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St. Helena is one of the most remote places on earth, located basically in the middle of nowhere, west of Angola in the South Atlantic. With no airport it is the perfect hide out if you need to be cut of from the world for a bit. However, it is still hard to get there.
How I got there:
I ended up on St. Helena accidentally. Some years ago I had hitchhiked to South Africa from the North of Norway (I'll write more about that trip another time.) When I finished the journey I just hung out in Cape Town for a while. That's where I met Mr. Dan, at an afterparty. He told me he was travelling on a sailboat due to cross the Atlantic as soon as they found an extra crew and since I was so tired of the road, I thought I'd join them and become a sailor. I wouldn't have to see road for weeks!
The next day I didn't even remember Dan's name, but I did find him and he introduced me to Captain Tom. He was a 61-year old American who had been sailing for 5 years and was scared of the day he would return to his wife. Tom asked me if I had been sailing before. I hadn't, really, but since I didn't want to disappoint him and I really wanted a ride to Brazil, I told him that I grew up on an Island. Which is true, but it doesn't make me very experienced with sailboats. After that he just asked me about the Lofoten Islands (the islands where I'm from) and it was smooth sailing from there…
…Until we actually started sailing. We set off quickly the next day hoping to get ahead of a storm Captain Tom had seen on his weather systems. Naturally I was cool with that, as you know. I even had my own cabin below deck on this 43-foot proper sailboat.
On the trip the three of us rotated shifts to keep watch. My first night on the boat I had to stay up and keep us on course, manually, while looking out for other ships. But the storm hit us causing water to splash all over which temporarily destroyed the Autopilot. I knew I was screwed and I started to wonder what the fuck I had signed up for. Was it giong to be like this for 4 weeks?! Cold and wet, I managed to navigate the sailboat without sails into a nice little circle during my 2-hour nightshift. Mr. Tom was not impressed…
When the storm died out it turned out sailing was pretty easy and not so much adventure anyways. After about a week we came to Namibia where we stocked up on fresh water and food before we headed across the Atlantic.
Day after day on the open sea, we only saw seals and birds and a few ships. We kept busy by reading books and practicing speaking English with a Brazilian accent. You know, to be prepared when we, eventually, would hit the other side. I read a book called 76 Days Adrift at Sea. Which proved to be bad timing for that book. It is about a super careful boat builder who is sailing his ultra safe boat over the Atlantic. He had all the safety equipment, but his boat still sunk. Somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic I realized we had almost no safety equipment, not even a raft, in case of emergency. If you ever end up crossing an ocean in a sailboat, you might want to check these things before you set sail.
Eventually we saw fewer and fewer birds. Finally, like a saving grace we spotted St. Helena. After the second week alone on a boat with two strangers all you want to do is stretch your legs, say hey to some random people, and drink beer. The moment we sat our foot on St. Helena, we started exploring the Island.
On The Island:St. Helena is only 122 square kilometers and its population consists of descendants from British settlers and African slaves. Their dialect is really funny and was a bit tricky to get used to.
Mr. Dan and I got off the boat and decided to get on any bus just to see where it would take us. Unfortunately, it was Wednesday which meant there was no bus running that day. We figured one of the advantages of being on a small island is that you can take extra holidays during the week, since you're already days away from the rest of civilization.
With a population of only 4,250 everyone knows everyone, and a guy in a pick-up truck knew we were the ones on the boat. He asked us if we wanted a ride. We jumped in his beat-up Ford and he took us to Diana's Peak, the highest point on the island.
There we had a relaxing outdoor bath and some lunch before we started walking towards Lots Wife, a Huge monumental Stone on the volcanic part of the island. All the locals with their funny accents told us you couldn't possibly walk up there. The thing is, we've heard this kind of warning in every corner of the world and were still pretty sure we could walk there. Hadn't we just crossed the Atlantic? Sort of? So we carried on.
After having walked through a few villages where we realized the inbred factor was astonishingly high on this island. Probably because of the small population and the fact that the island is days away from anywhere. At the same time we noticed more and more "No Trespassing" signs. The sun was setting and the island was getting darker and darker just as we cruised along the top of a ridge with loose stones on both sides. Mr. Dan and I weren't so used to hiking volcanic rocks and it's no joke to say we almost died a couple of times before we found a place we could put up our tent. At one point we actually jumped down a dried river as it was our last way to safety.
The next day we woke up to a fantastic view over the Atlantic and Lots Wife. Then we walked more until we hitched a ride to the house where Napoleon was kept under surveillance during his last years. The house is very beautiful to say the least and one of the biggest tourist attractions on the island (however it is nothing like the adventure we had finding Lots wife.) We made friends with the gardener who let us in for free and then cracked open a long-awaited beer on the porch.
After nine days on St. Helena, we set sail for Brazil in what would become my longest crossing so far. With slow winds and dead still sea it took us about 18 days to reach the Brazilian coast. By then Mr. Dan and I spoke fluent English with a Brazilian accent and we added Mr.'s to our first names. That's when I became Mr. Matias.
While Gaza is under attack and God only knows what is going down in Syria, Lebanese Rapper Kiki C released her single "The Mediterranean," in which she raps "It's about to be a great year!"
Cleverly enough Kiki C, the rapper who sounds like Ke$ha but still looks like an Arab porn popstar, avoids mentioning who this is 'about to be a great year' ... [more]
An ivestegatory video report about who is the Original P of Norwegian Music!
Since moving back to Norway after 4 years in Lebanon, a lot has happened on the music front. Before I had only heard about one P in Norwegian music and that was ONKLP. Nowadays we also have Admiral P and Store P (there is actually a guy called Tande P too but he has gone missing), so it is bit complicated to find out who is the Original P. We made a mini documentary to find out!
In th... [more]
– How to get your blood pumping in the richest country in the world!
For the past few weeks, my Facebook feed has been flooded with videos of people from the North of Norway throwing themselves into super cold ice water.
The viral Facebook challenge to "Film yourself while you jump into the freezing water and challenge your friends to do the same" exploded causing thousands of people from the north of Norway to look death straight in the ey... [more]
Sick and tired of Lebanon – But can't get a visa? This could be the solution for you!
If it's because of the slow internet, the lack of possibilities, the Syrian spillover or the never ending increasing danger of sectarian violence that makes you want to leave Lebanon, this alternative could be YOUR chance to get out of Lebanon and get a "fresh" start, som... [more]
Jewish British MP Sir Gerald Kaufman discussing the situation in Israel!
"Most of my parents' families – because my parents came here as refugees – most of my parents families were murdered in the Holocaust. When the Germans came to the town from which my mother came in Poland, Stachov, they lined up all the Jews to march to the railway station to be put in cattle-wagons. But for those who were not well enough to march, they killed them on t... [more]


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Since the Muslim Benghazi terrorist attack broke out, killing 4 Americans; Moralmatters.org has written a number of blog articles about the aftermath. It's been awhile since the last one. This blog author has come to the conclusion that the Congressional questioning of various Obama administration personalities isn't going anywhere. For all intents and purposes, it is a dog and pony show.
Think of it. When Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham put their heads together, the outcome is likely to be the same as the two bald headed buffoons who put their heads together. They made an ass of themselves.
