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For Elgin man, Monday marks his 60th Sox opener
If the weather for Monday's White Sox game feels more like November, the Gambro family might just think they are getting together to celebrate Thanksgiving instead of the first home baseball game of the season.
"It's like another holiday," Adam Gambro says of the Opening Day ritual started 60 years ago by his grandfather and family patriarch, Frank Gambro.
Frank, now 79, went to his first home opener as a teenager in 1953, and he hasn't missed once since.
"I've never known a fan like he is," marvels Joan Gambro, 76, Frank's wife of 56 years. Before they could plan their life together, the couple had to work out the usual questions about religion, careers, family and where to live.
"He said everything could be negotiable," Joan remembers, "but the kids have to be White Sox fans."
The Gambro home in Elgin boasts proof of that with old ticket stubs, souvenirs and photographs showing the family's love for the White Sox. Trumping them all from a beam crossing the sunroom ceiling are large wooden letters that spell out FAMILY. That connection with each other is what makes their Opening Day ritual so special, personal and emotional, especially since the 2001 death of Frank's son, Fran. Three generations meet to remember the past, dream about the future and enjoy the present.
"Everybody has a job," Frank says.
His grandson Adam, a 31-year-old Wheeling firefighter like his father Fran was, brings his motor home for tailgating. Frank's sons John, 50, dean of education at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, and Tim, 44, also a Wheeling firefighter, provide snacks and pop. Fran's younger sons Nick, 30, a firefighter in Lincolnshire, and Derek, 26, on the path to becoming a firefighter, cook the food and bring the beer.
Frank used to wait in line outside the old Comiskey Park to buy tickets, but now he gets them from a friend. Depending on the weather, as many as 17 family members and friends will make it to Monday's opener against the Kansas City Royals. The family has a similar ritual to catch a Notre Dame football game, but that's another story.
Frank grew up on the West Side, where half his friends rooted for the Cubs and half for the Sox. A 95-pound freshman at the all-boys St. Mel High School, Gambro identified with the Sox.
"I was always for the underdog," he remembers.
As teens, Gambro and his lifelong Sox friend Jim "Scully" Watts, who died last August, would take the el to Sox games to see stars such as shortstop Luke Appling. Would they ditch school to catch the opener?
"You didn't know my father, my friend," Gambro says, bristling at the suggestion.
"My dad used to let me ditch school to go to the Sox' Opening Day," teases Tim, the youngest of Frank's three sons.
Fran, John and Tim memorized the letters their dad wrote to excuse them from school.
"Due to personal family business (insert Gambro kid's name here) is unable to be in school," read the letters that the sons reprised for the next generation of Gambros.
On Frank's first Opening Day, his favorite all-time Sox player, outfielder Jungle Jim Rivera, scored the only run in a 1-0 victory.
"I liked him because of his desire, his headfirst slides," Frank says of the player who didn't make the Big Leagues until he was 30 and is remembered mostly for diving catches, reckless play on the base paths and a uniform that always was dirty.
Frank met his future wife when he was 18 and she was 16. Having recently moved from Chicago to Whitefish Bay, Wis., Joan was visiting friends at a teen hangout on Cedar Lake near Lake Villa. Frank was hooked.
"Scully and I would hitchhike up to Whitefish Bay for dates and take the train back," Frank remembers.
He joined the Army at age 21 but never missed an Opening Day. He bused from Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri to Comiskey Park thanks to a fortuitously timed leave during basic training. The second year, he was at Fort Sheridan and made the game easily.
As Frank's Army stint was ending, he married Joan on Oct. 13, 1956, a few days after that year's World Series. Making $110 a month in the Army, Frank remembers thinking he was rich when Sears offered him a job in the plumbing department paying $70 a week plus a 1 percent commission on sales. When he retired in 1992, Gambro was the head of women's fashions and managed 55 people. He later worked part time for J.C. Penney at Randhurst Shopping Center in Mount Prospect. They raised their three sons in Niles, moved to Lake Zurich and settled in 2007 in a gated retirement community in Elgin.
A white sock emblazoned with "Go Go Sox," which was handed out by Sox owner Bill Veeck for the 1957 season, hangs from a wall in a room filled with Sox memories.
"That was pinned on Fran's bassinet when he was a baby," Frank says, his voice cracking with emotion as he remembers the son who died in 2001. A Wheeling firefighter who was active with the union and in the community, Fran Gambro suffered burns on his head while fighting a fire. He developed skin cancer, endured operations and was thought to be cured when it flared up again. Back pain during the family's Thanksgiving in 2000 was a sign the cancer was back. Fran died three months later, and his absence affected the Opening Day weeks later.
Opening Day in 1991 marked the first game in the new Comiskey Park, when Frank, Scully and Fran posed for a picture as the Detroit Tigers handed the Sox a 16-0 pounding. Frank was there for the 1978 opener when Ron Blomberg hit a walk-off homer to beat the Boston Red Sox, the 1981 opener when newcomer Carlton Fisk hit a grand-slam homer in a Sox win, and the 1993 game when the incomparable Bo Jackson came back from a hip replacement and hit a home run on his first swing. While many of the games have been memorable, family stories always trump the wins and losses. Take the 1962 opener.
"We went right from the doctor's office to the game. Opening Day was the day we found out we were having our second son, and I froze to death," remembers Joan, who still attends games during the summer but hasn't been to an Opening Day in 50 years. She says she might break her streak if Monday's forecast gets a little warmer.
Tim says the White Sox played a vital role in trying to persuade his girlfriend, Stephanie, to become his wife.
"She said, 'I'll marry you when the White Sox win the World Series,'" says Tim. The Sox won the Series in 2005, and they married in 2006. They plan to take their daughters, 5½-year-old Kate and 4-year-old Abby, to this year's opener.
Frank sent in countless entries in a lottery for the chance to buy World Series tickets in 1959. "I mailed them from different spots in the city," remembers Gambro, who figured that would increase his odds of winning. He saw the only win Chicago would get on their home field, an 11-0 gem featuring the pitching of Early Wynn and two towering homers from Sox slugger Ted Kluszewski.
In 2005, Tim and Adam each paid $1,000 for a World Series ticket, and consider that a bargain for their memories of seeing Scott Podsednik's unlikely walk-off homer that gave the Sox a 2-0 lead on their way to a four-game sweep.
John's sons Jack "Lefty" Gambro, 17, and Winston, 20, have been going to games since before they can remember. Their mom, Beth, is a Cubs fan but also roots for the Sox.
The grandkids all know Frank's mantra that if you don't root for the Sox, "you're out of the will." Among the Sox items he'll one day pass along to future generations is a letter.
"I hope you have a great time in your retirement from Sears," begins the note from Jungle Jim Rivera, which is framed and autographed. It ends with advice embraced by all the Gambros. "So take care, and pull for the White Sox."
