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Joined: 20 Nov 2007
Posts: 118
Location: Italy
Posted: Thu 10 Dec 2009, 10:16
Post subject: Hotkeys
Hi everybody,
can you help me with hotkeys that in 4.3.1 don't work properly? When I want to set brightness, in example, I have to exit from Xorg, losting all applications running, and press on light keys to chance. In 4.2.1, this behavior was not.
Please note: in these days, I have tried only with my Acer Extensa 5620z, but not yet on my Eeepc (already seen ASUS Eee ACPI support topic by Tempestuous for 4.3.0).
Thanks, bye.
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Joined: 23 May 2007
Posts: 1600
Location: the australian mallee
Posted: Fri 11 Dec 2009, 23:59
Post subject: ?Partition size bug in drive icons (I think)
Bear with me
Desktop of 431 has a row of partition/drive icons at the bottom (unless you turn this off).
If I do this:
Right click on an icon
select any partition
and select the line App dir
select properties
it is always showing the size of 20K
I think this is suppose to be the partition size, but maybe not?
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Posts: 4421
Location: merriam, kansas
Posted: Sat 12 Dec 2009, 00:10
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The space occupied by the icon.
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Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
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Joined: 30 Jun 2008
Posts: 1231
Location: Saint-Gérard / Walloon part of Belgium
Posted: Sun 13 Dec 2009, 03:40
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Subject description: pup-431-small.iso instal problem on laptop
only on my medion 600MHz PIII laptop 192MBRam!
after frugal installation using Puppy Universal Installer, got error «..not syncing: attempted to kill init»
No problem booting from live-cd.
No problem with the frugal instal of the «full» pup-431 instead.
problem is: only about 8MB of the 93MB sized pup-431.iso is copied on the ext3 partition /puppy431 folder upon frugal installation.
This happens only with pup-small-431 on my medion 600MHz PIII laptop - not on desktops.
Trying to copy the pup-431.sfs from live-cd to /puppy431 resulted in an «input/output error».
Then extracting pup-431.sfs from the iso and copying it to a USB stick, and afterwards from stick to /puppy431 worked.
Now pup-431-small boots OK.
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Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Posts: 2008
Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Sun 13 Dec 2009, 21:53
Post subject: Fix for erratic module-loading preference function
Subject description: Preferred module alternative was sometimes not loaded as specified in BootManager
tempestuous, et al,
Reports of unreliable handling of module preferences, as given in the BootManager Preference option, probably resulted from a bug in the pup_event_backend_modprobe script, which is responsible for the loading of appropriate hardware driver modules. The attached package, pup_event_backend_modprobe_fix_to_p43x-1.pet, resolves that bug and extends the capabilities of the Preference function to (1) provide predictable control over module preferences and (2) support some special cases of module selection and substitution.
The current implementation of preferences not only can fail to make a substitution, but may load a module other than the one specified, if more than one alternative is appropriate. Specifying the name of a module as a substitute merely results in substitution with whatever module is available for the device; if there are multiple candidates available, the one loaded may not be the one named as the preference.
This new version of the script extends the preference function by (1) allowing multiple preferences for the same module (separated by a "|" and ordered first-choice-first if needed), the selection being governed by the particular modules that identify themselves as supporting a particular device, and (2) allowing dynamic activation of a set of preferences needed when certain conditions occur. The special preferences reside in /etc/rc.d/MODULESCONFIG as assignment statements setting variables named PREF...; they are
accessible through the BootManager.
One use of these extensions is for hybrid USB storage-modem devices (e.g., wireless modems), which require two drivers but only one of them normally gets loaded. All such devices may initially require module usb-storage, then need one of several possible modem drivers. If the normally-loaded driver is usb-storage instead of the others, an internally activated preference is used if usb-storage is already loaded (which it normally is), but the modem driver must be the one(s) intended for the modem (known at load time).
Another use is for supporting ALSA modems that might instead actually be Conexant modems. The Conexant (Linuxant) driver issues an error message if the modem is not a Conexant. In this case, preferences can be activated to force use of the alternate (ALSA) driver after a reboot of Puppy. The new features could support other special module-loading situations as they become known.
This package/dotpet has been tested with all three kernel versions of Puppy 4.3.1. It should be installed by anyone experiencing a problem with preferred modules not loading (e.g., atl1e instead of atl1c). Do not use this package on Puppies 4.1.x or 4.2.x; instead, use the similar, but bugfix-only package created for those Puppies and available in the Bugs/Fixes threads for 4.1.2 and 4.2.1. Use of the HSF/ALSA reselection requires installation of the new modem "fix pack" package (to be uploaded soon in this thread). This fix can be applied to any Puppy 4.3 installation and is a candidate for inclusion in 4.4CE.
Corrects module-loading preference bug and extends preference capabilities.
Installable on any Puppy 4.3.x system, but NOT 4.1 or 4.2.
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Joined: 07 Dec 2008
Posts: 24
Location: Portugal
Posted: Mon 14 Dec 2009, 20:46
Post subject:
There is one "bug" tha is on 4,3,1 and other puppies..
In the beggining of the setup,where we choose the keyboard layout there is:
and the correct is:
Portuguese,Portugal (PT-PT)
Portuguese,Brazil (PT-BR)
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Joined: 15 Dec 2009
Posts: 5
Posted: Tue 15 Dec 2009, 01:20
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Recently I did a frugal install of Puppy 4.3.1 onto a 10 year-old PC with 192 mb RAM and 2 small HDDS. As i'm new to Linux and Puppy (but really loving it !!! ) i had no idea whether to go for an ext2 or ext3 partition. I literally flipped a coin and for that reason formatted the smaller HDD as ext2.
So I've got the following -
2 gb HDD ext2 Puppy 4.3.1 (frugal)
40 gb HDD FAT 32 Windows XP
What I've found is that while Gparted can see the Windows XP drive, it lists the FAT 32 partition on that drive as "unformatted".
I ran an older version, Puppy 4.0.0, from a DVD and it's version of without any probs at all.
So I've chucked out Puppy 4.3.1 and installed the older version on the PC. I just didn't like the risk of having a powerful tool like GParted not working properly.
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Joined: 15 Dec 2009
Posts: 2955
Location: USA
Posted: Tue 15 Dec 2009, 13:43
Post subject: Memory usage under Puppy 4.31
Subject description: Large difference in consumed RAM between Flash and HDD pupsave
Hi all,
I found this rather strange. I have a pupsave on my flash drive and an identical pupsave on my HDD.
The machine is an older 750 Duron, 512MB RAM.
So I CD boot, load the HDD pupsave, and check memory usage:
used: 293580, free: 220900
I reboot, and instead load the identical pupsave from my flash drive:
used: 111332, free: 403148
Both of these were fresh boots (before running anything else, so nothing is dangling in memory).
It almost appears that booting from HDD (including the frugal install), copies all of the user and system files to memory when running from a HDD, but doesn't do this when booting from flash. I confirmed this on a couple different machines. The pup-431.sfs file is on the HDD with the pupsave (and likewise the flash).
This difference in memory usage is critical, since being a RetroTech Guy, I'm putting puppy on old, dilapidated machines... (my "toaster", with 256MB, was having trouble -- very, very sluggish...)
Any ideas? Did I miss a configuration somewhere?
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Joined: 24 Oct 2009
Posts: 774
Location: Montreal
Posted: Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:05
Post subject: Puppy 4.3.1 locks up with 2fs file on Win 7 ntfs partition
Subject description: Booted and configured Puppy from Live-CD, saved to 512MB 2fs file on ntfs, kernel panic on reboot!
A few days ago I persuaded a friend to try Puppy 4.3.1 on his newly configured Windows 7 system. The Live-Cd ran fine, and we had no problems configuring his display, sound, and ethernet connection. We then saved both the Puppy4.3.1.sfs file and a 512MB 2fs file to his D drive, formated ntfs.
There were no error messages, but when we rebooted the system locked up completely witha kernel panic message. He had to power down the system with the power switch in order to regain control.
Unfortunately, all of his drives were formatted ntfs, and we couldn't find a usb drive large enough to retry with fat or fat32.
The system ran Slax and TinyCore without and signs of problems. Although we didn't try to create any permanent configuration files with those distros.
Knoppix Live-DVD 6.2 ran fine the first time, but locked up the second time we booted it. No idea why.
I understand that Linux doesn't handle NTFS partions very reliably, but I didn't think it was that bad...
I've got a large ntfs partition on one of my drives, and I can't use it with Puppy, because whenever I mount it, I get a big red "ntfs warning" popup (which is hard to read and impossible to copy and paste), after which my empty partition opens up in Rox in read-only mode.
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Joined: 11 Dec 2009
Posts: 5
Posted: Tue 15 Dec 2009, 16:57
Post subject: Re: Puppy 4.3.1 locks up with 2fs file on Win 7 ntfs partition
Subject description: Booted and configured Puppy from Live-CD, saved to 512MB 2fs file on ntfs, kernel panic on reboot!
[quote="otropogo"]There were no error messages, but when we rebooted the system locked up completely witha kernel panic message. He had to power down the system with the power switch in order to regain control.
I understand that Linux doesn't handle NTFS partions very reliably, but I didn't think it was that bad...
I had the same experience, and the only thing I could do was to create an extra Linux partition and save the 2fs file onto that, if not I repeatedly had the same kernel panic message...
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Joined: 04 May 2005
Posts: 6266
Location: Knoxville, TN, USA
Posted: Tue 15 Dec 2009, 17:13
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Puppy normally has a pup_xxx.sfs file that contains nearly the entire default operating system (minus the kernel and the initial ram disk, but don't worry about those). Puppy will typically load that file into ram if it can, so that access time will be faster. But there are drawbacks to doing that: it uses more ram and it takes longer to boot. If you have the file on an internal harddrive, the slowdown to booting is pretty small. On a flash drive it might be pretty significant, especially if it's an old USB v1 drive or port (USB v2 is much faster). So when it boots, Puppy tries to determine if the pup_xxx.sfs file is on a "slow" drive or not. If it is, Puppy won't load it. (Puppy also looks at the amount of free ram as a second criterion before it will attempt to load the file. The precise amount it checks for varies from release to release. I think it's currently something like 256 MB, but I could be wrong.)
There are boot options (pfix=noram and pfix=copy) that are supposed to tell Puppy to not copy or too copy the file regardless of the drive speed (but still at the mercy of available ram). However, only the pfix=copy option actually works in the latest Puppies. For some reason, Barry saw fit to have Puppy override the user's preference regarding pfix=noram. I believe I posted some code a couple months ago that lets you restore your right to choose. I don't remember where I posted it though. I can dig it up for you if you need it.
Note that your comment about HDD installs is not quite accurate: With a full-hdd install, there is no pup_xxx.sfs file for Puppy to load at all, since the data that would be in it is strewn across a harddrive partition instead. So in that case the ram isn't used much either.
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Joined: 15 Dec 2009
Posts: 2955
Location: USA
Posted: Tue 15 Dec 2009, 18:10
Post subject: Memory usage under Puppy 4.31
Hi Pizza,
Thanks for the input.
What I'm seeing is opposite of what I would expect (i.e. a CD boot reading from a flash drive uses LESS memory than CD boot reading pupsave and .sfs from HDD). Given wear leveling concerns, I might expect the flash drive to load everything memory, and for the HDD to not load, leaving a large amount of free RAM with the HDD option (as wear leveling would not encourage loading everything to memory). Likewise with the USB1.1 versus HDD speed -- I would expect Puppy to read the sfs file from the HDD, and the flash to load into memory. I seem to be getting the opposite behavior.
BTW, my 2 install methods are CD boot and frugal install (I have grub on one of my machines, and plan to put it on the other). I didn't want a full HDD install (it makes my dual, Tri, or whatever, boot options very easy -- likewise playing with multiple Puppy versions). So I do have .sfs and pupsave files sitting on my HDDs (I still run Win98 on several machines)
My real problem was with my "toaster", which only has 256MB, and a tower with 384 MB. Perhaps the problem is that all of my machines have an available and enabled swap partition (making Puppy believe that it has more actual RAM than it does). BTW, the "toaster" only has USB 1.1 (and being a "toaster", it cannot be upgraded), but the 384MB machine has a 2.0 card inside -- however the HDD should be faster to read than the USB 1.1, so it still doesn't make sense... (and for completeness, the Duron mentioned earlier has 512MB and USB1.1)
The 111M memory usage from a CD/flash boot would probably be fine, but when it heads towards the 290M level, my machines spend a lot of time swapping, which really dogs them down (so to speak...
I think that I had no problem with Puppy 4.21 on an old laptop (P333, 128MB, using a CD boot with the files on the HDD).
Since the RAM values I gave were for a fresh boot...as soon as I open Firefox, or whatnot, I find that my free RAM drops to 5MB or so, and then pageswaps completely dominate my CPU availability... You end up with several seconds of pause after clicking a button...
If you could recall the name of your pfix code, I can probably search for it. I'll give the pfix option a try and see if that clears it up...
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Joined: 15 Dec 2009
Posts: 2955
Location: USA
Posted: Tue 15 Dec 2009, 18:59
Post subject: Memory usage under Puppy 4.31 -- brief update
It appears that Puppy 4.31 is ignoring pfix=noram, so that didn't help.
I deleted the swap partition on the 512MB Duron, to no effect (though that machine still has lots of RAM). I'll try that on the toaster, and see if that drives the memory usage one way or another.
I'll try tinkering with the grub commands for the 384MB machine, and see if I can force a noram bootup...
I'll try to post an update tomorrow.
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Joined: 04 May 2005
Posts: 6266
Location: Knoxville, TN, USA
Posted: Tue 15 Dec 2009, 19:56
Post subject:
Found it:
It doesn't make a difference one way or the other regarding flash lifetime. Flash is worn out from writes, not reads.
Puppy does take measures to extend the life by limiting writes. What happens is it creates a ramdisk and any time you modify data, the modifications are held in the ramdisk instead of being written to the drive. Periodically and upon poweroff Puppy will copy the changes back to the drive. The frequency of the copies can be controlled from "Menu->System->Puppy Event Manager".
IIRC Puppy uses the default ramdisk size of half your ram. But since it uses tmpfs, it doesn't actually use up the ram immediately. It's allocated as needed. So initially it doesn't even impact the free ram.
This stuff only applies to flash media of course. Otherwise Puppy doesn't bother with it.
Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. --Muad'Dib
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Location: USA
Posted: Wed 16 Dec 2009, 00:21
Post subject: Memory usage under Puppy 4.31
Thanks Pizza, I'll give that a try on my frugal install (the toaster is still being boot from a CD at the moment -- but the initrd.gz is easily available on the frugal).
