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When Louis Daguerre announced his discovery of what became the first widely used photographic process, in 1839, his invention spread around the world with amazing speed. Far from making painters and sculptors obsolete, as some predicted, photography quickly proved useful in the studio. Artists could save the time and cost of repeated sittings by photographing their models.
A whole new branch of publishing emerged, providing photographic versions of traditional artistic subject matter, ranging from the female nude to pictures of costume, everyday street scenes, and architecture from every part of the world. Using such sources could enormously expand the artist's visual vocabulary at relatively modest cost.
The middle of the 19th century was the heyday of academic realism, but it was far from obvious that the clarity and detail of the photographic image could be of much use to later artists who did not strive to produce realistic images. Artists themselves confused the issue by their public statements. Some were so eager to be thought creative, and so afraid to be associated with a popular new invention that gave pleasure to ordinary people, that they denounced the medium and asserted that they never had used and never would use a mere mechanical process in their work.
Recent scholarship has shown, however, that photography was in fact used by a wide range of artists whose styles and attitudes appear to be completely antiphotographic. A new exhibition, "The Artist and the Photograph: From Degas to Picasso," explores the ways in which early modern artists took advantage of this new technical resource.
Paul Gauguin's languorous, dreamlike renderings of South Sea Islanders are obviously not realistic in the sense of using one-point perspective and an academic style. Still, most of us imagine that, with some expressive distortion, he was painting what he saw when he lived in Tahiti.
Not true, we learn. By the time Gauguin moved there, Tahiti was a bustling French colony, transformed by economic development. The South Sea Islands of Gauguin's art came from picture postcards showing Europeans a primitive Utopia. For "Polynesian" architectural motifs, Gauguin relied on a favorite photograph of the Buddhist temple on Borobudur, far away in Indonesia.
Edgar Degas, famous for paintings that used the off-center cropping of Japanese prints to depict bathers, dancers, and jockeys, made photographs of his own and was, like many other artists, then and now, fascinated by the stop-motion photographs of Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey.
Painters and sculptors had wondered for years whether all four of a horse's legs were ever off the ground at the same time. Muybridge's photographs showed that they were, and added a surprise. Whereas artworks routinely portrayed the horse's legs spread out, forward and back, at the moment when all four were off the ground, the reverse was true; it now appeared that the horse's legs were gathered inward at the critical moment.
Working from photographs, Degas created a bronze sculpture showing how the horse's legs looked in photographic reality. He never exhibited the bronze, which would have seemed grotesque when compared with more conventional ideas of how horses galloped.
The small, hand-held Kodak camera, introduced late in the 19th century, set off a popular craze for photography and also helped change the practice of painting. For such artists as Felix Vallotton, Edouard Vuillard, and Pierre Bonnard, snapshots of friends and family translated themselves into artworks in which the figures were posed in startlingly unacademic ways.
For Vallotton and Vuillard, indoor photographs often served as direct source material for paintings of interior scenes. By contrast, Bonnard photographed outdoors and in conceiving his paintings of interior scenes used his snapshots in a more general way, not as studies for specific paintings but rather to liberate his own vision and his subjects' poses from centuries of tradition.
By the 1850s, photography had become central to the practice of the traditional fine arts. A photograph could be an aid to memory, a medium for recording works in progress, or a substitute for travel. Going beyond these practical considerations, many pioneering modern artists used what seemed to be a totally uncreative technique to produce works that challenged our most deeply accepted ideas of what is real.
Organized by the Dallas Museum of Art, "The Artist and the Photograph" will be seen through Jan. 2, 2000 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in Dallas from Feb. 1 through May 2, 2000, and at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, from June 12 through Sept. 10, 2000.
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NEW YORK (AP) — ESPN and Fox executives see devoted fans at Major League Soccer matches and figure burgeoning national television viewership is soon to follow.
It hasn't happened yet despite Americans' surging interest in international soccer and MLS's success in building stadiums designed for the sport. The networks are betting that will change in the next eight years, agreeing to pay more in a new long-term contract.
"We've been a little puzzled. Clearly when we did the last deal we would've expected to see a higher growth curve," ESPN President John Skipper said. "We're kind of doubling down. We still think it's going to happen."
And they're confident they can help make that happen with a major promotional push.
"We know what we can do with this," Fox Sports President Eric Shanks said, "and we know that this is a deal for the future, not just right now."
The agreements announced Monday with MLS and U.S. Soccer run through 2022. Univision Deportes also extended its contract for Spanish-language rights.
One of MLS's goals was to lock in the same day for a game of the week throughout the entire season for the first time. Univision will air a match every Friday night. And a doubleheader will take place every Sunday — one game on ESPN at 5 p.m. Eastern time, then the nightcap on Fox Sports 1 at 7 p.m.
"We think that will help drive ratings," MLS Commissioner Don Garber said.
It's the first time ESPN has agreed to be part of a regular doubleheader across two networks, Skipper said. He's noticed that his company and its competitors are cooperating with each other more lately on leagues they both televise, realizing that a healthy sport benefits everyone.
The contract also includes the men's and women's national team games for which U.S. Soccer holds the rights, including exhibitions and home World Cup qualifiers. ESPN and FS1 will split about 10 men's team matches each year.
ESPN has broadcast the MLS since its inception in 1996; Fox Soccer aired games until NBC took over that package in 2011. Now it's going back to a Fox channel, with FS1 available in more than twice as many homes as Fox Soccer was.
NBC, in the final season of a three-year deal mostly for NBCSN, has since added the English Premier League.
Viewership for MLS matches slid in 2013. Regular-season games on ESPN and ESPN2 averaged 220,000 viewers, down from 311,000 in 2012. Matches on NBCSN, which had 122,000 viewers in 2012, averaged 100,000 in 2013 before Premier League started but bumped up to 132,000 after that.
The rising popularity of international soccer has already translated into increased interest in the U.S. team. The 11 World Cup qualifying matches on ESPN's networks before the 2010 tournament averaged 758,000 viewers. That soared to 1.26 million for the nine games in the most recent cycle.
