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Hawkeye: In The Beginning
"When life throws you a hot potato, deal with it."
Talofa Lava to friends and fans of Hawkeye. Here we are, doing another great week in Paradise. It is the beginning of another week, and thus the beginning of a new set of trials and tribulations that we must all learn to deal with in our own individual way. Some Homo-sapiens handle the stresses of daily life different ways, but the end result is usually the same. Thus the beginning pulls the trigger to the end. It will take some of us longer to get there, depending on how we treat life on a daily if not on an hour to hour basis.
Hawkeye takes his life one day at a time and shares as much of that life that he can with his Sweet Leanor.
Hawkeye reads the comments on the various Hawkeye columns and the last two were definitely from Homo-sapiens that should pass over the Hawkeye column and of course read the rest of the contents of the Samoa News. As a constant reminder, Hawkeye should be taken with a grain of Masima! [Salt] Take its contents for what it is worth to you as an individual, and of course if the shoe fits, wear it. Over. Hawkeye is simply for your edification, entertainment, and downright amazement! Should Hawkeye begin in any way, shape or form to cause your blood pressure to elevate, by all means stop reading, and go see your family doctor! If you decide to continue reading Hawkeye, do so with an open mind and share it with a friend or neighbor. Should your neighbor happen to be illiterate, Read it to He or She all the while considering yourself lucky that you are able to read Hawkeye. Humm. But never take Hawkeye serious as you are likely to be disappointed.
Hawkeye don't know what is happinin with all these crazy Homo-sapiens trying to kill their crazy counterparts. Hawkeye is referring to the senseless shooting at the Washington Navy Yard. This poor shootist claims to have heard voices in his head prior to his setting off on a rampage that cost 13 other Homos their lives. Perhaps the voices told him to use the weapons of choice, a "Glock Semi Automatic" and a AR15, which was a weapon of choice during the Vietnam Days. He was sane enough to know what to use that would do the most damage in a very short time. Hawkeye would suppose that the Shooter is right where he ought to be: Dead!
It must be getting towards time for the full moon fans. This is when the Lunatics reveal themselves. Often in suspicious, and brutal ways!
Hawkeye was not at any meetings pertaining to the "GRT" [Gross Receipt Tax] being proposed at present, but there were a whole bunch of Homo-sapiens dead set against it in both the private and public sectors. Bitching and complaining is not the answer. We must keep positive attitudes, and one means of doing this is by having our "Esteemed and Honorable Governor" have it put to the public vote. After all, the people are the ones who have to live with the "GRT" once it is put in to law, and the only fair and reasonable means of a settlement is to have a public vote!
The yay's win and the Nay's lose! By taking this course of action, everyone wins! Over. The "GRT" is designed as a means of raising revenue for the government. From the man in the street, there is virtually no support for the proposal from the private sector --that tend to see it as a double tax being a cause for inflation due to increased prices for goods & Commodities. Also suggested is that a sales tax be applied to goods purchased, Removal of import excise tax, and more vigilance in collecting by the Tax Office. This is an issue that definitely needs to be placed on the front burner!
Hawkeye and Sweet Leanor have friends out there in the Great State of Colorado. They are therefore happy to learn that their good friends "Nona & Trev" are all safe and sound! They will remain so "Good Lawdy willin and da Creek don't rise!" {Figure of speech for those who are weak minded, and cannot take a joke!"} When Hawkeye is happy, as he was when he received the news that His friends were safe, He asked His Sweet Leanor to "dance!" Hawkeye did so because he was happy!
Hawkeye was at our one and only International "Malae Vailele" {Airport} the other day, and someone asked him: "R U a-goin ta Samoa?" Yea ah is replied Hawkeye. "R U a-gonna take the Pwane?" No: said Hawkeye; "ah is a-gwina take da Twain!" {Speaking of the full moon!}
All kidding aside, Hawkeye is quite pleased with the way the administration is making things happen. This is long overdue and it is a genuine pleasure to see things begin to come to "Frutition." We will look for the Tramway to take shape and again, a subject that needs our vote!
On To Swains Island Folks!
Love from Sweet Leanor and Hawkeye until next week.


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Steve Gershom (a pseudonym), the author of the following essay, is a faithful Catholic who has abandoned the homosexual life-style. Gershom affirms many points made earlier on the AOI Observer: the term gay, or even homosexual describes behavior and should never be construed ontologically, as a constituent of self-identity; homosexual actions are always sinful; the life of celibacy is not to be understood as a life of sexual self-denial, but at as a vocation (just as marriage is a vocation); that chastity is a means of self-integration and even joy; and more.
