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For a 13th consecutive year, Hope College students are putting their time and talents into the campus-wide Dance Marathon fundraiser "for the kids."
Organized by Hope students, the 24-hour event is conducted on behalf of Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in downtown Grand Rapids, both to raise funds and to build awareness of the hospital's work. It will be held at the college's Dow Center, with the main portion of the marathon beginning with a kickoff celebration on Friday, March 9, at 7 p.m.
A variety of events have been scheduled to punctuate the marathon, including testimonies by families served by the hospital, various performances by student and local groups, and the popular annual lip-sync. The total raised will be announced during a celebration that will begin at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 10, as the Dance Marathon's 5 p.m. conclusion approaches.
Members of the public are invited to observe at any point during the marathon.
Activities on behalf of the marathon began shortly after the beginning of the fall semester and have involved nearly 30 student organizations. More than 500 Hope students will be participating in the March 9-10 Dance Marathon itself as dancers or morale boosters or in a variety of other roles.
To emphasize the children that the marathon exists to help, the Dance Marathon's student organizers coordinate a variety of activities during the course of the school year to connect with families and children served by Helen DeVos Children's Hospital. In addition, each of the families is paired with one of the participating student groups. Events this year included participation in a "Homecoming Hoedown" at Teusink's Pony Farm in Holland this past fall; a lunch attending a Hope men's basketball game at the college's DeVos Fieldhouse; a Christmas party on campus for the families and their student organizations with a pizza lunch and crafts; and a rally at the Dow Center on Tuesday, Feb. 28, for the families and the students who are part of the marathon.
Students involved with Dance Marathon have raised funds for the effort in a variety of ways, from collecting returnable cans, to an event at Buffalo Wild Wings, to a date auction, to writing letters to family and friends. Among other activities, campus groups have sponsored bake sales, the Delta Phi sorority organized a pie-toss, and J P's Coffee & Espresso Bar hosted a silent auction.
Affiliated with the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals, Dance Marathon at Hope is one of more than 150 such efforts at colleges, universities and high schools nationwide.
Dance Marathon first came to Hope in March of 2000. Though a school of the college's size was only expected to raise about $5,000 in its first year, the students raised more than $23,000. In the 12 years from 2000 through 2011, Dance Marathon has raised a total of more than $911,000.
In recognition of the program's efforts, Dance Marathon received the "Youth in Philanthropy Award" from the West Michigan Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals in the fall of 2003.
Helen DeVos Children's Hospital is West Michigan's largest children's hospital, and is located in a new 212-bed, 440,000-square-foot facility that opened in January 2011. Serving children and families throughout a 37-county region, the hospital includes nearly 200 pediatric specialty physicians uniquely skilled in providing medical and surgical care to children in more than 50 pediatric specialties. The hospital cares for more than 7,600 inpatients and 190,000 outpatients annually.
In order to help support the vast number of ailing children that visit the hospital each year, all proceeds from the marathon will go directly towards the funding of special programs that are designed to make the young patients' visits to the hospital more bearable while also helping the families of the children to deal with their illnesses.
Children's Miracle Network Hospitals is an international non-profit organization dedicated to helping children by raising funds and awareness for more than 170 children's hospitals throughout North America. Each year, these non-profit hospitals treat 17 million children with diseases, injuries and birth defects of every kind.
Additional information about Dance Marathon and the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital can be found online at www.hope.edu/dancemarathon.
The Dow Center is located at 168 E. 13th St., on 13th Street at Columbia Avenue.


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Posted: Tue 01 Nov 2011, 19:13
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Size Matters - Puppy needs standardization on this.
I have always been aware of some things about the Puppy system that is "batted" around continuously within the forum. There is this constant awareness of SIZE without any "real" meaningful definition in place. It is at the very heart of many discussions I've seen over the years. The meaningful definition should be
consistent, accurate and universal; IN PUPPYLAND
I am NOT dismissing the many items of functionality. This comment is to ask for some assistance on a definition that I think would help everyone. I am a user, and it cannot come from me. I ask this because the functionality discussion is going to be derailed by a SIZE discussion that I envision is on the horizon. In a world where it is now becoming commonplace to have a 1GB+ PC, the systems that are being generated by the functionality which can be included from WOOF and others, must also take into account that the world is moving also. And, on one hand, it is as there has been a consistent movement to address modern 32bit PCs as well as newer platforms.
Here's the problem
: We have
System Designer(s) targets for generation of a specific type of Puppy. This includes package selection technology for distro users to apply in the generation of a specific Puppy.
System Distro Owners who use the system crafted by the System Designer(s) to generate a Puppy,
Application developers who take source, packages, or scripts to make functional packages to address either a Linux subsystems, a system applications, or user applications to give a robustness of functionality.
Users, who have various needs that come into play as they select and use a particular Distro Owner's Puppy.
All of these people bring something personal to the table in terms of taste, needs, and desires.
Problem restated
THEY MEAN BY SIZE and
This is what confounds the constant discussion and references to size that everyone of us uses. We all have a particular "perception" of the constant we refer to as "SIZE", but no real definition or goal.
Let's assume, there is reasonable accuracy in what I have share thus far. "No one know what that is" and yet, I bet, everyone who reads this has already thought to themselves that THEY KNOW. In a way...YES, they do.....at least a piece of it.
Male or female: SIZE matters. In my world, size=capacity. Which leads you to ask "what's capacity?" in the world I come from (and even today the rule is the same), mathematically, it addresses how many of these can I get into that. Specifically, is that BIG Enough. Further, how long will that last at present usage and growth. Will that address foreseeable changes and demand. In systems operation, the most important item in the SIZE equation is "PATH-LENGTH"! And, to date, not one Puppy person has EVER discussed path-length as a topic or in description or in design objective or in measurement of anything including Puppy OS subsystems or application. And, not to take issue with anyone, because you shrunk the physical size does NOT mean you have made any major improvement in either systems operation or user needs. There is NOTHING formal here. This for a 21st century OS as we begin to really compete should have us maturing in our understandings of what the hardware vendors are providing us so that we exploit it to give the users an ever expanding multimedia OS to match the direction the world is heading. We need to begin to turn our attention to adding this needed functionality for a robust user experience instead of the 'chest pounding' that many do using SIZE as the means. This does NOT mean to abandon SIZE objectives, but it does mean that we should standardize our size objectives with a definition that covers what and why a specific objective needs to be in place.
Here's an example of a known subsystem here is the Linux community. If one system is disk sized at 25MB and for a given transaction require a 400K path-length to complete while similar subsystem that does the same work is disk sized at 60MB and provides the same 400K path-length to complete a given transaction. Which is better? (The answer depends on who you are) Someone(s) of you will take the smaller and declare is "gospel". But, let's peer a little deeper. I know that a single transaction takes 400K in the one, but, the one does NOT have to ability to compete with the other because the other not only handles that one transaction, but scales to 1000s more of these, while at the same time performing other needs for that system user at the same time without degrading the overall transaction path-lengths or the time-slice response times. Now, which one is better? (This was not a question by the way for I'm sure, knowing this, our intelligence tells us to take the scaling app over the non-scaling one unless we had disk-space problems. And for this example, there isn't one of us with a 35MB disk space problem.) Taking an additional look, assume, if measurements are correct, the 25MB app takes 30MB of RAM while the 60MB app takes 28MB of RAM. Here's hoping by now that we begin to see how SIZE really needs some constant definition when used in Puppyland to reference what we mean when we throw these terms about.