The pertinent questions that McCain and Graham ought to ask and insist upon and that the same questions and answers be made public, were offered as a comment on a recent moralmatters.org blog article:
"Young Gun's" comment:
Instead of focusing on what happened AFTER Benghazi (like . . who slept with whom and who changed the talking points for Petraeus and Susan Rice), how about getting to the truth on the following?
1. Why were all the requests for added security in Benghazi denied and who exactly denied those requests?
2. Why was security DOWNSIZED in Benghazi and who made THAT call???
3. After 234 terrorist attacks in Libya over 16 months, 48 in Benghazi, two on our Consulate, two attempts on the very life of the British Ambassador and both the British and the Red Cross pulling OUT of Benghazi, WHY WAS IT DEEMED UNNECESSARY, to ramp up security as the anniversary of 9-11 approached, despite the repeated pleas for more security by Ambassador Stevens himself???
4. Who EXACTLY was watching in real time on 9-11-12, in the State Dept., in the White House and possibly in the Pentagon as the attacks took place???
Note: Above comment by "Young Gun" – Moralmatters.org reader who submitted this above comment following the web article of: "Benghazi scandal conspirators will go unpunished: Compliments of race baiting political correctness politics" – moralmatters.org/2012/11/25/www.moralmatters.org
Why is this Moralmatters.org author convinced that the Congressional questioning of the Obama Benghazi scandal is such a farce? Simply, because the Republican Party is inhabited with a bunch of wimps and cowards. [1] It's the same political party of softies which refused to go after Obama when it became clear that he forged his birth certificate. [2] It's the same limpid GOP political party which did not confront Obama and his Democrat Party over Obama's non natural born citizen disqualifying status which would have dissed him for serious consideration to qualify for the US presidency. [3] It's the same Republican Party which did not contest the crooked and fixed 2012 presidential election! Why bother to support and vote for a useless and out-of-touch Republican Party – at least on a national level?
Face it! The Republican Party has disgraced itself! It is a dysfunctional political party which desires your vote; only to throw away on RINO candidates who have no moral or political gumption to go all the way to win the office of US president!
Finally, if ever freedom loving, traditional Conservative Americans ever care to have their voices heard; they would dump the Republican Party; affiliate themselves with the Constitutional Party, or at the very least, re-register as Independents and / or Libertarians and support a strong third political party candidate – and be done with it!
Moralmatters.org has been following the Benghazi terrorist attack and subsequent cover-up scandal 2 days after the deaths of 4 Americans. Please note below the informational blog article link which contains all the articles:
Obama Benghazi Cover-up Scandal – moralmatters.org/
Party Or America? You Choose – conservativenewsandviews.com/2012/12/
2016 Presidential Election: Worthless to vote Republican – moralmatters.org/2012/11/26/2016
Barack Obama Voter Fraud 2012 – obamavoterfraud.blogspot.com/
Republican leadership stunned by Obama victory: What they fail to understand – moralmatters.org/2012/11/13/
Report: Justin Amash among 'rebellious' GOP reps booted from key U.S. House panels – mlive.com/
"Benghazi scandal conspirators will go unpunished: Compliments of race baiting political correctness politics" – moralmatters.org/2012/11/25/www.moralmatters.org
Posted by: Pastor emeritus Nathan M. Bickel
Please note for future voting consideration reference:
- Election Projection – The Battle for Capitol Hill – 2012 Senate – electionprojection.com/2012elections/
- The Complete List of Email Addresses and Fax Numbers for the U.S. Congress and Governors – conservativeusa.org/
- U.S. Constitution Online – usconstitution.net/
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New with Django 1.2 came multiple database support.
It just so happened that I am putting together such a project and had need of this feature. It was one of those tasks which seemed dauntingly complicated at first, though when I got it working, seemed surprisingly easy. However, the documentation, of which the official docs are the best offering, left me scratching my head for some time. So in this post I aim to lay things out a little more clearly for someone who is attempting this for the first time, and of course as a reference for myself.
My use case may or may not be typical but I would bet it is not rare. I had two independent Django projects which had an app each. The time came when these needed to be two apps in a larger project, but they still required discrete databases. So I rolled one into the other and dealt with my need for multi-db support by using the manual method.
This definitely worked but was more of a stop-gap until I worked up courage to tackle the automatic routing method. My primary motivation was that I needed to have access to both apps in the admin, which required the automatic method. Aside from that, the frequency of the using method such as:
item = Item.objects.using('my_db_2').all()
was getting ugly and daunting to keep track of.
So when it came to it, implementing automatic routing came down to three main steps:
- Define database connections in myproject/settings.py:
DATABASES = { 'default': { 'NAME': 'db1', 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', 'USER': 'myuser1', 'PASSWORD': 'mypass1', }, 'my_db_2': { 'NAME': 'db2', 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', 'USER': 'myuser2', 'PASSWORD': 'mypass2' } }
- Define router in myproject/myapp2/routers.py:
class MyApp2Router(object): """ A router to control all database operations on models in the myapp2 application """ def db_for_read(self, model, **hints): """ Point all operations on myapp2 models to 'my_db_2' """ if model._meta.app_label == 'myapp2': return 'my_db_2' return None def db_for_write(self, model, **hints): """ Point all operations on myapp models to 'other' """ if model._meta.app_label == 'myapp2': return 'my_db_2' return None def allow_syncdb(self, db, model): """ Make sure the 'myapp2' app only appears on the 'other' db """ if db == 'my_db_2': return model._meta.app_label == 'myapp2' elif model._meta.app_label == 'myapp2': return False return None
This is pretty much a copy and paste job from the official example. The one key point left out was where to define this. It turns out that myapp2/models.py is not the right place and something like myapp2/routers.py is!
- Now all that remains is to tell our project about the router. In myproject/settings.py add:
DATABASE_ROUTERS = ['myapp.routers.MyApp2Router',]
You can see that throughout I am only concerned with my second app (myapp2). This is because, for the time being myapp1 would use the default database router which comes out of the box with Django. Of course at some point I may well need another router for that app or an additional one, which is when I could define I new router, hook it up to said app and add the router path to the settings.
I am sure that there are a number of unexplored nuances to working with multiple databases in Django, and I admit I have not delved into the underlying code of this functionality, but for the time being everything seems to works as required. The really impressive part was seeing both apps in the admin without errors.
Thanks Django.


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Our family ties date back to the 1920's when Anne's Great Grandmother had a fish and chip shop in Birdwell in Barnsley cooking on a coal range and wrapping in news paper.
The range and the wrapping have changed but the philosophy remains the same. We pride ourselves in the exceptionally high quality of our product
After the tragic death of Anne's Grandfather Joe in a road accident in 1940 Nora Anne's Grandmother) with her two sons Albert (Anne's Father) and Alan moved to Blackpool. They spent a few years running a boarding house called Silverdale at 21 Lord Street
Albert married Jennie in 1946 and Anne's brother Brian was born later that year. Nora moved to a fish and chip shop in Lytham and Alan opened his own shop in Fleetwood. Albert collected fish from the docks and delivered to shops as far afield as Manchester. One of the shops on his round was for sale so the family moved to 222 Hyde road Ardwick in 1949 selling Fish and poultry.
