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MCDANIEL: We are able to digitally produce outdoor graphics extremely quickly, many times, with same-day service. Digital production offers options that previously were not available to us. We can provide partials, we can cut into others jobs being produced to help a client out, and it is not extremely costly to do so. In screen printing, once a press is set up, you need to run the job until it is finished. So, digital production offers a more flexible production environment. We were considering a drive-through window on the side of our building, but the county turned us down!
RENDA: The newer machines are faster and offer better quality, but they are also expensive. You must continue to invest in capital goods to remain competitive and produce the quality that is demanded by our customers. It is capital-intense to be in this type of business. We make sure we are on the cutting edge and keep our costs competitive in the industry, while providing a quality product.
GARCIA: The technological advances and drop in price of digital printing equipment allows new companies to enter the outdoor-graphics industry, making it a more competitive market.
SP: What impact has the recession had on your outdoor-graphics business? Does it remain a profitable area for you?
GABRIEL: I'd say we haven't had any impact quite yet. In terms of profitability, because we're new in the business (being in it the past two years), we've only seen it rise. We plan on developing a survey for our clients and measure the results with the goal to see if our business model is the key factor—one source, one solution. Clients have the option of several value-added services in one facility that most graphic-solutions providers simply can't offer.
NORRIS: The majority of our products end up outside, and it does remain a profitable area for us. Business levels have followed the economy in a general sort of way, but it is difficult to point to any trend exhibited by any specific client and say a recession kept them from placing an order this month. We count several oil companies as clients, and they seem to be fairly recession-proof these days. If we survived on jobs from mostly small business clients, a recession may have a more noticeable impact.
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Of the 60 mostly uninhabited islands that make up the US Virgin Islands, the biggest and most visited are St Thomas, St John and St Croix. Their appeal lies in the amalgamation of the exotic and the recognisable, an island paradise with modern comforts, and a balance between Caribbean culture and American practicality.
The energetic capital of Charlotte Amalie, with its attractive harbour, lies on St Thomas. This island is the most Americanised of the chain, famous for its world-class duty-free shopping. Nearby St John is an unspoilt nature lover's paradise, with most of its forests, pristine beaches and reefs part of a protected national park. The largest of the islands is St Croix and its remoteness from the others, the historic remnants scattered about the landscape, the pretty Danish-influenced towns of Frederiksted and Christiansted, and the snorkelling at nearby Buck Island are the attractions here.
Surrounded by the crystal-clear waters of the Caribbean, these islands boast some of the most splendid coastline in the world, with white sandy beaches, astonishing coral reefs, plentiful marine life, secluded coves, and untouched rainforests rising up above the sea-swept landscape. Caribbean colour touches every aspect of the islands, blending with the strong Danish influence in the towns. White sails glide effortlessly across the emerald waters; local craftsmen display their unique island art along cobblestone alleyways; tiled villa roofs provide a splash of red against the verdant hillside; busy markets supply the essentials for a delicious cuisine; and the sounds of folk songs and calypso bands fill the air.
The Virgin Islands are among the most popular cruise ship destinations in the Caribbean and the port towns of Charlotte Amalie, Christiansted and Frederiksted are often swamped with newly arrived passengers in a frenzy of shopping and dining. The most popular beaches are seldom deserted, and the key reef areas are often a flurry of flippers and snorkels. Luxury resorts and fine hotels share the streets with old colonial architecture. Yet it is still possible to escape the crowds and find that bit of elusive paradise, to relax away from the divers and sailors, the sightseers, the ecological tour groups, and the shoppers.
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Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin.
Two different types of vitamin A are found in the diet. Preformed vitamin A is found in animal products such as meat, fish, poultry and dairy foods. The other type, pro-vitamin A is found in plant-based foods such as fruits and vegetables. The most common type of pro-vitamin A is beta-carotene.
Vitamin A is also available in dietary supplements, usually in the form of retinyl acetate or retinyl palmitate (preformed vitamin A), beta-carotene (pro-vitamin A) or a combination of preformed and pro-vitamin A.
Alternative Names
Retinol; Retinal; Retinoic acid; Carotenoids
Vitamin A helps form and maintain healthy skin, teeth, skeletal and soft tissue, mucus membranes, and skin. It is also known as retinol because it produces the pigments in the
Vitamin A promotes good vision, especially in low light. It may also be needed for reproduction and breast-feeding.
Retinol is an active form of vitamin A. It is found in animal liver, whole milk, and some fortified foods.
Carotenoids are dark-colored dyes (pigments) found in plant foods that can turn into a form of vitamin A. There are more than 500 known carotenoids. One such carotenoid is beta-carotene.
- Beta-carotene is an antioxidant. Antioxidants protect cells from damage caused by substances called free radicals. Free radicals are believed to contribute to certain chronic diseases and play a role in the aging processes.
- Food sources of carotenoids such as beta-carotene may reduce the risk for cancer.
- Beta-carotene supplements do not seem to reduce cancer risk.
Food Sources
Vitamin A comes from animal sources, such as eggs, meat, fortified milk, cheese, cream, liver, kidney, cod, and halibut fish oil. However, all of these sources -- except for skim milk that has been fortified with Vitamin A -- are high in saturated fat and cholesterol.
Sources of beta-carotene include:
- Bright yellow and orange fruits such as cantaloupe, pink grapefruit, and apricots
- Vegetables such as carrots, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, and winter squash
- Other sources of beta-carotene include broccoli, spinach, and most dark green, leafy vegetables.
The more intense the color of a fruit or vegetable, the higher the beta-carotene content. Vegetable sources of beta-carotene are fat- and cholesterol-free.
Side Effects
If you dont get enough vitamin A, you are more likely to get infectious diseases and vision problems.
If you get too much vitamin A, you can become sick. Large doses of vitamin A can also cause birth defects.
Acute vitamin A poisoning usually occurs when an adult takes several hundred thousand IUs of vitamin A. Symptoms of chronic vitamin A poisoning may occur in adults who regularly take more than 25,000 IU a day. Babies and children are more sensitive to vitamin A, and can become sick after taking smaller doses of vitamin A or vitamin A-containing products such as retinol (found in skin creams).
Large amounts of beta-carotene will not make you sick. However, increased amounts of beta-carotene can turn the skin yellow or orange. The skin color will return to normal once you reduce your intake of beta-carotene.
The best way to get the daily requirement of essential vitamins is to eat a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, fortified dairy foods, legumes (dried beans), lentils, and whole grains.
The Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine -- Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) Recommended Intakes for Individuals of Vitamin A:
Infants (average intake)
- 0 - 6 months: 400 micrograms per day (mcg/day)
- 7 - 12 months: 500 mcg/day
The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for vitamins is how much of each vitamin most people should get each day. The RDA for vitamins may be used as goals for each person.
