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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Greg Clingham, professor of English and director of the Bucknell University Press, talks about books, their e-future and their significance in scholarly and popular thought.
Q: What is the future of publishing? Especially with new media like e-books, is there a place for the printed book?
A: Printing is 500 years old, but the form of the book has been around for 2,000 years. It's had a profound and extensive influence on the history of humanity. It was almost exclusively the way the Bible was disseminated from very early days. And the printed word, in the form of books and pamphlets, was very influential in the French and American revolutions.
The book is here to stay, although the explosion of electronic publishing has meant publishers have had to become much more responsive about the future of the book.
There's no indication that there are many fewer printed books being produced. What we've had, however, is a proliferation of electronic books. Just after Christmas last year, for the first time ever, the sale of electronic books exceeded the sale of hardback books. But, surprisingly, the sale of hardback books has remained constant, suggesting that people are buying more books and not just changing preference.
The technology for electronic book readers is going to have to improve a great deal before we see a mass migration. The print book doesn't require electricity, it's portable, in some ways it's more flexible than electronic books because you can turn backwards and forwards with ease, you can insert markers, and you can access footnotes more easily than many electronic readers have yet made possible.
Q: What are some advantages to electronic publishing?
A: The electronic text is becoming more universal. It's much easier to send an electronic text to Third World countries in need for use in the classroom — if we could get the technology in place — than it is to send physical books.
Electronic publications are absolutely essential for scholarship. One can search databases, access hypertexts, and learn things that formerly only a lifetime of reading and study could provide. We can now access texts we could once only access if we went to one of the great research libraries.
On the other hand, there are many reasons why the actual book as material object sometimes needs to be read and to be examined. Sometimes the way a book has been scanned has been inadequate — bits have been cut off, certain pages have been deemed by the scanner to be unimportant — because of the assumption by electronic vendors that all books are the same, that once you've scanned one version or one edition of a book you've scanned them all. But that's not true at all.
Q: What is the significance of scholarly publications to the world of the academy?
A: Scholarly publications drive discovery and define knowledge in a field. In universities, it's a requirement for professional advancement. That's one of the big questions in the current development of scholarly publishing. Primarily in the humanities, the book is the measure of professional achievement, rather than the article or the blog or the online article. Usually, a person needs to have written a book and had it published by a reputable press, preferably a scholarly press, in order to achieve tenure and promotion.
The oddity is that universities — not necessarily Bucknell — continue to require this kind of professional achievement, even though they realize that fewer books are being published in comparison to 20 years ago. The institution of scholarly publishing in conjunction with universities is going to have to devise a way of assuring the community that electronic publications are authoritative.
Q: And what is the significance to the world at large?
A: Scholarly publications are important because they get into the bloodstream of public intellectuals and policymakers, jurists, medical practitioners, creative artists, etc. They have the potential to make a real impact on the way in which we conceive of the world and make choices and decisions in the world.
One could mention a very long list of scholars who have made a broad and very powerful impact upon what we might call the ordinary reader. Think of Henry Louis Gates or Steven Greenblatt or Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar or Edward Said or Martha Nussbaum, any number of people writing in the last 25 years who were professors and are experts in their field and yet have been read by a much broader cross-section of educated people in the community.
Increasingly, scholars who are capable of addressing larger audiences in accessible language are greatly valued. Think of Cornell West and Henry Louis Gates on TV, talking to massive audiences — not large lecture rooms but millions of people.
In a world where we increasingly appreciate the interconnectedness of cultures, the ease with which people on the other side of the world can access documents, and the need to be geared for many different possibilities and eventualities, I think particularly in this kind of global world, it's a mistake to see a hard and fast division between the scholarly and the popular.
Q: What are the Bucknell University Press' areas of specialization how did it come to have that focus?
A: The Bucknell Press, like most presses, has specializations that are the product of the people who run the press and of a particular moment. In our 42 years, we have a rich tradition of work in Hispanic and Latin American studies, begun in the 1970s by Mills Edgerton.
We have a substantial body of work, close to 100 titles now, in 18th-century studies developed over the last 15 years that came about because I'm in that field.
We have a very fine reputation in Irish studies that dates back to a series developed in the 1970s and early 1980s by James Carens, who also was responsible for an Irish collection in our archives. That ceased in the early 1980s but it's being revived by a new contemporary Irish writers series that John Rickard is editing.
The Bucknell Press has a high reputation nationally and internationally. We're trying to cultivate and encourage scholarship on campus to benefit from that high reputation. We've started a new series of books called "Stories of the Susquehanna" in conjunction with the Environmental Center, and a series of books on the "Griot Project" in conjunction with the Griot Institute (for Africana Studies).
New editions of "Ask the Experts" will appear on the Bucknell website on most Thursdays during the fall and spring semesters and on occasion throughout the summer. If you have ideas for future questions or are a faculty or staff member who would like to participate, please contact Sam Alcorn.
To learn more about faculty and staff experts who can speak on a variety of news topics, visit Bucknell's searchable Experts Guide.
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by Alysia, Try Defying Gravity
I pull into the space in the parking lot and sit for a moment.
It's snowing lightly. I start to curse the weather for a moment (not MORE SNOW!) but the flakes look so pretty as they land on the windshield. It is February in New England after all.
"Girl On Fire" by Alicia Keys stops abruptly as I turn the car off.
I quickly walk through the snowy hospital parking lot, shielding my face from the brusk wind. A few people walk by but we don't make eye contact. Everyone is there for a reason – good and bad – but it's none of my business or theirs what that reason is.
The automatic doors slide open and I push the number 4 on the elevator.
Woman's Pavilion.
I called to make the mammogram appointment last week, expecting to wait a while before they had an opening. There was a cancellation for today at 12:30 so I jumped at it. During pre-registration, the nurse tells me that it has been three years since my last mammogram.
Well, you know how it goes. Life gets in the way.
My family history reminds me that this is two years too long.
The elevator doors open and I walk in alone.
I take a deep breath. I think of the incredible women in my life who have made this same elevator trip for the same test and got the scary news. I think about my genes and about the statistics. I think of my dad and the pancreatic cancer that took him and how I wished there was such a test for that.
The doors open and I walk into the imaging center at the Woman's Pavilion.
The technician takes my insurance card and my license. She notes that my license has expired back in January on my birthday. You know how it goes. Life gets in the way.
I start to tell her how many times I picked up the phone to cancel this appointment but think better of it.
I sit for a moment and scan the outdated magazines. I wonder how many other woman have sat in this very seat waiting for their turn. Hundreds? Thousands? What were their stories? Their fates?
She calls me back to change into a robe from the waist up. "Tie it in the back," she reminds me.
I change out of my top and bra and struggle with the motor skills needed to tie the strings behind me.
I think of my family and dear friends who have been right here in this exact spot. The women I love who got the cancer diagnosis.
The women I love who made some incredibly hard decisions.
The women who came out alive on the other side.
I get the robe tied and enter the imaging room.
"It's a new machine," she says to me. "People say it doesn't hurt as much and it's much quicker."
We make the usual small talk as she maneuvers me into the machine.
"Hold on here. Relax your shoulders. How old are your boys? Wow, you have your hands full. Now hold your breath."
I stop breathing for a moment as 30 pounds of pressure collapse down on my chest.
The truth is it isn't life getting in the way.
It's the fear that something is wrong. The fear that I won't be around to see my children grow up. Realities that I don't want to face.
Ten minutes later, I was done.
She tells me my pictures looked perfect but I would hear by Tuesday if there was anything they needed to tell me. If I didn't get a call, I would get a letter in 7-10 days.
She makes me my next appointment. February 23, 2014 at 10:30.
"So you don't forget this time."
I leave the office and head back down alone in the elevator. I start to shake.
Only ten minutes.
Ten minutes for peace of mind.
Ten minutes for these guys.
Ten minutes for me.
Because in order for life to keep getting in the way, I need to be around for that to happen.
This mammogram appointment is dedicated to the women I love who through their strength and grace have taught me that life is too precious to put off a test like this.
I want them to know that I am grateful for the push to make the call.
"She's just a girl and she's on fire
Hotter than a fantasy, lonely like a highway
She's living in a world and it's on fire
Filled with catastrophe, but she knows she can fly away
Ohhhh oh oh oh oh
She got both feet on the ground
And she's burning it down
Ohhhh oh oh oh oh
She got her head in the clouds
And she's not backing down
This girl is on fire…
This girl is on fire…
She's walking on fire…
This girl is on fire…" – Girl On Fire by Alicia Keys
Alysia is a stay-at-home mom living in Massachusetts with her husband and three boys, ages ten, six and four. Her middle son has sensory processing disorder and was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in December 2009 at age 3 ½. She currently writes at Try Defying Gravity, her personal blog recounting the joys and challenges of raising three boys. She is also the managing editor at the SPD Blogger Network and the co-founder of this blog, The Oxygen Mask Project.
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This is the fourth story in a periodic series about the Davidson County Economic Development Commission.
This is the fourth story in a periodic series about the Davidson County Economic Development Commission.
Government bodies pay a small percentage of the economic development incentives approved to attract companies, according to Davidson County and Lexington government records.
Since 2001, Davidson County government has paid about $1.83 million, or about 5 percent, of the nearly $36 million in potential cash, tax rebate and site preparation incentive grants approved by the Davidson County Board of Commissioners, according to records. In Davidson County, most incentive packages are brought forward by the Davidson County Economic Development Commission.