ESPN and Fox are both plenty motivated to fill their airwaves with soccer. Fox won the rights to the 2018 and '22 World Cups and wants to maintain a presence in the sport between tournaments to go along with its Champions League deal. Shanks also believes a healthy MLS strengthens the U.S. team — and a successful American squad makes for higher World Cup ratings.
ESPN, which owns the 2016 European Championship rights, hopes to keep a foothold in soccer after losing the World Cup to Fox.
ESPN's networks — mostly ESPN2 — and FS1 will each air at least 34 games a season under the deal. They'll alternate broadcasting the MLS Cup. Out-of-market matches will be streamed on ESPN3.com for the first time.


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Fewer pedestrian fatalities as drivers stop speeding
The IAM has highlighted a correlation in DfT figures which show that as compliance with 30mph urban speed limits is improving, pedestrian fatalities are falling.
In 1998, 69% of cars were driven faster than the limit in 30mph zones in free-flow conditions; by 2010 this figure had dropped to 46%. While at the same time, pedestrian fatalities have also reduced significantly; down 40% in 2010 compared with 2005.
Neil Greg, IAM director of policy and research, said: "The good news is that drivers are not driving faster on the less crowded roads – and more people are sticking to the limit in urban areas where there are many hazards.
"A combination of consistent road safety messages, new road layouts and police enforcement appears to be paying road safety dividends for city people.
"However despite this positive effect in urban areas, road safety on rural roads, where the majority of serious accidents and fatalities occur, needs much more attention.
"Most young drivers get plenty of exposure to urban hazards but often their first experience of a rural road comes after the test when they are on their own. This is unacceptable."
For more information contact the IAM Press Office on 020 8996 9777.
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Roy, thank you.
Good luck with your research. Is this graph of motorcyclist fatalities from 1950 helpful?
Data for this graph from here:
If you could find motorcycle mileage each year to calculate deaths/Bkms that would show how safety has changed over the years/decades.
Dave Finney - Slough
I can add my support to the arguments put forward by Dave and Roy. I am glad to see Ron using his wide knowledge to the advantage of motorcycle safety and look forward to what he has to say.
Just recently I drove over the pass by the Cat and Fiddle Pub on the A 537 between Macclesfield and Buxton. A well known death road for bikers. I have always wanted to ride it to see for myself why so many KSI occur there.
I will be writing to various bodies regarding what I found. There are many things that are inherently dangerous about the road and in some instances have in my opinion been made more dangerous by various attempts to slow traffic down from 60mph to 50 mph ending with a slegdeghammer, average speed cameras that cost nearly £1.000.000.
I could have done the same thing with a few cattle grids and sheep on the roads. Bikers like none of those and it would have been at 1000th of the cost, if that.
By the way, why do safety officers and highway engineers believe that a 50mph limit will stop bikers falling off their bikes at 30 mph on a corner that obviously cannot be taken at anything more than 20 mph. It beats me but supports both of the two other comments.
Would like to meet with Roy sometime now that he is retired and if he is ever up north give us a bell.
Finally I read a lot of info now coming forward about the reduction of speed and or of accidents now that the number of Gatsos are being dramatically reduced. Why is that when we know that there will be a blanket 20 mph limit in towns by 2015.
Bob Craven, Lancs
I am currently writing a two-part article for a motorcycle magazine on the history of road safety, starting in the late 1890s. My research has shown how frequently the speed issue is resurrected and a limit imposed as a cure-all remedy. Many, if not most, practitioners are aware that speed is not a stand-alone problem but a factor amongst several found in causation analysis. As a retired RSO and Fellow of the Institute of Diagnostic Engineers, I recommend that we listen to the comments of Dave Finney at Slough. I know that RSOs are sometimes reluctant to see the value in alternative thinking but it would be churlish, if not short-sighted, to dismiss these views because they are perceived as non-mainstream. It is easy to point the finger and say; speeding, it is better to wait and say; think deeper.
Roy Buchanan, Epsom
This is a very silly press release.
6% of pedestrians killed involved a speeding vehicle (and this includes all "possible" speeding).
Therefore the VAST majority (94%) do NOT involve a speeding vehicle (and speeding was not even "possible" in those 94%).
When serious injuries to pedestrians are considered (as well as fatal), only 2% of these involved a speeding vehicle.
What about the effects of the recession?
What about the effects of vehicle design?
What about the effects of increased traffic (more hazards mean lower speeds, even without any "speed management")?
Will we ever get those involved in road safety to comply with even the basics that other fields of engineering insist upon?
Dave Finney - Slough
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Sara Sachs is an international Psychic Medium based in Pittsburgh. She brings her abilities in Evidential Mediumship to Journeys to connect the sitters with their loved ones who have passed into Spirit. Sara received her primary training in Spiritualist community, Lily Dale, NY, with such teachers like Janet Nohavec, renowned American Evidential Medium. Her mediumship and spiritual education continued at the Arthur Findlay College of Psychic Studies in England, where some of the best international practitioners in this field have studied and now teach. Sara still makes the long journey to the school in the UK when she can, because she believe growth and development never end.
Sara's work in private sessions, public demonstrations, and teaching metaphysical workshops in Pittsburgh has also taken her to venues from small towns to larger cities, such as New York. She also speaks in, and delivers messages from Spirit in various Spiritualist Churches in the US. Sara is a regular message presenter at outdoor services in the summer as a visiting Medium at Lily Dale. She's also been a guest on radio and TV in the US and Canada.
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An exciting new distance learning program has been announced by the The Hershey Company, as in the candy company. The Hershey to Grow: Ghana Distance Learning Program was a collaboration between the M.S. Hershey Foundation, Hershey Story Museum, Milton Hershey School, Cisco, and partners in Africa, which include Ghana Education Service, Ghana Cocoa Board, the Assin Fosu school, and Source Trust. The new program links school children in Hershey, Pennsylvania, where the company is headquartered, to school children in Ghana through high-definition, real-time technology.
