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Posted: Fri 10 Feb 2012, 18:15
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May I ask this?
Once the system is booted and the "home=partition" boot code is specified,
the init script attempts to create a save file on the specified partition and
continues to boot into a persistent session
Is ntfs-3g included so it can create these save files even on NTFS?
And can the OS Subito or others created by your program boot frugally?
Isolinux or grub4dos or grub2? or all of them?
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Posted: Fri 10 Feb 2012, 18:39
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Is ntfs-3g included so it can create these save files even on NTFS?
No, for two reasons:
- Bad performance of FUSE
- Booting Linux from NTFS is a bad idea
However, you can add the ntfs-3g package if you really need good NTFS support. At the moment, Subito is able to boot from ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs and btrfs; I have tested it only against ext4, though.
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And can the OS Subito or others created by your program boot frugally?
Yeah, any distro built using roar-ng can boot in two modes - either "live" or "frugal", in Puppy terms. Support for "full" installation is not provided because it makes the boot process much more complex and introduces many questions.
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Isolinux or grub4dos or grub2? or all of them?
Subito comes with syslinux, but you can add any boot loader you wish. Boot loader support has nothing to do with the distro itself.
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Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is a loadable kernel module for Unix-like computer operating systems that lets non-privileged users create their own file systems without editing kernel code. This is achieved by running file system code in user space while the FUSE module provides only a "bridge" to the actual kernel interfaces.
FUSE is particularly useful for writing virtual file systems. Unlike traditional file systems that essentially save data to and retrieve data from disk, virtual filesystems do not actually store data themselves. They act as a view or translation of an existing file system or storage device.
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I just happened to think about my problems trying to create an ISO using roaring.
I had devx and the kernel source SFS files loaded for the version of Puppy (Lupu 520) I was running.
So in making the ISO, do I have to load the kernel SFS for the version I am trying to make?
I have tried twice now to make an ISO by just using the script files in order and both times ended up with an 8 meg ISO.
That is along with the compile packages script stopping with errors on Perl and the previous file another was having problems with.
I am evidently missing some step in that I do not think the file system is getting created successfully.
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Posted: Sat 11 Feb 2012, 05:06
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8-bit maybe this explains it?
From now and on, everything related new to Puppy is considered deprecated
and unsupported; time to move on, to better package management, modern
package formats and cleaner code.
The main reason Puppy support is dropped is its non-standard nature.
For example, PET packages already ship in a split form, while roar-ng
performs automatic splitting. All the Puppy-specific code is now removed,
which means roar-ng lost many LOC.
So if you use Puppy Lupu maybe that fails due to puppy being so structurally. different Sorry poor grammar.
Edit Correction I was wrong Iguleder explains
Nope; this changes apply to the next version of roar-ng only
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i am just giving the scripts a go to try and get a 64 bit slacko; and its working pretty well so far!
my only question would be where could i find info on changing the compatable distro? i would love an arch based puppy or maybe one with funtoo's portage
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Posted: Sat 11 Feb 2012, 06:54
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So if you use Puppy Lupu maybe that fails due to puppy being so structurally. different Sorry poor grammar.
Nope; this changes apply to the next version of roar-ng only.
8-bit wrote:
So in making the ISO, do I have to load the kernel SFS for the version I am trying to make?
No, just the devx.
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That is along with the compile packages script stopping with errors on Perl and the previous file another was having problems with.
roar-ng does not compile packages
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my only question would be where could i find info on changing the compatable distro? i would love an arch based puppy or maybe one with funtoo's portage
It's works like Woof - edit DISTRO_SPECS. But you'll also have to implement support for that distro in the same way I did for Slackware.
Bear in mind that the next version will be much more flexible in this area - it will be much simpler to provide this support.
fresh development news!
I have merged Builder (my automated package building infrastructure) into roar-ng as a fourth script, 4buildpackage. This script runs after 3builddistro (which produces a working distro) and builds a package automatically (from build scripts contained in the devx skeleton), inside this distro, using chroot. This allows easier porting - now it's possible to build a "barebones" distro, then use 4buildpackage to build all applications for it (inside it, automatically) and rebuild it, this time with the new packages, to achieve the final result.
So far it works really well and it's much faster than the previous incranation. This also joins the major improvements I implemented in roar-ng in the past week.
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Posted: Sat 11 Feb 2012, 09:49
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Here's a development snapshot, partially tested, for the curious and passionate developers
It has many fundamental changes; examine the "conf" directory before you attempt to use it.
I'm currently running 4buildpackage on all the packages included in the previous version's package list, to test it. At the moment, it will fail to download stuff from the Subito packages repository, since it doesn't exist. I'll upload all packages once I'm done building them.
By the way - if you're here to learn, read the functions file.
EDIT: uploaded a more stable version.
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Posted: Sat 11 Feb 2012, 17:41
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In 0setup this line
distribution="$(basename $distro)"
could be moved out of the inner loop.
There are lots of instances of
cat file | grep pattern | sed-or-tr something
just use grep pattern file
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How should one go about to include local package-lists and local packages in roar-ng-002, if still possible?
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Why Fork Puppy
By dima
I'm currently working on my own distribution, Subito GNU/Linux, which is a strong competitor to Puppy Linux meant to unify its qualities with those SLAX had and put heaps of the Arch Linux and Slackware KISS goodness on top. The idea is to be the first distribution that appeals to advanced users those appreciate the speed and size of "live" distributions but also like the simplicity of Arch.
