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Apprehension overtook me inside the Pueblo Police Department headquarters. As I interviewed an officer, the smell from my jacket pocket must have lingered a few feet in every direction.
I was carrying a little less than an eighth of an ounce of Girl Scout Cookies, the southern California strain of marijuana that won first prize in the hybrid category in the 2013 Medical Cannabis Cup. Known for its ability to treat anxiety and depression, the weed's scent was so strong that the Best Western where I stayed tacked a $50 fee on my bill for merely having the dope outside its packaging in my room.
An instinct developed in my teenage years told me to run— immediately and swiftly— from any situation that mixes pot and authorities.
But the sergeant said nothing of the aroma.
Amendment 64, a ballot initiative approved by 55 percent of Colorado voters in late 2012, went into effect on Jan. 1, and effectively put marijuana on a similar legal plane as alcohol.
Licensed shops can now sell it, and certain amounts—an ounce if you're a state resident and a quarter of an ounce if you're not—are legal to purchase, possess and consume in the state. To document this watershed moment, SFR sent me on a mission to find the closest legal weed to Santa Fe.
After crossing state lines north of Raton, I make inquiries in smoke shops and gas stations along I-25 in places like Trinidad. They point me to Pueblo, a steel mill town 250 miles north of Santa Fe with a population of roughly 107,000.
It's a town grappling with legalization of pot, a plant still considered by the federal government as a Schedule 1 drug that's illegal. On Sunday, The Pueblo Chieftain featured both a story about actor Tommy Chong making a cameo at one of the marijuana dispensaries ("This is one small stagger for a stoner and one giant leap for stonerkind," he was quoted as saying) and a helpful column by the managing editor of the paper citing his confusion about cannabis quantities ("Gram of Pot? Ounce of Pot? Equals What?" reads the headline.)
While some residents say the new law won't change much in Pueblo, they agree that legalization is likely to bring in cash. On top of the generous tax revenue the state will see from its sale (it's taxed up to 25 percent) advocates say the state can also bring in tourism dollars like mine.
Travis Guest, a grower and chief husbandry officer for The Greener Side, one of the two medical marijuana collectives in Pueblo County, is on the front lines of the boom. He says the store topped its best sales day ever since it started selling recreational cannabis along with its medicinal pot, reaching more than $15,000, although he wouldn't say how much more.
The Greener Side, located off the aptly named I-25 exit of Stem Beach Road, several miles south the municipality of Pueblo, is the nearest place New Mexicans can now purchase recreational pot. On Saturday, drivers fought low visibility and blizzard conditions to make their way to the lonely exit, where on the west side of the highway I spot a small, one-story residential structure that features a white dinosaur figure on its roof.
When I arrive, I stand in line with about a dozen other people inside the small building, split by a waiting room and a room with the product. A security guard carrying a Glock pistol in his holster checks my ID to make sure I'm over the legal buying age of 21. Medical pot users are shuffled to a separate counter for their product while I and other recreational customers wait. Reggae music plays in the background as the security guard calls people into the purchasing room in pairs.
The waiting room is cramped with young and old, many in awe they can buy weed legally now. On Sunday, an Indiana couple, both 60, say they hadn't bought weed since they were in college 38 years ago. "Really you know this being the only time we're ever here, we just want to stop and see one. And you know we'll get the required quarter ounce, then I can tell all my buddies I did it," says the husband, Bob, who declines to give his last name.
He then laughs.
I wait about 15 minutes to get into the separate room, where jars of bud sit on a counter for anyone to smell and inspect. A sign on the counter advertises the effects of different strains: Sativa strains give more of a mind-dominant high that relieves anxiety and depression, indica strains offer a more body-dominant high that sedates and treats pain. A separate counter for medical patients features two shelves of edible pot products, which aren't yet available for recreational users.
Behind the counter, the "budtender" sells me on the Girl Scout Cookies, a 70 percent indica, 30 percent sativa hybrid. "It's a really popular, really potent strain," he says.
I ask about prices: $64.25 (tax included) for an eighth of an ounce—about $15 higher than street price. I ask for a half-eighth, but the budtender says he can't do that. I fork over the cash for the eighth.
Eventually I head to Pueblo, looking for a place to toke up. The new Colorado law prohibits "open and public use" of marijuana or in a manner that endangers others. I'm not sure what to do next. I land at a bar called the Pour House, where football plays on the TVs. But I spot a sign near the patio that warns smoking and consuming marijuana is prohibited on the premises.
Later, I check in at the Best Western, where a hotel employee tells me to try a place called Cloud Nine Hookah. But an employee there says they only allow smoking pot during special events parties.
I'm presented with a dilemma: The Best Western, like many hotels, does not allow smoking, and I'm not bold enough to ask a Puebloan if I can come to their living room with my stash. I settle on my parked vehicle, which might have technically been illegal.
The joint burns slow because the product is so moist. But an extremely pleasant high settles in about five minutes later. I become more contemplative than giggly and I think about going to the Cracker Barrel next to the hotel. I decide instead to watch a hockey game inside my room. I soon drift to sleep.
The next day, after I checked out of the hotel, I learned that a hotel employee had tacked on the $50 fee after hotel workers "smelled" pot in my room, discovered "evidence" of pot and therefore concluded I smoked in the room. I plea innocent of the latter accusation. (I rolled a respectably thick joint inside my hotel room, but I didn't smoke pot inside my room—nor inside the hotel for that matter.) I'm still appealing the matter with the manager.
A little groggy, I drive to Marisol Theraputics, the other medical marijuana dispensary located in Pueblo West (a separate municipality close to Pueblo). Paul Barnett, 62, was one of the many customers disappointed to see a sign on its door apologizing for being closed on Sunday. Some wondered if the store already ran out of product.
Barnett says he doesn't think legalization will change the town in any fundamental way (anyone, he says, could get it before). "Pueblo is kind of an interesting place because I think it's really very mixed between very conservative and relatively liberal," he says. Barnett himself used to get his pot with a medical marijuana card. Asked why he got the card, he flashes a smile and responds, "recreational."
My next plan for the day was to march into the police department and give away the weed to a cop. I had strict orders from my editor not to transport it across the New Mexico border, where possession becomes illegal, and the prospect of giving a stash of marijuana to an officer of the law amused me. Perhaps, I thought, the cop would take it home and smoke it.
But jitters immediately set in once I interviewed Candie Fletcher, who was waiting in the doorway of the police department with her two children.
She vehemently opposes legalization of pot in her state, saying that it will lead to more crime and more car accidents. (Driving high is a DUI in Colorado.) One of her two boys already asked me about my audio recorder. What if he asks me, or his mother, about the odor? Is he going to learn about dope just because a depraved alt-weekly reporter happened to reek like it inside the lobby of a police station? What would the D.A.R.E. program say about this?
My bravery wanes, and I have a short conversation with Sgt. Ryan about the department's enforcement. Because I'm not licensed by the state, I can't sell the extra product. The store doesn't accept returns. So I ask Ryan if it's ok to give away pot.
"I don't see why not," he says.
"I mean you think of it in terms of alcohol. It'd be like buying a bottle of alcohol. As long as they were legal age I don't see why you couldn't give it away to them."
I drive back to The Greener Side and eventually give the sack to a customer waiting outside, who seemed surprised and confused at the sudden windfall.
There's good pot everywhere in Pueblo—just nowhere to smoke it.


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Inventory of county records, Knox County Courthouse, Benjamin, Texas
Description: Inventory of records of Knox County housed in the Knox County Courthouse in Benjamin, Texas. Begins with an introduction and explanation of the roles of various county government offices. Describes the records of the County Clerk: as Secretary for Commissioners Court, County Clerk: as Recorder, County Clerk: as Reporter for County Court, District Clerk, Tax Assessor-Collector, Justice of the Peace, Sheriff, County Judge, and County Treasurer Also provides an index.
