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May 12, 2011
Interview conducted by Joe Curley
After several years on the U.S. Olympic Committee, former World Cup-winning striker and Olympic Gold medal-winning coach April Heinrichs returned to U.S. Soccer in January, when she was named the full-time Technical Director for the U.S. Women's National Team. With the FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany approaching this summer, Heinrichs was kind enough to speak to CalSouth.com regarding the state of the women's game in America.
Cal South: What can you tell us about the restructuring within the U.S. Women's National Team and your involvement in the project?
April Heinrichs: US Soccer's commitment to hiring three new directors in January of 2011 was a very positive step for the direction of women's soccer. Dave Chesler [who fills a longtime void as the new Women's Director of Coaches Education] is a real strong leader and visionary for coaching education. We've been without a coaching ed. director for some time and we've hired one who can refine our processes of how we teach players. That's a really positive step.
Hiring Jillian Ellis as Developmental Director is a first for U.S. Soccer. It will be the first time we have a Developmental Director on the women's side of the game. For Jill to come on board, bringing her coaching, her charisma and her perspective on some of the cultural things that have gone awry is important. She'll work with the U17 and U15 teams, the U14 camp, and will be focused on the 16-year-olds and younger that filter through the elite level. She'll be overseeing a new scouting network that we've been implementing… That's a real positive step. We've never had someone just focused on that before.
My title is rather common… Technical Director. We've used that in soccer all across the world. I will focus on the Under-20 and Youth National Teams. I'll also be collaborating with Claudio Reyna [USSF Youth Technical Director]. To a lesser degree, I'll be working with some of the issues that we have on the women's side with players that are over 20 years old, trying to look at the bigger picture.
We do quite well in developing players up until 17 years of age. In terms of all the resources, there's no other country that spends as much money as we do. But development doesn't stop at 17 years of age.
CS: Does U.S. Soccer have to work with the NCAA in that regard?
AH: Jill comes from the college game; I come from the college game. There are a lot of great things about women's college soccer. Players are playing up with and against older players. It is a professional environment. They are training five days a week. There is some moderation. They only play 20 to 25 games a year during a time when some of their peers in other parts of the world may be playing 100-120 games. There are 330 Division I schools with three coaches and 25 players [each]. That is an amazing number of players that are being developed.
CS: So, how is the development of older players being hindered?
AH: We can say that technique and basic tactics are learned between the ages of 8 and 16. It is awareness in the game's advanced tactics that really comes in at 17 years of age and beyond. I think that's where we're failing. The rest of the world has it and we don't.
We've got a women's professional league that going into its third year. We had three years of the WUSA and we're now in the third year of the WPS. By September, we'll have six years of professional soccer, but we had six years in between.
CS: I know there has been some investment in the English league. Are there professional women's leagues flourishing in other parts of the world?
AH: Norway, Sweden, Demark, Germany, France, Italy, although it has faded a little bit. In Japan, they're starting to build a good league. Brazil has a small league, but it has a presence. Meanwhile, we have
We have a couple things we are working on as part of the new initiative in women's soccer. We've put together a task force. We're preparing our second meeting. We are preparing subgroups. One of the things that we will study is that very challenge. We'll make some recommendations on how to overcome some of those challenges. We have to offer more solutions on how to retain more players, how to improve the environment for elite players from 24 or 25 on and how to expand the pool.
There are 20 players on six pro teams. That's 120 players who are being developed in the pro league. Provided the league is sustainable, that's a good situation, but if that league isn't around, then what do we do?
Not only that, but when you look at the bottom of the pyramid, between the ages of 6 to 16 in America, there's no larger pool of athletes in any other country. We know there's a drop-off in every sport at 15 or 16 years of age, but what's happening to them? We're not doing our players enough justice right now. We have to provide more refined opportunities.
CS: Every World Cup seems to define the sport in its point in time. What do you think we'll see this summer in Germany?
AH: I think we can all say that, this summer, we expect the women's game to be played at the highest level it's ever been played… ever. That includes all the teams. The game is faster, more technical, more tactical and more competitive.
CS: It's coming up on 12 years since the U.S. defeated China on penalty kicks in Pasadena to win the '99 World Cup final. What are your thoughts on those "Golden Girls," their legacy and how they continue to affect the Women's National Team program?
AH: The first thing that came to mind, and I don't know who said it, is the quote that "We caught lightning in a bottle." That's absolutely true. "The Golden Girls of 1999," that was a moment in time that may never be duplicated.
If we always say that we can't or it'll be difficult to duplicate that, we're on a negative. The legacy can be that we still have money in the bank. We have iconic women… a generation of women that have inspired multiple generations of young people. It's going to be hard to be measured in the long term. Everything we have today is built from that team. It was a watershed moment. How do you really measure the impact?
It was the day, the month, the year that, literally, women's soccer gained the nation's and the world's attention. What a moment… I don't know that there's been another women's sporting event that's caught the attention of the world in that regard.
Now that golden generation, they've been retired six or seven years. It's also appropriate to say as a director, it's not very helpful to keep looking back. It was a wonderful summer. Now it's somebody else's turn.
I got a lot of calls [in April] asking "Hey, what's your take on the England loss." Who would have thought we'd go 20, 22 years between losses to England? Who would have thought that it would take 20 years for us to lose a World Cup qualifier? But there are certainly some signs that we need to have more urgency in what we're doing.
CS: How has the women's game evolved over the past few quadrennials?
AH: A couple things have happened. The women's game has gone from about five teams being good to about 20 teams. The U.S. once led in terms of social equity. The resources that U.S. Soccer diverted to the women's game were unparalleled 10 years ago. We had a 50-yard head start in a 100-yard dash… Now, 20 years later, some countries have really stepped up their commitment. So no matter who wins the World Cup this summer, it'll be the highest level we've ever seen.
CS: In the past few men's World Cups, we've seen the game evolve tactically from the 4-4-2 to the 4-5-1 to last summer, when we saw more teams going back to systems that had three at the back. What are the current tactical trends in the women's game?
AH: I'd be surprised if we saw a three-back system, I think we will see more two fronts than three fronts. Unfortunately, as more money arrives, and more attention and pressure arrives along with it, I expect to see teams will be more conservative. This World Cup has a lot riding on it with Germany hosting. Every European country feels like it's their World Cup. Plus, if the U.S. doesn't win every game 3-0, everyone is really critical. So we also might see some negative tactics.
CS: You've observed a few Youth National Team camps recently. Has anything surprised you about the player pools?
