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Kansas City, MO (SportsNetwork.com) - Matt Carpenter collected five hits, including a tie-breaking RBI double in the top of the 11th inning, that helped the St. Louis Cardinals claim a 5-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday at Kauffman Stadium. The Royals rallied for a pair of runs in the ninth to spoil Adam Wainwright's shutout bid and tie the game at 2-2, but after both teams failed to do anything in the 10th, Peter Bourjos worked a one-out walk off Kelvin Herrera (1-2) in the 11th. After Bourjos swiped second, Carpenter ripped a double into the gap in right center to put the Cardinals on top. Pinch-hitter Jon Jay then singled to right before Tim Collins replaced Herrera and plunked Matt Holliday. Allen Craig followed with a two-run single to right to make it 5-2 before Pat Neshek retired the side in order in the home half to nail down his first save of the season and snap St. Louis' three-game slide. Carpenter finished 5-for-5 with two RBI and two runs scored, while Sam Freeman (1-0) secured the win after spinning a perfect 10th inning. "Tonight, that's one of those special nights where things are just falling into place," said Carpenter, who reached base six times in all. "I'm seeing the ball well and putting good swings on it." Alcides Escobar registered two of the five hits for the Royals, who were coming off back-to-back victories over the Cardinals in St. Louis. Wainwright entered the ninth looking for his third shutout of the season and fanned Eric Hosmer to start the inning, but the ball skipped to the backstop, allowing Hosmer to reach first. Billy Butler then singled to center to chase Wainwright, as closer Trevor Rosenthal entered from the St. Louis bullpen. Rosenthal promptly walked Alex Gordon to load the bases for Salvador Perez, who broke his bat on a grounder to third. Carpenter fired to second to start a double play, but Gordon's hard slide at second forced Mark Ellis to hold the ball, leaving runners on the corners with one away. Lorenzo Cain then laced a single to center to tie the game at 2-2 before Rosenthal struck out Mike Moustakas and lined out Escobar to send the game to extra innings. "Even going into the ninth inning with two or three hits, whatever we had, we still felt as a group we had a chance to win the ballgame and that's a good feeling," Royals manager Ned Yost said. Early on, Carpenter gave the Cardinals a 1-0 lead in the second when he stroked a two-out single to center to score Ellis, who singled and stole second prior to Carpenter's base hit. Carpenter helped extend the margin in the seventh when he clubbed a leadoff double, moved to third on Randal Grichuk's bunt, and scored on Holliday's chopper back up the middle. Kansas City had runners on first and second with one out in the home half, but Wainwright induced an inning-ending 4-6-3 double-play groundout from Cain. The Royals challenged the call, but the umpires ruled Jhonny Peralta's relay throw beat Cain to first. Game Notes Wainwright allowed two runs on four hits and two walks with eight strikeouts over eight-plus innings ... Kansas City starter Jason Vargas surrendered two runs on nine hits and two walks over eight frames ... The Royals finished 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base.
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While reading about the change in plans for the Hoover High School graduation site ("North Canton moves graduation," Jan. 9), I came up with a suggestion.
Instead of forcing 99 percent of the graduates and their families and friends to bow down to the demands of one family, they should all have their diplomas sent to them and have that one family go to the Canton Memorial Civic Center by themselves for graduation and see how that goes.
We, as Americans and Christians, must stand up for what we believe. This would be a good time to start.
Editor's note: This letter was printed Jan. 23, but an editing error had changed the writer's meaning. This is the correct version in its entirety.

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Donna Hutchinson is the owner of On The Edge Fitness Educators, which offers fitness education courses, workshops and seminars focused on assisting fitness professionals in building their careers. She is the president and founder of the International Fitness Network Association, serving to unite fitness professionals from around the world. She has worked in corporate wellness centers, community recreation facilities, private health clubs and as an independent personal trainer. Hutchinson is a media personality in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is quickly emerging as Canada's leading speaker in the area of business development. Hutchinson can be reached at [email protected].
A new trainer once asked me, "With all your years of experience, what is the one thing you wish someone would have told you when you first started personal training?" I pondered this question for only a moment and responded: "The importance of learning how to connect with people." Personal training is a people-centered business. As a trainer, you become a coach, mentor and guide to people wanting to improve their health, physical fitness and performance. Your ability to build a rapport is vital to your overall success. Below are tips on how to formulate a connection between you and a prospect and how it can help you sell your services.
There are three steps in the connection-building process. Each step builds on the next one. These steps include:
1. Building Trust
2. Acting as a partner
3. Demonstrating your enthusiasm
Build Trust
Building trust is one of the most important steps in making a connection between people. Without trust you have no basis with which to start or develop a relationship. Would you do business with someone you didn't trust? If someone violated your trust, would you continue a relationship with them? I guess this would all depend on the violation, but in general, we do business and enter relationships with people that we trust. You foster trust by being honest, trustworthy, respectful, capable and genuine. You extend trust to people who you believe to hold the same values.
When meeting someone for the first time, start building the trust right away. You can accomplish this by listening actively, paying attention to every nuance of their conversation. Stay in the moment and demonstrate your genuine interest in the information they are sharing about them. The prospect should sense your sincere curiosity about their situation and your willingness to help them.
Act As a Partner
From that foundation of trust, construct a partnership between you and the prospect. Instead of being perceived as the "salesperson," grow to be more of an associate, a guide, a coach. Get to know the prospect as you would a friend by taking steps to find out more about them. Ask probing questions to understand the full nature of their goals or issues. As a partner, you are not trying to sell anything. Instead, make recommendations, offer suggestions and encourage action. In this way, the prospect will feel like they have an advocate and that you are an integral part of their journey.
Demonstrate Your Enthusiasm
First steps are often the hardest to take. Going down a new road can be fraught with uncertainty, fear of failure and a lack of knowledge. This is a critical time for anyone wishing to make a lifestyle change. As easily as the impulse arrived to jump on the exercise bandwagon, it can just as quickly dissipate. As a trainer, you have a small window of opportunity to seize the prospect's internal motivation for change and grow it into a burning desire. By demonstrating your enthusiasm and a positive can-do attitude, you can infect the prospect into believing that anything is possible. It may turn out to be the tipping point that they need in order to make a life-long transformation. Let your energy, enthusiasm and passion shine. Be as excited about the process as your prospect. You will know you have been successful in the process when they can't wait to get started.
The people-centered approach to selling has been the central focus of how I do business as a trainer and speaker. I truly seek to find and establish a connection between people so that I am able to genuinely help them instead of sell them. I feel as though I am part of their journey, and I know that they sense my authenticity in wanting to get to know them and help them achieve their goals.
If you have any trepidation about how to sell your services, this approach may just be the catalyst you need to illustrate that selling can be rewarding, especially when you know that what you are offering is a positive experience and a healthy lifestyle.


text: Bourbon is a type of American whiskey predominantly made in the southern United States. It is made of a blend of different grains, with the bulk of the grain alcohol coming from corn, and grains such as malted barley, rye, or wheat making up the rest. Once distilled, the high-proof alcohol is aged in white oak barrels for at least two years, though often much longer, before being bottled. The bottled alcohol is usually altered so that it is 80 proof, in order to allow it to be sold in states which have a proof limit on the sale of spirits. Higher proof bourbons, often as high as 125 proof, are sometimes bottled, in which case they are usually referred to as cask strength as they are bottled at the proof at which they come out of the cask. Cask strength bourbon tends to be available only from higher-quality manufacturers and often fetches a premium price.


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Big Game Hunts for Justin Moore and Josh Thompson Result in Indictment for Montana Tribal Leaders
Country's own Josh Thompson and Justin Moore are at the center of a controversy that has resulted in legal indictments for some Montana tribal leaders. Three members of the Blackfoot tribe were indicted on Tuesday (Jan. 8) on charges that they held illegal hunts for big animals for a film crew and country performers, including Thompson and Moore.
The Washington Post reports that the hunts took place on the reservation in northwestern Montana in 2010 and 2011. In an appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Strong in Great Falls, Jay St. Goddard, Jay Wells and Gayle Skunkcap, Jr. all entered pleas of not guilty to six felony counts including conspiracy, the illegal sale of tribal wildlife, theft from a tribal government receiving federal funds and making false statements.
All three of the men charged held key positions in the tribe, and prosecutors say they organized the unlicensed hunts and illegally sold the tribe's wildlife in exchange for exposure on a television hunting show called 'The Sovereign Sportsman,' as well as concerts by the artists. Thompson killed a bull elk in October of 2010 as part of a hunt that is featured on the Sovereign Sportsman Network's website. In 2011, Moore shot a bull elk during a hunt. Neither Thompson nor Moore has been charged with any crime.
The tribe issues 5-10 big-game hunting licenses each year to non-tribal members, at a cost ranging from $1,500 for a black bear to $17,000 for a bull elk. The indictment alleges that the three accused used tribal money to outfit the unlicensed hunts and pay for a guide, and directed tribal employees to provide tags for the hunts.
Supporters of the men are claiming that the charges have been fabricated by a faction of the tribal council that is at odds with St. Goddard, saying the hunts were organized to raise the poverty-stricken reservation's profile and boost its struggling economy.