Where Gersham succeeds very well is putting a human face on the struggle with same-sex attraction. All passions effect some kind of orientation. When the struggle against passion is begun in earnest however, the false self constructed within the orientation loses its grip as the real self starts to emerge. The author has, and is, experiencing the liberation in ways that anyone, even those who do not struggle with same-sex attraction can understand, because we all struggle with passion in one way or another.
Source: Our Sunday Visitor | By Steve Gershom – OSV Newsweekly, 11/13/2011
What would I know about vocation? I'm 28, a faithful Catholic and gay. A little explanation of that last part: It would be more accurate to say that I have same-sex attraction than that I'm gay. My attraction to men is deep and, as far as I can tell, permanent, but I'm celibate. I sometimes use the word "gay" as a convenient shorthand, but it carries a lot of political and even theological baggage, and doesn't really apply to me, because of my celibacy and for other reasons that I'll try to make clear below.
The upshot is that I'm unmarried and likely to remain that way. I'm not discerning a vocation to the priesthood or the religious life, either. I've been there, done that, and I've let the Lord know he can do whatever he wants with me — up to and including sending me to Calcutta or the Bronx — but that if he wants me to be a priest or a monk, he'll have to do something drastic. I've spent a long time checking my internal compasses, and none of them point in that direction.
So what then? I know what not to do: Don't believe the gay activists, don't water down the faith, don't pretend homosexual actions aren't sinful. Don't have a boyfriend; don't get married. Don't, don't, don't. But nobody ever had a vocation that consisted in not doing something. Marriage, the priesthood, the religious life — these involve definite actions, definite commitments.
Parched, despondent
I'd like to give a road map to people like me — I mean not only other men and women with SSA, but everyone called to the single life — but it's difficult to make a map when you're still on the ground. At least I'm not lost in the desert any more, parched and exhausted like I was through my teens and early 20s. I'm heading toward civilization now, or better yet toward Zion, but there's a lot of rugged landscape between here and there. The best I can do is to tell you where I've been and what I've learned.
It's good to start on the edge of the desert. I'll pick age 14, because that's when I first started thinking of myself as gay. At the time, I understood exactly two things by the word. The first was that I was totally, irrevocably different from other boys. The second was that being gay and Catholic meant a long, dreary life of self-repression. So I believed at the time.
That was the beginning of my vocation as a professional sufferer, a position I held until somewhere in my early 20s. The darkness gathered around me, and I let it in, and was even proud of it. My suffering meant I was deep, sensitive and tragic. I don't mean to downplay the experience; when I call it a desert, I'm being poetic but I'm not exaggerating. This was Death Valley in July, except when it was Antarctica. But in more literal terms, the darkness consisted of these things: intense self-consciousness; near-constant feelings of isolation; pervasive regret at what I considered a wasted past; an absolute inability to live in the present; and terror at the prospect of the long, lonely future.
The technical name for the condition is despondency. I call it despondency, rather than depression, because depression is a state of the mind, the emotions, and even the body; whereas despondency is a state of the will. It comprises a particular response to depression. Depression doesn't necessary constitute a roadblock to one's vocation. Despondency does, because we are judged on the basis of what we do rather than what we feel.
What I was doing was precisely nothing, because that was all I believed I could do. That's what despondency is. I thought I was doing something, namely living through the suffering that I believed was my vocation, that I even believed God wanted for me. And maybe I was justified in believing these things, given the premises I had accepted. It's just that my premises were very, very wrong.
Leaving behind self-pity
In the middle of my desert I encountered a different set of premises, from a variety of sources: mostly my spiritual director, Father T, but also from good books ("Growth Into Manhood," by Alan Medinger), good organizations (People Can Change), good experiences (three months in Peru), and good friends (you know who you are). Up until that point I had believed that the statement "I am gay" is the same sort of statement as "I am male" or "I am human." Homosexuality was supposed to be an essential, rather than an accidental, part of me, just as deep as gender or species, or deeper.
This idea comes from the gay rights movement, but an awful lot of Christians believe it too. It is utter poison. If gay is what I am (or "who I am," as the saying goes), then Catholicism really does require a mode of existence in direct contradiction to the deepest parts of me. That didn't make sense to me, because I had always understood the Christian life as the only thing that could fulfill the deepest parts of me. But I was still trying to believe both things. No wonder I was lost.
