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Citizens United v. America's Citizens
The midterm elections are days away, but the winners are virtually certain: the corporations and conservative operatives like Karl Rove who have taken advantage of the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling to establish a well-heeled "shadow party" of networked trade associations and G.O.P. front groups.
Outspending Democratic-aligned groups by 7 to 1, these Republican-aligned groups have blitzed the nation's airwaves with wave after wave of ads. They have outlaid a staggering $300 million plus -- five times as much on congressional elections as they did on the 2006 midterms, the October 4 Washington Post reported. And "they are more secretive than ever about where that money is coming from."
Even without the flood of funds, Republicans were expected to capitalize in this year's midterm elections on widespread antipathy to congressional incumbents and progressives' disappointment with Pres. Barack Obama. But the groundswell of independent conservative groups - many with huge war chests for broadcast and cable attack ads - has some predicting a much larger Republican margin of victory.
A poll conducted by SurveyUSA, an independent research firm, found that a majority of voters think they have a right to know who is paying for the explosion of anonymous election ads. But this majority - despite believing that the nameless groups behind the "independent" ads don't have Americans' best interest in mind -- do not appear to be sufficiently outraged to spur structural reforms during the lame duck session that will follow the election. If Republicans retake the House, as most pollsters predict, other popular reforms such as public funding of elections will have little chance of passage, Thus it is likely that a key role in 2012 will continue to be played by corporate-funded front groups and, if recent charges are true, by foreign corporations and other interests alleged to be funneling campaign funds through the Chamber of Commerce and other groups.
The Citizens United Effect
The Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling in Citizens United v. FEC - widely acknowledged as a radical departure from precedent - defined corporate campaign spending as Constitutionally protected free speech. The Jan. 21, 2010 ruling opened the floodgates for corporations, unions, and non-profit front groups wishing to keep their funders anonymous and to spend unlimited funds on political ads.
The decision to extend First Amendment rights for corporations was a clear victory for "business civil liberties," but the Court majority, recognizing that "transparency enables the electorate to make informed decisions," also advocated rapid and clear disclosure of political spending in the ruling. That stance rallied support for the DISCLOSE Act, a partial fix that would make third-party groups name their funders. While the bill passed the House, it met united Republican opposition in the Senate, and failed to pass before the election recess.
Karl Rove's "Shadow Party"
Key organizations have attributed their sudden rise to the Citizens United decision. Among the network of interlinked conservative political groups, the larger ones include:
* 60 Plus Association: Formed by Jim Martin ("The Man Who Put the Death Tax on the Political Map"), a conservative operative associated with Richard Viguerie's direct mail firm, 60 Plus bills itself as the "conservative alternative" to the AARP, amassing a $4 million war chest that it intends to use to target nine House Democrats.
* Alliance for America's Future: Former Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Mary Cheney formed the 501(c)4, which was barred from running ads in Nevada because it refused to register in the state. Cheney formed another group -- Send Harry Packing - to pick up the slack. She also oversees the Partnership for America's Future, a 527 group required to report its donors. Mary Cheney told CBS News' Political Hotsheet that she believes there should be "full and immediate disclosure" of all campaign-related donations. The Partnership's only donor? The Alliance for America's Future, which doesn't have to reveal its own donors. The three groups together will spend $12 to $15 million this year, according to Cheney.
* American Action Network and American Action Forum: AAN's president is House GOP Whip Eric Cantor's former chief of staff. The group's corporate ties include Goldman Sachs, Wachovia, Home Depot, and several tobacco firms. Its board members include governors Haley Barbour, Jeb Bush, and Tom Ridge, plus various Republican ex-senators and congress members. Ex-senator Norm Coleman, who co-founded the group, explicitly cited the Citizens United decision as a reason for AAN's "greatly enhanced" fundraising. The group is running attack ads against Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI), and others. An ad against Feingold blames the senator for the country's $9 trillion debt, an absurd claim given that the group's backers are largely veterans of the Bush-era policies that produced most of the nation's deficit. AAN leases space in its Washington office to American Crossroads.
* American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS: Karl Rove and former RNC chair Ed Gillespie formed the group in April, but quickly turned over day-to-day operations to Robert M. Duncan, a close Rove associate and a former RNC chair, along with Steven Law, a former general counsel to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and onetime chief of staff to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Back in July Rove was already crowing on Fox News that, because of Citizens United, donors who had "maxed out" contributions to the RNC could now give more to American Crossroads or Crossroads GPS. American Crossroads was running attack ads against Harry Reid in Nevada even before Sharron Angle's (R-NV) campaign geared up. American Crossroads' backers include Bob J. Perry ($7 million), a wealthy Texas homebuilder who backed the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's attacks on John Kerry in 2004, Bradley Wayne Hughes ($2.3 million), founder and chairman of Public Storage, and Joseph Craft ($2 million) a Tulsa-based coal mine owner.
* Americans for Job Security (AJS): Founded in 1997 with help from the American Insurance Association and the American Forest and Paper Association, the group has no "purpose other than to cover various money trails all over the country," according to a report by the Alaska Public Offices Commission. The group openly praised the Citizens United decision as an "unequivocal victory." In September the New York Times reported that AJS spent $6 million on ads during the primary season, concluding that its "deep ties" to Crossroads Media (a beltway Republican consulting operation also tied to Rove's American Crossroads) made it "largely a funnel for anonymous donations." Public Citizen calls AJS "one of the most egregious" violators of campaign finance laws.
* Americans for New Leadership and Liberty.com: Founded by Tea Party Activists Eric Odom and Yates Walker, the group has received strategic help from Republican activist Dick Morris. Walker, who is a consultant to Christine O'Donnell's campaign for Delaware's senate seat, told Politico that Citizens United "paved the way for the group's formation." He added that Liberty.com intends to "be a player for a long time," evolving into the "right-wing version of MoveOn.org."
* Americans for Prosperity (AfP): Chaired by billionaire right-wing industrialist David Koch, AfP's president, Tim Phillips, is an associate of Ralph Reed, a lobbyist for Fortune 100 corporations, and the architect of various Astroturf campaigns. AfP played a key role in funding the Tea Party movement, and has 31 state-level operations. The group has fired off a variety of dubious propaganda salvos, including ads that blame the Obama administration's stimulus plan for rising unemployment. A memo recently leaked to ThinkProgress.org reveals that Koch and a variety of corporate "investors" in the Republican Party met in June with Republican strategists, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Glenn Beck, and other conservatives to plot election strategy.
* American Future Fund: Formed by Iowa Republican operatives, the group expects to spend nearly $25 million on ads this year.
