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The Hazel Wright Organ has been shipped to Italy for refurbishments!
The Hazel Wright Organ in our Christ Cathedral is one of the largest and most recognizable organs in the world. After three decades of use and exposure to heat, sunlight and water damage, the organ is in need of a total restoration. The Hazel Wright Organ Restoration Project's objective is to preserve this musical icon to allow future generations to enjoy its cultural value and music.
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During a cultural lesson, Abigail Sayler, a teacher at Palmer Elementary School, discusses Hanukkah and the significance of lighting the menorah to celebrate the holiday. Sitting around the table are third-graders (from left) Ricky Howard, Emily Forman, Sarah LeMay, Frankie Mazzye and Talia Cusumano.
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Third-grade teachers at Palmer Elementary School wove math, social studies, science and the ELA curriculum into a cultural lesson on Middle Eastern food, with an emphasis on the Jewish religion and culture, to create an integrated learning experience for their students.
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Posted By Diane Pham On March 27, 2012 @ 10:01 am In Design,Design for Health,Green Products,humanitarian design,Innovation | No Comments
Smile Squared [1] has launched a cool new program that gives an environmentally-friendly toothbrush to a child in need in a developing country for each one sold. Because dental care is an important part of preventing chronic diseases [2] and keeping a healthy smile, Smile Squared is aiming to give away one million toothbrushes by 2015 – and they're not stopping there. Since over 50 million pounds of toothbrushes are tossed in the trash each year in the US alone, rather than adding to the waste, the company is trying to offset mainstream toothbrush trash by making their toothbrushes out of biodegradable, compostable, BPA-free bamboo [3].
The program was started by husband and wife entrepreneurial team Eric and Geri Cope, after a trip they took to Guatemala in 2011. The couple joined a dental clinic and began performing charitable dental work for the underprivileged children in the area. There, says Eric, "We saw children who had preventable, and sometimes severe dental problems. But many of the same children didn't own a toothbrush." When the couple looked at the facts from the World Health Organization [4], they realized that dental diseases are the most prevalent chronic diseases, with an estimated 5 billion people worldwide suffering from tooth decay. Globally, the prevalence of decay among school age children is reported at 60-90%, and in most developing countries, more than 90% of this decay goes untreated.
The Copes wanted to create a sustainable way to help children through establishing their own social enterprise, and set their sights on a simple, and practical solution: giving eco-friendly toothbrushes to children in need. In late 2011, they received their first shipment of Smile Squared toothbrushes. The brushes, which retail for only $5.95 individually for both adult and child sizes, can also be donated in pairs for $5.95 total, or purchased in retail bundles at discounted prices.
As of February this year the Copes have given away over 7,400 Smile Squared toothbrushes, working with a number of multiple charities including Buckner International [5], Save Their Smiles [6], Hand of Hope [7], and also International Justice Mission [8], who places Smile Squared toothbrushes in their after-care kits for children freed from sex trafficking and bonded labor slavery.
Creating an environmentally responsible business was also a priority for the Copes. After learning that 50 million pounds of toothbrushes are tossed into American landfills annually, the Copes pledged to make a toothbrush that was different. Both adult and children's size Smile Squared toothbrushes are made of eco-friendly components, including a BPA-free, biodegradable, sustainably-grown bamboo handle, and recyclable DuPontTM Tynex bristles. The Smile Squared brushes even come packaged in recyclable cardboard boxes!
To purchase a toothbrush for yourself, or to send a set or two to some children in need, visit the Smile Squared [1]website.
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Mass balance status: Balanced.
Enzyme Commission Primary Name: UDP-4-amino-4-deoxy-L-arabinose formyltransferase
Enzyme Commission Synonyms: UDP-L-Ara4N formyltransferase, ArnAFT
Standard Gibbs Free Energy (ΔrG'° in kcal/mol): 16.471832 [Latendresse13]
Enzyme Commission Summary:
The activity is part of a bifunctional enzyme also performing the reaction of EC 18.104.22.1685 [UDP-glucuronic acid oxidase (UDP-4-keto-hexauronic acid decarboxylating)].
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Breazeale05: Breazeale SD, Ribeiro AA, McClerren AL, Raetz CR (2005). "A formyltransferase required for polymyxin resistance in Escherichia coli and the modification of lipid A with 4-Amino-4-deoxy-L-arabinose. Identification and function oF UDP-4-deoxy-4-formamido-L-arabinose." J Biol Chem 280(14);14154-67. PMID: 15695810
GatzevaTopalova05: Gatzeva-Topalova PZ, May AP, Sousa MC (2005). "Crystal structure and mechanism of the Escherichia coli ArnA (PmrI) transformylase domain. An enzyme for lipid A modification with 4-amino-4-deoxy-L-arabinose and polymyxin resistance." Biochemistry 44(14);5328-38. PMID: 15807526
GatzevaTopalova05a: Gatzeva-Topalova PZ, May AP, Sousa MC (2005). "Structure and mechanism of ArnA: conformational change implies ordered dehydrogenase mechanism in key enzyme for polymyxin resistance." Structure (Camb) 13(6);929-42. PMID: 15939024
Latendresse13: Latendresse M. (2013). "Computing Gibbs Free Energy of Compounds and Reactions in MetaCyc."
Williams05: Williams GJ, Breazeale SD, Raetz CR, Naismith JH (2005). "Structure and function of both domains of ArnA, a dual function decarboxylase and a formyltransferase, involved in 4-amino-4-deoxy-L-arabinose biosynthesis." J Biol Chem 280(24);23000-8. PMID: 15809294
Yan07: Yan A, Guan Z, Raetz CR (2007). "An undecaprenyl phosphate-aminoarabinose flippase required for polymyxin resistance in Escherichia coli." J Biol Chem 282(49);36077-89. PMID: 17928292
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The Transnational Turn in American Studies: Turkey and the United States
In her 2004 Presidential Address to the American Studies Association entitled "Crossroads of Cultures: The Transnational Turn in American Studies," Shelley Fisher Fishkin called on scholars to move away from a nationalist and/or nation-centered model of reading, teaching and researching the United States that prioritized the agendas of Americanists working in the United States. Her speech, which was inspired by Robert A. Gross' "The Transnational Turn: Rediscovering American Studies in a Wider World," and later published as an article in the American Quarterly, focuses on the central question: "What would the field of American Studies look like if the transnational rather than the national were at its center?" In Fishkin's opinion, American Studies was (and perhaps still is) divided into "us" and "them," the "domestic" and the "foreign," the "national" and "international," marginalizing what another former ASA President Paul Lauter called a global academic "system in which the exchange of commodities, the flow of capital, and the iterations of cultures [should] know no borders." Seeking to erase these borders and create "a web or contact zone" that could displace (or at least resist) American power by reframing American Studies transnationally, Fishkin and Lauter spearheaded a global movement which stresses the "multidirectional flows of people, ideas, and goods, and the social, political, linguistic, cultural, and economic crossroads generated in the process."
When, as Fishkin posits, the transnational is taken as the center of American Studies, what emerges is a metaphoric "place where diasporic imaginations are valued for the dazzlingly hybrid syntheses they produce; a place where the term 'American' is understood in its broadest hemispheric sense; a place where it is recognized that there is an important body of American literature written in languages other than English; [and] a place where the cultural work done by [scholars] writing outside the United States is a valid subject of study." Such an approach not only fills in the blanks of ethnic and immigrant studies to include diasporic participants, but also enriches our understanding of major American historical events, figures, and influences beyond the limited geographic framework of the United States.
