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Joined: 04 May 2005
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Posted: Thu 03 Jan 2013, 09:04
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n9viw wrote:
...I think my CD drive is toast because it's old. It was used when I bought it back in 1998. It was one of the first-gen CD/DVD-ROMs, a Hitachi GD-2000. Frankly, I'm surprised it lasted this long. I'll keep an eye on the PS voltages, in any case...
A CD drive that old might not support multisession. Multisession was invented after the first CD specification (Orange book?), so the original CD burners didn't have it. Then when drive manufacturers began building drives that could do multisession, each one did it a different way, so multisession CDs didn't work between different drives.
Multisession was included in the original specification for DVDs, so even the first DVD burners could do multisession, and a multisession DVD created in one machine would work in one from a different manufacturer. Mostly.
About a month ago, Fry's electronics was selling unboxed but brand new ASUS internal SATA DVD burners for $12 if I remember right.
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Posted: Thu 03 Jan 2013, 22:57
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Okay, I think I get it now.
When booting from the CD, I do get two 'help options' - for Basic Help, press F2, for Advanced Help, press F3. This time, I remembered, and hit F3. I did get the option to set the pfix value, but couldn't remember what it was, and for some reason (as noted in my post earlier) I recalled it as 'pfix=fsck'. Well, needless to say, it rejected it and booted up anyway. So, next time, 'pfix=ram' it is, and 'fsck' from the cmd once I'm there!
As regards the old drive, I wasn't attempting to make or use a multisession disk- this is a single-session burn I created earlier this year. I don't recall if I was using this drive when I first installed Wary, but it seems to me I was, as I created the CD using the CD-RW in my old beige box (which is now in this emachine).
I am EXTREMELY cautious about giving ANY command a '-y' option. I don't know if I know for certain what the correct decision would be should one come up, but I'd rather have the ability to say "NO" to it all the same!
Thanks again for the help, I'll let you know how it goes.
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Location: Sydney Australia
Posted: Fri 04 Jan 2013, 00:44
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That is ...
puppy pfix=fsck
that you are typing.
I still believe in turning off the power
taking out the cord
Pushing your power on button up to 30 seconds
reconnecting power and rebooting
Hiren's has >> chkdsk in Mini Windows
why not use that.....Hiren's 15.1 was still good.
15.2 is newest
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Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2013, 10:38
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I finally figured out that the 'puppy' needs to be inserted at the beginning of the command... not because anyone TOLD me, OH no- that would be too simple. Let the feeb struggle! Wonderful. No, I found it through several hours of 'net searching... apparently it's "understood", whatever that means. So I don't 'understand', la-di-dah.
Regardless, I attempted 'puppy pfix=fsck', also 'puppy pfix=ram' and 'puppy pfix=ram,fsck'... NONE OF IT WORKED.
The next person who advocates for Linux, particularly this strain, gets a flying PC to the face.
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Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2013, 10:39
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Also, how is it that a WINDOWS emulator recovery disk can repair or recover LINUX files?
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Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2013, 12:32
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n9viw wrote:
I finally figured out that the 'puppy' needs to be inserted at the beginning of the command... not because anyone TOLD me, OH no- that would be too simple. Let the feeb struggle! Wonderful. No, I found it through several hours of 'net searching... apparently it's "understood", whatever that means. So I don't 'understand', la-di-dah.
n9viw also wrote:
The next person who advocates for Linux, particularly this strain, gets a flying PC to the face.
Well, I have put on my helmet, and I am on the lookout for flying PCs!
To really rub it in, I have to tell you that I had the same experience first time I tried pfix=ram. Uhh, that is until I noted the example written further down in the text, where it clearly says "puppy pfix=ram".
I can assure you of one thing; you're not the first one to make that mistake! On the other hand, the very fact that you actually can do something to improve or alter your Linux, should also be what attracts you to it! Try dissecting your Windoze to do the same; then you'll be flinging PCs all over the place for days! Frustration is one of the things that moves us forward, and your effort so far clearly show you're a real stayer, so I will take the opportunity to welcome you to the Puppy Linux community forever! We love to have you onboard!
True freedom is a live Puppy on a multisession CD/DVD.
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Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2013, 12:51
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n9viw wrote:
Also, how is it that a WINDOWS emulator recovery disk can repair or recover LINUX files?
That's one I've not heard before. Usually Windows can't even read the partition -- Puppy is usually installed to an ext2 or ext3 partition, and IIRC Windows needs additional software to recognize that.
IIRC, if you're installing to NTFS or FAT32, that will cause you problems as well -- I particularly recall the blatant warnings in the Universal Installer about frugal on NFTS being slow and tedious but functional, but I've never done it. It just didn't sound like a good idea (which I think was the goal of that text).
I seem to recall making that mistake about "puppy pfix=ram" vs "pfix=ram" myself a couple times. Someone on here was quite patient with me when that happened
I do think that's a problem that could be easily fixed in software, but I don't program, so I'm somewhat talking out my you-know-what here.
FWIW, I'm sorta a Puppy hypocrite. I like Puppy a lot, and I recommend it to a lot of people, but my main system (Dell laptop) still runs XP every day. *shrugs* I'm not sure why. I think it's one of those "taking comfort in familiarity" sorts of things, but I'm really not sure. I'm not a representative sample here, though -- most of the people on this forum haven't used Windows (unless forced) in a couple years at least. I know one fellow (no longer active, sadly) who NEVER used Windows. Puppy was his intro to computers -- not quite sure how that worked, though.
My us$0.02:
Puppy (real or software-based) poops the carpet once in a while. You really shouldn't hold that against it.
To expand: while I'm sorry for your troubles... firstly, I'm not sure that they're Puppy related (you had hardware problems, too, etc.), and secondly, if Windows had been the OS that borked, you'd be reinstalling, having (most likely) lost everything, meanwhile swearing that "next time" you'd have backups. You'd likely also be just plain swearing, too.
While you should always have working backups of the important stuff (I'm something of a hypocrite here as well -- I'm not very good at that), an OS that's somewhat more fault-tolerant is good for you. Puppy has that fault-tolerance built in, if you do a frugal install -- you can usually recover a corrupt savefile by booting "puppy pfix=ram", mounting the corrupt savefile (just like a drive), then copy over your files, unmount the bad savefile, and create a new one over the old.
All of that said... there are over a hundred thousand Linuxes out there. Maybe Puppy isn't for you (I think you're giving up too soon, but that's me). Check out some others. Give them a chance. But it's really not fair to say "WHOOPS! Had ONE SMALL PROBLEM with this one distro! Guess I better go back to Windows and stay!" Linux is (generally, and --IMO-- supposed to be) free. It doesn't cost you anything but time to try it.
Oh, one other thing... I promise this is the end of my sermon
This forum has two purposes, one being to spread Puppy knowledge around us.
The other is to help people like you.
Give us a chance, too.
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Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2013, 12:54
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BTW, if you haven't thrown you linuxbox out from a high place yet, I have some suggestions for you.
Try following cthisbear's advice about the power turnoff process, and start up your puppy CD again with the boot command 'puppy pfix=ram', which let the puppy load itself into RAM and run from there. It also lets you remove the CD afterwards. If you then can mount and open the HD, I suggest you burn the files you want to keep, to one or more CDs. When finished, try reformatting the HD, and start from scratch again. Alternatively, you could make a new partition on the HD, and move all your files there.
My own preferences is to have one large swap partiton for the puppy, and the rest (in ext3 format) just for storage. But then again, I always run my puppies from a live disk...
True freedom is a live Puppy on a multisession CD/DVD.
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Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2013, 21:00
Post subject: Got it fixed
Well, back on the HD, everything back to normal (so far). On previous attempts, I had typed "puppy pfix=ram", or "puppy pfix=fsck", but for some reason it would boot Puppy and load the savefile onto the HD, rendering it un-umountable, then load Xwin.