If, on the other hand, my homosexuality is a part of me, rather than being my nature — something I have, rather than something I am — then things are different. It became apparent that I could change. I don't mean stop liking men and start liking women. I mean everything else: my self-imposed vocation of suffering, my self-pity, my self-isolation, my chronic fear and regret and loneliness. Next to those things, a little celibacy isn't too bad.
Ongoing journey
I discovered that I had a lot of work ahead of me. But I also discovered that there was something worth working for.
This space is too small to tell about my journey out of the desert. I only want to say that it is possible, that it didn't take as long as I thought, and that it's good to be out. And I want to say a few things about what comes afterward; what a vocation entails, and how the single life can be one.
When I was in the desert, I thought that the journey out of it would only end when I was dead. That's true, sort of, because no place on earth is final; our hearts are restless until they rest in God. But I didn't expect ever to be doing this well, and I didn't expect to have to figure what to do with myself besides feeling bad. Some gay activists build their identity around being gay; I had built mine around melancholy. When the melancholy started to dry up, the temptation was to sit still and tell myself I had arrived.
But just as surely as negative action (not-having-sex, not-getting-married) doesn't constitute a vocation, inaction doesn't constitute a vocation, either. The universal vocation is the call to love, and love always involves action — not nice feelings, not happy dreams, but doing real things for real people.
I look at the married people I know, and at the priests and monks and nuns, and what I see is that they constantly spend themselves. Self-donation isn't something they do on weekends, or when they have the time. It's the air they breathe. I look at them and I see grains of wheat, falling deep into the ground and bursting open into fruitfulness. Celibacy doesn't mean not being fertile; it just means bearing a different kind of fruit.
There's one difference between me and them. For them, there was a moment beyond which they were definitively no longer their own. Vows were made, rings were exchanged, rites were performed; they are different now.
Is something like that necessary for me? I don't know yet. It might be easier if it were. There's something to be said for leaps of faith, for making vows and closing off options. I have options. There's Opus Dei. There's the Franciscans — third order, of course. Or I could just keep doing what I'm doing: saying my morning offering, uniting my prayers and works and joys and sufferings to those of Jesus, trying to live in the presence of God.
But whatever I do, I can't live for myself forever. The grain of wheat has to die and be buried if it's going to bloom. God brought me out of the desert, but he has a destination in mind, and wherever it is, I haven't arrived. I'm just getting started.
Steve Gershom, a pseudonym, blogs at stevegershom.com.


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(Reuters) - Chinese teenager Guan Tianlang, who will become the youngest player to compete at the U.S. Masters in April, is attempting to get into this year's British Open at Asian International qualifying on Thursday.
Guan is hoping to secure one of the four available spots at the Amata Spring Country Club in Thailand where he won the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in November to seal his Masters debut.
"I have played at some professional golf tournaments before and it is always great to play with the professional golfers," the 14-year-old Guan said in a statement on Tuesday.
"I can learn so much from them and the experience of playing at the professional events."
Guan started swinging a club for fun at the age of four and impressed his parents so much within two years that they decided to invest heavily in his future.
The Asian International qualifying event will take place on March 1 for the July 18-21 British Open at Muirfield, Scotland. Three players booked their places at the Australasian qualifiers in January.
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Ok this would be a real update for FL Studio (it doesnt a bunch of new generators/effects and bugfixes)
My english is horrible, IÂ'll try to explain but I think that the pictures talks itself.
FL Studio 9 what's new
1. New playlist section.
2. Added slots for MIDI effects and Playlist Audio effects
3. New freezing tracks
4. Full multicore support
5. New browser snap, now hide its posible.
6. New MIDI delay compensation.
7. Packs of generator and effects (free & demo)
1. New playlist section.
FL Studio 9 now can use (and hide individually) three different playlist. Two of them are the classic "Pattern PlayList" and "Free PlayList". The new playlist is the "Track Based Playlist". You can route the track to the desired FL Studio Mixer insert channel. Also you can record in them as a classic secuencer.
2. Added slots for effects (Playlist Effects)
The track based playlist can host up 4 Midi Effects and 4 Audio Effects. You can switch them with the MFX and AFX buttons. Red buttons mean that there are effects added.
3. Freeze
FL Studio can freeze individual tracks from "Track Based Playlist" using the F button. You can move the patterns, delete them or add new audio effects because the patterns are freezed individually (with their time based track effects too (not the mixer effects), but you cannot see their tails)
But you cannot add midi effects, or delete/change any effects, or change the patterns, because the Playlist Effects are freezed too.
Freezed tracks are in blue.
4. Full multicore support
FL Studio support multicore processors for every generator and effect.
