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|Tammy Faye Messner
Tammy Faye Messner in April 2004
Tamara Faye LaValley
March 7, 1942
International Falls, Minnesota
July 20, 2007 (aged 65)
Loch Lloyd, Missouri
|Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, actress, television personality, co-founder of Heritage USA and PTL-The Inspirational Network
|Years active
|Tammy Sue Bakker Chapman, Jamie Charles Bakker
|Carl LaValley and Rachel Fairchild
Tamara Faye LaValley Bakker Messner (March 7, 1942 – July 20, 2007) was an American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk show host, and television personality. She was married from 1961 to 1992 to televangelist, and later convicted felon, Jim Bakker. She co-hosted with him on The PTL Club (1976–1987). She was a participant in the 2004 season of the reality show The Surreal Life.[1]
Early life
The eldest of eight children, Tammy Faye was born Tamara Faye LaValley in International Falls, Minnesota, to Pentecostal preachers Rachel Minnie (née Fairchild) and Carl Oliver LaValley.[2] Her parents were married in 1941, one year before Tammy Faye was born. Shortly after she was born, a painful divorce soured her mother against other ministers,[3] alienating her from the church. After the divorce, Tammy Faye continued living in a strict atmosphere with her mother and brother. In 1948, when she was six, her mother married Fred Grover, who worked in paper mills. His salary increased their income, and the marriage also added six children to the household.[citation needed]
As a child in the 1950s, she helped her mother with household chores and babysat her younger siblings;[citation needed] but she was often spoiled by her favorite aunt, Virginia Fairchild, who was a retired department store manager.[citation needed] She attended her aunt's church in 1952.
When she was accompanied by a friend to the Assemblies of God church, at age 10, she said she "felt the glow of God's love and wanted to call herself upon the Lord."[citation needed] Her entire family gathered around her for celebrations, particularly Christmas, which was her favorite holiday. In 1956, she started spending summers at Bible camp and was voted "Queen". Also in 1956, she attended Falls High School, where she sang in the choir, and got an after-school job at Woolworth's. She didn't attend school dances, baseball games, or even movies, as her church did not allow it.[citation needed] Before she graduated in 1960, her mother suggested that Tammy Faye would become a minister.[citation needed]
Marriage to Jim Bakker
In 1960, she met Jim Bakker when they were students at North Central Bible College in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[4] Tammy Faye worked in a boutique for a time while Jim found work in a restaurant inside a department store in Minneapolis. They were married on April 1, 1961. The following year, they moved to South Carolina, where they began their ministry.
Their marriage produced two children, Tammy Sue (Sissy) Bakker Chapman (born 1970) and Jamie Charles (Jay) Bakker (born 1975).
PTL Club
Jim and Tammy Bakker had been involved with television from the time of their departure from Minneapolis until they moved to the Charlotte area via Portsmouth, Virginia, where they were founding members of the 700 Club. While in Portsmouth, they were hosts of the popular children's show "Jim and Tammy". They then created a puppet ministry for children on Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) from 1964 to 1973 and co-founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network with personal friends Paul and Jan Crouch in California. Jim and Tammy founded the PTL Club (Praise The Lord) in the mid-1970s.
During the PTL shows, she provided a sentimental touch to stories and loved to sing. In a move that sharply distinguished her from other televangelists, she showed a more tolerant attitude regarding homosexuality, and she featured people suffering from AIDS on PTL, urging her viewers to follow Christ and show sympathy and pray for the sick.[citation needed]
PTL collapse
The Bakkers' control of PTL collapsed in 1987 after revelations that $287,000 had been paid from the organization to buy the silence of Jessica Hahn, who claims a forced sexual encounter with Jim Bakker.[citation needed]
The revelations invited scrutiny of the Bakkers, and charges made about their opulent lives, including media reports of an air-conditioned doghouse at their Tega Cay, South Carolina, lakefront parsonage as well as gold-plated bathroom fixtures, dominated newscasts in the 1980s. The Bakkers' home, owned by the ministry, was actually an older home built in the early 1970s, and it was a few miles away from Heritage USA.[citation needed] Jim Bakker stated that the much-talked-about dog house was heated with an old heater to keep the dogs warm in the winter and the reported gold-plated fixtures were actually brass.[citation needed] The home was later sold by the ministry and burned to the ground not long thereafter.[citation needed] Jim Bakker wrote in his book I Was Wrong that he watched the home burn on live television while incarcerated.[5]
The epilogue from the publishers of this book contains the following:
On July 22, 1996, shortly after Jim Bakker had completed the writing of this book, a federal jury ruled that PTL was not selling securities by offering Lifetime Partnerships at Heritage USA. The jury's ruling thus affirms what Jim Bakker has contended from the first day he was indicted and throughout this volume.[citation needed]
The Charlotte Observer ran exposés of PTL's finances and management practices. PTL went bankrupt after being taken over by controversial Lynchburg, Virginia-based Baptist televangelist Jerry Falwell, who offered to step in following the scandals in 1988.[6] Charges surfaced that Falwell's interest in PTL and Heritage USA was solely an attempt to gain control of its profitable cable television network, something which Falwell failed to establish for his own ministry despite numerous requests to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to obtain a satellite license.[citation needed] Tammy Faye later forgave Falwell regarding these tactics before Falwell's death in 2007, two months before Tammy Faye's own death.[citation needed]
After PTL
Marriage to Roe Messner
Tammy stood by Bakker through the scandal, including several instances when she cried on camera. In 1989 Bakker was sentenced to 45 years in prison on 24 fraud and conspiracy counts.
In 1992, while Bakker was still in prison she filed for divorce, saying in a letter to the New Covenant Church in Orlando, Florida:
For years I have been pretending that everything is all right, when in fact I hurt all the time...I cannot pretend anymore.[7]
On October 3, 1993, she married Roe Messner in Rancho Mirage, California,[8] after Messner divorced his own wife. They moved to the Charlotte suburb of Matthews, North Carolina. Tammy and Roe were neighbors to Christian recording star and friend David L Cook.
Messner, who had a contracting business, Messner Enterprises, in the Andover, Kansas, suburb of Wichita, Kansas, had built much of Heritage USA as well as numerous other large churches and had been a family friend to the Bakkers throughout the PTL years.
Messner was the one who produced the money for the $265,000 payment to Hahn, later billing PTL for work never completed on the Jerusalem Amphitheater at Heritage USA.[9]
In the Bakkers' fraud trial, Messner testified for Bakker's defense saying that Falwell had sent Messner to the Bakker home in Palm Springs, California, to make an offer to "keep quiet."
According to Messner's testimony, Tammy wrote the offer on her stationery, listing a $300,000-a-year lifetime salary for Jim, $100,000 a year for Tammy, a house, and a year's worth of free phone calls and health insurance. However, Messner said that Bakker wrote on it: "I'm not making any demands on PTL. I'm not asking for anything.".[10][11] Falwell denied making any offer.
