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George Lynch talks T&N, Michael Sweet, Randy Rhoads, his film Shadow Train and much more
George Lynch is a guitar hero by anyone's standards and has been for as long as I remember. He rose to prominence of course as lead shredder for Dokken playing with them through their 80s heyday and again on a few albums when they reunited in the 90s. Lynch has since molded a career by working outside the box and the Dokken formula but now he and Jeff Pilson (ex-Dokken bassist) have teamed up with Dokken drummer Mick Brown and the amazing Brian Tichy in a new project called T&N (formerly Tooth and Nail). Their album combines some really great new music with re-recorded Dokken classics featuring guest vocalists and is one of the most talked about end-of -year record releases. I talked with George about everything going on with his many ongoing projects While so much has been written in the past about George being difficult to work with and demanding, it should be noted that he's easily one of the most laid-back and friendly interviews you could hope to have (As is Don Dokken, which makes the acrimony that much harder to understand). Read on….
Legendary Rock Interviews: Hi George, we are set to talk about your new project Tooth and Nail or T&N as it's officially known. Your former lead singer has been making the rounds in interviews saying the project is already dead in the water so I really wanted to start by having you address that.
George Lynch: Which former lead singer ?? (laughs). There have been a few….
LRI: True….. It was Don Dokken.
George: Oh, Don said that. Well, that's sort of self-evident where that's coming from, he's the spinmaster. No, there is no truth to that whatsoever, T&N is very active. We obviously have this record which is finished and released and we are promoting but Jeff, Mick and I are also already working on the second T&N record. We're pretty far into the second album, we've recorded all the Dokken stuff. It will be the same balance of new material and re-worked Dokken stuff as the first record. We've got all the Dokken stuff done and have a few new originals written for the second album. We're going to release the second album next year and release it in the summer and go out and tour heavily to support both releases.
LRI: Were you surprised to hear that Don was going to stop making Dokken albums?
George: I hadn't heard that until just recently but I don't know…..It's hard for me to say why people do what they do or say what they say or how they think just like I'm sure it's hard sometimes for people to understand what i say or do or think. That's why it's kind of my job to just shut up and play guitar (laughs). That's all that really matters and everything else is just superfluous and meant to distract or call attention to oneself or even be a cry for help.
LRI: Is it true that Michael Sweet of Stryper will be the touring singer for T&N when you tour?
George: Yeah, that was the decision we all collectively came up with, we thought he was really the right choice. Lynch Mob has done quite a few dates with Stryper and we know Michael as a man and he's just such a wonderful guy which is important at this stage in the game. I've learned that lesson the hard way over the years and now it's to the point where you just wanna work with people who want to work with you and are dedicated, honest, transparent and have a good work ethic. Michael is obviously talented, we all knew that but he is also just a good person who has all of those qualities and architecture and is a solid guy but more importantly his voice is really suited to what we are trying to accomplish live which is to recreate the Dokken stuff faithfully. Jeff's voice is not necessarily ideal for all of that because he has a bit of a raspier, harder edge which is better suited to the original music that T&N has done, Jeff will do some of the Dokken stuff but then Michael will come in and do some of the material that he's better at. The other advantage we have with Michael Sweet other than him being just a great human being is that he's a really good guitar player and really suited to playing the rhythm parts we have which is something we really need collectively in this band and for this material. There's a lot of guitars on this record and we wanna reproduce the record faithfully. Plus, he's not a bad lookin guy either!
LRI: I was really hoping it was true because I am a huge fan but kind of got the feeling that Michael didn't want me to formally announce it. His mother put it out there on Facebook (laughs). Is it formally announced? Is it alright for fans to officially plan on this?
George: I guess we just announced it (laughs). It's something that we held back on only because of the fact that the tour isn't going to happen for a few months, like I said, we are going to finish this second album and then tour behind the both of them. We just have so many other touring commitments and Michael has Stryper so the timing has to be just right but we are looking to have that in place for summer of 2013.
LRI: There are also a great many people who are under the impression that your band Lynch Mob is also over and broken up which is partially because of Robbie Crane talking about his leaving the band. The last EP was probably the best thing you've ever done. Is there any future for Lynch Mob?
George: We have half a record which is just on the shelf, it's something we've been working on for quite a long time and it's beautiful and I would really hate to see the record not be heard but at this point it's only half done and I don't know exactly when we will be getting back together to finish it, if at all but I am hopefully optimistic (laughs). We all have a lot of other things going on though and I understand that, Robbie's got some other project, Oni (Logan, vocalist) is doing Dio Disciples and I have two or three very heavy projects going on with the T&N thing, the movie and associated band Shadow Train which is working on the soundtrack to the movie and then the album I am making with Doug Pinnick of King's X and Ray Luzier of Korn.
LRI: I had heard about that, You, Doug and Ray, that is pretty amazing sounding on paper….
George: Yeah, we are doing a power trio thing and have been writing. We're getting through the initial stages of the album and have completed a few sketched out song ideas which are pretty exciting to me and are hitting it really hard this winter. We're gonna see where this goes.
LRI: I am not a fan of re-recordings, although I understand the variety of reasons artists do them, but my favorite track of the Dokken re-records is easily Doug Pinnick's take on the song "Tooth and Nail".
George: Obviously we redid these songs for a lot of reasons and one of them is so more people would possibly want to listen to it. Maybe they'd be curious to hear what someone like Doug Pinnick or Ripper Owens does with a Dokken song but it was also to get into a room again with Mick and Jeff and play material we had written decades ago just to see where we were at now and what the chemistry was like and there was all this fresh, raw energy that was so contagious that it was just fun. We had to also strike a balance between doing something new with them and staying true to the original arrangements. I think a song like "Alone Again" is pretty true to the original while a song like "Into The Fire" for instance is a pretty big departure. The next record will have something even more extreme, we re-recorded "Just Got Lucky" with Sass Jordan in mind to do the vocal and it doesn't sound anything like the original. If you compared this track to the original, you literally wouldn't probably recognize it if somebody hadn't told you what it was. It has country elements to it, which is pretty amazing.
LRI: Have you got any other guest vocalists in mind for the second T&N album? Michael Sweet has gotta be on there!
George: Yeah, that would be a very logical choice and I'm sure that will probably happen but there are lots of other people as well. Glenn Hughes was supposed to be on the first album but that didn't work out, I would still love to have him on the next album. I worked with Glenn on my first solo album back in 1992 and we just work really well together. If you've listened to Black Country Communion you know just what Glenn can do these days. He's pretty amazing and he's definitely on that list of people we'd like for the second album . I talked briefly with Phil Anselmo of Pantera when we were both at tapings for That Metal Show about doing something about maybe doing something on a harder track although also, to be honest, I always loved the way he sang on other songs like "Cemetery Gates". Phil has a great natural singing voice and might be really good at doing something like that which would be different for him.
LRI: It seems like Wild Mick Brown is sort of the Switzerland of Dokken, he has worked with you in Lynch Mob, he works with you and Jeff currently on T&N and he's STILL working with Don as a member of Dokken. Is that just a matter of him having an easy-going personality?
George: I think it's just a practical decision, he needs to work. He has a history and legacy with Dokken and has obviously been a part of that band for many, many years and fits very well in that group and by extension fits very well in T&N so it's just a matter of logistics and scheduling beyond that. We all sort of regret that we're not back in our high school days where we could just play to play because now we all have careers and obligations and commitments beyond just getting together for the love of music and playing together but it is what it is.
LRI: I have to ask, you've talked about your interaction with my all time favorite guitarist, Randy Rhoads. I worked with Kelly Garni on some quote gathering and editing for his upcoming book talking about growing up with Randy and was just wondering, what was the extent of your relationship with Randy?
