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I was raised in the South in a home that never knew a grease-splattered stove.
My parents were displaced New Yorkers. So despite my growing up in a region where everything is fried—tomatoes, bologna, okra, pies, and, at the State Fair of Virginia, even Pepsi—I never learned the fine art of frying–especially how to make fried chicken.
Over the years, this bothered me some, sort of like a loose pot handle that was in need of fixing yet easily ignored. Now, though, my job title is Staff Epicure for Virginia's largest newspaper. Readers look to me for advice on how to dry-age steaks, open oysters, roast goose. What would they think if they knew of my fear of frying?
When I reached the half-century mark—an occasion for celebration as much as assessment—I figured the time had come to correct this culinary shortcoming. I set my sights on how to make Southern fried chicken and sought professional help from Sydney Meers, a Mississippi native who owns Stove, a quaint and quirky restaurant in Portsmouth, the Virginia town where I was raised. Every neo-Southern meal at this 32-seater comes with a side of Syd, who intermittently cooks behind the tiled half-wall of his open kitchen and repairs to the dining room to sip whiskey, neat, alongside dinner guests.
Syd grew up in Senatobia, Mississippi. He spent many a day hanging out in the restaurant kitchen run by his Grandma Winnie Lee Johnson. There were also many mornings spent tending her half-acre garden, pulling weeds and tamping down leaves between rows, until she'd say, "Let's go make some lunch." Then they'd cook. She shared all that she knew—all manner of pies, pork, and fried chicken—and encouraged Syd to do the same. "It's part of your heritage," she'd say. "You have to pass it on."
That notion is now a part of him. Syd is an evangelical cook, spreading the gospel of Southern fare by way of his menu and occasional cooking classes. "To say something is a secret recipe is bullshit," he once told me.
So when I called, Syd graciously agreed to bring me into the fold of folks who fry—with Grandmother Winnie Lee's recipe, no less.
Two days later, Syd hands me an apron. We're standing in front of an eight-burner gas stove in his speck of a kitchen, a honey-colored chopping block before us and pots and pans dangling above us. Metal shelving units that are stacked to the ceiling practically spill their ingredients and equipment, they're so crammed. Classical music plays from a radio that's hidden somewhere, maybe on one of those shelves.
Syd inspects the organic, free-range bird that I proffer for my lesson in fried chicken.
"Now, you've done real good, Low-raine," Syd says in a voice seasoned with the South. "This is beautiful."
Organic is fine and dandy, he explains, but that alone doesn't deem the bird worthy. It has to also be free-range and raised without hormones, just like the ones that ran around his grandmother's backyard when he was young, eating bugs and grasses, before Winnie Lee wrung their necks.
Syd makes a cut between the leg and wing with a flick of his knife. He notes that the drumette is slender, not bulging. Proof of the absence of hormones. I may not know how to fry, but I do know how to cut up a chicken. So when Syd flattens the breasts of the bird against the cutting board with his hand, I'm surprised to see that instead of slicing out the backbone, he leaves it attached to one breast.
"Sometimes grandmother would fry it up separate," he says. "Now most people just cut it out, but that's the choicest piece. The bone holds so much flavor." Huh? The things you learn.
Syd has already prepared the brine, a critical element, he says, that imparts flavor and extracts bacteria and toxins. It sits in a stock pot beside us, a simple solution of salty water with a sprinkling of crushed bay leaves and fresh rosemary sprigs from his garden.
I submerge the raw meat in the brine. Syd sets his spattered red kitchen timer for 30 minutes. We slide into his tiny eight-seat bar which he calls The Cougar Lounge. Staring down at us from the wall are mounted game—buffalo, wildebeest, and antelope—that came to him by way of a friend of friend with an IRS problem of which Syd will say no more. He opens a split of champagne and pours us each a glass.
Syd opened his first restaurant, The Calico Cat, in Senatobia. After leaving Mississippi, he joined the Air Force and attended culinary school on the GI bill. He's owned several popular restaurants in the Tidewater region along Virginia's southern coast. His "Cowboy Syd's Sextuple Truffle Tart with Bittersweet Chocolate Whiskey Cream and Sensuously Sensational Chocolate Espresso Ice Cream" is included in the James Beard award-winning cookbook "Death by Chocolate."
Heady stuff. But sitting in the bar, waiting for the bird to brine, Syd says it all goes back to his grandmother.
As a child, he sat atop sacks of flour in her restaurant watching the line cooks while his mother waited tables. He takes a picture from the wall and hands it to me. It's a faded snapshot, circa 1955, of the diner-ish place. The sign out front says "Johnson Cafe—Bar B Q Steaks." A second sign, emblazoned with "air-conditioned," hangs over the door, a beacon to the hot and weary. A man-sized ice cream cone stands at the entrance.
"Winnie Lee," says Syd, looking at the picture. "What a girl she was."
The timer dings.
Back in the kitchen, Syd removes a hotel pan from a shelf and dumps three cups of flour and one cup of cornmeal into it. This is the start of his grandmother's dredge. Syd uses his hands to mix it up, cautioning me to rely on all-purpose flour because cake flour will absorb too much moisture and turn to clumps. His grandmother sifted her flour, but because most come pre-sifted these days there's no need to do so unless it's humid. It's always humid down South.
"We like cornmeal," he adds, "because of the crunch factor and because it helps hold the flour on the skin." He says the slightly coarse texture of stone-ground works best.
"Here's the way you've got to do the salt," Syd says. He sprinkles four pinches into flour and cornmeal and offers me a taste. The salt registers in specks on my tongue.
"Not enough?" I venture a guess.
Syd agrees. He adds two more pinches and mixes it in. I take another taste. A more uniform salt sensation spreads across my palate.
"Just right," Syd says.
The pepper that Syd sprinkles into the pan was gleaned from the bottom of the pepper grinders in the dining room. Shrewd restaurateurs don't waste a thing. I place a smidgen of the dredge on my tongue. There's just a whisper of heat. I'm surprised that Syd says the seasoning is correct given that it's much less pronounced than the salt. I voice my concern.
"Girl, that's because pepper holds up better during cooking than the salt," he says. "The salt will dissolve."
It's time. I remove the chicken from the brine, flicking off any herbs that stick to the skin. I catch the faint aroma of rosemary and bay as I roll a drumstick in the dredge.
"No, stop doin' that," Syd says, taking over. He covers the meat with handfuls of flour, flipping and flouring and flipping and flouring the drumstick until it's completely coated. "Handle the flour, not the bird."
I can't recall what kind of oil I used during my past frying foibles, but I know it wasn't what Syd pulls out of the fridge: a clear plastic tub containing lard that's slightly off-white and as smooth as buttercream icing. At the bottom of the tub is a glistening brown gelée—drippings from braised pork bellies, a staple on Syd's dinner menu.