In the messy bankruptcy of PTL, Messner was listed as the single biggest creditor of PTL with an outstanding claim of $14 million. In court papers, the new operators accused Messner of $5.3 million in inflated or phony billings to PTL.[12]
Messner filed for personal and corporate bankruptcy in 1990, saying he owed nearly $30 million to more than 300 creditors. He wound up being convicted of bankruptcy fraud. As he faced sentencing in 1996, he said that he could not afford to treat his prostate cancer because he lacked health insurance.[13]
In July 2007, on more solid financial footing, the Messners relocated to a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, the Village of Loch Lloyd, Missouri. Coincidentally, Jim Bakker had also moved to Missouri (in 2003), 200 miles southeast of Loch Lloyd in Branson, Missouri. Tammy Faye told Entertainment Tonight they had moved to the "dream house" to be closer to Roe's children and grandchildren from his first marriage. The children still live in the Wichita area.[14]
Back in the public eye
As her second husband was jailed and she was first diagnosed with colon cancer, she re-entered the public eye in a series of books, movies and television appearances.
In 1996 she wrote her autobiography, Tammy: Telling It My Way (ISBN 0679445153), and she co-hosted a TV talk show titled The Jim J. and Tammy Faye Show with Jim J. Bullock.
She was the subject of a documentary titled The Eyes of Tammy Faye (1999) and a follow-up film titled Tammy Faye: Death Defying (2004) from Lions Gate Entertainment.
She appeared twice on The Drew Carey Show in 1996 and 1999, playing the mother of character Mimi Bobeck (Kathy Kinney), who was also known for wearing excessive amounts of makeup.
On September 11, 2003, she published a new autobiography, I Will Survive... and You Will, Too! (ISBN 1585422428), in which she described her battles with cancer and her life with Messner.
In 2005, she appeared in an infomercial for alternative medicine promoter Kevin Trudeau. On her site, Tammyfaye.com she credits green supplements as a helpful part of her initial colon cancer remission.
Despite her background in Christian fundamentalism, Tammy Faye became a gay icon after her parting from PTL, appearing in Gay Pride marches with such figures as Lady Bunny and Bruce Vilanch. She supported the LGBT rights movement, including same-sex marriage.[15] She was benevolently referred to as "the ultimate drag queen,"[16] and said in her last interview with Larry King that, "When I went — when we lost everything, it was the gay people that came to my rescue, and I will always love them for that."[17]
The Surreal Life
In early 2004, she appeared on the second season of the VH1 reality television series The Surreal Life. The show chronicled a twelve-day period wherein she, Ron Jeremy, Vanilla Ice, Traci Bingham, Erik Estrada and Trishelle Cannatella lived together in a Los Angeles house and were assigned various tasks and activities.
Together, the six put on a children's play and managed a restaurant for a day. She also attended a book signing for her best-seller, I Will Survive... And You Will Too.
At the end of the show, Messner said she thought of Vanilla Ice and Trishelle Cannatella as children and could relate to them deeply because she had similar feelings and problems when she was their age. She described porn star Jeremy as "a nice man."
Tammy Faye's 11 years with cancer was highly publicized. She was first diagnosed with colon cancer in March 1996, and the disease went into remission by the end of that year.[18]
On March 19, 2004, Tammy Faye made an appearance on Larry King Live and announced that she had inoperable lung cancer and would soon begin chemotherapy.[19] She continued receiving chemotherapy throughout mid-2004. On November 30, 2004, also on Larry King Live, she announced that she was cancer free once again. She described the details of her chemotherapy and continued to appear regularly on King's show. A 2004 television documentary of her struggle with cancer was produced in 2004.[20][21] It was on King's program again that she announced, on July 20, 2005, that her cancer had returned.[22]
On March 13, 2006, she appeared again on Larry King Live and stated that she was continuing to suffer from lung cancer, which had reached stage 4, and that she was continuing to receive treatment for it. She also mentioned having difficulty swallowing food, suffering from panic attacks, and enduring substantial weight loss. As her health continued to worsen, a "Talk of the Town" article in the October 2, 2006, issue of The New Yorker stated that she was dying in hospice care, and a December 10, 2006, article in Walter Scott's column in Parade reported that her son Jay was "at a North Carolina hospice with his mom, [who is] gravely ill with colon cancer".[23]
Tammy Faye was a guest by phone on CNN's Larry King Live on December 15, 2006, and stated that she was receiving hospice care in her home. Tammy Faye appeared in her son Jay's documentary series One Punk Under God, wherein she and Jay talked about her cancer treatments. In one episode, Tammy Faye required the use of oxygen in order to talk.
On May 8, 2007, she issued a statement on her website saying that chemotherapy had stopped, but urging her fans to continue to pray for her.[24] The story was reported on NBC's The Today Show on May 11, and a feature in which fans and well-wishers could post get-well messages to Tammy was added to her website. As of July 2007, over 228 pages of wishes had been received.[25]
On July 19, 2007, Tammy Faye made another appearance on CNN's Larry King Live in what turned out to be her final interview (she died the following day, just hours after the broadcast). At the time, she said she weighed 65 pounds and was unable to eat solid food. Messner's husband would later say that he believed that she chose to do the interview to say a final goodbye to her fans.
On July 20, 2007, Messner died after 11 years with cancer.[26] What had started as colon cancer had spread to her lungs. She died in her home, said her publicist, Joe Spotts. A family service was held on the morning of July 21, 2007, in the Messner family plot in Waldron, Kansas,[27] where her ashes were interred. The ceremony was officiated by the Rev. Randy McCain, the pastor of Open Door Community Church in Sherwood, Arkansas.[26] She had frequently spoken about her medical problems, saying she hoped to be an inspiration to others. "Don't let fear rule your life," she said. "Live one day at a time, and never be afraid." She had written on her website in May that the doctors had stopped trying to treat the cancer. She died the day after the airing of her interview on Larry King Live on CNN. According to CNN.com, the family requested that King officially report the news of her death on July 21, 2007.[28] She was buried in Waldron Cemetery, Waldron, Kansas.[29]
In June 2006, a stage musical titled The Gospel According to Tammy Faye opened at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival and is currently being developed for a larger professional production.[30] The show features songs by J. T. Buck and a book by Fernando Dovalina. The musical is described as a fantasia which takes a balanced and fair look at its subject. The impetus for the show was provided by a lengthy interview that Messner gave the authors in March 2005.[31][32] The musical aired on August 2006 in Portland, Oregon, and Hood River, Oregon, it was presented on stage at Houston's Alley Theatre at the end of July 2007 under the direction of Les R. Wood. Industry readings presented by the Columbia Gorge Repertory Company were held at the Manhattan Theatre Club in December 2007 the cast including Tony nominee Sally Mayes and veteran Broadway performers William Youmans, Ken Land, Julie Foldesi, James T. Lane and Heather Parcells. The readings were directed by Mindy Cooper. Seth Farber provided musical direction.