Let's help each other by defining what we mean by size somewhere which can be standardized for understanding. If you are a distro owner, state "Proudly" the size you feel is important to the community who will be investigating your distro for consumption. Several distro owners have done so in the past (you know who you are). And with applications, I would be happy just to know what functionality is provided. The specific MB size is UN-important to me. The system performance of the application requirement is of utmost importance to me. For, the RAM usage in ALL of my Puppy dealings is relatively small in comparison to the size of RAM it is using.
If we proudly show the system needs in terms of its sizes and if we proudly show the application needs running within the system, we would have a much more. real and consistent, awareness in our audience than the misleading items we see today. If we could LOOK at what we really are trying to do. Are we trying to address a personal preference or are we addressing a packaging that operates comfortably on the platforms which you intend them to perform on.
Puppyland has a diverse combination of skills and personalities that exist in this community. They bring to the table a wealth of useful insights and talents. It would be great if we could standardize some objectives so that everyone is on the same page for the direction we move toward. And, for new directions. we should, too, standardize its objective, mission, and most of all, ITS NEED!.
This distro does NOT posses any "internal" tools that is consistently applies to demonstrate performance at either the OS level, the subsystem levels, or the application levels. Excepting for a few or our members, there is an indifference to addressing this. Thus, our community continues to banter about the term without consist definition or objective measurement. We just say "Look, .... size is reduce..."??? without ever explaining why or how its benefited anything real. There are other examples I cam bring to bear, but, examples do NOT address the need for consistency in use of a powerful term as SIZE has become.
This is merely my sharing my observation on this topic. I in no way have asked nor am asking for any abandonment of any distro owner or application provider's efforts. I am asking for a consistency in defining what we mean by SIZE whenever we throw the word around.
And, if there is some way to apply a tool to assist us in size measurements, we should do it I have used Hardinfo as one of the tools which provides some insights to my system's behavior in comparison. But, because I use it, does NOT mean that it is widely viewed as a valid too within this communityl. This is because it is NOT specifically asked for. Nor is any tools, generallly asked for, by our distro owners.
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that could improve the level of understanding needed within the community on this. Offer anything you think could help all of us.
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Posted: Tue 01 Nov 2011, 19:17
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I thought i would offer this for insights:
I fully recognize that increasing functionality comes along with increasing costs. Everyone should recognize and everyone should appreciate what this community is providing us. So, maybe something as simple as SIZE statements accompanying distros could be a help until such time as the powers to be brings us a better standard description of size.
For any distro it
be helpful/useful, to both them and us, to provide their own:
expected distro size
expected RAM needed to boot the system without SWAP
expected RAM needed to boot the system with SWAP
observed initial RAM in use after initial boot
expected RAM to support smooth system operations using the defaults provided by the distro developer(s)
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Posted: Tue 01 Nov 2011, 19:30
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IMHO there is one "objective standard" for Puppy size and that is 128MB. If a Puppy is smaller than 128MB then it will load into RAM on a computer with 256MB RAM.
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Posted: Tue 01 Nov 2011, 20:44
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Hi all
GCmartin how long is a piece of string ? puppies are now being specialized for different hardware (wary, pae and 64bit) are made to use other distro's software (dpup, lucid, slacko) some of the the cutting edge puplets are way above what would be a "normal" size for a official release (and some are way under), yet they are needed so that ideas, theories and bugs can be worked out.
do you make a distinction between 32 and 64 bit? or different kernel types? take the recent release of slacko both iso's, main and pae were identical (bar the kernel) (both woof built) but the pae iso was about 13mb smaller due to different file compression on the main sfs, was one of them the wrong size?
IMHO It is best left to the developer to use their judgement on size, as no matter how a project is explained only the developer will be able to truly see what they want to create, and with the quality of puppies being produced long may it stay that way.
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Posted: Tue 01 Nov 2011, 21:06
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Thanks @Playdayz. As you know I am aware of efforts you provided to give an awareness of your Distro's needs. I agree with what you've done. But, the distro owners and the application developers do NOT all do this nor do they share a "common" method of doing this.
We could expand and try building something common thru this thread and how that either thru the Generation process or the announcement process, there comes a common method so that the widespread system use it more nearly understood. This would give a better understanding and appreciation for all; generation, owners, developers and users alike.
@Stripe, thanks for your comments. For clarity (those who saw your comments), I agree that the those producing distros or packages for us should,
where possible
(there are instances that come to mind where this may not be initially possible), be sharing that information with us.
Thus, to make it easier and more consistent, we could provide some common approaches to this information need that would make everyone's job easier and well understood.
Puppy is maturing.
Hope this helps.
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Posted: Tue 01 Nov 2011, 21:49
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Not a bad idea, actually. I know I always thought that Zenwalk and later Bodhi and the previous incarnation of #! were small at several hundred MB, so Puppy at ~100MB was really small compared to anything other than Slitaz or Slax. (I never really got along with TinyCore.)
But I ramble...I really hate using a DVD for only about 1GB in burning a distro. It seems like such a waste in away.
So, my first reaction was, "Why do we really need to draw up some rule about size? That's all we need is more rules, laws and some community telling me my new puplet is 'non-standard.' This cuts across the grain of the open source spirit!" In other words I was kind of thinking of the length of string, too.
Playdayz comes to the rescue with a meaningful standard, so thanks for the question gcmartin and the answer playdayz.
And now we have a reason to care about a standard of size. Sometimes, that is. There will always be deviations, some more than others, so the purpose of the pup or puplet must be taken into consideration.
Sorry if I'm just restating the obvious. Sometimes I talk too much.
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Posted: Tue 01 Nov 2011, 22:21
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I can do it too.
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will. Intelligence, wit, judgement, and the other talents of the mind, however they may be named, or courage, resolution, perseverance, as qualities of temperament, are undoubtedly good and desirable in many respects; but these gifts of nature may also become extremely bad and mischievous if the will which is to make use of them, and which, therefore, constitutes what is called character, is not good. It is the same with the gifts of fortune. Power, riches, honour, even health, and the general well-being and contentment with one's condition which is called happiness, inspire pride, and often presumption, if there is not a good will to correct the influence of these on the mind, and with this also to rectify the whole principle of acting and adapt it to its end. The sight of a being who is not adorned with a single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity, can never give pleasure to an impartial rational spectator. Thus a good will appears to constitute the indispensable condition even of being worthy of happiness. There are even some qualities which are of service to this good will itself and may facilitate its action, yet which have no intrinsic unconditional value, but always presuppose a good will, and this qualifies the esteem that we justly have for them and does not permit us to regard them as absolutely good.
Moderation in the affections and passions, self-control, and calm deliberation are not only good in many respects, but even seem to constitute part of the intrinsic worth of the person; but they are far from deserving to be called good without qualification, although they have been so unconditionally praised by the ancients. For without the principles of a good will, they may become extremely bad, and the coolness of a villain not only makes him far more dangerous, but also directly makes him more abominable in our eyes than he would have been without it. A good will is good not because of what it performs or effects, not by its aptness for the attainment of some proposed end, but simply by virtue of the volition; that is, it is good in itself, and considered by itself is to be esteemed much higher than all that can be brought about by it in favour of any inclination, nay even of the sum total of all inclinations.
