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In an incident that's sure to draw national attention, two women were dragged from their own backyards and arrested by police in Naperville, Illinois (a town located approximately 30 minutes west of Chicago) after they tried to block installation of
the city's new smart meters
President Obama has been pushing
for a "smart grid" for some time, with more high-tech meters that can access more detailed information on power usage. Proponents argue the
high-tech meters
cut down on waste and mistakes. Critics cite a variety of concerns ranging from national security to health.
The two arrested women -- Jennifer Stahl and Malia "Kim" Bendis -- were leaders of an anti-smart meter group dubbed "Naperville Smart Meter Awareness". The group's website links to a critical article on the project which points out its $23.6M USD cost, only $11M USD of which came from a federal grant.
Even Mark Curran the Naperville director of electrical utilities admits that the meter rollout has taken "longer than we anticipated", after being fraught with technical delays.
Arrest photos of Jennifer Stahl (left) and Malia Bendis (right) [Image Source: Naperville PD]
Aside from finances, though, there appears to be a relatively strong luddite component of the group's campaign to block the meters. The group links to a number of speculative websites that compile information on the supposed "health risks" of smart meters. The commentary on one site (
) echoes the medically unfounded claims that similar campaigns have leveled
against cell phone towers
Wi-Fi networks
. Comments the site:
This is of great concern because the exposure to microwave and radiowave radiation from these meters is involuntary and continuous. The transmitting meters may not even comply with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) "safety" standards ... However, those standards were initially designed to protect an average male from tissue heating (cooking) during a brief exposure. These standards were not designed to protect a diverse population from the non-thermal effects of continuous exposure to microwave and radiowave radiation. Therefore, these "safety" standards were not designed to protect the public from health problems under the circumstances which the meters are being used.
To date, there has been no comprehensive peer-reviewed work supporting the notion that Wi-Fi or cell phone signals cause cancer or other health effects, but that hasn't stopped critics from suggesting that undiscovered risks may indeed exist.
Naperville Smart Meter Awareness Board of Directors (L-R): Jennifer Stahl (Secretary), Kim Bendis (President), and Board Members Amanda Rykov, Lisa Rooney, Tom Glass
[Image Source: Naperville Smart Meter Awareness]
Despite the shaky science, one must wonder whether the city's strong-arm tactics are justified for citizens who don't want the meters. Ms. Stahl's arrest came at 4:30 when police invaded her backyard with the installation crew after cutting the bicycle lock she used on her fence gate. When police found Ms. Stahl standing in front of her old-fashioned "dumb" meter refusing to move, they arrested her and charged her with interfering with a police officer and preventing access to customer premises.
Ms. Bendis's arrest proceeded similarly. She was charged with attempted eavesdropping and resisting a peace officer.
A defiant Ms. Stahl told reporters, "It was forced on my house today. It was really a violation. I violated something, but I've been violated too so I guess we're now in a society of violating one another. I have not done the work of attempting to educate the community and advocating for the right of anybody in Naperville to refuse the smart meter just to stand off to the side."
Ms. Bendis declined to comment to reporters, citing advice from her lawyer.
Both women were released within hours. City Manager Doug Krieger defends the arrests, commenting, "The previous installation attempts were met with some resistance and we wanted to ensure our employees' safety. The city has always had and maintains the right to access our equipment, and today we were simply exercising that right."
The Elster Rex2 smart meter (left) is being installed in homes, supported by wireless stations attached to poles and other infrastructure (right).
[Image Source: Naperville Smart Meter Awareness/Elster]
While the cost is one reasonable criticism against smart meter projects, another more ground criticism is security. Prominent sources, including defense contractor Lockheed Martin Comp. (LMT), have suggested that Chinese or other sophisticated
rivals of the U.S. could "hack into" smart meter networks
and use attacks to cripple or otherwise interfere with the U.S. power grid. If this premise holds true it would represent a tremendous new national security risk.
Another interesting criticism
comes from security researchers
[PDF], who report that smart meter data, if carefully analyzed, could reveal intimate details of one's life. For example, a house hooked up to smart water and electric meters could allow a third party to track when people shower, whether a home alarm is on, and how often people use their televisions.
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I live in Naperville, and the last few people who have been fighting the meter installation are having their meters installed. People have a choice of the wireless meter, or a meter which needs to be read in person at the cost of > $25 per month. Naperville electricity is provided by a municipal electric company, not a private company, for what it's worth.
One of the women was arrested for filming the police officer after he told her she did not have permission to do so. There is a silly Illinois law which does not allow audio to be recorded without the permission of all parties. While several convictions have been thrown out, since the Illinois Supreme court has not declared the law constitutional, police continue to arrest people filming them with audio, even if the prosecutor will drop the charges.
The other woman was arrested for preventing access to the electric meter, by putting a bicycle lock on a 3 foot fence. The meter installers just stepped over the fence, but apparently by refusing to unlock it denied access, which is apparently against the law in Naperville.
While I disagree with their position on the smart meters, I saw no reason that they needed to be arrested, unless they started doing something strange after they stopped filming. Other than being annoying by repeatedly saying that neither the installers or the police had permission to be on the property, they didn't seem to be causing much of a problem, and the officer could have used his discretion about arresting them. Perhaps he was annoyed about having to follow the meter installers around and having to stand outside in the cold, or was just having a bad day.
While the meters in Naperville do have a capability for turning off the entire service, presumably for lack of payment, they do not have the direct capability of disabling any other appliance. There may be an option to have a discount by allowing the installation of an air-conditioner control, but it's not part of the smart meter roll-out.
One other strange thing which happened was that the Naperville council just this week approved paying for more manual meter reading, as the automated system is apparently not ready on time. They also approved paying for a large cost overrun on the installation program. At this point, I have to thank the other US taxpayers, as they subsidized half of this smart meter installation as part of the 2009 stimulus package, so I don't have to pay for all of it in my electric bill.
In addition to elimination of electric meter reading, the program is supposed to reduce costs by identifying where additional power is not required, through tuning microgrid power supply. Naperville is also likely to be a big home of electric cars, so car charging can be encouraged to be deferred to non-peak rates, and avoid large demand charges for peak demand by the city. But, the city water department still has to read the water meters through an interface right next to the electric meters, so there isn't that much of a savings on meter readers.
"I'd be pissed too, but you didn't have to go all Minority Report on his ass!" -- Jon Stewart on police raiding Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's home
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Shares in the most valuable U.S. company closed Monday at $565.73, a daily gain of $38.05, or 7.2 percent, a gain that was in concert with a large leap for the major U.S. stock indexes, which had struggled the previous two weeks.
Apple stock suffered after the Sept. 21 launch of the iPhone 5, with an executive shake-up, production problems and declining tablet market share contributing to a sell-off of Apple shares that sent the stock into "bear market" territory, defined as a drop of 20 percent or more in a two-month span.
The fall took Apple out of the $500 billion club Thursday, after the Cupertino company became just the sixth company to record a market capitalization -- the total value of all shares in a company -- higher than that level. Apple's market cap stayed higher than $500 billion for nearly six months, and easily eclipsed the mark again with Monday's gain, with Apple's valuation closing at $532.2 billion.
