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Planning on giving homemade goodies as gifts this year? While you can package your goods in pastry boxes or wrap them furoshiki-style, the easiest (and cheapest) way is just using a plain ol' brown paper lunch bag. But that's not very festive, you say. True — which is why you'll want to spruce it up with one of these five ideas!
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Even though this is an intersting route to take for manga, I hope that they have some sort of review process so that we dont get tortured with terrible fanfics like 50 Shades of Gray and even worse fanfics. xD
Do the artists who put stuff up here get paid for their works?
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Please give us the ability to comment on the fan created Manga's
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I've read a few, and I like the start things are going in with this!
Either make it possible to comment on the comics, or provide a link to the creator's website, twitter, etc. I'd like to say hi to them, and tell them how much I like their comic, but it's not easy to do as things are.
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where's the navigation button? i cant seem to find the crunchyroll comics area for this site?
You cannot control the wind but you can direct the sail. xD
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where's the navigation button? i cant seem to find the crunchyroll comics area for this site?
There currently isn't a button on the site as Comics is in Beta so we want people to access it by direct links like this and the ones in the first post of the thread:
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Just went and read Yuumei's 1000 Words and Knite and fell in love. Such beautiful artwork and storyline even though it was short.
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So when did prog become a dirty word, huh? And when did it get rescued from the annals of musical history verbatim and be afforded contemporary respect and relevance? These are rhetorical questions, sure (though personally, I'd certainly credit Billy Corgan for the latter). But the fact is that music that originally started out pushing the boundaries of timbre, meter and experimental envelopes ended up becoming bloated in its own self-importance somehow and somewhere around the end of the Seventies.
Modern progressive rock however? Why, that's a different beast altogether. Akin to the way that Christopher Nolan took the rubber-nipples of legacy of the Batman franchise and twisted them into something more sinewy, serious, toned and taut; the face of modern experimental progressive acts is more stony-faced, tight-jawed and fascinatingly forthright. And Ninetails provide a name to pin upon that face.
There is an audacious expressive joy about Ninetails that, even if the overall content of their music was merely adequate, would still render them worthy of intense interest. The fact that their Slept And Did Not Sleep is stacked high with a boggling array of ideas and flowchart-esque avenues of escape and admittance - that over the course of only five tracks shows more invention than the majority of releases in 2012 – marks their second EP out as a definite beacon to stride towards as the new year dawns on the horizon. Because within its relatively short lifespan, Slept And Did Not Sleep teems forth with ideas, without ever becoming snagged in its own fluorescent and entangled lines.
Opener 'Maybe We' rises from a flicker of backwards guitars and enmeshed samples and builds towards a gorgeous and ethereal Chinese puzzle of bass, rain-draped vocals and electric flickers of guitar. 'Body Clock' bounces around skittering time signatures and wall-bending vocals: never rushing and never seeking a premature climax; waiting patiently for its story to unravel and then - just when you expect the epic climax, delivers a false-flag coda of synthesised bliss. The bouncing guitar lines and resonating drum patterns of 'Rawdon Fever' recalls Battles and Foals in a tag-team wrestling showdown, while the tumbling waves of 'Mama Aniseed' build upon themselves with every roll of the snare and flick of the plectrum: lead singer Ed Black teases his words around the continual ideas and inspirations. And as another nod to their musical intelligence and adaptability, they manage to make the eight-minute length of 'Boxed In' utterly compelling: constantly shifting and adapting tonal patterns into a way that is both hypnotic and intelligent in equal measures.
The primary defining aspect of Slept And Did Not Sleep is – contrary to the majority myth about progressive guitar music – the sheer will of the band to refine their ideas into something coherent and articulate. Ninetails hold in their palms the ability to conjure up moments of audacious wonder but hold in their minds the intelligence and maturity to streamline, select and judiciously prune such wonder into music that sounds thrillingly new and yet comfortingly familiar. Spread over the course of an entire album, it would prove a more guitar-obsessed, gym-honed and (marginally) more bonkers cousin to Errors exquisite Have Some Faith in Magic. Condensed and considered within the space of a few tracks here, it simply seeks to brilliantly whet the appetite for what's hopefully to come our way in 2013. Labels, terminology and clever references cease to matter when you're dealing with music of this intelligence, heart and bizarrely refracted beauty.
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- Convenient and scenic location on the beach in Kaanapali
- Comfy rooms and suites with lanais and some gorgeous ocean views
- Huge pool complex for kids with a 150-foot waterslide and swinging rope bridge
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- Five restaurants for a wide variety of good food from sushi to a coffee shop
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- Entertainment includes luaus, lei-making classes, and hula demonstrations
- Long lines for most amenities and restaurants
- Narrow beach with limited lounge space
- Per-day resort fee plus charges for breakfast and parking
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One of the top powerhouse resorts on Kaanapali Beach, the four-pearl Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa has a seemingly endless list of amenities, restaurants, a massive pool complex, modern rooms, and nightly luaus -- but there are major crowds, extra charges for parking and resort fees, and construction noise. Overall, the Hyatt Regency's massive grounds and friendly-but-impersonal service aren't too different from its Kaanapali competitors, like the Westin Maui. The major difference? While they're all technically located on the same great four-mile stretch of Kaanapali Beach, the Hyatt faces a stretch that's far narrower and not as convenient for swimming.


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We've posted about the gorgeous LEGO Frank Lloyd Wright sets before, but did you know that LEGO has also made sets of other landmark buildings, including the Empire State Building, John Hancock Center, and Seattle Space Needle?
The sets are beautiful in and of themselves, but we also love that LEGO's architectural artists offer their own LEGO-based interpretations of the unique construction challenges of each building. For example, when designing the model for the John Hancock Center, LEGO artist Adam Reed Tucker notes that:
"This model offered our first real design challenge. The real building has sloping sides at two different opposing angles that compound each other at the buildings 4 corners. This, especially at this scale, was nearly impossible to achieve. So, I relied on a bit of illusion to help imply the angles since a literal interpretation could not be done aesthetically or structurally. The illusion is simply achieved by viewing the model at a perspective; the alternating setbacks strategically located at key points naturally create 2 opposing slopes right before your eyes."
