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Thread: SOTD: Monday, November 4th, 2013
Cyprien by Fragonard
Remember that while it is perfectly acceptable to criticize the content of a post - criticizing the poster is not.
Mean spirited, nasty, snide, sarcastic, hateful, and rude individuals don't warrant or deserve other individuals' acknowledgement or respect.
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"You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." - Ayn Rand
"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical...It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government." - Thomas Jefferson
Good morning!
YSL Body Kouros for the morning.....
My most favorite scents that I can't be without:
Givenchy Xeryus Rouge
Dior Homme Intense
Black Tea - Murdock
ointments and perfume delight the heart....
Ormonde Jayne - Ormonde Man
Amouage Fate man.
The Colognnoisseur
Omaha, NE
Good morning on a stormy monday with ...
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My 10 July favorites
George F. Trumper Wellington Cologne Riva L'Altra Follia di Aquarama "Light" 4711 Acqua Colonia Vetyver & Bergamot Cartier Déclaration d'un soir Atkinsons The British Bouquet Etro Gomma Rancé 1795 - Collection Privée Eau de France Penhaligon's Endymion Pal Zileri - Collezione Privata Viaggio d'Africa Floris Elite
Amouage Fate Woman
Marbert Homme
By Kilian Straight to Heaven
CdG Wonderwood
Idole de Lubin.
I don't know much about medicine, but I know what I like. -- S.J. Perelman
Platinum Egoiste
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest
- Benjamin Franklin
Neil Morris Clear.
........................... Oscar de la Renta - Pour Lui ...........................
Sud Est by Romeo Gigli
Current Top Favorites:
1) Portrait of a Lady (EdP Frédéric Malle)
2) Giorgio for Men vintage (Giorgio Beverly Hills)
3) Dia Man vintage edt (Amouage)
4) Les Nombres d'Or Vetyver (Mona di Orio) - tie
4) Lalfeorosa (O'driù) - tie
6) Anat Fritz Original Formula and Classical (Anat Fritz)
7) Captain vintage (Molyneux)
8) Tzora (Anat Fritz)
Mark Buxton Black Angel
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Pal Zileri Collezione Privata - Viaggio d'Africa
Nu Green by Honore des Pres
Current Top 5
1. Creed Aventus
2. A*Men Pure Malt
3. L'instant Extreme
4. Nasomatto Duro
5. CDG - Kyoto
Leather Oud
I'm wearing this more it seems
Have I told you about the scent of jasmine? Have I spoken about the smell of the sea? The earth is scented. And I perfume myself to enhance what I am. That's why I can not wear a perfume that bothers me. Perfuming is an instinctive wisdom. And like all art, it requires some knowledge of yourself..."
Clarice Lispector ( 1920-1977) - Perfumes da Terra / Earth Perfumes
Trussardi Uomo this morning
Our job is to live joyfully in this world of sorrows--Joseph Campbell
Dirty Rose by PK Perfumes
Creed Royal Oud. Very nice on a cold (for Georgia) day.
Creed Aventus. Cooler in Tennessee also.
Eau Des Merveilles by Hermes
Bvlgari Pour Homme for the evening....
My most favorite scents that I can't be without:
Givenchy Xeryus Rouge
Dior Homme Intense
"Thank GOD for the nose, for without it we would not be enjoying these beautiful created Scents" also Remember "Balance is everything and the key to appreciating "
.....................He Wood Silver Wind Wood - DSquared2
Montale - Red Vetyver
R/Oud Elements
Bentley for Men Intense
Bois d'Orag for me today (my wife said I smell like a pine tree)
Amouage Lyric Man
Lancôme O pour Homme
L'Occitane Eau des 4 Voleurs
The good old Comme des Garcons 2 Man as SOTD and yesterday`s SOTE.
Se son fiori fioriranno ...
Montale Dark Aoud
SOTE - Opium pour Homme, green Proraso, Muehle Badger Brush, Eicker & Söhne blade (the ugly one), alum
Se son fiori fioriranno ...
Romeo Gigli Uomo
Ambre 114
Hommage à L'Homme by Lalique
SotE - Black Orchid.
Flashback Monday... so Acqua di Gio (from a sample) for me today.
I can see why this was a game-changer when it came out.
Celebrating 10 years on Basenotes - and smelling better than ever
My mission statement: "I am not afraid to keep on living - I am not afraid to walk this world alone."


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After serving patients for 14 years at an Athens location, Dr. James Parker has moved his practice to Oconee County. The new office, located at 1181 Langford Drive, boasts an outpatient surgery center for cosmetic procedures.
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Caitlyn Ann Finocan and Padraig Durham Power were married on June 30 at Saint Agnes Catholic Church in Lake Placid.
The bride is the daughter of Mary E. Finocan and the late John Finocan of Stamford.
The groom is the son of Maryelizabeth Power and Paul P. Power of Stamford.
The bride was escorted by her grandfather, John W. Finocan.
The ceremony was officiated by the Rev. John R. Yonkovig. Readings were done by Thomas J. Cavanagh, friend of the groom, and Frederick J. Adams, uncle of the bride, who was in to celebrate the wedding from Ireland.
Matron of honor was Gillian Finocan Kaag, sister of the bride. Bridesmaids were Emily A. Graig, Jessica A. Kraske, Kathryn J. Peacock, Alexis M. Ryder and Melissa C. Schramm, all friends of the bride.
Best man was Sean A. Power, brother of the groom. Groomsmen were Paul P. Power III, brother of the groom, and Brian S. Gray, Eugene F. Govern IV, Chad T. Joshpe, Timothy W. Rourke and Daniel R. Walsh, friends of the groom.
The reception followed at the Whiteface Lodge in Lake Placid.
The couple both graduated from Stamford Central School, the bride in 2001 and the groom in 2002.
The bride is a 2005 graduate of the University of Miami. The groom is a 2006 graduate of Ithaca College.
The couple took a honeymoon trip to Fiji and Hawaii. They live and work in Lake Placid.


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The Clinton Herald
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PRESTON — Agnes Anna McCarthy, age 96, of Preston, Iowa, died Monday, August 26, 2013 at Mill Valley Care Center in Bellevue.
A funeral mass will be held 10:30 a.m. Thursday, August 29, 2013 at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Preston, with Father Don Hertges as Celebrant. Burial will follow in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery. A visitation will be held from 4:00-7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 28, 2013, and one hour prior to the Mass at St. Joseph Catholic Church. A Rosary Service will be held 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at the Church. Memorials may be given in Agnes' memory for a scholarship, or to the Jackson County Hospice. Online condolences may be shared with the family at www.lawjonesfuneralhome.com.
Agnes was born September 20, 1916, in Spragueville, Iowa the daughter of Peter and Michel (Rose) Kilburg. She attended Spragueville and Springbrook country Schools and later received her GED in 1971. Agnes married John McCarthy on September 19, 1940, in Preston. John died December 14, 1970. Agnes and John farmed for thirty-one years in Spragueville.
Agnes was a member of the Preston Legion Auxiliary, past member Economic Growth and Development Committee in Preston, Rosary Society, Farm Bureau, Preston Garden Club. She enjoyed gardening, canning, flowers, traveling the United States, playing cards, quilting, baking, reading and praying the Rosary.
