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Location: SE
Posted: Tue 29 May 2012, 18:06
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johnywhy wrote:
Jasper wrote:
Perhaps Slacko etc. could automatically repair all malfunctions and perhaps any dents as well, if 01micko or BarryK or playdayz or jemimah can only find the time
Nobody expects that. My netbook has received no more nor fewer knocks than the average portable computer. It does not have any dents, and afaik, it's usb ports are in working order.
That said, my understanding is that one of puppy's goals is to work with older computers/outdated hardware.
Older computers are more likely to have hardware dysfunction. So, i think it would be consistent with Puppy's goals to catch hardware dysfunction without crashing the OS, IMHO.
Please, Mr. Developer, I've got a gammy partition in one of the HDDs in this here computer (heat problem in summer), could you, please, make puppy realise by its own that I cannot install it THERE and expect to use it in SUMMER
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Posted: Tue 29 May 2012, 18:14
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johnywhy wrote:
Is there something about my config or partitions that causes slickpet to save outside of the puppy directory?
Slickpet downloads both Pet packages and SFS files. They work in different ways.
A Pet will install inside your save file, using up space as it does so. It is only available for use on the save it's been installed on - for example, if you had four different test installs of Puppy you would have to install the package on each one.
An SFS, on the other hand, is intended to reside outside the save file and be loaded as part of the boot sequence. The main benefit of this is that it won't use up any of your save's space - the Open Office 3.3 SFS is 150MB, for example. The only real drawback of SFS files is that they can't easily be installed on Full Installs of Puppy, AFAIK. Assuming that they're compatible with the Puppy version you're using, the one SFS file can be loaded by all frugal and full installs on that partition.
Perhaps the built-in documentation for Slickpet could be improved a bit to make the distinction clearer?
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Posted: Tue 29 May 2012, 21:34
Post subject: Machine Check Errors
Subject description: it's a real thing
MinHundHettePerro wrote:
Please, Mr. Developer, I've got a gammy partition in one of the HDDs in this here computer (heat problem in summer), could you, please, make puppy realise by its own that I cannot install it THERE and expect to use it in SUMMER.
The software world abounds with hardware fault-detection and remediation (unless we're talking about quantum computing). A google search brings up mcelog which, according to this site
, provides
Advanced hardware error handling for x86 Linux.
They say all linuxes have (or "should" have) mcelog enabled. I don't see the mcelog in it's default location /var/log in Slacko, but i do see mcelog available in the Slacko repositories. Someone more expert than me would have to explain how to install and use. Sadly, it looks like it may be 64 bit only. Perhaps some awesome puppy programmer could make a 32 bit version of MCELOG?
That is not a demand-- it's a suggestion. Is it an unreasonable suggestion? Maybe, maybe not. Until Barry Kauler comes around and says "we do not want suggestions or bug reports", let's talk about Puppy Linux.
Getting back to the actual business at-hand (puppy linux, not personal insults), mcelog is of a family of tools designed to process
Machine Check Errors
: hardware faults.
Another MCE tool is mcedaemon:
Machine checks can indicate failing hardware, system overheats, bad DIMMs or other problems. Some MCEs are 'fatal' and can't generally be survived. Many, however are not fatal, and mced can help you detect and report them more accurately.
Maybe this or something like it could be made to work on puppy? That would be cool.
MS Windows contains a whole "Hardware Error Architecture". Is it any good? Maybe, maybe not. Does Puppy have something better? Something at all? Maybe, maybe not.
I'm just reading what I find on the web. But the point is, I'm not the only person who thinks an OS should be able to at least detect, if not recover from, hardware failures.
i see a file in /var/log in Slacko called "messages". I do not understand it, but I do see messages like
Detected 1666.435 MHz processor
Thermal monitoring enabled (TM2)
-- perhaps whatever is writing to messages might also be employed in a hardware monitoring and alert system for a gamy hard disk.
If one wants to spend money, he could try SpinRite, which works on Linux too
And/or, one could mirror his drive, or some other form of redundancy-- if puppy supports it.
Amusing: "Frustrated Linux crapware victim asks "Are there any reliable Linux systems?"
I really want to reply, "Yes, Puppy Linux!" --but I ain't feelin' that way atm.
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Posted: Tue 29 May 2012, 21:51
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Jades wrote:
An SFS, on the other hand, is intended to reside outside the save file
so, the puppy package manager is not downloading SFS's into my PSF?
Also, what if my frugal install is at the top of a partition (not inside a directory)? Ie, if, during Universal Installer, I enter "sda2" for the directory, instead of "sda2/slacko5.3.3frugal". Where will slickpet download to?
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Posted: Wed 30 May 2012, 07:14
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If a swap file or partition wasn't set up as a separate and specific exercise then you will not have one. A frequent recommendation on this Forum is that if your RAM is less than 512 MB then make your
Pup devs, coders, testers, artists, specialists, generalists, helpers, translators, promoters and supporters donate their time, resources, energies, expertise and brainpower to advance the worthy cause.
Puppy works widely and is free - if it doesn't work for you - seek help here on the forum or walk away - don't condemn it without firm knowledge or acceptable evidence - don't falsely deter prospective users.
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Posted: Wed 30 May 2012, 08:29
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johnywhy wrote:
Jades wrote:
An SFS, on the other hand, is intended to reside outside the save file
so, the puppy package manager is not downloading SFS's into my PSF?
Correct. As I said, SFS files are intended to reside outside of your save file. What Puppy sees as the filesystem is actually a combination of your save file, the OS SFS file and any additional SFS files you've chosen to load so it can load applications from any of those.
johnywhy wrote:
Also, what if my frugal install is at the top of a partition (not inside a directory)? Ie, if, during Universal Installer, I enter "sda2" for the directory, instead of "sda2/slacko5.3.3frugal". Where will slickpet download to?
The SFS would still be downloaded to the root directory of the partition, but still outside of the frugal's save file.
Looks like it's time... <puts on sunglasses> ...for a
The attached picture is from my current Slacko session, which was a Live CD boot with the Slackosave on a USB stick. Note the following things:-
In the bottom left of the shot, the desktop icon for sdc has a yellowish square around it. This is the USB stick the save is on, and in this session the root directory of that device is '/mnt/home' - had I booted a Lupu 528 session using a savefile stored on sda1, the flaky hard drive, then that would be '/mnt/home' instead, and the USB stick would be '/mnt/sdc'.
I've opened the root directory of the USB stick, note that the title bar of the window shows the pathname as '/mnt/home' The file jre-1.6.31-slacko.sfs (helpfully highlighted by Puppy in bold) has been downloaded using Slickpet. There are also a few other SFS files there too. The actual Pupsaves, all for LiveCD installs in my case, are stored in /mnt/home/Pupsaves
Screenshot illustrating /mnt/home and where Slickpet saves SFS files.
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Posted: Wed 30 May 2012, 08:31
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Duplicate post.
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Posted: Wed 30 May 2012, 23:38
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Jasper wrote:
If a swap file or partition wasn't set up as a separate and specific exercise then you will not have one. A frequent recommendation on this Forum is that if your RAM is less than 512 MB then make your
Thanks, Jasper. I just went with the saluki recommendation, which was "you have enough ram, no swap needed." Thank you, jemimah!
