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60-70 days. A delightful little melon! Short vines require less garden space to produce sweet, 4-inch melons. Can be grown anywhere but specially suited to areas with a short growing season. Great in containers. Plants are fusarium wilt resistant.
This packet sows 9 mounds.
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When to sow outside: 1 to 2 weeks after average last frost, and when temperatures are warm.
When to start inside: 4 to 6 weeks before average last frost. Transplant seedlings with care. To reduce stress, use paper or pulp pots and transplant pots directly into soil after gently removing the bottoms.
Harvesting: Harvesting at the right time is very important with melons. Commercial growers harvest before melons are ripe, forcing them to ripen off the vine, but, the last few days of ripening on the vine put a lot of sugars into the melon. Bottom line is that melons taste significantly better when vine ripened. How do you know when melons are ripe? These indicators: 1) The color between the surface netting is brown, not green. 2) A ripe melon will have a pleasant, fruity aroma at the blossom end. 3) A crack will form on the stem right near the point of attachment. This is called the "slip stage", and in a few days, the melon will detach from the vine with little effort and pressure. If it is somewhat difficult to detach the fruit from the vine, the melon is not ready yet. Do not allow to over-ripen.
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Pádraig Brady has some useful, if somewhat basic hints, at http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html. He has updated them to include more powerful commands at http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/linux_commands.html.
Here are a few of my favourites (I have taken the liberty of slightly altering some of the code and/or descriptions):
From the original:
Search recursively for "expr" in all *.c and *.h files:
find -name '*.[ch]' | xargs grep -E 'expr'
Concatenate lines with training backslash:
sed ':a; /\\$/N; s/\\\n//; ta'
Delete line 42 from .known_hosts:
sed -i 42d ~/.ssh/known_hosts
From the new post:
Echo the path one item per line (assumes GNU tr):
echo $PATH | tr : '\n'
Top for Network:
Top for Input/Output (I/O):
Get SSL website Certificate:
openssl s_client -connect http://www.google.com:443 < /dev/null
List processes with Port 80 open:
lsof -i tcp:80
Edit a remote file directly in vim:
vim scp://user@remote//path/to/file
Add 20ms latency to loopback device (for testing):
tc qdisc add dev lo root handle 1:0 netem delay 20msec
Remove the latency:
tc qdisc del dev lo root

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The Geography Blog focusing on all things geography: human, physical, technical, space, news, and geopolitics. Also known as Geographic Travels with Catholicgauze! Written by a former National Geographic employee who also proudly served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Geography Blog: Twelve Mile Circle
3 comments:
- Twelve Mile Circle said...
Thanks for the kind words! I've been following Catholicgauze for a long, long, time so it was definitely a pleasant surprise to see the Twelve Mile Circle mentioned this morning.
- Catholicgauze said...
Not a problem buddy, your high quality writing earned it!
- DJWildBill said...
I've been a map junkie for decades and I've followed Catholigauze for quite a while now. Twelve Mile Circle is another "must visit daily" site and I only found it because of this blog. I thank both of you. I've always been fascinated by the little anomalies and quirks of maps, such as the 12 Mile Circle, those little pieces of Delaware on the New Jersey side of the river, the Missouri bootheel, and Carter Lake. Thanks to the 12 Mile Blog I now have answers that are easily read and even easier to understand. Best yet, it is told in everyday speech rather than in technical jargon and statistics. This makes learning about geography doubly fun.
What about the Four Corners area? I've noticed that on the Google maps of the terrain the border of Colorado and Utah bends towards the Four Corners area as if the surveyors said, "if we bend it, they will come." It looks like the borders wouldn't have lined up at all without that little jog to the east just before reaching Arizona's northern realms.
Although I haven't yet said so, "welcome back home, soldier." Glad to have you safe again. Your reporting from the field was informative without being too telling.


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I wrote a piece a while back about selling cars and how you need to make sure the buyer retitles the car in his or her name. Several people chimed in saying California has an online process where you tell the state you sold your car so that takes care of it. WRONG!
Buying and selling cars is often fraught with peril when individuals are on both sides of the sale. This is because most people buy or sell cars so seldomly they do not take all the steps necessary to protect themselves. I pointed out that a seller really needs to make sure that the buyer retitles the car in his or her name. This, because I have spoken with many people who sold cars and the buyers did not do this. Instead, they went out and got into accidents or abandoned the cars - and liability was traced back to the seller, not the buyer (who was not listed with the state).
I suggested you accompany the buyer to the DMV (or equivalent) and watch as the new title is applied for. People laughed at me. Oh, how they laughed.
Many pointed out that CA has a process whereby a seller can go online and notify the state of the sale. Commenters told me, "Ipso facto, I am then safe." Um, safe from what? What IF the buyer does not follow through and goes and does something bad?
Why does everyone believe everything will work out? Why do people not believe the kindly attorney handing out free advice (which is not to be taken as "legal" advice, per the disclaimer below)? I've even covered it in a podcast, in case this reading thing was too much for you.
I got correspondence from someone in CA this past week. He had sold a car. He went and did that online thing with the state. The buyer did not follow through and got in an accident. The victim of the accident sued the driver (buyer) of the car and sued him, the seller, who still showed up in the title history as the last properly titled owner of the vehicle.
Will this seller escape the lawsuit without having to pay? I hope so. Did the online thing save him? Not completely. How could he have avoided this? He could have done what I described in my article. (In fairness, his car sale took place before my article was posted but still - you get the point.)
There you have it. If you really trust your fellow man (who is a stranger), leave him to his own devices and hope he does the right thing. If you are skeptical, go to the DMV and get it done right. After all, I have now told you so - twice.
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Think you can keep up with skyrunning champion Emelie Forsberg? Or maybe – and more realistically – you just want to explore her favorite mountain landscapes? Look no further – here are Emelie's 6 best-loved trail running routes!
All trail runners have their go-to training routes – places that feel like home every time they run them.
Skyrunning champion and devoted mountain lover Emelie Forsberg has her's and three of them are in Sweden, her beautiful homeland.
Check out the six trails below for a super dose of running motivation. Click through to each Movescount Move to get a closer look at the route and Emelie's running stats.
Watch Emelie talk about her love of running in the mountains in the video below
Kebnekaise, Sweden
Distance: 16.09 km
Time: 04h57m
Ascent: 2288 m
Decent: 2291 m
Highest point: 2116 m
Why: I ran this trail in northern Sweden, where I used to work, with two friends. This is a tour over Touplagorni, a spectacular summit, and also Kebnekaise – Sweden's highest mountain. It includes scrambling and some easy climbing. I love doing this kind of thing with friends!
Aiguilles des Posettes, Chamonix, France
Distance: 9.17 km
Time: 01h26m
Ascent: 979 m
Decent: 986 m
Highest point: 1998 m
Why: I really like to train on this mountain, either for a faster run in the morning or a recovery run in the afternoon. It has such a beautiful view with all the Mont Blanc massif and the Aiguilles Rouge in the front.
Click here to read more about Emelie Forsberg
High Coast, Sweden
Distance: 27.76 km
Time: 04h01m
Ascent: 850 m
Decent: 937 m
Highest point: 285 m
Why: This is where I grew up and played around. The High Coast has small hills, wild forest and beautiful nature. This is a section of the High Coast Trail.
Dent Blanche, Pennine Alps, Switzerland
Distance: 4.42 km
Time: 06h55m
Ascent: 836 m
Decent: 785 m
Highest point: 4365 m
Why: This is just an example of what I call a 'mountain day'. I climb and run a new, higher mountain that is technical and slower to summit. Dent Blanche has a climbing rating of AD; it's fairly difficulty, requires belayed climbing and is exposed. I do this kind of day four to six times a month and I really love this kind of training!
Glen Coe, Highlands, Scotland
Distance: 50.62 km
Time: 07h44m
Ascent: 3954 m
Decent: 3943 m
Highest point: 1146 m
Why: This is route is from the seriously super cool Glen Coe Skyline race. For sure, I need to do this race again. So cool to race in this kind of raw environment where I really like to train. It's scrambling, wild ridges, difficult downhill's, but also fast trails to let the legs going fast! To share it during a race was awesome.
