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Joined: 25 Apr 2008
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Posted: Sat 20 Sep 2008, 16:50
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Puppy Greyhound
Subject description: A Puplet Without aDownload
Puppy Greyhound
Greyhound is a Puppy derivative (or puplet) but
there is nothing to download-
-nothing except the information on this page. Information has a much smaller bandwidth than an ISO. What I mean is that these are the instructions to turn a regular Puppy into a Greyhound. They are easy to try and they are easy to undo if you don't like them.
I have always admired BarryK's decision to make Puppy a single-user operating system that ran as root. I am sure he took some grief for that, as many of us probably have, because that violates a rule of Linux Orthodoxy; that Linux is a multi-user operating system. But, gee-whiz, what does my ancient p3 need with a multi-user OS. I would rather have the simplcity and convenience of running as root. So, all I have done in training my Greyhound is to ask some more questions about what is really necessary and what is not--because by eliminating what is not necessary I can get a return in quickness and speed.
Here are the Instructions.
I hope you will read the explanation below if you don't already know each of these programs.
Start Pprocess (Menu: System: Pprocess) and Kill whichever of these processes you choose.
I kill them all. If you don't like the result, just reboot and you are back to normal with no harm done (on the basis of my knowledge and testing--don't do anything you are not comfortable with).
/sbin/udevd -daemon
syslog m -0
/bin/sh /sbin/pup_event_frontend_d
absvolume -bg #DCDAD5
xload -nolable -bg #888888 -fg red -hl white
asapm - 4
blinky-bg #DCDAD5
/usr/bin/inotifywait -e modify --format % /tmp/pup_e
These are 10 programs that will not be needing cpu time. I notice a difference. In fact, I do not load pup_408.sfs into ram (which is now the default) even though that would make some things snappier, because they are snappy enough just from killing those 10 processes! I keep Rox running because it is quicker that way in opening a filer window (and it provides the desktop).
, I don't think the logs are necessary. I test programs and try to adapt them to Puppy and I almost never use the logs; in day to day usage, I never need them. If I need them I can turn them back on. Surely a server or a corporate network need the logs; I don't.
, I don't need xload, blinky, freememapplet, the battery monitor, or the volume control ( the volume control is a close call, but I can start it easily from the menu). If or when I need any of these they are easy to start, but 99% of the time I would rather have the memory and cpu cycles they take up. I do want the clock, but someone else might not.
, the tough one. I have been watching BarryK's progress in creating a leaner, faster subsitute for hal and dbus. Once upon a time aI had made a lean and quick Arch linux system and then I put dbus and hal (which basically automount things as far as I can see). It was a noticable and shocking slowdown! I haven't liked them since or seen any need for them. But they are a superstitition; some programs won't even start without them though they don't really need them. So I was happy to see Barry try to replace them. But I realize now that I don't really need his pup_event system either. I can start Pmount whenever I need to mount something and it even thoughtfully opens a rox window after mounting. I can easily see that some people might be more comfortable with automounting in a transition from Windows.
I must say that I have tried and enjoyed numerous puplets but I do not remember any of them being quicker and more responsive than BarryK's original--he sets a high standard. The puplets add different personalities to Puppy, which is great fun because Puppy is such a wonderful basis for customization. Perhaps some of the other puplets could add some greyhound training too
Extra. You can download the Greyhound
(which my wife and daughter insist is a Whippet) and make it your wallpaper by putting it into /usr/share/backgrounds and running Menu: Desktop: Wallpaper Setter.
If you want to make Greyhound permanent,
then the xload, freememapplet, asapm, blinky, (and clock) are in .jwmrc-tray in your home /root) folder--just comment them out with a # at the beginning of each line.
pup_event_frontend_d and absvolume are in /root/.xinitrc and I comment them out the same way.
udevd, klogd, and syslog are somewhere you can find but I don't think udevd should be commented out--it has to run for hardware detection, but it can be stopped once X and your window manager are running. I write a little script named greyhound.sh that I put into /root/startup--so it runs when jwm starts--don't forget to change the permissions with Rox Right-Click on greyhound.sh Permissions
killall -9 klogd
killall -9 syslogd
killall -9 udevd
Finally--will anyone really read this far
I personally would be appreciative if instead of making pets for me, people would sometimes write instructions. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the pets, but I would also like to know how to do it myself. Thank you.
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Posted: Sun 21 Sep 2008, 09:56
Post subject: Missing items
Subject description: MacPup Dingo
MacPup Dingo doesn't seem to have most of the processes you list. Did the developer already take them out?
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Posted: Sun 21 Sep 2008, 10:24
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This approach is also used by Ezpup (which adds IceWm themes) and some other functions to a standard Puppy.
I have added a link to Greyhound here:
May 019 now available from
Smokey and contributors
Puppy Development
Puppy 9 ... coming ...
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Posted: Sun 21 Sep 2008, 11:09
Post subject: Re: Puppy Greyhound
Subject description: A Puplet Without aDownload
playdayz wrote:
Puppy Greyhound
These are 10 programs that will not be needing cpu time.
Finally--will anyone really read this far
I have read to the end, and question the lack of need for freememapplet.
Admittedly, after many months of watching it, I still don't really understand exactly how it works, or what it's warning me about. However, I know that when it goes red, and the count is at zero, bad things are happening.
This has happened to me several times, and usually while downloading a program.
Sometimes, the cause is obvious - I've directed the download into my 2fs save area (I'm running Puppy 4.0 from LiveCD). In this case, the download aborted, I've had to delete the partial download (I've found that moving it out to ordinary storage doesn't work with the resume function). What would happen without the applet? I assume Puppy would simply lock up, and I have no idea what the consequences would be on reboot of a completely full 2fs file.
At other times, the declining "memory" (again, down to zero) remains a mystery, but usually goes away on reboot.
Since you seem quite sure of the superfluity of the memapplet, I expect that you know the intricacies of its function, and would ask you to explain what it does, and why this is unnecessary.
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Posted: Sun 21 Sep 2008, 11:47
Post subject: Freemem for me
@otropogo Here is one explanation of freememapplet, i remember another that, i think, added that the number is in some cases a combination of free ram and pup_sav. i can't find ttat one again though. All this seems plausible to me but I certainly do not know for sure. aj should know though.
Thank you for reading all the way to the end. I am sure of the superfluity of the freememapplet
for me
. As I meant to suggest, different people will have different ideas about what is necessary. I have run it down to red myself. Downloading a file larger than the memory remaining in pup_sav.2fs would certainly do it. I ran it down by compiling, which eats up memory fast also. I now have a swap file active which I think helps, I also have a better idea of how memory is functioning and what pup_sav is doing, so Iknow the things (downloading and compiling and huge pets or many pets) that might cause problems and I try to allow for that. Finally, I make extensive use of /mnt/home (as you say, I think, regular memory). When I first set up, I make the sav file 768 M or 1G.