Another musical following the life of Tammy Faye, titled Big Tent, debuted May 23, 2007 at Off-Broadway's New World Stages, in New York City. The show features music and lyrics by Ben Cohn, Sean McDaniel, a book by Jeffery Self, and direction by Ryan J. Davis.[33] A star-studded concert of songs from the show opened February 18, 2008 at New York's Metropolitan Room.[34]
|Record Label
|Tammy Tammy Tammy
|Hymntone Records
|Tammy Bakker Sings PTL Club Favorites
|New Pax Records
|Love Never Gives Up
|PAX Musical Productions
|We're Blest
|PTL Club Records & Tapes
|Run Toward the Roar
|PTL Club Records & Tapes
|The Lord's On My Side
|PTL Club Records & Tapes
|Tammy Sings... You Can Make It!
|PTL Club Records & Tapes
|Old Hymns
|PTL Club Records & Tapes
|In the Upper Room
|PTL Club Records & Tapes
|Movin' on to Victory
|PTL Club Records & Tapes
|Don't Give Up!
|PTL Club Records & Tapes
|Enough is Enough
|PTL Club Records & Tapes
|The Ballad of Jim & Tammy
|Sutra Records
|Peace in the Midst of the Storm
|Love, Tammy
- ^ The Surreal Life TV.com
- ^ [1]
- ^ Obituary: (UK) newspaper, the Daily Telegraph Issue number 47,317 Monday July 23, 2007 p23
- ^ Ex-wife of evangelist Jim Bakker dies By William M. Welch, USA TODAY
- ^ Bakker, Jim (September 21, 1996). I Was Wrong. Thomas Nelson. ISBN 0785274251.
- ^ Ostling, Richard (August 3, 1987). "Enterprising Evangelism". Time. Retrieved January 27, 2007.
- ^ Tammy Faye Messner, ex-wife of disgraced evangelist Jim Bakker, dies at 65 – Associated Press article in Boston Herald – July 22, 2007
- ^ Bakker marries business friend – North Hills Record – October 5, 1983
- ^ Testimony: Baker knew about Hahn being paid off – Associated Press article via Pacific Stars and Stripes – September 16, 1987
- ^ PTL link puts church builder Roe Messner in public eye – Kansas City Star via The News-Post Leader – Frederick, Maryland – June 17, 1987 (available of newspaperarchive.com)
- ^ Bakker witness says Falwell offered hush money – Associated Press article via The Capital – September 26, 1989
- ^ PTL accuses builder of theft conspiracy – Associated Press article via Daily Intelligence/Montgomery County Record – September 10, 1987
- ^ Tammy Faye has surgery for colon cancer – Pacific Stars and Stripes – March 22, 1996
- ^ Aarthun, Sarah. (2007, June 23). Tammy Faye is leaving Charlotte area. The Charlotte Observer
- ^ The Words of Tammy Faye, Metroweekly
- ^ Wilson-Smith, Anthony (May 22, 2000). "Tammy Faye's Fab Fan Club". Maclean's. p. 7.
- ^ Rabey, Steve (October 2, 2000). "Tammy Faye, gay icon". Christianity Today. pp. 85–86.
- ^ Tammy Faye Messner's Cancer Treatments Stop, Weight Down to Just 65 Pounds Fox News. May 10, 2007
- ^ Former Tammy Faye Bakker tells Larry King she has inoperable lung cancer Associated Press/March 19, 2004
- ^ FoxNews.com: "Evangelist Tammy Faye Messner Dies of Cancer at 65" July 22, 2007
- ^ Tammy Faye: Death Defying at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Associated Press (July 20, 2005). "Tammy Faye Says Lung Cancer Has Returned". Greenwich Time. Archived from the original on April 15, 2008. Retrieved May 10, 2007.
- ^ Walter Scott (December 10, 2006). "Personality Parade". Parade. Retrieved July 25, 2007.
- ^ Tammy Faye Messner (May 10, 2007). "Message to fans". TammyFaye.com. Retrieved July 25, 2007.
- ^ "Well Wishes for Tammy Faye's". TammyFaye.com. Retrieved July 25, 2007.
- ^ a b Public memorial to be planned for Tammy Faye McClatchy Newspapers – July 22, 2007
- ^ Larry King interview with Roe Messner on August 7, 2007
- ^ "Tammy Faye Messner dies". CNN. July 21, 2007. Retrieved July 25, 2007.
- ^ Tammy Faye LaValley Bakker Messner at Find a Grave
- ^ Fdovalina.com
- ^ 'Gospel According to Tammy Faye' New Musical Reading", Broadway World News, December 5, 2007.
- ^ Lindsay Wise, "On stage, Tammy Faye lives on: Musical creators say show is a good way to say goodbye", Houston Chronicle, July 22, 2007.
- ^ New Musical 'Big Tent' Covers Life of Tammy Faye Bakker Broadwayworld.com
- ^ Playbill News: Block, Arcelus, Hocking, Stanek and More Set for Tammy Faye Sings Concert
External links
- Tammy Faye's Official Website and blog
- National Public Radio All Things Considered The Re-Invention of Tammy Faye: Former Christian Broadcasting Queen Has New Gay Following June 20, 2002 (Online article with audio of ATC story and video clip of film, The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
- Tammy Faye Messner Interview at Archive of American Television
- Tammy Faye Messner (January 15, 2004). Tammy Faye Messner : NPR (AUDIO). Interview with Terry Gross. Fresh Air. NPR. Retrieved July 25, 2007.
- Tammy Faye Bakker at the Internet Movie Database
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Ross Sinclair, a former Newport Harbor High standout, has been named the girls' water polo coach at Corona del Mar High, he said on Twitter Friday afternoon.
"Never thought I'd say it but honored to be the new girls head coach at @cdmaquatics," he tweeted. "time to get to work!"
He also tagged CdM alumni Artie Dorr (@ArtieDorr), Tumua Anae (@tumua_AnEye) and John Mann (@bearmann4).
Don Grable, the CdM athletic director, confirmed Sinclair is the coach.
"We are very happy to welcome Ross to our CdM coaching family," Grable said in an email. "He has a wealth of playing success and experiences and will lead our program with enthusiasm and passion. He has grown up in the community and is eager to carry on the tradition of our CdM Girls' Water Polo Program."
Sinclair, 28, a Newport Beach resident, played water polo at UC Santa Barbara, where he was a three-time team captain and two-time NCAA All-American. He has played five years abroad in Australia, Europe, and South America. He has had various experiences in coaching and teaching including being a well-known Junior Lifeguard Instructor and Lifeguard for Newport Beach. Most recently he said he was playing in Australia, where he also coached.
Sinclair takes over for his cousin and former coach Sam Bailey, who guided the Sea Kings to their first CIF Southern Section Division 1 title last season.
Bailey is now coaching boys' and girls' water polo at Beckman, which also plays in the Pacific Coast League that CdM won last year.
"[Bailey] was supportive," Sinclair said. "After the news, he gave me some good words of encouragement saying that he is happy that I'm taking over and that there's someone he can trust that can carry the good tradition and carry it into the future."
Sinclair said he is excited to take over what he called a great program with a winning tradition.
"It's a great opportunity," Sinclair said. "This area is an aquatics town. It's a no-brainer to go for this position. There is great support from the community. The kids are natural water athletes, having the ocean in their backyard. They enjoy water polo here. It makes it better as a coach to have the athletes who want to be in the water and be a part of the program."
Sinclair said initially it is a bit weird to be coaching at CdM since he is a Newport Harbor alumnus.
"Obviously growing up in Newport and being in the Newport Water Polo Foundation and being with Coach [Jason] Lynch, the rivalry is there, but this is an opportunity for me," Sinclair said. "I'm really looking forward to establishing my style and carrying CdM into the future. I'm sure it will be a little weird. As of now I'm happy to be a Sea King or a Sea Queen for that matter."
