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<title>Upgrade or stick?</title>
<question>A couple of months ago I bought the Complete Linux Handbook 2 with the Mandrake 9.2 distro on the DVD, and decided to install it. Since then I have spent a very long time teaching myself Linux; most of the time has been getting all of my peripherals to work. Needless to say my Winmodem took by far the longest. Now I'm at the state of actually doing stuff, instead of configuring stuff. The OS is absolutely fab, and recently I changed my default boot option from WinXP Pro to Mandrake (yay!). Now I notice that in October's magazine there will be a copy of 10.1 available. Will upgrading simply be a case of putting the disc in, clicking a few icons and supping a cup of tea, or will the arduous task of setting up all those peripherals, software, etc, have to be repeated? Great mag by the way. </question>
<answer>The short answer to your question is yes if you upgrade, you will spend more time reconfiguring stuff. But perhaps not everything. Mandrake handles upgrades by simply upgrading the packages you have on your system. If you have KDE3.1 installed, and the new version contains packages for KDE3.2, it will simply update the rpms. Theoretically, any configuration files you have will remain the same. Unfortunately, other changes in the OS may cause the upgrade not to be so smooth. As an example, the 10.1 release uses X.org as opposed to Xfree86 for the x server so it's not just a version upgrade. Some of the base Mandrake packages also change the locations of some files, and may over-write configurations. On the plus side, the newer OS will probably recognise a lot more of your hardware and configure it straight off but only if you do a new install. Ultimately, though, you will need to upgrade if you want to keep getting packages for your system that you can actually use. The best idea is to create some space or use an extra drive and install the new Mandrake alongside the old one, then work out what stuff you need to re-implement. </answer>
<title>External CDR< title>
<question>I have started to migrate from Win2K to SUSE Linux 9.0, but can't start to install personal data in my partition until I'm able to back it up. Though I have tried to test the CD software K3B, I have an external HP 8200 series (8220e/8230e) USB CD writer, for which I need a device driver. I've searched the web and checked HP's website, but without success. Where can I get a suitable driver? </question>
<answer>There are two prerequisites for burning CDs under Linux: the device itself must be accessible, and the burning software must understand the protocols used by the drive so it can format the data to be written. In the case of an external CD drive, the first is taken care of by the USB mass storage driver. This will just work, in general, and Linux certainly shouldn't have any trouble recognising this device, which will be set up as an emulated SCSI drive. The second requirement is usually fulfilled with Cdrecord. It seems that your drive is supported with Cdrecord from version 1.10, so assuming you have that, it shouldn't be a problem. Tools like Xcdroast and K3b are merely front-ends to various tools, and will use the version of Cdrecord you have for actually writing discs. To check that your drive can be seen, open a terminal and type:
cdrecord -scanbus
You will hopefully see, among everything else, a line that begins with three numbers and includes some text identifying the drive. If K3b isn't recognising the drive, try running usbview to check that it is being picked up by Linux. </answer>
<title>Camera tricks</title>
<question>I've bought a new digital camera, a Pentax Optio 430 RS. My reasoning was that the old (about five years) Pentax digital of my brother's had connected to my first Linux box (an old P1 233 running RH 7.1) perfectly all I had to do was something like "modprobe DC200", plug in the USB, switch on the camera and mount it. Foolishly I thought that my new system Mandrake 9.2, updated almost weekly and running kernel 2.4.22-21 would have no problems. Silly, I now know! I checked your article in LXF21, but things seem to have changed a bit since then! I've trawled your forums, but no one is using the Pentax. I've looked at the Pentax website no reference to Linux. I've Googled, and the only relevant references I can find tell me to upgrade and recompile to kernel 2.4.20 or above". I'm using 2.4.22-21, does that not qualify? I just don't know which way to go now, even the order that one does things in eludes me. I'm not an expert Linux user I'm a cabinet maker. I use Linux because I hate the Gates concept of continually paying for your computer, and I like free' things. Please could you give me a 1... 2... 3... on how to make this work. </question>
<answer>The problem is likely to be that the camera is simply not recognised by the drivers. Every USB device has two IDs a manufacturer and a product ID. This is used by the driver subsystem to match a driver to attached devices. Confusingly, sometimes the numbers stay the same across similar devices, and sometimes they change. The most likely reason your camera doesn't work is that your particular model has no pair of magic numbers entered in the USB drivers. Curiously though, your model is listed as working with the USB drivers. Try using usbview (it is included in most distros) to check whether the camera is recognised or not the ID numbers listed for this device are 0x0a17, 0x0004. If yours are different, it may be a variant not accounted for in the driver. You can find out lots more info on cameras and Linux at http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/linux/digicam.html. </answer>
<title>Boot magic</title>
<question>Firstly, a big thank you and apology to all who helped me out with my scanner woes some time back. Sorry for not replying; I took some time out to start a family. Family fine, scanner still only works if I boot into Windows first. Anyhow, I need a hand configuring my dual boot setup (XP service pack2 on one drive, Mandrake 10 on the other). I currently use a boot disk to boot Linux, but would like to dispense with that and have a boot menu where XP is at the top as a default boot (for the non-Linux users and gamers in the house) and have Linux second for me. I need this to be as painless as possible for the windows users (and for me)! Any advice would be appreciated, thanks in advance. </question>
<answer>The easiest way to do this is with Lilo. Grub is good too, but Lilo is a little easier to understand. You can do this the hard way by creating a lilo.conf file by hand, or since you are using Mandrake, you can use the Control Centre to do it for you. Go to the Boot>boot loader section. Select the Lilo bootloader and install it on your main hard drive (probably hda1). Mandrake will usually detect the presence of Windows. Highlight the windows entry and select modify then set it to the default. </answer>
<title>Catux confusion</title>
<question>I wish to use Catux-USB from the coverdisc of the November issue. My problem is how can I install the ISO image on to a USB pen drive? The CD writing software I'm using (Nero) only gives me the option to install to the CD-W drive and not to the pen drive. I have access to another version of Linux (Morphix) which I could use. </question>
<answer>The ISO image inside the Catux distribution is for Catux itself to use. You don't need to burn the software to a disc, just copy all the files in the extracted `catuxusb-0.1a-128' directory on to your USB drive.</answer>
<title>Dell and 54g</title>