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Hideki Matsui, 'Godzilla' in two countries, calls it a career
Godzilla was MVP of the 2009 World Series, a feat that elevated him from a Japanese player with a movie monster moniker into the pantheon of New York Yankee superheroes. Hideki Matsui bore the nickname Godzilla, and after terrorizing pitchers on both sides of the Pacific for 20 years, he's announced his retirement.
Matsui is regarded as the second-best major league hitter to come from Japan, behind only Ichiro Suzuki. And Matsui was far and away the best power hitter, in fact the only true Japanese slugger to make the transition to the big leagues.
He hit 175 home runs in 10 major league seasons after swatting 332 in 10 years playing for the iconic Yomiuri Giants in the Japanese League. His best season with the Yankees was his second, in 2004, when he hit 31 home runs and drove in 108 runs while batting .298 with a .390 on-base percentage.
"I've had a lot of teammates over the years with the Yankees, but I will always consider Hideki one of my favorites," Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter said in a statement. "The way he went about his business day in and day out was impressive. Despite being shadowed by a large group of reporters, having the pressures of performing for his fans both in New York and Japan and becoming acclimated to the bright lights of New York City, he always remained focused and committed to his job and to those of us he shared the clubhouse with.
"He was someone we counted on a great deal and he's a big reason why we became World Champions in 2009."
Yankees fans will remember many big Godzilla moments – who can forget him leaping in the air after scoring the tying run against Pedro Martinez on a double by Jorge Posada in the eighth inning of Game 7 of the 2003 American League Championship Series – but none were more indelible than Game 6 of the 2009 World Series.
In his final game as a Yankee, Matsui homered and drove in a World Series record-tying six runs in the Yankees' clinching win over the Philadelphia Phillies.
"He played with pride, discipline and of course talent, and flourished when the lights were at their brightest," Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said. "People naturally gravitated towards him, and that's a direct reflection of his character. He was a true professional in every sense of the word and it feels good knowing he was able to raise the championship trophy as a member of the Yankees."


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[Throughout his visit in Badger this year, Srila Narayana Maharaja
based his evening lecture course on Srila Bhaktvinoda Thakuras
book, Sri Srimad Bhagavata Arka Maricimala. In that book, Srila Bhaktivinoda
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each of which are like the suns illuminating rays. The particular
chapter, or ray, of this class is called The Traits of the bound
Souls. In each chapter the Thakura quotes many verses of the
Bhagavatam to clarify the matter, and Srila Narayana Maharaja clarified
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From Cairns to Kona, a Father and Son's Joint Quest
New Zealand's David Bullen is a proud father, a legacy athlete, and the kind of guy whose quest for Kona has special meaning this year.
by David Landers
David Bullen is not a "one-and-done" kind of IRONMAN athlete. The 52-year-old father and businessman from Hamilton, New Zealand, is someone who goes deep into what matters—in Bullen's case, a healthy lifestyle, his expanding business, and family life.
We talked to Bullen, one of this year's IRONMAN Quest for Kona series participants, to find out what trails and qualities will serve him well on his way to the 2018 IRONMAN World Championship—a journey he's taking with his son, Liam.
At 35, Bullen was 210 pounds of fat from smoking, drinking, and inactivity. He would get breathless after kicking a ball with his toddler son.
"I was getting bigger and bigger, more and more unhealthy and unfit, and I knew that was not the right recipe for success," he says.
Bullen realized that making a permanent break from that lifestyle required committing to an activity challenging and complex enough to take over his life. As he mulled over options, a co-worker mentioned that she had recently finished IRONMAN New Zealand, an event just south of his hometown of Auckland. "She looked like a normal person," he reflects, thinking she didn't resemble what he thought IRONMAN athletes looked like.
"I remembered a teacher at school in the early 1980s, who would put on funny shorts and a singlet and trot off down the road after school on a run," says Bullen. "I remember him as quite muscly and fit, and I really admired him."
The teacher in the neon shorts was Rick Faulding, the first New Zealander to qualify for the IRONMAN World Championship in Kona and one of the organizers of IRONMAN New Zealand.
"It was Rick who was the inspiration to tell everyone I would do an IRONMAN," explains Bullen.
On his first trip to the pool, Bullen wore running shorts and barely swam 25 meters. Driving to and from the gym, he would light up a couple of cigarettes. "And I thought I was an athlete," he says.
Eventually, small changes led to noticeable progress. He stopped smoking. He traded a mountain bike for a road bike and started doing mini-triathlons after joining one of Hamilton's triathlon clubs. He took lessons from his children's swim instructor.
"All of these were huge steps out of my comfort zone," Bullen says. "If you are an adult and you join a swim squad and you can't swim very well and you are with all these 12-year-old boys and girls who are flying up and down the pool, it is very daunting."
Five years after the overweight and unhealthy smoker announced to family and friends that he would be an IRONMAN, Bullen completed the 2006 IRONMAN New Zealand, collecting his first of ten medals from that event. In between, Bullen competed at the 2013 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship, represented New Zealand at two ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships, and crossed the finish lines at numerous IRONMAN 70.3s. In 2017, Bullen did IRONMAN Wisconsin, and this summer, he raced his 12th IRONMAN to become an IRONMAN Legacy Athlete at IRONMAN Asia-Pacific Championship Cairns.
"My co-worker warned me that you'd get hooked on IRONMAN. She was absolutely correct," says Bullen. "You can do one and be done, but once you do two or three IRONMAN, it becomes a lifestyle."
Bullen's approach to business mirrors his approach to triathlon. He's all in. "I'm quite driven. I am the sort of person who has to be doing something," he says.
Trained as a pharmacist, Bullen purchased his first pharmacy in 1994. Almost 25 years later, he and his wife Sarah, also a pharmacist, own and operate six pharmacies in three small rural towns within 45 minutes of Hamilton. Bullen regularly works more than 50 hours a week traveling to sites, managing his businesses, and leading 48 employees. Bullen has also served on the boards of local hospitals and charitable trusts and, for several years, was involved with a national needle exchange program.
Bullen admits that growing his business, giving back to the community, and training for an IRONMAN can be demanding and at times overwhelming. At a particularly stressful phase, he talked with Sarah about his doubts about maintaining that level of activity.
"She said I ought to think hard about that. It's what you are. It's who you are. And all the people around you think that's who you are. If you give it away, what are you going to do?"
Bullen hopes that he is an example to his employees of someone who can work hard and train for an IRONMAN. "You can be just a normal person and do an IRONMAN."
Bullen is the number-one supporter of his son Liam and daughter Anna's choices to maintain healthy lifestyles. After Liam completed his first triathlon in 2013, Bullen offered a proposal to his son to stay engaged in the sport.
"I made him a deal that whenever he lined up for his first time at a particular distance, I would be on the start line with him—Olympic to IRONMAN," says Bullen, who has since raced alongside Liam at several triathlons, including Liam's first IRONMAN 70.3 in Taupo in 2015.
The deal meant the father and son often were training together, pushing each other in the pool and on the bike. During a recent house renovation, Bullen added a garage dedicated to training. Their bikes and trainers, water bottles and DVDs, medals and memorabilia fill the space as does a framed jersey signed by IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 World Champion Daniela Ryf.
"People around me think it's quite special that Liam and I are doing this sport together," says Bullen. "I have no doubt that our relationship is stronger for it."
Bullen's training and race day tips also can be applied to adulthood. "I've had punctures, I've had penalties, I've had things go wrong that you don't expect to go wrong," he says. He encourages Liam to live in the moment and go with what's in front of him. "Do the next 15, 30, 60 minutes as good as you can and the day will look after itself."