In this kitchen, the contents of that tub are considered gold, all but guaranteeing chicken in the same league as Winnie Lee's. Settle for nothing less, Syd says. If you don't have lard, fry up about five pounds of bacon and use the drippings. If all you have is Crisco, don't fry chicken.
Another nonnegotiable item: Syd's decades-old cast-iron skillet. Black as a cat, the pan has been wiped clean but never washed, same as Winnie Lee's. She figured the difference was her skillet, which held all the seasonings of every food she ever cooked in it. No secret. Just the soul of the pan.
Syd ignites a gas burner and adjusts the flame to medium-high. The lard melts into a pool about 1/2 inch deep. When it begins to bubble, the pitch becomes more a gurgle than a sizzle.
"They now have fancy thermometers, but this is the way you fry chicken," Syd says, noting the sound. "You've got to listen."
The throaty gurgle signals that the lard is hot enough to fry. Using tongs, we quickly nestle the chicken in the skillet, skin side up, careful to handle only the ends of the bones so we don't mar the coating or inadvertently squeeze out any moisture. The gurgling continues. Soon the meat is rimmed with a frenzy of fine bubbles, which Syd attributes to moisture from the bird. Only when these tiny globules create a goldenrod outline around each piece is it time to turn the chicken.
We take turns carefully turning the fried chicken with tongs. Grease spits and snipes at us, but Syd nixes my plea to use a spatter screen, saying it would trap moisture in the pan and turn the chicken soggy. When the pieces turn a shimmering golden brown, we tong them from the pan and set them on paper towels to rest for a spell. It's by sight, not sound, that you know when fried chicken is done.
A few long minutes later we sit in the empty bar, white linen napkins in hand, the gorgeous platter of browned chicken before us.
I bite into a thigh, piercing the perfectly-crisped skin. It's juicy but not greasy. I detect a hint of herb from the brine. Syd selects a breast—the one with the backbone attached—and proclaims it just like Winnie Lee's. After we finish, he packs up the remaining thigh and breast for me and offers one last morsel of wisdom.
"You can do this, girl," he says. "The more you fail, the better you get. That's the fun of cooking."
I ask if he ever failed at channeling his grandmother's cooking. He raises an eyebrow. "Everything I've tried, I got it right the first time right on the spot," he says, without hesitation. "I think it might be a gene."
Sydney Meers' Fried Chicken
It's not every day that a born-and-bred Southerner will take the time to walk you through his grandmother's recipe for foolproof fried chicken. Which is why we fell all over ourselves saying yes when Sydney Meers, owner and chef of the quaint, quirky, aptly named Stove restaurant in Portsmouth, Virginia, said he'd indulge us. Syd, we'd write you a proper thank you, but our gratitude upon tasting this is rendering us wordless.–Renee Schettler Rossi
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Sydney Meers' Fried Chicken
- Quick Glance
- Serves 4
- For the brine
- 1 1/2 gallons cool water
- 1 cup salt
- 5 dried bay leaves, crushed
- 1 sprig rosemary
- One whole 3- to 4-pound chicken, cut into 8 pieces
- For the fry
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup stone-ground cornmeal (it doesn't matter if it's yellow or white)
- Sea salt and freshly ground pepper (no prejudices here, either black or white is fine)
- Lard or bacon drippings, for frying
- Brine the chicken
- 1. In a large bowl, combine the water, salt, bay leaves, and rosemary, and stir until the salt is dissolved. Pat the chicken dry. Place the chicken pieces in the brine and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes but no more than 1 hour.
- Fry the chicken
- 2. Sift the flour and cornmeal together in a shallow bowl. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- 3. Remove the chicken pieces from the brine, flicking off any pieces of herbs that may cling to the skin. Dredge each piece of chicken in the flour mixture, flipping and flouring the meat until it's completely coated.
- 4. Heat about a 1/2 inch of lard or bacon drippings in a large cast-iron skillet over medium-highish heat until it bubbles and the sound it makes shifts from a sizzle to a gurgle. If you want a more foolproof indicator, it's ready when you drop a pinch of flour in the oil and it hisses. Using tongs, snuggle the chicken, skin side up, into the skillet, being careful to handle only the big ends of the bones. You may need to work in batches and adjust the heat slightly so the chicken doesn't brown to quickly. Fry the chicken for 8 to 10 minutes on each side, until all the chicken pieces are a shimmering golden brown. Remove them from the pan and let rest a spell on paper towels before diving in.
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Welcome to the Grammys 2009, which promises to be a very special night in which Radiohead will perform with the USC marching band (proof!) and Robert Plant & Alison Krauss will win all the awards. Of course with all the promised performances there will be barely any time to hand out tiny gramophones. So far No Age missed their chance to be the first Smell band to win a Grammy (losing best packaging to Metallica's terrifying vagina) and Rick Rubin beat Danger Mouse for Best Beard in Music Production. We figure nothing can be as bad as will.i.am last year, but he's here again this year, so we can't make any promises. Judging from the pre-event arrivals, M.I.A. might make good on her promise to give birth during her performance of "Paper Planes," so let's hurry up and get to this. This year's special treat: We've got Gabe and Lindsay from Videogum over to make with the funny, and we'll have EXCLUSIVE CONTENT on Twitter. You can't stop this. This Grammys is REAL:
8:00 And we're off with … U2's "Sexy Boots."
8:04: Well that happened. Not as interesting as Paul McCartney's dye job.
8:05: Whitney Houston gets a standing ovation for not showing up with cocaine on her face!
8:08: Jennifer Hudson gets Best R&B award. Boyz II Men didn't get the statue but they're just excited to have a roof over their heads for a night. Everybody wins!
8:10: Damn. The Rock smells like shit.
8:10 Justin Timberlake and Al Green doing "Let's Stay Together" featuring Keith Urban's surprisingly tasty licks. The Reverend still has flow. No jokes there.
8:21 Damn, Coldplay didn't send the puppets. This song is called "Lost." Chris Martin's outfit is called whaaaaa?
8:23: On SNAP make that "Lost+" because Jigga is onstage! Introducing the first time Jay-Z's ever received a golf clap.
8:24: "Viva La Vida." Man, that string section is CRUSHING IT. Wait, there's no string section? Right.
8:30: Nice guitar solo, Lita Ford.
8:32: Best Country Performance goes to Sugarland. Yay I guess? You know, country and stuff. Face it, "Stay" is a great song, although Sugarland definitely took some liberties with that Lisa Loeb cover.
8:41: Song Of The Year goes to "Viva La Vida," written by Joe Satriani (Feat. Creaky Boards).