Through this virtual classroom, 80 elementary school children in both Hershey and Ghana will together learn a curriculum that was jointly developed by both Hershey and Ghana teachers. Cisco provided the high-definition video technology, and the lessons will be led by teachers from both schools, as well as educators from the Hershey Story Museum.
It is no coincidence that the Hershey Co. is engaging Ghana, which is one of the highest cocoa-producing areas in the world. This new project is part of The Hershey Company's new campaign aimed to improve the lives of families who are producing cocoa. Both sets of students will learn about all phases of cocoa production, and exactly what happens from the time it is harvested, to the time it is ultimately in its final form. Hershey students will learn about cocoa growing and harvesting, and Ghana students will learn how their cocoa is turned into chocolate items, and even get to taste the final chocolate products, with many of them having never tried chocolate.
The virtual classroom will take place every two weeks, with six lesson plans over three months. The ultimate goal is to help both sets of students understand just how both of their worlds are connected, and about each other's cultures. To learn more about The Hershey to Grow: Ghana Distance Learning Program, visit their website.


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A proposed ordinance providing for a sewer rate increase must receive the Vilonia City Council's stamp of approval two more times before being official. Designated as Ordinance 2014-1, the ordinance was approved on the first reading this week.
"We will place it on the second reading March 18," said Mayor James Firestone. "It has to pass the council approval on a third reading before being adopted. There's no emergency clause."
Sewer department officials, last month, proposed the rate increase to be $16 for the first 1,000 gallons and $6 per 1,000 gallons after. The current charge is $13.50 for the first 1,000 gallons and $5 per 1,000 gallons afterwards. Sewer department officials said the increase would amount to an average of $6 to $7 per month for most customers.
The increase is necessary, according to officials, because the sewer fund is being depleted to take care of a USDA loan paying for sewer plant upgrades with nothing left over for emergency repairs, additional upgrades and mandated environmental regulations.
Other business:
• Firestone opened bids regarding the selling of three older model vehicles, rendered unusable, and belonging to the Vilonia Fire Department. The highest bidder for the three vehicles was Jacob Mayterstock of Conway. Mayterstock's bids included $788.99 for a 1983 Chevy one-ton, $1,588.99 for a 1988 Search and Rescue and $458.99 for a 1957 non-working Chevy pickup.
• Approved Ordinance 2014-2 acknowledging that the city of Vilonia is authorized to do business with businesses owned by the spouses and relatives of city employees. The ordinance acknowledged a couple of businesses including Vilonia Medical Clinic and J&D Supply as falling into that category.
• Firestone spoke briefly about traveling to Rogers in January to accept the Volunteer Community of the Year Award as awarded by the state.
• Police department. Chief Brad McNew said the police cruiser that was involved in a wreck, last month, is back on the road. It cost, he said, about $7,000 to fix. The insurance through the Arkansas Municipal League, he said, covered the cost except for the $1,000 deductible.
• Code enforcement/planning. Fred Fowlkes, city engineer/code enforcement, said there have been two building permits issued recently with both being single family residents. The planning commission in January, Fowlkes said, approved the final plat for Pleasant Creek Subdivision. The project was approved, he said, before there was a Vilonia Planning Commission. Yet, he said, the "final plat" was not. Landowner Bill Jones, Fowlkes said, has been maintaining the streets which are in the city limits. The approval of the final plat transferred the responsibility to the city for maintenance and repair
• The annual Domino/Rook Tournament will be held at the Vilonia Senior Citizens Center during the third week in March.
• Tickets are being sold for the Lions Club sponsored circus to be held in March.
• Announced that it is estimated the cost for the continued paving S. Mt. Olive to the 64 Bypass will cost about $125,000. The paving project, Firestone said, is designated for later in the year when the new Intermediate School is completed.


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Think Catwoman in plain clothes. Lisbeth Salander sans dragon tattoo. Jack Reacher with an extra X-chromosome. Whatever—Vanessa Michael Munroe has to be among the cleverest, fightingest and all-around baddest heroines in contemporary suspense fiction. Gifted with a lithe, athletic stature, Munroe (who typically goes by "Michael") can easily pass for a man, but add some makeup and a party frock, and she will turn heads in any crowded room. Her latest adventure, The Catch, by award-winning author Taylor Stevens, finds her in Djibouti of all places, where she inadvertently becomes a key player in one of the infamous acts of piracy for which the Somali coast is well known. As is the case with previous Munroe novels (The Informationist, The Doll, The Innocent), The Catch is all action, all the time. Back-story? Not so much. Touchy-feely moments of introspection? Nope. A tender romantic subplot? Nah, not really. Just a straight-up adventure tale about a woman who thinks on her feet (that is, when she is not using them to kick bad-guy booty) and always stays one step ahead of her adversaries. My prediction: This will be one of the summer's most popular beach reads.
After establishing himself as the king of the travel thriller genre with his series featuring Bangkok-based travel writer Poke Rafferty, author Timothy Hallinan made an abrupt change in direction and embarked on a new series featuring L.A. cat burglar (and occasional private eye for crooks) Junior Bender. Junior's latest escapade, Herbie's Game, pays homage to Herbie Mott, Junior's mentor in his life of crime. When Wattles, a well-known local hood, discovers that an incriminating list of contacts has been stolen from his safe—yet all the other valuables remain untouched—he knows just whom to blame: Junior Bender. Except that Junior didn't do it. But he has a pretty good guess as to who did: Herbie Mott. Threatened with stick, bribed with carrot, Junior agrees to look into the case for Wattles. Then, one by one, people on the list begin to turn up dead, including Herbie. With complex characters, spicy dialogue, clever plot devices and a liberal dose of humor—as is always the case with Hallinan—Herbie's Game is a fine read.
