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Mint Linux, unable to unmount a disk as root!
Posted 03 March 2012 - 09:39 PM
I found that Sabayon Linux Live. worked in this machine, so I installed it. As a short time progressed, I started getting popups that the 1TB HD had disk problems. I wanted to verify this, so in an external DVD drive, I placed a 64-bit Mint live version in the machine, and I unplugged the external USB 1TB. When I was sure Mint Linux had taken over, I re-plugged in the 1TB hard drive with Sabayon Linux in it's contents.
I then found where the Firefox was located and started it in one of the virtual desktops. Then I searched for "Konosole", and activated it. I went into the "Konsole" and tried to "unmount -f /dev/sdb1". Mint told me that I wasn't root, so I couldn't unmount anything! Next, I used Firefox to go to the Mint web sited, and found out that there was no password involved and only mint as the user name. Went back to the "Konsole", and established myself as "root". Again, I tried to unmount /dev/sdb1, and it kept on telling me that it can't do that because the "device is busy", and I couldn't un-busy it as root! I then tried to 'umount -f /media./*. again, I got the same response! No love there!
My goal:
I realize that my hair is getting gray, but things like this is accelerating the process! I simply want to unmount Sabayon Linux, and then run e2fsck on the hard drive to verify whether it is good or bad. Simple as that! Why are things getting so complicated as to make what used to be simple that much harder? Mint automatically mounts the hard drives that it recognizes. This time, I don't need that process. I don't want to clobber the integrity of the 1TB hard drive should it be okay, and that it might be Sabayon that's giving me false errors.
Another thing that bothers me. Now, when a hard drive is mounted in /media, instead of simply identifying it as "/dev/sdxx, we get hit with huge sets of numbers. With those large numbers, how can I identify what the numerical value of the hard drive that I'm dealing with? Where do I find where the value of /dev/sdx is? How do I identify one hard drive from another? It seems that I've had to do a lot more extensive research to find with hard drive that I'm dealing with now. And that's a waste of time.
In my setup, only Windows is in an internal hard drive. Linux, in an external USB port in a HD docking station. and occasionally, I use external DVD/BD drives in a USB port. No dual-booting from the same hard drive. And so, this sometimes complicates the act if identifying which hard drive owns which identity.
Another question:
If MINT is "libre", and were I deciding to install it, how and where do I go/do to install the "proprietary" drivers that I need to function normally? Do I have to go way out of my way and bust my a.. to find and install them?
I hope that I can get the answers to this. I need aspirin, to take care of my headache. When this is over I'll know whether Sabayon is unstable, or the hard drive is deffective. I went through a lot of OS"s to find one that works in this machine. Hope I don't have to start that process all over again.
Posted 03 March 2012 - 10:35 PM
You can't unmount a partition that you are accessing with ANY application. In other words, if you have that partition opened and viewing it within say Thunar or Nautilus, you won't be able to unmount because the app is using the mounted partition. Close all apps/windows accessing the partition, cd out of it if you're in the command line, then try umount.
All those numbers you're talking about are UUID numbers. That distro does not use the old /dev/sdx nomenclature. It's using drive UUIDs instead.
I'll be back to check on you later...
Posted 03 March 2012 - 10:41 PM
Ahhh ... I don't understand what you did there -- found Firefox on what distro? If you have anything at all opened on the drive you want to unmount, then you can't umount it.
I keep at hand a few livecds like SystemRescue and Pmagic and Puppy for problems like this -- when you boot those you will be root with no BS involved. I frankly won't use a distro that makes me jump through hoops to become root. That's more protection than I want.
And for the drive you want to fsck, just don't mount it at all. I understand that maybe your live distro could have automounted it, but if you don't open any files on it then you should be able to umount it.
Edit: yes, re UUID numbers -- you don't have to use those, in the situation you are in. Issue an #fdisk -l command to see what is the /dev/sdxx drive name you just plugged in, then create your own new mount point and manually mount the partition.
#mkdir /mnt/my-sdb1
#mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/my-sdb1
And then you will know where it is mounted without the hassle of UUID numbers.
Edited by burninbush, 03 March 2012 - 10:45 PM.
Posted 03 March 2012 - 10:54 PM
The terminal is on the taskbar and ready for you to run your fsck command.
Tweak it 'til it breaks, then learn how to fix it.
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Posted 04 March 2012 - 10:08 PM
Erick: I'm aware of not trying to access a mounted hard drive, and running an app from that location. Especially when I need it to be unmounted so I can run "e2fsck" on it from an external OS, in this case, namely, MINT. Otherwise I won't be able to determine whether it is the OS or the hard drive that is defective.
As far as the UUID numbers, they are a real pain (your know where). Let me see you remember that whole list of numbers. And I assume that the UUID number pertains to the entire hard drive? And now, the drive is mounted in "/media/" as the UUID number. Now, is that user friendly? So this requires another would-be unnecessary step, just to find out what is the /dev/sdb?? is.
To Mr. Burningbush: I went through all the MINT's files to find Firefox, so I could go on MINT's web site, to find out what passwords were needed to get along with the MINT's live version's requirements. I wanted to do this to ease my pain by becoming 'root' in Mint, and perhaps unmount /dev/sdb1's partition. This should have allowed me to run "e2fsck" (mint reported that it couldn't find "e4fsck") on the USB connected 1TB HD. But no matter what I did, MiNT had chains tied to that hard drive, and would not release it, even if I was root, was not using any files from Sabayon OS, and had automatically mounted it (with UUID#, yuck!).
Used the partition application provided in MINT, since it also has a unmount command, But it too, had a conspiracy with MINT. It wouldn't unmount Sabayon Linux OS (/dev/sdb1). I was frustrated, and it didn't occur to me to use fdisk to find the /dev/sd??. Thank you for that. But again, another useless layer that should not be there, so a simple command like "e2fsck" could be run.
I can understand using a rescue disk to possibly achieve my goal. But AFIK, puppy is not a rescue disk, is it? Does it automatically mount external partitions when it is started? Automounting is a nice feature for normal usage, but not for troubleshooting. Also I read so many praises about MINT on this web site, I thought that it could possibly be ideal for the simple task that I wanted to achieve. Guess that I was wrong!
BTW, if I ever get to find out if the Sabayon OS is defective, or if it's the hard drive, I was thinking of using MINT next to replace it. After all, it works in live mode, why not in installation, perhaps? Anyway, if that comes to be the case, I'll have upcoming questions about MINT, before I make a final commitment.
Do you all agree with me? Should I dump MINT for testing out /dev/sdb1? And possibly use a rescue disk instead? Can you promise me that the rescue disk will easily allow me to become 'root'? Will that rescue CDROM, NOT automatically mount external hard drives' partition? Will it make me jump hoops because of UUID's, in order to find out what the /dev/sdb?? is for that particular rescue OS? Or will that rescue OS, simply use the /dev/sdb?? as the drive's designation information?
