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Nick Baines: 'You cannot make women bishops just to have women bishops'
Nick Baines, head of a super-diocese, is optimistic about reconciling voices in the Church, but warns against complacency
Jonathan Brown
Monday 26 May 2014 23:44
The Right Reverend Kay Goldsworthy, left, was ordained in 2008 as Australia's first Anglican bishop
It may be more than a decade since the Church of England agreed to the idea, but Nick Baines is wary of raising expectations over the imminent arrival in the pulpit of a female bishop. "It's a work in progress. It's not a foregone conclusion," he warns.
In recent days the soon-to-be-inaugurated head of the first super-diocese in Yorkshire has been huddled with his fellow episcopal power brokers, combing over the fine detail of what is hoped to be the long-awaited deal to pave the way for female equality in the highest ranks of the clergy.
After the heartbreak of 2012, when a motion breaking the deadlock was so narrowly and bitterly defeated by the votes of laity, there has been much work going on behind the scenes to ensure there will be no repeat of the tears and recriminations.
If – and Bishop Baines stresses "if" – the Synod finally finds an accommodation that will provide enough reassurances to swing enough naysayers in support, the sky could be the limit for the right female candidate.
"Once women can be bishops and a diocese is saying we ought to be open to women bishops then, by definition, those women could become Archbishop of Canterbury, York, Durham or anywhere else," he said.
Nick Baines says the rapid elevation of Justin Welby has blown ideas of time-serving 'out of the water'
Whereas once the primus inter pares would have been expected to serve a few decades in the Synod or the House of Bishops, the rapid elevation of Justin Welby has blown notions of time-serving "out of the water", he adds.
It is a beguiling vision from the popular blogger and tweeter – a regular speaker on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Radio 2 – who has himself been tipped one day to occupy the highest post in the Church.
But at present, he must contend with the challenges posed by being the Bishop of West Yorkshire and the Dales – the head of the Church's first new diocese since 1927, created by amalgamating the old diocese of Bradford (his former post), Wakefield, Leeds and Ripon. He is now responsible for 2.3 million souls.
The crucial Synod vote in York in July will consider the Plan B put together by Justin Welby based on classic principles of mediation and reconciliation used in resolving intractable conflicts.
There have been plenty of confidence-building meetings around the fringes of the Synod which, he says, have helped to "take the heat out… take away the totemic stuff to which people react".
Now, he says: "No one should be fearful but everyone should be realistic. If the Church can't do reconciliation we have real problems. That is at the core of what we are supposed to be about."
But he is in little doubt that those first female church leaders will face potent challenges – not least from the media. And as a result the idea of positive discrimination or all-female shortlists is anathema.
"It's a hard enough job for anyone – you cannot make a woman bishop simply to have a woman bishop. That way lies a real problem. But we have some superb women who to my mind ought to be in the episcopal pool, and will be, in due course," he says.
A linguist who studied Russian before joining GCHQ after university, Bishop Baines understands that differences in language and culture can be both an obstacle and a key to understanding ourselves and others.
It was a lesson that was well learnt in his former diocese of Bradford, where he was also once a student and where earlier this month members of the far right group Britain First went into mosques brandishing Bibles.
It was a potentially dangerous flashpoint situation in a city which still bears the scars of two waves of serious rioting. Bishop Baines is full of praise for the "maturity" of the community response. He is proud of the Church's work promoting integration there, where people are increasingly fed up with "being kicked".
"In places like Bradford, we have church schools that are 95 per cent Muslim. Part of the reason we stick with that is because you are giving children the experience of wider culture they otherwise wouldn't have," he adds.
However, he concedes that the national debate on immigration is far from grown-up. "We should be proud that people want to come to Europe because they think there is security and safety. But to get a proper debate about immigration and who we need or who we allow to migrate, it has to be more intelligent and realistic about the history we have had and the global context in which we live," he said.
"It is all very well we in Britain, Germany or France saying we'll have the really classy immigrants. We'll have the doctors and the nurses and people like that and then we pump aid into countries where we have just nicked their intelligentsia. What sort of unholistic madness is that?"
Meanwhile, Bishop Baines says there is little chance of the Church's recent work on food banks and welfare security ending any time soon.
"If you look at both political parties that are likely to be in power after the next election, both are still talking about cutting further. That means that if the state rolls back any further it is going to leave huge gaps."
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Killarney Muckross (Co. Kerry) – Medieval Friary
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The site is a well-known tourist attraction by the Lakes of Killarney.
Remains: the church, transept chapel, tower and friary are complete.
Donal McCarthy Mór founded the friary of Muckross for the Observant friars about 1448. Building continued for nearly fifty years. The friary was dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The community was legally suppressed in 1541, but the friars were able to remain in residence until about 1589, when two friars were killed during an English raid.
The Franciscans returned about 1600, again about 1612, and at least by 1639, having been driven out on the two previous occasions. The Cromwellians expelled them again in 1652. The friars withdrew to a place of refuge, probably Friars Glen on the side of Mangerton. About 1760 the few remaining friars moved to a cottage at Faghbawn, by the Flesk River. By now the community was reduced to two, yet the friars started a college in 1780 on the site of the present Scott's Hotel in Killarney. This eventually grew into the Diocesan College of St. Brendan. The last friar, Fr J. FitzGerald probably left Killarney in 1849. When the Belgian friars came to Kerry in 1860, Fr. FitzGerald was Guardian of Waterford friary. He died at Athlone in 1880.
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Friday, 6th April 2018
It Just Got Tougher to Take Quebec's Back Door into Vancouver and Toronto Real Estate
Quebec just made it a little harder for wealthy immigrants to walk through a back door into Vancouver and Toronto real estate.
On Wednesday, the provincial government announced changes that make it a touch harder to qualify for the Quebec Immigrant Investor Program (QIIP), a program that offers permanent residency in exchange for making an investment in the province.
The program once required applicants to hold net assets of $1.6 million and make an interest-free investment of $800,000 that would be returned to them after five years.
Those requirements have been tweaked, according to the Gazette Officielle du Quebec, which announces new laws and regulations.
The Gazette states that applicants must now have net worth of $2 million and make an interest-free investment of $1.2 million — which is still returned to them five years later.
Other requirements — that applicants must intend to reside in Quebec, that they must have management experience, that they be 18 years old and qualify to immigrate to the province under its points system — stay the same.
If applicants meet these qualifications, they may receive a Quebec Selection Certificate (CSQ), and then obtain permanent residency from the federal government.
But these are just the latest tweaks to a program that has come under fire for creating a "trampoline effect" that has seen wealthy immigrants arrive in Quebec, obtain permanent residency and then move to other parts of the country, mainly Vancouver and Toronto. More than 46,000 applicants have already taken this route to these cities, and their housing markets.
This chart shows where immigrant investors who came to Canada via Quebec were located as of 2016:
Quebec has also introduced stricter requirements when it comes to the selection of candidates, said Vancouver immigration lawyer Richard Kurland.
In an email to Global News, he said applicants will likely be rejected if they have relatives outside Quebec, if they have a child attending a school outside the province and if they have owned any property in Canada outside la belle province.
"Plus, if you have travelled to Canada but not Quebec, the case is eyed with suspicion," Kurland wrote.
"Quebec is clamping down on 'intent to reside.'"
With changes like these in place, Kurland expected the "trampoline effect" from Quebec to B.C. and Ontario to reduce by adjusting "intake."
He also expected that Quebec would address "output" by "ramping up enforcement of cases where the person left Quebec at the time the person tries to renew their permanent resident card."
Kurland said such a person many find themselves "gummed up in immigration processes for failure to locate in Quebec.
"And that would send a signal, if your plan is to apply here and move there, it won't work."
But Kurland was less convinced that the changes to net assets and investment requirements would make a difference.
He said the increase to net worth was not significant, and that 90 per cent of investments are financed anyway — so much that the actual amount they invest from their own money is closer to $325,000.
Demand for these visas will keep exceeding their supply, "so Quebec is on the right path here," Kurland said.
It was previously estimated that investor immigrants could be bringing over a half a billion dollars to Vancouver's housing market every year alone; that's assuming each household only brought $1 million with them.
Quebec typically sets quotas for the number of investor immigrants that can be accepted; the province set at 1,900 the maximum number of applications it expected to receive between May 29, 2017 and Feb. 23, 2018.
The province's immigration ministry has suspended the intake of applications through the QIIP until Aug. 15.