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Towards Active Corrosion Protection of Mg Alloys Using Corrosion Inhibition Approaches
Mikhail Zheludkevich, S.V. Lamaka, D. Hoeche, C. Blawert
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The corrosion susceptibility significantly limits the application range of magnesium alloys. Recently it was demonstrated that noble impurities present in the Mg-based materials can play a detrimental role for corrosion resistance. One of the important mechanisms is related to the enhanced cathodic activity at the corrosion front and the superfluous hydrogen caused by iron re-deposition process [1]. The effect drastically accelerates corrosion of impurity containing Mg. In the present work a new inhibition approach based on the complexation of Fe ions and consequently preventing re-deposition is suggested [2]. The newly discovered corrosion inhibitors are integrated within protective coatings in order to obtain active corrosion protection effect for Mg alloys. References D. Höche, C. Blawert, S.V. Lamaka, N. Scharnagl, C. Mendis, M.L. Zheludkevich, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 18 (2016) 1279-1291. S.V. Lamaka, D. Höche, R.P. Petrauskas, C. Blawert, M.L. Zheludkevich, Electrochemistry Communications, 62 (2016) 5-8.
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Acoustic Emission Study of High Temperature Deformation of Mg-Zn-Y Alloys with LPSO Phase
Adding Dimensions to the Immersion Testing of Magnesium Corrosion
C-59: A Microtomography Analysis of Damage and Fracture in Notched AZ31
C-60: Combustion of Regolith/Magnesium Mixtures for the Fabrication of Construction Materials on the Moon and Mars
C-61: Deformation Mechanism of a Mg-Zn-Y Alloy Containing Large Long-period-stacking-ordered Structures under Shock Wave
C-62: Deformation Processing of AZ31 and ZK60 Using a Novel Tube-equal Channel Angular Pressing (t-ECAP) Technique
C-63: Deformation Twinning in Shock Compressed UFG Mg
C-65: Effect of Confined Rolling on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Magnesium Alloys
C-66: Effect of Heat Treatment on the Grain Growth Kinetics and Mechanical Properties in Shear Assisted Processing and Extrusion (ShAPETM) ZK60 Tube
C-68: Effects of Ageing Treatment on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Mg-Li Based Alloys
C-69: Evolution of Microstructure and Mechanical Properties during the Casting and Rolling of the ZEK100 Sheet
C-70: Hot Forging Behavior of Mg-8Al-4Ba-4Ca (ABaX844) Alloy and Validation of Processing Map
C-71: Influence of Hot Rolling on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties Thixo-Casts Obtained from Mixed E21 and WE43 Magnesium Granules
C-72: Interaction of Glide Dislocations with Extended Precipitates in Mg-Nd Alloys
C-74: Microstructure and Mechanical Behavior of ECAP-processed Magnesium at the Ice-water Temperature
C-75: Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Magnesium-metal Laminated Nanocomposites
C-77: Rate and Temperature Dependent Deformation Behavior of WE43 Magnesium-rear Earth Alloy: Experiments and Crystal Plasticity Modeling
C-79: Understanding of Dynamic Recrystallization Characteristics of ZEK100 Magnesium Alloy Sheet during Warm Forming
Corrosion Characteristics of Two RE Containing Magnesium Alloys
Deformation and Recrystallization Mechanisms and their Influence on the Microstructure Development of Rare Earth Containing Magnesium Sheets
Developmentof BioMg 250 Bioabsorbable Implant Alloy
Dislocations in Mg Alloys with Rare-earth Element Addition
Effect of Ca on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties in Mg Alloys
Effect of Fluoride Ion on the Microstructure and Properties of Permanganate Conversion Coating on AZ91D Magnesium Alloy
Empirical Examination of the Formation of Mechanical Properties of Heated Twin-roll-cast Magnesium Strips
Experimental Study of the Solidification Microstructure in the Mg-rich Corner of Mg-Al-Ce System
Fabrication of Mg(OH)2 by Electrolysis Using MgCl2 Aqueous Solution
In-situ Neutron Diffraction and Acoustic Emission during the Biaxial Loading of AZ31 Alloy
Influence of Low Temperature Forging on Microstructure and Low Cycle Fatigue Behavior of Cast AZ31B Mg Alloy
Influences of Yttrium Content on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of As-cast Mg-Ca-Y-Zr Alloys
Investigation of Grain Refinement Method for AZ91 Alloy using Carbide Inoculation
Investigations on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Non-flammable Mg-Al-Zn-Ca-Y Alloys
Material Design for Enhancing Toughness of Mg Alloy and Application for Biodegradable Devices
Measurement of Twin Formation Energy Barriers Using Nudged Elastic Band Molecular Statics
Mechanical Properties of Thermo-mechanically Treated Extruded Mg-Zn-based Alloys
Mg Alloys: Challenges and Achievements in Controlling Performance, and Future Application Perspectives
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Mg-7.71Gd-2.39Nd-0.17Zr Alloy after the Different Heat Treatments
Microstructure, Mechanical Properties and Deformation Behavior of Mg-Gd-Y-Zn-Zr Alloy
Ni-P-MWNTs Composite Coatings on Magnesium Alloys AZ31 Part 1: MWNTs Content in Coating
Ni-P-MWNTs Composite Coatings on Magnesium Alloys AZ31 Part 2: Tribological Behavior and MWNTs Content in Coating
Recent Developments in Magnesium Alloy Corrosion Research
Solute/Stacking Fault Energies in Mg and Implications for Ductility
Strain Heterogeneity Structures in Wrought Magnesium AZ31 under Reversed Loading
Strengthening and Toughening Behaviors of the Mg-9Al Alloy Containing Oxygen Atoms
Strengthening of a Biodegradable Mg-Zn-Ca Alloy ZX50 after Processing by HPT and Heat Treatment
Study on Metal Smelting Process under Microwave Irradiation
Study on the Production of Metallic Magnesium from Nickel - Containing Serpentine
Superplasticity in a Chip-consolidated Mg
Alloy with LPSO Phase
Surface and interfacial energies of Mg
-Mg system
Technological Solutions to Apply Magnesium Bulk Materials in Dynamic Bending and Axial Compression Load Cases
The Effect of Initial Texture on Deformation Behaviors of Mg Alloys under Erichsen Test
The Morphology and Distribution of Al8Mn5 in High Pressure Die Cast AM50 and AZ91
The Recrystallization and Grain Growth Behavior of Unalloyed Mg and a Mg-Al Alloy
Thermo-mechanical Treatment of Extruded Mg-1Zn Alloy: Cluster Analysis of AE Signals
Thermogravimetric Analysis of Simultaneous Decomposition and Formation of MgB2
Towards Active Corrosion Protection of Mg Alloys Using Corrosion Inhibition Approaches
Twin-slip Interaction at Low Stress Stage Deformation in an AZ31 Mg Alloy
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text: As Loper says, coffee might be a "very broad" subject, but at its core are the obsessives, the laborers, and yes, the aesthetes who quite literally live off the stuff. At the same time, Loper's story is a gift to coffee drinkers everywhere, whatever their preference may be. "What I've realized is that no matter the quality of your cup, people who love coffee, love it," Loper says. "Coffee is about people, and people are what I'm interested in ultimately."