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The late Halford Luccock, who began teaching at Yale Divinity School a year before the Great Crash of 1929, recounts in his book, Unfinished Business, a story told by a dinner guest about the fate of Flagstaff, Maine. When residents learned that their small town was to be flooded as part of a dam project, they stopped all improvements and repairs to their property. Soon the town fell into ruin. As the dinner companion observed, "What was the use of painting a house if it was to be covered with water in six months? Why repair anything when the whole village was to be wiped out?" Then he added: "Where there is no faith in the future, there is no power in the present."
I heard that same logic during an exchange on a recent episode of "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer" on PBS. Economy experts had just described the current financial crisis as a crisis of trust. "Yes," agreed the New York Times columnist David Brooks: "People don't have trust in the future. And if you don't have trust in the future, why should you invest? Why should you spend?"
Surely the daily reports of criminal behavior, corruption and malfeasance by money lenders, investment firms, government regulators and many others have created a crisis of trust in our institutions. Yet as Brooks insightfully noted, the lack of trust now has spilled over into our vision of the future, and it is paralyzing our present.
A Spiritual Challenge
Hope in the future is deeply rooted in our national psyche. It is part of the soul of our nation. Pope Benedict XVI said as much last year when he spoke at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.: "Americans have always been a people of hope: Your ancestors came to this country with the expectation of finding new freedom and opportunity...of being able to start completely anew, building a new nation on new foundations…. Hope for the future is very much a part of the American character." Clearly the challenge before us is not simply economic or psychological, but spiritual.
This is a moment to recall who we are. We are a people unafraid to welcome "your tired, your poor, your huddled masses," because we measure others by the quality of their hopes for the future, not by the circumstances of their birth. We are a people who have learned repeatedly throughout our history that economic distress can help us to appreciate that there are other ways to be rich that are not financial or even material. We are a people who have successfully undertaken enormous tasks that would have daunted others.
Here in my own backyard, the Black Hills of South Dakota, I am reminded that we are a people who esteem genuine leadership to the point that we literally move mountains to honor our heroes in stone carvings, whether they be U.S. presidents or a murdered Native American named Crazy Horse.
A Greater Sense of Solidarity
It is time to recall all of that and more. I offer here a simple proposal as an example of how each of us can be more intentional in reawakening our common heritage of trust in the future for our individual benefit as well as for the good of our nation and the world.
Let us use part or all of the rebate or tax credit we will receive each pay period from the government's economic stimulus package to benefit someone besides ourselves. Give a more generous tip to the waitress, the parking valet, the barber. Buy a bag of groceries for a poor or elderly neighbor. Help a teacher who may be using his or her own funds to buy school supplies for disadvantaged students, or help parents who cannot afford medicine for a sick child. See this money as our chance to build a greater sense of solidarity in our nation, reminding us that we are all in this together. Let our generosity say to us and to others that we are confident about the future.
What I am suggesting here is that we turn around the moral of the story, and show that "where there is power in the present, there is faith in the future." Let us call one another to use creatively the power for good we each possess in the present. In doing so, we can rekindle hope for our future, and thereby bring about the kind of remaking of a nation that has always made America exceptional.


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GENEVA — World powers' efforts to reach a nuclear agreement with Iran adjourned early Sunday with both sides speaking of progress but with failure to seal a deal that both sides badly wanted — initial caps on Tehran's ability to make an atomic bomb in exchange for some easing of sanctions stifling Iran's economy.
As the talks foundered after optimistic words of progress from both sides, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry rushed to Geneva, followed by counterparts from Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany, for a last-ditch effort to muscle through an accord.
That push failed, with Iranian opposition to giving too much for too little in return complicated by dissent within the six powers. France rejected a joint list of demands on Iran, saying they were too generous to result in sanctions relief.
Top EU diplomat Catherina Ashton joined Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to announce progress, but no conclusive results. Talks that began Thursday and spilled into early Saturday with a final joint meeting between negotiators of both sides.
Ashton spoke of â'a lot of concrete progress" but also of â'some differences." Zarif said he hoped those disagreements will be resolved at a future meeting. The two said they would talk on Nov. 20, but no full new round between the two sides was announced.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius spoke of "several points that … we're not satisfied with compared to the initial text," telling France-Inter Radio his nation does not want to be part of a "con game."
He did not elaborate, but it appeared France wanted tougher constraints on a reactor that will make plutonium when completed and also on parts of Iran's uranium enrichment program.
Iran's Arak reactor southeast of Tehran could produce enough plutonium for several nuclear weapons a year once it goes online. Beyond differences over that part of Iran's nuclear program, Fabius said there was disagreement over efforts to limit Iran's uranium enrichment to levels that would require substantial further enriching before they could be used as the fissile core of a nuclear weapon.
Iran insists it is pursuing only nuclear energy, medical treatments and research, but the U.S. and its allies fear that Iran could turn this material into the fissile core of nuclear warheads. Iran currently runs more than 10,000 centrifuges that have created tons of fuel-grade material that can be further enriched to arm nuclear warheads.
It also has nearly 440 pounds (200 kilograms) of higher-enriched uranium in a form that can be turned into weapons much more quickly. Experts say 550 pounds (250 kilograms) of that 20 percent-enriched uranium are needed to produce a single warhead.
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Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You
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Deftly separating truth from propaganda, Target Iraq is a hard-hitting expose of the harsh realities and consequences of the pending war and the media's failure to present the full spectrum of issues to the public. Target Iraq will figure prominently in the national debate about the war against Iraq. Included are appendices by the Institute for Public Accuracy and FAIR -- Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting -- that provide a line-by line analysis of Bush's key October speech to Congress, the UN Security Council resolution, and other related speeches and documents.