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Bono Pens Eulogy for Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela's death on Dec. 5 inspired a number of heartfelt reactions from members of the rock community. While many lamented the loss of an inspiring figure and world leader, others felt Mandela's passing on a more personal level -- including U2 frontman Bono, who was fortunate enough to count the legendary activist among his friends.
The two men publicly bonded over their shared interests and participation in a number of initiatives, including efforts to combat world poverty and help fund AIDS research, so it's unsurprising that Bono has contributed a lengthy, heartfelt Mandela tribute to Time magazine. Titled 'The Man Who Could Not Cry,' it offers a personal perspective on the way Mandela inspired the Irish youth of Bono's generation (as he put it, "Irish people related all too easily to the subjugation of ethnic majorities") and recounts a number of crucial life lessons Bono took from Mandela, including the importance of turning perceived enemies into allies:
Mandela lived a life without sanctimony. You try it; it's not easy. His lack of piety helped him turn former foes into friends. In 1985, U2 and Bruce Springsteen responded to Steve Van Zandt's call to lend our voices to an artists-against-apartheid recording titled 'Sun City.' Sun City had been set up on the border of Botswana to bypass the cultural boycott of South Africa. Sol Kerzner's casino there had become a pretty busy venue. Years later, when I chastised the music producer Quincy Jones about his friendship with Kerzner, Quincy replied, "Man, you know nothing about Mandela, do you? He wasn't out of jail seven days before he called Sol Kerzner. Since then, Sol has been one of the largest contributors to the [African National Congress]." I felt like one of those Japanese soldiers who came out of the jungle in the 1950s still fighting World War II.
You can read the complete essay, including the story of how years of limestone mining during his imprisonment left Mandela literally unable to cry, at Time's website.


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When employers set a higher minimum wage based on realistic living expenses, employees have better mental health, according to a new study.
Although there are employed people living in poverty all over the world, "the very high cost of living in the city and the fact that minimum wages are set nationally makes the problem particularly acute in London," coauthor Jane Wills of the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London, said.
The "London Living Wage" campaign, launched in 2001, is a social movement lobbying for higher pay based on high living expenses. Over the past decade, more than 100 employers agreed to abide by the living wage.
The program's effect on mental health has not been studied before, Wills said.
In 2011, the London Living Wage (LLW) was set at 8.30 British pounds per hour, or U.S. $13, compared with a UK national minimum wage of 6.08 pounds per hour, or just over $9.
Researchers interviewed 173 workers for London Living Wage employers and 127 people who worked for other employers. Most of the interviewees worked for cleaning companies, for grounds crews or in transportation.
Ranked on a special scale of mental wellbeing, where the average adult scores a 51, half of the workers with LLW employers scored above average, compared to 34 percent of the other workers.
LLW workers averaged a score of 58, compared to 55 among non-LLW workers. Three LLW workers and four non-LLW workers scored below a 41, which is well below the population average.
The scale of mental wellbeing is not a clinical tool and isn't used to measure how "healthy" or "unhealthy" a person is, according to Noriko Cable, who studies the epidemiology of public mental health at University College London.
But a difference of four points or more below average could theoretically have a significant effect on a person, Cable said.
White British workers tended to have lower wellbeing scores than black Africans or Latin Americans. People who worked more than 30 hours per week also tended to have lower scores than those who worked less than 16 hours, according to the study results in the Journal of Public Health.
According to lead author Ellen Flint, who researches social and environmental health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the wellbeing scale "measures optimism about the future, feeling useful, feeling relaxed, feeling interested in other people, having energy to spare, thinking clearly, feeling good about yourself, feeling close to other people, feeling confident, making your own mind up about things, feeling loved, being interested in new things and feeling cheerful."
There are many ways that a living wage might contribute to better mental wellbeing, according to Mel Bartley, a professor of epidemiology and public health at University College London.
"Debt is well known to be harmful to mental health," said Bartley, who has worked with the study authors in the past but was not involved in this paper. "Social isolation is as damaging to health as smoking, and people with very little money often withdraw from their social networks out of shame."
Also, people making very little money may have to pick and choose between basic life necessities like heat and food, which can have obvious consequences for health, she said.
"Children of economically stressed parents often struggle at school and suffer long into their adulthood," Bartley said. "There is no net benefit to society as a whole of having groups who are in poverty."
The London Living Wage campaign began as a social movement, but many businesses also support it for economic reasons, she said: if people make more money, they can buy more products.
The U.S. federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, equivalent to about 4.5 pounds, which is lower than the UK minimum wage and just over half of the London Living Wage.
"The idea of a living wage is spreading to social movements in other countries," Wills said. "There are active campaigns in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. There is growing interest in Europe too."
SOURCE: bit.ly/GFHNCe Journal of Public Health, September 5, 2013.


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Apart installer issues, why has been dropped the x64 support?
Really almost 90% of the PC of the last 3 years are coming out with x64 OS.
I don't know the real performance improvement between 32bit and 64bit, but running x86 executables under x64 OS is like using an emulator
I'm a bit disappointed about that and i hope in another solution :-)


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recharge (one's) batteries(redirected from recharging her batteries)
recharge (one's) batteries
To regain one's energy, liveliness, or motivation through a period of rest or recreation. It's amazing how a short walk in the woods can really help you recharge your batteries sometimes. Companies need to remember that vacations are crucial for employees to be able to recharge their batteries so that they can maintain their productivity.
recharge your batteries
COMMON If you recharge your batteries, you stop working for a short period in order to rest so that you have more energy when you start working again. After playing in the Divisional Championship, I took a long break from the game to recharge my batteries. He wanted to recharge his batteries and come back feeling fresh and positive. Note: When people recharge batteries, they put an electrical charge back into the batteries by connecting them to a machine that draws power from another source of electricity.


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For over 30 years, Glaser Safety Slug has been the perfect choice for use in populated, urban areas. Glaser's composite design uses a special thin-wall jacket, and precision compressed lead shot core with a soft polymer tip. This construction provides optimum balance between penetration and fragmentation. These round nose profile guarantees feeding reliability. Stopping power is maximized by the complete dispersal of the bullet energy into the intended target with immediate shock and trauma.
This rapid fragmentation delivers the energy to a large area. Reduced recoil allows a fast recovery for follow up shots if necessary. This makes Glaser the best choice for defensive situations.
Glaser Blue penetrates five to seven inches in International Ballistic Wound Association protocol testing, while silver penetrates eight to ten inches in the IWBA testing protocol.
BLUE: Glaser BLUE uses #12 shot compressed into a solid form. The Glaser BLUE produces immediate energy dispersal into the target, reducing the possibility of over penetration and creating abrupt stopping power. The numerous projectiles disperses outward generating an effective wound cavity.
SILVER: Glaser SILVER is made up of #6 shot. With the Silver load, you get much larger segments; deeper penetration and controlled energy release.
Both loads reduce the possibility of over penetration through the intended target. They provide for an added margin of safety. A missed round is much more likely to break up on an interior wall and dump its energy rather than proceeding unabated into an adjoining room. The light fast bullets reduce the felt recoil and are excellent loads for the small compact carry guns and snub nose revolvers. For over 27 years the Glaser Safety Slug has been the overwhelming choice for the "house gun" stored in the nightstand.
Blue is suggested for warmer climates where apparel is lighter making penetration easier.
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Jamie Lynn Spears Talks Embarrassing Dad Moment [VIDEO]by Thomas Chau | PopCrush
Jamie Lynn Spears spoke with our friends at Taste of Country at the Taste of Country Music Festival, which is going on this weekend at Hunter Mountain in New York. The 23-year-old younger sister of Britney Spears talked a little bit about her dad since tomorrow, June 15, is Father's Day.
"He's done too many embarrassing things. I can't really name them all," she laughed when asked if there were any embarrassing stories. But she then proceeds to tell a story about her dad, karaoke and whether he should be performing in front of people like her and her sisters.
Click on the video above to hear Jamie's hilarious story about her dad.
The younger Spears is playing at the Taste of Country Music Festival where she is promoting her country EP titled 'Journey.' In a recent interview with PopCrush, Spears told us that the collection of songs reflect "little chapters" in her life.
"I think it was right in front of me the whole time," Jamie Lynn explains. "It's about my journey, something I've been saying all along."