In 1950 Anne was born and the family lived over the shop until 1966 when we deviated slightly into Fish and chips and opened our first chippy at 14 Sandybank Avenue Hattersley Hyde. Brian moved into his own shop at 145 King Street Dukinfield in 1971.
Albert Jennie and Anne continued to work together with the help of Anne's new boyfriend Robert (a Scotsman) who she met on holiday in Torquay. They married in 1974 and their first daughter Nicola was born in 1975 slowly followed by Gemma 7 years later.
Albert and Jennie decided to retire and sold the shop in Hattersley in 1987 and Anne and Robert moved to their present location on the precinct in Woodley. With the business in the blood Albert found it very hard to retire and they decided to work for 6 months to help out.
Albert never did get to retire and died in 1995 whilst Jennie can still be found frying fish most days. Albert's initials can be seen etched in the glass on the front door as a constant reminder of our humble beginnings.
If any of our customers remember us along the journey we would love to hear from you. Our contact details can be found on the home page. We hope you have enjoyed our trip down memory lane.
Watch this space the journey is far from over...


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The BuyAssist Program provides support for eligible Australians to purchase a newly built approved property as home owners.
The program has been designed by a leading Not For Profit affordable housing provider to help make home ownership more affordable and more attainable for more Australians.
However, the BuyAssist Program is not suitable for everyone. Home ownership and the financial responsibilities that go with it have to be carefully assessed.
More and more Australians on lower to middle incomes are struggling to buy a home.
The two main barriers people face are saving for a deposit, especially if they are meeting ever-rising rental payments, and the gap between what they can borrow from a bank and the actual price of a home to buy.
In many cases willing buyers with reliable incomes just cannot bridge these gaps
BuyAssist is designed to help eligible households bridge these gaps
BuyAssist helps eligible households overcome two major barriers to home ownership.
a) The Deposit Gap. BuyAssist can arrange support for people into home ownership who have not saved a deposit or have a part deposit.
b) Servicing a Loan you can Afford. BuyAssist support means you borrow less from the bank and therefore your monthly payments are less than they would otherwise have been.
The amount of support made available will typically be around 25% of the purchase price of the property. This is the "BuyAssist Support Amount". The BuyAssist Support Amount is provided by Investor who is looking to support home ownership. The BuyAssist Support Amount is combined with any savings you might have and a normal home loan from a lender that supports the program.
You will need to enter into a Home Ownership Participation Agreement ("HOPA") to access the financial support. The HOPA outlines the rules that govern how the support is provided and your obligations to us and our obligations to you.
In exchange for the support, you agree that the BuyAssist Investor (the party providing the funds) will be entitled to an agreed share of the property's future value. For example, if the BuyAssist Support Amount was 25% of the property's purchase price then the BuyAssist Investor will receive 25% of the property's agreed value when the Home Ownership Participation Agreement is completed. This usually occurs when you decide to sell the property or refinance it. The same calculation is applied even if the value of the property falls.
The program is similar to shared equity arrangements that have operated successfully in WA, SA and the ACT. The major difference is that the BuyAssist Investor does not actually own a percentage of your property – you own the property 100%. There are no co-owners or tenants in common.
Like other shared equity arrangements BuyAssist Investors do receive a share of the increase or decrease in the value of the property when the property is sold in the future.
BuyAssist Australia Pty. Limited is a 100% wholly owned subsidiary of the National Affordable Housing Consortium ("NAHC").
NAHC is a Not-for-Profit socially responsible enterprise focused on providing affordable housing solutions for Australians. It has facilitated over 3500 affordable rental properties under the National Rental Affordability Scheme across Australia.
NAHC believes that smart investment in social and affordable housing can deliver sustainable benefits to health, employment and social inclusion for the whole community.
You will be the sole legal owner of the property. BuyAssist Investors do not share the ownership with you. It will be your responsibility to meet all the normal costs of home ownership. BuyAssist will hold an equitable interest in the property's future value and will hold a second mortgage securing these interests.
The BuyAssist support amount must be repaid in the following circumstances:-
If you are approved and matched to a property that you agree to purchase, there is a one-off Participation fee of $1,100 (Including GST).
Once you have purchased the property, you will pay a monthly services and administration fee. Currently set at $137.50 (Inc. GST) payable to the BuyAssist Investor. This is payable until the you exit the HOPA. This fee is indexed to the published CPI annually.
You will need to pay the normal costs associated with the purchase of a property and residential mortgage. This may include stamp duty, valuation and legal fees. We will work through all the costs with you before you decide to purchase.
Yes. You do not need to be a first homebuyer to qualify for the program. However, the program has a strong focus on helping first home buyers.
People who own other residential property are not eligible for BuyAssist.
The newly built properties that are available under the BuyAssist Program have been carefully selected. BuyAssist is committed to improving the supply of new properties in Australia to meet the growing gap between unmet need and current supply.
If we were to provide additional financial assistance to purchase existing properties this may just push up prices, resulting in less affordability over time.
By applying this condition, we believe we will be able to make housing more affordable, thereby assisting more people into home ownership.
Whilst BuyAssist does not conduct inspections on properties they support in the normal course of our business, we do reserve the right to make an inspection. If we do request an inspection we will provide timely written notice in advance.
BuyAssist expects to be able to provide you with a choice of property types and locations. These will increase as the program grows.
Please remember that the properties that may be offered to you will depend on what you are able to reasonable borrow and service. We will all apply careful criteria that reflects future uncertainties, like interest rates rises and other risk factors.
If we do not have a property available that you like you can wait until further properties become available.
Yes. Under the terms of the HOPA you are required to occupy the property as your principal place of residence.
If there are particular circumstances that may require you to vacate the property for any length of time (transfer of employment, illness) you must contact us to discuss.
Yes. Like any home buyer improvements can be made subject to your normal mortgage documentation and any planning or building code requirements. If improvements are made you should keep all receipts, permissions and documentation. Any improvements will be considered when you come to sell the property and your share of the sale proceeds may be adjusted to reflect the money spent.
Yes. You can sell the property at any time and through any channel. The HOPA sets out the process for selling the property.
BuyAssist will also assist you to obtain a loan from a panel of lenders who have agreed to support the program. You will need to meet standard lending criteria to be approved for a loan from one of the panel lenders.
Lenders on the panel have agreed to work with BuyAssist and its applicants and have reviewed and accepted the BuyAssist documentation. This means the Lenders understand that you are receiving financial support from BuyAssist and you have entered into the HOPA. The Lenders accept the terms of the HOPA and have agreed security arrangements with BuyAssist. This arrangement protects both you and BuyAssist.
Our home loan experts will work with you to select the right panel lender for your circumstances and general banking needs. We expect that the interest rates offered to BuyAssist supported purchases will be competitive and the products will have the key features of standard home loans. Interest rates charged will vary between lenders and will normally reflect their appetite for the loans at a given time.
The key is to have access to first mortgage loans and secondly to ensure they are available at a competitive rate. We have agreed with our panel that the standard loan must be a principal and interest loan. The panel may offer variable and/or fixed rate options but interest only options are not available.
