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Location: West Lothian, Scotland, UK
Posted: Fri 09 Aug 2013, 06:16
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How to make a tweaked Puppy optical banking disk? (Solved)
Subject description: Remaster to closed CD-RW or multi-session DVD-RW?
1. Tried remastering my running Precise-5.6.1 session.
Wanted to include the contents of the existing precisesave.
Succeeded in making [not sure what exactly], and it booted OK...
2. Instead of it going straight to the desktop...
It asked for configuration of language/region/keyboard/screenarea.
I'd like it to use the configurations etc recorded in the Precise-5.6.1 within which it was remastered.
3. What I want:
To use for online banking...
Including various tweaks made by me.
An optical disk that cannot be messed with after it's made.
Remains unchanging?
Or perhaps a multi-session DVD-RW provided only I get to choose whether/which session changes to record and use.
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Posted: Fri 09 Aug 2013, 16:16
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I've never remastered a Puppy but I've used a multisession Puppy DVD or CD in many computers. It's always done just what I expected it to do. If you're worried about a multisession DVD being corrupted, just remove the disk from the drive after it's finished booting, or boot it from a non-burner drive. Possibly Pburn could close a multisession disk after burning the last session, to prevent any more changes. I've never tried that.
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Posted: Fri 09 Aug 2013, 17:04
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Not exactly sure, but try when it asks you about customizing the /etc directory choose yes. If that doesn't work, try copying all of your /etc directory to the /tmp/etc directory when it asks if you want to add any files to /etc.
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Posted: Sat 10 Aug 2013, 05:26
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1. "
try copying all of your /etc directory to the /tmp/etc directory when it asks if you want to add any files to /etc.
I did that...
Plus I copied /root to /tmp/root. [
See this post by rerwin
Result wasn't what I hoped.
It didn't go straight to desktop; asked for config settings.
2. "
I've used a multisession Puppy DVD or CD in many computers.
For a long time, I've watched with interest many of your posts on the topic of multisession DVD-RW disks.
You said it was better than CD-RW.
Is it so in this case?
I was always pretty certain that sometime the day would come when I'd do it.
Now is that time methinks.
So how is it done? Any instructions?
Can I include all of my tweaks that have been added to the pupsave file.
I've seen you write that it's possible to save session changes, but then not load them if you choose.
Does that provide enough security for banking?
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Posted: Sat 10 Aug 2013, 09:53
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Yes, a rewritable DVD is better than a rewritable CD. Sony claims the DVD+R is technically superior to the DVD-R, but then they would, since they invented the + format. I've used both + and - DVDs with equal performance as far as I could tell, but I wasn't really making a comparison study. I was only using whatever I happened to find first. I highly recommend using a rewritable DVD, + or -, for experimenting with multisession Puppy.
As for making a multisession disk, it couldn't be simpler. You can use Pburn, but Burniso2cd is simpler. You don't have to blank a rewritable DVD first; Burniso2cd (and, I think, Pburn) will overwrite whatever is on a rewritable disk. This used to be true for only the DVD+RW, but I think now it also works for DVD-RW. I've found that burning the iso from somewhere in RAM is the most reliable way to go. If the iso is on a hard disk or flash drive, just copy it to /tmp and tell Burniso2cd or Pburn to burn it from /tmp.
You add the tweaks to the newly-burned multisession disk after you boot it the first time, then choose "save to CD" when you shut down the first time. After that, it's a multisession disk and there is a "Save" icon on the desktop that you can use to save a session without shutting down.
If you don't want Puppy to load a saved session when the disk boots, there's a way to do that. It's in the boot options. It's been so long since I used it that I've forgotten, but it should be obvious. I think it's something like "puppy pfix=n" where n is 1 (to ignore the last session saved) or 2 (to ignore the last two saved sessions), etc. There used to be a way to ignore only a certain session back a ways, or several sessions. I forget exactly how to do it though.
As for security, it seems to me that multisession
be more secure than running from a hard disk, since nothing is saved unless you choose to save it. However, most exploits seem to be through the browser. Do your online banking right after booting, before you visit any other websites.
Before you ask more questions, why don't you try it out first!
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Posted: Sat 10 Aug 2013, 13:25
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1. Multi-session DVD+RW now made and functioning well.
a. It wasn't all plain sailing...
Made a mess of it at 1st because I failed to make sure the Precise-5.6.1 DVD+RW wouldn't be able to find the precisesave or its matching SFS file on the internal HDD.
b. Powered off improperly...
Booted Slacko-220.127.116.11...
Used it to move those files to a Flash Drive...
Re-made the DVD+RW
Re-booted to it.
Made the necessary configurations... [That went well]
Installed some needed packages...
Saved all the changes.
2. A pleasant surprise:
a. The DVD+RW is already set up so I can choose if/when to save during a session [no autosave]...
At shutdown/reboot...
I can choose "to save or not to save".
b. As the Precise on the DVD+RW boots...
I can see it telling me all of the saves that it is loading.
c. Although it's rather slower to boot [than a Puppy using a pupsave on a HDD]...
It's BLAZING FAST to load and run programs during a session.
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Posted: Sat 10 Aug 2013, 13:44
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Hi Sylvander,
If you have puppy_precise_5.6.1.sfs on your hard drive (top level in any partition) you should find your boot time reduces - by some 20 to 40 seconds.