AH: We've got some athletes with some great physical qualities and we've got some smaller technical players. It just depends on what their qualities are. Southern California is such a great contributor to our National Team program. The East Coast is strong, as well. There was talent from Texas and Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia. It's the same frontiers. What is new is that there are exceptions. There was a tall, strong, powerful forward from Arkansas that was exciting. Not your typical hotbed for a classical center-forward. There was a blonde-haired, blue-eyed surfer chick from Southern California who's a physical, biting center-mid, vicious in her tackling presence. That's fun.
CS: How has it been, throwing yourself into your new position?
AH: It's been wonderful. It's been a really fast and furious three months. I've already had five or six weeks of camps and a U-20 trip to Spain. It's not even been three months and six of those weeks have been on the road with players and coaches. It's been very fun.
I was with the [U.S. Women's National] team, on and off, from 1985 to 2005. I stepped away to work with the U.S. Olympic committee for the last four years. It's been very refreshing to see a different world, a different realm. I hope to use some of the lessons learned and have them serve U.S. Soccer. It's been very fun to be back in the soccer community; although, in some ways, I never left. [Heinrichs consulted with FIFA as a technical analyst with the U-20 World Cup.]
The game is faster. The athletes are a little bit more experienced. They're playing 100 games per year at an early age. But there are other, negative by-products like the training-to-game ratio. We're going to have to try to steer them to a target number closer to 40:60.
Ten years ago, I was the only technical employee. Now, to be in a position to collaborate with other people on the game, I'm so excited about growing the next 20 years of the game.
Cal South Soccer Magazine correspondent Joe Curley also covers soccer for the Ventura County Star and the Scripps Howard News Service. Joe lives in Camarillo with his wife, Rian, and daughter, Vivienne.


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FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A soldier repeatedly shot during the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood is detailing his injuries for the jury deciding whether to sentence the gunman to death.
Staff Sgt. Patrick Ziegler testified Monday during the sentencing phase of Maj. Nidal Hasan's trial. Military jurors who convicted Hasan on Friday are now deciding whether to sentence him to death for the attack that killed 13 people at the Texas military base.
Ziegler says he was shot four times and underwent emergency surgery that removed about 20 percent of his brain. He was hospitalized for about 11 months and had 10 surgeries, and his injuries left him paralyzed on his left side.
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An organization that promotes U.S. meat overseas is urging Congress to maintain funding for marketing programs to avoid being outspent by Europe.
The U.S. Meat Export Federation notes that the European Commission has proposed more than tripling its spending in the international marketplace to support the export of agricultural products with the slogan, "Enjoy, it's from Europe."
Under the plan before the European Parliament, aid for agricultural exports would go from the equivalent of $82.5 million in 2013 to $270.5 million by 2020, the USMEF explained.
The organization would like to see Congress keep funding for the USDA's Market Access Program at its current $200 million annually, spokesman Jim Herlihy said.
"There's still a long way to go between now and having a finalized five-year Farm Bill," Herlihy said. "We're hearing very positive things in terms of support, but we know that Congress is looking at cuts across the board. Our feeling — and research has supported this — is that money that's spent and invested in agriculture has a very strong return on the investments."
Formed in 1976, the USMEF undertakes numerous promotion efforts overseas for U.S. beef, pork and lamb products. About 45 percent of its roughly $40 million annual budget comes from MAP funds, although third-party contributions for specific projects in the last fiscal year amounted to an additional $24 million, Herlihy said.
"We go in and they provide matching funds, so our ability to bring these resources to the table has gotten us a lot more in value," he said.
Europe's "Enjoy" campaign seeks to help ag professionals break into international markets and make consumers more aware of efforts made by European farmers to provide high-quality products, the USMEF explained in a news release.
The continent's leaders believe its growers are poised to capitalize on global concerns about food safety and sustainable production methods, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Dacian Ciolos said in the release.
The USMEF asserts that U.S. agricultural exports, which topped $141 billion in value in fiscal year 2012, support nearly 1.2 million American jobs and accounted for a $38.5 billion trade surplus for the year.
A recent USDA study reported that federal and checkoff funds spent on USMEF programs over the last 10 years returned an average of $7.42 in net revenue to the U.S. pork industry and $3.87 to the beef industry per dollar spent, the organization contends.
"Our hope," Herlihy said, "is that that (current) level of funding can be maintained to keep us on a level playing field with our international competitors."
U.S. Meat Export Federation: http://www.usmef.org
"Enjoy, it's from Europe" campaign: http://www.epha.org/a/5872


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YORK, PA – The York College volleyball team closed out their regular season with a sweep of Goucher College and Penn State-Berks on Saturday afternoon in York. The Spartans beat both the Gophers and Lions in three sets as they sent their four seniors out with wins in their last two matches at Charles Wolf Gymnasium. The Spartans conclude their regular season with a mark of 15-16 while the Lions are 21-7 and the Gophers are 11-23.
In the opening match against Goucher, the Spartans won 25-19, 25-17, 25-17. York was in control most of the match as the Gophers never really pushed the Spartans in the contest.
York was led by senior Heather Bucher as the outside hitter paced the Spartans with 17 points on 13 kills, five assists, two service aces, four block assists, and 12 digs. She hit a blistering .440 for the match. Fellow senior Julie Coombs was the other Spartan in double figures in scoring for York with 10.5 points. Coombs had nine kills, one service ace, one assist, a block assist and eight digs. Senior Cortni Rentzel had an outstanding match with 29 assists, four kills, eight digs, a solo block and a block assist. Junior Ashley Rineman paced the Spartan defense with 14 digs, four service aces, and two assists. Junior Melissa Patterson contributed seven kills and five block assists as she hit .429 in the match.
In the win over Penn State-Berks, the Spartans rolled to victory by the scores of 25-16, 25-14, and 25-14. The Spartans honored Bucher, Coombs, Rentzel and defensive specialist Jana Arentz prior to the match as the quartet was playing their final match in York.
In the opening set, the Spartans were up three points (7-4) and then proceeded to rip off a 7-2 run to take an eight-point (14-6) lead. The Spartan lead fluctuated between five and eight points before York ended the match with a nine point lead which was their largest advantage of the set. In the second game, the Spartans trailed 5-3 early. York put together a 10-2 run to take a 13-7 lead. The Lions trimmed the lead to four but York scored nine of the final 13 points of the game to take the 2-0 lead. The final set was almost identical to the second as York led 13-10 and then scored 12 of the final 16 points of the set to take the 11-point win.
Coombs led a balanced effort for York with 10.5 points on nine kills, two assists, six digs, a service ace and a block assist. Coombs hit .444 in her final Wolf Gymnasium match. Bucher added 9.5 points on eight kills, seven digs, three block assists, and one assist. Rentzel was again outstanding as she had five kills, 29 assists, and 10 digs as she hit .714 for the match. Freshman Katie Huston added six kills, a solo block and a pair of block assists. Junior Dani Mastroieni came off the bench to tally two kills and five service aces in her one set of action.