* Commission on Hope, Growth and Opportunity: Created by William B. Canfield, a Republican lawyer specializing in election law, the group expects to raise $25 million to help two dozen GOP candidates. Scott Reed, a veteran GOP operative who ran former Sen. Bob Dole's (R-KS) 1996 presidential campaign, helped launch the 501(c)4. Reed told the Center for Public Integrity's Peter Stone that "Citizens United opened the door for the unparalleled participation by corporations at the financial level."
* Revere America: Founded by ex-Gov. George Pataki (R-NY), this 501(c)4 was formed to repeal the health care bill. It has spent well over $1 million in New York and New Hampshire races.
* The Club for Growth: Founded in 1999 by conservative economist Steve Moore and the Cato Institute's Ed Crane, the group set up "Club for Growth Action." After the Citizens United ruling, the independent expenditure committee announced that it would accept "unlimited individual and corporate contributions," and aims to spend $24 million on this year's election. The club's former president, Pat Toomey, is running for Senate in Pennsylvania, and CfG is backing him in many ways.
* The First Amendment Alliance: A 527 "Super PAC" that People for the American Way reports is "a sham group for the energy industry whose office is a mailbox." The group's ads have been so misleading that one TV station pulled an ad targeting Jack Conway of Kentucky. Another energy-backed group is the Business Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC), which receives funding from the American Petroleum Institute, ExxonMobil, and other oil, mining, and gas interests. BIPAC is expected to spend $6 million this year, and aims primarily to influence how the employees of its 400 member companies vote.
* U.S. Chamber of Commerce: According to U.S. Chamber Watch (a project of the Change to Win labor federation), the Chamber is the nation's most powerful lobbying juggernaut, spending over $144 million in 2009 and using its "borderline thuggish" lobbying tactics (as one congressional aide described them to The Hill), to kill a variety of reforms, including the DISCLOSE Act. After Citizens United, Chamber President Tom Donahue opened the group's doors to any member company that wanted to pay for anonymous attack ads. In October, U.S. Chamber Watch filed an IRS complaint charging the Chamber with illegally laundering more than $18 million from insurance giant AIG's charitable foundation (run by former AIG CEO Hank Greenberg) through the Chamber's political coffers.
(For more details about these and other groups see People for the American Way, "After Citizens United: A Look into the Pro-Corporate Players in American Politics")
The possible ramifications of disclosing controversial donations were made clear this summer in the wake of the Citizens United decision. A new Minnesota law mandating transparency forced Target (known for strong affirmative action policies) to disclose its $150,000 contribution to a business group that was backing an anti-gay gubernatorial candidate. The company was "flashmobbed" by gay rights groups and other progressive coalitions led by MoveOn.org. Target's CEO responded with a quick apology to employees and a pledge to set up a review process to screen future contributions.
Since the Citizens United decision shareholders and groups such as the Washington, DC-based non-partisan Center for Political Accountability have convinced a growing number of companies to disclose or otherwise improve their political spending policies. Yet judging by the rapid growth of conservative non-profits that keep their donors anonymous, it seems many wealthy individuals and corporate executives learned a different lesson from Target's PR embarrassment: Don't get caught.
Coordination Is Key
There are now more than a dozen Republican-leaning nonprofit front groups and trade associations giving cover to corporations that want to influence this year's elections by funding political ads. The groups have amassed a war chest estimated at more than $300 million so far, enough to air more than 60,000 TV ads between August 1 and mid-October, according to Media Matters.
Although the web of associations among these groups is too dense to untangle completely, it is already clear that a powerful "shadow party" has emerged on the conservative right. It is poised to take credit for buying the midterm elections, and will presumably be a force to contend with in 2012.
Campaign reformers like Craig Holman of Public Citizen say that in addition to sharing office space and overlapping staff, the groups' ability to collaborate is enhanced by weak FEC rules regarding coordination between the independent groups and campaigns. The Citizens United ruling is just one of a number of regulations and court decisions that effectively allow operatives like Karl Rove to raise and spend unprecedented amounts of money unrestrained by the restrictions that apply to party institutions such as the Republican National Committee.
"The RNC is a mess, and has no money on hand," Mary Cheney explained to CBS news, which reported that Rove and others chose instead to coordinate their efforts through the "Weaver Terrace Group," named after Rove's home address in Washington, DC, where it first met in April. Members include Gillespie, Law, Barbour, Coleman, and other Republican rainmakers, including Fred Malek.
The Weaver Terrace Group has reportedly been convening weekly at Crossroads' offices. Although American Crossroads is not allowed to coordinate directly with campaigns, as the RNC can, its ability to monitor ad buys gives it fairly easy - albeit indirect -- organizational clout without breaking the FEC's rules.
"They can use the same ad buyers," says Public Citizen's Holman, which means the campaigns and the independent groups can coordinate through a third consultant.
Democracy 21's Fred Wertheimer, the "dean of campaign reform," agrees that none of this coordination would be possible if not for weak FEC rules and lax enforcement. Democracy 21 filed an IRS complaint alleging that American Crossroads has violated its tax status by operating primarily in support or against candidates for office. But no one - including Wertheimer -- expects the issue to be resolved for years.
Public Citizen and three other groups filed a complaint with the FEC on October 13, charging Crossroads GPS with violating FEC rules by registering as a nonprofit 501(c)4 organization without registering as a political committee. But if the complaint doesn't die in a deadlocked vote among the FEC commissioners, it will also take years to resolve-and certainly not affect the November election.
"Un-American Corporations"
Everyone who has examined the numbers agrees that labor and groups like MoveOn.org cannot possibly match pro-Republican spending, especially with rich liberals like George Soros largely sitting out the midterms. Without its own phalanx of outside groups Democrats, including Obama, have countered by attacking the secrecy of the groups' donors and using the organizer-in-chief to try to mobilize young voters.
Even revelations that foreign interests may be funding campaigns have failed to trigger a large enough backlash to have much impact on the election outcome. In early October the Center for American Progress reported that the Chamber of Commerce was taking money from foreign corporations and effectively commingling it with domestic corporate contributions for election campaign activities. After Obama and Vice President Joe Biden repeated the charge, the Chamber insisted that none of the cash it admits receiving from foreign-based corporations was going into its ad campaigns. Yet, without full disclosure, there's no way of knowing if that assertion is true.
Constitutional Amendment to Restrict Corporations
Many reformers remain convinced that the only way to fully address the problems created by the Citizens United decision is to pass a constitutional amendment restricting corporate participation in electoral politics. At least two coalitions, FreeSpeechforPeople.org and MovetoAmend.org, have formed to support an amendment, which is gathering broad support:
Meanwhile, as Democratic party allies are scrambling to cut their losses with a last-minute get-out-the-vote ground war, they are already strategizing about what to do if Republicans win big, as most predictions suggest. Blaming secretive financing by the Chamber, American Crossroads, and other groups, Democrats may mount another effort to pass the DISCLOSE Act during the upcoming lame duck session of Congress.