Many experts posited that large Apple shareholders had been selling on the expectation that capital gains taxes would be increased next year, with the increased supply and fallen demand pushing the share price down. Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White checked in with a note Monday morning that said the elongated sell-off was "insanely insane."
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"On The Man Who Fell To Earth, we had a scene where David Bowie first arrives on Earth and walks into town; it's completely empty, things blowing. I couldn't believe this, but there was a children's fairground, with a big bouncy clown thing bouncing around. We had David cross the road and we followed him from behind, and this bouncing clown lost its cables and started bouncing towards him. I looked sideways, and there was a man who'd been lying in one of these torpedoes in a fairground ride. He staggered out of the torpedo towards David and kind of belched in front of him. And that was Mr Newton's first contact with human beings. Fantastic. He was completely baffled. I used that belch at the end too. You can't write that stuff in. So I shoot a lot of stuff. I think that's probably come from not having gone to film school. Things work themselves out. You've lost the showmanship thing, the fairground barker, come-see-what's-inside aspect of film-making when you try to plan everything for the audience."Nicolas Roeg, The Guardian, 3 June 2005
"I like the idea of human terms of alienation. But it's also about human secrecy. The lover's oldest question is: "What are you thinking, darling?", then "What are you really thinking?" In that scene, Mary Lou and Mr Newton had been together for a while, and though she thought that he was a bit strange and odd, she had no idea where he came from. Sure he was an alien, but he wasn't a monster. She didn't know that on his planet, it had been planned that he would come to Earth and be among humans, but that they didn't get things quite right with his body. And so when she says that he can tell her anything, which in the human context means "You can tell me anything and I'll still love you," and he shows her his method of making love - by exchanging bodily fluids on a grand scale - of course she recoils. "Then afterwards, when she approaches him on the bed and he starts oozing again and she recoils again, then he goes back to being human and keeps the secret. And it interested me tremendously, especially with David Bowie. People said, he's an extraordinary artist but, and producers were especially interested only in this one thing, can he act? He is Mr Newton. He's a tremendous performer, he's sung on stage in front of 20,000 people. But it suddenly struck me, when he told me that it was a very important step for him and asked what I wanted for the role, that the best thing I could tell him was that I didn't know who Mr Newton was either. So I told him, "You'll help me by not knowing either. Just do it, say the part". And it was strange - it was better than acting. He was it. He may have been slightly clumsy, and somebody else might have been more together but training would have stopped it. It wouldn't have had the authenticity of the alien, without anything except who he was. It especially worked with the CIA people and the politicians in the film - he didn't know what they were talking about. You can't learn everything by watching TV. So the alien does not appear to be alien, but is in fact more alien than if he'd had a big head. So the throwing away of the alien disguise was rather like exposing yourself emotionally."Nicolas Roeg, The Guardian, 3 June 2005
"When I started The Man Who Fell To Earth with David, people came up to me and said - 'It's a great idea, but can he act.' I said 'Well, what do you think he does in front of ten thousand people at the Hollywood Bowl - That isn't him!'"Nicolas Roeg (1983), cited in David Bowie: The Starzone Interviews (1985)
"The film was written and I never cast people until the script is ready, then I sit back and ask myself 'Who are these people?' I never have the characters described, I prefer to let the scenes form the character rather than neat descriptions.I believe in odd omens, and there had been a BBC programme about David which I had seen ['Cracked Actor'] – I remember phoning Paul [Mayersberg] who managed to catch the last few minutes. The I obtained a tape of the programme to look at Bowie. It wasn't his music, I guess it was his approach to life which appealed to me. It was one of the few programmes of its kind that didn't disappoint me in the person – it didn't give away the person nor did it give the impression that he was trying to be overly secretive. He had a quality which made me interested in him. He was giving and secretive in the best possible way. He wasn't secretive for the reason of hiding something but secretive because that part of him hadn't been fully understood by himself, so as not to blurt about it until it was even vaguely understood.After seeing the programme I was certain that David could be Mr. Newton."Nicolas Roeg, David Bowie: The Starzone Interviews (1985)
"I then flew to New York and we spent a long evening together talking about generalities. David had quite wisely said 'Well, let's just talk about things.' Just things. To see it we could spend months working together.As I left, he said 'Don't worry, I'm going to do this' and I proceeded along those lines. There's not many people I would proceed with on that basis – Nothing was signed, he was under no contractual obligation but I had a sense of trust from him. People thought I was crazy – I phoned him only twice afterwards and everyone was saying 'What is he suddenly decides against doing the movie?' – But he said 'I'll do it' with such sincerity that I totally believed in him. And then when shooting began, David arrived with a huge grin and simply said 'I told you I'd be here, didn't I?'It was a strength of a kind. He had made the decision. We go through life with half-arsed decisions around us. We tend to accept that promises will be broken. We look at a sense of honour in a different way. With David the sense of honour was real, like the old days in the war when people would say 'Don't worry, I won't leave this bunker. This is the plight we're in together.'I guess this is why some people think that David is cold. But he can't do everything for everyone. The things he says yes to he commits himself to totally."Nicolas Roeg, David Bowie: The Starzone Interviews (1985)
"[Bowie] was always very interested [in film directing] but he had his part to fulfill and he was very conscious of that. He had the wit and intelligence to concentrate on his role. He wasn't a student from a film school, he was the central character, but the interest was there and as we became friendly he told me that he wanted to direct films. We had a very good actor/director relationship.The respect that had begun that night in New York. I hope that's what he felt for me because I certainly felt it for him."Nicolas Roeg, David Bowie: The Starzone Interviews (1985)
"I remember taking a tape [of the completed film] and that [Bowie] was moved, to tears actually, but I can't remember his actual words. There was a natural embarrassment as well. 'Did we do that?' 'Do you like that' and so on. That's genuine stuff, a warmth that flows between you and your participant. Just the same as when you can tell if someone doesn't like it. 'Oh, very good. I'll call you in the morning.'"Nicolas Roeg, David Bowie: The Starzone Interviews (1985)
"Yes, I would [like to work with Bowie again]. We have one of those pleasant friendships that has gone on without much contact. I know he knows that I watch and listen to what he's up to and I flatter myself to think that he does the same with me.The odd times that we have met or talked again have been at the same place. It is one of those rare associations. We have our lives to lead but we have made a mark on each other. It would truly diminish my life if I sensed that he wasn't around any more and thinking of things.If the time and place is right I would like to work with David again, but not to create a superficial kind of product."Nicolas Roeg, David Bowie: The Starzone Interviews (1985)
"It seemed Bowie was slightly to one side of pop star, just like Dylan…He was coming in from leftfield, using a lot of odd disguises and dressing up. Watching him in the limo talking [in Cracked Actor], I noticed the artificial voice. It wasn't definable as a brogue or accent. It was English, but you couldn't tell exactly where from. It was all quite curious."Nicolas Roeg, Uncut #103, December 2005
"Bowie arrived in New Mexico in the same limo as in Cracked Actor, so we used it in the film and cast his driver [Tony Mascia], too. I was curious not to disturb him at all. There were certain people who were concerned about his unconventionality as an actor, wondering if he was being used as some sort of gimmick. Some executives even suggested lip-synching another voice over Bowie's. I just said, "Are you mad? His voice is it!" Every time someone mentioned how curious his delivery was, it pleased me more and more."Nicolas Roeg, Uncut #103, December 2005


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The cause of the accident has still not been released.