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I set about knitting the Glencora Shawl on the train yesterday morning and dropped one of my point protectors. It's of the rubber, bullet-shaped variety. When it hit the floor of the car, it bounced and rolled. I sighed and gave it up for lost.
Then a man sitting nearby, a man I would place with utmost confidence in the "straight" category, leapt out of his seat, got down in the aisle, and then presented me with the protector, which he had gallantly saved from oblivion. "I figured you must need this," he said. "You looked pretty upset when you dropped it."
"Thank you so much," I said, and meant it. Without that protector, I would likely have lost a dozen or more lace stitches on the way to the office.
"No trouble," he said. "Just being neighborly. Whatever that is you're making, it looks pretty cool."
Miss Van Hoofen, please file this one under "Hope for Humanity."
Thing Two
Today is the blessed anniversary of the birth of a friend and hero. Blogger, knitter, spinner, quilter, underwear model, all around mensch.
I'm a fan of occasional verse, so I have composed the following haiku in honor of the day:
See the queer man knit.Dolores will be by with the cake later on. She may possibly be inside it.
Swift needles go clickety.
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In 2006 she was in an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog.
She has also appeared on the cover of the Argentinian edition of Cosmopolitan.
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I was also told to place a copy of my formmail.pl script in my server's cgi-bin, which I did. So, currently I have one copy in my root folder and another in xampp/cgi-bin
NOW, lol, when I fill in my test form and click submit it transfers me to a screen saying everything is perfectly fine and that the data has been sent to the address in the format and order I specified. But, I'm sure you guessed it, I didn't receive an email. I have tried altering the .pl script into a .cgi script but it seems to have no affect either.
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Canyon Records, here in Phoenix, is the oldest independent recording studio in the country. They have long specialized in Native American music and one of their most popular artists is R. Carlos Nakai.
I've been planning on attending this performance with Nakai and Will Clipman at Barnes & Noble for weeks and had no idea this was the world release of their newest cd: Awakening the Fire.
I love Native American flute but last night I found myself drawn to the haunting sounds of a the collection of percussion instruments played by Will Clipman.
The most fascinating was the udu a ceramic instrument that comes from Nigeria.
He was kind enough to let me get his picture with his udu. I wish I could reproduce the sound as easily but it is on the cd.
While the music soared through the store I was suddenly reminded of my niece who was a fantastic flute player. She once told me she would love to hear R. Carlos Nakai play. I know she was there with us last night.
Before the performance I was telling Doug how much I want to visit the Musical Instrument Museum which is near our house and is an amazing place. I've heard so much about it but we either don't find the time (I've heard it takes a couple of days to really go through it) or we can't afford it.
We won two passes to MIM last night. I have a feeling my niece had something to do with that.
It was a wonderful evening and as the rain pours down outside I am reliving the evening with my cd.


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To understand how and when to apply NEC Art. 725*, you must first understand how the NEC classifies remote-control, signal, and power-limited circuits. Each classification addresses different energy levels.
Class 1 circuits. Class 1 remote-control and signaling circuits typically operate at 120V, but the NEC permits them to operate at up to 600V [725.21(B)]. You must install these circuits within a wiring method listed in Chapter 3 of the NEC, which includes raceways, cables, and enclosures for splices and terminations [725.25].Remote-control circuit. These circuits, which control other circuits through relays or equivalent devices [100], are commonly used to operate motor controllers in moving equipment, mechanical processes, elevators, and conveyors.Signaling circuit. These circuits energize signaling equipment [100] and are typically used to operate a bell or horn, or to illuminate a light in a control panel.Power-limited circuit. These circuits are supplied by a source with a rated output of not more than 30V and 100VA [725.21(A)].Class 2 circuits. Class 2 circuits typically include wiring for low-energy (100VA or less), low-voltage (under 30V) loads such as low-voltage lighting, thermostats, PLCs, security systems, and limited-energy voice, intercom, sound, and public address systems. You can also use them for twisted-pair or coaxial local area networks (LAN) [725.41(A)(4)].
Class 2 circuits protect against electrical fires by limiting the power to 100VA for circuits that operate at 30V or less, and 0.5VA for circuits between 30V and 150V. You protect against electric shock by limiting the current of the circuit to 5mA or less for circuits between 30V and 150V [Chapter 9, Table 11].
You can wire Class 2 circuits with Class 2 cable or any of its substitutes permitted by Table 725.61(A), depending on the condition of use.
Class 3 circuits. Use Class 3 circuits when the power demand for circuits over 30V exceeds 0.5VA, but is not more than 100VA [Chapter 9, Table 11]. We often use Class 3 signaling circuits for security systems and public address systems; voice, intercom, and sound systems; and some nurse call systems.
Higher levels of voltage and current are permitted for Class 3 circuits (in contrast to Class 2 circuits). To prevent an electric shock hazard, the wiring must be rated no less than 300V [725.71(E) and (F)]. Wiring methods that meet this requirement include PLTC Cable, Class 3 Cable, or any of its permitted substitutions listed in Table 725.61(A), depending on the condition of use.
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Lane And Gulari Locked In Gold Cup Combat
21 April 2012
Just two points separate 2011 and 2010 Charleston Champions going into final day of racing.
The battle between Kristin Lane's Tiburon, CA basedBrickhouse 812 and 2011 National Champion Bora Gulari onWest Marine Rigging/New England Ropes heated up today, with Lane stealing Friday's slim lead from Gulari after four races in 6-10 knots of Charleston Harbor breeze. It's a role reversal of last year's Charleston Race Week performance, when Gulari took a lead into the final day of racing only to see Lane sail to victory in the final race.
"It was lighter and shiftier than most days in Charleston and we lost a few points to Kristen, but we're definitely looking forward to more breeze tomorrow," said Gulari. "My crew really wants to win this Gold Cup, and just as importantly, we want to win back bragging rights at one of the biggest Melges events of the year."