8:45: At least Coldplay aren't wearing the same outfits they always do, this time they are a slightly modified hue of ridiculous.
8:46: "Guilty of being white." Kid Rock just made a Minor Threat reference! Not really, but we're trying to see the good. Trying and also failing.
8:54: Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift dueting! We saw their red carpet interview with Ryan Seacrest and they totally don't hate each other, so just relax guys. You can stop caring so much about this.
8:57: Pop Collaboration With Vocals goes to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, their first win of ALL THE AWARDS.
9:03: Jennifer Hudson gets a standing ovation, which is an appropriate response.
9:09: Can't wait for that Sully (Feat. T-Pain) joint. More (Feat.) jokes!
9:10: If Stevie could only see all the misery he's creating.
9:16: Coldplay beats Radiohead for Best Rock Album. I mean obviously, right guys?
9:21: Oh sorry, we blinked and then Blink 182's reunion was over. Everybody's back to hating Tom DeLonge again. Travis is much better looking post-helicopter crash than we are ever, so there's that.
9:23: Katy Perry hits the screen, the keyboards in the Gum liveblog room go crazy.
9:24: Kanye follows the fruit and cleavage show with Estelle and "American Boy." Everybody's like who is that girl, we are like Estelle looks like pretty fly in that Hershey Kiss outfit.
9:30: Adele is the latest in a long line of British people taking all our awards tonight what up with that.
9:37: Morgan Freeman summons every last shred of his prowess as an actor in declaring his friendship with Kenny Chesny. Still not buying.
9:40: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss win Record Of The Year, their next in the series of winning ALL THE AWARDS, and depriving all of us of seeing a nine-month pregnant Sri Lankan from walking through the crowd. Now THAT'S (a lost chance at) entertainment.
9:43: Poor Alison never gets to say anything.
9:48: M.I.A.! "Paper Planes" for a second! PRO TIP: Black and white makes you look less pregnant.
9:51: Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Kanye, and T.I.! The new brat pack! Or something! Admit it, even with carrying a human in her belly Maya's got better moves than you.
9:56: Sir Paul doing "Saw Her Standing There" with Dave Grohl. Coachella ticket sales go up, Ringo's spirits stay down.
10:05 Jack Black and jazz-bass great Charlie Haden give the Best Male Pop Vocal to John Mayer, beating Ne-Yo and Macca The cameraman registers his discontent by momentariliy disconnecting the live feed.
10:19: Gweyneth Paltrow, sans faux-British accent, introduces Radiohead. This to make up for all the times her husband bit their shit.
10:20: RADIOHEAD! "15 STEPS!" USC MARCHING BAND. This is the part where we stop typing for a minute and actually watch.
10:21: Between the USC marching band jamming with Radiohead, and the Vassar Orkestar playing with Beirut at BAM this weekend, college band geeks are having the best week ever.
10:22: On Thom Yorke: Now that's how you dance, bitches. That is also how you grow out your hair.
10:24: Well shit that was good. You guys are right, we should really check out this Radiohead band sometime.
10:29: Justin Timberlake joines T.I. on "Dead And Gone." This is actually pretty tight. Radiohead you can have your glossy marching band, JT and T.I. will take their rhythms bucket-ghettocore style, thanks.
10:36: Oh nice, the president of Recording of the World. I know this speech is somehow directed at me because he said "downloading," but this speech also is somehow STOP TALKING YOU ARE GOING TO PUT AMERICA TO SLEEP.
10:38: Smokey Robinson looking good! You can't see the tracks of his tears because the plastic on his face is water-repellent.
10:47: You know what? Fuck Sully.
10:48: OK gather the kids 'round the TV. Neil Diamond on "Sweet Caroline." This guy is about to show you bitches how it's done.
10:49: And it's done by morphing into William Shatner.
10:53: Dead people montage. Lux Interior better be in this.
10:55: Keith Urban, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and John Mayer trade solos in tribute to Bo Diddley. A couple people up there are mangling the blues, but B.B. still is doing great with diabetes, btw.
11:02: Thicke and Weezy. Lil Wayne is doing it right, Robin is straight groaning pains. (Zing.)
11:10: Lil Wayne wins Best Rap Album for Tha Carter III. But the surprise is how not-insane he is in accepting the award. He dropped the D, Miss Katie.
11:17 T-Bone, Krauss, Plant. aka the winners of ALL THE AWARDS.
11:18: OK you guys. Alison and Robert totally did it. Right?
11:24: And Album Of The Year goes to….
11:25: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss aka the winners of (you get it by now).
11:26: From the wisdom of Mr. Goldenfiddle: "Grammy Tip: If you ever find yourself already waiting backstage when your award is being announced, YOU WIN."
11:27: God bless you too T-Bone. And you, Green Day. And you, Stevie Wonder. And you guys for making it through the longest Grammys in Grammy history (unverified fact).
This year the Grammys made overtures to hipness, and relevance, and in the end it still was obvious who was going to win ALL THE AWARDS. Hope you had fun with us. We'll sign off by noting that NARAS has rather incredibly made Stevie Wonder into Grammy sponsor soundtrack AND the 4th Jonas Brother in the same night. That about says it all. See you tomorrow.


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Mature is the word for "Gloria."
Paulina Garcia justifiably won the Berlin Film Festival's best actress award for her portrayal of a 58-year-old Chilean divorcee who is equal parts devoted mom/grandma and club-hopper searching for love.
She thinks she finds it in sensitive Rodolfo (Sergio Hernandez, also outstanding in the recent "No"), who both over- and under-shares but, hey, owns a cool paintball/trapeze park. And he's a tiger in bed, which Gloria clearly appreciates; borderline sexagenarian lovemaking has never looked hotter on screen.
Things aren't so good, though, whenever Gloria tries to pry Rodolfo away from his constantly calling adult daughters, who are also representatives of his needy ex-wife. This drives Gloria to several undignified acts, which Garcia gets across with all the pain and humiliation required but barely a smidgen of the histrionics one might expect. This is a marvelously controlled performance that always leaves room for passion. But since she never overdoes it, Garcia creates space for Gloria to persuasively respond to the range of stimuli — familial warmth, crazy neighbors, just needing to get high on her own or in a crowd sometimes — as a woman of her experience would, if not always should.
Writer-director Sebastian Lelio helps her out immensely with a script, co-written by Gonzalo Maza, that is steeped in truthful situations and credible behavior. Kind of marvelously, the film also incorporates kicky little bits of absurdity like a dancing skeleton puppet and a hairless cat that keeps finding its unwelcome way into Gloria's apartment. Such things are symbolic, of course, but they play as left-field delights.
