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If you get a segfault with sybase-ct, add a en_US entry to your $SYBASE/locales/locales.dat file:
locale = en_US, us_english, iso_1
sybase_affected_rows — Gets number of affected rows in last query
This function was REMOVED in PHP 7.0.0.
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sybase_affected_rows() returns the number of rows affected by the last INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE query on the server associated with the specified link identifier.
This command is not effective for SELECT statements, only on statements which modify records. To retrieve the number of rows returned from a SELECT, use sybase_num_rows().
If the link identifier isn't specified, the last opened link is assumed.
Returns the number of affected rows, as an integer.
Example #1 Delete-Query
/* connect to database */
sybase_connect('SYBASE', '', '') or
die("Could not connect");
sybase_query("DELETE FROM sometable WHERE id < 10");
printf("Records deleted: %d\n", sybase_affected_rows());
위 예제의 출력:
Records deleted: 10
If you get a segfault with sybase-ct, add a en_US entry to your $SYBASE/locales/locales.dat file:
locale = en_US, us_english, iso_1
The sybase_affected_rows() function seems to work now with the Sybase DB Library. Not sure when this improvement was made, but I'm currently running PHP 4.1.2 on Solaris.
Affected rows seems to return a -1 if the query syntax was incorrect on the last submitted query.
Affected rows returns 0 if no rows were affected or another error occured, such as a foreign key violation and also returns 0 if the query was successfully, but no records were affected by the query.
If the query was valid and did affect some rows, sybase_affected_rows() seems to be returning the correct number.


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ComicRack Free APP
Optimized for phones and tablets it allows you to read your eComics anywhere you want.
When used together with ComicRack for Windows it allows automatic synchronization of eComics with your Android device via USB, including reading positions, reading lists and bookmarks. Your synchronized eComics will also be converted and optimized so they can be read fast an reliable on your handheld device. And best of all, this way you can read all the formats ComicRack for Windows supports (PDFs and even WebComics). Optionally the eComics can even be size optimized during synchronization which usually makes them half the size without noticeable quality reduction.
ComicRack includes a Live Wallpaper that shows random covers from your library. You can even start reading by double tapping the background.
ComicRack also includes a highly configurable app widget that allows you to glimpse into your library and start reading immediately if you see something you like.
Short feature list:
• Optimized for phones and tablets
• Reader with single and double page viewing
• Advanced zoom modes
• Auto scrolling
• Right to left reading mode for mangas
• Color adjustments
• Automatic page cropping for small devices
• Full library management with lists and searching
• Management of reading states (unread, completed, bookmarks etc.)
• USB synchronization with ComicRack for Windows
• Reads CBZ and CBR natively
• When used together with ComicRack for Windows it supports CBZ, CBR, CB7, CBT, PDF, DJVU and WebComics
• Live Wallpaper
• App Widgets
• Twitter integration
This is the add supported free version. If you like the program and want to get rid of the ads, get wireless synchronisation and in general do a good thing, please buy the full version.
If you want to use your external SD Card to store Comics on Android 4.4 and above, please follow the the guide in the FAQ.
If you experience any bugs it is best to post your problems in the appropriate section of the user forum.
Online Resources:
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Even if you have no problems you can join and talk to other ComicRack users.

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BlackRock Agrees to End Analyst Survey Program Worldwide After Investigation
BlackRock agreed to terminate an analyst survey program that gave the firm access to information at the expense of other market participants, according to an investigation by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, whose office secured the settlement and made the announcement on Thursday.
The world's largest money manager, with $4 trillion in assets under management, ran what is believed to be the largest analyst survey program, said the attorney general in a press conference today. Though BlackRock was not fined, it agreed to continue to cooperate with the ongoing investigation into the early release of Wall Street analyst sentiment.
The NY AG's office is cracking down on a practice, known as Insider Trading 2.0, which provides an elite group of technologically sophisticated market players with access to market-moving information ahead of others. Confidential whistleblowers aided in the investigation that led to the settlement with BlackRock.
As a result of the investigation, BlackRock has agreed to permanently discontinue the practice of systematically surveying Wall Street analysts for their opinions on firms they cover, according to the announcement. The money manager will stop the practice not just in the United States but worldwide.
"It includes the increasing common practice in which sophisticated, preferred participants get access to early information. This creates a two-tiered system," said Schneiderman in a press briefing today.
With early access to market moving data, firms can front run the market, gain an unfair advantage over other analysts' clients, he said. The move comes after Schneiderman's office reached an interim agreement with Thomson Reuters to discontinue selling University of Michigan's market-moving consumer confidence data to high frequency traders, five minutes before it was released to the general public. Schneiderman revealed the Michigan survey data was also being sold to a more elite group of traders, who for a "substantial" extra fee were allowed to see the data two seconds earlier than the group who thought they were first in line. At that time, Scheiderman expressed concern for brokerage analysts that answered surveys that provide traders with a sneak peak into future analyst reports.
BlackRock surveyed analysts not just to understand the underlying value of stocks but also obtain and analysts' sentiment on possible earnings scenarios and M&A, said Schneiderman in the press conference. This was very important during earnings report season, he said. Schneiderman said the BlackRock program "was a massive survey that received hundreds of thousands of answers to clever questions over a number of years." Since BlackRock acquired BGI (Barclays Global Investors) in 2009, the program expanded further.
"BlackRock was soliciting information in upcoming reports. The information was not in previously published reports," said the NY attorney general.
Meanwhile, the investigation is ongoing and includes brokerage firms that chose to answer surveys at the expense of other clients. "We're looking at folks who obtain the information and analysts who provide the information," he said. Since BlackRock is a huge client of Wall Street firms, some brokerage firms appeared to be actively encouraging their analysts to participate, and at other times it was the analysts' motivation to participate, said Schneiderman.
In response to a reporter's question about why BlackRock wasn't fined, Schneiderman said the goal was reform. "Our work is not really about seeking punitive remedies. It's about restoring fairness and integrity."I welcome their continued cooperation in restoring fairness and transparency to markets," said Schneiderman.
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U.S. President Barack Obama told visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he has a "rock solid" commitment to Israel's security as the two leaders met to discuss how to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear-armed state.
Speaking to reporters Monday in the White House before beginning private talks, Mr. Obama said he expects a series of "difficult months" this year as the United States and Israel coordinate their response to Iran's nuclear activities. Iran denies pursuing an atomic weapons program and says its nuclear ambitions are peaceful.
Mr. Obama said there is "still a window" to resolve the Iranian nuclear dispute diplomatically - an outcome that he said both he and Mr. Netanyahu prefer. But, the president reiterated his position that all options are on the table for stopping Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Mr. Netanyahu said Israel must reserve the right to defend itself and be the master of its own fate. He also expressed appreciation for the U.S. alliance with Israel and said both nations face a common enemy in Iran.
U.S. and Israeli officials have expressed differing views about what might trigger military action against Iran's nuclear sites. U.S. officials have said Washington may act if Iran makes a decision to assemble a nuclear bomb, while Israeli officials have said military action may be needed sooner, to prevent Iran from putting the pieces of a bomb beyond the reach of an attack.
In a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington Sunday, Mr. Obama said the United States and Israel should give more time for diplomatic and economic pressure on Iran to "sink in." He cautioned against what he called "too much loose talk of war" with Iran, but also said he is prepared to use military action if all other options fail.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP.
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And this doily I crocheted last week isn't speaking to me as loudly as I'd hoped. Or possibly, I'm just not standing still long enough to hear.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Monday mayhem.
And this doily I crocheted last week isn't speaking to me as loudly as I'd hoped. Or possibly, I'm just not standing still long enough to hear.
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Sleeves, loud and clear! it looks lovely. Maybe even balanced out with a small trill in the same colour around the bottom?ReplyDelete
Hi, Kate...ReplyDelete
You won the Pinstriped Pill Bottle Giveaway at my blog! Can you send me your mailing address so I can get them out to you?
Madness here too kate...surely we will get into the groove again soon...ReplyDelete
Sleeve!!! it looks great- and is a little different.ReplyDelete
It sounds like you need a chart for the week with all the girls names down the side and the days on the week across the top and what they do and need each day as its probably the same every week.
Feeling very much the same at the moment. Like we have hit the ground running and can't stop to catch our breath's. Not an ideal place to be. Hope it helps you to know we are all drowning in it together! You just have to laugh.ReplyDelete
Sleeves. Yes. Sleeves. Exactly how I thought they would look too. Very pretty.
*sigh* That is how it feels here too at the moment. Hard to get back on track once you've been off for a while. Cath's idea for charts is a good one. And remember if mummy isn't happy no one is so take care of yourself.ReplyDelete
And sleeves on the dress! xox
definitely sleeves!ReplyDelete
I like Cath's idea of a chart aswell.
