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Beginners' Guide/Installation (Português)
zh-CN:Beginners' Guide/Installation
- 1 Instalar o Sistema Base
- 1.1 Selecione uma fonte de instalação
- 1.2 Set Clock
- 1.3 Prepare Hard Drive
- 1.4 Select Packages
- 1.5 Install Packages
- 1.6 Configure the System
- 1.6.1 /etc/rc.conf
- 1.6.2 /etc/fstab
- 1.6.3 /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
- 1.6.4 /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf
- 1.6.5 /etc/resolv.conf
- 1.6.6 /etc/hosts
- 1.6.7 /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow
- 1.6.8 /etc/locale.gen
- 1.6.9 Pacman-Mirror
- 1.6.10 Root password
- 1.6.11 Done
- 1.7 Install Bootloader
- 1.8 Reboot
Instalar o Sistema Base
Como root, execute o script instalador a partir de tty1:
# /arch/setup
Você deve ver exibido a seguinte tela do Framework de Instalação Arch Linux.
Selecione uma fonte de instalação
Após a tela de boas-vindas, você será solicitado a fornecer uma fonte de instalação. Escolha a fonte apropriada para o instalador que você está usando. Se estiver usando uma imagem Netinstall, velocidade relativa e status da atualização das fontes dos espelhos dos repositório podem ser verificados aqui.
- Se você escolheu o instalador CORE e deseja usar os pacotes do CD, selecione CD-ROM como fonte
- Alternativamente, ou se você está usando a mídia de instalação Netinstall, selecione NET e veja a seção abaixo (Configure a Rede).
Configure a Rede (Netinstall)
Você será solicitado a carregar drivers ethernet manualmente, se desejar. Udev é bastante eficaz no carregamento dos módulos necessários, então você pode assumir que o tenha feito. Na tela seguinte, selecione Configuração de Rede. Você pode verificar isso pressionando <Alt>+F3 e invocando
ip addr. Quando terminar, retorne ao tty1 pressionando <Alt>+F1
Interfaces disponíveis serão apresentadas. Se uma interface e HWaddr (HardWare address) está listado, então o seu módulo já foi carregado. Se a sua interface não estiver listada, você pode sonda-la no instalador, ou fazê-lo manualmente a partir de outro console virtual. Selecione sua interface para continuar.
O instalador irá perguntar se você deseja usar DHCP. Escolhendo Sim será executado dhcpcd para descobrir um gateway disponível e solicitar um endereço IP; Escolhendo Não irá pedir-lhe para fornecer o seu IP estático, máscara de rede, broadcast, IP do gateway DNS, proxy HTTP, e proxy FTP. Depois, você retornará ao Menu de Instalação de Rede
Selecione Escolhe Espelho e selecione um espelho FTP/HTTP. Quando terminar, volte ao menu principal.
(A)DSL Quickstart for the Live Environment
(If you have a modem or router in bridge mode to connect to your ISP)
Switch to another virtual console (<Alt> + F2), login as root and invoke
# pppoe-setup
If everything is well configured in the end you can connect to your ISP with
# pppoe-start
Return to first virtual console with <ALT>+F1. Continue with Set Clock
Wireless Quickstart For the Live Environment
(If you need wireless connectivity during the installation process)
The wireless drivers and utilities are now available to you in the live environment of the installation media. A good knowledge of your wireless hardware will be of key importance to successful configuration. Note that the following quickstart procedure executed at this point in the installation will initialize your wireless hardware for use in the live environment of the installation media. These steps (or some other form of wireless management) must be repeated from the actual installed system after booting into it.
Also note that these steps are optional if wireless connectivity is unnecessary at this point in the installation; wireless functionality may always be established later.
The basic procedure will be:
- Switch to a free virtual console, e.g.: <ALT>+F3
- Login as root
- (Optional) Identify the wireless interface:
# lspci | grep -i net
- Ensure udev has loaded the driver, and that the driver has created a usable wireless kernel interface with
# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 unassociated ESSID:"" Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0 Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
wlan0 is the available wireless interface in this example.
- Bring the interface up with
ip link set <interface> up.
# ip link set wlan0 up
A small percentage of wireless chipsets also require firmware, in addition to a corresponding driver. If the wireless chipset requires firmware, you are likely to receive this error when bringing the interface up:
# ip link set wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
If unsure, invoke
/usr/bin/dmesg to query the kernel log for a firmware request from the wireless chipset. Example output from an Intel chipset which requires and has requested firmware from the kernel at boot:
$ dmesg | grep firmware
firmware: requesting iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
If there is no output, it may be concluded that the system's wireless chipset does not require firmware.
- If the ESSID has been forgotten or is unknown, use
/sbin/iwlist <interface> scanto scan for nearby networks.
# iwlist wlan0 scan
- If using WPA encryption:
Using WPA encryption requires that the key be encrypted and stored in a file, along with the ESSID, to be used later for connection via
wpa_supplicant. Thus, a few extra steps are required:
For the purpose of simplifying and backup, rename the default wpa_supplicant.conf file:
# mv /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.original
wpa_passphrase, provide your wireless network name and WPA key to be encrypted and written to /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
The following example encrypts the key 'my_secret_passkey' of the 'linksys' wireless network, generates a new configuration file (<file>/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf</file>), and subsequently redirects the encrypted key, writing it to the file:
# wpa_passphrase linksys "my_secret_passkey" > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
Check WPA Supplicant for more information and troubleshooting.
chmod 0600 /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf to make it readable by root only).
- Associate your wireless device with the access point you want to use. Depending on the encryption (none, WEP, or WPA), the procedure may differ. You need to know the name of the chosen wireless network (ESSID).
|No Encryption
iwconfig wlan0 essid "linksys"
|WEP w/ Hex Key
iwconfig wlan0 essid "linksys" key "0241baf34c"
|WEP w/ ASCII passphrase
iwconfig wlan0 essid "linksys" key "s:pass1"
wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
- After utilizing the appropriate association method outlined above, wait a few moments and confirm you have successfully associated to the access point before continuing. e.g.:
# iwconfig wlan0
Output should indicate the wireless network is associated with the interface.
- Request an IP address with
/sbin/dhcpcd <interface>. e.g.:
# dhcpcd wlan0
- Lastly, ensure you can route using
# ping -c 3 www.google.com
You should have a working network connection. For troubleshooting, check the detailed Wireless Setup page.
Return to tty1 with <ALT>+F1. Continue with Set Clock
Set Clock
Set the hardware clock. If this does not match the setting of your other operating systems, they will overwrite the time and cause clock shifts (which can cause time drift correction to be miscalibrated).
- UTC (recommended)
- localtime (highly discouraged) - Used by default in Windows, but Windows can be told to use UTC. If time is set to localtime, DST shifts will not be made by linux. Using localtime may lead to several known and unfixable bugs. However, there are no plans to drop support for localtime.
Prepare Hard Drive
Verify current disk identities and layout by invoking
/sbin/fdisk with the
-l (lower-case L) switch.
Open another virtual console (<ALT>+F3) and enter:
# fdisk -l
Take note of the disk(s)/partition(s) to utilize for the Arch installation.
Switch back to the installation script with <ALT>+F1
Select the first menu entry "Prepare Hard Drive".
- Option 1: Auto-Prepare (Erases an ENTIRE hard drive and sets up partitions)
Auto-Prepare divides the disk into the following configuration:
- ext2 /boot partition, default size 32MB. You will be prompted to modify the size to your requirement.
- swap partition, default size 256MB. You will be prompted to modify the size to your requirement.
- A Separate / and /home partition, (sizes can also be specified). Available filesystems include ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, xfs and jfs, but note that both / and /home shall share the same fs type if choosing the Auto Prepare option.
Be warned that Auto-prepare will completely erase the chosen hard drive. Read the warning presented by the installer very carefully, and make sure the correct device is about to be partitioned.
- Option 2: Manually Partition Hard Drives (with cfdisk)- recommended.
This option will allow for the most robust and customized partitioning solution for your personal needs.
- Option 3: Manually Configure block devices, filesystems and mountpoints
If this is selected, the system will list what filesystems and mountpoints it has found and ask you if you wish to use these. If selecting "Yes", you will be given a choice to select the desired method of identification, ie. by dev, label or uuid.
- Option 4: Rollback last filesystem changes
At this point, more advanced GNU/Linux users who are familiar and comfortable with manually partitioning may wish to skip down to Select Packages below.
Partition Hard Drives
Partition Type
Partitioning a hard disk drive defines specific areas (the partitions) within the disk, that will each appear and behave as a separate disk and upon which a filesystem may be created (formatted).
There are 3 types of disk partitions:
- Primary
- Extended
- Logical
Primary partitions can be bootable, and are limited to 4 partitions per disk or raid volume. If a partitioning scheme requires more than 4 partitions, an extended partition which will contain logical partitions will be required.
Extended partitions are not usable by themselves; they are merely a "container" for logical partitions. If required, a hard disk shall contain only one extended partition; which shall then be sub-divided into logical partitions.
When partitioning a disk, one can observe this numbering scheme by creating primary partitions sda1 through sda3 followed by creating an extended partition, sda4, and subsequently creating logical partition(s) within the extended partition; sda5, sda6, and so on.