<question>I have a Dell laptop running FC2 with a Netgear WG511 card. I've downloaded and installed the Prism54 driver and firmware, and worked through the Linux Unwired book, setting all the config files, etc. I've also worked through Negus' Linux Bible for FC2, and trawled the net looking for help. The card is set not to come up on boot but on PCMCIA services start. On startup everything works, the eth0 interface comes up, the green light comes on the card and the yellow light flashes encouragingly every now and then. When I start up Mozilla the icon to the bottom right tells me I'm online, but I still can't open any pages I get an error message saying "not available, check spelling". I'm very happy with my Linux system and am now a Microsoft-free zone, but this is driving me nuts! </question>
<answer>Linux support for 54g Wifi networking is still somewhat nascent, but, that said, your card should be supported by some of the current driver schemes. (Beware though, wifi manufacturers are well-known for changing chipsets even on the same model of card.) If indeed the lights are coming on, particularly the data light, it would seem that at least the card has been detected and has been prompted to communicate, but what you need to do is fathom what exactly the problem is before you attempt to solve it. There are various possibilities the driver may not be working, the driver may be working but be misconfigured, or the card is configured but the network isn't set up properly, and so on. The wireless tools are very useful for determining if the card is working or not. Just type:
in a terminal. This will list all the known networking devices and either report "no wireless extensions" or give a list of wireless parameters for the card. If your device isn't listed here, then either the correct module isn't loaded (presumably you are using the ndiswrapper method) or it isn't working - probably a driver problem. If the card is listed, you need to check that the parameters are correct. Try looking at the man page for iwconfig for the settings. At the very least you will need to have the ESSID set up, and any encryption key configured to connect to the access point. </answer>
<title>Via drivers</title>
<question>Is there a Linux driver for the built-in graphics in the KM400/A? </question>
<answer>I like short and to the point questions. The answer is yes, but it depends what distro you are using. Go to www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?pageID=2&Type=3 to access the drivers for Fedora, Mandrake, Red Flag, Red Hat, SUSE and some non-specific options. </answer>
<title>Intel Only?</title>
<question>I have finally gained the intestinal fortitude to have a go at using Linux. I have been interested in the concept of Open Software for some time and I use Firefox, Thunderbird and Open Office as my main programs of choice. While I like to think that I am reasonably computer literate, (I am 69 years of age), and I assemble my own computers, I am a bit perplexed on one point. I use mainly AMD processors for my computers and I have found that almost all of the Linux distros I am interested in Fedora or Red Hat seem to call for an Intel-based computer. My question is can I install Linux on my AMD-based computers or would I require an Intel processor? </question>
<answer>All of the distros you mention will work quite happily on AMD processors, as should any others. The requirements quoted are often confusing in several respects, and when `Intel' is specified, it usually means that the processor must follow the Intel architecture, IA32. This is the case for AMD and many of the other drop-in replacements for Intel processors, such as those made by VIA and others. There are very few differences in the capabilities of these processors, which are normally limited to multimedia extensions such as MMX or 3DNow! These will make very little difference to all but a few applications. </answer>
<title>Loaded laptop</title>
<question>Hope you can help! I have a laptop which is not being used, but I would like to replace Win98 with Linux. It is a Sony pcg745 with a Pentium 266MHz with MMX, 128MB of memory and a 3GB drive. I have unzipped SUSE 9.1 from a magazine, but have also purchased your November issue to help me with this. I'm unable to find out how to get rid of Win98 altogether and totally replace it with LINUX. The laptop has a CD drive and floppy drive, but no DVD drive. Any help with this would be most helpful.</question>
<answer>With such a configuration you may need to be a bit careful about what software you install. It isn't a huge amount of memory, and not exactly a cavernous hard drive, so you may not want to install all of KDE 3.3, OpenOffice.org et al. Having said that, though, pretty much all the current distros will install on that equipment. The trick to removing Windows is simply to delete all the partitions on the disk during the Linux install. Some of the new distros may not let you do this by default as a precaution, but there will usually be an `Expert' or `Custom' option when partitioning the hard disk. Simply delete all the partitions before creating new Linux partitions. On this limited drive, I would recommend a 256MB swap partition and the rest formatted as one `/' partition.</answer>
<title>Burn Time</title>
<question>I have recently obtained a new DVD-writer. I don't have the box or anything, as I got it from a friend who upgraded to dual-layer. I didn't think I'd have too much trouble using it with K3b, dvdtools and so on but there seems to be something wrong. It is quite happy reading and writing CD-Rs and CD+Rs with Linux. It will read DVD-Rs burnt on other equipment, but when I try to burn any DVDs myself I get spurious error messages, sometimes telling me that there is no disc in the drive or the `media is not ready'. Any ideas or is it just broken?</question>
<answer>From what you say, there are two possibilities that spring to mind. Either the DVD writer isn't supported by dvdtools (pretty unlikely) or the writer doesn't like the brand of disc you are using. Many manufacturers only approve a small list of media other discs will simply not show up when you put them in, which is exactly the problem you seem to have. Find out who made the drive, and look at their website for more info, or try a range of cheap DVD-Rs and see if any work. </answer>
<title>Account admin</title>
<question>Do you know of a decent user email account manager to allow someone of less technical knowledge to administer email accounts via a web-based control panel? We've set up sendmail on our server and can happily add accounts ourselves, but they want control of this. </question>
<answer>This really depends on what you want to do. If you want to make a single adminstrator responsible for every user on every domain or have an administrator for all the users on each domain, then you can use Webmin. Webmin comes pre-installed on all Rackspace's servers, but if you want to load this elsewhere you can download it from www.webmin.com. If you would like to give each user control of their own account, I can recommend two options. On the free software side there is Usermin (from the makers of Webmin). This allows users to change their passwords, set up mail forwarding, configure SpamAssassin and set up fetchmail, and that's just the mail aspect of Usermin. If you're looking for an officially supported commercial product, then take a look at Plesk. Plesk is a full virtual hosting control panel, and you can delegate control to users for many things, including mail. Bear in mind that running Plesk on Linux is less like running Linux and more like running a "Plesk Appliance". You cannot fully control the underlying Linux back-end like you used to. </answer>
<title>Server is sluggish</title>
<question>I just got a new dual Intel Xeon Linux machine running Red Hat Linux 3.0ES, MySQL 3.23.58,PHP 4.3.2 about two months ago. I use it to process and manipulate data, but it seems very sluggish most of the time. Here is a recent top output. I have a feeling that the problem lies in the extremely high iowait, but I'm not a server pro so I could use some help diagnosing my problem.