As promised, Bullen joined Liam as he completed his first IRONMAN in Cairns—also the race where Bullen intended to qualify for Kona.
There was an extra incentive for Bullen to do his best in Cairns: Earlier this year, Liam's name was drawn for one of the 40 Kona slots given out to help celebrate IRONMAN's 40th anniversary.
"Liam understands that to get to Hawaii is a really big thing. He knows a lot of people in Hamilton who have been to Kona, and he really respects them." On track to graduate with a law and accounting degree and launch his career as a corporate lawyer later this year, Liam understands that he may never again get this chance to race Kona.
"The best thing you can ever give your children is a good example, and that's what I have tried to do," says Bullen. "The sense of pride when you complete an IRONMAN in front of your family is amazing, really amazing,"
Stay tuned for Quest for Kona to see if Bullen will share that experience with his son this October.
Following a successful debut last year, IRONMAN is again presenting Quest for Kona, a television series that documents the highs and lows of 10 athletes attempting to qualify for the 2018 IRONMAN World Championship this October in Hawaii. Tune in to Quest for Kona to follow Bullen's qualification journey.
David Landers is a freelance writer with a passion for endurance sports and travel. He lives in Vancouver, B.C.


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The Green Line hotline
Since 2011, CIDDH has implemented a hotline called The Green Line (or Línea Verde in Spanish) which provides legal information and assistance to all Peruvians who are questioned and arbitrarily arrested for drug use (mostly cannabis). They are provided with personalized information and legal advice in order to avoid persistent abuse and corruption on behalf of law enforcement officers.
The educational component holds a very important place as it establishes guidelines for CIDDH's operators, law enforcement officers, and especially drug users. As a matter of fact, it allows them to find a common ground when faced with issues such as arbitrary detention of drug users and pretrial detention. It also allows law enforcement officers to better interpret the criminal and constitutional law in terms of proportionality and rationality.
Even though Peru's Criminal Code does not criminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs for personal use (art. 299) – up to 8 gr. of cannabis, Law Enforcement Officers frequently detain drug users by virtue of the Constitution (art. 2.24.f) which states that in cases Illicit Drug Trafficking pretrial detention in Police Stations is effective for up to 15 days – 24 hours for other offences. Law Enforcement Officers threaten drug users based on the latter as a means of achieving a twofold objective: 1) acts of corruption and/or 2) investigate drug users so that they "rat out" petty dealers. As a result of this malpractice, detentions for possession of small amounts of drugs account for roughly 60% of all drug-related detentions . Moreover, law enforcement officers' actions often result in a threat to a person's physical or psychological integrity
As a watchdog, CIDDH has filed several formal complaints to law enforcement officers regarding the arbitrary detention of drug users, acts of corruption and intimidation, as well as physical abuse. Furthermore, these complaints have been sent to the Ombudsman for further investigation. In this line, CIDDH's hotline acts as a watchdog at law enforcement level as it prevents such illegal acts. Even though CIDDH's Hotline has managed to provide legal assistance 47 people, it is challenging to resolve the cases at street level. Despite CIDDH's efforts to avoid acts of corruption on behalf of law enforcement officers, it has been particularly difficult to achieve this goal as this is a mainstream cultural practice both in Peruvian institutions and society. CIDDH has been able to change Police practices and administrative procedures in some cases as several of Lima's Police Stations have been acquainted with CIDDH's hotline and therefore know that when someone who is being arrested at street level for possession of small amounts of drugs for personal use calls CIDDH's Hotline they do not proceed with the detention.
In order to meet the growing demand of legal information and services at national level, CIDDH on expanding its legal and paralegal services to other cities in Peru. This is why CIDDH is planning on organizing workshops in three different cities – Arequipa, El Agustino (Lima), and Trujillo. These workshops aim at training a lawyer and empower activists in charge of disseminating The Green Line and distributing advocacy material so as to provide legal information and services to cannabis users.
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Players of the Week - No. 1
Forbes, a 5-8 junior midfielder from Providenciales, Turks & Caicos, recorded seven goals, two assists and 16 points in three Lubbock Christian victories last week. He opened the season with a pair of goals in the 2-0 win against Southwest (N.M.) on Aug. 29 and again versus Our Lady of the Lake (Texas) on Sept. 1 in the 4-3 victory. On Sept. 3 against St. Mary's (Texas), a NCAA Division II member, Forbes became the first player in LCU program history to register a hat trick with a three-goal, two-assist performance on the road. Just one point shy of matching the LCU career mark for points, Forbes has posted the game-winner in each of LCU's three matches this year.
Schultze, a 6-3 senior goalkeeper from Newnan, Ga., played 225 minutes in goal as Reinhardt began its season 3-0 with three road wins last week. He compiled 10 saves and allowed just one goal last week as the Eagles outscored their opponents 16-1. Schultze posted two shutouts, with the first one coming in the 12-0 combined decision against Tennessee Temple on Aug. 30 and then on Sept. 3 in the 2-0 win over John Brown (Ark.). Sandwiched between those matches, Schultze recorded seven saves in 90 minutes in the 2-1 win on Sept. 2 at Union (Tenn.), who was receiving votes in the latest national poll.
Offensive Nominees: Kenniel Hyde, Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.); Christian Ramirez, Concordia (Calif.); Dennis Sellis, Westminster (Utah); Frank Toscano, Huston-Tillotson (Texas); Adrian Mendoza, Houston-Victoria (Texas); Joe Fitch, Bethel (Kan.); Irvin Espinal, Shorter (Ga.); Zain Qureshi, Concordia (Mich.); Kyle Breitenbach, Saint Xavier (Ill.); Corey Martin, Houghton (N.Y.); George Hunt, Grand View (Iowa); Alberto Linan Gomez, Missouri Valley; Eddy Campbell, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.); Joao Paulo Parra, William Woods (Mo.); Zach Welch, Asbury (Ky.); Austin Altimus, Grace (Ind.); Gunnar Kelly, Central Christian (Kan.); Carlo Coelho, Warner (Fla.); Maximiliano Viera, Montreat (N.C.); Facundo Dipascuale, Concordia (Ore.); Derick Sackey, Dordt (Iowa); Tyler Goens, Simpson (Calif.).
Defensive Nominees: Juan Maya, Huston-Tillotson (Texas); Nathan Kenyon, Houston-Victoria (Texas); Reece Richardson, Indiana Tech; Ryan Edwards, Shorter (Ga.); Matt Bickley, Baker (Kan.); Yuta Nomura, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.); Ben Williams, Oklahoma Wesleyan; Matt McKenna, Columbia (Mo.); David Danahy, Southeastern (Fla.); Josh Giuliano, Taylor (Ind.); Ross Alexander, Grand View (Iowa); Robert Hall, Lyon (Ark.); Joachim Soderstrom, Rocky Mountain (Mont.); Neil Thompson, Judson (Ill.); Drew Bonifacio, Warner Pacific (Ore.); Eric Emerson, Doane (Neb.); Aaron Fenlason, Biola (Calif.).
2011 Men's Soccer Players of the Week (Offensive; Defensive)
Week 1: Billy Forbes, Lubbock Christian (Texas); Zack Schultze, Reinhardt (Ga.)


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My friend and colleague lost his wife last week. A broken ankle killed her at the youthful age of forty, leaving behind my friend and their young daughter. How horrible it must be for him to wake up in the middle of the night thinking it had all been a nightmare, only to find himself alone. Unless one has experienced such loss, one cannot possibly know the devastation my friend is suffering. I've been told by others who have lost relatives, the grief doesn't really set in until after about six weeks because the griever believes his or her loved one will come back. When he or she doesn't return, the real terror and anguish hits like a freight train. I shudder at the thought of what lies ahead for my friend.
