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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:27 am
Post subject: Regulations of turkey smoking
As A Quality Control Inspector lets understand the rules.
You should never consume a turkey which has not achieved a smoked tempureture of 165...If said turkey is cooked to the required temp it will have a destinctive smoke ring and rather pink hue to the meat.
The beer will have a minuet flavor enhancement at best. perhaps engineering can find a more effective way to use beer,ingestion works well for Q.C.
It has been determined however that the BRINE is the decideding factor in flavor and should not be ignored.
There are many recipies and perhaps engineering can determine which offers one that can please the palate of the masses on a consistant basis.
Thanks for the debate,
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 11:58 pm
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I've been reading and enjoying the recipes on this site for a while now, and when I decided to try "beer butt chicken", I checked to see if you guys had a better way of doing it. Sure enough, I learned to take the whole top off the can. My husband was surprised that I didn't just open it and pour out half. I told him, "No, I have to take the whole top off, pour it into a container while I mix herbs in the empty can, then fill it halfway with the beer." We are doing it right now with a chicken, will be excited to see how dinner turns out. Thanks for your always illuminating twists to cooking. I love engineers!
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The Joker
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:39 pm
Post subject: Beer Car additives
Try adding a little Jack Daniels and Tabasco to the beer. Adds a nice flavor.
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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:41 pm
Post subject: Beer Can Turkey
My Weber is too small to accommodate a turkey sitting on the can like a chicken. Haven't tried this yet, but will before too long. How about laying the bird on it's back, like in the oven, and slide the can in horizontally AFTER making a slit in one side of sufficient width to allow adding whatever is wanted, and provide sufficient surface for pleanty of steaming?
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Dan Machuga
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:52 pm
Post subject: A better way to build your can for beer can turkey
After cutting off your lid to the beer can punch two holes on each side of the can, take a wire coat hanger cut the hook off ,streighten the rest of the hanger out and then bend the hanger in half.Take your beer can size it up to the bottom of the bird just to get an idea where the top of the can would be inside the cavitiy. Take your wire coat hanger thats bent in half and size it up from the neck to the holes in the can leave about a half an inch of coat hanger sticking out of the bird where the hanger is bent. The two ends of hanger will need to go into the holes in the can I cut each end about a half an inch longer to where the ends need to go into the can and bend them. I find it so much easier to move the bird around this way and you wont have to worry about the can falling out of your bird it works for me hope it works for you.
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Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:10 pm
Post subject: Beer-butt chicken
I have been making beer-butt chicken for 14 years now. I use charcoal and direct heat because I usually have to do 4 to 5 at a time, that is how much everyone loves them. The meat literally falls off the bone. I stick a two or three inch piece of sausage in the neck so the steam doesn't escape. I like the beer because it seems to tenderize the chicken, but it's the herbs and spices I put in the beer that really does the flavoring. Just recently I used an orange soda that was out of this world. Sorry, but my spices and glaze is a secret.
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Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 10:46 pm
Post subject: Smoked Turkey
It seems most all receipes call for internal temp. of thigh to reach 180 degrees - 170 degrees for the breast. What say you about this? Thanks....... evinrude
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Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 6:55 pm
Post subject: beer can turkey
Instead of drinking the rest of your 24 oz heiniken pour it int the drip pan thus you steam the outside of the turkey also
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Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 5:30 pm
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I work in a
Beer club
and recently we have learned to make a turkey exactly like this one but when I first cooked it I think I have skipped a few steps and I want to try again tomorrow following your recipe. Thanks a lot for posting this awesome thread.
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 4:07 am
Post subject: Beer Can Turkey (Pavo Borracho)
I have tried the beer can turkey and I have to say it is the juciest turkey you will ever eat if its cooked correctly. I started cooking my turkeys in a beer can about 5 years ago.
I never brined my turkeys and they came out perfect. I used a 24 ounce beer can and added my ingrdients in the beer after I took a drink or two. I use a light beer.
I use my trailer pit for these big birds and usually let them smoke for about 5-6 hours at about 200-250 degrees. I smoke them using mesquite. I
use lighter fluid or charcoal.
Not only do you get the flavor of the beer and the ingredients, but you also get the flavor of the mesquite. You can kill 3 birds with one stone.
When I do the beer can method, I rotate my bird every hour, I also check the beer levels. When I cook my bird I notice that the beer does evaporate and I have to fill the can back to the original level.
One thing that I do before I put my dry rub on the bird is rub a generous amount of vegetable oil or olive oil all over the turkey. This makes the skin come out nice and crisp with that golden color. Then add your rub.
The leftover beer and ingredients make a great sauce. I add the beer to a sauce pan and heat. I then add water to cornstarch and form a paste and add it to the sauce pan. Stir well and let sit to thicken. If to thick add water or more beer. If you have last minute questions you can reach me at the following site.
Keep up the great work!
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 4:39 am
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Tomorrow will be my first go at beer can bird. After reading this string, I thought I might add a flavor combo to your mix. I have used it with indirect heat and a steam pan on chicken before, and think I may try this with a can. Bird: chicken. Stuff under the skin: Paste of fresh basil, fresh (spicy greek) oregano, fresh garlic, salt and pepper (well, and a binder of some sort like unsalted butter). Then over that but still under the skin, paper thin slices of proscuitto or if you can get it capicola. If you have to cut the skin in a couple places to do this, just toothpick it back in place. Olive oil the outside of the skin. In the can a mixture of beer and sweet vermouth. Not sure of purportions because I have always just had a steam pan under chicken pieces before. The vermouth can be quite strong. I suppose at first I would try 1/3 vermouth 2/3 beer. Then I also use hickory smoke. Chips that have been soaked not chunks. Good luck, and if you try this please report back.
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Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:08 am
Post subject: Beer Can Turkey
Well it's 11 at night Christmas day in New Zealand, our guests have left, and the the resounding vote was a yes for the beer can turkey. Frankly it rocked. The rub made a huge difference but all the meat remained tender and juicy.
Great recipe.
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 6:38 am
Post subject: this thread
ok ... last years experiment went well. I have a really good brine and a really good prep. This beer can turkey thing is awesome. Brine for 12 hrs or so. (ask for recipe) Cook on weber gas grill with smoker at 350 deg or so for about 3 hours or so. A loaded smoker box gives about an hour of hard smoke. there is also a sub cu rub of flavoured butter pre cook. I use half of a 24 oz can of beer with some lemon juice some worstershire, some garlic, some sage and some thyme. perhaps also a few allspice balls and a few peppercorns. In the beer that is. I just use a common american light lager. Just enough etoh to disolve soluable flavors and fume the boid with them. lips already smackin.
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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 3:58 am
Post subject: epoxy in your turkey
there was mention also in the news of bisphenol-A in the coating used inside soda cans, a while back.
Aluminium cans often contain an internal coating to protect the aluminium from beverage corrosion. Despite this coating, trace amounts of aluminium can be degraded into the liquid, the amount depending on factors such as storage temperature and liquid composition.[6][7] Chemical compounds used in the internal coating of the can include types of epoxy resin.[8]
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:24 pm
Post subject: beer can turkey
Hi there. I am a noobie to this beer can turkey technique and was wondering if there is an approximate cooking time per pound. I realize bbqs all cook at different temperatures, but I'd like appreciate an approximate time.
The article shows a turkey, and a time of 4-4.5 hours, but doesn't say how large the bird was.
Thanks in advance.
Chris Hohenwald.
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When the TurboGears server receives an HTTP request, the requested URL is mapped as a call to your controller code located in controllers.py. Page names map to functions within the controller class.
For example:
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Suppose using tg-admin quickstart you generate a TurboGears project named "gs". Your default controller code would be created in the file gs/gs/controllers.py.
Modify the default controllers.py to read as follows:
from turbogears import controllers, expose
class Root(controllers.RootController):
def index(self):
return "
Hello World
"
def default(self, *args, **kw):
return "This page is not ready"
It is important that you indent the lines in the same way as above.