In addition, excluding the $23 million the commissioners approved for Dell, which eventually located in Forsyth County, the county has paid about 14 percent of the cash, tax rebate and site preparation incentives OK'd by the board, according to records.
There are only a couple of reasons incentives are not paid, said Jane Kiker, Davidson County's finance director.
"The first one would be if they don't actually come," Kiker said. "They have to also pay their taxes and also meet their job and investment requirements."
While county commissioners have approved lump sum cash grants in the past, most incentive packages are drafted in a tax rebate form and involve a locating company being entitled to a grant, which is usually equal to the amount of the company's new investment times .0027, or half of the county's 54 cents per $100 of valuation property tax rate.
After Davidson County's tax department verifies a locating company has paid its taxes, the county will then review if the company has provided the appropriate amount of jobs or any other contract-based requirements, Kiker said.
"As I've told people out here before, if you give me $1 every day, I'll give you 50 cents back, because that's 50 cents more that I'd have if I didn't approve any incentives and the company went somewhere else," said Davidson County Commissioner Larry Potts. "If they come, we have 50 percent of their taxes for five years after they pay it. We don't give them their money until they pay their taxes. We don't reduce their bill. They pay the full amount and we refund the rest."
Several of Davidson County's unpaid incentive packages are the result of a company not locating to the county.
Records show that after a company located in Davidson County, it sometimes did not receive the maximum grant available.
Chesapeake Printing and Packaging Co., which planned a $2 million expansion at the Lexington Business Center in 2007, could have received a maximum tax rebate grant of up to $5,400 per year, for five years, totaling about $27,000. The county has made two payments to the company to date, for a total of about $2,027.92, according to government records.
However, the county paid other companies, such as Xceldyne Technologies, closer to the maximum amount. Xceldyne, which committed to an $8 million investment and the creation of about 60 jobs in 2003, was paid about $124,910.99 of the $131,000 maximum tax rebate grants commissioners initially approved for the company, according to government records.
The City of Lexington has paid incentives to six of the 17 companies approved to receive incentives that located in the area, according to city records.
While Lexington City Council approved nearly $2.65 million in potential incentive grants since December 1998, the city only paid out about $240,606.23, according to records. The city's figures do not include incentives approved for Diamondback Products or Sauers & Company Processed Veneers, as some information related to those companies' investment has not been disclosed by the Davidson County Economic Development Commission, according to records.
"The misconception is that our area pays incentives for people to come," Lexington City Manager Alan Carson said. "We offer incentives for investments, number of jobs and wages with those jobs. If the companies come and don't meet those specifications, then they don't get paid. Unfortunately, we haven't paid many at all."
Lexington has not made any incentive payments to Arneg, which was approved in 2007 to receive a maximum of $559,000 through a series of tax rebate grants. Arneg, which manufacturers refrigerated display cases, planned to invest $20 million and create 181 jobs.
In addition, the city has not executed a contract with banking products manufacturer Diebold, Piedmont Candy Co. or Vitacost.com. City council approved maximum grants for the three companies that totaled a combined $425,862, according to city records.
"There are times that city council has approved an economic development grant and then, for whatever reasons, the company fails to execute the agreement, and it would be advantageous for us if we could bring those to closure in some way," said Terra Greene, Lexington's finance director. "It leaves it somewhat in a pending status."
Because tax rebate packages are designed throughout a period of years, the percentage of incentives approved versus paid could change as ongoing contracts are paid out. In 2010, for example, the council approved grocer Save-A-Lot to receive about $72,916.67 through a 12-year land-lease agreement that also included Davidson County. The city made the maximum payment to the company in March 2012, according to city and county records.
In Thomasville, about 93 percent of the city's incentive grants have gone to Unilin Flooring in the past three years, said Thomasville Finance Director Tony Jarrett. Over the past three years, the city has budgeted about $656,622 and paid out $566,117 for economic development incentive grants, Jarrett said.
When elected officials consider incentives for companies, they are often briefed on how much investment and how many jobs a company hopes to create. Also, when a company makes the decision to locate in the area, it usually announces its planned investment and job projections.
Jeanette Doran, executive director of the N.C. Institute of Constitutional Law in Raleigh, said it's hard to tell if incentives work because there is no group or individual that tracks or checks the investment, job and multiplier announcements that companies make. A multiplier effect happens when spending by one organization produces additional spending by others that would not have occurred without the initial financial outlay.
"I would like to see the state have an ombudsman who would scrutinize not just whether the company has lived up to its expressed commitments, but something bigger," Doran said. "A lot of times the public is told there will be all these multiplier effects, and nobody examines whether that is really happening.
"It seems to me that incentives are an investment in job creation. As investors, the people have a right to know whether they are getting a return on their investment. I would think that the people that would support incentives would welcome that so that they would have proof these jobs are created."
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WENHAM, Mass. – A pair of second-half goals would prove not to be enough as Gordon College held on to defeat MIT, 4-2 in non-conference field hockey action Thursday. Bensey Schnip and Danielle Smith tallied the late goals for the Engineers (0-2), who were unable to overcome the 3-0 advantage they spotted the Scots.
Maggie Lafferty provided the lone first-half goal when she scored just six minutes into the contest, giving Gordon (1-2) the early lead. The Engineers had several opportunities to even the score, earning five penalty corners and getting off nine shots in the period, but were unable to come up with tying marker before the break.
The Fighting Scots applied early pressure out of the locker room, with three scoring chances in the first six minutes. Gordon broke through the MIT defense once again 7:42 into the second-half, as Abigail Walker scored off of a feed from Sarah Orlando. Veronica Pierce extended the lead to 3-0 with 13:54 remaining.
MIT began its comeback attempt just over a minute later when Schnip found the back of the net on a pass from Nirupama Yechoor. Tori Blandin put the game out of reach, scoring Gordon's final goal with 6:47 left. Smith would add to the Engineers' total with just over 2:30 remaining, scoring her first goal of the season.
Keri Dixon had 16 saves in a losing effort for MIT.
The Engineers will look to bounce back on Saturday, September 6 when they visit UMass-Dartmouth.


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My Challenge To Jim Urie Of Universal Music: Instead Of 'Drowning Out' Those You Disagree With, Let's Come Up With Solutions
from the right-and-wrong dept
The theft of copyrighted works like music, movies, books, software and games is a devastating problem. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates such theft costs our nation's economy roughly $58 billion in total output every year; more than 370,000 domestic jobs; $16.3 billion in earnings; and $2.6 billion in tax revenue for state, local, and federal governments.Every one of those numbers has been debunked. It's so sad that the major record labels are so hung up on looking backwards that they can't at least admit that they're relying on bogus numbers.
As for Urie's new letter, the really ridiculous part is the following:
Each and every one of us needs to act NOW if we expect the legislation to gain momentum. Our community has never matched the noise created by those on the "copyleft" -- we need to be louder than ever to drown out those who don't care about our art, our jobs and the difference between right and wrong.How incredibly insulting and how incredibly wrong. The people that Urie is lying about here care very much about art and the difference between right and wrong. It's why we focus on new ways for artists to make money. It's why we look at what the actual evidence shows, including the fact that artists are making more money today than in the past -- in part, by getting out from behind gatekeepers like the major record labels. And this makes us happy, because we do care about art and we do care about the ability of musicians to make a living and to keep doing what they love doing.
Honestly, this is what bugs me the most. Plenty of us are working hard to help musicians make more money, and to create real win-win solutions that make artists and consumers better off. Yet, in response, those who have relied on artificial government subsidies for years, and pretend to represent artists when they really spend much of their time working to keep money away from artists, go out and claim that we're the ones trying to harm artists.
Rather than talking about "drowning out" those of us who are actually helping artists, I have an open request to Jim Urie: why not meet up and let's have a public discussion about how everyone can work together to create a better world for both artists and consumers, rather than going around falsely portraying some of the biggest music fans around as "not caring" about music.


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ABS to Feature Beauty Talent Showcase
America's Beauty Show and Cosmetologists Chicago is adding a new dimension to the BeautyBASH kick-off party at ABS by featuring the performance talents of selected salon professionals. The BeautyBASH will be held March 9, 2013 McCormick Place in Chicago and CC and ABS is seeking talented professionals to audition for the new Beauty Talent Showcase.
This industry first for ABS will highlight the artistic talents of many salon professionals who have chosen careers as hairstylists, nail technicians or estheticians but have, in addition to these talents, entertainment and performance skills in a variety of musical or comedic arts.
"We know that salons are filled with talented beauty service providers," says Joseph Cartagena, president of Cosmetologists Chicago. "Many of our professional peers harbor performance skills as well. Because CC is totally dedicated to the advancement of careers, we want to give these performers a showcase that may even propel them to stardom."
Up to five singers, dancers, musical performers or comedians will be chosen to perform in front of their peers and the media on the ABS Runway.
For anyone eager to take to the stage at the ABS Beauty Talent Showcase, here are the entry rules:
Entrants must post a 1-3 minute video of themselves performing in their select category of voice, dance, or comedy.
Entrants must also provide an image or video of themselves at work in their professional salon or spa setting in addition to a performance resume.
Entrants may submit a maximum of three separate videos highlighting their performance talent by the deadline of January 25, 2013.
The Talent Showcase participants will be selected by a committee of entertainment experts and salon celebrities. Mandatory rehearsals will be held Friday March 8, 2013.