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One on One with J.J. Ballesteros: Documenting Laguna
By Site Editor
A real estate broker, J.J. Ballesteros of The Ballesteros Group, stepped into the role of film producer along with his wife Andrea and world-renowned filmmaker John Barrett to make a film about Laguna Beach. The premier of Everything Laguna Beach will be shown Tuesday the 25th at Skyloft on S. Coast Highway. It is a labor of love and a dream come true for Ballesteros who has brought the vibrant home-town feel of Laguna Beach to the silver screen.
Andrea and JJ Ballesteros with their children Cruz, 7, top, and Christian, 3.
Q: What inspired you to make a documentary of everyday life Laguna Beach?
A: The city itself. We believe it is one of the best cities in the world and feel so blessed to live here. We noticed some of the shops were going out of business and wondered how this could possibly be happening in our great city. Could it be they need exposure? I began thinking about a video to highlight those deserving shops that make Laguna Beach so special. From a real estate perspective, my wife Andrea and I feel some homebuyers may overlook Laguna because they don't understand the charm of this town. We really wanted to paint a picture that depicts the feel of Laguna, something you only seem to completely appreciate once you live here.
Q: Did you shoot some of the videos?
A: I love video. I knew the shots I wanted to take and decided to hire local director, John Barrett, a filmmaker, photographer and drone pilot to do the filming. He was born and raised in Laguna and I knew he could help me capture its charm perfectly. John worked with MacGillivray Freeman Films, a local 70mm IMAX film production company, to produce the film National Parks Adventure. When we met and I told him about my dream, he fell in love with the project and agreed to come on board. He knew the vision I wanted to portray and truly made the city come alive in a way that hasn't been illustrated before.
Q: Is Everything Laguna Beach targeted to reach people seeking a home in Laguna? Or is strictly for tourists?
A: It's not a movie promoting tourism, but it does combine aspects for visitors and those interested in living here. We networked a lot and had conversations with many of the locals asking questions such as, "What is your favorite art gallery? Or favorite place to have a glass of wine?" These along with some of our personal favorites hopefully add the personal touch you feel in the video. We alluded to the amazing school system as well. Most importantly, the film speaks to the culture and artistry of the community. The art extends to the Real Estate as well. Every home here has its own personal flair. It is a reflection of the personalities of those who live here, attracting home buyers, second home owners, developers and some of the world's best architects. The film shows how Laguna Beach is truly a small town of people who work together to preserve their precious community and the place they are proud to call home.
Capturing the town's essence, the film "Everything Laguna Beach" was made to reach visitors and potential home buyers.
Q: What was the most challenging aspect for you when you were filming?
A: My wife! She's actually the one that pushed me to do it. I had pondered the idea for a year. She's the one that got the ball rolling for me, encouraging me to do it. Regarding the film itself, it's not always easy to get people to understand your vision. So initially getting people to understand the video was a bit of a challenge. Once we put the trailer out last August, people saw what we saw and finally understood our vision and a light bulb turned on. The trailer and vignettes we have been releasing have a combined 160k views on Facebook. Things gained momentum after the release of the trailer and we were then able complete all of the shots we wanted.
Q: The film is also helping people out in other ways.
A: All along the way, since the inception of the idea, we made it clear we wanted to raise money for Laguna's local non-profits with this project: Laguna Food Pantry, Friendship Shelter, School Power, and Project O which is about protecting sea life and keeping the ocean clean. Our goal is to raise a minimum of $20,000.
Q: Name three things about Laguna Beach you love.
A: The people, culture / community, and the overall beauty of the beaches and hills. My wife calls it a "little slice of heaven." When we started to capture it through film, it reinforced to us in a new perspective what an amazing place it is to live. There is such a small town community feel to it. Everybody looks out for each other and takes care of each other. It is home to the Pageant of the Masters, the Sawdust Festival and community events that are so special like the Laguna Art Walk. Laguna Beach is a place for vitality and lifestyle. Many of the shops are geared toward the active outdoor enthusiast community. For real estate, it is home to some of the most renowned architects and designers in the world. We attempted to capture all that in this video.
Visitors and locals enjoy the hidden delights found in southern California's coastal beaches.
Q: As a realtor, has it made it easier to sell homes with drone videos?
A: Drones help capture the home in a different light & perspective for potential home buyers around the world. It makes the property come to life. In Laguna, there is usually an ocean view just around the corner. It shows the proximity to town, a park or the ocean. It gives the viewer a chance to place the home relative to everything around it. Buyers from around the globe are able to acquire a better sense of what properties have to offer from interiors to surroundings in a way still photography is not able to do.
Q: What about privacy? Are there regulations for operating drones in the city?
A: Currently Laguna is trying to establish relevant rules by the end of this year. As for now, there are no regulations. It is obvious drone use shouldn't be abused or used in unethical ways. The way we use them for real estate is for home sellers and buyers to really get a "touch and feel" view of the property in a way still photography just doesn't capture. It truly benefits all homeowners wanting to sell their property. It is our job to show the home in the best light, and utilizing drone footage is a great tool that captures buyers seeking a home.
Q: Why did you get into real estate?
A: Both my wife and I come from generations of realtors. My grandmother was in real estate and both our mothers are still realtors. I guess it is in the blood. We simply get enjoyment from helping people find their home; or sellers wanting to move on to their next one. For us it is a real honor and privilege to do what we do. It's not just about selling or buying a home. We consider ourselves trusted advisors, advising our clients on the best move at each journey in their lives. Just as you have a CPA or attorney you should have a real estate advisor. We walk the path with them. We have helped people find their first condo and expand when their first, second and even third baby comes along. We help people buy investments, second homes and downsize. We also love to work with developers and architects to help them find the right opportunity to see their form of artwork come to life.
Q: Were can the film be viewed?
A: We are having a video premiere at Skyloft, 422 S. Coast Highway in Laguna Beach on Tuesday April 25th from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm. You can visit the website https://www.everythinglagunabeach.com/ to RSVP as well as donate to our local non-profits. It will be a fun party. Members of the community and gallery and restaurant owners will be in attendance; as well as the architects of the homes we included in the film.
J.J. Ballesteros
Andrea Ballesteros
Ballesteros Group
31852 S. Coast Highway
info@ballesterosgroup.com
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March 5, 2013 / Patriot / American Intelligence News, Philippines
Malaysia launched airstrikes and mortar attacks against nearly 200 Filipinos occupying a Borneo seaside village Tuesday to end a bizarre three-week siege that turned into a security nightmare for both Malaysia and thePhilippines.
The assault follows firefights in Malaysia's eastern Sabah state this past week that killed eight police officers and 19 Filipino gunmen, some of whom were members of a Philippine Muslim clan that shocked Malaysia and the neighboring Philippines by slipping by boat past naval patrols last month and storming an obscure village.
National police chief Ismail Omar said Malaysian security forces suffered no casualties in Tuesday's offensive, but he did not give details about the Filipinos. Airstrikes "achieved their objectives in accordance to the targets," while ground forces who encountered resistance from gunmen firing at them were carrying out "mopping up" operations by searching houses in the village, Ismail said, without elaborating on how many have been detained.
The clansmen, armed with rifles and grenade launchers, had refused to leave, staking a long-dormant claim to the entire state of Sabah, which they insisted was their ancestral birthright.
"The government has to take the appropriate action to protect national pride and sovereignty as our people have demanded," Prime Minister Najib Razak said after the raid began in a statement issued through the national news agency, Bernama.
Authorities made every effort to resolve the siege peacefully since the presence of the group in Lahad Datu district became known on Feb. 12, including holding talks to encourage the intruders to leave without facing any serious legal repercussions, Najib said.
"The longer this intrusion persisted, it became clear to the authorities that the intruders had no intention to leave Sabah," Najib said. "As a peace-loving Islamic country that upholds efforts to settle conflicts through negotiations, our struggle to avoid bloodshed in Lahad Datu did not work."
Najib later said in a public speech that the offensive began with airstrikes followed by mortar attacks conducted by both the police and military.
The Filipinos who landed in Lahad Datu, a short boat ride from the southern Philippines, insisted Sabah belonged to their royal sultanate for more than a century. The group is led by a brother of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III of the southern Philippine province of Sulu.
Abraham Idjirani, a spokesman for the Filipinos, told reporters in Manila that the group would not surrender and that their leader was safe.
Idjirani said he spoke by phone with Kiram's brother, who saw fighter jets dropping two bombs on a nearby village that he said the group had already abandoned.
"They can hear the sounds of bombs and the exchange of fire," Idjirani said. "The truth is they are nervous. Who will not be nervous when you are against all odds?"
He said they will "find a way to sneak to safety."
"If this is the last stand that we could take to let the world know about our cause, then let it be," Idjirani said, describing the assault as "overkill."
The Philippine government had asked Malaysia to exercise maximum tolerance to avoid further bloodshed.
In Manila, presidential spokesman Ricky Carandang said Tuesday that Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario was in Kuala Lumpur meeting with his Malaysian counterpart.
"We've done everything we could to prevent this, but in the end Kiram's people chose this path," Carandang said.
An undetermined number of other armed Filipinos are suspected to have encroached on other districts within 300 kilometers (200 miles) of Lahad Datu.
Some activists say the crisis illustrates an urgent need to review border security and immigration policies for Sabah, where hundreds of thousands of Filipinos have headed in recent decades — many of them illegally — to seek work and stability.
Groups of Filipino militants have occasionally crossed into Sabah to stage kidnappings, including one that involved island resort vacationers in 2000. Malaysia has repeatedly intensified its patrols, but the long and porous sea border with the Philippines remains difficult to guard.
Some in Muslim-majority Malaysia advocated patience in handling the Lahad Datu intruders. But the deaths of the Malaysian police officers, including six who were ambushed while inspecting a waterfront village in a separate Sabah district on Saturday, triggered widespread alarm over the possibility of more such intrusions.
For the second time in two days, Philippine President Benigno Aquino III went on national TV on Monday to urge the Filipino group in Lahad Datu to lay down their arms, warning that the situation could worsen and endanger about 800,000 Filipinos settlers there.
The crisis could have wide-ranging political ramifications in both countries. Some fear it might undermine peace talks brokered by Malaysia between Manila and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the main Muslim rebel group in the southern Philippines.
It also could affect public confidence in Malaysia's long-ruling National Front coalition, which is gearing up for general elections that must be held by the end of June. The coalition requires strong support from voters in Sabah to fend off an opposition alliance that hopes to end more than five decades of federal rule by the National Front.