Jämtlands Mountains, Sweden
Distance: 35.70 km
Time: 05h21m
Ascent: 604 m
Decent: 893 m
Highest point: 1120 m
Why: This was a typical day out for me when I was working in the Swedish mountains. It has beautiful flat trails that means you can run for a long time! I was often running in between huts with only a small backpack.


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Welcome to 4-Win.com, your zone to play all free online games. Usually you will need to download to play games. But we don't need it on our web-page. Just visit the game page to play the game online. The game is loaded automatically and starts. You can play without downloading that game.
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Motif Black High Output Horizontal Designer Radiator - 600mm high x 1300mm wide
New for 2019. The Motif contemporary, aluminium designer radiator. This is the low level, high heat output, horizontal, wall mounted model with 7,997 BTU output. Finished in impeccable matt subtly textured, RAL9005 black finish. Measuring 600mm high x 1300mm wide.
The Motif range is a contemporary, aluminium, central heating radiator range. With vertical and horizontal wall mounted models, this decorative designer radiator range enhances the domestic home. Motif lends itself as an interior design heating solution to living rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms, lounges, conservatories, halls, landings and cloakrooms.
Flat, but bold
The design is flat in appearance but high output due to the chunky 50mm x 50mm cross section aluminium that it is manufactured from. The rectangular profile of the radiator mounts close to the wall so that Motif looks stylish from whichever direction you approach the radiator. Therefore, it looks elegant whether approached directly from the front or the side.
High Heat Output
Many designer radiator ranges on the market are low heat output and unsuitable for many rooms in the house. These radiators may look good, be low cost, but are completely impractical if they do not heat the room! At Geyser, we put high heat output at the centre of our design concepts, and this is true of Motif. With high heat outputs of up to 10,713 BTU in the largest sizes, we have a Motif model suitable for heating every room in a typical UK house.
The vertical striations (see the close up photographs) are an especially distinguishing feature that adds a real classy edge to this design. We conducted customers feedback viewings in our showroom to determine interior design reaction to these striations. With two prototypes on display (one with striations, one without) even we were surprised by the overwhelming positive response to the striation addition. If you are fortunate enough to live near our Bolton showroom, come and see for yourself because the trendy effect is hard to capture adequately in a website photograph.
Cost Effective
Firstly, Motif is premium quality as you would expect from Geyser. Secondly, Motif fulfils the main function of a radiator - they have high heat outputs. Thirdly, they look amazing. Fourthly, despite being premium quality, high output and amazing looking, they are also cheap. Every single model is under £399 delivered with the UK. At Geyser we pride ourselves of sellingqualityfor the lowest price. Our products are built to last and without compromise.We are transparent with our quality and service. Our customers review us daily with the most well-known independent online review company,Trustpilot.
Finished in the most popular RAL colours used by interior design and interior furniture and fittings manufacturers. We have matt black, matt anthracite, matt light grey, matt white and silk champagne gold. All colours have discreet brushed chrome end caps. There are 8 stocked sizes in the range made up of 4 vertical models and 4 horizontal models. These sizes have been carefully selected to suit UK homes and provide a heating solution for every room in new or old houses. In particular, the 600mm high horizontal models make Motif a great refurbishment choice when upgrading from old white horizontal panel radiators, even old double panel radiators.
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| This is to notify you that Newmarket DriveTest has cancelled ALL Classes of Road Tests for Monday, NOV-18-2019, due to weather conditions. This situation will cancel these tests FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY. Please do not cancel your road test on the Road Test Booking system. This will be done automatically by DriveTest if the road test is not conducted.
This is an outgoing email only, please do not respond.
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As the clock ticks closer to state primaries on Thursday, September 13, The Courier would like to provide you, the reader and the voter, with a fair, detailed guide of who is running in your district. We have provided a list of candidates, who they are, what they stand for and what they want to continue to do if they go on to the general election in November.
Party: Democratic
Current Position: Community member/Legistative and Budget liason for Councilmember Robert Jackson
Personal: Etienne David Adorno, 27, has spent most of his life living in Woodhaven. He has become active in his community by becoming a resident member of the Woodhaven Residents' Block Association and serves on the Consumer Affairs and Public Safety Committees of Community Board 9. Adorno is currently on leave from his position in Robert Jackson's office while he seeks office.
Issues/Platform: Adorno has campaigned for public safety in his area, along with living expenses and protecting small businesses. He has said that, if elected, he would work to cap property taxes and ensure after-school programs.
Party: Democratic
Current Position: Incumbent Assemblymember for the 38th District
Personal info: Assemblymember Mike Miller was elected in 2009, has lived in Glendale for 40 years. He is a graduate of Queens College CUNY and the University of Georgia CUNA Management School. He is the son of an Italian immigrant mother and a German immigrant father. Miller served the community in several different capacities throughout his life, and was a board member of Community Board 5.
Issues/Platform: Miller has fought, and says he will continue to fight, graffiti, noise and pollution throughout his district. He has sponsored a number of legislations to protect children from sexual predators, keep safe victims of domestic violence and keep the sanctity of the school system. Miller prides himself as a "24/7" assemblymember – elaborating that his constituents have a right to help, even after office hours.
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Colony collapse disorder (CCD), the mysterious phenomonen characterized by honey bees abandoning their hives, is still with is, and the cause is still mysterious.
Over the past three years beekeepers throughout the United States have reported losing from one-third to 100 percent of their colonies to CCD, says UC Cooperative Extension Apiculturist Eric Mussen, a member of the UC Davis Department of Entomology Faculty since 1976 and a noted authority on honey bees.
The bees just vanish, leaving behind the queen, the immature brood (eggs, larvae and pupae) and stored food.
The calamity of CCD.
The queen, in peak season, lays about 2000 eggs a day. The worker bees serve as the nurse maids, nannies, royal attendants, heating and air conditioning specialists, foragers, guards and undertakers. They feed their mother (the queen) and their brothers, the drones. The sisters are their brothers' keepers. The drones' only function is to mate with the queen.
The worker bees pollinate about 100 crops in California, including nuts, fruits and vegetables. They just finished pollinating California's 700,000 acres of almonds. Now they're pollinating pomegranates, tangerines, lemons, squash, cucumbers and other fruits and vegetables in orchards and gardens near you.
Bring on National Pollinator Week, June 22-28.
Meanwhile, it's good to see that Häagen-Dazs Häagen-Dazs is continuing to support honey bee research at UC Davis and Pennsylvania State University. Back in February 2008, the premier ice cream brand launched an educational campaign to save the bees and just unveiled a newly updated site. One of the next projects: the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. Designed by a Sausalito team, the haven will be implemented this summer and publicly dedicated in October.
The haven will be a year-around food source for bees and other insects, such as butterflies, bumble bees and syrphids. Other goals: to create a public awareness of the plight of the honey bee, and to educate visitors about bees and the kinds of bee friendly plants they can choose for their own gardens.
Bottom line: let's keep our bees healthy. Mussen suspects that CCD is caused by a combination of factors: malnutrition, pesticides, parasites, diseases and stress.
If CCD has a face, then two photos can tell the story. First, look at the photo of healthy bees and then look at the photo from an abandoned hive. The bee antenna poking through an abandoned cell is just plain sad.
The queen bee, the sisters, the brothers, the brood--all gone.
The calamity of CCD.
Author - Communications specialist
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Busy Bees
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This is the second failed flight for the HTV-2, at $160 million per splash.
DARPA issues statement on failed flight of hypersonic aircraft
The Falcon launched at 7:45 a.m. from Vandenberg Air Force Base, northwest of Santa Barbara, into the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere aboard an eight-story Minotaur IV rocket, made by Orbital Sciences Corp.
After reaching an undisclosed sub-orbital altitude, the aircraft jettisoned from its protective cover atop the rocket, then nose-dived back toward Earth, leveled out and began to glide above the Pacific at 20 times the speed of sound, or Mach 20.
Then the trouble began.