But campaign reformers say even the DISCLOSE Act won't be enough, and many are planning to push for public funding of elections (embodied in the Fair Elections Now Act), along other reforms.
The Campaign Finance Institute's Michael Malbin and others say that reformers need to take a step back and rethink their approach. "The key to a successful public financing program is to realize that it has to be about creating incentives for broader participation," Malbin wrote in The American Interest. Rather than futile attempts to "drive private money out of politics," the solution, Malbin argues, is to tilt the balance of power away from wealthy campaign financiers by giving rebates and tax credits for small contributions, and by using matching donations to give voters increased leverage.
Still others think that meaningful reform must rest on a constitutional amendment to restrict corporations from unlimited spending on elections. (SEE Box: Constitutional Amendment) But unless the political landscape shifts radically, it seems unlikely that an amendment has any chance of passage in the next Congress -- especially if Republicans maintain a united front against reform.
"The Citizens United decision is just one of a string of decisions vastly enhancing the power of corporations to run our economy, government and lives," says Holman. "Citizens attempting to take back their country will require vigilance and a willingness to pit ideas and activism against corporate money."
Charlie Cray is a senior member of Greenpeace USA's research unit. He is also director of the Center for Corporate Policy and co-author of "The People's Business: Controlling Corporations and Restoring Democracy."
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Mark Lipton wrote:40 lbs may be pushing it, Jenise, but I've put a whole side of Alaskan King salmon in one half of the main chamber of my Brinkman smoker. It fits, barely. I've been able to BBQ 8 racks of short ribs simultaneously using the full capacity of the smoker, which I would estimate is close to 20 lbs.
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I enjoy taking photographs that capture the beauty of Nature, and I will share some of them with you. Today's photo shows an orchid (attached to a tree) that was almost invisible until it burst into bloom yesterday.
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In 4 Figures, 2000, Stephan Balkenhol depicts four versions of the same rudimentary but realistically rendered modern Anglo man. Each figure is scaled down, and has an unevenly painted surface—the effect of using a broad paintbrush, which leaves much of the natural wood exposed. 4 Figures is characteristic of Balkenhol's work, visually and in its connections to the German woodcarving tradition and to sculpture's classical past. In this work the artist not only pays homage to the history of sculpture, but also critiques it with humor and irony. Rather than commemorating a hero, like typical sculpture from antiquity through the Renaissance and beyond; or beautifully and smoothly crafting a religious scene or icon, like traditional German woodwork, Balkenhol roughly chisels wood to depict ordinary people.
From 1976 to 1982 Balkenhol studied art at the Hockschule für Bildende Künst in Hamburg, Germany, where the staff included the influential artists Nam June Paik, Sigmar Polke, and the young artist's major professor, Ulrich Rückriem, known for his contributions to Minimalism. Notably, figuration was taboo when Balkenhol was a student; in keeping with the times, his professors in Hamburg were focused on Minimalism, Conceptualism, and Process-oriented artmaking. But during the 1980s, when Balkenhol matured as an artist, a figurative presence in the art world reemerged.
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Original Trinity Hymnal, #144
The great Physician now is near,
The sympathizing Jesus;
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O hear the voice of Jesus.
Sweetest note in seraph song,
Sweetest name on mortal tongue,
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The precious name of Jesus!
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We rise to be with Jesus,
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His Name—the Name of Jesus.
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What problems could the need for correct post translational modification have for synthetic biology? For example, I am particularly thinking of glycosylation events and carbohydrates, which have been described as nature's third alphabet akin to nucleotides and amino acids. There are known examples of where aberrant glycosylation can be induced onto certain proteins. The proteins themselves fold correctly and still function. At the cellular level, cells still appear to function normally, but if you try to induce this same aberrant glycosylation event at the organismal level, it is embryologically lethal.
So back to my question, what problems could post translational modifications pose for synthetic biology? If you introduce unnatural genes to be expressed in say e. coli, does ecoli even contain the proper machinery to properly post translationally modify unnatural proteins so that they still have the right function? Glycosylation can't be controlled since it isn't template driven. Thanks for any discussion.
No, E.coli does not contain machinery for posttranslational modifications, so if you need some, you have to use another host.


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Write a program that allows the user to enter a list of up to 100 integers. Please check for boundary conditions, for example, the user has to enter more than 0 integers but not more then 100. The end of the list is indicated by the special value -1. The program then reads more integers (max. 100), and, for every value, tells whether or not the value appears in the first list. The program ends when the user enters -1 (for the second time). For example, for the input
25 50 75 100 -1
99 25 30 -1
the program should respond:
99: not in list
25: yes, in list
30: not in list
So far I have the following
public class List
public static void main(String[]args)
// Input of the FirstList by the user.
int[] Firstlist = new int[100];
int i = 0;
int tempNum = StdIn.readInt();
while (tempNum != -1)
Firstlist[i] = tempNum;
tempNum = StdIn.readInt();
i = i + 1;
// Comparison
int [] Secondlist = new int[100];
int j = 0;
int tempNum2 = StdIn.readInt();
while (tempNum2 != -1)
Secondlist[j] = tempNum2;
tempNum2 = StdIn.readInt();
j = j + 1;
How do I compare the second list with the first list...Also note that Im using StdIn.readInt(); and I have all the files to use it...I got them from "introduction to programming an indeseplinary approach" website.


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The New York based practice Rafael Viñoly Architects was commissioned to expand and modernize the existing facilities of the Carrasco International Airport in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, with a spacious new passenger terminal to expand capacity and spur commercial growth and tourism in the region.
"With one million passengers per year, it is the only airport in the country that provides year-round international connections, and as a result carries great symbolic value as the "front door" for many visitors to the country."
"The firm's design places prominence on the public zones—including the secure runway-side concourse as well as the fully accessible roadside departure hall and terrace—by providing amenities such as open space, natural light, restaurants, retail, and landscaping, all housed beneath a gently curved roof, 1,000 feet (300 meters) in length. Arrivals and departures are separated by floor, with arrivals on the ground level, departures on the first floor, and vehicular access roads that service each level independently. A public, landscaped terrace occupies the second floor above the departure level, providing views of the runway and the main public concourse. It also features a restaurant and additional space for other commercial or cultural uses."
"After completing check-in and security procedures, departing travelers have access to duty-free shopping and restaurants in the waiting areas. Arriving travelers pass through a mezzanine level, fully glazed to allow terminal and runway views that help orient newcomers to the terminal space, before descending to the baggage claim, customs, immigration, and further duty-free shopping areas. An open atrium adjacent to the street entrance visually and spatially links the beginning and ending stages of a traveler's journey, and opens the ground floor to the monumental space of the main hall."