Jasper wrote:
Pup devs, coders, testers, artists, specialists, generalists, helpers, translators, promoters and supporters donate their time, resources, energies, expertise and brainpower to advance the worthy cause.
Yep, and for which I am totally grateful. I love puppy.
Is puppy just for hobbyists, or for normal people too? I could be wrong, but I think Barry wants puppy to be as care-free as possible. When it's a bit more bullet-proof, I think the marketing will take care of itself.
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Posted: Thu 31 May 2012, 06:27
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john, in console type
hdparm -iI /dev/sda
for info about your HD .
there is also hdparm [-FULL] binary and smartmontools pkg for having a daemon to monitor HDs .
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Location: Pennsylvania U.S.
Posted: Thu 31 May 2012, 22:16
Post subject: UMPlayer problem
Installed umplayer_standalone-0.97-486 from the PPM.
Program itself works great and shows video like it should however... The populated-list window does not show the thumbnails, just a blank space with a small label and some numbers in it. Info about the programs it finds is there (r/h side of window) and there is a split-second where it seems to want to display the thumbnail graphics but they disappear in a split-second too.
Went through the options in UMplayer, my changes there didn't help... even tried a reinstall.
What am I missing ?
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Posted: Thu 31 May 2012, 23:08
Post subject: Re: UMPlayer problem
sszindian wrote:
Installed umplayer_standalone-0.97-486 from the PPM.
Here's a link to the one that I use in slacko 533 pae, I don't know if it's any better or worse than what you have but worth a try I guess.
It'll need the qt473 sfs installed I think, I have qt470 that gets installed with kdegames from ppm.
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Posted: Fri 01 Jun 2012, 07:32
Post subject: umplayer
Thanks Billtoo!
First tried with just installing the qt473.... bunch of 'dots' showed up in video (but the thumbnails are now working) so downloaded and installed the umplayer-686 you mentioned... same dots appeared in video... did some tweaking in umplayer and got rid of those, probably would have worked the same with the umplayer-486 but... too late to know now?
Anyway, all working well!!!!
Guess the umplayer 'ALL' in the PPM isn't really 'ALL' ???
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Posted: Sun 03 Jun 2012, 19:17
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Has anyone else used icewn and had problems with the icewn config? It does not work.
Tried to fix it but was not able any help would be great
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Posted: Sun 03 Jun 2012, 19:56
Post subject: Puppy "Peculiarities"
Johnywhy, and others interested:
Because of the way puppys are put together they have some particularities. Puppies are put together in layers. Where pets are concerned the layers are a bit like rooms, or storeys. Where sfs files are concerned they are like islands. A main puppy sfs is read-only. It loads its active (read-write) files into ram at first run, if you have enough, or ram and swap if you don't, as on old p-II and the like hardware. When you make a pup-save file the main sfs loads, and stores, the read-write system in the pup-save file. When you add pets you add them to the pup-save file (you have to remaster to change any files in the main sfs). You add them more or less as additional rooms. In the new room the new program does what it does, and passes the product out to the central asembly room.
Sfs files you add you "float" in the partition sea, along side the main sfs and your pup-save. To use sfs files you bridge to them, at start-up or, in newer puppies, by fly-bridging to ones as you need them. This description is of the Frugal Install model. It is what puppy was designed around.
With a frugal install you can run into problems in downloading pets when your incoming pet is too big to fit in the space that remains in your pup-save file. This can happen when you download lots of pets, or when you use smallest-possible pup-save files. When you do, before you do, you have to pause your download and enlarge your pup-save file, then resume your download.
When you crash a download, when it stops for not having room to install all the incoming files, you cannot resume. You have to restart the download, after making enough room.
As far as I know puppy's package manager does not check download size against available space before it begins a download. You have to do this, or you can be surprised by a "disk-full" failure. When downloads crash-stop you cannot save them. You have to calculate before, or watch the personal storage monitor in your puppy tray and pause your download when it turns orange or red. Then you can move other files, finished downloads and such, out from your pup-save file. You can put them in your /mnt/home (float them in the partition-sea around your puppy files). After making room, you can resume the download you paused
I don't know if you can pause and resume ppm download-installs. I rarely use auto-download-and-install.
When you don't catch a download before it crashes, when you using CLI, or auto-downloading with ppm, so you know your pup-save is being over-filled until the download crashes, you can usually remove the partial download by opening the ppm window, going to the "installed" pets list, highlighting the name of the partially downloaded pet, and then selecting the 'remove' option.
For a manual download, go to the folder the download was going to and delete the partially filled file.
As far as I know a stopped-by-smash-up download cannot be resumed in puppy. I think it is a browser issue: The browser has to organize its stop and mark its stopping place to be able to resume from where it left off.
Puppy was not designed for "full install". But puppies can be made to work "fully installed". But they cannot be made to work using all of the space on a disk or in a partition (unless something in the basics has been changed since I experimented).
Puppies require space around them in their home-partitions. They need room to float in. If you make "sda2", or "sdb4" or "sdc" or whatever your pup-save file, your puppy is going to choke. It will lock up, it will crash, it will come to a full stop. Puppies must have space around their save-files.
The partition space around can be filled with other files, pet, sfs, files, folders with data, music, video, etc., but not full. It can be another operating system's space, but it has to be space. All folders and files in the space are reachable in puppy, through /mnt/home, or, if the disk has multiple-partitions, or there are card and flash-drives, through mounting those. The only thing a puppy cannot handle is a monolithic partition filled entirely with Puppy. Puppy cannot install as Microsoft does, with every bit of disk except the MBR its own one single save-file.
If you run into difficulties that seem like disk-malfunctions, your hardware crashing, locking-up, losing data, etc., before throwing things away, check that you have space in your home partition around your puppy files. Make sure your pup-save has enough free-space to fit what you are downloading into it. Or make sure you have set up a download-to location outside your pup-save, and that it has enough room. Navigate your download to a file in your /mnt/home, or mount another partition and then navigate to that mounted partition (going up the file system to /mnt and then to the partition, sda(n), or sdb(n), or whatever. A folder in /mnt/home or another mounted partition you can fill to as full as the whole partition then, if you want to.
So, the basic rules are, 1. puppy systems partition space around them. And, 2. you have to have enough room to finish your download in the place you are downloading to. And 3. you always have to stop your download yourself, by pausing it. Paused downloads can be resumed. Crash-stopped ones cannot be. Rule 4 will be that to recover after a crash-stop of a download you have to remove the partial-file and start again, or, when using the ppm, use the uninstall feature to remove the part, and then start again with your fetch command. Parts of component files that remain after a remove command will be overwritten by the new download-and-install of the file.
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Posted: Mon 04 Jun 2012, 06:07
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Hello oldyeller
oldyeller wrote:
...Has anyone else used icewn
Yes, i installed
via the PPM
The download failed from the default URL (ftp.linux.hr)
so i used 'nluug' instead as it is usually pretty quick.
oldyeller wrote:
...and had problems with the icewn config? It does not work.