Alan Field's WTF sits 10 points back from Gulari after 8 races, while Chicago's Don Wilson on Convexity sits a further 12 behind Field and just 4 points ahead of Argyle Campbell on Rock n' Roll. Tight battles continue throughout the fleet for nearly every position.
In the Corinthian division, Bayview Yacht Club (Detroit, MI) racer Paul Hulsey on Hoodlum Racing sits on top of an 18-boat strong amateur-only fleet, with Ed Massey's Sweet As Bro trailing after a weaker showing than their spectacular first day. Rob Britts' Hot Mess trails Massey and Hulsey by a small margin.
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Despite the enticing pitches—"We're clearing out!" "Our biggest sale of the year!" "Didn't get what you want? We can fix that!"—experts say sales aren't yet at their best for many items. Waiting until next year could mean better deals on purchases as varied as Caribbean cruises and winter coats.


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Lockwood Mansion celebrates the season with Holiday Open House
The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will usher in the Christmas season with a mix of music, magic, toys, tea -- oh, and Santa, of course! -- when it hosts its Holiday Open House on Sunday, Dec. 16.
The event, which coincides with "A Grand Holiday at the Mansion: From Victorian to Modern," will kick off at 12:15 p.m. with a visit from Santa Claus, who plans on spending a full hour greeting children and hearing their Christmas wishes before heading back to the North Pole.
Then, Benjamin Zabin, a 13-year-old magician from Greenwich, will demonstrate a variety of tricks, including his famed levitation effect.
"A lot of the tricks are going to involve ornaments, candy canes and Santa hats," said Zabin, who started practicing magic at age 4 and has performed in 15 different countries. "I'm excited for it and it will be a fun experience for me and the audience."
The afternoon will continue with a performance from Broadway actors from the New Paradigm Theatre and select students from the Norwalk community.
The show will include performances of yuletide tunes such as "The Christmas Song" ("Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire") and "We Need a Little Christmas," along with a cabaret-themed skit starring Mr. and Mrs. Claus and students from the Bridgeport Boys Choir.
"It's a mini Radio City Music Hall type show," said Milford resident Kristin Huffman, one of the performers. "It'll be an uplifting family show."
The evening will conclude with a Doll and Teddy Bear Victorian Tea Party at 3:15 p.m. Children are encouraged to dress up, bring their favorite bear, doll or toy and practice proper etiquette, as the museum continues its tradition of high tea during the holiday season.
Volunteers dressed in Victorian costumes will serve tea, cider and seasonal treats to children and their furry friends.
Throughout the event, visitors are encouraged to visit "A Grand Holiday at the Mansion: From Victorian to Modern."
The exhibition, which is on view through Sunday, Jan. 6, sees the museum's period rooms decorated to show changing traditions from the 1850s through 1890s, with Christmas trees, a holiday table setting and antique children's toys.
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Women's World Team Championship (2015)
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World Junior Championship (Girls) (2012)
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World Junior Championship (Girls) (2014)
European Individual Women's Championship (2013)
World Junior Championship (Girls) (2013)
European Individual Women's Championship (2014)
European Individual Women's Championship (2012)
10th European Individual Women's Championship (2009)
European Individual Championship (Women) (2010)
European Individual Women's Championship (2015)
European Individual Chess Championship (2018)
European Team Championship (Women) (2013)
European Individual Championship (2014)
🏆 Blitz World Championship (Women) P Cramling vs M Arabidze (Dec-30-18) 1-0, blitz
M Arabidze vs Kosteniuk (Dec-30-18) 0-1, blitz
T Khlichkova vs M Arabidze (Dec-30-18) 0-1, blitz
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Disk cloning
Disk cloning is the process of making an image of a partition or of an entire hard drive. This can be useful for copying the drive to other computers and for backup and recovery purposes.
Using dd
The dd command is a simple, yet versatile and powerful tool. It can be used to copy from source to destination, block-by-block, regardless of their filesystem types or operating systems. A convenient method is to use dd from a live environment, as in a Live CD.
if=) and output file (
of=) and do not reverse them! Always ensure that the destination drive or partition (
of=) is of equal or greater size than the source (
Cloning a partition
From physical disk
/dev/sda, partition 1, to physical disk
/dev/sdb, partition 1.
# dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=64K conv=noerror,sync status=progress
of= (
sdb1 in the example) does not exist, dd will create a file with this name and will start filling up your root file system!
Cloning an entire hard disk
From physical disk
/dev/sdX to physical disk
# dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY bs=64K conv=noerror,sync status=progress
This will clone the entire drive, including the MBR (and therefore bootloader), all partitions, UUIDs, and data.
bs=sets the block size. Defaults to 512 bytes, which is the "classic" block size for hard drives since the early 1980s, but is not the most convenient. Use a bigger value, 64K or 128K. Also, please read the warning below, because there is more to this than just "block sizes" -it also influences how read errors propagate. See [1] and [2] for details and to figure out the best bs value for your use case.
noerrorinstructs dd to continue operation, ignoring all read errors. Default behavior for dd is to halt at any error.
syncfills input blocks with zeroes if there were any read errors, so data offsets stay in sync.
status=progressshows periodic transfer statistics which can be used to estimate when the operation may be complete.
The dd utility technically has an "input block size" (IBS) and an "output block size" (OBS). When you set
bs, you effectively set both IBS and OBS. Normally, if your block size is, say, 1 MiB, dd will read 1024*1024 bytes and write as many bytes. But if a read error occurs, things will go wrong. Many people seem to think that dd will "fill up read errors with zeroes" if you use the
noerror,sync options, but this is not what happens. dd will, according to documentation, fill up the OBS to IBS size after completing its read, which means adding zeroes at the end of the block. This means, for a disk, that effectively the whole 1 MiB would become messed up because of a single 512 byte read error in the beginning of the read: 12ERROR89 would become 128900000 instead of 120000089.