By making principal and interest repayments you will be building up equity (the amount you actually own) in the property. Principal repayments will reduce your standard home loan and your interest costs.
BuyAssist will look to publish eligibility requirements on its website and potential applicants can take the first step by using the self-assessment tool. The program is also supported by a number of social impact investors who may their own eligibility requirements.
We maintain a record of the different eligibility criteria that may apply and each applicant will be assessed against these various criteria before being offered properties to view. Eligibility criteria may include income levels, locations available and occupation. The initial eligibility assessment is based on your current gross income.
You will need to demonstrate that you can meet the costs of participating in the program.
No genuine savings are required for a deposit, but if you have savings this will help.
We want to assist people is a sustainable way. This means we are careful in how we assess your eligibility and we will only support your purchase of a property you can reasonably afford.
When you are approved the HOPA will detail the eligibility criteria you have been approved under. We will detail the maximum level of income that the support is provided for.
Firstly, we would welcome the improvement in your financial position as it demonstrates a success for the program.
Ultimately our aim is to provide you with support for as long as you need it. We recognise that you might need our financial support for a number of years into the future.
Once you are able to manage without our financial support we would be aiming to transition you off that support. This would enable us to recycle the support to help another household get into home ownership.
The process we follow is to conduct an annual review with you to ensure ongoing eligibility for our support.
If your income has increased and exceeds the maximum amount (plus agreed %) that we agreed with you when we signed the HOPA and provided the financial support, then certain options will need to be considered by you.
These are set out in the HOPA and may include our assistance to help you refinance out of the Agreement.
BuyAssist gives you at least 12 months to carefully work through your options.
You can get an indication of whether you are eligible for BuyAssist support by answering a series of questions at www.buyassistaustralia.com.au/eligible. If you meet the eligibility criteria we can then show you a list of available properties and discuss your standard home loan application.
We will keep you informed when new properties are added that may suit your specific requirements.
Yes. If you have saved extra funds or had a windfall that allows you to repay or reduce your BuyAssist support amount please contact us to work through the process.


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Published on September 19th, 2012 | by ReggaeTimes1
First Note: 09.19.2012
How Sean Paul's iPad Helped Him Make His New Album (Forbes Magazine)
Dancehall superstar Sean Paul is best known for his maddeningly catchy hooks, his distinctive Jamaican lilt and ever-changing hairstyles that have run the gamut from cornrows to his current mohawk. But thanks to his iPad, this musical chameleon of coiffure has added a few more titles to his resume: technologist, tinker, producer.
Over the past few years, Sean Paul has been using the popular Apple product as a sort of melodic sketchpad, tapping out beats while traveling on planes, trains and automobiles and later refining them in the studio. One such song, "Roll wid di Don," appears on his new album, Tomahawk Technique, released today.
Bounty Killer, Tommy Lee battle intensifies (Examiner.com)
ust last week, it seemed like any possibility of a lyrical tussle between Alliance leader, Bounty Killer and 'Gaza' artiste Tommy Leewould subside given the apparent expressions of respect they expressed towards each other. However, after the latter entertainer's latest taunts, Dancehall could be witnessing the next big clash within its circles.
Cliff tops Billboard reggae chart (The Jamaica Observer)
REGGAE great Jimmy Cliff is still making an impact internationally.
His latest release, Rebirth, sits atop the Billboard Reggae Album chart after an eight weeks.
After holding the runner-up spot last week, Rebirth edged out last week's number one album Easy Stars Thrillah, the project from the Easy Star All-Stars, which is now in third position.
Dancehall's finest up for MOBO Award (Jamaica Observer)
FIVE artistes are up for the Best Reggae Act category at the November 3 Music of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards in Liverpool, England.
Konshens, Damian Marley, Sean Paul, Popcaan, and Mr Vegas are the contenders.
Reggae legends set to make some Boss Sounds (The Shields Gazette)
ONE of the world's biggest reggae stars is on his way to Tyneside as part of this year's Boss Sounds Festival.
Anthony B, direct from Jamaica, will get the festival off to a flying start when he plays at World Headquarters in Newcastle on Friday, October 12.
A regular headliner at festivals around Europe, Anthony B is an instantly recognisable figure at major European Festivals.
Patra Talks Comeback Album, Record Deal And More [Video] (Urban Islandz)
Patra launched herself back on dancehall airwaves with a new single "Comer Over," and an accompanying video featuring Delus.
In a recent interview with Anthony Miller of ER, Patra opens up about her upcoming album, her new single and record deal.
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Cobalt-8 Violet CTP System Hums at Commercial Communications Inc.
Monday, August 19, 2002
Press release from the issuing company36,000 Sq. ft. of plates imaged in eight weeks - Montreal, Canada - August 16th, 2002 - The Cobalt-8 violet CTP system recently installed at Commercial Communications, Inc. in Hartland, WI is proving to be the workhorse of the prepress department, imaging 36,000 SqFt of plate to produce more than 4000 40-inch plates in just eight weeks. The Cobalt-8 was installed at CCI in May and was up and running within a few days. CCI already had a Prinergy workflow system from Heidelberg driving their prepress department and did not want to reinvest in anything new. Designed to integrate into any prepress workflow, the Cobalt-8 slipped seamlessly into CCI's existing prepress workflow without issue. "We can image an 8-up plate 3 times as fast with this machine," said Peter Sweers, Prepress Manager at Commercial Communications Inc. "The Cobalt-8 has delivered on its promise of speed, quality and reliability and fits into our Prinergy workflow." The Cobalt-8 is designed to meet the real-world platesetting requirements of printing operations. Cobalt-8's reliability is built-in with only two moving parts and the simple plate loading procedure is faster and more dependable than automated loading systems, allowing users to immediately change plate size and thickness between jobs without the limitations of automated plate cassettes. Unlike thermal systems, the Cobalt-8 will image faster at lower dpi's (i.e. twice as fast at 1200 dpi than at 2400 dpi) so productivity can be tuned to the type of presswork required ensuring maximum throughput. "With a fifteen second load time, the Cobalt-8 is the fastest platesetter in its class," said Keith Fisher, Director of Business Development for Escher-Grad Technologies. "CCI is demonstrating that fact every day by producing more plates in one day than most printers use in a week! It's very exciting to see how a manual, reliable and easy-to-use system like the Cobalt-8 can consistently out-perform its fully automated and costlier rivals. Hats off to CCI! We're proud to be a part of their continued growth." Commercial Communications, Inc., (CCI), has grown to be a world leader in document and information management and specializes in integrating printing, fulfillment and distribution in a business-to-business environment through traditional methods and a suite of e-business products and services. CCI is the largest electronic print provider in North America and a pioneer in online document ordering, viewing, tracking and management. For more about CCI, please visit www.comcom.com. Established in 1986, Montreal-based Escher-Grad designs, manufactures and markets advanced, high-resolution laser imaging systems solutions that markedly increase productivity for the graphic arts and printed circuit board industries. All products are backed by a worldwide sales and support network with systems installed in more than 35 countries around the world. For more information please visit www.Escher-Grad.com.