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Here at AXA we strive to lead the transformation of our industry. We are looking for talented individuals who come from varied backgrounds, think differently and want to be part of this exciting transformation by challenging the status quo so we can push AXA - a leading global brand and one of the most innovative companies in our industry - onto even greater things.
In a fast-evolving world and with a presence in 64 countries, our 166,000 employees and exclusive distributors anticipate change to offer services and solutions tailored to the current and future needs of our 103 million customers.
AXA Hong Kong, a member of the AXA Group, prides itself of serving over 1 million customers in Hong Kong and Macau. Besides being one of the largest health protection providers in Hong Kong, it is also the number 1 General Insurance provider1 and a market leader in motor insurance.
AXA Hong Kong is committed to helping its customers achieve stability and prosperity through providing a comprehensive range of life, health, property and casualty protection, as well as wealth management and retirement solutions.
We believe it is our inherent responsibility to support the communities we operate in, hence creating a sustainable business via constant and considerable contribution in the dimensions of health, environment and the community.
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Courtney Walker scored 22 points, going 10 of 20 from the field and making a critical layup in the game's final minute as No. 19 Texas A&M edged No. 16 LSU 72-67 on Sunday.
With Texas A&M (18-6, 8-2 SEC) leading by a point, Walker made a layup with 54 seconds left to extend the Aggies' lead to 70-67. Jeanne Kenney then missed a jumper for LSU (18-6, 7-4) and Texas A&M made two free throws down the stretch to help seal the win.
Texas A&M held the Lady Tigers scoreless for the final 5½ minutes of the first half, using its defense to go on a 12-0 run that spanned into the beginning of the second and take a 29-24 lead. LSU remained close throughout but never regained the lead.
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The nordic ski team, based out of the Tahoe region in Northern California is comprised of six aspiring semi-professional athletes. PistenBully recognizes the potential of these athletes and the importance of monetary support to further the continuation and advancement of their ski careers.
Formerly known as the Far West Farm Team, the Elite Team has been in existence for the last four years. The team was started as a means to support nordic racers that were interested in continuing their competitive racing goals beyond Division 1 collegiate racing and has gradually grown in size and ability. Athletes are expected to play a large role in the Tahoe Nordic Community, which results in daily training at Auburn Ski Club, Tahoe Cross Country, Tahoe Donner XC and Royal Gorge XC. Additionally, Tamarack XC in Mammoth and Kirkwood XC are familiar, but less frequent training grounds.
Headlining the team are Anja Gruber and Patrick Johnson. Anja Gruber, former German National Team member and new to the team this season, graduated from The University of Vermont this spring. In her collegiate racing career, Anja Gruber collected two NCAA National Champion Titles and will be racing on the OPA Cup (Continental Cup) European Race Circuit this season.
After seeing tremendous success in his collegiate and early post-collegiate career, Patrick Johnson has taken up the sport of Biathlon and in his first year has been named to the U.S. Biathlon Development Team. Johnson has realistic Olympic aspirations in the sport.
Wyatt Fereday, Spencer Eusden, Emily Blackmer and Sabra Davison complete the Far West Elite Team's most competitive team to date. Each has seen noteworthy success at the local and national levels and should be very exciting to track throughout the season. The biggest races that the Elite Team will be attending this year include OPA Cups (Europe), IBU (Biathlon World Cup) (Canmore, Canada), Senior Nationals (Houghton, MI), the Super Tour Race Series (across the US), the American Berkiebeiner (MI), Boulder Mountain Tour (ID), The Great Ski Race (CA), USBA National Campionships (CA), Craftsbury Marathon (VT), Yellowstone Rendevous (MT).
In determining sponsorship, PistenBully recognized one characteristic that sets the Far West Elite Team apart from the rest of the semi-professional teams; its' involvement in local junior skiing development programs. The Elite Team trains, coaches and engages with junior nordic skiers on a daily basis. As team manager, Roger Chaney, puts it "Regular contact with the Elite Team athletes throughout a season gives juniors a tangible perspective of what it takes to achieve the level that these athletes have and the goals they are continuing to pursue." In addition to playing a role in increased participation and enthusiasm in the sport, the Elite Team has also increased the recognition of the high level coaching, world class facilities, grooming and training that the Tahoe Region has to offer, in turn attracting top athletes to the area to train and race.
PistenBully is excited to see what this team can do, not only on the race course, but for the Tahoe Nordic community as a whole. As a big player in the ski industry, PistenBully wants to support and further the success of developing and high level athletes in this country so that they can find success in what they love to do.


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Finally, the chance to take a closer look at the Dockyard Micro Tools generously shared with me by Don Butler, the Carving Glove Guy. You can find my first impressions in the Dockyard Micro Tools Part 1 post.
I twiddled around with the tools for a while... picking them up in the middle of other carving adventures and using them a bit, and then putting them back down in favor of more familiar gouges. Hm. Didn't really learn much, so I decided to take a more systematic approach. Enter the sample block.
This is an unmounted sheet of regular battleship gray lino, available from various supply houses. The actual size of the test block is 4" x 6", so I've scanned all the samples at 100% size to place here. If you click on the image you should see the full-size scan.
As I mentioned before, the full set of 25 tools includes several items that were outside my experience or interest, including plough, paring, and parting tools. Since I do not typically use these tools in my carving I didn't feel I could give them a fair shake, so they remained in their handy carrying case. I kept my experiments limited to the U-gouges (5 sizes) and V-gouges (4 sizes).
I divided the test block in to columns, and made some sample marks with each tool. In particular I was looking at a variety of mark lengths, and maneuverability for curved lines and shapes.
Did I mention these things were sharp? Wow. I did manage to nick my thumb, not during carving but just moving the tool from one hand to the other. Yes. Sharp. Pay attention.
I initially headed straight for the narrowest tools, anxious to find a delicate workhorse. I would say in the end that the Micro V15 gouge makes a mark comparable in size to the cheapie Speedball #1 V, although I think deeper and definitely more sharp.
To my surprise, it was in the wider U-gouges of the Micro tools that I found real pleasure. In my regular practice I use a cheapie Speedball #5 U (sad, but true) and a shallow Ramelson 1/4" gouge to clear large areas. The Micro G5 and G4 tools tackled the same area with good results, the G5 providing, in my estimation, a wider mark.
Typically I don't spend a lot of time with V-gouges in my practice, but I was delighted to see the variety of line weight one could achieve with the range of Micro V-tools. If I did more "white line**" work, I think I would find plenty of reasons to pick these up. (** By "white line" I mean that the carved line is the focus, rather than the raised lino material left behind by the gouges. This sample print is an example of what I think of as "white line.")
This sample print is made on a sheet of Hosho "professional" paper, smoother side up. Any "fuzzies" you see in the carved shapes are the fault of the printmaker, not the tools. All marks were clean, I just didn't use my jig when I made this print, so things slid around a bit.
In case you can't read my notes on the side, the marks are made, top to bottom, by:
Speedball #1 V-gouge
Ramelson 1/8" veiner
Speedball #5 U-gouge
And then the Dockyard Micro tools: 75V, V15, V2, V3, G15, G2, G3, G4, G5.
I'm using the Dockyard Micro tool numbers as they appear on the tools themselves. If you look at Don's website you'll notice the numbers are slightly longer, but I think you can suss out which is which. The V3, for example, is listed on Don's site as V3090. (V-tool, 3mm, 90 degrees.) There is one odd tool out, the 75 V. This is a 3mm gouge, but the angle of the V is 75 degrees, rather than 90.
In all I think these are perfectly fine tools for linocut work. The blades are sharp and from trolling through comments on a few woodcarving forums they seem to be durable.
In my earlier post I mentioned that my first impressions of the handles was that they were flimsy, and this remains my chief complaint for these otherwise fine tools. I do not find the thin, straight handles to be comfortable in my hand for long periods of time. They are octagonal in shape, which is better than just round, but I still prefer a mushroom-handled tool with a flat bottom surface. A mushroom "bulb" fits into the palm of my hand, and the flat bottom helps me to control the gouge better. These straight-handled gouges tend to turn in my hand, so that the width of the carved line becomes irregular. Probably okay for the way some people work, but I found it distracting.
The steel stock on the Micro tools is very narrow below the actual cutting surface, and I found this less comfortable, also. When I grasp my tools for carving, I keep my index finger on top of the steel stock. On Ramelson tools this is a wider, flatter, and longer surface, which feels more natural for the way I work.
Ramelson 1/8" veiner, grip from bottom
Dockyard Micro G15, grip from bottom.
The biggest disappointment was that on a few of the tools in the set, the steel stock was set crooked in the handle! Probably one could bend them straight with a good pliers, but it seems to me that they should be set straight in the first place.
So... overall, a mixed review. Definitely the Dockyard Micros are sharp tools offering a wide variety of mark-marking for the linocut printmaker. Price range is moderate, certainly these are good blades for their cost. But those darn handles! In the end I'll be keeping the G5 (widest U-gouge) and G15 (narrowest U-gouge) to supplement my existing tool selection. If I had more confidence in and comfort with the handles, I would seriously consider buying the complete U- and V-gouge sets.