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by Brian Zimmerman
Pianist Andrew Hill, whose cerebral, loosely hinged brand of jazz was an essential link between hard-bop and the avant-garde, recorded his seminal album Point of Departure on this day (March 21) in 1964. Released on the Blue Note label, the album included some of the top mainstream players of its day — including Kenny Dorham on trumpet, Tony Williams on drums and Joe Henderson on saxophone. But its intensity came from the inclusion of two free-jazz pioneers: Eric Dolphy on woodwinds and Richard Davis on bass. It proved to be a stimulating mix, and the resulting sound, while firmly planted in the post-bop tradition, is a clear gesture toward the future of jazz.
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The future of around 380 jobs in Barrow-in-Furness has been thrown into doubt after the owner of Andrex toilet tissue and Huggies nappies unveiled a swingeing cost-cutting drive.
Kimberly-Clark plans to slash between 5,000 and 5,500 roles from its 43,000-strong global workforce, the equivalent of 12% to 13% of total staff.
The Texas-based personal care giant has three UK manufacturing sites in Barrow-in-Furness, Flint and Northfleet, as well as offices in Reigate, West Malling and Brighton.
The Barrow site employs 380 people, the majority of whom are directly involved in running the production process, although we have production planners, Finance, HR and IT roles on site as well. We pride ourselves on putting safety first and have won awards for our safety record.
The move will hit "all of the company's business segments and organisations in each major geography", with 10 manufacturing plants earmarked for sale or closure.
The group is eyeing annual cost savings of 500 million US dollars (£357 million) to 550 million US dollars (£393 million) by 2021.
Chairman and chief executive Thomas Falk said the restructuring plan will put the group on track to reach its long-term growth targets.
This is the biggest restructuring we have undertaken since the introduction of our Global Business Plan in 2003, and it will make our company leaner, stronger and faster.
The changes we are making will improve our underlying profitability, provide more flexibility to invest in growth opportunities and help us compete even more effectively.
Kimberly-Clark, which also owns household names such as Pull-Ups and Kleenex, is attempting to revive flagging sales in the face of slowing demand and higher input costs.
The near 150-year-old business made the cost-savings announcement alongside its annual results, with operating profits slipping by 1% to 3.29 billion US dollars (£2.35 billion) for the 12 months to December 31.
Although we expect market conditions will remain challenging in the near-term, we plan to deliver better results in 2018 while we begin to implement our new restructuring.
We expect organic sales to return to growth while improving our margins and delivering double-digit growth in adjusted earnings per share.
The group has a cost savings target of more than 1.5 billion US dollars (£1.1 billion) between 2018 and 2021.