Unless you know why MINT is treating me as if I was or have a file open on the Sabayon hard drive to be tested, and how to overcome that, I will have to look for other means for testing /dev/sdb. Oh, and another question, if I issue the command "eject", which a USB hard drive can't be ejected, would that be the same as un-mounting unwanted partitions? And then, could I proceed with e2fsck?
Thanks! Cheers!
Posted 04 March 2012 - 10:26 PM
I highly recommend PartedMagic, download the image and make a LiveUSB with Unetbootin (or burn a CD). You are golden. No handcuffs, no chains, no hoops. All the tools you need.
Tweak it 'til it breaks, then learn how to fix it.
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Posted 04 March 2012 - 10:38 PM
Thanks! Cheers!
So ... I have just now booted both Puppy and Pmagic -- when those come up, and you open a terminal window, you are root, no foolishness required. Neither distro mounts any partitions whatever, unless you specifically ask it to do that [both have nice gui utils to mount with, when you want to]. Neither distro uses UUID to name devices. Both have a bunch of different fsck utils. Pmagic includes Firefox, and is intended for partition work and rescue and backup work. I would start with that one, about 180mb size. It copies itself to memory and then ejects the cd-r so you can use the drive for other stuff. Just go to www.distrowatch.org and get the latest one they offer. http://sourceforge.net/projects/partedmagi...27.iso/download
Posted 04 March 2012 - 11:26 PM
Posted 05 March 2012 - 02:14 AM
Posted 05 March 2012 - 03:45 AM
I've started using LABELS for partitions. It makes identifying them much easier, and you can even use the label in fstab. eg:
LABEL=green-media /mnt/media-wdgreen ext2 noauto,users,noatime 0 0
LABEL=backup-wdgreen /mnt/backup-wdgreen ext2 noauto,users,noatime 0 0
Much more info at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Partition/ Section 6.
You can set the label when you make a partition in GParted, or do it later with e2label or tune2fs -L.
Another trick I use is to make all partitions a different size, so they are easily identifiable by size.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Posted 05 March 2012 - 09:02 PM
Before giving up on Sabayon, I executed the command "eject". That was it, that Sabayon OS was gone, and no longer recognized by the rescue disk. At that stage, I didn't care anymore. I do know now that ejecting an OS, really kills the connection, even if the plug is still inserted. I thought of pulling the USB plug and re-inserting it in again, but then, I assumed that the external hard drive would be once more mounted.
So now I'm off to a different set of problems. Hope that I can somehow cure this Firefox dimentia thing. It is still happening as I'm typing this. It will stop typing, and suddenly start up again, or the chosen text size misses the bus, and eventually catches up.
Thanks for your help, I appreciate it.
Posted 06 March 2012 - 01:33 PM
Posted 06 March 2012 - 04:02 PM
Found some problems with MINT's Firefox. Anytime that FF needs to access the server, or a website, the browser freezes up, until it gets a response. And we're not talking about mere seconds. Also I investigated some music sites. Got one running, and now I can't turn if off unless I shut-down the browser. I'm on other web sites at the moment, and that music is still blasting out!
I'm still trying out other features in this OS. It will take me a while to check out the whole thing.
I found out this morning that this MINT version DEBIAN based, and it's supposed to be Gnome. I don't see anything that resembles GNOME. I did find a lot of KDE files, but not KDE itself.
Posted 06 March 2012 - 07:21 PM
Nuke it ALL. Install something new. Slackware, maybe.
Posted 06 March 2012 - 07:51 PM
Nuke it ALL. Install something new. Slackware, maybe.
I need time to recover. I appreciate your suggestions. However, I don't think it will be Slackware. The last time I dealth wth that OS, I nearly got ulcers, chasing down missing dependencies. I really want to be a user, instead of being a Linux Mechanic.
Posted 06 March 2012 - 07:57 PM
I need time to recover. I appreciate your suggestions. However, I don't think it will be Slackware. The last time I dealth wth that OS, I nearly got ulcers, chasing down missing dependencies. I really want to be a user, instead of being a Linux Mechanic.
The Fuduntu Difference:
The latest stable Linux Kernel (3.2.9)
Aesthetically pleasing design
Unbelievable Performance
Unparalleled battery life
A few of the default packages found in Fuduntu:
Adobe Flash (licensed)
Fluendo MP3 Codec (licensed)
Infinality Freetype
Nautilus Elementary
Might be worth a look.
You'll never need to install it again
"I did and I'm really happy"
Posted 06 March 2012 - 09:07 PM
I need time to recover. I appreciate your suggestions. However, I don't think it will be Slackware. The last time I dealth wth that OS, I nearly got ulcers, chasing down missing dependencies. I really want to be a user, instead of being a Linux Mechanic.
HAHA! Nothing wrong with that sentiment. There are lots and lots of great distributions out there. As we've been suggesting to rpiz on another thread here, find the shoe that fits best and wear it.
Have FUN!
Keep us posted.
Posted 06 March 2012 - 09:41 PM
Have FUN!
Keep us posted.
My shoes are worn out from searching. Still looking for the best fit!
Posted 06 March 2012 - 10:08 PM
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Michael Barron, the director of BeLonG To, Ireland's national service and advocacy organization for LGBT young people, has been invited to the White House for a series of meeting with senior administration officials marking St. Patrick's Day.
The unprecedented invitation comes in recognition of BeLonG To's groundbreaking work nationally and internationally to combat bullying in schools and to support LGBT young people facing harassment and discrimination.
Barron, who was named Person of the Year at the 2013 National Gay and Lesbian Awards (GALAS) last month, has achieved international prominence for successfully advocating for significant national policy changes in the areas of education, suicide prevention, and drug and alcohol use.
"It came as a surprise, which is nice," Barron told the Irish Voice. "BeLonG To has been working in the whole area of combating homophobic and transphobic bullying and supporting LGBT young people for 10 years, and more recently some of that work has been international. We helped UNESCO write their first ever international guide to tackle anti-gay bullying, and that was our first contact with the U.S. government on the issue."
LGBT issues, thanks to a directive from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, are a foreign policy objective of the Obama administration. In Paris last year, to talk about his organization's goals, Barron shared the stage with under secretary for education Russlynn Ali, creating a connection between Barron and the U.S. government.
Then last September the American Embassy in Dublin asked Barron to attend an International Visiting Leaders Program in the U.S. organized by the State Department.
"Our work at BeLonG To has also been recognized by the European Commission and the UN Human Rights Commission and the combination of all of those and our good relations with the U.S. Embassy have led to our invite," Barron explains.
Bullying, according to a recent study, is an epidemic in U.S. schools. One in six American school children report being bullied verbally, physically and online, two to three times a month or more, many for more than a year.
In Ireland the organization's work has been complicated by the Catholic ethos of most second level schools, which can take a hostile response to the organization's advocacy.
"We've been at it for 10 years and it's been a tough battle," Barron explains. "It hasn't been an easy task.
"There's a very strong influence of the Catholic Church in Irish education, which does act as a barrier to creating schools that are LGBT friendly. We've made great progress nonetheless."
This year BeLonG To worked with the Irish Department of Education to produce a national anti-bullying action plan. The plan states that bullying is based on prejudice, and it has created an action plan with a lot of resources behind it to combat bullying wherever it appears.