"In Uruguay, friends and family still come to greet you at the airport or see you off," says Rafael Vinoly, "so this terminal provides great spaces for the people who aren't traveling as well as those who are. The atrium, the main hall, the terrace, and the passenger concourse make this a dramatic and welcoming place for everyone."


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How to Communicate Sustainability
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According to the study "Eco-Labeling Strategies: The Eco-Premium Puzzle in the Wine Industry," carried out by the American Association of Wine Economists, based on more than 13,000 wine bottles from California that are sold in the US market, the wines with the best prices are those that perform sustainability actions though they not specified them in their labels.
"Eco-labels provide information about the environmental characteristics of a product. Eco-labels are effective if consumers are willing to pay a price premium for green products which are costlier to produce." However, "in the wine industry, many wineries obtain eco-certification but do not label it on their wine bottle," points out the study.
"Also, eco-labels are relatively new and consumers do not necessarily understand the actual meaning behind the different labels. More specifically, some consumers are still confused about the difference between wine made out of organically grown grapes and organic wine," states the American Association of Wine Economists.
"Yet eco-certification does not need to be directly associated with consumers' recognition of the label, as we demonstrate with the investigation of other potential benefits associated with certification. We theorize that certification can provide reputation benefits via clubs or trade associations. We also suspect that eco-certification can lead to a higher wine quality and provided a second set of regressions of wine characteristics on the scores attributed by the Wine Spectator. The results indicate that wine quality increases with eco-certification. The winery might also gain reputation and publicity," maintains the report.
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COSTA MESA, Calif. (KTLA) — Record crowds were reported at the two-day Crossroads of the West Gun Show in Costa Mesa over the weekend.
Crowds lined up at the Orange County Fairgrounds starting at 3 a.m. on Saturday, the first day of the show.
Organizers said they expected a record two-day total of some 25,000 visitors to the event.
It was so successful on Saturday that vendors decided to stop selling ammunition at 3:30 p.m. to avoid running out for Sunday.
Much of the interest in the show was connected to gun enthusiasts' fears that suggested legislation in Washington could directly impact and curtail gun ownership.
President Obama's recent gun task force, spearheaded by Vice President Joe Biden, includes proposals to reinstate a previous assault weapons ban.
Also being discussed is a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines, as well as more stringent background checks for potential gun owners.
The hot-button issue brought prospective buyers like Scott Jones of Highland to the gun show in Costa Mesa.
"I'm a little concerned that they may regulate it too much," Jones said.


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U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Company Policy Targets Filipino Employees and Creates Hostile Work Environment, Federal Agency Charges
FRESNO – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the filing of a national origin discrimination lawsuit against the Delano Regional Medical Center, an acute care hospital in California's San Joaquin Valley.
According to the EEOC, the hospital prohibited Filipino staff from speaking Tagalog (or other Filipino languages) while allowing non-Filipino employees to speak other languages, such as Spanish. The EEOC contends that hospital management subjected Filipino staff to a hostile working environment by singling them out for reprimands in company meetings, threatening them with audio surveillance, and encouraging other staff to report on them. The Commission alleged that the medical center's directive created a hostile working environment with supervisors and other staff taunting and threatening the Filipino staff on a regular basis, creating tension between Filipino and non-Filipino employees. This alleged national origin discrimination and harassment violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The EEOC filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California (EEOC v. Central California Foundation for Health d/b/a Delano Regional Medical Center, Case No. 10-CV-01492-LJO-JLT ), after efforts to reach a pre-litigation settlement failed. The suit seeks monetary relief in the form of compensatory and punitive damages, and an injunction against future discrimination.
"Employers must ensure that company policies are applied equally," said Anna Park, regional attorney of the EEOC's Los Angeles District Office. "Targeting workers of a particular national origin is not only illegal, it also erodes company morale, pitting groups against one another."
Melissa Barrios, local director of the EEOC's Fresno Local Office, added, "The EEOC enforces laws that protect against harassment based on one's country of origin. The targeting of one group in this particular case for behavior that was condoned for other groups is simply deplorable."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


text: The world of entertainment is back in full swing after the New Year and now entertainment fans of all types are being treated to special events that are sure to make 2013 an exciting year. One of the biggest ticketing announcements of the year so far came from the world of sports as the NHL revealed that the lockout for the 2012-2013 season is now officially over as the league and players have finally reached an agreement. Although many assumed the season would be over for good, a portion of the regular season will still be played in 2013. Hockey Tickets will be going on sale this week after the official schedule is released and games are expected to begin January 19th. Those who have been waiting months for the season to take place will not want to miss out on this opportunity to see NHL action for the first time in nearly a year.


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With not too much fanfare, December saw the Mars Express mission operations team at ESOC bringing the VMC back online, again. You'll recall that VMC went offline in late 2011 when Mars Express suffered problems with the mass memory storage. The spacecraft and instruments were fully back in routine operation by January 2012, meaning that the team could then devote some 'time-available' time to recommissioning VMC. In addition to getting the camera itself running (marked by the first symbolic data transmission of a VMC image via Malargüe station), we also set up a new blog channel and a dedicated Flickr page to host the images (and the Twitter account – @esamarswebcam – is still running).
Over at the Planetary Society blog, Emily Lakdawalla posted an update explaining the return of the VMC and including comments from Daniel Lakey, one of our MEX engineers looking after VMC. There's little improving on her excellent report, so with no further ado, please (a) take a look at her gorgeous collage '56 views of Mars from the Mars Webcam in 2012' reproduced below, and (b) head over to her blog and read her update in full.
Following the first downlink over Malargüe tonight, we will consider the Flickr page to be open for business. Unfortunately, due to the upcoming solar conjunction and associated low bit-rate season, we're unlikely to get any downlink slots for VMC for a few months, but once the Mars Webcam is taking pictures again, the images will be published for the world to see within seconds of them being received on Earth. The low priority of VMC images means that their downlink to Earth can be some time after the observation.
-- Daniel Lakey, Mars Express, 18 Dec 2012


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After 45 years at Stanford, Jonathan Lavigne is retiring. Jon arrived on campus in 1968 as a graduate student in English. He began working full time at the libraries in 1978 as a library assistant. In 1984, Jon became a technical writer with the Research Libraries Group, which at the time had its offices at Stanford. In 1995, as the World Wide Web was emerging as a communications and publishing technology with great potential for higher education, Jon joined Stanford's library systems division and developed Stanford's first library website. Jon also worked on the first web version of Socrates, the libraries' online catalog. In recognition of his pioneering role, Jon became known as the Stanford Libraries' first and only Web Sovereign.