Even if it should happen that, owing to special disfavour of fortune, or the niggardly provision of a step-motherly nature, this will should wholly lack power to accomplish its purpose, if with its greatest efforts it should yet achieve nothing, and there should remain only the good will (not, to be sure, a mere wish, but the summoning of all means in our power), then, like a jewel, it would still shine by its own light, as a thing which has its whole value in itself. Its usefulness or fruitfulness can neither add nor take away anything from this value. It would be, as it were, only the setting to enable us to handle it the more conveniently in common commerce, or to attract to it the attention of those who are not yet connoisseurs, but not to recommend it to true connoisseurs, or to determine its value. There is, however, something so strange in this idea of the absolute value of the mere will, in which no account is taken of its utility, that notwithstanding the thorough assent of even common reason to the idea, yet a suspicion must arise that it may perhaps really be the product of mere high-flown fancy, and that we may have misunderstood the purpose of nature in assigning reason as the governor of our will. Therefore we will examine this idea from this point of view. In the physical constitution of an organized being, that is, a being adapted suitably to the purposes of life, we assume it as a fundamental principle that no organ for any purpose will be found but what is also the fittest and best adapted for that purpose. Now in a being which has reason and a will, if the proper object of nature were its conservation, its welfare, in a word, its happiness, then nature would have hit upon a very bad arrangement in selecting the reason of the creature to carry out this purpose. For all the actions which the creature has to perform with a view to this purpose, and the whole rule of its conduct, would be far more surely prescribed to it by instinct, and that end would have been attained thereby much more certainly than it ever can be by reason.
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Posted: Wed 02 Nov 2011, 00:08
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I also hear how Puppy is very small in size regarding the ISO for download in comparison to other distros.
It is pointed out that Puppy basically contains the equivalent applications that the other distro offers and a lot more as to how one can install, and run Puppy.
But in the other distro, you have additional code required to not run as root.
You also normally have the compiler built in.
If we take a basic Puppy ISO and add the kernel source, and the compiling software and libraries, it grows by quite a bit.
Is leaving it out a good thing?
To me, having it as external packages helps Puppy to support PCs with less ram.
One thing that I wonder about is the memory and system requirements as well as setup.
I still have an old Red Hat version of Linux that required 64 megs of ram to get you to a desktop with the basic applications one would need.
So is the support for all the new hardware as well as the old a factor in Puppy's footprint.
How much less of a footprint would it take if Puppy went back to an additional drivers SFS that only loaded the required drivers.
Are all the drivers that are included loaded into memory, not activated, in the main SFS file?
In other words, are only the drivers I require for my specific PC installed?
In the old days of adding hardware, the install disk was required to access and install additional drivers as needed.
Now we add hardware and expect it to work without having to access an install disk for the drivers.
How much would again be saved by a Z.....SFS file.
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Posted: Wed 02 Nov 2011, 03:44
Post subject: Standards, Rules, Conventions, Regulations and overkill
Subject description: Standards, Rules, Conventions, Regulations and overkill
I read your post most carefully, and your pleas.
All good stuff, and I do sympathise.
But the history of Puppy tells me that Playdayz has got it in few words, viz:
There are only two rules:
1. Puppy (at this stage) aims for 128 mb for reasons stated by Playdayz
2. Puppy needs no other rules
Please believe me when I say this is no criticism.
Chairman Mao said "let a hundred flowers bloom" Or was it Confucious?
I forget who said "one only needs one prize pumpkin"
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Posted: Wed 02 Nov 2011, 04:39
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re size of "base" puppy:
puppy _can_ be as small as 5 mb by doing the following:
clean up the initrd
build in kernel modules that are in the initrd where possible
(goingnuts did this with a lot of modules in pupngo)
use a xz compressed kernel with the initramfs included
(for development versions just use an xz compressed initrd)
don't gzip files in a xz compressed filesystem
(modules, keymaps, fonts...)
use a multicall binary for the base X apps (Xvesa, jwm, rxvt,...)
(see recent discussion in the pupngo thread)
linkmount the sfs on top of the initramfs _or_ a mounted save file as rootfs
(I wrote a similar linker in jwm_tools)
use a single function header for scripts (see my bashbox thread)
all the rest is stuff that gets tweaked by pupleteers anyways, why not make it easier - puplets could range anywhere from 5mb- to 5gb+ ... in other words why aim for the target, when you can hit the bullseye
cleaning up init (it has grown slow and bloated):
as of this commit we can use busybox blkid instead of guessfstype/disktype
as of this commit we can use busybox lspci instead of elspci
as of this commit we can use busybox timeout instead of waitmax
as of this commit we can use busybox rev instead of rev
not to mention find/xargs/cp/modutils...
find blocks can be replaced with functions that more efficiently (read faster) recurse a directory to perform various actions
xargs is only used in finding drives - I do it with only ash in jwm_tools
cp -u is not needed - just let cp fail if file exists
grep is used gratuitously and could be replace with case ... or while read VAR; do case ...
lsmod ~= cat /proc/modules (much faster b/c it is a nofork applet)
modinfo - just look in the modules.dep - that is what it does anyways
modprobe - busybox modprobe works fairly well now - past issues with subdirs
(this part is secret - dont tell anyone - you can flatten the modules into the same dir, bypass that problem and drastically shrink the modules.dep and the time to create it)
losetup - not needed by busybox mount - it auto handles loops
I could go on, but you can see the extent of it - too much for me to tackle in an afternoon (the extent of my attention span - it would be easier to start from scratch)
re size of devx:
symlink many of the duplicates (see git*, gcc...)
remove static libraries if there is a shared version (it only causes problems anyways)
also there are a lot of infrequently needed (for most users) tools that could be replaced with an alternative bit of code - for example most people only want to checkout a repository - I think amigo/bigbass? posted some bits a while back that did this for several version controls (thread?)
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Posted: Wed 02 Nov 2011, 04:58
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Edit oops I realize now that my post can be seen in bad light.
I don't want to dampen your enthusiasm at all. Continue
but realize that without that inner motivation nothing happens
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I can see much merit in all the contributions in this thread.
But we have to remember the most important one.
Inner motivation can not be community decided upon.
A Dev only do what the inner motivation allow them to.
As users we can have wishes and set up standards or
wish lists or preferences or faved ways how a distro
should behave but if the Dev lack the inner motivation
then there will be no change at all.
Even to write about it can damper diminish or shut off that
inner motivation. It has to come spontaneously from within.
A kind of emergent process that is a mystery to most of us
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technosaurus I love what you and GoingNuts do with PupNgo which is truly small.
But for some of us noobs the learning curve get too steep
And it was based on puppy412? or was it 420? Anyway a kernel that
lacked the drivers that would allow certain things for newer computers
like my netbook. So it booted but then one would have to compile the driver or something.
So it seems it is too difficult to apply same idea on the modern versions.
I mean it would be great to have a PupnGo based on Lupu 528 or
preferably using pemasu retake on Jemimah drivers and RFKILL and
suc hfor puppeee so it also work on such small computers.
That would bring small and functional together.
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Posted: Wed 02 Nov 2011, 05:28
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playdayz wrote:
IMHO there is one "objective standard" for Puppy size and that is 128MB. If a Puppy is smaller than 128MB then it will load into RAM on a computer with 256MB RAM.
