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I Have A Dream.
I still have a dream, a dream deeply rooted in the American dream – one day this nation will rise up and live up to its creed, 'We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal.' I have a dream . . .
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)[20]
On an overcast afternoon, late that sweltering summer, alongside the memorial to a great American statesman, a man stood up to fight for the freedom of people and generations to come. His message was simple, clear and heartfelt, and it carried with it no trace of the hatred meted out against him and his fellow men and women. A man judged harshly because of the colour of his skin and the origin of his parentage. But he had a vision of what could become the greatest force to bond men and women together that has ever been. To include respect and dignity and consideration for both people and their environment. His complete dis-stain for violence led him to make one of the greatest declarations in all of human history when he defiantly yet politely projected this attitude outward that historical day, with these immortal words:
"I Have A Dream".
That incredible man was Dr Martin Luther King Jr. a Baptist minister. The place was Washington D.C. The historical statesman was none other than Abraham Lincoln, who himself fought to create the ideals of freedom for everyone. The date was 28th August 1963.
And the force he had a vision of and was referring to and acting from was of course, LOVE.
"I Have a Dream" Speech
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves, who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
But one hundred years later,the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. They were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed to the "Unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so we have come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquillity in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold, which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrong deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative process to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy, which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back.
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the very victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.
We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "for white only."
We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro in Mississippi cannot vote, and the Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until, "justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecutions and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day out on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering with the heat and injustice, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification," one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day "every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plains and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. This will be the day, this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:
My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that, let freedom, ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."
Source: Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have A Dream: Writings and Speeches that Changed the World, ed. James Melvin Washington (San Francisco: Harper, 1986), 102-106.
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This above transcript was copied from the item posted by TeachingAmericanHistory.org and are the words Dr King spoke that momentus day over 50 years ago.
What saddens me though, is that despite such huge changes that his life affected within the civil rights movement and the freedom for black and ethnic peoples in his beloved United States of America, racism has not been completely left behind as an abomination. This unfortunately is something deeply rooted in mankind and we will be a long time away from complete abstinence. I personally have no idea why one man can hate another because of the colour of his skin, or the place of his birth, or the nationality of his parents. Actually I should better say that I do have an idea, one formed by listening to others, but my heart and my soul do not recognise any just reason why this should be so.
As the wonderfully inspired singer Bob Marley sang,
"One love, one heart, let's get together and feel all right."
As the undisputed genius that was John Lennon sang,
"Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people, living life in peace....yoo hoo.. ooh. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope some day you'll join us, and the world shall be as one!"
What tremendous clarity these warriors knew and shared with others. Like Dr King, they exemplified a true abundance of human spirit and caring. Though I never met Dr King, and am as ignorant as the next person who only has the brief glimpse of history to look at to understand him, I do believe that what he did for the human race and the spirit of agape love, will never die. Not in memory nor in its far reaching effects. I would however like to see more admiration and thoughtfulness put into our world for those that unselfishly challenge the authority and rightfulness of the governance we live by. Surely the struggles that Dr King spoke out against have not entirely been washed away. Despite America having it's first elected Black president, they still appear to have moved slowly towards true and lasting fairness to all people of its nation.
Why even today men such as Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, who have challenged the hypocrisy of their leaders, are not made hero's, but despised as traitors. I for one believe that they are true to many of the ideals that were heralded by Dr King. Freedom of speech, freedom of rights, freedom of pursuits.
"Unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
I see it as very unfair and prejudicial to behave in the way that governments globally do. The supposed ethos of the majority, is to serve the people. In practice what evidently occurs is that they serve themselves and the elite of their nations. Greed and injustice are rife throughout our world. We need more hero's to challenge the rule of oppression. Like Dr King, whom received a huge inspiration from Gandhi, I myself seek to be a warrior for peace, love and justice. Inspired by so many of these people and their unfailing determination for truth to over-ride the hypocrisy, I urge everyone to adopt a manner of non-violent yet non-conformity in all their dealings. Peace and fairness through these actions will echo the examples set by the aforementioned warriors, and we could be on our way to true and lasting equality.
Dr King said something during that speech that resonates with me in a certain way.
"For many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom."
I cannot help but admire this thought. Such a simple observation, yet a true and reasonable one. If we could only imagine this, I'm sure we could then act it out and set it as our fundamental belief about equality for all men, women and children. In fact every sentient being on our planet and every element of our world. As I have talked about in other previous articles, what we are doing, have done and potentially will do, shall have enormous consequences for us all, unless we count the true costs of these actions and attitudes. We cannot surely believe that we have no impact on each other by our individual actions and intentions. Blindness is not an excuse. Wake up and see the light of consciousness growing amongst us all, for a more enlightened way of being in the world. Each action we take has an affect. These are some of the most fundamental laws of the universe. A cause creates and affect. No ifs, no buts...