"Our plan has made it safer for schools, particularly religious schools, to tackle LGBT issues without fear of repercussion," Barron says.
"Tomorrow the government is introducing a bill in the Irish Parliament to overturn the so-called Religious Exemption Clause that might have been used to discriminate against gay teachers. That loophole will be closed to prevent schools discriminating against LGBT teachers because of their religious ethos."
The American Embassy in Dublin puts forward about 15 people a year for a St. Patrick's Day visit to the White House.
"I think it's very symbolic that an LGBT organization is being invited," says Barron. "Prioritizing women's rights and LGBT rights under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration has been very significant."
Barron will also visit New York City to work with GLSEN, the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network.
"I'll be fundraising by visiting foundations and Irish events in the city. The Irish economy is difficult at the moment so we have to look elsewhere," Barron said.
"We're trying to tap into the LGBT Irish diaspora who would like to invest back into the country to ensure that other people don't have to leave the country because they are LGBT."
For more information visit www.belongto.org.

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Photos by Virginia Lee Hunter
ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2003, AROUND 5:30 P.M., a single-engine Cessna 172 passes over the Santa Monica Mountains, just west of the 405 freeway, heading southeast at 3,500 feet. Over the next 10 minutes it will fly over Brentwood, LAX, Hawthorne, Torrance and Long Beach. Because it will stay carefully in the prescribed north-south transit corridor through the Los Angeles Special Flight Rules Area and squawk code 1201 on the transponder; air traffic control will pay no attention to the plane, and the pilot won't be required to file a flight plan or identify himself in any way.
Although the pilot doesn't know it, and wouldn't care if he did, he is about to pass over the sprawling Brentwood home of a high-powered movie agent who, at the moment, is standing on her tennis court, totally dominating a bearded, paunchy screenwriter with her powerful forehand and blazing serve. In fact, it occurs to the agent, as she delivers yet another winner, she couldn't have asked for a better day. At 10 in the morning, the Porsche dealer had delivered her new Cayenne SUV. At a lunch meeting, she closed a two-picture deal with Miramax for a hot new client. Now she's punishing the writer so badly he's too winded to talk, let alone make another smart-ass gibe. Later that evening, she'll be celebrating dinner at Spago, drinks at the Sky Bar. But just as she tosses up the ball for what she fully expects will be the match-winning point, she notices a fleeting white cloud overhead, like a mini-rain squall, trailing a plane across the sky. What in the hell are they doing now? she wonders. Spraying for more Medflies?
As the agent pounds out the final shot and walks over to the net to flash her infamous "I win again" smile and shake the writer's damp, defeated hand, she makes a mental note to put the Cayenne in the garage before dressing for dinner don't they realize that that Medfly crap can ruin the finish on a car?
Two days later and 22 miles across town, a veterinarian from Bellflower is kneeling in a longtime client's back yard, examining Martha, a potbellied pig. Martha is lying on her side, covered in blue sores, dripping blood from the corner of her mouth and making a harsh, shrill sound whenever she breathes. Having never seen anything like this before, the veterinarian injects the pig with antibiotics and, telling the weeping owner he needs to research the problem, gets in his car and drives home. All the way he keeps thinking, Blue sores on a pig? Where have I heard that before?
In the early hours of Saturday morning, the answer comes to him so suddenly that he finds himself sitting up in bed. Of course, he says. There'd been a question about blue pig sores in an animal-epidemiology test in veterinary school. Switching on the light, he picks up the phone and leaves a message on the county health-department communicable-disease reporting hot line: "Please call me back. I'm a veterinarian in Bellflower. I've come across something I think you ought to know about."
That same morning, a kindergarten teacher from Riverside, flying a Beechcraft Bonanza to join her husband for the weekend in Lake Havasu City, spots a Cessna 172 on Cadiz Dry Lake in the eastern Mojave. Thinking that perhaps someone had engine trouble or ran out of gas, she cuts power, banks left and sets down beside the Cessna. That's strange, she thinks, as she turns her engine off. Strips of gray duct tape hang down from the inside of the Cessna's cockpit door, as if the pilot has been trying to protect himself from the outside air. The first thing she sees, when she looks inside, is a stainless-steel box, bolted to the floor behind the pilot's seat and connected to the aircraft's side-mounted venturi by a black vacuum hose. "Whoa," she says, freezing in the doorway. "What in the world is that?"
As it happens, it is not only a bio-weapons delivery platform, it's such a sophisticated one that when the pilot flew over the middle of LAX two days previously, hardly anyone on the ground even noticed him, let alone realized that he had just laid down a long, near-invisible cloud of anthrax spores, each one so infinitesimally fine and light that 25 in a row were still no wider than a human hair.
Over the course of six hours, a gentle westerly wind blew these tiny spores across much of the L.A. basin, where they settled on homes, yards, patios and cafés; floated into windows and intake vents; landed on freeways, soccer fields, dog parks and Brentwood tennis courts. By Thursday morning, 624,000 people and nearly as many animals had inhaled them. It was the most deadly attack ever made on America, and it had been carried out both in total secrecy and with consummate ease though, for the moment, not a single person had any symptoms at all.
Those don't begin for another day and a half, on Friday, March 7, when the first dozen victims, including the Brentwood agent, come down with a cough, fever and feeling of general malaise. The agent calls her secretary first thing in the morning and tells her to cancel all her meetings; she's spending the day in bed.
Three or four times during the day, she vaguely hears her answering machine pick up and her secretary's voice saying something about calling "Harvey at Miramax." But she feels too weak and exhausted to get out of bed, let alone match wits with Weinstein. It isn't until 7 p.m. Friday night that her bearded, tennis-playing writer friend shows up for yet another story conference, only to find her semicoherent, lying half in and half out of bed, looking strangely bluish, drenched in sweat, running a high fever and breathing in a harsh, shrill way.
"Send an ambulance right away," he wails to the 911 dispatcher. "Something's wrong with my agent!"
THE YOUNG DOCTOR ON CALL AT THE L.A. COUNty Department of Health Services Acute Communicable Disease Control Unit doesn't quite know what to make of all this anthrax anxiety when she receives the message on Saturday morning. No one gets anthrax in Los Angeles. It's a rural disease, and a rare one at that. But this morning she spoke with a Bellflower veterinarian who thought he might have a potbellied pig with anthrax, and then a resident at the UCLA Medical Center who says he has a delirious 34-year-old woman from Brentwood in critical condition with bluish skin. "We have her on a ventilator," the resident tells her. "This morning she kept asking for someone named Harvey, and when I took off her mask she coughed blood in my face."
"Yuck," says the county-health doctor. "But I don't understand. Why are you calling me?"
"Well," says the resident. "Her chest X-rays show a grossly extended mediastinum. I'm sure you know what that could mean."