When you load the root URL http://localhost:8080/index in your web browser, you'll see a page with the message "Hello World" on it. In addition, any of these URLs will return the same result.
URLs not explicitly mapped to other methods of the controller will be directed to the method named default(). With the above example, requesting any URL besides /index, for example http://localhost:8080/hello, will return the message "This page is not ready".
When you are ready to add another page to your site, for example at the URL
add another method to class Root as follows:
def anotherpage(self):
return "
There are more pages in my website
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Now, the URL /anotherpage will return
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First you need to import the required modules from the TurboGears package.
Controller classes and the expose decorator are the basis of TurboGears controllers.:
class Root(controllers.RootController):
The required standard name for the root controller class of a TurboGears application is Root and it should be inherited from RootController class (from the controllers module, which we just imported). It is thereby specified as the request handler class for the website's root.
In TurboGears (and CherryPy, on which TurboGears 1.x builds), the web site is represented by a tree of controller objects and their methods, and a TurboGears website always grows out from the Root class.
We look at the methods of the Root class next:
def index(self):
return "
Hello World
"
The index method is the start point of any TurboGears/CherryPy class. When you access a URL like
they are all mapped to the Root.index() method.
If a URL is requested that does not map to a specific method, the default() method of the controller class is called:
def default(self):
return "This page is not ready"
In this example, all pages except the three URLs listed above will map to the default method.
As you can see from the examples, the response to a given URL is determined by the method it maps to.
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There is much more to @expose(). It will be our access to TurboGears' sophisticated rendering features that we will explore shortly.
As shown above, controller methods return the data of your website. So far, we have returned this data as literal strings. You could produce a whole site by returning only strings containing raw HTML from your controller methods but it would be difficult to maintain, since Python code and HTML code would not be cleanly separated.
To enable a cleaner solution, data from your TurboGears controller can be returned as strings, or as a dictionary.
With @expose(), a dictionary can be passed from the controller to a template which fills in its placeholder keys with the dictionary values and then returns the filled template output to the browser.
A simple template file called sample could be made like this:
<title>TurboGears Templating Example</title>

I just want to say that ${person} should be the next
${office} of the United States.

By adding a method to the controller like this ...
def example(self):
mydata = {'person':'Tony Blair','office':'President'}
return mydata
... the following is made possible:
I just want to say that Tony Blair should be the next President of the United States.
Template files can thus house all markup information, maintaining clean separation from controller code.
In TurboGears, template files are collected together in the templates sub-package, i.e. in the folder named templates below your application's main package directory, in this case, ./gs/gs/templates and referred to in @expose by the syntax [packagename].templates.[filenameroot], as in the example.
In the above Example Use of Templates, our template used the mydata values simply as direct content replacement strings. Templates are much more capable than this. They can run their own Python code snippets to aid in rendering, such as obeying conditionals or iterating through lists. To learn more, read Genshi templating.
In typical Pythonic elegance, arguments can be passed to the controller methods from the web browser. To learn how, read I wanted an argument.
The example above shows your controller methods all contained within the single Root class. Your controller can grow into multiple sub-classes, and from there into multiple modules and files. See Creating Big Applications.


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Of course it could also be argued that his low placing on UK television's biggest talent show was a blessing in disguise. Indeed, as that performance of 'Mad World' demonstrates - along with some of Grimshaw's other 'best moments' - he was never really cut out to be one of Simon Cowell's all-singing, all-dancing pop puppets. Sure, Misty Eye is a pop record in the strictest sense of the word, but at the same time it's difficult to envisage the symphonic title track or beat-laden 'This Island' receiving the karaoke treatment any time soon.
Employing Lana Del Rey collaborator Jarrad Rogers on co-writing and production duties here was something of a masterstroke on the part of both Grimshaw and his label. While Misty Eye is far from perfect; there are times when it strays into Reality Killed The Video Star era Robbie Williams, or worse, Olly Murs territories; but when it raises its head above the slapdash parapet of stereotypical processed pop it soars. "Hold on to your stars before they fade" sings an apprehensive Grimshaw on opener 'Hold On', while Rogers production employs all kinds of beats and effects to lift it out of the predictability quagmire. The baggy tinged 'This Island' manages to combine all kinds of genres with a disparate vocal set to maudlin lyrics ("You used to love me") exquisitely delivered by Grimshaw's flawless oh-so-serious vocal.
Athlete's Joel Pott and Steve Rushton - formerly in Busted off-shoot Son Of Dork - also make cameos as co-writers here. Pott's contribution, the Alex Clare-like 'Is This Love' falls under the weight of its own expectation trying to catch the dubstep gravy train. Rushton's efforts veer between the sublime reflective tones of the orchestral title track and atmospheric lament 'Poacher's Timing', to the closing number 'Curtain Call', which briefly strays into Williams territory via Andreas Johnson's (remember him?) 1999 hit 'Glorious'.
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The choices for what to do with summer berries are endless. How to choose? Having some definitions might help to get you started. Most (though not all) of these are baked desserts. A number of them are quite old fashioned, but they are so simple that you might consider giving one or two a try.
Cobblers and Crumbles
A cobbler starts with fruit on the bottom that is topped by a crust, usually a baking-powder biscuit dough dropped in clumps; this gives it a "cobbled" appearance when baked. Sometimes a cobbler has a batter or piecrust top. The British call a cobbler a crumble; it originated during World War II food rationing. The topping is made of butter, flour, brown sugar and sometimes oats, mixed together so that it resembles breadcrumbs. Care must be taken to balance the correct amount of crumble with the fruit or else the juicy fruit filling may seep through and spoil the crust. Crumble was traditionally served with custard, but today it is generally served with ice cream.
A pandowdy features a piecrust topping, which is baked until the crust starts to brown. Then, the pastry is broken or cut up ("dowdied") and pressed back into the fruit, and the dish is returned to the oven to finish baking.
This truly American dessert dates to the mid-19th century. Traditionally, the fruit was sweetened with molasses or maple syrup.
Grunt or Slump
A grunt or a slump resembles a cobbler, but it is steamed on top of the stove (often in a cast-iron skillet) instead of being baked. The finished dessert resembles dumplings because the "drop biscuits" do not brown like an oven-baked cobbler. Supposedly, the "grunt" is the sound the fruit makes as it stews.
A crisp is a casual, baked fruit dessert where the fruit is topped with a "rubbed" mixture of softened (not melted) butter, sugar, flour and sometimes nuts. Alternatives to flour include breadcrumbs, cookie crumbs, graham cracker crumbs, stale cake crumbs or even corn flakes. This is a modern dessert; the earliest reference to apple crisp in print occurs in 1924.
Brown Betty
A Brown Betty is a traditional American dessert made from fruit and sweetened crumbs. It consists of a baked fruit pudding, where buttered breadcrumbs or cracker crumbs are layered in with sweetened, spiced fruit, with the top layer ending with crumbs. It is usually served with a lemon sauce or whipped cream. The dish was first mentioned in print in 1864. Apple Brown Betty was one of the favorite desserts of Ronald and Nancy Reagan in the White House.
A buckle inverts everything by having a rich yellow cake batter on the bottom and the fruit on top. As it bakes, the fruit sinks to the bottom and the cake rises around the fruit, causing it to "buckle."
Clafouti is a custard-like French dessert traditionally made with tart cherries, though other fruits can be used, such as berries, plums or apples. A thick batter, similar to a pancake batter, is poured over the cherries and baked.
Summer Pudding
Summer fruit pudding is a British dessert made with sliced white bread (it helps if the bread is somewhat stale) and stewed fruit with its juice. Left to soak overnight, this dessert is unmolded by turning out onto a plate. The dessert was popular in the late 19th to the early 20th century.
