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The owner of Octopus Garden smoke shops and several store managers and employees, including an East Flat Rock man, are among three dozen people who have been charged in Western North Carolina with conspiracy to distribute synthetic drugs.
The owner of Octopus Garden smoke shops and several store managers and employees, including an East Flat Rock man, are among three dozen people who have been charged in Western North Carolina with conspiracy to distribute synthetic drugs.
A Fletcher man connected to Just Like That smoke shop in Weaverville was charged with conspiracy to distribute and possessing with intent to distribute substances containing synthetic stimulants or hallucinogens, and synthetic marijuana.
A total of three separate criminal indictments and a criminal complaint charging 30 men and women have been unsealed in U.S. District Court, Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, announced Wednesday.
The arrests were part of nationwide crackdown on synthetic drugs, called "Project Synergy," that resulted in charges against retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers in 35 states.
The indictments and criminal complaint in Western North Carolina are the result of joint local, state and federal investigations into head shops operating in Mecklenburg, Buncombe, Henderson, Transylvania and Mitchell counties.
According to filed court documents and court proceedings, head shops in the region sold synthetic drugs, such as synthetic marijuana, commonly referred to as "K2" or "Spice," and/or synthetic stimulants or hallucinogens, commonly referred to as "bath salts," Tompkins said in a news release.
The federal indictments and the criminal complaint remained sealed until the named defendants were arrested by law enforcement over a two-day period.
"Masking synthetic drugs with creative names and deceptive packaging does not change the fact that these substances are illegal, highly addictive and potentially deadly to those who use them," Tompkins said in the release.
"The rise of synthetic drug use in the United States alone has reached epidemic proportions and has resulted in a sustained rise in emergency room visits, deaths, and violence among teens and young adults," added Harry S. Sommers, special agent in charge of the DEA Atlanta Field Division.
Octopus Garden smoke shops
A criminal indictment charged the owner of the Octopus Garden smoke shops, seven store managers and seven employees with conspiracy to distribute, and possessing with intent to distribute, substances containing synthetic marijuana and related charges.
According to the indictment, the alleged conduct occurred between September 2011 and December 2012 in Buncombe, Henderson and Transylvania counties.
The synthetic marijuana was sold at Octopus Gardens' seven locations under brand names such as "Mind Eraser," "Vesuvius," "Bizzaro," "Voo Doo Child," "Gro-Hi," "Poseiden" and "Armageddon."
Named defendants are:
--Zachary Adam Shuford, 33, of East Flat Rock.
--Gregory Scott Casey, 38, of Asheville.
--James Scott Covington Jr., 28, of Asheville.
--Patricia Davis, 54, of Asheville.
--Richard William Delalio Jr., 31, of Asheville.
--George Coleman Freiberg, 32, of Arden.
--Kristi Diane Key, 41, of Asheville.
--Peter Andrew Kunza, 26, of Weaverville.
--Gerald William Locklear, 60, of Asheville.
--Muriel Annette Ring, 32, of Maggie Valley.
--Sidney David Tureff, 85, of Asheville.
--Jeffery Shane Vendernick, 44, of Asheville.
--Jessica Michelle Webb, 27, of Candler.
--Timothy Gary Wilson, 30, of Asheville.
Shuford and all other defendants except Delalio and Ring are also charged with selling or offering to sell drug paraphernalia, such as glass pipes, intended for use in inhaling a controlled substance. Casey and Locklear are also charged with money laundering.
Shuford has been charged with one count of narcotics conspiracy involving synthetic marijuana and two counts of distributing synthetic marijuana. He faces up to 63 years in prison and up to $3.25 million in fines, if convicted.
During the course of the investigation, law enforcement seized more than $700,000 in cash and 247 ounces of silver, four vehicles and drug paraphernalia in raids on the shops.
The indictment includes a notice of forfeiture, which says the defendants must forfeit to the United States all of the property, currency and monetary instruments involved in the offenses charged in the indictment. It also requires the forfeiture of all property, currency and monetary instruments which are proceeds of such offenses.
"We hope by pursuing these cases, as well as the new synthetic drug law that will go into effect on July 1, 2013, we will be able to curtail the sale of these very dangerous substances," Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan said in a news release announcing the charges.
House Bill 813, which was signed into law by Gov. Pat McCrory on June 12, outlaws all synthetic cannabinoids (marijuana) and places them under schedule VI of the controlled substances act, which also includes marijuana.
"Anyone wishing to establish a 'head shop' or similar type of business should not look to Henderson County as a community where they will be welcome or overlooked by law enforcement," Henderson County Sheriff Charlie McDonald said in the release.
"Synthetic marijuana has been a problem we have dealt with for some time. It has caused many problems for its users in Transylvania County," Transylvania County Sheriff David Mahoney said in the release. "The results of this investigation demonstrate the success that great partnerships can bring and these results will make a big impact in Transylvania County."
The investigation into Octopus Garden was handled by the Department of Homeland Security, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Henderson, Buncombe and Transylvania county sheriff's Offices, the Buncombe County Anti-Crime Task Force, and the Transylvania County Narcotics Task Force.
Just Like That smoke shop
A separate indictment filed in the Western District charged Hermant Sahney, 53, of Fletcher with one count of narcotics conspiracy involving synthetic marijuana and/or synthetic cathinones (stimulants or hallucinogens), two counts of possession with intent to distribute synthetic marijuana and/or synthetic cathinones and one count of offering drug paraphernalia for sale.
If convicted, Sahney faces up to 63 years in prison and up to $3.25 million in fines.
Also charged with narcotics conspiracy and possession are Scott Braddock, 47, of Inman, S.C. and Isam Jaradat, 40, of Mars Hill. Jaradat was also charged with distribution of synthetic cathinones and offering paraphernalia for sale.
According to that indictment, the alleged conduct occurred in Buncombe and Henderson counties between June 2012 and January 2013.
The "bath salts" were sold at Just Like That smoke shop in Weaverville and elsewhere, under brand names such as "Snake Eyes," "Eight Ballz," "Tran Quility Bath Salts" and "Diamond Dust."
The "K2" was sold at Just Like That and elsewhere, under brand names such as "Cool Beanz," "Krypt," "Purple Diesel Hydro," "Spectacular," "Zero Gravity" and "Super Kush."
The investigation was handled by HSI, the Buncombe County Anti-Crime Task Force and the Buncombe and Henderson county sheriff's offices.
The defendants are scheduled to have initial appearances Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Charlotte.
High Life smoke shops, Charlotte
A criminal complaint charged the owners of High Life Smoke Shops and their co-conspirators with conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute a quantity of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of synthetic cathinones.
According to filed court documents, from the spring of 2012 through the present, the co-conspirators sold synthetic marijuana and bath salts at six head shops throughout Charlotte and surrounding areas.
Court documents show that the drug conspirators stored and distributed the synthetic drugs from two Charlotte-area warehouses. Court records indicate that along with the illegal drugs, the co-conspirators stored at the warehouses other drug paraphernalia, such as glass pipes, which were also sold at the head shops.
Pandora's Dreams smoke shop
A separate criminal indictment charged seven defendants with conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute a quantity of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of synthetic cathinones and related charges. According to that indictment, the alleged conduct occurred in Mitchell and Mecklenburg counties from July 2012 to May 2013. The Bath Salts were sold at Pandora's Dreams head shop in Spruce Pine, N.C., under brand names such as "White Water Rapids", "Snowman", "Super Glass Cleaner," "Anti Monkey Butt Powder," "Dragon," and "Bushman's Repellant."
Named defendants are:
--Matt Davis, age 32, of Charlotte.
--Kelly Higgins, age 24, of Burnsville
--John Newberry, age 40, of Spruce Pine
--Albert Tomes, age 41, of Bakersville
--Tina Tomes, age 43, of Bakersville
--Kevin Vickers, age 22, of Bakersville
--Lori Watts, age 46, of Spruce Pine
Newberry, Watts, Albert Tomes and Tina Tomes are also charged with selling or offering to sell drug paraphernalia, such as glass pipes, intended for use in inhaling a controlled substance.
Matt Davis and Tina Tomes are also charged with money laundering.
Mitchell County Sheriff Donald Street said, "I am very thankful for the assistance from the federal authorities on closing down these head shops. Our local head shop was creating a real nightmare for our county and was destroying many people's lives along the way.
"The arrest of the individuals involved in these businesses will hopefully show them and others the consequences of selling these very dangerous substances. This investigation is perfect example of what can be accomplished when local, state and federal authorities work together to solve problems in our local communities."
