- Usage:
- disablehooks=<comma-separated-array>
- disablehooks=arch_floppy,arch_cdrom
- root
- Using this option will boot you into your specified existing system.
- Usage:
- root=/dev/<your-root-of-installed-system>
- root=/dev/sda3
- rootflags
- Using this option will pass special mount options for your root device
- Usage:
- rootflags=<comma-separated-array>
- rootflags=subvol=root,compress,ssd
- lvmwait=
- Using parameter followed by a comma-separated list of device names can be given on the command line.
- It will cause the hook to wait until all given devices exist before trying to scan and activate any volume groups.
- Usage:
- lvmwait=/dev/mapper/device1,/dev/mapper/device2
- advanced
- This will override advanced hooks running order for your system.
- Default order is arch_mdadm,arch_lvm2,arch_encrypt
- Advanced hooks are: arch_mdadm,arch_lvm2,arch_encrypt
- Usage:
- advanced=hook1,hook2,hook3
- advanced=arch_encrypt,arch_mdadm
- ide-legacy
- This will turn on the old IDE subsystem. This is only needed, if your system does not support the new PATA subsystem.
- only valid parameter on LTS kernel images
- arch-addons
- You want to load external addon packages or configs into the install environment.
- Place external addon packages in /packages directory of your external device.
- Place external configs in /config directory of your external device.
Video and framebuffer options
- uvesafb
- enables uvesafb mode during boot and activates setup routine to use it later on installed system.
- you need to specify your supported resolution eg.:
- uvesafb=<resolution>-<depth>
- uvesafb=1024x768-16
- fbmodule
- Loads the fb module you specify durin boot process and activates setup routine to use it later on installed system.
- Use it like this fbmodule=<yourmodule>, e.g. fbmodule=cirrusfb
FAQ, Known Issues and limitations
- Release specific known issues and workarounds are posted in changelog files.
- Check also the forum threads for posted fixes and workarounds.
- Why are /etc/modprobe.d/sound_persistent.conf and /etc/udev/rules.d/network_persistent.rules created?
- These 2 files ensure persistent ordering of network and soundcards, else it might happen that the order changes during every boot.
- dmraid might be broken on some boards, support is not perfect here.
- The reason is there are so many different hardware components out there. At the moment 1.0.0rc16 is included, with latest fedora patchset.
- grub/grub2 cannot detect correct bios boot order:
- It may happen that hd(x,x) entries are not correct, thus first reboot may not work.
- Reason: grub cannot detect bios boot order.
- Fix: Either change bios boot order or change menu.lst to correct entries after successful boot. This cannot be fixed it is a restriction in grub/grub2!
- Why is parted used in setup routine, instead of cfdisk in msdos partitiontable mode?
- parted is the only linux partition program that can handle all type of things the setup routine offers.
- cfdisk cannot handle GPT/GUID nor it can allign partitions correct with 1MB spaces for 4k sector disks.
- cfdisk is a nice tool but is too limited to be the standard partitioner anymore.
- cfdisk is still included but has to be run in an other terminal.
Restore Usbstick
Take care about which device actually is your USB stick. The next command will render all data on /dev/sdX inaccessible.
- First, wipe the bootsector of the USB stick:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=512 count=1
- Then, create a new FAT32 partition on the stick and write a FAT32 filesystem on it (vfat or type b in fdisk terminology):
fdisk /dev/sdX <<EOF n p 1 t b w EOF mkdosfs -F32 /dev/sdX1
Create image files
Archboot Allinone ISO Howto
(Quick regeneration of installation media with latest available core packages)
- x86_64 architecture
- archboot ISO
- ~ 3GB free space on disk
Create archboot chroots
# install archboot pacman -S archboot # mount recent archboot image file as loop device mount -o loop <imagefile> <imagepath> # create x86_64 chroot mkdir <x86_64_chroot> /usr/share/archboot/installer/quickinst media <x86_64_chroot> <imagepath>/core-x86_64/pkg # create i686 chroot mkdir <i686_chroot> linux32 /usr/share/archboot/installer/quickinst media <i686_chroot> <imagepath>/core-i686/pkg # unmount iso file umount <imagepath>
- Mount and copy the following files to each chroot:
mount -o bind /dev <chrootpath>/dev mount -o bind /tmp <chrootpath>/tmp mount -o bind /sys <chrootpath>/sys mount -o bind /proc <chrootpath>/proc cp -a /etc/mtab <chrootpath>/etc/mtab cp /etc/resolv.conf <chrootpath>/etc/resolv.conf
- Enter archboot x86_64 chroot:
chroot <chrootpath>
- Enter archboot i686 chroot:
linux32 chroot <chrootpath>
Install archboot and update to latest packages
# install in both chroots archboot: pacman -S archboot # update in both chroots to latest available packages pacman -Syu
Generate images
# run in both chroots (needs quite some time ...) archboot-allinone.sh -t # put the generated tarballs in one directory and run (needs quite some time ...) archboot-allinone.sh -g
- Finished you get a burnable iso image, a rawwrite usb image and a hybrid image which is both in one.
- Do not forget to unmount for each chroot after leaving:
umount <chrootpath>/dev umount <chrootpath>/tmp umount <chrootpath>/sys umount <chrootpath>/proc
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