"Wow," she says, catching her breath. "Okay, I'm calling my team and we'll be right over." Second-stage anthrax isn't a subtle disease, she knows. And the first place it shows up is the lymph nodes in the chest. While the doctor is still on the freeway, she gets another call from the Bellflower veterinarian, who says he just spent an hour researching blue pig sores on the Internet. "And the symptoms are classic," he tells her. "The pig died of anthrax."
"Why do you say that?" asks the doctor.
"Have you heard of Sverdlovsk?"
As a matter of fact, she has. She'd had a lecture on it in medical school, and it gave her nightmares for a week. Sverdlovsk was the Ural Mountains town where the Bolsheviks executed Czar Nicholas II and his whole family. More recently it was also the site of a secret Soviet plant for manufacturing anthrax. In April 1979, maintenance workers removed clogged filters from the plant exhaust vent and then left a note telling the next shift to re-install clean filters before resuming production. The incoming crew missed the note and ran the plant without any filters for perhaps an hour, allowing perhaps a gram (one-twenty-eighth of an ounce) of weapons-grade anthrax to drift downwind in a long, invisible plume over fields, worker housing and a ceramics factory. Two days later, farmers started finding pigs covered with blue sores and dead sheep all over the place. Two days after that, people began showing up at hospitals, their skin blue, coughing up blood, complaining that their lungs were on fire, sweating profusely, and then in some cases dying on the spot. When pathologists did autopsies, they were stunned to discover that the victims' lungs had turned to jelly or that their brains were enveloped in bright-red sheaths.
No one in the West ever knew for sure how many people died in Sverdlovsk (the general in charge of the anthrax plant killed himself as soon as people started dying, and the KGB changed all the death certificates from anthrax to "food poisoning"), but estimates ranged from 68 to 300 or more. In an effort to limit the spread of the disease, the military ordered a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Low-flying aircraft sprayed chemicals over the fields and trees, while workers covered grassy areas with asphalt and lined ditches with concrete. All the local dogs were captured and killed. Because many victims died at home, authorities came to victims' houses, doused their bodies in bleach, wrapped them in plastic and hauled them away for burial. Then they took all the bed sheets and sprayed the dishes. A few days later, they dug up all the bodies and washed them all over again.
AS SOON AS THE COUNTY-HEALTH doctor arrives at the intensive care unit of UCLA's medical center, the first thing she sees is a social worker talking in the hallway to a bearded man with trembling hands and a stricken face. Inside intensive care, the nurses are distraught. "The woman died 15 minutes ago," the shaken resident tells the young doctor. "The blood culture is back now, too and it's positive for anthrax."
The county-health doctor immediately reaches for her cell phone to notify her office, but events have already overtaken her. Twenty minutes earlier, a San Bernardino Fire Department HAZMAT team reported from the Mojave that they had just examined a Cessna 172 on Cadiz Dry Lake and the aircraft venturi (vacuum generator) was covered with a fine tan powder that appeared to be anthrax.
With that announcement, phone lines light up all over the state and country as calls go out to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the FBI, the Terrorism Early Warning group, the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, the White House, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Environmental Protection Agency, the governor, the mayor, the Coast Guard and the FAA. Shortly thereafter, behind an 8-foot fence topped with coiled razor wire at Los Angeles County's emergency operations center, on Eastern Avenue near Cal State Los Angeles, staffers rush to their seats behind a big horseshoe-shaped console filled with phones and computers. A similar scene takes place at the city emergency operations center, four stories under City Hall. In the meantime, over at LAX, a National Weather Service Doppler-radar operator pores over C-band weather tapes for the previous 48 hours until, around 11 p.m., he finally finds what he's been searching for a small aircraft flying across LAX from north to south followed by a faint, rapidly vanishing trace, as might be caused by a mini-rain squall.
"There it is," he says.
"There's what?" asks the FAA supervisor.
"The cloud of anthrax. It starts over Brentwood, then goes in a straight line all the way to Long Beach."
"God help us," says the supervisor, reaching for the open line to NORAD.
Seven minutes later, at Fresno Air National Guard Base, an F-16 pilot throws down his coffee, runs from the ready room, slips into the cramped cockpit of the duty aircraft, fires up the engine and starts rolling even before he's fully strapped in. As soon as he reaches the runway, he punches in the afterburner, and the plane is airborne within eight seconds. Pulling back on the side-mounted control stick, the pilot puts the plane in a near-vertical climb. By the time the aircraft reaches the end of the field, it is already passing through 8,000 feet.
A little more than ten minutes after that, sleeping residents of Los Angeles are startled awake by repeated sonic booms as F-16s begin intercepting bewildered airline pilots who haven't quite gotten the word about the attack and thus are slightly off course, at the wrong altitude or squawking an incorrect transponder code. When residents turn on their TVs, they are astonished to see reporters wearing (useless but dramatic) khaki-colored war-surplus gas masks and doing standup commentary from Westside intersections as police cruisers and fire trucks, sirens wailing and lights flashing, race up and down the streets.
Relying on a Monterey Institute study showing that in light winds aerosolized anthrax spores tend to settle on the ground within the first 14 miles, a Sheriff's captain in the county emergency operations center draws a 27-by-14-mile rectangle on a map of L.A. County and arbitrarily designates it the "containment zone." The idea is to put squad cars at major intersections and wooden barricades everywhere else. He doesn't dare call it a quarantine. He might have been able to do that 100 years ago, when Americans still understood the dangers of polio or smallpox, but today most people would just tell the cop to screw himself.
As for evacuation, that is an even worse solution for a non-contagious disease like anthrax. It would take weeks to clear a city like Los Angeles presuming you had a place to put 3.8 million former residents. Instead, starting at 6 a.m., an LAPD spokesman begins making a series of announcements on television, radio and all emergency frequencies telling residents to "shelter in place" stay calm, stay indoors, tape the windows, bring in the pets, close chimney dampers, put towels in any door cracks and await further word.
At 10 a.m. Sunday morning, the Centers for Disease Control holds a press conference to announce that researchers at the Army infectious diseases research lab at Fort Detrich, Maryland, have just confirmed that the substance found on the Cessna venturi is finely milled, weapons-grade anthrax. Judging from the size of the stainless-steel container (the size of a 5-pound bag of flour), they estimate the weight of the release at 2 kilograms.
Over at Caltech, an assistant professor in biotechnology quickly figures out that a package that size amounts to some 10 trillion spores. Then referencing a Defense Intelligence Agency study that concluded that 50 percent of the people who inhale 25,000 spores apiece will die, the professor tells a reporter on live TV that there was enough anthrax on that plane to kill "200 million souls" (which is true enough only if one assumes that every single spore ends up in someone's lungs and not, as most do, on trees, lawns, roads and roofs).
People have been leaving Los Angeles all night, but with that announcement the floodgates break. Residents of the containment-zone area burst through wooden barricades, hurtle though intersections, ignore both traffic cops and signal lights, and fly up freeway on-ramps, only to discover a sea of brake lights. When northbound lanes on Interstate 5 become gridlocked, motorists drive on shoulders, median strips, or even switch over to the southbound lanes, instantly turning them into northbound lanes too.