George: Well, I gotta be honest with you, we were not like best friends or anything, it was more like casual acquaintances. We would play shows together, share a dressing room, hang out and talk. He liked the way I played and we shared a mutual respect in that sense but we didn't know each other much beyond that. He was obviously on the radar in the Hollywood scene before breaking out but I didn't understand or have an appreciation for how deep of a player he was until he went to England and made the records with Ozzy. At that point, I took over his teaching duties at Musonia, his mom's school and really started delving into the repertoire of what Randy had actually recorded. Of course when I later auditioned for Ozzy it gave me an even greater appreciation for the complexity and depth of his compositions.
LRI: We also have an interview with Kelle Rhoads coming up and the history of his mom's school is real interesting. Was that time spent working at Musonia as a teacher something you look back fondly on?
George: Yes, first and foremost for the purely selfish reason that it flat out made me a better player. When you're sitting in the saddle for six hours a day teaching you kind of naturally become a better all-around player and hopefully your students do too (laughs).
LRI: You're such a monster player that I don't believe you totally but you've made mention in other interviews that you weren't technically the best player in terms of knowledge of theory or technical music. Was that aspect of musical theory and instruction challenging to you in terms of teaching?
George: Well, teaching was a job. In the same sense that a plumber has a job and a truck driver has a job it was a situation where I had become a guitar player by trade and Delores had given me an opportunity to make money doing something I do. It also made my playing better, like I said and yeah, forced me to learn things I didn't know during the time when I was teaching. I would be forced to have to explain things that I didn't understand (laughs). I would have to learn them so I could properly explain them. I would have to actually stop and think and dissect what it was that I was playing when a student asked me something like, "Well, what IS that?". Before I began teaching I would just play whatever came to mind without thinking about or dissecting any of it. To be honest, I didn't really understand any of what I was playing. Teaching made me actually think about what it was that I was doing which is something of a double-edged sword. From the creative end of it, there is something of a beauty in the mystery of not knowing what it is you're doing and I do like things to remain mysterious. It's nice being able to speak the language without understanding why you can speak it, it's exciting. When you start to understand the rules then you're confined by the rules. That's the catch-22.
LRI: Much has been made of Randy's distaste for Black Sabbath's music. When you auditioned for Ozzy were you a fan of those classic Sabbath songs?
George: Oh sure. I mean, I had a Black Sabbath poster hanging on my wall in the early 70s and my band played Sabbath songs. I can remember the first album coming out and blowing our minds and the Paranoid album and all of that, that was the material we cut our teeth on and learned from.
LRI: You've always been so adept at using some of those spooky minor modes during your career and still use them on the amazing new cuts on T&N in songs like "Sweet Unknown". Was Tony Iommi the inspiration for a lot of that usage?
George: Absolutely and that stuff is ingrained and embedded in my psyche for the rest of my life because Black Sabbath were the first metal band, for me at least. Tony is the riffmaster, that music just didn't exist before that in my opinion. His lead playing was not something I really aspired to or appreciated as much but his song construction and riff composition is unparalleled. Those grooves were really what I cut my teeth on in moving away from the music and influences I had grown up on, stuff like the Beatles and gravitating towards riff rock.
LRI: I want to ask you about an amazing quote you delivered on the VH1 show, Metal Evolution. You said something to the effect of "Everything that Dokken became popular and famous for was everything that I hated about Dokken, the clothing, the ballads etc…".
George: (laughs). Yeah.
LRI: Do you think that if some of those ballads or fashion choices would have gone differently or been more along the lines of what you personally would have liked that the band may have been even more successful in the grand scheme of heavy metal?
George: No. I would guess that we would have been less popular if anything. I'm sort of a contrarian thinker. I could actually start a consulting business where people could hedge their bets by betting on the opposite of whatever I suggest. I could say, "Put your money on this band, they're gonna be the next big thing but don't bet on this act, it's not gonna fly" and they would know where to put their money (laughs). I have been very, very reliable in my miscalculation and prophecy. I am wrong most of the time……on everything (laughs). So I should just stop.
LRI: Most people were disappointed when the Dokken reunion that was rumored on That Metal Show never came to be. I've talked with former W.A.S.P. members who have seen Blackie continue his version of the band years after they left and they just wonder why grown men in their middle age can't put aside personal issues to make the fans happy and make some good money to boot by doing a reunion. I guess my question to you relates to you and Don but it could be about anyone…..Do people change, from making records and touring in their 20s to making music together in their 40s and 50s…..do people have the ability to change?
George: Of course. Yeah. I mean, they should, in a just and fair, ideal world (laughs). The thing is, humans are strange animals and nobody's figured that out, I'm not gonna figure it out, but I try, as we all do. That's a lot of what this movie that I am working on is about actually. In the larger scheme of things, the movie Shadow Train is about the architecture of the human mind and the tendency of human nature. It's about why people do what they do and whether, if given the right conditions, they will ultimately be altruistic or just self-serving and really whether the two could possibly be the same thing. It's a movie that attempts to ask these philosophical questions that I ask myself all the time, especially when I get in these predicaments with bands. All of these predicaments and breakdowns we're talking about really come down to how we interact as human beings. I think bands are a wonderful laboratory to examine how people truly interact because it's a community of people who depend on each other. Mathematically it is very hard to get four or five guys to collectively agree on things musically and work as one. Then it makes you think, "Well, if four guys can't do that then how is a planet of people going to do that?".
LRI: Okay, "Shadow Train" does sound interesting. Is this something you are writing and producing???
George: I'm co-directing and am narrating and interviewing in it. I am also playing guitar along with this band called Shadow Train. We've been working on it for about 18 months now and will continue to work on it for another good year or so. It's a story about the band but within the context of Native American and Aboriginal conquest and subjugation and the whole sad history and politics associated with that. These people have been almost completely assimilated into our culture and our beliefs unfortunately and that was the plan all along. It was first to genocide them and decimate them and then to take what's left of them and their culture and just turn them into second class citizens in their own land and ensure that they have no voice or political power. That's what has largely happened. Reservations to this day are sort of split with many of them resigned to the fact that they want to be comfortable and have cable and do less to get more just like everyone else in western culture. You can't fault them for that. When you completely destroy someone's worldview and culture and way of life it is pretty hard to take issue with them wanting to just give up and be comfortable. We left them with what we thought was wasteland but in all actuality they were sitting on a bunch of resources and resources are money and resources are the source of all wealth and every dominating civilization will go to whatever means, even slave labor, to extract those resources.
LRI: Some of these bigger picture concepts your talking about have made it into the lyrics and ideas behind this new T&N music you are making. At this point in your career is it vitally important for your music to have a larger message or social impact?
George: I am very interested in the message of the music. Really, the message of this new album Slave To The Empire came to us before the music even did. It's really the underpinning of the entire record and the music is really just more of a vehicle for the message. Jeff (Pilson, T&N bassist and vocalist) and I are of the same mind lyrically and in our worldview and so we speak with a commonality in terms of lyrics and message but Jeff really did the lion's share of the lyric writing. To me it doesn't even matter who or where it came from because it's the truth (laughs). The hope, the expectation, is that half the people will actually listen or pay attention to the lyrics and the message.
LRI: I like every single one of the new cuts. What was the inspiration behind "Jesus Train"?
George: Well Jeff and I talked constantly and one of the things that came up constantly is that organized religion is a pariah and one of the tools that is used to control people and exploit people. Really, I think that's sort of the epitome of evil. Evil doesn't exist in the natural world, it only exists in the human world. We wanted to talk about it and we're not just talking about the "holy roller" preacher that's taking all of the widow's social security check, we're talking about the whole concept at large, the fact that they're not taxable and are exempt while they sit there and pound the table about who to vote for, in other words, making people think they are out there voting and serving god and the greater good when they are really just serving the elite and voting against their own best interests. It's sort of an indictment against organized religion and the fact that people are really just serving God Money. Musically, we had this idea that we were gonna do kind of a ZZ TOP, bluesy, slide guitar type thing. Something with a bit of honky-tonk, bluegrass feel to it and Brian (Tichy, drummer on the new material half of the album) came up with this amazing beat.
LRI: I've heard so much about Brian Tichy, this album proves what a monster he is.
George: (laughs) He is!! He is just a total monster! He is dedicated to making his mark in this cold, cruel world.