What does one say to all of this? If God is good--in fact, the definition of goodness--why does He allow such misery to go on?
When Martha and Mary's brother, Lazarus, had been dead and buried four days, Jesus arrived too late to save Lazarus. Each of the sisters in their despair asked Jesus why He had let them down, why He had so uncharacteristically allowed Lazarus to die. They in effect asked God directly the same question we are now asking Him from afar: Why if you are Good do you allow this suffering to go on?
How did He answer this deep, emotion charged, and to many, pivotal query? How did Jesus respond to the $64000 question whose answer holds the questioner's very soul in the balance? Don't kid yourself; many have abandoned their creator--at least so they claim--because they cannot get past God's apparent callousness towards the suffering in the world. I admit my faith is shaken every time I turn on the news and learn of the latest senseless slaughter the news service seems so anxious to report.
Reading the account of Lazarus the frustration in the voices of both Martha and Mary are thinly veiled. Martha appears to temper her own audacity by quickly defaulting to Jesus' faithfulness--despite appearances--and Jesus rewards her faith with insight into the answer He has for all of us. Mary is less careful, and lets her emotions rule her.
Did Jesus honor Martha for her stronger faith more than Mary, who gave into her despair? No. Did Jesus rebuke the women for the audacity of questioning Him about why He does or doesn't do anything? No. Think about that for a minute. God is not threatened by our humanness. God doesn't want us to only say to Him what we suppose He wants to hear. God doesn't want us to become Spocks. There is no virtue in Stoicism. Real healing and satisfying answers can only come through honest emotions, honestly expressed. The worst thing we can do to ourselves and to each other is to demand we pull up our boots straps and suck it up because if you don't you aren't trusting God.
God is seeking a genuine relationship with us; such a relationship must be based on truth instead of pretense and smoke and mirrors. He wants us to ask Him the big questions of life, such as why He lets the suffering go on. Do we really want to hear the answer?
When Jesus surveyed the wailing, crying, mourning, and despair--not only in Martha and Mary--but in all those gathered with the sisters, Jesus wept. Why? Was He regretting He had decided to come late, after all? No. Was He upset because He didn't know the answer? No. Jesus cried because the death and misery are not the way the world is supposed to be; it isn't the right order God intended. Jesus lamented at the horrific consequence of human rebellion, which is Death. Even though He would have been perfectly right to do so, Jesus didn't get up on a box and scream at everyone, "Why are you crying over spilled milk!? You're getting just what you deserve!" No, Jesus wept.
You see, God isn't like us; God loves with a holy love, which means a love that seeks to restore, not a self-seeking love--which is really hate--that wants to get even, or to win an argument, or to posture.
So how did Jesus answer Martha's question, Mary's question, our question? Why if God is good does He allow misery to go on? Read God's answer:
Jesus, intensely moved again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.) Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied, "Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days." Jesus responded,"Didn't I tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?" So they took away the stone. Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you that you have listened to me. I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me." When he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, and a cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them, "Unwrap him and let him go." [NET]
So lament for my friend, dear reader; wail at the bloodshed rampant in the world; grieve at the horrors wrought by hate. But hold in your heart the hope of eternal life. For God, because of His unfathomable love for all of us, has overcome death for us. Good News! Jesus died into Death on our behalf, and God raised Him to eternal life. Death no longer has power over us--despite appearances--because of the faithfulness of Jesus. Because Jesus lives, we also can live through Him--even though we may die.
God's answer to our hard and honest question is "I am life! Come to me, seek me, and love me by obeying me, and I will make sure you will succeed and live. Because Jesus lives, you can live, and live life to the fullest, forever and ever."
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
My friend and colleague lost his wife last week. A broken ankle killed her at the youthful age of forty, leaving behind my friend and their young daughter. How horrible it must be for him to wake up in the middle of the night thinking it had all been a nightmare, only to find himself alone. Unless one has experienced such loss, one cannot possibly know the devastation my friend is suffering. I've been told by others who have lost relatives, the grief doesn't really set in until after about six weeks because the griever believes his or her loved one will come back. When he or she doesn't return, the real terror and anguish hits like a freight train. I shudder at the thought of what lies ahead for my friend.
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The Bible Goes Hollywood
This last weekend my family and I enjoyed a wonderful visit with my son and his wife in the big city. As often seems to happen with me on such anticipated and happy occasions, a pall sat over my conscience. Like the Rabbi of antiquity who broke the glass at the wedding to temper everyone's enthusiasm, I once again dampened my own celebration.
What happened was I had posted what I thought a pleasant comment on one of my favorite blog sites. The comment was apparently not liked. Why, I will probably never know. I felt like Yuri Zhivago after his brother, Evgrav, whom he greatly respected, told Yuri that his poetry was "not liked."
Now, the last thing I want to do is alienate myself from anyone. Even though hard feelings are bound to crop up between people, I really try hard not to be the cause of such altercations. Consequently, my otherwise enjoyable weekend was tainted by the guilt I had created enmity with someone who doesn't know me, but whom I greatly admire. There was nothing I could do about it until I returned home, so I simply had to carry it around like a bad penny. Sure, I would forget about it, but it only took reaching into my pocket and feeling the nasty coin for it to come all back, again.
I thought I would take this opportunity to explain my ill-fated comment. Perhaps the offended blogger will read this and better understand where I was coming from--but I doubt it.
The blogger was reviewing the new History Channel mini-series, The Bible. He was basically making the point that even though the production is cheesy and sensationalizes the various Biblical accounts into distortions of the truth, he nevertheless favored the series. He did so because it introduces the Bible to a large audience who are--sadly--ignorant of the Bible, and promotes fruitful discussions. I haven't seen the series beyond the trailers, but his review rings true with the opinion of others I have spoken with who have seen it.
I agreed with the blogger, and went on to say this is why i appreciate Ben Hur so much, because it so effectively captures the power of faith and the mercy, love, and forgiveness of God. Furthermore, Ben Hur accomplishes this while vividly portraying the complexities of the human condition.
My point, which I failed to make, is whenever Hollywood tries to bring the Bible to the screen in a direct fashion (e.g., The Ten Commandments, The Greatest Story Ever Told, or the new mini-series), it ends up being cheesy. The problem is the Bible describes reality that is so real it cannot be faked without losing a lot in the translation. For example, how does one ever hope to accurately portray Jesus? The Bible tells us His appearance was unremarkable--nothing physically attractive about Him to attract anyone. Yet, the movies inevitably portray Jesus with a beautiful actor having blue eyes and long black hair. Apparently the contrast of eye and hair color is supposed to invoke in us a sense of Jesus' goodness and power. Unfortunately, we usually walk away from such films thinking it all a bit cheesy. The goodness of Jesus is something too real, too foreign to our experience, to be faked effectively.
Lew Wallace understood this. It is why he insisted whenever his story of Ben Hur is dramatized, the face of Jesus not be shown. Indeed, if I remember correctly, Jesus was originally portrayed in the stage productions of Ben Hur as a light. In the 1959 film adaptation, the viewer never sees Jesus' face, nor does he or she hear Jesus' voice. Yet, probably more than any other production, the goodness of Jesus--His authority, forgiveness, and love--effectively comes across without being cheesy. In addition to this, from what I understand, the screen play writers worked to downplay the Gospel message. And I'm convinced this is why Ben Hur comes off without being cheesy and, ironically, communicates the Gospel more effectively than most other productions determined to preach it explicitly. Good grief, the resurrection of Jesus and its meaning the kingdom of God has come and Jesus is King is subtly but powerfully rendered at the end of Ben Hur by a shepherd leading his flock with the empty crosses in the background--brilliant!