Swap Partition
A swap partition is a place on the drive where virtual RAM resides, allowing the kernel to easily use disk storage for data that does not fit into physical RAM.
Historically, the general rule for swap partition size was 2x the amount of physical RAM. Over time, as computers have gained ever larger memory capacities, this rule has become increasingly deprecated. Generally, on machines with up to 512MB RAM, the 2x rule is usually quite sufficient. If the installation machine provides gratuitous amounts of RAM (more than 1024 MB) it may be possible to completely forget a swap partition altogether, since the option to create a swap file is always available later. A 1 GB swap partition will be used in this example.
Partition Scheme
A disk partitioning scheme is a very personalized preference. Each user's choices will be unique to their own computing habits and requirements. If you would like to dual boot Arch Linux and a Windows operating system please see Windows and Arch Dual Boot.
Filesystem candidates for separate partitions include:
/ (root) The root filesystem is the primary filesystem from which all other filesystems stem; the top of the hierarchy. All files and directories appear under the root directory "/", even if they are stored on different physical devices. The contents of the root filesystem must be adequate to boot, restore, recover, and/or repair the system. Therefore, certain directories under / are not themselves candidates for separate partitions. (See warning below).
/boot This directory contains the kernel and ramdisk images as well as the bootloader configuration file, and bootloader stages. /boot also stores data that is used before the kernel begins executing userspace programs. This may include saved master boot sectors and sector map files. /boot is essential for booting, but is unique in that it may still be kept on its own separate partition (if required).
/home Provides subdirectories, each named for a system user, for miscellaneous personal data storage as well as user-specific configuration files for applications.
/usr While root is the primary filesystem, /usr is the secondary hierarchy for all system users' data, including the majority of multi-user utilities and applications. /usr is shareable, read-only data. This means that /usr shall be shareable between various hosts and must not be written to, except in the case of system update/upgrade. Any information that is host-specific or varies with time is stored elsewhere.
/tmp directory for programs that require temporary files such as '.lck' files, which can be used to prevent multiple instances of their respective program until a task is completed, at which point the '.lck' file will be removed. Programs must not assume that any files or directories in /tmp are preserved between invocations of the program and files and directories located under /tmp will typically be deleted whenever the system is booted.
/var contains variable data; spool directories and files, administrative and logging data, pacman's cache, the ABS tree, etc. /var exists in order to make it possible to mount /usr as read-only. Everything that historically went into /usr that is written to during system operation (as opposed to installation and software maintenance) must reside under /var.
There are several advantages for using discrete filesystems, rather than combining all into one partition:
- Security: Each filesystem may be configured in /etc/fstab as 'nosuid', 'nodev', 'noexec', 'readonly', etc.
- Stability: A user, or malfunctioning program can completely fill a filesystem with garbage if they have write permissions for it. Critical programs, which reside on a different filesystem remain unaffected.
- Speed: A filesystem which gets written too frequently may become somewhat fragmented. (An effective method of avoiding fragmentation is to ensure that each filesystem is never in danger of filling up completely.) Separate filesystems remain unaffected, and each can be defragmented separately as well.
- Integrity: If one filesystem becomes corrupted, separate filesystems remain unaffected.
- Versatility: Sharing data across several systems becomes more expedient when independent filesystems are used. Separate filesystem types may also be chosen based upon the nature of data and usage.
In this example, we shall use separate partitions for /, /var, /home, and a swap partition.
How big should my partitions be?
This question is best answered based upon individual needs. You may wish to simply create one partition for root and one partition for swap or only one root partition without swap or refer to the following examples and consider these guidelines to provide a frame of reference:
- The root filesystem (/) in the example will contain the /usr directory, which can become moderately large, depending upon how much software is installed. 15-20 GB should be sufficient for most users.
- The /var filesystem will contain, among other data, the ABS tree and the pacman cache. Keeping cached packages is useful and versatile; it provides the ability to downgrade packages if needed. /var tends to grow in size; the pacman cache can grow large over long periods of time, but can be safely cleared if needed. If you are using an SSD, you may wish to locate your /var on an HDD and keep the / and /home partitions on your SSD to avoid needless read/writes to the SSD. 8-12 Gigs on a desktop system should be sufficient for /var, depending largely upon how much software you intend to install. Servers tend to have relatively larger /var filesystems.
- The /home filesystem is typically where user data, downloads, and multimedia reside. On a desktop system, /home is typically the largest filesystem on the drive by a large margin. Remember that if you chose to reinstall Arch, all the data on your /home partition will be untouched (so long as you have a separate /home partition).
- An extra 25% of space added to each filesystem will provide a cushion for unforeseen occurrence, expansion, and serve as a preventive against fragmentation.
From the guidelines above, the example system shall contain a ~15GB root (/) partition, ~10GB /var, 1GB swap, and a /home containing the remaining disk space.
Create Partitions with cfdisk
Start by creating the primary partition that will contain the root, (/) filesystem.
Choose New -> Primary and enter the desired size for root (/). Put the partition at the beginning of the disk.
Also choose the Type by designating it as '83 Linux'. The created / partition shall appear as sda1 in our example.
Now create a primary partition for /var, designating it as Type 83 Linux. The created /var partition shall appear as sda2
Next, create a partition for swap. Select an appropriate size and specify the Type as 82 (Linux swap / Solaris). The created swap partition shall appear as sda3.
Lastly, create a partition for your /home directory. Choose another primary partition and set the desired size.
Likewise, select the Type as 83 Linux. The created /home partition shall appear as sda4.
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- sda1 Primary Linux 15440 #root sda2 Primary Linux 10256 #/var sda3 Primary Linux swap / Solaris 1024 #swap sda4 Primary Linux 140480 #/home
Choose Write and type 'yes'. Beware that this operation may destroy data on your disk. Choose Quit to leave the partitioner. Choose Done to leave this menu and continue with "Set Filesystem Mountpoints".
Set Filesystem Mountpoints
Specify each partition and corresponding mountpoint to your requirements. (Recall that partitions end in a number. Therefore, sda is not itself a partition, but rather, signifies an entire drive)
Filesystem Types
Again, a filesystem type is a very subjective matter which comes down to personal preference. Each has its own advantages, disadvantages, and unique idiosyncrasies. Here is a very brief overview of supported filesystems:
1. ext2 Second Extended Filesystem- Old, mature GNU/Linux filesystem. Very stable, but without journaling support or barriers, which can result in data loss in a power loss or system crash. May be inconvenient for root (/) and /home, due to very long fsck's. An ext2 filesystem can easily be converted to ext3.
2. ext3 Third Extended Filesystem- Essentially the ext2 system, but with journaling support and write barriers. ext3 is backward compatible with ext2. Extremely stable and mature.
3. ext4 Fourth Extended Filesystem- Backward compatible with ext2 and ext3. Introduces support for volumes with sizes up to 1 exabyte and files with sizes up to 16 terabytes. Increases the 32,000 subdirectory limit in ext3 to 64,000. Offers online defragmentation ability.
4. ReiserFS (V3)- Hans Reiser's high-performance journaling FS uses a very interesting method of data throughput based on an unconventional and creative algorithm. ReiserFS is touted as very fast, especially when dealing with many small files. ReiserFS is fast at formatting, yet comparatively slow at mounting. Quite mature and stable. ReiserFS (V3) is not actively developed at this time. Generally regarded as a good choice for /var/.
5. JFS - IBM's Journaled FileSystem- The first filesystem to offer journaling. JFS had many years of use in the IBM AIX® OS before being ported to GNU/Linux. JFS currently uses the least CPU resources of any GNU/Linux filesystem. Very fast at formatting, mounting and fsck's, and very good all-around performance, especially in conjunction with the deadline I/O scheduler. (See JFS.) Not as widely supported as ext or ReiserFS, but very mature and stable.
6. XFS - Another early journaling filesystem originally developed by Silicon Graphics for the IRIX OS and ported to GNU/Linux. XFS offers very fast throughput on large files and large filesystems. Very fast at formatting and mounting. Generally benchmarked as slower with many small files, in comparison to other filesystems. XFS is very mature and offers online defragmentation ability.
7. Btrfs - Also known as "Better FS" is a new filesystem with substantial new and powerful features similar to Sun/Oracle's excellent ZFS. These include snapshots, multi-disk striping and mirroring (basically software raid without mdadm), checksums, incremental backup, and on-the-fly compression (which can give a significant performance boost as well as save space), and more. It is still considered "unstable" as of January 2011, but has been merged into the mainline kernel under experimental status. Btrfs looks to be the future of linux filesystems, and is now offered as a root filesystem choice in all major distribution installers.
- JFS and XFS filesystems cannot be shrunk by disk utilities (such as gparted or parted magic)
A note on Journaling
All above filesystems, except ext2, utilize journaling. Journaling file systems are fault-resilient file systems that use a journal to log changes before they are committed to the file system to avoid metadata corruption in the event of a crash. Note that not all journaling techniques are alike; specifically, only ext3 and ext4 offer data-mode journaling, (though, not by default), which journals both data and meta-data (but with a significant speed penalty). The others only offer ordered-mode journaling, which journals meta-data only. While all will return your filesystem to a valid state after recovering from a crash, data-mode journaling offers the greatest protection against file system corruption and data loss but can suffer from performance degradation, as all data is written twice (first to the journal, then to the disk). Depending upon how important your data is, this may be a consideration in choosing your filesystem type.