Whilst we reside in this human experience this will be our evidential reality. What we feel about that may change what we do. If we say we feel nothing then that will almost certainly perpetuate no action of significant event to the benefit of us as a collective. Perhaps if we change a tiny part of ourselves, of our thinking, reasoning and beliefs, we could have a significant result towards global changes. It's not rocket science, want less = leave more. Share more and conserve what is available with a longer term viewpoint. In fact act less selfishly and more selflessly and then real and dynamic changes will be seen flooding our world with love.
I have a dream, that each person alive could know happiness and peace. I have a dream that everyone shall come to know brotherhood and forgiveness and compassion and the joy of understanding our true nature. Life is a dream, an illusion, a fake reality if we do not prove our true ability to belong to spirit and oneness. My dream is the same in principle to Dr Kings.
What a legend is he that believes and acts in accordance with this truth.
May the love of your fellow beings and the oneness of this spirit move us all to act accordingly.
Thank you for reading. Please take some time to look at everything that Martin Luther King Jr. did for the world. Its a great story.
Peaceful Warrior.


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Amidst bombings, attacks and counter reprisal attacks in Kaduna and Yobe States that resulted in the brutal killings of mostly innocent citizens, President Goodluck Jonathan last week despite concerns and looming tension in the country headed off to Rio, Brazil, to attend the World Earth Summit. It is not as if, important as the summit is, it could not go on without him. DESERT HERALD believes that his choice of Rio over the security and lives of his people was a poor decision and insensitive too.
Hundreds died last week in suicide attacks and reprisal attacks. Many more were seriously injured and at the mercy of their helpless families and dilapidated hospitals. In Kaduna the security situation is worst notwithstanding the millions of naira the state under Mr. Patrick Yakowa is spending every day supposedly on security. The government both at state and federal level considering how the Yobe State governor, Ibrahim Gaidam, was sneaked out through a ladder by few of his security that survived the militant attack in Damaturu and in his residence shows clearly that the leadership cannot even protect themselves not to talk of protecting the lives and properties of its ravaged and impoverished citizens. It is being insinuated by insiders that in Aso Rock due to the woeful failure of the Jonathan administration to address the security challenges and apparently due to lack of faith in the ability and capacity of our security network, the security of the president is allegedly being coordinated by the Israeli MOSOD and the United States.
At the pick of the killings last week, all the President could think of was hopping off to a summit, where he would at most have photo opportunities. Whatever benefit the summit has for Nigeria could be obtained in his absence. He should have devoted himself to resolving the crisis in his country. Other heads of states or presidents at the summit would not abandon their people during such crisis in favour of a summit that will not change the crisis of corruption and insecurity in the country. Was Jonathan's trip to Brazil a demonstration of indifference to the bloodshed at home? Even though the "President can rule Nigeria in any part of the world" and take action abroad at a time his citizens are being slaughtered and killed as recklessly stated by the Information Minister, Mr. Labaran Maku, responsible leadership and leaders that are sensitive to the suffering of their people will not abandon their country at such a trying period. The presence of the president will give a lot of psychological hope and comfort to both the citizens and those in charge of the security in the country. But for Mr. Jonathan it doesn't make any sense since he can monitor and give orders where ever he is in the world. What a president!
If he was already in Rio and these killings were going on, would he not have returned to manage the situation? Should we remind him of his oath of office, taken barely a year ago?
He swore to uphold the Constitution, which in Section 14 (2b) states, "The security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government." Where is the welfare in this government's policies? Where is the security for our people? Will the President find them in Rio?
A dangerous difference between last week's killings in Kaduna and Damaturu and ones that preceded them is that there were reports of reprisal attacks precisely in Kaduna initially by the Southern Kaduna militants in army uniform which resulted to the slaughter of an army officer by the youth and subsequent counter reprisal attacks by the Hausa/Fulani youths. Revenge attacks change the entire equation and can extend the Nigerian crisis to unanticipated frontiers. Have the people finally lost confidence in government protecting them? Is a government that failed to protect lives and properties of its people a legitimate government? What will be the future of Nigerian's cooperate existence and unity under Mr. Jonathan? Is the alleged meeting by Edwin Clark and his people aimed at disintegrating Nigeria working?
It is important to preserve the earth, but Nigeria's present is so tenuous that many do not bother about the future, which they know depends a lot on the present. The President knows these more than other Nigerians.