I noted when I selected F2 from the CD help selection that one can 'stack' options to get it to do multiple things. The winning combination turned out to be "puppy pfix=ram,nox,fsck". This ensured puppy loaded into ram, did NOT load X, and left me at the shell. I typed "fsck /dev/sda1", which loaded e2fsck, and started the ball rolling.
In hindsight, for all my concern about fsck auto-correcting errors it found, I certainly could have used -a or -y... as it turned out, I sat through MANY errors pressing the 'Y' key, hoping against hope that Linux/fsck 'knew' what it was doing.
I had a brief bit of issue on the first boot after the savefile was created; I tried to set my monitor resolution, and all I got was a black screen. No keyboard response, CTRL-ALT-BKSP did nothing. I wound up forcing a cold-cycle by holding down the power button until the system shut down, which of course was followed by the usual auto-fsck, which found nothing.
On the subsequent power-up, I selected a lower resolution, loaded X, then re-ran the Xorg setup. I was able to set the appropriate resolution, and here I am.
Thanks to all who stuck by my ornery @$$ to get this fixed. I am by no means a programmer or code-fiddler, and for that reason I suppose I should stick to MS-Win, but the un-monopoly of it always chafed me. Perhaps someday I may learn enough to be comfortable with Linux, but for now, it's enough to have it running correctly. I think I'll build another cheap PC and load MS-Win on it, just to have a backup to get to the 'net to ask more inane questions here.
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Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2013, 21:09
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I'm no programmer either. I've made one program all on my own -- in a language that was already dead when I did it (M$ QuickBASIC -- went out of fashion in the mid-eighties).
I've rolled out my own Puppy a couple times, never completely successfully. It's dang easy to roll-your-own with Puppy. That's one of the main ideas of the thing. But if you don't know what you're doing, you WILL muck it up. I know. I've done it.
Be a Puppy user, if you like it. Just remember: you don't have to program, to Puppy
Also, my last post in this thread has some maybe-useful-in-the-future info in it -- even if it IS something of a wall of text.
Good luck -- and if not, we're here to help
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Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2013, 22:41
Post subject: Re: Got it fixed
n9viw wrote:
..Thanks to all who stuck by my ornery @$$ to get this fixed.
We're used to it. We've all been there too.
I think I'll build another cheap PC and load MS-Win on it, just to have a backup to get to the 'net to ask more inane questions here.
The last PC I built, I got
a quiet case
and didn't put a hard disk in it, only a DVD burner. I've been running Puppy from a multisession DVD for about 6 years. Hard disk drives have proven to be too unreliable for me, and running Puppy from a multisession DVD has advantages that no other way can boast.
Lately I've been considering upgrading to a motherboard that has USB 3, but it's a lot cheaper to simply install a USB 3 expansion board.
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Posted: Tue 08 Jan 2013, 21:54
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I apologize. I should have said to type, " puppy pfix=ram " without the quotation marks and leave a space between puppy and pfix=ram. My propensity for error is embarrassing.
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Location: USA
Posted: Wed 09 Jan 2013, 00:22
Post subject: Re: Well, poop!
Subject description: Not a very good diagnosis
n9viw wrote:
While I have you on the horn, anyone have a link to an idiot's tutorial to the use of fsck? Might be in order, if I can even get this install back up and running.
We're talking a manual scan below. As noted elsewhere, first try:
puppy pfix=fsck
I like to Google for:
linux.die fsck
The linux.die site has a man page, and is readable.
Note the "-a" option, if you have a lot of errors, and don't want to manually answer "yes, fix that error" about a thousand times...
The basics for using fsck are:
1) Open a terminal
2) Do NOT mount the drive/filesystem you wish to check. If mounted, unmount.
3) For a device (e.g. "sdc1"), you will use:
fsck /dev/sdc1
The device is located at /dev/*name*, prior to being mounted.
For a Puppy save file, you would do something like (where you need to tell it where the file is physically located):
fsck /mnt/home/lupusave.2fs
Add swapfile
WellMinded Search
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Location: Oslo, Norway
Posted: Wed 09 Jan 2013, 22:21
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Hi n9viw, glad to see you're hooked now!
A good place to find info is
TLDP -The Linux Documentation Project
Under the section 'Guides', you will find 'Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide' and 'GNU/Linux Command-Line Tools Summary', both very useful.
The Bash guides also have a lot of info on Linux built-in commands, but remember that the selection of commands may be limited in puppy, to save space.
This is an address you should revisit from time to time - the brain needs to be topped up!
I also hope that RetroTechGuy forgive me if I suggest an even quicker way to get info from manual pages, on any Linux command:
In the address line in a browser, just type 'man fsck', and the manual page from linux.die.net automagically opens.
The same thing should happen if you just type 'man fsck' in a terminal window, a browser should open with the manual page.
If you type 'linux fsck' in a browser, google gives you a couple of millon hits, but it's worth looking at some of them, many Linux distros have made their own comments on various commands.
True freedom is a live Puppy on a multisession CD/DVD.
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We already know movie tickets are at an all-time high — and now one theatergoer is fighting back against the exorbitant cost of the popcorn and soda we often buy to munch on during screenings of 'The Lorax.'
Michigan resident Joshua Thompson has filed a class action suit against his local AMC theater in the hopes of forcing theaters statewide to reduce concession prices.
Thompson said that he used to take his own snacks to the movies until his local theater banned the practice, and cites paying $8 for a Coke and a package of Goobers candy at the concession stand — nearly three times the $2.73 he paid for the same items at a nearby convenience store.
He got tired of being taken advantage of," Thompson's attorney said. "It's hard to justify prices that are three and four times higher than anywhere else."
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That's my opinion having just taken my 11 year old son to see it. And if I am to read the blogosphere, it is a controversial opinion to hold. Some, including here at Forbes, see it as potentially causing reduced civility amongst kids. Others see it as pure escapism for teens with little teach them or improve their understanding of the world. I have read the first book and now seen the movie and I disagree.
Just in case you missed it, The Hunger Games involves a future society where, as a result of the outcome of an earlier suppressed rebellion, each year, each of 12 ruled districts offers up two 12-18 year olds as tribute to basically play a game of Survivor. The twist is that there is no tribal council or votes but instead the kids just kill each other until one is left standing. To be sure, this is not the sort of movie that we have come to associate as kid friendly these days. But to hold that view is to opt for a sheltered view of what our kids should be exposed to.
My son is actually quite a sensitive soul. When trailers for horror movies come on, he covers his ears and shields his eyes. So I was somewhat surprised when I learned that last year he had read The Hunger Games and enjoyed it. Why I asked? He said, "it made you think."
And it is from that perspective that I approached the book and then the movie. Right from the start the movie opens, not with the game, but with its anticipation. All of the kids are put in the position of facing uncertainty as to whether they would be offered as tribute for the game. It taxes them so much so that the lead character proclaims she will never have children in that world. It is this feature more than the game itself that teaches kids, especially amongst the more privileged in our society -- of which my son is one -- to think about the uncertainty that many less well off both here and throughout the world live. It may not be The Hunger Games that taxes them but the fear of becoming ill without adequate health insurance or of losing one's home to a financial crisis. Studies show that this has great harmful implications for the welfare of adults. Think about what it does to children. The Hunger Games forces the reader to experience that fact of many people's lives even if dressed up in a fictional world.
The game itself brings forward another thought: what would you do? The disturbing thing about The Hunger Games but also its most plausible aspect is how easily most of the tributes buy into the game and are comfortable with killing others to save their own lives. To be sure, not all of them are alike but there is little thought in the moment given to the notion of combat or murder. How often in discussing the news or past historical wars have your children asked you how people come to kill one another? The Hunger Games paints a picture of how the situation rather than the person can matter. This is what social psychologists have taught us (think of the famous Milgram or Stanford prison experiments). Here, it is presented in fictional form and it is powerful. To us, it provoked a discussion of precisely that and made our children step back and think about how the situation can define their actions and the actions of others. This is not an easy subject to broach but The Hunger Games gives us the context.