I know how you feel with the markets & baking & delivering and I definitely don't do as much as you do!
hope it gets better soon.
hugs gorgeous gal
Yes, sleeve, for sure. It looks perfect to me.ReplyDelete
I think sleeves too. It's lovely! I feel a bit behind the gun as well. I think the rain is partly it - I'm defeated by the laundry loop... but am generally not on top of the 2010 routine yet either. Let's hope we both manage it soon...ReplyDelete
Funny I feel completely crazy for not having that type of madness going on over here. Dare I say I miss it a little...hahaReplyDelete
And I think the sleeve option is fab!
I find lists and weekly schedules help a lot...Kikki K has some great 'family planners'. Good luck!ReplyDelete
Sleeve option looks perfect.
Hmmm ... I hear ya! Today was the best Monday we've had for a while, sp hoping it's the new thing! Hope Tuesday works out better. NicReplyDelete
You must be tired, Kate. Because the way you've written it, it sounds like the lunchboxes are full of tired, grumpy kids.ReplyDelete
But maybe that's what you meant to say, i.e. that's what you were subconsciously hoping.
Anyway I hope you have a restful week to compensate for your hectic weekend.
Hey Kate, Monday is almost over, hoping Tuesday is better.ReplyDelete
Sweet little cap sleeves look like the way to go with the doiley and the dress.
Love the new trim, great colour. You must get a bit of crocheting done in your travels. It's always nice to have a project you can pick up and take in the car with you.
I am heading down to Gippsland this Friday with my boys and hope to get a fair chunk of a wrist warmer finished along the way. Hopefully I won't have to pull it out due to mistakes!!
Oh the sleeves, definitely the sleeves! It looks great with that dress.ReplyDelete
Oh Kate it sounds as though you need a holiday! A weekly planner sounds like a good idea. I have a small whiteboard on my kitchen wall and write the kids events down the week before so I remember what they need to do (and me too). The sleeves seem like the right place for the trims! If I lived closer to you I would pop around make you a nice cup of tea!ReplyDelete
Know the feeling. But you guys have so much on your plate, you're prettty amazing doing all that. I hope things calm down, or get in a rhythm soon. Perhaps you need some help.ReplyDelete
If I can do anything to help, do let me know.
On the dress I'm not help, because I like them both! xo
oh jeez imagine if i had kids. it's crazy here & i just have to take care of 6 chooks, a python & a turtle :)ReplyDelete
love the purple colour
it must mean you had a good holiday, that's what i've put my permanent mondayitis down to.
Sometimes life gets like that and you end up being blown along with the whirlwind. I think it's brilliant that with all that have going on, you still manage to create such beautiful things!ReplyDelete
How you still find time to create so many gorgeous things is beyond me! I have been so slack that we actually have no activities going on this term, just thought it would be easier on everyone, especially our new preppie...slack, I know, but easy for now...you do a great job of fitting it all in doing it all so well!ReplyDelete
I'm exhausted just reading all that!!ReplyDelete
Andi x
Sleeves! Love it!ReplyDelete
Kate sending you a soothing cup of cyber tea my dear and many many more opportunities for some soothing crochet! Just this morning as I was finally managing to have a shower I thanked my lucky stars that I have one more year until the school madness begins.
I am joining the sleeve lobby, I like the way you pinned them on in the photo. Hope you have time for a little feet up time soon. XReplyDelete
I've got the school thing down pat, very organised (read: devoted & boring) to lunches & school bag routine. That said, we have an extra for 2 nights who is doing swimming lessons & just asked me if i could wash her swim suit in the morning??!! Um, no honey, i can't i have 4 other children to organise, but i can lend you clean swim suit & fresh towel. So just in case i had my 4 sorted, i take on an extra to rock the rhythmn.ReplyDelete
Busy lives, 'tis small business. I can't do Monday morning drama, no matter how many markets & parties on the weekend, i don't like chaos or rushing. Good luck, you'll find your groove & the girls will grow with responsbility too. It will happen, i assure you. Love Posie
Ahhh I her you Kate. Am wondering how long it takes to get used to being my first year of having a Scool aged child. I stick with sleeves too, so pretty.ReplyDelete
oh dear.. isn't it amazing with a whole weekend to try to go to bed late sunday thinking, "OH MY GOD I don't have the [whoever's] uniforms/clothes/undies washed! But I still did about 12 loads! How in the ....?!"ReplyDelete
Best of luck with soggy lunches - maybe chore list for kids?
and the doily is gorgeous!
The joy of living and working on a farm.... We work flat out Monday to Sunday here too and feel as though we are always chasing our tails trying to get on top of everything and that;s without throwing school into the equation as-well... I'm sure your routine will come together soon....ReplyDelete
Love the dress and as for the doily, I say put it on whole...
Jodie :)
your life seems a tad busy......ReplyDelete
i love the crochet collar - i can't wait to see it on an item of clothing.
our monday was okay - naturally it was warm and dry - bone dry, apart from the tears from my youngest who realised the weekend was over again :(
goodluck with the week ahead - holidays must be just around the corner :)
The red one is a sleeve. Definitely a sleeve. It drapes beautifully.ReplyDelete
Just know that we in the city......or the burbs really.....APPRECIATE seller's at Farmer's Markets IMMENSELY!! Where would we be without you? Thank you for making the effort!ReplyDelete
I hear you sister!ReplyDelete
Just trying to keep up is an effort and a half. take care Ro xoxo
I thought it was crazy here, but goodness, your place sounds even crazier. I take great comfort from the fact that I'm not the only one facing icky lunch boxes and wet towels on a Monday morning!ReplyDelete
Don't forget to take time out for yourself Kate. It's not optional, it's essential!
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I'm looking around this website and I'm seeing more and more people asking about certs, where to find information on them, for links to them, for reference material, etc. etc. How about creating a Certification Questions Forum outside of the security forums. A place for members to post about their experiences, their questions and their advice. This way there will be a centralized location for users to check to find answers to their questions, since the search option is still flakey and there's no real standard for where to post questions of this type. Over time it may convince members to do up posts on CCNA, A+, Network+, MCSE, GIAC and others. Almost tutorials but not quite, threads that are nothing but information, and suggestions. With CCNA becoming so common place, a sticky thread in this new forum on what the test entails, some quality reference links and so on, may cut down on the number of repeat questions.... If not, it'll at least group them all together.


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Illinois Smokers Rights - Letter to ACS
OPEN LETTER TO THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY - REQUESTING DOCUMENTATION FOR SMOKE FREE ILLINOIS HEALTH CLAIMS Attention: American Cancer Society, a.k.a. Smoke Free Illinois; cc: Illinois General Assembly The Smoke Free Illinois Act (SB500) for Illinois has been based upon health claims from the American Cancer Society. On behalf of Illinois Smokers Rights, the two million eight hundred thousand smokers and the thousands of small businesses who will be affected, we are requesting clarification and validation for those health claims. To institute this invasive and extreme smoking ban, the public needs to learn if any concrete evidence can be provided to validate these claims. A law of this magnitude, with wide-spread social impact and based upon ACS epidemiological studies, needs to be documented for public review and shared in understandable format. Reports containing computer generated statistics of mortalities and illness are not sufficient. Also insufficient are the previous Surgeon General Carmona\'s 2006 Press Release, Executive Summary, or quotes which did not reflect the contents of his 700-plus page smoking report. Dr. Carmona\'s report simply rehashed previous Surgeon General claims and republished previous Tobacco Control studies which had never been able to document any conclusions more definite than finding a "casual relationship" between Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) and health threats. One particular abuse example for this fully justifiable request to require accurate documentation for Illinois tobacco-smoke-health-threats, claimed by the ACS, tobacco control agencies and our Illinois elected representatives, is the currently distorted Sixteen Cigarettes claim: Smoke Free Illinois at http://www.smokefreeillinois.net/info.php "One eight hour shift in a smoky workplace is the equivalent of smoking 16 cigarettes." (In actuality, the equivalent is approximately 1/5 cigarette.) Why the need to be deceptive An in-depth study analyzing the dangers from ETS was published to help fuel the promotion of smoking bans in all enclosed establishments, including bars and restaurants. That study proved that measurable amounts of n-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) could be found in side stream smoke from cigarettes and was published, not identifying the offending carcinogen or placing it in proportion with similar amounts also contained in our water, food, and other common substances. "The poison is in the dose"! The American Cancer Society has implied through incomplete references that breathing in an environment containing (or that has contained) second hand smoke, is the same thing as actively smoking. This leaves 98% of those who have listened to current ETS health dogma misinformed. While the scientific community defends themselves by saying that even attempting to explain the epidemiology of second hand smoke would not be practical for public consumption. (From Dr. Stanton Glantz [ANR]: "...We cannot include the caveats because the public cannot understand them..." ) The bulk of blame still remains upon the manner in which ETS statistical findings have been originally presented and manipulated. Most were intended to create smoking bans. This distortion has been perpetrated by tobacco control with full intention of deceiving and creating false health claims. Until a public statement or press release making visible and crystal clear the distortions of "16 cigarette" claims to laymen, elected officials and the news media, the intentionally deceptive damage cannot even begin to be reversed. The public is being terrorized by phony health claims, and needs clarification that n-Nitrosodimethylamine is the referenced element for the "16 cigarette" media blitz, and that NDMA is another common carcinogen and threatens us most seriously in our drinking water and food supply. Solid proof is required for Illinois (or any other US governing body) to justify bending our US Constitutional Republic\'s governmental framework and dismissing the protected liberties in several of its Amendments. The Smoke Free Illinois Act basically ignores our First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and Fourteenth Constitutional Amendments. Considering the serious state-wide repercussions from this law, justification is required, not vague interpretations of "casual association" health threats. In addition, ACS financial ties with nicotine replacement products manufactured by the pharmaceutical industry, who hope to increase sales because of this ban, should also be published to avoid misrepresentation of charitable interests and to supply full and honest disclosure to interested parties. Therefore, Illinois Smokers Rights, Illinois residents and the Illinois news media need to be supplied with actual documented identities of those injured or killed for The Smoke Free Illinois Act to be legitimately recognized. Sincerely,


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9/11 Suspects: Robert Baer by CorbettReport
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Experts Sought: The Great 9/11 Building Debate WhoWhatWhy
Adapted by WhoWhatWhy from World Trade Center (9/11 Photos - CC BY 2.0) and profile (Gage Skidmore / Flickr - CC BY-SA 2.0)
Experts Sought: The Great 9/11 Building Debate
This September 11 will mark the 15th anniversary of the terror attacks on New York and Washington. These were events unlike any other in history, and they changed America and our world in profound ways — some of which have yet to become apparent.