Sinclair named Lynch, a former Newport Harbor boys' water polo coach, as one of his mentors who he learned a great deal from, as well as Bailey and from Wolf Wigo while at UCSB.
"I learned a lot from them and got my own style and system of play," he said. "I'm a positive coach who likes to have fun, but wants to win too. I want them to play at the highest level and enjoy it. I want to bring out the best in them."
Sinclair was introduced as CdM girls' water polo coach during practice with the club team on Friday.
He is forming a plan to build his assistant coaching staff he said.
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Governor Quinn Announces $11.6 Million for Construction Projects in Iroquois and Kankakee Counties
Projects Will Improve State's Infrastructure and Create Construction Jobs
KANKAKEE – Governor Pat Quinn today announced more than $11.6 million in capital investments for construction projects in Iroquois and Kankakee Counties. The upgrades are part of Governor Quinn's agenda to create jobs and drive Illinois' economy forward.
"These construction projects will improve transportation safety and efficiency in Iroquois and Kankakee Counties," Governor Quinn said. "Additionally, they will employ a number of construction workers, which will help the local economy, as well."
The projects will be administered by the Illinois Department of Transportation.
Iroquois County...
The bridges carrying Interstate 57 over the Illinois Central Railroad south of Clifton will be upgraded for $5,977,777 by Dunnet Bay Construction of Glendale Heights, the lowest of three bidders.
Pavement patching will be done along Interstate 57 from the Ford County line to north of Gilman for $618,830 by Iroquois Paving Corporation of Watseka, the lowest of two bidders.
Interstate 57 will have about four miles of microsurfacing from 1.2 miles north of Illinois Route 54 in Onarga to 2.4 miles north of U.S. Route 24.
Microsurfacing Contractors, LLC, a Division of Byrne & Jones Enterprise, Inc. of St. Louis will do the work for $236,238.
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Prospects Daily: European stocks slipped on Friday with the benchmark index falling to a three-week low
Financial Markets…European stocks slipped on Friday with the benchmark index falling to a three-week low as early optimism on Spain's new austerity measures was short-lived.
Spanish 10-year bond yield rose back above 6% amid uncertainty over its troubled banks before stress test results, fading optimism on the country's debt cutting plan, and a looming Moody's rating review which may cost the country its investment grade rating.
South Africa's rand weakened against the dollar after Moody's cut the government's bond rating by one notch to Baa1 from A3, but bonds were supported by their imminent accession to Citi's World Government Bond Index (WGBI) on October 1.
High-income Economies…France's government announced its 2013 budget that includes a package of tax hikes, including a 75% tax rate for people earning more than 1 mn euros, aimed at narrowing the deficit to 3.0% of GDP in 2013 from 4.5% this year.
Euro Area consumer price inflation accelerated to 2.7% (y/y) in September from 2.6% in August according to a Eurostat flash estimate, driven mainly by an increase in Spain's inflation to 3.5% (y/y) from 2.7% in August after the government increased its value added tax (VAT) from 18% to 21%.
German retail sales edged up by 0.3% (m/m) in real terms in August (-0.8% y/y) after a 1% drop in July (-1.6% y/y), giving rise to hopes that private consumption will prop up the economy.
Canada's GDP rose 0.2%(m/m) in July (+1.9% y/y) compared to 0.1% (m/m) rise in June, as strength in manufacturing and utilities sectors offset weakness in crude oil extraction.
Japan's industrial production fell 1.3% (m/m) in August as a slowdown in China and Europe weighed on exports, raising risks of a GDPcontraction this quarter.
South Korea's industrial production fell 0.7% (m/m) percent, from weakness in trade partners and also due to a strike at Hyundai Motor Co.
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Chile's manufacturing output rose 6.8% (m/m) in August (3.6% y/y) as copper production rose by 11.3% from July. Retail sales growth accelerated to 11.3% (y/y) in August from 7.9% in July.
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With apologies to Marshawn Lynch, no running back is hotter than LeGarrette Blount of the New England Patriots.
On top of averaging roughly 7.0 yards per carry since Week 16, Blount became the first player in NFL history with at least 150 rushing yards and four touchdowns in a playoff game in the divisional-round win over the Indianapolis Colts.
If not for an endorsement from former Tampa Bay Buccaneers teammate Aqib Talib, though, coach Bill Belichick would not have acquired Blount for Jeff Demps and a seventh-round draft pick.
"One of the things that was very influential to me was Aqib's evaluation of LeGarrette as a person, as a teammate, as a competitive football player and his skill set," Belichick explained Tuesday. "When you have a guy who is with another player day after day, year after year, competing against him on the field and he gives you an honest evaluation and you trust that player and his evaluation, who knows better than him?"
Belichick provided a window into the decision-making process on players with checkered pasts. He's taken chances on Corey Dillon, Randy Moss, Albert Haynesworth, Chad Johnson, Talib and Blount -- all of whom came with character concerns of one type or another.
The information and evaluation can come in "a lot of different forms ... a lot of different directions," Belichick explained. "But Aqib cleared that up for me in a very positive way."
The notion of a Patriot Way has been overblown. Belichick likes smart, talented, team-first players -- especially if he can get them at a bargain-basement price.
"There's no set formula except we just are trying to get it right," Belichick continued. "That's the bottom line. Sometimes you have seven people saying one thing and one saying another and maybe it's the one guy, not the seven that are right. But the idea is to try to get it right. That's in the end what it all comes down to."
The Patriots have gotten it right on Talib and Blount, both of whom will play major roles in the AFC Championship Game.
The latest "Around The League Podcast" featured discussion on Championship Sunday and an interview with Panthers star Greg Hardy.


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Swinging London in the spring of 1967 was a feverish hot house of British big beat, the very latest mod fashions and a burgeoning psychedelic culture. Music was ruled by the Rolling Stones and Beatles, yet in the Ides of March saw a version of the 20-year-old country & western standard "Please Release Me" roar to the top of the UK charts and remain there for six weeks. The singer was, of course, Engelbert Humperdinck and the record ignited one of the most extraordinary careers in pop music.
Humperdinck, who appears at Burbank's Starlight Bowl on Sunday, August 4, had been working British clubs as both a saxophonist and singer for several years prior to "Please Release Me," but nothing had made significant impact.
"In my early days I sang rock stuff, but the career didn't kick until '67," Humperdinck said in a recent telephone conversation. "My first manager was Gordon Mills, who I'd met right at the beginning, we shared a flat in London and traveled with rock bands doing one-nighters. Later he became a songwriter and manager whose stable was Tom Jones, Gilbert O'Sullivan and myself. Gordon gave me the stage name and stamped my style as being a ballad singer and it was not a bad choice, because after he took me on: bingo!"
"Please Release Me," which ultimately sold over 1.38 million copies and is certified as one of the biggest singles of all time, effectively blocked the Beatles "Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields" from the top spot, ending a nonstop run of a dozen consecutive Fabs chart toppers.
"That's in the Guinness Book of World Records," he said. "And for me to stop the Beatles from having their 12th number one was quite a coup."