Trifle is dessert dish made by alternating layers of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, fruit juice or jelly and whipped cream. The earliest known reference was published in 1596; an egg-based custard was introduced 60 years later.
(Serves 4 to 6)
1 pound cherries, whole (traditionally, these do not have to be pitted)
1/4 cup flour
1/3 cup sugar
A pinch of salt
4 eggs + 2 yolks
2½ cups milk
2 Tbsp brandy (optional)
Butter a baking dish and scatter cherries in the dish. Mix the remaining ingredients (as for pancakes—it will be a thin batter) with flour, sugar, salt, eggs, extra yolks and milk. Strain the batter over the cherries and leave to sit for 30 minutes. Bake at 375º F .for 40 to 45 minutes or until the pudding is puffed and brown. Let it cool until just warm; it will sink slightly. Sprinkle with brandy if you desire, and then with confectioners' sugar. Serve.
Blackberry Brown Betty
6 cups washed fresh blackberries
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
Grated rind and juice of 1/2 large lemon
2 heaping cups of coarse, fresh breadcrumbs
1/3 cup butter, melted
Butter a deep 7- by 9-inch oven dish. Preheat oven to 350º F. Mix berries, brown sugar, cinnamon, lemon rind and juice. Pour half the berries into the prepared dish. Toss bread crumbs with melted butter and spread half over the berries. Top with the rest of the berries and then with the rest of the breadcrumbs. Bake 30 minutes, then cover lightly with foil and bake an additional 15 minutes until berries bubble. Serve warm with cream or ice cream.


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Education: Master of Laws 1989 and PhD from the University of Aarhus in 1996. Master of Business Administration from INSEAD in 1997.
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Sales, Marketing and Service
Born: 1971
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The career track with Grundfos is: Marketing Manager, Denmark; Marketing Director, Grundfos Canada, Branding Director, Grundfos USA 2000-02; Regional Marketing Manager, Grundfos Pumps Corp., North America 2002-05; Segment Director, Danmark 2005-07; General Manager, Grundfos Singapore 2007-09; Area Managing Director, Grundfos Singapore 2009-10; Group Senior Vice President & Regional Managing Director, Asia-Pacific Region 2010-14; Group Senior Vice President, Corporate Marketing, Branding & Guest Services 2014-15.
Stéphane Simonetta
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Born: 1972
Education: Master Degree in Industrial Engineering and Computer Science (EIGIP), Valenciennes (France) in 1996
Appointed Group Executive Vice President in 2015 with Responsibility for Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Purchasing
From 2012 to 2015, worked in Honeywell Transportation Systems (Automotive Turbochargers) as Global Supply Chain Director, then Global Vice President Operations based in Rolle (Switzerland)
From 2005 to 2012, worked in Valeo as Supply Chain Director for Security systems and Interiors Control Branch (Automotive components); Plant Manager in Slovakia and finally Group China Supply Chain and Lean Manufacturing/VPS Director based in Shanghai
From 1996 to 2005, worked for THOMSON Multimedia Group (TV/VCR/DVD) in Thailand, France and Mexico.
Ernst Lutz
Group Executive Vice President
Business Development
Born: 1966
Education: Master of Business Administration, Zurich, Switzerland in 2004. Ph.D. Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia, USA, in 1994. Dipl. Ing. Mechanical Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland, in 1990.
Appointed Group Executive Vice President in 2016 with responsibility for Business Development.
Before joining Grundfos, Ernst Lutz served as CEO for EIT RawMaterials (2015-2016) and prior to that as CTO for Sulzer (2011-2015).
Prior he worked as Director Technology & Innovation Management Asia for RioTinto Alcan (2008-2011) and occupied various other technology and strategy leadership related roles within Alcan Engineered Products (2000-2008).
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Group Senior Vice President
Human Resources
Born: 1968
Education: Master of Psychology from the University of Copenhagen in 1996. Management Diploma, Henley Business School in 2009.
Appointed Group Senior Vice President in 2014 with responsibility for Human resources.
Before joining Grundfos he has worked as Head of HR for Statoil Fuel & Retail based in Oslo (2011-2014), HR Director in Nokia based in Espoo (2006 – 2011), Head of Organizational Development for TDC (2002-2006) and as a consultant for the SHL Group based in Copenhagen and Melbourne.


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Mitt Romney's presidential campaign released his 2011 tax returns Friday afternoon, revealing that the Republican presidential candidate deliberately paid more in federal income taxes last year. Brad Malt, the trustee of Romney's blind trust, explains in a campaign blog post that on their 2011 returns, the Romneys artificially kept their tax rate above 13 per cent by claiming deductions for just over half of their $4 million charitable donation.
Romney has previously said that he never paid less than 13 per cent on his federal income taxes.
"The Romneys' generous charitable donations in 2011 would have significantly reduced their tax obligation for the year. The Romneys thus limited their deduction of charitable contributions to conform to the Governor's statement in August, based upon the January estimate of income, that he paid at least 13% in income taxes in each of the last 10 years."
But Romney could still opt to recoup the money sometime in the future. Tax experts told Business Insider Friday that Romney can amend his returns any time within the next three years, and request the full deduction from the U.S. government.
Romney, who filed for an extension on his 2011 returns, said in April that he would release the returns after they were finalised and submitted to the IRS. He released his 2010 tax returns earlier this year, but has said he will not release any additional years of returns.
The campaign does appear to have made a concession on that front however. Along with the candidate's 2011 tax returns, the campaign has posted a letter from Romneys tax preparer, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, summarizing Romney's tax rates from 1990 to 2009.
The letter claims that Romney's average federal income tax rate over those 20 years was 20.20%; that the lowest rate Romney paid was 13.66%; and that there were no years during which Romney did not owe both federal and state income taxes.
Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan also released letters from physicians, declaring the candidates to be in preternaturally good health.
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I have been working on an anthology topic going back a few years, look for it soon.
This does bring up a bit of a problem with projects like this. As I go through the older pages, a lot of photobucket, flickr, etc. links no longer work and the photos do NOT display, likely due to being deleted or moved or renamed by members from their albums, not realizing it at the time that the photos were linked on TeaChat.
This is a shame when viewing older pages as pictures often say a thousand words. But we can work on preventing this in the future if we make a conscious effort.
Two Solutions I came up with:
1. Posting photos as attachments, but then the forum could lose photos as well when updating, etc.
2. Creating a TeaChat album/file in your individual photo hoster. Thus any photo you have in the TeaChat album, you know not to delete since it is somewhere on TeaChat.
Soooo, please make a conscious effort to do one or the other. I will likely post this around the forum ... so please forgive the duplicating. And thank you for helping in this way to improve our forum!
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Can a young woman take on the most powerful attorneys in the country to prove her father's innocence?
Shin Young Joo (Lee Bo Young) is a police detective who is fired for leaking information to the press when her father, Shin Chang Ho (Kang Shin Il), is framed for murder and sent to prison for 15 years. Lee Dong Joon (Lee Sang Yoon) is the righteous judge who was forced to find Chang Ho guilty in his last deed as a judge before being disrobed and strong-armed into marrying Choi Soo Yeon (Park Se Young).
Soo Yeon is the daughter of Choi Il Hwan (Kim Kap Soo), the president of Tae Baek, the most powerful law firm in the country. In his new life as a "legal thief" at Tae Baek, where he is now expected to check his morals at the door to protect rich and powerful clients, Dong Joon also is being blackmailed by Young Joo. Young Joo manages to get a video clip of Dong Joon that could ruin his life and career. She then assumes the name Jo Yeon Hwa and goes to work for Dong Joon as his legal secretary so that she can force him to help her find the real murderer in her father's case.
But when both Dong Joon and Young Joo get entangled in the power plays of Kang Jung Il (Kwon Yool), the dangerous leader of the law firm's M&A division, can Young Joo find the justice she seeks while Dong Joon just wants to return to his upstanding life before it spiraled out of his control?