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This version has been powered up even more since the pachinko version we introduced before!
The main selling point of this machine is the inclusion of Yuko Kondo, Toshie Hijikata, and Kaoru Okita, as well as a pachislot original character called "Hildegard von Österreich"!
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The Tonne jazz club in Dresden has had a colourful past. It took its name from the cellar vaults under the Kurländer Palais, where jazz concerts were held back in the days of the GDR. The Neue Tonne opened in the cellars of the Kulturrathaus in the year 2000.
Frankfurt am Main became the centre of German jazz after the Second World War thanks to the US army clubs in the city. Founded in 1952 by the legendary Carlo Bohländer (1919-2004), the Jazzkeller on Kleine Bockenheimer Strasse is probably the oldest jazz club in Germany that is still in existence.
Jazzclub Hannover's home since 1966 has been the cellar of a former youth centre on Lindener Berg hill. The 'orange club' was founded by Michael Gehrke (1943-2004), who was made an honorary citizen of New Orleans in 1978 for his contribution to jazz.
The name A-Trane combines Trane, a nickname given to John Coltrane, and A-Train, after the Billy Strayhorn number 'Take the A-Train'. The A-Trane opened in 1992 in Charlottenburg, in the centre of what was once West Berlin. In 2011 it won the accolade of Germany's best jazz club.
The b-Flat club at Hackescher Markt in the former East Berlin opened in 1995 as a counterpart to the A-Trane in the west of Berlin. It offers a cool ambience and a famously long bar, and also hosts occasional concerts in other genres. The popular jam sessions are on Wednesdays.
Back in 1978, jazz used to be played at Zur Unterfahrt, the railworkers' bar near Munich's Ostbahnhof station. Now the international press regularly lists the Unterfahrt club in Munich-Haidhausen as one of Europe's ten best jazz clubs. Its home since 1998 has been the subterranean Einstein arts venue near Max-Weber-Platz.
Bix jazz club in the Gustav-Siegle-Haus in Stuttgart's old quarter is still relatively young. It was named after Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931), the legendary jazz cornet player of German origin. Bix presents its weekly international highlight on Fridays.
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Marcus Brown, 18, is charged with murder, robbery and kidnapping in the killing of Andronicus Williams. Williams was found shot to death in the 600 block of East 27th Street in Brentwood on Dec. 26.
Police said they received information that led them to Brown. They said Brown was already in the Duval County jail on an unrelated charge when they questioned him Jan. 31. Investigators said he admitted to his involvement in the killing, and then implicated 19-year-old Eric Hill.
Police said they questioned Hill the next day, and while Hill admitted to being at the scene, he said he was not involved in the crime. Hill is charged with accessory after the fact.
"We still have someone out there we're still looking at," Lt. Rob Schoonover said at a news conference Friday afternoon.
He said the motive for the killing was robbery.
"They had made contact the previous day and basically lured (Williams) to a location," Schoonover said.
Police said the two suspects and a friend got into Williams' truck and started driving, and Brown told police Williams jumped out of the truck, and he heard a single shot.
Hill told police Williams was shot after he got into an argument with a third person in the truck. Police said Hill admitted to disposing of Williams' truck.


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Syracuse's zone defense key to Final Four run
- Syracuse%27s defense is exclusively built around the 2-3 zone
- Boeheim used to use some man-to-man strategy%2C but abandoned it to refine the zone
- Syracuse is averaging 6.25 blocks and 11 steals while allowing 29%25 from the field in the tournament
Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim is stubborn.
Maybe that's too strong a word. Or perhaps it's perfect – to describe both the coach and his approach to his 2-3 zone defense.
"Coach is like, 'We're going to do it, and you're going to have to figure it out,' " longtime Syracuse assistant coach Mike Hopkins said. " 'You get your best chess game, I'll bring my best chess game.'
"There's a reason he's won 900 and whatever games. He's a genius. … He doesn't get caught up in people saying, you need to play more man or you need to do that. That's what makes him special. A lot of people wouldn't have the strength, toughness or thickness of skin to not change. He knows what he wants and he does it."
But, more than anything, Boeheim's stubbornness is evident in his masterful 2-3 zone, a defense that has been so dominant this postseason it has reached the point of mythologizing – which means it's time to quickly separate fiction from fact.
Fiction: Boeheim's teams have always been known for the zone.
Fact: He's always used it, but until 2003, he mixed in some man-to-man defense, even if it just showed up during non-conference games or scrimmages. When the Orange won the national championship in 2003, they "pretty much played all zone," Boeheim said. He'd sprinkle in man-to-man occasionally until the 2009-10 season, in which Syracuse lost to Division II Le Moyne in an exhibition game.
"That's what convinced me not to play man again," Boeheim said, adding that preparing to play man-to-man defense required a great deal of time in practice prepping for specific opponents. "So finally it dawned on me after about 27 or 28 years, finally – it takes me a while – that if we played zone all the time and didn't waste time playing man-to-man and put some wrinkles in the zone because we had more time to practice it, that our defense would be better.
"Now, we spend much more time on it, our zone is better, and you don't have that decision that people are always saying to me, well, 'Why don't you switch to your man-to-man?' Well, you can't switch to something you don't have. They stopped asking."
Players said it takes each of them a few months to learn the zone because they've grown up playing man-to-man defense in high school and on AAU teams. Even within the zone, they are constantly making adjustments based on the types of players Syracuse has and the strengths of their opponents.
"It's basically the same great defense," said Michigan coach John Beilein, who will face it on Saturday in the Final Four. "The names change, the personnel, but the ability stays the same. … It certainly withstood the test of time."
Beilein compared it to playing Temple and John Chaney's matchup zone. Hopkins, the Syracuse assistant, said it's like the Princeton offense. It's a trademark style that forces opponents to mold their game plan to beat yours.
"The biggest thing is, if you a play a team like, say, Indiana, they might have 80 man-to-man plays," Hopkins said. "Most teams that you play might have three or four zone offenses. … You don't see it a lot. It gives you a little bit of an advantage. Our adjustments we can make on the fly, based on how people attack us. We've seen everything."
What makes this particular breed of Syracuse 2-3 zone so intimidating is its players' length. The average height of a Syracuse player on this roster is 6-6 (the second tallest in all of college basketball this season, behind Princeton). The Orange's shortest starter is guard Brandon Triche, at 6-4. Point guard Michael Carter-Williams is 6-6, and the rest only get taller.
"You just can't simulate the length," Marquette assistant and former DePaul head coach Jerry Wainwright said. "You can talk about slides all you want. You and I could list five fundamentals -- great concepts and everything else. But those guards are big. Those wings are big. And long. And fast. All of a sudden, it distorts your angles and you have to do a lot of different things (than you're accustomed to doing)."