A recent work, Magdalena J. Zaborowska's James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile, is a notable example of the latter phenomenon, exploring the transnational turn with respect to the African American author and Civil Rights Activist James Baldwin by specifically examining his decade in Turkey. As Zaborowska elucidates, Baldwin is certainly one of many figures who have been "rediscovered" as a result of the transnational turn in American Studies. For example, very few scholars know that Mark Twain toured Anatolia and other areas of the Ottoman Empire on his way to the Holy Land (Palestine), which during the nineteenth century was under Ottoman rule. He even wrote about his experiences in The Innocents Abroad, an 1869 satiric travel narrative which documents his observations concerning Orientalism and the false religiousity of his fellow pilgrims, while offering a personal critique of the cultures and societies he encountered. Similarly, Herman Melville's epic poem Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876), which at over 18,000 lines is the longest poem in American literature (and longer than classics such as The Iliad and The Aeneid, and Paradise Lost), recounts Melville's own pilgrimage in 1856. Lew Wallace, the author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880)—which was the best-selling US novel since Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), and remained so until Gone with the Wind was published in 1936—served as US Minister to the Ottoman Empire from 1881 to 1885. His experiences undoubtedly influenced subsequent works, especially The Prince of India; or, Why Constantinople Fell, a novel which was published by Harper and Brothers in 1893. Another American author whose relationship to Turkey has recently been "rediscovered" is Ernest Hemmingway, who in works such as "On the Quai at Smyrna," In Our Time, and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" conveys his Turkish travel adventures through a series of allusions, historical references and intertexts.
Despite the growing interest in transnational American Studies, very few book-length studies exist which examine American Studies from the Turkish perspective—i.e., the contributions of Turkey to American culture (Zaborowska's work is one of a few exceptions), or the contributions of the United States to Turkish culture. Thus, this interdisciplinary volume, which is currently under contract with Peter Lang Publishers, seeks to fill this void by highlighting current transnational work (cultural, literary and historical), while departing from traditional approaches which have dealt primarily with Turkish-American diplomacy and foreign policy. The editors seek submissions of original, previously unpublished chapters (i.e., full-length manuscripts of approximately 6,000 words, following the Chicago Manual Footnote Style) on American Studies topics that take the "transnational turn" as their point of departure. Chapters may include, but need not be limited to, the following sub-topics:
• American Studies in Turkey (politics and pedagogy)
Abstracts and one-paragraph bios should be emailed as Microsoft Word attachments to Drs. Tanfer Emin Tunc and Bahar Gursel (firstname.lastname@example.com) by December 15, 2010. If accepted for publication, full-text submissions will be due March 31, 2011.
This project is co-sponsored by the American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT) and the Turkish Coalition of America (TCA)
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Kingdom Hearts: Destined Love-Ch. 4
I really love the way you just come up with these stories.I cant wait till 5. you have a great way that you write to have so that they can picture whats going on.I also love the way you can discribe the characters emotion and how they felt or feel. You put perfect inmagination into this story.I really hope chapter 5 will be good.I also hope you could also have expression into it. Also if i can be honest i dont no how to do this. lol So yea the impact was great on the reader and so is the vision
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Anyone else have plants flowering now that shouldn't be?
Garden yesterday had Choisya going for a 2nd flush and not just a few was covered.
Have also seen weigelas flowering again and my wild strawberries are fruiting again! Not complaining had some on my breakfast
choisya is a good one for a second showing, not a lot else at the moment though..
a few alpine strawbs would be welcome
I've had a few seeds come up and flower that the packet said would take till next summer, so thats been a pleasant surprise. Maybe i'm just reading the packets wrong... Harebells and icelandic poppies I think they are.
Rhododendron tried flowering again, but that's definately not a good thing, they should be growing buds bigger for spring not making a fast track to flowers now. Oh well its only 2 less in spring.
Magnolia and apple blossom!
I have a good crop of self sown Cerinthe major purpuracens seedlings, there is no way they will flower this year, and despite seed companies saying you can sow in August for early flowers nextyear, this lot will succumb to the frost.
I've still got Cosmos (pink & white) flowering plus my climbing rose. Also got sweet peas still poppng up. Dahlias of course as well. Wish my strawberries would crop again - yum! Enjoy yours!
All of my roses are back in full bloom, my hollyhocks are growing like triffids and still wonderfully full of flowers, my spencer sweetpeas are flowering like crazy even though I stopped dead-heading them nearly a month ago and one of my clematis is in flower for the third time this year. Most strangely, though, like Addict I have a new crop of strawberries. Not wild strawberries, but bog-standard early cropping ones that had finished by end of July. The fruits are on the small side but perfectly red and sweet. Would be even nicer if I hadn't taken all the nets off to let the runners spread out. Still, its such an unexpected bonus anyway that I don't mind sharing the bounty with the birdies.
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Apple blossom?!!! Don't think those apples are going to make it somehow lol
A clematis for a third time MACAVITY? Thats just showing off!
Lupins flowering for third time. Delphiniums already twice and time for them to flower again. Hellebores during the summer. I often have gazanias, etc flowerimg in winter. Linum perenne that flowered from early spring and was cut back mid summer is now in full flower again. It's been a brilliant summer for floweriing plants.
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Elbow Room for Missouri's Great Rivers
levees to keep the rivers out. The Great Flood of '93 overtopped some of those levees. However, the price of developable land kept rising and now, nine years later, the tide of real estate values has risen high enough to drown caution and start another cycle of levee building and development. More green space, with its potential for nature and recreation, is being lost.
Equally important, levee construction reduces space where flood waters can spread out. When wet years return, as they always do, where will the water go? The only place left is up and over levees, creating new devastation.
A study by the Community Policy Analysis Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia revealed that, while commercial property is worth more and is taxed at a higher rate than agricultural or other undeveloped land, in many instances providing services to intensively developed land is so costly that it consumes all the resulting tax revenues and more. This can leave communities worse off financially and can create persistent social and economic problems associated with unchecked urban sprawl.
Reasons for hope
All this might make rampant flood plain development sound depressingly inevitable. It isn't. Many people see what's happening and want to do something about it. Politicians, prominent citizens, nature lovers, conservation interests, farmers and some city leaders are among the movers and shakers who hope to break the self-perpetuating cycle.
One example is the Great Rivers Habitat Alliance (GRHA). Adolphus A. Busch IV and August Busch III, in honor of their father's (August Busch Jr.) 100th birthday, spearheaded a GRHA drive that raised $4.5 million for wetland restoration in the Midwest. This diverse group includes St. Louis area developer Don Musick, prominent area attorney Peter von Gontard, Charlie Hager, vice president of Hager Hinge Co. and Jim Blair IV, whose family history of public service includes a Missouri governor and a conservation commissioner.
Of the money raised, $1.5 million went to help develop about half of the 13,732-acre Four Rivers Conservation Area, $500,000 went to B.K. Leach Conservation Area, and the rest went to Ducks Unlimited for future wetland restoration efforts in the Midwest.
GRHA Executive Director Wayne Freeman says the group works with government agencies and nonprofits to preserve flood plain land. The confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers is a special concern of the group because economic pressures already are chipping away at the 80,000 acre delta.


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The Associated Press has learned Tony Stewart has hired fellow Indiana native Ryan Newman to drive the second car for his new team next season.
A person familiar with the deal says Newman will be introduced as driver of the number-four Chevrolet on Friday at Michigan International Speedway.
Stewart said in July he's leaving Joe Gibbs Racing after 10 successful seasons that included two Cup titles to become part owner of fledgling Haas CNC Racing. The new team will be known as Stewart-Haas Racing.
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Woah that looks awesome!
Kinda reminds me of the winter terrain in AoM, except about a kazillion times as good!