There's something political going on, too, that might mean more to Chileans than to anyone else. "Gloria's" central concerns, however, are as universal as they come. No one wants getting older to suck, but by the time we're pondering that, we've learned enough to accept lowered expectations. Gloria persists against the dimming of that light — did I mention she has early stage glaucoma? — but whatever doesn't work out as she'd want it to, Garcia makes it very clear that nothing's going to kill this gal anytime soon.


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Of course, the Mem, VCPUs and Time columns will be different depending on machine configuration and uptime. The important thing is that dom0 is listed.
In addition to the required steps above, see [http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Best_Practices best practices for running Xen] which includes information on allocating a fixed amount of memory and how to dedicate (pin) a CPU core for dom0 use. It also may be beneficial to create a xenfs filesystem mount point by including in
In addition to the required steps above, see [http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Best_Practices best practices for running Xen] which includes information on allocating a fixed amount of memory and how to dedicate (pin) a CPU core for dom0 use. It also may be beneficial to create a xenfs filesystem mount point by including in /etc/fstab
none /proc/xen xenfs defaults 0 0
none /proc/xen xenfs defaults 0 0
Revision as of 18:49, 20 March 2014
From Xen Overview:
- Xen is an open-source type-1 or baremetal hypervisor, which makes it possible to run many instances of an operating system or indeed different operating systems in parallel on a single machine (or host). Xen is the only type-1 hypervisor that is available as open source. Xen is used as the basis for a number of different commercial and open source applications, such as: server virtualization, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), desktop virtualization, security applications, embedded and hardware appliances.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 System requirements
- 3 Configuring dom0
- 4 Using Xen
- 5 Configuring a hardware virtualized (HVM) Arch domU
- 6 Configuring a paravirtualized (PV) Arch domU
- 7 Common Errors
- 8 Resources
The Xen hypervisor is a thin layer of software which emulates a computer architecture allowing multiple operating systems to run simultaneously. The hypervisor is started by the boot loader of the computer it is installed on. Once the hypervisor is loaded, it starts the "dom0" (short for "domain 0", sometimes called the host or privileged domain) which in our case runs Arch Linux. Once the dom0 has started, one or more "domUs" (short for user domains, sometimes called VMs or guests) can be started and controlled from the dom0. Xen supports both paravirtualized (PV) and hardware virtualized (HVM) domUs. See Xen.org for a full overview.
System requirements
The Xen hypervisor requires kernel level support which is included in recent Linux kernels and is built into the linux and linux-lts Arch kernel packages. To run HVM domUs, the physical hardware must have either Intel VT-x or AMD-V (SVM) virtualization support. In order to verify this, run the following command when the Xen hypervisor is not running:
$ grep -E "(vmx|svm)" --color=always /proc/cpuinfo
If the above command does not produce output, then hardware virtualization support is unavailable and your hardware is unable to run HVM domUs. If you believe the CPU supports one of these features you should access the host system's BIOS configuration menu during the boot process and look if options related to virtualization support have been disabled. If such an option exists and is disabled, then enable it, boot the system and repeat the above command. The Xen hypervisor also supports PCI passthrough where PCI devices can be passed directly to the domU even in the absence of dom0 support for the device. In order to use PCI passthrough, the CPU must support IOMMU/VT-d.
Configuring dom0
The Xen hypervisor relies on a full install of the base operating system. Before attempting to install the Xen hypervisor, the host machine should have a fully operational and up-to-date install of Arch Linux. This installation can be a minimal install with only the base package and does not require a Desktop environment or even Xorg. If you are building a new host from scratch, see the Installation guide for instructions on installing Arch Linux. The following configuration steps are required to convert a standard installation into a working dom0 running on top of the Xen hypervisor:
- Installation of the Xen hypervisor
- Modification of the bootloader to boot the Xen hypervisor
- Creation of a network bridge
- Installation of Xen systemd services
Installation of the Xen hypervisor
To install the Xen hypervisor install either the current stable xenAUR or the bleeding edge unstable xen-hg-unstableAUR packages available in the Arch User Repository. Both packages provide the Xen hypervisor, current xl interface and all configuration and support files, including systemd services. The multilib repository needs to be enabled to install Xen (See Pacman#Repositories for details). Install the xen-docsAUR package from the Arch User Repository for the man pages and documentation.
Modification of the bootloader
The boot loader must be modified to load a special Xen kernel (xen.gz) which is then used to boot the normal kernel. To do this a new bootloader entry is needed.
For GRUB users, the Xen package provides the
/etc/grub.d/09_xen generator file. The file
/etc/xen/grub.conf can be edited to customize the Xen boot commands. For example, to allocate 512 MiB of RAM to dom0 at boot, modify
/etc/xen/grub.conf by replacing the line:
XEN_HYPERVISOR_CMDLINE="dom0_mem=512M xsave=1"
After customizing the options, update the bootloader configuration with the following command:
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
More information on using the GRUB bootloader is available at GRUB.
For syslinux users, add a stanza like this:
LABEL xen MENU LABEL My Xen KERNEL mboot.c32 APPEND ../xen-4.3.0.gz --- ../vmlinuz-linux console=tty0 root=/dev/sda3 ro --- ../initramfs-linux.img
Also this requires mboot.c32 to be in the same directory as the config file. If you have
/boot and
/usr in the same partition you can possibly link it. I do not know since I have
/boot in a separate partition. So, for users with
/boot in a separate partition from
# cp /usr/lib/syslinux/mboot.c32 /boot/syslinux
Creation of a network bridge
Xen requires that network communications between domUs and the dom0 (and beyond) be set up manually. The use of both DHCP and static addressing is possible, and the choice should be determined by the network topology. Complex setups are possible, see the Networking article on the Xen wiki for details and
/etc/xen/scripts for scripts for various networking configurations. A basic bridged network, in which a virtual switch is created in dom0 that every domU is attached to, can be setup by modifying the example configuration files provided by Netctl in
etc/netctl/examples. By default, Xen expects a bridge to exist named xenbr0. To set this up with netctl, do the following:
# cd /etc/netctl # cp examples/bridge xenbridge-dhcp
Make the following changes to
Description="Xen bridge connection" Interface=xenbr0 Connection=bridge BindsToInterface=(eth0) # Use the name of the external interface found with the 'ip link' command IP=dhcp
assuming your existing network connection is called eth0.
Start the network bridge with:
# netctl start xenbridge-dhcp
when the prompt returns, check all is well:
# brctl show
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces xenbr0 8000.001a9206c0c0 no eth0
If the bridge is working it can be set to start automatically after rebooting with:
# netctl enable xenbridge-dhcp
Installation of Xen systemd services
The Xen dom0 requires the xenstored, xenconsoled, and xendomains system services (see Systemd for details).