Children (RDA)
- 1 - 3 years: 300 mcg/day
- 4 - 8 years: 400 mcg/day
- 9 - 13 years: 600 mcg/day
Adolescents and Adults (RDA)
- Males age 14 and older: 900 mcg/day
- Females age 14 and older: 700 mcg/day
How much of each vitamin you need depends on your age and gender. Other factors, such as pregnancy and your health, are also important. Ask your doctor what dose is best for you.
Sarubin Fragaakis A, Thomson C. The Health Professionals Guide to Popular Dietary Supplements. 3rd ed. Chicago, IL: American Dietetic Association, 2007.
Hamrick I, Counts SH. Vitamin and mineral supplements. Wellness and Prevention. December 2008:35(4);729-747.
Mason JB. Vitamins, trace minerals, and other micronutrients. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 237.
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October 15, 2013
As residents prepare to vote in November on a five-year fracking ban in Broomfield, another pro-fracking action group has joined the mix.
Broomfield Balanced Energy Coalition, or BBEC, is a bi-partisan group that stated it wants to bring balance to the discussion by supporting fracking while also supporting Broomfield's new oil and gas safety regulations.
Led by former state Rep. Don Beezley, a Republican, and former RTD board member Lee Kemp, who last year ran for state Senate as a Democrat, the group plans to speak out against a fracking ban while supporting other energy methods, such as wind and solar. The group also supports Broomfield's new agreement with oil and gas drilling company Sovereign, which imposes strict environmental and regulatory standards in order for the company to continue drilling within city limits.
Similar to Broomfield's other pro-fracking group, It's Our Broomfield, Too, the BBEC said it opposes a fracking ban. Yet the group also wants to show that fracking is not a partisan issue.
"This is an issue that crosses party lines so easily," said Beezley, who served one term as state representative until he left his seat in 2012.
The group is opposing Broomfield Question 300, which if approved would create a five-year ban on all hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in Broomfield. Fracking is a process in which oil and gas companies inject a water-sand-chemical mix deep underground to free up deposits of gas trapped in subterranean rock.
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Grassroots group Our Broomfield circulated petitions to get the ban on the Nov. 5 ballot. The group was formed because of concerns about the health and safety risks of fracking, which it has stated are not fully known, and on Tuesday hosted a panel discussion safety concerns at the Broomfield Auditorium.
BBEC argues that oil and gas companies provide valuable jobs and tax revenue, and that a ban on fracking would hurt the local economy and hurt access to a valuable resource.
"When discussing the need to ban fracking along the Front Range, the risks of this tried and true practice are often overstated, and the benefits are not even mentioned," the group stated on its website.
The group also stated a ban would threaten property rights for those with mineral rights.
Beezley said the group agrees with Broomfield City Council's recent approval of a new set of regulations for oil and gas operators within Broomfield. The 30-plus regulations, many of which are more stringent than state standards, are meant to allow oil and gas operators to drill in Broomfield while addressing safety and environmental concerns, such as water and air quality.
The first company to agree to those regulations is Sovereign, a company that wants to drill near Broomfield's North Park area.
Beezley said Broomfield has provided a balanced and well thought-out solution to fracking concerns, and that the strict new guidelines balance safety issues while allowing an essential industry to continue operating.
"The city has added responsibility and has taken steps that are stringent," he said.
Beezley said there was never a basis for a fracking ban, but said the agreement between Sovereign and Broomfield makes it even more clear that a ban is not needed, because the new regulations are even more strict than before.
Co-chairs Kemp, a former RTD board member, and Beezley both live in Broomfield.
Beezley's son attends Prospect Ridge Academy, a charter school that has been at the center of Broomfield's fracking controversy.
Anti-fracking group, Our Broomfield, formed after concerned residents learned Sovereign planned to drill near Prospect Ridge Academy.
Our Broomfield is opposed to fracking because of its potential impact on air and water quality. The group stated a ban would give researchers more time to determine fracking's effects on residents' health and the environment.
Broomfield delayed talks with Sovereign several times because of resident concerns about how close proposed wells would be to the school.
This summer, Our Broomfield gathered enough signatures to place the fracking ban question on the ballot.
In response, a pro-fracking group called It's Our Broomfield, Too formed to speak out against a ban.
It's Our Broomfield, Too has stated there is no conclusive evidence that fracking is harmful to health, and that fracking has benefitted Broomfield's economy and residents.
Beezley said the BBEC isn't related to It's Our Broomfield, Too, but the two groups have similar interests. The two groups are co-hosting a forum Tuesday to discuss their views on the benefits of the oil and gas drilling practice.
It's Our Broomfield, Too member Rick Fernandez said the pro-fracking group was pleased with how Broomfield has handled the oil and gas drilling process and wants to see that thoughtfulness continue.
"The way council has gone through these issues is very well thought through," he said.
Though BBEC and It's Our Broomfield, Too stated there is enough evidence to support fracking as a safe practice that benefits Broomfield and the state, members of Our Broomfield aren't so sure. Group member Laura Fronckiewicz said Our Broomfield will continue to advocate for a fracking ban as the election moves closer.
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Terastation Recovery
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Systems Covered
- 3 Booting Process
- 4 Failure Symptoms
- 5 Replacing the Hard Disks
- 6 Telnet Enabled Firmware
- 7 EM Mode
- 8 Using the Firmware Updater
- 9 Flash Error
- 10 Boot Does not complete
- 11 Network Will not Start
- 12 Clearing Down the System Partition
- 13 Obtaining Files for System Partition
- 14 Recovering files from NAS with Windows PC
This article is about recovering TeraStation systems that are failing to load correctly to get them back to a working state
Before attempting to do any of the articles described in this article you want to first read the wiki article on Terastation Data Recovery.
It covers several types of failures:
- A single disk fails
- Failures to start the boot process
- The system fails to complete the boot process
- The system appears to boot OK, but the Web GUI and File Shares are inaccessible.
Systems Covered
The systems that are currently covered by this article include all the original PPC based Models:
- Original TeraStation
- TeraStation Home Server
- TeraStation Pro v1
The following ARM based systems are not currently covered:
- Terastation Live
- TeraStation Pro v2
Booting Process
To understand the recovery processes that are described here it is very advantageous to have an understanding of how the boot process works.
It runs in various stages:
- A boot loader is loaded from flash
- The boot loader now runs a Linux kernel and a very basic Linux system from disk, with the system files being run from a RAM disk. The disk arrays are started.
- The Linux kernel is switched to running from the System area (partition 1) of the hard disk.
- The system services such as Samba file sharing, the Buffalo Web GUI and (if relevant) File Transfer service, Printer Service, Telnet and the Media server services are started.
Failures can occur at any of these stages and the recovery process to be followed will be dependent on identifying at which stage the boot process failed.
Failure Symptoms
The Original and the Home Server TeraStations report problems by lighting up a Red DIAG light. This light then flashes a number of times to indicate the type of problem detected.
The TeraStation Pro v1 has a LED display instead, and if problems are encountered it displays a Exx type error code.
If the system fails almost immediately it normally means that there is a flash based problem. These are by far the hardest to recover from.