Following The Summer of Dead Toys, Inspector Hector (I love the sound of those two words together) Salgado is back for an encore in Antonio Hill's atmospheric The Good Suicides. Set in and around Barcelona, the story begins with a gruesome email sent to the inboxes of a group of cosmetics industry managers on an executive retreat. The message is cryptic: "Never forget." Attached to the message is a photo of dead dogs hanging from a tree. Bizarre though that may be, things get weirder in short order, as one by one the executives creatively commit suicide. The connection between the suicides and the message is unmistakable—albeit baffling—and it falls to Salgado to unravel the mystery, preferably before the next suicide takes place. Meanwhile, another storyline—this one much more personal to Salgado—underlies every move he makes: the abrupt and unexplained disappearance of his wife. Hill cuts deftly back and forth between these two disparate tales, keeping the reader on seat's edge throughout.
Let me say this at the outset: The Saints of New York were anything but. A good argument could be advanced that these corrupt cops—charged with combating the Mafia in the '80s—were among New York's leading sinners, and policeman John Parrish was a key member. If there was an illegal pot of gold to be found within the five boroughs, there was a good chance that the Saints had dipped their fingers into it. Nonetheless, 30-odd years later the group remains revered for having broken the backbone of the Mafia, a legacy that Parrish's son Frank, also a cop, must live up to (or down to) every day of his life. Faced with the choice of administrative leave or daily consultations with a shrink after a badly botched hostage negotiation, Frank grudgingly opts for the therapist. Naturally, questions are raised about his childhood, most particularly his relationship with his father, and he responds by launching into a narrative about the Saints, a decades-spanning story of the Mob, police corruption and the arcane interactions between the "good guys" and the "bad guys" that reached the highest levels of government. Meanwhile, Frank's investigation into the murder of a teenage girl becomes more convoluted. And so author R.J. Ellory weaves these two tales together, in what can only be called a "big novel"—big in the manner of Dennis Lehane's Mystic River or T. Jefferson Parker's Silent Joe—that may well be the standout suspense novel of the summer. Or the year.
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Cori Courture Scholarship Fund
At IMPACT Bay Area we believe that all people, regardless of their financial situation, have the right to personal safety. To help meet this goal, we have established the Cori Couture Scholarship Fund, in honor of our founding Director, to provide financial assistance for our students. We reserve a quarter of the spots in each public class for scholarship recipients.
100% of your contribution will go to our scholarship fund. Impact Bay Area is a 501c3 non-profit, so your contribution is fully tax-deductible.
$595 sponsors a full scholarship for a 20+ hour Basics class
$300 provides a 50% scholarship for a Basics student
$100 provides a full scholarship for Intro to Padded Assailant
Every donation helps bring personal safety, self-defense and empowerment training to people who need it but can't afford the tuition. Contributions to our scholarship fund in any amount are gratefully accepted
You can also mail a check to Impact Bay Area, PO Box 23831, Oakland, CA 94623. Make sure to note "scholarship" in the memo.
About Cori Couture
Cori served as IMPACT Bay Area Instructor and Executive Director in the 1990s (in fact, Cori was around before we even had the name IMPACT)! Cori not only built the Bay Area organization, she also worked to build empowerment self-defense programs at an international level through teaching students, training instructors, and helping people start chapters across this country and in many others, like England, Costa Rica, Australia, and Japan. Cori was a strong leader who took our organization to the next level through both her compassion for others and her passion for personal safety. We are so grateful for her leadership and vision and the impact she made on IMPACT Bay Area. Cori passed away in 2015, but her legacy lives on every time we are able to train another student who might not otherwise have been able to attend one of our classes. To continue to help us make IMPACT available to all, please consider donating to the Cori Couture scholarship fund.
When a woman knows she can defend herself, that she will never again be a victim, her whole life changes and that of the people around her. By never allowing anyone to hurt her, she has broken the cycle of violence. I believe that, 16 women at a time, we are changing the world!
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text: NEARLY 3 million Zambians are expected to go to the polls today in a ballot that marks a turning point in the country's history and could bolster the trend toward greater democracy in Africa.In the first multiparty elections in 17 years, which follow two years of pro-democracy activity, voters will be asked to choose a president and 150 candidates for the National Assembly. President Kenneth Kaunda, who has led the country since it won independence from Britain 27 years ago, faces a daunting challenge from trade unionist Frederick Chiluba who heads the broad coalition Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD). The election campaign so far has been peaceful despite predictions of violence. Western diplomats fear that violence could follow if the MMD fails to win both polls. Dr. Kaunda has warned that an MMD victory could lead to civil war. "Zambia will never be the same again after these elections. Even if UNIP wins, changes will come," says Robinson Mwan, a Zambian businessman in Johannesburg who has returned to vote for the MMD. "The MMD is not a political party. It's a feeling of the Zambian people that can't be stopped." The MMD - made up of trade unionists, businessmen, farmers, professionals, and church people - shares one objective: to remove Kaunda and the United National Independence Party (UNIP) from power and save Zambia from economic ruin. At least 12 smaller parties are also contesting the elections. Once one of Africa's elder statesmen and twice a chairman of the Organization of African Unity, the tide of history has turned against Kaunda. His humanist inclinations cannot conceal the legacy of one-party rule and the devastation wrought by socialist policies on a once prosperous nation of 7.5-million people. Food production has fallen to a fraction of its potential. Hospitals are short of medicines. Schools are without desks and chairs, and national roads are in disrepair. The main airport is dilapidated, and half-empty supermarket shelves gather dust in this once thriving capital. The country is wracked with AIDS, and one of Kaunda's sons died of the disease several years ago. A second son was recently sentenced to death for murder. Soon after Zambia won independence, Kaunda suspended the Constitution and established permanent emergency rule. He nationalized industries - including the copper mines, which account for 90 percent of the country's foreign earnings. After being left with more than $3 billion in foreign reserves when the British withdrew in 1964, Zambia today owes $8 million to international donors - making it one of the highest per capita debts in the world. The World Bank recently cancelled a $260 million loan after Zambia defaulted on a $20.8 million payment. An economic reform plan - backed by the IMF and the World Bank - aims to boost exports other than copper, reduce inflation and the budget deficit, and privatize unprofitable state-run businesses. By December last year, Kaunda was able to read the signs of the growing pro-democracy movement and agreed to abandon one-party rule. In July this year, he agreed on a democratic Constitution and multiparty elections. Most political scientists predict that both he and UNIP will be defeated in the election.


