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I have been reading a fascinating book, "The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul,""that has set me to thinking about Jewish identity — both in Israel and in the United States.The beauty of a book like this is that its impact is measured not by agreement with the author (or disagreement either, for that matter), but by its ability to provoke new ways of looking at present and past. It forces a reader — at least this one — to question accepted beliefs, and to engage once again in a redrawing of boundaries that contain the (my) Jewish map of the world.
The author, Yoram Hazony, is an Israeli, a former adviser to Likud's last prime minister, BenjaminNetanyahu. Hazony now heads the Shalem Center, an institute for Jewish social thought and public policy in Jerusalem. His book arrives with strong endorsements from Natan Sharansky, Israel's minister of the interior,and William Kristol, the editor and publisher of The Weekly Standard, an American neo-conservative journal.
Among other jeremiads, Hazony argues that today's Israel is "altered beyond recognition."Its people have lost their sense of purpose; and its post-Zionist leaders have begun to question the existence (and desirability) of a Jewish state. All this has come about because Israel is "devoid of any Jewish purpose and meaning."
In short, Israel's Jews lack direction, and after four wars, the intifada and Iraqi scud missiles, they are in a state of exhaustion and confusion. It is all, says the author, a far cry from the glory days of independence and therallying spirit generated by David Ben-Gurion and Israel's founding fathers — pioneers, farmers, soldiers — men and women with Jewish souls who shaped the Zionist nation.
Viewed up close, this is a powerful cry of despair for a state that has just celebrated its 52nd year of existence. Hazony's initial evidence is somewhat superficial and impressionistic, though not necessarily incorrect. While serving in the army, he meets an officer, an educated man, who knows little about Jewish history. Does not, for example, know who King David was, or what he contributed to his people.
Later, he finds himself with a military company on intifada duty during Passover. These were no Jewish soldiers having to make-do in some battle-torn outpost. The Israel Defense Forces had provided a rabbi along with all the ritual elements — food and objects — necessary to conduct a rich service. But it was a dismal failure, says Hazony. To be sure, there were some observant soldiers present who were familiar with the seder and the text; and a handful who could sing the traditional melodies, or at least hum along. But most of the troops were bored, disinterested and impatient, and eventually simply drifted away.
More recently he has encountered political leaders who are reshaping the textbooks for schoolchildren so as to eliminate any sense of Jewish chauvanism in the schools. There is even a move afoot on the partof some journalists and cultural leaders to repeal the Law of Return, cutting off Diaspora Jews from anunquestioned right to immigrate to Israel. Novelist David Grossman and historian-journalist Amos Elon are two of many such leaders, according to Hazony.
Surprise, the "enemies of the state" (my phrase, not his) turn out to be the intellectuals, writers,academics and some of the younger political leaders. These are the current critics who find Zionism outmoded,and who seem to be following in the footsteps of such anti-Zionists as Hannah Arendt and Martin Buber. Theseare also the men and women who dominate and shape the culture of Israel, says Hazony. (Though surely there are antagonists who command a following within Israel's cultural life.)
Does all this sound familiar? Change a few names and dates and we're transported back to the United States. Our younger generation knows little of American history, and most of us can barely hum the American national anthem,let alone sing out its words. Intellectuals and academics are the well-poisoners when it comes to elevating secularismabove religion: They are the culprits keeping prayer out of the schools. And patriotism after Vietnam? Please.
It's easy to locate the causes which have led to the decline of American morality and values. According to neoconservative journalists such as William Kristol, Norman Podhoretz and Hilton Kramer, the fall began withthe ascendancy of the sixties, the enshrinement of that generation's values. We can also see the pernicious influence of our own media, adopting '60s ideology and engulfing us with a destructive pop culture. Betweenthe two we are inundated with uninhibited and permissive sex at any age, casual use of drugs and the launchingof such movements as gay rights and feminism. These have all contributed to the decline of family life and the loss of national purpose, say the conservative critics.
National history and geographic size are irrelevant here. We could be talking about either society, Israel or America. Their interchangeability by itself does not negate the argument. But it sure gives me some pause.
The loss of patriotism is felt more keenly in Israel than in the U.S. It's a younger nation, established in some ways on the bones and suffering of those who died in the Holocaust. With so many wars in so short a span of history, with so many enemies encircling its border, Israel's movement away from a national triumphalism seems to me, at first, astonishing. But then I think of the changes in France in the 60 years after its revolution; and the loss of innocence in this nation over the last 65 years. And,if I can venture a guess, the first faint echoes of a modified fundamentalism in so new a governmentas theocratic Iran.
For better or ill, change has a way of erasing shibboleths as well as national policies and beliefs. Today change occurs with a rapidity that is difficult to contain. Of course not all change is beneficial, though often it ushers in benefits, often to those who have had the least amount of freedom or opportunity. Change in Israel means that sooner or later there will be a Palestinian state — carrying in its wake new problems and crises. It means that such factors as globalization and the instant communication afforded by the Internet will probably challenge the political influence of religion in this Jewish state. Democracy vs. theocracy is a headline, and so exaggerates the conflict by polarizing it. But the Jewish state will have to tilt in one direction or the other. It cannot remain static.
And we Jews — in Israel no less than in America — will have once again to redefine who we are andwho we wish to be. The fact is we have been doing this throughout history; those with a shorter attentionspan need only look at changes in American Jewry within this last century.
Each generation has taken a different turn in the road; has embraced a new identity as an American Jew. That grappling, that form of choosing, will continue regardless of intermarriage and lack of knowledge of Judaism The point to remember is that while numbers may rise or fall, we are a pluralistic society, with individual Jews following quite distinct and different paths.
Why should we expect less from Israelis? We may want them, even need them, to remain constant in the midst of our social upheavals. For us, they are the fixed point on the Jewish map, latitude and longitude just as they were in 1948. But for Israel to hold fast to its original terms of identity, would lead to a somewhat closed, iconoclastic society.
It would be akin, though not so dramatically, to our turning back to the first American government: Pure, virtuous, newly independent citizens living on a scale everyone could grasp. It sounds grand. But it would also include slavery, few rights for women, and only a fraction of eligible white men — those with adequate funds — able to vote. Come to think of it, I can identify any number of people who might long for that cultural climate.


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Pastries and More at Epicerie Boulud
Boulud Sud, the newest restaurant from esteemed French chef Daniel Boulud, may be getting a great deal of critical attention these days, but I've been finding the attached cafe-boulangerie-patisserie—Epicerie Boulud—just as fascinating. Daniel and crew are doing so much and on so many fronts that I can't fit all my thoughts in one post. So stay tuned for a full review later tonight. Right now? Let's talk about their pastries.
While New York is a great bakery city, I wouldn't say that it has a single French bakery that's excellent across the board. We're huge fans of the baguettes and many of the pastries at Almondine in Dumbo and Park Slope, and of the croissants and more at Ceci-Cela, and of many French pastries at Cannelle Patisserie out in Queens. But is there any single place where you'd want to say to an out of town visitor, "You've gotta go here while you're in New York for a perfect croissant or brioche?" I don't think so.
Spurred by his relentless perfectionism and his instinct for the delicious, Daniel Boulud is clearly trying to create just that sort of bakery, in a space squeezed between Bar Boulud and Boulud Sud. He does not come to this endeavor alone, of course; he's bringing Daniel pastry chef Dominique Ansel and his crew to the breakfast pastry fray.
Epicerie Boulud's closest kin would be Thomas Keller's Bouchon Bakery—also on this stretch of Broadway, also a high-end café-patisserie, also the work of a four-star chef bringing his exacting mindset to simpler fare. At Bouchon, we've always found the more creative, seasonally rotating baked goods a little better than the classic French pastries (though both are quite fine indeed). At Epicerie Boulud, however, the classics are top-notch.
One of our favorites was an apricot danish ($3), made with fresh apricots; we loved the soft fruit against the crisp pastry, particularly with the added pastry cream. Another winner was the brioche cake bostock ($3.25) with an incredibly light crumb and an almond frangipane top, and a superlatively flaky tarte aux pommes ($4.75)—the best of the bunch, the flakiest, most intensely buttery puff pastry, the sweetness of the apples heightened by butter and sugar.