Archlinux uses systemd, but the current xen package has init scripts. You can start the daemons mentioned above like so:
# /etc/rc.d/xencommons start
Confirming successful installation
Reboot your dom0 host and ensure that the Xen kernel boots correctly and that all settings survive a reboot. A properly set up dom0 should report the following when you run xl list (as root):
# xl list
Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s) Domain-0 0 511 2 r----- 41652.9
Of course, the Mem, VCPUs and Time columns will be different depending on machine configuration and uptime. The important thing is that dom0 is listed.
In addition to the required steps above, see best practices for running Xen which includes information on allocating a fixed amount of memory and how to dedicate (pin) a CPU core for dom0 use. It also may be beneficial to create a xenfs filesystem mount point by including in
none /proc/xen xenfs defaults 0 0
Using Xen
Xen supports both paravirtualized (PV) and hardware virtualized (HVM) domUs. In the following sections the steps for creating HVM and PV domUs running Arch Linux are described. In general, the steps for creating an HVM domU are independent of the domU OS and HVM domUs support a wide range of operating systems including microsot Windows. To use HVM domUs the dom0 hardware must have virtualization support. Paravirtualized domUs do not require virtualization support, but instead require modifications to the guest operating system making the installation procedure different for each operating system (see the Guest Install page of the Xen wiki for links to instructions). Some operating systems (e.g., Microsoft Windows) cannot be installed as a PV domU. In general, HVM domUs often run slower than PV domUs since HVMs run on emulated hardware. While there are some common steps involved in setting up PV and HVM domUs, the processes are substantially different. In both cases, for each domU, a "hard disk" will need to be created and a configuration file needs to be written. Additionally, for installation each domU will need access to a copy of the installation ISO stored on the dom0 (see the Download Page to obtain the Arch Linux ISO).
Create a domU "hard disk"
Xen supports a number of different types of "hard disks" including Logical Volumes, raw partitions, and image files. To create a sparse file, that will grow to a maximum of 10GiB, called domU.img, use:
truncate -s 10G domU.img
If file IO speed is of greater importance than domain portability, using Logical Volumes or raw partitions may be a better choice.
Xen may present any partition / disk available to the host machine to a domain as either a partition or disk. This means that, for example, an LVM partition on the host can appear as a hard drive (and hold multiple partitions) to a domain. Note that making sub-partitons on a partition will make accessing those partitions on the host machine more difficult. See the kpartx man page for information on how to map out partitions within a partition.
Create a domU configuration
Each domU requires a separate configuration file that is used to create the virtual machine. Full details about the configuration files can be found at the | Xen Wiki or the xl.cfg man page. Both HVM and PV domUs share some components of the configuration file. These include
name = "domU" memory = 256 disk = [ "file:/path/to/ISO,sdb,r", "phy:/path/to/partition,sda1,w" ] vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:XX:XX:XX,bridge=xenbr0' ]
name= is the name by which the xl tools manage the domU and needs to be unique across all domUs. The
disk= includes information about both the the installation media (
file:) and the partition created for the domU
phy. If an image file is being used instead of a physical partition, the
phy: needs to be changed to
file:. The
vif= defines a network controller. The 00:16:3e MAC block is reserved for Xen domains, so the last three digits of the
mac= must be randomly filled in (hex values 0-9 and a-f only).
Managing a domU
If a domU should be started on boot, create a symlink to the configuration file in /etc/xen/auto and ensure the xendomains service is set up correctly. Some useful commands for managing domUs are:
# xl top # xl list # xl console domUname # xl shutdown domUname # xl destroy domUname
Configuring a hardware virtualized (HVM) Arch domU
In order to use HVM domUs install the mesa-libgl and bluez-libs packages.
A minimal configuration file for a HVM Arch domU is:
name = 'HVM_domU' builder = 'hvm' memory = 256 vcpus = 2 disk = [ 'phy:/dev/mapper/vg0-hvm_arch,xvda,w', 'file:/path/to/ISO,hdc:cdrom,r' ] vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:00:00:00,bridge=xenbr0' ] vnc = 1 vnclisten = '0.0.0.0' vncdisplay = 1
Since HVM machines do not have a console, they can only be connected to via a vncviewer. The configuration file allows for unauthenticated remote access of the domU vncserver and is not suitable for unsecured networks. The vncserver will be available on port 590X, where X is the value of
vncdisplay, of the dom0. The domU can be created with:
# xl create /path/to/config/file
and its status can be checked with
# xl list
Once the domU is created, connect to it via the vncserver and install Arch Linux as described in the Installation guide.
Configuring a paravirtualized (PV) Arch domU
A minimal configuration file for a PV Arch domU is:
name = "PV_domU" kernel = "/mnt/arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz" ramdisk = "/mnt/arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img" extra = "archisobasedir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_201301" memory = 256 disk = [ "phy:/path/to/partition,sda1,w", "file:/path/to/ISO,sdb,r" ] vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:XX:XX:XX,bridge=xenbr0' ]
This file needs to tweaked for your specific use. Most importantly, the
archisolabel=ARCH_201301 line must be edited to use the release year/month of the ISO being used. If you want to install 32-bit Arch, change the kernel and ramdisk paths from /x86_64/ to /i686/.
Before creating the domU, the installation ISO must be loop-mounted. To do this, ensure the directory /mnt exists and is empty, then run the following command (being sure to fill in the correct ISO path):
# mount -o loop /path/to/iso /mnt
Once the ISO is mounted, the domU can be created with:
# xl create -c /path/to/config/file
The -c option will enter the domU's console when successfully created and install Arch Linux as described in the Installation guide. There will be a few deviations, however. The block devices listed in the disks line of the cfg file will show up as
/dev/xvd*. Use these devices when partitioning the domU. After installation and before the domU is rebooted, the xen-blkfront xen-fbfront xen-netfront xen-kbdfront modules must be added to Mkinitcpio. Without these modules, the domU will not boot correctly. For booting, it is not necessary to install Grub. Xen has a Python-based grub emulator, so all that is needed to boot is a grub.cfg file: (It may be necessary to create the /boot/grub directory)
menuentry 'Arch GNU/Linux, with Linux core repo kernel' --class arch --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-core repo kernel-true-__UUID__' { insmod gzio insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='hd0,msdos1' if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1 __UUID__ else search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root __UUID__ fi echo 'Loading Linux core repo kernel ...' linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=__UUID__ ro echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...' initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img }
This file must be edited to match the UUID of the root partition. From within the domU, run the following command:
# blkid
Replace all instances of __UUID__ with the real UUID of the root partition (the one that mounts as "/").