LRI: Control seems to be an underlying theme on the album and on another song, "Mind Control".
George: Yeah, it's an indictment against the fourth arm of the government which is the media. In my mind if we have to worry about the military industrial complex then we absolutely have to worry about the media and the messengers. All of these things are pieces of the overall puzzle which conspire to control an effect, an effect which does not serve most of the people most of the time but instead serves a select few. Words and ideas can be a very powerful weapon. All great or terrible things start with a word or an idea. This whole album is a collection of songs with a greater theme.
LRI: Thanks for talking with us George. If the new material on Slave To The Empire is any indication the next T&N album will be great. I'm hoping to check out one of the shows in 2013.
George: Thank you. We will be out there and there is much more to come.
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Great indepth interview! Sad to have lost an opportunity to see Lynch Mob this week in AZ, but excited for things to come from T&N!
Nice to see Lynch has (KINDA) kept up with his bodybuilding.


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There's a glamour-puss inside of me and, every holiday season, she tries to get out: Despite the low-key, quick-fix philosophy that dictates my daily aesthetic, I want big hair and dramatic makeup when it comes time to hit the Christmas-party circuit.
I blame this on a childhood spent watching prime-time soaps such as Dynasty and Dallas , which reflected the excesses of the Reagan era. I will never forget watching Joan Collins, face and hair fully done, lounging in a bubble bath while drinking champagne and spooning caviar out of a crystal bowl. Part of me still yearns for that kind of indulgence.
As popular as such shows were in their heyday, most fell out of favour when the economy took a serious nosedive in the early 1990s. As Jaime Weinman pointed out in a June Maclean's article about the new wave of TV potboilers that have hit the airwaves more recently, nighttime soaps lost their audiences because viewers grew tired of "rich-people problems and storylines." Considering how often the hashtag #firstworldproblems trends on Twitter today, however, such an aversion no longer nags at the collective consciousness. Another sign that we're open to eighties-redux glam: Dallas is back on TV in a new, 21st-century version.
"With television saturated by reality TV shows, cop [programs] and medical dramas, we've been missing that serialized drama, which we're finally getting with shows like Dallas and Revenge ," says Christine Fix, editor-in-chief of Soaps.com. Added bonus: We're also getting all the glossy lips, Technicolor makeup and slick updos that come with them, both onscreen and off.
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As the holidays approach, I hope to be invited to more than a few parties so I'll be able to conjure up several of my favourite soap looks. First off, there's the angelic Krystle Carrington, whose soft television glow could only have been realized through a Vaseline-smeared lens. Today, Krystle's radiant, monochromatic mien isn't so impossible, Toronto makeup artist Anna Nenoiu says, if you have a good face-contouring palette, such as Make Up For Ever's Sculpting Kit, in your beauty arsenal. After putting on foundation, you apply the lighter shade to the apple of the cheek using a contour brush, sweeping the colour at a 45-degree angle toward the ear before finishing with the darker shade in the hollow of the cheek. "Blending is key," Nenoiu says, invoking a rule that Krystle knew all too well when she married into the Carringtons.
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Immunizing Angolas children against measles
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|UNICEF regards needle and syringe safety is as important as the immunization.
LUBANGO, July 2003 Beads of sweat drip from her brow. It is just shy of 11a.m., the Angolan sun has been burning for hours, and Teresa Alcino is happy to be in the shade.
While Teresa looks sprightly, her cargo is only just waking up. In one swift, yet skilled movement Teresa swings her baby sister from her back and into the vaccinators arms. Teresa is seven. Her little sister, Joana, just two. Joana is young, but heavy, and this immunization post at the central market in Lubango, in Angolas south, is two kilometres from Teresa and Joanas small village.
Teresa has brought Joana here to be immunized against measles. It is the second phase of Angolas National Measles Campaign, the biggest health initiative in the countrys history. Joana is one of 3,150,000 Angolan children who UNICEF and Angolas Ministry of Health aim to immunize at informal urban gathering areas such as this market during this phase of the campaign. (And because Joana is under five years of age, she and 3 million others in the same age range will also receive a Vitamin A capsule to boost their immune systems.)
I had my [measles] shot 10 days ago at my school [during phase one], says Teresa. My mother was going to bring Joana in to the market today but she is ill. At my school we spoke a lot about sarampo [Portuguese for measles], and so I realized how dangerous it is. That is why I have brought my sister here.
For her part Joana may not fully appreciate the sacrifice her sister has made. She is stirred by the quick prick of the vaccinators needle. It is over in a matter of seconds, though the shock has brought Joana to tears. A few tears are a small price to pay, says the vaccinator Juliana Balombo, who gently gives Joana back to Teresa and prepares for the next child.
This is a smooth, yet quick process. It has to be. Over the course of the three phases of Angolas National Measles Campaign, UNICEF and partners are seeking to immunize 7 million Angola children; that is every single Angolan boy and girl aged between nine months and 15 years of age. It would be a tough task anywhere, though it is made especially challenging in a country where distances are vast, transport limited, communications simple and where the basic health system has been devastated by four decades of war.
Juliana Balombo is one of 10,000 vaccinators trained by UNICEF for this campaign who hope to be the key element in restarting Angolas health system.
I am a nurse, though UNICEF gave me new safe-injection training for this campaign, says Balombo. I cant tell you how good it feels to be able to use my skills to prevent children getting sick, rather than simply treating their ills.
Routine immunization is the goal
Balombos skills will not only ensure successful implementation of the campaign, but also lay the groundwork for UNICEFs broader goal in Angola: routine immunization.
Measles is the leading cause of vaccine-preventable mortality in Angola. The National Measles Campaign is part of the formulated Strategic Plan 2003-2007 for Measles Mortality Reduction, headed by UNICEF, the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization.
Precious funding from the governments of Canada (who was the campaigns major donor), the United States, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the European Union has meant the campaign will extend to each and every of Angolas 18 provinces and all 164 municipalities. But campaigns like this are costly and demand enormous amounts of time. The goal must be routine immunization.
The entire health system must be strengthened and conditions established across Angola for routine vaccination, says UNICEF Angola Representative, Mario Ferrari. If this is done, then we will look back in five years time when child mortality rates are falling, and 2003 will be recognized as the year Angolan children were put first on the agenda.
Around 10,000 Angolan children die each year from measles, with 95 per cent of cases occurring in children below 15 years of age. This translates to 30 children dying every day from a disease that means little more in the developed world than a few days off school.
Heart-breaking numbers
As Rita Ferraz would attest, these are the heart-breaking numbers UNICEF and Angolas Ministry of Health are trying to reverse. Hailing from the centre of Angola, Ferraz came to Luanda 10 years ago. At the height of Angolas bloody civil war, her home suffered greatly and so Ferraz brought her four children to the capital. Although Luanda was spared fighting during the war, its basic services were terribly neglected.
A woman alone with five children has few options in a city like Luanda and the only accommodation Ferraz could afford was in Roque Santeiro, bordering Angolas largest and most dangerous market.
Within five years of being in Luanda, two of Ferrazs children had died from measles. Today, with her surviving children grown up, Ferraz looks after her grandson, 18-month-old Marcelo.
To visitors and foreigners, Angola vacillates between desperately sad and staunchly inspiring. Roque Santeiro seems locked into the former. Here the dirt and mud streets are carpeted in rubbish. Indeed the only thing you see in comparable quantity to the rubbish are children. Vivacious, screaming, laughing, wailing children. Here raw sewerage lies under their bouncing toes. Here disease finds an open door.
And yet it is here, during phase two of Angolas measles campaign, that Rita Ferraz (despite recovering from a bad bout of malaria) finds hope. In between caring for Marcelo, Ferraz works 12 hours a day, selling bits and pieces so that she can feed her family and afford their $30 per month rent. And now, having brought Marcelo back from a dangerous bout of diarrhoea, Ferraz is waiting to have him immunized at a nearby outpost bordering the market and her home.