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Posted: Sat 10 Aug 2013, 15:28
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1. I was trying to think of how I could boot my normal Precise-5.6.1-ataflash->[made pmedia=ataflash in the isolinux.cfg file within the ISO] CD-RW, and yet cause no problems for the Precise-5.6.1->[normal=unedited isolinux.cfg file within ISO] on the DVD+RW.
2. Thought that if I moved the precisesave+SFS files to a Flash Drive, I'd only connect it when I want to boot the normal Precise-5.6.1-ataflash.
Unfortunately, Precise-5.6.1-ataflash is ignoring or not seeing those files on the [USB/external] Flash Drive.
a. Would it be OK to have the SFS on the internal HDD, and the precisesave on a Flash Drive?
And how do I get them to be seen?
b. What if I make a Precise-5.6.1 bootable Flash Drive, and use the precisesave made when using the Precise-5.6.1-ataflash CD-RW?
Would that ignore the SFS file on the HDD?
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Posted: Sat 10 Aug 2013, 16:10
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Hi Sylvander,
Boot from your new Multi-session-banking-DVD, but with the sfs appropriately placed on your hard drive (which may be at the same location as it was originally) and tell us how much boot time is saved.
You can still boot your old non-banking version of Precise exactly as you did previously will all of the needed files in the same places as they were before you made your banking-DVD.
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Posted: Sun 11 Aug 2013, 02:39
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1. Moved the precisesave+SFS files back to where they were originally...
a. The CD-RW->"Precise-5.6.1-ataflash" boots as it did originally [i.e. ALMOST->it now gives the spurious warning about not closing cleanly at last shutdown]...
Must now go fix that; I believe I know how.
to guide me, and I believe I did it right, but unlike when I did this previously, this time it didn't work!
Here's the file content now:
#this file called from rc.sysinit
#you can edit this file
#When firewall is installed, will append lines to this file...
rm /etc/.XLOADED
/sbin/sysctl -w kernel/shmmax=200000000
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall ]; then
/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall start
Managed to fix this problem, as follows:
Replaced the precisesave+SFS files on the internal HDD with backup copies I'd saved on an external/USB HDD.
These copies [were identical to those on the Flash Drive, BUT] had never been accessible by any CD/DVD during all of this.
I guess the precisesave copy on the Flash Drive had been messed-with by one of the Precise Puppies on one of the optical disks.
Now the DVD+RW->"Precise-5.6.1" fails to boot!
It just displays a flashing cursor on a black screen [boot halted].
2. I'm wondering if I should make a new multi-session DVD+RW using some Puppy [that I know works on this hardware] that isn't number-1 or 2 Puppy in my stack of CD-RW's.
Then use that DVD+RW->Puppy only for banking, with no other CD-RW or pupsave on the internal HDD.
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Posted: Sun 11 Aug 2013, 04:06
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Hi Sylvander,
A DVD+RW will be fine.
Make a new Multi-session-banking-DVD using Precise 5.6.1 (or say, 5.7.1 retro or PAE if you haven't tried that).
Now using say, 5.7.1 PAE make your banking-DVD as before, and do your tweaks then save after choosing reboot (or, if you use the desktop Save Icon, change etc/.XLOADED from true to false using Geany and save - to avoid a spurious error message on rebooting).
Note roughly how long it takes to boot.
Now, copy the 5.7.1 sfs file from your new DVD to any internal hard drive/partition then reboot and compare the boot time with the time already noted.
As a separate exercise get your non-banking 5.6.1 working as it was.
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Posted: Sun 11 Aug 2013, 05:47
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1. "
Make a new Multi-session-banking-DVD using Precise 5.6.1
I've done this twice already...
And the DVD+RW works OK provided I don't allow its Puppy to see/find the previously made precisesave.
And the Precise-5.6.1-ataflash on the CD-RW works OK if I put the precisesave+SFS on the internal HDD, but then the DVD+RW fails to boot.
Is there anything about doing it a 3rd time that would make a difference?
2. "
or say, 5.7.1 retro or PAE if you haven't tried that
I recently made [and then wiped] a Precise-5.7.1 PAE version on a CD-RW.
When it found the 5.6.1 precisesave, it updated it, and that combination then failed to function normally, so I wiped the CD-RW.
Again, I cannot allow the Puppy on the DVD+RW to see/find the [old] 5.6.1 precisesave.
3. "
copy the 5.7.1 sfs file from your new DVD to any internal hard drive/partition then reboot
a. Wouldn't I then have the same problem with 5.7.1 as I'm having now with 5.6.1...
Which would be...
If I try to use the DVD+RW and also the CD-RW...
Each will attempt to use the same precisesave, which they cannot be allowed to do.
b. Presently, with 5.6.1...
The CD-RW finds and uses the precisesave just fine, BUT....
The DVD+RW fails to boot
Won't 5.7.1 do just the same thing?
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Posted: Sun 11 Aug 2013, 06:09
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Hi Sylvander,
You ask - Won't 5.7.1 do just the same thing?
Obviously, I think not, but if you don't try how will either of us know?
I use my Multi-session-CD/DVD, a flash stick with lots of absolute links and my Precise 5.6 sfs file on my internal hard drive to reduce my boot time substantially
Desktop (1998 with 2002 Motherboard replacement) @ 2.0 GHz with 640 MB (SDRAM) - no swap facility needed.