"Synthetic cathinones (bath salts) and synthetic cannabinoids are two of the most widely abused drugs in Yancey County," said Yancey County Sheriff Gary Banks. "My office has seen a large increase in the number of users of these controlled substances over the past couple of years. I feel like this is directly related to the fact that these drugs were very easy to obtain in both Mitchell and Buncombe counties.
"Also, typically users of these controlled substances had the impression that these substances were 'legal' to purchase and possess. I would like to thank everyone for their assistance in this investigation."
The defendants are scheduled to have initial appearances today in U.S. District Court in Charlotte. The charges contained in the indictments are allegations. The defendants are presumed innocent unless and until they proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.


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This is an old revision of LegacyOS made by CrustyLobster on 2010-09-02 09:34:29.
2 September 2010 Legacy OS has been released
Hello Everyone,
Today sees the release of Legacy OS Linux formally TEENpup Linux. After 8 months of development I am proud to now offer Legacy OS for download.
This release marks the moving away of Legacy OS from a teenager based Distro to a Distro which sole purpose is to rescue 5 to 10 year old PC's / laptop's from ending up in Landfill. To do this it has to be usable in a real world environment and provide compliance with current online standards. A user wants to be able to connect online and have an acceptable Internet experience. Legacy OS comes with Opera 10.10 Web Browser as default which is also the default Email Client. Some System Files have been updated to allow the current version of Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Java 1.6 and other required Plugins / Codecs to operate in what in reality is a Legacy Operating System. By building on a system base that is now 4 to 7
years old, gives a User access to a base of System Drivers that are no longer supported by the majority of Linux Distro's available today. Because of the Legacy nature of the Operating System, a very large selection of useful Applications come standard with the Distro and most users won't feel the need to install any extra software. In this release you'll find no Open Office? Why? It was felt that Abiword and Gnumeric would allow a user to still write the odd letter and may be do a spreadsheet. Open Office takes up a large amount of MB's on the CD that could be put to better use. This has allowed the inclusion of a large number of extra Applications that would otherwise not find themselves included. Legacy OS comes with a new Dark Look Theme as default. Both KDE and GTK2 based Applications and some Java Based Applications use this theme. Some will love it and some will hate it. So why the Dark Look? It was felt that a Dark Theme would appear more modern than the Light Themes that have been used in the past and to move Legacy OS away from the "Windows Vista" Look TEENpup 2009 Legacy had. A lot of testing was done during the development of this Dark Look Theme to make sure all Applications still displayed their font colors correctly and fonts simply didn't just disappear into the background. This is a "Long Term Release" and with this in mind has been developed for a user to install and use for 2 to 3 years before updating.
Download from this link first before trying others.
You'll need to use these to download
User = puppy password = linux
See Screenshots at this link http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=59333
Update: 27-06-2010
Latest News: TEENpup 2010 Legacy Coming Soon!
What to expect? Basically since the release of TEENpup 2009 Legacy a number of changes in Protocols on the Internet relating to Web based Applications included in TEENpup 2009 Legacy has occurred resulting in these Applications no longer working as expected making them obsolete. As TEENpup Legacy is a long term release, a Minor Update is currently underway which will see some Applications remove or Modified and others added. The base System will stay the same as TEENpup 2009 Legacy so if your Hardware currently works then it should work with TEENpup 2010 Legacy. (See Update News Below !)
What is the Driving Force behind this and future Releases?
Simple, Keep old PC's from ending up in Landfill while providing a modern looking environment with a large range of useful Applications for Users.
TEENpup is Linux not Windows
I started TEENpup with the vision to make it Windows like to attract Windows Users. I now come to realize that I was wrong! TEENpup is Linux not Windows and should never be. Linux offers a different way of doing tasks and if you are a Windows User expecting or demanding a "Windows Experience" from TEENpup or any other Linux Distro, then forget it! Take the time to "Learn the Linux Way" or get back to Windows where you belong. It is a privilege to be a Linux User and I'll no longer disrespect Linux trying to make it Windows.
Update: 27-04-2010
Base Lib glibc updated from 2.3.5 to 2.5 which now allows the latest Adobe Flash 10 Plugin to work with Opera 10 Web Browser which is now the Default. Seamonkey, Firepup and Dillo have been dropped due to age and other problems.
Open Office also dropped to make way for a large number of NEW! Applications ! You can copy Open Office files from 2009 Legacy or try an .sfs from the Puppy Forum if you really need Open Office. Abiword and Gnumeric can do most "Word" and "Excel" type tasks.
TEENpup 2010 Legacy is Expected May-June 2010
Not heard of TEENpup before? What's it history?
TEENpup 2010 Mini Beta is the Sixth release of TEENpup with version 1.0.0 originally being released March 2007
TEENpup 2010 Mini Beta was Released!! February 2010
This release of TEENpup will find a number of new friends with Some Netbooks but designed mainly for EeePC's.
If I put TEENpup 2010 Mini Beta on my EeePC what can I do with it?
1. Play MP3's one at a time with AlsaPlayer or Manage a collection with Amarok.
2. Watch AVI's with Smplayer which you might have downloaded with Ktorrent.
3. Watch Youtube Video's with Opera 10 due to the Flash Plugin being included.
4. Read an ebook downloaded in PDF format with ePDF or Kpdf.
5. Talk to friends with Skype 2.
6. Write a letter with Abiword or Kword.
7. Do a Speadsheet with Gnumeric or Kspread.
8. Keep your Appointments, Addresses in order with Kontact.
9. Connect to a Wifi Network at Home or Away.
10. Keep track of your Finances with HomeBank
11. Manage your Photo collection with Digikam.
12. Do some Desktop Publishing with Scribus.
13. Manage a Project with Kplato
14. Play games like Mahjongg or Solitaire or fly a Aeroplane with Sabre Flight Simulator.
15. Play old DOS games like Wolfenstein 3D with Dosbox.
16. Surf the Internet in fullscreen mode with Opera
17. Receive and Send Email's with Opera's included Email Client or Kmail.
Other things you can do by connecting an external DVD Drive are;
18. Burn CD / DVD's with K3B Burner.
19. Convert CD's to MP3's with KAudioCreator.
20. Watch some Encrypted DVD's.
21. Install TEENpup 2010 Mini Beta from CD
Lastly don't have an External DVD Drive but would like to try TEENpup. Just boot TEENpup on a PC / Laptop with a CD drive and install TEENpup tp a USB Stick using the Installer from the Menu and then Boot TEENpup from the USB Stick on your EeePC.
OK so that's some of the stuff you can do with TEENpup. Personally as the EeePC was designed for travel, it suits me. Have a think about what you use your EeePC for and how TEENpup might fit your requirements?
Want to see a Youtube Video Review or on what you can expect?
Download the iso from Here
Please download from Softpedia first before downloading from the following links, Thank You.
login: puppy
password: linux
To see more Screenshots of what you Desktop will look like head over to the Puppy Linux for more info:
-What's included? K3B, Amarok, Smplayer, Digikam, Kooka, Kontact, Kword, Kspread, Kpresent, Konqueror, Ktorrent, Krusader, Kolourpaint, Kpdf, Opera 10 with flash 10, Abiword, Gnumeric, Scribus, Inkscape, Xournal, Skype, Mplayer, Sabresdl, Powermanga and More!
Once again it will come with a good number of KDE 3 series Applications but will still use the IceWm for its Desktop.
TEENpup 2009 Legacy still available
This is a long term release to revive old PC's
For suggestions and feedback, go to http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=43338
Hello Everyone,
Release Notes for TEENpup 2009 Legacy: Today sees the fifth release of TEENpup and once again it's still based on Puppy 2.14 Why? Well mainly a lot of old Hardware just seems to work with Puppy 2.14. This time the iso has grown to just under 700MB's so that it will fit on a CD. As the focus for TEENpup has shifted to a Modern Operating System for older PC's which most likely only came with a CD Drive, it was felt that a 700MB size limit should be adhere to.
Also to attract users from Windows TEENpup default color scheme has been modeled on some of Vista's coloring. Also the way the menu Applications are worded might seem too simplistic for the average Linux User. It was felt that to win over new users; TEENpup's Applications had to be as easy to access as was possible. To someone new to Linux and coming across for example Applications called GIMP, ROX , GAMBAS, KAFFEINE to name a few, might be put off even opening them and it was felt that what an Application did was more important than its name.