"Whisper" is a 2017 South Korean drama series directed by Lee Myung Woo.
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A Los Angeles judge has extended Nicole Richie's probation until March to give the reality star more time to complete alcohol education classes, The Associated Press reported.
The 28-year-old former "Simple Life" star, on probation from a 2006 DUI, reportedly did not appear in court on Tuesday.
According to Us Weekly, Richie's lawyer told the mom of two had been granted a court-approved leave of absence from alcohol classes while raising her children, Harlow, 2, and Sparrow, 9 months.
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On Monday, October 30th Saint Motel, the Prog Indie Pop Rock band out of Los Angeles, tore the roof from the newly minted Phoenix, Az music venue, The Van Buren. Originally planned to be held at Crescent Ballroom (a sister venue owned by the same consortium), the promoters smartly moved the show to the newer […]
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Italian industrial metal band Army of the Universe (AoU) opened as direct support of The Birthday Massacre on the Under Your Spell tour. Stopping in Scottsdale, Arizona, AoU took the crowd by storm, with charisma dripping from every note and lyric. The band played a solid hour long set, stopping only briefly between every few songs for […]
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Rocket launch and some vintage papers
Back in my local, back to the Chinese, the weekly routine continues as inevitably as the Galician rain outside. This week has flown by faster than ever, with a few breakthroughs in work coming in short spaces of time, with periods of treading water in between. Still, the treading of water allows subconscious processes to explore parameter space, or so I I like to kid myself.
In the last few weeks we've set up a student and postdoc vintage journal club, looking over the most important papers in the field from the last few decades. Yesterday was my turn to discuss Gross and Neveu's 1972 paper on dynamical symmetry breaking in asymptotically free field theories - a fascinating and important paper coming directly after the discovery of asymptotic freedom in non-abelian gauge theories. It's been many years since I calculated a Feynman diagram in anger and this gave me a good chance to remember the wonders/horrors of renormalization, away from the AdS/CFT context. It was also a good chance to talk on a subject that I don't work on, and although I hadn't formally prepared anything to say, it took around an hour and a half at the board to get through the bulk of their work.
I'm finding the process of going through these truly foundational papers extremely useful. The Gross and Neveu paper alone deals with so many things which have to be on the tips of our tongue in day to day research: large N expansions, goldstone's theorem (especially its caveats in two dimensional theories), the emergence of tachyons and the study of false vacua, the study of perturbatively exact generating functionals and much more. We have a list of around 20 or so papers to go through over the next few months and I can see this being extremely profitable as a time investment.
Anyway, I really wanted to write a post as an excuse to show the following video, seen on Badastronomyblog yesterday. This is an incredible phenomenon I've never seen before.
There are a few different explanations on BABlog, but this was my interpretation:
As the rocket passes the cloud layer, a region of sky where the pressure, temperature and humidity are just right for the condensation of water vapour, the shock wave from the rocket creates a ripple of low and high pressure through the layer of air. Those areas which were just on the point of condensing water suddenly condense as the ripples pass and the result is this inverted rock in a pond effect. The fact that there is a sundog there meaning that there is ice in the layer of cirrus makes for some other explanations but the above is my take on it. Any additional thoughts are welcomed.


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BostonCeltics (9-4) at NY Knicks (3-9)
Sunday, November 22
Game #14, Road Game #6
Madison Square Garden
Referees: Bennett Salvatore, Joe Forte, Phil Robinson
The Knicks are playing in the second of back to back games, having beaten the NJ Nets on Saturday in New Jersey. They have also won 2 games in a row now. Normally, a visit to Madison Square Garden would mean an automatic win, but he Celtics have been struggling, having lost 4 of their last 5 games, and it's hard to tell which team will show up.
For one thing, it's an afternoon game and last season, the Celtics played terribly in almost all of their afternoon games. But, that is just the tip of the iceberg as far as what has been plaguing this team recently. Hopefully Doc had them watch every ugly minute of their last 3 losses and they will be ready to get back to playing Celtics basketball and begin another win streak. I know one thing, if the Celtics lose to the Knicks there will be panic in the Celtics Nation. This should be a double digit blowout.
Probable Starting Matchups
Rajon Rondo vs Chris Duhon
Ray Allen vs Larry Hughes
Paul Pierce vs Danilo Gallinari
Kevin Garnett vs Wilson Chandler
Kendrick Perkins vs David Lee
Key Matchups
Rajon Rondo vs Chris Duhon
Rajon Rondo is the engine that makes this team run. When Rondo is aggressive and drives to the basket and sets the pace of the game, the Celtics play so much better than when he is tentative. He needs to set the tone for the starters out of the gate so that they don't come out sluggish as they have in many of their games so far.
David Lee is one of the bright spots on the Knicks and often is the reason that the Knicks are even in games at all. Perk will need to keep Lee from taking over and energizing the Knicks.
Keys to the Game
Defense The Celtics have been lax on playing defense in their recent losses. They have allowed way too many easy baskets and open shots. Defense is the key to every win and to this season for the Celtics.
Forget 3's - The Celtics have fallen in love with 3 pointers, but the infatuation isn't mutual. Against the Magic they shot 2-19 from beyond the arc. They need to forget about shooting 3's and take the ball inside where they can either score or draw the foul.
Work the Offense The Celtics have been settling for quick shots instead of working their offense and moving the ball to find the open man.
Rondo's Aggression As goes Rondo, so goes the team. Rondo must be aggressive and set the pace of the game and take the ball inside. He can't be tentative because that makes the whole team tentative.
Focus Many of the Celtics' recent problems have been caused by lack of focus on both ends of the court. They must get their focus back. They especially must come out focused so as not to dig themselves into a hole in the first quarter.
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Why a CEO Needs to Have a Plan B
For nearly three decades, in good times and bad, Jack Stack has run his company, SRC, as though disaster could strike at any moment. Now, with the economy cratering, he's glad he did.
Today, Stack, the company's CEO, and his colleagues are weathering a recession of similar magnitude. But they find themselves in a far different situation. The enterprise, now called SRC Holdings, is a mini conglomerate of seven holding companies with 26 businesses whose 1,200 employees make automobile engines, irrigation pumps, home furnishings, and more. Its current health is no accident. Having launched the company to save jobs, Stack was determined never to be forced to lay people off. He spoke with editor-at-large Bo Burlingham (with whom he has co-authored two books) about how he has worked to keep that promise to his employees — and build a company that is bucking nearly every current economic trend.
Most American manufacturers are in terrible shape right now. And yet you seem to be doing well. What do you attribute that to?
Paranoia. We've always been terrified of being forced to lay people off, and so we've spent the past 26 years trying to make sure we would never have to do that.
Where does that paranoia come from?
It goes back to our beginnings. When we started out in February 1983, we were at rock bottom. Everybody was at the bottom in 1983. It was ugly and painful, just like today. We'd bought our factory to save our jobs, but to do it we had to take on a huge amount of debt, $8.9 million, because we had very little money ourselves. Our debt-to-equity ratio was 89:1. Let me tell you, you're brain-dead in that situation. You're on life support. We had bank auditors literally camped outside our doors. If we'd had one little slip-up — if we'd been an hour late with a payment — they would have rushed in and closed us down, and 120 people would have been out on the street.
When you go through a period like that, you don't ever want to do it again. I am sure people who lived through the Great Depression developed some form of trapdoor thinking and contingency planning — whether it was having two or three jobs or investments or just not living outside their means. Anyway, that experience made us realize that a job is never secure. If you let yourself get lulled to sleep, you're going to get screwed — even if you have what you think is a fail-safe deal.
How do you keep from getting lulled to sleep?