Croissants are all textbook-delicious, the plain ($2.75) properly golden-brown and shatter-flaky, the pain au chocolat ($3.25) appealingly rich and dark inside that pastry. But the almond croissant ($3.25) is the real winner—the almond element not too sugary or goopy or marzipan-y, just gently sweetened, seeping into some bits of surrounding pastry for sweetly caramelized edges.
We've eaten a lot of sub-par canelés in town, but loved these ($3), with their deeply bronzed exterior and eggy inside chew. A blueberry financier actually tastes like that fruit, not just picking up a purple hue, with a blueberry crumble atop the soft almond cake; if we thought that flavor was strong, the Chamonix ($2) was even stronger, a tiny package with huge star anise flavor.
There's a real ginger hit in the rich, dense chocolate-ginger pound cake, and a real citrus one in the lemon pound cake ($8); the latter was a little dry, but had a nicely tart lemon glaze.
We thought the same of the Brioche Suisse ($3.25) and Brioche Crumble ($3), whose sweet crunch on top we loved. Despite its tender pull and buttery flavor, it was a tiny bit on the dry side; but we really have to look for things to criticize, here. Not every pastry is perfect, but every one is tremendously good.
Stay tuned for a look at their savory options—and at the epic dessert menu.
Epicerie Boulud
1900 Broadway, New York NY 10023 (map)
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Cut yarn leaving 6 inches of thread, use this to thread through the loops remaining on the needle using a darning needle. Pull Tight and knot. Fold to join edges right sides together and sew up the seam. Additionally you, so they don't get easily lost. Braid, or using a crochet hook create a chain long enough for your doll and tie to each wrist of the mittens. Thread through the clothing of the doll, just like you would for a child.
Hope you have fun knitting these easy cute mittens! They make a lovely gift, I will be posting more patterns for 17″ dolls soon.
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Microsoft Richcopy
One of the Microsoft tools that was being used by Microsoft programmers to copy or move files in faster speed. This tool was developed in 1996 but it was being used internally by Microsoft and was not made available for public usages. However, at a later stage they made it available for free public download
and now you can also experience faster file copying and moving with this small Windows utility, called RichCopy.
RichCopy can copy multiple files.
at a time with up to 8 times faster speed than the normal file copy and moving process. Surprisingly it copies and moves files even faster than RoboCopy tool and XCOPY command. Since the tool was being used by the developers, they made it pretty effective and stable .
download Microsoft Rich copy 4.0
Key Features of RichCopy
1. More powerful, faster and stable than than any other file copying tool.
2. Create several profiles to assign special settings with a specific profile.
3. Copy files from multiple and different locations and save in a single destination.
4. Filter the files based on the date, time and choose to either copy or opt those files.
5. Being on GUI, supports command lines.
6. Suspend and resume file copy at any time.
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- 編集済み Nikhil Deshpande 2009年12月7日 3:17 changed to Noel's Link
- 編集済み Ronnie VernonMVP, Moderator 2010年3月16日 21:48 edit
Great find, Nikhil! Thank you.
By the way, I couldn't access the link you posted. Here's another:
I've been using RichCopy 4.0.217 for some time now and it works great...when it works. Since it's free, there's no support available. My problem is that it will occasionally neglect to copy a bunch of files, giving an error, "The system cannot find the path specified." Perhaps it can't create a folder in the destination, despite having sufficient permissions.Can I buy another clue? Any other users out there?
I've been trying to use it to quickly backup some files to take off our server.
a) I've had the same "The system cannot find the path specified." message many, many times. This leads me to question if it gets everything, and it doesn't really save time if you need to run it twice! I've tried decreasing or increasing threads to no avail.
b) Not once has the program actually completed, crashing out at some random time in the process. The error (posted below) looks liek a GUI issue, and not actually to do with copying the files at all! Not being supported, of course there nowhere to check for assistance or clues.
I'm not suprised they kept this as an Internal app - I'll stay with Robocopy for now.
Faulting application name: RichCopy.exe, version: 18.104.22.168, time stamp: 0x4a2fa7bf
Faulting module name: comctl32.dll, version: 6.10.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bd976
Exception code: 0xc0000409
Fault offset: 0x0009a4ef
Faulting process id: 0x26c8
Faulting application start time: 0x01ca98c61402b389
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Rich Tools\RichCopy 4.0\RichCopy.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.7600.16385_none_421189da2b7fabfc\comctl32.dll
I just tried out RichCopy and it's a great tool... but I found that everytime it hits a file or folder with an & symbol in it fails to copy. Instead it reports, "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect."
So it's almost perfect... but it can't copy "Marley & Me.mpg" or copy any files out of a folder called "This & That".
i know the feeling. i've tried robocopy, xcopy, richcopy (seems buggy and unreliable when choosing single extensions to include), however there is XXCopy from pixelabs. No, it's not free but it does work very well.
Last week, i began switching all of my scripting over from a combination of xcopy + xxcopy over to robocopy since our MS licensing allows us to use it at no cost, has built-in switches for easily logging the copy process, PLUS it had the copy status % and ETA options. Once I got to one of the last scripts, I figured out that robocopy cannot search multiple files on disk and place them into a single folder (aka concatenate). An example is to search for all .PST files and place them into a single folder such as "%userprofile%\my documents\archives". XXCopy has this feature (use the /SG switch) and it works very well. Plus, if a duplicate name is encountered during the copying process, it simply takes (file #1 - archive.pst) and makes it archive0001.pst. Otherwise, all filenames are exactly what they were before.
I originally just used xcopy until about 2 years ago when the requrement came up to consolidate all of the PST files into one folder. XXCopy did this one task perfectly every time and i never bothered replacing xcopy since it was already working fine.
Unless something changes in the next week or two, I guess i will move everything to XXCopy and upgrade our license count.
I have had the same issue with RichCopy crashing. When running it on a Win2k3 std x86 server the application just closes, on Win2k8 r2 std x64, it will actually give me an error message. Here is the application error:
Faulting application name: RichCopy64.exe, version: 184.108.40.206, time stamp: 0x4a2fa7b5
Faulting module name: RichCopy64.exe, version: 188.8.131.52, time stamp: 0x4a2fa7b5
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000006b4d3
Faulting process id: 0x1d70
Faulting application start time: 0x01cadcde196c0a39
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Rich Tools\RichCopy 4.0\RichCopy64.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Rich Tools\RichCopy 4.0\RichCopy64.exe
Report Id: 566020c7-4945-11df-889d-0024e877b0fe
The screenshot i have displays 3 of the files being copied, two of them are from a folder with an '&' symbol. I am rather surprised this is the culprit, but it appears to be so. Looks like I am headed back to RoboCopy :/
The amperand (&) symbol means something special in DOS command line lingo, and is uncommon in file/folder names, so it's not tremendously surprising some tools might have a problem with it. They're not handling it properly.
Something to try would be to put the path in quotes, if possible.
If that doesn't work, maybe the best thing to do would be to rename that folder, if possible.
I just did some more testing and I don't think the ampersand is the problem, i think its the path length. The path it is choking on is over 255 characters (including spaces). I am going to retry my copy, mapping the drive to a letter which should save ~30 char. Any other work around for long path names? If this continues to be a problem is there an easy way to get a listing of all of the paths over 255 chars?
I've just run into that long pathname problem. In Windows 7 when it starts to read Users\All Users\Application Data, it gets into some kind of recursive loop, e.g. \Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data ... until the pathname length exceeds 255 chars. Then it bombs and I get the Windows 7 prompt to let Microsoft look online for solutions.
I tried to filter "Application Data" as the name of a folder but that didn't work for some reason. Richcopy kept right on recursing the "Application Data" folder until it crashed. So I rechecked the exclusion filter in my profile and found that the option had been unchecked. The name "Application Data" was still there but it was greyed out. I checked the option again, clicked on "Apply" and exited the options menu. Then I opened the options menu again and saw the the option was once again unchecked. For some reason Richcopy would not save the state of that option.
Aside from that strange recursion problem with "Application Data", I have other pathnames that exceed 255 chars. I'd like to be able to copy those. In any case, attempts to filter those didn't work either. Looks like it's back to the drawing board with Synctoy, Robocopy, Xcopy, etc. I saw a few references to XXcopy in this thread; I think I'll take a look at that.
Richcopy version: 184.108.40.206
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium
Have a good one,
Big Al Mintaka
I too have been experiencing similiar issues of random crashes with RichCopy 4.0. I have been using RichCopy 3.5 (underground hack from MS) for years. It performed faster and it did not have as many bug issues as 4.0. If you like RichCopy, I would suggest searching for the 3.5 version.