Agnes is survived by two daughters, Jeanette (Leland) Lane of Preston, Betty (Michael) Hogan of Waverly, Iowa; a son, William (Marian Timmerman) McCarthy of Cambridge, Wisconsin; fifteen grandchildren; twenty-five great grandchildren; three great-great grandchildren; daughter in-law, Anita McCarthy of Hanalei, Hawaii; two brothers, Robert (Carol) Kilburg of Preston, Arnold (Joanne) Kilburg of Des Moines, Iowa and a sister, Mildred Driscoll of Preston.
Agnes is preceded in death by one daughter, Sally Ann (John) Ringen; a son, Bernard McCarthy; grandson, David Ringen; three sisters, Kathryn Bormann, Marie Schmidt and Rosemary Till; two brothers, Raymond and Herbert Kilburg.


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The 34th annual Brigg's & Al's Run & Walk for Children's Hospital of Wisconsin will take place on Saturday, September 17, 2011 with Marquette University as the starting point for the 3-mile or 5-mile walk and 5-mile run. Wheel chair start is at 10:15 a.m. Run start is at 10:30 a.m. with walkers following.
Take part in this great event by joining the Marquette University Team. Register now by clicking here. Search "Marquette" and select Marquette University General Team or any of the other Marquette Teams. The registration deadline is Friday, September 2, 2011 at 5 p.m.
To date, more than $12 million dollars has been raised through the Brigg's & Al's Run & Walk for Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. Your involvement in this event helps Children's Hospital provide medical care to more than 325,000 patients and families who depend on their services each year.
Volunteer opportunities are available before, during and after the run/walk. If you are interested in helping out, please contact Ali Myszewski for more information.
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While the Sonim XP Strike is tough as nails, Sprint has other rugged devices that are better not only in performance, but in price too.
The Sonim XP Strike IS is a tough, Intrinsically Safe handset from Sprint.
Sprint's first Sonim handset, the ultratough, waterproof XP Strike, is equipped with a 2-megapixel camera, an FM radio, and an LED flashlight.
Available now for $129.99, the Sonim XP Strike from Sprint features push-to-talk Direct Connect and a rugged exterior.
Sonim brought in a Muay Thai mixed martial artist up-and-comer to help sell an ultradurable cell phone.
Despite some design flaws, Sonim's new XP3300 Force is a cut above previous rugged models.
The Sonim XP1300 Core doesn't bring a lot of features and call volume could be higher, but it more than fits the bill as an exceptionally durable cell phone.
Though Sonim's ultra-durable phones have been around for years, the Armor XP3400 is the first model to land at a U.S. carrier.
Sonim's new phones may look just like the old brood, but there are slight differences, like support for NFC and push-to-talk.
The Sonim XP3300 Force ruggedized phone goes up against its toughest foe yet, the "Will it Blend?" Blendtec blender. It takes its punishment and returns to ring another day.


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KABUL, Afghanistan — Unlike most women in Afghanistan, Sourya Saleh knows how to drive — but she's taken the wheel only with her brother beside her, out of respect for tradition. Her friend Masooma Hussaini is still learning.
Both young women, though, are experts in a more demanding mode of travel: They've flown 204 hours each as pilots of military helicopters.


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Villaurrutia was among 13 UTPA students who participated in one of two community service projects under the University's Alternative Breaks program during their annual spring break.
|UTPA junior Marcelina "Nina" Pena from Mission and John-Robert Iruegas, a sophomore from Mission, are pictured cleaning the grounds of a Reynosa elementary school during an Alternative Spring Break volunteer project titled SWAP (Students With a Purpose) organized by the UTPA Office of Student Life and Transition Services.
Later in the year, SWAP students from UTPA will travel to New Jersey to participate in a service learning project in the area of Ramapo College, located in Mahwah, N.J., 30 miles from New York City.
"We worked hard and did intense labor but what we learned on the trip was more important to us than what can fill a shot glass," said Villaurrutia, a junior from Pharr majoring in communications, who with the Ramapo College students got to also learn more about the border region and its issues and culture from speakers and interaction with local residents as well as tours of a Reynosa maquila/factory and the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, for example, as part of project participation.
"We got along incredibly well," said Villaurrutia, who housed with Ramapo students in Troxel Hall during their stay in the Valley. "I think we can attribute it to the amount of compassion and dedication we had that made us see we were all in this together. We were very similar despite the different cultures."
|Pictured are the UTPA and Ramapo College of New Jersey students who served as volunteers on border region community service projects during the March 2008 spring break in the SWAP (Students with a Purpose) Alternative Spring Break program. Later in the year UTPA students will head to the New Jersey/New York City area near Ramapo College to volunteer in some local projects there.
"We went through windy, dusty days to hot, sweaty days together and of course, community service always brings out the best in people. As the week progressed and we were exposed to all sorts of situations, we found that we shared concern in a lot of issues not only as college students but also as human beings," she said.
Another group of five UTPA students and a staff member traveled to the Sam Houston Jones State Park in Louisiana where they joined 25 other students from across the United States in a spring break project to help restore wildlife habitat in the park damaged by Hurricane Rita. This Alternative Breaks program is in the planning stages to be offered during all school breaks – spring, summer and winter – with a goal of finding different projects in different locations each year.
For Amy Silva, a UTPA senior majoring in premed and dietetics, the volunteer experience in Louisiana was life changing.
"Sometimes our lives seem overwhelming with things to do that we forget about other people and our environment. This helped me to give back to the environment and the community. And in return I got an amazing experience filled with new knowledge, great accomplishment, and amazing new friends," said Silva, who housed with other students in park cabins while helping to clear the invasive plant Chinese tallow overwhelming the park's native plants and replanting 5,000 long-leaf pine trees.
Miranda Garza, a junior majoring in premed and biology, said that unlike a trip to the Island on break, the opportunity to volunteer is "priceless."
"The memories you make helping people last a lifetime," said Garza, who also worked in the state park project in Louisiana.
|UTPA junior David Garcia from Edinburg joined other college students across the nation during spring break to help restore the wildlife habitat damaged by Hurricane Rita at Sam Houston Jones State Park near Lake Charles, La.
"We have many students who said they would like to participate again. Not only do they gain a network of peers interested in bettering their community, but they also gain the satisfaction of making a difference," said Annel Zamarrón, program coordinator in the Office of Student Life and Transition Services, who participated as a staff member in the Valley project with UTPA and Ramapo College students.
She said when SWAP participants from UTPA travel to the New Jersey/New York City area later this year, they are scheduled to volunteer in places such as Grupo Cajola, a community agency dedicated to assisting Guatemalan refugees; House on the Hill, a Head Start program; and Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, one of the largest soup kitchens in the United States.
Zamarrón said participation in either Alternative Breaks program is open to all UTPA students. Interested students must meet the following requirements – have a minimum 2.5 GPA, have no holds on their University record, and complete an application and an interview. Participating students may be charged a minimum amount ranging from $50 to $150 to help cover some of the expenses but most costs are covered through student fees Zamarrón said.
Ramirez said more students should give an Alternative Break program a try during their next official break from classes.
"I would recommend other students to just give it a chance, provided that they come in with a good attitude – a willingness to work, get dirty and be positive. This is a good chance to step out of the ordinary and see your environment and your life through a different light," Ramirez said.
For more information, contact Zamarrón at 956/318-5375 or via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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From the acclaimed author of the Malazan series comes Steven Erikson's This River Awakens.