We in DESERT HERALD are concerned about the future of Nigeria under Mr. Jonathan's inept and insensitive leadership that doesn't value the sacred lives of human beings. In Nigeria today and under Mr. Jonathan's presidency killing of innocent people under whatever name is not only common but daily occurrence that doesn't need investigation. While the dreaded Boko Haram sect is the usual culprit in any of such attacks, there are many cases where Christians were caught attempting to bomb Churches or caught with incriminating evidences of terror related weapons like the recent case at radio house in Abuja. So far, none of those suspects that perpetrated or attempt to commit evil in the name of Boko Haram were prosecuted. In fact, nothing was heard any more about the investigation. Just last week, another Igbo man was caught with a bomb in Bauchi and blew himself in the process of detonating it. He was caught alive with heavy injuries. Had he succeeded in bombing a Church, the whole Muslims will be blame or they will be attack like what happen in Kaduna recently. Even if Boko Haram are responsible for such senseless attacks, innocent Muslims that suffered more casualties as a result of the Boko Haram bombings should not be blame or be subjected to attack like the reprisal killings at Gonin Gora and Nassarawa penultimate week. The government must act immediately to fish out the perpetrators of this evil act among both the Muslims and Christians to prevent another disaster.
Certainly, any government that fails to protect the lives and properties of its citizens will loses legitimacy and hence will be incapable of ruling.
We hope the appointment of Col. Sambo Dasuki (Rtd) as the new NSA will change the crisis of insecurity and killings in the country.

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Stephen Elop, the new CEO of Nokia, could clean up the giant's head of mobile phone and turn to Microsoft to revive his company. Nokia is in crisis. After missing the lucrative smartphone running, the builder is forced to move. Starting with his head. The Wall Street Journal, 7 February, several executives could soon be thanked by Stephen Elop, the new CEO of the group.
Former Microsoft, Stephen Elop took the leadership of Nokia in September 2010. It should clarify its reorganization plans this Friday, February 11, at a meeting of financial analysts in London. Still according to the Wall Street Journal, the managers should be informed of their dismissal on the eve of the meeting. The disruption should go well beyond the top 10 executives from Nokia. The manufacturer will change the head of its research and development, to place a person with high competence in software, further proof that the battle is now about Operating System (OS) for mobile phones. Radical changes It is true that Nokia remains riveted on the Symbian OS, considered by many as outdated and unable to fight against the OS from Google and Apple. During a conference call with investors about the figures for the fourth quarter of 2010, Elop was warned he was prepared to fundamentally change the strategy of Nokia in the field. The CEO said that Nokia would change his attitude and see themselves as a challenger in the smartphone market. Nokia with Microsoft? Nokia makes no announcement of phones at Mobile World Congress (MWC), the worldwide exhibition of telephony to be held in Barcelona from February 14 to 17 next. Therefore the conference of 11 February on the eve of the MWC, as expected. Having teamed up with Intel to develop Meego, an operating system for tablets and smartphones running the Intel Atom, Nokia could turn toward Microsoft to seek a new impetus. But it is a giant in the PC world, Microsoft is a dwarf in telephony: only 2% market share for its Windows 7 Phone, it is true still young. Whatever its new strategic direction, Nokia probably plays this year its future and its position as number one worldwide.


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This year's holiday kernel was 2.6.37, which was actually released on 4 January 2011 (perhaps it's a New Year's kernel) and is a good example of a kernel release during the holidays. At first glance, one would think that it was a quiet kernel with no flaming articles on the web or some seriously flawed benchmarks being posted, but you didn't see too much of that. However, there are some great things that happened in 2.6.37 around file systems and one really cool feature that I'll talk about at the end of the article.
Improvements for ext4
Ext4 is the proverbial little engine that could. The file system has proven to have remarkably great performance and it solves many (most) of the issues with ext3. However, it is still really limited to 16 TB because the user space tools have not been updated yet (good project if anyone is interested). In 2.6.37, several really cool features were added to ext4, primarily around scalability.
Systems are getting more cores faster than we may realize. A four-socket AMD system that has 12-cores per socket resulting in a total of 48 cores in a single system, is a fairly affordable server. In the 2.6.37 kernel, scalability improvement patches were added to ext4. In particular, ext4 will now use the "bio" layer directly rather than use the intermediate "buffer" layer. The basic reason is that buffer layer has a number of performance and SMP scalability issues. The bio layer (bio = Block I/O) is the part of the kernel that sends the requests to the I/O scheduler allowing performance and scalability to improve.
An example of the scalability improvement was that a ffsb benchmark on a 48-core AMD system using a 24-disk hardware RAID array with 192 simultaneous ffsb threads improved performance by 300% (400% if journaling was disabled) compared to performance before this patch was applied. Moreover, CPU usage was reduced by a factor of 3-4 in the benchmark.
In addition to the scalability patches for ext4, 2.6.37 added a couple of cool new features. The first one is that mke2fs, the command to create an ext based file system, now has the ability to leave the inode table uninitialized. This means that the creation of an ext4 file system can now happen very quickly whereas before the inode table had to be constructed taking some time. However, the inode table has to be initialized as quickly as possible for the file system to be useful. So on the first mount of the file system, the kernel runs a kernel thread that will initialize the table.