WhoWhatWhy believes it is the mandate of journalism to not only report news as it happens, but to dig deep, and to stay on important stories for the long haul.
We also believe the public should hear all sides of critical issues, including those considered highly controversial, and, at least by traditional media, too "ludicrous" or too "hot" to address.
One such issue is the ongoing debate on whether airplanes alone could bring down the twin towers.
9/11 Suspects: Philip Zelikow
In January of 2003, just weeks after Kissinger stepped down, it was quietly announced that Philip D. Zelikow would take on the role of executive director. As executive director, Zelikow picked "the areas of investigation, the briefing materials, the topics for hearings, the witnesses, and the lines of questioning for witnesses." In effect, this was the man in charge of running the investigation itself.
TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: https://www.corbettreport.com/911-suspects-philip-zelikow/
Recovery Workers Reportedly Found the Black Boxes From the Planes That Hit the WTC on 9/11, but Authorities Covered This Up
The black boxes from the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, were found and retrieved in the weeks after the 9/11 attacks, a significant amount of evidence indicates. And yet government officials and the official investigation into the attacks have asserted that these devices were never recovered.
A plane's two black boxes record important information about a flight. The black boxes from American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175--the planes that hit the World Trade Center--could therefore have helped investigators determine what happened on these aircraft before they crashed on September 11.
9/11 Suspects: Christine Todd Whitman by CorbettReport
Published on Sep 6, 2016
TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=19618
2000-2001: Official Reports of Unexplained Airliner Transponder Jamming, Military Exercises A Suspected Cause
Just prior to the September 11 attacks - between November 2000 and April 2001 - French aviation authorities noted and investigated repeated instances of unexplained commercial airliner Mode S transponder jamming resulting in the loss of secondary radar data to Air Traffic Control (ATC). Affected aircraft included Air France Boeing 767s.
Three of the four reportedly hijacked September 11 flights also stopped providing secondary radar data to ATC via Mode S transponders during their flights. These Mode S transponder data losses were officially attributed to manual deactivations by alleged hijackers, although evidence to confirm this claim was never cited by the 9/11 Commission Report. September 11 flight transponder data losses contributed significantly to a circumstantial impression of alleged hijacker flight deck takeovers and also coincided with significant nationwide US military exercises that day.
What A Real 9/11 Investigation Would Reveal - Beyond the 28 Pages
After 15 years of meticulous research and analysis into the events and theories surrounding 9/11, this is a collection of all the best facts and evidence proving who had the means, motive, and opportunity to commit the crimes we witnessed on September 11th, and who ought to be investigated if we ever hope to get to the bottom of it.
An Expert's Guide to the 9/11 Conspiracy
Major Physics Magazine, Europhysics News, Publishes 9/11 Article by Steven Jones, Robert Korol, Tony Szamboti, and Ted Walter
Major Physics Magazine, Europhysics News, Publishes 9/11 Article by Steven Jones, Robert Korol, Tony Szamboti, and Ted Walter
Read It Now! >> http://www.europhysicsnews.org/
Earlier this week, the magazine of the European Physical Society, Europhysics News, published a 3,000-word feature article by Dr. Steven Jones, Dr. Robert Korol, Tony Szamboti, and Ted Walter, entitled 15 years later: on the physics of high-rise building collapses.
Europhysics News bills itself as the magazine of the European physics community. That sounds about right — given their circulation of around 25,000 copies per issue!
It is with great enthusiasm that we invite you to read the online version of the article, which can be accessed for free at EurophysicsNews.org. The hard copy will be distributed to the magazine's 25,000 subscribers in mid-September.
60,000 and Counting!
That brings to a staggering 60,000 the number of engineers and scientists who will be exposed to our literature in the coming weeks — 35,000 who will receive a copy of World Trade Center Physics and 25,000 who will receive the current issue of Europhysics News.
You can help grow that number by purchasing copies of World Trade Center Physics in bulk — virtually at cost — and distributing them on your own, either by popping them in the mail or by handing them out.
Nearly 2,500 copies have been sold since World Trade Center Physics went on sale two days ago. We've got 7,500 left in stock waiting to be distributed around the 15th anniversary of 9/11.
Place your bulk order by Monday, August 29, http://www.shop.ae911truth.org/WTC-Physics-Mailer_c25.htm and you'll receive the package by Saturday, September 10 (this applies to U.S. residents only).
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---Steven Jones, Robert Korol, Anthony Szamboti and Ted Walter
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Is America Any Safer 15 Years After 9/11? - The Atlantic & CBS
Published on Aug 9, 2016 "CBS This Morning"
As we approach the 15th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, fear remains.
A CBS News poll taken in June after the shooting rampage in Orlando found two-thirds of Americans think a terror attack is very or somewhat likely in the next few months.
Author Steven Brill spent a year investigating the estimated trillion-dollar security state, built since 9/11. Brill joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss his latest cover story in The Atlantic, titled, "Are we any safer?"


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Dave Meserve: Don't Let A Pointless Panhandling Prohibition Destroy Free Speech – March 18, 2010
On March 3, the Arcata City Council introduced a two-part panhandling ordinance.
The first part makes it unlawful for any person to "panhandle in an aggressive manner in any public place."
Aggressive panhandling is most often a form of assault, which is already illegal, but although unnecessary, there is no serious legal problem with this section.
The second part of the ordinance will make it illegal in Arcata to panhandle within 20 feet of any supermarket, retail store, restaurant, bar, ATM machine, bus stop, parking lot or street corner.
According to the ordinance, "Panhandling shall include using the spoken, written, or printed word, bodily gestures, signs, or other means with the purpose of obtaining an immediate donation of money or other thing of value."
The council is well aware of the fact that this definition of panhandling includes such activities as selling Girl Scout Cookies, selling raffle tickets to fundraise for a non-profit, ringing a bell for the Salvation Army, asking for signatures for a petition with a donation can to support the cause, requesting support for a political candidacy if it includes fundraising, encouraging passers-by to enter a parking lot for a sports team car wash or any other use of a donation can or a request for funds benefiting any political or non-political purpose.
Councilmember Susan Ornelas stated very correctly that in supporting the blanket ban on solicitation she was "throwing the baby out with the bathwater."
She later explained that, "The bathwater is the panhandling, aggressive panhandling, and the baby that's going out with it is the Girl Scout Cookies, the Breast Health Project people walking around. I'm very aware of that."
In reality, the baby that's being thrown out with the bathwater of panhandling is our constitutionally protected freedom of speech.
Note how Ornelas inserted the phrase "aggressive panhandling" into the explanation of her analogy. Listen (online at cityofarcata.org) to all of the councilmembers who support the ordinance, and you will find repeated uses of the qualifier "aggressive" when they are actually speaking about the prohibition of all panhandling near businesses. The second part of the ordinance does not depend on the manner of panhandling, polite or not; it outlaws the activity itself.
It also takes away the right of business owners to invite their favorite non-profit to set up on their public sidewalk to inform the public and raise funds. This is but one of many unintended consequences of such a law.
The panhandling ordinance makes us poorer as a community. Are we so afraid of or uncomfortable with the behavior of people who are different from us that we must fabricate laws limiting our own freedom, just so we can perhaps meet legal muster for limiting theirs?