If you are positive that your disk does not contain any errors, you could proceed using a larger block size, which will increase the speed of your copying several fold. For example, changing bs from 512 to 64K changed copying speed from 35 MB/s to 120 MB/s on a simple Celeron 2.7 GHz system. But keep in mind that read errors on the source disk will end up as block errors on the destination disk, i.e. a single 512-byte read error will mess up the whole 64 KiB output block.
status=progress option. See dd for details.
- To regain unique UUIDs of an ext2/3/4 filesystem, use
tune2fs /dev/sdXY -U randomon every partition.
- Partition table changes from dd are not registered by the kernel. To notify of changes without rebooting, use a utility like partprobe (part of GNU Parted).
Backing up the partition table
See fdisk#Backup and restore partition table.
Create disk image
1. Boot from a live media.
2. Make sure no partitions are mounted from the source hard drive.
3. Mount the external HD
4. Backup the drive.
# dd if=/dev/sdX conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | gzip -c > /path/to/backup.img.gz
If necessary (e.g. when the format of the external HD is FAT32) split the disk image in volumes (see also the split man pages).
# dd if=/dev/sdX conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | gzip -c | split -a3 -b2G - /path/to/backup.img.gz
If there is not enough disk space locally, you may send the image through ssh:
# dd if=/dev/sdX conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | gzip -c | ssh user@local dd of=backup.img.gz
5. Save extra information about the drive geometry necessary in order to interpret the partition table stored within the image. The most important of which is the cylinder size.
# fdisk -l /dev/sdX > /path/to/list_fdisk.info
bs=) that is equal to the amount of cache on the HD you are backing up. For example,
bs=8192K works for an 8 MiB cache. The 64 KiB mentioned in this article is better than the default
bs=512 bytes, but it will run faster with a larger
Restore system
To restore your system:
# gunzip -c /path/to/backup.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdX
When the image has been split, use the following instead:
# cat /path/to/backup.img.gz* | gunzip -c | dd of=/dev/sdX
Using ddrescue
ddrescue is a tool designed for cloning and recovering data. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying to rescue the good parts first in case of read errors, to maximize the recovered data.
To clone a faulty or dying drive, run ddrescue twice. First round, copy every block without read error and log the errors to rescue.log.
# ddrescue -f -n /dev/sdX /dev/sdY rescue.log
Second round, copy only the bad blocks and try 3 times to read from the source before giving up.
# ddrescue -d -f -r3 /dev/sdX /dev/sdY rescue.log
Now you can check the file system for corruption and mount the new drive.
# fsck -f /dev/sdY
Using e2image
e2image is a tool included in e2fsprogs for debugging purposes. It can be used to copy ext2, ext3, and ext4 partitions efficiently by only copying the used blocks. Note that this only works for ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems, and the unused blocks are not copied so this may not be a useful tool if one is hoping to recover deleted files.
To clone a partition from physical disk
/dev/sda, partition 1, to physical disk
/dev/sdb, partition 1 with e2image, run
# e2image -ra -p /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1
Disk cloning software
These applications allow easy backup of entire filesystems and recovery in case of failure, usually in the form of a Live CD or USB drive. They contain complete system images from one or more specific points in time and are frequently used to record known good configurations.
See also Synchronization and backup programs for other applications that can take full system snapshots, among other functionality.
- Acronis True Image — Commercial disk cloner for Windows. It allows you to create a live (from within Windows), so you do not need a working Windows install on the actual machine to use it. After registration of the Acronis software on their website, you will be able to download a Linux-based Live CD and/or plugins for BartPE for creation of the Windows-based live CD. It can also create a WinPE Live CD based on Windows. The created ISO Live CD image by Acronis doesn't have the hybrid boot ability and cannot be written to USB storage as a raw file.
- Arch Backup — A trivial backup script with simple configuration.
- Configurable compression method.
- Multiple backup targets.
- Clonezilla — A disaster recovery, disk cloning, disk imaging and deployment solution.
- Boots from live CD, USB flash drive, or PXE server.
- Supports ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, btrfs FAT32, NTFS, HFS+ and others.
- Uses Partclone (default), Partimage (optional), ntfsclone (optional), or dd to image or clone a partition.
- Multicasting server to restore to many machines at once.
- Included on the Arch Linux installation media.
- FSArchiver — A safe and flexible file-system backup and deployment tool
- Support for basic file attributes (permissions, owner, ...).
- Support for multiple file-systems per archive.
- Support for extended attributes (they are used by SELinux).
- Support the basic file-system attributes (label, uuid, block-size) for all linux file-systems.
- Support for ntfs filesystems (ability to create flexible clones of a Windows partitions).
- Checksumming of everything which is written in the archive (headers, data blocks, whole files).
- Ability to restore an archive which is corrupt (it will just skip the current file).
- Multi-threaded lzo, gzip, bzip2, lzma compression.
- Support for splitting large archives into several files with a fixed maximum size.
- Encryption of the archive using a password. Based on blowfish from libcrypto from OpenSSL.
- Support backup of a mounted root filesystem (-A option).
- Can be found on the System Rescue CD.
- Mondo Rescue — A disaster recovery solution to create backup media that can be used to redeploy the damaged system.
- Image-based backups, supporting Linux/Windows.
- Compression rate is adjustable.
- Can backup live systems (without having to halt it).
- Can split image over many files.
- Supports booting to a Live CD to perform a full restore.
- Can backup/restore over NFS, from CDs, tape drives and and other media.
- Can verify backups.
- Partclone — A tool that can be used to back up and restore a partition while considering only used blocks.
- Supports ext2, ext3, ext4, hfs+, reiserfs, reiser4, btrfs, vmfs3, vmfs5, xfs, jfs, ufs, ntfs, fat(12/16/32), exfat.
- Supports compression.
- Optionally, an ncurses interface can be used.
- PartedMagic — Live cd/usb with PartImage and other recovery tools.
- Partimage — An ncurses disk cloning utility for Linux/UNIX environments.
- Has a Live CD.
- Supports the most popular filesystems on Linux, Windows and Mac OS.
- Compression.
- Saving to multiple CDs or DVDs or across a network using Samba/NFS.