From that point on, Humperdinck, born Arnold George Dorsey on May 2, 1936, pumped out one classic hit ballad after another. His rich, warm, honey-toned vocals breathed electrifying new life into such familiar country titles as "There Goes My Everything" and "Am I That Easy to Forget?" and shrewdly exploiting the Continental appeal of songs like "Quando, Quando Quando" and "A Man Without Love (Quando M'Innamoro)." He employed an unusual mixture of heavy gauge masculinity and an almost vulnerable sensitivity, creating a gender simpatico style with which men could instantaneously identify yet unfailingly sent women into a deep state of swoon.
His arrival in America quickly brought Humperdinck some impressive new alliances. "The man who became a big influence in my life was Dean Martin. He started my career in Las Vegas," Humperdinck said. "When I came to Las Vegas, he put his name on the marquee: 'Dean Martin presents Engelbert Humperdinck.' And I'm the only one he ever did that for."
Another notable friendship was with the King of rock 'n' roll. "Elvis," Humperdinck slowly rolled the name over his tongue. "Ah — the man. One of the most gracious people I ever met, as a performer, a singer and as a person. When we first met, he didn't shake my hand, he hugged me. I learned so much from watching him. He had such humility, and as big as he was, he didn't take it seriously, he made fun of himself."
Humperdinck has rolled through the ensuing decades like a steamroller, breaking important new ground with his 1976 classic "After the Lovin'," the double-platinum certified hit which earned him one of his four Grammy nominations and was named the "most played juke box record" of the year. The 1980s saw him get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a Golden Globe "Entertainer of the Year" Award.
In the 1990s, pop culture kept the singer a relevant presence with his inclusion on the "Beavis and Butthead Do America" movie soundtrack (with, would you believe, "Lesbian Seagull"?) and up-to-date raver "The Dance Album," a 1999 set of remixes from the hand of U.K. duo Thunderpuss 2000.
At 76, he is still going strong. "What's happening now is, I'm doing this new project, a duet album," Humperdinck said. "I wrote to friends like Sir Elton John, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers and asked them to join me, and each of them reciprocated in a wonderful way, and now it's almost done, but people keep wanting to join in — I just heard from Gene Simmons and we're going to get together very soon and record."
"I just got back from a long trip to New Zealand and Australia, before that I was in Russia, played St. Petersburg. I had a wonderful tour, very successful and, also, wonderful reviews," he added. "So, after 46 years in the industry, I'm still traipsing around the world, doing my thing. And it's still a thrill."
What: Engelbert Humperdinck
Where: Starlight Bowl, 1249 Lockheed View Drive, Burbank
When: Sunday, August 4; 6 p.m.
Cost: Pre-sale tickets are $35-$55 with limited $75 VIP available
More info: (818) 238-5300, http://www.starlightbowl.com
JONNY WHITESIDE is a veteran music journalist based in Burbank and author of "Ramblin' Rose: the Life & Career of Rose Maddox" and "Cry: the Johnnie Ray Story."


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Related: Clippers assessing Vinny Del Negro's future with input from players
Relatively speaking, Vinny Del Negro's exit interview Monday took about as long as his playoff run with the Clippers.
In other words, not long at all.
What that means for his future with the organization remains to be seen.
His coaching contract is set to expire soon, and he'll meet with owner Donald Sterling at some point this week to talk about where they go from here.
Del Negro wants to stay, and if you weigh his accomplishments with the Clippers the past three years against what they've done the previous 29 seasons, he'd appear to be a shoo-in to return.
The Clippers just finished their best regular season in club history, won their first Pacific Division title and advanced to the playoffs for the second consecutive year for only the second time in their mostly morbid three decades in Los Angeles.
Based on that, you wonder why the Clippers would want to disrupt such the progress.
Here is where it gets a little dicey, though.
Despite the regular-season success, the Clippers lost in the first round of the playoffs. And that represents a step back from the second-round appearance they made last season.
Furthermore, after winning 17 consecutive games in December and flirting with the best record in the league during parts of the season, a first-round exit was certainly not expected from a team some pushed as potential NBA finalists.
With greater expectations comes greater accountability, and Del Negro knows this as well as anyone.
"The expectation is higher and the results need to be better," Del Negro conceded. "And as difficult as it is right now, I'm actually proud of that because that's the direction I want the team to go and that's the mindset I want the organization to have and that's the mindset I want the players to have."
Still, if the organization is of the mood to blame someone for falling short of expectations, the head coach with the expiring contract becomes the obvious target.
Meanwhile – and most importantly – Chris Paul is a free agent this summer and will undoubtedly make his voice heard on who the coach is before agreeing to return.
It's a slippery slope giving players that kind of say in big-picture matters – what if Blake Griffin disagrees with the direction Paul prefers, for instance – but the Clippers desperately need Paul back so they will give him his voice.
If Paul tells the Clippers he'll make a long-term commitment to them only if they replace Del Negro, it's hard to imagine them not obliging.
And if he wants Del Negro back, he will be.
Frankly, I think that's a terrible mistake to make.
And one from which there is no turning back.
If the Clippers are waiting for Chris Paul – or any player – to tell them who their new coach should be, what does that say about the confidence they have in themselves to make the right call?
And once they yield that kind of power to him, good luck wrestling it back.
The Clippers won't just be Chris Paul's team. They'll be his franchise.
Nothing against Paul, one of the most respected players in the game, but it's not wise to surrender that much control to any player.
Del Negro's return should come down to one factor: Does ownership and the front office believe he's capable of leading the Clippers into the future?
If so, bring him back. If not, begin the search to replace him immediately.
But to let a player – even one as great as Paul – make that decision isn't just a mistake, it's the ultimate sign of weakness.
And you don't win at this level by being scared or letting players bully you into decisions.


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Police: Louisiana man shot puppies with rifle
The man denied shooting five puppies who were found dead and abandoned, but he admitted that puppies were his, a sheriff's office says
The man denied shooting five puppies who were found dead and abandoned, but he admitted that puppies were his, a sheriff's office says
Washington Parish detectives arrested a man accused of shooting and killing five puppies with a rifle in in February in northeastern Louisiana near Angie, officials said.
Shawn Glen Jones, 25, was arrested on five counts of cruelty to animals.
Investigators at the Washington Parish Sheriff's Office said a citizen in February notified the Magnolia Chapter of the Humane Society of Louisiana that five puppies had been abandoned near Monroe Creek and Frank Kennedy roads near Angie, Louisiana.
The Humane Society sent a rescuer who found that the puppies had been shot and killed with a small-caliber weapon. The Sheriff's Office began an investigation.
The Sheriff's Office said details about the shooting were posted on social media, leading to several tips. Jones told a detective that he had a dog which had puppies and he had given them away to someone.
Jones later admitted that the puppies were his and that he dropped them off at Monroe Creek and Frank Kennedy roads, but he denied shooting them, the Sheriff's Office said.
Detectives continued the investigation and learned that Jones had obtained a .22-caliber rifle before the shooting was reported. The Sheriff's Office said Jones abandoned the puppies, went home to get the rifle and ammunition and returned to the site to shoot the puppies.
Jones was arrested Wednesday and taken to the Washington Parish Jail. He is being held on a $15,000 bond, officials said.