The Spartans now begin the second season on Tuesday night when they travel to Frostburg State University to face the Bobcats in the opening round of the 2011 Capital Athletic Conference Tournament. The match in Frostburg, MD is set for 7:00 pm.
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In my early 20s a wealthy uncle promised me an employment
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Aurore Eaton's Looking Back: Ezekiel Straw, Manchester's essential manBY AURORE EATON
June 03. 2013 5:19PM
On the west side of Pine Avenue in the Valley Cemetery is a granite monument with the simple letters "E.A. Straw" carved near the bottom.
Ezekiel Albert Straw's accomplishments were essential for shaping both the Amoskeag Millyard and the City of Manchester. He was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire in 1819. His family moved to Lowell, Massachusetts when he was a small boy so that his father could find work in one of the new textile mills. Ezekiel graduated from Lowell High School, and among his classmates was Gustavus V. Fox, who became Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Civil War. A second was the future Civil War general and governor of Massachusetts, Benjamin F. Butler. In 1850 Butler was a defense attorney, along with future President Franklin Pierce, in the famous Jonas Parker murder trial in Manchester.
After high school Ezekiel studied mathematics at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. In the spring of 1838, he was hired by the Lowell and Nashua Railroad as an assistant engineer. Within a few weeks, he was asked to come to Manchester to cover for the engineer of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company who had taken ill. Ezekiel started this job on July 4, 1838, when he was 18 years old. The Amoskeag was just beginning to build its new millyard on the east bank of the Merrimack River. Ezekiel planned to return to Lowell in a few weeks, but he so impressed his managers that he was invited to stay on permanently as a civil engineer. He would remain with the company for the next 40 years and would become hugely influential in its success.
One of Ezekiel's first jobs was to draft the layout of the central part of the new center of Manchester. The Amoskeag planned to transform the sleepy town into a modern planned city. Ezekiel plotted out the plan for Elm Street, several side streets, lots for future houses and business buildings and areas for parks, including what is now Veterans Park and Victory Park. The terrain was cleared and staked out so that the first land sale could take place on October 24, 1838. This grid system design would gradually be extended over the 14,000 plus acres that the Amoskeag controlled on the east side of Manchester.
Ezekiel assisted in the building of the two water power canals in the Amoskeag's millyard. From 1837 to 1840, he also worked on the design and construction of a stone dam across the Merrimack River above Amoskeag Falls. The damming of the river created the giant millpond used to feed water into the canals.
Ezekiel became an investor and incorporator of Manchester Mills, a textile manufacturer in Hooksett. The company was interested in expanding into the millyard in Manchester where it planned to produce muslin delaines, a light woolen fabric for women's dresses. To prepare for this venture, in November 1844 the company sent Ezekiel to England and Scotland to learn about the machinery and techniques used for producing this type of textile. He returned from Europe with a wealth of useful information. In 1846 Manchester Mills contracted with the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company to construct the first of a series of factories, plus housing for its workers. The company leased water power from the Amoskeag. This enterprise would eventually shift its focus to producing printed cotton textiles, and would become known as the Manchester Print Works.
In 1851, Ezekiel was named agent of the Amoskeag's Land and Water Power Company. He was charged with overseeing the company's land and buildings, including the further development of the city landscape. He also supervised and improved the water power system. Two granite-lined canals funneled the water of the Merrimack into large pipes called penstocks that ran through the mill buildings. Water wheels and turbines transferred this power to elaborate systems of gears, shafts, pulleys and leather belts that ran the looms and other machinery.
Water power engineering was in its infancy in the United States at this time, so success was dependent upon the creative application of scientific and mechanical principles, combined with a genius for invention. Ezekiel Straw personified this approach in his endeavors as an engineer and as a manager.
Next week: A Valley Cemetery Story — Ezekiel Straw takes the helm of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company..
Aurore Eaton is executive director of Manchester Historic Association; email her at email@example.com


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Posted: Wed 01 Feb 2012, 07:49
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Debian "Live Session User" sets NTFS drive to read only
It doesn't help if one boot as root or use single or rescue
the NTFS drive is set as read only and one would need to
know very much of linux CLI terminal code to change it
if it is even possible?
But in Ubuntu that is rather close to Debian then if one
do a cheat boot using the iso and set up grub4dos like this:
title Netrunner 2011 kubuntu frugal iso boot of netrunner-4.0.iso live
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /netrunner-4.0.iso
kernel /netrunner40/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/netrunner.seed boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/netrunner-4.0.iso locale=en_US console-setup/modelcode=pc105 console-setup/layoutcode=se noeject noprompt
initrd /netrunner40/casper/initrd.lz
title ArtistX 2011 ubuntu frugal iso boot artistx_1.2_live_dvd_iso_01_06_2012.iso using LM12
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /artistx/casper/initrd.lz
kernel /artistx/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/custom.seed boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/artistx.iso locale=en_US console-setup/modelcode=pc105 console-setup/layoutcode=se noeject noprompt
initrd /artistx/casper/initrd.lz
title usu Bulgarian Ubuntu English version 2011 frugal iso boot of usu-7.0.iso
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /usu-7.0-netbook-i386.iso
kernel /usu/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/usu-7.0-netbook-i386.iso locale=en_US console-setup/modelcode=pc105 console-setup/layoutcode=se noeject noprompt
initrd /usu/casper/initrd.gz
The trick is to use this code
"find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /usu-7.0-netbook-i386.iso"
And one need to see to it that the .disk hidden dir is not
included. One need the casper and maybe the preseed
but maybe preeseed can be changed or excluded?????
Now what is it in .disk files that allow the permissions
to accept that one write to the ntfs drive that one
boot from.
if one could mimic what the lack of .disk do on Debian
then Pussylinux and other Debian would have almost
same permissions as Puppy have.
title pussylinux Debian test of ntfs boot.
kernel (hd0,2)/live/vmlinuz boot=live config quickreboot noprompt autologin username=root password=pussy
initrd (hd0,2)/live/initrd.img
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Posted: Wed 01 Feb 2012, 08:13
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Problem short:
the frugal install of Debian live (aka Pussy) is on the NTFS partition. It gets mounted very early in the boot process read only and is not remounted read/write.
mounting/unmounting of other rw NTFS partitions is no problem, but the attempt to unmount the root partition leads to "device busy, failure".
I don't know how to solve this, probably it would mean to hack the initrd.img and to check if it is possible to "force" rw of ntfs or ntfs-3g somehow.
