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The Susanoo is an ability granted by the Mangekyō Sharingan to those who awaken the powers of both eyes. It creates a gigantic, humanoid being that surrounds the user. As one of the strongest techniques granted to those that have acquired the Mangekyō Sharingan, it is the user's guardian deity, but at the same time, it consumes the user's vital life force and stamina.[1]
According to Obito Uchiha, for a Sharingan user to activate the Susanoo is a rarity.[2] Susanoo is formed through the materialisation of the user's chakra and as such differs in appearance as well as colour between users. While the user usually remains grounded within Susanoo, it is possible for them to freely move around within its body, as well as levitate inside of it.[3] The user can allow others to enter Susanoo,[4] or leave its body entirely.[5] While Susanoo acts as a defence against external attacks, anything coming out of Susanoo will simply phase through it.[6][7]
Like the other techniques granted by the Mangekyō Sharingan, the user's eyes and body are strained while using Susanoo because it consumes a large amount of their chakra. Sasuke described it as feeling pain in every cell in his body which only grew from prolonged use.[8] These negative effects are seemingly removed with the acquisition of the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan. Because the user is able to freely pass through Susanoo, it is possible for an opponent to forcibly remove them from it; Gaara, for example, was able to drag Madara Uchiha outside of his anchored-Susanoo using the sand under his feet.[9] A sufficiently powerful attack can result in damage being done to Susanoo, especially during the technique's developmental stages, after which the user is left open for attack.[10] The only known methods of attacking the user while Susanoo is active are to draw the wielder out of the technique and then attack, bind and restrict its movements, or to break the defence with overwhelming force. Susanoo users are vulnerable to attacks which don't actually deal physical damage to it, such as strong lights and sounds, which can impair their ability to sustain Susanoo.[11] The users are still susceptible to such things as sound-based genjutsu.[12]
Each user's Susanoo goes through several different forms, which the user can switch between at will or even leave in a state between forms.[13] The development of these forms was best demonstrated while Sasuke was learning how to use the technique, gaining additional forms as his control over it increased. In its earliest form, users can only manifest a portion of Susanoo's skeleton. A smaller version of Susanoo's ribcage is generally produced first which, while providing a good defence, can still be fractured[14][15] or even melted.[16] The user can form other parts of the skeletal structure, such as an arm, to interact with their surroundings.[17] It is possible to utilise one of Susanoo's weapons using said arm[18][19] and change its size as needed.[20] When first forming, Susanoo manifests around the user like an aura.[21]
As users gain additional control, musculature and skin begin to appear atop of Susanoo's bones, which progressively complete the full skeletal structure. It is only when Susanoo's growth is fully matured and thus, the user is completely surrounded, that the vulnerabilities of the skeletal form are eliminated. Eventually, Susanoo develops into a "complete" warrior-like form, where its body is manifested in its entirety. In its final form, this fully humanoid shape is further surrounded by a secondary layer of armour that causes Susanoo to resemble a yamabushi. At this stage, it can anchor the user to the ground, preventing opponents from forcibly moving them unless they can get through Susanoo's various layers.
A small number of users, who have attained perfect mastery over Susanoo, are also capable of manifesting a stabilised version of the final form, whereupon Susanoo now resembles a Tengu, with a more streamlined face and a complete lower body in addition to the attire of a yamabushi.
Itachi's Version
Itachi's Susanoo is yellow in the manga,[22] while it is depicted as red in the anime.[23] Of all the known Susanoo, Itachi's looks the most human-like. When seen in its complete form, it has a normal face with what resembles locks of hair framing it. The only oddity that Itachi's Susanoo displays is an appendage on its chin reminiscent of a Pharaoh's false beard. Itachi's Susanoo has two sets of arms, which are conjoined at the elbow; the secondary arms are manifested as required.[24] When in its final form, the armour that surrounds Itachi's Susanoo resembles a long-nosed tengu which wears a pair of magatama earrings.
In its primary left hand, Itachi's Susanoo wields the Yata Mirror, a shield which is endowed with all five nature transformations, allowing it to change its own characteristics depending on the the attack it receives, and thus, nullify it. With its right hands it wields the Sword of Totsuka. The sword is a variant of the Sword of Kusanagi, also known as the Sakegari Longsword (酒刈太刀, Sakegari no Tachi, Literally meaning: Sake Cutter Longsword), and is wielded by Susanoo's primary right hand and sheathed in a sake jar held by its second right hand. It is an ethereal weapon with an enchanted blade capable of sealing anyone it pierces, and can cut through opponents and objects like a normal blade. Victims of the sword are trapped in a genjutsu-like "world of drunken dreams" for all eternity. Zetsu said that the Sword of Totsuka combined with the Yata Mirror essentially made Itachi's Susanoo invincible.[1]
For longer-ranged attacks, Itachi is able to use the powerful Yasaka Magatama, which can be used as three chakra tomoe bound together by a single, circular thread and fired as a projectile[25] or several tomoe strung out on a chakra string, which detach themselves and fire off individually.[26] Itachi's Susanoo is also able to wield a sword resembling a curved dagger while in its incomplete form.
Sasuke's Version
Sasuke's Susanoo is purple in colour in the anime. While initially dark blue in the manga, more recent chapters have coloured it purple as well. Sasuke's development of Susanoo is marked by intense feelings of hatred; whenever angered by the words or actions of his opponents, Susanoo grows in power. His Susanoo is, accordingly, noted to be much darker in composition compared to Itachi's.[27] In both its incomplete and complete forms, it has a more demonic appearance in contrast to Itachi's, which has a more "human-like" appearance, possessing horns, a long appendage on its chin and a malevolent grin. Much like Itachi's variation, Sasuke's Susanoo has two right arms, which are conjoined at the elbow, and one left arm, although it is able to form a second left arm as needed.[24] In its final form, Sasuke's Susanoo is surrounded by a tengu-like layer of armour with jagged teeth around its hood, as opposed to the straight teeth of Itachi's Susanoo, and wears magatama earrings.[28]
Since first entering its incomplete form, Sasuke's Susanoo is able to manifest a sword, which it wields in its left hand. After entering its complete form, Susanoo wields a bow in its left hand and an orb that is able to produce arrows for use with said bow in its second right hand. In its final stage, Susanoo's orb is made up of the black flames of Amaterasu,[29] which Sasuke is able to manipulate into various forms using Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi, and its bow grows in size and takes on a more shield-like appearance. Sasuke's Susanoo has demonstrated the ability to wield its orb of black flames regardless of which stage it is in.[30][31]
After Sasuke gained the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, the layer of armour worn by Susanoo's final form changed in appearance. The mouth of the armour took on a beak-like shape, giving it an even more menacing appearance. The skin on the right arm and right hand gained additional plating, which gives the appearance of the skin peeling off, and the armour itself became more ghastly in appearance. Sasuke has since demonstrated several uses for his Susanoo's orb of black flames, including forming a blade in Susanoo's primary right hand, which can be used to stab his targets and set them ablaze,[32] and forming arrows which can be utilised with Susanoo's bow.[33] Sasuke can also produce tomoe-shaped projectiles from the orb to set his opponents on fire from a distance.[29]
By the time of the Fourth Shinobi World War, Sasuke was able to conjure a complete Susanoo with a lower half and likewise greatly increase its overall size.[34] Sasuke was able to use the senjutsu chakra Jūgo generated via Sage Transformation to enhance his Susanoo with natural energy, temporarily creating markings reminiscent of the Cursed Seal of Heaven.[35] After obtaining half of Hagoromo's power, the face of his complete Susanoo was altered slightly, and after Sasuke unlocked the stabilised final form, holes have now appeared in its cheeks, and it no longer bears a grin.[36] In its stabilised final form, the secondary arms of his Susanoo become wings, making it capable of flight.[37] In this state, Susanoo is clad in armour akin to a samurai. It has a long tengu nose, more accentuated eye-holes, two spikes over each eye, a slit stretching across the mouth and three gaps on each side of the cheek and one on the chin. Its hair appears fiery, and on its forehead is a large pentagonal prism which contains the user of the technique. It wears robes, thick boots and body armour on its shoulders, chest, and waist. Overall, it is largely reminiscent of both Madara and Indra's stabilised Susanoo, the main differences being the number of spikes over the eyes, and the appearance of the gaps in the jaw. It wields two katana, which were able to slice through satellites formed by Chibaku Tensei with ease.[38] It has shown the ability to block out the light of the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
Sasuke was able to equip his stabilised Susanoo into armour for Naruto Uzumaki's Sage Tailed Beast Mode.[39] In that state, his Susanoo wielded a plated sword which was able to cut through even the famed Sword of Nunoboko.[40]
Madara's Version
Madara gained access to Susanoo after awakening the abilities in both of his eyes. He has demonstrated the ability to use Susanoo even without his Mangekyō Sharingan, both while having his Rinnegan activated,[41] and while lacking any eyes after being revived.[42]
Madara's Susanoo is blue in colour and ogre-like in appearance.[43] It has four arms, while in the anime it starts with two and can manifest an additional pair. It is able to form two entirely different sides that are conjoined along their spine, in which case its four arms given a distinct pair for each side and distinct face for both. One has elongated canine teeth in its lower jaw bracket and two tusks growing from said jaw. The other has similarly elongated canine teeth in its upper jaw bracket instead, as well as a single horn protruding from its forehead. Madara can manifest a lower half with legs and feet.[44] Madara has demonstrated the ability to float inside of Susanoo when its body is fully formed.