Within hours there is a 400-mile traffic jam between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Gas stations quickly run out of fuel, but when station owners put up "No Gas" signs, infuriated motorists, in one instance, push over their gas pumps and, in another, shoot their windows out. Alternative routes quickly become impassable, too, as local vigilantes block routes into their towns with school buses and trailer trucks to keep out "infected" motorists from L.A.
Recognizing that the freeways are unusable, some Los Angeles residents try to get out of the city on surface streets, two-lane roads, dirt roads and, for those with four-wheel drive, fire trails over the San Gabriels. One white-faced driver takes a turn so fast on Angeles Crest Highway that he flies off a cliff in a cloud of dust, a tragedy that doesn't even cause the cars behind him to slow down. Raggedy fleets of small boats and large yachts pour out of marinas in Long Beach, San Pedro and Marina del Rey, headed for Catalina, San Diego, or any other place as long as it isn't L.A. In Venice, three young men break into a sporting-goods store, steal three kayaks and paddle out to sea.
In the meantime, at governmental offices in Los Angeles, Sacramento and Washington, officials at all levels pull out their bioterrorism playbooks, open the pages to anthrax and start issuing commands. All incoming flights are diverted from LAX, and all outgoing flights are stopped on the ramp. M-16-toting National Guard troops run through the corridors, while bomb-sniffing dogs jump over ticket counters and paw through the luggage. At the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Coast Guard patrol boats fly across the water, while 18-year-old apprentice seamen, in flak jackets and steel helmets, finger the triggers of their .60-caliber machine guns. Beneath the surface, scuba divers swim through the murky water under 400-foot container ships, looking for planted mines. On the docks, harried inspectors turn up the sensitivity on their cargo-container radiation detectors until they start getting false hits on natural background radiation in Italian granite countertops and Spanish ceramic tiles.
The FAA grounds all non-scheduled privately owned small planes within California, which so irritates one actor with his own Citation II at Santa Monica Airport that he takes off at 2 a.m. without permission, flying low and fast to the east, without navigation lights and ignoring repeated requests from the tower to land. He makes it all the way to Altadena before an Air National Guard F-16 pilot equipped with infrared sensors and night-vision goggles slips in behind him and fires off two quick bursts from a six-barrel cannon, sending the Citation II crashing into the flanks of Mount Wilson. The ensuing brushfire burns all the way to the solar observatory.
In Washington, D.C., the secretary of defense puts military bases on the highest alert level Threat Condition Delta (used when a terror attack has just happened or is currently in progress) while radar-equipped Navy E2 Hawkeye early-warning aircraft fly offshore and a Los Angeles class fast-attack submarine cruises at periscope depth though the San Pedro channel. The governor mobilizes the National Guard to protect 450 "high risk" targets, ranging from Metro Rail to City Hall. Dozens of FBI agents, wearing bulletproof vests and carrying shotguns, take up stations around the Federal Building in Westwood. Humvees equipped with Stinger ground-to-air missiles surround the Port of Los Angeles and LAX.ä
THE POLICE, WHO ARE USED TO BEing in charge in any emergency, find it hard to adjust to a situation where other emergency personnel show up and take control. At the Farmers Market, a health worker orders a policeman who walked through a taped-off hazard zone to undress for decontamination. When the policeman indignantly refuses, she shrugs and hoses him down with disinfectant, causing the policeman to punch her out. Other health workers rush to her defense, and by the time a police lieutenant arrives to defuse the situation, the cop is standing in the middle of a circle of a dozen angry paramedics, waving his gun and shouting, "You're all under arrest."
At the county emergency operations center, a supply officer sends out a request for tents, 100,000 beds, blankets, bottled water and 20,000 body bags. When the county announces a hot line for reporting dangerous substances, frantic citizens overload it with reports of suspicious-looking chalk dust, kitty litter, sheet rock, guacamole, bird droppings, Aspartame, dandruff, cornstarch, Nesquik, Parmesan cheese and nondairy creamer.
Although the CDC sends a 50-ton mobile pharmacy to Los Angeles with antibiotics, vaccines and medical supplies, it's still not enough, as thousands of people descend on distribution centers in doctors' offices, hospitals, council members' offices, recreation offices and schools, demanding 60-day supplies of ciprofloxacin for themselves and their pets. When the cipro runs short, nurses begin substituting other antibiotics, such as doxycycline, amoxicillin and penicillin, causing some people to complain they're being patronized with "sugar pills."
As hospital beds, in short supply at the best of times, quickly fill up, patients spill over into hospital corridors. When lab technicians at USC County General run out of petri dishes, one anguished family pelts them with stool and urine samples. At another clinic, nurses get so tired of the threats and abuse that, when their shifts end, they walk permanently off their jobs, taking all the remaining cipro to treat their own families.
On the streets, vendors sell $139 "ultraviolet flashlights," which they claim will "vaporize" anthrax spores. People jam health-food stores to buy oil of oregano (said to cure anthrax when applied to the tongue). Animal Control and pet stores are inundated with calls from customers trying to find out where to get stretch-fabric muzzle masks for dogs, "like the kind they sell in Israel." A young man in a white jump suit, claiming to be from the health department, goes door-to-door in a Culver City singles complex, telling young women to disrobe so he can wash off "all those nasty anthrax spores." Fearful of contamination, some people iron their relief checks or, even worse, put them in the microwave, causing at least three kitchen fires. Despite repeated assurances from Department of Water and Power officials that the water supply is safe, many residents insist on drinking only bottled water, at $10 a liter and up. In some fancier Westside neighborhoods, drug scalpers go door-to-door selling fake ciprofloxacin to desperate homeowners for $50 a pill.
SUNDAY, MARCH 9, IS THE FOURTH DAY of the attack the day when, traditionally, anthrax victims first begin to die. Except for the tolling of church bells, the city is quiet, and the streets are empty of everything but occasional emergency vehicles and the carcasses of dead birds. Most people huddle behind windows and doors sealed tight with duct tape, watching continuous news coverage on television or listening to "America the Beautiful" and "Amazing Grace" endlessly replayed on the radio. A cable channel plays nothing but prayer services for Los Angeles, broadcast from cathedrals and temples around the world.
Hospitals can't begin to cope with all the people clamoring for admission, so most anthrax victims are redirected to Staples Center, the convention center, high school gyms, and Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral downtown. Doctors engage in triage, withholding antibiotics (and, in some cases, ventilators) from people whose symptoms are so advanced they are already beyond hope in order to save the remaining stocks of cipro for people with the early mild symptoms of anthrax and who need immediate treatment before the toxin buildup proves fatal.
One TV reporter, in a well-intended effort to keep the public informed, does an in-depth piece explaining exactly how anthrax kills its victims. But the details are so horrific the station manager refuses to run it on the grounds that it will "scare the fucking shit out of everyone in town." In fact, as the reporter tells his wife in bed that night, the details are "pretty damn scary." As soon as anyone inhales anthrax spores, they immediately begin making their way to the lymph nodes in the midchest area (mediastinum), where they cause symptoms resembling the flu. Sometimes, after a few days, the symptoms go away, a development that leads some victims to think they're getting better. In fact, what is really happening is that the spores are germinating into toxin-producing bacteria that then start to break down the thoracic viscera, causing the mediastinum to swell, which so compresses the lungs that the victims find it hard to breathe. In short order, the toxins hit a critical level, after which there's no treatment and no cure. Blood vessels leak so badly that low blood pressure sends the victim into shock. At the same time, the tissue around the brain fills with blood, causing delirium and coma. The only consolation if you want to call it that is that death is swift and sure.