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Posted: Wed 01 Feb 2012, 08:24
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Yes that would be the most proper? or logical way
to remaster the initrd.img if that is the one that
set permissions.
Now based on my experiences of Ubuntu. 18 out of 20
tested ubuntu derivatives and the official ubuntu and
LinuxMint 12 too. All these 18 work as the three I
gave example on.
so if one could find out what is different between the debian
and the ubuntu how it set up the permissions.
Maybe it has to do with how they treat sudo so Ubuntu had
to sift out that portion and place it in the .disk files?
or lacking diskfiles it skip the part of initrd that have to do
with setting permission for the live session user?
I have a vague notion or gut feeling that if one boot using
rescue or single on the boot code then maybe one are
allowed to set it up to have the ntfs drive set as read and
write allowed for the live session user too?
But maybe I am wrong but most likely Debian don't want
to share that knowledge or they would have already done
that somewhere?
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Posted: Wed 01 Feb 2012, 08:27
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I have promised to tell how my Acer D250 Netbook
are partitioned.
It has three ntfs partitions. one of them is kind of hidden?
But puppy do see all three of them.
Windows and linux are on the third sda3 and Recovery on
sda2 and the Acer OEM special are on sda1.
What am I supposed to write in CLI to get a more formal
description? I don't remember the code.
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Posted: Wed 01 Feb 2012, 16:13
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mount -o remount,rw name-of-partition
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Yes I did something like that some months ago
and it answer that that drive is already busy
sickgut as I remember explained that that is due
to the boot script make it locked to the live session user
so one are not allowed to change that.
But who knows maybe I entered it wrongly or something
but that was the answer I got
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Posted: Wed 01 Feb 2012, 20:18
Post subject: NTFS on Pussy
amigo wrote:
mount -o remount,rw name-of-partition
Hi Nooby.
I would take the word of SickGut as gospel. He is the Pussy expert.
But, if you feel uncomfortable with command Amigo offers, do the following and we will help.
Open a Terminal
type "fdisk -l"
post it back here.
We will tailor your mount command for you by changing the "name of partition" to match your configuration so that you can see whether you can mount your NTFS r/w. His command may work in your case. (In fact, we will provide you with 3 mount commands for each of your partitions so that you can see which work and if there's a problem with ANY of your partitions.
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Posted: Thu 02 Feb 2012, 02:29
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amigo wrote:
mount -o remount,rw name-of-partition
This doesn't work. There are several Squash files and probably an ext2/ext3 savefile mounted on the ntfs partition to form the overlayed filesystem of debian live. If you try to remount then there is the "drive busy" error nooby mentions.
One thing I noticed was that in my case there was a message about "dirty NTFS" filesystem, so it couldn't get rw mounted. I tried to fix this from inside linux, but "ntsfix /dev/sda1" didn't help and I have no windows any more for a proper "chkdsk". But since nooby also has this problem I guess it is mounted ro in every case.
I used this commands to inspect the initrd.img:
#cd to directory containing initrd.gz - UNZIP
mkdir initrd-tree
cd initrd-tree/
zcat ../initrd.img | cpio -i -d
#cd again to initrd-tree - ZIP
rm ../initrd.img
find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -9 > ../initrd.img
but was not man enough to find the mount command for the "root" partition (is is already mounted by the kernel?) - I think the mounting of the squashfs and the overlay happens in the "live" script inside initrd.img.
Maybe someone with more clue about the linux boot process can give a hint how and where in the this process a forced remount of the ntfs partition would be possible.
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Thanks for all that effort put into this.
It supports my take on it that the Debian Developers are
true to Unix policy of not allowing "Live Session User" to
have the permissions of writing to that drive it boots from.
They would answer something like. "There is no need for
writing to that drive so do a proper install instead!"
But I can be wrong.
Now. Why do I talk about Ubuntu when the topic is Debian?
These two are close enough and have same policy of not
allowing the "Live Session User" what a full install allow.
But they have set it up differently. Ubuntu use casper dir
and Debian use live dir. Ubuntu also have a .disk dir with
three files in it?????? I don't remember exactly but ...
If one exclude that .disk and use my simplified boot
for grub4dos which I gave three examples on then
the script fails to set the permissions so the ntfs drive
one boot from frugally do allow read and write permission.
Which is surprising. The proper thing would be they
stalled the boot giving an error saying that due to
error we will not allow you to use the computer
But if one can mimic that failure or error then one
get insight in how they set the drive to be read only!
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Posted: Thu 02 Feb 2012, 07:34
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Hi nooby,
Brief reply for now, more in a day or two.
I think you are going to be out of luck. The switches you are using in Grub or whatever are not the magic key in Ubuntu or whatever. The magic key is actually in their equivalent to initrd.img and their vmlinuz
Without getting to high-tech, lost in detail or being 100% dead accurate, what happens at startup is that vmlinuz is loaded. This is a micro-kernel. It's sole job is to load and run initrd.img which in turn creates the initial filesystems in ram and all the "hidden" startup scripts. These scripts then create the real filesystems, load the real files (in our case .squashfs files) and then flip the whole lot over while running in the vmlinuz kernel so that the stuff you loaded then becomes the real kernel and filesystem.
It is sorta like starting a car drag-race in an old Volkswagen and while you're racing down the drag-strip you are also rebuilding the entire car so that when you get to the other end of the 1/4 mile (in under 10 seconds) you're driving a Brabus Mercedes 800E and you didn't notice the transformation.
Pussy is 100% debian-live which you know uses copy-on-write to track changes. Now while you can have caper-directories or special r/w partitions these still aren't really writing back to the boot volume (disk). They are using tricks to fool you into thinking they are writing back to the boot volume. There is a subtle yet very important distinction you need to take a moment to think about and hopefully you will understand. In all instances the operating system itself is actually in RAM and not on the disc (volume). Sure, your casper or whatever partition may be on the same physical drive, but not from the viewpoint of the operating system (and it's core file-system) which is still 100% in ram.
Now, Ubuntu may have weaved some magic such that the physical files are in an uncompressed format and can be seen from WinXP as normal files, although I could _almost_ assure you that when debian or Ubunto see them, they think they are in ram and they probably are. Doing anything otherwise would break the entire copy-on-write mechanism.
Now, I think I've got an idea that may work, that may simulate what Ubuntu do, but it may require you to make some changes. To start with, I would need the output of an "fdisk -l" and then you may need to do some thinking.
If I have got some of the exact details above it is because I am trying to help you understand the debian-live concept, rather than get bogged down in specific detail. If you already understand this fully, then I'm sorry if this comes across as condescending.