Each of the selected winners will receive $300 for travel expenses and complimentary hotel rooms for Friday March 8 and Saturday March 9 as well as the exposure before an audience of salon professionals and industry media.
"There is so much talent of all kinds in our industry and Cosmetologists Chicago is pleased to present an extraordinary opportunity to bring it to light," says Cartagena.
Entry forms and rules are available at americasbeautyshow.com/beautyBASH.


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The NMDC Limited is India's largest iron ore miner, producing about 30 million tons per annum (MTPA) of iron ore.
It set itself an aggressive growth agenda that would require multiple strategic transformations spanning its business, operations, sustainability, capital projects, human resources and IT. To this end it required a Strategic Management Plan (SMP) that evaluated various growth opportunities and formulated strategic enablers.
To develop the SMP, Accenture Strategy conducted site visits and hosted focused group discussions, workshops, and brainstorming sessions involving participation from all levels of the organization. As a result of its close collaboration with Accenture Strategy, NMDC has a comprehensive growth strategy and a roadmap with a specific action-plan and timeline.VIEW ARTICLE [PDF]


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As Melges 24 teams from coast-to-coast prepare for competition at the 2012 CSR Marine U.S. National Championship, hosted by the Seattle Yacht Club and set to commence on June 15, the entry deadline for the Corinthian Division has been extended.
With over 30 teams registered for the overalls (and more than 40 expected), six teams have effectively thrown their hats in the ring to race for the coveted title of 2012 CSR Marine Melges 24 Corinthian U.S. National Champion.
View The Corinthian Entries received thus far.
It's never too late to join in on the fun that awaits the fleet in Seattle. This is one of the nations super serious hotbeds of Melges 24 diehards, so don't wait another minute to register. Many of the group registered for the event participated in the Seattle NOOD on May 18-20 with Dan Kaseler besting Saturday's leader Paul Bennett for the overall win, with Stig Osterberg in third. View Full Seattle NOOD Results
View The Full 2012 CSR Marine U.S. National Championship Entry List (As of May 31, 2012)
As if the speed and thrill of a Melges 24 downwind ride with some of your very best buds isn't enough to entice you to race, think about this:
With the onset of 40 teams registered, Dan Kaseler from Raptor Sails, Inc. will donate a Raptor Non-Skid Deck Pad Set made exclusively for the Melges 24 to be raffled off at the event (MSRP - $995)! Sweet!
Special thanks to Dan in advance for the goodies. This is just the beginning! So - REGISTER NOW!


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The Pallet Desk Project
A good desk is hard to find. I need space, so no small desk is ever going to suit me. It needs to be thin, so I can reach my arms across it and just the right height to fall asleep if I need. So when I saw this pallet desk project by Donna over at Funky Junk Interiors I just had to share it. Now we can all celebrate in desks! that we make ourselves on the cheap to exactly our requirements. Genius!
Donna made the 12 foot long desk using free pallets from her neighbours yard and pallet storage so the total cost was a staggering $3! for screws. She photographed the whole process from gathering the wood to the final product including the full build and I couldn't help getting inspired.
1. The final product fits so well in its space. I love the natural texture and colour of the pallets.
2. The pallets were scrubbed down and dried before the were sanded and ready for arranging… that's it!
3. The base is so simple that even I could manage it and it's all made using reclaimed wood!
You can see the full project here at funky junk interiors.
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It's Election Day and the Polls are Open Until 7 – Please Vote Today
The 2013 Election to decide the next Mayor for the City of Quincy is underway. The polls opened this morning at 6 a.m. and will remain open until 7 p.m. Incumbent Democratic Mayor John Spring, looking for a third term as Mayor, is being challenged by Third Ward Republican councilman Kyle Moore.
The only other contested citywide race pits incumbent Democratic Treasurer Peggy Crim against Republican challenger Tom Ernst. Three of the seven aldermanic races are also contested.
Today's election will also decide races for Quincy School Board, Quincy Park Board and the John Wood Community College Board of Trustees. The projected turnout for today's election is less than 50% of the registered voters which is an unfortunate total for such an important election.
Please go to the polls today and exercise your right as an American citizen and vote before 7 p.m.


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Burned by "open box"
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Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?)
Seemed ok until hooked up and found out USB doesn't work, be cautious of open box buys.
Pros: Very small, lightweight, shallow chassis. Great if you don't need a CD player
Cons: Purchased an "open box" item stated to be tested in working order, not so! front USB has some sort of short in it makes phone go crazy when plugged in.Crutchfield response on 2/25/2015 We're sorry this open box purchase failed you. We do test every open box item before we offer it for sale, but occasionally something will get past us. Luckily, you're protected by our 60-day satisfaction guarantee and can return items for any reason.especially if something goes wrong.


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Antonio Mannino had been at sea for more than a week, collecting samples of seawater and plankton and measuring the conditions in the North Atlantic Ocean. It was not exactly a luxury cruise, but to understand the planet's biggest food source—phytoplankton—and perhaps its most important sink for carbon dioxide, you've got to get out on the water.
As is common in late autumn—when cold north winds of winter battle for supremacy of the North Atlantic against the lingering warm fronts of summer—the weather grew messy. Seas churned with waves rising seven to fourteen feet, and Mannino and colleagues struggled to cast water samplers and nets over the sides of the Delaware IIresearch vessel. After several days, the foul weather made it impossible to work, and the captain began steaming back from Georges Bank toward Provincetown, Massachusetts. He planned to lay anchor in the (hopefully) calmer waters of Cape Cod Bay and ride out the storm.
Mannino, an oceanographer from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, was sitting in the ship's galley, while graduate student Dave Munro dozed on a nearby couch. It was Friday the 13th.
Thud. Splash. Slosh.
A wave crashed through the porthole window, knocking out the glass and dousing Munro in a bath of seawater. A few tens of gallons sloshed around on the galley floor as the crew sealed the porthole hatch. No one was injured, and the ship was never in serious danger, but it was enough to send them back to port in Woods Hole.
The 155-foot Fisheries Survey Vessel Delaware II, operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is a 40-year-old workhorse. Spare parts are not exactly lying around on a shelf. So the crew did what seamen do: they bolted steel plates over the porthole, soldered things shut, and got back out to sea. There was research to be done, and time spent in port is time and money lost.
Mannino and colleagues from NASA, NOAA, and Old Dominion University headed back out into the North Atlantic for another week, sharing cramped quarters, cozy labs, and choppy autumn seas to see how those turbulent waters influence the tiniest and most important ocean life forms.


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Like pueno, I respect David Brooks, and I think that he offers a view of things that isn't readily playing to the negative extremes like many Republicans and naysayers often do. Still though, what we're seeing in his commentary is a survey of the potential problems that could surface in the transitional phases associated with the implementation of the ACA. In my view, what is missing in the commentary are any uplifting signs of optimism. The way I see it, we're kind of getting a forecast, much like we get about weather predictions way out into the future. With the weather, we're dealing with the uncontrollable forces of nature, so all we can do wait for an outcome and hope for the best. On the other hand, with the implementation of the ACA, the outcome is much more affected by the parties involved. As Brooks so aptly pointed out, the Republicans in Congress and in many States have been very unsupportive agents doing whatever they can do to thwart progress and obstruct a smooth transition. Moreover, in the time leading up to the 2014 elections, Republicans will be working double time to impede progress and to throw a dark shadow on things. What I hope comes to the surface in this transitional period is that the American people realize that the Republicans aren't offering anything substantive or productive to address our vast array of health care problems. Sadly, that's the truth of the matter.
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Daniel Kessler, a professor of business and law at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, wrote in the WSJ: "The Coming ObamaCare Shock; Millions of Americans will pay more for health insurance, lose their coverage, or have their hours of work cut back."
Excerpts include:
Montana Sen. Max Baucus, a Democrat, called it a "train wreck." A Democratic colleague, West Virginia's Sen. Jay Rockefeller, described the massive Affordable Care Act as "beyond comprehension." Henry Chao, the government's chief technical officer in charge of putting in place the insurance exchanges mandated by the law, said, "I'm pretty nervous . . . Let's just make sure it's not a third-world experience."
The increasingly unpopular health-care law's rollout will administer several price (and other) shocks to tens of millions of Americans. starting with people who have individual and small-group health insurance. ...
The American Academy of Actuaries writes that around six million of the 19 million people with individual health policies are going to have to pay more even after government subsidies ... many young single adults will see an increase of 46% even after premium assistance from tax credits.
The Department of Health and Human Services admits that around 30 million Americans working in firms with fewer than 50 employees are potentially significantly affected by the small-group "reforms" imposed by ObamaCare ...
This modest average masks big differences ... firms with younger, healthier workers will see very large premium increases: 89% in Missouri, 91% in Indiana and 101% in Nevada.
Tens of millions will see higher insurance bills for 2014
due directly to the ACA
Higher premiums are just the beginning because of the newly required "essential" benefits [e.g., Flucking, sex change surgery, mental health care provisions even for healthy young people]. Policies without premium increases will have to change, probably by shifting to more restrictive networks of doctors and hospitals. [How can that
mean anything besides lower quality practicioners and facilities desperate for patients and the two great physicians who don't want a BMW?]
The CBO determined that three million people will lose their insurance altogether in 2014 due to the law, and six million will have to pay the individual-mandate tax penalty in 2016 because they don't want or won't be able to afford coverage, even with the subsidies.