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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:34 am
Sounds like you have exactly what they need, Jundo!Jechbi wrote:Interestingly, it looks like some people who have had issues with E-sangha might be in a position to help, if some reconciliation could occur. From here:Time to try to bury the hatchet?Jundo Cohen wrote:We have also downloaded substantially all of the archives of E-Sangha ...
I would just pass the archives to them (Leo and Namdrol) without a word. Would be a fairy-tale ending to the sorry saga, IMO.


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Constraints on the Timing and Distribution of Seismicity and Deformation on Oceanic Transform Faults: Implications for the Design and Deployment of Seafloor Monitoring Systems
DOEI Project Funded: 2001
Proposed ResearchJian Lin and Greg Hirth are exploring how geodynamic models, incorporating experimental data on rheology, can constrain the resolution of seafloor measurements required to quantify the dynamics of deformation and earthquake processes at oceanic transform faults. The relatively simple tectonic setting of oceanic transforms make them an excellent natural laboratory for studying the processes that control faulting and the occurrence of earthquakes in the Earth's lithosphere. This grant provided full or partial support for a number of research activities, including 1) discovery of evidence for earthquake triggering along Pacific transform faults and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge; and 2) geodynamic modeling showing evidence for low mechanical strength of oceanic transform faults; and 3) experimental determination of frictional properties of the oceanic lithosphere. Our collaboration, together with Jeff McGuire, also lead to a successful workshop on Seafloor Geodesy, sponsored by the DOEI, held at WHOI in October 2002. Furthermore, our collaboration resulted in a new MIT/WHOI Joint-Program class on Earthquakes and Faulting (taught for the first time in the Fall of 2002), formed the foundation of the DOEI–sponsored Geodynamics Seminar on Catastrophic Events held in the Spring of 2003, and a new seminar class of Oceanic Faulting and Earthquakes taught in the Fall of 2003.
Final Report1. Evidence for earthquake triggering along Pacific transform faults and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
We utilize hydroacoustic data collected by NOAA's Equatorial Pacific autonomous hydrophone array to investigate the first order spatial and temporal variability of seismicity at the East Pacific Rise (EPR) and earthquake stress interaction and triggering at the Clipperton, Siqueirous, and Gofar transform faults. Our analyses reveal strong evidence of seismic clustering along the EPR. The majority of earthquakes (>90%) clustered in seismic swarms, in which individual events occurred within a few km and within minutes or hours of each other. Through correlating hydrophone data to teleseismically recorded events, we have located several moderate size earthquakes on the Siqueiros and Clipperton transforms. Some of these moderate size events occurred closely in space and time, suggesting the possibility of earthquake triggering. At 5.4°S we found evidence for possible interaction between two moderate size events, one of which occurred on the EPR axis and the other about 100 km northward on the Gofar transform fault. Stress calculations were carried out for several pairs of the moderate size events (Fig. 1). The close correlation of the calculated Coulomb stress changes with the observed spatial and temporal variations in seismicity patterns provides strong evidence for possible earthquake triggering along the transform faults. Results of this investigation were presented at the Fall 2003 AGU meeting (Gregg et al., 2003) and will be part of the generals project for MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Trish Gregg. The observed clustering of seismicity along the EPR ridge axis also have important implications on episodic diking events along fast spreading ridges and the associated rates of hydrothermal heat release and cooling of the oceanic crust (German and Lin, 2003). In addition, Jian Lin is currently working with colleagues on an investigation of potential triggering of ridge earthquakes along the slow-spreading Mid-Atlantic Ridge (Lin et al., in preparation).
German, C.R., and J. Lin, The thermal structure of the oceanic crust, ridge spreading, and hydrothermal circulation: How well do we understand their inter-connections? In Thermal Regime of Ocean Ridges and Dynamics of Hydrothermal Circulation, AGU Geophysical Monograph, in review, 2003.
German, C.R. and J. Lin, Reconciling geophysical and hydrothermal data for heat transfer from the lithosphere to the oceans at fast and slow ridges, Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., 2003.
Gregg, P.M., D. K. Smith, and J. Lin, Spatial and temporal variability in seismicity of the East Pacific Rise: Constraints from hydroacoustic monitoring and evidence for triggering of transform earthquakes, Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., 2003.
Lin, J., and others, Evidence for stress interaction between moderate size earthquakes along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: Implications for the state of stress of slow-spreading ridges, in preparation.
2. Evidence for low mechanical strength of oceanic transform faults
We conducted a series of 3-D boundary element calculations to investigate the effects of oceanic transform faults on stress state and fault development at adjacent mid-ocean ridge spreading centers. We find that the time-averaged strength of transform faults is low, and that on time scales longer than a typical earthquake cycle transform faults behave as zones of significant weakness. Specifically, mechanical coupling of only ~5% best explains the observed patterns of strike-slip and oblique normal faulting near a ridge-transform intersection. On time scales shorter than a typical earthquake cycle, transient ''locked'' periods can produce anomalous reverse faulting similar to that observed at the inside corner of several slow-spreading ridge segments. Furthermore, we predict that extensional stresses will be suppressed at the inside corner crust due to the shear along the transform resisting ridge-normal extension. This implies that an alternative mechanism is necessary to explain the preferential normal fault growth and enhanced microseismicity observed at many inside corners of slow spreading ridges.
Behn, M. D., J. Lin, and M. T. Zuber, Evidence for weak oceanic transform faults, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(24), 2207, doi:10.1029/2002GL015612, 2002.
3. Experimental Study of Frictional Properties of the Oceanic Lithosphere
After our initial discussion on the rheology of transform faults, it was clear that more experimental data on the frictional properties of oceanic faults would be aid in our modeling effort. Partly motivated by her generals project on earthquake aftershocks on oceanic transforms, MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Margaret Boettcher began a study on the frictional properties of olivine. The frictional properties at the base of the seismogenic zone in oceanic lithosphere are fundamental to our understanding of earthquake processes. While the composition of the oceanic lithosphere is probably the simplest and most well constrained of any seismogenic region on Earth, few data on its frictional properties exist. We are investigating the strength and sliding stability of olivine aggregates at temperature and effective pressure conditions close to those at the base of the seismogenic zone on a typical transform fault. For all experiments, strain became localized on faults and showed stick-slip events indicative of processes responsible for earthquakes in the Earth. Our new experiments are consistent with seismic data, which find that earthquake hypocenters regularly occur to temperatures well above 200oC, regularly to near the 600oC isotherm. Margaret presented her results at the 2003 SCEC (Southern California Earthquake Center) meeting and the Fall 2003 AGU.