In the spring of 1971, Owen Brand and his family move to the riverside town of Middlecross in a renewed attempt to escape poverty. For twelve-year-old Owen, it's the opportunity for a new life and an end to his family's isolation. He quickly falls in with a gang of three local boys and forms a strong bond with Jennifer, the rebellious daughter of a violent, alcoholic father. As summer brings release from school, two figures preside over the boys' activities: Walter Gribbs, a benign old watchman at the yacht club, and Hodgson Fisk, a vindictive farmer tormented by his past. Then the boys stumble on a body washed up on the riverbank—a discovery whose reverberations will result, as the year comes full circle, in a cataclysm that envelops them all….
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Archaeologist and anthropologist STEVEN ERIKSON's debut fantasy novel, Gardens of the Moon, was short-listed for the World Fantasy Award and introduced fantasy readers to his epic Malazan Book of the Fallen sequence, which has been hailed "a masterwork of the imagination." This River Awakens was his first novel, and originally published under the name Steve Lundin. He lives in Cornwall, England.
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July 29, 2014
A water line break at the Big Elk Pump Station near Warfield has caused problems in Martin County.
The break is repaired, and water district officials say all customers should have water.
However, the pressure may not be back to normal yet.
Officials say the break happened at an underground pump station.
Officials say the equipment is more than 40 years old and that is what likely caused the break.
Customers from Route 40 on Buck Creek to the Pike County line need to boil water until tests show the water is acceptable quality.
"People get scared of boil water. This is simply a safety precaution the water district uses to protect citizens, customers," Joe Hammond said.
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Bat experts have determined a bat colony has established itself inside the walls of a 45-year-old dorm building at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.
More than 200 Lackland recruits are on a rabies vaccine regimen after several bats were discovered in their dorm a couple of weeks ago. But the building is huge, and although the dorms were secured and entrances sealed off, it took experts a longer time to find the bat colony that was discovered over the weekend.
With the recently-released video that shows an alleged Battleground Texas volunteer making remarks about Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott's disability, leaders within the group are telling organizers to be on the lookout for undercover members of Project Veritas, the group that released the video, and to not be baited into saying something they will regret.
But Battleground representatives say they will not be going to extremes to ensure it doesn't happen again.
There is a new art exhibit that the city thinks you should know about.
"Every six months we do a rotating exhibit of artwork at City Hall and Municipal Plaza and for this upcoming rotation we're featuring over 60 artworks of artists who teach in different institutions around San Antonio," said Public Arts Specialist Marissa Laubscher.
As Laubscher details, this is artwork created by those who teach our young how to create art for themselves.
During his appearance at the Rally for Life event at the state capitol this morning, Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott took the opportunity to criticize Wendy Davis, his likely opponent in the general election, and her supporters.
Abbott made sure to emphasize recent remarks allegedly made by Battleground Texas organizers about his disability.
In the first segment:
Three million people have now enrolled in the new health exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act, with a thirty percent jump in December.
But things in Texas are not as rosy, as enrollment continues to trickle in despite the state leading the country in the number of uninsured -- Texas has nearly five million uninsured people, according to the Texas Medical Association.
It all started with a candid tweet from San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro regarding campaign speeches about immigration and the Texas border made by Republican candidate for lieutenant governor Dan Patrick.
Congratulations .@danpatrick You are the most anti-immigrant Republican running for statewide office. You are the Pete Wilson of Texas. — Mayor Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) January 22, 2014
Congratulations .@danpatrick You are the most anti-immigrant Republican running for statewide office. You are the Pete Wilson of Texas.
— Mayor Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) January 22, 2014
After a week off, the San Antonio Symphony's Dvořák Festival continues Friday, and it continues to stretch in different directions. This week's festival performance features the San Antonio Mastersingers, but as Music Director Sebastian Lang-Lessing describes, they won't be in standard choral layout.
"A lot of the singing, especially from the ladies, will be offstage," he said. "So they are the offstage mermaids from underground."
Bexar County Sheriff Susan Pamerleau's office has announced the capture of a suspect in a rash of home burglaries across the North Side.
Gilbert Torres is suspected in burglaries on the Northeast and Northwest sides of the city and county since last fall. Bexar County sheriff's investigators arrested Torres Friday with several thousand dollars worth of stolen merchandise in his possession, including jewelry, guns, tools and electronics, coin collections and prescription medications.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Gov. Rick Perry shocked the crowd by saying the legalization of marijuana was a right states should have. Perry went on to say it wasn't something he saw happening in Texas.
"As the governor of the second-largest state in the country, what I can do is start us on policies that can start us on the road towards decriminalization," Perry said.
Accusations of flip flopping on the issues continue to dominate the Republicans campaigning for lieutenant governor.
This week started with incumbent David Dewhurst and state Sen. Dan Patrick of Houston reversing their opinions on repealing the 17th Amendment.
Agriculture CommissionerTodd Staples took issue with their lack of consistency, but now it appears he may be guilty of changing his stance on the Senate's two-thirds rule. In a 2011 interview with the Texas Tribune's Evan Smith, Staples was asked where he stood.


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Saturday, April 30, 2005Tulsa, Okla. - Oral Roberts hit three home runs in the first game and received a stellar pitching performance in the nightcap to sweep a Mid-Continent Conference twinbill from Valpo by the scores of 7-2 and 2-0. Brian Rzepka had three hits on the day for the Crusaders.
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ay you want to get from Point A to Point B in style. How are you going to do it? Horses? So mundane. Phantom steed? Teleport? Sure, if you've got access to those spells or the money to pay for them. But if you want to impress the bystanders, what you really want is a flying mount. Let's talk this week about the things that adventurers, villains, and the occasional elite cavalry use to fly in style.
Large Beast
Alignment: Unaligned Level: Low Environment: Hills and mountains
Large Beast
Alignment: Unaligned Level: Low Environment: Hills and mountains
Griffons are fierce flying predators that combine the physical qualities of lions and eagles. In the wild, they lair in rocky cliffs and canyons and hunt the surrounding area for prey. Their favorite food is horseflesh, including the meat of pegasi, hippogriffs, and even unicorns. They are strong and wild, so hard to train, but once broken they serve as powerful mounts suitable for knights and elite soldiers (including the cavalry of major cities such as Waterdeep and Greyhawk). They attack with their taloned front claws and sharp beaks, swooping or diving down on their prey from a height. Like warhorses, they are capable of fighting while mounted.
Large Beast
Alignment: Unaligned Level: Low Environment: Hills and grassland
Large Beast
Alignment: Unaligned Level: Low Environment: Hills and grassland
Hippogriffs are flying predators similar to griffons, but they are less fierce, less likely to attack humanoids, and easier to train. If a griffon is like a warhorse, easily ridden in combat, a hippogriff is like a riding horse, more suited to travel or mounted archers. They are favored mounts for wealthy nobles and some elves.
In the wild, hippogriffs lair in rolling hills and open plains, where they can hunt herd animals or graze on tall grasses. Like griffons, they attack with their taloned front claws and sharp beaks, swooping or diving down on their prey from a height.
Both griffons and hippogriffs are beasts, more or less natural animals with an Intelligence score of 2. We tried to differentiate them in a couple of ways: environment, temperament, and also their particular use as mounts. I think those are useful distinctions in making the two beasts both make sense in the world.
Now for something a little different.
Large Celestial
Alignment: Chaotic good Level: Low Environment: Any wilderness
Large Celestial
Alignment: Chaotic good Level: Low Environment: Any wilderness
In a strange parallel to the rakshasa, a pegasus is a fusion of a celestial spirit with mortal flesh—in this case, the material form of a winged horse. It can fly extremely fast, even while carrying a heavy load.