No problems here mate. (other than the above issue)
Not exactly sure what you mean by "
problems with the icewn config
", care to elaborate
All that i did, was:
then exit to a prompt and enter the following:
xwin icewm
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I'm reminded of this every time I use our step stool, a product which carried that "unbreakable" label. One of the pads on the bottom of a leg is broken off, and a cross member is likewise broken. We've had this since we moved into the house, as as "we" are painting just now, I...um, "we"...have cause to use the step stool once again.
The step stool was fine until the kids came along, then it developed these mysterious injuries. No one knows how they happened. It's quite possible that those pesky Libyan terrorists were responsible again. Like ninjas, they sneak in, do some damage and disappear.
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All four peregrines have now successfully left the nest. The last to leave flew out at 3:30pm today. We believe her maiden flight was OK, though are awaiting news of all six birds being seen at once - which isn't always easy!
With superb help from our volunteers, it will now be possible to continue the watch point 'season' through until, and including, Saturday July 2nd.
Meanwhile, a big thanks to the cathedral for sharing 50/50 the proceeds from the tower tours run on the peregrine event day (30th May) - that brought us in another £112.
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Do five of these:
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- 2. Use a timetable to plan a trip from your home to a city in another state by railroad, bus, airline, or ferry.
- 3. With the help of your parent, guardian, teacher, or librarian, use a map site on the Internet to plan a trip from your home to a nearby place of interest. Download and/or print the directions and street map showing how to go from your home to the place you chose.
- 4. With your parent or guardian, take a trip to a place that interests you. Go by car, bus, boat, train, or plane.
- 5. Figure out what it costs per mile for the trip you took or planned to fulfill requirement 2, 4, 6, or 7. (Don't forget to include getting back to your starting point!)
- 6. Decide on four nearby trips you would like to take with your parents or guardian. Draw the route of each trip on a highway map. Using the map, act as navigator on one of these trips. It should start at your home, be at least 25 miles long, and have six or more turns.
- 7. Decide on a trip you would like to take that lasts at least two days. Pack everything you would need for that trip.
- 8. Check the first aid kit in the family car to see if it contains what is needed. Explain what you found.
- 9. Look at a map legend on a road map of your area. Learn what the symbols mean. Show your den members what you have learned.
- 10. On a road map of your area, find a place of interest and draw two different routes between it and your home. Use the map legend to determine which route is shorter in miles.
- 11. Make a list of safety precautions you, as a traveler, should take for travel by each of the following; car, bus, plane, boat, train.
- 12. While you are a Webelos Scout, earn the Cub Scout Academics belt loop for Geography.
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Monday, June 11, 2012
* Organizing Paper In The Art Studio and Craft Room
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I've previously mentioned our "color box" system
for organizing paper in my
and my Art Studio Tour guest post.
A color box is a small box or shoe box containing
a spectrum of colored paper (scrapbook paper and construction paper)
cut into small rectangles (approximately 4"x6")
I always had one for each of my student's tables
when I was teaching art in the public schools.
They're nice to have available for kids when they're working
on various projects like collage and avoids wasting big sheets of paper
when they only need a small piece.
It's also a great way to recycle your small scraps from other projects.
The color box system works great until you ignore it for
so many weeks
months that it becomes disorganized and you can't
find what you're looking for anymore.
See what I mean? Ack!
It also only really works for small bits of paper,
I needed a better solution for bigger sheets of colored paper
for the girls and their projects.
It was time to clean it out,
and re-evaluate the system.
First, "C" and I sorted everything out onto the floor.
Then, we put all of the small pieces of paper back into the color box.
Sigh...that's much better.
Here it is on a shelf in the art studio at kid level.
Then, we put together a system I've admired all year from this blog that
I pinned on my Art Studio Pinterest board.
I picked up these magazine organizers from the dollar bins at Target
a few months ago, and lined them up along the windowsill in the studio.
We put all of the big pieces of colored construction and scrapbook paper scraps
in here for the girls to have easy access.
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"President Obama is the first president in history to openly campaign for reelection on a platform of higher taxes. He has already raised taxes on millions of Americans, but he won't stop there. He wants to raise taxes on millions more by taxing small businesses and job creators."
— Gail Gitcho, communications director for Romney's campaign, in a statement, April 10, 2012
We are dubious about the first part of this claim — Harry Truman, after all, vetoed a big tax cut in the midst of his reelection campaign in 1948 — and we have already demonstrated how claims about the tax burden on "small businesses" are overstated. But a reader drew our attention to the central point of this statement — that Obama "has already raised taxes on millions of Americans."
There is no question that Obama has proposed higher taxes on the wealthy, including ending the Bush tax cuts for people making above a certain income and imposing the so-called "Buffett Rule" on millionaires. But are "millions of Americans" already suffering under a tax yoke imposed by Obama?
The Facts
When we asked the Romney campaign for evidence to back up the claim, we received a list of "19 tax increases," many of which were contained in Obama's health-care law. But virtually all of these taxes have not yet taken effect (more on that later) — and the key ones target people making more than $200,000 (singles) or $250,000 (married filers).
The one, non-health-care-related, broad-based tax on Romney's list is a 61-cent-per-pack increase in the federal excise tax on cigarettes. Obama signed this into law shortly after taking office in order to fund an expansion of the children's health insurance program. About 45 million people in the United States smoke cigarettes, according to the Centers for Disease Control, and the percentage of smokers is higher among those living below the poverty level.
Assuming one smokes a pack a day, that would amount to $223 in increased cigarette taxes a year. (The Tax Foundation calculates the tax increase as $415 per household.) And perhaps some would argue that that amounts to higher taxes on "millions of Americans."
But let's look at the other side of the ledger — the tax cuts that have taken place under Obama. There were tax cuts in the stimulus bill, there was an extension of the Bush tax cuts at the end of 2010, and for two years straight there has been a payroll tax holiday, which affects everyone earning a paycheck. When those figures are added up, the cigarette tax, for many people, is peanuts.
Here are some of the numbers crunched by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
The current payroll tax holiday amounts to an average tax reduction of $1,000 a year for taxpayers in the $50,000 to $75,000 income range. Even people making $10,000 to $20,000 get a $260 tax break, enough to cover the cost of the cigarette tax. Millionaires get a $2,700 tax cut.
The 2010 tax deal also cut taxes for virtually everyone, with a tax cut of $554 for people making $10,000 to $20,000 and a $139,000 tax cut for millionaires. (The numbers for the top end are much smaller if you assume the Bush tax cuts were going to be extended anyway.) The entire package reduced revenues by $800 billion, much of it over two years.
The 2009 stimulus also cut taxes for about 90 percent of taxpayers, for an average of $617. (The savings are much higher for upper-middle-class Americans if you include a fix for the alternative minimum tax, but that happens every year.)
Certainly, Obama has long wanted to eliminate the Bush tax cuts for higher-income Americans, which would affect about 2 percent of taxpayers. But he failed on that score — and in fact extended them. But, in any case, just about every one of the more than 100 million taxpayers, no matter how little they made, has ended up with at least $1,000 in tax cuts under Obama in the past three years.