We constantly look for our vulnerabilities. We do forecasting to determine where they are, and then we ask ourselves a lot of what-ifs. What if we're getting wrong information? What if a market goes down? What if we have a collection problem with a major customer? What if interest rates go through the roof? What if there's a 9/11? The whole idea is to provide our people with job security and job opportunities. I think it's led us to go one step further than most companies do. A lot of businesses put up a plan to satisfy their bankers or because they think it's what you're supposed to do. But our culture is, "Let's find out where our weaknesses and vulnerabilities are and then build something to offset them."
How does that work in practice?
We measure each piece of business by the amount of labor that goes into it. Then we see how concentrated our labor is. When we were starting out in the 1980s, more than 75 percent of our labor hours were in the truck market. We did some investigating and found out that the truck market has a recession every six years. So we had to ask ourselves what we'd do if we had a recession.
And the answer?
We thought about what goes up in a down market, and we discovered that automobile parts go up, because people keep their cars longer and fix them. That's how we got into the automotive aftermarket business. That kind of thinking became part of our culture and our way of doing business.
So is this all about saving jobs?
No, it's about creating jobs. That's our goal. And once you create them, you don't want to lose them. What we're doing here is helping people to get through life. I never want to have to take someone else's livelihood away because of mistakes I've made in not anticipating a problem — even if it's a problem I couldn't have seen coming. It's management's job to anticipate those problems and prepare for them. A layoff is a failure of management. But the people who usually pay for that failure are not the ones responsible for it.
It's interesting to me that your paranoia actually led you to expand the company in some very ambitious ways.
Absolutely. The contingencies and trapdoors we developed eventually became new businesses. Our values drove our paranoia. Our paranoia drove our contingency planning. And our contingency planning drove our diversification. We knew the more we diversified, the safer we would be. So we spread out of our core competencies. We've spun off 55, 56 businesses as a result of this process.
A lot of people would say you took a big risk by getting outside your core competencies. The common wisdom is that you're supposed to stick to your knitting.
I think that's really bad advice in most cases. Sure, if we'd stayed in our core competency, we might have been very successful in the truck market. We could have reduced our expenses and increased our margins, but we would have been tremendously vulnerable. We would have had 100 percent of our eggs in one basket.
Certainly, some people have been successful by sticking to their core competencies.
Oh, sure. It's not too bad a strategy if you plan to sell the business. You build up your earnings and your sales, and then you cash out. But to create something sustainable, you have to be totally paranoid. You have to be realistic that you're going to get hit with a lot of unknown events. If you diversify, you can handle those unknowns. But it takes a lot of courage to fix a weakness when it's not immediately painful.
Describe the process that leads to the creation of the new businesses.
It's centered around our sales meetings, which we hold twice a year — one in June and one in October. We tell people, "Give us your honest-to-God forecast. We'd love to see 15 percent growth. If we get 6 percent or more, that's OK, but tell us what it would take to get to 15." Generally, we prefer to grow organically, increasing sales of products we already make and selling to customers and markets we already have. Organic growth is the most profitable kind. Your margins are always better when you grow with something you're already strong at.
But we want people to have new products and new markets lined up in case they can't reach their goals organically. Those are the contingencies and trapdoors. Let's say one company needs 100 people this year and projects it will need 106 people to handle its growth next year. At the sales meeting, its representatives tell us how they plan to do it in terms of product lines, customers, and the marketplace. But they also have to consider that they might be wrong. So we ask them to come to the meeting with an additional 15 percent of sales in what-ifs. What if they can't cover the 106 people? Because if they're wrong on the forecast, they're also wrong on somebody's life.
And 15 percent is the magic number?
We want at least 15 percent of our projected sales in research and development at all times. The whole idea of the trapdoor is that if something happens, we can rush that new product to market, or we can rush that product we already have to a new customer. We look at a variety of factors. For example, one of our companies makes agricultural machinery, and agriculture tends to be good in the spring and the fall, but there's a gap in the middle. We asked ourselves, "What sells in the summertime?" The answer: refrigeration units. So we put refrigeration units in there. It was a contingency. We began to develop a lot of contingencies like that, and some of the contingencies ultimately became businesses.
Is that why you've done so well despite the current downturn?
Yes. Look at SRC Automotive. It remanufactures automotive and marine engines. Its biggest customers are Mercury Marine and General Motors. Our GM orders fell off a cliff in November. Up to then, we'd been doing 800 to 1,000 engines a month for them. In December, we sold 212 engines. Marine got hit hard, too. It was a tsunami. If we hadn't had these contingencies and trapdoors, we would have had no option but to lay off 35 percent of the work force and wait until the business came back. We figured that would be at least five or six months.
I take it that's not what you did.
Fortunately, we didn't have to. We were able to move some of the people into our other companies that needed the extra manpower and had jobs they could do. We also found a Missouri program that helped us out. Instead of laying people off, we put them on a four-day workweek, and they collect unemployment for the days they aren't working. On their days off, they wind up with about $10 less than what they'd been making, but that's a loss they can handle. Meanwhile, we bought time to execute our contingencies.
What did you do?
One of automotive's contingencies was to build natural-gas pumping units. They'd been looking at that opportunity for a year or more. When the cuts came, they went after the business. They also had their eye on remanufacturing engines for the postal service. So by February, automotive was back to a five-day workweek. March was a full month as well. In three months, they repositioned the company. And now, if their two main customers come back to normal levels, they'll be stronger than ever. In fact, they'll have to start hiring people.
That's impressive.
But understand, there's no way to develop new markets and new customers if you lay people off. How are they going to do natural-gas pumps or the post-office business if they've gotten rid of the people who do the work?
Is this the process you use in all the companies?
More or less. Our program is the four Ps: people, profits, positive cash flow, and positioning. We're saying to ourselves, "Look, we got this far by creating jobs. We've done all this to build the type of culture we want — a culture that puts people at the center. What are we going to do to keep it? How much are we willing to invest in keeping it?" I'm willing to give up profits if the losses go to repositioning the company, so that when we come out of this thing, we're stronger than when we went in.
We had two months when we lost $200,000 while we were executing the contingencies and moving people around to keep them employed. But that's money we were going to lose anyway, and we were able to keep our cash flow positive by dropping our inventories. When you sell finished goods that were in inventory or when you don't buy as many parts to put in inventory, you have more cash. Of course, it doesn't hurt that we have so much cash in the bank — enough to carry us for three or four years.
Where did that come from?
That was the result of another contingency. A little more than 10 years ago, we started a joint venture with John Deere to remanufacture diesel engines for its agricultural and construction equipment divisions. We'd been looking at Deere for a while as a potential way to diversify SRC Heavy Duty. That particular contingency turned into a business fairly quickly. We became 50-50 partners with Deere in the joint venture, which we called ReGen Technologies, and we each had an option to buy the other out according to a formula we agreed upon in advance. Last year, we mutually decided that the time had come for us to exercise the option and sell our interest in ReGen to Deere. This was several months before the financial crisis. The deal closed at the beginning of November and put all that cash on our balance sheet. Suddenly, we looked like the smartest guys in the world.
You have been thinking this way for decades. What do you say to people in small companies who are scared that they are not going to be able to make it through this recession?
Well, it's not so much what I would say as what I would ask. I'd ask, "How productive is your team? Are you leveraging the mental capacity of everybody in your organization?" Nine times out of 10, when I go into those small organizations you're asking me about, I find CEOs who have taken all the responsibility upon themselves. They're freaked out, because they believe they have to come up with all the answers. But that's what leads to failure, especially in this type of economic environment. People just don't understand that you do not have to take all the problems on yourself. Nobody is smart enough to take on a crisis like this one all alone. But people have been taught that it's the job of a CEO to have the answers.
What should CEOs be thinking about if they want to emerge from the crisis stronger than when it began?