5. New Browser snap
Now you can hide the folders in browser. So you can have a "real plugin organizer" in a Snap, all the sample folder in another snap... etc
6. MIDI delay compensation
MIDI Out, Dashboard and FL Synthmaker can delay the out MIDI messages, now you can use hardware synth in perfect sync with your song/loop.
7. Packs of generator and effects
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FL Studio 9: A REAL UPDATE, Check this!!(freeze, playlist..)
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Egyptian Military Ousts President Morsi
Egypt's military said it is ousting Islamist president President Mohammed Morsi, suspending the constitution and calling for early elections—a move the presidential palace quickly branded a "complete military coup." Bill Spindle discusses. Photo: AP.
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I have been a mega bull on Apple (AAPL) ever since recommending a buy in the stock when it was $131. I rely heavily on rigorously analytical, probability-based algorithms. I was writing about the high probability of Apple stock reaching $1,000 long before Apple began it's manic run from below $400 earlier this year.
Lately, a race had developed between analysts to see who had the guts to increase their target on Apple to top the other guy's target. I have previously written that I find this race troubling. A reader may ask, "What is the difference between your $1,000 and other analysts' $1,001 or $1,650?" (Please see: The Road To $1,650 A Share: How Apple Can Keep Growing)
A large number of recent pronouncements on Apple have been very definitive. 'Apple will hit $1650' or 'Apple will go to $1001' are examples to illustrate the point. In my book the word 'will' connotates a definitiveness that I have never seen occur in the stock market.
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As an example the $1650 target on Apple is based on 2.5 time sales. Apple has 941,572,000 shares outstanding on a diluted basis. At $1650 per share the market value of the company will be $1.55 trillion. At 2.5 time sales, this means Apple sales will reach $621.44 billion.
Computers, iPhones, and iPads constitute 86.69% of Apple sales. Models of some analysts assume 83% of future revenues will be from iPhones and iPads.
Looking at demographics, I conclude that 250 million potential regular customers is the top number for MACs, iPhones, and iPads. This means that each potential customer will buy from Apple about $2500 of goods and services every year.
You be the judge. Can you see Apple selling to 100% of its potential customers and each one of those customers spending about $2500 each and every year on Apple products and services? This is the forest. The trees are analysts' imaginations running wild and calculating numbers device by device without regards to the boundaries imposed by the big picture.
Apple fans will certainly try to poke holes in this simple analysis. Such attempts will simply point to the absurdity of some of the Apple stock price models that are out there.
As an example, Apple fans may contend that Apple already has 250 million credit card numbers from its customers, so the potential number of customers is higher than the number used in this article. A vast majority of the credit cards Apple has on file are from iTunes. These are low-dollar purchases. For the sake of simplicity I have excluded iPod, iTunes, peripheral, and software sales from the above analysis as they respectively constitute only 5.46%, 4.37%, 1.65%, and 1.82% of revenues. When the relatively small amount of sales from these items is included in the analysis, the conclusion does not change.
Pounding the table with certainty about ever higher targets brings business to analysts, talking heads, newsletter writers, and media outlets. It is certainly good for them, but can work to the detriment of investors who are trying to generate decent returns.
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is the *conspiracy* theories regarding other companies is much more far-fetched than the simple fact that not everyone had a good experience at KS. Allow others to state to their experience without feeling personally attacked - it is part of being an adult - the world is not defined by you and your *feelings* - tears and hysterics aside.
I worked with these people for years and saw how they treat others. It means absolutely nothing to people in the managment of SPI to fire people or lay them off or just take your work and send it to India or Manila. Don't think for one second that your job is safe. They are all about numbers...Its a numbers game...meaning revenues.
The Philippine Telecommunication company did not get to be a company worth over $100 billion US dollars by paying labor to US employees. They know that by taking US jobs and sending them to India or Manila will increase their profit margins 25-35% minimally. Don't think for one second they will not do this.
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I need help for sound drivers for Realtek High Definition Audio. Havent been able to get sound working on an Acer Laptop which has Realtek High Definition Audio Codec.
Dont know if this link would help
I downloaded it but dont know what to do with it
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You need the devx_202.sfs file because you need to compile it.
Put the driver file somewhere out of the way (/tmp/NewDir is a good spot), open a terminal, and run
bunzip2 realtek-linux-audiopack-4.04c.tar.bz2
tar -xf realtek-linux-audiopack-4.04c.tar
cd realtek-linux-audiopack-4.04c
Hopefully that will work. It did for my computer, which has a built in Realtek audio chip on my Epox board. FYI, the "bunzip2 decompresses it (the .bz2 extension) and "tar -xf" extracts it (the .tar part). Then "cd" changes the directory and "./install" installs it using the script it comes with named "install."