I am kind of in the boat of searching for another product tool. I recently completed a massive File Server migration and a bunch of files came over corrupted. I suspect RichCopy 4.0 had something to do with this.
I found this link recently which helped in clearing up some questions about RichCopy 4.0.
For anyone who's experienced these errors:
Try increasing the buffer size in the settings for folder and file copy. After doing this, I no longer experienced the 0xc0000005 exception errors and RichCopy is able to complete.
I too experienced the frustrating RichCopy crashes when trying to copy a very large file system from a Novell to a Windows server. The folder contained over 2.5 million files and was 1.7 terabytes large. With the default settings RichCopy would crash about 1/3 of the way through the folder structure.
After increasing the buffers, I was able to run the copy to completion with 10 threads for folder search, copy and file copy.
There was *one* other change I made, and that was to run the application under 2008 SP1 (ie, no R2) compatibility mode. But I believe the buffer change is what made the difference. If you find the program still crashes after increasing buffer size, try running it in compatibility mode.
I'm using it on a 2008 R2 SP1 server to copy several multi-terabyte folders with several million files in each. No more errors. :)
Hi Jason -
No, I have not experienced any file corruption issues (at least that I can tell). I've used RichCopy recently with the settings I described to migrate a large department's data from an old Novell server to Windows. The migrated folders are pretty heavily used by several hundred users, and I have not had any reports of corrupted files.
I've continued to run the program with 2008 (non R2) compatibility mode, because things are working and I need to get more data migrated off old servers. Later I may try running RichCopy without compatibility mode to determine for sure whether it was just the buffers tweaking in the settings that did the trick.
Reading this post makes me wonder if i did the right thing by using RichCopy to merge a restore tree with a live tree for a 100,000 user maildir restore!
So far 3,000,000 files in and it looks like its going ok but the logfile is at 800Mb and I can't load it on the server yet.
I have 2 problems: A) it started great, stabilising at 8Mb /sec but now after 18Hrs of processing its dropped to 2.2mb / sec.
B) it is using an excessive amount of ram now upto 2.6mb and pushing the system ram to 15.6Gb out of 16Gb ram!
i can't see any reason why the speed should drop so dramatically.
does this mean its all going to explode beneath my feet before it completes?
And Why should it consume memory unless there is a memory leak?
Andy T
If anyone is interested, I found out why RichCopy was holding 2.6GB private memory in Task Manager!! (Yes 2.6GB - not 2.6mb as I said before)
Basically it seems that Richcopy does not dispose of ram very efficiently and leaves a lot of pages in standby cache.
You can see a lot of good information about your free / used ram by using sysinternals RamMap Here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ff700229
By clearing the Standby List, page list and working sets, this will free up most of your ram giving you peace of mind that your server isn't going to explode in front of you.
Ram is now sitting at 6 Gb of 16Gb whereas before it was 15.6Gb / 16Gb
Andy T
My thoughts, It is 1/2 baked like everything Microsoft. What I cannot deal with is , a file will skip "Path Not Found", and it is because the path is too long. (Microsoft will let you create files paths > 255 charaters, but it will not let you copy those files, because the core operating system is dumb. It can't even copy files that it creates. Richcopy is dumb, because it gives no log or reason why the file was skipped. It just says" Oh well, some of your stuff didn't copy over, I don't know what it was, and I can't tell you why, but ur missing some of your stuff. Have a nice day". I am off to find another file copy utility that hopefully can tell me what it can't copy
I found a partial replacement for RichCopy. It's called FastCopy and was featured on Helge Klein's (maker of SetACL) blog back in May 2011.
Most awsome program. Doesn't give a rat's whisker about file paths greater that 260!
Doesn't use Windows OS at all, you can throttle the speed and get some real throughput with this program, plus A LOG IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG.
does anyone know if you can consolidate folders? For example, I have a SD card from my camera. I put it in the card reader. I have a script that will first ask for the name of the new folder you would like the script to create, then, it will take pictures from multiple folders on the card and dump them into that newly created folder without the card's folder structure. It just places all pics into the root of that new folder, regardless of where they came from.
thanks in advance,
For anyone who's experienced these errors:
Try increasing the buffer size in the settings for folder and file copy. After doing this, I no longer experienced the 0xc0000005 exception errors and RichCopy is able to complete.
I too experienced the frustrating RichCopy crashes when trying to copy a very large file system from a Novell to a Windows server. The folder contained over 2.5 million files and was 1.7 terabytes large. With the default settings RichCopy would crash about 1/3 of the way through the folder structure.
After increasing the buffers, I was able to run the copy to completion with 10 threads for folder search, copy and file copy.
There was *one* other change I made, and that was to run the application under 2008 SP1 (ie, no R2) compatibility mode. But I believe the buffer change is what made the difference. If you find the program still crashes after increasing buffer size, try running it in compatibility mode.
I'm using it on a 2008 R2 SP1 server to copy several multi-terabyte folders with several million files in each. No more errors. :)
How do I increase the buffer size in RichCopy 4.0? I am unable to locate this setting. Thanks
If anyone is interested, I found out why RichCopy was holding 2.6GB private memory in Task Manager!! (Yes 2.6GB - not 2.6mb as I said before)
Basically it seems that Richcopy does not dispose of ram very efficiently and leaves a lot of pages in standby cache.
You can see a lot of good information about your free / used ram by using sysinternals RamMap Here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ff700229
By clearing the Standby List, page list and working sets, this will free up most of your ram giving you peace of mind that your server isn't going to explode in front of you.
Ram is now sitting at 6 Gb of 16Gb whereas before it was 15.6Gb / 16Gb
Andy T
Came here with the same results. My problem is now I have 80 servers that need the mapped files cleared. Does anyone have a command line utility to clear the mapped file table?
Would anyone be able to let me know if I am missing a setting? Trying to copy some large files over a network... and when the connection drops.. I loose the existing data, and has to start from scratch again. In a nutshell, I can pause and resume while things are fine, but the moment I really lose the connections.. Back to square one...
Just not sure if RichCopy leaves ... partials.
Running Default options. (Only with some mild exclusions of certain types of files)
Thank you
- 編集済み Matt Levine 2013年4月30日 21:19
Great utility, amazing speeds but one small issue preventing me from using...
Is it possible to prevent RichCopy from overwriting a file in the destination if the date/time is newer than the source. I see hundreds of possible exceptions/error handling. But that one seems to be missing.
This was my problem as well. I had 8 GB RAM on my server, RichCopy consumed ALL of it and started to skip files (I am guessing this was the reason). I upgraded to 16 GB RAM, again same issue! Task Manager shows only about 1 GB consumed by all process and less than 10 MB by RichCopy!
I downloaded RAMMap and only "Empty Working Sets". Worked like a charm. I recovered 11 GB RAM within seconds.
I am getting the below error. You'll have to piece the URL back together...
I have went to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\COMPONENTS and removed PendingXmlIdentifier. NextQueueEntryIndex, AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving were not present.
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I've seen issues with Application Data repeating over and over, and it is not a Richcopy problem. I believe it has to do with junctions or symlinks. Windows uses symlinks for most of the special directories - documents, music, etc. If you have upgraded from other windows versions or done something else that recreates these directories, you end up getting multiple copies of the directories and symlinks.
Typically, only one of the copies for each is valid and the other points to some invalid location.
Essentially, if you have a never ending Application Data path, it is symlink related. I was able to fix my issue with Application Data forever recursing, but it was not easy and required changing settings all over the place as many settings were pointing to them.
Does anyone know WHY Rich copy won't keep the permissions of the original owner of the file? When I do a copy which by the way works perfectly, when I drill down to see the owner of the file on the copy it changes it to the administrator. I need the owner of the file to remain. Does anyone know if secure copy does this?
I have invested much time in trying to make 4 work correctly,
but one of its bugs thwarts my efforts.
For many files, it is copying incorrectly the hour of modification
In hope that 3.5 does not have that defect,
I request the help of anybody in getting 3.5.
Believe me, I have been trying to find it.
I found the file include and file exclude options were not saving correctly on the options. Once you set the option and click ok, when you come back to the option it looks like the tick is missing.
I have found a work around for the file included / file excluded option, just create a new options and set it, it seems to be working ok.