Regarding flash drives -- yes, that was my understanding as well, that only writes do damage (though I notice that reading from a flash drive often produces considerable heat -- that makes me wonder if some damage also occurs during read operations).
Anyway, I was mistaken about this frugal install machine, I thought it had 384M, but I apparently used a 64M with the 2 128M, so I have 320M. It still ought to be plenty, but here is the problem (I pulled this as soon as I booted):
Mem: 286964 282380 4584 0 22700
Swap: 546200 0 546200
Total: 833164 282380 550784
That 5 M left really cramps my style.
BTW, the boot sequence does state that it loaded pup-431.sfs to ram (rather than just read from the HDD).
I'm going to try your patch, and will let you know in a bit...
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Chili pepper, sweet pepper, cayenne pepper
Capsicum annuum
Fruits and Vegetables, Herbs
Start inside 3 months before last frost, with soil and air temperatures of 70-85F/21-31C to germinate, 80s better. Bottom heat quite helpful. Keep at same temperatures for optimum growth, until the third set of true leaves appear, then allow several weeks with night temperatures down to about 55-60F/12-15C, before returning to some 70F/21C. Provide excellent light, high humidity and deep rich well-drained soil at all stages; soil should be kept both warm and moist.
The ideal seedling has buds, but no open flowers, at the time of moving it out into the garden, though even fruiting specimens may be transplanted. Transplant at least 2 weeks after last frost. Nights must be warm; harden plants off gradually. Set 2" deeper than before, spacing 12" apart. Soil should contain adequate phosphorus and calcium, but hold back on nitrogen; provide ample water on at least a weekly basis. Stresses, especially dry spells, will produce hotter fruits, if fewer.
Note that peppers are perennials, though frost tender. They may be moved indoors before the first fall frost to continue producing, and can even be overwintered and moved back out in spring, though I prefer to restart from seed. Various hot peppers previously referred to as Capsicum frutescens.
See Also
Christmas pepper, cherry pepper (Capsicum annuum)
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Share a Story - Change the World
Does this count as a resource you can use? The world's first 24/7/365 Internet Radio Station for Storytellers. You can be on the radio, you can have equal footing, you can point your friends and family to this radio station as an example of your talent and professionalism.
I appreciate the encouragement and excitement in the emails I have received today after I announced the station in my newsletter. There are some regulations that have to be met and records that have to be gathered and processed from the tellers before anyone can be on the radio station. Large Production Houses normally take care of these details for their Artists, ASCAP and other organizations protect the permissions & copyrights of musicians. But no such organization exists that supports storytellers.
But that does not exclude us from complying with the DMCA legal requirements. So, I am building the finishing touches now... on the registration page and the audio file database management system. In just a couple of days the forms will be on the website www.AslanProductionStudio.com and you can be among the first to "register." I can tell you that no one will be paying to be on the radio, but they will have to pay to have my station process all these documents and records. The records that have to be kept are a lot of work; so, the storytellers will have to pay me for processing of their paperwork & stories to be additionally digitally processed (bit rate compatibility issues aligned & resolved) and put into the playlist.
After that, public popularity will keep them on-air or cycle them off-air, just like it is in music radio.
How is this going to work? I cannot charge the tellers per exposure of their stories. (For example; 50 airings of your story for $500 or three months of playlist activity for $300) No... It has to be fair for everyone.
The DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) requires artist registration records to be held by the station, along with signed copyright permission documents to broadcast. The nice folks at Live365 have the right, as a condition of my franchise, to inspect the playlist and check it against my records, copies of which I have to submit to them. And I can lose my franchise if these records are incomplete. Plus there are the government violation fines for non-compliance.
Every CD & MP3 of a story must be accompanied with its "metadata" when I upload it to the playlist rotation. Every track is inspected for its metadata complete compliance prior to my being able to push the broadcast button. If the file is missing information in the metadata fields, no broadcast. So I have to also educate storytellers about how to find and complete the metadata for each of their MP3s or they will have to get their Story CDs Mastered in compliance with the RED BOOK Industry Standards & submit the CDs complete with all the metadata. If not, I will have to hand type it in, if possible, or get them to take it back to their recording studio.
There is no squishiness about the copyrights and permissions to broadcast, period. This processing; artist registration and track processing has to be paid for and I will ask the tellers to pay for this administrative work. After the one time teller registration, there will be no other annual registration renewal, and there will only be a onetime fee to process the copyright & permissions documents per story track & that brings the story into the playlist. Once on the playlist, it becomes part of the station's rotation.
The only thing that will keep the story on the station's rotation is popularity. The internet radio player has, for the lack of a better way to say it, a feedback voting module. Those stories that have positive votes or write-in request or sales will stay in rotation. Stories that are disapproved, voted down, or have no sales will fall out of rotation. The cream will rise to the top, Darwinian I know but fair to everyone.
The one time, Lifetime fee for Artist/Storyteller registration with the station is a whopping $25. Once you are registered and it's on file, the signed faxed copy is in my file cabinet, that's it. You are registered and the only way you will incur another registration charge is if you move & we have to change your records and of course that fee won't be $25 but something much less. BUT the law requires that these registrations & information be kept current. So if you move, you have 30 days to update your records with the station, just like your driver's license.
As you probably know, traditional radio lives and dies by the 3 minute time unit, i.e. most popular songs are very near 3 minutes in length or some factor of the 3 minutes. But stories are not 3 minutes, as a matter of fact, the length of stories are seldom ever equal. So after a long time of scratching my head I finally figured out how to make it fair for everyone. Stories will be evaluated by their time "UNITS." Three minutes equals "a UNIT." For example, if I have a story that is slightly greater than 14 minutes or exactly 15 minutes long, that is a five (5) unit story. Likewise if the story is 15 min and 3 seconds long, (or even one second longer than 15 minutes) that becomes a six (6) unit story. Because you cannot round down or truncate real time, time waits (rounds down) for no man and you know that the rest of that minute will have to be filled with commercials or PSAs or licensed (I pay for it) music.
This is a huge jigsaw puzzle to be played out every 24 hours times 365 days. But the "UNIT" seems to be the fairest way to handle the processing of someone's short or epic length story. Whether your story is one like Delores Hydock's "Silence" which is 68 minutes 12 seconds (34 UNITS) or Tom Taylor's "Albert" which is just over two minutes (1 UNIT), both Artists will pay the same price for processing the stories per UNIT. Delores' story takes more time to process, upload, & confirm on the playlist. But me & my team, Aslan Productions, will spend the same amount of effort, per Unit processing it as we will, per unit, for Tom's shorter story. To me this seems fair.
I will ask each teller to pay a onetime processing fee of $2 or $3 dollars per UNIT per story they want to have in the playlist rotation. I am still doing my cost/expense ratio study for this figure, but I am leaning toward the side that provides me with the most security. So for now, think; three bucks. After all this is a business and it must make a profit or die. No one will be excluded from being on the radio. Anyone can choose not to participate but no one will be excluded because of politic or connection. If a person has $3 per story unit, they can be on the radio and they can submit as many stories as they'd like to register. This tiny cost will naturally cause them to self edit and send only their best work... at least that is what I think will happen.
Popularity will keep them there in the playlist rotation or dismiss them; by statistics & sales, not prejudice or politics. The audience can vote using the player which has a built-in function to allow for voting, DJ feedback and the selling of the tracks to the listener all without knocking the listener off the radio. Importantly; my station does not get any, not even a dime, of your story sales money. Whatever agreement you currently have with iTunes or Amazon still holds. The Station's money comes from Artist Registration, Story processing, commercials, productions, and programs and live remote broadcasts from special events.
My own database, I call it my "Playlist Management Tool" will also send an email to each registered teller, even daily, prior to their titles being broadcast and provide the air-times (by time zone) that their story will air. And the Artist can then contact their Fans & Customer base, mailing list, Facebook & Twitter friends encouraging them to listen in and vote. Hopefully, even the world's School Teachers will use this station to fill a few blank moments at the end of the class and perhaps families will embrace this station as well. Yesterday, a lady, Ms Harbour in Arkansas, called me to say that she and her husband listened to my radio station for 7 hours straight, as the afternoon slipped by, their take? It was wonderful. Yes!
Two weeks after I bought my radio stations, Toyota announced that next year's new car models will be fitted with an internet capable radio in the dashboard, with a three year free subscription. Also, Ford, GM, and four other automobile makers recently announced they are also installing internet capable radios in their new car models. Tabletop internet radio players are currently available with wireless connections for home networks. I attached a picture for you to see some of these attractive models. So this station is accessible almost everywhere, not just in front of your computer. We will all have to help build our radio audience. Right this very minute, I have a gizmo that I use, to link my smart phone & our radio station into my truck's radio and right now I can listen to "A World of Storytelling" radio driving down the highway; right now, every day. The station is currently accessible by anyone.
Today, when you listen to the station; what you are hearing is the test playlist; I am monitoring it for fluidity and audio quality. So far; I am very pleased. I think this media has the best potential for audience acceptance and might be one of the best media platforms for our art form ever. By late this weekend, we will begin broadcasting in sincerity, complete with some DJ comments and commercials.
Soon, I will send another email and provide more information & a place on my website for folks to begin the registration process. Once the paperwork is complete and signed and in my file cabinet AND the stories are properly processed and placed into the rotation, the stories will be broadcast in regular rotation. Right now, the turnaround timeline estimates from registration to broadcast playlist to being "on the air" is about 36 hours from the time we receive the Stories and the Signed Permissions Fax.
The only thing that will get a story "censored" or "taken off the air" will be a violation of current U.S. communications law (profanity, sexual, or vulgar topical content) or a lack of an audience that appreciates the story. A story with no votes or bad comments will be removed and archived separate from the playlist rotation in favor of a newly processed story. An archived story can be reinserted into the playlist by popular audience requests. Stories that violate law & good citizenship will be removed and never reinstated to the playlist. This is a family radio format.
Please feel free to share this information with other storytellers. Send your fans and friends to the station or to my website, www.AslanProductionStudio.com, ask them to download a free player or get a VIP player account from Live365.com and make this station a "Preset." Having a large "preset" number i.e. large favorite's number and large "TLH," total listener hours number gains me the opportunities to attract larger corporate advertisers. So a symbiotic relationship must be built and exist between my station and the tellers and our customers. That's why you only have to register once and process each story just once.
Also the registration form for the stories will provide you with a opportunity to write three variations of an introduction and outro transitions for each track; each intro/outro field has a maximum of 255 characters. These intros & outros will be recorded by the DJs and paired with the story in the playlist rotation. In order to provide interesting variety to the playlist, three separate DJ's will record your three separate intros and outros and the playlist will display your title, but there will be three variations of intro and outro to transition attached to the story. This is part of the "processing." If you do not provide intros or outros for your stories, we will not make them up for you and your story will air without an intro or outro transition. The UNIT fees do not reduce because you did not write intros or outros. Please write your intros and outros in the third person voice, i.e. someone is introducing or transitioning your story.
I have a lot to do today, so I need to go. I would have written a shorter letter but I didn't really have time.
I hope this letter helps you better understand how this will work and I sincerely hope you are still anxious to participate. Give me some feedback and tell me your thoughts, I am anxious for some more voices, there have been many, to share with me their opinions about these efforts to bring "A World of Storytelling" to the world. Here's my cell, 502-370-5322 or you can email. If I am performing or on platform teaching, I won't answer my phone; just leave a voice mail and I will respond when I am able.
I am looking forward to placing your work and craftsmanship into the playlist rotation of "A World of Storytelling Radio."
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NIRMA University BBA-MBA Admissions 2013
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NIRMA University Institute of Management Five Year Integrated BBA-MBA Programme Admissions 2013
Five year integrated programme in Management is an innovative programme that combines the undergraduate and post-graduate programmes – BBA & MBA. The first three years (under graduation period) comprise of six semesters (two semesters in each year). The subsequent two years (Post-graduation period) comprise of six terms (three terms in each year). The programme provides an opportunity to exit at the end of third year. On successful completion of three years, a degree of Bachelors in Business Administration is awarded to a student who wishes to exit at this point. On successful completion of five years, an "Bachelors in Business Administration - Master of Business Administration" degree will be awarded.
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No. 16 Texas A&M women beat Vanderbilt 60-52
Courtney Walker scored 20 points to lead No. 16 Texas A&M to a 60-52 victory over Vanderbilt Thursday night.
Walker, a freshman, was 10 for 13 from the field in matching her season high in points as the Aggies (17-5, 7-1) tied No. 8 Kentucky for second place in the Southeastern Conference.
Texas A&M trailed 27-24 at halftime, but had two 10-0 runs in the second half to win its fifth straight game overall and 11th in a row at home.
Walker was the only Aggie to score in double figures, but Kelsey Bone had eight points, nine rebounds and four assists.
Christina Foggie had 17 points to lead Vanderbilt, and Tiffany Clarke had 14 points and nine rebounds for the Commodores (14-7, 4-4).
The teams met for the first time since 1997.