Susanoo itself appears to be capable of contributing towards some of Madara's techniques, as it was seen forming hand seals when he drew down two meteorites.[45] It is able to use the powerful Yasaka Magatama as a ranged attack, creating a string of magatama that Madara can fire at his opponents.[46] Madara has shown the ability to combine this technique with the Multiple Wood Release Clone Technique to create a multitude of these ethereal warriors.
The final form of Madara's Susanoo is an enormous construct, standing taller than the wreckage of the meteorites he summoned, with its mouth obscured and a body similar to its full body form. The outer armour, which only remotely resembles the usual tengu-like armour with the trademark pillbox hat-like adornment on the forehead, is split down the middle from the beak downwards where the normal Susanoo underneath is revealed. Along this armour, which seems much more fluid than that of other known Susanoo, are holes at the end. It has four plated arms, two of which wield its undulating blades.[47] While in this unstablised form, the two front hands always appear to be forming the Tiger hand seal.[48][49]
Madara's mastery over Susanoo has given him one more stage past the final form which he accesses by stabilising its chakra. In this state, the eye-holes on Susanoo's armour become more accentuated, with lines running upwards at the side. It gains the traditional long, tengu nose, rather than a beak. The mouth is carved out, with two lines running down to the chin area, and it wears robes, pointed shoes and body armour on its shoulders and waist. Madara's Susanoo possesses "hair" in this form, which is tied up at the sides. Its back set of arms, which are still plated, extend upwards and hang behind his back like wings and its front set of arms, which lose their plating, are somewhat smaller than the plated arms. The undulating blades are replaced with straight katana, which are kept sheathed inside the palms of Susanoo's back arms and wielded by its forearms. According to Madara, the offensive power of his Susanoo is comparable to that of a tailed beast.[50] Madara has displayed the ability to equip Susanoo onto Kurama to complement their respective defensive and offensive capabilities.[51]
Indra's Version
As the first user of the Mangekyō Sharingan, Indra had attained complete mastery over the Susanoo and its many developments. He was even able to manifest a stabilised version of its final form, dwarfing even the surrounding mountains.[52]
Shisui's Version
In the anime,[53] Shisui Uchiha gained access to this technique after fully unlocking the power of his Mangekyō Sharingan. It is green in colour with a wide mouth with elongated lower canine teeth. The construct has rounded shoulders with blade-like appendages on them as well as the side of its face and along its forearms. Shisui was skilled enough to manifest his Susanoo in its complete form. It wields a swirling spear as its primary weapon.
As users gain more control over Susanoo, they are able to extend their power by forming weapons. Like Susanoo itself, the appearance and abilities of the manifested weapons vary between individuals. Additionally, as Susanoo becomes more powerful, its weapons do so as well.
All known users of Susanoo are able to manifest at least one sword for the ethereal warrior to wield. Despite their variations, each sword is extremely effective, and in the case of some users, the swords evolve along with Susanoo.
- Itachi's Susanoo wielded a blade which was curved in nature and resembled a dagger or tantō rather than a sword. Itachi demonstrated the ability to manifest this blade while only forming his Susanoo's ribcage and arms. With it, he was able to cut through Kimimaro's bones, which were stated to be harder than tempered steel.
- Sasuke's Susanoo is capable of utilising a blade resembling a sabre in its incomplete form, which is wielded by its primary left arm. Sasuke was able to use it to cut through several stone pillars with ease.[54]
- In its complete form, Sasuke's Susanoo is able to generate a blade resembling an Ōdachi from the orb in its second right hand, which is capable of cutting through the roots of the Shinju with ease.[55]
- Upon reaching its final form, the composition of the chakra orb held by the secondary right arm of Sasuke's Susanoo changed to that of Amaterasu's black flames, from which Sasuke is able to forge a blade that his Susanoo's primary right arm wields.[56] This orb of black flames, as well as the blade it is used to produce, could later be wielded even in his Susanoo's previous forms.
- When Sasuke equipped his stabilised final Susanoo to Kurama, it wielded a plated sabre which, while enhanced by senjutsu, overpowered the Sword of Nunoboko.[57]
- When otherwise in its stabilised form, Sasuke's Susanoo wields a pair of katana, which it used to cut through the satellites formed by Chibaku Tensei.[38]
- Madara's Susanoo can create distinct, undulating blades, which resembled kris. The blades were held by the right arm of both sides of his Susanoo in its incomplete and complete forms, and Madara could materialise one while only surrounded by his Susanoo's aura, able to throw it like a projectile.[58] In the anime, Madara could manifest swords in all four of Susanoo's arms; the blades left traces of blue fire in the ground after impacting and could unleash tremendous shock waves capable of obliterating hundreds of shinobi in a single strike.[59] They were shown to be strong enough to block a caught Tailed Beast Ball being pushed against them by Hashirama Senju's wood golem.[60]
- When Madara stabilised his Susanoo's final form, the blades more closely resembled traditional katana, complete with sheaths. Said sheaths were held with his Susanoo's back, plated arms, while the swords themselves were held by its front arms. Madara could use these to cut through a range of mountains in the distance with a single swing.[61] The blades could be partitioned to a Tailed Beast Ball during its formation, giving it cutting power. Madara did so to prevent Hashirama Senju from grabbing Tailed Beast Balls with his Wood Release: Wood Human Technique.[62]
In its completed state, Sasuke's Susanoo is capable of wielding an unusually shaped crossbow, which manifests on its left arm. In its second right hand, his Susanoo holds an orb capable of creating arrows which can be grabbed by Susanoo's front right hand and fired through the bow at such a speed that evading them is nearly impossible.[63][64] The crossbow can double as a shield strong enough to withstand attacks capable of shaving away at the terrain in Susanoo's immediate vicinity.[65] The arrows, which are seemingly made with variable thickness based on the user's discretion,[66] travel at a very high velocity and possess considerable piercing power; enough to easily breach a tree created by Wood Release.[67] Even Kakashi Hatake, a ninja noted for his speed supplemented by the Sharingan's keen perception, was unable to dodge the arrows and was instead forced to use Kamui to warp them away.[64] Only Kabuto Yakushi, while utilising the extrasensory capabilities of Sage Mode, has been able to successfully avoid one of these arrows thus far.[68]
When Sasuke's Susanoo enters its final stage, the crossbow gains a notable increase in size, more closely resembling a shield.[28] Upon first entering this stage, Sasuke gained access to an orb made up of black flames, which can be manifested in any of his Susanoo's forms; Sasuke later demonstrated the ability to produce arrows made up of black flames from said orb, which can also be used with Susanoo's bow.[69]
- Similar to other Mangekyō Sharingan abilities, Susanoo was taken from Japanese mythology: Susanoo is the wild god of sea and storms, brother to Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi. He was born from Izanagi washing his nose. Susanoo inherited his father's sword Totsuka no Tsurugi, which Izanagi used to kill his newborn son, Kagu-Tsuchi after his birth burned his mother, Izanami, to death. After his exile for his relentless harassment of Amaterasu, Susanoo redeemed himself when he used Totsuka to slay the serpent Yamata no Orochi and obtained the Sword of Kusanagi from the monster's corpse. He later gave the acquired blade to Amaterasu as a peace offering.