None of this counts the people whose pay rates, working hours, and/or very jobs will suffer because of disincentives under ObamaCare. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says 10 million part-timers who now work 30-34 hours per week will face higher unemployment due to the ACA.
In total, it appears that there will be 30 million to 40 million people damaged in some fashion by the Affordable Care Actmore than one in 10 Americans. When that reality becomes clearer, the law is going to start losing its friends in the media, who are inclined to support the president and his initiatives. We'll begin hearing about innocent victims who saw their premiums skyrocket, were barred from seeing their usual doctor, had their hours cut or lost their insurance entirelyall thanks to the faceless bureaucracy administering a federal law. The Congress are catching on, and there will be plenty of time before the 2014 midterm elections for them to consider their options.
For more, see
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So much hand wringing ...
Making Harry Truman's Dream Come True
by Mark K. Updegrove
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Crown (March 13, 2012)
[excerpt] At the top of Johnsons legislative agenda in 1965 was Medicare, a federally funded insurance program to provide low-cost medical and hospital care for Americas elderly under Social Security. Half of the countrys population over age sixty-five had no medical insurance, and a third of the aged lived in poverty, unable to afford proper medical care; Johnson believed it was high time to do something about it. Shortly after his November election win, he told Health, Education, and Welfares assistant secretary, Wilbur Cohen, to make Medicare the administrations number one priority. On January 4, Johnson put the issue front and center in his State of the Union message; three days later he pressed for passage of Medicare, issuing a statement to Congress demanding that Americas senior citizens be spared the darkness of sickness without hope.
Franklin Roosevelt was the first President to seriously consider a federal health insurance program. As Congress churned out New Deal legislation, Roosevelt advocated inclusion of a federal health insurance component in his Social Security Act of 1935, before dropping it to avoid jeopardizing the bills passage. Fourteen years later, Harry Truman sent the House a bill that would offer health insurance to those age sixty-five and older, but it was blocked by an intractable Ways and Means Committee. Kennedy tried, too, sending a comparable bill to Capitol Hill in 1962, where it missed passage in the Senate by a few votes. In each case, the American Medical Association (AMA) was the chief culprit in killing the legislation, spending millions to brand the concept as socialized medicine, an ambiguous characterization that nonetheless made it intrinsically un-American. Conservatives also cast a wary eye. Actor Ronald Reagan, a darling of the growing conservative movement and soon-to-be California gubernatorial candidate, warned that such a program would invade every area of freedom in this country and would, in years to come, have Americans waxing wistful to future generations about what it was like in America when men were free.
But sixteen years after Trumans efforts were derailed by an unwilling Congress, Johnson believed the times had caught up with the idea, though it didnt hurt that his electoral mandate and increased majorities in the House and Senate gave him the tools. The AMA would prove to be as big and powerful an obstacle as it had in earlier years, but unlike Truman, Johnson would find some leeway with the House Ways and Means Committee.
Along with most members of the committee, its Democratic chairman, Arkansas congressman Wilbur Mills, had been a fierce opponent of Medicare when Kennedy proposed it, professing it to be fiscally irresponsible. He felt no differently in 1965. Principle, however, would give way to pragmatism; Johnson, he knew, could find the votes to bring Medicare to fruition. Shortly after Johnsons 1964 election victory, in which Johnson improbably added Arkansas to his win column, Mills stated publicly that he was willing to work something out on Medicare and would work closely with Cohen to help shape the bill to ensure its passage and effectiveness.
Telephone conversation with LBJ, Wilbur Mills, U.S. representative, Arkansas 193977, and Wilbur Cohen, March 23, 1965, 4:54 p.m.
LBJ: When are you going to take it up?
Wilbur Mills: Ive got to go to the Rules Committee next week.
LBJ: You always get your rules pretty quickly though, dont you?
Mills: Yeah, thats right. LBJ: . . . For Gods sake, lets get it before Easter! . . . They make a poll every Easter. . . . You know it. On what has Congress accomplished up till then. Then the rest of the year they use that record to write editorials about. So anything that we can grind through before Easter will be twice as important as after Easter.
[Mills gets off the line as Johnson continues the conversation with Cohen.]
LBJ: Now, remember this. Nine out of ten things that I get in trouble on is because they lay around. And tell the Speaker and Wilbur [Mills] to please get a rule just the moment they can.
Wilbur Cohen: They want to bring it up next week, Mr. President.
LBJ: Yeah, but you just tell them not to let it lay around. Do that! They want to but they might not. That gets the doctors organized. Then they get the others organized. And I damn near killed my education bill, letting it lay around.
Cohen: Yeah.
LBJ: It stinks. Its just like a dead cat on the door. When a committee reports it, you better either bury that cat or get some life in it. . . . [To Mills as he gets back on the line:] For Gods sakes! Dont let dead cats stand on your porch, Mr. Rayburn used to say. They stunk and they stunk and they stunk. When you get one out of that committee, you call that son of a bitch up before [our opponents] can get their letters written.
The plan Mills came up with was described by Cohen as a three-layer cake. In addition to including the administrations original bill to provide hospital care for the elderly as part of Social Security, Mills legislation would include Medicaid, a supplemental medical welfare program to offer federal matching funds to states for the indigent, and an opt-in federally subsidized insurance program for doctors bills. Much to Cohens surprise, Mills had approved a $500 million government subsidy for the latter program after Cohen persuaded him that it would eliminate 80 percent of the doctors bills if the patient paid the first $50.
When Cohen asked the President what he thought of the $500 million subsidy, Johnson responded by telling him not to worry about the $500 million before relating a Hill Country yarn:
LBJ: I told [Wilbur] about the test that had been given to a man in Texas who wanted to become a railroad switchman. One of the questions he was asked was: What would you do if a train from the east was coming at sixty miles an hour, and a train from the west was coming at sixty miles an hour on the same track, and they were just a mile apart, headed for each other?
The prospective switchman replied: Id run get my brother. Now why, he was asked, would you get your brother? Because, the fellow answered, my brother has never seen a train wreck before. I told Wilbur I thought I would run and get my brother if the Ways and Means Committee reported out this extended Medicare bill he had described to me. I approved the proposal at once.
Suddenly, Mills, the villain of [Medicare], in Johnsons words, was now a hero to old folks as Medicare sailed through the House and was approved by the Senate on July 9.
But another villain would rear its head: the AMA threatened a national boycott of Medicare, holding out the possibility that as many as 95 percent of American doctors would follow suit. Johnson, who had sent Cohen away with instructions to watch out for trains, would shrewdly railroad the AMA into compliance in a meeting at the Ranch with eleven of its officers on July 11. After reminding the group that John Byrnes, the ranking Republican member of the House Ways and Means Committee and former opponent of Medicare, had urged that all do their utmost to make the program work as well as possible, Johnson switched gears, asking that the AMA support a program of rotating doctors in and out of Vietnam to serve the civilian population.
When they agreed to the latter, Johnson ordered an impromptu press conference, in which he praised the AMA for its commitment to the Vietnamese. When asked inevitably about whether the AMA would support Medicare, Johnson declared, These men are going to get doctors to go to Vietnam where they may be killed. Medicare is the law of the land. Of course, theyll support the law of the land. He then turned to the AMA president, You tell him. Put firmly on the spot, he replied, Of course, we will. We are law abiding citizens, and we have every intention of obeying the new law. Within a matter of weeks, the AMA would formally endorse Medicare, with 95 percent of doctors not resisting it but following suit.
On July 30, 1965, Johnson traveled to the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri, where the eighty-one-year-old Truman, lean and bent with age, his wife, Bess, in tow, watched Johnson sign Medicare into law. Proclaiming the thirty-third President the real daddy of Medicare, Johnson awarded President and Mrs. Truman the first two Medicare cards, numbers one and two. He had started it all, so many years before, Johnson wrote of Truman later. I wanted him to know that America remembered.
Jack Valenti: [Johnson] said, Im going to make Harry Trumans dream come true. Old folks are not going to be barred from a doctors office or a hospital because they dont have any money for medical attention. They are never again going to have to be sick and hurt and cry alone. Its a god- damned crime, he said, and were never going to have that happen again in this country. When this bill is passed, Im going to Independence, and Im going to sign it in Harry Trumans presence. He did exactly that.
John Gardner: Medicare made an enormous difference in the lives of older Americans. It has had its problems, as every great social program inevitably must have. But it stands as a towering achievement. Thats not really debatable. Youll encounter, occasionally, financially secure people who scorn Medicareand Social Security, tooand cry for the good old days when each family looked after its own aging members. Im . . . old enough to remember those good old days. So was Lyndon Johnson. In that time old age and poverty were firmly linked, and a good many old folks went over the hill to the poorhouse. That was the phrase of the day, over the hill to the poorhouse. . . . Dont talk to me about the good old days.
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New poll shows twice as many people say they're worse off (53%) than say they're better off (26%) under Obamacare.
And look who's now objecting to O'care: the unions. It costs them too much.
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I am astonished that a bi-partisan group of legislators hasn't come together to overhaul the bill. I'm not saying destroy it. But at least try to make it better based on the data and implementation.
I think the whole thing is a cluster fuck, so why not add a little KY to it?
It just proves how dug in both side are, and how money and control of our economy, rather than America's best interest are the motives.