Really helpful utility to copy multiple files over the slow network.
But I couldnt find the option to select single file to copy.
If we want to copy single file then what option \ settings we have to do in options?
Also we couldnt the contents of the folders so we have to select complete folder even if we dont want to copy complete one.
Hope, I will get answers of my queries here :-)
Ritesh Chaudhari
I've had this Application data recursion issue several times. The funny part is, I know I am replying to an old post. But here we are 8 years later and still an issue. Ive had this with other programs, not just the above. The problem is Application Data is just a symbolic link (dont quote me on the specific type) for compatibility to App data or something like that.
My real general question is again, here we are 8 years later, has this not been updated? Every link I find is to the same program from the same Microsoft Technet article.
Sorry, but I don't see the value of this program. I just wanted to be able to copy a folder tree and have it keep the original date stamps on the folders. I was told this was just Robocopy with a GUI interface. I don't see that at all.
Robocopy has an option to keep the date stamps /E /DCOPY:T
Where does RichCopy offer such options?
Also, I timed RichCopy and Robocopy was about 3-4 times faster. Not a trivial difference. RichCopy was the same speed as Windows Explorer.
So... What is this good for?


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I will never forget the first "light" strike I got from Vladimir and often asked myself how it could produce such an unexpected and amazing effect inside both the body and mind.
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The son of legendary TV newsman Ted Koppel died early Monday after a night of drinking that ended in the seedy Manhattan apartment of a man he met at a Hell's Kitchen bar, law enforcement officials said today.
Andrew Koppel, a 40-year-old attorney with the New York City Housing Authority with a history of alcohol problems, was declared dead around 1:30 a.m. Police said Koppel had been drinking heavily for hours with a waiter he met that day, Russell Wimberly.
A roommate of Wimberly, Belinda Caban, told the New York Post that Koppel was extremely drunk and that they put him to bed, only to find him dead hours later. Wimberly, 32, said they met at Smith's Bar on 44th St. and Ninth Ave., striking up a conversation after each noticed the other wearing a similar straw hat.
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"He said, 'Nice hat, man,'" Wimberly told the Post. "We got to talking and he started buying me drinks."
Wimberly said Koppel drank straight whiskey, and when he suggested bar-hopping around the city, he sipped from a pint bottle of Jameson as they walked.
"There was a lot of alcohol," Wimberly told the Post.
Koppel was the third of the "Nightline" anchor's four children and their only son. In 1993, he was convicted of punching a senate aide and ordered to undergo alcohol treatment. In 1990, he was in an alcohol-related fender-bender in Maryland.


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This book represents a journey through the world through meditation.
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Ri brakumas min. Ri alproksimigas sian kapon, kaj nun ĝi tuŝas mian vangon. Mi reage fermas miajn okulojn pro surprizo. Ri ne moviĝas. Mi povas senti la aeron de ria malrapida spirado sur mia kolo. Male, mia spirado estas tre rapida. Kaj ri verŝajne sentas, ke mi maltrankvilas, ĉar ria nuda brusto tuŝas la mian.
The attractions Roopa experienced and the fantasies she entertained as a teen shaped a male imagery that ensconced her subconscious. Insensibly, confident carriage came to be associated with the image of maleness in her mind-set. Her acute consciousness of masculinity only increased her vulnerability to it, making her womanliness crave for the maleness for its gratification. However, as her father was constrained to help her in becoming a doctor, she opts to marry, hopin...
That winter night in the mid-seventies, the Janata Express was racing rhythmically on its tracks towards the coast of Andhra Pradesh. As its headlight pierced the darkness of the fertile plains, the driver honked the horn as though to awake the sleepy environs to the spectacle of the speeding train. On that, in the S-3, were the Ramaiahs with their nine year-old daughter Roopa.
Earlier, from Ramavaram, it was in the nick of time that Ramaiah took Janaki to Vellore for ...
Clermont-Ferrand is the eighth of 13 chapters published in serial form is a Théâtre-pièce in four mouvements:— Prelude in V Actes, Entr'acte in III Actes, Escapade in III Actes, and Intermède in II Actes.
Confluence: France, 1913 — Plots made forfeit; intrigues abated; guests from Orbis infernum and Orbis terrae congress in introductions, confidences, spirited colloquies and ebullient exultant games of Chance; and, the Grand Mortality caused by baleful withering once believed by les Citoyens immortels as but a conte d'horreur is divulged to be.
Poesía. Edición Bilingüe. Galego-Español
Cuando regresemos seremos como esos Dioses Albatros de Baudelaire.
Desterrados, desposeídos de cielo sobre una sucia cubierta,
insultados por marineros borrachos y burlados por el destino de
nuestras alas.
A literary novel that touches on drug addiction, domestic violence and coming of age.
Los Angeles 2017 Letter to My Parents Contest Award recipients and letters.
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Letters from the finalist of the 2017 Letter to My Parents Contest in Hawaii.
Letter announcement for the 2016 Letter to My Parents Contest in Hawaii.
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Poesía. Edición Bilingüe.
Profundiza en mi alma, corazón, profundiza en un cielo a todas luces maldito. Mi execrable voluntad fue buscando la entrega y algo que ardiera como la belleza en el ala del abejaruco. ¿Qué es el afecto comparado con una croqueta canina? ¿En qué pueden parecerse? Pienso en el amor, pienso para perros.
Lyon is the seventh of 17 chapters published in serial form. It is here dénoûments are made of the plots ushering cataclysmic Change.
Entr'acte: France, 1913 — Les Daemons æternels in this play shall perform as they have for centuries done; and, these acts, in which they are seen in this Modern Age, that may have been written in custom-houses of Lunacy when in other times were written in athenæums sublimis ab undaes, shall succor those affrighted and dismayed.
My Secret Family aka Sugar Crash is a cult novel about personality and eating disorders, originally written as a short story in 1991 and published as a novel in 1997. The novel went viral in 1997. By 2005 the characters in the book, each represented by a personality disorder, were considered a 'pro-ana' secret language by the media, even though the book has no 'pro-ana' message. The story spread in an unusual fashion because it was originally published, not in book form,...
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I don't eat bread or chocolate cake,
in dinners and breakfasts I do not partake,
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it may as well sit there – to me it's all swill.
I cannot remember the taste of dessert,
when I climb out my dress my ribs creak and they hurt,
I'm down three sizes to a minus 2,
I need to put cotton in the sides of my shoes.
I cry in my sleep for one last little bite,
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Notre-Dame-de-Grâce is the first of 17 chapters published in serial form wherein Zoë meets the Ferryman and the Lighthouse-Keeper.
L'Ancien Régime: France, 1913 — Modern vicissitudes in les Belles Époques had ascended in a progressive era which begat the Machine Age. Presidents, Lords, Kings, Courts, Parliaments and Congresses and Leagues were belaboured against the Senses of Reason and Logic as they indulged with the Seven Deadly Vices: Sloth, Jealousy, Greed, Ignorance, Intolerance, Despair and Fear; and, in the intrigues performed, they would be sent forth on that voyage where all are passenger.
Saint-Étienne is the sixth of 13 chapters published in serial form wherein Zoë went in the département Loire where it was discussed the six spheres—la Terre, l'Enfer, le Purgatoire, le Paradis and les Limbes—that, if one believes la Terre is in the liminality—confluence—of Spheres, Plurality exists; and, all things during those days were done while grand clockworks were begun after Plan XVII was adopted by the French Conseil Supérieur de la Guerre.
Indigenus: France, 1913 — Autochthones and Wights - les Citoyens immortels - in the Three Kingdoms of l'Ancien Régime sought the evanescence of Past returning as Belle Époque wanes with presentiment of the events that would come as Man exults Progress.
An exploration of the vital importance of imagination and experience, as exemplified in the works of William Blake and Jacob Boehme. This paper is based on a lecture given at the Temenos Academy London, and published in the Temenos Academy Review 20 (2017).
Boehme wrote of his works that 'a Man's Reason, without the light of God, cannot come into the Ground [of them], it is impossible, let his wit be ever so high and subtle, it apprehends but as it were the Shadow of it in a Glass'.17 As Blake wrote in Jerusalem, when 'the Reasoning Power in Man' is 'separated/From Imagination,' it encloses 'itself as in steel, in a Ratio/Of the Things of Memory'.