Moving on...
Choose and create the filesystem (format the partition) for / by selecting yes. You will now be prompted to add any additional partitions. In our example, sda2 and sda4 remain. For sda2, choose a filesystem type and mount it as /var. Finally, choose the filesystem type for sda4, and mount it as /home. Template:Box Note Return to the main menu.
Select Packages
All packages during installation are from the [core] repository. They are further divided into Base, and Base-devel. Package information and brief descriptions are available here.
First, select the package category:
- Base
- Packages from the [core] repo to provide the minimal base environment. Always select this and only remove packages that will not be used.
- Base-devel
- Extra tools from [core] such as
make, and
automake. Most beginners should choose to install it, as many will probably need it later.
After category selection, you will be presented with the full lists of packages, allowing you to fine-tune your selections. Use the space bar to select and unselect.
After selecting the needed packages, leave the selection screen and continue to the next step, Install Packages.
Install Packages
Install Packages will install the selected packages to your new system. If you selected a CD/USB as the source, package versions from the CD/USB will be installed. If you opted for a Netinstall, fresh packages will be downloaded from the internet and installed.
After the packages have been downloaded, the installer will check their integrity. Next it will create the kernel from the packages downloaded.
Configure the System
At this stage of the installation, you will configure the primary configuration files of your Arch Linux base system. Previous versions of the installer included hwdetect to gather information for your configuration. This has been deprecated and replaced with udev, which should handle most module loading automatically at boot.
Now you will be asked which text editor you want to use; choose nano, joe or vi.
nano is generally considered the easiest of the three. Please see the releated wiki pages of the editor you wish to use for instructions on how to use them. You will be presented with a menu including the main configuration files for your system.
Can the installer handle this more automatically?
Hiding the process of system configuration is in direct opposition to The Arch Way. While it is true that recent versions of the kernel and hardware probing tools offer excellent hardware support and auto-configuration, Arch presents the user all pertinent configuration files during installation for the purposes of transparency and system resource control. By the time you have finished modifying these files to your specifications, you will have learned the simple method of manual Arch Linux system configuration and become more familiar with the base structure, leaving you better prepared to use and maintain your new installation productively.
Arch Linux uses the file
/etc/rc.conf as the principal location for system configuration. This one file contains a wide range of configuration information, principally used at system startup. As its name directly implies, it also contains settings for and invokes the /etc/rc* files, and is, of course, sourced by these files.
LOCALIZATION section
LOCALE="en_US.utf8" DAEMON_LOCALE="no" HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" TIMEZONE="US/Eastern" KEYMAP="us" CONSOLEFONT= CONSOLEMAP= USECOLOR="yes" VERBOSE="3"
- This sets your system locale, which will be used by all i18n-aware applications and utilities. You can get a list of the available locales by running
locale -afrom the command line. This setting's default is usually fine for US English users. However if you experience any problems such as some characters not printing right and being replaced by squares you may want to go back and replace "en_US.utf8" with just "en_US".
- Specifies whether or not to use the daemon locale (with "yes" or "no"). Will use the environment variable $LOCALE as the value of the locale if specified as "yes", otherwise will use the C locale (if left at the default value of "no").
- Specifies whether the hardware clock, which is synchronized on boot and on shutdown, stores UTC time, or localtime. UTC is recommended because it greatly simplifies changing timezones and daylight savings time [1].
- Specify your TIMEZONE. (All available zones are under
- The available keymaps are in
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps. Please note that this setting is only valid for your TTYs, not any graphical window managers or X.
- Available console fonts reside under
/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/if you must change. The default (blank) is safe.
- Defines the console map to load with the setfont program at boot. Possible maps are found in
/usr/share/kbd/consoletrans, if needed. The default (blank) is safe.
- Select "yes" if you have a color monitor and wish to have colors in your consoles.
- Level of verbosity, on a scale of 1 to 8.
HARDWARE Section
# Scan hardware and load required modules at boot MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes" MODULES=(loop)
- Setting this to "yes" will use udev to automatically probe hardware and load the appropriate modules during boot, (convenient with the default modular kernel). Setting this to "no" will rely on the user's ability to specify this information manually, or compile their own custom kernel and modules, etc.
- Specify additional MODULES if you know that an important module is missing. If your system has any floppy drives, add "floppy". If you will be using loopback filesystems, add "loop".
NETWORKING Section
- Set your HOSTNAME to your liking. This is the name of your computer. Whatever you put here, also put it in
- eth0
- 'Ethernet, card 0'. If you are using static IP, adjust the interface IP address, netmask and broadcast address. Set eth0="dhcp" if you want to use DHCP for dynamic/automatic configuration.
- Specify all interfaces here. Multiple interfaces should be separated with a space as in: (eth0 wlan0)
- gateway
- If you are using static IP, set the gateway address. If using DHCP, you can usually ignore this variable, though some users have reported the need to define it.
- If you are using static IP, remove the ! in front of 'gateway'. If using DHCP, you can usually leave this variable commented out with the bang (!), but again, some users require the gateway and ROUTES defined. If you experience networking issues with pacman, for instance, you may want to return to these variables.
Example w/ Dynamic IP (DHCP):
HOSTNAME="arch" #eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255" eth0="dhcp" INTERFACES=(eth0) gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1" ROUTES=(!gateway)
Example w/ Static IP:
HOSTNAME="arch" eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255" INTERFACES=(eth0) gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1" ROUTES=(gateway)
When using a static IP, modify
/etc/resolv.conf to specify the DNS servers of choice. Please see the section below regarding this file.
DAEMONS Section
This array simply lists the names of those scripts contained in /etc/rc.d/ which are to be started during the boot process, and the order in which they start. Asynchronous initialization by backgrounding is also supported and useful for speeding up boot.
DAEMONS=(network @syslog-ng netfs @crond)
- If a script name is prefixed with a bang (!), it is not executed.
- If a script is prefixed with an "at" symbol (@), it shall be executed in the background; the startup sequence will not wait for successful completion of each daemon before continuing to the next. (Useful for speeding up system boot). Do not background daemons that are needed by other daemons. For example "mpd" depends on "network", therefore backgrounding network may cause mpd to break.
- Edit this array whenever new system services are installed, if starting them automatically during boot is desired.
About DAEMONS
The daemons line need not be changed at this time, but it is useful to explain what daemons are, as they will be addressed later in this guide.
A daemon is a program that runs in the background, waiting for events to occur and offering services. A good example is a web server that waits for a request to deliver a page (e.g.:httpd) or an SSH server waiting for a user login (e.g.:sshd). While these are full-featured applications, there are also daemons whose work is not that visible. Examples are a daemon which writes messages into a log file (e.g. syslog, metalog), and a daemon which provides a graphical login (e.g.: gdm, kdm). All these programs can be added to the daemons line and will be started when the system boots. Useful daemons will be presented during this guide.
Historically, the term daemon was coined by the programmers of MIT's Project MAC. They took the name from Maxwell's demon, an imaginary being from a famous thought experiment that constantly works in the background, sorting molecules. *nix systems inherited this terminology and created the backronym disk and execution monitor.
The fstab (for file systems table) is part of the system configuration listing all available disks and disk partitions, and indicating how they are to be initialized or otherwise integrated into the overall system's filesystem. The /etc/fstab file is most commonly used by the mount command. The mount command takes a filesystem on a device, and adds it to the main system hierarchy that you see when you use your system. mount -a is called from /etc/rc.sysinit, about 3/4 of the way through the boot process, and reads /etc/fstab to determine which options should be used when mounting the specified devices therein. If noauto is appended to a filesystem in /etc/fstab, mount -a will not mount it at boot.
An example of
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0 UUID=0ddfbb25-9b00-4143-b458-bc0c45de47a0 / ext4 defaults 0 1 UUID=da6e64c6-f524-4978-971e-a3f5bd3c2c7b /var ext4 defaults 0 2 UUID=440b5c2d-9926-49ae-80fd-8d4b129f330b swap swap defaults 0 0 UUID=95783956-c4c6-4fe7-9de6-1883a92c2cc8 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
- <file system>
- describes the block device or remote filesystem to be mounted. For regular mounts, this field will contain a link to a block device node (as created by mknod which is called by udev at boot) for the device to be mounted; for instance, '/dev/cdrom' or '/dev/sda1'. Note: If your system has more than one hard drive, the installer will default to using UUID rather than the sdx naming scheme, for consistent device mapping. Utilizing UUID has several advantages and may also be preferred to avoid issues if hard disks are added to the system in the future. Due to active developments in the kernel and also udev, the ordering in which drivers for storage controllers are loaded may change randomly, yielding an unbootable system/kernel panic. Nearly every motherboard has several controllers (onboard SATA, onboard IDE), and due to the aforementioned development updates, /dev/sda may become /dev/sdb on the next reboot. (See this wiki article for more information on persistent block device naming. )
- <dir>
- describes the mount point for the filesystem. For swap partitions, this field should be specified as 'swap'; (Swap partitions are not actually mounted.)