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THanks for the response. I will give a try and report back my findings.
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Tried it but still no sound
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Hmm... Did it spit out any error messages? Otherwise the only things I can think of are to make sure your cables are tight, the speakers are on with their volumes turned up, and that Puppy's volume is also turned up (use xtmix from the "multimedia" section of the start menu because there are more than one volume settings that might need to be cranked up, including the knob on the right).
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Thanks for the response.
Hmm... Did it spit out any error messages?
No error messages. Also speakers are on and volumes turned up.
Well when this effort failed I went to the Ubuntu Forums and I got some form of solution. The problem is as a result of a bug in Alsa for which a patch was created.
The link to the solution on Ubuntu Forums is
where it says:
Re: No sound w/ HDA-Intel Realtek ALC883 - tried *everything*
AWESOME! I just had sound for the first time in weeks. can't friggin believe it.
here's how i aplied that patch (there may be ways to do it without recompiling alsa-driver, but i couldn't figure that out right now):
1. i downloaded alsa.patch from Here
2. i downloaded and unpacked alsa-driver 1.0.12rc3 from alsa-project.net, unpacked it
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patch -p1 < /path/to/acer.patch
and when prompted for the file to patch i entered
4. i compiled the driver:
./configure --with-cards=hda-intel
sudo make install
5. i added to /etc/modules:
snd-hda-intel model=ACER
to /etc/modprobe.d/snd-hda-intel.modprobe i added
options snd-hda-intel model=ACER
to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base i added:
options snd-hda-intel model=ACER
(there may be some redundancy in these entries)
5. i rebooted (unloading and reloading the modules didn't do the trick for some reason)
i guess the patch will be added to the next release candidate of ALSA, so there's an end to this nightmare..
Now I tried this with Puppy 2.0.2 (with devx_202.sfs) everything seemed to be going fine until I reached the
sudo make install
Note I did not include sudo in the code I typed in. It gave me error messages of files or folders not existing. And as would be expected my hopes of having sound were dashed.
Ok enough of the story. I would like some one to please kindly recompile ALSA as above and send it to me as a tarball. Also I would like to know which files I need to manually edit ( ie maybe rc.local0 or module.conf)
Thank you, while I wait for someone to make me very happy.
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Now I tried this with Puppy 2.0.2 (with devx_202.sfs) everything seemed to be going fine until I reached the
sudo make install
If you made it to this point with no errors, you should have the module built already. You just need to find it. Assuming the module you built works with Puppy's alsa, and depending on the type of Puppy install you are using(livecd with pupsave, frugal, etc.,) installing it may be as simple as replacing the current copy in /lib/modules/* and adding the
line referenced in your post to /etc/modules.conf.
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Posted: Sun 27 Aug 2006, 20:52
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everything seemed to be going fine until I reached the
sudo make install
Key word: seemed.
Are you sure that the "make" command ended of its own accord, or did it end due to errors? Check the final lines it spits out to check. If it did indeed finish, then it compiled everything. The "make install" only moves the files it compiled into the correct places and maybe modifies some settings.
I'd try to do it, but I don't have time, especially if it's already done. Sorry, but study comes before Puppy. Besides, I'm not exactly the best at compiling.
Good luck!
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Posted: Fri 05 Oct 2007, 16:47
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so, hello guys! same problem here, acer aspire 5310, totally mute (also wireless not working, but that's not a priority...) I really need help from you, I tried everything, read all I could find, in this and other forums, I have tried the realtek drivers, compiled alsa drivers with the patches..nothing, pc is always mute, even if apparently there are no errors...alsamixer in puppy 3.00 shows more options, but still no sound....furthermore I use and want to continue using Pizzapup...PLEASE HELP
I MUST use puppy, I don't want that Vixxta that is shipped with the notebook (os booted, some programs automatically loaded....700 mb of ram used!!! and you should hear that poor hd always running like a horse...)
come on, let's find a solution
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Posted: Fri 05 Oct 2007, 17:19
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have you tried the "simple" solution?
# modprobe snd_hda_intel
... then ...
# alscaconf
... then ...
# alsamixer
... then ...
# alsactl store
.... then reboot.
Worked on my Acer with that card.