- Development stopped in favor of FSArchiver.
- Q7Z — P7Zip GUI for Linux, which attempts to simplify data compression and backup. It can create the following archive types: 7z, BZip2, Zip, GZip, Tar.
- Updates existing archives quickly.
- Backup multiple folders to a storage location.
- Create or extract protected archives.
- Lessen effort by using archiving profiles and lists.
- Redo Backup and Recovery — A backup and disaster recovery application that runs from a bootable Linux CD image.
- System Tar & Restore — Backup and Restore your system using tar or Transfer it with rsync
- GUI and CLI interfaces
- Creates .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.xz or .tar archives
- Supports openssl / gpg encryption
- Uses rsync to transfer a running system
- Supports Grub2, Syslinux, EFISTUB/efibootmgr and Systemd/bootctl
dd spin-offs
Other dd-like programs feature periodical status output, e.g. a simple progress bar.
- dcfldd
- dcfldd is an enhanced version of dd with features useful for forensics and security. It accepts most of dd's parameters and includes status output. The last stable version of dcfldd was released on December 19, 2006.[3]
- ddrescue
- GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It is capable of ignoring read errors, which is a useless feature for disk wiping in almost any case. See the official manual for details.


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30 July 2012, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR and the INTOSAI* Development Initiative (IDI) signed a multi-year agreement to support the global initiative to implement the International Standards for Supreme Audit Institutions (ISSAIs) in developing countries' Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs). This ISSAI Implementation Initiative (called 3i Programme) is spearheaded by IDI and funded by the World Bank. Its objective is to prioritize the implementation of the ISSAI framework which was adopted by the INTOSAI congress.
The ISSAI global framework endeavours to strengthen the global public sector audit profession and provide a benchmark for public sector auditing, measure the SAIs performance against the ISSAIs and implement the ISSAIs in accordance with the mandate and national regulations of the respective SAIs.
The main objective of the partnership is primarily to build capacity development by training 180 English-speaking auditors/specialists from 87 countries across five English-speaking regional audit organizations namely AFROSAI-E*, ASOSAI*, CAROSAI*, EUROSAI* and PASAI*. This will enable them to conduct ISSAI-compliant assessment in three audit areas namely Performance Audit, Financial Audit, and Compliance Audit.
The partnership will also roll-out similar activities for other non-English speaking regional Supreme Audit Institutions from 2013 to 2014.
UNITAR's tested and cost effective e-Learning methodology will be incorporated in the course design and implementation. In addition, each participant will be assigned to a specific international mentor to ensure that the audit assessment tools and pedagogical elements are used to its full potential. The courses will also explore implementation challenges and ways forward.
IDI and UNITAR already have several years of successful partnership around delivering results-based, demand-driven capacity development activities through online and blended online/face-to-face courses. Over the past four years, the partnership has trained 176 audit professionals from 50 countries.
* INTOSAI - The International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions
* AFROSAI-E - African Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions in English-speaking Africa
* ASOSAI - Asian Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions
* CAROSAI - Caribbean Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions
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Audi Melges 20 Class Celebrates ISAF International Class Status
4 February 2013
2013 marks the beginning of a new era in Audi Melges 20 racing worldwide. As of January 1st, the International Audi Melges 20 Class Association (IM20CA) is officially a recognized ISAF International Class. This is an impressive milestone in its short but storied history, an accolade which enables the Audi Melges 20 Class to conduct its very first World Championship, set to take place in Fall/Winter 2013 in South Florida, where in upwards to 60+ boats are expected to attend.
"Being granted ISAF Class status is recognition that we are especially proud of," says International Class Chairman Manfredi Vianini Tolomei. "The racing within this fleet is of the highest quality. With this status, we now have the ability to conduct our very first World Championship in 2013 and I can assure you, the Audi Melges 20 will continue to raise the bar and set the standard for amateur/owner performance yacht racing around the globe."
Sponsored internationally by Audi, the Melges 20 boasts haute couture styling in one design performance racing at an affordable price.
"The Audi Melges 20 is the real thing, most especially when it comes to quality craftsmanship and lifestyle racing." commented Harry Melges, CEO of Melges worldwide. "Every boat manufactured by Melges USA and distributed throughout Europe and Australasia is built with the best materials. Designed by Reichel Pugh, the Audi Melges 20 derives from the same impressive bloodline as the extremely successful Melges 24 and Melges 32, both esteemed benchmarks in the world of performance sportboat racing."
Fully supported on- and off-the-water by Melges USA, Melges Europe and Melges Asia Pacific, the North American and European racing circuits are second to none, and many of the venues are the most notable and prestigious in the sailing world. The Audi Sailing Series reigns supreme in Europe offering great breeze, fierce competition and world-class shore-side activities. In Canada and across the United States, fast-growing regional fleets are taking root from Miami to Charleston, from San Francisco to Toronto producing regular fleets of 40+.
Trailer it, ship it, launch it, race it — the philosophy behind the Audi Melges 20 has never been more intact than it is right now. Typically sailed with a crew of three, it regularly attracts and fosters the best of all worlds. From lifelong amateur/owner sailors to just beginners paired perfectly with the sport of sailings brightest superstars, from young and old, to girls and boys, to family and great friends — the Audi Melges 20 is for everyone making it the most viable option in one design racing today.


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LONDON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- More than 1 million people in Britain have caught the norovirus, the winter vomiting bug or stomach flu, this season, health officials estimated.
Officials at the Health Protection Agency in England said there were 3,538 laboratory confirmed cases since the summer, an 83 percent increase compared with the same period last year, The Independent reported.
"Norovirus is very contagious, and very unpleasant," John Harris of the HPA told The Independent. "To help prevent spread of the disease, it's important that people who believe they are unwell with the virus maintain good hand hygiene and stay away from hospitals, schools and nursing homes, as these closed environments are particularly prone to outbreaks which can cause severe disruption."