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I want to start a contest where we have to match members voices with their names. I will organize the submissions and not play since many of you have heard my voice on a previous youtube video and made fun of it.
Everyone who wants to play will need an ANONYMOUS youtube account. Meaning it has no other videos or any information that could give away their identity.
You'll need to record a video. Just make sure that you are not in the shot and say the following line:
Once upon a Time and a Very Good Time It Was There Was a Moocow Coming down along the Road and This Moocow That Was Coming down along the Road Met a Nicens Little Boy Named Baby Tuckoo.
Put it on that youtube account and send me the link via PM. When we have enough I'll release the links here along with a list of all the possible names.
Here is sample version I made just for the hell of it:
Even the most basic digital cameras have video these days so this shouldn't be that hard for most of us to pull off!
Hope you guys will play! Also, Please no pirate speak submissions for this one. If its popular we can run another contest in pirate speak!


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By Patty Houlihan
Photos courtesy of Chicago Booth
Sometimes a little aggravation leads to a good idea—and when thousands of people share that aggravation, the idea can jumpstart a new product and company.
As an engineer at Texas Instruments in 2005, David Lieb got tired of exchanging business cards with other people. "I met some new colleagues and thought, I wish there were a way to automate contact info exchange, but I couldn't think of a way to do it using the mobile phones we had in 2005," Lieb says.
In 2008, Lieb came to Chicago Booth where he met a former Texas Instruments engineer Jake Mintz, whom Lieb had not met at the company. Mintz joined Lieb, who already was working with another Texas Instruments colleague Andy Huibers, to find a way to make sharing contact information easier. Lieb says, "I found myself entering lots of phone numbers again, but I realized that all my friends also had iPhones. During an accounting class in the fall, the idea hit me for how we could do it."
They co-founded Bump Technologies Inc. and developed an application that lets iPhone users exchange contact information with the bump of a hand. The iPhone—or iPod Touch—made it possible because those devices have accelerometers. "The phones don't talk to each other directly. An accelerometer in each phone responds to the bump and contacts a central server, which matches everything up. Pretty clever," noted Discover magazine, which praised the application in an online story and featured a video clip of it in use.
Once they developed the software, Lieb says, Apple made it easy. "You download the free development kit online. You pay a $99 fee and put your app up on the iPhone app store."
Down to Business
At Chicago Booth, Lieb and Mintz learned how to turn the idea into a business. They enrolled in the New Venture Challenge course, which teaches students how to draft a business plan and present it to potential investors. That meant facing the scrutiny of Booth faculty and professional investors who judge the competition.
"They made us challenge everything: our ideas, our concepts, our assumptions. That approach toward entrepreneurship was a key to our success," says Dominic Hofstetter, another first-year Booth student on the Bump team.
The Booth experience taught the team how to tell their story to investors in the most compelling way, Lieb says. In the process they perfected "an exciting pitch that keeps investors off their Blackberrys and listening to us."
Preliminary judge Franco Turrinelli, MBA'96, a public company equity analyst for William Blair, was among those who first critiqued the business in a class judging session. "This is platform technology that can initiate almost any transaction we can imagine. And every judge in the room could think of a different way it could make money," he says. "That's really powerful."
Bump Technologies was voted to be one of 10 finalists in Chicago Booth's May competition. New Venture Challenge judge Ellen Carnahan, MBA'84, a 20-year venture capitalist, now with Machrie Enterprises LLC, says, "It's a simple idea, and it solves a problem that every business person has."
Their initial application, offered for free on Apple's iPhone App Store in March, immediately took off. By the time the team made its pitch at the New Venture Challenge finals, they could report that 800,000 people had downloaded the app. Judges took notice, and Bump tied for first place.
The Whimsical 'Wow' Factor
The Bump application has since grown into one of the top five free applications for the iPhone.
At Chicago Booth, a lot of students and faculty are Bumping. Lindsay Hagan, a Booth student, says, "When I made the switch to the iPhone and to Bump, exchanging contact information went from tedious to fun and whimsical."
Booth student Amish Shah echoed the thought. "I'm a big fan of the app. At business school, I'm constantly meeting new people, and Bump takes all the pain and frustration away from entering their names, numbers, and email addresses into my phone. Its pure simplicity, and the 'wow' factor makes it fun."
Originally published on September 2, 2009.