Shutdown the domU with the
poweroff command. The console will be returned to the hypervisor when the domain is fully shut down, and the domain will no longer appear in the xl domains list. Now the ISO file may be unmounted:
# umount /mnt
The domU cfg file should now be edited. Delete the "kernel = ", "ramdisk = ", and "extra = " lines and replace them with the following line:
bootloader = "pygrub"
Also remove the ISO disk from the "disk = " line.
The Arch domU is now set up. It may be started with the same line as before:
# xl create -c /etc/xen/archdomu.cfg
Common Errors
- 'xl list' complains about libxl
- Either you have not booted into the Xen system, or xen modules listed in xencommons script are not installed
- xl create fails
- check the guest's kernel is located correctly, check the pv-xxx.cfg file for spelling mistakes (like using initrd instead of ramdisk)
- Arch linux guest hangs with a ctrl-d message
- press ctrl-d until you get back to a prompt, rebuild its initramfs described
- Error message "failed to execute '/usr/lib/udev/socket:/org/xen/xend/udev_event' 'socket:/org/xen/xend/udev_event': No such file or directory"
- caused by /etc/udev/rules.d/xend.rules; xend is (a) deprecated and (b) not used, so it is safe to remove xend.rules


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So twice now Rakshas has pointed out that his face isn't where it's supposed to be and i think i'm starting to get it. The faint ghosty face is his weakness but it's never hidden underneath his mask like an ordinary head, rather it's blended in somewhere on the cloak, nigh impossible to see considering his movements and how well hidden it naturally is.
I'm thinking while Erika's being suspended up in the air, she might spot the little face on Rakshas' back (has anyone ever managed to get behind him?), triggering the hunt.
Amazing fight. Finally, the Urumi are out! And yet they didn't deter Rakshas for long. I also don't think there's any doubt as to whether Rakshas has shown us his apostle form or not: he has.
Could it be that he has always been in his apostle form? Just a second transformation or something like that?
Man, Rickerts ambush was great, I really think Rakshas is gonna buy it here, he's hand's just been forced to much to do another quick escape.
You are gravely misreading the situation if you think Rakshas is going to die. He was overconfident and has been forced to unleash his true power as a result, but they've already used up most of (if not all of) their tricks against him. And now he's got Erika too. Furthermore, he didn't escape because he was at a disadvantage during their last encounter, he leisurely left because he "didn't feel like" fighting anymore. Believe me, he's not the one in trouble right now.
Why wouldn't Rakshas die in this situation? He's been around since the beginning of the last arc, he's currently facing off against the only living character(s) left with some shared history who now know exactly what they need to do to defeat him and he's done what every other apostle we've seen has done when they find themselves neck deep, and those apostle's last minute final form change has never been enough, save for Grunbeld which is a bad comparison for many reasons.
Right now he's got Erica hostage, and Rickert isn't going to take a step out of Falconia without her, so either he drops her and escapes in what is essentially a slightly beefed up repeat of something that happened one episode ago, he escapes with her back into the capital which opens up a lot of possibilities at the cost of scrapping everything Rickert's Falconia journey has been leading up to, likely splitting him off from Silat and erasing any potential closure for this Falconia segment until he gets her back (and he's shown that he would be far more likely to just outright kill her, but does anyone really see that happening?), or the extremely powerful magic user with the flying monster who Erica just happened to befriend comes in and lends his support to a group already highly skilled and capable of thinking on their feet.
Griffith's untouchable generals have to start falling some time. What do you think he's being saved for? A final fight with Guts or any other party member wouldn't carry nearly as much weight and drama as what is happening right now. And if there's any backstory about him in store, Silat would be the one to spill it, so it's not like he needs to be alive for that.
Daiba is not an "extremely powerful" magic user.
First off, does it look to you like Rakshas is in any danger right now? What's a threat to him exactly? Second, you're not going about this the proper way. Apostles that have transformed and not died? How about Zodd? How about Locus, or Irvine? Apostles use their full power when they need to. There's no established formula that means they have to die afterwards.
Anyway, how about we take a bet on it? If Rakshas dies next episode, you get +999 Karma, if he doesn't, you get -999. You in?
I always thought he's quite a powerful magic user, second only to Flora perhaps, but at least far above Schierke?
Make it by the end of this Falconia trip and i'm in , can i request appropriate flair?
Rakshas is one of those whose "human" form isn't very human to begin with, but the process is still the same: he goes from one state to another, more monstrous one.
He had many Daka and Pishacha at his service, and most of all he was using the Kundalini's power.
Is it possible that he could just summon another Kundalini? Since he could harness the creature, shouldn't we see it as part of his power? I don't think Schierke could deal with that thing without Guts' help, and vice versa.
So here's a rough summary. Bear in mind there might be inaccuracies.
Actually I think leaving one's body is a very elementary skill for mages, even Farnese is shown able to manage it after brief training.
Was it translated from the original Japanese manga or from the Korean scans?
I think you guys are missing the underlying point of this episode which is HOLY SHIT!


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Fixed the encoders node.
Simplified the node to only advertise a single service - a query allows other nodes to find out, simply, the total distance traveled. The node also only handles plain encoder ticks, because distance and such computation should be done on the library end.
Updated the licensing information in many files.
This is a broken commit because I decided to do this at a bad time. Sorry! The build will be working after next commit, I promise (and I won't push till then). This commit reflects the licensing in the files after I used my auto-add/remove script.
Updated encoder node code with preliminary driver functionality.Renamed encoder_state.msg to encoders_state.msg.Added functions to encoders.cpp to send message of current encoder state.Added function headers to encoders.h.Added function to encoders.cpp to convert to different units....
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Zanzibar Town
It is a city where you wake up with the street, in the cool hours, when the first ray of sun gives life to the day's before odors, the cry of the muezzin flies over the city and that black coffee steams in the carved silver cups.
It is a city of secrets, labyrinths, extraordinary doors and padlocks. This is a seafront sweet town, delivered to its musician's flute, to the nonchalant paddle of its ferrymen, to dust and perfumes. Zanzibar town is a mix of the ancient Persian Kingdom, of Oman's Sultanate in caliph's time and of India with its sensual fragrances. But it is an infinitely embittered city, whose bounds and iron rings remind us it was one of the biggest ports in the slave trade.


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Jake Owen Excitedly Counting Down the Days Until Daughter's Arrival
Jake Owen is counting down the days until he becomes a new father. Owen and his wife, Lacey Buchanan -- who married in a seaside wedding in Vero Beach, Fla. in May -- are expecting their first baby, a daughter, in November.