There were 70 hospital outbreaks reported in Britain the two weeks before Christmas, an increase to the 61 outbreaks in the previous fortnight, the HPA said. Hospitals across the country have closed wards and restricted visitors to contain the spread of the virus.
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March 6, 2014 — Patients who received daily humidification of the mouth and throat region beginning from day one of radiation therapy treatment spent nearly 50 percent fewer days in the hospital to manage their side effects, according to research presented today at the 2014 Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium.
The study was conducted by the Trans Tasman Radiation Oncology Group and evaluated 210 head and neck cancer patients in New Zealand and Australia from June 2007 through June 2011. Patients in this Phase III trial were randomized to institutional standard of care (control arm) or humidification (HUM) using the Fisher & Paykel Healthcare MR880 humidifier. The humidified air is delivered through the nose via a plastic interface (mask-type apparatus) that can be worn by patients while sleeping or while sitting during the day.
Patients began HUM on day one of radiation therapy and continued until the ulceration their mouth and throat had resolved. On average, HUM patients spent 57 percent as many days in the hospital to manage side effects (control = 4.1 days vs. HUM = 2.3 days). The return of eating patterns to close to normal was also significantly higher at three months after radiotherapy in the group using humidifiers. (Nutritional Mode score at 20 weeks, a clinician-reported assessment of nutritional status, control = 4.8 vs. HUM = 5.23.)
Only 43 patients (42 percent of the patients in the HUM arm) met the defined benchmark of HUM compliance and were able to contribute to the per protocol (PP) analysis; the mean average use of humidification for these patients was 3.6 hours per day (range of 0-14 hours/day). In patients who met the HUM compliance benchmark, the area under the curve for CTCAE version 3.0 functional mucositis score (a clinician assessment of mucositis symptom burden for patients) was reduced (control = 8.63 vs. HUM PP = 6.74). The proportion of compliant HUM patients who never required a feeding tube was also increased (control = 0.73 vs. HUM PP = 0.85). There was also a trend for patients to report a reduction in symptom burden when using humidification but only in those patients compliant in using the humidifier.
"This study has provided efficacy signals consistent with a role for humidification in reducing symptom burden for patients during radiotherapy for head and neck cancer," said Andrew Macann, FRANZCR, lead author of the study and a radiation oncologist at Auckland City Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand. "Preventing or reducing hospitalizations may also mean it is cost effective. The rationale for using humidification is based on the fact that moisturizing wounds generally helps them heal faster. These results are encouraging, particularly given the signals favoring humidification were seen across clinician-reported outcomes, patient-reported outcomes and independent data such as hospitalizations. Although patients in the study did not use the humidifiers as much as was hoped, we obtained feedback about why some patients did not like using the humidifier. Our next step is to work at increasing the proportion of patients who use the humidifier effectively."
The abstract, "Domiciliary Humidification Reduces Symptom Burden and Hospital Admissions Associated With Mucositis During Radiotherapy For Head And Neck Cancer: Trans Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG) 07.03 RadioHUM Randomised Phase III Trial Results," was presented in detail in the Plenary session at the 2014 Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium.
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Whistleblower John Kiriakou Questions Why He's In Jail While Former CIA Boss Leon Panetta Is Free
from the who-did-worse? dept
Of course, despite trying to find a way to claim that Kiriakou's whistleblowing was illegal, the DOJ couldn't find any charges related to that which would stick, so it did what it's done to plenty of other whistleblowers: go in search of something else, really anything else to charge him with, and it finally came up with something. A reporter who was working on a book about the torture program asked Kiriakou if he could recommend former colleagues that he could interview. Kiriakou said no, but the reporter mentioned a former colleague's first name -- a former CIA operative who was well known to multiple journalists at the time, and Kiriakou confirmed that former colleague's last name, saying he believed he was retired. The DOJ spun this as Kiriakou revealing the name of a CIA agent, even though nothing Kiriakou did made that agent's name public (it was later revealed by others). For all of this, Kiriakou ended up taking a 30 month prison sentence as a plea deal, realizing it was better than fighting through a full trial, in which he could get many, many more years in jail.
Kiriakou hasn't been silent from jail, and he's even been punished for speaking to the press. However, it appears that this won't stop him from exercising his free speech rights. He recently penned a powerful op-ed for the LA Times asking why he's in jail, while former CIA boss and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta isn't even being investigated.
If you don't recall, a few months ago, we noted that Panetta was likely to get off scott free, despite revealing a ton of classified info, including the names of the Navy SEAL officers who shot Osama bin Laden to film maker Mark Boal, who wrote the screenplay for Zero Dark Thirty. Of course, in an effort to protect "important people" we wouldn't have even known about Panetta's revealing classified information if a report by the Pentagon's Inspector General hadn't leaked. Of course, after the leak, federal officials focused on tracking down those who leaked the report but have done absolutely nothing about Panetta who clearly leaked very sensitive information. It's a "high court" / "low court" situation where powerful people break the law in much worse ways and are left alone, while people without power are bulldozed by the system.
From under the bulldozer, Kiriakou questions how that's reasonable. He points out that part of the reason he took his plea deal was because, under the Espionage Act (as we've discussed before) all evidence of intent and purpose are inadmissible, allowing the government to paint perfectly innocent actions as nefarious. And that's clearly what they were going to do to him. And yet, these same officials say that Panetta's (much bigger) revelation of classified info was okay because it was an accident, and he didn't intend to reveal that info to a filmmaker. Kiriakou notes the double standard that now has him behind bars:
If an intent to undermine U.S. national security or if identifiable harm to U.S. interests are indeed not relevant to Espionage Act enforcement, then the White House and the Justice Department should be in full froth. Panetta should be having his private life dug in to, sifted and seized as evidence, as happened to me and six others under the Obama administration.Stories like this aren't just distressing when you consider basic concepts like fairness, proportionality and common sense. They also undermine faith in our government, and -- more importantly -- its credibility.