"Here's what we know," said Air Force Maj. Chris Schulz, DARPA's program manager. "We know how to boost the aircraft to near space. We know how to insert the aircraft into atmospheric hypersonic flight. We do not yet know how to achieve the desired control during the aerodynamic phase of flight. It's vexing; I'm confident there is a solution. We have to find it."
See also:
Pentagon's hypersonic flight test cut short by anomaly
Pentagon's Mach 20 Missile Lost Over Pacific — Again
DARPA drops another HTV-2
Second Flop: DARPA Loses Contact With HTV-2
DARPA Launches and Loses Hypersonic Aircraft: Update
The Air Force Loses a Second Superfast Spaceplane
Falcon HTV-2 is lost during bid to become fastest ever plane
Falcon hypersonic vehicle test flight fails
Review Board Sets Up to Probe HTV-2 L
DARPA loses contact with hypersonic aircraft
Lost at sea. Military loses contact with hypersonic test plane
Misdirection, Always Watch What The Left Hand Is Doing
So, in order to find out what went wrong, the Air Force needs to find this tiny HTV-2 drone, that they lost contact with, somewhere in the vast Pacific ocean. Good luck with that, they never lost the first one the dunked.
/why do I get the feeling there's not going to be a third time?
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Press invitation to the Herschel First Results Media Day
ESA PR 08-2010. Media representatives are cordially invited to celebrate the release of the first results from ESA's Herschel infrared space telescope. The theme of the media day is: Revealing the Hidden Side of Star Formation.
The event will take place at Space Expo, at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, The Netherlands on 6 May. Doors open at 11:30 am. The media day is organised in connection with the Herschel First Results Symposium at ESTEC.
The media day will concentrate on the unprecedented study of star formation that Herschel is making in our Galaxy and across the Universe. Until now, the initial stages of star birth have largely been shrouded in darkness, obscured by the thick clouds of dust and gas that incubate the youngest stars. Herschel sees through these clouds, revealing the dark side of star formation in unique detail. To highlight these results, new images from across the Universe will be released on the day.
By revealing these formation events, Herschel is showing us what might have happened in our own part of space almost 5 billion years ago, when the Sun, Earth and the other planets of our Solar System began to form.
Herschel was launched on 14 May 2009 and began viewing the sky a month later. Initial observations from the demonstration phase were presented at a workshop on 17-18 December 2009. Then the main scientific observations began.
Also known as ESLAB 2010, The Herschel First Results Symposium is the first major scientific meeting to present Herschel's results. It will run 4-7 May in the ESTEC Conference Centre. More details of the ESLAB Symposium can be found here [http://www.congrex.nl/10A10/].
Media representatives wishing to attend the event are requested to fill in the accreditation form (right hand navigation bar) and return it to the ESTEC Communication Office by 3 May.
Herschel First Results Media Day
6 May 2010
Space Expo
ESA ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
|Doors open
David Southwood, ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration
Herschel: Dark Side of Star Formation
Annie Zavagno, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, Marseille
Herschel: Fourth 'Phase' of Water
Xander Tielens, Leiden University
Herschel: Surprising Star Formation in the Nearby Universe
Steve Eales, University of Cardiff
Questions & Answers
Opportunity for individual interviews
Buffet lunch
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Think of advanced robotics, and it is easy to let your mind wander to the sentient beings depicted in Blade Runner, or the soulless, autonomous assassins in the Terminator franchise.
But, despite widespread press about armed drones hunting down terrorists and insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan and the increasing use of ground robots to fight roadside bombs, the truth is that most military robots are still pretty dumb. In fact, almost all unmanned systems involve humans in almost every aspect of their operations—it's just that instead of sitting in a cockpit or behind the wheel of a vehicle, humans are operating the systems from a joystick or computer often at a remote base far from the action.
Now that is slowly beginning to change.
Next week, one of the Pentagon's most commonly used robots will finally make baby steps toward greater autonomy. The PackBot, a tracked robot used by US troops to help clear bombs in Afghanistan, will get a number of upgrades that will allows it to operate autonomously in some situations, according to Tim Trainer, a vice president for product management at iRobot, which makes the pint-sized bots.
Still, the autonomous capabilities will actually be fairly limited. In cases where the PackBot loses contact with its human operator, it will retrace its steps back to where it was when it last had communications. While seemingly simple, this small step toward autonomy is a critical improvement: in the past, if the robot lost communications while on its way to defuse a bomb, an explosive ordnance disposal technician would have go and retrieve it, potentially exposing the person to risk.
The upgrade includes other basic elements of autonomy, such as the ability to right itself if it falls over—a big problem in Afghanistan's rough terrain—and the ability to navigate between specific waypoints, using satellite navigation and overlaid imagery, without constant communications with an operator. "Those are first steps to autonomy," says Trainer.
The idea is to take these slow steps toward autonomous robot operations so that the military's confidence grows, explains Trainer. Eventually, he says, the PackBot will be able to perform more complex tasks without human intervention, such as clearing an entire building of potential threats.
While these improvements are a far cry from the notion of robotic foot soldiers, it represents the reality of where military technology is today. "I don't think you'll see autonomy as the breakthrough leap," says Trainer. "It's not like we'll have the one autonomous solution."
'Skinless Terminator'
Indeed, the Pentagon's progress toward fielding autonomous robotic systems has been agonizingly slow, concluded a recently released report by the Defense Science Board, a panel of defence experts that advises senior Pentagon leaders. They placed a large part of the blame for a lack of autonomous robots on misperceptions about what autonomy means.
"Unfortunately, the word 'autonomy' often conjures images in the press and the minds of some military leaders of computers making independent decisions and taking uncontrolled action," the report notes. And even though the reality is often much more prosaic—such as having a robot flip over on its own—those concerns have still served to limit the military's willingness to embrace autonomy.
"It should be made clear," the panel says, "that all autonomous systems are supervised by human operators at some level, and autonomous systems' software embodies the designed limits on the actions and decisions delegated to the computer."
Of course, statements like this do not reassure everyone. Some forward-looking robotic expert have already called for more debate about the subject of autonomy. They point towards developments such as the SGR-A1, a gun-toting sentry robot, developed five years ago by Samsung Techwin Co for the South Korean government as a way to patrol the border between North and South Korea. The fixed robot uses pattern recognition software to spot humans and a machine gun if needed. Although the robot is designed to operate with human intervention, it is its autonomous mode that has caught ethicists' attention as a possible precursor of future developments.
While some defense officials may downplay concerns about autonomy, Jonathan Moreno, a professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, is urging policymakers to think now about the implications of unmanned systems, which is already having profound implications. "From a geostrategic standpoint, it widens the scope of the battlefield - now it extends from the United States to Afghanistan and Pakistan," he says. "That is really new. "
But for the majority of those working in the field, "killer robots" are not on their radar. Instead, they say, military robots are likely to be used initially for jobs that are dangerous, but not involved in actually fighting enemy forces.
Already under development, for example, is a military humanoid robot that will fight fires on ships. The innocuously named Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot, or Saffir, actually looks suspiciously much like a skinless version of the Terminator, though its mission is much more peaceful.
Saffir, which is being developed by university researchers in cooperation with US navy scientists, is designed to fight fires on naval ships. But even these firefighting robots are being developed specifically to work with human counterparts, so a major focus of the work is on getting the robots to respond to human gestures and speech.
Human touch
Another robot being designed to help human soldiers is the Bear (Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot), a humanoid robot with tracked legs. The Bear, built by Vecna Technologies, was initially funded by the US Army and designed to scoop up injured soldiers from the battlefield, transporting them to a safe area where they could receive medical assistance. The idea was that in the middle of a firefight it would be better to send in a robot to rescue a person, rather than another soldier who might get injured.
But Vecna Technologies's chief technology officer, Daniel Theobald says that the company now is focusing on other missions for its robotics work. "We quickly realized if we could build a robot that could rescue a wounded soldier, it would also be capable of a lot of other high value activities," he says.
One of the missions the company has focused in on is logistics, or the idea of having robots move things from one place to another, or loading and unloading supplies. While not as glamorous perhaps as battlefield rescues, this sort of work is still critical to keeping human soldiers out of danger.