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But I kinda' can't believe the "journal-mode" is on And unfortunatelly tune2fs -l doesn't contain this kind of information. Is there any other way?
dmesg | grep "EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem"
a more detailed view of any extfs would be to use dumpe2fs, here's how to show only superblock info.
although not saying that dumpe2fs isn't usefull what does dumpe2fs -h show that tune2fs -l doesn't? it seems to me they show the same thing?
I don't hang out here anymore, try asking on http://unix.stackexchange.com/ if you want my help.
they show almost the same output other than dumpe2fs which shows the journal size.
You didn't run fsck while the filesystem was mounted. Did you?
If affirmative, remember never to do so again, umount it, and then run fsck again on it to fix it. If some files have been screwed there is not much you can do. Fsck can seriously screw up things if you run it on mounted filesystems. You should never do that.
If the filesystem wasn't mounted, then forget about my post.
It was indeed mounted. I will surely give your suggestion a shot. Thank you.
Then I hope that it did not damage something critical. You might need to emerge some packages if something fails. Python might be a problem if it is broken enough that portage can't work. In that case, you will have to rescue your Gentoo system using a prebuilt python package.
i am happy to see this thread contains lot of helpful informations.
somebody have to say that activating noatime (last access time) option in fstab could noticeably improove file system responsiveness too..
Our system, who art on raised tile,hallowed be thy OS..
Maybe it's time to add this guide to the gentoo-wiki? It's a bit hard to read through 14 pages of answers to find out what changes and tips have been reported. I just managed to read through the first two pages, and the first post seems to be updated according to the reported errors!
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
One minor point: tune2fs -O has_journal is not needed if the filesystem is made with mke2fs -j as outlined in the handbook.
tune2fs -l showed it as has_journal correctly on my box.
I was thinking (after looking at man mke2fs.conf) that it'd be nice to have some defaults specifically for Gentoo purposes: ie /usr/portage (which might be reiser) /usr/portage/distfiles and /var/tmp/portage. These could be set as portage, distfiles or tmp so that we run mke2fs -T distfiles for example. Any suggestions on what those defaults could entail?
Personally I'm thinking of setting a similar one for home, which I imagine would be similar to distfiles, but it'd be cool to have, say video, audio and multimedia (for generic use) settings as well as usr, var (and tmp).
I don't think you want /usr/portage as reiserFS. I once thought I wanted it until I learned that ReiserFS fragments like a sonofabitch, and the only way to defrag it is to either tar, move, delete all, and untar back. Sure, you could just delete your whole portage partition every once in a while, it takes about a year for ReiserFS to become unusable on a fs with rather high i/o.
Reiser has excellent perfomance, and even better space usage with small files. It's just not 100% reliable IMO. As such it's perfect for portage tree, since all files have md5 sums and they can easily be resync'ed. If you do this, it's advisable to have distfiles separate; although the files are also checksummed, they tend to be larger (pain to download again) and less frequently accessed, so reiser doesn't gain much. This also helps with the defrag issue, since the filetypes and access patterns are so different.
I used to keep /usr/portage on reiserfs but that eventually became slow, i get better performance overtime with extfs.
best think would be to have /usr/portage on a raid0 2x CF array, read time on that would be insane.
that's the plan for me.
edit: if anyone is wondering yes I made the changes to my MAIN HardDrive /boot up drive from the LiveCD via sudo in the terminal.
7.10 user 2.6.25 user & KDE 3.5.9 user.
for those of you people currently using RAID, you can optimized ext2/3 for use in raid with the extended stride option, the way to calculate this value is simple but not trivial. first you need to multiply all the drives in the array against the chunk value of the array then you divide that with the block value for your ext3 file system for example.
remember that stride values are only good with raid0,5,6 and above it is not needed with raid1.
you setup and array out of 4 drives like so.
note the chunk value you will need this to calculate the final stride value.
now that we created our raid0 array it's time to multiply the chunk value against the block value that we will use with the ext2/3 file system. for this example we will use 4096 which is the default value.
4 = number of drives.
ok our stride value is 256, so now lets create the file system.
There wasn't anything about dividing by the no' of drives...!
If this is the case, then the stride I set for my RAID array should be 64, and not 16 as I have set it!
But to my knowledge, the RAID chunk size is not dependent on the no. of disks in the system, and neither is the inode blocksize or stride.
The RAID Chunk||stripe size is how many bytes of continuous data will be on one disk (The default being 64k.). No matter how many disks, each one will still get this same-sized chunk for each stripe.
Edit: NB: Was replying to likewoah, but was checking Google/TLDP/genwiki to make sure I wasn't being stupid, and that cunning knave neuron cut in!
Well i'm in the process of doing some benchmarks to show the difference in various chunk values and stride values with raid, my first understanding was that just doing the calculation "chunk/block size" would equal stride size but giving the number os drives in a giving raid array it makes more sense to put the number of drives into the equation. The only way to find this out is by running benchmarks which i should be doing at benchmarks.gentooexperimental.org soon.
so far i'm getting good results with the "raid drives*chunk/block size" equation but i can't give a conclusion until the benchmarks are fully done.
Well, using the common calculation, the size of 1 stride = size of 1 stripe.
I must admit, I do hope yours is not the optimal - It would mean you can't add another disk to the array because that would change the 'optimal' stride, and you can't change the stride size without re-formatting the array.
The problem with this sort of thing is it tends to be dependent on access patterns and file size/spread.
For large contiguous files, setting the array chunk, inode and stride sizes to numbers much bigger than the norm (e.g. 512 vs 64, 32 vs 4 and 512 vs 16) would give very good performance, but as soon as random-access, fragmentation and small files are thrown in, the performance drops like a lead balloon.
But I look forward to seeing the benchmarks; I've not found any decent ones so far so it'd be interesting to see what results you get!
yea, I agree with you that this method is optimal until the number of drives increases and this is the first time I have come into contact with such method, anyways the performance can be seeing in the numbers, I manage to put some time into running a few benchmarks on a 8 drive raid0 array 3.6TB in size to see what the numbers say. I myself still use the old method of "chunk/block size" with all previous arrays and I have only been implementing this method because it was something that seems to give good performance on large arrays. anyways, here are some dd,mount,mke2fs benchmarks in raw form. once the full benchmarks which will be done on smaller size arrays, 50,75,125,150GB using various chunk values starting from the default 64k up to 8096, all those benchmarks will feature values from bonnie++,tiobench,dd, & hdparm. P.S the current benchmarks below were run on 8GB of ram.
/dev/md0 512 chunk & ext3fs stride=512 (8*512/4) 8 being number of drives in array.
filesystem mounted with journal data ordered.
/dev/md0 512 chunk & ext3fs stride=128 (512/4) old method.
I still believe that "chunk/block size" is optimal, lets just hope other benchmarks go in it's favor.
EDIT: did some early runs today here are the results.
.: Stride Value Set To 256 :.
I implemented this method on my laptop, and it worked like a charm. I have an older model and it ussualy chugs when doing a lot of tasks at once. But now, it seems to hum along just fine.
"After all, a person's a person, no matter how small."--Horton Hears A Who!
I have switched a few of my partitions from XFS to ext3. I was wondering if it is safe to delete the lost+found directories that it creates in every partition? I would think that if there was some lost data it found that it would recreate that directory as needed?
I am not 100% sure, but I think that that directory is re-created anyway each time you run fsck on the partition. In other words: if this is true, that directory would be recreated each time the partition is checked. This might be on each startup or after a number of mounts or after a given time. It all depends on how did you format your partition. tune2fs can be used to change those parameters without a reformat.


After years of searching, Paperchain Pre-School and Nursery has found a new home at London Colney Nursery and Primary School.
Thanks to this lifeline, Paperchain has opened a purpose-built nursery room and covered and uncovered outdoor play area this month.
Paperchain's owner Caroline George said: "My ethos is every child should be able to have a pre-school education that should not break the bank.
A morning's care at Paperchain costs £14 per morning, which Ms George claims is "unheard of" in St Albans and London Colney.
The nursery was previously based at St Peter's Parish Centre, but only had a small courtyard for a play area.
They won a government grant in 2008 to create a purpose-built nursery before the funding was removed by the coalition government.


November 1999. I woke up thinking I was very hungry, and knowing that I had to travel 2 1/2 hours that day to play a soccer game. It was a different type of hunger feeling, I thought, a slight bit of pain. I wasted no time getting out of bed, ate a bowl of "Oreo-O's" (remember that dumb cereal? I didn't even really like it but I ate it), and proceeded to get prepared for my away soccer game while still having that slight pain. We were to meet at a local McDonalds to carpool with my teammates. As dedicated to the game of soccer that I was and my love for playing, the onset of intensifying pain didn't cause me to do more than simply mention it to my parents as I was getting into the car for them to drop me off to meet my team at McDonalds. This is when it began to hurt. And now it was excruciating. By the time we were getting ready to exit the neighborhood, I told my dad that I didn't think I could go to the game. He knew something was wrong. Now our destination was the hospital.
They gave me an x-ray, didn't expect to see something in the location of my gall bladder because of how young I was (15 years old), thought there was something on the lens so they cleaned it and gave me another. Sure enough it was still there, so I got an ultra-sound to confirm that I had gall stones, stayed over night so they could monitor my food intake so that early in the morning they could inject me with a radioactive substance reactive to the machinery to read if my gall bladder was infected and needed to be removed entirely rather than removing just the stones. It was a bad one! I got scheduled to get a laparoscopic cholecystectomy two weeks later. NEVER wait that long to get your bladder removed if you can help it. That period of time was during Thanksgiving, which ended up being my demise. Funny story about that night was that after dinner, I walked over to my girlfriend's house who lived a block away from where my family were gathering for Thanksgiving. We were young and it was complicated to get together so this was a good time to meet up…so I thought. Soon after I got to her house I could tell the pain was coming again, and I knew I needed to leave for sake of not rolling around on the floor with sudden pain, fever, and erratic yelps of terror in front of her parents. It had happened a total of two times prior, that first morning before soccer and another after eating buttered popcorn at a movie (the butter did not occur to me as a problem for some reason). I remember it really starting to hurt as I was trying to formally make my exit without anything seeming strange. As soon as I left, I went back to my family's Thanksgiving, and found a couch to roll around on, grimacing in pain. All the while knowing that the knife in my gut and my high fever would subside within about an hour (the gall stone would finish making its way through a duct).


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Q: "borrowed value does not live long enough" when using the builder pattern I have the following code:
pub struct Canvas<'a> {
    width: isize,
    height: isize,
    color: Color,
    surface: Surface,
    texture: Texture,
    renderer: &'a Renderer,
}

impl<'a> Canvas<'a> {
    pub fn new(width: isize, height: isize, renderer: &'a Renderer) -> Canvas<'a> {
        let color = Color::RGB(0, 30, 0);
        let mut surface = core::create_surface(width, height);
        let texture = Canvas::gen_texture(&mut surface, width, height, color, renderer);
        Canvas {
            width: width,
            height: height,
            color: color,
            surface: surface,
            texture: texture,
            renderer: renderer,
        }
    }

    pub fn color(&mut self, color: Color) -> &mut Canvas<'a> {
        self.color = color;
        self.texture = Canvas::gen_texture(
            &mut self.surface,
            self.width,
            self.height,
            self.color,
            self.renderer,
        );
        self
    }
}

I would like to be able to do this:
let mut canvas = Canvas::new(100, 100, &renderer).color(Color::RGB(80, 230, 80));

I get this error:

error: borrowed value does not live long enough
  let mut canvas = Canvas::new(100, 100, &renderer)

Why does the returned Canvas object not live long enough? If I store the result in an intermediate let, then it works; why?