Finally, there is the question of plausibility. In The Hunger Games, most players are coerced but some volunteer. Interestingly, they are from the apparently richer districts even though there is a prize of incredible riches for the victor. That provokes thoughts about whether people would volunteer for this sort of game in today's world. This is also the context upon which you can broach the subject of Kony2012 with your kids. The most salient part of that movement is the notion of stolen children who are made to fight (think abou that people who believe The Hunger Games is far removed from reality). But there have also been times in history where kids fought without coercion. In many respects, this is all about the plausibility of the economics of the movie. The point is that the very subject of how far removed the movie is from reality is one that the movie can stimulate.
In my mind, the controversy surrounding The Hunger Games reflects a steady move towards a more sheltered existence for our children. I will freely admit that I might have hesitated about taking my son to see the movie had he not already discovered the book. And he saw it and enjoyed it and was not traumatised by the experience. The situation that took the choice out of our hands allowed him to broaden his own horizons without the cost of parental deliberation.
And what age is appropriate? That depends on the kid. Given knowledge my son's reaction, I would not hesitate in letting him see the movie had he been a year or two younger. Beyond that, the benefits I have suggested above in terms of a broader discussion of the world would probably be lost. But truth be told, apart from all the killing, the kids in this movie or the book are far less mean or cruel than children in the school playground. It is easy to get distract by adult classifications of trauma that may loom less large than those children actually experience.
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Your Horoscope: Week of Jan. 1-6, 2014
By Denise Guzzardo
Week of Jan. 1-6, 2014
This Week: Happy New Year, everyone, and welcome, 2014. The new moon arrives in Capricorn New Year's Day. Capricorn's influence encourages us to move forward with a steady pace. This is a great day to take an overview of what you have left behind and where you are headed. The year 2014 provides us with new challenges and opportunities to expand our personal growth. Set some time aside on this day and review what your goals are for the coming year. Then, visualize them into fruition.
Aries (March 21 to April 19) — The New Year will prove to be a very lucky time, especially with financial aspects. The perfect fit career-wise will arrive. Your hard work and efforts, as well as your talent, are noticed by others. The media take a shine to you at this time, invoking your 15 minutes of fame — and then some. This year will also align you with people from the past who will prove to be very enlightening.
Taurus (April 20 to May 20) — This year provides plenty of options for change. However, you need to be willing to broaden your own personal landscape a bit as well. A stagnation with your personal life that appeared to linger throughout 2013 will break loose in the coming months. You are a person of habit by nature. Stepping outside of your personal comfort zone will enhance the chances of growth and development, personally and professionally. Enjoy!
Gemini (May 21 to June 20) — The new year starts out with a bang as personal and professional aspects form a stronger alliance during the first quarter. Opportunities for travel are indicated as well during the spring and summer months. The last two years have been extremely difficult with emotional or physical challenges. You may have noticed this begin to lift somewhat as fall turned into winter, but the year 2014 will bring these aspects to light in the most positive way. Enjoy.
Cancer (June 21 to July 22) — Family and friends will be at the top of your priority list in the coming year. Good news arrives in the form of weddings, babies and health issues that are on the mend. It's easy to see what a blessing the little things are after a challenging 2013 has removed itself from your orbit. Summer marks a time when upgrades with work and finances are evident. Reap in the blessings.
Leo (July 23 to Aug. 22) — The new year brings emotional growth, but not without its fair share of challenges. Your mission is to identify how the other person may be receiving your conduct as well as your code of ethics. If you have been challenged in this arena before, there is obviously a reason the universe is throwing you a rerun. To become more empathetic of others as well as maintaining boundaries for your own mental well-being, learn from your past mistakes and soldier on. Many opportunities for advancement will present themselves in the year to come.
Virgo (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) — Self-employment or self-contracted work is highlighted in the year to come. Slowly, but surely, you emerge from debt and begin to see yourself in the black again financially. With these opportunities you begin to immerse yourself in new and exciting social contacts. Highly-charged alliances begin to take shape and form within the 2014 calendar year, and with that said, you can count on your social dance card to be full. Enjoy.
Libra (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) — The coming new year allows opportunities to put old, worn-out heartache and grudges behind you and start fresh. It does you no good to hang on to the past, and the ability to forgive makes room for growth and development. Finances may have been a little spread thin on and off during 2013. However, trust that you will recover during 2014. In fact, you will begin to see major improvements in the summer months ahead. Changes within your personal life will transpire during the coming year as well. Relationships will end and new ones begin within the next year, promising positive results.
Scorpio (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) — The year kicks off with you holding the competitive edge within your workplace and personal life. Even though it may not be evident right at that very moment in time, aspects work behind the scenes aligning for you and allow you to strike when the iron is hot to get results. Legal aspects become highly beneficial in the year to come as well as opportunities with new love options. The past year had you on an emotional roller coaster not knowing which way was up. Slowly, but surely, the fog lifts in your favor.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) — The new year begins with an emotional or more vulnerable version of you than you are normally familiar with. However, this is OK. Sometimes we need to retrace our steps and resolve an aspect that has been placed on the back burner for a while. You will witness this energy shift quickly toward the end of January, when legal aspects take a dynamic turn for the better. Finances improve greatly this year, and the opportunity for travel exists as well. Romantic options with solid foundations arrive this year after a long dry spell for many Sagittarius friends. This will be a year to remember.
Capricorn (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) — The new year provides you with the finishing touches on an emotional or physical healing process that you have been attempting to work through. It may seem as though out of nowhere you begin to feel lighter and more at ease. You're able to see all of the progress that you've made in the past year on a personal level. This speaks volumes as to whom you have become, regardless of the challenges you've been presented with. Home and property will be a top priority in the year ahead. Changes within your current abode or even a relocation will be on the forefront during this time. Upgrades within your career sector will greatly improve the quality of your lifestyle in the year to come.
Aquarius (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) — You may become a temporary caregiver to a family member or significant other as they move through an emotional or physical healing process at some point this year. You're up for the challenge and have the experience to participate in this process with ease. However, make sure you are taking some personal time to rejuvenate yourself in the mix of this as well. If you've allowed yourself to become a hermit in 2013, now is the time to step out of your shell and take some risks in the romantic arena. This is a year when you can align the perfect love connection, but it isn't going to happen if you're hiding under your bed. Go for it.
Pisces (Feb. 19 to March 20) — This year marks a turning point where you will be addressing the conflicts that have been brewing in your personal life over the past two years. You can no longer look the other way and expect things to resolve themselves. In fact, those actions have only ignited some of the conflicts even more. Blood is thicker than water, and water cannot provide a solid foundation. Once you put your foot down, you will begin to see that peace and harmony were never all that far away to begin with. Finances begin to fall into place this year, and your career sector shows growth and development on a grander scale in the year 2014.
For an extended astrological forecast or psychic consultation, contact Denise at (815) 398-3983.
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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...We were busy, busy, busy today. The Silver Fox was playing catch-up in the garden and I was working with Emily White who has been helping me make One Perfect Bite look a bit more professional. Dinner time rolled around before I was ready for it, so it turned out to be a soup and salad meal that I was able to fortify with a cheese bread that I want to share with you tonight. Every once in a while, I stumble on a recipe that is as delicious to eat as it is easy to make. This is one of them. This cheesy quick bread takes 20 minutes to prepare and another 25 to 30 minutes to bake, and if you eat it when it's warm, it can make an ordinary meal quite special. I do have two cautions to share with you regarding its preparation. Resist the temptation to over-mix the ingredients. It is also important to thoroughly mix the wet ingredients before they are added to the flour mixture. Even more important, is the need to test the bread, as best you can, for doneness. While the recipe suggests baking for 20 to 25 minutes in a very hot oven, I've added an extra 5 minutes to that time to insure no unwanted moist streaks are encountered when the bread is cut. This casserole bread is fantastic when it is freshly made and warm, but things go downhill rapidly if it sits to long. It is not, in my opinion, a good keeper. I do hope you'll give this simple recipe a try. You won't be sorry. Here is the original recipe.