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During the spring 2010 semester, students from the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and the School of Art's Graphic Communications Program teamed up to help change the face of Japhet Creek through the project "Dis(solve): Natural Signs."
Using biodegradable and recyclable materials, students designed and fabricated signs, benches and other amenities for this unique natural refuge that's just minutes from downtown Houston. Led by architecture professor Patrick Peters and graphic communications professor Cheryl Beckett, students created items that were both functional (a storage area for landscaping tools) and educational (informational graphics containing facts about Japhet Creek and the environment).
Now, Peters, Beckett and students are being recognized with the Mayor's Proud Partner Award. Presented annually through Keep Houston Beautiful, the award honors projects that enhance and beautify the city. Peters, Beckett and their students will officially receive this honor on Nov. 15 during the 26th Annual Proud Partners Luncheon at Houston's Westin Oaks Hotel.
"Working on a project such as "Dis(solve)" was a rewarding experience for everyone involved. To receive this award from Keep Houston Beautiful is a bonus," Peters said. "Our hope is that this award will not only bring attention to our work, but also inspire others to create projects that enhance our city's natural landscape."
Japhet Creek, at the intersection of Clinton Drive and Emile Street, is the first of Houston's Green Fingers projects. This initiative is focused on forming parks along bayous and creeks that feed into Buffalo Bayou.
"Dis(solve)" was commissioned by the Greater East End Management District, and funding was provided through a Center for Environmental Law and Policy grant. For this project, students developed nine amenities for Japhet Creek. Several of these works will break down and be absorbed into the environment over time, while others were constructed from recycled goods. These works include:
- Directional Map: Stenciled icons and graphics on the street to guide visitors to the creek
- Filtration Station: A repurposed shipping container transformed into a storage area and information center with a green roof that doubles as a water filtration system
- Green Benches: Grass grows on and around these benches made from wood, cardboard, plastic and metal. Each is an encapsulated message and examples of the rate materials decompose in the environment. One bench is composed entirely of recycled election yard signs
- Green Finger Filters: An educational tool that demonstrates how water is cleansed as it flows downstream
- Modscape: Benches and planters composed of biodegradable materials, which will slowly break down over time. When Modscape dissolves, plant material will remain
- Trash Extraction Device (TED): An end-of-pipe containment system that captures trash from storm drains before it enters the ecosystem
- Trestle Poetry: Underneath the Emile Street bridge, at the site of a spring, letters (composed of recycled steel) spell out "clean, pure, wonder"
- Tube Identity Fence: To give the park a street presence, a large scale "Japhet Creek" sign cut out of salvaged steel serves as marker to attract visitors to the site
- Waste Oasis: A recycle dumpster has been reconditioned into a space for visitors to rest and contemplate nature
"Receiving the Proud Partner award speaks to the success of the architecture and graphic design students' collaborative efforts," Beckett said. "This particular partnership had benefits for Japhet Creek, but it also was very valuable for the students. It helped them understand new disciplines. As they enter the workforce, their ability to create a positive difference to a community is reinforced along with a reminder that what they make has impact on the built environment."
Organizations that donated resources and support to this project were Debner + Company, J.L. Proler Southwest, city of Houston Parks and Recreation Department, Buffalo Bayou Partnership, Japhet Creek Community Association and Trees for Houston.
Japhet Creek is one of the last tributaries of Houston's Buffalo Bayou that hasn't been covered or channeled. As a natural stream, it is protected by the federal Green Fingers Program. Volunteers from the Buffalo Bayou Partnership and other community organizations help maintain the site. To learn more about Japhet Creek, visit http://www.buffalobayou.org/japhetcreek.html.
For more details on Keep Houston Beautiful and the Mayor's Proud Partner Award, visit http://www.houstonbeautiful.org/.