Of course, this is just a very rough accounting. Eric Fehrnstrom, a Romney senior adviser, also said it is a mistake to offset the temporary payroll tax cut against a permanent increase in the cigarette tax.
"It is also a fact the cigarette tax increase hits consumption, but the tax cuts you cite are on income and so only benefit the employed," he said. "So, of those 45 million smokers, how many are unemployed? They have only gotten a tax increase (and a mighty regressive one at that)."
This brings us to the health-care law. There are certainly a number of new taxes in it, but many have not been implemented yet. (There is a tax on tanning salons that went into effect in 2010, which added a $1 tax for every $10 session, but the IRS has collected much less money than expected.)
The big money provisions would impose higher Medicare taxes and a 3.8 percent surcharge on investment income on wealthier Americans, which would bring in about half of the $400 billion in revenue in the health-care law. These taxes could affect as many as 3 million taxpayers. But we don't think this counts as "raised" yet, though some might say it is suspicious that the tax hikes take effect only next year, after the election.
In any case, Romney pledges to halt the health-care law as soon as he takes the oath of office, so if Romney has his way, none of these taxes will ever be implemented.
"I don't think you can ignore a half trillion in additional tax increases, signed into law by Obama, merely because their effective date is after the election," Fehrnstrom said.
The Pinocchio Test
The Romney campaign is straining to suggest Obama has imposed taxes on "millions of Americans" without considering the impact of all of the tax cuts that Obama has signed into law. The health-care law will one day impose taxes, largely on wealthier Americans, but those taxes have not taken effect.
In the end, the Romney campaign can't just look at one side of the ledger. If you are going to talk about tax increases in this presidency, you also have to acknowledge Obama's tax cuts.
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Postgame quotes after the Revs fell to Chivas USA at Gillette Stadium on May 5, 2010.
The first two goals are bad defending – no two ways about it. We can't keep playing men down, either. Not only did we play for another hour a man down tonight, but having played two men down on Saturday – 10 men for an hour and nine men for 40 minutes, you just can't do it. It's impossible. Up until the sending off, we hadn't been good anyway. We set pretty much the same as them – 4-5-1 – to try to get people breaking, but we just never got a hold of the ball and we never got close enough to anybody to affect the game. But the sending off just killed us. You can't play men down.
At halftime, we wanted a response. That's why we ended up putting Eddie (Jankauskas) up with Zack (Schilawski). We wanted a response and we wanted just to try to squeeze and play the game at the other end of the field. But again, when you're a man down … the third goal is just a great example that they had more men than us and they end up with the space to score. But the first goals are rank bad goals – there's no two ways about it.
I didn't think we responded particularly brilliant up until halftime. We couldn't get ourselves organized properly. The biggest thing, you need to close the ball properly and we haven't been doing that. If the first man closing the ball doesn't do it properly, then everybody behind him is affected, and we never did that. I thought we showed some fighting spirit second half, but again, it's not enough, particularly when you're a man down and two goals behind. You're giving a team two goals to start, then a man as well, it's an impossible task.
There's a lot to say how were going about it [in the second half]. You've got to be realistic: two goals down and a man at halftime – I don't know too many people who are going to put any money on us winning the game. But what we were looking for is some spirit. And I think we got that, and that's important. At least we take that out of the game: as much as everything was against us, we showed some spirit. The guys out there laying it on the line and giving it everything they've got. And that's about all we could have asked for the second half … that's why the second half was important that we showed some spirit, because when you have that, you have a chance. So, we'll dust ourselves down and get going for Saturday.
We played most of the game with a man disadvantage, and it just puts the pressure on everybody. When they get the goal before that, it's just that much tougher.
On the complexion of the first 25 minutes …
"I think we had them where we wanted them there. [They didn't] pose any threats. Everything that they were knocking around was in the middle of the park – they really weren't a threat. And when you go down a man to a team like that that can pass the ball, they continue to pick you apart – especially when it's like that the whole game you can't really do too much about it."
The first two goals were both weak goals. I definitely feel like the majority of goals – even with a man disadvantage – we could have done something about them. They weren't pinging the ball in and picking us apart. It's just something we'll have to go back to the drawing board and look in the mirror and toughen ourselves up. Everybody has to do their role in the team and make sure we don't get played through like that.
I feel like that game we came out flat like we did in previous games and going a man down, it's just not what you want to do and it tests your mental toughness. Columbus is going to be a test this weekend. We're going to be without Marko (Perovic) but fortunately we get Kheli (Dube) back and Joseph (Niouky) back, but we're going to have to dig deep and look into ourselves and pull out a great performance because we can't go 2-5-1 to start the season. We're already 2-4-1 and that's not acceptable for this team.
We just have to throw it to the back of our heads, throw it to the back burner and regroup, recover. This is going to be three games in about seven days, so that within itself is going to be a tough task. Columbus has a great team and we're playing at their place is going to be another task that we're going to have to conquer and defeat and hopefully we can get this team together and get back on track somehow.
It's always tough when you go to 10 men, but even before that they had the run of the play and we couldn't get things going again. For some reason we just can't find a way to start the game properly, it seems like. I don't know what the issue is. Now it's in our heads a little bit that the game kicks off and we're just a little bit slow, and things just went downhill after the red card. We're always going to be chasing it after that, so it was tough. There're not many positives to take away, to be honest.
After the red card, you kind of lose your structure a little bit. It was awkward enough as is just to start – I haven't played a lot [in central midfield] – but it's a situation where we need a bunch of guys who are going to do a job and who want to win and want to put themselves out there and go into tackles. So we've just got to pick ourselves up and go to Columbus believing we can get a result and if we don't do that, then we're going to keep losing games.
It's hard to forget about these games, but you've got to have a short memory – especially with ones like this. It didn't matter - like we said at halftime - it doesn't matter whether we lose 2-0 or we lose 20-0 if we put ourselves out there and have a little bit of pride, then you can look at yourself in the mirror at the end of the day and move on to the next one.
It felt better when the (second) half kicked off, and then they got that third goal and frustration comes in a little bit. You're just trying to make sure that when you have the Revolution shirt on you're giving everything you have, and there's no excuse for walking off the field when you're down 4-0; you shouldn't be able to walk at that point. We've got to make sure that we have that mindset going in to Columbus and I think that if we do, then we'll do well.
There're many plays like those during the game, for both teams, but (Marko) Perovi? swung and connected. The referee saw it, the linesman saw it, and I think it's a red card.
On three game unbeaten streak:
It helps, it gives you confidence, and we have to start preparing for Saturday. It's going to come fast and against one of our biggest opponents, we have to have our top game. I think at home, on the road, hopefully being this consistent to our play will give us consistent results.
We feel good, we're happy with our performance today. After we went up a man, we really controlled the pace of the game, but even before we went up a man we grabbed the lead and were still really in control of the game. Any time you get three points on the road it's a good thing, so I think now going home on a three game unbeaten streak, we feel good and we hope to get another three points on Saturday.