Zone-Saint-Cloud is the fourth of 13 chapters published in serial form wherein Zoë meets the Statesman; and visits le Closet des Brumes arcade and les Trois Magies arcades: Theourgia, Maleficium, Spiritalis; listens to The Scrivening Tale; attends a Tent Revival on the flat lands in département Drôme; and, views a Théâtre Tale.
Intrigues and Plots: France, 1913 — Statesmen, Chancellors, Ministers, Potestates and Lords conspire with Intolerance: Aristocracy, Timocracy, Tyranny, and enlightened Despotism were enlarged by the swift increase of their acts of Imperialism.
Grand Canyon du Verdon is the third of 13 chapters published in serial form wherein Zoë meets the Judge, the Tiger, Guillaume Merle, the Chess Player, the Prostitute, and the Sylphide-Collector; and, passes the twenty arcades of Magia Naturalis.
Alliances and Ententes: France, 1913 — England, France, Italy, Russia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Portugal and Rumania; the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire.


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I opened my eyes and looked at the patient. Her eyes were open, too, wide and lively against the tautness of her face. They were the same eyes of my aunt Lydia who had once pulled up her shirt to show me the large birthmark on her stomach—darker than her skin, shapeless like a stain. She looked at me, and I looked at her, and as the people around us prayed for her recovery, she smiled at me.
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Might want to mess around with your aspect ratio and resolutions a bit to bump it all the way to 1080P, but it's not a big deal if you don't feel like it's worth the hassle.
Might want to mess around with your aspect ratio and resolutions a bit to bump it all the way to 1080P, but it's not a big deal if you don't feel like it's worth the hassle.
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What sort of programs are you using to make the intro part to the above video Croid? or infact anyone that can recommend some.
How big should the video be in size when its all done? This is my first time trying to make a video and I dont think I really did any big compression....I wanted it to be in 1080p....the kill took about 7 minutes 30 seconds. What size should I expect from this when its done?
BTW...thanks for making this post....it was really helpful!
1080p is way overkill. You won't see much difference from 720p.
All depends on how often stuff like background and UI changes on the screen. A 7.5 min video could easily be 500MB or more depending on bit rate, fps and resolution.
Simple Solution (tm) is to take a small piece of that video, say 10 seconds, and format and render it about twenty times, changing settings one by one to see how it affects size and how much you like the looks of the final project. I must've done that a 100 times before I settled on my preferred format:
720p, 3000-5000kbits/sec, 24fps. Then again most of my videos turn out a bit longer than most people like on youtube or whatnot. See 1h 33min PVE video linked in sig.
Also, how can I add an intro screen saying my guilds name before the kill video starts?
W00T! My first POV boss kill video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=452YS...er_profilepage
But I still would like to know how to add an intro where it shows my guilds name before the boss fight starts if anyone can help
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Unfortunately VirtualDub cannot create a title screen for you. I think there is a way to make it show an image, but I can't remember how to do it.To put them all together in VirtualDub, use the File>Append AVI Segment option, and select the next file in the sequence. (Note: if you have multiple segments to join you will have to repeat this process for each clip portion to be added; you can't select multiple clips in this menu.) You can use the slider bar at the bottom to review your newly-appended file and ensure you didn't insert the same clip twice. You can also play the video directly in VirtualDub if you prefer.
You can also start with whatever you have available, like Windows Movie Maker or iMovie - just keep in mind that it takes a lot of work and practice to become as good as this guy at it: http://www.gforcecn.com/movies.html
With the internet and WCM/youtube communities being fundamentally about reaching a lowest common denominator, you have to realize that if you put something up for criticism, people will call you "gay" and "fag" and "you suck gtfo hope you die" and all that. Even worse if they figure out some personal details about you, like gender. Or you can take some courses in video editing and really learn, but that'll cost money.
For reference, this is the first thing I ever released with WMM:
[slightly sort of NSFW, girls 'dancing' and a stripper in a bikini, at the time I thought it was cool to splice stuff like that into WoW footage]
And here's 4 years and many movies later, in Final Cut Express, ten hours' work for five seconds of screen-time intro:
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For the music video for their new 12-minute track "Legend," Japanese instrumental quartet MONO turned to director Henry Jun Wah Lee and the spectral terrain of Iceland, which recently provided the backdrop to Prometheus and Game of Thrones. You know the drill by now — full screen, high definition, and let your mind wander across some landscape primeval. Hat tip to Ignisfatuus!
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Venture capital invests in Israeli techs / Recovering from recession, country ranks behind only Boston, Silicon Valley in attracting cash for startups
2004-04-02 04:00:00 PDT Jerusalem -- Israel's technology industry is doing better than you might think.
Just days after the Bank of Israel declared that the country's recession had technically ended, a group of leading California venture capitalists predicted the renaissance of Silicon Wadi, Israel's impressive high-tech sector.
"It's starting to happen in Israel again," said Harry Kellogg, vice chairman of Silicon Valley Bank and president of its merchant banking operation, which has invested in eight Israeli funds so far.
"Last year, about $1.1 billion was invested in Israel, ranking it No. 3 in the world after Silicon Valley and Boston," said Kellogg, who visited Israel last month along with 40 other major California investors. "More money is coming into startups here than is going into Shanghai or India. It's one of the key markets in the world as far as Silicon Valley Bank is concerned," he said.
Despite the optimism of venture capitalists and government banks, there's no denying Israel remains mired in political strife that makes it difficult for the long-standing technology industry to stay strong and grow. Just the same, Israel's tech sector, nurtured from academic and military roots, is showing that it's up to the task, thanks in large part to money coming from U. S. venture capitalists.
The global economic downturn of the past three years was amplified in Israel by the three-year Palestinian intifada. The impact of continued violence and terror attacks hurt the tourism industry and depressed consumption across the board, sending the gross domestic product plummeting.
"The Israeli economy was essentially mimicking what happened in the United States but with a magnification effect due to the security situation," said Manuel Trajtenberg, an economics professor at Tel Aviv University.
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Nevertheless, the American investors visiting Jerusalem said the intifada hurt the high-tech sector less than it did other parts of the Israeli economy. Trajtenberg said figures available so far confirm that impression.
"It is true that the high-tech sector was shielded to a large extent from the magnification effect of the intifada," he said. "If you look at indicators of activity like unemployment, number of workers and exports, the downtrend is similar to the high-tech sector in the United States."
"There was less of a magnification compared to other sectors of the economy like tourism and retail industries," Trajtenberg said.
Last month, the Bank of Israel said that the recession in Israel, which began in the summer of 2000, months before the outbreak of the intifada, ended in November. The central bank said the recession cost Israel 10 percent of its GDP during those three years and sent unemployment soaring to a record 10.9 percent in the last quarter of 2003.
Active tech sector
Already, Israel has more companies traded on the Nasdaq than any other country outside North America. Moreover, annual foreign investment in Israeli startups has consistently outstripped any European country, according to the Israel Venture Capital Association, even though Israel has a population of only 6 million.
Sequoia Capital, one of the first Silicon Valley venture capital firms, has only one office outside the United States -- in Israel. Benchmark Capital's two foreign bases are London and Tel Aviv. Siemens venture capital has said it will open an Israel office -- its only branch outside Europe and the United States.
Israeli companies excel in security technologies, semiconductors and communications. Israeli tech firms include Checkpoint, a leading firewall firm; Amdocs, which makes billing systems for telecoms; Comverse, a big voice-mail company; and Mercury Software, which measures software performance.
Last month, investors at VentureWire Network Outlook 2004, an annual trade conference of the U.S. venture capital industry, voted three non-U.S. companies among the 10 startups most likely to succeed. All three were Israeli: Actelis Networks, BitBand and P-Cube.
Among the recent deals was an investment of $20 million by Grove Street Advisors in Pitango Venture Capital on behalf of the California Public Employees' Retirement System.
Grove Street Advisors manages $2.8 billion invested by CalPERS in 80 venture capital funds. Of that total, $25 million already is invested in six Israeli funds: Pitango, Gemini Israel Funds, Israel Seed Partners, Jerusalem Venture Partners, Apax Partners and Carmel Ventures.
Last week, the Israeli retail comparison site Shopping.com announced plans to file for the first Nasdaq IPO by an Israeli company in two years.
Grove Street Advisors founder and managing partner Clinton Harris said he has been investing in Israel since 1991 and has returned because now is "a good time to invest."