Actually i ran it down to red just the other night trying to compile vlc and it whacked my whole system and I lost it. This one was my own darn fault becuae it tried to compile in /root instead of in /mnt/home. I was just lazy and I deserved what I got
Freememapllet wouldn't have saved me though because I started the compile and walked away for a while. Luckily I have several (from 4-8 ) different frugal installs sharing the same hard drive and I do the dangerous things on an expendable install. They only take about 1G each and they share /mnt/home and I can look at many of the official and unoffical Puppies.
I hope I didn't sound like a know it all telling everyone how to run their Puppies. I am much more of an anarchist than that I hope. i like to raise issues and have fun with a goal toward encouraging all of us to learn more about how our Puppies work (That's why I did Greyhound this way, with the instructions rather than making a "real" puplet on an ISO) and to investigate the theoretical (even philososphical side) of Puppy, linux and computing. I am very grateful to the Puppy community for the opportunity to do that. Stylistically I try to strike a balance between being overly tentative and overly authoritative. Probably it just sounds pedantic
I did enjoy some of the careful subtleties of your message. Thanks again.
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Posted: Sun 21 Sep 2008, 18:37
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thanks for this
i am going to take some time to figure out what in this applies to puppy 1.07
and apply it
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Posted: Tue 14 Sep 2010, 09:14
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well, i tried and it's work very good!. Any way, HTOP, won't start in blackbox. I tried other things, like running a game in wine and it's work perfect!. Thanks, this is just what i was searching for my puppy...!
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Posted: Tue 14 Sep 2010, 10:00
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Killing processes is a lame way to do it. Try Pstartup by afishe2000:
One could extend it to include services in /etc/init.d.
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Posted: Tue 14 Sep 2010, 10:38
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Hi all
Thanks very much Playdayz I love posts like this that explain things, thats how I learn by reading and trying things.
Sorry I think your wife and daughter are right it does look like a whippet, (I have been breeding coursing/hunting dogs for the last 25 years)
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Posted: Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:48
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Mhmhmh... After some tests, when i reset puppy, to install a few more packages (LXPanel and other stuff), puppy won`t install anymore...
.. I dont want to reinstall puppy because i alredy have my own compiled-by-me kernel, and it works great. Any idea of why packet manager won`t work?..
PD(1): Sorry for my terrible english...
PD(2): I want to deinstall JWM how can i do that?.... Otherway than delete manually files, and edit configs?.
Thanks. AxiZ
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How to comment in XML:
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|Visit www.thirtysix.org and see the full list of Rabbi Winston's books and writings, not to mention cassette tapes and videos.
G-d told Moshe, "Send men to spy out the land of Canaan which I will give to the Children of Israel. From every paternal tribe send one man; one prince from among them." (Bamidbar 13:1-2)Some time ago, I received a not-so-friendly letter (to put it mildly) insisting that, among other things, "Perceptions" repeats itself. Caught off guard, I defended myself (to put it mildly), because I do try to present new material each week and every year.
However, months later, I regret my response. It is true that I always try to use new material and present fresh ideas, which is not all that hard given the infiniteness of Torah and the myriad of commentators on the Chumash. However, Perceptions began around 1994, almost ten years ago, and for at least half of that time I have been presenting FOUR separate divrei Torah on a weekly basis. There is bound to be some repetition over time, but not due to any limitation of Torah, but to my own personal limitation to recall what I have written previously. One of my biggest regrets now, in hindsight, is not having indexed the topics I addressed in each weekly parshah sheet.
However, sometimes the repetition is intentional. Sometimes I feel ideas are too important and too central to Torah thought to bring up only one week in passing. And, sometimes the inter-connectedness of Torah demands that I cross-reference ideas from one parshah to another, in order to bring to the reader's attention certain subtle connections that otherwise might go unnoticed. Nevertheless, even in such cases, I make a point of adding another layer of meaning that previously I had overlooked or left out.
And then again, there are parshios like this week's that demand that we re-visit the topic because each year it becomes increasingly relevant. Often, especially in the case of this week's parshah, I come to better understand ideas I previously wrote about, and therefore I need to go back and re-explain them along deeper lines.
So, if you are one of those meticulous readers who find ideas repeated from the past in this week's parshah, I beg your forgiveness in advance. And, I ask you to read on until the end, for I believe you will find that, just like the yearly cycle of Jewish holidays themselves, we will have returned to the same point once again, but on a completely different and higher plane.
Having said that, you may recall a source that I included in previous divrei Torah and essays:When the ten spies went out to spy the land, the souls of the ten corresponding tribes came into them, the actual sons of Ya'akov. This is the sod of what Yosef told them (his brothers), "You are spies" (Bereishis 42:9), to allude that in the future their souls would go into the spies . . . (Sha'ar HaGilgulim, Chapter 36)What does this mean? First of all, it is important to explain that, not only does Torah Judaism believe in the concept of reincarnation, but it explains that there are two types. The first type of reincarnation is the most commonly known, and that is that souls after death (of the body) can return in the body of a newly born (actually, conceived) baby. This allows the soul to complete aspects of its own personal rectification if it failed to do so in a previous lifetime.
The second type of "gilgul" occurs after the person has already been born and is alive, already living with his own personal soul. Instead, while alive, the soul of another person can enter him and join the existing soul, either to help the person achieve greater perfection, or to help itself to accomplish more, even after death. Hence, it is called "ibur," from the word "impregnation," since the "extra" soul joins the already existing soul.
The fundamental difference between the two reincarnation processes is the following:in a regular gilgul, the soul is attached to the body for the whole incarnation, the whole physical lifetime; while, in "ibur," there is a primary soul that is connected at all times to the body, and a secondary soul that is free to enter and depart from that physical body as is necessary. Its arrival may increase the spiritual energy of the person, and its departure may sometimes be a let down, as in the case of the spies in this week's parshah, who received, as iburim, the souls of the sons of Ya'akov Avinu to assist them in their holy task of preparing the path to Eretz Yisroel.
And, as the Arizal revealed, Yosef alluded to this much earlier in time when his own brothers stood before him in the Viceroy's palace in Egypt. When Yosef accused his brothers of being spies, according to Sod, he was trying to be more than simply antagonistic. Indeed, he was both hinting to his own presence before them and warning them of the supreme challenge they then faced, the results of which would affect the Jewish people hundreds of years in the future, and we'll have to understand how and why.
All of them were heads of the Children of Israel. (Bamidbar 13:3)To support his explanation, the Arizal added:This is also the sod of what it says, "All of them were heads of the Children of Israel" (Bamidbar 13:3), because they were actually the original ancestors of the Children of Israel. Therefore, it does not call them "heads of thousands of Israel," but rather, "heads of the Children of Israel." (Ibid.)In other words, normally when the Torah speaks about the leaders of the Jewish people in the desert, it refers to them as heads of certain amounts of Jews. However, in this case it calls them "heads of the Children of Israel," as to say, from them came all of the Jewish people. Being the fathers of the 12 Tribes, these extra souls were indeed that.