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Fair trade bypasses greed
I would like to congratulate The Hook for being the first local publication to address the Fair Trade issue in regard to the coffee crisis. Kudos also to the students and everyone involved in bringing Fair Trade coffee to the University.
As pointed out by your article, the crisis concerns the producing countries and the people living in extreme poverty because of the crash of the green coffee market. However, even people who have heard about Fair Trade coffee seem confused.
The author of a recent letter [December 4: "Not quite fair, but a start"] stated that there are many high quality coffees that command a price substantially higher than Fair Trade's $1.26 per pound. This is true, but the farmer does not receive this higher price.
According to TransfairUSA and Oxfam America, the current price farmers receive for non-Fair Trade specialty grade Arabica coffee is between 20 and 30 cents per pound. By the time that green coffee reaches the specialty roaster, the cost will be from $1.30 to over $2 per pound. The reason? Many layers of middlemen.
Fair Trade bypasses middlemen, thus allowing the farmers to sell directly at a higher price to American importers. While Fair Trade currently benefit just a small portion of the coffee workers worldwide, even this small group cannot sell all their coffee at these prices because the demand is not yet there.
We cannot wait for the government or large corporations to volunteer to pay farmers a better price. The coffee drinking public must demand Fair Trade. Consumers can make a difference.
Bill Hay
Mountain View Coffee Roasters


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It never really occurred to me to apply numerical scores to love-making; apparently, however, that isn't the case wit Passion's voyeuristic developer, Chris Alvares. This magical app does all the work for you – the calculation that is – and lets you get down to business. But, when the "meeting" is over, Passion displays your performance in an easy to suss score out of 10, based on the following criteria: Duration, Orgasm, and Activity. The catch: you have the opportunity to share your score online, with friends, relatives and complete strangers. Rather, I should say, you can now compete with your mates and relatives, share, discuss strategies – all using the Jesus Phone. I can see new uses for this on Twitter:
RT@shigzeo: Woohoo! New record – 3.76! Class dismissed!
But then again, perhaps there are some things which are better left unadulterated. For the experimental, however, there is Passion. Funny… in what seems the most perplexing 'move' by Chris Alvares, there is no iTouch compatibility.
Chris Alvares, Passion, 4.99$. 0.7MB


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THE BRAZEN CAREERIST- Quit Adderall: Drop the drug, and find focus
Each time we're interrupted at work, whether answering a phone call or replying to a juicy email, refocusing takes 25 minutes. So we spend nearly a third of our work day recovering from interruptions, trying to recover our focus.
The time management gurus are all over this problem.
Winifred Gallagher, author of Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life, argues that the ability to positively direct attention is the key to quality of life. Gallagher says, "You can't be happy all the time, but you can pretty much focus all the time. That's about as good as it gets."
That sounds true to me. We each have a certain amount of attention, and our quality of life depends on how wisely we invest it. Now I'm wondering if attentiveness is the way to achieve self-discipline. You find your goal— the stuff that's really super important— and focus on it. That focus creates enough self-discipline to do what you need to achieve the goal.
But that isn't just my idea. Others are thinking the same thing.
Consultant Merlin Mann says that the key to productivity is attention, not life hacks.
In an interview with New York magazine, she says: "On the web there's a certain kind of encouragement to never ask yourself how much information you really need. But when I get to the point where I'm seeking advice 12 hours a day on how to take a nap or what kind of notebook to buy, I'm so far off the idea of life hacks that it's indistinguishable from where we started. There's very little advice right now to tell people that the only thing to do is action, and everything else is horsesh*t."
Okay. Now notice this about focus: You're not actually able to be productive without focus. So we can stop looking for the ultimate moleskin notebook or the perfect Firefox extension– those are actually productivity distractions. The hardest thing about productivity is figuring out the number-one thing on our to-do list.
Mann says, "There's no shell script, there's no fancy pen, there's no notebook or nap or Firefox extension or hack that's gonna help you figure out why you're here." Maybe what you need instead is Adderall.
Officially, Adderall is prescribed to treat ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. It's Gen Y's favorite drug. Adderall, or other ADHD drugs, gives a typical brain the intense ability to focus for long periods of time.
I got most of my Adderall information from a great article in the New Yorker, "Brain Gain: The Underground World of Neuroenhancing Drugs," by Margaret Talbot. In it, Sean Esteban McCabe, from the University of Michigan's Substance Abuse Research Center, says that at some universities, up to 20 percent of the population is using these drugs.
Penn neurologist Anjan Chatterjee coined the term "cosmetic neurology" for the trend of taking drugs to enhance ordinary cognition. He says, "Many sectors of society have winner-take-all conditions in which small advantages produce disproportionate rewards."
That resonates with me. I decided I should give Adderall a whirl.
But then I started worrying. I read research that shows Adderall is addictive. Not addictive like crystal meth, but people with a proclivity to addictive behaviors are sitting ducks.
But what really scared me is that the cost of gaining extreme focus is often losing extreme creativity. A good example is Paul Philips, a professional poker player who won more than $1 million after taking Adderall. The scary thing about Philips is that Adderall also helped him resist the impulse to keep playing losing hands out of boredom.
"Cognitive psychologists have found a trade-off between attentional focus and creativity," says Martha Farah, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. "Evidence suggests that individuals who are better able to focus on one thing and filter out distractions tend to be less creative."
Maybe it's better just to do lots of things at once without great focus but with natural creativity.
Focusing on focus seems to distract from the real issue, knowing what you value most. Do we know that? And if we did know that, maybe our focus would come naturally. And our lack of time management comes from a lack of self-discipline, which comes from a lack of focus which comes from a lack of knowing the meaning of life.
Penelope Trunk has started several companies and worked for many more.


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Merle D. Straw, Jr.
April 14, 1921 - May 7, 2013
The Hampton Union, May 24, 2013
HAMPTON — Merle D. Straw Jr., died Tuesday, May 7, 2013, at the New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton.
He was born April 14, 1921, in Medford, Mass., the son of Merle D. and Lottie (Publicover) Straw.
He was a graduate of Hampton Academy and attended the University of New Hampshire. He graduated from the Reppert School of Auctioneering in 1946.
He was a U.S. Air Force veteran of World War II serving as a gunnery instructor.
Mr. Straw was an auctioneer, appraiser and real estate broker. He was active in the auction profession for more than 50 years and was the proprietor of The Old Man of Seabrook Auction Gallery for 25 years. As a real estate broker he was involved in numerous residential and commercial transactions in the Seacoast area.
He served as the Seabrook town moderator and was a charter member of the Seabrook Lions Club.
He was a charter member and past president of the New Hampshire Auctioneers Association; former chairman of the New Hampshire Board of Auctioneers; and former director of the National Auctioneers Association.
He imported antiques from Ireland, Scotland and Spain in the 1960s and 1970s. He was a guest lecturer, Antiques, WENH, Channel 11, Durham.
He is survived by his wife, Judith Benford Straw; two sons, Merle David Straw III of Freedom and Robert Alan Straw of Hampton; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
He was predeceased by one son, Steven Straw.
SERVICES: A private graveside service was held in Elmwood Lawn Cemetery, Guilford, Maine.
A memorial service in celebration of his life will be held Friday, June 14, at 1 p.m. in United Church of Christ, 295 Atlantic Ave., North Hampton.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Seacoast Family Promise, P.O. Box 233, Stratham, NH 03885.


