text: 2014 Race Reports 2013 Race Reports Aston Martin GT4 Challenge 2012 Race Reports GT4 Challenge Partners Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Round 7 Round 2 - Oulton ParkQualifying ReportVantage racing's Tom Black in the number 24 machine was unfortunately unable to make the start of qualifying because of an incident in testing the day before which left the car to badly damaged to be repaired for the race day. The 40-minute session started with a slightly greasy track and with all cars on slick tyres, it would prove to be a very interesting session. On lap 3 Mark Walker in the number 47 Stratton Motorsport car ran wide on the exit of Druids corner, which unsettled the car and sent it into the barriers on the right hand side of the circuit. Mark was pretty shaken but unhurt after the big impact, unfortunately the car would not be able to be repaired in time for the race. The session was red flagged to allow the marshal's time to repair the barriers and as always they did a fantastic job in sorting everything out in as short a time as possible. The session was restarted with 30 minutes left to run and as the tyres came up to temperature and driver confidence increased the times began to fall. Olivier Bouche in the Stratton Motorsport with Immun`age and Osato number 22 car set some fantastic lap times and took the provisional pole which he would hold onto until the end of the session. In second place was Paul Whight driving the number 88 Stratton motorsport car and third was Mike Brown driving the MB Racing number 7 machine. With five minutes to go Tiffany Chittenden driving the number 91 Stratton Motorsport car took third place moving Mike Brown to fourth, in fifth place was the number 56 Ultimate Speed car of Tim Eakin. Olivier Bouche and Pierre Mantello took another fantastic pole position, making it two out of two for the 2012 season in the Aston Martin GT4 Challenge of Great Britain. Race Report Part 1Olivier Bouche started the race in the Stratton Motorsport with Immun`age and Osato number 22 car, leading the pack round on the green flag lap, the lights went out and Olivier led the field into Old Hall. Second was Paul Whight in the Stratton Motorsport number 88 car with Tiffany Chittenden in the Stratton Motorsport number 91 machine third the MB Racing number 7 entry of Mike Brown was fourth. Desmond Smail in the Mardi Gras number 5 car was having a great battle managing to move himself up from seventh to fourth but on lap 4 had a spin on the exit of Kinckerbrook, undoing all of his hard work and dropping him back to seventh again.By lap 5 Olivier Bouche had already created a very impressive 10-second lead over the rest of the pack and set about trying to extend his lead even further by setting the fastest lap of the race. On lap 9 Paul Whight in car 88 pitted from second place for an unscheduled stop but the Stratton Motorsport team managed to fix the issue and Paul got underway again.Tiffany Chittenden in car number 91 was the first to pit for round one of the two mandatory pit stops, she would hand over to Chris Kemp for the next phase of the race. Olivier Bouche in car 22 now had a 60 second lead over the second place car, Desmond Smail in car 5 who had once again managed to get back up through the field was now lying third. Kenneth Greenberg in the Stratton Motorsport number 62 entry was the next to pit for tyres but no driver change. Olivier Bouche in car 22 pitted from the lead on lap 21 and handed over the driving duties to Pierre Mantello. Mike Brown was the next to pit in the number 7 MB racing machine handing over to Paul Cripps.After the first round of stops had been completed it was Pierre Mantello in the Stratton Motorsport with Immun`age and Osato number 22 car leading from Chris Kemp in the Stratton Motorsport number 91 car and third was Kenneth Greenberg in the Stratton Motorsport number 62 car. Race Report Part 2The second round of pit stops started on lap 35 with Kenneth Greenberg pitting to hand over to Andreas Kramer in car 62, they were soon followed by Paul Cripps in car 7 handing over to Dave West and Chris Kemp in car 91 handing back over to Tiffany Chittenden. Sid Sadique in the number 88 Stratton Motorsport car pitted on lap 39 to hand back over to Paul Whight and on the very next lap the hard charging Desmond Smail pitted in the Mardi Gras number 5 car and handed over to Julian Reddyhough. On Lap 45 the leader Pierre Mantello in car 22 pitted to hand back over to Olivier Bouche for the final stint of the race. Richard Taffinder in the Ultimate Speed number 56 machine who was now lying second then pitted to hand over to Tim Eakin.After the second round of mandatory pit stops had all been completed it was still Olivier Bouche in car 22 leading from Tiffany Chittenden in car 91 and Dave West in car 7 who was now third. Olivier had managed to lap the complete field, so now set about nursing the car to victory. The battle for third ensued with Paul Whight in car 88 catching Dave West in car 7, Paul was pushing really hard and managed to get the gap down to just under 20 seconds before spinning at Cascades, taking the pressure of the Dave in the number 7 machine.The checkered flag came out on lap 62 for Pierre Mantello and Olivier Bouche, in the Stratton Motorsport with Immun`age and Osato number 22 car, to claim another amazing victory, they had led every lap of the race. Second was the number 91 Stratton Motorsport entry of Chris Kemp and Tiffany Chittenden and third completing the podium positions, with a very professional drive, were the MB racing crew of Mike Brown, Paul Cripps and Dave West in car number 7, this was their first podium in the GT4 Challenge of Great Britain and was also Paul Cripps`s first ever time to Oulton Park, what a fantastic achievement!The series now moves on to Brands Hatch on the 5 June for the next chapter of the Aston Martin GT4 Challenge of Great Britain.Race Result22 Pierre Mantello/Olivier Bouche - Stratton Motorsport with Immun'age and Osato - 62 Laps91 Chris Kemp/Tiffany Chittenden - Stratton Motorsport - 61 Laps7 Mike Brown/Paul Cripps/Dave West - MB Racing - 60 Laps88 Sid Sadique/Paul Whight - Stratton Motorsport with 88 Racing - 60 Laps56 Richard Taffinder/Tim Eakin - Ultimate Speed - 59 Laps62 Kenneth Greenberg/Andreas Kramer - Stratton Motorsport - 58 Laps5 Desmond Smail/Julian Reddyhough - Mardi Gras - 58 Laps Cars Teams Series Partners History News Contact


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Unoffical Guide To World Update
World Update and Understanding Configs
First let me say that there is a several ways to doing things on SL. I am not saying that my way is the best way by any means. This is simply my way of how I do things with a fresh install to make a stable system. You should probably read the other articles below first to better understand things.
First thing - I alway buy my hardware that I know is linux supported and has good drivers. So get to know your hardware, I can't say that enough as it will save you a lot of headaches.
DO NOTE - I can not tell you what you can safely remove from your system as you need to know your hardware and what is safe to uninstall, remove from config files and remove from kernel. I am going to try and stay very basic here so you can get the idea.
Fresh install and everything is working great so now what?
Well I head to the /etc/make.conf file and edit that thing to my liking and double checking things over. I remove any unnecessary things. Remember to edit these files you must be root. If you like nano you can simple go into Konsole and punch in su than enter your password. You can edit the file by doing
nano -w /etc/make.conf
or if you simply must have a GUI you can go to konsole and enter
kdesu konqueror
and when the box pops up, enter your password, wait a bit and a new window will come up. In that window you are root to everything and can edit anything. Pretty simple so far right? If you need help figuring out what options are available in the make.conf then refer to the Gentoo Handbook and Wiki often.
Ok, so now that I got that set I like to head to the kernel and add to it and remove things I don't need by doing in konsole:
# zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/src/config
# genkernel --kernel-config=/usr/src/config --menuconfig --bootloader=grub --gensplash=sabayon all
or if you use lvm do: - noted for waltercool
# genkernel --kernel-config=/usr/src/config --menuconfig --bootloader=grub --gensplash=sabayon --lvm2 all
note the # means you must be root, don't actually use the #
This step is not necessary if you don't care that your kernel is big. I always need to enable some sound stuff and you may need to enable drivers, again, this is where knowing where your hardware is very important. You remove the wrong thing and your puter will not boot. Skip this step if you have a funny look on your face at this time.