The Arizal continued:After they decided to speak evil about the land and wanted to tell Moshe it was a mistake to go there, the souls of the tribes left them. As it is known, an ibur can leave from within the person whenever it wishes, unlike actual gilgulim. (Ibid.)This is because an ibur comes to benefit either the host soul, or itself. However, if the person sins, it ceases to have a person to remain together with the other soul. Therefore, it moves on as easily as it arrived, unaffected by the sins of the person it has left behind.
One of the beautiful aspects of this pshat is that it also provides an alternative for the following posuk:"They went and they came to Moshe and Aharon." (Ibid. 26)As Rashi points out, the Torah only had to inform us of their return, since we were already told of their departure just a posuk before:"They returned from spying the land at the end of forty days." (Bamidbar 13:25)Explains the Arizal:. . . It should only have mentioned that they came. Though Chazal explain according to pshat that "their going" was similar to their "coming" (Sotah 35a), according to Sod the "going" refers to the souls of the tribes that left them when the returned from spying the land with an evil report. Thus, the word "coming" refers only to the spies themselves, who came without the ibur of the souls of the tribes. However, Caleiv and Yehoshua retained their ibur: Ephraim ben Yosef was in Yehoshua and Yehudah was in Caleiv, since they did not sin. This is what it says, "Yehoshua bin Nun and Caleiv ben Yefuneh survived from these men who went" (Bamidbar 14:38), that is: these remained alive from the level of the souls of the tribes of their fathers who were in them; they did not leave them after they returned. Hence, just as they were with them when they had gone, so too were they with them upon returning. This is what "survived from the men who went" means. Therefore, "these men" refers to Ephraim and Yehudah who were with them in their going, as it says, "who went," to indicate that these survived from those who went, unlike those whose coming was not like their going. (Ibur.)There you have it, "Pardes" all in one story.PSHAT: The spies left as "kosher" Jews, but somehow became corrupted along the way and came back with an evil report.And, as if that isn't amazing enough, it turns out that, encoded in the Torah across the very possukim about the spies to which the Arizal referred, are the words "Shevatim heimah"-"they were the tribes" (+441)-a Torah code confirming the very sod the Arizal revealed!
REMEZ: Why does it mention that they left? To hint to us that, just as the spies returned with bad advice, so too had they left with bad advice.
DRUSH: At what point, therefore, did they change their status? The moment they turned their backs on Moshe Rabbeinu to spy the land, which proved how dependent they had been at that time on Moshe to maintain their high level of spirituality. That's why they had not been commanded to spy the land at that time, but had demanded it on their own.
SOD: There is a soul connection between the spies of Moshe's time, and Yosef's brothers whom he accused of being spies.
Yosef remembered his dreams concerning them, and said to them, "Spies! You have come to see where the land is vulnerable!" (Bereishis 42:9)In other words, the posuk is telling us, had Yosef not remembered his dreams, he would not have come up with the idea of accusing his brothers of being spies. What would have been the point? Just to aggravate his desperate brothers and take revenge? That wasn't Yosef HaTzaddik's nature. No, whatever Yosef had set in motion by making his accusation, it had been for the benefit of his brothers, and not to his own.
And now, with the help of the Arizal, we can see that Yosef had been thinking about more than just the present dilemma. In Yosef's harsh words, he had been hinting to the brothers, and perhaps to the future spies, that, unless the brothers rectified the problem that had brought about their own apparent demise, history would be doomed to repeat itself in an even bigger way in the future.
Indeed, the Midrash states:All that happened to Yosef happened to Tzion. (Tanchuma, Vayigash 10)In fact, the gematria of "Yosef" and "Tzion" are equal, both totaling 156. And, through Yosef's own ancestors in the time of the spies, we learn how intricately connected Yosef's being was to Eretz Yisroel:The daughters of Tzelofchad-the son of Cheifer, the son of Gilad, the son of Machir, the son of Menashe, from the family of Menashe, the son of Yosef-approached. These are the names of his daughters: Machlah, No'ah, Chaglah, Milkah, and Tirtzah. (Bamidbar 27:1)FROM THE FAMILY OF MENASHE, THE SON OF YOSEF: Why did it have to mention this, since it already said "the son of Menashe"? To tell you that Yosef loved the Land, as it says, "Bring my bones up" (Bereishis 50:25), and that his 'daughters' also loved the land, as it says, "Give us our possession" (Bamidbar 27:4). (Rashi)
And, it turns out that both Yosef and Eretz Yisroel have one other historical fact in common, to which he alluded when he called his brothers "spies": both were gravely misjudged. As it says:They brought back to the Children of Israel an evil report of the land which they had searched, saying, "The land which we investigated is a land that eats up its inhabitants." (Bamidbar 13:32)EATS ITS INHABITANTS: "In every place we passed we found them burying their dead!" However, the truth was that The Holy One, Blessed is He, did this for their good, to involve them (the inhabitants of Canaan) in mourning to distract them from paying attention to the spies." (Rashi) Hence, the Talmud explains:Rava said in the name of Rebi Yochanan: Why does the peh precede the ayin [in Eichah 2:16]? Because the spies said with their mouths what their eyes did not see. (Sanhedrin 104b)Just as the brothers had done when justifying their treatment of Yosef:They saw him off in the distance, and before he approached, they conspired to kill him. They said to one another, "The dreamer is coming. Let's kill him, and throw him into one of the pits." (Bereishis 37:18-20)That's all Yosef appeared to them, a dreamer, someone lacking in any true substance, and as such, a danger to the future of the Jewish people. Never mind the fact that Ya'akov saw tremendous potential in Yosef-had Avraham not favored Yishmael and Yitzchak, Eisav?
This is what the posuk means, "Yosef remembered his dreams concerning them . . ."- that is, how great substance had appeared where they had seen none; how the hand of G-d had been working with them through Yosef's dreams, while they had only been able to se the imaginings of a young and carefree lad. If they did not learn to see past the surface of things and into the essence of matters, then their descendants would fail to see the importance of Eretz Yisroel on their future mission, and cost the nation not just 40 years in the desert, but thousands of years of harsh and bitter exile.
However, hard as Yosef tried to make right the wrong, history testifies to his, and his brothers' success: we're still in exile!