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Meet Ricky Gervais
5 Episodes
Peter Kay plays the entire cast of characters caught on camera during a life in the day of a motorway service station near Bolton
Paul Zenon takes his tricks to the Soho streets, showing how the hand is quicker than the eye. Danny Buckler introduces Brighton to the genie who lives in his matchbox.
Perrier Award Winning comedian and actor Tommy Tiernan live on-stage in his home town of Galway.
Scot FM breakfast DJ Alan Tyler transmits his show from a viewer's home. From 1998.
Steve Furst stars as Lenny Beige, the bejewelled, 60s throwback and all-round entertainer who leads his audience through a celebration of spangly showbiz high camp.
Ricky Gervais plays a crisis-ridden middle-aged man who strives to make it big in showbusiness
A documentary that tells the story of would-be comic Trevor Evans who is in desperate search of stardom
Lynn Ferguson tells the simple and heart-warming story of a Scottish primary school teacher who falls in love with a bottom-dwelling coastal fish called David
Comedy trio Electric Eel - Dan Clark, Adam Goodwin and Cliff Kelly - play three unsavoury, down-market estate agents
Lord Newmarket's production company specialising in documentaries on the royal family. Lord Newmarket goes to Hollywood to pitch his ludicrous film ideas to the studio bosses that count.
Our loveable dead rock stars have returned to host their very own music awards ceremony. This epsiode's animated cartoon special guests are Madonna, Robbie Williams and Travis.
The middle-class Andersons are a bit dysfunctional. Mr Anderson is obsessed with being a good parent; his wife, Roxanne is experiencing her sexual awakening, and son Duncan is a budding David Lynch.
Aussie salon owner Rolf runs his hairdressing salon assisted by the surly teeth-kissing Emma and the highly camp Styling Moose. Featuring the voice of John Thomson (Fast Show, Cold Feet) as Rolf.
Two young women living in a run-down seaside town attempt to compensate for their empty lives by creating an elaborate and complicated fantasy experience
A cast of schemers live in two neighbouring flats on the shabby but well-loved Crossfields estate where a young boy blackmails his mum's friend's new boyfriend, who happens to be his teacher
A sci-fi comedy with a dose of satire and gross-out humour. Ray (David Mitchell) is the creative one making money, while hapless Colin (Robert Webb) fights capitalist power in Ray's borrowed BMW.
Delving into the abstract world of The Pooters book club. The Pooters discuss 1970s biker fiction with special guest Sir Patrick Moore.
Take five unlikely sporting personalities, a selection of bizarre sporting activities and 'Doggy' the rabid mascot and you have Best of British - a Superstars for the insane
A minute in the life of US comedian and Perrier Award Winner 2003 Demetri Martin.
Two 'chancers', Chris and Milo, set themselves the task of making a TV programme. Unfortunately, they don't have any ideas. Furthermore they are complete unknowns, who can't seem to agree on anything!
A group of urban teenagers coming up with ideas for what they want to see on the box - and the results are as outrageous as they are funny
Like any comedy prison, HMP Brickway's population is a mixed bag! Aiden McCabe is struggling to adjust to prison life and his newly-discovered sexual orientation.
Spoof clip show featuring selections of programmes which, given an ill wind of broadcasting desperation, might actually exist in a parallel world.
After years of ridicule, Karl Pilkington has decided to find out just how intelligent he is and if having more knowledge would make him any happier
A multicultural sketch show that looks at race, prejudice, stereotypes and how everything isn't quite as it seems on the surface
Features a range of characters including a filthy, profane receptionist, a cross-dressing Eastern European plumber, and a sexually repressed couple from the 1930s.
The Hollywood hills are alive with the sound of Bolton in this hilariously warped vision of comic talent Peter Slater as he unleashes a world of crazy cops, heroes and villains
Five comics from Dublin - David McSavage, James Goldsbury, John Colleary, Eleanor Tiernan and Declan Rooney - write and perform their show, set in their writing room
A character sketch show featuring comic duo Barunka O'Shaughnessy and Tom Meeten. In their world, Dodi and Di host their own daytime TV show while Coleen and Wayne are comic book heroes.
Olivia Lee is a sexy solo girl about town looking for love, labels and men. She takes her special brand of madness out onto the streets in a hidden camera show.
Part sketch show, part sitcom, Pappy's Fun Club follows the exploits of four heroes as they struggle to keep the 'fun club' show going in the face of a variety of hardships
Sketch show showcasing a generation of comedic talent. Sketches include the Department of Internet Hate, who are tasked with the job of coming up with the hate on YouTube comment boards.
Liam Hourican stars as a variety of characters, including a mountaineer with a taste for human flesh, a driving instructor with anger management issues and the newly elected Irish Prime Minister
Penelope (Kristen Schaal) can talk to animals. She has just 3762 hours to save the world from the evil MP Thomas Stone (Julian Barratt).
Would individuals lie in court if a celebrity asked them? Would they pretend to be off their head on drugs for £20? Jack Whitehall's secretly filmed research reveals how honest Britain is.
Two misfits struggle to survive in the lurid world of Filth, a weekly lads' mag. With James Buckley, Danny Morgan, Danny Dyer and Tracy-Ann Oberman.
Spoof movie magazine programme twisting interviews of film stars and mixing them with comedy sketches
Comedy about a real group of friends in their twenties, written by a real group of friends
Acclaimed double act Anna Crilly and Katy Wix present a one-off comedy sketch show introducing Germany's biggest daytime soap Congratulations, along with a range of silly characters.
Scripted comedy sketch show, written and performed by Tom Palmer and Tom Stourton and set in a non-specific metropolis, featuring an array of characters, some bordering on the grotesque.
An alternative comedy game show, based on a 1950s-style beauty pageant with award-winning comedy sketch group Pappys (Matthew Crosby, Tom Parry and Ben Clark).
Tom Davis stars as Ian Bodkin, a struggling studio warm up comedian and delusional dreamer who is on the lowest step of the entertainment ladder but thinks he is a superstar in the making.
When Bobby, a loveable dreamer, is thrown out by his irate girlfriend, he teams up with his best mate Vin, a thug with a heart, to set up the world's first all-white, English Kabaddi team.
Rick and Peter make an odd couple - thrown together after Rick makes a regrettable gag on T4, and is put on a crash course in how to be more politically correct.
Glaswegian foursome Nitin, Sanj, Hardeep and Paul are given a simple task - to pick up Nitin's dad's best friend's daughter from Glasgow Central station. Easy to get right? Wrong.


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On the 28th January, Rollup 4 for Management Reporter 2012 was released via the Dynamics Corporate Performance Management blog.
It can be downloaded from CustomerSource (CustomerSource or PartnerSource login required).
For Microsoft Dynamics GP users there is improved performance with the data mart integrations and new Quick Links in the Web Viewer which allows users to easily jump to key areas of a report.


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Let's face it: Slides bring out the best and worst in both speakers and audiences, and there's plenty to dislike about how they're used and misused.
Recently, I asked followers of The Eloquent Woman on Facebook what they most disliked about slide presentations--either as speakers themselves, or as members of the audience. Here's a sampling of the response, in which reading slides and too many bells and whistles took the fore:
- Ann Simeoli When the presenter reads all the slides to me, I can read. Thanks!Thursday at 11:47am · · 1
- Kelli Stevens Levey When the print is too small to read and when the presenter reads from them rather than adding details not on the slide.
- M.E. Steele-Pierce Thumbs down to presentations in which the slides are "documents," text-heavy. Pet peeves: clip art and animation.Thursday at 11:56am via mobile ·
- Aimee Barnes Smith Presenters who use animation to make the text "spin" onto the screen, and those who do not use PPT's animation tools when they would really be effective to help make your point (i.e. Zooming to highlight part of a diagram that you are talking about). And please no sound effects unless you are sharing a related audio or video clip!Thursday at 5:23pm via mobile ·
What about you? What are your major dislikes about slide presentations--either as a speaker or as one in the audience? Share your thoughts in the comments.


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Following on from my post about recent scheduling trends, I want to consider the question of revenue. The gears of my mind started turning recently after noticing one comment responding to a column by Senator Orin Hatch. The comment asked what business the Mountain West had telling the Big XII etc. what to do with 'their money'?
This notion got me thinking about the question of revenue. Where does college football revenue come from, who generates it, how is it shared and why? Most importantly for this blog - how did we get there?
In all the BCS controversy over the last half-year the whole national championship game discussion has been a red herring. The BCS is primarily a revenue sharing system. The #1 vs. #2 title game is the lipstick on the revenue sharing pig.
I have not found any source as informative on all these questions as Keith Dunnavant's book The Fifty Year Seduction: How Television Manipulated College Football, from the Birth of the Modern NCAA to the Creation of the BCS. I consider it to be required reading for any informed football fan. It is a meticulously researched and fabulously detailed eye-opener.
Dunnavant takes the story back to the NCAA's growth from a tiny organization with a handful of employees. He shows how completely dependent it originally was on football revenue. The annual TV contract, run as an absolute monopoly, was negotiated centrally and sold to the highest bidder. The money was shared equally among division one schools. Only one game a week was televised. Fans had no choice and the most popular programs had no independent access to TV rights and coverage.
As college football grew in scale this relationship began to tear. The first major change came with the division 1 spilt in 1978. But the more prominent football powers were still not satisfied. Some, like Notre Dame with their long established national radio following, chafed under the system. They felt that they could generate far more alone, trading on their own mystique and appeal, than by relying on collective bargaining power to drive up prices.
After years of discontent and discussion, the landmark 1984 Supreme Court ruling Board of Regents vs. NCAA smashed the monopoly. The enormous slate of televised football we have today is the result. But initially, the glut of available products depressed the market. For over a decade reduced prices and starving athletic departments fought to recover the golden goose they had seemingly slaughtered with the monopoly. Dunnavant locates the creation of the BCS within this process, showing how worried and hurting schools with massive football-driven athletics departments replaced one monopoly with another.
My summary cannot possibly do Dunnavant's work justice. He goes into detail as to how ABC created modern TV football coverage. He reveals intricate human stories as to how deals were cut, and why. Most importantly, he writes with nuance, intelligence and impartiality. No doubt many readers would take the insightful detail in the book and view the story differently than I do. The bottom line is, this is an invaluably informative work. However the reader feels about TV revenue, the NCAA and the BCS, this is a must read.


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Laundromat Fire Causes $5500 Damage
COLUMBIA, MO - At 10:24 p.m. on Friday, March 22nd, the Columbia Fire Department responded to a reported commercial structure fire at 21 Conley Road, Suite "O", the Robinson's Cleaners & Laundromat. The 9-1-1 caller reported that a clothes dryer had caught fire.
Firefighters arrived on the scene at 10:30 p.m. and found thick smoke throughout the business. A customer unsuccessfully attempted to use a portable fire extinguisher to put the fire out prior to the fire department's arrival. Firefighters used a portable extinguisher and a single hose line to extinguish the remaining fire. At the time of the fire there were two adults and four children in the business. All of the occupants were outside when the fire department arrived.
Columbia Assistant Fire Marshal Lt. Lisa Todd investigated the fire and determined the dryer overheated and ignited a load of bath towels. Damage to the dryer and structure is estimated at $5500. There were no injuries.
The 3500 square foot business is a 24-hour laundromat and was closed for approximately two hours while fire crews were on the scene. Three fire engines, a ladder, and a rescue squad responded to the incident.