The second patch added batched discard support to ext4. This may sound uneventful, but it has a big improvement in one area – SSD's. Recall that the TRIM command in SSD's can result in much better overall performance because the blocks are marked for erasing which is done only when needed. In Linux, the basic concept of TRIM is called discard. So this patch adds the ability to do batched discards (multiple blocks) allowing the entire file system to be "trimmed" if needed. So far, ext4 is the first file system in Linux to support batched discards.
In addition to these two major new features in ext4, there was a somewhat minor one that is useful nonetheless. In 2.6.37 a patch was added that allows ext4 to list or "advertise" the features of the particular version of ext4 in sysfs. More specifically, there is a "features" directory in /sys/fs/ext4 that advertises what features are available in ext4 in the running kernel. That can be very useful for people wanting to know, or needing to know, exactly what features are available in the particular version of ext4.
Scalability improvements in xfs
Xfs is one of the highest performing file systems in Linux for certain workloads. It is very popular in the HPC (High Performance Computing) crowd because of the excellent file performance, particularly for larger files. However, it has the reputation of not having very good metadata performance. It is still under heavy development and many of the recent patches have been targeting metadata performance.
In the 2.6.37 kernel release, xfs gained some scalability performance improvements. In particular, the scalability of xfs metadata workload performance improved. For example, on an 8-way system, running the fs_mark benchmark for an instance of 50 million files, improved the performance by over 15%. The performance of the removal of those files improved by over 100%.
Of course other improvements and features were added to xfs in 2.6.37. In a previous article I mentioned a new logging option (delayed logging) was added in the 2.6.35 kernel that can greatly improve I/O bandwidth for the log by several orders of magnitude. This can greatly improve metadata performance for really heavy metadata workloads. In 2.6.37, a patch was added that removed the "experimental" label from delayed logging making it production ready.
Other improvements/changes added to xfs in 2.6.37 are:
Btrfs improvements
Everyone's favorite file-system-in-development, btrfs, had some interesting patches added in 2.6.37. Overall, if you watch the btrfs mailing list, you will see lots of active testing of btrfs. This has resulted in a number of good patches even if they aren't adding significant new "features". Several of the patches can be considered "major" while there are also some very good "minor" patches as well.
Probably the most significant feature added to btrfs is to cache the free space information on disk. It sounds kind of confusing so let me explain. Before this patch, if btrfs had to allocate from a block group that was not previously cached, it had to scan the entire extent-tree (i.e. it took a great deal of time and resources to find available block groups). After this patch, every time a transaction is committed producing a dirtied block group, the free space is dumped to the on-disk free space cache. So finding available block groups is a simple lookup greatly improving performance for this situation.
This patch results in an disk format change for btrfs. Recall that it is still in development so don't be surprised by any disk format changes. However, you can mount existing btrfs file systems so that this option is not used. In fact, currently, you have to enable this new option using the "-o space_cache" mount option.
Another major feature that was added to btrfs in 2.6.37 was asynchronous snapshot creation. The benefit of this features is that you don't have to wait for a new snapshot to be committed to the disk. You can use this feature by adding "async" to the "btrfs subvolume snapshot" command.
Believe it or not, the asynchronous snapshot creation capability was added primarily with ceph in mind. Remember that ceph was added a few kernel versions ago and is a distributed parallel file system that is still under heavy development. Ceph uses btrfs as the underlying file system (Ceph can arguably be called a meta file system since it is file system on top of a file system). There is more on Ceph itself later in this article.
A somewhat minor feature that was added to btrfs in the recently released 2.6.37 kernel is the ability to delete sub-volumes by unprivileged users. However, the user can only delete the sub-volume if they have "write" and "execute" permission on the sub-volume root inode. Otherwise they don't have permission to delete it. The option "-o user_subvol_rm_allowed" can be used during the mounting of btrfs to enable this option.
An additional minor feature was added that switched from extent buffer rbtrees to a radix tree. This switch should reduce CPU time spent in the extent buffer search and improve performance for some operations (see the commit link for more details).
The last feature for btrfs that I want to mention is all around chunk allocation tuning. This particular patch allows data and metadata block groups to be mixed. According to the kernel newbies article on 2.6.37 this should be useful for small storage devices.
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Bear Stearns Cos. Inc. BSC, +4.82% jolted markets Friday, saying that liquidity, or the company's ability to fund its businesses, had "deteriorated significantly" in 24 hours. The 85-year-old investment firm, deserted by its clients and counterparties, was forced to accept an extraordinary bailout package from the Federal Reserve and banking giant J.P. Morgan Chase JPM, +1.62% See full story.