- Susanoo's designs are based on Tengu (天狗), well known yokai that are associated with the ascetic practice of shugendō. In their final forms, the Susanoo are garbed in the attire of shugendō practioners, known as yamabushi, and wear hoods that resemble tengu masks, with Itachi's and Madara's appearing as long-nosed Hanataka Tengu and Sasuke's as a crow-billed Karasu Tengu. In Japanese myth, Susanoo produced the fiend Amanozako who is said to have been the progenitor of the Tengu.
- Madara's Susanoo design may be influenced by Ryomen Sukuna (両面宿儺), a human-like being described in the Nihon Shoki (日本書紀) as having one body with two faces back-to-back, each with its own set of arms and legs.
- The Yata no Kagami (八咫鏡, Literally meaning: Eight Span Mirror) is one of the Three Imperial Regalia of Japan (三種の神器, Sanshu no Jingi), together with the Sword of Kusanagi and the Yasakani no Magatama (八尺瓊曲玉, Literally meaning: Eight Shaku Curved Jewel).
- When it was first used by Itachi, Susanoo was shown to have five fingers on each hand.[70] In all subsequent appearances in the manga, Susanoo has six fingers on each hand. However, in the anime, Susanoo always has five fingers.
- In the anime, the final form of Sasuke's Susanoo had a few minor changes: it had straight teeth and was shown wielding a gourd in its secondary right hand instead of an orb, making it look similar to Itachi's final Susanoo.
- Itachi and Sasuke's Susanoo are depicted as different colours in the anime than in the manga. In Itachi's case, his Susanoo was illustrated in the anime before being coloured in the manga.
- Prior to the completion of Sasuke's Susanoo, its completed form was glimpsed as a shadowy figure in a genjutsu that Sasuke placed C under.[71]
- Sasuke's bow-wielding form of Susanoo bears a great resemblance to Raideen the Brave, one of a number of Yoshiyuki Tomino references in the series (another being the Gundam-derived names of Kakuzu's techniques).
- Both Itachi and Sasuke's final form of Susanoo's mouth area always appear to face to the right, but the mouth area of Sasuke's new version faces to the left side instead.
- The Totsuka Sword wielded by Itachi's Susanoo is considered to be a "Sword of Kusanagi", although this has been popularly mistranslated as it being the perfect counter to the Sword of Kusanagi.
- Itachi's Susanoo carries the Sword of Totsuka in a gourd. An ethereal weapon inside a gourd could be a reference to the hyōtan-kozō, a gourd spirit from Japanese folklore.
- During the Sasuke vs. Itachi boss battle in Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, Susanoo doesn't appear around Itachi, but behind him. However, during his "awakening", Susanoo appears around him in a much smaller form.
- In Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3, Madara's Susanoo's swords are capable of spinning, giving them a drill-like ability.
- Sasuke's Susanoo is the only one on record to manifest a ranged weapon (not including the Yasaka Magatama) in the form of a bow and arrow, though it is absent in the more powerful and complete versions.
- Shisui's Susanoo resembles the eponymous mecha from the anime Steel Jeeg.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Third Databook, pages 274-275
- ↑ Naruto chapter 467, page 9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 589, page 2
- ↑ Naruto chapter 647, page 14
- ↑ Naruto chapter 552, pages 1-2
- ↑ Naruto chapter 477, page 6
- ↑ Naruto chapter 479, page 9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 466, page 5
- ↑ Naruto chapter 560, pages 12-13
- ↑ Naruto chapter 479, pages 9-10
- ↑ Naruto chapter 580, pages 3-4
- ↑ Naruto chapter 585, pages 8-9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 560, page 10
- ↑ Naruto chapter 463, page 6
- ↑ Naruto chapter 464, page 1
- ↑ Naruto chapter 466, page 7
- ↑ Naruto chapter 476, pages 13-14
- ↑ Naruto chapter 577, page 12
- ↑ Naruto chapter 585, page 13
- ↑ Naruto chapter 580, page 6
- ↑ Naruto chapter 574, page 9
- ↑ Naruto volume 58 cover
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 138
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Naruto chapter 579, pages 6-7
- ↑ Naruto chapter 551, page 12
- ↑ Naruto chapter 580, page 10
- ↑ Naruto chapter 464, page 17
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 Naruto chapter 484, page 9
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 Naruto chapter 574, page 10
- ↑ Naruto chapter 585, page 7
- ↑ Naruto chapter 634, page 12
- ↑ Naruto chapter 553, page 17
- ↑ Naruto chapter 634, pages 12-14
- ↑ Naruto chapter 647, page 11
- ↑ Naruto chapter 648, page 4
- ↑ Naruto chapter 676, page 12
- ↑ Naruto chapter 676, pages 13-14
- ↑ 38.0 38.1 Naruto chapter 676, page 14
- ↑ Naruto chapter 651, pages 2-3
- ↑ Naruto chapter 651, pages 13-15
- ↑ Naruto chapter 560, pages 14-15
- ↑ Naruto chapter 658, page 10
- ↑ Naruto volume 62 cover
- ↑ Naruto chapter 575, page 6
- ↑ Naruto chapter 560, pages 15-17
- ↑ Naruto chapter 563, page 9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 588, page 17
- ↑ Naruto chapter 588, page 17
- ↑ Naruto chapter 620, page 17
- ↑ Naruto chapter 589, page 7
- ↑ Naruto chapter 621, pages 4-9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 670, page 17
- ↑ Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution, OVA cutscene
- ↑ Naruto chapter 465, pages 1-3
- ↑ Naruto chapter 648, page 2
- ↑ Naruto chapter 553, page 15
- ↑ Naruto chapter 651, page 13-15
- ↑ Naruto chapter 577, page 12
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 322
- ↑ Naruto chapter 620, page 16
- ↑ Naruto chapter 589, pages 4-5
- ↑ Naruto chapter 621, page 6
- ↑ Naruto chapter 478, page 11
- ↑ 64.0 64.1 Naruto chapter 484, page 6
- ↑ Naruto chapter 479, page 3
- ↑ Naruto chapter 580, page 10
- ↑ Naruto chapter 478, page 9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 579, page 14
- ↑ Naruto chapter 634, page 10
- ↑ Naruto chapters 392-393
- ↑ Naruto chapter 462, page 6


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Hi again,
thanks to everybody for their help and advice... I read through all of them and tried some of them and I was (partly) successful in the end.
First I burnt a new bootable CD with WaryPuppy 5.3 at 16x (got a good-quality Verbatim CD-RW medium for that - previously I had used a cheap noname CD-R) and tried booting the old machine from it - without success. The only difference when compared with the previous CD was a different message preceding the "Starting Windows 95" one - now it was "Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM: Failure..." whereas before it said "Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM: 1.FD (some unreadable characters) SystemType-00".