We've had some tough games against New England over the years, and it's always good to get three points on the road. So no matter where we're at, it feels good.
I feel very confident right now. The past five games, I feel like I've been consistently pretty good, helping the team our offensively, dropping back in the midfield to keep the ball. My partnership with Justin (Braun) has been pretty has been pretty good up top. I think he's done a good job at battling and I'm kind of picking up the second balls or the ones he lays out, so we feel good right now. I feel like we've got a good rhythm.
I think it's been the mentality of the team. I mean the past five games, we've really started clicking and we've found a group of guys who play well together and I think it showed on the field. We're playing good possession-type soccer, which is what we've wanted to do since day one. I think it's been the hard work of the guys and we go out there and play for each other."
Houston's a tough team. We've had trouble with them in the past, but we're definitely riding high right now. We don't want to get too high, but we just want to go in Saturday and keep playing at the level we're playing at and play our game and hopefully we'll come away with the three points.


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REDLANDS — Schools Superintendent Lori Rhodes mailed a letter to staff telling them that police are investigating the school district, denying any wrongdoing and asking them not to gossip.
"There still is a lot we do not know about the recent events," Rhodes wrote in the typed letter. "What we do know is this: The Redlands Police Department is conducting an investigation to determine whether the District acted properly at all times concerning the allegation involving former teacher Laura Whitehurst."
Whitehurst, a former Citrus Valley High School teacher, was arrested and charged with 41 felony counts of unlawful sex acts with three former students. Police say she gave birth to a baby fathered by a recent CVHS graduate who was 16 when their relationship began last July.
Principal Bernard Cavanagh and Assistant Superintendent Sabine Robertson-Phillips interviewed Whitehurst and her alleged victim in mid-May, according to a court document, but did not report their findings to police until July 1, when the teen's mother told school officials of the suspected relationship. The district responded that the investigation did not generation a reasonable suspicion of abuse.
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"I am confident that we took every responsible step, and I have pledged my full cooperation to the police investigation," Rhodes wrote in the letter. "The reason I am confident is that I know each of us understands our responsibility to report any reasonable suspicion of abuse. Few things, if any, are drilled into us more clearly than that and there is nothing we take more seriously."
Rhodes asked staff to show restraint when parents and students ask them about the case.
"I urge you not to let these conversations descend into the realm of gossip, as tempting as that might be," Rhodes wrote. "I will do my best to keep you informed with factual information that you can share."
Rhodes said counseling services are available for parents and students, and thanked staff for their commitment and dedication.
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Help Ban the Import of Dolphins into the Domincan Republic
Posted 21 February 2007 - 04:04 PM
Here in my country (Dominican Republic ) we have 2 aquatic parks . Manati Park at Bavaro on the east and Ocean World at Puerto Plata on the north coast , the most tourism intensive zones .
Manati Park is owned by an spaniard corporation and the condition of his dolphin shows are a real disaster . All the local enviromental organizations are putting a real fight against them and up to now we have a little success . First we stop them from capturing dolphins from our coasts ( they captured their first dolphins from a national park waters ) and recently the enviromental ministery cancelled a import permit that they intend to use with some dolphins from Cuba .
Ocean World is owned by a german family and although they have better and bigger instalations , they are trying to import 12 dolphins from Japan , directly from the institution behind the masssacre in the coastal town of Taiji, Japan.
The conservation groups in our country are starting to create a campaing against this action . Is not an easy task because both companies generate huge profits and have enough power and influences with corrupt politics to operate and the media to clean their images .
The boats going to Silver Banks are departuring from the Ocean World's dock , that unfortunately is the only one in decent conditions at Puerto Plata . If it happens that some of you are going to Silver Banks this season , please try to not spend your money at Ocean World
Please read the following article and more important see the linked video posted by Save Japan's Dolphins coalition .
What a shame !!!!!!!!!![/b]
Dominican Republic to Import 12 "Show" Dolphins from Japan Slaughter Pens
Aquarium Industry Subsidizes the Japanese Dolphin Slaughter
WASHINGTON - January 18 - Environmental organizations revealed today that
two American aquarium specialists are poised to transfer of twelve
bottlenose dolphins from Japanese slaughter pens to a Dominican Republic
aquarium, Ocean World Adventure Park.
The environmental groups of the Save Japan Dolphins Coalition are attempting
to stop transfer both because it is grossly inhumane and because it violates
provisions of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
(CITES). The twelve dolphins are being held in Taiji, Japan pending the
granting of import permits to the Dominican Republic. Stefan Meister, (a
German national and vice president of the Ocean World Adventure Park in the
Dominican Republic), Dr. Michael Briggs DVM, (an American citizen associated
with the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago), and Dr. Ted Hammond, (an American
dolphin dealer and marine mammal veterinarian) are brokering the sale and
transfer of the twelve dolphins.
The Save Japan Dolphins Coalition has obtained rare broadcast-quality video
footage of the cruel, bloody capture of these twelve dolphins in Japan's
waters in the port of Taiji.
"This was one of the most violent dolphin captures that I have ever
witnessed in my 45 years of working with dolphins," said Richard O'Barry, a
marine mammal specialist with the Save Japan Dolphins Coalition. "12
dolphins out of the pod were manhandled out of the water only to be isolated
from their pods mates as those pod mates were butchered. And I saw aquarium
representatives help with the killing as well as the captures."
Japan kills more than 20,000 dolphins annually, most of which are butchered
for sale in meat markets. Coalition representatives claim that the
international aquarium industry subsidizes the slaughter by paying $45,000
(US) or more for prime dolphin specimens for dolphin shows and
swim-with-dolphins programs.
Ric O'Barry continued: "If the international aquarium industry ceased buying
dolphins from the slaughter pens, the dolphin slaughter would be crippled,
as dolphins sold for meat on the market only bring the equivalent of a few
hundred dollars."
"We are calling on the Dominican Republic's President, Mr. Leonel Fernandez
Reyna, to immediately block import of the 12 Japanese dolphins into the
country," said David Phillips, Director of Earth Island Institute's
International Marine Mammal Project. "It would be unfortunate to have the
Dominican Republic's reputation as a environmentally friendly tourist
destination wrecked by subsidizing the Japanese dolphin slaughter."
The Save Japan Dolphins Coalition is a group of four environmental and
animal protection organizations – In Defense of Animals, Animal Welfare
Institute, Earth Island Institute, and Elsa Nature Conservancy of Japan –
dedicated to ending the slaughter of dolphins authorized by Japan's
Fisheries Agency.
Visuals: Broadcast quality video of Japan's brutal capture of bottlenose
dolphins available.
Footage sample available for viewing at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCx0ORuDZFE
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Posted 21 February 2007 - 04:18 PM
Everybody here are trying to put some pressure on authorities to stop this to happen .
Our local society against cruelty on animals ( SODOPRECA ) is collecting signatures in order to send a letter to the president of Dominican Republic and the enviromental minister , asking to ban the import of dolphins .
Pls. send yours to the e-mail address below :
Marcos A, Polanco, Director Ejecutivo <http://www.sodopreca.org/>
enviar su peticion para firmar la carta a
The web page is in spanish , but no matter if you sent your e-mail in english.