Syracuse is averaging 6.25 blocks and 11 steals per game during four NCAA tournament games. During that stretch, opponents are shooting just 29% from the field. Beilein said Monday he may tape paddles to his scout team players' arms to make them six-to-eight inches taller and more difficult to face as he prepares to face these Orange defenders.
"Right now, how they're playing, you've got to basically play perfect," Marquette guard Junior Cadougan said. He would know; the Golden Eagles shot just 22.6% from the field and 12% from beyond the arc against the Orange.
That's the mark of this great Syracuse defense – opponents know what they're going up against, but they still flail.
"(We're) not trying to do everything good," Hopkins said. "We're going to do a couple of things great. We know who we are. That's one of the reasons we've been so good for so many years."


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Blue Pup V6 Released 11th Oct 2014 32-bit
Subject description: Emulates Windows 8.1 functionality - based on Quirky Tahr 6.0.5
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This is the first non-accessibility Puplet that I have attempted and as it transpired the simplest!
Inspiration for it came in the form of Windows 8.1, with its ability to switch between a traditional desktop and the "Metro" style fondle slab interface. Other goals were Chromebook like speed together with ease of use.
"Blue" was the MS codename for Win 8.1, which hopefully it should leave trailing in the dust.
It is likely to polarise opinion and is based on Quirky Tahr version 6.0.5 k3-12-6.
The install is to a USB2 or USB3 stick of at least 8GB.
By default it boots to the Metro interface but that behaviour is easily changed so that it boots instead to a standard desktop. The left hand Windows key is used to launch or re-launch the Metro interface. The right hand Windows key switches to the standard desktop as does the menu key.
Technical Stuff:
Whilst the full screen Metro interface is fine for launching a web based application or a locally held text file, it cannot launch a local app and the use of ALT+TAB can be a pain if you have several apps open. It is also far too easy to launch the same app twice.
The solution adopted is to rely on key bindings which pass variables to a script which in conjunction with wmctrl raise a window and give it focus if an app is already running or if it is not running, launch it or another script to do so. This sounds complex but is all in the background. In practice, if at any point you are in the Metro or standard desktop interface and wish to launch or raise E-mail for example you only have to press ALT+E.
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skype-184.108.40.206-wheezy|Skype Telephony (
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_32.0.1700.107|Extra ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser
chromium-browser_32.0.1700.107|Chromium browser
flashplayer11-18.104.22.1681|Adobe Flash Player 11 browser plugin and Preferences.
wmctrl_1.07-7|control an EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager
New metro tab Chrome extension version 1.0.1
A few new scripts plus changes to jwmrc-personal.
Some pre-configuration of metro extension tiles, Chromium and Thunderbird.
Revised syslinux.cfg
Various new icons.
Global Key Combinations: (Regardless of interface)
RH Windows key – Display desktop. (The menu key can also be used for this)
LH Windows key – Display metro interface.
ALT+E – Launch or raise Thunderbird. (Letters are not case sensitive)
ALT+S - Launch or raise Skype.
ALT+P – Launch or raise VLC. (Set as default player)
ALT+T – Launch or raise tickr. (RSS feed reader)
PrtScr – Launch PupSnap.
F12 – Access JWM menu. (Press Esc to close)
Handy Key Combinations within metro interface - In order of preference.
1. Alt+left arrow and Alt+right arrow to move back and forth.
2. Ctrl+1, or Ctrl+2 or Ctrl+3 etc etc – to move between open tabs.
3. Ctrl+T – Open or re-launch metro tab. (If not possible with 1 or 2)
F11 – Toggle display of bookmarks bar.
Where to obtain the IMG.XZ (575 MB)
The img.xz and win32diskimager-v0.7-binary together with their MD5s are to be found here:
md5 5965109a4ed6e2cd96ff24a089bce004
Install Procedure:
I cannot do better than quote from Barry's notes.
Method D: 8GB image
This ready-to-go for a 8GB (or greater) USB Flash stick or SD card. The steps, for Linux:
Download quirky-6.1-8gb.img.xz, from one of the above links.
Expand and install (for example of Flash drive being sdb) (in a non-Puppy distro, you might have to do the 'sudo' thing, to run as root):
# xz --decompress --stdout quirky-6.1-8gb.img.xz > /dev/sdb
# sync
Further documentation is required to do this from Windows. Well, you might look here:
...but, you will need to first install an application such as 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/), that can uncompress an .xz file -- and be prepared, it will expand to a 7.6GB file, so make sure the partition has enough space!
If you use a 16GB or bigger drive, no problem, you can use GParted (which is in Quirky) later to create an extra partition to fill the drive. Note, f2fs can not yet be resized.
7-Zip should be used to decompress the 8GB image. (The PortableApps.com version is recommended)
A well illustrated guide to using win32diskimager can be found here:
If you first attempt to boot the stick on the same pc or laptop that you used to create it, make sure that before doing so, you shut down the device and remove all mains power from it for a couple of minutes.
This will ensure that your BIOS refreshes its view of the stick and sees it as bootable.
Setup Procedure: - All versions.
If you move a working Blue Pup USB stick to another PC repeat this procedure on the new PC. Blue is totally transportable between PCs
1. Boot from the stick. If the Metro interface launches exit it by pressing Alt+F4.
2. Access Setup/Quicksetup via the JWM menu and complete the first-run settings as usual.
3. If Xorg wizard kicks in at any point complete it.
4. If you are using an LCD display, launch Fontwizard from the JWM/desktop menu. Ensure that all boxes are ticked & then click on apply. Restart X.
5. If the network icon in the tray has a red X through it, right click it to setup your network settings. Delete any existing profile then at the bottom select Ethernet or wireless as appropriate.
6. Adjust your sound volume by clicking on that tray icon.
N/B By default the Cups service is disabled. Enable it if and when you wish to print.
Flash & HTML5 players:
Please note that flash 11-22.214.171.1241 is already installed and that Chromium has HTML5 capability.
Many sites are in the process of changing over to HTML5 with its superior quality and some have already done so. YouTube is in transition but you can visit their home page and opt to prefer HTML5 over flash when possible. I assume that opting to do so sets a persistent cookie. The bottom line is that you still need flash for both YouTube and YTinstant. By default flash is enabled.
Ted.com already appears to have changed over and whilst it is o/k with Chrome it will not work with Chromium if flash is enabled. In Chromium therefore I have set a bookmark to "about:plugins" so that you can easily disable and then re-enable flash to use that site or any others that prove problematic.
There is a tile for Ted.com on the metro interface and also a tile to access the flash plugin. Press F11 to toggle access to the bookmarks bar or use the tile.