Sweet :P
Cant wait to build a small village to sustain =D
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Metal Blade Records is proud to announce the worldwide signing of Poison Headache, a metallic-hardcore trio hailing from San Diego, CA. Poison Headache has now launched their first single, 'Sin Eater', via Noisey.Vice.comRead More
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Akron, Ohio's If These Trees Could Talk will release their third full-length, 'The Bones of a Dying World', on June 3rd worldwide via Metal Blade Records.Read More
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On May 27th, Six Feet Under will release the fourth installment of their 'Graveyard Classics' series. For a preview of the record, the cover version of 'Never Satisfied' is now streaming online.Read More
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Pistorius hails 'hardcore' Paralympians
Oscar Pistorius believes London 2012 has proved that the Paralympic Games is not just about inspirational stories, but "hardcore sport".
Oscar Pistorius believes London 2012 has proved that the Paralympic Games is not just about inspirational stories, but "hardcore sport".
Ireland's total medal haul stands at 16 following an excellent second week at the Paralympic Games.
James McCarthy files his last Paralympic blog from London 2012.
Oscar Pistorius finally won his first individual gold medal of London 2012 in the very last race at the Olympics Stadium.
Ireland's double gold Paralympic hero Michael McKillop has been awarded a special gold medal as one of two athletes who best exemplifed the spirit of the Paralympic Games.
Ireland's Darragh McDonald has placed fourth in the S6 100m freestyle final in the Paralympic Games.
The Irish tandem of James Brown and Damien Shaw were forced to withdraw from the men's individual B road race when they suffered a puncture followed by a mechanical in the first 32km of the 104km race.
Ireland's Jason Smyth followed in the footsteps of Usain Bolt tonight by completing a London 2012 sprint double.
Mark Rohan has won another gold medal for Ireland in the men's individual H1 road race at the Paralympics.
Catherine O'Neill has won silver for Ireland in the women's discus throw - F51/52/53 in London.
Jason Smyth eased to victory in his heat of the 200m T13 in London this morning.
British teenager Jonnie Peacock sealed his status as the fastest amputee in the world by upstaging Oscar Pistorius in the biggest race of the Paralympics.
Ireland's Ellen Keane finished seventh in the final of the SM9 200m individual medley in two minutes 42.21 seconds at the London 2012 Paralympics.
Gold medal winner Bethany Firth pulled out of this morning's 100m breaststroke due to a recurring shoulder injury.
Oscar Pistorius had cause for double celebration after winning a belated first gold medal of London 2012 - and finding an ally in his blade crusade.
The final day of racing for the Sonar class at the Paralympic Games had to be cancelled due to the lack of wind, with Irish sailors, John Twomey, Anthony Hegarty and Ian Costello finishing 11th overall.
In a day of glorious success, Ireland has won three road cycling medals in the Paralympic Games at Brands Hatch - a gold and two bronze.
Paralympics Ireland communications officer John Fulham asks the question, "Have I made a difference?"
Oscar Pistorius began his T44 100 metres title defence with a smooth heat win on Wednesday - but his complaints about rivals allegedly using longer blades rumbles on
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Letter from the Turk Family in Madagascar
February 20, 2009
Madagascar update
Dear Friends,
hank you for your prayers. Friday was a day of calm.
Last night the government security forces took back the four ministries from the people who seized them yesterday. The prime minister said this morning that about 50 people were arrested and no one was injured. Mr. Rajoelina insisted that eight people got killed, but he has not provided convincing evidence. The gendarmerie later put out a statement insisting that no one was killed. Andry Rajoelina's logic seems rather twisted: he wants martyrs but can hardly expect people to be interested in helping him guard buildings if the ones who do it tend to get killed.
Mr. Rajoelina did not try to take any more ministries today. At the 13 May plaza, he asked the crowd to come back tomorrow in large numbers for a big rally. He asked them to bring food and water because they will travel a fair distance from the plaza. This led to speculation that he wants to try to take the presidential palace at Iavoloha on the south side of Antananarivo. Many people lost their lives marching on the presidential palace on 10 August 1991 when then president Ratsiraka had a helicopter drop grenades on the crowd.
Please pray
- For continued peace tomorrow (Saturday) as Mr. Rajoelina may get a large crowd (perhaps more than ten thousand people) that may be a challenge to control.
- That the government can find a peaceful way to stop Mr. Rajoelina and his crowd definitively while at the same time addressing the underlying issues that have fueled the unrest.
- For all parties (church leaders, national and international leaders) that are trying to help bring about a resolution that helps the country move forward.
- For safety for the churches and church leaders in this time of unrest.
- That the church and church members will be a strong witness of God's peace and love.
- For the Malagasy people as prices have risen and the country enters the annual period of difficulty before rice is harvested in May.
Peace in Christ,
Dan and Elizabeth
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BOULDER — The biggest position battle on the Front Range isn't turning into much of a battle. Tyler Hansen knows it. Colorado's players know it. Even the offensive coordinator hinted at it.
The only one who won't say it is Dan Hawkins, CU's head coach, who won't show his hand even though it's obvious what he's holding.
Hansen seemed to solidify a hold on the starting quarterback position after Thursday's scrimmage at Folsom Field. Opening with the first team, the junior ran for one touchdown, threw for another and had two bombs botched on a day when the first offense clicked as it never has this early in Hawkins' five years.
Hansen was 18-for-26 for 220 yards and a 20-yard TD pass to tailback Rodney Stewart on a screen. Hansen also ran 16 yards for the first score. Hawkins' son, Cody, opened with the second team and went 17-for-31 for 182 yards and one TD.
"Tyler made some big plays today," senior receiver Scotty Mc-Knight said. "Obviously, he was rolling with the 'ones,' but he's been our guy all through camp, for the majority of spring practice last year and most of the summer, so he kind of separated himself."
Hansen completed his first three passes and would've had a 58-yard TD pass if a fatigued Will Jefferson had caught up with the bomb.
Hansen found McKnight in double coverage for 33 yards and generally threw strikes all afternoon. His throws seemed to reflect that he has gained confidence.
You could tell from his comments, too, when he was asked if he thinks it's his job to lose.
"I think so," Hansen said. "I think I have the edge right now. Coming out of spring, I was atop the depth chart, so I felt good about that. Over the summer, I feel I gained a leadership role, and that jump started my fall camp."
Dan Hawkins has made no indication when he'd make a decision or an announcement. His offensive coordinator, Eric Kiesau, was slightly less reserved about Hansen.
"Yeah, he'd have a slight edge going into our eighth and ninth practices here," Kiesau said. "They're both competing very, very well. I'll have to look at the numbers."
Kiesau said last year's performance will have slight input, but it will be mostly based on spring and fall camps. Both quarterbacks had similar stats a year ago. Hansen went 129-for-231 for 1,440 yards, seven interceptions and eight TDs. Hawkins was 121-for-239 for 1,277 yards, 11 picks and 10 TDs. But Hansen started the last seven games.
Hansen made two mistakes Thursday. His bad pitch resulted in Raymond Polk's 72-yard fumble return for a score, and Parker Orms returned an interception 29 yards for a TD.
"We just have to clean a few things up," Dan Hawkins said. "We had some moments, but again, you can't throw a pick for a touchdown. We've got to get everyone on the same page."
Told that Hansen thinks it's his job to lose, Hawkins said: "Everybody's going to feel like that. If you ask a running back if he wants to run it more, he's going to say 'yeah.' Cody played with the 'ones' too."