"We have $500 million earmarked for startups and set aside 5 to 10 percent of that amount for Israel," said Harris. "Apart from Israel, we have almost nothing invested outside the U.S."
Overall economic conditions
Israel's economic indicators are turning positive. Growth projections for the year have been adjusted to 3 percent, while demand, private consumption, sales and output all rose in December and January, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics.
Professor Avi Ben-Bassat of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a former director-general of the Israeli Finance Ministry, agreed that there is "a very positive change in the trend of the economy." But he's not totally sold on the turnaround. Israel is "still in deep recession," he said.
"It will take a long time before we reduce unemployment from its current very high level of 11 percent to the natural level of about 6 percent and restore GDP growth to the pre-recession levels of 4 or 5 percent per year," Ben-Bassat said. "But we expect GDP to grow at a rate of 2 to 3 percent this year, which is much better than the negative trend of the past two years."
According to the Israel Venture Capital Research Center, the $1 billion attracted by Israeli startups in 2003 meant investment was back to the 1999 level.
"Escalating interest in Israeli high-tech companies among foreign investors and the fact that 12 Israeli venture capital funds have embarked on raising new funds are clear signals that the environment has significantly improved." The center forecasts that Israeli VCs will raise between $1.5 billion and $2 billion in 2004-05.
U.S. investors argued that the fall in foreign investment since 2000 was due to global economic conditions, not the intifada. They said they were not deterred by fears of the security situation in Israel.
"I've come here a dozen times, so I'm certainly not concerned about it," said Arjun Gupta of TeleSoft Partners, which has investments in two Israeli companies, Lynx and Jungo.
"I think there's a higher chance that you'll have a wreck on a U.S. freeway than really get into a problem here. Having said that, if you have other people's capital, you have fiduciary responsibility," he said.
"Across the board, we've never had an Israeli entrepreneur not say: 'Hey, if there's any problem, I'll pull the whole company over to the States,' " Gupta said.
The venture environment
Jon Medved of Jerusalem's Israel Seed Partners, a venture capital group with $260 million under management, said he faces growing competition from U.S. funds investing directly in Israeli startups.
"There has been much talk lately in the U.S. of the venture overhang where too much money is chasing too few good deals, but the situation in Israel is still the opposite," Medved said.
"Israeli venture funds like my own are seeing quality deals at reasonable prices which are roughly half the valuations that are prevalent in the U.S. We have actually been outbid on a few deals recently by U.S. funds who felt the prices were attractive enough to pay a significant premium to what we offered, " he said.
U.S. investors say Israel offers a unique mix of entrepreneurial and technological skill, backed by a discipline and frugality that they ascribe to the influence of the army.
"They don't need as much money to get things off the ground here in Israel as they do in the U.S.," said Kellogg of Silicon Valley Bank. "Fear of failure is not an issue here like it is in other parts of the world. If you fail, it's not a bad thing like it is certainly in Europe and in Asia."
Isaac Applebaum of Lightspeed Venture Partners said he has invested in six Israeli companies and is beginning to see the emergence of serial entrepreneurs.
"It's the only place like it," said Applebaum. "I think it's going to get a lot better because there's a lot of new money coming in. These guys work day and they work night, and they deliver."
Israeli ventures
According to the Israel Venture Capital Research Center, the $1.1 billion attracted by Israeli startups in 2003 meant investment was nearly back to the 1999 level.
1999: $1.01 billion
2000: $3.01 billion
2001: $1.98 billion
2002: $1.13 billion
2003: $1.1 billion
Source: Israel Venture Capital Research Center


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If there wasn't already enough non-baseball related drama surrounding the Chicago Cubs this week, Sunday night's Starlin Castro fiasco on national television highlights the sad state of affairs afflicting the Cubs in 2011. If Friday's firing of GM Jim Hendry was the culmination of bad on-field performance, ESPN's showcase of the young shortstop Castro's nonchalant daydreaming is the exclamation point on a Cubs culture in desperate need of positive change. With Hendry's departure, the bullseye of this seasons poor performance is directly focused on Cubs manager Mike Quade and he sticks out like a sore thumb.
Mike Quade was Hendry's hand-picked manager, but with a volatile mixture of underperforming, overpaid veterans, youngsters up the middle, an injured, suspect starting rotation and an unreliable bullpen, the Cubs were already a disaster waiting to happen. Add to that a couple of meltdowns by Carlos Zambrano, a head-scratching dedication in playing veterans over youth while sitting 16 games under .500 and 20 games behind the division-leading Milwaukee Brewers, Quade is punching his ticket out of town post haste. Each day that Reed Johnson gets a start over a Tyler Colvin or a Tony Campana is a display of how far apart the perception of the Cubs manager is from the reality of where his team resides. Each mismanaged Zambrano outburst or Ryan Dempster confrontation or Starlin Castro maturity lapses is a stamp on how overmatched and over his head Quade appears as the manager of the Chicago Cubs. Somewhere in Reading, PA is Ryne Sandberg, thanking his lucky stars that he didn't inherit the mess that is currently drowning Mike Quade.
If Cubs interim GM Randy Bush was smart, he would be pursuing every opportunity for waiver deals to move veterans in favor of increased playing time for the youngsters. Bush should also get on the phone and order Quade to play Colvin and Campana as much as possible so the organization can see what it has. On Sept 1st, bring up CF Brett Jackson, P Chris Carpenter, 2B/SS/3B DJ LeMahieu and possibly 3B Josh Vitters to get some major league innings under their belts. Of course Quade will continue to manage the Cubs as he has to date, thus reaffirming his eventual demise as Cubs manager. The new Cubs GM will want to start fresh somewhere. Minor League director Oneri Fleita and Scouting Director Tim Wilken are both highly regarded by Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts so change will come elsewhere. The odd man out is clearly Quade and it's just a matter of time.


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A Voice from the Field A Novel, by Griffin, Neal
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Tia Suarez takes center stage in her own story, A Voice from the Field, a gripping thriller about human trafficking in the U.S.
Gunther Kane and his white supremacist group are using forced prostitution to finance the purchase of automatic weapons. Kane snatches young women off the streets and sells them to hundreds of men. When a victim is used up, she's killed and dumped. After all, there are always more where she came from.
Physically recovered from being shot but struggling with PTSD, Tia Suarez almost doesn't believe her eyes when she glimpses a Hispanic teenager bound and gagged in the back of Kane's van. The look of terror on the woman's face makes Tia desperate to rescue her.
Kane's in the crosshairs of the FBI, who don't want a small-town Wisconsin detective messing up their big gun bust.
Tia Suarez doesn't back down for anyone. Not the department shrink; not the feds who dismiss her; not even her boyfriend, a Marine veteran who thinks she doesn't know what she's getting into. Tia will find the missing teen come hell or high water.


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The Earth Observation Envelope Programme (EOEP) is one of ESA's most successful programmes. Through innovative tools, it provides a unique framework to develop our knowledge of our planet and support its preservation, environment and life.
The success of this programme has been confirmed by the strong involvement of the scientific community in the first three Earth Explorer (EE) missions, the ongoing development of five further missions and the scientific understanding of the Earth system brought about by the provision of essential data from these missions.
The programme also enjoys links with a wealth of scientific projects and international research programmes.
EOEP has been instrumental in many technological advances and has confirmed Europe's leading role in Earth Observation, including several 'firsts' in space.
In essence, and as the Mandatory Scientific Programme, such an envelope programme is driven by the science community, ensuring its relevance and impact.
Proposal to the Ministerial Council
The programme proposal covering the next period, EOEP-4, contains a suite of coherent activities to continue this success in four building blocks:
- mission preparation and technology
- development of two new Earth Explorer missions (EE-7 and EE-8) together with a small mission or flight of opportunity (EE-X)
- ground segment management and mission operations
- mission exploitation
EOEP-4 will also be the backbone of the European climate change and Earth science research programme.


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The Dr. Jazz-Bunker along with the former Seafarer Mission building and Suomi Koti / Finnland House. The so-called "Dr. Jazzbunker" in Lübeck shortly before it's demolition in 2012. One of several bunkers which were built across the City of Lübeck during the Nazi time as an air raid shelters for the civilians, this one is well-known because of it's history as "Jazzbunker". Between 1975 and 2008, a private jazz club driven by the band called Dr.Jazz-Companie was seated here. Jazz musicans from all around the world gave concerts in the concrete, well-isolated rooms of the Bunker. After Dr. Jazz left the rooms in 2008, the City Council decided 2012 to demolish the bunker along with neighbour buildings from the 1970s, in order tu build the Hanse-Museum in this place. In the wooden "Schuppen" (former harbour warehouse") is an event room.