10:03:09 up 12 days, 20:07, 1 user, load average: 4.87, 3.76, 3.03 73 processes: 72 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle total 25.6% 0.0% 6.8% 0.0% 1.6% 340.4% 24.4% cpu00 20.7% 0.0% 1.9% 0.0% 1.9% 65.3% 9.9% cpu01 1.9% 0.0% 1.9% 0.0% 0.0% 93.0% 2.9% cpu02 1.9% 0.0% 2.9% 0.0% 0.0% 91.1% 3.9% cpu03 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 91.0% 7.9% Mem: 1027996k av, 1012136k used, 15860k free, 0k shrd, 35760k buff 700900k actv, 132820k in_d, 14184k in_c Swap: 1052248k av, 125840k used, 926408k free 739172k cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 21366 ishop2 16 0 6016 3544 576 S 22.7 0.3 130:01 2 php 31523 root 24 0 2336 1992 1 196 D 1.9 0.1 0:10 3 sendmail 2974 mysql 15 0 78792 61M 1084 S 0.9 6.1 4665m 0 mysqld 31488 ishop2 15 0 4276 3276 772 S 0.9 0.3 8:49 1 php 753 ishop2 23 0 1244 1244 912 R 0.9 0.1 0:00 0 top 1 root 15 0 512 472 452 S 0.0 0.0 0:12 3 init 2 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 migration/0 3 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 migration/1 4 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 2 migration/2 5 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 3 migration/3 6 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 keventd 7 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 ksoftirqd/0
I only have a single 73GB SCSI drive in the server now. My feeling is that the disk just can't handle the requests for info. Would a RAID solution improve my situation? During this top output the server is only running two of my processing scripts and the iowait is through the roof. I could get the exact same numbers if I were running seven or eight scripts instead of two. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. From the Rackspace Forums </question>
<answer>Without getting on your box and looking closer using vmstat and iostat, I would recommend disabling hyptherthreading by adding the "noht" option to the grub.conf kernel line:
default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash. xpm.gz title Red Hat Enterprise Linux (2.4.21-4.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-4.EL ro root=/dev/hda2 noht initrd /initrd-2.4.21-4.EL.img
Save and reboot. Test it again and see how it's working. If this makes a difference you may want to also turn hyperthreading off in the BIOS. If the I/O problem is hard disk related, then moving to RAID may help. Again this all depends what type of I/O is causing the bottleneck. A RAID 0 is very fast on both reading and writing, but offers no redundancy, in fact you are more likely to lose data as you have multiple points of failure instead of just one. RAID 1 offers the best read speeds, but you're limited to using two physical disks not great if you need lots of space, and with a whole disk wasted not the most efficient price-wise either. RAID 5 is very common and is easy as well as cost effective to implement. It offers very good read speeds, but writes are a little slow. </answer>
<title>Seeing no change</title>
<question>Hello I'm having a problem with chmod in two areas. I generally use WS_FTP PRO to upload files, and sometimes have to change the mode after uploading. The first problem I'm running into (and this has never happened before, with 35 sites running), is that a certain file will not change... I get permission denied. I also get that if I try to re-download it back to my computer. The dir it is in is set to 777 and I can set the chmod of another file in that dir. So basically Linux will not let me change the mode on this one file. Any ideas? Also, if I try to CHMOD thru php it tells me:
Warning: chmod failed: Operation not permitted in /home/httpd/vhosts/etc...etc on line 65
I think this is due to a php.ini setting... Please Help! </question>
<answer>I believe that both problems are related here. It sounds like the file that you are trying to chmod isn't owned by you, and you are not in the group perms of the file. Try examining the ownership of the file you are able to change. That's the owner/group combination that is allowed to change those files. When files are created, you need them to all be owned by the same group, and then make sure that the group has write permissions. For example, if the directory's owner/group permissions (and all subfiles) need to be "root:apache 775", then you need to do a:
chown -R root:apache dirname
and then to set the SGID and sticky bits to enforce this, do a:
chmod 3755 dirname ; chmod -R 755 dirname/*
(if there are more subdirs, thecommand is a bit more complex). This will set up the "dirname" directory with the proper user/group perms for a shared upload environment. </answer>
<title>USB storage</title>
<question>For some time I have been looking to upgrade from Win98 to Linux, but was reluctant to modify my computer running Win98. A few months ago I was given an old Dell Optiplex with PII processor, 4GB hard disk, 128MB RAM and CDROM drive, running Win95. By a happy coincidence Issue 51 of Linux Format that month contained a live CDROM of MandrakeMove, and running this showed me that Linux would work on the Dell, and pick up all its features. I used MandrakeMove on the Dell to learn more about Linux, and when you produced the issue with Fedora Core 2, I decided to make the Dell a Linux machine. Loading Fedora Core 2 went more smoothly than I expected, and more smoothly than some reloads I have done. Later I was given a USB memory stick and found it very useful on my main Win98 machine, so I decided to try it on the Dell. By this time I had learned enough about Linux from your magazine to work out what I had to put into the fstab file and the mount point, and it worked on the first boot into Fedora. Now I was really getting bold and decided to see if the USB Zip 250 drive from the other machine worked on the Dell, and loaded MandrakeMove to see if it was detected. There was a success and I deduced that the Zip drive for some reason was /dev/sda4. I put this into the fstab file with a mount point and changed the USB memory stick to sdb1, feeling very clever. It was then that I got into trouble. Fedora saw the Zip drive, which worked, but did not see the USB stick in the other USB slot. I went back to MandrakeMove, but was very disappointed to see that it too saw the Zip drive, and it worked, but it too no longer saw the USB stick. Without the help of a crib from MandrakeMove I am now stuck. Please can you help? </question>
<answer>The USB storage driver, responsible for mounting devices such as USB keyring drives, hard disks, some cameras, optical drives and anything else storage related, has a hard job to do. Part of the problem is the hotplug nature of these devices they can be attached and removed at any time, and to these ends your drive may not always end up with the same designation, particularly if you plug them in after the system has started. The likelihood is that the drive is being recognised, but is mapped to a different address. The only real way of knowing where it has been put is by looking at the kernel messages. Using:
will show you the system messages, but there is a lot of junk in there. However, being cunning, we know what it should say, so we can filter the output:
dmesg | grep `SCSI device'
This filters the messages to see only the lines that contain text we are interested in. You should see something like:
SCSI device sdb: 128000 512-byte hdwr sectors (66MB)
Here we can see that the device has been attached as `sdb' but it could be any other available slot. The reason the Zip uses sda4, or the fourth partition of any drive, is a throwback to the multi-platform support of Iomega devices, which keep special Mac stuff on the first partition. </answer>
<title>SUSE and KDE</title>
<question>I would like to commend you on a great magazine. The magazines in the US don't cover the OS like you do, with something for everyone. I have SUSE 9.1 installed on my computers at home. The boxes all have KDE 3.2.1 installed. The SUSE web page has KDE 3.3 to download. I have downloaded all the required files. Now, how the heck do I install it? YaST doesn't let me see the files or maybe I am doing it wrong. If I use rpm, I have problems with conflicts with installed files, missing dependencies, or some files need updated packages in order to continue with unpacking. Please can you suggest another course of action? Also, I have noticed that some flavours of Linux (under KDE) make use of the Windows key on the keyboard to activate the menu. SUSE linux doesn't permit it or activate it. Now, it works with my laptop but not my desktop. I compare KDE settings and don't notice anything different. Mandrake does let you use the Windows key to activate KDE menu... How do I activate it? Is there any way to activate the internet keys? </question>
<answer>If you have already downloaded the packages, then you need to set up YaST to look for them. There is an option to add a new source of packages point this at the directory where the downloaded files are. X actually controls how the keys are mapped, but assuming the key you want to use is recognised under X (the Windows key is usually mapped to `F13') then you can change the use of the key in the KDE control centre. Launch it and open System>Khotkeys. SUSE should already be set up to pop up the K Menu with Alt+F1. </answer>
<title>Call for answers</title>
<question>Hi, I have an application running on a Microsoft-based system that allows me to record telephone voicemails directly into an SQL database. People can send messages to friends, who can either phone in to pick them up or receive them from our website (streamed back to them) or request them over email. I've moved all the code from ASP to PHP, but I'm not certain how to handle the phonecall to WAV file to database conversion. This was the proprietary part of our old setup. Can you help? </question>
<answer>This is typically done with a modem that allows digitised audio playback and incoming voice digitisation. Most modern internal and external modems do it now. It's just a matter of the software. On the server side, you probably want to look at mgetty-voice (for Linux): http://home.leo.org/~doering/mgetty/. There will be many ways of doing this, but mgetty-voice seems to be the standard underpinning for this type of service on Linux. Next, you need the logic/programatic control of the voice modem. You could probably script something easily to work with mgetty-voice. But here's something that already does something like that called vgetty_web. Just search for"vgetty" or "mgetty-voice" on sourceforge.net and check out the other stuff out there. There are some good `how to' tips for setting up a Linux-based answering machine if you go to: http://ilug-hyd.org.in/lamhowto.html and to http://frank.harvard.edu/~coldwell/answering_machine/ The sound files you generate as WAVs could be stored quite easily into a mysql database in a binary field. It may be worth doing some sort of compression to MP3 or Ogg Vorbis to save some space. </answer>


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Price Or Halak? The Answer Is Simple...April 9, 2010
Both Price & Halak have been battling for the starting position in goal for a good year or so now. Obviously Jaroslav Halak has been the better goaltender this season. However, Price is not bad. Carey Price has the ability to become a great goaltender in this league. Right now, with the Habs inching towards the playoffs, they want to go with the hot hand, which is Jaroslav Halak. But for the future, is Halak really the right way to go?