The residents of Redd Street, McBride Street and Shop Hill Street are asked not to go home, as it still could be dangerous. Everyone else in the area is allowed to go back home.
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News 12 just received word members of the media will able to get near the scene of the derailment. A news conference is scheduled for the Abbeville County offices at 4 p.m.
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News 12's Carter Coyle said most people have been sent home from the shelter. Those remaining are the ones who live on Redd, McBride and Shop Hill streets, which are still evacuated at this time.
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McCuen said although two first responders were sent to be checked out, they are said to be OK. There are no reports of any injuries at this time.
He said one tanker is leaking propanediol, which is a derivative of soy beans and is said to be non-hazardous. It is used as ingredient in antifreeze in ATVs, laundry and cleaning products. This has been contained at the scene.
Tankers located toward the rear of the train are disconnected. Their concern is with the several tanker cars filled with methanol lying on their sides, which are hazardous and flammable. Crews are on standby, just in case.
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ABBEVILLE, S.C. -- A train derailment early Thursday morning in Abbeville is now the site of a massive cleanup operation as more than two dozen cars are off the tracks, a chemical is leaking and nearby homes are under evacuation.
News 12 has confirmed two first responders were taken to the hospital. We're told this was a precaution as they reported feeling a burning sensation in their eyes as well as feeling light-headed when they first arrived on the scene.
The CSX train derailed around 4:40 a.m. between Redd and Long Branch streets. A total of 28 cars and tankers derailed, starting around car 40. There were a total of 93 cars on the train. Some were carrying ethanol, but those have not derailed.
Derrec Becker with the South Carolina Emergency Management Division told News 12 the chemical leaking from one tanker is believed to be propanediol. This is a non-hazardous material mainly used as a building block in the production of polymers and can be added to industrial products. It is also a solvent used in antifreeze and wood paint.
Becker also tells us methanol, which is hazardous, is on one car that derailed; that car is not leaking at this time. Ethanol, a highly flammable chemical, was in six cars but those cars are in tact and not posing a threat.
A mandatory evacuation order was lifted around 8:30 a.m. People within a half mile of the site were ordered to evacuate at first. Now, anyone still at home is being asked to stay indoors and turn off their air conditioning. A temporary shelter has also been set up at the Abbeville Civic Recreation Center and about 30 people are there now.
The Abbeville EMA director said the train was traveling from Atlanta to to North Carolina. That's not far from an industrial park. Crews have set up a command center on the 100 block of North Main Street, about a mile away from the accident scene.
Of the 93 cars, as many as 10 overturned, according to CSX Spokesman Gary Sease. Contractors he says are on the scene to assess all of the derailed cars to determine if they are to be re-railed, or drained of liquid and transported, or just transported from the scene.
Mason Spear, fire chief of Abbeville, says hazmat crews were able to get closer to the scene around 7:30 a.m.
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I am using wired gigbit and Vista (32-bit) on a reasonably high performance dual core PC. My RAW images are grouped into folders of 500 each. It takes at least 5 minutes before the entire list of 500 pictures is shown on the XMB. Its probably 15 minutes before all the thumbnails are present. While displaying individual pictures, it can take up to 15 seconds to advance to the next picture.
Is this normal? Or is there so problem with my setup?
With TVersity, RAW images were much faster to browse. I like PMS alot better though (except for this performance problem).
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks,


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1.2-7 Credibility of Witnesses
Revised to December 1, 2007
In deciding the facts of this case, you are the sole judges of the credibility of the witnesses. You will have to decide which witnesses to believe and which witnesses not to believe. You may believe everything a witness says or only part of it or none of it. Every witness starts on an equal basis. You are to listen to all of them with an open mind and judge them all by the same standards.


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As you notice from day to day use of Ubuntu, most tasks are easily accomplished. But what happens when you're ready to expand your use of Ubuntu to include new applications, or connect to a home network and add new users? This brief guide shares the key steps necessary to create and manage other users, helps clarify some essential differences with other flavors, and provides tips regarding "root" user. Perhaps most importantly, these steps help empower the use of your Ubuntu system to become far more than just another desktop PC.
Understanding users in Ubuntu
The security and usefulness of your Ubuntu system depends a good deal on what you do to enable users and their privileges. Without falling into the minutia and the mundane, it is important to at least understand how users are handled in the Ubuntu GNU/Linux environment.
When you first install Ubuntu, you are required to create a user account. This initial user account, and for that matter all subsequent users, have their independent user files stored under the Home folder. But there is something unique about the first user account you create.
In my case, when installing Ubuntu, I created the user account: "mark". Not only is mark my first Ubuntu user, but mark has automatically been given unique and powerful privileges that other users do not receive. My mark account can create users, change files and folders, and do a lot of administrative functions on Ubuntu that are normally performed by another important user account named "root".
Therefore, in Ubuntu, you should understand the three key users:
- Initial user, in my case called mark, created when installing Ubuntu
- Root user, known as the administrator that usually has maximum privileges
- All other users, which I term basic users, are added following installation
Each of these three key users have their own folders, their own unique privileges, and most importantly their own role to play on your Ubuntu system. In the following sections, I will share how to enable and utilize each. Let's begin with the basic user.
NOTE: I assume that you are logged in to your Ubuntu system as the initial user, thereby having the rights and privileges necessary to perform the tasks below.
Creating and managing basic users
Inevitably, once you setup Ubuntu in your home or office, others will come to you begging to get access. Some may want a chance to try out one of the multitude of cool applications that come preloaded with your system, while others desire to see GNU/Linux power! In other words, you need a good way to give them access without giving them the keys to the system.
Step 1. Accessing the users and groups tool
Creating basic user accounts is easily accomplished through the Users and Groups tool. From your main menu, choose System, then Administration. To start your tool select the Users and Groups menu item.
Notice the message that appears (figure 1).
This is a very important message and what it infers is something unique about Ubuntu. In most GNU/Linux systems the privileged user is named root, and the password you type in would be that of root. However, in Ubuntu, the privileged user is the initial user account you created, and therefore you must type that user account password.
Once you type the password in, you will have access to all of the various administration tools. I provide more details regarding the reasons for this in the "Understanding the Superuser" section below.
Step 2. Adding a new user
You should now see the Users and Groups tool. Please choose the Add User button on the right.
What you choose to include in the Account sections should be based on who you're adding, and what you plan to do with your Ubuntu system. If you're adding a basic user so someone else can also access your Ubuntu system, the defaults will be satisfactory.
For an example, I will add my son John as a basic user of my Ubuntu system so he can enjoy some of those cool GNU/Linux games. Below is the sample user information. Notice that I chose to manually set the password, since I prefer to give him something that is both secure and easily remembered (figure 2).
Before you press the OK button, please click on the "User privileges" tab at the top. This is an important step whenever you create a new user.