A law which seeks to limit the First Amendment protection of free speech in any way must fulfill three court-defined requirements:
• It must be "content neutral."
• It must serve a legitimate government interest.
• It must leave open channels of alternate communication.
Outlawing aggressive panhandling serves the legitimate interest of public safety and comfort.
Outlawing begging but not other forms of soliciting may serve the interest of making the public more comfortable and more likely to patronize local businesses, but it fails to be "content neutral."
Outlawing the soliciting of funds for community non-profits or political candidates serves no legitimate government interest.
Outlawing both begging and fund-raising in so many public spaces severely limits "channels of alternate communication."
The panhandling ordinance makes us poorer as a community. Are we so afraid of or uncomfortable with the behavior of people who are different from us that we must fabricate laws limiting our own freedom, just so we can perhaps meet legal muster for limiting theirs?
If enacted, a civil liberties-based lawsuit against the City is almost inevitable. Even if the ordinance is eventually upheld in court, the cost of defending it could be huge.
We would be wiser as a community to enact and enforce an ordinance against aggressive panhandling, and leave it at that.
Then we should work to help each other feel comfortable in responding to polite panhandling with firmness and self assurance, whether we choose to donate or to just say "no."
Arcata has a proud history of defending civil liberties. Let's maintain that tradition.
Please contact your councilmembers and tell them what you think of the new panhandling ordinance, and come for public comment at City Hall, 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 17, when the adoption of the ordinance (it was only "introduced" on March 3) will be on the Consent Calendar, at the beginning of the council meeting.
Dave Meserve is an Arcata resident who finds assaults on the Bill of Rights much more threatening than panhandlers.


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The first clinical trial of a drug intended to delay the onset of symptoms of Huntington disease (HD) reveals that high-dose treatment with the nutritional supplement creatine was safe and well tolerated by most study participants. In addition, neuroimaging showed a treatment-associated slowing of regional brain atrophy, evidence that creatine might slow the progression of presymptomatic HD. The Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) study also utilized a novel design that allowed participants – all of whom were at genetic risk for the neurodegenerative disorder – to enroll without having to learn whether or not they carried the mutation that causes HD.
"More than 90 percent of those in the United States who know they are at risk for HD because of their family history have abstained from genetic testing, often because they fear discrimination or don't want to face the stress and anxiety of knowing they are destined to develop such a devastating disease," says H. Diana Rosas, MD, of the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MGH-MIND), lead and corresponding author of the paper that will appear in the March 11 issue of Neurology and has been released online. "Many of these individuals would still like to help find treatments, and this trial design allows them to participate while respecting their autonomy, their right not to know their personal genetic information."
Among the ways that the mutated form of the huntingtin protein damages brain cells is by interfering with cellular energy production, leading to a depletion of ATP, the molecule that powers most biological processes. Known to help restore ATP and maintain cellular energy, creatine is being investigated to treat a number of neurological conditions – including Parkinson disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and spinal cord injury. Studies in mouse models of HD showed that creatine raises brain ATP levels and protects against neurodegeneration. Previous clinical trials of creatine in symptomatic HD patients have been limited in scale, involved daily doses of 10 grams or less, and did not provide evidence of potential efficacy. Based on the results of a pilot study at MGH that evaluated doses as high as 40 grams, participants in the current study received doses of up to 30 grams daily.
The phase II PRECREST trial enrolled 64 adult participants - 19 who knew they carried the mutated form of the HD gene and 45 with a 50 percent risk of having inherited the HD mutation. Genetic testing, results of which were made available only to the study statistician and not to study staff or participants, confirmed the genetic status of those who had previously been tested and revealed an additional 26 presymptomatic carriers of the mutated gene, for a total of 47 participants with presymptomatic HD and 17 controls.
For the first 6 months of the trial, participants were randomized into two groups, regardless of gene status. One group received twice-daily oral doses of creatine, up to a maximum of 30 grams per day, the other received placebo. After that first phase, all participants received creatine for an additional 12 months. Participants were assessed at regular study visits for adverse effects, and dosage levels were adjusted, if necessary, to reduce unpleasant side effects. Additional tests – cognitive assessments, measurement of blood markers and MRI brain scans – were conducted at the trial's outset, at 6 months and at the end of the study period.
During the first phase of the trial more than three-quarters of those randomized to creatine tolerated a daily dose of 15 grams or more, and more than two -thirds tolerated the full 30-gram dose. Throughout the entire trial, a total of 15 participants – including several who knew they carried the HD mutation – discontinued taking creatine because of gastrointestinal discomfort, the taste of the drug, inconvenience, or the stress of being constantly reminded of their HD risk. Other than occasional diarrhea and nausea, few adverse events were associated with creatine.
In participants who carried the HD mutation, the MRI scans taken at the outset of the trial had revealed significant atrophy in regions of the cerebral cortex and basal ganglia known to be affected by the disease. Followup MRI scans at six months showed a slower rate of atrophy in participants taking creatine compared to those on placebo. At the end of the second phase, the rate of brain atrophy had also slowed in presymptomatic participants that started taking creatine after 6 months on placebo.
In addition to suggesting that creatine could slow the progression of HD, these results also imply that neuroimaging may provide a useful biomarker of disease modification in studies of other potential treatments. While participants with the mutation had performed less well than controls on the cognitive tests at the study outset, creatine treatment had no significant effect on those measures, possibly because the tests were not sensitive enough to detect subtle changes that might occur during such a brief time period, the authors note.
"The results of this trial suggest that the prevention or delay of HD symptoms is feasible, that at-risk individuals can participate in clinical trials – even if they do not want to learn their genetic status – and that useful biomarkers can be developed to help assess therapeutic benefits," says senior author Steven Hersch, MD, PhD, of MGH-MIND. "In addition, we believe our study design sets an important precedent for other genetic diseases and will help inform discussions of how clinical research can coexist with deep concerns about genetic privacy and patient autonomy."
Hersch, a professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Rosas, an associate professor, are currently leading a world-wide Phase III trial (CREST-E) of high-dose creatine in individuals with early symptomatic HD. Conducted in collaboration with Giovanni Schifitto, MD, MS, of the University of Rochester, the trial is sponsored by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Additional information on this trial, which is still open for enrollment, is available at http://bit.ly/1gMzLIs.
Additional co-authors of the Neurology report are Sona Gevorkian MSc, Keith Malarick, Martin Reuter, PhD, Jean-Philippe Coutu, Tyler Triggs, and Paul Wilkens, MGH Neurology; David Salat PhD, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH; Gheorghe Doros, PhD, Boston University School of Public Health; and Wayne Matson, PhD, New England Veterans Administration. The study was supported by National Institutes of Health grants P01NS058793, NS042861, NS058793, AT000613, FD003359 and NS058793.
Massachusetts General Hospital, founded in 1811, is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. The MGH conducts the largest hospital-based research program in the United States, with an annual research budget of more than $775 million and major research centers in AIDS, cardiovascular research, cancer, computational and integrative biology, cutaneous biology, human genetics, medical imaging, neurodegenerative disorders, regenerative medicine, reproductive biology, systems biology, transplantation biology and photomedicine.


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Starting an online store
By glblguy
I'm often asked what I do for living. My answer? "I'm an IT manager and internet entrepreneur." IT manager doesn't sound too exciting, but internet entrepreneur always grabs people's attention. I used to answer the question with "blogger" instead of internet entrepreneur, but people really don't understand what "blogger" means and my internet activities have expanded beyond just blogging. I now run a few different blogs and currently have 3 different online stores.
I'm a huge advocate of not only reducing expenses and living on less than I earn, but also of supplementing income. Personally I prefer the more passive income route as after working an 8-10 hour day in a fairly stressful IT environment, I just don't feel like coming home only to turn around and head out to another side job. I also would rather work for myself doing what I like to do.
I know many of you are also looking for ways to not only reduce your expenses, but increase your income as well. I thought I would share some information on starting an online store quickly and easily. Don't worry, it doesn't involve shipping, managing product inventory or anything like that. Surprised? Let me explain.
Affiliate marketing
Affiliate marketing is a term very common on the internet and refers to people who market and advertise a companies products in turn for a share of the revenue the company receives through sales. Numerous companies have affiliate programs and they provide a great way to earn some extra income. For example both Amazon.com and eBay have affiliate programs.
To begin affiliate marketing, you first register as an affiliate, and then use the companies affiliate interface to create special links to the companies site and/or products. Some companies like Amazon.com and eBay provide their own affiliate programs. Others work through affiliate marketing companies like Commission Junction or Linkshare. When visitors to your site click on your affiliate links, they are directed to the companies web-site or usually a product page on the companies website. If the visitor purchases the product or service, than you as the affiliate marketer earn a percentage of the sale.