PS. with work commitments and my desire to sort some of my own issues at the moment, please do not think I'm ignoring you if I don't reply the same or next day.
Oh ... gcmartin - I don't think that sickgut would mind me saying that there are a lot of other people playing with pussy that know more about linux and debian-live than he does. For the record, I am
one of them, but I don't think sickgut would consider himself to be the supreme holder of all knowledge on pussy (which is really just debian-live) with some stuff chucked on top.
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Sickgut should answer himself but that is how I remember
is his view of himself too. That he learn from the feedback
and test out things so I trust this is true.
I don't think that sickgut would mind me saying
that there are a lot of other people playing with pussy
that know more about linux and debian-live than he does.
Nothing wrong with that at all. Developers should learn from
each other so just go for it.
Thanks jbv, let it take the time you need and like Barry
say on his blog. He is in it for the fun of testing out things
and to solve coding problems because one learn and that
can be very fun doing.
Even I who almost never learn or remember what I learn
find it very fun when I manage to boot something and
use google and find I am among the few that could do it.
Just kidding
Ooops new term to me.
To be fair I should read up on it but my experience is
that I almost never get what such texts say. But sure
I can give it a try.
My extreme wild guess is that Ubuntu has placed part
of the scripts in the .disk hidden directory.
I trust that Debian have all their scripts in the proper place.
So when I "cheat" boot ubuntu in iso frugal style and
make .disk unavailable them I find a loop hole to the
protection that Ubuntu want to set up.
Most likely part of that protection is placed in the files
in the .disk directory so when these are not there physically then the script is set up to give priority
to let the human at least have a booted system.
The Dev was not aware of that that allowed us noobs
to boot using grub4dos and using the iso and that way
get permissions to write to the ntfs we boot from
something they most likely try to protect to not be
possible using these hidden files in the .disk directory.
Why else make them hidden? I try to list them.
I use the LinuxMint 12 as example files are:
None of these names gives me any clue that they
would include codes that perform some "Live Session User" setting permissions for the ntfs drive to be "busy"
by the boot process and impossible to change from
within the system.
So I may be totally wrong about these scripts.
Someone savvy would need to go through exactly what
the lack of these files trigger the scripts to not care about
setting the ntfs drive to be forever busy and not giving
permission to unmount it and then remount it.
I just know that if one include the directory then
the boot fails.
I could rename all of them and then change the names
back one at a step to test exactly where the code is.
Maybe even test to have the dir there renamed and see
if the script find the right file inside despite having wrong
I am too lazy to open the files and read them
in case they have many many lines of code.
Sometimes I wonder if the .disk is so magic that it can
even be empty and that would allow the script to set
the ntfs as read only. One never know.
The cool or scary thing is that I have written about this
on Ubuntu and Linux Mint forum and on LinuxQuestion
and none of the Devs or anybody else care about it.
These people are extremely at it to protect the newbie
from being able to write to teh ntfs hd so their total
silence must indicate they are working 24/7 behind
the scenes to rebuild the loop hole and do a upgrade
that force the hd to be only read and not write and read.
That it takes this long time could indicate I 've found
something they never anticipated or it just means they
hate to give a total noob any response so they rather
ignore that I found this breach of security.
The good thing about it is that it points out that
Debian should be able to easily change to being able
to do easy "cheat" iso booting too if one know how
to patch that script.
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Posted: Thu 02 Feb 2012, 21:21
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Hi nooby,
Not so fast - slow down a bit - for your sake.
You cannot just copy a directory or files from Ubuntu into Debian and expect them to work. Ubuntu may be based on Debian, but it is so different that it is not the same.
I don't know what is in the .disc directory although that won't make any difference. Whatever is there will not do anything in Debian, although most importantly whatever Ubuntu are doing happens while the kernel is loading.
This means there will not be anywhere that you can just replace a file or whatever. This is what I was trying to explain above. Obviously not well enough though.
Can you please post the results of "fdisk -l"
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Yes I do get that. I just tried to explain that
the solution lies there somewhere
result of sh-4.1# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1567 12586896 27 Unknown
/dev/sda2 * 1568 1580 104422+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 1581 30402 231506210 7 HPFS/NTFS
Puppy tells me that /dev/sda1 1 1567 12586896 27 Unknown is not unknown but ntfs too.
It is the Acer OEM where they have registration of
the Acer computer at their site and most likely script
for doing back up copies to an external CD or something
Sda2 is the recovery partition. and sda3 is the one
used for both Ms Win 7 and puppy etc.
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Thanks nooby. I guess you have a "boot manager" installed on /dev/sda3 (or NTFC "c" drive) that intercepts the boot and you choose if it is to boot into WinWhatever or Pussy. Is that correct?
What do you use as a boot manager?
What version of Windows are you using?
How much free space is left on "c" drive (just use Windows to tell you) ?
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Posted: Fri 03 Feb 2012, 09:36
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I use grub4dos the one we have on puppy menu.
title pussylinux test
kernel (hd0,2)/live/vmlinuz boot=live config persistent quickreboot noprompt autologin username=root password=pussy
initrd (hd0,2)/live/initrd.img
What version of Windows are you using?
How much free space is left on "c" drive (just use Windows to tell you) ?
No I don't want to start up Win, I have not used that one
for a year. it is there for to be able to upgrade my three
Smartphones so I don't want to touch it until I really must.
I have win7 and I have some 40GB free
I will not resize it or do any partition
due to the recovery is dependent on
a hashed sum that describe the untouched drive.
As soon as one change the size the hashed number
will misfit and thus the recovery get destroyed.