If the system fails after around 30 seconds or more into the Booting process, then this normally means that there is a problem with the System area on the Hard Disks. This type of problem should almost always be recoverable as long as one is very careful about the steps that are carried out.
It is also possible for a single disk to fail. If you are using a RAID5 or a RAID1 array then this situation can be recovered without losing any user data. This is described in the section on replacing a single drive
Sometimes a drive failure (like the circuit board of a hard drive failing) can lock up the IDE bus. This leads to a non-booting terastation. If your TeraStation just blinks 6 times (HDD failure) this could be the reason, connect the disks to a PC one by one to find the failed one and replace it.
Replacing the Hard Disks
This section covers using Hard Disks of up to 500Gb which is the maximum size supported by the standard Buffalo software on the PPC based TeraStations. If you want to try and use disks that are larger than this size look at the article on TeraStation and Large Hard Disks.
Replacing a Single disk in a RAID5 array
If a single disk has failed in a RAID5 array, then the system can be recovered without reasonably easily without any data loss. On the Original and Home servermodels a disk failure is indicated by the Disk Status light turning Red. Note that this light is also used to indicate a Disk Full status (more than 90% of disk used) so if all disk Status lights turn Red this is almost certainly the reason. At this point the TeraStation will continue to operate normally, and if you go into the Web GUI you will be told that one or more of the disk arrays have "Low Disk Space". If a disk has failed then you will be told that instead.
The first thing is to decide if the disk really has failed - or whether some sort of data corruption has made the TeraStation think that the drive has failed. Spurious reports of disk failures seem to be quite frequent, and are particularily likely to happen after a power failure. The best way to do this is to attach the drive to a PC and run the manufacturer's disk diagnostic software to check the drive. If this is not possible, then you can simply clear down that drive and see if the disk comes back to life.
Preparing a Drive
There are a few things you need to check before attempting to use a drive:
- If you have a new drive and it is IDE based is to ensure that the jumpers are set correctly. Most new drives come with the jumpers set for the drive to operate in "Slave" mode on the assumption that they are being added to a working PC. The TeraStation requires that the drive be set to operate in Single/Master mode. There should be a digram on the drive showing what the correct jumper setting are for the different modes of working. For SATA drives as used in the TeraStation Pro this is not an issue.
- Removing any existing partitions. Most new drives come without any partitions and would probably work immediately. However some manufacturers try to be "helpful" and provide their drives already partitioned and formatted. If you have a drive in this state (or you are trying to re-use a previously used drive) these partitions need to be removed.
Using a PC to remove partitions
For most users using a PC is probably the easiest way to proceed. This involves:
- Remove the drive from the TeraStation and attaching it to a PC either internally or via an external disk enclosure. For the IDE based models (Original and Home Server) there are instructions on how to open the case to get at the drives at the back of the manual. For the Pro v1 using SATA drives it is much easier as the door at the front can be opened and the drives simply released and slid out.
- Run the Windows Disk Manager software to remove all the partitions on the drive.
- Replace the drive in the TeraStation.
- Switch on the TeraStation.
Using the TeraStation to remove partitions
This option is only possible if you already have telnet enabled firmware installed on your TeraStation.If you have got telnet enabled firmware installed on your TeraStation:
- telnet to the TeraStation, and log in with a user with root privileges (e.g. myroot)
- Run the disk partitioning software using a command of the form
mfdisk //dev/devicewhere device is hda/hdc/hde/hdg for the four drives in IDE based models or sda/sdb/sdc/sdd for those in the Pro model. Make sure you get the right device name as otherwise you will lose all your data.
- Delete all partitions on the disk
- Save the results back to the partition table. This will exit the mfdisk program with an error message about being unable to resync procee the disks.
- Use the"reboot" command to stop/restart the system
Recovering the Array
- The system should now come up without issues, but when you go into the Web GUI it will tell you that the RAID array has been damaged.
- Select the RAID array and you will be taken to the screen where the array is repaired. You should be able to select the drive that failed (all the others should be greyed out) and given an option to repair the array.
- If you select this option then (depending on the firmware release) you will be given a screen in Japanese asking you to enter a displayed number as a confirmation. Enter the number and then select the left-most button to proceed.
- The system will put up a screen about recovering the array. At this point the new drive will be partitioned and formatted, and added to the RAID array. While this is going on (which normally takes a few minutes) all file access to the TeraStation is suspended.
- Once the array has been "fixed" the File Serving services will be resumed, and the the process of Resyncing the array will start. During this stage file accesss is allowed, but performance is degraded. This stage can take a long time with the length of time depending on the size of the array - as an example a 1Tb array takes about 5.5 hours, and other sizes will be pro-rata.
When replacing the drive is is recommended if at all possible that you replace the drive with another of the same make and model. Some people have success with using a different make/model that is of the same size (or larger) so it isn up to you whether you try this.
When you are going to replace the drive, then the replacement should be unformatted wtih nopartitions on it. If it is an IDE model (the Orignal and Home Server models), then make sure that the jumpers are set it make it the Master/Only drive. Many drives come with the jumpers set to Slave on the assumption that they are being added as an additional drive to an existing PC. If the jumpers are incorrectly set to the Slave position then the drive will not be recognised by the TeraStation.
Replacing All the Hard Disks
The most likely reason for replacing all disks is that you are intending to upgrade the capacity of your TeraStation.
If the new disks are of size 500Gb or less then proceed as follows:
- Replace all existing drives with 4 identical drives. If they are IDE drives ensure that the jumpers are set for them to be Master/Only drives. Also make sure that there are no existing partitions on the drives.
- Switch the TeraStation on and it will come up in EM-Mode ready to accept a reflash.
- You will probably need to reflash the system twice - once to partition/format the drives, and the second time to copy the system software to the new hard disks. If during the flashing process you get a timeout message, then quit the Flashing process. Leave the TeraStation alone until all the disk activity lights have stopped, and then start the second flash. When flashing it is a good idea to use the Debug Mode of the firmware updater, and set the option to "clear user-config".
- At the end of this process the system will be operating as if it was a brand new TeraStation at the new disk capacity.
If you want to use disks that are larger than 500Gb then see this article on TeraStation and Larger Hard Disks.
Telnet Enabled Firmware
TeraStations internally run the Linux operating system. Buffalo hides this from the average user by providing the system "packaged" with a browser based GUI to control and configure it. Telnet enabled firmware allows users to log in using a telnet client to control and manipulate the system at the Linux command line level.
This allows users to do things like:
- Configure the system at a more detailed level than allowed for by the Buffalo GUI.
- Upgrade components of the underlying software to newer versions with additional features and/or bug fixes included.
- Install new applications to extend the functionality of the Terastation.
- In the event of any problems being encountered, allow for a level of access that gives more chance of recovering user data without loss.
The changes described in this article require the use of a telnet enabled release. Hopefully the instructions provided are detailed enough that users can carry out the steps provided without needing much Linux knowledge.