Here's an assorted list of random rants and complaints about Puppy Linux and its infrastructure, most notably Woof:
1 Puppy Linux's code (especially the code that originates in Woof) is of poor quality; the only solution to this problem is a complete rewrite.
You're mostly correct, here ...
2 Woof is extremely hard to develop for, because it contains thousands of commented-out lines of legacy code and lacks proper documentation. Any part of a distribution-building infrastructure should consists of 100%, purely good code, otherwise its output will inherit its horrible quality.
3 Puppy Linux has a hard dependency on many ancient, deprecated packages (such as nenscript or installwatch) that cannot be built with today's compilers. A good example for this is gtkdialog: nobody's going to port it to GTK+ 3. Puppy was not designed with the possibility of future porting or "sister" distributions in mind: it cannot be ported to another architecture easily, period.
Yes, those hard dependencies on ancient, deprecated packages _should_ be weeded out. Be a bit careful with what could be compiled in a certain environment, or another, though. Gtkdialog -> gtk+ 3, don't know, but, who knows ...
4 According to Barry, Woof 2's blessing to the world was architecture-independence, but this is a lie! The reason its first generation lacked this feature is the fact It uses a chroot call to perform certain operations, but the new version just saves the target architecture and the one it was built on in a file and performs these final operations at boot time, contributing to Puppy's horrible boot speed. This isn't the right way to implement portability.
Cannot comment, am an all x86 bloke ...
5 Woof is slow; it performs all string operations using pipes, downloads files one-by-one from a single mirror and does the big no-no of shell scripting, which is recursion (e.g endless chains of fork() and exec()).
Agreed, woof is slow. However, roar-ng's speed could be improved upon, though it's signicantly faster than woof(2) ...
6 Puppy Linux boots slowly, because it has to search all partitions for its files and dynamically loads specific drivers to determine each partition's type. Also, its kernel package is split between the initramfs (the initial file system used to locate the main one) and the main file system itself, which causes mess and makes Woof less generic.
As you'd know, woof-built puppies searches all partitions, unless a partition is specified at boot-time. Splitting of kernel package between initramfs and the main file system causes _mess_ in what way?
7 With every change to Woof, Puppy Linux becomes more and more ignorant of standards. Although the usefulness of some is debatable, compliance makes development easier, since everybody else follows them.
? - /opt/* ???
8 Altough newer versions of Puppy Linux ship with a more exotic choice of window managers, much of its infrastructure still relies on the traditional JWM and ROX-Filer, which are non-standard in many ways. Woof's desktop integration of the two and the partial support for standards are implemented in dirty ways and make it hard to use Puppy as a development platform.
Yes? And how is cwm more standard?
9 The PET package format used by Puppy's packages is quite messy and hard to work with. Moreover, it uses the traditional gzip compression, which provides a low compression rate in today's standards.
Lower compression rate than xz, agreed. Messy? What's so messy with a bog-standard gz-package with a tucked-on md5sum, including a package-specs-file?
10 Puppy Linux's organizational structure is bad for continuity. Its development team consists of a small group of dedicated volunteers and Barry Kauler, who holds all intellectual property and takes care of all big decisions. Because of this, many fans develop their own, low-quality derivatives that lack creativity or special features, which frustrate novice users because of limited support.
The ease of re-mastering a puppy, or of woofing up your own (in spite of above stated awkwardness of woof(2)) has been a long-time development-choice of BK, as I gather. How roar-ng will ease the frustration of novice users is, yet, still yo be seen ...
11 Old (7.3 and below) versions of the X.Org X server had very limited support for automatic hardware detection (provided by the deprecated HAL daemon) and required a configuration file. Many tools were developed to accomplish this, most notably SaX2 and Puppy's xorgwizard. However, newer versions rely on udev, which is indeed reliable and therefore, hardware detection is good; these tools are no longer needed, but Woof still contains xorgwizard, to provide compatibility with those old versions (most notably, version 7.3, as found in Puppy Linux 4.3.1 and Wary Puppy). The hardware support of Woof-built distributions with later versions is much worse and they suffer from a longer boot sequence, for no reason.
Automatic hardware detection is not always that good ...
12 A distribution built using Woof is limited to the use of packages from Puppy Linux and packages from an optional, other distribution.
As it stands, as of 2012-02-11, using roar-ng is limited to another distribution, with the optional add-mixture of a _certain x86_64 sample distro_ .....
And, for legacy 32-bit:ers ???
13 It is extremely hard to add support for new distributions in Woof, because support for existing ones is provided as conditions in existing scripts.
Yes, agreed. But, on the other hand, how easy is it to add local packages and local package-lists to roar-ng-002, like a roar-ng tester just queried?
To conclude - I think it's time for someone to fork Puppy Linux and compete with it, head-to-head. It's a good product which deserves a better future and more care. The only way to provide this is a revolution and not the ugly evolution, which made me write this.
Innovation, professionalism and rebelliousness: this is my motto. And yours?
There is no doubt, at all, that you're extremely innovative, cunning, canny, and .... But, rebelliousness can, sometimes mistakenly, be interpreted as youngish cockiness, and vice versa ....
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Time to reply!
1) /opt is standard!
2) cwm isn't standard at all, but it doesn't do all the icons mess JWM brings. By the way - I didn't claim it is standard, in any way.