Germany? Before the beginning there was Ginnungagap, an empty space of nothingness, filled with pure creative power. (Sort of like the inside of my head.)And it ends with Ragnarok, the twilight of the Gods. In between is much fighting, betrayal and romance. Just as a good Godly story should be.Heroes have their own graveyard called Valhalla. Unfortunately we cannot show you a panorama of it at this time, nor of the lovely Valkyries who are its escort service.Hail Odin, wandering God wielding wisdom and wand! Hail Freya, hail Tyr, hail Thor!Odin made the many lakes and the fish in them. In his traverses across the lands he caused there to be the Mulheim Bridge in Cologne, as did he make the Mercury fountain, Mercury being of his nature.But it is to the mighty Thor that the Hammering Man gives service.Between the time of the Nordic old ones and that of modern Frankfort there may have been a T.Rex or two on the scene. At least some mastodons for sure came through for lunch, then fell into tar pits to become fossils for us to find.And there we must leave you, O my most pure and holy children.Text by Steve Smith.


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Draft Abend Hunting Wiki page
This page quotes instructions for using the Netware support forums to analyze an abend. Posts should be to novell.support.netware.5x.abend-hangs or novell.support.netware.6x.abend-hangs as appropriate.
Describe the Problem
A quick summary of what happened to your system helps set the stage. "My system abended! Help!" doesn't give the volunteers as much to go on as does "My system was running backups using Brand X last night, and we found it halted by abends when we came in the next morning".
Abend Logs
To diagnose an abend, the volunteers usually need the complete text of abend 0 or abend 1, including the modules list and any stack dumps or hex dumps. The abend log is normally found at sys:system/abend.log. If it is not there, look in c:\nwserver\abend.log.
If there is no abend 0 or 1 in your log, you can get a better chance at recording the abend by setting your recovery options "set auto restart after abend = 0".
This causes the server to halt upon abend and it will ask you what to do to continue. In this case, you have to reply "X" which is write the abend.log file and exit.
Multiple Abends
Multiple abends mean that your server had an abend, and in trying to handle that abend it ran into another abend condition. No abend log will be available, but the top entries modules listed on the screen might, maybe, be useful. Sometimes multiple abends can be reduced to the original abend by setting your recovery options to "set auto restart after abend = 0".
Here is an example screen of a multiple abend event; this one one is a variation on the NW65SP6 classic Requestr.nlm issue.
ASR Tips
Note that if you have something like the HP ASR feature or something similar that automatically reboots your server upon a hang, you have to disable this feature or you will not get a chance to get your abend.log file in the way described above.
HP-ASR uses a setting in the BIOS: AutoServerRestart.
(Tip of the hat to Marcel)
Sometimes the module listing is not available or additional information is needed. When asked, please download fconfig16.exe from the file finder at support.novell.com. Extract Config.nlm from it and copy that to SYS:SYSTEM .
On the console do LOAD CONFIG /jumba1se, and wait until the output file CONFIG.TXT gets created (on NW 6.x this message only appears on the Logger screen). Some sysops show this command as "LOAD CONFIG /sma1bjue" -- the difference is merely a matter of nmemonics, and is not a comment on Cajun food flavors.
Please post that file in your forum thread, with any sensitive infomation -- eg serial number, public IP addresses, snmp community strings, remote access passwords etc. -- edited out. Thank you.
(Tip of the hat to Andrew)
CPU Hog Abends
CPU Hogs abends can be a bit tricky. This is because the thread shown in the abend log might be the thread that is misbehaving, or it might be that this is just a thread grabbed by the Hog Wrangler code, and so is an innocent bystander. If the thread is abending in a spinlock routine (such as LOADER.NLM|kSpinLock) or a mutex routine (such as SERVER.NLM|kMutexLock), then it is most likely the guilty routine, and you can address the issue by looking for updates or asking for advice on settings that may avoid the problem.
If that is not the case, then it gets harder. A first thing to try is disabling hyperthreading features (usually a BIOS option, but the console command "STOP PROCESSORS" or the NRM equivalent can be used if the server is already booted). Hyperthreading can be a cause of CPU Hog Abends because the spinlock routines don't work well on a virtual cpu.
If hyperthreading is already disabled on the server in question, you'll have to do some detective work -- either examining the other screens at the time of the abend to see what was going on, or using Monitor/NRM to watch for the hog.
An NMI almost always indicates a hardware problem. The usual cause is either a memory fault (parity error or non-correctable ECC error), or a problem on the PCI bus -- often an adapter detects a bus error, and that turns into the NMI.
These sorts of issues are hard to catch with most readily available diagnostics, and several people have reported in the forums that replacing memory fixed *their* problem even though no diagnostic turned anything up.
If you've got lots of add-in adapters, try removing one to see if it is just a bus-loading issue or bus-contention.
Occasionally, the motherboard itself will be faulty and will produce NMIs under certain activity patterns.
Double Fault Abends
Double faults are similar to multiple abends in that an original error occurs but cannot be handled because of some additional error. The difference is that the additional error is detected by hardware before starting or while trying to start the abend handler for the original fault.
Quite frequently, the additional fault is stack overflow -- there was not enough room in the stack segment for the original fault record or other overhead of invoking the handler. In this case, the first step in troubleshooting is to make sure that memory issues have been eliminated. However, this is not always sufficient to prevent double faults, as the special conditions of abend handling may place extra burden on stacks, especially if there is already an interrupt handler active on the same stack.
Redzone Issues
A corrupted redzone means somebody was writing to memory that didn't belong to them. Either because they had a stale or invalid pointer, or because they were overflowing a buffer
Redzone abends do not necessarily implicate the application which is running at the time. So you can't just look at the stack trace and say "Hey, it was XYZ.NLM because that is what was running at the time."
Each block of memory allocated to an application comes with a leading and training "redzone" which is a special signature in memory just before and just after the memory allocated to the application. If the application were to overwrite outside this region, the redzone signature would be overwritten. Then later on you get this abend when the memory is returned, and the OS can inspect the redzones.
However, because of the way buffers can be passed around between modules in the same memory space, its hard to identify exactly which one caused the problem, and certainly harder to identify a code path that causes the problem.
NB: When applications do not live in protected memory, virtually any other application ( also not in protected memory ) including the majority of the Netware OS and drivers, could conceivably have overwritten the memory. So redzone abends can be caused by totally unrelated misbehaving applications.
(tip of the hat to Robert Charles Mahar)
Auditing Abends
If you run Netware Auditing and get an abend like
"Abend 1 on P00: Server-5.70.06-4348: Kernel detected an attempted context switch when it was not allowed"
then you should be checking the load order of anything that uses File System hooks.
The auditing components MUST be loaded last. Otherwise you get this oddly specific abend.
There is a TID on this very issue. And before you say "But Bob, in AUTOEXEC.NCF I have the auditing loaded AFTER the AV software..." this is only true if you never unload/reload these modules.
The modules listing from the ABEND log (Forum Example)shows the actual load order with most recent at the top of the list. Any other FSHooks consumer (PSCAN) must be loaded PRIOR to the auditing, e.g. listed BELOW the auditing pieces in the ABEND log.
Virus scanners pose special problems if they unload/reload themselves to swap out signatures or get updates. The only way to accomodate that is to ensure that the auditing pieces are unloaded prior to the auto update and reloaded after.
(tip of the hat to Robert Charles Mahar)
Tip for Hangs
The following advice is offered when the server has not abended, but appears to be hung:
Next time it happens try to get into the debugger with shift-shift-alt-esc (also know as the four-finger salute) - this often works even if no other keys do. If nothing happens you almost certainly have a hardware fault.
If you get to a "#" prompt then you are in the debugger, and the cause of the hang could be software or hardware. Type
- ? <enter>
to see what module the hang happened in. If it always hangs in the same module it is likely to be a problem with that module, if it is always different modules it is likely to be a hardware fault. Type
- Q <enter>
to exit the debugger to Dos.
(Tip of the hat to Andrew)
Note: This technique may find the system in certain house-keeping activities, which may give an appearance of "always different modules".