The amount you earn is determined by the company and often scales upward when you make more sales (i.e. the more visitors that buy, the higher percentage of the sale you receive). For example, eBay starts at 50% and goes up to 70%.
Creating an online store
As I mentioned, creating an online store isn't hard, but It will take you a bit of time. Personally I find it fun, especially once you start to make a few sales! The following sections will take you step by step through the process of getting a new store up and running.
Find your niche
The first step in starting a new store is determining the niche your store will fill. Finding a niche can be tricky as you have to find the right balance between a niche that currently has too many competitors and a niche that is too narrow and just doesn't appeal to the majority.
For example, starting an online sports equipment store probably isn't a good idea as there are just too many large competitors out there. You'll want to find something more specific in that same niche. On the other hand, having a store that sells only specific types of tennis balls may be too specific. The right balance may be something like tennis rackets or tennis balls only. There really is no science or success formula I can provide and to be honest it takes some trial and error.
I like to find products that are fairly high priced, but not too high, with a niche isn't currently filled by too many competitors. Generally, I look for products that sell for more than $100.00 each. The other most important part of finding a niche is making sure it's something that you are interested in and know a great deal about. Knowing about what you sell will allow you to write related articles to supplement and promote your product offerings. This will help establish authority for your site and draw in search engine traffic.
Register a Domain name
Once you determine your niche, the next step is registering a domain name. A domain name is the HTTP address of your site (for example www.gatherlittlebylittle.com). For an online store, the domain name should consist of keywords specific to what you are selling. Keywords are the specific words people will use to find your site, particularly from search engines.
For example, continuing with our tennis equipment example, creating a store called "Gibbles Store" wouldn't drive much traffic or at least not traffic looking for tennis equipment. It also doesn't contain many of the keywords that search engine users would enter into a search engine to find the site. Instead using a name like "Discount tennis rackets" or "Discount tennis balls" would do far better. Let's go with "Discount Tennis Rackets" so the URL we want would be www.discounttennisrackets.com.
To reserve that domain name, you'll need to use a domain name registrar. Personally, I use NameCheap. When you register your domain name, try to get a .com extension. If you can't, it's not a big deal, but it certainly is preferred. In addition to reserving the .com extension, grab .net and .org at the same time to avoid others from grabbing these and potentially redirecting some of your intended traffic.
One lesson I've learned is to keep all of your domain names at one site. Many hosting companies offer free domain registration. While this seems like a good deal, in the long term it's far easier to keep them in the same place. As you establish multiple sites it's nice to be able to go one place to manage and see all of your registrations. Additionally, you may want to switch hosting companies down the road and having your domain name registration tied with your hosting providing can make things difficult when moving.
Sign-up with a hosting company
Once you have your domain name or names registered, you'll next want to sign up with a hosting company to actually house and run your website. There are many options and people are as loyal to their hosting companies as they are to their sports teams! As a result, you'll get lots of different recommendations depending on who you ask.
I have all of my sites hosted at Dreamhost Media Temple (Read why here). They certainly aren't perfect, but overall provide great service for the money. If you sign-up, use discount code "Gibble" and get $50.00 off any plan.
Once your hosting plan is established, you'll need to add your various domain names. One of the great things about Dreamhost Media Temple is that you can host an unlimited number of websites on your hosting plan at no extra cost.
Media Temple plans start at $50 and go up depending on your needs. If that's a little step for you, my next recommendation would be Lunar pages. They are currently have plans for $4.95 per month and my experience with them has been outstanding for the price.
If you need assistance setting up a site or hosting, contact me over at Empty Cabin Media, and I'll be more than glad to assist.
Use WordPress, Build a Niche Store or both
There are two options I've used to create my various online stores. I am sure there are many other options, but these are the two I've found that work for me: WordPress and/or Build a Niche Store.
I'll start with WordPress. WordPress is a very powerful content management system and also the top most used blogging software. Gather Little by Little runs on WordPress. WordPress can be extended and modified significantly through the use of themes and plugins. Themes allow you to change the look and feel of a wordpress site and plugins allow you extend the functionality of WordPress by installing often free plugins.
WordPress is a flexible platform that will not only allow you to market and sell affiliate products but even sell your own products if you so desire. A couple of theme creators and plugin developers have created specialized plugins designed for making WordPress into an online store platform.
The most attractive feature of WordPress is that it's free. Now as you know, few things in this world are truly free, so while WordPress doesn't require any money it does require some extra work. But I find the rewards and flexibility well worth it.
Build a Niche Store
Build a Niche Store or BANS for short is a platform that you can install to your hosted server to make eBay affiliate websites. BANs provides a very simple way to get an eBay affiliate store up and running quickly. It supports customized themes and other advertising beyond just eBay affiliates.
The major downside with Build a Niche Store is that it costs $97 dollars. The benefits though are that you can install it on unlimited sites and it provides you with free upgrades for life. So the $97 is a one time upfront cost. The big benefit is that BANs makes setting up an online store trivial.
From my experience and the experience of others BANs does rather quickly pay for itself.
WordPress and Build a Niche Store
While I personally haven't gone this route yet, I have been following The Niche Store Builder who seems to think this is the best option.
I can definitely see how the two greatly complement each other. I will most likely use this approach for any future stores I build.
Get your store up and running
Once you've decided which of the 3 options you would like to use, you'll need to install and get your store set-up. Since the majority of my affiliate stores are WordPress, that is the option I'll focus on in this article. If there is enough interest on how to install a Build a Niche Store site, I'll be more than glad to write that up in a future article.
Installing WordPress
Most hosting companies, including Media Temple now offer something called one-click installs. One-click installs make the process of installing popular web software to your server incredibly simple.
For information on setting up and maintaining WordPress, please visit the WordPress site. There is lots of helpful information. If you aren't comfortable installing WordPress, contact me at Empty Cabin Media. I can do it for you.
Making WordPress into a affiliate store
At this point, all of the basics are in place, now we just need to get your site product enabled.
All of the default themes that come installed with WordPress are designed for blogging. To make your WordPress site more online store friendly, you'll need to use a specialized theme. There are a number of themes available both free and and for a fee. I've become very fond of iThemes eCommerce Themes. Ecommerce themes are very professional and come with great documentation and how to videos. The themes do run $49.00, but I recovered that investment pretty quickly. The themes really are worth the money spent.
Another awesome theme I am using for all of my new sites is Thesis. Thesis is highly customizable and comes with some outstanding out of the box features. Highly recommended and I prefer it over and above the iThemes themes. Gather Little by Little will be running on Thesis shortly.
Once the theme is installed, I would recommend customizing it some by including a logo for your site. Try to give it a professional and clean appearance. Once that's complete, begin adding pages for the products you'll be marketing. Pages should provide basic product information about the product and maybe even a mini-review.
I place affiliate links directly in the product pages, and then add a section at the very bottom called "Buy now" that provides links to both Amazon.com and eBay.com products for sale.
For Amazon.com, I use the Amazon Simple Admin plugin. This is a great plugin that easily adds Amazon.com product links to your pages and site. For eBay, I use the TWP Auctions script. Note this is not a WordPress plugin, but an easy to install php script. In order to run the script you will need to install the Exec-PHP plugin which allows you to add PHP code to your articles and display eBay items.
I'm sure there are probably many other (and maybe even easier) options available, but the above are the basic extensions I use.
What's next
At this point your store is up and running and very soon you'll begin receiving some traffic from Google, especially if you've practiced some basic Search Engine Optimization techniques. Hopefully you'll receive your first affiliate commission too.
Don't be fooled though, the work isn't over. You need to continually look for new product opportunities and tweak your product set based on what is working and what isn't. You'll also want to market your site and get it visible. Getting the site up and running is easy, making it successful is a job by itself. But we'll get into that another time.
Have you considered starting an online store? Do you already have one? Share your experience, stories and even recommendations for other options. Add a comment!
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NEW: At least 143 people were killed Sunday, a Syrian opposition group says
Syria says its military killed terrorists who were attacking orchards
Saturday may have been the deadliest day of the conflict
There could be 100,000 deaths in Syria next year, envoy says
The stench of the burnt bodies was so potent, Abu Jafar said, he could smell it from 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) away.
"It smells awful because the regime appears to have burnt so many bodies recently," the opposition activist said Sunday from the beleaguered city of Homs.
"Some cars arrived this morning and carried away dead bodies. We are not sure where."
Read more: Deadly day in Syria as diplomats talk
Jafar's account comes a day after what may be the deadliest day yet in Syria's 21-month civil war, according to opposition figures.
Lakhdar Brahimi, the joint U.N.-Arab League envoy, gave a dire warning Sunday on the rapidly deteriorating situation in Syria.
"If nearly 50,000 people have been killed in about two years, do not expect just 25,000 people to die next year – maybe 100,000 will die," he told reporters in Cairo.
"The pace is increasing," he said.