- <type>
- describes the type of the filesystem. The Linux kernel supports many filesystem types. (For the filesystems currently supported by the running kernel, see /proc/filesystems). An entry 'swap' denotes a file or partition to be used for swapping. An entry 'ignore' causes the line to be ignored. This is useful to show disk partitions which are currently unused.
- <options>
- describes the mount options associated with the filesystem. It is formatted as a comma-separated list of options with no intervening spaces. It contains at least the type of mount plus any additional options appropriate to the filesystem type. For documentation on the available options for non-nfs file systems, see mount(8).
- <dump>
- used by the dump(8) command to determine which filesystems are to be dumped. dump is a backup utility. If the fifth field is not present, a value of zero is returned and dump will assume that the filesystem does not need to be backed up. Note that dump is not installed by default.
- <pass>
- used by the fsck(8) program to determine the order in which filesystem checks are done at boot time. The root filesystem should be specified with a <pass> of 1, and other filesystems should have a <pass> of 2 or 0. Filesystems within a drive will be checked sequentially, but filesystems on different drives will be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism available in the hardware. If the sixth field is not present or zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck will assume that the filesystem does not need to be checked.
Expanded information available in the Fstab wiki entry.
Most users will not need to modify this file at this time, but please read the following explanatory information.
This file allows further fine-tuning of the initial ram filesystem, or initramfs, (also historically referred to as the initial ramdisk or "initrd") for your system. The initramfs is a gzipped image that is read by the kernel during boot. The purpose of the initramfs is to bootstrap the system to the point where it can access the root filesystem. This means it has to load any modules that are required for devices like IDE, SCSI, or SATA drives (or USB/FW, if you are booting from a USB/FW drive). Once the initrramfs loads the proper modules, either manually or through udev, it passes control to the kernel and your boot continues. For this reason, the initramfs only needs to contain the modules necessary to access the root filesystem. It does not need to contain every module you would ever want to use. The majority of common kernel modules will be loaded later on by udev, during the init process.
mkinitcpio is the next generation of initramfs creation. It has many advantages over the old
mkinitrd and
mkinitramfs scripts.
- It uses glibc and busybox to provide a small and lightweight base for early userspace.
- It can use udev for hardware autodetection at runtime, thus preventing numerous unnecessary modules from being loaded.
- Its hook-based init script is easily extendable with custom hooks, which can easily be included in pacman packages without having to modifiy mkinitcpio itself.
- It already supports lvm2, dm-crypt for both legacy and luks volumes, raid, swsusp and suspend2 resuming and booting from usb mass storage devices.
- Many features can be configured from the kernel command line without having to rebuild the image.
- The mkinitcpio script makes it possible to include the image in a kernel, thus making a self-contained kernel image is possible.
- Its flexibility makes recompiling a kernel unnecessary in many cases.
If using RAID or LVM on the root filesystem, the appropriate HOOKS must be configured. See the wiki pages for RAID and /etc/mkinitcpio for more info. If using a non-US keyboard. add the "
keymap" hook to load your local keymap during boot. Add the "
usbinput" hook if using a USB keyboard. Remember to add the "
usb" hook when installing arch on an external hard drive, Comfact Flash, or SD card, which is connected via usb, e.g.:
HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata usb filesystems keymap usbinput"
(Otherwise, if boot fails for some reason you will be asked to enter root's password for system maintenance but will be unable to do so.)
If you need support for booting from USB devices, FireWire devices, PCMCIA devices, NFS shares, software RAID arrays, LVM2 volumes, encrypted volumes, or DSDT support, configure your HOOKS accordingly.
This file can be used to set special configuration options for the kernel modules. It is unnecessary to configure this file in the example.
The resolver is a set of routines in the C library that provide access to the Internet Domain Name System (DNS). One of the main functions of DNS is to translate domain names into IP addresses, to make the Web a friendlier place. The resolver configuration file, or /etc/resolv.conf, contains information that is read by the resolver routines the first time they are invoked by a process.
If you use a static IP, set your DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf (nameserver <ip-address>). You may have as many as you wish. An example, using OpenDNS:
nameserver 126.96.36.199 nameserver 18.104.22.168
If you are using a router, you will probably want to specify your DNS servers in the router itself, and merely point to it from your
/etc/resolv.conf, using your router's IP (which is also your gateway from
/etc/rc.conf). Example:
nameserver 192.168.1.1
If using DHCP, you may also specify your DNS servers in the router, or allow automatic assignment from your ISP, if your ISP is so equipped.
This file associates IP addresses with hostnames and aliases, one line per IP address. For each host a single line should be present with the following information:
<IP-address> <hostname> [aliases...]
Add your hostname, coinciding with the one specified in /etc/rc.conf, as an alias, so that it looks like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost yourhostname
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost archErrors in this entry may cause poor network performance and/or certain programs to open very slowly, or not work at all. This is a very common error for beginners.
/etc/rc.conf with such information. If, for whatever reason, this is not the case, you may add it yourself with the given instructions.
If you use a static IP, add another line using the syntax: <static-IP> <hostname.domainname.org> <hostname> e.g.:
192.168.1.100 yourhostname.domain.org yourhostname
18.104.22.168 www.google.com g 192.168.1.90 media 192.168.1.88 dataThe above example would allow you to access google simply by typing 'g' into your browser, and access to a media and data server on your network by name and without the need for typing out their respective IP addresses.
/etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow
Modify these configurations according to your needs if you plan on using the ssh daemon. The default configuration will reject all incoming connections, not only ssh connections. Edit your /etc/hosts.allow file and add the appropriate parameters:
- Let everyone connect to you
sshd: ALL
- Restrict it to a certain ip
sshd: 192.168.0.1
- Restrict it to your local LAN network (range 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.0.255)
sshd: 192.168.0.
- Restrict for an IP range
sshd: 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
If you do not plan on using the ssh daemon, leave this file at the default, (empty).
/usr/sbin/locale-gen command reads from /etc/locale.gen to generate specific locales. They can then be used by glibc and any other locale-aware program or library for rendering text, correctly displaying regional monetary values, time and date formats, alphabetic idiosyncrasies, and other locale-specific standards.
By default
/etc/locale.gen is an empty file with commented documentation. Once edited, the file remains untouched.
locale-gen runs on every glibc upgrade, generating all the locales specified in
Choose the locale(s) you need (remove the # in front of the lines you want), e.g.:
en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8
The installer will now run the locale-gen script, which will generate the locales you specified. You may change your locale in the future by editing /etc/locale.gen and subsequently running 'locale-gen' as root.
Choose a mirror repository for
pacman. Remember that archlinux.org is throttled, limiting downloads to 50KB/s. Check Mirrors for more details about selecting a pacman mirror.
Root password
Finally, set a root password and make sure that you remember it later. Return to the main menu and continue with installing bootloader.
When you select "Done", the system will rebuild the images and put you back to the Main Menu. This may take some time.
Install Bootloader
Because we have no secondary operating system in our example, we will need a bootloader. GRUB is the recommended bootloader and will be used in the following examples. Alternatively, you may choose LILO or Syslinux. Please see the related wiki and documentation pages if you choose to use a bootloader other than GRUB.
The provided GRUB configuration (
/boot/grub/menu.lst) should be sufficient, but verify its contents to ensure accuracy (specifically, ensure that the root (/) partition is specified by UUID on line 3). You may want to alter the resolution of the console by adding a vga=<number> kernel argument corresponding to your desired virtual console resolution. (A table of resolutions and the corresponding numbers is printed in the
- title
- A printed menu selection. "Arch Linux (Main)" will be printed on the screen as a menu selection.
- root
- GRUB's root; the drive and partition where the kernel (/boot) resides, according to system BIOS. (More accurately, where GRUB's stage2 file resides). NOT necessarily the root (/) file system, as they can reside on separate partitions. GRUB's numbering scheme starts at 0, and uses an hdx,x format regardless of IDE or SATA, and enclosed within parentheses. The example indicates that /boot is on the first partition of the first drive, according to the BIOS, so (hd0,0).
- kernel
- This line specifies:
- The path and filename of the kernel relative to GRUB's root. In the example, /boot is merely a directory residing on the same partition as / and vmlinuz26 is the kernel filename;
/boot/vmlinuz26. If /boot were on a separate partition, the path and filename would be simply
/vmlinuz26, being relative to GRUB's root.
- The path and filename of the kernel relative to GRUB's root. In the example, /boot is merely a directory residing on the same partition as / and vmlinuz26 is the kernel filename;
- The
root=argument to the kernel statement specifies the partition containing the root (/) directory in the booted system, (more accurately, the partition containing
/sbin/init). An easy way to distinguish the 2 appearances of 'root' in
/boot/grub/menu.lstis to remember that the first root statement informs GRUB where the kernel resides, whereas the second
root=kernel argument tells the kernel where the root filesystem (/) resides.
- The
- Kernel options. In our example, ro mounts the filesystem as read-only during startup, (usually a safe default; you may wish to change this in case it causes problems booting). Depending on hardware, rootdelay=8 may need to be added to the kernel options in order to be able to boot from an external usb hard drive.