Ferraz is testament to the success of the Angolan Governments and UNICEFs information campaign. Although she has no money for newspapers, and certainly does not own a TV, a few weeks ago Ferraz heard a funny song on the radio. It was one of 12 indigenous-language broadcasts that UNICEF organized so as to spread the measles message to places as removed as Roque Santeiro.
It is in Roque Santeiro, and in similar regions across Angola, where UNICEF and Ministry of Health immunization teams are reaching. So often these are the forgotten areas. Places people speak of, but dont visit. Yet UNICEF is here in force.
Vaccinators, health workers, mobilizers, even enthusiastic teenagers dressed up in the Measles mascot, trying to assuage the fears of waiting children.
I ask Ferraz if Marcelo is scared. Everything he has to be scared of is right here, she says, pointing to the filthy chaos of Roque Santeiro. This injection is his friend thats what I have been telling him. You have to understand, she continues. Every mother, every grandmother wants to protect her children, but there are many problems we face here. This is not a place for children this is not a place for anyone, but I find hope when UNICEF tells me they will protect Marcelo from a death I have felt too much. Sarampo has caused me too many tears. Today Marcelo will beat it.
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Given that DEP-5 is supposed to be about machine- readability, I thought it would be worthwhile trying to write something to parse the proposed format. Please find attached a short python script that I have written based on the current text of DEP-5 at dep.debian.net[1]. It's designed to be run from an unpacked and patched source package (or at least a source tree containing debian/copyright, which it attempts to parse). It will print out a list of each Files: stanza found in the copyright, followed by the list of files which it believes are matched by the stanza. It has proven useful to me: I found several bugs in a copyright file I'd written for a real live package, based on my misinterpretation of the current wording. Whilst writing this, I found the syntax chosen for the Files: field to be very awkward. Indeed my crude parser only handles a subset of the syntax so far (no escapes, no handling of quoted strings). Most of the examples given in DEP-5 containing the path character will not work, either, e.g. Files: debian/* Assuming they are passed into a find(1) invocation like so find . -path 'debian/*' (note the presence of the path separator and the wording about that in the text) they need to be prefixed with './', even if you omit '.' in the find execution (which itself is a GNUism iirc). Patch attached. I think I would much prefer using regular expressions here. For one thing I'm worried about variations in find(1) behaviours across platforms. For another, unless a parser calls find(1) (as I have, and it's expensive), trying to match its behaviour will imho be a lot more error prone than using your languages built-in regular expression library or pcre or whatever. I will try to cook a patch for comment. [1] (I need to re-read the older DEP-5 messages to understand the current maintainership situation: I see Steve remove the other drivers in that version, and Charles do the same in his git repo...) -- Jon Dowland
#!/usr/bin/python # a crude DEP-5 parser # Copyright (c) 2009 Jon Dowland <firstname.lastname@example.com> # Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are # permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this # notice are preserved. # usage: run the script from within an unpacked source tarball with the debian # diff.gz applied on top (or at least, a DEP-5-syntax debian/copyright file # available) from email import parser from sys import exit from os import popen ############################################################################## ## step 1: handle/parse RFC822 superset # remove blank lines so the parser treats it all as an email header copyright = parser.Parser().parsestr( ''.join( filter(lambda x: "\n" != x, open("debian/copyright").readlines() ))) if len(copyright.keys()) < 1: print "parser didn't get any headers from the copyright file" exit(1) ############################################################################## ## step 2: interpret the headers and build a list of tuples ## (files, license, copyright) # DEP5 header. Format-Specification is required. Others are optional. valid = "Format-Specification Name Maintainer Source Disclaimer".split() header = dict([ [x,''] for x in valid]) files = "Files Copyright License".split() # first loop: handle the header for i in range(0,len(copyright.items())): key = copyright.keys()[i] # skip over x-Arbitrary: headers if key[0] == 'x': continue if key in valid: if header[key]: print "error: redefinition of '%s'." % key exit(1) header[key] = copyright.values()[i] continue # this marks the transition from the header onwards if key in files: if not header['Format-Specification']: print "error: Format-Specification must be defined " +\ "before the Files section" exit(1) break print "unrecognised key '%s'" % key exit(1) # second loop: looping through the main parts current = dict([ [x,''] for x in files]) tuples = [] # take a hash of Files/Copyright/License and split it up # into multiple ones based on the Files key # first rule: multiple items separated by commas # XXX: unhandled: escaped commas; quoted-strings # containing commas def append(tuples, current): for t in current['Files'].split(","): c = current.copy() c['Files'] = t.strip() tuples.append(c) for i in range(i,len(copyright.items())): key = copyright.keys()[i] # skip over x-Arbitrary: headers if key[0] == 'x': continue if key in files: # handle implicit 'Files: *' if 'Files' != key and not current['Files']: current['Files'] = '*' # new Files: stanza ends the last one elif 'Files' == key and current['Files']: for defn in ['License', 'Copyright']: if not current[defn]: print "error: missing %s line for Files: %s" \ % (defn, current['Files']) exit(1) append(tuples,current) current = dict([ [x,''] for x in files]) # new License or Copyright for existing Files: if current[key]: print "error: redefinition of '%s'. Missing 'Files' item?" % key print "line is %d, value is '%s'" % (i,copyright.values()[i]) exit(1) current[key] = copyright.values()[i] continue print "unrecognised key '%s'" % key exit(1) tuples.append(current) # DEP-5 states "If multiple Files declarations match the same file, then only # the last match counts.". This suggests no inheritance is possible between # stanzas. Thus, reversing the list means we can look for the *first* matching # stanza. tuples.reverse() ############################################################################## ## step 3: indicate mapping of stanzas to source files ## we run find(1) for each tuple to build up a list of files which match ## the Files: definition. We then run find(1) again on the source directory ## to obtain a list of all files, then compare results. # a list of [ (Files:, [matching files]) ] for each Files # populated with the list of files which match each Files: key matching = [] for t in tuples: nameorpath = 'name' if t['Files'].count('/') > 0: nameorpath = 'path' runme = "find . -type f -%s \"%s\" 2>/dev/null" % (nameorpath, t['Files']) matching.append( (t['Files'], [ x.strip() for x in popen(runme).readlines() ]) ) # { Files: => [matching files] }, this time populated by # comparing every file against each stanza in turn results = dict([ [x['Files'],[]] for x in tuples ]) results['no match'] = [] for fname in [x.strip() for x in popen('find . -type f').readlines()]: res = 'no match' for pair in matching: if fname in pair[1]: res = pair[0] break results[res].append(fname) for hash in tuples: print "%s:" % hash['Files'] for value in results[hash['Files']]: print "\tmatches %s" % value
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Donald Trump Fields Question About President Obama Being a Muslim [Video]
Trump took the question in stride and then gave an answer that had zero specifics, but essentially said "We're going to do some things." Very specific!
Trump took the question in stride and then gave an answer that had zero specifics, but essentially said "We're going to do some things." Very specific!
Katey Sagal discusses her new show 'The Bastard Executioner' with Free Beer and Hot Wings. Eric Zane reveals that he's 'rubbed one out' thinking about Peg Bundy.
Besides falling asleep in what looks like the middle of a town's square, we're not sure what this guy did to deserve this wake up call.
After a long night of drinking, usually people like to spend the next morning quietly waking up with a large glass of water - not waking up to an entire Norwegian men's choir singing at you.
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The 21st season premiere of Dancing with the Stars was last night, and Gary Busey is one of the contestants, as announced a couple of weeks ago on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Busey danced the cha-cha, and was typical Gary Busey afterward, which was pretty weird. He said he dances in the "cosmos of riddles."
Every man knows that a nut-punch is off limits during a fight. Well, every man except this BYU player.
Each Thursday on the show, we play Dumber Than Zane Trivia for a $500 cash prize. Due to some instances of cheating in the past, we now require that all of our contestants be blindfolded and use GoToMeeting so we can watch them play and ensure that they are not cheating.