"A lot of time when soldiers get wounded, it's because they are doing some other activity, and couldn't keep their hands on their weapons," says Theobald.
Moving supplies is also a mission envisaged for Boston Dynamic's Big Dog, which has captured public attention for its eerily mammal-like movements. But like other robotic efforts, Big Dog's road to autonomy is slow - its designers would like it to be able to sense objects or barriers on its own, for example, but it would ultimately be supervised by a human.
Indeed, in Afghanistan, for example, just moving things around has become a dangerous job, because it exposes troops on the ground to roadside bombs, which continues to be the leading cause of battlefield deaths there. Put robots in the place of the humans, and, at least in theory, lives would be saved.
Theobald says that when it comes to the battlefield, the first autonomous robots are likely going to be essentially deliverymen. "Let the soldiers do the fighting," he says. "Moving things around, that's something that the robots can do."
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The SGR-A1, developed for the North/South Korea border, can in theory fire a gun without human intervention, raising concerns about autonomous robots. (Copyright: Getty Images)
The SGR-A1, developed for the North/South Korea border, can in theory fire a gun without human intervention, raising concerns about autonomous robots. (Copyright: Getty Images)
The reality is that most robots still depend on humans and most are being developed for more more mundane jobs, such as carrying supplies for troops. (Copyright: Boston Dynamics)
The reality is that most robots still depend on humans and most are being developed for more more mundane jobs, such as carrying supplies for troops. (Copyright: Boston Dynamics)
Robots like the Bear could also be used for dangerous tasks such as retrieving injured soldiers from the battlefield and transporting them to safety. (Copyright: US Army)
Robots like the Bear could also be used for dangerous tasks such as retrieving injured soldiers from the battlefield and transporting them to safety. (Copyright: US Army)
Others, such as the advanced humanoid robot Saffir, have been built as a possible way to tackle fires onboard ships run by the US Navy. (Copyright: RoMeLa)
Others, such as the advanced humanoid robot Saffir, have been built as a possible way to tackle fires onboard ships run by the US Navy. (Copyright: RoMeLa)
Currently, one of the main tasks for military robots like iRobots SUGV is looking for and disposing of explosive devices. (Copyright: iRobot)
Currently, one of the main tasks for military robots like iRobots SUGV is looking for and disposing of explosive devices. (Copyright: iRobot)


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The Long-Term Player Development (LTPD) model is an approach designed to maximize each participant's potential and involvement in the sport of squash. The LTPD framework helps players reach their full potential by defining optimal training, competition and recovery throughout their careers. At the same time, it helps them to pursue lifelong participation in all healthy activities.
"Beyond the Nick"
"Beyond the Nick" is squash's adaptation of Canadian Sport for Life, a movement to increase the profile of sport in Canadian society. It recognizes the importance of sport from childhood through adulthood, and promotes healthy development by teaching physical skills that will help achieve healthy, life-long sporting success.
For more details visit: www.canadiansportforlife.ca
Today, Canadian squash is thriving. Tens of thousands of recreational players enjoy the sport across the country and dozens of high performance athletes successfully compete in the international arena. But what about tomorrow? LTPD is about securing our place in the game long into the future, at the recreational level and in the high performance ranks.
LTPD identifies seven basic stages in player development from childhood to adulthood based on the physical, mental, emotional and social maturation of the individual.
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- Training to Compete males approximately 16–23+/females 15–21+/(5–8 training years)
- Training to Win for males 19 +/females 18 +/(8–10 training years)
- Active for Life – entry at any level
Each stage specifies proper formats for game play, preferred training methods and targets for the player.
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The introduction of LTPD is an important leap forward. Guidelines for training, competition and recovery are based on the science of human maturation and proven best practices in coaching. LTPD is positioned to promote physical literacy and the growth of squash in Canada. It will help our sport to thrive by encouraging participation by all Canadians across the country. In the coming decades, it will also help Canadian players consistently reach the podium at international competition.


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Jacques Derrida initiated a seismic wave throughout the field of literary criticism with the essays collected in Writing and Difference, in particular with the essay "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences," which was first presented at a conference at Johns Hopkins University in October, 1966. Through his challenges to structuralism, Derrida helped give rise to the movement in literary theory known as poststructuralism.
The book presents a series of loosely affiliated essays from earlier presentations and publications, and it ends with a new essay titled "Ellipsis." Taken together, the essays explore the key strategies of what came to be called deconstruction, despite Derrida's own insistence that he created no system or school of thought. The essays in the collection reflect an ongoing effort to avoid closure by introducing and then changing the vocabulary through which Derrida interprets a variety of writers, from philosophers to poets. The essays both discuss and demonstrate in various ways the role that writing plays in creating difference.
This crucial term, "difference," gives rise to the Derridean alternative, "differance." The change from difference to differance can be read but not heard—that is, while they appear differently on the page, the two words have the same pronunciation, so the neologism can be specified orally only by reference to written language (by uttering a phrase such as "differance with an a"). The French verb différer means "to differ" (as a thing differs from another thing), "to disagree" (as in the phrase "I beg to differ"), and "to defer." The noun form, différence, creates a substantive noun from only the first of those meanings. Thus, in the transition from verb to noun, meanings fall out of the language. Derrida invents the French word différance for two reasons: to create a noun that bears those lost meanings (disagreement and deferral, as well as difference) and to demonstrate the importance of writing over speaking as a way to destabilize fixed meanings and to create spaces in apparently closed structures.
Each of the essays in Writing and Difference works with specific texts and examples to find the spaces of differance that are covered up by the surface coherence of writing. Derrida breaks with the philosophical tradition of privileging the spoken word as the marker of absolute metaphysical presence when he turns to writing as the field that initiates human history.
The first essay, "Force and Signification," reads literary critic Jean Rousset's Forme et signification: Essais sur les structures littéraires de Corneille à Claudel (1962; form and meaning: essays on literary structures from Corneille to Claudel) in order to destabilize the binary opposition between form and meaning. Derrida's own title evokes the idea of force, which he identifies as the element absent from Rousset's structuralist ordering of the authors whom he discusses. Derrida takes pains to reproduce portions of Rousset's arguments before making his own claim that those arguments rely on external, pseudoscientific systems that constrain rather than interpret the works.
This specific critique of Rousset entails a general critique of structuralist approaches to literature, which privilege the synchrony of form and meaning over the historical force that constantly opens up new readings. Derrida admits that his desire to avoid binary opposition is utopian, but he nonetheless insists that the attempt is necessary. He closes the essay by evoking Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's writing on the union of the Apollonian with the Dionysian, comparing Nietzsche's use of "Dionysian" to his own use of the term "force."
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Ladino – Language of the Sephardic Jews 2012-04-03
Speaking Ladino, or the older Castilian dialect, may indicate possible Jewish ancestry
Ladino, also sometimes known as Judeo-Spanish, Sephardic, Crypto-Jewish, Judezmo, Hakitia, or Spanyol, had its origins in 1492, when Jews were expelled from Spain. Over the centuries, the Spanish of the late 15th century as spoken by those Jews underwent changes as it was influenced by the various languages of the countries to which the Sephardic Jews emigrated.
Ladino meets the criteria of a distinct language, and is not merely a dialect of Spanish. Yet it and Spanish are not so different that speakers of the two can't communicate with each other. There are strong and obvious similarities, just as there are, for example, between Spanish and Portuguese.
The language of the Sephardim
When the 150,000 to 300,000 Jews left Spain, they took with them their languages. They took Hebrew, the language of prayer and study, which was not used at home or in the streets. The language of daily use was Castilian Spanish as it was spoken in the late 15th century. The language that many Jewish exiles took with them as they left Spain in 1492 still coincided with Castilian in many particulars, but had followed its own evolution down from Judeo-Latin, combined with Hebrew, Aramaic, the various peninsula dialects, and Judeo-Arabic over the centuries. In each of its new homes, it acquired elements from the surrounding languages, while preserving its Iberian core. It became a unique expression of Jewish traditions, lifestyle, culture, institutions and beliefs.