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Confidence that much lower interest rates can boost credit markets and the economy is ebbing among market participants, according to Hinsdale's Nolte.
The slumping U.S. dollar, which reached new record lows against the euro and multiyear lows against the Japanese yen (see currencies report), led to another surge in Treasury bonds and in the price of gold, which topped $1,000 an ounce. See Metals Stocks.
The Fed lowering interest rates much further, which results in flooding the system with U.S. dollars, further pressures the U.S. currency against its major counterparts, and leads to less confidence in the value of holding U.S. assets.
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All the worries about financial institutions and credit markets, meanwhile, are being compounded by the belief of many investors, analysts and economists that the U.S. economy is headed toward, or has already entered into, a recession.
Next week, investors will turn to more economic data.
Monday will see the release of the New York region manufacturing survey for March, and the National Association of Home Builder index for March. Besides the Fed meeting, Tuesday will bring data on new residential construction in February.
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According to David Rosenberg, chief U.S. economist at Merrill Lynch, increasing acceptance by markets that a recession is at hand might mean that a turn-around in markets might not be far around the corner.
In a note, Rosenberg pointed out that a recent Wall Street Journal showed that 71% of economists believe the economy is heading for recession, with 53% predicting a first quarter contraction and 45% seeing one in the second quarter as well.
He also made reference to the front cover of the latest BusinessWeek, which reads "Waking up to the recession."
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However, the Merrill economist said that predictions the recession will be mild might continue to prevent the market from complete capitulation, which would be needed for the market to turn around.


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Everything you say is so true Greg. Just arrived back from Chicago this afternoon. I have used the AA service once a month since it started last summer. Has been a while since the old Northwest service to Detroit was dropped. It is so good to fly out of our local airport. Great people there.
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A Gold Coast woman has revived a newborn pony foal with CPR after she found it lifeless in its stable.
Suzanne Hall from North West Equine Rescue said she found the pony limp after its airwaves were blocked by hay it had tried to eat.
"All you can do is try to do something to save the foal's life," she told Today this morning.
"The only thing I could think of was to try and breathe for her."
It took twenty minutes of resuscitation efforts to revive the pony, named Esmeralda Sparkles.
Now after the revival the pony is happily running around and functioning normally.
"We were just very, very lucky," Ms Hall said.
By pure chance, Ms Hall checked on Esmeralda Sparkles at 5.30am Wednesday morning after being unable to sleep.
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EDWARDSVILLE — Madison County State's Attorney Tom Gibbons announced that a Carbondale man pleaded guilty Wednesday in connection with a January 2017 fatal shooting in Collinsville.
Kaleb E. Freeman, 24, who was charged on Jan. 22, 2017, pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree murder and was sentenced to 35 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.
On January 21st, 2017, Collinsville Police responded Jan. 21, 2017, to a report of shots fired outside an apartment building in the 800 block of South Morrison. They found the victim, 21-year-old Montrea L. Marshall, outside the apartment with an apparent gunshot wound. Marshall was transported to Anderson Hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly thereafter.
During the course of the investigation handled by the Major Case Squad, which was called to assist by the Collinsville Police Department, it was discovered that Marshall and Freeman, who were acquaintances, had agreed to meet at the apartment in Collinsville. Shortly after Freeman arrived, the two men got into an argument that escalated into the violent confrontation.
Witnesses provided a description of the suspect, the vehicle, and the direction of travel which assisted in the investigation. Investigators determined that Freeman shot Marshall in the chest before fleeing in a 2011 white Chevy Cruze. With the aid of the U.S. Marshals Service, Carbondale Police Department, and the Major Case Squad investigators, Freeman was located in Carbondale and taken into custody.
"The violent, senseless actions of this defendant ended in the worst way, with a young man tragically losing his life," Gibbons said in a press release. "I am hopeful that this conviction provides his family with some comfort and closure during this tragic chapter in their lives."
Gibbons commended the work of the Major Case Squad and his prosecutors, Assistant State's Attorneys Kerri Davis and Katie Warren, for a successful resolution to the case. He also thanked the Coroner's Office, Collinsville Police Department, U.S. Marshals Service, and the Carbondale Police Department for responding to the scene and assisting with apprehending Freeman after the shooting.
"This quick response by local law enforcement shows that this type of violence will not be tolerated in our neighborhoods," he said.
Circuit Judge Kyle Napp accepted a guilty plea from Freeman for one count of first-degree murder. In exchange for his guilty plea, Freeman was sentenced to 35 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections. Freeman will be required to serve all of his sentence.


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There is an old saying that states "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me". I'm willing to bet we've all disagreed with this at some point, and especially when it comes to diabetes. Many advocate for the importance of using non-stigmatizing, inclusive and non-judgmental language when speaking about or to people with diabetes. For some, they don't care, others care passionately. Where do you stand when it comes to "person with diabetes" versus "diabetic", or "checking" blood sugar versus "testing", or any of the tons of other examples?