Footnotes. Justin "J.T." Torres made the biggest impression among the four true-freshman tailbacks. The 6-foot, 215-pounder from La Mirada, Calif., rushed seven times for 35 yards and a touchdown. He was used often in short-yardage situations. "I'm not going to break away, so I run as hard as I can," he said. . . . Redshirt-freshman David Bakhtiari started with the first team at right offensive tackle ahead of incumbent sophomore Bryce Givens. . . . Offensive linemen Matt Bahr (6-4, 290, junior) and Scott Fernandez (6-3, 275, redshirt freshman) were used as blocking backs in short-yardage situations for a "Refrigerator" Perry look. Fernandez, a walk-on from Legacy High School, caught a 3-yard touchdown pass. . . . Nate Solder is being honored as an All-American offensive lineman in Playboy magazine's 54th annual College Football Pigskin Preview.
Denver Post staff writer Tom Kensler contributed to this report.
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Souperstar 3 years, 4 months ago on Lincoln, Linn Tech agree to buy Jefferson City High School complex
Lincoln, Linn Tech agree to buy Jefferson City High School complex
^ That's the ringer...
Not having a plan for expansion and launching forward with sudden opportunity doesn't make fiscal sense to me. It's costing all of us.
Souperstar 3 years, 7 months ago on Obama jabs at Romney over his '47 percent' remarks
Obama jabs at Romney over his '47 percent' remarks
Fair Tax. There, income tax system fixed.
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City looks for ways to repair MSP
Gotta agree with Lifer. Don't go into business if it isn't profitable. I'm not the nostalgic type, especially with the money I earn NOW going toward something that will not benefit the taxpayers in the future. If there is no plan to make it profitable, there may as well be no plan...
And what is with people and the word "tourism" as they think it should apply to Jefferson City? Very aggravating. The nearest (fully functional) airport is hours away, we aren't getting many tourists and no one will come from far away for conventions.
Souperstar 4 years ago on Jefferson City looks for citizen input on various projects
Jefferson City looks for citizen input on various projects
I ditto lifer. Given the track record here, you will not pass another tax increase in this town. Voters have spoken on numerous occasions. Listen once and for all.
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US home sales fell in March
Honestly Rob, I think you answered your own question. You cited 2 gov't run programs and another the gov't already has their hands in. Now you want to jump in with both feet after the gov't has demonstrated a near complete lack of proper management of such programs? The solution is clear: less government. We don't need them, they need us taxpayers. We have to stop turning to our Federal gov't for answers.
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Our Opinion: City contest loses sight of mission
I agree that this doesn't need to be done. Further, however, for $1,500 they're unlikely to even get college students interested. Obviously, they don't have any experience with the cost and time to create an application like this. You can use Google and see that the average cost of development is thousands more than this.
Ditto your Transformation comment too, by the way.
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Mo. House passes welfare drug testing legislation
Are you basically calling these people victims? They (the ones affected) are using drugs...while being supporting by the public. Let's define victim with the help of google.com: vic·tim/ˈviktəm/Noun 1. A person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action. 2. A person who is tricked or duped: "the victim of a hoax".
Well they fit neither of those definitions, but the public certainly fits by definition for allowing people in these situations to continue to take from them, and use what they've taken in such a self destructive manner.
This is not punishing the kids, instead it is giving mom/dad incentive to get away from the problem. This is not punishing the kids, this is offering the aid (again) if mom/dad get away from the problem. This is not punishing the kids, and do you really think that mom/dad are taking care of them, while they are being born possibly addicted to these drugs or living in an explosive/toxic drug production house?
Your legislator/business owner banter is old too. Please, think carefully.
Souperstar 5 years, 1 month ago on Trash talk picking up again in Jefferson City
Trash talk picking up again in Jefferson City
I agree with your choices statement. If the city wants to use Allied, fine. The merits of competition in that sort of arena can be argued, but I tend to side with the idea that competition improves life in several ways, namely value and service. That being said, Allied should offer more than a one-size-fits-all here. Smaller cans, more money, less service, forced recycling, and in my opinion one very rude informational letter all happened. I will never care for Allied, or our elected representatives who approved this. You have all done something that you know is wrong, yet I'm sure you'll find obscure ways of justifying your actions and decisions so you can move on. Also, if what JC said is true about kickbacks on this, then I'm sure the money helps.
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Large Scale Meth Lab Seized
I have to agree with Graceful.
I wonder if asb has ever worked within an industry where government regulation has brought it to its knees. Well, I'll tell you this much, I'll never step foot in another Texas ER ever again (speaking on health care now). My wife almost died there, and you cannot imagine the conditions until you've seen it. Bums walking in off the street getting a meal and a hotel stay, and the nurses have to hand them their voucher for it. How does a system where those who do not contribute get something for nothing work? It DOESN'T. It's not the American way. If you want that, move to another country because you're trying to "change" what works. Keep in mind America's power in the world, and tell me that we arrived where we are today by following you ideals, asb.
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Former Gov. John G. Rowland has apologized to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy for calling him "a pathological liar'' regarding his policies on business.
The issue started with a blog in The American Spectator in which Rowland talked about Malloy's repeated statements on helping businesses and then his actions on supporting policies that are opposed by the business community.
"On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, Malloy is pro-business,'' Rowland was quoted as saying. "And then on Tuesday and Thursday, he's signing new government mandates like the sick-day compensation bill that will cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As governor, your first priority in handling the economy should be to eliminate the fear of the unknown. With Malloy, you never know what he's going to do next.''
Rowland also complained that companies have bolted from Connecticut during Malloy's first six months in office.
"We're now losing business to places we've never lost to before - like Cambridge, Massachusetts and White Plains, New York,'' Rowland was quoted as saying. "And with Malloy in office, we're going to keep losing to nearby areas. He has devastated the economic morale of the state.''
Roy Occhiogrosso, Malloy's senior adviser, told The Courant's Rick Green that he needed to respond.
"Obviously, this guy has no shame,'' Occhiogrosso said. "He robbed the state blind, got thrown in jail, and now he peddles himself as some sort of a born-again Christian? He's a fraud. Usually, I ignore him. When he calls my boss a pathological liar, I have to respond."
"What's gotten under (Rowland's) skin is that the governor continues to point out correctly that Rowland saddled the state with a 20-year labor deal."
In the blog, Rowland brought up the point about the unions with a deal that was scheduled to expire in 2017.
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I have included a URL into FAST via Position Technologies, but while it is included in FAST I can't find it myself in ATW, nor Lycos.
I have asked both ATW and Position Technologies support teams to find it for me and they actually did using the url.all:http://www.example.com/index.htm, but when I performed the search myself--no page has been found!
Following is what the ATW support team has sent me:
[snipped - sorry but email can't be quoted here as per TOS The mail included a reprint of the listings PT and FAST had found using the url.all command]
BTW, the domain has 2 subdomains (italiano.example.com and czech.example.com) which are language mutations of the main web site. I wonder, if this is the reason why I can't find my site
PLEASE, CAN ANYBODY HELP FIND MY SITE IN AlltheWeb OR Lycos?
Thanks. Any help appreciated!
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[edit reason] See your sticky mail at the top of the screen ¦ thanks! [/edit]
Also we don't handle specific url's, due to TOS
I couldn't find your site either when i did a search, sometimes it pops in and out when you don't have a stable position (You are only included because PFI)
They have had some problems with this, how long have you been using PFI, and have you had any downtime?
I guess it's exactly what Lazerzubb has said. Fast has reported to have some glitches from time to time where urls pop in and out of the index. This is index wide, for both paid and unpaid pages.
Your case seems to fit this explanation perfectly.
I would try to get back at PT and Fast since the problem is solved. From what I hear both have been very helpful in such situations.