If your sales are down and you're losing money, you're crazy not to be investing in repositioning. You have underutilized capacity. People are standing around. Don't lay them off. Have them come up with new products, new ideas, new services, new ways of doing things. Maybe you find something new to do with your underutilized capacity. Maybe you can change your products or go into different markets. That's how we got into making engines for pumping natural gas. Our automotive people were building engines for cars. Someone noticed that they could be refitted for other uses. Natural-gas pumping equipment looked promising, given the stricter emissions standards in California. They did the research, made some adjustments, built a prototype, worked out the quality procedures, and found customers. Each step required an investment. In a down period, while you may not have cash to invest, you do have excess people capacity. Most companies reduce it by having a layoff. That's what I call cutting to the bone. You wind up weaker as a result.
SRC is an employee-owned business. How important was employee ownership to doing all this?
That's a great question, but it's probably a question that has to be answered by the employee owners, not me. Personally, I don't think we could ever have come this far if I owned 100 percent of the company. I know myself; I couldn't have handled all that wealth. I would have felt guilty. That's not the person I am and not the person I want to be. I just believed from the very beginning that the employees create the value.
You have often spoken about what you call the company's contingent liability to its employee owners. Eventually, they will want to cash in their stock, and the company will have to come up with the cash to pay them. Your awareness of that contingent liability has driven a lot of the innovation, hasn't it?
I think that is the best-kept secret of running a successful company. Knowing we have to cover the contingent liabilities pushed us to find answers. If your company is publicly owned, you don't have that pressure, because there's a market for the stock. When you're privately owned, you definitely work in a different world.
Is that true only of employee-owned companies?
No, I think it applies to a lot of privately held companies, especially ones owned by families. It's different in companies founded by people who've already decided they're going to run it for five years and sell it. Granted, a lot of people tell themselves, "When push comes to shove, I can always sell the company." They don't think about how they're going to feel when they find out their employees don't want them to sell. You design a culture where people work 40 hours a week, make friends, raise kids, become members of a community. It's very hard to let go of it. But if you want to keep it, you have to be willing to ask yourself, "What are our vulnerabilities, and how can we address them?" I will say this: We did not walk away from that question. Our people had the courage to come up with answers. That was the beginning of creating the subsidiaries, which became our vehicles for innovation. They brought out the entrepreneurship in us. And we still have some trapdoors left that we haven't used.
What do you mean?
Well, 20 years ago, we bought a big piece of property here in Springfield for $250,000. Its value increased to about $4 million, but it's still on our books at the purchase price. We could sell it if we needed cash. We also helped start a bank that eventually was sold. The stock is on our books at less than $500,000, but it's worth $3.4 million.
Is there a downside to paranoia? Some people might say you miss opportunities if you are always worrying that something could come along and whack you.
I'd say you're a fool if you know you're going to get whacked and don't do something about it.
You actually enjoy working in an environment like this one, don't you? I can hear it in your voice.
I think that it's really, really hard to win with a lead. I like coming from behind. And we're all coming from behind right now. An economy like this one creates opportunities. You bring in something new, but you don't let go of what you had before. When the economy comes back, you get a twofer. In the long run, it creates more jobs and more security.
Why do you prefer coming from behind? Is it the challenge?
I think there's a sense of satisfaction when, regardless of how bleak the situation is, you find people succeeding. It gives you inspiration to see them going the extra mile. It gives you hope. In order to be courageous, you need to see things happening that generate hope. There's a lot of bad things going on, and we're totally influenced by the media, which tell us all about them. It's great to see people fighting back.
Burlingham joined Inc. in 1983. An editor at large, he is the author of Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big. The book was a finalist for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in 2006. Burlingham is also the co-author with Norm Brodsky of The Knack; and the co-author with Jack Stack of The Great Game of Business and A Stake in the Outcome.


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Brother DCP-7020
This is a brief tutorial to make the Brother DCP-7020 printer/scanner work on Arch. It is largely a duplicate of the tutorial for the Brother HL-2030, with changes specific to the Brother DCP-7020.
Download Printer drivers
If you previously tried to install the printer in CUPS, remove it.
First create a temporary directory. Then you must download the official LPR drivers from the Brother website into that directory. Click here (and agree to their terms). This is an RPM archive. You have to download the cupswrapper file here (and agree to their terms). This script creates the filters and PPD file for CUPS automatically. It's an RPM archive too.
Extracting the RPM files
Now you need a small script called rpmextract which allows you to get the files included in the RPM you've just downloaded. Log in as root and execute :
# pacman -S rpmextract
Extract both RPM files :
$ rpmextract.sh brdcp7020lpr-2.0.1-1.i386.rpm $ rpmextract.sh cupswrapperDCP7020-2.0.1-1.i386.rpm
It should give you two directories : usr and var.
Editing files to make it work with Arch
Arch Linux uses its own file system organisation, so you have to edit some files. Use your text editor (i.e. vi) to open the file named cupswrapperDCP7020-2.0.1 If you created the temporary directory "tmp" in your home, this file will be in /home/(your user)/tmp/usr/local/Brother/cupswrapperDCP7020-2.0.1
In this file, you must replace all the /etc/init.d/ occurences by /etc/rc.d/.
Once you've finished this step, copy all of the files to their corresponding directories in your file system :
# cp -r /home/user/tmp/usr/* /usr # cp -r /home/user/tmp/var/* /var
Installing the driver and printer
Last step!
Go into /usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper/ and run the cupswrapper file :
# cd /usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper/ # ./cupswrapperDCP7020-2.0.1
It will stop the cups daemon if it's running, and restart it.
Now go to the CUPS page : http://localhost:631/
Under the Printers tab you should see a DCP7020 printer automatically installed and configured. This default installation seems to be optimized for a USB connected printer, which in the case of the DCP-7020 is incorrect. Click Delete Printer. Now you can add the printer using the CUPS browser interface and selecting your Brother DCP-7020 which didn't exist before. To do this :
1. Click on the Administration tab
2. Add Printer
3. Name it, Continue
4. Select LPT #1 (unless you have more than one LPT port, in which case trial and error should serve you)
5. Select Brother, Continue
6. And there's your "Brother DCP7020 for CUPS (en)" - select it and Add Printer
7. Now under the Printers tab, click to print the test page, and you can hear the sweet sound of your printer.
Thanks to the creator of the HL-2030 page for making this much easier than I expected it would be!
First, make sure you set up SANE.
This scanner works with Brother's brscan2 driver. (32 bit | 64 bit)
You can install this manually, using the following instructions, or else there's now a package in the AUR too, here.
You'll need to extract the files to a temp path:
$ rpmextract brscan2-0.2.4-0.i386.rpm
or, for 64 bit:
$ rpmextract brscan2-0.2.4-0.x86_64.rpm
Now copy the files to their corresponding directories in your file system:
# cp -r /path/to/brscan/usr/* /usr
Now you'll need to add "brother2" to the end of /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
Brother felt it necessary to include a script to do that, so you can also run:
# /usr/local/Brother/sane/setupSaneScan2 -i
I can scan as root, but not as a normal user
Make sure your user is in the scanner group:
# gpasswd -a username scanner
then log out and back in.
If you still can't scan as a normal user, check that /usr/lib/sane (or /usr/lib64/sane for 64 bit) are readable and executable for your user/group.
64 bit caveat
The 64 bit RPM has two files in /usr/lib64/, along with two symlinks to each file. However, the Arch64 Sane package will probably look in /usr/lib/ rather than /usr/lib64/, so we'll need to create some more symlinks. And since the symlinks reference the absolute path, not the relative path, ie:
linkedfile -> /usr/lib64/originalfile
rather than
linkedfile -> ./originalfile
a simple cp -r /path/to/brscan/usr/lib64/* /usr/lib/ won't do.