If you intend to launch TED.com disable flash first. Having done so, exit the browser with Alt+F4, then re-launch it with the LH Windows key. You can then click on the TED tile to access their excellent HTML5 videos.
If you forget whether you have flash enabled or not just use the metro tile to visit the Puppy forum home page. If the advert banner in the top right hand corner is static rather than animated then flash is disabled.
Final Thoughts:
This Pup is firmly in the "toy" category but is fast in either mode and very user friendly. Please test and flag up any issues.
The traditional desktop mode should satisfy old greys such as myself but equally when switched to metro mode it should keep the grandchildren happy.
A brief slideshow follows: (
Updated 8th March
Press F11 then use your left & right arrow keys to move between slides – requires Chrome/Chromium/Firefox.
I will cover hard disc/SSD install in a subsequent post.
Edit here:
Standard Desktop - Blue Pup V1
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Post subject: Blue Pup – (V1 Released 3rd March 2014)
Reserved for Additional info, tips & FAQ:
A summary of the six versions is to be found here:
An optional upgrade for Blue Pup V2 & V3 (bluepup-sp1.pet) can be found here:
(Released 16th April 2014)
The pet enhances these versions by providing easier use in the form of four screen "hot sides" triggered by mouse pointer contact.
An optional pet (petalert-mk1.pet) released on 27th April 2014 can be found below.
It provides a visual & audible alert at boot time if a new pet or service pack is available.
A recommended service pack for V2 & V3 (bluepup-sp2.pet) released on 03rd May 2014 follows:
1. In V1 only, to boot to the traditional desktop by default move the file "inter" from the /root/Startup directory to the /root/ex_startup directory, then restart X. If you change your mind move it back.
(The file already in the ex_startup folder named "inter_ex_startup" should always remain there)
2. White png icons on a transparent background for new tiles can be found here:
3. The New metro tab Chrome extension version 1.0.1 is described here:
4. A "readme.txt" tile on the metro interface accesses a list of key combinations together with advice on flash and HTML5.
5. Information on Tickr can be found here:
6. (Faq) Isn't this just a Pup + Chromium + Chrome extension?
In truth - yes. Its strength lies in the way it has been implemented with its "run-or-raise" feature" tied to key combinations making it quick, easy to use and fairly bomb proof.
7. To update Thunderbird – in T'bird click on help/about/update.
8. (Faq) To resize an f2fs partition you would first, using an f2fs aware Pup such as QT, Precise 5.7.1 or Thin Slacko, need to move all the files off it to a Linux partition somewhere. Then using Gparted change the format of it to ext2. Expand it then revert it back to f2fs before finally moving your files back onto it.
This is necessary as Gparted does not yet allow for the resizing of f2fs partitions.
9. If anyone is curious about the construction of the 8GB USB stick GPT layout that BarryK issued for QT and is used in Blue V1 & V2 but not in later versions, this is the relevant link:
10. Blue V3 attempts to address two issues that emerged in testing by forum members. The first is that some sticks are in reality less than 8x1000x1000x1000 bytes. The second is that some BIOSs will not boot from a USB stick without using some trickery.
When I first issued blue I failed to anticipate the first problem and although aware of the second, did not realise just how common that problem is.
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Posted: Tue 04 Mar 2014, 14:22
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Why just why would someone want a windows8 work a like...
However I will download it anyway just for the extra setup stuff.. I want to play my Amazon prime videos again and without chrome and newer flash it does not work.
Looks like a great effort.... Fat Quirky6 is born... or Fat tahr quirky puppy .
If you need a icon my friend has a dog that is fatter then tall and has tiny legs.
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Posted: Tue 04 Mar 2014, 15:11
Post subject: Blue Pup – (V1 Released 3rd March 2014)
Ted Dog wrote:
Why just why would someone want a windows8 work a like...
However I will download it anyway just for the extra setup stuff.. I want to play my Amazon prime videos again and without chrome and newer flash it does not work.
Looks like a great effort.... Fat Quirky6 is born... or Fat tahr quirky puppy .
If you need a icon my friend has a dog that is fatter then tall and has tiny legs.
Hi Ted Dog,
Does your friend's dog sport a Blue rinse by any chance?
Seriously though, I rather expected to get shot at dawn for this one.
My thinking behind this release is to offer the bling that is fashionable and likely to attract youngsters to try and experience the benefits of Linux. Witness their obsession with smart-phones and fondle slabs. If we fail to keep pace with the times and only major on code and functionality at the expense of form, we will stand little chance of attracting the next generation to Linux who will perceive the traditional desktop as something archaic only suited to geeks or grandfathers.
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Posted: Tue 04 Mar 2014, 16:00
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Hello, ETP.
As for me, I really don't care much about whether this new "canine" has a simili-
whine-dose interface or not. The interface could even be a crystal ball you rub this
way or that way!
On a more serious tone:
I can imagine and respect the hard work that you obviously put in this derivative.
That said:
In this "canine", how much attention has been paid to ironing out the traditional soft
points of Puppy -- occasional problems at shutdown and with initial pupsave creation?
(As reported many times on this forum.)
And a derived question: Can it use a pupsave? If not, why not? Anything wrong now
with Puppy's previous frugal concept?
Finally, is this a 32-bit or a 64-bit Puppy?
Thanks in advance for your answers and best regards.
"You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen)
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Posted: Tue 04 Mar 2014, 16:42
Post subject:
Ted Dog wrote:
Why just why would someone want a windows8 work a like...
However I will download it anyway just for the extra setup stuff.. I want to play my Amazon prime videos again and without chrome and newer flash it does not work.
Looks like a great effort.... Fat Quirky6 is born... or Fat tahr quirky puppy .
If you need a icon my friend has a dog that is fatter then tall and has tiny legs.
I added the iStart extentsion to Google Chrome in Fatdog64, it's working okay.
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Posted: Tue 04 Mar 2014, 16:53
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sorry ETP but Billtoo did you get a chrome pepper or chromium that runs newer flash player with 64bits? 32bit Quirky6 has horrible support for video.. where I can get both fd64 machines play videos well even witbout drivers by hardware companies.
Not really interested In turning my Win8 hardware back to look like Win8 but I think a linux take on the idea could be useful... for others..
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Posted: Tue 04 Mar 2014, 17:10
Post subject: Blue Pup – (V1 Released 3rd March 2014)
Hi musher0,
QT is a full install to a partition. It makes no difference whether that partition is on a stick, card or disk. As such there is no pupsave file. Barry's inbuilt snapshot facility provides for backup and restore.
It is a 32-bit distro but I would prefer 64-bit. We will have to wait and see whether Barry explores that route. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Puppy's previous frugal concept. QT is just an alternative, albeit a very quick one, which is similar to the majority of linux installs but smaller.