It is interesting to note that one notable grammatical difference between Spanish and Ladino is that the latter doesn't use the usted and ustedes forms of the second-person pronoun; their use developed in Spanish after the Jews had left. Similarly, Ladino distinguishes the sounds of the B and the V. Again, it wasn't until after the 15th century that Spaniards gave those two consonants the identical sound. Some other features of Spanish, such as the inverted question mark and the use of the Ñ, are also absent.
Traditionally, Ladino was written using the Hebrew alphabet with the writing from right to left. Today, the Latin alphabet (the same one used by English and Spanish) is used most commonly except in some religious writings.
Ladino certainly wasn't preserved because of a love of or loyalty to Spain. Much suffering was involved in the Expulsion, the forced conversions, and the persecutions by the Inquisition over the centuries. It was the maintenance of Jewish life with its religion and all its special practices that kept Ladino alive. Practicing Jews had to live in cohesive communities. They maintained Ladino because they stayed together. Living sometimes in remote places, they may not even have realized that their language came from Spain.
Since the Expulsion, Ladino has been spoken in North Africa, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, France, Israel, the United States and Latin America.
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Every few years, the United Nations agency UNESCO produces an Atlas of Endangered Languages. Ladino is listed as being "seriously endangered." Apart from a small group of enthusiasts and academics, the world has taken little notice of Ladino's demise.
Today, only between 100,000 and 200,000 people speak Ladino, mostly people over the age of 50, many of them having emigrated to Israel where the language was not transmitted to their children or grandchildren.
So the question remains whether Ladino will become extinct. It is the language of Maimonides, the poet Yehuda Halevi, and the entire tradition of Kaballah, the Zohar, and the Code of Jewish Law by the Sephardic Rabbi Joseph Caro. While scholars will still be able to read Ladino, once a language is no longer "living" it ceases to contribute to the cultural, social and intellectual development of a people.
A Ladino Revival
There are efforts being made to keep Ladino alive. It is experiencing a minor revival among Sephardic communities, especially in music, which boosts a wider audience than ever before. There are Ladino cultural festivals, and the five major Israeli universities all teach Ladino and have departments concentrating on Sephardic studies
If Ladino and its rich culture are to be handed on to future generations, an enormous effort will be required to teach and use the language, even in a secondary way.


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Normally I refrain from plugging my work, however I did this piece as a pro-bono job for my roommate and mayoral candidate, Chicken John. Ad was due to the SF Guardian Monday morning, so of course I got the photos at midnight and the copy at 1am. I hate being this fast sometimes, folks have come to depend on it. And no, attempts to cut the copy feel on deaf ears, I tried to inform John otherwise, "If people read the copy, you wouldn't need designers."
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The Worst Kind of Client23 09 2007
I caught this on CL today:
we're trying to choose a graphic designer for a new start up. we need art for any or all of the below:
art work (for the site, banner ads, print ads, etc.)
site concept
if you are interested, please submit some ideas FOR OUR SITE. (we're not interested in samples of past work.). if we choose your work/concept for our site, we will buy your work off you and hire you to complete it. we currently have no art or site concept. it's wide open.
the company:
SonicJunkie.net will sell exclusive unreleased downlaodable singles from indie and punk artsts from labels such as: Epitaph, Jade Tree, Vagrant, Matador, Victory, Fueled by Ramen, etc.
I wish Craigslist had a 'This job is bullshit." button, this way I could flag all the "Wanted: Receptionist/Production Artist. or Hiring: Web Artist/Customer Service Rep" jobs I see. I'm not joking about that, I've seen the postings.
I sent them a very nice letter, hopefully educating these folks that asking for Work on Spec is a no-no in the design industry. It seemed odd that a company that is trying to help funnel some revenue to small indie music acts is in essence actively trying to scam graphic designers.
I did also note that no freelancer worth his or her salt would do a work-on-spec and at best they are going to get submissions from a bunch of newly-graduated art school hacks.
I've always told junior designers 80% of design is client communication, a good solutions come from discussion with the client about what they are trying accomplish and what about them needs to be projected to the audience.
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Call for participation on mksysb
Ask any AIX system administrator and they will tell you that Linux is not ready for the real work. Many reasons are given, but one of recurring technical reasons is that there is no mksysb for Linux.
mksysb on AIX is a tool to do an (online) backup of your system in order to do a bare metal restore. It produces a bootable medium (tape, image, DVD) that restores the system partitioning/LVM configuration and restores the original filesystems for disaster recovery.
On Linux there are many tools to do backups and restores but none of them have the ease of use, versatility or wide-spread deployment that mksysb has, for that reason (and the fact that a customer asked me if something similar existed) I decided to look into an Open Source alternative or implementing mksysb for Linux myself.
For this we need to have a kernel that supports most hardware, we need to support multiple bootable devices and we need to somehow preserve and restore the partitioning. Open Source has most of the tools to do any of this, but there is nothing really integrated and surely making all of this work is not going to be that easy.
Do you know of a similar Linux or Open Source tool ? Have you heard of something that can preserve not only the data, but also the partitioning/LVM configuration and is easy to restore ? Can it do an online backup (by eg using LVM snapshots) ?
Let me know !
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Hi Dag
I can try to help. However the real reason Linux is not ready for the enterprise is not mksysb.
Linux does not have SMIT! Without SMIT how can one
call oneself equivalent to AIX? [Running man fall down... can't get enough of that joke.]
(spoiler alert) Food for another blog article
Hey Stephen,
It is true that smitty is another tool that Linux is lacking and Linuxconf (or YaST or webmin) are very poor substitutes (and way too complex).
I have thought about writing a modular smitty-alike framework to hook scripts and procedures into. We definitely need something like that so people can easily contribute and improve this system.
At some point I am sure someone will do it. I will keep it in mind for when I become incredibly wealthy and need a good cause (other than food) for my money :)
PS I was planning to write a blog article wrt. smitty.
Completely agree
I've thought about this quite a bit as well.
I had envisioned basically what you describe, and having multiple modes of operation like smitty. The ability to configure the system through a unified ncurses interface, web interface, or command-line without needing explicit support written into the modules would be absolutely huge in gaining acceptance.
Two products I know of
Storix and CRU.
On word from a colleague at IBM, Storix was created by a couple blokes that actually worked on the original mksysb for AIX. I don't know the validity, but my colleague is using Storix on the account he works on at IBM, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 servers.
I used to work for the BRU guys (TOLIS Group), and worked directly on their tool, CRU years ago. It is a set of shell scripts that can provide a bare-metal disaster recovery using a BRU backup. Since BRU uses the same command line syntax as tar, sed s/bru/tar/g "should" work. It is released as open source under the "Q" public license. I know they are interested in the open source community, as their flagship product is primarily developed for Linux.
CRU and Disaster Recovery
Josh is right and we would love to find a new maintainer for CRU. As it stands, it will work with most Red Hat-based distributions, but it's some pretty straight forward bash shell scripting and can readily be converted to use tar instead of BRU.
If anyone would like to pick this up, drop us a note and we'll be very happy to provide what assistance our commercial schedule permits.
Ooops -
I didn't state it in the above comment, but storix is not open source. Sorry about that.
If the killer feature is the ability to generate a bootable device that has your harddisk configuration in it, then bacula has that. See http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Current_State_Bacula.html for an overview of its features.
Not just creating the bootable device
I think the combination of:
- creating a bootable device
- ability to do bare-metal restore
- preserve system partitioning/LVM configuration
- simple and self-contained
is the killer-feature. Afaict Bacula needs a client-server setup and configuration, whereas mksysb is just a single tool.
In most production environments there is an extensive backup-system (in this case Tivoli Storage Manager), still mksysb reduces recovery time (read: down time) and is complementary to an extensive backup-system.
Bacula is too complicated if you compare it to AIX mksysb, but could be an option if your company is already using Bacula.