Pegasi are extremely rare, often appearing only as a gift from a good-aligned deity. In these cases, a pegasus bonds with a single rider for life, accepting no other rider. In general, pegasi serve as mounts only for good characters, making every effort to throw a non-good rider. (They instinctively know the heart of those who try to ride them.) In very rare instances, a herd of pegasi appears to aid a group of good-aligned humanoids against a major threat, serving as mounts for humanoid cavalry on a short-term basis.
That first bit is a little weird. A couple of elements of our discussion led us in that direction. First, pegasi are intelligent—earlier editions put their Intelligence in the 8 to 10 range, and 8 feels about right to us. Second is their good alignment. And third is the connection to the gods that's found in classic myth, where he was sired by Poseidon and given to Bellerophon as a mount by Athena. They serve only good characters. Taken together, this points toward a more exalted origin than some kind of magical beast, so we made them celestials—what 3E might have called a native outsider. (Remind me to talk about creature type sometime soon.)
If great champions of good ride pegasi into battle, what about evil champions?
Huge Beast
Alignment: Unaligned Level: Medium Environment: Forests or mountains
Huge Beast
Alignment: Unaligned Level: Medium Environment: Forests or mountains
A wyvern is a Huge (35-foot long) dragonlike reptile with membranous wings, two legs, and a long tail tipped with a venomous stinger. Though it is a savage predator and an ill-tempered brute, it is favored as a mount by evil warlords and necromancers who seek to inspire terror in their enemies (but can't handle a true dragon). Controlling a wyvern requires a strong will and brutal discipline.
A wyvern's stinger holds one of the most deadly venoms in the D&D worlds. The wyvern attacks by swooping down to its prey and stinging with its tail. It's a clumsy flier and has difficulty attacking while on the wing. Its long, limber tail can easily strike enemies in front of the wyvern or at its flanks.
Bargain-basement dragons, maybe, but also one of the most poisonous creatures in the world. This was something we emphasized in our discussions: lots of creatures have poison, but we felt that the wyvern—a more fantastical beast than, say, a giant scorpion—is largely defined by that poisonous stinger and should really stand out because of it.
And then there's the Hummer stretch-limousine of flying mounts.
Gargantuan Beast
Alignment: Unaligned Level: Medium Environment: Mountains
Gargantuan Beast
Alignment: Unaligned Level: Medium Environment: Mountains
A roc is a bird of prey that looks almost too big to be real, with a 60-foot to 80-foot wingspan and a length (beak to tail) of 25 to 30 feet. It resembles an eagle, but it has a distinctive crest on the back of its head.
A roc's habits are also similar to those of an eagle. It perches on high vantage points in its mountainous home, or it soars high in the air looking for prey. It eats large creatures such as ankhegs, remorhaz, elephants, and small whales, ranging widely in its hunting. Females build nests on rocky outcroppings near mountain peaks, virtually inaccessible except by flight.
Rocs are sometimes tamed by cloud or storm giants, and they are really suitable as mounts only for such enormous creatures.
There are a couple of tweaks to existing lore in here. What do you think?
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While sipping Goose Island's Green Line beer and tasting vegan carrot soup, attendees at the April 6 Green Drinks group heard about current green infrastructure projects in McHenry County as well as those on the horizon.
Green Drinks is an international event in which people working on, or just interested in, environmental issues gather for informal meetings.
McHenry County Green Drinks is held monthly at , a well-suited venue, as the restaurant has become known for its sustainable menu, which incorporates locally grown, organic foods. Duke's even has its own vegetable garden hosted in the backyard of one the restaurant's patrons, said Zak Dolezal, chef.
Dennis Dreher, a natural resource engineer and resident of Bull Valley, introduced the Chicago Wilderness Green Infrastructure Vision (GIV). He said Chicago Wilderness estimates there are 1.8 million acres that could potentially be protected and preserved in the metropolitan area that runs from southeast Wisconsin to northwest Indiana.
Dreher said the GIV was inspired by the work of city planner Daniel Burnham, who way back in 1909 created a framework for Chicago that included a network of forest preserve districts and greenways.
"Daniel Burnham believed nature and humans need each other. That was a progressive view in 1909," said Dreher.
The GIV is a guideline for how to live among natural areas in a sustainable and mutually beneficial way by using tools such as conservation development, conservation easements, and thoughtful land use planning, according to the Chicago Wilderness website.
Dreher stressed that green infrastructure can happen on a small backyard scale, as well as in neighborhoods, municipalities and county-wide plans. Some examples of green infrastructure efforts include: continuing land acquisition, expanded restoration, greenway connections, private conservation easements, conservation developments and farmland preservation.
Dreher served as chairman of the McHenry County 2030 Comprehensive Plan, adopted in April 2010.
"The McHenry 2030 plan has an extensive green network, with floodplains, wetlands and McHenry County Conservation properties," Dreher said. He added that the plan is integrated with municipalities.
Some green efforts noted by Dreher include rain gardens and bioswales in parking lots. These landscape features capture and filter rainwater, rather than allowing the water to just runoff.
There are many examples of sustainable development already happening in the county. Examples, noted by Dreher include:
- The Sanctuary of Bull Valley is a conservation development with natural landscaping.
- McHenry County was a leader with the Conservation Design Ordinance, said Dreher. Approved in 2008, the ordinance was designed to protect valuable environmental resources, and to enhance community character.
- Other World Computing corporate center in Woodstock is the first technology manufacturer/distributor in the U.S. to become entirely operated by wind power. The site also includes bioswales and permeable paving, which absorb water and recharge water.
Elizabeth Maxwell, Crystal Lake city planner, spoke about the city's green infrastructure plans. She said the city was contacted by Chicago Wilderness and has been working with environmental groups.
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Fan Confidence Poll: October 5th, 2009By
Record Last Week: 3-3 (32 RS, 29 RA)
Season Record: 103-59 (915 RS, 753 RA), won AL East by 8 games, finished with the best record in MLB by 6 games
Opponents This Week: Yanks will play winner of Tuesday's Twins-Tigers game in the best-of-five ALDS
Top stories from last week:
- The final week of the season began the same way as so many other weeks: with a win. The Yanks C-squad knocked around former #1 overall pick Luke Hochevar on Monday. The Bombers came back with a walk-off win off old buddy Kyle Farnsworth on Tuesday, but Joba Chamberlain struggled again in the final home game of the regular season and the winning streak came to an end.
- The Yanks headed down to their home away from home for the final series of the year, but CC Sabathia got knocked around as he chased his 20th win. Andy Pettitte wasn't sharp the next night, but A-Rod hit two homers and drove in seven runs in the 6th inning on Sunday to close the season with a W.
- We may not like it, but it appears that Jose Molina may actually get a start behind the plate in the postseason because of the relationship he has with AJ Burnett. We still don't have an answer to the "who will be the fourth starter" question, and there's the David Robertson-Brian Bruney conundrum as well.
- At least Joe Girardi is one of the best at managing the bullpen, so they have that going for them. He's not a candidate for a contract extension yet, though.
- Manny Banuelos and Arodys Vizcaino ranked highly on the Low-A South Atlantic League and Short Season NY-Penn League Top 20 Prospects lists, respectively. The playing surface at Triple-A Scranton's PNC Field is being replaced, so no more drainage problems.
- As if there was any doubt, the Yankees are still America's team. They'll also host a bowl game at the New Stadium in two years.