Under the "User privileges" tab, note the default access given to this basic user. You may prefer to change some of these, such as "Monitor system logs", "and Connect to Internet". Anything that is checked is allowed by this user. Also make sure that the "Executing system administration tasks" is NOT checked.
Once you are satisfied with the privileges granted to this new user, press the OK button.
You should return to the main Users and Groups tool window. Now scroll down until you see the new user you just added. In my example, I added user: john (figure 3).
Once you are finished adding new basic users, it is very important to press the OK button again.
This will create the account and save the information you added. Ubuntu should also automatically create your new user's folder under the Home directory.
Once finished, your new user will be able to login and enjoy the power of Ubuntu GNU/Linux!
If for some reason the login fails, please refer to the troubleshooting tips at the end of this article.
Step 3. Making future changes to users
Notice that if you wish, you can now go back and change the properties of this user by highlighting the user name and pressing the Properties button. Or, if this user is no longer needed or wanted in the future, you can highlight the name and press the Delete button.
If you ever decide to delete a basic user, realize that the folder and files from the user are not automatically removed, only the user's login access is removed. This is greatly advantageous since it allows you to restore a previously deleted user without losing files.
In order to totally remove even the user's folder, you will need to apply a super-user command. This is a step that is unlikely to be necessary for beginning Ubuntu, but that I explain briefly in the "Understanding the Superuser" section.
Creating and managing user groups
Although it is fine to simply leave a new user such as john in his or her own user group, you may prefer to also assign new users to another unique group. This affords not only an easier time in managing users rights, it also offers a means to share files, etc.
You do not have to assign new users to a group, the default is that they are assigned to their own personal group. But if you prefer to do so, below are the key steps.
Step 1. Start the users and groups tool
As mentioned above, access the tool from your main menu. However, instead of making changes or using the options on the "Users" tab, click on the "Groups" tab.
Scroll down until you see your new user. Notice that a group with the user's name has also been added.
Step 2. Add a group
Now, press the Add Group button.
Notice in my example (see figure 4) that I've created a new group named "desktopusers", and then highlighted my new user john. By pressing the Add button in the middle, I will add john to the group. You can add multiple users by holding down the Ctrl key and highlighting as many as you wish. Just be sure to press the Add button once you are done choosing.
Press OK when you are satisfied that all the users who belong in your new group were added (figure 5).
Notice that on your main "Users and Groups" window, the new group was added to the bottom of the list. Press OK again to save the changes.
That's it! In the future, to change users in a particular group you can use the same steps above. But instead, highlight the group to change and press the Properties button.
What you enabled with this new group is that users, such as a working group of colleagues or friends, can now share files and manage folders that were given desktopuser group access.
Understanding the superuser
I briefly mentioned above that there are three key users in Ubuntu. This section will clarify why certain attributes exist, and what the key differences are between root and the initial user account.
Notice that in order to apply any of the steps above you needed to be logged in and use the initial Ubuntu account. The first account you create, during installation, is automatically assigned super-user do rights (also called
sudo). With a super-user account, system administration and modification is possible.
The most powerful super-user account in GNU/Linux is root. However, you'll notice that a root account is not automatically included in your Ubuntu installation details. The root does not, by default, come enabled for your use.
In situations where you must use superuser privileges, Ubuntu allows you to use the initial account combined with
sudo. If for example you wanted to delete a basic user's file folder from under Home, you would use the following commands from the command (terminal) prompt:
cd /home sudo delete john
To run the
sudo command you will be prompted for your initial user password. This prevents you from having to run as root to do basic system administration, while protecting your system from security weaknesses associated with fully enabling another account as superuser.
What about root?
Ubuntu hides the root account somewhat in order to discourage its use, unless absolutely necessary. Instead, almost all of the power and privileges needed for administration are assigned to your initial account.
But what about those instances where you plan to perform some major modifications or enhancements to your Ubuntu system? I must state that this is unlikely to ever be the case for a beginning user. But, if you are in a situation similar to myself, trying to add something as major as perhaps the LTSP to your Ubuntu (edubuntu.org already has some good options for new users who want this), then you may need to apply root.
Again, before you press ahead to enable your root account, I want to convey that you should not be using root for day-to-day administration. Nor should you follow the steps below if you are brand new to Ubuntu and read some document that says "you need to be logged in as root". Instead, use
sudo as described above to run such commands.
If you've gotten this far, you don't need anymore disclaimers just a simple answer. To enable root in Ubuntu you use the same steps as mentioned in section 1. However, you highlight the root user account and then press the Properties button. From there you can set the root password by hand and press OK twice to save your changes. I just urge you not to become a habitual root account user and to stick with the initial account and
sudo when possible.
It's a rare thing for me to hear about problems creating and managing users. However, there are a few things to keep in mind.
Login failure
If you created a new user account based on the steps above and get a strange error, you may have a simple problem with the user's properties. The errors you may see include:
$Home/.dmrc not properly configured, or that the
HOME/user does not exist and the default directory will be temporarily set to
In both cases, the error was caused by the new user's folder not being properly configured or created. You can resolve this easily enough, by simply deleting the user and starting the steps above again. But this time, also click on the Advanced tab, when adding user, and ensure that the line for Home directory reads:
Obviously, this only applies during initial creation of a new user account.
Changes do not save
I've encountered this more often than you would imagine. It seems that people sometimes get confused when pressing the OK button during the steps above. You must not only press the OK button on the specific properties Window, but also press OK once again on the main Users and Groups window in order to save your changes.
You should now have all the key steps needed to create and manage multiple user accounts on Ubuntu. More importantly, you should also have a reasonable understanding of what to do if you need to run a command or perform an action that requires "root access". By applying these steps, you can share the power and pleasure of your Ubuntu system with others, while retaining security and stability.
Group privileges
Crucial to the use of groups is allowing groups access to directories and files. I am a beginning Ubuntu user (after two years, I still think I'm a beginner!) I've set up Samba so the Ubuntu machine can act as a file server.
Please correct these instructions if I remember them incorrectly:
Pick a directory you want the group to share say group: games, directory /games_dir.
As root create the directory
mkdir /games_dir
change the ownership so the group is always games and the group will be inherited in subdirectories (-R)
chown :games -R /games_dir
change the permissions so that the owner and other members of the group can read and write. Those outside the group can do nothing. The initial "2" sets the "sticky bit" for the group permissions.
chmod 2660 -R /games_dir
WIthout these ownership and permissions settings, whenever I saved pictures from my wifes account to /pictures I'd be unable to edit them later. This way, we can both read and edit.
A very nice read indeed, especially for casual Linux users.
However, there are some small misspellings, that take away some fun of reading your article:
- (Page 1)
Ubuntu should also automatically create your new user's folder under the /home directory.
- (Page 2)
cd /home
sudo rm -rf john
(I can't remember "delete" command, really)
- The errors you may see include: $HOME/.dmrc not properly configured, or that the /home/user does not exist.
Don't forget about "
sudo userdel -r john" which does two things at once: it removes the user's account and their home directory in one shot.