Souch tool exists for about 5 years
It is called MONDO RESCUE
main advantages:
Backing up
- makes bootable CD/DVD/HDD/TAPE backup of the system
(not necesary all 10 TB (1111 DL DVD ;-) )
- then makes just diferential/incremental backups
(by your command sir)
- no rebuild of boot backup necesary when you change
backup policy
- boot from bootable backup
- if you have THE SAME HW configuration - just restore
(all RAID/LVM, HW, NET settings are kept)
- if your HW has gone (thiefs, tornado, floods or you just can not buy the same vintage HW)
you can go throught dialogs to change disc layout (incl. RAID/LVM, HW settings NET ...)
Try it you will see ...
Thanksgiving welcomed on MONDO mailinglist ;-)
My last attempts with mondorescue were successful only if I was doing a bare metal restore to the same hardware. (ie. IBM x345 to x345).
The problem I ran into is when using different hardware. When I last tried it, mondorescue created a bootable cd image using the current loaded kernel. This meant that the current scsi_hostadapters were compiled in as well. Since the hardware that I was going to had different scsi_hostadapters, it would not recognize the hard drives.
mksysb alternative for linux
Agree with all above comments. But have much experience with Storix and have to say that everything else stinks in comparison. Not an open-source solution, but given those that are out there, it was worth the money and has recovered several of my severs so far (even to very very different hardware!!!!)
Same experience with Mondo
I was bit by the issue with mondo once. I we have since switched primarily to vmware vm's, which make fail over much easier, particularly when you have a farm of servers running and don't need to perform the immediate bare metal restore.
IBM is huge into linux, I am wondering if they could be persuaded into porting mksysb to linux.
I am agree
I am agree with dag.Especially about killer-feeture.I think AIX mksysb more simple than Bacula and useful for me and company.
P.S:I can help you about AIX mksysb if you want.
mksysb for linux
I have been with the RS/6000 or pSeries team since before it was announced in 1990. AIX 3.1.1 had mksysb as one of its features but it was only restorable to the same machine or one that was the same (7012 - 7012). The ability to restore to any architecture came much later and today, its a mature product. I feel that if mksysb for linux were introduced it could start off the same. Once in place, there are those who could expand its capabilities. It would also mean that new commands would have to be introduced to linux to allow it to determine lv names and sizes and filesystem names associated with those lv's. Perhaps this exists and if so, I am unaware. Add to this, the bios of computers being used would have to support boot from tape and most Intel/AMD pc's today don't support this. There is another answer and that is SOFTWARE RAID 1 which is what I use on my Fedora Core 8 system but I believe this can only be implemented at the time of install.
I guess I need to learn AIX, I never really took this server OS seriously. I'll probably be hated for making that comment.
I'll look at mondorescure too -- my backups are usually copied partition layouts and rsync backups made over the network.
mksysb for GNU/Linux
Has there been any traction on this? Having a mksysb-like utility for GNU/Linux would be a major coup. mksysb is a multi-functional shell script (Copyright IBM, of course) that utilizes roughly 50 different executables and other shell scripts. As discussed, the most basic use is to create a bootable image, preserve the LVM structure, and backup rootvg. Are all of these operations doable using native GNU/Linux utilities, say for Red Hat?
Can we target Linux only for no tool like mksysb?
Linux has many more features than AIX and most important point is it is GNU. Can we judge Linux just by non-presence of a tool like Linux. In this period of recession I would say Linux is the best.
Ideas for mksysb equiv.
I think the most robust way to do a mksysb-like tool for Linux would be to have the tool integrate into the vendor's installer utilities. For Red Hat (RHEL & Fedora), that would be Kickstart.
Step 1 -- Identify current partition layout of rootvg. This will usually include LVM, physical disk slicing, and mirroring (MD driver)layout.
Step 2 -- Generate a minimum kickstart file with this layout. The kickstart file should stop short of installing any packages.
Step 3 -- Instead of having a package section, have the kickstart file restore from a tar/cpio/dump format archive. This archive can be located on the boot CD/DVD image, or on the network (FTP, HTTP, or NFS mount point).
To get steps 2 & 3 working may require modifications to anaconda. I don't think the standard version lets you skip installing all packages, and even if it did then you still couldn't execute a post install script for step 3, since that would execute in a chroot environment on the system.
So my proposed modification to anaconda would be to allow for a "restore" section to take place of the "packages" section. It can then either take a parameter of where to restore the files from, or interactively prompt the user if not specified.
Hello all,
I've just started reading this thread, but find it quite interesting. I'm somewhat new to Linux, but have worked with AIX, Solaris, and HP-UX for nearly 20 years. One of the things that has long separated AIX from the others is the ability to do a bare metal restore using mksysb and savevg. I recently was asked by a colleague if such a tool was available for Linux, which led me to this thread.
A couple things come to mind - booting from tape, as mentioned above, is a nice to have, but I think even more important given the platforms Linux typically runs on is the ability to create a bootable system image (mksysb) to a DVD. Typically mksysbs are used to restore the OS, then the Enterprise BURA tools are used to recover the remaining filesystems. In the past, we've used a combination of mksysb and savevg - mksysb to get the root volume group, savevg with exclude files excluding all the data, but using the savevg utility to recreate the non-root volume group structures (vgs, lvs, and fs).
Additionally, mksysbs can be used to clone systems using the Network Installation Manager (NIM), which I've done many times. Now, not knowing Linux all that well (but coming up to speed quickly), I'm not sure what tools are available to do system cloning, but I'm sure that is a valuable tool as well, given that most enterprises want to be able to rapidly deploy a standard image.
I know for all the above cases commercial tools are available, but not sure of open source tools to do these things. I'd be happy to participate in any forum to assist in the development of such tools.
Best regards,
James (Jamie) A Dennis
Hi dag
First of all, i would like to thank you for dag.wieers.com, i use it as an rpm house ..
after all, i would like to participate in this issue, i was googling for "how mksysb really works", cause i was thinking of doing something just like mksysb for linux as i would like to add something to the linux community.
as an AIX Expert, and a unix admin in general i would like to participate in "making mksysb for linux"
Best Regards,
MKSYSB on RedHat
We have 2 virtualized RHEL LPAR's on Power 6 and i am just very surprised about the RHEL. What i miss in RHEL is the same mentioned in this Issue "a MKSYSB tool"
neither storix nor any other Solution can make a bare metal backup of RHEL on Power. A filesystem backup can be done by TSM or whatever. But it comes to punch of Probs, when the LPAR is multipath enabled, and that is a must, when it is virtualized.
I won't give my RHEL LPAR's away and install it on VMWare, because it is easier but there is no solution taking a system image from a RHEL LPAR.
Someone said do a "dd" or "dump"
I am working with AIX since 14 years and i would like to participate in mksysb for linux.
mksysb linux
I am working in AIX as well as Linux , now we have more then 150 Linux server & keep on increasing , (HP blade) , ( don't know good things are bad thing ) as the same time we have more then 1000 AIX server .
Before mksysb , we should think about alt_disk_backup for Linux like aix . so I created one tool which take backup of Linux OS VG , like we have in AIX alt_rootvg
after successfully implementation of alt disk tools , now i am looking for mksysb like tools in Linux .
however we have also TBMR for bare metal restore . but this not like mksysb , in this case we need always TSM servers to restore OS image .
As, i know , the biggest problem with Linux , that /boot can not be a part of root volume group , and second Linux LVM don't have concept like logical partition. ( as we have in AIX , we can assign (copy) three PP to one LP means mirroring .)
Hope one day above problem will solve in Linux


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A warm welcome to EFW debutant, Millwall fan Guy Collings....
Over the last couple of years I have discovered the joys of watching European football across the continent and have simultaneously discovered the joys of EFW. Why not combine the two I thought and share my own experiences in the same way I enjoy reading of the many and varied EFW escapades.