- initrd
- The path and filename of the initial RAM filesystem relative to GRUB's root. Again, in the example, /boot is merely a directory residing on the same partition as / and kernel26.img is the initrd filename; /boot/kernel26.img. If /boot were on a separate partition, the path and filename would be simply /kernel26.img, being relative to GRUB's root.
title Arch Linux (Main) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda1 ro initrd /boot/kernel26.img
Example for /boot on a separate partition
title Arch Linux (Main) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro initrd /kernel26.img
Install the GRUB bootloader to the master boot record (/dev/sda in our example).
That's it; You have configured and installed your Arch Linux base system. Exit the install, and reboot:
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Film composer Patrick A. Thompson lives in Dallas, Texas. He composed his first work on piano at around eight years old. He performed an excerpt from Beethoven's 9th Symphony on the Queen Mother's Grand piano in Glamis Castle in Scotland at an equally young age. Music has been a driving force in his life ever since his father would sing to him before bedtime. For several years, Patrick performed and helped produce musical theater productions for several theme parks around the United States. As his passion for live theater grew, so did his talent for storytelling. This is what sets him apart from most composers. In any scoring venture, Patrick seeks to actively and emotionally engage the audience under the Director's guidance. Film music is never supposed to be a passive force, but rather a subliminal voice which continually deepens and supports the Director's emotional vision.
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Top Gun: Collectors Edition (US - BD)
Gabe Powers somehow entirely forgot how terrible this movie actually was...
Tom Cruise stars as 'Maverick', a hotshot jerk-off of a jet pilot with a need for speed and a need to succeed. Maverick is sent off to the Top Gun training school for top pilots, where he meets other self obsessed pilots, and attempts to romance a sexy female instructor.
I haven't seen Tony Scott's Top Gun since I was about eleven or twelve (save a few scenes here and there on television). Usually this is a bad sign. Almost every childhood favourite I've revisited more than a decade after the fact has disappointed me. Even worse I don't really remember liking the film all that much in the first place, but I do remember rocking out to 'Danger Zone', and trying to flip my pen between my fingers like Ice Man. Unfortunately, since I was twelve my main exposure to the film has involved listening to long discussions about the apparent blatant homoerotism, discussions to which I never had anything to add.
Well it is totally gay, I'll just get that out there right away. It's not as gay as Nightmare on Elm Street 2 or The Transporter, but it's gay. Watching the film again I'm thinking that the reason the inadvertent (?) homoerotism is such a popular discussion subject is because the story itself has zero alternate subtext. Top Gun is one of the quintessential examples of the kind of surface level filmmaking that made critics hate music video directors in the first place. Tony Scott is a solid visual filmmaker (though he often seems to rip off his older brother's best looks), and it's interesting to watch his music video inspired visuals evolving here, but there's nothing interesting beneath them (except, of course, the homoeroticism).
I can remember the plots of specific scenes, but even after just seeing the film again I have problems recalling the plot of the film as a whole. There's like, zero threat to the protagonists, and the antagonists are only antagonists because they're bigger jerks then the supposed 'heroes' (these guys would probably get along with Patrick Bateman swimmingly). Goose is pretty much the only likeable character in the mix, so of course he has to bite it to create a twinge of drama. It's all so emotionally cheap, which shouldn't surprise me, but for some reason it does. On the commentary track writer Jack Epps Jr. talks about the critics missing the point of the film when they tore it apart. He claims it's not a plot-based film (no argument here), rather a film about visceral feelings. I agree with him on principle, but unfortunately the feelings strike me as very synthetic, and I don't get much out of them.
Rethinking the thing I now realize that Top Gun was so successful because it's made up of a stripped down chick flick and a stripped down guy flick (I'm sure this dawned on everyone else in the world a long time ago). There's a bunch of studly fellas getting all emotional, and the studliest of all is throwing himself at an (gasp) older woman. Then there's the film about top notch top gun dog fight scenes, and they really are top notch. As an adult male who doesn't have any emotional or nostalgic attachment to the film the aerial photography is the one element I can still applaud. There are a few very obvious special effects, along with some well executed miniature explosions, but most of the flying footage is famously the real thing. Even without an interesting character or plot element, Top Gun has a place in film history as one of the most influentially shot films, specifically pertaining to the action scenes, which basically set the stage for every Jerry Bruckheimer production since.
Top Gun is a fantastic example of how good older (older being a relative term here) films can look on Blu-ray. Most catalogue re-releases haven't been particularly impressive so far in the young format's short history (usually you have to look to newer films), but this print verges on reference material. I don't think I've ever seen the film in widescreen, and it changes my appreciation for Scott's visuals, though not surprisingly.
The big difference most fans are probably going to notice between hi-def and DVD is the sheer quantity of sweaty faces, though the detail levels will also lead to a greater appreciation of Kelly McGillis' hair. The wide shots of fighter jets doing their fighter jet thing are sometimes noticeably grainier and fuzzier then on the ground footage, but this is obviously due to the differences in film quality. Scott's high-contrast, and super-saturated style hadn't quite developed to its obnoxious Domino levels, but the seeds are planted here (you rarely see both sides of a face in the same light). This style lends itself very well to the hi-def format, which thrives on deep blacks and bright colours. Some of the skin tones are a bit too red, and there is a little green noise in them, but the other solid tones are generally sharp (except some of the less consistent sky and sea blues). I'm guessing this is the material pushed to its limit, as a few print damage artefacts will point to.
Jesus Christ this is a loud DTS track. I didn't read the back of the box before hitting play, so I watched the first ten minutes or so in Dolby TrueHD, which was plenty impressive, but when I innocently changed to the DTS Master Audio track it just about blew out my speakers. Big oops. Anyway, the track is generally very, very impressive, featuring strong and subtle quiet scenes, and aggressive, almost frightening dog fight scenes. The material is again pushed to its limit (they didn't have DTS Master Audio in 1986, they didn't even have Dolby Digital), and occasionally it shows signs of age. The bass track bleeds quite a bit, lacking punch, and some of the dialogue tracks are a bit scratchy. There are plenty of examples of mismatched audio quality within a single sequence, but the track separation and clarity is always impressive.
The extras start with a fantastic, edited together group commentary track featuring Tony Scott, Jerry Bruckheimer, writer Jack Epps Jr, and Naval experts Captain Mike Galpin, Pete Pettigrew, and Vice Admiral Mike McCabe. Everyone serves their part on the track, and there isn't a lot of repetition. Scott's actually the track's least intensive participant, but he has a lot to say about the technical filming process (and he's the only one that acknowledges the film's homoerotic imagery). Bruckheimer acts more as a historian, filling in the hows and whys of selling the film to a studio, and making the film on a reasonable budget. Epps Jr. is the tracks big apologist, and I have to give him credit for making me second-guess my initial feelings on the film's impact. The Naval experts, however, are probably the track's most consistent and valuable participants, both supporting and criticizing the film in equally measures.
Next up is a six part documentary collection, starting with 'From the Ground Up', a thirty minute exploration of the pre-production process, including script production, getting Paramount to finance the project, hiring Tony Scott, getting support from the Navy, and casting. Some of the interview footage is so similar to the commentary track that I began to suspect that the commentary track was actually an amalgamation of interview audio. The vocal rhythms and word order are different, so I guess the footage is different, but watching this stuff ends up negative the purpose of a lot of the commentary track, unfortunately. Barring the repetition, the featurette very efficiently covers all the pre-production bases, and actually includes a few words with the actors, including Tom Cruise, who was obviously too busy being famous to record a commentary track.
'Playing with the Boys Production' is a twenty six minute exploration of the filming, or production process. The film was divided into three production stages, starting with the 'ground' footage. This was the party part of production apparently where everyone involved just drank and danced to terrible '80s music all night long, and everyone has tales to tell. This was also the only part of the movie the actors could really do anything, so apparently things were pretty professional during the day.
'Need For Speed' covers the second part of production, the part that ending up working for the film—the flight photography. Again, there's a lot of repetition between this featurette and the commentary track, but this time the featurette wins out with deeper focus. There's some footage of the plane to plane filming, behind the scenes meeting photography, and interviews with new people. The overall feel is a bit on the dry and technical side, but you have to admire the effort that went into this pre-digital production. This section runs around twenty eight minutes.
'Back to Basics' is a seventeen minute look at the special effects production. The big problem with the visual effects was the fact that the technicians had to match the real air-to-air footage, rather than creating the entire look themselves. Matching is generally a more difficult proposition because audiences can tell the difference between the real and fake footage. Top Gun was also apparently the anti Lucasfilm production for special effects artists, who were used to the rigid and pre-planned process of special effects rather than Scott's 'rock and roll', off the cuff shooting.
'Combat Rock' is, unfortunately not a ninety minute documentary on The Clash, but a twenty minute exploration of Harold Faltermeyer's totally '80s score. Watching the film again I'm actually surprised to how dark the score is. Even the main anthem is kind of spooky. As a musician I actually respect this exceedingly corny score, but I can't say the same for the now famous Kenny Loggins and Berlin numbers, which grate on my last nerve these days. The featurette covers the musical process with a lot of respect, so much so that I'm a little disappointed no one acknowledges how silly it all is.
The nearly two and a half hour long doc is wrapped up with 'Afterburn: Release and Impact'. As per the norm in these situations, nobody was expecting the film to be a hit, especially after some brutally unpopular test screenings. Apparently there was a lot of post production fiddling and heavy editing involved in getting the film to its final state. Scott's never been particularly good about shooting structured films, so it isn't very surprising that the first cut made no sense.