"It's super cool we have our little girl on the way, so I'm really excited," Owen tells Charlotte radio station 103.7. "Why is it that nine months in any other time of your life seems like it takes a year or longer but nine months when your wife is pregnant seems like it's gone by in nine days?" He adds, "I'm constantly feeling like there's something I need to do more, like I need to be more prepared when she comes along."
The 'Alone With You' singer is currently headlining CMT's annual fall tour, which launched last week with a performance in New York City. Still, Owen says there is no way he would miss the birth of the couple's first child.
"Oh yeah, I'm gonna be there" he assures. "That's gonna be something I'll remember for the rest of my life."


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- About CDIAC
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Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Record from Teriberka Station
A.M. Brounshtein,* A.A. Shashkov, N.N. Paramonova, V.I. Privalov, Y.A. Starodubtsev
Main Geophysical Observatory,
Karbyshev Str. 7, 194018
St. Petersburg, Russia
A major part of the Russian atmospheric CO2 monitoring program in 1993-94 was financed through Project 96-1 of the Environmental Research Support Scheme of the Central European University in Budapest, established by George Soros. We are grateful to George Soros and to the Advisory Board of the Central European University Environmental Department for their kind attention and support.
Period of Record
Air is collected generally four times per month in pairs of 1.5-L stainless steel electropolished flasks with one greaseless stainless steel stopcock. Sampling is performed by opening the stopcock of the flasks, which have been evacuated at the central laboratory at the Main Geophysical Observatory (MGO). The air is not dried during sample collection. Attempts are made to obtain samples when the wind speed is >5 m/s and the wind direction corresponds to the predetermined "clean air" sector.
After the air samples are collected, the flasks are mailed to the central laboratory at the MGO once per month for CO2 determinations, which are made through the use of a URAS-2T nondispersive infrared gas analyzer. Storage times between sample collection and analysis range from 2 to 6 months. Air samples are dried cryogenically before analysis.
The URAS-2T nondispersive infrared gas analyzer is calibrated by using CO2-in-synthetic air reference gases. All gases were initially calibrated at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) against the primary standards maintained by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and against NOAA/GMCC standards in 1981. In 1988 and 1989, MGO reference gases were compared with a NOAA/GMCC set of three travelling CO2-in-air gas standards. During 1990-93, 13 series of calibrations were performed against a set of 5 CO2-in-air-standards provided by the Atmospheric Environment Service (AES) of Canada. On the basis of these calibration experiments, all MGO data were recalculated to a new scale that is closely related to the WMO X87 scale through the AES standards. A 2-year field comparison program with AES, involving a regular exchange of air samples from Alert and Teriberka, showed that data from both programs are comparable within 0.2 parts per million (ppm).
Concentration values for both flasks in a pair are accepted if the difference between the values is <1 ppmv. More details about the sampling methods and selection criteria are provided in Brounshtein et al. (1985, 1988a, 1988b, 1988c) and in Shashkov and Paramonova (in press).
Teriberka Station, Russia
Coastal tundra peninsula
40 m above MSL
The period of record at Teriberka Station is too short to identify any long-term trends in atmospheric CO2 concentrations; however, the yearly mean atmospheric CO2 concentration at Teriberka Station rose from 354.8 parts per million by volume (ppmv) in 1989 to 358.7 ppmv in 1993.
- Brounshtein, A.M., N.N. Paramonova, A.D. Frolov, and A.A. Shashkov. 1976. Optical method for determination of CO2 total abundance in a vertical column of the atmosphere. Trudy GGO 369:5-25.
- Brounshtein, A.M., E.V. Faber, and A.A. Shashkov. 1985. Study of measuring specifications of UGAN-CO2 instrument. Trudy GGO 496:55-65.
- Brounshtein, A.M., K.V. Kazakova, E.V. Faber, and A.A. Shashkov. 1988a. Measurements of the CO2 concentration vertical distribution above the continental regions. Annals of the MGO 519:34-42.
- Brounshtein, A.M., E..V. Faber, and A.A. Shashkov. 1988b. Measurements of the CO2 concentration above Leningrad. Annals of the MGO 519:43-45.
- Brounshtein, A.M., K.V. Kazakova, V.I. Medinez, and E.V. Faber. 1988c. Measurements of the CO2 concentrations at Ocean Station "C" (North Atlantic). Annals of the MGO 519:27-43.
- Brounshtein, A.M., E.V. Faber, and A.A. Shashkov. 1991. Atmospheric CO2 concentrations derived from flask samples collected at U.S.S.R.-Operated Sampling Sites. NDP-033. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
- Shashkov, A.A., and N.N. Paramonova (in press). Atmospheric CO2 monitoring in Russia. In G.I. Pearman and J.T. Peterson (eds.), Report of the Seventh WMO Meeting of Experts on Carbon Dioxide Concentration and Isotopic Measurement Techniques (September 7-10, 1993, Rome, Italy). World Meteorological Organization, Geneva.
CITE AS: Brounshtein, A.M., A.A. Shashkov, N.N. Paramonova, V.I. Privalov, and Y.A. Starodubtsev. 1994. Atmospheric CO2 records from sites in the Main Geophysical Observatory air sampling network. In Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tenn., U.S.A.


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WARNING: If you become squeamish or nauseus at the sight of blood, this blog post and photo might not be for you.
Flyers prospect Eric Wellwood is recovering in a Connecticut hospital after a scary incident in a game Sunday required emergency surgery to repair a skate cut which resulted in serious blood loss.
He is slated to undergo surgery again on Monday morning in Bridgeport, Conn., where the Phantoms played a game.
According to reports, Wellwood fell into the boards awkwardly on the penalty kill and caught the back of his right leg with his left skate. There was immediately a trail of blood on the ice, with Wellwood gliding to the bench with the assistance of a trainer while the puck was still in play.
In addition to vascular damage, Wellwood severed a tendon in his leg, which reportedly could be seen clearly. He may have also cut an artery in his calf.
"I don't think anyone really saw it," coach Terry Murray told the Glens Falls (N.Y.) Post-Star. "It was away from the play. Everyone figures that it was an accident that happened to himself. The play was already in the offensive zone and this happened in the neutral zone, so we're not sure exactly what took place."
It is unclear if Wellwood was wearing any extra protection in his socks, such as Kevlar-reinforced "cut-proof" socks, which do rise to the calf to prevent similar injuries. Kevlar socks were a big topic in the Flyers' locker room just days after Ottawa's Erik Karlsson suffered a season-ending Achilles tendon tear.
Wellwood, 23, has played 31 games for the Flyers over the past three seasons.