# ln -s /usr/lib64/libbrcolm2.so.1.0.1 /usr/lib/ # ln -s /usr/lib64/libbrscandec2.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/ # ln -s /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother2.so.1.0.7 /usr/lib/sane/ # cd /usr/lib # ln -s libbrcolm2.so.1.0.1 libbrcolm2.so.1 # ln -s libbrcolm2.so.1 libbrcolm2.so # ln -s libbrscandec2.so.1.0.0 libbrscandec2.so.1 # ln -s libbrscandec2.so.1 libbrscandec2.so # cd sane # ln -s libsane-brother2.so.1.0.7 libsane-brother2.so.1 # ln -s libsane-brother2.so.1 libsane-brother2.so
Here's all of that in a nice bash friendly string:
ln -s /usr/lib64/libbrcolm2.so.1.0.1 /usr/lib/; ln -s /usr/lib64/libbrscandec2.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/; ln -s /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother2.so.1.0.7 /usr/lib/sane/; cd /usr/lib; ln -s libbrcolm2.so.1.0.1 libbrcolm2.so.1; ln -s libbrcolm2.so.1 libbrcolm2.so; ln -s libbrscandec2.so.1.0.0 libbrscandec2.so.1; ln -s libbrscandec2.so.1 libbrscandec2.so; cd sane; ln -s libsane-brother2.so.1.0.7 libsane-brother2.so.1; ln -s libsane-brother2.so.1 libsane-brother2.so


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The Foundry at Oswego Pointe
Lake Oswego, OR
Park/Garden, Outdoor
Starting from $7,617 to $11,927 for 50 guests
The Foundry at Oswego Pointe offers a number of unique options for your perfect Oregon wedding celebration. Prepare for your big day in the venue's elegant Bridal Suite - equipped with a granite vanity and private restroom - which offers a spacious, comfortable place for you and your bridal party to...
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The Jupiter NEXT
Portland, OR
Park/Garden, Hotel/Resort, City/Skyline View, Ballrooms, Outdoor, Modern
Starting from $5,701 to $6,266 for 50 guests
At the intersection of rich outdoor lushness and modern industrialism, you'll find Jupiter Next, a sleek contemporary hotel with a ballroom unlike any other you've seen! Floor-to-ceiling windows surrounding this 3000 square feet of space lend an air of drama as natural light floods into the ballroom...
Lakeside Gardens
Portland, OR
Park/Garden, Banquet Hall/Restaurant, Event Center, Ocean/Waterfront View, Outdoor
Starting from $5,442 to $8,994 for 50 guests
Lakeside Gardens blends tall cedars, weeping willows, fountains, gazebos and lakes surrounded by a garden paradise. Swans glide across the water as a waterfall gently cascades into the lake. It's a place of magical beauty and perfect for your wedding. Evenings at Lakeside Gardens are gorgeous year r...
Portland Art Museum
Portland, OR
Museum/Gallery, Historic/Landmark Building, Event Center, City/Skyline View, Ballrooms, Outdoor
Starting from $6,423 to $8,448 for 50 guests
Your wedding is a work of art. Honor it at the Portland Art Museum. - Located in the heart of Portland's downtown Park Blocks. - Over 19,000 square feet of indoor event space including two giant, historic ballrooms filled with century old works of art. - A spacious, 11,000 square foot outdoor eve...
Zenith Vineyard
Salem, OR
Winery/Vineyard/Brewery, Mansion, Private Estate, Barn/Farm/Ranch, Ballrooms, Outdoor
Starting from $3,508 to $12,258 for 50 guests
Nestled among the picturesque undulating hills of Zenith Vineyard, the Zenith Vineyard event facility is designed to deliver the meticulous attention to detail of the finest hotels with the unsurpassed beauty of a vineyard setting. Whether you are hosting an intimate gathering of 15 people or a gala...
SeaWinds Estate
Bandon, OR
Mansion, Private Estate, Park/Garden, Ocean/Waterfront View, Beach, Mountain
Starting from $6,875 to $9,255 for 50 guests
**Multi-day Rental! 2-nights, 3-days** Let the coastal beauty of Oregon set a breathtaking backdrop for your wedding! There is not another venue like SeaWinds Estate anywhere in the United States. 72 acres of direct Pacific oceanfront beckons. Intense privacy and natural splendor await. As you ...
Sunriver Resort
Sunriver, OR
Golf Course, Hotel/Resort, Outdoor
Starting from $9,844 to $11,723 for 50 guests
Nestled in the Pacific Northwest among the towering Cascade Mountains, no wedding venue in the world captures the grandeur of the high desert quite like Sunriver Resort. Surround yourselves, and your guests, with elegance and privacy under brilliant clear skies, and views that go on forever. Whether...
Hyatt Regency Portland
Portland, OR
Hotel/Resort, Event Center, City/Skyline View, Ballrooms
The Hyatt Regency Portland is located in the city's Lloyd District, offering a sleek, contemporary oasis for a weekend of celebration. It is conveniently located near many local food and drink spots, making it easy to step out for a night on the town. You can cross the Willamette River and wander th...
Chinook Winds Casino
Lincoln City, OR
Golf Course, Hotel/Resort, Ocean/Waterfront View, Beach, Ballrooms
Starting from $3,950 to $5,020 for 50 guests
Chinook Winds Casino Resort offers a convenient beachfront location with flexible event space, upscale dining, and professional staff that will help make your wedding day unforgettable. Walk down a sandy aisle dotted with flower petals and pledge your eternal love in the resort's private beachfront ...
Cooper Spur Mountain Resort
Mt Hood, OR
Mountain, Hotel/Resort, Outdoor
Starting from $5,100 to $10,158 for 50 guests
Treat yourselves and your guests to the experience of a lifetime, extending over several amazing, fun-filled days. Cooper Spur Mountain Resort offers a wide array of amenities including indoor and outdoor wedding venues, comfortable lodging accommodations, farm to table dining & catering and world c...
Mt. Hood Meadows
Mt Hood, OR
Mountain, Hotel/Resort, Outdoor
Starting from $1,740 to $7,351 for 50 guests
NW Meetings & Events Magazine voted Mt. Hood Meadows Oregon's Best Resort & Attraction. Envision exchanging vows in front of a cozy fireplace, or out on the slopes amidst evergreen trees and stunning mountain views. Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort offers an all-inclusive experience including gorgeous ve...
Long Hollow Ranch
Sisters, OR
Barn/Farm/Ranch, Bed & Breakfast/Inn, Vintage/Rustic, Outdoor
Starting from $5,651 to $8,266 for 50 guests
Free-spirited natural elegance at Long Hollow Ranch, a historic ranch tucked away in the heartland of Central Oregon. Weddings are an entire weekend affair and take place at the 100-year-old, wood barn with oversized doors to a large wood deck serving as the ideal backdrop for any wedding. Blue-skie...
Embassy Suites - Portland Airport
Portland, OR
Banquet Hall/Restaurant, Hotel/Resort, Ballrooms
Starting from $2,853 to $7,164 for 50 guests
Celebrate your love with a custom wedding celebration at Embassy Suites Portland Airport. Picture your perfect day, whether it's an intimate gathering or an extravagant affair, this Portland hotel can make your wedding dreams come true. When you reserve your wedding date at Embassy Suites Portland A...
Rivershore Bar and Grill
Oregon City, OR
Banquet Hall/Restaurant
Starting from $1,132 to $2,519 for 50 guests
The Rivershore Bar and Grill offers an intimate and relaxed space for a wedding ceremony and reception perfect to share with your closest family and friends. Located on the banks of the Willamette River, the Rivershore Bar and Grill has gorgeous views and delicious food sure to make your wedding the...
Rocky Butte Summit
Portland, OR
Starting from $1,560 to $2,610 for 50 guests
Located in Northeast Portland, Joseph Wood Hill Park at Rocky Butte Summit is a historical venue with breathtaking landscape views around the Porland metropolitan area. You will be stunned by the 2.38 acre park surrounded by charming, rustic rock walls and lampposts. Acquired in 1988, the park is a ...
Bush Pasture Park Rose Garden Gazebo
Salem, OR
Starting from $170 to $170 for 50 guests
The lush Willamette River Valley boasts a Mediterranean climate and is the heart of the state of Oregon. At the center of this fertile land is the city of Salem. The city of Salem offers a wide array of restaurants, hotels, and parks that will appeal to your interests and provide the perfect base fo...