I know Price has the potential to become a great goalie in the NHL, and where would Pittsburgh be now if they gave up on Fleury? That really stirs the pot a little. If you bring in Fleury into the equation, Price has had a better first 2 seasons in the NHL then Fleury did, and look at Fleury now, Stanley Cup & Olympic Gold. There's obviously no doubt that Halak is the starter if the Habs make the playoffs, but come July, Montreal can use Halak for some serious trade bait. Every team wants this guy, Montreal could really bring in a good forward or 2 for Jaroslav Halak. It can give Carey Price a confidence boost and you know what 2 & A Half seasons does not define a goaltender. Especially a 22 year old goaltender. And Price's numbers have improved from last season... But again, that's a big risk that Montreal takes if they decide to trade Halak. I can't help but seeing this image in my head over and over again, because I have a strong feeling it will happen. :
Montreal trades Price and Price shines to his potential and becomes a legitimate number 1 goaltender. May I leave you with one interesting statistic.
Marc Andre Fleury: 2.83 Career GAA, .906 Career SV% Carey Price: 2.73 Career GAA, .912 Career SV%
I know how good Halak is, but if I was GM of Montreal, I could not give up on Price this easily.

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The bible is like a massive tapestry, it is so vast, complexed, sophisticated, unique, beautiful and powerful. As Christians we spend some much time focussing in on little stories and areas, we focus in on individual chartaters and events this is great, though in doing this we can sometimes miss the over-arching threads, storylines and pictures that run through the bible. Over the next few posts we are going to be look at different threads that run throughout the whole of the bible, I encourage you to take a step back, see the bible as the vast story that stretches across humanity. God longs for you to join him, to take up the threads in the bible run with them and have incredible God adventures as well.
Ultimately the bible is His story, and it is now also our story. The bible is about God and it is about us. It is a story of Jesus relationship with humanity, it has the highs, it has the lows. It is a story about God's never ending pursuit of those he loves. He is never going to give up because he is hungry after you. He is desperate for you to experience His love.
Throughout every page and every story we can see the person of Jesus lovingly outworked. We see pictures of Jesus the whole way through the bible. I encourage you to look for Jesus in every area of the bible. Look for him, as you read the stories how can you see a picture of Jesus and what He did for us in it.
You can see here in the story of Abraham and Issac in Genesis 22 an amazing picture of the love, mercy and grace of Jesus.
After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am." 2 He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you." 3 So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. 4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar. 5 Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you." 6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together. 7 And Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" 8 Abraham said, "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.
9 When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.10 Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. 11 But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."12 He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me." 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called the name of that place, "The Lord will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided."
How could God command someone to sacrifice there own son, yet 'For God so loved the world that He gave his only son John 3:16 God asked no more of Abraham than He himself was wiling to give. God gave up His son Jesus who He loved very much out of chose because of His love for us.
Just looking at the picture here of Jesus, the area called Moriah where they traveled to is actually now where Jerusalem is built, it is interesting to see them traveling in on a donkey, then hundreds of years later Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey as well. In little subtle ways we can see that God is making hints for us laying down the ideas that this God of the heavens is coming, a Son so much greater so much more faithful a son which will be the sacrifice for the whole world.
We see in the story that the wood for the sacrifice was placed on the back of Issac, can anyone see any other similarities between this and Jesus? Later the father placed the cross, the wood for the sacrifice on the back of Jesus and He carried it.
Later after God has provided a ram for the sacrifice we see Abraham saying in Genesis 22:14 ' So Abraham called the name of that place, "The LORD will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided."'
Thousands of years later on the same mountain range, the Lord did provide again, He provided eternally when the son of God stepped in. He didn't provide a ram or offer a lamb for the offering but He provided the lamb of God the son of God Jesus Himself. The provision of Jesus for us and for our sins was something that He had planned before we were even born.
This story of Abraham and Issac, just shows us that God knows what it was going to cost him, yet He went ahead with it anyway. God helped Abraham and Issac understand something that day.
God wanted His people to live and not to die.
God wanted to rescue His people and not to punish them.
But they must trust in Him.
God promised Issac and Abraham that one day someone would be born into your family, and He will bring happiness to the whole world.
God was getting ready to bring an amazing gift to the whole world, it was going to be Gods way of telling His people ' I LOVE YOU '
Many years later another son would climb that hill, he wouldn't struggle or run away, He would trust his Father He was the lamb of God.
We can see the person of Jesus in all the old testament hero's we see Him in Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, David. We need to remember that this isn't neat joining of dots to together, this is a rich and glorious truth, it is the salvation plan of Jesus being worked, in the lives of individuals in the old testament. Just like Jesus is weaved into the lives of these individuals in the old testament He is being weaved into our lives
God has laid messages, a love letter throughout the whole of the old testament about the fact that one day God himself was going to come. He was going to come not to punish his people but to rescue them. God was getting ready to wipe every tear from every eye, the true party was just about to start.
How today are you letting the story of Jesus be outworked in your life? In everything we do we must let the love of God, the grace of the king and the power of Jesus flow out of our life. We carry the king of all with us into the darkness of the world. Just as the story of grace and truth outworked in our old testament hero's was just a shadow of the king pointing to Jesus to come, our lives are meant to be the light that points people to life.
'Christ in you the hope of glory.'


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It was March 5, 1982, when actor/comic John Belushi died from a drug overdose at the young age of 33. A member of the original 1975 Saturday Night Live cast, Belushi was equally well-known for his performance as Tasmanian devil-cum-frat boy John "Bluto" Blutarsky in the 1978 comedy Animal House.
Since the comedian's passing, much light has been shed on his real-life, id-driven existence, one full of through-the-night partying fueled by various vices. Actor Bruce McGill, who played Animal House's motorcycle-riding Daniel Simpson "D-Day" Day (and currently can be seen portraying golfing great Walter Hagen in The Legend of Bagger Vance), bittersweetly recalls Belushi's penchant for "living life to the fullest."