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We were connected to the NBN just over two months ago. For the first two months stats were stable (typical shown below)
DSL Status
DSL Uptime
1 day 1 hour 23 minutes 13 seconds
DSL Type
DSL Mode
Maximum Line rate
39.3 Mbps 90.22 Mbps
Line Rate
20 Mbps 54.99 Mbps
Data Transferred
13.15 MBytes 103.92 MBytes
Output Power
6.1 dBm 14.4 dBm
Line Attenuation
5.5, 23.4, 36.9 dB 12.1, 30.2, 47.3 dB
Noise Margin
18.2 dB 16.1 dB
About a week ago we started getting dropouts. Started with once a day, now up to +10 per day. Typical stats are now;
DSL Status
DSL Uptime
5 hours 9 minutes 59 seconds
DSL Type
DSL Mode
Maximum Line rate
25.84 Mbps 37.98 Mbps
Line Rate
20.4 Mbps 37.19 Mbps
Data Transferred
214.38 MBytes 344.69 MBytes
Output Power
7.1 dBm 14.3 dBm
Line Attenuation
7.0, 25.0, 38.8 dB 13.8, 32.2, 49.8 dB
Noise Margin
16.6 dB 12.8 dB
Gradually getting worse and worse. I've rebooted the modem. Any other suggestions?
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You want have to put up with reduced speeds. Eventually the fault will be found and you link will be capable of the same speed as previous. There have been other cases were the link speed has dramatically decreased and it has taken several tech visits before the fault has been found. You just have to be patient. It is only when the link is incapable of providing the speed that you would have to put up with the reduced speed.
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There could be an faulty connection in the street cabling that could be causing the low speed and drop outs. Could you post your DSL Diagnostics, these will give a better indication. The line status does show a slight increase in attenuation and decrease in Noise Margin but not enough to explain the more than halving of the maximum link speed.
Have you reported a fault to Telstra support as NBN Co should send a Technician to investigate if the link is dropping out 10 times a day.
Just got off the phone with Telstra. Line to be monitored for 24 hours and recheck in 72 hours to see if NBN tech is necesary
These DSL stats?
Parameters Last 15 min Current Day Prior Day Showtime
Link Retrain Count 0 4 0 0
Sync Bandwitdh(Down/Up) - - - 37.19M/20.4M
Loss of Sync,LOS(Local/Remote) 0/0 0/13 0/0 0/0
Loss of Framming,LOF(Local/Remote) 0/0 0/13 0/0 0/0
Loss of Margin,LOM(Local/Remote) 0/0 0/53 0/0 0/6
Forward Error Correction,FEC 0/0 137/382 0/0 8077/47544
Cyclic Redundancy Correction,CRC 0/0 169/328 0/0 35/69
Errored Seconds,ES 0/0 98/215 0/0 20/34
Severely Errored Seconds,SES 0/0 59/162 0/0 11/20
Unavailable Seconds,UAS 0/0 768/810 0/0 0/0
Those figures do indicate a problem with the link between the node and the modem. You normaly only see FEC and perhaps a few CRC, ES and SES. Link retrain counts occur when the modem or node can no longer accurately decode the incoming data and drops the internet connection to retrain the connection. The counters get reset every time the modem is rebooted, if modem has been rebooted would explain why the prior day's counter are showing zero.
I'm just thinking that the commencement of the issues coincided with the commissioning of the retic in the newly established park in which the node sits.
Wonder if the gear is getting wet?
Bloke at Telstra reckons +70 dropouts in the last 6 days with 5 between 2 and 3 am this morning.
Been relatively stable since then but download still sitting mid 30's
Other thing I've noticed is we used to get ticks against Next Hop Ping IPV6 and First DNS Server IPV6 Ping.
Now it says Not all pings were answered or not connected
Do you have a IP version 6 address? Not all IPv6 pings being answered or not connected would only indicate a problem with IPv6 networking and if all IPv 4 tests are okay not a problem with the FTTN link.
There's an IPV6 address listed in my modem stats
28 hours of extremely stable access albeit at markedly reduced download speeds.
How would Telstra achieve this change (no dropouts and reduction of speed) given they claim it's an NBN issue that they have to refer to NBNCo to fix?
They achieve this by referring the problem to NBN Co who then apply a stability profile to your service (the Node can also automatically apply a stability profile if it detects an unstable connection, although it's not always particularly good at doing it).
Modem stats don't lie and your modem DSL Link Diagnostics clearly indicate the dropouts were due too NBN FTTN link. If you check the stats for current day there should be no link retrain counts and only FEC, ES, CRC and SES errors.
So they can get an instantaneous response from NBNCo.?
The only error that has come up in the last 28 hours is FEC at 6/10.
Otherwise all zeroes.
They've certainly "stabilised" it.
The issue now is I'm paying for 50/20 and not getting it at any time of the day.
All ISP's (including Telstra) have the ability to apply profiles to your service and in simple terms this means restricting speed which in turn lowers the frequency of dropouts etc. In practice, the client gets less dropouts and the ISP gets less complaints whilst the matter is being attended to. Line faults from the node to the home are the responsibility of NBN Co and sometimes, most times, these take a good deal of time to fix.
Even though my service was 100/40 the line is only capable of 53Mbps but originally was only getting 29/5Mbps. It took NBN Co just over 14 months to review the problem despite at least 17 requests by my Telco. Eventually an NBN Tech ended up at my door, observed the problem, switched my telecom pair over (most homes have two pairs of cables coming to their door), went to the local pit and found a poor join, fixed it. I rebooted the system and wallah!, my speeds my speed increased instantly to 45/10Mbps.
This is a very common problem with FTTN which still relies on distance to the node.
I went to the Senate enquiry in Canberra early last year and at that point there were over 70,000 similar complaints Australia wide that needed attention. The real solution is FTTP and another 50 truck loads of NBN technicians to install and repair.
For stuff that NBN Co can do remotely, yes, things can get done very quickly (I've been with a tech who was on the phone to NBN Control doing tests and settings were getting changed on the fly). It's usually when a technician's visit is required (and sounds like it still may be required in your case in order to get a proper fix) that it can take weeks of waiting.
What peeves me is a week ago I had a stable connection with max line speeds of 90 down/40 up and I was getting actual speeds of 55 down/25 up.
Now max line speed 38 down/25 up, actual speed 37 down/20 up.
There's an obvious fault.
NBNCo. need to employ the people to get faults fixed in a timely manner.
Telstra need to compensate customers for not providing the services they have contracted to do so.
So if it's to be weeks will Telstra compensate for their inability to meet the terms of their contract?
Will the Broncos win the NRL Grand Final?
Nothing sensible to add?
Sorry, history repeats itself.
You could advise the Ombudsman?
Few posts above you said: "The issue now is I'm paying for 50/20 and not getting it at any time of the day." During investigation, someone discovered that you were on incorrect speed and put it back to 50/20...
I am paying for 50/20, the line was capable of 90/40, I was getting 55/25.
I am still paying for 50/20, the line is now capable of 38/25 and I'm now getting 37/20.
Not quite sure what point you think your are making but you're making no sense whatsoever.
That's next Monday's task.
I'll let Telstra have their full 5 business days to get back to me.
Going on previous behaviour that won't happen but one can always live in hope.
Telstra will rightly blame NBN as they cannot do anything about it other than complain to NBN. NBN will say that currently they are legally required to provide at least 12 download (which they in your case do). So Telstra will offer you to downgrade to 25/12 (if they still sell it) and you will be worse off... That's current reality with NBN.
If that's what you were trying to say why didn't you just say it?
And, that's exactly what happened to me with TPG. TPG got nowhere with NBN and it went on for months whilst I remained on 100/40 (living in hope). When NBN finally came to the door, changed the pair and fixed the cable TPG moved me down to 50/20 knowing quite well that the line would never improve from maximum 53Mbps, confirmed by NBN in the solution.
I had an ongoing complaint with the Ombudsman, advised them of the solution and change of speed to 50/20 and they ordered TPG to refund six months of broadband NBN fees, which they did.
TPG knew of the maximum speed my line was capable of right from the outset and should never have sold me a product I couldn't use. I still live in hope that NBN will install FTTP so I can enjoy 100/40 like we should have done right from the outset.
Well given our service was more than capable of 50/20 and did so for plus two months and it's only now gone to s**t it's a bit of a different story.
If the current connection status is the new reality then I'm certainly not going to be continuing to pay for 50/20 when it's not going to be delivered.
Simply put Telstra can either get NBNCo. to fix the fault or reduce my bill to suit the new speed.
Don't care either way but I'm not going top continue to fork out for a contract that Telstra aren't honouring.
Admittedly, I do not know what current deals are, but I would rather pay for tier 50 than for tier 25. The problem is that even when they say 50 or 25, actual guaranteed speed is only 40 and 20 respectively, with all the associated CVC risks. What would scare me significantly would be low upload (4 guaranteed on tier 25) - as an IT professional, often upload speed might be more important for me than download...
And to be fully transparent - I was in the same predicament. Being about 1100 metres from the node, I was initially getting gorgeous 33 down, only to drop to around 13 after about 10 months... NBN did not want to do anything about it, even though Telstra was pushing hard (at that time I was member of Brains Trust here) officially and unofficially. It took several months of fighting to finally get me reconnected to micro-node that was installed in my street to service properties further in the street (I am in rural residential area of 3+ acres lands, so distances are significant). Since then, I am now enjoying (on FTTN!!!)
Maximum Line rate
The 40/20 isn't actually guaranteed, it's only "typical" peak speeds.
So Telstra clients should just put up with s**t service because the alternative is Telstra will give them even sh**tier service?
So apparently Telstra "insiders" can bypass the s**t service?
Nice to know that clients of +30 years history don't count for s**t.
Third world service and third world level corruption.
What I'd like now is for you to withdraw from this conversation.
You've added zero value.
In fact all you've done is make matters more murky.
Do not ever again interject into one of my queries.
You want have to put up with reduced speeds. Eventually the fault will be found and you link will be capable of the same speed as previous. There have been other cases were the link speed has dramatically decreased and it has taken several tech visits before the fault has been found. You just have to be patient. It is only when the link is incapable of providing the speed that you would have to put up with the reduced speed.
I'll still be demanding a reduced cost for the interim.
The more the Telcos hurt because of NBN faults the more pressure they'll place on NBNCo.
I really feel for you. It's like banging your head against the wall.
1. The real villain is NBN Co. They're responsible for everything telecom from the front of your house to the exchange and on to infinity. NBN Co are the only ones that can fix your line and they're the only one you can't contact direct because they hide behind government legislation. They are a government department.
2. You could change Telco's but you won't solve your technical problems, just start all over again.
I spent 14 months trying to solve my technical problems, 3 times to the Ombudsman, twice to my local Federal member and once to a Senate enquiry in Canberra. Plenty of sympathy and plenty of advice but NBN Co told my local Federal member to buzz off when he made enquiries to NBN Co. Said he wasn't the registered owner of that particular line.
The point is that I eventually got a small increase in my line speed from 29Mbps to 36Mbps download, dropped from 100/40 plan to 50/20 plan and a six month refund from my telco because the Ombudsman said they should have done that in the first place.
What can you do? 1. Stay with Telstra and harass them until they get NBN Co to do what they have to do. 2. Negotiate with Telstra a suitable monthly payment.
Changing Telcos will achieve nothing because they have no authority over NBN Co.
I have no intention of changing Telcos at this time. There's no point given there's a fault on the connection somewhere.
I will continue to give Telstra grief though.
At this stage their logic is the +10 dropouts a day have stopped so they can see no reason to log a fault with NBNCo even though I am not getting the speed I am paying for.
NBNCo may be the villians but Telstra is enabling that behaviour through unwillingness to hold them to account.
If Telstra develop some spine or think about putting customers first they'll get together with the other Telcos and lobby Canberra to get NBNCo to take responsibility for their mess.
So after another day of 12 outages within a period of less than 24 hours Telstra finally consent to ramp this up as a complaint to the NBN.
24 hours later we get 2 truckloads of NBN "technicians" at our house.
Arrogant and rude.
Making insulting comments about "old people"
They blame the smart wiring, they blame the surge buster.
They butcher our home cabling.
They don't check the connection at the node.
10 minutes after they leave - dropout.
So now we've still got;
- an unreliable and erratic NBN connection
- we can no longer connect at previous speeds from the modem to TV's and set top boxes
- 2 data outlets are no longer functional
and to top it all off the speed is no better and we're still getting dropouts.
What is required here is a Royal Commission and gaol time for the people responsible for this farce.
I expected the dropouts to come back. Stability profiles rarely fix drop outs permanently at best they might reduce the number of dropouts and result in reduced speed. Have you altered the house wiring or added extra surge protectors between when the link was stable and the reduction in speed? If there was no modifications then it is unlikely to be your house wiring causing the dropouts and reduced speed.
No changes made at all in the house.
Tried to explain that to the NBN people but they wouldn't listen.
Something that worked perfectly for ~2 months is now unreliable.
During that period no changes in the house but they've been up at the node often.
The answer is obvious but from what I saw yesterday problem solving is not something their people are strong on.
I've put the surge buster, that they took out yesterday, back in. It does have an impact on speed but I prefer having the protection.
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Alloys and Compounds for Thermoelectric and Solar Cell Applications V
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A Facile Route for Ge Addition to Nanostructured Fe-Si Alloys Towards Improved Thermoelectric Properties
Ab Initio Calculations of the Lattice Thermal Conductivity and the Discovery of New Thermoelectric Materials
Band Engineering and Phonon Interactions in Thermoelectric Materials from First-Principles Calculations
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Bismuth Telluride Based Compounds with High-density Current Stressing: Dopant Migration, Structural Evolution and Transport Property Modulation
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Combinatorial Approach in Thermoelectric Materials Research
Data Science Approaches for Predicting Thermoelectric Properties
Diamond-Like and "Diamond-Unlike" Ternary Copper Based Semiconductors for Thermoelectrics
Engineering High-zT In-doped GeTe: The Phase Equilibria and Thermoelectric Properties
Engineering (ZT)eng and Efficiency, High Power Factor in Half-Heusler, and New Zintl Materials
Enhanced Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in Bi-Sb-Te based Composites with Dispersed ZrO
Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties of Sb2Te3 Nanoplates Incorporated Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3 Composites
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Microstructural Size and Morphology Control of Si Base Thermoelectric Composites
Microstructure and Thermoelectric Properties of Silicon and Metal Silicides Nanocomposites Synthesized by a Melt Spinning Method
Nanostructure and Phonon Engineering in Oxide Thermoelectric Materials
Nanostructure of Si/transition Metal Silicide Composite Prepared by a Melt Spinning Method
Novel Approaches on the Design of Thermoelectric Materials for Power Generation: Present and Future Prospects
Phase Diagram of Ternary Cu-Ga-Te System and Thermoelectric Properties of Chalcopyrite CuGaTe2 Materials
Phase Equilibria of Ternary Sn-Sb-Co Systems and Ge-Co-Sb and Thermoelectric Properties of Sn/Ge Doped Skutterudite CoSb3
Phase Stability and Vacancy-site Occupation of Half-Heusler Compounds in Multi-component System M(Ni, X)Sn (M: Ti, Zr, Hf and X: Co, Ir)
Phononic Crystal Nanopatterning in Si and SiGe Thin Films for Thermoelectric Application
Scalable Synthesis of Silicon-implanted CZTS Nanoparticles for Catalysis and Thermoelectrics
Silicon Carbide Particles as Nanoinclusions for Improved Thermoelectrics
Synthesis, Processing and Transport Properties of Metastable Phases in the Mg-Si-Sn System
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Thermoelectric Performance of Undoped and Ag Doped Mg
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Thermoelectric Properties of Amorphous Half-Heusler Thin Films Synthesized by Magnetron Sputtering
Thermoelectric Properties of MnTe- and MnTe2- based Materials
Thermoelectric Properties of PbTe-based Materials Fabricated by a Melt Spinning Method
Thermoelectric Properties of Synthesized Sulfides –Adjusted on First Principle Calculation for Screening-
Thermoelectricity in Full-Heusler Systems: From Ab-initio Calculations Towards Promising Materials Design
Transient Liquid Phase Bonding of Cu/Ga/Ni and Cu/Ga/Co and Phase Equilibria of Cu-Ga-Ni and Co-Cu-Ga Ternary Systems
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Air quotes are the main mechanism by which famous authors, comedians, actors, and other personalities get their best quips and one liners into print. Until the invention of the air quotes system, which by chance coincided with the birth of Jesus Christ, celebrities were forced to suffer through not having their witty remarks recognized just because they "said them when no one was around" or "wrote them in a novella the publishing house rejected." However, the air quotes system is commonly satirized in the media, which draws unfavourable comparisons with the present state of television broadcasting and home-phone bugging technology. The value of being barraged by the whimsical offhand remarks of your Kevin Federlines and your Adam Sandlers 24 hours a day is also frequently questioned.
Shockingly, some academics still do not even recognize air quotes exist. These ivory tower brainiacs limit the definition of air quotes to "bunny ears pretentious people make when they say something remotely ironic." The academics espousing this view are clearly irrational. Everyone knows that these gesticulations are only shadowy imitations of genuine air quotes, made by celebrity wannabes with no promise or integrity. If not by air quotes, then how are celebrities supposed to make their views heard? Did Oscar Wilde say, "Now ladies and gentlemen, I desire to gather a group of twelve or so of you together tomorrow at 1:00 such that I might set down a few of my choice phrases on child-rearing and the state of politics thence to be republished in student agenda booklets and on inspirational posters"? No, that makes very little sense at all, if any.
The moment Jessica Simpson has a ditsy thought about marrying a boy toy and breaking up with him two months later, her thoughts billow out in a cloudy quotation form. Growing to enormous sizes, the cloud of text scuds out over the countryside and urban landscapes, settling over the largest nearby population centre, ready to be seen by thousands of nobodies. Here they are viewed and laughed at by non-notables and reporters alike, and her crush proposes marriage just to get his hands on that sweet silicone. Another tragically unentertaining love triangle has begun.
Frequently, celebrities are devoid of depth and self-reflection to the extent that their remarks, rather than being extremely vapid and self-aggrandizing, have absolutely no content at all. These air quotes are commonly referred to as clouds. Another interesting fact: rain is actually the tears of famous people, while lightning is their rage. Celebrities are terrifying because of their lightning-charged hissy fits, although because of their fickleness the lightning never strikes the same spot twice. William Shakespeare first documented the phenomenon of tumultuous weather accompanying distress of the sovereign (for the king or queen was the only celebrity at the time) in his play Cleopatra, which he wrote the Sunday after meeting with an eccentric cross-dresser from Egypt going by the stage name of "Julius Caesar." Always with a flare for the classic, that man/woman. The existence of air quotes is thus proof of the Divine Right of Kings, and therefore the Queenie and her band of tabloid-making horse riders ought to be the sole rulers of the United Kingdom.
Occasionally a rapper's "hating" and egotism cause an air quote to descend to the ground, where it is known as a "fog quote." It may seem at first glance that the large number of shipwrecks caused by fog obscuration were due to the fog's obscuring effects, as it tends to obscure even the least obscure of foggy land masses. Not so. With today's modern gadgetry, this could never happen. The only explanation is that the fog fills the sailors' minds with addling tracks from R. Kelly and Eminem, until they steer their ship into a lighthouse pylon simply to escape these pyrrhic incests of rhythm and the spoken word.
The only reason mass hysteria doesn't set in when mere mortals look upon the musings of bad actresses in towering letters is the clever myth of "skywriting," conceived by Adolf Hitler in 1941. Hitler created the myth, then known as "Dach Autlercloudenkriegen," to address the obvious danger of air quotes on his secret military plans being intercepted by cloudcatchers in Great Britain and used to compromise the war effort. The stupid British government of the time had instigated a policy of believing every statement issued by the German government, thinking it imprudent to disregard intercepted German messages after the nuclear war incident of 1940. As a result, the myth persists to this day and is enforced by an old mobilized detachment of MI6 that was never informed World War II had ended. It is actually rather surprising that citizens do not catch on, considering that the proposed mechanism, involving something about biplane exhaust and loop-the-loops, could never possibly work; the sky writing would obviously sink and turn illegibly distorted.
There are several notable examples of well-known people using or misusing air quotes for personal gain. For example, the late Oscar Wilde once blew forth this air quote:
|I have nothing to declare except my genius and this band of printing racketeers holding me hostage. Help!
This use of air quotes completely explains why such a small percentage of celebrities have been murdered. Even with famous singers placing dozens of country-home decoys all over the world which are left uninhabited, and the finest in security personnel, one would think that successful fan assassinations would succeed routinely. This seldom happens because the notable individual can exhale an air quote to call for help. In fact, there is speculation that those celebrities, such as Marilyn Monroe, who were killed, probably weren't notable to begin with.