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The IRS pegs the cost of a health care plan for a family of four under the Obamacare exchange program at $20,000. They also have the power to garnish unpaid health care costs from our income. And, of course, the same lady who is now on extended paid vacation for targeting conservative organizations has been designated to run the IRS Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), accurately dubbed the health care death panel.
Are you lefties proud of any of that?
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Bard, when you think about, the Republicans have a golden opportunity to show how creative and innovative they are, but instead, all they can do is repeatedly try to kill the ACA. Rep. Ryan has tried twice now to privatize Medicare, but he remains adamantly against the privatization concept that is at the core of the ACA, which ironically was the brainchild of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Even the Democratic party was able to move significantly to the right to embrace and pass the ACA. That is solid evidence the Democrats are willing to compromise in the interest of a stronger more responsible America.
So when you attempt to categorize both parties as dug in against improving the ACA, you fail to recognize that it's only the Republican party that has been uncooperative and unable to show any leadership in addressing America's healthcare issues. They have absolutely nothing to offer, and the passage of time proves it. But, if you look a bit deeper, it's the people, money and influence that is behind the Republican party that reveals why they are such losers. We all know from the 2012 elections, they could give a crap about 47% of Americans. Moreover, given their continuing desire to cripple and disassemble Social Security and Medicare, they may as well advertise their desire to undermine America's best interests.
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Chandler, the Republicans had zero support for this failure. They are not at fault. Dems are 100% responsible for the success or failure of this monstrosity.
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You're right, the Democrats and the president are fully responsible for passage of the ACA. You're also right that it was passed with zero Republican support. So if it's an utter failure, Democrats will be responsible. Yet, it's much too early to call the ACA a failure or a monstrosity. Will there be some difficulties making the transition to the ACA in 2014? I'd bet on it, particularly since many red states are dragging their feet setting up the insurance exchanges, but to assume absolute failure is simply Republican goofiness.
For a guy that talks a lot about folks taking responsibility for themselves, I find it strangely incongruent that you fail to support the ACA. I'm sure that you and your family presently have insurance, so why are you so worried. Surely it can't be for the mass of irresponsible folks that lack suitable health insurance.
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Plain dm-crypt without LUKS
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This article focuses on system disk encryption using plain dm-crypt without LUKS.
dm-crypt is the standard device-mapper encryption functionality provided by the Linux kernel. It can be used directly by those who like to have full control over all aspects of partition and key management.
- 1 Plain dm-crypt vs LUKS format
- 2 Encrypting system partitions
- 2.1 Preparation
- 2.2 Setup encryption
- 2.3 Fill the mapped device
- 2.4 Install the system
- 2.5 Post-installation
Plain dm-crypt vs LUKS format
For most use cases, dm-crypt with LUKS is by far the better option for both system encryption and encrypted partitions. Below are some considerations for choosing one over the other.
- dm-crypt does not require a header on the encrypted disk. This means that an unpartitioned, encrypted disk will be indistinguishable from a disk filled with random data. This may be useful in a country that can force you to give up an encryption key where a reasonable suspicion of encrypted data exists.
- plain dm-crypt encrypted disks are more resilient to damage than LUKS encrypted disks, because of the one-to-one mapping of unencrypted data to encrypted data.
- dm-crypt does not allow multiple pass-phrases, nor does it allow changes to the pass-phase or key-file after initial set-up. LUKS allows for up to eight passphrases, and key-files and passphrases can be changed without having to re-encrypt the entire disk or partition.
- plain dm-crypt requires manual configuration of encryption options each time a device is opened, whereas LUKS stores those details in its header.
- LUKS uses pass-phrase salting and hash iteration, and as such can be more secure than plain dm-crypt. It is essential that a pass-phrase or key-file with very high entropy is used with dm-crypt.
See https://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions for further details.
Encrypting system partitions
A separate
/boot partition is required, as it needs to remain unencrypted to be accessed by the bootloader. In the scenario that follows, it is assumed that no evidence of encryption is to be left on the main system drive, and so we install the
/boot partition and the bootloader to a separate USB stick, and the encryption key to yet another USB stick. Throughout the guide, the system disk will be shown as
/dev/sdX, the USB stick containing
/boot will be shown as
/dev/sdY, and the USB stick containing the encryption key will be shown as
/dev/sdZ, where X, Y and Z represent their respective device letters.
Safety first
We must first make absolutely sure we are targeting the correct disk:
# fdisk -l
Load the kernel module
# modprobe dm-crypt
Setup encryption
Cryptsetup is used to create the mapping between an encrypted disk and a named device. Its form in this case is:
# cryptsetup <options> --open --type plain <device> <name>
|The hash is used to create the key from the passphrase or keyfile
|whirlpool, sha1, sha256, sha512, ripemd160
|The cipher consists of three parts: cipher-chainmode-IV generator. Please see Wikipedia:Disk encryption theory for an explanation of these settings, and DMCrypt for some of the options available.
|aes-xts-plain64, twofish-cbc-essiv:sha256, serpent-cbc-plain
|The key size (in bits). The size will depend on the cipher being used and also the chainmode in use. Xts mode will require twice the key size of cbc, which should be apparent from the output of
cryptsetup benchmark.
|128, 256, 512
|The offset from the beginning of the target disk from which to start the mapping
|Unknown, but it doesn't appear to be 0.
|The device or file to be used as a key. See Creating key files for further details.
|/dev/sdZ, /boot/keyfile.enc
|Uses passphrase instead.
|Offset from the beginning of the key file (in bytes) from which to read.
|Limits the bytes read from the key file. However, I've found that this is ignored when using plain dm-crypt. Instead, the size will depend on the key-size used.
Dm-crypt does not need a partition table and the existence of one could provide a reasonable suspicion that the drive is encrypted. We therefore set up the encryption directly on the physical disk. If a partition table already exists on the target disk, it will be wiped when we later fill the disk.
Example with default options
Using default options with the device
/dev/sdX and using
enc for the mapped name, we have:
# cryptsetup --open --type plain /dev/sdX enc
You will then be prompted for a password twice, which should have very high entropy. See https://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#5._Security_Aspects for details.
Example with custom options
If custom options are required, you may wish to test which encryption system works best on your system:
# cryptsetup benchmark
Using the device
/dev/sdX, with the twofish-xts cipher with a 512 bit key size we have:
# cryptsetup --hash=sha512 --cipher=twofish-xts-plain64 --offset=0 --key-file=/dev/sdZ --key-size=512 --open --type=plain /dev/sdX enc
Unlike encrypting with LUKS, the above command must be executed in full whenever the mapping needs to be re-established, so it is important to remember the cipher, hash and key file details. We can now check that the mapping has been made:
# fdisk -l
An entry should now exist for
Fill the mapped device
In this case, with /dev/mapper/enc, we use:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/enc
# cat /dev/zero > /dev/mapper/enc
Use of
/dev/urandom is not required here, as anything written to the mapped device is passed through the encryption cipher before being written to disk.
When the process is finished, you may wish to check to see if any existing partition table has been wiped:
# fdisk -l
Install the system
Much of the following steps are identical to those in the Installation Guide. Where they differ is:
- the target installation device is the mapped device under
/dev/mapper/*instead of the physical device
/bootand the bootloader will be installed to a USB stick;
- the initramfs hook
encryptis added to
- the details of the encryption are added to the kernel options in the bootloader.
Partition disks
See Partitioning for further details.
You may use fdisk to create a standard partition table on the mapped device:
# fdisk /dev/mapper/enc
However, a more flexible approach is to use LVM:
# pvcreate /dev/mapper/enc # vgcreate store /dev/mapper/enc # lvcreate -L 20G store -n root # lvcreate -C y -L 10G store -n swap # lvcreate -l +100%FREE store -n home
See Lvm#Installing_Arch_Linux_on_LVM for further details.
For the remainder of this guide we will use the simple LVM volume set created above, which will have created the volumes
/dev/store/home and
/dev/store/swap. The choice of volume group name and logical volume names are arbitrary.
/boot partition can be installed on the standard vfat partition of a USB stick, if required. But if manual partitioning is needed, then a small 200MB partition is all that is required:
# fdisk /dev/sdY > n > p > 1 > default (2048) > +200M > w > q
Format the partitions
See File Systems#Format a device for further details.
In our example, we will simply use ext4 for root and home.
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/store/root # mkfs.ext4 /dev/store/home
And for the
/boot partition, we choose a non-journalling file system to preserve the flash memory:
# mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdY1
And lastly the swap partition, if required:
# mkswap /dev/store/swap # swapon /dev/store/swap
Mount the partitions
We are now in a position to mount the partitions and begin the standard Arch installation process.
# mount /dev/store/root /mnt # mkdir /mnt/home # mount /dev/store/home /mnt/home # mkdir /mnt/boot # mount /dev/sdY1 /mnt/boot
Install and configure the base system
Please follow Installation Guide#Install the base system until editing
mkinitcpio.conf is required, then add
encrypt to the
HOOKS array as follows:
HOOKS="base udev ... encrypt ... filesystems ..."
For this example we also require the lvm2 hook, which must be placed after the encrypt hook:
HOOKS="base udev ... encrypt lvm2 ... filesystems ..."
Then rebuild the initramfs as per usual:
# mkinitcpio -p linux
Install and configure the bootloader
See Installation Guide#Install and configure a bootloader and then return to this guide.