3) Automatic hardware detection
4) roar-ng is no longer limited to two distros, unlike Woof. I'll upload a new version next week.
Thanks for your comment!
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Using Woof is one thing, But have you tried the addon package for it called Bones?
It is a GUI that lets you select the packages you want and has a number of features in tabs.
I am not downing roaring, but am saying bones might be worth a look as to adding a GUI for roaring to get the job done of making an ISO.
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No, Bones is Barry's version control system used with Woof 1.
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I hardly knew anything about Humboldt. This book gave me new appreciation for the genius of the man. Now, wherever I go, I see things named after him-- and rightly so. A great education in a very enjoyable format.
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- 31-03-12
Exploring the man they named the current for
Not sure if it's the writing, but Humboldt comes off a little like the stereotypical German tourist. This strikes me as both good and bad (as German tourists tend to be). Example: the mastiff he decides to take into the jungle with him. His "pet" is ultimately (and maybe inevitably?) eaten. Shows a kind of willfulness while at the same time showing the cheerful way he would face privations on his journeyings ("Just need my dog and I'll be fine").
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A Matter of Degrees: How Does the Tilt of Earth's Axis Affect the Seasons?
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Environmental Science
|Time Required
|Short (2-5 days)
|Material Availability
|You will need a couple of specialty items: a globe of Earth and a heat lamp. Light from the sun can be used if a heat lamp is not available.
|Average ($50 - $100)
|Minor injury is possible, so be careful when using the heat lamp.
AbstractMany people are surprised to learn that the season's we experience—winter, spring, summer and fall—have nothing to do with the distance of Earth from the Sun. In this science fair project, you will investigate how the temperature on Earth actually depends on the tilt of Earth's axis of rotation.
The objective of this science fair project is to investigate how the tilt of Earth's axis determines the cycle of seasons.
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The Earth rotates around its axis once every 24 hours. It also revolves around the Sun once every 365.25 days. The axis of Earth's rotation is tilted 23.5 degrees from the plane formed by its orbit around the Sun. Figure 1 shows the axial tilt of Earth, with respect to its orbit.
Lines are drawn over the Earth that show the orbit direction (flat horizontal line across the center of the Earth) and a line perpendicular to the orbit direction (straight vertical line through the center of the Earth). The rotation axis is angled slightly to the right and the difference between that and the line perpendicular to the orbit direction is the axial tilt. The celestial equator is perpendicular to the the axis of rotation.
Figure 1. Earth's axial tilt. The angle of tilt equals the angle between the axis of rotation (through the poles) and a line that is perpendicular to the plane of the orbit. The celestial equator is an extension into space of Earth's equator. The axial tilt is the reason why Earth has a variety of seasons. (Wikipedia, 2009.)
One of the significant consequences of the axial tilt is the creation of a variety of seasons. Look at Figure 1. Imagine that the Sun is to the left of Earth. Because of the axial tilt, the Sun is directly over a region in the southern hemisphere. As Earth rotates on its axis, the Sun stays directly over the southern hemisphere. This is the alignment for winter in the North America and summer in Australia.
Let's skip ahead six months. Imagine Earth has gone halfway around in its orbit. Now the Sun is on the right side of Earth in Figure 1. You can imagine that the Sun is now directly above a region in the northern hemisphere, meaning now it is summer in North America and winter in Australia.
The hemisphere that is tilted toward the Sun also experiences more hours of sunlight each day, which contributes to the warmth of the summer season. The other factor, as discussed above, is that the sunlight at midday strikes the ground at an angle nearer the vertical, and thus delivers more energy per unit surface area. Figure 2 shows how the angle of the Sun affects the amount of energy delivered per unit area.
Diagram showing how solar energy per unit area varies with latitude. Area "a" has a larger energy per unit area, while area "b" has a smaller energy per unit area. Area "b" has warmer temperatures compared to area "a."
Figure 2. This diagram depicts how solar energy per unit area varies with latitude. (Wikipedia, 2009.)
In Figure 2, the amount of sunlight is equal for both "a" and "b," represented by the red lines. But the area on the surface of Earth that is struck by "a" is larger than the area struck by "b." Even though the two columns of lines have equal amounts of solar energy, the energy per unit area is smaller at the pole than it is at the equator.
In this science fair project, you will measure the temperature on a globe heated by a heat lamp (the "Sun"), and investigate how it varies with latitude, and the relative position of the globe and the lamp.
Terms and Concepts
- Rotate
- Axis
- Revolve
- Plane
- Orbit
- Axial tilt
- Solar energy
- Energy per unit area
- Latitude
- Tropic of Cancer
- Tropic of Capricorn
- Longitude
- Longitudinal line
- How did the Earth come to have an axial tilt? (Hint: It's related to why we have a moon).
- Where are the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn on your globe? What is special about these lines?
- Where are the lines of latitude and longitude?
- How does the axial tilt vary over thousands of years?
- What keeps the axial tilt relatively stable?
- Wikipedia Contributors. (2009, February 10). Axial tilt. Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved March 4, 2009.
- Wikipedia Contributors. (2009, February 26). Season. Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved March 4, 2009.
- University of Illinois, Department of Astronomy. (2000). Seasons. Retrieved March 4, 2009.
- Illinois State Museum. (2007, August 30). Ice Ages. Retrieved March 19, 2009.
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Materials and Equipment
- A globe of Earth
A heat lamp with a stand. The stand can be purchased at any hardware store. Heat lamps are available at some hardware stores, or online, from stores like www.amazon.com.