I have had Type 1 diabetes for 28 years. I am a diabetic. I am also the child of a diabetic. I'm a mother, a daughter, a wife, a blogger, a worker, a neighbor, a knitter, an exerciser. I'm also a person with children, a person with a blog, a person who goes to the gym, etc. I am a lot of things. And all of those things define me. And that's ok.
I use "diabetic" and "person with diabetes" interchangeably. I'll tell a physician that I've had diabetes for years but in the next breath I might say to someone in the waiting room "oh this is my pump, I'm a diabetic". I wouldn't think twice.
Ready for a curve ball? I also have Rheumatoid Arthritis and I think I would be pissed if someone referred to me as arthritic. Just typing that word bothers me. Sure my joints are arthritic but I'm not. I can't really put my finger on why arthritic bothers me so much yet diabetic doesn't. I have come to terms with diabetes- I have it, I've had it for a long time, and I'll always have it. Sure my blood sugars can be wonky but in a weird way, I'm used to that. But things are different with RA. RA is painful, it's debilitating. I would take diabetes over RA in a heartbeat, I wouldn't need to think about it.
So maybe that is my issue. I have diabetes but it doesn't have me, so the terms and language don't bother me at all. But most days, I feel like Rheumatoid Arthritis has me. It controls me. It decides if I'm going to cry in pain on the way to work or if the ice pack strapped to my leg will be enough. And maybe, I need to come to terms with that.


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Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American business magnate, co-founder and chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation, a major enterprise software company. As of 2010 he is the sixth richest person in the world, with a personal wealth of $28 billion.[2]
Born Lawrence Joseph Ellison
August 17, 1944 (1944-08-17) (age 66)
Manhattan, New York, USA
Nationality American
Occupation Co-founder &
CEO of Oracle Corporation
Salary $70.1 M (2009)[1]
Net worth ▲$27 bn (2010)[2]
Spouse Adda Quinn (1967–1974) «start: (1967)–end+1: (1975)»"Marriage: Adda Quinn to Larry Ellison" Location: (linkback:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison)
Nancy Wheeler Jenkins (1977–1978) «start: (1977)–end+1: (1979)»"Marriage: Nancy Wheeler Jenkins to Larry Ellison" Location: (linkback:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison)
Barbara Boothe (1983–1986) «start: (1983)–end+1: (1987)»"Marriage: Barbara Boothe to Larry Ellison" Location: (linkback:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison)
Melanie Craft (2003–present)
Early life
Larry Ellison was born in New York City to Florence Spellman, a 19-year-old unwed Jewish mother. At his mother's request, he was given to his mother's aunt and uncle in Chicago to raise. Lillian Spellman Ellison and Louis Ellison adopted him when he was nine months old. Ellison did not learn the name of his mother or meet her until he was 48; the identity of his father is unknown.[citation needed]
Ellison graduated from Eugene Field Elementary School on Chicago's north side in January, 1958 and attended Sullivan High School at least through the fall of 1959 before moving to South Shore.
Ellison grew up in a two-bedroom apartment in Chicago's South Shore middle-class Jewish neighborhood. Ellison remembers his adoptive mother as warm and loving, in contrast to his austere, unsupportive, and often distant adoptive father, a Russian Jew from the Crimea who adopted the name Ellison to honor his point of entry into the USA, Ellis Island. Louis, his father, was a modest government employee who had made a small fortune in Chicago real estate, only to lose it during the Great Depression.[citation needed]
Ellison was a bright but inattentive student. He left the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at the end of his second year, after not taking his final exams because his adoptive mother had just died. After spending a summer in Northern California, where he lived with his friend Chuck Weiss, he attended the University of Chicago for one term, where he first encountered computer designing. In 1964, at 20 years of age, he moved to northern California permanently.
[edit] Career
Larry Ellison lecturing at the Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco 2010During the 1970s, Ellison worked for Ampex Corporation. One of his projects was a database for the
CIA, which he named "Oracle".
Ellison was inspired by the paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational database systems called "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks".[3] He founded Oracle in 1977, putting up a mere $1400 of his own money, under the name Software Development Laboratories (SDL). In 1979, the company was renamed Relational Software Inc., later renamed Oracle after the flagship product Oracle database. He had heard about the
IBM System R database, also based on Codd's theories, and wanted Oracle to be compatible with it, but IBM made this impossible by refusing to share System R's code. The initial release of Oracle was Oracle 2; there was no Oracle 1. The release number was intended to imply that all of the bugs had been worked out of an earlier version.