The funds from the DOEI grant also provided support for Laurent Montesi's modeling study of deformation mechanisms responsible for transient viscous deformation associated with earthquakes [Montesi and Hirth, 2003]. An understanding of these processes is critical for the interpretation of geodetic data measured during and after earthquake slip events [e.g., Freed and Lin, Nature, 411, 180-183, 2001]. We are looking forward to exploring how Laurent's modeling studies can be incorporated into thermal models of oceanic transforms to establish predictions for geodetic motions associated with deformation along oceanic faults.
Boettcher, M., and G. Hirth, Olivine friction at the base of the seismogenic zone, SCEC, Fall 2003.
Boettcher, M, G. Hirth, and B. Evans, Olivine friction at the base of the seismogenic zone, Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., 2003.
Montesi, L.G.J., and G. Hirth, Grain size evolution and the rheology of ductile shear zones: from laboratory experiments to postseismic creep, Earth Plant. Sci. Lett., 211, 97-110, 2003.
4. Seafloor Geodesy Workshop: Prospects and Challenges
This workshop, held October 10-11, 2002, examined how seafloor geodesy can be used to study deformation on the seafloor - an issue that has implications for the understanding of Earth's movements during earthquake cycles and volcanic eruptions, seafloor stability on the continental shelf, and the generation of tsunamis. The meeting was attended by approximately 60 scientists, engineers, and industry representatives from across the country, as well as international experts from Japan and France. The workshop objectives were
- To discuss the pressing marine geodynamics problem that can
be addressed through advances in seafloor geodesy;
- To review the state-of-the-art technologies in space geodesy
and discuss why their applications have revolutionized continental
geodynamics; and
- To stimulate discussions on the promising directions of future advances in seafloor geodesy.


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Cornell Engineering team develops substrates for vaporizing sensors remotely
A team of researchers from Cornell Engineering has developed novel polymer-based substrates for packaging micro-scale electronic sensors that completely vaporize when triggered with remote radio frequency (RF) signals. The team uses ultra low-power Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) actuators and rubidium heat sources for making the sensors disappear in an extremely controllable way.
The Cornell researchers include Professor Amit Lal, Ved Gund Ph.D. '17 and Alex Ruyack, from the SonicMEMS Laboratory within the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor Chris Ober, Katherine Camera Ph.D. '16 and Amanda Leonardi from the Ober Group within the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Data gathered by micro-scale sensors can revolutionize our understanding of both natural and man-made environments. By integrating these micro-scale with advanced circuits and electronics (which consume very low power and possess wireless transmission capabilities), it is possible to monitor environmental conditions. These sensors can be connected in a local network, or used with the emerging internet-of-things (IoT) platform. Experts estimate that 30 billion objects including but not limited to devices, homes, computers, and even human beings will be part of the giant network that forms the IoT, enabling embedded electronics, hardware, software and sensors to interface with the physical world.
For devices with a short useful lifetime of sensors on the scale of weeks to months, the effort in deploying and then recovering them can be prohibitive. Tracking and recovering each micro-scale device individually, especially in a large-area network is nearly impossible and can potentially contaminate the environment. Another concern is the potential that adversaries could acquire the devices and reverse engineer the electronics or steal the data, leading to loss of valuable information. One approach to solve the problem of data security and environmental contamination is physically eliminating the sensors by making them vanish with a remote trigger while leaving behind no physical trace. This is what the Cornell team has demonstrated.
At the heart of the project developed by the Cornell team are MEMS single shot valves that are 100% reliable in triggering and vaporize the thermally-degradable polymer substrates using embedded rubidium heat sources. The power-consumption of the valves is more than 100 times lower than the previous best reports from literature, making them extremely attractive for this application. The substrate is stable under ordinary conditions but vaporizes at 180 degrees C, leaving behind little to no residue upon heating and therefore leaving behind no available signature of their existence. Integrating chemical etch sources that decompose and release hydrofluoric acid, etches the electronics and enables the substrate to fully vaporize.
The electronics have been developed in collaboration with Honeywell and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funded the project.


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The English Football Association kicked off its 150th anniversary celebrations Wednesday, striving to shift the focus from the domestic and international troubles that have afflicted the country in recent years.
The Premier League's reputation has been diminished by racial abuse cases involving fans and high-profile players, while the FA has endured a fraught relationship within FIFA as the world's oldest soccer federation's influence has declined.
But leading world soccer figures united in London on Wednesday to launch the FA's landmark year, with FIFA President Sepp Blatter telling the audience by video that "it is called the FA, because it is the No. 1 in FIFA."
Blatter's warm words were a far cry from 2010, when he decried English "arrogance" following its failed bid for the 2010 World Cup.


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Coca-Cola Pulls Homophobic Marketing Gimmick, Apologizes
Coca-Cola's "Share A Coke" marketing ploy got social media buzzing for all the wrong reasons over the weekend, as we reported Monday.
The memes inspired by Coke's gay gaffe gimmick has lead to the international behemoth pulling the "Share A Coke" personalization software and issuing an apology.
"We are aware that the Share a Coke promotion we are running in South Africa has generated an unintended outcome. We apologise for any offence caused. The Share a Coke programme was created to allow consumers to take the iconic "Coca-Cola" script and replace it with their name on the can. In South Africa, the digital version of the Share a Coke promotion did not properly limit the customisation to individuals' names. We've taken down the site and are in the process of revising the digital tool immediately...As one of the world's most inclusive brands, we value and celebrate diversity. We have long been a strong supporter of the LGBT community and have advocated for inclusion, equality and diversity through both our policies and practices. Again we apologise for any offense this has caused."
The statement might not be enough for a astoundingly LGBT-friendly (they have a 100 percent on the HRC corporate equality index) company to pull through its next big hurdle without further fracturing its relationship with gays. As a major sponsor of the Sochi Winter Olympics, Coca Cola has been a subject of gay boycotts long before the "Share A Coke" mistake ... and will likely be one long after. Just this week, Coke was axed from receiving an LGBT award due to its involvement with the Russian Olympics.
But for now, is this apology enough to get Coca-Cola back in our good gay graces?
Dear Coca Cola , publicly and globally tell Putin to shove his anti-gay law up his backside and get rid of it . Put the rainbow flag on all Coca Cola products and marketing items and do it before the games begin and do it regardless of Putins anti-gay law and teach the world to sing and be in harmony and come out strong and proud all the way through the Olympic games. What is Putin going to do to you? kick you out of his country for respecting LGBTQI equal human rights and freedoms?