I think we can help a lot
Jose Alejandro Alvarez
Posted 21 February 2007 - 09:38 PM
This is a good thing you are trying to accomplish. The market for dolphins has lead to all kinds of abuse and wrongful captivity of dolphins around the world. Even more sad is the fishermen in Taiji are subsiding their annual slaughter with sales of a few live dolphins. Let's see what we can do to get some more support going here.
Posted 21 February 2007 - 11:32 PM
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Posted 22 February 2007 - 04:24 AM
Let's start to send our letters asking to ban the import of the dolphins . No matter if is in english
Pls, use the e-mail address: email@example.com
We can help to make something positive for our beloved dolphins .
I will keep the forum update with news about this case
Posted 22 February 2007 - 04:33 AM
Is there a pre-written email that we can send that covers all the points required?
Maybe SODOPRECA have one or you could write one in Spanish, i think if people just have to copy and past a chunk of text it will get a lot more response.
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www.nad-lembeh.com: 2:1 diveguide ratio in an photographer owned / operated resort
Posted 22 February 2007 - 05:49 AM
Hi Jose,
Is there a pre-written email that we can send that covers all the points required?
Maybe SODOPRECA have one or you could write one in Spanish, i think if people just have to copy and past a chunk of text it will get a lot more response.
I will contact them , if not i will write one
Posted 22 February 2007 - 08:45 AM
3 parks been given planning permission.
One already has import permission for 5 dolphins.
Its a pointless thing to do.
Its not original
and its cruel
unfortunately ... money wins !
Posted 22 February 2007 - 09:34 AM
One thing is for sure, if people stop going then it will eventually stop.
It really winds me up when i see pictures of captive dolphins jumping against the sunset in photographers galleries, yes its a nice photo, but at what cost?
Every viewer will go 'wow, I want to see that' and then trundle off to the nearest waterpark armed with their camera and family to see a 'wholesome family show'
Nauticam Rossa / GH4 / 7Dmk2 / 1Dx
www.nad-lembeh.com: 2:1 diveguide ratio in an photographer owned / operated resort
Posted 22 February 2007 - 10:42 AM
Why does Cayman a 160sq Mile island need 3 !!! because it's money !!
Now no offense to anyone here ... but there is a very bad traveler out there
the American Cruise Shipper.
These people are ignorant but most of all unconcerned with the effects of their choices. It is these people that want to see dolphins on every island ... it is these people doing it.
Yes this is a generalisation ... yes I make money from the cruise ship industry ... but I show people the natural underwater world from the confines of a semi submarine.
I believe attacking the cruise line companies such as Carnival (the largest), RCCL and Norwegian will help.
Get these companies to refuse to make contracts with the captive animal tours and the companies that set up dolphinariums won't be able to financially satisy the requirements for setting up petting zoo.
If this is the case for Dom Rep .. I would suggest this route.
I am not sure I should be publicly placing blame there, but they do have the power to stop it. If they didn't offer contracts of business for dolphinariums then I am sure they wouldn't get set up.
Posted 22 February 2007 - 10:49 AM
look what I just found .... http://en.wikipedia....f_dolphinariums
shows all of them around the world .. Japanese and Americans need slapping !!
Is Japan big enough to have that many ?
Posted 22 February 2007 - 01:20 PM
Maybe if some people setup stalls with videos outside each dolphinarium to make the kids cry? I'm sure that would be bad for business, but also for your health i bet!
In Japan they have them in shopping malls! Awesome!
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www.nad-lembeh.com: 2:1 diveguide ratio in an photographer owned / operated resort
Posted 22 February 2007 - 01:49 PM
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Posted 27 February 2007 - 09:01 AM
Pls. joining us and spread the word , the goal is to recollect 100,000 signs.
Is a very fast and easy just follow the instructions in this link :
Due to the pressure created by the conservation and ecological groups, recently the owners of the dolphinarium behind the plan made a statement in the local press saying that they already bought a big land lot at Bavaro (big tourism zone at east coast of the island ) to build a new delphinarium, (will be the 3rd in our country) making emphasis on the matter that their US$55 million planned investment will not take place if they are not allow to import the dolphins.
As you can see is important to spread the word about this situation , only a big pressure from international comunities will avoid this to happens.
Pls sign in and spread the word
Posted 29 November 2009 - 08:15 PM
Posted 30 November 2009 - 03:24 AM
As you may noticed the post is almost 3 years old. At the end our goverment don't gave the permit to import the dolphins from Japan , that was a good thing indeed .
Like you , i'm against dolphins in captivity but those "aquatic parks" are a big bussines and at the end they find their way to obtain the dolphins . Cuba is making big money exporting bottlenose dolphins , hope that change someday .
My way to boicot is not going to places that keeps dolphins in captivity and telling my friends to not take their childrens to such places.


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If you're one of those people who lives in constant fear of the outside world, this might be the ideal place for you to live! It's a condo complex that's built into a former nuclear missile silo in the middle of Kansas. That's about as secure as it gets. According to CBS News, "It's the only condo in the world capable of withstanding a direct nuclear attack." Well, that's a relief.
Once the nuclear apocalypse comes, you don't have to worry about going outside, because the condo complex is completely self-sustaining. There's even a general store inside, so you can continue experiencing the thrill of shopping once the rest of humanity has melted away. Even if the basic idea is pretty dark and the location somewhat isolating, the units do look kind of cool. They've even got fancy electronic windows that track your movement and show you images of the outside world that match up to where you're looking—so you can have any view you like, from San Francisco to outer space. That should come in handy in terms of keeping you sane once the planet is a vast wasteland of glowing mud.
The developer of the condos, Larry Hall, is certain an apocalyptic event could happen at anytime. (It is 2012, after all!) But he suggests you don't wait until it's too late to invest. If you want safe haven in his building, you'd better buy now. Only two of the six units have sold; so the gettin' is still good.


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This recipe comes from my mom who was born and raised in Tennessee. It really is Southern-style Macaroni Salad. Enjoy!
- 16 oz small macaroni noodles
- 2 tbs olive oil
- 4 eggs
- 3/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1/2 cup sweet pickles (cut into small pieces)
- 1/4 cup carrots (sliced or shredded)
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- Paprika
- 1 tbs mustard (more to taste)
- Place 2 pans with water on stove and boil. In one pan, place 4 eggs and boil about 12 minutes. In the second pan, add Olive Oil and macaroni to boiling water and stir after 5 minutes. Let macaroni continue to boil for 10 more minutes (15 minutes total). Drain egg water and peal. Tip: if you can, peal eggs while still hot and they will peal easier.
- Rinse eggs and noodles in cold water and place noodles in a large bowl (set eggs aside). Add mayonnaise, pickles, carrots, 2 eggs, salt & pepper, mustard and mix with spoon. Taste it and add more mustard if necessary. Put the large bowl with mix and the small bowl with remaining 2 eggs in the fridge and let cool. When ready to serve, cut up remaining 2 eggs in quarters and place on top of macaroni salad. Garnish with sprinkles of paprika.