Playdayz summed it up pretty well.
Anyone is free to build a puplet as big as they please though.
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Posted: Wed 02 Nov 2011, 06:05
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Cuts from the telenovela:
gcmartin wrote:
The meaningful definition should be consistent, accurate and universal; IN PUPPYLAND.
Male of female: SIZE matters. In my world, size=capacity.
The specific MB size is UN-important to me.
I am asking for a consistency in defining what we mean by SIZE whenever we throw the word around.
Now I want you to write an assignment: "Could I be satisfied with a small but highly efficient capacitor?"
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having had experience with creating other linux distros, there seems to be a some mythology surrounding the disk size of an OS and its speed.
Small disk size is only of benefit to speed at boot time, IF the OS is being copied to RAM. Obviously the smaller the size the quicker it gets copied. But this is the only case. And even when you do this, a non copy to ram boot will boot faster.
Note that Puppy is not a 100mb OS, a full install will be 400mb or so on your HDD. The compression that makes Puppy 100mb when running frugal from your hdd or usb stick actually makes it slower. This is a case where shrinking something actually reduces performance.. and why? its the wow factor of a 100mb iso. Also if puppy wasnt compressed, it would be faster and still be small enough to fit on a live-cdrom.
also many people believe that being a small distro in disk size means it will use less ram, this is also not true. The ram usage is just how many programs are loaded into ram at any given time. Also it doesnt matter if you have 1TB worth of files on your partition or 80mb, it takes the same amount of time to mount the partition. A 1TB puppy would be just as fast as a 100mb puppy. Excluding copy to ram at boot.
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For the Warden, she is currently using a Surface 2, which uses a Windows 8 RT OS and she likes it and has no problem. I have a Surface 2 Pro which has been upgraded (I guess?) to Windows 10. I am not a tablet fan, but she is. I got the i5, 128 Gig/4 Gig version as it is on sale for the same price as the m3 version, $799.
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Arch compared to other distributions
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This page attempts to draw a comparison between Arch Linux and other popular GNU/Linux distributions and UNIX-like operating systems. The summaries that follow are brief descriptions that may help a person decide if Arch Linux will suit their needs. Although reviews and descriptions can be useful, first-hand experience is invariably the best way to compare distributions.
Source-based distros are highly portable, giving the advantage of controlling and compiling the entire OS and applications for a particular machine architecture and usage scheme, with the disadvantage of the time-consuming nature of source compilation. The Arch base and all packages are compiled for i686 and x86-64 architectures, offering a potential performance boost over i386/i486/i586 binary distros, with the added advantage of expedient installation.
Both Arch Linux and Gentoo Linux are rolling release systems, which means that packages become available to the distribution a short time after they are released upstream. Gentoo packages are built directly from source code while official Arch packages are pre-built binaries. This makes Arch Linux quicker to build or update the system, and allows Gentoo Linux to be more readily customizable. Arch supports i686, x86_64 and ppc while Gentoo officially supports x86, ppc, sparc, alpha, amd64, mips, hppa and itanium architectures with many more unofficially supported. Because both the Gentoo and Arch installations only install a base system, both are considered to be highly customizable. Gentoo users will generally feel quite comfortable with most aspects of Arch.
Sorcerer/Lunar-Linux/Source Mage
Sorcerer/Lunar-Linux/Source Mage (SLS) are all source-based distros, much like Gentoo is, but are originally related to one another. SLS distros use a rather simple set of script files to create package descriptions, and use a global configuration file to configure the compilation process, much like the Arch Build System. The SLS tools do full dependency checking (including handling optional features) and package tracking (and uninstalling/upgrading). There are no binary packages for any of the SLS family, although they all can roll back earlier installed packages easily.
The install involves installing a base system (much like Arch's: i686-optimized, CLI and ncurses menus, only core tools), then recompiling the base system (optionally) afterwards. There is obviously no "standard" WM/DE/DM, and Xorg is not included in the base installation. Several X server alternatives are available (X.Org 6.8 or 7, XFree86).
SLS has a very complicated history. Perhaps the best write-up about it can be found at the SourceMage wiki.
The minimalist distros are quite comparable to Arch, sharing several similarities. All are considered 'simple' from a technical standpoint.
LFS, or Linux From Scratch, is just that; the minimal base package set for a functional GNU/Linux system, manually compiled and configured from scratch. LFS is as minimal as it gets, and offers an excellent and educational process of building a base system. Arch provides these very same packages, plus a BSD-style init, a few extra tools and the powerful pacman package manager as its base system, already compiled for i686/x86-64. LFS provides no online repositories; sources are manually obtained, compiled and installed with make. (Several manual methods of package management exist, and are mentioned in LFS Hints) Along with the minimal Arch base system, the Arch community and developers provide and maintain many thousands of binary packages installable via pacman as well as PKGBUILD build scripts for use with the Arch Build System. Arch also includes the makepkg tool for expediently building or customizing Template:Filename packages, readily installable by pacman. Judd Vinet built Arch from scratch, and then wrote pacman in C. Historically, Arch was sometimes humorously described simply as "Linux, with a nice package manager."
Arch is independently developed, was built from scratch and is not based on any other GNU/Linux distribution. Before creating Arch, Judd Vinet admired and used CRUX, a minimalist distro created by Per Lidén. Originally inspired by ideas in common with CRUX, Arch was built from scratch, and pacman was then coded in C. The two share some guiding principles: for instance, both are architecture-optimized, minimalist and K.I.S.S.-oriented. Both ship with ports-like systems, use *BSD-style init systems and, like *BSD, both provide a minimal base environment to build upon. Arch features pacman, which handles binary system package management and works seamlessly with the Arch Build System. CRUX uses a community contributed system called prt-get, which, in combination with its own ports system, handles dependency resolution, but builds all packages from source (though the CRUX base installation is i686 binary). Arch officially supports x86-64 and i686, whereas CRUX is i686-only.
Arch uses a rolling-release system and features a large array of binary package repositories as well as the Arch User Repository. CRUX provides a more slimmed-down officially supported ports system in addition to a modest community repository.
The mighty Slackware and Arch are quite similar in that both are simple distributions focused on elegance and minimalism. Slackware is famous for its lack of branding and completely vanilla packages, from the kernel up. Arch typically applies patching only to avoid severe breakage and preserve functionality, if absolutely necessary. Both use BSD-style init scripts. Arch supplies a package management system in pacman which, unlike Slackware's standard tools, offers automatic dependency resolution and allows for more automated system upgrades. Slackware users typically prefer their method of manual dependency resolution, citing the level of system control it grants them. Arch is a rolling-release system. Slackware is seen as more conservative in its release cycle, preferring proven stable packages. Arch is more 'bleeding-edge' in this respect. Arch offers the Arch Build System, an actual ports-like system. The (unofficial) Slackbuild system is very similar to the Arch User Repository concept. Slackware users will generally be quite comfortable with most aspects of Arch.
Sometimes called "newbie" distros, the graphical distros share a lot of similarities, though Arch is quite different from them. Arch may be a better choice if you want to learn about GNU/Linux by building up from a very minimal base, as an installation of Arch installs very few packages in comparison. Graphical distros tend to ship with GUI installers (like Fedora's Anaconda) and GUI system-configuration tools (like SUSE's YaST). Specific differences between distros are described below.