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Sorry to say it, but I've messed it up .. then upgraded as a last-hope .. then after sysmerge I saw many warnings .. on reboot I couldn't login.
It's more likely to be a lost case (thanks to my silliness of course) .. now what could be done i a similar situation ? dd my home partition ? will it somehow remedy the situation by copying clean config files fro the fresh system to the old one ?
If the old disk weren't far bigger (500g) than this new one (60g) , I would consider transferring home data and reinstall a fresh OpenBSD ..
Any suggestions are welcome .. Thanks.
Thank you Jgimmi !
I read whatever you link to or abstract .. my problem is that I often fail to put what I read into effect to solve the issue as expected ..
would you like me to post /var/run/dmesg.boot ?
Is there a way to repair login.conf ? (by for instance substituting it with the fresh system's)
If I seem to be a tape recording that loops over and over, telling you the same things again and again about your problems ... it is because I cannot tell from what you post here 1) which of your various computers you are posting about in any of your threads or if you just pick a thread at random to post to, 2) usually, I have no idea what you were attempting to do procedurally that may have caused or contributed to the problem, 3) what actual commands you used that first indicated a problem 4) what the output from the problem actually was, or 5) how much of my prior recommendations were followed, or not followed, or if they had anything to do with the particular problem of the moment you are posting about.
It is frustrating for me to try to help you. It must be much more frustrating for you to report an issue and get little or no help.
When you go to your browser to report a problem here, stop! Before typing anything, please, ask yourself:
I have no idea why it appears that +CONTENTS files are being damaged, and now, /etc/login.conf. Well on login.conf, I have an idea. Just a guess. Again.
The few symptoms you have been able to describe, so far, do not indicate any sort of hardware problem could be the cause -- those data corruptions do not manifest like this.
You commented in one of your threads on file corruptions, that a restart of an upgrade, while running from the ramdisk kernel, could be a possible operational cause. I disagree. The script just unpacks tarballs with tar(1), and a restart would merely overlay the same files. The upgrade operation does not touch /var, and does not touch /etc at all.
Now you report a problem ... and I have no idea which of your systems it was, and it appears to be an entirely unrelated problem to the package database problem reported in this thread.
I'll guess once more. You mention sysmerge. Improper manual editing of login.conf from within sysmerge is probably the cause of your login.conf problem. I don't know this for sure, it, like most everything else I tell you about your problems, is either a wild or a slightly educated guess.
If this was caused by your edit of login.conf from within sysmerge ... to recover, all you needed was to boot the ramdisk kernel, which should have been already sitting on your boot disk, and restore /etc from the backup you should have made of it before running sysmerge. And, if you failed to take your own backup, you might still find it in the backup sysmerge made of it in /var/tmp.
You did not have to panic and purchase yet another disk drive. Extra disk drives are nice to have, but it was an unnecessary purchase.
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Hi jgimmi ! Thank you !
I'm terribly sorry for the methodological mess I make each time I report an issue ..
I'm not sure what else to say :-( ..
I have 3 disks :
0- kankushin (openbsd current+login problem and the old bash empty @name issue ) (500g)
1- volla (successfully upgraded openbsd current+ simple ratpoison line recurring when installing a package) (120g)
2- hangestu (fresh & clean OpenBSD current) (60g)
(I use three of them interchangeably on Acer Aspire 5610 - GENERIC.MP i386)
I'll try restoring the backup from /var/tmp.
In all cases I don't regret having a 3rd disk .. in case I need it sometime .
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text: The Washington Post's Rick Maese brings us this photo of Russian beer that can be purchased at the Sochi Olympics. As Maese points out on his Instagram page, that appears to be a Russian hockey player stealing a pretty ice skater from the defeated Canadian hockey team. You may question Russia's competence as an Olympic host country, but don't you ever question its swaggger.