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Germanic religion
Germanic religion, pre-Christian religious practices among the tribes of Western Europe, Germany, and Scandinavia. The main sources for our knowledge are the Germania of Tacitus and the Elder Edda and the Younger Edda. Although it is possible to perceive certain basic concepts that were important to the pre-Christian Germans, there was no Germanic religion common to all the Scandinavian and Teutonic peoples; neither can we know whether a ritual or legend peculiar to one Germanic tribe was common to all Germanic tribes.
Conversion of the Germans to Christianity began as early as the 4th cent. AD, but it took many centuries for the new religion to spread throughout the northern lands of Europe. In Nazi Germany the spirit of the old religion and the heroic attributes of the Germanic gods were revived as part of the propaganda program of the Nazi party.
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Mr Mackay defended his budget by saying "Let me be clear, I will not pass the costs of UK austerity on to the household budgets of the lowest-income taxpayers"2 and in the budget document itself stated "The UK Government's approach to public spending is having a significant detrimental effect in Scotland"3.
The problem here is that - as so often with the SNP - the rhetoric is plainly at odds with the facts. I've taken the time to study the actual figures in some detail, and it's clear that attempting to blame UK Government austerity for cuts in Scotland's 2017-18 budget is nothing short of blatant deception.
All you need to understand to realise that Mr Mackay is trying to pull the wool over our eyes is this simple graph showing the Total Scottish Budget in real (inflation adjusted) terms over the last 10 years. [Note y-axis does not start at zero]
As an aside, it's also the case that by the end of their forecast period the Scottish Government will control roughly half of the revenue raising powers involved. So when they forecast a real terms decline in "Fiscal DEL" (a subset of the total budget that excludes among other things, AME and capital borrowing), the Scottish Government appears to be forecasting that their own economic strategy will fail.
So by missing out intervening years, focusing on a measure which excludes very significant sources of revenue and stretching to an unrealistically pessimistic forecast year, the SNP are able to engineer a figure which appears to suggest "Westminster austerity" is causing the budget to decline. In fact, as the graph clearly shows, the opposite is true.
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The House of Representatives will reconvene on Sunday evening, just less than 30 hours before the United States reaches the fiscal cliff.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, notified lawmakers that the House would come to order at 6:30 p.m. ET on Sunday in hopes of averting the end-of-year combination of tax hikes and spending cuts that constitute the fiscal cliff.
With five days until the Bush-era tax cuts expire, House Speaker John Boehner has essentially removed the House from final negotiations, telling the Senate it's up to them to come up with a deal that his chamber will pass.
In briefing fellow Republicans on Thursday afternoon, Boehner re-iterated what he's said publicly the past few days. The top House Republican said the Senate must act first to send a bill to the House. (Senate Democratic leaders are insisting that the House pass a Senate bill that would preserve income tax rates on those earning less than $250,000 per year.)
"We've done our job, it's up to the Senate to act," Boehner told members, according to a lawmaker on the call. "We'll see if they do anything."
Related: What happens if we go over the cliff?
Whether any final deal could emerge in the waning hours before the Dec. 31 deadline was less clear. There were rumblings of a meeting on Friday between President Barack Obama and leaders in Congress. (A senior administration official told NBC's Kristen Welker that no such meeting had been set up.) And the White House shot down Republican-fueled indications that the Obama administration had made a new entreaty to the GOP in hopes of averting the fiscal cliff.
Obama called congressional leaders on Wednesday evening before departing Hawaii to return to Washington, initiating conversations that fell largely dormant during the Christmas holiday this past weekend.
Among the complicating details include the ideological split in both parties that might force relative moderates from both parties to join forces to advance any final deal.
The Senate and President Obama return to Washington on Thursday to again work on the fiscal cliff. What can we expect? NBC News' Mike Viqueira and Peter Alexander discuss. Mark Murray also joins the discussion.
The lawmaker on Thursday's call told NBC News that any Senate plan Boehner puts on the House floor (of which there is no guarantee) would only receive as few as 40 Republican votes, making Democratic help necessary.
"If the Senate will not approve these bills and send them to the president to be signed into law in their current form, they must be amended and returned to the House," Boehner told Republicans Thursday, according to a source on the call. "Once this has occurred, the House will then consider whether to accept the bills as amended, or to send them back to the Senate with additional amendments. The House will take this action on whatever the Senate can pass -- but the Senate must act."
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Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, left, joined by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., returns to his office after speaking to reporters on the fiscal cliff negotiations, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012.


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What is WIC?
WIC is a federally funded program administered by the Oklahoma State Department of Health that provides nutrition education and supplemental food for those who qualify.
Studies show WIC helps:
What does WIC provide?
-Nutrition and breastfeeding education and counseling
-Checks to purchase foods such as: milk, juice, cheese, cereal, beans, eggs, peanut butter, tuna, carrots, or infant formula
-Breast pumps for mothers who qualify
-Referrals to health and social services
Who is eligible for WIC?
-Women who are pregnant, breastfeeding, or have recently given birth
-Children up to the age of 5
Who may apply for WIC services for an infant or child?
-Parent, Guardian, or proxy
How can I qualify for WIC benefits?
-Live in the state of Oklahoma
-Have a family income within program limits
-You will need to provide proof of identification, income, and address when you come for your WIC appointment
-You may be eligible for WIC if you receive Medicaid, Food Stamps, or TANF benefits.
How do I apply for WIC?
-Call the WIC clinic in McCurtain County at (580) 286-6628.
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Grief is a continuing process of mourning through which one learns to live with loss.
When a loved one dies, those left to mourn, or survivors, often find themselves entangled in a complex web of emotions and reactions. The death of a loved one can be an overwhelming, frightening and painful experience. The psychological, social and physical effects of loss are articulated through the practice of grief.
How individuals grieve depends on many factors: their support system; the circumstances of the death; the response by family members, friends and the criminal justice system; the nature of the relationship with the deceased; religious or cultural beliefs and customs; and the individual's coping skills. No two people will grieve in the same way. However, survivors often find it helpful to speak with others experiencing loss, as there are common reactions and experiences that may prove useful to share.
Possible Grief Reactions:
Often after learning of the death of a loved one, especially a sudden death, survivors experience a feeling of shock, numbness and disbelief that their loved one is gone. To be confronted by the death of a loved one is so horrible, devastating and absolute that many individuals are unable to comprehend the overwhelming news. Therefore, in order to process the shock, many survivors will immediately disbelieve that a loved one has died. Denial is a coping mechanism and a normal and functional grief reaction.
As the reality of facing life without a loved one sets in, many survivors feel frustrated, cheated and abandoned. Those left to grieve may become angry at their loved one for leaving them; at the doctors who should have done more; at other family members for not having the same feelings; and, in a case of death as a result of a violent crime, at the person or persons responsible for the crime, as well as the entire criminal justice system.
When death occurs as a result of a violent crime, survivors' anger may be compounded and their reactions more complicated. Many homicide survivors are surprised and frightened by the intensity of anger and violence they feel toward those who killed their loved one(s). Homicide survivors may devise elaborate plans of revenge that involve the murderer suffering more cruelly and graphically than the victim. To fantasize acting out rage or revenge is a normal reaction for a bereaved survivor. By verbalizing these feelings, perhaps within a support group setting, survivors can try to move past the anger toward healing.
Survivors may encounter intense feelings of guilt after someone they love has died. The guilt may come out of unresolved conflicts with the deceased, or through thinking they could have somehow prevented the death of their loved one. While guilt is a normal grief reaction, most often factors outside a survivor's control cause death. Therefore, it may help to process feelings of guilt to speak with individuals who knew the loved one, as well as the circumstances of the death, so that they may help the survivor realistically evaluate feelings of guilt and responsibility.
Other Common Grief Reactions Include:
Grief Spasms
Survivors may feel, even years after the loss of a loved one, brief periods when feelings of loss are particularly intense. These "grief spasms" are usually brought about by "triggers." Triggers are occasions, scents, tastes, songs, or other stimuli which remind survivors of their loved one and loss. For example, birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, or driving by the scene of a drunk driving crash may bring about intense feelings of grief for those learning to cope with loss. As time passes, most survivors find that grief spasms lose their intensity and frequency, and are a normal part of processing the loss of a loved one.
Suggestions for Coping with the Death of a Loved One
To Assist Someone Who is Grieving
The grief process is often characterized as work because it is laborious and difficult. There is no timetable for grieving and everyone will manage the loss of a loved one differently. Loss forces survivors to readjust their lives in order to compensate and cope. Grief can be a long, painful process, but can be managed with assistance from friends, family members, or outside support. Survivors need to engage others in the grief process if possible, as doing so may assist them in attempting to reconstruct their lives after loss.
Brener, A., (1993). Mourning and Mitzvah. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights.
Doka, Kenneth, (1995). Children Mourning: Mourning Children. Washington, D.C.: Hospice Foundation of America.
James, John W. and Russell Friedman, (1998). The Grief Recovery Handbook. New York: HarperCollins, Inc.
Klaas, D., Silverman, P.R., and Nickman, S.L., (Eds.). (1996). Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief. Washington, D.C.: Taylor & Francis.
LeShan, Eda, (1988). Learning to Say Goodbye When a Loved One Dies. New York: Macmillan.
Lord, Janice Harris, (1994). Beyond Sympathy. Ventura, CA: Pathfinder Publishing of California.
Rando, T.A. (1993). Treatment of Complicated Mourning. Champaign, IL: Research Press.
Rothman, Juliet Cassuto, (1997). The Bereaved Parents' Survival Guide. New York: Continuum.
For more information on managing grief, please contact:
The Compassionate Friends
P.O. Box 3696
Oak Brook, IL 60522
(630) 990-0010
National Organization of Parents of Murdered Children
100 East Eighth Street, Suite #B-41
Cincinnati, OH 45202
M.A.D.D. (Mothers Against Drunk Driving)
511 East John Carpenter Freeway, Suite #700
Irving, TX 75062
THEOS (They Help Each Other Spiritually)
322 Boulevard of the Allies, Suite #105
Pittsburgh, PA 15222-1919
(412) 471-7779
C.O.P.S (Concerns of Police Survivors)
P.O. Box 3199
Camdenton, MO 65020
(800) 784-2677
Special thanks to the following for their editorial input:
Gail Leland, Program Director, Homicide Survivors, Inc.
Deborah Spungen, MSS, MLSP, CTS, Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia (AVP)
Dr. Lynelle C. Yingling, J & L Human Systems Development
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text: John Howard returns as Bulldog Drummond in this fourth entry in the popular series. Along with his trusty companion Algy Longworth and his fiancee Phyllis Clavering, Bulldog makes the grizzly discovery of a severed arm with a briefcase full of explosives attached to it. Conspirators, including the dastardly Draven Nogais (Frank Puglia), have stolen the explosive formula and are en route to Paris with Bulldog and team hot on their tail. John Barrymore returns as Col. Neilson, with E.E. Clive as Bulldog's faithful servant. Louise Campbell is the long-suffering Phyllis in this fast-paced, humorous action-thriller!