Gnarly Casserole Cheese Bread...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite inspired by Marilyn Miner and Taste of Home magazine.
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
3/4 cup 2% milk
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1 egg, lightly beaten
2 cups (8 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese
1/2 cup chopped green onions
1) Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Grease a 9-inch round baking dish or casserole.
1) Combine flour, baking powder and garlic salt in a large bowl.
2) Combine milk, egg and mayonnaise in another bowl and whisk to combine.
3) Stir wet ingredients into flour mixture just until flour mixture is moistened. Fold in cheese and green onions. Spoon into prepared baking dish,
4) Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Serve warm. Refrigerate any leftovers. Yield: 6-8 servings.
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Carrie Underwood will be the new voice of NBC's "Sunday Night Football" theme song, "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night," the network announced on Tuesday.
Underwood's version of the song will make its debut before the first Sunday night broadcast of the 2013 season on Sept. 8, a game between the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants.
The one-time "American Idol" champion and six-time Grammy Award winner replaces Faith Hill, whose version of the song had opened "Sunday Night Football" since 2007.
The song made its debut on "Sunday Night Football" in 2006, sung by Pink that year, and is a reworked version of Joan Jett's "I Hate Myself for Loving You" with new lyrics.
In a conference call with reporters, Underwood said she'd be giving her own spin to the tune, which she expected to record soon. "It's the same song, same lyrics, but it's going to be with my flair," she said.
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On the same call, "Sunday Night Football" producer Fred Gaudelli revealed that Underwood had been one of his original picks when NBC began airing the program in 2006, but he was unable to secure her. Two singers later, Underwood is singing the intro.
"She's the only person I spoke to about this," he said.
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We've all had those moments of annoyance when we're stuck somewhere far from home (or even near to home) and need to get online to check an e-mail or look up an address. But when you open your laptop, there's no WiFi to be found, and you're forced to use old-school methods like looking at a map, calling someone, or even talking to a real live person to get the information you need. You might have one of those WiFi finder thingies, or you can walk around with a laptop outside and search for signals, looking like an idiot the whole time. You'd think there would be a better way to find WiFi hotspots.
Well if you've got an Asterisk PBX somewhere in your house, there is. Thanks to the new Asterisk WiFi Hotspot Finder plugin, you can call your house, dial extension 9434 ("WIFI," naturally), put in the zip code, and Asterisk will tell you where to find a free hotspot. Or a paid one if you're really desperate. In fact, if you don't have an Asterisk PBX, you might be tempted to set one up just so you can try out cool tricks like this one.
First of all, you need Asterisk. If you're not familiar with it, Asterisk is an open source VoIP phone system with which you can configure with multiple extensions, voice prompts, and lots of other goodies, just like you would a business PBX. You can install it on an old PC and use any number of VoIP-to-POTS (normal phone service) providers to make cheap phone calls and have a cool phone system in your own home. You'll also need the Flite voice synthesizer, or you can download TrixBox and just get everything at once.
Once you have your PBX up and running (or have your old PBX... still running), it's plugin time. The instructions on the download page are very good, but as a preview, you'll need to modify your Asterisk dialplan (where the extension behaviors are stored) in order to set extension 9434 (or whatever extension you want) to call the plugin script. Once you actually install the script, set up a directory for the speech files, and reload Asterisk, you'll be ready to go.
So how does it all work? Well, the plugin script uses 4info.net's handy WAP service to search for hotspots based on zip code. When you call your house and enter the zip code where you badly need Internet access, it will do a quick search, run the text through the voice synthesizer, and speak the information to you over the phone. Pretty cool, eh?
If you often need WiFi and have a home PBX, or have been thinking about setting one up, this plugin is a great example of where VoIP is going. It's a nifty tool to add to your home phone system, so hurry up and get it, already.


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What Buffett, Soros and Einhorn Are Buying
13F Day has come and gone. From George Soros to David Einhorn to Warren Buffet and more, what are some of the biggest investment managers buying and selling these days? MoneyBeat's David Benoit joins MoneyBeat to explain the data. Photo: Getty Images.
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The Boston Architectural College is pleased to announce that DesignIntelligence has ranked the BAC Master of Interior Design and Bachelor of Interior Design programs within the top 10, at number 5 and 3 respectively.
Within the Regional Rankings, the BAC is listed as a top 10 school in the East. Regional Rankings include the input of practicing professionals from firms who weigh in on schools that are not necessarily within their own region.
Ted Landsmark, Boston Architectural College comments, "Over 80% of our graduates over the past few years have already been employed in the design professions when they graduated, because they are well prepared for the responsibilities and challenges now facing practitioners. The education of emerging professionals now requires inter-disciplinary knowledge of how clients' needs can best be met, and our graduates are confident that they can meet these needs and serve society well into the future."
Each year, DesignIntelligence, and the Greenway Group management consultants, conduct an exhaustive review and analysis of architecture and design schools to uncover the levels of excellence that are being delivered in higher education today, and publish the results annually in America's Best Architecture & Design Schools. The research, conducted mid-2011, ranks undergraduate and graduate programs from the perspective of leading practitioners who have direct experience hiring and supervising the performance of recent graduates. In addition to leading practitioners from top national firms, Deans and Chairs of 111 academic programs and 2300 students were surveyed, with data presented separately from the practitioner rankings. Additional issues were queried, such as how programs rate in teaching various skills.


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Skulls of the Shogun developer: Microsoft too incompetent to be evil
Skulls of the Shogun developer Plush Apocalypse Productions has sounded off about the studio's troubling experience with Microsoft Studios.
The game had an exclusivity deal on the game for Xbox 360 and Windows 8 phones and tablets, a deal that's near its end. Plush Apocalypse's Borut Pfeifer apparently felt the timing was right to air out some dirty laundry to Rock Paper Shotgun.
"We felt like we knew what we were getting into even though it would take a long time to negotiate," Pfeifer said. "We had something that they wanted, so we thought we'd take advantage of that. It was a case where we were like 'we know some things are going to be a problem but we think that on some level we'll get something out of them as well,' but I think it was an awful lot worse for us than others. We ran into problems that nobody else had got or talked about it."
"We were launching on three new pieces of the Microsoft ecosystem - their new Async and sort of social multiplayer services, we were launching on Windows 8 and we were launching on the ARM tablets [Surface]. Those were new, and we didn't get them until very late. So all the certification and process issues, we didn't just have them, or even maybe three times the amount, it was an exponential kind of thing. You would have issues on one platform which would actually contradict processes or requirements on another platform. We tried to get the different groups on the same page, to tell them that 'this needs to be the same', just to make things better for the next people who had to face it, but yeah, we ran into exponential difficulties on the process side.
"We thought 'well, it's Microsoft, they have bankroll, they can afford this stuff,' but because of their processes seeming so fucked up, they couldn't actually do that. Even though they were partially funding the game to completion, we had to take a loan to cover the fact that they hadn't yet paid us what they were supposed to."
Pfeifer then explained why Microsoft can't be an 'evil' corporation, as evil implies certain requisites the company just doesn't meet.
"When people call Microsoft 'evil', while I don't want to defend them, it's kind of an undeserved compliment. To be evil, you have to have vision, you have to have communication, execution... None of those are traits are things that I would ascribe to Microsoft Studios."