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But I think China meddled too." pic.twitter.com/4AEjYwoovq — JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) October 15, 2018 Shortly before an audacious speech by Mike Pence last weekend, in which the US vice president effectively declared a new cold war on Beijing (see "Russell Napier: Mike Pence Announces Cold War II"), Trump made similar accusations during a speech at the United Nations last month, which his aides substantiated by pointing to long-term Chinese influence campaigns and an advertising section in the Des Moines Register warning farmers about the potential effects of Trump's tariffs. Meanwhile, in a rare U.S. television appearance, China's ambassador to the U.S. said Beijing has no choice but to respond to what he described as a trade war started by the U.S. "We never wanted a trade war, but if somebody started a trade war against us, we have to respond and defend our own interests," said China's Ambassador Cui Tiankai. Cui also dismissed as "groundless" the abovementioned suggestion by Vice President Mike Pence that China has orchestrated an effort to meddle in U.S. domestic affairs. Pence escalated the rhetoric in a speech Oct. 4, saying Beijing has created a "a whole-of-government approach" to sway American public opinion, including spies, tariffs, coercive measures and a propaganda campaign. Pence's comments were some of the most critical about China by a high-ranking U.S. official in recent memory. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo got a lecture when he visited Beijing days later, about U.S. actions that were termed "completely out of line." The tough words followed months of increases tit-for-tat tariffs imposed by Washington and Beijing that have ballooned to cover hundreds of billions of dollars in bilateral trade. During a recent interview with National Public Radio, Cui said the U.S. has "not sufficiently" dealt in good faith with the Chinese on trade matters, saying "the U.S. position keeps changing all the time so we don't know exactly what the U.S. would want as priorities." Meanwhile, White House economic director Larry Kudlow said on "Fox News Sunday" that President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will "probably meet" at the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires in late November. "There's plans and discussions and agendas" being discussed, he said. So far, talks with China on trade have been "unsatisfactory," Kudlow said. "We've made our asks" on allegations of intellectual property theft and forced technology transfers, he added. "We have to have reciprocity." Addressing the upcoming meeting, Cui said he was present at two previous meetings of Xi and Trump, and that top-level communication "played a key role, an irreplaceable role, in guiding the relationship forward." 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A dispute over what constitutes "primary processing" of logs has shifted from the courtroom to the Oregon legislature, but it's unlikely to be resolved during the current session.
The land use controversy involves a log home building company near Sandy, Ore., operated by Mark Fritch on land zoned for timber production.
Under Oregon law, a facility dedicated to the "primary processing" of forest products can operate in such a zone, subject to a conditional use permit by the county.
Neighbors of the log home company complained to Clackamas County about noise, culminating in litigation before the Oregon Court of Appeals.
Last year, Oregon's Land Use Board of Appeals ruled that the notching, shaping, assembling and disassembling of logs doesn't qualify as "primary processing."
Even so, LUBA noted that primary processing "is undefined and the intended scope of that phrase is unclear."
Fritch challenged the opinion before the Oregon Court of Appeals, but the order was affirmed without comment in late January.
Fritch now wants the Oregon legislature to pass a bill, SB 1575, that would specify which operations are considered "primary processing," including those needed to build log homes.
"We create a building material from raw logs," he said during a Feb. 13 hearing on the legislation.
Fritch said the site of the operation allows him to buy logs locally. They are then hand-peeled, pre-assembled and taken apart for shipping.
The company must pre-assemble the logs to know where to cut notches, but the operation isn't akin to building mobile homes, he said.
Legislation is needed to clarify allowable activities not just for Fritch but for other companies that operate in forest zones, said Dave Hunnicutt, president of the Oregonians in Action property rights non-profit group.
"We continually talk in this building to help rural Oregon, but when it comes to moving bills that help rural Oregon, they fall by the wayside," Hunnicutt said.
Some neighbors of the log home company testified against the legislation, arguing that LUBA and the Oregon Court of Appeals made the right decision.
"Putting manufacturing and industrial uses in a timber zone is not a good idea," said Dan Mench, a Clackamas County resident.
Continuous log home construction isn't comparable to logging, in which periods of activity are separated by decades while the trees regrow, Mench said.
Cities in forested areas like Sandy and Estacada are better equipped with fire hydrants and other facilities to accommodate industrial uses, he said.
"This is a blindsiding of the local community," Mench said.
It does makes sense to provide a more thorough definition of "primary processing," but the issue is "very complex," said Sen. Arnie Roblan, D-Coos Bay, chair of the Senate Committee on Rural Communities and Economic Development, which is considering the bill.
Roblan said he's inclined to form a work group to discuss the "primary processing" definition and make recommendations for the 2015 legislative session.
Hunnicutt said the uncertainty about primary processing "creates chaos" and is unlikely to fade away.
"This issue is going to come back in 2015," he said.


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The Dead Celebrity Christmas Cookbook
PDF-file by Frank DeCaro
When it comes to holiday fun, the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age knew how to make merry— on stage, on screen, and especially on the dinner table. With Christmas in Tinseltown (HCI $14.95)— the follow-up to his international sensation The Dead Celebrity Cookbook— Frank DeCaro shows how to put the kitsch into your holiday kitchen as he salutes a quirky collection of celebrities who are gone, but fondly remembered every year at Christmastime. Filled with pop culture ruminations and genuinely delicious recipes, Christmas in Tinseltown pays tribute to such movie classics as It's A Wonderful Life and White Christmas, gives three cheers for such time-honored animated gems as Frosty the Snowman and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and puts such offbeat offerings as The Star Wars Holiday Special and The Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special in their rightful place— your dining room! In such chapters as "Miracle Whip on 34th Street," "Eat Meat in St. Louis," and "Munch of the Wooden Soldiers," DeCaro dishes up a virtual smorgasbord of culinary delights that will enliven any holiday gathering or celebration.
Tempt your guests with Peggy Lee's Holiday Halibut Casserole, Burl Ives's Stuffed Leg of Goat Hawaiian, Lucille Ball's Brazil Nut Stuffing, Nat "King" Cole's Baked Ham Loaf, Guy Lombardo's Lobster Lombardo, Dick Clark's Spicy Turkey Meatloaf, Rosemary Clooney's Viennese Goulash, Bing Crosby's Sugar Cookies, Shirley Booth's Pumpkin Bread, Dinah Shore's Fruitcake, and Spike Jones's Molasses Jumbles. Then wash them all down with Robert Mitchum's Eggnog, Edmund Gwenn's Christmas Cup, or John Lennon's Hot Cocoa. This star-studded cookbook promises to get even the biggest Scrooge on your list into the holiday spirit and will have you saying your "ho, ho, ho's" in true Hollywood style for many many years to come.
About the Author: Best known for his years as the movie critic on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, writer/performer Frank DeCaro is heard each weekday morning on his own live call-in program, The Frank DeCaro Show on Sirius XM Satellite Radio. The author of the groundbreaking memoir A Boy Named Phyllis, DeCaro's writing has appeared in Martha Stewart Living, Vogue, Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times. Follow him @frankdecaroshow on Twitter, "like" him on Facebook, and visit him at: www.deadcelebritycookbook.com.
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Robert Mitchum 1917 to 1997
Robert Mitchum was a cool cat and a real Hollywood he-man who became an actor only as a last recourse. He spent much of his early life being what used to be called a "delinquent." His bad boy reputation was hard-won. He was expelled from schools, he did time on a chain gang, he had a nervous breakdown— the man did it all... and survived! He took his tough-as-nails street cred and parlayed it into a fantastic career playing prototypical antiheroes in the movies. He started as a villain in Hopalong Cassidy movies in the early 1940s, then segued into war pictures including 1944's Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. Noir films came next like Jacques Tourneur's 1947 classic Out of the Past and Don Siegel's 1949 The Big Steal. Holiday Affair was a bit of a switch for Mitchum. In the 1950s, Otto Preminger cast him as an ambulance driver in 1952's Angel Face; actor-turned-director Charles Laughton gave him the chilling role of a religious fanatic in the 1955 cult favorite Night of the Hunter, and John Huston shipwrecked him with a nun (Deborah Kerr) in 1957's Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison.