The standard software supplied with buffalo PPC based TeraStations does not provide for telnet access. Telnet enabled releases of firmware corresponding to virtually all Buffalo firmware releases can be found at itimpi's website. These are identical in functionality to the corresponding Buffalo firmware releases - the modification to add telent functionality being trivial. This means they will have exactly the same bugs (if any) as are found in the Buffalo releases.
The itimpi firmware releases are the ones that have been used while preparing this article. Firmware from other sources should work fine as long as it is telnet enabled.
To use telnet you need a telnet client. A rudimentary one is included with Windows which you can invoke by typing a command of the following form into the Windows Run box:
telnet TeraStation_address
A freeware one called PuTTY is recommended as a much better alternative. In addition to the standard telnet protocol PuTTY also supports the more secure SSH variant (although additional components need installing at the TeraStation end to support this).
EM Mode
In the forums there is a lot of discission about EM mode (also known as Engineer or Emergency Mode). If the TeraStation is in this mode, and its network connection is working, then you will find that it will have "EM" as part of the node name.
The reason why EM mode is considered important is that in this mode the TeraStation has successfully booted the Linux Kernel from Flash, and is running from a RAM disk (also loaded from Flash). In EM mode the additional services such as File Sharing are not available, but the Linux system running at that point is sufficient to allow for updating the flash, and writing System files to disk.
The TeraStation will go into EM mode anytime it detects that the System Partition on the Hard disks does not appear to contain a working Linux system. In some circumstances, however, the Hard Disk appears to contain a working Linux system, but some of the files on the System partition have been damaged in some way. In such cases special actions need to be taken to force EM mode.
Using the Firmware Updater
Just to be safe, it is a good idea to back up your data before attempting this upgrade. If things go well your data will survive fine, but if anything goes wrong there is a small chance that your data will no longer be accessible.
The computer running this firmware update program must be connected to the TeraStation's network by a wired connection. A wireless connection will not do! Disable any firewall software on the PC before running the firmware update. Unzip the firmware in the file you downloaded into a folder on your PC.
To apply this update you need to run the firmware updater program that is the folder you created when unzipping the downloaded firmware. The name of this program can vary according to what version of firmware you downloaded, but should be the only executable program in the folder. The firmware updater program runs fine on Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2. For XP SP1 and other versions of Windows, set the program to run in Windows 2000 compatibility mode Do this by right-clicking on the updater (e.g. HD-HTGL FWUpdate.exe) icon, selecting Properties, and choosing the compatibility tab.Put a check next to Run this program in compatibility mode for: and select Windows 2000 from the drop-box if it's not already there.
Execute the application file (e.g. HD-HTGL FWUpdate.exe).
Normal Mode
This will come up with a dialog like the following:
and report some basic information about the TeraStation including its current firmware version. <p> If you have multiple teraStations, then select the appropriate one from the drop-down list. Note that only TeraStation models for which this update is valid will be listed). Click on the Update button (sometimes labelled as Renew Firmware). On Japanese versions of the Updater program this is the leftmost button on the main screen. On the next window it will ask for an Admin password. By default the username is:Admin and the password is: password. Of course, if you've changed the Admin password on the TeraStation, use your new one! The firmware update will take 3 to 5 minutes to complete and while it is running a number of dialogs will be displayed informaing you of progress. If you never get the OK button, or you get a failure or error message, you may want to try the steps below:
- On the computer that you are doing the firmware update from, make sure that any software firewalls (such as Windows Firewall,ZoneAlarm, Black Ice, etc.) are disabled.
- Make sure that your computer is connected to the network with a wired Ethernet connection, not a wireless one.
- If the firmware update still fails, try a different setup:
- Connect the TeraStation directly to your computer, with either a regular Ethernet or crossover cable, directly from the TeraStation's RJ-45 Ethernet port to the RJ-45 port on your computer's network interface card.
- Change the IP address of your computer to 192.168.11.100 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0.
- Reset the TeraStation by holding down the Init button for 30 seconds. Power down the TeraStation, then turn it back on.
- Ping 192.168.11.150 to make sure that your PC is able to communicate with the TeraStation.
- Click on Start, then select Run.
- In the run window enter "cmd" and press OK. This will give you a Command Prompt window.
- Type ping 192.168.11.150 and press the enter key.<p>If your connection is good, you'll see the words "Reply from" in response to the 4 attempted pings.<p> If the connection is bad, you'll likely see "request timed out" instead.
If that happens, something is wrong with your Ethernet connection.
Check your Ethernet cable, reset the TeraStation again, and make sure that there are no firewall programs running on the computer (and that includes the Windows XP firewall!).
Restart the TeraStation and try pinging again until you get a successful ping.
Then go to step 5.
- Rerun the firmware update.
- Once the update has completed, reconnect your TeraStation and PC to your network.
- Change your IP address back to "obtain an IP address automatically". Windows XP users will need to also make sure that DNS is set back to "obtain DNS server address automatically".
- Run the IP Setup Utility again and setup your IP address to work with your network
- You may want to log back into the TeraStation to make sure that the unit is setup the way you want it. After doing the reset, all files and folders will remain but any user or folder
Debug Mode
If you are having problems you might want to run the Flash Updater in Debug Mode
To do this the first thing you need to do is to check the .INI file (normally called NASUPDATER.INI) that is the same folder as the executable program. You can load it into any text editor such as Notepad. Check that it includes the following lines:
[SpecialFlags] Debug = 1
If their is already a [SpecialFlags] section in this file, then merely add the Debug line.
Once you have done this, when you start the program for flashing it will present its initial screen along the lines indicated earlier.
If you now click on the yellow rings at the top left of the screen you are able to select the Debug option which comes up with the following dialog:
which allows you to control elements of the flashing process.
The default options fora standard flash will be pre-selected. Options you might want to consider altering are:
- BOOT: This indicates that the Boot area of the Flash should be renewed
- KERNEL: This indicates that the copy of the Linux kernel in Flash should be updated.
- HDD: This indicates that the main Linux system held on the Hard Disk should be updated.
- Do Not Check Version: Do not carry out any firmware version checks. Normally you are only allowed to update to a higher version than that already installed. Setting this option allows one to downgrade versions.
- Rebuild Partition Table: This Clears down all partitions on the disk, and then rebuilds the standard Partition table and formats these partitions.
- Delete user-Config: This clears down the user config information that is stored in flash while the flashing is in progress, and then restored to the hard disk on completion. Setting this option will return all settings to factory defaults.
When you have the settings as you want them to be, press the OK button to return to the main screen ready to start flashing.
Flash Error
A Flash Error is indicated by:
- TeraStation Pro: Error E04 on LCD Panel
- TeraStation Original or Home Some Sever: 5 blinks every four seconds of red Diag light
The full list of Diag LED codes can be found [url=http://buffalo.nas-central.org/index.php/Hardware_LEDs here].