- You can also just use sunlight.
- An infrared thermometer. Most versions should work, including the ones sold in drug stores. If you want a version with that uses a laser to pinpoint the region that is being scanned, you can buy them online from websites like www.amazon.com, Item # MSC52224A
- Protractor
- Ruler
- Lab notebook
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Experimental Procedure
Setting Up and Recording Your Data
- Place the heat lamp on a hard, flat surface that will not be disturbed.
- Use the floor or a large table surface.
- Alternatively, you can use sunlight to warm the globe.
- Adjust the heat lamp so that it is pointing horizontally.
- The lamp will stay horizontal (parallel to the floor) throughout the experiment.
- Make sure that the globe surface, and any surrounding items, are not being overheated by the lamp.
- Place the globe near the heat lamp.
- Adjust the distance so that the globe is evenly and gently warmed by the heat lamp.
- Be careful not to overheat the globe.
- Now you will position the Earth as it is in summer in the southern hemisphere. (Looking at Figure 1, the lamp should be to the left of the globe). In the following steps, the lamp and the globe should be positioned so that the light from the Sun (lamp) strikes the southern hemisphere from directly overhead. The Sun should be directly over the Tropic of Capricorn. In order to avoid temperature differences due to the light being absorbed by dark regions on the globe, you should select a region on the Tropic of Capricorn that does not have large landmasses, such as the Southern Pacific.
- Position the lamp and the globe so that the light from the lamp strikes the globe directly above (perpendicular to) the Tropic of Capricorn.
- Since dark colors will absorb more light from the lamp, spin the globe so that the region of the South Pacific Ocean is near the lamp.
- Wait 5 minutes or so to allow the temperature of the globe to stabilize.
- You can take temperatures while you are waiting to see how quickly the globe warms up and when the temperature is stable.
- You will use the infrared thermometer to read the surface temperature of the globe at the following points. The approximate angle of the "Sun" is shown in parentheses, and you will use these angles in your graphs.
- South Pole (23 degrees)
- Tropic of Capricorn (90 degrees)
- Equator (66 degrees)
- Tropic of Cancer (44 degrees)
- North Pole (0 degrees)
- The North Pole is dark 24 hours a day during summer in the southern hemisphere. Use 0 degrees for points that receive no light. All of the areas receiving no light should be the same temperature.
- Hold the thermometer close to the globe, about 2 cm away. Experiment to find the best distance.
- Take note of the angle and distance, relative to the globe, at which you hold the thermometer, in a data table in your lab notebook. Keep the angle and distance consistent in all of your readings. The points at which you take the readings should be along a longitudinal line (that is, along a north-south line).
- Take at least three readings from each latitude.
- Average your readings and record the results in your lab notebook.
Graphing Your Results
- Subtract the temperature at the North Pole from all of the temperatures.
- This will give you the temperature change due to the heat lamp.
- Graph the temperature change vs. the angle of the Sun.
- Put the angle of the Sun on the x-axis.
- Name of the location (South Pole, etc.) on the chart.
- Put the temperature change on the y-axis.
- Label the chart Southern hemisphere summer/northern hemisphere winter
- Repeat for other seasons, including summer, fall, and spring in the northern hemisphere (winter, spring, and fall in the southern hemisphere).
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- Repeat the procedure using a uniformly colored sphere (for example, a 12-inch-diameter ball from a toy store) instead of a globe. Draw latitude lines at 15-degree intervals. This will prevent any errors due to color differences on the globe.
- Use a protractor to measure the angle from the lamp to the various points on the globe.
- Repeat the procedure, but include more points at which you measure the temperature, such as the Arctic and Antarctic Circles.
- Calculate the relative energy per unit area for each point. (Hint: It varies as the sin of the angle of the "sun"). Use the point directly under the sun as "100%" and relate the other points to this point. How does the energy per unit area relate to the temperature?
- Look up the actual change in distance between Earth and the Sun over the course of a year. Use the heat lamp and globe to model the effects of the different distances on temperature on Earth (change the distance by the same percentage). Compare the size of this effect with the effect due to axial tilt.
- Use a piece of dark-colored cardboard to more precisely measure how the angle of the incident light is related to temperature and energy per unit area. Hold it at various angles (use a protractor) to the lamp, keeping the distance constant.
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Is there any part James Franco isn't up for?
The actor's already about to be seen in director Danny Boyle's "127 Hours," where he somehow turns in an awards-worthy performance while spending much of the movie immobile, his right arm pinned by a boulder in a chasm. He's got the action-y "Planet of the Apes" prequel "Rise of the Apes" in the pipeline. And then there were those head-scratching – yet compellingly creepy – stints on the daytime drama "General Hospital" earlier this year.
After acclaimed turns in "Howl" and "Milk" and pop culture-appeal films like "Pineapple Express," Franco feels ready for anything.
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"It's not 'Why not?' but it's more like 'Oh, that's new!'" Franco told PopcornBiz. "Yeah, I'm interested, but not 'Hey James, why don't you shoot yourself in the foot?' or something. 'Yeah, why not?' Not quite 'Jackass' yet."