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A century ago, the South Pole was one of Earth's last frontiers, but now the Antarctic is under threat from human activity.
Led by Monash University's Professor Steven Chown, a multidisciplinary team of experts from around the globe has set out the current and future conservation challenges facing the Antarctic in a Policy Forum article published today in Science.
The team analysed the effectiveness of the existing Antarctic Treaty System for protecting the region, one of the world's largest commons, from the threats of climate change and, as technology improves, increasing prospects of use of the Antarctic's natural resources.
Using a horizon scanning approach, the team determined that the major short-term threats included climate change impacts on marine systems, marine resource use, ocean acidification, invasive alien species, pollution, habitat alteration, and regulatory challenges within the Treaty system.
Professor Chown, incoming Head of Biological Sciences at Monash said the impacts of climate change were particularly worrying.
"Interactions between resource use and climate change are especially significant threats," Professor Chown said.
"Climate change is increasing the risk of the introduction of non-indigenous species. Several alien species, which have track records of being highly invasive, are already present in the Peninsula region and the risks are growing."
The team also looked at the likely situation in half a century. In the longer-term, climate change impacts on terrestrial systems, and the impacts of ocean acidification on marine organisms are growing threats.
Professor Chown said that the Treaty system remains effective, but swifter decision-making and more collaboration were vital if the Antarctic was to be conserved.
"The quick pace of change in much of the region is under-appreciated. There's warming in the Western Antarctic, changing species distributions, and a quickening in the rate of ice-loss, among other clear signs," Professor Chown said.
"The early explorers, such as Scott, Mawson and Amundsen would certainly be surprised at what they'd find in Antarctica now and by what's being discussed as possibilities."
Over the longer term, growing tourism and science activities will raise the prospect of permanent human settlement, and interests in resource use will escalate. The authors pointed out that these developments would mean substantial challenges to the conservation of the region, and in consequence to its governance through the Antarctic Treaty System.
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Despite some not-so-subtle suggestions that the fighter retire, UFC President Dana White said Wanderlei Silva will compete in the UFC again.
Following the MMA legend's loss to Rich Franklin at UFC 147 in June, White suggested Silva may be ready for retirement, as MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) previously reported.
But on Saturday, White said the 36-year-old fighter will return to the cage and that his next fight is in the works.
White didn't specify an opponent or a date.
"But he's going to fight again," White said.
Silva, who began his fighting career way back in 1996, has lost four of his past six fights, and he's just 3-7 since 2006 (with four knockout losses). Most recently, he headlined UFC 147 in his home country of Brazil and suffered a decision loss to former champion Franklin in the June 23 headliner.
"I'm not saying he needs to retire, but he's getting close," White said after the defeat.
Silva (34-12-1 MMA, 4-7 UFC), who now runs a fight team out of Las Vegas, has been a fixture with the UFC since rejoining the promotion in late 2007 (he had a handful of UFC fights more than a decade ago before he began a legendary run in PRIDE). In addition to fighting duties, including seven headlining or co-headlining spots in his eight recent UFC fights, Silva has been a go-to guy for media, fan and promotional events.
Fore more on the UFC's upcoming schedule, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.


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A new mission, costumes and weapons and other good stuff await you in Dungeon Defenders' "Halloween Spooktacular" downloadable extension, available for free now but only on PC.
The Spooktacular offers eight costumes and weapons, a Halloween-decorated tavern and a Halloween-themed challenge mission. But as of yet, no plans to offer this over PlayStation Network or Xbox Live, paid or otherwise. Probably has something to do with last minute approvals.
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CAMAS, WA – Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23 suffered heartbreak in Camas, Washington Tuesday evening as their United Soccer Leagues (USL) Premier Development League (PDL) playoff run came to an end after losing 5-4 in penalty kicks following a 1-1 draw with Portland Timbers U-23.
'Caps captain Bobby Jhutty scored the lone goal for Vancouver during regular time in what was their first USL PDL playoff contest since 2008.
"They really took Portland tonight to the extreme and it was just an unfortunate result," head coach Stuart Neely told whitecapsfc.com. "To lose in penalties is probably one of the most heartbreaking losses one can come across."
This Northwest Division playoff clash saw a lack of action in the opening 45 minutes. Jitters may have played a factor as conservative play was the key to preventing an early goal and going down early in this do-or-die knockout match.
Despite some sustained pressure from the home team, the strong backline of the Blue and White held off the Timbers' offence and prevented a first half goal. Both teams looked to capitalize early in the second half to gain momentum and carry the play for the remainder of the fixture.
On 53 minutes, the 'Caps got their first real chance of the match as Yassin Essa fired a shot from 20 yards out, but Timbers goalkeeper David Meves was there to make the stop.
Just seven minutes later, the Blue and White offence nearly struck again. This time Niall Cousens got in all alone but Meves was up to the task again, making a spectacular save to prevent the away side from taking the lead.
In the 68th minute, some defensive miscommunication led to a cross from the right side of the field being headed in by Timbers striker Clark Phillips, giving the home side the 1-0 lead with just over 20 minutes remaining in the match.
After making a few offensive substitutions, with Sasa Plavsic and Spencer DeBoice coming on for Kevin Cobby and Essa, the 'Caps came surging back.
The Blue and White got on the scoreboard on 83 minutes, as Jhutty fired a shot from 20 yards out that sailed past Meves and into the back of the net to equalize late in the match.
It was a much-needed goal by the captain and at the end of 90 minutes, the match was tied at 1-1. Neither side could finish in extra time and the rivals' playoff battle was decided in penalty kicks. Both teams converted their first four shots before Vancouver's Sam Adekugbe saw his attempt sail just over the crossbar. Meves, the Timbers' netminder, scored the game-winning-goal for Portland as Whitecaps FC U-23 suffered heartbreak with a 5-4 loss in penalties.
Despite the tough result, Neely was extremely proud of his team's effort this season.
"I can't say enough about this group of boys and what they've accomplished," he said. "They're just a solid, solid group and made a solid effort. With the amount of changes that happened over the course of the season, they've really stepped up to be accounted for."
Scoring Summary
68' – Clark Phillips (Anthony Hobbs)
83' – Bobby Jhutty (Cam Hundal)
Shootout Summary
Round 1: VAN – Bobby Jhutty (Goal); POR – Zach Barnes (Goal)
Round 2: VAN – Sasa Plavisc (Goal); POR – Reed McKenna (Goal)
Round 3: VAN – Marco Visintin (Goal); POR – Eric Miller (Goal)
Round 4: VAN – Niall Cousens (Goal); POR – Jose Ribas (Goal)
Round 5: VAN – Sam Adekugbe (Miss); POR – David Meves (Goal)
Match Stats
Shots: Portland 19 - Vancouver 10
Saves: Portland 2 - Vancouver 6
Fouls: Portland 18 - Vancouver 17
Offsides: Portland 4 - Vancouver 5
Corners: Portland 9 - Vancouver 2
44' – POR – Zach Barnes
62' – VAN – Sam Adekugbe
79' – VAN – Sasa Plavsic
79' – VAN – Harry Kakhan
110' – POR – J.J. Greer
117' – VAN – Niall Cousens
Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23
1.Simon Thomas; 2.Colton O'Neill, 16.Michael Winter, 26.Kevin Cobby (12.Sasa Plavsic 72'), 25.Sam Adekugbe; 21.Marco Vistinin, 7.Harry Lakhan, 11.Yassin Essa (14.Spencer DeBoice 77'), 10.Bobby Jhutty, 23.Cam Hundal; 17.Niall Cousens
Substitutes not used:
22.Marco Carducci; 24.Peter Bow
Portland Timbers U-23
1.David Meves; 16 Anthony Hobbs, 6.J.J. Greer, 17.Bryan Gallego (24.Alex Walters 71'), 4.Evyn Hewett; 21.Zach Barnes, 8.Jose Ribas, 13.Eric Miller; 25.Clark Phillips (24.Jaime Velasco 73') (28.Anthony Machionne 88'), 10.Reinaldo Brenes (14.John McFarlin 49'), 7.Reed McKenna
Substitutes not used:
00.Paul Blanchette; 18.Jesse Garcia-Aguilar; 20.Foster Langsdorf