"A solution is still possible, but it is only getting more complicated every day," Brahimi added. "Had we dealt more carefully with this conflict in 2011, it would have been much easier to resolve it. There is no question that it is much harder today."
Read more: 'Til death do us part: Marriage destroyed by war
Brahimi met Sunday with Nabil Elaraby, secretary-general of the Arab League.
On Saturday, Brahimi met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Russia and China have used their veto power in the U.N. Security Council to block some of the toughest resolutions proposed against the Syrian regime.
Read more: Official: Russia invites head of Syrian opposition for talks
Traveling heavily in hopes of brokering a halt to the war, Brahimi said last week he is pinning his hopes on the formation of a transitional government in Damascus that would hold power until an election.
At least 397 people were killed across the country Saturday, the opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria said. At least 143 deaths were reported Sunday, including 10 children.
The LCC said Saturday's death toll included more than 200 people who were captured and "field executed" by Syrian soldiers in the Homs suburb of Deir Baalbeh after Syrian forces won a battle there.
Read more: As Syria suffering spirals, envoy hopes for political transition
The group's representative in Deir Baalbeh said he could only personally account for 27 deaths, but said a Syrian soldier who had been captured by rebels said government forces killed at least 200 people in the suburb.
The group posted video of several men's bodies lined up in a grassy field with wounds to the head, in what it claimed was footage taken by witnesses.
Jafar said he believes Deir Baalbeh was targeted "because it is the main gate to reach the Khaldiya neighborhood, which has been under the control of the rebels."
Syrian state-run TV confirmed there was conflict in the area but said that government forces had been chasing down "terrorists." News footage showed bodies that appeared to have been dragged across the floor in a building, leaving long trails of blood behind.
Read more: U.S. officials: Syria using more accurate, Iranian-made missiles
The news report said forces had killed "several terrorists" in the Deir Baalbeh area. The government frequently refers to rebels seeking to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad as "terrorists."
But another opposition activist in Homs, Hadi Abdallah, said the situation in nearby Deir Baalbeh "is only turning from bad to worse."
"Smoke is rising from Deir Baalbeh this morning, and a stench is coming out of some of its streets due to the burning of some corpses by the regime forces," Abdallah said Sunday.
"What is noticeable in the bodies we found yesterday and today in Deir Baalbeh is that they appear to have been slaughtered at the neck and then burned, including women and children. Others appear to have been killed from knife and bullet wounds."
Read more: Syrian military police chief defects to join 'the people's revolution'
Syria's state-run news agency SANA said Sunday that the military has been killing many terrorists.
One army unit "killed several terrorists and injured many others" and destroyed launchers of locally made missiles that the terrorists had used to attack orchards in the Maartamasrin area in Idlib province, SANA reported.
CNN cannot independently confirm casualty and other reports as Syria's government has severely restricted access to the country.
CNN's Hamdi Alkhshali contributed to this report.


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So you have decided to try a free software operating system such as GNU/Linux, congratulations. GNU/Linux is not that different from other operating systems on the surface. You point and click using the mouse and call down menus to get programs to work.
However, these icons and windows are just the sweet candy coating on top of a much older system, a system of programs designed to be accessed by the command line.
If you know the correct commands, then you can start any program, check your computer's status, and see what files you have stored without having to find the listing in your menu
The command line is an interface that allows you to talk directly to your computer using words called commands. If you know the correct commands, then you can start any program, check your computer's status, and see what files you have stored without having to find the listing in your menu. Also, some functions can only be accessed through the command line, so if you want to truly understand your new system it is worth learning.
Finding a terminal program
To access the command line you will need to open a terminal which will allow you to talk directly to the computer. Look for a program called Xterm, terminal, Konsole, console or something similar. Since different versions of GNU/Linux have different menus, this may take a bit of searching.
The icon for a terminal is usually a computer screen, and different windowing systems will have their preferred terminals. Gnome has a gnome-terminal and KDE has Konsole. On my Debian Linux system, I found a terminal called Xterm under Debian -->Xshells.
First, open a terminal on your computer screen. It will usually list the computer name, or yourname @ yourcomputer and there will be some kind of punctuation mark like a
$ or a
# followed by a blinking box or line-shaped cursor. That blinking thing is called a prompt because it is prompting you to give it a command. Think of it as a genie coming out of a lamp asking you. "What is your command my master?"
If you are at your computer now, you may want to follow along. Open a terminal and then type
whoami. (Remember to run all of the words together with no spaces, and press enter.) Here's what you get:
$ whoami
This may seem to be a bit of a philosophical question to be asking your computer, but don't worry. Your computer has a very concrete world-view.
It should return your login name. The word that you just typed is a command. The computer executed the command and returned a result, your username.
Using commands
Commands are written in a particular way. The command is typed first with no spaces in the name. Then after a space, you can sometimes modify the command by adding what are called options. Options change or limit the way the command is executed. Options are usually preceeded by a dash. A command may also include the name of a file or directory that you want the command to work on. The finished command will look something like this.
command -option file
The best way to understand the command line is to use it. Try typing
Remember that GNU/Linux is case sensitive so you must use lower case. When you press enter, the computer will return to you a list of file names in the directory that you are in. The command
ls stands for list.
When I type this command, I get the following response:
$ ls
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Files are documents, images or programs on your computer. Directories are like boxes that hold the files. You are always considered to be within some directory. Most of the time, commands only act on the files within the directory in which you are located. So, when you list using
ls, you get a list of all of the files in the directory that you are in, not all of the files in the computer.
When you use the command line, you are learning to talk "face to face" with your system. You can tell it precisely and concisely what you want it to do. There is something truly freeing about this power
Command names are usually shorthand ways of representing a word, such as
ls for list, or
mv for move. Sometimes, however, they are oddly abbreviated. Using the command line requires you to learn the names of the commands. The advantage is that by learning the language you can talk directly to the computer without needing a point and click interpreter program explaining what you mean.
When you type
ls the names of all of the files in your current directory are written on the terminal screen, and the prompt returns waiting. It is asking, "What next my master?"
Let's ask the same question again, but we will modify it using an option. Type
ls -a:
$ ls -a
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Remember to add an empty space between the command and the option. The
-a option in this instance stands for all. This command prints a list of files and directories, only it adds some files at the beginning that start with a period. (We call that period a "dot".) These "dot" files are hidden files, and you normally are not meant to see them. That's why they didn't come up the first time you typed
ls. Even though they have been hidden, nothing malicious is meant by hiding them. Dot files are usually configuration files or other files used by the computer. They are hidden to keep you from modifying them by accident.
Now that you can speak the computer's language, you can ask it to show you things as they really are. This is part of the power of the command line, and the reason that most advanced GNU/Linux users prefer it. When you use the command line, there is no intermediary program only telling you what you need to know. The command line does not treat you like an idiot.
The command line does not treat you like an idiot
The option
-a showed you all of your files. There are many other options for
ls. The
-p option helps you tell the difference between a file and a directory by writing a slash beside each directory. The
-l option will print a table of your files that describes not only the name, but the size, the date created, the permissions, and who owns the file. You can type each of these options separately, or you can combine them. To see
ls with all of the options that I described, type
ls -alp. The following is what I get:
$ ls -alp
total 192
drwxr-xr-x 2 rosalyn rosalyn 4096 2006-01-13 00:45 ./
drwxr-xr-x 48 rosalyn rosalyn 4096 2006-01-13 00:45 ../
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If you want to know what all of the options for a command are, and what they stand for, type
--help after the command. It won't work for every command, but it is often the easiest way to learn. When you type
ls --help the computer tells you how to order the parts of the command and it lists the options for
ls explaining what each option does. You may notice that many options have two forms. The short form has one dash and a letter, and a longer form has two dashes and a word. You use whichever one is easier for you to remember. Therefore you could have typed
ls --all to get a list of all files including the dot files. It is an identical command to
ls -a.
Getting help
You can learn commands in many ways. Sometimes you will see them mentioned in articles, or someone might tell you of them. When you learn of a command, it is best to try to find out what it does BEFORE you use it.
The computer assumes that you know what you are doing, and so it will happily erase the entire disk if you ask it to, without pausing to ask if you really meant to.
My name is Mud
Back in the cave days of personal computers, while trying to learn the Apple Disk Operating System, I created a file called mud and did all kinds of commands on it. To learn what the command
init did, I typed
init mud. I expected it to do whatever
init did to a throw away file named "mud". Instead, it erased my drive, and the only thing that came up when I started my computer was the sentence, "my name is mud".
Don't make the same mistake I did. Always look up a command before you use it for the first time.
So how exactly can you look up what a command does? One of the simplest ways is to use the command
whatis. Try typing
whatis and the name of the command in question. It will return a short explanation of a command. For example, when you type
whatis mv you get:
$ whatis mv
mv (1) - move (rename) files
This is fine if you want to know simply what a command does. But if you want to know all of the options as well as seeing examples and more complete descriptions, then you need to look at the manual pages.
man and a command name and a page will open up giving you lots of information about that command written in paragraph form.
man stands for manual and most commands will have a manual page, although some are more complete than others.