Mitchum worked steadily in films throughout the 1960s and '70s. Among his best known works are the thriller Cape Fear in 1962 and David Lean's 1970 epic Ryan's Daughter. He played Philip Marlowe in 1975's Farewell, My Lovely and 1978's The Big Sleep, too. Focusing on television in the '80s, Mitchum made appearances in two miniseries, North and South and War and Remembrance. He also played the role of a police lieutenant in the 1991 remake of Cape Fear. How cool is that? When asked for a holiday recipe back in 1970, Mitchum offered up his eggnog for a crowd. "I make no apology for the excessive quantity," Mitchum told the food writer who'd requested the recipe. "Only a dope would go to the trouble for less." It'll be perfect for any holiday affair you might throw...
Robert Mitchum's Eggnog
12 egg yolks
1 pound confectioners' sugar
1 quart rum, brandy, or whiskey
2 quarts cream1 quart milk
12 egg whites
½ teaspoon salt
Beat egg yolks and confectioners' sugar together in a large bowl. Beat in the rum, brandy or whisky. Add cream and milk. In a separate bowl, beat egg whites with salt until stiff but not dry. Fold this mixture into the liquid. Chill. Serves 20.
Rosemary Clooney, 1928 to 2002
Let's get this out of the way first: Yes, she was the aunt of a certain hunk named George. But the most important thing to know about Rosemary Clooney is not that she had a famous nephew who launched millions of carnal fantasies, but that she had one of the greatest voices of the twentieth century. Singing professionally since her teens, the Kentucky-born singer-actress found fame in the 1950s via a string of novelty hits including "Come On-a My House" and "Mambo Italiano." Audiences adored these funny little songs, but she wasn't nearly as enamored of them. Clooney wanted to be known as the woman who infused standards like "Hey There" with longing, not the gal who sang-a "Botch-a-Me." The woman wasn't even Italian!
Clooney appeared in White Christmas, which would be the pinnacle of her film career, because she knew starring alongside Bing Crosby would lift her career to new levels. (She's quite clear about that in an interview that accompanies the Blu-ray edition of the film.) Help her career it did. Not only did Clooney's star turn as girl-singer Betty Haynes in the 1954 film boost her standing in show business, it established her friendship with Crosby. The two later did a concert tour of Ireland together. And Clooney's appearance on a 1978 TV celebration of Crosby's 50th year in show business is considered instrumental in her comeback.
Sadly, Clooney was coming back from a period that hadn't been kind to her. Diagnosed as bipolar, she had a tumultuous relationship with husband José Ferrer—she married, divorced, and remarried him despite his infidelities. He cheated on her on their honeymoon, as the story goes. Their union produced five children, including the talented actor Miguel Ferrer who first made a splash on Twin Peaks. Clooney was appearing on behalf of Robert F. Kennedy when he was assassinated. She had a nervous breakdown shortly thereafter. In the late 1960s, she became addicted to pills. Then in 1976, her sister Betty, with whom she'd performed a sister act early in her career, died suddenly of a brain aneurysm. Worst of all, perhaps, Clooney was becoming known as the jingle-singing spokeswoman for Coronet paper towels rather than as a fabulous jazz performer. She recounts all this in two autobiographies, This for Remembrance and Girl Singer. Despite all the words, Publisher's Weekly said she "remains an enigma."
Clooney died of lung cancer at the too-young age of 74. She'd found love, though, with an old friend later in life and she saw the respect of an audience who appreciates the depth of emotion she brought to songs... and who continues to adore (sorry, Rosie, we can't help it) those faux-Italian novelty hits she spiced up so many years ago. Here's a dish from another culture of which Clooney was not a part, Viennese Goulash. You were expecting spaghetti and meatballs? Whatsamattahyou?
Rosemary Clooney's Viennese Goulash
2 teaspoons marjoram
1 teaspoon caraway seeds
1 teaspoon finely chopped lemon rind
1 clove garlic
¾ cup butter
1 teaspoon tomato paste
2 pounds onions, sliced
1 tablespoon sweet Hungarian paprika
2 pounds chuck, rump, or round beef, cut into large chunks
1½ cups water
Salt, to taste
¼ cup flour, optional
Using a mortar and pestle, or a small grinder, crush together the marjoram, caraway seeds, lemon rind and garlic. In a Dutch oven, melt the butter, add the tomato paste and crushed seasoning and stir to combine. Add the sliced onions and, stirring constantly, sauté until golden. Add the paprika and cook for a minute more, stirring constantly. Add the beef, one cup of water, and salt to taste. Cover and simmer until the beef is tender, about 90 minutes. Add more water during cooking, if needed. Before the goulash is done, add another half cup of water and bring the sauce to a boil. If more sauce is desired, sprinkle the meat with ¼ cup flour and add another cup of water and bring to a boil. Serve the goulash with egg noodles or boiled potatoes. Serves 6.
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Timeless Tresor and Peter Stone Debut Collections of Handcrafted Jewelry and Accessories
- By Maxamillion Blick
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The Peter Stone Collection, founded by artistic master Peter Koslowski in 1992, recently partnered with luxury goods firm Timeless Tresor, LLC to distribute and market their popular products in the US, Canada and the Caribbean. The new collection is geared toward the symphonic relationship between many different cultures and lifestyles across the globe, and contains nine different categories of artistic pieces.
Jewelry enthusiasts will be invited to marvel in infinite knots of Celtic art with Knotted, define true elegance and boldness with Blaque, celebrate the symbols of aquatic treasures with DiveSilver, join in the gemstone jubilee trend of Joia or, delight in harmonic, youthful bliss with the light-hearted Bree-Z Stone. Existing Peter Stone fans will enjoy enhanced and expanded styles from popular established lines such as Symbolic (pieces inspired by cultural and international icons), Chrome (a more masculine yet intricate line), Faith (expressing symbols from a plethora of world-wide religions) and finally Nebula (made from the patented alloy branded as "Just Like Silver").
"I am delighted to work with our new partners at Timeless Tresor to help bring my artistic vision to an even greater audience," said Peter Koslowski, who began hand-crafting his jewelry in Sri Lanka in 1983, "These pieces are truly meant to celebrate all corners of life- both our own and those we have yet to experience and adventure upon."