Although public officials repeatedly tell citizens to stay calm and that there is "no cause for panic," that position becomes totally untenable when, on the fourth day, 53 people die, followed by 310 on the fifth, 1,137 on the sixth and 6,790 on the seventh. On day eight, 15,404 die. Although some TV anchors, in an effort to convey the psychological impact of the deaths, variously compare it to a nuclear explosion, an asteroid impact and a "cosmic gut shot from God's Saturday night special," others frankly admit it's beyond description and limit themselves to bare facts the morgue so crowded it has to close its doors, cemetery workers digging graves round the clock, crematoriums running day and night.
Despite requests from public officials that residents lay low, long rows of cars, packed high with suitcases, jewelry, heirlooms and photographs, pour out of the city. The people who stay behind remain indoors, poring over newspaper lists of the people who died a fatal laundry list of popular performers, athletes and politicians as well as middle school teachers, defense lawyers, emergency-room nurses, policemen, finish carpenters, performance artists, expectant mothers, wealthy studio heads, poor anti-war activists, cartoonists made obsolete by computers, supermarket checkers, elderly widows, and alcoholics living under freeway ramps in filthy sleeping bags. In the meantime, public services grind to a halt. Buses quit running. Some police and firemen stop showing up for duty. When finally even the sanitation workers go home, raw sewage begins to pour into Santa Monica Bay.
Acting on the assumption that most urban residents need constant reassurance from authorities in times of crisis, politicians take to the airwaves with dismaying frequency, the mayor praising the citizens of the city for showing the same kind of heroic stoicism the British displayed during the London blitz, the governor asserting that Los Angeles will emerge from the disaster as a stronger, better city, and the president announcing that he is praying for the city with all his heart.
If the citizens of Los Angeles are comforted by such remarks, they don't show it. Three people jump to their deaths out of mid-Wilshire high-rises. Suicide-prevention centers are deluged with calls from people wondering if life is worth living and if it wouldn't be better just to shoot themselves on the spot. Some people drink themselves insensible, while others descend on pharmacies, demanding Zoloft, Paxil and Prozac; Xanax, Valium and Inderal. In an effort to help calm the public, TV stations run interviews with psychologists and psychiatrists, who blandly advise residents to "live normally," "talk about their feelings," limit their exposure to the news media, and distract themselves with board games, jigsaw puzzles and "humorous books."
To the surprise of their friends and neighbors, a few writers and artists suddenly seem unaccountably happy. Prior to the anthrax attack, they'd reached middle age with little to show for it while their college classmates had gone on to become doctors, lawyers and founders of powerful companies. Now that it appears that "we're all going to die anyway," their lifelong failures don't matter anymore and, consequently, their spirits soar.
Others focus their emotions on the need to strike back, although it isn't clear at whom, since the FBI hasn't caught anyone yet. Even so, they post furious tirades on FreeRepublic.com urging the president to kill all "ragheads and camel drivers," "nuke Mecca" and turn Baghdad into "a glass parking lot." Some other, less-well-wrapped citizens methodically go through the Los Angeles phone directory, calling everyone named Mohammed, telling him to "get your ass out of the country and that goes for your family too."
AS HAPPENS WITH EVERY EPIDEMIC, the anthrax death rate follows a bell-shaped curve. On the eighth day the death rate peaks; on the ninth day it drops to 8,105, to 3,721 on the 10th, to 1,113 on the 11th and to 307 on the 12th. After two weeks, it is down to nothing at all. Although the plague is over, the city is not unchanged. Nearly 38,000 people have died.
As for the post-disaster cleanup, authorities are bewildered, and history proves no help. Some dolefully point to the British experience in WWII when Winston Churchill ordered anthrax bombs exploded near 60 tethered sheep on a small island off the Scottish coast. As expected, within three days the sheep began to die. What was less expected was that the island remained uninhabitable for nearly 50 years. It wasn't until 1990 that workers made the place safe again by burning the infected topsoil and soaking the remainder in 280 tons of formaldehyde.
Others optimistically argue that no outdoor cleanup is needed at all, given that any remaining spores will have long ago settled to the ground, drifted off to Riverside or Palm Springs, or, most likely of all, wafted into the stratosphere only to come down weeks and months later on remote oceans, forests and mountain ranges.
While state and federal officials argue over what to do, city workers breathing through HEPA (high efficiency particulate air) filters prowl the streets day and night in spray trucks, washing any street spores into the storm drains (a policy angrily denounced by an animal-rights advocacy group as a "public relations Band-Aid" that will result in "riparian genocide" for L.A. River wildlife while still not saving any human lives). Some citizens, tired of waiting for the city to move forward, simply wash off their roofs with garden hoses, an apparent common-sense solution that nonetheless re-aerosolizes so many spores that 18 new anthrax infections occur.
Weeks later, epidemiologists and meteorologists are still trying to figure out what to do about the contamination problem, when the first of three fierce spring storms sweeps through the area, giving people a much-needed sense that the city of Los Angeles, having paid grievously for its sins, is now being washed clean. And by the time the storms are over, it seems that in many ways it is. Repeated testing shows few airborne spores. As for surface spores, they are quickly rendered harmless by L.A.'s endless sun.
IN THE WEEKS AND MONTHS THAT follow, a new city is born in L.A., albeit a much poorer one. To keep the port closed costs a billion dollars a day, and the numbers just rise exponentially after that. In the meantime, ships are stranded. Importers go broke. Just-in-time manufacturers shut down their assembly lines. The FBI insists that every container coming into the country be inspected (up from one-half of 1 percent before the attack), while the Customs Service suggests that attempting to inspect even as much as 20 percent of the incoming containers will totally bankrupt the nation's economy.
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Effects from the catastrophe ripple through every part of the city. Film and television production either shuts down completely, or moves en masse to Canada. Amusement parks close their doors. After some downtown skyscrapers lose most of their tenants, motorists discover they can park at will on city streets on which pedestrians have now become so rare that the central library and major museums are open only two days a week. Trying to drum up business, the Beverly Center hires a fleet of vans, available on call to pick up anyone who wants to go shopping there. With dinner reservations at an all-time low, some (formerly) expensive restaurants cut their wine prices by two-thirds. And the Dodgers, citing the difficulty of getting other teams to play in Chavez Ravine, move their schedule to Bakersfield, where, for reasons no one can figure out, they win 22 of their first 25 games.