NOTE: Before doing the following 'emerge -e' commands, you may want to customize your CFLAGS in make.conf so that it is optimized for your CPU type. The following two commands take very a long time, so it's worth it to optimize while you are taking the time to do this. Please refer to Gentoo Safe CFLAGS Guide for the correct setting for your specific CPU. Do not change your CHOST as described in that guide, changing CHOST is dangerous and not recommended. See this HOWTO if you wish to risk changing your CHOST.
Now some of you may totally think I am crazy here but as far as software removal I do that later. Yes I know I can remove software at this time that I will never use and save time when I recompile the system, but this is my unofficial stable system and I know it will work cause I have done it several times. So with that being said I want to now recompile just the system. Now I prefer to do :
# emerge -e system || until emerge --resume --skipfirst; do emerge --resume --skipfirst; done
Notice I have not done an emerge --sync yet and I don't want to do that yet, that will come later. So now several hours are going to go by. This a great thing to do when you are about to go to bed. After that is done, I like to do the world recompile:
# emerge -e world || until emerge --resume --skipfirst; do emerge --resume --skipfirst; done
do note once again that I have not used emerge --sync yet and this is going to be another lengthy process. You may do both commands at once by simply doing:
# emerge -e system || until emerge --resume --skipfirst; do emerge --resume --skipfirst; done && emerge -e world || until emerge --resume --skipfirst; do emerge --resume --skipfirst; done
I just like to break it up.
So now I have finished recompiling everything and my processor is going Dude! Well now I punch in:
# emerge --sync && layman -S
to update my portage tree and overlays. First time syncs on SL are slow, I promise they will get faster after the first time. Once that is done I punch in:
# emerge -upDN world
this will pull up just under 400 packages, WOW!! Well lets get the show on the road.
# emerge -uN world
Now you look at that and go what happened to the D ?, again this is my guide and that will come later. Now you are probably sitting there thinking I thought SL doesn't recommend a world update. My feelings are this: no you don't need to, but SL 3.3 makes it a piece of cake to world update. Pre 3.3 I don't recommend, as you will be forever swamped with recompiling. Now with the world update you are going to run into bumps and this is where reading the ERROR MESSAGES is going to come to be Very Important. If you listen to what portage is telling you and use the Gentoo bugzilla and Gentoo forums for searching you can usually find the solution. Once a package fails I simply:
# emerge --resume --skipfirst
to continue on. I like to do this method to see what packages are failing. If you don't care:
# emerge -uN world || until emerge --resume --skipfirst; do emerge --resume --skipfirst; done
then it will auto skip and keep on going till finished. Now I don't try and fix any packages till it is completely done. Once it is done I look look at
#emerge -upN world
and go through each package and install it with the fix needed to get it to install. At this time I will simple remove any packages that have failed that I know I don't need. So now we are done and
# emerge -upN world
shows no packages left in it, time I fire up
# emerge -upDN world
YAY more packages to compile! The amount of packages won't be that much. So we wait for that to finish and I usually fix the errors as it goes along since it isn't very many packages. Now we have the entire system rebuilt, well almost. It's time to run:
# revdep-rebuild
and if that fails do:
# revdep-rebuild
It will find more packages to recompile! Your processor is probably plotting some sort of revenge against you at this time. So now what? Well, you are gonna have some config files that are screaming for an update. Now I like to use:
# etc-update
There is several ways to update config files, this is my way of doing it. So I punch in etc-update and many will auto merge, which is great with me. I look over the remaining ones left and determine if they are safe or not to update. Off the top of my head I believe all changes in 3.3 are safe, but look and if you are unsure, don't do it. So we have recompiled everything after making changes to system, updated the config files. Are we done? Do we dare reboot? Let's live dangerously and reboot, I mean a reinstall is only 40 minutes to do anyway right?
So we rebooted, prayed and we made it back to our Desktop!! So now, I like all the multimedia features the web has to offer, so I want to experience it all, so I open up my konsole again and punch in:
USE="divx gmedia gtk nls quicktime realmedia wmp" emerge mplayerplug-in
Yes, I know you can add this to your package.use file, but this is my guide and you should add it to your /etc/portage/package.use file for future use. Now I can sit back and view all the goodness of web multimedia! I hate totem handling the web plugins cause it sucks at doing so. I don't uninstall totem I simply move all the totem plugins out of the plugins folder: /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins and put em in /usr/lib/nsbrowser Just in case I ever want to put them back.
Alrighty then, we are world updated now. You can continue to stay world update and SL updated with the overlay by:
# emerge --sync && layman -S && emerge -uDN world
A handy automated script for this can be found here: Update Script
Conclusion - my systems are rock solid no matter what I throw at them. It's a long process, but that's fine with me cause the results are worth it. Do keep in mind that it will take less time with the mini as there is less to deal with. It will require thinking and deciphering and good abilities of effective searching. No I can not help you world update your system as I have no idea what hardware you use or what you use your computer for. Is there a chance you may hose your system? Of course there is! It shouldn't happen if you pay attention. I can't stress enough to read the Gentoo Handbook, look at the Gentoo Wiki, look at the Gentoo Forum, look at the SL Wiki, look at the SL Forum and don't forget Google, bookmark them all!
That's it in a nutshell and I take NO and I mean NO Responsibilities for a hosed system. Your millage is going to vary of course depending on what hardware and software you use.
Input is welcome and I will answer questions if I know the answers.
Understanding make.conf - An Introduction
# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage # Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example CFLAGS="-O3 -march=native -funroll-all-loops -m3dnow -msse3 -funit-at-a-time -fpeel-loops -ftracer -funswitch-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common -s" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" USE="win32codecs mp3 quicktime type1 divx4linux dvb dvd dvdread live mpeg nvidia jpeg truetype v4l v4l2 xv xvid multilib gnutls arts cups ppds foomatic-db alsa gimpprint freetype gnome X gtk gtk2 unicode moznocompose moznoirc moznomail kde qt samba xinerama xine theora kdeenablefinal wifi hal ieee1394 oggvorbis lm_sensors logitech-mouse zeroconf artswrappersuid nptl nptlonly rdesktop dvdr css gphoto2 openexr speex jpeg2k povray scanner musicbrainz accessibility audiofile exif xscreensaver ffmpeg vcd sndfile musepack asterisk mbrola pam_chroot pam_timestamp pwdb pda sms irda kig-scripting speedo browserplugin nsplugin ldap kerberos firefox dga aac dts xvmc dbus hal dvi on-the-fly-crypt dri xprint acpi ada ruby perforce cjk fat hfs jfs ntfs reiser4 xfs reiserfs skins cdda real shout stream a52 wxwindows vlm lirc libcaca remote stats lcd unichrome 7zip commercial mozsvg canvas xml2 glut java glitz svg avahi ogg vorbis aalib flac gdbm mikmod timidity kdgraphics dlloader exscalibar ipod visualization mono cdr nntp cairo djvu nautilus evo ole pdf xml ladspa soundtouch bzip2 udev mad fuse rtsp tiff kdehiddenvisibility dvi usb kipi aiglx musicbrainz pulseaudio dv lame mp3rtp udev cdr dvi djvu libnotify bzip2 aalib startup-notification nsplugin jingle gsm dbox2 opengl sdl png gif qt3 qt4 qt3support apache2 mysql php ssl xml berkdb innobd pcre" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-s -j3" PORTAGE_NICENESS="8" FEATURES="parallel-fetch" CONFIG_PROTECT="/usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/ /etc" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa vga nvidia" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" LIRC_DEVICES="audio audio_alsa" PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log info" PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save" # FEATURES="buildpkg" source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y"
Above you will find a make.conf and is a vital component to your operating system. If you don't know this file you are defeating the purpose of this distro. One of the biggest things about gentoo based is being able to build the operating sytem to you. Using the default settings are going to work, but you are not taking full advantage of your potentials. You can ease our portage frustration also, like compiling issues.
Why do we need make.conf? Portage uses this file to know how to build your entire system. All the settings you put here, portage reads and builds to them.