Flash errors are actually very rare unless they occur just after you have done a firmware upgrade and it turns out that you have a defective flash chip so that the update failed.
In practice it has been found that a good rule-of-thumb is that if the above error occurs very rapidly (i.e. within about 5 seconds) after power on then it probably really is a Flash error. If it takes much longer (greater than 30 seconds) and the system appears to start its normal booting sequence before this error is given then it is actually much more likely that the system files on the hard disk have become corrupted.
To recover from a genuine flash error requires use of the JTAG method of rewriting the flash. This is covered in a number of wiki articles if you want to attempt to do this yourself. There are also a number of forum members who are prepared to attempt JTAG recoveries on behalf of members. If you are interested in availing yourself of such a facility you should post a forum message giving your location so that members who are geographically closest to you can be identified.
To recover from the situation where the system will not boot look at the section below.
Boot Does not complete
If the boot process seems to run for some time (> 30 seconds) before failing then this means that there is something wrong with the system files on the hard disk. There are various variants of this type of error:
- System fails with an E04 error (TS Pro) or with the red DIAG light flashing 5 times (Original and Home Server)
- System fails with an ??? error (TS Pro) or with the red DIAG light flashing 6 times (Original and Home server)
- System appears to boot OK - but network never becomes active. See the steps to recover from this condition given in the next section.
- The system appears to boot fine, and the LINK/ACT light becomes active but services such as file sharing are not started.
he first two cases are by far the most frequent. They seem to be particularily likely to happen if the TeraStation is powered off unexpectedly (like a Power Cut). In these cases the normal method of recovering is to:
- Clear Down the System partition (see below for instructions on how to do this)
- Boot the system - it should come up in EM mode.
- Reflash the System to cause the system files on the hard disk to be rewitten. If you want to run the Firmware Updater program in Debug mode you can elect to rewrite the hard disk without updating the flash areas. If not run in debug mode these will be refreshed as well. If this works one normally finds that your data magically re-appears although if the data is important it is still recommended you try and back it up first.
Every so often after the above steps the system will still not start. In these cases it may be necessary to clear down all the User Config information saved in the flash. To do this one has to run the Firmware Updater program in Debug mode. Note that if you do this it may trigger a reformat of teh data area on your hard disks so make sure you have backed up your data before attempting this step.
Network Will not Start
This is the situation where the system appears to boot OK, but at the end of the Boot sequence the LINK/ACT light never becomes active to show that the network has been restored. One cause of this can be that the /etc/networks/interfaces file stored in the Configuration Save area has become corrupt. As the system always over-writes the disk copy from the flash copy on disk as part of the boot sequence some special actions need to be taken to recover from this scenario.
To understand this issue, one needs to understand how the TeraStation Loads/Saves key configuration information.
- Every time the TeraStation shuts down, it takes its internal configuration files, compresses them and writes the compressed archive to an area of its flash.
- When the TeraStation is booting, it reads the flash, uncompresses the config files and overwrites specific configuration files which reside in the system partition of the hard disk - one of these being the /etc/networking/interfaces file.
The problem is that if the copy of this file held in the flash Configuration Save area ever gets corrupted (sometimes set to 0 length), then as there is no check of the config files on booting the TeraStation can overwrite the disk based version of the file with the bad version from the Config Save area. In the case of the /etc/networking/interfaces file this is fatal, because the /sbin/ifup command run during the boot process fails to power up the ethernet interface with the result that the TeraStation is not reachable via the network.
The error remains also in a forced EM-mode (removing all disks), as config data is treated the same way in EM mode.
You cannot recover from this error by flashing, as the TeraStation will not be able to communicate over the ethernet interface, and thus the flashing process cannot be performed.
The most reliable way to recover from this type of error is to use the JTAG method of clearing down the user config area in the flash. However most users will not want to go the lengths of using JTAG as it requires adding a JTAG header to the TeraStation motherboard, obtaining a JTAG cable, and then running JTAG software to rewrite the flash.
Another solution if you have root access (as provided by the telnet enabled variants of firmware) is to add a serial port to the TeraStation. You can then log in via the serial port and make alterations discussed below from that session.
Another way to recover your TeraStation from this error relies on you having a valid system partition on at least one disk. If you had a previously working system you almost certainly already have this in place. If not you would need to obtain a disk image of a working system or the files that belong on this partition. How to get these files is described at the end of this article.
The recovery process is as follows:
If you have serial console access and a username/password that you can use for root level access (this would probably mean you had previously installed a telnet enabled firmware release) then you can fix this by doing the following:
- Login as a user with root privileges (typically the 'myroot' user on the itimpi firmware releases).
- Check that you are running off the hard disk by using the 'mount' command. It should display a line that looks like:
/dev/md0 on / type auto (rw,noatime)
which shows that the hard disk is mounted as the root partition.
- Create a /etc/networking/interfaces2 file and configure it corresponding to your needs. A sample file is shown below.
auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.253 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1
This file is set to use a static IP address of 192.168.1.253. You can use a different one if it is more convenient.
- Create an executable file /etc/init.d/network_workaround containing the following line to copy the good file over the bad file:
cp /etc/networking/interfaces2 /etc/networking/interfaces
- Create a symlink /etc/rc.d/rcS.d/S39network_workaround -> ../init.d/network_workaround to run the above command at the correct time during the boot sequence. This is done by using the following commands:
cd /etc/rc.d/rcS.d ln -s ../init.d/network_workaround S39network_workaround cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d ln -s ../init.d/network_workaround S39network_workaround
If you do not have serial access, then you can achieve the same results by:
- Attach the disk to a PC running Linux.
- Partition 1 (the system partition) will probably automount. Use a
dfcommand to see the device name used - it will vary according to your PC configuration.
- Carry out the changes mentioned above.
- Zero partition 1 on disks 2, 3 and 4. This is to force it to use the copy from disk 1. This can be done using commands of the form:
dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/xxx1
where xxx was the device name mentioned above
The purpose of the above modifications is to copy a good version of the /etc/network/interfaces file over the one restored from the flash area at the right point in the boot process so that the ethernet interface is started correctly. After this modification your TS should be reachable again. You can then try to fix it via the web interface or flash it with a modified firmware and fix it manually.
Clearing Down the System Partition
There are times when clearing down the system partition will force the system to boot from Flash, and then come up in a mode where you can force the files on the System partition to be rewritten.
Making a Backup of the Partition
It is strongly recommended that if at all possible you make a backup of the system partition before clearing it. This means if that for any reason you have misdiagnosed the problem with your TeraStation and you want to restore it you can do so.
To do this:
- Remove Disk 1 from the TeraStation and attach it to another system. This can be done either internally or via an external Disk Enclosure attached via USB or Firewire.
- Boot the system into Linux. If your system does not run Linux normally, then you can use one of the "Live" distributions that run from CD/DVD rather than the hard disk. This would avoid you having to actually install Linux onto this system.
- Make sure that you know how to run commands with 'root' privileges. Depending on the variant of Linux chosen this may mean either logging in as 'root' or running commands via the 'sudoer' facility.