"Hell, I was living it with him," McGill tells TV Guide Online, pointing out that, at that time, Belushi was burning the candle at both ends. "The thing that people don't realize is that John was still doing Saturday Night Live while we were shooting Animal House in Oregon. So he would work with us Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, they'd take him away Wednesday evening after work, and he'd fly all night [to New York]. He would get to the NBC Studios on Thursday, sleep for a little while, write and rehearse, then perform the show on Saturday night. And always, always, always in those days, especially the Saturday Night Live post-taping party was huge. Then John would go back to bed, and on Sunday they'd put him on another crack-of-dawn flight to Oregon.
"So when people ask me, 'How was John Belushi on the set of Animal House?'" McGill relates, "I say, 'tired'! But I'm also sure there were some stimulants involved to help him keep that sort of schedule."
In the few years that would follow, McGill saw Belushi drift away, led astray by the very lures that would one day kill him. "I loved John, there was no question," he attests. "But he chose another world, and a guy that's going to go that route doesn't want to hear his friends say, 'You have to slow down, man.' Rather, he begins to hang around with those who say, 'Yeah, let's get some more!'
"I was shocked when I heard that there were opiates involved [in Belushi's fatal overdose], because I knew John as an 'up' guy," McGill concludes. "He'd maybe get some drinks, smoke some pot... But speedballs (a heroin/cocaine mixture), that's what he died of. That's the ghetto drug of 1920s' jazz musicians. I was just stunned."


text: Scatterings Trapped Atom Enables Nanophotonic Quantum Optical Switch Valerie C. Coffey Trapping rubidium atoms in a lattice of light could help the development of quantum computing. Researchers at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (both Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.) have managed to couple isolated, trapped single atoms with guided laser light to make a quantum light switch that may help pave the path toward quantum networks. Integrated quantum circuits for long-distance quantum communications require such quantum optical switches, but have been difficult to create because photons and atoms don't interact strongly. MIT's Vladan Vuletić and Harvard's Mikhail Lukin have revealed a promising approach using cavity quantum electrodynamics (DOI: 10.1038/nature13188). The approach involves a single rubidium atom confined in a one-sided nanoscale photonic crystal cavity attached to a tapered optical fiber input and output. Atoms are trapped in close proximity to an incident photon—within a volume measuring about 0.4 λ3, which is less than the scale of the optical wavelength of photons. The distance is so close, while also being sufficiently close to the surface of the cavity (100 to 200 nm), that it causes the phase of the photon to change by the value of π. Said Vuletić, "Perhaps the biggest challenge was holding the atom away from the nanoscale device at a stable distance a hundred times thinner than a human hair without it being pulled in by surface forces." The stability was achieved via a tapered fiber waveguide interface that provides adiabatic coupling of the fiber mode to the waveguide mode. The nanoscale device could be used to couple different atoms together. Not only can the photon change the phase of the atom, the atom can change the polarization state of the photon. The change in phase works like a switch, say the researchers, and it's easier to control than some other methods are. Another promising technique involves superconducting qubits, which require complex cooling systems to eliminate thermal noise and are difficult to scale up. Several atoms could be placed in a lattice arrangement to scale up the quantum processing capability in a space only a few hundred nanometers thick. The researchers also found that the new device serves as a kind of router that separates photons from each other. Publish Date: 07 May 2014


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The original trailer for Atlus's new adult horror action game, Catherine, focused much more on the adult side of things. A new trailer released yesterday still has glimpses of some seemingly steamy scenes, but there's also a lot of much weirder stuff going on. For example: the creature in the image above: WHAT IS THAT THING?
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Chelsea Lions Summer Soccer Tournament
The Chelsea Lions U-13 Boys from the Laurel Soccer Club enjoyed a successful Chelsea Summer Soccer Tournament. Members of the team are: Top row (L to R): Alonzo Colon, Coach Andy Yount, Campbell Shepard, Gerald Van Tassell, Will Tarpine, Colin Hewitt and Coach Tony Yount. Bottom row (L to R):Julian Yount, Elwyn Yount, Andrei Shiller and Cameron Diaz.
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My family and I have attended Grace Baptist for over ten years. I have witnessed how the church leadership has focused its mission, funds and efforts in extending care, service, and volunteerism into the Santa Clarita Valley and, in fact, all over the world. My son has been able to go on a mission trip to Mexico to build homes for the homeless and travel to Spain and Portugal to hike alongside pilgrims walking The Way. In fact we sent out 12 Mission teams to help around the world this year. Open Food Pantries twice a year, now supplemented by growing our own garden vegitables to give away, Community Yard Sales where we give away unwanted furniture and appliances, Emotional and CARE support for people in need, and a free summer childrens Vacation Bible School for nearly 1000 children are just part of the churche's committment to the community. Way to go Grace Baptist.
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Donald Trump Ditches GOP, Registers as Independent
Donald Trump announced that he has changed his voter registration from Republican to Independent.
News broke this morning that Trump had changed his registration, fueling speculation that he is closer to announcing a run for the presidency. Michael Cohen, one of Trump's spokesmen, told NBC News that Trump would consider entering the 2012 race "after the finale of 'The Apprentice' in May of 2012 if he is not satisfied with the Republican nominee for president."
Trump, a long-time Republican, had told the press in April: "When the show ['The Apprentice'] is over, I will then be free to announce. I think you will be surprised at a number of things, but I think you will be surprised at what my announcement is."
Trump has met with several of the Republican candidates, including Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, and former candidate Herman Cain. Jon Huntsman and Ron Paul have declined invitations to meet with Trump, who was supposed to host a GOP debate tomorrow. Only Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum had agreed to appear at the debate, leading Trump to cancel.
He cited a "conflict of interest within the Republican Party" as the reason for the debate's cancellation, though many analysts stated it was due to lack of candidates. Trump once stated, "I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president."
Now, though, it appears that Trump's confidence in the Republican Party is waning. He told Bloomberg, "In my mind, I have already decided. I am going to announce. But I can't do anything until the show ends."
According to reports, this is not the first time Trump has changed political affiliation; he registered as a Democrat in 2001 but returned to the Republican Party in 2009. He has heavily criticized the Republican Party, stating that he "is extremely disappointed with the manner in which the Republicans are handling many things, including the recent payroll tax issue."


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So if you were thinking of having broccoli or a baked potato for dinner today and wanted a low-fat, healthy cheese sauce to top it … maybe one that has no cholesterol or is low in saturated fat … or maybe you needed one that is dairy-free or lactose-free, you may have done a search on Google and come across a few vegan "cheese sauce" recipes. This is because vegan "cheese sauces" are naturally all of these healthy things. But I've seen and tasted quite a few, and while some of them are absolutely delicious, I've never had one that actually tasted like real cheese sauce.
And, this one is no exception. But wait!
I've learned something in my healthy cheese sauce quest I'd like to share with you. And it goes like this:
I like ice cream. It's probably one of my favorite foods. And I like guacamole too. Right up there with ice cream.