Today's contestant on a special edition of Dumber Than Free Beer Trivia was Shawn in Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Instead of saying "Welcome back to school!" or "Study hard this year!", the brothers decided to go the rapey route, with banners that read "Hope your baby girl is ready for a good time," "Freshman daughter drop off," and "Go ahead and drop off mom, too."
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Nelson Cruz, OF, free agent — Momentum is starting to build in Cruz's favor. While a one-year deal somewhere is still not out of the question, there are teams with righthanded power needs, and Cruz could benefit. The Mariners remain interested, but according to one major league source, "there could be up to four or five teams who could take the plunge in the end."
Cruz was busted last year for PEDs and his free agency is tied to draft pick compensation, so it's been a slow-moving winter for the outfielder. The Mariners are looking for more offense and would only have to give up a third-round pick to sign Cruz, but the salary demands were still an issue as of last week.
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Crystal Palace have no plans to part company with Alan Pardew despite an alarming slide down the Premier League table.
Pardew worked miracles when taking charge in January 2015 and Palace's excellent form continued into this season as they flirted with the Champions League places.
However, they have struggled since Christmas and, after failing to pick up three points in any of their last 11 matches, they are perilously close to the relegation zone.
Despite the slump, reports have suggested the Palace hierarchy have every faith in Pardew and have no intention of showing him the exit door.
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The systematic study of electrical and magnetic forces began in the late Eighteenth Century. Electrically charged objects were produced by rubbing one substance with another. Two kinds of charge were observed, like charges repel one another, and unlike charges attract.
Benjamin Franklin performed experiments with electrically charged pith balls, which led Priestley and Cavendish to try to prove that the electric force was an inverse square force just like the gravitational force. Coulomb proved by his experiments that the force between two unlike charges is indeed inverse to the square of their distance apart, and along the line joining them. The attraction has exactly the form of gravitational attraction between masses.
At some stage someone got the idea of describing electrical forces through the notion of an electric field. This is defined as the force per unit charge that a small fictitious charged object would experience from a given distribution of charges when placed at the argument of the field.
The surface area of a sphere is proportional to its radius squared, while the electric field of a point charge is inversely proportional to that same quantity. Therefore the integral of the normal component of an electric field around a spherical surface is independent of the radius of the sphere, and only measures the strength of the charge at its center.
We call the integral of the normal component of a vector over any surface the "flux of through the surface". The remark above can be stated as: the flux of electric field through the surface of a sphere containing a charge at its center is proportional only to the amount of charge and is a constant times the amount of that charge.
Gauss generalized this statement to apply to the surface of any region containing the charge by means of the divergence theorem, which he discovered. This theorem implies that the flux of electric field through the boundary of any region of space is an appropriate constant multiplied by the amount of electric charge in the region.
Around the turn of the Nineteenth Century, Volta invented the battery, and it became practical for people to produce currents of electricity. Oersted and Ampere discovered in about 1820 that electric currents produce forces that cause magnetized needles to line up in a direction tangential to a circle about the wire. Ampere, in particular, discovered that the magnetic force on such needles produced by a long straight wire carrying electric current is proportional to the current flow and inversely proportional to the distance of the needle from the wire.
The circumference of a circle is proportional to its radius and the magnetic field just described is inversely proportional to radius. Therefore the integral around the circumference of any circle around the wire of the component of magnetic field in the direction of the path is independent of its radius. It is an appropriate constant times the "flux" or flow of current through the wire for any such circle.
We define the integral of the component of a vector field in the direction of a path around a closed path to be the circulation of around that path. Ampere's law can then be stated as: the circulation of magnetic field around a wire is a constant times the flux of current through it.
Faraday got the idea that if electric current flux causes magnetic circulation, then there should be some sort of reciprocity: magnetic flux ought to be able to cause electric current circulation. In 1831, after looking for such an effect, he discovered his celebrated law of induction: that changing magnetic flux through a surface produces a circulation of electric field on its boundary. This means it produces a "difference in electrical potential" around the boundary path of which means a charged particle in a wire around it will have work done on it in moving around the wire. This will make electric current flow in a wire around the surface, and that current is a constant times the derivative of the magnetic flux through (any) surface bounded by the wire.
By increasing and decreasing the amount of current in one wire, you can make its magnetic force oscillate, which will cause current to flow back and forth in another wire.
Somewhere in the middle of the century Stokes discovered his mathematical theorem relating flux of a curl a vector field on a surface to the circulation of around the boundary of .
Maxwell used this fact to prove that consistency of the equations of electricity and magnetism requires a modification of Ampere's Law when there are changing electric fields.
With this modification he noted (in circa 1862) that electric and magnetic fields can display wave-like behavior even in the absence of matter, and he asserted that the phenomenon of light consisted of exactly such waves. His claims produce a prediction of the velocity of light, which had only recently been measured, and it agreed with that measurement precisely.
His celebrated differential equations describing the behavior of electromagnetic fields were published in 1874. Maxwell's discoveries were distinguished by being entirely theoretical. He utilized the mathematical implications of Stokes' Theorem rather than an experiment to discover his "displacement current" whose presence made possible his identification of light with electromagnetism.
The idea behind Maxwell's discovery is this: according to Stokes' theorem, the flux of the curl of a vector field through a surface is its circulation around the boundary of the surface. By this theorem, the flux of the curl any vector field must be the same through any two surfaces with the same boundary.
Faraday's discovery allowed people to produce electric current that oscillates by moving magnets near wires, or (equivalently) by moving wires near magnets (as in Davis and Kidder's Therapeutic Device, patented in 1854).
Induction of current in one wire from the change in current in another assumes that the changing current in the first produces a changing magnetic field which produces the current in the second according to Faraday's law.
But now suppose we have a gap in the second wire. Current will flow in it until charge builds up across the gap, and this current will produce a magnetic field of its own. If the current in both wires is made to oscillate, that is, to flow back and forth as a sine function of time, current will flow much of the time despite the gap, and if the frequency of the sine is large enough, there will be little charge build up at the gap at any time, and little "impedance" to current flow in the wire.
According to Ampere's Law (applied to a non-steady state current situation) there will be oscillating "magnetic circulation" around the wire, from the oscillating current flow in the wire in this situation. But if we take a surface that passes through the wire and deform it to make it pass through the gap instead of the wire, there will be no current through it! Then Ampere's law would say there was no magnetic circulation on the same path in contradiction to the previous statement.
A circle around the wire with a gap can be filled by a surface that passes through the wire or else by distorting that surface keeping its boundary the same, into one that goes only goes through the gap. The integral of flux of a curl must be the same for both surfaces. There must therefore be something in the gap that, like current, contributes to the flux of the curl of the magnetic field there.
Maxwell concluded that the current flux could not possibly be the flux of the curl of the magnetic field under these circumstances. Ampere's law, which describes steady state current flow adequately must be modified when current flow is time dependent!
The current flux with a given boundary will be different depending on whether we pass our surface through the wire or through the gap. The flux of the curl of the magnetic field must be the same in both. If the curl of the magnetic field is to be flux of current in the wire it must be something else in the gap and that something else must have the same flux.
The only thing we know about in the gap is that it contains the changing electric field caused by the charge oscillations on its faces. Maxwell postulated that consistency requires an additional time dependent term in Ampere's law proportional to the flux of the time derivative of this electric field.
This term, which he called "displacement current" produces remarkable symmetry in the resulting equations. When written as differential equations, the laws of Gauss, Ampere with Maxwell's modification, and Faraday have the consequence that electric and magnetic fields obey "the wave equation" in the absence of matter, and suggest that there can be waves of electric and magnetic field, which waves move with a finite velocity.
Maxwell's assertion that light is a form of such wave motion implies a particular finite velocity of light that can be deduced from electric and magnetic phenomena. The symmetries of his equations include not only rotations in ordinary space, but also transformations which mix space with time, called Lorentz transformations.
In 1888, Hertz actually created electromagnetic waves and detected them in his laboratory. He had connected a coil of wire and small gap, ran current through the wire until the field on the condenser caused a spark; the resulting oscillations of current produced waves that were observable on another similar circuit.