Or use Puppy 3.00 where it works without any human intervention
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Posted: Fri 05 Oct 2007, 17:30
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thanks Paul..yes I tried also those commands, except for the last one, which I tried now...no, it's like if the card was muted by something, because if you play a file, even with aplay, it shows you no errors! puppy 300 did not work as well however, it just showed more options on alsamixer, but remained mute too...
going to bed now, here it's around midnight...if you or someone else have ideas, they are very appreciated
p.s. ubuntu feisty live failed as well...in Vista the sound is working (thanks to the driver, not to Vista)...
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Posted: Sat 06 Oct 2007, 09:42
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kelewax wrote:
The link to the solution on Ubuntu Forums is
Puppy 3.0's snd-hda-intel module already has the changes described in the patch from that link, so the module is good-to-go for Acer compatibility.
Please see my post about snd-hda-intel configuration here -
Your audio device is probably ALC883/888, and your parameter will be either "acer" (Travelmate 3012WTMi, Aspire 5600, etc)
or "acer-aspire" (Aspire 9810)
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Posted: Sat 06 Oct 2007, 16:50
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Tempestuos you re GREAT!!
it worked! I don't have to load that ugly Vixta anymore to hear sounds!!
now I want to try upgrading ALSA in pizzapup and see if it works there too (I find Pizzapup more "beautiful" also if I know it's older.....).
Btw wireless works too in Puppy 3.00, I don't have a wireless modem, but I see my neighborhood network.....
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Posted: Sat 06 Oct 2007, 16:51
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sorry for the bold, I made a mistake....thanks again
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There's a lot of pain and suffering in "Amour," the latest feature from Austrian director Michael Haneke. The award-winning movie, about an elderly couple facing mortality, can often be difficult to watch. But the misery is alleviated by moments of unexpected beauty from classical pianist Alexandre Tharaud, who performed the movie's soundtrack.
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Colts' Simon, June might not have choice about sitting out
INDIANAPOLIS — In a normal week, Corey Simon and Cato June might actually play Sunday against the San Diego Chargers. This week, the availability of the nicked-up defenders is being debated by Colts coaches.
By clinching a third straight AFC South title, first-round bye and home-field advantage through the playoffs, coach Tony Dungy sees no reason to risk his hurting defensive starters to additional injuries — not even perfection.
Instead, Dungy believes it's more important to let some key players rest, relax and recover.
"That's one of the luxuries we have now," he said. "We don't have to put them back in if they're not close to 100 percent."
The unbeaten Colts (13-0) are likely to face this dilemma each week until they either lose, ending a quest to become the NFL's second perfect team, or the games start to matter again in January.
Players insist they'd like to chase both history and a Super Bowl title, but understand that Dungy must make decisions he believes are best for the team.
"You want to win because as a professional you always want to win," Simon said. "That has to be your ultimate motivation."
But in the case of Simon and June, the biggest factor may be their health.
Simon, a former Pro Bowl defensive tackle, showed up with a walking boot on his sprained left foot Wednesday, an injury incurred in last week's 26-18 victory at Jacksonville.
June, tied for the NFL interception lead among linebackers with Cincinnati's Odell Thurman, has played most of the second half of the season with a sports hernia and also has a sore knee and ankle. He missed Sunday's game.
While both sat out practice Wednesday, they said they felt good and were still hopeful they would play against the Chargers.
If Dungy sticks to his earlier statement, Simon, June and defensive end Robert Mathis may not have a choice. Mathis was listed as doubtful with a foot injury.
Dungy appears leery about risking a Super Bowl run by exposing starters, especially those already hurt, and with good reason after Peyton Manning provided a brief scare early Sunday when he tripped while backpedaling.
"When you have things clinched, that absolutely comes into play," Dungy said. "Right now, Corey and Robert probably will be held out. Cato says he's feeling better, and if he does practice tomorrow, I'd say there's a good chance he'll play."
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Simon's season has already taken some unusual twists.
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"You never want to take a break, you want to play," he said. "At the same time, it's what's best for you and what's best for the team. You want to do what's best for the team."
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Comics Review: STAR COMICS ALL-STAR COLLECTION, Volume 1 (Marvel Comics, 2009)
In the Spring of 1985, in a last, defiant gasp of my overweening interest in "classic" Harvey comics, I buy a small number of Marvel's late and decidedly unlamented Star Comics when they start appearing on the sparsely populated magazine racks of a small food store located down the street from the Brown [University] Graduate Center. In this year of CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS, I derive considerable pleasure from the likes of TOP DOG, PLANET TERRY, and EWOKS. Don't get me wrong -- even I can see that the Star offerings are, by and large, pale imitations of Harvey comics (especially the notorious ROYAL ROY, which pisses me off... uh, royally). What excites me the most is the presence of creator credits. At long last, I have incontestable proof that the artist who I always thought was Warren Kremer was, in reality, Warren Kremer! I'm so happy to be proved right that I compose a personal letter to Mr. Kremer on my manual typewriter (yep, this WAS a while ago...) and send it to the Marvel offices.