So let's say you invited me to your house for some guacamole and ______. (Fill in the blank. It doesn't matter; everything's good with guac.) When I'm eating your yummy guacamole, I wouldn't complain that it didn't taste like ice cream.
And then if you served me some ice cream, I wouldn't whine that it didn't taste like guacamole. (Actually, if you fed me both ice cream and guacamole on the same visit, I'd probably just move in with you. But I digress.) They both taste different, but they both taste good!
That's the way I look at vegan cheese sauce. Even the best of them don't taste like "real" cheese sauce. Real cheese sauce and vegan cheese sauce are two different foods. That said, many vegan cheese sauces are oh-soooo-wonderfully scrumptious! I could eat this "cheese" sauce (recipe below) on just about everything. Oh, wait. I do eat it on just about everything. And with every luscious bite, my mind never bothers to remind me that it doesn't taste like "real" cheese sauce.
It's creamy and comforting. It's great with chips, but it's also luscious over broccoli, fabulous on potatoes, and wonderful with cauliflower. In fact, this cheesy sauce can make just about any yucky vegetable taste amazing!
Except beets.
So, if you've never tried vegan cheese sauce before, I want to encourage you to give it a try. No, it doesn't taste like the real deal, but when it's so yum (and so guilt-free), who cares?!
Cheese Sauce Nutrition
This cheesy sauce is trans-fat-free, cholesterol free, lactose & casein free, soy-free, and gluten-free. And it's a good source of fiber so it's great for weight loss. (No "real" cheese sauce out there can say that!) It also dishes up protein, vitamins A and K, magnesium, copper, selenium, and manganese, and gets its color and an added nutrient boost from raw carrots.
How to Make It
A high-powered blender, such as a Vitamix or Blendtec (definitely one of the best investments I've ever made!!), will give you the best, smoothest results; but you can make this cheese sauce in a regular blender if you take the time to blend it really, really well.
Other Vegan Cheese Recipes
Here's a sliceable vegan cheese that we like to use on sandwiches or on top of crackers.
And here's a vegan mozzarella cheese recipe for on top of your pizza or lasagna.
- 2 3/4 cups water - divided
- 1/3 cup raw cashews
- 1/3 cup sliced raw carrots (3/8 cup shredded carrots)
- 2 1/2 teaspoons granulated onion
- 1/4 teaspoon granulated garlic
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon tahini
- 1/4 cup olive oil or coconut oil - optional
- 3 tablespoons tapioca starch or corn starch
- Place 1 cup water and next 7 ingredients (cashews through tahini) in blender and blend until very, very smooth. (A high-powered blender works best for this.)
- Add oil and blend well.
- Add tapioca starch or corn starch. Blend until well mixed.
- Pour into medium/large sauce pan. Rinse blender with remaining 1 3/4 cups water and add to sauce pan.
- Bring to boil over medium/high heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is thick and bubbly.
- Remove from heat.
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Tokyo Electric to accept compensation claims
FUKUSHIMA, Japan, Jan. 10 (Kyodo) — Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday that it intends to accept compensation claims over the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster beyond the three-year legal time limit for seeking compensation.
"We do not intend at all to say 'that's it' after three years...We hope not to create concerns among the people affected," the utility's President Naomi Hirose told Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato in Fukushima Prefecture, adding that his company is now discussing in detail the legal matters concerning the issue.
Hirose said that his company plans to announce in the near future how it will respond to the problem.
Sato, meanwhile, reiterated his request to scrap not only the crippled Nos. 1 to 4 units at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, but also the remaining Nos. 5 and 6 units that achieved a cold shutdown in the early stage of the nuclear disaster, as well as the Fukushima Daini plant, located adjacent to the Daiichi complex.
"I have also told Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that it is the collective will of the people in the prefecture to decommission all the reactors (in the prefecture)," the governor said.
TEPCO has so far only made clear that it will scrap the Nos. 1 to 4 reactors. Hirose told reporters later that his company will make a decision on the issue "in a comprehensive manner" in relation to the national energy policy.


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In September, 2003, I wrote a piece for Sojourners magazine on the "Project for the New American Century," a neo-con organization to which a number of key Bush administration officials had belonged, including Vice President Richard Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. In its grand plan for the future, released in September 2000, it urged a "transformation" of the American military into a robust global presence capable of fighting multiple wars, with a network of bases in critical regions around the world. But, the report said, this transformation was "likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor."
From its beginning, the project was obsessed with Iraq.
Only days later after the catastrophic 9/11 attacks, the Project released a letter arguing that "even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the attack, any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq."
Now it seems that strategy began well before 9/11. In a New York Times op-ed this morning, author Kurt Eichenwald wrote of the series of briefings the Bush White House received from the CIA in the spring and summer of 2001, all warning of an attack to come. Most of these are still not public, but Eichenwald says he has read excerpts from many of them.
May 1: "… the Central Intelligence Agency told the White House of a report that 'a group presently in the United States' was planning a terrorist operation."
June 22: "… "the daily brief reported that Qaeda strikes could be "imminent …'"
But the administration was hearing other voices:
"An intelligence official and a member of the Bush administration both told me in interviews that the neoconservative leaders who had recently assumed power at the Pentagon were warning the White House that the C.I.A. had been fooled; according to this theory, Bin Laden was merely pretending to be planning an attack to distract the administration from Saddam Hussein, whom the neoconservatives saw as a greater threat."
In response, the CIA strengthened its warnings.
June 29: "`The U.S. is not the target of a disinformation campaign by Usama Bin Laden,' the daily brief of June 29 read, using the government's transliteration of Bin Laden's first name. Going on for more than a page, the document recited much of the evidence, including an interview that month with a Middle Eastern journalist in which Bin Laden aides warned of a coming attack …" It was expected that the attack would have "`dramatic consequences,' including major casualties."
July 9: "… at a meeting of the counterterrorism group, one official suggested that the staff put in for a transfer so that somebody else would be responsible when the attack took place…"
On August 6, the one document we have publically read about, had the subject, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." A little over a month later, that determination was carried out. A year-and-a-half later, the U.S. invaded Iraq, despite a lack of evidence that Iraq had anything to do with the attacks.
It is a chilling reminder of the consequences when ideology replaces facts; a reminder that many in today's political and media discourse should heed. Perhaps in some things a single-minded obsession with an objective is good. But if the objective is ideological and not tempered with facts and analysis, the results are usually bad.
Duane Shank is Senior Policy Adviser for Sojourners.
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July 4th weekend is almost here, but why settle for just burgers on the grill when you can wow your friends and family with succulent smoked baby back ribs? Fire up your Masterbuilt Electric Smoker...it's on!
It's center-of-the-sun hot in Atlanta right now, so you want to keep things easy. We used a store bought bbq sauce. I recommend taking the extra time at the grocery store to find one without high fructose corn syrup. That's harder than you'd think! Then we finished these bad boys on the grill to avoid the extra hour on the smoker and give them a little bit of char. More time for kicking back with a cold beer and some air conditioning.