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Fragrance description Millefiori Natural Berry Delight
The Millefiori Natural Berry Delight aroma diffuser is a pleasant way to make your interior spaces smell great. The aroma diffuser contains a refill that, with the reeds inserted, gradually evaporates into the air, creating a truly homely scent in your room.
- a sweet aroma
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Open the aroma diffuser cap and pour the refill into it. The fragrance is released gradually from the aroma diffuser via the reeds. The more reeds you put in the dish, the stronger the essence in the room. You can also increase the intensity of the fragrance in the room by turning the soaked reeds occasionally. This aroma diffuser is supplied with a refill. Follow the instructions included. Keep out of the reach of children. If the diffuser refill comes into contact with your skin, wash immediately with plenty of soap and water. If it gets into your eyes, rinse for several minutes with water.
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- Green Leaves, Jasmine, Lily Of The Valley, Mulberry
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- Publisher: Thomas Nelson (Sept. 5 2017)
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Bri McKoy, of the blog Our Savory Life, celebrates the power of the everyday table and shows how, by regularly and intentionally gathering around it, we can follow in the footsteps of Jesus and usher in grace, love, and deep fellowship.
Raised in the world of takeout and microwaveable meals, like so many busy women Bri McKoy found herself utterly lost in the kitchen and nowhere near using her dining room table as an inviting place of community. However, as she learned how to more intentionally invite not just others but also herself to her table every day, she noticed that the kitchen stopped feeling like a prison cell and started feeling like a sanctuary, that gathering with others around the table, like Jesus often did during his time on earth, had the power to usher in deep relationship and a fuller understanding of God's love and grace.
In Come and Eat, Bri invites readers on an adventure of burnt pie, ten-pound bags of onions, and kitchen catastrophes to discover how to transform a common dining-room table into a vehicle that ushers in the presence of Jesus. It's an invitation with no pressure, no strings attached, no advanced cooking skills or fancy accouterments necessary. Just a healthy appetite and a desire to take a deeper look into the power and ministry that can be found at the table. Combining biblical reflection with engaging personal stories from Bri's own home, as well as the tables she has joined around the world, Come and Eat shows readers how they can intentionally make their own tables a vibrant source of life.
About the Author
Bri McKoy is a writer and home cook. She first worked with Youth with a Mission (YWAM) in journalism and then at Compassion International. She currently serves as the visionary and leader for Compassion Bloggers, successor to Shaun Groves, connecting with bestselling authors and popular bloggers daily. She is the owner and writer for her blog OurSavoryLife.com, a food blog with recipes and stories from around her table.
Her recipes have been featured on Blendtec's (known as the world's most powerful blender) website as well as Civilized Caveman Eats (whose author has written two New York Times bestseller cookbooks). Another of her recipes was recently featured on Shape.com, which is the online home to Shape magazine, the second largest young women's magazine. Bri is a contributor to the award-winning Compassion Blog and to GraceTable.org, a community blog about food and faith.
She currently lives in Hermosa Beach, California with her husband and dog. You can find her in the kitchen or in her neighborhood knocking on doors inviting people to her table!
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Come and Eat: A Celebration of Love and Grace Around the Everyday Table is the first book by Bri McKoy that I have read. I was not familiar with Bri before reading this book and now I am following her on social media and her blog.
Come and Eat: A Celebration of Love and Grace Around the Everyday Table is a fantastic book. It is a great reminder to all of us about how fellow shipping around a table can be a remarkable tool for reaching out to others. I remember going to a church when I was young that after church you were always invited to someone's house for lunch or you invited them. It was a great way to meet newcomers to the church. This book reminded me of how important fellowship with others can be.
Come and Eat: A Celebration of Love and Grace Around the Everyday Table provides the tools that you need to have a warm and inviting table to invite others to. The book is filled with biblical inspiration to assist you. I loved the personal stories in the book and I'm sure you will too.
Highly recommend Come and Eat: A Celebration of Love and Grace Around the Everyday Table.


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Erica Avena
My ministry has been helping congregations re-focus on their core mission and ministries in light of present circumstances and their particular vision for ministry since I began in Intentional Interim Ministry in 2007. I enjoy working with churches while they are in transition to make the most of their interim opportunities; it is a time poignant with promise and possibility. There are questions church members can ask about their ministry in between settled Pastors that might seem rude or improper otherwise. One of the most powerful examples of interim work in church history is the peripatetic itinerate ministry of the Apostle Paul who said "… I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some." (I Cor 9:22b) The interim journey is a spiritual journey, a time of vulnerability, flexibility and discovery.
Spiritual journeys best begin with prayer. I begin with prayerful listening. In prayer and conversation with the congregation and its leaders, we seek to identify and to work toward appropriate and strategic goals – specific to that church and its community. The focus is to prepare for future successful ministry in that particular place and time, with the people who will carry it forward. When the Search Committee is ready to form, this lays the groundwork for the church to search for a settled Pastoral candidate that will be a good fit.
I take each church's particular history seriously on the interim journey, and then grounded in prayer, history and faith, with humor and attention to the wider fellowship; we find our way to the next level. Throughout salvation history when God's people have been cut back, they have been spiritually strengthened in the growth that comes afterward. It was as true in the Exodus, for the prophet Elijah, and when the people were exiled in ancient Babylon, as it is today. With the gospel, we need to focus forward. How will we be faithful in these present circumstances? How will we invite a new generation to faith? How do we become the hands and feet of Jesus in our time?
One of the pleasures of Pastoral work for me is interpreting the faith in light of contemporary experience. Whether in a Bible Study, while visiting in homes or hospitals, in a sermon, as I counsel someone, or in community work – the historic faith of the church presses on to be brought into our contemporary lives. The way we articulate our faith, the way we spend our time, where we put our resources, the issues we choose to commit ourselves to, have everything to do with how Christianity is perceived, and what role it will play, for the coming generations.
We rejoice that Christ works through ordinary people to bring good news; we rejoice that we do not have to be perfect, only faithful and accepting of God's beneficent grace, we rejoice that Christ redeems us and is making all things new. The gift of faith has been extended from Calvary to us all. As God's people together, it is a privilege to share it widely, and to carry it forward into a new day.
The Reverend Erica Wimber Avena has been working in Intentional Interim Ministry since 2007. In nearly 30 years of ministry she has served numerous churches in Connecticut including as Interim Senior Minister of First Baptist Church of West Hartford and Interim Senior Pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Suffield. Erica is a Past-President of the American Baptist Churches of Connecticut, a former General Board Member of the American Baptist Churches, USA, and former Chair of the Committee on Christian Unity. She served as a Commissioner for the National Council of Churches for 12 years, and on numerous other church boards in ecumenical leadership. Her M.Div. (Masters of Divinity) is from Yale University Divinity School, 1988, and she received an S.T.M. (Masters in Sacred Theology) in Interfaith Studies there in 1994. She is married to Attorney Robert Avena, who practices law in Stonington; they have three children and make their home in East Lyme, Connecticut.