- The system will probably have automounted the TeraStation hard disk. If so you check what it has been mounted as using the
Now unmount it using a command of the form:
umount /dev/devicenamewhere the devicename value will be the one you noticed was used for the TeraStation disk in the output of the
mount command.
- Make a copy of the TeraStation system partition using a command of the form:
dd if=/dev/devicename of=/filename
where devicename is as described above, and filename is the output file. This file will be a little under 400Mb in size. Make sure that it is secured somewhere that will not be lost when you reboot the Linux system (such as USB stick or external USB drive).
Clearing Down the System Partition
Now that you have a backup in case things go wrong, you can use the following steps to clear down the system partition.
- Connect each disk in turn to a PC running Linux
- When the disk is mounted, go to the root of the disk and issue the command:
rm -fr *to remove all files from the disk. Do not try to repartition the disk or reformat the partition as this will almost certainly later cause a reformat of the data area to happen as well.
- Unmount the disk on the Linux system to ensure changes are written out to the disk.
- Put the disks back into the TeraStation.
- Reboot the TeraStation and it should come up in EM mode ready to be reflashed using the Firmware Updater.
Obtaining Files for System Partition
For some of the methods of TeraStation recovery it can be useful to have copies of the files that the firmware updater would write to the system partition.
This is easy if you have access to PPC based Linux system. Proceed as follows:
- Download the file tera_newfiles.tgz.
- Unpack this archive into the same location as the files holding the firmware release for which you want the files that belong on the system partition.
- Change to the newfiles folder
- This file contains all that is used by itimpi to generate his telnet enabled variants of the Buffalo firmware releases. Of particular interest if you want a copy of the files that belong on partition 1 is the script unpackfw.sh. Running this will extract all the files that belong on the root partition to a folder fw. The passwords for each firmware release are in the file Password.txt.
This script should also work on Linux systems that are not PPC based, but then you would have to make sure you have zip/unzip binaries that are compatible with the variant of Linux you are using as the ones included in the download mentioned above are PPC specific.
Recovering files from NAS with Windows PC
Buffalo TeraStation and Linkstation products use the XFS file system for their data storage. This file system has support of commercial data recovery software for recovery of deleted files. The known software that supports recovery of deleted files from XFS are:
Both products require optional extension: RAID Access Plugin - RAID Builder.
The other product you may require are:
- HxD - freeware hex-viewer/hex-editor software;
- UFS Explorer Professional Recovery - free trial copy.
Other requirements:
- Computer with Microsoft Windows (Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 or their "Server" editions);
- 4 free SATA ports:
- on computer motherboard;
- on PCI/PCI Express expansion card;
- on USB-to-SATA adaptor(s).
- on computer motherboard;
- Additional NTFS-formatted hard drive to store recovered information or enough free disk space on system drive.
To recover information from a NAS with your PC you have to re-connect NAS drives to the computer:
- Turn off your NAS and eject all four drives from NAS. Mark their original positions (1,2,3,4) with paper stickers or soft ink marker.
- Connect all drives to your Windows PC with motherboard connectors OR PCI/PCI Express expansion or USB-to-SATA adapter(s). It's strongly recommended to keep valid drives order.
Motherboard connectors: try to connect first drive (#1) to first free SATA connector (e.g. SATA2), second (#2) - to second (SATA3) and so on.
PCI/PCI Express expansion card: connect first drive (#1) to port #1, second drive (#2) to port #2 and so on.
USB-to-SATA adapters: connect first drive (#1) first, then second (#2) and so on.
- Boot your system. If required, wait for hard disk drivers installation and reboot the system.
- Run free trial copy of UFS Explorer Professional Recovery. It should display list of all detected drives at left panel. The list of drives must include:
- Your existing (system) drive(s);
- 4 drives from you NAS.
Each NAS drive will have same partitions structure: boot partition (Ext2/3 or XFS), swap partition, Data partition (the largest partition, about 99% of total disk size) and optional 'padding partition'.
In case you can not see all four drives in UFS Explorer, shut down your system and check hardware connection
Deleted files recovery
To recover deleted files from Buffalo NAS with default configuration (RAID5 on 4 drives) follow these steps:
- Connect drives from NAS to your Windows PC;
- Run UFS Explorer Professional Recovery;
- Verify system detected drives order. First NAS drive (e.g. "HDD1:..." in UFS Explorer) should contain detected XFS file system on data partition. The other drives should have 'Unknown file system' on their data partitions.
To verify drives order you may use UFS Explorer Professional Recovery or HxD.
HxD: - Right-click data partition of any NAS drive in UFS Explorer and choose 'Show/Edit properties'; - copy hex value of 'Disk range start (sector)' and multiply it by 0x200 (hex); - open drives in HxD and then goto (Ctl+G) specified disk position.
UFS Explorer: - Right-click data partition of each disk and choose 'HEX preview...' option.
Data partition of first drive should start with file system superblock. The key element is "XFSB" identification string. The data looks like this:
0000: 58 46 53 42 00 00 10 00 │ 00 00 00 00 2B 9C CD 10 XFSB ► +Ь═► 0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 │ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0020: F6 70 97 75 22 84 48 2C │ 8D 11 16 5D 0E 92 77 F4 ЎpЧu"ДH,Н◄■]♫ТwЇ 0030: 00 00 00 00 15 D0 00 10 │ 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 §╨ ► ☺ 0040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 │ 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 02 ☺☺ ☺☻ 0050: 00 00 00 30 00 10 00 00 │ 00 00 02 BA 00 00 00 00 0 ► ☻║ 0060: 00 00 80 00 3D 84 10 00 │ 01 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 А =Д► ☺ ► 0070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 │ 0C 0C 08 04 14 00 00 19 ♀♀◘♦¶ ↓ 0080: 00 00 00 00 00 1B 39 40 │ 00 00 00 00 00 0B 67 3E ←9@ ♂g> 0090: 00 00 00 00 29 46 B1 6A │ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 )F▒j 00A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 │ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Data partition of second drive should start root directory inode. The key elements there are "49 4E 41" bytes at start and names of root folders (e.g. "share") inside. The data looks like this:
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Data partition of third drive may contain data or may continue inodes table. Usually it looks like:
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- Basing on this information, write down the order of drives detected by system. E.g. #1 = "HDD1: Fixed...", #2 = "HDD2: Fixed..." etc. In case you connected drives in reverse order, this could be #1 = "HDD4: ..", #2 = "HDD3: ..." and so on.
- Test RAID configuration:
- Click 'Build RAID' button in UFS Explorer Professional Recovery. - Choose 'RAID array on disk partition...' from drop-down and press 'Next'; - For each data partitions, choose it at left list and press 'Add >>'. The drives order must be the same as identified above; - Press 'Build' to open 'SoftRAID' in UFS Explorer.
If build is correct, virtual 'SoftRAID' will appear and it will contain single XFS file system partition. You should be able to browse it and see your current files.