- RAB readers voted A-Rod 15th inning walk-off homer against Boston as their favorite moment of the second half. Also, friend of RAB Chad Jennings is taking over LoHud, so we're in very capable hands.
- ALDS and ALCS tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. today. Hurry up and get yours.
Please take a second to answer the poll below and give us an idea of how confident you are in the team. You can view the Fan Confidence Graph anytime via the nav bar above, or by clicking here. Thanks in advance for voting.
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I think you need to add an option for a vote of 11. Otherwise TSJC won't be able to vote.
10. I'm pumped to see what this team can do in the playoffs.
I've been consistently at an 8 since the beginning of the year. This is an excellent team, but they're not '27 Yankees levels of stacked, and the farm system is middle of the pack.
I look forward to blowing way too much money on playoff tickets.
I've been at 9 all year. Barring major injury, I don't see why anyone would change their opinion from week to week.
They may not be the '27 Yankees, but they're closer than you might think – the 2009 squad's .839 OPS was the third-highest team mark in Yankee franchise history.
9. I think with the Tigers and Twins having to play another game helps the Yanks a ton. It will be interesting to see how Porcello does. He's thrown 40 more innings then he did last year right now. Also he's had 10k's for the whole month of September.
Confidence Level = 27.
Anyone get tickets? I logged in at 10 AM on the dot, and nada for ALCS. Granted, I also didn't choose the "Best Available" option because I can't afford field level or legends suites.
Oh, and confidence level = 10. Let's bring home #27.
Logged in at 10, too, and wasn't able to get any tickets together. Did find individual seats, but that would suck. Looks like it's the bar/stubhub for me.
And confidence level is 9, I'll be 10 if we can finally get past the ALDS.
I'm still trying, and I did choose best available.
I'm going for single seats at this point, sometimes you get lucky with those.
Try calling a TicketMaster Local number for like Miami Florida or somewhere nowhere near NYC. That usually gets you on the books way faster than using the web. Of course by now, you're already outta luck.
You can't call another state, there is no phone sales for these, online only.
Oh – My bad. That strategy works well for concerts anyway.
Yes it does, I have been doing it for years, usually calling Iowa or Kansas.
I logged in at 10..tried the cheap seats for games 6 & 7 of the ALCS and got nada, then tried best available and got nada as well. I then tried best avail for game 5 of the DS and got 2 seats for $306 each, which I passed on because I dont even see that game ever happening.
Thankfully I had a presale from the SI Yanks and am going to game 1 of the DS and CS.
Still at a 9. I'm really at a 9.5, but I won't vote a 10.
Exactly, anything can happen in a short series.
Actually, in ALDS play, when a series includes a team that has 15-plus more victories than the other team, said team is 8-1 in the series.
So, when it comes to a team that is the caliber of the Yankees, and that of their opponent, the Twins and the Tigers, the crapshoot theory is a bunch of crap.
But overall records take into account the Tigers throwing Washburn/Willis/Bonderman/whoever as their 4/5 starters for 162 games. Yes Yankees had Wang/Mitre/bad Joba 2nd half, but just saying.
I dont think its fair to look at overall record. Look at the pitchers who are actually pitching, and how they have been performing. ie.) Jackson's overall numbers are misleading due to his amazing 1st half and just average 2nd half, or Joba's horrible post ASB numbers (hes not starting but its just an example)
How is it not fair to look at overall records? You don't think the eight losers in that sample were able to not pitch their back-end starters just like the Tigers or Twins will be able to? You don't think they will be able to constantly pitch the best guys in their bullpen just like the Tigers and Twins will be able to?
No i mean in a 5 game series. The only guys who matter are Verlander, Porcello and Jackson and then their 2-3 main bullpen guys. Same with the Yankees.
I'm not saying the Yankees arent better or shouldnt win.
Jamal's point is that in a situation exactly like this where one team won 15 games more than the other, the better team won the short series 8 of 9 times. Any argument you make for the Tigers/Twins could also be made for the loser in 8 of those 9 series.
I understand that part, he also said the crapshoot theory is bunch of crap based upon their regular season record and the 8-1 in previous years.
The crap shoot theory is a bunch of crap in this case. The Yankees are a far superior team (the fact that they have 17 more wins is evidence) and so have a very good chance of winning the series. When you have two fairly equal teams then it's a crap shoot. That would be the case in of the other series.
I'm really not understanding your point. In ALDS play, teams that are 15-plus wins better than their opponent are 8-1 in the series record.
When taking into account the caliber of these three teams, the better team wins at a near-ninety-percent clip. When the teams become closer and closer in wins total is when the crapshoot theory comes into play.
If Zack doesn't mind my jumping in here… I think his point is that while there may be a correlation between regular season record and ALDS success, he doesn't find the predictive power of this correlation to be as persuasive as you do, Jamal. I see where both of you are coming from and I agree with Jamal that the ALDS, when played by teams with records that are something like 15 games apart, is probably much less of a crap-shoot than people think. But I do think Zack has a point here, too. A more specialized analysis of the teams in question, looking more particularly at their performance behind their top three pitchers, for example, would probably be more persuasive than the correlation offered here. But in the end I don't think you guys really disagree as much as it seems.
Sorry, what I should have stipulated is that I don't understand the points he is arguing. All his counter-points are cases that were the same in the topic case – five-game series; back-end starters not being used; top-end relievers always being used.
My confusion stems from the fact that he is arguing that the upcoming series is an ALDS where the Tigers won't use their crappy starters and relievers, when what I've been arguing is that the team with 15-plus wins the ALDS where the losing team was able to avoid their crappy starters and relievers.
I hope the game Tues night goes 17 innings
don't be a pessimist!
21 innings, then called for rain. think about THAT.
i chose best available for alds game 2 and $131 tickets came up.. i let them go because i'm just a college student.. i wish i hadnt let them go now though i'm pissed.. but then there was the dilemma that i'm bringin my girlfriend home this weekend and so i couldnt just leave her at my house while i went to the game but at the same time i couldnt NOT bring my brother… so i guess i saved myself $300 and a fight with my girlfriend or brother
I just had a 381 dollar single seat for ALDS game 1 I passed on. I love the Yanks, but that a bit too much scratch.
Again for game 2. If you're willing to go alone and spend $381 there are seats available.
or $906 for a single seat to Game 5.
i dont think i could enjoy the game if i dropped $906 + train + food + beer
yeah… the beer is what kills it…
It all depends on how much money you have.
Yeah. Real fans drop $2500 each for regular season tickets.
Would you feel bad about spending $25 for a game? Then why should a guy who has 100 times more money than you, feel bad about spending $2500?
man we almost need those folks–imagine if there were a law–a max seat price code–that enforced $5 for every seat…we would lose so much more money than the rest of baseball. i'm glad those folks are yankee fans, and as an aside, thanks, rich folks, for payin' your taxes
True, but college student so yeah not that much.
Only someone with a confidence level of 6 or below would spent that kind of cash on Game 5.
I've been an 8 most of the year. I'm a 9 on the present and more like a 7 for the future (due to the age of some key players and the lack of impact up-the-middle talent in the farm system).
I know this is probably tempting fate, but I'd rather face the Twins than the Tigers. The Twins have no starters that scare me, and Nathan is useless if they don't have a lead to protect.
RLYW has a list of "notable games" from the first half posted:
Hard to look at some of those and not feel good about where the team is today.
I've been at 10 all year, Best Offense hands down, Great Pitching, Great Team Attitude, Love This Team. Hopefully A-Rod is HOT in the playoffs.