Even "Rise of the Apes" offered a compelling acting challenge and not just monkeying around for a big payday, he explains. "I play a nerdy scientist in that so I'm not an action hero at all. I saw '127 Hours' as an opportunity to have an unusual acting experience, and I honestly felt the same way about 'Planet of the Apes' where when I first heard about it I thought "Well, hmm, I don't know. Those masks have cult value, but…' And then I found out, 'Oh, that that's not how they're doing it,' that it's actually all of Peter Jackson's Weta people doing CG and that I'll be working with Andy Serkis who played Gollum"
"I was such a big fan of those movies and I am interested in new ways of performing and new ways of filmmaking so I thought why not?" Franco said. "I had this opportunity and try it out. I got to do the scenes with Andy Serkis – he plays a chimpanzee, a real chimpanzee. There's no way we would ever get scenes that we did with a real chimpanzee. Because Andy's so good at that behavior, it's like acting opposite a real chimpanzee with great acting instincts. It was cool, it was new-new for me."


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Caught On Tape: Prince Harry Says A Racist Statement Against Arabs!
New of the world reports "The soldier prince pours shame on the Royal Family as he calls an Asian squaddie our little Paki friend and tells another officer cadet jokingly wearing a camouflage veil off duty: F*** me, you look like a raghead—an offensive term for an Arab. Harry, 24, third in line to the throne, also astonishingly mocks the Queen—the Commander- in-Chief of the British Army—while acting out a mobile phone call to her in front of other cadets at a field camp in Cyprus. They laugh out loud as the disrespectful Prince pretends to get bored talking to his grandmother and dismissively hangs up on her saying: Ive got to go, got to go, bye. God Save You... yeah, thats great. He even jokes about the colour of his pubic hair with one soldier in the middle of giving orders. PRINCE Harry appears to be following in the footsteps of his grandad the Duke of Edinburgh who has made a string of racist gaffes. "
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Marcia Weber, a Penn State Extension family and consumer sciences educator based in York County, has received the College of Agricultural Sciences' 2014 Dr. William Henson Diversity Achievement Award.
The award is designed to recognize distinctive and outstanding teaching, research, extension or creative work that advances diversity in the college. Weber was recognized during an awards ceremony at Penn State Extension's annual conference April 23.
As a colleague and now as Penn State Extension district director, Nina Redding has witnessed Weber's commitment to diversity firsthand. "About 10 years ago, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture had identified a local need for a Chinese-language ServSafe food-safety class for food-service workers in the region," said Redding, who nominated Weber for the award. "Marcia was one of two family and consumer sciences educators who coordinated the first course.
"Several additional Chinese courses were held in the region, and now as a food-safety educator, she is reaching out to the Hispanic community in the area," she said. "The Hispanic community now looks to Penn State Extension as a provider of choice, and she supports an instructor who teaches in Spanish."
That fact is echoed by another nominator, Maria Gorgo-Gourovitch, an extension program associate who has worked with Weber on the Spanish ServSafe courses. "Marcia really cares about the Latino community," she said. "She understands how important it is to reach out to Latinos and give them opportunities to learn and improve their situation."
Nominator Marilyn Corbin, Penn State Extension associate director and program leader for youth, family, food and health, noted that Weber always has appreciated the cross-section of people who live in her community. "She has taught children and youth from diverse backgrounds in the York City public school system and intentionally engaged people from all walks of life in our extension programs," she said.
"She has been proactive to set up extension classes that will benefit the participants so they could learn living-wage skills to be able to enter the work force and support their families."
Corbin and Redding both also cited Weber's efforts to enhance her language skills to better serve under-represented audiences. She recently earned a certificate to teach English as a Second Language, has worked with a local Spanish-language radio station to reach Latino clientele and took an in-depth immersion course in Ecuador, during which she lived with local families and taught lessons to native Spanish speakers to improve her own Spanish-speaking skills.
She also works with the local Hispanic human-service agencies and has successfully recruited Hispanic and black community members to serve on the local Extension Family Living Advisory Committee.
As winner of the 2014 William Henson Diversity Achievement Award, Weber receives a certificate of achievement, recognition on a permanent plaque mounted in the lobby of the Agricultural Administration Building and a $500 award.


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A tree trunk rests on the bed of a dried lake, the outcome of severe drought, in Waterloo, Neb., on Tuesday. A new report shows that the nation's worst drought in decades is getting worse again, ending an encouraging five-week run of improving conditions.
ST. LOUIS -- The worst U.S. drought in decades has deepened again after more than a month of encouraging reports of slowly improving conditions, a drought-tracking consortium said Wednesday, as scientists struggled for an explanation other than a simple lack of rain.
While more than half of the continental U.S. has been in a drought since summer, rain storms had appeared to be easing the situation week by week since late September. But that promising run ended with Wednesday's weekly U.S. Drought Monitor report, which showed increases in the portion of the country in drought and the severity of it.
The report showed that 60.1 percent of the lower 48 states were in some form of drought as of Tuesday, up from 58.8 percent the previous week. The amount of land in extreme or exceptional drought — the two worst classifications — increased from 18.3 percent to 19.04 percent.
Grain prices soar as drought impact deepens
The Drought Monitor's map tells the story, with dark red blotches covering the center of the nation and portions of Texas and the Southeast as an indication of where conditions are the most intense. Those areas are surrounded by others in lesser stages of drought, with only the Northwest, Florida and a narrow band from New England south to Mississippi escaping.
The governor of Missouri has enacted an emergency measure to drill new wells in areas where water is scarce, providing much-needed relief for the state's farmers and ranchers. NBC's Thanh Truong reports.