"They came across as though they were institutionally incompetent. I think they're not really set up to be a decent publisher. I do feel slightly bad saying that, because there were people there who worked hard on our behalf, but at the same time there are systemic problems with the way that division is setup and run."
Skulls of the Shogun is currently available via the Windows 8 App Store, and is heading to Steam next month.


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Welcome to the Season of Impotent Swagger.
Welcome to the Season of Impotent Swagger.
Even by Hollywood�s standards, the summer movie season has been notable for boys blowing up their toys: No sooner did Robert Downey Jr. almost destroy L.A. to save it in �Iron Man 3� than an onslaught of wanton destruction was loosed on the world, from such interstellar fantasies as �Star Trek Into Darkness� and �Man of Steel� to the �real world� mayhem of �White House Down� and �Fast & Furious 6.�
Last Friday, Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington layed waste to greater Texas in �2 Guns,� an exercise in ritualized male aggression in which guns, cars and other things that go �boom� and �vroom� aren�t celebrated as much as fetishistically worshipped.
It�s all in escapist good fun, of course. But, watching Stig Stigman (Wahlberg) and Bobby Trench (Washington) banter and back-slap their way through �2 Guns,� audiences may detect a whiff of anxiety beneath the bluster. Maybe it�s director Baltasar Kormakur�s habit of having his characters aim guns at each other�s crotches or the increasingly frenetic (and laughable) escalation in firepower. But as the body count adds up in �2 Guns,� the inescapable impression is that the movie�s pseudo-casual cool isn�t entertainment as much as a cry for help.
It�s the same feeling that Anthony Weiner inspired this week as he tried to brazen his way through calls to exit the New York City mayoral race, with his compulsive exhibitionism outpaced only by his pathological ambition. Weiner�s breathtaking braggadocio called to mind other instances of political posturing this summer, whether it was Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, describing the children of undocumented immigrants as probable drug mules �with calves the size of cantaloupes,� or Congress spending this week avoiding substantive work, instead casting meaningless votes to score political points.
Washington and Hollywood have always enjoyed a symbiotic relationship, with politicians looking westward for borrowed glamour and contributions, and the movie industry coming here for reflected gravitas and policy bona fides. But these days, the two cities share something else. Both are fear-based cultures whose once-invincible leaders are facing radical changes and imminent extinction.
And they�re coping with those threats, to use Gloria Steinem�s famous phrase, with massive cases of self-induced testosterone poisoning.
Facing diminishing domestic movie attendance, sliding DVD revenue and expanding international markets, Hollywood � never a courageous place � has become more risk-averse than ever. Few scripts are approved these days without big, fat valentines to a fanatic (the term of art is �pre-sold�) audience, like comic-book fans or video gamers. With foreign markets now accounting for up to two-thirds of a film�s revenue, dialogue is likely to consist of one or two catchphrases, with the bulk of communication occurring through gunplay, fireballs and car stunts that are understandable in any language. This summer has featured particularly bombastic examples of that formula.
Even with recent hits like �The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel� and �Bridesmaids� � proving that grown-ups and women of all ages still go to movies � studio executives still cater to 14-year-old boys in their summer programming. But that strategy has proved wobbly, as bro-dacious spectacles like �White House Down,� �The Lone Ranger� and �The Hangover Part III� have gone limp at the box office. (The industry was reportedly gobsmacked when �The Heat,� a raunchy action comedy starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, turned out to be a sleeper hit.)
For their part, politicians these days are also threatened, either by demographic shifts, primary challenges or their own self-destructive tendencies. Their rhetorical arms race, whether born of strategy or egomania, keeps escalating. But who�s buying their lines? �Quit isn�t the way we roll in New York City,� the chronically clueless � and thoroughly unconvincing � Weiner said in his new campaign videoTuesday. �We fight through tough things. We�re a tough city.�
Stig Stigman, meet Carlos Danger.
Whether it�s Wahlberg winking and blasting his way through �2 Guns� or Weiner arrogantly identifying himself with the city he seeks to lead (and that will surely reject him), both share an air of impunity that, to a far more troubling extent, suffuses the chilling documentary �The Act of Killing.� In the film, Joshua Oppenheimer interviews an Indonesian death squad leader named Anwar Congo, who reenacts the murders he committed in the 1960s as scenes from the pulp movies he idolized. Congo is so immersed in his own narcissistic myth that he�s incapable of seeing the moral implications of his actions, which included torture, garroting and mass murders.
It�s not difficult to imagine Congo watching �2 Guns� and eagerly imitating Wahlberg and Washington�s bravado, just as he�d almost certainly approve of � and maybe recognize himself in � Weiner�s perverse, self-justifying defiance.
To chalk up all this shootin� and shoutin� and brawlin� and braggin� simply to male ego would be glibly reductive, of course: Let it be noted, women buy plenty of tickets to these movies, too.
But it�s hard to believe that our current outbreak of testosterone poisoning � cinematic and political � isn�t compensating for deeper insecurities.
While studio executives desperately try to stay relevant by reverting to stereotypical male iconography, their counterparts on the political stage affect comical airs of cocky self-assurance and quien-es-mas-macho theatrics.
What the drama kings from both professions fail to realize is that their efforts are less studly than sad. They�re trying so hard to impersonate real men. But the more they strut and fret, the more they look like the scared little boys of summer.


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think_keno needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 115 designs submitted by 33 freelance designers.
Pigskin Lipstick
A female sports photographer by trade and crazy fan of american football. Looking to start a blog and an eventual brand that caters to women who love everything football. I know a lot of women out there that are looking for this resource.
Target market is women worldwide. I'm guessing the majority of readers will be under 50 and over 20, but I certainly won't turn anyone away.
Clarification: This is for american football.
Needs to be edgy, clean, cool, and easily identifiable so that I can eventually sell merchandise with it. That means it will have to translate to print and clothing (think stitching). So, you may want to provide a black and white version.
I like green, blue and red, but please don't make that deter you from being creative an picking other colors that you feel will work best. I'm not the designer here... Also, please don't use pink, or any female anatomy (you get my drift). ;-)
Potential taglines:
1. A woman's resource for all things football (I think this is my favorite)
2. Liberating the locker room
3. For women who love football
**Provide others if you think they will work.
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Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis passed the time at restaurant Joseph Leonard in the West Village by exchanging sweet nothings and kisses. A spy tells us the engaged couple, who are getting married next spring in upstate New York, were "exchanging whispers in the corner of the restaurant" while waiting 25 minutes for a table Wednesday. Once seated, they "made time to sneak in a few more kisses in between bites." Afterward, they ran into "Zombieland" star Jesse Eisenberg before heading off arm-in-arm.
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BAREA, Ohio – Despite sending just four competitors to the meet, the MIT men's track and field team received impressive performances from those athletes en route to a fourth-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship. Stephen Morton was named the Field Athlete of the Meet, thanks in large part to his National Championship win in the long jump, to help the Cardinal and Gray total 27 points, just one behind third-place Wisconsin-La Cross.
Morton got things under way on the final day of competition with a third-place showing in the triple jump to earn the sixth All-America accolade of his outstanding career. Combined with his long jump performance, Morton was able to account for 16 of the team's points.
Also in action on Saturday was Yermie Cohen, who had the top overall qualifying time in the 1500. Cohen backed up his preliminary showing with a runner-up finish in the final, coming through in 3:50.72, just 0.31 seconds behind the winner.
Vlad Sobes was Tech's first All-American, placing sixth in the javelin on the first day of competition. Morton's Athlete of the Year counterpart on the Track side was fellow New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) athlete, Stephen Headley of Springfield College.


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The tale surrounding composers Mozart and Salieri - that Salieri poisoned Mozart out of jealousy - isn't true, but it's a great story.