So this now leads me to some of the Applications included in this release. It was felt that Open Office should be included with its Help Manual as well as being the latest version at time of release ( 3.1 ) as a large number of users, use a PC for Writing, Spreadsheets and Presentations and anything less wouldn't do. KDE's similar Office Applications have been removed. A number of new KDE Applications have been added. Also Pdrive's USB auto mount daemon has been turned on by default, detecting most USB devices that are plugged in. A lot of time has been spent fine tuning little details that make it easier for the average user to use TEENpup. Example: Seamonkey will recognize most common attachments in emails and open them when you click on them. No more searching through "bin" folders for the executables, which wouldn't be a hard thing to do for a seasoned Linux user where as a Linux Newbie would fine it almost impossible.
Also there's something I created called "Magic Scripts" which is a drag & drop arrangement. all you do is drag & drop say an audio file or video file and it will allow you to convert it to another format, simple!
Also included is Chinese, Japanese and Korean font support for Seamonkey and Firepup.
Those familiar with some of the Applications included in this release will find them to be an older version than is currently available, why? Well the main reasons are because their smaller, have less dependency and due to these reasons run faster on old Hardware and finally I can fit more of them in to the iso. Some users will feel I left out an Application which they felt should have been in TEENpup, well a lot of testing of different Applications was done over the last 15 months and for one reason or another it was decided to leave that Application out.
To those trying this release of TEENpup, I hope you find it modern, useful, reliable and most of all user friendly. Enjoy!
- http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/TEENpup/TEENpup2009Legacy.iso
- and
- http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/TEENpup/TEENpup2009Legacy.iso.md5.txt
- login: puppy
- password: linux
- http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/teenpup/
- it has a password user=puppy password=linux.
- http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/teenpup/
- Download from Softpedia
- Screenshot Link http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=19000
Latest news TEENpup 2008 available
- Download from http://puppylinux.ca/teenpup
- Download from Softpedia
- Also Available from http://puppyisos.org/isos/2008-01-to-06/ Note: Only use this mirror if you are having trouble downloading from Softpedia or Puppylinux.ca
- TEENpup Now on Distrowatch's active list http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=teenpup
- Need Support? Have Questions? Why not join the Puppy Linux forum on which TEENpup is based. Here you will surely make many new friends.
Update: TEENpup 2008 was released on the 3rd of March 2008 and became available for download from Softpedia on the 5th of March 2008. Since being added to Softpedia as of 15th of April 2008, TEENpup 2008 has been downloaded 5000 times.
Have you tried TEENpup 2008 yet! TEENpup 2008 is a free download.
Bring back to Life that old Pentium III PC you have stored away!
TEENpup 2008 may even run on older PC's then listed: Example a relative couldn't view her daughter on Facebook as her old 350MHZ PC with Windows 98 wouldn't install JAVA as the JAVA website listed the version of Windows 98 as not being supported. I created a special Live CD of TEENpup 2008 with JAVA pre-installed and now she can view Facebook. Now she is burning music CD's with K3B while still running Live from the CD. She has commented that TEENpup 2008 starts up faster than her installed copy of Windows 98.
See what the reviews think
Did you know TEENpup / Linux can also look after your Windows Operating System and keep it running better for Longer! How? Because TEENpup can run as a Live CD and comes with most required codecs / plugins for surfing the Web pre-installed. You can open your favourite websites like Youtube, Facebook etc running TEENpup from your CD/DVD Drive while Windows happily sleeps inside your PC never knowing it's even "ON". This should prevent those nasties on the Web from infecting your Windows System. Also one other advantage is that TEENpup will most likely be ready to use in less time then it takes to boot up Windows.
What is TEENpup Linux?,Why would I want to use it over Windows or another Linux Distro?TEENpup is for the PC User who doesn't want or care about setting up Flash, Java, Realmedia. Just Like Windows they expect it all to just work. They don't want to go to say Youtube and a "missing plugin" message comes up, they just expect it all to work.
"While TEENpup was originally created to appeal to Teenager Puppy Users looking for more appealing Desktop and a larger range of Applications to choose from, the goal now with each release is to create an inviting, easy to use Operation System for the average Home PC User." John Van Gaans, creator of TEENpup Linux
Screenshots: 1. Desktop; 2. Some apps new to TEENpup 2.14; 3. Multimedia Apps
WHY YOU SHOULD TRY TEENpup 2008? For starters it's Free!! :
-The Biggest Improvement is ease of use over TEENpup 2.14 Just click on a media file and 95% of the time VLC Player will open and play that file. Click on a PDF File and Kpdf viewer will open. The same goes with JPEG's etc. It's all about making an Operation System that can be used by non technical User's ever day.
-Watch Encrypted DVD's ( On some PC's, you may need to have TEENpup installed to your Hard Drive.)http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=27592
-Edit many different media formats
-Dialup support for some winmodems
-Boot TEENpup off a USB Drive (Take your Operating System with you in your Pocket!)
-Run TEENpup Live from CD or Install it to your Hard Drive in under 15 Minutes
-Runs well on old pentium III 800Mhz 128MB of RAM PC's, even better on current PC's
-Burn your favourite media to CD/DVD, Download your favorite music with Frostwire.
-Transfer and View your favourite Photo's from your Digital Camera. Run a Slideshow.
-Edit those Digital Family Movies with "Lives"
-Write Letters, Spreadsheets, Publish documents.
-Draw and Paint with the large number of Applications that come standard on the CD
-Very Good Printer Support
-Open and view PDF's, DjVu, Word, Excel and Powerpoint Documents plus a whole lot more.
-Run 2 TEENpup 2008 PC's off one Broadband Modem designed to only work with one PC.
TEENpup 2008 was created for the PC User who has 1 or 2 Computers at home who wants to do the same basic things most Windows User's do. While it includes Applications to allow it to be connected to a office network, TEENpup is aimed more at the home user and not the small business User and has not been tested extensively in a business environment. The main advantage over Windows and some of the Bigger Linux Distro's out there is speed. Once you get use to TEENpup, you won't be able to stand the waiting for Applications to open anymore like you did in the past.
Looking for more Applications to use in TEENpup 2008?
Download them from here http://dotpups.de/dotpups/ (Note: While a large number of these Applications listed will run fine in TEENpup 2008, they were originally created to be used with Puppy Linux. As TEENpup 2008 has a larger base of standard system files over Puppy Linux on which TEENpup is based, installing some applications may replace some system files unique to TEENpup 2008 which could lead to problems later on. I recommend you try any of these Applications while running TEENpup 2008 Live First! to see if they work correctly before installing them if you have installed TEENpup 2008 to your Hard Drive).
UPDATE: TEENpup 2.14 Released October 2007
- For screenshots, see Forum thread 1 and Forum thread 2
- 23/October/2007: TEENpup goes on waiting list at DistroWatch. Hello to everyone from Distrowatch coming to take a look at TEENpup.
Download TEENpupSelect teenpup2.14.iso, 404MB. Use the Md5 checksum to make sure your download is correct.
Please be aware that demand on the servers might require you to try again later.
- Download from Softpedia
- Download from puppylinux.ca: http://www.puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/custom/
- Download from puppyisos.org: http://puppyisos.org/isos/2007-07-to-12/
- Download using MetaLink: teenpup2.14.iso via Metalink
- Md5 checksum: 301f824a3df3fa43b5470927c95a6149
What's new in TEENpup 2.14
- More usability in TEENpup for everyone, not just teenagers.
- More Codecs, Plugins, & Programs.
- Twice as many printer drivers (around 1500 printer drivers) as TEENpup 2.0.0
- Uses the CUPS printing system.
- Printing now works with the KDE Apps included with TEENpup 2.14 that didn't in TEENpup 2.0.0.
- Icons have been changed to look more inviting and pleasing to the eye.
- Everything feels cleaner and more professional.
Apps in TEENpup 2.14Even though TEENpup is only 404Mb big, it comes with a lot more apps than most 700Mb Distros do.
- Digikam, Showimg, Kooka, VLC Player, Realplayer, Gxine Player, Kmymoney, gtkpod, VNview, Kpdf, XaraLX, K3B, Scribus, Abiword, Glabels, Konqueror, Qcad, Madman, Grip, Audacity, heroes, gtkpool, kpat, kpoker and a whole lot more.
Minimum System Requirements
- 500Mhz CPU (Processor)
- 192Mb RAM (Update: After testing TEENpup 2.14 on a 800MHZ Pentium 3 PC with 128MB's of Ram it was discovered that TEENpup 2.14 is usable.) One discovery is that the system requires about 80MB's of Ram to operate while using any of the KDE Apps included in TEENpup 2.14 One advantage of TEENpup 2.0.0 / 2.14 is that unless any of KDE Apps are started, KDE and its underlying base / dependencies will remain idle freeing up much needed RAM on PC's with only 128MB's. This is just one of the reasons why TEENpup 2.0.0 / 2.14 use the ICEWM / JWM window managers and not the KDE window manager.