Then, as a second step, I attempted to boot my newer machine (AMD Athlon 2500XP) from the Wary Puppy 5.3 CD-RW - the OS launched without any problems so I could put aside the option that something's wrong with the CD - the problem was clearly caused by the fact that the old machine was incapable of booting from a CD-ROM (although its BIOS claims that it should be able to do it). Therefore I tried to create a WakePup2 bootable floppy - and here I came upon something which might be a bug in WaryPuppy 5.3 (but it can as well be just that I did something wrongly) - after choosing Menu/Setup/WakePup I got a message saying that WakePup was not installed and that I should install it via PET install (or what was the name of the installation tool). So I downloaded and installed a package named "wakepup2-20070919" (there were no other wakepups available), the installer said that all was OK but when I chose Menu/Setup/WakePup nothing at all happened. I tried uninstalling the WakePup, downloading it again from a different mirror, but the result was the same...
Since I suspected that the problem with wakepup2 could be that - being built in 2007 - it was no longer compatible with the recent WaryPuppy 5.3, I erased the CD-RW and re-burnt it with pup-431.iso. And it turned out that my suspicion might be right because this time after installing wakepup2-20070919 I was finally able to create a bootable floppy. And the floppy boot worked with my old PC. Moreover, it worked for both 4.3.1 Puppy and WaryPuppy 5.3 (I still kept the first cheap CD-R with Wary).
Yet I can't quite say that I'm too satisfied with the result because the full boot took 5-10 minutes (I hope, though, that after I'll properly install some Puppy to the HDD the startup won't take so long anymore) and I came across other difficulties - e.g. serial mouse didn't work (fortunately I found working the PS/2 mouse socket in the old PC that I had always thought had never worked) and Puppy couldn't find the sound card installed in the PC (I would think that this is a result of the card being ISA some manual configuration/tweaking could be needed). I also found strange that the Puppy launched in console and I had to manually type "startx" to get to the GUI (could be that the installer wanted to indicate to me that way that X wouldn't work with such old machine - it worked, though). But what surprised me most was that I didn't find 4.3.1 Puppy any quicker than its 5.3 Wary brother. So perhaps I should look for something older than 4.3.1 ? Maybe I'll try the fatfree 2.17 next(?) Or the MeanPuppy?
Now I think I'm gonna put this Puppy experiment of mine aside for a while and I'll return to it sometime later... but of course, if any ideas that you think might be useful for me come to your mind in the meantime, please write them down here for me... Thanks!
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Posted: Mon 09 Apr 2012, 16:17
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eskimo wrote:
Now I think I'm gonna put this Puppy experiment of mine aside for a while and I'll return to it sometime later... but of course, if any ideas that you think might be useful for me come to your mind in the meantime, please write them down here for me... Thanks!
Hey, nice work. Very detailed feedback. I think you are right that an install would greatly improve speed. If you come back to the project I'd probably still give the MeanPup a try. Some of the older, more lightweight stuff was optimised for lower memory machines.
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Posted: Mon 09 Apr 2012, 19:07
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eskimo wrote:
(got a good-quality Verbatim CD-RW medium for that - previously I had used a cheap noname CD-R)
Don't pay too much attention to the brand name on the package.
If you use Puppy's built-in Pburn, it shows who actually
Yet I can't quite say that I'm too satisfied with the result because the full boot took 5-10 minutes
Wary 5.1.1 k220.127.116.11 (the 4.3.1 kernel) boots quickly on my old Compaq Deskpro P2 / 350 / 320 MB RAM.
I tried it today on a Dell Dimension P4 / 2.2 / 1.5G RAM, and booting is unbelievably slow.
(Edit: It might be because the Dell has a CD-ROM and the Compaq has a CD burner, which apparently operates at a higher speed.)
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Posted: Mon 09 Apr 2012, 19:31
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greengeek wrote:
Some of the older, more lightweight stuff was optimised for lower memory machines.
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Posted: Tue 10 Apr 2012, 10:42
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I hope, though, that after I'll properly install some Puppy to the HDD the startup won't take so long anymore
definitely will. Puppy tries to load as much from the CD into ram at boot. On a slow CD Rom on a slow computer this can take a lot of time. But will be much faster from HD.
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Posted: Tue 10 Apr 2012, 11:18
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That 5-10 minutes is a very long time.
My guess would be that it was struggling to read the CD. Either the CD is "dirty" or, more likely, the reader in that machine is iffy. There could be dust/dirt on the lenses or it may be so old it is struggling to read the narrower tracks on a new CD.
Often, if an old machine won't read a CD, you can get round it by WRITING another CD at just 4x rather than at a higher speed.
"Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush" - T Pratchett
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Posted: Tue 10 Apr 2012, 14:06
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eskimo wrote:
First I burnt a new bootable CD with WaryPuppy 5.3 at 16x
Burn_IT wrote:
...or it may be so old it is struggling to read the narrower tracks on a new CD. if an old machine won't read a CD, you can get round it by WRITING another CD at just 4x rather than at a higher speed
I had a lot of problems with reading CDRs on older machines till I dropped to 4x burning. Burning at 16x does seem too fast and if your burner supports 4x that is definitely the way to go. Any drive that reads it still has the option of reading at high speed if it can manage it without errors. Didn't know about the narrower tracks. I wonder when they started doing that?
I also think faster burns can increase the number of "buffer underrun glitches" that get written to a CDR when the system speed can't keep up with the rate of date transfer during burning. Old drives don't seem to like what the underrun technology does to the CD track.
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The narrower tracks are a result of using higher speed lasers to write the disk. In order to be able to read/write at higher speeds the laser has to be focussed more tightly so that the errors caused by "leakage" from the adjacent track is minimised.
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Posted: Sun 15 Apr 2012, 07:31
Post subject: the story continues...
yesterday I found some time to play with my very old PC and Puppy again. First I tried downloading the MeanPup iso recommended by greengeek - burnt it to a mini-CD-RW at 4x (I found it rather difficult to get a CD-R that would accept as low a burning speed as 4x) and tried booting from the CD in the old PC. No luck - I'm beginning to think that booting from any CD is simply impossible with that machine.
So my next step was of course the WakePup floppy. Unfortunately, this didn't work either - the wakepup floppy I had created with Puppy 4.3.1 the previous week couldn't find MeanPup on the CD and boot it
I had hoped that it was enough to have a single WakePup floppy that can then be used to boot any Puppy from the CD (I thought so since I was able to boot WaryPuppy 5.3 with WakePup floppy created by Puppy 4.3.1). Do you think creating another WakePup floppy directly in MeanPup could help me to get over this?
Anyway, finding the floppy boot incompatible with MeanPup, I returned to WaryPuppy 5.3 and tried experimenting with that. I partitioned my HDD following the manual in puppylinux.org (I found "GParted" a very nice tool, btw.) and then performed a full installation of Wary Puppy to the HDD (/dev/sda2). I also installed the GRUB boot manager to be able to boot either Win95 or WaryPuppy (btw. I wondered - what is the difference between GRUB and GRUBDOS and which one is better?)
I was anxious to see how quick the HDD-boot of WaryPuppy would be when compared with the 5-10 mins long WakePup+CD live boot... and I found out that it was definitely quicker, although the boot behaviour was pretty strange - after choosing "Puppy Linux" from the GRUB boot menu, "Starting up..." was displayed for almost exactly 1.5 mins and during that time the computer seemed to be waiting for something (but there was no HDD activity or anything like that). Then, suddenly, the booting resumed (or started) pretty quickly and it took no more than another 1.5 mins until WaryPuppy was completely booted. Well, now I don't know what causes the 1.5 mins lag - should I blame GRUB or WaryPuppy for it? I would think that something might be wrong with GRUB config but I've no idea what it could be (and then, Windows 95 boot without any delay when selected from GRUB).