"The sun rises and the sun sets." (Koheles 1:5)The Talmud makes an unusual remark:Rava bar Mechasya said in the name of Rav Chama bar Guria, who said it in the name of Rav: A person should never treat a child differently than the rest, for because of the two coins of material that Ya'akov gave to Yosef over the rest of his sons, they became jealous of him and this triggered the events that brought our fathers down to Egypt. (Shabbos 10b)It is unusual because, as Tosfos points out, going down to Egypt was a prophecy Avraham had received long before Yosef was even born:[G-d] said to Avram, "Know that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and [the host nation] will enslave them, and afflict them for 400 years. (Bereishis 15:13)Furthermore, the Midrash seems to imply that Ya'akov can't even be faulted for his actions, having been "forced" into them seemingly specifically to bring about the fulfillment of the prophecy made to Avraham:"Go and see the works of G-d, awesome in deed toward mankind." (Tehillim 66:5); Go and see how when The Holy One, Blessed is He, created the world, from the first day He created the Angel of Death as well . . . Man was made on the sixth day, yet death was blamed on him . . . It also says the same thing with respect to Yosef . . . Rav Yudan said, "The Holy One, Blessed is He, wanted to carry out the decree of 'Know that you shall surely be strangers' and therefore set it up in such a way that Ya'akov would love Yosef and that the brothers would hate him and sell him to the Arabs, and that they would all go down to Egypt." This is what is meant by "awesome in deed." (Tanchuma, Vayaishev 4)Awesome, meaning that G-d brings about events that fulfill His master plan for creation. all the time not interfering with free-will, though it seems as if just the opposite is true. However, the main point here is that Yosef's life and its events are directly related to the Egyptian exile, and therefore the redemption from it. Indeed, it was to rectify the faulty spiritual vision of his brothers that the Egyptian exile-all 210 years of it-occurred in the first place, as we see at the end of Sefer Bereishis.
The test of the tikun came shortly after the nation had left Egypt, not at Mt. Sinai but after they had set foot to their final destination: Eretz Yisroel. If they had arrived at Eretz Yisroel and entered as planned, not rejecting it on any level, then history would have testified to the fact that what the brothers had lacked the Jewish people had rectified after being in Egypt for 210 years.
However, the story of the spies in this week's parshah instead revealed that the word of Yosef-and Eretz Yisroel-was not yet complete. As a result, the Jewish people were forced to wander for 40 years altogether in the desert, and for that matter, thousands of years since. In fact, we still have yet to fully enter and attain Eretz Yisroel as a complete nation, and won't, seemingly, until Moshiach comes.
Thus, all of Jewish history has been about, and is still about, completing Yosef's task of rectifying the vision of the fathers of the Jewish people, and Eretz Yisroel obviously plays a major role in this tikun, as does Moshiach Ben Yosef. In fact, according to the Vilna Gaon, one of MB"Y main tasks is to ingather the exiles in advance of the Final Redemption, or, as many will follow him back to the Land.
Now it makes even more sense that the Zohar speaks of Resurrection of the Dead occurring over a period of 210 years, but only after 40 years of "Kibbutz Golios"-"Ingathering of the Exiles" (Midrash Ne'elam, 139b-140a). Like bookends, the 210 years of Egyptian exile began Jewish history, and was followed by 40 years of wandering the desert, whereas Jewish history will end with 40 years of ingathering, followed by 210 years of resurrection and purification. It's always been about finishing what began in Moshe's days, which is strengthened by the following as well:In the future Moshe himself will reincarnate and return in the last generation, as it says, "you will die with your fathers and rise up." However, in the final generation, the "Dor HaMidbar" will also reincarnate with the Erev Rav, and this is what the posuk also says, "this people will rise up." Hence, there is not a single generation in which Moshe Rabbeinu does not return b'sod, "The sun rises and the sun sets" (Koheles 1:5) and, "One generation goes and another comes" (Koheles 1:4), in order to rectify that generation. Thus, the Generation of the Desert along with the Erev Rav reincarnate in the final generation, "like in the days of leaving Egypt" (Michah 7:15). As well, Moshe will arise among them since they are all from the sod of Da'as: Moshe, the Generation of the Desert, and the Erev Rav, as we have explained in Parashas Shemos. (Sha'ar HaGilgulim, Chapter 20)Thus, as the sun seems to be setting on this period of history, one can't help but wonder, are we it? Are we that final generation the Arizal spoke about? Are we now living during those 40 years of ingathering, and if so, is Eretz Yisroel once again testing us, to see if we have corrected our spiritual vision once and for all after so many millennia? Is this week's parshah and its message becoming increasingly relevant with each passing year?
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"This (New York) is still considered by most chefs the ultimate proving ground of their talents and their ability to run a restaurant," said Colman Andrews, editorial director of The Daily Meal, on the food website's annual poll.
In last year's poll, New York City had five of the top 10 restaurants, with Le Bernardin taking first place and The French Laundry coming in fifth after placing first the previous year.
More than 150 food critics, writers and bloggers voted in the third annual survey of 101 Best Restaurants in America. They considered the cuisine, region, atmosphere, level of "buzz" and price range.
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A type of polyethylene pipe implicated in an Aug. 31 Cupertino condominium gas explosion also is used in south Palo Alto, city utilities spokeswoman Debra Katz confirmed Monday.
Katz said the approximately 3,100 feet of Aldyl-A pipe is located in the Barron Park neighborhood. The pipe comprises about a mile or 0.5 percent of the city's distribution lines and was installed by PG&E about 30 to 40 years ago when Barron Park was unincorporated. The area was annexed to the city in 1975, and the city inherited the pipelines. But the utilities department has never used Aldyl-A in any of its other lines, Katz said.
Defective Aldyl-A pipe was made by DuPont Company between 1970 and 1972 and has a shortened lifespan, according to Gene Palermo, an industry expert who worked for DuPont and is now a consultant and president of Palermo Plastics Pipe Consulting in Tennessee. It is susceptible to brittle cracking and crazing when impinged by tree roots and rocky soils and has been implicated in numerous explosions and fires across the country. On Sept. 27, a leaky Aldyl-A pipe in Roseville, Calif., caused a fire that lasted eight hours. Another gas leak was found in the same pipe 2 miles away in early October, according to news reports.
PG&E spokesman Brian Swanson said there are about 1,200 miles of Aldyl-A pipe in its gas line network. DuPont manufactured Aldyl-A from 1965 to 1984, and only a small percentage of that pipe is defective, Palermo said. However, about 33 percent of Aldyl-A manufactured between 1970 and 1972 is considered problematic, he said.
In 1998 the National Transportation Safety Board issued warnings regarding the defective pipe and the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued an advisory bulletin in 2007. Palermo said the so-called "pre-1973" pipe has an oxidized inner wall that can crack if the pipe is impinged or squeezed by rocks, roots or flow-control devices.
Defective Aldyl-A pipe has a life expectancy of about 10 to 20 years, said Palermo, who has done pipe life-forecasting studies.
By comparison, other polyethylene pipe can last 160 years at ground temperatures of 70 degrees Fahrenheit -- the approximate temperature of southern California soils, he said.