I live in South Africa. Coke had a website app where you could write whatever you wanted on a can of Coca-Cola. Also stores sold thousands of cans and bottles with names on them, like Peter, Thandi, Stephen, ETC.
The campaign did well here in SA. Don't know who was the genius who wrote homophobia on it, maybe it is connected to the Coke Olympics sponsorship in Russia.


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By Ilaina Jonas
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The company that controls the Empire State Building has begun asking investors to vote on a plan to fold the iconic building into a new real estate investment trust (REIT) that will eventually be publicly traded, according to regulatory documents filed Tuesday.
Malkin Holdings LLC is asking investors in one of the world's most recognizable buildings to vote on the plan to make the building the centerpiece of more than 18 properties in Empire State Realty Trust Inc, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The more than 2,800 investors have until March 25 to vote. Although investors in two other properties will also cast votes, the viability of the proposed REIT depends upon the inclusion of the Empire State Building.
If the Empire State Building investors approve the proposal, the new company will move ahead with its plan to become a publicly traded company, launching an initial public offering (IPO) of shares.
The REIT proposal has divided the Empire State investors. Some believe Malkin is getting too much from the split of the ownership at their expense, while others support the plan as a way to cash out of a long-term investment they inherited from parents and grandparents.
The 2,824 investors hold 3,300 units that originally were sold for $10,000 in 1961 in Empire State Building Associates, the company that owns the building. The investors were divided into three groups holding 1,100 units per group. The REIT plan requires the approval of holders of at least 80 percent of the units in each of the three groups.
The initial $10,000 investment is estimated to be worth about $323,803 or $358,670 depending upon how the initial investor opted to structure the investment more than 50 years ago, according to the filing. However, that could be different than ultimate value to be determined by the stock market if the IPO proceeds.
As of September 30, 2012, the Empire State Building's office space was 67.4 percent leased, with tenants including Coty Inc. Its retail space was 85.9 percent leased.
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The ancient Maya had many scientific accomplishments: they tracked the Moon and the planets, knew a solar year was 365 days, and even invented the concept of zero. As for the 2012 apocalypse? It's simply a misinterpretation of the Maya calendar, say archaeologists Marcello Canuto and William Saturno.
In the video above, National Geographic highlights the discovery by William Saturno and his team of a Maya mural and calendar.


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Amy's Last-Minute Budget Thanksgiving Feast for Nine
"My family canceled Thanksgiving on Wednesday because my aunt and uncle got sick. At 4pm the day before Thanksgiving I decided to host nine family members in my small Brooklyn tenement apartment."
Thanksgiving? Wasn't that a couple months ago? Well, yes, but when we received this great story from Amy on how she pulled off a last-minute budget feast for nine (in a small apartment no less!) we knew we couldn't wait until next year to show it to you. Here's Amy's inspiring story, and her whole menu too!
Amy's Thanksgiving Story
My family canceled Thanksgiving on Wednesday because my aunt and uncle got sick. At 4pm the day before Thanksgiving I decided to host nine family members in my small Brooklyn tenement apartment.
I cooked 12 dishes in 22 hours (researching recipes, shopping and sleeping included) using a tiny kitchen, with a small 1950s oven that doesn't go past 420 degrees and only has one rack. It came out perfect. No one could believe it could be done in my kitchen in that time.
Best of all, it only cost $120 to feed nine people a 14-dish Thanksgiving dinner. (This excluded the dessert since I was already planning on making it.)
How Amy Did It:
I made the pumpkin crème brulee, washed the spinach, shredded the Brussels sprouts, toasted and chopped the hazelnuts, made the soup and baked the brioche the night before.
I woke up the next morning and made the tart. While the tart was baking I mapped out how much time I would need for each recipe (see timeline above!) so I could choose which order since I only had one rack in my oven. It went like this:
The Timeline
• Cooked the potatoes for the appetizers while the tart was in the oven.
• Rolled the bacon in the potatoes and cooked (later warmed it up in a toaster oven in batches) in the oven.
• While cooking I prepped the sweet potatoes and then roasted.
• While roasting I fried the sage, cut the bread for the roulille, and boiled the water with the potatoes for the mashed potatoes.
• I then put the squash in the oven, made the salad dressing, soaked the cranberries and onion, drained the potatoes.
• When the squash came out, I put in the bread for the rouille, and rinsed the shrimp (I bought them pre-cleaned).
• I put the shrimp toasts in the oven and prepped them while making the red pepper sauce.
• Just as I was about to prep the Cornish hens, my first guest arrived to help (an hour early) and helped make the Brussels sprouts and I prepped the Cornish hens. She added the cream and butter to the potatoes and mashed as I made the salad, the hummus and reheated the bacon-potato appetizer. • When the guests arrived at 2pm (22 hours after I decided to host!) everything was ready except the Cornish hens that were still in the oven.
After dinner, my cousins took charge of the burning of the sugar for the crème brulee top. We did it tableside so everyone could watch.
My aunt brought the homemade cream puffs and my mother the fruit as seen in the picture, as well as a few extra dishes. Of course, we ended up having way too much food.
My mother called the next day to say it was the best Thanksgiving she ever had.
Amy's Last-Minute Budget Thanksgiving Menu
• Shrimp-Toasts-240431">Red Pepper Rouille and Shrimp Toasts
• Bacon wrapped potato bites with spicy sour cream
• Storebought hummus (I added diced tomato, red onion and paprika) and served with Turkish Bread.
• Spinach Salad with Bosc Pears, Cranberries, Red Onion, and Toasted Hazelnuts
• Tuscan White Bean and Garlic Soup
Main Course
• Cornish Hens with Sage Butter
• Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Sage
• Brussels Sprouts with Fig and Bacon
• Roasted Butternut Squash with Lime Juice
• Mashed Potatoes - 2 kinds: dairy and non-dairy
• Cranberry Sauce - 2 kinds: with and without refined sugar. Recipe from Ocean Spray package.
• Pumpkin Creme Brulee
• Apple Galette
• Cherry Chocolate Brioche (I had started this before I knew I was cooking Thanksgiving so the bread was already rising.)
We love post-feast recaps and stories, and this one is especially inspiring. There are a lot of good tips for more everyday potlucks and dinner parties, too. It's so inspiring to see someone turn around and throw themselves into such a festive, meaningful meal.
Thanks so much for sharing this with us all, Amy!
Related: The Last Minute Thanksgiving: Non-Traditional Menu
(Images: Amy via email)


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Elephants, jungles, beaches, giant gold Buddhas and Thai-riffic food? What's not to love about Thailand?!