Ubuntu is an immensely popular Debian-based distro commercially sponsored by Canonical Ltd., while Arch is an indepedently developed system built from scratch. If you like to compile your own kernels, try out bleeding-edge CVS-only projects, or build a program from source every once in a while, Arch is better suited. If you want to get up and running quickly and not fiddle around with the guts of the system as much, Ubuntu is better suited. Arch is presented as a much more minimalist design from the base installation onward, relying on the user to customize it to their own specific needs. In general, developers and tinkerers will probably like Arch better than Ubuntu, though some Arch users claim to have started on Ubuntu and eventually migrated to Arch. Ubuntu moves between discrete releases every 6 months, whereas Arch is a rolling-release system. Arch offers a ports-like package build system, the Arch Build System, while Ubuntu does not. The two communities differ in some ways as well. The Arch community is much smaller and is strongly encouraged to be proactive; a large percentage contribute to the distro. In contrast, the Ubuntu community is quite large and can therefore tolerate a much larger percentage of users who do not contribute to development, package or repo maintenance.
Fedora is a spin-off from the Red Hat distribution and has continually been one of the most popular distributions to date. As such, there is a massive community and lots of pre-built packages and support available. Fedora packages are RPM-based, using YUM as its package manager. Arch uses pacman to manage Template:Filename packages. Fedora famously doesn't attempt to support the MP3 media format due to perceived patent issues. Arch is more lenient in its disposition toward MP3 and other media. Fedora uses a graphical install by default. Arch does not offer a graphical installer, but rather, uses an ncurses-based installer, relying more on the user for manual configuration. Fedora has a scheduled release cycle. Arch is a rolling-release system. The Arch design approach is geared more toward lightweight elegance and minimalism rather than automation/auto-configuration. Fedora does innovate and recently earned much community recognition for integration of SELinux and GCJ compiled packages to remove the need for Sun's JRE. Fedora supports neither JFS nor ReiserFS out of the box.
Mandriva Linux (formerly Mandrake Linux) was created in 1998 with the goal of making GNU/Linux easy to use for everyone. It is RPM-based and uses the urpmi package manager. Again, Arch takes a simpler approach, being text-based and relying on more manual configuration and is aimed a bit more toward intermediate to advanced users.
SUSE is centered around its well-regarded YaST configuration tool, which is a one-stop shop for most users' configuration needs. Arch doesn't offer such a facility as it goes against The Arch Way. SUSE, therefore, is widely regarded as more appropriate for less-experienced users, or those who want a more GUI-driven environment, auto-configuration and expected functionality out of the box.
PCLinuxOS is a popular Mandriva-based distro providing a complete DE, designed for user-friendliness and is described as "simple", though its definition of simple is quite different than the Arch definition. Arch is designed as a simple base system to be customized from the ground up and is aimed more toward advanced users. PCLOS uses the apt package manager as a wrapper for RPM packages. Arch uses its own independently-developed pacman package manager with Template:Filename packages. PCLOS is very GUI-driven, provides GUI hardware configuration tools and the Synaptic package management front-end, and claims to have little or no reliance on the shell. Arch is command-line oriented and designed for more simple approaches to system configuration, management and maintenance. PCLOS recommends 256MB RAM as part of its minimum system requirements. Being more lightweight, Arch can run on systems with much less system memory, requiring only 64MB of RAM for a base i686 install, and will run flawlessly on more modern systems.
The *BSDs
Both Arch and *BSD offer a tightly-integrated base and ports system combined with available binary packages. The BSDs derive from Berkeley UNIX. Therefore, *BSDs are not GNU/Linux distros, but rather, UNIX-like OS's.
Both Arch and FreeBSD offer software which can be obtained using binaries or compiled using 'ports' systems. Both share a very similar init system. FreeBSD boasts that it is more of a system designed as a whole, compared to GNU/Linux distros, with each application 'ported' over to FreeBSD and made sure to work in the process. Both use Template:Filename as a main configuration file. The FreeBSD license is generally more protective of the coder, compared to the GPL, which in contrast favors protection of the code itself. Arch is released under the GPL. In FreeBSD, like Arch, decisions are delegated to you, the power user. This may be the most interesting comparison to Arch since it goes head-to-head in package modernity and has a somewhat sizable, smart, active, no-nonsense community. Both systems share many similarities and FreeBSD users will generally feel quite comfortable with most aspects of Arch.
NetBSD is a free, secure, and highly portable UNIX-like open-source operating system available for over 50 platforms, from 64-bit Opteron machines and desktop systems to hand-held and embedded devices. Its clean design and advanced features make it excellent in both production and research environments, and it is user-supported with complete source. Many applications are easily available through pkgsrc, the NetBSD Packages Collection. Arch may not operate on the vast number of devices NetBSD operates on, but for an i686 system it may offer more applications. Also, the default installation method in pkgsrc is to pull and compile sources whereas Arch offers binary packages. Arch does share many similarities with NetBSD; both use Template:Filename as the primary configuration file, they are very minimalist and lightweight, they both offer ports systems as well as binaries and both have active, no-nonsense developers and communities. Arch also borrows from *BSD for its init system concepts.
The OpenBSD project produces a free, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Efforts focus on portability, standardization, code correctness, proactive security, and integrated cryptography. In contrast, Arch focuses more on simplicity, elegance, minimalism and bleeding edge software. OpenBSD supports binary emulation of most programs from SVR4 (Solaris), FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, BSD/OS, SunOS and HP-UX. OpenBSD is self-described as 'perhaps the #1 security OS'.
In common with Arch, OpenBSD offers a small, elegant, base install and uses a ports system and packaging systems to allow for easy installation and management of programs which are not part of the base operating system. In contrast to a GNU/Linux system like Arch, but in common with most other BSD-based operating systems, the OpenBSD kernel and userland programs, such as the shell and common tools (like ls, cp, cat and ps), are developed together in a single source repository.
These OS's fall into the 'other' category.
Debian GNU/Linux
Debian is a much larger project and community and features stable, testing, and unstable branches, offering over 20,000 binary packages. Arch does not 'split' their packages into "-dev" and "-common" as Debian does, therefore, Arch repositories will seem much smaller. Debian has a more vehement stance on free software. Arch is more lenient when it comes to 'non-free' packages as defined by GNU. Debian's design approach focuses more on stability and stringent testing. Arch is focused more on the philosophy of simplicity, minimalism, and offering bleeding edge software. Arch packages are more current than Debian Stable and Testing, typically being about equal with Debian unstable. Both Debian and Arch offer well-regarded package management systems. Arch is a rolling release, whereas Debian Stable is released with "frozen" packages. Debian is available for many architectures, including alpha, arm, hppa, i386, x86_64, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, and sparc, whereas Arch is i686 and x86_64 only. Arch provides more expedient support for building custom, installable packages from outside sources, with a ports-like package build system. Debian does not offer a ports system, relying instead on its huge binary repositories. The Arch installation system only offers a minimal base, transparently exposed during system configuration, whereas Debian's methods offer a more automatically configured approach as well as several alternative methods of installation. Debian utilizes the SysVinit, whereas Arch uses a simpler *BSD-style init.