And for NOT enabling the root's account but still be able to run programs on his behalf:
sudo bash
(remember, in Linux there are more ways to do the same thing)
shell under root
>And for NOT enabling the root's account but still be able to run programs on
>his behalf:
This works also and gives you the root environment:
sudo su -
>(remember, in Linux there are more ways to do the same thing)
ciao ek
Home users/groups
I will create these groups for home users:
A boy or a girl under the age of 18 will have the group kid as their secondary group. Same to boy or girl 18 above will have the group adult as secondary. Parents of course belongs to the parent group and will have no secondary group. All users have access to contents of the family group. In this way, I can manage contents that are unique for each home users. Just a thought..
Simultaneous Screen Users ala Windows XP?
I know that Linux is a multi-user OS, however, I'm wondering if there is a way to have multiple users on a single physical screen ala Win XP.
This is a nice feature - allowing multiple users to use different logins on the same physical screen without forcing either one to log out and terminate their respective applications.
This would be very useful, for instance, when I have visitors over and I want to let them use my system, but I don't want them use my login and I don't want to terminate my running programs. They would instead use a guest account running from the same screen.
I know there's the possibility of running multiple X servers, but this seems cumbersome.
Cosmo Lee
cosmolee at bigfoot dot com
Loging in second user when another user is active
Cosmo: yes, you can log in another user without logging out the previous one. To do this, choose "Switch User" from the "Quit..." menu item under the "System" menu (can also be accessed by clicking on the open door with arrow found on the right-top of the desktop).
Simultaneous screen users
Furthermore, you can choose to open several sessions from one session either in fullscreen or in nested windows!
Thank you
I wanted to take a moment to thank each of the readers who took time to reply on the article.
Indeed it is my hope to write more articles regarding Ubuntu and appreciate your kind replies and guidance on some of the notations above.
with kind regards,
mark rais
Administrator Deletion
I was given a Hard drive with Ubuntu installed, but since I wanted to be the Administrator now that I deleted the existing admistrator but now I canon load programs without the password and I cannot restor the administrator account even to' I can log in as Adinistrater using his name and password.
System/Administration section is only half the size now.
Can anyone help please. I am loosing all respect for Ubuntu and I din't want this, I realy want to mak it work.
Rex Gladding
[email protected]
Unrealistic expectations
Don't lose respect for Ubuntu for your mistake. If you made that type of mistake in Windows, you would experience the same problem.
You obviously are not very experienced with computers, so maybe you should take your computer to the local repair shop where they can help you out.
Do that kind of thing to any multiuser OS and it'd be broken!
Another option after killing an installation in this way is to reinstall -- go to Ubuntu.com and ask them to send you a new CD. It's probably easier that way, and you'll learn stuff :-)
same thing happened to me
This would NOT have happended in windows actually. Becuase in windows you cannot delete the the administrator account. So the one reply to your post, that guy dosent know about computers.
The fix
If you boot your system into single user mode:
Then add a user: yourusername
then just make sure to add your user to the "admin" group, reboot and you are good to go. If you need more help, you can contact me (sharms on irc.freenode.org) and ask on #ubuntu
If you were given a disk
If you were given a disk with another install already on it, you may already have built in problems and the easiest and cleanest thing to do would be a reinstall. If you can access a system with internet access you can download an image of feisty fawn from ubuntu.org, make a cd, and boot to it. Double-click Install... you will have to give it user information, and choose a password. Write it all down! Choose to overwrite the current install, have a cup of tea, or two, and you will have a fresh, clean start.
It's very important to be patient, and persist. It took me 3 years to really learn windows, and Linux is no different. Theres a learning curve to any OS, but persistance, and patience is the key. Solving your first problem may take awhile and a lot of research and trial and error, the second will come easier, and so forth, and it really won't be long, you'll wonder why the whole world isn't using Linux.
Unless you are wealthy in the extreme, you will never be able to afford to do the things in Windows that you can in Linux for free.
Am I root?
My account is the account created on install. I can create users and am apparently a superuser. When I try to install software (firestarter) however using apt-get, I get a message that says:
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.
apt-get needs to be run as root. In ubuntu, that means the command would be:
sudo apt-get
to not have to type "sudo"
to not have to type "sudo" in front of every command, you can type "sudo -s" and you will be root, and you can type all commands normally.
Are you using sudo?
Are you using sudo?
this article
What is the point of this article if you use the GUI?
The comments are more useful than the article it self.
Not able to login to destop UBUNTU.
I have installed a fresh copy of UBUNTU. In login screen I enter the correct user name and the password. Even then its not accepting the username and password and so i am not able to login. Could you please suugestme how exactly i can know about the login username and password.
same problem here
I also installed ubuntu without any problems. It never asked for a username or password, but now I want to start and all it does is asking username and password.
Cannot log in...
I renamed my administrator account and changed the default home dir. now i cannot log in as the home dir doesn't exist. I have created a new user but only with limited rights. is therte a way i can restore my orginal login?
I did this as well and had
I did this as well and had to startup a failsafe terminal session (use F10 when logging in to get safe mode menu options). I then used "su" to switch to root. Created /home/new__username and used "chown" new_username /home/new_username. I then had to hard shut down the PC (could not figure out how to exit the root temrinal session, tried "exit" "quit," ctrl-z, ctrl-c etc.) and logged in as new_username and all was ok.
mouse not dectated
in my ubuntu mouse is not deteacting so help me to activate my mouse
1. check to see if it's
1. check to see if it's plugged in.
2. check to see if it works on a nother computer.
3. try rebooting
4. come back here.
about settings on the internet
i installled ubuntu, i did this thing with the admin settings. but i cant get acces in the internet settings. it beheaviour like i dont done the step before. i cant type my ip adres, my username and anything else. what to do?
I assume "john" is Mark's
I assume "john" is Mark's 'partner'.
Actually, I have been writing so many user guides that I ended up just using "John Smith" and/or "John" as simple example users.
Note that I use "John Smith" more like "John Doe" than someone specific like "Captain John Smith". ;)
sudo permissions
I have some folders i cant get into with my initial user priviledges. I am very new to using another type of operating system such as linux but with ubuntu it is a fairly easy transition thus far. My friend is a tech nerd and is the one who installed it for me but he is deployed and i want to try to resolver this my self.
here is the issue.
I have two folders that are designer within my hardware for mass storage but I do not have read, write, or execute permissions to them is there a way that I can essentually give myself aka my account the neccessary permissions to them. my friend believe they fall into the root permissions or something like that.
Any help would be amazing!!! when replying please refer to my username. LOL thanks
How to manage users and groups from terminal window?
This tutorial is excellent: clear and easy to follow.
I'm curious, however, how to do all this from a terminal window. I built a LAMP server with Ubuntu 8.04 and I want to avoid installing the GUI if I can.
I'm using PuTTY to access the Ubuntu box remotely, hoping to make it a headless web server.
I'm pretty new to the whole Linux thing, as you can tell.
Thanks for your help!


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The A train: the Amazon of New York City Sep 10 2012
In a photo slideshow with jazz accompaniment, narrator Adam Gopnik takes us on a short tour of NYC's A train, which runs from the top of Manhattan all the way out to the beaches of Rockaway.