A federal meteorologist cautioned that Wednesday's numbers shouldn't be alarming, saying that while drought usually subsides heading into winter, the Drought Monitor report merely reflects a week without rain in a large chunk of the country.
"The places that are getting precipitation, like the Pacific Northwest, are not in drought, while areas that need the rainfall to end the drought aren't getting it," added Richard Heim, a meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center. "I would expect the drought area to expand again" by next week since little rain is forecast in the Midwest in coming days.
Drought conditions plague much of the United States after a summer of scorching temperatures and a lack of rain. The dryness is affecting America's farmland, threatening crops like soybean and corn.
He said there was no clear, scientific explanation for why the drought was lingering or estimate for how long it would last.
"What's driving the weather? It's kind of a car with no one at the steering wheel," Heim said. "None of the atmospheric indicators are really strong. A lot of them are tickling around the edges and fighting about who wants to be king of the hill, but none of them are dominant."
White House offers drought relief, feels heat to waive ethanol mandate
As the drought continues, ranchers worry for the future especially now that the total number of cattle in the U.S. is already the smallest in 60 years. NBC's Kristen Dahlgren reports.
The biggest area of exceptional drought, the most severe of the five categories listed by the Drought Monitor, centers over the Great Plains. Virtually all of Nebraska is in a deep drought, with more than three-fourths in the worst stage. But Nebraska, along with the Dakotas to the north, could still see things get worse "in the near future," the USDA's Eric Luebehusen wrote in Wednesday's update.
The drought also has been intensifying in Kansas, the top U.S. producer of winter wheat. It also is entirely covered by drought, and the area in the worst stage rose nearly 4 percentage points to 34.5 percent as of Tuesday. Much of that increase was in southern Kansas, where rainfall has been 25 percent of normal over the past half year.
Peggy Ebbesmeyer's ranch in Truxton, Missouri has been hit hard by drought.
After a summer in which farmers watched helpless as their corn dried up in the heat and their soybeans became stunted, many are now worrying about their winter wheat.
It has come up at a rate on par with non-drought years, but the quality of the drop doesn't look good, according to the USDA. Nearly one-quarter of the winter wheat that germinated is in poor or very poor condition, an increase of 2 percentage points from the previous week and 9 percentage points worse than the same time in 2011. Forty-two percent of the plantings are described as in fair shape, the same as last week.
Farmers who might normally irrigate in such circumstances worry about low water levels in the rivers and reservoirs they use, and many are hoping for snow to ease the situation. But it would take a lot. About 20 inches of snow equals just an inch of actual water, and many areas have rain deficits of a foot or more.
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October 10, 2013
Review - A Dangerous Inheritance by Alison Weir
I first read Alison Weir many years ago when I read her elegantly wonderful biography of Eleanor of Acquitaine. Her scholarship in English history is well respected and forms a firm foundation for her story telling skills. This is her fourth historical novel and it is the story of two girls who were close to the English throne, Kate Plantagenet, base born daughter of Richard III, in the 1480s and Lady Katherine Grey, cousin to Elizabeth I and sister of the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey, who was briefly put on the throne by Protestant sympathizers in the 1550s, prior to Mary I's ascension to the throne. At first I was a little confused as to who was who as the narrative shifts between the two girls and I needed to keep referring to the extensive family trees given at the front of the book. But fairly quickly, the two stories took shape, each Kate's voice became distinctive and the feeling of being right beside them developed. Period detail is excellent (especially the sumptuous clothes and the streetscenes) and her re-take on the mystery of the Princes in the tower, which exerts fascination to both Kates, is excellently imagined and described. Both girls love deeply but their fates are determined by their family connections and their dangerous closeness to the throne. Thoroughly recommended. Wendy
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French standoff ends with suspect shot in head
Published: 23rd March 2012 10:18 AM | Last Updated: 16th May 2012 06:41 PM | A+A A-
TOULOUSE, France: Inspired by radical Islam and trained in Afghanistan, the gunman methodically killed French schoolchildren, a rabbi and paratroopers and faced down hundreds of police for 32 hours. Then he leapt out a window as he rained down gunfire and was fatally shot in the head.
France will not be the same after Mohamed Merah, whose deeds and death Thursday could change how authorities track terrorists, determine whether French Muslims face new stigmas and even influence who becomes the next French president.
The top priority for investigators now is determining whether Merah, who claimed allegiance to al Qaeda, was the kind of lone-wolf terrorist that intelligence agencies find particularly hard to trace, or part of a network of homegrown militants operating quietly in French housing projects, unbeknownst to police.
Either way, French authorities are facing difficult questions after acknowledging that Merah, a 23-year-old Frenchman of Algerian descent, had been under surveillance for years and that his travels to Afghanistan and Pakistan were known to French intelligence — yet he wasn't stopped before he started his killing spree on March 11. Merah had been on a U.S. no-fly list since 2010.
"One can ask the question whether there was a failure or not," French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Europe 1 radio. "We need to bring some clarity to this."
Three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers died in France's worst Islamist terrorist violence since a wave of attacks in the 1990s by Algerian extremists.
Merah filmed all three attacks, Prosecutor Francois Molins said Thursday, and claimed to have posted them online.
"You killed my brother; I kill you," he said in the video of the first attack, in which one French paratrooper died, Molins said. "Allah Akbar," (God is Great), he declared during the second, when two more soldiers were killed.
The prosecutor said Merah told police he wanted to "bring France to its knees."