The performance of WaryPuppy itself was not as slow as I had been afraid of, however, when I tried to launch the SeaMonkey browser, the whole system hanged and only hard reboot helped (well, here I blame myself for this because I answered Yes to the question whether to install Adobe Flash Player - perhaps I shouldn't have done that - unfortunately, now I don't know how to get rid of it to see whether it causes the hang or if it is the SeaMonkey browser itself)...
The thing, which upset me most, was that WaryPuppy somehow couldn't cope with my ES1868 sound card - immediately after installation it didn't discover any sound cards. So I tried the ALSA Sound Wizard, which discovered the card - in the list there was the item "es18xx: ESS ES 1868 Plug and Play AudioDrive" (which is exactly the sound card I have) three times, then there was "legacy: Probe: legacy ISA (non-PnP) chips" once and two more items that were irrelevant (something with USB and with Apple). I tried selecting and installing the driver for each of the three "es18xx" items one after another but none of them worked (the wizard always said that the driver was successfully installed and that I can play sample.wav but in the end no sound could be heard). Then I tried choosing the "legacy ISA (non-PnP)" option - although the card is declared as PnP - selecting all compatible options offered - two ESS's, SoundBlaster and SoundBlaster Pro (the documentation of the sound card says it's 100% compatible with both SB and SBPro) - and choosing "Yes" to the question of trying all possible combinations of IRQ/DMA - the wizard ended with "Not Found" message. The sound card itself can't be broken because in Win95 it plays OK. Searching this forum I've found a description of a similar problem here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1961109443&t=32774 - it's not exactly the same thing because the sound card there is ES1888 whereas I have ES1868 but indicates that ESS sound cards are something that Puppy is not a good friend of. According to the post, the only solution seems to be hacking "modprob.conf" - only I don't know how I should hack it. Any good advice on this, please?
I'm happy at least with the fact that I managed to get a serial mouse working with Puppy, because the old motherboard in the PC appears to be fighting with a PS2 mouse (every now and then it stops working). But I've been wondering - is there a way how to set the mouse to serial _before_ the X-Window starts? It is not easy to start the mouse wizard in X-Window just with keyboard (tried navigating with Tab-key like in MS Windows but wasn't successful).
OK, I see I've written too much already... I think I'll get back to Puppy again the next weekend - looking fwd to your comments in the meantime
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The hang was almost certainly because you ran out of RAM. Have you created a swap partition? You're probably going to want a much lighter browser like dillo.
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Posted: Sun 15 Apr 2012, 14:34
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What Jemimah said...and Monsie mentioned the same thing on the previous page.
Did you make any RAM / swap changes before your most recent post?
This needs to be included for context.
Follow this simple formula:
(RAM only) or (RAM + swap) = 512MB.
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Posted: Sun 15 Apr 2012, 20:26
Post subject: Re: the story continues...
eskimo wrote:
The wakepup floppy I had created with Puppy 4.3.1 the previous week couldn't find MeanPup on the CD
Any chance of trying that CD on your other system to confirm a healthy burn? If the CD is fine I would suggest it might be worth trying "Barely Pup" which is available here:
It is very lightweight and won't give you any real functionality beyond file browsing on your disk drives unless you add other programmes, but it would be an interesting comparison of the booting time/issues.
Do you think creating another WakePup floppy directly in MeanPup could help me to get over this?
Sorry, I have no experience yet with WakePup.
I answered Yes to the question whether to install Adobe Flash Player
I don't think you have enough memory to use flash. I would recommend you evaluate the browser performance without flash first. It should still be fine for email use at least, especially if you avoid the newer versions of browsers that are memory hogs
I don't have any info to add regarding the mouse and sound card issues, except to say that trialling other puppies can give surprisingly different results, depending on the hardware the developer trialled them on.
I still recommend anyone using older hardware to trial Puplite or Akita for comparison purposes.
Akita is here:
Good luck and please keep us updated. thx
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I have Wary 5.3.3 running fine on a Pentium II with 196mb RAM
My System:Arch-Arm on RPi!
" puplet on Toshiba Tecra 8200. PIII, 256 MB RAM.
: Lobster and I blog about the RPi.
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256MB of ram are good to play with Akita beta 8 or Turbopup extreme 1.0. They are a Puppy 4.2 derivatives, they use a 126.96.36.199 kernel (there are TONS of drivers, games, emulators and applications for this kernel in puppy repos and in this forum) and need little CPU power to run. The former is more up-to-date. If you have an hard disc, create a 256 MB swap file or a swap partition.
I also suggest standard Puppy 2.16 or 3.01, especially if you have problems with older pci or ISA sound cards.
Puppy 2 series are faster in starting programs. On my old PC (256MB ram & no swap) it took 2 seconds to start Seamonkey in puppy 2.16 and 7 seconds in 3.01!! Pup 2.14X10 is good but is RAM hungry.
Also, if your PC has an USB port and you have a USB pendrive, don't waste CDs and install puppy on your pendrive, then boot using Wakepup or Plop boot floppy.
you will find my post on how to modify wakepup floppy if the standard one doesn't recognise your USB pendrive.
As for hard disc, if you want to play with different puppies and don't want to mess with USB pendrives, create directories in your HD (for instance name them: wary; akita; turbopup; pup216; pup301 ecc), copy the content of the respective puppy ISO in them (vmlinuz, initrd.gz, pup****.sfs, zdrv***.sfs) then modify the file in Hard Disc: /boot/grub/menu.lst as described here:
. Pay attention to the 'psubdir' option! Puppy 2 series need a 'root=/dev/ram0' option just before the 'psubdir' option. Akita may need 'nosmp' option also. And remember that grub IS case sensitive!
As for new puppies, I have tried Puppy Wary, Lupu, Racy & newer ones but on old PCs they are too slow in my opinion.
Have fun.
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How to choose which Puppy
Subject description: I don't know which Puppy to select
By default, I choose the latest Puppy. e.g. 5.28 because I am not familiar with all the various Puppies.
I see things called Wary and Classic Puppy etc but don't know what these variants are for.
Is there a webpage that explains what each does so that one can better understand what they are and what they do ?
Just asking.... thought someone might be able to direct me to a helpful url.
Many Thanks,
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PITTSBURGH — The Steelers will play five nationally televised primetime games, and will open the season at home on Sunday, Sept. 7 against the Houston Texans, it was announced today when the National Football League released its 2008 regular season schedule.
The Steelers will host two nationally televised primetime games against division rivals, including a Monday Night game on Sept. 29 against the Baltimore Ravens (8:30 p.m.) and a Thursday Night game Nov. 20 against the Cincinnati Bengals (8:15 p.m.). Pittsburgh's three primetime road games will be on Sunday, Sept. 14 at the Cleveland Browns (8:15 p.m.), Sunday, Oct. 5 at the Jacksonville Jaguars (8:15 p.m.) and a Monday Night game on Nov. 3 at the Washington Redskins.
"We are excited to have five nationally televised primetime games included among what should be one of our most exciting regular season schedules in recent years," said Steelers president Art Rooney II. "We have a tremendous home schedule that our fans are really going to enjoy as we defend our AFC North title."
The Steelers also announced that the team will honor the memory of former broadcaster Myron Cope who passed away in February, prior to the club's Sept. 7 home opener. Cope was the Steelers' radio color analyst for 35 years (1970-'04) and also invented the Terrible Towel™.