Precise 5.6 with Multi-session-CD + Quirky unicorn on USB2-stick + W98SE on HD for rare printing needs.
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Posted: Sun 11 Aug 2013, 06:20
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In my case...
The problem is...
At this beginning, at least...
I want to be able to use the DVD+RW for ONLY online banking...
And the ordinary CD-RW [with pupsave] for normal usage.
And it seems that...
If I attempt to use the same Puppy [Precise?] for both...
And the DVD+RW is allowed to find/see the CD-RW's pupsave...
The DVD+RW->Puppy fails to boot
I'll have a go at Precise-5.7.1 PAE, ASAP, and get back here to report.
Seriously considering switching ALL my Puppies to DVD+RW's.
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Posted: Sun 11 Aug 2013, 10:18
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I'm surprised that a multisession Puppy disk will look for anything but swap memory on the hard disk when it boots, much less modify anything on the hard disk without asking. I'd consider that a bug and report it as such.
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At Pilates this evening, I enjoyed a quick chat with a White Sox fan. Last season I introduced her to the cheap ticket wonders of StubHub and gave her information about the Big A so she could see her guys play – she was concerned about our "scary" freeways – and we've been friendly ever since. As I was leaving the parking lot, a group of guys in Pirate caps, one of them quite old school, walked by. On the freeway drive home, the usual mixed bag of bumper stickers streamed by as speeds increased in the final fade of rush hour. In and among the honor roll proclamations, fading Obama/Biden stickers and occasionally humorous sayings was an eclectic array of baseball stickers – Dodgers, Angels, Yankees, Red Sox and Phillies. Nothing new here.
Los Angeles is not like other places. The billboard signage proclaims that this is Dodgertown and that is true to a certain extent. But a sufficient number of Angels fans call Los Angeles County home to warrant equal representation in the team gear sections of our local Targets and Costcos and the same is true in reverse with Dodger fans in neighboring Orange County, home to my Halos of the absurdly lengthy and geographically challenged name. I read as many of your blogs as I can find, and more and more each week as Spring Training brings more sleepy bloggers out of hibernation, so I know that two team towns are nothing special. But Los Angeles is a little more complicated than that.
In and among the Dodgers and Angels gear, you can usually find a fair bit of Yankees and Red Sox items. White Sox caps and shirts are becoming more common as well and, if the number of Cubs fan Chicago transplants I ran into in Orange County last year is any indication, I expect to start seeing the occasional Cubs logo on the sales racks in the next year or so. Native Angelenos like myself are rare, you see. In Los Angeles and, increasingly, Orange County seemingly everybody is from someplace else. And even among the natives, most of us are only native by a generation or two. My grandparents and their families all came out to California during the Dustbowl, which is very common story.
When it comes right down to it, this is one of the things I love most about living here – so many different people bringing pieces of their home to mine and mixing them together in new and different ways. I love that I can go out for authentic soup dumplings at Din Tai Fung (the only location outside of China), hit a jazz club hosting a band from New Orleans and then finish off the evening line dancing at a club opened up by Texas transplants who thought it might be fun and profitable to bring a little bit of home to Los Angeles. Authentic street tacos, a cheesesteak place opened up by a couple of guys who moved out here from Philly, New York style delis, a German deli where more people are speaking German and Polish than English on any given day, Kansas City style BBQ joints, all of these offerings are within easy driving distance of my house, and it's amazing.
And the sea of different baseball caps? Dodger, Angels, Giants, Red Sox and Pirates at my office's summer picnic alone. Enough nowadays that, seriously, if I were a kid, I'd give up playing "States" and play "MLB caps" instead. It's just one more manifestation of what I think of as the real Los Angeles – Dodgertown yes, but kind of Everytown at the same time. I know that Los Angeles is far from the only big city to experience this phenomena, but I wonder if any other city sees their diversity carry over into their baseball cap offerings at non-ESPN type stores? I would definitely be interested in learning if this is so if any of you care to share.
I went to Costco on my lunch break this afternoon and did some of our grocery shopping with this post percolating in my mind. I decided it would be funny to take a picture of the souvenir baseball jersey rack so you could appreciate the wild mix of logos we tend to stock out here but, apparently it's a little early for baseball still at Costco. However, serendipitously enough, when I walked out to my car this is the picture I was presented with. What are the odds? Well, around here? Fairly good, actually:

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In my first keynote address to the RA, I challenged NEA leadership to focus on three priorities: leading the efforts to transform education; helping to rebuild the middle class by strengthening the labor movement; and building our own capacity as an organization.
There are many good ideas about transforming education, but there are also some bad ideas put forward by people who don't have nearly as much experience or knowledge as our members. We should be open to discussing any idea, but decisions on issues such as compensation and due process should always be bargained or negotiated—never imposed.
Secretary Duncan told us that the Department of Education will focus on turning around our most troubled schools, which have high concentrations of poverty and dropouts. We must lead this effort, so I asked the RA delegates—and I'm asking each one of you—to get involved.
Economic policies that harm the middle class affect NEA's 3.2 million members, so we need a strong voice for working families. NEA is strong, but our voice is even more powerful when we join our colleagues in organized labor. Working together, we can achieve economic fairness and health care for all Americans.
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The shot was taken at Digha, a sea side beach in WB.
The fishermen coming back to the home after all day work in sea..