The kernel arguments for initialising a plain dm-crypt disk are as follows:
cryptdevice=/dev/sdX:<mapped name>
/dev/sdX is the physical disk containing the encrypted data, and
<mapped name> is the name once mapped to
/dev/mapper/<mapped name>.
cryptkey=/path/to/keyfile or cryptkey=<device>:<offset>:<size>
Which one used will depend on whether the key has been written as a file to a partition, or as a bit stream to unpartitioned space. See Creating key files for details.
Here, the arguments hash, cipher, keysize, offset and skip relate directly to the cryptsetup options --hash, --cipher, --key-size, --offset and --skip.
Example with defaults
For a disk encrypted with just default options, we can use the following kernel arguments:
cryptdevice=/dev/sdX:enc crypto=::::
crypto argument must still be specified, but each entry can be left blank. This will prompt for the pass-phrase on boot.
Example custom options
Assuming the key file is located on
/dev/sdZ and the options are as used in the previous example, we have:
cryptdevice=/dev/sdX:enc cryptkey=/dev/sdZ:0:512 crypto=sha512:twofish-xts-plain64:512:0:
If using grub, this is added to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="cryptdevice=/dev/sdX:enc cryptkey=/dev/sdZ:0:512 crypto=sha512:twofish-xts-plain64:512:0:"
You may also wish to add:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="... root=/dev/store/root"
Although it should not be necessary.
This can then be used to update
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
The bootloader can then be installed on the same USB as the
/boot partition:
# grub-install --recheck /dev/sdY
You may wish to remove the USB sticks after booting. Since the
/boot partition is not usually needed, the following option can be added to the boot options in
# /dev/sdYn UUID=************* /boot ext2 noauto,rw,noatime 0 2
However, when an update to the kernel or bootloader is required, the
/boot partition must be present and mounted. As the entry in
fstab already exists, it can be mounted simply with:
# mount /boot


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Update 12/4/10: New official Adobe CS5 logos have been released as seen below.
Adobe CS5 is being released on April 12th and to go along with the new version, comes a new logo?
Please note I have no confirmation that this logo is official, it has come from the 'unofficial' CS5 blog.
I've featured the Photoshop icon as an example of the letterpress effect used for the rest of the current Creative Suite (CS4).
What do you think?
Update 29/3/10: Logo above not official
It looks like there is going to be a second colour added to each icon of the Adobe CS5 identity system as shown above.
Be sure to check out the awesome new CS5 features if you haven't already.


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In addition to other rock and roll books, including biographies of The Who, Pink Floyd and Rick Wakeman (!), Sierra i Fabra had some ten years earlier also written a reference work called La Historia de la Musica Pop, so we can assume a name for the new project came fairly easily for them.
Each magazine was made up of 20 ad-free glossy pages, and featured text by Sierra i Fabra, full-color photos, and an illustrated discography by someopne named Alex Mosley. The magazines were published weekly by Orbis, a British printing house who kept an office in Barcelona. Once the series was complete in its 100 issues, it was reissued in 6 hardbound volumes of about 200 pages each, and nothing of its like on rock 'n' roll had ever been seen in the Spanish language before.
Of course, Lillian Roxon's English language Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock had outlived its original editor and gone into its second or third edition by this time, so Prado's large encyclopedia might have remained of limited interest to an Anglo like myself . . .
Had it not been for the records. See, each of the magazines had been issued in conjunction with an LP, usually a Greatest Hits compilation* manufactured by Polydor Italy, and while the books and the magazines de la Historia Rock never really made it stateside, the albums most assuredly did.
Anyone who spent any time at all in the cutout bins and in the import sections of record stores in the 80's is sure to have come across these records, and, really, they're not all that uncommon even now.
'Course, none of this really shares the joke, none of it really gets at the ironical reason Pussy Galore named their album what they did. In my telling thus far it all seems admirable. . . .
And it is. But dig the 100-entry series discography, and see if you don't crack a smile.
And I don't even think that Poco is part of the joke. We might have been guessing that the country rock thing wasn't going to age well by 1983 or so, but keep in mind Poco was once actually called a supergroup.
No, it's more the inclusions of Johnny Nash and Gilbert O'Sullivan that get me. Yeah, they got Dylan and The Beatles and The Kinks and The Stones, but looks like they left out Neil Young so they could find room for The Righteous Brothers. They skipped Yes to make sure Aphrodite's Child could fit.
And for some reason they gave Roger Daltrey a record after having already given one to The Who? What was it, the McVicar soundtrack?
Anyway, it's the juxtaposition, and who's put in at the expense of who else that's funny. Pussy Galore played that up big time on the back of their album, and I had some fun with it on one of my homemade CDs a few years back, as well. I'll publish both those 100-item lists soon.
*But not always. The David Bowie album is a reissue of Another Face; the Amboy Dukes record is a repackaged Survival of the Fittest - Live. I think the REO Speedwagon LP is actually Hi Infidelity. (Return)
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my name is frank, I need help in finding ubuntu 14 lts adapter for acer invilink 802.11 b/g wireless for an acer 3000 ubuntu laptop
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This is a compatibility guide to running Linux with the Acer Aspire One D250 laptop.
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|Acer Aspire One D250
|Intel® Atom™ processor N270/N280 (1.60/1.68 GHz, 533/667 MHz FSB, 512 KB L2 cache)
|Up to 2GB
|Optical Drive
|Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
|10/100 Ethernet
Acer InviLink™ 802.11b/g
|Not Tested
|Card Reader
This laptop was tested with OpenSUSE 11.2 and KDE SC 4.3.5
Installed Ubuntu 10.04 on this netbook and everything worked out of the box, including suspend/resume.
Former problems with the fan seems to be solved by now.
The Acer Aspire One D250 is running fast and stable under Linux even with only 1 GB ram.
my name is frank, I need help in finding ubuntu 14 lts adapter for acer invilink 802.11 b/g wireless for an acer 3000 ubuntu laptop
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Got my little Acer Aspire One running great on Lubuntu.Everything works! Next it's getting a 120 gb ssd. Even without the new drive this thing doesn't run like a dog anymore. There is also a new mobile app from Firefox that will make sites think you are an iphone or android and sends you to their mobile site. Speeds up browsing!
Acer Aspire One D250 with linux mint 14 not detect invilink 802.11 b/g, so i cannot find my hotspot. I hope solution.thank you
I'm new to the world of Linux Mint but I love it. I got Linux Mint 14 to installed, wifi is working fine but however not my display - 800×600. Still learning.
Recently my internet have stoped working, its because my wireless capability switch or function key is turned of. Where is the switch or function key to turn on my internet?
I have recently loaded Linux mint 11 32bit onto my D250 and I am having troubles with my mouse not working (touch) and wifi (wireless detects wifi networks however will not connect to them)
I have a faulty keyboard that needs replacing, but how can I troubleshoot the mother board to test to see if my touch mousepad and keyboard is still functioning? (without buying the replacement keyboard yet)
How can I do a complete system test to see if there are any other possible problems with my motherboard?
My cat had spilled milk on this, hence the problems with my original xp image on the HDD and keyboard breaking.
Any help would be appreciated.
Jacob Cunningham
Just set my mom's D250 up with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Worked great, as far as I can tell. Didn't test microphone or card reader.
The wifi needed a driver installed. I did this over ethernet after installation.
As an update, I just switched to Suse 11.4, and everything works as it should except two things that are, one annoying and second… a big bug.
The first is that it comes with Pulse Audio enabled by default and that renders the internal microphone unusable.
Just disable from Yast/Hardware/Sound (click the "Other" menu button/Pulse Configuration.)
And second is the power button. Whatever it is configured… it won't work. Sometimes freezing kwin, shut-down menu or other strange behavior.
My workaround is to never touch the button. Use a right-click/Leave on the desktop or the Logout/Poweroff menu.
The power button behaves the same on (all) three computers I installed 11.4. The AAO D250, a custom Celeron Desktop and a HP old laptop.
Something else I noticed is that the WiFi card is a lot slower to enable and disable with the modules this kernel comes + downloaded firmwares, than the (compilable) drivers found from Broadcom site. But, otherwise, works just the same.
Since when does suspend and resume "Just Work" on ubuntu 10.04 desktop or netbook remix, It sure didn't for me and still doesn't, It also doesn't work in linux mint 9 either. I have the exact same Netbook the d250 (KAV60) granted if I push the sleep button it works without a flaw but it has never worked by closing the lid. Also If I unplug the power cable it goes to sleep every time no matter what settings I use, whether in the GUI by command line or through gconf. But other than those two issues It does "Just Work" sorta.
Further update: With 2.6.34 the ethernet and wireless cards work well. You should have no trouble with the laptop at this point.
Just got it all working on my new notebook. :D
Even if I use openSuSE, it's still Linux. So:
If everything else worked in the first two hours after I booted the openSuSE 11.1 install dvd (via external usb-dvd) the built-in microphone got the better of me.
All mixers, including alsamixer detected only Front Mic. and gave no switch.
But the /Input/Digital control acted funny.
Using a program like Krecord it seamed to work but on skype only a weird and loud noise would came out. the noise level could be controlled by sliding the Digital control.
A bit more lurking on forums I found something about a "mixer issue" rather driver/module or alsa problem.
kmix offers only one slide for every source but alsamixer and gnome-volume-control can control left/right channels individually. So,I went to the Input/Digital control, and using Q/Z for left and E/C for right channel, I tried several configurations while streaming voice to another nearby computer.