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Sow seed in early spring, after stratification; grow on well-drained, consistently moist, fertile soil. May also be sown in fall when ripe, in a protected spot; germination is erratic and can take several seasons. Sun to part shade. Note that plants are either male or female; both are required to produce fertile seed, though only the female plant produces fruits. Typically hardy zones 6-9, some deciduous species are hardy into zone 3
Use rooting hormone with softwood cuttings spring or summer, or semi-ripe cuttings fall and early winter; bottom heat may be helpful with the latter. Can also be grown by simple layering, which takes time; named cultivars may be bud-grafted onto Ilex aquifolium, English holly or common holly, rootstock
Ilex aquifolium is a good choice for exposed sites, zone 6-8. Ilex verticillata, the winterberry, does well in poorly-drained, wet and acidic soils; hardy in zones 3-9. Ilex crenata, or Japanese holly, is very useful as a bonsai species, indoors and out, as it is very shade-tolerant; zone 6-9
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Allegations of racism, bullying and drug activity are at the center of a shooting in which bullets were fired into the Odenton home of a family of five, with bullet fragments hitting a 19-month-old girl.
Anne Arundel County police continue to search for the shooter after officers were called to the 600 block of Cadbury Drive in Odenton around 9:45 p.m. Monday for a report of shots being fired into a home in the Chapelgate community.
The 25-year-old homeowner, Aaron Moulton, told police someone fired shots through the front window of his home. He, his wife, Carly, and their three children -- a 7-month-old girl, a 19-month-old girl and a 4-year-old girl -- were inside the home at the time of the incident.
The couple's 19-month-old daughter was injured by glass fragments as the window shattered. Two shotgun-sized holes can be seen in the window.
"I looked up and I saw that the whole side of her face was covered in blood. That's when I started yelling to Aaron that she'd been hit," mother Carly Moulton said.
The child was treated at the scene for minor injuries, and her family showed 11 News the scar on her head. No other injuries were reported.
Police said a black man in his late teens to early 20s, about 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet tall with a slim build, wearing dark pants, a two-tone lightweight jacket (black shoulders with gray coloring on the rest) and a black knit cap was seen running from the scene with a long gun in his hand. They said the man fled in a vehicle that was possibly a maroon, red or burgundy Ford Crown Victoria or Mercury Marquis (pictured above).
Several officers canvassed the area and conducted a door-to-door search after the incident but turned up nothing.
Claims of racism, drug activity emerge
As the search continues, allegations of racism, bullying and drug activity are coming out.
"He's called people the N word, and it's uncalled-for. He probably said it to the wrong person, and that's probably what happened," one neighbor who didn't want to be identified said of Aaron Moulton, who denied those allegations.
"I don't see color. I see a human being," Moulton told 11 News.
The Moultons said they were targeted because they are the ones calling police in the area and leading the fight against what they think is a rise in crime.
"This neighborhood has become such an open-air drug trafficking area," Carly Moulton said.
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"At the end of the day, I know what is right. I know what is true," Aaron Moulton said.
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Authorities are asking anyone with information to contact Detective Heinecke of the Western District Detective Unit at 410-222-6155.
Police said there will be an increased police presence in the community.
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Specification:Relationship Calculator
This article provides the rationale and requirements for the Relationship Calculator plugin for GRAMPS, and it's localisation.
Why have different relationship calculators?
Different cultures and regions tend to view relationships in different ways. In the United States (and probably other English speaking regions), you can encounter a third cousin, twice removed, which in other regions is meaningless. Other cultures have different terms for your mother's grandfather and your father's grandfather, while English speaking regions would refer to both as a great-grandfather.
By providing relationship calculators, several problems are resolved.
- Meaningful relation descriptions are returned localized for the user's region.
- The relationship calculator plugin can return the relationship outside of the Relationship Calculator, allowing relationships to be used in reports and other areas.
- Translators do not have to worry about trying to translate strings such as "third cousin twice removed" into a local phrase that has no equivalent.
How to write a relationship calculator
The framework for relationship calculator plugins is in place. Here are the rules the language-specific plugins must obey to be compatible with the framework:
- The relationship plugins (here and below referred to as
relplugins) must define a class that can be instantiated with the GrampsDbBase instance as its argument and that has a
get_relationship()method obeying the following specifications:
- The
get_relationship()method takes two input arguments, which are two instances of the Person class. To be determined is the relationship of the second person to the first person.
- The
get_relationship()method returns a tuple with two values:
- The string of the relationship (e.g. "father", or "grandson")
- The list of the closest common ancestors of these two persons.
- For the sake of the following example, assume that the above function is defined in
xxis your language code), and it's name is
get_relationship(first_person,second_person). Also assume that it returns a pair of values:
(rel_string, acnestor_list).
- Text strings returned by the function should be in the UNICODE character set. GNOME expects all displayed strings to be UNICODE characters, and most report formats use UNICODE. While it may be tempting to use ISO-8859 or other character sets, these will not display correctly and will cause errors.
- The
- The relationship plugin must register itself with the plugin system as the
relcalctool. This is done by inserting the following code at the end of your
from PluginMgr import register_relcalc register_relcalc(RelationshipCalculatorClass,["xx","XX","xx_YY","xxxxxx","Xxxxxx","Xxxxxxx_xx"])
- where
RelationshipCalculatorClassis the class whose method is the
get_relationship()and the items in quotes are language identifiers that may possibly be associated with your language. For example, different systems use
ru_RU.koi8r, etc. to identify the Russian language.
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Saturday evening played host to the final night of Waterfront Fashion Week 2012, where glamor, punk rock and fire came together to give Louisville's first-ever fashion week a proper send off into 2013. The night's festivities began with a presentation by national chain department store Dillard's, followed by walks of the top ten models, and the two finalists of the Emerging Designer competition.
Dillard's sent down ensembles composed of pieces from Michael Kors, Antonio Melani, Ralph Lauren and Jessica Simpson, among other top designers. The theme for the presentation appeared to reflect trends of the upcoming season, faux fur, tweed riding jackets, and sweater dresses taking to the runway. The standouts in my opinion were of the two equestrian-themed outfits from Ralph Lauren, if only for the presentation involving each model cracking a riding crop upon the catwalk, as well as the flame red crepe dress from Gianni Bini.
Following the presentation, the top ten models as chosen by the fashion week judges walked the runway for a chance at a modeling contract with Next Models NYC and $2,000, with Casey Neel taking the prize at the end of the shows. Afterwards, Emerging Designer finalists Damian Michael Pearsall and Edina Ndebele gave the audience and the judges one last look at their respective collections, the punk rock-inspired looks of Pearsall on one end of the spectrum going up against the softer styling of Ndebele on the other side. The judges selected Ndebele as the Emerging Designer winner, and both Ndebele and Neel will appear in a photo shoot for Nfocus – shot atop the Big Four Bridge – in the near future.
If you were wondering what to wear for Oaks and Derby 2013, your inquiry for hats and fascinators would have led you to the runway collections from Formé Millinery and Gabriel Amar for Frank Olive. My favorites from each collection would include the floral fascinator from Formé, and the pink top hat from Gabriel Amar, both demonstrating their fabulousness in their own manner.
After intermission, Heather French Henry Collection – founded by Miss America title holder and Kentucky native Heather French Henry – introduced glamorous gowns to the tent, including two metallic fraternal twin dresses in gold and silver as seen in the above image. Waterfront Fashion Week emcee and Miss World 2010 Alexandria Mills also took part in the runway, wearing a scarlet beaded lace strapless gown from the collection by the former Miss America.
Featured designer L'Amour Ameer of Dayton, Ohio threw down the gauntlet with his collection and presentation, mixing theater and high art with each ensemble walking the runway, whether it was a backpack that became a red faux fur coat, black evening gowns with high hair collars, or pinstripe power suits with long tails.
Customs had prevented final featured designer Osmany Laffitta from bringing his collection out of Europe, prompting the organizers to have Emerging Designer winner Ndebele send a second collection out onto the runway, with looks ranging from mini-dresses with yellow houndstooth collars and a Pan-African print ensemble, to zebra print dresses with black panels and black dresses with green neon bell sleeves.