I have been using PFI (via PT) for about 1 1/2 year and it worked fine for me. But I have used only the Inktomi submision service. I am using PFI for FAST since Nov. 20, 2002.
My site is 99.8% up, so downtime is not an issue.
Also my site is ranking well in other search engines such as Google, HotBot, AltaVista for my most important keywords.
When I do a linkpopularity check at MarketLeap it shows 2 inbound links for my index.htm page and 515 inbound links for the site main URL.
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I have used cable temple glass lenses ever since I could afford to buy my own. Durable cable temple frames are harder and harder to find, I bought these for the frames (my third set) and will have corrected photogray lenses, with low cut bifocals installed. They are far and away the best for any Outdoor activity.
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I found a similar pair of aviator style glasses with cable temples from Ray-Ban, but those came in gold and black, and I specifically wanted silver. Really glad that I got these!! The cable temples keep the glasses in place when I sweat. They are a great shape and size, and the lenses are perfectly tinted! The cable temples are a bit adjustable so that I was able to bend them to fit a bit tighter. These glasses are large (which is what I wanted), but I am a smaller woman, so I was able to get the large frames that I wanted and also my tighter fit. And they look terrific. They don't feel as fragile as other metal aviators I've considered, probably because the sides are slightly wider than most others (another plus). I'm completely happy with the purchase! The only thing I would change if I could, was that the glasses do not slip easily on and off, but I don't think that's possible with cable temples, and it's a very reasonable trade-off for these.
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This key-wind, 8 day mechanical "Camer 31 day" wall clock is both beautiful and beautiful sounding. It appears to be from the 50's. It has a gong-type chime that strike every 30 minutes. It keeps absolutely perfect time. My pictures don't do justice to the beautiful wood case with its nice stained and satin lacquered finish. There are no nicks, scratches or repairs. Width is 11", depth 5-1/2" and overall height is an impressive 28-1/4". Dial has a diameter of 7", is white with black hour markers. Hands are also black. Hinged front door has a large glass panel, that lets you see the pendulum action. Glass panel is w/out scratches, chips or repairs. A winding key is included. This clock would be a great and reliable addition to any home. It would do well in a retro environment.Thanks for looking - and please bid now! Important note concerning my US shipping rates : As of Sept. 1/ 08 e-bay administration made it mandatory to include a domestic shipping rate to all listings. Our Canadian shipping rates vary by parcel size, weight and US destination. To cover the cost for all possible US destinations I had to add the highest shipping flat rate, when the reality is as follows: 1: $35.94 AE NY PA 2: $36.84 CT DE DC MD MA NJ OH RI VT WV 3: $40.87 IL IN KY ME MI NH NC TN VA WI 4: $41.86 AL AR GA IA MN MS MO SC 5: $46.32 AA FL KS LA NE ND OK SD TX 6: $48.29 AZ CO ID MT NM UT WY 7: $50.35 AK AS AP CA GU HI MH FM UM NV MP OR PW PR VI WA Your corresponding shipping rate will be invoiced at end of auction, when your destination is known! Above expedited shipping rates include insurance for the first $100.00( Can. ) plus a tracer . Payment Arrangements
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Nushawn Williams is the young man who allegedly had unsafe sex with at least 48 women and girls in upstate New York after having tested positive for HIV and receiving post-test counseling. After Williams was arrested, most of the his identified partners were tested, and more than a dozen of them were found to be HIV-positive. Williams is currently awaiting trial on a variety of charges, including assault in the first degree and "reckless endangerment with depraved indifference to human life." If convicted, he could go to prison for fifteen years.
The resulting furor has led to the introduction in the New York State legislature of a grab bag of bills that would make knowingly transmitting HIV a crime -- bills that AIDS activists and civil libertarians argue are unnecessary, unjust, and, ultimately, counterproductive.
The leader of the pack, introduced by Assemblymember Steven Kaufman and Senator Serphin Maltese, creates the new offense of "aggravated reckless endangerment," a Class C felony punishable by up to fifteen years in prison. The Kaufman/Maltese bill would impose criminal penalties on an individual who, "knowing that he or she is infected with the human immunodeficiency virus," does not inform a sexual or needle-sharing partner of his or her HIV status.
The bill would also subject an HIV-positive person to the same fifteen-year penalty if she or he "offers or agrees to engage in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse with another person in return for a fee," regardless of whether any sex act actually takes place.
It is likely that, if passed, the validity of Kaufman/Maltese will be challenged on constitutional grounds. The due process clauses of the fifth and fourteenth amendments require specificity in criminal statutes, and civil libertarians point to the vagueness of such terms as "exposure," "sexual intercourse," "deviate sexual intercourse," and "offering" or "agreeing" to engage in sexual intercourse as grounds for constitutional challenge.
The major difference between existing law and the Kaufman/Maltese bill is that the former punishes "intent" while the latter punishes "knowledge." Proponents of the new legislation argue that intent is hard to prove. Opponents assert that the latter could actually dissuade people from being tested. After all, if they haven't been tested, they have no "knowledge' of their HIV status, and cannot be held criminally responsible under the proposed law.
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MTSU without Dasher for at least four games
MTSU ruled do-everything (except win at high-stakes poker games) QB Dwight Dasher ineligible for competition.
For now. They've turned it over to the NCAA, saying the rule he violated has usually drawn a penalty of missing 30 percent of games.
My quick calculation said that was 3.6 games in a 12-game schedule, which rounds off to four, which means Dasher will be back in plenty of time to play FAU, since that is MTSU's 11th game.
The NCAA could come down harder, but we'll have to see.
Dasher is No. 9
For those that missed earlier reports on this, Dasher met some 80-year-old dude at the VA Hospital where Dasher was friendly with one of the nurses.
Dasher and this old coot got to talking about gambling, and the dude ended up lending Dasher a total of $1,500, which Dasher promptly lost playiing poker.
It takes a lot of twists, but that is the gist of the matter. Dumb move on everyone's part.
MTSU only plays one Belt game in its first four, and it is the fourth one, so whoever the backup turns out to be could be ready enough by then to beat ULL.
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Much of the talk involving Maryland's power forward targets for the 2012 class has centered on Charles Mitchell, Mitch McGary and Amile Jefferson. But there's at least one other highly rated prospect who still has the Terps on his list.
Robert Carter, a 6-foot-8, 245-pound power forward from Shiloh High in Snellville, Ga., was a standout performer at the Under Armour Grind Session in Chicago last weekend. Maryland was one of five schools that the four-star prospect mentioned to ESPN.com's Reggie Rankin.
PF Robert Carter (Thomasville, Ga./Shiloh) has terrific skill and the ability to score inside and out with 3-point range in addition to being able to handle and pass. Carter is visiting Georgia, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Florida and Florida State.
• The Wolverine's Chris Balas tweeted Thursday that McGary will make his college decision "in a month."
• Detroit Country Day shooting guard Jodan Price, who reportedly received some UM interest, committed this week to DePaul.
Price held offers from Northwestern, Minnesota, and a variety of other mid-major schools as well.
• ESPN HoopGurlz reports that the Maryland women's basketball program has planned a big recruiting weekend.
The courtship of Malina Howard of Twinsburg, Ohio, now is down to Notre Dame and Maryland. Two weeks ago, Notre Dame played host to the prospect ranked No. 7 in 2012 by ESPN HoopGurlz. Now it's Maryland's turn, and it has an equally big weekend planned as the Terps are hosting their current Class of 2012 commitments, including four-star guard Chloe Pavlech and No. 22 Tierney Pfirman.
Brenda Frese and her staff also will welcome a couple of Top 20 Class of 2013 players to College Park this weekend, including No. 17 Alexis "Lexie" Brown and No. 3 Diamond DeShields.