This season has witnessed some great trips to places as diverse as Zagreb, Lisbon and Eindhoven. Looking for something different I hit upon the idea of Sweden. Why wouldn't I? The season had just kicked off, it wouldn't be snowing and it's always seemed like such a nice place. After all, I drive a Saab so I have a real affinity with the place already. A bit of t'internet research and a quick response to an e-mail sent to IFK Goteborg led me to pick out the clash of the Swedish titans, IFK and Helsingborgs IF, as the place to start. Can I buy tickets on the day I asked. 'Sure you can, we would love to welcome you to our beautiful stadium' came the reply. Being ever wary of pitching up hundreds of miles from home and not being able to get in, I took the easy way out and purchased two main stand tickets through the link on their very easy to follow (thanks to Google translate) website for 220 SKR, about £22 each. Rather handily I was able to download the match tickets and print them off at home. Nice.
A ridiculously early start from Lincolnshire saw my erstwhile travelling companion Hutch and I arrive at Stansted at 5.30am and after parking in the long stay car park (which judging by the length of the shuttle bus ride is probably in Hertfordshire) arrived just in time to attempt a take off at 6.45. I say attempt because in over 30 years flying around the world I have never experienced an aborted take-off before. It was a little unnerving to feel the brakes slammed on as we hurtled along the runway. 'Welcome to Gothenburg' announced a wag in the cockpit as we came to an abrupt halt. Alas some bright spark on the ground had left the cargo door unlocked. Well what should I expect for a flight costing £40 with free web check in?
Luckily no further incidents befell us and we were soon in downtown Gothenburg sampling the sights and the local hostelries. The city is quite compact and a number of bars are situated on the main drag Kungsportsavenyn. We settled for the quaintly named 'Dubliner' and settled in for a few jars. If the aborted take-off wasn't enough to induce heart failure, the price of beer certainly did the trick. Two pints of Spitfire came to 124SKR, about £12.40. Yes that's right, £6.20 a pint!
Significantly lighter in the wallet and the head, we made our way to the main event. The stadium is called Gamla Ullevi and forms part of a bigger complex only 5 minutes walk from the central station. The stadium replaced Gothenburg's old ground a couple of years back and is a purpose built arena with a 16,000 capacity. A quick jar in the supporters bar underneath the main stand led to some friendly banter with the locals who found it very strange that we had travelled from England to watch a match between two teams neither of us supported.
IFK had started the season badly and had lost both opening games. Helsingborgs however had won both of theirs picking up from their runners up placing last season. Already there was talk of this being a six pointer for IFK as defeat would further sap confidence of a young team and leave them in the relegation places. The ground was probably two thirds full with Helsingborgs bringing around 600 fans with them on the 3 hour train journey up the coast, which when combined with the IFK scarf waving ultras making a fair racket made for a feisty atmosphere.
The game itself was very open with both sides looking dangerous coming forward but a little shaky at the back. Rasmus Jonsson stood out on the left for Helsingborgs as did Elmar Bjarnason on IFK's left flank. It was no surprise then when a surging run from Bjarnason saw him square the ball for the delightfully named Andreas Drugge to poke the ball home. Cue mild hysteria. It was at this point that I noticed two flags over in the opposite corner. I've no idea who Ragnar is or what presidency he or she is standing for but I wish them all the best. And why Stadler and Waldorf are there too was equally baffling. Strange people these Swedes.
Half time came and went with IFK 1-0 up. The only reason the lead had not been doubled was thanks to a quite brilliant reflex save from the Helsingborgs keeper Hansson (Alan to his mates). IFK were on top for the first twenty minutes of the second half with Alan in great form again making two more outstanding saves. You just knew that as they hadn't scored, the inevitable would happen. Alas, it did and an inswinging corner was nodded home by the rather tall and unfeasibly blond centre half Peter Larsson. Simple. Helsingborgs came into the game and looked far more likely to sneak a winner and it came as no surprise when, as the 90th minute loomed, their centre forward Alexander Gerndt (the only lad on the park whose name didn't end in 'son') rifled home an unstoppable left foot rocket from just outside the box. The Helsingborgs fans behind the goal went as wild as Swedes seem to get and waved their scarves around feverishly in celebration.
We drifted back into the city centre and found somewhere to spend some more of the second mortgage before our bank balances were saved by the pub closing at 10pm! What? Yes folks, be warned, Gothenburg winds down at 10pm on a Monday night. Even the seven eleven closed at 10. The following morning saw some more ale quaffed before a wander around the city admiring the incredible looking people this city boasts as residents. Two coffees were taken on the harbour side and this only set us back £2.70 per cup. Bargain! Alas our time in Sweden came to an expensive end and we flew back to Stansted, already planning our next trip. Norway appeared top of our list with one of those teams I always loved the name of being the favourite. Viking Stavanger here we come.......


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Burger City Guides: Adam Sobel's Favorite Burgers in Washington, D.C.
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As executive chef of Michael Mina's Bourbon Steak in Georgetown, Adam Sobel is responsible for no less than five burgers on the menu. Interestingly, only one of those involves beef, but boy, is it a beef burger (think brisket, short rib, and chuck, blended and cooked over a wood fire, then brushed with red wine butter). It's the burger that Forbes Travel Guide called one of the country's best. Adam likes the importance the city's chefs place on the American standard: "Everyone in D.C. strives to have a great burger," he says. Read on for his five favorite burgers in the capital.
1. Palena's cheeseburger is delicious. What they're doing is really outstanding: amazing freshly ground beef, great buns that they make in-house. I like it because it's kind of unassuming. They do lots of great pasta and fish, so their burger is a really pleasant surprise. It's one of the best in D.C.
3529 Connecticut Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20008 (map); 202-537-9250; palenarestaurant.com
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2. Spike Mendelssohn's Good Stuff Eatery does five different burgers or so. I usually switch it up when I go. At one point, he was doing a blue cheese and caramelized onion burger, but I don't know if he still is because he likes to shake things up. The Big Stuff Bacon Meltdown kills it: it's a double bacon cheeseburger. I'm a big fan of what he's doing there.
303 Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast, Washington, DC 20003 (map); 202-543-8222; goodstuffeatery.com
3. The lamb burger at Central is really good. It's served with tomato confit and crispy Parmesan. Michel Richard is known for fine dining, but Central is kind of his bistro.
1001 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20004 (map); 202-626-0015; centralmichelrichard.com
4. I know it's kinda common, but I really like Shake Shack. It's open late and within walking distance. When I need an In-N-Out-like fix, I can hit them up for a double cheeseburger and a chocolate cement.
Various locations; shakeshack.com
5. Lou's City Bar is across the street from my house, and they do a killer, basic, NYC bar-type burger. It's a really good patty grilled over charcoal, with lettuce, tomato, and cheese. It's a no-brainer for sporting events: go over to Lou's, watch the game, perfect. They've got a great selection of beers on tap that they change up monthly. I like to drink local, so sometimes I'll do a DC Brau or something from Virginia.
1400 Irving Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20010 (map); 202-518-5687; louscitybar.com
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deliver (someone or oneself) of (something)(redirected from deliver yourself of)
deliver (someone or oneself) of (something)
1. To rescue or free someone from a difficulty or burden. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "deliver" and "of." Ugh, nothing will deliver us of all the extra work we've inherited since Jane retired. The act of confession finally delivered me of my guilt.
2. To say something. In this usage, a reflexive pronoun is used between "deliver" and "of." I can't believe he delivered himself of such inappropriate language in front of children!
deliver someone of something
to free someone from some burden or problem; to liberate someone from some confinement. He was looking for someone to deliver him of his burdensome responsibility. He was delivered of his burden.
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It was a typical day at one of the hospitals here in Aleppo, a typical three hours, to be even more specific. Children seemed to be everywhere, on hospital beds, in the hospital lobby and waiting with listless faces outside the clinic. Blood seemed to seep through every piece of clothing they had. Some, as young as three, composed themselves as needles pierced their skin to stitch up deep wounds.
Mohamed, 13, tried hard not to cry as he lay on a hospital bed, wincing in pain from the injury he'd sustained after a shell landed near the breadline where he had waited for hours. No one knew he'd been hurt yet and his cousin arrived only thirty minutes later to transfer him to another hospital.
More civilians flooded in, and those who were conscious had a resigned look of acceptance—this was just what happened now these days.