'Best of the Best: Inside the Real Top Gun is a nearly thirty minute look at the real Top Gun training program. There's a lot of information concerning the real Top Gun during the experts section of the commentary track, but this featurette features inside footage and more detail. It kind of plays like an ad for the Air Force (correction: The Navy, thank you reader Eddie Feng), and is a technical exploration of something I don't find particularly interesting, but it's still a solid featurette and a welcome addition to the disc.
Next up are two multi-angle storyboards, both featuring optional Tony Scott commentary. The storyboards themselves are super-rough (he's no Ridley), and the film footage has to be slowed down a whole lot to match them even a little, but one can still see how the boards helped the filming and editing process.
The disc ends with a 'Vintage Gallery' including four music videos, seven TV spots (no trailer? At least we get Peter Cullen narration, that's cool), a general behind the scenes EPK (about five minutes), a training EPK (about seven minutes), and seven minute period appropriate interview with Tom Cruise (nice sweater Tom). Placing these extras under the Vintage menu is pretty classy I think.
I had little idea how bad Top Gun really is. It was a chore to sit through. I'm sure fans will tell me I just don't get it, and I think they may be right. Does nostalgia get the better of you, or is there really something here you latch on to? The disc itself is awesome, featuring some material pushing high definition video and DTS audio, along with a fantastic collection of extra features I may actually watch again someday. A must own for fans, without a doubt.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Some material may not be suitable for children
Disc Details
Release Date: 29th August 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: English Dolby TrueHD 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 6.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English, English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Extras: Director/Producer/Actor/Expert Commentary, Danger Zone: The Making Of Top Gun (Six-Part Documentary), Multi-Angle Storyboards, Best of the Best: Inside the Real Top Gun, Music Videos, Behind the Scenes, TV Spots, Actor Interview
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Tony Scott
Cast: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt, Michael Ironside
Genre: Action and Romance
Length: 109 minutes
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Thank you, New York Times, for publishing "A Truce in the Bragging Wars" by bestselling author and columnist Bruce Feiler. I couldn't agree more with Feiler's rules about bragging, and the one thing we can all agree on, in this social media-bloated age of parental judginess: "That parents should stop bragging about their children."
I live by a strict no-bragging policy when it comes to Preston—though I have been known to jump on Facebook to announce major milestones, like pooping on the potty at school (mostly so I remember them). And considering my kid is almost 3 ½ and potty training has been very slow going for us, I didn't see it as bragging so much as reassuring that my kid will not, in fact, be the oldest person in diapers. (Turns out, I jumped the gun on that one—he's had many accidents since my FB announcement; karma's pretty messy.)
Unless you're related to me, you won't hear me bragging about my kid very often (rule no. 8, according to Feiler: "Bragging to Granny is allowed"). I just don't play the parenting game that way. I see boasting about your kid and proclaiming your love for your kid as different things though: I'll do the latter all day long. I love my kid more than any other living, or non-living thing, in this world—and no one, not even my husband, has ever loved me back so deeply and so unconditionally. I could sing his praises all day long, and I do—to him, my husband and my mom on a regular basis.
I am so in awe of him and the things that come out of his mouth (friend me on Facebook to read the latest gem), because in my mind he is as close to perfection as a person can get. And the thing is, I actually do believe he is insanely smart, wise beyond his years, and achingly cute. Sometimes I can't believe he's my kid—not that I have low self-esteem, but he's way smarter and prettier than I ever was. I honestly believe he will one day rule the world (or whatever he chooses to do with his life) as much as he rules my heart.
But I don't go around spewing this stuff to everyone who will listen—how ridiculous would I sound? Sure, if a particular topic comes up, and I have something to add about my own kid when other moms are talking about theirs, I won't not say something nice about him. But I do notice myself holding back a little… And sometimes I think that can be perceived as apathetic. I might be a little hyper-aware of not wanting to come off as braggy, who knows.
I usually like to let my son's personality traits and talents speak for themselves (no, he's not some kind of Stepford child). He doesn't always cooperate, but if we're with family sometimes we'll prompt him to show off his new tricks, like reciting the Star Wars version of the A-B-C's (A is for Anakin; B is for Boba Fett; C is for C3PO, etc.), which he memorized from a book months ago. It's crazy impressive.
Now of course we're convinced he has a photographic memory because of this and other oddly Rain Man-ish things he says (now I'm bragging). But this is not a story I tell when mom friends are lamenting their kid having a hard time with letter recognition—what would be the point? That same kid has probably been going on the potty since he turned two. I think the world of my son, but I don't compare what he knows and does to other kids. He is perfect to me and that's all that matters, even if he is still in pull-ups.
When moms go on about how advanced their kid is in this sport or that class, I nod and agree that he or she probably is a genius. I hesitate to ever compare notes. Isn't parenting hard enough without sizing each other up?
Know why else I don't brag about my son? Because I know most of his awesomeness is sheer luck anyway and has little to do with me or my parenting skills—let's face it, my next kid will probably be the total opposite of Preston. I used to regularly declare that I had the world's easiest baby—the counter-brag to that is, he didn't walk until he was 18 months, and wasn't even crawling at a year. While that worried me a little, it did make life with an infant easier—he hardly moved! I'm preparing myself for the reality that Preston may have set the bar a little high in the kid department, and you usually don't get two kids this terrific all the time—my second baby will likely be a colicky terror, no matter how talented we as parents think we are.
Be honest: Are you a mom who brags about her kids a lot, or do you follow the same no-bragging policy? I swear, no judgment! If you do brag, are you even aware you're doing it most of the time? (I know I just bragged about Preston, but I was trying to prove a point!)


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The chart at left shows the value of the TED Spread in basis points, calculated as the 3 Month LIBOR rate minus the 3 Month T Bill rate.
The TED spread is a gap between two interest rates, which is used as a marker of the financial strength of banks.
The TED, or Treasury Eurodollar, spread is calculated by subtracting the interest rate on treasury bills from the three-month dollar LIBOR.
The treasury bill rate is the interest rate paid by the U.S. treasury - often used to represent "risk-free" lending (on the assumption that U.S. government is always good for it), while the LIBOR is the rate at which banks lend to each other. Therefore, the difference in the two rates represents the "risk premium" of lending to a bank instead of to the U.S. government. At its lowest, the TED spread can be as low as 20 basis points, as it was in early 2007.[1] A TED spread this low occurs when banks are seen as strong and in good financial health; the risk of default or banktruptcy is low, and therefore other banks are willing to lend them money at nearly the risk-free interest rates paid by the U.S. government. By contrast, the Ted spread stood at 330 basis points in early October 2008, after a series of bankruptcies by banks and other financial insitutions that occured as part of the 2008 Financial Crisis. On October 10th, the TED spread hit a new record of 460 basis points, reflecting a breakdown in interbank lending.
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The largest analyst contract commitments by enterprises, vendors and PR agencies often go to the Big Two advisory analyst firms: Forrester Research and Gartner. Unfortunately even during this recession, the two firms are not displaying any flexibility in contract negotiations – even though vendor clients are experiencing budget cuts.
To help analyst contract managers (e.g., AR, market research and procurement managers) take a strategic approach to dealing with the need to manage spending with Forrester and Gartner, SageCircle has a public webinar focused on providing the tools and intelligence needed to make the best decisions and deal with the firms' sales representatives.
In this SageCircle Webinar we provide insights and actionable advice on how to manage what you spend with Forrester and Gartner to ensure that you have the access you need without spending more than necessary. Key Issues to be addressed in this webinar include:
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I don't know why, but this morning on the way to the store, I thought about Casey Martin. In 2001, Casey Martin sued the PGA to be allowed to use a cart at events because he suffers from something called Klippel Trenaunay Weber syndrome, a disease in which blood vessels or lymph nodes don't form correctly. When Martin won his suit, it caused a controversy of sorts. After all, the golfers don't just line up and make their shots, they have to walk the entire course. The walking–sometimes in really hot or really cold weather–adds to the physical and mental aspect of the game.
At the time, I thought–and still kind of think–that the Americans with Disabilities Act should not be applied to professional sports. After all, the pros are where the people go who master the things you and I struggle with. Making the pros requires a special helping of talent, along with a single-minded pursuit of perfection. The ten-thousand hour rule doesn't apply to professional athletes. Their number is a lot higher.
And yet Casey Martin won his suit. And for a time, he competed with a golf cart. Although he qualified for the 2012 US Open, he's largely been inactive on the professional circuit since 2007. He's currently the men's golf coach at University of Oregon. And somehow the PGA hasn't disintegrated. And there aren't legless kickers in the NFL or blind second basemen in Major League Baseball.
In other words, when I got irritated about Martin in 2001, I got upset about nothing.
And that's something you might consider for your characters, as well. We–and our characters–typically fight battles based on what might happen. Except for Miss Cleo, we don't have the ability to see into the future to determine the exact results. We can only use our best guesses about that.
Maybe your character's daughter was dating a guy he considered to be a useless ne'er do well. And then they get married and he tolerates the kid. And when troubles come, the kid stands tall and holds the family together. Or perhaps a work re-organization happens and your character is terrified of being made obsolete. Instead, she's invigorated by the new opportunity and enjoys work more than ever, in spite of being in her sixties.