Katz said so far the city has not found any problems with the pipes. The city's operating pressure of 25 pounds per square inch (psi) throughout the distribution system is well below the 60 psi pressure at which PG&E operates its distribution system, Katz added.
But the city has aggressively tested the lines since learning they could be problematic. Palo Alto routinely tests one half of its entire network each year and the other half the next -- well above the once in five years required by the Department of Transportation. But where Aldyl-A is known to exist, testing is more frequent, she said.
The city conducted a survey of the Aldyl-A pipes at the end of October on top of its routine leak survey, she said. The city will be performing leak surveys in Barron Park on an annual basis until the Aldyl-A pipelines have been removed from the system, which is expected by 2013, she said.
Although there is no reason to believe any Aldyl-A exists outside of Barron Park, "We do want to be sure we are being thorough about identifying all the Aldyl-A that might have been installed by PG&E in the annexed area, so we are continuing to research our records of drawings and information given to us by PG&E at the time of the transfer," she said. More specific locations will be available after the engineering phase, she added.
Gas is distributed from large transmission lines to distribution feeder mains, to distribution mains and then to the service lines, which link to the customer's meter, Swanson said.
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Friday, May 18, 2007
Nami-Nami In Print: London Borough Market @ Eesti Ekspress
Somehow my blog posts are lagging behind these days. I've been back from London for almost a month now, and I have only just blogged about the fabulous meal I had with K, Johanna, her husband and the wee boy at the Petersham Nurseries Café. Note that I had a full-page restaurant review published in a major Estonian weekly newspaper _before_ I wrote about it here on my blog. And now - déjà vu! In this week's copy of the same newspaper, Eesti Ekspress, there is an article where I write about the London Borough Market, and about food markets and food culture in general (and yes, that's me buying cheese on the photo you'll see if you click through). It should have been other way around, surely, shouldn't it?
Anyway - the Borough Market was exactly as exciting as I expected it to be. We had the most knowledgeable tour guide with us, The Passionate Cook Johanna herself, who expertly took us through the must-sees, like Brindisa, Neal's Yard Dairy, Booths Mushrooms, the Monmouth Coffee and such like.
The picture at the very top is of Australian finger limes (Citrus Australasica, you can read more on Wikipedia). These unusual citrus fruits come in a range of gorgeous colours (incl. green, yellow, orange, red, purple, brown and even black), with matching insides (that is to say that green finger limes have green pearls or 'citrus caviar', pink ones have pink pearls inside - I checked it:) The stall holder proudly informed us that El Bulli's chef Ferran Adrià buys finger limes from him as well. But of course there was much more than just finger limes at the market. We had a great day out, taking in the market buzz and stocking up on British cheese, truffle salami, Brindisa's membrillo & fig wheels, buying argan oil, nibbling on various roasted nuts, tasting cutely-named vegetarian dishes (Hallou Gorgeous, Quinoa Superstar, Silly Sausage, Kiss Kiss Salad, anyone?), trying to tell a differece between variously seasoned foie gras, sniffing the aromas of chocolate, apple & pineapple mint, studying the displays of goji berries and green barley grass powder, and eventually trying the ubiquous wheatgrass shot (mmmh - interesting).
Thanks again, Johanna! You can read more about the Borough market here and here and here and here and here (in the words of Johanna x 2, Jeanne x 2 & David, respectively). And if you speak Estonian, then from this week's Eesti Ekspress, obviously :)
View all our photos from London Borough Market.
12 comments:
- thepassionatecook said...
...ans my perennial favourite, Brindisa's prune wheel! shame you couldn't get a taste of the smoked swordfish my italian deli usually has... but there's always a next time, right?
- 12:43 pm, May 18, 2007
- K & S said...
what a great market!
- 12:54 pm, May 18, 2007
- Hedgehog said...
Used to live in the Borough neighborhood - thanks for the photos that prompted nice memories!
- 2:17 pm, May 18, 2007
mul on nii kahju, et ma nii ebasobivatel päevadel seal vaba olin.
ja muideks hommikust kommi su sparglijutule ma ei saanudki panna. kirjutasin jutu valmis ja ei midagi.kadunud.
- 3:12 pm, May 18, 2007
- Melissa said...
I'm so envious - Borough Market and Petersham Nurseries! I really have to get myself down to London. Funny how you can move to Estonia and still manage to go there more frequently than me :)
Congratulations on your articles in print - that must be so exciting!
- 8:43 pm, May 18, 2007
- sandi @ the whistlestop cafe said...
We spent the day wandering around burough market...what a fun place! You see everything from fresh cheese to fresh chickens.
A great piece of London~ thanks!
- 12:54 am, May 19, 2007
- Freya and Paul said...
Looks like a great, culinary time was had by all! I am longing to go to borough market and have no excuse really as it's only about an hour away on the train!
- 7:17 pm, May 19, 2007
- reog said...
wow, nice market. I really dreaming about clean market. I my country, there are few market with clean space.....:(
greeting from : reog-foodie
- 10:54 am, May 20, 2007
- christine said...
Don't worry, I'm the same way. It takes me a whole month or more to write about a trip because I turn out like a post a week.
Gosh, all that food - membrillo, foie, truffle salami (!), fig wheels, swoooooon, I'm so jealous! :)
- 6:23 am, May 21, 2007
- Jeanne said...
Mmmmm, Borough Market. It really is one of the nicest places in London to visit! Great post and lovely pics. Arent those brownie stacks impressive?? And I just love the finger limes. Thanks for the link-love too :)
- 1:37 pm, May 24, 2007
- valentina said...
Pille, I love borough market.When I used to work in the City I was only a walk away so I used to go there more often.Mostly on Fridays lunch time when i could also get some lovely chorizo and rocket sandwhiches. I love eating membrillo's paste ( quince paste) as it makes up for all the lovely homemade guava paste I don't get in the UK. What a great trip you had. I particularly loved the explanation about the colourful Australian finger limes. And congratulations on the articles you have been writing.
- 1:30 pm, May 27, 2007
- Pille said...
Johanna - there will definitely be a next time soon:) And then I'll pick up one of those prune wheels (this time K took a picture only)
K&S - it's a great market indeed!
Hedgehog - you're very welcome:)
Mann - no eks Sa lähed teine kordki Londonisse.
Melissa - it was exciting to see these articles published:) I hardly ever went to London during my years in Edinburgh when I was still a student - I think about once a year was common (apart from one year when I went about once a month). And Edinburgh has plenty of nice restaurants, too, and I liked the Castle Terrace farmers market..
Sandi - I didn't see fresh chickens!? But there was some fabulous fresh fish!
Freya & Paul - we did have great time:) I think it took us about 45 minutes to get there from Johanna's place, so an hour is quite reasonable indeed.
Reog - but I bet Indonesian markets are lively and vibrant and full of amazing exotic fruit & veg!
Christine - I do post more frequently than that, but there's still a backlog..