CFLAGS CFLAGS are C compiler flags, usually GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) options. CFLAGS are commonly used to specify the architecture of your computer, as well as the CPU you are using and any other special options you would like to enable or disable. This information is important to GCC because it tells it exactly how to customize the assembly instructions it creates from the application's source code. http://gentoo-wiki.com/CFLAGS
LDFLAGS Deals with your hash tables and compiler See for more information: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Safe_LDFLAGS http://lwn.net/Articles/192624/ Your not going to be touching these, so moving right along.
CHOST Variable declares the target build host for your system You don't want to change this value unless you know what you are doing. You simply can't change it to i686 and go about using your computer. There is situations that may cause you to have to change this. For instance, lets say you upgrade your cpu or need a certain package that won't work with your current architect. Gentoo has a guide for changing it. Follow it closely or you will have a hosed system. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml
CXXFLAGS CXXFLAGS is set to use all the options present in CFLAGS. This is what you'll want almost without fail. You shouldn't ever need to specify additional options in CXXFLAGS. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-optimization.xml
USE In Gentoo a USE flag is a representation of an option, a global setting for your final system. USE flags affect how many of the packages on your system will build. These depend on the software and your computer usage. It's important to know these and to thin the list down to your usage. You will see that I have a lot in mine, but that is because of testing I do for SL. All these USE settings are global, meaning they effect every package on your system. The more USE settings you have, the more conflicts you can encounter with portage when compiling software. There is a /etc/portage/package.use file that you can use to individually tell packages how you want them built. http://gentoo-portage.com/USE http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" This is for setting which branch of portage you want to use. Stable vs. Unstable "bleeding edge". You can see by the ~ we are not using the stable branch so we are bleeding edge. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3
LINGUAS I hope this is self explanatory, but if not - your language http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml
MAKEOPTS You define how many parallel compilations should occur when you install a package. A good choice is the number of CPUs in your system plus one, but this guideline isn't always perfect. http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=5
PORTAGE_NICENESS If you keep using your computer while compiling packages you will notice that your box is less responsive than usual. This is caused by having two "groups" of processes with the same nice priority: your usual running processes, and emerge (and its child processes). Now, if you could renice emerge and its children to a higher nice value (i.e. lower priority), compiling would take somewhat longer, but your workstation will be as responsive as before. http://gentoo-wiki.com/Portage_Niceness
FEATURES Portage has several additional features that makes your Gentoo experience even better. Many of these features rely on certain software tools that improve performance, reliability, security, ... Parallel fetch: When you are emerging a series of packages, Portage can fetch the source files for the next package in the list even while it is compiling another package, thus shortening compile times.. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=3
CONFIG_PROTECT This variable contains a space-delimited list of directories which should be protected by Portage during updates. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=5
VIDEO_CARDS I see people's make.conf often and in the default make.conf there is like 20 video cards listed. Why compile more than you have too? Get rid of all the cards not in your computer. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml
INPUT_DEVICES The same goes here, get rid of any equipment you don't have. My desktop doesn't have touchpad - why compile it? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml
LIRC_DEVICES Linux Infrared Remote Control - this is where you are going to set your devices http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_LIRC
source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf -- location for your layman, for managing your overlays such as sabayon, xeffects, etc....
Extras that I have added, just for my own use. You will not see these in a default make.conf
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES Ebuild Logging - Portage can create per-ebuild logfiles, but only when the PORT_LOGDIR variable is set to a location that is writable by Portage (the portage user). By default this variable is unset. If you don't set PORT_LOGDIR, then you won't receive any build logs with the current logging system, though you may receive some logs from the new elog. If you do have PORT_LOGDIR defined and you use elog, you will receive build logs and any logs saved by elog, as explained below.
Portage offers fine-grained control over logging through the use of elog:
- PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES: This is where you set what kinds of messages to be logged. You can use any space-separated combination of info, warn, error, log, and qa.
o info: Logs "einfo" messages printed by an ebuild o warn: Logs "ewarn" messages printed by an ebuild o error: Logs "eerror" messages printed by an ebuild o log: Logs the "elog" messages found in some ebuilds o qa: Logs the "QA Notice" messages printed by an ebuild PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM: This selects the module(s) to process the log messages. If left empty, logging is disabled. You can use any space-separated combination of save, custom, syslog, mail, save_summary, and mail_summary. You must select at least one module in order to use elog.
- save: This saves one log per package in $PORT_LOGDIR/elog, or /var/log/portage/elog if $PORT_LOGDIR is not defined.
- custom: Passes all messages to a user-defined command in $PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND; this will be discussed later.
- syslog: Sends all messages to the installed system logger.
- mail: Passes all messages to a user-defined mailserver in $PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI; this will be discussed later. The mail features of elog require >=portage-2.1.1.
- save_summary: Similar to save, but it merges all messages in $PORT_LOGDIR/elog/summary.log, or /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log if $PORT_LOGDIR is not defined.
- mail_summary: Similar to mail, but it sends all messages in a single mail when emerge exits.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/h ... t=3&chap=1
- portage-2.1.3: "echo" - this prints all logged messages again at the end of the emerge
FEATURES="buildpkg" for building your own binary packages and saving them http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_setup_a_PO ... OST_server http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/emul/index.xml
source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf -- location for your layman, for managing your overlays such as sabayon, xeffects, etc....
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y" # considers also build-time deps at dependency calculations http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=2
Man Make.conf http://gentoo-wiki.com/MAN_makeconf
Do you see now why it is important to know this file? This file can make your gentoo based distro a much better experience. The gentoo handbook can help you set it up properly. Remember to take full advantage of changes, you need to be using certain flags like emerge --newuse foo. Recompiling your entire sytem and world is what you need to do to take advantage of your changes. Like for me I simple run emerge -uDN --world - that will update and make sure all packages are following my settings. If I changed a USE flag it will rebuild the packages effected and update packages to latest in portage.
Recompiling your system is not going to be easy if you are new to all of this. I recommend getting to know portage and how to work with portage before attempting it. It's something you just don't jump into. Your going to run into all sorts of issues and gonna have to search and find your answers. As of 3.4 you are gonna run into a python update, which requires taking care of first as things will break and need to get updated to the new python. Pending on your system - it can take several days to complete the process. Learn your world file and cleaning it out before starting, this will save many hours of recompiling packages you don't need. The world file is a record of packages which have been specifically installed by the user. More specifically it's a list of packages which the user wants to keep installed and updated on their system. It will not record the dependencies of those packages, but instead uses the dependencies of the currently installed packages to keep track of this information. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Portage_Correctly
You will also want to get yourself familiar with the files in your /etc/portage/ you will need to use them to mask and unmask needed packages. Also use em for telling how certain packages should be built.
Read thru the unofficial guide for a world update viewtopic.php?f=54&t=5531
Best advice - Use the operating system till you know it, than start diving into the depths of the internal stuff. I know it is frustrating for people that are new, but if you give it time and stick with it, it will all come together. If all this information totally terrifies you, than stick with the default settings. Use the information for you knowledge. Topic is open for discussion.
Config Files - An Introduction
Without config files the operating sytem would be blah. Are you finding yourself confused with all the messages of portage telling you:
IMPORTANT: 124 config files in '/usr/share/X11/xkb' need updating
Well unfortunately with the amount of config files on your computer it is impossible to go over them all. I'm going to try and hit on the more important ones that are used more frequently.
Do you have to update your config files? The answer will be yes. Why? Cause things change over time.
How do I update my config files, portage keeps telling me I have config files to update? Well there is several ways to do this, you will need to run one of the following more popular methods.:
etc-update: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_etc-update
dispatch-conf: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_dispatch-conf
Do not and I repeat, do not blindly auto merge config file updates. You can hose your system to the point it won't boot back up. Well there is so many, how do I know if it is safe to or not? Good question and the rule of thumb is - if you have not edited a config file than generally your are safe, but this isn't a sure fire way. Using dispatch-conf will keep a back up copy of you old config files in case you need to restore them. Get to know your config files so you can be aware of certain files.