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Welcome to December, one of the coziest, most magical months of the year.
Get December started off right with some of these weekend events throughout the county:
Friday, Nov. 30
Movember Gala Parté
8 p.m. at 344 7th Ave.
Men, it's time to show off your Movember mustache. For all the gents who participated in the month-long movement to raise awareness for men's health issues, this event at Block No. 16 in the Gaslamp can't be missed. Tickets are $10.
Holiday of Lights
5:30-10:30 p.m. at Del Mar Fairgrounds
Take an epic drive through a light display unlike any other. The Holiday of Lights features a nightly show of multiple animated displays at the fairgrounds, complete with themes such as "Candy Cane Lane" and "Twelve Days of Christmas."
Saturday, Dec. 1
Ocean Beach Holiday Parade
5 p.m. at Newport Avenue and Sunset Cliffs Boulevard
Head to one of San Diego's funkiest communities for its annual holiday parade. Dozens of cars and participants will travel through the streets, including a visit from the big man himself: Santa Claus.
Tree of Life Ceremony
5-7 p.m. at 3965 5th Ave.
This World AIDS Day, watch the 21st annual Tree of Life ceremony in Hillcrest. Handcrafted ornaments on sale at the site will benefit Mama's Kitchen, which provides 40,000 meals to local patients with AIDS or cancer.
North Park Toyland Parade
11 a.m. at Utah and University Avenues
Watch North Park transform from a hipster 'hood into a holiday wonderland. Marching bands, floats and costumed characters will be feature at this year's parade
Sunday, Dec. 2
SoNo Park Holiday Fest & Chilipalooza
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Thorn & 32nd Streets
North and South Park are joining together in the spirit of Christmas. Eat chili, drink local craft brews and enjoy local craftsmanship at the 3rd annual SoNo Park Holiday Fest.
La Jolla Christmas Parade & Festival
2-5 p.m. at Girard Avenue and Kline Street
Get in the mood for mistletoe at La Jolla's holiday festival and parade Sunday afternoon. Following the parade, antique aircrafts will fly along the coast and locals can watch the lighting of the Christmas tree.
What are you doing this festive holiday weekend? Tell us in the comments below.