I'm at 10 this week. I've been at 9 most of the year with one 8 (after one really poor week) and a few 10′s (after weeks when the Yanks have been hot and I thought they had thye're act together).
The play-offs are a crap shoot and the best team doesn't always win. But you have to like the Yankees chances to go all the way this year.
I finally buckled and went with a 10. Sure, anything can happen in a short series, but the way the roster is constructed, I don't see any team that's better than the Yankees. Every team has weaknesses, but the Yankees have the fewest. I can easily see this team steamrolling through the playoffs and Word Series. There's not an offense that can challenge our pitching staff when they're on, and there's no pitching staff that our offense can't beat when it's on. All that's left is to play the games.
Organizationally, I think that the Yankees have similar question marks as other teams but more financial flexibility to address those concerns. Sure, they may have to "buy" some solutions, but that's why they're the Yankees and everyone else just wants to be the Yankees.
The regular season ends at a 10 for me.
In a couple days I'm going to fall into the "anything short of winning the World Series is catastrophic" crowd, but right now I really do appreciate and am in awe of this Yankees team roaring comeback season. Baseball's greatest franchise is back.
The three people that voted a six need to explain themselves. It is too high of a rating to be the choice of a troll and too low to be anything rational.
No one should really need to do anything. Part of this type of poll is a level of anonymity, that allows people to vote whatever they want without having to explain themselves.
As long as this poll is structured the way it is, people can vote anything they want, even a 1 or 6 or 10. Do they have to explain themselves? Absolutely not.
I'd love to hear their explanations as well. However, I agree with Jose, that with the poll AS IT IS CURRENTLY STRUCTURED, no one has to expelan themselves.
I offered an alternative earlier in this thread:
"Make it a requirement to sign in to vote like you do for commenting. I'm tired of these "1? and "2? votes screwing up the data. I'd like to see a weekly result that is truly and realistically reflective of YANKEE fan confidence.
I guess it washes out from week to week if the same trolls vote "1? or "2? in every poll, but I think RAB has a right to know who they are and decide if they want to include them in the vote (in the same fashion as deciding whether to ban commenters).
RAB's strong control over the site is one of the factors that makes it so good. Let's extend that control to the Fan Confidence Poll."
Its going to be people that put a high # on future of the team with regard to farm system. Those people are going to say they want a farm like Texas with this year's results.
Something like that, basically those people don't consider a 6 bad, and that a 10 should be basically impossible to achieve.
The way around it would be to vote on parts, then the guys at RAB to put that together. So something like farm poll, management poll, major league performance poll.
I really think it would be interesting to break the results into 2 separate polls. Confidence for this year (next year after the WS happens) and confidence for the next 5-10 years. I agree that those 6′s are probably people who are pessimistic about the mid to long term future of the Yankees. Of course, those people also shouldn't significantly change their votes week to week.
Still at a 9. I like where we are at and what we've had. If our pitching staff is on, I like our chances at #27. The real season begins and I can't wait for Wednesday.
9. There are obvious problems with this team, but they are clearly the best team in the league and that should, barring serious injury, extend into next year and possibly beyond. In the playoffs the yanks' advantages play down somewhat, as they so often do, but there still isn't a team in the playoffs that should beat them, although the angels are pretty close, and the sox aren't far behind them.
Of course, the yankees have had terrific lineups before and still fallen out in the first round, but they've never had the home run depth they have this year, and I think that could play up huge. HRs and K rates always seem to have a big impact on short-series baseball, and the yankees have both.
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MC professors and students schedule presentation on trip to Vietnam
March 20, 2003
Maryville College students and professors and community members who recently returned from a two-week tour of Vietnam will present a program of photos, music and stories that describe their learning experiences and adventures abroad.
The presentation, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled for 7-8:30 p.m., April 1, in Sutton Science Center (room 231) on the Maryville College campus.
The January trip, two years in the organizing, included stops in Hanoi, Hue, Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta. The group of students, professors and community members took in the history, culture and psychology of Vietnam. They heard various presentations by faculty and students at three universities in Hanoi – presentations that ranged in topic from traditional Vietnamese music to the American War.
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For more information, contact Shiba at 865.981.8270 or Dr. Terry Bunde at 865.981.8279.


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Bosch-Rexroth wins Hermes award for innovation; Putin, Merkel speak at ceremony
Integration was the theme as Hannover Messe 2013 opened Sunday evening in Hannover, Germany. Russia is the partner nation at this year's Hannover Messe, and Russian president Vladimir Putin and German chancellor Angela Merkel spoke at Sunday's opening ceremonies, which launch the start of the world's largest industrial trade fair.
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The opening ceremonies also featured some spectacular visual displays built around the theme of "Integrated Industry", the theme of the 2013 Hannover Messe. Speakers referred to an "Industry 4.0 evolution", which is characterized by high volume, custom product manufacturing enabled by an "integrated industry".
That theme was referenced by speakers throughout the opening ceremony, which highlighted the use of intelligent devices and systems that can sense and control on many different but integrated levels.
That theme was carried through the presentation of the 2013 Hermes Award, presented to the outstanding innovation on display at Hannover Messe. Bosch-Rexroth won the award for its "Open Core Engineering" project. Open Core Engineering makes it possible to run innovative functions in the form of apps on external devices like smartphones, with native IT apps on smart devices not only able to read data, but also record it to the control system, providing OEMs with a new opportunity to gain a competitive edge by adding individual software functions without the direct support of the control system manufacturer.
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DRBD in a Heartbeat
Heartbeat is designed to monitor your servers, and if your master server fails, it will start up all the services on the slave server, turning it into the master. To configure it, we need to specify which servers it should monitor and which services it should start when one fails.
Let's configure the services first. We'll take a look at the Sendmail we configured previously, because the other services are configured the same way. First, go to the directory /etc/heartbeat/resource.d. This directory holds all the startup scripts for the services Heartbeat will start up.
Now add a symlink from /etc/init.d/sendmail to /etc/heartbeat/resource.d.
Note: keep in mind that these paths may vary depending on your Linux distribution.
With that done, set up Heartbeat to start up services automatically on the master computer, and turn the slave to the master if it fails. Listing 2 shows the file that does that, and in it, you can see we have only one line, which has different resources to be started on the given server, separated by spaces.
Listing 2. /etc/heartbeat/haresources
server1 IPaddr::192.168.1.5/24 datadisk::drbd0 sendmail
The first command, server1, defines which server should be the default master of these services; the second one, IPaddr::192.168.1.5/24, tells Heartbeat to configure this as an additional IP address on the master server with the given netmask. Next, with datadisk::drbd0 we tell Heartbeat to mount this drive automatically on the master, and after this, we can enter the names of all the services we want to start up—in this case, we put sendmail.
Note: these names should be the same as the filename for their startup script in /etc/heartbeat/resource.d.
Next, let's configure the /etc/heartbeat/ha.cf file (Listing 3). The main things you would want to change in it are the hostnames of the master/slave machine at the bottom, and the deadtime and initdead. These specify how many seconds of silence should be allowed from the other machine before assuming it's dead and taking over.
If you set this too low, you might have false positives, and unless you've got a system called STONITH in place, which will kill the other machine if it thinks it's already dead, you can have all kinds of problems. I set mine at two minutes; it's what has worked best for me, but feel free to experiment.
Also keep in mind the following two points: for the serial connection to work, you need to plug in a crossover serial cable between the machines, and if you don't use a crossover network cable between the machines but instead go through a hub where you have other Heartbeat nodes, you have to change the udpport for each master/slave node set, or your log file will get filled with warning messages.