A: Here's a minimal reproduction:
#[derive(Debug)]
pub struct Canvas;

impl Canvas {
    fn new() -> Self {
        Canvas
    }

    fn color(&self) -> &Canvas {
        self
    }
}

fn main() {
    let mut canvas = Canvas::new().color();
    //             1 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
    //                           2 ^~~~~
    println!("{:?}", canvas);
}

Rust 2015
error[E0597]: borrowed value does not live long enough
  --> src/main.rs:15:22
   |
15 |     let mut canvas = Canvas::new().color();
   |                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^        - temporary value dropped here while still borrowed
   |                      |
   |                      temporary value does not live long enough
...
19 | }
   | - temporary value needs to live until here
   |
   = note: consider using a `let` binding to increase its lifetime

Rust 2018
error[E0716]: temporary value dropped while borrowed
  --> src/main.rs:15:22
   |
15 |     let mut canvas = Canvas::new().color();
   |                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^        - temporary value is freed at the end of this statement
   |                      |
   |                      creates a temporary which is freed while still in use
...
18 |     println!("{:?}", canvas);
   |                      ------ borrow later used here
   |
   = note: consider using a `let` binding to create a longer lived value

The problem arises because you create a temporary variable (1), then pass the reference to that variable to the method (2), which returns the reference. At the end of the method chain, you are trying to return the reference and store it in the variable, but the reference points to a temporary item that has nowhere to live! Rust doesn't let you have a reference to something that's invalid.
Part of the problem is that this is not the Builder pattern, this is just a struct that modifies itself using chained method invocation. Some solutions:

*

*Store the "temporary" variable, in which case all the methods are just normal mutation methods that happen afterward.

*Take in self instead of a reference to self (&self, &mut self) and then ultimately return the full struct.

*Have a build method at the end of the chain that returns another standalone struct, not a reference.