Investigators said anyone with additional information about the shooting is asked to call the Sheriff's Office.


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The current model for making sand is pretty simple. Start with a mountain, a big sucker of a rock. Then the daily transition between warm day time and colder night time, and between hotter summer and colder winter will cause expansion and contraction of the rock, gradually over long periods of time opening small cracks.
Again over time, water will fill the cracks and when it freezes enlarge the cracks, eventually breaking off pieces.
Again, over time the pieces are transported from higher elevations to lower ones by wind, water and gravity. During transportation they are broken up further, becoming smaller and smaller pieces.
Nothing is needed other than processes we can see at work today and lots of time.
So what is a Flood model for making sand?
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Maybe God made sand during the creation week so that YECers had a place to firmly stick their heads...
Sorry couldn't resist.
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Or Hovinds giant comet brought all the sand, or it was trapped in the ice/water canopy...
The massive tectonic activities during the flood could have ground up all the uhh... silicates, to make sand.
I tried, I can't it work though.
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Just to be pedantic, this isn't the only means to make sand.
There are a few different weathering mechanisms that can break down rock. Some are physical like you describe, but there are also chemical processes that can break down cements and grains, allowing others to be released. Wikipedia has a pretty good article on it. Erosion by wind, water or ice (more to the point, the material carried by it) can also get grains from a weathered or unweathered surface.
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This is more interesting question than I previously thought.
Here is a really nice article on sand that was originally published in Scientific American by Walter Mack and Elizabeth Leistikow
YECers never mention what wonderful aspect of the world wide flood was suppose to create huge (really huge) deposits of sand. Of all the mechanisms involved in the generation of sand a flood would only supply mechanical action as in high velocity stream flows - there were no freeze/thaw cycles.
However the flood is a 40 day event (or a year if you like). The events from such a flood would be sporadic and not sustained and could not therefore be capable of generated huge deposits of uniform sand.
For some empirical evidence, I live on the great Missoula flood plain. This was a cataclysmic event that that sent a wall of water initially 2000 ft high at speeds approaching 100 mph across Idaho Washington and Oregon. The city of Portland was once under 250 ft of water from this flood. Incredibly there is evidence that this Ice Age flood event occurred approximately 40 separate times on a cycle of roughly 50 years.
And guess what? There is very little sand to be found, our beaches are typically of course gravels and large boulders.
But it gets more impossible for the "young earth model" . . .
In reading the above reference article i learned (yeah I don't travel much) that many tropical beaches are almost 100% of biological origin - consisting of fragments of marine invertebrates and even plants products.
Now consider the number of generations of animals that would be required to create such immense deposits. Also many of these deposits are in the process of being recycled as these shells erode and dissolve back to the sea.
Any YECers want to put pen to paper and venture a calculation?
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Flood creates sand in the same way natural selection creates variation. It doesn't.
This is the creationist model for sand creation:
And God said, "Let there be sand". And there was sand.
This is one area where the "apparent age" idea can actually work. God creates earth 'in the beginning' (Gen 1:1), and in it sand features prominently. And dust too (needed later for "Project Adam").
So, flood just mixes sand around and redistributes it. A bit of sand is made, from eroding Grand Canyons, but otherwise sand is older than Adam.
Nothing is needed for me to get to work other than what I have at this moment (i.e. legs) and lots of time. But I still take the bus.
What do you mean "You can't prove a negative"? Have you searched the whole universe for proofs of a negative statement? No? How do you know that they don't exist then?!
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But then there is the issue of biological derived sand. Was this sand created in the form of deceased little critters?
Also there is the issue of large deposits of sand where the source rock formations are suspiciously right next door. If God made sand out of nothing why does he so often make sand when the base rock is close by.
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Ya I will keep that in mind next time I am on a white tropical beach....
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I suppose if pushed YECers would have to resort to sand being made in the creation week.
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No, if pushed, about 25% of them would come up with that. The others would come up with hypotheses completely inconsistent with that that are also stupid and wrong.
'Scuse me, I am feeling a bit testy right now.
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Tas Walker alludes to some mechanisms here: Tas Walker's Biblical Geology: Shifting Sands. Maybe looking at his references would be interesting too.
But yes, by far the most common explanation is that sand was always around (since the beginning), but the flood carried it around, depositing lots of it in some areas and not much in others.
How certain can we be that some of the sand was biologically derived? Maybe I could write a letter to Tas Walker and ask him to explain it (he is a fellow Aussie).
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Lots of sand in the Sahara, yes, but it may have formed fairly quickly. I'm sure that there are plenty of examples elsewhere that would cause greater problems for young earthers, like your sandstone one.
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Activision Blizzard has announced a new James Bond game: 007 Legends.
The game is being developed by Eurocom, who recently worked on GoldenEye 007: Reloaded and Disney Universe.
According to the press release, the game is attempting the rather ambitious feat of crafting an "original, overarching storyline tying together six classic Bond movies", concluding with forthcoming Skyfall, the 23rd film in the franchise.
The game promises to equip players with "state-of-the-art spy gadgets, an arsenal of weapons, including Bond's signature Walther PPK, and sleek vehicles" and take them to various exotic locations.
Aside from the main story, the game will also feature GoldenEye Reloaded's popular Mi6 Ops Missions - extra missions that challenged players in a variety of ways, from stealth to gadget-based combat. And for the first time, you'll be able to participate as one of Bond's villains. It also boasts four-player split-screen.
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For those that are married or dating:Would you have married your significant other if their family hadn't liked you? For those dating, would you continue to date the other person if their family didn't like you? Why or why not for both.
Wow, Quinault and Schultz - those are some tough, batty old witches you're dealing with. Your patience and forbearance can only be improved by adding at least 300 miles between your house and the MIL's.
Is there a context to this question? Should we know something about you?
Well, my MIL and I never got along. Ever. Yet, I still married Presbytera, obviously. So we got through this incredible opposition (MIL was trying to set up her daughter on dates within a month of our wedding, and once we were married she got even more intense in her dislike of me).Nowadays we can laugh about it--how the MIL would rearrange and redecorate the house when she'd visit; how she'd refer to me in the third person pronoun (preferring 'it') while I was still in the room; asking who the father was when we told her that we were expecting children, etc. Quite the experience, my MIL! She's now reposed. May her memory be eternal!
My mom yells and screams at my husband, calling him many "choice words." I am really glad that neither of us gave up on the other based on our in-laws behavior.
My mom is as white as they come, whiter actually, french mostly.But calling him a ***-ing anus everytime he answers the phone....well, that isn't the language of love.
Sorry Quinault just having a bit of fun with you. Woah thats a bit full on though.
I understand what you meant, and if the loving part was there, then that would be better. (My husband would still be aghast) But that part simply isn't there.
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Positive material identification (PMI) provides alloy chemistry and grade ID information in seconds using a hand-held scanner.
PMI is also commonly used to ensure:
- the composition of the parent material is correct
- the correct filler material was used during equipment repair.
TechCorr provides both film-based and digital radiographic services for field inspections and shop fabrication inspections.
Radiography can:
- inspect material of varying density and composition
- inspect assembled and in-service components
- be performed with minimum surface preparation
- detect both surface and subsurface defects
- deliver a permanent record of the inspection.