High Utilization
High Utilization is not an Abend, but it can be just as distressing. Basically, the approach is to use Monitor.nlm or NRM to identify the busiest threads, and then figure out how to deal with it from there. See also High Utilization
Room for Corrections
Looking forward to the sysops' notes on this page.


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An infusion of cautious optimism tempered by the memory of old frailties; past failures.
We've lived this all before heading into a mettle-testing, reputation-defining tournament. As have they.
"Yeah ...,'' replied skipper Christine Sinclair, asked if the self-belief within this Canadian Olympic women's soccer side, named Monday to carry the colours into London, was sufficiently strong to take on the world.
"We still haven't done it, though.
"I think we're a very confident team right now. We feel on any given day we can beat the Japans, the USAs, the Swedens.
"But realistically we haven't shown that in a huge tournament like the Olympics or the World Cup in quite some time.
"I mean, we're a confident team and we feel we can beat them. But those are just words.
"We have to actually do it.''
July 25, against reigning World Cup champion and third-ranked Japan would be a peachy place to start.
Because in this group, at these Olympics, there is no place to hide. The Japanese are up first, at Coventry's Ricoh Arena, home of the Sky Blues. A bit of a respite in Canada's second match, versus 65th-ranked South Africa. But then, fourth-ranked Sweden to finish the first stage.
Difficult, but not impossible.
New voice. Different philosophy. Encouraging tournament win — in this case, the Pan Am Games, slaying mighty Brazil — propelling them into another, bigger extravaganza.
Familiar storyline, isn't it?
Last year, remember, Canada sailed into the 2011 women's World Cup in Germany invested with an identical sort of cautious optimism. That team was advertised as being more continental in flavour, vastly better prepared after a $2-million, four-month training/bonding exercise outside coach Carolina Morace's home base of Rome, buoyed by unexpected success at the CONCACAF championship, and ranked higher in the FIFA fiefdom — sixth — than ever before.
Then it all came unglued in 90 terrifying minutes. The Canadians weren't so much humbled by French flair as pronounced dead of exposure. A first-game 2-1 morale-lifting loss to the powerhouse Germans in front 73,000-plus at Berlin's Olympiastadion only served to heighten the denouement of a 4-0 pistol-whipping by the free-flowing French.
Canada finished 0-3, losing its last group game to Nigeria, and slunk home. Morace, continually at odds with the Canadian Soccer Association, having seen her power leverage compromised by a poor performance, resigned.
Back to Square 1, again, and not much time before Olympic qualifying.
"Obviously, the World Cup was a big failure for us,'' acknowledged Sinclair. "We played very well leading up to the tournament. We had, realistically, one bad game, against France. But I don't think we weren't as low as people thought we were.''
Enter John Herdman, as Geordie as Newcastle Brown Ale or the Tyne Bridge, to sweep up the shattered shards and try piecing the thing back together.
The inability to deliver on the biggest of stages, at those penultimate moments, was, he knew instinctively, the new coach's first order of business.
"Over the years,'' he admitted during a Monday conference call, "the team has potentially struggled in those big moments where you hope players will go look for the ball, go get on the ball, when things start getting ugly. They've gone on this podium adventure on a number of occasions and never seemed to cross the line. They get close, but never cross the line. And I guess for a lot of players it's like 'Well, what are the things consistent in this team? What are the things when we turn around, look at these tournaments, that we're missing or we just never have enough of?'
"We have to address those things. The players have to recognize that they have to invest in the areas that have let them down."
The collapse of the Women's Professional Soccer League in May has allowed the players to convene and train as a group in Vancouver. While Herdman lauds the opportunity to work with all his charges on a daily basis, he does concede there is simply no substitute for top-class games, something the WPS provided.
Sinclair insists the shift to a B.C. home base has been beneficial psychologically.
"I think we're in a completely different space (than last June-July),'' she maintained. "Heading into the last World Cup, players were away from their homes for a long period of time, being in Rome. This time around I think we have that balance. Right now, we feel like the Canadian national team. We've been based out of Vancouver. We had qualifiers in Vancouver. We feel as if we're a part of the country, whereas last year we were so removed from it. We had no idea what was going on back home.
"That's a huge difference.
"We've trained hard and then we live our lives. That's what we've done in Vancouver and it's been very nice.''
Whatever does happen in Coventry and Newcastle and London next month and early into August, the end of these Games will mark a changing of the guard for a team that has for a few years now glimpsed the gates of Olympus, only to be found wanting and turned away.
"These Olympics,'' said Herdman, "are the culmination of four years of preparation by different coaches. Once they finish, it's pretty much a new chapter.
"There will be some players that retire after these Olympics, I'm absolutely sure of that. There'll be some players that the game will have moved beyond their physical or even technical capabilities. So I'm anticipating quite a lot of retirements, around 400 or 500 caps with this team. If that's the case, then it's a new beginning for Canada.''
Coinciding with the push toward the next women's World Cup, to be staged in Canada in 2015.
This Canadian side, we're promised, will be fitter, tougher mentally. The residency program in Vancouver has knit them tighter. It's a hellish group to get out of, yes, but . . .
New voice. Different philosophy. Encouraging tournament win propelling them into another, bigger extravaganza.
The beginning to this storyline has an aching sameness to it, yes.
What's in need of a rewrite is the ending.
© Copyright (c) The Calgary Herald


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Side Effects? Of what? Lesbian sex?
Spolier alert. Evil lesbians' evil plan foiled by super sleuth Law. Hetero-hegemony restored and all is well with the world. Phew!
Am I alone in being somewhat thrown by Soderberg's latest? To be honest I thought I was about to see a pharma-thriller of some sort, perhaps an exploration of drug company corruption, or fraught examination of a descent into moral ambiguity, you know, that sort of thing. And to be honest, that's kind of how the film started out. And then it seemed as if, at some point, someone did a nifty script exchange. And didn't tell anyone. And no-one noticed.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Soderberg fan. He knows how to entertain. And this schlocky thriller looks great, sounds great and is a tremendous amount of fun. A barrel of laughs you might say. So much so, that we were rolling round in the isles, pretty much paralytic with mirth, by the time the final credits rolled. Casting Channing Tatum was a master-stroke, although I have to confess I didn't know who he was until this evening, and I'm not convinced I'll be able to remember who he is tomorrow morning. And isn't that a girl's name anyway? Never before have I witnessed someone on screen so totally forgettable that Jude Law emerges from the void a charismatic scene-stealing dynamo. Catherine Zeta Jones and Rooney Mara are immensely watchable, and look great too, which evil lesbians really ought to if they possibly can. Amazingly though, given the fine acting capabilities of these two, as well as their unfair share of God-given good looks, their pseudo-sex scene that allows for the denouement of film is spectacularly unconvincing. What a shame.
I really can't object to Catherine Zeta Jones being cast as a femme-fatale. She does the job admirably. And why not write her character as a lesbian? And why not have her character have a relationship with Rooney Mara's character? And why not write these characters as cunning, amoral schemers who ultimately get their comeuppance? Except, well, wouldn't it be nice if, you know, just occasionally, the hero happened to be a lesbian character. And could, just maybe, have sex with another lesbian character, not as part of an evil plan, but just coz they happen to, you know, feel like it. And maybe the sex could go unpunished. You know, just occasionally. Occasionally…
Come on Soderberg, don't bow out of Hollywood just yet. Clearly you have more work to do.


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We were a little bit excited when we first saw the fantastic poster for "Shark Night," figuring it was maybe in the vein of last year's "Piranha 3D," both an homage to and send up of a timeless genre. Alas...
The first clue that there's something amiss here is the complete lack of any mention that the gorgeous brunette who seems vaguely familiar is, in fact, Katherine McPhee. In a film loaded with vaguely familiar no-names, McPhee is the closest thing this film has to a star. But she isn't mentioned in the trailer, nor in the cast listing on IMDB (though they do list he stunt double).
The second thing that hit us as weird is that, if the trailer is to be believed, the black guy dies first. Now maybe this is part of director David R. Ellis's effort to goof on a tired horror trope, but the trailer gives no sense of a wink or a nod. It seems, quite simply, that the black guy dies first.
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And finally, what starts out as a possibly amusing shark attack thriller, appears to devolve into hillbilly torture porn, a la "I Spit on Your Grave," which would make sense since the film's producers include people from films like "Hostel" and the newest "Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
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