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• Maryland quarterback commitment Caleb Rowe has helped his Blue Ridge squad to the No. 3 spot in WYFF Greenville's high school football power rankings.
Caleb Rowe has led his Tigers off to the team's best start since 2007. The senior commitment to Maryland has thrown 20 touchdown passes this season, throwing at least five per game since Week 2.
• MaxPreps.com this week profiled Friendship Collegiate (D.C.) defensive tackle Eddie Goldman.
Goldman says he won't make his final college choice until signing day in February, and stressed that distance won't be a factor in his decision. He has narrowed his choices, in no particular order, down to seven: Maryland (the first to offer), Alabama, Auburn, California, Clemson, Florida State and Miami.
• ESPN.com's Dave Hooker spoke to several Gilman players this week, including sophomore defensive lineman Melvin Keihn.
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Senior Fellow Benjamin Powell is Interviewed on American Medicine Today Radio on Drug Approvals and the FDA
Recorded: Saturday, December 12, 2015
What is the cost of the long approval process for potentially life-saving drugs by the FDA? The approval process can take up to 12 years and cost $1 billion. But there are other costs. Patients arent able to take drugs that arent approved and they might die or become more ill. Another cost is that a potential drug maker might not want to take the financial risk of taking a drug to market. Powell recommends testing drugs but possibly making drugs "FDA recommended", rather than "FDA approved." Whats needed is competition and markets to help patients and entrepreneurs, says Powell.
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Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on the Larry Conners USA radio show on KTRS radio in St. Louis
Recorded: Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carsons recent remarks asserting that if guns had not been confiscated from Jews then Hitler would have had more trouble orchestrating the Holocaust, have caused a media uproar. Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich provides perspective to Carsons statement, which is being taken out of context by the mainstream media. Halbrooks research qualifies him as one of the foremost experts on the subject.
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Research Fellow Sheldon Richman interviewed on KTRS radio on why anti-gun measures dont work
Recorded: Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Research Fellow Sheldon Richman talks with Larry Conners USA show about gun control and why it doesnt work. When news of a tragic public shooting occurs, it is often followed with a cry for gun control. Anti-gun measures dont work, according to Richman. Those that think otherwise are Utopians and are not being realistic.
Experts: Sheldon RichmanType: RadioIssues: Government Power, Gun Control
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on the Larry Elder radio show on KRLA
Recorded: Friday, October 9, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of "Gun Control in the Third Reich" appears on the Larry Elder radio show on Oct. 9, 2015. Halbrook talks about the remarks made by presidential candidate Ben Carson about gun control and the holocaust and how dictators take guns first. Carsons remarks were rebuked by mainstream media, but historians such as Halbrook set the record strait on the history of gun control in Europe leading up to World War II and the holocaust.
Experts: Stephen P. HalbrookType: RadioIssues: Gun Control, History (International)
How to Repeal and Replace Obamacare
Recorded: Friday, July 10, 2015
Lewis Uhler, President of the National Tax Limitation Committee, moderates a panel with Independent Institute Senior Fellows John Goodman and Lawrence McQuillan and Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara at the 2015 FreedomFest held in Las Vegas, NV.
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Stephen P. Halbrook | Oral Argument at Appeal of Heller vs District of Columbia
Recorded: Monday, April 20, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich, presents oral arguments in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in the ongoing appeal of the landmark Supreme Court case of Heller v. District of Columbia. The case affirmed the Second Amendment rights of citizens for lawful purposes such as self-defense.
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Are Liberals at Fault for the Breakup of the Family?
Recorded: Friday, March 27, 2015
Senior Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis and A Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America, joins radio host Larry Kudlow to talk about the costs society is bearing for the breakup of traditional families. Goodman talks about how the welfare state subsidizes and enables and even rewards single parent families.
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Mary L.G. Theroux | Childhood Poverty, Government Failures, and the Need for Economic Liberty
Recorded: Thursday, March 26, 2015
Independent Institute Senior Vice President Mary L. G. Theroux testified on "Childhood Poverty, Government Failures, and the Need for Economic Liberty", before the California State Senate's Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, at the request of State Senator Jeff Stone. The witnesses spoke about California's Maximum Family Grant rule for families on welfare. The rule caps grants and does not increase grant money to mothers on welfare when they have more children. Mary testified about the causes of poverty and of the need for other, non-government options for poor families. She introduced ideas for helping the poor through private resources and organizations, instead of government agencies where families and women often find themselves trapped in a cycle of poverty.
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Making the key note speech at NFU Cymru's annual conference, the Deputy Minister said that working in partnership with the industry to build on its current successes was key to ensuring a strong industry is left behind for future generations.
Alun Davies said:
"Change and opportunity for me reflects perfectly the position the industry is in now and will be in for the next few years.
"There are massive changes ahead and it is important that the industry, working with the support of the Welsh Government and key stakeholders such as NFU Cymru, prepares properly to face the changes and grasp the opportunities that such a period of huge change will bring."
At the conference Mr Davies discussed the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) and his important role fighting for a good deal for Welsh farmers in Europe. He also said that the Welsh Government is working closely with the farming industry on modelling work to show how the proposed changes to area based payments might affect the farming industry.
Mr Davies said:
"Currently, CAP is, as I have already made clear, the number one issue and priority for us all and will dominate proceeding for the next 18 months.
"I am pressing for a ten year transition to the new area based payments to ensure Welsh farmers are given enough time to make changes. By the beginning of next year I will set out the main elements of the schemes that we will aim to deploy in Wales. I believe that on CAP, as with so many other issues, the Welsh Government is pretty much on the same page as farmers in Wales and their representative bodies."


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A simple introduction to working with LVM
Posted by Steve on Wed 28 Jun 2006 at 21:22
The logical volume manager allows you to create and manage the storage of your servers in a very useful manner; adding, removing, and resizing partitions on demand. Getting started with LVM can be a little confusing to newcomer so this guide intends to show the basics in a simple manner.
There several pieces of terminology that you'll need to understand to make the best use of LVM. The most important things you must know are:
- physical volumes
- These are your physical disks, or disk partitions, such as /dev/hda or /dev/hdb1. These are what you'd be used to using when mounting/unmounting things. Using LVM we can combine multiple physical volumes into volume groups.
- volume groups
- A volume group is comprised of real physical volumes, and is the storage used to create logical volumes which you can create/resize/remove and use. You can consider a volume group as a "virtual partition" which is comprised of an arbitary number of physical volumes.
- logical volumes
- These are the volumes that you'll ultimately end up mounting upon your system. They can be added, removed, and resized on the fly. Since these are contained in the volume groups they can be bigger than any single physical volume you might have. (ie. 4x5Gb drives can be combined into one 20Gb volume group, and you can then create two 10Gb logical volumes.)
Logically these are stacked from top to bottom like this:
Creating A Volume Group
To use LVM you need to take at least one partition, initialise it for use with LVM and then include it in a volume group. Why would you do this? Well it would let you create new partitions on the fly, and make better use of your space.
In my case I have a laptop with the following setup:Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ hda1 Boot Primary Linux ext3 [/] 8000.01 hda2 Primary Linux swap / Solaris 1000.20 hda3 Primary Linux 31007.57
Here I have a 7Gb root partition which contains my Debian GNU/Linux installation. I also have a 28Gb partition which will be used by LVM. I've chosen this setup so that I can create a dedicated /home partition using LVM - and if I need more space I can extend it.