- Build the RAID in UFS Explorer Standard Recovery version 4 or Raise Data Recovery for XFS:
- Make sure you installed RAID Access Plugin - RAID Builder for it; - Run the software; - Press 'Open...' and then 'Build RAID' in drop-down menu; - Build the RAID like you did with UFS Explorer Professional Recovery; - Confirm RAID configuration and new RAID virtual drive drive will appear in UFS Explorer upper list.
- Test the RAID configuration in UFS Explorer Standard Recovery:
- Select RAID virtual drive in upper list (opened drives). Single XFS data partition should appear at bottom list; - Double-click this XFS partition to open in UFS Explorer; - Browse file system to make sure you can see all existing (not deleted) files.
- Recover deleted files:
- Choose 'Recover lost data' option from "Partition" context menu or form main menu; - On the next form change nothing, just press 'Next'; - On the next form make sure only 'find lost and deleted files option' is checked. Press 'Ok'. - The software will run recovery and this take awhile; - After scan will complete - new 'Deleted files' virtual folder will appear.
- Backup the scan result (the option is available in 'Deleted files' virtual folder context menu.
- Copy required files to safe location (any external or system drive), excluding original NAS drives.
After recovery will be completed, shut down your PC, disconnect NAS drives and put them back into NAS. Start the NAS and your PC. Copy recovered files back to NAS via network.
Data recovery after storage format (re-initialization)
Some operations, such as NAS auto-recovery may lead to storage file system format (NAS runs 'mkfs' as part of process). This writes new empty XFS file system with default folders (like 'share') to the storage partition of the NAS and makes all existing data inaccessible.
'mkfs' results include: - New file system superblock; - New root folder; - New (empty) information about free space; - New set of backup superblocks; - Several megabytes of data on storage may be destroyed permanently.
The data from NAS still could be recoverable and to recover the information you should follow these steps:
- Connect drives from NAS to your Windows PC;
- Run UFS Explorer Professional Recovery;
- Verify system detected drives order. First NAS drive (e.g. "HDD1:..." in UFS Explorer) should contain detected XFS file system on data partition. The other drives should have 'Unknown file system' on their data partitions.
- Test RAID configuration:
- Click 'Build RAID' button in UFS Explorer Professional Recovery. - Choose 'RAID array on disk partition...' from drop-down and press 'Next'; - For each data partitions, choose it at left list and press 'Add >>'. The drives order must be the same as identified above; - Press 'Build' to open 'SoftRAID' in UFS Explorer.
If build is correct, virtual 'SoftRAID' will appear and it will contain single XFS file system partition. You should be able to browse it and see default folders which appeared after NAS re-initialization.
- Run data recovery:
- Right-click XFS partition on NAS and choose 'Data Recovery: advanced scan'; - Choose 'File system reconstruction' option from 'Recovery pre-set' dropdown. Other options should remain default; - Press 'Ok' to start the scan.
- To test RAID build and recovery quality, stop the scan after about 1% is completed.
- The scan will abort and XFS file system under SoftRAID will turn to 'Reconstructed file system'; - Browse the 'Reconstructed file system'. It should contain set of folders with names like "inodeXXXX" or real names and files inside; - Test the files; - In case files are bad - check RAID configuration once again; - In case files are good - right-click 'Reconstructed file system' and choose 'Destroy Data Recovery result...'. This will turn 'Reconstructed file system' back to XFS and you then may restart the full scan.
- After scan will complete, XFS file system under SoftRAID will turn to 'Reconstructed file system'. Protect the scan result: right-click it and choose 'Data Recovery: save advanced scan result'.
- You may now copy files to safe location (any 'local', 'network' or removable drive).


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Carol Anne Costa: Have A Coke and A Big Glass of Intolerance
Thursday, February 06, 2014
The ads this year really tugged at the heartstrings; more sentimental than silly. Our favorite Cheerio girl was back and lobbying with leverage for a puppy. Not all the ads were surprises, as agencies did some previewing through social media, a smart move given the 4 million dollar price tag for Super exposure. I know my FB page blew up in advance of the game, as I met the adorable puppy smitten with a Clydesdale featured in the Bud advertisement. That promotion went viral and yet it still was fun to watch game day on the big screen. And yes, everyone I was with uttered the collective, "awww". It was John Krasinski's coffee table that set the Twitter ablaze for the Esurance giveaway. I hope he delivers it to me in person, then I can stop waiting for Publishers Clearing House. It was the wisecracking comedian W.C. Fields who warned way back when, "Never work with kids or animals." He was correct on both counts, and modern day mad men know it to be a tried and true winner. When you combine the value added power of kids, hugs, puppies and ponies with FB, Twitter, and the possibility of winning a big pay and the worlds biggest game. Kaboom, We have lift off! But, it wasn't all butterflies and rainbows...
Coke Controvery
Then came the Coke Commercial, and did it ever send heads spinning. As I watched and listened to the moving, multilingual rendition of America the Beautiful in real time, I had an instinctive feeling it might not sit well with some folks. But, I held out hope, crossed my fingers, cringed and checked my Twitter feed. Yikes! The immediate feedback reminded me of the craziness that ensued after Nina Duvaluri was crowned Miss America. So much hate in 140 characters. And, the freedoms afforded in our constitution allow people to spread their abominable and distasteful messages, and conversely others including me to soundly reject them.
As a nation we are slowly growing older, browner and more ethnically and religiously diverse and in my view, culturally richer. I say that as a proud, third generation American. According to recent census demographics of the approximately 316,128,839 citizens: 73% are identified as white, 13.1% as African America, 5.1% Asian, .02% Hawaian, 16.9 % Latino and let's not forget the real natives of this land the Native Americans at a mere 1.2%.
The statistics of change are inevitable, yet the publicly expressed intolerance is posted with unabashed histrionics. Even the GOP in its 2012 election "autopsy", commsioned by Reince Preibus recognized that words matter and a more diverse GOP will make the party stronger going forward, as stated in a quote from the Growth and Opportunity Report ,"Our standard should not be universal purity; it should be a more welcoming conservatism." Words to live by and not just for the sake of a vote but for the health of our vibrant country.
A Nation of Immigrants
The reaction to the Coke commercial is yet again America talking past each other and seizing only minutia which is used to bolster a pigeonholed and narrow perspective. Uttered for and by the "This is my country" clans. You know them, "the real Americans". The myopic opinions touted in the Twittersphere post ad were scary. They exemplify hate speak, finger pointing and so much of what separates us, as well as moving people to take up positions, where, from the start, there simply can be no common ground and seemingly no retreat.
The irony of this whole conversation is we are a nation of immigrants. We are a nation built on the backs of the laborers, the carpenters, the stone masons, the tool makers, the bridge builders, the welders, the metal workers, the artisans, the chefs, the entrepreneurs and on and on and on. We are a country whose sense of exceptionalism grows from founding fathers who envisioned a magnificent quilt woven with the strengths, dreams and passions of the multitudes. Kudos to the advertising team who created a TV spot which is a symphony, as it captures the beauty and strength that is America.