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In 1990, Oracle laid off 10% (about 400 people) of its work force because of a mismatch between cash and revenues. This crisis, which almost resulted in Oracle's bankruptcy, came about because of Oracle's "up-front" marketing strategy, in which sales people urged potential customers to buy the largest possible amount of software all at once. The sales people then booked the value of future license sales in the current quarter, thereby increasing their bonuses. This became a problem when the future sales subsequently failed to materialize. Oracle eventually had to restate its earnings twice, and also to settle out of court class action lawsuits arising from its having overstated its earnings. Ellison would later say that Oracle had made "an incredible business mistake."
IBM dominated the mainframe relational database market with its DB2 and SQL/DS database products, it delayed entering the market for a relational database on UNIX and Windows operating systems. This left the door open for Sybase, Oracle, and Informix (and eventually Microsoft) to dominate mid-range systems and microcomputers.
Around this time, Oracle fell behind Sybase. In 1990–1993, Sybase was the fastest growing database company and the database industry's darling vendor, but soon fell victim to its merger mania. Sybase's 1993 merger with Powersoft resulted in a loss of focus on its core database technology. In 1993, Sybase sold the rights to its database software running under the Windows operating system to Microsoft Corporation, which now markets it under the name "SQL Server."
In 1994, Informix Software overtook Sybase and became Oracle's most important rival. The intense war between Informix
CEO Phil White and Ellison was front page Silicon Valley news for three years. In April, 1997, Informix announced a major revenue shortfall and earnings restatements; Phil White eventually landed in jail, and Informix was absorbed by IBM in 2000. Also in 1997, Ellison was made a director of Apple Computer after Steve Jobs came back to the company. Ellison resigned in 2002, saying that he did not have the time to attend necessary formal board meetings.[4]
Once Informix and Sybase were defeated, Oracle enjoyed years of industry dominance until the rise of Microsoft SQL Server in the late 90s and
IBM's acquisition of Informix Software in 2001 to complement their DB2 database. Today Oracle's main competition for new database licenses on UNIX, Linux, and Windows operating systems is with IBM's DB2, the open source database MySQL, and with Microsoft SQL Server (which only runs on Windows). IBM's DB2 still dominates the mainframe database market.
In April 2009, Oracle announced its intent to buy Sun Microsystems after a tug of war with
IBM and Hewlett-Packard.[5] The European Union approved the acquisition by Oracle of Sun Microsystems on January 21, 2010 and agreed that "Oracle's acquisition of Sun has the potential to revitalize important assets and create new and innovative products".[6]
On August 9, 2010, Ellison denounced Hewlett-Packard's board for firing
CEO Mark Hurd, writing: "The H.P. board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago." Ellison and Hurd are close personal friends – Hurd often plays tennis at Ellison's house.[7] Then on September 6, Oracle hired Mark Hurd and made him Co-President alongside Safra A. Catz. Ellison retained the CEO position.[8]
Ellison owns stakes in Salesforce.com, NetSuite, Quark Biotechnology Inc. and SuperGen.[9][10]
[edit] Compensation
In 2005, Oracle paid Ellison a $975,000 salary, a $6,500,000 bonus, and other compensation of $955,100.[11] In 2007, Ellison earned a total compensation of $61,180,524, which included a base salary of $1,000,000, a cash bonus of $8,369,000, and options granted of $50,087,100.[12] In 2008, he earned a total compensation of $84,598,700, which included a base salary of $1,000,000, a cash bonus of $10,779,000, no stocks granted, and options granted of $71,372,700.[13] In the year ending May 31, 2009 he made $56.8 million.[14]
For a short period in 2000, Ellison was the richest man in the world.[15]
In 2006, Forbes ranked Ellison as the richest Californian.[2]
On July 2, 2009, for the fourth year in a row, Oracle's Board awarded Ellison another 7 million stock options.[16]
On August 22, 2009, it was reported that Ellison would be paid only $1 for his base salary for the fiscal year of 2010, down from the $1,000,000 he was paid in fiscal 2009.[1]
As of March 10, 2010, Ellison was listed on the Forbes list of billionaires as the sixth richest person in the world. He is the third richest American, with an estimated net worth of US $28 billion.[2]
On July 27, 2010, The Wall Street Journal reported that Ellison was the best-paid executive in the last decade, collecting a total compensation of US $1.84 billion.[17]
[edit] Personal life
Ellison has been married four times.[18][19] His first three marriages ended in a divorce. He was married to Adda Quinn from 1967 to 1974. He was married to Nancy Wheeler Jenkins between 1977 and 1978. From 1983 to 1986, he was married to Barbara Boothe: two children were born of this marriage, a son and daughter named David and Megan.
On 18 December 2003, Ellison married Melanie Craft, a romance novelist, at his Woodside estate. His friend Steve Jobs (
CEO of Apple, Inc) was the official wedding photographer,[20] and Representative Tom Lantos Officiated.