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Fossils Reveal Giant Lions As Tall As A Human Roamed Kenya 200,000 Years Ago
A gigantic lion that stood as tall as a human has been uncovered for the first time by experts hunting for fossils in Kenya.
Scientists say the beast is believed to have lived on a diet of giant plant-eating mammals that roamed east Africa around 200,000 years ago.
Researchers say it is most likely from an extinct species that was substantially larger than any modern population or subspecies of lion.
A gigantic lion that stood as tall as a human has been uncovered for the first time by experts hunting for fossils in Kenya. Skull remains (pictured) hint at a creature much larger than any previously known African lion, living or fossil, which has since gone extinct
To calculate its size, which was far larger than modern lions, they looked at the remains of the creature's teeth and skull. Male lions are, on average, around 4ft (1.2 metres) in length, but the newly uncovered species was closer to a human's 5.6 ft (1.7 metres) average height
An international team of researchers – including experts from the National Museums of Kenya and the universities of Utah and Arkansas – found the fossil at Natodomeri in northwest Kenya.
To calculate its size, which was far larger than modern lions, they looked at the remains of the creature's teeth and skull.
Male lions are, on average, around 4ft (1.2 metres) in length, but the newly uncovered species was closer to a human's 5.6 ft (1.7 metres) average height.
Writing in a paper published on the finds, its authors said: 'The image of the lion is pervasive in human culture from its earliest preserved expression in Palaeolithic art to more modern cultural references like Disney's the Lion King.
'In the scientific world lions are also a focus for attention.
'This skull is the first indication of the existence of a population of giant lions in the late Middle and Late Pleistocene of eastern Africa, perhaps occasioned by the presence of greater megafaunal biomass than today.
'The skull is remarkable for its very great size, equivalent to the largest cave lions of Pleistocene Eurasia and much larger than any previously known lion from Africa, living or fossil.'
Modern lions first appeared in south and east Africa, before evolving into two groups.
Scientists say the beast is believed to have lived on a diet of giant plant eating mammals that roamed east Africa around 200,000 years ago. This image shows a Right hand side view of an average lion skull
One now lives in eastern and southern Africa, while the other includes lions in west Africa and India.
Diminishing numbers of lions worldwide have become an escalating cause for concern.
However, in recent weeks it was announced that India's endangered lion population, which lives in one single forest, is fighting back from the brink of extinction.
The endangered Asiatic lion – whose numbers plummeted to just 180 individuals in the 1960s – has now increased to more than 600, it was reported on March 6.
The full findings of the study were published in the Journal of Paleontology.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
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According to old legends that have come down to us from the ancient world,
Atlantis was the greatest civilization founded by the gods themselves. For a long time its lands were ruled by divine descendants – the sons of Poseidon, until they ignited the passions of man and did not swallow their vices and weaknesses.
Platonic world of Atlantis
The most famous description of the lost island is found in Plato's dialogues. In his narrative, the ancient philosopher describes the world of Atlantis as a prosperous state of surprisingly high ethics and justice. Kings and rulers of the wonderful kingdom were set by ten brothers descended from a mortal woman and the lord of the seas.
According to Plato, Poseidon built a great powerful island in the middle of the sea, called the Atlantic. He separated the island from the outside world with rings of water and a firmament. And in the middle of it, he exuded two streams – with warm and cool water. The source nourished the lands of the entire state, making its soils rich and fertile. Peace, abundance and prosperity reigned in these places.
Kings of Atlantis
The majestic city was divided between the brothers into ten parts, where Atlant, the eldest, became the king over the kings. The sons of Poseidon passed their power from generation to generation to their sons. And they lived according to the laws of friendship and reasonable patience, carved on a metal pilar in the very heart of Atlantis, withing the walls of the temple of the god of the seas – Poseidon.
None of the rulers then thought of breaking the divine instruction, since each of them saw and understood the power of the benefactor. Then, they honored only the supremacy of the spirit, and treated material wealth almost as an unfortunate burden.
Christina Balith. Atlantis
Times passed, and Atlantis reached such power that no existing civilization could surpass. The power of the sons of Poseidon went beyond their islands and reached the lands of Egypt and modern Italy. But once, as Plato writes, humanity prevailed among the rulers of Atlantis. The sons of Poseidon lost their divine nature and they became slaves of their greed, for which the gods decided to bring down upon them the punishment of heaven.
The death of the Atlantean civilization
Interestingly, Plato's narrative of Atlantis ends at the moment when Zeus the Thunderer, angered by the fall of the morals of the Atlanteans, decides to send punishment on them. The dialogue of Plato with Critias about the lost civilization is mysteriously interrupted, becoming a lost or incomplete philosophical discussion, for an unknown reason. For the fate that befell to the lost city, Plato mentions further in the fragment "Timaeus":
"Atlantis disappeared, plunging into the abyss. After that, the sea in those places has become non-navigable up to this day and inaccessible due to the shallowing caused by the huge amount of silt that the settled island left behind. "
Ancient sources tell of the rapid destruction of a once prosperous island. Literally in one day, the world of Atlantis went under the depths of the ocean, taking thousands of lives with it, leaving more questions than answers for future civilizations.
N. Roerich. The death of Atlantis
According to ancient philosophers, Atlantis disappeared from the face of the earth more than 10,000 years ago. However, scientists are still debating about the sunken continent. Where was it when it disappeared and did Atlantis even existed?
Someone considers the works of Plato as utopia and fiction far from reality. But there are also those who do not get tired in their searches and actively explore the topic of the lost Atlantian civilization. Today, the search for Atlantis is concentrated off the coast of Greece, as well as in the bowels of the Atlantic Ocean. It is true that so far no reliable evidence has been found confirming the veracity of this story.
That Atlas and the Emerald Tablets of Hermes
Although there are allegations that the history of Atlantis is known only from the works of ancient Greek philosophy, there is another source, though no less mysterious than the rest. We are talking about the emerald Tablets of Hermes, found according to one version by Alexander the Great in the Egyptian temples of Giza.
Little is known about the origin of these mysterious artifacts. But today, the texts of the tablets in translation can be found in the public domain under the name "Emerald Tablets of Thoth Atlant." The author claims that he is the Atlantic priest who managed to escape during the death of Atlantis. According to him, after his homeland went under water, he went to the lands of Egypt, where he was engaged in education, passing on secret knowledge to the world.
In the emerald tablets, That Atlant also describes the cause of the death of the island of Atlantis, revealing that it went under dark waters because of pride that broke out in the minds of it's "ascended" children.
"They were proud of their knowledge, proud of their position among the people. They plunged deeply into the forbidden, opened the gates that led down."
Atlas himself was chosen as the highest being, whom he calls the Inhabitant, to carry further the wisdom of the ages. Having left the dying Atlantis with several of his associates on the ship of the Master, he went to the abode of the children of Khem. Later, these places will be called the Kingdom of Egypt, but during the time of Atlantis, as the priest writes, these were wild lands and wild tribes lived on them.
Hermes is the god of wisdom and writing.
According to the mystery described by Thoth, it was he who built the pyramids of Giza, which later became the temple and center of consecration for many millennia. In general, it was to the Egyptian teachers that the philosophers of the ancient world went for the mystical knowledge that came to our days through the ideas of Plato, the sacred science of the numbers of Pythagoras, the spiritual teachings of Jesus, Kabbalah and many other esoteric systems.
Atlantis has sunk into oblivion, perished under gigantic waves, but its legacy still wanders the world and finds publicity through the lips of the Great Teachers and enlighteners of mankind. Whether the scientific community will one day find a valid confirmation of the existence and death of this great civilization is not known. But today, for many spiritual seekers, this story is an indisputable fact, the proof of which the zealous mystic is able to see in sources not direct, but indirect. Atlantis is alive for him, and he feels this in the rapid heartbeat, which is revealed in contact with secret knowledge, saved and revealed to the world by the great priest and consecrator of Egypt – The Atlantean, Hermes the trismegistus.
The Record Hall is said to hold the key to understanding our civilization and the true history of humanity.
Mythology tells us that this is a library buried somewhere in Egypt, and many believe that it may be beneath the enigmatic Sphinx of Giza, looking up and proud of the Pyramids of Giza Plateau. A discovery of a huge underground library, made in 2008, could forever change the history and origins of ancient Egyptian civilization.
The Hall of Records is said to have preserved the knowledge of ancient Egyptians, documented in ancient papyrus scrolls, and is believed to tell the story of the lost continent of Atlantis, as well as its location. The Egyptian Record Hall is just as important as the Greater Alexandria Library, which stored Greek knowledge.
Although conventional researchers have firmly stated that there is no evidence to suggest that the Record Hall is true, scholars like Robert Schoch and Thomas Dobek, as well as others, believe it can be found under the Sphinx.
In the book The Sphinx's Knowledge Graham Hancock and Robert Boval argue that the Egyptian government, along with American archaeologists, have blocked any exploration under the Sphinx, preventing anyone from learning about the Sphinx.
While those who believe that the Hall of Records exists and was built by ancient Egyptian civilization, there are others who think that the Hall existed but was not built by the ancient Egyptians but rather by a much older one a civilization that preceded ancient Egyptian.
But was the Record Hall not under the Sphinx? Isn't there really a huge underground library somewhere in Egypt?
Hidden by conventional archaeologists and researchers, there is a huge underground library discovered recently in Egypt. It can easily be considered one of the greatest discoveries of ancient Egypt, but few are aware of its existence. It is a discovery that may be considered one of the most significant finds of the century, but for some unknown reasons, most conventional scientists, along with Egyptian researchers, try very hard to keep everyone away from it.
The Lost Record Hall finally found?
Could this be the long-lost Hall of Records? Interestingly, the existence of an "underground library" is mentioned by Herodotus and Strabo, who had the pleasure of visiting and describing the legendary maze before disappearing from history.
Among the first to mention her existence was Herodotus:
This is what I actually saw – a creation indescribable. For if one brings together the buildings of the Greeks and shows their workmanship, they will seem insignificant, both in effort and in cost, in front of this maze … Even the pyramids are indescribable, and each is equal to many of the creations of the Greeks. But the maze is superior even to the pyramids. – Herodotus, Stories, Book II, 148.
According to Herodotus, in the 4th century BC: "The labyrinth was just above Moiris Lake and almost opposite what is called the City of Crocodiles" ("Stories", Book II, 148).
Based on descriptions from ancient texts, such as those of Herodotus and others who visited the magical labyrinth in the distant past, a German Jesuit scholar named Athanasius Kircher creates the first picturesque reproduction of the enigmatic labyrinth, just as Herodotus described it: It has twelve covered courtyards, with gates facing each other, six on the north and six on the south, joining one another, and the same wall enclosing them all outside; and there are two kinds of chambers in it, one under the earth, and the other above these, three thousand in number, of every one thousand and five hundred. We saw the above set of cameras …
The incredible underground library could easily have been the hall of record mentioned. Discovered in 2008 by a group of Belgian and Egyptian archaeologists, the underground temple is composed of over 3,000 rooms filled with incredible hieroglyphics and drawings, the enigmatic underground complex is less than 100 kilometers from Cairo in Havara, not far from Amenemhat Pyramid. III.
This incredible discovery is kept secret by society in mysterious circumstances. The results of the expedition were briefly published in 2008 in the NRIAG scientific journal and the results of the study were published in a public lecture at the University of Ghent. Belgian media were present. However, the find was hastily suppressed as the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (Egypt) terminated all further communications on the discovery due to sanctions on national security.
In 2010, De Cordier launched a website, the Egyptian Maze, to make the discovery accessible worldwide. Although researchers confirm the existence of the underground complex, large excavations must be made in the future to investigate the incredible find. It is believed that the treasures of the Underground Labyrinth could contain the answers to innumerable historical mysteries and ancient Egyptian civilization.
Is this the long-lost Hall of Records? In addition, is it of the utmost importance that the government refuses future exploration and excavation?
Interestingly, the discovery of the mysterious underground library seemed to perfectly match the stories of the mythical Hall of Records.
Archaeologists from the Institute of Archeology at the Russian Academy of Sciences have found a place where four women of different ages were buried. Scientists suggest that the burials were Amazons because they had weapons.
The grave of the Amazons was found in the tomb of the Virgin V, near Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh region. The oldest woman of the deceased, wearing a large ceremonial hat on her head.
Ancient Greek myths about the Amazons are told around the world. This is a nation made up of women who met men from other nations just to conceive children. They killed or sent the boys to their fathers, and the girls were brought up in their traditions.
The Amazons handled their weapons very well. They even burned or cut one of their breasts to make it easier for them to shoot from a bow.
Where the Amazons lived was a contentious issue. Ancient authors point to different places, and some write about the territory of modern Turkey. However, Herodotus believes that the Amazons lived in the area of Meotida, the Sea of Azov and along the Thais (Don) River.
Other ancient authors write that the land of the Amazons were located in Scythia, North Coast, as saying that they were warring with the Scythians and invaded their lands.
The Amazons are mentioned in various ancient documents, including the Russian "Tales of Provisional Years." There is still debate between historians and archaeologists as to whether the Amazons actually existed. For example, there is a version that wives of Sarmatians who used weapons no worse than men are called Amazons.
A new find by Russian archaeologists contributes to these disputes, proving that the Amazonian homeland is not Turkey but the Don lands.
Photo: Institute of Archeology, Russian Academy of Sciences
The grave of the Virgin V tomb contained the skeletons of a girl of about 12–13 years and women of 20–29 years, 25–35 years, and 45–50 years. The funeral is dated to the second half of the 4th century BC.
The tomb was reinforced with oak boards, which, however, did not save them from partial looting. In the investigated part of the mound 30 iron arrows were found as well as an iron hook in the form of a bird, elements of horse harness, ceramic pieces, iron knives, a mirror, two spears, bones of different animals.
The most valuable find was a perfectly preserved head accessory made of gold. Such "hats" are called calafes and were previously found only in the richest "royal" Scythian mounds.