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corjan3 (2109) 2014-02-25 9:02
Hello Ayan,
This is a strong image which, in my opinion, can be further strengthened by cropping of the washed-out clouds at the top to place the horizon at one third from the top. I would also crop a little of the bottom, including the signature. But a very good image otherwise. Best wishes.
tenretin (3133) 2014-02-25 11:00
You made a perfect shot there. It is very well composed and équilibréde more colors are natural.
The rating is interesting.
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siudzi (34141) 2014-02-25 12:20
Hello Ayan,
Extremely eye catching and perfectly composed daily life scene. Love the reflected view, warm tonality and lights of the scene which together created a very elegant presentation. TFS!
Best wishes,
patpatch (1601) 2014-02-26 8:29
Hello Ayan,
A very simple shot,but with a strong effect.The fisherman reflecting on the wet sand is a great idea and a good composition.
I like that we can see the reflection of the clouds too.The palette of colours is very simple but the strong contrast is interesting.
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Hi Ayan,
Again a spectacular shot. Very momentary and carries a silent emotions. The amount of cloud area could have been reduced, otherwise it is superb.
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"I have tried everything I can think of to get my child to stop hitting her little brother. Sometimes she hits me. This really makes me angry. Punishment doesn't seem to work. I have spanked her and made her say she is sorry, but the next day she is hitting again."
How are we ever going to teach our children it is not okay to hurt others when we keep hurting them? We are reminded of a cartoon depicting a mother spanking her child while saying, "I'll teach you not to hit someone smaller than you." When a child is hitting, usually his or her feelings are hurt. Your child needs help from you but may feel frustrated because he or she isn't getting the help needed. You probably feel frustrated, too, because you want your child to treat others respectfully and may even worry that your child's behavior is a reflection on you as a parent. Perhaps you are overreacting and treating your child disrespectfully out of shame and embarrassment, trying to prove to the other adults around that you won't let your child get away with this behavior.
1. Take the child by the hand and say, "It is not okay to hit people. I'm sorry you are feeling hurt and upset. You can talk about it or you can hit this pillow, but people aren't for hitting."
2. Help the child deal with the anger.
3. Ask, "Would it help you to go to your time-out spot now?" Time out is not helpful unless the child has helped create a positive time-out spot in advance (see "Planning Ahead to Prevent Future Problems," item 3). Also, time-out is not helpful if the child does not see the benefit and chooses it. If you make your child go to time-out, your child is likely to see it as punishment and may rebel.
4. After the child has calmed down, ask "what" and "how" questions. "What is upsetting you? How are you feeling?" See if you can get to the bottom of what is really bothering your child and then help the child discover what other things she could do besides hitting to deal with the problem. Lectures are ineffective at any age because they make children feel inadequate.
5. With children under four, try giving them a hug before removing them from the situation. This models a loving method while showing them that hitting is not okay. Hugging does not reinforce the misbehavior.
6. Even though toddlers don't fully comprehend language, you can still use words (while you are removing the child from the situation) such as, "Hitting hurts people. Let's find something else you can do."
7. When babies hit you, put them down and leave the room immediately for a minute or two without saying a word. At this age, they will understand actions better than words.
8. When your preschooler hits you, decide what you will do instead of trying to control your child. Let her know that every time she hits you, you will leave the room until she is ready to treat you respectfully. After you have told her this once, follow through without any words. Leave immediately.
9. Later you might tell your child, "That really hurts" or "That hurts my feelings. When you are ready, an apology would help me feel better." Do not demand or force an apology. The main purpose of this suggestion is to give a model of sharing what you feel and asking for what you would like. People don't always give us what we would like, but we show respect for ourselves by sharing our feelings and wishes in nondemanding ways.
1. Teach children that feelings are different from actions. Feelings are never bad. They are just feelings. What we feel is always okay. What we do is not always okay.
2. Remind your children that it is okay to tell people what they don't like. They can also leave the scene if they are being treated disrespectfully.
3. Get your child involved in creating a positive time-out area (see Part 1). Teach her that sometimes we need time to calm down until we feel better before doing anything else. Let her know that she can use the time-out area any time she thinks it will help her feel better.
4. Find ways to encourage your children with unconditional love and by teaching skills that help them feel capable and confident.
5. Show that hitting is unacceptable by never hitting your child. If you make a mistake and hit your child, use the Three Rs of Recovery to apologize so your child knows hitting is not acceptable for you either (see Part 1).
6. Take time for training with your toddler. Help her practice touching family members or animals softly. This does not eliminate the need for supervision until she is old enough to understand.
7. Look around and see if there are ways you are hurting your child without realizing it. Are you sending your child to his or her room frequently, scolding and criticizing regularly, singling out the child when a problem occurs? If so your child may be feeling really hurt and upset and the hitting is a way to strike back at the world. Be more encouraging and positive and stop the hurtful behaviors, then see if there is a change in the hitting behavior.
Children can learn that it is not okay to hurt others. Their feelings are not bad and they are not bad, but they need to find actions that are respectful to themselves and to others.
1. Be aware of the discouraged belief behind the misbehavior. A child who hits usually is operating from the mistaken goal of revenge with the belief that "I don't feel like I belong and am important, and that hurts, so I want to hurt back." Children will feel encouraged when we respect their feelings and help them act appropriately.