Being right is boring. It's when your characters are wrong that the fun starts. When they realize they were wrong is when juicy internal conflict happens.
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Hot pink, lime green, and turquoise blue with yellow and purple accents highlight this topsy turvy sweet 16 cake. Inside the 3 tier cake is pink velvet cake with oreo filling.
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this cake is soo cute!
along with the blue and zebra striped one.
That's the cake of my dreams
i'm having a sugary& sweet 16, and everything is themed very colorful. this cake would go perfectly. do you deliver to middltown, nj?
the topsey turby cakes are the cuittest cakes EVER!!!!<3
I'm having a very colorful Candy Land themed Sweet 16, this cake would be so perfect!
The only problem is I live in Long Island NY and this is also where the party is going to be located. Do you deliver to NY?
This cake is gorgeous! All of the cakes on this site are absolutely amazing! I am having a sweet sixteen in July and I would kill to have one of these cakes for my party!
this cake is so cool
OMG! these cakes are soo adorable! Do you deliver in Oklahoma?
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ok so this cake is absolutly amazing and i was kinda wondering if you could deliver to tennessee
these cakes are AMAZING!!!
they are to beautiful to eat!!!!
do you deliver to california?
you create this fantastics cakes??
look delicious!!!! jijijiji…. but i'm from
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This is the CUTEST cake of ALL times! I wish I could do my sweet 16 over again and order this cake! This is the cake of my dreams! 🙂
This one has to be my favorite because it reminds me of Seussical the Musical <3
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i love your cakes they look fantastic i never seen such beautiful cakes i hope you guys deliver to virginia because if you do ill redo my quinceanera and sweet 16 again to have one of your cool cakes that would make my party unique!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
omg i just lovee the cakes!! im falling in love with all the pictures its soo pretty! i have my 18th birhtday coming up in to months and i have been searching the web looking for a great place to order my cake from and i think i have found the right place!! i wanted to order something off ace of cakes… but forget about that!! the pricing and cakes are 100 times better on here.. im from VA, i actully used to live in NJ but it isnt to far…
Hi Anne! I was looking for Sweet 16 cakes and i think this might be the perfect one! So do you deliver to Illinois? With love, Haleigh
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I'm having a Flashy themed sweet sixteen and this cake would be perfect do you deliver to New York , NY or Brooklyn ,NY?
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I LOVE this cake !!!I also really like the paisley topsy turvy cake. =)
My grandma makes cakes.She has one were the inside of the cake is rainbow!!!You should make some like that!!=)
OMIGOSH your amazing i wish you would design my cake for my 13th birthday DO you deliver to NYC?
Hi I'm from ,Mexico and I wanna have a cake like this you can open a bakery on Mexico N.L?
Ola Anne! Estou perplexa com seus bolos sao simplesmente maravilhosos, nao desmerecendo os cake desinger brasileiros rss. Minha história é quase parecida com a sua tambem comecei a fazer bolos com minha mae quando eu era criança, mais com o tempo desviei do caminho , mais agora é tudo que sei fazer na minha vida. Mas vendo seu site vejo que tenho muito que aprender… rss . Se um dia Deus me der a chance de ir em NY com certeza quero conhecer sua loja.
Parabens e um grande abraço que Deus continue te bençoando. Leila
hi i love the topsy turvy sweet 16 cake. do you deliver to victoria australia
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PHOENIX (AP) — Hanley Ramirez and A.J. Ellis hit consecutive homers in the 14th inning off Josh Collmenter, helping the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-5 on Wednesday night to complete a three-game sweep.
Ellis tied the game with a two-out, run-scoring single in the ninth inning off Heath Bell and Ramirez hit the first pitch of the 14th off Collmenter (4-2) just over the wall in right field. Five pitches later, Ellis made it 7-5 with his fourth homer.
Kenley Jansen (3-3) pitched the final two innings for the Dodgers, who used all of their position players and had Zack Greinke, Monday's starter, pinch hit in the 10th inning. Los Angeles has won 15 of 18 to move within 1 1-2 games of the NL West lead after its first sweep of Arizona since 2010.
Arizona went through eight pitchers in the 19th game in the majors to go at least 14 innings this season, according to STATS. There were 20 total last season.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Former Giants prospect Zack Wheeler pitched seven sharp innings and Marlon Byrd homered again as the New York Mets completed their first sweep in San Francisco since 1994.
Daniel Murphy and John Buck each had two hits and drove in two runs as the Mets won their fourth in a row, including three straight over the slumping World Series champions. The Giants have lost 16 of 19.
Wheeler (3-1), a former Giants' first-round draft pick, took a shutout into the seventh. He allowed one run and three hits overall, striking out five and walking three.
Matt Cain (5-6) lasted less than an inning for the first time in his career, giving up three runs on two hits while getting just two outs. He walked three.
San Francisco dropped a season-high 10 games under .500 as it was swept at home for the first time in nearly a year.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Gio Gonzalez tossed seven sharp innings and the Nationals hit a pair of consecutive homers off Cliff Lee as Washington beat the Philadelphia Phillies.
Anthony Rendon and Wilson Ramos hit back-to-back shots off Lee to start the fifth and Ryan Zimmerman and Jayson Werth did it to open the sixth.
Gonzalez (7-3) gave up one run and six hits, striking out five to win his fourth straight start. The lefty has eight quality starts in a row.
Lee (10-3) had allowed nine homers in his first 135 2-3 innings this year before yielding four in a span of eight batters. Darin Ruf hit a solo shot for the Phillies, who failed to reach .500 for the first time since June 7.
MIAMI (AP) — Giancarlo Stanton hit a two-run double to end a 10-game RBI drought, and the Miami Marlins broke a five-game losing streak by beating Atlanta 6-2.
Stanton had been in a 3-for-26 slump before he put the Marlins ahead in their four-run first inning against Paul Maholm (9-8). Placido Polanco added three hits and three RBIs.
Jacob Turner (3-1) allowed four hits and two runs in seven innings. Steve Cishek allowed two singles in the ninth to complete a six-hitter.
The Braves won two of three games in the series but missed a chance for their first road sweep since April 12-14 at Washington. Miami improved to 3-12 against the Braves at Marlins Park since it opened in 2012.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Mike Leake scattered four hits over 8 1-3 innings and Brandon Phillips had three RBI, lifting the Cincinnati Reds over the Milwaukee Brewers.
The Reds put the leadoff runner on base in each of the first seven innings and snapped a three-game losing streak.
Leake (8-4) bounced back from a rare rough start in his last outing and seemed to get stronger as the game progressed. He allowed four walks while striking out two.
Milwaukee starter Johnny Hellweg (0-3) had trouble throwing strikes and was battered for his fourth consecutive appearance. The right-hander, who made his major-league debut on June 28, allowed four runs on four hits and five walks in 4 1-3 innings.
Sean Halton hit his first major league home run for the Brewers.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Rockies starter Jorge De La Rosa took a one-hit shutout into the sixth inning and Colorado held on to give the left-hander his sixth straight win against the San Diego Padres.
De La Rosa lifted his record at Petco Park to 3-0 with a 1.88 ERA. His winning streak against San Diego spans eight starts.
The Rockies were leading 4-0 in the sixth when Carlos Quentin hit his 11th home run, a two-run shot to straightaway center field, scoring Chase Headley, who had walked. That was all for De La Rosa (9-5), who allowed two hits over five innings with four walks and four strikeouts.
Andrew Cashner (5-5) went five innings for the Padres, giving up three runs, two earned, on eight hits.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Francisco Liriano scattered four hits over seven innings, and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Oakland Athletics.
Liriano (9-3) struck out six and walked one. He trimmed his ERA to 2.00 as the Pirates snapped a four-game losing streak. Pedro Alvarez went 2 for 4 and drove in two runs for Pittsburgh. Andrew McCutchen, Starling Marte and Jose Tabata also had two hits each as the Pirates beat Oakland for the first time ever.
Pittsburgh came in 0-11 against the A's since interleague play began in 1997 but broke loose against Tommy Milone (8-8). The Pirates worked quickly, following a nearly three-hour rain delay, and touched Milone for three runs in the third inning.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Matt Carpenter hit a two-run home run and Matt Holliday drove in two with a two-out hit to help the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Houston Astros.
Carpenter's ninth homer of the season in the seventh gave the win to Seth Maness (5-1). Tony Cruz got hit by starter Jordan Lyles' first pitch of the inning and one out later Carpenter put a 2-1 pitch into the right field stands off reliever Wesley Wright (0-3).
Maness gave up two hits and a run in two innings of relief. He struck out three.
Edward Mujica earned his 25th save in 26 tries. He has appeared in six consecutive games, going 1-1 with four saves.
CHICAGO (AP) — Josh Hamilton hit two home runs, Albert Pujols also connected and the Los Angeles went deep a season-high five times in a rout of the Chicago Cubs.
Mark Trumbo and Brendan Harris also homered for the Angels. Hamilton drove in five runs and Pujols drove in three.
All of the Angels' home runs were no-doubters. They hit a pair during a five-run first inning and then followed with three more in a six-run fifth, providing more than enough support for C.J. Wilson (9-6).
The Angels have won 11 of 14. Once 12 games under .500, they are now within two games of the break-even mark — since June 12, they have the best record in baseball at 17-8.