Shear wave testing, also known as angle beam inspection, is an ultrasonic testing technique used primarily for weld inspections.
Awkward weld geometry and the presence of a weld crown or bead typically require shear wave testing, which entails placing a probe to the side of a weld and generating beams at an angle toward the weld.
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TechCorr's 3D structured light inspections use a projected light pattern to assess dents, gouges, corrosion pits, and other defects on the exterior of pipes, vessels, and structures.
After the inspection we provide all the data to:
- determine whether or not repair or replacement is necessary
- prioritize in-line-inspection (ILI) data
- assess the remaining-life of the equipment.
Automated corrosion mapping employs multiple ultrasonic techniques to:
- perform a 100% surface scan of equipment
- produce a detailed map of the corrosion experienced by equipment
- size the length, width, depth, and orientation of defects.
The software used by TechCorr for automated corrosion mapping, RSTRENG®, provides fitness-for-service (FFS) assessments. The U.S. Department of Transportation accepts this as an evaluation technology.
Guided wave ultrasonic testing (GWUT), also known as long range ultrasonic testing (LRUT), is a screening tool for rapidly testing long lengths of pipe from a single inspection point.
GWUT provides 100% coverage of the pipe wall without having to remove insulation or coating. It quickly identifies areas of corrosion or erosion that may then undergo more detailed inspections using other NDT techniques, such as radiography or 3D structured light.
Phased array ultrasonic testing produces real-time sectorial scans (S-Scans) that provide a full volumetric examination from a single inspection point. Phased array equipment can detect defects regardless of their orientation to the transducer.
Phased array ultrasonic testing can be used for:
- inspection of welds
- thickness measurements
- corrosion inspection
- crack detection.
Time of flight diffraction (TOFD) is an ultrasonic screening tool that can rapidly scan welds and produce very accurate measurements of any defects found.
TOFD operates using a pitch and catch technique with two probes on either side of a weld. One probe transmits a series of ultrasonic pulses and another receives them. If a crack or other defect is present in the weld, the ultrasonic waves will diffract and the time of flight between transmitter and receiver will be affected. Based on the change in time of flight, weld defects can be located and sized.


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According to a recent report by an Alabama-based civil rights group, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the number of extremist and anti-government "patriot" groups in the United States declined to around 2,000 in 2013 -- after reaching an all-time high of almost 2,400 in 2012. Rather than a positive development, however, the SPLC notes that the lower number of hate groups might well be the result of the mainstreaming of far-right ideas into state legislation across the U.S.
But even if the number fluctuates by a few hundred year over year, the fact remains that Neo-Nazis, "Christian Identity" cults, white supremacist militias and other anti-Semitic, anti-foreign nativist groups exist in all 50 states.
When it comes to extremist groups in America, of course, the longest-lived and most readily identifiable remains the Ku Klux Klan, which has been operating at varying degrees of influence and strength for close to 150 years. Hundreds of Klan groups are actively working and recruiting in the U.S., with more than two dozen in Texas alone. The KKK's fortunes as a cultural and political force have waxed and waned over the decades, with Klan membership peaking in the 1920s, during the era of the "Second Klan." (The First Klan, in the post-Civil War South, lasted from 1865 to 1874; the Second Klan from 1915 until about 1944; and the Third from roughly the end of WWII until today.)
The Klan claimed literally millions of members at the height of the Second Klan era; today, Klan watchers estimate that number to be fewer than 10,000. The good news is that's a precipitous drop, to say the least, in the number of people officially associated with the KKK; the bad news is that many thousands of Americans who might have joined the Klan in the past have instead aligned with a host of extremist splinter groups, militias and other organizations, making the far-right fringe as dangerous as it's ever been.
In May 1946, LIFE magazine ran a series of remarkable pictures from a Klan initiation in Georgia, at the start of the Third Klan era. Titled "The Ku Klux Klan Tries a Comeback," the article noted that the KKK pledged initiates "in a mystic pageant on Georgia's Stone Mountain." The language that accompanied photographer Ed Clark's pictures, meanwhile, made clear that, as newsworthy as the story of this particular initiation might have been, LIFE's editors considered the figures in their white robes and hoods to be rather laughable — if their rhetoric and arcane, pseudo-mystic shenanigans weren't so unsettling.
On the evening of May 9 at 8 p.m. a mob of fully grown men solemnly paraded up to a wide plateau of Stone Mountain outside Atlanta, Ga., and got down on their knees on the ground before 100 white-sheeted and hooded Atlantans. In the eerie light of a half-moon and a fiery cross they stumbled in lockstep up to a great stone altar and knelt there in the dirt while the "Grand Dragon" went through the mumbo jumbo of initiating them into the Ku Klux Klan. Then one new member was selected from the mob and ceremoniously "knighted" into the organization in behalf of all the rest of his fellow bigots.
This was the first big public initiation into the Klan since the end of World War II. It was put on at a carefully calculated time. The anti-Negro, anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, anti-foreign, anti-union, anti-democratic Ku Klux Klan was coming out of wartime hiding just at the time when the CIO and the A.F. of L. were starting simultaneous campaigns to organize the South. . . . But it is doubtful that the Klan can become as frighteningly strong as it was in 1919. One indication of the Klan's impotence was its lack of effect on Negroes, who were once frightened and cowed by the white-robed members. More than 24,000 Negroes have already registered for next July's primaries in the Atlanta vicinity alone, where the Stone Mountain ritual was held.
As mentioned in one of the captions in the gallery above, the Stone Mountain ceremony was put off several times during the preceding year because of wartime sheet shortages. Or at least that's what LIFE reported at the time.
The magazine also made a point of characterizing the garb and actions of members at Klan meetings (slides #10 through 15) as both creepy and pathetic. "Childish ritual and secretiveness," the magazine noted, "have always been the great attractions for the kind of people who make good Klansmen."
The more things change. . . .


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# chattr +C [file/directory path]
Note, from chattr man page: For btrfs, the 'C' flag should be set on new or empty files. If it is set on a file which already has data blocks, it is undefined when the blocks assigned to the file will be fully stable. If the 'C' flag is set on a directory, it will have no effect on the directory, but new files created in that directory will have the No_COW attribute.
Note, from chattr man page: For btrfs, the 'C' flag should be set on new or empty files. If it is set on a file which already has data blocks, it is undefined when the blocks assigned to the file will be fully stable. If the 'C' flag is set on a directory, it will have no effect on the directory, but new files created in that directory will have the No_COW attribute.
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Btrfs is a new copy-on-write (COW) filesystem for Linux aimed at implementing advanced features while focusing on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration. Jointly developed by Oracle, Red Hat, Fujitsu, Intel, SUSE and many others, Btrfs is licensed under the GPL and open for contribution from anyone.
- 1 Recent Developments and News Links
- 2 Installation
- 3 Creating a Btrfs Partition
- 4 Btrfs Features
- 5 Resources
Recent Developments and News Links
- Avi Miller presenting BTRFS at SCALE 10x. Jan/2012.
- Summary of Chris Mason's talk from LFCS 2012
- On 2012-03-28, btrfs-progs includes btrfsck, a tool that can fix errors on btrfs filesystems.