Marconi got the notion from this that such waves could be used for communication by causing current to flow in a distant wire. In the 1890's he set up apparatus to transmit signals over ever widening distances, and by 1901was able to send telegraphic signals across the Atlantic Ocean that could be and were received and used for wireless communication.
The physical laws involved in these subjects are few in number and can be stated in a few lines. We will now consider their mathematical implications in terms of the concepts of vector calculus.


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A venous skin ulcer is a shallow wound caused by venous insufficiency, a condition in which the valves in the blood vessels are damaged and allow some blood to back up in the veins. The slowed circulation causes fluid to seep out of the overfilled veins into surrounding tissues, causing tissue breakdown and ulcers.
Venous skin ulcers, also called stasis leg ulcers, typically develop on either side of the lower leg, above the ankle and below the calf.
The first sign of a skin ulcer is an affected area of skin that turns dark red or purple. It may also become thickened and dry and itchy. Without treatment, an open wound (ulcer) may form. Venous skin ulcers often weep clear fluid and are covered with yellowish film.
The most effective treatment for venous skin ulcers is frequent elevation of the legs above the level of the heart and use of compression stockings during waking hours.
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Milpitas, Calif. California Micro Devices has announced the sampling of chip scale package (CSP) Application Specific Integrated Passive (ASIP) devices with 0.40-mm pitch and 0.25-mm CSP solder balls to key strategic customers. A market and technology leader in CSP and advanced ASIP designs for the handset market, California Micro Devices is the first supplier of integrated passive solutions to offer 0.40-mm pad pitch CSP ASIP devices in volume production. These fine pitch CSP products represent a solution form factor reduction of greater than 20% compared to industry standard 0.50-mm pitch CSP products. In addition, the smaller die size provides a path for future solution cost reduction.
"Our customers' familiarity with both CSP and fine pitch ball grid array (BGA) packages has progressed to the point where they are ready to make the transition to 0.40-mm pitch CSP ASIP devices while maintaining high production yields," said Kyle Baker, vice president of marketing for California Micro Devices. "The migration to fine pitch CSP ASIP devices provides value to our customers through a significant reduction solution form factor, and cost and is the next stage in the evolution of CSP devices. Just as the initial CSP products with 0.65-mm pad pitch were displaced by devices with 0.50-mm pad pitch, those in turn will be succeeded by devices with 0.40-mm pitch."
California Micro Devices' growing portfolio of CSP ASIP devices delivers the highest levels of electromagnetic interference (EMI) filtering combined with robust electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection. Utilizing an application specific design methodology, the company produces highly integrated CSP solutions that address the passive function requirements for leading handset data interfaces, including the color LCD, CMOS imager, audio and chip card interfaces. These high-volume, general customer solutions are designed into the latest wireless handsets from such leading vendors as LG, Kyocera, Motorola and Samsung, among others.
The 0.40-mm pitch CSP products are available in both eutectic and lead free formats to meet the project's requirements. Evaluation boards will be available for these new CSP products on June 24, 2004.


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Ryu nearly tops Beckett's no-hitter with perfect game
LOS ANGELES — A few hours after Josh Beckett pitched a no-hitter in Philadelphia, Dodgers manager Don Mattingly told left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu that the only way to top Beckett's feat was to throw a perfect game.
Ryu almost did.
The Korean-born Dodgers pitcher came within six outs of a perfect game and baseball history Monday night, but he settled for a 4-3 win over the Cincinnati Reds at Dodger Stadium.
"I told Ryu last night when we got on the plane he had to throw a perfect game today to top Beckett," Mattingly recalled. "For a while there, I was like, 'Whew, he might do it.' "
Ryu retired the first 21 batters he faced until Todd Frazier led off the eighth inning with a line-drive double to left field. Ryu gave up two more hits before he was lifted for Brian Wilson, and Kenley Jansen retired the final four outs in what became a nail-biter.
No team in major-league history has ever had back-to-back no-hitters. Beckett tossed a no-hitter Sunday against the Phillies, and Ryu — with the help of two superb diving stops by third baseman Justin Turner — almost one-upped his teammate.
"Of course, in the back of my mind I was thinking about it," Ryu said through a team translator. "I think it's the first time I've ever gone (past) seven innings of no hits in my professional career."
Dodgers pitchers went a combined 17 innings and 57 opponent at-bats without allowing a hit, a Los Angeles franchise record and the longest since the Angels went 17 innings in 2012 following Jered Weaver's no-hitter on May 2.
"I think it shows what kind of pitching we have and what we're capable of," Mattingly said.
Ryu's shot at perfection may have been undone by his team's 27-minute seventh inning in which they sent eight batters to the plate and scored three runs. Ryu even had a hand in the inning, reaching base on an error and driving in a run.
Although Ryu said the long inning didn't bother him, Mattingly said, "The biggest thing that happens in that game was that long, long inning. I think that hurts him at that point. It obviously gets us runs, and you never turn those down and we needed them tonight, but the long inning breaks the momentum for him."
In contrast to Beckett, who talked with teammates and ignored the baseball tradition of sitting alone on the bench during the game, Ryu was a solitary figure in the Dodgers dugout.
Maybe he was thinking about his conversation with Mattingly and pitching coach Rick Honeycutt: To best Beckett, he would need to throw a perfect game.
"I remember it," Ryu said. "It was right before we got on the plane. We laughed about it. It wasn't until the seventh inning that I thought it could happen."
He came close.
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|March 30, 2009, 10:38 PM
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Mini-14 dented cases, need help!
Well I just took out my brand new mini-14 to the range and have good news and bad news. The good news is that after sighting-in the buckmaster 4x40 fixed power (got it for $99 at Natchezz close-out, what a deal) I shot two consecutive 1.75 inch 3 shot groups. I know, this is not tackdriver groups, but for a mini-14 with UMC ammo, I was very happy. I am sure with some hand loads, I can get that to 1.5 inches. Anyway, the bad news. The very last round of the 20-round mag got pinched as the bolt cycled with the bullet facing the throat and the primer end of the shell sticking out. (see photo of cartridge with dent) Also, as I was picking up the brass, I noticed that about half of them were dented-in at the mouth (also see photo). Anybody know what is causing the dents and the misfeed? Can the brass be reloaded? Thanks in advance for any info.
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The dents are from violent ejections. The misfeed can only be addressed with the rifle in hand.
The deformed case mouths are reloadable still. They may suffer a slight loss of case life, but will still work just fine. The reloader just needs to be careful while sizing. If the expander hangs up on those case mouths; it can damage some dies, and will ruin the case.
|March 31, 2009, 10:28 AM
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Sometimes I will stick a needle nose pliers inside the case mouth and gently OPEN it so that the jaws spread apart and round out the case mouth somewhat.
I don't try to repair the dent, I just want to make the dent in the mouth less dented so there is less chance of the sizing die hanging up.
|March 31, 2009, 11:14 AM
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The dents occur because the ejector starts the case spining when the mouth clears the receivers, and the spinning brass hit something before it clears the gun. You can usually find where it hits the gun from the brass marks left behind. If you can afford the spare part, you can play with cutting turns off the ejector spring to reduce the force of the spin. There will come a point, if you weaken it too much, that it has trouble kicking the case out at all, so I would save this fiddling until you have your hand load established. You may end up tuning that spring to just the one load and accepting dents on some others. I would not try to affect the spin by messing with the extractor claw plunger spring as you may disable extraction unexpectedly.
As to the cases, rather than needle nose pliers, get round nose pliers. They won't put a crease anywhere in the case mouth. Sinclair makes a die body for their expanding and outside neck turning mandrels that can be used to straighten the inside of a case mouth. To avoid shortening case life, you probably will have to anneal these case necks every third loading or so until you get the dent cause addressed.
As to the feed, it can happen if the magazine is not all the way up. Check the magazine catch holds it where it should? Also, try just not filling the magazine. Load it two rounds short of its capacity. Some magazine springs jam up too hard for best function when full.