Coke--and Liberty
For me, this country is the best nation that has ever graced the face of the Earth. It is built on a foundation of equality, stubbornness, rebellion, unity, debate, disagreement, forgiveness and grounded in the principles of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...for all. I find it so disturbing when the people who wrap themselves in the flag use every chance they can to drag down difference rather than celebrate what the stars and stripes really represent. The cacophonous rants which ensued after the Coke commercial are troubling, foolish, ignorant and protected. In the words of Voltaire, "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
I too will never step on the right to free speech but, I will use every chance I have to call out those whose blusters spew truly un-american values for what they really are, parochialism. Avere una Coca e un sorriso! Tener una Coca-Cola y una sonrisa! აქვს Coke და ღიმილი! יש קולה וחיוך! Colę i uśmiech! 有可口可乐和微笑! Have a Coke and a smile!
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Sharing Directory
PyCharm supports the useful sharing directories feature of Subversion. The Share Directory command applies to the content roots. When such content root is shared, a new directory is created in the specified location of the Subversion repository, checked out to the local directory you want to share, and the contents of the local directory is added to the repository. After that the local directory contains a valid working copy of the repository.
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When the superstar of the American women's volleyball team goes out in public, team members sometimes have to form a protective ring around her. Fans will frame self-portraits carefully so she is in the background, mothers will hold out their children to her, crowds hope merely to touch her.
She is the so-called "Iron Hammer," winner of four world titles, and considered by some to the best women's volleyball player in the history of the game.
She is the coach, "Jenny" Lang Ping, and along with gymnast Shawn Johnson's coach, Chow Liang, she is one of two former Chinese sports stars who have returned to their birthplace under an American flag.
Recently, China would have liked to have had them back. Lang's US team defeated her native team in a five-set preliminary-round match watched by Chinese President Hu Jintao Friday. Earlier that day, Chow's pupil came back from 0.45 points behind on the final rotation of the women's all-around event to top Chinese Yang Yilin for silver.
For both, the return home has been at turns strange and gratifying. Chow has not been back since he left in 1991 to study English at the University of Iowa. "There are such big improvements," he says. "It is such a beautiful city."
Lang has been back more often, but she admits she still needs a GPS to know where she is now. Her players can just follow the crowds.
"It's difficult for us to grasp her popularity," says Nicole Davis, who is the libero, or defensive specialist, for the US team. "I don't think there are any parallels to it in the United States."
Davis has been stampeded by journalists and adoring well-wishers trying to get to her coach. When the US team came to China for an event in Ningbo in 2005 with Lang as their new coach, some tickets for the US-China match sold for $180. During the match, fans cheered, "Lang Ping, I love you!"
"It's more than just sports, she's a historical figure," Davis says.
Obliquely, Lang admits as much. When she led her team to the World Cup title in 1981, it expanded the Chinese people's sense of what was possible. A nation of badminton and table-tennis players had beaten the world at one of its own sports.
"Since then, the Chinese people think we can do well in everything – not just sports," says Lang.
For a woman who, at 6 feet tall, already stands out, the adoration became overwhelming. After retiring, she went to the University of New Mexico.
"I went to the US because I wanted to taste a normal life," she says. "It's pretty tiring to stay in your room all the time. You can't even go to a movie."
When Chow went to the United States, his family thought he was crazy.
"Gymnasts in China are like football players" in the US, he says.
He had become co-captain of the Chinese team by 1990. But he sensed that he had progressed as far as he could in Chinese gymnastics, so he took a full scholarship to Iowa. At first, he was not sure he had made the right decision.
"I almost wanted to go back because of culture shock," he laughs.
He laughs often, a self-effacing smile that is easy to see reflected in Johnson herself. She is his baby almost as much as Chow and his wife, Zhuang Liwen, are a sort of second set of parents to Johnson.
He eventually opened a gym in Des Moines, Iowa, hoping to "get [gymnasts] young, so I can do it my own way and don't have to fix someone else's technique," he says.
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"He is the best coach ever," she responds, less as a statement of fact than affection.
Four years ago, when Johnson won her first national title on balance beam, Zhuang couldn't be there. Chow recalls Johnson turning to him and saying: "Chow, this is for Li."
Chow is now a US citizen. Lang has been the US coach for four years. Before that, she spent two years coaching the Chinese women's team, winning silver at the Atlanta Games, and six years coaching women's professional volleyball in Italy, where she was named coach of the year more than once.
At the Capital Gymnasium, even President Hu would have to acknowledge she was coach of the night – and she did it with the same focus she had as a player.
"It doesn't matter to me when we play China or when we play Cuba or when we play Venezuela," says Lang. "It's all the same. I try to be concentrated on the game."
American outside hitter Logan Tom, however, imagines what her coach must have felt when she received the biggest pre-match cheer of all.
"She loves China, so I'm sure she's torn," says Tom, who plays her professional volleyball for Dinamo Moscow. "But she also knows she's our coach, and she's done a good job of not mixing the two."


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Firstly, I would like to congratulate Dr. Robert Wyatt on recently being named the 16th President of Coker College. He will undoubtedly be an exemplary leader and a man of character as he leads Coker College into the future. Secondly, I would like to thank the outgoing President, Dr. James Dawson, for all of his advancements of Coker College and for his trust in allowing me to become the golf coach. It is without a doubt he is the reason I call Hartsville "my home."
And now, let's talk golf.
As many have noted we are coming off a victory at the Tusculum College Invitational shooting rounds of 289 – 275 = 564. With the 275 we set a new tournament record for 18 hole total and our 564 total shattered the previous 36 hole total by 15 shots. Entering day two the Cobras were seven shots off the lead of fellow Conference Carolinas member Limestone College but we managed to get off to a strong start and never relinquished. We entered the day with the utmost confidence in our ability to trust one-another and ourselves, and in doing so, managed to hammer home a huge victory! Needless to say I am very proud of this golf team. The hard work the team has put in is beginning to pay off. With this victory a ubiquitous sense of confidence has begun to present itself at practice. No more self-doubt, now we know we belong.
This victory is not only a big step for the team; it is a huge step for the golf program! But we must keep it in perspective and remain focused on our goals. Understand this was only one step and we have several steps remaining. At such a time, I recall an old saying that I try to coach by: "There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."
Until next time,
Coach Baker
Upcoming Events:
The Bobcat Invitational hosted by Georgia College and State University
March 23-24, 2009
Armstrong Atlantic
Barry University
Belmont Abbey
Carson Newman
Clayton State
Coker College
Columbus State
Florida Southern
Lander University
Nova Southeastern
North Alabama
Queens University of Charlotte
Rollins College
Valdosta State
West Florida
March 23 – 36 holes – Shotgun start at 8:00am
March 24 – 18 holes – Tee-time beginning at 8:00am