When the transcript of Panetta's speech and his inadvertent leak came to light in January, a CIA spokesman told the Associated Press that the agency had subsequently "overhauled its procedures for interaction with the entertainment industry." Such internal reviews are fine and good, but equality before the law is the rule in America. Your job title, your Rolodex and your political friendships are not supposed to trump accountability. Except when they do.


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The Safe Routes to Health AmeriCorps planning grant from the Michigan Community Service Commission leverages the current extensive relationships of MFF and MTGA and seeks to build additional connections within communities with existing trail groups.
The Safe Routes to Health project will focus on 6 counties with underserved, low-income residents and high obesity rates -- Berrien, Chippewa, Genesee, Muskegon, Newaygo and Wayne counties. Michigan ranks first in the nation for miles of developed trails. Michigan currently ranks 10th in the nation for adult obesity rates.
The Michigan Fitness Foundation welcomes Kelly van Frankenhuyzen as our AmeriCorps Grant Planning Coordinator. Kelly will coordinate with the Michigan Trails and Greenways Alliance, along with community partners who coordinate SNAP-Ed, Safe Routes to School and perform trail work. Van Frankenhuyzen graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in Environmental Journalism. As an AmeriCorps member from 2012-2014, she served in Michigan, Montana and Alaska.
About AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps engages more than 75,000 members in intensive service annually to serve through nonprofit, faith-based, and community organizations at 21,000 locations across the country. These members help communities tackle pressing problems while mobilizing millions of volunteers for the organizations they serve. Since 1994, more than 980,000 Americans have provided more than 1.3 billion hours of service to their communities and country through AmeriCorps.
AmeriCorps is a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency that engages millions of Americans in service through its AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, Social Innovation Fund, and Volunteer Generation Fund programs, and leads the President's national call to service initiative, United We Serve. For more information, visit NationalService.gov.


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Watch Tim McGraw Gift a Family With a New Home… And a Puppy!
Tim McGraw may have a lot going on these days, but the big-hearted country music superstar is never too busy to give back, as the Conner family of Woonsocket, Rhode Island found out recently. McGraw teamed with Operation Homefront to present the military family with a new home on Aug. 25 — and he had a very special surprise for their little girl.
The 'Truck Yeah' hitmaker is an avid supporter of the U.S. military, and during his recent Brothers of the Sun Tour with Kenny Chesney he teamed with Chase bank and the ACM Lifting Lives program for Operation Homefront, which provides mortgage-free homes to military families in need.
McGraw met with military families at every stop of the recent tour, but his visit to the Conners was a surprise. When the family first entered their new home, they found the singer waiting inside to show them around — much to their delight.
If that wasn't enough, the superstar had one more trick up his sleeve. He urged the couple's daughter, Molly, to explore the backyard, where she found a cute black lab puppy waiting for her. She appropriately chose the name Little Tiny for the adorable dog, and with a final hug, McGraw had to be on his way.
The singer recently released a new single titled 'Truck Yeah,' the first track from a forthcoming album that will be his first for Big Machine Records. He and his wife, fellow country superstar Faith Hill, will begin a residency at the Venetian in Las Vegas on Dec. 7.
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KARLSRUHE, Germany (AP) -- A top European Central Bank official rejected accusations that the bank had exceeded its powers while fighting the financial crisis, telling Germany's supreme court its bond-buying program was only a tool to ensure that its monetary policy works.
The Federal Constitutional Court was holding a second day of hearings to weigh allegations that the ECB's plan to purchase government bonds amounted to financing for governments, which is illegal for the central bank. Critics also say it exposes taxpayers to potential losses and threatens the ECB's independence.
Joerg Asmussen told the eight judges that the program is not meant to rescue governments in the 17-country eurozone but only to help the ECB conduct its monetary policy. It is tasked with keeping inflation close to but below 2 percent.
The bond purchase plan, agreed Sept. 6, is an offer by the ECB to buy the bonds of a government in trouble, provided they apply for that help and agree to a program of reforms in return. The program -- which no government has tapped so far -- helped lower bond market interest rates, which in troubled countries like Spain were far higher than in financially stronger ones like Germany.
Experts say the program -- dubbed Outright Monetary Transactions, or OMT -- was crucial in easing Europe's crisis over too much debt by giving leaders time to fix their finances.
Asmussen, a former German deputy finance minister who now serves on the bank's executive board, said the program helped the ECB's monetary policy function properly. That's because the high borrowing rates in financially troubled countries were preventing the ECB's low interest rates from helping the economy there. Such high borrowing rates were blocking the transmission of the ECB's policies throughout the eurozone.
"The goal of OMT is to remove the disturbed transmission mechanism," Asmussen told the judges. "It is not the goal to keep states from insolvency."
The court also heard from OMT opponent Jens Weidmann, the head of Germany's Bundesbank national central bank, who again underlined his position that the purchases spread risk of losses to all eurozone taxpayers.
The plaintiffs include a backbench lawmaker with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc, a group of professors, a citizen's group and a left-wing opposition party.
The court is also hearing arguments regarding Germany's participation in the European Stability Mechanism, a bailout fund that can rescue troubled states with loans. In a preliminary ruling last year, the court indicated most aspects of Germany's backing for the ESM were in accord with the country's constitution.
The court could in theory bar Germany and its institutions from participating in the rescue measures, a step which could call Germany's role in the euro currency union into question.
Analysts say that is highly unlikely, but the court could add conditions to German participation that could add to uncertainty about its credibility in calming financial markets. Or the judges could refer issues to the European Court of Justice. The ECB, as an EU institution, is not being sued directly in the case.
A decision by the court is not expected for months.
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The Sahlgrenska Academy offers education at undergraduate, advanced and doctorate level. The undergraduate programmes are conducted in Swedish.
The following pages will give detailed information about courses, master programmes and postgraduate education conducted in English.
The pages for exchange students are directed to students studying at our partner universities. An exchange student is a student from a university abroad, coming to study at University of Gothenburg for a maximum of one academic year, provided that a formal agreement of student exchange is signed between the two institutions.
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