[edit] Sailing
Ellison co-owns with music and film mogul David Geffen the sixth largest yacht in the world, named Rising Sun, which reportedly cost over US$200 million to build. Rising Sun is 453 ft. (138 m) long.[21]
Ellison is a financier of BMW Oracle Racing.[22]
[edit] 2007 America's Cup
BMW Oracle Racing was the Challenger of Record on behalf of the Golden Gate Yacht Club of San Francisco for the 2007 America's Cup in Valencia, Spain until eliminated from the 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup challenger selection series in the semi-finals.
[edit] 2010 America's Cup
On 14 February 2010, Ellison's yacht USA 17 won the second race (in the best of three "deed of gift" series) of the 33rd America's Cup, after winning the first race two days earlier. Securing a historic victory, Ellison and his BMW Oracle team became the first challengers to win a "deed of gift" match. The Cup returned to American shores for the first time since 1995. Ellison was a crew member for the second race.[23]
Previously, Ellison had filed several legal challenges, through the Golden Gate Yacht Club, against the way that Ernesto Bertarelli (also one of the world's richest men) has proposed to organize the 33rd America's Cup following the 2007 victory of Bertarelli's team Alinghi.[24] The races were finally held[clarification needed] in February 2010 in Valencia, Spain.
[edit] Private jet
Ellison is a licensed pilot and has owned several unusual aircraft, including fighter jets.[citation needed] Ellison was cited by the City of San Jose, California, for violating its limits on late-night takeoffs and landings from San Jose Mineta International Airport by planes weighing more than 75 000 pounds (34 019 kg). In January 2000, Ellison sued over the interpretation of the airport rule, contending that his "plane is certified by the manufacturer to fly at two weights: 75,000 pounds, and at 90,000 pounds, for heavier loads or long flights requiring more fuel. But the pilot only lands the plane in San Jose when it weighs 75,000 pounds or less, and has the logs to prove it..."[25] U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled over the matter in June 2001, calling for a waiver for Ellison's jet, but did not invalidate the curfew.[26]
[edit] Cars
Ellison owns many exotic cars, including an Audi R8 and a McLaren F1. His favorite is the Acura NSX, which he was known to give as gifts each year during its production.[10]
[edit] Home
Ellison styled his estimated $70 million Woodside, California, estate after feudal Japanese architecture, complete with a man-made 2.3-acre (9,300 m2) lake and an extensive seismic retrofit (37°24′44.34″N 122°14′51.40″W / 37.4123167°N 122.247611°W / 37.4123167; -122.247611).[27] In 2004 and 2005, Ellison purchased more than 12 properties in Malibu, California, worth more than $180 million. The $65 million Ellison spent on five contiguous lots on Malibu's Carbon Beach was the most costly residential transaction in United States history until Ron Perelman sold his Palm Beach, Florida compound for $70 million later that same year.[28] His entertainment system cost $1 million, and includes a rock concert-sized video projector at one end of a drained swimming pool, using the gaping hole as a giant subwoofer.[29]
In early 2010 Ellison purchased the Astor's Beechwood Mansion in Newport, Rhode Island for $10.5 million. The property was the former summer home of the prominent Astor family.
[edit] Charitable donations
In order to settle an insider trading lawsuit arising from Ellison's selling nearly $1 billion of Oracle stock, he was allowed to donate $100 million to his own charitable foundation without admitting wrongdoing. A California judge refused to allow Oracle to pay Ellison's legal fees of $24 million. Ellison's lawyer had argued that were Ellison to pay those fees, it could be construed as an admission of guilt. Ellison's charitable donations to Stanford University were an issue in that case on the independence of two Stanford professors who evaluated the merits of the case for Oracle.[30]
In response to the September 11th terrorist attacks, Ellison made a controversial offer to donate to the Federal government software that would enable it to build and run a national identification database and issue ID cards.[31]
In 2002, the leadership of the anti-aging research Ellison Medical Foundation stated that it believed Ellison would increase its annual budget from $35 million to $100 million.[citation needed]
The 2004 Forbes list of the charitable donations made by the wealthiest 400 Americans stated that Ellison had donated $151,092,103 in the preceding year, about 1% of his estimated personal wealth.[citation needed]
In June 2006, Ellison announced that he would not honor his earlier pledge of $115 million to Harvard University, claiming it was due to the departure of former President Lawrence Summers.[32]
In August 2010 it was reported that Ellison is one of the 40 billionaires who has signed "The Giving Pledge".[33][34][35] Ellison wrote: "Many years ago, I put virtually all of my assets into a trust with the intent of giving away at least 95 percent of my wealth to charitable causes. I have already given hundreds of millions of dollars to medical research and education, and I will give billions more over time. Until now, I have done this giving quietly—because I have long believed that charitable giving is a personal and private matter."[36]


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