Says Timeless Tresor Co-President Wayne Kramer, "We are thrilled to help an established and meaningful brand like Peter Stone with a mission we are both passionate about- joining the finer elements of various cultures while maintaining a consistent vision of universal morals and altruism- all via some of the most precious metals and substances the world has to offer."
Known for a prime quality of their product, the Peter Stone company purchases raw silver and produces a true .925 alloy in their own factory. Personally purchasing the gems necessary for various designs, Peter and his craftsmen ensure that all rings are cast to size, by cutting and inlaying each stone for a perfect fit. Every piece of jewelry created is hand polished, not tumbled, resulting in noticeably visible care and pride taken in each piece.
A total of over 3000 designs of products are now available on the www.peterstone.us website, with that number growing every week.
About the Peter Stone Jewelry Factory
Peter Koslowski, G.G., A.G., F.G.A first began studying his craft in 1983, while working as an engineer on merchant ships. Living in Sri Lanka, he had the opportunity to observe the abundance of local precious stones. Captivated by the beauty of these gems, he began a successful trade in gems and silver. He traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan trading silver for emeralds, and to further his knowledge, studied for gemology certifications. At a time when many merchants were trading poor quality stones and inferior silver, Peter wanted to ensure that he could identify the differences and that would only purchase the finest quality. Since this time, Peter Stone has assembled a workforce of over 150 of Thailand's finest jewelry crafts-persons to produce only the highest quality lines of fine jewelry.
Peter Stone is a responsible multi-national company now headquartered in the United States, housing distribution centers in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia, and operating a production facility in Rachathewa, near Bangkok, Thailand. The company is also proudly committed to sustainable forestry, using rubber wood exclusively for their wooden product displays. This beautiful wood not only looks great, but also supports sustainable forest practices and provides jobs in parts of the world eager for economic opportunities.
About Timeless Tresor
Located in the heart of the Midwest, Timeless Tresor's mission is to apply its team's sales, marketing, design, and distribution excellence to provide fine jewelry to customers with unique and distinctive tastes. Timeless Tresor was created by entrepreneurs Wayne Kramer and William Colaw, who have successfully partnered on several successful business ventures since 2010. With Timeless, Wayne and William have assembled a team whose first focus is always recognizing the customer's needs and then finding the most innovative, value-enhancing, and efficient ways to meet those needs.
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Dions: He collected stamps, she quiltedBy MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 25. 2014 10:08PM
Stamps were a big part of the life of Bob Dion.
He sold them at the small North Salem post office that he ran for 24 years before retiring in 2003. He collected them, apparently dedicating a room in his split-level home to his collection. And the 70-year-old took part-time jobs and weekend trips, traveling the region to meet and swap stories and stamps with other stamp collectors.
"He was very well thought of," said Stephen Schofield of Centennial Auctions, who hired Dion to work at his auctions. "He was always, always upbeat, always happy, always willing to share."
Friends of Dion and his wife, Connie, spoke fondly of the couple on Tuesday, as they wait word of an investigation into an explosion and fire in the couple's Mooresville Road home. Authorities said bodies of an adult man and woman were found in the building Monday.
Manchester lawyer Jim Normand, who was retained Tuesday by the Dions' nephew, said the family is fairly confident the bodies are those of Bob and Connie.
Connie had her own interests. She quilted, and she proudly displayed her work on Facebook. A family friend noted she would bring quilt pieces to another one of the family's interests — Manchester Monarchs games — and quilt during the game.
They also opened their home to family members — a nephew going through a divorce, Connie's sister when her husband died, and especially Matthew Dion, their adopted son who police have said is a person of interest in the suspicious deaths and who cannot be located.
Normand said Bob Dion also collected antique postcards, but he and Schofield were unsure of the extent of his collections. It was apparently significant. Schofield said Dion used a small SUV to carry the collection around. Dion ran the monthly stamp show at the Nashua Holiday Inn, which was held on the third Sunday of each month, Schofield said.
"If there was a stamp collector's conference in New England, Bob and Connie were there," Normand said.
At New England-area auctions, stamps usually fetch between $25 and $500, but some have exceeded $10,000, Schofield said. Dion kept his stamps in the ground floor of the Mooresville Road home, Schofield said.
Normand said Dion had served as president of the New Hampshire chapter of retired postmasters. He attended events at the Centre Franco-American in Manchester. And at times he was president of the New Hampshire and Manchester stamp collectors associations.
He also was close with the customers at the North Salem post office.
"Everybody who went to the North Salem post office knew Bob," Normand said. "He was a very friendly, happy-go-lucky guy."


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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The special U.N. envoy for Western Sahara said Wednesday that talks between Morocco and the Polisario Front independence movement are going nowhere and he plans to move on to shuttle diplomacy to try to break the impasse in one of the world's longest-running unresolved conflicts.
Former U.S. diplomat Christopher Ross said that nine rounds of talks since August 2009 have been "without results."
"I did not yet sense a readiness to take that first step toward getting serious, so we're going to have to work on this," he told reporters after briefing the Security Council.
He warned that unrest in the region — such as the Islamist takeover of northern Mali — could spill over or inspire new problems in Western Sahara.
"In these new circumstances, this conflict could, if left to fester, feed growing frustration and spark renewed violence and hostilities that would be tragic for the peoples of the region," he said.
Morocco occupied and annexed the mineral-rich Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony, in November 1975 after Spain withdrew. The Polisario Front declared independence on behalf of the nomadic Saharawi people, and battled the Moroccan army until a U.N.-brokered 1991 truce.
The U.N. decreed that a referendum should be held on independence, but Morocco instead advanced a plan granting wide-ranging autonomy.
In May, Morocco criticized Ross for being biased and called for his replacement. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon personally called Moroccan King Mohammed VI in August to resolve the situation.
Moroccan Ambassador Mohammed Loulichki said that the U.N. chief assured the king that the talks would move forward in a new phase, as shuttle diplomacy.
Ross went to Western Sahara for meetings in early November with Polisario, and also visited Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania.
When asked about Morocco's objections, Ross said: "I was welcomed everywhere, warmly and without reservation."


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There's an online database of Homeric Papyri called "Homer and the Papyri". According to this, however, "The database is now more than a decade old and has not been updated since 2003. Instead, complete editions of Homeric papyri are now being published as part of the Homer Multitext project."
No matter how much I search, I'm unable to find the same sort of information on Homeric papyri in the Homer Multitext site. The site is a bit messy, so maybe I just don't know where to look. I'd especially like to look for Odyssean papyri.
Maybe somebody here has experiences with this?