- 20x CD-ROM Drive that can be booted from (Testing has shown that a 4x CD-ROM Drive can also work.)
- Note: Apps like Gxine etc related to DVD playback, may not appear to work on older PC's with slow Processors and Ram Update 29th of January 2008 VLC Player has played DVD's on older PC's when Gxine Player wouldn't. Testing has shown that newer PC's with good Ghz for the Processor and around 256Mb's of Ram have very little trouble playing DVD's etc.
What has TEENpup got to offer over the other 500+ Linux Distro's currently available at Distrowatch?
- TEENpup is based on Puppy Linux and if you've ever tried Puppy Linux, you will know how free a system Puppy is.
- You can hack it to bits, no system manager stopping you copying in some system files like Ubuntu or Debian or Mandriva.
- You can experiment with a Puppy base system any way you like. Of course you will break a Puppy base system like any other Linux Operating System, but if most of your experimenting is while running from a Live CD, there's not much to lose.
Now back to TEENpup: if you're like me and have found Puppy to be too old looking and wishing that Puppy came with a good selection of the best apps from KDE or Gnome, looked as good as the other bigger Distros, but retained that ease of use for those new to Linux that Puppy gives, then TEENpup might just be for you.
How does a Live / install Distro that comes with Flash, Java, Realmedia and a whole lot more codecs sound? What about being able to play those encrypted DVD's other distros complain about and won't let you play your favourite movies, due to missing codecs? No problem here.
What about quick boot times? I run TEENpup 2.14 installed to Hard Drive on a 5 year old run of the mill PC and it takes about 33 seconds to boot up and about 7 seconds to shutdown. One thing I can't stand anymore is slow boot / shutdown times.
O.K., hopefully I've convinced you to try TEENpup 2.14 for yourself.
Older TEENpup Info
UPDATE: TEENpup 2.0.0 Released June 2007 See Link for Screenshots http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=18537 (See below on what I want TEENpup to become as a minimum Operating System)
Download TEENpup 1.0.0 link (226Mb).
HTTP Mirror for Teenpup 1.0.0.
FTP Mirror for Teenpup 1.0.0
Link to folder containing TEENpup 2.0.0 link (272Mb)
Why was TEENpup Linux created? Why another Linux Distro?
When I first discovered the Linux Operating System, I spent alot of my time trying many different Linux Distro's and found that one version filled some of my needs, while another filled others. I couldn't find a Linux distro that did every thing I needed it to.
Finally I discovered Puppy Linux and was hooked. It played Encrypted DVD's, My Winmodem worked. It was very quick and simple. (95-99% of Linux Distro's don't support Winmodem's by default.)
While I was very happy with Puppy Linux, I wanted it to be more pleasing to the eye upon boot-up, have more Apps (Packages) to be more useful to myself and my family. As I was running Puppy Linux on my Hard Drive, its size didn't matter to me. So I added more and more packages until I started getting closer to an Operating System myself and family could use ever day.
My niece's use to come around and always wanted to use msn and surf the net, I made them use Puppy instead of Windows and asked them for feedback on what they liked and disliked.
A few months ago I decided I would bring all my ideas together and create a version of Puppy Linux, I felt would appeal to Teenagers and those young at heart and TEENpup was born from that idea. I also felt that TEENpup should come with a lot of extra Apps (packages) already installed so someone new to Puppy Linux wouldn't have to search the forum and other places for Dotpups of packages they needed that weren't already in Puppy Linux. Also plugins like Java and Flash should be included and setting up your Printer should be as easy as possible.
So I thought about Java and how it's 85MB's installed and decided it was better to have a Dotpup of Java (25MB's Unzipped) included ready for installation as it would make the final version of TEENpup smaller and if a user didn't need java then they didn't have to install it.
I did the same thing with Flash, only this time it was to update it from version 7 to 9. I also include the "No Script" Plugin to stop Seamonkey from crashing as had been the a problem in the past since the release of Flash version 9 update. (Problem Fixed in TEENpup 2.0.0 which now has Flash version 9 as Default, no longer requiring "No Script" Plugin to reduce Seamonkey Web Browser from Crashing upon opening of websites containing flash content.)
While Puppy comes with its own Printer Wizard, it doesn't include many drivers (improved in Puppy versions 2.13 and 2.14 and TEENpup 2.0.0) so I decided to add the online Printer Wizard (TEENpup 1.0.0 only) from the Puppy Forum and there's instructions and a dotpup for that.) All can be accessed by clicking on the Icons on the right hand side of the Desktop.
As for the look of Seamonkey Web Browser I thought it looked plain and a bit out of date. What it had going for it was it had email and website composer built in.
As it is Puppy Linux's default Browser all plugins work, links work by default, all I had to do was make it look better with some themes and add some more plugins.
You will find an icon on the right hand side of the Desktop to access these themes and extra plug-ins. (TEENpup 1.0.0 only)
TEENpup 2.0.0 has a nice theme for Seamonkey installed by default.
TEENpup 1.0.0What extra applications (Packages) are included compared to Puppy?
Cinepaint, XaraLX, Qcad, The Gimp, Inkscape.
Scribus (with extra templates), XNview and (Acrobat 5.0 TEENpup 1.0.0)
aMSN, Gizmo net phone and Ghttrack.
Realplayer, XMMS, Streamtuner internet radio, Grip mp3, Audacity, (X-CDroast TEENpup 1.0.0), Grafpup CD Burner, PBcdripper,aumix and gtkpod for your ipod.
Hearts, Solitaire, Mahjongg, Moonlander, Zaxxon, Ltris and Xgalaga. I also included Dosbox which allows you to install old Windows dos games like Wolfenstein 3D and play them through TEENpup.
Endeavour2 File Manager, GQview (image viewer), gtkam, VYM View Your Mind Outliner, Pfind (search) and a small App that gives you swimming fish on your Desktop called Fishtank see Icon.
You can install more apps with Puppy Software Intaller, dotpups TEENpup 1.0.0 and TEENpup 2.0.0, or PetGet with TEENpup2.0.0
All in all a lot of time has been spent on changing icons, wallpapers, mimefiles and more, I hope you like and enjoy using TEENpup version 1.0.0.
Like to see some screenshots? please click link http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=15956
You can download it from here http://puppyisos.org/isos/2007-01-to-06/
TEENpup is based on Puppy 2.10
Later TEENpups will use more current versions of Puppy.
TEENpup is based on Puppy 2.10
Later TEENpups will use more current versions of Puppy.
TEENpup 2.0.0Vision for TEENpup 2.0.0 based on Puppy 2.14
What I want TEENpup to become and offer the average PC User.
I believe an PC Operating System should be able to do the following by Default:
Connect to the Internet by Dial Up / Broadband
Surf all the Net including Pages with Flash and Java
Open Emails, Chat with MSN, Yahoo etc
Write Letters and do Spreadsheets, Paint, Photo Edit
Open different file formats like Powerpoint, Word, Excel, PDF's etc must be able to open Windows Formats.
Play DVD's CD's Windows Media, Quicktime, Real Media
Burn not just Data CD/DVD's but also Music CD's (Fixed in TEENpup 2.0.0)
Rip MP3's and have some compatabilitly with ipod's.
Open Photo's
Come with some Simple Games
This is the Minimum requirements and TEENpup 2.0.0
TEENpup 2.0.0 has been released.
OK what's different this time round.
Well alot of KDE's base system has been added to TEENpup 2.0.0 to allow Apps like K3B, Kooka, Digikam, Konqueror, Kopete, Kpdf, Kolf, Kontact and more to operate with the JWM and ICE window managers.
We also have "LMMS" which is a music studio to allow user's to create their own music + ZynAddSubfx another music App.
To allow a user to build a CD library simular to itunes there's the App "Madman".
If you'd like to print out some labels with your printer, there's the App "glabels".
Also games like "kobodl", "Starfighter", "Lbreakout2", "Kpat" and more have been added.
While some Apps from TEENpup 1.0.0 were removed, alot like Grip, Scribus, XMMS, Gimp, XaraLX, Realplayer, Audacity, Qcad, VYM,
dosbox, XNview were kept.
Also Added or updated are "Linuxdcpp", "Gaim2", "Kino", "Prozilla".