From Harlem and upper Manhattan to Brooklyn, Queens and the Atlantic Ocean - New York city's A Line subway route covers over 30 miles, takes two hours to ride from end to end, and is the inspiration for one of jazz's best known tunes.
Here -- with archive images and vibrant present-day photographs from Melanie Burford -- New Yorker columnist Adam Gopnik takes a ride on one of today's A trains, and explores the communities living along the route.
(via @davehopton)


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System info:
1- your computer specs (cpu, memory) and the precise server version you're using - Intel Core2 Duo CPU 2.40GHz and 4GB Ram running openSUSE 11.0 (X86-64)
2- the network connection you are using for streaming your files (wifi, homeplugs, ethernet 100Mbits, or gigabit) - WiFi G and 100Mbps exhibits the issue
3- detailed infos on what's not working - log file repeats "UPNP network exception: Address already in use" every 1 second during normal operation.
I see this error in my debug.log every second. i have disabled avahi services on host and upnp on local router but to no avail. the output of netstat or lsof doesn't show port 5001 bound to another process. this is creating a large debug.log, and i am trying to keep logging to a minimum (on a CF hosted root filesystem). has anybody seen this behavior?


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Legal advice for car accidents?
So earlier tonight I was involved in a minor car accident, and since this is the first time that I've experienced this, I'm not really sure what to do legally.
Basically I was driving down a very busy street in Providence around 4pm, and there was stop and go traffic due to a few traffic lights, so I was only going about 20-25mph tops. As I'm slowly rolling down this incline, a guy in a parked black pickup truck on the right side of the road swings his driver's door open suddenly while I'm going by. Needless to say it was pretty unavoidable and he claims while he was opening the door he was turning to his son in the front seat and so he didn't see my car driving by. He was pretty cool about it and super apologetic, and offered to pay for all of the damages.
I took down his name, address, cell phone number, and the license plate of the truck, which he says is his father-in-laws. I kind of panicked not really knowing if I was somehow obligated to call the cops and report it, so I called, and when they showed up I basically just told the cop that we had exchanged information.. he asked me if we were comfortable with that, and he left. I didn't file any kind of official police report, as the guy was using his girlfriend's AAA to get us a free tow home and he expressed several times that he preferred not to get the insurance companies involved.
We got the car towed home, and shortly after the pick-up driver called us. The car is technically owned by my mother still, so we gave him her information, and he contacted her immediately after calling us -- she called me after and told me that he was a really nice seeming guy, and that he has some savings that he hopes will cover the damages in cash.
The reason I didn't file an official police report was A) I was under the impression that involving the police that deeply would probably obligate us to use our insurance companies, and he said that his girlfriend/fiance had been involved in two semi-recent accidents and so their premiums were already really high. The guy's aunt had died earlier that day and in my scattered brain state I felt guilty about insisting that the police get involved, so I didn't. B) I learned at the time of the accident that my registration was actually expired, and my gut instinct told me to avoid showing the cops that, though I don't know if it really would make any kind of difference.
My question is, should I still file an official report? I am going to have an estimate on the damages tomorrow, and I will give it to him then. If he does not give me a definite yes-or-no answer on paying the damages on his own, should i go ahead and file the accident report? Could it hurt my insurance (if I end up needing my insurance company to collect on the damages) if it shows that I hadn't filed any kind of official police report?
I don't want to ream this guy out of paranoia that my car somehow won't get repaired, but I want to do the smart thing too.. my car is not in drivable condition right now and I will need a vehicle sooner than later, so it's not like it can sit in my driveway while i save pennies to get it fixed one day. Anyone have any experience with this kind of thing? Here are pictures of the damages too. Any guesses how much a quote could be for something like this? The hood is damaged, obviously the side front of the car, side mirror completely ripped off, and some scuffs down the length of my car from his door dragging across it. Ugh what a night. Plus I had four dogs in my car. Luckily my mother came through like a champ.
Tue Dec 22, 2009 10:46 pm
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Ok, ill need to know just one more piece of information. Were those dogs driving at the time of the accident?
Tue Dec 22, 2009 10:57 pm
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First, it's good you have pictures.
However, if you have insurance and didn't call them then why do you have insurance? Get on that right away. We pay insurance companies ridiculous fees for moments like this. They need to help you work this out and make sure you get what you are owed from this guy.
If anyone here knows different then please speak up. But this is how I understand the situation.
Tue Dec 22, 2009 10:59 pm
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For real though. About the same thing happened to me last february. My car was totaled though, and looked about the same as yours. Maybe mine had some more damage along the side. It sounds like your unsure of this guy, and you have every right to be paranoid about making sure everything is taken care of.
Did you talk to the insurance company?
I didn't file a police report either when my car was smashed. I was thinking about matters the same as you were at the time of the accident.
You also wont want to wait too long to talk to your insurance company. Im pretty positive you dont need a police report to let your insurance take care of things. Twice now my cars been hit by people, and no police report on either. The deductible will be cost you, but is there a way to get around that?
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I think it's possible that my car actually might be totaled if the repairs are super complicated or whatever. But I'm hoping that's really not the case.
Yeah, I kinda figured that about the insurance company. I need to call them tomorrow and find out about their policy regarding reporting accidents in general.. because I want to make sure this guy doesn't string me along with "i can pay.. not this week.. blah blah" and then bam, my window of opportunity to report it to the insurance company has passed me by and then I'll be really screwed. The only reason I am hesitant to call is the lack of police report and them being like "well we won't cover it since you didn't file a police report!" But if that doesn't seem to be the case, I'll call them after I call Pick-up driver tomorrow with the estimate. I think I'm mostly paranoid because at the time everything went down I was kind of on shock cruise control and now I've got this anxiety that I forgot some crucial thing and I'll be out of a car forever.
Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:22 pm
Sage Francis
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If they need a police report then I guess you still have time to file one? And they can let you know that.
Maybe I missed it, but did you say whether he has insurance or not? If he does, you should have gotten his insurance info.
but yeah, I suppose the first step is calling the insurance company asap.
Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:25 pm
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He does have insurance, he just said he preferred to settle it without them since his premiums were high to two semi-recent accidents that his fiance was involved in.
What would normally happen in this type of instance if he didn't have insurance? Would it be up to my insurance company to collect on those damages?
Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:31 pm
Sage Francis
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Welp. If he doesn't have insurance and you're trying to do a random stranger a "solid" after he helped total your car, then I suppose you shouldn't call your insurance company. Instead, you may find yourself putting in a lot of work to get money out of a person who never ends up paying and you can chalk it up to charity. Maybe that will help you get into heaven. I wish I had a less cynical view.
My gut tells me that you need to get his insurance info and carry this out in a formal manner.
Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:33 pm
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I just saw this, glad you're okay!
I would call your insurance company, they handle this kind of thing all day everyday. And I don't think you need a police report. If nothing else they can give you your options.
Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:37 pm
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Yeah, that's pretty much what I figured. Tomorrow morning I'll get that information from him before I get the estimate in the afternoon. These situations are gross. Thanks for the sense talk.