In testing with a variety of USB sticks plus installs to SSD I have not experienced any freezes or shutdown problems. In fact shutdown is remarkably quick. May I suggest that you give QT or Blue Pup a try to see how they compare with a traditional Pup?
Regards ETP
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Posted: Tue 04 Mar 2014, 17:49
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No freinds dog is standard brown/tan Chihuahua. If I had a blue heeler I would use it for a bluRay puppylinux spinoff.. Already plan to change desktop icon for bluray multisession to a blue color.
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Posted: Thu 06 Mar 2014, 17:43
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Problems installing to USB...
Well, I wanted to try it. After following the BK instructions above numerous times, I have to post here for help getting it installed and running. I've used the Quirky installer numerous times without issue, but it seems the manual way isn't working for me. Tried it in Quirky Tahr and Precise 5.7.1. I tried f2fs and Ext2.
Any suggestions would be helpful.
Additional note, it seems the sync command doesn't do anything after the install.
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Posted: Thu 06 Mar 2014, 18:13
Post subject: Blue Pup – (V1 Released 3rd March 2014)
Hi slavvo67,
If the Linux method is not working for you I suggest that you try the Windows method of getting it onto a USB stick using 7-Zip to decompress the 8GB image and then placing the image on the stick with win32diskimager.
The stick should first be formatted as fat32 so that Windows and win32diskimager can see it. You can use windows to do that. Also give it a label so that in "My Computer" you can easily check what drive letter Windows has assigned to it.
In win32diskimager that is the drive letter that you should target.
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Posted: Thu 06 Mar 2014, 21:48
Post subject: Blue Pup (V1 Released 3rd March 2014)
Installed to a 16gb SDHC card.
# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Quirky Tahr, version 6.0.5
Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): intel
Loaded modules: dbe dri2 extmod glx kbd mouse
Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1920x1080 pixels (507x285 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes
I formatted the card fat32 and set the boot flag,then in my Quirky 6.0.5 install I did "xz
--decompress --stdout blue_pup_v1_8gb.img.xz > /dev/sdg" + "sync" in
the terminal, sdg wasn't mounted while this was done.
Shutdown and rebooted from the SDHC card.
It's working okay so far.
My SDHC card is plugged into an usb adapter.
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Posted: Fri 07 Mar 2014, 05:52
Post subject: Blue Pup (V1 Released 3rd March 2014)
Hi Billtoo,
Many thanks for testing a Blue Pup install to a 16 GB SDHC card. It is good to know that the default timings in the "inter" script which are intended for USB2, also hold up for SDHC.
Thanks also for posting the more detailed instructions for an install using Linux.
I formatted the card fat32 and set the boot flag,then in my Quirky 6.0.5 install I did "xz
--decompress --stdout blue_pup_v1_8gb.img.xz > /dev/sdg" + "sync" in
the terminal, sdg wasn't mounted while this was done.
One minor point here is that setting the boot flag is not needed as the image is bootable. Installing to a USB2 or USB3 stick will of course give a quicker boot time.
This seems like a good time to detail how to install to a hard disc or SSD.
Install to hard disc or SSD:
Having created a working Blue Pup install on a card or stick you have all the ingredients and simply need to copy over the complete contents of the 2nd partition on the card or stick to an empty f2fs partition that you "prepared earlier" on your disc. It should be at least 16GB in size to allow room for snapshots. (20GB is recommended)
If you elect to shrink an existing partition in order to create an f2fs partition it is strongly advised that you back up your whole hard disc before doing so.
To perform this copy you will have to have booted from an f2fs aware Pup such as Blue Pup,QT, Precise 5.7.1 or Thin Slacko.
How to boot it:
Choice is a fine thing so there are 3 options.
1. Do your own thing using your preferred boot-loader.
2. Modify the syslinux.cfg on the card or stick slightly so that you can boot from that.
3. Prepare another smartmediacard, SD card or stick of at least 16Meg to boot from. Such an image is available here:
I will only cover option 2 here as it is the easiest. As it stands the syslinux.cfg on the card or stick will contain just the following single line of code:
# Boot Blue Pup ETP March 2014
default /vmlinuz root=PARTUUID=82819859-02 rootwait rw
Replace that with the following where X is the f2fs partition number on your disc.
(rootwait is no longer needed)
# Boot Blue Pup ETP March 2014
# default /vmlinuz root=PARTUUID=82819859-02 rootwait rw
default /vmlinuz root=/dev/sdaX rw
Cranking up the boot speed: (10 seconds with SSD)
As you move up the chain from SD card to USB3/HD/SSD the timings (sleeps) in the script named "inter" which is to be found in the Startup folder can be reduced. That script is very simple and well commented with conservative proposals.
Here it is:
# ETP 2nd March 2014 Blue Pup
# Lest I forget. The default sleeps of 6 and 6 are
# intended for slow USB2 sticks. If running from SSD
# they can be reduced to 2 and 2. If using a USB3 stick
# a reduction to 4 and 4 may be possible.
# Running Chromium in kiosk mode introduced too many
# problems, hence the use of xdotool.
sleep 6
cd /usr/bin/
chromium-browser &
sleep 6
xdotool key F11 &
In testing I found that a lower limit of 3 + 3 can in fact be used with an install to a USB3 stick running on an i5. With an install to a Samsung 840 Evo on the same box a reduction to 1.5 + 1.5 was possible. (Any lower and there was a danger of the browser launching before the DHCP request had been satisfied if the router had entered sleep mode and needed to re-acquire an external I/P)
Please note that these reductions do not translate directly into reduced boot times. Roughly speaking the reduction is half the difference between their combined totals.
If for example you reduced the defaults of 6 & 6 (Total 12) to 2 & 2 (Total 4) you should see an improvement of ((12 minus 4)/2)which equates to 4 seconds.
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I still can't get this to boot, even using Billtoo's way. I didn't try the Windows suggestion as I keep the Windows box secure for work only.
For now, I guess I'll sit by and wish you well on your distro. I'll let you know how I fix this....
Oh, wait... I see you need a 16gb usb? I was trying with an 8...
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That's got to raise a few eyebrows, hasn't it?
Efficient and affordable
Amazingly enough it is, in fact, stupidly easy to fit. For a 775 board the CPU block clips in like a stock Intel cooler. Strap the radiator to a rear case port and you're off.
It's very quiet setup, and does the job, but ultimately we're a little disappointed with the results. The cooling efficiency turned out to be worse than a good air cooler, which wouldn't be much louder either.
Water cooling for the masses it may be, but it's also for aesthetic purposes only, being marginally quieter and much better looking than a normal sink.
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Full resource draw stress test: Prime 95: 51°C
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