My advice is to take a close look at "Digikam" as it does more than just transfer your digital photo's from your digital camera. It has the current up to date camera drivers installed and better detection of some cameras than gtkam. Also you may find your Scanner will now work with "Kooka".
I must warn you that while there is a lot of KDE in TEENpup 2.0.0, it is not the full KDE Desktop and some Apps may not have all functions working.
Printing may not work with some KDE Apps and you may need to "save as" to a file and use other Apps to print.
TEENpup 2.0.0 is alot more experimental than TEENpup 1.0.0 in the way it was created with alot of the Apps coming from many different sources and bugs are sure to turn up. Hopefully there won't be many.
Update: There is a problem with the Menu in TEENpup 2.0.0 which doesn't effect it while running from the Live CD.
Upon installing TEENpup 2.0.0 to your Hard Drive and installing more Packages, the Menu may revert to an earlier ugly version with alot of the Apps missing. to bring back the correct menu open "Home" and unhide the hidden files by clicking on the "EYE". Now open the folder .icewm and create a folder call "Menubackup" and copy the backup or old menu to that folder. Now rename that old menu to "menu" and overwrite the current menu. This will bring back TEENpup's correct menu. You will need to do the same for the jwm menu as well which you will find under "Home" (root) as well.
Sorry about this bug as it was only discovered after TEENpup 2.0.0 was released.
Update: The menu problem has been fixed. See Link to Forum
Update: An Added Icewm Theme for TEENpup 2.0.0 which changes the top toolbar colour to black called IceVista3. See Link to Forum
Update: I am currently building the next installment of TEENpup and while it will be fresh and hopefully an improvement over TEENpup 2.0.0 it will still be based on Puppy 2.14 (See it more as an Updated, more Apps version of TEENpup 2.0.0)
Be warned its size is growning again. As I see or run into problems preventing a average PC user be it a Linux or Windows from doing their normal things with their PC, I have tried to find solutions to those problems which has increased the size again.
I'm also working on "Look and Feel" to attract EYE CANDY hungry Windows User's to Linux.
Even more now I see TEENpup as a single user PC Operating System. What this means is that TEENpup is now aimed at a family with a single PC who like to surf the net, play a DVD or two, burn a few CD's etc etc all the normal stuff a average Windows User would do.
I have no plans to make it into a SOHO System.
OK much to still be done, so a release date hasn't been set. I am trying to get it ready as quickly as time allows. Update: 11-08-2007


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In the countryside this time of year, it is common to see stacks of dried cornstalks, hay bales and brown fields. The countryside is a living vignette of the Thanksgiving season and that childhood song, "Over the River and Through the Woods."
It is time to enjoy the harvest now that the growing season is done.
I am writing today about Historic Johnson Farm. Twenty- five years ago, the late Vernon and Leander Johnson gave their property to the local schools. This farm is no longer in the growing season, and reaping has a different twist. It means passing on knowledge of life in another era.
The Johnson brothers' ardent wish that this property become a heritage education center comes to fruition each time a student arrives for a school field trip or a visitor takes a tour. It takes just one visit to realize it is a special place.
To briefly revisit the past 25 years, a lot has happened: grants, restorations, maintenance, recruitment of volunteers, fundraisers, festivals, programs, social studies field trips, and the arrival of the Heritage Weavers and Fiber Artists. The volunteers, including me, are pleased with the fruits of our labor during this silver anniversary year.
For those unfamiliar with the farm, allow me to attempt the challenge of putting into words the value of this place and its mission.
In brief, the farm tells the story of our community. This property was here when the Cherokee hunted in the area; here when the pioneer settlers and farmers arrived; here when the burley tobacco markets rose to a peak only to fall; here when the railroad came, making our community a tourist mecca. It piques the imagination to recall days when visitors arrived at the train depot. Today, agriculture and tourism remain vital parts of our local economy.
Why is a 19th century farm relevant today? In part, it is an ideal teaching site for children. Another piece of the formula is the belief that earlier generations have something to say and lessons to impart to the current generation.
The Johnson brothers were interesting people in and of themselves, and they lived through a unique period of history. They saw the progression from front-porch storytelling to electricity, telephones, radios and television. They observed the coming of the railroad and its impact. They lived through the Depression years, eking out a living running a boarding tourist retreat.
I believe they have another contribution to make to all generations. Vernon and Leander Johnson were strong role models. They were not people of means but were rich in spirit. They had special gifts. These brothers knew what was important in life: the people around them. They gave away handmade furniture, food, tools, Christmas trees, and ultimately their valuable farm. They were a shining example of giving at its best.
The brothers were years ahead in their knowledge of farming and conservation, in dealing with wildlife and animals, and with woodworking and inventing. They lived through lean times and knew the value of hard work. They chopped wood and hauled water for the farm boarders. They helped run the farm and the kitchen. Theirs were the smiling faces greeting guests at the train depot and driving the two-horse wagon back to the farm.
Despite their meager circumstances, they attended college. Vernon majored in mechanical engineering. Leander graduated at the top of his class in chemistry and served in the military in the chemical warfare department in Washington. They valued civic duty and often wrote to elected officials.
At West Henderson High School, they planted shrubbery, helped build the bleachers and baked cakes for the football team. They gave 39 acres of their property for the site of Rugby Middle School. Then they made plans to give their farm.
In reading through files at the farm, it is clear the Johnson brothers cared most about young people and their education — and bringing youngsters to their farm to learn about life in the first half of this century.
At the 25-year mark, our farm committee knows there are many tasks left to do. Two of these are growing our endowments to ensure that the farm will always be here, and bringing in the next generation of volunteers to help run the farm.
One step you can take is to attend "Christmas Festival at the Farm" on Saturday. All the details are available at www.historicjohnsonfarm. org under "Events." Here is another step to ponder. Many people in our community support the farm, and we are asking more people to step up and help us preserve this special place with a gift to our endowment funds. The farm also has a lovely, leather-bound Book of Memory for gifts in memory or honor of friends and family.
Plan a visit to this quiet place where yesterday still speaks and offers up its lessons. Then share a bit of your Thanksgiving blessings to make sure the farm is here forever. The Johnsons had their time to sow. Now it is the community's season to help the farm reap the benefits of this unique property.
To send a gift toward the endowment drive, mail checks to Historic Johnson Farm, 3346 Haywood Road, Hendersonville, N.C., 28791. The farm has endowment funds with the Community Foundation of Henderson County and the Henderson County Education Foundation Inc. Both have staff members who can advise on financial giving.
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A time to sow and a time to reap
In the countryside this time of year, it is common to see stacks of dried cornstalks, hay bales and brown fields. The countryside is a living vignette of the Thanksgiving season and that childhood song, "Over the River and Through the Woods."


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(Masterpieces of American Literature)
When Hinton published The Outsiders in 1967, she used her initials so that readers would think she was a man. It was assumed by publishers, in that pre-young adult era, that readers would not believe that a woman could write realistically about the urban street world that Hinton's first novel depicts. It is a sign of how far the genre has evolved since 1967 that The Outsiders seems so tame today.
The novel is set in a small southwestern city (similar to Tulsa), but in some ways it could be any city in the United States, for the novel is vague and dreamy in form. There are few adults, and the world of The Outsiders is divided into wealthy "Socs" (short for "socials") and "greasers," the tough gang members who dress in their early-1960's uniform of long hair, blue jeans, and T-shirts. The three Curtis brothers—Darry, the oldest, Soda, the middle, and Ponyboy, the narrator—live together and have taken care of one another since their parents were killed in an automobile crash some years before. Surrounding the Curtises are other teenagers who share greaser values and the Curtis hospitality.
The action in this short novel is, as in most young adult fiction, simple and straightforward and covers only a few days. After an argument with his older brother, Ponyboy and his friend Johnny run to a nearby park, where they are attacked by a carload of Socs, angry at the greasers for picking up their girls earlier that evening. In the fight, Johnny stabs and kills Bob, the Soc leader, and Johnny and Ponyboy are forced to flee the city, with the help of Dally Winston, the toughest greaser in the novel. Later, in a fire in the church where they are hiding out, Dally, Johnny, and Ponyboy manage to rescue trapped children and become heroes. The death of Bob leads to a major rumble, however, and the greasers defeat the Socs in this violent finale. Johnny dies of his wounds from the fire; Dally goes wild, robs a grocery store, and is gunned down by the police.