Arch is text-based and command-line oriented. Frugalware has adopted Arch's pacman as its package manager, but uses bzipped tarballs. In contrast, Arch uses gzipped tarballs, for the purpose of expedience of installation. Frugalware doesn't support the JFS filesystem by default. Frugalware is no longer based on Slackware but is rather a distro of its own, and is promoted as an i686 distro. Arch is a fundamentally different system, being installed as a minimal base environment and expanded with pacman according to the user's choices and needs. Frugalware is installed from a DVD, with default software choices and desktop environment chosen for the user already. Frugalware has a scheduled release cycle. Again, Arch is more focused on simplicity, minimalism, code-correctness and bleeding edge packages within a rolling-release model.


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Now that we know the Netflix-backed Arrested Development project is not just a trick (illusion, illusion!) but actually confirmed, there are finally a few answers to the question of what we can expect from it. According to Ron Howard, who acts as the show's narrator, the new season will include some new characters.
There's been plenty of hype building up thanks to the show's stars keeping fans on the hook with photos from the set, including Tobias (David Cross) in a sheet and George Michael (Michael Cera) on a segway. And despite what Howard called a "hell of a hiatus," he has also reassured fans that the show's quality is still top-notch (as if those photos suggested anything otherwise). For more on what Howard said of the upcoming season, hit the jump.
The details of the new characters are unknown, but wary fans should feel somewhat placated as Howard explains to THR, though our favorites may all be returning, series creator Mitch Hurwitz isn't just trying to pick up just where things left off:
"It's been away for a while, and part of the fun that Mitch has been mining and exploiting is, what's new to discover about these people? What's delightfully unchanged? He and the writing staff and the actors have a fantastic sense of that. They're pretty brazen, pretty bold and fearless. That's what made the show into something that fans really kept alive."
He went on to say that the people involved with Arrested Development are:
"in great form and dying to take the characters further. It's cool and bold and funny, and out there taking chances, just like it always did."
I think I just blue myself.
The series originally ran on Fox from 2003 to 2006, and the new season is set to stream on Netflix in 2013. In the meantime, be sure to keep up with all of of our Arrested Development coverage.
[Update: Dave here. Looks like one of the new roles will be filled by John Slattery (Mad Men), although there is no news yet as to who his character will be. Slattery looks to be on board for multiple episodes. Thanks to TV Line for the heads up!]


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Research into global smartphone sales for the July to September period of 2012 has revealed that the world's number one smartphone was the Samsung Galaxy S3, knocking the Apple iPhone 4S into second position.
The report comes from research firm Strategy Analytics, and it puts the Galaxy S3 in first place with 18 million devices sold globally, and the iPhone 4S trailing with 16.2 million sold. In third place it's the iPhone 5 with 6 million sales.
So, its a fanfare for Samsung, a company well on its way to beating Apple in the battle for smartphone supremacy. But is it? Well, as a headline, it is indeed good news for Samsung, but the sales from the third quarter of 2012 tell only a percentage of the story.
Samsung released the Galaxy S3 at the beginning of May 2012, spreading it to as many networks and countries as possible. In the slightly truncated second quarter results, it shifted 5.4 million phones.
But take a look at the iPhone 4S's performance. The 4S went on sale in October 2011, and still sold 19.4 million in the second quarter, and then 16.2 this quarter. Not bad for a phone that was a fairly unremarkable evolution of the previous model, that has been on sale for, now at least, more than a year.
These past couple of months have also been filled with anticipation over the iPhone 5, which then arrived at the tail end of September, and it still managed to sell more than the Galaxy S3 did in its opening weeks, and in a shorter time too.
Many potential iPhone 4S buyers decided to wait for the iPhone 5 in the run up to its release, which explains the drop off in 4S sales, and in effect, allowed Samsung to swoop in and grab the "world's best selling smartphone" crown.
The question is, can it retain its crown in the all-important Christmas period between October and December? Strategy Analytics doesn't think so, and expects Apple to "soon reclaim the title."
The Galaxy S3 unquestionably deserves to top the charts, but the figures also highlight the struggle it faces to maintain that position over a longer period of time.
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Rafa: We're Chelsea not Barcelona
Chelsea's interim manager Rafael Benitez claims he is under no pressure from Roman Abramovich to bring a Barcelona-style swagger to Stamford Bridge.
Benitez has been parachuted in to save Chelsea's season, after the Blues sacked Roberto Di Matteo following a run of disappointing results,according to Soccer Net.
The Spaniard's connection to Fernando Torres from their days together at Liverpool has seen him field questions about the misfiring striker.
Torres is central to Benitez's plans, but those plans do not involve imprinting the Barcelona method on Chelsea.
"He (Abramovich) sees how we work and he knows it'll take some time to fix everything," Benitez said. "But he knows we can do it.
"Roman says he wants to see the team playing well but not with the Barcelona style. He knows we don't have Messi, Xavi or Iniesta - who have been working together for years.
"We have different players and we can play attacking and defensive football together. We have to find the balance."


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* Toyota raises 2012/13 net profit outlook 12.8 pct
* Toyota's Japan mfg and export seen profitable for first time in 5 yrs
* Toyota more dependent on Japan production, than Nissan, Honda
* Top management has no plans to build new plants for next 3 years -exec
By Yoko Kubota
TOKYO, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp lifted its annual profit guidance, banking on stronger sales in its key U.S. market and a boost from a weaker yen, which put its Japanese manufacturing in the black for the first time in five years.
But the world's best-selling automaker, which shipped a record number of cars last year, said it would not build any new factories over the next three years despite the pickup in its fortunes, after it was burned in the financial crisis.
Toyota raised its net profit forecast for the year to March by more than 10 percent to 860 billion yen ($9.3 billion) on strong U.S. sales of the Camry sedan and other vehicles.
"If the current weak yen trend continues, the company's profit will likely sharply rise for the next fiscal year as well," said Mitsushige Akino, chief fund manager at Ichiyoshi Asset Management.
"If a recovery in the U.S. economy serves as a tailwind, its stock price has more upside."
The firm said it expected to ship 2.2 million vehicles in the U.S. this calendar year, up almost 6 percent from last year's figure.
Among Japan's big three automakers Toyota, Nissan Motor Co and Honda Motor Co, analysts see top seller Toyota as the most likely to benefit from a weakening yen because it has the highest ratio of production in Japan, more than half of which it exports.
Japanese operations, including domestic manufacturing for export, used to generate about half of Toyota's profit, but they started losing money after the Lehman Brothers crisis of 2008, until the yen's recent weakening put them back into the black.
The yen is trading around 92 to the dollar, compared with 78 at the start of October. The weaker the Japanese currency, the more money exporters make when they convert overseas profits back into yen.
By contrast, Toyota's South Korean rival Hyundai Motor Co , which including its affiliate Kia Motors Corp is ranked fifth in global sales, last month posted a surprise quarterly profit drop as a stronger won dented its overseas earnings.
Last week, Honda announced a third-quarter profit that was less than the market had expected, but believed the weaker yen would help to absorb the impact of poor demand in China and Europe.
Nissan is due to announce its results on Feb. 8.
In 2013, Toyota expects to sell 8.9 million vehicles globally. Across the group, which includes Daihatsu Motor Co and Hino Motors Ltd, it forecasts shipping 9.91 million vehicles.