If it sounds like I'm setting up the duckpins for a revisionist bowl-a-rama, you're correct... up to a point. Marvel's recent out-of-nowhere release of the first of a planned series of volumes reprinting the (short-lived) exploits of Star Comics' original creations was a pleasant surprise, given the generally low esteem in which these comics are held. I couldn't help but snap the book up, and I'm delighted to say that these works hold up much better than I'd recalled -- with one big, gold-plated, starts-with-Rs exception. It's no Dark Horse LITTLE LULU line, for sure, but you could certainly do worse than purchase this collection with an eye towards getting a young child interested in comics. If you really want to go "above and beyond," you might also get a couple of the Dark Horse HARVEY COMICS CLASSICS volumes and do a direct "compare-and-contrast," so as to fully understand the tangled Star-Harvey relationship.
Star Comics came into existence because the notoriously deal-happy Harvey family couldn't make a deal. The original Harvey Comics line, unable to cope with the "brave new world" of the direct-market distribution system, ceased publication in 1982. Over the next several years, Marvel, seeing an opening in the kids' comics market -- an opening that would become a gaping maw once Western Publishing finally gave up the ghost in '84 -- dickered with Harvey over the rights to print Harvey comics. When the two parties couldn't come to terms, Marvel hired away some of Harvey's idled personnel and set up shop for itself, giving the line a new title in order to establish a cordon sanitaire between the newbies and the superhero-dominated Marvel Universe. Featuring a mixture of licensed properties and original creations, Star sputtered along for a couple of years before the new line was jettisoned and the few ongoing titles (ALF and BARBIE, most notably) were gathered under the Marvel banner. While no original title lasted longer than TOP DOG's 14 issues, it is these titles that have come to symbolize what minimal profile Star has retained among comics fans -- and it is these titles that are at the center of the controversy over whether Star really was just a bald-faced Harvey knockoff.
ROYAL ROY is the one title reprinted in this collection that truly deserves all the scorn heaped upon it. Roy was a Richie Rich ripoff -- nothing more, nothing less -- and the cast of supporting characters have direct parallels to Richie's cast in a manner not seen again in popular culture until The Lion King's "borrowings" from Kimba the White Lion. Reportedly, young prince Roy's facial features had to be changed at the last minute to make the resemblance to Richie less grindingly obvious. The change in setting from Richville to the kingdom of Cashalot didn't fool anyone -- in fact, the decision to make Cashalot a rich kingdom seemed calculated to twist a painful knuckle into RICHIE fans' spines -- and, I would argue, gave what was already an idea doomed to failure even less of a chance to succeed. For all of his immense wealth, Richie remained, at heart, a fairly typical American kid who could "connect" with readers in a manner that the regal Roy never could, not even when he took a "commoner" girl friend, Crystal Clear (read: Gloria Glad), in ROYAL ROY #2. The cynicism of the whole enterprise almost beggars (heh) belief. Marvel's decision to cancel the title after six issues (in, I might add, the face of the Harvey family's most justified lawsuit ever) didn't remove the bad taste from people's mouths. Indeed, the whole affair wound up curdling Star's overarching reputation for good. More's the pity, as the other, legitimately original Star creations ranged from good to excellent.
While less ambitious than PLANET TERRY (the first "children's comic" of my acquaintance to essay a continuing story line) and less artfully produced than WALLY THE WIZARD (to my mind, the real revelation of this collection), Top Dog was at the beginning, and probably always will be, my favorite Star character. The concept is simple enough -- "typical kid" Joey Jordan meets and adopts (in a manner of speaking) an opinionated talking dog who's something of a "Renaissance mutt" -- but the execution is charming. Kremer, inked by Harvey associate Jacqueline Roettcher in a manner that will be instantly familiar to anyone who's read Kremer's work on RICHIE RICH AND CASPER in the 1970s, makes TD, Joey, and the supporting players very appealing. Lennie Herman's scripts for TD #1-#3 are also excellent, though the Cold War-flavored "Spies" (TOP DOG #2) has aged a bit. (The prolific Herman actually died before the first Star comics appeared on the shelves; it'll be interesting to see how the stories' quality will hold up once other hands take the controls.) If I have any modern complaints with these engaging stories, they lie in (1) the use of a wealthy snob, Mervin Megabucks, as Joey and TD's main antagonist -- he's much too reminiscent of Richie's "mean" Cousin Reggie van Dough for my taste -- and (2) the fact that TD, wisecracker though he may be, isn't as big of a smart-aleck as he probably ought to have been. He's a Bugs Bunny type, but rendered in pale pastels. If Herman had combined the likability of Richie Rich with the sassiness of, say, a Hot Stuff or a Little Audrey, then we would really have had something.