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No Smiling at your Christmas Meal - By Order of the Management
We've just received an email: "Dear Guests, Thank you for booking your Christmas Party at Le Monde. We would like to take this opportunity to lay down a few ground rules. No fancy dress; no party hats; no poppers or indoor sparklers; no laughing and no smiling. Actually if you could keep the noise down as well, imagine you are in a library. Other than that have a great night, especially as we are overcharging you so much for a mass produced meal of rather unexceptional quality". Hah, that's where I've outsmarted them! £30 for pumpkin soup, turkey and a chocolate cake? I think not. I've order from the A La Carte menu and gone with Haggis and Clapshot parcel with Whisky sauce (£4.95); Lamb Rump with mustard mash and spicy lentil veg (12.95) and Sticky Toffee Pudding (£4.50) - All for less than £23! Even if I had of gone with the Duck Breast for £14.95 it still would have come in over a fiver cheaper than the mass produced Christmas menu. Now that's eating smart.
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How To Write Informative Essays
Whether you are a student in high school or college, there is a 100% chance that you will have to write some sort of informative essay during your educational years. Your teacher may either assign you a topic or allow you to choose one for yourself. Depending on the length and requirements for the paper, your topic options will narrow down. A lot of the times, students will end up receiving a subject that they are completely clueless about and thus have really no starting point to build off. Do not worry, EssayPro is here to teach our students everything they need to know about crafting an informative essay!
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What Is An Informative Essay?
Believe it or not, as a student you have written this sort of an essay before! To understand the concept of this paper, you must understand its definition. An informative essay is a piece of writing that aims to educate an audience about a certain topic. This is NOT an essay that is persuasive or argumentative, and the end goal is to make sure that the audience has learned new and interesting information. Generally speaking, this type of essay will compare controversial viewpoints about a certain topic.
This Type of Essay is similar to an Expository Essay
This essay family contains the:
Informative Essay Topics
If the topic is not assigned, you will need to choose your own topic. You might probably stuck on this step if you have a wide range to choose from. Take your time and keep these pieces of advice in mind to select the most appropriate topic.
Make sure that your topic is not too broad and not too narrow. You need to have enough information about your subject to write about, but not so much to make your essay a novel.
The topic should be attractive and interesting to your audience. Think ahead about who might be reading your paper. Of course, if it was assigned for your class, the teacher will be your main audience.
The best option is to choose the topic that interests you. It will make the writing process much more pleasant and will let you express your enthusiasm fully.
Sometimes, teachers and professors will require presentations or speeches to come along with the written essay. This is why it is smart to pick a topic that is interesting enough to a wide audience (something people can relate to) and can be explained clearly through speech. Here are some examples!
- The origin of language.
- The origin of the universe!
- How to maximize financial efficiency!
- Why do people procrastinate?
- What causes addiction?
- Evolution of human rights
- Legalization of Marijuana
- Nanotechnology
- Why do we dream?
- How do 3D-glasses work?
Steps to Take Pre-Writing
Before you sit down in front of your computer screen and start typing away, there are some necessary steps to make and items to prepare before hand. Having a set plan allows you to organize information effectively, and this greatly speeds up the entire essay writing process.
Brainstorm Ideas: Unless specifically given subject instructions by the coordinator, students are usually given freedom in choosing the topic of their essay. Depending on the importance of the class or your enthusiasm towards crafting this work, a topic should be chosen accordingly. You may choose a topic that you are already well-rounded in, however, this will make the process swift and boring. Ambitious students should choose a topic that they have limited knowledge about. Doing this will increase their general knowledge as well as challenge the students in regards to analyzing new information. Regardless of what type of topic you choose, brainstorming ideas and creating a general outline of your essay will help you organize your thoughts, logically allowing you to pick the most suitable topic.
Choosing a Topic: After narrowing down your options, it has finally come time to choose the most appropriate topic. Remember, the Find a happy medium which will allow you to fully answer the informative question. This will prevent you from worrying about the fact that you may need more content or that not everything you wanted to express got down on paper!
Crank Out Some Informative Research: Gather information about your topic. Use various sources including primary and secondary ones! Primary sources are physical pieces of evidence relating to the topic at hand. For example, if you are talking about the Evolution Of Human Rights, a primary source could be a speech written by Martin Luther King Jr! Secondary sources are articles and papers written based on that topic. For example, if the topic is about addiction, a secondary source would be Bruce K. Alexander's Rat Park Study!
Use a variety of sources, and validate their reliability: Using sites like Wikipedia is generally frowned upon, however checking out the links used at the bottom of every wiki page is an effective way to get sources quickly! Provide different types of sources to make your informative essay well-rounded!
Informative Essay Outline
As a writer, you may be wondering: "If I hire someone to write my essay for me, will they know how to structure my informative essay?" This is definitely a good question to ask and an idea to consider if you have decided upon this path. If the writer presents you with something similar to what is shown here, then you are in good hands!
The informative essay is written in the standard essay style. Usually speaking, it will consist of an Introduction, 3 Body Paragraphs, and a Conclusion. The introduction serves to present the main argument in an exciting and interesting manner. The 3 Bodies will be mainly used to support the thesis created in the intro. The conclusion will wrap up the information and present its significance in the real world!
The intro should start out with a flashy hook statement that grabs the reader's attention. This sentence should be relevant to the topic, so using an informative rhetorical question would be a good example.
Afterward, reveal any background context that will be necessary for the reader to understand while reading through the essay. These sentences should pay the way for an excellent thesis statement.
The last sentence of the introduction should be a well formed and coherent thesis statement. Since this is the sentence that the entire informative essay is based around, make sure that you have constructed it properly. In other words,
Body Paragraphs
The purpose of this section of the essay is to defend the thesis statement, so the content in these paragraphs must be tip-top. Create a smooth transition from your intro by creating a topic sentence that links the thesis to your first main point. (A smooth transition should also be created for the second and third body paragraph!)
With each body paragraph, there must be a target point and a supporting detail. A target point is the part of the thesis that you are aiming to prove. The supporting detail is the outside validation that enriches your statement.
After introducing your topic sentence, it is time to follow the CCE format to craft the most important part of the essay. This is your main argument of the body paragraph. Since the quality of the essay is dependent upon how well the thesis is defended, make sure that your 3 claims are strong.
After defining your claim, you must introduce the evidence. This is your physical proof that validates your claim. Usually, in informative writing, this will be a quote from some sort of Without this, your informative essay will hold no value. It would basically be the same as accepting opinion as fact.
To conclude the CCE process, the writer must present an explanation of his claim. In other words, they need to display how this claim proves their thesis statement as fact. This is absolutely necessary and should be explained coherently. If eager to gain extra validation points, the writer can go into more depth about how the evidence backs up the claim. However, if this can be inferred without the need of extra information, then that would be ideal.
To conclude a body paragraph, a sentence should be created that gives a general synopsis of the argument presented. The main purpose of this sentence is to display assertiveness; in other words, display that your opinion is the right one! This gives your entire essay more strength and makes your argument/thesis look sharp!
After portraying your three main arguments, it is time to wrap up your essay.
The conclusion of an essay restates the thesis statement and offers final thoughts and insights on the topic. Explain it in different words and provide room for a smooth transition.
This "room" is necessary because you will now need to briefly restate the impact of each one of your arguments. If done correctly, the restatement and then the brief argument relay should mix well with each other!