"While the facts concerning the three killings have been clearly elucidated, and Mohamed Merah carries full responsibility, the investigations are not finished," he said.
Authorities are trying to determine whether Merah's 29-year-old brother, Abdelkader, was involved, and are searching for accomplices who might have encouraged Merah to kill or furnished the means to do so, Molins said.
Merah espoused a radical form of Islam and had been to Afghanistan and the Pakistani militant stronghold of Waziristan, where he claimed to have received training from al Qaeda. He also had a long record of petty crimes in France for which he served time in prison, and prosecutors said he started to radicalize behind bars.
Merah told negotiators he killed to avenge the deaths of Palestinian children and to protest the French army's involvement in Afghanistan as well as France' law against the Islamic face veil.
Police detained his mother and brother and surrounded Merah's building soon after 3 a.m. Wednesday. They tried to detain Merah but were rebuffed by a volley of gunfire from his second-floor apartment in a calm residential area of Toulouse.
For the next day and a half, the police, the neighborhood and the nation waited.
Barricaded inside with no water, electricity or gas, Merah at first promised to surrender, but kept postponing the move. Finally, he declared he would not go without a fight, the prosecutor said. Police were determined to take him alive, and tried to wait him out.
Near midnight Wednesday, the detonations began, as police set off blasts to pressure him to emerge and blew the shutters off a window. Through the night they continued.
Merah stopped talking to negotiators, Interior Minister Claude Gueant said, and suspicions surfaced that the gunman could have committed suicide.
Then around 11:30 a.m., police commandoes moved in, entering through the door and windows, Gueant said. Merah was in the last room they checked: the bathroom.
He burst through the door firing a Colt .45, then jumped out a window "with a weapon in his hand, continuing to shoot," Gueant said.
In the gunfight, he was shot in the head, Molins said. He said the police acted in self-defense after some 30 bullets had been fired. An autopsy was conducted Thursday but the results weren't immediately released.
Three members of the elite squad were wounded Thursday, bringing the total of injured officers throughout the standoff to five.
Merah, lying on the ground after his death, was wearing a flak jacket and black djellabah robe.
The SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors Internet messages, reported Thursday that a little-known jihadist group had claimed responsibility for the attacks in France. Jund al-Khilafah issued a statement saying "Yusuf of France" led an attack Monday, the day of the Jewish school shootings, it said. There was no independent confirmation of the claim.
A top French counterterrorism official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of office protocol, said the claim of responsibility could be "opportunistic" but authorities were looking into it.
Merah's mother's computer was a critical link in tracking Merah down. His brother had already been linked to Iraqi Islamist networks.
Merah told investigators where to find a bag with the videos of the killings, as well as a car with a stash of arms, including an automatic Sten pistol, a revolver, a pump-action rifle and an Uzi submachine gun. Ingredients for Molotov cocktails were stashed on the apartment balcony. Inside the apartment were three empty ammunition clips, a pot packed with pieces of ammunition and a Colt .45 with a near-empty clip.
More than 200 special investigators had worked to track him down.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, speaking in Paris, announced tough new measures to combat terrorism. He said anyone who regularly visits websites that "support terrorism or call for hate or violence will be punished by the law." He also promised a crackdown on anyone who goes abroad "for the purposes of indoctrination in terrorist ideology."
Sarkozy appealed to citizens not to equate the violent acts of extremists with France's estimated 5 million Muslims. Muslim leaders urged against any backlash against believers.
"Our Muslim compatriots had nothing to do with the crazy motive of a terrorist," Sarkozy said, noting that Muslim paratroopers were among those killed.
Sarkozy had alienated some Muslims with his push to ban Islamic face veils and by fanning debate about halal meat, and his strict immigration policies.
Now, he may see his political fortunes improve due to this week's dramatic events.
He has made tough security measures a hallmark of his politics, reminding supporters at a campaign rally Thursday that he wants a "regime of authority and firmness."
Socialist Francois Hollande has long been the pollster's favorite to unseat the conservative Sarkozy, but Hollande has little in the way of security credentials.
Algerian media expressed concern that the attacks would set off a new wave of anti-Islamic and anti-Algerian sentiment in France and rushed to disavow any connections between Merah's actions and his origins and religion.
Cathy Fontaine, 43, who runs a beauty salon near the building where the standoff unfolded, said, "When these sorts of things happen, you don't say, 'how did this happen in my neighborhood?' You say, 'how did this happen in my city, in France, anywhere?'"
She said around 4 a.m., she got up, put on makeup and decided she would open her shop, despite the unfolding drama nearby.
Recalling Merah's threat to bring France's to its knees, she said: "He didn't bring France to its knees. France has to get up and get to work."


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Help us! Seeking Afghanistan peace, Trump turns to Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Weeks after engaging in a heated war of words with Pakistan's new Prime Minister Imran Khan, that future soured ties between the two nations, now the U.S. President Donald Trump is said to have sought help from the country.
According to Pakistan's Foreign Ministry, Trump has addressed a letter to PM Khan, seeking the country's help with the faltering Afghanistan peace talks.
Trump is reportedly seeking Pakistan's "support and facilitation" in negotiating an end to what has become one of America's longest wars.
Pakistan's Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said that Trump wrote, "He has asked for Pakistan's cooperation to bring the Taliban into talks."