Seriously, Thailand is like heaven on earth. First, there are the beaches – you might recognise them from such Pinterest boards as 'Best Beaches on Earth', 'Beach Please', and 'I Want to Go There'.
Then there's the food – tom yam goong, coconut curry, sticky rice, mango everything and pad thai for days.
Then, there's everything else – cocktails on the beach in Ao Nang, epic temples in Sukhothai, and an incredible elephant hospital in Chiang Mai that'll give you a serious case of the warm and fuzzies.
What people say
These trips are for young adventurous and laid back people. If you are looking for 5 star accommodations, book a different kind of trip. My trip was awesome because we really got to be immersed in the Thai culture, our guide was amazing, and we had a blast.
What people say
This trip is fantastic for having fun with a great bunch of people, enjoying good food and relaxing in idyllic locations.
Thailand travel highlights
Ao Nang
Cocktails? Sunsets? Cocktails at sunset? Ao Nang knows how to bring the good things in life together.
See the work of the good folks at the Friends of the Asian Elephant Hospital, an NGO dedicated to rehabilitating mistreated elephants
Sukhothai Historic Park
Sukhothai' literally translates to 'Rising of Happiness', which is exactly what you'll experience as you pedal around ancient temples and ruins at Sukhothai Historic Park.
Follow the scent of chilli and lemongrass to one of Bangkok's many delicious food markets.
Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai should translate to mean city of temples. (Note: It does not). Visit Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, one of Thailand's most sacred, for an impressive view.
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Why hail a plain old cab when you could ride a bike or jump onto a saamlaw? Half the fun of travel is experiencing a destination just like the locals – including how they get around. Wherever possible, Geckos Adventures uses local transport options and traditional modes of transport. This way we can reduce our environmental impact, support local operators and have a great time.
Get to know the locals as you share a ride in these converted pick-up trucks. Snagging a seat on the 'two benches' (the literal meaning of songthaew), is a popular way of getting around across Southeast Asia.
See Thailand from ground level on these three-wheeled pedicabs. Usually pedal-powered by a local, they're a fun way to see the sights as you get from point A to point B. Also available are tuk tuks, the flashier, motorised cousin of the saamlaw.
Thailand travel FAQs
Australia: No – not required
Belgium: No – not required
Canada: No – not required
Germany: No – not required
Ireland: No – not required
Netherlands: No – not required
New Zealand: No – not required
South Africa: No – not required
Switzerland: No – not required
United Kingdom: No – not required
USA: No – not required
Visitors arriving by air can stay in Thailand for up to 30 days without obtaining a visa. Those arriving by land can stay for up to 15 days. If you are planning on staying longer than these amounts of time, visit an immigration office in Thailand to obtain a visa extension for THB 2,000 (USD 59). Alternatively, apply for a 60-day multiple entry visa at your local embassy or consulate before your trip.
Your passport should be valid for a minimum period of 6 months after your arrival date in Thailand and should have a few blank pages left for a new stamp.
For the most up to date information about visa requirements, please get in touch with your local consulate.
Tipping isn't customary in Thailand, but feel free to leave restaurants, driver or service workers a small tip if the service has been particularly good. It's always appreciated.
Internet can be accessed at hotels and internet cafes in large cities and tourist areas but is limited in rural and remote areas.
Mobile phone coverage is generally good in Thailand's urban areas, but may not be available on some of the islands and in more remote and areas. Ensure global roaming is activated with your service provider before leaving home.
Squat toilets are most common in Thailand, although western-style flushable toilets can be found in larger hotels and some tourist areas. It's a good idea to carry your own toilet paper and hand sanitizer, as they are not always provided.
Can of soft drink = USD 1
Bottle of local beer = USD 3
Market stall meal = USD 1 – USD 3
Sit-down dinner at a nice restaurant = USD 10 – USD 15
Drinking tap water isn't recommended in Thailand. Avoid drinks with ice and make sure to peel fruit before eating it. Help the environment and try to avoid buying bottled water. Instead, fill a reusable water bottle with filtered water. Your leader or hotel can tell you where to find filtered water.
Credit cards are usually accepted by hotels, large retailers and tourist sites but are less commonly accepted by smaller vendors and family-run restaurants in rural areas. Market stalls and street vendors will not accept credit card. Always carry enough cash for smaller purchases in case credit cards are not an option.
ATMs are widely available in larger cities but are less common in small villages or rural areas. Make sure you have enough cash before leaving urban areas.
Absolutely. All passengers travelling with Geckos are required to purchase travel insurance before the start of your trip. Your travel insurance details will be recorded by your leader on the first day of the trip. Due to the varying nature, availability and cost of health care around the world, travel insurance is very much an essential and necessary part of every journey.
For more information on insurance, please go to Travel Insurance
Jan 1: New Year's Day
Feb 11: Makha Bucha Day
April 6: Chakri Day
April 12-15: Songkran (Thai New Year)
May 1: Labour Day
May 5: Coronation Day
May 10: Visakha Bucha Day
July 8: Asahna Bucha Day
Aug 12: Queen's Birthday
Oct 23: Chulalongkorn Day
Dec 5: King's Birthday
Dec 10: Constitution Day
Dec 31: New Year's Eve
For a current list of public holidays in Thailand go to: https://www.worldtravelguide.net/guides/asia/Thailand/public-holidays/
No vaccines are required in order to enter Thailand but some are recommended for protection against disease. Visit your doctor or travel clinic for advice and make sure to schedule vaccinations 4-6 weeks before your departure date, as some require time to become effective.
Recommended vaccines:
1. Hepatitis A (transmitted through contaminated water)
2. Typhoid (transmitted through contaminated water)
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What do you mean, "All Fresh Prince, All the Time"? It's 50 percent "Fresh Prince", 50 percent "Rosanne". ;)
Anyway, thanks for posting from a time when Nick was a little more adventurous.
- March 16, 2007 at 7:34 AM
- Bill said...
I immediately knew which opening you meant, despite not having seen it in 15 years or so! Every weeknight at 730 EST, as I remember. They only had the cartoons that no one else wanted--those awful 60s ones like "Merlin the Magic Mouse" and "Bunny and Claude." But also the other ones no one wanted--the crazy B&W 1930s ones. When CN finally canceled "Black & White At Night," I knew that it was time for me to cancel cable.
- March 16, 2007 at 6:09 PM
- Master George said...
OMG! It took me an hour to find that intro, and it was running through my head before I went to sleep! I adored that intro from Nick @ Nite's Lonney Tunes! Kudos!
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In 5 centrally located design stores and bookshops (Cibone Aoyama, Aoyama Book Center, Spiral Records, Nadiff, Tsutaya) a drop box will be installed to collect decorated notebooks. Together with drop boxes, stores will host displays of decorated notebooks collected in previous myDetour stops.