Jeff Samardzija (5-9) took the loss for the Cubs, who had their four-game winning streak snapped, a day after they hit five home runs to beat the Angels 7-2.


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I go on people's blog and see them have all these followers on their blog, and me, I know I started a month ago but I only have 12 followers...Wonder if I am doing something wrong??
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There are a few things that might help people feel more comfortable on your site, make it easier to read. The color behind your text should be the same as the color of your post background. If you are adding your text by copy and paste that is causing it to come up with a white background. It would be better to type your text in directly on your post editor, or if you know how to edit the HTML you can delete the background color of the text. Another visual trouble spot is the size of your photos exceeds the size of your post area. You can reduce the size of your photos when you add them, just right click on the photo after adding it and select small or medium. If they are still too big you will have to reduce the file size before you add them. Smaller photos & file size will also allow your blog to function better, and it will look better too. Believe it or not visual appeal is important, however content is the most important.
Blog hops are probably the best way to get followers. Follow blogs you like and leave a comment with a link back to your blog.
Oh I forgot to mention Every Monday we have the Make My Morning blog hop sometimes as many as 90 bloggers :) So lots of amazing women for you to follow and who are happy to follow back :) So be sure to check every Monday ( sometimes I post early Sunday night ;) http://www.mompreneurmogul.com/
Hi this is wendy from http://my2preciousboys.blogspot.com . Don't get discourage it all takes time. I being blogging for a month too and I am putting myself outhere. I participate in the forums I leave comments in other blogs. I bearly have 15 followers. I am trying little by little it would come to you. Just promote yourself.
I agree with what some others have said: focus on doing it because you love it and for the exercise of writing and documenting your life. The rest will follow.
A lot has to do with the content and the relevance to the readers. As a new blog myself, I feel a lot has to do with the appearance of your blog, which I can see you haven't been blogging in a while, but don't lose confidence! If the layout is something that frustrates you, then I can help you with that. =) No problem! Things look a little scattered on your page, so you could definitely work on that. Furthermore, there are blog hops on bigger blogs to get your name out there.
If you have any other questions, feel free to check me out at olearyva.blogspot.com (my fun, crafty, foody, family friendly blog) or visit my other blog at kristinsgreenerlife.blogspot.com (a weight loss blog I just started).
I hope you can still be encouraged to blog through it all, because your content and the food pictures on your blog look soooo yummy!
I feel the same way...Follow me and Ill follow you....hehehe
I figured it out..im following
Hello Carmen! Yes, it does take a while but if you really like blogging...keep at it! I am now following:)
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I don't think it's that hard. I had followers very soon and media as well. I think it just takes a few tools that's all. Social media is a huge help. But just asking people to follow doesn't really work after 10 or so blogs are you really reading those? Probably not. So building a following is better then asking for followers ;)
Once you discover your voice then the people who love that voice will flock to you- but it doesn't have to take forever.
Also set up a newsletter. Those are people who want to hear what you have to say. I'm honored to have the followers that I do.
I completely understand! Mine is the same. I think it may just take awhile. I'm staying optimistic, and I believe that your numbers will increase soon. I will check out your page. I love reading blogs. Please check out mine also. Thanks!
I checked out your blog. It is a great blog. I am sure the you will get more people over time.
I only have one follower. I'm coming back to MBC so I can get some advice for improving my networking/PR.


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MANTECA - Allie Walljasper hoped to guide Sierra High to four Sac-Joaquin Section softball titles during her tenure as the Timberwolves' starting pitcher.
MANTECA - Allie Walljasper hoped to guide Sierra High to four Sac-Joaquin Section softball titles during her tenure as the Timberwolves' starting pitcher.
It was a lofty goal, yes, but not unbelievable, especially after she led Sierra to the Division IV championship as a freshman two years ago. Last year, the Timberwolves came up short, losing to Oakdale in the section finals.
But Walljasper, The Record's All-Area Player of the Year, and the rest of the Timberwolves bounced back, won the Valley Oak League and swept their way through the Division IV tournament, beating league rival Kimball twice to win the program's second championship in three years.
Sierra coach Nick Olmo, who has posted a winning record in each of his seven seasons at Sierra, is The Record's All-Area Coach of the Year.
It's impossible to call Sierra's 2012 season a failure.
The Timberwolves finished 18-6-1 and went 11-3 in the VOL, finishing third. They returned to the Division IV championship game via the losers bracket and beat Oakdale once before losing the decisive "if" game.
"I was looking at winning it all four years, but unfortunately last year it didn't happen," Walljasper said. "That just made me more hungry to get that win this year. Losing hurts more than winning feels good. When we lost that game, we were all disappointed. But we bounced back."
Walljasper and the Timberwolves bounced back in a big way. The 6-foot-1 junior went 18-2 with a 0.47 ERA, 227 strikeouts and 24 walks during the regular season. In 19 starts, she allowed more than two hits only five times.
In games in which she pitched five or more innings, she tossed nine one-hitters, one no-hitter and nine shutouts.
"She's definitely matured," Olmo said. "When she came in as a freshman, she wasn't used to the pressure of the big game and that type of thing. Over the years she's progressed to the point where she doesn't seem rattled when she gets into a tough situation.
"Even if she throws a bad pitch, she recovers well. She doesn't need that pumping up you usually have to give to a young player. She's able to right her own ship."
Walljasper wasn't as dominant in the playoffs, but she got the job done in each of the Timberwolves' four games. She beat Los Banos 6-3 and Ceres 7-2 on the same day to send Sierra to the semifinals.
On May 17, she beat Kimball in the semifinals. After the Jaguars rebounded to advance to the finals out of the losers bracket, she tossed a shutout, striking out 10 in a 4-0 win.
In seven seasons with the Timberwolves, Olmo never has posted a losing record.
He's a combined 135-49-4 with two league titles and two section championships. Since 2008, Sierra has finished among the top three in the eight-team VOL and won at least 11 of 14 league games every year.
All of those years have been good, but this season was special.
The Timberwolves went 25-2 overall, 12-2 in league, and won both the VOL and section championships for the second time in three years. Cal-Hi Sports honored Sierra as the state's Division III Team of the Year.
While this year's team wasn't as good offensively as in 2011, this season the Timberwolves had more options, Olmo said.
"This year's team was a little deeper than some of our past teams," he said. "It was the depth on the bench that helped us out the most.
"We had bats on the bench, we had gloves on the bench, so we weren't afraid to switch things up and put someone in the lineup who was hitting well at that particular time."
Olmo said his program has benefited from the Valley Oak League's emergence as one of the section's most competitive softball leagues.
"East Union and Oakdale are always competitive, Kimball's really emerged the last couple of years, and there's teams like Manteca that can do some things when you least expect it," he said. "It's a really strong league from top to bottom."
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Rights being lost under Obama
Written by Neil A. Davis, Gothenburg Thursday, 14 June 2012 13:52
In a 2001 radio interview, Barack Obama spoke about failures of the Warren court during the civil rights movement. He said "...generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties" (what government can't do to you, not what it must do on your behalf). He lamented that the Supreme Court never ventured into redistribution of wealth and political and economic justice in society.
Hundreds of years ago, the founders saw Obama coming and intentionally limited intrusive federal powers like these in the Constitution. Read Frederic Bastiat's "The Law" at (bastiat.org/en/the_law.html). Learn why we have laws and why socialism must inevitably degenerate into communism.
Obama dislikes not having a federal mandate to "do to you." Joe Knoedler (02-22-12) thinks Obama should have that power and characterizes him as "...someone who understands the middle class and will fight for...me and my future family..." As a Marxist socialist, Obama "understands the middle class" is his enemy. He wants it eliminated by killing off capitalism. I would like Knoedler to explain to me how Obama's attempt to destroy the First Amendment shows understanding for the middle class (or any class).
Knoedler in his second letter (03-07-12) wrote "...those of the religious community sometimes forget that little part of the Constitution claiming the separation of church and state." There is no such claim in the Constitution. What the First Amendment states is "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
Both statements are protection for the people. Government can't form a state religion (what colonists fled from in England) and government can't interfere with established religion. However, through Obamacare "the secretary shall" and has mandated religious employers to provide health insurance that covers contraception, sterilization and abortifacient drugs.
This is a direct violation of Catholic tenets. The Archdiocese of New York, the University of Notre Dame and over 40 other plaintiffs filed a dozen separate federal lawsuits against the requirement.
In his 2012 State of the Union speech Obama announced "If you make more than one million dollars a year, you should not pay less than 30% in taxes…you shouldn't get special tax subsidies or deductions." Looking at his 2010 tax return we see that he made over $1.7 million and paid less than 26% in taxes, while taking over $373,000 in deductions. I guess his "Buffet rule" applies to everyone but him. Hypocrisy? While his talk is about millionaires and billionaires, the policies include business owners making $250,000 (middle class).
Some of the idiots in the Occupy Wall Street movement believe they can't get good paying jobs because there is no money left. Rich people have taken it all. Obama encourages this line of thinking (attacking the evil rich gets votes). At the same time he thinks government can create money supply just by printing it. This man was elected POTUS because of the belief that Democrats are masterminds of economics? This stupidity must be voted out in November.