Last year, the 75-year-old firm sold a record 8.72 million vehicles around the world. Its group-wide sales were also a record high of 9.75 million vehicles, beating General Motors Co to regain top rank among car manufacturers.
Still, Toyota does not plan to dramatically ramp up production in the weak-yen environment.
"It's easy to confuse volume expansion with true growth as a company," Senior Managing Officer Takahiko Ijichi told reporters.
"We're getting rid of that way of doing business," he said, adding that the firm did not plan to build new plants for the next three years.
Toyota posted net profit of 99.9 billion yen for the three months to Dec. 31, up 23.5 percent from a year ago but below the average estimate of 143.7 billion yen among seven analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Behind the poorer-than-expected third quarter performance was the cost of settling a class action lawsuit in the United States over claims that millions of Toyota cars accelerate unintentionally.
The firm booked 90 billion yen in costs related to the class action settlement, Toyota's Ijichi said.
Shares in Toyota have risen nearly 50 percent since mid-November on hopes the weakening yen will boost its bottom line, nearly double the 28 percent rise in Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei average over the same period.
Toyota shares ended down 1.2 percent on Tuesday at 4,540 yen before the earnings announcement, performing better than the Nikkei, which dropped 1.9 percent.


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NewsGator released on Tuesday a new employee learning module for Social Sites, its flagship enterprise social networking add on for Microsoft SharePoint.
The new module, called Enrich, lets users turn posts in their activity stream into knowledge base articles and post interactive instructional videos.
The knowledge base feature allows any user to flag a valuable activity-stream interaction with their peers and turn the exchange into a separate article that gets preserved for the benefit of others in the organization. Users can edit the exchange and add metadata to it. The exchange can involve not just text interactions but also Web pages, entire documents, microblogging posts and other elements.
Meanwhile, the video functionality lets users post instructional clips for fellow employees and open them up for group interaction via comments, ratings, polls and other enterprise social features. The videos can be broadcast to users' activity streams. To use this feature, customers need to have the optional Social Sites Video Stream component, a video upload and sharing product that NewsGator describes as an "enterprise YouTube."
The goal of Enrich is to make it easier and more convenient for users to create and collaborate on knowledge base articles and instructional videos by bringing them closer in context to people's daily workflows, said Melissa Risteff, NewsGator vice president of marketing and alliances.
"The way people work is changing. The knowledge worker is becoming an interaction worker," she said. "We're giving them contextual collaboration systems."
Juan Carlos Perez covers enterprise communication/collaboration suites, operating systems, browsers and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Juan on Twitter at @JuanCPerezIDG.


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"Enemies of the People," a documentary that demonstrates the Khmer Rouge chain of command, will show at the Sundance Film Festival.
A group of Cambodian Americans came together recently to raise money for students in Cambodia.
Sar Sokvannara, who was born in Siem Reap and trained in folk dance at the Wat Bo school.
"Agangamasor" is the prequel to the Reamker, the story of the hero, Preah Ream, or Rama, who is the earthly incarnation of Preah Noreay.
"Finding Face," a new documentary detailing the life of an acid attack victim, showed in the US on Sunday.
A new documentary exploring the impact of acid attacks premiered Wednesday at a film festival and human rights forum in Geneva.
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I'm trying to install SLIME on Fedora 17 so that I can do some lisp. Here is what I downloaded: http://www.common-lisp.net/project/slime/#downloading
The CVS Snapshot link.
I have a .emacs file:
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Provide the child with a digital camera made for kids (one that can endure being dropped), and let the child play with it. Show them that they can take photos of little things close up, as well as wide-ranging landscape photos. It's fun to see what they come up with.


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Morning Five: 06.04.14 EditionPosted by nvr1983 on June 4th, 2014
- If you're a regular reader, even in the offseason, you may have noticed that we have decided to cut back the national M5s a bit during the long summer months. The objective is to get a couple of them published each week, but we might go for three if we're feeling a little frisky. The biggest news of the last several days in the college basketball universe was the weekend announcement that the settlement between video game maker EA Sports and over 100,000 former and current student-athletes for the unauthorized use of their likenesses was finalized. The settlement calls for $40 million to be divided among a huge number of class action members, but even if the individual payouts will be relatively small (the named plaintiffs would top out in the low five figures, while most would be in the hundreds), the notion that players deserve some sort of recompense for the use of their images is clear. Note that this settlement does not impact the impending lawsuit between Ed O'Bannon and others against the NCAA, set to begin Monday in US District Court in San Francisco, although some of the evidence from this settlement will certainly come to bear in that case as well.
- From a coaching comings and goings standpoint, several high-profile names remained in the news over the last several days as NBA teams seek to fill their open positions. Guys like UConn's Kevin Ollie and Iowa State's Fred Hoiberg appear to the collegiate coaches du jour, but the biggest names are always floating around the periphery of those conversations. Kansas' Bill Self and Kentucky's John Calipari said in separate conversations with ESPN.com's Andy Katz on Monday that they were both incredibly happy with their current situations and had not been contacted this offseason about any open positions. Cue Mitch Kupchak on line two, coach? In keeping with the theme, Florida's Billy Donovan last week basically said "never say never," but as SI.com's David Gardner writes, he could probably satisfy his itch to coach the world's best players by following the Coach K model with the US Men's Basketball team. There's certainly something to be said for capstone jobs in all three of their cases, but the competitive drive and instincts that got them there keeps them looking for even better opportunities, hard as they might be to come by.
- One current college coach who has had no problem finding a better opportunity just around every turn for the better part of five decades is SMU's Larry Brown. The 73-year old who has completely rebuilt the Mustangs' program in Dallas and will be in everyone's Top 25 next preseason (especially with Xavier transfer Justin Martin en route) is rumored to be in the running for the open Los Angeles Lakers job. A number of other names are also under consideration — including Scott Skiles, Byron Scott, Alvin Gentry, Lionel Hollins and Mike Dunleavy — but Brown is perhaps the most intriguing given that he already has an excellent thing working at SMU in contrast with the train wreck awaiting the next coach in LA. With nine NBA franchises already on his resume as a head coach (but none with the Lakers' pedigree), the job would no doubt be attractive to him, but would the Lakers really want to hire someone that the franchise could only expect to have on board for a couple more years? Let's hope the itinerant LB sticks around to see through the job in DFW.
- One coach that we can't imagine will be thinking NBA anytime soon, or ever, is Virginia's Tony Bennett. While a brilliant basketball mind, his system involving shutdown defense and a glacial tempo likely wouldn't translate very well to the League. Irrespective of that, UVA rewarded its head coach for a #1 seed, 30-win, ACC championship season, with a seven-year extension to his current deal. The new contract locks him into Charlottesville through the 2018-19 season and increases his annual salary to just shy of a couple million dollars per year. Not bad for a guy who was projected to have trouble recruiting ACC-caliber players. Ahem.
- This is a neat story from the Chronicle of Higher Education about a young man named Marvin Clark, a Kansas City kid who will be an incoming freshman at Michigan State this fall. The story chronicles the many ups and downs of his year-long recruitment, where he rode a roller coaster of ups and downs as schools from Oregon to Seton Hall and everywhere in-between expressed interest before backing off and picking back up on him again. Raised in a hard-knock situation with no father figure and a mother battling addiction, Clark's story represents how recruiting can go for many of the kids not rated in the consensus top 25 of the rankings (Clark fell in and out of the top 150), and how perception and relationships can drive as much of the decision-making process as anything else. It's a good, quality read, and a reminder to most of us readers that, no matter how bad your day might have gone, it probably was better than many of those that Clark faced growing up.