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Editor's note: Don't miss your chance to watch Pat Reeve on Deer Talk Now at noon Central tomorrow!
In November 2005, Pat Reeve was already well known in whitetail industry but had just started filming Driven 24/7, which morphed into today's Driven TV. In one of his first hunts for the new show, Pat scored on the deer of a lifetime. Here's the story, in an excerpt from the book Legendary Whitetails III.
It was 9:30 a.m., Nov. 14, 2005, and Pat was hunting west-central Illinois with Sugar Creek Outfitters. Cameraman Jim Musil was filming.
It was the second morning of their hunt, and the rut was in full swing. Pat had set up numerous stands on several farms, but he was determined to hunt a promising stand that he'd set in a wooded draw where he'd found some impressive sign. The wind had not cooperated on the first day, so Pat and Jim were forced to hunt another spot. The second day, the wind shifted, and Pat knew he would be able to hunt the stand.
He and Jim were in their double stands well before daylight, getting the camera gear set up. Just before good filming light, a small buck appeared in a nearby CRP field chasing a doe. Things were looking good. About an hour later, Pat saw some does across the ridge. They were acting strangely. Figuring that a big buck might be the reason for their strange actions, Pat made several tending grunts with his Hunter's Specialties can call. Nothing happened for another hour.
Like many hunters in similar situations, Pat started second-guessing his stand location. Should he have been on top of the ridge instead of near the bottom? That question was answered moments later when he heard the unmistakable grunt of a mature buck and some rustling in the brush about 80 yards away.
"A doe suddenly came running out of the thicket and stopped," Pat said. "After telling Jim that a buck was following her, I heard another grunt. While Jim was getting the camera into position, I was trying to see around a big tree that blocked my view."
Jim saw the buck before Pat and whispered, "Shooter." Then his eyes got big, and he whispered, "Monster."
When the buck appeared from behind the tree, Pat was not prepared for what he saw. The next few seconds would change his life forever. Out stepped a massive 5-by-5 — the largest typical whitetail he had ever seen. As mentioned, he knew immediately the buck was a record-book contender.
"He was still about 60 yards away, walking toward us," Pat said. "But then he started walking toward the doe. She was off to our left in a place where I couldn't get a shot, and it looked like things might go bad on us.
"He was walking in a stiff-legged fashion like big bucks often do. He looked like he was actually trying to corral her into that thick area. He was now between us and the doe, and he started stamping his feet. I was getting nervous because I knew that if he pushed her into that thicket, they would almost certainly wind us."
Pat said a prayer and tried to think about various scenarios that might occur.
"I had my bow up and ready for a possible shot," he said. "All of a sudden, the doe looped around the buck and came running toward us. My prayer was answered. As she approached the tree we were in, she made a distinct coughing sound. He started trotting toward her. She came to a stop right under our stand. I focused on a shooting lane directly in front of the buck, moving my body slightly so I would be in position for the shot. But he went through the opening too quickly and I knew I couldn't get a shot. I shifted my attention to the next shooting lane."
When the buck stepped into a wider shooting lane 20 yards from the tree, Pat voice-grunted to stop him.
"After making sure Jim had the camera rolling, and after making sure my 20-yard pin was settled on the right spot behind his shoulder, I released my arrow," he said. "I knew it was a good shot. He ran about 10 yards and stopped. The doe went tearing off. He stood there stamping his feet as if nothing had happened. Then he simply started walking away at a very slow pace. I grabbed my binoculars. I was relieved to see blood trickling down behind his shoulder. A second or two later, he went over. Jim captured the entire drama on video."
Pat knew he had shot an enormous buck that would make B&C, but he had no idea the buck would gross more than 200 typical inches.
"When I reached the deer, I knew he was much larger than I originally had thought," he said. "I had been around a lot of world-class deer, and I realized that my chance to take one had finally come. I can't begin to describe the feeling. I was in a state of shock for a long time. God was really looking out for me on that one."


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It's no secret that Northwave no longer manufactures consumer shoes at its headquarters in Treviso, Italy but that doesn't mean they don't make a number of select shoes in the original factory. We paid a visit to the heralded Italian footwear company on our way to this year's Giro d'Italia.
These days, the Treviso facility is mostly a collection of sales, marketing, design, and administrative offices plus a giant warehouse of production shoes for distribution to the European market. However, Northwave still maintains a single assembly line plus a full prototype and workshop to handle prototype work, experimental projects, and special shoes for sponsored athletes.
There are multiple racks of custom modified lasts on the production floor with seemingly every member of the Radioshack-Nissan team getting that extra special treatment to keep their feet happy day after day. Each set of lasts is marked with the rider's name and nominal size, all festooned with an assortment of tacked-on bits, filed-off edges, hand-shaped putty filler, and other modifications.
In case you've ever wondered, Andy Schleck wears a size 45 ½ and prefers an aggressive taper at the toes but more space at the base of his little toes. Chris Horner, on the other hand, wears a size 42 and likes a little extra breathing room around the ball and opposite side.
This single rack catalogs the foot shapes of the entire Radioshack-Nissan team
What about Andre Greipel (Lotto-Belisol)? He's a size 44 and like Horner, likes a roomier fit up front. Fabian Cancellara shares Schleck's numerical size but his shoes are narrower from the middle up – and so on, and so on.
Custom options aren't just limited to fit. Since Northwave's on-site technicians aren't constrained by production specs, they can also mix and match different uppers and lowers – say, if someone wants an off-road outsole with a triathlon-specific upper or a pair of walkable podium shoes.
Supporting this work is a small group of craftspeople who still build shoes the old way, using scissors and a sewing machine, grinding wheels, glue, and a small army of old machines that look like they were dreamt up by H.R. Geiger.
That being said, there's an interesting juxtaposition of old and new throughout the building.
Current shoes are built with carbon composites and synthetic microfiber materials, covered with bright neon graphics while the paint on the machines used to form them is worn down to the metal from years of hands-on work. Custom uppers are constructed by one person in a small room, armed with a pair of scissors and a whirring sewing machine while the pattern pieces themselves are created with a computer-controlled leather cutting table.
There's a room filled with modern equipment for testing everything from shoe flex to zipper durability but save for a few small areas, there's seemingly no air conditioning. Carbon fiber plates are molded overseas by giant machines but the original shapes are cut by hand in Treviso out of foam and wood with blades and jeweler's files.
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Redhat 9 - Adaptec I20 OSM problem
I am a newbie in Linux system.
This morning, I perform a remote reboot to a Redhat 9 server and while it was booting up, I received the following message at the screen:
Boot from "IDE 1M : HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8163"... Fail
Boot from "Adaptec I20 OSM \ HD-<7"...Fail
Prior to this error, nothing was done except for changing an IP address for an application script. I did 3 system reboots and I kept getting the above errors to prompt for system disk.