Saturday night was the highest note for Louisville's first-ever Waterfront Fashion Week, the affair ending in a blaze of glory. Will 2013 take it to another level? Only time shall tell. Until then, have a look at what you may have missed in the slideshow below.
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As beings of habit, it's easy to fall into a pattern at the office. We subconsciously build a regimen with the aid of weekly meetings or by establishing a list of coffee buddies. In your cozy home though, it will take more effort.
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Take breaks
People who work from home typically have more control of their environment, which could yield longer, more productive hours. Be sure to take breaks. If possible, take your morning, lunch and afternoon breaks at the same time you would at the office. Doing so will not just help with building a routine, but it will help keep the mind fresh. And since the brain runs on glucose, keeping yourself nourished will help you avoid an afternoon burn out.
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Marian Desouza from Harlow Design Collective helps us get into the fall spirit with pumpkin-inspired artwork.October 1, 2017
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Metal artist Domenico Belli sculpts metal into an amazing piece of art.September 30, 2017
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Ah…flight delays. Who would have thought in a month that has been so beautiful in the midwest that there would be flight problems. I just got the call that my flight was delayed 152 minutes. Well, at least they called! I might be tired, but at least I'm going to get there. I just home Julie Andrews and all the other presenters' flights gets them there to NCTE.
NCTE 2009 November 19, 2009
Setting Up a Reading Workshop: More from Units of Study Across the Year in Upper Grade Reading, Grades 3-5
Provisioning a Reading Workshop: Overview, Classroom Environment, and Tools
A transcript of remarks by Kathleen Tolan
Deputy Director of Reading, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project
The workshop model is a model in which all children are involved and engaged. In the case of the
reading workshop, students are engaged with reading books they have picked themselves. It's
truly differentiated because children read books that they've chosen and on levels that they can
read. The workshop is not everybody doing the same thing. Imagine Santa's Workshop, all the
elves are involved in different activities, but these activities share the same final goal. In reader's
workshop, all students are focused on activities that are going to help them grow as readers. So
they're putting into action some of the skills and strategies that have been taught to them, either in
conferring or in mini-lessons, and that they feel like they need to get better at as they go off and
independently practice.
The reading workshop consists of several components. Usually, it starts off with a mini-lesson,
which is whole-class teaching, and then the children read independently for the bulk of the time.
There is usually some form of interruption in the middle to refocus the kids or to teach them
another strategy. This is the mid-workshop teaching point. After that, the kids continue to
read. Finally, there is usually a teaching share that may involve partner work. This brings
closure to the workshop.
So, in the reading workshop, one of the essential goals is to build a community of readers,
where children are really owning their reading life and composing their reading life in the
classroom in the company of others. Students are making decisions on what they're going to read
and how they're going to read it, even going so far as to choose the best place in the classroom
for them to read. The teacher is really working on trying to get children to see reading as
something they work on. Students need to think about their purposes, who they are, and how
they'd like to grow. And, ultimately, the teacher is working to get the children to become good
thinkers, to use reading to help them develop ideas about the texts and themselves in the world.
Classroom Environments
In workshop teaching, you'll notice that teachers work hard at creating a place that encourages
kids to read and author their own reading lives. Classrooms are set up for both independent
work and collaboration. There's no one way a classroom should be. However, there are some
things to think a little bit about as you set your classroom up. Is this a classroom that would foster
collaboration? Clustering desks or tables in groups can help. You want to make sure that you
provide opportunities for books to be talked about and shared.
It's also important to create areas in which the class can come together and meet. This common
area is where we usually pull the kids together for whole-class teaching. A rug is not required, but
many people choose to use a rug to mark this space. Some teachers even have couches to make it
comfortable around the meeting area. None of that is required; you'll make the classroom your
own. In designing your classroom for reading workshop, think about how to create a place that
feels like your home, where you would be doing a lot of your reading.
It's also a good idea to have an extensive classroom library for workshop teaching. And so
setting up your library is something that you need to think a lot about. You want to make sure that
the room is set up in such a way that kids can easily find books that match them as readers during
the independent part of reading workshop. And so a lot of the time the children have a part in
setting up the library. How do you make sure students know which books they should choose?
You could organize your library by reading level or create a section organized by reading level
using guided reading letters, dot colors, or some other method of your choice. The library should
also have sections organized by author, such as all the books by Jerry Spinelli, as well as areas, or
bins, that are organized by genre—such as adventure or mystery. There are some bins that the
class will create, like our favorite books. In this way, the kids are really helping to shape the way
their library looks and the way that they think it would help them be more powerful readers. In
some schools, each teacher can't have his/her own full library so teachers sometimes borrow
books from each other. You might consider putting a shared library on a wheeled cart. That way
when I'm finished, the kids put their books back and then it goes down the hall to the next
teacher. So teachers share libraries. Teachers also take out a tremendous amount of books from
public libraries or from the school library to fill up the shelves in their classrooms. The library is
something that changes and grows. So as your kids are reading more and growing more, you have
to replenish it quite often.
In the reading workshop classroom, we try to think a little bit about what scaffolds we can put in
place to support our kids. So you'll see a lot of charts, like this chart that a teacher is working on
to explain strategies, that are close to the meeting area. We try to create charts that are going to be
kid-friendly. Sometimes they're co-created by the kids and the teachers. Some of us are better at
creating ones on the spot, others have to think carefully about the best way of expressing an idea.
On those occasions, the teacher has already written the information up and reveals it at the
appropriate time to the kids. Some teachers make a smaller version of the information, such as a
bookmarks or handouts, so that the kids can keep the information handy as they read. We often
suggest that the teachers refer to the chart in their teaching, so that the kids don't see it as
wallpaper, but actually keep using it and referring to it across the unit of study, and even after the
unit of study is over. You will find that a lot of the time charts will go away and come back. It
may be that the kids have outgrown it and don't need it anymore. You can take it away and pull it
back out when needed. In this way, the information can seem fresh and new to the kids. We don't
want to have a classroom so covered with charts that you can't read any of them. So some of what
we do is have teachers read over the charts and figure out which ones are most valuable for the
kids and then they put some of them away.
In reading workshop, there are tools that help children see themselves growing as readers and us
assess their growth. A reading log is one example. Kids use their reading logs every day,
recording the number of pages read and how much time it took to read those pages. Not just at
school, but also at home, so they can compare and see what were they like as a reader in
September to October. Kids might notice in September they read less and in October they read
more. Or they realize that in September they read more books, because they read shorter books
than I read in October. So they're able to answer the questions, "Who am I as a reader? Where am
I going? How have I grown?" Using this tool, kids can set goals for themselves about where they
want to be and they can realize that have something to reflect upon. Of course, it's also a useful
tool for teachers to check in with kids.
Another powerful tool in reading workshop is Post-its. A lot of people find that the kids are Post-
it crazy. What is all that sticking out of their books? It's just a way for kids to be reading, and
many adults use the same tool. If you want to jot an idea or question down, you just stick a Post-it
on it. In this way, children can record their thinking and their ideas fast, either in their
independent reading book or in the read-aloud book while it's being read. Often kids will jot
something as a reflection of the teaching that's been taught. Kids look over their Post-its before
talking with a partner or with their book club for ideas they want to discuss.
A tool that is introduced later in reading workshop is reading notebooks. We start with Post-its
and then in October we start using the notebooks to study characters a little more in depth. We
don't use the notebook in the same way for every student because everyone is not doing the same
thing, just like every student is not reading the same book. Children use this notebook to help
them grow their ideas or support their thinking as they read.