I apologized to my favorite blogger for my irrelevant--or whatever complaint--comment. Hopefully, things have been rectified between us, as Jesus calls us to do. In any event, I encourage you to see the new mini-series, but also to take three hours out of your busy schedule to sit down and watch Ben Hur. You won't be disappointed because it is Hollywood's best effort in bringing the Bible to the screen. Not only that, but the exquisite cinematography, acting, writing, music, special effects, and direction all add together to make Ben Hur arguably the best movie Hollywood has ever made.
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Down by the Sea: Part 2
God created us to engage in a relationship with Him. The only way we can enjoy this relationship, which is to live forever with God, is to walk with God in the tension of God's Sovereignty/Human responsibility (GS/HR). As with all tensions, it can be uncomfortable for us to remain in it. But also as with all tensions, if one chooses to relieve the discomfort by eliminating, or reducing one side or both of the tension, both sides are completely lost. When one undermines the GS/HR tension in some way, both the proper relationship with God is destroyed, and consequently any proper relationships we have with each other.
If I choose to believe God will impute His love into me as I passively sit by, then I have effectively eliminated the HR side of the GS/HR tension, and all relationships crumble. Love cannot be coerced--either kindly or not. Thus, if we attempt to remain totally passive, there will be no pure relationship between us and God--the relationship He created us to have--and the relationships we will have between each will necessarily grow more destructive.
If we swing the pendulum the other way to avoid the tension, and believe God expects us to find our own way, and will some day decide if we did our best or not and reward us with a relationship with Him, we should see the only basis ultimately for relationships we involve ourselves would be standards set by ourselves. Perhaps this is comfortable, but doomed to failure because only God can set the standard for us to relate with Him and others because He created us, and only God is love. Consequently, once again, if we remove ourselves from the tension of GS/HR, all relationships come crashing down.
Perhaps an analogy is in order. I propose we take a little trip down by the sea and find out what we might learn there about all this. In simplistic terms (please don't get all technical on me) the seashore is comprised of 1) a tidal pool, 2) breakers, and 3) the tide.
For our purposes, the tide is the force symbolizing the relationship God has created us for. God wants us to enter "the swim," so to speak.
One way we never enter the swim is when we sit in a tidal pool. Even though the pool is quiet, restful, and comfortable, as long as we remain in it, we won't go anywhere. We might feel the effects of the tide, as the pool fills and drains with the flow and ebb of the tide; and we might believe that by experiencing these effects we are actually a part of the tide. But we would be mistaken; the tide is much much more than its effects; we delude ourselves if we believe otherwise, and keep ourselves out of the swim.
Now, we could take on the breakers, and make great sport of taming them through our prowess and athleticism. We might feel very alive as we courageously struggle against the tumult. We likely feel the draw of the tide as part of all the powerful sensations surging around us. Tragically though, we become so caught up in our own efforts, we not only lose sight of the beauty and power of the tide, we actually fight against it, and even boast in our overcoming it. In the end, we feel exhausted, frustrated, and disillusioned from the monotony of our efforts; we languish in the pounding surf. It all becomes no more for us than as the old Bard penned, "Much ado about nothing."
When we feel the pull of the tide and allow ourselves to be taken into it,we actually enter the swim. We become a part of something much bigger than ourselves. We don't know where it will take us, but the endless discovery becomes for us a pure delight. We must keep ourselves from being drawn away from the tide by fear or the many other distractions we chance upon along the journey. We involve ourselves in this way with the tide, but it is the tide that carries us; it is the inexorable current that pulls us ever onward--not ourselves.
In the same way, we only engage in the pure relationships God created for us to enjoy with Him and consequently with each other when we willingly give into the the pull of God's love, and love Him back by obeying Him. By so remaining within the tension of GS/HR we are caught up in the very love binding the Trinity. The beauty, meaning, and life we find within the swim of God's love is beyond all dimensions because the living, Good, and creator God is eternal.
Come on! Join me down by the sea. Then let's jump in, and let it carry us away into all its vastness.
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New Zealand flanker Adam Thomson has been handed a one-week suspension for his reckless use of the boot on Scotland's Alasdair Strokosch during their clash on Sunday.
The All Blacks' blindside was yellow carded in the second half of his side's comprehensive 51-22 victory at Murrayfield but subsequently cited for "stamping or trampling".
The judge ruled that the offence was on the lower end of the scale and as a result Thomson has been suspended until midnight on November 18. The suspension means he will not be available for the All Blacks latest tour outing against Italy in Rome on Saturday but he was not expected to feature in the game. He will be free to play in the All Blacks' subsequent matches against Wales and England.
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"Fearmaster controller? What the hell is that?" I found out, and promptly had to write a post about it. The Top Shot Fearmaster is a gun peripheral for Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013, otherwise known as the series with some of the best worst videogame box art. It might not look that crazy initially, but then you come to find out that this thing packs heartbeat sensors in its grips and an infrared camera.
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Anglers Delight : This fish is called Labeo Rohita or simply Rohu in Bengali.It weighed close to 2 kgs after being caught by my angler friend during one of his angling expeditions at a pond in central Calcutta.This fish is a delicacy in Bengal and Bangladesh.It reaches a maximum length of 2 m (6.6 ft) and a weight of about 110 kg.It is popular in Thailand, Bangladesh, northern India and Pakistan also. It is a non-oily/white fish.
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cornejo (61050) 2013-12-17 12:34
Hi Farhat, very good photograph of this beautiful and interesting fish (similar to common carp in my country), nicely captured in this interesting image with good sharpness, light and color. Very good and interesting job well done, congratulations my friend. Thanks for sharing this beautiful work.
Good day and happy week.
Warm greetings from southern Spain.
adramad (62442) 2013-12-17 12:43
Hi Farhat.
An interesting note, which reveals that this fish was unknown to us .... great image that shows fish, underscores fine on that orange background.
Good brightness and sharpness.
Very well done. I Like
Have a nice day.
Best regards.
imageme (1790) 2013-12-17 13:01
Hi Farhat, An interesting image of this unusual fish along with detail note. Nice use of lights and everything is in details. The scales on the orange BG create dramatic look to the frame. Thank for sharing
pajaran (91630) 2013-12-17 13:49
Interesantan tekst o velikoj ribi sa opisom ...
Ja sam strastven ribolovac, volim da lovim ribu ...
Dobar rad, lepo pokazana riba, lepe boje.
Dobar trofej, lepa riba.
Sve najbolje.
An interesting article about the big fish with a description ...
I am an avid fisherman, I love to hunt fish ...
Good work, well demonstrated fish, beautiful colors.
Nice trophy, beautiful fish.
All the best.
jcpix (14030) 2013-12-17 16:19
Hi Farhat,
I'm not a "fish guy" myself, but I can still appreciate a good photo of one! Loving the shadow here, if you squint your eyes it projects the shape of a dolphin...it's a two-for-one photo. :) With this composition and presentation, it would appear to have been mounted on a wall for display. haha The vivid and textured background really makes it stand out well. Thanks for sharing some of the local delicacies. Have a great day ahead.
Friendly wishes,
mrichat (1755) 2013-12-17 17:42
Hello Frhat!
A nice presentation of "Fish of Bengal". A traditional and very common fish for daily recipe particularly for bengalees.this one looking so fresh..ummm..and caught from pond,not from vary. The orange plastic sheet worked well to get attention in thumbnail version.
Nice job Farhat.
hidibyendu (929) 2013-12-17 17:50
Hi Farhat,
Good photograph of this fish with good sharpness and nice background.