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Well I am back. Sigh...
I just returned from two and a half weeks on the other side of the world. Two and a half weeks spent hiking ancient Buddhist and Hindu temples in Cambodia, riding around in tuk-tuks and eating some serious street food in crazy Bangkok, and tooling around 30 meters underwater with stingrays and schools of giant barracuda while scuba diving in Koh Tao, Thailand.
Oh and did I mention the food? I am not sure if you know this or not, (my guess is yes) but I LOVE thai food. I learned on this trip that I also love khmer (cambodian) food, which I had never had before. There are a lot of similarities between the two, so it came no surprise to me that I would be a pretty happy camper for the duration of our stay. And boy was my tummy a happy camper.
There were so many amazing meals its hard to pick just a few. Between the traditional khmer food in Cambodia, stir-fried red ants in Siem Reap (not my favorite, but interesting to say the least), chinatown's finest street food in bangkok, and life-changing green curry on the beach in Koh Tao, the food was incredible.
Plus I got to eat pad thai for breakfast without feeling guilty.
We had a personal 'chef' cook a meal just for us in a tiny village 100 kilometers outside of the city while staying overnight in a open-air stilted hut (by chef I mean an adorable teeny cambodian woman originally from the village we were staying in).
This quiet, giggly girl cooked in near-darkness as the sun set, before the car-battery generator kicked in, with merely a wok, some pre-steamed rice, and a fire.
We had fried ginger with pork, coconut curry soup, amazing fresh cut fried potatoes, and delicious fruit plates filled with mangos, rambutons, and bannanas for dessert.
It was some of the best food we had on this trip.
Plus this was our view during every meal, so you know, that helped.
The meals matched the solitude and quiet of the distant and more un-touristed temples that we pretty much had all to ourselves that weekend.
It was one thing seeing the enormous and beautiful Angkor Wat temples with upwards of a thousand other people talking too loud and snapping almost constant pictures, but it was truly another to witness a simple yet gorgeous temple with only the sounds of roosters crowing in the background.
We headed on to Bangkok and engaged in some serious street food. We headed straight for chinatown and promptly got lost. After not eating for almost 8 hours while wandering down unfamiliar streets and hovering around street food vendors trying to figure out how and what to order, we finally found our way and scored ourselves some interesting and delicious food.
Bird's nest soup, stir-fried noodles with chicken, soy sauce, and chilies, and a fried mussels and oysters egg-pancake-thingy were all successfully ordered by pointing at someone's plate and holding up the number two with our fingers.
Bangkok was such a crazy, HOT city filled at the time with much turmoil from the red-shirt protestors, camped out by the thousands in the center of the city. We luckily left before things started erring on the violent side, but it was an amazing and humbling experience to see that many people so dedicated to a change. Many of them had been living and sleeping there for weeks, sacrificing jobs and family, to try and restore a democratic government.
Our last stop was in Koh Tao, Thailand. We ate breakfast on the beach every morning, grilled fresh fish while watching the amazing sunsets, and were treated to what was the best curry I have ever had in my entire life.
I didn't really take many pictures of the food on while on the island, I was usually too excited to dig in than to get my camera out and snap some photos. Thats okay though, the visions of those meals will dance around my head at night like sugarplums for many years to come.
Plus I was too busy taking pictures of the live fish not on my plate.
We spent 6 days scuba diving on the island, coming home with our beginner and advanced certification (up to 30 meters), logging 10 dives, and seeing some of the most beautiful landscapes and marine life I have ever seen.
We were only supposed to do the beginner course, but with the prospect of spending 2 more days diving, and enticed by a night dive and shipwreck dive, we just couldn't pass it up.
We are hooked and have already started plotting our next diving adventures.
One last stop at burger king (yeah I know, I caved) in South Korea, we were on our way back to cold chicago, and back to reality. I got a little depressed when we left Thailand and the temperature was 40 degrees Celsius and as we landed our captain told us the current temperature was 37 degrees Fahrenheit.
Jet lag is still killing me right now, but I am so looking forward to getting back into the kitchen this weekend to try and recreate some of the best food memories of the trip, so I can relive these experiences at the drop of a hat, and the switch of a gas burner.


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June 21, 2011
Recent Wabash College graduate Seth Einterz received one final award for his part as a member of the Little Giants' cross country and track and field teams. Einterz was named to the Capital One Academic All-America Men's Track and Field/Cross Country First Team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
Einterz, who graduated in May, was named to the 18-person first team after posting a cumulative grade point average of 3.97 through the fall semester of 2010. A philosophy major, he earned All-America honors first as a cross country runner by finishing 20th at the 2010 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championship meet. He helped the Wabash team finish 13th overall in the final team standings at nationals. The Little Giants qualified for the nationals for the first time in 11 seasons. Einterz finished second overall at the 2010 NCAA Great Lakes Regional, with Wabash advancing as a team to the nationals with a second-place finish, as well.
A graduate of Zionsville High School (Zionsville, Ind.), Einterz finished first at the 2010 Indiana Little State Cross Country meet as part of a team effort that gave the Little Giants a first place finish in the final standings for the first time since 1995. He earned First Team All-North Coast Athletic Conference all four seasons as a runner at Wabash, including a fourth-place finish at the 2010 NCAC Men's Cross Country Championship meet.
Einterz became a track and field All-American at the 2011 NCAA Division III Outdoor Championship meet by finishing third in the 5,000-meter run. He was also part of Wabash track and field teams that captured both the 2011 NCAC Indoor and Outdoor Men's Track and Field Championships, the first team titles in track and field since Wabash joined the conference in 1999. He won the 2011 indoor 5,000-meter conference title and finished second in the 3,000-meter run. He also earned All-NCAC honors at the 2011 outdoor championship event with top-three finishes in the 5,000- and 10,000-meter runs.
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Terrorists operating out of southern Lebanon looked to join the Hamas bombardment of the Jewish state early Friday morning by firing two Katyusha missiles at the northern Israel town of Metulla.
Military officials believe the rockets were fired by a small Palestinian group that identifies with Hamas, and that the attack does not, yet, represent a widening of the Gaza war by the Lebanese terrorist militia Hezbollah.
Meanwhile, two Israeli soldiers were wounded, one seriously, by mortar shells fired from Gaza on Thursday evening. Another three people suffered injuries, one in serious condition, when a missile from Gaza struck a gas station in the southern port city of Ashdod on Friday morning.
The first Israeli death resulting from the conflict occurred in Haifa, where an elderly woman collapsed and died while rushing to her bomb shelter as air raid sirens wailed over the city early Friday morning.
Thus far, Hamas and its terrorist allies have this week fired 350 missiles and rockets at towns and cities across Israel. Ninety of those have been intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system.
Israel has responded with 900 targeted aerial strikes and marine bombardments of terrorist positions and installations in Gaza. The Israeli strikes have resulted in an estimated 90 dead Palestinians, some of them civilians that were purposely placed in harm's way by Hamas.