In my last two posts I described the process of developing the microbial growth experiment we will be running aboard the International Space Station. We've tackled growth assays on 96-well plates in zero gravity, at least in theory. How well will this actually work on aboard the space station? To find out, Jenna, Wendy and I boarded a plane to Houston and met up with Mark Severance, our conspirator/colleague. Mark lined up an action-packed space hardware hacking marathon with our payload integrator, Nanoracks. He also got us access to the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at Johnson Space Center, and made a little time for a quick behind-the-scenes tour. First, the tour!
A visit to Johnson Space Center and the other core NASA facilities should be an important part of the education of each and every human. Every person should spend a couple of hours contemplating the Blue Marble and Pale Blue Dot, and every person should have a chance to walk around the machines that made those images possible. It is an overwhelming experience.
Up close and personal, the Saturn V rocket doesn't look futuristic. It looks like something familiar. You can see the little blue smudges on the metal around welds. You can see the fingerprints and fixes, and little scratches from hand tools. You'll recognize little things you can find in your local hardware store; nuts and bolts, screw and rivets. The rocket is the work of master machinists, and they left their fingerprints all over their work.
The machine itself is the most powerful… thing ever made. The Saturn V output is 190 gigawatts. That's almost twice the power output of France, at 102 gigawatts.
Let me say that again. We are talking about a machine that is almost twice as powerful as France. France. NASA keeps it in a shed out back, on a plinth of astroturf. Imagine a '73 Pontiac had a child with an Elder God from the Lovecraft universe. That's the Saturn V.
We also got chance to peek in the Apollo Mission Control National Landmark, which saw use until 1992. I'm just barely old enough to remember the loss of the Challenger, so it was a bittersweet moment to sit at the Booster Systems Engineer station.
Meanwhile, if you look closely at this photograph, I think this is probably exact moment Wendy decided to start mapping out the career steps she'll need to take to become an astronaut herself. You'll note she's at the Flight Surgeon's station.
We then skedaddled over to the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility to get an idea of what the Space Station is like inside.
So, what is it like? One thing that was surprising (to me, at least) is how big it is. The International Space Station has somewhat more internal volume than a modern jumbo jet (say, a 777), except it isn't all in one piece. As a result, it doesn't feel like a vehicle. Vehicles don't have… neighborhoods. It feels more like you'd built a small city and decorated it like the inside of an airplane.
Mark, Wendy and Jenna took lots of notes about possible places to ask the crew to collect surface swabs. For my part, I did what any mature, responsible scientist would do, which is to revert to my ADHD nine-year-old self. This consisted of poking, pinching, prodding, opening and peering inside every titanium doohickey and Nomex tchotchke whilst maintaining a rolling fusillade of irrelevant and probably annoying questions, and totally failing to write anything down. For once, there was no need; it's all pretty much etched into my brainpan forever.
See? Totally fascinating. The process transforms the aluminum surface into a honeycomb of ruby/sapphire stuff, and then fills the pores with various weird metal dyes and polymers. Different treatments must produce wildly different chemical, physical and electromagnetic environments on the scale of bacterial cell. I somehow made it through the morning without grabbing the nice polite NASA guy by his lapels and shouting about the stability of phospholipid bilayers in the presence of periodic discontinuities in electric potential and the high likelihood of phylogenetic anisotropies in this effect due to different membrane chemistries exhibited by different organisms. I bet if we understood those interactions really well, we could be very, very specific about what organisms we inhibited and what organisms we encouraged by picking just the right combinations of voltage, etching time and dye.
Then it was time for our first meeting with Nanoracks, which I'll describe in the next post.


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Claire Briant
IAEM supports full enactment of the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill as an important first step to safer alcohol consumption practices
Those working in Emergency Departments (EDs) in Ireland witness at first hand the devastation caused to people's lives through alcohol misuse. This misuse manifests in many different ways – the vulnerable semi-conscious teenagers scraped off footpaths outside pubs and clubs; the alcohol-associated carnage on our roads and streets; the falls down stairs as the inebriated tries to find the toilet or the bed; the house fires as intoxication overwhelms the desire for sausages or the ability to safely dispose of a cigarette; the unexpected 'king' punch that results in life-changing head injury etc. For these and many other similar reasons, experts in Emergency Medicine in Ireland are shouting 'this is crazy, it has to stop'. The statistics are truly frightening: alcohol is responsible for 3 deaths each and every day in Ireland, half of all suicides, a third of all attempted suicides, two fifths of all deaths on Irish roads, a quarter of all traumatic brain injuries and it contributes in some way to a quarter of ED attendances. On any given day in Ireland many hundred hospital beds are taken up with alcohol-related illness. This contributes very significantly to the prolonged trolley waits patients requiring admission experience in EDs, particularly as Ireland's acute bed stock is so limited by OECD standards.
The Public Health (Alcohol) Bill is a vital step in Ireland's attempts to curb this carnage. It sets out measures in the following areas: minimum unit pricing, strict separation of alcohol products in outlets, compulsory health-labelling on alcohol containers, restrictions on advertising and promotions and its goal is to reduce average annual consumption in Ireland from 11 to 9.1 litres per person by 2020.
The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine has supported previous initiatives to lessen the burden of alcohol-related harm. We strongly urge that the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill is enacted in full and is not allowed to be neutered by the efforts of those who profit so much from the sale of alcohol.
Download: IAEM Press Release supporting the full enactment of the Public Health Alcohol Bill
IAEM expresses concern about ED doctor shortages as a result of HSE's Locum Directive
IAEM offers its support to the "European Day without a Road Death" campaign


OK… so, you know when you go along to a course and on the way there you start to think "I probably already know most of this stuff, why am I going exactly? Haven't I better ways of spending my time?… but once attended, you end up being most pleasantly surprised!
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Chambray's Where You At? EP brings his vibrant basslines, striking percussion, staccato stabs and atmospheric ad-libs to DJ Mag 2018's "Best Label of North America", DIRTYBIRD. Drawing influences from techno house, ghetto house, African rhythms, and bossa nova, Chambray's music speaks with a signature sound that will make you move.
After catching the ear of dance music legend Jimmy Edgar, Chambray signed with the esteemed Ultramajic imprint in 2014 after years working in the fashion industry. Since then, he has performed at Boiler Room Berlin and released tracks independently on Unknown To The Unknown, W&O, Street Tracks, &Friends, and even a well-received single with DIRTYBIRD, "Laurel Em".
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Burn-out Art Workshops for Veterans & Soldiers
No previous art experience required. No fee.
The Earl Project exhibition
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See individual and community art work created by veterans & soldiers in the Burn-out Art workshops. Free and open to the public.
Can you make it?
This project is generously funded by Mid-America Arts Alliance, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the state arts agencies of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Additional funding was provided by the Kansas State University Small Research Grant and Department of Art.
Thanks also to our partners and collaborators!
The Kansas State University Institute for the Health & Security of Military Families; Manhattan Art Center; Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art; Mingenback Art Center, Bethany College; Meadowlark Hills; Sacred Leaf, Manhattan.
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Tell your story through art! No drawing or art experience required. Using photocopy, fire, and simple printing techniques, we'll create works that express you and your personal experience. These abstract, collage works may include photographs, documents, and cloth that you bring, with text from memories you choose to share. With help from artist teachers and fellow veterans, you'll create individual work to take home and contribute to our community war stories scroll, a new kind of graphic novel in cloth! We'll send more information when you register.
You can attend more than once, but please register so we know you're coming!
Family members welcome, but anyone under 18 must be accompanied by parent or guardian at all times.
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EAT GOOD FOOD. A juicy burger topped with spiciness made for a delicious meal. The fries were perfectly cooked and seasoned. "The mashed potatoes were cooked so well. They were delicious," said Tristen Campbell, 11.
This week I chose to have lunch at another great restaurant in Over the Rhine: Krueger's Tavern. Krueger's Tavern serves burgers and salads.
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I ordered iced tea to start my meal, but surprisingly it was kind of gross. I personally do not like the flavor of ginger and the tea tasted strongly of it. Oh well, it did not get off to a good start but little did I know it was about to get a lot better.
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Funeral and mourning rituals and traditions vary greatly between different cultures and religions. Today we are taking a look at the Jewish mourning tradition of "sitting shiva". To help us understand what this means and what we can do as mourners or supporters of mourners, we have consulted with "The Shiva Ladies," Karen Cooke and Shelley Marine of In Time of Need, a shiva and event planning services in the greater Philadelphia area.
Sitting shiva is the tradition of mourning in the Jewish religion, and Judaism provides a beautiful, structured approach to mourning. Father, mother, sister, brother, son, daughter or spouse are those who are considered mourners, once above the age of 13. Their friends and family gather as a community providing strength and support to help the bereaved through the process of grieving.
Shiva comes from the Hebrew number 7 (sheva), as shiva is traditionally observed for 7 days. During this time, the family stays in a home together, focusing on their grief and recalling their loved one. While shiva is traditionally a seven day period, families often choose to sit for a shorter period of time; 1, 2 or 3 days are quite common. Generally, shiva is announced at the funeral and the information will usually be listed in the obituary. Synagogues may also announce shiva information for their members in bulletins or emails.
Many people are uncomfortable with consoling the bereaved. Jewish customs define the proper etiquette and can help relieve some of those awkward feelings. One should be willing to listen to the mourner and allow them to lead any conversation. The mourner may find a hug and a moment of hand-holding a comfort, but a simple "I'm Sorry" can be enough. Sharing stories or memories about the deceased is appropriate. If the mourner does not feel like talking at all, sitting in silence with them is perfectly acceptable.
Offering to run errands, cook or clean up, or watch children is also appropriate and appreciated. Anything that assists in alleviating the daily chores from those sitting shiva will be seen as an immense help.
It is important to remember that different families will observe the Shiva period differently. While Jewish law proscribes rituals such as covering mirrors, not wearing leather, not shaving, tearing clothes, and sitting lower than the guests, each families decides which, if any of these rituals they will follow. Once the shiva period is finished, the family will often take a walk around the block together to officially end the rituals associated with sitting shiva.
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This book presents the findings of a research study that explores the impact of the socio-economic and living conditions of migrant construction workers on the health and education of their children across the mega cities of Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Delhi, Kochi, Mumbai, and Pune. The findings have been discussed in the light of earlier research studies. Based on these findings, the book identifies local, state and national-level policies and schemes that can be invoked or enhanced to assist this population. It also draws on good practices of Government and Non-Governmental Organizations to suggest interventions that might help migrant construction workers gain access to entitlements for food, accommodation, health-care, and education for their children.