In this example hda1, hda2, and hda3 are all physical volumes. We'll initialize hda3 as a physical volume:root@lappy:~# pvcreate /dev/hda3
If you wanted to combine several disks, or partitions you could do the same for those:root@lappy:~# pvcreate /dev/hdb root@lappy:~# pvcreate /dev/hdc
Once we've initialised the partitions, or drives, we will create a volume group which is built up of them:root@lappy:~# vgcreate skx-vol /dev/hda3
Here "skx-vol" is the name of the volume group. (If you wanted to create a single volume spanning two disks you'd run "vgcreate skx-vol /dev/hdb /dev/hdc".)
If you've done this correctly you'll be able to see it included in the output of vgscan:root@lappy:~# vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "skx-vol" using metadata type lvm2
Now that we have a volume group (called skx-vol) we can actually start using it.
Working with logical volumes
What we really want to do is create logical volumes which we can mount and actually use. In the future if we run out of space on this volume we can resize it to gain more storage. Depending on the filesystem you've chosen you can even do this on the fly!
For test purposes we'll create a small volume with the name 'test':root@lappy:~# lvcreate -n test --size 1g skx-vol Logical volume "test" created
This command creates a volume of size 1Gb with the name test hosted on the LVM volume group skx-vol.
The logical volume will now be accessible via /dev/skx-vol/test, and may be formatted and mounted just like any other partition:root@lappy:~# mkfs.ext3 /dev/skx-vol/test root@lappy:~# mkdir /home/test root@lappy:~# mount /dev/skx-vol/test /home/test
Cool, huh?
Now we get onto the fun stuff. Let us pretend that the test partition is full and we want to make it bigger. First of all we can look at how big it is at the moment with lvdisplay:root@lappy:~# lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/skx-vol/test VG Name skx-vol LV UUID J5XlaT-e0Zj-4mHz-wtET-P6MQ-wsDV-Lk2o5A LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 1.00 GB Current LE 256 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 254:0
We see it is 1Gb in size (no suprise really!) before we go on to resize the volume remember we should unmount it first:root@lappy:~# umount /home/test/ root@lappy:~# lvextend -L+1g /dev/skx-vol/test Extending logical volume test to 2.00 GB Logical volume test successfully resized
(It is possible to resize ext3 filesystems whilst they're mounted, but I'd still suggest doing it offline as that is less scary.)
Looking at lvdisplay again we can see the volume was resized:root@lappy:~# lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/skx-vol/test VG Name skx-vg LV UUID uh7umg-7DqT-G2Ve-nNSX-03rs-KzFA-4fEwPX LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 2.00 GB Current LE 512 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 254:0
The important thing to realise is that although the volume has been resized the ext3 filesystem on it has stayed unchanged. We need to resize the filesystem to actually fill the volume:root@lappy:~# e2fsck -f /dev/skx-vol/test root@lappy:~# resize2fs /dev/skx-vol/test
Remount the logical volume and you'll discover it is now only half full instead of completely full!
If you get bored of the volume and its contents you can remove it with the lvremove command:root@lappy:~# lvremove /dev/skx-vol/test Do you really want to remove active logical volume "test"? [y/n]: y Logical volume "test" successfully removed
Other userful commands include lvrename to change the name, and lvreduce to reduce the size of a volume.
Mounting Logical Volumes
In the previous section we showed how you could mount a logical volume, with a command like this:mount /dev/skx-vol/test /home/test
If you want your partition to be mounted at boot-time you should update your /etc/fstab to contain an entry like this:/dev/skx-vol/home /home ext3 noatime 0 2 /dev/skx-vol/backups /backups ext3 noatime 0 2
If you're worried about losing details about your volumes in the event of problems do not worry. The current state of the LVM setup upon your machine is maintained in the event of errors.
Running pvdisplay will allow you to see which physical volume(s) make up your volume group. In the case of our example we only used /dev/hda3, but if you're using more volumes it might be useful to take a look at them with the pvdisplay command:root@lappy:~# pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hda3 VG Name skx-vol PV Size 28.88 GB / not usable 0 Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 7392 Free PE 5280 Allocated PE 2112 PV UUID WyXQtL-OdT6-GnGd-edKF-tjRU-hoLA-RJuQ6x
If we ever lost this information we could find it contained in the file /etc/lvm/backup/skx-vol.
Similarly if we wanted to know which logical volumes we'd created we could example the directory /etc/lvm/archive. This contains numbered files containing backups of the operations we've conducted.
As an example we created the "test" volume, which we went on to resize. Here is the first section of /etc/lvm/archive/skx-vol_000009.vg:# Generated by LVM2: Sat Jun 10 12:35:57 2006 contents = "Text Format Volume Group" version = 1 description = "Created *before* executing 'lvcreate -n test --size 1g skx-vg'" creation_host = "lappy" # Linux lappy 2.6.8-2-686 #1 Sat Jan 8 16:50:08 EST 2005 i686
When it comes to using LVM effectively it is worth considering the filesystem that you wish to use upon your logical volumes.
If you choose a filesystem which doesn't support resizing then increasing the size of your LVM volumes would be pointless. Here is a brief list of the resizable filesystems:filesystem increase while mounted increase while unmounted decrease ext2fs yes yes yes ext3fs yes yes yes ReiserFS yes yes yes JFS no no no XFS yes no no
Note that some filesystems can be increased in size, but cannot be reduced.
If I've missed one you're familiar with please do let me know.
Closing Comments
If you're ready to make the jump to LVM and don't have a lot of space handy for allocating to LVM then it might make sense to reinstall your system. The Debian installer has excellent support for creating LVM setups.
We've not really covered advanced usage in this introduction but there is a lot of readable and useful documentation available if you're prepared to search for it. The most obvious starting point is the LVM howto.
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Yes this is true, and why this is a simple introduction rather than an indepth treatment of LVM.
If you want real safety you should use LVM on top of RAID that will give you the benefits of striping/mirroring/raid whilst still allowing you to create and remove partitions on the fly.
This is very simple to achieve and mostly means that instead of running "pvcreate /dev/hda .." you'd use "pvcreate /dev/md0 .." instead.
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raid, volume management systems and backups all exist for different reasons and solve different problems.
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"... increased availability ..."
keep going.
"... increased data protection ..."
bzzt! sorry hans, wrong answer.
"... or even increased data throughput."
very good. 2 out of 3, not too bad.
"Don't presume that what you need it for is what everyone needs it for."
One can presume all they want. However, raid still isn't for data protection.
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If your point is that RAID is not a useful single backup strategy, fine. But to say it "isn't for data protection" is pretty clear nonsense. Availability and data integrity are actually quite closely related.
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and I would say, 'obviously, it does not, and has very little or nothing to do with the problem of data protection.'
"With it mirrored, you need two failures to nuke it."
false. that's quite a large assumption you make there.
"If your point is that RAID is not a useful single backup strategy, fine."
"But to say it "isn't for data protection" is pretty clear nonsense."
raid does not protect your data. maybe someday you'll learn this. better still, someone reading this will understand as well.
data can become lost and/or corrupt for many, many reasons like ...
accidental user deletion
* intentional malicous user deletion
* memory corruption
* filesystem corruption
* cosmic radiation
* accidental user deletion of information is, of course, the number threat to data protection.
raid just helps to keep your system running in the event that a harddrive fails in a somewhat "polite" manner. It is still possible for a failing harddrive (and most any other piece of hardware) to cause errors to propagate back up into system memory and cause corruption. Even with duplexing this can happen.
but, do feel free to keep believing as you see fit.
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Maybe, but I wouldn't rely on it.
"With it mirrored, you need two failures to nuke it. With P(f) being the probability of an disk dying, in practice P(f) is so small that the probability of two independent failures (P(f) * P(f)) is orders of magnitude less than P(f)."