As the rocket fire from Gaza escalates, Israel is still strongly considering a ground invasion of the coastal enclave, though America and other Western powers are feverishly working to convince Israel to avoid that scenario. Nevertheless, Israel has called upon the civilians of Gaza to move away from the area's border fence in preparation for an incursion.
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It may be David Cameron's time to stay at Balmoral, but he wasn't there long enough to enjoy The Queen's full hospitality always extended to the Prime Minister of the day and their family in September.
On Saturday, the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi was attacked by terrorists possibly including two or three young American men and a British woman killing more than 60 people, top Kenyan officials revealed. 3 Brits are confirmed dead, with an Australian Brit and his pregnant Dutch wife killed in the attack. The PM described it as an 'absolutely sickening and despicable act of appalling brutality'. On Monday Mr Cameron left Balmoral in order to chair the emergency response committee 'COBRA' meeting, despite only staying with Her Majesty for one night. A COBRA meeting was held the day before without him.
The attack was supposedly carried out by Somalian terrorist group al-shabab and forced the British PM to return to London in order to chair the proceedings. David Cameron tweeted: "I'm cutting short a visit to Balmoral to return to Downing Street to chair COBRA late this afternoon, dealing with the Kenya terror attack".
In 2010 David Cameron and his family missed the holiday at Balmoral when his wife went into labour early with his youngest daughter, Florence, while the family were in Cornwall.
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Hilse to Perform 12th Annual Organ Recital• January 18, 2011 Share:
The Wabash College Music Department invites the public to the 12th annual Roger H. Ide Organ Recital at 3 p.m., Sunday, January 23, in Pioneer Chapel. This year's recital will be presented by Walter Hilse.
The program will include: Sonata II by Paul Hindemith; three settings of Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend by J.S. Bach (BWV 632, 709, and 655); the Bach-Vivaldi Concerto in d minor, BWV 596; Robert Schumann's Canon in b minor, opus 56, no. 5; Rosace from Esquisses Byzantines" by Henri Mulet; Variations on "Weinen, Klagen" by Franz Liszt; and a composition by Dr. Hilse, In memoriam Duke Ellington.
A native of New York City, Dr. Hilse earned his advanced degrees from Columbia University. As a solo performer, he has appeared throughout the United States, Europe, and the Far East. Ofspecial note are his five critically acclaimed solo organ recitals at New York's Alice Tully Hall, several complete renditions of Bach's The Art of the Fugue, and annual performances on the Klais Organ as part of the "Bach at Saint Peter's" series—at Saint Peter's Lutheran Church, New York City—since 1993. Dr. Hilse has collaborated with many singers and instrumentalists, as well as with performance organizations such as the New York Virtuoso Singers, The Florilegium Chamber Choir, The Greenwich Village Singers, and the Alliance for American Song.
A prize-winning Fellow of the American Guild of Organists, he is currently on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music. Dr. Hilse's composition teachers have included Suzanne Bloch, Vincent Persichetti, Jack Beeson, Otto Luening, and Nadia Boulanger. His compositions cover over 80 art songs; an a cappella Mass for SATB chorus (frequently performed at Saint Peter's); over 20 anthems; a setting of Sabbath morning texts; numerous compositions for solo organ; a piano suite; and various works for instrumental ensemble. Awards have included the Joseph H. Beams prize of Columbia University and the 1974 Choral Composition prize of the Boston Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Among his commissioners have been the Alliance for American Song, Rush Swayze of The Florilegium Chamber Choir, the 1996 A.G.O. National Convention, the Berkshire Bach Society, The New York Treble Singers, and The Greenwich Village Singers.
A CD of his live 1995 performance of The Art of the Fugue at Saint Peter's Lutheran Church (released by the Berkshire Bach Society) a CD featuring his performances of music by various composers (released by J.A.V. Recordings), and a CD of works by Dave Soldier, including Dr. Hilse's rendition of Soldier's complete Hockets and Inventions, are all available.
The annual Roger H. Ide Organ Recital is funded by a bequest from Dr. Roger Ide, Class of 1959, who served as the Wabash College organist while he was a student. The memory of that experience was such a pleasant one for Dr. Ide that he chose to perpetuate the music with a gift that makes it possible to enjoy organ recitals for years to come.
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Spot or Not: 252 Pond
Cary Kalamajka
How cool would it be to have your own spot; always glassy, never worry about getting kicked out, able to ride whenever you want? What started as a crazy thought among friends has turned into the 252 Pond. This haven is hidden in the farmlands of Eastern NC, just outside of Wilson (area code 252). Mike Thigpen already had a small pond directly across the road from his front door, so around the end of 2007 the Thigpen's hired someone to come in with a drag-line machine and dig it out big enough for us to ride in. We then treated the water to keep the algae and wildlife down and also added some human-friendly pond dye to turn the water tropical blue.
We haven't taken any actual dimensions, but our guess is the pond is about 300′ long, 40′ wide, and 10′ deep. Because of the depth, we decided to do a floating slider and a kicker. A buddy donated his 24′ slider that we added floating platforms and ride-on transition to, which added 8′ to the length, totaling 32′ long. Another friend gave up his quarter-pipe that we mellowed out the transition on and skinned with bathboard. Our plan is to eventually start adding and changing up some of the stuff to keep it fresh.
We got the pond finished, but still didn't have a winch, so we started pulling with the 4-wheeler while we built our winch. We now have a 9hp, aluminum frame beast to pull with and still use the 4-wheeler as transportation back to the starting point. No walking and pulling out the rope here. The winch and all of our gear stays on a utility trailer so it is always ready to go.
No major hammers have gone down here YET, but we are getting several different slide / shuv variations, and a few tricks off the kicker. Hopefully we will all have a full bag-o-tricks to show off before too long. It is always cool to have someone come out who has never hit a slider or kicker, and share their stoke when they successfully ride away.
As an added bonus, all of the dirt from the dig is piled up around one side of the pond and creates a nice wind block. But Mike also has a backhoe that will be used later to play in the dirt with, Tonka style; Pool gaps, MX jumps, Sand castles, you get the idea.
The 252 Pond is located really close to I-95 and US-264, so if you are passing through NC or going to the NC coast, find a way to get in touch with us.


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text: With a Joint Honours degree, you study two subjects and depending on how much time you want to spend on each subject, your degree may emphasise one subject more than the other, which is a major and minor programme. Alternatively, you can study your subjects equally, resulting in a joint degree. Joint honours degrees are taught in the same way as single honours degrees, with 120 credits taught per year, over three years. **By studying at the University of Northampton, you can be sure that:** - Students enrolling on this course at Northampton will be provided with their own brand new Hewlett Packard laptop* to keep at no additional cost. All sports clubs and societies are free to join at Northampton and every essential course text book is available via the library, meaning you won't have to purchase copies. For more information on this visit our website (northampton.ac.uk/benefits). - If you join us in September 2018 you will be the first to experience student life at the University's brand-new Waterside Campus. Come along to an Open Day to find out more. - Based on the evidence available, the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Panel judged that the University of Northampton delivers consistently outstanding teaching, learning and outcomes for its students. It is of the highest quality found in the UK. ✱ terms and conditions apply. See northampton.ac.uk/benefits for more information