In the letter, the U.S. President is said to have offered to renew the strained relationship between the two countries, an overture that is in stark contrast to Trump's normally harsh rhetoric towards Pakistan.
According to Chaudhry, Trump told Khan the Pakistan relationship was very important to the U.S. and sought his help in finding a solution to the Afghanistan conflict.
Meanwhile, the country's foreign ministry added, "President Trump has also acknowledged that the war had cost both the U.S. and Pakistan. He has emphasized that Pakistan and U.S. should explore opportunities to work together and renew partnership."
It added that Pakistan is committed to playing "a facilitation role in good faith."
He said, "Peace and stability in Afghanistan remain a shared responsibility."
U.S. war effort to end?
Faced with several domestic and international defeats, Trump is intent on resolving the 17-year-old conflict between Afghanistan's Security Forces and the deadly insurgent group Taliban.
Limited NATO forces from various countries, along with a large number of U.S. troops continue to battle insurgents in Afghanistan, where violent attacks have increased dramatically this year.
Yet, the U.S. continues to pursue peace talks with Taliban, which have been deadlocked for months since the insurgent group is adamant on its demand of driving out international forces from the country.
Following its 2001 ouster, Taliban has been waging a violent war, in a bid to topple the Western-backed government in Kabul and re-establish its version of strict Islamic law in the country.
The Afghan-born U.S. diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad has been appointed by Trump as a special envoy for Afghanistan to lead peace talks with the insurgent group.
Last month, Khalilzad set a deadline of April 2019 for the war to end, a move that left the insurgent group miffed right before scheduled peace talks in Doha.
Following the talks, Afghan Taliban militants rejected the proposed deadline and said a three-day meeting in Qatar between their leaders and Khalilzad, to pave the way for peace talks, ended with no agreement.
While U.S. officials have been pushing Pakistan to help deal with Taliban leaders and draw them to the negotiating table, Pakistan has sought economic help.
The U.S. has long claimed that Taliban leaders are based inside Pakistan.
Simultaneously, Trump's sudden change of tone in dealing with Pakistan, has further raised speculation that the U.S. is planning to pull out of Afghanistan in the near future.
Previously, Trump has expressed willingness to bring home about 14,000 U.S. troops who are in Afghanistan as part of the NATO Resolute Support.
Additional U.S. troops are also involved in a separate counter-terrorism mission, that is aimed at militant groups such as al Qaeda and Islamic State.


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I completed my paper Aibo. Not a project for the faint of heart. I probably won't be tackling any such projects for a long while. This one took over my life. If imperfections due to "hand crafting" is charming, then my little Aibo is definitely charming.
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Black Butler (黒執事, Kuroshitsuji) is a manga written and illustrated by Yana Toboso. Since its debut on September 16, 2006, it has been serialized in Square Enix's shōnen manga magazine Monthly GFantasy. The series follows Sebastian Michaelis, a demonic butler who is bound by a supernatural contract to serve Ciel Phantomhive, the twelve-year-old head of the Phantomhive noble family, and in return Sebastian will obtain Ciel's soul when Ciel has finished getting his revenge and allows Sebastian to kill him. It was announced in July 2008 that an anime adaption, directed by Shinohara Toshiya and produced by A-1 Pictures, was expected. It premiered in October 2008, and has since ended with 24 episodes. However, at the Sono Shitsuji, Shūshō: Saigo no Bansan o Anata to Tomo ni (その執事、終章 ~最後の晩餐を貴方と共に~, "That Butler, Last Chapter ~a last supper with you~") event on June 14, 2009, it was announced that the anime will be returning for a second season. Voice actor Junichi Suwabe confirmed this news on his official blog later that day. The second season premiered in Japan on July 1, 2010 on MBS and will span 13 episodes. The series has been licensed by Yen Press in North America and published in Yen Plus' August 2009 issue for the magazine's first anniversary.
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Uptown transit plan back on the road
Plans for bus-only lanes along Post Oak Boulevard in the Uptown area moved forward Thursday when a key committee recommended spending $62 million in federal funds.
Members of the Houston-Galveston Area Council's transportation improvement program subcommittee approved the spending, a month after delaying a decision so staff could study the issue more, especially regarding plans for the buses to use lanes along Loop 610. In the end, after that additional analysis, planners found the project to build bus-only lanes along Post Oak and offer dedicated service between two park and ride lots is worthwhile, even without the freeway component.
"This project would score exactly in the middle of the highest tier," said Alan Clark, manager of transportation and air quality programs at the Houston-Galveston council.
Two more approvals from a technical committee and the region's transportation policy committee are needed for the project to receive the federal funds.
Uptown's plan centers on offering bus rapid transit service along Post Oak, between a planned Westpark transit center south of U.S. 59 and west of Loop 610, and the Northwest Transit Center near 610 and Interstate 10. Buses would run the route in special center lanes along Post Oak, then using either elevated lanes along 610, or existing city streets north of where Post Oak meets Loop 610.
Combined, the Westpark transit center and rapid transit project and Post Oak improvements are estimated to cost about $148 million. The work along Loop 610 is considered a separate $40 million project, which likely will follow the bus upgrades, set to open in 2017.
About $30 million of the overall project will be spent buying right of way to widen Post Oak by 16 feet for the new lanes, said John Breeding, president of the Uptown Management District. He stressed drivers along Post Oak will still have the exact same number of lanes and access.
Uptown, funded through a tax increment reinvestment zone, is paying just more than half of the costs.


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