In order to effectively finish the essay, one must come up with an overall concluding statement. This statement should serve as an explanation for the significance of your argument. In other words, explain why the informative writing you just crafted has value and where this information can be applied. This gives the work "real-world" value!
Post-Writing To Do List
Vocabulary: After rereading the draft, make sure that you are satisfied with the language you have used. If the words were not crafty enough or phrases could have been stated in a smoother manner, then edit accordingly.
Grammar: Nothing aggravates teachers more than having to pause their reading to fix grammar mistakes. It shows carelessness and a lack of proper editing. Use websites like GrammarCheck to make sure that there are no issues with punctuation, spelling, etc.
Coherency: From a writer's perspective, this is the most important textbox to have checked. Using language that can be easily understood as well as proper transitional skills is an awesome way to keep your paper moving smoothly.
If you were to imagine your paper as a road, then a coherent paper would be a straightforward and clean path. An incoherent essay would be one with bumps on the road and unexpected sharp turns!
Peer Editing: Having a second pair of eyes to read through your paper is a surefire way of validating your work. If the essay sounds fluent and makes sense to another brain, then you are increasing the odds of it sounding great to the teacher. If your peer has any tips or recommended some amendments, consider their advice! Here at EssayPro, you can speak to a professional essay writer that knows useful tactics that will put a smile on the professor's face!
The final touch: As you have edited your final draft, your next step will be transforming it into a full-fledged essay. Give your final draft one more read-through. Read it aloud and fix small mistakes your eye might not catch.
Essay Writing Advice From Our Professional Team
Prof. Essie, from EssayPro
An informative essay is the best way to explain a complicated idea. When you write one of these essays, most of the writing process comes before you write the essay itself. My advice is to spend the most of your writing time on research. (To inform someone on how to do something, you first need to know to do it). The first step to anything, of course, is to choose a topic. Gather all the details on that subject by doing a thorough investigation. List of the important facts and main steps of your paper. Make sure your sources and facts are reliable and accurate. In your outline, write a topic sentence for each fact. After doing all of these steps, you can structure the thesis statement. That's right! Don't start your essay by writing a thesis statement. Make sure you wholesomely understand your topic before you introduce it. After this organizational process, you can draft your essay and edit it. Good luck!
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Informative essays tend to be difficult assignments for students as sometimes explaining certain concepts takes a lot more critical thinking than expected. This causes students to submit low-quality work and receive poor grades for their efforts. To alleviate this problem, we here at EssayPro, the best custom essay writing service on the web, have hired qualified writers to create high-level content for very fair prices. Our writers are college graduates with various degrees who have dealt with the struggle of college essay writing. They have learned all of the tricks and tactics to astonish college professors and will guarantee the swift delivery of a custom informative essay! Hire online essay writer!
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The purpose of an informative essay, sometimes called an expository essay, is to educate on a certain topic. It is not for giving an opinion or convincing someone to do something or change his beliefs. In addition to being informative, it needs to be interesting.
Structure of an Informative Essay
The basic structure of an informative essay is very simple. It needs to have a beginning, middle, and end.
- The beginning needs to present the topic and grab the attention of the audience. It needs to include the focus sentence for the entire essay.
- The middle will be the main bulk of the essay and it will contain all the important facts that you are covering. This is where the audience will get their questions answered. Remember to answer these questions: who, what, where, when, why, and how.
- The end is a conclusion where you will summarize the essay. It should spur the reader or listener to learn more about the topic.
The Beginning
Here is an example of the beginning of an informative essay:
As you are listening to me, you might not think that today is the day that you will save a life. It is quite easy to save a life any day and it only takes a little bit of your time. I'm not talking about being a paramedic or fireman; I am talking about donating blood.
The Closing
Here is an example of a closing:
So that now you know how easy it is to donate blood, it's time to take action. After all, you have plenty of blood, so why not share? When you do, you will feel good about yourself and you will save a life.
Subjects of Informative Essays
Informative essays, sometimes called expository essays, can be used for many purposes. They can compare viewpoints on a controversial subject as long as they don't include the author's opinions. They may analyze data, like in a cause and effect situation, or educate the audience on ways to do something, like solving a certain kind of problem.
For example:
- An informative essay might explain the pros and cons of the death penalty, using statistics on crime rate reduction as a pro and statistics on innocent men being found guilty as a con.
- An informative essay might analyze whether lack of education is a cause of homelessness by using statistics and information about the educational attainment of homeless men and women.
- An informative essay might educate the audience on how to open a bank account.
Informative Essay Titles
To help you get a better idea of the different types of informative essays, here are some possible titles for this type of essay:
- Understanding the Link Between Cholesterol and Heart Disease
- How to Buy a House
- Understanding Your Credit Score
- Defining Poverty in the City of Chicago
- The Health Benefits of a Vegetarian Diet
- The Importance of Regular Daily Exercise
- The Causes of Global Warming
- Reducing Carbon Emissions with Alternative Fuels
- Cost Savings of Hybrid Vehicles
- Understanding Geothermal Heating and Cooling
- Why Cleaning Your Ducts is Important
- Qualifications of Contractors
- How to Get your Commercial Driver's License
Steps in Creating an Informative Essay
Most of the work on an informative essay is done before you actually sit down to type. Here are the general steps to take:
- After you have chosen the topic, you will need to research and gather all the pertinent details on that subject. You need to ascertain what you already know about the subject and then decide what you would like to know.
- You will need to make a list of the important facts and then list the main steps in your paper. Make sure all your facts are accurate. You will need to write a topic sentence for each fact and write a focus sentence (thesis statement) for the entire essay.
- Create an outline that will organize your facts in a logical way. Then you will be ready to make your first draft.
- Editing is an important step for any writing project. Reading your essay out loud will help you notice places where the writing is awkward or unclear. If possible, have someone else read it and give you their ideas for improvement. Of course, you will need to pay attention for grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and other errors.
An informative essay is the best way to explain something that is complicated...in an uncomplicated way.


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VirtualBox disk corruption
For a while now I've been using vagrant (with VirtualBox) VMs to test an application I'm working on. Unfortunately quite often these VMs would only last one or perhaps two tests before apparently having corrupted their disk.
The symptoms would tend to be "Input/output error", eg things like:
-bash: /usr/bin/less: Input/output error
...although it could be almost anything that failed to run. Sometimes the machine wouldn't boot at all, others it would but "vagrant ssh" couldn't connect or would connect but couldn't provide a shell.
Thankfully for my testing I could just throw away the VM and let it rebuild (vagrant is great!) to get things working again.
Today I finally investigated the actually problem. It seems it stemmed from the application I'm testing being very disk intensive. After a random amount of time of running the application, the guest kernel would spit out some of these:
[ 63.034642] mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=ffff8800dbb99800)
[ 63.034650] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] tag#1 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 5c 67 50 00 00 08 00
[ 63.146718] mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED (rv=2003) (sc=ffff8800dbb99800)
For reference, I'm running VirtualBox from Ubuntu 16.10 with Ubuntu 16.04 as the guest.
It looks like others have found similar issues for a while.
Based on those reports, it's an issue with using multiple processors and SCSI disks in VirtualBox. Which managed to lead me to an actual bug report.