But as far as I know this is not a ROHU fish, this is sipinas fish.
elenimavrandoni (0) 2013-12-17 20:11
big, fat, healthy fish, a delight for the eyes and the palate...it is so fresh I can tell by its eyes...and it would be very tasty grilled with lots of lemon and olive oil...
nice picture!!
thanks for noticing my absence...many responsibilities kept me away...but I always come back here..
all the best wishes for the holidays
Subhogen (4067) 2013-12-17 21:56
Hello Farhat,
Nice closeup shot of the fish. It doesn't seem to happy at being caught :-). Good bright BG probably the polythene of Machwala...contrasting the fish very well.
Good one..thanks for sharing.
ikeharel (98424) 2013-12-17 23:29
Lucky angler friend of yours, Farhat, a golde-fish so big he cought.
Nice taken with brown/orange background, very clear photo.
Have a nice day,
krzychu30 (15512) 2013-12-17 23:54
Hello Farhat,
as a fish enthusiast I can only agree with you-looks delightful!
Certainly a real feast on a plate.So bad not to buy in Europe.
Superb close-up shot with good quality!
Have a nice day
jhm (190799) 2013-12-18 4:27
Hello Farhat,
An interesting image of this unusual fish along with detail note.
Nice use of lights and everything is in details.
High quality picture, an excellent subject.
Excellent composition, nice presentation
Very well done, TFS.
Best regards,
Silvio1953 (190495) 2013-12-18 6:08
Ciao Farhat, great macro of lovely fish, wonderful colors, splendid sharpness and fine details, very well done, my friend, ciao Silvio
EstudioChispa (2182) 2013-12-18 7:38
Aaah, Farhat -- you hit me where I live! In my stomach, and for fish! I love to eat good fish, and Rohu looks delicious!
I love the colors and shadows in this image. The vibrant background, accented by what I suspect are fish scales, is terrific. The line of the sunlight across the fish allows the texture of the scales to present itself in varying light, making it more interesting. And even the place where I would usually criticize -- the front bottom of the fish is blown out to the exclusion of details -- WORKS in this image, as it serves to show the end of the spectrum of light across the fish and balances the dark line along the top rear of the fish.
A superb image! Thanks for sharing!
Best regards,
Austin, Texas
No_One (4) 2013-12-19 0:30
Hi Farhat,
A fine fishy portrait, this could look well as an advertisement! The fish itself has such perfect clarity, and seems almost to be framed with the shells, while its color stands out beautifully against the vivid orange backdrop. The shadow adds an extra element of interest.
All the best
Nicou (187798) 2013-12-19 0:57
quelle vue de ce poisson sur ce fond orange sueprbe compo et iamge quelle �cailles comme on le voit bien et il doit �tre tr�s bon � manger.
Bravo et amiti�
williewhistler (16606) 2013-12-19 3:05
Hello Farhat,
now that appears to be a prize specimen,perhaps next time you can include an open tape measure to show the size as sometimes we do.
Regards Les.
pierrefonds (93085) 2013-12-19 4:34
Hi Farhat,
The tight frame is putting the fish in evidence. The point of view is showing the details and colors of the Labeo Rohita. The light has a good effect on the colors. Have a nice day.
danos (110395) 2013-12-19 8:17
hi farhat,
very nice the view as the presentation of the golden fish,on the orange backdrop.I like the excellent light and colour management as the clarity of the scene.
Cricri (176) 2013-12-19 11:23
Hi Farhat
Gros plan avec une nettet� incroyable bien pr�senter sur le fond orange
Belle soir�e
kato (11630) 2013-12-19 13:56
Hello Farhat,
You're capturing well this gold fish by a good angle and excellent tone/clarity, so it's interesting and impressive to see the big freshwater fish. And, the shadow projected to the base draws out a good effect.
Kind regards,
mirosu (16313) 2013-12-19 23:17
Hi Farhat,
Superb fish detail photo in excellent side light. I like your POV and the shadow caused by low light. Very well done.
Miguel82 (35174) 2013-12-20 4:28
Mmmm rohu is so good to eat and belongs to Bengali folks, a superb close up and beautiful fish, good presentation on an orange surface, excellent hues and high resolution, have a nice day Fabbs
delpeoples (60288) 2013-12-20 22:24
Namaskar dear Farhat
Your friend must have been delighted with this catch and I hope that you were able to taste some of the fish. Lovely rich colours of yellow and orange and I like the play of light and shade too. Well done!
Warmest wishes and TFS
Hi Farhat,
i like the bright colors and details.
Kielia (24077) 2013-12-23 9:33
Hi Farhat,
this fish is really very similiar to the common carp which is a popular dish at Christmas in my region. You captured it very well under difficult conditions. Thanks for sharing!
Warm regards
ChrisJ (151786) 2013-12-26 4:21
Hi Farhat,
Looks potentially delicious! A bit of lemon juice, some garlic perhaps and some spices. Good sharpness and effective tight framing. The neutral orange background does not detract. Bon apperatif! And Merry Xmas / Happy New Year!
mcmtanyel (54033) 2013-12-28 21:58
Hi Farhat,
That fish looks delicious, I hope your friend shared some of it with you. I love the background color, too. What is it laying on?
Oceania (5202) 2014-01-14 11:01
Hi Farhat,
A portrait of fish?! interesting!! It's a fine picture with good details. Nice job well done!
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| [http://www.buyvm.net/ BuyVM] || 2013.07.01 || KVM || LA, Buffalo NY || Must chose a different OS at sign up. Once accessible, choose to mount the latest Arch ISO and reboot to install manually.
| [http://www.buyvm.net/ BuyVM] || 2013.07.01 || KVM || LA, Buffalo NY || Must chose a different OS at sign up. Once accessible, choose to mount the latest Arch ISO and reboot to install manually.
| [https://digitalocean.com DigitalOcean] || 2013.05.xx || KVM || New York, US-NY; San Francisco, US-CA; Amsterdam, AN || Uses a custom kernel. You can run your own kernel with a [https://github.com/helirexi/LEMP-VPS-DigitalOcean/blob/master/README.md kexec hack]. Every server uses SSDs by default.
| [https://digitalocean.comDigitalOcean] || 2013.05.xx || KVM || New York, US-NY; San Francisco, US-CA; Amsterdam, AN || Uses a custom kernel. You can run your own kernel with a [https://github.com/helirexi/LEMP-VPS-DigitalOcean/blob/master/README.md kexec hack]. Every server uses SSDs by default.
| [http://en.edis.at/ Edis] || [http://www.edis.at/en/support-and-service/faq/server-faq/which-distributions-are-available-with-edis-kvm-vps-plans/ 2013.03.01] || vServer, KVM, OpenVZ || [http://www.edis.at/en/server/kvm-vps/austria/ Multiple international locations]. || Also offer dedicated server options as well as an "off-shore" location at the Isle of Man (IM).
| [http://en.edis.at/ Edis] || [http://www.edis.at/en/support-and-service/faq/server-faq/which-distributions-are-available-with-edis-kvm-vps-plans/ 2013.03.01] || vServer, KVM, OpenVZ || [http://www.edis.at/en/server/kvm-vps/austria/ Multiple international locations]. || Also offer dedicated server options as well as an "off-shore" location at the Isle of Man (IM).
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From Wikipedia:Virtual private server:
- Virtual private server (VPS) is a term used by Internet hosting services to refer to a virtual machine. The term is used for emphasizing that the virtual machine, although running in software on the same physical computer as other customers' virtual machines, is in many respects functionally equivalent to a separate physical computer, is dedicated to the individual customer's needs, has the privacy of a separate physical computer, and can be configured to run server software.
This article discusses the use of Arch Linux on Virtual Private Servers, and includes some fixes and installation instructions specific to VPSes.