2. Many people use the biblical admonition "spare the rod and spoil the child" as an excuse for spanking. Biblical scholars tell us the rod was never used to hit the sheep. The rod was a symbol of authority or leadership, and the staff or crook was used to gently prod and guide. Our children definitely need gentle guidance and prodding, but they do not need to be beaten, struck, or humiliated.
3. Toddlers are short on both language and social skills, and when they play together they can easily become frustrated. When they lack the ability to express what's wrong in words, hitting and other types of aggression sometimes result. It is developmentally normal for toddlers to hit. It is the parent's job to supervise and handle toddlers kindly and firmly until they are ready to learn more effective ways to communicate.
He: "There are times when it is necessary to spank my children to teach them important lessons. For example, I spank my two-year-old to teach her not to run into the street."
She: "After you have spanked your two-year-old to teach her not to run into the street, will you let her play unsupervised by a busy street?"
He: "Well, no."
She: "Why not? If the spanking teaches her not to run into the street, why can't she play unsupervised by the street? How many times would you need to spank her before you would feel she has learned the lesson well enough?"
He: "Well, I wouldn't let her play unsupervised near a busy street until she was six or seven years old."
She: "I rest my case. Parents have the responsibility to supervise young children in dangerous situations. All the spanking in the world won't teach a child until he or she is developmentally ready. Meanwhile, we can gently teach. When we take our children to the park, we invite them to look up the street and down the street to see if cars are coming and tell us when it is safe to cross the street. Still, we don't let them go to the park alone until they are much older." Studies show that approximately 85 percent of all parents of children under twelve years of age resort to spanking when frustrated, yet only 8 to 10 percent believe that it is dignified or effective. Sixty-five percent say that they would prefer to teach through consequences and encouraging improved behavior, but they don't know how. How often we resort to the familiar instead of learning a better way. 1
1 From H. Stephen Glenn, Developing Healthy Self-Esteem "Orem, UT: Empowering People Books, Tapes, and Videos., 1989), videocassette.
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RCH signs weston peick
This is just a little bit off our turf, but if you have followed Supercross at all this season, it seems Weston Peick is on the screen quite often. He has battled with some of the top riders in heat races, even putting a strong move on Dungey. Joining RCH along side Josh Hill and the injured Broc Tickle is a big move for Weston. As a team they seem to get stronger every week. It is good to see a hard-working racer get a shot with a top team.
The RCH Racing Soaring Eagle has signed top privateer Weston Peick to race the Lucas Oil Pro Motorcross Championship for 2014. Peick will continue to contest the remainder of the Feld Motor Sports® 2014 Monster Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship series as a privateer, before joining the RCH Racing Soaring Eagle effort.
Answering the question posed in Racer X Magazine and all over the Internet, "Why Not Weston?" RCH team principal Ricky Carmicheal says why not, indeed. "I'm glad to have Weston a part of the team." Peick earned seven amateur titles without support from factories and raced a privateer since turning pro in 2009… until now. "We are excited to give him the opportunity and look forward to working with him to help him achieve his goals," claims Carmichael. "He has a great work ethic that will mesh well with our team personnel to get the best result possible," adds Carmichael. "It should be a lot of fun!"
Despite being a self-professed "goon" at Supercross early in his career, the former high school football player has shown marked improvement in the stadiums this season, including Top 5 at Anaheim 3 and the San Diego rounds. However he is really looking forward to returning to the outdoor nationals. "This is a great opportunity to be surrounded by one of the best riders of all time and one of the best factory teams to help me get to the next level," said an elated Peick.
Loyalty is important to Peick and his father, and they requested to finish the Supercross season as a privateer in order to honor their sponsor commitments. This is a request that RCH Racing Soaring Eagle certainly respects and is one of the reasons why Peick was offered the opportunity. "I want to Thank all my current sponsors for their outstanding support for the Supercross series… without them, this opportunity wouldn't be possible," says Weston.
"We are so happy to have the opportunity for Weston to work with RCH Racing," says his father Louie who has been working on Weston's bikes throughout his career. "Thanks to all our sponsors that helped us get to this level."
Look for Weston Peick to make his debut on the RCH Racing Soaring Eagle Suzuki RM-Z450 at Glen Helen on May 24th when the 2014 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship kicks off.
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Closed: Wild Wing takes flight
Chances are you've heard by now. Charlottesville's seemingly popular but troubled West Main Street beer and wingery just went belly up.
Customers who tried to visit Wild Wing Café during the New Year report finding an apologetic sign on the door alluding to "our financial situation."
But the theories as to why they closed so suddenly, allegedly without even notifying the employees, are as plentiful and and slippery as a plateful of jalapeno cheddar chicken wings.
The restaurant was part of a seven-restaurant– er, six-restaurant– franchise group, the local one calling itself Wings Over Charlottesville Inc. Douglas A. Muir of South Pantops Drive was the man whose signature was on some dotted lines. His telephone line, however, has been disconnected.
Opened just two years ago, the restaurant occupied the 1895 Union Station. Long considered a linchpin in the redevelopment of West Main Street, the station is owned by Gabe Silverman.
"They were closed by the State," says Silverman. They weren't paying their taxes."
Transitioning, Silverman adds, "They were making a lot of money."
Silverman notes that Dave Matthews Band manager Coran Capshaw has plans for a 220-apartment and retail complex just footsteps away in Fifeville. Silverman believes that whatever new operation takes over at the station will "stay similar in genre." The co-eds should be glad to hear that.