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Maybe you already came across the problem that your data grows and grows while the disk size stays the same, or you don't want to copy over your existing data to a bigger disk. For databases, it's mostly easy to specify more data files at different locations. For normal file systems, it's often not desired to add more mount points to existing structures.
One solution is LVM (Logical Volume Manager). There's a competing technology from IBM (EVMS), but as I'm more used to LVM I'll describe this. All further descriptions are related to LVM2.
A word to the units used in this article. I'll use the IEC notation (KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB) on all 2-based units in this article (read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte), except of pasted output from commands.
Although the lvs/pvs man page tells that using capitalized unit shortcuts will use the SI (metric) units (1 KB == 1000 bytes) instead of the 2-based units (1 KiB == 1024 bytes), this is only true on display, i.e. it doesn't matter if you provide "-L 2g" or "-L 2G" to lvcreate. If you really want to (or have to) be exact when working on sizes, use the PE count instead of the bytes (that means providing eg. "-l" instead of "-L").
LVM introduces three terms: Physical Volumes (PV), Volume Groups (VG) and Logical Volumes (LV). The PVs are aggregated to VGs and split up again into LVs. These two glueing mechanisms are the core idea providing the flexibility.
PVs can be any block device (complete disks, partitions, or even more sophisticated, layered constructs). I recommend to not use complete disks but partitions for practical reasons (e.g. to prevent your not-so-mindful colleague from using the unpartitioned, "free" disk). I'd only make exceptions for devices larger than 2TiB, because the msdos partition table can't cope with partitions larger than 2TiB and I don't like GPT ([s]fdisk doesn't support GPT).
PVs are themselves separated into Physical Extents (PEs), which are the smallest manageable unit known to LVM. Default PE size is 4MiB (with LVM1, one had to raise the PE size because one LV could only take up 65536 PEs, but this limit is gone with LVM2 so there's no need to change the default anymore).
Please note that for data integrity and availability, your PVs should reside on redundant disks (eg. RAID5, hard- or software) for productive systems.
VGs can be built up with any PVs, but you should minimize the number of VGs. We already saw a case where one VG per PV was created, thus losing one of the two glueing layers, and in turn the flexibility. Also, some operations only work inside a VG and not across VGs. I usually create two VGs, one for the system itself and one for data.
LVs can then be used to make space from one VG accessible as block device. Don't make the LVs too large at first because that may cut you off the second glue layer (unless you add more disks, of course). Estimate the amount of data that will reside on the LV and keep slack space at reasonable small size. Don't allocate all available VG space yet! While growing LVs and file systems is an easy task and can be done online (ie. when the file system is mounted), shrinking is more complex and error-prone and can only be done offline. Please see the section "EXT3 caveats" below for some details about online resizing with EXT3 file systems.
I'll describe some real-life examples here with some commands and options which proved to be useful during administration tasks. Be careful on using the commands, because some can be very destructive for your data if used on the wrong devices. (I used a VMware virtual machine for the following examples)
Creating PVs in bulk
If you have plenty of disks or LUNs, you don't have to spend half a day with wading through some fdisk text or graphical UI if you have sfdisk available. Assume we have 10 disks/LUNs sdb..sdk that we want to use solely for LVM, and they don't have any partition tables yet. Following my recommendation above, I don't want to use the complete disks but instead create LVM PV partitions (partition type 8e) on them, and use these. Initializing PVs, thus making them known to LVM, is done with "pvcreate". I'll put both partition creation and PV initialization into one step.
If we're on bash version 3, we can easily do
# for i in {b..k}; do echo ',,8e' | sfdisk /dev/sd$i && pvcreate /dev/sd${i}1; done
and are already done! 🙂 If we're on an older bash version, we have to write the sequence explicitly:
# for i in b c d e f g h i j k; do echo ',,8e' | sfdisk /dev/sd$i &&
pvcreate /dev/sd${i}1; done
This will create one big type 8e partition covering the whole space on each disk, and initialize it as LVM PV. I usually check if all is in the desired state:
# pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sdb1 lvm2 -- 2.00G 2.00G
/dev/sdc1 lvm2 -- 2.00G 2.00G
/dev/sdd1 lvm2 -- 2.00G 2.00G
/dev/sde1 lvm2 -- 2.00G 2.00G
/dev/sdf1 lvm2 -- 2.00G 2.00G
/dev/sdg1 lvm2 -- 2.00G 2.00G
/dev/sdh1 lvm2 -- 2.00G 2.00G
/dev/sdi1 lvm2 -- 2.00G 2.00G
/dev/sdj1 lvm2 -- 2.00G 2.00G
/dev/sdk1 lvm2 -- 2.00G 2.00G
Creating a VG and LV
So the PV creation went well. Now we can create a VG on these PVs. I'll not use all PVs because I want to play around a bit later:
# vgcreate vg0 /dev/sd[b-f]1
Volume group "vg0" successfully created
# vgs
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
vg0 5 0 0 wz--n- 9.98G 9.98G
If you want to see more detail, you may use vgdisplay. But let's create a LV on this VG now:
# lvcreate -n data -L 2g vg0
Logical volume "data" created
Let's take a detailed look at the created LV. For this, it's handy to use the -o option for lvs (also for vgs and pvs) to display other (-o …) or more (when using -o +…) columns (devices in this case):
# lvs -o +devices
LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Devices
data vg0 -wi-a-2.00G /dev/sdb1(0)
data vg0 -wi-a- 2.00G /dev/sdc1(0)
As you can see, the 2g LV takes two PVs, although it should theoretically fit into one PV. This is caused presumably by some internal overhead. You can see the overhead by examining the PVs again:
# pvs -o +used,pe_count,pe_alloc_count
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree Used PE Alloc
/dev/sdb1 vg0 lvm2 a- 2.00G 0 2.00G 511 511
/dev/sdc1 vg0 lvm2 a- 2.00G 1.99G 4.00M 511 1
/dev/sdd1 vg0 lvm2 a- 2.00G 2.00G 0 511 0
So it takes only 1 PE (4MiB) from the second PV. Now let's create a file system on that LV. I'm using ext3 here, where we have to take some precautions eventually. I've been using reiser3 before, but as you can't even change the file system's label online, and reiserfsck does terrible things when using reiser3-filesystems inside a file on a reiser3 file system (eg. if you have Xen virtual machines), I prefer good old ext3.