Psychologically, the entire city has changed. Before the attack, homeowners could count on steadily rising property values, but it soon becomes clear that no one wants to live in an anthrax containment zone. As housing prices continue to fall, some people are shattered to discover that they owe far more on their mortgages than their houses are now worth, causing some of them simply to drop their keys in the mailbox and move out many to downtown, which, as a consequence, finally gets the revival that decades of economic stimulus and public relations failed to produce. Their former gardeners and housekeepers, more attracted by the good housing than they are fearful of anthrax, happily move in.
It also becomes clear that the citizens of Los Angeles have changed in more subtle ways. Reality TV tanks, as the utter banality of shows like Survivor and The Bachelor finally sinks in. Dozens of MBA students from UCLA, USC and Pepperdine change their majors to psychology, religious studies and health care. Sexual activity spikes while rapes, homicides and crime in general decline. Finally, a paunchy bearded screenwriter, both his high-powered agent and their deal dead, pulls out an old half-finished novel and starts all over again. His theme this time around: the unfairness of life, the nearness of death and the role of fate in human affairs.
Although this scenario is a fictional one, it is based in large part on real events, emergency plans, and interviews with politicians, law-enforcement and terrorism experts.


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Roxy's twitching is caused by a pinched sciatic nerve.
She's being "fostered" by my co-worker Nicci. She's loved Roxy since the day they picked her up. Because of her issues with strangers, Nicci's boyfriend was refusing to let her come home. He finally gave in and now Roxy is living with them, their two kids, three cats, and another pit bull, Tinker. I'm told that Roxy and Tinker are best friends! She's great with the cats too. She still brings her back to work with her every day. She hasn't officially adopted her but Roxy won't be back to stay either.
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Yes, I know, I went there. I used a line of a Mariah Carey song in my headline. But as Christmas is nearly upon us, I thought I'd post gift ideas for that special hockey player in your life. As hockey players we lead fairly busy lives and spend quite a bit of time on the road, I thought that I'd include things that are useful on the road to accommodate the hockey life and some equipment that would make any hockey player happy.
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For those long bus trips they are essential. Good headphones (with some good music) will give you a chance to get into the frame of mind and give you a bit of 'peace' on the bus. My personal preference of head-phones are in-ear ones and if I could have my way, I'd go for something like the SkullCandy Heavy Metals.
Nike Fuelband: Not only does it look pretty nifty, it gives you insight into the calories burned and bunch of other cool info that could potentially help you get fitter, faster and stronger. Plus given that we all stuff our faces over Christmas period, it is a great gift that would be sure to motivate guys to get off the couch and get rid of the Christmas legs in next to no time. Aside from all the fitness info it gives you, it also acts as a pretty cool watch. The Nike Fuelband is for sale at either Amazon.co.uk or at Apple stores across the country.
I guess you could add a tablet device on that list if you are really that way inclined, but I wouldn't take one on the road with me. Call me old school, but I've got my apps and music on my phone and I prefer to have a book in my hand.
There are a number of great books out there and if you haven't already had your hands on the Theo Fleury, Playing with Fire autobiography, it should be a must. Additionally, this year, one of the NHL's most colourful characters, Jeremy Roenick has published his autobiography and it has received rave reviews among the hockey world. Roenick, was outspoken during his career and carries on in the same fashion as a media pundit. The book will certainly provide some hilarious stories from his days in the show. You can buy the book at:http://www.amazon.com/J-R-Outspoken-Fearless-Hard-Hitting-Hockey/dp/1600786545
Additionally the autobiography of the late Bob Probert is something that should be found in Santa's sack or under the Christmas tree: http://www.amazon.com/Tough-Guy-My-Life-Edge/dp/1600786383/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1355150456&sr=1-1&keywords=Bob+Probert
One thing that caught my eye is the SherWood Nexon 12 Whiteout stick. A lot of stick manufacturers have started using white designs on their sticks. The Nexon 12 looks slick in white and it's one of those presents that not only looks good but gives you great performance as well. You can buy the Nexon 12 Whiteout at:http://nekoti.co.uk
The other thing you can't go wrong with and you can never have enough of is sweats. For me personally, I've not found a better set of sweats than the Easton Eastech range. I've had some UnderArmour gear, Reebok and CCM, but the Easton Eastech just feels more comfortable and breathable than the others.
This time of year also sees a lot of deals on skates, so if you're in the market for a new set, check out some deals going round. I've seen the CCM U+ CL skates (new) going for sub €300. I know as a kid Christmas was always the time to get some new wheels (mainly because my feet had grown out of the old pair).
We always need shower gels, deodorant and shampoo, so you can't go wrong with this gift. The range I would recommend is a company called ManCave. The products in the range includes shower gel, moisturiser, face wash, deodorant and shampoo (full set would only cost you £31,93). All of ManCave's products contain natural ingredients and the products are top notch. You can find ManCave products atSainsbury's or you can order online at: http://www.mancaveinc.com/store
You can't go wrong with some clothes from Gongshow Gear, Sauce Hockey or Bardown Hockey. Essential hockey lifestyle brands that any hockey players would love to have and wear all year long. The good guys at Gongshow have even come up with hockey jeans that have been designed to accommodate the "hockey ass" and "hockey thighs".
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ACUSHNET — In the wake of the recent tragedy in Sandy Hook, Conn., Acushnet Police Chief Michael Alves and Detective James Costa went before the Board of Selectmen Jan. 3 to discuss the town's policies for gun licensing and control.
Select Board Chairman David E. Wojnar asked them to explain the town's gun-related policies. He also asked them to reach out to the community to let them know what is taking place in Acushnet as far as gun control.
"A majority of the people with gun licenses are law abiding citizens," said Chief Alves. Still, he said, "We'd like to see people secure their weapons better."
Chief Alves said licenses will be taken and firearms will be seized from people found to be abusing their privileges by not properly securing their weapons.
He explained that all Massachusetts cities and towns issue firearms identification cards (FIDs) within the municipalities themselves, and that Detective Costa is the person in charge of distributing them within the town of Acushnet. He said Detective Costa has done a commendable job thus far, and that he is very thorough in his background checks.
Chief Alves said they utilize the state's database, which allows them to access people's criminal records outside of the town itself, and that Acushnet has a zero-tolerance policy for people who have been found to have abused their licensed privileges.
"We do not give gun licenses back once they are taken," he said. "We strive to protect the town the best we can when it comes to gun licenses."
Chief Alves said even though they try their best to control and monitor firearms within the community, there is no way to track how many guns or ammunition people actually own.
"It's (titling guns) done on the state level," he said. "It's not current, and there are some flaws in it (the system). There is very little oversight on ammo."
Chief Alves said cuts to the department over the past few years have led to downsizing, which leaves them with only one person, Detective Costa, in charge of the licensing process. He said he'd like to see a little more help from the state.
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Overall though, it seems to mainly be in there for comedy relief.
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I think that's more of a plot device than something we'll see developed to any extent. It helps to explain her catering to his needs...so that the writers need not concern themselves with the day to day functions, as Nori does them. (Ex: Do they need a scene at the dinner table: have Nori prepare everything offscreen...ect. Who actually cleaned up Hina's mess while Jun and the dolls were on an adventure? The ever dedicated Nori...again, offscreen.)