A teenage son, his face smeared in red, collapsed in tears over his father's body laying on the gurney. He was hit in the head by a bullet, caught in the crossfire as their car made their way through the confusing myriad of streets, unaware of where the snipers or perhaps even the army was. He didn't seem to register the reality and stared at his father's bloodied body in disbelief. The doctors bound his father's hands together and covered him in a blue sheet. They carried his body into the back seat of the car, his feet sticking oddly out of the right window. The boys in the back couldn't hold it in any longer—as the car pulled away, they wailed.
A man's body, uncollected by his relatives, lay on a bed in an alley behind the hospital. Another man came rushing in, his eyes wide with fear. In his arms was a bleeding young girl. The hospital staff were all busy attending other civilians and fighters. "What do I do?" he screamed. He was panting, panicking. Someone told him to go to another field hospital. Back in the surgery room, almost easy enough to miss, was an 8-year-old girl who had apparently died in an airstrike. Her body was being wrapped in a shroud and a doctor picked her up to bring her to a waiting taxi.
And minutes later, 15-year-old Fareed was rushed into the hospital. His eyes were wide open as he took deep, labored breaths—his last few before turning motionless. The doctors rushed him to surgery, attempting to resuscitate him. His mother appeared in the lobby, screaming, hyperventilating, crying and grasping at her face in disbelief.
Fareed couldn't be saved. The little piece of shrapnel had entered his back and passed through his heart—there was nothing the doctors could do here. The hospital had so many needs—for staff, surgeons in particular, and crucial medical equipment like oxygen tanks. It is simultaneously a little house of horrors, and a little house of miracles, where death hangs heavy in the air but every saved life brings a renewed sense of purpose for the doctors.
"I feel a lot of pain inside. A lot of pain, when I see women and children injured. But I have to control myself because I have to help them," says 28-year-old Abu Ismail, an anesthetist from Aleppo. Abu Ismail wears a black headband with white writing: There is no God but Allah, and Mohamed is his prophet. "This headband gives me strength. I don't save the lives—Allah does," he says calmly as the horns of cars rushing to the hospital echo downstairs. Abu Ismail doesn't flinch—his eyes remain excited and he is always smiling, even though he slept less than two hours the night before.
These are the everyday scenes in one hospital of one neighborhood in Aleppo. A microcosm of what the war looks like for the civilians of Syria, where every day the horror multiplies for even the youngest sufferers in this war. They are often the ones who cry the least as they are treated by doctors, while just a few beds over, grown men, fighters of the Free Syrian Army, scream out in pain. Daily shelling and attacks by helicopters and fighter jets seem to not break the civilian spirit. They remain resilient—they remain because they have no other place to go. Or simply, because they would rather die at home.
Nicole Tung is a freelance photographer who previously documented the uprisings in Libya and Egypt. Tung has previously filed dispatches from Syria recounting the aftermath of an airstrike in Aleppo and civilian funerals in Idlib.


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Bristol Physiotherapy Clinic are long standing clients of Satsuma and this is the second website that we have built for them.
The requirement was to build a website that was responsive, so worked well on mobiles and contained modern design features. It was also imperative that the site perform well on search engines as local competition had pushed the old site down the natural search engine rankings.
We designed a site that is striking on the eye and showcases all of the treatments and classes that the clinic offers it's clients. We also added an online store so patients can buy therapeutic aids direct from the site with free delivery.
As requested, we have carried out search engine optimisation on the site and it now sits on page 1 of Google and other search engines for all of the phrases that the clinic wants to be recognised for.
In addition to the website, we have also designed a mobile app for the business. This is used by customers to find information and book appointments at the touch of a button. Payments are also taken via the app.
The clinic sends out regular push messages to customers to give information and keep in touch, generating a lot of interaction that was previously lacking.
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*** For a step-by-step tutorial on using FEBE to restore a profile, see FEBE 101 - Restoring a Firefox Profile. ***
FEBE cannot restore an active (in use) profile. If you only have one profile, FEBE cannot use that profile to restore itself. It must be done manually. If you want, you can create a new profile to restore into.
Basically, you just need to unzip your FEBE profile backup file into your Firefox profile directory.
Here's what you'll need:
- A profile backup file created by FEBE. This file will be in your backup destination directory (as specified in FEBE options > Where to backup) and will be named "profile{profileName}.fbu where profileName is the name of the profile you want to restore. Examples: profile{Default}.fbu, profile{Chuck}.fbu.
- A zip utility. Something like 7zip, Winzip, etc. Most systems have a zip/unzip utility already installed so you probably don't need to worry about downloading one.
- The location of your Firefox profiles directory.
For Windows 7 users, it should be "C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\"
For Linux and Mac it is usually "/home/[Username]/.mozilla/firefox" (There is no actual folder named "profiles")
(More information on Firefox profile locations available here.)
Step by step instructions:
- Close Firefox if open.
- Browse to your backup destination directory.
- Rename your profile backup file to a zip file. Example: Rename "profileFx30.0{default}.fbu" to "profileFx30.0{default}.zip".
- Open the renamed file and extract it to your Firefox profile folder. In your profiles folder you will see one or more individual profile folders named something like "pqf85hp8.default", "y3f5nnr4.Chuck", or "febeprof.Chuck". The first part of the name is a random string of characters (or "febeprof" if FEBE created the profile) and the last part is the name of the profile you want to restore. You want to extract the zip file into the individual profile directory. If asked, you do want to replace existing files during the extraction.
All done! Close everything and open Firefox. Your profile should be restored.
I am running Windows 7 with Firefox v30.0 and have only one Firefox profile. It is called "default". When I run a FEBE full profile backup, a filed named "profileFx30.0{default}.fbu" is created in the backup destination directory (which is set to "C:\FEBE Backups" in FEBE Options > Where to backup.)
Firefox is currently running, so I close it.
Using Windows Explorer, I open my backup destination directory and notice the file named "profileFx30.0{default}.fbu". I right-click on the name and choose "Rename". I change the name to "profileFx30.0{default}.zip".
I double-click on the renamed file and it opens up with my zip utility. I click "Extract". A popup window appears asking where I want to extract the contents. I navigate to "C:\Users\CBaker\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\pk5ehqvs.default". I click "OK" and I get a warning about files already existing. I tell it to go ahead and replace the files.
I close the zip utility and open Firefox. My profile has been restored and everything looks and works as it did when I created the backup.


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A Texas lawyer traded in his business attire for an orange prison jumpsuit during Lent this year in order to bring attention to "the ways our world locks up the poor and marginalized."
Specifically, Kent McKeever wanted to raise awareness about how ex-convicts are viewed and treated in society after they are released. The 34-year-old works for Mission Waco, an organization that provides low-cost legal services to people who have been convicted of committing a crime.
"The reality is that 65 million Americans have some sort of criminal record," McKeever told KWTX. "They can't have a job, they don't have housing, they can't get an education to better themselves. They can't even get basic social services in many situations. There aren't many equal chances for everyone in many situations."
After eight days in the suit, Mckeever has gotten a little taste of what his clients experience.
"It's been an eye-opening experience for me to get a little glimpse of what so many people in our society who are pushed to the margins what they must feel," McKeever. "It just changed the way that I see the world, and I'll never forget that."
By wearing the suit and explaining why he has it on, Mckeever hopes to influence people to think a little differently the next time they encounter an ex-con.
"We need to care for them and show compassion for them and understand their situation so we can help them have another chance," McKeever said. "And not just a second chance, but a fair chance."
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Lady Adelaide Wanderer. I was born in 1248 near Bremerhaven on the river Waser in Saxony to a family paper merchants who had strong beliefs that were often at odds with the excesses of the church. I came to the SCA in the East Kingdom in AS XXVI(1991) at the age of 29. I spent several years in he Canton of Northpass in the Province of Ostgardr before moving to the Barony of the Bridge where I live now with my good husband Johan. I was awarded arms (Per chevron argent and vert, in chief two foxes combattant proper.) by Mourah and Hans in their second reign and was named seamstress to the crown by the same. I am apprenticed to Baron Steffan ap Kennydd for research and my primary interests include Brewing, garb making, cooking, and collecting random tidbits of information, like SCA history, stories and songs.