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Last weekend was the second HPI Challenge & Bash Party for UK fans, with HPI owners from around the country showing up to once again talk with fellow HPI owners and fans, meet HPI staff members, drive their cars and trucks around an enormous off-road track and sample a huge range of HPI vehicles! This time, the meeting place was the Notts-Derby Off Road club just outside of Nottingham, otherwise known as 'NDOR'! This club is home to 3 different tracks, the largest of which is the absolutely gigantic 1/8th and large scale off-road track, which is flanked by two different paved oval tracks.
The day kicked off around 9 AM with the setup of the HPI-HB gazebo and pulling out over a dozen different demonstration vehicles and loads of display cars. HPI owners started showing up to chat about all things HPI, and very quickly things got busy out on the massive NDOR track!
Although racing was on the schedule, everyone was more interested in just driving the track, which took several full runs to get used to. There were so many different sections of the track, each with their own personality consisting of jumps, ruts, obstacles and tricks, that the temptation to run one section over and over until you got it just right was very high - but with a dozen or more cars on the track at any time, you had to keep going and just try to learn a bit more about that section on the next lap!
The entire HPI UK support team was on hand, so anyone who had an issue with their buggy or truck were well-received and quickly sorted out. Multiple Savage XL Octanes were on hand, driving the track and avoiding each other - the noise on the track was incredible!
Several players from the football club next door came round to sample the cars, with the junior players having loads of fun driving the Vorza!
The weather wasn't doing us any favors, with a not-very-friendly forecast keeping away many people who otherwise would have made the trip, but we want to extend a huge THANK YOU to all the brave HPI fans who did attend, and we hope to meet up with you once again at a future event!
Everyone at HPI would like thank Tim and all of the members of the Notts-Derby Off Road club for their hospitality, help and enthusiasm - we couldn't have had the day we had without you all!
If you're affiliated with a club in the UK and want to host an HPI Challenge & Bash Party, please get in touch! Drop an email to email@example.com, we'd love to arrange something with you!


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With the rise of tablets and many of the entry level ones becoming much cheaper I thought it'd be a good idea to revisit this project. Using tablets also lets each display connect to the internet where I can keep the photos all in one place and update them all at once by uploading the photos. I stated to investigate the things I need to put this idea together and one thing led to another giving us the results above (without mount board cover and finished product at the bottom) which I think you'll agree looks awesome! I've decided to call this project Giant Interactive Photo Array Display (Giant IPAD), see what I did there? ;-)
Below are some of the steps that I went through in the hope that if someone is keen enough to want to attempt something similar they will get some tips from this.


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The NHL Closer is written by Greg Wyshynski, of FanHouse and The Fourth Period. He is also the author of Glow Pucks And 10-Cent Beer.
Not the greatest night for our boy Dion with the Flames. He physically abused Peter Forsberg all night, only to watch from the penalty box as Floppa set up the game-winner in Colorado's resurrection-of-a-victory over Calgary. Later, Dion was schooled in the corner, coughing up the puck to lead to Milan Hejduk's game-clincher in the third. Even his trash-talking fell on deaf ears. Yep, it was a night that makes you go home and drop some tears in your beers...that is, if you weren't also the guy currently Phaneuf'ing Elisha Cuthbert. Yippee!
Yes indeed, the woman who was fast-tracked to become the first Mrs. Sean Avery last year is allegedly involved with Calgary defenseman Dion Phaneuf, as this gossip site colorfully broke the news: "Just signed 6 year contract reportedly worth over $6 million a year and he's only 22...one of the brightest young stars in the league. And his c*ck just got a little bigger. Because he's banging the girl next door."
There's no denying Phaneuf's effect on people...although usually his unique charm leads to professional hockey writers penning lines like "Phaneuf is a punk, by the way. And some day he's going to get his, and it's not going to be pretty for him." Our buddy Erin Nicks notes that Cuthbert was once described as "very short, and very stupid" when she was with Avery. But I tend to side with Margee on SportsSquee, who tracks Cuthbert's shrewd puck-bunny progression from Avery to (allegedly) Montreal's Mike Komisarek to Phaneuf: "She's graduated from the meth-faced 'charms' and middling paycheck of Avery, to the strapping good looks and higher pay grade of Komisarek, to the panty-burning glare and 6-year, bajillion-dollar contract of Phaneuf. From here, it's Ovechkin or bust."
Meanwhile, Back on the Ice. Desperation can be a good thing. The Flyers were the low-hanging fruits in the Wales Conference, and when everyone assumed they'd be picked off by the also-rans Philly went on a tear. Now it's Colorado, playing for its postseason life, who finally gets Forsberg back and wins a critical game against Calgary, 2-0. The Avs are 5-1 with Floppa in the lineup. I don't care if his ankle is about to snap off: They need to keep him on the ice down the stretch, even if it's via a "Weekend at Bernie's"-style system of duct tape, sunglasses and puppetry.
In front of the fan of the night, Edmonton took out Minnesota to remain three points in back of Colorado for the last playoff berth (no thanks to you, stupid Calgary). And really, what the fuck is left to say about the Oilers? Theirs is the most inexplicable revival in hockey for three reasons: Because of the injuries to key veterans throughout the season; because the worst offensive team in hockey last year has now scored 20 goals in its last three games not involving Roberto Luongo; and because the average age of the players fueling this surge is about 13 years old. So basically the Red Wings will either face a battle-tested Colorado team or a young, dumb and full of fun Edmonton team in the first round ... and that sound you just heard is Detroit fans nervously cursing their team's regular season good fortune in preparation for another 1 vs. 8 stunner.
If the Playoffs Started Today. Montreal proved the old broadcasters' adage that the six-goal lead is the most dangerous in hockey: Watching their 7-1 advantage end up in a 7-5 victory. Again, you have to be impressed with this Habs team — which clinched a playoff berth — for its courage under fire: Dany Heatley cut it to 7-4 at 9:23 of the third, and Ottawa didn't score again until Spezza's tally at 18:02. Meanwhile, Pittsburgh looked past the Islanders towards tonight's duel with the Devils in Jersey and lost 4-1, as Dubie Dubie Doo didn't beware the Penguins. The Pensblog nails it: "If this game was NHL '95 for Sega Genesis, you would have accidentally bumped your Genesis hoping for a reset." The playoff picture hasn't been altered much this week, but tonight's slate of games will change that. Capitals/Hurricanes, Bruins/Leafs and Vancouver/Calgary might just be enough to get me to flip over from "Autism: The Musical" on HBO.
Puck Headlines
* The top five hockey crowd fights. I hadn't seen the first one before, but getting beaten up in the penalty box is insult to injury, isn't it? [Busted Coverage]
* It's NCAA men's ice hockey tournament haiku previews, found on cocktail napkins! Like this one, for Minnesota: "Memo to Garth Snow:/You're great at developing/a non-playoff team." [Inside College Hockey]
* OMG, non-playoff scrub fight LOL! Blackhawks coach Denis Savard complains about cheap shots from the Blues. St. Louis defenseman Barret Jackman: "Sorry that we hurt their feelings." Oh, snap! [Chicago Tribune]
* I've never seen a sled hockey game before, but I'm pretty sure these guys could bench press a Cessna. [The Way I Am]
* Finally, I posted this on FanHouse last night but must share it with you. It's either a hilarious prank pulled on the Mississippi RiverKings' radio guy/director of media relations or a fantastic bit of Improv comedy. Shaving cream pie to the face at about the 45-second mark; angry, profane, squirmy reaction begins at about the 1:20 mark. Very, very NSFW language. Check it:


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3.44 print means more upside to come.....more than likely
3.44 print means more upside to come.....more than likely
any Bruins fans in here? What a game last night!
EDIT: where is Rad, i think he's a beantown boy
and with no news that i can see
Bought a little NTRR today, under a buck briefly, wtf
SIRI looks like its in blast off mode, yee haw! ONVO too, some of the highlights! Even FSLR is coming back.
Med Mar a drag last few weeks, some news of Justice Dept. still going after dispensaries, may be a bad sign. We need congress to act to remove marijuana from schedule one ( drugs with NO therapeutic properties), which it clearly is not and the basis for the problem. I just dont see that happening tis year, although there are bills kicking around
Warriors..come out to playyyyyyy
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The Schnitzelman is on the run with his tail between his legs: SIRI and ONVO
I think that's his tail??!
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It might be SIRIDOGSLONGDUCKDONG that SchnitzelMan is running from...................
EDIT: Been lightening up on both the ONVO and DDD run. Will sell some SIRI as well on a move up to 3.50 ish.......if it breaks up a bit more.
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3.45 print....
Not sure I fully understand who the Schnitzelman is, but here's the story of how I missed the big one this week. In the attached chart of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) note that as I have kept this one on my radar for the past couple months waiting for the anticipated correction from around $60 (which represented a "touch" of the then upper trend line), and the resulting bounce down to the lower trend line near $50............. I blinked my eyes four days ago and look what I saw.............. Yep, with proceeds from two big blocks of SIRI recent sales I was waiting with baited breath to jump in for a thousand shares (at $50 or so)....... Instead, how do you think I feel after realizing in my case, a $30,000 missed opportunity just this past week?
I have softened the blow a little bit however, through my acquisition of that little Low Cap ticker (LEDS) which has produced upwards of 30% gains this week with 8% coming today alone.
I continue to have AMD and ZLC in my sights as both are now extremely overbought and ready to correct down to the range of $3 to $4, respectively. So far, I'm not missing my previous heavy load of SIRI shares. Check out GMCR:
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Ray said to me "...as this weight has the same ground as most of the so called paul ysart army medal weights, could frank of made them as well ?"As we know Eisner was involved with the military and did produce the Spitfire weight, it would not be unlikely that he also made badge weights. Both at Lemigton and Waterford. Coincidence of colours is easily ignored as likely to have been sourced from same suppliers. If anyone has known or suspected Eisner weights and some badge weights, could you compare please.
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NHS trusts 'need to up financial game' as more fall into the red
More NHS foundation trusts are struggling with finances, a report has found. The study from Monitor, which regulates England's 147 foundation trusts, said 39 trusts are now in deficit. The combined financial hole of these trusts is £180 million.


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Lawrence Auster has an interesting post today that notes that one of the prime engines of neoconservative folly is this idea that everyone "deserves" liberty and that we, therefore, having the ability, owe it to strange peoples to "give them freedom."
His post reminded me of something I read long ago in the Liberty Fund's collection of John C. Calhoun's works, which is now generously available on line. While often a callous defender of slavery (which had little regard for justice and the interests of the people it was supposedly civilizing), like most free people in slave societies, Calhoun had a very detailed and nuanced sense of what it meant to be free and was, accordingly, a thoughtful defender of freedom at least for his own people. He writes something here of universal application that shows the inherent folly of the neoconservative utopianism:
[T]he worst form of government, is better than anarchy; and that individual liberty, or freedom, must be subordinate to whatever power may be necessary to protect society against anarchy within or destruction from without; for the safety and well-being of society is as paramount to individual liberty, as the safety and well-being of the race is to that of individuals; and in the same proportion, the power necessary for the safety of society is paramount to individual liberty. On the contrary, government has no right to control individual liberty beyond what is necessary to the safety and well-being of society. Such is the boundary which separates the power of government and the liberty of the citizen or subject in the political state, which, as I have shown, is the natural state of man—the only one in which his race can exist, and the one in which he is born, lives, and dies.
It follows from all this that the quantum of power on the part of the government, and of liberty on that of individuals, instead of being equal in all cases, must necessarily be very unequal among different people, according to their different conditions. For just in proportion as a people are ignorant, stupid, debased, corrupt, exposed to violence within and danger from without, the power necessary for government to possess, in order to preserve society against anarchy and destruction becomes greater and greater, and individual liberty less and less, until the lowest condition is reached, when absolute and despotic power becomes necessary on the part of the government, and individual liberty extinct. So, on the contrary, just as a people rise in the scale of intelligence, virtue, and patriotism, and the more perfectly they become acquainted with the nature of government, the ends for which it was ordered, and how it ought to be administered, and the less the tendency to violence and disorder within, and danger from abroad, the power necessary for government becomes less and less, and individual liberty greater and greater. Instead, then, of all men having the same right to liberty and equality, as is claimed by those who hold that they are all born free and equal, liberty is the noble and highest reward bestowed on mental and moral development, combined with favorable circumstances. Instead, then, of liberty and equality being born with man; instead of all men and all classes and descriptions being equally entitled to them, they are high prizes to be won, and are in their most perfect state, not only the highest reward that can be bestowed on our race, but the most difficult to be won—and when won, the most difficult to be preserved.
They have been made vastly more so by the dangerous error I have attempted to expose, that all men are born free and equal, as if those high qualities belonged to man without effort to acquire them, and to all equally alike, regardless of their intellectual and moral condition. The attempt to carry into practice this, the most dangerous of all political error, and to bestow on all, without regard to their fitness either to acquire or maintain liberty, that unbounded and individual liberty supposed to belong to man in the hypothetical and misnamed state of nature, has done more to retard the cause of liberty and civilization, and is doing more at present, than all other causes combined. While it is powerful to pull down governments, it is still more powerful to prevent their construction on proper principles. It is the leading cause among those which have placed Europe in its present anarchical condition, and which mainly stands in the way of reconstructing good governments in the place of those which have been overthrown, threatening thereby the quarter of the globe most advanced in progress and civilization with hopeless anarchy, to be followed by military despotism.


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InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, one of the nation's oldest and most respected campus-based Christian ministries, said in early February that the University of Michigan has booted its Asian InterVarsity chapter off campus after the student outreach refused to drop its biblically based requirements for leadership.
As is happening at an increasing number of universities across America, the University of Michigan has instituted a non-discrimination policy that often requires Christian groups to compromise on such issues as the sinfulness of homosexuality, same-sex relationships, and even the fundamentals of Christian faith.
According to Fox News, last December leaders of the Asian group, one of 10 InterVarsity groups on the Michigan campus, "were summoned before university officials who told them there was an issue with the section of the club constitution related to leadership. In order for students to be InterVarsity leaders they must sign a statement of faith. But the university said that requirement violated their non-discrimination policy."
Sara Chang, one of the group's leaders, said that instead of revising the group's constitution to fall in line with the university's non-discrimination requirements, the club decided to stand firm in their Christian convictions. "For us, there's no other option than to hold to the tenets of our faith," Chang told Fox News. "We want to model a lifestyle of integrity. Holding the Bible as the inspired, divine word of God and seeing the commands for us to choose leaders who have a vibrant faith in Jesus — is obviously something very important that we want to continue to uphold."
The decision by the Christian leaders to stand by their faith prompted university officials to take away the Christian group's official recognition, forcing the group to relocate off campus.
A University of Michigan spokesman released a statement explaining that all registered student groups must "sign the university's standard non-discrimination agreement [and] submit their constitution for review." The spokesman said that as of yet "Asian InterVarsity Christian Fellowship has not completed this process" — a default which caused the group to forfeit its recognition by the school.
According to Greg Jao, InterVarsity's national field director, while the university laid the blame on the Christian group for not submitting the constitution for official approval, the truth is that university officials refused to accept the group's unrevised constitution. "It's the same as approved in prior years," Jao explained, adding that it's "not an administrative failure on our end, but [the university] won't accept it."
The university's relevant rule states that the school is "committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of … religion." The move by university officials to un-recognize the InterVarsity group prompted the Michigan Daily, the school's student newspaper, to exult that "removing the group's campus affiliation reaffirms the university's commitment to nondiscrimination."
The paper's editors also pointed out that there are other "InterVarsity groups currently recognized by the University whose constitutions include a statement of faith requirement for student leaders, similar to [the Asian InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's] constitution. This indicates that the Center for Campus Involvement, the arm of the University that deals with student organization applications, needs to ensure that it consistently applies its policies across all student organizations."
Jao told Fox News that the university "is sending the message that religious voices are suspect and should be marginalized. I think it sends the message that the university does not understand the nature of religious beliefs and the convictions of religious students."
He added that he expects the university's other InterVarsity groups to be similarly targeted in the near future. "The sad place that we've arrived at is that certain campuses in pursuit of tolerance and diversity are now saying they will use those standards to discriminate and marginalize viewpoints they disagree with," he told Fox. "I think the university's decision will impact any religious group that is being honest about their leadership criteria."
Kevin Theriot of Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal advocacy group, said it appears that InterVarsity has a strong reason to file a suit against the University of Michigan for religious discrimination.
Such religious discrimination, particularly against Christian groups, has increased in the wake of a 2010 Supreme Court decision, Christian Legal Society vs. Martinez, in which the High Court ruled that a public university may implement a policy effectively requiring religious groups to receive "all comers" as long as it applies the same rule to all campus groups.
"It's really amazing that we have come to this place in our society where a Christian group can't require Christian leaders," Theriot told Focus on the Family's CitizenLink. "It's really kind of silly, but we are seeing more and more universities do this."
In 2012 over a dozen Christian groups were forced off the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville after they refused to knuckle under to that college's non-discrimination policy. One of the groups to lose its recognition was InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Jao said that Vanderbilt officials went as far as prohibiting other registered student organizations from co-sponsoring events with banned Christian groups such as InterVarsity, causing Christian students at the school to "feel disenfranchised, distinctly unwelcome."