Remember to edit the config files you need to be root, so you will want to open konsole, type su, enter password and than nano or vi the file. You can do this via GUI too, just open konsole and run kdesu konqueror and when the box comes up, enter you root password and than you will have a root file manager window, gnome users will use gksu nautilus.
/etc/rc.conf - for general, system-wide configuration. Read the comments in the file, it's pretty well explained. If your window manager suddenly changes upon boot, this is one of the first files to check. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=8
/etc/conf.d/xdm - Is what controls your GUI login and window Manager. So if you GUI or login is messed up, be sure to check it out. It's self explanatory. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Activate_Graphical_login
/etc/hosts - helps in resolving host names to IP addresses for hosts that aren't resolved by your nameserver. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=8
/etc/make.conf - This file contains various variables that are used by Portage. Portage will check the currently-defined environment variables first for any settings. http://gentoo-wiki.com/MAN_makeconf http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=10578
/boot/grub/grub.conf - Your boot manager so you can boot 1 or more operating systems. This is one of the first screens you will see and is asking for you to choose what operating system to boot. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Quick_GRUB http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_boot
/etx/X11/xorg.conf - Xorg is the X Window server which allows users to have a graphical environment. Got resolution problems? This file is for you. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
/etc/conf.d/net - your network configuration, see /etc/conf.d/net.example for a very well documented example – dhcp, static, wireless, wired networking settings http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=8
/etc/resolv.conf - your DNS file, nothing to complicated, but if you can access your router but can't get web pages to load - check this file for DNS settings http://gentoo-wiki.com/MAN_resolve.conf
/etc/fstab - This file contains the mount points of your partitions. Need to mount a hard drive? Add it here so it is available on every boot up. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=8
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 - You may have decided to compile some kernel components as modules (as opposed to compiled directly into the kernel) and would like to have them autoloaded on bootup like you did with 2.4. Also, if you installed any external modules from the portage tree you will probably want to autoload them too. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml
/etc/exports This is great for doing shares on the network using NFS http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Share_Directories_via_NFS This also works great of sharing portage across multiple computers. You only need to sync one main computer than share your portage so the other computers will connect to your main computer for emerges http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Using_a_shared_portage_via_NFS
This hardly puts a dent in the amount of config files, but those are the ones I run across the most, plus trying to keep it friendly for people new to config files. I could of mentioned like local.start, but that is for experienced people. Gentoo wiki has a small list of config files too: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_List_of_Configuration_Files
Generally you can google and find some thing about the config file. Enter into google "gentoo xorg.conf" and you will find your answer. Feel free to add more that I may have missed here.

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Rather than leading off with their ceremony, Brooke and Tim began with a late-afternoon hors d'oeurve reception. They greeted everyone at the camp's main lodge, where local brews and a country band gave their 200 guests—many of whom had traveled from out of state—a taste of the Northwest. The festivities continued through dinner, served inside the lodge, where white linens and chairs blended with the low-key surroundings.
After dinner, guests followed a rugged switchback trail to a riverside bonfire pit for the couple's sunset ceremony. Before returning to the lodge for dessert and dancing, everyone roasted marshmallows and sang songs by the river's edge. The newlyweds capped their day with a true outdoorsy experience: talking late into the night with friends around a fire, under the stars. —Michaela Garibaldi
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Planning on running wire through cubicle walls in an office? Make sure you're familiar with the applicable standards and Code sections.
Running data cables and power conductors through furniture wireways is essentially the same as running them through any other types of wireway, except the space in furniture pathways is generally far more limited than in most other circumstances. As such, the size of access openings and tight bending radii become primary concerns in protecting against wire damage.
To better understand these issues, let's go through some of the codes and standards regarding these installations, as well as some design and workmanship issues.
Codes and standards.
Let's begin by looking at NEC Art. 605, Office Furnishings (Consisting of Lighting Accessories and Wired Partitions). This article covers the installation of "electrical equipment, lighting accessories, and wiring systems used to connect, or contained within, or installed on relocatable wired partitions." In other words, this article applies to the standard, freestanding cubicle partitions found in office buildings across the country. The NEC classifies these partitions (and their many variations) as furniture.
The provisions of Art. 605 include the following:
Partitions may not extend to the ceiling, except by special permission.
Internal wireways must be identified for their use.
Any lighting equipment used with the partitions must be listed for that use, properly supported, and connected with a properly sized cord no more than 9 ft long. Where a cord-and-plug connection is provided, the cord shall not be smaller than 18 AWG, shall contain an equipment-grounding conductor, and shall be of the hard-usage type.
Interconnections must be identified for such use, or must be made with extra hard-usage cord with 12 AWG or larger conductors with an insulated equipment grounding conductor no more than 2 ft long and fitted with attachment plugs and strain reliefs.
Partitions permanently connected to the building must be permanently connected to the electrical system by standard wiring methods noted in Chap. 3.
Receptacles supplying power to partitions must be located within 12 in. of them.
Multiwire circuits are not permitted.
A maximum of 13 15A, 125V receptacles are permitted on any partition or group of partitions.
In addition to Art. 605 of the NEC, ANSI/TIA/EIA-569-A, Commercial Building Standard for Telecommunications Pathways and Spaces applies directly to the use of furniture wireways for the installation of data cabling. This standard is closely associated with another telecom standard, ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.1, Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard: General Requirements. This document standardizes design and construction practices and provides a telecommunications support system that is adaptable to change during the life of a facility. Standard 568-B covers the pathways and spaces in which telecommunications media are placed and terminated, and it outlines acceptable pathways and spaces within and between buildings, and commercial building design for both single and multi-tenant buildings.
The "Work Areas" portion of ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B relating to furniture pathways presents the following design considerations:
At least one telecommunications outlet box location shall be planned for each work area.
This location should be coordinated with the furniture plan. A power outlet should be located nearby.
Control center, attendant, and reception areas shall have direct and independent pathways to the serving telecommunications room.
The bend radius of the furniture pathways shall not be less than 25 mm (1 in.).
Furniture spaces designed to house slack storage, consolidation points, or multi-user telecommunications outlet assemblies shall provide space for strain relieving, terminating, and storing slack for the horizontal cables.
Slack storage and furniture pathway fill shall not affect the bend radius or termination of the cable to the connector.
You must meet the minimum separation requirements of NEC 800.52.
You must install fire stopping materials per applicable codes.
Practical design considerations.
Once you are beyond the critical safety and technical concerns outlined in the codes and standards, you must think about the ease of installation and eventual rearrangement of furniture when designing the layout of the partitions. Here are some items to pay attention to:
Filling a cable pathway with wires is feasible on a straight run, but you must avoid kinking at corners. Some corners may not accommodate all the cables that fit into a straight section. Solve this problem by over-sizing or under-filling the straight sections.
While most furniture panels have top pathways for cable routing — valuable for separating data cables from power cables — some specialty furniture offers "beltline" cable and power pathways at desktop height.
Computer and telephone-intensive operations can benefit from work surface cable management, which has the added advantage of out-of-sight cord and cable storage.
Make sure that any wireway in which you install wiring is listed for that purpose by UL.
Running branch circuits and data circuits through wireways embedded in furniture is not a new technology — cable installers have been using the process for nearly 20 years. Keeping cables and wires hidden and out of the way is a must in offices, but you have to understand the codes and standards that dictate their placement before you can undertake such a project.


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On Friday, October 25, the Cedar Springs Red Hawk Varsity football team played their last game of the season at Greenville high school. The final score of the game was 24-14 in favor of the Red Hawks. The team finished the season with a record of 5-4 in overall play and 3-2 in conference play.
Cedar Springs came out in the first quarter and scored making the game 6-0 and then scored a two point conversion making it 8-0. Greenville came back in the second quarter and scored two touchdowns. Greenville took the lead going into halftime 14-8. Neither teams scored in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, Cedar Springs came fighting back and scored 16 more points making the final score of the game 24-14.