Listing 3. /etc/heartbeat/ha.cf
debugfile /var/log/ha-debug logfile /var/log/ha-log logfacility local0 keepalive 2 deadtime 120 initdead 120 serial /dev/ttyS1 baud 9600 udpport 694 udp eth0 nice_failback on node server1 node server2
Now, all that's left to do is start your Heartbeat on both the master and slave server by typing:
/etc/init.d/heartbeat start
Once you've got that up and running, it's time to test it. You can do that by stopping Heartbeat on the master server and watching to see whether the slave server becomes the master. Then, of course, you might want to try it by completely powering down the master server or any other disconnection tests.
Congratulations on setting up your redundant server system! And, remember, Heartbeat and DRBD are fairly flexible, and you can put together some complex solutions, including having one server being a master of one DRBD partition and a slave of another. Take some time, play around with them and see what you can discover.
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Thank You, check http://docs.homelinux.org for other tutorials about drbd. It's also good explained like Your articel.
IP of ur server1 is 192.168.1.1 instead of 192.168.1.3
is'nt it .
is it (192.168.1.3) taken here by some mistake or something else...
drbd after failure
I have done the above and setup drbd and heartbeat. I am having an issue where once say node-a looses it's network connection the failover happens as expected, node-b mounts the disk and everything is there; but when node-a comes backup it drbd is not being started as a slave and it is taking back over as primary and I loose all my new data that node-b created.
how can I get drbd to play nicer?
global {
minor-count 1;
resource mysql {
# * for critical transactional data.
protocol C;
on server-1 {
device /dev/drbd0;
disk /dev/sdb1;
address 192.168.0.128:7788;
meta-disk internal;
on server-2 {
device /dev/drbd0;
disk /dev/sdb1;
address 192.168.0.129:7788;
meta-disk internal;
disk {
on-io-error detach;
net {
max-buffers 2048;
ko-count 4;
syncer {
rate 10M;
al-extents 257;
startup {
wfc-timeout 30;
degr-wfc-timeout 120;
logfacility local0
keepalive 500ms
deadtime 10
warntime 5
initdead 30
ucast eth0 192.168.0.129
#mcast eth0 220.127.116.11 694 2 0
auto_failback off
node server-1
node server-2
respawn hacluster /usr/lib/heartbeat/ipfail
use_logd yes
logfile /var/log/hb.log
debugfile /var/log/heartbeat-debug.log
Is the an error in Listing 1 (drbd.conf)?
I'm in the midst of setting up my first HA cluster and want to be sure I didn't miss something. Shouldn't the address line in the on server section be 192.168.1.1 rather than .1.3? If not, what did I miss?
mounting drbd drives with heartbeat
I can get drbd drive to startup with heartbeat, I can fail and have the primary and secondary change. The problem I am having is that I can not get heartbeat to mount the drives, I can mount them just fine with the mount command.
I am not sure in the article how the drives are being mounted.
Does anyone know how I would mount the /dev/drbd0 to /mnt/drbd0 with heartbeat?
mount drives with heartbeat
I have the same issue!
Did you find a way out? My HA-Cluster with DRBD works great if I manually mount my replicated drive. But it refuses to do automatically with heartbeat.
Any help/leads will be appreciated.
Try mounting with resource
Try mounting with resource script Filesystem. This works for me and is mentioned in some other how to articles...
Try on commandline w/o the ::
NFS support is generally quite tricky
That should be at least cited in the article. Heartbeat based service with a floating IP address could be extremely tricky for locking, when used with NFS servers. Also, I would avoid to use mbox based mail spool dirs on drdb partitions, maildirs are much more safe. That's my 2 cents.
NFS support not that difficult
NFS works well - including locking. Dozens to hundreds of sites have it working quite nicely. You do have to set things up correctly, but the Linux-HA web site and several other articles (pointed to by the PressRoom page) explain how to do that in detail. There is a hole where an extremely active application can possibly fail to get a lock during a failover, but it's happens rarely.
However, you do have to set it up correctly.
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How much time are you willing to give? It doesn't sound like you two have been together all that long? It sounds to me, like he may be the perfect candidate for therapy???
Good luck, whatever you decide!
I see another issue here, which may or may not be relevant in your situation, but take it for what is worth. The fact that you have initiated a relationship with him only after three months of being divorced from your ex and the fact that you and your ex are friends cannot contribute positively to his mistrust and pain. I personally would not had had anything to do with someone who just three months ago was married to someone else because to me it does not say much about how she felt about her ex when they were together and who's to say that she couldn't leave me for someone else as easy as she and I started our relationship only three months after her divorce. Again, this is my personal take based on my personal experience and it might not be an issue at all in your case.
Good luck!
You must realise that, for most men, the commitment to marriage is a huge deal? It is for both sexes, but really, extremely so for men! Once we have commited to mariage, it takes something very huge to alter that commitment. He, (your new boyfriend) is deeply hurt, and like most men, cannot easily let go. He mentally invested in his future with her, and she hurt him to the core. Be patient, or be willing to move on. Realise also, that if you do decide to move on, it may hurt him even more? He is totally vulnerable right now. Not an enviable possition to be in, let me tell you! Give him time, if you can. Who knows, this could very well be, "The One" for you???
Wishing you the best!!!
By any means do not force the issue, and if you can stick it out he will most likely come around.It's just the waiting that can destroy what might be. Sharing oneself is a very sensitive thing and everyone reacts differently. I wish you the best.
If I may suggest be patient and loving. If you truly love your boyfriend, he needs time, understanding and support to forgive himself and his ex and be able to move forward...I wish you the best, and I know, from experience, that you have the prize, while all the ex has is lonely memories.
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Fan Confidence Poll: January 3rd, 2011By
Season Record: 95-67 (859 RS, 693 RA, 98-64 Pythag. record), finished one game back in AL East, won Wild Card, lost in ALCS
Top stories from last week:
- The last seven days were extremely slow on the news front because of the holidays, but Joakim Soria dominated headlines by saying he'd be willing to waive his no-trade clause to join the Yankees.
- Trade talks with the Astros about utility infielder Jeff Keppinger went nowhere.
- Bartolo Colon claimed that the Yankees are interested in signing him.
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Continue with a 6. Not much faith in the starting rotation after CC with or without Andy.
(Edited by RAB: That was unnecessary)
Hughes is a #3 at best. Who will show up next year 1st half Hughes or second half Hughes? It's a hope and a pray that Hughes will develope into a solid #2 pitcher.
I get that you can't just expect Hughes to turn into a legit AL East #2 next year, but I think there is a better chance than a hope and prayer. Its a hope and prayer for Nova to be a legit 4, or Mitre to be a 5, but Hughes has a decent chance of taking the next step this upcoming season.
I am hoping and praying…
Nothing is happening because those criminal wannabe big time GMs are drooling all over themselves hoping to fleece the NYY. A really smart GM from another team could could actually make a great deal, if he wasn't a greedy moron.
As much as I think it would be retarded for GM's to legitimately accept inferior deals from non Yankee teams just because they are not the Yankees, I can't help but completely agree with you. It really does seem, whether consciously or subconsciously, other teams really expect more from the Yanks, even compared to other big market teams.
The way the Phillies traded for Lee, Halladay and Oswalt without giving up Dom Brown, when you know the Yankees wouldn't have been able to get any of them without giving up Montero.