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Survivor: Phillippines' Lisa Whelchel is facing a problem no alliance will help her overcome: West Nile virus.
Matthew McConaughey's so skinny! See other celebs who transformed their body for movie rolesThe former Facts of Life star tweeted the bad news on Monday: "Dr. just called with blood test results...I have West Nile. Ugh. I'm fine, just tired. Takes a year to recover." Whelchel did not indicate whether her diagnosis is related to her time on Survivor, which finished filming in April.Whelchel's followers were quick to share their support of the actress, who was "very touched by all the sweet tweets." The actress is keeping up a positive attitude throughout the ordeal, telling her fans, "I'm feeling fine & expecting a full recovery. So grateful for you. Thanks!"


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Wonder what you would find if you frisked the 2010 United States Census data that was released yesterday?
Answer: Good news for red states and bad news for blue states.
The Washington Times reports:
The conservative "red" states should see their political clout enhanced as a result of the Census Bureau's announcement Tuesday that the nation's population grew 9.7 percent over the past decade to nearly 309 million, with the fastest growth centered in states that went Republican in the 2008 presidential election.
As a result of the 2010 numbers, eight states will gain House seats in the 2012 elections, led by Texas' four seats and Florida, which gained two. Others gaining a single House seat were Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington.
New York and Ohio were the big losers, both shedding two House seats, while Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey and Pennsylvania will lose one seat.
Although the growing Hispanic-immigrant population is mainly responsible for Texas and Florida's huge House seat pickups, the overall Census data still means a lot politically:
Most states gaining seats went for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the 2008 presidential election, while almost all states that lost seats were won by President Obama — many of them in the Rust Belt.
The westward movement of the U.S. population means six districts in states that went for Obama will shift to states that went for McCain — a small but significant shift that could help a GOP presidential candidate in 2012, provided they can hold those states for the party.
Most of the other new seats will be in swing states that went for Obama, which could also be won by Republicans in 2012.
It also doesn't hurt the Republican Party, because our 2010 gains put us in control of the redistricting process and will help us with drawing new district lines. Although this is all good news, it still does not make the 2012 general election any easier. Not only do we have to worry about effectively relaying our message to the growing Hispanic-immigrant demographic, we have to stay extremely focused on the issues that favor Republicans. Since President Obama does not have a popular or effective record to run on, the Democrats will more than likely toss around the race-card like it's going out of style.
Here's another interesting observation in regards to the new 2010 Census data:
First, the great engine of growth in America is not the Northeast Megalopolis, which was growing faster than average in the mid-20th century, or California, which grew lustily in the succeeding half-century. It is Texas.
This leads to a second point, which is that growth tends to be stronger where taxes are lower. Seven of the nine states that do not levy an income tax grew faster than the national average. The other two, South Dakota and New Hampshire, had the fastest growth in their regions, the Midwest and New England.
Altogether, 35 percent of the nation's total population growth occurred in these nine non-taxing states, which accounted for just 19 percent of total population at the beginning of the decade.
Perhaps the Democrats will look to this as a lesson in understanding how high taxation affects states, citizens, and economies… Needless to say, I am not holding my breath.


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TranTech Inc. sold for undisclosed amount
ManTech International Corp. has acquired TranTech Inc., an Alexandria, Va., provider of information technology, networking and cybersecurity services to the federal government. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
TranTech will be integrated into ManTech's Technical Services Group, led by Louis Addeo, TSG group president and chief operating officer, according to the ManTech announcement today.
The acquisition will enable ManTech to deliver technology services through TranTech's prime position on the Defense Information Systems Agency ENCORE II contract, an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract vehicle with a $12 billion ceiling and performance period through 2018, the announcement said.
"ManTech has a consistent strategy of acquiring companies that drive our organic growth and help us provide additional services to our defense and intelligence customers," explained ManTech Chairman and Chief Executive Officer George J. Pedersen in the announcement.
The ManTech announcement said it expects the acquisition will contribute solid growth and operating margins and be accretive to its earnings per share in 2011.
ManTech International Inc., of Fairfax, Va., ranks No. 31 on Washington Technology's 2010 Top 100 list of the largest federal government contractors.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Crew coach Robert Warzycha made a wish after three games that his team would not rely so much on Guillermo Barros Schelotto for its scoring.
It's debatable that his pleas are the reason the goal distribution has gotten better, but there's no arguing with the results.
After Schelotto scored three of the Crew's first five goals—Adam Moffat and Andy Iro had the others—he has had only one of the past nine, yet the Crew have a tie and four straight wins over the stretch to remain unbeaten (6-0-2).
"I said a few weeks ago need the goals from different players," Warzycha said. "We need some from the midfield. We need goals from Robbie Rogers. We need goals from Eddie Gaven and different players."
Steven Lenhart became the first forward not named Schelotto to score when his header helped the Crew to a 1-1 tie at Seattle Sounders FC on May 1.
A week later, Rogers scored his first of the season before heading to the U.S. World Cup camp, and Gaven also tallied his first in a 3-2 victory over New England. A third came via an own-goal.
Schelotto converted his second penalty in three tries this year for the only goal of the match against Chivas USA on May 15. In the past two wins the Crew got goals from Gaven, the second of the season for Iro and two from reserve midfielder Emilio Renteria to earn him the current MLS Player of the Week honor.
"We're going to need every single guy on this team to contribute," Gaven said. "It's a very long season. We play our MLS games and later the Champions League. So far everything is working this year."
The 14 goals have put the Crew second in average per game (1.75) behind Real Salt Lake's 1.88 (17 in nine games).
That seven players have scored already is not uncommon based on the previous years. In 2008, when the Crew won the MLS Cup, they had 15 players with goals and 10 had two or more. Last season, 13 scored with seven getting two or more.
"I feel that's the way it's always been," defender Jed Zayner said. "We've won the past two Supporters' Shields getting goals from everyone. It's nice that if one person isn't hitting the goal much we have others guys doing that."
Scoring by position is a little bit tricky because Gaven is usually on either flank, but he scored against New York while playing up top. Given that, the forwards have six goals while Rogers on the left wing has one and Moffat has the lone tally out of the center midfield. Gaven and Renteria have combined for three from the right side. Iro's two headers off set pieces represent the defenders' goals.
"If we continue to have scoring like that from all over the field we'll have a good team," Warzycha said.
Renteria has the only two goals from the reserves but the Crew has a knack for scoring late. Schelotto scored the second goal in the 86th of a 2-0 win against Toronto FC on March 27 and gave the Crew a temporary lead in the 82nd in the next match against FC Dallas that ended 2-2. Rogers scored the winner in the first minute of stoppage time vs. New England and Schelotto's 90th minute PK beat Chivas.
Renteria got the final goal during a 3-1 win over New York on May 20 with a solo effort off a turnover in the 83rd minute. On Sunday he headed in Schelotto's corner kick in the 84th for the 1-0 defeat of Kansas City. "If we're not physically fit to make it through, we have the mental toughness to grind it out," goalkeeper William Hesmer said.