Commercial broker Charlie Kabbash, a man who's "at the vortex" of this deal, since he represents both the owners of the property and the sellers of the restaurant, confirms Silverman's optimistic words.
"We have three or four active clients," he tells us. "This is such a great location for a restaurant. Do you know that Wild Wing was earning up to $2 million a year?"
We didn't. But we did discover from documents on file in the City Courthouse that the company was hit with a $7,444 lien on December 23 for unpaid taxes.
These financial tidbits, certainly nothing to cluck about, bring us back to the original mystery: Where did all the money go? If we find out, you'll be the first to know.


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I am looking to be back at the Oshkosh house by Friday night, May 18th.
The plan is to spend a week or two unloading a household of posessions. We are planning to put the house in the market this summer. During this time I will be around for any game night events, if any pop up.
But if anyone knows anyone that has any need for household items, let me know. Regardless, I will be taking a number of trips to Goodwill and the county dump. Nothing is safe, it all has to go.
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Good to hear! Have safe travels, and I will be on the lookout for any gaming plans that get made, since I am hoping to get down that way to see you!
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Well day 1 of the sweet 16 brought some surprises. Apparently Missouri has a good basketball team. And Duke seemed to forget that the round, orange thing is supposed to go into the round metal thing placed 10-feet above the floor with a net hanging from it. But let's talk about tonight.
Game 1: Arizona vs. Louisville
Louisville hasn't exactly walked through their first two games, similar to Pitt. However, their defense causes just enough chaos to get by, and I'm sure that will be the case tonight. While Arizona has a future lottery pick in Jordan Hill, the ride for the 12-seeded Wildcats is over. They weren't supposed to get past the first round (or make the tourney, for that matter), so kudos to them on wearing this year's glass slipper. The only thing that could get in the way of Louisville's advancing is their free-throw shooting. Their best player, Terrence Williams, shoots an embarrassing 57% from the charity stripe.
Prediction: Louisville 68, Arizona 59
Game 2: Oklahoma vs. Syracuse
This is tonight's best game in my opinion. We get to see player of the year Blake Griffin take on a very tough team in Syracuse. I will be cheering for Oklahoma as I really like how Griffin plays the game, but I don't think they can handle Jonny Flynn and the Orange. The Big East has been impressive thus far, and Syracuse is as good as their conference peers. Something to keep in mind, however, is that Griffin is averaging 30.5 ppg so far in the tourney, and Syracuse won't have an answer if he starts taking over.
Prediction: Syracuse 76, Oklahoma 72
Game 3: Kansas vs. Michigan St.
It will be fun to watch Sherron Collins vs. Kalin Lucas. Both are very quick point guards, although Collins could easily pound Lucas in a fight. Michigan St. won the teams' first meeting on Jan 10 by a convincing 13-points, but I think that will change tonight. Cole Aldrich has turned into a serious beast in the paint (remember him handling Hansbrough last year?), and he will be the difference after he posts a solid 20 & 12 tonight.
Prediction: Kansas 63, Michigan St. 56
Game 4: Gonzaga vs. North Carolina
Can Gonzaga take advantage of UNC's achilles heel? Or, in this case, Ty Lawson's toe? While Psycho-T gets a lot of attention, it's clear that Lawson is the one that makes this team tick. I'm cheering for the Zags, but the Tar Heels will advance.
Prediction: UNC 81, Gonzaga 68
In future Division I basketball news, the Hopkins boys team won their semi-final game last night despite their opponent, undefeated St. Cloud Tech, employing a complete stall of the game (no shot clock in MN). Hopkins led at halftime 16-15. They went on to win by about 20.


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I am not sharing the best mocktail, cocktail or New Years Eve appetizer recipe today.
I am sharing breakfast for tomorrow.
So in between putting the holiday decorations away, reading the last issue of People Magazine for the year and putting your hair in curlers for tonight's big event, go to the grocery store and buy some Nutella, so you can make this tomorrow morning.
Sitting around the table talking about your 2013 goals just won't be the same if you are not eating stuffed french toast with a spread of Nutella in the middle- really it won't!
And whether you accomplished all of your 2012 goals and projects or not, go ahead and pour yourself a mimosa and toast to a wonderful year and an even better year ahead! You deserve it!
You can work it off tomorrow! I mean, don't we all have more exercise on our resolution list anyways?
Happy New Year! My very best to you for a wonderful healthy and prosperous year ahead.
PS- Using 'Texas toast' instead of normal sandwich bread, takes your french toast to another level!
Grateful for~
The new pair of running shoes that I got so I can take a run after breakfast to work the french toast off!
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Wednesday 1 May | 11:00
Plenary two: Surviving and thriving
A/Prof Andrew Dean
A/Prof Andrew Dean has worked for over 30 years as an emergency physician, predominantly in regional and rural hospitals. He has developed a parallel interest in meditation and Mindfulness and their application in the medical context, as a tool to enhance psychological resilience and general wellbeing.
Andrew has written a book about meditation, and is interested in the current development of Mindfulness curricula across diverse workplaces. Emergency Departments are recognised as being stressful work environments, and Andrew is looking forward to being part of an ACEM initiative to develop a relevant Wellness and Mindfulness Programme for Trainees and Members.
In November 2018, he chaired a Mindfulness and Wellbeing Workshop at the Perth ACEM ASM.
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Today, JB is graduating from law school. Yes, he is one step closer to representing this great nation's justice system, preserving law and order, fighting for truth, justice, and the American way.