It seems that alsa confounds the two mono controls, internal microphone and digital input, to be one big stereo input.
But the left channel is the actual microphone while the right channel is a digital source.
So just simply adjust the Capture level to a normal level and slide to zero the right Digital channel while the left one is to be adjusted to a comfortable level.
That's only for recording and streaming (with skype/kopete or other IMs). I have no idea for playback control on that mike yet.
I hope this helps. Cheers!
I have the machine which came with Andriod dual booted. I have not actually done anything with the internal drive for I am booting the machine from my USB drive running Fedora 12. All the components work off the bat including suspend, wifi, camera, card reader, etc.
Noted that when I did a dmesg, it shows CPU0 and CPU1 - so I am not sure if it a dual core Atom processor.
I bought mine yesterday and setting up Ubuntu netbook remix was a dream. I chose to install ubuntu server first, then used the ethernet to install ubuntu-netbook-remix. I had to run "dhclient eth0" initially to get the network going. After installing UNR ethernet and wireless was easy using the UNR network config tools.
Suspend works great. Battery life seems like 7 hours (6 cell battery). Video works.
Only problem: the mic works for some apps, not with others. I can't get it working with Skype.
Some more data: I've had it for a week now. Still can't get the mic to work with skype or even arecord, though it works well with the gnome audio recoding app.
Suspend/resume appears to work, but the networking goes bad a few minutes after a resume. Ultimately applications start hanging. A reboot fixes it. This is causing much pain for me as my wife is very unhappy that it doesn't "just work".
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After reading ubuntu bug reports, I grabbed ubuntu's backported kernel modules and installed those. This appears to have solved the networking issue–at least to the extent that the network stayed up over night. In the past it would go down. Also, the "number of bars" I see on the various networks in my neighborhood is more rational. Some very distant networks showed up as 4 bars and mine was 1 bar, now mine is 3 and the distant network 0.
Also, if plug in an external mic skype works well. It just doesn't seem to know to use the external mic.
there's some trick, i can't remember exactly, but you have to disable stereo. reduce the volume on one of the channels all the way to zero, leaving the other at 100%. I had this problem while I was in chile and trying to call my girlfriend on skype. after trying lots of other things (different drivers, etc), that was all it took.
I have the latest D 250 only 1GB but 250GB HDD
Kuki 2.8 Linux did work getting internet through the Ethernet out of the box.
I failed with several distros to get the Ethernet and internet going.
Puppy, Crunchbang and Slitaz and Flux flux linux.
Have not tested linux4one or Easypeasy. Do they work?
I just installed gentoo on this laptop. You can get the on baord microphone working by adding "hda-intel.model=acer-aspire" to your boot options (or alsa options if you loaded a module.)
I was unable to get the ethernet card working, but the wireless works just fine.
I did not observe any problems with the fan.


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CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi downplayed on Saturday the country's teetering economy before a newly-empowered senate, and insisted that a new constitution that fuelled protests guaranteed equality.
Since the constitution's acceptance in a two-stage referendum this month following weeks of often violent protests, the Islamist Mursi's government has sought to downplay fears of a downturn amid a declining Egyptian pound.
In his address to the senate, which the constitution invests with legislative powers until a new parliament is elected in two months, Mursi insisted there had been gains as well as losses in the battered economy.
"General indicators for the social and economic situation have shown some noticeable progress," Mursi said, blaming the weeks-long protests in November and December for damaging tourism.
Amd in comments apparently meant to reassure foreign lenders and investors, he said the country's depleting reserves in fact registered an increase by November and pledged to double them in the future.
"I say to all, both at home and abroad, the state of financial institutions is not what some are trying to picture," he said, adding that foreign reserves increased by $1.1 billion from July to $15.5 billion in November.
"We cannot even consider this satisfactory. In June 2010 it was $35 billion. But in July 2012 it was $14.4 billion," he said.
"But with Egypt now approaching stability, and with a sense of responsibility, we will do our utmost to double it (reserves) in future," he said. Mursi added that the number of tourists over the past four months had doubled compared with a six-month period last year.
He also said the Suez Canal recorded two billion dollars in revenue between July and October 2012 - "the largest percentage in a long time." "Unfortunately, if it were not for events in which some people violated the peacefulness of politics, this noticeable rise (in tourism) would have continued," he said of protests such as the one that killed at least eight people in clashes outside the presidential palace on December 5.
The mass rallies that broke out in November after Mursi adopted extensive powers - later repealed - have now subsided, but the opposition this week called for further protests against the new constitution.
The opposition, led by the National Salvation Front coalition, sees the charter as a possible tool to introduce strict law by weakening human rights generally, women's rights and the independence of the judiciary.
It also stressed the low voter turnout of 33 percent in the referendum on December 15 and 22. But in Saturday's speech, Mursi insisted the charter granted equality.
"All are equal before the law, and in this constitution," he said, adding that there would be "freedom for all people, with no exceptions."
He also broached on foreign relations in his speech, reaffirming support for Syrian rebels. "The Syrians' revolution, and we support it, will achieve its goals of freedom and dignity," he said.
Mursi again promised to reshuffle his cabinet. Two ministers, including one of his Islamist allies, have so far resigned in disagreement with government policy.
The likelihood of prolonged "elevated" political conflict despite the adoption of the constitution prompted the ratings agency Standard and Poor's this week to knock Egypt's long-term credit rating down a peg to "B-."
The political crisis has stalled a $4.8 billion IMF loan which analysts expect will come through after a new parliament is elected.


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South needs support of England and France to win war; North needs to maintain status quo. North needs to win militarily; South needs to avoid defeat. Most of American West removed from fighting. Lee appointed commander of Army of Virginia; takes war into Northern territory. Union forces have parade of generals. Battles extremely costly to both sides; Lincoln uses near victory at Antietam to issue Emancipation Proclamation. Both sides resort to draft. G
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Checkbook Stolen
A checkbook was stolen from a vehicle parked on the 100 block of East Cherry Street in McConnellsburg on Saturday, December 8, at 7 p.m. Victim is a 46-year-old Fort Littleton man. An eyewitness to the theft advised the victim of the unknown individual inside his vehicle, state police said. Anyone having further information regarding this theft from a motor vehicle should immediately contact state police Trooper Doriguzzi at 717- 485-3131.
Police Investigate Mischief
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg investigated criminal mischief that occurred on Saturday, December 7, at 648 Lincoln Way East in McConnellsburg Borough. Police said an individual entered the residence at 4:30 p.m. and verbally argued with a 40-year-old female from McConnellsburg. The individual, who was not identified by state police, then punched and shattered a window at the home.
Driver Cited n I-70 Accident
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg have cited a Owings Mills, Md., woman with driving a vehicle at unsafe speeds in connection with an accident along the eastbound lanes of Interstate 70.
According to reports, on Sunday, December 8, Tatyana Belyaninova, 67, lost control of her 2013 Nissan Sentra on the snow-covered roadway. The car spun and struck an embankment along the Union Township roadway twice at 12:30 p.m. She was wearing a seat belt and escaped injury.
Accident At Rest Area
A legally parked 2013 Freightliner Conventional was rear-ended along the entrance ramp to the Interstate 70 rest area in Bethel Township.
State police said Joan F. Kangas, 29, of Hyattsville, Md., slid on the snow-covered roadway on Sunday, December 8, at 10:35 a.m. and struck the rear of the tractor-trailer driven by Carl L. Sandridge, 57, of Raphine, Va.
Sandridge was not injured nor was Kangas and her passengers, 61-year-old William E. Kangas, a 3-yearold boy, and an infant. All individuals were wearing seat belts or were strapped into a child safety seat.
Joan Kangas is slated to be charged with driving a vehicle at unsafe speeds.
No One Injured In Bedford County Crash
Pennsylvania State Police in Bedford reported there were no injuries during an accident in East Providence Township on November 30. Police said Kenneth Harr of McConnellsburg was changing lanes along Route 30 in Breezewood at 3:45 p.m. and failed to notice a Toyota Prius that was stopped in the middle lane for a red light. The name of the other driver was not released by state police.
Tractor-Trailer Hits Pole
A 2005 Volvo tractor-trailer struck a traffic pole near the intersection of Lincoln Way East and North Second Street in McConnellsburg Borough last Thursday. State police said Luibomyr Fedorniak, 40, of Des Plaines, Ill., was unable to successfully navigate the intersection and struck the pole at 6:58 p.m. Police said damage was sustained to the trailer's axles. The driver was wearing a seat belt and was not harmed.
Vehicle Strikes Mailbox
A47-year-old Three Springs man told state police troopers a deer attempted to cross Sinoquipe Road last Thursday in front of his westbound 2000 Saturn SC2.
Police said Craig A. Starr swerved to miss the deer but lost control of his vehicle on the wet Dublin Township roadway. The vehicle struck a mailbox and suffered disabling damage during the 11:01 p.m. accident, which resulted in charges of driving under the influence of alcohol and summary offenses being filed against the driver. Starr was wearing a seat belt and was not injured.
Vehicle Strikes Trees
A westbound 2003 Ford Expedition crashed into two trees along South Madden Road on Wednesday, December 4, state police said. The 11 p.m. accident occurred when the driver lost control of the vehicle on the 3000 block of the Taylor Township roadway. Police did not release the name of the driver or indicate if the individual was hurt.