- Oracle has packaged this version of btrfs-progs and released it to their customers of Oracle Linux 6 and backported to 5.
- Arch Linux supplies this version in core/btrfs-progs (since version 0.19.20120328-1).
Btrfs support is included in the linux package (as a module). User space utilities are available in btrfs-progs.
For multi-devices support (RAID like feature of btrfs) aka btrfs volume in early boot, you have to enable btrfs mkinitcpio hook (provided by mkinitcpio package) to be able to use, for example, a root btrfs volume. However, if you only use a bare btrfs partition, this hook is not necessary.
For more options/features, users may want to install mkinitcpio-btrfsAUR from the AUR. This package will install a mkinitcpio hook called btrfs_advanced intended for those who wish to have automatic rollback feature.
Creating a Btrfs Partition
Format a New Partition to Btrfs
# mkfs.btrfs [options] dev [dev ...]
One can select multiple devices to create a RAID. Supported RAID levels include RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10. By default, metadata is mirrored and data is striped.
Convert Ext3/4 to Btrfs
- Boot a live CD (Arch for example)
- Run
btrfs-convert <root-partition>
- Mount the converted partition and modify the
/etc/fstabfile specifying either
btrfsfor the partition type. You should also set the
fs_passnoparameter (the last field) to
0since btrfs does not require a filesystem check on every boot.
- Chroot into the system and rebuild the GRUB entry (see Install from Existing Linux and GRUB articles, if unfamiliar with this procedure).
After btrfs-convert, and confirming everything works, if you want to make the change permanent, you need to delete the saved image, delete the subvolume that image is on, then balance the drive to reclaim the space. For example, after converting /home to btrfs:
rm /home/ext2_saved/* btrfs subvolume delete /home/ext2_saved
Btrfs has no built-in encryption support (this may come in future), but you can encrypt the partition before running
mkfs.btrfs. See Dm-crypt with LUKS.
(If you've already created a btrfs file system, you can also use something like EncFS or TrueCrypt, though perhaps without some of btrfs' features.)
Btrfs Features
Copy-On-Write (CoW)
CoW comes with some advantages, but can negatively affect performance with large files that have small random writes. It is recomended to disable CoW for database files and virtual machine images. You can disable CoW for the entire block device by mounting it with "nodatacow" option. However, this will disable CoW for the entire file system. To disable CoW for single files/directories, use the following command:
# chattr +C [file/directory path]
Note, from chattr man page: For btrfs, the 'C' flag should be set on new or empty files. If it is set on a file which already has data blocks, it is undefined when the blocks assigned to the file will be fully stable. If the 'C' flag is set on a directory, it will have no effect on the directory, but new files created in that directory will have the No_COW attribute.
Likewise, to save space by forcing CoW when copying files use:
# cp --reflink source dest
As dest file is changed, only those blocks that are changed from source will be written to the disk. One might consider aliasing aliasing cp to 'cp --reflink=auto'
Multi-device filesystem and RAID feature
Multi-device filesystem
When creating a btrfs filesystem, you can pass as many partitions or disk devices as you want to mkfs.btrfs. The filesystem will be created across these devices. You can "merge" this way, multiple partitions or devices to get a big btrfs filesystem.
You can also add or remove device from an existing btrfs filesystem (caution is mandatory).
A multi-device btrfs filesystem (also called a btrfs volume) is not recognized until
# btrfs device scan
has been run. This is the purpose of the btrfs mkinitcpio hook or the USEBTRFS variable in /etc/rc.conf
RAID features
When creating multi-device filesystem, you can also specify to use RAID0, RAID1 or RAID10 across the devices you have added to the filesystem. RAID levels can be applied independently to data and meta data. By default, meta data is duplicated on single volumes or RAID1 on multi-disk sets.
btrfs works in block-pairs for raid0, raid1, and raid10. This means:
raid0 - block-pair written to 2 devices
raid1 - block-pair stripped across 2 devices
For 2 disk sets, this matches raid levels as defined in md-raid (mdadm). For 3+ disk-sets, the result is entirely different than md-raid.
For example:
3 1TB disks in an md based raid1 yields a /dev/md0 with 1TB free space and the ability to safely loose 3 disks without losing data. 3 1TB disks in a btrfs volume with data=raid1 will allow the storage of approximately 1.5TB of data before reporting full. Only 1 disk can safely be lost without losing data.
btrfs uses a round-robin scheme to decide how block-pairs are spread among disks. As of Linux 3.0, a quasi-round-robin scheme is used which prefers larger disks when distributing block pairs. This allows raid0 and raid1 to take advantage of most (and sometimes all) space in a disk set made of multiple disks. For example, a set consisting of a 1TB disk and 2 500GB disks with data=raid1 will place a copy of every block on the 1TB disk and alternate (round-robin) placing blocks on each of the 500GB disks. Full space utilization will be made. A set made from a 1TB disk, a 750GB disk, and a 500GB disk will work the same, but the filesystem will report full with 250GB unusable on the 750GB disk. To always take advantage of the full space (even in the last example), use data=single. (data=single is akin to JBOD defined by some raid controllers)
One of the features of btrfs is the use of subvolumes. Subvolumes are basically a named btree that holds files and directories. They have inodes inside the tree of tree roots and can have non-root owners and groups. Subvolumes can optionally be given a quota of blocks. All of the blocks and file extents inside of subvolumes are reference counted to allow snapshotting. This is similar to the dynamically expanding storage of a virtual machine that will only use as much space on a device as needed, eliminating several half-filled partitions. One can also mount the subvolumes with different mount options, giving more flexibility in security.
To create a subvolume:
# btrfs subvolume create [<dest>/]
For increased flexibility, install your system into a dedicated subvolume, and, in the kernel boot parameters, use:
rootflags=subvol=<whatever you called the subvol>
This makes system rollbacks possible.
If using for the root partition, it is advisable to add crc32c (or crc32c-intel for Intel machines) to the modules array in
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf as well as adding
btrfs to the HOOKS.
To create a snapshot:
# btrfs subvolume snapshot <source> [<dest>/]<name>
Snapshots are not recursive, this means that every subvolume inside subvolume will be an empty directory inside the snapshot.
Btrfs supports online defragmentation. To defragment the metadata of the root folder, simply do:
# btrfs filesystem defragment /
This will not defragment the entire system. For more information, see this page on the btrfs wiki. To defragment the entire system verbosely, try instead:
# find / -xdev -type f -print -exec btrfs filesystem defrag '{}' \;
Btrfs supports transparent compression, which means every file on the partition is automatically compressed. This does not only reduce the size of those files, but also improves performance, in particular if using the lzo algorithm. Compression is enabled using the
compress=gzip or
compress=lzo mount options. Only files created or modified after the mount option is added will be compressed, so to fully benefit from compression it should be enabled during installation. After preparing the storage drive, simply switch to another terminal (Template:Keypress), and run the following command:
# mount -o remount,compress=lzo /dev/sdXY /mnt/target
After the installation is finished, add
compress=lzo to the mount options of the root filesystem in
- Btrfs Wiki
- BTRFS Problem FAQ - Official FAQ
- Funtoo Btrfs wiki entry - Very well-written article