It makes for such a great story. The most famous living composer (Salieri), poisons his much more talented and younger rival (Mozart), in part out of jealousy, but mainly because the younger genius has such a sacrilegious attitude toward his extraordinary musical gifts.
The fact that none of it is true hasn't stopped more than two centuries worth of theater, opera, and film speculation. Peter Shaffer's popular 1984 movie "Amadeus" is the most recent case in point.
An earlier, equally fascinating work that explores this musical intrigue, Rimsky-Korsakov's short opera "Mozart and Salieri," comes to life this weekend, staged by the Commonwealth Lyric Theater in the Center Makor at the Temple B'nai Moshe in Brighton.
The company has established a solid artistic reputation already, based on the warm reception of its two previous stagings, also rarely heard works: Rachmaninov's "Aleko" (2013) and Tchaikovsky's "Iolanta" (2012).
The intrigue surrounding Mozart and Salieri has a vigorous history; in fact, for decades, the music world thought that the story was true.
"The sudden death of Mozart, and the untrue rumor that Salieri confessed on his deathbed to poisoning him, kept the story alive," says soprano Olga Lisovskaya, executive director of Commonwealth Lyric Theater.
"Pushkin kind of picked up the history, and his 'Little Tragedy' as he called it, 'Mozart and Salieri,' magnified the story until it became 'a known fact.' " The troupe has enhanced Rimsky-Korsakov's two-scene opera, inserting an intermezzo that adds luster – and lots of Mozart's music – to the performance.
"The first scene and the second have very different moods," Lisovskaya says. "In the first, Mozart is carefree and joyful, and Salieri is brooding – because he's planning the murder. He feels that Mozart is talented and a genius, and has a kind of divinity. But Mozart mocks everything Salieri holds sacred.
"We insert a potpourri of melodies in the intermezzo, to serve a purpose. Arias from 'Don Giovanni,' 'Cosi fan tutti,' 'The Marriage of Figaro.' It complements the opera.
"The opera is Rimsky-Korsakov, and so it has beautiful, melodic music," she says. "It's through-composed, meaning it moves without a break from monologues to dialogues in one smooth flow. This work is orchestrated in a much smaller way than his usual works, which suits a smaller venue and company like ours. And usually the librettist adapts the original work, but in this case Rimsky-Korsakov totally set the music to the words of Pushkin."
Zachary Schwartzman conducts the performance, under the artistic direction of Alexander Prokhorov. Bass Mikhail Svetlov recreates the role of Salieri, which he has previously sung numerous times, including with the Bolshoi Theater. Tenor Mikhail Yanenko sings the role of Mozart.
(An alternate cast sings Wednesday's performance, with Prokhorov as Salieri and tenor Jonathan Price singing Mozart.)
The intermezzo features numerous soloists, including soprano Jean Furman and boy alto Clark Rubinshtein from the Lucky Ten, a youth training ensemble directed by the Commonwealth Lyric Theater.
Olga Maslova designs the stage and costumes.
Plans are already underway for Commonwealth's next rarity, a production of nineteenth century Ukrainian composer Semyon Gulak-Artemovsky's "A Zaporozhian (Cossack) Beyond the Danube."
"It's well known in the republics," Lisovskaya says, "but difficult to stage. We need a big venue, since it features Ukrainian dancing, which is very gymnastic. But it's a beautiful work, in the bel canto/Romantic tradition, like Wagner or Verdi, but with Ukrainian folk twists."


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LONDON (AP) -- The worst of Europe's debt crisis is probably over, and the odds are that no country will drop out of the euro.
That, at least, is the view that the credit rating agency Fitch presented Tuesday to financial experts at a conference in London.
Douglas Renwick, senior director of Fitch Rating's European sovereign credit analysis, said the 17 EU countries that use the euro have shown their capacity to muddle through to some sort of resolution of their 3-year debt crisis and that a breakup of the bloc is now "very unlikely."
He said, however, that there is "plenty more" that needs to be done and that fixing the flaws at the heart of the euro project may take the rest of the decade.
Despite its return to recession in 2012, the eurozone, he said, is showing signs of improvement in key areas such as economic competitiveness. The impact of austerity measures on the economy may also have passed its peak, even in Greece.
Renwick said flare-ups and bouts of uncertainty in markets will likely continue. This year, general elections in Italy and Germany and a lack of economic growth in Europe are likely to test investors' nerves.
The cautiously optimistic analysis provided by Fitch echoes improvements in financial markets. Bond investors are back buying the debt of countries at the forefront of the crisis, such as Italy and Spain, reducing their borrowing rates to manageable levels. And the euro is trading near 9-month highs.
Many in the markets attribute the more benign backdrop to two factors: the European Central Bank's offer last summer to buy up short-term debt of countries in financial trouble, and the eurozone's decision in November to keeping helping Greece despite its troubles meeting financial targets.
The ECB's move has removed uncertainty from government bond markets while the Greek deal indicates that the country's eurozone partners are committed to keeping it in the currency bloc.
David Riley, Fitch's global head of sovereign ratings, said the twin moves have provided "breathing space" for the economic imbalances across the eurozone to correct and for politicians at the European level to enact more reforms.
"Whether 2013 marks the beginning of the end of the eurozone crisis depends on governments delivering on deficit reduction and structural reform," he said. "With elections in Italy and Germany and the region in recession, the challenge of maintaining the positive momentum gained in the latter part of 2012 should not be under-estimated."
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PEORIA — Former Pekin City Manager Denny Kief has been named acting CEO for both Focus Forward Central Illinois and the Economic Development Council.
A Pekin native, Kief, 62, will serve as the acting head of both FFCI and EDC until a new director is hired by EDC in the coming months.
Kief had a 26-year career in city government in Pekin, capped by seven years as city manager, before retiring at the end of 2010.
Hired initially as the project manager for both FFCI and the EDC, Kief is compiling the new Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy report for FFCI. He also leads the Technical Work Group, economic development professionals from the FFCI region that includes Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford, Logan and Mason counties.
Kief has been an active participant in two years of planning to set up FFCI and establish its regional development goals.
Other FFCI directors include Ray Lees, who serves as managing director of FFCI's Workforce Alliance.
He served as a principal of the Peoria-based architectural/engineering practice of PSA-Dewberry and has been involved in work force planning in both Illinois and Arizona.
Heather Wolbeck is fund development coordinator for FFCI. She works with the group's fund development committee to expand financial support for FFCI. Wolbeck's experience includes fundraising activities for institutions such as Bradley University, Goodwill Industries and Catholic Charities.
Steve Tarter is Journal Star business editor. He can be reached at 686-3260 or email@example.com. Follow his blog, Minding Business, on pjstar.com and follow him on Twitter @SteveTarter.


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happyskin necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 222 diseños de 39 diseñadores freelance.
Glee Skincare is a natural, highly effective, quality skincare line. All products contain specially chosen natural herbal extracts, specialty ingredients and aromatherapy essential oils and no sensitizing fragrances are used.
I always dreamed of launching my own skincare line and now its become reality. I love everything about the skincare industry. I love how a good skin care regimen is evident on one's face and I love that it makes them smile.
The logo should represent just that: a happy, youthful, fun, fresh, modern, refreshing brand of skincare products.
The target audience are women in their teens to 30's.
They tend to have experienced facials at a higher end boutique spa and appreciate products that are natural and made with aromatic essential oils. They also recognize that this line of product is exclusively found at spas. They are also looking to upgrade from the drugstore/department store bought skincare regimen and know that they are getting a spa-quality product but at an affordable price. The typical buyer would be someone who's stylish, modern, yet non-intimidating .
The logo should represent a happy, youthful, fun, clean, fresh, modern, refreshing brand of skincare products.