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Home » Arts » Film » Long overdue and a little too late, 'Black Widow' is a double-edged sendoff
Long overdue and a little too late, 'Black Widow' is a double-edged sendoff
by Katrina Stebbins July 13, 2021 July 13, 2021
Scarlett Johansson reprises her role as a master assassin in 'Black Widow.' This image is from Marvel's official Youtube channel.
If you had to kill off an Avenger, would it be Hawkeye or Black Widow? Having grown up in an era of entertainment that's ruled by the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I remember engaging in this debate more than once during my childhood. Never mind the Big Four (Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk); which of the two most mortal superheroes — you know, the boring ones — could you live without?
When Black Widow jumped off a cliff to save Hawkeye in "Avengers: Endgame," the MCU answered that exact question. This became a linchpin moment for the franchise that's been met with much ambivalence and hangs over the entirety of "Black Widow," Natasha Romanoff's (Scarlett Johansson, "Marriage Story") long-awaited solo film.
The movie opens with a flashback in Ohio in 1995, where a young Natasha and three other agents of the nefarious, Soviet-made Red Room are undercover, posing as a happy family. Although the four are inevitably separated, Natasha's affection for them and their fabricated but nonetheless sincere family dynamic is clear. Over two decades later, having defected from the Red Room, Natasha is alone and on the run following the events of "Captain America: Civil War." The reappearance of Yelena (Florence Pugh, "Little Women"), her younger sister during the mission in Ohio, and the opportunity to bring down the Red Room kicks the action into gear.
In their search for the Red Room, Natasha and Yelena gather up Alexei (David Harbour, "Stranger Things") and Melina (Rachel Weisz, "The Favourite"), who once played their parents. Their reunion and the reestablishment of their relationship turns the second act partially into a fun family comedy that employs many recognizable tropes, complete with a dinner table scene in which the family bickers (Melina tells Natasha not to slouch and Alexei tells the girls to listen to their mother). Although their conversation eventually ventures into a more somber territory, the cast's strong performances and comedic elements provide much-needed levity for a film that easily could have taken itself much too seriously. The consistently wonderful Florence Pugh shines during these family scenes in particular, connecting the comedic and dramatic elements as she jumps deftly between exasperation with the others and devastation at their refusal to acknowledge that their family was real.
The younger/older sister dynamic that Pugh and Johansson play so well is primarily responsible for the successes that "Black Widow" claims. Many of the small moments Yelena and Natasha share will look incredibly familiar to anyone with a sibling, right down to the way they glance quickly at each other across the room when their parents say something dubious. Even the parts that feel like typical Marvel fare — a motorcycle chase, a helicopter rescue, an airborne final battle — are anchored by their relationship and by the lengths they are willing to go to for each other. Their final scene together may be one of the most touching interactions in any Marvel movie.
It's a little ironic, then, that much of what makes "Black Widow" good on its own is also what makes it feel cold in the MCU's broader context. There's no shortage of fans and critics who were, to put it mildly, upset about Natasha's death in "Avengers: Endgame." Giving her a family retroactively, establishing relationships that could have been expanded on through more solo movies if her character was alive, gives fans that much more potential to mourn. After years of delays and bad excuses for not making a Black Widow film, it's hard not to wonder if things would be completely different for her character now if "Black Widow" had actually come out after "Captain America: Civil War" — where it belongs chronologically.
Natasha's death makes "Black Widow" feel necessary, not within the Marvel timeline, but within the film's metacontext: the fans' love for her character and their desire to see her finally given her due, which is by no means a bad reason for the movie to exist. As a reluctant but nevertheless consistent Marvel fan myself, "Black Widow" is something I've waited on for years, and I'm glad that the 13-year-old in me can finally put the issue to rest. It's not exactly the sendoff I envisioned for a character I love, but it certainly does what it can under the circumstances, and it has a lot of fun along the way.
Daily Arts writer Katrina Stebbins can be reached at katstebb@umich.edu.
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Some users of the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system may notice problems with waking the computer from sleep or standby mode. When the feature is operating properly, the computer wakes when the mouse is moved, or a keyboard key or mouse button is pressed. Vista will not wake the computer as expected if the Power Management properties are not properly configured. Settings for both the keyboard and mouse must allow the device to wake the computer from sleep or standby mode. If you experience problems with Vista's sleep mode, check the Power Management settings for your keyboard and mouse.
Click the Start button, then right-click on the "Computer" option. The Computer context menu is displayed.
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Click the "+" next to the "Mouse and Other Pointing Devices" option, then click the entry corresponding to your mouse. The Properties dialog box opens for the device.
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Click the Start button, then click the "Control Panel" option.
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Click the "Keyboard" option to open the Keyboard Settings window.
Click the tab labeled "Hardware," then click the "Properties" option. The Keyboard Properties dialog box opens.
Click the "Change Settings" button. Additional options are displayed.
Click the "Power Management" tab, then check the check box next to the "Allow This Device to Wake the Computer" option. Click "OK." The mouse and keyboard are now configured to wake Vista from both sleep and standby mode.
Screen savers can interfere with waking a Vista computer from sleep or standby mode. If you configure your hardware to wake the computer with the included steps and the issue is still present, disable your screen savers to see if this will solve the problem.
Blackburn, Randall. "How to Exit Vista's Sleep Mode." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/exit-vistas-sleep-mode-70215.html. Accessed 24 April 2019.


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Steve Earle, Bobbie Gentry + More Join Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
By Addie Moore | November 2, 2020
This year's stacked class for the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame includes renegade singer-songwriter Steve Earle and one of the greatest creative minds of the '60s and '70s, Bobbie Gentry.
Earle's unwritten legacy involves more than classic rock radio fixture "Copperhead Road." He's this year's songwriter/artist inductee. Likewise, Gentry's selection as a veteran songwriter/artist took songs into consideration beyond her game-changer "Ode to Billie Joe" and future Reba McEntire hit "Fancy."
Memphis and Muscle Shoals legend Spooner Oldham, whose credits include James & Bobby Purify's "I'm Your Puppet" and The Box Tops' "Cry Like a Baby," enters the Hall of Fame in the veteran songwriter category. The class of 2020 is rounded out by two giants of modern country songwriting: Kent Blazy (Garth Brooks' "If Tomorrow Never Comes" and "Ain't Goin' Down ('Til The Sun Comes Up)") and Brett James (Jesus Take The Wheel" (Carrie Underwood), "When The Sun Goes Down" (Kenny Chesney & Uncle Kracker) and "Summer Nights" (Rascal Flatts)).
"This year marks our 50th year to welcome a new class into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame," says Sarah Cates, chair of the NaSHOF board of directors. "And although our year has looked different, we couldn't be more excited to continue our commitment and core mission by announcing the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Class of 2020."
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The five new members will be officially inducted alongside the 2021 class during the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala on Nov. 1, 2021, at Nashville's Music City Center. The 50th induction ceremony was planned for 2020, but it was cancelled due to COVID-19 (coronavirus) precautions.
Past inductees with ties to country music include Bill Anderson, Felice & Boudleaux Bryant, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Loretta Lynn, Bob McDill, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Dolly Parton, Hank Williams, Alan Jackson, Waylon Jennings, John Prine, Vince Gill and Guy Clark.
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