Burglary Reported
A 34-year- old McConnellsburg woman told state police investigators she was the victim of a break-in on December 4. According to reports, burglars entered the apartment located at 120 North Second Street, Mc- Connellsburg, through a window between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Among the items taken was a PSP3 and a Fuji digital camera, which have been valued at $160. Anyone having further information pertinent to this case should contact state police Trooper Watkins at 717-485-3131.
Car Hits Utility Pole
A Three Springs woman was not injured when her northbound 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt struck a utility pole along Waterfall Road. State police said Melissa R. Steach, 18, lost control of her car while rounding a lefthand curve in the Taylor Township roadway on November 29. Steach was wearing a seat belt during the 11:35 a.m. accident. She will be cited for failure to drive on roadways laned for traffic.
Man Accused Of PFA Violation
A 26-year-old man from Breezewood has been accused of violating a protection from-abuse order on December 4, state police reported. The man allegedly violated the active order by contacting a 26-year-old female, also from Breezewood, at 3 a.m. at 9786 Old 126.
Two Charged With Harassment
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg have charged two McConnellsburg area men with harassment for an incident along Pleasant Ridge Road.
State police said 19-yearold Kenneth Matthew Harr and John Michael Clippinger, 18, have been cited through the office of Magisterial District Judge Devin Horne. The men were allegedly involved in a physical altercation due to rumors being spread by one of the involved parties.
Dehumidifier Stolen
A dehumidifier valued at $250 was stolen from 26000 Great Cove Road, Mc- Connellsburg, between November 1 and November 11. Victim is a 43-year-old male from Fayetteville. Anyone having further information concerning this theft is asked to call state police Trooper Watkins at 717-485-3131.
Altercation Turns Physical
State police in Mc- Connellsburg investigated an argument that turned physical on December 2. A 31-year-old female and a 39- year-old male were reportedly involved in the 11:30 p.m. dispute at 3000 North Clear Ridge Road in Taylor Township. The names of the involved individuals were not released by state police.
Crime, Patrol Reported Released
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg recently released a crime and patrol activity report for the month of November, during which a total of 61 criminal offenses were reported. Of those incidents, 35 offenses were cleared and 33 arrests were made.
In addition, patrol troopers investigated 50 accidents, three hit-and-run accidents, one fatal accident and one driving-under-theinfluence related crash. State police said one individual died and 13 were injured as a result of accidents last month. Troopers also issued 72 seat-belt citations, nine child safety seat citations, six driving-under-theinfluence citations, 365 written warnings and 694 traffic citations.
Wells Tannery Man Charged In Accident
Pennsylvania State Police in Bedford have charged a Wells Tannery man following a hit-and-run accident in the parking lot of Walmart. On November 22 at approximately 4 p.m., Eric M. Winter, 28, allegedly struck a 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan. Winter, police said, was travelling northbound into southbound traffic when the crash occurred. Winter reportedly left the scene in his 1992 Chevrolet van.


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This demonstration shows that similar-appearing lights can be distinctly different, suggesting that the light emitted is generated in different ways. It requires some advance preparation/setup by the teacher and three recommended sources of orange... (View More) light, that can be purchased at a hardware or department store. Includes extensions and additional background information on light generation in a section on underlying principles. This resource is from PUMAS - Practical Uses of Math and Science - a collection of brief examples created by scientists and engineers showing how math and science topics taught in K-12 classes have real world applications. (View Less)
Keywords: Color; Electromagnetic spectrum; Spectroscopy
Audience: High school
Materials Cost: Over $20 per group of students
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Fat People Need Love Too & Plenty Of Jukin: Big Jigga Sneaks Up On An Unaware Chick At A Club!
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Potential Record-Setting Fish Caught in Westbrook
By LeAnne Gendreau | Friday, Aug 5, 2011 | Updated 4:05 PM EDT
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Greg Myerson caught one huge fish on Thursday.
A North Branford man has quite a fish story.
On Thursday night, Greg Myerson caught what just might be a record-setting striped bass at 81.8 pounds in the waters off Westbrook, according to Jacks Shoreline Bait & Tackle in Westbrook. It was weighed in on Friday morning.
If the fish was properly documented, it would be eligible for a world record, On the Water reports, but Myerson took the fish home rather than pursue the official record.
The existing record is 78 pounds, set by a New Jersey fisherman in the 1980s.
The official state record for a striped bass is 75 pound, 6 ounces, set by Steven Franco in 1992
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delivery driver jobs
Buckle up, hit the open road and start making hungry people happy as a delivery driver for Pizza Hut(R). That's right, we'll pay you to cruise around in your mobile office – your car – listening to your own tunes and delivering great pizza – and pasta. What more could you want? Independence, good music and great food – with tips! Sound good? Besides your smile, energy and reliable set of wheels, here's what you'll need for this job:
The good news is that your training will teach you everything you need to know to succeed on the job. But here are a few skills you should have from the get-go, as well as some requirements:
- A clean driving record: If you're on a first name basis with the people at traffic court, this probably isn't the right job for you. Safety is our priority. You'll also need a valid driver's license, insurance and reliable vehicle.
- Friendly demeanor: Smile, tell a joke – treat our customers like you would your family and friends. Think of it this way – a smile and a kind word can mean the difference between a wallet full of tips and just some extra change for your cup holder.
- Keen sense of direction: You should know how to read a map and find your way around your delivery area. Think of all of the short cuts you'll learn!
- Age restrictions: Our delivery drivers need to be at least 18 years old.
- Dress the part: We'll provide you with a uniform. We just ask that you keep it clean and come to work wearing it.
- Just a few more things: You'll need some basic math skills, the desire to work as part of a team and enthusiasm for learning.
Domino's Pizza Delivery Drivers
Do you like money in your pocket? Domino's Pizza drivers are paid cash nightly, which includes: tips and mileage reimbursement! Our driver position is an excellent start to learn about the delivery business, customer service, and the creation of a great product … Domino's Pizza!
We are committed to promoting from within: most of our managers started as drivers! Take charge of your career in a driver role and learn valuable skills to take to other positions within Domino's Pizza!
- Valid Drivers License
- Proof of Liablity Insurance
- Positive Attitude
- Customer Service Oriented
- Basic Math Skills
- Flexible Schedules
- Cash Paid Daily (mileage + tips)
- Paid Training
- Advancement Opportunities
- Meal Discounts
Papa John's Delivery Drivers
Papa John's Pizza Delivery Drivers are responsible for delivering our high quality products to our customers in a safe, courteous, and timely manner. You will also be cross-trained to perform the duties of our in-store team members including: pizza making, ordering taking and more!
We pride ourselves in being able to offer full time or multiple flexible hourly shifts geared for that perfect second job!
Drivers get paid at an hourly rate plus mileage re-imbursements and tips.
At Papa John's we consider all of our team members to be more than just employees! We care about you and your development. In fact, most of our promotions come from within! So become a part of the Papa John's family and join us as delivery driver.
- You must be hard working, team-oriented, friendly, honest and have great customer service skills
- Valid State Drivers License
- Acceptable motor vehicle record (specific requirements may vary – but your record does not have to be 'squeaky clean')
- Proof of car insurance
- Reliable vehicle that you can use for deliveries
- Tips and Mileage Reimbursement paid out nightly in CASH!
- Food Discounts
- Flexible Hours
- Training Programs
- Opportunity for Advancement – YOU have the potential to one day become a Franchisee!
- Along with a competitive paycheck you will work in a fun, nurturing environment where you will learn valuable business and people skills
Delivery Driver Job Description
Does the open road call to you? Do you love the feel of the wind in your hair? Then the life of a delivery driver may be the right life for you. Simply put, delivery drivers transport goods from one place to another. There are many different types of drivers, including tractor-trailer drivers, food delivery drivers and small package delivery drivers. Read more


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Hi there! I'm glad you are curious about me. I'm a student of physics, math and logic, and currently taking a first philosophy course. I especially like stuff that falls in the intersection of these subjects, like xkcd, quantum stuff, and set theory.
Speaking of which, I've been working a bit here on categorizing the comics suitably! Other than that I more often polish the existing explanations rather than create new ones. Partly because I find it hard to resist when reading, and see possibilities for improvements.
I'm also active on the English and Swedish Wikipedias, and on the Swedish Wiktionary. You'd bet: I'm from Sweden. (We don't have polar bears, and it's kinda warm because of the Gulf Stream.) Since I'm not native in English, please correct any lingual mistakes or oddities, even on this page!
Feel free to say something on my talk page. Just say hi, disagree with me, teach me something, or ask me anything. I follow Jesus, and I won't bite you if you challenge me on why.
Some explanations I created or worked much on (latest first):
- 870: Advertising
- 385: How it Works
- 906: Advertising Discovery
- 1069: Alphabet
- 265: Choices: Part 2
- 264: Choices: Part 1
- 253: Highway Engineer Pranks
- 827: Business Idea
- 430: Every Damn Morning
- 324: Tapping
- 76: Familiar
- 403: Convincing Pickup Line
- 704: Principle of Explosion
Some categories I created:
I'mma work a bit on:
- 5: Blown apart
- 34: Flowers
- 59: Graduation – relates to Randall's then situation
- 861: Wisdom Teeth
Other (meta-)pages that should be created:
- Blue eyes: the hardest logic puzzle in the world
- And maybe something about the blag.