At the data center, I did a few tests. Please continue to read the following few scenarios.
Scenario 1
While booting up, the system prompts for:
1) "Hit for Adaptec setup, waiting for devices"
2) If is not entered, I will receive the errors shown above.
Scenario 2
While booting up, the system prompts for:
1) "Hit for Adaptec setup, waiting for devices"
2) When was entered, the system will display "Please wait...Adaptec Setup utility will be launched after POST"
3) After awhile, the system will display "PCI device listing...." with several columns of information such as, "Bus no.", "Device no.", "Func. no.", "Vendor ID", "Device ID", "Device Class" and "IRQ".
4) Except for the information described above, nothing else will be displayed. Even after waiting for like 10-20 mins, there will be no response from the server.
5) Able to perform reboot with .
Scenario 3
While reading from the Internet, I found that I am able to boot from a Redhat 9 (the server's OS) disk #1. After I inserted the disk into the CD-ROM and reboot the system, the system read from the disk. However, when it reached the "Choose a Language" options, I was not able to get any response from the keyboard at all. It seems that the server freezes and even was not possible. Only a hard reboot was possible.
Found some information from the Internet and i think it has got something to do with Adaptec's I20 driver. However, none of the descriptions seems to match my errors.
May I know if there are anyone out there who faced this problem and solve it? Would appreciate if you can offer some professional advises.
Many thanks in advance.
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The Dow Jones industrial average rose 15 points to end at 13,170 Monday. The index traded within a narrow range of just 56 points.
The Standard and Poor's 500 was up less than a point at 1,419. The Nasdaq composite rose nine points to 2,987.
McDonald's rose 93 cents to $89.41. The company's sales rose in November as U.S. customers bought more breakfast offerings and limited-time Cheddar Bacon Onion sandwiches.
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Setting up a redundant MySQL master/slave database using RightScale has become rather easy using our recently introduced Manager for MySQL. Let's start by setting up the master. For this we define a "MySQL master" server template. A server template is pretty much what the name implies: it's a template for a fully configured server that can be launched with one click of a button. Each server template is based on an AMI (Amazon Machine Image) and then adds a number of boot and operational RightScripts. (For more details see the rationale for RightScripts.) A boot RightScript is a script (bash, perl, ruby, …) augmented with input parameters and file attachments. It runs during the launching of an instance and typically configures a software component. An operational RightScript is similar to a boot script but can be run from the RightScale web dashboard anytime after the instance becomes operational. The example below will make this easy to understand.
Below is a screen shot of the freshly created "Demo MySQL master" server template with two RightScripts added. The first one switches the /mnt 160GB partition to LVM (linux volume manager) so we can take snapshot backups. The second one installs MySQL onto the server, ready to act as a master node.
Let's take a look at the mysql install RightScript below to see what's going on. First of all, most of it is a bash script. It's augmented by a number of yum packages that will be installed before the script runs and a file attachment at the bottom that contains the my.cnf config file.
The first two lines of the script are worth mentioning: they pull in all the EC2 meta-data and user-data that is passed into the instance at launch time. These are available from EC2 and the RightScale boot-up scripts fetch them, parse them, and store them into convenient bash, perl, and ruby include files that can be easily pulled into scripts. (We don't actually use them in this particular script, we're just in the habit of including this stuff everywhere.)
The script itself moves the MySQL data files onto the LVM volume previously created and sets things up ready for replication.
The next step is to complete the set-up by adding more RightScripts from our library to enable monitoring of the MySQL replication, to install S3 and SSH credentials (there are more secure ways to do this than embedding them into RightScripts, but this is the easiest for this demo), to add the Ruby MySQL gem and the RightScale MySQL Manager tools. The resulting config looks like this:
Next come the operational scripts. The cool thing about these scripts is that they can be invoked from the RightScale web site. Here are the four operational RightScripts we need from our library:
The four scripts do the following: * backup the database to S3 using an LVM snapshot followed by pushing the data files to S3 * restoring the database from S3 * initializing the server as a slave DB, this is useful after a fail-over to convert the master into a slave * promoting from slave to master, this is useful after a fail-over
Once the server template is launched the operational RightScripts are all available as buttons on the server's page. This currently looks like this:
These scripts can take parameters. For example, the DB restore script needs an S3 path prefix, so if we hit that button we get a page to enter the missing values, including a drop-down box with a series of values that RightScale already knows about.
As soon as the script is launched it shows up in the recent tasks box as queued, and later it will complete:
And very conveniently, by clicking onto the task we get an audit entry showing the log file of the script's execution so we can verify that all is well, or troubleshoot if something went awry.
We now have a MySQL master server up and running and we loaded the initial database data from S3. Now on to setting up a slave server in the next part of this blog series…


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Sale that was meant to stop a nation spectacularly fails
IT WAS the sale that was meant to stop a nation.
Instead has been a spectacular flop.
Touted as the biggest thing since Ben Hur, shopping website Click Frenzy was a massive fizzer as eager shoppers found themselves unable view the site's webpage.
Australia's inaugural Click Frenzy event attracted more than 180 of Australia's biggest retailers looking to cash in weeks out from Christmas.
Event organisers promised huge savings on a range of products - some up to 90 per cent off normal retail prices.
The online sale was due to commence in Queensland at 7pm.
The spectacular meltdown sent the social media world into a frenzy.
It quickly became the number one trending story on Twitter and a number of Facebook pages slamming the event were quickly established.
In a statement released on Facebook event organiser Grant Arnott apologised to frustrated shoppers.
"Firstly, I would like to issue an apology to anyone who has been inconvenienced and frustrated by the technical issues relating to the inaugural Click Frenzy 24 hour online sale," Mr Arnott said.
"The technical directors, developers and infrastructure specialists involved in this inaugural event are working to get to the root of what occurred with the wave of traffic at 7pm."
But it was not the only website to fall victim to its own popularity.
Many websites from participating retailers were unreachable shortly after the sale opened.
Earlier in the day a national retailer attempted to hijack the promotion by launching its own "Christmas Frenzy" event.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - A federal judge sentenced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on Thursday to 28 years in prison on his conviction for public corruption charges including bribery and extortion that prosecutors said exacerbated the city's financial crisis.
Kilpatrick, 43, was once seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party and has been held in custody since his conviction in March on two dozen charges that included racketeering conspiracy, mail and wire fraud, and tax counts.
Kilpatrick spent lavishly at the helm of a conspiracy that damaged Detroit's reputation and cost taxpayers millions of dollars, Judge Nancy Edmunds said, adding that the sentence was intended to send a message that corruption won't be tolerated.
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