On offense, Cedar Springs had a total of 14 first downs, gained 184 yards while rushing, and had possession of the ball for 26:55. Senior Jeff Newland, and junior Mavrick Cotton both scored for the Red Hawks. Jeff Newland had a total of 73 net yards while rushing. Junior Kaden Myers wasn't far behind him with 55, and senior Dylan Block also contributed with 17. Senior quarterback, Austin Hilyer, also scored a touchdown for the Red Hawks. On punt returns, junior, Mavrick Cotton ran for 14 yards and Kaden Myers ran for 32 yards.
On defense, Jeff Newland led the team with 10 tackles. Seniors Jordan Johnson, Nick Krajewski and junior Caden Burrows, came in with a total of five for the game. The team had a total of 53 tackles against the Yellow Jackets. Mavrick Cotton also had a pass interception for five yards.
"It was a great game, I'm very happy that our seniors could go out with a win over Greenville like that," comments Coach Gus Kapolka. "It was a great feeling in the locker room after the game. Everybody was very satisfied with the outcome."
The Red Hawks football season is officially over and the community of Cedar Springs wishes the best to our seniors, and also good luck to the Red Hawks football program next year.


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How To Profit From Deflation
August 24, 2010 - This video shows how you can profit from the threat of deflation. It will talk about how deflation will affect the gold, treasury bond, and stock market. Enjoy!
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July 19, 2007 -
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Interview with Jay Kaeppel
June 11, 2007 -
Jay Kaeppel is the author of a number of books on futures and options.
Optionetics has produced a three part interview with him.
Read the interview with Jay.
Commitment of Traders No Longer Valid?
May 8, 2006 - The Commitment of Traders Report (COT) has been a mainstay of futures traders for decades. People like Larry Williams have created large volumes of analysis on how to use this public information to profit in futures trading.
Now comes a report that shows that the COT may no longer truly represent what market participants are doing and is therefore not as valid if not completely invalid as a analytical tool now. Click
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CME and Reuters Link Up To Offer More Derivatives
May 8 , 2006 - The CME is the dominant futures exchange but is completely overwhelmed by the volume in the cash market. Reuters is the dominant trading platform for the cash market. The combo of the two will give a jolt to both entities. This is, as the cliche says, a win-win for both. Click
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To Deal With Losing Streaks
15, 2006 - Everybody
goes through losing streaks. It's a fact that haunts every
trader. But what should you do with them? Can they put your
into financial ruin or psychologically break you? We've written
a special article on the subject. Click
here for more details.
Refco History
11, 2006- More
gory details on an amazing story.
End of Floor Traders
11, 2006- There
seems to be no issue that the trading floors filled with screaming
traders will soon be a thing of the past. Here's an article
about this passing into history.
of Refco Regulatory Problems
5, 2006- Bloomberg
has an interesting
history of the problems that Refco has had with regulators
going back to the 1960's, including the famous trading coup
of Hillary Clinton.
out that I had conversations twice with Phillip Bennett about
buying Refco. The first time was in 1993 and was very serious.
I was the CEO of Quantum Financial Services at the time and
were aggressively expanding. Tommy Ditmar was the owner and
CEO of the company at the time with Bennett as his CFO. I
got the impression that Ditmar just wasn't interested in owning
the company any more and just wanted to dump it.
were very serious about our interest and did a lot of due
diligence. Refco had only taken over Conti to become the biggest
futures merchant a few years before. Our main contact was
Bennett. He came across to me as British and professional,
both attributes that were rare in the Chicago futures scene
at the time.
then, Refco had a very large overseas operation but had yet
to become the power in forex and other capital markets.
ended up passing on the deal because the company wasn't a
good fit for us more than the price was too high. If memory
serves me correctly, the price was almost free but came with
the assumption of the lot of liabilities.
Trading Contest
dropped out of university because I couldn't see any courses
that could help me become a successful trader. Accounting
courses? What did that have to do with the bellies? MBA? Puhleeze,
that helped you to become the vice-presidnt of a big company.
instead, I enrolled in the University of Hard Knocks.
out that they now have futures
trading contests that enable students to actually trade
futures. Now this is a course I could have taken!
The Keys to Successful Futures Trading
2, 2006 - One
of the most important issues of CTCR was our special issue
on The Keys to Successful Futures Trading. We asked 19 futures
gurus about what they felt were the keys to making money as
a trader.
a lot of the answers surprised me. For example, they wern't
self-serving at all. They never tried to hype their own intelligence.
They admitted to a lot os mistakes.
the same time, a lot of their answers were Mom and apple pie.
gurus that participated included:
approaches range from fundamentsl to technicals to astrology
yet they often came back to the same underlying keys.
the end, I wrote an analysis of their comments. We've been
running excerpts from it in our weekly e-letter.
packaged this special report into an electronic e-book of
15 pages. Because it is so important for every trader, we
are giving it away for free! Yes, for FREE!
you have to do to get a copy is to ask for it! Just
click here and put Keys in the subject or body and we will
email you a copy. You will also receive a free subscription
to the CTCR email letter.
owe it to yourself to read this important issue!
With Just a Little Money
2, 2006- One
of the critical problems with trading is not having enough
money. How are we to learn how to trade without starting with
a bankroll of $100,000?
have recently been giving away a classic back issue of CTCR
which dealt this this issue: Click
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will also receive a free subscription to the CTCR email letter.
most traders start with a small bankroll and most people thinking
of investing in futures have small bankrolls. What do we mean
by small? Probably anything less than $25,000.
I've done some research in the past and found that the chances
of success increase dramatically with the size of the bankroll
as you move from $0 to $100,000. The reason is that a small
bankroll cannot diversify and that people nearly always take
too much risk. With $10,000, most people will risk, for argument's
sake, $1,000 on one trade. That means you are wiped out if
you have a net loss of ten trades (with certain assumptions).
The article was written so that traders could have a more
diversified portfolio and still trade futures. The problem
is that two of the methods, options and spreads, require more
work and knowledge to implement.
Trading options and spreads are much more complex than trading
simple futures. In effect, you have to add an additional level
of analysis before you can make a trade. Typically, you need
to understand the payoff structure of options as well as implied
volatility before you want to put on an options trade.
In spreads, you need to probably understand the difference
in the fundamental demand for one futures contract compared
to the demand for another one. Few traders use fundamentals
these days so it is unlikely that they will have a different
opinion on two different expirations of the same commodity.
It's possible to use just technical analysis to trade inter-commodity
spreads. In fact, I think it is an excellent idea since some
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idea comes from legendary newsletter writer Bruce Gould:
would pick one segment of the market, either livestock, or
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and I would just concentrate on that segment and forget the
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wheat, corn, oats, soybeans, meal and oil, you'll see plenty
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everything you will ever come across. I suggest you try to
be successful within one group before you watch all the markets
at once. WHen you're watching everything, you're always disgusted
or panicking because you're not in whatever's moving. Then
you jump into that, and it immediately goes against you. Before
long, you have no capital left."
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Envision Energy has connected a 1.5MW turbine for ultra-low wind-speed areas to the grid in Lai'an Wind Farm, Anhui province. Both are designed for class-IV wind-resource areas where the annual average wind speed ranges from 5.5-6.5 metres per second (m/s).
The turbine is notable in that it is the world's first 1.5MW turbine with a 93-metre rotor. The previous record for a 1.5MW turbine - of 87 metres - was also held by Envision.
This marks the biggest breakthrough for the firm, in terms of tapping ultra low wind speed areas, since it put forward the world's first 1.5MW turbine with an 87-metre rotor in 2009.
Goldwind has also launched a GW93/1500 a new ultra-low wind speed direct-drive version of its 1.5MW turbine. The machine also a 93-metre rotor diameter, uses a permanent magnet generator and a full-power converter.
According to Goldwind, the GW93/1500 series can generate power of more than 2,000 standard hours per year based on an annual average wind speed of 5.5m/s.
The low and ultra-low wind-speed areas, totalling 68% of China's wind-resource areas, are normally in close proximity to urban areas with strong grid capacity.