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what order should i watch all of Rozen Maiden in? (maybe you can add it to your FAQ as well, or expand upon the section that talks about Traumend)
i see the following in AniDB:
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i take it that i watch in that order?
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Depends on what Fan***s you've been watching. However, we should not go any further - with RM and Traumend licensed, "Fan***s" is a bad-word in here. That said, I've only seen 2 aspect ratios for RM - 4:3 and 16:9 (widescreen) ratios. Apparently they are actually aired, twice, in those 2 different aspect ratios. You probably mean resolution if you're talking about "sharp display." But yeah, that depends on Fan***s.
Hmm, to be nitpicky, I don't think we can say that only those two comments from Nori immediately point to incestuous thoughts. At most, I feel that they reflect Nori's interest in Jun's sexuality - further than that, we can't say - except of course when S1's ep 10 "dream-scene" comes into play. Infact, the manga of that "Dutch Wife" scene seems to back up the fact that she has an interest in his... development as a male.
Of course, I can't see any Sister being even interested in an aspect like that; but Nori is Nori. I mean, she is just weird.
|2007-02-25, 19:24
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About the Count Saint Germain hypothesis. And other "funny" guy from french history is also quoted in RM vol 5 : Count Cagliostro (the picture is showing him working on a doll).
Like Saint Germain, Cagliostro was found of alchemy and a very well known jocker who also said that he discoverd the secret of immortality.
And guess what ? Cag' pretended to be Saint Germain's apprentice...
|2007-02-25, 20:24
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Christian Rosenkreuz vs. the Comte de St. Germain
I think that you are right that some sort of referencing of Christian Rosenkreuz is going on, even in the Alice Game, which is a purification ritual, and thus has some resemblence to the Chymical Wedding.
There have been many claims that CR did not die, but rather appeared 300 years later as the Count St. Germain. Since these claims fit in with those that St. Germain was, in fact, immortal, it seems reasonable to assume that there is some referencing of this as well, since "Father" is a seemingly immortal being.
I doubt that there is an actual argument being made that "Father" is the Count St. Germain. I find it more likely that inspiration for the series was found in these stories. I say this because one of the things that struck me about the series was the existential quandary the Rozen Maidens find themselves in. To me it seems an excellent analog to humans wondering about our relationship to our creator. What must we do to please our creator? Can we meet him one day?
BTW, there was an excellent novel that discussed Christian Rosenkreuz, the Count St. Germain, the Knights Templar, and all sorts of other stuff. It is called Foucault's Pendulum, and it is by Umberto Eco (who is more famous for the Name of the Rose).
|2007-02-26, 14:25
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The scene from the manga in which St Germain and cagliostro are mentioned (vol 5) seems to take place in Jun's dreamworld where he is turned back into a little boy ; he finds himself in a park where a mysterious man sitting on a bench is giving a shadow puppet show.
The scenes from the puppet show portray St Germain walking around with a glowing stone, while courtiers and ladies watch and comment, then we see Cagliostro and then a dollmaker in his workshop.
In the end the mysterious man with the puppets reveals himself as the Laplace demon bunny...
(two images from that scene -- but it's the chinese translation)
I guess we'll have to wait till volume 5 is translated (in july) before we know exactly what is being said in this scene (unless someone has read the manga in Japanese and can translate it for us ^_^).
Anyway, hermetic, occult and "gnostic" writing of old are really interesting to read ; there are even some available online (for example here's an English translation of a 15th century treatise on "the art of drawing spirits into crystals" : http://www.esotericarchives.com/tritheim/trchryst.htm )
(And yes, Umberto Eco's books are awesome...)
|2007-02-26, 20:38
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This is a resume according to what Fulcanelli says (original explanation is too long, too mystical) about the Rose-Cross society:
It seems that the actual society never existed. Moreover, there aren't any historical facts that prove that Christian Rozencreuz could have ever existed; rather he was a sort of a "saint" for those people. The real person who iniciated the cult was Valentín Andreae, some guy that published a manuscript called "Fama Fraternitatis Rosae-Crucis", in which he pretended to merge the secrets of the alchemists with the Francmasons' lodges. That never happened, but a rumour about the Rose-Crosses spreaded, saying that they were able to do the most outrageous things, and were really powerful (my teacher, who told me he was a former Rose-Cross, said that he knew how to move small objects with his mind but I never saw that on action).
The only thing that still remains from that days is the "Rose Cross degreee", thet was adopted by the Francmasons
In the XIX century, two orders of the society were created, but soon they dissapeared. Now, even in Google, you can find hundreds of them. Fulcanelli says that they don't have a true mystical basis, but a blend of New Age theories.
From what I understood, Fulcanelli calls as true Rose-Cross masters the true alchemists, since he also explains that "Rosa Mystica" means the Philosopher's Stone, and also the Rose-Cross, a "bleeding heart". Well that is obvious isn't it? The power of the Philosopher's Stone is great enough to compare a soul, the heart that every Rozen Maiden has on herself.
Then he gaves us a little list of people who belonged to the nobility, or reached high status into it, and guess what? The Count of St. Germain hit a spot into it.
That means he was also a member of the "brotherhood", as the author calls it. He says nothing else about the count or the society, but that explained it a little bit more.
(I saw the movie adaptation of Umberto Eco's novel...great!)
|2007-02-27, 00:17
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Also, I was thinking, it'll be good to consolidate all that has been presented here on Rozen vs. Count Germaine/Christian Rosenkreuz in a single FAQ post. It'll be even better if that FAQ post could also include what ever info we already have on Rozen. Any takers?
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|2007-02-27, 03:48
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Whoa! Thanks Mr Lost! Anyway, um... here is the whole scene just in case ^_^ :
Anyway, the Japanese seem to be really interested in European occultism ; lately there's been another quite well-researched animé called le "Chevalier d'Eon" which takes place during the 18th century and portrays Count St Germain and Count Cagliostro (as villains).
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|2007-02-28, 09:42
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Thats easy to explain, the mainstream image of wizards, etc all originated from europe, and legends like merlin. The "asian version" is far less popular...usually involving paper charms and talismans of some kind, and more divinely oriented(they usually call on the protection of gods and spirits for example), and could be better described by the term "Exorcist" or "Priest".
Does anyone have the source of muir wood's posts?
Who's n-field did the traumend night time fight, and the final fight take place in?
Does sousei seki have a medium? She seems only to be functioning under her own power.
Does anyone have the air dates of every episode of rozen maiden and traumend?
How can the dolls consume food and liquids?
|2007-02-28, 09:58
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As for their Air dates, you may find that information at anidb - Rozen Maiden and Traumend.
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St. Louis inched closer in the seventh, as Jay worked a leadoff walk and quickly moved to third on Beltran's double before scoring on a groundout by Holliday.
Descalso's leadoff homer in the eighth trimmed the margin to one, but Washington got the run back in the bottom half when Kurt Suzuki slapped a two- out single back up the middle to score Adam LaRoche and give the home team a two-run advantage heading into the ninth.
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