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You can buy aftermarket gas tubes to reduce this or get an adjustable gas regulator. The little gas tubes come in different inside diameters and change how much gas is released to operate the system.
I believe Brownell's sell them in a set of different diameters.
The adjustable gas block is more expensive but really neat. You can actually shut it off for single shot operation or go full open to shoot any type of ammo or any setting in between to reduce the force of ejection.
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|April 1, 2009, 04:31 PM
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use a bullet
I foolishly sold my Mini-14 a few years ago. Mine dated back to 1988 or so. It was one of the first in SS.
anyway, even then the cases would get mangled that way.
I just assumed it was the nature of the beast, and didn't tamper with the gun.
If the cases weren't squashed bad, I'd CAREFULLY re-size them, sometimes smearing a bit of lube in the case mouth and slowly pressing it into the die.
For the bad ones, I had an old piece of 2 x 4 about 6 inches long. I had drilled a hole in a little smaller than a 7mm bullet and pressed a jacketed 7mm into it noe up. I'd gently press the open case mouth down on this to flare out the squashed part. ( I suppose 5mm would work just as well). and then finish the re-sizing.
BTW, I do agree with frankenmauser that you need to insepct the cases as this does shorten their life IMHO
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LONDON (Reuters) - Former premier Tony Blair has postponed a party at the Tate Modern art gallery celebrating the launch of his autobiography because of threats from protesters, his office said on Wednesday.
Anti-war demonstrators had planned to disrupt the reception on Wednesday evening and a group of celebrated artists including Tracey Emin and Vivienne Westwood had called on the gallery to cancel the "disgraceful" event.
Blair has also been forced to cancel a signing session for "A Journey" at a bookstore in central London.
"It has been postponed for the same reason as the book signing," a spokesman for Blair said.
"We don't want to put our guests through the unpleasant consequences of the actions of demonstrators."
At the weekend, protestors hurled eggs and shoes at the former prime minister during a promotional event in Dublin.
Blair, prime minister for Labour between 1997 and 2007, led Britain into wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In particular, the occupation of Iraq by Western coalition forces was widely opposed and contributed to a dive in Blair's popularity.
Emin, Westwood and musician Brian Eno, were among figures from the arts world who wrote a letter to the Guardian newspaper on Wednesday to voice their concern about the Tate Modern event.
"It is disgraceful that the Tate is being used for this purpose," they said.
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Entrepreneurs' bravery and passion rewarded
There are certain acts that require courage: jumping out of a plane with a parachute in tow, shark-cage diving, running with the bulls in Pamplona... and starting a small business in the current economic climate.
The adjudicators at Eskom's annual Business Investment Competition (BIC) will tell you that, having listened to the inspiring stories of the finalists, courage is a non-negotiable when it comes to entrepreneurship in South Africa.
The competition encourages and rewards entrepreneurship and its gutsy forerunners by providing a platform for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to cross the next major hurdle in business development. It provides SMEs with general business recognition and helps them build a client base. Each year, the competition invites registered, South African, black-owned enterprises that have been operating for more than 24 months to enter. The businesses may operate in any of the nine provinces but must operate in the agricultural, manufacturing or trade/services sectors.
This year the BIC gala awards evening was held on 11 September and proved to be an inspiring occasion for organisers and finalists alike.
The winners of the three categories are shining examples of the entrepreneurial spirit and what can be achieved when you follow your passion with determination and savvy. The winners were: Tlamelo Fresh Produce from Mafikeng, North West, in the agriculture sector; Elegant Line Chemicals from Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, in the manufacturing sector; and ArchWorXS in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, in the trade/services sector.
All three winners were thrilled with their achievements. Nelly Shezi, co-owner of Elegant Line Chemicals, said of her entrepreneurial journey: "It hasn't been easy, but I have learnt that you have to persevere. It's important to know what you want out of life and to make it happen. It's also crucial to do something in line with your expertise."
The expert panel of adjudicators in turn offered their own advice to small business owners and South Africans in general on the power and importance of entrepreneurship in our country, and the profound effect it can have on the growth of the economy.
The panel noted that it is dependent on us as South Africans to buy proudly SA products. "Internally, we have to make a conscious decision to support our own entrepreneurs. We are asking them to do things but we are not supporting them," they said.
The adjudicators were brimming with inspiration they had gleaned from the finalists. Adjudicator Cecil Ramonotsi, Programme Manager at the Eskom Development Foundation, particularly enjoyed seeing the passion of small business owners.
"They are definitely moving the barriers around them in their daily life challenges," he commented. "It's not easy for them to start thinking about venturing into business without bravery. If you look at the amount of courage it takes, struggling through and failing as much as succeeding - it says a lot."
Winners received R100 000 each and runners up in each of the categories received R25 000 to improve their business.
Also recognized at the BIC awards evening were the winners of the Eskom Simama Ranta competition, which aims to identify, honour and showcase those South African secondary schools that are exemplars in entrepreneurship education. The 2012 winner of this competition was Sakhelwe High School in Ezakheni, KwaZulu-Natal. They win R25 000 to put towards expanding their enterprise projects.
In addition, all finalists will be exhibiting at the annual Eskom Business Opportunities and Franchise Expo (BOFE), held from 13 to 16 September 2012 at the Coca-Cola dome in Northriding, Johannesburg.
The expo provides SMEs with a versatile marketing platform from which to build brand awareness, interact with potential customers and investors as well as to generate media coverage. Like the competition, BOFE is dedicated to developing entrepreneurship in South Africa.
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CAIC forecasters highlight 'very real and rapidly increasing avalanche danger'
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FRISCO — A developing winter storm has prompted the season's first avalanche warning in the Colorado high county. With up to 12 inches of snow expected across the higher terrain, forecasters with the Colorado Avalanche Information Center say extra caution is required for backcountry travel this weekend.
"Don't let the fresh snow blind you to the very real and rapidly increasing avalanche danger," the CAIC posted on its website. The heaviest snow is expected Saturday afternoon and Saturday night and the thin and brittle early season snowpack likely won't be able to support the fresh snow, especially in wind-loaded areas. Continue reading "Incoming storm prompts avalanche, travel warnings"


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by Richard Band | February 7, 2014 1:52 pm
What's the downside? Stocks mounted a nice reflex rally Thursday (Dow up 188 points), giving us some breathing space to consider the larger issues. Equities' lackluster performance so far in 2014 suggests that the U.S. stock market may be forming a "primary" top—the kind that typically occurs every three to five years. If that's really what's happening, how much of a setback should we prepare for?
Many investors, scarred by the experiences of 2000-02 and 2007-09, continue to fret about the risk of a third bear market of similar proportions. Obviously, I can't rule out such a possibility.
The global economy has struggled to recover from the shocks of the 2007-09 financial crisis. Europe's banks remain a weak link in the system, and China's rapid buildup of domestic debt over the past five years holds the potential to cause serious disruptions—particularly in other emerging markets—if a legacy of bad investments overwhelms the ability of the Chinese authorities to carry out their recently announced economic liberalization program.
At the same time, there are countervailing positives. U.S. banks, flush with cash, have built up their capital reserves to just about the highest level in the past 25 years. (See chart[1].) America's home-grown energy boom is providing jobs and chipping away at the nation's chronic trade deficit.
Furthermore, interest rates, on the whole, are still extremely low. Qualified borrowers have no trouble finding money. Despite the Federal Reserve's recent steps to "taper" its purchases of bonds and mortgages, any rise in short-term money market rates (above near-zero) will probably have to wait until the spring of 2015—at least.
Bottom line: The headline U.S. stock indexes could be in the early stages of a topping process that may lead to a more significant decline later this year than we've seen in January and February. To date, however, there's not much evidence pointing to a bear market on the lines of 2000-02 or 2007-09.
As long as the various negatives seem fairly well contained, I think we can go forward on the assumption that any pullback will amount to less than the "Euro swoon" of 2011, when the S&P 500 fell 19.4% on a closing basis. Remember, too, that the worst of the 2011 episode was concentrated within a few weeks in August. If the next market squall blows over as quickly as that, you and I can ride through it with little difficulty.