Confirmation bias, IMO. Getting Marte and Nady, if Nady hadn't gotten hurt, was a great deal when the Yankees only gave up an expendable Tabata and throw-ins. Swisher for Betemit was an all-time steal. The Granderson trade seemed pretty even to me, as well.
Yea, I am torn. Taking a step back, I can't help but think it is just my bias as a Yankee fan, or as you say, confirmation bias. On the other hand, it seems like teams ask and expect Montero to be included in basically every deal and then take less from other teams.
Hey, let's not forget that Tabata was one of, if not THE top offensive prospect in the Yankees system at the time. To classify him as expendable is a little extreme. He was a valid trade chip and they chose to cash him in for Nady and Marte.
Swisher WAS expendable by the White Sox. Ozzie Guillen hated Swisher and did a good job convincing GM Ken Williams to get rid of him. Guillen thought he was a self-centered big mouth who couldn't hit or defend. So, it's likely any team could have gotten him for nothing…which the Yankees did.
At the time Tabata had been passed by Ajax. He had also fallen out of favor w/ some attitude issues.
I'm really torn between a 7 & 8, but went with a 7. With Pettitte leaning towards retirement and no solid starters ready to step in to replace him, I expect a slower start for the team this season, even though I do expect solid offenseive production, with ARod and Jeter performing closer to career norms. I'm sure there will be a mid-season move to sure up the pitching staff, just hoping they can stay in the wild card hunt till then.
Going forward a season or 2, I'm very hopefull the youger prospects (particularly the pitchers) will begin to produce at the major league level, which is why I'm torn between a 7 & an 8.
Same thoughts. Went with a 7. Anyone that went lower than a 6 is a true spolied fan. If our team was on Pittsburghs field they would be turning this to 11.
My take…
Current roster 7 (SP is a big part of this game, another ace SP =9)
Farm system 8 (a wow bat & some great young guns)
Management 6 (Levine & Hank 2, Cash & Hal 9)
Etc 10 (best brand in any sport)
Overall 8 (rounded up from a 7.75)
6. The starting rotation, as it stands today, just isn't good enough.
8. Franchise as a whole is in great shape.
Still an 8. Even if Andy does choose the likely retirement options it is an 8. It is only January.
Solid 6.
A rotation currently featuring Hughes as its #2 can't be taken as a serious WS contender. Whether Burnett gets his shit together and is able to resurrect the faith of the fan base is probably the biggest story on the ML club. Not DJ. Not Arod. Its about Burnett in 2011 for better or worse.
I kind of think it is about Hughes. He has been groomed to be our next homegrown top pitching talent, and it is his time to really come into his own.
I guess in truth, it is about both of them. We need everyone to perform well and stay healthy.
I'm not going to put that kind of pressure on Hughes. At 24, he's not a "kid" anymore but he's not a finished product. I want him to take a step forward to improve his pitch efficiency, and that's a big hold back. He's no "ace" yet. Burnett however is 34 years old and healthy. He's a finished product. That's what makes the whole Burnett situation so effed up. Burnett can be better. Any other pitcher would have been yanked out the rotation by Joe G. Burnett has to work through his shitty consistency.
True. Hughes reasonably might need a couple more years before he hits his prime. Next year could be expecting too much. I have high hopes I guess.
What I don't get is that Hughes was our #5 starter leaving ST 2010, and quite a few didn't think he deserved that and wanted him in AAA in favor of Joba.
He had to be MLB's best #5 guy for 2010, and was our #2/3 postseason starter.
Fans need to give him some room to develop, having him as our #3 starter for 2011 is fair but anything more is silly at this point. I think those same people that had him as our #6 starter last year will put the #2 burden on him this year.
Hughes is pretty clearly the second best pitcher in our rotation whether we like it or not, whether he is ready to carry that load or not, and whether people expected Joba to beat him out in the rotation last year or not.
Your expectations of Hughes is excessive as this kid hasn't had the experience. The fact that he was the #1 pitcher in the system in 2007 is moot. IPK & Joba haven't come close to expectations (as most top tier prospects don't either).
Hopefully Hughes turns into an Andy Pettitte reliability on the bump, however don't expect him to turn into a CC, Felix, etc. type of player or you'll be majorly disappointed.
If Hughes pitches 2011 to the same results of 2010 it should still be considered an improvement (as that would be b-to-b years at a very low salary & age). I believe his ceiling is much greater than a #3, but even if he pitches to that, he will be considered a success.
We would all like to see better results later in the count (plus a lower ERA, etc), but I wouldn't put that expectation on him yet.
AJ is the #2, and will likely have a greater influence on the 2011 team (good or bad).
Fair enough. I do recognize that my expectations are probably higher than they should be and you are 100% correct that if he repeats last year it would be a definite success. I guess I am just looking for a shred of hope in what has otherwise been a disappointing off season.
I still expect Hughes to be better than AJ, but that has more to do with my lack of faith in AJ for next year.
Were the Phillies a serious WS contender in 2008 when their rotation was Cole Hamels, Kyle Kendrick, Brett Meyers, Adam Eaton and the corpse of Jamie Moyer in pre-season? And all they did was add Joe Blanton during the season.
I'm at a nine. I might be a point too high, but feeling good after the New Year. We have a better farm system than we had in years, maybe ever, and still have money to make some major deals in the future. Maybe not for this year, but definitely within the next couple of years. I always think about where my confidence would be if I were a fan of other teams, and no matter how mediocre/shitty the past couple of off seasons were, I can't delude myself to think the Yanks are in real trouble of falling off too far. Cashman makes plenty of mistakes, but looking at some of the other GM's around the league, he is a godsend. We could have a real bozo in there and then we as fans would really feel helpless.
I can no longer give my confidence a numeric value with Ivan Nova and Sergio Mitre at the back end of the rotation.
We all know it will take more than 5 (probably 7 or 8) starters to get through a season and into the playoffs. These are the kinds of guys that should be longmen/AAA filler. Aka numbers 6, 7 & 8.
Pitching wins. Right now, we don't have it. Confidence level ~ not very high.
Didn't mean to include sunglasses dude… maybe he's a sign that everything's gonna be alright?
exactly. relax. the world will spin beside itself and suck you in.
People who are always wearing sunglasses (when they are not legitimately trying to protect their eyes from the sun) are hiding something. Sunglasses man does not ease my fears, ha.
The Yanks minor league pitching depth is pretty solid though. If Mitre and Nova don't work out, numbers 6,7, and 8 might already be better than them, or at least their equals. The problem comes if Hughes, CC or AJ are the ones we have to replace and Nova, and Mitre all of sudden move up to our 3rd and/or 4th starters. I don't even want to think about one of them being our number #2.
Looking for a bounceback from AJ, but think Andy's really done this time. Which leaves me at a 7 since even the possibility of Mitre as a #5 has a -2 effect.
6, 3/5ths of our rotation has the strong possibility of sucking.
I'm on board with a six right now. The rotation is too big a question mark and I'll have to see much more consistent offense once the season starts to believe that this is a strong lineup. Too many question marks right now. Will Jeter bounce back? Will Alex Rodriguez stay healthy? Will Teixeira bounce back? Will Granderson's yearly regression in offensive output continue? Was Gardner's second half slip last year truly due to his wrist injury? Has Swisher really figured something out or was last year the fluke? Will we get any offense from behind the plate? Will they get ANY clutch hitting at all this year or are we going to be pulling our hair out again with the epidemic of LOBs? It will take about until June to answer these questions from my own point of view.