In the brief denouement, Ponyboy thinks of the hundreds of greasers like himself who are misunderstood and decides that someone should tell their story: "Maybe people would understand then and wouldn't be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore." He picks up a pen and begins the theme for his English class that will become The Outsiders: "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house . . . "
The major theme of the novel is the story of Ponyboy's successful initiation: He has survived the rumble, worked out his relationship with his brother Darry, and, in spite of the deaths of two friends, is a better and stronger person by novel's end. The story of Pony's initiation also has a number of subthemes. The first is what could be called the brotherhood theme. Loyalty is a cardinal gang rule, and the rumble at the end of the novel is only a particularly violent and ritualistic enactment of this value. Dally dies, in fact, because he became a loner and broke away from his supportive greaser gang.
Working with this brotherhood idea is the more important theme of eliminating prejudice. The greasers and Socs of the novel represent two clear socioeconomic groups in this world, and their ignorance and hatred of each other are what lead to the class warfare. Differences are created by social class, Hinton says, but underneath these superficial differences are people who share more than what separates them. As Ponyboy discovers, the sunset can be seen equally well from both sides of town.
How can the characters recognize this "family of man" that they all share? One obvious answer is in being sensitive to and tolerant of the world around them and breaking down the prejudice and ignorance that keep them from this recognition. In their sanctuary, Johnny and Ponyboy share Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay," and later, in his dying note to Ponyboy, Johnny says that Frost "meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. . . . Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. . . . There's still lots of good in the world."
The good exists if one can retain one's childlike innocence and capacity for wonder. Ponyboy begins the novel in response to Johnny's counsel; his sensitivity and intelligence lead him to try to tell the story of the greasers and the Socs, and what links them.
There are a number of literary allusions for a work this short: Aside from the Frost poem, there are references to Charles Dickens's Great Expectations (1860-1861) and to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (1936). The novel also contains a very literary three-part structure (city, country escape, city) reminiscent of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). Other literary echoes include William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595) and the film West Side Story (1957). A deceptively simple story, The Outsiders is a fairly complex novel and one with a number of thematic strains and literary devices.
When director Coppola made the film of The Outsiders in 1983, he took the same respectful attitude toward the work as the adolescents from Fresno, California, who had written urging him to translate the book to film, and the film plays like an adolescent fantasy. There is a vagueness to both novel and film that one usually finds only in the world of romance: Characters are two-dimensional and play out preordained roles, setting is generalized and abstract, there is no sense of historical time (the story is taking place in the early 1960's, readers guess, but mostly from the clothing), and the plot essentially consists of a series of ritualistic set pieces.
The novel, like the film, has been extremely popular with teenagers—probably because it was one of the first young adult books to deal with social classes as teenagers actually view them. Written when Hinton was only seventeen, The Outsiders was the first novel to deal sympathetically with "greasers," to describe adolescent outsiders not as hoodlums or juvenile delinquents but as normal young people locked into class roles and conflicts. The freshness of its young author's vision explains much of the book's popularity.


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Remember this guy from a little while back, this Stephen Fowler asshole?
Here's the notorious video. (Man that planning commish hearing about a certain place in Noe Valley just went on and on, huh? And hey, I wonder who ratted out that long-time Asian American dude* who lost his rental in NV owing to the lack of an Occupancy Permit? Mmmm… Anyway, Mr. Fowler is still reviled in Noe Valley.)
And before that, there was this one. Whew, good times.
And now there's this, a new allegation that Stephen Fowler had something to do with these Marin County trees getting hacked (to death?) up in Mill Valley.
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As always, We Report, You Decide.
I mean, maybe this tale is completely made up, you know, the way people would make up stories about Mussolini having a devil's tail, you know, sometimes people decide to not like you and then they'll just start making stuff up.
Here they are, the allegations:
"Just wanted to pass along another example of Wife-Swapping Stephen Fowler's example of hypocrisy. He purchased a home this spring in Mill Valley, 317 Hillside for $800,000, tore it down and is now building a 3.5 million $$ spec house to flip. When the bank foreclosed on his neighbor at 300 Hillside across the street this spring, Stephen approached the owner, a general contractor at the time, a few days before the bank took the house away and paid the home owner to have a few of his employees illegally climb 10 Heritage Redwood trees, cut 20-30 feet off the tops of them thus freeing up the view of San Francisco for Stephens new house project. For a self proclaimed tree hugger, he has balls. See the photo's of just a few of the trees…"
Now, didn't S. Fowler go on the TV to promote environmental awareness? I think so.
And didn't he have all these kinds of shirts on – who made them, one wonders. Who forced poor Mr. Fowler into doing things he didn't want to and saying things he didn't want to say?
Anyway, somebody up Marin way might want to look into these tree allegations.
But remember, S Fowler makes more in one week than you do in one year!
*Robert Hanamura – whatever happened to that guy?


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Lou Phillips, longtime executive assistant at Oklahoma Christian, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 6. She was surrounded by family and she passed peacefully.
Visitation will be Friday, Jan. 11 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Matthews Funeral Home (601 S. Kelly) in Edmond, Okla.
Her memorial service will be Saturday, Jan. 12 at 10:30 a.m. at Memorial Road Church of Christ. Please remember Lou's family in your thoughts and prayers.
*As requested by the family, in lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to Oklahoma Christian University with a note to go to the Lou Phillips' Memorial Endowment. There is no place nearer and dearer to her heart than OC.
On the occasion of OC's 50th anniversary, Lou was named one of the "50 Who Made A Difference" at Oklahoma Christian. Here is that tribute to Lou from 2000:
At Oklahoma Christian University, saying the name "Lou" has the same effect as saying "Cher" or "Elvis" to music fans. No last name is needed because everyone knows "Lou." Lou is a friend of Oklahoma Christian in every sense of the word.
During more than three decades at Oklahoma Christian, Lou served as executive assistant to President J. Terry Johnson and later as a coordinator of special projects, where her work won friends for the university worldwide. Lou was the liaison between Dr. Johnson and highly distinguished guests, including the President of the United States. Serving as official hostess for the 1992 visit of President George Bush, Lou took it all in stride: arrangements with the White House speechwriters, rooms and refreshments for the President, security, all of it.
Placing a best foot forward for the university, Lou spent two decades beside its president and first lady, directing an office and countless events virtually behind the scenes. "Whatever it takes to do the job," Lou is said to have responded just before she accepted her position with Dr. Johnson. The rest is history. She followed that statement with tireless service to Oklahoma Christian that culminated in a 1995 Spring Dinner in her honor.
Energetic, dedicated, creative, organized, fun, talented, capable, responsible, flexible and thorough are all words Lou's coworkers have used to describe her. Lou also embodies the phrase "King Maker," as she considers former OC president Kevin Jacobs and current Pepperdine University president Andrew Benton (an OC alumnus) her boys.
Here is a 2005 Edmond Sun feature on Lou:
Local woman lives 'a wonderful life'
By Mark Schlachtenhaufen
Lou Phillips has lived a wonderful life.
Her husband worked in the Apollo Program in the 1960s during the American-Soviet sprint to land a man on the moon. She has met two U.S. presidents. And she has a loving family and many friends.
But not long ago, Phillips nearly lost her life.
"Prayer is what saved me," Phillips said.
In December 2003, Phillips went to a suburb of Washington, D.C., to spend Christmas with her nephew, Mark Hayes. As she prepared for the return trip, she became delirious, the result of the pneumonia that had been slowly progressing for some time.
On a Sunday evening, Hayes rushed her to a hospital in Fairfax, Va., where she was put on a respirator. That Tuesday morning, a nurse called Hayes at work.
"She said 'If you want to see her you'd better come now,"' Phillips said Hayes was told.
She was put in intensive care for three weeks, and hovered between life and death. More than once, the doctors decided she would not survive.
Then word went out from her doctors that it would take a medical miracle for her to overcome her illness. Like a living tidal wave, a prayer chain dedicated to Phillips began to grow. Her daughter, Lori Walle, began sending e-mail messages and people all around the world, many of whom did not know Phillips personally, prayed for her.
Locally, at Oklahoma Christian, students were praying for her in class. Members of her church, the Memorial Road Church of Christ, were praying for her. Friends in California, churches in Virginia, missionaries and alumni were praying for her.
"I really think that prayer is what saved me and I think the doctors would probably agree," Phillips said. "I knew that they had done all that they could medically and the rest was just up to me and God."
After the first week, her daughter, acting on her behalf, brought in a new doctor who put Phillips on a new medication regimen, which gave her body a "jolt." In all, Phillips was in the hospital for two months. During the rehabilitation process, she had to relearn basic functions like how to walk.
"He wasn't through with me," Phillips said.
Initially, Phillips wondered why her life had been spared. Those feelings were magnified by the multitude of supportive e-mail messages she later read.