China will have 20GW wind turbines installed in low wind-speed areas, out of the 100GW target for 2015. Sinovel said it is able to mass produce SL1500/81 and SL1500/89 low wind-speed turbines.


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Jane Fonda Looks AMAZING For 74 At The Golden Globes
The actress proved age is just a number in a stunning, fitted, see through side-paneled black dress at the Golden Globes.
Film legend Jane Fonda, 72, walked onto the 2012 Golden Globes stage to present the award for best comedy in a daring gown and made it look elegant – and you can bet all eyes were on her!
On Jan. 15, while Hollywood's newest starlets Mila Kunis, Lea Michele, and Dianna Agron debuted their youthful red carpet looks – Jane was certainly not to be outdone! At 74-years-old, the presenter caught our eye in this beautiful black Jack Guisso gown. Adorned in Neil Lane jewels, Jane definitely earned a place on the best dressed list while awarding The Artist for a job well done.
Want to know who else was wowed? George Clooney! According to LATimes.com, the Golden Globe leading man told reporters backstage, "Jane Fonda in that dress. My God. She looked great, didn't she?" Uh oh, should new girlfriend Stacy Keibler be worried?
What do YOU think of Jane's Golden Globes look, HollywoodLifers?
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Post-Radiation Therapy Treatment Options for Patients with Prostate Cancer
Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
I have a question concerning radiation (external beam or seeds). If a man gets radiation for prostate cancer, can he have surgery after if the cancer comes back? If not, why?
Li Liu, MD, Editorial Assistant for OncoLink, responds:
Thank you for your interest and question.
A radical prostatectomy may be attempted if technically feasible in selected patients with prostate cancer who fail radiation therapy. However, surgical complications may be substantial. Rogers and colleagues from Baylor College of Medicine reported on 40 patients who underwent salvage radical prostatectomy 14 to 44 months after irradiation (Journal of Urology 1995 Jan;153(1):104-10). The operation was technically challenging, with 6 rectal injuries (15%), 2 requiring temporary colostomy. Serious technical complications were more common (31%) among the 29 patients who underwent pelvic lymph node dissection at the time of initial radiotherapy than among the 11 treated with external irradiation alone (9%). Similar surgical complication rates have been reported by other investigators (Journal of Urology 1995 Sep; 154(3): 1103-9). In patients who fail after radiation, another alternative is hormonal therapy. This may also be used as salvage therapy, either alone or in combination with surgery (Cancer 1993 Feb 1; 71(3 Suppl): 976-80).
Finally, the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania is studying the use of photodynamic therapy (PDT) for treating patients with locally recurrent prostate cancer after radiotherapy (UPCC 1899). PDT may provide a new and potent weapon in the fight against prostate cancer.


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Pocket Battles gets historical with Confederacy vs. Union, the newest addition to the Pocket Battles franchise! A portable, tile-based wargame, Pocket Battles sees players lying down tiles that represent their armies, here being Union and Confederacy forces, into three columns and two rows. Units can be redistributed as you play and order is controlled by tokens.
The Ascension deck-building game, which is designed by former Magic the Gathering pro players, barrows from Munchkin's playbook by releasing a set of four theme packs. These include the Leprechaun, the Rat King, Samael Claus, and the Rat Queen. Each pack can be added to any of the base Ascension games, providing an extra, themed mechanic to the regular game.
Steve Jackson takes you back to the dystopic future with Munchkin Apocalypse 2: Sheep Impact!
This 106 card expansion adds weapons like Patriot Axe and Ketchup Gas, but also make sure to avoid too much conflict with Disaster! Velocirapture! or The Thawed Reich.
Wake, time for school, little zombie!
Zombie Dice gains a third expansion this week with School Bus! This expansion adds a twelve sided dice that represents a school bus full of brain-filled children. But be careful because some sides have both brains and shotguns as well as the possibility of being run over by the bus.
Bronies unite!
The My Little Pony trading card game, which has become a huge success since its release, has expanded with its second set, Canterlot Nights! This set adds 204 new cards to the CCG game.
Following in the footsteps of the Magic the Gathering Event Decks, the Modern format gains its own Event Deck, one which contains over a hundred dollars worth of cards. Among the cards that are included in this ready-to-play, pre-built deck are Elspeth, Knight Errant, Sword of Feast and Famine, and Inquisition of Kozilek.
Another Star Wars LCG Force Pack has jumped out of lightspeed to appear on the Pulp Fiction shelves this weekend. Knowledge and Defense includes sixty new cards to be incorporated into the base game, ten of which are entirely new objective sets.
Among the new Pathfinder supplement books out this weekend, the three major releases include the Shifting Sands expansion to the Mummy's Mask adventure path, The Harrow Handbook player companion, and the Occult Mysteries Campaign Setting.
Not entirely new, Vikings is finally back in print after many years of out-of-print limbo. This creative game has players purchasing meeples and resources with each other, but based on a fluctuating price system determined by a rotating wheel.
The Firefly board game gets shinier with its second expansion, Pirates and Bounty Hunters. Missions are included within this expansion that allow players to board other ships and steal cargo and crew for rewards. New playable characters include Jubal Early from "Objects in Space" and Sash from "Out of Gas".


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Panasonic's Lumix G3 mirrorless interchangeable lens camera is the company's latest addition to what it likes to call its "compact system cameras " lineup. The G3 features a viewfinder like its predecessor, the G2, but is both more compact and a bit lighter than the earlier camera. The G3 adds a full 1080 HD video capability not found in the G2, along with a one-touch dedicated video capture button. Resolution jumps to 16 megapixels (from 12.1) with Venus Engine FHD processing technology and Panasonic is claiming improved noise performance over the earlier camera despite all those extra pixels residing on the new sensor.


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"For work applying his expertise in geophysics to seismic detection of nuclear explosions. His developments in "forensic seismology" are at the heart of the verification required for a test ban"Background:
Born in Gloucestershire, England
1965 B.A. (Mathematics), University of Cambridge
1966 M.S. (Geology), California Institute of Technology
1970 Ph.D. (Geophysics), California Institute of Technology
1971 present teaching at Columbia University
1981 1986 Five-year MacArthur Fellowship
1984 1985 also 1993 1994: two periods of leave from Columbia University, as visiting scholar at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, working on nuclear test ban verification
1987 present Mellon Professor of Natural Sciences, Columbia University
1992 1994 President of the Seismology Section, American Geophysical Union
Member of several review panels for U.S. Air Force, and NAS/NRC committees
Member of: American Geophysical Union, Arms Control Association, Council on Foreign Relations, Royal Astronomical Society, Seismological Society of America, Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Subset of more than 100 total publications:
Keiiti Aki & Paul G. Richards, Quantitative Seismology first edition W. H. Freeman and Company, 1980; second edition University Science Books, 2002 (also, editions in Russian, Chinese, Japanese).
Song, Xiaodong, and Paul G. Richards, Seismological evidence for differential rotation of the Earth's inner core, NATURE, 382, 221224, July 18 1996.
Richards, Paul G., and Won-Young Kim, Testing the nuclear test-ban treaty, NATURE, 389, 781782, October 23 1997.
David P. Schaff and Paul G. Richards, Repeating seismic events in China, SCIENCE, 303, 11761178, February 20, 2004.
Jian Zhang, Xiaodong Song, Yingchun Li, Paul G. Richards, Xinlei Sun, and Felix Waldhauser, Inner core differential motion confirmed by earthquake waveform doublets, SCIENCE, 309, 13571360, 2005.


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Why we don't (intentionally) eat horses
You can get a few free New York Times stories each month, and I advise you use one of your chits on this delightful read about Britain's horsemeat scandal from Alan Cowell.
Mr. Cowell seems a bit bemused at the degree of umbrage taken in that country about news that some ground beef contains horsemeat, compared to the blithe attitude elsewhere in Europe. (Many of them do, after all, like to eat horsemeat. So for them it's just a matter of mislabeling).