I've never been a huge ribs fan (hard to look cute while gnawing at a bone!), but these were tender, full of smoky sweet flavor and well worth throwing caution to the wind and covering your face in sauce! Easy peasy recipe after the jump.
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Smoked (and Grilled) Baby Back Ribs with the Masterbuilt Smoker
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Monday, June 27, 2016
Lima Dining: Maido
Lima hasn't historically been a must-visit spot in South America, but increasingly food-lovers extend their trips in Peru to make time for checking out some of the city's globally renowned hot spots. That's just what we did, but by the time we finished our hike, I was feeling so tired, I regretted having to wait a day before flying home. Fortunately, Japanese-Peruvian fusion spot, Maido, turned out to be so awesome, I changed my tune.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2016
The Definitive Guide to Hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
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We're fresh off of our 10 day trip to Peru, the highlight of which was a 4-day, 3-night hike along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. Peru is a gorgeous country, and the people were warm and welcoming. More to come on the amazing dining experiences we had. In the meantime, what else do you need to know before deciding whether you should tackle the Inca Trail? Here's what I wish I had known.
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Today President Obama announced several initiatives to help prepare for a warming climate. He said wildfires, heat waves and rising sea levels brought on by climate change threaten public safety.
Climate scientists say more rain from climate change could trigger more landslides, like the Oso disaster this spring. Detailed, 3-D maps can help predict where disasters like the Oso landslide could happen.
Obama's climate initiative will give $13 million to the U.S. Geological Survey to help map more areas. That's not much money for this expensive technology. But the USGS's Tom Carlson says every little bit helps.
He says only about one-quarter of Washington has been mapped by this technology.
"It's very patchy," Carlson said. "There are lots of doughnut holes out there, lots of blank spots."
About one-third of Oregon and very few parts of Idaho have been mapped.
The president's initiatives will help fund stronger sea walls and build more green storm water infrastructure, like rain gardens.
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For me, yes. This franchise turned into a dumpster fire in 4 short years under Scott Pioli. The NFL is going to have to make GM training videos showing how NOT to run a franchise. Worst year of my sports fan life is over and the brightest horizon I could have hoped for is in sight. I never thought about Reid because I didn't think we had a chance. Yes. This is the best day in franchise history that I have been a part of. I wasn't alive when Super Bowl IV happened.
Spot on as usual Flopnuts.
I live in PA and it has sucked being a Chiefs fan, being surrounded by perennial contenders and being ripped by my friends for being a Chiefs fan.
I was 11 when the won the last playoff game. This is the first time in a long time I have had hope and pride. Props to Clark Hunt for taking the trash out.
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Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. It is a product of when the family lived in the settlement of Aspinwall, which was in the parish of Aughton in Lancashire county. The name Aspinwall literally means the aspen-well, referring to a well near a grove of aspen trees.
Aspinwold Early Origins
Lancashire where they held a family seat for many centuries, and where, at an early time, probably well before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, they founded the town of Aspinall in that county.
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The first dictionaries that appeared in the last few hundred years did much to standardize the English language. Before that time, spelling variations in names were a common occurrence. The language was changing, incorporating pieces of other languages, and the spelling of names changed with it. Aspinwold has been spelled many different ways, including Aspinal, Aspinall, Aspinwall, Aspinwal, Aspinshaw, Aschmell, Ashmell, Asmall, Espinall, Espinwall, Espinshaw and many more.
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Paramount, Sony, Studio8 lost out on rights to late Amy Krouse Rosenthal's essay helping husband find love again
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Chinese companies have brought a firehose of cash to the U.S. in recent years, but several high-profile deals didn't come to fruition
The Chinese billionaire, who was inexplicably out of contact with his comglomerate Fosun Thursday, has resumed contact while assisting an investigation.
Guo Guangchang, chairman of conglomerate Fosun Group and a key investor in Jeff Robinov's Studio 8, has been unreachable for half a day.
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The film is set to start principal photography in mid-April and casting is underway
The former Warner Bros. chief is also developing a remake of the Chinese crime thriller "Overheard"
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Goldberg is the third major hire for the new studio, joining Robert Brassel and Jon Silk
The former Warner Bros. chief is planning to produce 24 movies over the next five years
Silk started as an assistant to Scott Rudin before going on to work at Lin Pictures and Benderspink
The deal is for six pictures per year; Studio 8 expects to raise an additional $1 billion in financing
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Fosun International announced the news in a filing with the Hong Kong Stock exchange Monday morning
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Congressman John Fleming, M.D., released the following statement about the scandals involving Benghazi, the IRS, and the Department of Justice:
"Maybe no one is safe. Four diplomatic lives are lost in Benghazi and the president calls it 'a side show.' Conservative activists were targeted by the White House's IRS and the president acts dumb on the matter, even though he joked about auditing his enemies in 2009. And now the mainstream media had phone records seized by the White House's Department of Justice, but Attorney General Eric Holder is claiming ignorance and blaming a deputy.
"Abuse of power is now rampant in this administration. It's time for accountability, from the president on down. Attorney General Holder has a persistent history of putting politics before justice. If he will not resign he should be fired. Today.
"Congress must now ramp up, even more aggressively, our oversight duties to protect the innocent and their civil liberties, which are being threatened constantly by this White House. I'm calling on the Speaker, Chairman Camp and Chairman Issa to put all their resources into getting to the bottom of these damaging scandals. A fully functioning democracy is at stake if we fail to do our duty on these matters.
"This Congress must not rest until we get answers and accountability for the American people. It's time people go to jail for these misdeeds."
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The sheriff's deputies at the door told Richard Schmidt that he and his four kids had 10 minutes to vacate their home near Central Avenue and Happy Valley Road. It was the night of September 11, 2002, a particularly bad night to hear that something is threatening your home and family.
Along with about a thousand other residents of far north Phoenix, Schmidt and his children packed up quickly and spent the night on safer ground.
The dire threat that night was an explosion and massive fire at the Universal Propulsion Company (UPCO), which has become one of the world's top manufacturers of ejector seats for U.S. military aircraft. More than 3,000 pounds of rocket propellant were consumed in the blast and fire.
The next day, Phoenix Fire Department investigators began digging through the charred remains. In all, they found UPCO guilty of 37 fire code violations. The most serious violation: Investigators discovered more than 50,000 pounds of explosives that the company had failed to report to the fire department.
When companies don't document storage of hazardous chemicals, firefighters have no idea what dangers they'll face if they're called to fight a fire. Luckily, no Phoenix firefighters were injured that night.
This wasn't UPCO's first run-in with authorities charged with protecting the health and safety of Arizonans.
Besides two other fires at the plant -- as well as the death of two employees in 1981 -- UPCO has been cited for numerous violations by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.
In 1984, the company was cited by ADEQ for 12 violations, including leaving drums of hazardous waste uncovered. In 1986, the company was caught dumping hazardous waste directly into a nearby wash. In 1987, along with 15 other violations, UPCO was found to be allowing lead toxins from its hazardous waste burn pad to leach into the soil. Surface soil near the burn pad was found to contain lead levels nearly 80 times higher than the federally allowed level. The next year, UPCO received 12 violations, five of which were repeat violations. During that visit, inspectors noted six different locations where hazardous waste was being released to the soil.