EXT3 Caveats
The matter is that, before e2fsprogs 1.39, the file systems created with mke2fs are not well online resizeable by default, you can only resize online up to the next 16GiB boundary (theoretically, one could use the ext2prepare utility on the offline file system to circumvent that limitation, but this has already failed on me, and ext2prepare isn't even included in RHEL/SLES). So if you have e2fsprogs<1.39, it's wise to explicitly specify online resize feature via "-E resize=" parameter (value is in blocks, most likely 4KiB), eg. "-E resize=88888888" will enable the file system to grow online to at least 339GiB (note that this will reserve some space for the online resize – ca. 3MiB in the above case, ca. 33MiB when using 9×9 (= up to 3.72TiB online resize) instead of 8×8).
Since e2fsprogs 1.39, a config file /etc/mke2fs.conf exists which has the "resize_inode" feature included by default. Please note that it isnot possible to change that feature afterwards, you have to give that parameter to mke2fs. So, knowing that, let's create an ext3 fs (although the "-E resize" is useless with this small test case, I'll give it here for completeness):
# mke2fs -j -E resize=88888888 /dev/vg0/data
# mount /dev/vg0/data /mnt
# df /mnt
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg0-data 2064208 66136 1893216 4% /mnt
Online Resize
Now as we have the file system mounted, let's extend it online (pretending there is already important productive data on it that can't stand downtime, and pretending we already did a backup of that important data before resizing). Online resizing is a two-tier process, we first have to extend the underlying block device using lvextend before using ext2online to perform the file system resizing (since e2fsprogs 1.39, resize2fs can also do online resizing, I think ext2online becomes deprecated at some time in favour of resize2fs).
# lvextend -L +2g /dev/vg0/data
Extending logical volume data to 4.00 GB
Logical volume data successfully resized
# ext2online /mnt
ext2online v1.1.18 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b
# df /mnt
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg0-data 4128448 66304 3852456 2% /mnt
So this has worked without problems as expected. If you do a larger online resize, you'll see that the additional space comes part by part during the resize, eg. if you're looking with df in another console.
Striped LVs
LVM also includes striping capabilities – if you have multiple PVs in a VG, you can instruct LVM to stripe a LV across some or all of the PVs (this is the equivalent to RAID0) with the -i switch for performance reasons.
For this, I'll put the remaining PVs (sd[g-k]1) into the VG:
# vgextend vg0 /dev/sd[g-k]1
Volume group "vg0" successfully extended
# lvcreate -n raid0 -L 5g -i 5 vg0
Using default stripesize 64KB
Logical volume "raid0" created
To only get the interesting info, I'll do
# lvs -o name,size,stripes,devices
LV LSize #Str Devices
data 4.00G 1 /dev/sdb1(0)
data 4.00G 1 /dev/sdc1(0)
data 4.00G 1 /dev/sdd1(0)
raid0 5.00G 5 /dev/sde1(0),/dev/sdf1(0),/dev/sdg1(0),/dev/sdh1(0),/dev/sdi1(0)
So this is really a striped volume, ready to create a file system on. I was able to get up to 234MiB/s I/O throughput with four older 60MiB/s SCSI disks on one of our test systems, the speedup was really pleasing the testers.


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Dynavax Technologies ($DVAX) has a new FDA Adcomm date for consideration of its hepatitis B vaccine, Heplisav-B, after the agency earlier this year pushed back its PDUFA to December 15 over safety concerns.
The Berkeley, CA-based company said on Friday that the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee will review its BLA for Heplisav-B on Nov. 16. Dynavax CEO Eddie Gray said in a statement that the company is continuing to work closely with the FDA through the review process as it moves toward its goal of FDA approval.
That approval became a little less certain in April after the FDA asked for individual trial data sets that had been provided as integrated data and then determined that the addition of these large data sets represented a "major amendment" to its new BLA and so required a "full review."
The waiting game is not new for Dynavax, which in 2012 had its original application turned down by an FDA panel over concerns about the size of the safety database and the potential to detect rare autoimmune events. At the beginning of this year, the company said it released its third Phase III study for the vax, comparing it with GlaxoSmithKline's ($GSK) Engerix-B in order to provide a "sufficiently-sized safety database for the FDA" to complete its review of Dynavax's BLA.
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The Investigations of the Lumière Brothers (1891 - 1895)
Initial Attempts Arising from the Interferencial Method of G. Lippmann
The Lumière brothers' interest in colour seems to date back to 1891, the year the physician Gabriel Lippmann presented his interferencial process before the French Académie des sciences. At that time, it was the only method for registering colour that allowed for a full reconstruction of the colour spectrum without alterations to its purity. Seduced by the idea, Louis and Auguste Lumière began collaborating with Lippmann in order to improve the formulation of the photosensitive emulsion. The emulsion had to have a very fine crystallography, which presented a substantial challenge for the means available at the time. Despite the high level of reconstruction that it allowed, the process remained too complex for the amateur to master.