At the moment it seems the latest release (5.1.12) does include the fix "Storage: fixed a problem with the LsiLogic SCSI controller where requests could be lost with SMP guests" - see the changelog.
The 5.1.12 version of VirtualBox has already been packaged for Zesty (Ubuntu 17.04) and it seems to install fairly cleanly onto 16.10. Below is the process I followed.
Fetch a couple of dependencies:
...and install them:
sudo dpkg -i libgsoap10_2.8.35-4_amd64.deb libvpx4_1.6.0-3_amd64.deb
Then grab the main VirtualBox packages:
- http://packages.ubuntu.com/zesty/virtualbox-qt
- http://packages.ubuntu.com/zesty/virtualbox-dkms
- http://packages.ubuntu.com/zesty/virtualbox
...and install those too:
sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-dkms_5.1.12-dfsg-2_all.deb virtualbox-qt_5.1.12-dfsg-2_amd64.deb virtualbox_5.1.12-dfsg-2_amd64.deb
...and hopefully all will be well.
So far, it seems to have fixed the disk corruption. I have now had a guest kernel panic relating to memory allocation but at least when I restarted the VM I was still able to login and carry on from where it stopped.


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The shambling zombies of the "Walking Dead" had the spry athletes of the Sochi Winter Olympics to compete with on Sunday night, but just like on the show, the dead overpowered the living with their sheer numbers. "The Walking Dead" came back for the second half of its fourth season with a total audience of 15.8 million viewers.
That isn't a series high, but it's close. Viewership of the mid-season premiere, "After," written by "Walking Dead" creator Robert Kirkman, was down just slightly from the 16.11 million viewers who watched the show's fourth season premiere in October.
AMC estimates that when time-shifted DVR viewers are added in, the mid-season premiere will have a total audience of more than 20 million.
In the key demographic of adults ages 18 to 49, "The Walking Dead" was the top-rated program of the night, with 10.4 million viewers. It beat the Sochi Winter Olympics on NBC in that demographic, though the Olympics still had a higher overall audience of 25.4 million.
The audience of "The Walking Dead" even seems to be warming to the Chris Hardwick-hosted live aftershow, "Talking Dead." That show, which airs immediately after "Walking Dead," drew 5.9 million viewers, down slightly from the 6.02 million who watched the mid-season finale episode of "Talking Dead," but still the highest premiere rating to date.
And, as ever, the show was the most-discussed program on Twitter on Sunday, with 1.24 million "Walking Dead"-related tweets sent.


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Ozil the cheat has condemned the Ex players for not backing the club.
This from a player who would be on his way if somebody wanted him as quick as you could say verschwendung von fucking space.
But they know what useless no balls dickhead he is cheating the fans with his so called performances.


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Roger Federer on regaining the top spot and his "brutal" teenage years
Firstly, what are your reflections on your season this year?
It's been a great year, I've played really well, been injury-free, been healthy. I've probably played a better year than I thought I was going to.
You recently competed at your 13th ATP World Tour Finals in London. How does the event compare to Wimbledon?
So different. It's like day and night. The event's wonderful, it's prestigious – it's the top eight. It's got this real 'boxing set-up' feeling to it: the walk-in music,
the lights. But I prefer Wimbledon because of its history.
Did you get to go round London much this time?
Yes, they've got good Indian restaurants. I went to one the other night. I also went to the Tower Of London. The poppies are absolutely fantastic, unreal. The amount of people there was out of control, everybody taking pictures of the poppies. We also got to see the Crown Jewels, that was good fun.
Having won so much in your career, do you still feel you have anything left to prove?
I've got a lot of goals left. I want to be World No1 again. I've got the Davis Cup final, which I've never been in – we're playing in front of 27,000 Frenchmen in Lille. That's going to be spectacular.
Why did you return to the Davis Cup?
I never really left it, but it doesn't have the same prestige it used to. This year, with Stan Wawrinka playing so well, I was always going to give it a shot. It will be very special for Swiss tennis. We made the final once before in 1992 against the USA, I remember watching it as an 11-year-old. It was a big deal. Unfortunately we played against Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, John McEnroe and Jim Courier – we didn't win!
The Davis Cup has a football tournament feeling to it – are you a football fan?
I recently went to the Arsenal vs Anderlecht game that ended 3-3. I went with a friend who's an Arsenal fan and I said to them, "Oh look, we're three love up, the game's over!" And then disaster struck! I don't have a favourite English team, FC Basel is my one team. I remember when we played Tottenham a couple of years ago in the Europa League quarter-finals, the penalty shootout. I was watching it like this [puts his hands over his eyes], and we won!
How much has the tennis circuit changed since you started?
It's different, definitely. The depth in the game is greater, the playing conditions have changed, they're slower than when I started in the Nineties. Technology, too – racquets and strings. New players, new faces.
Are we in a golden age of men's tennis?
A little bit. Any age is a good age. If you look back, the Björn Borg age was fantastic, McEnroe too. Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg, Sampras were all great. There are always these transitions, and every generation for me is like five, 10 years, so everybody's always overlapping. But there's no doubt that Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal are two of the greatest players we've ever had.
How does Andy Murray's style of play compare to yours?
It's always a good match. He's a bit more defensive, I'm a bit more offensive, but he plays more aggressively against me so I've got to go on the defensive, too. I think we're more or less even head-to-head so it's a good match-up.
Which one of your career rivalries is your favourite?
Murray, Djokovic, Rafa – all three guys I like playing against. They're very entertaining and exciting. But I miss playing Lleyton Hewitt, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Andy Roddick and Marat Safin. It was a dream to play the likes of Sampras, Agassi, Tim Henman and Carlos Moyá. For me, I'm nostalgic. I loved the time I was coming up and playing the guys I knew from TV. But I like playing this generation as well, and the new ones pushing through.
You used to be quite hot-headed on court. What changed?
Yeah, there's no doubt about it. Eventually I told myself, "You've just got to be quiet, the way you're acting isn't cool." So I changed it in 2001, I had that great run at Wimbledon when I beat Sampras [in the fourth round before losing to Henman in the quarter-finals] – but then I realised I was too calm. So I had to get the fire back into me. It took a couple of years to really figure it out. It was only in 2003 when I won Wimbledon that I found the right Zen, still being myself on the court, very focused.
Was that change integral to your success?
A little bit. It gave me more confidence, belief in my strength, knowing my weaknesses. As you know, the teenage years are just brutal. It's very "arghhh", everything's crazy, you want to dye your hair red, have a beard, everything's just insane. It was a very interesting period for me and I got to know myself very well.
If you became World No1 again how would you celebrate?
Oooh, that'd be huge. That'd be an absolute highlight. I've had a lot of highlights in my career, but that'd be the pinnacle. I'd probably put that over winning a grand slam because you can reach that within two weeks. Getting back to World No1 is an entire grind over a year. And for that I'd celebrate not once but many times with many different people. I'd open one of the best bottles in my wine cellar, a vintage Moët bottle from 2006 because that was one of my best years on tour.
Roger Federer is worldwide brand ambassador for Moët & Chandon
(Image: Rex Features)