Jeanne - you're lucky to be able to pop to the Borough Market so frequently! The brownie stacks were impressive - but we didn't try any, as a certain foodblogger thought they were not the best brownies in the world:)
Valentina - we didn't queue for the chorizo sandwich this time, but I do plan to have a bite next time I'm in London. Membrillo is nice, but I've never tried the guava paste before. Another item to keep my eyes open for (there's a good little Brazilian place in Edinburgh, so I can ask them next week:)
- 8:28 pm, May 27, 2007


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Rethinking the Kitchen Debate: U.S. Supermarkets and the Cold War Farms Race
Shane Hamilton
Speaker: Shane Hamilton
Date: November 20, 2009
Time: 12:30 PM
The "Kitchen Debate" that took place between Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in July 1959 is a staple in U.S. history surveys, textbooks, and scholarly monographs. A classic Cold War confrontation, the event has been primarily interpreted as a marker of conflicting views of consumer-citizenship and gender identity under the opposed capitalist and communist regimes. Shane Hamilton's paper will, however, reinterpret the historic meeting in the model American kitchen in Moscow's Sokolniki Park as a component of a broader "farms race" centered on the global politics of industrialized agriculture.
Former Miller Center Fellow Shane Hamilton is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Georgia. His first book, Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy, was published in 2008 by Princeton University Press and received the 2009 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Prize from the Agricultural History Society. He is currently working on a book project entitled "Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the American Century." The History News Network selected him as a "Top Young Historian" in 2008.


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The Sealed Knot's recent re-enactment of an episode from the First Gulf War has been condemned by spectators as the worst yet.
The attempt to recreate the aerial bombing campaign, during which coalition forces dropped 88,500 tonnes of bombs in an attempt to destroy the Iraqi air force and anti-aircraft facilities, was hampered a complete absence of planes.
Instead bemused spectators watched as fully-grown adults pretended to be aeroplanes, imitating engine noises, interspersed with the occasional poor impersonation of a travelling bomb and half-hearted cries of "yeah, that bomb definitely hit the target".
The performance of the "enemy" was criticised as even more lacklustre, with the re-enactors giving very unconvincing performances as destroyed military infrastructure.
The leader of the society, Syd Bustard, was forced to abandon the performance even before the scud missile "grand finale", after the deafening sound of boos from spectators.
Bustard was quick to apologise for the "shambles" but blamed lack of preparation time after they were forced to abandon their re-enactment of an unspecified suicide bombing attack as it was "too soon" after the event.
But he was keen to stress they had already obtained permission to use planes for their next performance, a re-enactment of the kamikaze attacks on USS Bunker Hill.


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THE foundation stone of Bolton's newest church has been laid.
Up to 100 officials, members and local dignitaries were on hand as the Triangle community Methodist Church at Delph Hill continued to take shape.
Church trustee Mr Colin Nelson hailed the work of the four Methodist churches involved in the project — Astley Bridge, Chorley Old Road, Delph Hill and Halliwell — over five years.
He said: "We have been working on a plan to come together as one church serving an area of more than 100,000 people."
"During that time, they have sold off three sets of ageing church premises which no longer met the needs of modern worship and community activity and raised £1.5 million to build a new church on the best located site at Delph Hill.
"The laying of the foundation stone marks the culmination of all those years of hard work as we now see an impressive new structure rising before us."
However, Mr Nelson said it was only the beginning of the church's new venture.
"The vision behind this bold and far-sighted plan is for a flexible, multipurpose building which will not only promote the cause of Methodism in the area, but also provide a much-needed community facility in a key location in the town — a true partnership of church and community. In an age of uncertainty about so many things, the Triangle Church has recognised it needs to create long-term sustainability in its activities in order to survive."
Among the VIPs at the event were Bolton West MP Julie Hilling and the Mayor, Cllr Colin Shaw, and Mayoress, Dee Shaw.
The foundation stone was unveiled by the Mayor and chairman of the Bolton and Rochdale Methodist Circuit, the Rev Paul Martin.
Rev Jennifer McKenzie said prayers for the new church and Triangle minister Rev Devadas Matcha gave the blessing.
The new church is due to open in September.


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Much has been written about pad-printing machines. Closed-cup, open-ink-well, single-color, and multicolor systems are regularly explored in industry trade journals. When you get right down to it, the goal with all these machines is simply to lay down a controlled thickness of ink and replicate the original artwork consistently. Although the pad press is at the heart of this process, what can really make the difference between an accurate and efficient printing system and a complete disaster is the way ancillary equipment and consumables are involved.
The trap that most people fall into when they buy their first pad-printing press is that they don't prepare for its arrival. They fail to think through the entire process and all the other components and procedures that must be in place for it to work properly. For many, this lack of preparation can lead to months, or years, of suffering with an unpredictable and uncontrollable system. The printers blame their difficulties on inherent faults in the equipment that they feel they have to live with. What they don't realize is that they must understand and control the variables that affect the process for pad printing to become an effective decorating method.
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Do you believe in zombies? I don't.
Ghosts, yes. Zombies, no.
A person can only deal with so many paranormal issues at one time. But believe in them or not, zombies are coming to Costa Mesa, sort of. Not real zombies — movie zombies, and their fans, some of whom are wannabe zombies.
Here's how it all works. On April 28, the Newport Beach Film Festival opens at the Starlight Triangle Square Cinema in Costa Mesa, which is different, but it won't matter to the zombies. They're never sure where they are anyway.
This year's festival offers a staggering 350 films from 40 countries, but none more loopy or fun than the world premiere of "DeadHeads," a zombie comedy, and yes, there is such a thing. Actually, there is an entire genre of zombie comedies, but more on that later.
Are zombie comedies big box office? Not really, but what their fans lack in numbers, they make up for in enthusiasm. Think Trekkies or "Rocky Horror Picture Show" devotees who live for the midnight screenings of their faves and can shout every punchline in the script back at the screen.
Just days after tickets for the premiere of "DeadHeads" went on sale, it was a sell-out. It is not easy being a zombie, especially when you can barely walk and for some reason your elbows no longer work, but zombies love movies.
"DeadHeads," which has nothing to do with the Grateful Dead, was co-written and directed by two Chicago guys, Drew and Brett Pierce. This latest tale of the undead is a zombie/buddy/road trip flick about two pals who just happen to be zombies and are trying to find themselves as they navigate the twists and turns of non-life.
Both the festival and the filmmakers are expecting a brisk turnout of zombie fans from far and wide, some of them decked out in their undead finest, which brings us to the zombie comedy genre.
The first hint that audiences could find zombies both scary and funny was a 1945 film called "Zombies on Broadway." But the real seeds of zombie comedy were planted 20 years later by the father of horror-comedy, George Romero, most notably with his "Night of the Living Dead" in 1968, then "Day of the Dead" in 1978. Romero could always get an audience to jump and shriek on cue, but his early films were so cheesy that the laughs in between were as loud as the screams.