The Lumière Brothers Redirect Themselves Towards the Work of L. Ducos-du-Hauron
In 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumière directed their research towards the additive method, which had been formulated in a treatise published twenty-six years earlier by Louis Ducos-du-Hauron. One year earlier, in 1894, the Irishman John Joly had attempted to carry out a similar project, but without much success, and then again in 1896, the American Mac Donough would similarly follow in the path evoked by Ducos-du-Hauron, who had claimed: "there is one last method by which the triple operation (selection of colours) may be made on a sole surface. Sieving the three simple colours is achieved, no longer by means of a system of coloured glass, but by means of a single translucent sheet with a layer of each of three colours superimposed mechanically." Imagining the integration of a selection of different filters inside a single, multi-layered image, Ducos-du-Hauron had invented the fundamental principle of the additive process. Unfortunately for him, his visionary spirit pre-dated the solutions that his work would bring to the industry by thirty years. Ducos-du-Hauron died in 1920, having dedicated most of his life in vain to advancing his ideas on colour.
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Jody Macgregor via GamesBeat: Silent Hill: Downpour — the eighth game in the horror series that defines "brown trouser time" — had no save points. Instead, it autosaved for you. I'm normally not a fan of save points in horror games, where artificial, mood-breaking reminders that you're playing a game are especially out of place. But when they were gone in Silent Hill, I missed them. The save points in this series aren't just places to breathe easy and decide whether you're too scared to go to sleep yet. Each of them says something about the themes of that particular game or gives insight into its protagonist.
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EmptyThrill-seekers spend their lives in pursuit of the biggest wave to surf or the highest mountain to climb, and for the past few decades, documentary filmmakers have celebrated their exploits.
In "Steep," writer-director Mark Obenhaus travels across the globe with a bunch of skiers who eschew popular resorts in favor of far more harrowing runs down rugged mountains that were never meant to accommodate a pair of ski poles. According to this vivid documentary, the sport of extreme, big-mountain skiing took hold in Jackson Hole, Wyo., in the 1960s, when Bill Briggs decided to try skiing mountains in the Grand Tetons that no one had ever imagined navigating. Not long afterward, European skiers tried the same treacherous gambit in the French Alps. Legends were born, and other daredevils decided to follow suit.
The film is dedicated to newsman Peter Jennings, whom Obenhaus and his producers worked for at ABC News, where they proposed a documentary on extreme skiing before Jennings died. They traveled to Europe, British Columbia, Alaska and Iceland to capture some of the most dangerous and awesome runs. The film will find an appreciative audience among all fans of extreme sports, but it is a specialty item unlikely to break through to general audiences.
The film's main asset is the cinematography of Erich Roland. Some of the footage here is archival, taken from previous ski movies. But most of it is new material, which must have been almost as perilous to capture as the ski jumps were to execute. Helicopters take us astonishingly close to the skiers as they climb up dizzying peaks, then race down 90-degree cliffs and sometimes jump off precipices with parachutes to bring them back to Earth.
Several skiers are interviewed, and while the men -- and one woman -- are engaging, the film fails to probe what it is that drives them to pursue these death-defying runs. A few of them offer explanations, like the idea that a brush with death makes life more exhilarating. But these comments rarely go beyond cliche. It might be that a documentary is not the best format for psychological investigation, though Werner Herzog managed it in "Grizzly Man," another film about a man irresistibly drawn to danger.
Watching "Steep," one longs for deeper insights. Although the film ends with the death of one of the skiers, this lacks impact because we haven't been brought close to any of the athletes.
Perhaps the sports fans who are the movie's likeliest audience would not want to see their heroes put under a psychological microscope, but the film misses an opportunity to become more than a snowbound "Endless Summer." "Steep" might have been called "Endless Winter," because as one skier says, "There is no such thing as too much snow."
The editing is excellent, and the haunting music by Anton Sanko makes a perfect counterpoint to the unearthly images.
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Director-screenwriter: Mark Obenhaus
Producers: Jordan Kronick, Gabrielle Tenenbaum
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J Fred Muggs was like the coveted book for a while in our home when I was growing up. We read it all the time, & then we'd act it out making up our own stories. Often we made our little brother be Muggs because he was the smallest & easiest to carry around, but when he tired of being the chimpanzee a stuffed animal or two would step in.
So when we had a spelling word come up this week that reminded me of this funny little picture book I went off on a long tangent sentence a little like this:
"J. Fred Muggs was a chimpanzee who was the most coveted of all books ever! He drank orange juice from a bottle & inspired the desire for a pet chip in our home for years. Mugs."
To which my children sat spellbound staring at me. For a moment I thought it was because of the ease of the word they were being asked to spell, but that's not entirely different with our spelling curriculum which always offers the most basic words before building & building upon them to come up with more complex words that are simply derived the smaller shorter syllable words. As I'm debating this my youngest bursts into a fit of laughter & says, "That's the more ridiculous thing I've ever heard!"
Coming from the child who once convinced his American grandparents that he had trained a wild dingo to befriend him by luring it in with dill pickles, & that one day while we were out the silly dingo had snuck in & eaten all our pickles.. I found his comment rather funny myself.
I jumped up & ran across the room before plucking the beloved book off the book shelf. Opening straight up to the beloved picture of J Fred Muggs drinking from his glass baby bottle full of orange juice. Rather then making my children understand just how important the picture was they just sat there staring at me for a long time before.
I mean, they've never honestly asked for a chimp as a pet. No, they've asked for lions & zebras & once got into a knock down drag out over the whole thing because the eldest cried that the lion would eat his zebra & the youngest said it didn't matter because no one needed a stupid smelly zebra anyway. To which I broke the whole thing up by stating that I wasn't buying a zebra or a lion.
As I sat there insisting how important the picture was to the whole story, all though I'm really not sure it was, & how I could drone on & on about this crazy chimp for ages my eldest simply sighed & said, "What's the next word please?"
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channels. Any individual SCn/SDn channel or combination of channels can be selected, determined by
the contents of the programmable control register. Four interrupt inputs
(INT3–INT0), one for each of the downstream pairs,
are provided. One interrupt (INT) output acts as an AND of the four
interrupt inputs.