Mt. Tabor Summit
Portland, OR
Vintage/Rustic, Outdoor
Starting from $1,636 to $2,686 for 50 guests
For the adventurous couple, host your outdoor wedding at Mt. Tabor Summit, a huge dormant volcano. The summit is a grassy oval space, perfect to put up a flower covered awning for your wedding ceremony, or a huge tent for your reception. The park staff will help you create the wedding of your dreams...
The Little Church
Portland, OR
Starting from $2,260 to $3,404 for 50 guests
Tucked away on the corner of NE Summer and NE 23rd Avenue in Portland, the Little Church offers a uniquely quaint space for hosting your intimate nuptials! Located right in the famous Alberta Art District one block north from the main strip, this cute hideaway right in the middle of the big city pro...
Hoyt Arboretum
Portland, OR
Starting from $801 to $1,851 for 50 guests
Situated only a few miles from downtown Portland, the Hoyt Arboretum offers one of the most exceptional outdoor wedding venues in the area! Established in the late 1920's as a conservation effort, this 189-acre patch of land boasts stately mature trees, flourishing flowers, and even endangered plant...
The Oaks Pioneer Church
Portland, OR
Starting from $1,250 to $1,250 for 50 guests
Oaks Pioneer Church, originally St. John's Episcopal Church, was built in 1851 and moved to the edge of Sellwood Park in 1961. It has been carefully and lovingly restored by the Sellwood-Moreland Improvement League and is now listed as a Portland Historical Landmark and in the National Register of H...
Barton Park Pavillion
Boring, OR
Park/Garden, Outdoor
Starting from $1,250 to $3,587 for 50 guests
In the heart of Oregon, Barton Park awaits to bring to life the outdoor wedding of your dreams. Dramatic, imposing yet entirely romantic, it is the region's most popular park destinations for a good reason. Located right on the Clackamas River, Barton Park is surrounded by miles of lush greenery and...
Bigham Knoll
Jacksonville, OR
Outdoor, Historic/Landmark Building, Event Center
Starting from $1,739 to $5,397 for 50 guests
Get ready for a wedding weekend filled with festivities, love, and tons of fun at Bigham Knoll. Located in the beautiful Southern Oregon Wine Country, this campus has stood the test of time as a historic landmark since 1908. Bigham Knoll underwent a massive renovation for 8 years in order to preserv...
Rock Creek Country Club
Portland, OR
Golf Course, Outdoor
Starting from $5,200 to $5,860 for 50 guests
Boasting a reputation as one of the premiere golf courses in the Northwest, Rock Creek Country Club offers a singular club experience that perfectly intertwines rustic charm with classic elegance. The club was originally established in Portland in the late 1950's, making them very experienced hosts ...
BridgePort BrewPub
Portland, OR
Banquet Hall/Restaurant, Loft
Starting from $3,200 to $5,974 for 50 guests
BridgePort BrewPub is a fun site for your wedding ceremony. This Portland Oregon venue provides your wedding celebration with incredible food and drink. For beer lovers BridgePort BrewPub will combine lovely libations with an inviting atmosphere for an evening of fun. The BrewPub has a private event...
Surftides Lincoln City
Lincoln City, OR
Ocean/Waterfront View, Banquet Hall/Restaurant, Hotel/Resort, Beach, Ballrooms, Outdoor
Starting from $2,083 to $9,556 for 50 guests
Every wedding deserves a beautiful location as you take the first steps in your new union. Let Surftides Inn help take some of the stress away. Perched on the picturesque Oregon Coast in Lincoln City, Surftides provided premier access to the refreshing salt air and calming waves of the Pacific Ocean...
The Highcliffe Grand Ballroom
Oregon City, OR
Vintage/Rustic, Banquet Hall/Restaurant, Historic/Landmark Building, Event Center, Ballrooms
Starting from $2,880 to $8,005 for 50 guests
Rooted east of the Willamette River on 7th Street in Oregon City, the Highcliffe Pub & Eatery presents brides and grooms a sensational space to share vows in front of loved ones. Positioned south of Portland, this historical venue is surrounded by modern establishments and stands out as a special sp...
Marcoulier Event Room
Bend, OR
Community Center
Starting from $2,360 to $3,210 for 50 guests
Featuring bright and well-lit event space, the Bend Senior Center is situated within Larkspur Park and offers the Marcoulier Room as a lovely venue for your wedding. This large room boasts abundant natural light, maple hardwood floors and high ceilings. An adjacent commercial kitchen and patio door...
Rivertide Suites
Seaside, OR
Outdoor, Hotel/Resort
Starting from $2,785 to $7,605 for 50 guests
When you start your happily ever after at Rivertide Suites Hotel, you will discover upscale accommodations in a beautiful riverside setting. Ideally situated on the Northern Oregon Coast along the shimmering Necanicum River, the seaside hotel is within walking distance of the area's finest beaches, ...
Portland Memory Garden
Portland, OR
Starting from $1,603 to $2,706 for 50 guests
Located in the southeast corner of Ed Benedict Park, the Portland Memory Garden is a beautiful, serene venue to host an intimate wedding. A national demonstration garden project, the garden was created as part of the 100 Parks, 100 Years centennial celebration of the American Society of Landscape Ar...
McMenamins Grand Lodge
Forest Grove, OR
Outdoor, Banquet Hall/Restaurant, Historic/Landmark Building, Hotel/Resort
Starting from $8,025 to $10,902 for 50 guests
Located on the Northern edge of wine country, McMenamins Grand Lodge is the perfect all-inclusive site for your wedding to remember. Set in Forest Grove on 13 acres of beautiful gardens and sweeping lawns, this majestic architecture was originally built as a Masonic Lodge. The wine-country location,...
Maysara Winery
McMinnville, OR
Winery/Vineyard/Brewery, Barn/Farm/Ranch, Vintage/Rustic
Starting from $5,708 to $11,668 for 50 guests
The Maysara Winery is a stunning wedding venue. This Oregon Wine Country vineyard is a bold 540 acres of pristine land for your ceremony. You can wed outdoors amongst the tall trees and under a flower covered trellis on the patio. After a quaint ceremony, you can take advantage of the picturesque gr...
NW Events & Environments
Hillsboro, OR
Event Center, Modern
Starting from $3,201 to $5,030 for 50 guests
NW Events and Environments is an event venue unlike any other in the Portland, Oregon metro area. With 30,000 square feet and three banquet rooms, your wedding will have all of the amenities needed for a successful and memorable day. This venue offers full production and lighting, rentals, catering...
Inn at the 5th
Eugene, OR
Hotel/Resort, Bed & Breakfast/Inn
Starting from $2,488 to $7,856 for 50 guests
The Inn at the 5th is an elegant event space located in the heart of downtown Eugene, Oregon. The Inn is a contemporary styled resort that will provide your celebration with a cool background that suits nearly any wedding vision. The Inn at the 5th has the Maple Room for special events. This banquet...
Peninsula Park Community Center
Portland, OR
Community Center
Starting from $800 to $1,400 for 50 guests
For a flexible and accessible space to host your one-of-a-kind wedding, consider the Peninsula Park Community Center in Portland, Oregon! Built in 1913, this Italian villa style facility was the first community center in the Portland park system. Its original floor plan was perfectly symmetrical, co...
Meriwether National Golf Club
Hillsboro, OR
Golf Course, Banquet Hall/Restaurant, Event Center, Park/Garden, Outdoor
Starting from $1,620 to $6,600 for 50 guests
Situated in the Tualatin Valley countryside, roughly 30 minutes from downtown Portland, the quiet, pastoral setting of Meriwether National Golf Club is the perfect counterpoint to the pressures of the city, making it an exceptional venue for your wedding celebration—no matter the size! Surrounded by...