Intentional or not, the whole "do we laugh or do we scream" thing is unavoidable when you're watching onscreen zombies. Not only do zombies look goofy, but a toddler with a pull-toy and an ice cream cone could outrun them. The Romero legacy continued with remakes of "Night of the Living Dead" in 1990 then "Dawn of the Dead" in 2004, "Diary of the Dead" in 2008 and in 2009, the most inexplicable film title in history — "Survival of the Dead."
I'm sorry. How does that work exactly? If someone who is dead doesn't survive, they are, what, double-dead? Really dead? Dead again? I don't get it.
Once Hollywood realized that there was an audience for funny zombies, the floodgates were open and the genre became so popular it even got a nickname — "Zom Coms."
There was "Redneck Zombies" in 1986, then "Night of the Creeps," "Zombie Strippers," "Bio Zombie," "Tokyo Zombie," "Zombie Dearest" and "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead." But here is the all-time funniest Zom Com title ever — "My Boyfriend's Back."
Ironically, from that totally whacked collection of films came two Zom Coms that were not only monster hits but got critical raves: "Shaun of the Dead" in 2004, with Simon Pegg and Bill Nighy, and "Zombieland" in 2009, with Woody Harrelson.
In "Shaun of the Dead," which was actually marketed as a romantic zombie comedy, or "Rom Zom Com," Shaun is a young Brit who is a lonely loser, trying hard to deal with his mom, stepfather and girlfriend but doing none of it well. He spends most of his time at the local pub, where he learns that the entire neighborhood has been set upon by zombies with, of course, no explanation.
Incredibly, it is Shaun of all people who beats them back to wherever they came from and utters this million-dollar line … "I will kill every zombie and save me mum."
You go, Shaun. If a son can't save his mum from zombies, what good is he?
It is impossible to explain "Zombieland" but we'll try. An especially virulent strain of mad cow disease has turned most humans on Earth into zombies, and for some reason people only use cities as their names.
Columbus, played by Jesse Eisenberg, is trying to fight his way back to Ohio to find his parents without being eaten by zombies. He runs into a character named Tallahasse, played by Woody Harrelson, who is bizarre even by Woody Harrelson standards and on a quest that is less noble than Columbus'. Tallahasse is also trying his best not to get eaten by zombies, but he is on a mission to find the last Twinkies on Earth.
Don't ask. If there is a zom com as funny as "Zombieland," I am unaware of it.
I think that's it. "Zombie Dearest," Twinkies and "Shaun of the Dead." If someone could just explain to me why their knees and elbows don't work, I would be grateful. Keep your doors locked. I gotta go.
PETER BUFFA is a former Costa Mesa mayor. His column runs Sundays. He may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Vince Gill & Amy Grant's '12 Days of Christmas' tour
Mr. and Mrs. Gill, who have sold a few gazillion records between them, have spent the past five years turning the celebration of Christmas into their own little cottage industry. Their family-oriented holiday show -- Gill and Grant have been married 11 years and have a daughter, so they know about family -- includes all sorts of Christmas songs. They'll also be performing tunes from their solo careers, which means you'll doubtless get to hear Gill's "I Still Believe In You" and Grant's "Baby, Baby." Vince Gill and Amy Grant perform Dec. 7 at the Patricia and Arthur Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric, 110 W. Mount Royal Ave. The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets, available through Ticketmaster at 800-551-7328 or ticketmaster.com, run $56.50-$86.50. Information: 410-685-5086 or lyricoperahouse.com.
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These colorful, affordable products complement the iPhone 5c in function and style, and further enhancing the smartphone as your new entertainment and communication hub. The UE Boom speaker, Fitbit Zip, and the official iPhone 5c case are all available in several bright colors so they can go with your iPhone 5c no matter what its chosen hue might be. Vibrant reds, greens, and blues can make your music and fitness accessories as cheery as the iPhone 5c itself.
Other accessories aren't quite as colorful, but they're still stylish and certainly not boring. The Jawbone Icon headset and Griffin WoodTones headphones both feature unique designs that stand out, while the Plantronics BackBeat Go 2 and RHA MA150 earphones offer great performance and sporty, functional designs at affordable prices.
For sheer usefulness, the Apple TV lets you stream any music, movies, or pictures on your iPhone 5c to your HDTV, and the Phonesuit Flex Pocket Charger can clip on to your phone to let you talk and listen even longer than the built-in battery allows. Rounding out the list, the Pebble Smartwatch lets you check your messages and control your music without taking it out of your pocket, and its waterproof design can join your Fitbit Zip when you work out.
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Jars of Clay broke out of its box this past year. Its "Two Hands" is nominated for Song of the Year. Photo special to The Denver Post
Four artists from wide-ranging backgrounds garnered six Dove Award nominations Thursday.
Heavy rockers Skillet, alternative band Jars of Clay, worship artist Matt Maher and country crooner Jason Crabb were all nominated in six categories in the Gospel Music Association's annual music awards.
Producer Bernie Herms leads with eight nominations, including Producer of the Year.
Artist of the Year nominees: Casting Crowns, tobyMac, Mary Mary, Jars of Clay, Francesca Battistelli, Skillet and Jason Crabb.
Group of the Year: Casting Crowns, Gaither Vocal Band, Jars of Clay, Hezekiah Walker and The Love Fellowship Crusade Choir, NEEDTOBREATHE, and Tenth Avenue North.
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Ligue 1: PSG close in on title with 3-0 win over Reims, nine-man Lille win
Paris St Germain took another giant stride towards retaining their Ligue 1 title with a routine 3-0 victory over Reims.
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Edinson Cavani opened the scoring in the 43rd minute after prodding home Gregory van der Wiel's pass, but the real damage was done by blundering Reims defender Aissa Mandi.
Mandi turned into his own net just three minutes into the second half with the ball hitting a post and deflecting in off the Algerian right-back. And Mandi looked on in horror as he was also at fault for PSG's third, this time scoring in his own net in the 89th minute of the contest as he attempted to clear a cross.
The one-sided win sees PSG open up a 16-point lead over second-placed Monaco at the summit, with the principality club in action at home to Nantes in Sunday's late game.
Third-placed Lille finished with nine players on the pitch but still defeated Toulouse 2-1 to close to within three points of Monaco.
Salomon Kalou inspired the victory by helping set up the opener for Nolan Roux before firing the second from the penalty spot.
In the space of a minute full-backs Franck Beria and Pape Souare were sent off, but Toulouse could not make their numerical supremacy count.
It was only in the fourth minute of stoppage time that they managed to breach Lille's defence through Serge Aurier.
Bordeaux moved up two places to seventh despite being held to a 2-2 draw by Rennes at Stade Chaban Delmas.