Correct, assuming that the failures are independent. Unfortunately in a PC, this assumption is flawed. Although probably true for the disk failure modes, its not true for the system. Failures of the PC power supply are the most likely to occur:
- overvoltage failures may very well cause common mode failures of multiple disks
- undervoltage failures may cause memory failures which can cause corrupt data to be written to multiple disks.
Then add in external failure modes like fire and theft and it becomes blantantly obvious that RAID isn't for any "meaningful" data protection.
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So you better don't trust RAID for backup purposes. Or the wolf will eat you sooner or later.
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The trashed FS was kept perfectly safe on that RAID5 plus one hotspare drive...
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Or, if you use Linux software raid, and your motherboard slowly develops an intermittent IDE problem, it can garble data on one or more drives, resulting in a case where you do not have enough redundancy syndrome information to recover your array. Happened to my wife...
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Nothing beats a proper regular backup regime with multiple storage mediums. Important files should at least be also stored on something like DVD-R or BD-R and replaced every 12 months or so in case one of your backup drives suddenly decides to die on you.
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Ever heard of the expression "Belt and Suspenders"?
No, you can NEVER have data protection without backup... but come on people don't make yourself look stupid. Raid 1 (or 5 or 10 or 01) OBVIOUSLY protects against some cases of failing hardware. Why else would they have mirroring, parity bits, and the rest? If we're only looking for speed and no data security we'd go with raid 0 and we wouldn't even need any other raid type.
Or are you arguing that all raid types but raid 0 are bogus?
Sure, for a complete newbie even the mention of Raid and "secure data" in the same sentence is probably guaranteed to cause grief and problems.
In my case raid is a comfort. I want it to protect against hardware failures and to limit my backups to once a day (with a certain degree of data security).
However, my advice on data security is to start with a backup solution and then look into raid etc. If you're doing something worth saving on the computer you can use the following rule of thumb:
Decide how much work you're willing to lose (1 days worth, 1 weeks worth, etc) then make backups that often. Make no backups at all: watch TV instead because one day it'll all be gone.
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A RAID array is not a replacement for a regular backup regime, but all mediums are subject to failure occasionally and enterprise RAID systems aim to provide redundancy against storage failure that may result in the loss of important data during storage and retrieval operations increasing data protection.
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I got badly bitten by this. Had a disk die on me. Very luckily only one logical volume was using the space on that physical volume.
Not that this is an in depth lvm review - but - just to make it more visible (I spent a _long_ time googling) - if you get a dead PV in your volume group - then - you can run
vgreduce --removemissing <volgrpname>
to get rid of it. Right enough that you will lose any partitions wholly or partly on that PV. But you should be able to rescue the rest :)
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I believe that Linux LVM2 can also do simple mirroring now, but I'm not sure if it's stable yet. It's been available since LVM 2.01.12, i.e. in Etch but not Sarge.
"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
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The failed disk contained part of /home. I had a backup, but it was few days old, so I wanted to try to read new files from /home.
I put all good disks to another machine and booted from Live CD (INSERT or RiPLINUX, I don't remember which one worked). The problem was the VG refused to activate itself because of missing PV. I have found that switch "-P" to vgchange allows it to activate in partial mode. That was OK, but it activates itself only in read-only mode. Problem was the ext3 filesystem on /home, which wasn't unmounted and required recovery - which is not possible on read-only "disk" :(
I had to use mdadm to create bogus PV (which returns all nulls on read) instead of the missing one (it's written in man vgchange). But I had to google on how to create it.
Finally I created a "replacement" PV in RAM. Just created a big enough file on ramdisk, used losetup to make a loopback device of it, then used pvcreate --uuid with uuid of the missing PV. pvscan recognized it, but it didn't show that it is part of VG. Running vgcfgrestore solved also this. This allowed vgchange to activate the VG in read-write mode and I could mount the ext3 fs. I was able to read all data on the good disk.
So using LVM does not make your data unavailable when one of the disks dies (I mean it is possible to get data out of the good ones).
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With ext2/ext3 (as you stated in the example) - we need to unmount it first. It's one of the reasons I use XFS. But in the table all filesystems got a Yes for "increase while mounted" - so I'm a little unclear what this column is telling us.
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Well spotted, that column is a bit bogus. I'll update it now.
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# mount -o remount,resize /mount/point
In other words you can increase the volume, remount it and your done.
Its only possible to grow, not to shrink.
more info: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/10/07/2028234
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Not that I've ever noticed..
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on the 2nd box, i created a lvm, and now it goes to 'inactive' state each time after a reboot or shutdown, and i have to manually 'vgchange -a y' before it can be mountable again... any idea on how to solve this prob ??
thx !
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On my system this is called automatically via /etc/init.d/lvm - so I'd guess that something is failing.
Take a look at that script and see if you can debug it?
It looks like the file /etc/default/lvm-common is consulted and some other things happen conditionally, so it might be worth going over it and seeing if you can determine where it fails.
(That init script is contained in the lvm-common package which I'm assuming you have installed!)
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Your article shows that LVM can be easy to use. Diving into LVM documentation shows that it is much more flexible than anything else. Now after I recognized how easy LVM can be I would say it is a must on many/most production servers.
Thanks Steve.
P.S: Already switched 2 servers to LVM thx to your article
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sometime it failed to find root fs because udev device block number could change at reboot
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I wonder if someone would have advice for me as I managed to do a stupid thing. I had SMART disk read errors on one disk so bought a new disk to replace it. I decided to reduce the size of the VG, remove the PV and then reboot. I did not resize the filesystem.
I now get a superblock is bigger than physical volume size, do you know how I might resolve this so I can read the LV?
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Could you please improve your guide by adding UUID management in the /etc/fstab for LVM devices. I am searching how to do this setup, thanks.
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On most guys, this could improve their gait since their knees could go higher with each step.
And the twirls would be magical.
I do not agree!
All depends on the human figure.
Any options pants are good if they are suitable for you. And the one fold, and with two folds and no folds.
It's very Idividualny.
I tried different versions of bespoke trousers.
And for me the most suitable shape - it wrinkle-free.
Last 50-60 pairs of pants, I ordered a bespoke only without the folds.
In my sport legs, narrow waist, the folds are not relevant. It is a pity of course. After all, they are the correct and classical. But to me they fit much worse than those without wrinkles.
So for me the most appropriate - pants without pleats.
And this is not a whim, but simply a selection of my figure.
However, I agree with you that most people are better suited bespoke trousers with pleats than pants without pleats.
I just, alas - of the minority.


text: Robert Harms Bliss is an attorney in Dallas, Texas, specializing in commercial landlord-tenant law and real property litigation. He is board certified in civil trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is also an attorney-mediator and arbitrator. Mr. Bliss received his B.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, and his Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas. While at the University of Texas School of Law, Mr. Bliss was a Quizmaster, a Teaching Quizmaster, a Senior Teaching Quizmaster, and received the Outstanding Teaching Quizmaster Award. Mr. Bliss is a member of the American College of Real Estate Attorneys, is Past Chair of the Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, is past Chairman of the Real Property Section of the Dallas Bar Association and is Chair of the Leasing Subcommittee of the Real Estate Forms Committee of the State Bar of Texas. He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law and was recently selected by Texas Lawyer as a one of the five top-notch real estate lawyers in the State of Texas. Texas Monthly Magazine has named him one of Texas' Super Lawyers. Mr. Bliss is a frequent speaker and author on commercial landlord-tenant matters in addition to legal ethics and alternative dispute resolutions. He has published over fifty papers on such matters as commercial landlord-tenant law, ethics in real estate transactions, methods of alternative dispute resolution and computer technology in modern law practice.