Phantoms defenseman Danny Syvret sent well wishes and also included this gruesome photo:
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In 1961 London, when abortion was illegal and the Pill a rare commodity, the brilliant, charismatic surgeon Otto Powell (Jack Davenport, Pirates of the Caribbean) presides over a busy hospital gynecology ward. With a passionate commitment to the women he treats, Powell provides safe and highly illegal abortions in private practice.
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Sarah McLachlan on parenting, sex and the 'have it all' debate
Editor's note: Kelly Wallace is CNN's digital correspondent and editor-at-large covering family, career and life. She is a mom of two girls. Read her other columns and follow her reports at CNN Parents and on Twitter.
Sarah McLachlan, the Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter whose ballads helped so many of us through heartache, breakups and loss, was barely out of her teenage years when her first album was released back in 1988.
Now, she's a 46-year-old divorced mom of two girls touring the country to promote her seventh full-length solo album, called "Shine On."
"I'm a whole hell of a lot older," she joked, when I asked her, during a casual conversation at CNN's studios earlier this week, how much her life has changed.
McLachlan credits her success in the '90s, fueled by memorable hits such as "I Will Remember You" and "Angel," with allowing her to take time off, have children and be a full-time parent. Her girls, now ages 7 and 12, have traveled on tour with her since they were babies.
"They're the great leveler because they couldn't care less what it is that I do for a living," she said with a laugh.
The three-time Grammy Award winner and Canadian-born singer didn't quite set out on her career to empower women, but that's what she's done. She spearheaded the Lilith Fair, a concert tour comprised of only female artists and female-led bands in the late 1990s and again in 2010, which raised millions for charities.
During our mom-to-mom chat, we talked about her biggest worries as a parent, what she admires about the singer Lorde and why her sex life is thriving. The video above and this transcript of our conversation have been edited for length and clarity:
Kelly: What do you worry about most as a parent?
Sarah: Well, social media. I think Facebook is a really dangerous tool in the hands of kids. I really don't think they should be allowed on it until they're 18 or 20 years old because it's a weapon, basically. It's also a great tool but if you're not psychologically evolved enough and aware and empathetic to other people's issues. That concerns me a lot, which is part and parcel why (my daughters) are on computers because they have them at school but I really limit the time they're on them and I say, "Let's go live in the real world. Let's go play. If you want to talk to your friends, bring them over to the house or go over to their houses and actually play." I hear these kids hang out at each other's houses and they just …
Kelly: They're all sitting on their phones …
Sarah: I am the biggest jerk on the planet because (my older daugther is) one of the only kids that doesn't have the iTouch or whatever. I say, "You know what honey, when you are out there in the world and I don't know where you are and we have to stay in contact then you can have one. Right now, I'm a car service. I drive you everywhere and I pick you up from wherever you go."
Kelly: You have commented about performers such as Lorde who posted unretouched photos of herself, basically saying here I am, flaws are OK. How important do you think that is for our girls?
Sarah: I think it's imperative because when I grew up, I don't think I even knew "Vogue" magazine or any of that stuff. I didn't have any issues with my body. I wasn't overweight, I wasn't skinny. I have a fast metabolism but I just eat and I wear the clothes I wear and I never really even gave it much of a thought. There's just so much pressure on these girls these days. They're looking at all the different teen stars who are wearing hardly anything.
Kelly: How important do you think female role models are?
Sarah: I think they're imperative. … Someone like Malala Yousafzai speaking out for girls' education, getting shot and then not dying but rising up and becoming an international superstar and an international heroine. Those kinds of examples of strength, and strength of beliefs and just standing up for what you believe in and not backing down, I think are so imperative.
Kelly: Where do you think we are when it comes to the state of women in our world, in our society?
Sarah: There's still a glass ceiling. I think we've come a long way. There are way more women in powerful positions (as) CEOs. There's still a huge discrepancy between how many women are in power in companies and how many men, and inequality in pay … but we're making strides, absolutely. But now there's this whole thing of having it all. There's no such thing as having it all. There's no such thing as balancing it all. It's a tricky, slippery slope. It's a tightrope that we walk every day and some days we do it really well, and other days we fail miserably at it.
Kelly: So let's talk about sex, shall we. (Sarah revealed in a recent interview that she's had more sex this year in her new relationship than she's had in her life, so I had to ask her about that!)
Sarah. Oh OK.
Kelly: I know we just met but you mentioned in an interview that that part of your life seems to be thriving in your relationship with former NHL player Geoff Courtnall.
Sarah: I mean, yeah, there was a long dry spell of a number of years where I didn't date, didn't have a partner, so I was just on my own, with my girls, and yeah I met Geoff.
Kelly: Many women in the latter half of their 40s are not necessarily enjoying that same kind of experience.
Sarah: No, and it was sort of like a resurgence for me, for sure, because I didn't have sex for years and then all of a sudden, you sort of think, everybody says, what is it, you don't use it you lose it, right, and I thought, oh no, it came back, really quickly. (She laughs.)
Kelly: Better than ever.
Sarah: Better than ever.
Kelly: I have to stop because I am being obnoxious and embarrassing. You have experienced so many things — obviously your divorce, you left your original management company, a new relationship, raising your children …
Sarah: Lost my dad.
Kelly: "Shine On" is about all of that, right?
Sarah: It's about going through your 40s and all the changes. We don't get to that point in our lives unscathed. We're losing our family members. I lost my brother last November to bowel cancer so there are so many big changes that happen in our 40s, and it's sort of that tipping point of I'm in the second half of my life. To a certain degree I get to choose what this is going to look like. How do I want it to look? And it's sort of a reassessing of everything and I thought I'm so lucky, I'm so blessed. I have so many amazing things that have happened to me. I have my health, I have my kids' health, I have great friends and family. I just want to suck the marrow out of every day that I have left because you just don't know. You don't know when your time is and I want every day to count.
Kelly: Absolutely and also important to you, The Sarah McLachlan School of Music for at risk and underserved kids in your community. How important is it to give back?
Sarah: To give of yourself, it's like a drug. And when I did Lilith, I made a lot of money and I thought, what am I going to do? I don't live a crazy lifestyle. I have all this extra money. I want to do something important with it. … We gave over $7 million to charity through Lilith over the three years and so I started the music school because I looked around in Vancouver and thought what do we need? What do kids need? What did I need? I needed music and there are a lot of kids that don't have music in schools anymore. I guess it's the first thing that gets cut from funding. And so we started a small project. It was about 200 kids and now we have over 700 this year. We're going to have over 1,000 kids in the program starting next year 13 years in.
Kelly: A tour, a new album, how do you top this, Sarah McLachlan? And what is next?
Sarah: I have no idea. Like my kids, I live in the moment. I can't help it. I have a very hard time looking forward, and thinking about what's coming next. I'm just enjoying every moment.
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