Meanwhile, let's keep our eyes wide open for any changes in the financial weather. As far as strategy is concerned, we'll wait, for now, on any explicit defensive measures. Instead, we'll build as much safety as possible into our portfolio by (1) purchasing stocks only when they're trading at a sizable discount to their 2013 peaks, and (2) spreading out our purchases over time to take advantage of sudden dips.
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One of the main functions of blood is to transport oxygen, cells, proteins, hormones, and other substances around the body to the organs and tissues. Oxygen is carried from the lungs to the body cells, and the waste product carbon dioxide is transported from the cells to the lungs. Blood also has a clotting mechanism that acts to seal damaged blood vessels and prevents internal and external blood loss.
Transporting oxygen
Each red blood cell contains millions of molecules of haemoglobin, each made up of four protein chains (two alpha- and two beta-globin) and four haeme, an iron-bearing red pigment. Haemoglobin combines with oxygen from the lungs to give arterial blood its bright red colour. Once oxygen is released in the tissues, the blood becomes darker, a distinctive feature of venous blood.
Blood clotting
When a blood vessel is cut or torn, the damage triggers a series of chemical reactions that lead to the formation of a blood clot to seal the injury. Clot formation depends on blood cells called platelets, which adhere at the site of injury. The platelets then clump together and release chemicals that activate proteins, called clotting factors.
When a blood vessel is damaged, it constricts at once. Platelets that come into contact with the damaged blood vessel walls are activated. They become sticky and start to adhere to the blood vessel walls near the site of the injury.
The platelets clump together. Damaged tissue and activated platelets release chemicals that start a "coagulation cascade", a complex series of reactions involving clotting factors. At each stage, more clotting factors are activated.
The final stage is conversion of the protein fibrinogen, which is dissolved in the fluid part of the blood, to insoluble fibrin strands. The sticky fibrin threads form a tangled mesh that traps red cells and other blood cells, forming a clot.
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Halla Visteon Climate Control supplying components for Hyundai fuel cell vehicle
21 February 2014
Halla Visteon Climate Control Corp. (HVCC) is supplying a number of technologies to support the hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle manufactured by Hyundai Motor Group. Introduced in Europe in 2013, the ix35, also known as the Tucson, is slated for a limited US distribution this spring.
Products supplied by HVCC on the Tucson compact crossover SUV include a centrifugal air compressor; coolant heater; high-voltage cooling module and positive temperature coefficient (PTC) heater; and an HVAC system with an electric compressor.
The centrifugal air compressor provides clean pressurized air to the fuel cell stack. The air compressor features a high-speed brushless DC motor with a patented, oil-free and angular ball bearing design. This air compressor technology is a finalist for the 2014 Automotive News PACE Award in the product innovation category. Winners will be named in April.
Halla Visteon Climate Control is a full-line automotive supplier of climate systems and components. Products include heating ventilation and air conditioning; compressors; powertrain cooling; fluid transport; and electric and hybrid vehicle thermal systems.
HVCC is a 70% owned subsidiary of Visteon Corporation and is traded on the Korea Stock Exchange.
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What constitutes Akola district at present was originally a part of the Nizam's dominion assigned in 1853 to the East India Company in liquidation of the large debt due on account of arrears of pay on the Hyderabad contingent and as a security for future payment of that force. At that time Berar was divided into two districts, South and North. In 1857 Berar was reconstituted into two districts, West Berar with headquarters at Akola and East Berar with headquarters at Amravati. In 1903,the treaties of assignment were superseded by an agreement under which the Nizam leased Berar to the Government of India for an annual rent of 25 lakhs of rupees in perpetuity.
The administration of Berar was transferred from Hyderabad to the then Chief Commissioner of Central Provinces. In 1864, when the district of Buldhana was constituted, a part of the west Berar district was transferred to Buldhana district. In 1875, again when the Washim district was created some parts were transferred and the district and tahsil boundaries were completely overhauled in 1905. Murtizapur tahsil was transferred from Amravati t Akola district and Khamgaon and Jalgaon tahsils were transferred from Akola to Buldhana district. The Washim district was broken and two tahsils of Washim and Mangrulpir were included in the newly constituted Akola district. There were no major changes in the boundaries of the district between 1911 and 1955. In 1956, with the Reorganisation of the States, the district was transferred from Madhya Pradesh to the then Bombay State and in 1960 it became a part of the State of Maharashtra.
On First July 1998, Akola district was divided to form two new districts – Akola and Washim. Akola district now consists of Akola, Balapur, Patur, Barshitakli, Murtizjapur, Akot and Telhara talukas. The district headquarter is Akola.
Akola city is located in north-central Maharashtra state, western India, on the Morna River. An important road and rail junction in the Purna River valley, it is a commercial centre trading chiefly in cotton. There are also textile and vegetable-oil industries. Akola is an important educational center with several colleges affiliated with the University of Amravati.
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SAN DIEGO — Jerimee Joyner grew up with six siblings, and he was the youngest, which made new clothes or toys rare.
"I always got the hand-me-downs. I always got the beat-up clothes and toys," Joyner said. "I know what it feels like to want things and not be able to get those things. Or wanting to do something and not be able to do it because of restrictions."
That experience inspired Joyner to begin training six months ago to be part of Saturday's revival of the Battle of the Badges. It is a boxing fundraiser to raise funds for the Community Youth Athletic Center youth boxing program. Saturday included nine bouts involving civil servants and military.
Joyner is an immigration enforcement agent for the Department of Homeland Security. He won a decision over Renee Saucedo from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
The reason Joyner said he entered the ring: "These kids, so they could potentially have a better life ahead of them."
Organizers resurrected the Battle of the Badges, which was held annually from 2003-12 at Barona Casino.
Saturday night, the Four Points Sheraton Hotel hosted the event. It showcased the fanfare of a prize fight. Around the boxing matches were scantly clad card girls in 6-inch heels, shirtless men dressed like Spartan soldiers walking the boxers to the ring, and introduction music for the fighters ranging from rapper YG's "My N*a" to War's 1975 classic "Why Can't We Be Friends."
The pomp was for the competitors and the fans, but the night was held to improve boxing's future. CYAC is a non-profit that offers a boxing gym along with a tutoring and mentoring center for kids 8 to 18 years old.
Samuel Fontan, 17, worked as a cornerman cleaning up spit and sweat the first four bouts Saturday. He trained at CYAC before moving to a pro coach recently.
"I think it's a wonderful thing they do, especially for the kids," Fontan said of CYAC. "They just want to see kids succeed. That's the main goal, and they want to help get kids off the street and do the right thing and introduce them to the good sport of boxing."
Jay Vasquez of the Border Patrol started training four months ago to be part of Saturday's event. He had about a dozen coworkers dressed in uniform attend the event, and he said their presence inspired him. Vasquez earned a draw with San Diego life guard Chris Pharo, who has four years of boxing experience.
"Winning wasn't important," Vasquez said. "What was important to me was I was doing something for a good cause. It wasn't just to do it for myself, 'cause a lot of things we do in life we do to better ourselves. This was something for the kids."


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How can I boot either one of my hard drives /dev/hda or /dev/hdb, I have RH9 and FC2
I have a single computer with two hard drives /dev/hda which contains
Redhat 9.0 (RH9.0) and /dev/hdb which contains Fedora Core 2 (FC2).
The problem is this. I installed FC2 last. Now I cannot automatically boot RH9 on /dev/hda the GRUB boot loader only shows the FC2 kernel. I have to use the boot floppy disk to get to the Redhat 9
installation on /dev/hda. Is there something I have do to fix this problem?
Yes you can easily configure your grub.conf file under FC2 so that the ghrub would also show an entry for rh9.
Here's what you do,
1. copy the initrd and the vmlinuz file under /boot of your rh9 to /boot of fc2.
2. next you need to edit your grub.conf file. to do so, in a console type
vi /etc/grub/grub.conf
and add a line regarding your rh9. This is easy. I fyou still need help you can get back here.
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