- 1 Providers that offer Arch Linux
- 2 Installation
- 3 Troubleshooting
Providers that offer Arch Linux
|Arch Release
|123 Systems
|Dallas, US-TX
|Arch available as a selection upon reinstall. Very old (2.6.18-308) kernel - See OpenVZ troubleshooting. Limited information available before purchase. Cannot verify Arch Linux version without purchase.
|Latest Only (clarify?)
|VMware ESXi
|Sydney, AU
|Latest ISO (clarify?) of Arch Available. Enterprise Service.
|Auckland, New Zealand (NZ)
|IRC channel is #affinity on ircs.kiwicon.org
|Miami, US-FL; Nuremberg, DE
|Formerly FanaticalVPS, kernel version depends on what node your VPS is on, the ones in Miami are fine (2.6.32-042stab072.10) but some of the ones in Germany require a custom glibc.
|LA, Buffalo NY
|Must chose a different OS at sign up. Once accessible, choose to mount the latest Arch ISO and reboot to install manually.
|New York, US-NY; San Francisco, US-CA; Amsterdam, AN
|Uses a custom kernel. You can run your own kernel with a kexec hack. Every server uses SSDs by default.
|vServer, KVM, OpenVZ
|Multiple international locations.
|Also offer dedicated server options as well as an "off-shore" location at the Isle of Man (IM).
|Amsterdam, AN; Rotterdam, AN
|Dutch language site. Version verifyable by clicking through https://www.directvps.nl/try-1.plp?p=31
|Paris, FR; Baltimore, MD, US; Bissen, LU
|Very granular scaling of system resources (e.g. RAM, disk space); IPv6-only option available; you can supply your own install image, version based on keyring package version
|Chicago, US-IL; Frankfurt, DE; London, GB; San Jose, US-CA
|Host Virtual
|Multiple International Locations
|Appears to use KVM virtualization. Site lists "Xen based virtualization" and features lists ability to install from ISO.
|2010.05 i686
|OpenVZ, KVM
|Charlotte, US-NC; Los Angeles, US-CA
|You can migrate to x86_64.
|Amsterdam, NA; Bucharest, RO; Dallas, US-TX; Fremont, US-CA; London, GB
|Blog has not been updated since September, 2012 which included the Arch Linux update.
|Leapswitch Networks
|USA, India, Portugal, Spain, Ukraine, Germany
|ArchLinux currently available in Control Panel for reinstall, not on order form.
|Tokyo, JP; Multiple US; London, GB
|To run a custom kernel, install linux-linodeAUR. (linux will break on a 32-bit Linode.)
|Core2Duo and Woodcrest based processors.
|Node Deploy
|OpenVZ, KVM
|Germany (DE); Los Angeles, US-CA; Atlanta, US-GA; Phoenix, US-AZ
|"At NodeDeploy we support virtually every linux distribution." Arch Linux is listed under their Operating Systems. No version information.
|Germany (DE)
|German language site.
|Xen PV, Xen HVM
|United Kingdom (UK)
|They are a registrar too. Unable to verify server locations.
|OpenVZ, KVM
|Germany (DE)
|German language site.
|OpenVZ, Xen
|Amsterdam, Netherlands (NL); Stockholm, Sweden (SE)
|Provide hardened Arch Linux images along with Enterprise services (e,g. VPN, Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) and Virtual Routers.
|Rackspace Cloud
|Multiple international locations
|Billed per hour. Use their "next gen" VPSes (using the mycloud.rackspace.com panel); the Arch image on the first gen Rackspace VPSes is out of date.
|OpenVZ, KVM
|Los Angeles, US-CA; Great Britain (GB); Atlanta, US-GA; Germany (DE)
|You can request a newer ISO on RamHost's IRC network.
|SSD and SSD Cached: OpenVZ, KVM
|Seattle, WA USA, Atlanta, GA USA
|You can request Host/CPU passthrough with KVM service. Customer service has been prompt and professional. Regular discount codes can be found (15-35% off). Modern hardware. Competitive pricing (before discounts).
|Amsterdam, NL
|English or Dutch language site.
|Amsterdam, NL
|English language site. Registrar.
|OpenVZ, Xen
|United Kingdom (UK), United States (US)
|OpenVZ, Xen
|Kansas City, US-KS; Los Angeles, US-CA
|KVM, OpenVZ
|Kraków, PL
|S-Net reseller. Full virtualization. Polish language site.
|Sofia, Bulgaria
|Offshore VPS in Bulgaria - anonymous registrations and Bitcoin are accepted.
|OpenVZ, Xen, HVM-ISO
|Multiple US; Frankfurt, DE; Bucharest, RO; Istanbul, TR
See QEMU#Preparing an (Arch) Linux guest.
Updating a 2010.05 installation image
These instructions assume you have a 2010.05 image from your VPS provider and you would like to get it updated. The biggest work involves preparing
/lib for the symlink upgrade (glibc 2.16, and later filesystem 2013.01).
To start, grab the latest BusyBox from http://busybox.net/downloads/binaries/latest/. This allows you to force glibc (losing
/lib temporarily) without losing your OS (BusyBox comes with its own GNU tools which are statically linked).
# wget http://busybox.net/downloads/binaries/latest/busybox-i686 # chmod +x busybox-i686
First, you can get a list of packages that own files in
/lib with the following command:
$ pacman -Qo /lib/* | cut -d' ' -f 5 | egrep -v 'glibc' | uniq | xargs
For the current 2010.05 that comes from ibiru's page, these are the packages that were required to be removed for me:
pacman -S acl attr util-linux-ng bzip2 libcap e2fsprogs libgcrypt libgpg-error udev readline ncurses pam pcre popt procps readline shadow e2fsprogs sysfsutils udev util-linux-ng sysvinit coreutils
You may have to remove
/lib/udev/devices/loop0 (a simple
rm works).
After the upgrade finishes, you must remove any extra empty directories in
/lib (
/lib/modules is the common offender):
# rm -rf /lib/modules
Install tzdata to fix some dependencies, and remove
# pacman -S tzdata # rm /etc/profile.d/locale.sh
/var/run (you should have nothing running that matters):
# rm -rf /var/run
Force glibc, which will pull in the latest filesystem package, but will BREAK everything (other than BusyBox):
# pacman -S --force glibc}}
Now, you will have a broken system, so symlink
/usr/lib to
/lib with BusyBox's ln program:
# ./busybox-i686 ln -s /usr/lib /lib
And you should have a fully functional system where you can now update pacman.
# pacman -S pacman; pacman-key --init; pacman-key --populate archlinux; pacman-db-upgrade; pacman -Syy
Now, update initscripts to get the iproute2 package:
# pacman -S initscripts
Install the makedev package:
pacman -S makedev
Add the following to your
/usr/sbin/MAKEDEV tty /usr/sbin/MAKEDEV pty
Comment the following lines in
#c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty1 linux #c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty2 linux #c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty3 linux #c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty4 linux #c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty5 linux #c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty6 linux
Finally, you should be able to upgrade the whole system:
# pacman -Syu
You may run into some issues with krb5 and heimdal, as krb5 no longer provides+conflicts+replaces heimdal (https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/krb5&id=f5e6d77fd14ced15ebf5b6a78a7c76e0db0625f7). The old openssh depends on heimdal (and the new openssh depends on krb5), so force install krb5, then upgrade openssh, then remove heimdal and reinstall krb5.
# pacman -S --force krb5 # pacman -S openssh openssl # pacman -R heimdal # pacman -S krb5
Fix syslog-ng. Set the src to
unix-dgram("/dev/log") and add
--no-caps to both check and run args in
Make sure your
/etc/rc.conf is not messed up with broken network definitions, or else be sure serial access works on your VPS before you reboot.