Honestly no more than 30 minutes before this happened I was just telling my (human) passenger that I've never been in any kind of dangerous or moving car accident involving another person, and 'i don't plan on it.' what a crappy coincidence.
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Wed Dec 23, 2009 12:12 am
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is RI a no fault insurance state? meaning are you required to carry atleast no fault insurance....
if it is and the guy is willing to admit he is at fault then what your going to want to do is file a 'mini tort' claim
his insurance will cover up to x amount regardless of the damages
in michigan its $500 even if the damage is more(i was not found at faultl recently so theres no negative marks on my insurance)
its a really fucked up situation which depends a lot on state law
i went through all this recently and it wasnt fun
my bumper got fucked up on my truck which was almost 900 bucks for the factory replacement
since the guy that hit me didnt have full coverage i got cut a check for 500 even though it didnt cover the cost of the damage
i dont get it but thats what i got out of my experience
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If your car was just a little damaged, then the not using insurance thing would be an option. But your shit is fucked up. Just file a claim with his carrier and do a shitty station police report. It's not gonna do anything crucial, but you might as well. You get into these situation where people don't want to use insurance and they want to take it to their buddy frank, and you wanna get an estimate from your own guy and then you are waiting for him to pay it before it can get done. Meanwhile his or your own insurance might pay for a rental car while your shit is being fixed. Or maybe he changes up his story later and says it was your fault. You just never know.
Just use his insurance. God forbid your neck start hurting or the repairs on you car don't get completely fixed and then you never even filled out a report or filed a claim or anything. Just play it safe.
Unless dude is just offering insane amounts of cash or something, just file the claim.
Don't listen to that mortalthoughts post. This guy's insurance, if he has any, will be required to pay for all of the damage on your car. That is the entire point of requiring auto insurance.
If the dude doesn't have insurance, then you can use your own insurance, assuming you have your own car covered, which, if you are making payments, you certainly do.
If you have only liability and he has no insurance, then you are fucked. Try his insurance first. If they say his policy was inactive, then notify your own insurance.
And I wouldn't worry about your car not being registered. I've been in an accident when my license was suspended and the insurance companies never looked at that at all.
Wed Dec 23, 2009 1:12 am
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Get the insurance company involved, Don't sign any papers until all that shit is fixed, It's his bad and his insurance is going to cover it.
He doesnt want the insurance company involved because he obviously caused a huge ammount of damage on your car, he is trying to play down the cost of the repairs/paint matching/time without you ride, which (Especially because it went along multiple panels) is going to be 3,000 USD+.
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Glad to see your still kickin! Insurance info is most definitely a must!
I hope the best for you!
Wed Dec 23, 2009 2:14 am
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TORONTO -- In the minutes after the A's 5-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday, theories abounded about the link between the Rogers Centre's artificial turf and the Oakland errors that led to two unearned runs.
Starting pitcher Jesse Chavez (4-2), victimized twice by errors, wondered if five straight games on turf had left his team a little tired, while manager Bob Melvin thought the combination of the synthetic surface and bright sunshine -- the roof at the Rogers Centre was open for the first time this season -- caused the ball to bounce higher and less predictably in the field.
"I should have been a little more under control. I was just being too aggressive," said left fielder Craig Gentry, who made one of the A's two errors. "That's stupid on my part. I'll learn from it and move on."
Either way, the A's squandered a solid outing from Chavez and lost their third straight game. Heading into Thursday, the A's had the best record in the major leagues, but Saturday's loss drops them 30-19. They still lead the American League West, but the Detroit Tigers have the A.L.'s best winning percentage.
For the second straight game, the team that leads the league in scoring (5.1 runs a game) struggled to generate offense against a Toronto pitcher.
Friday it was journeyman Liam Hendriks, and Saturday it was knuckleballer R.A. Dickey, who limited the A's to five hits and two earned runs over 81/3 innings.
The 2012 National League Cy Young Award winner's biggest mistake came when he tried to sneak a second-inning fastball past designated hitter Yoenis Cespedes, who launched the pitch more than 400 feet to center field to put the A's ahead 1-0.
"Those are difficult days, especially when (Dickey) is on. It makes everybody a bit uncomfortable," Melvin said. "He's got a lot of movement and got a generous strike zone."
Dickey (5-4) isn't the only pitcher who has made the A's uncomfortable during this mini-slump. Oakland has scored a combined six runs during its three-game slide. In fact, the A's haven't scored more than three runs in a game since routing the Cleveland Indians 13-3 on Sunday.
Another problem has been defense. Heading into this weekend's series, Oakland's defense had committed 33 errors, but they had led to just nine unearned runs. On Saturday, the Blue Jays made the A's pay for the sloppy defensive play.
In the third inning, Anthony Gose raced from first to third on a Melky Cabrera single. But when Gentry bobbled the ball, Gose sprinted home to tie the game.
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Adam Wainwright was trying to help out the show, and it should have had no bearing on October, the World Series or anything other than the All-Star exhibition itself.
In a logical world and sport, it would have just been a good moment on a nostalgic night, that's all.
But we're talking about Major League Baseball and Fox here, so "logic" had no operating relevance.
On Tuesday, Wainwright threw a self-described first-inning "pipe shot" fastball to Derek Jeter, and Jeter lined it into the right-field corner, then quickly scored the game's first run.
Big applause, nice moment, Jeter was properly saluted, American League up 1-0.
There are many examples of other pitchers serving up other legends in past All-Star games, and Wainwright did it well.
But wait: The American League went on to win the game 5-3, which earned the A.L. home-field advantage in the World Series.
And the team with home-field advantage has won the last five World Series and 16 of the last 20, including, of course, the Giants in 2010 and 2012.
The Giants did not have home-field advantage in 2002, when the Angels won Games 6 and 7 at Anaheim Stadium to win the title, you might remember.
Home-field advantage isn't the most important thing in the World Series, but it is some important thing.
After long playoff journeys, playing the first two games of the World Series at home is significant.
Which should not be affected by the whims and mercies of players in July, just putting on a show, as they should.
So when Wainwright at first admitted he eased the fastball to give Jeter a better shot at a hit in his final All-Star appearance (Wainwright later backpedaled), that had all kinds of potential October repercussions.
For instance: What if Wainwright and the St. Louis Cardinals win the National League pennant?
His nice gesture to Jeter would, in part, lead to St. Louis having to play the first two World Series games in hostile territory ... and also potentially Game 7, if it goes that long.
This is so obviously illogical that it occasionally staggers my mind, but it has been wrong for all 12 years since Bud Selig's initial home-field advantage decree (after the 2002 All-Star tie game debacle).
So I'm used to it. For 12 years, Selig and Fox have tried to prop up their fading All-Star telecast by giving it a concocted and ill-fitting purpose.
"This one counts," they've bellowed since 2003.
It shouldn't, because the meaning is invented. It's styrofoam reinforcement. It's false.
And I'll keep proposing my simple and logical solution, especially after Tuesday's Jeter moment:
Home-field advantage in the World Series should be awarded to the league that wins the most games in interleague play.
If you're going to have interleague play, why not use it to decide home-field advantage for the ultimate interleague series?
Obviously, copying the NBA and NHL would be fairest -- the team with the best record in the last round gets home-court/field/ice advantage.