And, hopefully, getting paid enough to come home more than once a year.
Congratulations, Jelani. We'll have an extra drink (or two) in your honor today.
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By William Harms
Photo by Jason Smith
" The research group on early childhood at the University of Chicago has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of cognitive development."
—Barbara Tversky
Professor Emerita in Psychology at Stanford University
A six-year-old girl pauses for a moment at a small table in the spatial skills lab in Beecher Hall before confidently telling her father: "I have a little secret in putting puzzles together. The buddy pieces for the corner pieces have straight lines."
With a snap, she links two pieces together that are part of a purple orchid in a 48-piece puzzle of a jungle scene. With her father looking on from her side, she sorts through the pieces, finding a frog and a snake as she puts together the faces of the jungle animals. She turns the pieces to test her prediction that they will fit together and uses words like "top" and "bottom" to describe how she assembles the puzzle.
This demonstration illustrates a study of children and parents by UChicago early childhood researchers, who are examining how children of various ages use spatial words. The puzzles offer a window into children's developing minds, revealing how they understand shapes and build knowledge related to spatially demanding tasks they will encounter in mathematics, science, and related fields.
The study gets at subtle issues as well, such as how stereotyping might influence the way adults interact with their children. By studying parents and children together, scholars hope to gain insights into why boys, on average, seem to progress more quickly in spatial learning.
"We want to see whether parents provide the same input to boys and girls when the puzzles are of the same difficulty," says Susan Levine, the Stella M. Rowley Professor in Psychology. "When we recorded interactions in people's homes, parents of boys may have used more spatial language in order to scaffold their performance because boys typically worked on more difficult puzzles than girls."
Levine and gesture expert Susan Goldin-Meadow, the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor in Psychology, are part of a cadre of researchers at UChicago who are changing current ideas about how exposure to various tasks and language cues shape learning in the earliest years. The early childhood team has been publishing a series of papers that show specific ways in which children get a boost from early exposure to conversations about numbers, as well as play with puzzles and blocks and talk about shapes and spatial relations. Moreover, the group is disseminating that knowledge to educate parents, improve preschool curricula, and advance research in the field generally.
"The research group on early childhood at the University of Chicago has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of cognitive development and to applications of principles of cognition to learning, teaching, and cognitive deficits," says Barbara Tversky, Professor Emerita in Psychology at Stanford University. "The results have been surprising and illuminating, as well as practical and useful."
The lasting value of early learning
As part of their innovative research agenda, Levine and Goldin-Meadow have videotaped a diverse set of parents and preschool children as they do everyday activities in the home, which, at times, involve mathematics.
What they found was startling: Parents varied drastically in their talk about mathematics, both "number talk" and talk about spatial concepts. The children who heard the most number talk, for example, had a better understanding of the connection between the count list and the meanings of the number words (that "three" refers to sets of three).
Levine and Goldin-Meadow are working with the Everyday Mathematics program, created at the University of Chicago, to enhance the curriculum in pre-kindergarten and the early elementary school grades, based on research showing that young children are capable of more sophisticated spatial thinking than previously thought. Such early childhood research at UChicago also has inspired Dana Suskind, an associate professor at the University of Chicago Medicine, to start a program on word learning with disadvantaged families.
Understanding how to harness the impact that parents and teachers can make on young children's development is the focus of many scholars at UChicago.
"This is critical, as these are skills people need for careers that our nation needs in science and mathematics," Levine says. "We want to learn more about how we can help children learn and improve opportunities for all children. Children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds typically are not as prepared for academic work when they arrive at kindergarten, and we find that differences in their learning opportunities are a significant predictor of these knowledge gaps."
A team of researchers devoted to early childhood
Levine did seminal work with Janellen Huttenlocher, the William S. Gray Professor Emeritus in Psychology, a pioneer in the field. The two showed in research published in 2002 that children's exposure to complex syntactic constructions from teachers and parents during the preschool years play an important part in their language comprehension skills, which in turn, relates to their later reading comprehension.
Goldin-Meadow is studying the connection between gesture and early learning. She has found that the large differences in vocabulary that children from different socio-economic classes bring with them to school can be traced, in part, to the gestures that the children produced early in development. Those gestures can, in turn, be traced to the gestures their parents produced during the early years.
Gesturing also plays an important role in math learning. In another study Goldin-Meadow showed that encouraging children to gesture improved their ability to learn from a math lesson. "The study highlighted the importance of motor learning even in non-motor tasks, and suggests that we may be able to lay the foundation for new knowledge just by telling learners to move their hands," she says.
One of the nation's leading scholars on infant learning is Amanda Woodward, the William S. Gray Professor in Psychology, who did important work on infants while a faculty member at UChicago from 1993 to 2005. She returned in 2010 after serving on the faculty of the University of Maryland.
"The strong focus that many of my colleagues have on the roles of embodied experience, and the social context in development, dovetails with my own interests in the early development of social cognition and social learning," Woodward says. "I was thrilled to be able to return to the University of Chicago because of the outstanding community of developmental scientists here."


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|November 26, 2013
Least Active Atlantic Hurricane Season In 30 Years
|Defying dire outlooks issued in the spring, the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially ends Nov. 30, was the least active since 1982, and the sixth-least-active season since 1950, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Monday.