Moving your VPS from network configuration in rc.conf to netcfg (tested with OpenVZ)
1) Install netcfg
pacman -S netcfg
2) Create a netcfg configuration file
CONNECTION='ethernet' DESCRIPTION='VPS venet connection' INTERFACE='venet0' IP='static' IPCFG=( #default 'addr add 127.0.0.1/32 broadcast 0.0.0.0 dev venet0' #IPv4 address 'addr add xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/32 broadcast 0.0.0.0 dev venet0' #IPv4 route 'route add default dev venet0' #IPv6 address 'addr add xxxx:xx:xx::x/128 dev venet0' #IPv6 route '-6 route add default dev venet0' ) DNS=('xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx')
3) Edit your netcfg main conf file
NETWORKS=(venet) WIRED_INTERFACE="venet0"
4) Try your new setup
rc.d stop network && ip addr flush venet0 && netcfg venet
Your VPS should still be connected and have its IP addresses set correctly. (Check with
ip a)
DO NOT proceed to next step if this isn't the case.
5) Make your new setup survive reboots
In the
DAEMONS array in
/etc/rc.conf, replace
network with
Remove all networking information that is in
Moving your VPS from initscripts to systemd
This is very similar to a regular arch system, except you probably don't have access to your kernel line.
1) Move from network in rc.conf to netcfg (see above).
2) Install systemd
pacman -S systemd
2 bonus for OpenVZ) Remove kernel core dump pattern since this is blocked by OpenVZ and causes errors
/usr/lib/sysctl.d/coredump.conf, comment out the following line:
#kernel.core_pattern=|/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump %p %u %g %s %t %e
3) Move all configuration from
/etc/rc.conf (except the
DAEMONS array) to its appropriate location.
See Native configuration and rc.conf for details.
Now your
/etc/rc.conf should only contain the
DAEMONS array.
4) Install systemd-sysvcompat
pacman -S systemd-sysvcompat
It will ask to replace sysvinit, say yes.
5) Move daemons from the
DAEMONS array in
/etc/rc.conf to
See the guide and the daemons list.
If your
DAEMONS array is now empty, skip next step.
6) Moving rc.d daemons with no systemd support, example:
Create a custom systemd service file for vzquota:
[Unit] Description=Setup vzquota on VPS ConditionFileIsExecutable=/etc/rc.d/vzquota [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/vzquota start ExecStop=/etc/rc.d/vzquota stop TimeoutSec=0 StandardInput=tty RemainAfterExit=yes [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
Enable this service:
systemctl enable newvzquota.service
vzquota from the
DAEMONS array in
Repeat this step to remove all daemons from
7) Removing
/etc/rc.local and
Write custom .service files to replace functionality in
/etc/rc.local and
/etc/rc.local.shutdown. You can take a look at
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service and
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rc-local-shutdown.service for inspiration.
8) Removing
/etc/rc.conf file must look like this:
/etc/rc.local and
/etc/rc.local.shutdown must now be empty.
pacman -R initscripts
See Xen#Arch as Xen guest (PVHVM mode) and/or Xen#Arch as Xen guest (PV mode).
Converting OpenStack and Xen components to systemd
There are three components that need to be enabled in systemd when using a VPS based on OpenStack/Xen, such as Rackspace NextGen Cloud. The current version of xe-guest-utilities contains two of these: xe-linux-distribution and xe-daemon.
You will need to create a custom service file for the OpenStack nova-agent, as the current version 0.0.1.37 only comes with a sysvinit start-up script.
[Unit] Description=nova-agent service After=xe-daemon.service [Service] Environment=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/share/nova-agent/0.0.1.37/lib ExecStart=usr/bin/nova-agent -n -l info /usr/share/nova-agent/nova-agent.py [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
Once these steps are done, you can continue with converting the server from sysvinit to systemd.
Make sure to enable the following services:
# systemctl enable xe-linux-distribution # systemctl enable xe-daemon # systemctl enable nova-agent
OpenVZ: kernel too old for glibc
Are you on a virtual private server (VPS) with an old kernel & broke your system? Are you using OpenVZ?
Check your kernel version with:
uname -r
If your kernel is older than 2.6.32, you will need a custom version of glibc (because of dependencies in glibc).
Arch Template Used: https://dev.archlinux.org/~ibiru/openvz/2010.05/arch-2010.05-i686-minimal.tar.gz
pacman -U https://dev.archlinux.org/~ibiru/openvz/glibc-vps/i686/glibc-2.16.0-101-i686.pkg.tar.xz
pacman -U https://dev.archlinux.org/~ibiru/openvz/glibc-vps/x86_64/glibc-2.16.0-101-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
Add a single
-d if needed. The instructions below assume that this has been done.
Following similar instructions from DeveloperWiki:usrlib.
Try doing the following to fix it:
1) Edit
/etc/pacman.conf and add the following repository ABOVE
For 32-bit:
[glibc-vps] Server = https://dev.archlinux.org/~ibiru/openvz/glibc-vps/i686
For 64-bit:
[glibc-vps] Server = https://dev.archlinux.org/~ibiru/openvz/glibc-vps/x86_64
2) Then run
pacman -Syy followed by
pacman -Syu. You will be notified to upgrade pacman first.
3) Upgrade the pacman database by running
pacman-db-upgrade as root.
4) Edit
/etc/pacman.conf.pacnew (new pacman config file) and add the following repository ABOVE
[glibc-vps] Server = https://dev.archlinux.org/~ibiru/openvz/glibc-vps/$arch
5) Replace
/etc/pacman.conf with
/etc/pacman.conf.pacnew (run as root):
# mv /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew /etc/pacman.conf
6) Upgrade your whole system with new packages again
pacman -Syu
If you get the following error or a similar error:
initscripts: /etc/profile.d/locale.sh exists in filesystem
Simply delete that file (e.g.,
rm -f /etc/profile.d/locale.sh), then run
pacman -Syu again.
If you get the following error or a similar error:
filesystem: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem
pacman -S filesystem --force
If you get the following error or a similar error:
libusb-compat: /usr/bin/libusb-config exists in filesystem
pacman -S libusb and then
pacman -S libusb-compat
7) Before rebooting, you need to install the makedev package from the official repositories by running
pacman -S makedev.
8) Add MAKEDEV to
/usr/sbin/MAKEDEV tty /usr/sbin/MAKEDEV pty
9) Edit
/etc/inittab, comment out the following lines; otherwise, you will see errors in
#c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty1 linux #c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty2 linux #c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty3 linux #c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty4 linux #c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty5 linux #c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty6 linux
10) To enable use of the
hostname command, install the package inetutils from the official repositories.
11) Remove disabling of the SysRq key and setup of core dump pattern because this is blocked by OpenVZ and causes errors.
Because sysctl does not use
/etc/sysctl.conf any more[1], you must transfer all settings to
/etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf (or any other file in
/etc/sysctl.d/; however, do not transfer the following line:
kernel.sysrq = 0
/usr/lib/sysctl.d/coredump.conf and comment out the following line:
#kernel.core_pattern=|/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump %p %u %g %s %t %e
12) Save and reboot.
Enjoy & thank ioni if you happen to be in #archlinux
SSH fails: PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
Some VPSes have an outdated
/etc/rc.sysinit. You may be able to log in via serial console or with the following command:
$ ssh firstname.lastname@example.com '/bin/bash -i'
Then run the following:
# mv /etc/rc.sysinit.pacnew /etc/rc.sysinit # reboot
Once it is working, you should be able to comment out the
udevd_modprobe line in
/etc/rc.sysinit to save a bit of RAM the next time you reboot.
If the above does not work, take a look at this guide.