Most importantly, to my point of view, he furnishes a fine, fine example of the British humor—"A burger walks into a bar and asks for a drink. "I can't hear you," says the barkeep. "Sorry," replies the burger. "I'm a little bit horse."
He also explores a bit of the history of horse-eating and, educates me, at least, on why so many humans choose to abhor such a readily-available and inexpensive protein.
Which is not to say I particularly care to eat horses. Or bugs. But, then, I'm pretty well-fed. Lots of people eat horses and bugs and chickens and other sorts of stuff you and I would regard as too nasty.
I have on hand numerous containers of sausage made from feral hogs. I trapped the hogs last summer and hauled them, live, to the butcher. This sausage is USDA inspected, and I describe it as "all natural" and "free range" and "organic" and give it away to guests and others.
What I've found is that lots of town friends—even the ones who love to shop at Whole Foods and pay extra for all-natural pork--just don't like it. Their taste buds can't get past that "feral" word. Country folks and hunter folks like it a lot. I've had to ration some of them.
So I share Mr. Cowell's bemusement. I suppose there's no accounting for taste. But somebody probably already said that.
The upside of closing meat plants?
Maybe FSIS can solve the packers' oversupply problem for them. Just furlough the inspectors and shut down all the plants one day a week.
Presto: 20% less capacity.
Just joking, of course. But certainly it would be better than closing the plants for two weeks, the way Secretary Vilsack was talking about. One hopes the Administration knows that fed cattle are a perishable commodity and backing them up for two weeks would not only ruin the poor folks owning the cattle, but reduce beef demand and create a backlog that would wreck the whole market.
Note to Administration officials: That would mean cattle producers would pay less taxes.
Oh, Lucky Tyson!
Tyson's outlook is just keen, despite what's happening to beef demand.
The quote in this article that makes you grrrrr: "Demand is strong, and we're seeing signs of consumers trading from beef to chicken. Also despite increasing prices, chicken is a good value for consumers, and food service continues to promote chicken heavily, " said James Lochner, COO.
So what's good for beef's salesmen isn't necessarily good for beef. I believe we talked earlier about the problem of relying on horizontally-integrated packers to sell our product.
A letter we like
These hog producers don't buy the HSUS-as-friend-to-agriculture line.
The winner: Anaplasmosis
Canadian animal health authorities have given up on their efforts to eradicate anaplasmosis, citing the prevalence in the U.S.
Rain forest ranchers
An anthropologist takes a look at the pioneers who are cutting down the Brazilian rain forest to grow cattle.
Contented cows
ARS finds that cattle with attitudes are more inclined to sickness.
The Sierra Club has apparently decided PETA's tactics are cool.
Stories we didn't actually read:
Dennis Rodman heads to North Korea
'The Bachelor' Sean picks final two women, third is furious as she is sent home
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This article didn't really answer the questions - Not at all. Of course the issue is a cultural one and it's no different than the book by the same title Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows, An Introduction to Carnism by Dr. Melanie Joy.


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The Drive from Picton to Christchurch
One of the most fascinating drives in New Zealand taking you through the Marlborough Wine area to the home of seals and whales and on to Christchurch...
Off the ferry we leave Picton on Route One heading south. Along the drive not too far out of town places of interest we spot include a Welsh pony farm and the Totara Grove Alpaca Farm. The hills begin to fade away and the open plains of the new world's number one cold-climate wine region opens up before us. You will also find, in the right season, cherries ripe for picking. Paula finds it hard to pass a cherry stand. If you wish to hang out a bit in the region turn left at Tuamarina a few kilometres prior to Blenheim. The road winds through an expanse of vineyards that leads to a DOC camp located on the ocean edge with a pleasant beach area.
Continuing along Route One, after Tuamarina, you cross the Wairau River. Just past the river we recommend turning right at Spring Creek on Rapaura Road for an exploratory trip through the Marlborough wine country. Over sixty wineries are available to check out plus the Makana Chocolate Factory is a wonderful incentive to travel this route.
Tour along the Rapaura Road and side roads until reaching Route 6 adjacent to the Nautilus Estate. Turn left through Renwick and then continue on Route 6 back toward Blenheim. After Renwick, past the airport, it is a good idea to take Jackson's Road to the Allan Scott winery for a special treat of great food and top wines. Grab a bottle of their exquisite sauvignon blanc for that special occasion this summer.
On to Blenheim via Route Six (Middle Renwick Road becomes Nelson Street.) The Information Centre is on Route One with plenty of parking for large vehicles.
Blenheim is a large community for New Zealand and has everything you may require.
If you plan to arrive in the region in February try to get to the Wine Marlborough Festival the largest wine event in the country. You will need to book ahead. For the best cafe in town try Figaro's at 8 Scott Street in the middle of town. Joe and crew will take very good care of you with Supreme Coffee and delectable food.
Leaving Blenheim enroute to the fabulous East Coast of the South Island Route One cuts through the Awatere region. The drive from here to Kaikoura is about two hours traveling along the most scenic coastal region on the entire East Coast.
The drive from Blenheim to Kaikoura that began in the wine region now turns into barren wind swept hills before reaching the East Coast. Along the way you will pass New Zealand's only salt works at Lake Grassmere, eighteen hundred hectares of water where salt water is pumped in and evaporation takes place to create nearly 40,000 tons of salt annually. Visitors are invited to stop by on Tuesdays and Fridays at 1:30pm for a guided tour. A giant mountain of salt is very evident as you pass by.
Just past Lake Grassmere take a left to discover the Marfells Beach DoC Camp tucked along the beach at Clifford Bay. One of our favourite spots to spend quality time.
Continuing south on Route One you will come upon The Store Cafe at Kekerangu, forty-five minutes south of Blenheim, judged the best cafe in Marlborough. Great place to enjoy the scenery and also a place to park overnight by the ocean.
From here the rocky coast begins. Stop to experience a close encounter with the many seals lying about on the rocks during the day. Several good over night stopping places along this coast also. This is the crayfish coast where you will find a couple of stands that offer tasty lobster for lunch.
The town of Kaikoura is on a peninsula overlooked by majestic mountains. Very deep and plankton rich sea at its doorstep provides the habitat for marine mammals and sea
life. The town of Kaikoura offers great cafes and art galleries. Be sure to see the paintings of Brett Pettit at the Pacific Allure Gallery next to the Aroma Cafe the best place to have good coffee and a meal in Kaikoura.
Just before driving into the main downtown area you can turn left toward the Whale Watch building where a large parking area is available for camper vans and easy access to the main town and the beach. If you elect to go into the downtown area not too far on the left is a large car park by the Information Centre. Be sure to explore all the way to the coastal turn around and a large seal colony that sometimes uses the road as their bed. Along the way you pass the main docks where very fresh seafood is available.
Kaikoura's early whaling history is featured at the Museum. One of the country's top festivals is held here, the Kaikoura Seafest. Have a look at one of the Kaikoura Information sites for the particulars or check out the website. Leaving Kaikoura south don't miss driving up the hill to the Kaikoura Winery claimed to be the most scenic winery in New Zealand where the view is worth the visit.
Two routes south possible after leaving Kaikoura, one is to continue along Route One passing through Cheviot and on to the junction of Route Seven at Waipara. Route Seven continues west to Hanmer Springs and over the Lewis Pass to the West Coast. An exciting trip on its own but we will cover that at another time. Off Route One one of the best places to spend the night in this region is to turn left out of Cheviot to Gore Bay where two campgrounds on a beautiful surfing beach are located.
The alternate route south from Kaikoura is Route 70 that winds through the countryside for 72 kilometres to the town of Waiau. There is a spectacular view of the Waiau River at the top of the hill just before dropping down into the Waiau Valley. Another 23 kms along you turn right on Route Seven and enter the town of Culverden where the Red Post Restaurant provides top quality food and drink. It is 17 kms to the town of Hurunui and the location of the historic Hurunui Hotel. One of our favourite places to stay overnight is along this section of road, the Balmoral Reserve, a large expanse of well maintained park-like area containing large trees for shade plus water and toilets are available. The local committee maintains this area and only ask $5.00 for the night. A real surprise along this route is at Waikari, the Rocking Frog Cafe and Gallery. Well worth a stop.