Throughout the 1990s, the company violated ADEQ regulations more than 40 times.
In 2002, even after the fire that drove Schmidt and a thousand other residents from their home, inspectors noted three more violations. ADEQ officials said that UPCO had failed to notify them that the company had resumed operations in the burned area and failed to provide ADEQ with a required incident report following the fire.
Besides breaking environmental rules, a 1999 study of the UPCO property showed perchlorate contamination to a depth of 59 feet.
Perchlorate contamination, the result of companies dumping rocket-fuel byproducts on their property, has forced the closing of more than 300 water wells in California, causing severe water shortages in several California towns.
You get the idea: UPCO bad.
And this is clearly how Phoenix officials felt about the company. In 1999, the company said it would be moving to a 723-acre plot in the boonies of Peoria. Several letters and e-mails from Phoenix officials around that time show that the city was quite happy to see this polluter leave town.
In 2001, when UPCO was asking for an extension of its lease on state land, Phoenix Fire Chief Alan Brunacini wrote, in a letter to other officials: "This letter expresses the Phoenix Fire Department's opposition to that (lease) renewal. The facility poses a threat to these neighborhoods."
Brunacini wrote a similar letter to UPCO in 1994. "Issues of concern include the possibilities of explosion, toxic releases, as well as environmental contamination. As this area continues to develop, a hazardous materials facility such as yours poses a serious risk to the public welfare."
In 2001, city planning director David Richert wrote that "the continued operation of UPCO at this location presents numerous land-use compatibility issues."
This is particularly true because the City of Phoenix has allowed a boom of residential building in the area. UPCO sits amid the city's fastest-growing residential corridor.
And many of those residents have built homes near the UPCO facility because of UPCO's promises that it would soon be leaving. After the September 2002 explosion and fire, UPCO president Mike Heidorn alleviated residents' fears of future explosions by telling them that UPCO would be completely moved from the property by 2008.
So, people like Jenny Boles felt comfortable moving into the area.
"I bought my home with the understanding they would be leaving," Boles says. "I wouldn't have bought it otherwise. Well, now, we're hearing that everything has changed."
Yes, everything has changed. All of a sudden, UPCO says it wants to stay on its land just north of Happy Valley Road for another 25 years. Not only that, it wants to expand operations on the site.
And, all of a sudden, city officials seem ecstatic to have this chronic polluter and time bomb sitting in the middle of the people of north Phoenix.
What gives?
Money, of course. And bragging rights. Universal Propulsions is technically an aerospace company, one of those ostensibly high-paying, high-tech industries Phoenix is working so hard now to keep and attract.
And UPCO officials are well aware that, on paper, this looks like a gem of a company.
Goodrich, UPCO's parent company, wants to close a similar facility in California. Company officials say they want to consolidate redundant operations, but it's just as likely they're sick of dealing with California's increasing crackdown on perchlorate polluters. For example, Goodrich has already promised the state it will spend $4 million for perchlorate cleanup. That price tag is sure to grow as the full extent of the problem under Goodrich properties is realized.
Arizona is far behind California in the regulation of perchlorates and other rocket-fuel-type pollutants.
UPCO's plans for a Peoria site began meeting staunch criticism because the plant would be too close to the Central Arizona Project canal that carries millions of gallons of water to the Valley.
But Heidorn, UPCO's president, tells me his company gave up on the Peoria site after a change in company plans. The Peoria site, he says, was going to be used to manufacture products for automobile airbags. Goodrich, he says, has since abandoned that plan.
With the closure of the California plant pending and the rejection of the Peoria site, Heidorn approached Phoenix officials with a plan:
UPCO would bring 250 jobs from California if Phoenix officials would amend the city's general plan to better accommodate UPCO's operations (the site is currently zoned as residential. UPCO has had to receive variances to operate there since 1972). Also, UPCO wanted a 25-year lease from the state land department instead of the 5- and 10-year leases that have been in place since the 1970s.
"Otherwise," Heidorn says, "we would look to move to other states."
Ah, yes, that old chestnut. You can do the math. If Phoenix plays ball, the city keeps 250 high-tech jobs and gets to add 250 more. If Phoenix and the state don't play ball, Arizona would lose 500 jobs.
There's also a dark little secret at the heart of this deal. If UPCO left its chunk of state land, that land, according to the lease, would have to be returned to the pristine state it was in when UPCO arrived there in 1972.
This would pretty much entail digging a hole the size of the new Cardinals stadium.
According to the lease, UPCO would have to pay for the cleanup. However, what if such a job bankrupted the company? And what if UPCO successfully argued that it wasn't responsible for pollutants that weren't deemed pollutants when the lease began? The city and state could get stuck with some part of the bill as well as mountains of legal fees.
Even if UPCO paid for everything, the cleanup would be a major strain on the agencies charged with overseeing the work.
Internal city e-mails obtained by New Times suggest this is a major concern of city officials.
When asked what impact UPCO's staying on the property would have on any environmental regulations or cleanups, Rosanne Sanchez, a city environmental official, wrote back:
"Well, it certainly doesn't eliminate the environmental issues -- any contamination that is there now will remain and will have to be cleaned up whenever they vacate the property. Also, contamination could be uncovered, if ADEQ becomes involved in a Notice of Violation-type situation. The environmental risks, i.e., unexpected releases of pollutants, explosions, fires, etc., that are inherent in this type of facility remain.
"Since they will be staying," she writes, "our concerns go away for now; however, as you mentioned residential development is encroaching and as that continues to happen, any future incidents certainly can create concern among residents surrounding the site."
I find two aspects of this note infuriating.
First, the implication is that city officials feel they'd be better off dumping the UPCO problem on future generations. "Our concerns go away for now."
And considering this note was written in June, it's more than troublesome that Sanchez is saying, "Since they will be staying." The Phoenix City Council will not be voting on this general plan amendment until next week. The planning commission just approved the deal last week.
So much for listening to the public.
And other agencies have lined up to support -- or at least not object to -- UPCO's plan. Phoenix fire officials now say that since UPCO addressed all 37 violations found in the 2002 fire, they no longer object to the company's staying. Phoenix environmental officials say Heidorn has since addressed all their concerns. Heidorn, for example, has promised to enclose his hazardous waste burn pad and install equipment designed to monitor the contaminants under his company property.
You can see why people like Rick Schmidt, Jenny Boles and numerous other UPCO neighbors feel like they've been sold down the river by their city representatives. Their response to Heidorn's promises: How can you possibly trust this guy now after three decades of violations?
"You just get a very strong sense that no matter what the evidence is, this deal is going to be punched through," Schmidt says. "It looks like everybody is in cahoots on this thing."
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We'll see for sure if this was a done deal next week when city council members vote on UPCO's proposed plan to stay on the state land they polluted in north Phoenix.
I'm guessing the council, on the advice of the planning department, will slam the deal through. It'll just be too easy to keep a looming environmental catastrophe buried under the cloak of a couple hundred new "high-tech" jobs.
After all, this would be the easy thing to do. And too often in this city's history, that's been the only criterion that matters.
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