Logo will be used for website & print
• Web logo design should be "glee" with tagline "happy skin happy you"
• Print logo will also be printed on labels
- Label print dimensions: 2/3" x 1 ¾" rectangle & 1" x 2" rectangle
• Please do not copy the logo & fonts from the TV show "Glee"
• Feel free to experiment with a uniquely designed whimsical flower &/or shape but not overpowering the brand name
• Please do not use faces, profiles of faces, silhouette of a body, stock images & clip art
• Open to color palettes but am drawn to plums & mint green
• Files formats required: .ai, .eps, .psd, .jpeg
Also like to work with winning designer on future print projects.
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The start of this season at the Marine Museum has been exhilarating. At the helm we now have a dynamic curator/manager, Mary Concannon, with infectious optimism.
The start of this season at the Marine Museum has been exhilarating. At the helm we now have a dynamic curator/manager, Mary Concannon, with infectious optimism.
A series of events are scheduled through December with more in the planning stages. The Marine Museum formed an alliance with the Battleship Memorial Committee, the result of an exceptionally warm relationship between the two.
One cannot thank enough the people from the Battleship for their help and support these past couple of years. The alliance is a natural progression of two organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to enhance Battleship Cove and its waterfront, making Fall River a unique locale with the world's largest naval museum complemented by a museum rich in maritime history of the area and distant shores.
April 6, Mike Tougias, a well-known author who has written 19 bestsellers, including "Rescue of the Bounty," will give a talk on the Bounty and its sinking during Hurricane Sandy.
The Bounty, a replica of the British Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty seized by its mutinous crew in 1789, was built for the 1962 film "Mutiny on the Bounty." After the movie, it was purchased by Ted Turner who donated the ship to the Fall River Chamber Foundation, and was later sold to the HMS Bounty Organization in 2001. The Bounty underwent a $3 million restoration and conducted world wide tours. In October 2012, it left New London, Conn., heading for St. Petersburg, Fla.
On Oct. 29, it ran into Hurricane Sandy and sank about 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C. Fourteen crewmen were saved but two perished, including its captain. Shortly after, a memorial service was held at the Marine Museum, attended by survivors and families of the crew. More people arrived than expected, and staff at the Battleship brought additional chairs to accommodate the large number of attendees. The Rev. Robert Lawrence conducted the emotional service.
There was widespread criticism about why the Bounty was sailing in the ocean in spite of all the warnings about
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the hurricane. A formal investigation into the sinking was conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board. The inquiry faulted the captain for the "reckless decision" to sail the ship into the path of Hurricane Sandy. Mike Tougias will discuss the events surrounding its sinking. This free event is sponsored by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is open to museum members and the public alike.
The week of April 21 is school vacation and the museum has designated it Titanic Week. Wednesday and Friday afternoons, staff and volunteers will conduct activities with Titanic themes. Thursday afternoon will feature the movie Titanic.
Coming up on May 2 is a major fund raising event featuring Bob Ballard, a universally acclaimed expert in underwater archaeology. Underwater archeology is relatively new because of the difficulties of working underwater. The application of archaeology to underwater sites initially emerged from the skills and tools developed by shipwreck salvagers. However, underwater archeology is not limited to shipwrecks. It now has a number of branches, including maritime archaeology, the scientifically based study of past human life, behaviors and cultures and their activities in, on, around and under the sea, estuaries and rivers. Widespread climatic changes on a continental scale indicate that some sites of human occupation that were once on dry land are now submerged. For example, the North Sea was a great plain, and the remains of animals are sometimes recovered by trawlers. Human societies have always made use of water, and often the remains of structures that these societies built still exist underwater. Acceptance of underwater archeology as legitimate archaeological research has been slow, but that changed when universities began teaching the subject.
Dr. Ballard was a commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve, serving in the Navy for 30 years. He has received 21 honorary degrees and six military awards. Dr. Ballard is a National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence, a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, and president of the Ocean Exploration Center at Mystic Aquarium, Mystic, Conn. He spent 30 years at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he helped develop telecommunications technology for underwater explorations. He is currently a tenured professor of Oceanography and director of the Center for Ocean Exploration at the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island.
An explorer, discoverer, and historian, Ballard is best known for his discoveries of the RMS Titanic, the German battleship Bismark, the U.S. aircraft carrier Yorktown (sunk in the World War II Battle of Midway), and John F. Kennedy's boat PT-109. He is also the author of "Lost Liners," the story of the great trans-Atlantic liners through memorable wrecks he has visited. The May 2 event featuring Dr. Ballard begins with a cocktail hour and an opportunity to meet the oceanographer before his talk. It will be a preeminent occasion you would not want to miss. Further information will be provided as the date approaches. If you wish to make a reservation, please contact the Marine Museum at 508-674-3533. We're located at 70 Water St., a couple of blocks south of the Battleship.
Also, if you are planning a private event, consider the Marine Museum. Contact Ginny Eagan at 401-624-9744 for more information. Remember, the Marine Museum is handicap accessible with no steps to climb. Please visit us at www.marinemuseumfr.org, facebook.com/MarineMuseumFallRiver, and twitter.com/MarineMuseumFR. Better yet, become a member. The beginning of a new season is the best time to join.
Phil Hudner retired from Bank of America and lives in Westport, where he was a member of the Planning Board. He currently serves as a trustee of the Marine Museum.


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From £15,930
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The R 1200 GS Exclusive TE. The ultimate adventurer, like nothing that has come before it, packed with new features and cutting-edge technology. The modern, forward-thinking design features classic GS styling, and underlines the poise and dynamic prowess of the bike. Both groundbreaking and reassuringly familiar, it reflects the motorcycle's proud past while ushering in a new era. The R 1200 GS. A legend brought to life in consummate style. The Exclusive TE edition is available exclusively in Iced Chocolate Metallic Paintwork with an achat grey frame and gold calipers. Dynamic ESA and On-Board Computer Pro also feature as standard so you are well prepared for wherever your journey may take you.
|Air/liquid-cooled four stroke flat twin engine, double overhead camshaft, one balance shaft
|Bore x stroke
|101 mm x 73 mm
|1,170 cc
|Rated output
|92 kW (125 hp) at 7,750 rpm
|Max. torque
|125 Nm at 6,500 rpm
|Compression ratio
|12.5 : 1
|Mixture control / engine management
|Electronic intake pipe injection
|Emission control
|Closed-loop 3-way catalytic converter, emission standard EU-4
|Performance / fuel consumption
|Maximum speed
|over 200 km/h
|Consumption per 100 km based on the WMTC
|4,96 l
|Fuel type
|Unleaded super, octane number 95 (RON)
|Electrical system
|three-phase alternator 510 W (nominal power)
|12 V / 11,8 Ah, maintenance-free
|Power transmission
|oil lubricated clutch, hydraulically operated
|Constant mesh 6-speed gearbox with helical gear teeth
|Shaft drive
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|Two-section frame, front- and bolted on rear frame, load-bearing engine
|Front wheel location / suspension
|BMW Motorrad Telelever; stanchion diameter 37 mm, central spring strut
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|Cast aluminium single-sided swing arm with BMW Motorrad Paralever; WAD strut (travel- related damping), spring pre-load hydraulically adjustable (continuously variable) at handwheel, rebound damping adjustable at handwheel
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|850 / 870 mm (lowered suspension* 800 / 820 mm) *OE
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Havasu Falls Framed between Trees
Kerby Pfrangle 6/21/2005 3:58:49 PMMarlon
Congratulations on your finalist.
Good luck in the finals.
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Cathy Barrows 6/21/2005 5:19:23 PMCongrats!...very cool looking waterfall #1499785
Noel Baebler 6/22/2005 6:10:45 AMThis is beautiful, Marlon! Congratulations! #1503994
Jim Kinnunen 6/23/2005 1:12:58 AMCongratulations Marlon on this winning image!!! #1508793
Kerby Pfrangle 6/23/2005 1:22:14 AMMarlon
Congratulations on your second place win. Job well done.