"I thought, 'What does He have in store for me?' because, I guess He wasn't through with me," Phillips said.
She also influenced a woman there during her rehabilitation. The roommate, who was being treated for a brain tumor, did not believe in the power of prayer, said Phillips, who had several conversations with her. Phillips does not know what happened to the woman, but she hopes she had some impact on her.
Phillips said several factors spurred her recovery. First, her many friends helped keep her going. At that time, OC was experiencing an administrative transition and she had experience and relationships in the university's community at large that could be useful to the new president.
A scant year and a half later, Phillips is back at work, walking up a storm, volunteering on a periodic basis at OC, assisting with various special projects.
The Space Race
In 1973, Phillips and her husband, Art Phillips, moved to Edmond.
During the 1960s, Art worked in the Apollo Program, as a technical writer at the Mississippi Test Facility in a division operated by Rockwell International. Later renamed the John C. Stennis Space Center, the facility was to flight certify all first and second stages of the Saturn V rocket. The first static test firing began in 1966 and they continued into the early 1970s.
"It was very exciting," Phillips said. "The deal was to beat the Russians so the guys were working 10 hours a day, six days a week."
The engines that would propel the space capsule were sent from the manufacturing plant in California to Mississippi, the last step before launch.
"Rockwell's second stage shot 'em out of Earth orbit," Phillips said.
"Then Rockwell had the capsule the astronauts were in. On launch day we were all sitting there waiting for our part to kick in."
A couple of years after arriving in Edmond, Phillips obtained employment with OC, serving as an administrative assistant to then-President J. Terry Johnson. During various university fundraising functions Phillips built relationships with the presidents of Exxon, Conoco and Southwestern Bell.
"What job could I have had that would have provided those opportunities?" Phillips said. "I really couldn't think of any other job."
Bush I and Bush II
In 1992, Phillips was the university's official hostess for President George Bush's official campaign visit to the campus.
During the planning stage, a member of the president's staff let it be known that they knew someone in the OC president's office.
Prior to the visit, Phillips worked with White House advance staff, making necessary arrangements, which included finding suitable rooms for the White House press corps, and she assisted members of the Secret Service with their security needs.
Later, a member of the Secret Service told her that because of the lack of tall buildings this particular visit was like a "vacation" for them.
Additionally, Phillips worked on other details such as arranging the president's holding room and where to put the Teleprompter, which under her direction was concealed by plants.
She also delivered some information about OC to Bush's speechwriter.
And she learned that the White House press corps and the traveling press that cover the president are two different groups.
"I learned a lot about campaign stops," Phillips said.
Phillips recalled her introduction to President Bush.
"Everybody says he's really personable, and he really is," Phillips said. "He's so down to earth that you just feel you can talk to him as if you've known him a while."
Not only did Phillips meet President George Bush, she also got to meet George W. Bush, not once, but two times prior to his becoming president.
OC President Mike O'Neal, who assumed office in January 2002, said half-jokingly that he won't let Phillips fully retire until he does.
"Lou Phillips is one of the most beloved and most valuable people around this university," O'Neal said. "She has been extraordinarily useful to me as a new guy coming in from the outside. She also has a great love for Christian education and for people. The reason that people love her is because she loves them."


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This is an old revision of NOP made by darkcity on 2011-08-03 21:44:25.
Puppy NOP (Nearly Office Pup)
Puppy NOP ("Nearly Office Pup") is a version of the Puppy Linux operating system with several added features, put together by Puppy-enthusiast & aerospace engineer Gray. It uses the Xfce desktop environment and it is prepared for the addition of your choice of office productivity software: OpenOffice.org or goffice (AbiWord, Gnumeric, Inkscape Lite), in the form of a Puppy expansion file (.sfs file) you add yourself. It also has several things removed to preserve a small size. See this Forum thread about Puppy NOPfor more information. There is also an experimental version of NOP that includes the Compiz-Fusion window manager, called Wobbly NOP (see below).
Download NOP Latest Version NOP 431
2009/Mar/28: NOP431 released
Username: puppy Password: linux
3.01 r6See this forum thread about Puppy NOP 3.0x and the release announcement for 3.01 r6 for more details.
NOP 3.01 screenshots: default desktop & Opera; tweaked appearance, Thunar filemanager & Xfce Settings Manager
FeaturesSome of the things added to standard Puppy to make NOP:
- Xfce Desktop Environment
- CUPS printing system
- Xsane scanner utility
- Opera internet suite (with Flash)
- HotPup drive mounting
- Seamonkey internet suite (use Opera instead)
- Abiword (use OpenOffice.org Writer instead)
- Gnumeric (use OpenOffice.org Calc instead)
- some duplicate calculators, music players etc.
- JWM window manager
- Games
NOP & Compiz-FusionCompiz-Fusion (a compositing window manager capable of 3D effects) is not included in NOP, but user tombh has successfully installed it in NOP. See this forum thread for a step-by-step howto and more info. Or see Wobbly NOP below
Wobbly NOPtombh has released his second experimental release of NOP (wNOP-v0.2.iso) with Compiz-Fusion etc already built in.
- Youtube video of Wobbly NOP experimental 1 in action
- Forum thread on Wobbly NOP experimental 2, for more info & to give feedback
- Tombh's Wobbly NOP/Compiz-Fusion web page
- Forum thread on Wobbly NOP experimental 1, for more info & feedback


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QCAD - 2D CAD System.
Click here for a documentation of the DokuWiki formatting syntax that can be used in reports
Please search for existing tasks (also closed ones) before opening a new task.
Please make sure that you are using the latest Version of QCAD before posting a bug (menu Help > Check for Updates)
FS#763 - Hatching with just one click
Opened by Christian Aigner (caigner) - Monday, 11 February 2013, 18:34 GMT+2
My task: To hatch an area.
Right now, if I want to fill an area with a hatch pattern, I have to select all the enclosing objects (lines, arcs) and then I can select the hatch tool. That can be under some circumstances a tedious task.
Step 1: Create a rectangle.
Just for fun try recreating my second example (see Attachment 2: Hatching2.png)
Therefore I would like to suggest a far more simple approach.
Step 1: Select the Hatch Tool.
Of course that would mean that the hatch style is already pre-defined and can be changed later, if needed.
In this way productivity can be increased by ... [fill in you own estimate] ... times.
Example 2 would need only 13 clicks to hatch all the areas (including the hatch tool button).
A boundary needs to be defined, so - possibly when first selecting the Hatch tool the 'Hatch' dialog window opens with additional options like:
Select points (internal) to create boundary.
Select entities to create boundary.
Then as you say click inside the enclosed area.
@Andrew what do you think?
I assume, it should be possible to select one point inside the area, then travel from this point in any direction until you hit a border (=starting point), then follow the border clockwise, travelling from one boundary object to the next, until you end at your starting point. In this way, the program should be able to find the boundary by itself.
Unfortunately my skills, regarding programming this sort of application, are very limited.
Could that be done?


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Epson printers
HPLIP (see Billwho?'s third post) is a big package for (mostly) HP printers, that works with CUPS, and as well as providing drivers and utilities for monitoring ink levels and stuff, enables scanning. This is great news for all of us with HP PSCs. Apparently it should work in Puppy from at least version 2.14 (try earlier versions too, and post your experience).
HPIJS HP Printer Drivers This package only contains printer drivers allowing printers to only print.
"I don't know if CUPS is configured to see Windows printers or not?
If this is a standalone networked printer, it depends on what protocol it is using to advertise itself. If it is connected to a desktop machine and declared as a Windows shared printer, CUPS does not automatically detect it. You have to install it manually using the smb: protocol."
Printing to a printer on another computer on your network
If you want to print to a linux compatible printer (i.e. you have a driver, so you can install it if you connect it to your Puppy machine), shared from a Windows computer, go to http://localhost:631 the CUPS configuration page to add a new printer. Under device, specify "windows printer via SAMBA", and for the URI: smb://exact-name-or-IP-address-of-computer-attached-to-the-printer/exact-name-of-printer using the names as shown in LinNeighborhood. Choose the printer make and model, and you should be away. Prior to Puppy 3, you might (I'm not sure) need to download and extract smbspool to /usr/bin. To ensure Puppy automatically sees the printer, you probably need to add the URI as a line at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local. If you have a version of Puppy older than 2.17, and do not want to install CUPS, see here.