If you type
man ls and press enter, then the terminal will fill the screen with the
ls manual page. Hit the space bar to cycle through the pages. When you reach the end of the file, it will usually drop you back onto the command line, but if it doesn't just hit the letter
Q (quit) to exit.
There is also another system of help pages found on your computer called
info pages.
man and
info pages are similar in content, although they vary a bit in how they are displayed. The display system in
info pages is based on an editor called emacs.
man pages are an older system. Even so, you might want to try both. I suggest that you try the following commands:
man man
info info
The first command takes you to the manual page for the command
man, and the second takes you to the information page for the command
If you want to know all of the options as well as seeing examples and more complete descriptions, then you need to look at the manual pages
You may need to type a special command to exit from an
info page. Try pressing the control button and the
C button at the same time (Ctrl-C) or press control and
Q (Ctrl-Q) to exit.
Navigating the file system
The files in a GNU/Linux system branch from large to small like the branching roots of a tree. The trunk of the tree is a directory called root represented by a forward slash (
/). This directory will have a number of subdirectories with names such as bin, lib, usr, home, and etc.
Another way to think of a directory is as a box. The box may contain objects called files, or it may contain other boxes. Each of those boxes may contain other boxes as well. Any location in this "file system" can be described by listing the boxes in order from the biggest box (
/) to the smallest.
Let's say I have a file called
photo1.png which is a picture of me. I can put it in one of the boxes. Then if I want to explain where the photo is, I might write a list of box names such as
This is the complete filename of photo1.png. The list of boxes that tells where it is located (
/home/rosalyn/familyphotos/) is called the path. If you are coming from a Microsoft Windows system, please notice that there is no drive letter in the path name.
To find your current location type the
pwd command:
$ pwd
pwd stands for "print working directory". It will print your current path telling you where you are in the file system.
You can navigate around the file system using the
cd (change directory) command. Type
cd followed by the name of the the directory that you wish to go to. If you type it without a destination it will return you to your home directory.
ls -a again:
$ ls -a
. .. captions.txt photo1.png
The first two files listed are "
." and "
.." called "dot" and "dot-dot". The directory that you are currently in is the "dot" file, and the directory one above you is called "dot-dot". Therefore, to go up to the next higher directory, you type
cd .. (the letters "cd" followed by a space and then dot-dot).
Once you learn the language, a whole new world is open to you
First, let's check our location with
pwd. Then we will move up the file system and check it again:
$ pwd
$ cd ..
$ pwd
Notice that your pathname is shorter. If you started at
/home/username now you will be at
/home. Using
pwd (print working directory),
ls (list), and
cd (change directory) you can now go all around your file system finding where everything is located.
More command line help
Try some of the following websites for more command line help.
Enjoying the command line
When you use the command line, you are learning to talk "face to face" with your system. You can tell it precisely and concisely what you want it to do. There is something truly freeing about this power. You can
kill programs that hang up your system. You can view the
history of the last several commands that you have typed, or a listing of the
top twenty jobs running on your computer at the time. Once you learn the language, a whole new world is open to you.
The point and click graphical interface limits you to what the designer of the system believes that you need. Language is still a much more powerful tool. When you learn to talk the language that your computer understands, there is no middle man. Try it and in time you too may learn to love the command line.


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UPDATE, 2:20 p.m. Friday: A body has been found at the scene of Thursday night's fire in Everett.
EVERETT — Toppled brick walls and debris spilled onto Hewitt Avenue early Friday morning as crews mopped up after a three-alarm fire at a historic downtown building late Thursday night.
The fire started at an apartment complex at 1814 Hewitt Ave., Everett Fire Marshal Rick Robinson said. Most of the streets in the area remained blocked off near the scene.
The fire was confined to the 118-year-old McCrossen Building, located just west of Comcast Arena. The two-story brick structure was built in 1894, and for decades has been home to businesses at street level and 13 apartments above. The structure is on the city's master list of historic downtown properties.
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Tenant Steve Cotter, 56, lost everything in the fire, including a Coca-Cola memorabilia collection owned by his late mother, and a certificate celebrating his grandfather's service in World War II, he said.
He'd lived at the complex about three months. He was baking Thursday night where he heard a ruckus in the hall, he said.
"I opened up the door and a big cloud of smoke hit me in the face," he said.
He turned off the oven, grabbed his coat and ran for the front door. It was only about 10 feet, but he couldn't see anything but smoke, he said.
He returned Friday morning to survey the scene while he waited for news of a new home, chatting with friends who lived across the street.
"The only thing that looks normal in my place through the holes in the wall is my kitchen cabinets," he said.
The building sustained heavy structural damage.
Several other buildings in the area were evacuated Thursday night due to thick smoke.
People who lived in the complex were sheltered overnight by the American Red Cross. Comcast Arena also opened its doors Thursday night to let people in from the cold.
The fire was first reported about 9:30 p.m., Robinson said. Firefighters from around the county remained on scene overnight and into Friday morning. The fire was mostly knocked down by about 3:30 a.m.
Two people who had been watching downwind were taken to a local hospital Thursday night with possible smoke inhalation, Robinson said. The cause of the fire remained under investigation.
Jerry Ott, 40, was one of the neighbors across the street who watched the fire after being asked to leave his building.
Flames seemed to shoot 30 to 40 feet in the air, he said. People were outside, talking and crying, late into the night.
"It was hectic out here," he said.
The owner of the building next door, Brad Seltzer, and his wife, Kathy, waited outside Friday morning with one of the accounting firm employees, Laura Antillon.
"We fared so much better than I feared," Antillon said.
The Seltzers were on scene until about 1 a.m. Friday, Kathy Seltzer said. Their alarm company called them shortly after the fire broke out.
"The smoke was so bad, you could smell it for like a mile before you got here," she said.
People were watching the fire from all over, including nearby rooftops, she said.
"It got to the point that it was so cold we had to go," Kathy Seltzer said.
They returned just hours later, and they could still see wisps of smoke and hear bricks cracking, she said.
"The firefighters were relentless," she said. "They were amazing."
At one point Friday morning, firefighters stepped into the building next door to grab a file for one woman who had a hearing in court. The woman expressed gratitude as she rushed away.
The Seltzers expected it will be several days before they'll know when tenants could return.
The American Red Cross estimated nearly 40 people were displaced, said Chuck Morrison, executive director for the Snohomish County chapter.
Nine Red Cross volunteers were on scene Thursday night, though many of the local volunteers remain on the East Coast for Hurricane Sandy relief, Morrison said.
People were housed overnight at a nearby church. Efforts Friday were expected to focus on finding them temporary housing and food and replacing lost clothing and prescriptions.
According to the Everett Public Library, the McCrossen Building was built for grocers Thayer and McCrossen as part of the initial burst of construction in the city. For a time, the post office was located on the ground floor.
Power to the downtown area was shut off for some time overnight to prevent live power lines from snapping and falling onto people near the scene, Robinson said.
Herald writer Scott North contributed to this story.
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Guy Webster (818) 354-5011 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Donald Savage (202) 358-1547 NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. News Release: 2004-048 February 1, 2004 Mars Rover Spirit Restored to Health NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is healthy again, the result of recovery work by mission engineers since the robot developed computer-memory and communications problems 10 days ago. "We have confirmed that Spirit is booting up normally. Tomorrow we'll be doing some preventive maintenance," Dr. Mark Adler, mission manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., said Sunday morning. Spirit's twin, Opportunity, which drove off its lander platform early Saturday, will be commanded tonight to reach out with its robot arm early Monday, said JPL's Matt Wallace, mission manager. Opportunity will examine the soil in front of it over the next few days with a microscope and with a pair of spectrometer instruments for determining what elements and minerals are present. For Spirit, part of the cure has been deleting thousands of files from the rover's flash memory -- a type of rewritable electronic memory that retains information even when power is off. Many of the deleted files were left over from the seven- month flight from Florida to Mars. Onboard software was having difficulty managing the flash memory, triggering Spirit's computer to reset itself about once an hour. Two days after the problem arose, engineers began using a temporary workaround of sending commands every day to put Spirit into an operations mode that avoided use of flash memory. Now, however, the computer is stable even when operating in the normal mode, which uses the flash memory. "To be safe, we want to reformat the flash and start again with a clean slate," Adler said. That reformatting is planned for Monday. It will erase everything stored in the flash file system and install a clean version of the flight software. Today, Spirit is being told to transmit priority data remaining in the flash memory. The information includes data from atmospheric observations made Jan. 16 in coordination with downward-looking observations by the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter. Also today, Spirit will make new observations coordinated with another Mars Express overflight and will run a check of the rover's miniature thermal emission spectrometer. Spirit will resume examination of a rock nicknamed Adirondack later this week and possibly move on to a lighter-colored rock by week's end. Each martian day, or "sol" lasts about 40 minutes longer than an Earth day. Spirit begins its 30th sol on Mars at 12:44 a.m. Monday, Pacific Standard Time. Opportunity begins its10th sol on Mars at 1:05 p.m. Monday, PST. The two rovers are halfway around Mars from each other. The main task for both Spirit and Opportunity in coming weeks and months is to find geological clues about past environmental conditions at their landing sites, particularly about whether the areas were ever watery and possibly suitable for sustaining life. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Exploration Rover project for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. Images and additional information about the project are available from JPL at
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Schleswig-Holstein, Land (state) located in northwestern Germany. Schleswig-Holstein extends from the lower course of the Elbe River and the state of Hamburg northward to Denmark and thus occupies the southern third of the Jutland Peninsula. Along its eastern coast is the Baltic Sea, and along its western coast is the North Sea. It has a southeastern land boundary with the state of Mecklenburg–West Pomerania. Schleswig-Holstein also includes Fehmarn Island in the Baltic and Helgoland, Sylt, Fohr, Amrum, and other German islands in the North Frisian group. The capital is Kiel. Area 6,085 square miles (15,761 square km). Pop. (2015 est.) 2,858,714.