The result was the fourth consecutive draw for the home side, who went two goals up thanks to efforts either side of the break from Guillaume Hoarau and Diego Rolan before Abdoulaye Doucoure and Romain Alessandrini struck back in five second-half minutes to clinch a point for Rennes.
Montpellier ended a five-match winless streak with a 2-1 victory at Guingamp which moved them an enormous step closer to safety.
An own goal from Jeremy Sorbon was quickly followed by a Benjamin Stambouli strike to put Rolland Courbis' men in the driving seat at the Stade du Roudourou.
Mustapha Yatabare's second-half reply gave Guingamp hope but they could not find an equaliser.
Bastia fought back from two goals down to earn a 2-2 draw against Sochaux that severely dents the Montbeliard outfit's hopes of avoiding relegation.
Visiting Sochaux had looked on course for their first away win of the season in Ligue 1 after scoring twice on the stroke of half-time through Jordan Ayew and Sebastien Corchia.
A victory would have lifted them to within six points of safety, but they were hit by a superb second-half fightback by mid-table Bastia, who earned a share of the spoils thanks to goals from Gianni Bruno and Djibril Cisse.
Lorient and Evian shared the points in a 1-1 draw that does little to ease either side's relegation jitters.
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Spring is in the air! Five women studied their gardens last weekend, deciding it was high time the garden was cleaned out and new seeds were planted. So, each woman spent Sunday afternoon cleaning out her garden in preparation for planting. Each decided that during the week, they'd plant the first of the flowers planned for the garden. Determine the full name of each woman, what type of flower each was adding to the garden, and what day of the week each planted the seeds.
1. Ms. Smith didn't plant her flowers on Wednesday. Harriet Peach didn't plant hollyhocks.
2. Betty planted violas, but not on Tuesday. Harriet planted her flowers before Martha, but after Gertrude. The petunias were planted on Friday but not by Sara.
3. Sara, whose last name wasn't Wells, didn't plant her flowers on Thursday. Betty's last name wasn't Smith.
4. The hollyhocks were planted on Wednesday. The pansies were planted on Tuesday
5. Ms. Mann didn't plant her flowers on Friday or Monday. Martha's last name wasn't Smith.
6. The five women were represented by Ms. Fiddler, the woman who planted petunias, the woman who planted flowers on Thursday, the woman who planted marigolds, and Harriet.
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Katrina ArrivesBy David F. Carr | Posted 2005-10-04 Print
Vacuum-cleaner maker Oreck had the linchpin of its business continuity plan blown away by Hurricane Katrina. Intercosmos Media Group rode out Katrina with half a terabyte of data on the line, guarded by a former Green Beret whose preparations included gen
Aug. 29: Katrina makes landfall east of New Orleans at 6 a.m. Central Daylight Time, packing Category 4 winds between 131 and 150 miles per hour.
"I'm no meteorologist, but it looks to me like this storm is falling apart fast as it hits land."
Barnett's post at 4:20 a.m. on the day Katrina makes landfall shows how the Big Easy exhaled as Katrina veered away from the heart of New Orleans. Barnett was optimistic. "When you look at the damage New Orleans sustained vs. what we were told to expect, you're left with the impression that they will never be able to talk anyone into evacuating again," he writes in his blog.
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Over at Oreck, executives are operating out of a Houston hotel room. At the company's Boulder site, Oreck employees are loading backup tapes with the data that will be used to fulfill orders at the Long Beach site—assuming it is functional. The company's call center in Denver is also operational. Oreck gets early reports from Long Beach. "Long Beach was devastated all around the plant," Oreck says. "Whole neighborhoods were gone. There were propane tanks from houses in trees."
The destruction at Long Beach meant the linchpin of Oreck's disaster recover plan—the 76 miles between Long Beach and New Orleans—was gone. "I don't think any of us anticipated a single storm taking out both locations," Oreck says.
In hindsight, it's clear that Oreck's facilities weren't far enough apart, but companies have to balance the reality of getting workers to a location versus distance, says Dave Luce, president of the Society for Information Management, a national organization of chief information officers, and CIO of the Rockefeller Group, a real estate operating company based in New York. After Sept. 11, Luce's company created a co-location center 25 miles away in New Jersey. "We wanted it outside New York City but still be accessible to our workforce," Luce says. "You could argue 25 miles is too close, but disaster recovery isn't scientific."
Aug. 30: New Orleans' levees between the 17th Street Canal leading to Lake Pontchartrain break, flooding the southern and western parts of downtown.
"The infrastructure required to maintain a city is down," Barnett reports. "It could be a long time before it's back up. There will be too many people fighting for exceptionally scarce resources. It's one of those situations where you need A in order to fix B, but you can't do A until C happens and C can't happen until B is finished."
New Orleans is flooded. DirectNIC's data center is still dry, but so is the plumbing. With no running water, Barnett uses his Army training to institute water conservation and emergency hygiene measures. He admits he "never trained for the total collapse of civilization."
Barnett's biggest concern: stretching the capacity of the data center's diesel generators, which requires moving and dumping 55-gallon drums of diesel all day. DirectNIC has 10 days of fuel, but Barnett wonders if it will last. Another issue: safety. Just before midnight, the DirectNIC team blocks building entrances to deter looters.
In Houston, Tom Oreck sees New Orleans' levees break on television and knows a quick return to headquarters is unlikely. "We knew then it was not a matter of days, but a matter of months," he says.
The news from the Long Beach facility, about a mile and a half from the beach, was better. An employee got into the 375,000-square-foot plant to find it "damaged but intact and fixable," Oreck says. The sign on the front of the building is gone, but overall the factory shows few signs of damage. Across the railroad tracks toward the beach, homes were swept off their foundations.
This day required two tasks for Oreck.
First, find employees since 30% of Oreck's workers have lost their homes. The company has accounted for all but 100 of its 1,500 employees. To find the missing, Oreck sets up an 800 number and rudimentary Web site to collect employee locations. "Finding our people was the most important piece," Oreck says. "People need shelter, food, water and help with insurance claims to help them move toward normalcy. Good business, its systems and facilities are the result of good people."
Second, Oreck had to boil the company down to its most critical functions. "We had to look at this business from a fundamental 40,000-foot view," he explains. "What did we need to continue?"
The answer: Manufacturing capability, distribution, a call center and the back office operations, notably human resources, payroll and accounts payable and receivable. The computer systems given priority were the ones tied to those functions—call center operations in Denver, accounting and human resources in Dallas, and supply chain systems in Boulder. Project teams of three to five people were assigned to the categories.
Direct sales through Oreck's Web site were shut down in favor of support for the company's 450 retail stores. Point-of-sale systems in company-owned stores were shut down in favor of paper receipts, and a planned consolidation of those systems across company-owned and franchised stores was put off. And a move from a supply chain system installed in 1997 to SAP for Retail was delayed.
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