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Anita Taylor 6/23/2005 6:36:24 PMThe colors are incredible! Congratulations on your win :) #1512882
Piotr M. Organa 6/24/2005 8:56:55 AMNice photo, Marlon! Congratulations!!! #1515278
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Kristi A. Howson 1/22/2006 5:45:25 PMBeautiful the way you've framed this and I can see why it won 2nd. A belated congratulations on your win too Marlon! #2323964
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7 Light Meals That Aren't Just Lettuce
When you start talking about light and healthy meals suddenly everyone starts in on the salads. Well ya know what? I'm tired of salads and I want to eat food that isn't just for rabbits. Here instead are a few light meal options that aren't just made from lettuce!
1. Lighter Stuffed Pasta Shells
2. Quick Udon Noodle Soup
3. Vegetable Lasagna with Butternut Béchamel
4. Oven Roasted Squid
5. Slow-Cooked Tomato and Herb White Beans
6. Black Bean, Sweet Potato, and Quinoa Chili
7. Black Rice Salad with Avocado and Grapefruit
Do you have a favorite light food or meal that isn't made from rabbit food? There's nothing against it, heck, we love salads, but sometimes you just want something more. Share your favorites or a link in the comments below.
Related: 3 Ingredient Healthy Ice Cream
It's Reader Request Week at The Kitchn! This post was requested by NORCALGIRL21.
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InSight Cinema
Executive Director: Nanci Linke-Ellis
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Suite 380
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Phone: (310) 452-8700
Fax: (310) 452-8711
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Website: www.InSightCinema.org
Summary:InSight Cinema is a 501 c 3 non-profit outreach program based in Santa Monica, California that advocates for access and literacy through the use of captioning for Deaf and Hard of Hearing and captioned movies in neighborhood theatres. It has received support from the film industry, bringing together the Studios, theatre chains, technology companies and captioned filmgoers.
Because of its growth and the increasing demand for films, entertainment and cultural experiences that are made accessible in the captioned format, InSight has expanded its outreach to include event listings for live theatre, opera and museum information. It continues to develop its resources into becoming an all-inclusive "go-to" web domain for any and all information pertaining to captioned events in the U.S.
The InSight Cinema Mission:
-To create awareness of the availability of Open Captioned films to the deaf, hard-of-hearing, and ESL communities.
-To increase film industry awareness of the demand for Open Captioned films and of the many groups who can benefit because we are "the audience that is reading."
-To raise funding for InSight Cinema to expand its national outreach and advocacy efforts.


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Armenian Bread Rounds - Bread Machine
Delicious flat bread, similar to foccacia. For a 1-1/2 pound capacity bread machine. Posted for Zaar World Tour II.
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Easy Garlic Rosemary Bread for the Bread Machine
Just another invention - I love to cook, but I like easy as well as tasty!
Butter and Garlic Bread ( Bread Machine)
This is a wonderful bread machine recipe. I sometimes double it and make it in the stand mixer too. Perfect for pasta dishes.
Garlic Dill Bread (bread Machine)
This low to medium rising bread has a good dense texture and is very garlicky. Use the bottled chopped garlic as an extra convenience.
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Easy Garlic, Basil and Parmesan Bread for Bread Machine
Slight variant on some other recipes that I really enjoyed.
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Bread Machine Garlic Bread
This bread is so delicious and will really make your house smell wonderful as it is baking. I've fooled around with this recipe and have done various things...
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Savory Roasted Pepper Bread for the Bread Machine
Here is a recipe from Gold Medal that makes a one and half pound loaf. It is really good with basil, roasted pepper, and goat cheese for a sandwich.
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Cracked Black Pepper Bread (Bread Machine)
This bread recipe has some of my very favorite ingredients - garlic, chives, basil, Parmesan cheese and cracked black pepper as well. Yummy! Baking time...
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Bread Machine Garlic and Herb Walnut Bread
From a book called Bread by Christine Ingram, not tried it yet but sounds yummyproduces a 11/2 lb loaf
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Joining adults in the kitchen helps kids learn about foods. Most 4-H cooking projects explore the science, nutrition and history of cooking while promoting healthy eating and resource management.
Joining adults in the kitchen helps kids learn about foods. Most 4-H cooking projects explore the science, nutrition and history of cooking while promoting healthy eating and resource management.
Of course, safety comes first. Follow these tips:
�Have supervision, and never allow kids to cook without asking for permission.
�Tell children that cleanliness is good. They should keep hands and surfaces clean, and children with long hair need to tie it up.
�Ensure kids don't wear loose clothing that can catch on fire.
After setting safety rules, help youths identify, and know how to safely use, common kitchen tools including knives and other sharp objects. Ditto for hot items such as a broiler, toaster, stove or microwave.
Teach kids about measuring methods and demonstrate how to keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold. We certainly don�t want foodborne illnesses coming our way.
Help kids read directions and follow recipes. They should ensure they have all their ingredients before beginning a cooking project.
If the project requires cutting skills, start simple with something soft like a banana and a plastic knife. Demonstrate the technique and have them try the actions.
And when working with knives � you guessed it! � safety comes first. Lay down these ground rules:
�Cut with caution
�Focus on one task at a time
�Never point a knife at a person
�Always hold the knife by its handle
�Use a cutting board
�Go slowly
Next, demonstrate how to wash produce and handle meat safely so you do not have cross-contamination of foods.
Above all, help kids find what it is about cooking that excites them! Recipes for snacks, side dishes, main dishes, quick breads and desserts are great starters for youth cooking.
Thank you to Paula Davis, Bay County 4-H youth development agent, and the Northwest District Volunteering in the Panhandle Newsletter for this information on food and nutrition.
Adults can teach children how to select, prepare and store food. You can help kids explore cooking methods such as roasting, stir frying, grilling, barbecuing, smoking, boiling, steaming, braising and microwaving. MyPlate, a USDA resource, can help you plan meals and make balanced food choices.
Haley Worley is an agent at the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences extension office in Crestview.


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Studying for the LSAT / LSAT and Adderall« on: September 06, 2012, 11:12:39 AM »
I am diagnosed with ADHD, and Im wondering for those of you who do have ADHD, and are prescribed Adderall, Ritalin or any other drug, do you recommend taking the test with or without it? Ive been taking practice tests without thus far, but I feel like my concentration level is seriously low. Please include your past scores/performances with AND without.


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Tens of thousands of spectators trooped through crowded paddocks and grandstands, clutching ear plugs and checkered flags. Auto-racing teams praised the exciting twists and straightaways through roads normally choked with harried commuters.
And the cars, intricate and sleek, careened through downtown Baltimore, blazing what many hope is a new tradition in the city's collective life.
The inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix concluded Sunday, impressing spectators, particpants and city officials. Perhaps it was only appropriate that the winner of the race — which followed months of elaborate preparations and traffic-snarling construction — was named Will Power.
Power, who has...


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Compare cheap flights to Arrecife
When is the cheapest time to fly to Arrecife?
There is an international airport in the island named Arrecife Airport that accommodates thousands of travelers all year round. Tourism is always in boom in Lanzarote such that in 2008 alone, more than five million reportedly travelled to the island. With an international airport to support its tourism industry, Lanzarote welcomes visitors through direct international flights.
Sightseeing treats for visitors
Lanzarote offers spectacular views with its natural beauty. Although it is a small island, you will never run out of things to do and places to see during your stay. The most popular places in the island are the Centres of Art and Culture, a creation of Cesar Manrique in which his own creativity is combined with the awesome volcanic view of the island. The Valley of 1,000 Palms and El Golfo are ideal rendezvous places for couples and families.
If you want to discover the wonderful treasures of Lanzarote Island, book a flight now with Skiddoo. The trip is worth your time and money.
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