There were no landfalling hurricanes in the U.S. in 2013. In fact, it has been more than 8 years since the last major hurricane of Category 3 intensity or greater struck the U.S., a record stretch. The last major hurricane strike occurred in 2005, when Hurricane Wilma hit Florida. When the start of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season rolls around on June 1, 2014, it will have been 3,142 days since that storm made landfall, a record timespan.
It's not just major hurricanes that have avoided the U.S. in recent years. The 5-year period ending in 2013 has seen just two hurricane landfalls, although a third storm of hurricane intensity, Hurricane Sandy, made landfall mere hours after it had just been reclassified as a post-tropical cyclone, a distinction that matters more to meteorologists than the millions of residents impacted by the storm's storm surge and high winds, both of which impacted the coastline while the storm was still classified as a hurricane.
A total of 13 named storms formed in the Atlantic Basin this year, two of which --- Ingrid and Humberto --- became hurricanes. None of these storms ever made it to major hurricane status. The total number of storms this year was above the long-term average (1981-2010) of 12, but the number of hurricanes and major hurricanes were below their long-term averages of six and three.
Based on an index, known as Accumulated Cyclone Energy or ACE, which incorporates the number, strength, and duration of all the tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic Basin, the season had the lowest seasonal total since 1983, at just 30 percent of average.
The snooze of a hurricane season came as a surprise to forecasters, who had been expecting an above average to average season.
In May, NOAA projected that there would likely be between 13 and 20 named storms (with sustained winds of at least 39 mph). Of those storms, NOAA projected that between 7 and 11 would achieve hurricane status (winds of at least 74 mph); and that 3 or 4 would become major hurricanes of Category 3, 4 or 5 (winds of at least 111 mph). NOAA reaffirmed its above average prediction in an August update.
While preseason outlooks rarely, if ever, have pinpoint accuracy, they don't usually miss by such a large margin.
Meteorologists have cited several reasons for suppressing Atlantic storms this year. Those inhibiting factors include an unusual abundance of dry, dusty air blowing off Africa's Sahara Desert, an unusually stable atmosphere across the tropical North Atlantic, with broad regions of sinking air and above-average wind shear, which refers to winds blowing in different directions or at different speeds with height.
Tropical weather systems depend on a plentiful supply of warm, moist air to form and intensify, and when these storms ingest exceptionally dry air, as many of the storms did this year, they can choke to death in a matter of hours or days. For example, Tropical Storm Karen formed in the Gulf of Mexico, where landfall in the U.S. or Mexico is virtually assured. But it died before reaching land because of the presence of dry air and strong wind shear.
One sign of the quiet season was the limited number of hours flown by NOAA and the U.S. Air Force's "Hurricane Hunter" aircraft. Those crews logged just 435 flight hours of reconnaissance missions into Atlantic Basin storms --- the smallest number of flight hours since at least 1966, NOAA said.
The Atlantic Basin has been in an active phase since 1995, and the 2013 season was only the third below-normal season since then, NOAA said.
"A combination of conditions acted to offset several climate patterns that historically have produced active hurricane seasons," Gerry Bell, NOAA's lead seasonal hurricane forecaster, said. "As a result, we did not see the large numbers of hurricanes that typically accompany these climate patterns."
Other nations, most of which are not as capable of handling hurricanes as the U.S. is, were not nearly as lucky this year. Mexico was hit by eight storms, including three from the Atlantic Basin. India was struck by Super Typhoon Phailin in September, and Super Typhoon Haiyan, which was likely the strongest tropical cyclone on record at landfall, devastated parts of the Philippines.


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PLAINVIEW - Wayland Baptist University Flying Queens basketball coach Johnna Pointer resigned Tuesday to "peruse other basketball related interests as I work to finalize my adoption."
"I have truly enjoyed my time here at Wayland and consider it an honor to have coached the Flying Queens," Pointer said in a written statement. "I will forever be grateful for the opportunity and support from Wayland and the Plainview community."
In seven years, Pointer compiled a record of 151 wins and 82 losses, taking the queens to the NAIA national tournament six times, including three trips to the NAIA quarterfinals in 97, 98 and 2003. The Queens finished with a 19-16 record last season, going 9-9 in the Sooner Athletic Conference. Teams currently participating in the Sooner Athletic Conference have won the NAIA national championship nine of the last 10 years.
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WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced the transfer of approximately 44,000 additional alien registration records, known as "A-Files," to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
USCIS transferred the historical records from its San Bruno Federal Records Center to the permanent custody of the National Archives Pacific Region facility in San Bruno, Calif. It is anticipated that the transferred files will be available to the public beginning today. This is the fourth in a series of immigration file transfers initiated in June 2009, when USCIS and NARA formalized a schedule to relocate eligible A-Files for permanent preservation in the National Archives.
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Frans Snyders, a master of the Flemish Baroque still life, is renowned for his bold brushwork and monumental compositions. One of the themes of this painting, which likely depicts the larder of a fine house, is that of abundance—particularly as the idea relates to productivity and prosperity. Our first impression may be of a chaotic layering of produce—the fruits and vegetables on the table, in a bowl or basket, or on the ground. Closer inspection shows, however, in a manner that would be apparent to a 17th-century spectator, that the produce is arranged in a hierarchy reflecting value and rarity. Root vegetables are picturesquely arranged on the ground, whereas highly prized peas and asparagus are placed in the basket at right.
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