But MLB insists it needs weeks of lead time to prepare the host cities and reserve hotel rooms for the 50,000-plus incoming fans and bigwigs and therefore needs to narrow down the possibilities as early as possible.
That's why it used to alternate yearly between N.L. and A.L. for World Series home-field advantage and then switched to the All-Star game device.
So my proposal accounts for that MLB need; I'll even adjust to baseball moving interleague play all the way through September: Make the home-field call based strictly on interleague games from April through August.
Whichever league has the best record in interleague play by Sept. 1 would get World Series home-field advantage (with run-differential in the games as the tiebreaker) and there's the lead time right there.
But I know deciding home-field with interleague play will never happen.
The All-Star game decider is Selig's baby and also Fox loves it, and Fox's money rules baseball.
Is interest in the All-Star game declining? Yes, no doubt. But that's because of the over-saturation of the game on TV and the loss of N.L. vs. A.L. mystique thanks to interleague play.
You can argue that the A.L. is at a great advantage for World Series home-field advantage because it has "won" interleague play every year from 2004 on.
But that's because the A.L. has been better, overall, than the N.L., for a long time. And has proved it in real games.
Good news for the N.L.: The A.L. prevailed only 153-146 last season and it is fairly tight again this year (102-88 A.L.).
Under my proposal, every interleague series from now until Aug. 31 would have increased meaning, and that's better that heaping false meaning on an exhibition game in July.
It's just fairer to award something based on season-long supremacy head-to-head rather than on an exhibition game that mainly served to salute a great player, who happens to play in the A.L.
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I'm definitely NOT dehydrated...I have trialed and errrored with water intake and it has made no difference. In fact today I feel a bit worse than usual and I presume it's the fact that I overloaded on water and perhaps got myself into a major electroylte imbalance. I am reading up all over and it all just seems so confusing!! Anyone out there that really understands these issues and can help me think through them - please note - I am not looking for what worked for certain individuals. I have tried everything over the years and still deal with this - I need someone that understands the mechanisms that can help me find a tailored solution. Thanks!
Running in honor of those that can't....and with vision that one day my son will run alongside me.
Are these short runs (~5 miles) or long? If short, hydration shouldn't be much of an issue anyway. Do you perspire lightly, moderately, heavily? Have you had your blood pressure checked? High blood pressure could contribute and may make you perspire less as well. (My wife had this problem, though not a runner.) How relaxed are you when you run? Clearly muscle tension can contribute and it may take the hotter weather to bring it out. Do you wear a hat or bandana? Hot sun directly on your head could also contribute. You could try pouring water over your head every couple miles to see if that helps.
For longer runs, what do you take besides water - gels, blocks, salt tablets, etc? Have you done before and after weighing to see how much you're losing through perspiration? Weigh yourself naked before and immediately after your run, Take the difference, then add in the weight of any fluid you drank - one ounce of fluid is one ounce of weight. This gives you a good idea of your perspiration rate and fluid replacement needs. It is very difficult during your run to replace all fluids lost, unless you perspire lightly.
You say you're not dehydrated. How are you judging that? Urine color usually works best (pale yellow/straw colored). I've gone out on a long run well-hydrated (almost clear) and come back not so well hydated (dark yellow) in spite of drinking along the way.
Hopefully this will give you some ideas, things to consider.
Thanks Len, I realize I didn't give a whole lot of starting info. Here we go:
I got so bad today I considered a trip to urgent care wondering if I'd just keep worsening and if I was in a true depleted state I thought iv fluids would help. With 3 kids this was not practical so I sucked it up and feel a bit better though still not great now. But this is VERY frustrating. When I do morning runs (not often because of this) the rest of my day is shot. We have a lot of summer races coming up I'd really like to participate in....but not sure if I want to at this cost. Please help!
Running in honor of those that can't....and with vision that one day my son will run alongside me.
Yeah, you want to avoid weighing all the moisture in those clothes. Which is why they say to weigh yourself naked. Hydration really shouldn't be that big an issue on a 6-miler even in hot weather. But you don't get headaches after your evening runs. So what is different between morning and evening? I would think temperature and humidity would be similar, though humidity might be a little higher in the morning. Humidity usually starts high, drops as the air heats, then rises again as the air cools in the evening. Also pollen is usually a little worse in the morning because the air is still. Do you eat before your morning runs? How close to your morning runs do you hydrate, and how much? (Maybe too much, as you suggested.) Compare that to your late day runs, when you have probably been eating and drinking throughout the day. Do you run immediately after you get up in the morning, or do you have time to move around and get your muscles loose? Do you take any medication? For instance, I have mild hay fever/allergies. I take a 24-hour antihistamine right before bed at night, and I use flonase in the morning when I get up. I know that the flonase sometimes gives me a mild headache, usually if I take it before bed. What other differences are there? With 3 kids, maybe you feel more pressure to get done in the morning. Pressure and muscle tension cannot be discounted.
Hopefully comparing morning and evening can help you figure out what is going on.
Let me add that I can run INDOORS at the gym and still get the headache. I am familiar with tension headaches (I've had whiplash and will get headaches if I am under stress, I can feel it coming on) and this is DEFINITELY different. I do not usually eat much before my run so I have wondered about blood sugar levels and such. You're right, I'm eating all day, drinking all day and then run, sometimes as late as 9pm. Morning I might have a piece of bread with peanut butter but I'm not terribly hungry early. I will drink between half and a full liter of water before I run (maybe 45 mins prior). I do NOT take meds for anything at all...but a dr has suggested that the headaches might be allergy related...but I'd prefer to rule out everything else I can first because I am not a fan of meds.
I think I'm going to try the electrolyte tabs and see if that makes a difference.
PS Yesterday when I mentioned urgent care I was having the throbbing headache, it was hard to focus, light headed, extreme fatigue. This is why I'm thinking maybe it is an electrolyte thing, esp since I drank MORE water than usual.
Running in honor of those that can't....and with vision that one day my son will run alongside me.
I hope you get it worked out. I sometimes get headaches, but we're talking 20-milers in 80 degree heat. Never on a 6-mile run, and never as bad as yours. I'll be interested to hear what you find out.
I know...it's odd...and perplexing. If I get it figured out I will be sure to post an update.
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Yeah, it's an electrolyte deficiency. I learned this not running, but sightseeing in Bangkok Thailand a couple of years ago. I was outdoors walking around and I kept drinking water and water and water. I later went to the hospital when I showed the definite signs of heat stroke. (as a side note, walking into the ER at a super nice hospital and five hours in a room was about $285. I did have travel insurance which reimbursed me).
Had I drank some gatorade (which I don't remember if it's marketed there or not) or even some OJ, I probably would have been fine. Then again, I always use my hospital story in Bangkok as an interesting conversation starter.
I think you might be right on the electrolytes. It's so important to keep a healthy balance of electrolyte and water intake. There was an earlier post about water intoxication that you might want to check out. The other thing is that I think you may need to have a little more food in your system before a run. I know I do much better on my run and recovery wise when I eat something before a run. I hope you figure it out, but definitely look into the electrolytes!
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