An active-low reset (RESET) input allows the PCA9545A to recover
from a situation in which one of the downstream I2C buses is stuck in a
low state. Pulling RESET low resets the I2C state
machine and causes all the channels to be deselected, as does the internal power-on reset
The pass gates of the switches are constructed such that the VCC terminal can be used to
limit the maximum high voltage, which will be passed by the PCA9545A. This allows the use of
different bus voltages on each pair, so that 1.8-V, 2.5-V, or 3.3-V parts can communicate with 5-V
parts, without any additional protection. External pull-up resistors pull the bus up to the desired
voltage level for each channel. All I/O terminals are 5.5 V tolerant.


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We recently started a new project with a local customer that asked us to completely remodel his kitchen. When we first arrived, we were shown the existing kitchen, which had Cherry cabinets, granite countertops, and outdated appliances. The house was a recent investment and the owner wanted to really spruce (or in this case "maple") the kitchen up. Here are some original shots of the kitchen (pardon the quality - we took these photos on a phone):
Let me point one thing out - this client was awesome. Not only did he want us to do a ton of work for him, but he also wanted us to make a significant portion of the design decisions - something we only dream about. After deciding on a species of countertop, the color of the cabinets and the backsplash/fireplace surround materials, we went to work on dis-assembly and paint. Here are some of the initial progress shots:
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Raging winds up to 10,000 times more powerful than a terrestrial hurricane have been detected streaming away from galaxies and stripping them of star-forming gas, according to a new study.
The strongest winds, observed with the European Space Agency's Herschel infrared space observatory, reach up to 1,000 kilometers per second (2.2 million miles per hour).
The winds could be generated by the intense emission of light and particles from newly formed stars, the shockwaves of stellar explosions, or by the black holes at the center of galaxies, the agency notes in a media advisory.
The finding may help explain why some galaxies suddenly stop forming new stars. Scientists studying the data infer that about 1,200 times the mass of our sun is being lost each year from the galaxies with the most vigorous outflows. That is sufficient to strip them of star-forming gas in as little as a million years.
The fastest of the winds appear to come from galaxies that have the brightest galactic nuclei in which a black hole is feeding from its surroundings, a finding that could be a step towards explaining how elliptical galaxies are formed.
Elliptical galaxies are vast islands of stars that have stopped producing appreciable numbers of new stars because they have exhausted their gas supplies.
ESA explains that as smaller galaxies interact and merge with each other, more food is supplied to the central black hole, making it larger and more active. This, in turn, could result in a more powerful wind, which removes the molecular gas and halts star formation, leading to an elliptical galaxy.
The inhibition of star formation in a galaxy is known as negative feedback.
"By catching molecular outflows in the act, Herschel has finally yielded long-sought-after evidence that powerful processes with negative feedback do take place in galaxies and dramatically affect their evolution," Goran Pilbratt, ESA Herschel project scientist, said in the media advisory.
More stories on violent galactic processes:
- Stars form within black hole's destructive reach
- Starburst galaxy unleashes gassy 'superwind'
- Starbirth goes wild in 'cosmic hurricane'
- Blackholes are a turnoff for star formation
- Giant cannibal galaxy caught in mid-gobble
'Massive molecular outflows and negative feedback in ULIRGs observed by Herschel-PACS,' by Sturm et al., is published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, vol. 733, page L16.
John Roach is a contributing writer for msnbc.com. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by hitting the "like" button on the Cosmic Log Facebook page or following msnbc.com's science editor, Alan Boyle, on Twitter (@b0yle).


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Some players crave complexity in online games, whether it be the detailed team combat of Counter-Strike or the vast fantasy worlds and character development systems of massively-multiplayer RPGs. There's at least as much interest, however, on simplicity in online competition, familiar games made more interesting by the availability of so many human opponents on the Internet. Sony has games like SOCOM and Everquest coming to suit the interests of the one camp, and the Idol Minds-developed My Street is intended to address the other. Its presentation is clearly aimed at younger players, but gamers of all ages should enjoy its collection of puzzle games, board games, and other multiplayer party-style competitions for Sony's online gaming network.
My Street takes place in a simple online world patterned after a residential neighborhood -- players are all kids wandering around and getting into competitive games with each other. After customizing your character, you head for the backyard, the basement, the local park, or some other locale where a game is going on, and join in with up to three other players. Eight games are available altogether, most of them with relatively self-explanatory names:
Alright, we'll admit to a certain confusion as to the details of "Pigs and Chickens." Chemistry Set looks like a fun Puyo- or Columns-type puzzle game, though, and the RC Racing and Dodge Ball games should excite the imaginations of old-school NES fans. The added element of online play can make any well-done arcade-style competitive game much more fun, and My Street also includes multitap support for four-player games offline.
This is certainly a funny direction for Idol Minds to go, given that the developer is best known for the later Cool Boarders games. My Street should fill an important niche for PS2 online gaming when it ships this winter, though. Online games don't have to be complex or ambitious, though -- they just have to be fun. Hopefully My Street will deliver an addictive, easily-accessible good time to PS2 gamers of all ages.
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Samsung Gear 2 Neo: wrist-on and first impressions (Video)
When we asked a Samsung rep to clarify the differences between the Gear 2 Neo and its simply named (but better-endowed) sibling at today's Unpacked event, we were surprised to learn just how shallow those differences were. The Neo drops the camera, leaving the IR port to fend for itself in its tiny porthole up top, but aside from the accompanying reduction in size and mass, the watches are essentially identical.
That means the Gear 2 Neo packs the same Tizen OS, the same heart rate sensor around back, the same 4GB of local storage, and the same tightened hardware build that allows for customizable 22mm watch bands. (It even features the same home button below the display, an addition we're not entirely convinced was necessary.)
So, having dropped one of the least-used and most-criticized elements of the original Galaxy Gear, is the Neo a device you might consider picking up to interface with one of 17 compatible Galaxy devices? Have a gander at our first hands-on experience with Samsung's mid-tier smart watch, including a short test of its heart rate sensing technology, below. Then sound off in the comments letting us know what you think about this second-generation Samsung wearable!
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