You'll also find that we've created classroom book baggies. A book baggie is a simple little
Ziploc baggie where the kids put three or four books that they're planning on reading that week
or in the next few days. We don't want kids up and down to the library all the time because we
want them reading. It can create management issues if, in the middle of the workshop, kids are
going up to pick new books because they have nothing to read. So, if a student is a JK reader,
he/she might have 12-14 books in a baggie because that student is going to go through them
quickly. But if you're a child reading at level P, you might only have three books in your baggie,
because that will sustain you for a week. So the book baggies is a simple way for students to have
their books there. Usually the reading log goes in there, along with some Post-its. And sometimes
even a reading notebook. If you get the gigantic big ones (baggies), you can fit more in there.
Book shopping, in a week, is usually spread out, so there's only four or five kids each day going
to the library, and there's usually a schedule. The children never choose books during reading
time, because that is disruptive, but usually during the unpacking or packing up to go home, in the
mornings or the afternoon. Teachers should create a book shopping schedule so that they can be
available to kids who need more support in making book choices. For example, teachers can't be
in the library every day, but on Thursday, they'll take the kids who have trouble finding their way
to books, they'll put them on one day, so they know they have to be there on Thursday morning
when the kids are picking books.


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Battle of Rainbow Wall[HH Winner]
Here's my entry for the Halloween Hellhunt contest. I'll be working for the next three days, so my entry is a bit early.
After the rout at the Basement, Conglomerate forces withdrew to regain strength and fight off marauding zambehs. With zombies, drunk policemen, bandana knights, and pirates at every corner, it was certainly not the time to face yet another threat. But of course, this exact scenario just had to happen...
There is a field with a strange Nega-Tower, originally just thought to be an artifact left over from the ancient conflicts between the Negaverse and Legorealm. However, this tower has been emanating strange corrupting powers, converting ABS to a wicked, inferior form. The only place to contain this is the Rainbow Wall, a gate protecting the rest of yet-unseen and unmade places.
A truly vile being, the malevolent Mega Beard, stands before the Nega-Tower.
Outback Jeff has sent a squad of soldiers and a ranger to guard the Rainbow Wall until the main force can arrive.
The Blue Bandana Swordsman and his knights find themselves at the battlefield, still angry about their numerous defeats.
Arghbeard's Arrmada, led by Captain Arghbeard, also encroach on the Rainbow Wall. It turned out that the Blue Bandana Swordsman declared war on the Arrmada after Arghbeard beat him at poker.
Turn 1
Conglomerate soldiers move onto the Blue Knights, killing a few. The APC fires on a tower, knocking it down and killing a heavy knight.
Spider Guy fires upon Pirate Jim in the house, but his contractual immunity saves him. A Blue Krawler advances on the Arrmada.
The Arrmada ship Gringotts fires its cannons on the Krawler, completely wasting it. The pirate Robobeard somehow drives on water and kills a Conglomerate officer.
Turn 2
Megabeard's plot has been revealed! He summons zambehs through the Nega-Tower! He teleports away, leaving Bronze to lead the zambehs. Pirate Jim leaves his house.
The Conglomerate soldiers take out a few more knights. The soldiers at the Rainbow Wall dispatch Robobeard. Artillery bombard the house and kill some Blue Knights, and the pickup trucks fire on zambehs.
Well, it turns out that the only person who hates zombies more than Outback Jeff is Arghbeard. He uses his gold-attracting gun to drag Bronze into a zambeh. Through Bronze is made of bronze, Arghbeard thinks he's made of gold, so it works. He also orders his pirates to slaughter the zambehs.
Turn 3
Various carnage.
Pirate Jim leaves his house.
The Zambehs proceed to attack whatever's closest. In the Leaper's Case, this is Pirate Jim.
The Blue Bandana Swordsmen, sensing the threat of the zambehs, does as stupendous feat to vaporise them all and revive Pirate Jim. It fails, so he only manages to bring Pirate Jim back to life.
The Blue Knight's fliers engage Gringotts.
Turn 4
The Nega-Tower portal brings in another being. It's Skadword!
"Why was I called here. I was having a miserable day already. And I HATE everyone here. Except for the Blue Bandana Swordsmen; I hate him the least. So I will grant you a few advantages against your enemies, who I absolutely HATE.
Skadword teleported the Blue Bandana Knights right behind Conglomerate lines! And the remaining zambehs are now fighting for the Blue Bandana Swordsman. And then Skadword vanished.
Regardless, the APC manages to destroy the yellow flier, and Pirate Jim is killed yet again. The rest of the Conglomerate soldiers advance ahead, trying to avoid the knights and engage Arghbeard.
Turn 5
The knights unite with the remaining zambehs, avoiding any casualties. The other flier exchanges fire with Gringotts.
Turn 6
Arghbeard tries a stupendous feat to summon a tsunami. It is successful, and wrecks the flier.
Pirates do all sorts of crazy attacks. A pirate crocodile eats a Conglomerate soldier, and another pirate throws a chainsaw a a combat pick-up to great effect. Pirates begin swarming the beach.
The Blue Bandana Swordsman's ninjas reach the Rainbow Wall, and slash one of the soldiers.
The Leaper leaps (Of course), and somehow manages to fail in pouncing the artillery. Humiliating.
Turn 7
Skadword fufills his second promise of help for the knights by firing Spongebob from orbit. He strikes the Gringotts head on, totalling it while laughing madly.
Outback Jeff leads his men towards the shore, shooting down numerous pirates. Conglomerate soldiers move in to defend the artillery.
Adding to the Leaper's shame, the mechanic kills him with his suitcase.
The Blue Bandana superweapon finally arrives and fires its many lasers and missiles. It misses all of its targets.
However, one knight one-ups the mechanic in humiliating kills by killing a soldier with his broom.
All the forces in pitched combat.
The pirates retake the offensive and strike down Outback Jeff. Their crocodile, though without a master, manages to eat a knight and shoot another with its back-crossbows. At the same time.
Turn 8
I've had enough of this. Now I hate ALL of you.
Skadword reappears, and begins disintegrating Blue Bandana knights for failing him somehow.
Faced with this power, Arghbeard's Arrmada retreats, as does the Conglomerate of Salt Miners. The remnants of the Blue Bandana Swordsmen also opt to run away.
Corrupted ABS feeds upon the fallen, and two villains reappear from the portal...
Skadword, his underling Patrack, and Megabeard scale the Rainbow Wall. What could they be plotting?
In the end Arghbeard's Arrmada won by default, because they had the most minifigs alive. This would of continued, but it got late. Oh well. ^_^
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Sugar Rush: Poilâne Pas Pour Les Chiens
Your daily dose of something sweet.
"Pas Pour Les Chiens" translates to "not for dogs," and indeed these dog biscuit-shaped cookies by Poilâne are created for humans. We brought you to La Bôite à Biscuits for Snow Clouds on Monday, and I think you can tell by now that we're smitten with this 11th Avenue biscuit and spice gallery. What is the link between La Bôite à Biscuits and Poilâne, the beloved Parisian boulangerie? Spices!
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- (2) pair 100 Goggles
Bidding starts January 25th and ends February 1st. Be sure and look back each week to bid on packages for the Monster Energy AMA Supercross at the stop nearest you. The Road 2 Recovery Foundation would like to thank Feld, Monster Energy, Parts Unlimited, JGR, Yamaha and Justin Brayton for their continued support and contributions to our auctions.
About Road 2 Recovery:The Road 2 Recovery Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization that was founded by Bob Moore, Bob Walker, and Jimmy Button in the fall of 2000, and is dedicated to helping AMA licensed professional motocross/supercross riders with financial assistance if they sustain career-ending injuries as well as providing motivational, emotional, and spiritual support to these individuals and their families. To make a donation click here. For more information on Road 2 Recovery and upcoming events visit www.road2recovery.com or contact Anita Button at (602) 578-5339.