To print to a printer that is connected to another computer running Puppy, either read the 3rd post here, or if you've installed the full version of Samba on the "server", you can share the printer through Samba, and then connect to it the same way as to a Windows printer:
Sharing the printer connected to your Puppy computer, so that other computers (Windows or Linux) can print to it
To use SAMBA and CUPS, to share a printer just like Windows does: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=22363
If you do not have CUPS, I think it is still supposed to be trivial, but I don't know how :)
I believe you can also share a printer with other Linux (and maybe Windows) computers without having SAMBA :)
Printing to a printer other than default
Many programs like Seamonkey allow you to choose a printer when you print. For those that don't, like Leafpad, you print to the default printer with the lpr command, but you can print to another printer with a custom command. For example, I have two printers, called hp and CUPS-PDF. I can specify a printer with the command lpr -P hp or lpr -P CUPS-PDF.
Other printing options
Printing some pages of a document:
lpr -o page-ranges=1-4,7,9-12
lpr -o page-set=odd
lpr -o page-set=even
Printing pages in reverse order:
lpr -o outputorder=reverse
Printing more than one page to a sheet:
lpr -o number-up=1
lpr -o number-up=2
lpr -o number-up=4
lpr -o number-up=16
There are all sorts of other options (see the CUPS manual mentioned below - if you have CUPS). You would combine options like this:
lpr -P hp -o page-ranges=1,3-9 outputorder=reverse number-up=2
CUPS Printing (default in Puppies from version 2.17)
From version 2.17, PDQ has been replaced by CUPS printing (Barry is talking about having both as some people say CUPS won't work for them). If you want CUPS in an older Puppy, Pakt created a CUPS dotpup. It is large (19MB), and cannot be uninstalled. It works even with very old Puppies (at least back to 1.04).
CUPS is an industrial strength application, so is has lots more functionality than most people need. You should be able to get to the software users manual from the web interface, but if Barry has taken the docs out of Puppy send me (disciple) a message on the forum and I'll post the important stuff here or on the forum. Most of what you want starts here - mostly sections 2 and 3.
CUPS administration is usually done in a web browser at http://localhost:631/admin, but there is a small GTK gui called GTKLP. This seems much more convenient, but cannot be used to add printers. It also includes GTKLPQ for managing printer queues. I don't know if Barry will add GTKLP to Puppy.
Printing to pdf
PDF is a file format that almost everyone with a computer can read, and that looks virtually identical regardless of the software and OS that you read it in. Because of this, it is good for distributing files for other people to see, but very few people can edit it, as it is essentially a read-only format. Some people that don't have a printer in Puppy print to pdf and then print the pdfs to paper from a Windows computer.
From Puppy 2.16 onwards, Puppy has included the ability to print to PDF files, and jcoder's PDF printersfor both PDQ and CUPS (thanks jcoder!) can be installed in even very old Puppies (at least Grafpup 104, but read the thread for Puppy 1.x, as you need to edit the file slightly). This works like any printer - you choose to print to the PDF printer, and it asks you what to save the file as. If you have problems, (e.g. when you click cancel, the print job stays queued and the printer is stopped, so you have to go into CUPS and turn it back on) check that you have the latest version, as there were issues with early versions. There have been some great feature improvements as well. Note that when printing to pdf you should not check any boxes labelled "print to file". This is a feature provided by many programs that bypasses whatever printer is selected, and prints the file as a postscript file (similar to jcoder's PDF printers, but converting to ps rather than pdf).
Q - When I print from xxx program (eg Seamonkey, Firefox) and select a paper size, it does not work!
A - at least sometimes (with CUPS anyway) you have to set the correct page size in CUPS, otherwise what you print will either just come out at the size set in CUPS, or will be scaled down to the size you specify, but be put on the paper size specified in CUPS. This is noticeable when printing to PDF. The solution is to set the right page size for the printer in CUPS.
Q. I ran the Printer Wizard and I can now print from Firefox, Xpaint and Abiword, but I can't print a plain text file, nor Postscript or PDF files.
'A:' Printing support in Puppy is a work-in-progress. For now, the PDQ print manager handles Postscript files only, to any kind of printer, Postscript or otherwise. Firefox, Xpaint and Abiword convert to Postscript before sending to the PDQ print manager (note, the program lpr is a link to program pdq).
You also need to check to see if your printer is supported in linux by checking linuxprinting.org
Sylpheed, the email client, can also print its plain text emails, as it has been configured to call a little program, /usr/bin/lprshell, which is invoked like this:
# lprshell myfile.txt
lprshell uses Abiword in commandline mode to convert plain text or RTF files to Postscript then print via PDQ. You can also use this script directly to print any plain text or RTF file (printout has the same page layout and font that Abiword is setup for).
If you have a Postscript file, you can open the Xpdq manager and choose the file, then print it (see Utilities menu).
If you have a Postscript or PDF file, open Gsview (also known as Ghostview) from the Utilities menu (or just click on the file in Rox), choose File/Print, choose a generic Postscript printer such as "psmono", check the "Postscript printer" checkbox, the number of pages to print, then print.
Note that the print-dialog box in Gsview brings up a large list of printers, however these are not used in Puppy. These are printers supported by the Ghostscript package, however Puppy is configured to use the GIMP-Print IJS drivers and you will have already chosen a printer IJS driver when you ran the Printer Wizard (and PDQ would have been setup to use this printer as default). So, just choosing a generic Postscript printer in GSview will pass the Postscript file onto PDQ which will print to whatever is your default printer.
If XPDQ doesn't cut it for you there are now dotpups available for installing CUPS, the Common Unix Printing System which brings support for many more printers. (Edit - I don't think it does generally if you have a recent Puppy)


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A funny twist on a classic love story, this is a tale about the power of human connection. After a zombie epidemic, R (a highly unusual zombie) encounters Julie (a human survivor), and rescues her from a zombie attack.
Julie sees that R is different from the other zombies, and as the two form a special relationship in their struggle for survival, R becomes increasingly more human - setting off an exciting, romantic, and often comical chain of events that begins to transform the other zombies and maybe even the whole lifeless world.
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Conscientious owners of livestock won't face fines if their animals accidentally get loose under a revised animal ordinance approved by county commissioners this week.
Conscientious owners of livestock won't face fines if their animals accidentally get loose under a revised animal ordinance approved by county commissioners this week.
The board changed the ordinance Monday so that a person has to "intentionally, willfully, knowingly or negligently allow his livestock to run at large" in order to violate the law.
Before it was amended, the county animal code mimicked a state statute that says "if any person shall allow his livestock to run at large, he shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor." Each incident could bring a fine of $50 per animal.
"It's not normal that we'd go to that extreme (to cite and fine someone)," said Sgt. Mike Marsteller of the Henderson County Sheriff Office's animal enforcement unit. "Because the fact is, people are normally pretty good about getting them put back up."
Vice Chairman Tommy Thompson requested the change after an Edneyville apple farmer complained that he was repeatedly charged with letting his horses run loose, despite his purported attempts to remedy the situation.
"I just thought it was too burdensome," Thompson said of the old ordinance's wording. "Because their livestock might be out and they don't know it, and suddenly, boom, they're guilty of this Class 3 misdemeanor...I was just trying to make sure a prudent man could correct the problem without being penalized."
Thompson said the amended wording doesn't change the fact that people still have to keep their livestock fenced in, to prevent them from trampling neighbors' gardens or causing a public safety concerns for motorists.
"If they get out and tear out the guy's fence next door and start eating his corn, the law still provides a remedy for that," Thompson said. "We're just changing the law to say, just because they're out doesn't mean you're guilty of a crime."
Horse owners like the Edneyville farmer he talked with often pasture their herd miles from their homes, Thompson said.
"You get up in the morning and you don't know they're out because you can't see them," he said. "If you don't get up and go see about it, and you don't try to fix the fence, and you willfully let them run on somebody's property, you're negligently letting them run at large and you can still be found guilty."
"Any sensible person" will seek to remedy the situation once he or she learns their livestock is running loose, Thompson said, even "if it takes his "whole family and grandma and grandpa to herd them back in. They're making an effort, rather than being in violation of the law."
Marsteller said the Sheriff's Office keeps a log of animal escapee incidents and their owners' phone numbers, so that in most cases the owner is notified by dispatch and puts them away before officers even have to respond.
"The only time we go out there and do something is when the animal is contained or down in the middle of the roadway, which is a public safety issue," he said. "If there is a track record of multiple offenses, with the same animals at the same place, we tell people, 'You're going to get fined if this happens again.' Very rarely does it come to that."
Under the county's animal ordinance, livestock can include horses, cows, sheep, goats, llamas, fowl and swine.
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