Schleswig-Holstein can be roughly divided into eastern, central, and western regions. Along the Baltic coast are sheer cliffs indented by fjords. The hilly eastern countryside is rich in lakes. The loamy soil in this area is responsible for one of the best wheat harvests in Germany. In the middle of the state lie the uplands, an old moraine area. The soil is quite poor in this area. The western region consists of flat, marshy, treeless land that can be only partly cultivated. It is known for its numerous ditches, dikes, and ponds. West of the marshes are shallows and flats that are exposed to the tides. Some tidal flats and marshes have been reclaimed, planted with grass, and used for livestock grazing. Most of the western coast lies within a protected area, which limits its development. Climatically, Schleswig-Holstein lies in an area affected by the Gulf Stream, which gives it mild winters and temperate summers. High humidity and rainfall (a yearly average of about 30 inches [760 mm]) make for strong vegetation growth.
A substantial portion of the population is urbanized, being concentrated in Kiel (the main town and the administrative and industrial centre) and also in Lübeck, Neumünster, and Flensburg. The end of World War II brought difficult social problems as retreating German army units and more than one million German evacuees and refugees (most of whom had been driven from the east by the Soviet Red Army) raised Schleswig-Holstein's population about 50 percent above the prewar level. More recently, young workers have tended to migrate away from the state, particularly to Hamburg.
The residual effects of the influx of people from Mecklenburg, East Prussia, and similar areas following World War II have led to a decline of dialects, although Low German (Plattdeutsch) is still spoken (see German language). In the north of the state, there is a small Danish-speaking minority with its own schools. The Danish and the Frisians on the west coast are both recognized as national minorities and granted special protections by the state's constitution. Schleswig-Holstein is largely Protestant.
Although agriculture accounts for a very small portion of the state's economic output, Schleswig-Holstein still uses most of its total area for agricultural purposes. The integration of farms, food-processing plants, and marketing concerns is increasingly characteristic of the agricultural system. Wheat, sugar beets, and potatoes are among the more common crops. Livestock provides a far higher proportion of farm incomes, however, than field crops. Milk and milk products, pigs, and cattle breeding are major sources of farm income. Although the state has few forest reserves, its importance as a supplier of nursery plants for the forests of other regions has caused it to be called "the cradle of German forests."
Industries are important to the state's economy. Major branches include shipbuilding, machine construction, and electrical engineering—all important in Kiel—as well as the paper industry. Tourism also contributes to the economy.
The state's long coastline and strategic location have, for centuries, made the area a focus of sea traffic. The Baltic fjords contain the large harbours of Lübeck, Kiel, and Flensburg. The Kiel Canal, connecting the North Sea and the Baltic, is heavily used.
The popularly elected members of the state's legislative body, the Landtag, serve five-year terms. The Landtag elects a minister-president, who in turn appoints a cabinet. The state government is responsible for education, culture, justice, and internal security of the state.
Schleswig-Holstein is known as an education centre and is the site of the historic University of Kiel, founded in 1665. The Institute for World Economies at Kiel is one of the oldest economic-research institutes in Europe and has a very large library specializing in political economy. There are dozens of significant museums, primarily concerned with local and state history. The Hanseatic City of Lübeck has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1987. Schleswig-Holstein Wattenmeer (Wadden Sea) National Park protects the tidal flats and coastal wetlands along the state's west coast and, together with Wattenmeer National Park of Lower Saxony and the Waddenzee conservation area in the Netherlands, was inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2009.
The state of Schleswig-Holstein was created out of the historical and cultural regions of Schleswig and Holstein. Schleswig lies directly north of Holstein on the Jutland Peninsula. Both Schleswig and Holstein have at times been subject to the claims and counterclaims of Denmark, Sweden, the Holy Roman Empire, Prussia, and Austria. The region has had Danish minorities in predominantly German areas and German minorities surrounded by Danes, and consequently its history has been one of border and sovereignty disputes and, more recently, accommodations.
In the 12th century Schleswig became a dukedom, and it remained a fief associated (but not without dispute) with Denmark until 1864. Holstein developed somewhat more independently; it was ruled for centuries as a duchy by the kings of Denmark but at the same time remained a fief of the Holy Roman Empire. After 1815 Holstein was incorporated in the newly formed German Confederation.
During the 1840s, issues relating to the rights of Schleswig's and Holstein's respective German- and Danish-speaking minorities, to the succession rights of the Danish royal family, and to Denmark's interests in the two duchies resulted in the duchies' becoming a bone of contention between Denmark and Prussia and then between Denmark, Prussia, and Austria. At this time the population of Schleswig was Danish in its northern portion, German in the south, and mixed in the northern towns and centre. The population of Holstein was almost entirely German.
The Napoleonic Wars had awakened German national feeling, and the political bonds that had historically existed between Schleswig and Holstein suggested that the two regions should form a single state within the German Confederation. A countermovement developed among the Danish population in northern Schleswig and from 1838 in Denmark itself, where the Liberals insisted that Schleswig had belonged to Denmark for centuries and that the frontier between Germany and Denmark had to be the Eider River (which had historically marked the border between Schleswig and Holstein). The Danish nationalists thus hoped to incorporate Schleswig into Denmark, in the process detaching it from Holstein. German nationalists conversely sought to confirm Schleswig's association with Holstein, in the process detaching the former from Denmark. These differences led in March 1848 to an open uprising by Schleswig-Holstein's German majority in support of independence from Denmark and close association with the German Confederation. The uprising was helped by the military intervention of Prussia, whose army drove Denmark's troops from Schleswig-Holstein. This war between Denmark and Prussia lasted three years (1848–50) and ended only when the great powers pressured Prussia into accepting the London Protocol of 1852. Under the terms of this peace agreement, the German Confederation returned Schleswig-Holstein to Denmark. In an agreement with Prussia under the 1852 protocol, the Danish government in return undertook not to tie Schleswig more closely to Denmark than to its sister duchy of Holstein.
In 1863, nevertheless, the Liberal government prevailed on the new Danish king, Christian IX, to sign a new joint constitution for Denmark and Schleswig. Prussia and Austria were thus freed to intervene as the upholders of the 1852 protocol. In the ensuing German-Danish War (1864), Danish military resistance was crushed by Prussia and Austria in two brief campaigns. By the Peace of Vienna (October 1864), Christian IX ceded Schleswig and Holstein to Prussia and Austria. Prussia and Austria then quarreled with each other over the newly won territories, and, as a result of Prussia's victory over Austria in the Seven Weeks' War of 1866, both Schleswig and Holstein became part of Prussia. This arrangement left the Danish-speaking majority of North Schleswig discontent under Prussian rule.
After the formation of the German Empire in 1871, the Schleswig-Holstein question narrowed to a contest between Germany and Denmark over North Schleswig. The Treaty of Prague (1866), which had concluded the Seven Weeks' War, provided that North Schleswig would be reunited with Denmark if the majority of that area's population chose to do so by a free vote, but in 1878 Prussia and Austria agreed to cancel this provision. Following Germany's defeat in World War I, separate plebiscites were held in 1920 in the northern and southern portions of North Schleswig so that their respective inhabitants could choose between Denmark and Germany. The northern part of North Schleswig voted 70 percent to join Denmark, while the southern part voted 80 percent to remain within Germany. The northern part of North Schleswig thus became part of Denmark, and the southern portion became part of Germany. The resulting Danish-German boundary in Schleswig has lasted to the present day and is no longer a matter of contention. After World War II the German part of Schleswig was joined with Holstein to form the constituent state of the Federal Republic of Germany. (See also Eider Program; Hanseatic League.)


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