It is twenty-seven kilometres from Waikari to the junction of Route Seven and Route One at Waipara. From here it is 47 kilometres to the outskirts of Christchurch. Passing through the town of Amberley you will find one of the top restaurants in the country, the Norwester' Cafe. For the best place to stay the night in this area take the road left to Amberley Beach. A very large reserve has been set aside with electric hookup, water and toilets available. Plenty of room and very comfortable.
This is the Waipara wine region with the place to stop and see what is on offer is Pukeko Junction just past the Leithfield turnoff on Route One. A wine shop, gallery and restaurant combination that offers some great deals on the local wines, good food and local art on display. To visit one of the top winery's in this region have a look at Pegasus Bay right off Route One.


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The success of the Trinity River Audubon Center depends on how you measure it.
Since the center opened four years ago, staff members at the one-time dump site have restored 4 acres of prairie. About 65,000 students have participated in education programs at the 120-acre location.
"We're making a significant contribution in science skills," said Ben Jones, the center's director. "The work here is really resonating."
But despite being only 10 minutes from downtown Dallas, the Trinity River Audubon Center is geographically isolated and has failed to catch on as an attraction.
As the first major component of the $2 billion Trinity River Corridor Project, the center opened in 2008 to warm praise and high hopes.
About 10,000 visitors came on its first weekend. But after initial curiosity faded, attendance dropped.
The opening-weekend figure counted for more than a fourth of visitors that first year. Since then, yearly attendance has hit about 50,000. By contrast, the Dallas Arboretum, on the eastern shore of White Rock Lake, has about 700,000 visitors per year.
The Audubon Center, though, has different goals from the Arboretum.
"The mission of this center is to restore and protect this site and to engage people in conservation," Jones said.
Still, he acknowledges, "we know we've got to build the brand."
Located in southeastern Dallas and reclaimed from an illegal dump site, the center sits miles from Dallas' other major amenities.
"It's in a secluded, isolated location. It's just not imprinted in people's minds that it's down there," said Willis Winters, the Dallas Park and Recreation Department's deputy director.
Nor has nature cooperated.
The past few summers have been abnormally hot. A West Nile virus scare late this summer may have kept potential visitors away. The prolonged drought has dried up six of the center's seven ponds.
Jones said such obstacles have made the modest rise in visitors that much more significant — though he believes there is room for improvement.
"It's been steady, but slow," he said. "I'd like 100,000."
The city park department owns the center but has contracted with the National Audubon Society to manage it.
Winters said it's no secret what could turn the situation around.
"Marketing. That's what it comes down to — marketing, marketing, marketing," he said.
The center has a $100,000 marketing budget, which Jones said is not nearly enough to raise its profile.
At a meeting earlier this month, center officials discussed low-cost plans that include public service announcements, columns or stories in local media outlets and advertising or events underwritten by private donors.
Jones said supporters are in discussions with public radio station KERA-FM to tape 90-second segments focusing on the center and environmental issues.
There is hope too that a planned $12 million horse park and a proposed golf course will draw people — or, at least, attention — to the area.
Jones said direct benefit from the golf course might be limited.
"Anything that brings attention to the area is good," he said. "On the other hand, it sounds like it will be pretty private, so I don't know how many people will come over here."
Winters, however, said the cluster of recreational facilities offers a chance to pool resources.
"A good example is Fair Park, where you have different activities and a marketing program handled by the Friends of Fair Park," he said. "Having a group like that would certainly help."
Brian Trusty, executive director of Audubon Texas, said the center's leaders want to not only increase attendance but also broaden demographic reach.
"We are looking toward stronger admissions — not just more people but more types of people," he said. "We're trying to find ways of appealing to a more diverse crowd."
The issue is not just ethnic and geographic but also diversity in generations, he said.
"We've been really strongly focused on youth programming," Trusty said. "And with our bird-watching programs, we tend to be appealing to older adults. So we have a gap between older adults and younger people."
He said staff members and officials have discussed attracting visitors with new events and programs.
Jones noted that the center, whose setting and architecture have been praised by critics, still has the potential to become a popular destination.
"We're in the middle of 6,000 acres. It's the largest urban hardwood forest in America," he said, "but not many people in Dallas know about it."


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The doctor said it was a Grade 2 sprain, although X-rays could be forthcoming if there isn't sufficient improvement within a week.
And that's the most accurate medical report you'll get around here for awhile, because I was standing right there when he said it.
The sprain is mine, incurred Sunday on a walking-biking-running trail when I got too close to the edge as bikes were whizzing past and ended up turning my right ankle and tumbling into a ditch.
The Raiders would describe my absence from practice this week because of "soreness," "just being smart" or possibly even "fatigue."
To be fair, they're not the only ones. Non-disclosure of injuries, or at least staying as bland and generic with the pertinent information, is a way of life in the NFL.
It's how Luke Lawton's "headache" morphed into a concussion, Chaz Schilens' rest periods for his surgically-repaired foot became potential knee surgery and Darren McFadden's "tightness" evolved into a hamstring pull severe enough to keep him out more than a week.
As for Darrius Heyward-Bey and his curious case of "fatigue," who knows?
McFadden and Heyward-Bey could return to practice today at 3:30 p.m., according to coach Tom Cable in his conference call with Bay Area media Monday.
As for me, I'll miss the last three practices (so no more Twitter updates) and hopefully be mobile enough to make it to the 49ers-Raiders game Saturday night. A Raiders chat is in the works for Wednesday afternoon.
Beat writer Steve Corkran will pass along pertinent information as well as news and and notes and I'll post it here with my right foot on ice.
Jumping to a few conclusions heading into the last three practices of training camp:
— Based on Monday night's Arizona-Tennessee game, the Raiders ought to be at least 2-1 after three games. The opener in Nashville will be rough, with an extremely difficult defensive opponent played in high heat and humidity. But the home opener against St. Louis and Sam Bradford (A.J. Feely is hurt) in Week 2 and the Cardinals in Week 3 is a nice bit of scheduling.
Both Matt Leinart and Derek Anderson struggled to complete the most basic pass. The Cardinals, without Kurt Warner and Anquan Boldin, looked lost.
— The only way to look at it regarding Chaz Schilens is that anything they get out of him should be considered a bonus. Perhaps Schilens has a quick knee scope and returns to the field injury free forever, but that's not the way to bet. You watch Schilens when he's relatively healthy and wonder how he could have ever lasted until the seventh round. Then you look at his injury history dating back to San Diego State and wonder no more.
Good guy, good talent, bad body.
It was a major roll of the dice when the Raiders opted not to pursue a veteran receiver.
— Check out this recent Sports Illustrated story on Jets fullback Tony Richardson and then imagine him playing in Oakland along with Michael Bush and Darren McFadden should he be "terminated."
— Let's see, Johnnie Lee Higgins, Yamon Figurs, Jacoby Ford, Nick Miller . . . which one do you entrust with fielding the first Tennessee punt in Week 1? The Raiders would have loved for Ford to seize the job, and he'll make the 53-man roster, but the quad injury put him behind. Don't be surprised if it's Higgins simply because he's done it before for the Raiders.


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The 1939 edition of Howard University Professor E. Franklin Frazier's book, The Negro Family in the United States, was hailed as "a highly important contribution to the intimate history of the people of the United States". It was the first comprehensive study of the family life of African Americans, beginning with colonial-era slavery, extending through the years of slavery and emancipation, to the impact of Jim Crow and migrations to both southern and northern cities in the twentieth century. Frazier discussed all the themes that have concerned subsequent students of the African American family, including matriarchy and patriarchy, the impact of slavery on family solidarity and personal identity, the impact of long-term poverty and lack of access to education, migration and rootlessness, and the relationship between family and community. Frazier insisted that the characteristics of the family were shaped not by race, but by social conditions.
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