PLANET TERRY looks a lot like a conventional Harvey comic -- same page layout, same division into "chapters" with different titles, etc. -- but just look at the characters once and the novelty is obvious. Terry, an (extremely) prematurely graying teenager, is on a galaxy-spanning quest to find his lost parents. Along the way, he acquires a comely female robot and a scaly green muscle-monster as allies. The temptation to link Terry to Timmy Time -- the young, white-haired time-traveler (created by one of Alfred Harvey's sons, BTW) who appeared in a single issue of Harvey's RICHIE RICH AND TIMMY TIME (1977) -- is as strong with me as "The Force" was with young Luke Skywalker, but I don't honestly think that Terry was a ripoff. Star had already tweaked the Harvey family's nose once with Royal Roy, so what could have been gained by antagonizing them again? Terry's adventures (which ceased prematurely when the comic was cancelled with issue #12) are good, solid "space opera" with definite Star Wars overtones. Even though the story arc was never resolved, I only read a couple of issues of the comic, so a lot of the future goings-on will be entirely new to me.
Speaking of new experiences, I had never read WALLY THE WIZARD before sampling issues #1-#2 in this collection. Perhaps I've been softened up by a combination of the HARRY POTTER novels and the ongoing Wizards of Mickey story line in MICKEY MOUSE AND FRIENDS, but I found these adventures of an apprentice wizard in a vaguely defined medieval setting to be utterly winning. For all of Wally's boss Marlin's muttering "To think that I had my pick of apprentices!", Wally's mastery (or lack thereof) of magic isn't really germane to his success; he relies more on a combination of quick-wittedness and thoughtfulness to get his ju-ju jobs done. In "A Plague of Locust" (WW #1), Wally's willingness to help a dragon's offspring turns the dragon into an ally in a battle against a metal locust (Duke Igthorn is probably feverishly taking notes even now) that is threatening the royal family. Wally then wins "The Magic-a-Thon" (WW #2) through what Marlin, somewhat patronizingly, describes as "sheer intelligence." Wally's creator, Bob Bolling of LITTLE ARCHIE fame, peppers "Locust" with sight gags and verbal jokes while also breaking the "Harvey boundaries" by using multiple splash panels and three-tiered pages. Howie Post (with inker Jon D'Agostino) takes up the drawing reins from Bolling in #2 and gives all of the characters that goofy Post "spin" so familiar to Harvey Comics readers, while Sid Jacobson's plot is every bit as good as Bolling's. WALLY, like PLANET TERRY, lasted 12 issues even though, unlike the other titles mentioned above, it did not lean on Harvey (in the time-honored manner of the drunk leaning on the lamp post: "for support, not illumination") as a clear aesthetic inspiration. Too bad: this is one comic that could (and probably should) have survived Star's later "engulfment" by Marvel.
Kudos to Marvel for finally making this material available again. These characters, for the most part, deserve a chance to gain the attention of a new comics-reading generation.
4 comments:
- Joe Torcivia said...
No disrespect to the great Warren Kremmer – and all of the other STAR creators, a group which included even Don R. Christensen – but you will never convince me that THIS was a project that needed to be done!
Has "Eighties Nostalgia" become this much of a force – outside of FAMILY GUY, that is?
- January 4, 2010 at 7:46 PM
- Chris Barat said...
You'd better hope 80s nostalgia has hit in a big way. That fully-loaded, comment-packed, Blu-Ray edition of DUCKTALES may be riding on it!
- January 7, 2010 at 10:33 PM
- Inger Fountain said...
Hey Chris
Thanks for the review.
I read these as a kid too and picked up a heap on ebay for my kids to peruse.
Just a quick question-Are these printed on glossy paper or the cheaper (and my preferred format for these old comics) matte paper?
- February 7, 2010 at 9:01 PM
- Chris Barat said...
I'm not an expert on paper types, but the paper appears to be the typical paper used for softcover collections by all publishers. Semiglossy, I guess you would call it.
- February 9, 2010 at 8:48 PM


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